HISTORY
TOWN OF UNION,
IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN, MAINE,
THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY;
FAMILY REGISTER
SETTLEES BEFORE THE YEAR 1800, AND OF THEIR DESCENDANTS.
JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY,
MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
" E minimis maxima."
BOSTON:
BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY AND CO.
1851.
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON,
No. 22, School-street.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. Page.
Geography. — Situation. Boundaries. Rivers and Brooks. Ponds. Soil.
Climate. Freshets. Hail and Frogs. Lightning. Health and Longevity.
Scenery * .... 1
CHAPTER II.
Ante-plantation History. — Muscongus or Waldo Patent. Disputed Terri-
tory. St. George's River proposed as a Boundary. Indians. Hart's and
Boggs's Escape from them. Dicke and the Comet 22
CHAPTER III.
Plantation History. — 1772, 1773: First Settlers. The Anderson Party.
1774, Plan of Anderson's Lot. Purchase of the Township by Dr. John
Taylor. His Arrival with the Butlers and others. First Public Act of Devo-
tion. Frightened Moose. Occupation of the Anderson Camp. Clearing
commenced. High Words with the Anderson Party. Taylor's Return to
Massachusetts. Deed to Taylor. 1775 : Taylor in Congress. Butlers again
at Work. First Rye sowed. Butlers go West. Taylor comes back and labors.
Butlers return: are hired out to Benjamin Packard. Packard's Log-house.
Timber for Taylor's Buildings. Privations. Butler and the Bear. . . 27
CHAPTER IY.
Plvntation History, continued. — 1776 : Philip Robbins's Purchase. David
Robbins's the first Family. Richard Cummings. Taylor again. First Frame
House. First Crop of Rye. Raising of a Barn. Log-houses of Richard
Cummings and David Robbins. Arrival of the Families of Philip Robbins
and Richard Cummings. Crowded House. Timber House. Barn. Tay-
lor's Mills 36
CHAPTER V.
Plantation History, continued. — 1777 : Phinehas Butler enters the Army.
Purchases by Abijah Hawes ; by Ezra Bowen ; by Jonathan Amory ; by
Joel Adams, Jason Ware, and Matthias Hawes. Settlement of John Butler.
1778 : Suchfort the Hessian. Blacksmithing. Calamitous Fire. Suffering
for Food 41
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CHAPTER VI. Page.
Plantation History, continued. — 1779: Wheaton's Purchase. Settlement of
Joel Adams, Matthias Hawes, and Jason Ware. Woodward. Fairbanks.
Settlement of Moses Hawes. Ebenezer Robbins. 1780: Jennison's Pur-
chase. 1781 : First Wedding. Jessa Robbins. 1782 : Settlement of Phinehas
Butler. Elisha Partridge. Taylor's Conveyance to Reed 45
CHAPTER VII.
Plantation History, concluded.—- 1783 : Log-house. Bride. Bride's Dower.
Jessa Robbins. 1784 : Amariah Mero. 1785 : Josiah Robbins. Gillmor. Cat-
and-clay Chimney. Royal Grinnell. Elijah Holmes. 1786 : Arrival of the
Families of Josiah Robbins j of Samuel 11 ills. Samuel Martin. Organiza-
tion of the Plantation. 51
CHAPTER VIII.
Incorporation History. — 1786, Petition for Incorporation. Act of Incorpo-
ration. Number and Names of the Inhabitants 60
CHAPTER IX.
Settlers after the Incorporation. — 1787: Levi Morse. Oliver Leland.
William Hart. 1788 : The Maxcys. 1789 : The Daggetts. Seth Luce. Chris-
topher Butler. Ichabod Irish. Barnabas Webb. 1793: Casualty to the
Maxcy Family. Remarks on the Early Settlers 64
CHAPTER X.
Population Census, Aug. 1, 1790. Abstracts from Censuses. Hawes's
Census in 1826. State Census, March 1, 1837 73
CHAPTER XI.
Population in 1850. — Census, June 1, 1850, with Names and Ages. . . 77
CHAPTER XII.
Mineral and Arboral Products. — Minerals. Timber. Felling of Trees.
Burning of Cut-downs. Shingles. Benjamin Speed. Lakin. Boards and
Saw-mills. Lime-casks 97
CHAPTER XIII.
Agricultural and Horticultural Products. — Barley and Rye. Indian
Corn. Wheat. Potatoes. Fruit. Peaches and Plums. Apples. . . 105
CHAPTER XIV.
Manufactures and Trade. — Spinning Wheels. Looms. Home-made Cloth-
ing. Fulling Mills. Carding Machines. Factories. Paper Mills. Tan-
neries. Potash. Iron Works. Fossetts' Mills. Stores. Carting Goods to
Boston in the War of 1812. Canals 108
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XV. pagei
Municipal History. — Town Meetings. Notifications. Places of holding them.
Town Officers. Oath of Office in 1787. Town Clerks. Selectmen. Assess-
ors. Constables. Collectors. Treasurers. Tithingmen. Fish Wardens. . 114
CHAPTER XVI.
Topographical History. — First Burial Place. Old Burying Ground. First
Private Burying Ground. Second Private Burying Ground. East Union
Burying Ground. Hearses. Common. Pound. Town House. . . . 130
CHAPTER XVII.
First Meeting-house. — Early Efforts for a Meeting-house. Spot selected.
Location changed. Contracted for. Porch. Raising. Enclosed. Pillars.
Pulpit Window. Outside to be finished. Temporary Seats. Pews. Roof
to be painted. Sale of Pews. Names of Owners. Lock voted. Descrip-
tion of the House. Pews built in the Gallery. Repairs. Stove. Decay
and Desecration of the House. Taken down. Associations with it. Cus-
toms. Marriage Publishments. Dogs and Dog Whippers 143
CHAPTER XVIII.
Ecclesiastical History. — 1779 to 1806: Going to Meeting at St. George's.
John Urquhart. Isaac Case. Nine Pounds raised for Preaching. William
Riddel called. Aaron Humphrey. Two hundred Dollars raised. Mode of
dividing the Money. Abraham Gushee called. Jabez Pond Fisher called.
Jonathan Gilmore. Henry True called and settled 161
CHAPTER XIX.
Ecclesiastical History, continued. — Organization of the First Congrega-
tional Church. Mr. Huse's Account of the Proceedings. Conduct of
Samuel Hills and the Rev. Messrs. Sewall, Bayley, and others. Articles
of Faith. Covenant. Signers' Names. Opposition by the Hills Party.
Hills's " Ex Parte " Council, Sept. 10, 1808. Conduct of the Hills Party
about the Ordination. Hills censured. Council, June 29, 1808. Hills's
"Ex Parte" Council, Feb. 15, 1809. Second Congregational Church or-
ganized. Mr. Huse's Letter concluded 171
CHAPTER XX.
Ecclesiastical History, continued. — 1807 to 1819: Proceedings of the Town
to pay Mr. True. Remission of Ministerial Taxes. Signers to the Metho-
dists; to the Friends; to the Baptists. Movements to dissolve the Town's
Contract with Mr. True. Incorporation of the First Congregational Society.
Dissolution of the Town's Contract. 192
CHAPTER XXI.
Ecclesiastical History, continued — 1816 to 1825 : Attempts to raise Money.
Dissolution of Mr. True's Pastoral Connection with the Church and Society.
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Page.
Result of the Council. Proposals for uniting the Congregational Churches.
Obstacles to a Union. Union effected 204
CHAPTER XXII.
Ecclesiastical History, continued. — 1825 to 1850 : Preachers after the Union.
Freeman Parker. George W. Fargo. Ordination and Dismission of Oren
Sikes. Meeting-house. Ordination and Dismission of Uriah Balkam.
Samuel Bowker's Ordination 214
CHAPTER XXIII.
Ecclesiastical History, continued. — Methodists and Baptists. — Metho-
dist Church and Society. First Methodist Preaching. Circuits and Dis-
tricts. Organization. Places of Worship. Meeting-house. Camp Meetings.
Parsonage. Preachers. Baptist Church and Society. Central Baptist Church. 217
CHAPTER XXIV.
Ecclesiastical History, concluded. — Universalists. — First Universalist
Preaching; Organization. Maine Association. John Bovee Dods. Con-
stitution. Preachers. Meeting-house. Bell » 222
CHAPTER XXV.
Delusions and Superstitions. — Signs and Omens. Witchcraft. Bewitched
Horse 227
CHAPTER XXVI.
Political History. — Voting. Separation of Maine from Massachusetts.
Harmony and Diversity of Sentiment. Embargo. Petition to the President
of the United States. Reply. Remonstrance. Petition to the Legislature of
Massachusetts. Celebration, July 4, 1810. Celebration in 1814. Ode and
Hymn 230
CHAPTER XXVII.
Political History, concluded. — Members of Congress. Governors. Lieute-
nant-Governors. Town Representatives. Justices of the Peace. Coroners.
Post Offices and Postmasters 239
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Financial History. — Taxes. Early Apportionment of Taxes. Controversy
with Warren. Petition to the Legislature in 1780. Petition to the Legisla-
ture in 1783. Plantation Taxes. Taxes since the Incorporation. Taxes
paid in Produce. Exemption of Philip Bobbins, jun. Table. Adams's
Petition to the Legislature in 1794. State of the Finances in 1795. Dollars
and Cents. Taking the Valuation. Payment of Taxes 256
CHAPTER XXIX.
Financial History, concluded. — Reed's Case. Surplus Revenue. Paupers.
Warning out of Town. Maintenance of the Poor. . .".... 266
CONTENTS. vil
CHAPTER XXX. Page<
Highways. — Early Difficulties in Travelling. Moss. Paths. Spotted Trees.
Exposure of Matthias Hawes. First Roads. First Highway Districts.
Character of the Roads. Corduroy Roads. Boating and Visiting. Ox
Sleds. First Teaming to Neighboring Towns 273
CHAPTER XXXI.
Highways, concluded. — Surveyors and Commissioners. Taxes. Compensa-
tion. Time for doing the Work. Breaking Roads in Winter. Comparative
Value of Money and Labor . .279
CHAPTER XXXII.
Bridges. — Log Bridges. Lower, or True's Bridge. Middle Bridge, at Bache-
lor's Mills. South Union Bridge. Upper Bridge, at Hills' Mills. Report on
Bridges in 1805. Appropriations 287
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Educational History. — Earliest Schools and Teachers. Schools at a later
Period. School Children in Summer. Drink. Recess. Josiah. Com-
plaints and Punishments. Girls' Work in School. Reading. Spelling.
Noontime and Dinners. Winter Schools. Severer Punishments. Intermis-
sions in Winter. Studies. Evening Schools. 294
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Educational History, concluded. — School Districts. School Houses. School
Committees. School Agents. School Children. School Money. High
Schools. Lyceum. Libraries . 302
CHAPTER XXXV.
Professional History. — College Graduates. Lawyers. Physicians. Indian
Doctor. Urine Doctor. Singing Masters and Singing Schools. Brass Band. 318
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Military History. — Revolutionary Soldiers. Loyalist. Incidents in the
Revolutionary War. French War. Military Appropriations. Powder
House. Military Spirit 327
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Military History, continued. — Infantry Officers. Light Infantry. Its Or-
ganization and Dress. Its Officers. Rifle Company. Its Organization and
Dress. Rifles. Its Officers. Disbandment 338
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Military History, continued. — War of 1812 Pay voted by the Town.
Drafts. Alarm. Companies ordered out. Parade on Sunday. March to
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Page.
Camden. Peace. Soldiers from Union in the Army. Texan War. Mexi-
can War 343
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Military History, continued. — Difficulty with the Waldonian Officers. The
Dinner. Waldonian Influence in the Field. Election of Lieut.-Col.
Bachelder. Precedence of Rank on the Field. Remoteness of Musters.
Pecuniary Considerations. Indignation at a Military Election. Acts of the
Legislature. Excitement. 350
CHAPTER XL.
Military History, continued. — Violent Rain-storm. The Companies at
Waldoborough Meeting-house. Uncomfortable Feelings. Burial of the
Colonel under Arms. Uneasiness. Anecdotes. Line formed. Irregular
March to the Muster-field. Rogue's March. Unsuccessful Attempt to
<5ton the Music. Orders misunderstood. Confusion. Desertion. Hur-
... 354
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CHAPTER XLI.
Military History, continued. — Col. Avery Rawson. Charges against him
stopped. Charges against Officers in Union. Trial of Lieut.-Col. John
Bachelder. Trial of Capt. Lewis Bachelder
CHAPTER XLII.
Military History, continued. — Trial of Capt. John P. Robbins. Objections
and Protest. Charges and Specifications. Result
CHAPTER XLIII.
Military History, continued. — Evasion of the Laws. John Chapman Rob-
bins becomes Clerk. Loss of the Company Roll. Muster near Trow-
bridge's, in Warren. Lieut. Ebenezer Cobb. " A good time." Horsemen
ride about the Muster-field. Robbins gives Orders. Unsuccessful Attempts
to arrest him. Notes for Fines burnt as Wadding. .; ... 370
CHAPTER XLIV.
Military History, continued. — Orders to elect Officers. Movements to Re-
elect Capts. Bachelder and Robbins. Nathan Bachelder chosen Captain.
Pardon Robbins and the Cabbage. Re-election of Capt. Noah Rice. He is
cashiered. Voluntary Trainings and Muster. Aroostook War. Rifle Com-
pany disbanded. Philo Thurston. Ebenezer Ward Adams chosen Captain.
His Trial and Imprisonment 373
CHAPTER XLV.
Military History, continued. — Two Companies of Infantry. Election of
Officers at Amos Walker's. March to the Common 379
361
366
CONTENTS. IX
CHAPTER XLVI. Page.
Military History, concluded. — Qualifying Remarks. Extension of the Un-
military Spirit. Change of Public Sentiment. Military Musters. . . .382
CHAPTER XLVII.
Zoological History. — Early Hunting and Hunters. Boggs. Anderson.
Davis and the Tortoise. Dicke. The dogs Tuner and Lion. Laws about
Deer and Moose and Deer-reeves. Deers. Moose. Their Haunts. Time
and Manner of hunting them. Their Yards. Transportation of Moose Beef.
Dressing and cooking it. Moose in Summer. One killed in Seven-tree Pond. 386
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Zoological History, continued. — Bears. Bear Traps. Setting Guns. Bears
caught by David Robbins and Jessa Robbins. Baited and killed by Ezekiel
Hagar. Love Rum. Taken to Boston and shot. Encounters on Seven-
tree Pond j on Hart's Hill j on Hills Point j on Simmons's Hill ; on the
Robbins Neck. Adam Martin. Jason Ware and his Dog Sambo. Fate of
Sambo. Mrs. Hart and the Bear Trap 395
CHAPTER XLIX.
Zoological History, continued. — Wolves. Wolf-hunt. Cat-vaughan. Foxes.
Personal Experience. Fox seized by Asa Messer. Beavers. Raccoons.
Musquash. Minks, Sables, and Loup-cervier. Wteasel. . . . .406
CHAPTER L.
Zoological History, continued. — Ducks. Wild Pigeons. Loons. Crows
and Blackbirds. Hunting Matches 413
CHAPTER LI.
Zoological History, concluded. — Fish Laws. Salmon. Alewives. Fish-
hawks and Eagles. Eels. Smelts. Trout and Pickerel. Other Fish. . 418
CHAPTER LII.
Conclusion. — Design. Sources of Information. Changes since the Settle-
ment. Possibilities and Responsibilities. 425
Family Register • 45^
General Index 519
ERRATA.
On pages 2 and 20, for 1707 read 1G07 ; p. 9, for "July " read May; p. Ill, for
"bolt" read bulter ; p. 133, for "Jane" read James; p. 318, for "Freeman Luce
Daggett "read John S. Daggett; p. 323 for "John Hawes" read John Brown;
p. 360, for " sergeant-major" read major ; p. 390, for " windward " read leeward.
The inaccuracy of the different records which have been transcribed has led to
inconsistency in regard to several names ; the middle name of the same individual
in some instances being omitted, and in others retained.
HISTOEY OF UNION.
HISTORY OF UNION,
CHAPTER I.
GEOGRAPHY.
Situation. — Boundaries. — Rivers and Brooks. — Ponds. — Soil. —
Climate. — Freshets. — Hail and Progs. — Lightning. — Health
and Longevity. — Scenery.
SITUATION.
The town of Union, in the county of Lincoln and
State of Maine, is situated in about 44° 15' north
latitude, and 7° 50' east longitude from the city of
Washington. The Common, or principal village, is
twenty-eight miles east-south-east of Augusta, eight
miles from the head of the tide-waters of St. George's
River at Warren, and twelve miles from the State
Prison in Thomaston.
BOUNDARIES.
The town is bounded on the south and south-west
by Warren and Waldoborough ; on the west by Medo-
mac River, which separates it from Washington ; and
on the north and north-east by Appleton and Hope
and Camden, till at its eastern extremity it makes
with Camden and Warren an angle on the north-west
side of Mount Pleasant, near its summit.
RIVERS AND BROOKS.
St. George's River, formerly the Segochet, Segoh-
quet, or Segocket, enters the town through Sunnybec
Pond on the north. After running about a mile and
2 GEOGRAPHY.
a half, in which it passes Hills' Mills and Bachelor's
Mills, it flows in a westerly and southerly direction
into Round Pond. Thence it runs east into Seven-tree
Pond. Its course afterwards is southerly through
Warren, towards the Atlantic Ocean.1
The Pettengill Stream runs from the Cedar
Swamp in Appleton, across a corner of Union, by
1 Belonging to the splendid library of John Carter Brown, of Pro-
vidence, R.I. is a manuscript, copied from the " Mus. Brit. Bibl. Sloan.
No. 1622." It is the " historie of Trauaile into Virginia Britania ....
gathered & observed as well by those who went first thither, as col-
lected by William Strachey, Gent." In a detailed account of the
unsuccessful attempt to plant a colony at " Sachadehoc," the name
of this river is incidentally introduced and spelled Segohquet. Capt.
John Smith, in his " Generall Historie," spells it Segocket. David
Crockett, Esq. of Rockland, who has had much intercourse with the
Penobscot Indians for sixty or seventy years, thinks they did not give
the name Segocket to any part but the branch which rises in Cush-
ing, and, pursuing a north and west course, joins the main river near
the dividing line of Union and Warren. He says, moreover, that
Governor Neptune, of the Penobscots, told him Jorgis, or Chorchis,
as the word is pronounced by them, is the Indian word for George's,
and that the meaning is " delightsome" or " delightful." Governor
Sullivan, in a Topographical Description of Thomaston, in the Col-
lections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. iv. says "its
Indian name was Georgekee, from whence was probably derived its
present name of George's." May not the governor be mistaken in
spelling the word Georgekee, instead of Georgekeag ; and the termi-
nal syllable have been used to mean the same as in Wessaweskeag,
another place in the vicinity ; and the Indians have prefixed the word
George's, which was in use by the whites after the river was dis-
covered ?
In 1605, Capt. George Weymouth, probably in honor of the patron-
saint of England, gave the name St. George's to an island, which,
according to Hosier's description, agrees with Monhegan. St. George's
now is the name of a cluster of islands. St. George's Island Harbor,
at the mouth of St. George's River, is probably the place which
Weymouth visited, and named Pentecost Harbor. There can be but
little doubt that the river derived its name from the island mentioned
by Rosier. The five Indians seized and carried off by Weymouth, it
is supposed, were taken from this river. That there was an Indian
village on the river seems probable from Capt. John Smith's map, on
which he assigns to a village the name Norwich, given by Prince
Charles, afterward King Charles the First. May not this village have
been at the fishing- ground by the head of the tide in Warren?
The Strachey MS. states, that, when Popham was on the way to
Sagadahock in 1707, he anchored near " St. George his Island," and
" found a Crosse sett vp, one of the same wch Capt. George Weymou
.... left upon this Island." On Sunday, Aug. 7, " the chief of both
EIVERS AND BROOKS. 3
Fossett's Mills ; and enters Medomac River, about
two miles southerly of the north-west corner of the
town.
Muddy Brook conveys the water of Muddy Pond
from the north-west into Round Pond. It carries a
stave-mill.
Bowker Brook, or Cashman Brook, as it is fre-
quently called from a family which resided near it
early in the nineteenth century, runs southerly, and
enters St. George's River about half a mile above
Round Pond.
Seven Brook rises in Appleton, east of Sunnybec
Pond, and enters Seven-tree Pond at its north end.
Crawford's River, commonly called the Mill
Stream by the early settlers, and afterward Maxcy's
Mill Stream, runs west from Crawford's Pond to
Seven-tree Pond. Its water is comparatively warm
in winter, and, being uncommonly pure, is very valua-
ble for manufacturing purposes. The Indian name,
which was known to the early settlers, is lost. On
this stream is the village of South Union.
Miller's Brook, sometimes called the Daniels
Brook, rises in Hope, and, taking a southerly direction,
passes through the farms of John Payson, Nathan
Daniels, and others, and enters Crawford's Pond near
Miller's Point.
Eastern Stream, sometimes called Lermond's
Stream, rises in Hope, passes through " The Lakes,"
and, after a south-south-west course, in which it car-
ries several mills, flows into Crawford's Pond.
Fish's Stream, rising in Barrett's Pond near Hope
Corner, runs in a southerly direction, and passes
the shipps wth the greatest part of all the Company landed on the
Island where the Crosse stood .... and heard a Sermon delivered
■unto them by Mr Ri: Seymour."
Rosier' s account of Weymouth's Voyage in " Purchas his Pil-
grimes," iv. 1659, and Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 3d series, viii. Holmes's
Annals, i. 123. Map in Smith's Description of New England. Smith's
" Generall Historie of Virginia," &c, 205. Belknap's American Bio-
graphy, ii. 137, 146. Williamson's History of the State of Maine,
i. 192.
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through Fish's Pond. There is another stream, which
rises in Grassy Pond, and runs south-south-westerly.
These two unite in Crawford's Meadow, whence their
waters flow by Hilt's Mills, and enter Crawford's Pond
at its south-east corner. Both streams carry mills be-
fore and after they are united.
Some of the small streams, Seven Brook for in-
stance, are occasionally dry or nearly so in summer,
though it was not the case when the town was first
settled. Some persons think this is caused by the soil
washed in from the ploughed and cultivated banks,
and by the clearing up of the forests, which overhung
the springs by which they were fed,
PONDS.
Slwnybec Pond, situated partly in Hope and partly
in Union, is 198 rods wide, on the Hope and Union
line. There is a tradition, that several Indians came
from the East on a hunting and fishing excursion.
At the harbor in Lincolnville they caught some ducks,
and called the place Duck Trap. They proceeded
with their ducks to Camden, which they called Me-
gun-ti-cook,1 because there they began to cook them.
On arriving at Friendship, they broke their cook-
ing pot, and called the place Me-dun-cook.2 Pro-
ceeding up the St. George's, they came to Sunnybec
Pond, which they named Sunny-bake, because they
were obliged to cook their fish and food in the sun on
the rocks. In the earliest document in which it is
mentioned, it is spelled Sunnyback. If Sunnyback be
the correct orthography, there is room for conjecture
that it was so called because the sidehill back of the
pond is particularly exposed to the rays of the sun.
Vegetation there comes forward much earlier than in
1 It is more probable that the word is Indian, and means large bay,
or place of great swells of the sea.
2 By some said to mean "a sandy, gravelly, poor place, or poor
country." D. Crocket says, cook, in a compound word, means haven
or harbor ; and the other part of the compound word designates some-
thing which is peculiar or distinctive in the harbor.
PONDS. O
other places. Governor Neptune, and some others of
the Penobscot tribe of Indians, are not able to give the
meaning of the word Sennebec. A year or two ago,
David Crocket suggested, diffidently, that Soony-bach
or Soony-bech might mean the appearance presented
by an enclosure of water* or of water almost sur-
rounded with woods and hills; and that, from this
general appearance, the name may have been derived.
Recently, he made inquiries of the Indian doctor of
the Penobscot tribe, who intimated that " soony meant
shady, and that bee meant a place where other water
comes in across the main channel," as the Androscog-
gin, or, more properly speaking, the Ameriscoggin,
comes into the Kennefrec, and thus furnishes part of
the name to the latter river. Perhaps one or more
of the streams which enter the pond were much larger,
and the entrance more noticeable by the Indians, when
the whole town was covered with a forest than since
it has been cleared.
Round Pond, which is about three quarters of a mile
in diameter, is called Little Pond on a plan of a sur-
vey of the Mill Farm, at South Union, dated May 13,
1774. It probably derives its present name from its
circular shape. If a person stands on the ice in the
middle of it, he will hardly perceive a difference in
the distance to any part of the shore.
Muddy Pond, covering from fifty to one hundred
acres, and having a cranberry meadow, is situated a
little more than a mile north-west of Round Pond.
Seven-tree Pond is about three miles long, and
extends into Warren. It derives its name from seven
trees, which grew on the only island in it when the first
settlers came to the place. Several of these trees were
standing thirty or forty years ago. They have fallen,
till now only one of the smaller of them remains.
They were very large, and must have derived their
nourishment mainly from the water, which was
reached by the fibres of the roots extending down to it
through the crevices of the rocks. The island has so
l*
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little soil, that it is doubtful whether trees, if planted,
could now be made to live.
Crawford's Pond, situated in the south-easterly
part of Union and in Warren, is 150 rods wide where
it is crossed by the line which divides the towns. It
derives its name from John Crawford, a native of
Stirling in Scotland, who lived about a quarter of
a mile above the village in Warren. Col. Samuel
Waldo, son of the Brigadier- General, gave to the
Scotch settlers the use of all the meadows in the vici-
nity, which had not been previously laid out for the
inhabitants of Warren. Crawford took the meadow
on the east side of the pond which bears his name.
Having cleared a sled-road to it about the year 1764,
he went to Thomaston, made application to Waldo
for the meadow, and called for a bowl of punch on the
occasion. Waldo took a draught " To Crawford's
Meadow," and told him that it should thenceforth
bear that name.1
SOIL.
By competent judges, the soil of Union is considered
as good as that of Farmington and Winthrop, which
are generally regarded as the best farming towns in
the State. Some persons think it superior. For
many years after the settlement, there was early in
summer a luxuriance of vegetation and a beauty un-
surpassed in the county. The primitive soil had not
been worn. It consisted of leaves and vegetable
mould, which had been accumulating for centuries.
Perhaps one of the richest spots in town is on the
north side of Crawford's River, near the outlet. It is
said to be the only place where any corn ripened in
the cold season of 1816. Immense quantities of
alewives had been carted on for manure, the situation
was warm, there was a good crop, and the inhabitants
went to the owner to procure the corn for seed the
next year.
1 D. Dicke, of Warren,
CLIMATE. 7
CLIMATE.
Of course there is no essential difference between
the climate of Union and that of Maine in general.
The warm season commonly begins two or three weeks
later, and the cold weather a little earlier, than in Mas-
sachusetts. In an old account-book1 of Matthias
Hawes are various memoranda ; and, to gratify those
who are curious to make comparisons between the
weather many years ago and at the present time,
the following are extracted : — " 1780, March 5. Mode-
rate weather, and wind southwardly. The ponds
begin to break up at the edges. April 16. The first of
our going down the river by water. April 23. The
river is almost broke up. 1781, Nov. 9. The first
snow this fall. 1782, June 7. A frost which killed
some of our sauce. Sept. 1. Last week a light frost.
Sept. 12. The first frost this fall. Oct. 31. The first
snow. Nov. 17. A slight snow on the ground. 1783,
April 2. The river open so as to pass with a float.
1784, April 17. The snow almost gone in open land.
The pond broken up at the edges. 1785, April 2.
Snow three feet deep. 1786, April 2. Snow came
knee deep. Last Sunday the river open so as to pass
down to Mr. Philip Robbins's. At that time the snow
almost gone in open lands."
Josiah Robbins harvested rye in July, 1786. The
crop was raised on new burnt ground, south and east
of the Old Burying Ground. It was protected by the
forest on the summit of the hill, and the sun poured
its rays into the blackened field. But it was the only
time that Robbins or any man has ever been able to
do it in July.
Governor Sullivan writes in 1794, for the " Collec-
tions of the Massachusetts Historical Society," vol. iv. :
" The prevailing winds, during the winter season, are
from the north-west. Snows generally fall on a level
to the depth of three or four feet. Frosts are fre-
1 For the loan and free use of this book, the writer is indebted to
the kindness of Mr. Noyes P. Hawes, of California.
8 GEOGRAPHY.
quenxly discoverable in September, and in October ice
in considerable quantities is made. The snow and
ice generally lie till April, when the sun is so high as
to melt and carry it away. ... In July and August,
the heat is oftentimes more intense than in Boston ;
but the evenings and mornings are much cooler."
Gen. Knox, in his " Advertisement of Land for
Sale," dated June 15, 1799, says : " The ground is
generally covered with snow from the middle of De-
cember to the last of March. . . . Although the spring
season may be rather later, the winters do not set in
earlier than at Boston."
Samuel Hills1 wrote : " 28 January, 1797, rain the first
time since November 22d, being sixty-seven days, and
very cold, there being but three days that it thawed out
of the sun. . . . Oct. 26, 1827. Seven-tree Pond crossed
on the ice, believed to be the earliest for forty years past.
. . . Pond open between the Eyes, 15 March, 1828. Pond
open down to David Robbins, 1 April, 1828. Seven-
tree Pond free of ice on the 4th, if not on the 5th."
Forty yoke of oxen hauled a one and a half story
dwelling-house from the Colonel Hawes Place across
Seven-tree Pond on the ice to the hill south of South
Union, April 4, 1844. The pond broke up three days
afterward. The circumstance that the ice was so
strong, and continued so late in the season, was a sub-
ject of much remark. Some of the old inhabitants did
not recollect that it had ever occurred before. Once
in the present century, the winter set in on the 23d of
November.
It is generally thought that there has been consider-
able change in the climate since the first settlement.
The wind, since the hills have been laid bare, may be
as bleak, and the snows nearly as deep, as they were
seventy-five years ago; but, since the forests have
1 As Samuel Hills kept a journal, and made copious notes during
his lifetime respecting nearly all the important events in town, it is
greatly regretted that they were not preserved. Most of his papers
were placed in a garret to which children had access, and all except a
few fragments of interleaved almanacs were destroyed.
FRESHETS. 9
been cleared and the land cultivated, the average tem-
perature, it is said, has become milder. Snows are
less frequent ; and, instead of remaining on the ground
as formerly, and making good sledding for months in
succession, their duration is uncertain. In some win-
ters, but little snow falls, sometimes hardly enough to
enable the farmer to do by sledding the work appro-
priate to the season ; though, early in January, 1851,
the snow on an average was about two and a half
feet deep. The fathers of the town speak in strong
language of the severity of the early winters. As,
however, a series of metereological observations has
never been made here, the truth as to change of cli-
mate cannot be settled by incontestable data. It is
not known that there are in existence any memoranda
of consequence on the subject, except those which
have been given; and they are very incomplete and
unsatisfactory.
FRESHETS.
In the spring of 1832, the town was visited by heavy
rains. " From the 18th of July to the 10th of June,
we had not one fair day. The sun would appear but
for an hour or two in the middle of the day, when it
appeared at all; and then it would be obscured by
thick clouds. Most of the days during this time, it
was not seen : when it did shine, it produced but little
effect, being obstructed by fog and broken clouds. On
the 19th, 20th, and 21st days of May, it rained. On the
20th (Sunday and Sunday night), it fell in cataracts.
The rain was terrible : it came down as though the
c windows of heaven were opened.' Our roads were
like rivers, and the natural rivers overflowed their
banks like the Nile. There were bayous or sluices
which carried off the water from the main channel of
the river into the valleys. The view at Bachelor's
Bridge was awfully grand. The face of the earth
looked as if the fountains of the great deep were
broken up. An avalanche slipped off the mountain
near our powder-house, in a south-west direction,
10 GEOGKAPHY.
carrying rocks with it weighing several tons. A rivu-
let of running water followed after. In this town the
water was higher than ever it was known to be before
by our oldest inhabitants. There was a ferry-boat
plying over the lowlands between Waldoborough and
Warren. Great damages have been sustained in this
country from the loss of bridges, mills, &c. In this town,
two principal bridges over the St. George's River have
been carried away, together with one saw-mill, one
bark-mill, the old factory, and several other buildings,
great and small. Many of our farmers have ploughed
up their cornfields, and sowed them with barley and
oats. Now the season seems to be favorable for all
things, except corn." 1
On the east side of the stone dam at the Middle
Bridge was a saw-mill, and over it a machine-shop.
The bulkhead of the flume, being rotten, gave way ;
and, consequently, the lower end of the saw-mill tipped
down. The dam was washed off, and the stones were
deposited a short distance below in the eddy, the bot-
tom of which previously could not be reached with a
long pike-pole. The roof of the saw-mill having been
tipped under the bridge, it carried it off on its back,
stopped with it about thirty rods below, and laid it
across the fence on the line between Robbins and
Gillmor. The saw-mill and machine-shop went twenty-
five or thirty rods further, and landed near the pine-
tree on Robbins' s corn-land. So quietly were they
carried down, that the chimney and bricks in the
machine-shop were undisturbed, and the gouges and
chisels lay on the turning-lathe, ready for use.
During this freshet, the water crowded into the
Robbins Meadow. Little's Meadow, at the head of
Seven-tree Pond, was also flooded. The water pressed
so hard from the Robbins Meadow, that a little dig-
ging, perhaps fifteen minutes', would have opened a
passage across the road, where it was stopped mainly
by the dirt crowded out of the ruts. Thus, from
1 Dr. Sibley's Letter, June H, 1832,
HAIL AND FKOGS. 11
Bachelor's Mills to the head of Seven-tree Pond, a
new channel for the river might have been opened
nearly in the course of the canal.
HAIL AND FROGS.
" July 21, 1820, there was a tremendous shower of
hail at Sennebec. A few large ragged pieces of ice
fell at my house. Hail fell during two hours, and it
was thought by some that it would have been a foot
deep, if it had not melted on the ground. The crop
of corn is entirely destroyed. Grain, potatoes, and
other articles much injured. Ninety squares of glass
were broken in Esquire M> Lean's house, and as many
more in Lemuel Lincoln's house. Yesterday morn-
ing, the pastures on the east side of Appleton Ridge
appeared white with ice, when viewed by the inhabi-
tants of the town of Hope. Last night, a man told
me that he dug down through the hail where it had
rolled in a heap under the fence near Andrew Such-
fort's (thirty hours after it had fallen), and found it
ten inches deep. I have my information from the suf-
ferers ; but I think some allowance ought to be made
for their injured feelings.
" August 6th. Seventy-two hours after the hai], I
visited the place to see the ruins. I passed from Sen-
nebec Pond to Appleton Ridge, where the hail had
made the greatest havoc. The whole face of nature
was changed. The verdure of the fields was taken
away, and the earth appeared as though it had been
covered several days with snow. The corn, grain,
beans, peas, and garden vegetables, were totally
destroyed, and there was but a small hope of potatoes.
The people were gathering up their [corn ?] and mow-
ing their wheat for fodder. A place was shown to me
by the inhabitants where the hail had drifted by wind
and rain to the top of a wall, and was supposed to
have been four feet deep. It was not all melted. I
saw a drift of hail in another place six inches deep,
and ten or fifteen feet long on the north side of a wall,
and have been told that it remained two or three days
12 GEOGRAPHY.
longer before it was melted. Much glass was broken.
Some herds of cattle fled to the woods, and whole
broods of young geese and turkeys were killed. The
hailstones were shaped like a small watch, with the
addition of what appeared to be small round hail-
stones congealed to the edges of the larger ones. The
circumference of one stone that had been measured
was 5§ inches.
" No sooner was the hail dissolved than the frogs
appeared. They were like the grasshoppers for multi-
tude. Various were the conjectures of the people
about their origin. Some supposed that they fell from
the clouds with the hail. Others accounted for them
different ways ; but their origin is now clearly ascer-
tained to have been a mill-pond in Cedar Swamp,
west of Appleton Ridge. An old Quaker told me
that he was at the mill-pond, piling up boards, about
the first of July, and that the shore was covered with
small frogs, hatched the present year ; that the largest
of them left the water first, and that the smaller ones
followed after; that they travelled west of the pond
into the wilderness, and east of the pond towards St.
George's River. The frogs that took an easterly
direction had to pass about half a mile through the
woods (where they covered the ground) to the west end
of the grass fields on Appleton Ridge. When they
entered the cleared land, they fed on grasshoppers, and
appeared to travel faster than in the woods.
" The old Quaker said he liked to have them come,
as they did no harm at all, but evidently thinned off
the grasshoppers where they went. These frogs
pursued uniformly the course in which they set out.
One man observed that they could not be whipped
back again toward their mill-pond. On the 1st instant
I was on Appleton Ridge. The inhabitants have had
a plantation meeting, and chosen a committee to ap-
prize the damage done by the hail, and intend to apply
to the neighboring towns, or to the Legislature of the
State, for means of subsistence through the winter.
They have sown much turnip-seed and some buck-
LIGHTNING. 13
wheat in their corn-fields. The potatoes are sprouting
up, and give hopes of a small crop. . The apples
which had not been beaten from the trees by the hail
were so bruised on the upper side, that that side had
ceased to grow ; while the other side grew as fast as
though there had been no hail. There was not a mess
of green sauce to be had in all the neighborhood. I
saw the frogs. They appeared to be pursuing an
easterly course, and had progressed to within about
fifty rods of St. George's River, where I saw many
of them hopping on the west side of a wall, by which
they had been obstructed in their course. They were
green and speckled, and of a small size. Yesterday, a
man told me that their number was greatly diminished.
He supposed they had died." 1
LIGHTNING.
June 29, 1815. During a terrific thunder shower in
the morning, James Lermond, aged about forty, living
in the house with his brother William, at the east part
of the town, was killed by lightning. Being at work on
the highway, he went home to get shelter. After
hanging up his hat, he stood at a table, with his face
towards the window. The lightning came down the
stud of the window about as low as his breast, then
leaped to his breast, passed down his body, made a hole
through the floor, and threw him backwards towards
the fire. The ashes were scattered over his face. He
was killed instantly. By the same stroke of lightning,
the front door and the studs were thrown out, and the
mouldings above and the window were thrown in.
Glass in the several windows around the house was
broken out. A stud from the west side was carried
across the chamber, and hurled several rods through a
window on the east side. The second story of the
house was torn in pieces. The lightning ran in every
direction. From careful observations, it was evident
that its course had often been upward.
" August 8, 1819. Four weeks ago, we had a fright-
1 Letter of Dr. J. Sibley.
14 GEOGRAPHY.
ful tempest. The lightning struck a large barn be-
longing to Ephraim Boggs, in Warren1 (half a mile
south of Moses Morse's), and burnt it to the ground.
The same day the lightning struck a balm-of-Gilead
tree near Moses Morse's house, and a stump in his
fence, which it set on fire. William Hart's barn was
also struck at the same time, and Mr. Metcalf's2 cow-
yard fence. The next Saturday after Mr. Boggs's barn
was burnt, he had another barn of the same size on
the same ground finished, doors all swinging ; and I
am told that thirty men dined together on the barn-
door. The old barn had in it about ten tons of old
hay. The new barn was built almost entirely by
charity.
" Last Sunday, we had another shower ; the light-
ning burnt Noah Rice's barn, containing much hay.
Obadiah Morse's barn, with forty tons of hay, was set
on fire by the lightning; but the fire was extin-
guished.3 The same day, lightning struck in many
places elsewhere. Last Monday, our people were all
in motion, declaring that they would do equal to what
Warren had done. Teams driving through all the
town with timber and lumber for Capt. Rice. Wed-
nesday, phoenix-like, the barn began to rise from the
ashes, and before night it was covered with boards. It
is very large, and makes a fine appearance. I am told
it contains ten tons of hay, which has been given to
Capt. Rice.
" P. S. Aug. 9. Alas ! this is not all. Yesterday, the
lightning visited us again, and burnt a barn filled with
hay for Lemuel Wentworth,2 struck Christopher New-
bit's house,2 and killed a child belonging to Jotham
Davis.
" Within four weeks, I have seen three large barns
with much hay burnt to the ground by lightning ; and
the fire in another barn kindled by lightning has been
1 Near Union line. 2 In Hope.
3 Mr. Morse hastened to the barn, rolled up the hay, and trod on it,
and thus smothered the fire ; but his hands were badly burnt.
LIGHTNINa. 15
extinguished, and a child killed, and all within three
miles of the place where this is written.
" Lemuel Wentworth had a load of hay on his
wagon to carry to Capt. Rice, when his barn was
burnt. It stood in the old barn; new barn burnt.
Hay unloaded."
" On Sunday morning, May 25, 1823, at 5 o'clock,
a chimney in the dwelling-house of Jason Ware was
struck by lightning. The chimney and house were
injured, and a brick was removed from the hearth.
Mrs. Ware and a son, though sitting one in each
corner of the fireplace, were not hurt. Mr. Ware,
being in the act of placing a backlog, was struck on
the head with the fluid, which burnt and broke the
thick woollen coat on his right shoulder and arm,
destroying the principal part of the sleeve above the
elbow, setting on fire his cotton shirt, burning his flan-
nel waistcoat, ripping both seams in the leg of the
boot, and breaking and burning the foot of it. His
hair and eyebrows were singed ; and the injury, which
was of the compound nature of a bruise and a burn,
extended down the right side of the neck, over the
shoulder and arm, and down the thigh, leg, and foot
[and perforated his boot near the heel]. He fell in-
stantly, and was apparently dead. Cold water was
thrown into his face [friction was resorted to], and he
exhibited signs of life. He was then held erect, and
cold water poured upon him profusely. Applications
of poultices, and subsequently of plasters, were made
to the wounded parts ; and shortly the skin, which to a
considerable extent was entirely dead and black, was
removed in large pieces. In a fortnight he was able
to walk, and in a reasonable time recovered a comfort-
able state of health, though not so good as before.
The shock appeared to add something to the infirmi-
ties of age.
" The same stroke of lightning tore a large timber
from the roof of the barn of Matthias Hawes, about
25 rods distant ; while several cattle in the stall below
did not receive any injury. Some persons said they
16 GEOGKAPHY.
perceived, both at the house and the barn, a strong
smell of brimstone ; others compared it to gunpow-
der."1
Aug. 25, 1840. The lightning struck the store of
Henry Fossett, in the north-west part of the town.
Robert Rokes, of Appieton, sitting on the counter, was
killed. On a bench below him, which was placed
along against the counter, sat, on one side of him, John
Rokes, of Hope. He was stunned, and so injured that
he did not recover for many weeks. On the same
bench, but on the other side of Robert Rokes, sat
Jacob Sibley, leaning forward. He was stunned, and
carried home in a wagon. His burns were so deep,
that he did not become even tolerably well till the fol-
lowing spring; and the state of his physical system, and
the large scars and ridges, which resemble the twists in
ropes, make it obvious that the effects will be seriously
felt through life. Thomas Fossett and Robert Pease
were stunned, and slightly injured, but shortly reco-
vered. Paul Lincoln was stunned, and so seriously
injured, that for some time his life was despaired of;
but after some months he recovered. Henry Fossett,
the only person in the store who was not hurt, and but
for whose escape the store and all the persons in it
would undoubtedly have been burnt, was behind the
counter at the time, and threw out the cotton batting
which had been ignited. The wounds would not have
been so deep, if, amid the confusion, water had been
thrown upon the clothes, which continued to burn for
a long time after the sufferers were struck down.
HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.
" People never die in Union " was the remark of a
native of Thomaston ; and probably there are not many
towns in Maine, in which the deaths are fewer or the
sickness less, in proportion to the number of inhabi-
tants. This, however, like other towns, has had sea-
sons of extensive mortality. In 1792-3, the throat
1 Dr. J. Sibley's Letters.
HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.
distemper, as it was commonly called, carried olf a
very large number of the children, and spread a general
mourning through the small population. In 1826 the
dysentery was very prevalent and fatal.
Consumption, too, has called off one after another
from some families, till but very few members remain
to mourn over the departed. In such cases, it is not
unnatural for those who are fast wasting away, eagerly
to adopt any suggestion for relief from the destroyer.
Accordingly, in 1832 and 1833, a few persons put in
practice the proverb, that the burning of the lungs of
relatives who died of consumption would cure that
disease in the living. One body was exhumed several
months after death, and the vital parts were burned
near the grave, which was in the Old Burying Ground.
The theory seemed to be, that the disease, being a
family disease, would thus be burned out or extermi-
nated. But death still claimed the fair and the beau-
tiful as his own.
Some idea of the general healthfulness of the place
may be formed from the following memoranda by the
Rev. Mr. True, which purport to notice all the deaths
in town, inclusive of infants, for the several years to
which they relate : —
1807
11
1813
9
1819
6
1825
18
1808
5
1814
9
1820
6
1826
25
1809
7
1815
11
1821
8
1827
9
1810
6
1816
11
1822
13
1828
21
1811
10
1817
9
1823
17
1829
16
1812
7
1818
3
1824
16
1830
22
When the census was taken in 1830, there were 17
males and 16 females above 70 years of age ; and in
1840 there were 15 males and 24 females. In 1835
there were 26 or more persons who were as much as
75 years of age. It is thought that the oldest person
who has died in town was the widow Abigail Messer,
probably 99.
Without attempting an analysis of the causes of
the healthfulness of the place, it may be observed, the
2*
18 GEOGRAPHY.
water is in general uncommonly pure. The relative
position of the hills and valleys favors a brisk circula-
tion of air through all parts of the town, and particu-
larly in the direction of north and south. Though the
elevations are not mountainous, there is comparatively
little low ground ; and the fog, which lies in the valleys
and along the river almost every morning in summer,
while it favors vegetation, is not found to produce
debility or disease. The agricultural employments of
the inhabitants are highly conducive to vigor and
strength. Indolence and luxury are almost unknown.
Men, women, and children wear the hue of health.
From thirty to forty years ago, it was a common
remark of strangers, that there was more female beauty
in Union than in any other town in the county or
State. The fresh countenance, the clear or brilliant
eye, the natural, uncompressed form, were testimonials
to the generally good habits and customs of the people,
as well as to the healthfullness of the town.
SCENERY.
It would be unjust to the town not to allude to its
scenery. By some visitors, at the season of the year
when the earth is in its richest attire, it is said to be
the most beautiful which they have ever beheld. Hills
and valleys, ponds and streams, the romantic and the
picturesque, are combined in the prospects. On a
bright June morning, a ride in almost any direction
affords a rich enjoyment to people of taste and ad-
mirers of nature. One person might be pleased to
leave the beaten road, and stroll along the river below
the bridge at South Union, and watch the water tum-
bling over and among the rocks overhung with bushes,
and threading its way down to the pond. Another,
of a more pensive turn, might stand by the large rock
in the Old Burying Ground. On all sides are graves.
There sleep the fathers and the mothers of the town,
at rest from worldly anxiety, suffering, and toil. Around
them are gathered many of their children and children's
children. On the east lies a placid lake. To the
SCENERY. 19
north-west opens a bright, sunny landscape, winning
the thoughts away from the clouds and storms and
melancholy of this life, and directing them to higher
and holier scenes.
For a broader view, ascend the summit of the hill
near the Common. About one hundred rods north of
it is a snug house, almost hidden by trees ; and beyond
it, for a long distance, the ground is nearly a plain,
but varied with pleasing undulations. On the right,
near the foot of the hill, glides Seven Brook ; and on
the left, twenty or thirty rods distant, is St. George's
River. Beyond these, and circumscribing them from
the east around to the west, the rise of land is not
unlike an elongated amphitheatre. On this extensive
hillside may be seen farms above farms, covered with
cattle and sheep, and dotted over with houses and
barns. The rows of corn and potatoes, two or three
miles distant, are so regular that with a good eye it
seems as if they may be counted. Flitting clouds
throw their racing shadows, and wave chases wave,
over the surface of the bending fields of grain.
Immediately at the foot of the hill on the south is
the green Common, surrounded with neatly painted
houses and shops, which extend to the west till they
meet the mills carried by the St. George's. On the
rise of land 150 or 200 rods distant in the south-south-
west, the back part of the Old Burying Ground juts
out from behind a hill, and exposes to view the mar-
ble gravestones which have been placed there by the
hands of friendship and affection. A little to the east
of south lies Seven-tree Pond, so clear that in it may
be seen mirrored, two or three miles distant, the trees
and fields on its southern banks. And east of this
pond is a moderate swell of land intersected by Craw-
ford's River, which drives the spindles, the shuttles,
the hammers, and the saws of the busy little village of
South Union.
There are still broader views. Barrett's Hill to the
north-east, and the swell of land on the west, com-
mand extensive prospects of Kennebec County; and,
20 GEOGRAPHY.
in very clear weather, a glimpse of the "White Hills of
New Hampshire, about one hundred miles distant. In
the south-east part of the town is Mount Pleasant, the
highest of the eminences, known to all seamen on
the coast, for nearly three hundred years, as the Pe-
nobscot or Camden Hills. From its summit, a short
distance beyond the town-line, may be seen below, as
on a map, a great part of Penobscot Bay with as
many islands as there are days in the year ; and far to
the east the apparently unbounded Atlantic Ocean.
How often, before a European had removed trees for
the first building-spot in the vast wilderness of New
England, was this summit welcomed by Smith,1 Pop-
1 In 1603, Martin Pring, according to "Purchas his Pilgrimes,"
iv. 1654, "fell in with a multitude of small Hands, in the latitude of
43 degrees, the of June, which Hands were found very pleasant
to behold. Here we found an excellent fishing for Cods. . . . We
sayled to the South-west end of these Hands, and there rode with our
ships vnder one of the greatest. One of them we named Foxe Hand,
because we found those kind of beasts thereon. So passing through
the rest with our Boates to the mayne Land, which lieth for a good
space North-east and South-west, we found very safe riding among
them in sixe, seven, eight, ten, and twelve fathomes. At length, com-
ming to the Mayne in the latitude of 43 degrees and an halfe, we
ranged the same to the South-west."
In 1604, Champlain was for some time among the islands ; and, in
September, went up the Penobscot River twenty-five leagues to a
small stream, not far above which were falls. He speaks of Cape
Bedabedec, which, according to Jeffery's Atlas, is Owl's Head. He
was probably the first white man who explored the river. He gives
minute directions for entering it. The edition of his voyages published
by Jean Berjon at Paris, in 1613, of which there is a copy in the
library of Harvard University, contains many passages omitted in
later editions.
Rosier, in Weymouth's Voyage, already alluded to on page 2, states,
that from " S. George's Hand we might discern the main land from
the west- south-west to the east-north-east, and a great way (as it then
seemed, and we after found it) up into the main we might discern
very high mountains, though the main seemed but low land," &c.
Williamson, History of Maine, i. 193, states that the place where
they went ashore and amused themselves in hunting, June 12, 1605,
was Penobscot, now Camden, Hills.
The Strachey MS. in the details of the voyage of the Popham party
to Sagadahock, in 1707, states, "there be three high mountaynes that
lie in on the Land, the Land called Segohquet, neere about the River
of Penobscot," and gives drawings of their appearance from different
points of view.
In 1614, Capt. John Smith, whose history, in connection with
SCENERY. 21
ham, Weymouth, Champlain, Pring, and the seamen,
who, for half a century or more before them, sailed
along the coast to fish and to trade with the Indians !
How many thoughts crowd the mind respecting those
times, and the changes which have since taken place !
Though no thrilling events, to command the attention
of the general reader, have ever occurred in the town,
there are around it associations with olden time, which
give additional interest to scenery which it would re-
quire a poet and a painter properly to describe.
Pocahontas, is familiar to every school- child, spent several months
exploring the coast in an open boat with eight men. In 1616, he
published his Description of New England, accompanied with a
map. On page 24, he says, "North-west of Penobscot," meaning
only Penobscot Bay, " is Mecaddacut, at the foot of a high mountain,
a kind of fortresse against the Tarrantines, adjoining to the high
mountaines of Pennobscot, against whose feet doth beat the Sea : But
over all the Land, lies, or other impediments, you may well see them
sixteen or eighteen leagues from their situation. Segocket is the next :
then Nuscongus, Pemmaquid" &c. Mecaddacut, on Smith's map, is
called Dumbarton or Dunbarte. From its situation at the south of
the range of hills and east-north-east of one or two other eminences,
it is not improbable that Smith meant to locate the Indian village at
Camden, on the Megunticook, or perhaps a little further south. Indian
territories were not distinctly bounded. Bedabedec may have desig-
nated the coast, and included the Penobscot Hills and Owl's Head.
When it is considered that Indians, giving to the consonants a soft or
obscure sound, do not enunciate them distinctly, that Smith gives the
name as it sounded to his English ears, and Champlain as it sounded
to the French, it is not improbable that Bedabedec and Medambattec
and Mecaddacut are meant to represent the same Indian word.
It is somewhat remarkable that the accounts of the early explora-
tions of the coast of Maine have not been more carefully examined.
Many of the harbors, headlands, and islands, as laid down on Smith's
map, are easily identified, by recurring to page 205 of his " Generall
Historie of Virginia, New England," &c. published in 1626, where the
Indian names stand side by side with the English names given by
Charles the First, while Prince Charles. Smith was here in the sum-
mer. He speaks with enthusiasm of the country. In 1616 he pub-
lished his book and his map, for the purpose of prevailing on people
in England to form a colony. If his project had been carried out
successfully, some spot in this vicinity, and not Plymouth, would
have been 'chronicled as the birthplace of New England. The set-
tlers, however, would have been adventurers in quest of pelf, rather
than the sturdy pilgrims who fled from persecution to enjoy religious
liberty. They probably would not have given the Pilgrim-leaven to
the character of New England, and more or less to that of the whole
world. And it may therefore be considered fortunate, perhaps, that
his plan did not succeed.
22 ANTE-PLANTATION HISTORY.
CHAPTER II.
ANTE-PLANTATION HISTORY.
Muscongus or Waldo Patent. — Disputed Territory. — St. George's
River proposed as a Boundary. — Indians. — Hart's and Boggs's
Escape from them. — Dicke and the Comet.
MUSCONGUS OK WALDO PATENT.
Union was part of the tract of land called the Muscon-
gus Patent, which was a grant made March 2, 16||,
by the Plymouth Council to John Beauchamp, of Lon-
don ; and Thomas Leverett, then of Boston in Eng-
land, and subsequently of Boston in New England.
Afterwards this tract was called the Waldo Patent.
• DISPUTED TERRITORY.
Union is in the territory over which, for more than a
century, the French and the English alternately claimed
jurisdiction ; and, if there had been any inhabitants,
they would have been constantly harassed by the con-
flicting parties and by the Indians. The changes of
the governments, and the quarrels and hostilities con-
nected therewith, do not claim special notice, as the
beginning of a settlement on the soil of this town had
not then been made.
ST. GEORGE'S RIVER PROPOSED AS A BOUNDARY.
In 1711 or 1712, it was proposed to make St.
George's River the boundary between the English and
the French.1 If this had been effected, the inhabitants
1 Memoires des Commissaires du Roi et de Ceux de sa Majeste
Britannique, sur les Possessions et les Droits respectifs des deux Cou-
ronnes en Amerique, ii. 382, 4to, Paris, 1755. Memorials of the
English and French Commissaries concerning the Limits of Nova
Scotia or Acadia, i. 420-5, 4to, Lond. 1755. Remarks on the French
Memorials concerning the Limits of Acadia, p. 58, 8vo, Lond. 1756.
Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, &c. par le
INDIANS. 28
on the west side of the river might now have been
subject to the President of the United States, and part
have been doing homage to the Queen of England.
On the one side of the river the fugitive slave would
be liable to be returned to his master, while on the
other he would be as secure as in Canada.
INDIANS.
There is no evidence that this was a place much
resorted to by Indians, though the Wawenocks1 inha-
bited the country from Sagadahock to St. George's
River. It is obvious, however, that they were here oc-
casionally. It is said that during the French war
several lived along Crawford's River, and between
Seven-tree Pond and Round Pond, near the latter.
Stone hatchets, chisels, and other Indian implements,
have been found near the Upper Bridge, in the vicinity
of which was a good place for fishing at the waterfall.
About half-way between Nye's Corner and Sunnybec
Pond, very near the spot where the school-house now
stands, two Indian skeletons were ploughed up in
repairing the road some twenty-five years since.
Hatches, arrow-heads, &c. were found by the early
settlers near the mouth of Crawford's River. A brass
kettle, as large as a pail, was also found there. At the
P. De Charlevoix, ii. 236, 4to, Paris, 1744. [Jeffery's] Conduct of
the French with Regard to Nova Scotia, p. 39, 8vo, Lond. 1754.
In this connection may be inserted an extract from a letter of the
historian, William Gordon, to Arthur Lee, then in Congress. It is
dated at Jamaica Plain, in Poxbury, Massachusetts, April 2, 1783.
It is among the manuscripts of Arthur Lee, in the library of Harvard
University : —
" What may have been sent you from Prance, 1 know not ; but
you may depend upon the following information.
" The British would not allow the boundaries of Nova Scotia to
terminate at St. Croix, but demanded Kennebec at first, and after-
wards insisted upon Penobscot as their ultimatum, until Mr. Adams
produced the records of the Massachusetts, and the authorities of
Shirley, Pownal, Bernard, and Hutchinson, as well as the original
<*rant of Nova Scotia by James the First to Sir William Alexander,
and invited the British minister to state a written claim of Kennebec
or Penobscot as the boundary of Nova Scotia, that it might be
answered in writing, which brought him to reason."
1 Williamson's Maine, i. 468.
24 ANTE-PLANTATION HISTOEY.
present day, various Indian implements are occasion-
ally turned up by the plough on the farm of Joseph
Gleason. There are holes on the Robbins Neck, near
the outlet of Round Pond, and on the ridge near the
head of Seven-tree Pond on its east side, and in other
places. By some it is conjectured that Indians dug
them for the purpose of burying their provisions, and
by others for concealing, as far as practicable, fires
which might be wanted for cooking or for comfort.
Another supposition is that they are Indian cellars.
In the archives of the State of Massachusetts1 is a
journal of a scouting party, which may contain an
allusion to the place when a wilderness. It has been
suggested that it was probably the journal of Capt.
Matthias Remely.2 « Oct. 13, 1757, 1 went out myself
to a place called Sterling,3 which is about nineteen
miles up the river, divided my men into small scouts ;
some went up the river sundry miles, others towards
the back of Broad Bay."
David Dicke, of Warren, says that an Indian was
1 MS. vol. 38, A, p. 297.
# 2 For this suggestion, and for important information, the reader is
indebted to Cyrus Eaton, Esq. of Warren ; who, though laboring
under the misfortune which called forth one of the most admirable
apostrophes of Milton, has made a valuable collection of materials,
which, by the assistance of a dutiful daughter in delicate health, have
been put together so as to make an important work respecting the
of Wa^rTn8 °n Ge°rge'S Kiver> and Particularly respecting the town
In the American Quarterly Register, xiii. 162, is an account of
Lutherans m Waldoborough. There are sketches of some of the
towns m Maine in different "Historical Collections." There are no
town histories which make separate volumes but the following • —
William White's History of Belfast, 12mo ; Belfast, 1827, pp. 120.
George Eolsom s History of Saco and Biddeford, 12mo; Saco,1830,
pp. 331. William Willis's History of Portland, 2 vols. 8vo ; Port-
land, 1831 and 1833, pp. 243, 355. Jonathan D. Weston's History of
Eastport and Vicinity, 8vo ; Boston, 1834, pp. 61. Charles Brad-
bury s History of Kennebunk Port, 12mo ; Kennebunk, 1837, pp. 301.
Thomas Parkers History of Farmington, 8vo ; Earmington, 1846,
pp. 136. William Allen's History of Norridgewock, 12mo : Nor-
ridgewock, 1849, pp. 252. J. W. Hanson's History of Norridgewock
and Canaan, 12mo ; Boston, 1849, pp. 372.
8 The Sterling here alluded to was part of "Warren.
INDIANS. 25
buried on Seven-tree Island, some time before the set-
tlement of the town ; and because earth was scarce, or
because he was an Indian of consequence, a mound
or pile of stones, chiefly flat, was placed over the
remains. The stones, he adds, were carried away, and
used at South Union, in building a chimney or an oven,
which was put up, either by the first or the second
party of settlers, for the purpose of cooking. Phinehas
Butler, of Thomaston, has no recollection of it, and
thinks it certainly could not have been so.
Not any Indians were living here when the first set-
tlers came. They often visited the town afterwards,
" hunted along almost every year," and were on friendly
terms with the inhabitants. " The white children and
the pappooses slid down hill and played together like
school children." * The Indians sometimes solicited the
whites to accompany them in hunting. Once, Philip
Eobbins went, in accordance with an Indian's request ;
and they killed two old bears and either one or two
cubs, which they found under the root of a tree that
had been blown down. In the year 1777, a company
of six encamped between Philip Robbins's and the
river. " One of the Indians punished his child for steal-
ing (or carrying off from about the house where he had
found it) the broken bowl of an iron spoon."2 Samuel
Boggs had been to Sunnybec to make tree-nails, and
there his mare died in foaling. The Indians were ex-
ceedingly straitened for food, and called the flesh very
good moose-beef.3 They also brought away some of
the foal, and it was all the food they had when they
came.
During one winter, some Indian families were en-
camped near the head of Seven-tree Pond ; and during
another there were several near the brook between
Jessa Robbins and Moses Hawes. None, however,
resided a long time in the town.
1 Mrs. Dunton. 2 H. True, M.D. 3 Jessa Robbins.
26 ANTE-PLANTATION HISTORY.
HAKT'S AND BOGGS'S ESCAPE.
There is a story that Stephen Hart, uncle of William
Hart, when stationed at the fort in Thomaston, was in
a float with Samuel Boggs, trapping in Crawford's
Pond. They discovered Indians on Miller's Rocky
Point at the north end of the Pond, and immediately
directed their course homeward. The Indians, suppos-
ing they would naturally go down the St. George's,
ran to intercept them on their way to Seven-tree Pond.
The hunters, anticipating this movement, instead of
taking the route, hastened towards the south end
of Crawford's Pond. As they passed the point at the
extremity of the island, they saw seven Indians on
the western shore. They plied their paddles with in-
creased vigor. Having thrown their traps overboard,
they landed on the south shore, and, with the adroit-
ness of hunters, fled towards their home. The Indians,
having discovered their mistake, pursued them. The
parties crossed each other's tracks two or three times.
Hart and his companion, however, succeeded in getting
safely into the fort, though they were fired upon just
before they arrived there. This adventure may have
occurred in the Old French or Seven Years' War ; or
it may have been later, as the Indians were jealous of
the white hunters, and sometimes disposed, even in
peace, to wreak vengeance on them as intruders.1
DICKE' AND THE COMET.
The only other incident, known to have occurred
here before the settlement by the whites, was commu-
nicated in the following words : " In 1769, William
Dicke went up to Union alone to hunt for beaver.
Night and storm coming on, he landed on Seven-tree
Island, sheltered himself from the rain beneath his
inverted float, and slept till the tempest abated and the
clouds broke away. Then, looking out, he beheld for
the first time the comet of that year, with its long,
fiery, fan-shaped train, glaring in all its sublimity.
1 Fisher Hart and John F. Hart.
FIRST COMERS. 27
Being but seventeen years of age, quite illiterate, and
wholly ignorant of the cause or even the existence of
such phenomena, we may well imagine the surprise
and terror it gave him. Being told it was a sign of
war, and finding it verified by the revolutionary con-
test, he became unalterably fixed in the belief ; and,
when a similar one appeared in 1811, he confidently
and successfully predicted the war with Great Britain,
which followed the next year."
CHAPTER III.
PLANTATION HISTORY, 1772—1775.
1772, 1773, First Settlers. —The Anderson Party. — 1774, Plan of
Anderson's Lot. — Purchase of the Township by Dr. John Tay-
lor ; his Arrival with the Butlers and others. — First Public Act
of Devotion. — Frightened Moose. — Occupation of the Anderson
Camp. — Clearing commenced. — High Words with the Ander-
son Party. — Taylor's Return to Massachusetts. — Deed to Tay-
lor.— 177o, Taylor in Congress. — Butlers again at Work. —
First Rye sowed. — Butlers go West. — Taylor comes back and
labors. — Butlers return : are hired out to Benjamin Packard. —
Packard's Log-house. — Timber for Taylor's Buildings. — Priva-
tions. — Butler and the Bear.
1772, 1773.
The first white people who located themselves in
town, probably came in September or October, 1772.
Archibald Anderson and James Anderson, from the
part of Warren called Stirling ; * James Malcom, from
1 The name is derived from the Stirling in Scotland, from which
the settlers originated. Although the records commonly spell Ster-
ling, Sterlington, and Sterlingtown, with an e, it is evidently wrong,
as the place in Scotland is spelt with an i. Lord Stirling, a general
in the American army in the Revolution, who made claim to the earl-
dom of Stirling (which he wTas believed to have legally established,
but against which the House of Lords decided), spelled his name
in the same way. See Sedgwick's Life of William Livingston, 214,
28 PLANTATION HISTORY.
Cushing; and John Crawford, jun. from the upper
part of Warren Village, ascended St. George's River,
to " take up " land. All of them were natives of Scot-
land, and came to this country in childhood with the
Stirling colony which settled in Warren. In their
hunting and lumbering excursions, they had undoubt-
edly become well acquainted with the value of the
lumber and the nature of the soil. On a knoll eight
or ten rods from Seven-tree Pond, about forty rods
west of the ledge in Joseph Gleason's field, and thirty
rods north of the outlet of Crawford's River, from
which the knoll was then separated by low, wet
ground, they built a camp, the cellar belonging to
which has been recently filled. On the top of the
camp were a few boards which they brought from
Warren. Here James Malcom and Archibald Ander-
son intended to reside. James Anderson and John
Crawford, jun. took possession of the Robbins Neck,
and ran a possession-fence from the head of Seven-
tree Pond to the St. George's, a short distance below
Bachelor's Mills. The four residents lived together in
the camp.1
1774.
There seems to have been some understanding
between these men and Thomas Flucker, who repre-
sented the Waldo heirs, that they should become
owners of the Mill Farm on Crawford's River. The
Mill Farm was surveyed, and on the plan it is called
"Mr. Archibald Anderson's Lot." The description
which is written on the plan contains names supposed
by some to have been of later origin. It is probably
the oldest document in existence, of which it can be
said there is no doubt that it has particular reference
to this town.
and Sparks's Writings of Washington, iii. 235. It may be added,
that the claim was confirmed to the Stirling family about the year
1833. Before Union was incorporated, it was called Taylortown as
often as Stirlington.
1 David Dicke, of Warren.
Taylor's purchase. 29
" Lincoln, ss. St. George's River, May 13th, 1774. —
Then surveyed this lot of land for Mr. Archibald Anderson,
at a place called Seven-tree Pond, on St. George's River,
without the bounds of any town ; but in the county of Lin-
coln and province of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng-
land ; beginning at a white oak-tree standing on the eastern
side of said Seven-tree Pond, said tree marked on four sides ;
and from thence running east two hundred and twenty
poles to a red oak-tree marked on four sides ; and thence
running south two hundred poles to a stake and heap of
stones standing on the west side of Crawford's Great Pond,
said stake is marked on four sides ; and then running west
one hundred and eighty poles to an elm-tree standing on
the east side of said Seven-tree Pond, said tree is marked
on four sides ; then running northerly by the side of said
pond, as the shore layeth to the bounds first mentioned ; to
contain two hundred and twenty-four acres and one hundred
square poles, as appears by this actual survey taken by me,
Nathaniel Mesarvy, sworn surveyor of lands."
The plan, which is not very exact, is on a scale of
forty poles to one inch. From the appearance of Seven-
tree Pond, the survey seems to have been made when
the low ground on its borders was covered with water
and frozen over. The south line of the mill-lot crosses
Crawford's River from west to east near the falls, per-
haps a very little south of them ; the north line appears
to coincide nearly with the south line of John F. Hart's
land. The Mill Farm, or mill-lot, included the farms
now owned by Messrs. Vaughan, MSGuier, Daniels,
and Alden, on the south side of Crawford's River, and
on the north side all to John F. Hart's southern line.
In the spring of 1774, when this survey purports to
have been made, Dr. John Taylor, of Lunenburg,
Mass. entered into a negotiation with Flucker, for the
entire gore of unappropriated land, of very irregular
shape, which lay between the lands belonging to the
" Twenty Associates, called the Lincolnshire Com-
pany," and the towns of Waldoborough, Warren, and
Camden. Taylor raised the objection of pre-occu-
pancy by the Anderson party. Flucker is said to have
replied, that they had not fulfilled their agreement;
3*
30 PLANTATION HISTORY.
they had been cutting lumber and making staves, but
had not paid any thing, nor done any thing towards
clearing the land or introducing settlers. In their jus-
tification, it has been said they did not then know it
was practicable to get a crop of rye or Indian corn
from burnt ground. Flucker agreed to protect Tay-
lor from harm; and the bargain was concluded, as
some of the aged inhabitants say, for about ninepence
an acre. Dr. Taylor soon sailed to Sheepscot, with
one Capt. Decker, in a slaver so filthy that the smell
was almost intolerable, as it had just returned from
a voyage for negroes. He was accompanied by John
Butler and Phinehas Butler,1 two young men who
were bound out to him till they should be twenty-
one years of age. For their services they were to
receive one every-day suit and one handsome suit of
clothes, and one hundred acres of the land which Tay-
lor had purchased. Besides these, were Thomas
Wright, from Lunenburg, Samuel Searles, and Ste-
phen Wyman. According to an agreement of Decker
with the captain of a fishing-schooner, the party was
carried to the St. George's, and landed at the Lower
Rips, or Miller's Landing, on Saturday, July 16, 1774.
John JVKIntyre, who kept a ferry, sold a ferry-boat to
Dr. Taylor. On Monday, the boat, baggage, provi-
sions, axes, agricultural implements, &c. were carried
across the neck from Boggs's Landing to the river
above Starrett's Bridge. The company rowed up the
St. George's. They landed near the mouth of Craw-
ford's River, on the north side of it, expecting to find
and occupy the Anderson camp. But, as it was sun-
set, and too late to search for it in a wilderness where
they were all strangers, the boat was drawn up with a
view to their camping down where they were. Dr.
Taylor then said to his companions, that, as they had
been wonderfully preserved by a kind Providence
during their voyage and journey, they ought to return
1 Phinehas Butler, of Thomaston, who furnished a great part of the
information in this chapter.
TAYLOR'S ARRIVAL. 31
thanks for the protection of Heaven. Accordingly, he
stood up by a majestic tree in this wilderness, and
began his devotions. Suddenly, the party was started
by the rustling of leaves and crackling of limbs. Their
excitement was not diminished either by the awful
stillness and solitude of the place, or by the darkness
which was fast gathering around them. The doctor
paused. Every one looked eagerly for the cause of the
noise. Their fears, however, were soon quieted. There
came rushing by them a frightened moose. The doctor
resumed and finished the prayer. This was probably
the first public act of devotion ever performed by a
white man within the limits of the town. Such were
the peculiar circumstances and the spirit in which the
pioneers began the arduous work of settling Union. The
serious and the ludicrous were comically combined.
Dr. Taylor and his companions passed the night in
the open air. Early the next morning, they discovered
the camp within a very few rods of their resting-place.
They took possession of it. It was the only shelter
they had during the season. The same day, Tuesday,
July 19, they began to cut down trees near the ledge
in Joseph Gleason's field. Accordingly, this may be
regarded as the day on which the first blow was struck
with a view to a settlement of the town. As the per-
sons who came previously did not make a permanent
establishment, this is the day which should be kept in
remembrance for centennial celebrations.
Before a week elapsed, the Anderson party came
and claimed the place. High words passed between
them and Taylor. The doctor told them he had
bought the land, and should at all events make a set-
tlement on the mill-lot, where he then was ; but that
each of them might have a hundred-acre lot in any
other part of his purchase. They indignantly rejected
the offer, and went off.
Dr. Taylor's party continued to labor through the
season. They felled the trees on several acres, princi-
pally on the north side of the river, beginning at
Seven-tree Pond, and working towards Crawford's
oZ PLANTATION HISTORY.
Pond. In the fall they went away. Taylor hired out
John Butler and Phinehas Butler in Thomaston,
where they passed the winter. Upon going to Massa-
chusetts, Taylor got the following deed1 executed : —
"Know all men by these presents, that we, Thomas
Flucker, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, Esq. and Han-
nah Flucker his wife, Isaac Winslow, of Roxbury, in said
county of Suffolk, Esq. and Francis Waldo, of Falmouth,
in the county of Cumberland, Esq. all of the province of
Massachusetts Bay, in New England, in consideration of the
just sum of one thousand pounds, lawful money, to us in
hand paid before the delivery hereof by John Taylor, of
Lunenburg, in the county of Worcester and province of Mas-
sachusetts Bay aforesaid, physician, the receipt whereof Ave
do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, and
sold, and do by these presents give, grant, bargain, sell,
alien, and fully, freely, and absolutely convey and confirm
unto him the said John Taylor, his heirs and assigns for
ever, a certain tract or parcel of land lying on St. George's
and Madomock Rivers, in the county of Lincoln and pro-
vince aforesaid, being a township containing thirty-four
thousand five hundred and sixty acres of good land, bad
land, and water, butted and bounded as followeth : to wit,
beginning at a birch-tree marked, which is the north-east
corner of Waldoborough ; thence running south seven
degrees east by said Waldoborough, two miles and an half
to a hemlock-tree marked; thence due east across Seven-
tree Pond and Crawford's Pond, so called, six miles and
two hundred and fifteen rods to a stake and stones at the
line of the township called Camden, belonging to the Twenty
Associates, called the Lincolnshire Company ; thence north-
west by north crossing Sunnyback Pond, so called, by the
land of said Twenty Associates, eleven miles and eighty
rods ; thence south-west by west2 five miles and twenty-four
1 The copy of the deed, and several abstracts of other deeds, have
been furnished through the kindness of the Rev. Uriah Balkam, of
Wiscasset.
2 Among the papers of the late T. L. Jennison, M.D. of Cambridge,
Mass. is a memorandum purporting to be by David Fales, Esq. of
Thomaston, " that the western line of Dr. Taylor's township was not
run in its proper place when the town was" laid out, and that the
courses given in the deed were according to the direction of the mag-
netic needle, and not on a true meridian,"
TAYLOR'S LABORS. 33
rods ; thence south three miles and two hundred and eighty-
rods to a spruce-tree marked, which is the north-west corner
of the town of Waldoborough ; thence easterly by said
Waldoborough three miles and one hundred and sixty rods
to the bound first mentioned.
" To have and to hold the said granted and bargained
premises, together with all their appurtenances, free of all
encumbrances whatsoever, to him the said John Taylor, his
heirs and assigns, as an absolute estate of inheritance in fee
simple for ever. And we, the said Thomas Flucker, Hannah
Flucker, Isaac Winslow, and Francis Waldo, for ourselves,
our heirs, executors, and administrators, do hereby covenant
to warrant and defend the afore-granted premises unto the
said John Taylor, his heirs and assigns for ever, against
the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
" In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Flucker, Han-
nah Flucker, Isaac Winslow, and Francis Waldo, have
hereunto set our hands and seals this thirtieth day of Sep-
tember, anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-four, and in the fourteenth year of his majesty's
reign.
" Thos. Fltjckek, and a seal.
" Hannah Fltjckek, and a seal.
" Isaac Winslow, and a seal.
" Fkas. Waldo, and a seal.
" Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us,
" Danl. Hubbard.
" David Greene.
" Suffolk, ss. Boston, Nov. 17, 1774. —Then the above-
named Thomas Flucker, Hannah Flucker, Isaac Winslow,
and Francis Waldo, personally appeared and owned this
instrument to be their act and deed.
" John Avery, Just. Pacis."
1775.
In September, 1774, while Taylor and his men were
felling trees in the forest of Maine, and beginning the
settlement of a town, the first Continental Congress
was in session at Philadelphia. On the 19th of April,
1775, was the battle of Lexington and Concord ; and on
the 17th of June, that of Bunker Hill. The war of the
34 PLANTATION HISTOKY.
American revolution was begun in earnest. Dr. Tay-
lor was an ardent whig, and one of the leading mem-
bers of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress.1 He
was too much interested in political affairs to return
immediately. Accordingly, in April, he sent Thomas
Wright, who, with the two Butlers, again took posses-
sion of the camp, and went to work on the Mill Farm.
Wright was soon taken sick, and returned to the West-
1 Dr. Taylor was born about the year 1734, probably in Townsend,
Mass. He was a physician and trader in Lunenburg, when he pur-
chased the plantation of Stirlington. He was married, by Rev. Wm.
Emerson, to Mrs. Rebecca Prescott, of Concord, Aug. 28, 1766. She
died March 3, 1772. July 16, four months afterward, he was mar-
ried, by Rev. Nathaniel Merrill, to Mrs. Anna Dole, of Dunstable,
N.H. She died Feb. 1774. He married, July 6, 1777, Ruth, second
daughter of John Hunt, Esq. of Watertown ; and she died Nov. 30,
1778. He was also once published without being married. After he
left Lunenburg, he resided at Pomfret, Ct. and subsequently at
Douglas, Mass. He had a son John, born Jan. 1, 1768, and a daugh-
ter Betsey. The latter married Josiah Reed. By his second wife, he
had a son Daniel, who lived for a time in Belchertown, Mass. was
called Doctor, had at least a son and two daughters, and probably
moved to the State of New York. According to Phinehas Butler,
Dr. Taylor, when a young man, cared little for religious subjects,
" till he had a dream about the resurrection. After that he appeared
to believe in God and a Saviour." From the Lunenburg town-records,
it appears he was one of the selectmen and assessors of that town in
1771, 1772, and 1773. In 1772, he was chosen representative to the
Legislature by the towns of Lunenburg and Fitchburg. When he
was elected in 1774, these towns, May 20, voted to him patriotic
instructions. He was member of the Massachusetts Provincial Con-
gress, which convened at Cambridge, Feb. 1, 1775, adjourned Feb. 16,
met at Concord, March 22, and continued in session till its adjourn-
ment, April 15. It is said to have been through his influence that
the adjournment to Concord was effected. Being convened at Con-
cord, April 22, the Provincial Congress adjourned, and met the same
day at Watertown, where it was dissolved, May 29, 1775. In the
meantime, the battle of Lexington was fought. Dr. Taylor was one
of the prominent men of the Congress, on which devolved very solemn
and weighty responsibilities. On the journals, his name occurs
oftener than that of any man, except Gen. Ward. On the important
committees he was associated with Col. Prescott, of Bunker Hill
memory, Governor Brooks, of Massachusetts, Vice-President Gerry,
and Governor Gill. He was on the committee which drew up the
reply to Gen. Gage's proclamation of June 12, 1775, promising par-
don to all except Samuel Adams and John Hancock ; and was one of
the committee to take depositions, after the battle of Lexington and
Concord, to be forwarded to Dr. Franklin, in England. He was also
a member of the Massachusetts Council, elected May 28, 1777.
GRAIN SOWN AND HOUSE BUILT. 35
ward, as Massachusetts and even New Hampshire
were called then, and for a long time afterward. The
two young men continued to work through the sum-
mer. More trees were cut, principally but not entirely
on the north side of the stream. By the labors in the
present and the preceding years, a clearing was made
from Seven-tree Pond to Crawford's Pond. Towards
autumn the felled trees were burnt. Oxen were then
hired of William Boggs, of Warren, and ten bushels
of rye were sown. This was the first grain ever sown
in Union.
The Butlers had toiled in solitude. To them the
Lord's Day and the week-day were the same. With
each morning they rose to provide or prepare their food
and chop trees. It is not to be wondered at that they
felt no particular attachment to this mode of life.
Accordingly, when they had sowed the grain, they
went to Massachusetts. After their departure, Taylor
came, hired Germans and others, lived in the old
camp, sowed rye on the remainder of the cleared land,
and returned to Massachusetts. Having been absent
about two months, during which John Butler lived
with Col. Willard, of Lancaster, and Phinehas with
Dr. Taylor's father, in Townsend, the two young men
returned to Union. It was late in the fall. Taylor
hired them out to Benjamin Packard for the winter.
In the course of this season, Benjamin Packard, of
Cushing, who came from Bridgewater, Mass. had
built a log-house. It was the first house of any kind
ever built within the limits of the town, unless some
are disposed to dignify by the name of house the
shanty or camp which had been put up at the Mill
Farm. It was about twenty feet long and eighteen
feet wide. It had one room, a cat-and-clay chimney,
a stone chimney-back, but no jambs. It was about
fifty rods north-west of the island in Seven-tree Pond.
Of the three knolls there, the cellar is still visible on
the one nearest to the island. Stones were dug out
of the cellar-hole in September, 1848. It is supposed
they belonged to the chimney, as the cellar probably
36 PLANTATION HISTORY.
was not stoned. In the winter of 1775-6, Packard
and the Butlers lived here, getting out lumber for Tay-
lor's buildings at the Mill Stream. The pine-timber
was taken chiefly from the west side of Seven-tree
Pond, and the oak from the east side, some of it even
from the island in Crawford's Pond. Their fare was
poor. Packard was a poor provider, and the Butlers
suffered with hunger. In the course of the winter,
while at work on the island in Crawford's Pond,
Phinehas Butler saw by the side of a log something
which excited his curiosity. He went to the log, and,
as he stooped to see what was there, a bear suddenly
thrust his nose up into his face. Butler settled his axe
into Bruin, and despatched him forthwith. " After
that," says he, " we lived like princes."
CHAPTER IV.
PLANTATION HISTORY, 1776.
Philip Robbins's Purchase. — David Robbins's the first Family. —
Richard Cummings. — Taylor again. — First Frame House. —
First Crop of Rye. — Raising of a Barn. — Log-houses of Richard
Cummings and David Robbins. — Arrival of the Families of Philip
Robbins and Richard Cummings. — Crowded House. — Timber
House. — Barn. — Taylor's Mills.
With the year 1776 came a change. Several persons
agreed with Philip Robbins, of Walpole, Mass. to take
farms, if he would come east and purchase a tract of
land. Accordingly, Robbins made an agreement with
Dr. Taylor for about 7,500 acres, at fifty cents an acre.
He also agreed to introduce a specified number of set-
tlers. Subsequently, Robbins, in consequence of a
misunderstanding with Taylor as to the price, did not
take so much. The deed was executed August 1,
1777 ; in which John Taylor, of Stirjington, con-
veys to Philip Robbins, of Stirlington, for £1,200
lawful money, a tract of land " in said Sterlingtown,
ROBBINGS PURCHASE. 37
containing near 4,000 acres more or less, bounded
thus : Beginning at a hemlock-tree marked, by Seven-
tree Pond, so called, which is part of St. George's
River ; thence running west, by the line of the town of
Warren 596 rods to a hemlock-tree marked, at Waldo-
borough line ; thence north 7° west, two miles and a
half by said line to a birch-tree marked, at the north-east
corner of said Waldoborough ; thence east, two miles
and ninety-six rods to St. George's River, near the
mouth of Bowker Brook, so called ; thence southerly,
by said St. George's River as it runneth, and by Round
Pond and Seven-tree Pond as they lie, to the bound
first mentioned." *
David Robbins, Philip Robbins's oldest son, had
been living two years at Thomaston, on what is called
the Kelsey Farm, situated on the west side of the
Meadows, and had there built a small log-house. His
father offered to give him one hundred and fifty acres
more or less, in Union, if he would settle on it ; and his
1 Mrs. Mero says, the two parties agreed in the fall that the papers
should be made out by Dr. David Fales, of Thomaston. Accordingly,
after laboring on his land in the year 1776, and inducing some settlers
to come here, Robbins departed for the Westward for the purpose of
bringing down his family. The day before he expected to sail, he
called on Fales, according to agreement, to sign the papers ; but Tay-
lor had gone. Under the circumstances, Robbins hesitated what
course to pursue. However, as he had already done much on the
land, and there was hardly a doubt that Taylor would abide by his
agreement, Robbins concluded to proceed. The next year, Taylor in-
sisted on having about one dollar an acre. Robbins finally took the
tract above described. He gave particular charge to his agent at
Walpole to pay his debt to Taylor on the very day that it became due ;
but a violent storm came on, and he did not arrive at Taylor's till
the following day. Then, as continental bills had depreciated, Taylor
insisted on having specie. Finally, according to Jessa Robbins, Tay-
lor told Philip Robbins he should pay specie, or he would sue him to
the farthest court. Robbins told him he wrould not pay him specie,
if he sued him to h — 1, and got the d- — -1 for his attorney. The
result was a lawsuit. Robbins "scraped together" some money,
besides what he got for his farm at Walpole. After the execution
was out, Taylor hesitated to take the pay. The attorney applied to
the Judge and Clerk to receive the continental money. It was counted
out ; Robbins's lawyer had in his hands a demand against Taylor,
which amounted to more than the execution ; a writ was immediately
served, and the money secured to Taylor's creditor.
4
38 PLANTATION HISTORY.
wife fifty acres more, if she would come and cook for
him and his hired men. David Robbins could not get
a deed, or any security for one, of the person who had
sold to'him in Thomaston ; for he had gone off, it was
said, as a tory. Accordingly, his father's proposition
to him and his wife was accepted. With their chil-
dren they came in May, 1776, and occupied the log-
house built by Packard, who, in consequence of the
Robbins purchase, was obliged to go off. This was
the first family which moved into Stirlington. Before
the decease of David Robbins, there was standing in
Warren or Thomaston only one house, built before he
came here. At the time of his coming, there was not
another family above Boggs's in Warren. None of
the land between them was cleared. There was no
road, not even a footpath. Mrs. Robbins * did not see
the face of a woman from the time of her arrival in
May till the following autumn. To this day, people
speak of her excessive joy when another female came
to reside with her.
At the same time with David Robbins came Philip
Robbins and his sons, Jessa and Ebenezer. Philip Rob-
bins settled west and north of the island in Seven-tree
Pond, on the place where Stephen Hawes now lives.
He brought six men to assist him in clearing his land.
During the season he cut down and burned over about
twenty acres.
Richard Cummings, from Stoughton, came the same
spring in May, cleared a small spot on the farm now
owned by Henry Seiders, sowed some spring grain,
tarried a short time, and returned to Massachusetts.
In the spring of the same year, Dr. Taylor again
visited his township. Having hired Col. Benjamin
Burton, afterward an officer in the revolutionary war,
Nathaniel Fales, of Thomaston, and others, he built
the first frame-house in the place. It was about
1 Probably the first white females ever in the place were two
young women of somewhat suspicious character, who, in the spring
before the arrival of Mrs. Robbins, came by themselves from Warren
in a boat to the Mill Farm, and returned on the same day.
RAISING OF A BARN. — LOG-HOUSES. 39
eighteen feet by twenty, and stood on the spot now
occupied by Joseph Gleason's house. Gleason's kitchen
is over the old cellar, and Taylor's well furnishes the
water now used by Gleason's family. This was
the only frame-house in Union till some years after
the town was incorporated. The boards were brought
on the ice from Lermond's Mills, at Oyster River, by
Phinehas Butler.
This year, the Butlers, Jessa Robbins, and others,
reaped the rye, of which the Butlers had sowed a con-
siderable part in the preceding year. It was the first
grain ever harvested in town.
In the course of the same summer, Taylor erected a
barn, measuring about thirty-four by forty feet. The
posts, beams, and rafters were of oak. The entire
male population of Stirlington, consisting of six men
and two lads, one seventeen and the other nineteen
years old, were present at the raising. The timber
was so large and heavy, and the gang, of which Philip
Robbins is said to have been the captain, was so
small, that two days were required to put up the
frame. The flesh was scraped from the arms, and
the gang so exhausted by lifting and straining as to
be hardly able to work for nearly a week.
It was some time in the course of the year that
Richard Cummings built a log-house. Except Pack-
ard's, it was the first in town. It was situated about
midway between the road and the pond. In the fall
of the same year, or in the spring of the next, David
Robbins built the next log-house on land now owned
by the heirs of his son David. It was between the
present house and the pond, so near to the latter —
perhaps fifteen rods distant — that the water used by
the family was brought from it. The top of the house
was covered with slabs brought from Mill River in
Thomaston. " The house," says Mrs. Dunton, " was
caulked with moss. The chimney was on the outside
of the house. Mother baked all the bread by the fire,
but the next year got along comfortably, as we had a
clay oven out of doors,"
40 PLANTATION HISTORY.
In the fall, Philip Robbins went to Walpole, and re-
turned with his family. On arriving at the Fort
Wharf in Thomaston, they were met by their friends,
and came up the river to Stirlington.1
In the vessel with the family of Philip Robbins
came Richard Cummings and his family. They
landed from Seven-tree Pond, Nov. 2. Before this,
Philip Robbins lived with his son David in the Pack-
ard House. When his family came, all for a short
time lived together. There were fourteen persons
dwelling together in this small log-house. The first
fall, three low bedsteads were set up in the garret. It
was necessary to lay the fourth bed on the floor of the
garret, so as to crawl over it to get to the others. The
ascent to the garret was by steps cut into a log which
stood by the side of the fireplace. Another bed, with
a trundle bed under it, was in the room below, which
was also the kitchen, reception-room, parlor, &c. The
members of the household who were unprovided for
lay on the floor. This house Philip Robbins and his
family occupied probably about four years. Thus the
fathers and mothers of the town found it necessary to
live and to lodge.
In this year Philip Robbins put up a timber-house.
The timbers, twelve by twenty inches in size, were
dovetailed, or locked in, at the ends. The roof was
covered, but there were no doors or windows; nor
1 Mrs. Susan Mero says, that, when they arrived at the Fort
Wharf, her uncle Gregory, of Camden, met them, and insisted on
carrying her, then a girl eight years old, to his home. Accordingly,
she mounted his horse behind him. On the way they went through
an almost impassable swamp, in which the horse sometimes sank two
or three feet. After a week's visit, her uncle brought her to Tay-
lortown. Guided by spotted trees, they came up on the east side of
Seven-tree Pond. The bushes and limbs were so thick that she fre-
quently was in imminent danger of striking her feet, and being turned
and thrown from the horse. At Crawford's River, there being no
bridge, Taylor's men were hailed across the stream. They went to
the pond, and rowed round its mouth instead of crossing it. The
boat was then rowed back, though at first she hesitated about
"getting into a thing that looked so much like a hog's trough."
Shortly afterwards, she was carried across the pond, about live-eighths
of a mile, to her father's.
MILLS. — ABIJAH HAWES. 41
was it inhabited for three or four years. " It was so
built that the Indians could not shoot through it."
Into this the family put their effects when they came
in November.
In the fall of this year, Philip Robbins got out a
frame for a barn, which he put up in 1777.1 It was in
this year also that Taylor put up the frame of a saw-
mill, a little below the present mills on Crawford's
River. A grist-mill was afterwards put under the saw-
mill.
CHAPTER V.
PLANTATION HISTORY, 1777, 1778.
1777, Phinehas Butler enters the Army. — Purchases by Abijah
Hawes ; by Ezra Bo wen ; by Jonathan Amory ; by Joel Adams,
Jason Ware, and Matthias Hawes. — Settlement of John Butler. —
1778, Suchfort the Hessian. — Blacksmithing. — Calamitous Fire.
— Suffering for Pood.
. 1777.
In February, 1777, Phinehas Butler, who was acting
as Taylor's agent, enlisted in Stirlington under Col.
Benjamin Burton,2 and joined the army.
In June came Abijah Hawes, the first settler from
Franklin, Mass. He had received continental bills in
payment for services in the revolutionary war. The
bills were depreciating, and he resolved to purchase a
farm with them. In order to save his means and buy
1 Col. Burton's bill shows the value of labor at the time : —
Nov^r. 22 1776 St Georges
Philip Robins Dr
To Hughing of a fraim for a Rarn O. T. [Old Tenor] £22 10 0
To 9 Days work of Myself and Brother at 3£ per Day 27 00 0
To one Two year old Heffer a 12 Dollars . . , 27 00 0
To 13 Days Work at 37/6 24 6 6
100 16 6
3 Col. Burton died in Warren, May 24, 1835, aged 86.
4*
42 PLANTATION HISTORY.
as many acres as possible, he performed the journey
from Franklin to Stirlington on foot and alone. He
selected the farm now owned by his son, Whiting
Hawes, on the west side of Seven-tree Pond, suppos-
ing that it would be the more salable from the cir-
cumstance that David Robbins had settled on the one
side of it, and Ezra Bowen, who, after having worked
for Taylor a year or two, had the same month selected
the farm on the other side. Bowen's is now owned
by Capt. John Pearse Robbins, and is next to Warren
line. Hawes and Bowen began to chop the trees on
their respective lots on the same day.
July 4, a deed was executed by which " John Taylor,
of a new plantation called Sterlingtown, in considera-
tion of the sum of £2,000 lawful money, conveys to
Jonathan Amory, of Boston, merchant, a tract of land
in Sterlingtown, with a dwelling-house, barn, grist-
mill, and saw-mill thereon standing, containing about
6,500 acres more or less, bounded thus : Beginning at
a maple-tree marked, at the most south-westerly corner,
which is on the line between the town of Warren and
said plantation ; thence east by said town-line, till it
comes to Camden line ; thence by said Camden line
north-westerly, till that line strikes St. George's River ;
then on the east side of said river, till it comes to the
first-mentioned bounds."
By this deed, and the one to Philip Robbins, Taylor
disposed of all the land in Stirlington east of St.
George's River, and south of the line which ran
westerly from the mouth of the Cashman Brook.
At the time of Burgoyne's surrender, Oct. 17, 1777,
it is said there were but three families in Stirlington.
They must have been the families of Philip Robbins,
David Robbins, and Richard Cummings.
From a plan drawn by David Fales, and dated
Thomaston, Nov. 15, 1777, it appears that in this year
Joel Adams bought of Philip Robbins the tract of land
which was divided between himself, Jason Ware, and
Matthias Hawes. Ware and Hawes probably visited
this town at the same time and returned.
SUCHFORT. — BLACKSMITHING. — FIRE. 43
John Butler was married this year, though it is
not known when he moved his wife into Stirling-
ton.1 After living seven years at the Mill Farm, he
settled on the farm subsequently owned by Capt.
Nathaniel Bachelor, and resided there till the spring of
1791, when he moved to Thomaston.
1778.
In the fall of 1778, Philip Bobbins introduced from
Boston Andrew Suchfort, a German, who was cap-
tured at Stillwater. It is said that he was a very
strong man, and once brought two bushels of rock-
salt on his back from Waldoborough. When Philip
Bobbins moved from the Packard House, which was
probably in the fourth summer after he came here,
Suchfort became the occupant, He lived in it till
after the town was incorporated. He settled in Apple-
ton, near the head of Sunnybec2 Pond, on its west
side, and died at an advanced age in Washington,
where he was living with his son.
For several years there was no blacksmith in Stir-
lington. The inhabitants occasionally employed Caleb
Howard, of Waldoborough. In December of this year
he made his annual visit. He brought nails and
the number of shoes which the settlers sent word to
him would be wanted. There being no floor, an ox was
" cast " on the ground in the barn of Philip Robbins.
Prom an iron pot, placed for the blacksmith's conve-
nience in the lean-to, on a stump which had not been
dug up, the sparks rose through the poles, of which a
scaffold-floor was always made in those days, set the
hay and grain on fire, and the barn was immediately
enveloped in flames. The fire spread so rapidly, that
the fowls were burnt, and " the ox was singed nearly
1 He purchased all Dr. Taylor's furniture. Among the items on
the bill of sale, which is dated July 23, 1777, is "Mr. Willard on
the Catechism, £3. 0. 0." It was the first folio printed m British
America, and is now in the possession of his son, Charles Butler, ot
Thomaston.
2 By the Indians probably pronounced Soony-bech*
44 PLANTATION HISTORY.
half over." Mrs. Mero says, that, as her mother, Mrs.
Robbins, was hastening to the burning barn, the chil-
dren following her, she observed to them, " It is of no
use to go, we will all go back." Upon entering the
house, they found that also on fire. In the hurry the
door had been left unlatched, or the wind had blown it
open. The draft, which was very strong when it came
up from the pond, had carried fire into the ends of the
logs, which had been cut off to admit a stone for a
chimney-back. All the water used was brought from
the pond, and there was none in the house. The snow
was very deep, and consequently abundant ; but it was
not practicable to apply it to the interstices between
the logs. Mrs. Robbins immediately attached a rag
to the end of a stick, and kept dipping it in the snow
and applying it to the fire till she extinguished it. As
the logs were dry spruce, it is probable that the house
would have been burnt, if the discovery of the fire had
occurred five minutes later, or if Mrs. Robbins had not
adopted this expedient to put it out. Her hands were
severely burnt.
The loss of the barn was a grievous calamity. The
people generally stacked their hay, and built small log-
hovels to cover their cattle. With the exception of the
barn on the other side of the pond, where nobody lived
but in the Taylor House, this was the only one in the
plantation. It contained the rye of Philip Robbins
raised on twenty acres, besides all the other grain on
the west side of the river, and about twenty tons of
hay. Thirty bushels of wheat, belonging to Richard
Cummings, were burnt. Several tons of the hay were
saved by throwing snow upon it ; but the " cattle kept
lowing about, and would not eat it, because it was
smoked." Philip Robbins saved one bushel of rye.
Mr. Porterfield, of Thomaston, gave him one bushel
of corn, which, it being winter and no boating, he and
Suchfort " backed up " to Stirlington from Lermond's
Mills on Oyster River. This was all the grain Rob-
bins had till the spring opened, which was late. Then,
with depreciated continental paper, he bought a hogs-
SCARCITY OF FOOD. — WHEATON'S PURCHASE. 45
head of Indian corn, for which he paid twenty-five
dollars a bushel.
The barn was burnt on Friday. On Saturday a
shelter for the cattle was put up. To add to the mis-
fortunes, on Sunday a yoke of oxen broke through the
ice and was drowned, on the way to bring home hay
from the Round Pond Meadows. In consequence of
this fire, ten head of cattle died during the winter. It
was probably after this that David Robbins' s family,
consisting of the parents and three children, were
reduced to such extremities, that, for fourteen days,
they subsisted on " two quarts of rye-meal, which they
ate with birch-sap, in which was put a little pickle.
A few boxberry leaves and buds finished the daily
repast." x There is said to have been a time when
David Robbins, after having planted the seed-ends of
potatoes, dug them up, and cut off for food all but the
eyes.
CHAPTEE VI.
PLANTATION HISTORY, 1779—1782.
1779, Wheaton's Purchase. — Settlement of Joel Adams, Matthias
Hawes, and Jason Ware. — Woodward. — Fairbanks. — Settlement
of Moses Hawes. — Ebenezer Robbins. — 1780, Jennison's Pur-
chase.—1781, First Wedding. — Jessa Robbins. — 1782, Settle-
ment of Phinehas Butler. — Elisha Partridge. — Taylor's Convey-
ance to Reed.
1779.
" January 2. John Taylor conveys to Mason Wheaton
land in Sterlingtown, containing 1,000 acres, bounded
as follows : Beginning at Bowker Brook near where it
empties into St. George's River ; thence west by land
sold to Philip Robbins 436 rods ; thence north 240
1 Mr. Noyes P. Hawes, who several years ago prepared notices of
the town, which he has generously permitted to be freely used, as
may be seen from the extracts credited to him.
46 PLANTATION HISTORY.
rods ; thence east 682 rods to St. George's River ; then
southerly by said river about 240 rods ; then west 214
rods to the first bound." x Col. Wheaton resided here
a short time, but did not move his family from Tho-
maston. He raised a barn in July, 1780. He returned
to Thomaston, and was the first representative from
that town to the Legislature of Massachusetts.
May 15. Joel Adams, Matthias Hawes, and Jason
Ware, three unmarried men from Franklin, Mass.
came and settled on the north-west side of Round
Pond. Their land, which had been bought by Joel
Adams, was divided into three farms of different sizes.
Lots were drawn for choice, and each obtained the
farm he preferred. Hawes had 255 acres, Ware 230,
and Adams took two lots making 410 acres. They
lived together in a log-house which they built on
Ware's land, below the present Hawes House, and
near the pond. Their oven was on a ledge near their
house. Becoming rather dissatisfied with their mode
of life, they hired Jemima Robbins, who began to keep
house for them, June 29, 1780. Here they continued
till the " Royal Mess," as they called themselves, was
broken up. Each member contributed his share of the
provisions, and their accounts are still preserved. Joel
Adams settled on the farm south of Muddy Brook,
now owned by the Rev. Mr. Irish. Jason Ware settled
on the north side of the same brook, where his son,
Vinal Ware, now lives ; and Matthias Hawes imme-
diately north of him, on land now in the possession of
his descendants.
With these persons came Nathan Woodward, who
did not settle in town. He began to clear the farm
north of Matthias Hawes. It is now owned by Nathan
D. Rice. Having a great aversion to hemlock-trees,
he hired a man to girdle all on the farm, and they have
been dead many years.
A man named John Fairbanks, from Franklin, came
at the same time ; but he did not settle. He lived for
1 Abstract from the deed recorded at Wiscasset.
MORE SETTLERS. — JENNISON'S PURCHASE. 47
a while on the farm now owned by Benjamin Litch-
field, went back, and kept a store in Roxbury, Mass.
In the same year came Moses Hawes, also from
Franklin. He settled on the farm now owned by his
son, Col. Herman Hawes.
Amos Lawrence, from Franklin, a young man who
had served in the revolutionary war, came probably
this year. He exchanged the Simmons Farm on the
hill back of Mr. Seiders for one in Warren.
Ebenezer Robbins, from Walpole, a half-brother of
Philip Robbins, " had made a beginning" at Fox
Islands. The exposed situation of the islands on the
seacoast during the war led most of the inhabitants
to abandon them. Ebenezer Robbins came to Stir-
lington soon after the battle of Biguyduce or Penobs-
cot. He settled on the place more recently owned by
Asa Morse. His children were Bela, Philip, Zilpah,
Azubah, and Molly.
1780.
" July 19. John Taylor, of Pomfret, Conn, conveys
to "William Jennison, of Brookfield, Mass. land in Ster-
lingtown, bounded thus : Beginning at the north-
east corner of Waldoborough ; then east 256 rods on
land of Philip Robbins to the south-west corner of
Mason Wheaton's land ; then north 697 rods and 14
links to the north-east corner of said tract ; then west
4 miles 96 rods to the west line of Sterlington, being
north-west corner of said tract; then south by said
line 697 rods 14 links to north-west corner of Wal-
doborough and south-west corner of said tract ; then
east by Waldoborough line 3 J miles to first bound." *
1 Abstract from the deed recorded at Wiscasset.
In this transaction, Dr. Taylor agreed to take Dr. Jennison's real
estate, consisting of three farms, with their improvements, and wild
land in Douglas, Mass. The consequence was quarrels, lawsuits, and
executions, till the end of Taylor's life. According to Jessa Robbins,
Dr. Jennison, in endeavoring to dispose of some of his land here to
one Tucker, recommended it upon the strength of what Taylor had
said. Taylor also wanted to sell to Tucker, and said to him, " Buy of
me, and get good land : it will take 1,000 acres of Jennison's land to keep
48 PLANTATION HISTORY.
1781.
In this year there does not appear to have been any
new settler or any important occurrence. The " Royal
Mess" underwent a change. Before the middle of
a red squirrel alive.'' Upon being questioned, he said he had made
to Jennison substantially the same statement. Jennison told Tucker
that " Taylor was a thief and a liar, and not fit to keep gentlemen's
company," and not only refused to retract when called upon, but
repeated the charges publicly. Taylor prosecuted him, and Jennison
gained the case by proving that Taylor had taken a bag of wheat from
a mill without leave, and an ox which he sold to a commissary in the
revolutionary war. Several actions were brought by the parties
against each other. Jennison brought one in March, 1781. After
various law operations, Taylor was committed to jail in Worcester,
March 12, 1784, on Jennison's execution, "for about £900 lawful
money." Taylor, in a communication published March 18, 1784, in
the Worcester Spy, speaks of having sold farms " to the amount of
several thousand pounds silver money value, and loaned the money
arising therefrom, a part to this Commonwealth [Massachusetts], but
principally to the United States, taking their promise to return the
same within three years, with interest ; " but adds, that he had not to
that " day received one farthing of the principal, and but a small part
of the interest." The rest of the communication is taken up with
abusing Jennison, and demanding settlement of and with all his cre-
ditors. Jennison replied in detail, April 8 ; and this drew out a long
rejoinder, April 22. Taylor was in some wray released, and was a
delegate from Douglas to the Massachusetts Convention held in
January and February, 1788, "for the purpose of assenting to and
ratifying the Constitution recommended by the Grand Federal Con-
vention." It seems, however, that he was recommitted to jail. There
he occasionally gave festive entertainments, remarking that he could
afford to do it with the interest of Jennison's money. Many other
things were done to irritate Jennison, who took measures to have
him watched. Taylor went across the street to buy some tempting
fruit, and, in doing it, broke his bonds for the liberty of the jail-yard.
At last, according to some, he took rum and opium in anticipation of
being recommitted to jail by the persons who had been his bondsmen.
By others, it is said he "had been on a spree for a number of days ;
and,_ having no rum or brandy, went to looking over his bottles of
medicine, and came to some laudanum, and drank a dram of it, whe-
ther by mistake or otherwise not known. An emetic was adminis-
tered, and he was ordered to walk out of doors in the open air ; " but
he died the same day, April 27, 1794, at Douglas, in the sixtieth year
of his age.
The part taken by Dr. Taylor in the Convention for adopting the
Federal Constitution may be understood from the " Debates, Resolu-
tions, and other Proceedings of the Convention," reported by Ben-
jamin Russell, and printed in Boston in 1788. From this it appears
that he was in favor of annual instead of biennial elections to the
FIBST WEDDING. 49
September, Joel Adams married Jemima, daughter
of Philip Robbins. The ceremony was performed by
Col. Mason Wheaton, of Thomaston. He disap-
pointed them at the time fixed for the wedding ; but,
not long afterward, he married them in the log-house
which was occupied by the " Royal Mess." The cere-
mony being over and the company seated, the mother
of the bride observed, " Mr. Justice, you have but half
done your work." " Why not ? " said he. " Why, you
have not pronounced them man and wife." With
some confusion he asked them to rise again, and the
ceremony was satisfactorily concluded. It was the first
wedding in town, and it is said that it was the first at
which Col. Wheaton ever officiated.
Mrs. Adams did not move from the log-house where
she had been employed. The "Royal Mess" still
continued ; each member contributing provisions, and
House of Representatives, and of a larger representation than was
proposed. The senatorial term of six years seemed to him very objec-
tionable. He also expressed some apprehension lest the two branches
of Congress might "play into each other's hands," advocated the doc-
trine that members should be paid by the State Legislatures rather
than by the United States, raised some objections to a Federal City,
and entered into the discussions respecting proposed amendments.
"When the question of ratifying the proposed Constitution was finally
put, it was carried by a majority of only nineteen ; 187 voting in its
favor, and 168 against it. Shortly afterward, Dr. Taylor rose, and
said that " he had uniformly opposed the Constitution ; that he had
found himself fairly beaten ;" and expressed his determination to go
home, and endeavor to infuse a spirit of harmony and love among
the people."
To this long note it may be added, that Dr. William Jennison was
probably born in Salem, Mass. where his father was a clergyman. He
had a good education, and studied medicine with. Dr. Prentice, of Lan-
caster. He resided at Mendon, now Milford, where he married Mary
Staples ; also at Douglas, Sudbury, and Brookfield. At the age of
sixty-six, he died at Brookfield, May 8, 1798, in consequence of a fall
from his horse. He was a man of great activity and energy, and
during the Revolution was a prominent whig. His children were —
1. "William; 2. Samuel, a lawyer; 3. John, a lawyer, settled in Bos-
ton, and died of lung fever ; 4. Timothy Lindall, M.D. of Cambridge,
Mass. ; also Ebenezer, who lived for some time in Union, was surveyor,
married in Boston, and died a few years since at Dixmont, where he
was postmaster. There were also Mary, who married Jonathan "Whip-
ple, father of the late William J. Whipple, Esq. of Cambridge ; and
Abigail, who is still living.
5
50 PLANTATION HISTORY.
the unmarried members paying for the services ren-
dered by Mrs. Adams. Adams and his wife, in the
fall, visited Massachusetts.
This year Jessa Robbins began to clear the farm
south of Round Pond, where he now lives with his
son, Jason Robbins.
1782.
" January 15. Mr. Adams gone down to George's,
after his things he brought from the Westward ; like-
wise to help Mr. Butler up with his lady's goods." 2 MJr.
Phinehas Butler, having completed his term of service
in the army, returned to Thomaston, and there married,
Oct. 18, 1781, Milea, daughter of Oliver Robbins. She
was the first white female born in Thomaston, east of
Mill River. Jan. 17, 1782, he moved into a log-house
in Stirlington, which he built on the farm now owned
by James Grinnell, on the west side of the St. George's,
about half-way from the Middle to the Upper Bridge.
He returned to Thomaston, Nov. 14, 1785, where he
and his wife are now both living.
"Sabbath-day, April 28, 1782. Last week, Mr.
Elisha Partridge moved upon Col. Wheaton's farm in
this place."1 He came from Franklin, and was a
tenant under Col. Wheaton. The place was after-
wards bought by the Daggetts. His log-house was
probably very near the spot now occupied by Nahum
Thurston's house.
" May 16. John Taylor conveyed to Josiah Reed
land in Sterlingtown, bounded as follows : Beginning
on the western side of Sunnybeck Pond in a side line
of Camden; thence north-west by north on Camden
line to the north-west corner of the township the
grantor purchased of Thomas Flucker and others,
Sept, 30, 1774 ; thence south-west by west and south-
erly, on the most western line of said township, till it
comes to the six-thousand-acre lot sold to William
Jennison ; then easterly and southerly, by said six-
thousand-acre lot, to the most north-westerly corner of
1 Matthias Hawes's Account-book.
HAWES'S LOG-HOUSE. 51
a thousand-acre lot sold to Mason Wheaton ; thence
easterly, on the northern line of said thousand-acre lot,
to St. George's River ; then northerly, by said river to
the first bounds, containing by estimation upwards of
14,000 acres."
This was the last of the land owned by Dr. Taylor.
It is said, that, in consequence of the lawsuit with Dr.
Jennison, and to avoid attachments by his creditors, he
put his property into the hands of his son-in-law Reed,
who never restored it.
Another change was made in the " Royal Mess."
" Nov. 4. Mr. Adams moved out of this house, and
Mr. Ware moved in with his wife. . . . Nov. 22. I
brought up my boards for my house from the mill._. . .
Dec. 7. I raised the roof of my house. . . . Dec. 25. I
moved into my house." x
CHAPTER VII.
PLANTATION HISTORY, 1783—1786.
1783, Log-house. — Bride. — Bride's Dower. — Jessa Bobbins. — 1784,
Amariah Mero. — 1785, Josiah Robbins. — Gillmor. — Cat-and-
clay Chimney. — Royal Grinnell. — Elijah Holmes. — 1786, Arrival
of the Families of Josiah Robbins ; of Samuel Hills. — Samuel
Martin. — Organization of the Plantation.
1783.
Jan. 1, Matthias Hawes married Sarah Payson, in
Warren ; and on the 16th " moved home and began to
keep house;"1 and thus another family was added
to the population. According to Mrs. Hawes, the
house which Mr. Hawes had begun was by some con-
sidered " a little more stylish " than any other of the
log-houses in the plantation. No other house in Stir-
lington was shingled. This was covered with shingles
made by Mr. Hawes himself. It contained a kitchen,
1 Matthias Hawes' s Account-book.
OZ PLANTATION HISTORY.
bedroom, buttery, and had a good cellar. The logs of
which the walls were made, instead of being rough,
were hewed both inside and outside. There was a
regularly laid floor ; but, as the boards were not nailed
down, considerable care was requisite, in drawing up
the table for a meal, to prevent it from being upset.
On the west end was a place designed for a chimney.
For a flue, boards were stuck up endwise, ten or twelve
feet apart at the bottom, to secure them from taking
fire, and tipped inward toward the top, so as to leave
a comparatively small opening for the passage of the
smoke. The fire was built on the ground, and a flat
stone used for a chimney-back. The only window
was made by a wooden slide. This was closed when
it stormed, and then the newly-married couple saw by
means of the light which came down the chimney.
As the ground on which the fire was built was lower
than the floor, the occupants, when it was cold, sat on
the ends of the boards, and suspended their feet in
front of the fire. A crane was made by extending a
pole across the fireplace, and resting the ends in the
crotches of sticks which were driven into the ground,
one on each side of the fire. These were the accom-
modations when Mr. Hawes " moved home and began
to keep house." He made bricks and put up a chim-
ney in the spring. In the fall he went to Boston,
where he procured glass, and made two small win-
dows. Some of the other people in Stirlington used
mica or " isinglass." Oiled paper was also in use.
Commonly a log-house had but one room. Some-
times two rooms were made by suspending a bedquilt
from the ceiling. In Mr. Hawes' s house, besides the
indispensable requisites for housekeeping, was a large
spinning-wheel. There was also a loom, which, large
as looms were then made, must have occupied a very
important portion of the room. Log-houses, however,
were easily built, and when finished were commonly
tight, well caulked with moss, sometimes with clay,
and were very warm. Trees were growing at the
doors ; and the settlers, desiring to get rid of them
BRIDE S DOWER.
53
that they might have the land for cultivation, rolled
into the fireplaces huge logs, six or eight feet in length,
and piled them up as long as they would lie upon each
other.
As a description has been given of the house into
which a bride and bridegroom moved, it may not be
amiss for the present luxurious generation to know
something about a lady's dower in the early settlement
of the town. The mother of Mrs. Hawes had three
daughters to fit out, and she divided her furniture as
equitably as she could among them. The following
was what Mrs. Hawes had : One coverlet, one pair of
sheets, one feather-bed; three white kitchen-chairs;
one white chest with one drawer, the legs of which she
colored with an indigo bag ; one looking-glass, about
eight by ten inches, with flowers running up the sides ;
one tea-kettle; one spider; two pewter porringers,
holding about one pint each ; three knives, three forks ;
three flowered cups, three saucers, three plates, taken
from a set of crockery ; three pewter plates, and two
or three wooden trenchers to eat upon, which were
kept neat with much care, and occasionally boiled in
lye ; also an old-fashioned loom and a great spinning-
wheel. After a while the knives were broken, and her
husband took some broken scythes to the blacksmith,
and had shanks drawn out, which he inserted into
wooden handles made by himself. To this may be
added what belonged to her husband, viz. : One sea-
chest, one straw-bed, one pair of woollen blankets, and
one iron pailful-pot, exceedingly annoying, because, in
boiling, the fat, if not the food, almost invariably
escaped through the broken side of it. In this manner
one of the most worthy couples in the place began
housekeeping. Mrs. Hawes was subsequently con-
fined ; and then, to meet expenses, she was obliged to
part with her wedding gown of home-made linen.
Afterward Mr. Hawes broke his leg, and his wife was
obliged to take charge of the outdoor and indoor work,
and cut the wood for cooking; but he was able to
assist her by entertaining the twin children. When
54 PLANTATION HISTORY.
haying time came, he was obliged to part with his
wedding garment.
In the fall of the year 1783, Jessa Robbins began
housekeeping.
1784.
In September, 1784, Amariah Mero came from
Stoughton, and bought the farm now owned by his son,
Spencer Mero. Afterward, he settled on the farm
and lived in the house with Philip Robbins, whose
daughter he married. At this time there were thirteen
families.
1785.
In the spring of 1785, Josiah Robbins, brother of
Philip Robbins, came to Stirlington, and began to
clear the Robbins Neck.] This name is given to the
peninsula, the neck of which is intersected by a line
running north-westerly from the north end of Seven-
tree Pond to the St. George's, a little below the Middle
Bridge. Josiah Robbins, with David Gillmor, senior,
of Franklin, Mass. bought the entire peninsula, contain-
ing about two hundred and seventy acres. Gillmor
never came to Union to reside. His son Rufus came
in 1787, improved the south part of the Neck, and
cleared the True Farm, or Fuller Farm, as it is some-
times called, now owned by Mr. Charles Fogler. His
house was on the west side of the road, a little below
Mr. Fogler's, and very near the foot of the hill. Rob-
bins built his house on the brow of the hill, between
the house now owned by his grandson, Willard Rob-
1 A few years after Josiah Robbins moved to town, there was a
gathering to raise a barn for him. Bread was very scarce ; and rum,
in those days considered almost indispensable on such occasions,
commanded an exorbitant price. But, as there were fish in abun-
dance and some meat, it was concluded, instead of the ordinary
refreshment, to have a supper. David Cummings, then a boy, was
sent on an errand from the barn to the house, where he saw Mrs.
Robbins taking bread from the oven. Watching his opportunity, he
broke off a piece, and ran. He often spoke of it when he became a
man, and added that this was one of the richest meals he ever ate ;
for his dinner that day had consisted of nothing but boiled beech-
leaves.
CAT-AND-CLAY CHIMNEY. 55
bins, and the pond. The old cellar may still be seen.
A cat-and-clay chimney was made by driving into the
ground four crotched sticks, for the four comers of the
fireplace. Bars were laid in the crotches; and on
these bars, which were high and commonly of wood,
was laid a mixture of clay and chopped straw. Length-
wise in this mixture was laid a stick, about an inch
in diameter ; and this was also covered with it, Thus
the sides of the chimney were built. In a few days,
the clay was hardened by the heat. Flat stones were
placed against the logs of the house, to prevent them
from taking fire. The door was opposite the side of
the fireplace. Long back-logs were slipped in under the
bars on which the cat-and-clay chimney rested.
In May came Royal Grinnell, with his family. At
that time there were fifteen families. It is said that
there was not probably a washtubful of grain in the
place.1 He lived on the Mill Farm two or three years,
1 There have been seasons of so great scarcity, that some of the
most prosperous inhabitants occasionally subsisted on alewives and
milk. This was the case with Samuel Hills and family. When Mrs.
Matthias Hawes was about fifteen years old, and resided with her
parents in Warren, she fared thus for three weeks, and became so
exhausted that she often laid her head down upon the loom where she
was weaving, and shed tears. And, even when there was grain, it was
difficult to get it ground. The millstones at Taylor's mills were small
and poor. Often there was want of water. Oftener the mill was out of
order. Then it was customary to put corn into a hole made in the end
of a log, which was sometimes hooped with iron, and to crack it with
a wooden pestle, either held in the hands, or attached to an apparatus
like a pump-handle. Thus a family obtained hominy. For finer
meal, the cracked corn was sifted through holes made in birch-bark
with heated fork-tines. Sometimes it was considered advisable to take
a grist to mill. Then it was carried to Oyster River, to Molineux's
mills in Camden, or to Wessaweskeag in Thomaston. The bags were
boated to the Carrying Place in Warren. There they were left ^ till
the carrier went to the head of the tide, about two miles distant, hired
a horse, and returned for them. They were then transported across
the Carrying Place, put into another boat, and the horse was returned
to its owner. In this way, by water and by land, the grist was borne
forward to the mill. The same tedious process was repeated in return-
ing. For each grist, it was necessary six times to cross the Carrying
place in Warren.
Sometimes the grain was carried on horseback the entire distance
from Union. Then it was necessary to walk by the horse all the way.
The bushes, fallen trees, old logs, gulleys, were so numerous, and the
56 PLANTATION HISTORY.
and had charge of the mills. Mrs. Grinnell was in the
habit of assisting her husband in setting the mill-logs,
and marking the boards. On an emergency, she took
an ox-chain, wound it over her shoulders and back,
and carried it to the blacksmith - shop of Samuel
Hills, to be mended. After living at South Union
three years, Mr. Grinnell, with his wife1 and children,
path, which was designated by spotted trees, was so bad, that fre-
quently the bags were taken off and replaced twenty times during the
journey.
Jessa Bobbins says he has hauled grain on a hand-sled to Seven-tree
Pond, carried it on his back the two miles at the crossing place in
Warren, and rowed it to Lermond's. His mill being a tide-mill, and
the water frequently low, he oftener had to go on with it to Coombs's,
at Wessaweskeag. The journey always required two, and sometimes
three days.
In a time of scarcity, the owners, on their return, frequently loaned
the greatest part of the meal to the needy. The earliest crop of rye was
harvested and ground as soon as possible, in order to relieve the inha-
bitants, perhaps for a week, till other crops were ripe. If any one had
a suitable piece of ground, he sowed barley, as it ripened earlier.
When Royal Grinnell was miller at South Union, he frequently
ground the poor man's peck or half-bushel of grain, without taking
the toll. &
1 Mrs. Grinnell and Nathaniel Robbins, Esq. have dwelt much
upon the annoyance from the small black flies, with which the woods
swarmed when they came here. Though they have now almost
wholly disappeared, the common black flies cannot in number be com-
pared with them. If it were practicable to count them, they could be
reckoned only by millions. Their bodies were about half as large as
mosquitos. They bit, and drew blood instantly. This was followed
by an inflammation and swelling, which continued several days. If a
child went to the door for a minute or two, it would return covered
with them, and with the blood running down its face, hands, and legs.
Haymakers, choppers, and laborers in general, covered their faces
with handkerchiefs in self-defence. The annoyance was indescribable.
When night came, they ceased from their bloody work. But it was
only to give place to mosquitos, which then began in turn their attacks.
During the warm season, the inhabitants had no peace, either by night
or by day. The only partial remedy lay in building large fires, and
raising a dense smoke before the doors of the log-houses; and, if the
smoke filled the houses, it was considered vastly preferable to the
mosquitos.
Dr. Thaddeus William Harris — whom Professor Agassiz does
not hesitate to pronounce " decidedly the best entomologist in
the world" — in his Treatise on Insects, p. 405, calls the small black
fly, or gnat, Simulkcm molestum, and says: "These little tormentors
are of a black color ; their wings are transparent ; and their legs are
short, and have a broad, whitish ring around them. The length of the
HOLMES. — JOSIAH BOBBINS'S FAMILY. 57
settled on the farm which was in possession of Phine-
has Butler before he moved to Thomaston.
Aug. 25. Elijah Holmes, from Sharon, married in
Stirlington Dorcas Partridge, from Franklin. He took
up his residence on the place subsequently owned by
the late Obadiah Morse, and now by James Adams
Ulmer, of Thomaston. He cut the logs of his house,
" backed " them together, put up the walls before any
one knew it, and then announced to the family of
Capt. Adams, with whom he boarded, that he had a
house. He also lived on the farm now owned by Philo
Thurston, and afterward near Capt. Tobey, on the
farm since owned by Deacon Morse. Not many years
passed before he moved to Rockland, and became an
extensive landowner.
1786.
In 1786, Josiah Robbins moved his family from
Franklin. On the Lord's Day before their departure
for the wilderness, where they would be beyond the
sound of the gospel, the sons and daughters were led
by their parents to the front of the pulpit, and " in the
presence of the large congregation received the ordi-
dinance of baptism and the apostolic blessing of that
venerable man," the Rev. Dr. Emmons. After this
consecration, they took their departure. They landed
body rarely exceeds one-tenth of an inch. They begin to appear in
May, and continue about six weeks, after which they are no more seen.
. . . They are followed, however, by swarms of midges, or sand-flies,
Simulium nocivum, called no-see-'em by the Indians of Maine on
account of their minuteness. So small are they, that they would
hardly be perceived were it not for their wings, which are of a whit-
ish color, mottled with black. Towards evening, these winged atoms
come forth, and creep under the clothes of the inhabitants, and by
their bites produce an intolerable irritation, and a momentary smart-
ing, compared, in Gosse's Canadian Naturalist, to that caused by-
sparks of fire. They do not draw blood ; and no swelling follows their
attacks. They are most troublesome during the months of July and
August." It is very likely that these animals caused part of the suf-
ferings alluded to ; but, as the inhabitants in Union were not natural-
ists, and had not a very correct idea of these insects, it is probable
that oftentimes they did not distinguish the midges from the gnats
which immediately preceded them.
58 PLANTATION HISTORY.
at Wheaton's, afterwards called Green's Wharf, in
Thomaston, about two hundred rods west of the Knox
Mansion. They went up the river in a gondola to the
head of the tide. Then their luggage, furniture, &c.
because of the falls, were hauled across the Carrying
Place to a landing opposite Isaac Starrett's. Here
they were met by Philip Robbins and David Bobbins
from Stirlington, who came down the river in log-
canoes. Boards were laid across the canoes, the goods
were put on, and all embarked for the place of destina-
tion. They landed on Philip Robbins's farm, near the
island, May 17, 1786, after a journey of seventeen
days, having waited in Boston fourteen days for a
wind.
In the vessel with Josiah Robbins came Samuel
Hills, the first blacksmith, with his wife. An older
brother, a painter, had lived with Oliver Robbins in
Thomaston, and died there. Hills came down to look
after his brother's effects, and thus found his way to
Union. In 1785 he had cleared Hills Point. He set-
tled, lived, and died near Seven-tree Pond, on the east
side of it, below Crawford's River. The farm is now
owned by Nathaniel Robbins.
At the time of the arrival of Robbins and Hills,
there was no house or settlement on the east side of
the St. George's, except on the Taylor farm.
Besides the persons who have been named, there
was, when Robbins and Hills moved to Stirlington,
another person here, the year of whose coming is not
known. Samuel Martin, from Bristol, who had lost
the sight of one of his eyes, resided below Sunnybec
Pond, at the saw-mill, which then stood thirty or forty
rods above the present Upper Bridge. He afterward
moved to Hope.
The names of all the settlers in Stirlington Planta-
tion, and the places on which they lived, have now
been given. Occasionally, in Mr. Hawes's Account-
book, mention is made of the arrival and departure of
other persons. They were obviously, for the most
part, visitors. Some came to see their friends in the
ORGANIZATION OF THE PLANTATION. 59
wilderness ; others, perhaps, to look at the country
with a view to settlement; and a few may have
worked a short time with the settlers. But none, ex-
cept those who have been named, ought to be reckoned
among the settlers in town before it was incorporated.
The period covers seventeen years since Dicke, on
Seven-tree Island, saw the comet ; fourteen years since
the Anderson party built their camp near Crawford's
River, and twelve since the first arrival of Dr. Taylor.
ORGANIZATION OF THE PLANTATION.
In 1786, Stirlington, or Taylortown, was organized
as a plantation. In connection with its organization
is the following document. It is the earliest entry on
any of the town-books : —
" Lincoln, ss. — To Philip Robbins, gent, a principal inha-
bitant of the plantation called Sterlington, in said county
of Lincoln, greeting :
" In obedience to a precept from William Lithgow, Esq.
treasurer of the county aforesaid, to me directed ; — These are
to require you forthwith to notify and warn the inhabitants
of your said plantation, being freeholders, to meet at the
dwelling-house of Capt. Philip Robbins, in said plantation,
on Monday the twelfth day of June next, at ten of the clock
in the forenoon, in order that such of the inhabitants of the
said plantation [as] shall then assemble shall and do choose
a moderator and clerk, and also assessors and collector or
collectors for said plantation's proportion of all such taxes
as have [been] or may be assessed upon the same county,
either for soldiers' bounty-money or for defraying the neces-
sary charges of the said county, until other assessors and
collectors shall be chosen in their stead at the annual meet-
ing of said plantation in March next ; such clerk, assessors,
and collectors to be sworn by the moderator of said meet-
ing [to] the faithful discharge of their respective trust[s] ;
and the assessors, so to be chosen and sworn, thereupon to
take list of the ratable polls and a valuation of said estate
of the inhabitants of said plantation, for to make such assess-
ments, and to judge of the qualifications of voters in meet-
ings of such inhabitants thereafter to be holden, until other
60 INCORPORATION HISTORY.
valuation shall be made ; and to make return of the names
of the collector or collectors, with the sum committed to
him or them to collect, as soon as may he, to the said
William Lithgow, Esq. or his successor in said office of
treasurer ; and make return of this warrant, with your doings
thereupon, unto said meeting.
" Given under my hand and seal at Thomastown, in said
county, May 3, 1786.
" Mason Wheaton, Justice of Peace.
" Steriington County Tax £2 11 10
" Soldiers' Bounty . . .112 4|
" A true copy.
" Moses Hawes, Plantation Clerk."
CHAPTER VIII.
INCORPORATION HISTORY, 1786.
Petition for Incorporation. — Act of Incorporation. — Number and
Names of the Inhabitants.
In consequence of the preceding warrant, the inhabi-
tants made a movement to obtain an Act of Incorpora-
tion. The petition, which is the second document on
the town-records, was drawn up within a fortnight
after the plantation-meeting, and signed by Moses
Hawes, Joel Adams, and Samuel Huls, " Committee
of the Plantation of Steriington." It is not probable
that it was presented. There is not any copy of it in
the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts ; and filed with the Act of Incorporation,
as belonging to it, is the following petition, which un-
doubtedly led to the granting of the Act : —
" To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of
Massachusetts, in General Court assembled.
" The petition of the inhabitants of the plantation known
by the name of Steriington humbly showeth, — That they
PETITION FOR INCORPORATION. 61
have for a long time past and still continue to experience
many and great inconveniences arising from the want of
roads, bridges, &c. to and from this place, and [of] other
privileges which incorporated towns enjoy ; and whereas the
Honorable Court have seen fit to lay a tax of sixty-ifive
pounds upon us, which, under our present low and distressed
circumstances, we are unable to pay without great difficulty
and inconvenience in the manner prescribed, as four-fifths of
the land belongs to non-resident proprietors, and there being
no roads laid out to this place ; we therefore pray that the
Honorable Court would permit us to lay out said tax in de-
fraying charges of a bridge now a building of one hundred
and ten feet long, and in opening and making roads, and
building another bridge of one hundred and seventy feet
long ; which bridge must be built before there will be any
passing by land or water to or from this place. [And] If,
in their wisdom and justice, [they] shall think reasonable
and fit, [that they will] incorporate a certain tract of land,
containing thirty-two thousand acres, including twelve
thousand acres, which was deducted when the last purchase
was made, for ponds and waste land, on which land is settled
twenty-five polls, and upwards of seventy women and chil-
dren ; which land was purchased by the once honorable John
Taylor, Esq. of the late Secretary Fluker, into a township by
the name Lindall,1 which is bounded as folio weth, viz. :
Southwardly on the town of Warren, westwardly on Waldo-
borough, northwardly on land supposed to belong to this
Commonwealth, and eastwardly on land belonging to the
heirs of the late Brigadier-General Waldo, till it comes to
first bounds mentioned, that we may receive and enjoy all
those privileges which corporate towns are by law entitled
to ; and your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
By order of the Committee,
" Moses Hawes, Clerk.
" Sterlington, Sept. 12, 1786."
1 The word Lindall, on the manuscript-petition, is written in a back
hand, and appears to have been inserted to fill a blank. As Dr. Jen-
nison was connected with the Lindall family, it may have been done
through his influence. There is a tradition, pretty well authenti-
cated, that, when the subject was under consideration, the uncommon
harmony and union among the people were spoken of ; and it was sug-
gested and urged at the Legislature, that Union would be appropriate,
and it was readily acceded to.
6
62 INCORPORATION HISTORY.
The preceding petition was followed by —
" An Act for Incorporating the Plantation called Sterlington,
in the county of Lincoln, into a town by the name of
Union.
" Whereas it appears to this Court that it would be pro-
ductive of public good, and for the benefit of the inhabitants
and proprietors, that the plantation called Sterlington, in
the county [of] Lincoln, should be incorporated into a
town :
" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, — That the plantation called Sterlington, and in-
cluded within the boundaries described in this Act, together
with the inhabitants thereof, be, and they are hereby, incor-
porated into a town by the name of Union, beginning at the
south-easterly corner thereof, being a stake and stones ;
thence bounding easterly on land belonging to Waldo's
heirs, by a line running north-west by north, eleven miles
and eighty rods ; thence bounded northerly by land sup-
posed to belong to the Commonwealth, by a line running
south-west by west, five miles and twenty-four rods ; thence
westerly by lands supposed to belong to said Waldo's heirs,
by a line running south, three miles and two hundred rods ;
thence on the same land, east, three miles and an half; thence
south, two miles and an half and twenty rods ; thence bounded
west on the town of Warren by a line running east, six miles
and two hundred and fifteen rods, to the bounds first men-
tioned ; l and the said towTn is hereby vested with all the
1 In consequence of a precept from the General Court of Massa-
chusetts, the inhabitants moved, during the years 1794-96, to have a
survey of the town. The plan was made by Ebenezer Jennison, Esq.
and is now in the office of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts.
It is not very exact. There have been unsuccessful movements of
late years for a new survey. If there were a good plan, a map would
have accompanied this volume. The part of the town west of Medo-
mac Itiver was set off to Putnam, when that town was incorporated
by an Act passed Feb. 27, 1811. In June, 1817, "all that tract or
gore of land lying between the towns of Waldoborough and Union "
was annexed to the latter. Consequently, the town is smaller and the
boundaries are different from what they were originally.
Though there has not been a survey, the town-lines have been
perambulated. Oct. 2, 1823, this was done between Union and Wal-
doborough, from Medomac River to Warren line, by John Gleason,
attended by John W. Lindley and Herman Hawses. In 1840, Sept. 8,
ACT OF INCORPORATION. 63
powers, privileges, and immunities, which towns within this
Commonwealth are entitled to, or by law enjoy.
" And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, —
That Waterman Thomas, Esq. be, and he hereby is, em-
powered to issue his warrant to some principal inhabitant of
the said town, requiring him to warn the inhabitants thereof
to meet at such time and place as he shall therein set forth,
to choose all such officers as towns are required and em-
powered by law to choose in the month of March or April
annually.1
"This act passed Oct. 20, 1786."
At the time of the incorporation, the town contained
the following families ;2 the figures denoting the num-
ber of members : —
Willard Robbins and others perambulated the line between Union
and Appleton; Jan. 13 and 14, 1841, between Union and Warren;
and Jan. 25 and 26, between Union and Hope. In April, 1841, the
town " voted that suitable stone-monuments be put up between said
towns, provided the adjoining towns will be at their proportion of the
expense." Sept. 12, 1844, Ebenezer Blunt, selectman of Union, and
George Pease, selectman of Appleton, perambulated the line between
the towns, and " set up stone-monuments at the corners, and where
the line crossed the highways, and near the banks of all the ponds
and rivers which said line crossed." The same was done Nov. 9,
1844, on the line between Union and Hope by Ebenezer Blunt, and
by Josiah Hobbs, one of the selectmen of Hope. June 10, 1843, the
town "voted that the selectmen be a Committee to petition to the Su-
preme Court to have the line run between the county of Lincoln and
Waldo." This is of importance, as Union is a border town.
1 At the end of the manuscript Act of Incorporation, in the State
House at Boston, is the following memorandum : — "In the House of
Representatives, Oct. 12, 1786. This bill, having had three several
readings, passed to be engrossed. — Sent up for concurrence.
" Autemas Ward, Speaker."
On the back of the bill is the following: — "In Senate, Oct. 18,
1786. This bill, having had two several readings, passed a concur-
rence to be engrossed with an amendment at A. — Sent down for
concurrence. " Samuel Phillips, jun. President."
" A, dele from A to B, and insert thereof that the Plantation called
Sterlington, in the county of Lincoln."
"In the House of Representatives, Oct. 19, 1786. — Read and con-
curred. "Artemas Wtard, Speaker."
The words to be erased in the first paragraph were, " A of said
plantation that the same B."
2 N. P. Hawes's MS.
64
SETTLERS AFTER THE INCORPORATION.
Joel Adams . . . .
5
Amariah Mero. . .
2
Ezra Bowen . . . .
5
Elisha Partridge .
5
John Butler . . . .
5
Bela Robbins . . .
2
Richard Cummings
6
David Robbins . .
9
Royal Grinnell . .
4
Ebenezer Robbins .
3
Abijah Hawes . . .
3
Jessa Robbins . . .
2
Matthias Hawes . .
4
Josiah Robbins .
5
Moses Hawes . . .
5
Philip Robbins .
3
Samuel Hills . . .
2
Jason Ware . . .
5
Elijah Holmes . .
2
CHAPTER IX.
SETTLERS AFTER THE INCORPORATION,
1787—1793.
1787, Levi Morse ; Oliver Leland ; William Hart. — 1788, The Max-
cys. — 1789, The Daggetts ; Seth Luce ; Christopher Butler ;
Ichabod Irish; Barnabas Webb. — 1793, Casualty to the Maxcy
Family. — Remarks on the Early Settlers.
1787.
Among the settlers who came soon after the incorpora-
tion was Levi Morse. He was hired "for forty
shillings a month, and found," by Dr. Jennison, then of
Brookneld, to chop for him three or six months, as
Morse should choose. Having received one dollar to
pay his passage by water, he left Sherburne for Boston,
April 23, 1787. « April 26, sailed for St. George's
River ; arrived there, 29th. . . . 1788, May 5, came
[from Sherburne] to Boston ; sailed Wednesday morn-
ing ; arrived [at] St. George's River, May 8th ; went
up to Union the 9th." From other memoranda left
by him, it appears that he returned from Sherburne to
Union every spring for several years ; spending the
winters, as many of the early settlers did, in Massa-
chusetts. In 1789, he brought with him John Locke,
son of a former President of Harvard University. The
agreement with Locke was to pay him, for six months,
SETTLERS FROM ATTLEBOROUGH. 60
" six pounds twelve shillings in good rye at the market
price in" Sherburne, besides furnishing him with a
passage, provisions, washing, and mending, from the
time of his sailing from Boston. For a considerable
part of the time before his marriage, Morse cooked his
own food, occasionally employing Mrs. Josiah Rob-
bins to bake his bread. He settled on the farm now
owned by his sons, Levi Morse and George B. Morse.
With Morse also came Oliver Leland from Sher-
burne. He began to clear the farm next to Morse's,
on the south. After a year or two, he lost his thumb
by the bursting of a gun while hunting near Craw-
ford's Pond, and went back to Sherburne.
William Hart, from Sherburne, came with Morse.
Both of them seem to have been under the patronage
of Mr. Amory, who, being desirous of introducing
settlers, offered to give Hart either of the lots of land
which did not border on the pond. He selected the
one north of the mill-lot. It differed but little in value
from what were then considered the best ; for its west-
ern boundary was but a few rods from the water. The
farm is now owned by his son, John Fisher Hart. At
one time, Morse, Hart, and Gillmor boarded with
Josiah Robbins, for which they worked two days in
each week.
1788.
The Maxcys came from Attleborough, Mass. Joseph
Maxcy came first in 1788, settled on the farm since
known as the Gay Farm, on the west side of the
brook, more than a mile east of the Common ; and
he built a frame-house, the second in town. With
Joseph Maxcy came Joseph Guild. At one time,
either alone or in company with Joseph Maxcy, he
owned the Gay Place. Josiah Maxcy came with his
father, Lieutenant Benjamin Maxcy, and his fathers
family, in 1791. They lived in the Taylor House.
Mrs. Daggett says that her father brought two cows, a
yoke of oxen, and an ox-wagon. This wagon was the
first in town. He loaded his goods upon it, and drove
6*
66 SETTLERS AETER THE INCORPORATION.
it up. It was an object of such interest, that the peo-
ple, as he passed, came out to look at it. In about
six weeks the lieutenant died. Joseph Maxcy then
moved to South Union, and his mother and her chil-
dren to the Gay Place. Joseph Maxcy built another
small frame-house, the third in town; and then the
family, with Josiah, moved back to the Taylor House.
1789.
The Daggetts, says Brotherton Daggett, being
strongly inclined to move from Martha's Vineyard,
sent Thomas Daggett, jun. to Albany and the vicinity,
in New York, to look up a farm. He was not a judge
of land, and returned without finding one to suit him.
Thomas Daggett, sen. came along the coast, went
back from Camden into the woods, and with some
others was about to purchase the whole of Appleton
Ridge, except the proprietors' reserved lots. On going
to the rear of the Ridge, and seeing the Cedar Swamp,
his courage failed him, and he went home without
concluding a bargain. A year - or two afterwards,
Thomas Daggett, jun. and Aaron Daggett came to
Union. They purchased the place since owned by
Olney Titus, cleared a piece, and sowed rye. In the
fall, they took, as a specimen, a box of soil from the land
now owned by Nahum Thurston, returned to Martha's
Vineyard, and spent the winter. Their father, Thomas
Daggett, sen. was prevailed on to accompany them to
Union in the following May. He bought 700 acres of
land of Col. Wheaton, divided it into lots of about
100 acres each, sold some, and gave the others to his
sons. He returned to Martha's Vineyard, and came
with his family in August. He landed at Warren.
Every thing seemed different from what it was in May.
He was a nervous man ; and, finding himself here for
life, he exclaimed, " I am completely undone." The
forests looked formidable: "it was too woody for
him." This was probably in 1789. The family
came up from Warren in boats, as Josiah Robbins's
had done three years before, and as William Hart did
ICHABOD IRISH. 67
when he moved his wife and furniture in October,
1793.
About the same time with the Daggetts came Seth
Luce and family, also from the Vineyard, and settled
in the west part of the town.
Christopher Butler, with his family, also from Mar-
tha's Vineyard, came in 1789. He bought the place
on which Oliver Leland had made a beginning. It is
on the north side of the road which runs east from the
Common, and at the intersection of it with the road
to Warren on the east side of the Pond.
Ichabod Irish, a cooper of wooden ware, came to
Union, from Little Compton, R.I. Sept. 17, 1789. The
good Quaker resided first on the west side of the river,
near the Middle Bridge. The small stock- of provi-
sions which he brought was soon exhausted; and, in
the great scarcity of the following winter, his family
experienced much suffering. They killed their fowls,
because they had not the means to keep them alive.
They made an effort, however, to winter their geese,
because feathers were very valuable. But, before
spring, the starving geese were observed to peck the
under bark of the white birch firewood at the door.
After this, the family shaved and broke the bark into
small pieces for them, and thus kept them from dying.
One morning, Mr. Irish, being at the house of Capt.
Adams, was invited to sit down to breakfast. He de-
clined ; he could not eat while his children were with-
out food at home. Mrs. Adams immediately gave
him half the loaf she had baked from meal procured
from her brother, Jessa Robbins ; enjoined on him the
strictest secresy, lest she should be censured for giving
away her brother's gift; and sent him home to his
wife and children rejoicing, and shedding tears. At
another time, Mrs. Matthias Hawes gave him a por-
tion of dough which she was kneading, and he carried
it home in a towel. The children, "hungry all the
time," were constantly gnawing the under bark of
the white birch, and eating it, till it brought on con-
stipation and disease.
68 SETTLERS AFTER THE INCORPORATION.
In the spring, Royal Grinnell gave to the Rev. Cor-
nelius Irish, then a boy, a long white potato, familiarly
called a " Bunker potato." He " ran home as pleased
as if he had got fifty dollars." The potato was forth-
with thrust into the fire to be roasted, and shared
among the children. But so long had they lived with-
out such a luxury, that they could not wait for it to be
cooked. They took it out, and cut off the outside as
fast as it was roasted, till the whole was devoured.
Meal was dealt out almost as sparingly as medicine ;
and, when enough could be obtained, the family luxu-
riated on water-porridge. With the opening of the
spring came some relief. Leaves and " longtongue "
were picked, and, being boiled, were eaten as greens.
Shortly afterward came fish, particularly salmon, and
starvation ceased to be so terribly formidable as it had
been.
Mr. Irish was respected for his integrity and worth.
His business increased. He manufactured wooden
ware, and, when there was snow, carried it about for
sale on a hand-sled. In the winter of 1790-91, he
took some of it to Barretts Town. It was bartered for
three bushels of rye. As he was returning, a snow-
storm came on. He was obliged to abandon his load
while on Sunnybec Pond ; and, though he succeeded
in returning home, it was with extreme difficulty. So
vivid is the recollection of his distress when he entered
the house, that his children to this day cannot speak
of it but with deep emotion.
While in this state of poverty, Mr. Irish was soli-
cited to take a child three or four years old, and was
promised fifty acres of land if he would keep him a
specified time. As this seemed to open the only way
by which he could obtain land, he accepted the pro-
posal. The child was introduced to the family, wore
dresses colored with hemlock-bark, as the other chil-
dren did, and shared in their trials and poverty. Mr.
Irish kept him till he secured the land. Thus he
became owner of the farm in the Daggett neighbor-
hood, to which he moved from Bachelor's Mills. The
CASUALTY TO THE MAXCY FAMILY. 69
lad had good principles instilled into his mind, and had
worthy examples to imitate. He afterward went to
sea, and became a successful sea-captain. Any person
wishing to know more about him may consult Capt.
Barnabas Webb, a man of worth and wealth in Tho-
maston.
1793.
May 13, Amy, widow of Benjamin Maxcy, and her
daughters, Lydia and Sally Maxcy, with Chloe, wife
of Joseph Maxcy, crossed Seven-tree Pond, to attend
the funeral of Esther Cummings, at the house of her
uncle, Jessa Robbins, where she died. After the
funeral, they, with Simeon Wellman of Attleborough,
who was an apprentice to Joseph Maxcy, and William
Montgomery, got into a boat to return. As it was
leaky and overloaded, the water soon poured in faster
than it could be baled out. At a short distance from
Hills Point, between it and the house of Philip Rob-
bins, the boat settled down into the water. All on
board instinctively rose. Their screams were heard
on both sides of the pond, and as far as Christopher
Butler's. The boat did not sink, but rolled over. All
except Lydia succeeded in getting hold of it. To her,
Sally was extending her hand, when Wellman, ex-
ceedingly frightened, sprang upon the boat. All again
lost their hold ; and the females, except Sally, were
drowned. By the buoyancy of her clothes, by her
repeated and persevering struggles to put her hand on
the boat, which was constantly on the roll and often
rolled over her, and by breathing from time to time as
she got her head above water and her hand on the
boat, she succeeded in saving herself, though she sank
once. Finally, the two men got hold of one side, and
she of the other ; and then they sustained themselves
till another boat came to their relief,1 and Capt. Joel
Adams took Sally out of the water into it.
1 The information respecting this distressing event was obtained
several years since at an accidental interview with the only surviving
female. Since the above was written, her son, the Hon. John Dag-
70 SETTLERS AFTER THE INCORPORATION.
On the small population of Union at the time, this
tragical event left an indelible impression. It is often
spokenof to this day by the elderly people in a man-
ner which indicates the deep feeling which it created.
It stands out more prominently in the history of the
town than any other casualty before or since. After
gett, author of the History of Attleborough, has by particular request
furnished a copy of the touching and excellent letter which his
mother wrote immediately afterward. It was penned when opportu-
nities for good education were few, by a girl about fourteen years old,
in deep affliction, just after being rescued from drowning, and with
the corpse of a sister before her.
"Union, May 16, 1793.
"Honored Uncle and Aunt, —It is with great sorrow that I take
my pen in hand to inform you of the sudden and unexpected death
of my near and dear mamma, and sister Chloe, and sister Lydia. We
went to the funeral of one of my dear mates ; and, when we were
coming back, there were six in the float, viz. my mamma, sister Chloe,
and sister Lydia, Simeon Wellman, William Montgomery, and myself.
We set out from the shore, expecting to arrive to our house ; but,
when we got into the middle of the pond, the wind blowed very hard
and the float leaked, and she being loaded very heavy, so that every
wave that came ran over the stern into the float, and directly she
filled with water, and sunk down even with the water, and turned us
all out. Then, oh ! the dismal shrieks, the dying groans, which were
then heard piercing the ears of many of my kind neighbors, who all
ran to arrest us. But all in vain to some ; for mamma, and sister
Chloe, and sister Lydia, were floating on the water ; they were soon
took into the float, all possible care taken and methods tried to bring
them to, but all in vain ; for vain is the help of man without God's
blessing.
" Could I collect my thoughts, I would try to acquaint you further
of this solemn transaction. The two men and myself were hold of
the float. Sometimes the float was over me, and I got hold again.
Through the distinguishing goodness of God, our lives were ransomed
from the deep waters.
" Oh ! my dear uncle and aunt, how can I paint these lines with
grief equal to my conception ! My dear mamma and dear sister
Chloe were laid by my dear daddy yesterday [in] the house appointed
for all living. Lydia wan't found until this day — is now a corpse
before me. Oh ! my dear uncle and aunt, can you forbear mourning
with me, though at a distance ? Do pray for me ; for I am a sinner, and
need the prayers for all God's people. I think my grief being
redoubled would sink me as deep as I was sunk in the water, if my
heavenly Father did not support me. My daily prayer is to God that
I may make a right improvement of all God's dealing with me. You
cannot in any measure conceive of the distressed circumstances of
this. family; my kind brother, bereaved of his nearest and dearest
connection — myself, with Hervey and Ama, left without father or
mother, full of grief. May God support us, and enable us to be fol-
REMARKS. 71
this event, Joseph Maxcy sold the Gay Place, so
called, to Gay. In the autumn of 1793, Sally Maxcy
returned to Attleborough.
REMARKS ON THE EARLY SETTLERS.
The account of the early inhabitants has now been
brought down to a time when it is inexpedient to con-
tinue details respecting them. Most of the men had
been in the revolutionary war. They had strong arms
and stout hearts, and were well qualified to make a
beginning in a wilderness. Many of them were de-
vout, practical Christians, who feared God and
eschewed evil. Deprivations and trials developed in
them and their children a character which is percepti-
ble in the present population. They were strangers
to luxuries. In consequence of their isolated situa-
tion and the pressure of outward circumstances, they
became deeply interested in each other's welfare. Hos-
pitality was unlimited. The guest of one family was
by all the others welcomed as a particular friend. The
bonds of union were strengthened by many family ties
among them. There were common interests in clear-
ing the ground and raising crops, common sufferings
when provisions were scarce, and common apprehen-
sions of danger from the enemy at Biguyduce. They
hunted and fished, and every one was alive to every
other one's successes and perils. So strong was the
sympathy, that the little community for many years
may be regarded more as one large family than a few
scattered inhabitants.
If any one had a delicacy — and, in those days, deli-
cacies meant things substantial — if any one killed a
bear, an ox, a hog, or a calf, he shared it, by loan or
lowers of Christ, and bear our affliction with patience, as he left -us
the example ; so I conclude myself your sorrowful niece.
Though distant graves divide our dust,
Yet pray the Lord our souls may meet among the just.
" Kind uncle, if you please, send me a word of comfort ; for my
nearest and dearest friends cannot.
" Sally Maxcy "
72 SETTLERS AFTER THE INCORPORATION.
otherwise, with his neighbors. Wherever sickness
came, all were as ready to serve and to watch, as with
a brother or sister. In any misfortune or affliction
all sympathized. When there was a death, each
family felt the shock. Every one who could went to
the funeral; and in general sorrow, as if a near and
dear friend were taken away, the remains were borne
to their final resting-place.
In winter, the solitude was broken by the sound of
the axe. The wind soughed through the pines. The
moon's rays were reflected with a glare from the sur-
face of the pond, which, as the ice cracked, sent forth
rumblings during the long night. The fox barked.
The owl hooted mournfully. The wolf howled hide-
ously. Neighbors called on each other in the even-
ings, related their experience in the old French war
and the revolutionary war, and their adventures from
day to day in hunting moose, bears, and other game.
An importance was attached to many incidents which
would scarcely demand a passing notice in a different
state of society.
And, as they talked, huge fires were kept burning ;
and on the glowing back-logs it was easy for the ima-
gination to discover animals and men, and a multitude
of creatures which never had existence. The well-
caulked and heated log-houses excluded the pinching
cold. The people, rough and coarse in manners and
language, but with warm hearts, were unacquainted
with the artifical wants of the present day. They
subsisted on their coarse fare, and had better appetites
and greater happiness than are found with kings and
queens in gorgeous palaces.
POPULATION,
73
CHAPTER X.
POPULATION.
Census, Aug. 1, 1790. — Abstracts from Censuses. — Hawes's Census
in 1826. — State Census, March 1, 1837.
When the census was taken in 1790, Henry Dearborn
was marshal of the District of Maine. The other
United States marshals gave details. He gave only
summary statements. Accordingly, all that was to be
learned from his return is that, Aug. 1, 1790, Union
contained two hundred inhabitants. Perhaps this was
but little more than conjecture.
The following statements are from subsequent re-
turns : —
AGE.
1800.
1810.
1820.
Males.
Females.
Males.
Females.
Males.
Females.
Under 10 years
10 and under 16 .
16 and under 26 .
26 and under 45 .
45 and upwards .
All other free persons, ex-
cept Indians, not taxed .
Total .
121
37
55
61
29
102
47
43
57
21
252
87
111
149
61
221
81
119
124
61
234
132
131
130
80
218
130
123
132
81
303
270
303
660
606
660
707
684
*707
573
2
1266
1391
575
Subsequently the details were more minute.
* Including 32 males between 16 and 18 years of age. In 1820, there were 2^1
persons engaged in agriculture, 7 in commerce, and 59 in manufactures.
7
POPULATION.
18
30.
i
! 1840.
AGE.
Males.
Females.
j Males.
Females.
Under 5 years
128
120
| 143
135 ,
5 and under 10
129
104
145
125 !
10 and under 15
104
103
106
116
15 and under 20
.
|
103
90
93
90
20 and under 30
155
142
146
144
30 and under 40
67
76
104
99
40 and under 50
60
69
63
65
50 and under 60
53
41
42
55
60 and under 70
16
19
46
28
70 and under 80
15
15
13
19
80 and under 90
2
1
2
5
832
780
832
903
881
903
Total
*1612
fl784
In 1826, Mr. Noyes P. Hawes prepared the following
document, giving the name and number of members
of each family, and the number of houses, classified
according to school districts : —
SCHOOL DISTRICTS. — No. I.
John Little
6
Josiah E. Day
9
Daniel F. Harding .
3
Bradley R. Mowry
10
Rufus Gillmor .
6
Joseph Vaughan
13
Marcus Gillmor
4
Susman Abrams
4
Elisha Harding
5
Spencer Walcott
6
Abner Pitts
6
John Drake
9
Zaccheus Litchfield .
8
Jesse Drake
12
Elisha Bemis .
8
Abiel Gay
5
Ebenezer Alden
10
David Gay
6
Amos Barrett .
5
Elijah Gay
4
Levi Morse
11
Amos Walker
9
Gorham Butler
6
David Bullen
6
John Butler
9
Aaron Young
8
John S. Bartlett
5
Nathan Daniels
10
Betsey Richards
3
John Payson
4
* Of whom two were blind.
t Including two insane or idiots at private charge. In 1840, according to the
census, there were 330 persons engaged in agriculture, 13 in commerce, 93 in manu-
factures and trades, 7 in navigation, 7 in the learned professions and engineering;
and 4 were revolutionary pensioners.
H AWES' S CENSUS.
va
No.
II.
Ezra Bowen
3
Jason Robbins .
4
Oliver Bowen .
2
John Chapman Robbins .
10
Abijah Hawes .
6
Herman Hawes
10
David Robbins
4
Walter Adams
o
David Robbins, jun.
11
Henry True
0
John L. Robinson
5
Nathaniel Robbins .
9
Andrew Robinson .
2
John Jones
6
David Cummings
10
Obadiah Harris
4
Jessa Robbins .
3
John Dods Bovee
4
No.
III.
Moses Simmons
7
Marlboro' Packard .
5
Ziba Simmons .
6
Leonard Barnard
5
Leonard Wade .
5
John Pearce Robbins
6
John W. Lindley
8
Suell Cummings
7
Benjamin Litchfield .
9
Obadiah Morse
10
Adam Martin .
6
Joseph Cushman
6
Amariah Mero .
0
James Shibles .
2
Spencer Mero .
8
Noah Rice
10
Bela Robbins .
2
Samuel Jameson
5
Ebenezer Robbins
7
Allen Stone
6
Joseph Clark .
6
No.
IV.
Phinehas Butler
13
Charles Titus .
9
John Butler
8
Abraham Brown
7
Ichabod Maddocks .
3
Royal Grinnell
4
John Thompson
10
Alpheus Collamore .
11
Otis Bills .
8
Reuben Hills, jun. .
8
Cyrus Nye
4
Nathan Hills .
11
James Maxfield
7
Samuel Hills, 2d
9
Thomas Nye
9
Josiah Hills
7
Charles Hitchborn .
5
Lewis Robbins
9
Caleb Maddocks
4
Reuben Hills .
2
Asaph Lucas
5
George Silloway
6
William Libbey
7
Josiah Hills
9
Ebenezer Cobb .
6
Jonathan Eastman .
9
Walter Blake .
. 10
Jonathan Sibley
4
John Burkett .
. 11
Patrick Tenney
4
Olney Titus
6
No
. V.
Joel Adams
3
Samuel Daggett
3
Cornelius Irish
8
Ebenezer Daggett
7
Ebenezer W. Adams
. 10
William Daggett
8
Jason Ware
2
' Nahum Thurston
0
Yinal Ware
4
Philo Thurston
6
Matthias Hawes
6
James Grinnell
7
Sarah Brown .
3
Robert Dickey .
8
David Stimpson
8
Nathaniel Bachelor .
10
Bailey Grinnell
7
John Bach elder
6
William Shepard
7
George R. Allen
3
Nathan D. Rice
. 11
David Carriel .
2
76
POPULATION.
No,
VI.
Edmund Daggett
7
Daniel Shepard
Lewis Bachelder
6
Daniel Shepard, jun.
Benjamin Walker
11
Thaddeus Shepard .
Nehemiah Adams
4
Joseph Morse .
4
Thomas Mitchell
6
Jonathan Morse
5
Samuel Daggett, jun.
5
Joshua Morse .
6
John Walker .
9
Samuel Fuller .
6
John Burns
12
Thaddeus Luce
11
Daniel Walker
6
Seth Luce
4
Solomon Hewes
3
Jonathan Breck
6
Rowland Cobb .
4
Calvin Gleason
9
Rachel Mitchell
5
Isaac Townsend
13
Cyrus Bobbins .
6
John Tobey
9
John Stevens .
7
Nathaniel Tobey
8
David Law
9
No.
VH.
Nathan Bachelder .
6
William Coggan
6
William Lawrence .
6
Robert Thompson
6
Ichabod Irish .
7
Timothy Stewart
4
Reuben Alford
5
Thomas Butler
4
Judson Caswell
2
Elkanah Morton
7
Edward Brown
Thomas A. Mitchell
3
Henry Blunt .
2
4
Ebenezer Blunt
5
John Gowen
8
Jacob Sibley
. 11
Reuben Packard
7
Penty Walcott .
9
Henry Fossett .
10
Jonathan Carriel
8
Charles Hall .
3
Jonathan Carriel, jun.
3
Brotherton Daggett .
13
Isaac Booth
8
Isaac Upham .
8
Samuel Norwood
5
Rachel Stone .
3
Luther Bryant
5
Samuel Stone .
5
William Bryant
4
Jeremiah Mitchell .
8
James Bryant .
5
Asa Messer
9
Judith Clark .
5
Thomas Messer
6
Whedon .
2
Joseph Bryant .
2
No.
VIII.
Joseph Miller .
. 12
Willard Gay
5
James Littlehale
7
Johnson Pilsbury
14
Simon Fuller .
6
Obadiah Gardner
8
Caleb Howard .
8
Life Boggs
5
Christopher Young .
5
William Boggs
• o
James Sinclair .
. 11
Sally Cooper
2
Daniel Linniken
6
Joseph Robbins
8
Daniel Howard
5
Abel Walker .
12
William Lermond
7
Silas Walker
3
Jason Davis
5
Samuel Quiggle
7
Sterling Davis .
5
Joel Robbins
8
Lemuel Rich .
9
John Hemenway
13
John Lermond
7
Alexander Skinner .
7
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
77
No.
IX.
John Whiting .
12
John Swan
8
John Fogler
6
Charles 11. Hunnewell
2
Samuel Hills
3
Polly Gleason .
8
Sanford Hills .
7
Fisher Hart
o
Moses Morse
6
John M. Thorndike .
8
Nathan Daniels, jun.
4
Phillips C. Harding .
5
Kobert Foster .
10
Aaron Hart
4
Mrs. Wingate .
3
William Hart .
2
Benjamin Dow
4
John F. Hart .
5
Leonard Follansbee .
8
No.
X.
Ezekiel Hagar .
4
Martin Sidelinger
9
Samuel Hagar .
8
Leonard Bump
8
Benjamin L. Law
9
Inhabitants, 1,550 ; families, 238; houses, 215; scholars, 715.
A census of the inhabitants in town, March 1, 1837,
was taken by William Gleason, Esq. in conformity
with an Act of the Legislature requiring it before the
town could receive its proportion of the " surplus reve-
nue." At that time, the number of persons under 4
years of age was 230 ; from 4 to 21 years of age, 742 ;
and there were 782 persons who were more than 21
years of age, — making a total of 1,754.
CHAPTER XL
POPULATION IN 1850.
Census, June 1, 1850, with Names and Ages.
The following census was also taken by William
Gleason, Esq. At the time, particular attention was
not given to the spelling, and probably several of the
names are not printed as commonly written. Mem-
bers of the same family not unfrequently spell the
name differently, and there are some cases in which a
person does not always observe uniformity in spelling
his own name. The order in which the names were
7*
78
POPULATION,
entered on the census-book is preserved, as it often
indicates the neighborhood and locality. The first
column of figures denotes the number of the houses ;
the second, the number of the families. The other
figures designate the ages.
1. 1 Robert McGuier . .52
Caroline McGuier . 41
Mary A. McGuier . 18
Orison McGuier . . 15
Caroline A. McGuier 14
Edwin C. McGuier . 7
2. 2 Moses Morse ... 65
Hannah Morse . . 61
Dexter P. Morse . . 26
Hannah P. Morse . 22
3. 3 Edward P. Morse . 33
Martha A. Morse . 24
Quincy A. Morse . 2
Nathaniel K. Aglar . 15
Caroline F. Stone . 16
4. 4 Ambrose Leach . . 47
Julia Leach ... 38
James L. Leach . . 18
Frances E. Leach . 15
Ambrose A. Leach . 8
Lucy A. Say ward . 22
5. 5 Nathan Daniels, jun. 49
Mehitable Daniels . 46
Mary E. Daniels . . 24
Joel Daniels ... 16
Levi Daniels ... 12
6. 6 Charles A. Hawes . 31
Angeiine S. Hawes . 29
Llewellyn K. Hawes . 12
Ellen A. Hawes . . 10
Eliza M. Hawes . . 7
Martha M. Hawes . 5
Harriet R. Hawes . 3
Colin Hawes ... 1
7. 7 Amos Drake ... 44
Melancy Drake . . 42
Oramel L. Drake . . 20
Mary O. Drake . . 16
Statira M. Drake . . 14
Amos L. Drake . . 4
8. 8 Benjamin B. Hills . 29
Amelia H. Hills . . 25
Sylvia A. Hills . 1 mo.
8. 9 William Vaughan . 36
Abigail H. Vaughan 31
Mary A. Vaughan . 10
Wm. H. H. Vaughan 9
Martha Ann Vaughan 4
George Vaughan . . 2
Charles A. Vaughan, 8 mo.
9.10 Joseph Vaughan . . 74
Hannah Vaughan . 68
Susan Vaughan . . 31
Augustus Vaughan . 25
Lucy L. Jones . . 28
10.11 Levi Morse . ... 45
Eliza Morse ... 45
Caroline E. Morse . 15
Edwin L. Morse . . 12
Levi R. Morse ... 7
John A. Morse . , 5
Mary D.Taylor . 10 mo.
Mansfield Richards . 16
10.12 Nathan D. Payson . 25
Frances A. B. Payson 23
Clarissa Post ... 45
David Y. Post ... 18
Mary C. Post ... 15
Joseph "White ... 19
11.13 George W. Morse . 36
Mary H. R. Morse . 33
Leslie M. Morse . . 7
Sarah A. Morse . . 3
Harriet E. Morse . . 1
12.14 Gorham Butler . . 40
Catherine Butler . . 30
Albion D. P. Butler . 8
John G. Butler . . 3
Adeline A. Gallop . 12
Marcus Roakes . . 16
John O'Connor . . 55
13.15 Daniel F. Harding . 64
Harriet Harding . . 57
Amos B. Harding . 24
Henry F. Harding . 23
Daniel Harding . . 21
Harriet Harding . . 18
14.16 John Butler, 2d . . 37
Ann M. Butler . . 33
Gorham W. Butler . 12
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
Simeon N. Butler . 9
15.17 John N. Fairbanks . 56
Martha Fairbanks . 54
Eunice Dean ... 25
Henry Fairbanks . . 18
George Fairbanks . 15
16.18 Wesley Butler . . 32
Sally Butler ... 63
17.19 Christopher Butler . 30
Sarah Butler ... 24
Elizabeth Butler . . 6
Lydia A. Butler . . 3
William O. Butler . 1
17.20 John Butler ... 69
Hannah Butler . . 70
18.21 Luther Gould ... 22
Sarah Gould ... 31
James Gould ... 5
19.22 Thurston Whiting . 42
Lydia G. Whiting . 36
Frederic P. Whiting 6
Mary B. Whiting . . 4
Ralph W. Rising . . 11
Orren Davis ... 15
20.23 Simeon Noyes, jun. . 29
Elizabeth T. Noyes . 22
Georgiana Noyes . 2
George Fred, Noyes, 1 mo
Achsah Chase .
Edward L. Whitney
John Hemenway, jun.
Harriet N.Hemenway
Ann Fogler . . .
Nathaniel Robbins .
Harriet Robbins . .
Frances A. Robbins .
Ann E. Robbins . .
Lovey W. Robbins .
Edward K. Robbins .
Gilb. M. Blackington
Lois Blackington . .
Benj. B. Blackington
Gilb. M. Blackington
Selina Butler . . .
Jacob W. Butler . .
Cordelia Briggs . .
Samuel Quiggle, jun.
Clem' tine Q. Quiggle
Gilford W. Quiggle .
Sarah A. Quiggle .
Margaret A. Quiggle
Samuel Quiggle . .
25.28 Silas Walker . . .
21.24
22.25
23.2(
24.27
51
25
38
35
65
45
40
18
16
15
11
47
41
22
21
22
15
15
38
37
9
7
5
78
46
Rachel Walker
Silas S. Walker
Joseph Walker
Harriet Walker
Olinda Walker
Betsey Walker
26.29 Minot Tolman .
Harriet A. Tolman
John B. Robbins
Henry Tolman
27.30 David Hull .
Mary N. Hull .
Emily F. Hull
Ann A. Hull .
Caroline E. Hull
George Evans Hull .
28.31 Calvin Hemenway .
Louisa Hemenway .
Calvin Hemenway .
Alfred Davis . . .
29.32 Miles Hemenway . .
Mary A. Hemenway
Julia A. Hemenway
Hiram B. Hemenway
Addison Hemenway .
Rufus L. Hemenway
30.33 John Hemenway . .
Mehitable Hemenway
31.34 Danf. Blackington .
Louisa Blackington .
Rufus Blackington .
Ellis G. Blackington
Charles Blackington .
Esth. A. Blackington
32.35 Mark Young .
Jane P. Young
William A. Young
Leurissa Young
Harriet Young
33.36 John Briggs .
Eliza Briggs .
Lewis B. Briggs
William J. Briggs
Gilbert B. Briggs
Ann E. Briggs
John Walker Brig;
34.37 Abel Walker .
Polly Walker .
Alanson Walker
Marcus Walker
Elzira Walker .
Martha M. Walker
35.38 Samuel Haskell .
30
17
23
14
11
4
27
24
42
15
52
47
14
18
12
5
32
28
6
18
40
29
14
10
9
3
69
62
43
33
15
12
31
27
6
5
23
53
43
13
7
5
3
1
71
69
30
26
22
14
33
80
POPULATION.
Adeline Haskell . . 34
Mary Haskell ... 9
Flotillah Haskell . . 7
Delia Ann Haskell . 2
Laura Haskell . 2 mo.
36.39 Josh. W. Wentworth
35
Beulah Wentworth .
36
Laura E. Wentworth
8
Marcus E. Wentworth
4
MarcellusWentworth
2
36.40 Calvin Boggs . . .
40
Adeline Boggs
40
Amelia Boggs .
15
Matilda Boggs .
15
Martha Boggs .
, ,
9
Henry Boggs .
.
7
Mary Boggs
7
Lucinda Boggs
6
Sally Cooper .
79
36.41 Diana Bobbins
,
74
37.42 David E. Gardner .
39
Diana S. Gardner
41
Hannah S. Gardner .
9
Ellis S. Gardner . .
6
Abigail Rollins
71
38.43 Wilbur Davis .
, ,
43
Rosanna Davis
41
Oscar Davis
20
Benjamin B. Davi
s .
18
Dexter Davis .
15
Elisha H. Davis .
15
Edwin Davis . .
13
Sarah E. Davis
.
10
Emily Davis . .
.
8
Alice J. Davis . .
7
Marshall W. Davi
s .
1
39.44 Henry D. Fuller .
,
41
Eliza Fuller . .
#
35
Charles Fuller
15
Oliver K. Fuller .
13
Nelson Fuller . .
#
11
Henry E. Fuller .
,
9
Antoinette L. Fuller
4
Paulina Newcomb .
11
40.45 John Heisler . . .
28
Rachel Heisler
,
21
Mary E. Heisler .
,
5
Sarah E. Heisler .
9 mo.
41.46 John Newcomb .
48
Nancy Newcomb
32
Lucretia Newcomb .
15
Eliza Newcomb . .
8
Orrett Newcomb .
,
2
42.47 Erastus St. Clair . . 36
Sarah E. St. Clair . 29
William B. St. Clair. 13
John L. St. Clair . . 8
Eiiza E. St. Clair . . 5
Henry F. St. Clair . 1
James St. Clair . . 73
Sarah S. St. Clair . 71
Caleb P. Butler . . 21
43.48 William Hilt . . . 42
Emeline Hilt ... 34
Mary A. Hilt ... 14
Martha J. Hilt . . 13
John L. Hilt ... 8
Elsie G. Hilt ... 11
William E. Hilt . . 3
Lusena D. Hilt . . 2
Henry Peabody . . 16
44.49 Sterling Davis ... 46
Betsey Davis ... 44
Lusena C. Davis . . 21
Joseph M. Davis . . 16
Henry Robbins . . 31
45.50 John'W. Lermond . 36
SabraLermond . . 41
Andrew J. Lermond 19
Lucy Lermond . . 70
Artemas Howard . . 30
46.51 Jason Davis ... 49
Chloe Davis ... 53
Jane Davis . . . . 19
Roxana Davis ... 14
Chloe A. Davis . . 13
Elvira Davis ... 8
William Davis . . 17
Josiah A. Maxcy . . 9
Ebenezer Robbins . 40
47.52 Fisher A. Daniels . 41
Julia A. Daniels . . 41
Obadiah G. Daniels . 16
Amanda A. Taylor . 10
48.53 Joseph Daniels . . 43
Sarah Daniels ... 37
Edwin R. Daniels . 19
Lucy R. Daniels . . 16
Sarah E. Daniels . . 14
Zilpah E. Daniels . 11
Lois A. Daniels . . 6
Frances E. Daniels . 1
48.54 Nathan Daniels . . 79
Lavinia Daniels . . 27
49.55 John Payson ... 58
Lois Payson ... 52
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
81
50.55
51.57
52.58
53.59
53.60
54.61
55.62
56.63
57.64
John Ellis Payson . 23
George W. Payson . 22
Eliza A. Payson . . 19
James M. Payson . 14
Fisher D. Payson . 10
Milton Daniels . . 47
Nancy Daniels . . 32
Lewis K,. Daniels . 19
Lucy A. Daniels . . 13
Laura M. Daniels . 8
Aurel. P. Lawrence . 26
Huldah Lawrence . 30
Aurel. L. Lawrence . 2
Levi V. Hastings . . 34
Abigail Hastings . . 32
Laura M. Hastings . 5
Thaddeus Hastings . 27
John Lermond . . 40
Hannah Lermond . 38
Adelbert Lermond . 12
John P. Lermond . 10
Eliza E. Lermond . 8
Frederic Lermond . 4
Ansel Hastings . . 24
Geo. W. Thompson . 25
Charles Pratt ... 27
Clarissa Webster . . 18
Nancy Lermond . . 77
E. G. D. Beveridge . 35
Martha Beveridge . 24
George W. Beveridge 26
Martha F. Beveridge 22
Llew'd M. Beveridge 1
Elbridge Lermond . 37
Huldah Lermond . 32
Ephraim Lermond . 16
Julia Lermond . . 11
Albert S. Lermond . 10
Elbridge G. Lermond 8
Huldah E. Lermond . 5
Frank J. Lermond . 4
Nathaniel Lothrop . 28
Mary H. Lothrop . 26
Manford N. Lothrop . 2
Edwin N. Lothrop 2 mo.
Charles Murphy . . 18
Lewis Andrews . . 40
Sarah Andrews , * 35
Angelina Andrews . 16
Adelia Andrews . . 13
Amanda Andrews . 8
Virginia Andrews . 6
Lewis F. Andrews . 1
58.65
59.66
60.67
61.68
62.69
63.70
64.71
65.72
66.73
66.74
67.75
James W. Spear . . 18
Winslow B. Hastings 32
Martha J. Hastings . 27
Le Forest Hastings . 2
Daniel Titus ... 21
William H. Gowen . 29
Louisa A. Gowen . 22
Emery Thomas . . 28
Eliza A. Thomas . . 28
William C. Thomas . 4
Emery F. Thomas . 2
Edward V. Collins . 59
Sarah Collins ... 57
John T. Collins . . 27
Tryphena Moore . . 26
Albert D. Moore . . 28
Almina J. Collins . 19
Leonidas E. Collins . 16
Lydia Skinner ... 53
Henry Skinner . . 30
Joseph Skinner . . 22
Sanford Skinner . . 20
Lois Skinner ... 18
Sylvia J. Skinner . 16
Lydia Skinner ... 1 1
Louisa Skinner . . 20
Jane Davis . . . . 77
Mark Davis ... 74
Betsey Davis ... 71
Mary Davis ... 38
George S. Littlehale 34
Jane W. Littlehale . 26
James R. Littlehale . 7
George A. Littlehale 4
Carol. M. Littlehale . 1
Susan Littlehale . . 64
Maxcy Davis ... 24
Joseph Durgin . . 15
Horace Miller ... 37
Miriam H. Miller . . 36
Martha S. Miller . . 14
Dudley Miller . . . 10
Mary O. Miller . . 3
Joseph Miller ... 72
Betsey Miller . . . 66
Charles Miller . . . 39
Lucy Miller ... 41
George A. Miller . . 15
Julia D. Miller . . 14
John A. Miller . . 10
Sarah A. Miller . , 5
Charles A. Miller . 4
Mary E. Miller , , 2
82
POPULATION.
68.76 Win, H. Burroughs . 42
Frances Burroughs . 35
Henry Burroughs . 2
69.77 Amos Walker ... 72
Judith Walker . . 69
Joel A. Walker . . 28
Isaac Walker ... 26
70.78 John Drake ... 70
Margaretta Drake . 42
Samandel Drake . . 20
George Drake ... 16
Lydia Drake ... 23
Charles Drake ... 22
71.79 Jesse Drake ... 68
Polly Drake ... 61
Millard G. Drake . 28
Josiah Drake ... 19
Mary F. Gay ... 14
72.80 John M. Thorndike . 66
Betsey Thorndike . 56
Wm. H. Thorndike . 34
Abigail C. Thorndike 29
Mary Thorndike . . 23
George W. Thorndike 2 1
John E. Thorndike . 18
Sarah B. Thorndike . 15
Lucy E. Thorndike . 10
73.81 John S. Dunton . . 33
Joanna Dunton . . 42
John C. Gay ... 22
Olive D. Gay ... 19
James Gay .... 17
Sarah W. Gay. . . 16
F. Ellen Dunton . . 10
Lucy E. Dunton . . 7
Gavanus Dunton . . 6
Charles R. Dunton . 4
Sophia J. Dunton . 3
Lauretta A. Dunton, 1 mo.
Martha II. Gay
John Curtis
74.82 Luther Drake .
Abigail P. Drake
Lusena A. Drake .
Melvina O. Drake
Louisa J. Drake
Luther Drake . .
Almond G. Drake
Albert R. Drake
Julia A. Davis
75.83 Ebenezer Alden
Patience Alden
Augustus Alden
. 21
. 84
. 35
. 30
. 11
. 9
. 6
. 4
. 2
1 mo.
. 19
. 75
. 68
. 34
Margaret Alden
. . 35
Patience G. Alden . 6
George A. Alden . 2
Edward Alden
. . 28
76.84 Christopher Young . 55
Nancy Young .
. . 50
Robert T. Young
. . 23
Mary Rollins . "
. . 17
77.85 John Jones . .
. . 59
Abigail Jones .
. . 58
William II. Jones . 25
Abigail Jones .
. . 21
John E. Jones .
. . 19
Augustus Jones
. . 17
Eugene Jones .
. . 7
78.86 Benjamin L. Jon
3S . 31
Jane M. Jones .
. . 24
Louise Jones .
. . 3
Celeste Jones .
. . 2
79.87 Andrew Libbey
. . 29
Aroline E. Libbey . 27
Martha J. Libbey
. 3
80.88 Samuel Bowker
. . 36
Elizabeth E. Bo^
ker 28
Charles I. Bowker 5 mo.
81.89 Joshua S. Greene
. . 40
Sarah H. Greene
. . 44
William Greene
. . 6
Charles Greene
. . 4
82.90 John W. C. Lord
. 39
Priscilla Lord .
. . 39
George F. Lord
. . 14
Lucy O. Lord .
. . 12
Cyrus W. Lord
. . 11
Ellen V. Lord .
. . 9
Martha P. Lord
. • 7
Priscilla G. Lord
. . 6
Ann Lord . .
. . 3
John E. Lord .
. 4 mo.
83.91 Ebenezer Cobb
. . 56
Patience M. Cobb
. 53
David B. Cobb
. 16
Marcellus L. Cobb . 13
Elizabeth Lermon
d . 26
Ambrose Wellman . 20
83.92 Rufus Gillmor
. 80
Sarah Gillmor .
. 80
Lusena Crowell
. 57
Darius Bump .
. 21
84.93 Zuinglius Collins
. 38
Julia A. Collins
. 28
Leroy Z. Collins
. 5
Azelia M. Collins
. 2
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
83
Elkanah Wingate . 32
Helen Wingate . . 22
Loammi Cummings 20
Samuel G. Hills . 20
Ziba Simmons . . 19
James Stevens . . 21
Frank Stevens . .26
Peter Adams . . 16
Ebenezer Handay . 29
Harriet Bachelder. 22
85.94 Samuel Cummings 41
Paulina Cummings 25
"Vilet. A. Cummings 11
Elv. P. Cummings, 1 mo.
Benjamin Achorn . 40
86.95 Jesse W. Payson . 34
Abigail H. Payson 27
Matilda H. Payson 5
87.96 AsaMesser ... 35
Hannah A. Messer 36
Caroline M. Messer 5
Caroline Messer . 20
88.97 Isaac Flitner . . 40
Clem'te S. Flitner . 29
Georga. A. Flitner 7
George F. Flitner . 3
89.98 Nathan B. Kobbins 34
Abigail C. Kobbins 31
Levi M. Kobbins . 6
Edgar M. Kobbins . 4
Nathan D. Kobbins 1
90.99 Ward Adams . . 37
Martha O. Adams . 36
Martha M.S.Adams 11
Wesley F. Adams . 9
Olivia C. Adams .. 7
ElvertonW. Adams 2
Harriet Young . . 24
91.100 Nelson Cutler . . 45
Love T. Cutler . . 39
John E. Cutler . . 19
Mary C. Cutler . 16
Caroline M. Cutler 13
Charles H. Cutler. 11
Frank M. Cutler . 8
Clara A. Cutler . 4
Coraella Cutler . 6 mo.
92.101 Edward Hills . . 34
Almena D. Hills . 25
Hiram A. Hills. . 2
Helen M. Hills . 6 mo.
Samuel Hills, jun. 22
93.102 William E. Cobb . 26
Elvira E. W. Cobb
"William Adams
WarrenWentworth
Andrew Benner .
Joseph Morse . .
Joseph O. Cobb
Sarah Lehr . . .
Kufus Prescott . .
94.103 Elijah Vose . . .
Mary B. Vose . .
Helen A. Vose
Mary T. Vose
Elijah V. Haskell
95.104 Nathl. K. Burkett
Polly Burkett . .
Isaac H. Burkett .
Oscar A. Burkett .
Mary A. Burkett .
Ellen M. Burkett .
Elias Burkett . .
96.105 Lewis Kobbins . .
Phebe Kobbins
LewisKobbins, j un.
Matilda Kobbins .
Koscoe B. Kobbins
Charles Kobbins .
Johnson Miller . .
97.106 Fisher Hart . . .
Matilda Hart . .
Adelph. L. Bartlett
Fostina M. Bartlett
Martha Cromett .
98.107 Samuel Hills . .
Israel Hills . . .
Sarah Hills . . .
Laura A. Brown .
99.108 Josiah Sterling . .
Caroline Sterling .
William Sterling .
Jane Sterling . .
George W. Sterling
Martha A. Sterling
Caroline K.Sterling
ThurstonJ.Sterling
Eliza B. Jameson
100.109 Joshua Morse .
Keliance Morse
Clara Morse . .
Elijah Morse
Louisa Morse .
Keliance Morse
Delora Morse .
Susanna Morse .
26
30
28
30
. 35
. 23
. 24
. 16
. 43
. 30
. 6
5 mo.
12
38
35
14
13
10
1
67
63
33
22
3
1
18
6Q
45
17
20
13
70
31
20
19
53
50
21
17
19
15
13
7
18
48
48
23
26
21
19
17
15
84
POPULATION.
Harriet Morse . . 13
Celestia Morse . . 12
Anthony A. Morse 9
Chester L. Morse . 7
101.110 Horatio N. Clouse 28
Olive Clouse . . 56
102.111 Nathan Hills . . 65
Polly Hills ... 62
Silas Hills ... 23
Matilda Hills . . 19
Reuben Dickey . 18
103.112 William Caswell . 47
Eunice Caswell . 39
Ethelbert Caswell. 13
Augustus Caswell 11
Elmira Caswell . 18
Amos Caswell . . 9
Melinda Caswell . 7
Hannah M. Caswell 4
Nathaniel Caswell 2
Oscar Caswell . 8 mo.
104.113 George Silloway . 57
Charles Stearns . 12
Amelia Fuller . . 10
Pardon Robbins . 21
104.114 Eunice Hart . . 35
Diantha Hart . . 13
Martha Hart . . 11
105.115 Josiah Hills. . . 61
Mehitable Hills . 56
Joel Hills ... 20
Enoch Hills . . 20
Minerva Hills . . 13
Stephen Hills . . 32
106.116 Jonathan Eastman 63
Nancy Eastman . 56
Nancy Eastman . 31
Elvira Eastman . 29
Joseph Eastman . 27
Benjamin Eastman 23
Louisa Eastman . 21
Eveline Eastman . 19
Aug'tine Eastman 17
Austin Lawrence . 15
107.117 Jonathan Sibley . 77
"William C. Sibley. 43
Mary McCurdy . 57
Sarah K. McCurdy 17
Franklin Fairbanks 1 6
108.118 Willard Robbins . 50
Deb'h W. Robbins 49
Nancy E. Robbins . 26
Deb'h M. Robbins 21
Wm. M. Robbins , 19
Wd. Robbins, jun. 17
Nathl. A. Robbins 15
Adelbt. P. Robbins 13
Augusta A. Robbins 9
Edwin L. Robbins . 6
109.119 Sylv's H. Peabody 28
Harriet Peabody . 27
Lauraette Peabody 3
FancinaE.Peabody 1
Cyrenus Peabody, 3 mo.
110.120 Micajah G. Morse . 31
Elizabeth U. Morse 31
Helen L. Morse . 5
Ann E. Morse . 2 mo.
Jonathan Morse . 74
Margaret Demuth . 65
111.121 John Little ... 74
Sarah Little . . 72
Lydia Little . . 50
John M. Little . . 25
112.122 Charles Fogler . . 40
Martha Fogler . . 47
Cyrus N. Fogler . 15
Mary F. Fogler . 13
John F. Fogler . 11
Martha Ann Fogler 9
Edward T. Nye . 24
113.123 Silas Hawes. . . 28
Margaret Hawes . 24
Emma F. Hawes 5 mo.
114.124 Isaac C. Hovey . 31
Roxana N. Hovey 24
Harriet L. Hovey . 5
Sarah Hovey . . 2
James Barker . . 21
115.125 George Fossett . 38
Sarah Fossett . . 32
James Fossett . . 9
George M. Fossett 5
Abigail Keene . . 19
Caroline Keene . 20
116.126 John Burkett . . 69
Abigail Burkett . 63
117.127 Bradley R. Mowry 54
Rhobe G. Mowry . 49
Harriet R. Mowry 23
Emeline H. Mowry 21
Ann M. Mowry . 21
Augustus Mowry . 18
Irene Mowry . . 16
Oscarene Mowry . 16
Mortim. H. Mowrv H
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
S;.>
118,128
119,129
120.130
121.131
122.132
123.133
124.134
125.135
126.136
Josephine Mowry .
Ambrose Linniken
Lois A. Linniken .
AnnE.Linniken, 11
Jleman Achorn
Church Burton
Ann Lewis Burton
Nancy Burton . .
Benjamin Burton .
Mary A. Burton .
Isabel Burton . .
Estella Burton . .
John C. Burton 6
Warren Hills . .
Elizabeth Gay . .
Asa Andrews . .
Selina Andrews .
John II. Andrews .
George A.Andrews
Sarah L. Andrews
Car. A. Andrews, 8
Charles W. Post .
Arav. C. Andrews
Daniel R. liyan .
Cordelia R. Ryan .
John W. Ryan . 7
John F. Hart . .
Mary Hart . . .
Willard Hart . .
Lucy Ann Hart .
Avery S. Hart . .
Abigail S. Hart .
William Hart . .
John A. Hart . .
Edwin H. Hart
Miriam Hart . .
Luther Hart . .
Saml. M. Howland
Lydia T. Howland
Abby I. Howland .
Saml. D. Howland
Osgood Howland .
George H. Jones .
Caroline A. Jones .
Caroline S. Jones .
Barzil. G. Whiting
Nancy Whiting
Jo. Vaughan, jun.
Joanna Yaughan .
Lewis Yaughan
Celest. A. Yaughan
Helen Yatighan
Edwin M. Yaughan
10 i
24
23
mo.
15
42
39
14
11
9
7
4
mo.
18
29
37
27
2
mo.
21
20
19
19
mo.
54
54
30
24
23
20
16
14
11
82
75
35
38
12
9
5
34
32
1
35
68
38
37
15
13
11
9
Jo. Alb. Yaughan . 0
Mary F. Yaughan . 4
HewetC.Yaughan,4 mo.
127.137 JohnPardoe . . 36
Mary Pardoe . . 37
M. Ellen Pardoe . 6
JohnPardoe, jun. . 5
Marcus Pardoe . . 3
Nancy Butler . . 53
128.138 James P. Davis . 22
Lydia S. Davis . . 17
Catharine Davis . 52
129.139 Asa Pitcher. . . 43
Paulina Pitcher . 42
130.140 Lyman Alden . . 41
Sarah Eliz. Alden . 39
Helen L. Alden . 13
Eugene B. Alden . 11
Lyman M. Alden . 7
Henry E. Alden . 3
131.141 John Williams . . 36
Sarah Williams . 34
George F. Williams 6
Aug. E. Williams . 3
Chas. F. Williams . 17
132.142 Phillips C. Harding 50
Parney Harding . 59
Francis Harding . 26
John Harding . . 25
Abigail C. Harding 21
Harriet Harding . 19
Oren Harding . . 22
John Whittemore . 42
133.143 Joseph Gleason . 48
134.144 SavilleMetcalf. . 41
Lois Metcalf . . 41
Caroline P. Metcalf 13
Hannah E. Metcalf 10
Stephen L. Metcalf 9
SavilleD. Metcalf. 5
James C. Metcalf . 1
135.145 James B. Morse . 27
Mary A. Morse . 26
136.146 Edmund Crowell . 43
Jane W. Crowell . 37
Edmd. Crowell, jun. 2
Delia Crowell . . 1
Mary Martin . . 18
Albert Tobey . . 15
137.147 Philo Thurston, jun. 30
Olive Thurston . 31
WillisE.Thurston,7 mo.
133.148 William Gleason . 44
80
POPULATION.
Lydia Gleason . . 43
Abigail C. Gleason 19
Micajah Gleason . 15
Hannah I. Gleason 1 1
Helen E. Gleason . 8
Edward Gleason . 6
139.149 Spencer Walcott . 43
Esther P. Walcott 44
Hannah Walcott . 19
Loana M. Walcott 14
Mary A. Walcott . 13
Sanf'dH. Walcott 11
Joseph D. Walcott 9
M'tha C. Walcott, 10 mo.
Hannah Walcott . 75
Spencer W. Hills . 25
140.150 Charles Young . . 43
Betsey Young . . 36
Rosanna A. Young 15
George A. Young . 6
141.151 Noah S. Rice . . 37
Augusta D. Rice . 30
Caroline L. Rice . 8
Henry Clay Rice . 6
142.152 James Grinnell . 52
Sarah Grinnell . . 53
John Grinnell . .26
Julia M. Grinnell . 21
Royal Grinnell . 18
James A. Grinnell 15
Laurette Grinnell . 9
143.153 Benjamin Walker . 62
Elizabeth Walker . 64
Eliz'th M. Walker 33
144.154 SimonM.Thompson 42
D.W. P. Thompson 16
145.155 Phinehas Butler . 62
Silence Butler . . 57
PhinehasW. Butler 16
146.156 Charles Sumner . 58
Nancy Sumner . . 53
Hannah F. Sumner 30
Wm. O. Sumner . 28
Eliz'th M. Sumner 26
James S. Sumner . 24
Jane R. Sumner . 22
Irene Y. Sumner . 19
Charles J. Sumner 17
Priscill a D.Sumner 13
Lucy A. Sumner . 11
Geo. F. D. Sumner 8
147.157 John Kimball . . 44
M'garet J. Kimball 41
Nathl. M. Kimball 14
John L. Kimball . 1 1
B annin g P . Kimball 8
Myra A. Kimball . 4
148.158 George W. Bugler . 41
Eleanor Butler . .41
Susan R. Butler . 17
Mary Ann Butler . 15
Hosea C. Butler . 13
John S. Butler . . 11
Albert E. Butler . 8
149.159 Matthias Butler . 25
Liana E. Butler . 19
Amina C. Butler . 3
Azelia M. Butler . 1
150.160 Sarah Butler . . 54
Harriet Morton . 1 1
Ephraim IT. Butler 20
151.161 Israel Barker . . 47
Mary Barker . . 43
Marston Barker . 14
Mary E. Barker . 11
Wm. H. H. Barker 9
Julia M. Barker . 6
152.162 Story Thompson . 33
Hannah Thompson 33
Elias R. Thompson 10
Julia A. Thompson 7
Gilb. M. Thompson 3
C. S. Thompson . 1
William Harriman 44
Amb'se Thompson 20
John Thompson . 57
Martha Thompson 62
153.163 James Thompson . 46
Harriet Thompson 41
Solomon Thompson 20
Erast. C. Thompson 16
Aug' tine Thompson 14
Lucy E. Thompson 1 1
Martha J. Thompson 10
Lewis Thompson . 7
154.164 Nathan Whitney . 50
Clarissa Whitney . 39
155.165 Thomas C. Nye . 37
Amanda J. Nye . 30
Emma A. Nye . . 8
Vienna C. Stetson 23
Anna Nye ... 73
156.166 Charles F. Blake . 35
Jane Blake . . . 65
Emily R. B. Dorman 40
Theron Blake . . 27
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
87
157.167 Caleb Haddocks . 49
Nancy Maddocks . 57
Geo. L. Maddocks . 23
Angeline Maddocks 17
Ira Maddocks . . 19
Aaron Maddocks . 18
Nancy Maddocks . 15
Susan'h Maddocks 13
158.168 Henry Butler . . 38
Mary Butler . . 40
Thomas J. Butler . 11
Rhoda Butler . . 5
Huldah T.Butler, 3 mo.
Geo. L. Maddocks 22
159.169 Moses Hawes . . 33
Lucinda Hawes . 30
Elizabeth Libbey . 67
Sarah Jackson . . 15
Rosanna Fuller . 4
160.170 Abigail Stewart . 65
161.171 Oren O. Stewart . 30
Mary A. Stewart . 30
162.172 Waldron S. Butler 49
Harriet Butler . . 32
O. Nelson Butler . 9
Eben. Ed. Butler . 8
Thomas Butler . 1
Jeruel Butler . . 47
163.173 Thomas Butler. . 80
164.174 Ebenezer Blunt . 54
Susan Blunt . . 52
Mary A. Blunt . 19
Martha Blunt . . 17
Betsey Blunt . . 16
Oscar Blunt . . 7
165.175 Jacob Sibley . .73
Abigail Sibley . . 71
166.176 Ebenezer B. Sibley 32
Melea Sibley . . 24
Lucy A. Sibley . 4
Eranklin E. Sibley 3
E. Florena Sibley, 7 mo.
Dudley Farnham . 20
167.177 Thomas J. Blunt . 25
Nancy Blunt . . 21
Eliza F. Blunt . . 2
Martha A. Blunt . 1
Daniel Clark . . 20
168.178 Wm. D. Stewart . 42
Maria Stewart . .40
Harriet Stewart . 15
Sarah Stewart . . 12
Cyrus G. Stewart . 10
Wm. M. Stewart .
Ann M. Stewart .
169.179 Eunice Lincoln .
Lemuel Lincoln .
Alvan Lincoln . .
Berthana Lincoln .
Joshua Lincoln
Eldora G. Lincoln .
170.180 Willard Lucas . .
Anna Lucas . . .
Mary F. Lucas . .
Austin Lucas . .
Amanda Lucas
Martha A. Lucas .
Eliza F. Lucas . .
Harrison F. Lucas .
171.181 Ebenez. McPheters
Sarah McPheters .
Albert McPheters,9 mo.
Ellen Jameson . .
172.182 John Lanfest . .
Lavinia Lanfest
Matilda A. Lanfest
173.183 Andrew P. Gilman
Sarah Gilman . .
Andrew Gilman .
Nathl. P. Gilman .
Alexander Gilman
Mary E. Gilman .
Flora Gilman . .
174.184 StillmanNye . .
Emily B. M. Nye .
175.185 Obadiah Harris .
Mary Harris . .
Herman Harris
Wm. S. Harris . .
Isaac S. Harris. .
176.186 Ziba Simmons . .
Hannah Simmons .
Hervey B.Simmons
Mary Wentworth .
Martha J. Jameson
177.187 Mary Simmons. .
Moses L. Simmons
Luther L. Simmons
Angenon Simmons
178.188 Herman Mero . .
Electa A. Mero
Arthur L. Mero .
179.189 JohnLindley . .
M'garet L. Lindley
Catharine J.Lindley
Rienzi M. Lindley
7
1
50
17
14
12
10
2
44
40
20
18
16
13
11
4
42
30
28
21
1
40
35
17
15
8
5
2
27
21
54
54
22
20
14
60
49
21
15
8
54
25
23
17
29
25
88
POPULATION.
Ada A. Lindley .
Wm, L. Lindley .
John W. Lindley .
Eliza Lindley . 1
180.190 John W. Lindley .
Lucy W. Lindley .
Charles Walter .
181.191 Isley Martin . .
Eliza Martin . .
George Y. Martin .
Sarah Martin . .
Adam Martin . .
Mary Martin . .
Erancis Sennott .
182.192 Spencer Mero . .
Esther Mero . .
Elisha H. Mero
Spencer Mero, jun.
Sarah E. Mero . .
Anson Mero . .
Chester Mero . .
183.193 Benj. Litchfield .
Nancy Litchfield .
Alden Litchfield .
Silas C. Litchfield .
Helen A. Coombs .
John H. Coombs .
Nancy A. Coombs .
Hannah Libbey
184.194 Marlboro' Packard
Mary A. Packard .
Nathan Packard .
Benaiah Packard .
Martin Packard .
Mary C. Packard .
Franklin C.Packard
Wm. Allen Packard
Edward T.Packard
Selinda S. Packard
Emily A. Decoster
185.195 Seth Miller . . .
Mary Miller . .
Love Miller . . .
Laura Miller . .
Lewella Miller . .
Roscoe Miller . .
Granville Miller .
186.196 Joseph Cushman .
Eleanor Cushman .
Henry T. Cushman
Daniel B. Cushman
Alma F. Cushman
Ezra W. Curtis
9
6
2
mo.
67
66
24
44
45
13
11
75
67
19
57
20
17
14
9
68
58
19
16
11
9
7
16
46
42
17
14
12
10
3
1
21
52
43
8
7
6
3
1
56
59
28
22
16
11
187.197 Seth M. Cushman . 32
Lucy A. Cushman 21
H'rietV. Cushman, 6 mo.
H'rietM.Sidelinger 12
188.198 Jedidiah Morse .
Kebecca B. Morse .
Alenzer F. Morse .
189.199 Sarah Bice . . .
190.200 Edward Clary . .
Nancy Clary . .
Caroline Clary . .
Josephine Clary
Silas H. Clary .
Betsey Tuck . .
191.201 Leonard Barnard .
Nancy Barnard
Charles A. Barnard
Ira Barnard . . .
Clarissa Barnard .
Delora Barnard
Edward Barnard .
192.202 Michael N. Filer .
Sarah C. Filer . .
Mary C. Filer
193.203 Suell Cummings . 61
Sophia Cummings 50
Lydia M. Cummings 25
Maria Cummings . 20
Delana Cummings 18
Nancy Cummings .
Suell Cummings .
Wm. A. Cummings
194.204 Joseph Irish . .
Cordelia Irish . .
Milton Irish . .
Mary E. Irish . .
George A. Irish
195.205 Cornelius Irish
Polly Irish . . . 6S
196.206 Ebenez, W. Adams 62
Mima Adams . . 58
Olivia D. Adams . 31
Esther A. Adams . 23
Maryan D. Adams 22
Polly Bipley . . 60
197.207 Otis Hawes ... 57
Elsie Hawes . . 53
Philander Hawes . 22
Cyrene Hawes . . 17
Laurinda Hawes . 14
Edwin Hawes . . 10
Charles B. Hawes . 8
Julia Hawes . ,20
34
28
3
66
. 5
. 4
8 mo.
. 58
. 49
49
25
23
20
18
15
I mo.
16
13
8
33
32
9
9 mo.
. 68
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
89
193.203 Sarah Hawes . . 85
Julia Hawes . . 52
199.209 Moses Luce ... 35
Sarah Luce ... 35
Seth Luce ... 9
Elizabeth M. Luce 7
Remember Luce . 60
Almond Thompson 24
200.210 Caleb Howard . . 70
Betsey Howard . 51
George Howard . 23
201.211 Richard Sayward . 67
Eliza Sayward . . 68
Richd. K. Sayward 30
Perez B. Sayward . 25
Christiana Mitchell 19
Henry Mitchell . 13
202.212 Daniel Shepard . 74
Alice Shepard . . 75
John A. Shepard . 45
Eliza Shepard . . 43
Wm, Shepard . . 41
Elsie Shepard . . 34
Daniel Shepard . 33
Amanda Shepard . 30
203.213 Albert Fuller . . 36
Nancy Fuller . . 37
Isaac «F- Fuller . . 11
Mary E. Fuller . 9
Lucy Fuller . . 7
James C. Fuller . 5
Albert J. Fuller . 1
204.214 Geo. "W. Sidelinger 28
Eliz. J. Sidelinger . 26
Jacob Sidelinger . 4
Sarah J. Sidelinger 2
Ara. W. Sidelinger 1
Edw. A. Sidelinger,! mo.
205.215 Moses Sidelinger . 35
Jane A. Sidelinger 29
Angelet. Sidelinger 10
Mary J. Sidelinger 7
M'garet Sidelinger 5
Ever'tB. Sidelinger 3
C'line L. Sidelinger 1
Martha Ripley . . 13
George Ripley . . 23
206.216 Daniel Sidelinger . 62
Caroline Sidelinger 18
E. A. G. Sidelinger 16
SimonM. Sidelinger 11
H'riet M. Sidelinger 1 3
Mary E. Sidelinger 9
Henry F. Sidelinger 7
Hez. H. Sidelinger 4
207.217 Daniel Ripley . . 57
Gardner Ripley . 21
208.218 John Hagar ... 33
Jane Hagar ... 27
Emily J. Hagar . 8
Ann S. Hagar . . 6
John E. Hagar . . 4
Edwin L. Hagar . 2
Samuel Hagar . 9 mo.
209.219 Martha Philbrook . 34
Charles Philbrook . 4
Jos. F. Philbrook, 1 0 mo.
210.220 Lewis Law ... 33
Lydia Law ... 26
Norris M. Law . . 3
211.221 Sewell Hagar . . 56
Eleanor Hagar . . 44
Mary Hagar ... 14
Ezekiel Hagar . . 11
Martha Hagar . . 9
George A. Hagar . 7
Franklin Weever . 20
212.222 Ebenez. Sidelinger 46
C'harine Sidelinger 47
Sarah Sidelinger . 24
Robt. M. Sidelinger 23
Andrew Sidelinger 21
Spencer Sidelinger 19
L'ciusH. Sidelinger 17
James Sidelinger . 15
Ann M. Sidelinger 13
Daniel Sidelinger . 10
Manuel Sidelinger 8
Miles Sidelinger . 6
Ira Sidelinger . . 2
213.223 Benjamin L. Law . 67
Esther Law . . . 61
Charles P. Law . 39
Benjamin Law . . 37
Franklin Law . . 33
Stephen Law . . 28
Henry Law ... 26
Harriet Law . . 22
Rebecca Law . . 19
214.224 Ebenezer Daggett . 52
Salome Daggett . 45
Charles M. Daggett 1 6
C'tine C. Daggett . 14
Darius Daggett . 12
Harriet D. Daggett 10
Lucius C. Daggett 7
90
POPULATION.
Angelia Daggett . 3
215.225 E. N. Butler . . 41
Mary Butler . . 44
Susan M. Butler . 16
Harriet P. Butler . 14
George A. Butler . 12
Mary E. Butler . 10
Wm. H. H. Butler 8
Amelia M. Butler . 6
Charles Tripp . . 33
Catharine Butler . 73
216.226 John Burns, jun. . 44
Lucy Burns ... 8
Thomas Hagar . . 29
Esther Hagar . . 22
Mercy Jones . . 62
Llewellyn Burns . 16
217.227 Alfred Adams . . 60
Esther Page. . . 52
Ruth Adams . . 45
Jas. Orson Adams 33
Joel Adams, jun. . 11
218.228 Thaddeus Luce . 67
Lavinia Luce . . 64
Maria Luce ... 28
Rosilla Luce . . 23
Sullivan B. Luce . 21
Ann C. Gleason 3 mo.
219.229 Abigail Cole . . 51
Mary A. Cole . . 14
Joseph E. Cole . . 9
220.230 Robert Dickey . . 27
Sarah A. Dickey . 21
Joseph K. Dickey, 7 mo.
Isaac Rackliffe . . 14
221.231 Vinal Ware ... 60
Lavinia A. "Ware . 49
Harriet M. Ware . 17
Erastus Ware . . 15
Lucy Tuck ... 70
Sarah Brown . . 65
Emeline Crabtree . 24
222.232 David Seavey . . 38
Sarah A. Seavey . 32
223.233 Nathan D. Rice . 64
Eliza Carriel . . 46
James Kieff ... 22
Dennie Stetson . 16
224.234 Cyrus Bobbins . . 51
Olivia Robbins . . 56
Eber A. Robbins . 23
Olivia V. Robbins . 20
Laurilla A.Robbins 1 8
225.235
226.236
227.237
228.238
229.239
230.240
231.241
232.242
233.243
234.244
Almatia W. Robbins
Reuben Hagar . .
Nancy Hagar . .
Chester Hagar . .
Westford Hagar .
N orris Hagar . .
Eldon Hagar . .
Thaddeus Shepard
Susan Shepard
Noah E. Shepard .
James E. Shepard .
George Shepard .
Mary Shepard . .
Nathan Shepard .
Thad. S. Shepard .
Sarah S. Shepard .
George Howard .
Mace Shepard . .
Martha J. Shepard
Martha J. Shepard
Daniel D. Law . .
Jane L. Law . .
Mary P. Law . .
Erederic Law . .
Jas. Thomas, jun. .
Silas P. Law . .
Sarah Law . . .
Albert Law . . .
Stephen Carriel .
Jane Carriel . . .
Sylvester B. Carriel
Leander T. Carriel
Adelia W. Carriel .
Augustus G. Carriel
Albion D. Carriel
John Stevens .
Mary Stevens .
Armina Pease .
Sumner Pease .
Gilbert Pease .
Mary J. Stevens
Harriet Stevens
John S. Stevens
Nathl. G. Lothrop
Betsey E. Lothrop
Julia A. Lothrop .
Harriet E. Lothrop
Elijah Lothrop .
Sarah Lothrop .
Alden Lothrop
Parker Messer .
Eliza Messer
Robert M. Messer
17
41
36
9
7
5
1
71
61
28
15
11
9
60
37
30
21
40
41
8
49
37
14
7
19
33
33
10
47
48
22
19
17
10
6
56
39
15
13
12
3
19
17
46
46
13
11
10
9
6
49
45
21
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
91
Charles H. Messer 17
Ambrose Messer . 14
Eliza E. Messer . 2
235.245 Nancy Bryant . . 47
Jacob S. Bryant . 21
Joseph Bryant. . 18
Nancy J. Bryant . 16
Abby M. Bryant . 10
John F. Bryant . 9
236.246 Daniel Walker, jun. 37
Lydia Walker . . 41
Jason Walker . . 14
George P. Walker 12
Catharine Walker . 10
Lucinda Walker . 7
Martha A. Walker 4
Levi Walker . . 2
237.247 Danford Carriel . 40
Harriet N. Carriel 35
Rachel H. Carriel . 3
Flora R. Carriel . 1
Jonathan Carriel . 67
Sybil Carriel . . 63
238.248 Martha Carriel . . 56
Olive Carriel . . 46
239.249 John Walker . . 74
Sarah Walker . . 72
John Walker, jun. 33
Eliz'th B. Walker . 27
John C. Cromett . 8
240.250 Cyrus Bobbins, jun. 27
Margaret Bobbins . 27
Eldred Robbins 4 mo.
Nelson Burns . . 17
Joel Burns ... 12
Lucinda Burns . 23
Augustus Burns . 21
Henry Burns . . 19
John Burns ... 72
Margaret Burns . 62
241.251 Daniel Walker . . 76
Fanny Walker. . 71
Fanny Achorn . . 46
Eliz'th B. Achorn . 18
Elisha Achorn . . 20
Jacob B. Achorn . 13
Daniel Achorn . . 6
242.252 George Cox ... 27
Fanny Cox ... 23
Mary M. Cox . . 6
John W. Cox . . 3
Wm. A. J. Leach . 3
243.253 John Taylor. . . 42
Maria Taylor . . 37
Frances O. Taylor . 16
Elsie G. Taylor . 14
Lindall R. Taylor . 12
George B. Taylor . 10
Sarah M. Taylor . 1
244.254 Samuel Fuller, jun. 34
Eliza Fuller. . . 22
Wm. E. Fuller. . 5
Abigail A. Fuller . 4
Flora I. Fuller . . 2
M'garet A. Fuller, 2 mo.
245.255 Samuel Fuller . . 62
Jemima Fuller . . 58
Sarah J. Fuller . 22
Rhoda Fuller . . 21
Fisher H. Fuller . 27
Charles Fuller . . 15
Lewis Law ... 6
246.256 Pond Davis ... 46
Betsey Davis . . 42
Wm. L. Davis . . 19
Angeline M. Davis 16
Helen E.Davis . 13
Elsie A. Davis . 10
Ada F. Davis . . 7
Mercy D. Davis . 5
Hannah A. Davis . 2
Jacob P. Davis . . 83
247.257 Asaph Lucas . . 65
Hannah Lucas . . 64
John O. Lucas . . 10
Hannah Grinnell . 90
248.258 Edwin Lucas . . 43
Phebe Lucas . . 30
Willard Lucas . . 12
John O. Lucas . . 10
Armeda A. Lucas . 6
Auga. Blake Lucas 4
Mary A. Lucas 8 mo.
249.259 Olney Titus. . . 77
Abigail Titus . . 75
250.260 Philo Thurston . 55
Julia M. Thurston 51
Nathan'l Thurston 23
Jo. D. Thurston . 20
Hail. W. Thurston 13
Darwin Thurston . 7
251.261 Albert Thurston . 26
Lavinia Thurston . 25
Chas. A. Thurston 1
Rhoda Fuller . . 21
252.262 Hugh Gordon . . 40
92
POPULATION.
Margaret Gordon . 27
Angelia S. Gordon 16
253.263 Nathan Bachelder . 49
Jane Bachelder . 49
Nath. A. Bachelder 22
Llew. F. Bachelder 21
Ama. E. Bachelder 17
AustinE.Bachelder 15
L'cius F. Bachelder 13
AdelaideBachelder 11
Electa Bachelder . ' 9
George Bachelder . 2
Edward Taylor . . 27
Mary Taylor . . 23
254.264 Amos Barrett . . 70
Harriet R. Barrett 42
255.265 Benj. Bachelder . 29
Ann Bachelder . 26
Ann R. Bachelder . 4
Bachl.N.Bachelder 2
Sarah A. Bachelder 21
256.266 Jesse Arnold . . 32
Mary J. Arnold . 31
Thomas E. Arnold 8
Alfred E. Arnold . 4
Helen Arnold . . 2
257.267 Nathaniel Clark . 44
Betsey A. Clark . 42
Harriet A. Clark . 17
Sarah P. Clark . . 15
Martha E. Clark . 14
Octavius L. Clark . 10
Jnlia F. Clark . . 8
Nathl. S. Clark . 2
258.268 Japheth Gove . . 44
Nancy Gove . . 42
Williston F. Gove 23
Antoinette Gove . 21
James Gove ... 18
Olivia Gove ... 15
Charles Gove . . 10
George Gove . . 3
Harriet Young . . 24
Edward McLean . 19
Joseph Carkin . . 19
259.269 John Bachelder . 59
Jnlia Bachelder . 53
H'riet L. Bachelder 24
John M. Bachelder 21
F'ces Y. Bachelder 18
Chas. G. Bachelder 16
Eliza M. Bachelder 14
Mary C. Bachelder 12
260.270
261.271
262.272
263.273
264.274
265.275
266.276
267.277
268.278
Franklin Rice . .
Patience M. Rice .
Albert A. Rice . .
Helen E. Rice . .
Wm. M. Robbins .
Josiah Shepard . .
Statira Shepard
Susan C. Shepard .
Nathan M. Gleason
Charles Gleason .
Sarah A. Gleason .
Eliza M. Gleason .
Maria Gleason . .
David N. Oakes .
Mary Oakes . .
Mary Oakes . . .
Nancy Oakes . .
Martha Oakes . .
David N. Oakes .
C. Sumner Oakes .
William Coggan .
Mary Coggan . .
Ethelda Coggan .
Emily B. Coggan .
Deborah M.Coggan
Esther F. Coggan .
Alanson M.Coggan
William Oxton
William Thompson
RoberJ Thompson .
Charity Thompson
Jedidah Thompson
M'cellus Thompson
Ellen A. Thompson
Laura E.Thompson
H'rietA.Thompson
Charles Hibbard
Lydia P. Hibbard
Daniel Hibbard
Hollis Hibbard .
Cyrus Hibbard .
Chas. W. Hibbard
Parker M. Hibbard
James R. Hibbard
Alexr. Suchfort
Mary Suchfort .
Hannah Suchfort
John G. Suchfort,
Elizabeth Coombs
John Proctor .
Clarissa Proctor
Philander Proctor
Adelbert Proctor
32
28
5
1
19
30
23
1
44
17
15
11
1
69
62
36
34
21
19
27
46
39
20
16
13
10
9
23
42
50
40
21
IS
17
16
9
44
40
18
16
13
11
7
3
29
23
3
1 mo.
15
53
48
12
10
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
93
Elvira Proctor . . 16
Mary Proctor . . 19
Sarah. Roakes . . 27
269.279 Rebecca Metcalf . 58
270.280 Judson Caswell . 53
Mercy Caswell . . 38
Hannah. Caswell . 18
John C. Caswell . 16
Lemuel Caswell . 14
Lozeah Caswell . 11
Mary O. Caswell . 8
Christiana A. Caswell 6
Caroline E. Caswell 3
271.281 Elias Skidmore . 51
Priscilla Skidmore 52
Elias Skidmore . 25
Gardner Skidmore 23
Emily F. Skidmore 16
Thos. W. Pinkham 14
Roderic G. Newhall 6
272.282 "Walter W. Clark . 54
Joanna Clark . . 44
Ellen A. Clark . . 20
Henry D. Clark . 18
Ezra B.Clark . . 16
Isaac M. Clark . . 14
James A. Clark . 9
273.283 Alpheus Collamore 68
Chloe Collamore . 57
Richard Collamore 23
Mary Collamore . 20
Andrew J. Collamore 17
Elias A. Collamore 1
Elmina P. Roakes . 21
274.284 John Jones, 2d . . 53
Sally Jones ... 49
Martha M. Jones . 25
William M. Jones . 24
John P. Jones . . 23
Albert M. Jones . 20
Leander Jones . . 17
Licena Jones . . 15
George M. Jones . 12
Benson G. Jones . 10
275.285 Samuel Norwood . 33
Sibyl Norwood . 30
Lysander Norwood 10
Sarah Norwood . 8
Lucretia Norwood 6
Orlando Norwood . 3
Llewellyn Norwood 1
276.286 Henry M. Collier . 35
Mahala Collier . . 30
9
Helen M. Collier . 1
James Upham . . 12
277.287 Robert M. Pease . 52
Sarah Pease. . . 51
Zilpah H. Pease . 19
Lucy A. Pease. . 17
Austin L. Pease . 15
Helen A. Pease . 5
278.288 Benjamin Prye. . 46
Nancy Prye ... 46
Job Prye. ... 42
279.289 James Roakes . . 26
Lois Roakes . . 26
Susan Roakes . . 1
280.290 Asa Gowen ... 39
Hannah Gowen . 38
Harriet Ellen Gowen 14
Abby Electa Gowen 9
Hannah A. Gowen 4
"William Stevens . 5
Benjamin Dow . 87
281.291 John Gowen . . 69
Rebecca H. Gowen 69
282.292 David Possett . . 42
Martha A. Possett 33
Henry M. Possett . 12
Mary E. Possett . 9
Sarah Possett . . 6
Julia Possett . . 2
George Miller . . 62
283.293 Samuel Possett . 29
Mary A. Possett . 26
Isaac H. Possett . 4
Caroline M. Possett 2
284.294 Nathan Knowlton 31
Mary Knowlton . 27
Leonora Knowlton 1
285.295 Henry Possett, jun. 34
Amanda Possett . 23
Oscar Possett . . 3
Mary E. Possett . 1
286.296 Enoch Weeks . . 25
Ruth A. Weeks . 19
287.297 Henry Possett . . 67
Thomas C. Possett 38
Abigail Possett . 33
Ellen Possett . . 1
288.298 Josiah Simmons . 27
Rachel Simmons . 30
James H. Simmons 8
Hannah D. Simmons 4
Ra. M. Simmons, 8 mo.
Eliza Jane Davis , 20
94
POPULATION.
289.299 Oliver Townsend . 30
Nancy Townsend . 22
Georgiana Townsend 2
H. O. Townsend, 7 mo.
290.300 Samuel Stone . . 63
Elizabeth Stone . 50
Elmira A. Stone . 17
Roscoe Stone . . 11
Augusta Stone . . 9
291.301 Job C. Simmons . 34
Clarissa Simmons . 36
Harriet Simmons . 9
George Simmons . 7
Henry Simmons . 5
James Simmons . 3
Sarah E. Simmons 1
A. M. Simmons, 8 mo.
292.302 George M. Eossett 32
Sarah A. Eossett . 26
Stephen H. Eossett 5
Margaret M. Fossett 2
Martha E. Eossett . 1
293.303 Zebedee Simmons . 23
Margaret Simmons 30
John E. R. Simmons 1
C. A. Z. Simmons, 2 mo.
294.304 George B. Daggett 25
Mary J. Daggett . 25
Amelia Burns . . 9
295.305 Isaac Upham . . 70
Eliza T. Upham . 60
Eliza E. Upham . 19
296.306 John Upham . . 30
Mary A. Upham . 27
Euphemia A. Upham 1
Warren C. Upham 14
Abigail Bruce . . 61
297.307 Joseph M. Gleason 41
Erances Gleason . 42
Jane A. Gleason . 11
William C. Gleason 9
Martha A. Gleason 3
Harris Lanfest . . 23
298.308 Rufus Stone . . 24
Silvia G. Stone . 24
William Caswell . 16
299.309 John Oakes ... 39
Ellen Oakes . . 46
Sanford Mero . . 15
Maria Jameson . . 11
300.310 John Adams . . 31
Rachel Adams . . 29
Thomas M. Adams 8
Francis M. Adams 6
Samuel S. Adams . 2
Jerh. W. Mitchell . 15
301.311 MinotMesser . . 45
Lydia Messer . . 41
John B. Messer . 23
Caroline H. Messer 21
Samuel L. Messer . 19
Thomas G. Messer 16
Vinal Messer . . 14
Lydia A. Messer . 11
Hannah M. Messer 1 1
Eliza Messer . . 10
Margaret M. Messer 8
Emeline Messer . 5
Aravilla B. Messer 1
Phebe Messer . . 79
302.312 Ebenezer S. Messer 37
Nancy S. Messer . 38
Laura Messer . . 13
Charles H. Messer 11
Emma P. Messer . 9
Mary Messer . . 6
Amanda Messer . 1
John Brown . . 19
Hannah Messer . 75
Hannah Messer . 41
303.313 Nathaniel B. Gowen 27
Elizabeth H. Gowen 21
304.314 Sarah A. Hart . . 12
Richard Moody . 32
Sarah Moody . . 30
William Moody . 8
Mahala Moody . . 5
Eldora Moody . 9 mo.
Harriet Moody . . 11
305.315 Benjamin Clark . 57
Eliza Clark ... 49
Chandler Brackett 20
306.316 Silas Carriel . .41
Sally Carriel . . 37
Woodbury Carriel 9
Martha Carriel . . 8
Aldana Carriel . . 6
307.317 James Bryant . . 50
Charlotte Bryant . 5-5
Silas C. Bryant . 23
David Bryant . * 20
Arvilla Bryant . . 16
308.318 Joseph Wheaton . 60
Mary Wheaton . 60
309.319 Aaron Bryant . . 42
Emeline Bryant . 42
UNITED STATES CENSUS.
95
Wm. H. Bryant . 17
Mary E. Bryant . 15
Delphina G. Bryant 14
Sarah Bryant . . 13
Phebe J. Bryant . 11
Martha A. Bryant 9
Julia E. Bryant . 5
James F. Bryant . 2
310.320 Nathan Clark . . 47
Marv M. Clark . .48
Elizabeth O'Meira 17
Gilbert Pitman . 43
Edson S. Stevens . 3
Enoch B. Evans . 25
311.321 Isaac Townsend . 69
Sarah Townsend . 66
Caroline Townsend 19
Martha Townsend 26
312.322 Isaac Townsend . 32
Eanny Towrnsend . 31
Mary O. Townsend 3
E. E. Townsend, 9 mo.
313.323 John Robinson. . 57
Harriet Robinson . 43
Darius Robinson . 18
Stillman Robinson 16
Horatio Robinson . 14
Elvina Robinson , 15
Delano Robinson . 9
Alonzo Robinson . 7
Oramil Robinson . 5
314.324 Orris Blood ... 39
Maria Blood . . 40
Delora A. Blood . 11
Josiah Drake . . 19
Jesse Drake ... 7
Miriam H. Blood, 8 mo.
Lewis Robbins . . 16
315.325 Cyrus Morton . . 45
Sally Morton . . 38
James G. Morton . 18
C. Roscoe Morton 13
Sarah E. Morton . 11
Ann M. Morton . 6
John C. Morton . 8
Nancy J. Morton . 2
316.326 Calvin Gleason . . 35
Abigail S. Gleason 29
Helen C. Gleason . 8
Moses S. Gleason . 6
John A. Gleason . 3
John Brown . . 18
Cyrenus Daggett . 19
317.327 Sally Gleason . . 67
Caroline McKinney 16
318.328 James Townsend . 35
Mary E. Townsend 28
Aldana S. Townsend 1 1
Geo. W. Townsend 9
E. L. Towrnsend . 7
Jas. A. Townsend . 4
Oceana M. Townsend 1
319.329 Artemas Shepard . 73
Martha Shepard . 50
Benjamin Smith . 18
320.330 Leonard Wade . . 77
Sally Wade ... 70
Sarah Daggett . . 43
Mary E. Daggett . 6
321.331 JohnTobey. . . 82
Melicent Tobey . 52
ElkanahM.Wingate 28
Helen M. Wingate 22
322.332 N.Thurston, jun. . 25
Ann E. Thurston . 25
Ella M. Thurston . 1
Nahum Thurston . 58
Martha Thurston . 61
Caroline A.Thurston 21
Martha A. Thurston 23
323.333 George Luce . . 39
Patience Luce . . 36
Prances M. Luce . 10
Charles B. Luce . 8
Joseph E. Gleason 1 6
324.334 Robert Dickey . . 74
Mary Dickey . . 64
325.335 Madan K. Payson. 26
Abigail A. Payson 28
Lauriston M. Payson 3
Matilda L. Payson 1
326.336 John P. Robbins . 5Q
Mary Robbins . . 58
Almina Robbins . 17
327.337 Jason Robbins . . 50
Lucy Robbins . . 51
Clementine Robbins 17
Alphonso Robbins 14
Jason Robbins . . 11
Lycurgus Robbins 6
Jessa Robbins . .91
328.338 George Cummings 50
Avis Cummings . 50
Loam. D. Cummings 20
Geo. E. Cummings 18
PlymptonCummings 12
96
POPULATION.
Rosanna Cummings 73
Hannah Hills . . 22
329.339 Henry Seiders . . 51
Mary S. Seiders . 42
Mary Jane Seiders 21
Margaret S. Seiders 16
Joseph Seiders . . 14
Edward Seiders . 13
Emerson Seiders . 1 1
Sarah L. Seiders . 8
G. Melvin Seiders 6
Frederic A. Seiders 2
330.340 Waterm. M. Bobbins 27
David Robbins . . 62
Hannah E. Robbins 29
Nancy M. Bobbins 23
Caroline M. Robbins 22
Maxcy Robbins . 20
Ermina G. Robbins 18
Lydia A. Robbins . 14
331.341 Whiting Hawes . 56
Julia Hawes . . 52
Nancy Hawes . . 66
Norman L. Crockett 13
332.342 William G. Hawes 39
Roxana Hawes . . 38
Herbert A. Hawes 11
Henry A. Hawes . 9
Edwin R. Hawes . 7
Phebe R. Hawes . 1
Emery R. Hawes . 4
James O'Meira . . 19
Julia A. McAllister 16
333.343 Herman Hawes . 66
Abigail Hawes . . 67
334.344 Manning Walcott . 37
Mary Walcott . . 35
Herman H. Walcott 12
Edgar H. Walcott . 8
Martha Rollins . 17
335.345 Napoleon Bemis . 40
Fairezina Bemis . 40
^Elizabeth A. Bemis 8
John Bobinson . . 18
336.346 Joseph G. Cummings 35
Margaret Cummings 32
Amos Cummings . 9
Avis M. Cummings 5
Samuel L. Cummings 3
S. E. Cummings, 9 mo.
337.347 Stephen S. Hawes 40
Alzina Hawres . . 41
Aravesta M. Hawes 19
Aravilla A. Hawes 19
Marietta B. Hawes 8
Abigail S. Hawes . 1
338.348 Lewis Bachelder . 53
Hannah Bachelder 53
Edwin A. Bachelder 16
339.349 Benjamin Bryant . 45
Betsey Bryant . . 45
Benjamin Bryant . 16
John Bryant . . 14
Lucy Bryant . . 10
Llewella Bryant . 8
Thomas Bryant . 6
Maria Bryant . . 4
Mary Bryant . . 1
Mary Bryant . . 25
Elizabeth M. Hills 11
Abner Bills ... 26
Timothy Alexander 23
John Thompson . 31
Lucretia Rice . . 20
Catharine Robbins 18
Lysander Daggett 19
Emeline Hills . . 30
Nathl. Q. Bachelder 23
Total number of inhabitants, 1,970; including 1 blind,
5 idiots, 6 insane, 3 paupers, 139 mechanics, 430 farmers!
There are no colored persons.
Maine is the birthplace of nearly all the inhabitants. The
following are exceptions : Nova Scotia, 1 ; New Brunswick, 2 ;
Ireland, 2 ; England, 1 ; New Hampshire, 36 ; Vermont, 1 \
Massachusetts, 115; Rhode Island, 5; Connecticut, 3; New
York, 2; Kentucky, 1.
ARBORAL PRODUCTS. 97
CHAPTER XII.
MINERAL AND ARBORAL PRODUCTS.
Minerals. — Timber. — Pelling of Trees. — Burning of Cut-downs. —
Shingles. — Benjamin Speed. — Lakin. — Boards and Saw-mills.
— Lime- casks.
MINERAL PRODUCTS.
There has never been a mineralogical or geological sur-
vey of the town worthy of even a passing notice. What
treasures may lie buried here can only be known when
greater attention is given to the subject. It is certain,
however, that there are quarries of limestone, some of
which is white and fine grained; but large pieces,
free from defects and veins, have not hitherto been ob-
tained. The burning of lime never has received much
attention. There are also quarries of granite. Sulphu-
reous iron ore, from which are derived sulphur, alum,
copperas, sulphuric acid, &c. is found in immense quan-
tities, particularly in the eastern part of the town. A
web of cloth, which had been laid upon the ground to be
whitened, was buried under an autumnal snow ; and,
when it was dug out some time afterward, it had ac-
quired a beautiful copperas color. East of Crawford's
Pond, on the land of Christopher Young, is a mineral
spring which blackens leaves at its bottom ; and crys-
tallized copperas is formed on logs which lie in it. In
surveying the county line a few years ago, the mag-
netic needle was so much disturbed for a mile or two
on Appleton Ridge that it was of little or no use.
ARBORAL PRODUCTS.
Timber. — When the first settlers came, the land,
particularly the section of it which lies east of Seven-
tree Pond, was covered with an uncommonly heavy
growth of timber. Pine, hemlock, spruce, fir, grew
9*
98 MINERAL AND ARBORAL PRODUCTS.
abundantly on what was called by the early settlers
the « black land " or low ground ; and on the ridges or
higher ground were beech, red oak, birch, maple, ash,
&c. There was but little white oak, and that was on
the intervales. There was no walnut or chestnut.
"With the early settlers, it was a great object to obtain
land for cultivation. Lumber was so abundant that
" it would not half pay the expense of getting it out."
Consequently, trees were recklessly and wantonly
destroyed, and forests of as good timber as ever grew
were burnt on the ground.
Felling of Trees. — Among some of the early
settlers, there was a custom of girdling large trees and
cutting out large chips beneath the bark, which was
removed. The smaller growth of wood and the under-
brush were cleared out, so that the land could be culti-
vated; and the girdled trees were left to die, and to
fall as they decayed. This mode of clearing was not
common.
Another mode was generally adopted by persons
who felled trees by the acre. The chopper observed
the direction in which they leaned and could be made
to fall advantageously. He selected a range, at the
head of which was a large tree, a little elevated, with
branching, heavy limbs, to be used as a " driver." The
trees were then cut about half through, and the chips
so taken out, that, when the trees fell, the tops would
lie in an angular direction towards each other along
the whole range. The "driver," being then cut
through, fell upon the next trees, and these in turn upon
the next, and so on till the whole range came down
with a tremendous crash. Thus half the labor was
saved, and the tops were brought together in a favor-
able position to be burnt.
Burning of Cut-downs. — After the trees had been
left to dry through a considerable part of the season,
the " cut-down," or " fell-piece," was set on fire. The
smoke gathered over the burning materials, and the
fire raged till an immense black cloud hung over
the spot and rolled off, indicating for many miles the
BUKNING OF CUT-DOWNS. 99
destruction which was going on. In one place, the fire,
when it encountered a pile of dry limbs and leaves,
might be seen suddenly starting up to a great height ;
and, in another, climbing to the summit and wreathing
itself around tall trees which had been left standing, or
penetrating hollow pines and darting its fiery tongues
through the sides and holes which time had opened.
And as the sea of fire was surging, eddying, and roll-
ing, it scattered cinders and ignited limbs to a great
distance. Sometimes it spread its ravages through
forests; or, as if determined to riot on the ruin it
made, and to bid defiance to man and the elements,
it would run over dry grass-fields faster than a horse
would gallop, destroy cattle, barns, dwelling-houses,
and even human life. It would diffuse its peculiar
odor into remote States, darkening the air, reddening
the sun, and alarming the ignorant and superstitious
at the distance of hundreds of miles from the scene.
Nothing but a deluging rain could subdue it.1
And even when such ravages were not made, — and
there never were such in Union, — the fire continued to
burn in the " cut-down " for many days. As soon as
the heat would admit, the laborers began to cut, and
with the aid of oxen and chains to put into piles, the
blackened and imperfectly burnt logs. This business
they followed, covered with smut, till the new piles,
compactly put together, were in a condition to be re-
burnt. After all, many firmly-rooted stumps, large
blackened logs, and dead limbless trunks, remained.
In subsequent years, when time and alternating storm
and sunshine had weakened the strength of the
stumps and dead trunks and opened cavities in them,
these were again set on fire, and threw a brilliant light
to a great distance over the cleared fields, in the night ;
or they were uprooted and piled with logs yet to be
consumed.
1 A fire of this kind occurred in Lebanon and vicinity in 1761, and
in Alna and vicinity in September, 1823. A striking account of such
a rire is narrated by J. J. Audubon, in his Ornithological Biography,
ii. 397. See also Cooper's Novels.
100 MINERAL AND ARBORAL PRODUCTS.
This kind of havoc, vigorously begun, was con-
tinued to some extent in town for half a century. Still
there was some reservation even at the first. The best
trees, or some of them, particularly if they grew near
rivers or mills, were used for valuable purposes. Tall
pines, which had been swayed by the breeze for cen-
turies, and whose graceful trunks sometimes rose to
the height of ninety feet before being marred by a limb
or a knot, were often converted into masts ; or, being
cut into mill-logs, .were rolled into the ponds and
streams to be floated to the places of their destination.
Shingles. — The manufacture of shingles was be-
gun early, and for some time it increased with the
decrease of lumber. The only mode of making
them, before the invention and introduction of shingle-
mills, twenty or thirty years ago, was by sawing
logs into pieces of suitable length, splitting the
pieces, and shaving the shingles by hand. Some-
times, in the course of a winter, there were col-
lected on the Common huge piles, which the store-
keepers purchased of the inhabitants of this and the
neighboring towns. Many were made in the part of
Union now included in Washington. Of the makers
in the early part of the present century, the best was
Benjamin Speed. In what he manufactured, there
were a beauty and a finish which entitled him to the
appellation of a scientific shingle-maker. There was
also engaged in the business a family named Lakin,
from Groton, Mass. The husband and the wife, in
the winter season, would go into the woods, and, one
at each handle of a long saw, work hard through
the day, cutting trees into blocks. It may be doubted
which of the two was the most expert in splitting and
finishing them. And often has the wife come to the
Common — eight miles — on horseback, with a child
in her arms, and a heavy bunch of shingles on each
side of her horse, balanced by means of ropes and
withes across the beast's back. Under the ropes
and withes, to prevent them from cutting the horse, was
a bag of hay. To all these was superadded a meal-
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101
bag, containing a jug for rum or molasses, or some
other article then deemed necessary for a family. At the
present time, shingle-mills are so common that rift and
shaved shingles, though much better, are seldom made.
Boards and Saw-mills. — The sawing of lumber
into boards has always been an important item in the
business of the town. One of the first acts of the pro-
prietor, Dr. Taylor, was to erect a saw-mill. Not long
afterward, another saw-mill was built by Josiah Reed.
It stood below Sunnybec Pond, several rods above the
present location of Hills' Mills.
Four or five years before the present century, when,
except Jonah Gay's, there was no house in town east
of the road on the east side of Seven-tree Pond, a
saw-mill was built on the stream which runs into
Crawford's Pond. Lermond of Warren came early in
the week, and went into the woods. There he labored
regularly, about a fortnight at a time, remote from all
inhabitants. On the Saturday at the end of the fort-
night, towards evening, he emerged from the forest to
spend the night at William Hart's. On the next
morning, he took his boat, proceeded down the St.
George's, procured a supply of provisions and other
necessaries, returned the same evening or the next
morning to Hart's, and then buried himself again for
a fortnight in solitude. In this way he labored till the
work was done. He was not a joiner by trade, and
the mill had but four braces, and those were " cut in
with a post-axe." The log, in the sawing, was run
back by putting the feet upon pegs or pins in a wheel.
Before the close of the eighteenth century, other saw-
mills were built. In 1826 there were six in operation ;
in 1840 and in 1843 there were eight. In 1845 it was
estimated that at least twenty-seven saw-mills had
been built or re-built, and seven of them were then
used. This would not be remarkable on rivers as large
as the Kennebec or the Penobscot; but it deserves
notice in connection with a river no larger or longer
than the St. George's, which does not admit of logs
being floated from a great distance in the interior.
102 MINERAL AND ARBORAL PRODUCTS.
^ In the early part of this century, the mills were con-
tinually in operation. Lumber accumulated at the
mill-yards, and rafts and logs floated on the rivers and
ponds. By day and by night, at home and abroad,
the ears were constantly greeted with the busy, hurry-
ing sound of saws, working as if they were alive and
their cravings could never be satisfied.
Lime-casks. — The first person who gave his atten-
tion particularly to the manufacture of lime-casks was
John Little. This was early in the nineteenth cen-
tury. Within twenty-five years afterward, there was
a cooper-shop at almost every man's door. From
August 15, 1794, the casks were to contain 100 gal-
lons each, and to be made of well-seasoned oak or
ash staves, with ten hoops on each cask, well driven,
and sufficiently secured with nails or pins. Afterward
they were reduced to 75, and in 1810 to 50 gallons.
Now they will hold about 28 gallons. At first they
were made of rift staves, and the price for putting
them together was twenty cents each. The highest
sum for which they were sold at Thomaston was sixty
cents. Now they are sold for about thirteen cents ;
sixteen and seventeen cents being considered high,
though they can hardly be afforded at that price.
About the year 1818, when the price was thirty-two or
thirty-three cents, the coopers, who could make twelve
in a day, were dissatisfied because their wages were
reduced to twelve and a half cents. Not many years
after the commencement of the business, the demand
was so great that casks were put together hastily;
and there was seldom a load from any part of the
country carried to Thomaston, in which some were not
crushed on the way. Legislation has been resorted to
frequently ; but the laws are often willingly evaded
both by makers and purchasers, and there is difficulty
in enforcing them.
The introduction of stave-machines within twenty-
five or thirty years — of which there are now nine or
more in the town — enables the inhabitants to work
up almost every kind of lumber, which would other-
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wise be worthless. The facilities for putting together
the materials, which are now bevelled by machinery,
save a great amount of labor. The number made
cannot be ascertained. In 1826 it was estimated at
30,000. 1 Considerable inquiry has been made of
coopers and carters ; and it is not unreasonable to say
that at the present time there are not less than one hun-
dred thousand, and it is not improbable that there are
one hundred and fifty thousand made annually in
Union alone.
Not far from the year 1840, a few shrewd traders
about the Common, during one winter, purchased all
the lime-hogsheads which were brought to them, and
paid for them in goods at the Thomaston prices. They
were heaped up till the Common appeared almost as
if covered with one huge pile. The store-keepers
made contracts to supply purchasers in Thomaston at
a fixed price. Thus the prices, which fluctuated daily
according to the number in the market or the number
immediately wanted, assumed a firmness which it is
said was on the whole favorable to the makers, to the
Union traders, and to the Thomaston lime-burners.
When hogsheads were first made, the number car-
ried to Thomaston in a load was comparatively small.
About the year 1817, it had increased to sixty. The
roads were so bad that this was as large a load as
four oxen could draw. Now the casks are smaller, the
roads better, and four oxen will carry two hundred ;
and a load of one hundred and sixty is common. For-
merly these were placed on their ends in long erect
racks built for the purpose. Three tiers, one above the
other, numbering ten in each tier, presented thirty
lime-casks to view on either side. Now the^tops of
the racks are wider than the bottoms, and of course the
loads spread at the top and are not so high.
For many years, after letting their oxen rest on the
Lord's Day, the farmers started them at sunset, and,
driving during the night, arrived at Thomaston on the
1 N. P. Hawes's MS.
104 MINERAL AND ARBORAL PRODUCTS.
following morning. Now, horses are frequently sub-
stituted for oxen ; and the plan is to drive on Friday-
night, so as to give teams rest on the Lord's Day, after
their return, before putting them to the regular week's
work. But neither Saturday nor Monday has ever
been exclusively the market-day. The manufacturers
or carters go when it is most convenient or advanta-
geous ; and, instead of being limited to Thomaston,
as they were thirty years ago, they now dispose of the
greater part of their hogsheads at East Thomaston, or
Rockland, which has grown up since that time, and to
which is a road through the Camden Hills by Mount
Pleasant.
If no more were carried to Thomaston annually
than the one hundred or one hundred and fifty thou-
sand from Union, it would be an item of value in
trade. But on some mornings, thirty, forty, or perhaps
fifty loads of various sizes, containing from twenty to
one hundred and sixty lime-casks each, are seen at the
market. They are brought from the country nearly
fifty miles back; from Hope, Appleton, Searsmont,
Montville, Liberty, Palermo, Washington, Jefferson,
&c. The farmer, on rainy days, goes into his cooper-
shop, and, in the course of a summer, has time to
manufacture one or more loads. The hired laborer,
easily taught, thus makes his rainy days and leisure
hours profitable to his employer.
Having carried a load or more to market, the man,
in comfortable, if not affluent circumstances, brings
home flour, groceries, and other necessaries, or money
to pay taxes, or he lays up something for sickness or
declining years. The team returns leisurely north-
ward on Saturday afternoon, bringing the teamster
reposing at full length on the bottom of his rack, with
his feet in an opposite direction from the sun. His hat
is pulled over his face to exclude the sun's beams from
his eyes, and his body vibrates from side to side, as
either wheel strikes and passes over a stone or plunges
into a hole. A barrel of flour is on the end of his rack,
and a bag of groceries is suspended from a chain
BARLEY AND RYE. 105
across the top. It seems as if such must be a hard
life. But it is free from the anxiety which sometimes,
every night, week after week, drives sleep from the
man of extensive business ; it is favorable to health,
vigor, and independence ; and, when to these are added
moral and intellectual cultivation, it may well be
doubted if there is, with all its hardships, any life so
happy as the farmer's.
CHAPTER XIII.
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL
PRODUCTS.
Barley and Rye. — Indian Corn. — Wheat. — Potatoes. — Fruit. —
Peaches and Plums. — Apples.
Barley and Rye. — Neither rye nor any grain but
barley was raised on the St. George's when Union was
settled. "It was thought a stupid thing for Philip
Robbins to go back into the country to get a living on
a farm." When he mentioned to Anderson of War-
ren his intention of raising rye, Anderson scouted the
idea. Robbins is said to have told him, " I mean to
get a living off of my farm ; I shall raise rye, and you
may have to come and buy of me yet ; " — a prediction
that was fulfilled in a season of scarcity which fol-
lowed.1 The first grain put into the ground by any
one in town was rye. Within two years after Philip
Robbins settled here, twice as much rye was raised on
his and the Mill Farm as along the whole of the St.
George's. The common kind was the winter rye. It
was sown in autumn upon burnt ground, — a mode
not known to the settlers of Warren, who supposed
the soil, in order to produce grain, must be ploughed, as
• 1 Jacob Robbins.
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106 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
in their native country. Since the woods have been
cut off, the summer rye has been introduced, and the
sowing of this kind is generally preceded by plough-
ing. In 1840, according to the town-valuation, 559
bushels were raised; according to the United States
census, 1,443.
Indian Corn was planted on burnt ground. By
some of the early settlers, the ground was ploughed
before the grain was put into it. This mode of cul-
tivation was inconvenient among the roCts, stumps,
logs, and knolls, which abounded in every new field ;
and experience soon taught the lesson that corn came
to maturity sooner when planted in the warm black
mould than in the ploughed soil. In 1840, according
to the town-valuation, 3,151 bushels were raised ; ac-
cording to the United States memoranda, 4,960.
The year 1831 was the most remarkable for corn
which has ever been known in Maine. It flourished
like weeds, and ripened very early. Ezekiel True, of
Montville, harvested one hundred bushels on the last
day of August. It seemed as if every kernel grew
which was dropped anywhere on the ground.1 Suc-
cess, however, with Indian corn is uncertain. An
early frost has often ruined the crop.
Wheat is raised ; but the people commonly prefer
to buy flour, and to give their attention to other kinds
of produce. Ten or twelve years ago, much interest
was taken in wheat. In 1840, according to the town-
valuation, there were raised 3,013 bushels ; according
to the United States census, 2,658. In 1837 the crop
was 4,249 bushels.
Potatoes were a very important article of culture,
till " the rot " prevailed extensively in 1846. Since that
time, comparatively little attention has been given to
them, and the whole State has been obliged to aban-
don the cultivation of the agricultural product most
important for subsistence or for export. In 1840 the
town-valuation states that 44,075 bushels were raised ;
1 N. Bobbins, Esq.
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and the United States census, that there were 44,960
bushels.
Peas, Beans, Turnips, Carrots, Beets, Onions,
Parsnips, Cabbages, yield abundant crops.
Fruit. — There are several kinds of fruit. And if
each man would give a little attention to the subject,
and plant a few fruit-trees, and graft or bud them, he
might have the luxury of a rich repast at almost any
season of the year.
Peaches and Plums. — The climate is so cold that
peaches cannot be raised. But there might be an
abundance of garden plums. Whenever their cultiva-
tion has been properly attended to, there has been
great success.
Apples. — There were but few apples till after the
beginning of the nineteenth century. Among the items
of property belonging to Matthias Hawes, very soon
after his arrival, is recorded " a box of apple-trees."
Philip Robbins and David Bobbins, before they had
been here long, probably did something in the way of
raising them. A memorandum made by Levi Morse,
Nov. 12, 1793, says, " Set fifteen apple-trees
Nov. 17 and 18, 1794, set fifty apple-trees Nov. 12,
1797, first fifteen apple-trees I set bore ten apples. . . .
Our orchard bore about one bushel of apples this
year — 1798." This orchard, and those of Philip Rob-
bins and David Robbins, were probably the first in
town. In the year 1800, Dr. Sibley had one or two
quarts of apple-seeds, picked out of pomace, brought
to him on horseback from Hopkinton, N.H. They
were planted, and the trees disposed of among the in-
habitants. Orchards have since become common and
large. In 1826, it was estimated that there were one
hundred,1 which produced on an average 10,000
bushels annually. According to the valuation of 1840,
the quantity was 9,546 bushels. But the interest once
felt in raising them for the purpose of making cider
has diminished in consequence of the progress of tem-
perance.
1 N. P. Hawes's MS.
108 MANUFACTURES AND TRADE.
CHAPTER XIV.
MANUFACTURES AND TRADE.
Spinning Wheels. — Looms. — Home-made Clothing. — Fulling Mills.
— Carding Machines. — Factories. — Paper Mills. — Tanneries. —
Potash. -— Iron Works. — Fossetts' Mills. — Stores. — Carting
Goods to Boston in the War of 1812. — Canals.
MANUFACTURES.
Spinning Wheels. — The old spinning-wheel, turned
by hand and doling out its single thread, was in use
from the first settlement of the town. It was con-
sidered indispensable to every household. The spindle
was made to revolve by means of a band connecting
it with a large wheel. Notwithstanding the facilities
for manufacturing yarn at the present day, it is still
occasionally used in many families. The only im-
provement in it is the " patent head," which is merely
the addition of an intervening wheel between the large
one and the spindle.
Looms. — The old-fashioned loom, more costly than
the spinning-wheel, was not so common. The shuttle
was thrown through the warp with the hand. The
fly-shuttle, introduced about the year 1812 or 1815,
was considered a great improvement.
Home-made Clothing. — By means of the spinning-
wheel and the loom, the inhabitants were able to pro-
vide themselves with woollen garments. The fleece
was made into rolls by the tedious process of carding
by hand. By the industrious housewife the rolls were
spun on the large wheel, which in winter was brought
up before the kitchen fire, — the only fire in the house,
except when there was company. The yarn was then
woven, and the cloth taken to the clothier, dressed and
returned, having been dyed Holland-brown or smoke-
color. Cloth for striped frocks, and for some other
purposes, was made and worn without being sent to
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the fulling-mill. A tailoress was commonly employed
to cut and sometimes to baste the garments, which
were subsequently made by the wife and daughters.
The foot-wheel converted into linen the flax which
was raised on the farm. Winter evenings, when there
were not more pressing duties, were spent by the
females around a rousing wood-fire, in knitting stock-
ings, mittens, and leggins, from home-made yarn.
Thus was every family practically in favor of domestic
manufactures.
Fulling Mills. — The first fulling-mill was built
on Crawford's River in 1799, by Micajah Gleason,
from Framingham, Mass. There have been four since,
though there are none now.
Carding Machines. — The first machine for carding
wool was built by Ebenezer Alden in 1806. # There
have been four, of which two are now in operation.
Factories. — In 1809, a cotton-factory was built on
the west side of St. George's River, just below the
Middle Bridge. Its operations were never very exten-
sive. The building was carried away by a freshet in
1832. The Farmers' Woollen Factory was built near
the Upper Bridge in 1814, and owned in shares of ten
dollars each. Wool was carded there as recently as
1843, though no cloth was dressed during the two or
three previous years. In 1843, William Gleason con-
verted into a woollen-factory the building which had
been used for a paper-mill at South Union.
Paper Mills. — Several years ago, the manufacture
of paper was carried on extensively. The water in
Crawford's River is peculiarly good for the purpose.
On this river, in 1810, was erected a paper-mill, which
was burnt in 1818. Another building was put up in
1819 ; but no paper was made there after 1837. Im-
mediately above the Middle Bridge was another paper-
mill, which was burnt early on the morning of June 11,
1843. The machinery, said to have cost $3,000, and
unwrought stock valued at more than $2,000, were
destroyed. The paper was saved. Insured at Wor-
cester, Mass.
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HO MANUFACTURES.
Tanneries. — Richard Cummings was the first per-
son who tanned hides. He abandoned the business
after a few years, and the people traded for leather
at Warren. In 1826, there were three tanneries;
one owned by Joseph Beckett, south-south-west of
the Methodist Meeting-house; another by Susman
Abrams, a Jew,1 a few rods below the Middle Bridge ;
and another on the east side of the St. George's above
the Upper Bridge. In 1840, there were four in town.
Potash. — Soon after the incorporation of the town,
Edward Jones made potash, in small quantities, near
the Lower Bridge. For several years in the early part
of the nineteenth century, Ebenezer Alden manufac-
tured five or six tons annually in a building which he
erected for the purpose, on a rivulet at the brow of
the hill east of Seven Brook, on the south side of the
road.
1 Susman Abrams was from Hamburg. In early life he travelled as
a pedler, and traded in old clothes. To save expense, he lived on bread
and butter, carrying his butter with him in a covered pewter porringer.
It is supposed he fled for some misdemeanor, embarked on board a
vessel, and was concerned in the sinking of it. After a residence in
Waldoborough, and subsequently in Thomaston, he came to Union.
Here he carried on the business of coopering and tanning. He was
never very successful in the accumulation of property. His accounts
were always kept in the Hebrew characters, and were read from the right
to the left. Not being able, as he said, to translate from the Hebrew
into our language, he first translated into the German, and then from
the German into the English. He was very observant of his written
or printed prayers ; but in his conduct there was much of the incon-
sistency which was laid to the charge of the Jews by our Saviour. On
one occasion a Jew came to keep the Passover with him. The iron
vessels, before being used, were heated red hot, that no leaven might
by any possibility remain attached to them. Being very fond of eels,
Abrams allowed his appetite to get the better of his religious scruples,
and ate a hearty meal, to the great horror of his brother Jew, from
whom he received a very severe rebuke for the unrighteous deed.
Although he professed faith in Judaism only, and not in Christianity,
he was a constant attendant on public worship. On Saturday, which
is the Jewish sabbath, he abstained from hard labor, but took occa-
sion to ride about and transact business. Not recognizing any obli-
gation to keep sacredly the first day of the week, he often worked in
secret at his tan-yard, and once fell into a vat and was nearly
drowned. He was never much liked by the men, and was generally
hated by the women. Nov. 29, 1810, he was married to the widow
Mary Jones, of Friendship. He died, without issue, Oct. 6, 1830 ;
aged, it is supposed, about eighty-seven years.
TEADE. Ill
Iron Works. — In June, 1843, an iron-foundery was
established at South Union. Here "are made all
kinds of country castings." In August, 1844, busi-
ness was commenced in the edge-tool factory of
Vaughan and Pardoe. Nearly four thousand axes
are made annually; also ship-tools to the value of
about $1,500, and cooper's tools to about the same
amount. March 12, 1850, J. Vaughan and Co. com-
menced business in their shovel-factory. The manu-
factures at all these establishments are regarded as of
a very superior quality ; as well as the tool-work
of Bradley R. Mowry, at the Middle Bridge.
Fossetts' Mills. — The most extensive mill esta-
blishment was the Fossetts', at North Union. It was
completed in December, 1848, at an expense of about
$10,000. Under one roof were a saw-mill, a grist-
mill with " three run of stones," besides a corn-cracker,
stave-machine, shingle-machine, lath-machine, thresh-
ing-machine, cleanser, and bolt, — all carried by steam.
They were destroyed by fire, June 21, 1850.
TRADE.
Stores. — • Brotherton Daggett says, that, though
there had been a store on St. George's River, there was
not any when he came in 1789. Edward Jones, near
the Lower Bridge, afterward kept a few articles, which
were mostly bartered for ashes. It was the largest
collection which had been brought to Union for sale.
In 1801, Ebenezer Alden sold goods at his dwelling-
house. He put up a frame near his potash, and
boarded it. John Little bought it, moved it to the
Common, clapboarded it, and finished the interior in
1802, and furnished it. The building is now occupied
as a store by Asa Messer and Israel Hills, the second
story having been added. Ebenezer Alden and Na-
thaniel Robbins formed a partnership in the fall of
1803. Afterward came Mallard and Chase ; and sub-
sequently, from Spencer, Mass. came Charles Pope and
"William Pope. Major Robert Foster, upon moving
into town from Newburyport or the vicinity, during
112 MANUFACTURES AND TRADE.
the war of 1812, opened a store at South Union, on the
place now owned by Joseph Vaughan. It was the only
store in town at the time. Not long afterwards, Alden
and Robbins had separate stores. There have been
several others since that time, some in the remote
parts of the town. In 1840 there were six, in 1843
there were eight, and in 1849 twelve stores. Barter is
carried on extensively by the storekeepers. The inha-
bitants sell to them produce ; and much more business
is done than is common in country towns which are not
larger. As Thomaston and Rockland are extensively
engaged in making lime, the farmers find there a good
market for every thing which they raise, though not
unfrequently the agricultural produce and the meat are
carried to Belfast; and the storekeepers sell butter,
cheese, &c. at Boston.
Carting Goods to Boston. — During the war of
1812, when the British had possession of all the
United States territory east of Penobscot River, many
goods were carted from Hampden and Frankfort to
Boston by residents in Warren and the vicinity. Isaac
Hills and John Burkett, of Union, engaged in this
business in 1814 and 1815. One load, previously con-
tracted for, was carried from Union to Boston, after the
arrival of the news of peace. Duties were high. A
man on the British side of the Penobscot, according
to an agreement previously made, sent goods to
another on the American side. A third person seized
them as smuggled property, and had them prized.
The person to whom they were sent then gave bonds
for the whole amount for which they were prized, sent
them to Boston, and paid the bonds, the amount of
which was less than the duties would have been. The
journey to and from Boston required about two
months, and travelling fifteen miles was considered a
good day's work. A load generally contained two and
a half tons. It was drawn by six oxen, for eighty dol-
lars a ton, in wagons covered with boards.
Canals. — To facilitate trade, an Act was passed
March 9, 1793, authorizing Charles Barrett, within six
CANALS. 113
years, to cut a canal from Barretts Town, beginning
"twenty-five miles above the head of the tide in
George's River, ... to communicate with the sea at the
mouth of said river," and, with his heirs and assigns,
to "have the exclusive right of making locks and
canals upon the said river," for seventy years ; " pro-
vided," &c. The toll was one shilling and sixpence for
every ton "transported in boats or other vessels
through the locks and canals at the Upper Falls in
said river, at the mouth of Senebec Pond," or
"through the locks and canals by the Lower Falls
in said George's River, near the head of the tide."
The same toll was to be levied " for every thousand
feet of boards, and in the same proportion for plank
and square timber, and every other species of lumber,
whether transported on rafts or otherwise." Every
boat or other vessel, not loaded, was to " pay at the
rate of one shilling for every ton weight it was capa-
ble of conveying."
The canal was opened only from Round Pond.
General Knox, of Thomaston, became the principal or
sole owner before it was completed. Its construction,
during part of the time at least, was superintended by
a French engineer, sent by him from Philadelphia. It
was used for several years ; but the great profits ex-
pected from it were not realized. Before the general's
death in 1806, it was neglected ; and any one who went
down the river with lumber, on applying to the lock-
keeper, was told to " lock " it himself. A petition for
doubling the toll was presented to the Legislature. It
was dated at Union, May 21, 1802, and signed by
Amos Barrett, Ebenezer Alden, John Dickey, Robert
Dickey, Eleazar Dickey, Nathan Blake, Amariah Mero,
Nathaniel Robbins, Josiah Robbins, Edward Jones,
and Ichabod Maddocks. Still the canal continued to
be unprofitable, and was allowed to go to decay.
The population of the towns on the St. George's
having increased, another canal, in 1846, was laid out
from Thomaston to Seafsmont. It was urged that
there would be a good dividend from the tolls for
114 MUNICIPAL HISTOHY.
produce and kiln-wood. The opening of it to Sunny-
bee Pond was noticed in the " Thomaston Recorder,"
immediately after its completion in the fall of 1847.
It has already been leased for several years. A steam-
boat has been on the canal, and once went into Sun-
nybec Pond.
CHAPTER XV.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
Town Meetings. — Notifications. — Places of holding them. — Town
Officers. — Oath of Office in 1787. — Town Clerks. — Selectmen. —
Assessors. — Constables. — Collectors. — Treasurers. — Tithing-
men. — Pish Wardens.
TOWN-MEETINGS.
Notifications. — The inhabitants, at different times,
have voted that the notifications for town-meet-
ings1 should be posted up at private dwelling-houses,
1 The earliest record of the mode of notifying the inhabitants is
dated April 2, 1787 ; when it was " voted that the constable should
set up two notifications, one at Mr. Joel Adams's and the other at
Mr. Philip Bobbins' s, and that should be sufficient notice to warn town-
meetings." In 1789, one notice was to be " set up at Mr. Joel Adams's,
and the other at Mr. Woodcock's grist-mill." In 1796, they were to be
posted up " in the most public places in town, and where meetings are
held on Sundays, when there is any." April 2, 1798, " on the front of
the meeting-house twelve days prior to the day the meeting is to be."
This mode was continued till 1805, when they were to "be posted up in
Messrs. Alden and Robbins's store." In 1806, on the meeting-house ;
besides which, in 1807, there was to be one "at Jason Ware's, or
where the Methodist meeting is held ; also one at James [Rice's] seven
days prior to the meeting." In 1808, the third notice wTas to be at
Starrett's Mills, in what is now Washington. In 1811, at each of the
two meeting-houses; and, in 1817, an additional one at the school-
house near Sterling Davis's, ten days previous to the meeting. In
1818 at each of the two meeting-houses fourteen days, and in 1819
at each of the three meeting-houses twelve days, previously. In 1820,
notifications were to be put up two sabbaths before the meeting. In
1834, the places designated were the Methodist Meeting-house, John
Little's, John Lermond's grist-mill; and, in 1838, the Post Office,
Lermond's mills, and Fossett's store. In 1848, at the last three places,
TOWN-MEETINGS. 115
stores, mills, school-houses, meeting-houses, and the
post-offices. This has been done fourteen, twelve, or
ten days, or two sabbaths, before the meeting. Occa-
sionally the time has been only seven days for a noti-
fication sent to a remote part of the town.
Sometimes notices were added at the bottom of the
warrant : " Dec. 18, 1788. All those that have any de-
mands on the town, who are inhabitants, are desired
to bring in their accounts to the selectmen." " Oct. 4,
1790. The inhabitants are requested to bring a list of
all the children born in this town that are not recorded,
and also the deaths, so as the clerk may make a
record, as they will avoid the penalties in the law."
Places of Meeting. — The first meeting on record
was the plantation-meeting held at the log-house of
Philip Bobbins, June 12, 1786, in regard to an Act
of Incorporation. The first meeting after the incorpo-
ration was at the same place, Jan. 15, 1787, for organi-
zation and for the election of town-officers for the first
time. Here, too, March 5, 1787, was held the first
regular March meeting. The meetings were continued
at private houses till Aug. 29 and Oct. 26, 1791. On
these two days, they were in the school-house which
had been recently built near Moses Hawes's, after
which they were again held in private houses or
barns.1 The first time the meeting-house was used for
and at the Methodist Meeting-house ; and, in 1849, at the same places
as in 1848, with the addition of one at the East Union Post Office.
1 Town-meetings were also held as follows : — In Moses Hawes's
house, April 2, 13, 20, March 19, May 30, Nov. 19, 1787; March 8,
April 5, May 26, June 25, Oct. 4, 1790 ; March 7, April 4, May 23,
1791 ; April 1, Dec. 2, 1793 ; Nov. 3, 1794 ; March 2, 1795 ; also in
his barn, May 7, 1792. Rufus Gillmor's house, Sept. 4, 1789;
March 6, 1797 ; and in his barn, July 8, 1793 ; Feb. 1, 1799, the meet-
ing was adjourned from his house to the meeting-house. Richard
Cummings's house, Jan. 4, 1790. Philip Robbins's house, Nov. 5, 8,
12, 1790 ; Jan. 3, 10, 25, 1791. Jonathan Newhall's house, April 2,
1792. Capt. George West's house, Nov. 2, 1792 ; March 4, 1793 ;
March 3, April 7, 1794 ; Jan. 16, March 7, April 4, 1796. Edward
Jones's house, Sept. 1, 1794 ; April 6, 1795. Jo siah Robbins's, Nov. 7,
1796 ; Feb. 6, 1797 ; March 5, 1798. John Little's, Nov. 7, 1814,
where a moderator was chosen, and the meeting adjourned to a future
day at the meeting-house.
116 MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
the purpose was May 6, 1795. Here the town-meet-
ings were ordinarily held afterward. The inclemency
of the weather, however, the house not being warmed,
sometimes compelled the people to adjourn to dwell-
ing-houses ; and once, March 5, 1804, to the store of
Alden and Robbins. Feb. 6, 1809, Major Maxcy and
Mr. Pope, who were chosen moderators, having de-
clined serving, Nathaniel Uobbins consented to dis-
charge the duties, the town having " voted that Esq.
Robbins have leave to wear his hat." March 2, 1812,
an unsuccessful attempt was made to have the town-
meetings held half the time at the Methodist Meeting-
house. April 2, 1838, was the last day of assembling
for town-business in the Old Meeting-house. The
next meeting, held Sept. 10, 1838, was in the Metho-
dist Meeting-house, when it was " left with the select-
men to procure a suitable place." Oct. 29, 1838, it
was in " Bachelder's new building, near his mill ; "
April 1, 1839, in "Ebenezer Cobb's new barn;" and
April 16, at the Methodist Meeting-house. The first
meeting in the Town House was April 6, 1840.
TOWN-OFFICERS.
Oath of Office. — April 13, 1787, a warrant was
issued for a meeting, in order to swear the officers
chosen at the annual meeting in the March preceding,
agreeably to an Act passed March 10, 1787. The
meeting was adjourned to April 20, when each of
the town-officers subscribed and took the following
oath of office : —
" 1 do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify,
and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is,
and of right ought to be, a free, sovereign, and independent
State ; and I do swear that I will hear true faith and allegi-
ance to the said Commonwealth, and I will defend the same
against traitorous conspiracies and all hostile attempts what-
soever ; and I do renounce and abjure all allegiance, subjec-
tion, and obedience to the king, queen, or government of
Great Britain (as the case may be), and every other foreign
power whatsoever ; and that no foreign prince, persons, pre-
TOWN-CLEKKS AND SELECTMEN. 117
late, state, or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction,
superiority, pre-eminence, authority, dispensing or other
power, in any matter, civil, ecclesiastical, or spiritual, within
this Commonwealth ; except the authority and power which is
or may he vested by their constituents in the Congress of the
United States ; and I do further testify and declare, that no
man or hody of men hath or can have any right to absolve or
discharge me from the obligation of this oath, declaration,
or affirmation ; and that I do make this acknowledgment,
profession, testimony, declaration, denial, renunciation, and
abjuration, heartily and truly, according to the common
meaning and acceptation of the foregoing words, without
any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation what-
soever. So help me God."
TOWN-CLEUKS.
Moses Hawes, as plantation-clerk, signed the war-
rant for the plantation-meeting, June 12, 1786. At
that meeting he was again elected plantation-clerk;
and, Jan. 15, 1787, town-clerk. From that time the
office has been held as follows : —
1823-1828. Henry True.
1829-1830. Nathl. Robbins.
1831-1836. Jno. Bachelder.
1837-1846. Cyrus G. Bach-
elder.
1846 (June 8)-1850. Zuing-
lius Collins.
1851. Andrew Libbey.
1787-1793. Moses Hawes.
1794-1802. Edward Jones.
1803-1806. Stephen March.
1807. Edward Jones.
1808. Jona. Sibley.
1809-1811. Nathl. Robbins.
1812. John Little.
1813-1822. Nathl. Robbins.
SELECTMEN.
1787. Jan. 15. Philip Robbins, Joel Adams, Jason Ware.
1787. March 5. Philip Robbins, Joel Adams (in whose place
was chosen, April 13, Jason Ware), Ezra Bowen.
1788. Josiah Robbins, Jason Ware, Joel Adams.
1789. Jason Ware, Josiah Robbins, Joel Adams.
1790. Jason Ware, Josiah Robbins, Moses Hawes.
1791. Joel Adams, Joseph Guild, Samuel Daggett.
1792. Joel Adams, Amariah Mero, Joseph Maxey.
1793. Amariah Mero, Moses Hawes, Josiah Maxcy.
1794. Amariah Mero, Josiah Maxcy, Jason Ware*
11
118 MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
1795. Edward Jones, Ebenezer Jennison, Joel Adams.
1796. Amariah Mero, Edward Jones, Joel Adams.
1797. Amariah Mero, Edward Jones, Joel Adams.
1798. Edward Jones, Rufus Gillmor, Joel Adams.
1799. Rufus Gillmor, Ebenezer Jennison, Josiah Maxcy.
1800. Edward Jones, Rufus Gillmor, Josiah Maxcy.
1801. Moses Hawes, Joseph Maxcy, Thomas Mitchell.
1802. Joseph Maxcy, Edward Jones, Rufus Gillmor.
1803. Joseph Maxcy, Rufus Gillmor, Nathan Blake.
1804. Joseph Maxcy, Rufus Gillmor, Joseph Morse.
1805. Rufus Gillmor, Joseph Morse, Nathaniel Robbins,
1806. Joseph Maxcy, Nathaniel Robbins, Joseph Morse.
1807. Joseph Morse, Matthias Hawes, Marlboro' Packard.
1808. Joseph Morse, Matthias Hawes, Marlboro' Packard.
1809. Nathaniel Bachelor, Joel Adams, William Hart.
1810. Nathaniel Bachelor, Nathan Blake, Joel Adams.
1811. Nathaniel Robbins, John Lermond, Joel Adams.
1812. John Lermond, Joseph Morse, Matthias Hawes.
1813. John Lermond, Joseph Morse, Micajah Gleason.
1814. John Lermond, Joseph Morse, Micajah Gleason.
1815. Nathl. Bachelor, Micajah Gleason, Nathan Daniels.
1816. Nathl. Bachelor, Micajah Gleason, John Lermond.
1817. Micajah Gleason, John Lermond, Thomas Mitchell.
1818. Micajah Gleason, John Lermond, John W. Lindley.
1819. Micajah Gleason, John Lermond, John W. Lindley.
1820. Micajah Gleason, John Lermond, John W. Lindley.
1821. Micajah Gleason, John Lermond, John W. Lindley.
1822. John W. Lindley, Herman Hawes, James Littlehale.
1823. John W. Lindley, John Lermond, Herman Hawes.
1824. John Lermond, John "W. Lindley, Joseph Morse.
1825. John Lermond, Nathaniel Robbins, Noah Rice.
1826. John Lermond, Nathaniel Robbins, Noah Rice.
1827. John Lermond, Nathaniel Robbins, Samuel Stone.
1828. John Lermond, Nathaniel Robbins, Samuel Stone.
1829. John Lermond, Samuel Stone, Spencer Mero.
1830. John Lermond, Samuel Stone, Herman Hawes.
1831. Herman Hawes, Samuel Stone, John Payson.
1832. Herman Hawes, John Lermond, Peter Adams.
1833. Herman Hawes, Peter Adams, James Littlehale.
1834. John Lermond, Peter Adams, John W. Lindley.
1835. John Lermond, John W. Lindley, Jonathan Carriel.
1836. J. W. Lindley, Jonathan Carriel, Phillips C. Harding.
1837. J. W. Lindley, Phillips C. Harding, Nath. Bachelder.
ASSESSORS. 119
1838. John Lermond, Peter Adams, Phillips C. Harding.
1839. Peter Adams, John W. Lindley, Willard Robbins.
1840. John W. Lindley, Willard Robbins, Wm. Coggan.
1841. John W. Lindley, John Pay son, Nathan Hills.
1842. John W. Lindley, Ebenezer Blunt, Willard Robbins.
1843. Ebenezer Blunt, Phillips C. Harding, Wm. G. Hawes.
1844. Ebenezer Blunt, Phillips C. Harding, Wm. G. Hawes.
1845. P. C. Harding, George Cummings, Jo. M. Gleason.
1846. Ebenezer Blunt, Geo. Cummings, Elbridge Lermond.
1847. Ebenezer Blunt, Geo. Cummings, Elbridge Lermond.
1848. Ebenezer Blunt, Wm. G. Hawes, Elbridge Lermond.
1849. William G. Hawes, Elbridge Lermond, Wm. Coggan.
1850. Ebenezer Blunt, William G. Hawes, John Lermond.
1851. Ebenezer Blunt, William G. Hawes, John Lermond.
Selectmen's Compensation. — April 4, 1791, " Vo-
ted the selectmen's work may be allowed as highway-
work that is done in laying out roads the year
ensuing." With this exception, there is no record of
the compensation to the selectmen till " April 5, 1802 :
allowed Thomas Mitchell, $5.50 ; Capt. Joseph Maxcy,
$4; Moses Hawes, $12.84; all three for serving as
selectmen the year. . . . Voted the selectmen be al-
lowed one dollar a day." This compensation con-
tinues to the present time, the selectmen bearing their
own expenses when on duty.
ASSESSORS.
1786. Jason Ware, Josiah Rohhins, Samuel Hills.
1787. Jan. 15. Samuel Hills, Josiah Robbins, Jason Ware.
1788. Jason Ware, Josiah Robbins, Moses Hawes.
1789. The Selectmen.
1790. The Selectmen.
1791. Barnard Case, Josiah Robbins, Joseph Maxcy.
1792. The Selectmen.
1793. David Robbins, Jason Ware, Josiah Robbins.
1794. Moses Hawes, Samuel Hills, Joseph Maxcy.
1795. The Selectmen.
1796. Edward Jones, Joel Adams, Moses Hawes.
1797. Matthias Hawes, Josiah Maxcy, Edward Jones.
1798. Edward Jones, Waldron Stone, Christopher Butler.
1799. The Selectmen.
120 MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
1800. The Selectmen.
1801. Ebenezer Jennison, Josiah Robbins, Henry Blunt.
1802. Josiah Maxcy, John Tobey, Nathaniel Ilobbins.
1803. Nathaniel Robbins, Josiah Maxcy, Samuel Daggett.
1804. Nathaniel Robbins, Josiah Maxcy, Samuel Daggett.
1805. Josiah Maxcy, Samuel Daggett, Joel Adams.
1806. Josiah Maxcy, Nathan Daniels, Joel Adams.
1807. Josiah Maxcy, Samuel Daggett, Timothy Stewart.
1808. Josiah Maxcy, Edward Jones, Joel Adams.
1809. Josiah Maxcy, Ebenezer Alden, John W. Lindley.
1810. Simeon Butters, Timothy Stewart, Nathan Daniels,
Edward Jones.
1811. The Selectmen.
1812. John Little, Timothy Stewart, Spencer Walcott.
1813. Timothy Stewart, John W. Lindley, Herman Hawes.
1814. Spencer Walcott, Bailey More, Henry Blunt.
1815. Henry Blunt, Herman Hawes, John W. Lindley.
1816. Spencer Walcott, Thomas Mitchell, Nathl. Robbins.
1817. The Selectmen.
1818. Thomas Mitchell, Herman Hawes, William Boggs.
1819. Thomas Mitchell, Herman Hawes, Sterling Davis.
1820. Herman Hawes, Thomas Mitchell, John Butler 1st.
1821. Thos. Mitchell, John W. Lindley, John Butler 1st.
1822. Spencer Walcott, Samuel Stone, John Lermond.
1823. Thomas Mitchell, Spencer Mero, James Littlehale.
1824. Herman Hawes, Calvin Gleason, James Littlehale.
1825. Calvin Gleason, Ziba Simmons, James Littlehale.
1826. Calvin Gleason, James Littlehale, Ziba Simmons.
1827. James Littlehale, Calvin Gleason, Ziba Simmons.
1828. John W. Lindley, James Littlehale, Herman Hawes.
1829. James Littlehale, Calvin Gleason, Noah Bartlett.
1830. James Littlehale, Calvin Gleason, Noah Bartlett.
1831. Calvin Gleason, Sterling Davis, Ziba Simmons.
1832. Thomas Mitchell, James Littlehale, Ziba Simmons.
1833. Henry Blunt, Christopher Young, John W. Lindley.
1834. Thos. Mitchell, Phillips C. Harding, Herman Hawes.
1835. Phillips C. Harding, William Coggan, Nathan Hills.
1836. Phillips C. Harding,. William Coggan, Nathan Hills.
1837. The Selectmen.
1838. William Coggan, Nathan Hills, Sterling Davis, jun.
1839. Ebenezer W. Adams, Isley Martin, Jo. Vaughan, jun.
1840. John Gowen, Joseph Vaughan, Leonard Barnard.
1841. James Littlehale, Jo. M. Gleason, Stephen S. Hawes.
CONSTABLES. 121
1842. Joseph M. Gleason, Stephen S. Hawes, Elbridge Ler-
mond.
1843. Joseph M. Gleason, Stephen S. Hawes, Elbridge Ler-
mond.
1844. Joseph M. Gleason, Orson Cromett, Sterling Davis,
jun.
1845. Sterling Davis, jun., Cyrus Gowen, Elijah Vose.
1846. Willard Robbins, William Gleason, Nelson Cutler.
1847. The Selectmen.
1848. Moses Hawes, Sterling Davis, jun., Charles Fogler.
1849. Wm. G. Hawes, Elbridge Lermond, Wm. Coggan.
1850. Ebenezer Blunt, William G. Hawes, John Lermond.
1851. Ebenezer Blunt, William G. Hawes, John Lermond.
Assessors' Compensation. — The assessors have
commonly been chosen by ballot ; but sometimes, as
March 8, 1790, the town has voted that the selectmen
should be the assessors for the year.
The compensation has not been uniform. 1793,
April 1, " Voted, for making taxes, to Capt. Joel Ad-
ams, £1. 14s.; to Lieut. Maxcy, <£1. 4s.; to Amariah
Mero, £1. 12s." 1794, April 7, " Voted to allow Mr.
Jason Ware £1. 14s. for taking valuation and making
taxes." 1802, April 5, "Allowed the following accounts,
viz.: Josiah Robbins, $10.50; Henry Blunt, $7.50;
Ebenezer Jennison, $16.75; all for taking valuation
and making taxes the year passed." 1796, April 4,
" Voted the assessors have 83 cents a day for 1795
and 1796." In 1797 and 1798, the compensation was
$1.17 a day. In 1800 it was $1 a day, and so contin-
ued till 1847, when it was fixed at $1.25 ; but, in 1848,
it was again restored to $1 a day. No extra com-
pensation is allowed for board, lodging, or travel.
The assessors divide such expenses by entertaining
each other at their respective dwelling-houses, while
making the taxes.
CONSTABLES.
1787, Jan. 15. David Robbins.
1787, March 5, 1788. Ahij ah Hawes.
1789-90. Samuel Hills. — 1791-1802. Amariah Mero.
11*
122 MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
1803. Moses Hawes. — 1804-6. Amariah Mero.
1807. Spencer Walcott. — 1808. Jabez N. Mitchell.
1809. John Drake. — 1810. Thomas Mitchell, jun.
1811. Thomas Mitchell, jun., Eufus Gillmor.
1812. Thos. Mitchell, jun. — 1813-17. Eben. W. Adams.
1818-19. Rufus Gillmor. — 1820. John Chapman Robbins.
1821. Herman Hawes. — 1822. Eufus Gillmor.
1823. Nathan D. llice. — 1824. Thomas Mitchell.
1825-28. Isaac Hills. — 1829. John Chapman Robbins.
1830. Samuel Daggett, jun. — 1831. Nathan Hills.
1832-33. Nelson Cutler. — 1833, Oct. 28. Wm. Caswell.
1834. Robert Thompson, jun. — 1835-39. Nathan Hills.
1840. Christopher Young, Nathan Hills, Thomas C. Fos-
sett, Elbridge Lermond, Thurston Whiting.
1841. Nathan Hills, Thos. C. Fossett, Christopher Young.
1842. ElishaE. Rice.
1843. Christopher Young, Nathan Hills, Elisha E. Rice,
Thomas C. Fossett, Joseph M. Gleason, Robert
Thompson, jun.
1844. Christopher Young, Nathan Hills.
1845. Christopher Young, Nathan Hills, Ebenezer Blunt.
1846. Christopher Young, Nathan Hills, Ebenezer Blunt,
George Jones.
1847. Christopher Young, Ebenezer Blunt, Edward Hills,
Charles Fogler.
1848. Edward Hills, Christopher Young, Ebenezer Blunt.
1849. Edward Hills, William Caswell, Christopher Young,
Charles A. Hawes, Nathan Hills, J. W. Payson,
Samuel Haskell, Thomas C. Fossett.
1850. Edward Hills, William Caswell, Joseph M. Gleason,
Danford Blackington, Nathan Hills, William Glea-
son, Nathan Whiting, Christopher Young.
1851. Edw. Hills, Christopher Young, Joseph M. Gleason.
Constables' Compensation. < — May 20, 1799, it
was " voted to allow Amariah Mero eight dollars for
eight years' service as constable." April 5, 1802,
" Voted to allow the constable one dollar a year."
Oct, 28, 1833, « Voted to set up the office of consta-
ble to the highest bidder." It was taken by William
Caswell at five dollars and seventy-five cents. April 7,
1834, it was bid off by Robert Thompson, jun. at fif-
teen dollars.
COLLECTORS.
123
COLLECTORS
1786. David Robbins.
1787. Jan. 15. David Robbins.
1787. April 2. Joel Adams, at . .
1788. March 3. Richard Cummings
1788. April 7. Amariali Mero
1780. Ebenezer Jennison .
1790. Ebenezer Jennison .
1790. Nov. 8. Joel Adams
1791. David Itobbins . .
1792. Samuel Hills . . .
1793. Edward Jones . .
1794. Timothy Stewart1 .
1794. David Bobbins2
1795. Josiab Bobbins . .
1796. Richard Cummings .
1797. Richard Cummings .
1798. Thomas Mitchell .
1799. March 5. Edward Jones, who
was excused . .
1799. April 1. Nathaniel Robbins
1800. Thomas Mitchell .
1802. Spencer Walcott
1803. Spencer Walcott
1804. Jabez N. Mitchell .
1805. Spencer Walcott
1806. Jabez N. Mitchell .
1807. Josiah Robbins . .
1808. Jabez N. Mitchell .
1809. John Drake . . .
1810. Thomas Mitchell, jun.
1811. Thomas Mitchell, jun.
1812. Thomas Mitchell, jun.
1813. Ebenezer W. Adams
1814. Ebenezer W. Adams
1815. Ebenezer W. Adams
1816. Jeremiah Mitchell .
1817. Ebenezer W. Adams
1818. Rufus Gillmor . .
1819. Rufus Gillmor . .
0s. 6d.
0s. lOd.
0s. lOd.
t)s. lid.
Is. lOd.
2s. Od.
Is. lid.
Is. Od.
Is. 7d.
0s. 7d.
Is. lOd.
Is. 7d.
Is. Od.
Is. 4d.
Is. 4d.
Is. 4d.
Is. 8d.
Is. 4d.3
Os. 8d.3
8 cents
2c. 5m.
8c. 0m.
8c. 0m.
7c. 5m.
8c. 0m.
7c. 0m.
10c. 0m.
3c. 0m.
5c. 9m.
6c. 8m.
6c. 9m.
5c. 9m.
7c. 0m.
lc. 9m.
2c. 5m.
2c. 5m.
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound.
per pound,
per pound.
3 per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per dollar,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per dollar,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per pound,
per dollar,
per dollar,
per dollar.
For the inhabitants. 2 For non-residents. 3 Lawful money,
124
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
1820. John Chapman Robbins
1821. Herman Hawes .
1822. Herman Hawes .
1823. Nathan D. Rice .
1824. Thomas Mitchell
1825. Isaac Hills . .
1826. Isaac Hills . .
1827. Isaac Hills . .
1828. Isaac Hills . .
1829. John C. Robbins (April 6)
1829. Saml. Daggett, jun. (Sept. 14)
1830. Samuel Daggett, jun,
1831. Nathan Hills, giving for the
privilege
1832. Nelson Cutler .
1833. Nelson Cutler .
1834. The Treasurer .
1835. Nathan Hills. .
1836. Nathan Hills. .
1837. Nathan Hills, giving
1838. Nathan Hills. .
1839. Nathan Hills, giving
1840. Nathan Hills. .
1841. The Treasurer .
1842. Elisha E. Rice .
1843. Ebenezer Cobb .
1844. Ebenezer Cobb .
1845. Ebenezer Blunt .
1846. Ebenezer Blunt .
1847. Ebenezer Blunt .
1848. Ebenezer Blunt .
1849. Joseph M. Gleason
1850. Joseph M. Gleason
1851. Joseph M. Gleason
3c. 0m. per dollar.
2c. 5m. per dollar.
3c. 0m. per dollar.
2c. 8m. per dollar.
2c. 7m. per dollar.
2c. 5m. per dollar,
lc. 9m. per dollar.
2c. 9m. per dollar.
2c. 9m. per dollar,
lc. 0m. per dollar.
2c. 8m. per dollar.
Oc. 9m. per dollar.
4m. per dollar.
0m. per dollar.
8m. per dollar.
(no record.)
vv,. 4m. j>er dollar.
0c. 5m. per dollar.
0c. 1-jQ-m. per dollar.
0c. 9m. per dollar.
0c. 7m. per dollar.
0c. lm. per dollar.
(no record.)
(no record.)
5m. per dollar.
5m. per dollar.
0m. per dollar.
0m. per dollar.
5m. per dollar.
5m. per dollar.
5m. per dollar.
5m. per dollar.
5m. per dollar.
0c.
lc.
0c.
0c.
0c
lc.
lc.
lc.
lc.
lc.
lc.
lc.
lc.
lc.
Collectors' Compensation. — Against the preced-
ing names are placed the terms on which the taxes
were collected in the different years. The office has
generally been " set up at vendue," and undertaken by
the lowest bidder. The first record of this proceeding
is dated April 2, 1787; and the assessors were in
structed " to add sixpence a pound on the next tax
- 5?
COLLECTORS.
125
this being the rate at which the collecting was under-
taken. In 1846 and since, a collector has been regu-
larly chosen, the terms on which he would undertake
the business being understood before his election.
If a collector fails to procure satisfactory bondsmen,
or to do the duty, or resigns, a substitute is chosen.
Nov. 3, 1794, it was voted to allow to John Butler
Is. 6d. on the pound for collecting No. 3 tax ; and an
order of the same date was accordingly issued to pay
him £4. Os. 4d. The No. 3 tax was the one for the
third year from the incorporation of the town, and
Butler may have discharged part of the duty of col-
lecting it.
The collector is held accountable for the whole
amount of the taxes committed to him, whether they
are against responsible persons or not. The risk he
thus assumes is not great. A very poor person is sel*
dom taxed, lest he should thus gain a residence in the
town, and the people become liable for his support
If, after reasonable efforts, it is considered impractica-
ble to collect any one's tax, the amount is remitted by
an act of the town1 in town-meeting, and thus the
collector's liability ceases. But it must be apparent
that the collector has made reasonable exertion to ob-
tain it. Jan. 4, 1790, an article was brought forward
" to see if the town will allow John Butler such taxes
as he cannot collect on the tax-bills committed to him
to collect, for the reasons that he can produce ; " but
" the town voted that they supposed he had not tried
sufficiently."
The rates for collecting taxes sometimes have de-
pended in part on the additional duties or privileges of
the collectors. In 1839, it was voted that the person
who "bid them off" should "have the constable's
berth." In April, 1843, a vote was passed to choose a
collector by ballot; but it was immediately recon-
1 April 6, 1829, when the subject of abatement of taxes came
before the town, it was " yoted that the selectmen should abate such
taxes as they might think proper."
126
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
sidered, and the selectmen were instructed to receive
proposals and report at an adjourned meeting. At the
adjourned meeting, it was " voted that the collection
of taxes be put up at auction to the lowest bidder, he
having the privilege of being constable, and doing the
business of the town gratis."
TREASUREKS.
1787-95.
Matthias Hawes.
1834-
-35.
Nathl. Robbins.
1795-1800. Jason Ware.
1836.
Amos Drake.
1801-10.
Levi Morse.
1837.
Ebenezer Cobb.
1811-18.
Spencer Walcott.
1838-
-43.
Amos Drake.
1819-28.
Ebenezer Alden.
1844.
Bradley R. Mow-
1829-31.
Danl. F. Harding.
ry.
1832.
Nathl. Robbins.
1845-
-50.
Elijah Vose.
1833.
John Little.
1851.
Spencer Walcott
The name of the town-treasurer for 1792 and 1793
is not on record; but it was undoubtedly Matthias
Hawes. He was regularly elected also in 1795, but
soon declined, and was succeeded by Jason Ware,
May 6, 1795.
Treasurer's Compensation. — May 20, 1799, " Vo-
ted to allow Mr. Jason Ware twenty-four dollars for
four years' services as treasurer." April 5, 1802,
" Voted to allow the treasurer six dollars a year."
The same allowance was made in 1804 and 1805, and
has been continued to the present time.
TITHINGMEN.
1787. John Butler. — 1788. Samuel Hills.
1789. Amos Lawrence. — 1790. David Woodcock.
1791. Jason Ware. — 1792. Richard Cummings.
1793. Christopher Butler, Seth Luce.
1794. George West, Bailey Grinnell.
1795. George West, Edward Jones.
1796. Jessa Bobbins, Levi Morse.
1797. Bailey Grinnell, Joseph Butler.
1798. David Snell, Thomas Daggett.
1799. Christopher Butler, Matthias Hawes.
1800. Matthias Hawes, Christopher Butler.
TITHINGMEN. 127
1801. Jason Ware, Rufus Dyer.
1802. Matthias Hawes, Jason Ware.
1803. Rufus Dyer, Daniel Walker.
1804. Joel Adams, Abel Walker. — 1805. Amos Walker.
1806. Danl. Walker. — 1807. Danl. Walker, Abel Walker.
1808. Jessa Robbins, Samuel Daggett.
1809. (March) David Robbins, Wm. Boggs, Edward Jones.
1809. (April) Joel Adams, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel Hills.
1810. George Bowes, Israel Leavitt.
1811. Jason Ware, Christopher Butler, Abijah Hawes.
1812. Samuel Hills 1st, Thaddeus Luce, Jessa Robbins.
1813. Simeon Butters, Jessa Robbins.
1814. Solomon Hewes, Susman Abrams.
1815. Jonathan Carriel, Solomon Hewes, Simeon Butters,
Joseph Morse, Samuel Hills, Richard Cummings,
Aaron Young, George Wellington, Jacob Ring,
Abel Walker, Thomas Mitchell, and Zebulon Sar-
gent. The latter chosen May 8, in the place of
Otis Bills, excused.
1816. Sterling Davis, Simon Fuller, Spencer Walcott, not
sworn; Abijah Hawes, Jessa Robbins, Solomon
Hewes, Cornelius Irish, Amos Walker, Simeon
Butters, Jeremiah Stubbs, John Butler 1st, Benja-
min Walker, Samuel Hills, sworn.
1817. Cornelius Irish, Samuel Hills 1st, Simon Fuller,
Jessa Robbins, Calvin Gleason, Thaddeus Luce,
Abijah Hawes.
1818. Jessa Robbins, Daniel Walker, Joel Adams.
1819. Daniel Walker, Bela Robbins, Simeon Butters.
1820. Daniel Walker, John Walker, Abel Walker.
1821. Samuel Hills, Simeon Butters.
1822. John Kieff, Simeon Butters, Phinehas Butler.
1823. Daniel Walker, Simeon Butters.
1824. Daniel Walker, Simon Fuller, John Butler.
1825. Daniel F. Harding, James Maxfield, Abel Walker.
1826. Edward Brown, John Hemenway, Reuben Hills.
1827. Zaccheus Litchfield, Roland Cobb, James St. Clair.
1828. Johnson Pilsbury, James Maxfield.
1829-41. (No record.)
1842. Joseph Irish, Obadiah Harris, Prince Luce.
1843. Robt. Thompson, jun.,ElishaE. Rice, Nath. Whitney.
1844. George W. Butler, David Hill, Ebenezer W. Adams.
1845. Nathan Whitney, Walter Blake, Nathan Hills, jun.
128 MUNICIPAL HISTOBY.
1846. Horace Titus, Walter Blake, Nathan Hills 2d.
1847. Abel Walker, William Shepard, Oren O. Stewart,
Thaddeus Luce, Nathan Walker.
1848. Abel Walker, William A. Thayer, Samuel Bowker,
Isley Martin, Charles Kahler.
1849. Obadiah Harris, William Caswell, Calvin Boggs,
Nathan D. Bice.
1850. William Shepard, Hugh Gordon, George M. Fossett,
James Davis, David Blackington.
1851. Hugh Gordon, Ebenezer W. Adams, Nathan Whit-
ney, Samuel Howland.
In 1815, the law for prosecuting violators of the
Lord's Day was vigorously enforced. As the com-
plainant was entitled to one-half of the fine, it is not
to be supposed that he was always indifferent about
the fee, or that he was actuated solely by a desire to
check the profanation of the day.
On one occasion, a teamster, who had been carting
goods to Boston, arrived at Waldoborough on Satur-
day. Being very unwilling to spend Sunday on the
road, he took his departure about midnight for his
home in Union. One of his oxen was thus over-
tasked, and he was delayed. For this delinquency he
was complained of by a vigilant tithingman, whose
house he was obliged to pass, and was fined.
On another occasion, a citizen of Boston, having
heard of the dangerous illness of an intimate friend,
was hastening home, and tarried at the tavern over-
night. He rose very early on Sunday morning, and
quietly departed with his family in his carriage, while
many of the neighbors were yet asleep. But his de-
parture did not escape the vigilance of a tithingman,
who entered a complaint, though he did not himself
see him.
All persons were permitted to enter complaints ; and
sometimes ill-will was gratified. A young man went
to spend the Lord's Day with a relative, whose nearest
neighbor he disliked. During the day, the neighbor
went into the field to look at his cattle or sheep. Ac-
cordingly, on Monday, a complaint was entered against
FISH-WARDENS. 129
him for violating the Lord's Day. There were similar
proceedings in other towns. They show the practical
operation of the law.
FISH-WARDENS.
1787. David Robbins, Amariah Mero, John Butler.
1788. Royal Grinnell, John Butler, David Robbins.
1789. Jessa Robbins, Amariah Mero, Royal Grinnell.
1790. David Woodcock, Josiah Robbins, Philip Robbins.
1791. John M. Wight, Samuel Hills, Thomas Daggett, jun.
Levi Morse, David Robbins.
1793. Edward Jones, David Robbins, Christopher Butler,
Samuel Hills, Levi Morse.
1 794. David Robbins, Josiah Hart, William Hart.
1795. Rufus Gillmor, Philip Robbins, Jessa Robbins, Chris-
topher Butler, Josiah Maxcy.
1796. Royal Grinnell^athaniel Robbins, Christopher But-
ler, David Robbins.
1797. David Robbins, Christopher Butler, Moses Hawes,
David Gillmor, Rufus Gillmor.
1798. Olney Titus, Josiah Maxcy, Christopner Butler,
David Gillmor, Nathaniel Robbins.
1799. David Robbins, David Gillmor, Thomas Nye, Jere-
miah Mitchell, Matthias Hawes.
1800. Thomas Nye, Rufus Dyer, Olney Titus, George
Washington West, Royal Grinnell.
1801. David Gillmor, Edward Jones, Nathaniel Robbins,
Matthias Hawes, Thomas Nye.
1802. Olney Titus, Rufus Dyer, Edward Jones, Edward
Oakes, Jesse Rogers.
1803. A. Mero, John Butler, Nich. Smith, Tho. Nye, R. Gill-
mor ; April 4, Ruftis Dyer, in the place of T. Nye.
1804. Abel Walker, Royal Grinnell, Nicholas Smith, John
Clark, Benjamin Eastman.
1805. David Robbins, John Clark, Calvin Morse.
1806. Jonathan Daggett, Ezekiel Hagar, Amos Barrett.
1807. Spencer Walcott, Thomas Nye, Christopher Butler,
David Robbins, Royal Grinnell.
1808. Edward Jones, William Hart, James Rice, Nathan
D. Rice, Richard Grinnell.
1809. Timothy Stewart, Thomas Nye, Zelotes Tucker.
1823. Eben. W. Adams, John Butler 1st, Phinehas Butler.
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130 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER XVI.
TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
First Burial Place. — Old Burying Ground. — First Private Burying
Ground. — Second Private Burying Ground. — East Union Bury-
ing Ground. — Hearses. — Common. — Pound. — Town House.
BURIAL-PLACES.
First Burial Place. — Fourteen1 persons were buried
in David Robbins's field, on the point of land which
juts into the west side of Seven-tree Pond. The only
adults were Elisha Partridge and Jessa Robbins's first
wife.
Old Burying Ground. — "Who owns the Old Bury-
ing Ground? This question is often asked, and from
the town-records will now be given all the information
respecting'it which they contain.
Nov. 8, 1790, Matthias Hawes, Ezra Bowen, and
David Woodcock, were chosen a committee " to look
outNa plat of ground and procure the same for a bury-
ing-plaee," and "to settle with David Bobbins in
regard of the inhabitants that had been buried on his
land." David Woodcock2 died Dec. 9, and was the
first person buried in the Old Burying Ground.
March 7, 1791, the "report of the [other members of
the] Committee on the spot for a burying-place at the
north end of the spot for the meeting-house," was ac-
cepted by the town. At the same time it was " voted
that .Mr. Philip Bobbins shall clear and improve the
1 N. P. Hawes's MS.
» Mr. Woodcock lived at South Union. The road around the head
of Seven-tree Pond was so bad that it was hardly passable. The pond
was frozen so as to prevent crossing with boats, and yet the ice was
not thick. The funeral procession went to the pond ; and the people,
two by two, passed along on the margin very near the shore, at great
distances from each other, lest the cracking ice should give way be-
neath their feet.
OLD BURYING-GROUND. 131
spot for a burying-place, till it be subdued according to
his proposal." Aug. 29, 1791, " Chose two sextons
to attend the graveyard, viz. Rufus Gillmor and
Nathaniel Robbins." It was expected that the meet-
ing-house would be erected near the place selected for
burials. When it was determined to build the house
on the Common, the inhabitants continued to bury
where there had already been several interments.
There is no other record on the subject till Jan. 16,
1796, when it was voted to fence the burying-ground
and measure it, — a vote which was reconsidered
April 4. May 20, 1799, Rufus Gillmor, for twenty-
five dollars, agreed to put round it " a good five-rail
fence, with a decent gate in the front," by the last of
June; and David Robbins, Amariah Mero, and
Thomas Mitchell, were chosen a committee to see
that it was done according to agreement. April 7,
1806, the selectmen were directed to fence it with
boards and pine-posts. April 4, 1808, upon an article
" to see if the town will request Mr. Robbins to pas-
ture the burying-ground with sheep and horses only,
or act and do any thing relative thereto," it was
" voted that the selectmen be a committee to contract
with some person or persons to fence" it, and report
at the May meeting. In May, 1809, Amariah Mero
took at auction, for thirteen dollars, the job "to make
a new fence on the north side, . . . similar to that now
standing by the road, and to have the remainder of the
old fence repaired well." The records make no further
mention of the subject till Sept. 10, 1827, when it was
" voted that the selectmen make or repair the fence
about the burying-ground, to the best advantage."
Nov. 7, 1836, " voted that the selectmen see that the
burying-ground near Willard Robbins's be fenced as
soon as may be for the interest of the town, and with
such materials as they may think most suitable."
There is no record of any purchase or agreement
respecting the land. It is doubtful if any record was
made. Mr. Robbins, the owner of the land, gave the
place to be used as a burying-ground ; it being under-
132 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
stood that the town should fence it, and that he should
pasture it with sheep or such cattle as would not in-
jure the graves or grave-stones. " The town," accord-
ing to the late Nathaniel Robbins, Esq. " has generally
been negligent about fencing it." In April, 1842,
William Gleason, Calvin Gleason, and Samuel Stone,
were chosen a committee to examine the condition of
the fence ; and, upon their making a report, Aug. 27,
it was " voted that the building of said fence be left
in the hands of the selectmen." Probably nothing
was done ; for, Sept. 29, 1845, the town voted to allow
" Willard Robbins's bill for repairs done on graveyard-
fence from 1834 to 1845."
At the meeting in April, 1842, when the subject of
the fence was brought forward, it was " voted that the
selectmen procure a deed of said ground in behalf of
the town." A deed was not obtained. Sept. 29, 1845,
when Willard Robbins's bill for repairs was allowed,
an article was brought forward " to see if the town
will allow any person to pasture the town burying-
ground ; " whereupon Walter Blake, Nathan Hills, and
Elijah Vose, were chosen a committee " to ascertain
what right, if any, the town had to said burying-
ground, and report at the next town-meeting." Their
report is not recorded. In July, 1846, Nathaniel, son
of Josiah Robbins, not knowing, and not being able to
ascertain from his father's deed, whether he had any
title to it or not, gave a quit-claim deed of the Old
Burying Ground to his son Willard.
The situation of this ground is very beautiful ; and
if trees, shrubbery, and flowers were planted, it would
be one of the most interesting spots in Union. Here,
too, is the only monument in town. It is of marble,
and was placed over the grave of Nathaniel Robbins,
Esq. Dec. 4, 1850, in memory of him and his wife
Lovey, who is buried by his side.
First Private Burying Ground. — The warrant
calling a town-meeting, July 4, 1820, contains an arti-
cle " to hear the report of the selectmen relative to
buying a piece of land for a burying-ground ; " and it
PRIVATE BURYING-GROUNDS. 133
was " voted that the selectmen be a standing com-
mittee, and make further report respecting the burying-
ground in the west part of the town." May 7, 1821,
the selectmen were authorized to purchase a piece of
land of Samuel Daggett, provided they could obtain a
sufficient quantity for a sum not exceeding twenty-five
dollars. The next mention of the subject bears date
April 5, 1830, when Calvin Gleason, Henry Fossett,
and Henry Blunt, were chosen a committee " to make
such inquiries as they think proper, as to purchasing a
piece of land for a burying-ground." The town voted
not to accept their report, which was made Sept. 13.
Individuals then took up the subject, and a justice's
warrant for incorporation was granted Nov. 22, 1830 ;
at which time ground was bought in the corner of the
field made by the two roads, about 100 rods north-east
of the present graveyard. The funeral of Mrs. Jane
Bryant, the only person buried here, was Jan. 14, 1831.
The ground was so wet that the coffin rose, and the
body was removed, April 16, 1831, to the present
burying-ground, which was purchased by a commit-
tee chosen Dec. 30, 1830, and was accepted Jan. 22,
1831. The burial of Mrs. Jonathan Morse was the
next. There were fourteen removals from other places,
most of them from the Old Burying Ground. Henry
Fossett, Ebenezer Blunt, Brotherton Daggett, and
Thomas Mitchell, had each of them one child, and Cal-
vin Gleason, Nahum Thurston, and John Tobey, had
each of them two children, reburied here. Beside
these were Jonathan Carriel ; also Philip Grinnell and
wife, who were removed from Liberty in 1834 ; and a
child of Nathan D. Rice, Nov. 18, 1835, which was
re-interred at the time he buried another. The records
were remarkably well kept, giving the ages, and also
the time of all the burials, by Samuel Daggett, the
sexton and clerk, till his decease in the fall of 1846.
Second Private Burying Ground.-— A justice's
warrant was issued Nov. 1, 1841, and a meeting held
and proprietors incorporated Nov. 8, at which time
may be dated the opening of the Second Private
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134 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
Burying Ground. The deed of the land probably is
of a later date. Formerly the spot was the northern
part of the Rev. Mr. True's orchard. In April, 1844,
the town voted to pay half the expense of building the
fence between it and the Old Burying Ground. It is
divided into family lots, cornered by marble posts. The
first person buried in it was David Cummings, who
died the 24th, and not, as the grave-stone states, the
17th of March, 1842. Several bodies in the Old Bury-
ing Ground were disinterred, and reburied here. Here
are the only tombs in the town. The first was built
in the north-east corner of the ground, in the autumn
of 1846, to be a temporary receiving tomb when the
ground is frozen. Before this time, graves were dug
during the winter. The first person whose remains
rested here temporarily was the wife of Dr. Jonathan
Sibley. A few weeks afterward, the tomb was again
opened to receive the remains of Mrs. Reed, who was
the second tenant, and who with the first was interred
in the spring of 1847. In the autumn of 1848, two
contiguous tombs were built by Ebenezer Alden and
John Little, who owned adjoining lots. Some of the
proprietors have ornamented their squares with trees.
East Union Burying Ground. — July 4, 1820,
John W. Lindley, Micajah Gleason, and Reuben Hills,
were chosen a committee " to examine and report on
the petition for a burying-ground in the east part of
the town." Nov. 6, the town accepted a report " to
purchase a piece of land of John Lermond at twenty-
five dollars an acre, and one dollar per rod for the wall
standing thereon." This land was about 100 rods, in
a north-easterly direction, from the present private
burying-ground, and near a large rock. Ephraim
Bowley and four (?) children were buried here ; but
the ground was so wet, that it was voted, Sept. 11,
1826, that " the treasurer be authorized to exchange,
deeds with John Lermond," for another spot " more
suitable." The spot obtained was north of this, on
the north side of the river, near the mills. Sept. 8,
1828, it was "voted that John Lermond build the
HEARSES.
135
fence, to the best advantage to the town." Several
persons were buried here; but the ground was so
rocky, that nearly all the inhabitants in the vicinity
united in purchasing the spot now known as the East
Union Private Burying Ground. The first burial in
this yard was of Sarah G. Collins, who died Feb. 27,
1846. As early as Aug. 17, 1846, sixteen bodies,
mostly from the second place selected, had been re-
interred. The ground is the property of individuals,
and divided into lots.
HEARSES.
For many years, the remains of the dead1 were
carried to the grave on biers, which were borne on
men's shoulders, sometimes two or three miles. There
were commonly eight bearers; four to relieve the
other four at short distances. Subsequently, when
horse-wagons came into use, the custom was intro-
duced of removing the body of a wagon, and " strap-
ping " or cording the coffin to the axle-trees. May 1,
1817, and Sept. 27, 1822, the selectmen were autho-
rized " to procure a good decent hearse for the use of
the town." There was none in town before this time.
Dec. 20, 1823, Abiel Gay, for $23.50, bid off the job of
building a hearse-house, sixteen feet by eight, and
seven feet high, and agreed to have it done to the ac-
ceptance of the selectmen in June. Sept. 13, 1824, it
was voted to purchase a pall, paint the hearse-house,
and repair the fence. April, 1845, P. C. Harding was
authorized to purchase two hearses, with palls for the
same, and to dispose of the old one. April, 1846, it
was voted that the town provide a hearse for the bury-
1 Of course, when there were but few families, a death was imme-
diately known by all in town. Now it is generally announced by the
bell Within a few hours after a death, the bell is rung m the usual
manner, — unless it be in the night, when the ringing is deferred
till the following morning. Then, for a male, the bell is struck three
strokes in rapid succession three times, there being between each
three strokes an interval of one two or minutes. For a female, it is
the same, except that the strokes are three times two. After this the
age is tolled, — one stroke for each year.
136 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
ing-ground at East Union. One for the First Private
Burying Ground was voted in May. In April, the
selectmen were authorized to purchase two harnesses
to accompany the hearses ; also, in May, another for
the hearse at the West Burying Ground.
COMMON.
The Common also has been a topic of much discus-
sion. The earliest record alluding to the subject bears
date April 5, 1790. " Voted that boars and rams shall
not have the liberty of going on the Common." Voted
that " hogs shall have liberty of going on the Common
at large."1 Jan. 16, 1796, Josiah Robbins, Timothy
Stewart, Amariah Mero, Samuel Hills, and David
Robbins, were chosen a committee " to apply to Da-
vid Gillmor for a deed of two acres for a meeting-
house lot, and to measure the same." There does not
seem to have been any action upon the subject im-
mediately ; for, Nov. 5, 1798, the town voted not to
accept the report of a committee chosen to lay out
the Common round the meeting-house, but " to have
the Common as surveyed by Mr. Waldron Stone."
It was somewhat rough at this time, as we may infer
from an article in the warrant for May 27, 1801, " to
see if the town will clear out the stumps and stone
out of the Common, so as it may be fit for training
1 Votes of a similar nature were frequently passed. Hogs were
privileged characters each year afterward till 1794. From 1794 to
1799, votes were annually passed that " swine be allowed to run at
large, being yoked and ringed as the law directs." With the excep-
tion of the year 1804, they have never since been allowed their lib-
erty, not even if subjected to the ignoble yoke on the neck and wire-
ring in the nose. Several movements have been made in their behalf;
but their friends have been so disconcerted in town-meetings at hav-
ing their articles always " dropped," that it is many years since they
have given up in despair all attempts to procure for them the rights and
privileges which they enjoy in some of the streets of large cities.
The general principle of choosing all men hog-reeves who have
been married in the course of the preceding year has not always pre-
vailed here. Unmarried persons have sometimes attained to the dis-
tinguished honor, though there is no record that the honor has been
conferred on any one since April 4, 1825, when it was " voted to
choose no hog-reeves."
THE COMMON. 137
for the town-soldiers." The same warrant contained
an article " to see if the town will accept of a deed
of land for a Common, for a training-field, from Mr.
David Gillmor." The town " voted the selectmen be
a committee to apply to Mr. David Gillmor for a deed
of the Common in the best manner they can get it
for the town, and to postpone the clearing until a deed
is procured."
April 4, 1808, upon an article to see if the town will
survey the Common, it was " voted that the selectmen
look up the deed of the Common, and put it on record
as soon as convenient." On the 2d of May following,
it was " voted that the selectmen survey the Common,
and compromise with Capt. [Rufus] Gillmor, and
David his brother, by giving up the old deed, and tak-
ing a new one on the terms proposed by Capt. Gillmor,
and get the deed recorded." Accordingly, the follow-
ing deed was obtained : —
"Know all men by these presents, that I, David Gill-
mor, of the Plantation No. Two, in the county of Hancock,
and State of Massachusetts, gentleman, in consideration of
one hundred dollars, well and truly paid by Nathaniel Bache-
lor, Joel Adams, and William Hart, selectmen of the town
of Union for the year A.D. 1809, and their successors in said
office as selectmen of Union, the receipt whereof I do hereby
acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell, and convey unto
the said Bachelor, Adams, and Hart, and their successors
in the office of selectmen of said Union, for ever, a certain
tract of land lying in Union aforesaid, and is bounded as fol-
lows, viz. : Beginning at a stake and stones standing west
thirty-three degrees Thuth seven rods and five links from
the south-west corner of Capt. Rufus Gillmor's dwelling, at
the northerly corner of said tract ; thence south seven de-
grees east [west ?] fourteen rods to a stake and stones;
thence east fifteen degrees south twenty-three rods to a
stake and stones ; thence east seventeen degrees north thir-
teen rods and five links to a stake and stones ; thence east
twenty-six degrees north eight rods to a stake and stones ;
thence north seven degrees west four rods and sixteen links
to a stake and stones ; thence west fourteen degrees north
138 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
forty rods and twenty links to the bound first mentioned,
be the same more or less ; and the above premises are to be
occupied for the sole purpose for a Common for the use of
the town of Union, to have and to hold the afore-granted
premises to the said Bachelor, Adams, and Hart, or their
successors, to their use and behoof for ever.
" And I do covenant with the said Bachelor, Adams, and
Hart, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore-granted
premises ; that they are free of all incumbrances ; that I
have good right to sell and convey the same to the said
Bachelor, Adams, and Hart, or their successors in office ;
and that I will warrant and defend the same premises to the
said Bachelor, Adams, and Hart, for ever, against the law-
ful claims and demands of all persons.
" In witness whereof, I, the said David Gillmor, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this fifteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine.
" David Gillmor, and seal.
" Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us,
" RUFUS GlIiLMOR.
" Nathl. Bobbins.
"Lincoln, ss. June the 15, A.D. 1809. Then the above-
named David Gillmor personally acknowledged the above
instrument to be his free act and deed before me,
" Nathl. Bobbins, Justice of Peace."
1809, April 3, the town "voted that cattle shall
not be allowed to run loose on the Common on pub-
lic days." Sept. 25, 1809, David Robbins, Nathaniel
Bobbins, and Amos Barrett, were chosen a committee
to keep the Common clear of incumbrances.
1830, April 5, an unsuccessful proposition was
brought forward " to see if the town would pay Daniel
F. Harding and John Little for the powder already
expended, and necessary to be expended, in removing
the ledge on the Common."
1838, Sept. 10, an article was " dropped," which re-
quested the town to " authorize the treasurer to release
to D. F. Harding, and the subscribers associated with
him, for building a Congregational Meeting-house, the
THE COMMON. 139
land on which the Old Meeting-house stood, including
that portion of the Common below Ebenezer Cobb's
line and the road leading from said Cobb's new build-
ing to Zaccheus Litchfield's house." This was at the
beginning of an excitement in regard to the location
of the meeting-houses. At different times, several
votes were passed, the object of some of which may-
have been to test the feelings of the town as to how
far they meant to allow the Common to be trespassed
upon. The deed was obscure ; and, Nov. 29, 1838, it
was " voted that the selectmen survey, or cause to be
surveyed, the Common, and erect suitable monuments
at every angle and corner, and ascertain the right said
town has to it, if any." April 1, 1839, an application
was made by the Universalists " to see if the town
would allow Nathaniel Bachelor, and such others as
may be associated with him, to build a free meeting-
house near where the old house stood, blow the rock,
and level the ground in front of the contemplated free
meeting-house. . . . Voted that they be allowed to blow
out the rock and level off the spot in front." An ap-
plication came from the other party, April 16, 1839, " to
see if the town would allow Joseph Vaughan and
others to blast rocks and remove them from the ledge
on the Common for the use of a meeting-house. . . .
Voted that they be allowed to blow out and remove
the rock from the Common."
Upon recurring to the deed, it was found impossible,
by pursuing the courses marked out in it, to arrive
at the point of departure ; and it was concluded that
the word east meant west. April 29, 1839, the town
" voted that the selectmen survey the Common as now
holden, and [that] durable monuments [be] erected at
the angles of the same, and a plan thereof made and
filed in the clerk's office." From this plan, it appears
that the Universalist Meeting-house projects somewhat
upon the Common.
Several articles have been brought forward in town-
meetings, during the last eight years, respecting incum-
brances and pasturing cattle on the Common, —
140 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
designed probably by a few individuals to tease each
other, or for sport.
POUND.
Of course, the cattle of the early settlers grazed
in meadows and browsed in woods in the sum-
mer, and were fed principally on meadow-hay in the
winter. Cow-bells and sheep-bells were fastened to
the necks of the leaders of the herds and flocks, so
that they might be the more easily found. From an
early period, owners have left with the town-clerks
records of the marks of their cattle. " Thomas Dag-
gett's mark for his cattle, sheep, &c. is half a crop on
the foreside of the left ear, and the end of the right ear
cut off. Entered Aug. 28, 1790." Another entry,
dated March 27, 1840, " is a swallow's tail on both
ears, and a notch in the underside of both ears."
Among the early settlers it seemed desirable that this
or some other mode of identifying the cattle and sheep
should be adopted, by which, in case of their straying
or doing damage, the owners might be known. April,
1824, a vote was passed " that cattle shall not run at
large the present year." Similar votes have generally
been adopted at the annual April meetings since that
time.
The subject of a pound was brought up June 20,
1803, but voted down. March 3, 1806, "Voted to
build a pound, and set it near the Common." It was
to be of pine, forty feet square, and to be completed
by the first of June. William Boggs undertook the
job for forty-six dollars. It was erected on the west
end of the Common, and occupied the spot where the
store of N. Cutler, Esq. now stands. Robert Bunting
was annoyed ; and, May 2, 1808, obtained leave of the
town to move it " to some suitable place near the dwell-
ing-house of James Rice," who lived by the Methodist
Meeting-house on the farm now owned by Nathan D.
Rice.
April 1, 1822, the selectmen were chosen " a com-
mittee to examine the pound, and to report their opin-
TOWN-HOUSE. 141
ion at the next meeting on the necessity of building a
new one." Sept. 9, 1822, it was voted to build one
" in some convenient spot on Rufus Dyer's land ; the
same to be built of rocks, four feet thick at the bottom,
and two feet thick at the top ; the wall to be six feet
high with rocks, with timber on the top ; three square
good posts for to hang the door to, with a good door
well hung with iron hinges and well secured with a
good lock ; the whole to be done in a workmanlike
manner, and to be twenty-five feet square within the
wall." The building of it was put up at auction,
Nov. 4, and taken by Nathaniel Robbins for twenty-
eight dollars.
TOWN-HOUSE.
As early as March 3, 1806, the warrant for a
town-meeting contained an article "to see if the
town would build a town-house." The subject was
not again brought forward till July 1, 1837. The
east and the west parts of the town became divi-
ded. Some of the people wanted to have it at Bar-
rett's Corner, north-west of the Middle Bridge. Some
wanted it near the Methodist Meeting-house, on
land which would be given by Nathan D. Rice ; and
others near the Common, where Ebenezer Cobb was
willing to have it erected "east of his new building,
without expense to the town for land." Each of these
places was approved by the town at one or another of
the meetings. Plans were also adopted, and committees
were chosen and authorized to make contracts for the
building. Even a deed for the land was obtained of
N. D. Rice. The whole population became excited ;
at one meeting reconsidering votes passed at a preced-
ing meeting, or in the earlier part of the same meeting.
The people often met, and the discussion was con-
tinued till June 17, 1839, when the whole town rallied ;
and it was voted, yeas 157, nays 146, " to reconsider
all votes formerly passed." This being done, it was
" voted that we build a town-house, to be located near
the powder-house ; and that it be built according to the
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blue plan, 40 by 48 feet, as accepted at a former meet-
ing; that the selectmen be a committee to superin-
tend the building of said house, and give directions as
to the height of the posts and finishing said house.
And the treasurer be authorized forthwith to enter
into bonds with Ebenezer Cobb to build the same for
the sum of six hundred dollars ; one-half to be paid
by the first day of April, 1840, the other half by the
first day of September, 1840, when said house is
finished; said Cobb to furnish land and other mate-
rials suitable for said house."
July 1, 1839, an attempt was made to procure
another reconsideration of the votes ; but the town,
143 to 73, " voted not to reconsider," and the select-
men were appointed " a committee to locate the town-
house in the vicinity of the powder-house, and agree
with Mr. Cobb for a piece of land suitable for the
same." The house was built, and thus ended the strug-
gle. A stove was voted April 7, 1845. Further de-
tails1 would be uninteresting, except as they might
illustrate the orderly manner in which town-affairs are
conducted, when hundreds of people are exceedingly
zealous in matters considered favorable or prejudicial
to their interests and convenience.
1 In April, 1844, it was voted that the building should "be used
only for political purposes ; " but, April, 1845, the letting of it was
"left discretionary with the selectmen." April 7, 1845, voted that
Ebenezer Cobb take care of the Town-house. April 6, 1846, the
selectmen were authorized to lease the upper part of it " to John W.
Lindley and his associates, with a privilege for the purpose of finish-
ing a hall ; provided they shall get and keep the Town-house insured
so long as they shall occupy the same, reserving the right to rescind
the lease upon paying a full compensation for their expenditures."
The building has often been used for public worship, for justices'
courts and courts of reference, and by the band when practising
FIRST MEETING-HOUSE. 143
CHAPTER XVII.
FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
Early Efforts for a Meeting-house. — Spot selected. — Location
changed. — Contracted for. — Porch. — Raising. — Enclosed. —
Pillars. —Pulpit Window. — Outside to be finished. —Temporary
Seats. — Pews. — Roof to be painted. — Sale of Pews. — Names
of Owners. — Lock voted. — Description of the House. — Pews
built in the Gallery. — Repairs. — Stove. — Decay and Desecra-
tion of the House. — Taken down. — Associations with it. — Cus-
toms. — Marriage Publishments. — Dogs and Dog Whippers.
The present generation knows but little about the
efforts of the fathers of the town to provide a place for
worship. The country had not recovered from the ex-
haustion consequent on the revolutionary war. The
burden of building a meeting-house was heavy.
The people were poor. They were also embarrassed
by the wants and inconveniences always incident to
new settlements. But, in their day, a meeting-house
was considered nearly as important to a town as a
dwelling-house to a family. Accordingly, in showing
the patience and perseverance of the inhabitants from
the beginning to the completion of the house; more
details will be given than can be generally interesting.
1787.
The first recorded notice occurs April 2, the year
after the incorporation. Then, every house in town,
except the Taylor House, was made of logs. Philip
Robbins, Matthias Hawes, Josiah Robbins, Ezra
Bowen, Joel Adams, Moses Hawes, and Abijah
Hawes, were chosen a committee " to look out and
find the most convenient spot to set a meeting-house,
and procure a deed of the same." Philip Robbins
was " to see if Mr. Jonathan ' Amory would give a lot
of land for the support of the gospel, and get a deed
of it. . . . [The town] would not do any thing in
144 FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
regard to clearing a spot, [or] hiring preaching."
Nov. 19, the committee reported that the most conve-
nient spot was " on the line between Josiah Robbins's
and the land of David Gillmor. Bounds : South cor-
ner ; north thirty-six degrees east, sixteen rods ; thence
north forty-two degrees west, twenty rods ; thence south
thirty-six degrees west, sixteen rods ; thence south forty-
two degrees east, twenty rods." This spot was on the
hill now known as the Old Burying Ground. Samuel
Hills, Moses Hawes, and John Butler, were chosen a
" committee to write a letter to Mr. Amory for a deed
for the same."
1788-90.
April 7, 1788, " Voted that the town will clear up a
spot to set a meeting-house." May 28, " Set up at ven-
due, to be cleared by the lowest bidder. Bid off by Ama-
riah Mero, who is to clear and fence, and seed to grass
for the first crop, and to have the improvement till the
town call for it for the above use ; he keeping the brush
down and fence in good order." July 14, the town
"voted that they would build," and "that a tax of
,£110 be assessed and collected, in boards, shingles, or
any thing that is necessary to build a meeting-house,
and that it be paid in by the last of May, 1789."
Messrs. Woodcock, Josiah Robbins, and Moses Hawes,
were chosen a committee to receive and prize the lum-
ber. The work, however, progressed slowly. The
time for payment was extended to June 1, 1790. An
unsuccessful attempt was made to reconsider the vote
passed July 14, 1788.
1791.
March 7, the town "chose Josiah Robbins, Joel
Adams, Thomas Daggett, Philip Robbins, and Joseph
Maxcy, a committee to receive and prize the lumber ; "
and the time for payment was "lengthened to 1|
months from the date of this meeting. . . . Voted the
thanks of the town be given to the committee for
services done in procuring a bond for a deed of Mr.
MEASURES FOR BUILDING. 145
Woodcock in behalf of Mr. Jonathan Amory for a
[spot] to set a meeting-house."
1792.
April 2, " Voted to set the meeting-house on the
north side of the road from Capt. West's to Christo-
pher Butler's, and on the east of the road to Senebec
Pond, in the crotch by Mr. Gillmor's new field." x Jo-
siah Robbins, Joel Adams, Philip Bobbins, Bela Rob-
bins, Seth Luce, Joseph Maxcy, Samuel Daggett,
Joseph Guild, and Capt. George West, were chosen a
committee " to look out the most convenient spot near
where it now is " voted, and to " agree with Mr. Gill-
mor for the spot, and make their report at the next
meeting." It was voted that the house should be
forty feet by fifty,2 and that Matthias Hawes, Joseph
Maxcy, and Amariah Mero, should be a committee
" to inquire of a suitable person, of the cost and plan
of such a house." May 7, the town chose Capt.
George West " chairman of the town's committee,"
to which they added Mr. Thomas Daggett. At the
same time they accepted the "spot the committee
looked out to set a meeting-house on," and chose
Joseph Maxcy, Amariah Mero, and Edward Jones, " a
committee of three to draw a plan and prize produce
to pay the <£110 tax that was granted."
More than five years had thus passed away. Dec. 12,
1792, effectual measures were taken for making a be-
ginning. It was voted to put up at auction the job of
furnishing a frame of the following dimensions : —
Two sills, 50 feet long, 12 inches square, oak.
Five sills, 40 feet long, 12 inches square, oak.
Two plates, 50 feet long, 8 inches by 12, pine.
Six beams, 42 feet long, 12 inches by 14, pine.
1 At the same time, Ebenezer Robbins and his estate were " set off
to Thomaston to do duty and to receive privilege in building a meet-
ing-house and supporting the gospel — at his request."
2 At the next meeting, the size was reconsidered, and it was voted
to build forty feet square. This vote was again reconsidered Nov. 2,
and the house was built forty feet by fifty.
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146 FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
Two gallery girths, 40 feet long, 12 inches square, pine.
One gallery girth, 30 feet long, 12 inches square, pine.
Sixteen posts, 25 feet long, 12 inches at the foot, oak.
Ten beams, 12 feet long, 10 inches by 12, pine.
Six girths, 13 feet long, 8 inches by 10, oak.
Four girths, 12 feet long, 8 inches by 10, oak.
Six girths, 10 feet long, 8 inches by 10, oak.
Twelve rafters, 28 feet long, 8 inches square at head, ten of
them pine, and two oak.
Four kingposts, 20 feet long, 10 inches by 12, oak.
The contract was taken by Josiah Robbins for <£32,
the lumber to be " on the spot by the first of June, all
but the slit-work, and that by the first of May."
" Voted there shall be a committee to take the taxes,
and deduct out £40 to pay for the getting of the tim-
ber, and average the remainder on the inhabitants and
non-residents, to be paid in materials as follows:
Boards, shingles, joists, or slit-work, at prices set by a
committee heretofore chosen. And this committee
shall examine the lumber so delivered, and give orders
on the collector, which shall pay so much of their taxes."
1793,
March 4, an assessment of £50 was voted1 for
framing, raising, and inclosing the house ; and Philip
Robbins, Rufus Gillmor, and George West, were
chosen a committee to procure workmen. Uriah Cof-
fin bid off at auction a contract to furnish, for <£4,
sixty sleepers hewed on two sides, eight inches thick,
oak or hemlock. April 1, " Voted to build a porch, and
there should be 168 feet of square timber and 76 feet
hewed on two sides for sleepers, and that application
should be made to Mr. Bosworth2 for the dimensions
of the same." Bid off by C. Butler for £1. 14s.
Thirty pounds were voted, Dec. 2 and on the seventh
of the following April, " towards finishing " the house.
1 At the same time, it was voted " to give Mr. Ebenezer Robbins
his meeting-house tax, as he is old, and nearly past his labor."
2 Mr. Bosworth, of Warren, " was the master-builder, and almost
the only man who knew how to do such work."
THE RAISING. 147
In autumn the frame was completed. The day for
raising it must have been one of extraordinary inte-
rest. The hearts of the people were gladdened at the
prospect of obtaining what had been the subject of
many prayers and a great deal of anxiety and Yankee
calculation for more than six years. A " raising," too,
in those days, was very laborious. Rigging and ma-
chinery were seldom used. The timber was com-
monly large and heavy. Pike-poles and men's arms
were the means by which a frame was put up. In
raising so large a building as a meeting-house, it was
necessary to look to neighboring towns for assistance.
Accordingly, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, when the sun
rose above the forests and shone on the few cultivated
fields, it requires no great stretch of the imagination to
picture the moving of most of the population of Union,
and of many persons from Warren and Thomaston, and
of some perhaps from Waldoborough, towards a com-
mon centre. Some were in boats on the pond and
river. Others were on horseback. The greater part
were on foot, wending their way through the woods,
among stumps, stones, and holes, and over corduroy
roads. As they passed by the humble dwellings, —
for, with very few exceptions, the habitations were log-
houses, — they were hailed with loud, sharp voices and
a hearty welcome to " come in and take some refresh-
ment, or something to eat." On the tables were
placed the best of every thing which could be furnished
from the herds, flocks, fields, and barn-yards.
By Philip Bobbins a corner-stone had been pre-
viously taken out of the river near Bachelor's Mills.
It was laid by means of a compass east and west,
without any other ceremony. As it was always cus-
tomary for all who attended a " raising " to labor gra-
tuitously and to be furnished with refreshments, "Rufus
Gillmor got a barrel of rum, and the men took their
eleven o'clock and their four o'clock in good shape."
Amariah Mero applied to the heavy timbers some
rigging which he had previously borrowed at Warren.
The band of the frame on the east end was raised by
148 FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
fastening the rigging to the limbs of a native oak,
which was near it. One piece of timber, and then
another, was slowly and tediously lifted, till all were
put in their places. After two days, or perhaps three,
of excessive labor, the raising was completed. It is
said, that, to the eyes and imaginations of some of
the inhabitants, it seemed almost as if they were to
have a Solomon's Temple. A general enthusiasm pre-
vailed among the population, which was then so
small1 that nearly one-half of the persons who as-
sisted in the raising were from the neighboring towns.
Upon hearing the report of the building committee,
Dec. 2, it was " voted that the time for getting lumber
for the meeting-house be prolpnged till the middle of
the next March." Afterward, little by little, for many
years, additions and improvements were made accord-
ing to the inclinations and ability of the people.
1794.
April 7, thirty pounds were granted toward finish-
ing the house. Sept. 1, it was voted that twenty
pounds should be immediately assessed and worked
out " on the highway, in the room of the twenty pounds
granted by the General Court to be worked out on the
highways, and to appropriate the said twenty pounds
in cash towards inclosing2 the meeting-house." The
proceedings of the year concluded with a vote, Nov. 3,
that " the committee procure pillars to be turned for
the meeting-house."
1 At this time, says Mrs. William Hart, the only families in town,
on the east side of Seven-tree Pond, were those of Samuel Hills,
Joseph Maxcy, Josiah Maxcy, William Hart, Spencer Walcott,
Christopher Butler, Levi Morse ; and on the road to the east part of
the town lived Jonah Gay. On the west side lived Ezra Bowen,
Abijah Hawes, David Bobbins, Richard Cummings, Moses Hawes,
Amariah Mero, Edward Jones, Rufus Gillmor, and Josiah Robbins.
On the south of Round Pond lived Jessa Robbins ; and on the west
of it were Joel Adams, Jason Ware, and Matthias Hawes. Besides
these there were, in other parts of the town, Seth Luce, Bailey Grin-
nell, George West, Royal Grinnell, William Lewis, Thomas Daggett,
Thomas Daggett, jun., Samuel Daggett, and Aaron Daggett.
2 That is, boarding and shingling the roof.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK. 149
1795.
May 6, the town voted not to grant more money, and
that "the money in the hands of the several collectors
of the taxes granted for building the meeting-house be
first expended for the purpose of inclosing the same."
At the same time, Ebenezer Jennison, Rufus Dyer,
and David Gillmor, and subsequently Amariah Mero,
in place of E. Jennison, who declined, were chosen a
committee to draw a plan of the groundwork, to
prize the pews, and report at the next meeting.
1796.
In the " dead of winter," Jan. 16, a town-meeting
was held ; and it was voted to raise by tax " sixty
pounds, or two hundred dollars, to procure lumber for
the meeting-house, so that it may be seasoned and fit
to work the ensuing summer ; . . . and that the tax be
assessed in the course of a fortnight," according to the
valuation taken for the preceding May. David Gill-
mor, Rufus Gillmor, and Joseph Maxcy, were chosen
a committee to receive such lumber as was suitable ;
and it might be brought in until April. April 4, the
committee were instructed to enlarge the pulpit-win-
dow as they may think best. May 5, it was voted to
finish the outside of the meeting-house, and that the
job should " be set up at vendue to the lowest bidder,
all but setting the glass." It was to be done " like
the Warren Meeting-house, and in a workmanlike
manner, by the first day of November ; all, except the
window-sashes and doors, which were to be done by
the last day of June, 1797." The materials were
required to be on the ground in two months, or by the
25th of July. The contractor was to " enter into bonds
with sufficient bondsmen," and " to have one-half the
pay when the clapboarding was done, viz. by the first
of November, and the other half when the remainder of
the work was done." The bid was taken by Capt.
George West, at one hundred and ninety-four dollars.
He seems to have thought it an unprofitable job ; for,
Nov. 5, 1798, he made an unavailing application
150 FIKST MEETING-HOUSE.
for more compensation. At the same time the subject
of pews was taken up. The meeting-house was never
dedicated. As soon as it was covered, and the floor
laid, religious services were held in it. Temporary
seats were made by loosely placing the ends of long
planks or boards on blocks or on the buts of beams or
logs.
The committee chosen May 6, 1795, delayed their
report from one town-meeting to another till Nov. 7,
1796. Then it was voted to accept the plan of Amariah
Mero, and not to accept the prices affixed to his plan.
A committee was chosen upon the spot to re-apprize
the pews, and to report before the meeting dissolved ;
and their report was accepted. An article had' been
inserted in the warrant in relation to the selling of the
pews. It was voted to put them up at auction, the
bids to be for choice. The terms of payment were
one-fifth in ten days, two-fifths in six months, and the
other two-fifths when the work was finished. " Nothing
short of half a dollar " was to be bid, and " nothing to
be considered a bid unless it was above the apprize-
ment." No persons were allowed to bid but the
inhabitants and such non-residents as owned land in
the town. No. 18 was reserved by the town as a
minister's pew. No record is made of the success of
the sale; but it was "voted to adjourn selling the
remainder of the pews until March meeting" in
the next year.
1797.
Feb. 6, it was " voted to procure materials, and to
go on with finishing the house ; " and Josiah Robbins,
Amos Barrett, and David Gillmor, were chosen the
committee. They were " instructed to purchase boards
and such other lumber as was necessary to finish the
lower part " of it. This seems to have been the extent
to which it could be expected to carry the finishing.
When the March meeting was held, it was " voted
to sell the remainder of the pews this day, upon the
same terms as before ; the time for payment to be dated
PEWS. 151
from this meeting." Aug. 28, the town instructed the
treasurer "to call on those who had not paid for their
pews nor given security, to settle with him and give
him security, or pay the money in one month from this
time, viz. by the 28th of September ; but, upon failure
thereof, the pews to be again the property of the town
and at the town's disposal."
1798.
Pews were probably built this year. March 5, a
new committee was chosen " to go on with finish-
ing the meeting-house." It consisted of Rufus Gill-
mor, Christopher Butler, and David Gillmor. April 2,
the committee were "instructed to inquire into the
state of the moneys belonging to the meeting-house,
to see what is due to the town for pews, and what is
due from the town for work. If there be money suffi-
cient for that and other purposes, the committee are to
paint the roof of the meeting-house, and to act further,
according to their discretion in the business."
Some of the pews which had been sold were not
paid for : they reverted to the town, and it was voted
to sell them at the May meeting. The sale was de-
ferred till Nov. 5. Then the selectmen were chosen a
committee to report conditions in fifteen minutes. The
report required the purchaser "to pay two dollars
earnest, or give a note on demand therefor; to pay
one-fifth (including the two dollars) in ten days," two-
fifths in two months, and two-fifths in six months, and
to give notes to the town-treasurer to that effect. If
any one did " not keep the pew after bidding it off, he
was to forfeit the two dollars earnest " money. Four
pews only were sold, when it was found necessary to
postpone the sale.
At this meeting, measures were taken to confirm the
titles. The town voted " to have the numbers of
the pews, together with the prices paid for them, re-
corded on the town-book, which was to be considered
as a sufficient title thereto ; a certificate to be given by
the clerk to the purchasers, if required." Accordingly
152
FIRST MEETING-HOUSE,
there is the following record, which probably includes
those sold subsequently : —
No.
Price.
No.
Price.
Nathl. Robbins
1 $41.50
Olney Titus
21 $25.50
Philip Robbins
2
41.00
David Gillmor
22
27.00
David Robbins
3
36.00
Moses Hawes
23
27.00
Rufus Gillmor
4
35.50
David Robbins
24
27.50
5
00.00
Edward Jones
25
26.00
Philip Robbins
6
35.50
Bailey Grinnell
26
25.50
Joel Adams
7
35.00
David Robbins
27
26.00
Jessa Robbins
8
36.50
Josiah Robbins
28
30.00
Amariah Mero
9
31.50
Samuel Hills
29
23.00
William Lewis
10
29.50
Abijah Hawes
30
22.50
Matthias Hawes
11
29.50
David Cumming
s31
24.00
Amariah Mero
12
29.50
Moses Hawes
32
24.00
Capt. Geo. West 13
25.00
Amariah Mero
33
24.50
Thomas Daggett 14
20.50
Waldron Stone
34
24.00
Timothy Stewart 1 5
20.00
Chris. Butler
35
20.00
David Gillmor
16
40.50
David Robbins
36
21.00
Richd. dimming
317
28.50
Thomas Butler
37
21.00
Clergyman's
18
00.00
John Tobey
38
21.00
19
30.00
39
20.50
Seth Luce
20
32.00
Rufus Gillmor
40
19.50
1799.
April 1, instead of forcing the sales, it was " voted
to keep the pews for the present for those persons to
sit in who have none." Also " voted to choose a per-
son to take care of the meeting-house, to sweep the
same once a month, to set up the same to the lowest
bidder. Bid off by David Robbins at one dollar and
fifty cents."
1801.
April 6, " The selectmen to provide a lock, and put
it on the front door."
1803.
March 7, Rufus Gillmor appointed by the town to
take charge of the meeting-house, keep the key, &c.
DESCRIPTION OF It. 153
1804—1813.
The history of the house has been given from the
beginning to the time when it probably received
the last stroke ever given by the town toward making
it a convenient place for public worship. In this condi-
tion it remained for several years. The shingles were
put on the roof, and the clapboards on the walls, with
wrought nails, — cut nails not having come into use.
The ceiling was the only part which was plastered.
Through this, in the south-east corner of the house,
was an opening to the garret, in which for many years
the town's powder was kept. The wainscot, rising as
high as the window-sill, was of planed boards. Above
this, rough boards, with the points of clapboard-nails
sticking through them, were visible between the beams
and studs. The pews were square, and contained
seats on three sides. There were three body-pews on
each side of the broad aisle, and three back of them ;
and these twelve pews were separated by an aisle from
the wall-pews, which extended entirely round the build-
ing, except where they were interrupted by the pulpit
and the single place for entrance to the house. None
of the seats in the pews were nailed down, very few
were hinged, and all could be turned up edgewise. At
the beginning of a prayer, not a little noise was made
by the universal practice of carelessly turning them
up ; and, on concluding it, the building rang with the
clattering sound as they were slammed down. The
upper part of each pew, instead of being panel-work,
consisted of small trunnels, fancifully wrought with a
lathe, and placed almost but not quite far enough
apart for the children to put their heads through ; re-
minding one of sheep-racks. The fronts of the galleries
rested on square pillars covered with planed boards,
at the upper part of which was something probably
meant to be an entablature. Around the gallery, loosely
laid on refuse ends of joists and beams, extended two
sets of plank-seats, the rear range being a little higher
than the other. In front of the preacher sat the
singers. On his left sat the girls, and on his right
14
154
FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
the boys, who sometimes by their improprieties at-
tracted the attention of the congregation below. Large
holes, where the braces were not closely fitted into the
beams, were sometimes occupied by bats, which occa-
sionally squealed in the time of divine service. In the
garret was a large number of them. The plaster, in
one or more places, dropped from the ceiling ; and, soon
after it was repaired, its downward tendency would be
renewed, to the great annoyance of any who might sit
under it.
1814—1823.
Such was the state of things, Jan. 5, 1814, when it
was "voted that Capt. Amos Barrett and his asso-
ciates be allowed the east and west galleries in the
easterly meeting-house, for the purpose of building
twenty pews therein to be owned by them ; and, in con-
sideration thereof, to finish off the whole of the inside
of the house in a neat and workmanlike manner, with-
out any expense to the town." This was done. Two
ranges of square pews, with an intervening aisle, were
built in the east and west galleries, and one range
back of the singers' seats, before May 17, 1815; when
"the proprietors and owners of the pews in the gal-
lery met in said house, and, on examination, found
but mneteen pews subscribed for ; and they voted, that,
if any one or more would pay for the remaining pew,
they should have their choice." Rufus Gillmor and
Nathaniel Robbins took the remaining pew, selecting
No. 9. The other nineteen were disposed of by draft.
Names.
Fogler and Little .
Maxcy and Eastman
Nathaniel Robbins .
David Robbins . .
Amos Barrett . .
Ebenezer Alden . .
Mitchell and Mitchell
Vaughan and Hart .
Gillmor and Robbins
Jessa Robbins . .
No.
Names.
No.
1
Elisha Bennett . .
. 11
2
John Drake . . .
. 12
3
Susman Abrams
. 13
4
Rufus Gillmor . .
. 14
5
Robert Foster . .
. 15
6
Joseph Miller . .
. 16
7
Micajah Gleason .
17
8
Nathan Daniels . ,
18
9
Luce and Hawes . .
19
10
Hart and Thorndike ,
20
ITS DECAY. 155
1824—1833.
Nothing more was done to the meeting-house till
May 3, 1824, when, from the consideration that it was
used as a place to transact town-business, it was voted
to shingle it, " to repair the jets and the plaster over-
head, and to put it out to the lowest bidder." Voted
liberty to lower the roof without expense to the town.
Bid off by Nathaniel Bobbins at $113, "including
repair of jets and plaster." .
Jan. 1825, " the first stove was put up," and " some
of the men who put it in bound themselves that they
would drink no rum for one year."
The house, however, had seen its best days. All
efforts afterward to keep it in good condition were un-
successful. In the course of time, the steps, which
were hewed logs extending the whole length of the
porch on each of its three sides, began to decay and
settle, so that it was difficult to get into the house
and out of it. Parts of the floor became uneven, and
exhibited marks of age. The doors were often ajar.
The wind rattled the loose windows, and whirled the
snow through the crevices. A board was nailed over
a part of the pulpit-window to prevent the storms
from driving through the broken panes of glass. The
carpenter stored lumber and window-sashes in the
house, and the saddler found it convenient to dry his
hair in the porch. An old horse, which was going at
large on the Common, was mischievously led into it
by some one, and ranged there and was fed for several
days. Some of these evils were removed, and others
remedied in part, by the different denominations which
occasionally worshipped there. But the improvements
were only temporary. Neither the town nor indivi-
duals felt interest enough to preserve the building,
which was not worth repairing.
1834—1839.
April, 1834, a proposition "to see if the town will
sell the Old Meeting-house or purchase the pews of
156 FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
such pew-owners as may wish to sell the same, or do
any thing relative thereto," was dropped ; as likewise
was an article, April 18, 1836, " to hear the report of a
committee upon the Old Meeting-house, and take
such further measures as the town may think proper
on said report." Nov. 20, 1837, an article " to see if
the town will make repairs on the Old Meeting-house "
drew out a vote, "that the selectmen make such
repairs on the Old Meeting-house as they may ^hink
[proper], not to exceed five or six dollars." Several
Universalists joined the Congregational Society, and
the house was finally demolished in 1838. This act
caused some excitement. Sept. 12, 1838, Walter
Blake and Nathan Hills were chosen a committee " to
ascertain whether the town had any right in the Old
Meeting-house, and to report at the next meeting."
At the next meeting, Nov. 29, the report was re-com-
mitted. Legal counsel was asked of Hoh. Samuel E.
Smith, ex-governor of Maine, in a communication
dated March 28, 1839. The committee mention, as
reasons for thinking the house belonged to the town,
several circumstances in its history which have already
been noticed, and conclude by stating that " the Con-
gregational Society never claimed any exclusive right
to the house until the year 1838, at which time it was
taken down by their authority, after an apprizement of
the pews by a committee appointed by the Congrega-
tional Society, without notice to the pew-owner or the
town." Mr, Smith's opinion bears date April, 1839.
In accordance with it, the report to the town, made
April 16, states, " Your committee are clearly of opi-
nion, that the town, as such, had, at the time the said
house was taken down, no title to or interest in the
same." The report was laid on the table. This was
the end of the house.
It may be added, that there were many persons in
Union who felt regret when it was pulled down. Some
were living who had been familiar with all the strug-
gles, in the poverty of the town, to have it erected.
Others had sat around the Lord's table, not only in the
ASSOCIATIONS WITH IT. 157
best days of the house, but when the beams and rafters
and rough boards were in plain sight ; happy in having
any place, however humble, where they could meet to
worship God. They had enjoyed more in this build-
ing than many do in splendid cathedrals. Here, too,
some had consecrated themselves and their children to
God at the baptismal font ; and the remains of dear
friends and relatives had been placed in front of the
pulpit, while the last service was performed before they
were committed to their final resting-place. Almost
every person in town had some interesting associations
with the building.
How many, even in middle life, recollect some of the
habits of the time ! The husband came to meeting
on horseback, with his wife on a pillion behind him,
and stopped at a long log, on the west side of the
house. One end of this crotched log, which had
been cut from a large tree near the canal in Robbins's
Meadow, was "canted up," so that the wife could
alight without inconvenience ; the other was hewed so
thin that she walked ten or twelve feet down an in-
clined plane to the ground. The husband, without
dismounting, rode away to the withe-and-stake board-
fence, in the rear of the house, to tie his horse. One
venerable, excellent old man, always at church, though
he lived some miles distant, stood during prayer with
his arms folded, and face to the wall ; while his queue,
carefully tied with a leathern string or an eel-skin, pro-
jected over his coat-collar, and hung down between
his shoulders. The horses — a long row — "were
hitched " to the fence during the service. Of vehicles
of any kind there were but few. In winter might be
seen a light sled, and in summer a light cart, in which
a very fleshy woman, drawn by a pair of steers, was
generally brought to meeting, as late even as the year
1814. To the close of the last century, while the
country was new, there were customs which now
would create great sensation. On stormy days, women
wore their husbands' hats and great-coats. Mrs.
Moses Hawes and Mrs. Snell, not having bonnets, for
14*
158 FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
years wore handkerchiefs on their heads. Thomas
Daggett, sen., Captain Nicholson, and Ebenezer Dag-
gett, consulting their own convenience and comfort,
Were irTthe habit, even in meeting, of wearing cotton
caps, which rivalled the snow in whiteness. As most
of the mothers had nobody to leave their small chil-
dren with at home, and were very desirous of going to
meeting, they often took them ; and sometimes their
juvenile concerts attracted more attention than the
minister or the music of the chpir. In the intermis-
sions, before mails were so common and intercourse so
easy as they now are, the people usually took a small
lunch from their pockets, a few doughnuts, or " fried
cakes " as they were ordinarily called, or a few apples,
if they had them ; and, as they were eating them, col-
lected in groups in front of the house to hear and
retail the gossip and the news. The women, as now,
were grouped in pews in different parts of the house,
through which might be heard the pleasant murmur-
ing sounds of their happy voices ; while the younger
portion of the fair sex stood in the entry or strolled
away, three or four at a time, to get a draught of water,
or to look at the gravestones in the Old Burying
Ground, or to enjoy the prospect from the summit of
the hill. From Thanksgiving Day to Fast Day, when
there was but one service on a Sunday, before people
had become as effeminate as now, the inhabitants
came several miles and sat in the cold, when this, like
all meeting-houses of the time, was not provided with
fire, and the only protection from the storm and cold
without was one thickness of boards and clapboards.
If, before or after the season for a single service, a cold
day came, the rousing wood-fire at John Little's bar-
room, and the warm rooms of the neighbors, were ever
ready to give the worshippers welcome ; and they went
to them as freely as to their own dwellings.
Publishments for marriage, too, are associated with
the Old Meeting-house. Very seldom were they
posted, as they are now. Occasionally, a very modest
couple, or the lady to whom a public annunciation
DOGS AND DOG-WHIPPERS. 159
would be unpleasant, had the intention posted up in
the porch* But commonly, just after the benediction
by the minister in the forenoon, and sometimes imme-
diately before the service in the afternoon, the town-
clerk, with the preface "Please to take notice,"
proclaimed aloud the names of the persons and their
intentions.
On one occasion, the town-clerk, being called away,
requested his son to put up in the porch a written no-
tification fot a marriage* The lad, fifteen or sixteen
years old, feeling confidence in his ability to perform
the duty according to the common mode, assumed the
responsibility of deviating from his father's instruc-
tions, and, with some degree of animation and gesti-
culation, but without any other preface than what was
used by his father, amused some and distressed others
by crying the intention aloud.
There is another interesting association with the
Old Meeting-house. In those days, dogs were no-
wise remarkable for good manners. Occasionally,
they would intrude into the aisles, and trot round the
meeting-house during public worship. Two men,
David Robbins and Jessa Robbins, who had long
whips, and who sat in convenient pews, were by the
town chosen dog-whippers.1 Considerable skill was
necessary on their part to discharge their duty effec-
tually, and in such a way that their constituents, or at
least all those who were at the meeting, should have
ample auricular evidence from the dogs themselves
that the dog-whippers were faithful guardians of the
rights and privileges of the people who came to wor-
ship. Accordingly, when a dog, following the praise-
worthy example of his master, walked into the house,
one of the dog-whippers, generally David Robbins,
whose pew was about half-way from the door to the
pulpit, would get up with the stillness and caution of
an old hunter, carefully raise his whip, holding it so
1 Dog-reeves, March 3, 1800, Amariah Mero, David Robbins, Rufus
Dyer ; March 2, 1801, David Robbins, Rufus Dyer, Jessa Robbins,
Daniel McCurdy.
160 FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
that it would have free sweep along the broad aisle,
watch his opportunity as the dog was passing, and
bring it down upon him with unmerciful energy. The
yelping was unmusical, awakened undevout feelings
through the congregation, and disturbed
" Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
And curs of low degree,"
everywhere on the Common, and set them all to bark-
ing. Even when David Bobbins was old and infirm,
his zeal and fidelity did not abate. Not being able,
without great pain, to rise from his seat, he would
then strike and pommel the dogs with his crutches.
The preceding statements do not all apply exclu-
sively to Union. They illustrate the customs and habits
of people in new settlements. The contrast at the pre-
sent day is so striking, that it is hard to believe some
of them could have been true here, even so late as half
a century since. The Old Meeting-house, around
which are clustered a multitude of early associations,
has been demolished. The old pew and the seat
among the singers are gone. The locks of the vene-
rable man who spake the words of warning and of
exhortation have become silvery white, and he dwells
far from the place of his pastoral labors. But, on
many persons, impressions were made which can never
be forgotten or effaced. Peace to the departed spirits
who were wont to gather within the walls of the old
house ! The time will soon come when it will be said
that "no one is living who saw the Old Meeting-
house, which was erected with many prayers, strug-
gles, and sacrifices."
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 161
CHAPTER XVIII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, 1779—1806.
Going to Meeting at St. George's. — John TJrquhart. — Isaac Case. —
Nine Pounds raised for Preaching. — William Riddel called. —
Aaron Humphrey. — Two hundred Dollars raised. — Mode of
dividing the Money. — Abraham Gushee called. — Jabez Pond
Fisher called. — Jonathan Gilmore. — Henry True called and
settled.
1779—1781.
" Sunday, May 30, 1779, went to meeting at George's,
and heard Rev. Mr. Auherd [TJrquhart] 1 hold forth. . . .
Sunday, July 11, 1779, I went to meeting, and heard
the Scotch minister preach. . . . Sunday, Sept. 17,
1780, Mr. Adams, Mr. Ware, and Mrs. Jemima Rob-
bins, are gone to meeting this day. . . . Sunday,
Sept. 16 [1781], Mr. Adams and his wife are gone to
meeting ; likewise Mr. Ware and Hills." These no-
tices, taken from the old account-book of Matthias
Hawes, are the earliest relating to attendance on pub-
lic worship. Mr. Hawes makes similar memoranda
respecting himself and his neighbors three times
during the following two years. To go down the
1 According to Greenleaf 's " Sketches," the Rev. John TJrquhart,
a Presbyterian, came to this country in 1774, and was soon employed
to preach at Warren. He was regularly removed from his charge
there by the Presbytery convened at Salem, Mass., in Septem-
ber, 1783. The people were more desirous to get rid of him than
he was to go. In the autumn of 1784, he was preaching at Ellsworth,
and in the summer of 1785 at Topsham. In the fall of 1785, he com-
menced his labors at Union River; but was dismissed early in 1790.
The name is sometimes pronounced Urcutt, and sometimes Orcutt.
When he was at Union, Messrs. Jessa Robbins and Jacob Robbins say
their father requested him to write his name. He wrrote it Auqu-
hart, with a piece of chalk over the fireplace, where it was legible for
many years. He spelt and pronounced it with the broad Scotch
accent ; A-u — awe, q-u-a — awe, h-a — awe, r-t, thus giving the sound
awe three times in spelling it.
162 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
river by water, and attend divine service a few times
in a year at Warren or Cushing, — for Mr. Urquhart
preached alternately in those places, — was as much
as could reasonably be expected.
1782—1784.
Feb, 6, 1782, Mr. Hawes writes, " The Rev. Mr, Ur-
quhart preached a sermon at Mr. Philip RobbinsV
This was undoubtedly the first sermon ever preached
in this town. Before Mr. Hawes moved to Stirling-
ton, there were not people enough to make a congre-
gation ; and, as he was in the habit of noting events,
particularly those that were of a religious nature, there
is no good reason to doubt that he recorded the first
meeting ever held in the place. There seems not to
have been any more preaching till Mr. Hawes writes :
" March 7, 1784. Last week, Mr. Case1 was in this
place, preaching with us." This is all that is known
about the public worship before the town was incor-
porated,
1787—1791.
At the April town-meetings in 1787 and 1788, there
were unsuccessful attempts to obtain a vote to hire
preaching. March 30, 1789, the town voted to raise
nine pounds to hire preaching part of the year. Samuel
Hills, David Woodcock, and Abijah Hawes, were
chosen a committee to hire the preachers and lay out
the money. April 5, 1790, fifteen pounds were voted,
and Thomas Daggett, Philip Robbins, and Josiah
Robbins, were chosen the committee; but the vote
was re-considered Jan. 10, 1791. With the exception
of the nine pounds in 1789, it is not probable that any
ministerial money was raised by the town for nearly
twenty-five years from the time of the occupancy by
the Anderson party.
1 Rev. Isaac Case, then a young Baptist preacher at Thomaston,
was lately living at Monmouth, and occasionally preaching, though
probably more than ninety years old.
WILLIAM RIDDEL. 163
1796.
The inhabitants had been putting forth their ener-
gies to build a meeting-house. They were too poor
to be doing much for the support of public worship.
The next allusion to preaching is an article in the
town-warrant for March 7, 1796, " to see if the town
will hire Mr. Riddel to preach the ensuing summer ;
whereupon it was voted to hire him, if the committee
could agree with him." The committee chosen were
Thomas Daggett, Philip Robbins, Amos Barrett,
Josiah Maxcy, and Edward Jones. The further con-
sideration of the subject was deferred till April 4, when
it was voted, 31 to 4, to give Mr. Riddel a call to set-
tle in the ministry, with an annual salary of two hun-
dred and fifty dollars, to be increased five pounds
yearly till it amounted to one hundred pounds. The
town-record states, that " the committee went to see
him and give him a call ; but he would not accept, and
so went away and left us to take care of our own
souls." The matter was brought to a close, May 5, by
a vote to raise money to pay him x for his past services,
and to pay his board ; but not to raise any for preach-
ing the ensuing summer.
1 The Rev. William Riddel was bom at Coleraine, Mass., Feb. 4,
1768, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1793. He studied divi-
nity a short time with Dr. Burton, of Thetford, Vt. ; and afterwards
pursued the study with the Rev. Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, Mass.
He was ordained colleague-pastor with the Rev. Alexander McLean,
of Bristol, Maine, in June, 1796, and was dismissed in the summer of
1804. He then labored some time in the employment of the Massa-
chusetts Missionary Society in the State of New York, — the Western
Home Missionary field at that time. He was afterwards twice settled
in Vermont. He spent the last years of his life at South Deerfield,
Mass., where he died Oct. 24, 1849. Sept. 4, 1797, he married Lucy,
daughter of the Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D.D. of Hadley, Mass. : she
died in December, 1813. They had three sons and four daughters.
Two of the daughters and two of the sons died in infancy. The other
son is the late Secretary of the American Education Society. — Ame-
rican Quarterly Register^ xiii. 253, 259 ; S. H. Riddel's MS. Memoranda.
The same day on which his call was voted, the town " voted the
committee be instructed to procure a lot of land of Messrs. Amorys
for a ministerial lot ; if they will give it, to accept it thankfully ; if not,
to purchase, if they can, on reasonable terms."
164 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY^
1797—1801.
Aug. 28, 1797, it was voted " to hire a Methodist
preacher, and to raise one hundred dollars by tax,
agreeable to law, to pay said preacher, — none to pay
but such as are willing." Edward Jones, Amos Bar-
rett, and Matthias Hawes, were chosen the committee ;
and they continued in office in 1798. Aaron Hum-
phrey1 wTas employed. July 16, 1798, the town voted
to hear him another year, if the committee could agree
with him " for half the time as heretofore."
April 1, 1799, an article proposing to re-hire Mr.
Humphrey, and another to hire a Congregational
preacher, were both dropped ; as likewise was an arti-
cle, May 20, to grant money for preaching.
In 1801, no money for preaching was granted.
April 6, it was voted that the Congregational part of
the town have the meeting-house half the time.
1802, 1803.
Feb. 8, 1802, Moses Hawes, Thomas Mitchell, and
Samuel Hills, were chosen a committee " to procure a
candidate to preach two or three sabbaths, to be paid
by contribution." April 5, it was voted to hire preach-
ing the ensuing summer, and to raise two hundred
dollars by a tax, and that every man might pay his
money for the support of preachers of his own reli-
gious sect or denomination. A ministerial committee
to procure preaching was chosen, consisting of Stephen
March, Rufus Gillmor, and Nathan Blake, Congrega-
tionalists ; and Edward Jones, Joel Adams, and Chris-
topher Butler, Methodists. The method of distributing
the money agreeably to the spirit of the foregoing vote
was acted upon in town-meeting, Nov. 1, and is re-
corded in the following words : —
1 Rev. Aaron Humphrey subsequently joined the Episcopalians.
He was preaching at Gardner in 1812. It is supposed he afterwards
preached in Vermont and New York, and subsequently in Wisconsin.
It may be added, in illustration of the religious spirit of the times,
that Mr. Humphrey made a prayer at the raising of Mr. Cashman's
barn.
ABKAHAM GUSHEE. 165
" Voted to accept Mr. Blake's motion, as made in writing,
respecting the division of money granted to hire preaching,
viz. : In order that the money granted for ministerial use
the present year may be distributed agreeable to the spirit
and intention of the vote which made the grant, it is mo-
tioned that the following mode be adopted to effect the
purpose, viz. : That the denomination of Christians called
Methodist deliver to the selectmen a certificate in the words
following (and signed by all who wish to have their money
applied agreeable to said vote) : —
" ' This may certify, that we, the subscribers, do approve
of and embrace the doctrine and church- discipline of the de-
nomination of Christians called Methodist, and are of that
sect.' And, as soon as the selectmen shall be notified by the
Methodist Society, in writing, that any specific sum of money
is due to any of their public preachers, it shall be the duty
of the selectmen to order the same to such preacher, pro-
vided those who certify they are Methodist have paid the
collector so much money of the grant for ministerial use.
And any person or persons certifying to the selectmen in
writing, that he or they embrace the doctrine and discipline
of the Baptist Society, and certify that the money they are
taxed in said grant is due to a public teacher of their deno-
mination, the selectmen may order it accordingly, provided
the same is paid to the collector.
" And whatever sum of money is due to? Mr. Abraham
Gushee for preaching, or others for boarding him, and certi-
fied to the selectmen in writing by such committee as the
town may appoint for that purpose, may be ordered out of
the above-said grant.
" And if any description of persons may think themselves
aggrieved by this method of distributing the money, they
may have opportunity to lay their case before the town for
redress."
It seems, however, that this mode of proceeding did
not give universal satisfaction; for, March 7, 1803,
there was an unsuccessful attempt to re-consider part
of the vote.
In the meantime the pulpit had been supplied by
Mr. Abraham Gushee. He came to Union, July 3,
1802, and began his labors on the following day.
July 29, a proposition to hire him to preach for two
15
166 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
months was referred to the ministerial committee.
Nov. 1, the day on which Mr. Blake's motion was ac-
cepted, it was voted to hire him on probation until
after the March town-meeting. A change was made
in the committee, which appears to have consisted
subsequently of the three Congregational members
only. March 7, 1803, the town voted to invite Mr.
Gushee to settle in the ministry. At the same time it
was —
" Voted to accept a motion made by Mr. Nathan Blake,
which was expressed in the following words, viz. : Agree-
ably to the 16th article in the warrant, it is proposed to the
town to invite Mr. Abraham Gushee to settle here as a
minister of the gospel, and pastor of the Congregational
Church which is now contemplated to be formed in this
town ; and that the town offer Mr. Gushee for his support
an annual salary of $334, so long as he shall continue to be
the minister of this town, and to commence on the day of
ordination.
"And, as it is the opinion of this town that a minister
cannot be useful to a society when a majority are dissatisfied
with his ministration, therefore, to prevent the series of con-
troversy and animosity which have often occurred in towns
under those circumstances, it is proposed that the settlement
be on the following conditions, viz. : That, if a major part
of the supporters of Mr. Gushee shall become dissatisfied
with his ministration, and shall, in a meeting for that pur-
pose, state the cause of their uneasiness, and communicate
l&e same to Mr. Gushee, and said cause shall continue six
Brains after, then, in a legal meeting for that purpose, the
major part of Mr. Gushee's supporters may vote his dismis-
sion. Or, if Mr. Gushee shall be dissatisfied, and shall state
the cause thereof to the society, and said cause shall not be
removed in the term of six months after, Mr. Gushee may
make known to the society his wish to have the contract of
his settlement dissolved ; and said contract shall be dissolved
in either case, and Mr. Gushee's salary paid up to said time.
" Voted that Josiah Bobbins, Stephen March, Amos Bar-
rett* Thomas Daggett, and Samuel Hills, with the selectmen,
be a committee to confer with Mr. Gushee, respecting his
settling among us as a minister of the gospel."
JABEZ POND FISHER. 167
Mr. Gushee,1 after receiving his call, made a visit to
Massachusetts, returned in June, and gave a verbal
answer in the negative. " One great and principal
reason was, there was a respectable number of inhabi-
tants of the town who were opposed to Congregation-
alists, — there were Methodists, Baptists, &c." He
" had an idea that another person with prudence might
somewhat further unite, or at least avoid the censure
that fell upon one who first came among them."
On the 30th of June, after Mr. Gushee received his
invitation to be settled, the town " voted to raise by
tax five hundred dollars for ministerial use." A com-
mittee of five, including the selectmen, was chosen
to agree with a candidate. Two of the selectmen
declined ; and the committee chosen consisted of Na-
than Blake, Stephen March, Thomas Mitchell, Josiah
Robbins, and Amos Barrett. Dec. 19, Mr. Fisher was
employed to preach four sabbaths. At the same time,
there was an unsuccessful attempt to get a vote " to
exempt the Methodists from paying their ministerial
tax to the collector."
1804.
Jan. 16, there was another attempt on a larger scale.
It was designed to unite all the denominations but the
Congregational. It was expected, that, at this meet-
ing, Mr. Fisher would be invited to become the minis-
ter. If so, there were some who apprehended there
might be difficulty about having their ministerial taxes
paid to preachers of their own denomination; and
there were others, who, fearful of heavy taxes, were not
disinclined to worship where they would pay less. If
the article had been voted to the letter, it would have
opened the way for evasions of the ministerial tax. It
was " to see if the town will set off all the people of
different denominations that do not hold with or do
1 Mr. Gushee was born in Raynham, Mass., Sept. 19, 1775, gra-
duated at Brown University in 1798, studied divinity with the Rev.
Mr. Fobes, of Raynham, and was licensed to preach by the Bristol
County Association. He was ordained, Sept. 23, 1803, at Dighton,
where he continues in the pastoral office. — MS. Letter.
168 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
not attend to the Congregational order, so that they may
enjoy their own principles and pay their own preach-
ing; so that the town shall not have any demands
upon them as it respects raising money to support
ministers or pay for preaching, or act or do any thing
as the town may think proper." The town " voted
that the society of Methodists be exempted from pay-
ing the last year's ministerial tax, they producing to
the selectmen a satisfactory certificate that they ought
to be excused by law."
At the same meeting, it was voted to invite Jabez
Pond Fisher * to settle in the ministry, with an annual
salary of four hundred dollars. The invitation was
accompanied with the conditions which had been
annexed to the call given to Mr. Gushee. Mr. Fisher
did not accept the invitation.
April 2, Geo. Wellington, Stephen March, Thomas
Mitchell, Abijah Hawes, and Samuel Daggett, were
chosen the ministerial committee. July 9, an article
being before the town-meeting in relation to giving
Jonathan Gilmore2 a call to settle, it was voted to
hire him for six months ; and a committee, consisting
of Mr. Blake, Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. David Bobbins,
was chosen " to wait on him, and inform him that the
town request the favor of his attendance." But there
is no further record as to the proceedings.
1 Mr. Fisher was born at Wrentham, Mass., Oct. 7, 1763 ; served in
the war of the Revolution; graduated at Brown University in 1788 ;
and, in February, 1790, was licensed to preach. " He received several
calls to settle ; one at Ashby, Mass., 1791, and another the same year
at Pelham, N.H. ; it is believed, another from Claremont, N.H. ; and,
not far from that time, one at Henniker, N.H." He was ordained at
West Nottingham, now Hudson, N.H., Feb. 24, 1796 ; and dismissed
in June, 1801. A lawsuit followed, which cost the town $1,500 or
$2,000. He declined a call from the church in Washington, N.H.
He was installed at Boothbay, Maine, June 29, 1809, and dismissed in
1816. Subsequently, he was employed by the New Hampshire Mis-
sionary Society four years. After this, he preached six or seven years
at Deering, N.H. ; and died there, Dec. 13, 1836.
2 Mr. Gilmore was from Raynham or Franklin, Mass. He gra-
duated at Brown University in 1800. After being at Union, he went
back to Massachusetts, was married, and subsequently became a far-
mer in Starks, Maine.
HENRY TRUE. 169
1805, 1806.
March 4, 1805, the proposition, "to raise money to
hire preaching the year ensuing," was dropped. But,
April 1, Nathan Blake, Seth Luce, Amos Barrett,
Jonathan Carriel and Samuel Daggett, were chosen
a committee to " hire a candidate ; " and they were in-
structed to send to « Mr. Fobes [of Raynham] or to
Mr. Ripley [of Concord] for such candidate as they
think proper." 1
The next movement was Nov. 11, " to see if the
town will give Mr. Henry True a call to settle in
the work of the ministry in this town, agreeably to the
request of the church." The call was voted, and Mr.
True invited to settle " as a minister of the gospel and
pastor of a Congregational church in this town," with
" an annual salary of four hundred dollars, so long as
he shall continue to be the minister of this town," to
" commence on the day of his ordination." Coupled
with the invitation, and in the same language as
before, were Mr. Blake's conditions. Mr. True preached
from September to December. He went to New Hamp-
shire, and spent the winter; and, April 21, 1806, the
church " voted renewedly to invite him to take the
charge and oversight of the church as pastor thereof."
May 14, 1806, it was voted to add twenty cords of
wood and twenty-five dollars annually to the salary,
and "to allow Mr. True2 four sabbaths in the year to
visit his friends."
1 April 1, 1805, upon an article continued from March 4, 1805, " to
see if the town will allow the Methodists to have the use of the meet-
ing-house a part of the time for the year ensuing," it was " voted that
the Methodists and Baptists have the use of the meeting-house at all
times When the town is not supplied with a candidate."
* The Rev. Henry True was born at Hampstead, N.H., May 20,
1770. His father, the Rev. Henry True, of Hampstead, born at Salis-
bury, Mass., Feb. 27, 1726, was a staunch whig. He would not drink
anv.but •• home-made" tea, and published, probably in a newspaper,
a poem on Liberty Tea. He married, Nov. 30, 1753, Ruth, daughter
of Deacon James Ayer, of Haverhill, Mass., who died Jan. 18, 1810,
set. 81. One of her uncles, it is said, was killed at the Indian attack
on Haverhill. Mr. True's grandfather, James [?], belonged to Salis-
bury, Mass., where the early ancestors of the name settled, and died
15*
170 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Notwithstanding an opposition, which will be no-
ticed in detail hereafter, Mr. True accepted the invita-
tion. Measures were taken for the ordination. July 14,
Capt. Amos Barrett, Mr. Nathan Blake, and Mr.
McDowell,1 were chosen a committee to join with the
church in inviting the council. Major Maxcy, Capt.
Barrett, Captain Gillmor, Mr. David Bobbins, and Mr.
Nathaniel Robbins, were chosen to make provision for
the council. Major Maxcy, Capt. Bachelor, and Capt.
Barrett, were chosen a committee " to put the galle-
ries of the meeting-house in such order, by laying
joists in the same, as will answer the temporary pur-
pose of an ordination." The ordination took place
Sept. 24, 1806. By a special vote of the church, six
members present, the pastor elect was admitted to
their fellowship and communion. The services were
probably as follows : Prayer by Rev. Freeman Parker,
of Dresden ; reading the Scriptures by Rev. Mr. Coch-
ran, of Camden ; sermon by Rev. Hezekiah Packard,
of Wiscasset ; ordaining prayer by Rev. Mr. Johnson, of
Belfast ; charge by Rev. Manasseh Cutler, of Hamil-
ton, Mass., an eminent divine and naturalist, and the
pioneer from Massachusetts to Ohio; right hand of
at Hampstead about the time of the American Revolution. Mr.
True's father died May 22, 1782. On Sunday, he preached and ap-
pointed a lecture for Thursday. On Tuesday, he attended family
devotions in the morning, apparently well, and died before noon.
Mr. True was fitted for college, partly at the academy in Atkinson,
and partly with the Rev. Mr. Merrill, of Plaistow, whose house was
just within the bounds of Haverhill. He graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1796* He taught school five or six years in Salisbury,
Beverly, Tyngsborough, and other places. He studied divinity, partly
with the Rev. Mr. Laurence, with whom he boarded when teaching
in Tyngsborough, and partly with Rev. Dr. Chaplin, of Groton. He
preached some at Tewksbury and Dracut ; one summer at Mr. Mer-
rill's, in Plaistow; and, during one session of congress, for Rev.
Manasseh Cutler, of Hamilton. He has been one of the trustees of
"Warren Academy for many years, also chaplain of a regiment, jus-
tice of the peace and quorum, and town-clerk ; " none of the offices
very profitable." He published a sermon delivered at Hampstead,
Nov. 15, 1807. In the fall of 1849, he moved with his wife to
Marion, Ohio, to reside with his son.
1 Mr. McDowell, a Scotchman, settled in the part of Union which
is now within the bounds of Washington.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 171
fellowship by Rev. Jonathan Huse, of Warren ; con-
cluding prayer by Rev. Mr. Dow, of Upper Beverly,
Mass., who was afterwards settled at York. The coun-
cil was entertained at Capt. Barrett's. The meeting-
house was thronged. The occasion was one of great
interest and excitement. Ordinations were not com-
mon. This was the first in the town. Among the
persons present were Major-General Henry Knox's
family from Thomaston. The evening, as well as the
day, was not without manifestations of much joy on
the part of a great portion of the inhabitants.
CHAPTER XIX.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
(Continued*)
Organization of the First Congregational Church.. — Mr. Huse's Ac-
count of the Proceedings. — Conduct of Samuel Hills and the
Rev. Messrs. Sewall, Bayley, and others. — Articles of Faith. —
Covenant. — Signers' Names. — Opposition by the Hills Party. —
Hills's " Ex Parte " Council, Sept. 10, 1806. — Conduct of the Hills
Party about the Ordination. — Hills censured. — Council, June 29,
1808. — Hills's " Ex Parte " Council, Feb. 15, 1809. — Second Con-
gregational Church organized. — Mr. Huse's Letter concluded.
An account of the organization and subsequent move-
ments of the First Congregational Church may be
given, in part, by an extract from a letter of the Rev.
Jonathan Huse, of Warren, to the Rev. Hezekiah Pack-
ard, then of Wiscasset : —
"Warren, Feb. 20, 1818.
" Sir, — Agreeably to your request, I will attempt to state
a number of circumstances and facts, which serve to prove
the existence of a party, exclusive, and disorderly spirit in
some clergymen in this district, who profess to be [of] our
denomination. In doing this, I do not rely entirely on my
own recollection : I made a minute of them soon after their
occurrence.
172 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
" Some time about the commencement of the year 1803,
application was made to me by several persons in the town
of Union, adjoining this town, for assistance in forming a
church in said town. I accordingly met them with a dele-
gate from our church, proposed such questions to them as I
thought proper, gave them some suitable advice, and exhi-
bited to them a confession of faith and covenant for their
subscription. After mature consideration and examination,
they subscribed the articles of faith and covenant, and were
acknowledged a sister-church. They appeared perfectly
satisfied with each other, and united as a band of brothers
and sisters. The sacrament of the Lord's supper was admi-
nistered to them a few times the ensuing summer, and bap-
tism to some of their children.
" In October, 1803, one man in the town, by the name of
Hills, who wished to join the church, prevailed with the
members to consent that the Rev. Messrs. Jotham Sewall,
Kiah Bayley, and Jonathan Huse, should be invited to meet
the church at Union, and see if it would be advisable to
alter the covenant and articles of faith. They accordingly
met. Messrs. Sewall and Bayley (who had seen the cove-
nant before, and expressed their opinion to Mr. Hills)
declared the covenant and confession of faith were not suffi-
ciently explicit and orthodox ; that Unitarians, and every
denomination of Christians, might subscribe to them ; that,
in order that other orthodox churches might fellowship with
them, especially their own, it was necessary there should be
an alteration of the covenant and confession. I told these
gentlemen and the church present, that our church would
fellowship [with] them, and I presumed the major part of
the Congregational churches in New England would do the
same ; that the confession and covenant were almost identi-
cally the same which our church, and the South Church in
Andover [Mass.], had adopted. I thought them sufficiently
explicit, scriptural, and orthodox, and did not think it expe-
dient any alteration should be made, unless the church was
dissatisfied and wished such alteration. Each member ex-
pressed his entire satisfaction with them, and said they had
no wish for any alteration. Accordingly, nothing was done.
" The man (Mr. Hills), at whose request these gentlemen
appeared at Union, was dissatisfied; and Messrs. Sewall and
Bayley were disappointed. Hills was determined to have an
alteration, and agreed with Mr. Sewall, who was then going
ARTICLES OF FAITH. 173
east on a mission, to call on his return, and assist him in
effecting his object. On Mr. Sewall's return, a few months
afterwards, he went with Mr. Hills to the members of the
church individually ; and, by talking to them in a plausible
manner, induced them to give a tacit consent to some altera-
tion, in order, as was said, for the accommodation of Mr.
Hills. The church was convened, re-examined, and approved
by Sewall; and Hills admitted. These things were done
without any previous notice being given to me. The covenant
and confession were afterwards shown me, and I was asked
if I could fellowship with the church upon their adoption of
them. I answered in the affirmative, though I expressed
my dissatisfaction with Sewall's interference, and thought
the alterations unnecessary.
" It soon appeared that Hills, at whose importunity and
for whose accommodation the alterations were made, was
determined to rule the church. He attempted to bind them
by obtaining their signatures to certain restrictive articles
which he presented, the principal of which was to submit
themselves to the control and superintendence of the asso-
ciation1 to which Messrs. Sewall and Bayley belonged. He
violently opposed almost every candidate they had. He was
chiefly instrumental in preventing* the settlement of one or
two, to whom calls were presented. It ought to be noticed,
that there was a constant communication kept up between
Messrs. Sewall and Bayley, and Mr. Hills, by correspond-
ence and by visiting. The latter did nothing without the
advice of the former."
ARTICLES OF FAITH.
The following are the " Articles of Faith and Cove-
nant agreed on by the Congregational Church of
Christ in Union, at its embodying, March 3, 1803, and
adopted, with additions," to accommodate Mr. Hills,
" Feb. 6, 1804." The additions are in brackets ; the
other parts being what was adopted March 3, 1803.
1 This association considered that the candidate should come " in
the shadow of Bayley or Sewall, and that the church must not let the
town employ a preacher ; but the church did not feel bound by this
rule." Hills insisted that this association alone should supply. The
town employed Mr. True.
174 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
The form in which it was adopted, Feb. 6, 1804, for
the purpose of accommodating Mr. Hills, was the one
which continued to be used : —
" We, whose names are hereunto subjoined, that we may
promote the growth of religion in our souls, and enjoy the
ordinances of the gospel in a church-state, do now profess
our faith, and covenant together in manner following,
viz
"1. We believe in one God, who is Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost [and that the Son and Spirit are co-equal and
co-eternal with the Father].
"2. We declare our faith in the divine inspiration of the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, which we receive
as the word of God, and profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for instruction in righteousness [and contain
a perfect rule of faith and practice, and that no other writ-
ings ought to be received as a divine revelation].
" 3. We believe in the fall of man, the [total] depravity
of human nature [by which he exposed himself and all his
numerous race to endless misery ; and that, in consquence of
Adam's fall, all his posterity came into the world in a state
of condemnation and wrath.
" 4. We believe] the redemption through the mediation,
intercession, and atonement of [Jesus] Christ [by which
God can, consistently with the honor of his law, pardon and
save all who repent and believe].
"5. We believe the necessity of regeneration in order to
salvation, and that this is effected by the exceeding great-
ness of God's [special] power, and [instantaneously] wrought
in an ordinary way, through the instrumentality of means.
" 6. [We believe that all things, visible and invisible,
were created by God for his own glory, and that he governs
them according to his eternal purpose].
"7. We believe the true church is founded on Christ, the
chief corner-stone ; and that the gates of hell cannot prevail
against it, to its utter extirpation.
"8. [We believe that salvation is offered to all, but that
none will accept and be brought to true repentance and
faith in Christ, but those who are chosen through sanctifica-
tion of the Spirit and belief of the truth according to God's
eternal purpose.
"9. We believe that all who are united truly to Christ
THE COVENANT. 175
axe justified freely by grace, and kept by the mighty power
of God through faith unto eternal salvation].
" 10. We believe Christ hath appointed two special ordi-
nances to be observed by every true believer in his name,
viz. baptism and the [Lord's] supper.
"11. We believe the qualifications for these ordinances,
in all adults, are sincere repentance towards God, and faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ [without which no person can have
any right to baptism, either for himself or his children,
neither can he have any right to the solemn ordinance of
the Lord's supper.
"12. We believe that God has appointed an order of men
to preach the gospel, and administer the ordinances to suita-
ble subjects.
"13. We believe that all offences of a public nature
ought to be publicly confessed.
"14. We believe the church ought never to receive any
person into their fellowship, whether he has been professor
or not, until they are satisfied, in a judgment of charity,
that he has been born again].
" 15. We [also] believe the future existence [and immor-
tality] of the soul, the resurrection of the bodies [both of
the just and the unjust], and the day of future judgment,
in which every one will receive a reward according to his
works [that Christ will at the day of judgment receive the
righteous into life eternal, and punish the wicked with ever-
lasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from
the glory of his power. Amen]."
" THE COVENANT.
"And we do also humbly and penitently, asking the
forgiveness of our sins through the blood of the great Re-
deemer, give up ourselves to God in an everlasting covenant,
in our Lord Jesus Christ ; and, as in the presence of God,
do solemnly promise, that, by the assistance of the Divine
Spirit, we will forsake the vanities of the present evil world
[abstaining ourselves from all gaming, frolicking,1 and do
our endeavor to restrain all under our care from such sinful
courses], and [so] approve ourselves the true disciples of
1 For the words " gaming and frolicking," Mr. True, with the
concurrence of the church, substituted the words " amusements and
practices which are inconsistent."
176 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Jesus Christ in all good carriage towards God and towards
men. And we likewise promise to walk together in Chris-
tian communion, as members of the church of Christ, and
to attend statedly upon the administration of the ordinances
of the gospel [baptism and the Lord's supper, and the
public worship of God on his holy day], when it can conve-
niently [with respect to health and opportunity] be done.
And [we promise to sanctify the sabbath, to attend the wor-
ship of God daily in our families and closets], to watch over
one another [according to scripture rule], and to submit to
the discipline of the church now formed in this place [and,
taking the gospel-rule of discipline for our directory, we en-
gage to admit all to our holy communion who can give a
rational scriptural evidence of a work of sanctifying grace
upon their hearts, in a judgment of charity, whose lives
correspond thereto. We do also covenant to devote our
offspring to the Lord, doing our duty to them in religious
instructions, training them up in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord] ; and finally, by daily prayer to God in
the name of Christ, we will seek for grace to enable us to
keep this covenant. [And may the merciful God pardon
our many errors and imperfections, prepare us for, and at
last receive us to glory, through the merits of the great
Head of the church, to whom be praise for ever and ever.
Amen.]"
When the church was organized by Rev. Mr. Huse,
March 3, 1803, the articles and covenant, in the form
in which he presented them, were signed by Thomas
Daggett, Josiah Robbins, Abijah Hawes, Seth Luce,
Margaret Hawes, and Dolly Law. On the 28th of
August, the Rev. Mr. Johnson being chosen mode-
rator, the church admitted Capt. John Nicholson and
Sarah his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Daggett, Mrs. Sarah
Robbins, Mrs. Jemima Robbins, Mrs. Dinah Mitchell,
Miss Sally Boon, Samuel Walker, jun., Thomas Mitch-
ell, and Stephen March ; also, by letters of recommen-
dation, Daniel Shepard and Sarah his wife. At the
same meeting, or not long afterward, Mrs. Abigail
Hills and Mrs. Martha Williams were admitted, and
Abijah Hawes chosen deacon. Among those who
subsequently joined it, with or without letters of
OPPOSITION TO MR. TRUE. 177
recommendation, were Jonathan Carriel and his wife
Sibyl, Tempe Briggs, Rebekah Gowen, Jedidah Dag-
gett, Betsey Allen, Mary Tobey, Mary wife of Thos.
Mitchell, Mercy wife of Jeremiah Mitchell, Rhoda El-
lis, Sarah Barrett, John Millbanks [?], Jas. Rice, John
Gleason and wife, David Robbins and his wife Mercy,
Mary wife of Capt. Amos Barrett, Mary True, Harriet
Barrett, William Daggett, George Wellington, Polly
wife of Calvin Morse, Mrs. Mero, Thomas Hemen-
way and wife, Elizabeth Robbins, Daniel F. Harding,
and Mrs. Rice.
"In the autumn of 1805," continues Mr. Huse, "tlie
church and congregation invited Mr. Henry True to settle
with them in the gospel-ministry. Mr. Hills, with two
others, who were after him admitted into the church, opposed
his settlement. They took every means in their power to
prevent his giving an affirmative answer to the call. They
made such representations to him as induced him to write a
negative answer, which was to be read on a particular day.
But his friends, finding what was done, took pains to con-
vince him he had been deceived by the misrepresentations
of these men. He was consequently prevailed with to sus-
pend his answer, and afterwards gave it in the affirmative.
The three disaffected members contended for their right to
choose half the ordaining council. This privilege was not
indulged them. The council was called, consisting of a
representation from the churches in Hamilton, Beverly, Wis-
casset, Dresden, Belfast, Camden, and Warren."
Aug. 19, the church voted " that three churches be
sent to, in order to settle difficulties between us and
Brothers Samuel Hills, Stephen March, and Amos
Walker." The disaffected members, however, obtained
an ex parte council before the ordination, of which the
following is the record : —
" At an ecclesiastical council, convened, in consequence of
letters missive from a minority of the church in Union, at
the house of Mr. Samuel Hills, Sept. 10, 1806, — present,
Rev. Messrs. John Sawyer, Jotham Sewall, Eliphalet Gillett ;
delegates, Mr. Benjamin Kelley, Mr. Moses Weymouth, —
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178 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
chose Rev. John Sawyer moderator, Rev. Eliphalet Gillett .
scribe.
"Voted Mr. Isaac Robinson, deacon of the church in
Hamden, Bangor, and Orrington, a member of the council.
" After prayer by the moderator for light and direction
from God, —
"Voted that a letter be sent to Deacon Abijah Hawes,
informing him and the church of our being convened in
council, and requesting their attendance at the meeting-
house at nine o'clock to-morrow morning ; also a letter to
Mr* True, requesting his attendance at the same time and
place, in order that the council may have such information
on the subjects of difference between some members of the
church as to enable them to give such advice as the existing
state of things may require. Adjourned to [to-] morrow
morning.
" Sept. 11, 1806, met according to adjournment.
" Voted to proceed to the meeting-house at nine o'clock.
"After prayer by the moderator in the meeting-house,
four articles *• of grievance were submitted to the council by
Mr. Samuel Hills, in behalf of the minority of the church.
After attention to the subjects of difficulty, and receiving
what light could be collected from the aggrieved members
of the church and other gentlemen of the parish who
1 The articles were the following : —
" 1. We find ourselves aggrieved, that our brethren have declined
to accept the offer of the Rev. Mr. Bayley to preach with us, we being
destitute, and administer the Lord's supper according to a vote of the
church ; and a continued neglect of attending to that ordinance for
several months.
" 2. That our brethren have infringed the rights of the church, in
deciding a question respecting the rights of the aggrieved in inviting
a council to assist in the ordination of Mr. Henry True, which we
think belongs exclusively to the church.
" 3. That our brethren hold us under discipline, having never
brought a specific charge against us, and decline to furnish us, ac-
cording to promise, with a copy of a paper, purporting to be articles
of accusation against Samuel Hills, Stephen March, and Amos Walker.
" 4. We consider it of great importance to a people to have such a
minister set over them as thereby the glory of God and the good of
their souls may be promoted, and cannot but feel aggrieved that our
brethren are disposed to urge forward the settlement of a person
whom we do not consider calculated to answer these great and im-
portant ends ; especially as we think that more than half of the brethren
and sisters collectively are dissatisfied, and that he has not that share
in the affections of the people at large, which is necessary to render
his ministrations beneficial to them."
HILLS'S EX PARTE COUNCIL. 179
attended, the council retired to Mr. Spencer Walcott's, and
drew up the following result : —
. " ' With respect to the first article of complaint, this coun-
cil are of opinion, that the church were too inattentive to
their vote to receive assistance from the Lincoln Association,
and particularly so in neglecting the proposal of Mr. Bayley ;
that such neglect was calculated directly to hurt the feelings
of the aggrieved brethren and sisters.
" ' With respect to the second, this council are of opinion,
that, if the church admitted the town-committee to vote
with them, or use their influence in determining the right of
some of the members, it is a just matter of grievance.
" ' With respect to the third, this council do not see that
there is sufficient evidence exhibited to prove that the church
did formally or regularly hold the aggrieved brethren under
discipline ; yet there is too much reason to think that the
church acted inconsistently in discovering a disposition to
treat them so, and not doing any thing decidedly ; and also
exhibiting charges, and not affording the aggrieved an expli-
cit statement of the same, that they might either clear them-
selves or plead guilty, appears to this council an unsuitable
way of proceeding, and is calculated to give offence.
" « With respect to the fourth article, this council do not
feel themselves authorized to determine any thing with
respect to Mr. True's qualifications as a preacher of the gos-
pel ; but think the church ought to act with the greatest
caution in so important an affair, and not rashly do any
thing that would part asunder the mystical body of Christ
in this place ; carefully and tenderly consult the feelings and
views of the aggrieved brethren and sisters, and mutually
seek direction of God. And, if the aggrieved party do not
obtain satisfaction as to Mr. True's qualifications as a gos-
pel-minister before ordination, we advise them to lay their
difficulties before the ordaining council.'
"The aggrieved members also submitted the following
questions : —
" ' Question 1. — Can there be a case in church-discipline,
in which the first and second steps pointed out in the 18th of
Matthew may be dispensed with 1
" ' Answer. — This council is of opinion, that, as it is evi-
dently the design of gospel-discipline to preserve or -restore
peace and order to the church, and, as the directions of
Christ, in the 18th of Matthew, are very explicit, it must be
180 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
a very peculiar case to justify the omission of the first and
second steps in dealing with an offender.
" ' Question 2. — What is the right of the sisters of the
church? and how far may they act, according to the Scrip-
ture, in the settlement of a minister, whether they belong to
the town or not ?
" ' Answer. — - We do not consider the sisters of the church
as having any right to vote in settling a minister of the gos-
pel. But, as they are members of the body of Christ, and
are in mutual and solemn covenant with the brethren, they
have right to the communion and fellowship of the church
in the means of grace and special ordinances of the gos-
pel. Therefore the sisters have a right to expect the church
will conscientiously seek their Christian edification in settling
a minister ; and Christ will esteem it very offensive if any of
his flock should be neglected or despised.
" ' This council regret that the church could not feel so
much of the condescending temper of Christ as to have at-
tended the sitting of the council, and assisted them in ob-
taining that correct information which is so needful and
desirable in determining matters of such importance. Feel-
ing the importance of harmony and peace in the churches,
the council exhort the friends of Christ in this place to look
to Almighty God for the outpouring of his spirit, that they
may adopt and pursue all their measures with wisdom, and
walk in all the divine statutes and ordinances blameless.
" ' Done in council unanimously at Union, on the tenth and
eleventh of September, 1806.
" ' John Sawyer, Moderator.
" < E. Gillett, Scribe.' "
The church, it seems, took no notice of the move-
ment, it being evidently an ex parte affair. However,
Sept. 17, they " voted to request Brothers Hill, March,
and Walker to join in a mutual council to settle diffi-
culties subsisting in the church, — the council to be
called at some future day when the church may think
proper."
To the council convened for ordination, continues
Mr. Huse, —
"A memorial was presented by the three disaffected per-
sons, purporting that Mr. True was not the man of their
MUTUAL COUNCIL. 181
choice, &c. After attending to the objections, and ex-
amining the candidate, the council unanimously voted, ' that
the objections were obviated by Mr. True's confession of
faith, and by answers he made to questions proposed to him.'
Mr. True was ordained September, 1806. Hills, with the
other two, continued their opposition to Mr. True ; and
Hills, in particular, made great exertions to disaffect the
people toward him, especially such as he thought could be
influenced by him. Hills was, after considerable time had
elapsed, censured by the church1 for some of his conduct
relating to Mr. True and others."
A year and a half passed. March 23, 1808, the
church voted to join in a mutual council. This coun-
cil convened in Union, June 29. There were present
1 The records upon this subject are as follows : —
Oct. 23, 1806, the church, being convened, " voted, We feel it a
duty to notice the complaints laid before the church by Nathan
Blake against Brother Samuel Hills." The church met again Oct. 30,
and heard the charges and Mr. Hills's defence, and adjourned to
Nov. 13. Then, «• after assenting to articles of grievance brought by
Deacon Hawes and Brother Mitchell, voted to add to the articles
of grievance the taking down of the names of men not belonging to
the Congregational Society." At the adjourned meeting, Nov. 24, it
was voted, "That, on account of the articles of grievance and fault,
which we have laid before Brother Samuel Hills, we cannot conscien-
tiously commune with him, and do therefore suspend him from our
communion till we obtain satisfaction."
The «« taking down of names," just mentioned, needs a word of ex-
planation. The charge seems to have been that Mr. Hills went to
different persons, and, without intimating his purpose, elicited from
them remarks or criticisms unfavorable to Mr. True, and then took
down the names of these persons as objecting to him. The paper con-
taining these names was brought to the pastor elect, on the evening
preceding the day when he was to give a reply to the invitation to be
settled. He immediately wrote an answer in the negative. At the
intermission on the Lord's Day, on the afternoon of which the answer
was to be read, the purport of it became known. Great indignation was
expressed; and Mr. Huse, with whom Mr. True had an exchange,
was persuaded not to read it. Some persons said they had been mis-
understood by Mr. Hills, and others denied what they were charged
with saying. Subsequently, as has already been mentioned in Mr.
Huse's letter, Mr. True gave an affirmative reply. Mr. Hills sent to
Mr. True a note, expressing an inclination to make some statements
respecting affairs in town. Mr. Blake, thinking it not expedient for
them to have an interview by themselves, accompanied Mr. True; but
Mr. Hills declined saying any thing upon the subject in the presence
of a third person.
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182 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
the Rev. Messrs. Scott,1 of Minot ; Johnson, of Belfast ;
Jotham Sewall, of Chesterville ; John Sawyer, of Booth-
bay (the last two missionaries) ; Packard, of Wiscasset ;
Huse, of Warren ; and Bayley, of Newcastle, who was
" put on" in place of Rev. Mr. Gillett, of Hallowell, who
was invited, but did not attend.
The church, being convened on the same day,
" voted, upon the concessions of Brothers Amos Walk-
er, Stephen March, and Samuel Hills, before the mu-
tual council, to forgive and restore them."
The record of the council, signed by Jonathan
Scott1 as moderator, and Hezekiah Packard as scribe,
states that, —
" After adjusting the council to the satisfaction of the par-
ties, the Rev. Mr. True was requested to exhibit the doings
of the church in said town. Upon which the Rev. Mr. True
produced articles of charge against their brethren, Samuel
Hills, Stephen March, and Amos Walker ; and, after read-
ing the same, their reply and defence was called for and ex-
hibited. The council resulted as follows, viz. : After a de-
liberate, patient, and impartial hearing and investigation of
all matters of charge and grievance exhibited by the church
against their brethren, Hills, March, and Walker, the coun-
cil were happy to find, that, in consequence of explanations
and concessions of the accused brethren, the church unani-
mously voted they were satisfied. The church, on their
part, made such explanations and concessions with regard to
the charges produced by said Hills, March, and Walker, as
manifested a conciliatory disposition ; and we lament, that,
1 Mr. Scott was quartered on Capt. Barrett, with whom Mr. True
boarded. It is said that the object was to afford Mr. Scott an oppor-
tunity to elicit Mr. True's heresies. The result, however, was differ-
ent. Mr. Scott found there was but little difference of sentiment.
Friendly letters passed between them afterward. In one dated Oct. 6,
1808, which Mr. Scott wrote to Mr. True, he observes, " I heard your
character, as a minister of the gospel, often impeached before the
council when I was with you, as you know, in such sentences as
these : • He is not fit to preach the gospel ;' 'We cannot be fed by his
preaching, &c. &c.' But, while there was nothing specified which ex-
hibited the truth and evidence of the assertions, such impeachments
did not influence my judgment against you, nor lessen my esteem for
you, any at all, neither then when uttered, nor in any moment
since."
CONTINUED OPPOSITION. 183
although a full reconciliation was truly desirable, we have
not the satisfaction of seeing all matters of difficulty done
away." The result concludes with several apostolical ex-
hortations to the members of the church to promote peace
and harmony among themselves.
"Notwithstanding this result," continues Mr. Huse in his
letter, "the three members continued restless and dissatis-
fied ; and, in two or three weeks, they, with nine females,
sent a request to the church to be dismissed, that they might
join some other church, or form themselves into a new
one.1 The church thought themselves unauthorized to
grant their request. 2 After a few months, the before-
named Sewall came into town, preached several lectures in
the town, and upon the borders of adjacent towns. And,
while he was with these disaffected persons, a line was sent
to Rev. Mr. True, to be communicated to the [church], signed
by these persons, in which they protested against the ' con-
duct of the church, and declare that they withdraw from
1 The request was in the following words : " Brethren, you must
be sensible, that we, the undersigned, members of the Congregational
Church of Christ in this place, have been for a long time much tried
and grieved, that we cannot enjoy Christian communion in this
church, agreeable to our desires ; and, as we have made several at-
tempts to have our grievances redressed, and as often failed, and now
feel ourselves held as it were in bondage, therefore, brethren, we desire
your consent, by vote, that we may withdraw our relation from this
church, and have the liberty of joining some sister- church, or be
formed into a new church, as we may think most expedient. Your
compliance, we trust, will save us the trouble of another council, as
we cannot feel content to remain in such a disagreeable and unhappy
situation."
2 It is not improbable, that the difficulties in Union led to the
following determination in the ministerial association : •« Warren,
Aug. 24, 1808. Voted, that to promote a more perfect union among
our churches, and to form a consistory for hearing and ending all
questions of discipline, which shall not be settled in each separate
church, that each of our churches be invited to send a delegate with
the minister to form a consociation." This proposition being brought
before the church at Union, Sept. 14, it was voted unanimously to
accept the above invitation, and to assist in forming a consistory.
On the same day in which the church agreed to assist in forming a
consistory, they voted, •« We at present deem it improper to dismiss
members of a church, without recommending them, at the same time,
to some other church specified in the request." This was in accord-
ance with the sentiments of Mr. Scott, who stated in his letter of Oct.
6, 1808, that it would be, " in effect, to unchurch them ; and such
proceeding has no precedent in the New Testament."
184 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
them, exhort them to repentance, and say they should re-
joice to receive any of them who should see the error of their
ways, repent, and reform.'
"Directly upon this, and while Mr. Sewall was with
them, they proceeded to call an ex parte council ; and, a few
days previous to meeting of council, they gave Mr. True
notice of what was done, requesting his attendance with
the council."
RESULT OF THE COUNCIL.
" Agreeable to letters missive from the aggrieved breth-
ren, formerly members of the church of Christ in Union, an
ecclesiastical council was convened at the house of Mr.
Samuel Hills, Feb. 15, 1809, for the purpose of attending
to, and giving advice and counsel, in relation to difficulties,
which have for some time past existed in the church.
"Present: Rev. Elders Kiah Bayley, John Sawyer,
Jonathan Ward, Amasa Smith, Jotham Sewall, Samuel
Sewall, and Jonathan Belden. Delegates : Ebenezer Hag-
gett, Sewall Crosby, Moses Weymouth, Ezekiel Avery, Asa
Chase, and Thomas Ring. Rev. John Sawyer was chosen
moderator, and Rev. Jonathan Belden scribe.
" After prayer by the moderator, the letter missive from
the aggrieved brethren was read, in which it was stated,
that they had, after long waiting and many painful efforts
to settle the difficulties subsisting between them and the
majority of the church, finally remonstrated, protested, and
withdrawn from them. Finding that the aggrieved had ac-
tually separated" themselves from the church, the council
proceeded to inquire into the grounds and reasons of their
conduct in withdrawing. Upon inquiry, the council found
that difficulties had existed in the church for more than
two years and a half; that, on Sept. 10, 1806, an ecclesi-
astical council had been convened by the aggrieved, to give
them advice respecting their difficulties ; that the following
articles of grievance were laid before the council for their
consideration."
Here follow the four articles already printed in the
note on page 178 ; after which, the narrative conti-
nues, —
■^ That no attention was paid to the advice of said council
by the church.
HILLS'S SECOND COUNCIL. 185
"That, on Sept. 24, 1806, the aggrieved brethren pre-
sented to the council convened for the ordination of Mr.
True, a remonstrance, expressing their dissatisfaction with
his ministrations, and their apprehensions, that, if he was
settled, they could not conscientiously attend his ministra-
tions ; and that the consequence would be an unhappy sepa-
ration of the church ; and that evil consequences, civil and
religious, would result to this society.
" That, on Oct. 18, 1806, a complaint was brought by Mr.
Blake, who was not a professor of religion, before the church,
against Mr. Samuel Hills, containing several heavy charges.
"That, on Nov. 13, 1806, the church exhibited articles of
complaint against Brothers March, Walker, and Hills ; and,
on Nov. 24, proceeded to suspend Brother Hills from their
communion.
" That, after various fruitless efforts to obtain a mutual
council to settle their difficulties, the following articles of
complaint were, among others, exhibited by the aggrieved
against their brethren, May 10, 1808 : —
" 1. That our brethren urged us to take measures to ascertain the
opposition to Mr. True, and then blamed us therefor.
"4. In bringing and acting upon charges against the brethren,
without sufficient evidence.
" 8. In refusing to take a vote upon an acknowledgment of one
of the church, although it had been presented nearly five months.
"9. In neglecting, for more than thirteen months, to prosecute
the charges brought against some of the brethren.
" 10. That our brethren have not been sufficiently cautious in ad-
mitting persons occasionally to the Lord's table." l
" That, on June 29, 1808, a mutual council was convened
to attend to the difficulties existing in the church. That,
after the council had heard the charges against the ag-
grieved, and some explanations were given, the church voted
to restore Messrs. March, "Walker, and Hills.
"That the matters of complaint exhibited by the ag-
grieved against the church were not settled by the council.
"That, on July 12, 1808, the aggrieved requested the
church to let them withdraw their relation to the church ;
but were denied their request.
"That, on Sept. 29, 1808, the following articles of com-
plaint were exhibited against the church : —
1 The substance of the other articles is comprehended in the sub-
sequent charges.
186 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
" To the Rev, Henry True, to be communicated to the church,
"We, the undersigned, beg leave to state, that we feel much
wounded and aggrieved by the conduct of the church.
" 1. That our brethren have, in open violation of their vote, re-
fused to accept of the assistance of some of the Lincoln Association,
and have treated, and continue to treat, them with cold neglect.
" 2. That they have infringed the rights of some of the members
of the church, in admitting a committee of the town to act with
them on matters belonging exclusively to the church.
" 3. That they have, in a hasty and inconsiderate manner, urged
forward the settlement of Mr. True, contrary to the judgment and
feelings of the major part of the brethren and sisters of the church.
" 4. That our brethren have disobeyed the commands of Christ, in
not taking the private steps in their discipline ; —
" 5. In bringing charges against some of the brethren that had no
foundation in truth ; —
" 6. In allowing Mr. Blake to interfere in the discipline of the
church, and using his influence with them, by pleading before them
against some of their brethren ; —
" 7. In not consulting the church upon the propriety of coming to
the Lord's table under existing difficulties ; —
" 8. In refusing to act upon business regularly brought before
them ; —
"9. In transacting important church-business before the hour
appointed for church-meeting ; several of the brethren not having
arrived, and the said business not having been regularly opened to the
church for their consideration, or they notified that such business
was to be acted upon at a future meeting.
" Samuel Hills,
"St. March,
"In behalf of the aggrieved."
"That, on Nov. 12, 1808, the aggrieved presented a re-
monstrance against the conduct of the church, in not at-
tending to their complaints.
"That, on Jan. 5, 1809, the aggrieved protested against
the conduct of the church, and withdrew from their com-
munion.
" That, for more than two years, the aggrieved have been
deprived of gospel- ordinances ; and that little or no pains
have been taken with the sisters, either to give them satis-
faction, or to convince them of their error, if they were in
one.
" While the council were investigating the business, the
Rev. Mr. True and some members of the church, at the
special request of the council, attended, and very candidly
offered many remarks and explanations and concessions,
with a view to throw light upon the subject under consid-
eration, for the information of the council.
HILLS'S SECOND COUNCIL. 187
" It was earnestly recommended, both to the church and
the aggrieved, that they should make an effort to settle
their difficulties. And the council conversed with each
party separately to see if no method could be devised for
their re-union, but could not discover any way to unite
them on gospel-principles.
" All hope of obtaining an object so desirable being at an
end, in the view of the council, after a deliberate and atten-
tive review of the difficulties submitted for their considera-
tion, the council voted unanimously as follows : —
"1. That, in the opinion of this council, the subjects of complaint
presented by the aggrieved against the majority are matters of real
grievance.
" 2. That the articles of complaint were generally supported.
" 3. That the covenant-relation between the minority and major-
ity of the church in this place is dissolved, in consequence of the
breach of covenant on the part of the majority, and the steps taken
by the minority ; — on this view of the subject, together with the con-
sideration that the minority, upon close examination of their experi-
ences and religious opinions, do appear to be qualified, agreeably to
the rules of the gospel, to enjoy gospel-ordinances."
" And although many unhappy consequences may follow,
yet this council feel themselves justified, and under indispen-
sable obligation from Christ's command to feed his sheep and
lambs, to assist them by forming them into a church.
" The council deeply deplore the evils that have arisen in
this part of our Lord's vineyard, and lament that they should
feel a necessity of taking such a painful step. They compas-
sionate the deplorable state of that part of the church, whose
general conduct, in relation to the subjects of complaint which
have come before the council, they are constrained to disap-
prove. They ardently pray that God would give them
repentance unto life ; and they exhort and beseech them to
turn to God with all their hearts, with supplication and
prayer, and to amend their ways ; to return to their brethren,
and endeavor to heal the wounds they have occasioned, and
build up the kingdom of Christ in this place.1
1 According to Mr. Huse's letter, it seems that, in relation to this
council, " Mr. True, with some of the church, met them, and assured
them they did not mean to acknowledge them as a council. They
proceeded, however, to examine the charges of grievance exhibited by
these three disaffected members against the church. The charges
were much the same as those laid before the mutual council. They
all had some relation to the conduct of the church with regard to the
188 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
" The council would betray weakness and the want of gos-
pel-impartiality, were they to decide that nothing wrong, in
this long state of controversy and difficulty, had fallen to
the lot of the minority. But, from a view of the whole of
their proceedings, we consider them as having acted in the
main agreeably to the directions of the gospel.
" And it is our decided belief, that, had the church been
earnest for the maintenance of a just, equal, and faithful
gospel-discipline, this very unhappy separation would not
have taken place.
" To the church now formed by their desire, and the appro-
bation of this council.
" Christian Brethren, — We acknowledge you as a church
of Christ, and receive you into the fellowship of the
churches of Christ. We wish you the presence and bless-
ing of Jesus, the great Head of the church, and pray that he
would establish and build you up in the faith and in love,
and increase you abundantly. But, when we view your
situation and prospects, we tremble for you. We therefore
exhort you to be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Walk circumspectly towards those that are without, and let
your light shine before others. Remember you are a city
set upon a hill. Let the word of God dwell in you richly.
Be much in prayer. Forsake not the assembling yourselves
settlement of Mr. True. Nothing intentionally wrong was proved
against the church, except their persevering to settle Mr. True in op-
position to the desire of the minority. It is worthy of notice, that three
members of this ex parte council were on the preceding mutual council ;
and all, at least except one, assented to the result of said council. But,
notwithstanding the mutual council resulted that * the church, on
their part, made such explanations and concessions with regard to the
charges produced against them by their brethren, Hills, March, and
Walker, as manifested a conciliatory disposition/ and exhorted them
all to be at peace among themselves, this ex parte council resulted
that 'the covenant-relation between the majority and minority of the
church in Union is dissolved, in consequence of the breach of cove-
nant on the part of the majority and the steps taken by the minority ; '
and that they * feel themselves justified, and under indispensable obli-
gation from Christ's command to feed his sheep and lambs, to assist
them by forming them into a church.' They censured the conduct
of the church, and expressed an ardent prayer « that God would give
them repentance unto life/ and exhorted and besought them 'to
turn to God with all their hearts, with supplication and prayer, and
to amend their ways, return to their brethren, and endeavor to heal
the wrounds which they have occasioned, and build up the kingdom
of Christ in this place/ "
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 189
together ; but be careful to meet statedly for the worship of
God on the sabbath, and endeavor, as far as you can, to ob-
tain the public ministrations of the word and ordinances of
God. Hold fast the doctrines1 of the uncorrupted gospel.
Be attentive to the examination of those who are admitted
to your communion. Watch over one another in the Lord.
See that the discipline of God's house be duly executed, and
that you fall not out by the way. Be not high-minded, but
fear lest you bring a reproach upon yourselves and others, to
the great injury of religion. We exhort you to keep toge-
ther, and to strengthen each other's hands in every good
work. Bring up your children for God. We charge you
to live in love, and to cultivate peace and good under-
standing among yourselves ; and we pray that the God of
peace may dwell with you. And now, brethren, we com-
mend you to God and the word of his grace, which is able
to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all
them that are sanctified.
" The above result approved by the unanimous vote of
council, this seventeenth day of February, 1809.
" John Sawyer, Moderator.
"Jonathan Belden, Scribe."
To continue Mr. Huse's letter : —
" Even before this separation, it was no uncommon thing
for missionaries to go into Union, give advice to the dis-
affected party, preach public lectures, while Mr. True was
preaching there on probation and after his ordination ; — I
1 One objection to Mr. True was, that the Rev. Mr. Ripley, of Con-
cord, Mass., had sent him ; and therefore he must be a Socinian. This
charge was constantly made throughout his ministry, though Mr.
Ripley had probably never heard of him till after he came to Union.
The first sabbath Mr. True was here, " Mr. Sawyer, then of Boothbay,
was present from the Lincoln and Kennebec Association to hold the
ground. Mr. True supplied in the morning. He went to Warren in
the afternoon to attend a funeral, and Mr. Sawyer preached in the
meeting-house while he was gone." A system of opposition ran
through all the veins of the Lincoln and Kennebec Association. Mr.
Hills carried his opposition so far, that he " got Mr. True to his house
one evening to examine his experience, while others were in a differ-
ent room to listen and report according to his [Hills' s] dictation."
Hills and the Lincoln and Kennebec Association were identified in
their spirit. When Mr. True was supported by subscription, and be-
fore dismission, Sewall, Belden, and others took possession of the
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190 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
mean such missionaries as were under the influence of, and
immediately connected with, the members of the before-
mentioned party-council. Since the separation, the mem-
bers of the council have considered this little party as under
their immediate and exclusive care, and have taken pains to
countenance and support them in their separate condition,
by visiting them, preaching to them, administering the sacra-
ment to them, and by often directing missionaries to them,
who are of their particular sentiments in religion. They
are countenanced by the Maine Missionary Society, par-
ticularly by the Lincoln and Kennebec Association, the
most active and influential members of which societies com-
posed the ex parte council.
" Mr. True is a modest, moderate Calvinist. No one pre-
tends to find fault with his doctrines or moral conduct ; only
that he does not go far enough, and they cannot feel that he
is a converted man. The majority of the church of which
he is pastor are apparently serious, orthodox, and exem-
plary Christians. I have personally known them for many
years. But they do not carry points of doctrine quite so far
as some others, particularly as Mr. Hills, who is a disciple
of Dr. Emmons ; and they do not wish to be under the en-
tire control of the Lincoln and Kennebec Association.
" Members of the ex parte council above mentioned, and
missionaries under their influence, not only visit and preach
to the party in Union, but many times preach in other
towns where are settled ministers, barely at the request of
an individual, male or female, boy or girl, over whom they
have gained some ascendency. They make a practice of
passing by settled ministers, and associating with those in
parishes who are a little disaffected toward their own mini-
sters. These things are done very frequently in this and
other towns in this county."1
meeting-house. Even while Mr. True was a candidate, " Jotham and
Samuel Sewall appointed lectures at the meeting-house and other
places, without consulting him." It should be added, in justice to
Rev. Mr. Mitchell, who afterward was settled in Waldoborough, that
he did not sympathize with the opposers of Mr. True, " and invited
Mr. True to take a mission from the Maine Missionary Society."
1 The details given will enable those who wish it to judge of the
merits of a controversy which kept the- community in high excite-
ment for many years, and of which the lamentable effects are felt to
the present day. A lesson may be learned respecting the sectarian
spirit of the time, not merely in Union, but in the State generally ;
PKOSELYTISM. 191
Such was the origin of the Second Congregational
Church in this town. At the organization, Feb. 17,
1809, they adopted the articles of faith and the cove-
nant which were then in use by the First Church, and
which were adopted by them, Feb. 6, 1804, with the
alterations then made to suit Mr. Hills. The only
change of the language was in the substitution of the
words, " We engage to admit to our holy communion
such, and none but such, as give a rational, scriptural
evidence," for the words, " We engage to admit to our
holy communion all who can give a rational, scripture
evidence," &c.
and, though the remaining part of Mr. Huse's letter does not per-
tain exclusively to Union, it is thought proper to add it : —
" The Maine Missionary Society, or rather Mr. Bayley, of Newcas-
tle, its President, and the Lincoln and Kennebec Association, take
the utmost pains to ascertain every vacant parish, where there is the
least prospeet of establishing a minister, and immediately send them
one after their own heart, supported for a while by the society's
funds, but accompanied with a letter to some individual in the parish,
suggesting to him the propriety of their hiring him, at least for a
while, after the term of his mission expires ; and the good, unsus-
pecting people think they can do no less. By this means, they have
sometimes succeeded in palming ministers of a particular complexion
upon towns and societies in this quarter. In some instances they
have established ministers, whose sentiments, when fully known, are
very obnoxious to a great majority of the people.
" The ministers and missionaries from the Maine Society, or Lin-
coln Association, avoid other settled ministers, who do not belong to
those societies. They do not allow their candidates to have any mini-
sterial connection with those ministers, any further than to preach in
their towns, not exchange. Nor do they allow the churches, over
which they gain control, to invite the assistance of neighboring
churches in ordinations, whose pastors are not of their number, or
whose sentiments, they suspect, do not perfectly correspond with
theirs. Two such instances have recently occurred in this immediate
vicinity. I need not mention them to you. I am well acquainted
with the members of a church in an adjoining town, where they have
lately settled a minister, have often administered the ordinances to
them, and am well convinced they are in fellowship with me and our
church, and yet our church was not invited to assist at the ordina-
tion. One of the members frankly told me « they did not send to all
churches they wished, because they were under the Maine Missionary
Society.' I must close my narration, though it might be protracted.
You are at liberty to make any use of it you please.
" I am your brother in the ministry,
" JONA. HUSE."
192 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
The following are the names of the seceders who
formed the Second Congregational Church: —
Samuel Hills
Stephen March
Amos Walker
Abigail Hills
Mary Fogler
Hannah Walker
Abigail March
Sarah Nicholson
Martha Williams
Huldah Blanchard
Sally Barnard
Sally Shepard.
. To these were added, at the time of the organization,
Feb. 17, 1809,-.
John Clark, Judith Clark, Judith Walker.
There were subsequently added, —
David Starrett, June 11, 1810; Jane Kirkpatrick, Aug.
5, 1810 ; Sarah Tucker, Aug. 5, 1810 ; Daniel Walker,
Nov. 18, 1810; James Starrett, March 5, 1815; Rev.
James Bicker, July 2, 1815 ; and afterward, Jane Cutting.
CHAPTER XX.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOBY, 1807—1819.
Proceedings of the Town to pay Mr. True. — Remission of Ministe-
rial Taxes.— Signers to the Methodists; to the Friends; to the
Baptists. — Movements to dissolve the Town's Contract with Mr.
True. — Incorporation of the First Congregational Society. — Dis-
solution of the Town's Contract.
. 1807.
During these church-difficulties, the town was re-
quired each year to act on parochial affairs; for
towns then discharged the duties which now devolve
on parishes. Mr. True's opponents were not inactive.
March, 1807, Jonathan Newhall, Nathaniel Bobbins,
Nathan Blake, Joel Adams, Simeon Butters, Oliver
REMISSION OF MINISTERIAL TAXES. 193
Pratt, and Marlboro' Packard, being two persons from
each of the principal denominations in town, and one
Quaker, were chosen a committee "to consider the
aggrieved of all parties, to fix a compromise, and to
report at the May meeting." May 11, the town ac-
cepted their report, —
" That all who are not of the Congregational Society,
and who do not intermeddle with said society's affairs, or
vote in town on ministerial matters, and will exhibit to the
selectmen a certificate thereof signed by each person of their
society who are subject to be taxed, and by a committee of
three members of their church, in the month of June or July
annually, shall have their ministerial taxes abated before
the tax-bills are committed to the collector. And it shall
be the duty of the selectmen and assessors to make said
abatements, and form a list of said persons, and set the
sums against each name so abated, and cross said ministe-
rial tax, and deliver said list to the town-clerk, who shall
make record of the same, and certify to the town-treasurer
the amount of said abatement."
This principle was adopted also in 1808, 1809,
and 1810. Thus, although the taxes were assessed
regularly, those of the seceders were not called for
by the collector; and it was virtually left optional
with the societies, except the Congregational, to raise
any thing or nothing for the support of religious wor-
ship among themselves.
1808.
March 7, the town voted " to relinquish so much of
the ministerial tax of the Methodists for 1806 and 1807
as the selectmen may think proper to cross."1 It
was also "voted to relinquish the ministerial taxes
assessed to the following names in the year 1807, viz. :
Spencer Walcott, Oliver Pratt, Simon Fuller, Nathan
1 At the same time it was voted to let the Methodists have the
meeting-house the last sabbath in March. Sept. 17, it was voted to
let the Baptists have the meeting-house the first sabbath in Novem-
ber.
17*
194
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Carver, Thomas Daggett, Sterling Davis, Zelotes
Tucker, Marlboro' Packard, Barnabas Simmons, Ezra
Bowen, Abel Walker, Mary Gay, Marble Alford, Ja-
cob King, and Robert Thompson," who belonged to
the Baptist denomination.
In accordance with the report accepted May 11,
1807, the town-records, under the year 1808, contain
the following names of persons who did not belong
to the Congregational Society, together with their
ministerial taxes : —
METHODISTS.
Joel Adams . ....
. $4.43
Solomon Hewes .
$1.54
Christopher Butler
)
Levi Irish . .
1.06
John Butler ' . . ■ ..
>6.54
Cornelius Irish . «
1.89
Gorham Butler .
)
Edward Jones
2.77
Jonathan Brown .
1.37
John Kieff . . .
. 1.41
Thomas Butler ; i-
4.36
Asaph Lucas . .
1.26
Joseph Butler
4.40
Thaddeus Luce .
1.65
Simeon Butters .
. 3.05
Josiah Maxcy . .
6.05
Charles .Butters, .
1.67
Hervey Maxcy
3.95
Alford Butters .
1.02
Obadiah Morse .
3.42
John Clarke . . . -
3.43
Bela Bobbins . .
4.81
John Clarke, 2d .
1.42
Nathan D. Rice .
1.91
Joshua Collamore
1.96
Timothy Stewart
4.25
Alpheus Collamore
1.46
David Snell . .
4.06
Simon Drake .
2.03
David Snell, jun.
1.13
Simon Chaffin
2.18
Jacob Severance ;
1,73
John Drake . .
. 2.55
James Thompson
4.25
Rufus Dyer . .
. 3.00
Olney Titus . .
2.78
Henry, Esensa ....
.3.26
Daniel Walker '.'
■a 2.77
Jonathan Eastman
. 3.71
John Walker . ,
k 3.78
Royal Grinnell ;.
4.45
Jason Ware . .
7.92
Richard Grinnell
1.54
Aaron Young . . -
2.91
Bailey Grinnell .,
6.61
Aaron Young, jun.
2.36
Samuel S. Grinnell
1.53
Daniel Murray .
1.00
Matthias Hawes .
8.27
James Maxfield .
1.00
Reuben Hills . .
13.27
Jeremiah Clough .
1.00
Samuel Hills, 2d .
1.86
Lewis Robbins, 2d
1.00
Nathan Hills . .
1.95
Isaac Carkin . .
1.00
Reuben Hills, jun.
1.86
Jeremiah Stubbs .
1.00
DEFICIENCY OF SALARY.
195
FRIENDS.
. Jonathan Newhall, $4.25; Ichabod Irish, $2.56; total,
$6.81.
BAPTISTS.
Marble Alford
Ezra Bowen .
William Boggs
Nathan Carver
Thomas Daggett
Sterling Davis
Simon Fuller .
Peter Fales .
Mary Gay . .
John Hemenway
Daniel Howard
Edmund Luce
John Lermond
$1.81
3.40
2.39
4.^2
3.52
2.78
3.55
2.92
1.86
1.38
2.19
7.24
William Lermond .
James Lermond . .
Oliver Pratt . . .
William Peabody
Marlboro' Packard .
Barnabas Simmons .
Daniel Shepard, jun.
Jacob Sibley . . .
Zelotes Tucker . .
Abel Walker . . ,
George W. West ... ■ . .
Spencer Walcott . .
Jacob Ring . .
$3.46
2.49
5.76
1.50
5.67
6.41
1.70
2.92
2.39
1.58
4.38
5.87
1.00
^809.
March 6, 1809, a committee, consisting of Arnos Bar-
rett; Nathan Blake, Congregationalists ; Joel Adams,
Edward Jdnes, Methodists ,; and Spencer Walcott, Oli-
ver Pratt, Baptists, was cbrbsen to inquire into the state
of the treasury respecting ministerial money. The
town accepted the report, 'May 1, in which they say, " So
far as we can ascertain by the selectmen's book and
other documents, there is a deficiency in the treasury,
to complete Mr. True's salary to September, 1808, of
the sum of $262.56, including orders of the assessors
for Richard Cummings and others," — who stated that
they belonged to some other society, — "and that Mr.
True relinquished his right to twenty-five d6Hars, an-
nual allowance in place of firewood," until such time
as he might signify his want of it.
At the same time, it was voted to raise one thousand
dollars for ministerial use ; and Nathan Blake, Ebene-
zer Alden, and Charles Pope, were chosen a committee
to treat with Mr. True. There is no record of the re-
port of this committee.
196
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
The names of the signers to other societies, Nov. 1,
1809, with their several ministerial taxes, are on record
as follows : —
David Snell* . . .
Cornelius Irish* . .
Obadiah Morse* . .
Edward Jones
James Thompson
Solomon Hewes*
Jocob S. Adams . .
Matthias Hawes* .
Ebenezer Robbins .
Mace S. Grinnell* .
Jacob Sevrance . .
Alford Butters . .
Samuel Spurr . . .
Gorham Butler* .
Aaron Young* . .
Christopher Butler*
John Lermond* . .
Aaron Young, jun.*
Josiah Hills * . . .
Reuben Hills, jun. *.
Nathan Hills* . .
Jonathan Eastman* .
Thomas Butler* . .
Jeremiah Stubbs . .
Simon Drake* . .
William Lermond .
Joseph Miller* . .
Hervey Maxcy . .
Henry Esensa* . .
James Brown . . .
Simeon Butters*
Timothy Stewart* .
METHODISTS.
$4.00
Rufus Dyer* .
. . $3.13
3.03
Alpheus Collamore* 2.60
4.86
Joseph Butler
. . 5.85
3.94
Adam Martin .
. . 2.88
5.17
Joel Adams* .
. . 5.85
1.64
Bailey Grinnell*
. 6.83
1.23
Thaddeus Luce*
. . 2.19
11.94
James Maxfield
. . 1.99
1.91
Isaac Carkin .
. . 1.23
1.23
Jeremiah Luce*
. 1.23
2.30
Ezra Bowen, jun.
. 1.23
2.73
Samuel Hills, 2d4
* . 2.68
3.70
Jason Ware* .
. 10.07
2.94
Philip Robbins
. 0.32
2.20
Thomas Messer
. 3.39
3.16
John Drake* .
. 3.56
9.74
Ichabod Maddock
s* 3.17
3.41
Richard Grinnell* . 1.80
2.46
Simon Chaffin
. 2.96
2.34
David Snell, jun * . 1.89
3.01
Royal Grinnell* .
. 6.98
5.36
Bela Robbins* ,
. 6.28
5.80
John Walker* .
. 5.02
1.70
Reuben Hills* .
. 16.09
3.18
Olney Titus . .
. 3.35
5.22
John Clark* . .
. 4.12
4.64
John Kieff. . .
. 1.76
5.60
Ezekiel Clark . .
. 1.62
4.13
Nathan D. Rice .
. 2.46
1.72
Joshua Collamore
* . 2.28
3.46
John Butler*. .
. 2.77
5.68
Isaac Booth* . ,
. 1.23
* Under date July 18, 1811, these persons, with Alford Adams,
Leonard Bump, Jesse Drake, David Grafton. Isaac Hills, James Little-
hale, Lewis Robbins 2d, Shadrach Snell, Vinal Ware, and George W.
West, are recorded as belonging to the Methodist Society.
OBJECTION TO MR. TRUE.
197
BAPTISTS.
Jacob Demuth . .
James Lermond*
Marble Alford . .
Abel Walker . . .
James Sinclair* . .
Daniel Howard*
Simon Fuller*. . .
Nathan Carver* • .
Marlboro' Packard* .
Barney Simmons* .
Sterling Davis* . .
Jacob Ring* . . .
William Peabody .
Oliver Pratt . . .
53.17
3.80
2.90
2.04
1.67
1.83
3.85
3.47
7.60
9.49
4.65
1.23
1.81
6.36
Jacob Sibley* . .
Thomas Daggett* .
Edmund Luce . .
Ezra Bowen* . . .
Richard Cummings*
Abel Le Doit . . .
Benjamin Buzzell .
William Boggs* . .
Spencer Walcott* .
James Littlehale . .
Peter Fales . . .
Zelotes Tucker . .
George W. West . .
$4.42
6.67
3.00
4.87
8.78
1.23
1.90
4.61
9.00
3.96
4.56
2.92
6.36
1810.
In May, and also in September, 1810, unsuccessful
attempts were made to reconsider the vote relieving
the Baptists and the Methodists from paying their
taxes to the collector. Sept. 17, it was " voted to dis-
miss the Rev. Henry True as minister of the town of
Union." Nov. 5, a similar idea was contained in an
article <<to see if the town will take measures, and
what they shall be, to dissolve the contract between
the Rev. Henry True and the inhabitants of this town
of Union, or act or do any thing relative to ministe-
rial or religious matters which may come before them."
.No action was taken till Nov. 19, when the town
voted to "adopt measures to dissolve the contract,
. . . and to choose a committee of three to state their
* Together with Mary Gay, Aaron Gleason, John Hemenway,
Ziba Simmons, and Simon Wingate, are entered on the town-records
July 18, 1811, as belonging to the Baptists.
May 6, 1811, the town voted to allow Samuel Hills, Stephen March,
Daniel Walker, Amos Walker, John Clark 2d, and Stephen Childs, to
"have the appropriation of their ministerial money to the support of
their own teacher." And, April 13, 1812, a certificate, signed by Samuel
Hills and Stephen March, states that Samuel Hills, Daniel Walker,
Amos Walker, John Clark, jun., Stephen Childs, John Whiting, John
Whitney* Nathan Barnard, and Stephen March, are members of the
religious society in Union, called the Second Congregational Society.
198 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
objections against him." The committee, viz. Ed-
mund Mallard, Thomas Nye, and Herman Hawes, at
an adjourned meeting, Nov. 19, made the following
statement : —
"Your committee, after due deliberation, have unani-
mously agreed to report as follows : —
" From our own daily observation, and the repeated com-
plaints of our friends and many others, supporters of the
Rev. Henry True, we are led to believe that the said Henry
True is unmindful of a large portion of his parishioners,
and treats his congregation with great partiality. We are
fully convinced that he, the said Rev. Henry True, treats
some of his parishioners in a familiar and friendly manner,
as a minister in our opinion ought to do ; while many others
are treated with great indifference, and, in some instances,
with an apparent studied neglect. We are of opinion that
the said Henry True's ministration and manner of instruc-
tion, for the reasons above stated, has [have] become un-
profitable, and [are] rather calculated to scatter, divide, and
wean the members of the Congregational Society in this
town from each other, than to cherish that equality, harmo-
ny, and friendship, without which the said society will be
soon broken up, and the great blessings resulting from such
regulated and properly conducted societies wholly lost.
We are fully convinced, that a large proportion of the said
Rev. Henry True's supporters are dissatisfied, and the dis-
satisfaction is still increasing, which lessens the number of
his supporters to that degree, that the ministerial tax on the
few remaining is very burthensome, and in some instances
peculiarly distressing. All which is humbly submitted.,,
The report was not accepted. The town adopted
the motion made by Jonathan Sibley, as follows :
" That it is the opinion of this town that the ministerial
taxes have become too burthensome to be borne, and pray
the Rev. Henry True to aid the town in taking such mea-
sures as will have a tendency to ease the town somewhat
of the burden." Philip Robbins, Josiah Robbins, Henry
Blunt, Jonathan Sibley, Walter Blake, Edmund Mallard,
and Nathaniel Bachelor, were chosen " a committee to pre-
sent the above to Mr. True, and try to treat with him on
the above subject."
PKOPOSALS BY MR. TRUE. 199
1811.
Jan. 7, 1811, the town voted 1 to accept the pro-
posal made by the Rev. Henry True, " that his parish-
ioners pay him the same tax upon the poll and the
same valuation of property as they paid him the first
year after said True's settlement."
The subject of dissolving the connection between
the town and Mr. True was often brought up, and
might have created much difficulty if he had insisted
on his salary during the whole of his ministry ; for the
town would have been obliged to pay it. Consequent-
ly, the warrants frequently contain articles in relation
to this subject. Many of them are substantially repe-
titions of others ; but they show the difficulty attend-
ing a dissolution of the connection between pastor and
people, and the inclination to have a legal adjustment.
1813.
June 19, 1813, the proposition was " to see if the
town will choose a committee to compromise with the
Rev. Henry True." They voted " to choose a com-
mittee to settle " with him. It consisted of Ebenezer
Alden, Nathaniel Robbins, Joseph Morse, George
Kimball, and Jonathan Sibley. The committee re-
ported,—
" That Mr. True has received nothing for his services for
his three last ministerial years ; that his legal demand upon
the town for said services is $1,273.44.
" That Mr. True makes the same proposition to the town
now that he made in January, 1811, to wit: 'that his par-
ishioners pay him the same upon the poll and the same tax
upon the same valuation of property as they paid him the
first year after his settlement;' or, in other words, if the so-
ciety will pay him the amount of the sums already assessed
for ministerial use, with the addition of $200 before the first
of March next, he will give a receipt in full for his salary up
1 At the same town-meeting it was " voted that the town consent
to have the Methodist Society petition to the Legislature " " for an
Act of Incorporation." Probably the petition was not sent.
200 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
to the present month ; which sum of $600 already assessed
with $200 added, amounting in the whole to $800, in the
opinion of your committee, is about what Mr. True would
have received the said three years, provided the said propo-
sition of January, 1811, had been properly met and properly
carried into effect.
" Your committee further report, that Mr. True will not
make any further demand upon the town for his salary the
year beginning the present month, from the strength of con-
tract subsisting between him and the town, provided the
town desired that he should continue his connection with
his society that time, and that he will receive his salary by
subscription.
" Your committee would recommend, that, on this pre-
sent day, an order be drawn by the proper officers upon the
treasurer for the sum of $600, and that the treasurer be or-
dered to give Mr. True a note of hand for the sum of $200,
payable next March, that Mr. True may receipt for said sum
of $800 agreeable to his proposal, which will bar all de-
mands by Mr. True upon the town for salary, up to the last
Wednesday in the present month.
" All which is respectfully submitted,
"Per order, Ebenk. Alden.
"Union, Sept. 6, 1813."
The report was accepted, with the exception of the
clause respecting the treasurer's giving to Mr. True
a note of hand.
1814.
May 9, the question was again brought forward
" to see if the town will dismiss the Rev. Henry True as
a town-minister. . . . Motioned* that whereas the Rev.
Henry True has repeatedly in the pulpit professed a
readiness to dissolve the contract between the town of
Union and himself as their pastor, whenever it was
their desire, — Voted that it is the desire of the peo-
ple of the town of Union, one of the contracting
parties, that the said contract with the Rev. Henry
True be dissolved, and expire at the expiration of
six months; and that the town-clerk be ordered to
INCORPORATION OF THE SOCIETY. 201
serve the Rev. Mr. True with an attested copy of
the above."
1815.
May 8, 1815, agreeably to an article inserted in the
warrant, the town " gave their consent " to have the
Congregational Society incorporated. Accordingly,
the Massachusetts Legislature, Jan. 31, 1816, passed
the following —
"Act to incorporate the First Congregational Society in the
town of Union.
"Sec. 1. — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the au-
thority of the same, That Nathaniel Robbins, Rufus Gillmor,
Ebenezer Alden, Robert Foster, Amos Barrett, John Little,
Joseph Vaughan, Elisha Bennet, Moses Morse, Jonathan
Carriel, jun., Calvin Morse, John Fogler, Abijah Hawes.
David Robbins, James Rice, Seth Luce, Jessa Robbins,
Herman Hawes, Amariah Mero, Thomas Mitchell, Nathan
Daniels, Levi Morse, John P. Robbins, Nathaniel Bache-
lor, William Dougherty, Fisher Hart, Caleb T. Jacobs,
William Hart, David Robbins, jun., Jonathan Carriel, Mica-
jah Gleason, Whiting Hawes, John W. Lindley, Ebenezer
W. Adams, Samuel Spear, John Tobey, David Carriel, Jere-
miah Mitchell, Thaddeus Shepard, and Noah Rice, with
such other inhabitants of the town of Union as do not be-
long to any other religious society, and such as may here-
after associate with them, with their polls and estates, be,
and they hereby are, incorporated into a religious society,
by the name of the First Congregational Society in Union ;
and the said society is hereby invested with all the powers
and privileges, and subjected to the same duties and requi-
sitions as other religious societies are invested and sub-
jected to, according to the laws and constitution of this
Commonwealth.
" Sec. 2. — Be it further enacted, That if any person liv-
ing in said town of Union, who may at any time hereafter
desire to become a member, of said First Congregational
Society, shall declare his or her desire and intention thereof
in writing, and deliver the same to the minister or clerk of
said society, and a copy of the same to the minister or
clerk of the religious society to which he or she may at that
18
202 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
time belong, such person shall, from the time of delivering
such declaration, be considered a member of said First Con-
gregational Society in Union.
" Sec. 3. — Be it further enacted, That when any member
of the said First Congregational Society may think proper
to secede therefrom, and to unite with any other religious
society in the said town of Union, the same course and pro-
cess, mutatis mutandis, shall be had and done as is presented
in the second section of this Act. Provided, however, that in
every case of secession from one religious society and join-
ing another, every such person shall be held to pay his or
her proportion or assessment of all parish or society taxes
legally voted by the society, prior to his or her secession
therefrom, in manner above pointed out.
" Sec. 4. — Be it further enacted, That any Justice of the
Peace for the county of Lincoln, upon application therefor,
is hereby authorized to issue his warrant, directed to some
member of said Congregational Society, requiring him to
notify and summon the members thereof to meet at such con-
venient time and place as may be appointed in said warrant,
to organize the said society by the election of its officers.
"Approved by the Governor, Feb. 1, 1816."
The warrant was issued by Stephen March, Esq.,
Justice of the Peace, to Ebenezer W. Adams, one of
the members of the First Congregational Society in
Union ; and the first meeting was held April 10, 1816.
1819.
After the incorporation of this society, parochial
matters were not acted upon as town-business. But
a settlement was yet to be made with Rev. Mr. True.
Nothing seems to have been done till April 15, 1819,
when Mr. True signed the following document : " I,
the subscriber, hereby release the town of Union from
all demands and claims whatever, and fully acknow-
ledge that I have no claim or demands against them."
Even this seems not to have been entirely satisfactory ;
for, May 8, the selectmen were chosen a committee to
wait on him, " and in behalf of the town to dissolve
the contract which was made with him at or about
SETTLEMENT WITH THE PASTOR. 203
the time of his ordination." The following report,
made at an adjourned meeting in May, was accept-
ed:—
" Whereas the inhabitants of the town of Union, on the
eleventh day of November, 1805, voted to pay the Rev.
Henry True an annual salary of four hundred dollars, so
long as he should continue to be the minister of said town ;
and whereas the said vote contains conditions to be per-
formed by either party wishing a dissolution of the connec-
tion between said parties, antecedent to such dissolution ; and
whereas the said True did, in April, A.D. 1816, discon-
tinue to be the minister of said town ; and whereas doubts
have arisen whether said vote or contract does not remain
in force, — now, therefore, I, the said True, and we, Micajah
Gleason, John Lermond, and John W. Lindley, in behalf of
said town, chosen for that purpose, do hereby agree to dis-
solve said vote or contract, and all contracts subsisting be-
tween said town and said True ; and we mutually agree to
waive all right of notice which either party may have pre-
cedent to said dissolution ; and I, the said True, for myself,
my heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, release
said town from all contracts heretofore made to me by said
town; and we, the said Gleason, Lermond, and Lindley,
on the part of the said town as aforesaid, discharge the said
True from all contracts and engagements which he may
have heretofore entered into- with said town.
"Henry True.
"Micajah Gleason, \
" John Lermond, > Committee.
"John W. Lindley, )
" Union, May 26, 1819."
By this act, Mr. True probably relinquished all that
was due to him before the incorporation of the so-
ciety.
The only other movement which the town as such
afterward made about sustaining public worship was
to " pass over an article," Sept. 8, 1823, " to see if the
town would raise a sum of money, to be divided
among the several denominations, to defray the ex-
penses of preaching the gospel."
204 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER XXL
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, 1816—1825.
Attempts to raise Money. — Dissolution of Mr. True's Pastoral Con -
nection "with the Church and Society. — Result of the Council. —
Proposals for uniting the Congregational Churches. — Obstacles to
a Union. — Union effected.
CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY.
The evils which existed while parochial business was
transacted by the town were not obviated by the incor-
poration into a society. At the meeting, April 10,
1816, called for organization, the society " voted that
$250 be raised by assessment for the support of the
Rev. Henry True." Similar votes were passed in 1817
and in 1818. No money was voted in 1819. In 1820
it was " voted to raise money by subscription for minis-
terial use." In 1821, propositions, first to raise $200,
and next $150, both failed; as did another to raise
$200 in 1824. Mr. True, however, received but a small
part of what was voted ; a few presents were made to
him by friends ; and, during the latter part of his
ministry, he received a small sum for preaching as a
missionary in the vicinity.
After several indications of the necessity of a disso-
lution, the church, March 7, 1820, " voted unanimously
that they did not wish the pastoral relation between
them and the Rev. Henry True dissolved at present."
But, Sept. 21, the church " met at Brother James Rice's^
agreeably to previous notice; and it was mutually
agreed that the pastoral relation between the Rev.
Henry True and the church should be dissolved,1 and
the pastor choose the council and fix the time for
effecting the object ; and that the pastor may remove
all relation from the church, if he should be desirous of
1 This change in the purposes of the church was brought about by
the manoeuvring of Mr. Noah Emerson, then preaching in town.
RESULT OF COUNCIL. 205
it." The churches in Wiscasset, Dresden, and War-
ren, were sent to ; but the Dresden church was not
represented. The council met Oct. 25.
" After organization and prayer by the moderator, pro-
ceeded to business.
" Preparatory to the deliberations of the occasion, the
church was requested to communicate the several results of
council relating to ecclesiastical affairs of the town. After
examining the documents exhibited, the council came to the
following result : —
" 1. The connection between pastor and church, minister
and people, is peculiarly endearing and solemn and sacred,
and has been, in all ages in the Christian church, instrumen-
tal in building up the Redeemer's kingdom. The council
now convened deem this connection too sacred to be dis-
solved for trivial reasons ; but they doubt not that causes
may exist and circumstances occur which justify a separa-
tion.
" 2. The council, finding that, at a regular meeting of the
church, Sept. 21, 1820, it was mutually agreed that the pas-
toral relation between the Rev. Henry True and the church
be dissolved, and that the pastor choose the council and fix
the time for effecting that object, by the authority vested in
them, declare said connection dissolved accordingly.
"3. The council are happy to find the church have passed
the following vote : ' The church of Christ, of which the Rev.
Henry True is pastor, voted, Oct. 25, 1820, that they highly
esteem their pastor as a neighbor and friend, as a citizen and
Christian ; and that they regard and respect him as a consci-
entious and faithful minister of the Christ, and deeply
lament that circumstances are such that a dissolution of his
pastoral relation to them has become expedient. The church
is still anxious for his welfare, and prays for his health and
prosperity.' And the council cordially unite in giving him
their approbation as a minister of Christ, and recommend
him as such to the service of the churches, wishing him to
administer gospel-ordinances as occasions may require."
[Then follow pertinent words of counsel and of sympathy
with the pastor; after which the fourth section contains
similar sentiments for the church.]
"5. The council think it their duty, before closing this
result, to introduce the following statement of facts : —
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206 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
" It appears from letters missive, calling an ex parte coun-
cil, that those who were erected by that council into a
church-state had, ' after long waiting and many painful
efforts to settle difficulties subsisting between them and the
majority of the church, finally remonstrated, protested, and
withdrew.' And yet it appears from the result of the coun-
cil which ordained Mr. True, that, in the unanimous opinion
of said council, Mr. True's confession of faith, and the
answers he gave to questions proposed to him by the coun-
cil, obviated and did away all the objections brought against
him by the professedly aggrieved. It appears also from the
result of a mutual council, called in 1808, to adjust difficulties
subsisting between the brethren of the church in Union, that
the church manifested toward the disaffected a conciliatory
disposition ; and the council regretted, although a full recon-
ciliation was truly desirable, that they had not the satisfac-
tion to see all matters of difficulty done away. It appears
likewise that the ex parte council, whose result has been
carefully examined, ' exhort and beseech the church to repent
and turn to God with all their heart, with supplication and
prayer, and to amend their ways, and return to their brethren,
and endeavor to heal the wounds they had occasioned.'
And yet great exertions have been made from time to time,
and even by members of the said ex parte council, to unite
the two churches ; thus expressing a wish to hold Christian
fellowship with those whom they had severely censured and
virtually discarded. Indeed, the council deem it proper dis-
tinctly to state, from the testimony before them, that the
original objectors to the Rev. Mr. True have, in the opinion
of the council, manifested unreasonable opposition to his
labors and ministry in this place ; and that their advisors
have been wanting in that uniting and conciliatory spirit
which is required in the disciples of Christ, and especially in
them who are set for the preaching and defence of the gos-
pel of peace.
" Voted that the scribe read this result in public.
" H. Packard, Moderator.
" D. F. Harding, Scribe."
This* was the termination of Mr. True's ministry.
On the same day, the church chose the Rev. Jonathan
Huse, of Warren, to act as moderator, "during the
time of their destitution of a pastor."
NOAH EMERSON. 207
About this time, measures were taken to effect a
union of the First with the Second Congregational
Church. Conversations were held; but there does
not appear to have been any action till June 17, 1820,
when, at a meeting of the two churches, the Rev.
Amasa Smith was chosen moderator, and Daniel F.
Harding scribe ; and it was " voted that each church
have a copy of " certain written " proposals " for a
union. It was also voted to adjourn the meeting to
July 6, which should " be observed as a day of public
fasting and prayer ; and that the Rev. Messrs. Ingra-
ham, Mitchell, Huse, True, and Smith be requested to
attend on that day." At the adjourned meeting, Mr.
Huse was chosen moderator in the place of Mr. Smith,
who declined; and the First Church "resolved that
a union at that time was unadvisable."
In a communication to the Maine Missionary So-
ciety, extracts from which are published in their four-
teenth annual report, appended to the anniversary
sermon of the Rev. Benjamin Tappan,is the following
language of Noah Emerson, who was engaged in
preaching during the greater part of this year : —
" I labored in the place six weeks, with very little apparent
success. But it then appeared that the Lord was there by
the special influence of his Spirit. On the 24th of Septem-
ber, at the close of the public exercises of the sabbath, a
meeting of religious inquiry was appointed for the benefit
of those that might entertain a hope of renewing grace, and
for that of others who might be under serious impressions.
Eight such individuals attended the first meeting, which was
solemn and interesting. One about fifty years of age ap-
peared, and declared, as David, ' what the Lord had done for
his soul.' One such meeting was held every week ; and, in
every meeting for six successive weeks, the number of con-
victed sinners and hopeful converts continued to increase ;
so that the cries of distressed souls and praises of renewing
grace were alternately heard, which seemed on the ©ne hand
to increase the distress and deepen the conviction, while on
the other to temper the joy and increase the thankfulness
for saving mercy."
208 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOBY.
Oct. 25, 1820, the day when the council met to
ratify the proceedings in regard to Mr. True's dismis-
sion, the following vote was passed by the church of
which he had been the pastor : —
" Whereas no regular communication has been made from
the Second to the First Congregational Church in this place,
relative to a union ; and whereas there are some members of
the First Church whose feelings and wishes have not been
consulted, and who have expressed an opinion that there is
not a probability of a harmonious co-operation in ecclesias-
tical matters, if a union should take place between the
churches, — therefore voted unanimously, that, if any mem-
bers of this church cannot be reconciled to its proceedings,
they shall have liberty to remove their relation from this
church, and join any sister-church they may wish."
"Nov. 1, 1820, voted that the proposals presented by the
Rev. Noah Emerson be read. Voted to acquiesce in said
proposals, in case Mr. Samuel Hills withdraw his relation to
the Second Church, and in case the sisters of the First
Church acquiesce." The last vote was reconsidered Nov. 16,
and it was "voted to invite the Second Congregational
Church to return, agreeably to proposals of Rev. Mr. Emer-
son. . . . Nov. 23, voted by both churches unanimously to
unite ; " that " the proposals be read next sabbath, and the
churches sit together. Voted to dismiss both moderators,
viz. Rev. Jonathan Belden and Rev. Jonathan Huse."
The following were the " proposals : " —
" Considering that, several years ago, a number of our
church (i.e. the First Congregational Church in Union) be-
came dissatisfied, and, without our consent, were formed into
a separate Congregational Church by an ex parte council ;
that, since the formation of this church, an unhappy division
has existed, which has occasioned many party feelings, much
to the dishonor of religion ; that, while this division con-
tinues, we have but little reason to think that the ministra-
tions of the gospel will be constantly supported among us ;
that a number of individuals, giving satisfactory evidence of
piety, wish to join a Congregational Church and enjoy the
privileges of the same, but, being much grieved by this un-
happy division, are hence prevented from joining either
church ; considering also that a number of said separate church
UNION OF THE CHURCHES. 209
have of late manifested a disposition to join us again, — we,
the First Congregational Church of Christ in Union, de-
sirous of healing the unhappy division, and of restoring
peace and prosperity to the church, feel it our duty and pri-
vilege to invite the said separate church to join us, and, as
many of them as went out from us, to return to their former
standing in our church, on the following conditions : —
" 1. That we, Samuel Hills, Amos Walker, David Starrett,
Daniel Walker, Abigail Hills, Sarah Barnard, Martha Wil-
liams, Judith Walker, Jane Cutting, Judith Clark, members
of the said separate church, do confess to God and man
whatever we have done amiss, and ask forgiveness of both.
" 2. That we, John Gleason, Seth Luce, David Robbins,
James Rice, William Daggett, Dorothy Law, Mary Mitchell,
Mercy D. Mitchell, Anna Gleason, Mercy Robbins, Rhoda
Ellis, Rebecca Gowen, Mary Tobey, Jedidah Daggett, Daniel
Shepard, Sarah Shepard, members of the First Congregational
Church in Union, do, on our part, confess to God and man
whatever we have done amiss, and ask forgiveness of both.
" 3. That we, said members of both churches, do now for-
give each other, and do solemnly promise never to mention
any past difficulties to the offence or grief of any member ;
and, should any one be so unhappy as to be overtaken in
such a fault, he or she, thus in fault, shall immediately con-
fess it, and be forgiven.
" 4. That we, the First Congregational Church of Christ
in Union, do now receive you, the said separate church, into
our church in regular standing and in full communion, upon
your giving renewedly your assent to our confession of faith
and articles of covenant.
"5. This exhibition we make in public before all, that
others also may fear. (1 Tim. v. 20.)"
[Accordingly], " on the following sabbath, the united
church made a public exhibition of their union, which, after
mutual confession and forgiveness of both churches, was
effected by the First Church's receiving the Second into
their church in regular standing and in full communion, as
soon as the Second had given a public assent to their confes-
sion of faith and articles of covenant." l
Although by this act the two churches came to-
gether, there were some church-members who did not
1 Mr. Emerson, in Appendix to the Rev. Dr. Tappan's Discourse.
210 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
join in it, and they considered themselves not bound
by it. Dec. 28, there was chosen a committee who
made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain the records of
the First Congregational Church. Jan. 9, 1821, the
committee was increased; and, "to make further ex-
ertions to obtain former church-records." Mr. True
offered to meet the clerk, and let him copy all he
wished ; but he declined giving up the original records,
as he desired to deliver them to his successor. Jan. 16,
it was voted, " that the deacons and clerk be a com-
mittee to treat with Deacon Abijah Hawes and
others respecting a communication received from
them, and to try to effect a further union of churches."
April 26, voted "that Brother James Rice deliver
those church-vessels, now in his care, into Deacon
Daniel Walker's hands for keeping." At the same
meeting, a committee was chosen and " instructed to
inform our dissenting brethren, that we expect them
to accede to the articles of our union, or withdraw, or
agree upon a mutual council, previous to our next
communion." May 5, voted " that an address be pre-
sented to Deacon Hawes, to be communicated to our
dissenting brethren." The address, which has not
been found, drew out the following reply : —
" From the brethren and sisters who decline acceding to
the articles of union of churches , to Mr. Daniel Walker,
moderator of a church-meeting, held May 5, 1821 : —
" Taking into view the communications already passed
on the subject of the union, we are constrained to conclude
that your communication, containing only presumptuous
accusations, inconsiderate assertions, and rash declamations,
was purposely intended to terrify.
" We, however, wish you to examine circumstances im-
partially, and be undeceived respecting the votes referred to.
The vote of the First Church, giving liberty to withdraw
and join a sister- church, you have not correctly stated.
And in no way does it impose on us any duty or obliga-
tion to avail ourselves of its privileges ; and, until we do
choose to avail ourselves of it, it is of no effect, and we
stand in the same condition as if the vote had never passed.
WANT OF HARMONY. 211
"The 'vote of the same church at a subsequent meeting,
to invite conditionally the Second Church to unite,' was not
a vote of the church, but a vote of five members only, and
the meeting irregularly and imprudently called. 'And the
still later vote to receive them' was not a vote of the
church, but a vote of five members at an adjournment of an
irregular meeting. And they did not unite by any vote,
but in compliance with certain extraneous articles of agree-
ment.
" There has never been an actual reception of the Second
Church into the First ; but a part of the First have seceded,
and united with the Second.
" We earnestly pray that we and you may be made to see
the errors of our steps, that if possible we may be delivered
from persecution, and stand by our covenant without intimi-
dation ; and, finally, that you may conduct with wisdom, and
not be left to such measures as shall extend the mischiefs
already created.' '
May 24, the church-records state : "Whereas the church
has been charged with taking unlawfully certain articles of
church-furniture, claimed as the property of Abijah Hawes,
of Union, and are prosecuted by him for the same, —
" Voted that we consider the property ours ; that we have
a perfect right to it in law and equity ; that we feel no fear
of being unable to substantiate our claims before a proper
tribunal ; but, considering that we are on both sides the
professed disciples of Christ, brother going to law with
brother, we are willing, for the sake of peace and to avoid
throwing a stumbling-block before the world, to relinquish
our just rights, to give up said property, and pay what cost
has accrued. Provided, however, this act of ours shall not
be construed into an acknowledgment of the claim [of]
Deacon Abijah Hawes and others who unite with him to be
a church in any form.
" Voted that a committee of three be appointed to com-
municate the foregoing vote to Deacon Hawes, and en-
deavor to effect a settlement on the principles avowed in
said vote.
" Voted that Brothers Daniel Walker, Thomas Mitchell,
and David Bobbins, be this committee.
"June 16. The committee appointed at our last meeting
to settle with Deacon Hawes report and return a receipt of
the settlement.
212 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Sept. 6. "The brethren who consider themselves the
First Congregational Church in Union, being convened at
the house of Rev. Henry True, voted they are willing to
confer with the brethren, Seth Luce, John Gleason, James
Rice, David Robbins, and the sisters similarly situated,
upon matters of agreement existing between them, and, if
deemed expedient, join in calling a council for advice."
" October. Voted [by the other party] that Brother
William Daggett sign letters missive, on our part, for a
mutual council."
"Nov. 15, a committee was chosen to confer with Rev.
Henry True relative to a union. Voted to dismiss Brother
Samuel Hills from this church, agreeably to his offer to
withdraw. . . . Dec. 19, after mutual confessions and for-
giveness on both sides, it was simultaneously voted to be
united in one body." The meeting was " closed with prayer
by Rev. Mr. True."
Several persons now united, on condition that they
might leave to join any other church within six months.
The church-meetings held Dec. 26, 1821, and Jan. 10,
1822, were opened with prayer by Mr. True. But by
the next church-meeting, Feb. 9, Mr. Hills had re-
turned, claiming membership, and asserting that by his
withdrawal he was to lose nothing but the privilege
of voting. Accordingly, new dissatisfaction arose, and,
at the church-meetings which followed, it would seem
that Mr. True and Mr. Hills were absent; for the prayer
was offered by Deacon Hawes.
After Mr. Hills's dismission, Nov, 15, there seems to
have been a disposition to harmony and co-operation.
At the next meeting, Dec. 19, Rev. Mr. True, Thomas
Mitchell, and Daniel Walker, were chosen a commit-
tee to regulate and adjust past records. But the sub-
sequent prevarication and evasion of Hills disgusted
some. Many very severe remarks had been made
against Mr. True. He had been falsely charged with
want of piety, neglecting family worship, &c. June
13, Mr. True, in accordance with his request made
June 8, and Mr. Jonathan Carriel, were dismissed from
the church, and recommended to Mr. Huse's in War-
RECONCILIATIONS. 213
ren ; and, Sept. 14, it was voted to dismiss Mary Bar-
rett, Sibyl Carriel, Mary True, Harriet Harding, and
George Wellington, to unite with any sister-church.
" June 12, 1824, voted, Whereas Brother Samuel Hills, on
account of difficulties in the church of Christ of which he
was a member, made a proposal to withdraw and unite with
some sister-church, if said church would dismiss him and
said proposals should be complied with, [and] the proposals
were altered at the time the council were here and under the
inspection of Brother Hills ; [and] therefore we, the church,
thought it our duty to dismiss Brother Hills, without the
pledge specified in the first proposals, and we regret that
any misunderstanding exists between Brother Hills and the
church, — we ask forgiveness of Brother Hills and all con-
cerned, wherein we have offended. We, therefore, the Con-
gregational Church of Christ in Union, think[ing] it to be
the duty of all Christians, especially of the same order, who
live in the same town, to unite in worshipping God, move to
invite Brother Samuel Hills to meet with us when he can
make it convenient, that we may confess our faults one to
another, and pray one for another that we may be healed. . . .
July 9, voted and chose a committee to visit Brother Hills, to
consult further with him respecting his being- Reconciled with
the church, and the church with him. . . . Aug. 17, chose a
committee to inquire and make report what personal objec-
tion existed in the church against Brother Samuel Hills
being received to the fellowship of this church/'
Accordingly, Sept. 11, the motion made June 12 was
accepted, with the modifications that he was persuaded
to make a motion to withdraw, and that it was sup-
posed the alteration by the council was made with
Mr. Hills's knowledge and consent. And, Oct. 13,
1825, it was " voted to invite Brother Samuel Hills to
withdraw his relation from the church in Waldo-
borough, and unite with the church in this place."
And, May 14, 1826, it was voted to receive Brother
Samuel Hills into this church, agreeably to his dismis-
sion from the church in Waldoborough.
Thus, at last, the two churches were united. Nearly
all the members of each of them have since died. Mr.
Hills, on his death-bed, sent for Mr. True, and told him
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214 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
he should be glad " to talk with him half a day ; but his
strength was not equal to it." He did not experience
the composure which he had supposed his doctrines
would inspire. He complained of the darkness and
clouds that hung around the valley of death. The
asperity of feeling between different individuals has sub-
sided. Several who left the church at the time of the
union returned to it. Of the members now composing
it, none are more cordial and kind to each other than the
few who belonged to the two before they were united.
CHAPTER XXII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, 1825—1850.
Preachers after the Union. — Freeman Parker. — George W. Fargo. —
Ordination and Dismission of Oren Sikes. — Meeting-house. — Or-
dination and Dismission of Uriah Balkam. — Samuel Bowker's
Ordination.
Though the First and Second Congregational Churches
and Societies were united, they were not able to sup-
port preaching constantly. Several persons officiated
a few sabbaths, and some for a few months. Rev.
Freeman Parker, of Dresden, preached two summers.
After the lapse of ten years, the church, Nov. 13, 1830,
gave an invitation to George W. Fargo to become the
pastor, with a salary to be raised by taxation on pro-
perty. Arrangements were made for an ordination ; but
he was not settled. May 11, 1831, Mr. Oren Sikes 1 was
"called," with a salary of four hundred dollars a year.
1 Mr. Sikes, son of Jonathan and Cyrena (Hoar) Sikes, was born at
IiUdlow, Mass., Aug. 26, 1805, and graduated at the Bangor Theologi-
cal Seminary in 1830. He was installed at Mercer, Jan. 30, 1833,
and dismissed May 2, 1846. He is now settled at Bedford, Mass.,
where he was installed June 3, 1846. His wife, Julia Knox, daughter
of Hon. Ebenezer Thatcher, and granddaughter of Gen. Henry Knox,
was born at Thomaston, Dec. 1805. Children, all born in Mercer : —
1. Oren Cornelius, Oct. 12, 1834; 2. Julia Cyrena, June 24, 1836;
3. Catharine Putrfam, Dec. 14, 1838 ; 4. Henry Knox, May 8, 1841 ;
5. Caroline Holmes, Nov. 19, 1843, who died in Bedford, Sept. 9,
1846.
PREACHERS AFTER THE UNION. 215
May 29, arrangements were made for the ordination.
Invitations to form the council were sent to the Ortho-
dox Congregational Churches and their ministers in
Waldoborough, Newcastle,.Warren, Thomaston, Cam-
den, Belfast, Prospect, and^Albion, and to the Rev. E.
Gillett, D.D. and Rev. Ai&asa Smith. " Voted Rev.
Henry True be invited ta sit in the council." June 7,
the " ecclesiastical council convened, organized, and
examined Mr. Oren Sikes, the candidate, at Mr. John
Little's ; and, on "Wednesday the eighth day of June,
1831, the public services of the ordination were per-
formed in the Old Meeting-house." Sept. 29, 1832,
Mr. Sikes " requested the connection between him and
the church to be dissolved." A council was convened,
Oct. 18, 1832, in which were represented the churches
in Waldoborough, Camden, and Bristol; and his
request was confirmed. No other clergyman was
ordained till after the erection of the meeting-house.
The meeting-house, containing fifty-two pews, was
built between the Common and Seven Brook, on the
north side of the road, in 1839. It cost about three
thousand three hundred or three thousand four hun-
dred dollars. At its dedication, Jan. 22, 1840, two
hymns, composed for the occasion by Mr. Hannibal
Hamlin, then a trader in town, were sung by the choir,
under the direction of Dr. Dakin, of Hope. On the first
Lord's Day after the dedication, the Rev. Horatio Da-
ley, from Portland, commenced preaching in it, and
continued six months. Mr. Uriah Balkam, a graduate
of the Bangor Theological Seminary, began on the
last Sunday in October, 1840. Ere long, an agreement
was made with him to preach one year for five hun-
dred dollars ; there being an understanding, that if, at
the expiration of that time, it should be agreeable to
both parties, he should be ordained. In April, 1841,
when but about one half of the year was gone, he was
asked to be settled. He was ordained June 15, 1841,
on a salary of five hundred dollars, after an examina-
tion by a council consisting of pastors and delegates
from the Hammond-street Church in Bangor, the First
216 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Church in Prospect, the Congregational Churches in
Belfast, Waldoborough, Washington, Camden, War-
ren, and the two in Thomaston. The introductory-
prayer and reading of the Scriptures were by J. G.
Merrill, of Washington ; prayer by Mr. Woodhull, of
Thomaston ; sermon by Prof. Shepard, of Bangor ;
ordaining prayer by S. McKeen, of Belfast; charge
by N. Chapman, of Camden ; right hand of fellow-
ship by E. F. Cutter, of Warren; address by Mr.
Thurston, of Prospect; concluding prayer by S. C.
Fessenden, of East Thomaston; and benediction by
the pastor. Mr. Balkam x continued, to the entire satis-
faction of the parish, till he preached his last sermon,
Sept. 20, 1844, when, to their great regret, he was
obliged to leave them for want of adequate support.
Dec. 7, 1844, Rev. Samuel Bowker,2 the present
pastor, began to preach, under an engagement for six
months. Oct. 21, 1845, the church voted to give
Mr. Bowker a call to become their minister ; and it
was concurred in by the parish, Nov. 6. His letters
of acceptance to the church and to the parish are
dated Nov. 13, 1845. The ordination took place, Dec.
10, 1845. Churches in Waldoborough, Warren, Wash-
ington, Camden, Searsport, and the two churches in
Thomaston, were represented. The services were, in-
vocation and reading of the Scriptures by R. Wood-
hull ; introductory prayer by J. G. Merrill ; sermon by
S. Thurston ; consecrating prayer by N. Chapman ;
charge to the pastor by E. F. Cutter; right hand of
1 Rev. Uriah Balkam, son of John and Abigail Balkam, was born
at Robbinston, Washington County, Maine, March 27, 1812, and gra-
duated at Amherst College, in 1837. He was installed, Jan. 21,
1845, over the First Parish, or Congregational Society, in Wiscasset.
Aug. 23, 1841, he married Martha M., daughter of John M. and
Eleanor Prince, of Guilford, in Piscataquis County. She was born
at Portland, Maine, June 25, 1819, and died June, 1849.
2 Samuel Bowker, son of Lazarus and Agnes (Lennan) Bowker,
born at Phipsburg, Maine, Sept. 20, 1812, was a member of Bowdoin
College one year, and graduated at the Bangor Theological Seminary
in 1843. He married, March 21, 1848, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph
and Frances (Tyler) Eaton, born at Harpswell, June 3, 1821, and has
one son, Charles Irwin.
METHODIST SOCIETY. 217
fellowship by J. Dodge ; address to the church and
people by S. C. Fessenden ; concluding prayer by R.
Woodhull ; benediction by the pastor.
CHAPTER XXIII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.— METHODISTS AND
BAPTISTS.
Methodist Church and Society.— First Methodist Preaching.— Circuits
and Districts. — Organization. — Places of Worship. — Meetinjg-
house. — Camp Meetings. — Parsonage. — Preachers. — Baptist
Church and Society. — Central Baptist Church.
METHODIST SOCIETY.
Some incidents in the history of the Methodist Chureh
and Society have been noticed in connection with the
ecclesiastical proceedings of the town. The records
of the society are incomplete and obscure ; and from
them but little can be gleaned. The first1 sermon in
town, by a Methodist, was preached by Jesse Lee. It
was probably in 1793, during his first journey into
Maine. It was delivered in the barn of Uufus Gillmor,
a short distance north of the Lower Bridge. At this
time, the whole of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and
Maine constituted one district, called "Boston District,"
of which Mr. Lee was presiding elder. " In 1796 it was
found expedient to form a circuit, near the mouth of the
Kennebec, called Bath Circuit, ... extending as far east
as Union. ... At this time, the members in the several
societies in Maine amounted to three hundred and
fifty-seven, having among them six preachers regularly
travelling At the annual conference in 1797, it
was found expedient to divide Boston District, and to
constitute the several circuits in Maine into one dis-
1 Mr. John Butler.
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218 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
trict" 1 " February, 1804, Union Circuit, or a part of it
at least, formerly belonged to what was called Bath and
Union Circuit. But, at the annual conference held at
Boston [in 1803 ], it was agreed, as the work of reforma-
tion had been great in different parts of the circuit, and
the prospect was enlarged, it should be divided into two,
of which Union Circuit is one, and Bristol the other." 2
In 1806, Maine was divided into the Portland and Ken-
nebec Districts. In 1816, Union and Hampden were
united ; but were divided again in 1819. In July, 1828,
Union became a station, retaining still a class in Liber-
ty, and another partly in Hope and partly in Appleton.
Organization and Places of Worship. — The
Methodist Society in Union was organized by Aaron
Humphrey, in the house of Jason Ware, in 1797. The
first preaching in the Old Meeting-house was by a
Methodist. Methodist meetings for a considerable
time were held there on the Lord's Days. Money was
raised in town-meeting to support the preaching.
When a strong movement was made to settle a Con-
gregational minister, the Methodists withdrew, and
held meetings at the dwelling-houses of Jason Ware
and Matthias Hawes, till the Round Pond School-
house was built ; after which they assembled there.
The Meeting-house was built by subscription about
1810. At first the seats were loose. The sexes sat on
different sides of the broad aisle. Wall-pews 3 were
built, probably in 1811 ; the seats being still continued
in the part designed for the body-pews. Subsequently,
pews were substituted for the seats ; and, at a later
period, pews were built in the gallery. March 18,
1 Greenleafs Sketches, p. 281. 2 Methodist Church Records.
3 The following note shows how one pew at least was to be paid
for : "I, the subscriber, do promise to pay Matthias Hawes, Jason
Ware, Cornelius Irish, and Nathan D. Rice, trustees for building a
Methodist Meeting-house in Union, twenty-three dollars ; it being for
pew No. 27, in the proposed house, and which is to be paid as follows,
viz. : Three quarters of said sum to be paid in corn, grain, neat-stock,
merchantable lumber, materials for building said house, or any pay
that will suit a carpenter which may be employed in building said
house, on demand ; and one quarter in cash in four months from this
date. — Witness my hand, this 8th day of March, 1809. Edwd. Jones."
METHODIST SOCIETY. 219
1830, the society was incorporated by the name of
" The First Methodist Episcopal Society in Union."
Camp-meetings. — The first camp-meeting began
June 29, 1826. It was on the hill in the woods, west
by south of Round Pond. The only other camp-
meeting was held June 28, 1827, west of the Methodist
Meeting-house, on the knoll where now stands the
house of Moses Luce.
Parsonage. — Aug. 30, 1834, a committee was
chosen to raise subscriptions for a parsonage, for mak-
ing a contract, &c. A building was erected a few
rods west of the meeting-house. It is leased to the
preacher for the time being.
Preachers. — There never has been any ordained lo-
cal preacher in Union, except the Rev. Cornelius Irish.
The following list of all the ministers who have been
stationed at Union, from the time of the organization
of the church, has been furnished by Mr. Madison
Hawes, now of California : —
1798. Robert Yellalee, Aaron Humphrey.
1799. John Finnegan, Comfort C. Smith.
1800. Timothy Merritt, Reuben Hubbard.
1801. Timothy Merritt, Comfort C. Smith.
1802. Joseph Baker, Daniel Bicker.
1803. Daniel Ricker. — 1804. David Stimson.
1805. Samuel Hillman, Pliny Brett.
1806. Samuel Hillman, Jonas Weston.
1807. Samuel Baker. — 1808. John Williamson.
1809. John Williamson, Benjamin Jones.
1810. David Stimson, George Gary.
1811. Nathan B. Ashcraft. — 1812. Amasa Taylor.
1813. JohnJewett. — 1814. Jona. Cheney, Joseph B.White.
1815. Benjamin Jones.
1816. Benjamin Jones, Daniel Wentworth.
1817. William McGray, Jeremiah Marsh.
1818-19. Henry True. — 1820. John Briggs.
1821. John Lewis.
1822. John Lewis, Nathaniel Devereux.
1823-24. Sullivan Bray. — 1825-26. David Stimson.
1827. Ezra Kellogg, John Lewis.
1828. Ezra Kellogg. — 1829. Gorham Greeley.
220 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
1830. Ezra Kellogg. — 1831. Cyrus Warren.
1832. Peter Burgess. — 1833. Benjamin Jones.
1834. Charles L. Browning. — 1835. Joshua Higgins.
1836-37. Daniel Cox.— 1838-39. Moses P. Webster.
1840-41. Rushworth J. Ayer.
1842-43. Paschal P. Morrill.
1844-45. Mark R. Hopkins. — 1846. James Thwing.
1847. H. K. W. Perkins. — 1848-49. Benjamin Bryant.
1850. M.Mitchell.
BAPTIST SOCIETIES.
The early Baptists, as well as the Methodists, have
already been alluded to. * But little remains to be
added, except what is contained in the few items
which follow. In 1801, a church was organized by
Elders Snow, Hall, and Fuller. It was called the
Second Baptist Church in Hope. The members lived
in that town and in the east part of Union. Their
meeting-house, which was very small, was in Hope.
They had no pastor, but were occasionally supplied
with preaching by the neighboring ministers. In this
condition they continued till the year 1808, when " a
revival of religion took place in this town and the
towns adjoining; and the chnrch was revived, and a
number joined, under the administration of Elder An-
drew Fuller."1 Daniel Pearson preached in 1809. " In
July, 1809, the brethren in the town of Union and the
Second Church in Hope met, and agreed to unite
together, and alter the name, and call it Union Church.
At this time, Elder James Steward was with us once
a month, until 1813. . . . We had no regular preaching
until 1815, when Elder S. A. Flagg preached once a
month for upwards of a year." In January, 1816, a new
interest was awakened. " Elder Lemuel Rich came
amongst us, and preached the word with good success,
so that about forty-seven were added to the church
this year, which more than doubled our number. . . .
In 1818, our church was well united ; and, our places
of worship [being] insufficient to commode the people,
1 The extracts are from manuscript-notices by one of the church.
BAPTIST SOCIETIES. 221
it was thought best to build a meeting-house. This
was accomplished in 1819." x It was erected near
Lermond's Mills. In 1820, the church numbered
eighty-five members. Serious difficulties soon fol-
lowed, and these continued for a long time. In Au-
gust, 1821, Elder Rich left the society ; having preached
" almost five years, one quarter of the time." In 1821,
Elder Abiathar Richardson and others preached.
In 1822, Elder Rich returned. In " 1824, the church
had some of the most singular trials with some of our
most esteemed members, which racked the church
from centre to circumference.2 ... In 1826, the con-
nection between the church and Elder Rich, as pastor,
was dissolved ; [he] having preached about four years
longer, one quarter of the time." In 1826, the church
consisted of fifty-three members ; sixteen of them be-
longing to Hope, and a few to other towns. " In a few
months, obtained Elder A. Richardson to labor with
us one fourth of the time. About five years, the church,
generally, travelled comfortably along the most of the
time. March 3, 1830, set apart Brother Simon Fuller,
by ordination, to the work of an evangelist." In the
winter of 1833, the church was so small and the mem-
bers so scattered, that there were no meetings. In the
spring, Elder S. Fuller moved into town, and began to
preach. The attendance was small ; " but a general
union prevailed amongst them, and quite happy sea-
sons were enjoyed. ... A sabbath-school was set up,
and continued two summers ; but there was so little
interest felt upon the subject, and so much opposition
and bigotry, that it could not be sustained. . . . April,
1 Probably an error for 1818.
2 In the Congregational and Methodist Churches, as well as the
Baptist, there were several cases of church- discipline. Qn inquiring
into them, it was found that a transcript of the records would give
accounts so brief that it would be unjust to the persons arraigned to
publish them, without going into details impossible, in many of the
cases, to be obtained. In the Congregational Church there was one ex-
communication for Universalism. In some cases, the parties arraigned,
if their own statements had been recorded, would be considered by
many persons as " more sinned against than sinning ; " though there
were other cases where, if ever, church- discipline was justifiable.
222 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
1837, a Quarterly Meeting of the easterly part of the
Lincoln Association was held with the church, and
protracted a few days, which proved a blessing." Elder
Samuel Baker was here this year. " In May, 1838,
Elder Rich again administered to the church two
years, a quarter of the time." September, 1840, Elder
Nathaniel Copeland commenced preaching half the time
for one year. About December, 1842, " Elder Amariah
Kelloch was here occasionally for a short time ; then
we had no other preaching till 1835, when Elder Rich
began another term of service, preaching one fourth of
the time for two years." After this there was "no
regular preaching."
The Central Baptist Church was organized Feb. 28,
1844. For some time, meetings were held on alternate
Sundays, in the hall of the tavern. Subsequently the
worship has been in the town-house. There have been
different preachers, and the meetings have generally
been held once a fortnight.
CHAPTER XXIV.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. — UNI VERS ALISTS.
First Universalist Preaching. — Organization. — Maine Association. —
John Bovee Dods. — Constitution. — Preachers. — Meeting-house.
— Bell.
First Preaching. — The first sermon by an Univer-
salist was preached, probably, at a third service on the
Lord's Day, about the year 1814 or 1815, at the house
of George W. "West, on the place since owned by
Calvin Gleason, Esq., about two miles north-west of
the Common. There are no records respecting the
early movements of the denomination, and conse-
quently no satisfactory account of them can be given.
It was several years before a second sermon was deliv-
UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY.
223
ered. About the year 1820, perhaps a little later, there
was preaching occasionally.
Organization. — April 11, 1825, the following state-
ment was addressed —
" To the Clerk of the First Congregational Society in the
town of Union,
" The following is a list of persons who have organized
themselves into a religious society by themselves, and wish
to withdraw themselves from said First Congregational So-
ciety : —
Nathaniel Bachelor
Herman Hawes
Samuel Stone
David Robbins, jun.
Amariah Mero
Henry Fossett
Henry Blunt
Ebenezer Cobb
John Drake
Walter Adams
Elisha Harding
Jesse Drake
Abiel Gay
Lewis Bachelder
Olney Titus
Fisher Hart
Richard Gay
Elijah Gay
Nathan Hills
John Lermond
John Bachelder
Reuben Hills, jun.
Nathaniel Tobey
David Bullen
Phillips C. Harding
Joseph Gleason
Nathan Bachelder
George Cummings
John Fogler
Ward Maxcy
Nathaniel Bachelder, jun.
Charles Hichborn
David Cummings. "
Maine Association. — A letter, dated July 1, 1826,
says : " On Wednesday and Thursday of the present
week, we had the Universalists' Association for the
State of Maine at our central meeting-house in Uni-
on ; — seven ministers and as many delegates ; a large
concourse of people from different parts of the State ;
many ladies, who made a good appearance ; excellent
music; lectures more popular than any which have
ever been delivered aforetime in this town. I did not
see at meeting one Methodist or one Calvinist."
Another letter, dated June 21, 1829, says : " Yester-
day, about 5 o'clock, p.m., all connection between
J. B. Dods, alias J. D. Bovee, and the Universalist
Society here, was dissolved by mutual consent. Bovee
224 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
asked a dismission, and his society readily granted
his request. We have had a remarkable excitement
in Union and Thomaston for about ten or fifteen
days,"1 &c.
Constitution. — Sept. 9, 1840, the society was re-
organized. Rev. Albion S. Dudley, Elisha Harding,
and Nelson Cutler, were chosen a committee to draft
a constitution ; and Oct. 3, after some modifications,
the following, drawn up by the chairman, was adopt-
ed:—
" Whereas it is the duty of every rational creature to pay
his homage to the Supreme Creator and Governor of the
universe ; and whereas we are permitted in this land the un-
restricted liberty of conscience and right of private judgment
in matters of faith and duty, and are allowed to worship
God in whatever manner it may seem good to ourselves, — we,
the undersigned, believing in the existence of one living and
true God, whose nature is love and whose perfections are
infinite, and confiding in his gracious purpose, as revealed to
us in the gospel of his Son and the Scriptures of truth, to be-
stow upon all his intelligent offspring a glorious and blessed
immortality; and further believing that it is at once the
duty and interest of all men to be careful to maintain good
works i for these things are good and profitable unto men,
— do hereby, for the better security of these objects, unite
ourselves in an associate capacity, and agree to be governed
by the following constitution :
"1. This society shall be called the First Universalist
Society in Union.
"2. The officers of this society shall consist of a clerk ; a
prudential committee, who shall manage the affairs of the
society ; a treasurer, who shall collect all subscriptions and
pay them out at the order of the prudential committee.
" 3. This society shall hold their annual meeting on the
third Monday in November, at such place as the standing
committee may direct ; at which meeting the officers of the
1 There was great excitement during nearly the whole time of Mr.
Dods's residence in Union. Very grave charges against him were
published in the Bangor Register, March 23, 1820. . These were re-
printed, together with his reply, in the Thomaston Register, Jan. 9,
1827. Mr. Dods was subsequently at Taunton and at Provincetown,
Mass. Afterward he was in various parts of the country, lecturing on
animal magnetism.
UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY.
225
society shall be elected, and such other business shall be
transacted as shall appear for the good of said society.
"4. It shall be the duty of each member to contribute for
the support of the ministry liberally as he can, without in-
jury to himself and family.
" 5. Any person may become a member of this society by
signing the constitution.
"6. Any member may withdraw from this society by
leaving a written notice of his intentions with the clerk of
the society.
"7. No member shall be expelled from this society, except
by a vote of two-thirds of its members, and not then unless
the reasons of such expulsion are given in a public manner
to the society.
"8. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the trans-
action of business; but a less number may adjourn.
"9. This society is hereby declared independent of all
other ecclesiastical associations, and will acknowledge no
allegiance to any other power save the express will of a ma-
jority of its own members, in accordance with its own con-
stitution and the laws of the land.
"10. This constitution may be altered or amended at
any time, by a vote of the majority of the members present
at any regular meeting, provided the amendment proposed
is submitted in writing at a previous meeting and secured
with its ministers.
" Obadiah Harris
Charles Miller
Christopher Young
Nathaniel Bachelor
Lyman Alden
Noah S. Rice
Cyrus G. Bachelder
Nelson Cutler
John P. Bobbins
George Cummings
Fisher Hart
William Gleason
Stephen S. Hawes
Elisha Harding
Samuel, Hills
John S. Bean
Milton Daniels
20
Asa Messer
Edward Alden
Jesse W. Payson
Gavinus Henderson
Rufus Gillmor
Lewis Bachelder
Ebenezer Cobb
Nathan Hills
John Payson
Wm. G. Hawes
Nathan Bachelder
James Rice
George W. Morse
Spencer Mero
Willard Robbina
A. S. Dudley."
226 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Preachers. — Nov. 4, 1841, Rev. Mr. Dudley, who
probably came here in the preceding spring, tendered his
resignation ; and it was resolved that " the connection,
as pastor, between himself and the First Universalist
Society, be amicably dissolved." He is now a phy-
sician and dentist in Boston. Mr. Whittier was the
preacher in 1842. In 1843,1 the preacher was F. W.
Baxter.2
The Meeting-house, containing sixty-two pews, and
situated a little back of the first meeting-house built in
town, was erected in 1839, and dedicated on Christ-
mas Day.
The Bell, weighing twelve hundred and thirty-nine
pounds, was cast by Holbrook, of Boston; bought
Oct. 22, 1839, and hung the day before Thanksgiving.
It cost $322.14 ; and the wheel and yoke, $25. It was
paid for by subscription, as follows : —
Nelson Cutler . . . $15
C. G. Bachelder . . 15
Jason Robbins ... 15
Nathan Bachelder . . 15
John Payson ... 15
John Burns . . . . 10
Ebenezer Cobb ... 10
Willard Robbins . . 10
Nathaniel Robbins, jun. 5
James Littlehale, jun. . 6
Jesse Robbins, jun. . 2
Rufus Gillmor ... 10
Nathaniel K. Burkett . 2
Spencer Walcott .
George Cummings .
Leonard Barnard .
Josliua Morse . .
Samuel Hills
James W. Brown .
William Libbey . .
William G. Hawes
William Gleason .
Ebenezer Alden
Augustus Alden
Nathaniel Bachelor
Nathaniel Robbins .
10
5
10
5
2
3
5
5
15
5
25
20
1 Dec. 4, 1843, " voted that the Congregational Society in Union
be allowed to have the use of the bell, when not occupied by the
Universalist Society, provided they employ the same man to ring that
is employed by said Universalist Society, and paying him for the
same.
" N.B. The time of ringing to be arranged by the committees of the
two societies, and notice given from the pulpit."
2 During his ministry, the lamps in the Universalist Meeting-house
were procured for $20.50, by subscriptions in sums of one dollar and of
fifty cents each, with the addition of five dollars, given by the Female
Sewing Circle, making the total amount raised $25.
SIGNS AND OMENS.
227
Fisher Hart . .
Levi Morse . .
Lewis Bachelder
Spencer Mero .
John Bachelder .
Elisha Harding .
James Rice .
Thurston Whiting
Jonathan Eastman
P. C. Harding .
John Lermond, jun,
Lyman Alden .
John M. Thorndike
Stephen S. Hawes .
$15
10
15
15
15
15
10
2
10
10
5
5
5
5
Jason Davis . .
Reuben Hagar .
Philo Thurston .
John P. Robbins
Jesse Robbins, jun.
James Grinnell .
Charles Fogler .
Joseph Gleason .
Reuben E. Lyon
Marlboro' Packard,
Zuinglius Collins
D. F. Harding .
John W. Lindley
jun
5
2
2
2
2
5
5
5
5
2
CHAPTER XXV.
DELUSIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
Signs and Omens. — Witchcraft. — Bewitched Horse.
SIGNS AND OMENS.
Not entirely unconnected with ecclesiastical history is
that of popular delusions and superstitions. Many-
persons recollect the time when the breaking of a
looking-glass was regarded as premonitory of a death
in the family. If a cock crowed at the door, a stranger
would come. "It was a bad sign" for a person to
pick up a pin, if he found it with the point toward
him. The acceptance of a knife, scissors, or other
sharp instrument as a present, would certainly lead to
a cutting of friendship between the receiver and the
giver. A ringing in the left ear indicated slander
from some one in that direction. Good news would
follow a ringing in the right ear. If accidentally the
new moon was first seen over the left shoulder, it was
ominous of evil ; but the reverse if it was over the
right shoulder. When a corpse lay unburied over Sun-
228 DELUSIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
day, there would certainly be another death in town
before the end of the week. These and similar super-
stitions were considerably prevalent in the country at
the beginning of this century ; and there were some
persons who, in their credulity or for mischief, took
delight in inculcating them. Even now, kindred fol-
lies are perpetuated by the advocates of " clairvoy-
ance " and " spiritual rappings."
WITCHCRAFT.
At the time of the persecutions in Salem in 1692,
there were but few persons, either in Europe or Ame-
rica, who did not believe in witchcraft. Though the
community in general is now too enlightened for such
an absurdity, there may yet be a few individuals cher-
ishing, amid many misgivings, the follies with which
their minds were imbued in childhood. Some men
and women have not forgotten the dreadful stories
which the large school-girls, during the intermissions,
mischievously repeated to the small children, till their
eyes opened wide and cheeks turned pale. The super-
stition, however, never gained much credence among
adults in this town ; though there was one case which
attracted considerable attention.
About the year 1813, a horse belonging to Henry
Esensa was parted with to Samuel Daggett. Mrs. Es-
ensa, who unfortunately had the reputation among a
few ignorant people of being a witch, was dissatisfied
with the trade. When the horse was taken away, she
remarked that it had "always been a plague, and
would never do the Daggetts any good." It was not
not long before the horse was mysteriously untied in
the stable. No vigilance could prevent it. John To-
bey, an upright sea-captain, familiar with every kind
of knot used on shipboard, warmed a new rope,
" made a horse-knot, and put it round the horse's neck
in proper style." He went to the barn, bored several
holes through the planks, took half a dozen over-hand
knots, and then carried the rope up to a brace and
made it well fast, sailor-fashion, with two or three
round-turns, and two or three half-hitches. After re-
WITCHCRAFT. 229
maining a short time at the house, he started to go
home ; and, on stopping at the barn to see if all was
right, he discovered that the horse and rope were gone.
A light having been procured, the horse was found in a
remote part of the barn, with the rope coiled securely
around him. At another time, the horse* was on the
haymow, and the rope was stuck so far into the hay
that it required two or three men to pull it out. At
another time, the waxed ends, which were used about
the seizings, were found lying uncut where the ani-
mal had been standing.
These circumstances could not be accounted for.
The horse was tied, and the barn-doors nailed. Snow
was sifted round so as to show tracks, if any person
came. But the horse was nevertheless untied, and
crawled out under the sill of the barn, leaving the
marks of his shoes, where it was considered impossible
for the animal to get through. If any person was pre-
sent, the witches would not do any thing. Accord-
ingly, after the horse was fastened, all the company
would retire to the house, where Mr. Daggett would
entertain them for an hour or so with the revolution-
ary and sailors' songs and stories. Then, going to
the barn, they would find the horse untied. A great
number of feats was performed. The community was
excited. People thronged from all parts of the town.
Even from Searsmont, persons came to see the be-
witched horse. On some nights, fifty or one hundred
and fifty, prompted by a variety of motives, were in
attendance. Finally, to put an end to the witchcraft,
the tips of the horse's ears were cut off, and to the
bleeding ends was applied a red-hot shovel. This act
drove off the witches. But Samuel Daggett told Cap-
tain Tobey that he broke the end of his awl in fixing
the seizings to the rope to prevent it from ravelling,
and left the point in the rope, and that afterward there
was no more trouble. Shrewd people have latterly
"guessed" that the Daggetts, and possibly one of
Captain Tobey's sons, knew more about the matter
than they ever had credit for.
20*
230 POLITICAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER XXVI.
POLITICAL HISTORY.
Voting. — Separation of Maine from Massachusetts. — Harmony and
Diversity of Sentiment. — Embargo. — Petition to the President
of the United States. — Reply. — Remonstrance. — Petition to the
Legislature of Massachusetts. — Celebration, July 4, 1810. — Cele-
bration in 1814. — Ode and Hymn.
VOTING.
The votes of a town are not always an index of its
political sentiments. Elections in Union, as well as
as in other towns, have been affected by tempe-
rance,1 sectarianism, private animosities, sectional
1 The subject of temperance has at times excited much interest.
The First Temperance Society, like all contemporary societies, did not
exclude the use of wine. This was excluded in the Second Tempe-
rance Society, formed Nov.* 24, 1835. At the town-meeting, April 5,
1830, it was voted to pass over an article " to see if the town will
authorize the selectmen to grant licenses for mixing liquors." The
subject was again brought forward Sept. 13, and it was distinctly
" voted not to have licenses granted to sell mixed liquors." April 2,
1832, "voted that the selectmen be authorized to grant licenses to
retailers to sell mixed liquors in their stores or shops." April 1, 1833,
it was voted to drop the article on the subject. " Sept. 24, 1836,
agreeable to notice, the selectmen, treasurer, and town-clerk met, and
licensed Ebenezer Cobb, as an innholder, to sell strong liquors. Li-
censed Nelson Cutler as a retailer." April 17, 1843, it was voted to
drop the article on licensing. Members of the Temperance Society
commenced prosecutions. April, 1844, the town voted not to refund
the amount of a fine imposed on Henry Fossett, jun., " at the last
December term of the District Court, Middle District, on complaint
of D. F. Harding." An unsuccessful application to the town was
made in April, and again in May, 1846, «* to see if the town will re-
fund the fifty dollars fine-money paid by Nathan Hills, in consequence
of retailing ardent spirits without license." April 5, 1847, the select-
men were instructed " to sue for penalties that may be due for selling
spirituous liquors without license."
The first person ever licensed here was Philip Bobbins. This was
within one or two years after he came. Before temperance societies
were popular, almost every man in the country drank ardent spirits.
Rum was considered a necessary beverage. Washington, in detailing the
distresses of his army, speaks of the want of rum much as he does of the
want of provisions. Every workman thought it indispensable. Sling
SEPARATION OF MAINE. 231
feelings. Besides, in some instances, the records are
not so explicit as they ought to be. Accordingly, the
results, as recorded on the town-books, are sometimes
to be taken with qualifications.
SEPARATION OF MAINE FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
One of the subjects early brought before the town
was the separation of Maine from Massachusetts.
May 7, 1792, at a town-meeting held in the barn of
Moses Hawes, there were 27 votes to 2, in favor of
a separation according to a resolve of the General
Court, passed Feb. 13 in that year. Dec. 2, 1793, the
town again voted in favor of a separation, and chose
Samuel Hills, Edward Jones, and Moses Hawes, a
committee "to write to Hon. Peleg Wadsworth, as
chairman of a committee consisting of a number of
gentlemen from various parts of the district, on the
18th of October last, holden at the court-house in
Portland." April 6, 1795, it was voted, 21 to 12, " to
have the three upper counties in the province of Maine
set off for a separate State." May 10, 1797, there
were 26 yeas and 12 nays for separation; April 6,
1807, yeas 53, nays 69 ; May 20, 1816, the yeas were
41, nays 61, and the number of legal voters 216.
Sept. 2, 1816, yeas 56, nays 98 ; at which time Robert
Foster, having 83 votes, was chosen a delegate to
represent the town in a convention to be holden at
Brunswick, Sept. 30 ; John Lermond having 62 votes,
and Nathan Blake, 1. Aug. 26, 1819, there were for
separation, 19 ; against it, 84. Sept. 20, 1819, Robert
Foster was chosen delegate to the convention, to form
and flip, as well as rum, were common at stores and taverns. Spirit, in
some form, as well as wine, was provided at balls and parties. Even
funeral solemnities were sometimes disturbed by the rappings of toddy-
sticks. There have been cases, though none are recollected in Union,
in which the tumblers and the decanter stood on the coffin, and that,
too, in worthy families. The present generation has no conception of
the extent of drinking throughout the country at the close of the
revolutionary war, and afterward. The practice of " treating," when
friends meet, has died away ; and the false notions of former days
have of late been giving place to a sense of duty, of humanity, and of
happiness.
232 POLITICAL HISTORY.
a State Constitution. Dec. 6, 1819, of 53 votes, 49 were
in favor of the constitution formed in convention at
Portland, Oct. 29, 1819. Since that time, Maine has
been an independent State.
HARMONY AND DIVERSITY OP SENTIMENT.
According to the records, the vote for Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor, as recently as 1797, 1798, and
1799, was unanimous. After the extraordinary vote of
1800, in which the two candidates are voted for, both
for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, there was a
change. In 1801, there was one dissentient vote ; in
1802 and 1803, there were two. It is not improbable
that great electioneering efforts were made in the fol-
lowing years, by persons who moved into town. The
harmony which had existed was disturbed ; and violent
political feelings were shortly aroused.
EMBARGO.
After the embargo was laid, an article was intro-
duced into the warrant for the town-meeting, Sept. 17,
1808, " to see if it be the mind of the town to petition
the President to have the embargo taken off, or act or
do any thing relative thereto." The vote passed in
the affirmative. " Samuel Hills, Edmund Mallard,
William Pope, Esquire [Nathaniel] Robbins, and Capt.
[Peter] Adams, were chosen" the committee, and in-
structed to " withdraw and report as soon as possible."
The town voted " to accept the . . . petition, with such
alterations as the committee think proper to make
with regard to punctuation and spelling only;" and
that the committee should send it to the President.
The document, however, is not to be found. Presi-
dent Jefferson replied in a printed circular dated Oct. 8,
1808, superscribed to " Nathaniel Robbins, Esq."
It is said that the government-party thought the
other party took advantage of them, and had the peti-
tion brought forward and accepted when there were
but few persons present. They made an application
to the other party for a copy of the petition. It was
EMBARGO. 233
unsuccessful. They then issued a remonstrance which
was signed by all the party, and forwarded to the Pre-
sident. The other party, confident of their strength,
brought forward the subject again; and the following
extracts, penned by William White, are from the town-
records : —
PETITION TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Feb. 6, 1809, upon an article "to see if the town will
petition the Legislature of this State to use their influence
in any constitutional method which they may devise, to
effect a removal of the embargo -laws, or act or do any thing
relative thereto. . . . Voted that a committee be chosen to
draught a petition to the Legislature of this State. . . . Voted
that Charles Pope, Ebenezer Alden, Samuel Hills, Calvin
Chase, and Esquire Robbins, be this committee. . . . Voted
that this meeting be adjourned to Monday next.
"Feb. 13, 1809, voted to petition the legislature of this
State to intercede for us in a constitutional way to have
repealed the embargo-laws. Voted to accept the following
resolves : —
" To assemble at all times in an orderly and peaceable
manner, consult upon the common good, and request of the
Legislature, by way of addresses, petitions, or remonstrances,
a redress of the wrongs we suffer, is a right guaranteed by
the constitution of the United States and of this common-
wealth ; and at a time when our greatest and most essential
rights are attacked, — the right to acquire, protect, and enjoy
property, and even our liberties threatened with being wrested
from us, — it not only becomes a right, but a duty of the first
importance, to watch with a vigilant eye every encroachment,
and, as a free and independent people, remonstrate against
every innovation, in a firm, manly, and dignified manner.
" Resolved, as the sense of this town, that we view the
several acts of Congress, laying an embargo and prohibiting
all foreign commerce by sea and land, as arbitrary, oppres-
sive, and unconstitutional.
" Resolved that the numerous restrictions and embarrass-
ments laid upon our coasting-trade are calculated to reduce
many thousands of our seafaring brethren, together with all
those whose dependence is on commerce, to a state of abject
penury and want.
234 POLITICAL HISTORY.
" Resolved that the raising a standing army in a time of
peace, and subjecting the civil power to the military control,
is alarming to our apprehensions, and creates a trembling
for the liberties of our country.
" Resolved that the power given to the collectors and their
deputies places them entirely out of the reach of the law ; af-
fording them a strong temptation to oppress, and deprive the
oppressed of the right of a trial by jury, with the almost cer-
tain consequence of being taxed with treble cost, without
the collectors' being obliged to prove an intent to evade the
law, or so much as a well-grounded suspicion ; and the au-
thority given them to array the naval and military force of
the United States against the peaceable inhabitants in the
prosecution of their lawful business, is a stretch of power
never before witnessed in the annals of a free, independent
people.
" Resolved that the patriotic though ineffectual struggle
made by the minority in Congress to save the country from
impending ruin, entitles them to our warmest gratitude.
" That a respectful address be transmitted to the Legisla-
ture of this State, stating our grievances, and praying that
honorable body to use every constitutional measure which
they in their wisdom shall deem expedient to put a speedy
termination to our sufferings.
" Voted to accept the following petition : —
" To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"We, the inhabitants of the town of Union, county of Lin-
coln, beg leave humbly to represent, that we have long en-
dured the evils which press peculiarly hard on this portion of
the Union, resulting from the strange system of policy pur-
sued by the government of the United States ; and, having
petitioned the executive of that government without deriving
the least consolation, but on the contrary the burthens hav-
ing been unmercifully and unconstitutionally increased, we
now turn our eyes and our hopes to the Legislature of this
State. We look to you as our fathers, feeling an inward
presentiment that when we ask bread you will not give us a
stone, and when we ask a fish you will not give us a ser-
pent. We are willing to eat our bread in the sweat of our
faces ; but we are not willing that our hard-earned morsel
EMBARGO. 235
should be plucked from the mouth of labor by idle spies or
greedy harpies.
" The spot we inhabit does not furnish the luxuries nor
all the conveniences of life. Much of our living has been
drawn from the proceeds of articles exported ; and, if we are
not suffered to barter our lumber for needful supplies, vast
numbers will be reduced to a most forlorn and wretched
condition.
" Many owe in part for lands, or are indebted for the
necessaries of life, and no way is left to cancel the demands.
A dreary prospect opens upon the eyes of the debtor. He
knows not which way to turn himself. His former sources
are dried up. Dejection is seated on his brow; we see no
possible method of procuring a sufficiency of money even to
pay our taxes. To demand them from us now would be like
exacting brick without straw. We cannot compare the pre-
sent with the past without a sigh ; for we experimentally feel
that our glory is departed. We turn back our eyes to the
golden days of federal administration, and lament the folly
that has reduced us to our present humiliating condition.
" The embargo-system appears void of all form and come-
liness, the offspring of night and twin of chaos. The total
occlusion of the port of Boston, effected by the aid and ter-
ror of military force, is a wanton stretch of power, calculated
not only to injure the capital, but to spread additional dis-
tress among the inhabitants of the district of Maine. The
constitution of the United States plainly shows us, that the
coasting trade within the State is not under the care of Con-
gress even for regulation. This trade has been subject to
regulations of Congress, only because no inconvenience re-
sulted therefrom.
" But, as this Legislature must know our circumstances
best, we pray you, gentlemen, to take this remaining branch
of trade under your direction. We feel the honorable Legis-
lature of this State will not philosophize on the word regu-
late, so as to make it mean annihilate.
"We pray you to take our case into serious consideration,
and, as far as the constitution will authorize, do that for us
which your wisdom and patriotism shall direct. We are
willing to submit to any laws founded in good policy and
directed to the good ; but we esteem the constitution of the
United States and the calls of nature paramount to any law
of Congress. We pledge ourselves to support such mea-
236 POLITICAL HISTORY.
sures as your wisdom shall direct for our relief. If we are
by others considered the most worthless part of the com-
munity, and threatened with having our blood drawn from
us, still we humbly trust that you will view us in a different
light, and grant us a ray of hope to cheer our spirits.
" That the Guardian of empires may direct and protect
you in this trying season is the prayer of your memorialists.
" Voted that the town-clerk * sign the petition to the
General Court."
FOURTH-OF-JULY CELEBRATIONS IN 1810 & 1814.
There was probably no time when politics ran so
high as in 1810. In that year, each party had its
Fourth-of-July Celebration. In the night preceding
the Fourth, a straight and graceful liberty-pole, about
seventy feet high, erected by the democratic party,
was cut down by a member of the other party, who, it
has since been ascertained, was Samuel Bunting. The
orations of Mr. Whiting, of Warren, and William
White, Esq.,2 were delivered in the meeting-house,
the one in the forenoon and the other in the afternoon ;
and the occasions were known long afterward as " the
morning and afternoon service." It was agreed that
the old cannon "should speak" for both parties; who
dined, the federalist at Rufus Gillmor's, and the demo-
cratic in a temporary booth in front of John Little's.
In the Boston Weekly Messenger, July 15, 1814, is
the following account of the celebration in that year
by the federal party : —
" The birthday of our nation was celebrated at Union with
lively emotions of joy. The celebration was intended as
1 This vote was probably passed because the town-clerk was a lead-
ing man in the opposite party.
2 Mr. White's oration was printed. The following is the " Dedi-
cation : Neither through fear or affection, but of mere charity, —
the author of these sheets bestows them upon that snarling, hungry
horde of curs, called * The Critics.' " On the preceding page, " the
public are advertised not to read a single page of this pamphlet, un-
less they undertake it entirely at their own hazard ; as the author
has no concern in the thing, — being determined to receive no reward
from such as may be gratified with the perusal, and to make no
remuneration to those who may esteem their labor lost."
FOURTH-OF-JULY CELEBRATIONS. 237
well in honor of the great events in Europe which have
secured, as those which obtained, our independence. The
Washington Benevolent Society in Union was joined by a
great number of citizens of that town, Warren, Waldobo-
rough, Thomaston, and the vicinity. The oration by George
Kimball, Esq., would rank high among productions of this
class. It exhibited an able and correct view of the origin
and leading measures of the two great political parties
which have divided our country, in a chaste style. Aiming
principally at correctness and utility, it rose occasionally
into brilliancy, and communicated an electric shock to the
audience, which was evinced by loud and repeated testimo-
nials of applause. Two hymns and an ode were prepared
for the occasion. They do great honor to their author. The
music has rarely been excelled on any similar occasion. A
handsome and liberal dinner was provided under the direc-
tion of Captain Barrett and Major Gillmor. The escort
duties were performed by the Union Light Infantry in a
soldier-like manner. The honors of the ..table were, at the
request of the company, conducted by the Washington Be-
nevolent Society. Major Foster, their president, took the
chair, assisted by Nathaniel Bobbins, Esq., and the other
officers of the society. Every part of the celebration evinced
4 the feast of reason and the flow of soul.'
"ODE. — SUNG AT TABLE.
" Tune — 'Adams and Liberty.*
" Our fathers, impelled by the zeal of reform,
Sought a lodgment secure from the scourge of oppression ;
Ariel directed their bark through the storm
To a land wild and drear from the hand of creation,
Which destiny's page,
Erom time's early age,
Had marked an asylum from ambition's rage ;
"Where altars to freedom in future should rise,
In majesty towering from earth to the skies.
Soon the labors of industry gladdened the hills,
And the vales with the music of artists resounded ;
The commerce of Europe, restricted by ills,
Cast a look on the empire 4 the pilgrims ' had founded;
Where liberty sate
In majesty's state,
Securing to commerce a happier fate ;
At once she resolved again to be free,
And the snow of her robes whitened every sea.
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238 POLITICAL HISTORY.
Columbia the blest, with unparalleled stride,
Ascended the steep of her national glory ;
The blaze of her grandeur soon wounded the pride
Of the mistress of ocean — the lion, in story ;
Her hero arose,
All harm to oppose,
Maintained her rights in the face of her foes,
Till the angel of battles proclaimed the decree,
' Great "Washington conquers — Columbia is free.'
Old Anarch, the author of man's greatest curse,
Soon broke the sweet calm that her policy cherished ;
Of spirits infernal the fostering nurse,
The demon enlisted the imps he had nourished.
Prom their caverns they poured,
A poisonous horde,
More deadly than pestilence, famine, and sword ;
But Justice eternal holds dominant sway,
And darkness is deepest at dawning of day.
The flames of the far-famed Moscow proclaimed,
That yet to stern virtue remained probation ;
And the son of the Czars has the trial sustained,
And purchased redemption for every nation.
Delusion must cease,
Truth's empire increase,
Till the * star of our peace ' shall appear in the east ;
Then altars to freedom again shall arise,
And their incense ascending envelop the skies.
Then virtue shall take her ascendance again,
Political truth guide political reason ;
No more shall that phantom, philosophy, reign,
Adherence to principle ne'er be made treason ;
But philosophers keep
Their ' eternal sleep?
And their vile host of demons be laid in the deep,
And ages successive their freedom defend,
Till darkness and day in eternity blend.
"HYMN. — SUNG IN THE MEETING-HOUSE.
"Tune — <OZd Hundred.1
" Creator God ! the first, the last,
The same in future as in past,
Enthroned in majesty above,
Eternal Source of life and love, —
"When man, forgetful whence he came,
.Contemns thy law, profanes thy name,
He's in thy hand, one awful breath
Blasts him in everlasting death.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 239
When nations lose respect to God,
They make atonement with their blood;
But when their sins no more abound,
He breaks the sword and heals the wound.
So Europe, while she fed her lust,
Was with a tyrant's bondage curst ;
But when she looked in faith to God,
He heard, and broke the scourging rod.
Almighty God ! thou art our trust,
We kiss the rod, we feel it just ;
But spare us, that we may adore
And praise and serve thee evermore."
The other hymn sung on the occasion was mot
printed.
CHAPTER XXVII.
POLITICAL HISTORY.
(Continued.^)
Members of Congress. — Governors. — Lieutenant-Governors. — Town
Representatives. — Justices of the Peace. — Coroners. — Post Of-
fices and Postmasters.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
A vote was passed Dec. 18, 1788, when the Federal
Constitution was about to go into operation, not to
ballot for a member to Congress, as the " General
Court had not furnished the town with a resolve for
it." Accordingly, the first voting for any officer, under
the Constitution of the United States, was for a repre-
sentative, Oct. 4, 1790, when William Lithgow had
nine votes, and Daniel Cony two. There was no elec-
tion. Jan. 25, 1791, " William Lithgow, jun., had every
vote of the town present, which was thirteen." At a
third trial, April 4, 1791, the record states, " The inhabi-
tants met, and made choice of William Lithgow, jun. ;
twenty-four votes." At the meeting, Nov. 2, 1792, for
choosing three representatives to Congress, Edward
240 POLITICAL HISTORY.
Cutts for the county of York, Enoch Freeman for the
county of Cumberland, and Waterman Thomas for
the three lower counties, "had each twenty votes.
Of the other candidates, Tristam Jordan for York
had twenty-one, Peleg Wadsworth for Cumberland had
nineteen, and Henry Dearborn for the three lower coun-
ties " had twenty. At a second trial, April 1, 1793, the
delegate for Congress, Peleg Wadsworth, had thirty-
five votes ; Nov. 3, 1794, Henry Dearborn had nineteen,
as representative for the Eastern District; Nov. 7,
Isaac Parker, subsequently Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts, had sixteen votes,
Feb. 6, 1797, twenty-nine votes, and May 10, thirty-
seven votes ; and, May 10, Henry Dearborn had one
vote. Nov. 5, 1798, Silas Lee had thirty-two, and
Nathaniel Dummer five votes. Nov. 3, 1800, Silas
Lee had thirty-nine votes. Mr. Lee resigned; and,
Sept. 20, 1801, Nathaniel Dummer had thirty votes.
After this time, the votes, according to the records,
are as follows ; —
1801, Dec. 7. Orchard Cook, 31.
1802, April 1. Orchard Cook, 64.
1802, June 7. Samuel Thatcher, 49.
1802, July 9. Samuel Thatcher, 36; Martin Kinsley, 2;
Jonathan Sibley, 2.
1802, Nov. 1. Samuel Thatcher, 31.
1804, Nov. 5. Samuel Thatcher, 22 ; Orchard Cook, 45.
.1806, Nov. 3. Orchard Cook, 50 ; Mark L. Hill, 26.
1808, Nov. 7. Orchard Cook, 66; Alden Bradford, 67.
1810, Nov. 5. Alden Bradford, 40; Peleg Tolman, 57.
1812, Nov. 2. Abiel Wood, 140; Erastus Foot, 2 ; Daniel
Rose, 2.
1814, Nov. 7. Thomas Rice, 50 ; James Parker, 23.
1816, Nov. 4. Thomas Rice, 43 ; James Parker, 25.
1817, Jan. 9.. Thomas Rice, 27 ; James Parker, 23.
1817, May 1. Peter Grant, 37; James Parker, 27.
1817, Sept 29. Peter Grant, 23 ; Joshua Gage, 4.
1818, Nov. 2. Peter Grant ;* Joshua Gage.1
1819, April 5. Thomas Bond, 56; James Parker, 24.
1 Number of votes not recorded.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 241
1820, Nov. 6. James Parker, 30 ; Ebenezer Herrick, 16.
1821, Jan. 8. Joshua Gage, 25; Ebenezer Herrick, 12;
Peter Grant, 1.
1821, May 7. Ebenezer Herrick, 30; Joshua Gage, 26;
James Parker, 3.
1822, Nov. 4. (No record.)
1823, April 7. Jeremiah Bailey, 113; Mark L. Hill, 3;
Daniel Rose, 11; Ebenezer Herrick, 1;
Ebenezer Thatcher, 1 ; Edwin Smith, 1 ;
Isaac Barnard, 1.
1823, June 30. Jeremiah Bailey, 48; Mark L. Hill, 8;
Ebenezer Herrick, 4 ; Samuel Thatcher, 7 ;
Oliver Pratt, 1 ; M. Hill, 1.
1823, Sept. 8. Ebenezer Herrick, 60 ; Mark L. Hill, 9.
1824, Sept.13. Ebenezer Thatcher, 52; Ebenezer Herrick,
8 ; Ebenezer Cobb, 1.
1825, Jan. 3. Ebenezer Thatcher, 47 ; Albert Smith, 2.
1825, April 4. Ebenezer Thatcher, 88 ; Ebenezer Herrick,
20 ; Albert Smith, 3 ; Henry True, 1.
1825, Sept.12. Ebenezer Herrick, 35; Daniel Rose, 25;
Albert Smith, 2.
1826, Sept.ll. Joseph F. Wingate, 43 ; Daniel Rose, 34.
1828, Sept. 8. Joseph F. Wingate, 73.
1830, Sept.13. Edward Kavanagh, 104; Moses Shaw, 93.
1830, Nov. 22. Moses Shaw, 52 ; Edward Kavanagh, 54.
1833, Jeremiah Bailey, 128; Edward Kavanagh,
129 ; John McKown, 11.
1834, Sept. 8. Edward Kavanagh, 152; Jeremiah Bailey,
147 ; John McKown, 10.
1836, Sept.12. Jeremiah Bailey, 139 ; Jonathan Cilley, 112 ;
Edwin Smith, 3 ; George Fish, 1.
1836, Nov. 7. Jeremiah Bailey, 101 ; Jonathan Cilley, 99.
1837, April 3. Jeremiah Bailey, 136; Jonathan Cilley, 92.
1838 April 2. Edward Robinson, 163; John D. McCrate,
137 ; William F. Farley, 18.
1838, Sept.10. Benj. Randall, 196 ; John D. McCrate, 160.
1840, Sept.14. Benjamin Randall, 210 ; Joseph Sewall, 146.
1843 Sept.ll. Freeman H. Morse, 139; Charles Andrews,
127 ; Charles C. Cone, 12.
1843, Nov. 13. Freeman H. Morse, 128 ; Charles Andrews,
116; Charles C. Cone, 7.
1844, Sept. 9. Freeman H. Morse, 198 ; John D. McCrate,
182; Charles C. Cone, 13.
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242 POLITICAL HISTOKY.
1844, Nov. 11. Freeman H. Morse, 183 ; John D. McCrate,
171; Charles C. Cone, 14.
1846, John D. McCrate, 179 ; Freeman H. Morse,
171 ; Zury Robinson, 16.
1847, Freeman H. Morse, 135; Franklin Clark,
137; Charles C. Cone, 13.
1848, JohnD. McCrate, 161 ; Rufus K. Goodenow,
172 ; William H. Vinton, 14.
1849, Isaac Reed, 182 ; Charles Andrews, 172.
GOYEKNOR AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
There is no record of votes for Governor or Lieute-
nant-Governor before April 2, 1787. The warrant for
the town-meeting on that day contains an article " to
see whom the town will choose for Governor, Lieute-
nant-Governor, and senator for the year ensuing."
The record of the meeting would convey the idea that
the result depended entirely upon the inhabitants of
Union ; for it states, " By written ballot, made choice
of John Hancock for Governor, and Major- General
William Heath for Lieutenant-Governor." April 3,
1788, " Governor, His Excellency John Jlaricock ; Lieu-
tenant-Governor, Major- General Lincoln four, and
eight for Hon. William Heath." In April, 1789, the
statement is more explicit : " Chose the Hon. John Han-
cock, Esq., Governor by thirteen votes ; and the Hon.
Benjamin Lincoln, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor by thir-
teen votes." April 5, 1790, " John Hancock had all the
votes for Governor, which were seven ; and, for Lieute-
nant-Governor, William Heath had seven, and Benja-
min Lincoln three." From this time, the votes, during
the connection of Maine with Massachusetts, are as
follows : —
GOVERNOR. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
1791.
John Hancock ... 22 | Samuel Adams ... 21
1792.
John Hancock ... 23 William Heath . . 27
Charles Jarvis ... 2
1793.
John Hancock . . . 17 I William Heath . . 21
GOVERNORS
AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.
243
GOVERNOR.
Samuel Adams .
LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR.
1794.
. 20 William Heath . .
Moses Gill ....
10
10
Samuel Adams .
William Heath .
Elbridge Gerry. .
Samuel Adams . .
Moses Gill . . .
17
. 22
6
1
17
. 18
. 3
95.
Moses Gill ....
96.
Moses Gill ....
William Heatb . .
23
20
1
Increase Sumner .
1797.
. 28 | Moses Gill ....
21
Increase Sumner .
1798.
. 30 | Moses Gill ....
30
Increase Sumner .
1799.
. 40 | Moses Gill ....
37
Caleb Strong . .
Moses Gill . . .
18
. 28
. 18
00.
Moses Gill ....
Caleb Strong
28
9
Caleb Strong .
Elbridge Gerry. .
18
. 54
1
01.
Edward H. Robbins .
57
Caleb Strong
Elbridge Gerry . .
18
. 64
2
02.
Edward H. Robbins .
# William Heatb .
60
1
Caleb Strong . .
Elbridge Gerry .
18
. 45
2
03.
Edward H. Robbins .
43
Caleb Strong . .
James Sullivan .
18
. 50
. 23
04.
Edward H. Robbins .
William Heath . . .
51
8
Caleb Strong .
James Sullivan . .
William Heatb . .
18
. 42
. 52
. 1
05.
Edward H. Robbins .
William Heath .
41
60
Caleb Strong . .
James Sullivan .
18
. 51
. 78
06.
Edward H. Robbins .
William Heath . . .
49
83
244
POLITICAL HISTORY.
GOVERNOR.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
1807.
Caleb Strong .
James Sullivan
Christopher Gore .
James Sullivan .
Caleb Strong .
David Cobb . . .
Christopher Gore .
Levi Lincoln
Joseph B. Varnum
Christopher Gore .
Elbridge Gerry .
Christopher Gore .
Elbridge Gerry .
William Phillips .
Caleb Strong .
Elbridge Gerry .
William Phillips
Caleb Strong . .
Joseph B. Varnum
Caleb Strong .
Samuel Dexter .
William Phillips
62
102
Edward H. Bobbins
Levi Lincoln . .
Jonathan Sibley
James Sullivan . .
1808.
57
88
2
1
1
88
93
2
1
84
91
David Cobb .
Levi Lincoln
1809.
David Cobb . . .
Joseph B. Varnum
1810.
1811.
58
80
1
1812.
75
95
1
David Cobb . . .
William Gray .
William Phillips .
William Gray .
Joseph B. Varnum
George Wellington
John Lermond .
William King . .
William Phillips .
Samuel Dana .
Jonathan Sibley
1813.
94
101
1814.
97
103
1
William Phillips
William King .
Caleb Strong .
William Eustis .
Joseph Varnum
Nathaniel Robbins
William Phillips .
William Gray . .
51
102
1
1
56
88
84
93
81
88
57
75
1
1
1
92
69
1
1
92
98
2
1
1
1
96
104
GOVERNORS AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.
245
GOVERNOR.
LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR.
1815.
Caleb Strong . . .
98
William Phillips .
. 99
Samuel Dexter . .
92
William Gray . .
Samuel Dexter .
Nathaniel Bobbins
Mark L. Hill . .
Martin Kinsley
James Campbell .
90
1816.
John Brooks
88
William Phillips .
88
Samuel Dexter . .
74
William King .
72
1817.
John Brooks
89
William Phillips .
89
Henry Dearborn .
66
William King .
72
1818.
John Brooks . . .
58
William Phillips . .
58
Benj.W. Crowninshield
51
Thomas Kittredge .
51
Thomas Kittredge . .
1
1819.
John Brooks . .
71
William Phillips .
71
Benj. Crowninshield .
33
Bjenjamin Austin . ,
33
Of the preceding candidates for Governor, Han-
cock, Adams, Sumner, Strong, Gore, Brooks, belonged
to the federal party ; and each of them has been in the
chair. Of the anti-federal or democratic party were
Bowdoin, Gerry, Sullivan, Heath, Lincoln, Varnum,
Dexter, Dearborn, Crowninshield; of whom the first
three have been Governors.
The gubernatorial election in the spring of 1819 was
the last in which Maine voted with Massachusetts.
After the separation, there was no office of Lieutenant-
Governor. The first election of State officers by-
Maine was April 3, 1820, when William King had
fifty-seven votes for Governor, Stephen Longfellow
twenty-nine, and Jeremiah Bailey one. The election
since that time has been held in September, and the
votes for Governor are recorded as follows : —
246
POLITICAL HISTORY.
1821.
Robert P. Dunlap .
. 105
Ezekiel Whitman .
. 68
Samuel E. Smith .
. 23
Joshua Wingate, jun
. 18
Thomas A. Hill
. 11
Albion K. Parris .
3
1834.
William King .
1
Robert P. Dunlap .
. 152
1822.
Peleg Sprague .
. 156
Ezekiel Whitman .
. 47
Thomas A. Hill .
. 10
Albion K. Parris .
. 41
Noah Rice, jun.
1
Samuel Fessenden
6
1835.
1823.
William King .
. 115
Albion K. Parris .
. 37
Robert P. Dunlap .
. 112
Benjamin Whitman
1
Noah S. Rice . .
9
Joseph H. Becket .
1
Thomas A. Hill .
2
1824.
Jonathan Sibley
1
Albion K. Parris .
. 57
Jack Downing .
1
1825.
1836.
Albion K. Parris .
. 48
Edward Kent .
. 139
Avery Rawson . .
1
Robert P. Dunlap .
. 115
1826.
Jonathan Sibley
1
Enoch Lincoln .
. 51
1837.
Noah Rice .* .
2
Edward Kent .
. 181
1827.
Gorham Parks .
. 117
Enoch Lincoln .
. 6.2
1838.
1828.
Enoch Lincoln .
Edward Kent . .
. 196
. 72
John Fairfield .
. 160
1829.
Jonathan G. Huntoo
n 110
' 1839.
Edward Kent .
. 179
Samuel E. Smith .
. 64
John Fairfield .
. 123
Daniel F. Harding
1
1840.
James Rice .
1
Edward Kent .
. 210
1830.
John Fairfield .
. 146
Jonathan G. Huntoo
n 145
1841.
Samuel E. Smith .
. 114
Edward Kent .
. 174
1831.
John Fairfield .
. 168
Samuel E. Smith .
. 130
Ezekiel Whitman .
. 11
Daniel Goodenow .
. Ill
Jeremiah Curtis
3
1832.
1842.
Daniel Goodenow .
. 154
Edward Robinson .
. 175
Samuel E. Smith .
. 147
John Fairfield .
. 155
1833.
James Appleton
4
Daniel Goodenow .
. 127
Asa Redington .
1
KEPJEtESENTATIVES.
247
1843.
Edward Robinson . .134
Hugh J. Anderson . 116
Edward Kavanagh . 18
James Appleton . . .12
1844.
Edward Robinson . .198
Hugh J. Anderson . 183
James Appleton . . 13
1845.
Hugh J. Anderson . 153
Freeman H. Morse . 150
1846.
David Bronson . . .179
John W. Dana. . .180
Samuel Fessenden . 16
1847.
David Bronson .
John W. Dana . .
Samuel Fessenden
1848.
John W. Dana . .
Elijah L. Hamlin .
Samuel Fessenden
1849.
Elijah L. Hamlin .
John Hubbard .
George Talbot . .
1850.
William G. Crosby
John Hubbard . .
George L. Talbot1
134
137
14
161
172
14
182
161
10
176
173
7
Of the Governors since the separation from Massa-
chusetts, all, except Huntoon and Kent, have belonged
to the democratic party.
TOWN REPRESENTATIVES.2
In 1807, " Edward Jones, by a majority of the voters
present, he having seventy-five votes," was chosen the
first representative from Union to the General Court of
Massachusetts. In 1811, John Lermond was elected
by seventy-eight out of one hundred and forty-five
votes. The town was liable to a fine, if it voted not
to send any ; and the mode of evasion was by voting
to " drop the article." Generally, in each party, there
was a majority in favor of this. In 1812, John Ler-
mond, of the democratic party, being chairman of the
selectmen, presided at the meeting. The vote to pass
over the article was adopted as usual. Spencer Wal-
cott, of the democratic party, then went up to the
1 Free-soil.
2 In 1825, Nathaniel Robbins had twenty votes for State Senator.
In 1849, Elbridge Lermond had one hundred and thirty-five votes;
and in 1850, one hundred and sixty-nine votes; and in 1851, he was
chosen senator by the Legislature. Dr. Harding was senator while
he resided in Union.
248 POLITICAL HISTORY.
moderator, and observed, " You have warned me here
to vote for representative. Here is my vote, reject it
if you dare." The meeting, or at least the federal
party, was taken by surprise. His vote could not be
rejected. After some discussion and an adjournment
for an hour or two, during which runners were de-
spatched to bring in voters, the ballots were called for.
The poll was about being closed, when Warren Ware,
sick and feeble, was passing by on a bed in a cart.
He was solicited to vote ; and, being supported on each
side, he was walked up to the box, and put into it a
federal vote. At the counting, it was found that his
vote had elected the federal candidate ; Nathaniel
Robbins having seventy-seven votes, and John Ler-
mond seventy-six.
In 1819, Nathaniel Bachelor had thirty-nine votes,
and was chosen ; Robert Foster having twenty, and
Nathaniel Robbins seven. No other representatives
were sent from Union to the Legislature of Massachu-
setts, during its connection with Maine.
In 1820, after Maine became a State, Nathaniel
Bachelor had seventy-four votes, and was elected;
John W. Lindley had fifty-five votes, Robert Foster
one, and Micajah Gleason one. The State was dis-
tricted March 23, 1821, and Union was united with
Washington;1 each of the towns furnishing the repre-
sentative, according to its proportion of the population.
From this date the following is the record ; the repre-
sentatives not taking their seats till the year after their
election : —
1821, Sept.10. Nathaniel Bachelor, 48 ; f John W. Lindley,
29; Robert Foster, 17.
1821, Oct. 1. Nathaniel Bachelor, 61 ; f John W. Lind-
ley, 12 ; Robert Foster, 1.
1 Union and Washington have not always made one district.
Washington has elected a representative in some of the years when
one was sent from Union. In 1831, it elected William Rust ; in 1832,
William Rust, jun.; in 1833, Isaac Heaton ; in 1835, James McDow-
ell; in 1836, William Newhall; in 1839, Joshua Linniken ; and in
1840, Ichabod Irish.
f Elected.
REPRESENTATIVES. 249
1822r Sept. 9. Robert Foster, 45; Nathaniel Bachelor,? 36;
John W. Lindley, 2 ; John Lermond, 2.
1822, Sept.27. Samuel Doe,* 27 f; Robert Foster, 11.
1823, Sept. 8. John W. Lindley, 33; Nathaniel Bachelor,
22 ; Henry True, 1 1 ; John Lermond, 2 ;
Joseph H. Becket, 1.
1823, Sept.22. Nathaniel Bachelor, 41 f ; Henry True, 12 ;
John W. Lindley, 1 1 .
1824, Sept. 13. John W. Lindley, 34 ; Nathaniel Bobbins,
33 ; Robert Foster, 4 ; John Lermond, 10.
1824, Nov. 1. John W. Lindley, 53 ; Nathaniel Robbins,
45 f; Robert Foster, 2.
1825, Sept.12. Samuel Doe, J 53f ; Daniel McCurdy, 16 ;
George Bailey, 4 ; John W. Lindley, 1 .
1826, Sept.ll. Nathaniel Robbins, 53 f ; John W. Lindley,
41 ; Henry True, 17.
1827, Sept.10. Nathl. Robbins, 59 f ; John W. Lindley, 56.
1828, Sept. 5. Daniel F. Harding, 76; Isaac Heaton, 11 ;
Moses Pelton, 5 ; William Witt, 1 ; Wil-
liam Newhall, 8.
1828, Nov. 3. Daniel F. Harding, 72 ; William Witt, 9 ;
William Newhall, 8 ; Isaac Heaton, 9 ;
Moses Pelton, 2.
1828, Nov.22. Isaac Heaton, 17; William Witt, J 3f ; Ezra
Kellog, 1.
1829, Sept. 5. Daniel F. Harding, 104; John Lermond,
22 ; John Butler, 21 ; Nathaniel Bache-
lor, 1 ; Walter Blake, 1.
1829, Oct. 10. Nathl. Bachelor, 56; John Lermond, 52 f;
Jno. W. Lindley, 8 ; Daniel F. Harding, 4.
1830, Sept.13. Ebenezer Alden, 118; John Lermond, H7f;
John W. Lindley, 5 ; Joseph Morse, 1 .
1831, Sept.ll. John Lermond, 131 f; Daniel F. Harding,
75 ; Herman Hawes, 6 ; Cornelius Irish,
5; Nathaniel Bachelor, 1 ; John W. Lind-
ley, 1 ; Ebenezer Alden, 1 .
1832, Sept.10. Nathaniel Bachelor, 154 f ; John Lermond,
139; Herman Hawes, 1.
1833, Sept. 9. Nathaniel Bachelor, 129; William Shepard,
111; Cornelius Irish, 10; Henry Blunt,
5 ; Jno. W. Lindley, 4 ; Thos. Mitchell, 1.
* Of Putnam, afterwards called Washington. t Elected.
% Of Washington.
22
250 POLITICAL HISTORY.
1833, Sept.16. Nathl. Bachelor, 124 f; Wm. Shepard, 80;
Henry Blunt, 21 ; Cornelius Irish, 4.
1834, Sept. 8. John Lermond, 151 ; Nathaniel Bachelor,
142 ; Thomas Mitchell, 12.
1834, Sept. 15. John Lermond, 1 62 f ; Nathaniel Bachelor,
139; Thomas Mitchell, 16.
1835, John W. Lindley, 128 f; William Shepard,
110; Cornelius Irish, 2; Phillips C. Hard-
ing, 2 ; Calvin Gleason, 1 ; John Bachel-
der, 1 ; Nathan Daniels, jun., 1 ; Joseph
Shepard, 1.
1836, Sept.12. John W. Lindley, 135 f ; Calvin Gleason,
99 ; Phillips C. Harding, 6 ; Cornelius
Irish, 3 ; Obadiah Harris, 3 ; William
Shepard, 1 ; , 1.
1837, ...,,, Peter Adams, 1 74 f ; Cornelius Irish, 117;
Samuel Stone, 1 ; John W. Lindley, 1.
1838, Peter Adams, 195 f; Amos Drake, 158.
1839, Sept. 9. No choice; adjourned to —
1839, Sept.16. No choice; adjourned to —
1839, Sept.23. Samuel Hills, 116 f; Cornelius Irish, 16;
Nelson Cutler, 2 ; Joel Adams, 2 ; Wil-
liam Libbey, 1 ; Augustus Alden, 1 ; Au-
gustus C. Bobbins, 1.
1840, Sept. 14. No choice; adjourned to —
1840, Sept.21. No choice; adjourned to —
1840, Sept.28. Nelson Cutler, 174 f; Leonard Barnard,
148 ; Peter Adams, 12 ; Hannibal Ham-
lin, 5 ; John W. Lindley, 3.
1841, Phillips C. Harding, 145 f; Peter Adams, 5 ;
Joel Adams, 2 ; Leonard Bump, 2 ; N.
Bachelder, 1 ; John Gowen, 1.
1842, Wm. McDowell, 179 ; Phillips Clark Hard-
ing, 153f; Elijah Vose, 1.
1843, Sept.ll. Wm. McDowell, 147; George Jones, 124;
D. F. Harding, 3 ; Jonathan Sibley, 1.
1843, Oct. 2. Wm. McDowell* 147 f; George Babb, 69;
Wm. Young, 3 ; Joseph Irish, 1 ; Moses
Pelton, 1 ; D. F. Harding, 1.
1844, Sept. 9. Otis Hawes, 200 ; Steph. Carriel, 1 8 1 f ; D. F.
Harding, 8; John Butler, 1 ; Stephen, 1.
* Of Washington. f Elected.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 251
1845, Sept. 8. No choice.
1845, Sept.29. Win. Young,* 128 f ; Otis Hawes, 114;
Moses Pelton, 4 ; Samuel Stone, 2.
1846, ...... James Newhall, 183; Elbridge Lermond,
I73f; Christopher Young, 1 .
1847, Thomas Burns, 134; William Witt * 137f;
Samuel Bowker, 9 ; Joshua S. Green, 1.
1848, Christopher Young, 124f; Stephen S. Hawes,
181; C. Young, 5; Silas Hawes, 1; C.
Y., 1.
1849, Elias Skidmore, 175; Timothy Cunning-
ham* 143 f; Church Burton, 13; Ste-
phen S. Hawes, 1.
1850, James Burns, 176; Joseph Irish, 150f.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Oct. 6, 1781, " a commission was made out to Ma-
son Wheaton, Esq., of Sterlington, to be a justice of
the peace in the county of Lincoln." This was before
there was any organization of the inhabitants. An
early movement of the town toward procuring a com-
mission for a justice of the peace was very demo-
cratic. The warrant calling a town-meeting, July 8,
1793, contains three articles on the subject : one « to
see if the town will vote to have a person put in the
commission of the peace ;" another "to see if the town
will vote for any particular person;" and a third "to
see if the town will choose a committee to petition the
Governor, or act or do any thing relative thereto."
The votes in connection with these articles are re-
corded very distinctly and explicitly. The inhabitants
" voted they will choose a man for justice of the peace.
. . . Voted they will have Mr. Edward Jones for a jus-
tice of the peace," upon which the town-clerk makes
the memorandum, — " He had thirteen votes ; which
were all but one that voted." " Voted that the town
will choose a committee of three to petition the Gov-
ernor for the peace. . . . Voted Messrs. Josiah Maxcy,
Amariah Mero, and Samuel Hills, for this committee.
* Of Washington. t Elected.
252
POLITICAL HISTORY.
. . . Voted that the town-clerk give the committee an
attested copy of the votes." This is the only record
of any action by the town on the subject. Jones,
however, was not nominated, notwithstanding the
movements of the town in his favor. Ebenezer Jen-
nison, though objected to, probably by Jones's friends,
was commissioned. In the following lists, the dates
of qualifications, which were on record in the offices
of the Secretaries of the States of Massachusetts and
Maine, in August, 1850, are subjoined. Whether the
others were ever qualified or not, does not appear.
The first list is from the records of Massachusetts : —
Ebenezer Jennison
Edward Jones . . ,
Nathaniel Robbins
Stephen March *
Edward Jones . ,
Nathan Blake . ,
Jonathan Sibley .
Nathaniel Robbins
Timothy Stewart
Stephen March *
William Brown .
Nathan Blake . .
Jonathan Sibley .
Nathaniel Robbins *
Dates of Commissions.
Of Qualification.
Oct. .
. . . 1795 .
Feb.
10, 1802 .
Feb.
14, 1806 .
Feb.
2, 1809 .
Feb.
21, 1809 .
May
13, 1811 .
June
28, 1811 .
Jan.
28, 1813 .
Feb. 4, 1813
Feb.
11, 1813 .
. April 26, 1813
Jan.
19, 1816 .
Jan.
24, 1816 .
. June 21, 1816
Feb.
16, 1818 . .
Aug.
19, 1818 .
. April 24, 1819
Jan.
29, 1820 .
Feb. 8, 1820,
The commissions in the office of the Secretary of
the State of Maine are recorded as follows : —
Names. Dates of Commissions.
Nathan Blake Feb. 16,1818
John Bulfinch Jan.
Nathaniel Robbins * . Jan.
Of Qualification.
Jonathan Sibley .... Aug.
William Brown .... Jan.
Nathaniel Robbins . . Feb.
Nathaniel Bachelor . . Feb.
24, 1821
29, 1820
19, 1818
24, 1818
23, 1821
23, 1821
* Justices of the peace and quorum.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
253
Jonathan Sibley ....
Joseph H. Beckett . .
Daniel F. Harding . .
Timothy Stewart . . .
Walter Blake
Joseph H. Beckett*. .
[Re-appointed . .
Henry True *
Nathaniel Bobbins *. .
Nathan D. Rice ....
John W. Lindley . . .
Nathaniel Robbins *. .
Nathaniel Bachelor . .
Jona. Libby [Sibley] .
Daniel F. Harding . .
Timothy Stewart . . .
Elisha Harding ....
John Little
Walter Blake
Joseph H. Beckett*. .
Thomas Mitchell . . .
Nathaniel Robbins *. .
Daniel F. Harding *. .
John S. Abbot . . . .
Calvin Gleason . . . .
William Shepard . . .
William Shepard * . 4
John W. Lindley * . .
Benjamin Gallop . . .
William Gleason . . .
Nelson Cutler* . . . .
Augustus C. Robbins .
Walter Blake* . . . .
Joseph H. Beckett*. .
Nathaniel Robbins *. .
John Whiting
George Cummings . . .
Calvin Gleason * . . . .
Thomas Mitchell . . .
Ebenezer Cobb*. . . .
Dates of Commissions.
Feb. 23, 1821 .
March 13, 1821 .
May 10, 1821 .
Feb. 8, 1822 .
Feb. 14, 1824 .
Feb. 5, 1825 .
April 8, 1825]
Feb. 21, 1825 .
Feb. 22, 1825 .
June 22, 1827 .
Oct. 19, 1827 .
Feb. 7, 1828 .
Feb. 7, 1828 .
Feb. 7, 1828 .
March 1, 1828 .
Feb. 13, 1829 .
Nov. 1, 1830 .
Jan. 31, 1831 .
March 12, 1831 .
Feb. 3, 1832 .
Feb. 10, 1832 .
Feb. 17, 1832 .
Feb. 17, 1832 ,
March 2, 1832
Dec. 24, 1832
Oct. 22, 1834
Dec. 31, 1834
Dec. 31, 1834
March 19, 1835
Jan. 21, 1836 ,
March 30, 1837 ,
March 13, 1838 .
March 24, 1838 .
Feb. 7, 1839 ,
March 7, 1839
April 24, 1839 ,
Dec. 31, 1839 .
Jan. 23, 1840 .
Feb. 13, 1840 .
March 18, 1840 .
Of Qualification.
March27, 1824.
. March28, 1825.
. Marchl9, 1825.
. Jan. 15, 1828.
. Jan. 19, 1828.
Appointed before.
April ' 4, 1831.
Feb. 10, 1832.
Feb. 29, 1832.
. Marchl4, 1832.
. Jan. 30, 1833.
. Feb. 20, 1835.
.Jan. 26,1835.
. Feb. 6, 1836.
April 7,1837,
, April 14, 1838.
April 7,1838.
. Feb. 26, 1839.
April 24, 1839.
Jan. 28, 1840.
* Justices of the peace and quorum.
22*
2te
POLITICAL HISTORY.
Names. Dates of Commissions. Of Qualification.
Elijah Vose Oct. 8, 1840 . .
Ebenezer W. Adams*. Feb. 18, 1841 . . April 5, 1841.
JohnGowen March 12, 1841 . .April 5,1841.
Nathan D. Rice* . . . June 25, 1841 . .
John W. Lindley* . . Jan. 22, 1842 . . Feb. 7, 1842.
Phillips C. Harding. . Feb. 24, 1842 . .
Nathan B. Bobbins . . March 3, 1842 . . April 9, 1842.
Nathan Bachelder * . . June 21, 1843 . .
William Gleason . . . Feb. 2, 1843 . .
Elisha E. Rice * . . . . June 21, 1843 . . Oct. 6,1843.
Daniel F. Harding . . Feb. 22, 1844 . .
Asa Master f Feb. 22, 1844 . .
Willard Robbins . . . Feb. 22, 1844 . .
Edward Hills Feb. 22, 1844 . .
William Gleason . . . March 14, 1844 . . April 18, 1844.
Asa Messer* March 15, 1844 . . April 3, 1844.
Hiram Dorman* . . . Jan. 15, 1845 . .
Nelson Cutler* .... Jan. 15, 1845 . . Feb. 6, 1845.
M. R. Hopkins* . . . May 2, 1846 . . May 15, 1846.
Elijah Vose* Nov. 2, 1847 . . Nov. 11,1847.
John Gowen May 1, 1848 . . June 10,1848.
John Goodwin * . . . . May 26, 1848 . .
Jan. 28, 1825, Nathaniel Robbins was commissioned
to qualify civil officers.
CORONER.
Dec. 18, 1809. Ebenezer Alden.
May 5,1810. Ebenezer Alden.
Feb. 1,1827. Ebenezer Alden.
POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS.
The first post-office was established in 1810, through
the influence of the Hon. Mark Langdon Hill, on con-
dition that it should be without expense to the govern-
ment. Accordingly, for many years, the postmasters,
though they made quarterly returns to the General
Post Office, were entitled to all the money received by
them. At their own expense, they sent for the mail
* Justices of the peace and quorum,
f Error for Asa Messer.
POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS.
255
to Waldoborough or Warren. It was generally
brought in saddle-bags on horseback, once or twice a
week. William White was the first postmaster, and
held the office till he removed to Belfast. He was
succeeded by Ebenezer Alden, whose commission
was dated Jan. 19, 1813. During the greater part of
Mr. Alden' s administration, the business was transacted
by deputies, residing on the Common. He held the
office for the long period of thirty-two years. When
the rates of postage were reduced in 1845, he resigned,
and was succeeded, Aug. 12, by Jesse Wentworth Pay-
son. Mr. Payson was removed, and succeeded by
Edward Hills, Esq., May 11, 1849.
QUARTERLY STATEMENTS OF POSTAGE,
From which must be deducted Dead Letters, Papers, Pamphlets, fyc, which average
perhaps four per cent.
Year.
First Quarter.
Second Quarter.
Third Quarter.
Fourth Quarter.
1821.
$25.20
$17,934
$21,744
1822.
$19,044
17.94
20.20
20.62
1823.
23.854
20.114
17.62
15.994
1824.
24.63
19.59
21.96
21.87
1825.
23.70
30.34
27.67
26.63
1826.
28.58
28.50
27.85
33.01
1827.
25.83
25,93
25.95
25.91
1828.
28.82
25.71
21,46
25.99
1829.
25.83
30.42
25.59
23.08
1830.
23.30
24.74
31.22
23.86
1831.
28.844
35.08
36.561
30.171
1832.
29.75
37.091
46.554
36.80
1833.
39.90
43.334
29.074
31.604
1834.
39.06|
38.52
33.201
29.891
1835.
39.941
42.65
39.594
37.77
1836.
40.05|
42.664
45.54
46.104
1837.
41.424
46.62
47.25
42.554
1838.
52.141
£6.254
51.44
50.74
1839.
56.684
50.13|
62,204
56.33
1840.
72.144
48.19
53.664
65.611
1841.
76.521
63.82
66.83|
74.62
1842.
89.98
76.33|
62-264
60.63
1843.
70.73 .
73.524
66.03
68.45
1844.
73.824
74.15
75.34
51.32
1845,
81.07
73.41
31.54
28.15
1846.
62.59
70.80
70.50
70.25
. 1847.
82.13
73.18
93.40
82.73
1848.
85.53
85.94
85.18
85.00
1849.
91.47
—
—
—
256 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
A post-office was established at East Union, Feb. 28,
1849, and Joshua S. Greene appointed postmaster,
He resigned Nov. 1, 1849, when he was succeeded by
E. G. D. Beveridge, Esq.
Feb. 12, 1851, Capt. Samuel Stone was appointed
postmaster of the North Union Post Office, which was
opened March 3, 1851, near Fossetts' Mills.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FINANCIAL HISTORY.
Taxes. — Early Apportionment of Taxes. — Controversy with War-
ren.— Petition to the Legislature in 1780. — Petition to the
Legislature in 1783. — Plantation Taxes. — Taxes since the Incor-
poration. — Taxes paid in Produce. — Exemption of Philip Rob-
bins, jun. — Table. — Adams's Petition to the Legislature in 1794.
— State of the Finances in 1795. — Dollars and Cents. — Taking
the Valuation. — Payment of Taxes.
TAXES.
Early Apportionment. — There is a tradition, that,
soon after the settlement of the plantation, it was
thought advisable to levy a tax. The population was
very small. The assessor of the taxes, who it seems
was also collector, not being expert in figures or pen-
manship, verbally informed the tax-payers of the
amount which he apportioned to each ; and they
readily paid him, without even the formality of taking
receipts. If this be true, the golden age of tax-paying
without grumbling has long since passed away. But
it is to be feared that such a happy state of things
never existed.
Controversy with Warren. — The earliest au-
thentic information which has been found is contained
in a copied volume of the records of Warren. Capt.
Mclntyre was constable of Warren in 1779. Nov. 9,
1780, the inhabitants of that town voted, that " Capt.
PETITIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE. 257
Mclntyre proceed according to law in collecting the
taxes committed to him to collect." Nov. 30, 1780,
Moses Copeland, William Lermond, and Robert
Montgomery, were chosen a committee " to treat and
agree with Mr. Philip Robbins of Union respecting
the collecting of taxes ; " and they " were empowered
to sign arbitration-bonds with him in behalf of the
town."
Petition to the Legislature in 1780. — The next
information is from a document found in the office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
As it contains incidental information of interest, it is
printed entire : —
" To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dec. 1780.
" The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of a planta-
tion called Sterlingtown, in the county of Lincoln, humbly
showeth, — That the said Sterlingtown is an entire new set-
tlement, consisting of nine families and a few single men.
" That three1 of the said families have been settled about
four years, two2 about three years, and none of the others
more than one year ; and several of them obliged as yet to
depend on their friends at the Westward for support.
" That Sterlingtown, and the settlements therein, are
situate at a great distance from any other settlement.
" That we have no other way of passing to said planta-
tion from other settlements only through the woods, or up
St. George's River, part of the way by water and part by
land ; but the passing that way is prevented nearly six weeks
every spring and fall by reason of the ice.
" That we have waited on the inhabitants of the town of
Warren (by our committee chosen for that purpose), request-
ing them to lay out a road through the woods from the set-
tlements in their town to the line between said Warren and
Sterlingtown ; but they utterly refused to have any thing to
do about said road, but only would consent that we might
clear out a road (without the same being laid out), the
length whereof would be about six miles, as it must run,
1 Philip Bobbins, David Robbins, and Richard Cummings, in 1776.
s Probably, Ezra Bowen and John Butler, in 1777.
258 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
crossing St. George's River twice in its way, which would
require two large bridges.
" That, in December, A.D. 1778, a large barn belonging
to Mr. Robbins, in which was stored almost all the grain
raised that year by the [then] inhabitants of the place, was
consumed by fire, with twenty tons of hay ; which brought
the inhabitants into great want, and occasioned the loss of
ten head of cattle that winter.
" That we lie exposed, as a frontier settlement, to the
scouting parties of the enemy from Majorbagaduce, who, often
passing this way, keep us in continued alarm ; and, by order of
Gen. Wadsworth, we have the summer past, and yet do keep
up a watch and scouting party to discover and detect them.
" And lastly, notwithstanding all these our difficult cir-
cumstances and sufferings, we were taxed by the assessors of
Warren in the year 1779 ; and they seem further determined
to assess us in all the taxes.
" Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray your Excellency
and Honors to take our case under your wise, just, and
paternal consideration, and grant that we may be exempted
from paying taxes until we are in circumstances to bear the
burden thereof. And, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, &c.
" Richard Comings.
Moses Hawes.
Ezra Bowen.
John Butler.
Phinehas Butler.
Joel Adams.
David Robbins.
Ebenezer Robbins.
Jesse Robbins.
Mason Wheaton.
Philip Robbins. "
[Consequently], " On the petition of the inhabitants of the
town of Sterlington, in the county of Lincoln, Resolved
[May 11, 1781] that the town of Warren, in the county of
Lincoln, be directed to pay to the inhabitants of Sterlington
such taxes as they have taxed and received of said town ; and
the said town of Warren is further directed not to tax the
inhabitants of Sterlington until the further order of the Gene-
ral Court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding."
PETITION TO THE LEGISLATURE IN 1783.
" To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Sept. 1783.
" The petition of the inhabitants of the plantation called
Sterlingtown, in the county of Lincoln, showeth, — That
PETITIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE. 259
your petitioners feel themselves insupportably burdened by
being heavily taxed, and exposed to execution, considering
the smallness of our number now, being only seventeen
ratable polls, though we have had twenty-seven ; the new-
ness of our settlements, and being in the wilderness at a
great distance from other inhabitants (though bordering on
other incorporated towns, through the uninhabited parts
whereof we have not as yet been able to procure any roads),*
our sufferings by fire and from the war, and our having been
taxed as adj acent inhabitants to another town ; all which we
have largely set forth in former petitions to the Honorable
Court. Add to these, that we have no power or authority
amongst ourselves to assess and collect a tax, though it has
been requested of the Court of General Sessions of the
Peace in this county.
" Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray, that our taxes
may be abated until we are in circumstances of ability equal
to our other brethren in the commonwealth, and then we
will gladly pay our proportion ; and that we then may be
invested with proper authority to assess and collect the
same. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever
pray, &c.
" Philip Robbins.
Ebenezer Robbins.
Ezra Bowen.
John Butler.
Joel Adams.
Moses Hawes.
Richard Comings.
David Robbins.
Jessa Robbins.
Abijah Hawes.
Matthias Hawse.
Jason Ware.
Phinehas Butler."
" Resolve on the petition of the inhabitants of the planta-
tion called Sterlington, directing the treasurer to stay his
execution, March 20, 1784 : —
" On the petition of the inhabitants of the plantation called
Sterlington, in the county of Lincoln, setting forth that they
have been taxed in two continental taxes, and the last
[State] tax, the sum of twenty-five pounds each, and repre-
senting their inability to pay the same, —
" Therefore resolved, that the prayer of the petitioners be
so far granted that the treasurer of this commonwealth be,
and he hereby is, directed to stay his execution upon the
said inhabitants until the expiration of twelve months from
the date hereof."
260 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
Plantation Taxes. — In accordance with an Act of
the Legislature of Massachusetts, passed July 9, 1784,
for apportioning and assessing a tax of <£ 140,000, for
the sole purpose of redeeming the army notes, issued
pursuant to an Act, passed July 5, 1781, payable in the
years 1784 and 1785 ; and for raising the further sum
•of <£ 11,035. 6s. 6d. for the purpose of replacing the
same sum, which had been paid out of the treasury to
the representatives for their attendance on the five last
sessions of the General Court; viz. from November,
1782, to March, 1784, — the plantation of Sterlington
was taxed <£17. 10s.
The next attempt at taxation seems to have been
made in consequence of the tax-act of the Legislature,
passed March 23, 1786. The object of this was to
raise £300,439. Is. 3d.: viz., <£ 145,655 to meet the
requisition of Congress, made Sept. 27, 1785; for
£ 25,784. Is. 3d. for the support of government ;
£ 29,000 for the payment of interest on the consoli-
dated notes erf the State; and .£100,000 for redeeming
the remainder of the army notes, so called, which be-
came payable in 1784 and 1785; and £ 1,786 not pro-
vided for; and also <£11,001. 18s. to replace the same
sum drawn out of the treasury, to pay the members of
the House of Representatives for their attendance the
five last sessions of the General Court. The apportion-
ment for Stirlington was £65 ; * and the warrant issued
May 3, 1786, by Mason Wheaton, Esq., of Thomaston,
gives an additional memorandum of £2. lis. for the
county tax, and £1. 12s. 4|d. for soldiers' bounty.
These appear to be all the recorded notices respect-
ing taxes, before the incorporation of the town. The
1 By way of comparison, it may be observed, that the apportion-
ment to Pittston was £285. 12s. 6d.; to Medumcook, £175. 18s. 9d. ;
to Belfast, £78. 8s. 9d.; to Camden, £98. 2s. 6d.; to Hallowell, £473.
2s. 6d. ; these towns and plantations not being assessed for the pay-
ment of representatives. The apportionment to Bristol was £715,
also £67. 4s. for payment of representatives; to Warren, £223. 2s.
6d., also £25. 4s. ; to Thomaston, £204. 7s. 6d., also £57. 15s. ; and
to Bath,* £498. 2s. 6d., also £39. lis. for the payment of representa-
tives.
TAXES SINCE INCORPORATION.
261
£65 levied by the last Act led the inhabitants to make
an application to the Legislature, which resulted in
the Act of Incorporation.
Taxes since the Incorporation. — Since the town
has been incorporated, the taxes, so far as can be as-
certained from obscure and imperfect records, are as
follows; probably including school-money, except in
the years 1787 — 1803, 1805, 1808, 1809, and 1814:—
1787, £10
1803, $250
1819, $1200
1835, $1300
1788, £10
1804, $550
1820, $1200
1836, $1300
1789, £15
1805, $350
1821, $1100
1837, $2500
1790, £15
1806, $800
1822, $1100
1838, $2000
1791, £15
1807, $800
1823, $1100
1839, $2000
1792, £15
1808, $400
1824, $1500
1840, $2500
1793, £15
1809, $250
1825, $1200
1841, $1500
1794, £10
1810, $1100
1826, $1300
1842, $1800
1795, —
1811, $1000
1827, $1000
1843, $2500
1796, $150
1812, $750
1828, $1000
1844, $2000
1797, $50
1813, $600
1829, $1100
1845, $1600
1798, $100
1814, $250
1830, $1000
1846, $1500
1799, $100
1815, $775
1831, $1250
1847, $1600
1800, $120
1816, $900
1832, $1000
1848* $1500
1801, $200
1817, $900
1833, $1000
1849, $1500
1802, $150
1818, $1050
1834, $1200
1850, $1500
Taxes paid in Produce. — The pecuniary distress
of the country, and the poverty and hardships of the
early settlers, compelled them to resort to all practica-
ble means for relief. As for specie, it may be said,
that, during many years, it was hardly seen. When
it was required for taxes, the only way to get it was to
trap and hunt, and send the furs to Boston for sale.
The tax for 1787 was only ,£10. But it had not been
paid July 14, 1788; for then the vote of April, 1787,
was reconsidered; and it was voted that the town
should have the privilege of paying "town-charges
and schooling at the following prices in produce, in
lieu of specie : Rye at 4s. 6d. per bushel, flax at 8d. per
pound, butter at 8d. per pound, and wool at 2s." This
plan, it seems, did not work well ; for it was recon-
sidered Sept. 13, and the town voted " to have it paid
in specie."
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262
FINANCIAL HISTORY.
When the grant for town-charges was made April 6,
1789, a vote was also passed that it might be « paid
in produce at the following prices, if paid by the 15th
of November; if not, must be paid in specie: Rye,
4s. 6d. per bushel; sheep's wool, 2s. per pound; flax,
8d. per pound; butter, 8d. per pound; and boards,
staves, and shingles, at market-prices." It was also
voted that ten pounds should be paid in the same way
" to procure schooling ; to be laid out at the discretion
of the selectmen." April 4, 1791, it was again voted
that the taxes might be paid in produce, at the prices
affixed in 1789, "the produce to be merchantable."
Oct. 26, an unsuccessful effort was made to reconsider
the vote of April 4, with a view to have a part of the
amount paid in specie.
Exemption of Philip Bobbins, Jun. — " March 7,
1791, agreeable to the request of Mr. Philip Bobbins,
jun., voted that Mr. Philip Bobbins, jun., shall have his
taxes for the year 1790, and not be assessed for the year
1791,1 as a bounty for having two children at a birth."
TABLE.
NUMBER.
1793.
1794.
1795.
1796.
1797.
1798.
1799.
1800.
1840.
1843.
Polls
50
48*
58
79
96
lOOi
131i
129
346
348
13
16
20
26
32
36
42
62
250
241
Barns .....
14
17
19
22
28
34
36
42
262
228
Saw-mills ....
3
3
4
4
4
1
3
3
8
8
Grist-mills. . . .
Horses and colts .
1
12
1
14
1
19
1
22
1
25
1
33
1
37
1
53
5*
255
4t
228
54
56
66
71
84
85
104
100"|
Cows .....
110
119
140
147
165
208
236!
1459
1443
Two-year-olds . .
Yearlings. . . .
Swine
79
42
37
73
51
52
76
43
47
84
38
83
107
76
66
114
72
57
123
62 f
47j
109
363
195
Adams' s petition.
" To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled.^
" The petition of Joel Adams, of Union, in the county of
Lincoln, humbly shows, — That he was appointed collector
1 The earliest tax-bill preserved is for the year 1791.
1792 is probably destroyed.
* With, twelve pairs of stones,
f With ten pairs of stones.
The one for
ADAMS'S PETITION. 263
of State-tax, No. 5, in said town of Union, which was com-
mitted to him in the year 1786. That, at that time, the
inhabitants of the town were few in number, and very poor.
Remote from navigation, they are destitute of the common
means of procuring money on the eastern shore. That sun-
dry persons were assessed in said tax who paid the same in
the towns they respectively came from; and that sundry
others left the town before the petitioner had opportunity of
collecting their respective rates. That, owing to these and
other unfortunate circumstances, he has been able to collect
but a small part of said tax, though he has been at great
pains and expense in attempting it ; and that he has sus-
tained considerable loss on what he has collected, as he was
obliged to take it of the inhabitants in articles other than
money; and that, as to a great part of the residue, he
utterly despairs of ever being able to collect it of the persons
assessed.
" Further shows that the sheriff of the county now holds
an execution against your petitioner for the sum he is defi-
cient on said tax, being about forty-five pounds, which, if
extended, will reduce him and his family to great inconve-
nience and want.
" Your petitioner, therefore, prays your Honors to take his
case into your wise and good consideration, and order such
relief as your Honors in your wisdom shall think fit.
" And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
"Joel Adams;
"Union, June 3, 1794."
The preceding application led to a —
" Resolve on the petition of Joel Adams, collector for the
town of Union.
" On the petition of Joel Adams, a collector of the tax
No. 5, in the town of Union, for the year 1786, praying for
relief respecting said tax, which amounted to the sum of
sixty-five pounds, one-third part of which he has paid into
the treasury, and execution is now in the hands of the
sheriff of the county of Lincoln for the remainder : —
" Resolved, for reasons set forth in said petition, that the
prayer thereof be so far granted that the sum of twenty
pounds, part of the balance now due from the said Joel
Adams to this Commonwealth, be laid out in repairing the
264 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
public roads and bridges in said town of Union ; and, upon a
certificate of tbe selectmen of the said town of Union being
returned into the treasury office of this Commonwealth,
within nine months from the passing of this resolve, that the
said sum has been so expended, the treasurer thereof is
hereby ordered and directed to pass to the credit of the said
town of Union the balance due from the said Joel Adams,
as collector for the said town of Union ; and the sheriff of
the said county of Lincoln is hereby ordered and directed
not to levy the said execution on the said Joel Adams, for
the balance aforesaid, until the expiration of twelve months
from the date hereof."
State of the Finances.1 — April 6, 1795, Jason
"Ware, Joseph Maxcy, and Amariah Mero, were chosen
a committee to examine into the state of the town-
finances. They reported, May 6, 1795, that " there was
due from the several collectors to the town, £146.
12s. 6d. ; and that there was due from the town to
several of the inhabitants, £29. 6s." It was imme-
diately "voted not to grant any money for town-
charges, as there appears to be enough due the town."
It was also "voted not to grant any money for the
meeting-house."
Dollars and Cents. — At this time, it is observa-
ble that the taxes are reckoned by dollars instead of
pounds. This was in conformity with an Act of the
Legislature of Massachusetts, passed Feb. 25, 1795,
ordering that, after the first day of the following Sep-
tember, " the money.of account of this commonwealth
shall be the dollar, cent, and mille ; and all accounts in
the public offices, &c, shall be kept and had in con-
formity to this regulation."
1 April 4, 1791, it was voted that " the assessors may put all town-
taxes in one tax-bill, except the high way- tax."
In 1812, a statement in behalf of the town was made to the Legis-
lature by William White and Nathan Blake, that thirty polls had
been added to the number which had been returned for the State
valuation.
Nov. 28, 1814, Nathaniel Bobbins, Simeon Butters, and Joseph
Morse, were chosen to consult the principal assessor of the Direct Tax
for the Third Collection District, for the purpose of having the
tax better proportioned among the different towns in the district.
VALUATION. — PAYMENT OF TAXES. 265
Taking the Valuation. — April 3, 1815, an unsuc-
cessful effort was made to " order the assessors to take
the valuation under oath ; " but, in April, 1835, it was
voted that it should be done. A list of suspected per-
sons was made out ; but it was too much trouble to
test all the inhabitants. April 6, 1846, upon an article
" to see if the town will instruct the assessors to go all
together, and take the valuation," it was " voted that
they do not go together to take the valuation."
Payment of Taxes. — In 1834, " Voted that the
treasurer be collector of taxes, and that all those who
pay in their taxes to said collector within thirty days
from the time he receives the bills from the assessors,
shall have ten per cent discount on said taxes ; and all
those who pay their taxes in sixty days, as aforesaid,
shall have five per cent discount ; and all those who
pay their taxes in one hundred and twenty-five days,
as aforesaid, shall have two and a half per cent dis-
count on said taxes." In 1839, probably to promote
the promptness of payment by the collector, as well
as the tax-payers, it was ordered that the taxes should
" be collected within the year from the time the " col-
lector received the tax-bills.
April, 1841, voted " that the money be paid into the
treasurer the ensuing year ; and that he give notice to
the town immediately on receiving the bill, by posting
notices at the places for notifying town-meetings. And
all moneys paid in within sixty days from the date of
said notice shall receive six per cent discount ; one hun-
dred and twenty days, four per cent ; one hundred and
eighty days, two per cent ; and, after that time, the
treasurer proceed to collect the remainder according to
law, and within one year from receiving the bills, if pos-
sible."
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266 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER XXIX.
FINANCIAL HISTORY.
(Concluded.)
Reed's Case. — Surplus Revenue. — Paupers. — "Warning out of Town.
— Maintenance of the Poor.
REED'S CASE.
In the early settlement of the town, there was consid-
erable difficulty respecting the taxes on wild land and
the property of non-residents. A warrant issued for a
meeting, Jan. 4, 1790, contains three articles on this
subject : —
1. "To know in what manner the collectors shall proceed
with regard to the taxes now in their hands unsettled,
against Josiah Reed,1 non-resident proprietor of wild land
in this town. 2. To see if the town will indemnify the col-
lectors, if they proceed to distrain the goods or chattels,
lands or tenements of the said Josiah Reed, according to
their different tax-bills. 3. To see if the town think it
necessary for some person to advise with some gentleman,
respecting the taxes, to know whether they will stand in
law as they are now made? before the collector shall proceed
to distrain for them." " Voted to accept of all the taxes as
they are now assessed by the assessors chosen in Union, since
the town was incorporated." " Voted that the assessors pe-
tition the General Court to establish the taxes as they are
now assessed."
June 25, 1790, "Voted that Mr. Josiah Reed shall have
liberty, if he will find all the plank necessary for the bridge
across the main river, and twenty days' work on said bridge,
then he shall have liberty to work the remaining part of his
highway-taxes elsewhere, as he shall think proper, on roads
1 Josiah Reed was Dr. Taylor's son-in-law ; and his daughter mar-
ried Henry, son of Major-General Henry Knox. In 1798 and 1799,
he was representative from Thomaston to the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture.
heed's case. 267
to the northward of said bridge, that are now laid out, or
may be in the course of this season, provided he shall work
them this season."
Oct. 4, 1790, an article was introduced into town-
meeting, " to see if the town will choose three men to
examine the taxes, as was proposed by Mr. Reed and
others." Samuel Hills, Philip Bobbins, and Josiah
Robbins, were appointed a committee for that purpose.
They were "empowered to agree with Mr. Reed with-
out choosing a committee of indifferent men, if they
could upon any terms they should think reasonable.
If they could not agree, then they were to proceed'and
choose a committee with him to settle said taxes."
Nov. 8, 1790, " after hearing the report of the commit-
tee, the town voted they would have a new commit-
tee (by the old ones dismissing themselves), namely,
Samuel Hills, Joseph Guild, and Samuel Daggett."
The meeting was adjourned to the next Friday, when
the report signed by Guild and Hills was read as fol-
lows : —
"They found the real value of the wild land, as was
taxed in 1788, £6,627. 14s.; that the third part of the
value [was] £2,209. 5s. ; that the sum total for taxation in
1788 was £3,158. 16s. The value of Mr. Reed's land for
taxation stood at two per cent, or one third the value was
$998. 18s.
" Mowing and tillage we have doubled from what it was
in the valuation of 1788. The town, we find, granted for
highways, in 1788, £110; after deducting out the polls,
there remains to be laid on property £96. 4s. We find that
Mr. Reed was taxed according to the valuation £31. 4s. 4d.;
and, by doubling the mowing and tillage, he has to pay of
the above tax £30. 2s. 5Jd. We have gone by the valua-
tion of 1788, and done as nearly as we can as was re-
commended by Thomaston committee, and find, when the
abatement is made in all his taxes, he is only abated £5. 5s.
Jd. We would be understood it is only on wild land "
[The town voted they were satisfied with the report.] " A
debate arose between Mr. Reed and the town. Mr. Reed
supposed the town did not rightly understand the mind of
268 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
Thomastbn committee, and made the following motion, viz.
That the town would choose one or more men, to go down
to Thomaston with him to the committee to get their opin-
ion in writing." "Voted that Mr. Moses Hawes go down
with Mr. Reed to Thomaston to the committee ; and the
committee are desired to say how much of his taxes are
abated. For which we pledge our honors to abide their
judgment. Mr. Reed pledges his honor also. The com-
mittee are desired to give their opinion in, in writing."
Dec. 25, " The report of Thomaston committee was read.
Voted to adjourn to Jan. 10.
" Jan. 10, 1 791 . The inhabitants met on the adjournment,
and%gave the report of Thomaston committee the second
reading, and voted they would accept of the report, if they
would rectify two mistakes, viz. To cross out of their ver-
dict one tax which the town never had, or rather they have
put one in twice, and put in No. 8 State-tax and a tax of
nine pound granted by the town. Then, if they will rectify
these mistakes, they will be in full accepted." "Voted,
that, if Mr. Josiah Reed does pay to the several collectors
the sums that [have been adjudged by] the committee mu-
tually chosen by the town and said Reed, then the collec-
tors shall give him a receipt in full of the tax he shall pay."
May 23, 1791, the town passed a vote, giving "orders to
the collectors, that, if Mr. Reed pays them what the commit-
tee ordered within one month after they have demanded or
shown him his taxes, they shall give him a receipt in full for
the whole, as they were before they were abated ; otherwise,
upon his neglecting or refusing, to distrain for the whole, as
they were on the rate-strikes before the committee abated
them."1
Mr. Reed still declined paying his taxes. His land
was put up at auction, and bid off by Samuel Hills
for Mr. Ichabod Irish, who sold it to Dr. Webb.
Finally, the land being sold irregularly, the town had
1 At the same meeting it was " voted that thirty pounds be raised,
as soon as may be, to pay back-taxes." This sum may have been to
meet the deficiency caused by the reduction of Reed's taxes. There
is no record to show whether it was ever collected or not.
Nov. 3, 1794, there was an article before the town to see if it would
abate one- half of Josiah Reed's meeting-house tax in Mr. Edward
Jones's bills." " Voted not to abate Mr. Josiah Reed's tax."
SURPLUS REVENUE. 269
to settle with Mr. Irish, and lost the case, though there
was no lawsuit.
SURPLUS REVENUE.
A surplus of public money having accumulated in
the treasury of the United States, Congress voted,
June 23, 1836, that it should be apportioned among
the several States of the Union, on deposit, until repay-
ment thereof should be required by the secretary of
the treasury. The Legislature of Maine, Jan. 26, 1837,
passed an Act, providing for the acceptance of that
portion of it to which the State was entitled. March
9, 1837, the Governor approved a bill, authorizing it
to be deposited with the several towns, in proportion
to their population, on condition that, whenever it
should be called for by Congress, it should be re-
funded within sixty days after notice. Selectmen
were authorized to cause a new census to be taken,
distinguishing all persons under the age of four years ;
those of four and under twenty-one; and those of
twenty-one and upwards, belonging to each town on
the first day of March, 1837.
Accordingly, April 3, 1837, the inhabitants of Union
voted to receive their proportion of the money, and
chose John Lermond agent to procure it of the State
treasurer, and " to loan it to the best advantage,
upon such security as the selectmen might approve,
he giving bonds to the town for the faithful dis-
charge of his duty." No person was to have more
than five hundred dollars, provided there were " other
good applications sufficient to take the sum. In-
terest annually. The above subject to be called for
in sixty days." A verbal report made by the agent,
July 1, 1837, was accepted ;. and he was " directed to
give notice to the subscribers of the several notes
holden by him, sixty days previous to the next April
meeting, that they may be paid then, unless sooner
called for by the General Government." He was also
instructed to get what was still due from the Govern-
ment, and to keep it till the town should dispose of it
270 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
at the September meeting. In September the agent
made his report, and the vote was that " the money-
remain in the bank, where he has deposited it ; and,
should the fourth instalment be received, it be put in
the bank also." But the fourth instalment never came.
The sum received was $3,500, from which $21.74
were deducted for expenses.
April 2, 1838, John Lermond, Peter Adams, and
Phillips C. Harding, were chosen to divide the money,
between the first and the tenth of May ; paying two
dollars apiece to all persons whose residence was in
town on the first day of March, 1837, whether ne-
glected through mistake, or absent at the time the
census was taken; "the remainder (if any) to be ap-
propriated for schooling." Three persons, who had
borrowed probably with the expectation that the money
would not be called for, made an unsuccessful request
to have an extension for a year, more or less. And
the special agent was directed to " obtain, upon the
faith of the town, so much of the surplus money as
should be deficient on notes given for said money on
the seventeenth day of April instant." Neither the
town nor individuals were benefited.
PAUPERS.
Warning out of Town. — Union has never been
burdened with paupers. There was a custom of warn-
ing " new comers " out of town, in order to prevent
them from gaining a residence, and consequently a
claim for support. In a .town in Massachusetts, a se-
lectman, in his official capacity as selectman, is said to
have signed an order to the constable, warning himself
out of town. The inhabitants of Union, willing to be
on the safe side, availed themselves of the privilege.
Accordingly, in a warrant calling a town-meeting, May
20, 1787, there is an article " to see what the town
will do about warning out all persons that appear
likely to be a town-charge hereafter. Voted the se-
lectmen should warn out all they think necessary."
Hence we find the following records : —
PAUPERS. 271
" To the constable of the town of Union, in the county of
Lincoln. — You are hereby forthwith to warn Silvester Prince,
and Rhoda Prince his wife, and Naaman, and Sarah, Olive,
and Susa, and Silvester, their children, late of Waldobo-
rough, in the county of Lincoln, as they say, immediately
to depart out of the bounds of this town, as they are here
now residing, and like to be a town- charge. Hereof fail not,
and make due return of this warrant, with your doings
thereon, to one or more of the selectmen, or to the town-
clerk, as soon as may be.
" Given under our hands, at Union, this seventeenth day
of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand [seven]
hundred and eighty-seven.
" Philip Robbins, ) Selectmen
"Jason Ware. y of Union.
"Union, Dec. 21, 1787."
" By virtue of this warrant to me directed, I have noti-
fied and warned the within-named Silvester Prince, and
Rhoda Prince his wife, Naaman, Sarah, Olive, Susa, and
Silvester, their children, of the contents thereof, by reading
the same to them, and warned them immediately to depart
out of the bounds of said Union, as I am directed.
"Abijah Hawes, Constable."
At the same date, Molly Bobbins, late of Fox Island,
was warned out, and so were Phinehas Butler, and
Elizabeth Butler his wife, late of Thomaston. The
only other notice of the kind on record occurred in
1789, and stands thus : —
"I have warned Philip Robbins, jun., an inhabitant of
Senabec, and also Jonathan Newhall, of Warren, to depart
the bounds of this town, by order of the selectmen.
"Moses Hawes, Town-clerk."
Maintenance of the Poor. — March 7, 1803, David
Robbins, Samuel Hills, and Joel Adams, were chosen
overseers of the poor. None have been chosen at any
other time ; unless we except the selectmen, who were
particularly appointed to the office in 1819, 1822, and
1826. When any aid has been wanted, the selectmen
or the town have been appealed to. Very few towns
272 FINANCIAL HISTORY.
have been taxed so little as this, for the support of the
poor. The earliest mention of payments is in March,
1804, of $25.23, for Susannah Olney, — a squaw, —
and of $13.50, in March, 1805, " for her black child."
In 1806, some assistance was rendered to one man and
his family. There seems not to have been any further
aid afforded to any one till 1818, when the family of a
man, in consequence of his inability to work at his
trade of shoemaking, became a charge. From that
time to the present, there have always been a few to
be aided. Those requiring considerable assistance
have generally been put up at auction, and taken by
the lowest bidder. Notwithstanding this practice,
which is commonly regarded as very inhuman, there
is generally a disposition to make the situation of
the unfortunate as comfortable as circumstances will
admit. The overseers or selectmen have frequently
been instructed by the town to provide for them ; and
thus, without being put up at auction, they have often
found comfortable homes, or been taken care of by per-
sons who felt a friendly interest in them, but upon
whom it was too much of a tax to give them a sup-
port for years. If the number should increase, it
would occur to the inhabitants that the most econo-
mical as well as humane disposition which could
be made of them would be to provide an alms-
house, where they could feel that they had a permanent
home. For several years, this course has been adopted
with great success in many of the towns in Massachu-
setts, and been found less expensive than the other,
even when the inmates were few and the majority of
them infirm.
EARLY DIFFICULTIES IN TRAVELLING. 273
CHAPTER XXX.
HIGHWAYS.
Early Difficulties in Travelling. — Moss. — Paths. — Spotted Trees. —
Exposure of Matthias Hawes. — First Roads. — First Highway Dis-
tricts. — Character of the Roads. — Corduroy Roads. — Boating
and Visiting Ox Sleds. — First Teaming to Neighboring Towns.
EARLY DIFFICULTIES IN TRAVELLING.
It is not easy to imagine the difficulty of the travelling,
when there was no way of coming to this place but
through the woods or up St. George's River. Philip
Bobbins came in 1776 ; and then there was not a foot-
path between this and either of the neighboring towns.
In the woods, particularly if the weather was cloudy,
the inhabitants were often saved from being lost, and
sometimes even from perishing, by the information ob-
tained of the Indians, that moss grows on the north
side of trees situated on low ground. Meadow-roads
and hunters' paths for hand-sleds were bushed out for
winter, when the settlers could not be better accommo-
dated on the ice. Footpaths were early marked out,
by spotting trees and removing the underbrush. The
chips were taken from two sides of the trees, so that
the white spots were visible to travellers going in
either direction. The incision was only through the
bark; for a wound in the wood soon healed. But
such paths were of little or no use, except in the day-
time, when the spots could be seen.
It was probably in the fall of 1782 that Matthias
Hawes went down the river, to borrow a yoke of oxen
to harrow in rye. The only guide was the spotted
trees. On his way home, a violent storm arose ; and
dense darkness came on so suddenly, that he chained
the oxen to a tree not far below the place afterward
settled by Samuel Hills, and spent the long, tedious
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274 HIGHWAYS.
night in walking and exercising, to keep himself
warm.
In the memorial to the Legislature in December,
1780, it is stated that there was no way of getting to
Stirlington but through the woods and up the St.
George's, part#of the way by land and part by water;
and that even this was obstructed nearly six weeks
every spring and fall by the ice. No roads had been
laid out in 1786, when the petition was made for an
Act of Incorporation.
FIRST ROADS.
March 5, 1787, the town voted that the selectmen
should lay out two roads, and that all the roads should
be three rods wide. Accordingly, in relation to the
first road laid out in the town, the report of the select-
men states : —
" They have spotted and looked it out as followeth : —
May 7, we looked and spotted : Beginning at Warren line,
at a hemlock, which we spotted ; then running northwardly
through the land of Ezra Bowen by stakes and spotted
trees; thence across the land of Abijah Hawes is north-
wardly by stakes and spotted trees, till it comes to the
corner of David Robbins's field ; thence through said Rob-
bins's field by stakes, till it comes to Richard Cummings's
barn and house ; thence running northwardly, as it is staked
out ; thence through Moses Hawes' s, as the road now runs,
to the west end of said Robbins's house ; thence running by
stakes north-east, in said Robbins's pasture, till it comes to
the bridge at the head of Seven-tree Pond over St. George's
Eiver; thence north-east by spotted trees, to Josiah Rob-
bins's field of rye ; thence through said field by stakes, till
it strikes the road leading to Senebec."
The road, as it now runs, does not agree with the se-
lectmen's report. Josiah Robbins had cleared the land
from the pond to the present road by the Old Burying
Ground. Not willing to appropriate for the public
good a field on which he had expended so much labor;
he fenced it. The neighbors, with an accommodating
FIRST ROADS. 275
spirit, passed along in the woods near to the fence on
the west side of his rye, and a path finally became the
road, leading over the hill instead of winding round it,
as was intended by the selectmen.
The preceding report was followed by the one
pertaining to the second road, which will be readily
recognized as on the south and west sides of Round
Pond.
"May 10. Then Mr. Philip Robbins, Mr. Ezra Bowen,
and Mr. Jason Ware, met and laid out a road, beginning
between Mr. Moses Hawes and Mr. Richard Cummings, on
said Hawes's land, west-north-west, to Mr. Jessa Bob-
bins ; through his lot and a lot known by Dunbar's land,
and through by Mr. Adams ; through his land, and through
the land of Mr. Ware, to Mr. Matthias Hawes ; and
through his land, and the land of Mr. Woodward, until it
comes to the land of Mason Wheaton, Esq. (cleared ground),
nearly as it is now cleared ; then running straight to the
east end of his house ; thence to the north-east corner of his
chopped land ; thence nearly a north-east course, by spotted
trees, till it comes to John Taylor, Esquire's, north line, by
Senebec."
May 30, the day on which the two roads were con-
firmed, it was voted that another should be laid out
east of Seven-tree Pond, and another through Ebene-
zer Robbins's land to Waldoborough. At the same
town-meeting, the first movement was made in relation
to highway-districts. The town gave " the selectmen
orders to divide the highways for the surveyors, and
proportion the inhabitants to do the work in each of
their divisions."
"July 9, 1787, Mr. Philip Robbins, Mr. Ezra Bowen,
and Mr. Jason Ware, met and laid out" [the third road,
which was from Mr. Matthias Hawes's to Dr. William Jen-
nison's] " as follows, viz. : Beginning a little south-east of
Mr. Matthias Hawes's hovel, running northwardly across
his pasture to a spotted oak, then by spotted trees till we
come to the old road that Dr. William Jennison cleared, and
then on the road, with small variations, just enough to
276 HIGHWAYS.
straighten the road, by spotted trees, to the clear land of Dr.
William Jennison."
"Nov. 19, 1787, voted that the road to Barretts Town
shall stand as the selectmen laid [it] out, the twenty-second
of September ; Mr. Philip Robbins and Mr. Jason Ware,
selectmen; and Mr. Jessa Robbins, pilot. Beginning at
the brook north-east of Mr. Josiah Robbins, then running
east-north-east until we come nearly to the end of the
second tier of lots, then running north-east half a mile,
then running north-east and by east, then north-east with
small variations to Barretts Town."
" Oct. 6, 1787, Mr. Ezra Bowen and Mr. Jason Ware, two
of the selectmen of Union, met, looked and laid out the road
through to Waldoborough, as follows, viz. : Beginning at
Round Pond Road on Mr. Joel Adams's land, at a white
birch-tree spotted ; then running south-west until it comes
to the land of Mr. Dunbar, then running west by spotted
trees till [it] comes to the old road from said Adams to said
E. Robbins, then running nearly south-west by spotted
trees and stake through the improvements of said Robbins,
and on nearly the same course to Waldoborough. "
The last three roads and the following, which was
on the east and north sides of Seven-tree Pond, were
confirmed or accepted Nov. 19, 1787, when it was —
" Voted that the road laid out from Warren, at the east
end of Mr. Samuel Hills's land, through the farm improved
by Mr. Royal Grinnell to the head of Seven-tree Pond,
shall stand, and is confirmed as was laid by the selectmen,
Nov. 5, A.D! 1787. The road begins as follows, viz. : At a
white birch-tree spotted, by Warren line, then running
nearly north, by spotted trees, until we come to Mr. Amo-
ry's grist-mill, then over the flume of said mill, then just
east of the house and barn, then on or near a north course
across to the woods, then nearly a north course to Oliver
Lailand's [Leland's], then turning north-west to west till
we come to the brook running into Seven-tree Pond, then
on nearly the same course until we come to the road laid
out by Mr. Josiah Robbins in the old Senebec Road."
These roads opened communication not only be-
tween all the inhabitants of Union, but with Barretts
CONDITION OF THE ROADS. 277
Town, as Hope was then called ; with Waldoborough;
and with Warren, both on the east and the west sides
of Seven-tree Pond. They were all laid out during
the year after the incorporation of the town.
CONDITION OP THE ROADS.
For several years, the roads, though laid out, could
have been of but little value. In 1789, and even later,
there were in reality none but winter roads. When
William Hart and wife moved here in October, 1793^
the summer roads were almost impassable with ox-
carts. On one side might be a stump in the track, on
the other side a hole two or three feet deep, and possi-
bly between them a large stone. There was but little
travel. The only sleigh seen by Mrs. Hart during the
winter after her arrival was owned by David Robbins.
Corduroy Roads. — Small logs were laid across wet
and muddy places ; and sometimes earth — if it could
be conveniently procured, which at first was seldom the
case — was thrown on to fill the interstices. These,
from their resemblance to the thick-ribbed cotton-fabric,
coiduroy, were often called corduroy roads. Sometimes
the logs were crooked, and would not fit compactly.
Pajrts would rot, and then there would be dangerous
holes. Travelling over such roads was not altogether
agreeable, particularly in wagons without springs, the
only kind then used by the very few persons who had*
any. Sometimes these roads extended a mile or two.
As the wagon-wheels rolled over each log, from eight to
fifteen or twenty inches in diameter, they struck with
force upon the next, and so onward through the whole
distance ; affording more exercise than was coveted hj
men whose fortune it was to fell the trees of the forest
before they could have room to raise bread for subsist-
ence*
Boating and Visiting. — Among the early settlers*
the travel and transportation were mainly by water ;
and, in the management of boats* several of the women
became quite* as dexterous as the men; Hr ai person
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278 HIGHWAYS.
wished to cross Seven-tree Pond, Mrs. Mero could
paddle him over with the skill of a ferryman. Perhaps
Mrs. Matthias Hawes wanted to visit her neighbors ;
and, in those days, all were neighbors, though two or
three miles distant. Immediately after dinner, which
was as early as noon, she took one or two of her
youngest children, perhaps asked Mrs. Ware or Mrs.
Adams to go with her, got into a boat, paddled it
through Round Pond, passed the rocks and shoals
near the Lower Bridge, and landed on the shore of
Seven-tree Pond, near the place of her destination.
After spending the afternoon in knitting or sewing,
and beguiling some of the solitary hours, of which
there were many in the new settlement, she partook
of an early supper, and returned with her company in
season to get supper for her husband and his hired
men, if he had any, and to " do the milking and other
chores before dark." In this way, social intercourse
was, for a time, maintained ; and it was customary,
till the population became considerably large, for every
family to visit every other family in town, at least
once a year.
Ox Sleds. — As the roads became better, inter-
course was generally kept up in winter by means of
sleds, drawn by oxen. For some time, Amariah Mero's
horse was the only one in town. Matthias Hawes
had a steer, which he trained from a calf to move
quickly. With a yoke and a light sled made for the
purpose, the steer travelled at a pretty brisk trot, a little
to the envy of some of the neighbors, whose heavy
sleds were drawn by sluggish oxen. Sleds were used
in summer as well as in winter. It was long before
carts were substituted. When they became common,
the mode of carrying boards to Warren was to bind
them on the axletree of the cart, and let the rear-end
drag in the dirt. But few farmers could then purchase
wagons, because they cost so much.
Teaming to Neighboring Towns. — Mr. Olney
Titus thinks that Amariah Mero, in 1793, drove the
first team which went to Warren with wheels. David
SURVEYOKS AND COMMISSIONERS. 279
Robbins was the first person who went to Waldobo-
rough with wheels. The household effects of the Rev.
Mr. Humphrey were moved by him to Union in an
ox-wagon. Nathaniel Robbins, Esq., was the first to
drive an ox-cart into Washington. The team went
to the Medomac River, and Robbins camped there over
night, under a large yellow birch. The second day,
by working hard and cutting and laying alders for the
oxen to walk on, he got through the bog-swamp to
what was called the Lakin Farm.
For a long time, the travel between Union and
"Warren came up on the east side of the river, but
went down on the west side and crossed at Libbey's
Bridge.
CHAPTER XXXI.
HIGHWAYS.
{Concluded.)
Surveyors and Commissioners. — Taxes. — Compensation. — Time for
doing the Work. — Breaking Roads in Winter. — Comparative
Value of Money and Labor.
SURVEYORS AND COMMISSIONERS.
The work on roads is generally done under the super-
intendence of surveyors, chosen annually in the spring.
Each surveyor notifies the inhabitants in his district
of the time to begin work, designates the places where
the roads are to be repaired, the kind and amount of
work to be laid out at the different places, keeps the
accounts with the workmen, and withholds pay in
cases of negligence and idleness. The management
of these officers, however, has not always been satis-
factory. Sometimes they have been accused of ex-
pending too much of the labor in the vicinity of their
own houses and farms, and of permitting the remote
parts of the districts to suffer. With a view to ob vi-
2(80 riobways.
ate the evil, the town voted, April 1, 1833, "that the
selectmen appoint surveyors of the highways the pre-
sent year;" but the vote was reconsidered at an
adjourned meeting, April 15, and surveyors were chosen
as before. The excitement on the subject increased ;
and at the town-meeting, April 6, 1835, it led to seri-
ous and animated discussion. The meeting was ad>-
journed to April 8, and again to April 15. It waa
agreed to choose commissioners, and to raise $2,500,
and put the whole money at their disposal. The com-
missioners chosen were John Payson, Elisha Harding,
Nathan Hills, and Nathan Bachelder. In 1836, they
were John Payson, Nathan Bachelder, Cyrus Rob-
bins, Herman Hawes, and John Gowen. In 1837,
they were John Lermond, Herman Hawes, Aaron
Bryant, Nathaniel Bachelor, and Noah Rice. The
subject was again brought up the next year; but
the town chose surveyors in 1838 and 1839. After
the vote for choosing surveyors had passed in 1840, it
was reconsidered, and the inhabitants chose five com-
missioners, viz. John Payson, Marlboro' Packard, Sa-
muel Stone, Nathan Bachelder, and Stephen Carriel.
Their pay was " 12| cents per hour for their labor and
services." In 1841, the commissioners were E. Ler-
mond, Marlboro' Packard, jun., Elias Skidmore, Mace
Shepard, and Willard Robbins. Commissioners were
not again chosen till 1844, when the town elected
Samuel Stone, Leonard Barnard, Jason Davis, Nelson
Cutler, and Joseph M. Gleason.y In 1846, they were
Joseph M. Gleason, John Lindley, Jason Davis, Lewia
Bachelder, and Jeruel Butler. In 1845, it was " voted
that the selectmen be highway-surveyors for the ensu-
ing year, and that they appoint one man in each
highway-district to keep a correct account of the labor
done in said district."
HIGHWAY TAXES*
The following statement is the best which it has
bee& practicable to make, after a careful examination
of records, sometimes obscure and confused: — -
HIGHWAY TAXES.
281
1787, £80
1803, $1000
1819, $1500
1835, $2500
1788, £110
1804, $1075J
1820, $1500
1836, $2000
1789, £100
1805, $1500
1821, $1200
1837, $2500
1790, £80
1806, $1500
1822, $1500
1838, $20001T
1791, £60
1807, $1500
1823, $1800
1839, $2500
1792, £80
1808, $2000
1824, $2000
1840, $25001T
1793, £80
1809, $1500
1825, $1800
1841, $2000
1794, — *
1810, $1500
1826, $2000
1842, $2000
1795, £50
1811, $1000
1827, $1700
1843, $2500
1796, $300
1812, $1000
1828, $2000
1844, $3000
1797, $400
1813, $1200
1829, $2800
1845, $2500
1798, $400f
1814, $1500
1830, $2150 §
1846, $3000
1799, $600
1815, $1500
1831, $2400
1847, $2000
1800, $700
1816, $1500
1832, $2100
1848, $2500
1801, $800
1817, $1500
1833, $2550
1849, $2500
1802, $800
1818, $1600
1834, $2000||
1850, $2500
* "April 7, £80 to be worked out on the ways for 1795. . . .
Sept. 1, 1794, £20 additional, so as to use £20 cash granted by the
General Court to finish the meeting-house. . . . April 6, 1795, voted
to reconsider the vote passed last April respecting highway- taxes."
See also pages 148 and 263. How much was raised this year ?
f Also " voted to consider Capt. John Tobey, « in the loss of an ox
at work on the highway,' six dollars and fifty cents, which is to be
allowed him out of the first taxes to be made against him." In the
same year, May 30, upon an article to see what the town will do
respecting an action commenced by David Fales, Esq., against Moses
Hawes and Amariah Mero, for surveying the county-roads from War-
ren to Senebec, it was voted " that Amariah Mero go and get advice
respecting the suit ; " and " that he be directed to act according to
his best judgment in the business, as he thinks shall be most for the
interest of the town." Sept. 10, " voted to choose a man to go to Wal-
doborough, to see Silas Lee, Esq., attorney-at-law, on the business of
the suit. . . . Chose Mr. Amariah Mero, with instructions to do the
best he can in behalf of the town."
J Also one hundred and twenty-five dollars to repair highways,
and build a bridge over Capt. Maxcy's mill-stream. Part of the ap-
propriations fdr highway- taxes in other years went to build bridges.
Por other remarks on appropriations, see next chapter.
§ The selectmen's report in April, 1830, has the item " Fines for
repairing roads, one hundred and fourteen dollars eighty cents."
|| Also voted to raise three hundred dollars in money, to be laid
out under the direction of the selectmen. Also July 5, voted to raise
one thousand dollars in money, " to be expended in building and re-
pairing highways the present season, and to pay damages on new
roads and pay costs of county-commissioners, &c." Also voted, July 5,
to raise two hundred dollars, in addition to the one thousand " to be
expended in the same way under the selectmen." Also July 13, 1835,
voted to raise seven hundred dollars, " to be expended in labor on the
roads."
U " In labor and materials."
282 HIGHWAYS.
Respecting the preceding sums, it may be observed,
that, in some years, a part of the highway-taxes was
expended under the direction of the selectmen ; the ob-
ject being to provide for injuries from freshets and
other causes. It was thus with two hundred dollars
of the highway-tax of 1821, with three hundred dol-
lars of that of 1822, with two hundred dollars of that
of 1824, and with three hundred dollars of that of
1825.
Sometimes part of the highway-tax was in money,
and laid out according to the directions of the select-
men. This was the case with two hundred dollars of
the tax of 1829, one hundred and fifty dollars in 1830,
with two hundred or four hundred dollars in 1831, five
hundred dollars in 1832, five hundred and fifty dollars
in 1833, &c.
Sometimes a specified sum has been voted for a par-
ticular purpose. To the four hundred dollars in 1797,
a hundred dollars was added " for the benefit of new
roads, to be apportioned by the assessors." In April,
1817, in addition to the one thousand five hundred
dollars, fifty dollars was raised, "to be expended on
the highway near Thomas Hemenway's ;" and, in 1818,
in addition to the one thousand six hundred dollars,
sixty dollars were raised " to be laid out on the road
from Quiggle's Mill to Camden Line." In 1848, one
thousand dollars was raised to meet a road from Wal-
doborough, and some other expenses, besides the two
thousand five hundred dollars raised in the spring of
the same year.
COMPENSATION.
This has been reckoned by the day or by the
hour. In April, 1798, it was voted " that eight hours
should be considered a day." The town-records are
not always explicit; but, with the exceptions else-
where mentioned, the compensation was probably as
follows: —
Man's Work. — From 1787 to 1789 inclusive, and
in 1796, five shillings ; and from 1790 to 1793, and pro-
COMPENSATION. 283
bably in 1794 and 1795, four shillings a day. In 1815,
one shillings or 16 § cents an hour. In all the other
years, one dollar for a day of eight hours, or in that
proportion. " Men, when carried out of their districts,
to be paid for going and returning," according to a vote
passed in 1825.
Yoke of Oxen. — In 1787 and 1790, 2s. 6d. ; in
1791, 1792, 1793, and probably in 1794 and 1795,
2s. 8d ; in 1788 and 1799, three shillings ; and, in 1796,
fifty-eight cents a day. From 1797 to 1814, and from
1816 to 1821, and in 1829, it was one-twelfth of a dol-
lar an hour; and from 1822 to 1828, and from 1830 to
1836, it appears to have been ten cents an hour. In
1815, also in 1837 and since, twelve and a half cents
an hour.
Ploughs. — In 1788, and subsequently, two shillings
a day. In 1796 and 1797, two-thirds of a dollar;
from 1798 to 1822, in 1829, from 1831 to 1836, and
from 1838 to 1840, one dollar a day, or twelve and a
half cents an hour, for large, and proportionally for
small ploughs. From 1824 to 1830, and in 1837, 1841,
and 1846, the compensation was left to the decision of
the surveyors or road-commissioners.
Nov. 15, 1837, it was voted that Elias Skidmore and
E. Lermond should be paid for ploughs purchased for
the use of the town. April 20, 1844, the road-com-
missioners were authorized to purchase ploughs, to be
kept in their possession during the year. June 7, 1846,
it was voted to accept of three ploughs, bought by the
commissioners.
Carts. — In 1787, one shilling a day; in 1790,
Is. 6d. ; in all other years, two shillings, or one-third of
a dollar, except from 1824 to 1828, and in 1837, when
the compensation depended on the decision of the sur-
veyors or commissioners.
Scrapers. — ■ There is no early mention of scrapers,
though they were used. In 1837, the road-commis-
sioners were to allow " for ploughs, carts, scrapers, and
other materials, what they see fit." In 1841 and in
1846, the allowance was fifty cents a day.
284 HIGHWAYS.
TIME FOR DOING THE WORK.
The usual time for working on the roads is in June,
after the farmers " have done planting," and in Sep-
tember, after they have harvested their grain. Occa-
sionally, the town designates the time. May 30, 1787,
the record, after assigning to the selectmen the busi-
ness of dividing the highways for the surveyors, and
proportioning the inhabitants, adds, "as the inhabi-
tants think it highly necessary there should be work
in the ways immediately." In 1796, it was "voted
that the highway- work be done before the first of Octo-
ber." May 27, 1801, to meet the case of delinquents,
the surveyors were tf empowered to collect the taxes
the same as other collectors." April 4, 1803, and
April 2, 1804, the assessors were " directed to issue
warrants to the surveyors to collect the highway-taxes
when they are not worked out." To hold out further
inducements for seasonable labor, it was ordered in
1815, that, before July 10, man's labor should be one
shilling, and oxen's twelve and a half cents, per hour ;
but, after that time, the pay for men should be twelve
and a half cents, and for oxen as in previous years. In
1816, it was twelve cents for a man before July 1 ; but,
between that time and Oct. 1, ten cents. It was the
same in 1819, excepting the substitution of Oct. 1 for
July 1. In 1820 and 1821, it was ninepence before
July 10, and sevenpence afterward.
BREAKING ROADS IN WINTER.
For many years, the roads, after drifting storms,
were broken out by voluntary labor. The inhabitants
of a highway-district turned out, with oxen, sleds,
shovels, as soon as the storm ceased. Each man
began at his own door, drove his team, shovelled
through the deep drifts, and worked his way toward
his neighbor. Ere long, neighbors would thus meet,
and small gangs be at work in different parts of the
district. As the gangs met, they would unite and
work onward together.
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The interest felt in this mode of breaking the roads
gradually subsided.
March 1, 1813, "Voted the highway-surveyors' warrants
shall be drawn in such a manner as to authorize them to
keep the roads passable in the winter, as well as the other
seasons. . . . April 1, 1822, voted that the highway- survey-
ors shall cause the snow to be trod down or removed from
the roads in their several districts, so that the same shall be
passable ; and they to present their accounts to the select-
men for allowance, and the amount to go towards next
year's tax. Men and oxen are to have eight cents per
hour. . . . Nov. 1, 1824, voted that the surveyors of high-
ways allow ten cents per hour for- men and for oxen [to
break roads the ensuing winter]. . . . May 11, 1833, voted
that the overwork on the highway, and the expense of break-
ing roads in the winter, be returned to the assessors by the
surveyors before the highway-taxes are made the present
year, and that they who have done this work have the same
credited to their highway-taxes for the present year. . . .
Sept. 9, voted that the highway- surveyors be authorized to
employ men and oxen to keep the roads open in the several
districts, on the best terms that they can for the town, and
present their bills with sufficient vouchers to the selectmen
before the next April meeting. . . . April, 1836, voted that
all those who are deficient in working their highway-tax on
the last year's bills have credit for the last winter's work on
said bills.1 . . . Voted2 to pay for the breaking the roads the
last winter in money. . . . Nov. 29, 18 38, voted that the select-
men appoint in each highway- district, as they may see fit, a
suitable person to keep the roads open the ensuing winter ;
and such person shall keep a perfect list of the work, and re-
turn it to the selectmen ; and that each sum shall be paid in
cash, allowing men ten cents, and oxen twelve and a half cents,
per hour. . . . Nov. 2, 1840, voted that the roads be kept open
as usual, and that men be allowed ten cents per hour, and
oxen twelve and a half cents per hour, and be allowed on
1 According to the record, the compensation seems to have been
twelve and a half cents an hour for oxen, and ten cents for men.
2 This vote probably had reference to the cases which were not de-
linquent in the tax of 1835. When the two thousand five hundred
dollars was raised, April 15, 1837, it was to be appropriated for the
highways the present year, and breaking roads the past winter.
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their money-tax 1841. .. . April 17, 1843, voted that the
highway-surveyors procure such men to break out the roads
the ensuing winter as are willing to have it allowed on their
next year's highway-tax, and be allowed the same per hour
as in the summer season." [The same principle was again
adopted April 1, 1844, and in 1845 and 1846, and at the
same price, viz.] " twelve and a half cents an hour for men
and for oxen."
The sums annually expended in breaking roads have
been very unequal, depending on the depth of the
snows and the extent of the drifting. In one winter,
the cost of keeping the roads open was perhaps one
thousand dollars ; while in others it has been compa-
ratively nothing. From the details given, it is evident
that there have been many difficulties, and that almost
every year a new method has been tried.
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF MONEY AND LABOK.
In regard to the comparative value of the money
and the labor, it may be remarked that it is different in
different seasons of the year. The sums raised, and
the pay for labor, have always been greater than if the
same had been in specie. In 1836, it was voted that
" twenty-five per cent from the highway-tax should be
allowed, if the tax was paid in money by the 20th of
June." In 1836, in addition to the two thousand dol-
lars, there was raised in money five hundred and fifty
dollars, to defray the expense of breaking out the roads
during the preceding winter; and it was "voted that
those who receive the money make twenty-five per
cent discount on their accounts." In 1837, it was
voted to allow on the two thousand five hundred dol-
lars, " twenty-five cents on a dollar to those who pay
the money on demand." Nov. 29 of the same year, it
was " voted to pay in cash ten cents an hour for a man,
and twelve cents an hour for oxen, for breaking out
roads." In 1843, it was " voted to pay four shillings on
a dollar on such bills as have been or shall be handed
in by the surveyors [for breaking roads the preceding
winter]. The persons in whose favor the bills are,
LOG-BRIDGES. — LOWER BRIDGE. 287
shall make oath of the truth of the bill." In 1844,
there was a substitute of " two-thirds in cash for all
those who chose to pay money in lieu of highway-
work." For specie, persons can always be found to
work out a highway-tax for one-half or two-thirds of
the nominal amount.
CHAPTER XXXIL
BRIDGES.
Log Bridges. — Lower, or True's Bridge. — Middle Bridge, at Bache-
lor's Mills. — South Union Bridge. — Upper Bridge, at Hills' Mills.
— Report on Bridges in 1805. — Appropriations.
LOG BRIDGES.
In Union, as in other new towns, it was common to
build bridges, particularly short bridges, by laying
small logs in close proximity across large logs, which
were extended over the streams. This practice con-
tinues in some degree to the present day.
LOWER, OR TRUE'S BRIDGE.
It may be remembered, that the petition for an Act
of Incorporation, dated Sept. 12, 1786, contains the
request that the State-tax which had been apportioned
to Stirlington might be laid out " in defraying charges
of a bridge, now a building, of one hundred and ten
feet long, and in opening and making roads and build-
ing another bridge of one hundred and seventy feet
long ; which bridge must be built before there will be
any passing by land or water to or from this place."
Some progress, it seems, had been made. April 2,
1787, the question was brought forward " to see if the
town means to purchase the bridge now building at
the head of Seven-tree Pond, or allow what has been
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done by individuals on said bridge towards their work
on the ways the year ensuing ; " and the latter alterna-
tive was adopted.
This was the first bridge built by the town. It was
probably rebuilt in 1801 ; for, April 6, it was " voted to
build a bridge across the river near Rufus Gillmor's ; "
and Nathaniel Robbins, Amariah Mero, and Rufus
Gillmor, were chosen the committee to superintend it.
At the same time, it was " voted that fifty dollars be
granted, to be paid in cash for said bridge, and that
two hundred dollars be deducted from the highway-tax
by the assessors." Dec. 2, 1811, at auction, the fur-
nishing of two thousand five hundred feet of pine
plank, four inches thick and eighteen feet long, was bid
off by Reuben Hills, to be delivered at this bridge for
$15.75 per thousand. The bridge was repaired in
1819 or 1820, and again in 1831 and in 1841. " The
first mud-sills were of green oak, cut on Josiah Rob-
bins's farm just below the burying-ground. They
were hewed on two sides, and put in with the bark on ;
and a few years ago, when the bridge was rebuilt,
these same mud-sills were found perfectly sound and
green, having always been kept underwater.' ' l
MIDDLE BRIDGE, AT BACHELOR'S MILLS.
May 28, 1788, it was voted to build two bridges ; one
across the main river by Mr. John Butler's, the other
across Crawford's River at South Union. From the
records it appears that the Middle Bridge was rebuilt in
1800, when it is described as " the bridge near Capt.
George West's." At that time, Amariah Mero was
" chosen as a suitable person to superintend the build-
ing." Nov. 3, 1800, " Voted that Mr. Amariah Mero
have an order for enough to pay his taxes in Mr.
Mitchell's bill toward his superintending the bridge."
A freshet carried away the bridge in less than ten
years. May 7, 1810, an article was introduced into
the town-meeting —
1 MS. communications of A. C. Robbins, Esq.
MIDDLE BRIDGE. 289
" To see if the town will provide materials for rebuilding
the bridge over St. George's River at the Lower Mills, in
Union, and order the two districts adjoining to do the labor.
. . . Voted that sixty dollars be drawn in labor from such
highway- district, and in such proportion as the assessors
may think proper." [A temporary bridge was erected.]
Nov. 19, " Voted to build a bridge over the river near Nath-
aniel Bachelor's, and that it should be built in the following
way and manner, viz. that there should be two king-posts
with four braces in each, with a beam across the top with
two braces, and a timber across the underside of the string-
pieces and strapped to the foot of the king-posts with bars of
iron and bolts of the same ; and that there should be five
string-pieces fifty-two feet long, and planked with pine
plank twenty feet long and four inches thick, and be railed ;
and that the highway- district on the west side of the river
should build a good and sufficient butment to receive the
end of the bridge ; and the district on the east side of the
jiver should do the work of putting on the bridge, and finish
the same in a workmanlike manner ; and the town voted
to procure the materials for building the said bridge and
deliver them on the premises by the first of March next.
Voted to set up the different articles to the lowest bidder,
as follows, viz. : —
" Five string-pieces, fifty-two feet long, fourteen inches
thick, — bid off by John Butler for five dollars each. Two
hundred feet of square timber of the following size, — bid
off by Reuben Hills for six dollars. Two posts 12 by 14,
twenty-five feet long; four braces 10 by 10, thirty feet
long ; four braces 10 by 10, twenty feet long ; one beam 10
by 10, twenty-two feet long; one sill 12 by 12, twenty-two
feet long; two hundred feet of joist for railing, four inches
one way, and five the other, — bid off by Samuel Hills for
$1.75. A thousand and forty feet of planks, twenty feet
long and four inches thick, — bid off by Jonathan Eastman
for $17.75. All the timber and planks for the above bridge
to be prime and of a good quality."
Nathaniel Bobbins, Nathaniel Bachelor, and Joseph
Vaughan, were chosen a committee to receive the
above materials and procure the irons.
In April, 1840, the selectmen were made a com-
mittee to survey the road, and examine the state of
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the bridge. When their report was made, Nov. 2,
John W. Lindley, Nathan Bachelder, and Ebenezer
Alden, were chosen a committee to make a plan and
estimate the expense, and were also instructed to build
the western end of it as far north as the laying out of
the road would admit. They were further " authorized
to remove all obstructions that were in the way,
before the builders commenced building the same."
The building of the bridge was to be put up at auc-
tion to the lowest bidder, and to be completed by the
first day of the following October. In April, 1841,
there was a reconsideration " so far as to build said
bridge across the stream, without interfering with the
buildings on either side of the road." The job was
taken by Nathan Hills. In April, 1842, when the
question of acceptance was brought up, the selectmen
were made a " committee to examine the plan and as-
certain whether said bridge was built according there-*
to." They made their report Aug. 27, and it was
accepted " on condition that Nathan Hills shall pay
all damages that may arise in consequence of the old
stringer being put in on the upper side, and give bonds
to that effect."
SOUTH UNION BRIDGE.
The other bridge ordered, May 28, 1788, to be built at
South Union, continued in use about sixteen years. It
was supported in the middle by one pier, and built
nearly east and west upon the ledge below the present
bridge, or a little below the position now occupied by
the mill-dam. April 2, 1804, it was "not safe;"
and Josiah Robbins, David Robbins, Matthias Hawes,
Amariah Mero, and Nathan Blake, were chosen a com-
mittee to view the ground, and consider whether it will
be best to rebuild or repair the old bridge. Twelve hun-
dred dollars were raised for highways and the bridge.
"May 14, voted to build a hundred and twenty feet
bridge, by the last day of September, 1805, provided the dis-
trict build the abutments ; and to accept the written motion
for building the bridge, expressed in manner following, vis. :
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Posts twelve inches square, if made of pine ; cap-pieces the
same ; three posts to each pier ; five tier of string-pieces
twelve inches square, to be covered with pine plank 18 feet
long and three inches thick ; braces five by six inches square,
and two to each pier, five piers ; mud sills, 12 inches or
more, and railed in a workmanlike manner and braced upon
each pier, and one between each pier upon each side. The
undertaker to be entitled to his pay in the month of Sep-
tember, 1805, if the bridge is then completed to the accept-
ance of the selectmen."
It was put up at auction, and bid off by Christopher
Butler, at ninety-seven dollars. This was the first
time that the bridge was built nearly north and south.
It was again rebuilt in 1823 by Capt. Noah Rice.
Oct. 25, 1841, there was a vote to rebuild the bridge,
by Joseph Vaughan's, twenty-four feet wide. The
selectmen were chosen the committee to superintend
it, and it was " voted that the building of said bridge
* be left discretionary with " them.
UPPER BRIDGE, AT HILLS' MILLS.
There was a log-bridge at Hills' Mills, above the pres-
ent bridge, before any other was built. The first move-
ment by the town was probably June 7, 1802, when it
was proposed " to build a bridge across George's River,
near the foot of Sennebec Pond." The selectmen were
instructed " to view the place, estimate the length,"
&c. When they made their report, Aug. 28, it was
voted to build " across the river near the proposed
mills, between Mr. Nathan Blake's and Mr. Reuben
Hills's, as the selectmen report," in the course of the
next summer. Nathaniel Robbins took the job, to
complete it in fifteen months, for $200. The select-
men for the time being were to see that it was " built
in due order, and similar to the [ Lower ] Bridge near
John Mero's and Joseph Vaughan's."
In December, 1811, Reuben Hills agreed for $16
per thousand to furnish 1,500 pine plank, four inches
thick and eighteen feet long, to be used on the
bridge near his mills. This bridge was carried away
by a freshet; and, June 19, 1813, it was voted to
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build another. Henry Blunt, John Lermond, and
Micajah Gleason, were chosen a committee to "exa-
mine the different places and the conditions on which
they can procure the land," &c. Upon their making
a report, Sept. 6, 1813, it was voted to build one on
the spot where the old one stood, but to postpone
the further consideration of the article until the next
town-meeting. March 7, 1814, Amariah Mero, John
Tobey, Daniel Shepard, Joseph Morse, and Herman
Hawes, were chosen a committee to examine the situa-
tion, " and to make report to the town as soon as may
be." The bridge was built several rods below the
old one. This occasioned the circuitous route now
travelled in order to cross the river.
July 4, 1820, the town was called on " to hear the
report of the committee on the bridge near Walter
Blake's. . . Voted to build a bridge across St. George's
river, at or near the north line of Reuben Hills's land,
and on the south line of Lewis Robbins's land, unless
the selectmen can make an agreement with Reuben
Hills and others more to the advantage of the town."
This would have been to place a bridge where the
one stood originally. But it seems that a favorable
agreement was made ; for the bridge was built where
the one was erected in 1814. This was carried away
by a freshet ; and, May 21, 1831, another was voted.
June 11, 1832, the selectmen were authorized to con-
tract for it at a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars.
It was built by Nathan Hills for $150. In 1848 it was
broken down and again rebuilt.
REPORT ON BRIDGES.
April 1, 1805, the selectmen were directed to view
the bridges, and see what proportion of them ought to
be considered as town-bridges. Their report, made
May 15, assigns to the town the bridge by Mr. Blake's,
or the Upper Bridge, two hundred and twenty-three
feet, and thirty-eight feet abutments; by John Ler-
mond's saw-mill twenty-five feet, and thirty-five feet
abutments and causeway ; by Sterling Davis's saw-
REPORT. — APPROPRIATIONS. 293
mill twenty feet, forty feet abutment and causeway ;
by Capt. Barrett's saw-mill, or the Middle Bridge, forty-
five feet, and forty-five feet abutment ; by Medomac
River fifty feet, and abutment and causeway fifty feet ;
by Joseph Vaughan's [he then lived near the Lower
Bridge] two hundred feet, abutment and causeway
eighty feet ; by Jason Ware forty feet, abutment and
causeway eighty feet ; by the meeting-house, on the
brook east of the Common, twelve feet, abutment
and causeway one hundred feet ; by Mr. Quiggle's, in
the easterly part of the town and northwardly of
Lermond's, twelve feet, abutment and causeway one
hundred and eighty feet ; by Samuel Hills, near War-
ren, on the east side of the pond, one hundred and
fifty feet, abutment and causeway one hundred and
thirty feet ; by Capt. Maxcy's one hundred feet, abut-
ment forty feet; by Mr. Rogers's [Bowker Brook]
twenty feet, abutment and causeway one hundred
feet."
APPROPRIATIONS.
Some appropriations for bridges previously to this
time were not recorded. Probably the accounts were
burnt in 1837. The records do not always give explicit
information how bridges were paid for. The inference
is that sometimes it was in money, at other times in
labor; that sometimes the town, at other times the
highway-districts to which a bridge belonged, paid for
it either entirely or in part. Still, from what has been
stated, enough may be learned as to the nature of the
work, and the materials which have been used.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
Earliest Schools and Teachers. — Schools at a later Period. — School-
children in Summer. — Drink. — Recess. — Josiah. — Complaints
and Punishments. — Girls' Work in School. — Reading. — Spell-
ing. ^ — Noontime and Dinners. — Winter Schools. — Severer
Punishments. — Intermissions in Winter. — Studies. — Evening
Schools.
SCHOOLS.
Soon after the first marriage of Jessa Robbins, his wife
taught the first school in town. It was kept in his
log-house, about ten feet back of the present house.
Her compensation was two shillings a week; she
boarding herself, and providing a room for the school.
There was an agreement with the parents that the
scholars should assist her in doing house-work, and
render any other services she might require. The
school was very small. It was kept about the years
1785 and 1786. Not far from the same time, probably
the next summer, Eunice Adams, from Franklin,
Mass., began a private school in the log-house of
David Robbins. The school was moved from house
to house, that it might be continued longer, and that
the several scholars might be accommodated. In the
year 1788, or thereabouts, Ebenezer Jennison taught
school in Moses Hawes's log-house, which had two
rooms. This probably was the first " man's school "
in town ; unless, as some think, one may have been
previously taught by Dr. Bernard. A school was
taught in the barns of Philip Robbins and David Rob-
bins, about the year 1788. There was a "school-
ma'am," as the female teacher was called, from Warren.
These were the earliest educational movements. They
were made while the inhabitants were few and poor.
The literary standard must have been low ; for it was
low throughout the land. There were no books suit-
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able for common schools; and those in use were
scarce and dear. Teachers did not understand the
science of education. But these humble movements
of the fathers of the town were highly praiseworthy.
It was several years before the common schools
were in successful operation. Pass over their history
for the succeeding quarter of a century. Imagine a
bright summer morning, say thirty-five or forty years
ago. The prospect is that the day will be very warm.
The children, all barefoot, the boys wearing nothing
but chip-hats, shirts, and pantaloons supported by knit
suspenders, go from home about eight o'clock. They
carry in one hand a basket or glittering tin-pail; and
in the other, a rose, a piony, a marigold, white lilies, or
a bunch of flowers strongly scented with tansy. Part
of the flowers are for the schoolmistress. They pro-
ceed leisurely, looking at objects which interest them.
They make bows or courtesies to every man and
woman they meet. Perhaps they are an hour in going
a mile. Near the junction of two or more roads stands
the old school-house. It is a square building, one
story high ; the roof from the four sides meeting in a
common centre, and sloping barely enough to carry off
the rain. No part of it has ever been touched with
paint, except a patch about as large as a hat, which
was daubed red one day by a painter's rude boy when
passing. The board-shutters are thrown back; and
against some of them are placed long poles, or rails
taken out of the fence. The lower part of the win-
dows and the doors are wide open. At a distance the
high-pitched voice of some one reading is heard, and
the teacher is prompting and correcting him. The
school is begun. They enter, "making their man-
ners " as they go in, hasten to the closet to put away
their chip-hats and cape-bonnets, and then take their
places ; while the whole school, except the very small
children, are reading two verses apiece in the Bible.
This being over, they go to their seats. Perhaps some
take Webster's Spelling Book or Third Part, or the
Art of Reading, or the Columbian Orator, and try to
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learn their lessons. A murmuring sound pervades the
room ; and the mistress, while hearing a class recite,
tells the school " not to study so loud." The grave
monotony is soon broken by a boy, who rises and calls
to the mistress across the room, " Please, ma'am, m'l
g'out ? " If leave is granted, he hurries down the hill
to the spring, and drinks at the half-hogshead. School-
boys are always " dry." At half-past ten, the scholars
have read " once round " in their respective classes, and
it is time for the recess.
" The boys may go out." They go out as fast as
they dare ; each one, as he gets near the door, tossing
off a bow over his shoulder. All make a rush for the
spring. There is no tin-cup. As many as can, kneel
around the half-hogshead, and, applying their mouths,
drink ; while others attempt to pacify their thirst by
scooping up the water in the hollow of the hand, or
stopping it with the hand, and drinking from the
spout. When they have done drinking, some plunge
their heads into the water, even to their necks ; and, in
a few minutes, the flowing spring is as clear as if it
had not been disturbed. Then up the hill, on the run,
all go to the school-house ; and, by the time they arrive,
they are about as thirsty as when they went down to
drink. In seven or eight minutes, the mistress raps
with her rule on the window. It is the signal for them
to go in. One boy near the door enters first. Shortly
comes a second, and then a third. And now they
pour in, bobbing or jerking their heads, instead of
making graceful bows. " The girls may go out," says
the teacher. They too drink, perhaps comb their hair
into fanciful forms, and in a few minutes return. A
busy hum succeeds.
Occasionally there is an interruption. James rises
in his seat, and says, " Please, ma'am, Josiah keeps
pinching and pricking me." Josiah, a mischievous
but not malevolent boy, eight or nine years old, very
composed when called out for a misdemeanor, has
already received several marks, not very heavy, how-
ever, of the teacher's displeasure. " Josiah, come out
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here," says the teacher. The boy advances to the
open floor. " Josiah, I have a great deal of trouble
with you : I do not know what I shall do with you."
The lad looks up, a little anxious, but still quite
calm and composed. " I must ferule you, Josiah. It
makes my heart ache to do it. But I see no other
way to make you mind. How many blows do you
think I ought to give you ? " Josiah, becoming a little
more anxious, and wishing to make as favorable a
trade as he can with the teacher, — unwilling to set
the number either too high lest he should receive too
many, or too low lest no attention would be given to
his words, — waits a few moments, while the mistress
is endeavoring to humble him by an awful suspense.
At length he looks up a little sheepishly, and says to
her, " I guess about three."
Sometimes a long stick, with the leaves left on the
end that they may rustle, is extended, and shaken
towards an offender. Perhaps he is not allowed to
go out at the next recess. The top of a quill is cut
off, the feathers stripped, and his ears or forehead are
snapped with it. Sometimes it is split, and put
astride the nose. A long string is tied around his
ear, and he is required to wear it " all noontime." The
thimbled finger is -snapped on the forehead. One
offender must stand in the middle of the floor, or take
his seat there on a stone. Another is tortured by
being required to press his back against the side of
the house and squat down, thus " sitting on nothing,"
or by keeping his forefinger on a nail in the floor,
and thus becoming almost crazy through the rush of
blood into the head. Perhaps the mistress stows
away a little offender under her desk ; and, ere long,
the other scholars espy him peeping out to see what is
going on. And then, perhaps, he is ordered into the
dark closet; the door being kindly left open a very
little, so that he may not be in total darkness.
In the meantime, the school-exercises are conducted
as well as can be expected. The mistress helps the
girls to fit their patchwork, and take up the stitches in
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their knitting, and renders important aid in that neces-
sary feat of every girl, — the working of a sampler.
Notwithstanding these interruptions to the studies,
the girls, by some peculiar tact, learn as fast as the
boys, who give their whole time to them, and as often
as otherwise are above them in the class.
A class is called out to read. Boys and girls come
out and take their places promiscuously. There you
see two girls, cronies, who happen to stand side by
side. They have hold of each other's hands, and are •
swinging them backwards and forwards. The teacher
says to the class, " Stand in a straight line." Each
pupil looks at his toes, and puts the ends of them just
at the edge of the long crack in the floor. " Attend."
All hands are dropped, the forefinger being retained at
the place in the book where the lesson commences.
"Begin." Bows and courtesies are simultaneously
made along the whole line, and the books are raised
and opened. The child at the head of the class reads
a short paragraph, and then the word " next " from the
teacher is a signal for the next in order to commence.
"Speak up loud." A hale little fellow thereupon
squeaks up his voice to the highest pitch, and ekes
out, drawlingly and at long intervals, one word after
another, till his portion is ended. Thus the work goes
on till the reading is done.
" Shut up your books and spell." No sooner said
than five or six at the head of the class spell the first
five or six words in the column, before the teacher has
time " to put them out." The teacher is not displeased
with the incident, the children are consequently grati-
fied, and afterward this mode of beginning is fre-
quently repeated.
A hard word comes. A little ambitious, anxious,
nervous girl fails to spell it. She tries again, and
again fails. As she can try only twice, she begins,
hurriedly and stammeringly, to recall her last attempt ;
but her teacher stops her, because "it would not be
fair to let her try again," and calls on the next. The
little girl, with eyes opened wide and a throbbing
COMMON SCHOOLS. 299
bosom, stretches forward her head to see if any one
will spell it. As it passes along down the class, oth-
ers also stretch out their necks. Finally, some one,
a little more fortunate or who has studied the lesson a
little better, spells it correctly. " Take your place."
The speller, in a kind of childlike triumph, walks up
above the one who first failed, and thd*e places herself.
The anxious girl feels mortified and humbled. A tear
glistens in her eye ; perhaps tears flow fast and freely.
But no matter, she will " try harder " next time. The
spelling goes on. After this is over, come questions
in the abbreviations, or the punctuation, or the numer-
als, at the end of the book. Perhaps part of them
are assigned as the closing exercise in the afternoon.
But in all there is an eagerness to climb towards the
head of the class.
It is " noontime." What a noise and tumult ! The
baskets and tin-pails are brought forward. And such
a variety of contents ! Doughnuts, cold sausages,
bread and butter and cheese, pieces of pie, Indian ban-
nocks, fried cakes, and a multitude of other eatables.
Look there! one tin-pail contains bread and milk
for dinner. The school-children swallow their food
greedily, that they may have time to play.
Not altogether unlike these are the scenes in winter.
And yet they differ. The older children, who are kept
at home in summer to assist their fathers on the farm,
or their mothers in making butter and cheese and in
spinning, now come to the schoolmaster. Harder
blows and heavier punishments are generally inflicted
than in summer. And, in some cases, the punish-
ments are inhuman. Possibly the ears are pulled till
they are nearly started from the head, or they are
cuffed; and thus sometimes is laid a foundation for
deafness. A savage master throws a rule across the
room, and hits a boy on the head. One of the older
boys dislikes the master, and, on the way home, tells
his playmates he is an old fool. A mischievous boy
repeats the words to the master, who becomes enraged.
The offender is marched out into the floor, and the
300 EDUCATIONAL HISTOEY.
ferule or the rod applied till the room rings with his
screams, and then he is flogged again to be made to
stop screaming ; or he is- told to step on a seat or
chair, or on the steps to the teacher's desk, and for
twenty minutes to hold a book at arm's length. It is
a punishment which only a semi-barbarian would
inflict. But few minutes elapse before he is unable to
keep his arm extended. It flags, and a blow is struck
on the elbow to straighten it. It soon flags again, in
spite of all the boy can do to prevent it, and the sav-
age master repeats his blows upon his writhing and
crying pupil. It flags more and more. The master
flies at him in a passion, and applies his broad, flat
ferule furiously to the calves of his legs. Before the
twenty minutes elapse, the boy is so exhausted that
the master relents and sends him to his seat. The
effects are felt for a long time. The boy's arm is so
lame that he cannot raise it to his head. With his
left hand he is obliged to pass his food to his mouth.
Thus is wasted, and worse than wasted, a portion of
the six hours which should have been given to instruc-
tion. The girls, too, have to share in the discipline;
and those that are large are punished by being made
to sit on the ends of the boys' seats, and expose their
crimsoned faces to the whole school.
It is intermission, and there is snow. Of course
there is snowballing in abundance. There are hand-
sleds, and the boys slide down hill, carrying the little
children in their laps. Boys and girls are dry. They
make hard snowballs, bring them into the school-house,
and, standing on tiptoe before the rousing fire, melt
them against the high mantel-piece, letting the drop-
ping water trickle down to their elbows. The school-
room becomes wet in consequence of the running in
and out, and the floor is dirty.
It is school-time, and no punishment is going on.
Some are studying their parsing lessons in Pope's
Essay on Man, the book almost universally used for
learning grammar. Adams's, Walsh's, Welch's, and,
for a very extraordinary " cipherer," Pike's Arithmetics,
COMMON SCHOOLS. 301
are recommended. A "smart scholar," after a few
seasons, gets as far as the Single Rule of Three ; and,
if he gets through the Double Rule of Three, he is
" something extra." There was in town one boy so
"smart," that, before he was fifteen years old, he
ciphered through Pike's large volume.
There were sometimes ciphering-schools in the eve-
ning, when the master met only those who wanted to
cipher more than they could in school-hours; and
there were also evening grammar-schools and evening
spelling-schools. The lessons were announced pre-
viously. The pupils came together. Two prominent
scholars were chosen captains, and they cast lots for
first choice. This being settled, they chose alternately
the different scholars, till all were taken up. A word
was put out by the master. If it was missed, it was
put to the other side. If the answer was then given
correctly, the person whose answer was incorrect went
over to the other party. After an hour or so, the cap-
tain, or the party which had the most scholars, was
considered victorious. Sometimes the victory was
decided by merely noting the number of errors made
on either side. There were two or three such trials in
an evening.
Such were some of the features of common schools,
thirty-five or forty years ago. In summer they were
continued perhaps ten weeks, and in the winter eight.
Considering the improvements now made, how few
persons will ever know the school-boy's or the school-
girl's experience at the commencement of the nine-
teenth century !
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302 EDUCATIONAL HISTOBY.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
(Concluded.}
School Districts. — School-houses. — School Committees. — School
Agents. — School Children. — School Money. — High Schools. —
Lyceum. — Libraries.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
There was probably no division into school-districts
before May 26, 1790, when "the town voted to be
divided into squadrons or divisions for the benefit of
schooling, and that David Woodcock, Joel Adams, and
Moses Hawes, be a committee to divide said inhabi-
tants." April 7, 1800, there was a favorable vote on
an article, "to see if the town will order the selectmen
to divide the school-squadron about Round Pond, &c,
into two squadrons, agreeable to the request of a num-
ber of the inhabitants." Feb. 8, 1802, there was an
unsuccessful attempt to "incorporate the squadron
north of . . . the Round Pond squadron to and with
the said Round Pond squadron, and define the said
district as is hereby requested of both squadrons," &c.
Joseph Maxcy, Nathaniel Robbins, Matthias Hawes,
Jonathan Newhall, Jonathan Carriel, Bela Robbins,
and Nathan Blake, were chosen a committee, "one
man out of each squadrpn, ... to fix the bounds of all
the rest of the squadrons for schooling." Their report
was made and accepted April 5 ; " only individuals
who are aggrieved may apply for redress to a future
meeting." The boundaries are on record. Various
modifications were subsequently made or proposed,
till Sept. 22, 1823 ; when a new division of the town
was made, and the limits of the several districts again
recorded. April 15, 1833, a committee was chosen to
re-district the town, and report at the next annual
meeting. The report has not been found, nor is there
SCHOOL-HOUSES AND SCHOOL-COMMITTEES. 303
evidence on the town-records that any was made.
There have been some changes ; but, if the records are
correct and full, there has been no general districting
of the town since 1823.
SCHOOL-HOUSES.
The first school-house was built near the dwelling-
house of Moses Hawes. This was probably in 1791,
as a town-meeting was held in it Aug. 29 of that year.
The next school-house was probably put up in 1791 or
1792 ; for, May 7, 1792, it was mentioned in a vote
"to accept the road from Mr. Irish's to the school-
house near Mr. Thomas Daggett's."
The records do not show how the expenses of build-
ing were met, except in one case. June 10, 1843, the
warrant contained an article " to see if the town will
order a sufficient sum of money to be raised by School
District No. 4, in said town of Union, for the purpose
of building a school-house in said town ; and also to
hear the opinion of the town upon the subject of a
disagreement of the voters of said district. . . . Voted
to raise two hundred dollars for the purpose of build-
ing a school-house in District No. 4." Generally, when
a school-house is to be built, the district votes the
amount required: it is assessed by the town-assessors
on the inhabitants of the district, and the town-collec-
tor collects it.
SCHOOL COMMITTEES.
1795. Samuel Hills, Matthias Hawes, Moses Hawes.
1796. Moses Hawes, Josiah Maxcy, Matthias Hawes.
1797. Matthias Hawes, Joel Adams, Samuel Hills.
1798. Joel Adams, Samuel Daggett, Levi Morse.
1799. Joel Adams, Edward Jones, Waldron Stone, Moses
Hawes, Amos Barrett.
1800. Stephen March, Esq., Dr. Jonathan Sibley, Capt.
Joseph Maxcy, Edward Jones, Capt. Amos Barrett.
1801. Jonathan Sibley, Ebenezer Jennison, Stephen March,
Moses Hawes, Daniel McCurdy.
1802. Jonathan Sibley, Ebenezer Jennison, Stephen March,
, Amos Barrett, Nathan Blake.
1803. Nathan Blake, Stephen March, Moses Hawes.
304 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY,
1804. Samuel Quiggle, Samuel Hills, Jonathan Sibley,
Marlboro' Packard, Joel Adams, Jeremiah Mitchell,
Jonathan Carriel, Nathan Blake.
1805 and 1806. (No record.)
1807. Josiah Maxcy, Robert Bunting, J. Warren Lindley,
Nathan Blake, Joel Adams, Edward Jones, Henry
Blunt, John Lermond, Henry Starrett.
1808. Josiah Maxcy, Robert Bunting, Noah Rice, Nathan
Blake, Jason Ware, Jere. Mitchell, Pente Walcott,
John Lermond, Wm. Starrett, Nathaniel Robbins.
1809. Edmund Mallard, John Little, Robert Bunting.
1810. William White, John Little, Charles Pope.
1811. William White, Henry True, Charles Pope, John
Little, Jonathan Sibley. After this election, which
was in March, a change was made ; and, in April, a
committee-man for each district was chosen. —
These were Micajah Gleason, Nathaniel Robbins,
Noah Rice, Jonathan Sibley, Nathaniel Bachelor,
Thomas Mitchell, jun., Jonathan Carriel, John
Lermond, William Starrett.
1812—1814. (No record.)
1815. Major Robert Foster, John Little, Jonathan Sibley.
1816. Robert Foster, John Little, Jonathan Sibley.
1817. Henry True, Robert Foster, John Little.
1818. Henry True, Daniel F. Harding, John Bulfinch.
1819. Daniel F. Harding, John Bulfinch.
1820. Henry True, D. F. Harding, John Bulfinch.
1821. Henry True, D. F. Harding, Jonathan Sibley.
1822. Henry True, D. F. Harding, John Bulfinch, Elisha
Harding, Jonathan Sibley.
1823. Daniel F. Harding, Elisha Harding, Henry True.
1824. Henry True, Daniel F. Harding, Jonathan Sibley.
1825. Henry True, Noyes P. Hawes, Elisha Harding.
1826. Henry True, Elisha Harding, Daniel F. Harding.
1827. Henry True, Elisha Harding, Daniel F. Harding.
1828. Henry True, Daniel F. Harding, John Bovee Dods.
1829. John B. Dods, Elisha Harding, Noah Bartlett.
1830. Elisha Harding, Daniel F. Harding, Josiah F. Day.
1831. Elisha Harding, Daniel F. Harding, Noah Bartlett.
1832. Daniel F. Harding, Thomas Gore, Oren Sikes.
1833. Elisha Harding, Daniel F. Harding, John S. Abbot.
1834. Elisha Harding, Daniel F. Harding, Josiah F. Day.
1835. Henry True, Amos Drake, Joel Adams.
SCHOOL AGENTS. 305
1836. Elisha Harding, Josiah F. Day, Peter Adams.
1837. Elisha Harding, Josiah F. Day, Peter Adams.
1838. Elisha Harding, Isaac Flitner, Nelson Cutler.
1839. Isaac Flitner, Elisha Harding, Joel Adams.
1840. Moses P. Webster, A. S. Dudley, Horatio Ilsley.
1841. Asa Messer, Robert Thompson, jun., Edward Hills.
1842. Robert Thompson, jun., Edward Hills, Asa Messer.
1843. Joshua S. Green, Amos Drake, Asa Messer.
1844. Joseph Irish, John Adams, Andrew Libbey.
1845. Elijah Vose, Joseph Irish, John Adams.
1846. Rev. F. W. Baxter, Rev. Samuel Bowker, Rev. M.
R. Hopkins.
1847. Samuel Bowker, Joseph Irish, Perez B. Sayward.
1848. Joseph Irish, Albert Thurston, Robert Thompson, jr.
1849. Joseph Irish, John Adams, Seth M. Cushman.
1850. The Selectmen and Treasurer.
Since the separation of Maine from Massachusetts,
there have been superintending school-committees and
school-agents. The duties of superintending school-
committees are to fill vacancies happening in their
Board during the term of their office, to examine can-
didates for teaching, to direct the general course of
instruction and designate the books to be used, to
visit the schools, to dismiss unsuitable teachers, to
expel refractory scholars, and to make to the select-
men, within fourteen days preceding the annual town-
meeting, a return of the state of the schools.
SCHOOL AGENTS.
1820. Spencer Walcott, Herman Hawes, Marlboro* Pack-
ard, Walter Blake, Nathaniel Bachelor, John
"Walker, Henry Blunt, John Lermond, Fisher Hart,
Samuel Hagar.
1821. Spencer Walcott, David Bobbins, jun., Benjamin
Litchfield, William Libbey, Matthias Hawes, Na-
than D. Bice, Joseph Morse, Henry Fossett,
Joseph Miller, Moses Morse.
1822. Joseph Vaughan, * David Bobbins, jun., Benjamin
Litchfield, Oliver Pratt, Ebenezer W. Adams,
Thomas Mitchell, Jonathan Carriel, jun., Robert
Foster, Obadiah Gardner.
1 Some members of the family spell the word Vaughn without the «.
306 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
1823. Amos Walker, David Robbins, jun., John W. Lind-
ley, Nathan Hills, Nathan D. Rice, Calvin Gleason,
"William Bryant, Abel Walker, Micajah Gleason,
Samuel Hagar.
1824. Ebenezer Alden, David Robbins,1 jun., Leonard
Wade, Isaac Hills, Nathan D. Rice, Joseph Morse,
Samuel Stone, Simon Fuller, Fisher Hart, Samuel
Hagar.
1825. Abiel Gay, Herman Hawes, Spencer Mero, Phinehas
Butler, Nathaniel Bachelor, Thomas Mitchell, Ro-
bert Thompson, John Hemenway, Sanford Hills,
Leonard Bump, John C. Robbins.
1826. Jesse Drake, John C. Robbins, Spencer Mero, Phi-
nehas Butler, Galen Hawes, John Gowen, John
Walker, Obadiah Gardner, Leonard Follansbee,
Leonard Bump.
1 827. Zaccheus Litchfield, John P. Robbins, Ebenezer Cobb,
John Bachelder, Isaac Upham, Lewis Bachelder,
Joseph Miller, John Hart, Martin Sidelinger,
David Cummings.
1828. Josiah F. Day, Moses Simmons, William Libbey,
Galen Hawes, John Gowen, John Walker, John
Lermond, William Gleason, Martin Sidelinger,
Herman Hawes.
1829. John Butler, Jason Robbins, Noah Rice, Ebenezer
Cobb, Philo Thurston, Daniel Law, Ebenezer
Blunt, Hermon Mero, Phillips C. Harding, Benja-
min L. Law, Nathan Bachelder.
1830. Daniel F. Harding, Noah Bartlett, Ebenezer Rob-
bins, Ebenezer Cobb, Ebenezer Adams, Jonathan
Morse, Henry Fossett, Jason Davis, Leonard Fol-
lansbee, Sewell Hagar, Nathan Bachelder.
1831. Ebenezer Alden, John L. Robinson, Marlborough
Packard, jun., Isaac Hills, Nathan D. Rice, Thad-
deus Luce, Jacob Sibley, Gilbert Blackington,
Daniel Sidelinger, Elias Skidmore, Nathan Daniels,
jun.
1832. John Payson, John L. Robinson, Ziba Simmons,
Isaac Hills, John Bachelder, Nathaniel Tobey,
Ebenezer Blunt, Christopher Young, Sewell Ha-
gar, Elias Skidmore, Sanford Hills.
1 May 3, Charles Whiting Hawes was chosen in place of David
Robbins, jun., resigned.
SCHOOL AGENTS. 307
1833. Nathan Daniels, Josiah F. Day, Waldron S. Butler,
Daniel Sidelinger, Joseph Vaughan, William Lib-
bey, Leonard Barnard, Stephen Carriel, Joseph
Miller, William S. Luce, Walter Adams, Jonathan
Eastman.
1834. Elisha Harding, Nahum Thurston, John K, Post,
Isaac Hills, Marlboro' Packard, jun., Cyrus Rob-
bins, Christopher Young, Charles Hibbard, Daniel
Sidelinger, Jason Robbins, Charles Hall.
1835. Elisha Harding, Josiah F. Day, Joseph Vaughan,
jun., Vinal Hills, Spencer Mero, Nathaniel Tobey,
Sterling Davis, jun., Elias Skidmore, Benjamin
L. Law, George Cummings, Peter Adams.
1836. Spencer Walcott, Josiah F. Day, Ambrose Leach,
Joshua Morse, Benjamin Litchfield, William Dag-
gett, Stephen Carriel, John Burns, Elbridge Ler-
mond, Elias Skidmore, Sewell Hagar, Stephen S.
Hawes, Ebenezer Cobb.
1837. " Voted that the several school- districts choose their
own agents.''
1838. J. W. Lermond, Nathaniel Robbins, jun., Daniel
Sidelinger, Judson Caswell, Elisha Harding, John
Stevens, Amos Drake, Jason Robbins, Suell Cum-
mings, Nathan Hills, James Grinnell, Samuel
Daggett, William Coggan.
1839. Amos Drake; William G. Hawes, Noah Rice, Joshua
Morse, Nathan Bachelder, E. H. Small, Milton
Daniels, William Gleason, Samuel Sidelinger, Ro-
bert Thompson, C. G. Bachelder, David Grafton,
Samuel Stone.
1 840. Voted that the school-districts choose their own agents,
and make returns of those chosen to the town-
clerk in April next.
1841. Amos Walker, David Robbins, Marlboro' Packard,
Walter Blake, Otis Hawes, John Walker, jun.,
Benjamin Go wen, Lewis Andrews, Charles Fogler,
Sewell Hagar, Elias Skidmore, Ebenezer Cobb,
Daniel D. Law.
1842. Spencer Walcott, Willard Robbins, Suell Cummings,
James Thompson, Vinal Ware, Daniel Walker,
jun., Joseph Bryant, Wilbur Davis, Fisher Hart,
Samuel Hagar, William Caswell, Nelson Cutler,
Joel Adams.
308 EDUCATIONAL •HISTORY.
1843. Joseph Daniels, Isaac Fuller, Isley Martin, Joshua
Morse, Joseph Irish, Samuel C. Fuller, William
Coggan, John Lermond, Joseph Gleason, John
Hagar, Elijah Lermond, C. Young, Thaddeus
Luce. There is an obscurity in the records ; for
afterward were chosen Peter Adams, Benjamin
Achorn, J. M. Gleason, Israel Barker.
1844. F. A. Daniels, Jason Bobbins, Asa Morse, Josiah
Sterling, Joseph Cole, Calvin Gleason, jun., Sa-
muel Stone, Jason Davis, Robert McGuier, Ebe-
nezer Sidelinger, Walter W. Clark, John Jones,
S. Carriel, Phinehas Butler.
1845. J. F. Hart, Leonard Barnard, Nathan Hills, Nathan
Bachelder, Asa Walker, Calvin Boggs, Lyman
Alden, Ebenezer Sidelinger, Samuel Cummings,
John Stevens, Pond Davis, Elias Skidmore, and,
subsequently, John H. Gowen, David Bobbins.
1846. 1847, 1848, and probably since, the town has " voted
that the several districts choose their own agents."
The duties of school-agents are to employ teach-
ers, to provide fuel and utensils and make repairs, to
notify superintending school-committees of the com-
mencement of the schools, and to make annual returns
of the number of scholars.
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Relating to the number of school-children, there is
no record earlier than March 5, 1804, when it was —
" Voted to accept the following motion : That, in future,
each school-district shall appoint a committee to make and
return to the selectmen annually, in the month of May, a
list of the names by families of the children who have their
actual home in the district, and have a legal right to draw
school-money, viz. : All such as have arrived to the age of
four years on the first day of the same month, and those
who are no more than sixteen [on] said day, and all who
are of the age between the two described ; and, if such re-
turns shall be neglected, it shall be the duty of the selectmen to
proportion the school-money in the manner following, viz. : To
take the list of the preceding year, and deduct therefrom
one-half the number, and proportion the money accordingly.
SCHOOL CHILDBEN. 309
[May 14, 1806], "Voted to return the number of school-chil-
dren in the same manner as they were returned last year."
[April 1, 1811], "Voted to accept the following motion
as made by Nathan Blake, viz. : That a committee be chosen
in each school-district, and the people of each district be
allowed the privilege of nominating their committee ; and
it shall be the duty of said committee to make a list of all
the school-children in their district, between the age of four
and sixteen years, as they are on the first day of May, with
the Christian and surname, and the family to which they
belong ; likewise to procure teachers of the school, agreeable
to instructions they may receive from their district ; and, after
the close of a school-term, said committee shall certify to the
selectmen how much money has been expended in schooling,
and to whom they wish to have the money ordered. And, if
a list of any district shall not be presented to the selectmen
on or before the first of June, it shall be the duty of the select-
men to ascertain the number of scholars in each district, by
deducting for the list of the preceding year one-eighth part."
[April 5, 1817], " Voted that the number of scholars in each
school- district be numbered, and that number be turned in to
the selectmen in the month of June ; and, if any district fail to
do it, such district shall lose twenty per cent of their money."
The next year it was voted that the return should
be made on or before the first of June, under a penalty
of ten per cent deduction ; but July 1 was subsequently
substituted for June 1.
The number of scholars has not generally been entered
on the town-records. An approximation may be made
when there is a specification of the sum of money
raised for each scholar.
Between four and sixteen years of age, there were in —
Tears. Scholars.
1807 ... 347
1809 ... 306
1810 . . . 323
In 1826, 1 " there were 715 scholars between the ages
of four and twenty-one."
1 Mr. N. P. Hawes. — At this time, " the books recommended by the
superintending school- committee to be used in the schools were the
United States Spelling-book by N. P. Hawes, Testament, Murray's Eng-
27
Years.
Scholars.
1803 .
. . 261
1804 .
. . 287
1805 .
. . 327
Years.
Scholars.
1816 .
. . 427
1817 .
. . 427
1819 .
. . 461
310
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
Years.
Scholars.
Years.
Scholars.
Years.
1833 .
. 358
1839 .
. 773
1844 . .
1834 .
. . 714
1840 .
. 757
1845 . .
1835 .
. 713
1841 .
. 810
1846 . .
1836 .
. 706
1842 .
. 798
1847-8 .
1837 .
. . 701
1843 .
. 784
1848-9 .
1838 .
. 738
The following is the number of scholars between the
ages of four and twenty-one on the first day of May,
as returned at different times by the school-committee,
under oath, to the State-treasurer's office. Upon this is
based the proportion of school-money which has been
received by the town from the State.
Scholars.
. 812
. 851
. 841
. 870
. 873
SCHOOL-MONEY.
It has been stated, that, July 14, 1788, the vote of
April, 1787, was modified, so that the inhabitants could
have the " privilege of paying town-charges and school-
ing" in produce.1 Hence it may be inferred, that an
appropriation for schooling was made as early as 1787.
There is, however, no record of any before April 7,
1788; and the <£10 voted for town-charges in 1787
was no more than was voted for the same purpose in
1788, when there was an additional <£10, expressly for
schooling. Sometimes the total amount of school-
money has been recorded; at other times, only the
amount for each scholar;2 and, when both sums are
mentioned, they do not always agree. Sometimes,
when the amount for each scholar is given, there is no
record of the number of scholars. At other times, the
number of scholars is not given, and the amount for each
is not unequivocally stated. Accordingly, the follow-
ing is but an approximation to the annual expenditure :
lish Reader, Introduction to Murray's English Reader, all of the pro-
nouncing kind ; Kinne's Arithmetic, Ingersoll's Grammar, large and
small ; Woodbridge's Geography, large and small ; and Walker's Dic-
tionary."
1 In 1791, the tax was paid in produce.
2 In 1803, the appropriation for each scholar was $1.15 ; in 1804,
either $1.25 or $1.50 ; in 1805 and many other years, $1.25 ; in 1820,
$1.1 2£. The law now requires, that each town shall raise for school-
ing an amount equal at least to forty cents for each inhabitant.
SCHOOL MONEY.
311
Years. Sums. Years. Sums. Years. Sums. Years. Sums.
1788, £10
1796, $100.00
1804, $351.75
1811, $385.00
1789, £10
1797, $125.00
or $654.00
1812, $408.00
1790, £19
1798, $150.00
1805, $654.00
1813, $412.00
1791, £20
1799, $180.00
1806, $644.00
1814, $452.00
1792, £20
1800, $200.00
1807, $694.00
1815, $575.00
1793, £20
1801, $200.00
1808, $341.00
1816, $533.75
1794, —
1802, $250.00
1809, $385.00
1817, $533.75
1795, £10
1803, $300.15
1810, $496.00
After the year 1817, the records contain the appor-
tionment for each district.
By an Act of the Legislature of Maine, passed in
1828, all money derived from the sales of public land
was to constitute a permanent fund, the annual income
to be distributed for the purposes of education among
the towns, according to the number of persons therein,
between the ages of four and twenty-one. By another
Act, passed March 31, 1831, every bank was taxed one
per cent annually. March 4, 1833, a law was made
that the whole of this tax should be regularly distri-
buted, like the income of the permanent fund. Ac-
cordingly, at different times, the town has received its
proportion, as follows : —
Years.
Sums.
When Paid.
1833
. $29.54 . . .
1834
. $95.67 . . .
1835
. $102.54 . . .
1836
. $135.53 . . .
. . Feb. 27, 1837.
1837
. $179.34 . . .
. . April 17, 1838.
1838
. $176.29 . . .
. . June 30, 1840.
1839
. $169.47 . . .
. . Nov. 18, 1840.
1840
. $151.11 . .
. . March 22, 1841.
1841
. . $129.93 . .
. . . April 21, 1842.
1842
. . $111.65 . .
. . . April 27, 1843.
1843
. . $101.77 . .
. . . April 6, 1844.
1844
. . $97.44 . .
. . . March 27, 1845.
1845
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1846
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314 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
It is very common, after the school of a district
is finished for the season, to continue the teacher seve-
ral weeks longer ; each parent paying a specified sum
each week for every child that he sends, so that the
amount considerably exceeds what is stated in the pre-
ceding tables.
April 6, 1801, two articles relating to school-money
were "dropped." The first was to see if the town
would " grant a sum of money to purchase books for
the use of schools in the several districts ; " the second,
to see if the town would " allow the collector to pay
in their part or proportion of schooling-money to the
treasurer of each district."
April, 1816, " Voted that the selectmen should not
give an [order] to draw any money from the treasury,
unless the instructors first produce a certificate from
the school-committee that they are duly qualified to
teach said school." This vote was repeated in sub-
stance the succeeding year. And May 1, 1817, when
an article was brought forward to see if the town would
" vote to have the selectmen grant orders to the school-
districts, where their teachers have not obtained a
recommendation, viz. District No. 7 and No. 10, it was
voted to drop the article."
April, 1817, voted to pass over an article to see
if the town would " allow Jonathan Sibley to have his
proportion of the school-money, and apply it to school-
ing his own children in his own way." July 4, 1820,
upon a proposition to " let Leonard Bump receive his
proportion of money that his scholars drawed in 1819,
and what they will draw in 1820 from School-district
No* 7," the money was granted, " provided he satisfied
the selectmen that it had been expended in schooling
his children." In 1822, it was again granted ; but " he
was first to produce a certificate from the master or
mistress that the same had been expended in schooling
his children, they being duly qualified as the law re-
quires for school-instructors."
It appears from the preceding votes, that there were
brought forward, in advance of the times, some con-
HIGH SCHOOLS. 315
siderations which have since been reduced to laws;
arid that, whatever may have been the motive or the
result, there was vigilance that the money should be
spent for the general good. There are, however, some
evils yet to be remedied. One of these is the sub-
division of districts, and the consequent shortness of
the schools ; another is too great lenity in examining
into the qualifications of teachers. Thorough teachers
are the cheapest ; and long schools, though considerably
large, are much better for a town than short schools
with but few pupils. Two neighboring districts might
unite, and let the scholars in each attend both the
schools, which might be taught in different months.
By the union of several, there might be grades and one
high school in town, without additional expense.
HIGH SCHOOLS.
The liberally educated men in town have always
been ready to aid any person who wished to pursue
studies not ordinarily taught in the common schools.
There have sometimes been private schools for teach-
ing the higher branches of education. During the
latter part of each of the years 1824, 1825, and 1826,
Noyes P. Hawes kept a private school on the com-
mon. The first strictly classical school was probably
taught by J. B. Pitkin.
" He came to Union on foot, with his earthly effects, real
and personal, in a bundle under his arm, in the fall of 1828.
He was poorly clad, and had the appearance of one far
gone in consumption. He announced himself as a writing-
master, and soon opened a writing- school. He did not
take the pupil's writing-book and reverse it when he wrote,
but penned the copy across the desk, not only inverted but
backward. His writing, though done in this way, was pre-
eminently beautiful. The proceeds of his school supplied
his wants, and he continued to live among us. There was
about him an air of great reserve ; and no one knew his
acquirements, his history, whence he came, or whither he
was destined. After teaching a writing-school for some
time, in the fall of 1829 he opened a school for the higher
316 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
branches, such as Latin, Greek, grammar, geography, &c,
in the Round Pond School-house. And there for the first
time we learned that he was a good classical scholar, who
had received an education at the seminary in Quebec.
After teaching several months, he commenced preaching,
and connected himself with the Universalist denomination.
He remained at Union the next year preaching. Early in
the year 1830, Mr. Pitkin left Union for the south. His
health was much improved, though the seeds of consump-
tion were too deeply rooted in his constitution to be eradi-
cated. He went to Richmond, Va., became connected with
the Unitarian denomination, and a fine church was erected
for him in the city, where he preached for several years,
and died some years ago, universally lamented and beloved
by all who knew him. Mr. Pitkin was distinguished for his
reserve, for his quiet, unassuming demeanor, and his gentle,
unoffending manners." 1
With the exception of the summer months, a high
school has been taught for the most part of the time,
during several years, by Joshua S. Greene, who for
about two years was a member of Bowdoin College.
Here studies are pursued which are required for ad-
mission to College.
During five or six months in the year 1832, a high
school for young ladies was taught by Susan B.
Owen, a native of Brunswick. She afterwards mar-
ried Rev. James B. Britton, of Dayton, Ohio, who in
1849 declined the bishopric of Illinois.
LYCEUM.
In the winters of 1830-31 and of 1831-32, there was
a Lyceum. Dr. Jonathan Sibley was the president.
Of the lectures one was by Dr. Harding on quackery ;
one by Dr. H. A. True on a library, and its beneficial
influence ; and two were given by the president on his-
torical incidents and events connected with the town
of Union, and the early settlement of the country.
1 MS. Journal of A. C. Robbins, Esq., of Brunswick. Mr. Pitkin
died early in 1835, probably at St. Augustine, Fa., where he went
for his health. See Christian Register, March 28, 1835.
LIBRARIES. 317
LIBRARIES.
At the close of the last century, there was a library,
which contained several valuable books. March 3,
1800, an article was brought forward " to see if the
town would choose a committee to meet a committee
of the 'Federal Society' on the subject of turning
the Union Library to the town." The article was
dropped. The volumes were kept together many
years afterward; but no additions of consequence
were made to them. Finally, the proprietors in town
severally took what they considered their share of the
volumes, and the library was broken up.
In 1814, the young men made a movement to form
another library. It was earned on with considerable
spirit for some time. Their constitution was signed
by Noyes P. Hawes, Walter Morse, Joel Hills, Otis
Hawes, John Bowes, Whiting Hawes, Reuben Hills,
jun., Ebenezer Barrett, Robert N. Foster. To these
were subsequently added Jonathan Eastman, Ezra
Bowen, Isaac Hills, Barnard Morse, Galen Hawes,
Thomas A. Mitchell, and Russell Sargent. Several
of the young men moved from the town in two or
three years, and the interest subsided.
The Union Library Society was organized in 1825,
with about forty members. In the course of a year
or two, the library contained nearly two hundred vo-
lumes. At the present time, there are, including large
and small, several hundred volumes, belonging to the
Sunday-schools of the different religious societies.
318 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER XXXV.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
College Graduates. — Lawyers. — Physicians. — Indian Doctor. —
Urine Doctor. — Singing Masters and Singing Schools. — Brass
Band.
COLLEGE GRADUATES.1
Isaac Bowen, Brown University, 1816.
John Langdon Sibley, Harvard University, 1825.
Henry Ayek True, Bowdoin College, 1832.
Augustus Coggswell Robbing, Bowdoin College, 1835.
Henry Fiske Harding, Bowdoin College, 1850.
LAWYERS.
Robert McClintock, an educated Englishman or
Scotchman, having a wife and two or three children,
was in town, according to the tax-bill, as early as
1791. He lived near Hills' Mills, and occasionally
" did law-business." Not being able to adapt himself
to the Yankee mode of getting a living in a new
country, he became poor, and, it is said, lived for
some time in a barn, in the McGuier neighborhood in
Waldoborough, and finally died in it.
William White, of Chester, N.H., a graduate of
Dartmouth College in 1806 ; commenced practice in
August, 1809 ; and in September, 1812, moved to
Belfast, where he died.
Lithgow Hunter, a graduate of Bowdoin College
in 1809 ; in town from November, 1812, to March 13,
1813 ; now lives in Topsham or Brunswick.
1 The first four graduates were born in one school- district. The
second, third, and fourth were born on the Robbiris Neck ; the first
two of them in the True House, so called, now owned by Mr. Fog-
ler ; and the other, sixty or eighty rods north of it. Another native
of Maine, Freeman Luce Daggett, son of Edmund Daggett, for many
years resident at Hope, is an undergraduate of Bowdoin College. In
comparison with the neighboring towns, the number is large. In the
vicinity are some towns which have not furnished any college graduates.
LAWYERS. 319
George Kimball, probably of Harvard, Mass., a
graduate of Dartmouth College in 1809 ; began to
practise March 12, 1813 ; went to the Bermuda Isles
in the early part of 1815, where he taught a singing-
school, and was married. He returned and settled in
Canaan, N. H., became distinguished in the anti-slavery
movement, and went to Alton, 111.
Daniel Fiske Harding, a graduate of Brown Uni-
versity in 1809, commenced practice in November,
1815, and still resides in town.
John Bulfinch, of Lynn, born in Boston, a graduate
of Harvard University in 1812 ; read law in the office
of the Hon. Samuel Thatcher, of Warren, and with
B. P. Field, Esq., of Belfast ; opened an office here in
January, 1816. He remained till November, 1823;
then removed to Waldoborough, wThere he now lives.
In 1825 he married Sophronia, daughter of Thomas
Pike, of Camden, and has six children, the oldest son
a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1850.
John S. Abbot, a graduate of Bowdoin College in
1827, began practice in 1831, moved to Thomaston
in 1833, and now lives in Norridgewock.
Augustus C. Robbins, after graduating, studied law
six months with Jonathan Thayer, of Camden, and
subsequently with John S. Abbot, of Thomaston ;
and was admitted to the bar, at Topsham, in August,
1838. He immediately commenced business in Union,
and continued till late in the fall of 1839, since which
he has practised in Brunswick. From November,
1841r to Dec. 31, 1850, he was cashier of the Bruns-
wick Bank. Jan. 1, 1851, he entered on his duties as
cashier of the Union Bank at Brunswick. He has for
many years been an unwearied and successful advo-
cate of thorough, extensive, and elevated common
school education.
Elijah Vose has been in business since 1842.
Elisha Esty Rice, now Governor's aid, commenced
practice in May, 1843, and was deputy-sheriff. He
left town in 1845, and is now engaged in manufac-
tures at HallowelL
320 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
Richard Drury Rice was by profession a printer,
edited an anti-masonic paper at Hallowell, after which
he kept a bookstore several years in Augusta. He then
studied law with the Hon. J. W. Bradbury, United
States senator, afterward was in partnership with him,
and in 1848 was appointed Judge of the Middle Dis-
trict Court of Maine. He resides at Augusta. 1
Nelson Cutler,2 a farmer till twenty-one years of
age, then lime-cask-maker two years, trader from 1827
to 1837, also at the present time ; began to practise
at the bar about May, 1843, and still continues in
the profession.
PHYSICIANS.
It was many years before any physician was per-
manently settled in the town. Dr. Dodge, of Thom-
1 James Rice, born June 24, 1758 ; died April 3, 1829. He came
from Framingham, Mass. He was the son of Richard Rice, born
Oct. 21, 1730 ; died June 24, 1793. Nathan Drury Rice, son of the
before-named James Rice, was born Aug. 29, 1784; and married,
Feb. 10, 1806, Deborah Banister, born June 9, 1786, died Nov. 1,
1843. He married second, in 1851, the widow Emery, of Augusta.
The children are — I. Harriet, born Nov. 19, 1806; married Amos Bar-
rett. II. Albert Perry, born June 14, 1808 ; died March 27, 1834.
III. Richard Drury, born April 11, 1810 ; married Anne R. Smith, of
Hallowell, April 12, 1836. She died June 15, 1838, leaving Albert
Smith, born April 4, 1837. He married, Nov. 8, 1840, AlmiraE. Ro-
binson, by whom he has Abby Emery, born May 18, 1842. IV. Nathan
Foster, born March 25, 1812; baker in New Orleans, La. V. James
Banister, born June 14, 1814; died Sept. 15, 1835. VI. Sarah, born
June 25, 1816 ; married, Sept. 4, 1847, James Hodges, of Washington.
VII. Cyrus Cushman, born June 14, 1818 ; married, Oct. 17, 1839,
Emily S. Wade ; lives in Bangor. Children : Abby Celestia, born
Aug. 13, 1840 ; Deborah Caroline, born Sept. 9, 1843 ; Emma Eveline,
born Dec. 26, 1846. VIII. Elisha Esty, born May 7, 1820 ; married,
Jan. 2, 1842, Almira W. Sampson, of Winthrop. IX. Lyman Lyon,
born July 21, 1822 ; died at the Marine Hospital, Liverpool, England,
Feb. 23, 1842. X. Eveline, born July 3, 1824 ; married Simeon
Savage, and resides at Lowell, Mass. XL Ann Maria, born April 6,
1828; married, December, 1847, James French; residence Lewiston.
9 N. C. born at Lewiston, April 25, 1805 ; married, in Warren,
March 8, 1827, Love Thompson, born in Hope, April 3, 1810. The
children, all born in Union, are— I. Ethelbert Nelson, born Feb. 19,
1828. H. Malinda Ann, born June 16, 1829 ; died May 30, 1848. III.
John Emery, born Nov. 1, 1831. IV. Mary Celeste, born April 23,
1834. V. Caroline Matilda, born June 21, 1836. VI. Charles Henry,
born Oct. 19, 1839. VII. Frank Melvin, born June 22, 1842. VIII.
Clara Augusta, born March 27, 1846. IX. CoraeUa, born 1849.
PHYSICIANS. 321
aston, and subsequently Dr. Buxton, of Warren, were
occasionally sent for in difficult cases. At an early
period, probably about the year 1787 or 1788, Dr.
Isaac Bernard was in town a short time. He settled
in T^homaston, and married a widow Hanson. He
was captain of a company of light-horse, frequently
moderator of the town-meetings, and was chosen rep-
resentative to the Massachusetts General Court, at
least in 1806, 1807, 1809-13, 1815-17, and 1819.
Mrs. James, of Warren, was sent for occasionally.
But the wife of Philip Robbins, better known as
" Aunt Mima," did more business than all of them.
In the autumn of 1786, Mr. Samuel Hills agreed to
announce to " Aunt Mima " the expected arrival of a
little stranger, by going to the pond and blowing
a conch. When the time came, Aunt Mima respond-
ed to the call. The ice was thin. Amariah Mero,
holding a long pole by the middle, so as to recover
himself if he broke through, drew his mother-in-law
on a hand-sled to the place appointed. The little
stranger, Jabez F. Hills, was the first person born in
Union after it was incorporated. Aunt Mima ac-
quired considerable skill as a doctress. If a person
was wounded, commonly he was carried to Aunt
Mima, who had medicines and lancets, and prescribed
and bled, as the case required.
Jonathan Sibley was the first physician who estab-
lished himself here permanently. After studying his
profession with Dr. Carrigain, of Concord, N. H., he
was examined and admitted to the New Hampshire
Medical Society, Jan. 9, 1799 ; receiving, it is said,
the first diploma ever given by the society. Subse-
quently he became a member of the Massachusetts
Medical Society. It is supposed that he is not only
the oldest man, but the oldest physician, who prac-
tises any in this part of the country, and possibly in
the State. Many years since, he published several
articles in the medical journal printed in Boston.
William Dougherty, of Framingham, settled here
about the year 1807, and continued several years.
28
322 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
Dr. Pelatiah Metcalf came from Massachusetts in
1809, remained one or two years, and went into a fac-
tory at Pawtucket, R. I. He now lives at Smithfield,
R.I.
Afterward came Dr. Brackett, from Vassalborough.
He continued but a short time, moved to Thomaston,
and afterward to Virginia.
Elisha Harding, M. D. at Brown University in 1819,
was here from the spring of 1819 till 1842, when he
moved to Thomaston, where he died in 1850.
Isaac Flitner, M. D. at Bowdoin College in 1837,
came in 1837, and is still in practice.
Gavinus Henderson came in 1842, and moved
away in two or three years.
Dr. Thomas Gore was here a short time, moved
to Cushing, and was representative from that town in
1844, and senator in 1846 and 1847. He now lives
at East Boston, Mass.
Edward Alden attended one course of medical lec-
tures at Bowdoin College in 1844. Afterward he at-
tended two courses at Cincinnati, Ohio, and received
a medical degree from the Botanico-medical College
of Ohio, Feb. 21, 1845. After practising two years at
Providence, R. I., he came here in April, 1848.
The following physicians went from Union, and
settled in other places : —
Isaac Bo wen, son of Ezra and Experience (Tol-
man) Bowen, after graduating at Brown University in
1816, taught an academy at Providence, R. I., and
afterward at Taunton, Mass. He went to the South
in October, 1818, to teach ; settled in Applington, Ga.,
and subsequently in Augusta, where, having attended
medical lectures in Philadelphia, he practised medi-
cine. His wife kept a boarding-school, in which he
took an active part when his practice permitted. He
died in Augusta, in 1839, of the yeUow fever, after
five days' sickness.
Cyrus Hills, son of the late Reuben Hills, is a prac-
titioner in Friendship, Cushing, and on the islands.
Henry Ayer True, son of the Rev. Henry True, stu-
PHYSICIANS. 323
died medicine with Drs. Estabrook, of Camden, and
McKeen, of Topsham or Brunswick; attended one
course of medical lectures in Boston, and two in Bruns-
wick; and received his medical degree at the latter
place. He was then appointed assistant superintending
physician at the McLean Asylum, Somerville, Mass.
Afterwards he was in a dispensary, and subsequently
was a druggist, in New York city. He moved to
Marion, Marion county, Ohio, where ill health obliged
him to abandon an extensive medical practice, and
where he is now a merchant.
John Hawes, born Dec. 31, 1810, died at Grenada,
Miss.
Benjamin Hiram Bachelder, son of Capt. Nathaniel
Bachelor, was born Sept. 18, 1811 ; graduated at the
Bowdoin Medical School nT1836; and in December,
1836, settled in Montville, where, in October, 1837, he
married Betsey "White Ayer, daughter of Perley and
Polly (White) Ayer. In 1848 he adopted the homoeo-
pathic system of practice.
John Bayley Walker, son of Amos Walker, re-
ceived a medical degree at Bowdoin College in 1847.
April 21, 1849, he married Bertha E. Rust, of Wash-
ington, where he is settled.
Indian Doctor. — During the summer and autumn
of 1805 or 1806, an Indian doctor, named Cook, was
here. On the east side of White Oak Pond, called
by the Indians Ponoke or Pawnoke, the Indians once
had a garden, in which they cultivated many medi-
cinal plants. From this deserted garden, Dr. Cook
obtained most of his medicines. He had a pipe
made from a maple-sprout. The bulb where it ad-
hered to the stump was hollowed out for the bowl, and
the sprout pierced for the passage of the smoke. He
was sent for to visit a patient; and, it never being con-
venient for him to pass the tavern without making
a call, he stopped there on his way. After " taking a
little refreshment," and lighting his pipe, he attempted
to mount a horse from the off side. Not able to keep
his balance, he pitched over the animal, and thrust the
324 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
pipe-stem through his neck. It was extracted, and he
visited his patient ; but, in consequence of the injury,
he died about a week afterward, and was buried not
far from the Methodist Meeting-house, in a north-
westerly or westerly direction, on the pitch of the hill
near the road which runs west,^ and in the vicinity of
his wigwam.
Urine Doctor. — As the inhabitants have some-
times consulted physicians in the neighboring towns,
it may perhaps be excusable to insert two extracts
from letters respecting a doctor who in his day proba-
bly was as much celebrated as any man ever was in
the vicinity. The first extract is dated Nov. 18, 1819 :
" A German urine-doctor has lately come from Virginia
to Warren. The people flock to him by hundreds ; his
house has been so thronged that some days he could not
attend to half the applicants. It has been reported, that he
had an hundred people under his care at the same time.
Samuel Bennet died at his house. The body was brought
to this town, and opened by Drs. Sibley and Harding, to
find a great worm which the learned doctor said was in
him; but none was to be found. The fellow says Micajah
Gleason has a worm as many feet long as Gleason is years
old, and that the worm adds one foot to its length every
year. He says Gleason has not got the asthma. He says
he shall certainly cure Mr. Gleason, if he can obtain the aid
of a seventh son."
The second extract is from a letter dated March 12,
1820: —
" Dr. Lambricht, of Warren, has buried his wife and
both his children. Some of the people think he poisoned
them. A jury of inquest was had on one of the bodies ;
but no discoveries were made. His house is continually
thronged with people, some with bottles of urine, some
with lame legs, and others with diseased livers, rotten
lungs, and crazy brains. His practice extends more than
fifty miles, and I think I might say more than an hundred.
Many of his patients have died, and several at his own
house. He is so much engaged in business that many peo-
ple have to call several times before they can have their
SINGING-MASTERS AND SINGING-SCHOOLS. 325
urine inspected. I hear he has a box or barrel, in which he
keeps salts and brimstone pounded together, and feeds all
his patients from the same mess. Some are directed to
take it in brandy, and some in rum, and others in different
ways ; but those who have diseased livers must swallow it
dry, so that it may adhere to the liver and heal it. He
calls Dr. Brown [of Waldoborough] a fool, and says the
physicians in this country ought to be hung for their ignor-
ance. He says in Germany there were several hundred men
appointed to translate the Bible ; and, after they had fin-
ished the work, they submitted it to him to see if it had
been correctly done. Public opinion seems to be divided
concerning him : while some call him a great physician,
others say he kills a great many and cures none."
SINGING-MASTERS AND SINGING-SCHOOLS.
The first singing-school was taught by Ebenezer
Jennison, in Moses Hawes's log-house. Candlesticks
were scarce, and potatoes, with holes in them, were sub-
stituted. Afterward, in cases of emergency, candles
were tipped till the melted tallow dropped on the long
board which served as a table, and then the bottoms
of the candles were held in the tallow till it cooled, —
a practice not uncommon in new settlements at the
present day. The Rev. Mr. Starr, a carpenter and
Calvinistic Baptist preacher, and John Fairbanks,
taught singing in the latter part of the eighteenth cen-
tury.
In the early part of the nineteenth century, funds
were raised by subscription, and the schools were free
for all. About the years 1814 and 1816, Benjamin
Franklin Waters, from Ashby, Mass., was the teacher.
His compensation was one dollar for an afternoon and
evening. He was employed in three towns ; and he
so arranged his schools as to teach in Union on two
days in each week, from two to nine, p.m., with a recess
from five to six o'clock. The school was kept in the
hall of the " Mallard House," which stood on the spot
now occupied by the house of Elijah Vose, Esq. In
the evenings, sixty or seventy persons were commonly
present. Some of them lived four or five miles dis-
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326 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.
tant. They were dismissed at nine o'clock, then con-
sidered a late hour, to go home in the searching cold,
through snow-drifts and along dreary roads.
Two evenings thus spent in each week relieved the
winters of the monotony which frequently prevails in
country-towns. There was no satisfactory substitute
for the enjoyment. Sometimes there was rudeness at
the meetings ; but it was more than counterbalanced
by frankness and kind feelings. After the school was
ended, if it was in winter, the singers commonly met
on Sunday evenings, at different private houses within
a mile or two of the Common. Before Sunday-schools
were established, there was singing in the meeting-
house, between the morning and afternoon services, on
the Lord's days, in summer. Two or three persons
would make a beginning. Occasionally there would
be a " break-down ; " but, as other singers came in and
joined them, the music became better. Marcus Gill-
mor was commonly present with the bass-viol, bought
by the Rev. Mr. True for the use of the society, and
occasionally there were other instruments ; but the
want of skill in the performers was often the occasion
of sundry discords. Gillmor always could be relied on
to sustain his part. In summer there was generally a
singing-meeting at five o'clock, at the old hall. A
maiden lady, who afterwards became dependent on
the town for support, lived in the house part of the
time, and, for an occasional gratuity of a dollar or two,
kept the hall well swept and sanded. Some persons
may possibly recollect the elastic step and perpendicu-
larity with which she was regularly expected to go out
and come in, two or three times at each meeting.
Singing-schools have been kept in later years ; but
they have been, for the most part, confined to the par-
ticular religious societies. They have not been got up
and sustained on the broad and free principle on which
they were conducted thirty-five years ago.
BRASS BAND.
Very early in the present century, a school for in-
strumental music was taught, and some steps were
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.
327
taken towards forming a band. Subsequently, teach-
ing was given by Mr. Whittemore. About the time
the war of 1812 closed, a fifing-school was taught by
Edmund Daggett. But nothing of importance was
effected till 1845 or 1846, when several young men —
amateurs — took hold of the subject in earnest, em-
ployed a very skilful teacher, and were organized Aug.
8, 1846, as the " Union Brass Band." It has had a
high reputation ; though, of late, it has lost some of its
members by their removal from town.
Members.
William Adams
Instruments.
John M. Bachelder
Nathaniel Q,. Bachelder
Nathaniel K. Burkett
Lyman Chapman
Frederic Daggett
Freeman L. Daggett
Willard Hart .
Isaac C. Hovey .
Benjamin L. Jones
William B. Morse
George W. Payson
Jesse W. Payson
Madan K. Payson
Nathan D. Payson
Cornopeon.
Drum.
Tuber.
Trumpet.
Bass Drum.
Post Horn.
Tenor Trombone.
Ophicleide.
Cornopeon.
Drum and Cymbals.
Tenor Trombone.
Bugle.
E flat Bugle.
B flat Bugle.
Trombone.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
MILITARY HISTORY.
Revolutionary Soldiers. — Loyalist. — Incidents in the Revolution-
ary War. — French War. — Military Appropriations. — Powder
House. — Military Spirit.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.
Many of the early settlers were connected with the
army of the American Revolution. Ezekiel Hagar,
who said he was at the execution of Andre ; Abijah
328 MILITARY HISTORY.
Hawes ; Matthias Hawes ; Moses Hawes ; Ichabod
Maddocks, who was in the movement against Pen-
obscot, born June 7, 1764, and died Jan. 4, 1823,
aged sixty-five; Titus Metcalf, who died at the age
of ninety-two years ; and Jason Ware, were revolu-
tionary soldiers. To these should probably be added
David Gillmor and Reuben Hills.
Capt. Joel Adams was in the service between three
and four years ; and, when he left it, he was at
least one hundred dollars poorer than when he entered
it. After nine and a half months' campaign, he was
finally discharged from the United States Army, with
sixty dollars of continental money. With this, in
coming through Hartford, he bought a pair of buck-
skin breeches ; and the three remaining dollars he paid
for a dinner, or something equivalent to it.
Nathan Barnard, born at Waltham, Mass., died July
21, 1830, in his seventy-ninth year. He married Sarah
Wellington, who was born in Waltham, Mass., April,
1760, and moved from Jaffrey, N. H., to Union in
April, 1802. He was out twice in the war. At Bun-
ker Hill he did not take part in the battle, but was a
sentry at a short distance. The balls cut to pieces a bar-
berry bush within two rods of him. Afterward he was
at West Point. He " tended one end " of the chain
put across the North Eiver to obstruct the upward
passage of the British vessels. The chain was made
of square bars, about one foot long and one inch thick,
secured upon logs to prevent it from sinking. He was
also in a skirmish near Ticonderoga.
Capt. Amos Barrett was at the North Bridge in
Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775. According to him,
the orders to the Americans were not to fire first.
The British moved to the bridge, and began to tear it
up. Capt. Davis, of the Acton Company, said they
should not do it, and marched down with warlike
deportment. The British fired. Davis leaped from
the ground, brandished his sword, shouted " Fire, for
God's sake, fire!" sprang to one side of the road to
avoid the shot, was struck by a ball and fell. Capt.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. 329
Barrett followed the British when they retreated. He
said he found men dead, wounded, dying, and under-
going indescribable suffering. One man was trying to
drown himself in a mud-puddle. Another, who was
wounded, hung himself in a barn with a harness.
Capt. Barrett was also at the capture of Burgoyne.
Phinehas Butler served three years. He went to
Ticonderoga, and was in the retreat. Having got
ammunition, arms, and re-enforcements, the party
went back to meet Burgoyne. He was also at Valley
Forge, where he had the smalL-pox. Afterward he
went to West Point, and had a sergeant's command
of horse-guard in that vicinity ; and there he got a
discharge.
Samuel Daggett was captured on board a privateer,
and confined four months in the Jersey prison-ship at
New York. Of ninety who went on board with him,
all died but himself and eight more.
Col. John Gleason was in the service, and in the
Shays Rebellion. By a resolve of the General Court,
passed Feb. 19, 1781, he was appointed a muster-
master, to muster into the continental army the men
raised in the county of Middlesex, Mass.
Richard Grinnell was privateering, and also in the
regular land-service. He died at or near Springfield,
Mass.
Royal Grinnell was in service in Rhode Island.
Amariah Mero was in the service about six years,
chiefly in short enlistments. He went to Sorel, Trois
Rivieres, Montreal, Ticonderoga, and was subsequent-
ly at West Point. He was for some time at Boston
or vicinity, guarding the Burgoyne troops. He never
was in any engagement. His last enlistment was
for three years, and he was discharged at Fort Stan-
wix. He sold his rations of rum to the Indians for
beaver-skins. He sold the skins for five dollars, which
paid his expenses to Northampton, where he procured
five dollars more of a friend to pay his expenses home.
Levi Morse went in a privateer to France. He
served six weeks in Rhode Island at the time of Gen.
330 MILITARY HISTORY.
Sullivan's expedition, under the command of Capt.
Perry, of Sherburne, in Col. Hawes's regiment. A
memorandum found among his papers, dated July 24,
1832, says : " In 1788, was engaged several days and
nights in constructing redoubts, and exposed to cannon
shot and shells several days. We were overtaken with
a severe storm, whilst on the island, without tents to
cover us. In 1779 and '80, I served in Sherburne
fifteen months ; enlisted under Reuben Partridge, com-
manding officer, in the State of Massachusetts, for the
term of three months at each engagement. In 1781,
I served three months in the State of New York, at
West Point, Peekskih, and vicinity." Another paper,
dated August, 1783, labelled " List of towns from
Sherburne to West Point," contains " Messmates,
Sergt. Joseph Dows, Daniel Brick, Abraham Coolidge,
Joseph Fairbanks, Jesse Phips, Levi Morse."
Bela Robbins, under the name of William Robbins,
enlisted for three years just at the close of the war;
went to West Point, and was dismissed in about nine
months. There was difficulty about his procuring a
pension, because the application was by Bela Robbins.
There was no such name on the roll ; but there was
William Robbins. The difficulty may be explained
by the fact that Billy is a familiar abbreviation for
William; and hence the transition to Bille and Bela
was easy. He finally received three hundred silver
dollars, and obtained a pension.
Ebenezer Robbins, son of Philip Robbins, priva-
teered in boats with Perry and Thompson, making it
also an object to guard the shore. The party went on
to the land to eat some victuals. The tories saw them
and fired on them, probably to frighten them off and
plunder them. One of the balls wounded Robbins in
the calf of the leg. Mortification followed. He died
and was buried on Cranberry Island. This was pro-
bably near the end of the war.1
Josiah Robbins served nine months. He was at
West Point at the time of the deep snow.
1 Mrs. Mero and Mrs. Dunton.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. 331
Philip Robbins, at the commencement of the revo-
lutionary war, resided at Walpole, Mass., and was
lieutenant of a company. Within a week before the
battle of Lexington, he was in Boston, and, in conver-
sation with some boasting British officers, said to them :
" You have as good officers and men as any in the
world ; but the Americans will fight as well without
officers as your men will with officers, and will take
them one to two, and cut them all off for one breakfast,
if they go out into the country in a riotous way." The
officers, highly incensed, put him under arrest, and kept
him several hours.1 Very early on the morning of the
day of the Lexington Battle, he and the captain and
the ensign of the company were in Boston with their
teams. On learning that the British had " gone out,"
each, leaving his team to be driven home by others,
took off his horse and mounted it without a saddle,
and drove to Walpole as fast as he could go, changing
horses twice on the way. The military company was
mustered, and hurried to Cambridge, where it arrived
in the evening, after the battle was over, and had only
the satisfaction of eating some of the provisions which
had been taken from the British.
When Robbins was first coming to Union, he was
obliged to go to Salem and take passage in an east-
ward-bound vessel; it being immediately after the
evacuation of Boston, while the British were probably
lying off Boston harbor. The captain of a privateer
said he would convoy the eastward- bound vessel, as
he " should like to try his legs," never having been out.
1 This account of Jessa Bobbins differs somewhat from the one by
Jacob Robbins. According to the best of his recollection, which was
rather indistinct, his father went to Boston from Walpole with a load
of timber, one or two days before the battle of Lexington, and called
at the bar-room of a tavern where British officers were drinking punch.
He also called for some ; and, as he was drinking, " he heard the officers
chatting how easy it would be to march through the country to New
York. He interrupted them, and said, ' Friends, you are much mis-
taken : I should not be afraid to undertake, with five hundred such
men as we have in the town I came from, to cut you off before you
got forty miles.' They immediately put him under guard, kept him
three or four hours, and let him go again."
332 MILITARY HISTORY.
At about eleven o'clock, a. m., after one or two hours'
sail, all on board were surprised to see the privateer
suddenly put off from them. Before long, the captain
discovered she had gone in pursuit of a prize. It was
subsequently ascertained that the privateer took it the
same day, and that it contained provisions, clothing,
&c, for the British army ; it probably not being known
to those on board that the British had left Boston in
the possession of their enemies.
George Wellington was at the Lexington Battle.
He said, when the British came in sight, the captain
of the Lexington Company asked all who were will-
ing to stand their ground " to poise their fire-locks.' '
Every man did it. When Pitcairn ordered the rebels
to disperse, none moved ; but, when the British fired,
all ran. At one time, a British officer came upon a
Yankee with a gun, and asked him what he meant
to do with it. The man hesitatingly replied, " Not
much." The officer presented his pistol; the man,
taken by surprise, gave up his gun, went off, and in
great mortification told his companions of his ill-for-
tune. As the British advanced to Concord, the Ameri-
cans kept gathering and hanging about them. Wel-
lington followed them on their advance, and on their
return. A noble horse trotted by him, with portman-
teau, saddle, bridle, pistols, &c, but without a rider ;
the officer probably having been killed. At another
time, three or four British grenadiers entered a house,
and were followed by Americans for the purpose of
surrounding it and making them prisoners. One of the
Americans went round the house to the back-door.
A grenadier opened it. They " drew upon each other "
instantly. The American shot the grenadier through
the heart, and he fell dead. The grenadier, firing at
the same moment, shot the American through the ab-
domen. Wellington conversed with the latter, who
said he should die, and he did. Wellington took up
the grenadier's cap, made of leather and brass, carried
it a mile or two, found it very heavy, and threw it
over the fence. A person who spent an evening with
WENTWORTH. — COGGAN. — FOSTER. 333
him and Capt. Barrett said they could not agfee
whether the first resistance to the British was made at
Lexington or Concord ; but Wellington observed that
one of his relatives remarked after the battle, " D— n
them ! I gave them the guts of my gun " at Lexington
when they fired. Wellington was also engaged at
the time of the Shays Rebellion. He moved to Ap-
pleton, and afterward to Albion, where he died.
Lemuel Wentworth's gravestone is in the aban-
doned burying-ground at East Union. It states that
he was at the battle of Bunker Hill. This is a mis-
take. From a memorandum made in 1820, it appears
that " he served the United States, a whole year at one
time, in what was then called the Year's Service;
that he marched from Winter Hill to New York, and
then to Albany, Ticonderoga, Montreal, and subse-
quently back to Mount Independence; and then he
went to Trenton, and helped to capture the Hessians."
Besides the persons mentioned, there may have
been some other revolutionary soldiers, who have iiot
been noticed because not known to be such.
William Coggan was in the battle of Bunker Hill,
on the British side. He passed over from Boston
after the commencement of action.
LOYALIST,
About the year 1814 came Edward Foster from
Halifax. He was the father of Major Kobert Foster.
He had left Massachusetts when the loyalists, or tories
as they were called, were obliged to go off. There
seem to have been two men of the name, a father and*
a son. Edes's Gazette, July 29, 1776, states, "We
hear that yesterday a prize was sent into Salem, with
Ben. Davis and son, Edward Foster, and about a
dozen other tories, on board. She was bound to New
York, with stolen dry goods." It is said that Edward
Foster was a blacksmith ; and, when Boston was be-
sieged by the American army, he assisted in making
horse-shoes, to which were commonly affixed three
prongs, one or two inches long ; and that these were
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334 MILITAEY HISTOBY.
buried on Boston Neck for the purpose of laming the
American cavalry, in case they should attempt to en-
ter the city in that direction. Mr. Foster appeared
to be a very worthy, quiet man, and resided with his
son till he died July 17, 1822, aged seventy-two.
INCIDENTS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
When Castine, then called Biguyduce or Penobscot,
was taken by the British troops in the year 1779,
Philip Robbins, as commissary, and his son Jacob
Bobbins, as his waiter, joined the expedition 1 against
them. These were the only persons who went from
Stirlington. When the Americans were obliged to
abandon their movements against Biguyduce, a com-
pany on the retreat encamped one night on Craw-
ford's Meadow. 2 The few inhabitants here always
kept their guns loaded by their beds, and had dogs.
They often went out as scouts, but in the disguise of
hunters. In Waldoborough and Warren were many
tories ; " the old country people were almost all for
the king." 3 A road was beaten down from Waldo-
borough through the upper part of Union, by the
driving of cattle to Biguyduce. Two British officers
named McGregor and Roakes, deserters from Castine,
piloted by Oliver Miller, of Lincolnville, passed through
the settlement. They could not be prevailed on to
1 It was in this expedition that Christopher Newbit, who settled on
the point of land at the north end of Sunnybec Pond, had his right
arm taken off, July 28, 1779, by a cannon-ball, which glanced round
• a tree. By a resolve of the Legislature, passed Feb. 28, 1781, his
father John Newbit was paid " £13, in bills of the new emission, in
full for all surgeons' bills and other expenses incurred by the loss
of his son's arm in the battle aforesaid." C. Newbit lost his right
eye, and afterward fractured his right leg so badly that it scarcely
escaped amputation. Notwithstanding these infirmities, it is almost
incredible with what skill he would drive his team, load stones, and
do other work, with his left arm. A pension was settled on him ; and
it appears, from the Report of the Secretary of the United States,
that, when he died in September, 1826, forty-seven years afterward,
he had received $2,790.27.
* C. Eaton, Esq. 3 Mrs. Mero.
REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS. 335
lodge in the house of Philip Bobbins, but spent the
night in the top of his barn.1
Occasionally some of the inhabitants were alarmed.
Two famishing deserters from the British called at the
house at South Union, and asked for ham, a leg of
which they saw in the cellar-way. " Mrs. Butler cut
off and cooked a generous quantity, and set it wit{i
brown bread before them. She was so frightened
that she would have given them any thing they had
asked for in the house."
When General Wadsworth and Colonel Benjamin
Burton were prisoners of war at Castine, Philip Rob- .
bins and others visited them, with a flag of truce. *
Some sharp words then passed between some of the
British and Robbins. This was probably towards the
end of April, 1781. Shortly afterward, Philip Rob-
bins was sent express from Camden to Boston, to
guard Capt. John Long, a tory prisoner. His bill,
bearing date May 1 to May 5, 1781, so great was
the depreciation of the continental paper, amounted
to <£1,128. 2s., including the charge to meet the ex-
penses on his return. Long afterward escaped. Rob-
bins took him again and carried him back. Long
swore vengeance. He afterwards persuaded the ene-
my at Biguyduce that it would be a good plan to
come and burn Union. Just at that time, the British
officer in command at Biguyduce was changed; and
a friend of Robbins succeeded in informing the new
commander, that the whole affair was a spiteful move-
ment originating with Long, that there was nothing
at Stirlington worth going for ; and he accordingly put
a stop to it.1
When General Wadsworth and Col. Benjamin Bur-
ton made their wonderful escape from the British
fort at Castine, of which there is a minute account in
the second volume of Dwight's Travels, they came
on to Mount Pleasant, June 21, 1781, and down by
Crawford's Pond, to Warren and Thomaston.
1 Mrs. Mero.
336 MILITARY HISTORY.
FRENCH WAR.
In the latter part of the last century, when a war
with France was anticipated, orders came for an en-
sign and eleven men. Accordingly, eleven men enlisted
under William Hart, They frequently met for drill,
and held themselves in readiness to march. But they
were never ordered from Union. The ensign, how-
ever, seemed determined to make something out of it.
Accordingly, he once told his soldiers, when he was
about to have a training, " to fetch their girls " and
any friends whom they wished to invite, and have a
ball at his house. The consequence was a merry time
to all, except one of the eleven, who, on account of the
unpopularity of his wife, was not invited. The guests
"paid for the fiddle and the liquor," and Hart fur-
nished the entertainment and provided for the horses. *
This appears to have been all the part which the in-
habitants took in the expected French war.
MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS.
Sept. 1, 1794, upon an article " to see what sum of
money the town will grant for raising minute-men," —
that is, men to be ready to march against the enemy
at a minute's warning, — it was voted to give "three
dollars' bounty, and to make their wages ten dollars
per month with what Congress gives." Another war
with Great Britain was anticipated, because the British
government would not give up, according to treaty,
the posts at Detroit and in the West.
Aug. 28, 1797, the sum of fifty-five dollars was
granted " to purchase military stores, viz., 60 lbs. pow-
der, 100 lbs. ball, 100 flints, &c, agreeable to law ; said
money to be assessed and collected as soon as con-
venient." Edward Jones was to purchase the stores
as soon as the money was collected. Amariah Mero
was " chosen to go to Waldoborough Court, to repre-
sent to said court that we are in preparation to get
1 Mrs. Wm. Hart.
POWDER-HOUSE. — MILITARY SPIRIT. 337
stores, and to get the town cleared of the fine, if he
can."
Jan. 31, 1804, the town paid " Rufus Gillmor, one of
the selectmen, $51.33, to purchase ammunition for the
town's use." There is another charge, without date,
of one dollar and twenty-five cents, by Jessa Robbins,
" for flints for the town."
The selectmen's records contain the following no-
tices : Sept. 2, 1806, " Took from the town stock of
powder 23 lbs., for the use of the two companies in
this town." June, 1807, " Put into the town stock of
powder one hundred weight, which cost $38.25." Oct.
14, 1808, " Took from the town stock 26 lbs. for the
use of the two companies in this town." In 1810,
" The selectmen supplied the two companies with
28 lbs. of powder."
POWDER-HOUSE.
The town's powder was stored in the garret of the
Old Meeting-house. An unsuccessful attempt was
made, May 8, 1815, to provide a powder-house. April
7, 1816, " Voted to build one, the expense not to exceed
fifty dollars." Accordingly, not long afterward, the
villagers were surprised one morning at seeing a little
wooden building about six feet square and ten feet
high, with a peaked roof, perched on the highest part
of the hill, north of the Common ; where, having been
made to order, it had been hauled in the night. It still
stands there, though somewhat the worse for the storms
and the boys' knives. An effort was made, April 7,
1845, to have the town dispose of it and of the "uten-
sils therein."
MILITARY SPIRIT.
In different parts of the town, when the day's work ■
was over, almost every evening's breeze bore with it
the sounds of the drum and fife, before and after the
war of 1812. The swivel was placed near the powder-
house. For several months after the war, it was gene-
rally fired once each day, between sunset and dark.
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MILITARY HISTORY.
May 6, 1816, it was « voted that the militia should
have the privilege of the meeting-house for inspection."
A military spirit pervaded the town. Those were the
"glorious days," when soldiers would volunteer, and
meet for the purpose of drill.
July 4, 1820, a good day for appeals to patriotism,
the town " voted that Capt. Noah Rice draw from the
town-treasury fifteen dollars, to be applied towards
the purchasing a stand of colors." The rifle-company
made a similar application, April 1, 1822; but it was
"voted to drop the article." A standard, however,
was afterward presented by the ladies through Miss
Foster, who made an appropriate address, which was
replied to by Capt. Lewis Bachelder, who received it.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
MILITARY HISTORY.
{Continued?)
Infantry Officers. — Light Infantry . — Its Organization and Dress.
— Its Officers. — Rifle Company. — Its Organization and Dress. —
Rifles. — Its Officers. — Disbandment.
INFANTRY.
Officers. — Joel Adams, elected captain, Oct. 19,
1791 ; discharged May 14, 1798. He was the first
captain, and for some time used a moose-wood cane,
instead of a sword. Previously to this, there was no
military training in Union.
Joseph Maxcy, the first lieutenant, Oct. 18, 1791;
captain, June 25, 1798 ; major, Sept. 5, 1805.
William Hart, first ensign, Oct. 18, 1791.
Pavid Gillmor is said to have been the second
lieutenant
INFANTJtY. 339
John Blanchard, lieutenant, Aug. 30, 1802.
Rufus Gillmor, captain, May 2, 1805 ; major, June
26, 1810; discharged Feb. 2, 1814.
Joseph Pitman, ensign, June 16, 1806.
Joseph Vaughan, lieutenant, June 6, 1808; dis-
charged June 21, 1813.
Peter Adams, captain, Jan. 7, 1811 ; discharged Aug.
21, 1813.
David Grafton, ensign, Jan. 7, 1811; lieutenant,
Oct. 2, 1813; captain, Jan. 8, 1814; moved from
town ; discharged March 24, 1817.
Rufus Gillmor, jun., ensign, Oct. 2, 1813 ; lieu-
tenant, Jan. 8, 1814; moved to Searsmont; dis-
charged March 9, 1816.
Bailey More, ensign, Jan. 8, 1814 ; lieutenant, May
22, 1816 ; moved to Searsmont ; discharged March
20, 1817.
Noah Rice, ensign, May 22, 1816 ; captain, April 30,
1817 ; re-elected captain, Sept. 24, 1825 ; removed.
Millard Gillmor, lieutenant, April 30, 1817 ; moved
from town ; discharged July 6, 1819.
Nathaniel Tobey, ensign, April 30, 1817; lieute-
nant ; discharged 1823.
Cyrus Robbins, ensign, Aug. 30, 1819 ; discharged
May 27, 1820.
John Pearse Robbins, captain, May 24, 1823;
removed 1825.
Philo Thurston, ensign, July 5, 1825 ; discharged
March 17, 1834.
Ebenezer Ward Adams, captain, Sept. 18, 1832;
cashiered Sept. 8, 1835.
John Fuller, lieutenant, Sept. 18, 1832 ; discharged
March 5, 1840.
George Robbins, captain, May 10, 1834; discharged
by limitation, Jan. 3, 1842.
Alexander Skinner, lieutenant, May 10, 1834 ; dis-
charged by limitation, Jan. 3, 1842.
Life W. Boggs, ensign, May 10, 1834 ; discharged
by limitation, Jan. 3, 1842.
340 MILITARY HISTORY.
LIGHT INFANTRY.
General Orders. — "Head Quarters, Feb. 26, 1806.
The Commander-in-chief, having been authorized by a re-
solve of the General Court, on the petition of Micajah
Gleason and others, and having the advice of Council,
thereupon orders that a company of light-infantry be raised
in the Fourth Regiment, First Brigade and Eighth Divi-
sion of the Militia, to be annexed to said regiment, and sub-
ject to all the regulations established by law ; provided,
nevertheless, that no standing company of foot be reduced
thereby to a less number than sixty-four effective privates.
" By order of the Commander-in-chief,
" Wm. Donnison, Adjutant-General."
Organization and Dress. — The light-infantry was
accordingly organized in 1806. The dress consisted
of blue short coats with buff facings, blue panta-
loons/half-gaiters bound with buff, oval black leather
caps, with a red painted stripe two or three inches
wide around them, and a strip of bear-skin about three
inches wide, extending from the brow over the top of
the head to the back of the neck. On the right side
of the caps was a cockade, from behind which rose a
perpendicular red plume. The musicians substituted
red or buff coats and white pantaloons.
Officers. — Nathan Williams, captain, May 22,
1806.
Joseph Morse, lieutenant, May 22, 1806 ; discharged
Feb. 20, 1812.
Micajah Gleason, ensign, May 22, 1806 : resigned
Feb. 28, 1809.
Edmund Mallard, ensign, Aug. 24, 1809.
Herman Hawes, the second person born in Union
who did military duty, was elected captain, April 23,
1811 ; rnajor, May 7, 1814 ; breveted lieutenant-colo-
nel, July 1, 1816, according to an Act of the Legis-
lature, passed June 20, 1816 : discharged April 9,
1818.
John W. Lindley, lieutenant, May 11, 1812; cap-
tain, Aug. 25, 1813 ; discharged April 9, 1818.
RIFLE COMPANY. 341
Hervey Maxcy, ensign, May 11, 1812; lieutenant,
Aug. 25, 1814; discharged April 9, 1818.
Samuel Stone, ensign, Aug. 25, 1814; captain,
May 19, 1818 ; discharged and company disbanded,
June 14, 1819.
Eben Stone, lieutenant, May 19, 1818 ; discharged
and company disbanded, June 14, 1819.
RIFLE COMPANY.
Organization. — Nathan Bachelder and forty-one
others petitioned the Governor and Council that the
light-infantry, commanded by Capt. Samuel Stone,
might be disbanded, and that they might be formed
into a rifle-company. The measure Avas approved
by the officers commanding the regiment, brigade, and
division, and by Capt. Stone, most of whose men
were among the petitioners. It was alleged, that the
light-infantry was small in number, and not fully
officered and not easily recruited. The committee of
the council reported favorably June 12, 1819, and the
report was accepted by the Governor on the same day.
June 14, the adjutant-general issued his orders ac-
cordingly. They passed down from the major-general,
June 21 ; from the brigadier-general, July 6 ; and
from Col. Isaac G. Reed, Aug. 9. The meeting for
election of officers and organization was held Aug. 23.
The company was recruited by voluntary enlistment
within the regiment.
Dress. — The dress consisted of short, blue round-
jackets, single-breasted, trimmed with yellow ferret
and ball-buttons ; of pantaloons with a row of ball-
buttons down each leg on the outside seam, with
three rows at the bottom, six buttons high; and of
thin half-boots, and of white neck-handkerchiefs and
white vests. The leather caps had a yellow strap
painted round them, and a strip of bear-skin, about
three inches wide, running from the brow, over the
head, to the back of the neck.
The rifles, about forty in number, were purchased in
1820, for fifteen dollars each, with merchantable boards
342 MILITARY HISTORY.
at nine dollars per thousand. Upon each of them were
stamped the words, " Union Rifle Company."
Officers. — John Bachelder, captain, Aug. 23,
1819; lieutenant-colonel, March 3, 1823; discharged
Aug. 27, .1825. Lewis Bachelder, lieutenant, Aug.
23, 1819; captain, May 24, 1823; removed. Spen-
cer Mero, ensign, Aug. 23, 1819 ; resigned. Ebenezer
Cobb, lieutenant, May 24, 1823; resigned Feb. 3,
1829. "William Shepherd (or Shepard), lieutenant,
Dec. 27, 1823 ; discharged Dec. 6, 1825. Marcus Gill-
mor, ensign, May 24, 1823 ; discharged. Nathan
Bachelder, captain, Sept. 24, 1825 ; discharged and
company disbanded, July 2, 1831. Lemuel S. Rice,
lieutenant, Aug. 19, 1830 ; discharged and company
disbanded, July 2, 1831. Cyrus Gale Bachelder, en-
sign, Aug. 19, 1830 ; discharged and company dis-
banded, July 2, 1831.
Disbandment. — June 28, 1831, the Standing Com-
mittee on Military Affairs reported to the Governor's
Council that there was no evidence in the office of the
adjutant-general to show that the company had done
any duty since 1824; and that the last inspection-
return was handed in by the officers, " without a non-
commissioned officer, musician, or private ; and that
the company ought to be disbanded." A vote for
disbanding it was passed the same day. The general
order to carry it into effect was dated July 2 ; the
division-order, July 5 ; brigade-order, July 25 ; and
regimental order, Aug. 5, 1831. The officers were
discharged ; and the members of the company, liable
to do military duty, were ordered to be enrolled in the
standing companies of infantry within whose bounds
they respectively resided.
COMPANIES CALLED OUT. 343
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
MILITARY HISTORY.
{Continued,)
War of 1812. — Pay voted by the Town. — Drafts. — Alarm. —
Companies ordered out. — Parade on Sunday. — March to Cam-
den. — Peace. — Soldiers from Union in the Army. — Texan War.
— Mexican War.
WAR OF 1812.
After the declaration of war in 1812, the first move-
ment of the town on military affairs was, July 16 of
the same year, upon an article " to see if the town will
consider the state of the militia who are detached, and
hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's
warning, and act or do any thing relative thereto." It
was " voted that the militia of the town drafted for the
service of the United States shall, in addition to the
pay they receive from the United States and individual
States, be entitled to so much money, to be paid out
of the treasury of this town, as shall make the whole
sum of their pay received from all the above sources
to amount to ten dollars for each month which they
shall serve as aforesaid ; provided, nevertheless, that
no soldier shall be entitled to any pay from the town,
unless he shall be honorably discharged."
There were occasionally drafts of a few persons du-
ring the first two years ; but, in Sept. 1814, the appre-
hension of an attack on Camden was so strong that
orders came for every man to turn out. British armed
vessels were occasionally seen along the coast. " A
body of men, despatched in barges from two armed
ships lying at the mouth of St. George's River, entered
in the night-time, without opposition, the fort below
Thomaston, spiked the guns, destroyed the munitions
of war and buildings, set fire to one vessel, and towed
344 MILITARY HISTORY.
away two others. It is said the barges ventured within
a mile of Knox's "Wharf, near the Old Fort, and were
only hastened back by the appearance of day-light.
So bold was this adventure that it excited a general
and extensive alarm. Col. Foote, of Camden, ordered
out a great part of his regiment to guard and defend
the neighboring coast and country." *
To Union orders came on Saturday to be ready to
march on Sunday morning. At the appointed time,
the members of the military companies assembled on
the Common ; though the light-infantry did not march
till Monday. To many the call occasioned great in-
convenience. Farmers were summoned away, not
knowing how long they might be absent, and with the
expectation that what of harvesting remained must be
done by the women and the children, or not done at
all. Besides, — let people say what they may, — the
prospect of facing bullets backed with gunpowder is
not agreeable. There was a general sadness. Women
and children assembled to witness the military move-
ments. In thoughtlessness or with anticipations of
various evils, boys of all ages were running about
among the men. A lad, nine or ten years old, was
greatly distressed about a favorite fife, which he had
lent to one of the musicians, whose intention evidently
was to carry it with him. " It would be taken by the
enemy." The answer to his reluctant application for
it was insufficient to quiet him.
With the uncomfortable feelings of the occasion
were mingled those of regret at the profanation of the
Lord's Day, for which in many minds there was a
deep reverence. When the hour for worship came,
several of the soldiers wished to attend the service.
As the arrangements for marching were not com-
pleted, permission was given, on condition that the
men would come together again at the beat of
the drum. They wefit to the meeting-house in their
military accoutrements. Before Mr. Trtie had finished
the sermon, the summoning sound was heard. The
1 Williamson's Hist, of Maine, ii. 641-2.
EXCURSION TO CANADA. 845
men simultaneously rose, and went out of the meet-
ing-house. The novel movement, at such a solemn
time, awakened deep emotion ; and many of the re-
maining members of the congregation could not refrain
from tears.
The soldiers immediately repaired to their posts, and
marched away, to the solemn music, either of Roslin
Castle or Boyne Water, in the playing of which the
boy had the melancholy satisfaction of hearing his fife.
Upon arriving at South Union, they paraded before the
store of Major Robert Foster, partook of refreshments,
and were met by the selectmen, who provided fresh
cartridges. They marched through Warren and Tho-
maston to Camden, there not being any road then
between Camden and Union. Sadness, ere long, gave
place to merriment. Fun and frolic and wit abounded.
Long faces were not tolerated. The only drawback
on the enjoyment was that the selectmen were not
very good quarter-masters. Each person was ordered
to carry three days' provisions ; but, after that, there
was not the variety of food which might have been
expected, if the military had had more experience as
cooks, or the selectmen as providers,
When the few days of service were over, the com-
panies moved homeward. The sound of the martial
music gave notice of their approach, before it was gene-
rally known that they were coming. The women and
children were delighted. To the little boy, it seemed
as if his fife had never before sounded so loud or so
well. The soldiers were welcomed to the houses and
fields, which were deserted and almost desolate during
the absence of nearly every able-bodied man in the
town. When the boy went for his fife, he found that
it had not been " taken by the enemy," and that the
welcome sounds, which fell so delightfully on his ear,
came not from his instrument, but from a D fife, one
having been furnished by the government to each com-
pany of the regiment.1
1 Two or three years afterward, the boy was provided with a suit
of the uniform worn by the light-infantry ; and, at the head of the
30
346* MILITARY HISTORY.
In November, the companies were again ordered
out, and went through Warren and Thomaston to
Camden, and were absent about as long as before.
A sloop, containing a cargo of bale-goods, invoiced at
forty thousand dollars, bound from Halifax to Castine,
was captured by Major Noah Miller, deputy-collector,
and an armed crew from Lincolnville. The deputy-
collector was to retain ten thousand dollars of it as his
portion. The cargo was carried to Warren for the pur-
pose of having it immediately sent to Boston. The
vessel was in the St. George's. Capt. Mountjoy, in
the " Furieuse," of thirty-eight guns, sailed from Cas-
tine to Camden, and, supposing the vessel and cargo
to be there, demanded them, and threatened, in case
of non-compliance, to lay Camden and Lincolnville in
ashes. Two of the selectmen went off with a flag
of truce. They were detained, and threatened with
imprisonment till the vessel and cargo should be given
up ; though they were subsequently released.1
Nov. 28, 1814, after the last turn-out of the com-
panies, the town " voted that the selectmen, with the
assistance of Major Gillmor, should procure twenty
barrels of good beef, on a credit of six months, for the
use of the militia when marched out of town." The
news of peace came in February, 1815. For two days a
long white streamer, upon which were sewed an eagle
company, he marched and played his fife at trainings. These were
his happiest days. At the age of thirteen, he ended his military
career, by going to Waldoborough, " playing the fife all day on the
muster-field," and exhibiting his red coat and military cap before
Governor Brooks, when he made his eastern tour in the year 1818.
On training- days, the small boys were generally attracted to the
light-infantry, on account of its showy uniform. A very few of
them marched behind it. The officers were always pleasant to them.
Ere long, they put themselves at the head of the company ; and, tak-
ing hold of each other's hands, and stretching their little legs, in
order " to keep step with the music," they preceded the captain.
Then, if they could get two or three little red feathers which had
dropped from some one's plume, and stick them under their hatbands,
they were in the ne plus ultra of happiness. On such occasions, the
large boys always amused themselves in playing ball on the west side
of the ledge on the Common.
1 Williamson's Hist, of Maine, ii. 643 ; C. Eaton, Esq., of Warren.
SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY. 347
and stars of red cloth, ingeniously cut by Sarah Bunt-
ing, floated from a flag-staff, temporarily erected near
Major Gillmor's door. During the first of the two
days, the swivel,1 which had been substituted for the
old cannon, was made to speak as loud and as often
as practicable. The beef was not wanted ; and, by a
vote of the town, April 3, 1815, the selectmen were
instructed to dispose of it "to the best advantage
which they can find." There is also a memorandum,
dated April 15, 1815, which shows, that, however im-
perfectly supplied with food, the soldiers were provided
with another article, which, in those days as well as
in the days of the Revolution, was considered quite
as important : " Received of the inhabitants of Union
$14.24, in full for spirits furnished Capts. J. W. Lind-
ley and David Grafton, in November last, for use of
troops from Union. Jno. Nicholson."
Jonathan Brown was in the military movement
down the St. Lawrence River, and in a severe fight in
the regiment of Col. Eleazar W. Ripley. Ebenezer
Robbins and Richard Cummings, jun., entered the
army. The latter was wounded at the battle of
Bridgewater, and draws a pension. Daniel Jacobs
and James Gay also went into the army, and never
returned. Jeremiah Stubbs enlisted, and deserted three
times, the penalty for which was to be shot; then went
to the British Provinces, where he remained til] the war
was over. Jonas Stone was with Commodore Perry
in the action on Lake Erie, and helped to row the boat
1 The cannon was unearthed in digging the cellar to the house of
Mrs. Hastings, near Green's Wharf, in Thomaston, where it may have
been brought in the Old French War, or in the time of General Wads-
worth. It was purchased by Mallard and Chase, about 1809 or 1810,
brought to Union, and kept in the middle of the Common, on the
ledge which has since been removed. It went into the possession of
Major Gillmor, who exchanged it for the swivel ; and it was used for
privateering in the war of 1812. The swivel was also sold and car-
ried to Thomaston, Subsequently, another swivel was obtained by
subscription. It was carried in 1847 to the summit of the hill, about
midnight, filled with powder, plugged, fired, and burst ; and one piece,
weighing several pounds, was thrown to within a few rods of Seven
Brook.
348 MILITARY HISTORY.
which bore him in the heat of the battle to the vessel,
of which, after his own was crippled, he took com-
mand. Perry stood up in the boat, exposed to the
enemy's fire ; and Stone pulled his coat to haul him
down.
TEXAN WAR.
Milton Irish was in several slight skirmishes ; also
in a sharp one, Nov. 26, in the vicinity of San Anto-
nio de Bexar. He took part in the siege which termi-
nated in the capitulation of that place, Nov. 11, 1835,
and was slightly wounded in the neck by a musket-
ball. He was one of the party which, in March, 1836,
capitulated to the enemy about twenty miles from
Victoria, on the Warlope [Guadaloupe], and was con-
ducted to Labadea. April 2, they were marched out
into an enclosure to be shot. They had no intimation
of the purpose till they were on the ground, and con-
jectured it from the manoeuvres. After the discharge
of the musketry, and amid the death-shrieks which, in
his letter, * he says still ring in his ears, hastily glancing
his eyes around, he discovered on his "left about a
dozen men, who had made their way over the brush-
fence," near to which they had been drawn up. He
tt sprang for the fence as springing for his life," and
" was soon on the other side." He was pursued by an
officer with a drawn sword, and then by a horseman ;
but he changed his route, and attention was diverted
from him to some of the others who were going in a
different direction. He succeeded in reaching some
bushes; "bent his course for the river, which he crossed ;
and proceeded some distance on the bank." He again
swam the river, and concealed himself till dark, and
then proceeded towards the American settlements.
After ten days, he reached the Colorado. May 18,
after six weeks' concealment, he learned that Santa
Anna was a prisoner; and, in two days afterward,
upon the arrival of the Texan army, he joined it, and
1 Long extracts from this letter to Ms father were published in the
Lincoln Telegraph, at Waldoborough, Feb. 10, 1837.
TEXAN AND MEXICAN WARS. 349
went to Labadea, where he "witnessed the funeral
services of his former companions, whose remains after
the massacre had been partly burned." He continues :
" This was the most trying scene through which I ever
passed. I continued in the army till June 2, when I
procured my discharge, and reached San Augustine
the 25th of the same month."
Andrew Benner, of Waldoborough, now resident in
Union, entered the Texan army in 1838. When
Texas, under Lamar's administration, declared war
against the Indians, he was brought into several skir-
mishes. Nov. 1, 1839, he was wounded in the hand,
in a skirmish with the Camanche Indians, about sixty
miles east of Austin.
MEXICAN WAR.
Abner Bills was a private, and afterwards a war-
rant-officer and clerk under Capt. Bodfish, in the Ninth
or New England Regiment. Aug. 12, 1847, he joined
the army of Gen. Scott at Puebla. He was in the
battles of Contreras and Churubusco, and, with the
army, entered the city of Mexico. After being there
about three months, the regiment went to Pachuca,
near the head-quarters of the English silver mining
company of Rio del Monte. May 4, 1848, after re-
maining here about five months, the regiment took up
the line of march for home by the way of Vera Cruz.
Oren Robbins enlisted in the army against Mexico,
and died in that country, Nov. 20, 1847.
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350 MILITARY HISTORY.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
MILITARY HISTORY.
{Continued.}
Difficulty with the Waldonian Officers. — The Dinner. — Waldonian
Influence in the Field. — Election of Lieut.-Col. Bachelder. —
Precedence of Rank on the Field. — Remoteness of Musters. — Pe-
cuniary Considerations. — Indignation at a Military Election. —
Acts of the Legislature. — Excitement.
Soon after the conclusion of the war of 1812, there
commenced between some of the inhabitants of Union
and of Waldoborough a state of unfriendly feeling,
which led to one of the most important events in the
history of the town. It ended in the entire overthrow
of all military organization. At first the incidents
were trifling. It was not long, however, before the
difficulty began to assume a serious aspect. The first
open expression of the state of feeling was at a mili-
tary muster. The officers were in the habit, such as
chose, of going to; a tavern and dining together ; each
one paying his own bill. On the present occasion, one
of the Waldoborough officers invited the others to dine
in his marquee. They supposed the entertainment was
meant as an act of courtesy, and would be gratuitous.
The surprise may be imagined, when the officer, just be-
fore they dispersed, observed to them, in a manner not
to be misunderstood, that he trusted no one would go
away without leaving a dollar. Rumor said that the
compensation was enough to provide the dinner, and
purchase the table-furniture ; and that the officer took
what remained, carried home the knives, forks, and
dishes, and made a speculation. The story was pro-
bably exaggerated; but there was enough truth in it
to make the Union officers think that an imposition
had been practised on them. The next year they
manifested their indignation by not presenting them-
selves at the marquee.
WALDONIAN INFLUENCE. 351
About the time when the Union Rifle Company
was formed, the Waldonians were divided into one
independent and three infantry-companies. This ar-
rangement gave a great portion of the officers to the
Waldonians, and nearly enabled them to control
the elections. In addition to this, it was conjectured
that the commissions of officers who had been elected
were kept back till after a succeeding election, so that
the "Waldonians carried the day in the choice of
officers.
March 3, 1823, Capt. John Bachelder, of Union, was
elected lieutenant-colonel over Major Gorham Parks,
then of Waldoborough. There was a violent snow-
storm on that day, and the roads were almost impas-
sable. Several of the captains and subalterns remon-
strated against the result. They stated that the major,
on " whose courage and conduct they could rely," and
whose rank and date of commission would have point-
ed him out for promotion, was superseded. They
addressed the commander-in-chief, stating that they
should have voted for the major; and requested him
" to set aside the proceedings of the third of March, and
issue orders for a new choice of lieutenant-colonel;
which request they conceived themselves in honor
bound to" make. This movement of the Waldonians
did nothing toward a reconciliation of the Unionites,
who naturally said that these remonstrants might have
attended the election as well as themselves.
On one occasion, a dispute arose between the Union
gftid the Waldoborough officers respecting precedence
in rank. According to military rule, companies, when
formed into line on parade, take places according to
the date of the captains' commissions, the oldest on the
right. At one of the musters, a field-officer being sick,
the senior captain, who belonged to Waldoborough,
was •called to do duty on horseback. His company,
commanded by a lieutenant, was placed on the right.
Thus, a Waldoborough lieutenant had, to all appear-
ance, command over the captains; and the Union
officers could not take their proper place in the line.
352 MILITARY HISTORY.
For many years, the complaints of the Union people
had been on the increase, because they were always
required to go to Waldoborough, or to a part of "War-
ren near to Waldoborough, to attend the annual mus-
ter. The inhabitants living near Mount Pleasant were
obliged to parade beyond Waldoborough Bridge, and
not far from the Nobleborough line, a distance of
nearly eighteen miles ; whereas, on the other side of the
muster-field, there was not probably half of one com-
pany belonging to the regiment. Previously, the regi-
ment had occasionally mastered in Warren, not very far
from the village. The inhabitants of Union naturally
said, " Let us sometimes have the muster here." And
it is a remarkable fact that there never was a general
muster in Union.1
Pecuniary considerations also may have had some
weight. The money which is spent by the crowd of
people on a day of military parade is not unimportant
to a small town. The Waldoborough officers may
not have been indifferent to this; and the Unionites
may have thought it would not be amiss occasionally to
reap the benefit of it. Generally some person was sent
each year to the vicinity of the muster-field, a short
time before the day of parade, to make arrangements
for entertainment. The charges for refreshments be-
came very high. Most of the Union people accordingly
concluded to take the matter into their hands, and
provide for themselves. And when, at the time of
the explosion, some of the militia carried hay and pro-
vender, and tied their horses by the fences, instead
of pasturing and stabling them, there was said to be
at least one of the officers whose notice it did not
escape ; and he exclaimed with an oath, that the peo-
ple of Union would not leave money enough in town
to pay for their horse-keeping.
Feb. 23, 1824, there was an election of officers.
According to the best information which has been ob-
1 There was once, and once only, a sham-fight. It was on the Philip
Robbins Place, south or south-east of the present residence of Mr. S.
C. Hawes, and west or south-west of the island.
rawson's ELECTION. — UNION LAWS. 353
tained, parties were for a time equally divided. The
Union and Warren officers united, and chose William
Ludwig colonel. He declined. They were called on
to bring in their votes again. The Union officers had
gone from the hall. One of the Waldoborough officers
mentioned the fact that they had not voted. His
observation elicited from some one the remark, " D— ^-n
the Union officers ! who cares for them ? " The votes
were counted, and Avery Rawson was declared colonel.
He accepted the appointment, thanked his friends for
the honor which they had conferred on him, and assured
others that they should not want a colonel so long as
he could ride a horse. At that time or subsequently,
it is said he observed, referring to the Union people,
that he should " hold their faces to the grindstone."
Within two years after Colonel Bachelder's elec-
tion, probably through the Waldoborough influence,
the Legislature passed a law that " no election for the
choice of brigadier-general or field-officer should be
valid, unless a majority of all the electors qualified to
vote in such choice (including all existing vacancies in
the offices of such electors) should be present at such
election." This was one of the legislative acts, passed
from time to time, particularly to meet the emergencies
in Union, and commonly known in Union and the
vicinity by the name of " The Union Laws." Of
course the Unionites were provoked, and were inclined
either to show their defiance of such acts, or to exercise
their ingenuity in evading them.1
These events may not have occurred in the order of
the narration. But so much dissatisfaction had arisen,
that this course of affairs could not be continued.
The excitement in Union had been growing till it was
very great. There was hardly any one who did not
enter into it with some spirit. Persons who were
1 A few years afterward, when the penalty for neglecting to "warn
a training was*, a fine, the captain issued his order to some private, who-
he knew would not warn the men, and who still had no property
which could be taken to pay the fine. Irresponsible persons were
chosen to do every thing.
354 MILITARY HISTORY.
exempted from military duty, officers who had re-
signed, and influential citizens not connected with the
companies, were willing to aid in evading what they
considered imposition and abuse.
CHAPTER XL.
MILITARY HISTORY.
(Continued.)
Violent Rain-storm. — The Companies at Waldoborough Meeting-
house. — Uncomfortable Feelings. — Burial of the Colonel under
Arms. — Uneasiness. — Anecdotes. — Line formed. — Irregular
March to the Muster-field. — Rogue's March. — Unsuccessful At-
tempt to stop the Music. — Orders misunderstood. — Confusion.
— Desertion. — Hurrah.
As the story goes, orders came, either in 1823 or
1824, to muster in battalions. The colonel requested
the general to countermand the orders. The general
replied that he could not, unless the officers of the
regiment were in favor of it. If the colonel found they
were, he might write to him to that effect, and he would
accommodate them. The colonel, it is. said, after a
few days wrote to him that they would like the change.
The Union officers, when they heard what was going
on, went to Waldoborough. According to their ac-
count, they could not find an officer, whom the colonel
had consulted; nor would the colonel do any thing
about making another representation, or having the
muster nearer Union.
The companies were ordered to be at "Waldoborough
at eight o'clock on the morning of Sept. 8, 1824.
They arrived at the time appointed. The weather
was stormy. The distance from Union Common was
about twelve miles. A considerable part of the night
had been spent by them on the road. Some persons
lived sixteen or eighteen miles distant. They were
MUSTER AT WALDOBOROUGH. 355
cold and wet and cross. There seemed to be a deter-
mination not to be imposed on any longer. Almost
every man — for it was then a universal custom at
military trainings and musters — drank a glass of grog
to prevent his taking cold, and to enable him the bet-
ter to do his duty.
The Union Infantry Company was commanded by
Capt. John P. Robbins. They assembled at the
hour appointed, near the meeting-house. After a
while, the adjutant came to the captain, and said, if
it continued " wetting," the men would probably be
inspected under cover. The captain remarked that
he had as good a shelter as he wanted, in the lee of
the meeting-house, and told the adjutant, if he wanted
a better, he might provide it. Capt. Robbins then
marched his men down to the village, and dismissed
them till beat of drum.
The Union Rifle Company, commanded by Capt.
Lewis Bachelder, was ordered to assemble at the
corner opposite to the colonel's residence. Respect-
ing what passed immediately afterward, there is
diversity of opinion. One statement is, that the com-
pany was before the colonel's door. The rain fell in
torrents. The colonel observed to the officers who
were in the room with him, " They mean to act the
soldier," and sent out and invited the company to
come in and take some refreshment. Capt. Bach-
elder asked the messenger if the colonel had said
any thing about quarters. The answer was in the
negative. They declined going in. A consultation
was then held among the officers in Rawson's house ;
and a person was sent out to repeat the invitation.
But the company still declined. The only reply was,
" We are neither sugar nor salt ; but, if you have any
military duty to do, we are ready to do it." Such is
one view of the case.
The other statement is, that no such invitation
was extended to the rifle-company. Capt. Bachelder
asserts positively that he never received any official
notice to go into the house. The colonel sent the
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adjutant to the captain, with a request that he would
put his company into quarters. The captain took no
notice of it. The adjutant then brought to the cap-
tain positive orders to do it forthwith. The captain's
reply was, that he had not seen a quarter-master that
day, and that he should not provide quarters at his
own expense : when suitable quarters were provided,
he would occupy them. The adjutant observed that
there were barns and sheds. The captain said he
should not put his company into a barn or shed in
Waldoborough ; and, as to hiring quarters, he should not
do it. This was the last which the captain heard from
the colonel or the adjutant on the subject. He took
care, however, to remain on the ground a sufficient
time for the quarter-master to appear, or to receive in-
formation from the colonel respecting quarters, if any
were provided. The company then proceeded to the
lee of the meeting-house from which Capt. Robbins
had marched.
In the mean time, after having dismissed his com-
pany, Capt. Bobbins, with the other officers of the
infantry, went back to the meeting-house, where the
rifle-company was formed. The captain of the rifle-
company remarked, that, as they were all from Union,
they had better come together, and have something to
drink, — a practice, in those days, indicating cordiality
and a reciprocation of friendly feelings. Upon this,
Capt. Robbins returned, ordered the beat of the drum,
and took up the line of march toward the meeting-
house. Before Robbins arrived there, the rifle-company
was on the march. Ex- Capt. Rice and Dr. Harding
came to the company, and gave Capt. Robbins a hint
to stop his music, fall in the rear of the rifle-company,
and reverse arms.
The captain and the privates of the rifle-company
understood each other. They commenced their march
in open columns of platoons. The captain gave no
orders. He went forward, and the company followed
him. As they wheeled into the street, the music
struck up a funeral dirge. It was Pleyel's German
MILITARY FUNERAL. 357
Hymn, meant probably, in part, as an intentional dis-
respect to the Waldonians, who were chiefly of Ger-
man origin. Arms were reversed. The infantry fell
in the rear with reversed arms also, and marched to
the music of the rifle-company. The colonel, on
seeing them from his window, said to his by-standers,
" Now, we will let them know that we are neither
sugar nor salt : we will give them enough of it."
The adjutant was dispatched with orders to the Union
companies to form a line in thirty minutes. As
there was ample time, they continued their march.
There was a marquee, where, in a military point of
view, were the colonel's quarters. This, to evade
any charge of military disrespect, they carefully avoid-
ed. Various reports respecting the purpose of the
Union companies were circulated. Some persons
said they were going off; others, that they were bury-
ing the colonel under arms. Some of the Unionites
said that the colonel did not want to come out in the
rain, and get his new uniform wet. Others, while
standing in the rain at the meeting-house, had said
they supposed he must be dead. They had previously
heard that he was in ill health ; and they persisted in
saying, that, if he were alive and well, he would not
permit soldiers to stand in the rain, without letting
them do their duty. He must be dead.
The houses, stores, streets, and corners of the streets,
were occupied by wondering spectators. The com-
panies marched to the music of muffled drums and
the dirge, with as great solemnity as at a military
funeral, up the hill by the colonel's house, in which he
then was. They then wheeled, and, striking up quick
time, marched the whole length of the village. Some
say they even went to the gate at the head of the lane
leading to the burying-ground. The adjutant, very
soon after giving his first order, probably for the pur-
pose of stopping these proceedings, ordered the line
to be formed in fifteen, instead of thirty minutes.
The order was obeyed. The line was formed near the
meeting-house.
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358 MILITARY HISTORY.
The major soon commanded the regiment to take
the position of " open order." This brought the officers
about six paces in front. The infantry were impa-
tient and uneasy. The major came to the captain,
and asked him if he did not mean to obey orders.
" Certainly I do," said Capt. Robbins. " Then keep
your company in order," was the reply. The cap-
tain spoke to his men ; but, as soon as his back was
turned, they again showed a spirit of restlessness. The
major renewed his rebuke. The captain told the ma-
jor it was " wrong for an officer to come there with
his head under an umbrella, like a partridge with her
head under a leaf, and keep the soldiers exposed to
the cold storm."
The officers were ordered to form the line about
twelve o'clock. They waited some time. The colo-
nel did not make his appearance. John Chapman
Robbins came forward, and announced to the com-
panies that the colonel was dead, and that they had
just buried him under arms. There was no colonel.
He begged them to be as patient as possible ; for Mr.
Penty Walcott had gone with his ox-team to the
cedar-swamp, — some twenty miles distant, — to get a
colonel, and he would be along with one shortly.
Colonel Rawson appeared as soon as notified that
the line was formed, and assumed the command.
They began the march in battalions toward the muster-
field. The first battalion advanced with regularity.
Capt. Robbins's company, being on the right of the
second battalion, was, of course, at the head of it
as they marched, and was immediately preceded by
the major of the battalion, who was a Waldonian.
This battalion kept losing ground, and the major
was constantly requesting Captain Robbins to order
the company to lengthen step. The captain was
ready to make excuses. It was " clayey and slippery
and uphill," &c. The first battalion was several rods
in advance. The major was repeating his orders to
lengthen step, and the captain repeating his reasons
for not moving faster. At last, the infantry-captain
MUSIC ON THE FIELD. 359
said, " You go along, major ! We will fetch up, by and
by." In this spirit the Unionites went on to the
ground.
It may be proper to make a distinction between
what passed before the men were formed into regi-
mental line, and what transpired afterward. In the
former case, they did not consider themselves under
the colonel's orders ; in the latter case, they were. The
rifle was an independent company. Probably there
was not in the State one company superior to it. The
men prided themselves on their excellent discipline
and military appearance. For the present occasion
they had procured the best music which could be
obtained. One of the Warren men procured a fife,
and took his station outside the muster-field, near the
gate. When the colonel was marching through the
gate, he played the " Rogue's March." The colonel,
after arriving on the field, received the ordinary salute.
The musicians of the rifle-company had halted. They,
too, immediately struck up the " Rogue's March." Of
course, it was played with great spirit and effect. This
was done without orders from the captain. The colo-
nel immediately sent orders to stop playing that tune.
It was stopped, and the officer withdrew. Afterwards
the musicians would occasionally play a few notes of
it. Orders then came from the colonel for the music
of the rifle-company to repair to the right of the regi-
ment. Capt. Bachelder said, that his music — consist-
ing of bugle, clarionets, C fifes, &c, and differing from
that of the regiment — would be of no use there, and
endeavored to plead off. Then came positive orders
for the musicians. The captain told the officer that he
could not be accommodated. He refused to let them
go, as his was an independent company, and asserted
that the colonel had no authority to detach the music
from the company. Various orders were given by
the sergeant-major ; but the sergeants were very igno-
rant : they could not possibly comprehend the orders.
Though one of the Union orderly-sergeants had served
four months in the war of 1812, they pretended not to
360 MILITARY HISTORY.
understand the sergeant-major. They were continually
making mistakes. In wheeling, the men would scat-
ter. When in line, some would fall in the rear, and
others advance. In " ordering arms," some guns would
be put on the ground, and others raised. In " carrying
arms," they were in all positions, from the erect to the
horizontal. When the sergeant-major commanded a
captain to keep his men in order, the men would obey
the captain; but, in a few minutes, disorder would
again reign triumphant. Immediately before inspec-
tion, the colonel urged upon the troops the importance
of military deportment. He particularly charged them
not to look round when the inspectors were in the
rear. Accordingly, when the inspectors were passing
behind, several of the men clubbed their muskets and
faced right about.
Three or four Unionites who were not required to
do military duty, among whom were Ex-Capt. Rice
and Dr. Harding, came to different places along the
rear of the line, and entered into familiar conversation
with the members of the Union companies. The
time approached for firing. At the order " Make
ready," one of these men shouted " Fire." All in his
vicinity fired. At the words " Take aim," the word
" Fire " was again given in another quarter, and there
was another discharge of fire-arms. Before the com-
mand " Fire " was officially given, nearly all the mus-
kets were discharged. The commanding officer then
rode down and administered reproof. The men re-
plied that they distinctly heard the word " Fire," and
obeyed it ; and as he was so far off, on the right, they
had probably confounded his order with that of some
other officer ; but they certainly heard the word " Fire,"
and they obeyed the order as they heard it. This
manoeuvre was repeated. Then followed a loud hur-
rah. There could be no longer any military precision.
Each man loaded and fired as often as he pleased.
There was an incessant, irregular, scattering fire
along the line. Shortly the officers ceased to give
orders ; and, if they had not, the orders would have
COL. AVERY RAWSON. 361
been unheeded. The colonel, during the day, did not
venture to ride in front of the regiment. The Union
troops stole off in the rear, two or three together ; and,
before the time for dismission came, every member of
the infantry, except the captain and one private, was
gone. The regiment at last left in confusion. The
soldiers and spectators swung their hats, and sent up
loud shouts and hurrahs ; and thus, amid uproar, storm,
and drenching rain, ended the day.
CHAPTER XLL
MILITARY HISTORY,
{Continued.')
Col. Avery Rawson : Charges against him stopped. — Charges against
Officers in Union. —Trial of Lieut.-Col. John Bachelder. — Trial
of Capt. Lewis Bachelder.
Avery Rawson was commissioned major, Aug. 13,
1822 ; and colonel, Feb. 25, 1824. His death, Feb. 22,
1827, it is said, was hastened by his military troubles.
He was highly esteemed by his townsmen ; and it is
not known that the people in Union entertained
towards him, personally, any unfriendliness, except
what originated in his military relations to them. It
is supposed that he was considerably influenced by
his predecessors in office. When the storm came, he
had to bear not only the consequences of his impru-
dence, but also the ill-will which had been increasing
against the Waldoborough officers, till the inhabitants
of Union were wrought up to such a pitch that they
were determined not to serve under one of them.
It is stated by some, that, notwithstanding what
passed on the muster-field, Sept. 8, 1824, the colonel
was willing to let the whole affair subside. Capt. Bach-
elder says, that, after the parade was over, the colonel
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362 MILITAKY HISTORY.
expressed satisfaction with his movements through the
day, and invited him to call at his house and take
refreshments ; but it was declined. The Union officers,
however, very soon preferred charges against the
colonel for unmilitary conduct, for threats, and for
oppression in ordering the Union companies to mus-
ter at a remote part of the regiment. These charges
were passed up ; and it was suspected that they were
suppressed by the brigadier-general. Without hearing
from them, the Union officers had charges brought in
turn against themselves.
The first officer to be noticed is Lieut.- Col. John
Bachelder. From the date of the charges against
him, it is probable that they were made previous to
those by the Union officers against Col. Rawson.
Before his election, March 3, 1823, he had repeatedly
made application to be discharged from his captaincy,
on the ground of ill health. At his election as lieu-
tenant-colonel, he pleaded off on the same ground, and
said he would not serve if there was any other one to
take the commission. As the Union officers were
able to secure a field-officer, in consequence of the
absence of several of the Waldonians, he was elected ;
but it was with the determination, on his part, not to
serve on the field under Rawson, nor to be at the
expense and trouble of providing himself with dress
and equipments. It was probably with a view to put
him .to the • test, that the colonel, about one year after,
ordered him to Friendship, when the mud was so deep
that the roads were almost impassable, to preside at an
election. He had an interview with the colonel, rep-
resented the impropriety of sending him to a remote
part of the regiment in such travelling, when the Wal-
doborough and other officers were nearer, and urged,
moreover, the state of his health. The colonel was
immovable. The lieutenant-colonel obeyed the orders.
Though one of the specifications against Col.
Bachelder had been of long standing, it was not till
Sept. 24, 1824, about a fortnight after the muster, that
the colonel, Avery Rawson, made complaint of him to
LIEUT.-COL. BACHELDER. 363
Albion K. Parris, governor and commander-in-chief, for
unmilitary conduct, neglect of duty, and disobedience
of orders. The specifications were, that he unnecessa-
rily, and without justifiable cause, disobeyed a regi-
mental order to attend the parade at Waldoborough,
Sept. 10, 1823, and another to attend parade, Sept. 8,
1824; and further that from March 3, 1823, to Sept.
24, 1824, he had neglected to provide himself with
the dress, arms, and equipments required by law and
the orders of his superior officers. Lieut.- Col. Bach-
elder was immediately put under arrest. A court-
martial was held at Waldoborough, March 8, 1825.
Maj.-Gen. John McDonald was president. The plea
of ill health was put in for non-attendance at both
the parades, with the additional plea of inclemency
of weather for not attending the latter. As Lieut.-
Col. Bachelder had never appeared in his capacity as
lieutenant-colonel on the field, there was no violation
of any order as to dress and equipments. He was
acquitted on every charge, and released from arrest by
orders from the commander-in-chief, signed by Daniel
Cony, adjutant-general, and dated Head Quarters, Port-
land, March 26, 1825.
As Col. Bachelder belonged to Union, the proceed-
ings did nothing towards allaying the hostile feelings
between the two military parties. He had been put
under arrest some months before any thing was brought
against the other Union officers in relation to the
muster ; but, before his trial came on, charges were
brought against his brother Capt. Lewis Bachelder,
and against Capt. John P. Robbins. Thus the excite-
ment was continually increasing. All the people in
town were becoming united as one man. It seemed
as if they were ready to do and dare any thing.
What would have been applauded as a proper mili-
tary spirit, on going to a field of battle, was beginning
to show itself in a manner very far from agreeable to
the field-officers.
The time for the trials of Capts. Bachelder and Rob-
bins approached. The results, though not foreseen,
364 MILITARY HISTORY.
have probably produced a greater effect on the State,
in a military point of view, than any thing else which
has ever occurred.
TRIAL OF CAPT. BACHELDER.
Officers for the court-martial appeared at the house
of Rufus Gillmor, June 21, 1825 ; but it was deemed
advisable for convenience, and on account of the crowd,
to adjourn to the Old Meeting-house. There the trial
was held. After ineffectual attempts to proceed on
the 21st and 22d of June, " there not appearing the
number of members required by law, and no super-
numerary member being present, the court decided to
adjourn " till Aug. 16.
At the adjourned meeting, Aug. 16, the court con-
sisted of " the president, CoL Alexander Drummond,
jun. ; members, Lieut- Col. George Jewett, Major Al-
fred I. S. I. G. Lithgow, Capt. James Ayer, jun.,
Capt. Rufus Campbell; supernumeraries, Capt. Wil-
liam D. Gould, Capt. Hugh Patten; marshal, Lieut.
John G. Brown; judge-advocate, Major Joseph Sew-
all."
Hon. John Ruggles, of T homaston, counsel for the
respondent, raised objections " to the sitting of Major
Lithgow as a member of the court ; " but they were
overruled. He also maintained that the present court
consisted, in part, of different officers from the one
convened June 25 ; that they were illegally detailed,
and that it was not the same court:martial before
which he was ordered and ready to be tried; and that
he could not be holden.to answer to this. This objec-
tion was also overruled. The charges were then read.
" To D welly Turner, Esq., Major-General of the Fourth
Division of the Militia of the State of Maine.
"Avery Rawson, colonel of the third regiment in the
second brigade of said division, complains against Capt.
Lewis Bachelder of said regiment for disobedience of orders,
for unmilitary and unofficer-like conduct in the following
particulars, to wit : —
" 1 . That the said Capt. Lewis Bachelder, having been
CAPT/ LEWIS BACHELDER. 365
duly ordered by said colonel to parade the company under
his command at Waldoborough, on the eighth day of Sep-
tember, A.D. 1824, for review and inspection of arms, then
and there marched his said company past the quarters of
said colonel, with reversed arms, and the music thereof play-
ing a funeral dirge, with intent to insult said colonel and
other field-officers then present.
" 2. That the said Capt. Bachelder, then and there being
in regimental line with his said company in obedience to
the regimental order for the purpose of review and inspec-
tion of arms, refused to send the music belonging to his
company to the head of the column, when ordered by the
colonel of the regiment so to do.
"3. That the said Capt. Bachelder, .... being ordered by
said colonel, through the adjutant of said regiment, to detach
from his said company a rear-guard of one section to cover
the rear of said regiment while making in column from the
place of formation of the regiment to the place of review and
inspection, refused to obey said order, and neglected and
refused to detail a guard accordingly.
" 4. That the said Capt. Bachelder .... permitted his mu-
sicians to play the Rogue's March while the colonel and
other field-officers of said regiment were about entering the
field, with intent to insult and abuse said colonel and other
.field-officers.
" 5. That the said Capt. Bachelder .... permitted his mu-
sicians to play the Rogue's March while the Waldoborough
Light Infantry Company, commanded by Capt. Ralph Cole,
were passing, with intent to insult said company and its
officers.
" 6. That the said Capt. Bachelder, well knowing the dis-
orderly and unmilitary conduct of his musicians belonging to
his said company, mentioned in the preceding specifications
of charge, did not cause reprimand or impose fines upon
them therefor ; thereby justifying and encouraging disobe-
dience of orders, disorderly behavior, and unmilitary conduct.
" Wherefore your complainant requests, that said Capt.
Bachelder may be held to answer to the foregoing charges,
and be further dealt with relative to the same, as law, justice,
and military usages, may direct.
UA -o f Col. of the 3d Reg.,
Ayeby Rawson, I 2d BHg 5 4th Biy
"Waldoborough, March 1, 1825."
MILITARY HISTORY.
The trial proceeded ; Capt. Bachelder pleaded not guilty ;
witnesses were examined. The record of the proceedings of
each session of the court was read at the opening of the next
adjourned meeting. The defence of the respondent by his
counsel was heard, and "the judge- advocate then stated to
the court the evidence both for and against the accused.
The doors were then closed; and the judge-advocate then
put to the members of the court the following question,
beginning with the youngest in grade : ' From the evidence
that has been adduced both for and against Capt. Lewis
Bachelder, and from what has been urged in his defence,
are you of opinion that he is guilty or not guilty of the first
specification of charge contained in the complaint of Col.
Avery Rawson against him as aforesaid 1 ' Upon which the
court decided, that, of said first specification of charge, the
said Capt. Lewis Bachelder is guilty. The question being
put in the same form as relating to " [each of the other specifi-
cations, the court decided him to be guilty also on the second,
third, and sixth, but not on the fourth and fifth]. " The
court then took into consideration the several offences of
which it had adjudged the said Capt. Lewis Bachelder to be
guilty, and, after deliberation thereon, sentenced the said
Capt. Lewis Bachelder to be removed from office, and did
adjudge him to be disqualified for and incapable of holding
any military office under the State for the term of three ♦
months."
CHAPTER XLIL
MILITARY HISTORY.
(Continued,')
Trial of Capt. John P. Robbins. — Objections and Protest. — Charges
and Specifications. — Result.
The court for the trial of Capt. John P. Robbins was
organized Aug. 17, 1825. The judge-advocate, as in
the case of Capt. Bachelder, then administered to each
of the members singly, and to the marshal, and to the
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supernumeraries, and then the president administered
to the judge-advocate, the oath required by the " Act
to organize, govern, and discipline the militia of the
State of Maine." The court was opened in due form
by the marshal. Capt. Robbins gave reasons for
challenging Capt. James Ayer and for objecting to
Major Lithgow, and moreover denied, as Capt. Ba-
chelder had done, the authority of the court. These
points were overruled. The charges were then ad-
duced as follows : —
"To Dwelly Turner, Esq., Major-General of the Fourth
Division of the Militia of the State of Maine.
" Avery Rawson .... complains against Capt. John P.
Robbins .... for disobedience of orders, for unmilitary and
unofficer-like conduct, and for exciting, encouraging, and per-
mitting, in the company under his command, mutiny, disorder,
and insubordination in the following particulars, to wit : —
"1. That said Capt. John P. Robbins, having been duly
ordered by said colonel to parade the company under his
command at Waldoborough, on the eighth day of September,
A.D. 1824, for review and inspection of arms, then and
there marched his said company past the quarters of said
colonel, with reversed arms, and the music thereof playing a
funeral dirge, with the intent to insult said colonel and other
field-officers there present.
"2. That the said captain .... then and there, being in
regimental line with his said company in obedience to a
regimental order for the purpose of review and inspection of
arms, neglected and refused to call his company to order and
attention, when required so to do by the adjutant of said
regiment at the command of said colonel.
" 3. That the said captain, .... under the command of
Major Cole, acting as lieutenant- colonel in the absence
of Lieut.-Col. Bachelder, disobeyed the orders of said Major
Cole, then and there commanding said regiment, and be-
haved in an insulting, disrespectful, and disorderly manner
to his said commanding officer, and then and there per-
mitted and encouraged his said company to behave in an
indecorous and contemptuous manner toward said Major
Cole, and then and there permitted his said company to
club their arms, with intent to insult and abuse the said
Major Cole and other his superior officers.
368 MILITARY HISTORY.
" 4. That the said captain, .... while marching from
the place of parade to the place of review and inspection,
marched his company in a disorderly and irregular manner,
in disobedience of the orders of said colonel and in violation
of the rules of discipline.
"5. That the said captain .... permitted his men to
fire or discharge their muskets without orders from his
superior officers, to conduct in an unsoldier-like and dis-
orderly manner, and to leave their ranks and to retire from
duty without the consent of the said colonel or of the officer
commanding the battalion in which they were formed.
"6. That the said captain .... withdrew and discharged
his musicians from the command of the fife-major and drum-
major, under whose order they had been placed by said
colonel, without the consent of said colonel.
" 7. That the said captain, .... while in regiment with
his said company, treated his superior officers with insolence
and contempt, and uttered abusive and insulting language
to said colonel and others his superior officers, while on
parade and under command.
"8. That the said captain, .... well knowing the dis-
orderly and unmilitary conduct of the men composing his
said company, mentioned in the preceding specifications of
charge, did not censure, reprimand, or impose fines upon
them therefor ; thereby justifying and encouraging disobe-
dience of orders, disorderly behavior, and unmilitary conduct.
"9. That the said captain, .... from the first day of
January, in the year of our Lord 1824, to the first day
of March, in the year of our Lord 1825, has neglected to ap-
point non-commisioned officers in his said company ; though,
during all said time, his said company has been, and still is,
destitute of non-commissioned officers.
" 10. That the said captain, .... on said eighth day of
September, A.D. 1824, at said Waldoborough, having been
duly ordered by regimental orders of Aug. 2, A.D. 1824, to
appear then and there with the company under his com-
mand for review and inspection of arms, did, previous to
and during said parade, endeavor to excite and encourage
in the company under his command, and in other officers
and soldiers of said regiment, and did participate and join
in a spirit of mutiny, insubordination, and disrespect against
said colonel and other officers then in lawful command of
and in said regiment.
CAPT. JOHN P. BOBBINS. 369
" AH which is utterly subversive of the good order, de-
structive of the discipline, and repugnant to the subordi-
nation, which ought to distinguish the militia, and without
which it can be neither a defence nor an honor to the
State.
"Wherefore your complainant requests, that the said
Capt. John P. Robbins may be held to answer to the fore-
going charges, and be further dealt with relative to the same,
as law, justice, and military usages, require.
„ A -r, ( Colonel of 3d Reg.
AVEBY RAWSON, { ^ Brig ? 4th Div*
" Waldoborough, March 1, 1825."
After evidence in support of the complainant and of
the respondent, the respondent moved the court for
leave to prove "that the complainant in this case
conducted, prior to the day of muster, in such an
unbecoming and oppressive manner toward the sol-
diers under the command of the said J. P. Robbins as
to excite in them, or some of them, a spirit of insub-
ordination, which may possibly, in two or three in-
stances, have manifested itself, and altogether without
the approbation, consent, or previous knowledge of the
said Robbins, against his will, and not by him to be
foreseen or prevented." " The court directed that the
evidence offered therein is improper and irrelevant."
The evidence being all in, the respondent was heard
in his defence by his counsel, John Ruggles, Esq.
After a statement of the evidence by the judge-advo-
cate, the court ordered the house to be cleared of
spectators, and the respondent was found guilty of
specifications 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 ; but not guilty of the others.
He was sentenced to be removed from office, and
adjudged " to be disqualified for, and incapable of,
holding any military office under the State for the
term of one year."
Thus terminated the trials by court-martial ; that of
the lieutenant-colonel having cost the State $431.96,
and that of the captains $409.47.
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CHAPTER XLIII.
MILITARY HISTORY.
(Continued?)
Evasion of the Laws. — John Chapman Robbins becomes Clerk. — Loss
of the Company Roll. — Muster near Trowbridge's, in Warren. —
Lieut. Ebenezer Cobb. — " A good time." — Horsemen ride about
the Muster-field. — Robbins gives Orders. — Unsuccessful Attempts
to arrest him. — Notes for Fines burnt as "Wadding.
From this time the Unionites evaded or set at defiance
every military order which was sent to them. The
Legislature either could not pass or could not enforce
any Act which would bring them into subjection. In
the infantry no man could be found to serve as clerk.
Probably with the understanding that it would not be
taken, a public offer of the clerkship was made ; but
nobody came forward to accept it. After a while, it
was taken by John Chapman Robbins, who was
exempted by law from doing military duty. At the
training, a few days before the annual parade in 1825,
the question was agitated whether there should be a
baggage-wagon for the muster. Robbins, the new
clerk, discouraged it ; said there was " no necessity for
it : let every man carry his own baggage, and he will
fare better." The question was put, and decided in
the negative. After the companies were dismissed, it
was whispered about that the roll probably would not
be called, and that it would be well for all to go on
horseback without equipments, and "have a good
time." On the day before the muster, Robbins's com-
pany-roll was missing. He could not possibly account
for its loss, unless his children had got it and dropped
it into the well. It was exceedingly unfortunate;
muster the next day ; no list of the company ; and no
means to collect any fines for absences. Accordingly,
on muster-day there was no roll to be called. Robbins,
MUSTER IN WARREN. 371
more than twenty years afterward, said that, on his
way home from the training, he hid the roll in a king-
fisher's nest in the bank by the Old Burying Ground.
The rifle-company's officers met on the field ; and,
as the captain was removed from office, the command
devolved on Lieut. Cobb. Ward Maxcy called the
roll of the company ; but not one private was there to
answer to his name. Lieut. Cobb sent word to the
field-officers, that he was ready for duty; and, if they
had none for him, he wished to be discharged for the
day. He was requested by them to ride as major;
but " the exercises were so different from what he was
accustomed to, that he declined ; " and he was accord-
ingly released.
Almost every person who could get a horse went
to the muster-field on horseback, as had been sug-
gested. Perhaps the number from Union was one
hundred or one hundred and fifty; John Chapman
Robbins procuring the fleetest horse he could hire.
The field-officers, when they saw them, anticipated
mischief, and ordered the guard not to let them pass.
Accordingly, they were vigorously opposed ; but, while
the sentries were keeping out two or three at one
point, the whole troop rushed in at another, following
Hudson of Union, who played the Kent bugle, and
thus became a leader. Among the most active was
Robbins. The horsemen rode wherever they chose,
within the guard or without it. At a signal, all would
start off and gallop round the regiment. Then they
would stop, and parade in front of it. The Kent
bugle gave signals ; and this and the clarionet, both
carried by Hudson, were played alternately, according
to circumstances.
In due time came the colonel to assume the com-
mand. Robbins, on his fleet horse, rides up near to
him, and shouts " Shoulder arms." The words are
uttered with a stentorian voice, and are distinctly
heard along the whole line. The order is instantly
obeyed by the whole regiment. An officer is imme-
diately despatched to arrest Robbins, and put him
372 MILITARY HISTORY.
under guard ; but his horse is too fleet to be overtaken,
and the officer, after an unsuccessful chase, returns.
Robbins also returns. The commanding officer is
about giving the order, "Attention the regiment,"
when Robbins, interrupting him, shouts " Attention
all creation." The officer is again ordered " to arrest
that fellow, and put him under guard." Robbins is a
skilful horseman. The ground is moist and muddy.
He suffers the officer to come within a rod or two;
then he wheels his horse, and dashes off so dexterously
and furiously, that the face and vest of his pursuer are
covered with the mud tossed up by the horse's feet.
Robbins comes and gives orders a third time. " At-
tention the whole world ! Wheel by kingdoms." He
is again pursued, but it is to no purpose : his horse is
the fleetest on the field.
Robbins calls to the officers, and tells them he will
dine with them that day in their marquee. During the
hours that intervene, he mingles wit and impudence
and drollery in such proportions and comical combina-
tions, that he gets them in good humor ; and, at the
dinner-hour, he is one of the first to enter the marquee,
where he dines with as much impunity as if he had
not done any thing to which they could object. Be-
fore night, he succeeds in pulling up, one by one, all
the sentry flag-staffs, and rides round the field with
them under his arm. Thus ends the day. From
that time to the present, the Unionites have not
taken part in any of the regular musters. The mus-
ter of 1824 was, in reality, the last in which they par-
ticipated.
After the affair was over, Lieutenant Cobb warned
the rifle-company to meet, and answer for non-ap-
pearance on the muster-field. Their answer "went
by default." Accordingly, he demanded a fine. As
the company had no immediate use for money, the
clerk was ordered to take notes. What became of
the notes, the commander never was officially in-
formed. The fact, however, is that, at a voluntary
training some time afterward, Ward Maxcy gave back
ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 373
to each man his note ; and the notes were all used as
wadding, and burnt in the vicinity of the powder-
house.
CHAPTER XLIV.
MILITARY HISTORY.
{Continued.)
Orders to elect Officers. — Movements to re-elect Capts. Bachelder
and Robbins. — Nathan Bachelder chosen Captain. — Pardon Rob-
bins and the Cabbage. — Re-election of Capt. Noah Rice. — He is
cashiered. — Voluntary Trainings and Muster. — Aroostook War.
— Rifle Company disbanded. — Philo Thurston. — Ebenezer
Ward Adams chosen Captain. — His Trial and Imprisonment.
Immediately after the removal of the captains, and
probably a few days after the parade at Trowbridge's
in 1825, orders came for an election of officers to fill
their places. The men were ready to re-elect Capts.
Bachelder and Robbins. But such a movement was
discouraged. " If you re-elect me," said Robbins,
" my election will be declared null and void $ and, if
but one vote should be thrown for any other person
than myself, he would be declared elected, on the
ground that I am ineligible." He advised them to
vote for an officer who had resigned and been honora-
bly discharged.
There had been but two captains of the rifle-com-
pany, viz. John Bachelder and Lewis Bachelder. The
former was in poor health, and the latter was in the
same condition as the captain of the infantry. Nathan
Bachelder, brother of the two preceding of the same
name, was elected captain, Sept. 24, 1825.
The officer detailed to preside on this occasion was
from Waldoborough. For many years before the
military difficulty, there had been good-natured spar-
ring between the two towns ; the Waldonians teasing
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374 MILITARY HISTORY.
the Unionites about beans, and the Unionites in turn
teasing them about sour kraut. On this occasion,
Pardon Robbins dressed himself very neatly, and
placed on his head a paper-cap having a peaked top,
from which rose a cockerel's long tail-feather. He was
humpbacked, and in his ordinary walk naturally swag-
gered. Having procured a large neat wash-bowl, he
placed in it an excellent head of cabbage, about the size
of a peck-measure, gashed it neatly with a knife, and
sprinkled salt over it. Thus prepared, he deliberately
strutted up the broad aisle of the Old Meeting-house
to the deacon's seat, where the officer was discharging
his duty in a dignified and gentlemanly manner, and
addressed him with the greatest gravity and courtesy :
" As you must be somewhat fatigued, colonel, and
this is a favorite dish among the Waldoborough peo-
ple, please to refresh yourself, while the men are
preparing to vote, with some, sour kraut." "With a
gracious bow, he placed the bowl of cabbage on the
table before him, and retired. It was an act too gross,
however, not to elicit general condemnation, excited
even as the Unionites were.
Probably on the same day that Nathan Bachelder
was elected captain of the rifle-company, — for the com-
missions bear the same date, — Capt. Noah Rice was
re-elected captain of the infantry. He was a worthy
farmer, and had been a good officer. From the first,
he was a sturdy opponent of the Waldonians. At
the muster in 1824, he was one of the most active of
the three or four men who, from time to time, gave
hints to the privates of the Union companies, and
raised the confusion in which they dispersed. And
so elated was he, that in the enthusiasm of the mo-
ment, and amid the uproar and shouts that rent the
skies, he huzzaed and swung his market-bag around
his head till the cheese in it was pommelled to pieces.
After his re-election, his commission was sent to him.
It is said that he would neither be qualified, nor call
out the company j that he would not return the com-
mission ; and that it could not be got away from him,
CAPT. NOAH RICE. 375
but by a court-martial. Accordingly the following
notice is taken of him : —
"To Samuel E. Smith, Esq., Governor and Commander-
in-Chief, in the State of Maine.
" Charges and specifications preferred against Noah Rice,
Captain of a Company of Infantry, in the 3d Regiment, 2d
Brigade, and 4th Division, by George Jewett, division- advo-
cate of said division, on the complaint of Henry Kennedy,
colonel and commanding officer of said regiment.
" Charge I. — Neglect of duty.
" Specification, The said Noah Rice, on the 13th day of
September, A..D. 1831, was captain as aforesaid; and, being
so in office, it was his duty, on the Tuesday following the
second Monday of September aforesaid, it being the 13th
day of said month, to parade his said company at some
convenient place, within the limits thereof, at one of the
clock in the afternoon, for inspection and drill. Yet the
said Noah Rice, regardless of his duty aforesaid, neglected
so to parade his company, or to give the proper orders for
said purpose ; and, in consequence thereof, the said company
lost entirely the benefit of the annual inspection and drill
contemplated by law.
" Charge II. — Disobedience of orders.
"Specification 1. That the said Noah Rice, . . . having
been duly ordered ... to notify and summon his said com-
pany to meet at Warren ... on the 29th day of September,
A. D. 1831, for military inspection and review, ... in disobe-
dience of his said orders, neglected and refused to notify
and summon his said company, or to give the proper orders
therefor ; whereby, and by reason of said Rice's neglect and
disobedience of orders, the said company did not appear at
said Warren on said day for military inspection and review.
" Specification 2. That the regiment . . . paraded ... for
review, and the said Rice . . . was duly ordered ... to notify
his said company to assemble ... on said day, for review ;
but the said Rice neglected and refused to assemble . . . and
to appear with his said company.
44 Charge III. — Unmilitary conduct.
44 Specification 1. That the said Noah Rice, from the date
of his commission as captain aforesaid to the 1st day of
October, A.D. 1831, . . . has wholly neglected, his duty as
376 MILITARY HISTORY.
captain aforesaid, and repeatedly and often neglected to
obey the proper and legal orders to him directed. . . .
" Specification 2. That the said Rice, from the date of
his commission as captain of said company, as aforesaid,
to the 1st day of October, A.D. 1831, . . . has frequently
and often excited, encouraged, and advised other officers
belonging to said regiment to disobey and not perform the
express orders and commands of their superior officers.
" Specification 3. That, on the day the order directing the
regimental review of September, 1831, was served upon
said Rice, he then and there did use and utter insulting and
contemptuous language respecting said order and the com-
manding officer of said regiment.
" Specification 4. That the said Rice was formerly captain
and commanding officer of the same company whereof he
is now commanding officer, and did receive his discharge
therefrom some years since; and the said Rice has re-
peatedly and often stated that he accepted the commission
as captain aforesaid for the purpose of furnishing him
opportunities of insulting the officers of said regiment, and,
by his disobedience of orders and total neglect of duty in
his said office, to bring contempt and ridicule and disgrace
upon the officers of said regiment.
" The above charges and specifications are respectfully
submitted for your consideration.
" George Jewett,
" Division- Advocate of the 4th Division.
"Jan. 24, 1832."
The court held at Waldoborough, June 12, 1832, found
him guilty of every charge and specification, except the last
three specifications of the last charge. They sentenced him
to be removed from office, and adjudged "the said Rice to
be disqualified for and incapable of holding any military
office under this State for life.
" John C. Humphreys, President.
" John A. Dunning, Member.
"Waldoborough, June 12, 1832.
Attest: George Jewett, Division- Advocate."
Although, after the difficulty on the field at Wal-
doborough and the arrest of the captains, neither
company would perform military duty under field-
MILITARY SPIRIT. 377
officers, there were voluntary trainings for a few years.
Once they met, with the Hope and the Appleton
companies, near McLean's Mills, and had a voluntary
muster, which passed off with great order and decorum.
A love for military affairs still continued. When the
Aroostook war, in relation to the north-eastern bound-
ary, broke out, as all military organization had gone
down, notice for drafts was served on the selectmen.
There was made a list of all the persons in town who
were required by the laws of the State to do military
duty. At the time for drafting, the Common was
thronged. A draft of all the men required was made
without any difficulty. Before this was done, a vo-
luntary company was organized. Nelson Cutler, Esq.,
was chosen captain ; Lewis Andrews, lieutenant ; and
John Adams, ensign. The officers never applied for
nor received commissions. The company was several
times called out for inspection and drill, and always
readily responded to the call. The drill was kept up
till after the arrival of the news of peace, and then the
organization was allowed to subside. The drafts from
this section of the State were not called for; but the
spirit with which the requisition for them was received,
showed the manner in which the Unionites were in-
clined to act, when what they considered the honor of
their country was involved, and its territory invaded.
The rifle-company was disbanded, and the officers
were discharged, July 2, 1831. The members were
ordered to be enrolled with the infantry. Philo Thur-
ston had been chosen ensign of the infantry, July 6,
1825. Although, in a quiet way, he had done his
part at the muster-farce, he was the only officer in
town with whom the field-officers had not had diffi-
culty. The field-officers not only did not aid him in
getting a discharge, but kept urging him to act. . He
was the only officer, and maintained that it was
unreasonable to require him alone to attempt to or-
ganize the three or four hundred men in Union, in
the state of things which then existed, and he would
not move in the matter.
378
MILITARY HISTORY.
Finally, after the disbanding of the rifle-company and
the removal of Capt. Rice, orders came for another elec-
tion of officers. The meeting was held in the Old Meet-
ing-house, Sept. 18, 1832. The presiding officer made a
few remarks on the "iron grip of the law," which, instead
of alarming or awing the men, only excited contempt
and a spirit of defiance. Ebenezer Ward Adams was
chosen captain ; and John Fuller, lieutenant. After
leaving the meeting-house, Capt. Adams uttered a
remark, from which the inference was plain that he
should never order them out after that afternoon. They
paraded and marched and drilled an hour or two. The
storekeepers and others contributed the treat, which was
always furnished, from some source or other, at trainings
and musters. Capt. Adams received his commission,
but would not get qualified. Efforts were made to hire
him to do it ; but he was immovable. He never called
on the company to turn out after the day of his election.
July 5, 1835, Nathaniel Groton, division-advocate,
brought against him the following charges : —
1. That he neglected to call out his company, May 1,
1834, for an annual inspection and examination.
2. That he did not, as the law required, parade his com-
pany on one other day between the first Tuesday in May,
and the annual review of the troops in September.
3. Disobedience of orders in not appearing at Warren,
Sept. 25, 1834, for annual review and inspection.
4. Not turning out on the first Tuesday in May, 1835.
The court-martial held at Thomaston, Nov. 4, 1835,
found him guilty, and adjudged him to be removed, and
to be disqualified from holding any military office under
this State for the term of fifty years. They further sen-
tenced him to pay a fine of twenty-one dollars. The
captain would not pay the fine, nor allow his military
friends to do it. He was carried to jail at Wiscasset, and
imprisoned ; his prosecutors refusing to take bail. He
consulted Judge Smith, who notified the jail-keeper that
his case was bailable ; and that, if he continued him in
LAST ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 379
ment, it
released.
tial of Union officers.
close confinement, it would be at his peril. He was,
accordingly, released. Thus ended the fifth court-mar-
CHAPTER XLV.
MILITARY HISTORY.
(Continued.)
Two Companies of Infantry. — Election of Officers at Amos Walker's.
— March to the Common.
Subsequently to the disbanding and incorporating of
the rifle with the infantry-company, the latter was
divided into two companies, the river being the dividing
line. According to one report, several persons, deeming
a military organization important, presented to the go-
vernor and council a petition for this division ; and it was
favored by many of the residents on the east side of the
river, who afterwards fell back, in consequence of a
resuscitation of the hostility to the Waldonians. An-
other statement is, that the division into two companies
was in answer to the petition of a few individuals of the
old company.
The lieutenant-colonel, it is said, went to one in
whom, it was supposed, he could confide, and prevailed
on him to summon such men, on the east side of the
river, as were favorable to the measure, to meet for the
election of officers at the residence of Amos Walker,
who lived in a retired place, near the first brook east of
Seven Brook. Information of the movement was speed-
ily circulated throughout the town. May 10, 1834,
Amos Walker's barn was thronged. Almost every man
in town, whether old or young, sick or well, on both sides
of the river, turned out. Several persons came from
neighboring towns. The lieutenant-colonel began to
read the order for election. The boys blew wooden
380 MILITARY HISTORY.
whistles. They annoyed him with paper-pellets. The
object apparently was to irritate and disturb him. But
a good degree of quiet was obtained, and he continued
to read the order with the coolness and composure of
an old soldier, till he finished it. Votes for a captain
were called for. George Bobbins was elected. He
was immediately furnished by Dr. Harding and others
with words for a speech. With an old wing stuck in
the top of a hat which had no rim, he stepped forward,
and remarked that he felt greatly flattered by the honor
which had been conferred on him, and that, though
he was conscious he had hitherto been somewhat
neglected and overlooked, he should accept the appoint-
ment. The speech was followed by an outbreak of
applause.
When the presiding officer found that every thing
was intended to be farcical, he declined proceeding with
the election. Then it was argued, with much gravity,
that there was great unanimity in the election thus far,
that every thing promised a harmonious re-organiza-
tion of the military system in town, and that it was
certainly advisable to proceed. " You ought to go on "
was the remark of some of the persons present. " You
must proceed with the election" was the remark of
others. " You shall go on, or we will have you court-
martialled, if it be possible to do it. You were detailed
to preside at the election of officers, not of one officer
of the company." Alexander Skinner was then elected
lieutenant ; and Life W. Boggs, ensign.
At Mr. Walker's were small wheels used in making
ropes, and a log used in shortening them. The men
placed the log on the wheels and began to march, styling
themselves the Independent Artillery Company. A few
turned in the sides of their hats, so as to make them
somewhat pointed before and behind. Part were in
single file, some in platoons three, and others four deep,
and some were on horseback. For muskets they car-
ried hoop-poles, staves, sticks of wood, clubs, sunflower
stalks, — fastening to their hips sunflower-heads for
cartouch-boxes ; in short, taking, for equipments, any
MARCH TO THE COMMON. 381
thing upon which they could lay their hands, provided
it would tend to make the whole affair as ridiculous and
unmilitary as possible. The new lieutenant brought up
the rear of the company, carrying a feather in his hat
and a rum-bottle in each hand. On each side of him
was some one, acting in the capacity of an aid. In this
manner they proceeded toward the Common. It could
hardly have been possible to make a company appear
more ridiculous. The new officers, according to uni-
versal custom at military elections, gave a treat. The
other officers good-naturedly partook, though they are
said afterwards to have expressed some doubt, judging
from the appearance of the new officers, whether they
paid for^the rum themselves.
This was the last attempt ever made in town to elect
military officers. It was the last training, if we except
the voluntary movements in the time of the Aroostock
war. The Unionites became completely triumphant.
The presiding officer seems not to have been altogether
satisfied with the result ; for, in his return to the adju-
tant-general, he stated that neither of the officers " had
any property ; " that they were " the refuse of society;
that the lieutenant " had " frequently been a town-
charge;" that the "inhabitants of Union" had "not
done military duty for nearly ten years ; and that there
seemed a disposition to evade the law, if possible."
The three commissions were issued Aug. 9,1834, bear-
ing date May 10, 1834. The officers never called out
the company, and, it is said, did not get qualified after
receiving their commissions. They were discharged
by limitation, Jan. 3, 1842.
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382 MILITARY HISTORY.
CHAPTER XLVL
MILITARY HISTORY.
( Concluded.)
Qualifying Remarks. — Extension of the Unmilitary Spirit. — Change
of Public Sentiment. — Military Musters.
The preceding military narrative may not be satisfac-
tory to all readers. Considering the gleanings to be
made, the conflicting statements to be reconciled,
the chasms to be filled, the scattered incidents to be
arranged in their proper places, and woven into a narra-
tive, and that most of these unrecorded events occurred
more than twenty-five years ago, it is obvious that the
account must necessarily be somewhat incomplete and
inaccurate, though great care has been taken to make
it as correct as the nature of the case would admit.
It is to be observed, too, that the narrative has not
been confined to what the companies did. Some
of the conduct could not have received the sanction
either of the town or of the military companies them-
selves. The same is undoubtedly true of Waldo-
borough. The Waldonians were naturally glad to
have the annual military musters near their own doors.
But it is not to be supposed that the citizens at large
wished to have them there, unless they were fairly
entitled to them ; or that, as a body, they would sus-
tain oppression or injustice in their officers. Let the
blame fall where it belongs. In as great and general
excitement as prevailed, there are always some eccen-
tric men ready to shoot off from the orbits in which
the body of the people move, and do acts which are
disreputable. Such are some of the transactions which
have been mentioned. Individuals have been guilty
of them ; the better part of the inhabitants have been
ashamed of them ; the good sense of the towns has
been against them. And yet the reproach, instead of
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being cast where it ought, upon the eccentric or reck-
less few who were guilty, has been unjustly brought
upon the towns.
It is not expedient to occupy the room that might
be given to a justification or reprehension of the seve-
ral acts which resulted in the overthrow of the military
system. It may be remarked, however, that the people
of Union considered they were oppressed. They were
repeatedly irritated ; they were threatened ; they could
get no redress. The power of the Legislature was
brought to bear on them in stringent laws to meet
their special case. The officers said that they were
ready to do military duty, but that it must be done
fairly and honorably ; and, feeling that such was not
the case, the men took the matter into their own
hands. And when they acted, it was not with violence
and bloodshed, but with ridicule. If still it be said
that all this was in opposition to the law of the land,
they argue — parvis componere magna — " So were the
proceedings of the whigs in the revolutionary war
And if you justify them," say they, "for rebelling and
fighting eight years, when they had petitioned and
remonstrated, and could not even be heard, surely
there is but little to be said against the Unionites for
taking redress into their own hands, when they used
no weapons but neglect and ridicule to effect relief
from what they considered oppression and insult."
One thing is certain: the consequences of this
movement were important ; it was the beginning of a
change of the military laws and feelings of the State.
People in the neighboring towns continued for a few
years to do military duty, as an evil to which they
were doomed by the law; while the inhabitants of
Union evaded or disregarded all laws of the State and
all commands of all military officers in Maine, and
pursued their avocations, undisturbed through the year.
It was not long before men declined going from
McLean's Mills, through Union and Warren, to muster
at Thomaston, twenty miles distant, when they saw
the inhabitants of Union neglecting with impunity
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a journey to Waldoborough for the same purpose.
How far the spirit has since extended is not known ;
but the movements in this town have probably, in
their remote consequences, done more than any thing
else to turn into ridicule and abolish, so far as it is
abolished, the military pageantry, which belongs to the
Dark Ages, when « brute-force triumphed over right, ra-
ther than to civilized society, which professes to be
governed by reason and principle. The law said,
Train : the Unionites said, No. There is something
novel in the fact, that an institution which has existed
from the infancy of the human race, which all nations
have considered indispensable, — an institution to
which mankind has always yielded as implicitly as
to fate, should be entirely disregarded, and in fact
overthrown, here. So quiet and orderly is every thing
now, that, but for past recollections, it would not be
known that there had ever been a training or military
movement of any kind in the place.
MILITARY MUSTERS.
Although much has already been said respecting
military musters, it may be well to add a few particu-
lars, as they were occasions of great interest, and the
time is coming when they will be entirely unknown,
except in history. The days on which they took place
were among the few holidays of New England. They
were anticipated with satisfaction by adults and with de-
light by boys. As the time approached, the interven-
ing days were carefully counted by the young. There
were two or three military trainings within a week or
two before the appointed day, for the purpose of drill.
The men who were not required to do duty, and the
boys, were busy in getting choice apples, plums, and
other fruit, to retail. Four-pences and cents were in
great demand, as every boy wanted something to
spend on the occasion. Eagerness was manifested in
securing modes of conveyance to the muster-field.
Persons who had relatives or intimate acquaintances
in the vicinity went the day before. Others travelled
MILITARY MUSTERS. 385
in the night. Sometimes several members of a com-
pany made an arrangement to meet at the captain's,
or at some central place, at one or two o'clock in the
morning, to go together; and the first sound at the
captain's door, to wake him, might be the jarring
occasioned by a heavy discharge of a field-piece under
his bedroom window. From break of day, vehicles of
various kinds were moving towards the place. In
some were merchandise. In others rode men wearing
their military uniforms, and carrying guns and equip-
ments,— with their wives, daughters, or young children,
dressed in their gayest holiday attire, by their sides.
Along the roads were men and women and boys, on
foot, hastening forward with as much ardor as if the
existence of the nation depended on their being there
at the earliest practicable moment. Upon their com-
ing together from various places, the pulse was quick-
ened, and more energy aroused by the rapid driving,
the loud talking, the trooping of the boys, the beating
of drums, and the marching and countermarching of
companies, before going upon the field. Then there
were the officers' loud tones of command, the crowding
of people, the occasional crying of children and bark-
ing and yelping of dogs, the glittering of guns and bay-
onets, the nodding of plumes, and the indescribable
feeling experienced on seeing the machine-like move-
ments of a large mass of living beings when marching
and drilling. From towns far and near was poured in
a great tide of life. Temporary tents, wheelbarrows,
stands, handcarts, and horsewagons, with produce, lined
the muster-field and places of congregating. Rum and
brandy and gin; gingerbread, cake, and molasses;
honey, new cider, and apples; ham and bread and
sausages; cheese and oysters and crackers; dough-
nuts and pies and peppermints; clothes, hats, and
tin-ware; — in short, almost all things which could
be bought or be sold were brought together and ex-
posed in great profusion. " Walk up," " walk up,
gentlemen," — and sometimes "Walk up, ladies," —
greeted the ears from various quarters. Fiddlers
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played, the lads and lasses danced ; and, on planks
and slabs temporarily laid down, clowns exercised
themselves with the double shuffle. Old topers got
drunk and swore, and others became tipplers. The
irritable would become angry, and strip off their coats ;
and then a cry would be raised, " A fight, a fight;" and
a crowd, unless the constables interfered, would run
and gather round in a ring, to give the combatants
room and see that they had fair play. Everybody
seemed to be trying to be happy in his own way ;
and, amid the vast variety of character, habits, and
tastes which were brought together, there were, of
course, many queer manifestations of enjoyment. So
great has been the change within thirty years, particu-
larly where the temperance-movement has had control,
that the young have no adequate idea of the old
musters of New England, which were substantially
the same on Boston Common and in the town of
Waldoborough.
CHAPTER XLVIL
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
Early Hunting and Hunters. — Boggs. — Anderson. — Davis and the
Tortoise. — Dicke. — The dogs Tuner and Lion. — Laws about
Deer and Moose and Deer-reeves. — Deers. — Moose. — Their
Haunts.— Time and Manner of hunting them. — Their Yards. —
Transportation of Moose Beef. — Dressing and cooking it. — Moose
in Summer. — One killed in Seven-tree Pond.
EARLY HUNTING AND HUNTERS.
Before there were any permanent settlements, this
place was probably much resorted to by hunters.
Samuel Boggs, of Warren, at a later period, ranged
along the rivers and ponds. Each week or fortnight,
a boat with provisions was despatched from his home
to Seven-tree Pond; places having been previously
EARLY HUNTING AND HUNTERS. 387
designated, where he left signs to enable the boatman
to find him. Archibald Anderson, of Warren, and a
man named Davis, hunted here in the fall and spring
for many years. After an unsuccessful search during
four days, Davis, almost famishing, once returned to
his old camp, near Crawford's River, and kindled a fire.
With great astonishment he soon saw the sand and
ashes, on which it was built, begin to move. He was
not disturbed by their surging and sinking ; but knelt
down, and dealt heavy random-blows among them
with his hatchet. In a short time, he was luxuriating
on a roasted tortoise, which had unceremoniously im-
bedded himself in the ashes.
David Dicke, of Warren, says that in his boyhood
the great hunting-ground was the meadows at the
head of Round Pond. When he was in pursuit of
moose, he commonly passed the night on the little
island at the outlet of the pond. The early settlers
were naturally interested in hunting and trapping.
Furs were valuable. The flesh of some of the game
was at times almost indispensable to their existence.
Beef was scarce. When grain failed, fish, fowl, and
wild game were their only substantial food. So that
all the early settlers were hunters, and had traps, guns,
and hunting-dogs.
David Robbins had a very large dog, named Tuner.
Tuner accompanied his master in his excursions for
game. When night came, Robbins trod a hole into
the snow, threw hemlock-boughs into it, and called
Tuner to share his comfort. If his feet were cold,
Tuner was required to lie on them to keep them warm.
As soon as these were made comfortable, Tuner was
ordered to abandon his warm nest and take lodgings
at his master's back. Thus Tuner was imposed upon ;
being obliged, during the whole night, to move from
place to place at his master's bidding.
Once Tuner was missing. Men hallooed and guns
were fired to entice him home. He came in a state of
great excitement, and used all his canine eloquence
of crying and whining to prevail on some of his mas-
388 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
ter's family to follow him. After they had run about
a mile, the dog, far in advance, began to bark. He
had returned to the carcass of a yearling moose,
which had been pursued and killed by him.
Richard Cummings had a dog named Lion. Lion
and Tuner were great friends. Lion's favorite em-
ployment was bear-hunting. The two dogs followed
a moose to Warren, where Lion probably found a
bear's den, and was seriously injured. They returned
on the east side of the pond, as far as the Hills Point.
Lion could go no further. Tuner swam to the David
Robbins Point, and set up a mournful howling. He
could not be prevailed on to enter the house, but con-
tinued to look across the pond and whine. Accord-
ingly, to the great joy of Tuner, a float was sent across
the pond, and Lion brought over, so wounded, proba-
bly by the " bear's hug," that he never entirely recov-
ered.
LAWS ABOUT DEER AND MOOSE AND DEER-REEVES.
The office of deer-reeve included the duties of
moose-reeve. An Act of the Legislature of Massachu-
setts was published, Feb. 4, 1764, for the preservation
and increase of moose and deer. The penalty for kill-
ing any moose or deer between Dec. 21 and Aug. 11
in any year, or for haying in one's possession the flesh
or raw skin of any moose or deer killed within that
time, was £6 and the cost for prosecution for each
and every offence. Suspected persons were to be ex-
amined before justices of the peace, sheriffs to search
for flesh and skins, and justices to require security of
suspected persons and to bind over persons to give
evidence. Towns which neglected to choose deer-
reeves annually, at the March meeting, incurred a
penalty of £30. Every person chosen deer-reeve was
required " forthwith to declare his acceptance or refu-
sal thereof." If he refused to accept the trust, or to
be sworn to the faithful discharge of it, he was fined
£5. If he refused to pay the fine, he was to "be con-
vened before the court of sessions ; " and, if he could
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show no just cause for his refusal, the court was
empowered to commit him to jail, " there to remain
till he had paid the said fine and the costs of prosecu-
tion." The " more especial business " of deer-reeves
was " to inquire into and inform of all offences against
this Act, and to prosecute the offenders." It was
further enacted that the grand juries should from time
to time " diligently inquire after and prosecute all
breaches of this Act." It was probably in consequence
of this Act that the town chose Bela Robbins deer-
reeve in the years 1787, 1788, and 1789. There is no
record of any other action of the town in relation to
the subject.
DEERS.
There were never so many deers in the New England
as in the other States. In the fall, a few years after the
incorporation of Union, five or six made many tracks
on a point of land, perhaps one mile south of the out-
let of Crawford's Pond. The ground was muddy and
soft, and they were evidently trying to get across to
the east side. In the following winter, they were
found by hunters from Warren, and every one was
killed. About twenty years ago, two fawn were seen
drinking at a fountain by the side of the road, in the
Cedar Swamp in Appleton. One of them was shot
near Quantabacook Pond. Stragglers, probably from
the wilderness, are occasionally seen in Union at the
present day. In December, 1845, a deer was discov-
ered between Hills' Mills and Sunnybec Pond, pursued
and finally killed near John Payson's, in the easterly
part of the town. Another, probably the mate, was
seen a few days afterward. It is supposed they had
strayed from the Penobscot country.
MOOSE.
The early settlers of New England had singular
ideas respecting moose. In a manuscript of President
Dunster, of Harvard University, now in possession of
John Belknap, Esq., of Boston, is this notice : " Moose,
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ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
a beast as big as an oxe ; it is thought they will be
brought to be very useful for labour, when their yonge
are brought up tame."
Probably, there was no part of the United States in
which moose were so numerous as in Maine. It is
said, that, as recently as 1849, more than fourteen
hundred were killed in one year by the Indians, chiefly
for the value of their skins. In Union, a favorite place
for them was the meadows north of Seven-tree Pond.
Before the town was settled, there were many paths
running in various directions from the clear, unfailing,
and never-freezing spring near the head of it. They
were probably made by moose, who in summer com-
monly go to one place for drink. Another and bet-
ter ground was the meadows at Round Pond. It
was here that, on a Thanksgiving-day, Jessa Robbins
killed his first moose. It weighed 840 pounds. The
horns had thirteen prongs ; and not one of the three
men who came to look at him could, with outstretched
arms, touch the extremities of both the horns at once.
Here, too, it was that Archibald Anderson and Samuel
Boggs often climbed into the crotch of a large sloping
maple, which stood on the east side of the river near
the pond, to watch. When either of them espied one,
if he could not kill him from the tree, — and it was
too far to fire across the river into the meadow on
the north-west, — he came down cautiously, and ap-
proached him in the best way he could. He common-
ly took a float, as thus he could get comparatively near
without alarming him.
After the settlers came, the favorite place of resort
for moose was the vicinity of the Medomac River.
There were found most of those which were killed.
Generally they were shy. Their hearing and smelling
were so acute that it was very difficult to come within
gun-shot, except from the windward of them. Hunters
took advantage of the circumstance that they always
fed with their heads to the wind, and thus they some-
times came upon them unawares. They were killed
at all seasons of the year ; but the best time to hunt
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them was in March. Then these heavy animals were
impeded and their legs lacerated by breaking through
the crust, which was strong enough to sustain their
pursuers ; or they were worried down by the deep snow,
over which hunters on snow-shoes successfully followed
them. This month was generally the time for an
onslaught. A party procured high, narrow, and light
hand-sleds, which had runners four or six inches wide to
prevent their sinking into the snow. They took gim-
lets, shaves, hatchets, an axe to mend their sleds, and a
little salt to make their moose-meat palatable. With
guns, ammunition, and dogs, they started off for their
favorite ranges and hunting-grounds, dragging their
sleds on ponds and rivers and over carrying-places.1
On arriving at the proposed hunting-ground, they
" struck up a camp," kindled a fire by means of their
gun-flints and powder, and then were ready for action.
One old hunter says the moose were generally
found in the vicinity of springs or places where they
could drink, and between the highland and what is
called the " black land," or the ground where spruces
and hemlocks grow. When the snow was deep, their
ranges became limited. They browsed upon the
hemlocks, maples, white birches, moose-wood, and the
saplings and bushes within their reach, and thus trod
down the snow about them and made yards. These
yards, which in winter were commonly on "black
land," varied in size with the number of animals in the
herd, the time of their being there, and the depth of
the snow. Sometimes, though seldom, they extended
over forty or fifty acres. They were enlarged as the
animals, impelled by hunger, stepped into the snow
to reach more browse. When undisturbed, a few
moose would remain a month on an acre or two.
When attacked by dogs, moose would turn and
1 One of these carrying-places, from the head of Seven- tree Pond,
across the Bobbins Neck, nearly in the direction of the canal, struck
St. George's River, a few rods below Bachelor's Mills. Another began
at the Pettengill Brook, crossed Appleton Ridge, and terminated at
the St. George's, about half a mile above the head of Sunnybec Pond.
It was travelled by nearly all the hunters on the Medomac River.
392 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
fight them, not by kicking, but by striking at them
with their feet. Sometimes they would become so
intent that the hunter could get near enough to shoot
them. If, however, a moose was started from the yard
by dogs, he commonly made but few plunges into the
deep and hard snow, before he turned upon them. As
he was annoyed, on the one side or the other, he kept
changing his position in order to meet the attacks, and
thus trod down the snow and made a small yard
around him. The dogs continued to vex him, and, by
their incessant and violent barking, brought up the
gunners. If, when the men approached, the moose
made another effort to escape, the dogs, set on and
encouraged by their masters, attacked him the more
furiously. They seized him by the nose,1 bit his legs,
gnawed the hair from his flanks and ribs, and har-
rassed him till the hunters approached and despatched
him with balls. But, when there was only a little
snow, the moose, with the dogs on the full leap after
him, would distance his pursuers and escape, or draw
them into a race, which sometimes continued a hun-
dred miles or more.
"When moose were routed, their course was almost
invariably toward the South, and calculations were
made accordingly to intercept them. The old hunters
said that they took this direction, because the farther
they went, the softer became the snow and crust.
The settlers in Union, and the towns below, con-
sidered the circumstance fortunate ; for, if the course
had been toward the North, the pursuit of them
would have drawn them from their homes. In the
winter of 1785-6, several moose were started in the
vicinity of Quantabacook. One or more was killed ;
and one fled to the Bobbins Neck, where he yarded,
1 William Thompson spoke particularly of three dogs. One would
seize a moose by the ribs, and take out a mouthful of hair at every
bite. Another small dog would seize him by the nose, and, curling up
his legs, hold on so firmly that the moose would swing him from side
to side. A third large dog " would fly up close to him " on the crust,
and «« bark and roar terribly, " without venturing to touch him. They
seemed to have a common understanding how each should annoy him
MOOSE-BEEF. 393
near the sloping maple, till the spring opened. Then
he was again started, and ran to Friendship, where he
was killed.
When the hunters killed a moose, they skinned it,
and split the carcass into halves or sides. A small
tree was then bent down, and the ends of the limbs
lopped off. The sides were hung upon the stubs of
the limbs, and then the tree was allowed to spring
back to its natural position. Thus the meat was pro-
tected from wild animals. A little bird called the
whetsaw, because its notes resembled the filing of a
saw, would light upon it and pick it ; but it did no
harm worth noticing. To keep off the crows, which
were troublesome, long white splinters were stuck into
the meat before it was suspended. Having thus dis-
posed of a moose, and left the offal on the snow, or
used it to bait traps for sable or other game, the men
proceeded to hunt again.
When the time drew near for returning home, mea-
sures were devised for carrying the meat. Hunters
always took advantage of the ponds and rivers. When
there was a thaw, they went forward on snow-shoes,
and trod down the snow in the paths and carrying-
places. When the paths were frozen by the cold
weather which succeeded, they sometimes transported
their meat on packhorses. Commonly, however, they
drew it on their light hand-sleds, — one side of moose-
beef being considered load enough for one man to
drag. The hunters at the Medomac,1 having arrived
at the end of their carrying-place, followed down Sun-
nybec Pond and St. George's River, and discharged
their loads on Seven-tree Pond. Sixteen carcasses
have been brought on to this pond at one time. Some
were eaten by the inhabitants, and others hauled off
by teams to Warren and the lower towns. Some-
times more moose were killed than were wanted, or
could be given away. There was one winter in which
one of the Robbins family, it is said, owned shares in
1 The Waldonians had a place farther west, and hunted by them*,
selves.
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forty-seven moose and seventeen bears. The meat
was an important article of food. The large bones
were removed ; and the flesh, put loosely together in
tubs or barrels, was dried and smoked. When broiled
and buttered like beef-steaks, the meat was considered
much better than when boiled. The bones were
roasted and broken ; and the marrow, which was taken
out, was salted, and eaten by the white people as a
substitute for butter.
In summer, moose frequented meadows and swamps
in the daytime, and ponds and coves in the night. A
young one was caught — some say in Round Pond,
others by being driven into a river in Warren — by
Archibald Anderson, and tamed. He was owned in
Warren. In the daytime, he would lie about the
house in the shade ; and, at night, go to feed on lily-
leaves and aquatic plants in the brooks and bogs, from
which he would return early in the morning.
Within three or four years after Philip Bobbins
moved here, as he was coming from Warren in his
float with his dog and gun, he saw a moose enter the
pond on the east side, to cross over. It was summer.
The moose's horns were short, and appeared as if
covered with velvet. With his foot, Robbins kept his
dog down on the bottom of the boat till he was near
enough to fire. As soon as he fired, the dog sprang
so furiously out of the boat as almost to upset it, and
seized the moose by the nose. The dog of Richard
Cummings came to his aid, and got upon the moose's
head. Before he could reach the shore, the dogs
drowned him. The few inhabitants soon got together,
and took from the carcass thirty pounds of tallow.
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CHAPTER XLVIIL
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
(Continued.)
Bears. — Bear Traps. — Setting Guns. — Bears caught by David Rob-
bins and Jessa Robbins. — Baited and killed by Ezekiel Hagar. —
Love Rum. — Taken to Boston and shot. — Encounters on Seven-
tree Pond : on Hart's Hill : on Hills Point : on Simmons's Hill :
on the Robbins Neck. — Adam Martin. — Jason Ware and his Dog
Sambo. — Fate of Sambo. — Mrs. Hart and the Bear Trap.
BEARS.
Bears were numerous, and troublesome to the early-
settlers. They broke into their corn-fields, and des-
troyed their corn. They carried off sheep and hogs,
much against the wishes and intentions of the owners.
Bruin's hide, too, was good for caps, mittens, mocca-
SQns, and even great-coats. When killed in the fall or
spring,1 he was very fat. If the spare-rib was cut
through in the manner of pork, it was necessary to
slice off three-quarters of the thickness, because it was
so fat it could not be eaten. The flesh, not altogether
unlike pork in taste, was a rich morsel to persons
pinched with hunger. Consequently, Bruin and the
early settlers were always at war. Sometimes he was
caught in large steel-traps, baited with mutton; at
other times in log-traps so constructed, that, when he
seized the bait, the stick to which it was tied released
a heavy log that fell on his back and crushed him.
The practice of setting guns in corn-fields to kill
bears was very common and dangerous. People were
frequently wounded or killed by their accidental dis-
1 Old hunters have said, that, on retiring in the fall to hibernate,
bears are taught by instinct to eat balsam or something else, which
entirely obstructs the alimentary canal. When spring opens, the
same instinct teaches them what to take to remove the obstruction.
It is said they are about as fat when they come from their dens as
when they enter them.
396 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
charge, though there does not appear to have been any
fatal case in Union. A long line was fastened at one
end. It was then extended between two rows of corn ;
and, in order that its weight might not cause the dis-
charging of the gun, it was supported at short
distances by crotched sticks stuck in the ground. Near
the unfastened end of the line were driven down two
short stakes, split at the top. Into these splits, and
pointing so as to range with the line, and at a proper
elevation to take effect, was crowded a loaded gun,
which was covered with a long piece of bark to con-
ceal it, and to protect it from dew and rain. Very
near the lock was another stake. The unfastened end
of the line was then t^ied to one end of a short stick,
the other end of which was placed behind the stake
and before the trigger. The gun was cocked and
primed, and left for the night. Bruin, intent on
getting corn and regardless of the line, pressed against
it. As the line was always left a little slack, on ac-
count of its liability to be shrunk by the weather, the
bear generally brought his trunk in range with the gun
before it was discharged. Then, as the charge com-
monly consisted of two balls and a slug, the conse-
quences were not trifling. A man who saw two
bears, which were killed in this way, says that one of
them was shot with two balls through the lungs, and
the other through the neck.
The number killed was large. Almost every man
who settled in town before the year 1800 had some-
thing to do with them. Jessa Robbins, about a week
after he had killed a moose on Gillmor's Meadow, was
going toward the spot, and, perceiving something there,
he made a noise. The animal raised its head till its
ears appeared just above the tall grass. Robbins fired,
and " shot a bear through the lights." He went up to
him, and " affectionately " took hold of his paw ; but
Bruin resented the treatment, and it was necessary to
give him another shot. The same man caught seven
bears in five weeks, eighty or a hundred rods south
of his house, in one log-trap baited with the entrails
BEARS. 397
of fish. David Robbins caught five more in the same
five weeks, within a few rods of the same spot. At a
much later date, Ezekiel Hagar, from Concord, Mass.,
after living in the west part of the town about twenty-
five years, said that he had killed forty. Some he
caught in a large steel trap; others he shot in corn-
fields ; and, with the assistance of a faithful dog, he
took others in dens. He would set in different places
small sap-troughs, into which he would pour New
England rum, of which the bears were as fond as
topers. To make the rum more palatable, he would
even sweeten it. Two small cubs were taken by him
and sold to Rufus Gillmor, who kept them till the fol-
lowing autumn. They were commonly confined in a
pen. When occasionally let out, they would climb
the willows east of his house. Once, when N. Rob-
bins, Esq., being highway-surveyor, was carrying a
keg of rum to the men at work, they came down from
the trees, hugged the keg, and licked it ; and he was
obliged to call for help to take them off and shut them
up. A traveller took them to Boston. A shooting-
match was made ; they were taken to Dorchester
Heights ; a fee was exacted for each shot ; they were
placed at a great distance ; — and there they were
killed.
Jessa Robbins says, that, on a Sunday morning, John
Butler, then a young man, living at the Mill Farm,
called to him across the pond to bring him some fire,
as he had none, and no gunpowder to enable him to
get any. After he had gone over, and had begun
to assist Butler in kindling it, an object was discovered
swimming from Hills Point towards the other shore.
Taking an axe, they hastened to the boat, threw into
it a few stones, and plied the paddles. At first it was
thought it might be a loon ; but, as they approached
it, they discovered it to be a bear swimming towards
Philip Robbins's cow-pasture, which was on the south
side of the river, where it enters the pond. Hogs were
in the pasture ; and a gentle, steady breeze, blowing
from that quarter, had probably been snuffed by the
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bear, and led him to make a movement for a dinner of
pork. Jessa Robbins and John Butler shouted, and
thus aroused Philip Robbins's family. The bear was
alarmed, and put forth all his strength to reach the
land. Robbins and Butler redoubled their exertions,
and it became a race between them and Bruin. The
bear, however, was intercepted about five or six rods
from the shore. Robbins sprang to the bow of the
boat, and, with the axe raised, was about to strike
him ; but he was dissuaded from it by Butler, who
was afraid, if the blow should not be fatal, that Bruin
would attack the boat, and their lives be endangered.
Bruin was terribly enraged. He growled, and ground
his teeth ; but, finding he could not be permitted to
land, he turned towards the island. He crossed it
from the north end to the south, and again entered the
water to swim to the shore. Here he was intercepted
by Philip Robbins's boat, and obliged to return to the
island. No alternative now remained for him but to
climb one of the seven trees. He went to the foot of
a large dead pine ; and, after deliberately seating him-
self, and looking towards the top, he made a leap up
the tree. He hugged it, holding on to the sides with
his paws and claws, and climbed ; using sometimes his
legs, at other times taking hold of the limbs with
his teeth, till he went up nearly to the top. After
seven or eight discharges of a gun, the bear fell dead
at the bottom of the tree.1
John Butler was a fleet runner, and often said that
he could outrun any bear. An opportunity occurred
to put him to the test. He treed three cubs on a tall
pine which stood on the hill-side back of Hart's house.
The barking of his dog, and his hallooing " A bear ! a
bear!" were heard by Jessa Robbins and others on
the other side of the pond. They, with their dogs,
1 Mrs. Mero says the occurrence was within three, or at most four,
years after her father moved into Stirlington ; and that he, being at
Warren the day before, did not come home till that morning. When
he heard the firing, he hurried as fast as possible, expecting the enemy
had come. She also differs as to some of the details.
BEARS. 399
hastened to the spot. The cubs were very high. The
balls, which were too small for the bores of the guns,
did not seem to produce any effect. After firing
several times, Robbins proceeded to climb the tree.
As he was going up, he found that one of the young
bears had been seriously wounded. On climbing
nearer, the three ran out on one limb. He went out
on the limb next below, till he came to a bend in the
upper limb, which then struck off in a different direc-
tion from the one on which he was standing. Being
thus prevented from getting any nearer, he took a large
jackknife, and, resting his chest against the upper limb,
reached his hand as far as he could, to cut it off. The
limb being borne down by the weight of the cubs, he
had cut but partly through it, when it suddenly cracked
and broke. As the bears jumped, the stub part of it
sprang back against Robbins, and " knocked the breath
out of his body." One of the bears was killed by
clubs, as soon as it reached the ground. Another
was treed, about half a mile off, by the dogs, and shot.
The third one, which had been seriously wounded, fell
into the top of a leaning tree, and, what was very un-
common, ran head foremost to the ground. He started
off over the hill, and Butler after him. " Each did his
best." For a few minutes, they went as fast as their
legs would carry them. But, as neither of the dogs
happened to follow with Butler, the young bear
escaped. Butler's companions laughed at him and
teased him a good deal, because he had so often
bragged that he could outrun any bear ; and yet, when
it came to the test, he had been beaten in the race by
a lame or wounded young cub. Jessa Robbins says,
in justice to Butler, however, it ought to be added, that
on level ground he was probably as fleet as Bruin ; and,
if he had not been obliged to climb a hill in the race,
he would have been the victor.
John Butler's dog treed a bear very near the pond,
on land now owned by Lyman Alden. Butler heard
the barking, and hastened to the tree. Philip Robbins
and his son Jessa Robbins, on the other side of the
400 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
pond, heard Butler halloo as was usual, " A bear! a
bear ! bring a gun." Accordingly, they took their guns
and dog, and put off in their boat to go to his aid.
The dog, knowing what was at stake, stood at the
bow of the boat, and, the moment it was near enough,
jumped on shore, and thus shoved the boat back. On
coming to the shore again, Jessa Robbins jumped, and
the boat was again pushed back. Philip Robbins
called to his son, and told him not to fire till he came.
The son hastened to find Butler. Shortly, on looking
round, he saw his father raising his gun and seeking a
good opportunity to aim and fire. Jessa Robbins, being
six or eight rods nearer, raised his gun and shot Bruin
through the vitals. The bear fell dead to the ground.
Although he was killed, the father was a little vexed
that he should have been so adroitly deprived of the
satisfaction of doing it. "Jess! Jess!" he exclaimed,
" did I not tell you not to fire till I came ? " " Oh,
yes ! " coolly replied the son ; " but, father, I was afraid
you would not hit him."
Not long after the town was incorporated, there was
a field of corn on Simmons's hill. The bears made
such havoc that it was feared they would destroy it
all. Guns were borrowed in all parts of the town,
and set round the field. Among them was a long
kings-arm, owned by Samuel Hills, which was loaded
for the occasion with two iron slugs, one about an
inch and a half, and the other about three inches, in
length. In the evening, the people, listening atten-
tively, as was usual when guns were set, heard a heavy
discharge. On going to the field, it was found that it
was from Hills's piece, and that the bear was gone.
The next movement was to get dogs and follow him.
Jason Robbins had taken part in setting the guns;
and immediately, though it was before midnight, he
went to Mero's and Josiah Robbins's for assistance.
Richard Cummings and Nathaniel Robbins turned
out ; and from the place where John P. Robbins now
lives, they " struck west" into the woods, intending to
keep the dogs with them and be quiet till morning.
BEARS. 401
They had gone but a short distance when the dogs
" set up a terrible yelling." They had found the bear ;
and it was a huge one. Neither of the men had a
gun ; for all the guns in town were around the cornfield.
Accordingly, with their jackknives they cut cudgels ;
and remained, and kept their dogs, near the bear.
When daylight came, Jason Bobbins, who could go to
the guns without hazard, took one from the field and
despatched him. Both slugs were in his body. He
could not travel well, though he would fight the dogs
furiously. When shot, he was in a gulley. It was
necessary to drag him out, so as to manage him to
advantage. All present took hold of him. The dogs
inserted their teeth into Bruin's hide, pulled with great
strength and with as much zeal as their masters. He
was then carried on poles to the cleared land, and
" dressed."
When Capt. George West, about the year 1795,
lived on the hill afterward owned by Capt. Bachelor,
his cattle frequently swam the river to browse and feed
on the Robbins Neck. One evening, just before dark, all
except a very fat beef-cow came home in a great fright.
It seems that a bear had killed the cow on the brink
of the river, exactly opposite to West's house, and the
other creatures had escaped. It "was obvious that the
bear was then on the Neck. The alarm was given,
and the Philistines prepared to come down upon him.
Men assembled the next morning ; and several of them
stationed themselves at short distances from each other
on the west side of the river, to intercept him where he
would be likely to cross it. A party was sent on to the
Neck to stir him up. Samuel Martin, maintaining that
the bear would go as far as he could on the land before
he " took to the water," stationed himself near the outlet
of Bowker Brook. After a time, he saw Bruin on the
Neck across the river. The distance was immense for
a shot to take effect ; but, thinking it his last chance, he
fired. The bear, however, " made off," and crossed the
river within a rod or two of Capt. Tobey, who, being
more of a sailor than a hunter, did not think to fire at
402 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
him. Thus Bruin got safe into the meadow, where
several persons were making hay. All started after
him upon the run ; " Old Uncle Sam Hills," then a
comparatively young man, chasing him with a rake.
Bruin, however, escaped. The party came back to
West's tavern " to get something to drink," provoked
with Martin for firing, and with Tobey for not firing ;
and "poking fun" at them both. Martin, however,
insisted that when he fired he saw the bear plunge
forward. Many words passed, and many jokes were
cracked at the expense of Martin and Tobey, till it
was finally agreed to go to the spot where the bear
was when Martin fired. It appeared that Martin was
correct in his statement. One of the bear's large teeth,
which the ball had knocked out, was picked up, and
his course to the river was tracked by the blood. Some
days afterward, Bruin was scented by his carcass, and
found dead in the vicinity of Muddy Pond ; the ball
having passed through the mouth, and cnt off the
tongue.
At a later period, Adam Martin, of German origin,
who lived in Union, near Waldoborough line, was in
the woods at work with an axe early in the spring.
Hearing the bellowing of a creature, he ran and found
a bear killing it. The bear saw him, and stopped.
Martin and Bruin stood, and looked at each other
ferociously. But, as neither succeeded in looking the
other out of countenance, Martin struck his axe upon
a hollow log to intimidate his enemy. Bruin resented
it; and, in a state of great exasperation, hastened
toward him. Martin ran ; but, finding the bear gain
on him, he sprang up into a tree so small that the
bear could not climb it. When Bruin put his paws
up against it, he could almost touch him. There
Martin had to cling, with his legs drawn up to keep
out of his reach. The bear went round the tree and
snuffed. He was evidently very hungry. Twice he
went away and returned. Martin became almost ex-
hausted; and when, at the third departure, the bear
went a little further, and the view was intercepted,
SAMBO. 403
Martin let go his hold, dropped to the ground, and
ran. The same night, he set a trap and caught him.
Martin said he was never frightened before.1
Jason Ware had a small white dog, named Sambo,
who entered into the spirit of his profession with even
more zeal than his master, and who acquired great
reputation among the people and hunters in this section
of the country for his skill and success. In one sea-
son, Sambo assisted in killing thirteen bears. There
was no dog in town quite equal to Sambo. He would
follow any person carrying a gun. If he was wanted,
it was only necessary for him to hear his name, and
he would go, however far it might be. He has been
known to obey a call, and run from his kennel to the
Old Burying Ground hill, whether his master went or
not.
His method of pursuit was to keep near Bruin's
heels, and bite him. The bear, not pleased with such
strong attachments on the part of Sambo, would tum-
ble over backwards, or turn about to attack him. As
he was large and clumsy, Sambo was always able to
retreat a few steps, and then he would stand in secu-
rity and watch the bear's motions. " As soon as the
bear picked himself up, and began to go ahead again,"
Sambo renewed his attacks. The bear would again
turn, and Sambo again retreat. Though Sambo
seemed to take much satisfaction in this mode of
travelling, his bearship evidently was not well pleased.
He could not get along so fast as he desired. And,
more than this, he was frequently delayed by Sam-
bo's remarkable attention, till the gunners came near
1 " I have heard this story told in one of our grog-shops, by one of
our ancient fathers, in native eloquence equal to that of Logan. This
patriarch [David Bobbins] was a large man, and had been a great
bear-hunter. He wore a black overcoat and bearskin socks ; his hair
and complexion peculiarly favoring the occasion. After speaking his
prologue, this orator walked round the floor in a bear's gait, as he
supposed the bear went round the tree ; and then, in imitation of the
bear, he turned up his eyes and nose, and, after exhibiting a ghastly
grin and making a frightful growl, he snuffed like the bear to smell
the German." — MS. Letter.
404 ZOOLOGICAL HISTOEY.
enough to shoot him ; or was so overcome by it that
he would be obliged to take leave of Sambo and climb
a tree.
Elisha Partridge was paddling his boat up the river
above Round Pond one evening, and, by the bright
moonlight, saw an old bear munching acorns on the
point of land on the east side. He whistled for Sam-
bo, whose kennel was not far distant. Sambo sprang
out, ran furiously down to the river, and at the first
bound went half-way across the channel. He was
immediately at the bear's heels, drove him up the
river, and treed him on a pine which stood on the
Robbins Neck, not far from the barn now owned by
Hugh S. Gordon. He was watched till morning,
when he was found to be very large, and to have
climbed only about twenty feet from the ground. He
was fired at. The ball struck him in the breast, but
too low to wound the heart. Bruin then went up the
tree about sixty feet. He was fired at and wounded
several times. Finally, a ball was shot through his
heart. He fell dead to the ground, breaking and clear-
ing every limb in his way.
But, alas ! poor Sambo ! His end was tragical. In
March, he went, with Joseph Meservey and others,
into the Medomac country to hunt. The men, having
ousted a bear from his den, thought it best, availing
themselves of Sambo's assistance, to drive him toward
home, instead of killing him at once and carrying or
hauling him. "When they had gone some distance,
and were crossing Appleton Ridge, the dog, in at-
tempting to leap back after biting the bear's legs, as
the snow was deep and soft, came in contact with a
tree. Bruin struck him with his paw, knocking him
up into the air ; and, as he came down, hit him again.
Meservey wrapped him in his blanket, and brought
him home; but he was about dead. Thus fell poor
Sambo, a martyr to the cause of bear-hunting. No
record remains of his obsequies ; no marble monument
points out his resting-place; no epitaph records his
valorous deeds. He was probably buried like a dog.
BEARS. 405
MRS. HART AND THE BEAR-TRAP.
Sometimes the alarms from bears led to ludicrous,
and at other times to painful, results. In 1794, when
the men had gone to a military training, and the only
persons at South Union, except little children and Her-
vey Maxcy, who was about ten years old, were Mrs.
William Hart, Mrs. Josiah Maxcy, and Mrs. Joseph
Maxcy, they were disturbed by the squealing of hogs.
As the noise was loud and continued long, the women
came to the conclusion that the hogs must be attacked
by a bear, and resolutely went out against him. They
found the old porker and her two young ones dangling
in the air, and squealing so loud that they might be
heard one or two miles. The swine had been caught
in a bear-trap, which had teeth or spikes as long as
one's finger. It had been so fastened to a bent tree,
that, when it was sprung, the tree, with the suspended
trap, would return to its natural position. The women
bent down the tree, two of them with their feet pressed
upon the springs ; and the two pigs jumped out and
ran off. But the old porker could not get away so
easily. The teeth of the trap had penetrated under
the cords. Mrs. Hart undertook, when the other
women were pressing down the springs, to open the
jaws of the trap, and release the animal. She suc-
ceeded; but, just at that moment, the jaws were
sprung together, and caught her by both hands. The
long teeth or spikes penetrated them, and the scars of
the wounds are visible to this day.
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CHAPTER XLIX.
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
{Continued.')
Wolves. — Wolf Hunt. — Cat-vaughan. — Foxes. — Personal Expe-
rience. — Fox seized by Asa Messer. — Beavers. — Raccoons. —
Musquash. — Minks, Sables, and Loup-cervier. — Weasel.
WOLVES.
The wolves in this part of the country seem to have
had their principal head-quarters in the dense, gloomy,
and almost impenetrable forest along the seashore
between the St. George's and the Muscongus Rivers.
There they suckled and reared their whelps in low
ledges and dens. Thence they went forth on their
" long gallop " to a great distance, ranging and prowl-
ing through the wilderness and the new settlements,
and making night hideous with their howlings. In
early times they were numerous and saucy ; bold
when famishing, but generally sneaking from danger ;
and howling piteously and imploringly when caught
alive. They were carnivorous, but would eat vegetables,
and in winter have been known to feed on sumach-
berries. They were very fond of the sheep of the
early settlers ; but they would on an emergency accept
poultry. Young colts and calves were not exempts,
and they have sometimes attacked swine. Seldom
were any seen in Union on the east side of the river.
Farmers surrounded their barn-yards with fences of
long poles placed perpendicularly and contiguously,
and pinned or spiked on transverse poles or joists, to
keep these thieves from their herds and flocks. In
summer, light fences were made in the woods, with
gaps at the wolves' paths. A log was laid across
each of these openings, and a trap set so that when
the wolf stepped over the stick he would put his foot
upon the trencher. These animals were also shot,
WOLVES. 407
and baited and caught in steel-traps and wood-traps.
The reputation gained by killing a wolf; the bounty
of four pounds for every grown wolf, and one pound
for every wolf's whelp ; sweet revenge for losses of
sheep, swine, and poultry ; and the excitement of hunt-
ings— kept up a perpetual and implacable warfare, and
thinned their number. Large parties, from time to
time, scoured the woods to kill them.
WOLF HUNT.
About the year 1820, late in the fall, a general wolf-
hunt was announced through several towns in the
vicinity. At the appointed time, there was as large a
gathering as at a military muster. With guns, dogs,
and ammunition, the men from several towns met at
Trowbridge's Tavern, on the Warren and Waldobo-
rough post-road. Joseph Farley, Esq., of Waldo-
borough, was chosen headman. As his health was
poor, instead of going on foot, he rode and gave
directions, and he entered with great zeal upon the
expedition. Nathaniel Robbins, Esq., of Union, took
a position about half-way between the St. George's
and the Medomac Rivers. The men stretched out on
his right and left, each one in sight of his right-hand
and left-hand man, till the cordon extended from river
to river. Robbins had a surveyor with him. The
orders to him were to run a south course till he struck
the salt water. As it was afternoon, it was agreed to
camp on the road between the Narrows at Thomaston
and Broad-bay on the Medomac. There, along the
whole route, — a distance of probably eight miles, —
fires were built so near to each other that a wolf could
not pass between them without being seen ; and, what
would frighten the wolves back, a tumultuous noise of
firing and hooting was kept up all night. The next
day the party went through to the salt water, and even
down to the clam-beds. Not a wolf was seen by any
of them. If any secreted themselves, they were exter-
minated by a terrific fire, which swept through the
forest, in a very dry season, not many years afterward.
408 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
CAT-YAUGHAN, OR CATAMOUNT [?].
In 1777 or 1778, Richard Cummings and Jessa
Robbins went beyond Crawford's Pond, near to Mil-
ler's present residence, to hunt. Their three dogs set
up a violent barking, and treed a wild-cat, or " cat-
vaughan ; " an animal, however, which seemed to differ
somewhat from a wild-cat. It was about as large as
a middle-sized dog, and had very sharp claws and
very heavy teeth. Cummings and Robbins were short
of ammunition ; for "powder was one dollar a pound,
and hard to be got at that." Robbins said he believed
he would go up and get her. Accordingly, he swung
tfc club on his back, and began to climb. As he
approached the animal, she growled and "spit" at
him, and, from time to time, gave indications of an
inclination to attack him. Robbins took his club, and
kept up a noise by pounding on the tree as he ascend-
ed. She receded from him, and went out on a limb so
far that he could not quite reach her with his club. He
then began to shake the limb violently, and she jumped.
The moment she touched the ground, Cummings, with
his club and the three dogs, pounced upon and killed
her. The scientific name of the animal is not known.
Old hunters told Robbins that his was a very hazard-
ous undertaking.
FOXES.
Formerly, foxes were very numerous. About the
years 1816 and 1817, their tracks were so thick on
Capt. Barrett's land, on the east side of Seven Brook
opposite to Hills' Mills, that, sometimes after a light
snow, the fields appeared as if they had been raced
over by sheep. Then a good skin was sold for one
dollar. Men and boys hunted, and set traps. They
enjoyed the excitement, and did not object, when
they had skins, to take the money for them. Every-
body was talking about foxes, boasting of the number
he had shot and denned and trapped; and describing,
sometimes in too strong language to bear rigid criti-
cism, his various expedients to outwit Reynard.
FOXES. 409
Entering into the spirit which then prevailed among
the boys, the writer, just at night when a snow-storm
was coming on, set his trap a little beyond the brow
of the hill, east of Seven Brook, on his father's land.
On going as near to the trap as was expedient, in the
morning of the two or three following days, it seemed
not to have been disturbed. Finally, as the settling
snow would spring it, and thus alarm any foxes which
might be prowling about, a stick was punched into
the fox-bed. The trap was gone. The excitement
became intense. A movement was made toward the
woods. Sir Reynard heard the noise, and was soon
discovered springing and making great exertions to get
through or over a brush-fence which the hooks on tb£
end of the trap's chain had prevented him from passing
He was speedily pounced upon and made prisoner.
In trying to release himself, he had gnawed through
the skin and flesh, and broken every bone in the leg
by which he was caught. He was held by nothing
but a single cord, and with a few bites he might
have severed this and set himself at liberty.
When taken, he feigned sleep, and in this condition
was carried a quarter of a mile or more to the kitchen.
Here he opened his eyes upon such a scene as he had
never beheld. Before him were the culinary implements
pertaining to civilized life. Whether his foxship would
have preferred a luxurious mode of living to the irregu-
lar course to which he had been accustomed, or a
chicken "with fixens" to one without them, is left to
conjecture, as he was not consulted. His head, up to
his ears, was plunged into a pail of water. The skin was
taken off and stuffed with hay. A peculiar sensation
was experienced when a few months afterward it was
removed from the nail on the rough stud by the garret-
window, and parted with to a tin-peddler for one bright
silver dollar. Such is the history of the only fox which
the writer ever had any part in trapping or killing.
Hundreds of miles has he travelled, and hundreds of
hours has he spent, with his gun and traps ; though,
with the exception just mentioned, his nearest ap-
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410 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
proach to success was that he once had a "glorious"
snap at a fox ; but the gun would not go off.
Now for another fox-story ; which, though it may-
seem improbable, is satisfactorily authenticated. On
a Sunday morning, about the year 1821 or 1822, Asa
Messer was going to a ten-acre cornfield which he had
planted on burnt land. Exactly at the corner of the
roads leading to Washington and to Skidm ore's Mills,
within five or six rods of the house afterward built by
Robert Pease, and within twenty-five rods of the corn-
field, he saw and heard a red squirrel. It was on a
spruce, had a piece of an ear of corn, and, for so small
an animal, was making a great outcry. As Messer
gkew nearer, he saw a large fox on a small knoll, lying
nat on his belly, and watching the squirrel with in-
tense interest. The squirrel kept descending toward
him, and chippering and running back. A large white
birch stood three or four feet from the fox, and nearly
in a range with Messer. Messer stealthily crept up to
the birch. The attention of the fox, with his back
toward Messer, was entirely engaged in watching the
squirrel, whose repeated attempts to come down had
been for some time tantalizing him. After looking
round once or twice from behind the tree, Messer con-
cluded to make an attempt to jump on him and seize
him. He sprang. Reynard, taken completely by sur-
prise while licking his chops and watching the squirrel,
did not attempt to run, but squalled and rolled over upon
his back. Messer's feet and hands struck the ground
exactly where the fox lay ; but, in rolling over, the fox
had mov^d a foot or two. In an instant he seized
him by the neck. Reynard, however, soon came to
his senses. Messer picked up a stick, one end of
which had become rotten, and attempted to strike him.
Twice Reynard seized the stick with his jaw^s, and
broke it off. With the remaining part, which was
short but harder, Messer pommelled him to death,
and carried the carcass to Ichabod Irish, who helped
him to skin it.
During the last twenty or thirty years, John F.
BEAVERS. — RACCOONS. 411
Hart's dogs and the zeal of hunters have been thinning
the foxes and driving them away. Now they are very
scarce.
BEAYERS.
It is said that there must have been many beavers
in Union when it was a wilderness, and that to them
the inhabitants are mainly indebted for the meadows.
As their dams, one after another, have decayed and
been destroyed, meadow-grass has grown where there
was none when the ground was flowed. Be this as it
may, there is no doubt that there were beaver-settle-
ments on the meadow at the north end of Seven-tree
Pond and in other places. Within the recollection of
the early inhabitants, a very few beavers have been
killed at Muddy Pond. The barrier, more than forty
rods long and from two to six feet high, which extends
from Vinal Ware's land on the north side of Round
Pond to St. George's River, is the work of beavers ; the
bottom probably having been made of logs, and fas-
tened by them, till the dam, which made the meadows
on the north of it, was completed. Samuel Boggs, of
Warren, availing himself of the circumstance that
these animals always hasten to repair their dams
when broken, made a breach in it, set his trap there,
and caught one. The river at that time, down which
logs were rafted, entered the pond twenty or thirty
rods east of the place where it now does ; and hay is
carted over the old channel, while the little opening
made by Boggs has become the main outlet. The
singular circumstance may be added, that, as late as
the time of the incorporation of the town, the water of
Round Pond extended to the beaver-dam ; and it was
not till the present century that hay was cut south
.of it.
RACCOONS.
Raccoons were plenty. Phinehas Butler shot one
on the top of the old camp at South Union. In cut-
ting a road to the Medomac Meadows, forty were
taken or killed in the course of a few days. One man
412 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
caught forty in one season. He took nine in one
hollow log or in dens in three different years, and
seven at another time. The flesh was palatable ; and
their skins, about the year 1815, were sold for about
one dollar each.
MUSQUASH.
Musquash abounded in the streams and meadows.
Amariah Mero took sixteen out of one hole. When Dr.
Sibley resided on the farm south of the Old Burying
Ground, he shot and caught in traps fifty-one in one
season. When they were drowned out of their nests
by a freshet, William Hart would take some man with
him, row along the rivers and meadows, and bring
home a back-load of them. Their flesh was not eaten,
except in cases of oppressive want; but their skins
commanded a fair price, at a time when hats were
manufactured of fur.
MINKS, SABLES, AND LOUP-CERVIER.
Minks and sables were hunted, the former with
success. Some twenty -five or thirty years ago, Story
Thompson killed a loup-cervier near Mr. Stewart's.
WEASEL.
Thirty or thirty -five years ago, a weasel was in the
habit of coming to the premises of Dr. Sibley, imme-
diately after he assumed his white winter dress, and
remaining till the color of it was changing the next
spring. He became quite tame, but would never al-
low himself to be touched with the hand. During his
sojourn at the house, he was an exterminator of the
rats and of all the mice which came in his way. He
became mischievous at last among fresh-meat, eggs,
and the like, and finally disappeared, after having
spent four, five, or six winters on the premises.
DUCKS. — WILD PIGEONS. 4I£5
CHAPTER L.
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
{Continued.')
Ducks. — Wild Pigeons. — Loons. — Crows and Blackbirds. —
Hunting Matches.
DUCKS.
In early times, ducks were very plenty. They were
not much hunted, as there were but few inhabitants,
and they had but little time to go after them. Ammu-
nition, too, was scarce and dear. Wood-ducks came
in flocks of thirty or forty. Towards night, they would
go to the land to get acorns and other food. At low
water, there was a sandy beach two or three rods wide
on the margin of Seven-tree Pond, at the line dividing
Josiah Robbins's farm from the one on the south.
Robbins baited them there with green corn, and caught
them in a pigeon-net. It was necessary to set the net
very near to the water, so as to intercept them ; for,
when alarmed by its springing, they always hurried in
that direction. Here Robbins, having set his net the
evening before, entered his bough-house before day-
break, which was the time of their coming. During
one summer, when flax was rotting in Seven Brook,
at the stone bridge east of Dr. Sibley's, several wood-
ducks came to feed on the seeds. Some were killed.
Two or three were wounded and caught ; but all
attempts to tame them were useless.
WILD PIGEONS.
Many years ago, when the country was new and
rye-fields were numerous, wild pigeons came in count-
less multitudes. It seemed as if they were sent, like
the quails of old, to relieve the wants of the people.
Early in spring, when they flew high, flocks have been
414 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
seen so large and long that the two ends were not in
sight at the same time. Great numbers were caught
by all the early settlers. Sometimes they were salted,
and kept till winter. Many were taken on the Old
Burying Ground hill. Nathaniel Robbins, Esq., re-
peatedly caught twenty-five dozen at once. He sold
many to General Knox, who kept them alive till win-
ter, and fatted them. Jessa Robbins caught thirty
dozen and ten at one haul. He sold them at Thomas-
ton, mostly for eightpence a dozen, which was con-
sidered a good price. Some he sold to General Knox,
when he was examining the river, before he moved to
Thomaston. Mrs. Dunton says her father, David
Robbins, caught so many that he was called Pigeon
Robbins. She has known him to take twenty dozen
before breakfast, twenty dozen after dinner, and twenty
-dozen more before dark, — making sixty dozen in a
day.
In order to take pigeons "by baiting them, the stubble
in a rye-field was entirely removed ; and a spot ten or
twelve feet wide, and fifteen or eighteen feet long, was
levelled, and made like a carrot-bed. When there
were no leafless small trees near, some were cut, and
stuck down as stands for the pigeons to light on. The
grain, of which there must always be enough on the
pigeon-bed, was laid along in rows. As, in rising from
the bed, pigeons always fly in the direction of the
stands, the net is set so as to intercept them. A
bough-house was built, into which was extended one
end of the rope of the net. The catcher commonly
secreted himself in the bough-house before daylight,
so as to be in season. The pigeons came early, and
lighted on the stands. Sometimes they would sit an
hour before going down to the bed. At first one would
go down, then two or three more. Immediately after-
ward, nearly the whole flock would pour down. The
net was then sprung by pulling the rope. Sometimes,
when the flock was very large, it was necessary, in
order to prevent the pigeons from raising the net and
escaping, to confine it with stones or crotched sticks,
LOONS. 415
placed there for the purpose. The skulls were then
broken by nipping the heads between the thumb and
finger.
Many were caught by hoverers. A wild pigeon was
tamed, which was easily done. A bed was made.
The hoverer was tied down in the middle of it, with
string enough to let him act freely. When a flock
passed over, wishing to join them he would flutter,
and call them. Although there was no bait, they
would be thus decoyed. As they would not light
unless there was bait, the catcher was ready to spring
the net upon the flock the moment it struck down
where the hoverer was.
LOONS.
Loons have always been numerous, particularly in
Seven-tree Pond. Their legs are placed far back on
the body, and stick out behind like paddles. Of course
they cannot walk on the land. A favorite place of
resort for them in breeding- time was the north end of
the island. On to this they shoved themselves. There
they laid their eggs and hatched their young. They
require considerable surface of water to rise on the
wing, and can never rise in a calm, nor in any direction
except against the wind; and sometimes they have
been known to scoot along on the top of the water for
half a mile, and yet not succeed.
About the year 1826, Nathaniel Robbins, jun., saw
two loons fighting. One would attack the other,
which appeared to be the weaker, and the weaker
would immediately retreat toward the shore. At last
the weaker darted up to the land. Robbins ran about
knee-deep into the water, caught it, and carried it to
his father's. It was kept a day in the front yard, not
being able to rise from the ground, or even walk ; and
then it was returned to the pond.
Loons often passed between Seven-tree Pond and
Round Pond, in the river. They have the power of
letting themselves down so low in the water that
nothing but the head will appear above the surface.
416 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
They often do this in small places. When Nathaniel
Robbins, Esq., was fishing for salmon with a seine,
these birds would sometimes enter the river to go to
Round Pond ; and, in consequence of letting themselves
down, they would stick their heads into the net- work
below the rope. Their feathers being stiff, they could
not draw them back ; and, being very muscular, they
would flap their small but very strong wings, till they
wound up a great part of the seine into a snarl.
Commonly, they do not go in flocks, but in pairs;
though in Crawford's Pond several have been seen
together. If they halloo loudly, it is always regarded
as a sign of a storm.
John Jones, with a rifle, on the shore opposite the
house of Willard Robbins, fired at a loon which he
saw at a great distance. The loon was not wounded,
and it dived. Upon rising, it halloed, as if in defiance.
Jones stood still, and fired a second time. Again the
loon went down, and after a few minutes re-appeared.
With each dive he made great advances towards the
shore. He uttered another loud scream. As his body
was sunk into the water, Jones fired, the third time, at
his head. The ball struck very near the eye, and
killed him instantly.
CROWS AND BLACKBIRDS.
May 28, 1788, the town voted to " allow as a bounty
on crows eightpence per head, and one penny for black-
birds, for all killed in town by town-inhabitants for the
year ensuing June 20, 1803, voted that twenty cents
be given for crows and five cents for blackbirds. Voted
that the town -treasurer be empowered to receive crows
and blackbirds, and pay for the same ; and that he cut
off their heads." May 14, 1804, an article " to see if the
town will allow a bounty for crows and blackbirds,
striped and red squirrels," was dropped. No bounties
have been voted since.
Crows continue to be numerous. Half a century
after the settlement of the town, flocks containing
several hundreds would light on the hills and pastures
CROWS. — HUNTING MATCHES. 417
in summer, and early in autumn, to feed on grasshop-
pers. They have never been quite so saucy in Union
as they have occasionally been in other places. A few
years ago, in Hopkinton, N. H., they killed seventeen
turkeys in one flock, not taking one daily, as a hawk
does, but destroying an entire brood at once. One
farmer in that town discovered, on one of his lambs,
a crow, which had picked out one eye, and was
thwacking the lamb over so as to pick out the other.
A neighbor lost eight lambs in one spring, which were
undoubtedly killed by them. Of some of the lambs
the tongues as well as the eyes were picked out. The
crows in the neighborhood had become very bold.
But in Union probably nothing of the kind has oc-
curred. The most which is apprehended from them is
the injury they may do in the cornfields ; and to these
it is believed they do no harm in spring, by pulling
up the corn, unless they have young. When it is con-
sidered that it is very easy to scare them away at the
seasons of the year when they do mischief, the policy
of killing them may be questionable. They are scaven-
gers and carrion-eaters, and destroy an immense number
of insects and worms, which, without their co-opera-
tion, would in time bring desolation on many a rich field.
HUNTING MATCHES.
When the town was first settled, game was plenty ;
and for a long time there was one hunting-match or
more yearly. Men who proposed to take part met
and agreed on a day to which the hunt should be
restricted, and determined the comparative value of
different animals, according to their scarcity. A bear,
perhaps, would count 100, a fox 20, a racoon 15, a
partridge 6, a crow 5, a grey squirrel 3, a red squirrel
2, a blackbird 1, and so on. The party then chose
two captains, and they cast lots for the first choice.
After the successful captain had selected a man, they
proceeded alternately till all present were enrolled in
the one or the other company. On the day appointed,
every man went to hunt. In the evening, all came
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418 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
together. The game killed by each one was counted,
according to the principles before laid down. The
company which was victorious sat down with the
other to a supper, the expense of which was paid by the
vanquished. Sometimes, instead of joining in com-
panies, the hunters paired off against each other, and
the man who came at night with the least game paid
for his rival's supper.1 Game, however, is now scarce,
and the old hunters are nearly all gone.
CHAPTER LI.
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
(Co?icluded.)
Fish Laws. — Salmon. — Alewives. — Fish-hawks and Eagles. —
Eels. — Smelts. — Trout and Pickerel. — Other Fish.
FISH LAWS.
July 7, 1786, after the inhabitants here had made a
movement to obtain an Act of Incorporation, and
about three months before the Act was passed, the
Legislature made a law "to prevent the destruction,
and to regulate the catching, of the fish called salmon,
shad, and alewives, in the Kennebec," and several other
rivers, including the St. George's. No obstructions
were to be built, or to be continued, which would
prevent the fish from going up to the lakes and ponds
1 This kind of enjoyment suggests another, which sometimes was
had sixty or seventy years ago, though it was not common. A man
had wood to be sledded, or corn to be gathered or to be husked. He
procured as much liquor as he thought would be necessary, prepared a
supper, and invited his neighbors to the Bee. They came and assisted
him in the afternoon. After the supper, the more genteel and the bet-
ter dressed would go into the room, and dance with the young women ;
while those who were somewhat ragged, or wanted courage to enter,
would at the same time be dancing the double- shuffle in the entry or
around the door, to the same music which was sung to the dancers
within the house.
FISH. 419
to cast their spawn, between April 20 and June 10,
annually. The owners of all dams were required to
open sufficient sluice-ways and passages, at their own
expense, for the fish to go through. During the same
period, no persons were allowed to catch them " at any
other time than between sunrise on Monday and sun-
set on Thursday in each week," or at any time to " set
any seine, pot, or other machine, for the purpose of
taking any . . . within two rods of any sluice or passage-
way ; " and no seine or net was to extend at any time
more than one-third across the stream. It was or-
dered that the Act be read in town-meetings, in the
month of March or April, annually. Every town and
plantation was required to choose a committee to see
it enforced, and to prosecute offenders. " Any person
so chosen," who should " refuse to serve," unless he
were elected to some other office, incurred a penalty
of forty shillings. It was in accordance with this Act
that fish-wardens were first chosen, at the first regular
meeting after the town-organization. They were then
denominated " a committee to take care that the fish
should not be stopped contrary to law, the year
ensuing."
FISH.
Salmon1 remained in ponds and deep places in
the river during the summer. In the fall, when the
autumnal rains came, they went up the river, and cast
their spawn in large holes, which they made in the
sand at the bottom of the stream. From the upper
and the lower end of the little island at the bottom
• of the eddy below the Middle Bridge, John Butler
extended to the western shore two wears, the lower
one having in it an eel-pot for the fish to pass through.
From the water between the wears he would not unfre-
quently, in the morning, take out two or three large
salmon2 with a pitchfork. Between the years 1790 and
1 Salmo salar. — Lin. The scientific names have been furnished
by the eminent ichthyologist, Horatio Robinson Storer, of Boston.
2 Nathaniel Robbins, Esq.
420 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
1800, Royal Grinnell, with pitchforks, took from half a
barrel to a barrel of them in a hole in the river opposite
to his house in the summer;1 but they were not so good
as if the weather had been cool. About the year 1790,
Josiah Robbins, with Philip Robbins, Amariah Mero,
and Rufus Gillmor, made a salmon-net, and set it off
Gillmor's land below the bridge, and in one year took
more than two thousand pounds of salmon, which
were salted for winter. About the years 1803 or 1804,
when mills were first erected at the Middle Bridge,
the workmen killed these fish with axes and carpenters'
tools. They were plenty, and furnished an important
and luxurious means of subsistence to the early set-
tlers. They disappeared many years ago.
Alewives 2 are numerous. Formerly the best places
for them were near Taylor's Mills and Hills' Mills.
The object in choosing fish-wardens in 1823, after
neglecting it for some time, was to prevent the boys
from taking the fish, as they had done for several
years, at Crawford's River. In the morning, the ale-
wives would pass up to the falls ; and, being prevented
from going further, they would all return in the course
of the afternoon. By putting a rack across the river, ten
or twelve rods from its mouth, the boys were enabled
before night to take all that had gone up. William
Gleason, Esq., observed that, if the fish were allowed
to go down, a little time intervened before others
came. The conclusion was, that they went off in
search of another stream, and were followed by one or
two of the shoals near them. In one, two, or three
days, would be seen "a few stragglers or pioneers, appa-
rently part of a shoal. If these were caught, others
would come, and finally the whole shoal, and the
shoal be followed by others.
Soon after casting their spawn, multitudes of ale-
wives, seeking a passage to the ocean, may be seen
above the dam at Warren. Those which are nearest
eddy round, a few each time dropping over, till finally
1 Lyceum Lecture. 2 Alosa tyrannus. — Dekay.
FISH. 421
the whole shoal, with a rush, goes over, tail first. The
young go down later ; and, when they arrive at Warren,
being about three and a half inches long, and of a
suitable size for bait, they are vexed and driven in all
directions by eels. The eels are also seen to lie quietly
in the ^ass at the bottom of the water, and dart their
heads up from time to time, and take as many as they
want from the millions with which the river is crowded.
Many years ago, when the only way of carrying
boards down the St. George's was by rafting, so many
would be killed by getting between them, that the
boards would be slippery. When the old canal was
used, the posts at the locking would be made greasy
by the grinding of them.
Fish-hawks and Eagles. — With the return of
alewives in the spring was that of fish-hawks and
eagles. Col. Herman Hawes says he has seen the
white-headed eagle, more than fifty times, sitting on a
dry tree on Seven-tree Island, watching the fish-hawks
to rob them. A fish-hawk would come sailing along,
stop in the air, suspend himself with easy flappings
at a moderate height, select his prey, then plunge into
the water, and, if successful, bring up a fish, shake
himself, and think to bear away the prize to his nest.
The white-headed eagle, improperly called the bald
eagle, in the mean time being on the watch, would
start and swiftly pursue him. After many trials, find-
ing he could not escape, he would drop the fish. In an
instant the eagle would close his wings, follow it down,
and commonly seize it before it struck the ground,
or he would pick it up, and, pirate-like, bear it off.
Once a fish-hawk in Union dived into the water,
brought up a fish, flapped his wings, and attempted to
fly, but failed and was carried down. He rose again,
and made another attempt, but was again drawn
beneath the water, and seen no more.
Eels1 are not popular; and, as the streams and
ponds are favorable to their multiplication, they are
1 Anguilla Bostoniensis. — Dekay.
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422 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
numerous. Thirty or forty years ago, one or two bush-
els might sometimes be caught in an eel-pot placed
over-night at an opening in Bachelor's dam. More
recently, for about two months, beginning with the
early part of August when they are passing down the
river, the wash-box of the factory at South union is
found to contain from a peck to a bushel every morn-
ing. When the water is so high that the waste-gate
is opened, none are caught. The fish pass into the
flume, and are carried into the wash-box by the water,
which rushes so furiously into it through a four-inch
aperture, that they cannot re-ascend. This is their
only passage down ; as, during this season, but little if
any water runs over the dam.
The question naturally arises, How do these fish
go up ? Every year when the water is low, in July,
it is found that the dam needs gravelling in several
places. Did the eels work their way up by removing
the gravel ? Small eels have been seen two feet out
of water on the side of a wet flume, apparently en-
deavoring to ascend St. George's River. It has been
intimated that there appeared to be something like
a glutinous property on the fish, and that it aided them
somewhat in adhering to a wet board or timber, when
not immersed in water. When the boys were in the
practice of catching alewives in wooden racks at South
Union, experience taught them to remove the alewives
at night ; for eels would frequently reach up and eat
them in the box, though it was at least five inches
above the surface of the water.
When the young go down the river, they sometimes
collect in large numbers at the dams ; and so bent are
they on effecting a passage to the ocean, that they are
not unfrequently found with their tails inextricably
wedged into the cracks between the planks.
Smelts. — William Gleason, Esq., says that, in the
fall of 1823, part of the wing-dam of the paper-mill,
where the factory at South Union now stands, together
with a quantity of stove- wood, was carried oft by a
freshet. After the snow-water had gone, in the spring
FISH. £23
of 1824, the proprietors of the paper-mill went down
the stream to pick it up. There had been a heavy
north-west wind the preceding evening ; and, while
collecting their wood, they found among it, near and at
the mouth of Crawford's River, a few dead smelts.
Although there w^ere known to be smelts in the lake
in Hope, it had not occurred to any one that they
were also in Union. Mr. Gleason, inferring from their
being found on the bank of the river that there must
be some in the river and in Crawford's Pond, immedi-
ately made a small net, and was the first person who
caught any in town.
When these fish appear in Seven-tree Pond, which
is immediately after the snow-water is gone, they
are dipped up in nets just at dusk, at the " height
of flowage ; " that is, where the level and comparatively
calm water of the pond makes a small breaker with
Crawford's River as they meet. These fish, it is said,
are long and slim, and differ from the salt-water smelts.
Many are caught in the wash-box of the factory, when
the snow-water ceases to run ; and this seems to prove,
that at that time they go down instead of going up.
In September, for the last four or five years, bushels of
smelts, lying in windrows, have been found dead along
the south-east side of the long island in Crawford's
Pond, and on the south-west shore of the pond. As
a south-east wind wafts them into Crawford's River,
it is a natural inference, that the mortality prevails in
the southerly part of the pond.
Trout1 and Pickerel.2 — There was formerly a
tolerably good supply of trout, and in Crawford's
Pond they were plenty ; but there was not a pickerel
in St. George's River or its tributaries. During the
five or six years when the boys caught alewives at
Crawford's River, they took with them so many trout
that they were nearly exterminated from that river and
the pond above. A contribution was raised afterward ;
and, in March 1827 or 1828, John F. Hart and Marcus
1 Salmo fontinalis. — Mitchill. 2 Esox reticulatus. — Le Sueur.
424 ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY.
Gillmor made two journeys to Whitefield to obtain
pickerel. 1 Having prepared a box with holes in the
top to admit air, they succeeded, by changing the
water two or three times on the journeys, in bringing
alive and slipping into the water under the ice, just
below the Lower Bridge, eleven of them. Nine, at the
same time, were put into Sunnybec Pond, and nine
into Crawford's Pond. The expectation of a favorable
result was not very sanguine. There was, however, an
understanding that there should not be any fishing for
pickerel before the expiration of four or five years. In
the fifth year, it was found that the}^ had so multiplied
as to be caught in large numbers in the ponds. In a
few years, they were found in every pond on St.
George's River, and in the tributary streams, and in the
ponds in Waldoborough. The small fish on which they
feed were so plenty, never having been disturbed by
them, that they rioted in unwonted luxury. Some of
them weighed five or six pounds, though their aver-
age weight at the present time is from eight ounces to
one pound. They have nearly exterminated the trout.
Besides the fish mentioned are others, which are
common in Maine. Among them are the white
perch,2 yellow perch,3 roach or cousin-trout,4 bream
or flatside,5 pout,6 sucker,7 &c, the number of some
of which has been greatly diminished in consequence
of the voracity of their unwelcome intruders, the pick-
erel.
1 In 1797 there were pickerel in all the eastern tributaries of
Kennebec River, but none in the western. Between the years 1810
and 1820, the Hon. Robert 11. Gardiner employed a man to procure
some from Nahumkea^. Seven were put into the Cobbessecontee
above his mills, and now pickerel are abundant in the streams and
ponds which make that river.
2 Labrax mucronatus. — Cuvier,
3 Perca flavescehs. — Cuvier,
4 Leuciscus pulchellus. — Storer.
5 Pomotis vulgaris. — Cuvier.
6 Pimelodus catus. — Lin.
7 Catostomus Bostonienses. — Le Sueur.
CONCLUSION. 425
CHAPTER LIT.
CONCLUSION.
Design. — Sources of Information. — Changes since the Settlement. ; —
Possibilities and Responsibilities.
The narrative and statistical portion of this history is
now concluded. The preparation of it has required
much more time and labor than was anticipated. As
historical facts cannot be " manufactured to order,"
and Union is far behind many other towns in the
number and variety of topics of general interest, it
was at first thought impossible to eke out any thing
more than a pamphlet. But materials, such as they
were, accumulated ; and the result is a volume, de-
signed rather for the inhabitants and the descendants
of the early settlers, and for a few friends, than for the
public or " the snarling, hungry horde of curs called -
' The Critics.' " * Accordingly, to some persons it will
seem open to the objections of too great minuteness
of detail, and of occasional violations of good taste.
Though accuracy and completeness have been par-
ticularly attended to, it is obvious that there must be
errors and omissions. The writing and printing have
been done where the town-records and the inhabitants
of Union could not be easily consulted. The infor-
mation has been taken from a very great variety of
sources. Much reliance has been placed on the state-
ments of Messrs. Phinehas Butler and Jessa Robbins,
in relation to what occurred among the earliest set-
tlers. Constant use has been made of contributions by
Nathaniel Robbins, Esq., and his son Augustus C. Rob-
bins, Esq. ; and to the former of them, for verification,
nearly all the manuscript was read, in the winter before
his decease. It is hardly necessary to state, that the
1 Page 236, note.
426
CONCLUSION.
letters, lyceum-lectures, and oral communications of
Dr. Jonathan Sibley have been of great value in rela-
tion to events of the nineteenth century, and have
furnished many of the incidents of an earlier date.
The most important source of information, however,
is the town-records. The loan of these was voted to
the writer, " on condition that he give to the clerk, for
the benefit of the town, a receipt for the same to be
returned in one year, or pay the sum of forty dollars
as a forfeiture on failure to return the same in one
year or sooner, if wanted." After a few months, they
were needed for consultation, and it was necessary to
restore them. More information probably would have
been obtained from the clerk's office, but for a barba-
rous act, about the year 1837, by which "all the use-
less papers," so called, were destroyed. In addition
to the sources mentioned are many others, for which
credit is often given in the narrative.
A town-history ought to be just and truthful. The
bad as well as the good should be told. Though
some undesirable occurrences have been recorded, it
may be said with truth, that Union contains an indus-
trious, thriving population, and will not suffer in
comparison with a majority of other country-towns.
Extreme w^ant is not known. Abject degradation
and beggary do not, as in cities, dwell side by side
with luxury and extravagance. Though there are not
probably six persons worth ten thousand dollars each,
there is hardly a man who is not in comfortable cir-
cumstances. There are but few towns in the county,
or even in the State, where the property is so equally
divided. A consequence is, that there is no aristocracy
of wealth or of family. Every man is a monarch, and
independent. At the same time every man is a sub-
ject, and amenable to his equals. Upon all a kind
Providence has showered down gifts with a lavish
hand. The hills and the valleys, the woods, the
streams, the soil, the water-privileges, the treasures
yet unearthed, the health of the people, show that
here are elements of thrift, contentment, and happiness.
GENERAL REMARKS. 427
The age of the nation and the age of the town are
nearly the same. The first family moved here in 1776,
the year of the declaration of the Independence of the
United States. Four of the oldest settlers are yet
living. Mrs. Mero, now of Cape Elizabeth, and Mrs.
Dunton, of Hope, were then children. Messrs. Phinehas
Butler, of Thomaston, now ninety-three years of age,
and Jessa Robbins, the oldest person in Union, being
ninety-two, were among the first to wield the axe, and
break in upon the wilderness and solitude which
reigned where rich fields and beautiful landscapes
now meet the eye at every turn. Their lives cover
more than the entire period of the existence of the
town and the nation. When they came here, thirteen
little colonies, containing three millions of inhabitants,
were beginning an almost hopeless, but, as it proved, a
successful struggle against the oppression and the
military and naval force of one of the most powerful
nations of the Old World. Since that time, the Fede-
ral Constitution has been formed and adopted ; the
French Revolutions, the career of Bonaparte, the war
of 1812, and the Mexican War, have become historical
facts. Empires have risen and fallen, thrones have
been overturned, science and art have drawn from
nature her concealed treasures, steam has been applied
to ships and harnessed to cars, and made to do man's
bidding, and the telegraph with winged words to out-
strip the lightning. The thirteen little colonies have
become thirty-one states, containing twenty-three
millions of souls, extending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ; and their intellectual and moral power is so
formidable, that the monarchs of Europe, with their
hundreds of thousands of troops always armed and
on duty in all their cities and villages, are in awe of a
people which has not a military police in a single city
in the Union.
The little colony which was begun here three quar-
ters of a century since with one family has become
one of the little republics which constitute the great
republic of the United States. It is continually send-
428 CONCLUSION.
ing abroad influences, which, though almost impercep-
tible, are nevertheless affecting in some degree the
destinies of the nation. No individual lives here or
elsewhere, however humble, virtuous, or vicious, whose
influence is not far more extensive than he imagines.
The eloquence and power which waken into life the
energies of a people, perhaps are first discovered when
opposing iniquity and misrule, or pleading in behalf of
justice, virtue, humanity, in a quiet country-town.
Men are often surprised at the discovery of talents, of
which they were utterly unconscious, till a dire ne-
cessity or pressing emergency drew them out. Possi-
bly from the colony planted on the shores of Seven-tree
Pond may spring up for mankind a reformer, whose
good deeds shall create a reverence for the spot where
he was born. The time has been when people would
smile, if directed for benefactors of their race to such
unpromising youths as Christopher Columbus and
Martin Luther begging bread, George Washington
surveying land in the wilderness, Andrew Jackson a
servant-boy, Benjamin Franklin assisting his father
in making candles for a living, or Noah Worcester in
humble but honorable poverty pounding on his lap-
stone. A casual remark overheard by a boy has
sometimes awakened ambition and talent which have
changed his destiny, and made him a blessing to
mankind. So it may be here under genial influences.
No man can foresee the important consequences which
may result from his one vote at town-meeting, or
even from an apparently insignificant word or act in
his intercourse with his child, his neighbor, or society.
If you wish the town to present attractions for intelli-
gent strangers to settle among you, and your children
to become men and women, and to do something for
the improvement of the world, you must liberally
and zealously encourage public worship, common-
school education, temperance, integrity, piety.
429
FAMILY REGISTER.
The following notices pertain to residents before the
year 1800, and to their families and descendants. Be-
fore deciding hastily that dates are incorrect, it should
be considered that a gravestone, a family Bible, and a
town-record, may contain three different dates of the
same birth or death, and that a private memorandum
made at the time is generally preferable to either. A
common and almost unaccountable error on records
and gravestones is the confounding of the years a per-
son lived with the year of his age when he died ; it
being stated, for instance, that a man died in his forty-
second year, when it is meant he was forty-two years
old, and was in his forty-third year.
Explanations. — The names of parents are printed in small capitals.
The names of the children or second generation are distinguished by
the Roman numerals I. II. III. &c. and the common Roman letters ;
of the grandchildren or third generation, by the Arabic numerals 1,
2, 3, &c. and italics ; and of the great-grandchildren or fourth gene-
ration, by the Arabic letters (1), (2), (3), &c. enclosed in parentheses,
followed by names having spaced letters. The names of children are
placed immediately after those of their parents. The descendants of
females are placed under the husband, when he is a descendant of an
early settler ; otherwise they follow their mother.
Abbreviations. — b. born ; br. brother ; c. childless ; ch. children •
d. died; dr. daughter; {.father; h. husband; m. married; p. parents ;
r. residence ; s. son ; u. unmarried; w. wife. A date preceded by the
letter t. indicates the year when a man's name first appears on a tax-
bill, and may be of value in determining the time of his coming to
reside. The earliest tax-bill is for 1791 ; the next, for 1793.
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430 FAMILY REGISTER.
Adams, Joel, Captain, son of Peter Adams, was born at
Franklin, Mass., July 21, 1753 ; and died, according to the
family records, Oct. 22, but gravestone Oct. 23, 1830. In
the Christian Advocate, vol. v., No. 18, it is stated that he
came in the twenty-sixth year of his age, when there were
but three families in Stirlington. In 1781 he married Je-
mima, or Mima, who died Jan. 1, 1844, dr. of Philip Rob-
bins ; had — I. Polly, b. Feb. 28, 1782; m. Rev. Cornelius
Irish, Dec. 5, 1804. — II. Peter, b. Jan. 19, 1784; d. Dec.
21, 1793. — III. Jacob Smith, b. Jan. 14, 1786; m. Abi-
gail Heald, who d. ; residence, Lincolnville. — IV. Emma,
b. Aug. 12, 1787; m. Jeremiah Stubbs, Sept. 16, 1808;
ch. 1. Peter Adams, b. April 4, 1809; m. Rachel Col-
lins; r. Appleton. 2. Mercy Ann, b. Nov. 19, 1811.
3. Alfred Adams, b. April 29, 1815; d. about 1824. 4.
Olive Daggett, b. Aug. 2, 1817; m. a Hart, of Appleton.
5. Jemima Jane, m. William Lincoln, of Appleton. 6. Joel
Adams, d. 7. Sarah Maria, m. a Collins, of Appleton. —
V. Alford, b. Aug. 9, 1789. — VI. Mima, b. June 22, 1791 ;
m. her cousin Ebenezer Ward Adams ; b. at Franklin,
Mass., July 23, 1787, son of Ward Adams, of Franklin, and
Olivia Daggett, of Wrentham; had 1. Ward, tailor, b. July 4,
1812; m. Martha O. Gordon, of Augusta, and has (1).
Martha M.S.; (2). Wesley F. ; (3), Olivia C. ; (4).
El vert on W. 2. Calvin Metcalf b. Dec. 21, 1813; d.
Oct. 5, 1839. 3. John Martial, b. April 22, 1815 ; d. Aug. 1,
1815. 4. James Orson, b. Oct. 24, 1816. 5. Olivia Dag-
gett, b. June 8, 1818. 6. Aldres Addison, b. Feb. 9, 1820;
m. Eveline Kilgore, of Waterford; r. Norway. 7. True
Page, b. Dec. 26, 1821, a Methodist preacher. 8. Alfred
Smith, b. Dec. 5, 1823, a Methodist preacher, tailor ; m.
Aroline Davis, of Unity. 9. Esther Ann, b. June 18, 1826.
10. Maryan Day, b. April 25, 1828. 11. A son, b. June 3,
1829; d. June 3, 1829. — VII. James, b. Jan. 15, 1794;
m. Caroline Eddy, of Exeter. — VIII. Esther, b. June 25,
1796 ; m., 1822, Rev. True Page, Methodist minister; who
d. in Union, Sept. 4, 1838. — IX. Joel, b. Jan. 30, 1800, a
Methodist preacher ; m. Jane Hunt, of Readfield; r. Friend-
ship.— X. Ruth, b. Jan. 9, 1804.
Aluen, Ebenezer, son of Job A., b. at Middleborough,
Mass., Sept. 20, 1774 ; came to Union in the spring of 1795,
settled on the hill east of Seven Brook ; m. at Franklin,
Mass., March 4, 1799, Patience (b. at Franklin, Mass.), dr. of
ALDEN. — BARRETT. 431
D. Gillmor; had — I. Horatio, b. Feb. 4, 1800; r. Cam-
den; m., first, in 1822, Sally (b. Readfield, Sept. 12, 1802-
d. Feb. 7, 1835), dr. of Capt. Nathaniel Bachelor; and!
second, m 1835, Polly, b. June 19, 1807, sister of his first
wife; has children. — II. Louisa, b. Jan. 30, 1802; d in
Thomaston, Sept. 29, 1827; m. 1823, Phineas Tyler; and
had 1. William Parker, b. March 30, 1824. 2 Edwin b
Oct. 25, 1825. — III. Silas, b. June 23, 1804; r. Ban-or •
m. Jan. 27, 1828, Sarah, dr. of Capt. John W. Lindley —
IV. Selina, b. Dec. 26, 1806; d. Nov. 15, 1807. — V Ly-
man, b. Dec. 1, 1808 ; r. South Union; m., Sept. 17, 1835
Sarah Elizabeth Williams, of Orono, Stillwater ; ch are l'
Helen Louisa, b. Aug. 25, 1836. 2. Eugene Beauharnois]
b. Jan. 1, 1839. 3. Lyman Martell, b. Sept. 29, 1842 4
Henry Eben, b. April 4, 1847.— VI. Melina, b. June 16^
1811; r. Thomaston ;* m, May 25, 1837, George Abbot'
Esq. of Temple, who d. 1850; ch. 1. Lucy Ellen, b. June
1839. 2. George Roscoe, b. Feb. 1842. — VII. Augustus'
b. July 3, 1814 ; r. homestead; m., Dec. 10, 1840, Marga-
ret Wiley, b. Jan. 24, 1815, dr. of Ebenezer Bancroft Wil-
liams, of Gardiner. 1. Patience Gillmor, b. March 2, 1844.
2. Sarah Williams, b. April 17, 1846; d. March l' 1847*
3. George Adelbert, b. May 25, 1848.— VIII. Ebenezer'
b. Dec. 14, 1816; r. East Thomaston; m., June 29, 1845
Caroline Snow, of Thomaston ; and has 1. Francis Marion
b. May 23, 1848. — IX. James Gillmor, b. March 1, 1819;
r. Janesville, Wisconsin; m. Oct. 24, 1842, Alvitia C. Mil-
ler, of Bangor ; has 1. James Francis, 2. Louisa; both b.
Bangor. — X. Edward, physician, b. 1821, Dec. 13 Tfamily
records], or 21 [himself]. — XL Henry, b. Aug. 5, 1824-
d. Oct. 16, 1847. — XII. George Adelbert, b. July 29'
1828; d. May 9, 1829. J
Barrett, Amos, Captain, b. April 23, 1752, Concord,
Mass.; d. Jan. 25, 1829; son of Deacon Thomas Barrett,
who m. Mary Jones. Deacon Thomas was the son of Ben-
jamin and Lydia (Minott) Barrett. Benjamin Barrett, who
d. Oct. 25, 1728, was son of Humphrey B., who d. Jan. 3,
1716; whose first wife was Elizabeth Payne, and whose
second was Mary Potter. This Humphrey was the son of
Humphrey B., who came from England to Concord about the
year 1640. Mr. Amory, wishing to dispose of his real
estate here, agreed with Capt. Amos Barrett to. lay out his
part in lots, for which he received about four hundred acres
432 FAMILY REGISTER.
of land, joining Levi Morse's on the north. Part of it is
now owned by Gorham Butler. Capt. Barrett came in 1795.
Mary Hubbard, of Concord, Mass. (whom he m. March 31,
1779), b. Aug. 12, 1755; d. Aug. 4, 1839; had — I. Amos,
b. Jan. 6, 1780; m., first, Feb. 15, 1804, Susanna, or
Sukey, who d. Feb. 17, 1834, aged fifty, dr. of Nathan
Blake; and, second, in 1836, Harriet, dr. of Nathan D.
Rice; f. of 1. Charles, b. March 19, 1806; m. Margaret
Giraldman, of New York city ; r. Mansfield city, Richland
county, Ohio. 2. Sarah, b. Oct. 8, 1810. 3. Amos, b.
Aug. 6, 1818 ; d. March 16 [or 18, according to gravestone],
1834. 4. Henry, b. Dec. 12, 1821. 5. Susan, b. Nov. 3,
1826; d. Nov. 13, 1829.— II. Silas, b. Aug. 11, 1781;
drowned April 25, 1803, in the mill-pond at the Middle
Bridge, while getting logs into the saw-mill. — III. Mary,
b. June 8, 1784 ; m., Aug. 2, 1810, Rev. Henry True ; ch.
1. Henry Ayer, physician, b. Aug. 10, 1812; r. Marion,
Marion county, Ohio ; m. Elizabeth Pierce, of Pittsfield,
Mass. (b. Deerfield, Mass. ; dr. of James Reed), and has
(1). Henry, b. Jan. 26, 1848. 2. Mary Barrett, b.
Aug. 28, 1820 ; m., May 16, 1843, Elijah Vose, Esq., b. at
Warren, March 19, 1807, son of David and Alice (Eastman)
Vose; and has (1). Helen Ayer, b. March 5, 1844;
(2). Mary True, b. Dec. 17, 1849. 3. Amos Barrett,
b. July 22, and d. Aug. 6, 1825. — IV. Abigail, b. April 15,
1786; m. Rufus Gillmor, and d. Sept. 30, 1821.— V.
Sarah, b. Nov. 16, 1788; d., of consumption, Sept. 19,
1808. — VI. Harriot, b. April 13, 1791 ; m. July 29, 1822,
Daniel Fiske Harding, Esq., who was b. Nov. 30, 1784, at
Southbridge, Mass., son of Joshua (b. Medway), and of his
w. Jemima Fiske, b. Watertown, Mass. ; ch. 1. Amos Bar-
rett, b. March 13, 1825. 2. Henry Fiske, b. March 28,
1827. 3. Daniel, b. April 10, 1829. 4. Harriet, b. May
24, 1832. — VII. Ebenezer Hubbard, b. Jan. 19, 1797; r.
Hampden; m. Joanna E. Vose, May 3, 1825 ; c.
Blake, Nathan, b. January, 1745, at Wrentham, Mass. ;
d. March, 1819, at Albion; m. Mary Day, who was b.
March, 1755, at Wrentham, Mass., and d. January, 1834,
at Albion. He came in 1799, bought the farm of William
Lewis, west of the old Upper Bridge; had — I. Wal-
ter, seaman, surveyor, b. May 2, 1782, at Wrentham;
d. Aug. 23, 1846; m., Jan. 15, 1809, Jane, b. July 3,
1784, dr. of Daniel and Emily (Pease) Reed, of Edgar-
BLAKE. — BLUNT. 433
ton, Mass. ; and had 1. Emily Reed, b. Nov. 9, 1809 ; m.,
March 25, 1845, Hiram Dorman, who d. in Sanford, August,
1849. 2. George, b. June 8, 1811; d. Sept. 18, 1812. 3.
Julia Gillmor, b. March 31, 1813; d. March 16, 1831.
4. Charles Frederick, b. Oct. 24, 1814; r. homestead. 5.
Eliza Tohey, b. July 27, 1816; d. Feb, 14, 1842. 6. Au-
gusta Livermore, b. July 23, 1818. 7. Clarissa, b. Oct. 7,
1820; m., June 16, 1848, Samuel Ezra Kellogg; r. Battle
Creek, Mich. 8. Theron, b. Aug. 12, 1822. 9. Edward,
b. Dec. 31, 1824 ; d. Jan. 1, 1825. — II. Polly, or Mary, m.,
Jan. 10, 1804, Joshua Hemenway ; r. Searsmont ; and had
1. George, b. Nov. 2, 1804; m. Hannah Ferguson; r. Bel-
fast; c. 2. Mary,b. Aug. 15, 1806 ; m. Darius Daggett. 3.
Harriot, b. Aug. 22, 1809. 4. Louisa, b. Dec. 29, 1811.
5. Anson Blake, d. 6. Joshua. [Thomas, f. of Joshua
Hemenway, d. Feb. 6, 1847, aged ninety-four; and Sally
Hemenway, Aug. 1, 1820, aged sixty-three.] — III. Sukey,
or Susan, m. Amos Barrett, jun. — IV. Clarissa, m., Jan. 22,
1811, Hon. Joel Wellington, of Fairfax, now Albion; r.
Houlton. — V. Nancy, d. Sept. 3, 1812, set. twenty-two. —
VI. Eunice Day, m., Jan. 9, 1817, Bailey More, of Sears-
mont ; both d. Nathan Blake had also a son George, who
d. Nov. 12, 1802.
Blanc hard, John ; m. Huldah Carriel ; came with
Capt. Stone; t. 1796; returned to the West, perhaps went
to New York; f. of— I. Lydia, b. Nov. 28, 1798.— II.
Jonas, b. Nov. 1, 1801; d. Jan. 15, 1802. — III. Nancy,
b. June 7, 1803.
Blunt, HeniTy, b. at Bristol, March 28, 1771 ; paid
his first poll-tax here in 1794; lived near the summit of
the hill, about two miles north-west of Sunnybec Pond, and
d. Aug. 29, 1838. He m. Miss Betsey Clark, b. at Bristol,
Jan. 23, 1775; d. May 2, 1839; had — I. Ebenezer, b.
June 1, 1796, r. on a part of the homestead; m. Susannah
Fuller, of Warren, b. Sept. 29, 1798; had 1. Henry, b.
Sept. 14, 1821 ; m. 1846, Emily Andrews, of Wallingford,
Conn. 2. Eliza, b. Nov. 5, 1822; d. May 21, 1823. 3.
Thomas Johnson, b. Oct. 22, 1824, lives where his grand-
father did; m. Nancy Stone, in 1847, and had (1). Eliza
Frances, b. Oct. 25, 1847; (2). Martha Ann, b.
Feb. 2, 1849. 4. Isaac, b. June 19, 1826; d. March 8,
1849. 5. Arthur, b. April 4, 1828; d. March 23, 1850.
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434 FAMILY REGISTER.
6. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 7, 1830. 7. Martha, b. Aug. 13,
1832. 8. Betsey, b. April 20, 1834. 9. Sarah Frances, b.
Aprill5,1838; d. June 1, 1842. 10. Oscar,b. Aug.25, 1842.
Bowen, Ezra, b. Rhode Island, in consequence of a
cataract, was nearly blind for many years before he d.. Feb.
14, 1832. He m., first, Experience Tolman, of Thomaston,
who d. Nov. 8, 1803 ; and, second, in 1805, the widow Eliza-
beth (Jones) Erskine (or Aikin, according to the record of
the publishment), who d. in Bristol, among her children by
her first husband. E. B. had — I. Polly, b. May 26, 1776 ;
d. very young. — II. Sally, or Sarah, b. May 17, 1778 ; m.
John Walker. —III. Susa, or Susan, b. Aug. 15, 1780 ; d.
about two years old. — IV. Polly, or Mary, b. Dec. 8, 1783 ;
m. Daniel Patch; r. Knox. — V. Susan, or Susannah, b. July
9, 1785 ; m., first, March 29, 1807, Daniel Gibbs, of Thomas-
ton ; second, Levi Spaulding, of Searsmont ; third, Aaron
C. Hadley, of Waldo, where she d. — VI. Ezra, b. Feb. 9,
1788; r. Knox; u. — VII. Isaac, b. July 19, 1790, phy-
sician; m. Sarah Martha Andrews, a southern lady, and
d. in Augusta in 1839 ; f. of 1. Tolman Andrews, d. 1838,
aged seven years; 2. Eliza Andrews. — VIII. Amos, b.
Feb. 22, 1793 ; m. Athelinda Gough, in Burnham, and was
killed by a tree. — IX. Esther, b. July 22, 1795; m., May
29, 1823, Rev. Peter Burgess, a Methodist minister; r.
Palmyra.— X. Oliver, b. Sept. 26, 1799; m., first, July 29,
1824, Eliza Fisher, of Warren; and, second, July 29, 1827,
Margaret Roakes, of Warren, and had James Fisher, b. May
22, 1825. —XI. Tolman, b. Nov. 8, 1803; m. Charlotte
Woodman ; r. Belmont.
Boyden, Justus, from Stoughtonham (?), t. 1791 ; took
up the Obadiah Morse lot of land, tarried a short time, and
returned to Massachusetts.
Brown, Jonathan, t. 1795, son of Jonathan Brown,
from Thomaston ; m. Sally, sister of Edward Jones. His
father bought for him the land, with the standing crop of
rye, belonging to John Fairbanks. He lived on that and
other places; was a Methodist, and also, it is believed,
a Free-will Baptist, preacher, and moved to Bowdoinham. —
I. Ruth, b. Dec. 25, 1794. — II. Polly, b. Nov. 15, 1797;
d. Jan. 17, 1798. — III. Edward, b. Jan. 9, 1799; m. Mary
Clark, of Appleton, Oct. 21, 1824; r. Liberty; had James
Gardner, b. Aug. 25, 1825; Calvin S., b. Feb. 6, 1829-
BROWN. — BUTLER. 435
Edward, b. Feb. 12, 1834; William, b. Oct. 11, 1836;
Jacob, b. Nov. 30, 1839; and probably others. — IV.
Phebe, b. Dec. 20, 1800. — V. Reliance, b. Feb. 18, 1803.
— VI. Joel, b. Aug. 10, 1804. — VII. Jonathan, b. July 9,
1806. — VIII. Sally, b. Oct. 25, 1808 ; and probably others.
Butler, Christopher, son of John, was b. Sept. 18,
1750, at Edgarton, Mass. ; d. Jan. 26, 1821, of lung-fever.
Early in life he " went whaling " to Davis's Straits. His
fondness for society led him often to visit the inhabitants in
different parts of the town and to go out of town. He sel-
dom, perhaps never, rode, but walked. Instead of wearing
a hat, which affected his head painfully, he always wore a
green baize cap. His voyages in early life made him
familiar with the signs of the weather, and his prognostica-
tions were regarded by many people as almost oracular.
Jan. 2, 1772, he m. Lydia, dr. of Joseph Luce, of Chil-
mark, Mass., who was b. Nov. 10, 1750, and d. Jan. 28,
1843; had — I. Jane, b. Nov. 2, 1772 ; m., first, Jason Rob-
bins ; and, second, Sterling Davis. — II. Nabby, b. July 14,
1774; m. Joseph Robbins, and d. of dropsy, Oct. 7, 1818.
— III. Polly, b. Oct. 2, 1796; m., Oct. 28, 1799, Adam
Kelloch, of Warren, and moved to China. — IV. Betsey,
b. Oct. 20, 1778; d. Sept. 12, 1793. — V. John, b. June 16,
1780; m. Feb. 11, 1803, Hannah Harthhorn, of Cushing,
who was b. Oct. 8, 1779, dr. of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Tewksbury) Harthhorn, of Marblehead, Mass. ; and had 1.
William, b. Sept. 9, 1804 ; m., Nov. 18, 1827, Lois Newbit,
and had (1). Lydia Selina, b. Sept. 28, 1828; (2).
Elmira Iravilla, b. May, 1831; (3). Jacob Ward,
b. Feb. 1835. 2. Lydia, b. April 18, 1806; m., May 2,
1833, Andrus Dwinell, of Orono, Old Town. 3. Selina,
b. Feb. 11, 1808 ; m., first, William Bartlett, of Thomaston,
Sept. 20, 1832; and, second, John O'Neil, of Thomaston.
4. Gorham, b. Nov. 20, 1809; m., Nov. 1845, Catherine
Gallop, of Thomaston, and has (1). John, b. Sept. 1846.
5. Ward, b. Aug. 18, 1811; r. Thomaston; u. 6. El-
bridge, b. Oct. 18, 1816 ; d. Aug. 7, 1826. 7. Christopher,
b. May 18, 1820; r. homestead; m. .Sally Healey, of
Thomaston, and has (1). Lydia Amelia, b. Aug. 14,
1846; (2). William Oscar, b. Aug. 29, 1848. — VI.
Rebscca, b. Oct. 5, 1782; m. .loel Robbins. —VII. Gor-
ham, b. May 9, 1785 ; m., Sept. 25, 1808, Sally, dr. of Seth
Luce ; and fell down dead in his cow-yard, Sept. 17, 1836 ; f.
436 FAMILY REGISTER.
of 1. Elmira, b. Oct. 23, 1809 ; m., first, Prince, son of Thad-
deus- Luce ; and, second, in 1849, William Bishop ; r. Belfast
or vicinity. 2. John, b. Feb. 6, 1813; m. Ann Maria, dr.
of Simeon Noyes, of Hope ; and had (1). Gorham, b. Jan.
6, 1838; (2). Simeon Noyes, b. April, 1840. 3.
Wesley, b. Sept. 3, 1817; r. homestead.
Butler, John, brother of Phinehas, b. Feb. 10, 1756,
at Framingham, Mass.; d. Thomaston, Feb. 6, 1840; m.
1777, Lucy, dr. of Oliver Bobbins, of Thomaston, and she
d. Jan. 29, 1840. He was in the service of Dr. Taylor till
twenty-one years old; ch. — I. James, b. Nov. 8, 1778 ; m.
Mary Gray ; r. Bockland ; had three sons and four drs.
The second son, Calvin, d. July, 1848, leaving three drs. —
II. Lucy, b. March 15, 1780 ; m. David Gay ; r. Bockland ;
had nine sons and three drs. ; lost three sons. — III. John,
b. May 18, 1781; m. and d. at Smithfield, B. I. ; had
three sons. — IV. Betsey, b. Aug. 22, 1783; d. ; m. Bd.
Smith; r. Bockland; had two sons and one dr., having
lost one son and one dr. — V. Hannah, b. June 17, 1785;
m. John Spear ; r. Bockland ; three sons and two drs. ; one
of the sons d. — VI. Briggs, b. March 3, 1787 ; m., Feb. 3,
1817, Buth Bowell ; r. S. Thomaston ; has six sons. — VII.
Alden, b. Dec. 7, 1788; d. Oct. 15, 1792. — VIII. Otis, b.
March 9, and d. April 29, 1791. — IX. Brackett, b. Thomas-
ton, Jan. 28, 1793; r. S. Thomaston; m., first, Dec. 25,
1816, Nancy Matthews, who d. Aug. 21, 1827, and had
five drs. ; and, second, Jan. 1, 1834, Eliza Kelloch, of War-
ren; had five drs. and two sons. — X. Brinton, b. April 18,
1795; r. S. Thomaston; m., Harriet Perry, Jan. 1822, and
had eight sons and two drs. — XL Charles, b. Feb. 12,
1798; m. Jane Houston Buss, of Camden, Feb. 1, 1825;
had 1. Lucy Jane, b. April 14, 1826. 2. Charles Edwin,
b. April 20, 1828. 3. William Henry, b. April 8, 1831 ;
d. June 7, 1831. 4. William Thomas, b. May 19, 1832.
5. Sarah Elizabeth, b. March 12, 1835. 6. Roswell, b.
Jan. 6, 1837; d. Jan. 11, 1838. 7. Isabella Cecilia, b.
Aug. 7, 1839. 8. Albert Xavier, b. Dec. 19, 1841. — XII.
Sukey, or Susan, b. Aug. 29, and d. Sept. 15, 1800.
Butler, Joseph, br. of Phinehas, b. at Framingham,
April, 1 764 ; was, like John and Phinehas Butler, but later,
bound to Dr. Taylor till twenty-one years of age*. He m.
Margaret Martin, of Bristol ; went with his son Martin to
BUTLER.
437
the western part of Pennsylvania, where he spent a few
of the last years of his life in the practice of medicine,
for which he ,was never regularly educated. He had — I.
Nancy, b. Feb. 18, 1790 ; m., 1809, Pelatiah Pease, of Apple-
ton Ridge. — II. John,b. Jan. 28, 1792; d. Sept. 16, 1831 ;
m 1814, Sally Ulmer, of Thomaston ; f. of 1 . Elizabeth, b.
Sept. 28, 1814. 2. Margaret, b. Sept. 22, 1817. 3. Har-
riet, b. Dec. 18, 1820. 4. Jane, b. April 13, 1822. 5.
Matthias, b. Aug. 7, 1824. 6. Nancy, b. April 21, 1827.
7. Ephraim, b. Oct. 17, 1829. — III. Martin, b. March 12,
n94.__.IV. Susannah, b. June 25, 1796. — V. Peggy, b.
Dec. 9, 1798 ; m. Daniel Roakes, of Appleton, in 1819. —
VI. Mary, b. Feb. 25, 1802; m. a Sprague. — VII. Wil-
liam^. Nov. 15, 1805 ; d. Dec. 5, 1803; and probably others.
Butler, Phinehas,1 son of Phinehas and Bathsheba
(Graves) Butler, was b. at Framingham, Mass., April 8,
1758 ; m., Oct. 18, 1781, Milea, dr of Oliver Robbins, of
East Thomaston or Rockland, where he and his wife are now
living. Descendants — I. William, b. April 11, 1782; r.
Thomaston; m., first, Judith Loring, of Thomaston; and,
second, Jane Singer, of Thomaston ; had ten ch. all b. in
Thomaston. — II. Sarah, b. April 20, 1784; d. Nov. 26,
1792._ III. Shepard,b. March 21, 1786; d. Dec. 17, 1795.
— IV. Phinehas, b. April 13, 1788; r. Union; m., first,
Catherine Ulmer, of Thomaston, and had twelve ch. ; and,
second, Hannah Demerritt, of Liberty, in 1833; had two
ch. ; and, third, Silence Jameson, of Warren ; ch. 1. George
Washington, b. June 10, 1809 ; m. Eleanor Collins, and had
(1). Rachel Collins, b. Aug. 8, 1829 ; (2). Catha-
rine Ulmer, b. June 11, 1831 ; (3). Susannah Ro-
binson, b. May 28, 1833; (4). Mary Ann Dodge,
b. March 16, 1835; (5). H o s ea Collins, b. Jan. 14,
1837; (6). John Spear, b. March 28, 1839; (7). Al-
bert Collins, b. Aug. 8, 1841 ; (8). Clara Ellen, b.
1 The Lime Rock Gazette, published at East Thomaston, Nov. 8,
1849, says, " Our correspondent at Union furnishes us with the fol-
lowing remarkable and almost unparalleled piece of family history.
« On Sept. 7, 1849, a child was born in Searsmont, who has five great-
great- grandparents still surviving, viz. : Mr. and Mrs. Phinehas But-
ler, of Thomaston; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robinson, of Liberty; and
Mrs. Elizabeth Ulmer, of Thomaston. The ages of these great- great-
grandparents are 92, 85, 88, 88, 85, respectively. The little one is also
blessed witji three great- grandparents and four grandparents, together
with a host of other relatives.' "
438
FAMILY REGISTER.
Sept. 21, 1843; d. Oct. 23, 1835. 2. Elioenai Crocket,
b. Sept. 11, 1810. 3. Thomas Jefferson, b. July 18, 1812;
m., m 1834, Harriet Kinney, of Liberty ; r. South Thomas-
ton; had (1). Andrew Jackson, b. April 15, 1835;
(2). Eunice Aroline, b. Sept. 5, 1836. 4. Sally Ul-
mer, b. Aug. 8, 1814. 5. Eunice Gallop, b. April 16
1816. 6. Catharine Sarepta, b. May 1, 1818. 7. Joanna
Dean, b. July 17, 1820. 8. Mima Robbins, b. Sept 11
1822; d. July 17, 1850; u. 9. Lucy Tolman, b. Jan. 20,'
1825. 10. Hannah Richardson, b. Nov. 15, 1826. 11.
Phinehas Shephard, b. March 9, 1828; d. Jan. 7, 1832*
12 Maria Jane, b. April 23, 1830. 13. Phinehas Walker
b. Jan 6, 1834. 14. Melea E., b. Jan. 4, 1835; d. Sept.
26, 1849. — V. Melea, b. Feb. 23, 1790; d. Sept. 9, 1792
— VI. George, b. Aug. 27, 1792 ; r. Thomaston ; m., Feb.
24, 1820, Mima, dr. of Jessa Robbins, of Union; and had
1. Ruth Pearce, b. Sept. 7, 1821 ; m., Sept. 1, 1844, Albert
Sleeper, of South Thomaston; and is f. of (1) Mary
Arobme, b. June 21, 1845. 2. Catharine Ulmer, b.
April 21 1824; m., Sept. 5, 1844, William Glidden Colby,
of Patricktown ; and had (1). William Franklin
b. June 15, 1846; (2). Albion Cephas, b. April 28,'
1848 ; (3). a son,b. 1850. 3. George Washington,h. Feb. 22,
1826. 4. Walter Amandar, b. June 12, 1829.. 5. Caroline
Augusta, b. March 22, 1832. 6. Jason Robbins, b. Jan. 17,
1835 7. Laura Angeline, b. June 16, 1837. 8. Lucinda
Arobme, b. Nov. 21, 1839. 9. Shepard F., b. Oct 23
lM5'^~?TU' Levi'b' Jan-22,1795; r.Appleton; m., first'
Lucy lolman, of Thomaston; and, second, January, 1848
Mary, dr. of John Walker. — VIII. Melea, b. Oct. 18, 1797-
m., Dec. 24, 1829, Samuel Dean; r. South Thomaston.—
IX. Joanna, b. Oct. 20, 1800; m. Israel Dean, of South
Inomaston; had ten ch. — X. Walter, b. Nov. 22, 1802-
m. Joanna Packard, of Nobleborough ; r. Rockland.'
Butler, Thomas, b. July 15, 1769, at Tisbury, was son
of I nomas Butler, whose w. was a Mayhew. He came to
Union in May, 1791; m. widow Katharine Toothaker
dr. of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Daggett, who
was b. at Dartmouth, Nov. 25, 1772, and d. Aug. 21, 1849.
— I. Waldron Stone, b. Jan. 6, 1801 ; -m., July 5, 1838
Harriet, dr. of Otis Bills; and has 1. Otis Nelson, b. Oct'
24 1839. 2. Eben Edward, b. Sept. 4, 1841. — II." Jeruel'
b. Peb. 14, 1802; r. homestead; u.
CARRIEL. 439
Carriel, or Carroll, Dayid, of Groton or Sutton,
Mass.; unsuccessful as a merchant in Charlestown, Mass.,
where he m. Patty Leathers; t. 1797 ; purchased the farm
about one-third of a mile north of the Common ; sold it to
Dr. Sibley; and d. Sept. 20, 1837, set. seventy-two. His
wife lived in Charlestown when it was burnt by the British,
and it is said was with her father in the last boat that, be-
fore the battle, crossed Mystic River with any of the citizens.
She d. March 4, 1829, aged fifty-eight. They had — I. David,
b. Jan. 21, 1792. — II. Nathan, b. March 17, 1793 ; carpenter;
m. twice (once to Betsey Bartlett, of Springfield, Mass.), and
d. at Springfield, June 20, 1849. — III. Benjamin, b. Sept. 17,
1794 ; a mason; went to Manchester [?], Ohio, where he
m. twice. — IV. George, b. June 21, 1796; paper-maker;
m. in Taunton, Mass. ; r. Conn. — V. William, b. March 5,
1798 ; d. at Gardiner, June 4, 1815. —VI. John, b. Jan. 7,
1801 ; paper-maker; r. Suffield, Conn., many years, now at
New Marlborough, Conn. ; w. Ann. — VII. Patty, or Mar-
tha, b. Feb. 1, 1803; m., first, April 8, 1824, Cyrus Nye ;
and. had 1. Edward Thomas, b. Aug. 9, 1825. She m.,
second, Dec. 12, 1833, Charles Fogler ; and had 2. Cyrus
Nye, b. Nov. 9, 1834. 3. Mary Frances, b. Oct. 20, 1836.
4. John Fairfield, b. May 24, 1839. 5. Martha Ann, b.
April 19, 1841.— VIII. Phebe, b. Jan. 23, 1805; m., first,
July 3, 1823, Obadiah Morse; and, second, April 14, 1847,
James Adams Ulmer, of Thomaston, by whom she had her
fifth child, Matilda Morse, b. Oct. 8, 1848.— IX. Han-
nah, b. Feb. 22, 1807 ; m. Jesse Robbins, jun., and d. Au-
gust, 1843. — X. Charles, b. Feb. 5, 1809; started for
Ohio ; never heard from ; supposed lost in a steamboat,
which exploded about the time. — XL Isaac, b. Feb. 7,
1811; d. March 6, 1830. —XII. Lydia, b. Dec. 6, 1812;
m., first, Ralph Rising, of Suffield, Conn.; and had 1.
Ralph Wesley, b. March 3, 1839. She m., second, Thurston
AVhiting, of Union; and had 2. Frederick Parker, b.
March 22, 1844. 3. Mary Buxton, b. Feb. 6, 1846.—
XIII. Amos, b. in 1814.
Carriel, Jonathanv br. of David, was b. at Sutton,
Mass.; d. Sept. 5, 1827, aged seventy ; came June, 1796,
from Groton, Mass. His wife, Sibyl, d. March 31, 1842,
aged eighty ; had ch., the first eight not b. in Union. — I.
Jonathan; b. May 29, 1782 ; m., May, 1808, Rachel Ripley,
who d. Feb. 3, 1814, aged twenty-nine; had 1. Danford,
44U FAMILY REGISTER.
b. Jan. 4, 1810; m., 1841, Harriet Norwood; ch. (1).
Marcellus, b. June 23, 1842; d. Sept. 13,1848; (2).
Sylvanus Roscoe, b. Jan. 17, 1844; d. Sept. 19,
1848; (3). Aurelius, b. Sept. 11, 1845; d. Sept. 2,
1848; (4). Rachel Helen, b. May 28, 1847; (5).
Flora R., b. April 6, 1849. 2. Mahala, b. July 20,
1812; d. March 5, 1817. — II. Betsey, b. March 22, 1784 ;
m., October, 1806, Abram Ripley, of Appleton, and d. —
III. Sibyl, b. Jan. 11, 1786; u. — IV. Nathaniel, b. Jan.
29, 1788; m. Rebecca Goodspeed, and d. — V. Polly, b.
April 29, 1790; m., October, 1810, Archelaus Ripley; and
d. July, 1850. — VI. Sally, b. April 3, 1792 ; d. March 11,
1820 ; m., 1814, Samuel Norwood, from St. George, who d.
Aug. 31, 1828, aet. thirty-eight; had 1. Harriet, b. Sept.
18, 1815. 2. Samuel, b. April 12, 1817 ; m. Sibyl Carriel ;
and had (1). Ly s an der, b. Aug. 7, 1840 ; (2). Sarah,
b. Dec. 25, 1841; (3). Sally, b. June 9, 1819. —VII.
Patty, b. Feb. 13, 1794; u. — VIII. Joseph, b. April 27,
1796; d., of consumption, June 2, 1817. — IX. Lucy, b.
Jan. 8, 1798; m., Oct. 17, 1822, James Bryant; and d. —
X. Greenard, b. Nov. 1, 1800 ; m. Eliza Clark, of Stratham,
N.H. ; and d. April 11, 1850. — XI. Stephen, b. Sept.
18, 1802; m., 1827, Jane West Tobey ; and had 1. Syl-
vester Brown, b. March 2, 1828. 2. Leander Tobey, b.
Feb. 12, 1831. Adelia West, b. July 13, 1833. 4. Charles,
d. 5. Augustus Greenwood. 6. Albion Dudley, b. Aug.
19, 1843. — XII. Olive, b. July 31, 1804; u. — XIII.
Silas, b. Feb. 25, 1809; m. Sally, dr. of John Ripley.
Case, Barnard, came from Martha's Vineyard in 1787,
and did much in laying out the town. He lived first on the
east side of Sunny bee Pond (where Alpheus Collamore
afterward settled) ; and, secondly, on the farm of Thomas
Butler. He was considered an excellent scholar for the
place and the time, taught school, worked some as a black-
smith, and was very much respected. In consequence of his
recommendation, the purpose of making a Common of the
Old Burying Ground hill was abandoned. It is said that
he recommended the spot near where the canal crosses the
road ; also the present Common. Before many of the roads
were laid out, he surveyed and recommended one from the
neighborhood of the Reuben Hills farm, to run south-east,
along west of Levi Morse's, and perhaps forty rods east of
the falls at South Union, in a direct line to Warren. His
CLARK. — CUMMINGS. 441
wife d. at Tisbury before he came. He d. of consumption
at George West's.
Clark, Asa (w. Mary); a blacksmith; t. 1799; from
Boston ; r. near Calvin Gleason's ; moved to Newburgh ;
ch., the first three b. Boston, — I. Allen, b. April 2, 1791.
— II. Sally, b. April 4, 1794. — III. Peter M., b. Nov. 23,
1796— IV. Mary, b. July 14, 1799. — V. John, b. Oct. 27,
1800. — VI. Willard, b. April 1, 1803.
Coffin, Uriah, in some way connected with the Dag-
getts in coming to town; t. 1791, and several years after-
ward ; had aw.; c. ; believed to have gone back to Martha's
Vineyard.
Cummings, or Comings, Richard (ninth child of
Samuel and Susanna Comings), b. Sharon, Feb. 19, 1750,
O.S. ; m., March 8, 1774, Elizabeth, dr. of Philip Bobbins.
They had — I. David, b. Nov. 2, 1775; m., March 12,
1799, Rosanna Kelloch, commonly pronounced Kellar, of
Warren, and d. March 24 (not 17), 1842; ch. 1. George,
b. Dec. 3, 1799 ; m., first, Freelove Dedman, Sept. 2, 1827,
who d. Feb. 22, 1839, set. 31 ; and, second, May 3, 1839,
Avis, widow of Sanford Hills ; and had (1). Loan a, b. June
24, 1828; d. Sept. 11, 1828; (2). Loammi Dedman,
b. Sept. 2, 1829; (3). George Ethel, b. Jan. 29,
1832; (4). Plympton, b. June 9, 1837. 2. John, b.
Aug. 8, 1801; m. and r. Belmont; killed in a skirmish
with Indians in Texas, sometime before the Mexican war.
3. Milton Rollins, b. Aug. 26, 1803; m. Susan Copp, of
Merimachi ; r. Appleton. 4. Avis, b. Oct. 31, 1805; m.
Isaac Fuller, and d. 5. Samuel, b. Nov. 20, 1807 ; m., first,
March 21, 1838, Elvira Jane Litchfield, who d. Aug. 25,
1842; and, second, 1843, Paulina Pottle Robertson; and
had (1). Viletta Adelaide, b. March 4, 1839; (2).
Aurelia Ann, b. June, 1844, d. Nov 1847; (3). George
Watson, b. Dec. 1845, d. July, 1849; (4). Elzora,
b. June, 1847; d. Oct. 1848; (5). Elvira Paulina, b.
April 23, 1850. 6. Esther, b. Nov. 29, 1809; m., Sept.
15, 1836, Caleb O. Billings, of Northport ; r. Belfast. 7.
Eleanor, b. July 1, 1812; m., 1841, Brice Jameson, of
Warren. 8. Joseph Gilman, b. March 9, 1815; m. Mar-
garet Kelloch, from Warren, and has Amos; Avis M.;
Samuel L., b. March 1, 1847 ; Susannah E., b. Aug.
18, 1849. 9. Otis, b. Feb. 27, 1819; m. Abby Pendleton, of
38
442 FAMILY EEGISTER.
Northport, and lives there. — II. Esther, b. Oct. 9, 1777 ; d.
May 11, 1793 [see page 69]. — III. Polly, b. Feb. 17, 1780;
d. Dec. 18, 1781. — IV. Elizabeth, or Betsey, b. Oct. 25,
1781 ; m. Samuel Perham, March 6, 1800, who was
drowned in St. George's River, in Warren; had 1. Otis,
who d. 2. William, m. Cecilia Tobey, of Jefferson, and d.
at sea. 3. Mary, m. George Tobey ; r. Jefferson, a widow.
— V. Susanna, b. April 30, 1783; m., July 11, 1798, John
Mahoney; r. Lincolnville. — VI. Sally, b. Feb. 18, 1785; m.,
first, John Robinson, of Hope, Feb. 6, 1831 ; and, second,
Franc. Fletcher, of Lincolnville. — VII. Philip, b. May
6, 1787; m. Hannah Grafton; r. Waldoborough ; had 1.
Ambrose, b. Sept. 16, 1812 ; m. Mary Ann Nash, of Waldo-
borough. 2. Polly Grafton, b. Dec. 10, 1814 ; m. Wallace
Cunningham; r. Belfast. 3. Sarah, b. Dec. 27, 1816; m.
Silas Law. 4. Hannah, m. Saul Benner, of Waldoborough ;
r. there. 5. Philip, m. Clarissa Burns, of Waldoborough;
r. there. 6. Eliza, m. William Kelloch ; r. Waldoborough.
7. Pierce. 8. Ignatius Sherman. — VIII. Suell, b. Jan.
2, 1789; m., Feb. 4, 1818, Sophia Barnard; had 1. Phi-
lena,b. Sept. 24, 1819; d. Oct. 3, 1843. 2. Jason Rob-
bins, b. May 31, 1821; m. Abby Maria S. Stoddard, of
Boston, July 18, 1847. 3. Leonard Barnard, b. June 28,
1823. 4. Lydia Maxcy, b. June 28, 1825. 5. Josiah, b. July
30, 1827. 6. Maria, b. Nov. 5, 1829. 7. Delana, b. Oct.
9, 1831. 8. Nancy, b. Feb. 8, 1834. 9. Suell, b. April
22,1837. 10. William Augustus, b. March 24, 1842. — IX.
Melinda, b. Jan. 2, 1791 ; m., first, James Fuller, Jan. 22,
1817 ; and, second, his brother Givens. — X. Chloe, b. May
2, 1792; m., Jan. 1, 1813, Alpheus Collamore (whose first
wife was Deborah Grinnell), and had 1. Deborah Grin-
nell, b. Jan. 10, 1814 ; m., 1837, Benjamin Brown, jun., of
Appleton. 2. Elbridge Gerry, b. July 10, 1815. 3. Melenda
C, b. Oct. 29, 1816. 4. Elison, b. Sept. 5, 1818. 5.
Jane, b. March, 1820. 6. Susan, b. Sept. 26, 1822. 7.
Nancy, b. Dec. 8, 1823. 8. Richard, b. Jan. 20, 1826.
9. Polly, b. July 4, 1829. 10. Andrew Jackson, b. Dec.
11, 1831. — XL Richard, b. July 27, 1794; m., March 1,
1821, Elsie Robinson, of Hope.
Cushman, Matthew Smith, carpenter; t. 1797; bought
the place now owned by N. D. Rice ; returned to Belling-
ham, Mass., and moved to Providence, R. I. By w. Cyn-
thia had — I. Sabin, b. Aug. 5, 1796; m. ; r. Bellingham.
DAGGETT. 443
— II. Asa, b. Oct. 27, 1798; shoemaker; r. Providence. —
III. Smith, b. Nov. 15, 1800.
Daggett, Aaron, fourth child of Thomas ; m. Rebecca,
dr. of Stephen Peabody, of Warren ; went to sea, and was
probably lost. He had — I. Ruth, b. Jan. 1, 1792; m.
Jacob Kuhn, of Waldoborough, in 1816; had 1. William
Harriman, m. Julia Augusta Groton ; and had (1). Ange-
lina, b. 1845; (2). William Franklin, b. July,
1847. 2. Peter, lost at sea. 3 and 4. Twins, Albert, who
d., and Gilbert. 5. Almond Orlando. — II. Olive, b.
Feb. 2, 1794; m., Jan. 8, 1818, George Clouse, of Waldo-
borough, who d. Nov. 22, 1825; leaving 1. Horatio Nel-
son, b. April 22, 1822; seaman, farmer; r. Union. 2.
Angelica Frances, b. Sept. 2, 1824; m., April 13, 1846,
Gardner Light, of Waldoborough ; r. Worcester, Mass. ;
and has (1). Mary Frances, b. Sept. 10, 1848. — III.
Peggy, or Margaret, b. July 17, 1796; m. Peleg Wiley, in
1819; and had 1. Almira, m. Oliver Simmons, of Hope.
2. Aaron Daggett. 3. Ephraim. 4. William Hovey. 5.
Jacob Kuhn. 6. Peleg. 7. Rebecca; d. 8. Charles; d.
9. Ruth Kuhn. — TV. Polly, b. Feb. 23, 1798; d. 1802.—
V. Aaron, b. April 7, 1800; d. 1801.— VI. Lucy, b. Nov.
10, 1802; m. Abraham Gushee, of Hope; had Frederic
Augustus, b. August, 1825 ; Louisa, d. young; Rebecca, m.
Elijah Ripley, of Hope (who has (1) Frederick, b.
July 5, 1847); Almond; Ambrose; Elijah Daggett. — VII.
Elijah A., b. March 2, 1806; M.D. at Bowdoin College,
1833 ; physician in Waldoborough ; m. Ruth Ann Waters,
of Jefferson; and had 1. Ann, b. May 28, 1847. 2.
Athearn. — VIII. Aaron Athearn, b. Dec. 17, 1808; m.
Bethiah, dr. of William Thompson; had 1. Simon Elijah,
b. in Jefferson. 2. A dr., d. in Appleton. 3. Emeline Ore-
ville,&. 1849. 4. Morrill Stanford,^. 1845; d. 1849. 5.
Augusta, d. 1849. Mrs. Aaron Daggett, m., second, John
Newbit, of Waldoborough, in 1815; and had Jonathan
Newhall, who d. in 1848.
Daggett, Matthew, a sea-captain, who followed the
sea from boyhood, was nephew of Thomas, senior ; lived a
while in Union, and settled in Warren. N. Robbins, Esq.,
said the first national vessel was built for a present to
France. On going out, she anchored off Holmes's Hole.
It being Christmas, the officers and some others went on
444 FAMILY REGISTER.
shore to enjoy themselves. A violent storm came on. The
officers could not get on board, nor the seamen from the
ship to the shore. Many on board died. Matthew Dag-
gett was thawed off from a gun to which he had been frozen.
Daggett, Samuel, b. at Tisbury, May 19 (?) ; d. Oct.
2, 1835, aet. eighty-two; son of Thomas and Rebecca
(Athearn) Daggett. He m. Jedidah, sister of Christopher
Butler; and she d. Feb. 21, 1830. They had — I. Brother-
ton, b. at Tisbury, Mass., Jan. 4, 1778 ; m., first, Sarah, or
Sally, Kimball, of Bristol, in the winter of 1802-3; and,
second, Mrs. Emily (Chadwick) Marshall, of Thomaston,
December, 1838, who d. Oct. 14, 1844 ; and had 1. Eleanor
Martin, b. Jan. 7 or 30, 1804; m., Dec. 29, 1834, John
Oakes. 2. William, b. Aug. 27, 1805; r. Michigan. 3.
Mary, b. May 18, 1808; d. June 4, 1830. 4. Sophronia,
b. March 4, 1810; m., March 5, 1833, Jonathan D. Breck ;
r. Brighton, Mass. 5. Orinda,h. Dec. 26, 1811 ; m. Reuben
Sherror; r. Thomaston. 6. Arunah Weston, b. Feb. 16,
1814; m. a Whitney ; r. Bangor. 7. Timothy Kimball, en-
gineer of a steamboat, b. Feb. 26, 1816; r. Mobile, Ala.
8. Eliza Mitchell, b. Aug. 8, 1818. 9. Elvira, b. Nov. 17,
1820; m. George Hatch, of Thomaston ; r. Boston. 10.
Brotherton, b. Nov. 25, 1822; r. Boston. 11. George
Bartlett, b. Aug. 23, 1824; m. Mary Jane, dr. of John
Burns ; r. homestead ; had Reuben Sherrod, b. Feb.
1, 1849, who d. Feb. 16, 1850. 12. Elisha Harding,
b. Sept. 6, 1827; r. Thomaston. — II. James, b. Sept. 9,
1779, at Tisbury; m., in Waldoborough, Aug. 31, 1800,
Deborah Upham, from Bristol ; r. Hodgdon ; had 1 . James,
b. Jan. 22, 1802. 2. Isaac, b. Nov. 2, 1803; drowned in
the Penobscot ; and others. — III. Polly, b. May 12, 1781 ;
m. Thomas Mitchell. — IV. Jonathan, b. May 20, 1783;
m., first, in 1804, Betsey Martin, of St. George ; and, second,
Mary Robinson, of Belmont. They had issue, 1. Athearn, b.
Sept. 1,1805; d. July 5, 1 806. 2. John, b. Aug. 29, 1806;
m. in Waldoborough ; killed by a fall in the night from the
haymow; left a widow and two children. 3. Wilbert, b.
Oct. 30, 1807; m. Susan Lair, or Lehr ; r. Waldoborough.
4. Julia Ann, b. March 17, 1809; d. Aug. 21, 1814. 5.
Richard Martin, b. Jan. 15, 1811. 6. Sarah, b. Feb. 13,
and d. Nov. 7, 1813. 7. Silvia Weston, b. Aug. 6. 1814,
m. a Wing; r. Belmont. He also had other ch., all by the
first wife. — V. William, b. April 9, 1785; m., in 1813,
DAGGETT. 445
Silvia Church Weston; and had 1. Amelia, b. Feb. 26,
1814. 2. Sarah Ann, b. Aug. 23, 1815. 3. Jane Tobey,
b. Oct. 9, 1818 ; m. a Crawford, in Searsmont. 4. Joshua,
b. Sept. 16, 1820 ; r. Bristol. 5. Nancy A/ford, b. Oct. 25,
1822. 6. Lucy Weston, b. Jan. 11, 1825. 7. Margery,
b. June 22, 1827; d. Jan. 8, 1828; also others. — VI.
Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 1792; d. Oct. 11, 1846; m., first, in
1817, Priscilla Coggan ; and, second, Mrs. Sarah, dr. of
Jacob Wade, and widow of Jacob Stetson. He had 1.
Augusta Bachelder, b. Aug. 24, 1818; m., 1840, George
Barter, of Thomaston. 2. Martha, b. Aug. 7, 1822; d.
Sept. 16, 1823. 3. Hancey, b. Nov. 6, 1825; d. Sept. 21,
1842. 4. Cyrenus Chapin, b. Dec. 13, 1830; also two ch.
by the last w. ; one of them d. — VII. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 2,
1797 ; m., first, in 1819, Margaret Miller, of Waldoborough,
who d. May 31, 1830; and, second, June 9, 1831, her sis-
ter Salome; had 1. Cyrus, b. Oct. 22, 1819; r. in Camden.
2. Thurston, b. Nov. 28, 1820; m. Rachel, dr. of Andros
Mitchell. 3. Elzina, b. March 31, 1822; m. Reuben
Ghentner, of Waldoborough ; lives there. -4. Barbara D.9
b. Nov. 30, 1823; d. Sept. 5, 1825. 5. Mary Miller, b.
June 4, 1825; m. George, s. of Ebenezer Robbins. 6.
Erastus, b. April 23, 1827; m., June 11, 1846, Pamela
Ripley, of Appleton. 7. An infant child, d. May 31, 1830.
8. Lysander, b. Jan. 10, 1832; seaman; d. June 10, 1850.
9. Charles Miller, b. March 8, 1834. 10. Clementine C,
b. Oct. 26, 1835. 11. Darius, b. March 18, 1838. 12.
Harriet D. 13. A dr., who d. 14. Lucius C. 15. Angelia.
— VIII. Daniel Weston, b. May 19, 1800; d. April 4, 1833;
m., Dec. 3, 1827, Lydia Jameson, of Warren ; had issue, 1.
Ozias,b. Sept. 29, 1828; d. Feb. 2, 1830. 2. Daniel O., b. Jan.
18, 1831. The widow m. Caswell, who committed suicide.
Daggett, Thomas, senior, d. May 15, 1806 ; and his w.,
Rebecca Athearn, d. Aug. 3, 1805. They had Samuel;
Thomas ; Hannah, who m. a Norton on Martha's Vineyard;
Aaron ; Rebecca, who m. her cousin, Matthew Daggett, of
Warren, and d. October, 1848. With Thomas Daggett,
senior, probably came Ebenezer, a blind brother, whom he
maintained, and who d. April 29, 1816, aet. seventy-eight;
and Andrew, a foolish son, who also d. in town.
Daggett, Thomas, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Athearn)
Daggett, d. Jan. 13, 1822, sixty-seven; m. Rebecca Luce,
38*
446 FAMILY REGISTER.
who d. Feb. 6, 1832 ; sister of Mrs. C. Butler. They had —
I. Hannah, b. April 14, 1783 ; d., of consumption, April 23,
1826; u. — II. Berintha, b. Sept. 11, 1786; m., April 23,
1809, John Chapman Robbins ; and d. July 5, 1839. — III.
Thomas, Captain, b. June 4, 1788; farmer in Searsmont ;
went to sea as mate of a vessel ; became acquainted, on his
voyage from England, with an English lady, Martha Maid-
man, whom he m. in New York city, and returned with her
to his farm. She spent the last weeks of her life at his
father's, in Union, where she d., of consumption, Aug. 23,
1818, aged twenty-two, having had one child, which died
young in Union. Afterward he went to his wife's kindred
in New York, engaged in business, and d. — IV. Sally, b.
May 6, 1790; d. ; m., Sept. 20, 1818, Samuel Goodwin, of
Searsmont; had ch. — V. Edmund, b. Aug. 23, 1792 ; m.,
1818, Deborah, dr. of Josiah Keene, of Camden ; r. some
years on the homestead, but now near Hope Corner ; ch. 1 .
Frederic, valise and trunk-maker, b. Aug. 13, 1819;
m., Oct. 3, 1815, in New York, Helen Lauretta, dr. of
Captain Lewis and Hannah (Morse) Bachelder ; and had
(1). Frederic La Forrest, b. Jan. 12, 1847, d.
April 5, 1849 ; (2). a son, b. November, 1850. 2. Martha,
b. March 7, 1821 ; d. March 16, 1823. 3. Thomas, a gro-
cer, b. May 4, 1822; d. Philadelphia; u. 4. Ephraim
Gay, b. July 31, 1824 ; afflicted with epilepsy and mental
and religious depression and derangement ; took the life of
a child and his own life, in Roxbury, Mass., June 7, 1851.
5. Freeman Luce, valise and trunk-maker, b. Feb. 8, 1827
r. Boston. 6. Lucinda, b. March 26, 1828 ; d. Oct. 1, 1831
7. John Sibley, b. Feb. 7, 1830; r. Bowdoin College. 8
Sarah Gay, b. Jan. 25, 1832; m., 1849, John Rich; r
Hope. 9. Patience Hewett, b. June 1, 1834; d. young,
10. Esther. 11. Mary. 12. Helen. 13. Caroline. — VI.
Henry, b. Aug. 3, 1794; m., Sept. 26, 1816, Meribah Jack-
son ; settled in Belmont, and moved to Wisconsin. — VII.
Matthew, b. Oct. 1, 1798; d. Dec. 10, 1798.
Daniels, Nathan, Deacon, son of Henry and Lois
(Pond) Daniels, b. at Franklin, Mass., Sept. 7, 1771 ; took
up land where he settled, in the easterly part of the town,
probably in 1797; m., 1797, Lois Ellis, of Franklin, who
d. March 7, 1844, aged sixty-seven years eleven months.
They had — I. Lois, b. Oct. 10, 1797 ; m. John Payson, May
1, 1823; ch. 1. Nathan Daniels, b. Jan. 6, 1825. 2. John
DANIELS. — DAVIS. 447
Ellis, b. Aug. 8, 1826. 3. George Washington, b. Feb. 12,
1828. 4. Eliza Ann, b. Jan. 30, 1831. 5. James Madison,
b. Oct. 28, 1836. — II. Ellis, b. Oct. 15, 1799; m. Freelove
Wentworth ; r. Hope. They, beside others, had Sylvia A. ;
d. Dec. 12, 1846, aged twenty-one years, ten months,
twenty-nine days. — III. Nathan, b. March 15, 1801, m.,
June 2, 1825, Mehitable, dr. of Amos Walker ; had 1. Mary
Elizabeth, b. May 13, 1826. 2. Harriet Newell, b. Feb.
7, 1829; m., Oct. 1849, a Hartford. 3. Sarah Eliza, b.
Sept. 18, 1831 ; d. Sept. 24, 1832. 4. Joel, b. Dec. 10,
1833. 5. Levi, b. March 18, 1838. — IV. Milton, b.
April 12, 1803 ; m., first, in 1829, Lucy, dr. of Lewis Rob-
bins ; second, in 1835, Nancy Miller; had 1. Lewis
Robbins, b. March 3, 1831. 2. Lucy Ann, b. May 17,
1837. 3. Laura Maria, b. May 15, 1842. — V. Eliza, b.
Nov. 29, 1804; m. Levi Morse. — VI. Joseph Hawes, b.
Aug. 8, 1807; m., Oct. 30, 1830, Sarah, dr. of Amos
Walker; and had 1. Edwin Roscoe, b. March 8, 1831. 2.
Lucy Robbins, b. Nov. 3, 1833. 3. Sarah Eliza, b. March
14, 1836. 4. Zilpah Ellis, b. Oct. 12, 1838. 5. Joseph
Henry, b. Aug. 8, 1841 ; d. Jan. 9, 1844. 6. Lois Ann, b.
June 24, 1844. 7. Frances E., b. Oct. 8, 1848. — VII.
Fisher Ames, b. Sept. 6, 1808; m., Sept. 2, 1832, Julia
Ann Gardner; and had Obadiah G.,b. Aug. 26, 1833;
also Lois, d. June 24, 1842, aged six months ; and probably
others. —VIII. Mary, b. Feb. 17, 1811; m , Jan. 1, 1838,
Edward Taylor, of Hope; and d. April 18, 1850. — IX.
Julia, b. March 13, 1813 ; d. Feb. 26, 1841 ; c. ; m., Nov.
28, 1839, Zuinglius, b. June 10, 1812, son of William Col-
lins. Z. C.'s second w. was Julia Ann Bachelder. — X.
Rhoda Cordelia, b. Aug. 22, 1815; d. Oct. 23, 1840; m.,
Oct. 29, 1839, George L. Folger, of Hope. — XL Cynthia
Abigail, b. July 31, 1818 ; m. Nathan Robbins.
Davis, Mark, from Friendship; t. 1797; m., in 1799,
Betsey Pickering, of Fox Islands, who is said to have origi-
nated from or near Portsmouth, N. H. He lived, when it was
burnt, in Capt. Barrett's old house, many rods north-west
of the one recently burnt on the spot now occupied by Gor-
ham Butler's.
Davis, Sterling, t. 1799; d. Jan. 29, 1849; m. Jane,
widow of Jason Robbins; had — I. Jason, b. March 13,
1801 ; m. Chloe, dr. of Josiah Maxcy ; had 1. Elizabeth, or
448 FAMILY REGISTER.
Betsey, b. Aug. 1, 1824; m., Jan. 20, 1848, Calvin Robin-
son, of Hope. 2. Hervey Maxcy, b. Sept 8, 1826. 3.
Statira, b. January, 1828 ; m., Jan. 15, 1848, Josiah How-
ard Shepard ; has (1). Susan Caroline, b. April 10,
1850. 4. Jane, b. November, 1831. 5. William Tilson,
b. January, 1834 (?). 6. Roxana, b. July, 1835. 7.
Chloe Alvina, b. 1838 (?). 8. Elvira Robbins, b. May 31,
1843. — II. Sterling, b. June 20, 1803; m., 1828, Betsey
Miller; had 1. Lucena Keller, b. Aug. 15, 1829. 2.
Joseph Miller, b. Dec. 16, 1833. — III. Wilber, b. Dec. 11,
1808; m. Rosanna Noyes, of Hope; had 1. Oscar. 2.
Benjamin Bussey. 3 and 4. Twins ; Elisha Harding and
Dexter Hovey. 5. A daughter, d. few months old. 6. Ed-
win. 7. Sarah Allen. 8. Emily Jane. 9. Alice. 10.
Marshall, b. July 16, 1848. — IV. Jane, b. April 27, 1810;
m., 1829, William Tilson, jun., of Thomaston ; and d. ;
leaving Davis, a cadet, at West Point.
Dunham, Samuel, r. on the Simmons Farm. The town
records say, " Moved into town from Warren, sometime in
June, 1790, Samuel Dunham and Kate Dunham his wife;
Joseph Dunham, James Dunham and Sarah Dunham, the
children of Samuel and Kate Dunham." He brought into
town, "June 22, 1792, from Warren, Mary Sumner, wife of
Ezra Sumner, Mary Davis, Liddia Sumner and Charles
Sumner." It is said that he was not faithful to his wife.
About the year 1794, she, becoming a little deranged, went
to visit her little boy, who was living with Capt. William
Starrett, of Warren, with whom she resided when m. On
her way back, she was seen fording the river near Hart's
Falls, and afterward near Crawford's Pond. She took a
hay-road, went into the woods, and was lost. About
that time there was at Warren a town-meeting. The
people adjourned to the next day for the purpose of ex-
ploring the woods. The search was unsuccessful. About
two years after this, William Hart, having been out on a
trapping excursion, found her bones and a piece of her
gown in the very easterly part of Union, near Grassy Pond.
Her bones were taken up, and buried in the graveyard."
He moved to Friendship, it is believed, and there died.
Probably his dr. Abigail m., June 13, 1796, James Pease,
of Barrets Town.
Dyer, Rufus, carpenter, from Bridgewater, Mass. ; t.
DYER. — ESENSA. 449
1795; r. Appleton ; m., March 5, 1797, Abigail, b. 1768,
dr. of Jacob and Hannah (Jones) Booth, of Gloucester,
R.I. — I. John, b. Sept. 7, 1800; r. Appleton; m., first,
May 1823, Anna Walker; and, second, Lydia McCurdy,
in 1835; had 1. Anna W., b. Jan. 1825, or Feb. 21, 1826 ;
2. Fanny W., b. March 28, 1827, or March 28, 1828 ; m.,
first, Samuel Leach and had (1). William. S. L. went
off, and she m., second, George Cox, in 1848, and had (2).
a s o n, d. young. 3. Infant dr.; d. 4. Rufus, b. April 4,
1831. — II. Betsey, b. Sept. 14, 1802; d. July 1 1, 1805. —
III. Abigail, b. Aug. 7, 1804 ; m. True Door, of Harmony ;
and d. — IV. Cecilia, b. July 10, 1806; m. Shadrach Snell.
Esensa,1 Henry, b. Brunswick, in Hanover, Germany ;
1 Mr. Esensa belonged to the cavalry in Germany, came to Quebec
under Col. Baum, and was captured by Gen. Stark at Bennington,
where " the balls flew so thick he did not think one soul could
escape alive. The Hessian cavalry," he said, "had been promised
horses, and been told that they should get enough from the rebels ;
but they never got any." He described Col. Baum as a man of " re-
markable appearance, and having a remarkably brilliant eye." Esensa
was introduced into Waldoborough by Capt. Schenck ; and not long
after the battle, while yet u., he came to TJnion, and labored in com-
pany with Suchfort. As Suchtbrt joined the British army in Eng-
land, and Esensa was one of the Hessians despatched from Germany
to aid the British, it is not probable that they ever met till in Stir-
lington. They often worked together ; and so similar were their
movements in felling trees and in taking hold and lifting logs, that
one of them remarked, from this alone he should have known the
other to be a Hessian. He afterward lived several years in Hope.
Before the year 1800, he returned to Union, and bought the farm now
owned by Philo Thurston, about one-third of a mile above the Mid-
dle Bridge, on the west side of the river. After he had been from
Germany about thirty years, he was threshing grain for Mr. Samuel
Hills, and the conversation turned on Germany. Hills asked him
why he did not write to his relatives and friends there. E. asked
Hills to write. The flails were thrown down, and a letter immediately
written, superscribed to several persons, and mailed, without much
probability, in those days, of his receiving a reply. An answer came
from friends whom he had left thirty years before, and who had sup-
posed him to be dead. The joy of the old Hessian, who had not
heard from his relatives in Germany since he came away, could
hardly be restrained. In consequence of this movement, he received
about three hundred dollars, which had been reserved for him from
his father's estate, and was a great relief to him in his somewhat
straitened circumstances. Towards the close of life, he moved to
a place in Appleton beyond Fossetts' Mills, where he d. not far from
the year 1831. The graves of him and his friend Suchfort are
within a mile and a half of each other.
In the burying-ground of West Springfield, Mass., is a gravestone
450 FAMILY REGISTER.
m. Susannah Rolfe, of Bristol (?), and had children, the first
four b. in Hope. — I. Peggy, b. Aug. 26, 1790. ; m. John
Stanley. — II. Nancy, b. Dec. 7, 1792; m. — III. Charles,
b. Oct. 22, 1794; m. Sally Overlock ; r. Appleton. — IV.
Susannah, b. Nov. 22, 1796; m. Peleg House; r. Liberty.
— V. Sally, b. Feb. 15, 1798 ; m. Daniel Briggs Grinnell. —
VI. David, b. Nov. 23, 1799; m. thrice; r. near Frederic-
ton, N.B.— VII. Reuben, b. Sept. 21, 1801 ; r. Canada.—
VIII. Elizabeth, b. May 18, 1803. — IX. Henry, b. Aug.
29, 1804; r. Appleton. — X. Eunice, b. June 22, 1807;
m. John Lermond ; r. Appleton.
Everton, Zeph., came with William Lewis from Thomas-
ton ; t. 1791 and 1793; worked at the mills by the Upper
Bridge, and boarded himself. Mischievous wags, to tease
him, accused him of frying doughnuts in a tin lantern. He
appears to have been a "likely, respectable" man, and,
it is said, afterward was toll-gatherer at the bridge in
Thomaston, where he d.
Fairbanks, John, from Sherburne, Mass.; b. May 18,
1760; probably came about the same time with William
Hart and Levi Morse. He was taxed in the tax-bill of
1791, but did not reside constantly in town. He m.
Eunice, b. April 20, 1769, dr. of Samuel and Sarah Payson.
— I. Abner Hills, b. Nov. 15, 1789; m. Nancy Mac ,
of Parkman, Ohio; and d., Feb. 10, 1826 or 1827 ; and had
Maria, who m. Rev. Daniel H. Mansfield, a Methodist
minister. — II. Eunice Payson, b. March 6, 1792; m.
Lewis Robinson, of Hope ; and d. — III. John Noyes, b.
March 10, 1794; m., June 16, 1822, Martha Preble; ch.
1. Eunice Payson, b. Aug. 4, 1823; m. John Dean; had
( 1 ). a s o n, d. one week old ; (2). James Gregory, b.
Sept. 1847; (3). John Bartholomew, b. April,
" In memory of John Andrew Isense, born in Little Biwene : was a
Dragoon in the Prince of Brunswick's Regiment ; who was killed by
lightning, Aug. 16, 1780, in the 28th year of his age. • Ich weiss das
mein Erloeser lebt, und er wird mich wieder aus der Erden aufer-
wecken.' — Job xix. 25. The British Dragoon Isense was some
twenty feet from the tree, when he was killed, having taken shelter
from the storm under a cock of hay." See Bridgman's Inscriptions.
The German pronunciation of Isense is the same as the English of
Esensa ; and it is not improbable, both being Germans and engaged
on the British side in the revolutionary war, that they may have
belonged to the same family.
FAIRBANKS. — GAY. 451
1850. 2. Nancy McMellen, b. April 1; d. March 18,
1826 (?). 3. Martha Elizabeth, b. Feb. 16, 1837; m. Wil-
liam Boynton ; r. Bath ; and has ch. 4. John Noyes,
b. Jan. 31, 1829. 5. Henry Norris, b. June 12, 1831. 6.
Caroline Olive, b. March 15, 1833; d. Sept. 4, 1833.
7. William Franklin, b. July 11, 1834. 8. George Hollis,
b. Nov. 1, 1836. 9. Clotilda Ann, b. Dec. 2, 1838; d.
Dec. 2, 1838. — IV. Sarah, or Sally, b. Aug. 2, 1796; m.
Lewis Wentworth, previously h. of her sister. — V. Hills,
b. Nov. 8, 1798. — VI. Caroline, b. Dec. 10, 1802; m.
Joseph Gleason, Nov. 25, 1827.— VII. Eliza, b. Dec. 12,
1804; m. Lewis Wentworth; and d. March 1834. — VIII.
Olive C, m. John Homes Stewart.
Fales, Peter, blacksmith, m. Chloe Shepard, came from
Attleboro', Mass., about 1799; settled first at the head of
Seven-tree Pond, and afterward on the farm now owned by
Moses Morse, and returned to Mass.; had — I. Samuel Tur-
ner, b. Dec. 8, 1797. — II. Sabry Turner, b. Jan. 16, 1800.
— III. Willard, b. Feb. 14, 1802. — IV. Lewis, b. March
29, 1804. — V. John, b. Sept. 2, 1806. One of his children
d. 1809.
Gay, Jonah, t. 1794; and his w., Mary Thomas, of Me-
duncook. At the raising of a saw-mill on the west side of
the river, at the Middle Bridge, Nov. 19, 1802, the broad-
side began to sway before it was secured. Gay, seeing it
was about to come over, sprang and seized a post with a
view to prevent it. The broadside came down. The end
of the post struck him, crushed his chin and chest together,
and he died instantly. His w. d. March 13, 1843 ; eighty-
one ; ch. — I. Abiel, b. July 22, 1791 ; r. Waldo; m. Ju-
dith Say ward, of Thomaston ; had 1. Mary, b. Sept. 19,
1816; d. Oct. 18, 1822. 2. Judith,h. Dec. 4, 1818. 3.
Clarinda, b. June 1, 1821 ; d. Oct. 17, 1821. 4. Mary, b.
Feb. 13, 1823. 5. Abiel, b. Jan. 31, 1825. 6. Sarah, b.
July 14, 1827; d. Aug. 29, 1832. 7. Richard, b. May 13,
1829; d. Aug. 24, 1832. — II. James, b. May 2, 1793; d.
in the army, in the war of 1812. — III. Polly, b. Feb. 15,
1795; d. March 2, 1795. — IV. Rachel, b. April 2, 1796;
m., 1814, David Gay; r. Waldo; had 1. Edward, b. Nov.
25, 1816. 2. Nancy, b. Jan. 4, 1818. 3. James, b.
March 13, 1822. 4. Sally, b. April 18, 1824. — V. Elijah,
b. Feb. 8, 1798; d. Feb. 10, or 11, 1837; m. Joanna Cur-
452 FAMILY REGISTER.
tis; had 1. a child, d. Aug. 22, 1826. 2. John Curtis, b.
Oct. 2, 1827. 3. Eliza Ann C, b. Sept. 28, 1830. 4.
James, b. Dec. 17, 1832. 5. Saraft W., b. April 2, 1834.
6. Mary Fales, b. Sept. 7, 1835. His widow m., Jan. 6,
1839, John S. Dunton. — VI. Richard, b. May 10, 1800;
m., first, 1827, Nancy Boggs ; and, second, Nancy Robbins.
— VII. Jonah, b. March 9, 1802; d. June 21, 1805.
GlLLMOU,1 GlLLMOKE, Or GlLMORE, DAVID, SOn of
David and Joanna (Miller) Gillmor, came in the spring of
1795; became an extensive landholder, owning, it is said,
one-twelfth of the town. His land was on the east side of
the river. He m., 1784, Mary, b. Nov. 1, 1769, who d. at
Newburgh, Jan. 12, 1834, second child of Josiah Robbins.
He d. Jan. 28, 1849, at Newburgh. They had — I. Sarah,
b. May 18, 1785; m. Hervey Whiting; r. Wrentham,
Mass. — II. Rufus, b. Oct. 26, 1787 ; m. Julietta Fairbanks,
of Franklin ; r. Newburgh. — III. Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1790 ;
m. Dr. Charles Ulmer, of Hampden; r. Newburgh. — IV.
David, b. Aug. 30, 1794; m. Lydia Croxford, of New-
burgher. Monroe. — V. Patience Melinda, b. April 6,
1796; m., Jan. 18, 1818, Ebenezer Cobb, of Union, who
was b. Oct. 9. 1793,. at Carver, Mass., son of Capt. Barnabas
Cobb (who m. Jerusha Cobb, b. at Kingston, Mass., grand-
daughter of Ebenezer Cobb, of Kingston, who d. Dec. 8,
1801, aged one hundred and seven years, eight months, and
six days). They had 1. Mary Jerusha, b. Jan. 12, 1819;
m. Jesse Arnold, of Hope. 2. Sarah Whiting, b. June 19,
1821; m., June 13, 1839, Nathaniel Miller, s. of Elisha
Harding, M.D. 3. William Ebenezer, b. May 15, 1824;
m., November, 1849, Elvira Weston Snow, dr. of Edward
and Mary (Twining) Snow, of Frankfort. 4. Joseph Or-
lando, b. Jan. 28, 1827. 5. Minerva Clementine, b. May
29, 1829; d. March 9 [according to gravestone, 8], 1832.
6. Sylvanus Gillmor, b. Nov. 2, 1831. 7. David Barna-
1 His father, David Gillmor, b. Raynham, Mass., March 27, 1732 ;
r. Franklin, Mass. ; and d. there, Oct. 21, 1831. He m., April 20,
1762, Joanna Miller, b. in Rehoboth, Sept. 9, 1740; d. June 3, 1816.
They had — I. John, b. March 27, 1763. — II. David, b. May 3, 1765.
— III. Joseph, b. April 17, 1768. — IV. Rufus, b. April 26, 1770.—
V. Khobe, b. Dec. 4, 1772; d. March 10, 1816. — VI. Abigail, b.
April 15, 1775; m. Olney Titus. — VII. James, b. Dec. 10, 1777.—
VIII. Patience, b. Jan. 16, 1782; m. E. Alden. Of these, David,
Rufus, Abigail, and Patience settled in Union.
GILLMOR. 453
has, b. Jan. 15, 1834. 8. Marcellus Lewellin, b. July 6,
1836. — VI. Apollos Robbins, b. April 2, 1798; m. Han-
nah Newcomb ; r. Hampden.
Gillmor, Nathan, son of William, of Franklin ; t.
1799 ; a mason ; m. Nancy Fisher, of Franklin ; settled and
built a house on the farm now owned by Dr. Sibley, and
returned to Franklin.
Gillmor, Rufus, b. April 26, 1770, at Franklin, Mass. ;
m., at Union, June 19, 1788, Sally, dr. of Josiah Rob-
bins. He was in the expedition against Shays ; came
here in 1787; r. south of the Old Burying Ground,
and afterward on the north side of the Common. Hav-
ing sold this place to Ebenezer Cobb, he now lives
nearly opposite. Descendants, — I. Polly, b. April 2,
1789; m, 1805, Jesse Drake; had 1. Amos, b. March
28, 1806; m., 1828, Melancey Gushee ; ch. (1). Ora-
mel Luolphus, b. Jan. 24, 1830; (2). Mary O s-
carine, b. Oct. 5, 1833; (3). Statira Maria, b.
Sept. 5, 1835; (4). Amos Leroy. 2. Jesse, b. Nov. 30,
1807; d. July 19, 1842; m. Maria, dr. of Lewis Robbins.
3. Lusena, b. April 7, 1809; m., 1828, Silas Kelloch, or
Kellar; and d. 4. Elvira, b. Feb. 8, 1812; m., 1833,
Almond Gushee, jun., of Hope. 5. Julina, b. Nov. 12,
1813; m., 1831, Josiah Thwing, of Vassalborough ; r.
Gardiner. 6. Luther, b. Nov. 10, 1815 ; m., June 10, 1838,
Abigail P. Davis, of Warren; ch. (1). Lucena Au-
gusta, b. May 27, 1839; (2). Melvina Oraville, b.
Oct. 9, 1841 ; (3). Louisa Jameson, b. Aug. 9, 1843 ;
and others. 7. Olive, b. Aug. 27, 1817 ; m., first, in 1840,
Hiram Arnold, of Appleton ; and had (1). Almeda; m.,
second, David Gushee, by whom she has (2). Armena.
8. Millard Gillmor, b. Sept. 9, 1821. 9. Almena, m.,
Nov. 17, 1844, Edward Hills; ch. (1). Julia Almeda,
b. Dec. 17, 1845; d. Oct. 1, 1848 ; (2). Hiram Arnold,
b. Aug 5, 1847 ; (3). Helen Maria, b. Oct. 12, 1849.
— II. Rufus, b. Dec. 25, 1790; r. Searsmont; m., first,
Abigail, dr. of Capt. Amos Barrett, Jan. 18, 1816; and had
1. Anson Blake, b. November, 1817. 2. Amos Barrett, b.
August, 1819. Hem., second, Polly, dr. of Ezekiel Hagar,
Dec. 28, 1823 ; and had Abigail, who d. ; and Rufus ; and
perhaps others. — III. Lusena, b. Aug. 11, 1792; m., Oc-
tober, 1808, Michael Crowell, b. Kingston, Mass.; had 1.
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454 FAMILY REGISTER.
Statira, b. March. 7, 1809; m. Stevens Davis; r. Wiscon-
sin. 2. Rufus Gillmor, b. May 22, i8U; d. Utica, N.Y.,
April, 1839. 3. Mary, b. May 15, 1813; m. Samuel
White; r. Orono. 4. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Aug. 6, 1815 ;
m. Hugh Reed; r. Orono. 5. James Parker, b. Dec. 26,
1817 ; r. "Wisconsin. 6. Sarah Gillmor, b. May, 1820; m.
Jeremiah Page, of Dexter. 7. Hannah Parker, b. Dec. 26,
1822; m. Charles Thayer; r. Cleavland, Ohio. 8. Lusena
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 6, 1825; m. Paul Webster; r. Orono.
9. Polly, b. April 22, 1828. 10. Charles Gillmor, b. Jan.
4,1831; d. July 27, 1841. 11. Michael, b. May 24, 1834 ;
d. August, 1834. 12. Samuel White, b. June 15, 1836. —
IV. Millard, b. Sept. 28, 1794; widower, sea-captain. — V.
Julia Metcalf, b. April 3, 1797 ; m., 1818, Lieut. -col. John
M. Bachelder, b. Aug. 8, 1792, at East Kingston, N.H., son
of Captain Nathaniel Bachelor; had 1. Almeda Adaline, b.
May 16, 1819; d. Dec. 23, 1839. 2. John Morrill, b.
Aug. 11, 1820; drowned Aug. 21, 1825. 3. Julia Ann,
b. March 8, 1822; m. Zuinglius Collins; and had (1).
Leroy Zuinglius; (2). Azelia Matilda, b. Dec.
8, 1847. 4. Sarah Gillmor, b. May 28, 1823 ; m. Aurelius,
s. of Christopher Young. 5. Harriet Loana, b. Jan. 12, 1826.
6. John Morrill, b. Jan. 4, 1829. 7. Frances Viana, b.
Aug. 22, 1831 ; m., 1850, Ziba Simmons. 8. Charles Gill-
mor, b. June 3, 1833. 9. Eliza Matilda, b. June 2, 1835.
10. Mary Celesta, b. July 18, 1837.— VI. Marcus, b. Oct.
21, 1799 ; d., of delirium tremens, May 13, 1832 ; m. Elsie,
dr. of John Lermond ; had 1. Ann, b. Sept. 16, 1823; m.
Robert Thompson Bowley. 2. Millard, b. Dec. 15, 1824;
d. Aug. 18, 1826. 3. Martha, b. March 7, 1826; m. Eze-
kiel G. D. Boveridge. 4. Louisa Alden, b. April 6, 1828 ;
m. William H. Gowen. 5. Gustavus, b. Dec. 28, 1830. —
VII. Sarah Bobbins, b. Sept. 10, 1803; m., 1827, Abijah
P. Judd ; r. Bethany, Conn. — VIII. Charles Pope, b. Sept.
21, 1808; drowned at Orono, May 22, 1833. — IX. Nancy,
b. Jan. 29, 1815; m., 1829, Robert Thompson, jun. ; and
had 1. Adelia Marilla, b. Jan. 5, 1830. 2. Sarah Amanda,
b. Nov. 3, 1831. 3. Marcus Albury, b. Dec. 4, 1833.
4. Oseola Adelphns, b. June 5, 1836. 5. Hollis, b.
Jan. 20, and d. March 29, 1839. 6 and 7. Twins; Eli
Moor and All Mehemet, b. June 19, 1840. 8. Flora
Maria, b. Dec. 25, 1844. 9. Richard Edwin, b. Jan. 18,
1848.
GLEASON. 455
Gleason,1 Micajah, b. Framingham, Jan. 27, 1777,
1 " Gleason, or Gleison, or Glezen, and (as sometimes written
and pronounced) Lee-sex." Thorn a-; Gleason early took the oath of
fidelity, and is named, in 1057, on Cambridge town-records. He was
of Charlestown, in March, 1662, in the occupation of the " tract of
land reserved to S:iua Sachem." He d. in Cambridge, probably about
1634. By his w. Susanna, he had, in Cambridge, Mary, b. Oct. 31,
1657. His other ch., b. before, were Thomas, Joseph, John. Of
thase, Thomas, the oldest, belonged to Sudbury in 1665, bought of
Benjamin Rice, in the south part of Framingham, was received to
Sherburne, Oct. 5, 1378, and d. in Framingham, July 25, 1705. By
his w. Sarah, who d. July 8, 1703, he had 1. Sarah, b. Feb. 6, 1665;
m. Jeremiah Morse. 2. Anne, m. John Gibbs, 1688. 3. Thomas.
4. Isaac. 5. Patience. 6. Mary, b. June L), 1680. 7. John. The
seventh of these children, viz. John, was constable in Framingham in
1710, three years a selectman, and cl. there, May 9, i740. By his w.
Abigail he had 1. Ebeiiezer, b. probably in Sherburne, Sept. 1, 1708 ;
and in Framingham, 2. John. b. Feb. 27, 1710-11. 3. Anne, b. May
3, 1713; m., Nov. 22, 1733, John Drurv. 4. Samuel, b. Dec. 13,
1715. 5. Abigail, b. Nov. 23, 1717 ; m., James Cloyes, May 28, 1740.
.6. Martha, b. May 1, 1720; m., Nov. 11, 1742. Jonathan Maynard.
7. Sarah, b. Feb. 6, 1723-4; m., Jan. 4, 1749, John Crooks, of Hop-
kinton. 8. Patience, b. July 7, 1729; m., Aug. 25, 1748, Daniel
Ball ; moved to Athol.
Samuel, the fourth of the children, m., first, Elizabeth How, Jan.
6, 1735, who d. soon after the birth of the child Elizabeth, who d.
set. eighteen. Samuel, m , second, Dorothy Faux, March 14, 1740,
who d. 1751 ; and, third. Abigail Livermore, April 3, 1755. By his
second wife he had 2. William, b. June 6, 1740; d. July 10, i74l.
3. Samuel, b. Oct. 9, 1742. 4. John, b. July 22, 1746. 5 and 6.
Twins, b. Oct. 18, 1748 ; viz. Dolly, m. A*a Drury, of Natick, and
Martha, m. Asaph Bigelow, of Framingham, and d. 1830. 7. Mary, b.
February, 1751 ; m. James Morse.
The fourth of these, Col. Jon* Gleason, b. July 22, 1746; m.
Anna Eames, of Holliston. who d. of fever, aged about seventy five,
Jan. 24, 1824. He was selectman in Framingham; moved to Union
with his son Calvin, in May, 1805 ; settled about one mile and a half
west of the south part of Sunnvbec Pond; and d. Sept. 20, 1827;
had — I. John b. March 31, 17*71; r. Thomaston; d. 1832. — II.
Molly, b. July 27, 1773; m, Sept. 21, 1801. Capt. Nathan Miles, of
Barretts Town. — III. Lydia, b. March 11, 1775; m. Joseph Morse,
and d. at Union ; c. — IV.' Micajah, b. Jan. 27, 1777. — V. Calvin, b. at
Framingham, March 13, 1779; d. 1850; m., Oct. 18, 1801, Sally, dr.
of James and Sarah (Perrv) Rice, and b. at Natick, April 17, 1781;
had issue, 1. James, b. July 14, 1802 ; d. Jan. 18, 1824. 2. Nathan
Miles, b. May 17, 1807; m.," Nov. 17, 1831. Mary Morton, of Bristol.
3. Joseph Morse, b. Dec. 8, 1808 ; m„ Nov. 1839, Frances Martin, of
Bremen. 4. Sally Perry, b. Aug. 22, 1811; m., Feb. 24, 1831,
Cyrus Morton, of Bristol. 5. Caloln, b. Sept. 23, 1813; m., Dec. 24,
1840, Abigail S. Simmons, of Union. 6. Charles, b. Feb. 28, 1818;
d. March 31, 1824 —VI. Anna, or Nancy, b. Jan. 25, 1781; m.
Joshua Underwood, of Holliston. —VII. Kebeckah, b. Oct. 18, 1782;
456 FAMILY REGISTER.
fourth child of Col. John; was t. 1799. He erected a
fulling-mill on Crawford's River. He m., March 22, 1801,
Polly, dr. of Onesimus and Jemima (Leland) Cole, of Sher-
burne, who d. Sept. 22, 1836. He was greatly afflicted
with asthma, often going to Boston and back in a vessel for
the relief it gave him; and d. in Union, June 19, 1823. He
had children — I. Joseph, b. March 22, 1802; m., first,
Caroline, dr. of John Fairbanks, Nov. 25, 1827, who d.
Aug. 17, 1847; c. ; and, second, Ann, dr. of Thaddeus
Luce, Jan. 9, 1848, who d. Feb. 17, 1850, leaving 1. Ann
Caroline, b. Feb. 17, 1850. Hem., third, Betsey, dr. of
William Collins, of Appleton, Sept. 15, 1850. — II. Eliza,
b. Oct. 2, 1803; m., 1821, David Norris Piper, of Thomas-
ton ; had 1. Aaron G., b. Feb. 27, 1822. 2. ' Sarah Jane,
b. Dec. 3, 1823 ; m. a Fales, of St. George. 3. Mary E.,
b. Jan. 1825; m. Barnabas Webb, of Thomaston. 4.
Martha Frances, b. March 20, 1828 ; m., George W. Bever-
idge, of Hope. 5. David Norris, b. Jan. 1831. — III.
William, b. Aug. 18, 1805; m, April 12, 1827, Lydia
Le Doit, b. in North Yarmouth ; whose father, from France,
i. ™ZJ 21, I8 14. and was buried in Union. Their ^ l]
Infant dr., b. Feb. 20, 1828 ; d. Feb. 21, 1828. 2. Eliza,
b. Feb. 14, 1829 ; d. Oct. 21, 1832. 3. Abigail Childs, b.
Dec. 15, 1830. 4. Mary Cole, b. Dec. 14, 1832; d. April
7, 1842. 5. Micajah, b. Feb. 16, 1835. 6. Hannah Irish,
b. June 17, 1838. 7. Hellen Elizabeth, b. July 23, 1841.
8. Edward, b. Sept. 18, 1843. 9. Edgar, b. Feb. 18,
1846; d. March 2, 1848.— IV. Mary, b. July 17, 1807;
m.,Nov. 14, 1850, Samuel Beals, of Abington, Mass. — V.
Harriet, b. Jan. 21, 1810; m. Nathaniel Bobbins, jun. —
VI. Olive, b. Oct. 4, 1812; m., 1837, Stetson Vaughan, of
Warren, Me.; r. Abington, Mass.; had 1. George D., b.
June 18, 1838. 2. Louisa E., b. Nov. 29, 1839. 3. Ori-
anna A., b. Oct. 15, 1841. 4. Francis L., b. Jan. 18,
1844. — VII. Sarah, b. March 13, 1817 ; m. John Williams,
m. Jonathan Morse, and d. in Union, 1831.— VIII. Olive, b. July
20, 1784 ; m., Oct. 7, 1804, Micah Stone, of Warren, and d. 1812. —
IX. Hitty, b. Sept. 30, 1786; m., Feb. 8, 1805, John Hemenwav, of
Royalston, and moved to Union. — X. Aaron, b. Feb. 17, 1791; m.
Rachel Metcalf; d. Thomaston, 1829. Of the sons, Mieajah and
Calvin settled here. For fuller details of the early genealogy, see
Barry's "History of Framingham," from which much of this account
of the early generations is derived.
GLEASON. — GRINNELL. 457
of Warren; r. Union; ch. 1. George F., b. May 15, 1844.
2. Augustus E., b. June 24, 1848.
Geinnell, Bailey, b. Little Compton, R. I. ; came
probably soon after his br. Royal ; t. 1791 ; r. north side of
Muddy Pond ; moved to Exeter, where he d. in the fall of
1834. His w., Reliance Spooner, b. Rhode Island; d. in
Union, May 20, 1834. They had — I. Richard, cast away
and drowned at sea, Nov. 19, 1807 — II. Samuel Spooner,
m. Catherine Morse, of Friendship ; r. Appleton. — III.
Mace Shepard, b. Little Compton, R. L, Aug., 15, 1786;
m., in Union, Jan. 19, 1812, Rachel Butters, b. Feb. 4,
1789, at Jaffrey, N. H ; moved to Exeter, in March, 1814 ;
ch. 1. Jane, b. and d. 1812, a few days old. 2. William
Spooner, b. Union, Sept. 20, 1813; m., Dec. 31, 1838,
Mahala, dr. of Rev. Cornelius Irish, and had (1). Esther
A r villa, b. Oct. 14, 1839; (2). Cornelius Irish, b.
July, 1841; (3). Jane M a b r y, b. Jan. 1843; (4).
Albert; d. ; (5). Mary A.; (6). A d a A. 3. Sarah,
b. Exeter, June 17, 1815 ; m., Jan. 26, 1843, Isaac Worth,
of Exeter; c. 4. Albert, b. Jan. 7, 1817; m., June 15,
1843, Angela Hayden, of Bangor, from Castine ; had (1).
Ellen Maria, b. Boston, April 10, 1844; (2). Charles
Edwin, b. Boston, Aug. 20, 1847. 5. Charles B., b.
Aug. 17, 1818; m., Sept. 27, 1844, Mary Thomas, b. May 16,
1818 ; dr. of Asa and Mary (Hill) Shaw, of Exeter ; c. 6.
Elcira,b. May 17, 1820; m., April 22, 1841, Nathaniel,
s. of Nathaniel Barker, of Exeter; and had (1). Mary
Esther; (2). Charles F. ; (3). Frederick; (4).
Frank. 7. Susan, b. May 3, 1822; d. July 25, 1824. 8.
Diana R., b. Feb. 4, 1824; d. Sept. 1826. 9. Arvil/a, b.
Nov. 13,1826; d June, 1827. — IV. Philip, b. Nov. 1,1789;
m., first, a Cunningham, Aug. 7, 1823 ; and, second, Mary K.
Jameson; all d. — V. Susanna, b. March 9, 1792; m.,
Oct. 1815, Joshua Spear, of Warren; and d. of consump-
tion.— VI. Rebecca, b. June 30, 1794; u. — VII. Bailey,
b. Jan. 25, 1797; drowned, Nov. 21, 1807, below the mill
on Muddy Brook. —VIII. Cornelius, b. 25, 1799 ; d.
March 19, 1833, of consumption ; u. — IX. Reliance, b.
Feb. 9, 1802; m., 1822, Joshua Morse, from Friendship,
in 1822; and had 1. Elijah, b. July 20, 1823. 2.
Lucinda, b. Nov. 6, 1824; d. Sept. 5, 1825. 3. Lucinda,
b. Dec. 15, 1825. 4. Clarinda, b. Jan. 18, 1827. 5.
Louisa, b. Oct. 16, 1828. 6. Reliance, b. Aug. 14, 1830.
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458 FAMILY REGISTER.
7. Delena, b. Aug. 15, 1832. 8. Susanna, b. Aug. 16,
1834. 9. Harriet, b. July 1, 1836. 10. Olive Celeste, b.
June 1, 1839. 11. Anthony Adelbert, b. Jan. 5, 1841.
12. Charles Leroy, b. May 19, 1843.
Grinnell, Royal, b. at Little Compton, It. I., June 1,
1755; d. in Union, Nov. 1, 1837; m., Oct. 18, 1781, in
Dartmouth, Mass., Hannah Briggs, b. there April 13, 1760 ;
ch. — I. Betsey, b. Sept. 18, 1782; d. Oct. 6, 1782. — II.
Deborah, b. Oct. 1, 1783; d. of consumption, Feb. 23,
1812; m., Nov. 13, or 14, 1806, Alpheus Collamore ; had
1. Royal, b. Oct. 16, 1807; d. Jan. 1823. 2. Peter, b.
May 14, 1809. 3. William A., b. March 5, 1811. A. C,
m., second, Chloe Cummings ; [A. Collamore's father,
Joshua, d. June 18, 1821, 81.] — III. Hannah, b. Jan. 20,
1786; m., Aug. 2, 1804, Asaph Lucas; and had 1. Wil-
lard, b. Aug. 17, 1805; m., 1829, Anna Fossett. 2.
Edwin, b. May 2, 1807. 3. Mary, b. May 3, 1810; m.
George Washington Messer. 4. Air am, b. May 31,
1820 ; d. June 4, 1820. 5. Martha, b. April 20, 1823 ; d.
Oct. 15, 1826.— IV. Charity, b. Jan. 20, 1788; d. April
13, 1809, "disorder in the head." — V. Mercy, b. Jan. 3,
1791 ; m. John Allen, Sept. 5, 1812 (?) ; r. Buffalo, N.Y.
— VI. Daniel Briggs, b. April 22, 1793; m., April 15,
1819, Sally Esensa ; r. Appleton ; had 1. Elijah, b. Jan.
1820; m. Susan Fish, who d. 1847. 2. Nancy, m. Bailey
Grinnell. 3. Eunice, m. William Lehr. 4. Sarah, m.
Joseph Light. 5. Lavinia, b. April, 1836. — VII. Mary, b.
April 30, 1795; m., Dec. 6, 1812, Isaac Booth; moved to
Exeter, and d. April 12, 1836; had 1. Albert, b. Dec. 15,
1813. 2. Orlando, b. Sept. 12, 1815. 3. Ira, b. July 29,
1817. 4. Mary Elizabeth, b. July 30, 1819. 5. Jacob, b.
June 1, 1821. 6. Isaac, b. March 25, 1823. 7. Harm ah
Briggs, b. March 25, 1825. 8. Martha, b. March 30,
1827. 9. Royal Grinnell, h. June 23, 1829. — VIII. James,
b. Dec. 1, 1797; m. Sally Lothrop, of Union, 1819 ; and
had 1. Olive, b. Jane 14, 1820. 2. Sarah Ann, b. March
16, 1822 ; m., Jan. 1, 1846, Edward Cleaveland, of Camden.
3. John, b. Feb. 17, 1824. 4. William, b. March 26, 1826.
5. Martha, b. Feb. 11, 1828; d. Feb. 23 (gravestone 24),
1828. 6. and 7. Julia Maria, and Arthusa Kellogg, twins,
b. April 12, 1829. 8. Royal, b. Aug 22, 1831. 9. James
Adelbert, b. April 22, 1835. — IX. Lavina, b. March 16,
1800 ; m., first, Stephen Huse, Sept. 12, 1819, who d. Feb.
GMNNELL.
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15, 1834; and, second, Thomas Kellerin, of Cushing ; had
Margaret McCall, b. Feb. 3, 1821. John Stoyell, b.
March 27, 1832 ; and probably others. — X. Eliza, b. May
12, 1803 ; m. William Boggs> Atig. 24, 1826 ; r. Illinois.
Guild, Joseph, several times Moderator of town-meet-
ings, came from Attleborough, Mass., with Joseph Maxcy,
in 1788. They bought together, and afterwards divided
the land. He took the lot now owned by Amos Walker,
and finally, in Sept. 1793, went back to Attleborough.
Haut, William, particularly skilful in fishing and hunt-
ing, b. in Dedham, Mass., s. of William and Mary (Fisher)
Hart; d. Dec. 14, 1831, set. sixty-seven; m., April 22,
1792, Miriam, b. Aug. 24, 1767, dr. of John and Mary
(Hill) Brick, of Sherburne, Mass. They had — I. Betsey,
b. Sherburne, June 1, 1793; m., Aug. 20, 1812, John
McThorndike; r. on the Gay Farm ; ch. 1. Miriam Hart,
b. July 13, 1813; m., July 15, 1835, Horace Miller; and
had (1). Martha S. ; (2). Dudley; (3). Mary
Olive. 2. William Hart, b. Oct. 25, 1815. 3. Eliza, b.
May 3, 1818; m. Lory Kelloch, of Warren; has a s o n.
4. Abigail Crane, b. Feb. 28, 1821. 5. George, b. July 13,
1823; d. Aug. 21, 1826. 6. Mary, b. Jan. 5, 1826. 7.
George Washington, b. Aug. 28, 1828. 8. John Emery,
b. July 21, 1831. 9. Sarah Barrett, b. Dec. 11, 1834. 10.
Lucy Eells, b. March, 1840. — II. John Fisher, b. Dec. 23,
1795; r. homestead; m., June 8, 1817, Polly, or Mary,
Flint, b. Reading, Mass., and very early left an orphan.
Their ch. are 1. Willard, b. July 1, 1818. 2. Joseph
Fisher, b. Dec. 21, 1820 ; d. in Union, of ship-fever, June
15, 1848 ; u. 3. Lucy Ann, b. Dec. 7, 1824; m., Novem-
ber, 1850, Charles, s. of Amasa Russell, of Warren. 4.
Avery Sanger, b. Jan. 24, 1827. 5. Abigail Sanger, b.
Sept. 8, 1829. 6. William, b.,Aug. 1, 1833. 7. John
Amory, b. Feb. 26, 1836. 8. Edwin, b. May 27, 1839.
Hawes,1 Abijah, b. (new style), Sept. 11, 1752, at
1 From a manuscript- genealogy of Madison Hawes, of California,
it appears that Edward Hawes, of Dedham, Mass., d. June 28, 1686 ;
m., April lo, 1648, Kliony Lumber. He had Lydia, b. Jan. 26, 1649 ;
m. a Gay ; Mary, b. Nov. 4, 1650 ; Daniel, b. Feb. 10, 1652 ; d. March
13, 1737; Hannah, b. Feb. 1. 1654-5 ; m., Jan. 5, 1676, John Mason;
John. b. Dec. 17, 1655; d. Feb. 21, 1731-2; Nathaniel, b. Aug. 14,
1650; d. Oct. 16, 1714; Abigail, b. Oct. 2, 1662 ; m. Fales ; Joseph,
460 FAMILY REGISTER.
Wrentham, now Franklin; d. Jan. 10, 1839; m., Decem-
ber (?), 1782, his second cousin, Margaret Hawes, who was
b. May 9, 1756; and d. March 24, 1833. They had — I.
Abial (altered to Nancy), b. Jan. 17, 1784. — II. Pliny, b.
July 22, 1787; d. Dec. 4, 1794. — III. Sanford, b. July 1,
1789; d. Dec. 9, 1794. — IV. Whiting, b. Sept. 13, 1792;
m., 1842, Julia, dr. of David Fales, of Thomaston ; r. home-
stead.—V. Abijah, b. Feb. 28, 1795; r. China.
Hawes, Matthias, six months a revolutionary soldier ;
b. at Wrentham, now Franklin, Mass., Oct. 6, 1754; d.
Nov. 4, 1828; m., Jan. 1, 1783, in Warren, Maine, Sarah,
b. Feb. 18, 1765, in Sharon, Mass., dr. of Capt. Samuel
Payson, of revolutionary memory, who subsequently moved
from Warren to Hope, and there died. Descendants, — I.
Sarah, or Sally, as the name was more commonly called by
people half a century ago, b. April 5, 1784; d. Dec. 10,
1850; m., Dec. 24, 1809, William (s. of James and Ruth
Brown), who was b. Feb. 24, 1786; and d. Aug. 16, 1822.
They had 1. John, b. Dec. 31,1810; physician ; d. Jan. 25,
1841, at Grenada, Mississippi. 2. James Weed, b. Aug. 10,
1812 ; m., Oct. 8, 1837, Rowena Melinda Peabody ; r. Sac-
carappa; and has (1). Vi e n n a Augusta, b. March 9,
1839; (2). James Milford, b. Nov. 13, 1840; (3).
b. Aug. 9, 1664 ; Deborah, b. Sept. 1, 1666 ; m. a Pond. Daniel, b.
Feb. 10, 1652 ; m., Feb. 11, 1677. Abial Gav; and had Marv, b. Sent.
17, 1679; Abigail, b. Nov. 15, 1681; Daniel, b. March 30, 1681, d.
Jan. 15, 1763; Josiah, b. April 6, 1688; Hezekiah, b. Nov. 22, 1688 ;
Ruth, b. July 9, 1691 ; Benjamin, b. March 14, 1696. Daniel, of
Wrentham, b. March 30, 1684; m., Dec. 20, 1710, Beriah Mann ; and
had Daniel, b. Oct. 24, 1711; Samuel, b. Jan. 7, 1713; Pelatiah. b.
Oct. 8, 1714; Moses, b. Aug. 28, 1716; Aaron, b. April 13, 1718;
lchabod, b. Sept. 18, 1720; Timothy, b. June 21, 1722; twins, b.
March 20, 1724, viz. Beriah and Josiah; Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1725-6;
Joseph, b. March 21, 1727-8.
Josiah Hawes, of Franklin, born March 20, 1724; died Feb. 28,
1804; m., Dec. 18, 1751, Maria Lyon, who d. Aug. 28, 1779; and
had — I. Abijah, b. Aug. 31, 1752. — II. Marv, b. Oct. 27, 1753; d.
Aug. 8, 1785. — III. Matthias, b. Oct. 6, 1754. — IV. Jemima, b.
Jan. 28, 1761; d. April 26, 1835; m., Nov. 23, 1782, Eiiab Wright;
d. — V. Beriah. b. April 17, 1763; d. Oct. 20, 1818. — VI. Levi, b.
May 22, 1765 ; d. May 9, 1839; m., Jan. 1, 1793, Permela Clark, who
d. Sept. 4, 1839.
Briefly, Abijah Hawes and Matthias Hawes were sons of Josiah,
b. March 20, 1724; the son of Daniel, b. March 30, 1684 ; the son of
Daniel, b. Feb. 10, 1652 ; the son of Edward, of Dedham, Mass., who
in., April 15, 1648, Eliony Lumber.
HAWES. 461
Stillborn, Dec. 6, 1842; (4). Arthur Lindall,
b. Dec. 5, 1843; (5). Francelia Ann, b. May 4,
1846; (6). Azelia M e 1 i n d a, b. July 29, 1848. 3.
Noyes Payson Hawes, b. April 5, 1815. 4. William Hawes,
b. Sept. 23, 1817. 5. Sarah Noyes, b. Jan. 7, 1820; m.,
in Boston, March 9, 1842, William L. Wight, b. May 26,
1815, at Otisfield, where he d. Jan. 3, 1851 ; ch. (1.)
Charlotte D., b. Dec. 1, 1842, in Boston, and d. Aug.
14, 1843, in Roxbury ; (2). Sarah Noyes, b. March 24,
1841; d. Otisfield, Oct. 15, 1849; (3). Mary Susan, b.
July 20, and d. Oct. 21, 1845, at South Boston; (4).
Mary, b. Sept. 23, 1846, at South Boston ; (5). William
L., b. Dec. 30, 1847; d. Aug. 1, 1848; (6). Martha, b.
Jan. 4, 1849; d. April 24, 1850. —II. James, b. Nov. 11,
1785, d. Nov. 23 or 24, 1793, of throat-distemper. — III.
Mary, b. June 17, 1787; m., Aug. 14, 1808, Simon Bar-
rett, b. Concord, Mass., Sept. 24, 1765; r. Hope. He d.
April 20, 1845, at the insane hospital at Augusta; ch. 1.
Simon Hawes, b. Aug. 24, 1809; m., June 1, 1849, Mary
Esther Jane Fox, who was b. Jan. 3, 1825, in England. 2.
Mary Sunt, - ;T^e 18, 1811 ; d- 0ct- 26, 1837- 3- N°y,es
Payson Hawes, 'b. June 15, 1813 ; m., Oct. 7, 1836, Jeanette
Kingsley Frary, who was b. Dec. 11, 1817, at Riga, N.Y. ;
and she d. April 1, 1850 ; had (1). Amos William, b.
Nov. 29, 1838; (2). Charles Spencer, b. Aug. 1,
1841, d. Dec. 26, 1842; (3). Franklin Noyes, b.
Aug. 15, 1844; (4). Horace Frary, b. Oct. 18, 1846.
4. Maria Lyon, b. March 20, 1818 ; d. Aug. 20, 1843 ; m.,
Dec. 12, 1838, Joseph Muzzey, who was b. March 14, 1807 ;
r. Searsmont; had Mary Maria, b. Aug. 22, 1841. 5
and 6. Twins, b. March 25, 1820; viz. Charles; d. May,
1847, Elizabethtown, N. J. ; and Amos; r. Elizabethtown,
N. J. 7. Fidelia H., b. Sept. 26, 1823 ; m., May 22, 1845,
Horace Muzzey, who was b. May 29, 1814; r. Searsmont;
and has (1). Fidelia, b. April, 1850. 8. Matthias, b.
April 6, 1825; r. California. — IV. Sukey, twin with Mary,
b. June 17, 1787; d., of throat-distemper, Dec. 20, 1793. —
V. Oliver, b. March 8, 1789; d. March 11, 1789.— VI.
and VII. Twins, Hermon and Pliny, both b. Jan. 16, and
d. Jan. 17, 1790. — VIII. Melatiah, b. April 21, 1791 ; m.,
June 2, 1825, David Crabtree, who was b. Feb. 26, 1781 ;
r. Hope; had 1. Emeline, b. April 26, 1826. 2. Caroline,
b. Sept. 15, 1827 ; d. Jan. 17, 1839. 3. Maria, b. Oct. 3,
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1829. 4. Sophia, b. May 18, 1832. 5. Amelia, b. Oct. 8,
1837. — IX. Otis, b. Jan. 21 or 31, 1793 ; m., Sept. 20, 1818,
Elsie, b. March 25, 1797, dr. of John Davis, of Appleton ;
and had 1. Sarah, b. April 9, 1820 ; d. Sept. 23, 1838. 2.
Silas, b. Dec. 26, 1821 ; m., Sept. 10, 1848, Margaret, dr.
of Samuel Hills; and has (1). Emma F., b. 1850. 3.
Roxana Nott, b. Dec. 18, 1823; m., 1843, Isaac C. Ho-
vey; and has (1). Harriet Luella; (2). Sarah;
(3). George. 4. Lavinia, b. July 20, 1825. 5. Philander,
b. Sept. 22, 1827. 6. Julia,\>. Dec. 17, 1829. 7. Cyrene, b.
Feb. 9, 1833. 8. Laurinda, b. July 19, 1835. 9. Edwin,b.
Nov. 3, 1839. 10. Charles Barrett, b. Nov. 26, 1841. — X.
Austin, b. Sept. 22, 1794 ; d., April 5, 1795, of influenza. —
XL Noyes Payson, r. Boston and California, b. Feb. 4, 1796 ;
m., Oct. 25, 1827, Abigail, b. Sept. 21, 1797, dr. of John
Wilkes Richardson, of Franklin, Mass.; had 1. Harriet, b.
b. Aug. 22, 1828 ; teaching in Tuscaloosa, Ala. 2. Abigail,
b. Oct. 2, 1830. 3. William, b. Sept. 19, 1832. 4. Ed-
ward^. July 31, 1834; d. Aug. 11, 1835. 5. Silas, b.
Aug. 3, and d. Aug. 4,* 1836. 6. Caroline, b. July 15,
1838. — XII. Julia, b. Nov. 17, 1797. —XIII. Silas, b.
June, and d. Aug. 1, 1799. — XIV. Lavinia Anthony, b.
Sept. 28, 1800 ; m. Vinal Ware. — XV. Galen, b. April 13,
18 02 ; r. homestead; d. Aug. 4, 1834; m., Jan. 6, 1831, Har-
riet, dr. of Capt. JohnW. Lindley; and had 1. Mary Barrett,
b. Jan. 16, 1832 ; m. Prentiss M. Blake. 2 and 3. Twins,
b. March 9, 1833, viz. Horace, d. Aug. 14, 1833, and Levi
Lindley. [Galen's widow m. Elias Blake, of Bangor.] —
XVI. Levi, b. Dec. 24, 1804; d. Aug. 12, 1805, of can-
ker-rash. — XVII. Stillborn, July, 1806. — XVIII. Still-
born, August, 1807. —XIX. Madison, b. March 24, 1809 ;
printer; r. California; m., May 1, 1834, Nancy Nelson
Dam; had 1. Sarah Maria, b. Aug. 30, 1836; d. Nov. 13,
1837. 2. Edward Payson, b. Jan. 29, 1839; d. July 15,
1844. 3. William Wirt,h. Feb. 17, 1841 ; d. April 14, 1842.
4. Nancy Cornelia, b. July 24, 1842.
Hawes, Moses, town-clerk, schoolmaster ; s. of Joseph
and Hannah ; was b. at Franklin, Mass. ; m. Mary, dr. of
Alexander Kelloch (commonly pronounced Kellar), of War-
ren ; in the spring of 1806, returned to Franklin, where he
d. Descendants, — I. Hannah, b. April 27, 1781 (the first
female b. in Stirlington who grew to be an adult) ; m., MarGh
6, 1801, Nathan Allen; became a widow, and her father
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took her to his home in Franklin, Mass., where she d. ;
had 1. Sabin, b. Aug. 25, 1801; m. ; r. Pawtucket,
Central Falls, R. I. 2. Amos, b. Feb. 14, 1804 ; m. thrice;
r. Franklin. 3. Clarinda, b. July 22, 1806; m. Sumner
Pond, of Franklin; and d. — II. Herman, b. Sept. 23,
1783; settled on the homestead; m. Abigail Simmons, of
Waldoborough, Feb. 22, 1804, who d. May 2, 1851. They
had 1. Matilda, b. Feb. 2, 1805; m., first, 1826, Noah
Bartlett, grandson of David Robbins; and had (1). Oscar
Alonzo, b. April 16,1827; (2). Fostina M aril la, b.
Dec. 28, 1829; (3). Adolphus Lewellyn, b. Sept. 13,
1832. After Mr. Bartlett' s death, his w. became second w.
of Fisher Hart. 2. Martha Maria, b. Jan. 27, 1808; d.
Oct. 10, 1808. 3. Stephen Simmons, b. Aug. 28, 1809; r.
the Philip Robbins Place ; m., 1830, Alzina, dr. of Spencer
Walcott ; had (1 ) and (2). Twins, A r a v e s t a Matilda,
and Aravilla Avis, b. Feb. 1, 1831; (3). Noah
Bartlett, b. March 28, 1839; d. March 10, 1840; (4).
Marietta Bartlett, b. Sept. 20, 1841 ; (5). Abigail
Simmons, b. Feb. 14, 1849. 4. William Grolon, b.
July 18, 1811 ; m., May, 1834, Roxana Robbins; r. home-
stead; ch. (1). Herbert Alonzo, b. April 28, 1839;
(2). Henry Augustus, b. Nov. 23, 1840; (3). Edwin
Ruthven, b. Feb. 10, 1843; (4). Emery Roscoe, b.
July 7, 1845; d. June 22, 1850; (5). Phebe Robbins,
b. Oct. 9, 1848. 5. Hannah Allen, b. July 4, 1813; m.,
March 13, 1843, Asa Messer. 6 and 7. Twins, b. Aug. 24,
1816, viz: Moses, m. Lucinda C. Libbey ; and Mary, m.
Manning Walcott. 8. Charles A., b. Nov. 3, 1818; m.,
1837, Sarah Angelina, dr. of B. R. Mowrey ; had (1).
Llewellyn, b. Nov. 15, 1837; (2). Ellen Adelia,
b. March 16, 1840; (3). Eliza Matilda, b. July 29,
1842; (4). Martha Maria, b. Sept. 20, 1844; (5).
Harriet Rhobe, b. Feb. 17, 1847; (6). Colin, b.
March 3, 1849. 9. Abigail, b. Oct. 28, 1822; m. Jesse
Wentworth, writing-master ; r. Boston ; b. in Hope, Nov.
15, 1815, s. of Asa and Hannah (Hewitt) Payson ; and has
(1). Matilda Hawes, b. Dec. 14, 1844. — III. Abigail,
b. Jan. 26, 1786 ; m. Dr. Pelatiah Metcalf, from Wrentham.
— IV. Mary, m. Peter Fisher, of Franklin; and d. — V.
Eleanor, m. Alfred Knapp, of Franklin. — VI. Amelia, b.
1798; m. Elisha Harding, M.D. ; had 1. Harriet Augusta,
b. June 7, 1820 ; d. Aug. 2, 1826. 2. Nathaniel Miller, b.
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Feb. 9, 1822 ; m., June 13, 1839, Sarah Whiting, dr. of E.
Cobb; r. Rockland; and had (1). Amelia A 1 w i 1 d e r,
b. Nov. 3, 1841 ; d. May 13, 1842; (2). a s o n, b. 1849.
Hiels, John, br. of Samuel; t. 1797; with Sylvanus
Prince bought land joining Stewart's on the north, sold it
to N. Robbins, Esq., and returned to the West.
Hills,1 Samuel, b. Feb. 14, 1760, at Pawtucket, P. I. ;
spent a large part of his minority at Wrentham, Mass. ;
was the first blacksmith in Union; very deaf; d. of con-
sumption, Aug. 5, 1829. March 2, 1786, he m., in Upton,
Mass., Abigail Child, who d. Feb. 7, 1837. They had — I.
Jabez Fisher, b. Nov. 27, 1786; d. Sept. 13„ 1802. — II.
Peggy, or Margaret, b. Aug. 19, 1790; d. Oct. 15, 1794. —
III. Elizabeth, b. March 31, and d. March 31, 1794. — IV.
Joel, b. April 20, 1795; m., Sept. 1, 1825, Abigail, dr. of
Levi and- Pamelia Hawes, of Franklin. He was a store-
keeper in partnership with Walter Morse in Belmont;
afterward lived many years at Bangor, and went to Boston a
year or two before he d. at South Boston, Sept. 25, 1849.
His ch. are 1. William Sanford, b. July 5, 1826. 2. Joel
Hawes, b. Nov. 28, 1828. 3. Edward Hawes, b. Aug. 20,
and d. Nov. 1, 1832. 4. Sarah Smith, b July 28, 1835.
5. Abigail Pamelia, b. Oct. 8, 1837. 6. Mary Maria, b.
April 26, 1840. 7. Caroline, b. Feb. 6, 1842. — V. San-
ford, b. May 3, 1797 ; m., May 3, 1821, Avis, dr. of Spencer
Walcott ; r. homestead; and d. Aug. 10, 1832; had 1.
Abigail Ann, b. April 5, 1822, m. Madan King Payson ; r.
Natick, Mass., and had (1). Lauriston, d. 1851; (2).
Lisette. 2. Joel Fisher, b. Oct. 1, 1823 3. Spencer
Walcott, b. March 24, 1825. 4. Hannah Walcott, b. Feb.
3, 1827. 5. Samuel George, b. Nov. 5, 1829. 6. Sanford
Manning, b. Jan. 15, 1832.
Holmes, Elijah, b. in Stoughton, now Sharon, Mass.,
Sept. 29, 1764; m., Aug 25, 1785, Dorcas (dr. of Elisha
Partridge, by his first wife), b. March 31, 1767, in Frank-
1 This fainily must be distinguished from that of Reuben Hills,
who came in 1803 or 1804 from Hawke, now Danville, N. II., and
who was b. at Chester, N. H., and d. here Seut. 28, 1828, aged
seventy-six. His w., Sarah Currier, d. Nov. 1, 1835. They had
Samuel ; Sarah, m., Jan. 20, 1803, John Dickey, r. Searsmont ; Na-
than; Reuben; Josiah ; Isaac; Nancy, m., Jan. 16, 1817, Jonathan
Eastman ; Cyrus ; Betsey, d. young ; Alden, drowned ; Charlotte, d.
young ; Louisa, m., Feb. 14, 1822, George Silloway, and d. 1850.
HOLMES. — IRISH. 465
lin, Mass., where she d. in 1813 (?). A short time before
the war of 1812, he went to the British Provinces; m. a
second time; and settled at Moose River, near Lubec,
Maine. From about 1829, when he returned to Rockland!
he lived with his son Charles, and d. there Feb. 10, 1839.'
Hisch.— I. Dorcas, b. May 26, 1786. — II. Bernard, b
Jan. 1, 1788; d. Dec. 25, 1825. — III. Elijah, b. Dec 11
1789 —IV. Willoughby, b. May 17, 1791 [town-record]!
1792 [family-record] ; d. July 19, 1791 [town-record], 1792
[family-record]. — V. Charles, b. Aug. 20, 1793; r. Rock-
land.—VI. Susanna, b. Dec. 28, 1794, or Dec. 29, 1796;
d. Feb. 8, 1795, or February, 1797.— VII. and VIIl'
Twins, b. March 20, 1798 ; Mary, d. May 26, 1835 ; Hannah'
d. Oct. 24, 1800. — IX. Anna, b. March 31, 1800; d. Oct'
22, 1800. — X. Amos, b. Feb. 14, 1802; d. — XL Oliver
b. May 12, 1803. — XII. George, b. Aug. 24, 1805 —
XIII. Robert, b. May 4, 1808.
Irish, Ichabod, b. Jan. 6, 1740, O. S., at Little Comp-
ton, R. I ; d. Aug. 5, 1815. His first wife, Polly, d. before
he came here. His second wife, Hannah Grinnell, b Aug
31, 1745, O. S., d. July 30, 1794. Early in 1795, he m. his
third w., the widow Jane (Story) Thompson, of Barretts Town,
who d. June 16, 1810, set. sixty-three. In his seventy-first
year he was m., Oct. 23, 1811, at Vassalborough Friends'
Meeting, to his fourth wife, Deborah Conklin, then in
her fifty-first year. His ch. were — I. Betsey, m. Ebenezer
Whitcomb, of Barretts Town, and d. ; had ch. 1. Ebenezer.
2. Ira, d. young. 3. John, d. a young man. 4. Ira. 5.
Thirsa, m. Abel Blood. 6. Betsey, ra. a Dillingham. 7.'
Mahala, m. William Fletcher. 8. Henry. 9. Nancy, m.
Kingman Gurney. 10. Sally, m. John Whitcomb. ' ll!
Benjamin, twin with Sally. 12. Ruth, m. Charles Elliott. 13.
Eleazar. — II. Ruth, m. Jonathan Fletcher, of Lincolnville]
and d. Her dr. Sally, m. Robert Moody. — III. Mary or
Polly, d. March, 1792. — IV. Permelia, b. Julv 22, 1773-
d. May 30, 1797. — V. Comfort, b. Jan. 18, 1775; d. May
1, 1796. — VI. Thankful, b. April 8, 1778; d. Jan. 20,
1798 ; m. Walter Philbrook ; and had 1. James. — VII. and
VIIL Twins, b. Aug. 13, 1780, viz. Mahala, d. Dec. 20 or
25, 1799; and Thirsa, d. Aug. 6, 1797. — IX. Cornelius
Bailey, b. March 10, 1782, at Westport Point, sixteen miles
in a southerly direction from New Bedford, Mass., near Se-
connet Point, lives on the Capt. Joel Adams Place. He was
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466 FAMILY REGISTER.
ordained deacon at the New England Methodist Conference
at Providence, R.I., by Bishop Enoch George, June 15,
1823 ; and elder by Bishop Elijah Hedding at the conference
at Gardner, July 12, 1829. He m., Dec. 5, 1804, Polly, dr.
of Capt. Joel Adams; had 1. A son, b. and d. March 24,
1806. 2. Mahala, b. July 22, 1807; m., Dec. 31, 1838,
William S. Grinnell. 3. Milton, b. May 7, 1812; m.
Emily Eves, of San Augustine, Texas, where they live ; ch.
(1). Benjamin Milam, b. September, 1845; (2). A
daughter, b. September, 1848. 4. Lewis, b. May 25,
1814; w. Sophronia; ch. (1). Mary Jane, b. March 2,
1843; (2). Cordelia, b. Sept. 27, 1844 ; (3). Wilder,
b. Sept. 3, 1846; (4). Judson Greeley, b. June 6,
1849. 5. Joseph, b. July 19, 1816; m., Oct. 14, 1839,
Cordelia Clary, of Jefferson, who d. Nov. 18, 1850; had
(1.) Milton, b. Oct. 5, 1840; (2). Austin, b. Jan. 4,
1843; d. July 18, 1849; (3). Mary Ella, b. Oct. 5,
1846; (4). George A., b. Aug. 22, 1849. J. I. m.,
second, June 17, 1851, Nancy, dr. of Jonathan and Nancy
(Hills) Eastman. 6. Melia, b. Aug. 31, 1818; r. Salis-
bury, Mass.; m. Joseph Homer Walton ; andhadch. (1). Lu-
ella; (2). Edward Morse; (3). Henry Adams,
who d. 7. Mary, or Polly, b. Sept. 13, 1822. 8. Esther,
b. Oct. 31, 1824; d. Sept, 23 or 24, 1826. — X. Hannah,
b. May 10, 1784; m., first, Abiel Le Doit; and, second,
David Haskell; r. Foxcroft.— XL Levi, b. May 19, 1786;
m., Oct. 4, 1810, Anna, widow of Banham Pease, of Apple-
ton, and d. May 1, 1820.— XII. Ichabod, b. May 31, 1790 ;
m., first, in July, 1812, Lucy, dr. of Jeremiah Mitchell;
and, second, a Curtis, of Newcastle. He had Charles West,
b. Dec. 28, 1812.
Jennison, Ebenezer, son of Dr. J., schoolmaster, sur-
veyor, &c, was here till after the beginning of the nine-
teenth century ; moved to Dixmont, and there d.
Jones, Edward, Esq. ; probably from Bridgewater,
Mass.; t. 1791 ; d. of paralysis, June 3, 1815; and his w.
Phebe, "of decline," June 5, 1815, both aged fifty-five; c.
Their funerals were at the same time, and both were buried
in one grave.
Kieff, John, from Thomaston or vicinity ; carpenter ;
r. Belmont; m. Mary, or Betsey, Peabody ; had — I. Alex-
ander, b. Feb. 21, 1798. — II. Jane, b. Aug. 29, 1799.—
KIEFF. — LEWIS. 467
III. Polly, b. Barretts Town, May 4, 1801. — IV. Greenleaf,
b. May 13, 1803.
Leemond, John, from Warren; probably belonged to
one of the Scotch, families which came from Ireland to Lon-
donderry, N.H. While a boy, it is said he was in the fort
at Thomaston when the French and Indians besieged and
attempted to burn it. He m., July 8, 1771, Elizabeth
Lamb, b. at Cushing. Though t. 1794, he probably did not
move here till 1797. He d. Feb. 20, 1805. His son John,
b. Oct. 1, 1772; m., Dec. 1, 1796, Nancy (though baptized
Agnes) Bird; came about 1799 ; d. June 5, 1840 ; had — I.
George, b. Sept. 2, 1797, at Warren; m., 1824, his cousin,
Lois Lermond, of Warren; r. Hope. — II. Betsey, b. Jan.
8, 1799, at Warren; m., Nov. 25, 1821, Abijah Miller, of
Whiteiield. — III. Sally, b. March 3, 1801; m., Dec. 13,
1825, Theodore Scott; r. Belfast. — IV. Elsie, b. Oct. 31,
1803; d. July 20, 1834; m. Marcus Gillmor. — V. Nancy,
b. July 2, 1805 ; m. William Hilt ; and d. — VI. Lucinda,
b. April 27, 1808; m., 1829, Jones Taylor, of Hope; and
d. March 15, 1844. — VII. John, b. Feb. 1, 1810; m. Han-
nah Hastings ; and has 1. Adelbert, b. Jan. 9, 1838. 2.
John Francis, b. Jan. 30, 1840. 3. Eliza Emily, b. April
22, 1842. 4. Frederic, b. July 29, 1845. —VIII. Elbridge,
b. Aug. 24, 1812 ; m., 1833, Huldah, dr. of Ephraim Bow-
ley, of Hope; and had 1. Ephraim, b. March 16, 1834.
2. Julia, b. Feb. 4, 1839. 3. Albert Smith, b. March 24,
1840. 4. Elbridge G., b. Aug. 23, 1841. 5. Huldah
Elizabeth, b. Jan. 31, 1845. 6. Frank Justin, b. April 13,
1846.
Lewis, William, t. 1793; probably came to reside in
1793. After working a while in town, he m , at his house
in Thomaston, Prudence Merry, who came here to live in
the family of Capt. George West. N. Robbins, Esq., with
the lady whom he afterward m., accompanied them to the
wedding. Each of them, as the roads were bad and vehicles
scarce, went on horseback, with his betrothed behind him on
a pillion. He lived on the hill west of the Middle Bridge,
and there dug lime-rock, built a lime-kiln, and made the
first lime burnt in the town. Afterward he moved to the
place on the west side of the Upper Bridge. He sold this
farm to Nathan Blake in 1799, moved to Sandy River, and
subsequently to the sea-shore or to the islands at Thomas-
468 FAMILY REGISTER.
ton or vicinity. In the war of 1812, he enlisted, went to
Sackett's Harbor, N.Y., and vicinity (?), where he was shot
by an Indian, when he, with three others, went with his
canteen to a spring to get water.
Lindley, Joab, br. of John W. ; bought a lot of land ;
and d. of consumption, Nov. 22, 1793, in his twenty-fourth
year.
Lindley, Jopin W., Capt. (s. of Levi, of Rehoboth, by
his w., Polly Smith), b. at Walpole, Mass., Sept. 3, 1782 ;
came in the spring of 1794 ; r. in the south-west part of the
town ; m., Sept. 30, 1803, Lucy Williams, b. Feb. 27, 1785,
at Concord, N.H., dr. of Thomas Jones, an Englishman.
They had — I. Sally, or Sarah, b. Nov. 29, 1804; m. Silas
Alden. — II. Levi, b. Nov. 12, 1806; d. Sept. 29 [or 25,
according to gravestone], 1831 ; u. — III. Harriet, b. Sept.
29, 1808 ; m., first, Galen Hawes ; and, second, Elias Blake,
of Bangor, who d. 1849, by whom she has one dr., and per-
haps others. — IV. Chloe,'b. Jan. 21, 1811; d. March 22,
1811. — V. John, b. April 28, 1812; m., 1835, Margaret
Libbey ; and had 1. Katharine Josephine, b. Aug. 21, 1836.
2. Rienzi Melvil, b. Aug. 7, 1838. 3. Ada A., b. June 1,
1841. 4. William L., b. Sept. 13, 1843. 5. John W., b.
Sept. 5, 1847. 6. Eliza, b. April 21, 1850. —VI. Warren,
b. Nov. 21, 1823. — VII. Amanda, b. Aug. 10, 1825.
Luce, Seth, b. Martha's Vineyard; d., March 5, 1833,
about eighty years old ; m. his cousin, Sarah Luce, who died
Sept. 8 or 9, 1825, sixty-eight. The first five children b. at
Martha's Vineyard. — I. Freeman, r. Newburgh ; m. Eliza
Clark; had 1. Seth, b. Nov. 17, 1798; m., 1819-20, Olive
Sweetser, of Newburgh, who d. at Dixmont. He then m.
again; and d. 2. Freeman, b. March 9, 1801. 3. Eliza,
b. Feb. 7, 1803. 4. Deborah Allen, b. April 9, 1805. Also
George and William, and probably others. — II. Jeremiah,
m., 1806, Susannah Hathorne ; r. Appleton ; had 1. Mary,
b. March 19, 1807; m. a Lermond ; r. Appleton. 2.
James Claghorn, b. Nov. 19, 1808. 3. William, b. Nov.
30, 1810. 4. Eliza, b. Oct. 20, 1812. 5. Rhoda. 6.
Edward; and others. — III. Thaddeus, b. July 13, 1782;
m., Nov. 18 or Dec. 18, 1806, Lavina, dr. of Prince Pease,
' of Appleton ; had 1. Ann, b. Jan. 27, 1808; m. Joseph
Gleason. 2. Prince, b. Feb. 16, 1809; m. Almira Butler,
andd. Dec. 4, 1846; u. 3. George, b. Oct. 16, 1810; m.
LUCE. — MAXCY. 469
Patience Copeland, of Warren ; had (1). Frances; (2).
Charles. 4. Nancy, b. April 18, 1814; m. Reuben
Hagar; and had (1). Chester; (2). Westford; (3).
Norris; (4). Laura, d. 5. Sally, b. Nov. 14, 1816 ;
m. Isaac Burns; had (1). Leonora; (2). Vilinda.
5. Mariah, b. July 29, 1819. 6. Huldah, b. March 8,
1821 ; m. William Burns ; c. 7. Miles, b. March 25, 1823.
8. Rosilla, b. Oct. 11, 1825. 9. Sullivan Bray, b. Jan. 11,
1829. — IV. Obadiah, m., 1804, Marcy Chaffin ; had 1.
Hepsy, b. May 24, 1805. 2. Freeman, b. Dec. 29, 1806.
3. Whitman, b. June 13, 1809; and probably others since
they moved to Ohio.— V. Sally, b. Sept. 10, 1786; m.
Gorham Butler. — VI. Remembrance, b. Oct. 22, 1789. —
VII. Thankful, b. Feb. 22, 1793; m. Ebenezer Robbins.
— VIII. Betsey, b. May 31, 1795; m., 1839, Caleb How-
ard. — IX. Maria, b. Aug. 4, 1800; d. of fever, Sept. 8,
1819.
McCuudy, Daniel; t. 1797; b. Bristol; d. Calais; r.
Fossetts' Mills, built the first saw-mill there ; had nineteen
ch. ; m. thrice, the first time a widow Grafton, and the last
time, at Calais, Elizabeth Dresser (?).
Maxcy, Benjamin, Lieut., b. Attleborough, Mass., May
11, 1740 ; d. July 26, 1791 ; s. of Josiah ; m., first, Sarah
Fuller ; had three ch. ; and, second, Amy, dr. of Nathaniel
Ide, of Attleborough ; she was drowned at Union, May,
1793. Descendants, — I. Joseph, Major, b. March 12,
1764; d. Dec. 14, 1810, from taking cold in a wound cut
in his knee with an axe ; m. Hannah Page, of Attleborough,
who d. suddenly of colic, April 8, 1811, in her forty-third
year. He settled at the Mill Farm, at South Union, where
Mr. Vaughan now lives; ch. 1. Nancy, b. July 4 or 14,
1788 ; m., Dec. 25, 1808, Dr. William Dougherty; and d.
June, 1832; had (1). Nancy, b. July 4, 1808; (2).
William, b. April 28, 1811 ; (3). Alanson, b. May 4,
1813. 2. Sally, b. Feb. 24, 1791; m., March 21, 1817,
Cyrus Kendrick ; r. Gardner. 3. Lydia, b. June 4, 1794;
d. Jan. 31, 1849 ; m., March 18, 1813, David Robbins. 4.
Waterman, b. Jan. 22, 1796; m., 1816, Olive, dr. of
Nath'l Robbins, and d. Searsmont, May 11, 1827 ; had (1).
Nathaniel Robbins, b. Jan. 9, 1817; r. Califor-
nia; u. ; (2). Elizabeth Robbins, b. April 5, 1818;
m. a Shorey; r. Augusta; (3). Joseph, b. Feb. 16,
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1820; d. Oct. 6, 1821; (4). Mary, b. April 15, 1822;
m. Ansel Lennan ; r. Belfast; (5). William W., b. Jan.
4, 1824; d. Dec. 29, 1824; (6). Lydia, b. Nov. 5, 1825;
m. a Whittier ; r. Augusta. 5. Leonard, b. Oct. 29, 1797 ;
m. a Fuller, and d. 1832, in Bangor. 6. Hannah, b.
March 6, 1800 ; m. Jonas Hamlin, of China; r. Winslow.
7. (?) Lucinda, d. Aug. 4, 1804. 8. Almira, b. April 26,
1806; m., March, 1830, John Baxter Priest, of Vassal-
borough; r. China. 9. Caroline, b. July 4, 1808; m.,
May 12, 1831, Robert McGuier, of Waldoborough ; r.
South Union ; had ch. (1). Mary Angela, b. April 10,
1832; (2). Orison, b. Oct. 23, 1834; (3). Caroline
Augusta, b. Jan. 23, 1836; (4). Edwin Constantine,
b. May 7, 1843. — II. Josiah, b. July 25, 1766; m., first,
Chloe, who was b. April 15, 1769, and drowned May,
1793, dr. of Mayhew Daggett, of Attleborough. He m.,
second, 1794, Sally Pickering, who originated from Ports-
mouth, N.H., or vicinity ; had 1. Smith, b. Feb. 3, 1795;
m., first, June 14, 1819, Clarissa Boggs ; and, second, a
dr. of Moses Crane, of Warren, who d. 1849 ; r. Gardiner.
2. Chloe, b. June 6, 1797 ; m., Oct. 10, 1822, Jason Davis ;
had(l). Elizabeth B., b. Aug. 31, 1823 ; (2). Maxcy
H., b. Sept. 8, 1825; (3). S t a t ir a, b. Jan. 4, 1827 ; (4).
Jane, b. Nov. 1,1830; (5). William T., b. Feb. 22,
1834; (6). Roxana, b. July 16, 1835. 3. Ward, b.
May 16, 1799 ; m. July 14, 1825, Mary S., widow of Peter
Bobbins ; had children, and d in Searsmont. 4. Hervey, b.
March 8, 1801 ; m. an Andrews, of Camden. 5. Polly, b.
June 8, 1803; m. an Andrews; r. Camden. 6. Ama, b.
Aug. 15, 1805; m. ; r. Camden. 7. Daniel, b. 1807; m.
a Blood; r. Warren. 8. Micajah G. ; r. Camden; b.
1809 (?); m., first, Betsey Blood; and had by her (1).
Julina, b. Nov. 1, 1838; (2). Josiah A., b. June 6,
1841. He m., second, a dr. of Abel Walker; and, third,
Sarah M., dr. of Thomas Taylor, of Hope, and widow of
Waterman Leach, of Warren ; and had Sarah M., b.
Camden, Oct. 4, 1848. — III. Benjamin, b. July 16, 1772,
in Connecticut, as was his brother Josiah during a tempora-
ry residence ; m. Esther Fuller of Attleborough ; had Bar-
nard ; d. ; Joseph ; Eaton Whiting ; Esther ; d. — IV.
Sally, or Sarah, b. Nov. 20, 1778 ; rescued from drowning,
May, 1793 ; returned to Attleborough in the fall of 1793 ;
m., Sept. 3, 1797, Ebenezer Daggett, of Attleborough, who
MAXCY. — MERO. 471
was b. April 16, 1763; was selectman, town-clerk, repre-
sentative, and d. at Boston, March 4, 1832, while member
of the Senate ; ch. 1 . Lydia Maxcy, m. Capron Peck, of
Attleborough. 2. John, author of the History of Attle-
borough ; graduate of Brown University in 1826; lawyer;
representative, 1837-41; senator in 1849; m., June 18,
1840, Nancy M., dr. of Rev. J. B. Boomer, of Sutton, Mass.
3. Ebenezer, d. Nov. 17, 1831. 4. Hervey Maxcy, m.,
first, Susan S. Daggett; and, second, Nancy Bates. 5.
Amy Ide, m. John McClellan, of Sutton, Mass. 6. Mercy
Shepard, m. Erastus D. Everett, Boston, and d. leaving
three ch. 7 and 8. Twins, viz. Handel N., m., first,
Eunice W. Shepard, of Wrentham ; and, second, Jane
Amelia Adams, of Livonia, N. Y. ; and Homer M., m. An-
gelina Daggett, of Surry, N.H. — V. Lydia, b. March 26,
1780; drowned, May, 1793. — VI. Hervey, b. April 30,
1782 or 1783; m., 1805, Sally, dr. of John and Hannah
(French) Eastman, b. Kingston, N.H. (?), Feb. 15, 1785;
lived on the northerly part of the Mill Farm ; now r.
Thomaston ; ch. 1. John Eastman, b. Aug. 7, 1806; m.
Ann, widow of John Henry Adams, and dr. of Benjamin
Boody, of Westbrook ; r. Gushing. 2. Hannah, b. Jan. 4,
1808; m. Reuben Hills; r. Lincolnville. 3. Joseph, b.
Oct. 29, 1809; d. Jan. 1811. 4. Joseph, b. Jan. 29, 181 1 ;
r. Thomaston. 5. Nancy E., b. Jan. 18, or June, 1812 ; m.
Charles Hook; r. Danville, N.H. 6. Hervey, b. July 28,
1814; m. Mariah Staples; r. Swanville. 7. Josiah, b.
Jan. 22, 1816 ; d. Feb. 9, 1849, in Thomaston. 8. Henry,
b. March 10, 1821; r. Thomaston. 9 and 10. Twins, b.
July 1, 1823, viz. Cyrus and Sarah. — VII. Amy, b. Oct.
26, 1784 ; m. Joel Reed, Princeton, Mass. ; r. Hermon.
Mero, Amahiaii, b. May 14, 1757, at Stoughton, Mass.,
son of Hezekiah (whose father and mother came from Ire-
land, and lived in Dorchester) and Mary Mero (the latter
d. Aug. 26, 1827, aged ninety-four); introduced to Stir-
lington by Philip Robbins, whose dr. Susan he m. ; moved
to Starks in advanced age, afterward to Mercer, and lately
to Cape Elizabeth, to live with a son. They had — I. Avis,
b. June 19, 1787; d. Dec. 8, 1792. — II. Vyna, b. June 16,
1789; d. Nov. 28, 1792. — III. Milla, b. June 1, 1791 ; d.
Nov. 29, 1 792 [three deaths in ten days ; the last two buried
in one coffin]. — IV. Spencer, b. Oct. 21, 1793 ; m., Sept.
6, 1818, Esther Winslow, dr. of David Robbins's second
472 FAMILY REGISTER.
w. by a former husband ; ch. 1. Hermon, b. Feb. 17, 1821 ;
m., 1846, Electa Aroline Litchfield; has (1). Arthur
Leroy, b. Jan. 3, 1847. 2. Eli Sprague, b. Dec. 10,
1822; m., Jan. 22, 1847, Elizabeth Libbey Kelloch ; r.
Warren; has (1). Eldon Herbert, b. May, 1849. 3.
Laura, b. April 24, 1825; d. Nov. 2 [or 4, gravestone],
1849. 4. Elisha Harding, b. April 1, 1827. 5. Spencer,
b. Nov. 4, 1829. 6. Sarah Frances, b. Sept. 16, 1832. 7.
Anson, b. June 2, 1835. 8. Chester, b. March 25, 1841. —
V. Avis, b. Aug. 5, 1795 ; d. May 6, 1797. —VI. Hermon,
b. Feb. 11, 1798; r. Waldoborough ; m., March, 1827,
Lovey West, dr. of Nathaniel Robbins ; had 1 . Martha
Melvina, b. Jan. 14, 1828; d. Oct. 2, 1849; m. Anthony
Kastner, of Waldoborough ; left (1). Martha, nine days
old. 2. Harriet Augusta, b. Nov. 30, 1829; d. Feb. 23,
1830. 3. Helen Aurelia, b. March 17, 1831. 4. Augustus.
5. Sarah Simmons, b. June, 1835. 6. Roderick Lionel, b.
1841. 7. Albert Curtis. 8. Charles Hermon. — VII.
Charles, b. Jan. 27, 1800; m., March 1, 1828, Louisa, b.
Jan. 4, 1809, dr. of Capt. Nathaniel Bachelor; r. Cape
Elizabeth; ch. 1. Euphrasia Louisa, b. Jan. 25, 1831. 2.
Ruphelia Bachelor, b. March 16, 1834. — VIII. Susan, b.
March 9, 1802; m. Samuel Craft; r. Jay; had 1. Helen
Wallace, d. three and a half years old. 2. Helen, b. March,
1841. 3. Samuel Henry, b. June, 1843. 4. Charles, b.
Dec. 1844. — IX. Luther, b. Sept. 17, 1804; d. Jan. 1,
1832; u. — X. Austin, b. Oct. 14, 1806; m. Sally, dr. of
James Simmons, of Nobleborough ; had seven drs., viz. 1.
Barzana. 2. Maranda. 3. Alwilda. 4. Rachel. 5. Su-
san. 6. Mary. 7. Electa Allen. — XL Julia, b. June 21,
1808; m., 1830, John Williamson, of Starks ; had 1.
Luther Austin, b. Feb. 25, 1831. 2. Susan Melvina, b.
February, 1833. 3. Albert Wallace, b. March 27, 1843.
4. Fostina Melinda, b. March, 1845. — XII. Melinda, b.
Oct. 15, 1810; m., first, William Richardson, of Newton,
Mass.; and had 1. William Wallace, d. eleven months old.
2. Georgia Ann. She m., second, Timothy Hunting ; r.
Taunton. — XIII. Chloe Lindley, b. Nov. 2, 1813; m., in
the winter of 1828-9, Henry Jameson, of Waldoborough ;
d. July 13, 1835 ; having had 1. Julia Melvina. 2. Arvesta
Delia. Both d.
Messer, Asa, t. 1796; m. Hannah Davis; and d. Jan.
16,-1835. His father, Jonathan, m. Abigail Parker, of
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Groton, Mass., who d. in Union, Sept. 13, 1828, aged
ninety-nine. Jonathan's ancestors were from Methuen,
Mass. Asa had ch. — I. Sally Commit, b. March 12, 1803 ;
m. Benjamin Go wen; r. Montville. — II. Almond, b. Feb.
18, 1805 ; m., 1828, Melinda Reed Titus ; r. Montville. —
III. Asa, b. March 2, 1807 ; d. — IV. George Washington ;
r. Montville; b. March 2, 1807; m., Oct. 18, 1827, Mary
Lucas; and had' 1. Willard Lucas, b. July 20, 1828. 2.
Martha, b. Jan. 11, 1830; m. William Penny; r. Mont-
ville. 3. Edwin, &. 4. Mary Anna, b. March 17, 1833.
5. Sarah, b. Dec. 5, 1835. 6. Aldana. 7. George Riley,
b. July, 1841. 8. Charles, d. 9. Melinda. 10. Loantha,
b. June, 1845; d. Aug. 16, 1847. 11. Flora Ellen. 12.
A dr. b. April, 1850. — V. Hannah, b. Feb. 28, 1809.—
VI. Eunice, b. May 14, 1811 ; m., 1831, William Caswell;
ch. 1. Elmira L., b. Feb. 14, 1832. 2. William E., b.
Jan. 17, 1834. 3. Ethelbert, b. June 27, 1836. 4. Charles
Augustus, b. June 26, 1838. 5. Amos Roscoe, b. March 26,
1841. 6. Sarah Melinda, b. March 8, 1843. 7. Hannah
Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1845. 8. Nathaniel Harden, b. Aug. 21,
1847.— VII. Ebenezer Stone, b. Feb. 23, 1813; m., Feb.
25, 1834, Nancy S. Adams; ch. 1. Augustus, b. Jan. 9,
1835. 2. Louisa Maria, b. Jan. 12, 1836; and others. —
VIII. Asa, b. Oct. 8, 1815; m., first, May 8, 1836, Caro-
line C. Littlehale, who d. May 10, 1840; and, second,
March 13, 1843, Hannah Allen, dr. of Moses Hawes ; and
has 1. Caroline Medora, b. Oct. 25, 1844. — IX. Parker,
b. June 24, 1800, adopted child of Asa Messer ; m., 1828,
Eliza, dr. of Pente Walcott ; ch. 1. Robert Mathews, b.
March 17, 1829. 2. Charles Hibbard, b. March 13, 1833.
3. Ambrose, b. March 31, 1835. 4. Eliza E.
Messer, Thomas, br. of x\sa ; t. 1796, and again in 1799 ;
b. Lunenburg, Mass.; m., 1802, Phebe Vinal, b. Scituate,
Mass.; had — I. Vinal, b. Dec. 17, 1803; d. 1837. By a
fall, his spine was injured, so that for twelve years he was
without sensation in his lower limbs. — II. Minot, b. April
20, 1805; m., 1826, Lydia Bowman, of Washington ; had
1. John Bowman, b. Oct. 8, 1826. 2. Caroline Hills, b.
Feb. 23, 1809. 3. Samuel Loring, b. June 6, 1831. 4.
Thomas Guilford, b. Aug. 25, 1833. 5. Vinal, b. Aug. 27,
1835. 6 and 7. Twins, b. July 18, 1837; viz. Lydia Ann
and Hannah Maria. 8. Eliza, b. Jan. 6, 1840. 9. Mar-
garet Miller, b. July, 1842. 10. Emelina, b. January,
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1845. 11. Aravilla Bryant, b. Oct. 29, 1848. — III.
Emeline, b. Oct. 4, 1807; m., Dec. 23, 1830, Aaron Bry-
ant; cb. 1. Elizabeth. 2. William Henry. 3. Mary
Elizabeth. 4. Delphina. 5. Sarah. 6. Phebe Jane. 7.
Martha. 8. Augustus; d. 9. Julia. 10. James. 11. A
daughter.
Mitchell, Axdros, or Andrews, cousin to Jeremiah ;
t. 1798; d. April 6, 1819; m. 1802, Rachel Pearson, of
Cushing, who d. June 23, 1830, aged sixty ; ch. — I. Eliza-
beth, b. June 16, 1804. — II. Richard P., b. June 27, 1806 ;
w. Sally; had 1. Andrews, b. March 26, 1832. 2. Levi, b.
Sept. 8, 1837. — III. Enos, b. April 23, 1809; m., 1838,
Mary J. Butler.
Mitchell, Thomas, from North Yarmouth; t. 1796;
w., probably, Dinah, who d. March or May 10, 1821, aged
seventy-nine ; ch. — I. Jeremiah, m. Mercy Fairbanks,
sister of Mrs. West; had 1. Lucy, b. Aug. 4, 1793; m.,
1812, Ichabod Irish. 2. Thomas Andrews, b. Aug. 19,
1795; m., March 25, 1819, Deborah Jameson, of Waldo-
borough. 3. Mary, b. Oct. 23, 1797; m. Rev. Solomon
Bray. 4. Ebenezer Allen, b. Aug. 15, 1800; m. Keziah
Furbush; and had Thomas A., b. Sept. 21, 1834. 5.
Hannah, b. Sept! 10, 1803, and d. Oct. 13, 1829 ; m. Jud-
son Caswell, Nov. 7, 1824; had (1). Hannah, b. Nov. 9,
1831; (2). John Chandler, b. Feb. 1, 1834; (3).
Lendall, b. Jan. 23, 1836. 6. Henry True,h. Aug. 8,
1806; m., 1829, Dolly Raizor. 7. Olive, b. March 26,
1809 ; m. Jacob Pevee. 8. Mercy Dyer, b. Nov. 18, 1811 ;
after her sister Hannah's decease, m., Jan. 13, 1831, Judson
Caswell; and had (1). Lozeah, b. Oct. 18, 1838; (2).
Mary O., Feb. 18, 1842; (3). Christiana A., b. Dec.
14, 1843; (4). Caroline, b. May 20, 1847. 9. Jere-
miah Ward, b. Nov. 6, 1814; m. Emily Lehr. 10. Asa
Lyman, b. April 15, 1818. 11. Jeruel Butler, b. Dec. 1,
1821. — II. Jabez Norton; t. 1798; m., March 29, 1800,
Hepzibah Ripley ; had 1. Abraham, b. March 6, 1801. 2.
Dinah, b. March 8, 1803. 3. Enos, b. Sept. 21, 1805.
4. Jabez,h. Aug. 15, 1807. 5. Silas, h. March 7, 1810. — IV.
Thomas; t. 1796; d. Oct. 14, 1843; m., Sept. 5, 1799,
Polly, dr. of Samuel Daggett ; and had 1 . Elizabeth, b.
June 30, 1800; m., Dec. 10, 1818, Samuel Stone. 2. Jedi-
dah Cutter, b. Jan. 18, 1802 ; d. of consumption, April 8,
MITCHELL. — MORSE. 475
1828. 3. Rebecca Athearn, b. April 25, 1807; d. Jan. 26,
1836; m., 1835, Elias Breck, of Springfield, Mass. 4. Br oth-
er ton Daggett, b. June 7, 1810; d. July 10, 1811. 5.
Thomas Harrison, b. Aug. 30, 1812; d. July 9, 1839.—
V. A dr.; m. Edward Oakes. — VI. Mary, m., Dec. 25,
1800, Calvin Morse. — VII. Dinah, m., Oct. 10, 1801, John
Murray ; and bad Thomas, b. July 29, 1802.
Moore, Augustus, from Massachusetts, t. 1796.
Mouse, Calvin, b. Nov. 22, 1773, according to Barry's
Framingham ; was fourth child and third son of Jonathan,
of Framingham, who m. Mehetabel Nurse, and d. young.
Jonathan's father Jonathan, who was son of Joseph, m.,
May 16, 1734, Mary Cloyce. The family early belonged to
Watertown. Calvin, t. 1799; m., 1800, Mary, dr. of
Thomas Mitchell; and d. Aug. 6, 1846, in Washington.
They had — I. Josiah, b. Oct. 2, 1801. — II. Dinah, b.
June 1, 1803. — III. Jonathan, b. Sept. 21 or 24, 1805;
m., Jan. 26, 1834, Catherine Sherman ; and had 1. John Q.,
b. Oct. 25, 1834. 2. Achsah, b. Oct. 24, 1835. 3. Joseph,
b. Aug. 9, 1837. 4. Charles, b. March 20, 1839. 5. Cal-
vin, b. March 25, 1842. 6. Mary, b. Nov. 21, 1845. 7.
Lydia A., b. April 29, 1848. —IV. Eliza, b. Nov. 13,
1807. — V. Joseph, b. March 25, 1810. — VI. Calvin, b.
April 11, 1812. — VII. Mary Ann, b. Aug. 27, 1814; m.
James Hodge, 1834; and had Elizabeth, b. April 8, 1835.
VIII. Orson Adams, b. Aug. 8, 1817 ; r. Washington ; m.,
1846, Jane W. Mitchell, and had Zoar A. C, b. Feb. 9,
1847. — IX. Thomas Andrews, twin with Orson Adams. —
X. William H., b. June 22, 1821. — XI. Jabez M., b. Oct.
21, 1824; r. Washington.
Morse, Jonathan, b. March 24, 1776; d. Nov. 19,
1850; t. 1799 ; probably came to Union with his brother
Calvin; m., May, 1808, Rebeckah, who was b. Oct. 18,
1782, and d. Aug. 11, 1831, dr. of Col. John Gleason.
They had — I. Anna, b. Sept. 6, 1809 ; d. Oct. 14, 1843. —
II. Lydia Gleason, b. Dec. 13, 1811; d. June 10, 1835.
— III. Aaron Gleason, b. Dec. 13, 1814; d. Aug. 21,
1834. — iy. Micajah Gleason, b. Jan. 8, 1819; m., Dec.
16, 1841, Elizabeth U. Demuth ; ch. 1. Susan A., b. May
2, 1843; d. March 28, 1847. 2. Helen L., b. Feb. 14,
1845. 3. Ann £., b. March 29, 1850.
476 FAMILY REGISTER.
Mouse, Joseph, br. of Calvin and Jonathan: t. 1799;
b. March 27, 1771 ; m., first, Oct. 11, 1795, Lydia, dr. of
Col. John Gleason, who d. ; and, second, widow Prior, of
Waldoborough ; c.
Mouse,1 Leyi, b. at Sherburne, Mass., Jan. 5, 1762; d.
1 Samuel Morse, probably from Sherborn, England, or the vicinity,
husbandman, at the age of fifty, and his wife, Elizabeth, at the age of
forty -eight, and his son, Joseph, at the age of twenty, in consequence
of the persecutions by Bishop Laud, in April, 1635, embarked for
New England in the Increase, Robert Lea, master, and came to
Watertown, Mass. In 183G, land was assigned to him in Dedham.
He was collector, treasurer, and selectman. A few years afterward,
he settled at Medfielcl, and, it is supposed, built the house which was
first set on fire by the Indians, at the destruction of the town and the
killing of eighteen inhabitants, Feb. 21, 1675. He died at Medfield,
April 5, 1654, and his w. June 20, 1654.
His second son, Daniel, b. 1613, and whose w., Lydia, d. Jan. 29,
1690, aged seventy, moved from Dedham to Medfield in 1651. About
1656, he bought eight hundred acres of land, which, May 22, 1650,
had been granted by the General Court to Simon Bradstreet, after-
wards Governor, and since called "The Farm," situated in the east
part of what is now Sherburne. He moved to Sherburne probably
in 1657, where he appears to have been the leading man of the place,
and d. June 5, 1688.
Daniel Morse's second child, Daniel; r. Sherburne; b. 31: 11:
1640; d. Sept. 29, 1702; m. Elizabeth Barbour, of Medfield, who d.
1714. This Daniel Morse's son, Daniel, b. July 10, 1672 ; d. April 4,
1719; m., 1696, Susanna Holbrook, who d. 1717. He inherited the
place of his uncle, Deacon Obadiah, whoso only son d. in infancy.
Obadiah Mouse, fourth child of this Daniel, b. Aug. 15, 1704 ; d.
1753; m. Mercy Walker, of Sherburne. This Obadiah' s third child,
Obadiah. b. March 20, 1732-3 ; d. in Sherburne, Jan. 7, 1800, in conse-
quence of a fall from a scaffold; m., first, July 10, 1755, Grace Fair-
banks, who was b. June 16, 1734, and who d. May 30, 1772; and,
second, in 1776, Abigail, dr. of Caleb and Abigail Death, of Framing-
ham. His children were 1. Mercy, b. May 7, 1756 ; d. July 31, 1845 ;
m., 1777, Asaph Merrificld ; r. Ilolden. 2. Hannah, b. Feb. 7, 1758 ;
m. Josiah Ward, of Southborough ; r. and d. at Bradford, N. H. 3.
Adam, b. Dec. 9, 1759; d. about 1779, from an injury of the knee
received in the army. 4. Levi, b. Jan. 5, 1762, settled in Union, Me.
5. Grace, b. March 1 6, 1764; m., first, Reuben Esty ; and, second,
Samuel Whitney; now r. Charlestown, Mass. 6. Obadiah, b. Dec. 11,
1765 ; settled in Union. 7. Mary, b. Jan. 18, 1768 ; m. Pharos Sawin,
of South Natick. 8. Samuel, b. Jan. 3, 1770; d. January, 1826; mer-
chant and hotel-keeper in Boston; ra., first, March 25, 1794, Sally
Dix, at Newton; and, second, May 11, 1800, Elizabeth Barnard, at
Cambridge. 9. Persis, b. April 20, 1772 ; d. Feb. 5, 1847 ; m. Dr. J.
Sibley, of Union, Maine. 10. Daniel, b. Nov. 26, 1776; went West
about 1792, in the service of Pomerov ; never heard from. 11. Judith,
b. July 3, 1778; d. 1779. 12. Ezra] b. Sept. 1, 1779 ; d. June 24,
MORSE. 477
Feb. 3, 1844 ; was s. of Obadiah ; was in the revolutionary
army, and in the expedition for the suppression of the Shays
Rebellion, in 1786, — a rebellion for which he said he could
not blame the Shays party so much as many did ; "the coun-
try being poor, no money, taxes high, people could not pay
them." He was at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in 1785; and
perhaps from one to two years there in all. In 1789, he
taught school in Meduncook, now Friendship, and boarded
in the family of the father of Polly Gay Bradford, who was
b. at Annapolis, now Onslow, Nova Scotia, Nov. 8, 1772 ;
and whom he m., March 8, 1792. " May 22, set out from
Meduncook to move my wife to Union ; arrived there May
23." She d. Oct. 25, 1845.1 Descendants, — I. Persis, b.
1842; m., first, Betsey Stratton; and, second, widow Morse, of
Boylston, or West Boylston. 13. Moses, b. June 8, 1784; m., 1814,
Hannah Prentice, of Sherburne, b. Sept. 15, 1789 ; r. Union ; ch. (1).
Feroline Pierce, b. Sept. 8, 1815; r. Boston ; (2). Edward
Phillips, b. May 1, 1817; m. his half-cousin, Martha Alice, dr. of
Obadiah Morse ; (3). Dexter Perry, b. Jan. 2, 1824 ; (4). Han-
nah Prentice, b. Jan. 1, 1828. 14. Asa, b. June 14, 1787; m.
Susanna McFarland ; had a leg amputated in consequence of a tree
falling on it, while on a visit at Union, Maine ; r. South Bridgewater.
15. Pede, b. Sept. 15, 1790 ; r. Sherburne ; u. Of these, Levi, Oba-
diah, Persis, and Moses settled in Union. The information in the first
part of this note is abridged from a work of great labor and research,
entitled Memorial of the Morses, by Rev. Abner Morse.
1 The name Bradford is derived from the Saxon, Bradenford, or
Broad-ford. According to Dugdale, " Bradford, situated near the
Avon, .... owes its name to the broad ford of the river." Mrs.
Morse's father, Carpenter Bradford, b. at Kingston, Mass., Feb. 7,
1739, was «' put out" to a shoemaker, ran away, enlisted in the Old
French War, was captured when about sixteen years old, detained as a
prisoner in Canada one year, during which he was waiter to a Catholic
priest ; returned, and m. in Stoughton, Mass., June 18t 1761, Mary,
b. Sept. 17, 1736, dr. of David and Hannah Gay. When the Neutral
French, or Acadians, were barbarously exiled from Nova Scotia, and
their lands, with the improvements, were offered gratuitously to
settlers, he went to Annapolis, N. S., where he was at the com-
mencement of the American revolution. Then the British autho-
rities summoned the inhabitants to take the oath of allegiance. He
held up his hand ; and, being a staunch whig, when the following
words, or words to the same effect, were uttered, " You solemnly
swear to be true to King George," he substituted the words George
Washington for King George, and thus really swore allegiance to the
rebels. "Tut, tut," said the officer, "that will -not do." Conscious
that it was time for him to flee, he, in company with another whig,
left the place the same night, and proceeded by land toward Halifax.
. Just before arriving there, they came to a small river, across which a
boatman, either timid or loyal, refused to take them. They threatened
41
478 FAMILY REGISTER.
Nov. 11, 1792 ; d. Oct. 4, 1839, of paralysis; u. — II. Wal-
ter, Captain, b. July 16, 1794; m. Miss Betsey Poor, of
to shoot him ; but the difficulty was compromised by their being
allowed to row themselves over, and leave the boat on the other side.
Mr. B. proceeded by land to Castine, where he enlisted, and remained
some time. After other services in the revolutionary war, he sent for
his family, which was landed at Camden. He ended his days in Me-
duncook. For his services, more than nine hundred acres of Ohio
land, it is said, were granted to him, from which he probably did
not realize any thing.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. iv.,
contains two articles evincing great research, from which are gathered
the following items respecting his ancestors. His father, Elisha, who
m., first, Hannah Cole, and, second, Sept. 7, 1718, Bathsheba Le
Brocke, had many children. Carpenter was the eleventh child by this
second wife. His parents moved to Meduncook (now Friendship),
where, May 27, 1756, they were both killed by Indians, who carried
some of the children to Canada, whence they did not return to Me-
duncook till after the capture of Quebec by Wolfe. " Deb. Sampson,"
who, disguised as a man, under the assumed name of Robert Shurt-
leff, served three years in the revolutionary army, and afterward mar-
ried Benjamin Gannett, of Sharon, and drew a pension, was cousin of
Mrs. Morse.
Carpenter's father, Elisha, was the oldest child of Joseph Bradford,
b. 1630, who m., May 25, 1664, Jael, dr. of Rev. Peter Hobart, the
first minister of Hingham ; and d. July 10, 1715. She d. 1730, set.
eighty-eight. He resided in Kingston (then Plymouth), Mass., on
Jones's River, half a mile from its mouth at Flat House Dock ; so
called, perhaps, because he lived in a house with a flat roof.
Elisha's father, Joseph, was son of the Governor of Plymouth
Colony, Wm. Bradford, who was b. at Austerfield, in Yorkshire, Eng-
land, in March, 1588-9, and was left fatherless when about two years
old. He went to Holland, probably in 1608, whence he came to Ply-
mouth in the May Flower, while yet a young man, and d. May 9, 1657.
He was chosen Governor in 1621, and re-elected every year till 1657,
except the five years 1633, 1634, 1636, 1638, 1644. The first of the
accompanying fac-
similes represents
his handwriting in -. /.- //I ^^/ -A 4*/r7TJo TlA, U oUe*
1631-2 ; the other, *
in 1645. Governor
Bradford's first w.
was Dorothy May.
She was drowned,
Dec. 7, 1620, in Cape Cod Harbor. She was the first female who d. at
the Plymouth Colony, and the first whose death is recorded in New
England. Aug. 14, 1623, he m. the widow Alice Southworth, whose
maiden name is supposed to have been Carpenter. She d. March 26,
1670, aged about eighty. Governor Bradford had by his second w.
three children, William, Mercy, and Joseph.
Gov. Bradford's father, William, m. Alice Hanson, and was buried
July 15, 1591, a short time before his father William, who lived at
MORSE. 479
Belmont; and d., April 20, 1825, of consumption; ch. 1.
John Poor, a sea-captain ; m. Abby Y. Cotterell, of Belfast.
2. Mary; m. a Cotterell, of Belfast. — III. Hannah, b.
April 24, 1796; m., 1819, Capt. Lewis, b. at East Kings-
ton, N.H., June 21, 1794 or 1795, s. of Capt. Nathaniel
and Ruth (Morrill) Bachelor; had 1. Augusta Diana, b.
June 29, 1820, who m., Sept. 3, 1838, Noah Shattuck, b.
April 3, 1813, s. of Capt. Noah and Sally or Sarah (Shat-
tuck) Rice ; and had (1). Caroline Louis a, b. Aug. 2,
1840; (2). Henry Clay, b. Nov. 22, 1843. 2. Caroline
Louisa, b. April 23, 1822; d. Feb. 14, 1829. 3. Helen
Lauretta, b. May 16, 1826; who m. Frederic, s. of Edmund
and Deborah (Keene) Daggett. 4. Nathaniel Quincy, b.
Aug. 11, 1828; r. Boston. 5. Edwin Aurelius, b. March
11,1834. 6. William George, b. Oct. 11, 1838; d. Oct.
19, 1840.— IV. Sally, b. May 13, 1798; m., March 17,
1817, Jacob Hahn,1 of Waldoborough, subsequently of Mon-
mouth, and now of East Boston, Mass., s. of Frederick and
Hannah (Burns) Hahn; had 1. Levi Morse, b., Waldo-
borough, Feb. 3, 1819 ; d. March 6, 1845 ; m. Betsey
Tinkham, of Winthrop, who m., second, a widower, Oakes
Howard, of Winthrop ; ch. (1). Sarah Elizabeth, b.
June 2, 1843. 2. Silas Briggs, b. Dec. 7, 1820 ; graduated
at Bowdoin College ; lawyer ; r. East Boston ; u. 3. Dexter
Ward, b. Dec. 30, 1823 ; d. April 26, 1851 ; u. 4. Rodolphus
Franklin, b. April 1, 1826 ; r. California. 5. Nelson
Washington, b. July 4, 1828. 6. Sidney Bradford, b. Sept.
8, 1831 ; r. California. 7. Edwin Lafayette, b. Sept. 9,
1833, in Monmouth; d. Oct. 5, 1837. 8. Ammi Ruhamah,
b. Oct. 19, 1841. — V. Barnard, b. June 11, 1802; farmer
in Belmont; m., 1824, Mary Ann Fales, of Hope; had 1.
Lewis B., b. June 18, 1825, at Belmont ; m. ; r. Vinalhaven.
2. Leander, b. Aug. 20, 1826. 3. William Bradford, b.
Dec. 8, 1828 ; m. widow Abigail Hart, dr. of Edmund Luce ;
Austerfield in or about 1575, and was buried Jan. 10, 1595. Further
than this the family has not been traced. But, from what has been
said, it appears that Mrs. Morse's ancestors were first, Carpenter, who
m. Mary Gay ; second, Elisha and his w. Bathsheba Le Brocke ; third,
Joseph and his w., Jael Hobart ; fourth, Governor William and widow
Alice Southworth ; fifth, William and his w., Alice Hanson, of
Austerfield ; sixth, William, of Austerfield.
1 Jacob Hahn's father, Frederick Hahn, came from Germany when
about eleven years old. At the same time came Frederick's brother
George, who settled in North Carolina.
480 FAMILY REGISTER.
r. Camden. 4. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 14, 1832. 5. Samuel,
b. Nov. 11, 1833. 6. George W., b. Jan. 14, 1839, at
Lincolnville. 7. Ably J., b. Nov. 9, 1840, at Belmont; d.
Aug. 3, 1843. 8. Lucius C, b. May 14, 1845. — VI. Mary,
b. June 11, 1802 ; Feb. 4, 1824, became second w. of Capt.
Daniel Lunt, of Eastport ; subsequently moved to Lincoln-
ville, where she d. of consumption, Dec. 19, 1833. She
had 1. Edwin; r. Galena, 111.; now in California. 2.
Daniel; shot in the Mexican War. 3. Martha, m., 1849,
James Henry Upham, of Readfield ; r. California. — VII.
Levi,b. Oct. 18, 1804 ; r. homestead ; m., Feb. 13, 1834, Eliza
Daniels; and had 1. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1835.
2. Edwin Lafayette, b. Aug. 5, 1837. 3. Levi Roscoe, b.
Aug. 12, 1842. 4. John Adelbert, b. Jan. 21, 1845. 5.
Nathan Daniels, b. March 4, 1847; d. Sept. 4, 1848. —
VIII. Nancy, b. Jan. 6, 1807; m., Dec. 29, 1841, Aaron
Starrett, of Warren; and d. of consumption, July 11, 1844;
leaving 1. Ellen. — IX. Samuel, b. March 18, 1809; d. of
consumption, March 7, 1831; u. — X. Chloe Bradford, b.
April 6, 1811 ; became the third w. of Capt. Daniel Lunt ;
and d. of consumption in Lincolnville, Jan. 5, 1841 ; leaving
1. Mary Grace. 2. Chloe. — XL George Washington, b.
Aug. 24, 1813 ; settled on part of the homestead ; m., 1840,
Mary Harding, b. July 19, 1815, dr. of Capt. Noah and
Sally (Shattuck) Rice; ch. 1. Edward Franklin, b. Feb.
28, 1841 ; d. Feb. 19, 1848. 2. Leslie Melvyn, b. July 16,
1842. 3. Orville Dana, b. April 6, 1844; d. March 23,
1845. 4. Sarah Alfaretta, b. Oct. 28, 1846. 5. Harriet
Estella, b. June 7, 1848. — XII. William Bradford, twin
brother of George Washington, b. Aug. 24, 1813 ; lime-
burner ; r. Rockland; m., Oct. 12, 1837, widow Emma
Gould (Parsons) Ross, of Stillwater ; ch. 1. Penelope
Colburn, b. Aug. 29, 1838. 2. William Henry, b. Jan. 1,
1841. 3. Charles Bradford, b. Dec. 24, 1847. — XIII.
Harriet Newell, b. May 14, 1816; m., Oct. 11, 1843, Ben-
jamin, br. of Aaron Starrett, of Warren; c.
Morse, Obadiah, son of Obadiah, b. at Sherburne,
Mass., Dec. 11, 1776; came to Union as early as 1798,
having previously lived one or two years in Maiden, Massa-
chusetts, and in Chester, N. H. He settled west by south of
Round Pond, about half-way to the summit of the hill, on
the north side of the road ; m., first, Sally Palmer, of New-
ton, Mass., who d. of consumption, Sept. 15, 1821, aged
MORSE. — NEWHALL. 481
forty-two; and, second, July 3, 1823, Phebe, dr. of David
and Martha Carriel ; and d. Aug. 8, 1837. His widow m.
James Adams Ulmer, of Thomaston. He had — L Alice,
b. Jan. 12, 1804; d. March 18, 1804. — II. Eliza, b. Feb.
22, 1805; m., July 3, 1831, Isley Martin, who was b. in
Union, Feb. 23, 1806, son of Adam (who was b. in Wal-
doborough), and Mary (Lamson) Martin, who was b. in
Thomaston; ch. 1. William, b. Feb. 17, 1833; d. Sept.
24,1841. 2. George Young, b. Nov. 10, 1836. 3. Sarah,
b. May 29, 1839. — III. Palmer, b. May 2, 1807; d. Sept.
24, 1808. — IV. Asa, b. Jan. 27, 1809; m., in Union,
Eliza Jane, b. at Gushing, Sept. 30, 1810, dr. of Benjamin
and Nancy (McLellan) Litchfield ; settled on the Bela Rob-
bins Farm, but now lives in Rockland; has 1. Edwin
Palmer, b. July 20, 1836. 2. Fostena, b. March 7, 1838.
3. Argyl Dudley, b. March 23, 1841. 4. William Spofford,
b. Nov. 29, 1843; all b. at Union. 5. A son, b. June,
1851, in Rockland. — V. Margaret Palmer, b. March 10,
1811 ; m., Oct. 1839, James Libbey, of Warren ; c. — VI.
Obadiah, b. May 18, 1813 ; m., 1836, Chloe, dr. of Charles
and Rebecca (Cobb) Copeland, of Warren, and settled in
Thomaston, where he d. July 14, 1847, in consequence of
the caving in of clay at a brickyard, July 1 1 . Children, 1 .
Lucius Kendall, b. May 19, 1837, 2. Newell Austin. 3.
Charles Copeland. 4. Benjamin Wentworth. 5. Obadiah,
b. April, 1847. —VII. Jedidiah, b. Sept. 19, 1815; m.,
1840, Rebecca Barnes, dr. of Moses and Mary (Jones)
Simmons; and has Alenzer Forrest, b. Nov. 13, 1846. —
VIII. Sarah Ann, b. June 27, 1818; m., Dec. 25, 1836,
David Seavey, the 2d, from Cushing ; c. — IX. Martha Alice,
b. May 31, 1824 ; m., June 8, 1846, her half-cousin, Edward
Phillips, s. of Moses and Hannah (Prentice) Morse, of
Union; and has 1. Quincy Adams, b. May 15, 1848. — X.
Matilda, b. Oct. 19, 1826; d. May 9, 1844. —XL Mary
Frances, b. June 9, 1829; m., 1851, a son of James A.
Ulmer. — XII. Melina Amelia, b. Oct. 10, 1835.
Morton, Zenas, t. 1797; bought Guild's farm ; returned
to Friendship.
Newhill, Jonathan, from Lynn, Mass. ; t. 1791 ; m.
Hannah Peabody, sister of Mrs. Ware, from Warren;
moved to Washington, and d. there; ch. — I. Amos, b. Oct.
11, 1791; m. Elizabeth Conklin, b. at Camden; both
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482 FAMILY REGISTER.
Friends. — II. Lois, b. Feb. 2, 1793; m., May, 1814, Rev.
Roland Collier, of Washington, but b. Northport. — III.
Lucy, b. July 2, 1795; d. ; u. — IV. Stephen, b. Feb. 6,
1797; m., 1822, Louisa Daggett. — V. Jonathan, b. Aug.
12, 1799 ; m. a Boyd, of Washington, who d. ; and he m.
again. — VI. William, b. June 6, 1802; m. Abigail, dr. of
Deacon McDowell, of Washington. — VII. James, b. March
2, 1804 ; m. a Wetherbee, of Northport ; r. Washington. —
VIII. Joseph, b. Dec. 9, 1807; m., first, a Newbit ; and,
second, Priscilla Jameson. Jonathan Newell made the first
horse-wagon ever built in Union. William Newhall, a
younger brother, was taxed in 1791.
Nye, Thomas, t. 1798 ; a carpenter, who had worked on
the State House, in Boston, Mass., when it was building ; b.
at Barnstable, Mass., Jan. 20, 1*773 ; m., in Warren, 1796,
Anna Dunbar, b. in Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 27, 1776.
He settled on the west side of George's River, at the corner
of the road about half-way between Hills' Mills and Sunny-
bee Pond, and d. of consumption, Oct. 22, 1827. De-
scendants,— I. Stillman, b. Jan. 18, 1797; d. of con-
sumption, April 4, 1822; m., 1820, Mary Sargus,1 b. Feb.
1 The name of Thomas Harris (br. of William Harris, an associate
with Roger Williams, who was one of the founders of Providence,
R. I.), first appears on the records of Providence, in August, 1637.
His son, Thomas, treasurer of Providence, surveyor, d. Feb. 22,
1710-11 ; m. Elethan Tew ; had ten ch., the third of whom, Nicholas,
b. April 1, 1671, r. Cranston, had six children. Nicholas, the second
of these ch., b. 1691, at Johnston, R.I., then called Providence
Woods, moved to Wrentham, Mass., and m. Hannah, dr. of an Eng-
lish gentleman named Blake, and d. April, 1775 ; had a large family,
all sons, but the one dr., who m. an Ellis, of Nantucket. The sons
suffered greatly in the war before the treaty of 1763. Two went to
the siege of Havana, and, it is said, never returned. Sylvanus was
killed at Falmouth, Me., by the Indians. Obadiah, deacon, sup-
posed to be the youngest of Nicholas's children, b. Wrentham, July
7, 1736, in 1785 moved to Hallowell, Me., where he d. July, 1800;
m., June 27, 1759, Lois Ellis, who was b. June 1, 1736, at Wrentham.
He was at the battle near Ticonderoga, July 6, 1758, when Lord
Howe was killed ; and at Fort William Henry, soon after the massa-
cre there. Charles, deacon, soldier in the revolutionary war, oldest
child of Obadiah and Lois Harris, was b. June 3, 1760, at Wrentham,
and d. at Winthrop, Me., July 1, 1832. May 12, 1784, he m. Mele-
tiah, b. Wrentham, Dec. 30, 1763 ; d. in Mercer, Sept. 3, 1834 ; dr. of
Timothy and Mary Hawes. Obadiah Harris, fifth s. of Charles and
Meletiah, b. at Winthrop, Nov. 18, 1795; m., June 22, 1826, the
widow of Stillman Nye; and had 1. Herman, b. May 9, 1828. 2.
NYE. — OAKES. 483
4, 1796, at Waldoborough, dr. of emigrants from Germany ;
and had 1. Anson Blake, carpenter, b. Oct. 9, 1820; r.
Boston. 2. Stillman, b. April 30, 1822 ; m., 1848, Emily,
who d. June 17, 1850, dr. of Caleb Maddocks ; and, second,
1850, Caroline, dr. of Nahum Thurston. — II. Cyrus Crock-
er, b. Dec. 23, 1799; d. of consumption, May 27, 1828;
m., April 8, 1824, Patty, or Martha, dr. of David Carriel.
She m., second, Charles Fogler ; ch. 1. Edward Thomas, a
seaman, b. Aug. 25 ; m., 1850, Belinda, dr. of Jesse and
Miranda (Fogler) Dunbar, of Warren. — III. Darius, b.
April 18, 1802, for many years clock-peddler, now store-
keeper at Milo ; m., first, Oct. 4, 1827, Eleanor Ayres, of
Newton, Mass. ; and, second, Eliza, dr. of John Burton,
of Warren; had 1. Helen Ann, who d. 2. Darius; also
others, including at least two by last wife. — IV. Caroline,
b. Sept. 22, 1804; d. of consumption, March 6, 1834; m.
1828, Israel Barker (who afterward m. Mary Severance);
and had 1. James, cabinet-maker, b. Oct. 10, 1828. 2.
Eliza Ann, b. Aug. 1, 1831; r. Warren. — V. Charles
Austin, b. May 26, 1807; d. of consumption, April 27,
1832; m., March, 1831, Caroline, dr. of David Gillmor, of
Newburgh ; had 1. David, b. January, 1832. — VI. Eliza, b.
June 22, 1809 ; d. of consumption, June 7, 1830 ; u. — VII.
Harriet, b. Oct. 11, 1811 ; m., April 17, 1831, Joseph Bar-
ker ; r. Searsmont ; ch. 1. Harriet Lavinia, b. Sept. 29,
1831 ; m. a Swan; r. Saccarappa. 2. Caroline. 3. Eliza-
beth; also several others. — VIII. Thomas, b. Jan. 16,
1814; m., 1840, Jane, dr. of Daniel Stetson, of Warren;
ch. 1. Emeline, b. Aug. 1841. 2. Laura Ann, b. Aug. 17,
1844; d. July 11, 1846. — IX. Maria, b. Aug. 12, 1816;
m., Dec. 7, 1840, at Marlborough, Mass., Thomas, a
widower, b. Feb. 28, 1808, at Kingston, Devonshire, Eng.,
son of Thomas and Grace Harris, of Boston ; r. Charlestown,
Mass.; ch. 1. Catharine Loring, b. Sept. 7, 1841, at Marl-
borough, Mass. 2. Caroline Maria, b. Feb. 20, 1849, in
Boston. 3. Charles Thomas, b. Jan. 20, 1851.
Oakes, Edward, shoemaker; t. 1797; from North
Yarmouth ; came with the Mitchells ; m. a Mitchell, and
moved away.
William Shepherd, b. Sept. 19, 1829. 3. Mary Frances, b. May 2,
1831. 4. Charles Henry, b. October 26, 1832. 5. Edwin, b. January
9, 1835. 6. Isaac Sargus, b. June 15, 1836.
484 FAMILY REGISTER.
Olney,1 Edwaed, from Providence, R.I. ; a mulatto;
brought into town by David Gillmor, jun. ; m. Susanna, a
Penobscot squaw, who lived in the family of David Iiobbins ;
moved to Newburgh, having had — I. Edward, b. July 26,
1799. — II. Sally, b. May 22, 1802. — III. Ebenezer, b.
Jan. 22, 1804.
Partridge, Elisha, s. of Edward and Sarah ; b. at
Medfield, according to Medfield records, July 8 ; but, accord-
ing to family records, Aug. 8, 1734. He was moderator,
June 12, 1786, of the only plantation-meeting on record
before the one for town-organization. In 1786 he r. on
Colonel Mason Wheaton's Place, now owned by Nahum
Thurston. He left the house of Philip Robbins on horse-
back, Jan. 1, 1787, for his residence; but, as the horse
returned without him, search was immediately made, and he
was found, before noon, dead on the Western Meadows, so
called, near Round Pond. This was the route commonly
taken by him, as there were no roads. By some it was
supposed he fell from his horse in an apoplectic fit ; by
others, that there were indications of his having dismounted
and walked by his horse's side a few rods before he died.
He m., first, March 16, 1756, Dorcas Pond, who was b.
June 22, 1740, and d. Feb. 2, 1778 ; and, second, Jan. 28,
1779, Sarah Fales (of Franklin, Mass.?), who was b.
March 18, 1755, and d. Nov. 15, 1834. Issue, the first
seven b. in Franklin ; the others in Union. — I. Simeon, b.
May 19, 1758.— II. Zibiah, b. June 18, 1760; m. David
Fales, Esq., of Thomaston. — III. Judith, b. March 17,
1762. — IV. Miriam, b. Aug. 25, 1764. — V. Dorcas, b.
March 30, 1767; m. Elijah Holmes. — VI. Elisha, b. Jan.
1, 1770.— VII. Alibeus, b. Nov. 14, 1779; m., Nov. 13,
1808, Prudence Brown; and d. Dec. 12, 1840. — VIII.
James, b. Sept. 10, 1782 ; r. Rockland; m., first, Oct. 11,
1804, Betsey Brown, of Thomaston, who was b. May 19,
1784, and d. Dec. 9, 1837; and, second, Aug. 8, 1838,
Sarah Vose. — IX. Sarah, b. July 4, 1786.
Peabody, Samuel, t. 1791 ; from Warren; had a fami-
ly, lived west of Sunnybec Pond, where afterwards lived
Ichabod Maddocks ; then near to the school-house in the
1 The almost entire absence of colored people since the town was
settled is remarkable. — See Prince, Melvin.
PEABODY. — QUIGGLE. 485
Daggett neighborhood ; moved to Penobscot County ; pro-
bably m. Betsey Martin, of Bristol, in 1794.
Peabody, William, t. 1793 ; m. Lynda, dr. of David
and Abigail (Holmes) Woodcock, about 1794; moved to
Penobscot County, and d. there; had — I. Jason, b. Dec.
17, 1795. — II. Esther C, b. Aug. 29, 1797. — III. Al-
mond, b. Dec. 1, 1800. — IV. Hannah, b. Jan. 22, 1804.
Pratt, Oliver, t. 1799, lived on the place now owned
by John Burns, and was one of the early emigrants to Ohio.
Prikce, Melvin and Sylvanus, mulattoes, or rather
half Indian, quarter French and quarter English, sons of
Sylvester Prince, from the South Shore, Mass. ; worked con-
siderably for Philip Robbins. Melvin Prince was taken,
when a small boy, by Amariah Mero, and brought up. He
was here perhaps twelve years, and his father three or four.
These, with Olney and his wife, are the only colored people
who ever resided in town.
Qjjtggle, Samuel, t. 1797 ; b. Dedham, Mass., Nov. 19,
1771 ; came from Franklin about the same time with N.
Daniels; m., first, at David Robbins's, Nov. 30, 1797,
Dimmis Hammond, b. Oct. 9, 1775, at Needham, who
had taught school in the Round Pond district. She d.
March 11, 1838; and he m., second, at Mansfield, Mass.,
May 6, 1840, Eunice (widow of Amasa Pratt), b. Mansfield,
July 29, 1778, dr. of Elijah and Elizabeth Williams. He
had — I. Dimmis, b. Feb. 14, 1800; d. at Waldo, February,
1842; m., Oct. 26, 1817, Daniel Linniken ; ch. 1. Thomas,
b. in Union, Nov. 5, 1818 ; m. 2. John, b. Dec. 15, 1820 ;
m. 3. Hannah, b. Jan. 14, 1823; m., March 28, 1848,
Nathaniel Bartlett ; r. Lynn, Mass. ; and has (1). Eugene
Henry. 4. Mary, b. May 27, 1825 ; m. a Doty ; r. War-
ren. 5. Jane, b. Waldo, July 7, 1827. 6. Harriet, b.
May 17, 1830. 7. Maria, b. 1832. 8. William, b. January,
1835. 9. Daniel, b. 1837. 10. Rufus, b. 1840. — II. Sally,
b. June 7, 1801 ; m., first, 1818, Thomas Staples Perkins,
of Hope, who settled in Belmont, and d. Sept. 9, 1824;
and, second, John Shepherd Bean, and lives in Searsmont.
She had ch. (three of them by her first husband) ; 1 . Tamson,
b. in Union, April 21, 1819 ; m., May 8, 1840, Kiah Bailey
Somes ; r. North Chelsea, Mass. ; and had (1). Adelaide
Elizabeth, b. Jan. 8,1842; (2). George Frederic,
486 FAMILY REGISTER.
b. Aug. 31, 1845; d. Oct. 7, 1845; (3). Abby Ara-
bella, b. Aug. 31, 1847; (4). Thomas Perkins, b.
Sept. 18, 1849. 2. Abijah, d. young. 3. Betsey, or Eliza-
beth, b. in Union, Sept. 8, 1822 ; m., April 29, 1847, John
Smith Nichols, of Maiden, Mass. ; and has (1). Nathan,
b. Jan. 18, 1848; (2). John Smith, b. Jan. 5, 1850.
4. Joseph Shepherd, b. Nov. 3, 1827, at Belmont; d. at
sea, April 1, 1850. 5. John Lewis, b. Jan. 3, 1830, in
Union. 6. Olive Holmes, b. Nov. 15, 1831 ; m., April 29,
1851, Joseph M. Somes, of North Chelsea, Mass. 7. Har-
riet Louisa, b. Sept. 26, 1833. 8. Sarah Dimmis, b. April,
1835. 9. Helen Josephine, b. Feb. 15, 1837. 10. Elisha
Lorenzo, b. Feb. 1, 1842. 11. Samuel Smith, b. 1844. —
III. Hannah H., b. Sept. 25, 1803 ; d. May 23, 1824. —
IV. Phanne, Fanny, or Frances, b. June 24, 1805; m.,
June 29, 1826, William Bennet, of Searsmont ; ch. 1. Martin
Paul; and others. — V. Hammond, b. Aug. 5, 1807 ; killed
himself in jail in Belfast. — VI. Harriet, b. Nov. 21, 1809 ;
m., Sept. 26, 1837, Daniel Wood, b. at Prospect, Me., s.
of Daniel Tibbetts ; and he d. March 23, 1844, at Edgefield
Court-house District, S.C. She r. Boston ; ch. b. at Edge-
field, 1. A son, b. Feb. 17, 1839; d. June 4, 1839. 2.
Otis Nelson, b. June 23, 1841. 3. Abby Louisa, b. July
14, 1844, at Ashland, Mass. — VII. Samuel, b. Dec. 15,
1811; m., 1838, Clementine Blood, of Warren; ch. 1.
Llewellyn Augustus, b. March 11, 1839; drowned June 10,
1841. 2. Guilford Williams, b. Jan. 10, 1841. 3. Sarah
Ann, b. Jan. 8, 1843. 4. Margaret Adelia, b. July 23,
1845. 4. A son. — VIII. Nathaniel Emmons, born Feb.
20,1816; d. July 24, 1838. — IX. Mary Louisa, b. Sept. 23,
1818 ; m. William Bacon ; r. Ashland, Mass. ; ch. 1. Charles
William. 2. Louisa, d. young. 3. Mary Dimmis, b. Octo-
ber, 1845. 4. Andrew Jackson. 5. A child, b. February,
1851.
Robbixs, Bela, b. May 2, 1761; d. April 19, 1831.
He was son of Ebenezer ; 1 came with his father from the
1 All the persons named Robbins, who live in Union and vicinity,
are said to be descended from William and Pkiscilla Bobbins.
If so, the former, probably, is the person of the same name who d.
at Walpole, Aug. 18, 1725 ; and the latter the one who d. March 5,
1744-5. Their son Ebenezer, b. May 19, 1691 ; d. July 3 [family-record]
or 6 [Walpole record], 1762; all his ch. probably b. in Walpole,
Mass. ; the first four by his first wife, Mary ; the others by his second
BOBBINS. 487
Fox Islands, and soon after " went out in the war," where,
it is said, he served three years. Hem. Margaret Meservey,
1785. "He would take a log and make one of the best
and handsomest of canoes, and canoes were of great conse-
quence at the time. He had not a chair or bedstead in
the house for many years after marriage. The furniture
consisted of benches for seats, and shingle blocks with
boards on them for benches." The ch. were — I. Lewis, b.
Dec. 22, 1786; m., 1811, Nancy Fales, of Thomaston. — II.
Sabra, b. May 4, 1788 ; m., May 16, 1805, Leonard Bump ;
and had 1. Leonard, b. Aug. 13, 1806; d. July 30, 1829.
2. Lewis, b. Oct. 16, 1807. 3. Josephus, b. June 3, 1810.
4. Maria, b. Feb. 17, 1813. 5. Almond, b. Sept. 18,
1816; d. Oct. 8, 1831. 6. Matilda, b. Sept. 18, 1819. 7.
Lovey, b. March 17, 1821. 8. Sabra, b. Feb. 14, 1823.
9. Darius W., b. April 10, 1829. — III. Becca, b. March
15, 1790. — IV. Harvey, b. Sept. 17, 1794; m. Susan
Brazier, Feb. 2, 1812; r. Appleton. — V. Chloe, b. May
25, 1795 ; m. Benjamin Simmons, June 23, 1811 ; r. Hope.
VI. Ebenezer, b. April 29, 1797; m. Polly Weaver in 1816;
r. Winsor; had 1. Polly, b. Feb. 27, 1817. 2. Lucinda,
b. Jan. 28, 1819. 3. PJiilinda, b. Feb. 25, 1821. 4.
Juliann, b. March 6, 1823. 5. Spencer, b. Aug. 15, 1825.
6. Lavina, b. Dec. 29, 1827. — VIL Cyrus, b. May 12,
1799; m., 1819, Olivia Ransom; ch. 1. Wilbert, b. May
20, 1820. 2. Cyrus, b. Aug. 29, 1822 ; m. Margaret Burns,
and had (1). Wilmot C. ; d. Dec. 29, 1849; (2).
Eldred, b. Jan. 3, 1850. 3. Alvin N., b. March 20,
1824; m. 4. Eber A., b. Sept. 29, 1826. 5. Diantha
Atelia, b. Oct. 3, 1829. 6. Olivia Verdilla, b. June 1,
1830. 7. LorriliaArvilia,h. Sept. 14, 1831. 8. Almatia
wife, Experience Holmes, who was b. June 7, 1706; viz. 1. Mary, b.
Nov. 12, 1720; d. July 18, 1746. 2. Sarah, b. Oct. 23, 1722. 3.
Ebenezer, b. Sept. 11, 1724; settled in Union; d. March 1, 1798. He
lived in Attleborough a while, came to Fox Islands before the Revo-
lution broke out, and came off, as many others did at the time, to get
away from the British. [See page 47.] 4. Oliver, b. Oct. 1, 1727 ;
settled in Thomaston; d. March 27, 1792. 5. Philip, b. Aug. 20,
1730; settled in Union. 6. Margaret, b. May 29, 1732. 7. Benoni,
b. June 21 [family-record], or 22 [Walpole record], 1733. 8. Expe-
rience, b. June 2, 1735. 9. Josiah, b. July 23, 1737 ; settled in Union.
10. Margaret, b. Jan. 16, 1739-40. 11. Tabitha, b. April 9, 1742;
d. Sept. 25, 1775. 12. Isaac, b. July 3, 1744; d. Nov. 12, 1762. 13.
Nathaniel, b. Feb. 6, 1746-7; d. July 8, 1747. 14. Nathanieltb. Nov.
21, 1748; d. Oct. 1, 1770.
488 FAMILY REGISTER.
Welthania, b. Nov. 29, 1832. — VIII. Clarissa, b. Sept. 23,
1801 ; m., 1822, Osmyn Davis, of "Warren; r. Waldo-
borough. — IX. Sophronia, b. April 24, 1804 ; m., Dec. 31,
1822, Philip Newbit. — X. Harriet, b. July 26, 1806; m.,
Dec. 28, 1820, John Robinson ; ch. 1. Elmira, b. in Waldo-
borough, May 18, 1822; d. 2. Warren, b. July 12, 1823.
3. Roxana R., b. April 21, 1825, in Jefferson; d. 4.
Lenora, b. July 15, 1827. 5. Clarinda, b. Oct. 5, 1829.
6. Darius, b. Sept. 20, 1831. 7. Stillman, b. Aug. 20,
1833. 8. Horatio, b. Jan. 8, 1836, in Union. 9. Alvira,
b. Dec. 23, 1837. 10. Avilla, b. Dec. 28, 1840; d. April
20, 1841. 11. Delano, b. April 5, 1841.
Robbixs, David, b. at Walpole, Mass., March 21, 1752 ;
d. Aug. 12, 1831 ; owned the first horse in town, the first
chaise, the first sleigh, the first hack; and his was the
first w. or woman who moved into town to reside. He
m., first, Elizabeth, Feb. 11, 1772, who d. June 18, 1801
(dr. of John Chapman, a Scotchman, and his w., Betsey Jel-
lard, at the time of marriage the widow Quiggle) ; and,
second, widow Marcy (Hunt) Winslow, b. in Waldoborough,
and who d. in "Waldoborough, December, 1848, aged eighty-
one. Issue, — I. Jason, b. March 13, 1772, at Walpole,
Mass. ; d. July 10, 1794 ; m. Jane, dr. of C. Butler, and had
1. Betsey, b. March 7, 1794, who m. Benjamin Buzzell in
1813. Mrs. R. m., second, in 1800, Sterling Davis. — II.
Chloe, b. Walpole, Mass., Sept. 11, 1773 ; m., first, Samuel
Bartlett, a widower, of Barretts Town, now Hope (who was
b. at Newton, Mass., July 18, 1763, and whose w., Abigail
Knight, d. April 15, 1784); and, second, Sept. 1, 1806,
Abner Dunton, b. Lincolnville, April 26, 1781. She had,
by her first husband, 1. Jason, b. Aug. 15, 1795 ; d. in New
York city, u., March, 1833. 2. Sophronia, b. Dec. 12,
1796; m. Abram Nason. 3. Isaac, b. March 7, 1798; w.
Clarissa. 4. Noah, b. Feb. 26, 1800; d. Nov. 19, 1834;
m. Matilda, dr. of Herman Hawes. 5. Samuel, b. March
3, 1802; m. Mary Jane, dr. of Jacob Sibley. 6. Joel, b.
April 24, 1803; m. Mary Dunton, of Westfield. 7. Joseph,
b. June 3, 1805 ; d. March 22, 1825. By her second h. she
had 8. Abner, b. Aug. 1, 1807 ; m. Susanna W. Harwood.
9. Seldom, writing-master, b. Feb. 14, 1809. 10. Chloe,
b. Nov. 30, 1810; d. Aug. 11, 1817. 11. Alvin, writing-
master, b. April 13, 1812 ; m. Elizabeth Harris, of Liberty,
who d. 1850. 12. Washington, b. Sept. 14, 1813. 13.
BOBBINS. 489
Nancy Gushee, b. April 9, 1815 ; d. March 30, 1848* m
Joseph Wiley. 14. John B., b. May 18, 1817; m., first',
Dellora Bartlett ; and, second, Caroline, dr. of David Rob-
bins. — III. Joseph, b. Thomaston, July 7, 1775; d.
February, 1850; r. near Mount Pleasant; m., first, Aprii
5, 1798, Abigail, dr. of C. Butler; and, second, in March,
1820, Hannah Sterling, of Appleton, from St. George- had
1. Lucy, b. July 30, 1801 ; d. 2. Christopher Butler b
June 11, 1803; m., 1829, Mary Noyes, of Warren ' 3
Samuel H., b. May 1, 1805 ; m., 1829, in Searsmont, a Ben-
net ; r. Hope. 4. Eliza, b. July 9, 1807 ; m. John Brigo-s
5. Nancy Gushee, b. May 8, 1809; m. a Jones; r. Goose
Hiver in Camden ; and d. 1851. 6. Mercy W., b. June 22
1811; m. 7. Chloe M., b. Jan. 17, 1816; d. Nov. 25*
1834; m. Oliver Matthews, of Warren. — IV. Silence b'
Feb. 22, 1777; d. Feb. 22, 1777; the first white child b'
in town. — V. Lucy, b. Feb. 19, 1778; d. March 1, 1778;
the second white child b. in the town. — - VI. Joel, b. June
3, 1780 ; the first male child born in town, and the first per-
son born here who was required to do military duty ; set-
tled at the east part of the town; m., Oct. 16, 1799,
Rebecca, dr. of Christopher Butler. — VII. Nancy, b. April
22, 1782; m., Nov. 14, 1799, Almond Gushee, of Hope.—
VIII. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 4, 1783; m. Thankful, dr. of Seth
Luce; r. Appleton. — IX. Pardon, b. June 18, 1785; was
left m a store on the Common, the night of April 2, 1838,
where he was found dead the next morning ; u. X*
David, b. Feb. 20, 1788 ; settled on the homestead ; became
blind ; in a state of depression, after several unsuccessful
attempts, succeeded, July, 1850, in killing himself, "by
taking a twist in his neckhandkerchief with a stick.'' He
m., March 18, 1813, Lydia, dr. of Joseph Maxcy ; had 1.
Gilbert, b. Jan. 3, 1814; d. Aug. 29, 1834. 2. Oren, b.
Feb. 1, 1815; enlisted; d. in Mexico, Nov. 20, 1847. 3
Elvira, b. Oct. 6, 1816; m., July 4, 1843, Asa Crockett*
of Thomaston. 4. Olive, b. Feb. 14, 1819; m., Jan. 11,
1844, Philo Thurston, jr.; and has a son. 5. Hannah
Elizabeth, b. Dec. 29, 1821. 6. Waterman Maxcy, b. Feb.
4, 1823. 7. Mary Weeks, b. Nov. 12, 1824; m., Nov.*
1848, Samuel Winslow; r. Newton, Mass. 8. Nancy Maxcy,
b. Nov. 18, 1826; d. Jan. 1851. 9. Caroline Maxcy, b!
Sept. 16, 1828 ; m. John B. Dunton. 10. Maxcy, b. July 13,
1830. 11. Ermina Gushee, b. Aug. 22, 1832. 12. Lydia
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Amanda, b. Jan. 24, 1836. 13. Mandalene Victoria, b.
Oct. 29, 1837; d. May 21, 1850. — XI. John Chapman, b.
April 17, 1791 ; m. Berintha, dr. of Thomas Daggett ; ch.
1. Spencer, b. Aug. 6, 1809 ; d. June 27, 1834. 2. Cordelia,
b. March 17, 1811 ; m., Sept. 8, 1833, Vinal, s. of Nathan
Hills; r. Northport ; had (1). Spencer R., b. Dec. 25,
1833; (2). Adilate, b. Oct. 30, 1835, d. April 16, 1836;
and probably others. 3. Hannah, b. Nov. 27, 1812; r.
Saccarappa; m., May 30, 1830, Otis Hunnewell, from New-
ton, Mass.; and had Edwin Emery, b. Sept. 13, 1830,
d. June 27, 1831 ; Charles Edwin, d. June 27, 1840,
aged nine months ; also Henry and E 1 i a s. 4. Irene, b.
Feb. 9, 1815 ; m., Jan. 11, 1835, Paul Lincoln, of Appleton;
and d. 5. Laurinda, b. May 10, 1817; m. Orson Cromett,
who was killed by the bursting of a grindstone, at South
Union. 6. Elias, b. April 2, 1819 ; travels, as musician,
with a caravan of animals. 7. Aldina, b. April 22, 1821 ;
d. June 12, 1841. 8. John Chapman, sea-captain, b. March
5, 1823 ; r. Northport. 9. Martha M., b. May 31, 1825 ;
r. Saccarappa. 10. Almond Gushee, b. Oct. 30, 1828 ; d.
March 17, 1830. — XII. Maxcy, b. June 23, 1793; clothier,
musician, accompanied a circus or caravan of animals ; and
d., 1832, of cholera, in Upper Canada; m., 1818, in Stra-
tham, N.H., Mary W., b. Stratham, N.H., Nov. 21, 1797, d.
Manchester, N.H., Dec. 4, 1849, dr. of Walter and Nancy
(Jewett) Weeks; and had 1. Ann Elizabeth, b. Sept. 24,
1818, Exeter, N.H. ; d. Aug. 1819. 2. Hannah, b. Sept. 23,
1820,Epping,N.H.; d. Oct. 18, 1844, Manchester, N.H. ; c;
m., June 9, 1840, Daniel Clark, lawyer, Manchester, N.H. —
XIII. Eliza, b. Aug. 14, 1802 ; d. March 18, 1805. — XIV.
Sally Simmons, b. Sept. 25, 1807; d. Oct. 7, 1807. — XV.
Sarah Simmons, b. Dec. 2, 1808 ; m., first, James Woodcock;
had a son, d. young ; Leonora Levenseller, b. Feb. 17, 1830,
m. Isaac Kahler, 1848; Esther Mero, b. Jan. 16, 1832;
also a son ; having lost Harriet. Mrs. W. m., second,
Nathaniel Hunt, of Waldoborough ; and has Octavia, Sel-
dom Dunton, Statira, Oren Robbins, fyc.
Robbins, Jessa, s. of Philip, b. Walpole, Mass., April
16, 1759; m., first, in the fall of 1783, Jemima, sister of
Capt. Joel Adams, who was b. at Franklin, Mass., and d.
Oct. 20, 1790; by whom he had — I. Submit, d. Aug.
7, 1790. He m., second, in the spring of 1792, Ruth
Pearce ; b. Rehoboth, Mass., Oct. 16, 1760 ; who d. April 9,
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1838; and had — II. John Pearce, b. Sept. 2, 1793; m.,
April 2, 1815, Polly, b. Nov. 26, 1790, dr. of John and
Elizabeth Mero ; and had 1. Caroline, b. Jan. 15, 1816.
2. John, b. Feb. 20, 1818 ; m. Hannah Douglass ; r. Gardi-
ner. 3. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 23, 1819; m. Oren Oxford
Stewart. 4. Jesse, b. June 21, 1823; m., Feb. 22, 1849,
Harriet Newell Young, of Jefferson. 5. Catharine, b.
March 3, 1826(1). — III. Milton, b. Jan. 8, 1796 ; d. Oct. 23,
1802. — IV. Jason, b. July 2, 1799; r. homestead; m.,
March 28, 1824, Lucy Thorndike, of Searsmont; and had
1. Adaline, b. March 23, 1825; m., May, 1849, Emery
Franklin Joy. 2. Clementine Thorndike, b. Nov. 25, 1832.
3. Alphonso, b. July 29, 1835. 4. Jason, b. June 25, 1838.
5. Lycurgus, b. May 17, 1844. — V. Mima, b. Aug. 14,
1801; m. George Butler, of Thomaston. — VI. Jesse, b.
May 28, 1806 ; m., first, May 9, 1830, Hannah, dr. of David
Carriel; and had 1. Ann Augusta, b. March 28, 1831. 2.
Charles C, b. Dec. 4, 1832. 3. Dexter, b. Sept. 9, 1834.
4. Mary Ellen, b. Aug. 14, 1836. 5 and 6. Twins, Emery
and Emerson, b. 1837. 7. Levi, b. 1840. He m., second,
in 1845, widow Louisa (Smith) Dutton ; c.
Robbies, Josiah, b. Walpole, Mass., July 23, 1737; d.
Union, Jan. 5, 1811 ; m., in Franklin, Sarah, b. April 24,
1746 ; d. of dropsy, Feb. 27, 1825 ; dr. of Matthew Smith,
of Bellingham ; had — I. Olive, b. Feb. 23, 1766; m.,
first, Robert Gillmor, of Franklin, Nov. 15, 1785; and,
second, Deacon James Metcalf, of Franklin, and had ch. by
the first husband only. — II. Molly, or Mary, b. Nov. 1,
1767; m. David Gillmor. — III. Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1770;
m. Rufus Gillmor. — IV. Nathaniel, b. Stoughtonham,
Oct. 2, 1773; m., 1793, Lovey, b. Holmes's Hole, Mass.,
April 1, 1775, dr. of Capt. George West. She d. of lung-
fever, Nov. 9 [10, gravestone], 1812. He m., June 15, 1814,
Elizabeth, whose maiden name was Lummus, b. Feb. 4, 1776,
in Hamilton, Mass., widow of David Coggswell, of Ipswich,
Mass. N. R. lived in Union till the fall of 1840, when he
moved to Brunswick, where he d. of dropsy, July 4, 1850.
His remains, in a massive, black walnut, silver-mounted cof-
fin, were taken by railroad to Portland, thence by steamboat
to Rockland, and brought to Union, agreeably to his desire ;
and, before the religious services on Sunday, July 7, were
buried by the side of his family, in the town where he had
lived and labored during the greater part of his life. Appror
492 FAMILY REGISTER.
priate services were then held in the Universalist Meeting-
house, by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Brunswick, who officiated
in accordance with his request. His ch. were 1 . Peter West,
captain, b. Nov. 14, 1794; r. Searsmont ; m., July 16, 1815,
Mary S. Jones, dr. of the wife of Susman Abrams by her first
husband. He d. Nov. 9 [or 10, gravestone], 1821, and was
buried under arms ; having had ( 1 ). Lovey West, b. June
16, 1816, now Mrs. Thorndike, r. Searsmont; (2). Henry,
b. Oct. 29, 1818, r. Union, u. ; (3). Peter West, b. Dec. 26,
1820 ; m. ; r. Searsmont. Peter's widow m., second, Ward
Maxcy, who d. She now r. Augusta. 2. Olive, b. March 26,
1797; m., 1816, Waterman Maxcy, and June 20, 1830, Silas
Kellar ; r. South Thomaston; by whom she had [see p. 469]
(7). Oscar, b. May 7, 1831; (8). Silas, b. Dec. 14, 1833;
(9). Olive, b. May 11, 1837; (10). Mortimer, b. March
18, 1840 ; d. Sept. 4, 1849. 3. Willard, b. Dec. 14, 1799
m., at Lincolnville, April 5, 1821, Deborah W. Moody, b
Lincolnville, Oct. 1, 1799, dr. of Wm. Moody (b. York
March 30, 1766, d. Feb. 27, 1840) and Patience Thorndike,
b. Camden, Dec. 15, 1768, d. April 22, 1846; and settled
in Searsmont, where six of the children were born. They
now live on his homestead in Union. Had (1). Pa-
tience M., b. March 21, 1822, m. Franklin, s. of Noah
Rice; (2). Nancy E., b. Feb. 18, 1824; m., 1850, John
Little, from New York State; (3). Nathaniel A., b. July 4,
1826; d. Oct. 15, 1828 ; (4). Deborah M., b. July 19, 1828;
(5). William Moody, b. Sept. 13, 1830; (6). Willard,
b. July 19, 1832; (7). Nathaniel A., b. Aug. 24, 1834;
(8). Adelbert P., b. Nov. 14, 1837 ; (9). Augusta A.,
b. Nov. 9, 1840; (10). E d win L., b. Oct. 12, 1843. 4.
Mary Chase, b. Aug. 30 [31, town-rec], 1802; m. Moses
Walcott; and d. of consumption, Dec. 7, 1849. 5. Natha-
niel, b. Jan. 20, 1805 ; m., April 7, 1831, Harriet Gleason ;
and had (1). Frances Augusta, b. Feb. 19, 1832; (2).
Ann Elizabeth, b. Aug. 10, 1833; (3). Lovey West,
b. Oct. 20, 1834; (4). Edward Kent, b. April 9, 1839.
6. Lovey West, b. Oct. 4, 1807; m. Hermon Mero. 7.
Charles, b. April 28, 1810 ; d. May 1, 1810. 8. Sarah Smith,
b. June 2, 1811 ; m., Dec. 5, 1833, James, b. July 29, 1808;
d. July 23, 1847, s. of John McDowell, of Washington, from
Scotland; had(l). Mary Walcott, b. Dec 2, 1834; (2).
Roscoe, b. March 21, 1837 ; (3). Sarah Maria, b. Nov. 2,
1838; d. Jan. 13, 1845; (4). James, b. Nov. 19, 1841:
BOBBINS. 493
(5). Flotealia, b. Jan. 26, 1843; (6). S ar ah Theresa,
b. Feb. 18, 1845; (7). William Augustus, b. Feb. 25,
1848. 9. Augustus Coggswell, b. June 3, 1816 ; m., April 9,
1838, Maria Theresa, b. Brunswick, Nov. 15, 1814, dr. of
Capt. William and Priscilla (Merritt) Curtis ; and had, b. at
Brunswick, (1). Harriett Maria, b. April 13, 1841;
(2). Charles Augustus, b. July 2, 1843. — V. Lewis,
b. Franklin, Sept. 11, 1782; m., Feb. 7, 1805, Phebe, b.
Feb. 8, 1787, dr. of Nathan and Sarah (Wellington) Bar-
nard ; had 1. Josiah, b. Nov. 7, 1805 ; r. Stephensport, Ky. ;
a farmer ; m. Mahala, b. Nelson County, Ky., dr. of Thomas
and Mary (Martin) York; and had (1). Box an a, d. young;
(2). Lewis; (3). Charles Warren; (4). Willard;
(5). Ann, b. March 13, 1840; (6). Nathan Barnard;
(7). Thomas; (8). William Jesse. 2. Lucy, b. Nov. 10,
1807 ; m. Milton Daniels ; and d. Oct. 29, 1833. 3. Maria,
b. June 7, 1809 ; m., first, Jesse Drake, who d. July 19, 1842,
and, second, Dec. 30, 1848, Horace Blood ; and had (1). J o-
s i ah, b. Dec. 4, 1830; (2). Jesse, b. Feb. 22, 1843 ; (3).
Meriam Hooper, b. Sept. 28, 1849. 4. Roxana,
b. June 27, 1812, m. William G. Hawes. 5. Nathan Bar-
nard, b. July 22, 1815 ; m., March 17, 1842, Cynthia Abi-
gail Daniels; and had (1). Levi Morse, b. July 30, 1843;
(2). Edgar Milton, b. July 30, 1845; (3). Nathan D.
b. April 30, 1849. 6. Lewis, b. May 12, 1817 ; m., Dec. 4,
1845, Matilda, b. in Hope, Nov. 28, 1826, dr. of Benjamin
and Lydia (Fletcher) McAllister; and had (1). Boscoe
Benjamin, b. Jan. 30,1846; (2). Charles Augustin,
b. Nov. 15, 1848. 7. Phebe Ann, b. June 25, 1821; d.
Aug. 22, 1826. 8. Charles, b. March 20, 1823 ; d. June 10,
1848, seventy miles above New Orleans, and was buried in
the Methodist Burying- ground on the plantation of John
Preston, on the east side of the Mississippi River, and five
miles below Donaldsonville.
Robbists, Philip, b. in Walpole, Mass., Aug. 20, 1730,
old style; d. March 9, 1816; m., Nov. 1, 1750, O.S.,
Jemima, commonly called "Aunt Mima," b. March 3, 1731,
O.S., and d. Nov. 9, 1815; dr. of Joseph Smith, of Wal-
pole. A correspondent, who was young at the time of the
death of Philip Robbins and his wife, writes, " They came
often to our house, were most simple-hearted and honest
people. Old Philip used to wear a round- top hat, just large
enough for his head, with a broad brim ; also breeches with
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knee-buckles and shoe-buckles. They sleep side by side in
the graveyard, having attained great age." Many a middle-
aged person retains a distinct recollection of his appearance,
as he rode his black horse (on each side of which were pan-
niers, lashed over the horse's back with straps) from house
to house, collecting calves and lambs, which he killed, and
was in the habit of carrying to market, at Thomaston, till
within a few years of his death. He left six children, fifty-
one grandchildren, eighty-five great-grandchildren, and five
great-great-grandchildren; having lost three children and
fifteen grandchildren. His ch. all b. in Walpole, Mass.
— I. David, b. March 21, 1752. —II. Elizabeth, b. July 8,
1754; m. Richard Cummings. — III. Jemimah, or Mima,
as she was commonly called, b. Jan. 10, 1757; m. Capt.
Joel Adams. — IV. Jess, b. April 18 or 16, 1759. — V.
Ebenezer, b. April 30, 1761 ; buried on Cranberry Island.
— VI. Jacob, b. Nov. 14, 1762; m. Susan Meservey ; r.
Appleton, and, in 1848 or 1849, found dead in his bed. —
VII. Joseph, b. Aug. 7, 1765; d. Jan. 7, 1769. — VIII.
Susanna, b. Sept. 22 [Walpole rec], Oct. 22 [herself],
1768 ; m. Amariah Mero. — IX. Philip, b. Aug. 27, 1771.
Rogers, Jesse, from Stoughtonham ; t. 1795 ; w. Salome
Bosworth ; built a house near Bowker Brook ; moved to
Penobscot ; ch. — I. Nancy, b. Nov. 27, 1787. — II. Shep-
herd, b. April 24, 1789. — III. Abigail, b. June 23, 1791. —
IV. Salome, b. May 6, 1793; d. March 20, 1794. — V. Sal-
ly, b. July 11, 1796 —VI. Jesse, b. June 2, 1798. — VII.
Wm.,b. April 27, 1800. — VIII. Hannah, b. Aug. 18, 1802.
Shepard, or Shepherd, Daniel, from Acton, Mass. ;
d. July 3, 1829. "The Shepherd and Law families were
among the first," according to Shattuck's Concord, who,
about the year 1656, commenced a settlement in Acton.
His wife was Mary Adams, of Acton. They came to Union
in June, 1795, and settled about one and a half or two
miles north-west of Round Pond. Jane Shepherd died Nov.
27, 1807, aged ninety-one. — I. Daniel, b. Nov. 2, 1775;
m., April 23, 1802, Alice, sister of Asa Messer, and had 1.
Nancy, b. Oct. 16, 1803; d. Aug. 23, 1841. 2. John
Adams, b. Nov. 26, 1805. 3. Eliza, b. May 28, 1807. 4.
William, b. April 7, 1809. 5. Daniel, b. March 28, 1811 ;
d. Aug. 10, 1811. 6. Elsie, b. July 23, 1812. 7. Daniel,
b. Sept. 15, 1815. 8. Amanda, b. April 30, 1819. — II.
Artemas, b. July 1, 1777; m. Martha Dole, of Waterville.
SHEPHERD. — SIBLEY. 495
— III. Thaddeus, b. May 13, 1779 ; m. Susan, dr. of Caleb
Howard, of Waldoborough, and had 1. Mace, b. Oct. 16,
1809; m. Jane Chapman, of Nobleborough ; c. 2. James
Sanford, b. June 5, 1811 ; m. Nancy Stone, dr. of Jonas C.
Davis, of Appleton; had (1). James Irving, b. Jan.
9, 1836 or 1835; (2). Susan Caroline, b. April 19,
1837 or 1836; (3). George Appleton; (4). Mary
Catharine. 3. Thaddeus S., b. April 15, 1813; m.
Sally Sayward; c. 4. Sarah Catherine, b. Sept. 17, 1817;
m. March 7, 1839, George Fossett, and has (1). James;
(2). George Emerson. 5. Josiah Howard, b. Sept. 16,
1819; u. 6. Noah Emerson, b. March 13, 1822. — IV. Sarah,
m. Michael Jones ; r. Jefferson. — V. Lucy, m. Samuel
Hagar, 1804, and had 1. Sarah, b. April 11, 1805. 2.
Samuel, b. Sept. 13, 1807; d. July 2, 1842. 3. Reuben,
b. March 27, 1810. 4. Lucy, b. Dec. 1, 1812. 5. John,
b. July 26, 1816. 6. Thomas, b. Aug. 26, 1820. 7. Eze-
kiel,h. Nov. 26, 1825; d. Aug. 2, 1826. 8. Esther Ann,
b. June 16, 1827. — VI. Nathan; u. — VII. Mercy, m.,
Nov 3, 1814, Daniel Jones, of Washington. — VIII. Nancy,
m. John Ames, of Jefferson.
Sibley,1 Jonathan, b. at Hopkinton, N.H., Jan. 4,
1 The word Sibley may be compounded of the words sib and lea.
The former means relationship or alliance ; or, in earlier times, peace ;
and the latter, a field. Hence the words combined may mean kins-
man's land. Perhaps several kinsmen lived together in the same
place, or on the same lea. If the earlier meaning of the word sib be
adopted, the meaning may be peace-lea, or land of peace ; perhaps be-
cause of the harmon)r of the people, or because the place was exempt
from war. This explanation of the origin of the word, however, is
merely conjectural.
The description of the Sybly arms, in Burke's General Armory, is
" Per pale azure and gules a griffin passant between three crescents
argent." In heraldry, the griffin, which is an imaginary animal, half
eagle and half lion, denotes strength and swiftness. The close agree-
ment of the armorial bearings of the families of Sileby and of Sybly
seems to show that one of the names is a variation of the other, —
the latter probably being a corruption of the former. But it is cer-
tain that Sibley is of considerable antiquity, as it is found in the Rotuli
Hunriredorum of the reign of Edward I. (1272 — 1307), in the counties
of Huntington, Kent, Oxford, and Suffolk, where it is spelt Sybeli,
Sibeli, Sibely% Sibili, Sibilie, Sibli ; and where the name Sileby does not
seem to occur. The Public Records published by the Record Commis-
sion spell it Sibille, in the reign of Richard II. (1377 — 1399); and
Sibyl* in that of Henry V. (1413—1422); and in that of Elizabeth
(1558 — 1303), it is Sybley, Sibley, and Sibly ; and once (with an alias)
Sybery. A very similar name of about the same antiquity is filius
496 FAMILY REGISTER.
1773; came to Union, Sept. 17, 1799; m., Nov. 1, 1803,
Persis, b. at Sherburne, Mass., April 20, 1772; d. of para-
Sibillce, or Fitz- Sibyl, which may have been the original of the name
in some cases ; in other cases, it may have been derived from the
parish of Hingham Sibyl, or Sible, or Sibleys, in Essex.
From Felt's Annals of Salem, i. 172, it seems that the first of the
Sibleys in this country came to Salem in the fleet of 1629. It is said
that they were from the north part of England or south part of Scot-
land, or that they came from Northamptonshire. In Willis's Cathe-
drals, ii. 172, it is stated that " John Sibeley collated 1459," succeeded
Roger Mersham as prebendary of Lincoln. In Kymer's Fcedera, xix.
348, is recorded " Pro Johanne Sibley. Rex, vicesimo sexto die Mali
[1631 or 1632] concessit Johanni Sibley et aliis Officium Clerici et
Clericorum omnium et singulorum brevium et processuum in Curia
Camere Stellate, durante vita. P[rivato] Sfigillo] ; " meaning Clerk
of the Court of the Starre Chamber for life. In Dugdale's Warwick-
shire, Knightlow Hundred, Marton, i. 327, under the patronage of
«' Rob. Fysher miles & Bar.," is found " Thorn. Sybley Cler. in Art.
Magr. xvii. Oct. 1623 [v. p. m. Ric. Seale ult. Incumb.]" In the
same volume, Birdingbury, p. 325, is " [Tho. Sibley Cler. ii Julii
1633]." In Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers, i. 638-644, Thomas
Sibley, a blacksmith, is "sent to gaol" and fined — though he was
afterward released and the fine remitted — "for being at an unlawful
Meeting or Conventicle, in the parish of Crewkherne," in Somerset-
shire, on the fourth of June, 1684. In the same volume, page 345,
William Sibley is named as a prisoner in 1685, in Leicester, — the
town where Higginson was settled before he came to Massachusetts
in 1629. Possibly some of these Sibleys were related to the early
settlers in New England. A comparison of the situation of the places
mentioned, and of places from which came some individuals in the
fleet of 1629, may be of value in making further investigations in
the mother- country.
"John Sybley with Sarah his wife " was admitted to the church in
Charlestown, Mass., on the 21st day of the 12th month, 1634-5, old
style. He took the freeman's oath, May 6, 1635. It is not certain that
there is any other information respecting him or his family, except —
" A true Inventory of the Lands : Goods: Cattell, and Chattells of John Sybley
Inhabitant of Charlestowne lately deseased the 30th of 9th mo: 1649
Imprimis A House and Barne and 6 Akers of Arrable Land Broken up
and meadow ground and cows commons, valued at . . . 50 00 00
more 4 cows 2 caves, A mare wth foale, 3 swine at 36 00 00
more Puter and Brasse and Iron Kettell and frying pan with iron pot
hangers pot hooks gridiron and other iron 05 10 00
more Armes As A corslet headpeece sword and pike . . . . 02 00 00
His Cloaths As A cloath coat, and cloath suight made and a carse suight
unmade a Buther suight [butcher suit] and hats and other cloathing
wth bands and shirts at 08 00 00
more Bedding and Lynnen at 16 00 00
more Barke, Indian, Pease and Rye at 08 00 00
A cart and furniture And tooles tubs and other Lumber . . . . 05 00 00
A Table, chest, chaire, And Bookes at 02 10 00
Summa 133 00 00
This was vale wed the 27th of the i* moneth i6 . .
John Greene
Raph Mousell."
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lysis, Feb. 5, 1847 ; dr. of Obadiah Morse ; had — I. John
Langdon, b. Dec. 29, 1804; fitted for college at Phillips's
The inventory is preserved, on a small piece of loose paper, in the
Probate Office at East Cambridge. In the record of its acceptance,
44 at a County Court held at Cambridge the 2th of the 2th mo. 1650,"
the name is spelt *• Siblie."
John Sibly, who took the freeman's oath, Sept. 3, 1634, is the
sixteenth on the list of members of the First Church in Salem. In
1636 he was selectman of Salem. The same year, 20th 10th
month, he had half an acre of land granted to him at Winter
Island Harbor, "for the fishing trade and to build upon." He also
had a grant of fifty acres at Manchester, 20: 12 : 1636, O.S. Han-
son, in the History of Dan vers, page 31, says he had land near
Salem village, now Danvers, in 1638, and settled. Probably these
Salem references are to but one John Sibley, — the same man who
settled at Manchester in 1636, was selectman there, an extensive
land-owner, and died there in 1661. In the inventory, mention
is made of nine children, four boys and five girls. His widow,
Rachel, brought the inventory into court, and " ye Court doe order
that ye estate be left in ye widoe's hands to bring up y° children
till ye Court take further order." They had Sarah, baptized at Salem
Church, 18: 7: 1642. Mary, bapt. 8: 7: 1644; m., 26 : 11: 1664,
Jonathan Walcott; had John, b. Dec. 7, 1766; Harma, b. 6: 10:
1667 ; Jonathan, b. 1 : 7 : 1670 ; and many others. Kachael. bapt. 3 :
3 : 1646 ; m. a Bishop. John, Capt. bapt. 14 : 3 : 1648 ; admitted to
the church in Beverly, April 5, 1696 ; m. Rachel (admitted to Bever-
ly Church, 5:5: 1685), dr. of Ama. Pickworth. Capt. John was
selectman of Manchester many years, representative to the General
Court, leading man in town-affairs, and d. as early as the spring of
1710. Hannah, bapt. 22 : 4 : 1651 ; m., 25 : 12 : 1676, Steeven Small ;
had Mary, b. March 21, 1677; Elizabeth, b. March 4, 1678-9; John,
b. 7: 7: 1680; Hannah, b. 18. 12: 1681. William, bapt. 8:7:
1653; yeoman and butcher; d. of consumption at Salem Village,
April 28, 1691 ; m. 1 : 9 : 1676, Ruth, dr. of William Canterbury, and
widow of William Small ; and had 1. Rath, b. August, 1677 ; m.,
Aug. 6, 1708, Thomas Needham. 2. John, 3. Joseph, probably the
Joseph of Lynn in 1717 ; d. 1718 (?). 4. Nathaniel, husbandman, b.
about 1686; d. about 1733. 5. Rachel, b. about 1688; m., Nov. 16,
1710, Joseph Flint. Samuel, b. 12: 2: 1657; m. Mary, of witch-
memory, whose confession is in the Collections of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, vol. iii. of the third series. Abigail, bapt. 3:5:
1659. There was Joseph, probably between William and Samuel. In
1693, he and others, according to Felt's Annals of Salem, ii. 214, on
their homeward passage from a fishing-voyage to Cape Sable, were
impressed on board a British frigate. After seven weeks' service in
the vessel, the captain forced him to go on board another ship. He
m., Feb. 4, 1683, Susanna Follet; and had 1. Joseph, b. Nov. 9,
1684. whose w. was Mary. 2. John, b. Sept. 18, 1687; m., May 22,
1718, Zeruia Gould. 3. Jonathan, b. May 1, 1690. 4. Hannah, bapt.
May, 1695. 5. Samuel, bapt. 1697 ; m. Martha Dike, said to be of
Ipswich. 6. William, bapt. April 7, 1700 ; d. about the age of fifty,
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Exeter Academy; graduated at Harvard University in
1825 ; Assistant Librarian at Harvard University in 1825-6 ;
having a cancer on his tongue ; m. Sarah Dike. 7. Benjamin, bapt.
Sept. 19, 1703 ; had a w., Priscilla. Of these sons, the first two and
last three settled in Sutton, Mass., and vicinity, in the first part of the
eighteenth century. Benjamin, after living in Sutton a few years,
went to Union, Conn., and d. at Ashford. From them have descended
the Sibleys in New York, and in the South and West. The late Dr.
John Sibley, of Natchitoches, La., s. of Timothy, was b. at Sutton.
There are, however, some of the name in Florida, who are not of this
stock. There was another, of whom nothing is known, except that,
among "Washington's Papers, now in the Capitol at the city of Wash-
ington, is " A return of Captain Joshua Lewis Compa. August 17th,
1756, on the South Branch. . . . Rank and File — 8 on Command, at
Sibley's Mill."
Richard Sibley, " traie-maker," from whom the families in Union
are descended, d. 1676. His widow was living in 1700. In the inven-
tory of his effects, 30 : 4 : 1676, mention is made of drawing-knives and
shaves. What relation he sustained to John, of Salem, is not known ;
perhaps both were sons of John, of Charlestown. He and his w.,
Hannah, were in Salem in 1656, as appears from charges against them
in an old account-book of Curwen. They had — I. Samuel, b.
10 : 1 : 1658. — II. Hannah, b. 20 : 7 : 1661. — III. Sarah, b. 20 : 10 :
1663. — IV. Damaris, b. 26 : 6 : 1666. — V. John, b. first week in
April, 1669 ; supposed to be the John who m., July 4, 1695, Elizabeth
Peale; and had 1. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 3, 1696; d. twenty months old.
2. Elizabeth, b. April 13, 1699. 3 and 4. Mary and Hannah, twins,
b. March 14, 1701 ; both d. within a week. 5. Mary, b. April 25,
1702. 6. John, b. Dec. 1, 1704. — VI. Mary, b. Jan. 25, 1671.—
VII. Elizabeth, is mentioned in the inventory.
Samuel, b. 10 : 1 : 1658, named in Rd. Sibley's will, being the oldest
son, had a double share of the property. He m., in Salem, Sept. 13,
1695, Sarah Wells, from whom the settlers in Union are descended.
There is a tradition that he was killed at Haverhill, Mass., while
throwing water upon the meeting-house which had been set on fire
by the Indians, Aug. 29, 1708. He belonged to Salem, and was proba-
bly under Major Turner, upon the arrival of whose men, according to
Mirick's History of Haverhill, the whole body of the enemy com-
menced a rapid retreat. Many persons from Salem were then killed.
He had no children after that time. The inventory of his estate is
dated Dec. 8, 1710. July 7, 1712, letters of administration were
" granted unto John Sawyer and Sarah Sawyer, alias Sibley, former
widow." The children named are Jonathan, Samuel, Hannah, and
Sarah. The widow, before this time, had m. John Sawyer, of New-
bury, blacksmith, to whom she was published, Nov. 25, 1710, perhaps
the John Sawyer who d. in Newbury, March 27, 1756. She spent her
last days with her son Jonathan Sibley, at Stratham, N.H. The child-
ren as recorded are — I. Hannah, b. May 17, 1696 ; d. Nov. 8, 1729 ; m.,
Oct. 4, 1712, Batt Moulton, of Newbury, and afterward of Salisbury
and Amesbury ; and had Jonathan, b. Nov. 19, 1720, and Jonathan, b.
May 17, 1722, and perhaps others. Moulton's next wife was Jemima.
SIBLEY. 499
studied Divinity at the Cambridge Divinity School ; ordained
a Congregationalist at Stow, Mass., May 14, 1829; left
— II. Richard, b. January, 1698 ; d. young. — III. Sarah, b. March
27, 1699; m., Dec. 19, 1719, Edward Emery, carpenter; both at that
time of Newbury. — IV. Jonathan, b. Nov. 25, 1701, ancestor of the
Union Sibleys (of whom more will be said after the notices of the
descendants of the Samuel b. May 5, 1705). — Y. Samuel, b. July,
1704, d. young. — VI. Samuel, b. May 5, 1705, of Salem in 1723, and
of Newbury in 1726 ; published, March 2, 1727-8, then of Newbury,
to Meribah Bartlett, then of Exeter, N. H. ; r. Salem; d. 1749;
butcher and cordwainer. His will, dated May 9, and proved July 14,
1749, makes his brother-in-law, John Ropes, his executor. The
Sibleys, in the several branches, have generally been remarkable for
their integrity. It is not known that any one of the name, in this
country, however much he may have deserved it, was ever hung, or
punished by the civil authority for any offence. The butcher carried
about his meat in panniers on horseback. There is a saying to this
day in Salem respecting him, " Like Sibley's beef, never so fat, never
so lean, see for yourself," which he was accustomed to utter in com-
mendation of his provisions, and which is considered as indicative of
his honesty. There is also another saying, which shows that at
times he was not without wit : " Like Sibley's beef, all fat but the
bones, and they are full of marrow." It is not improbable that
some force was given to his expressions by the manner of his uttering
them.
The Samuel b. May 5, 1705, had — I. Samuel. — II. John. — III.
Nathaniel. The last three, though living in the spring of 1749, pro-
bably d. young. — IV. William, moved from Salem to Exeter, N. H.,
some years before the Revolution ; m., first, July 8, 1762, Sarah, dr.
of Elijah Shaw, of Kensington, N.H. ; moved to Gilmanton, N.H.,
where he d. 1790, arid his wife of consumption in 1786. He m.,
second, widow Lydia Hopkinson, dr. of Richard Smith, of Exeter ;
ch. 1. Samuel, b. Nov. 7, 1762 ; d. Nov. I, 1788. 2. Abigail, b. July 22,
1766; m., John Swain; had a dr. 3. William, b. July 16, 1768; d.
June 22, 1828 ; m. Nancy Thing, of Brentwood, N.H.; and had one
child, Sally, who m. John Elkins. 4. Sarah, b. Dec. 8, 1770; d.
young. 5. Eunice, b. Feb. 12, 1773 ; d. young. 6. John, b. Eeb. 8,
1775 ; d. May 28, 1795 ; u. 7. Caleb, b. Feb. 14, 1777, moved to New
York about 1804 ; left many ch. ; d. Sept. 13, 1828, not far from
Hudson River. 8. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 14, 1778 ; d. July 23, 1794. 9.
Hannah, b. July 16, 1780; d. Sept. 7, 1832; u. 10. Polly, b. May
16, 1782 ; d. Dec. 21, 1841 ; m. John Crosby. 11. Joseph, grocer, b. Dec.
13, 1783; r. Salem, Mass.; m., first, Oct. 14, 1810, widow Dorcas
Valpey, b. March 26, 1782, dr. of Jonathan and Mehitabel Abbot, of
Andover. She d. April 18, 1841 ; and he m., second, Nov. 14, 1841,
widow Sarah Patterson Ward, dr. of John and Hannah (Webb) Pat-
terson, of Salem, and had (1). Joseph Abbot, a tailor; b. June
21, 1812; d. March 4, 1836; (2). George Valpey, b. July 17,
1813; r. Salem; m. Phebe Phillips, b. March 22, 1813, dr. of
Stephen Abbot, of Andover (and had Martha G., b. April 21, 1837 ;
George, b. Nov. 6, 1839; Phebe Ellen, b. April 2, 1846); (3).
500 FAMILY REGISTER.
Stow, March 31, 1833, precisely four years from his accept-
ance of the invitation to settle there. During part of the
John Shaw, b. June 15, 1815; r. Salem, Mass.; m., June 24,
1838, Tamma Hanson (and had Sarah Ann, b. May 31, 1840; Jo-
seph Abbot, b. Oct. 11, 1841; Emma Bosson, b. Jan. 1, 1845-
John Henry, b. April 26, 1848; d. Sept. 10, 1848); (4). Moses
Howe, b. Sept. 15, 1816; m., Feb. 1842, Lucy Ann Knio-hts
(and had Caroline, b. Nov. 21, 1842; Moses Henry, b. Au<'.°22,
1846; Mary Harrington, b. April 6, 1849); (5.) William Henry,'
b. Oct. 29, 1818 ; m. Mary Clark, of Itovvley (and had Charles
Augustus, b. May 24, 1846); (6). Sarah Ann, b. Mav 24
1820; d. Sept. 12, 1826; (7). Charles Augustus, b/Dec'
19, 1823 ; d. Sept. 21, 1824. — 12. Littlefield, probably of the second
marriage, b. September, 1787; name changed to 'George Little-
field, in 1816; r. Meredith Bridge, N.H. ; through the Kev. Isaac D.
Stewart, furnished much of the information respecting his father's
family. He m. Harriet, b. May 27, 1790 ; dr. of Daniel Kimball, of Exe-
ter; and has (I). Harrison, b. Feb. 27, 1814; m. Hannah Leavitt
(and has Flora, b. Nov. 27, 1839); (2). Harriet Kim ball, b. Au*
17, 1816; m., Jan. 14, 1837, Dr. Charles C. Tibbets (and has Geor°e
Harrison, b. Aug. 19, 1844); (3). Eliz a Jane, b. Oct. 6, 1824.
13. Nancy, d., three months old. (Of these thirteen children, of
IV. William, all but three d. of consumption, or of feebleness in in-
fancy.) — V. Littlefield, bapt. May 6, 1739; master of a privateer,
lost in the revolutionary war; m., Aug. 19, 1765 (possibly for a
second w. ), Sarah Lambert, a worthy woman, who d. in Salem about
1828 ; had sons and drs., among them Hannah, Sally, Samuel, and
Nathaniel. — VI. Sarah. — VII. Hannah, b. April 12, 1740; d. March
20, 1801; m., Oct. 3, 1764, Joshua, b. Jan. 27, 1742, s. of Nathaniel
and Seeth (Hardy) Phippen ; r. Salem, Mass. He d. April, 1811.
They had 1. Nathaniel, b. Jan. 28, 1765 ; d. March 9, 1809 ; in., Sept. 4*.
1783, Anna Picket, of Beverly, who d. Dec. 22, 1834. 2 and 3. Twinsj
b. July 30, 1767 ; viz. Joshua, d. Oct. 8, 1767, and Samuel, d. Jan. 1,'
1768. 4. Hannah, b. Dec. 26, 1768 ; d. June 15, 1837 ; m., March 25,
1798, George Hodges, who d. 1827. 5. Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1770; d. 1811 ;
m., 1790, Benjamin Babbidge. 6. Sarah, b. Dec. 8, 1772 ; d July 25^
1801; m., July 26, 1791, George Dean. 7. Joshua, b. July 2, 1774 j
d. April 28, 1805 ; m., March 18, 1799, Nancv, dr. of Ebenezer Trask,'
of Beverly. 8 and 9. Twins, b. Dec. 22, 1775 ; viz. Eunice, d. Oct. 30*
1776, and Margaret, lived a few days. 10. Hardy, b. July 6, 1778;
m., March 18, 1804, Ursula Knapp, 'dr. of Jonathan and Ursula Sy-
monds; and had (1). Joseph Hardy, b. June 10, 1807, m., March
26, 1840, Susan Harris Lord. (2). Ursula Syraonds, b. Sept. 21,
1809, m., March 10, 1840, Isaac Needham Chapman (and has Francis
Needham, b. Oct. 21, 1844; Hardy Phippen, b. Aug. 20, 1846; and
twins, a boy and girl, b. Feb. 3, 1850). (3). Joshua, b. Dec. 17
1812, m., April 22, 1841, Betsey Barr Holman (and has Mary Eliza-
beth, b. May 20, 1842). (4). Geor ge D e an, b. April 13, 1815,
m., April 13, 1840, Margaret, b. July 23, 1815, dr. of John and Mary
;Webb) Barton (and had George Barton, b. Feb. 12, 1841; Samuel
Webb, b. Oct. 13, 1846, d. June 22, 1847; Arthur Henry, b. Sept. 7f
1848). 11. Eunice, b. March 22, 1780 ; d. Dec. 18, 1799. 12. Joseph
SIBLEY. 501
year 1837, he was editor, and became proprietor, of the
American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge,
b. March 14, 1783; lost at sea, Aug. 31, 1818; m., March 1, 1807
Lois Fairfield. —VIII. Susanna, bapt. March 13, 1743. — IX. and X
Twins, bapt. Oct. 7, 1744; viz. Eunice, m. a Dean of Exeter, N H. •
and Priscilla, d. as early as 1749. — XL Mary, bapt. Sept. 6, 1747-
m. Elisha Odlin, of Exeter, or Gilmanton, N.H. One of the drs. of
Samuel and Meribah m. a Taylor, of Gilmanton ; and another, Capt
Somerby Gilman, of Gilmanton. '
To resume the notice of Jonathan, b. Nov. 25, 1701, fourth child
of Samuel and Sarah (Wells) Sibley. It is not improbable that his
mother, after she m. John Sawyer, took him and other ch. with her
to Newbury. He was a resident in Amesbury in 1723 ; in Newbury
in 1726; and when, Nov. 27, 1730, he m. Hannah, b. Feb. 1, 1712-13
dr. of Samuel and Hannah (Frazer) Goodridge, of Newbury. fJoshua
Coffin, Esq. says, Hannah Frazer, b. Aug 31, 1692, who m., June 30
1710, Samuel Goodridge, was third child of Colin Frazer, who m'
Anna Stuart, Nov. 10, 1685. Samuel Goodridge, b. Aug. 15 1681*
was s. of Benjamin, who m., second, Nov. 16, 1678, Sarah Croad •
and Benjamin was s. of William Goodridge.] Jonathan afterward
settled in Stratham, N. H. ; was farmer, and maker of chairs and
wooden heels. The hill where he lived is yet called Sibley Hill, and
the inhabitants to this day gather pond-lilies from roots which he
planted in a running brook in the vicinity. Many amusing and some
ridiculous stories are told about him. It is even asserted that he
whipped his beer-barrel because it worked on Sunday ; and his cat
because she caught a mouse when he was at prayers. Becoming em-
barrassed, and indebted to a physician and Baptist preacher, named
Shepherd, he exchanged with him his farm for one in Poplin, where
he d., Dec. 18, 1779, about one year afterward, in the seventy-eighth
year of his age. He is said to have been quite petulant, and his w
to have been a very worthy, pious woman. There is a tradition, that*
a short time before his w. died, the question was put to her whether
she thought her husband was a Christian. She replied, " If he mar-
ries after I am gone, and his w. pays all my debts, he will probably
die a Christian." Not long before his decease, he m. an execrable
woman, b. Nov. 15, 1719, named Patience Thurrell, probably from
Newbury. Her extravagant professions of Christian conversion and
reformation prevailed more with him, as he had become somewhat
childish, than the advice and opposition of all his friends and neigh-
bors. She d. Nov. 16, 1820, nearly one hundred and one years old
at Poplin, where she had been a pauper twenty- seven years. If tra-
dition is true, before her husband d. she paid all the first wife's debts
with compound interest. '
Jonathan Sibley's descendants, all by his first wife. — I. Abi-
gail, b. Oct. 6, 1731 ; m. a widower, Rogers, and d., c, at Mere-
dith, N. H., where she lived the last ten years of her life with Mrs.
Robinson, the dr. of her brother Samuel. — II. Hannah, b. Aprii
2, 1734; taken sick, March 5; d. March 7, 1736; probably of the
throat-distemper. — IH. Jonathan, b. March 8, 1736 ; lived six years
seven months and three days, and d. Oct. 11. — IV. Hannah, b. Feb
43
502 FAMILY REGISTER.
commenced by the Bewick Company in Boston. He has
been assistant-librarian and editor of the Triennial Cata-
4, 1738 ; lived four years seven months and twenty-three days, and d.
Sept. 27. — Daniel, b. March 16, 1740; lived two years six months
and twenty (?) days, and d. Oct. 15. The last three died within a
few days of each other, and probably of the " throat-distemper." —
VI. Anna, or Nancy, b. May 3, 1742; d. Sept. 14, 1792; buried by
the side of her first husband ; m., first, William Stevens, who d. of
consumption, February, 1775, in Hopkinton, N.H., and was buried
on his farm, on Sugar Hill. He had one child, Abigail, b. March 26,
1773, who m. James Seaton, of Bradford, N. H. They went into the
northern part of New York, whence they returned about 1808 to
Hopkinton, and afterward lived at Goffstown ; c. Mrs. Stevens m.,
second, June 18, 1778, Samuel Hoyt, a widower; and had 2. Lydia,
b. April 9, 1779 ; m. Jonathan Bean, a schoolmaster, of Salisbury ;
moved away; had several ch., among whom were twins, one of
them Sophia. 3. Nancy, or Anna, b. Sept. 26, 1781 ; m. Dr. Paul
Tenney, of Hopkinton, who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1803;
lived in Wilmot, had several ch., and died near Mechanicsburg, Ohio,
in 1844. 4. William, b. July 24, 1783 ; m. Polly French, of Weare;
lived on Sugar Hill ; had Freeman, Sewell, Mary, French,
and d. of consumption, brought on by hard work. 5. Sally, or Sarah,
b. Feb. 13, 1786; sickly; moved to Wilmot; d. at Grafton; m.
John Hoyt, of Concord. — VII. Molly, or Mary, b. July 2, 1744;
d. in Boscawen, Jan. 9, 1828 ; m. Daniel Murray, of Newmarket,
N.H., b. Nov. 1, 1742; r. Hopkinton, N.H.; d. there, July 15, 1823.
They were buried side by side in Weare ; had four sons and ten
daughters. — VIH. Jacob, b. May |-|? 1746, ancestor of the families
in Union (of whom more will be said after the following notices of
his brother Samuel's family). — IX. Samuel, b. Feb. 23,1751; m.,
Oct. 30, 1775, Sarah Dow, of Kensington, N.H., b. Dec. 17, 1747;
had land given to him at Meredith by his father ; was one of its
earliest settlers; d. there Sept. 16, 1838. He was short, and his w.
tall. At the wedding, a young woman, not fancying this inequality,
in a moment of delay while they were on the floor, seized a wooden
oven-lid about two inches thick, and pushed it against his heels. He
stepped upon it, and thus the pair stood at equal height while the
ceremony was performed. The Rev. Isaac Dalton Stewart writes,
that, when Mr. Sibley moved to Meredith, there was but one log-
house at Meredith Bridge. " His nearest neighbors were three miles
on one side, and four on the other. Carried his corn ten miles on his
back to mill. Brought his salt from Exeter on horseback, after he
was able to hire or keep a horse. In 1789, he went to Exeter for salt.
Neighbors were then nearer ; and he got Benjamin Perkins, who lived
within half a mile, to assist his wife, if need be, in keeping off the
bears, which made dreadful havoc among his corn. It was a beauti-
ful, still, moonlight evening in the month of October. She hear.d a
destructive crashing in the cornfield. Leaving her four children in
bed, Mrs. Sibley called to her aid Mr. Perkins. With his loaded gun,
he went into the field, found the bear, and discharged its contents."
The bear, badly wounded, moved off as fast as he could. Mrs. Sibley
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logues of Harvard University since the year 1841 ; u. — II.
William Cullen, b. March 1, 1807 ; r. on the homestead ; u.
pursued him, caught him by the leg as he was climbing over a log,
and held on till Perkins came up and despatched him by cutting his
throat with a jack-knife. Descendants, — 1. Josiah Dow, b. 1779 ;
d. fifteen months old. 2. Hannah, b. Feb. 7, 1780 ; m. Jeremiah Gove,
of Hampton Falls. He d. 1843; having John, b. June 13, 1824.
3. Richard, b. 1782 ; m., 1808, Polly French, of Newmarket; was a
rafter from Exeter to Portsmouth ; and drowned in a squall, while
picking up drift-wood o* the Piscataqua River; had (1). Josiah, d.
four months old ; (2). Nancy; (3). Mark; (4). Sophia. 4. Mary,
b. March 1, 1784; m., 1815, Paul H. Stanton, of Bartlett; had (1).
Richard, b. 1816; (2). Sarah, b\ 1818, d. April, 1844; (3). New-
hall, b. 1820; (4). Rebecca, b. 1823. 5. Sarah, b. Sept. 16, 1786;
m., July 3, 1806, Win. Robinson, of Sanbornton, who d. Nov. 18, 1813 ;
had (1). Benjamin D., b. April 9, 1807, m., Jan. 19, 1847, Lois Hall,
of Sandwich. The widow Robinson went to her father's, and main-
tained both her parents during their last days. 6. Benjamin, b. March
7, 1790; in 1817, went to Woodstock [Mechanicsburg?], Champaign
County, Ohio ; and it was twenty-three years before he was heard
from. He m. a Hilliard ; had four children. 7. Nancy, b. Feb. 1792 ;
d. seventeen months old.
To resume the notice of — VIII. Jacob Sibley, b. May ^-|, 1746,
father of Jonathan and Jacob, of Union. When eighteen years old, he
was sent by his father, one of the proprietors of Meredith, to assist in
building the first bridge across the Winnipiseogee River, near the out-
let of the lake. In 1768, he went to Hopkinton, N. H., boarded with
his sister Stevens, when the place was almost a wilderness, and the
remotest settlement from the seaboard, except the valley of the
Connecticut and of its tributaries ; and d. at Hopkinton, June 25, 1831.
Oct. 11, 1771, he m. Anna, dr. of Gideon George, a shoemaker and
farmer of East Haverhill, Mass., whose wife, a Jewett, came to this
country when fourteen days old. She was b. Sept. 11, 1749, and d.
Sept. 20, 1828. After their wedding, they rode on one horse from
Haverhill to his sister Stevens's, on Sugar Hill, in Hopkinton ; whence,
there being no road, they walked two miles in a narrow path, through
the woods, to their humble dwelling, driving before them a little spot-
ted pig. Her " fitting out " consisted of three white cups and three
saucers, three knives, three forks, one coverlet made of hair and tow,
and one of wool. In 1774, they took a journey, on horseback, to
Haverhill and Stratham, and back ; the mother seated behind the
father, who carried his only child in his arms before him. In 1776,
Jacob Sibley was in the military service at Portsmouth, and worked
on Fort Constitution. While there, his wife, besides attending to her
domestic duties and taking care of her two children, hoed three acres
of corn upon burnt land. This was a few months before the birth of
her third child. In the latter part of her life, her physical strength
gradually failed, till she lost entirely the power of locomotion. De-
cendants : —
I. Jonathan, b. Jan. 4, 1773 ; r. Union, Me.
II. Hannah, b. Jan. 22, 1775 ; r. on the homestead till her parents'
504 FAMILY REGISTEK.
— III. Moses, b. May 5, 1813 ; before three years old, was
attacked with, epileptic fits, which continued as long as he
and her brother Amos's decease, and now with her sister Eastman,
at Warner, N. H.
Ill, Jacob, b. Dec. 1, 1776 ; went to Union in March, 1800. There
he m., Feb. 25, 1802, Abigail, born at Scituate, Mass., March 14, 1779,
dr. of Barnabas and Lydia (Wade) Simmons, and settled on the hill in
the north-west part of the town. Descendants, 1. Nancy, b. Jan. 2,
1803 ; m., March 9, 1826, Joseph Bryant, of Union ; and he d. Nov. 23,
1847 ; having had (1). Samuel Stone, b. June 4 or 5, 1827, m,,
March 7, 1850, Sarah Catherine Miller, in New York; (2). Jacob
Sibley, b. April 12, 1829; (3). Joseph, b. Oct, 6,1831; (4). Nan-
cy Jane, b. June 5, 1833; (5). Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1836, d. Aug. 22,
1838; (6). Abby Marilla, b. April 6, 1839; (7). John Fair-
field, b. May 7, 1841. 2. Lydia, b. Dec. 13, 1804; d. June 11, 1837 ;
m., Oct. 20, 1829, John Hunt Gowen, who m., second, Dec. 2, 1840,
Betsey, dr. of John and Sarah Linscott, of Nobleborough ; had (1).
Rebecca, b. July 6, 1830; (2). Mary Olivia, b. Oct. 28, 1832;
(3.) Sylvanus Bachelder, b. May 11,1834; d. May 11, 1835;
(4). Zuinglius Collins, b. May 14, 1837. 3. George, b. July
30, 1806 ; r. Appleton ; m., May 26, 1833, Lucy Huse Philbrook, of
Hope, b. in Islesborough, Sept. 1, 1807 ; (1). B o i c e Crane, b. April
29, 1834; d. Dec. 30, 1834; (2). William Alberto, b. Dec. 1,
1835; (3). George Franklin, b. Aug. 25, 1837; (4) and (5).
Twins, Lydia Amelia and Louisa Adelia, b. April 14,
1839; (6). John Langdon, b. Feb. 19, 1841; (7). Stephen
B oar dm an, b. Oct. 6, 1842; (8) and (9). Twins, Almira Fran-
cena, b. Oct. 1, 1846, and a stillborn son. 4. Betsey Ann, h.
June 25, 1808 ; m., May 16, 1832, Nathaniel Clark, b. Nov. 25, 1805,
at Haverhill, Mass.; had (1). Harriet Ann, b. March 11, 1833;
(2) and (3). Twins, b. Sept. 17, 1834, viz. Mary Electa, d. Oct.
6, 1834, and Sarah Persis; (4). Martha Ellen, b. June 24,
1836; (5). Octavus Leonard, b. Jan. 18, 1840; (6). Julia
Frances, b. March 9, 1842 ; (7). Nathaniel Sibley, b. 1847.
5. Louisa, b. March 12, 1810; r. Appleton; m., Oct. 8, 1837, Gusta-
vus Myrick, s. of Moses Kenniston, b. in Thomaston, Oct. 6, 1812;
had (1) and (2). Twins, sons, b. June 3, 1838 ; d. a few hours old;
(3). Leander Myrick, b. June 25, 1839, in Appleton; (4).
Lydia Amanda, b. in Union, May 10, 1842; (5). Abby
Louisa, b. Jan. 23, 1844; (6). Lucy Ann, b. May 29, 1848. 6. Han-
nah, b. Jan. 5, 1812 ; m. Oct. 6, 1834, Asa, b. in Union, Sept. 17,
1810, s. of John and Rebecca (Hunt) Gowen; (1). Harriet
Ellen, b. April 28, 1836; (2). Abby Electa, b. Oct. 6, 1840;
(3). Hannah Augusta, b. Dec. 15, 1845. 7. Mary Jane, b.
Oct. 10, 1813; m., May 1, 1834, Samuel Bartlett (descendant of
Philip Robbins), b. at Hope, March 3, 1802 ; r. Washington ; ch. (1).
Louisa Sibley, b. Nov. 2, 1835; (2). Sophronia Nason,
b. Oct. 20, 1837 ; (3). Stephen George, b. Sept. 23, 1839 ; (4).
John Elden, b. Feb. 14, 1844; (5). Emily Rider, b. Aug.
23, 1847; d. Sept. 19, 1849; (6). Mary Ella, b. June 28, 1849.
8. Jacob, b. Oct. 27, 1815 ; r. Appleton; m., Oct. 4, 1847, Julia Ann,
SIBLEY. 505
lived, and entirely deprived him of reason several years be-
fore he d. of dysentery, Aug. 16, 1826.
b. Sept. 19, 1819, dr. of Alexander and Sarah (Barker) Pease, of Ap-
pleton, who d. Nov. 19, 1848; had (1). Julia Ann, b. Nov. 12,
1848. He m. second, Nov. 5, 1849, Charlotte, b. Feb. 6, 1826, dr. of
Boice Crane, of Hope. 9. Ebenezer Blunt, b. Oct. 24, 1817; m., April
2 or 22, 1844, Melea Bobbins, b. Jan. 6, 1826, dr. of Levi Butler, of
Appleton, descendant of Phinehas B., of Thomaston; and had (1).
Lucy Atlanta, b. Nov. 29, 1845 ; (2). Franklin Edson, b.
May 2, 1847; (3). Elizabeth Fiorina, b. Oct. 5,1849. 10.
Abigail, b. Jan. 18, 1820; r. South Boston, Mass. ; m., Oct. 20, 1849,
at Danielsonville, Conn., John Barclay Fanning, b. Aug. 13, 1820, in
Boston, son of Edward and Caroline (Fanning) Barnard; has (1).
Caroline Matilda, b. May 20, 1851.
IV. William, b. Feb. 16, 1779 ; r. Freedom, Me. ; m., March 4,
1805, Charlotte, of N. Yarmouth, now Cumberland, Me., b. July 13,
1783, dr. of Benjamin Buxton (b. in Falmouth, Feb. 28, 1748 ; d.
March, 1810 ; originated from Danvers, Mass.) ; and his wife, Elizabeth
Grant, b. at York, Me., June, 1749; d. Sept. 1841. They have 1.
Ann, b. Jan. 20, 1806 ; m., Jan. 20, 1829, Edmund, b. Albion, Me.,
Oct. 3, 1804, son of Jonathan Fuller, b. at Newton, Mass., 1767, and
his wife Hannah Bradstreet, b. at Rowley, Mass., Oct. 1, 1777 ; r.
Freedom. They have (1). Christopher Columbus, b. Nov.
28, 1829; (2). William Siblev, b. Dec. 17, 1832 ; (3). Judith,
b. April 28, 1837; (4). Edmund Allen, b. Nov. 21, 1839; (5).
Selden Kimball, b. Jan. 14, 1842. 2. Reuben, b. Sept. 15,
1807, at Beaver Hill Plantation, now Freedom, Me. ; merchant, Bel-
fast, Me. ; m., first, at Orono, Me., April 30, 1834, Margaret Sampson,
dr. of John and Mary (Heywood) Read, b. at Fairfax, now Albion,
Me., Oct. 12, 1812, d. Jan. 15, 1838. He m., second, at Portland,
July 2, 1839, Hannah Cushing, dr. of Ammi and Hannah Cushing
(Greeley) Cutter, b. at North Yarmouth, now Yarmouth, Me., Nov. 2,
1808; ch. b. in Belfast, (1). William, b. Aug. 24, 1835, d. Jan.
28,1842; (2). John Read, b. Aug. 21, 1837, d. July 28, 1850; (3).
Margaret Cutter, b. June 8, 1840, d. Feb. 6, 1842 ; (4). Han-
nah Elizabeth, b. March 10, 1842, d. Sept. 20, 1843 ; (5). E d-
ward, b. Sept. 5, 1843 ; (6). Charlotte, b. Aug. 15, 1845; (7).
Ammi Cutter, b. Sept. 16, 1847; (8). Eliphalet Greeley,
b. Nov. 14, 1849. 3. Persis, b. May 10, 1813; m., June 5, 1842,
Charles, s. of Edward and Elizabeth (Nevans) Andrews, of Turner,
afterwards of Dixfield, now of Paris, Me., h. at Paris, Me., Feb. 11,
1814, attorney at law, speaker of the Maine House of Representa-
tives, clerk of the Courts of Oxford County, representative elect to
Congress; and has (1). Charlotte Buxton, b. at Dixfield,
July 15, 1843; (2). Persis Nevans, b. April 13, 1847, at Paris,
Me. 4. William George, b. Mny 25, 1815; m., Dec. 5, 1843, Nancy
T., b. at Freedom, Me., May 9, 1823, dr. of Joseph and Sally (Davis)
Russell; ch. (1). Alice True, b. Aug. 30, 1844 ; (2) William,
b. March 5, 1847 ; (3). John Langdon, b. March 31, 1849.
V. Stephen, trader, farmer, wool-grower, representative to the
Legislature ; b. Dec. 29, 1780 ; r. Hopkinton, N. H. ; m., Dec. 31,
1809, Sarah, b. Nov. 26, 1780, dr. of Abraham Brown, b. at Salisbury,
43*
506 FAMILY REGISTER.
Steele, Dayid ; wife's name Molly ; came from Mass. ; t.
.1791 ; moved to Ohio, and d. Four of their children were
Mass., Oct. 28, 1747, and his wife, Sarah, dr. of Daniel French, of
South Hampton, N.H. ; ch. 1. Abram Brown, b. Feb. 22, 1811, d. of
consumption, Dec. 21, 1834, at his father's ; u. 2. Nancy George, b.
April 25, 1813; m., Aug. 29, 1837, Charles Pinkney Gage, M.D., of
Concord, N.H., son of John and Sally (Bickford) Gage, of Hopkinton,
N.H., b. Sept. 1780; has (1). Charles Sibley, b. Dec. 30, 1843,
at Concord; (2). Mary, b. at Hopkinton, N.H., "April 18, 1847. 3.
John, b. July 10, 1816; d. Aug. 23, 1824; palpitation and enlarge-
ment of the heart. 4. Jacob, b. Jan. 13, 1819 ; d. July 3, 1822.
5. Philip Brown, b. March 31, 1822; d. Aug. 11, 1825.
YI. Samuel, b. Dec. 12, 1782; r. Albion, Me.; m., Dec. 31, 1812,
Charlotte, of Albion, b. Nov. 15, 1788, in Holden, Mass., dr. of Josiah
Broad, b. in Holden, December, 1745, and his w. Lydia Wilder, b. in
Lancaster, Mass.; and has 1. Sarah Brown, b. Nov. 24, 1813. 2.
Eliza, b. Jan. 18, 1816 ; r. Manchester, N.H. 3. Charlotte, b. Sept. 22,
1817 ; in., Nov. 30, 1845, Francis, b. Albion, s. of Phinehas and Bet-
sey Shorey ; ch. (1). Catharine Almira, b. Sept. 23, 1846;
(2). Charles Frank, b. Sept. 13, 1849. 4. Catharine, b. May 27,
1820 ; m., Jan. 19, 1845, Thomas Sprague, s. of William and Jane
Stratton; r. Lawrence, Mass.; and has (1). Alton Marshall,
b. Albion, Nov. 20, 1845; (2). Emma Jane, b. Lawrence,
Oct. 31, 1848, d. Oct. 1, 1849. 5. Margaret, b. March 26, 1822; m.,
Sept. 27, 1846, John, s. of John and Susan Stinson, b. Nov. 16, 1820,
at Clinton ; ch. (1). M a r i a B r a d s t r e e t, b. April 2, 1849. 6. Mary,
b. April 5, 1824 ; scalded, and d. Feb. 22, 1826. 7. Kneeland, b. March
31, 1826 ; r. Dedham, Mass. 8. Manley, b. Aug. 29, 1828 ; r. Albion.
9. George, b. Oct. 11, 1831 ; d. of measles, July 22, 1832.
VII. Amos, b. Jan. 31, 1785 ; settled on the homestead, and d.
Aug. 20, 1839. It is a remarkable fact, that his is the only death
among ten brothers and sisters during a period of more than sixty-
four years. Dec. 26, 1814, he m. Dolley, b. Sept. 13, 1788, dr. of
Obadiah Hadley, whose parents were Samuel Hadley, of Goffstown,
and his w., Fanny, dr. of Winthrop Getchell, of Peterborough, N. H.
They had 1. Clerrinda Jewett, b. Sept. 29, 1815 ; r. on the Old Sibley
Place, in Hopkinton, N. H. ; m., April 3, 1836, James, b. Nov. 12, at
Henniker, N. H., s. of James and Hannah (Gould) Hoyt. 2. Nancy
Bean, b. Jan. 16, 1826; m., Feb. 19, 1843, Franklin, r. Franklin,
N. H., trunk and harness maker, s. of March Barber, of Canaan; ch.
(1). Charles Frank, b. May 21, 1844, at Thetford, Vt., d. Feb.
17, 1845, at Franklin, N.H. ; (2). Frank March, b. Franklin,
July 10, 1846; (3). Ella Clerrinda, b. Sept. 22, 1849. 3. Sarah
Brown, b. May 3, 1830; m., Oct. 1, 1848, George Washington Beard;
r. Athol, Mass.
VIII. Moses, b. March 29, 1787; d. of nervous headache, Feb. 24,
1788.
IX. Betsey, or Elizabeth, b. Feb. 11, 1789 ; m., Oct. 3, 1815, Isaac,
b. July 20, 1784, s. of Elijah and Peggy (Patterson) Rice, of Henni-
ker, N. H. ; has 1. Hiram, b. Nov. 9, 1816; r. on the homestead; u.
2. Elizabeth George, b. June 7, 1819; m., Feb. 8, 1843, Rev. Isaac
Dalton Stewart, of Meredith Bridge, N. H., who was b. at Warner,
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deaf and dumb. — I. David, b. April 26, 1784; m. Peggy
Cook, of Friendship; and had 1. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 4,
1810. 2. William, b. Oct. 20, 1815 ; and probably others.
— II. Molly, b. Jan. 27, 1787. — III. Shadrach, b. March
2, 1789; m., first, Cecilia, commonly called Celia, Dyer,
March 30, 1823; and, second, Hannah Walker, 1835; r.
Washington ; ch. by last marriage, perhaps as follows :
1. Shadrach, b. May 5, 1836. 2. Hannah Booth, b. July
17, 1838. 3. Daniel Walker, b. Nov. 19, 1840 ; d. Jan. 7,
Dec. 23, 1817, s. of Capt. John Stewart; has (1). Marinda
F r a n c e s, b. July 6, 1845.
X. Anne, or Nancy, b. April 7, 1791 ; m., Oct. 26, 1819, Daniel,
of Warner, N. H., a widower, b. Feb. 10, 1774, s. of Nathaniel Bean,
of Exeter, N. H. ; has 1. Stephen Sibley, b. Oct. 26, 1820 ; m., Aug. 31,
1845, Nancy Elizabeth, b. July 14, 1824, dr. of Philip and Sarah
(Colby) Colby; r. Warner; c. 2. Dolphus Skinner, r. Warner; b.
Feb. 26, 1824 ; m., Aug. 27, 1846, Mahala Cordelia, b. May 4, 1829,
dr. of Waterman and Molly (Sargent) Flanders. She d. Dec. 2, 1847 ;
c. He m., Nov. 7, 1850, Annie Robinson, b. Aug. 2, 1829, dr. of
Thomas and Anna (Cressey) Eaton, of Hopkinton, N. If. 3. Nancy
Ann, b. Oct. 25, 1829; m./Nov. 1, 1849, Nehemiah George, b. War-
ner, Nov. 10, 1828, s. of Nehemiah and Mary (Flanders) Ordway.
XI. Polly, b. July 30, 1794; m„ March 26, 1820, Timothy, r.
Warner, b. Jan. 29, 1790, Hopkinton, N. H. (s. of Simeon, s. of
Enoch Eastman, proprietors' clerk, of Hopkinton, N.H.). They have
1. Laura, b. Hopkinton, March 20, 1821. 2. George Sibley, b. April
16, 1823, Warner, N.H.; r. Stoneham, Mass.; m., June 6, 1850, Mary
Jane Buttman, of Stoneham. 3. Mary, b. June 3, 1827. 4. Walter
Scott, b. Sept. 2, 1829. 5. Timothy Brewster, b. Jan. 17, 1832. 6.
Elisabeth Ann, b. May 25, 1833. 7. Eleanor, b. Dec. 24, 1839.
Thus it appears that Jonathan and Jacob, who settled in Union,
were sons of Jacob, b. May -i-jj. 1746, the son of Jonathan, b. Nov. 25,
1701, the son of Samuel, b. in Salem, Mass., 10:1: 1658, the son of
Richard. Richard probably was born in England, and may have been
the son of John, of Charlestown, Mass., and have come with him in
the Winthrop fleet.
It may be added that there is a remarkable similarity of appearance
in the different branches of the family, though separated by several
generations. Some years since, George Littlefield, of Meredith
Bridge, N. H., whose features and movements were as like those of
the late Amos, of Hopkinton, as if they were brothers, was followed
a long distance in Washington-street, Boston, by a gentleman who
mistook him for Jonas, of Sutton, Mass., the late U. S. marshal.
These three individuals belonged to three branches which had been
diverging from each other one hundred and fifty years or more.
In relation to the Sibleys who lived in Salem and the vicinity,
most of the information and the arrangement have been furnished by
George Dean Phippen, Esq., an enthusiastic and laborious genealo-
gist and antiquarian, whose grandmother was one of the family.
508 FAMILY REGISTER.
1842. 4. Frances Ann, b. Feb. 20, 1845. 5. Lydia. 6.
Adeline. — IV. Sally, b. June 30, 1791. — V. Amos, b.
Dec. 14, 1793 ; deaf and dumb ; d. on bis way to Obio. —
VI. Appleton, b. Feb. 19, 1796.-— VII. and VIII. Isaiah
and Isaac, twins, b. April 22, 1798 ; one deaf and dumb. —
IX. Lucy, b. Feb. 24, 1801. — X. Lydia, b. Jan. 15, 1804,
deaf and dumb. — XL John Broadhead, b. Nov. 3, 1805.
— XII. Sena, b. March 25, 1808, deaf and dumb.
Stewart, Holmes, seaman; settled adjoining to his
brother Timothy ; t. 1791 ; came with his brother ; was lost
at sea from a bowsprit in the winter of 1798-9 ; u.
Stewart, Timothy, surveyor, b. Aug. 27, 1770, at Ed-
garton; d. March 29 [gravestone], 30 [town-record], 1844;
t. 1791, and probably came earlier. He m., first, Jan. 26,
1792, Jedidah Pease, of Chappequiddick, who was b. June 3,
1768, and d. of consumption, May 12 [or, according to grave-
ston, 19], 1815. He m., second, Oct. 1, 1818, Abigail
Daggett, who was b. at Vinalhaven, Oct. 24, 1785. — I.
Levina, b. Feb. 16 or 8, 1793; m., Dec. 31, 1815, John
Coffin Ripley, of Appleton. — II. Anna, b. April 23, 1795;
m. Timothy Weymouth, of Appleton. — III. Leonard, b.
Aug. 2, 1797; d. a prisoner of war, on Melville's Island,
August, 1814 (?). — IV. Hannah, b. Aug. 19, 1799; m.,
July 10, 1818, Ansel Snow. — V. Lovey, b. Feb. 22, 1802 ;
m. Richard Harwood, of Hope. — VI. John Homes, b. Oct.
10 or 8, 1804; m., Oct. 28, 1830, Olive C. Fairbanks.—
VII. William Dougherty, b. June 5 or 4, 1807 ; m., April
4, 1833, Maria Bills ; ch. 1. Harriet, b. Aug. 24, 1834. 2.
Sarah, b. Aug. 24, 1837. 3. Cyrus Gail,b. April 30, 1840.
4. William Marrill, b. May 30, 1843. — VIII. Thomas
Martin, b. Oct. 10, 1810; m. a Butler, of Edgarton ; r.
Milwaukie, Wise. — IX. Oren Oxford, b. Sept. 9, 1819;
m., April 11, 1847, Mary Ann, dr. of John P. Robbins.
Stone,- Allen, pump-maker ; wife's name Hannah ; t.
1797 ; d. several years ago, and his w. Nov. 8, 1821 ; had
I. Millicent, b. May 13, 1798. —II. Sally, b. Oct. 28, 1800 ;
and probably others.
Stone, Waldron (s. of Eben), whose w. was Rachel
Campbell, of Townsend, Mass. ; came from Townsend, a sur-
veyor and blacksmith, and settled in the north-west part of
the town, on the farm now owned by John Adams ; t. 1794,
though probably not a resident before 1796; and d. 1799.
STONE. — THOMPSON. 509
His ch., all born in Ashby and Townsend, — I. Sally, m.
Oliver Wetherbee ; r. Bath, N. H. — II. Polly, m. William
Parks ; r. Union, and now Skowhegan ; bad 1. William H.,
b. at Townsend, Sept. 7, 1796; d. May 6, 1803. 2. Wal-
dron Stone, b. Oct. 14, 1802 ; m. and r. Skowhegan. 3.
Matilda, b. Nov. 1, 1806; m. John Plummer ; r. Skowhe-
gan. 4. George, b. Jan. 11, 1809; m. Ann Lamb; r.
Skowhegan. 5. John, while a minor, d. of brain-fever. 6.
Charles, m. Rachel Glass ; r. Monmouth. There is an ob-
scurity ; perhaps William, b. after the death of William H.,
m. Betsey Harriman ; r. on the Penobscot. — III. Daniel, m.,
•andr. Syracuse, N.Y. — IV. Jonas ; m., andr. Milwaukie. —
V. Eben ; went to Virginia with Capt. David Grafton, became
unwell, and d. in Boston on his way home. — VI. John ; lost
at sea; u. — VII. Samuel, b. Dec. 14, 1787; m., 1818, Eliza-
beth, or Eliza, dr. of Thomas Mitchell ; had 1 . Abigail, b. July
12,1819; d. July 26, 1819. 2. Rachel Carriel, b. Sept. 17,
1820; m., Nov. 1, 1840, John, son of Peter Adams, who
was b. Jan. 22, 1819 ; and had (1). Thomas Mitchell,
b. Sept. 25, 1841 ; (2). Francis Marion,- b. Aug. 26,
1844; (3). Samuel, b. November, 1847. 3. Mary
Mitchell, b. Feb. 12, 1823; m., 1846, Nathan Knowlton ;
and had (1). Leonora, b. Sept. 27,1848. 4.- Rufus,
b. Feb. 10, 1826 ; r. homestead. 5. Nancy A., b. Oct. 11,
1828 ; m., 1847, Thomas Johnson Blunt. 6. Elmira
Adams, b. Aug. 21, 1832. 7. Samuel, b. April 28, 1836.
8. Roscoe, b. Nov. 4, 1838. 9. Augusta, b. June 10, 1841.
10. James Henry, b. Aug. 23, 1844; d. Feb. 23, 1850.—
VIII. Betsey, m., June, 1809, Peter Adams, and d. in Gar-
diner. — IX. Nancy, m., first, Feb. 12, 1824, Joseph Gree-
ley; and, second, Sept. 20, 1827, Peter Adams ; r. Skow-
hegan.
Thompson, James, t. 1797, but not a poll-tax till 1798 ;
m., 1804, Lucretia Brown, and d. March 22, 1825 ; ch. — I.
Hannah Walker, b. Aug. 31, 1805. — II. James B., b.
March 7, 1807. — III. Marlborough M., b. Aug. 1, 1808. —
IV. Isaac, b. April 22, 1810; d. August, 1811. — V. Charles,
b. Nov. 23, 1811. — VI. Milton, b. Oct. 3, 1813; m.
Amanda, and had Elmira, b. Oct. 9, 1836. — VII. Isaac,
b. Feb. 23, 1815. — VIII. Seldom, b. June 29, 1816; d.
Sept. 3, 1816. — IX. Anna Booth, b. July 29, 1817. — X.
Fanny Walker, b. Nov. 26, 1819 ; and others.
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Thompson, Stohy, b. in Bristol ; t. 1 795 ; m. Deborah,
dr. of Erastus and Betsey (Doty) Sherman, who d. 1837,
set. sixty-five; ch. — I. John, b. in Bristol, Oct. 8, 1792;
m. widow Martha, or Patty, Newbit, b. June 2, 1787, dr. of
Ichabod and Mary Maddocks; and had 1. Sarah, b. May 25,
1815; m. Moses Luce. 2. Story, b. Jan. 24, 1817; m.
Hannah, dr. of Nathaniel Maddocks, of Appleton. 3. Hul-
dah, b. Sept. 21, 1819; m. Aurelius P. Lawrence. 4. A
son, b. Feb. 22, 1822 ; d. March 2, 1822. 5. John, b. July
20, 1823. 6. Almond, b. Aug. 31, 1825. 7. Harriet, b.
March 22, 1828; d. Jan. 2, 1832. 8. Ambrose. — II.
Story, b. in Bristol, Oct. 11, 1794; d. April 7, 1834. — III..
Robert, b. Nov. 3, 1799 ; m. Elizabeth, dr. of John B. and
Betsey (Richards) Coggan; and had 1. Jedidah Mitchell,
b. March 26, 1829. 2. Marius, b. July 13, 1830; d. 3.
Marcellus, b. Nov. 27, 1831. 4. Ellen Augusta, b. Feb.
15, 1833. 5. Laura Elizabeth, b. April 1, 1834. 6. Har-
riet, b. June 22, 1840. — IV. James, b. Nov. 6, 1802; m.,
1829, Harriet, dr. of James Maxfield ; and had 1. Solomon,
b. March 10, 1830. 2. Erastus Carter, b. Feb. 9, 1832;
d. Oct. 29, 1832. 3. Erastus, b. Sept. 5, 1834. 4.
Augustin, b. Nov. 25, 1835. 5. Lucy Ellen, b. Feb. 15,
1839. 6. Martha Jane, b. Feb. 2, 1841. 7. Lewis, b.
Sept. 30, 1842. — V. Lucy, b. Feb. 28, 1805 ; d. Dec. 1848.
— VI. William, b. Dec. 7, 1807. — VII. Polly, or Mary,
b. Oct. 17, 1810; m. William Coggan, 1828; and had 1.
Ethelda, b. June 29, 1829. 2. Emily Blake, b. Dec. 15,
1833. 3. Deborah Maria, b. Aug. 19, 1836. 4. Esther
Francina, b. Sept. 26, 1838. 5. Alanson Marius, b. Dec.
4, 1840.
Titus, Olney, b. at Mansfield, Mass., June 11, 1772;
m., Feb. 5, 1795, Abigail Gillmor, of Franklin, Mass.;
came to Union, April, 1794 ; settled on the west side of the
river, below Hills' Mills, and near Royal Grinnell's, on the
farm on which some chopping had been previously done by
the Daggetts. Descendants, — I. Joanna Gillmor, b. March
17, 1796 ; d. July 16, 1823 ; m., Sept. 4, 1813, Oliver Pratt,
from Pittston, who d. May 27, 1825 ; ch. 1. Abigail Titus,
b. Sept. 11, 1814; m. James Linniken ; r. Boothbay. 2.
James, b. Oct. 21,1816; m. Martha Linniken ; r. Rockland.
3. Patience Alden, b. May 18, 1819 ; m. Patrick Nolen ; r.
New Castle. 4. Rebecca Eveline, b. May 3, 1821 ; m. Alvan
TITUS. 511
Litchfield; r. Manchester, N. H. 5. Luther, b. June 12,
1823 ; d. March 4, 1824. Oliver Pratt, m., second, Nancy
Robinson, Feb. 15, 1824; and had 6. William L., b. Jan.
30, 1825 ; d. July 9, 1825. — II. Charles, b. April 8, 1798;
m., first, Parmela, dr. of Simeon Butters, and, second, Oct.
18, 1840, Eleanor, dr. of John Newbit ; r. Appleton ; had
1. A child, d. Sept. 1818. '2. Levi Cheever, b. Oct. 22,
1820; m. 3. Sophronia Caroline, b. Aug. 8, 1822; m.
George Shaw; r. Exeter. 4. Joanna Pratt, b. June 19,
1824 ; m. a Dodge. 5 and 6. Twins, b. Jan. 29, 1826, viz.
Julia Ann and Mary Ann. 7. Daniel Butters, b. Jan.
1828; r. Exeter. 8. Sarah Ethera, b. Dec. 6, 1829. 9
and 10. Twins, b. March 31, 1832, viz. Rhobe Melinda
and Chloe Matilda. 11. Andrew J.,h. April 6, 1834; and
others by 'his second wife. — III. Rhobe, or Roby, Gillmor,
b. April 21, 1801 ; m. Bradley R. Mowry, Jan. 24, 1819;
and had 1. Sarah Angeline, b. Sept. 16, 1820; m. Charles
A. Hawes, 1837. 2 and 3. Twins, b. Jan. 11, 1822, viz.
Laura Amelia, m. Chauncy Himes ; and Chloe Matilda, d.
Oct. 31, 1843, m., June 15, 1842, Isaac Flitner, M.D., who
was b. Sept. 28, 1809, at Pittston, and had (1). Georgi-
ana, b. April 1, 1843. [Dr. F. m., June 10, 1846,
Clementine, dr. of Deacon Isaac Stanwood, of Ipswich,
Mass. ; and had (2). George Frederick, b. May 11,
1847.] 4. Hansi Emeline, b. April 28, 1824. 5. Harriet
Rhobe, b. April 6, 1826. 6. Ann Maria, b. May 3, 1829.
7. Augustus, b. Sept. 8, 1831. 8 and 9. Twins, viz. Irene
and Oscarene, b. Feb. 11, 1834. 10. Mortimer H, b. July
11, 1836. 11. Josephine, b. July 9, 1841. — IV._Chloe, b.
Aug. 27, 1803; m. Jabez Ware. — V. Weston, b. Feb. 8,
1808 ; m. Sarah Emerton ; r. Waldoborough ; ch. 1. Anson
Lorenzo, b. Nov. 9, 1833 ; d. April 17, 1837. 2. Charlotte
Louisa, b. Dec. 21, 1834; d. Feb. 1848. 3. Laura Eve-
line, b. March 28, 1835. 4. Olney Weston, b. Oct. 3,
1836. 5 and 6. Twins, viz. Frances Helen and Lucy Ellen.
7. Lorenzo Miller, b. Aug. 1840. 8. Sarah Isabel. 9. A
son, d. two weeks old. 10. Albert. 11. Caroline Augusta,
b. June, 1846; d. 1849. 12. Zeruah Ferroline. — VI.
Melinda Reed, b. Aug. 17, 1810; m. Almond Messer ; r.
Montville. — VII. Horace, b., according to his own record,
Sept. 8 ; his father's records, Sept. 9, and town-records,
Sept. 10, 1812 ; m., Jan. 1, 1837, Ertheny Avery, of Tops-
ham, Vt., who was b. April 3, 1813; r. homestead; and
512 FAMILY REGISTER.
has 1. Horace Newell,- b. Oct. 27, 1838. 2. Lura Ellen,
b. Aug. 25, 1840. 3. Mary Matilda, b. Aug. 15, 1848.
— VIII. Lorenzo Miller, b. May 30, 1816; m. ; r. Illi-
nois.
Tobey, John, son of Samuel and Rebecca (Hatch) Tobey,
b. at Falmouth, Mass., Nov. 5, 1768; came to Union in
1791 ; m., June 13, 1791, Mary, dr. of George and Mary
(Chase) West, who was b. at Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard,
Dec. 11, 1772, and d. Aug. 27, 1832. He m., July 5,
1835, the widow Melicent Wingate, b. at Hancock, N. H.,
Aug. 17, 1796, dr. of Thomas Jones, an Englishman. He
has been a sea-captain more than sixty years, but for some
time has lived on his farm, full of activity and hilarity,
though afflicted with very great deafness. He had — I.
Rebecca, b. Jan. 17, 1793; m., Nov. 1810, Calvin Chase,
from Warwick, Mass., a storekeeper in Union; and had 1.
Mary, b. Sept 27, 1811 ; m. a Martin; r. Hallowell. 2.
William Witt, b. Aug. 22, 1813. 3. Almeda, d. at Miri-
machi, where they moved and where C. C. also died. She
m., second, Thomas, brother of her first husband; r. War-
wick, Mass. ; by whom are Emily, Elvira, Almira G., Ed-
ward, and Martha. — II. Polly, alias Mary, b. Jan. 16,
1795 ; d. at Gardiner, Nov. 5, 1831 ; m. John Palmer, and
had 1 . Gilman, m. Mary Brown, of Salisbury, N. H. ; r.
Lancaster, Mass. 2. John, d. young. 3. Nathaniel Tobey,
M.D., b. Feb. 27, 1817; r. Brunswick; m., Nov. 27, 1844,
Mary Merritt, second dr. of Capt. William Curtis, of Bruns-
wick, b. May 8, 1812. 4. Mary, m. Rd. Webster, of New
Vineyard, Me.; r. Hampton, 111. 5. Eliza Jane, m. a
Webster ; r. Hampton, 111. 6. Augustus, m. Mary Sanford;
r. Bath. 1: Dudley. 8. Harriet-, r. Thomaston. — III.
Nathaniel, b. July 21, 1796; m. Hannah Miller, March 5,
1820; r. Jefferson. — IV. Love, b. July 26, 1798; m.,
April 24, 1831, Seth Miller; and d. Nov. 28, 1838; c. —
V. Eliza, b. May 3, 1800 ; m., Nov. 13, 1818, John Stevens ;
and d. June 5, 1837. — VI. Jane West, b. May 25, 1802;
m. Stephen Carriel, in 1827. — VII. Lydia, b. April 26,
1804; d. Feb. 12, 1835; u. — VIII. John, b. March 8,
1806; d. of consumption, April 8, 1828. — IX. Edward,
b. Feb. 19, 1808; m. Eliza Gilchrist; r. Montville. — X.
Caroline, b. June 30, 1810; d. July 3, 1810. — XL Harriet,
b. July 8, 1811 ; m. Dec. 22, 1833, William C. Jackson. —
XII. Caroline, b. July 10, 1813; m., 1835, Leander Mar-
TOBEY. — WALCOTT. 513
tin; r. Jefferson. — XIII. Leander, b. Sept. 17, 1815; m.
Harriet Bagley ; r. Montville ; c.
Walcott, Penty, Pente, or Pentecost; t. 1797;
from Attleborough ; died March 4, 1844 (son of Pente-
cost); m., first, 1801, Elizabeth Matthews, from Warren ;
and, second, 1840, Eliza Standish, who afterwards m. Ben-
jamin Clark, and d. in Union, August, 1850; ch. — I.
Elizabeth, b. May 3, 1805; m. Parker Messer. — II. Han-
nah, b. Jan. 27, 1802 ; m. Elijah House, of Washington, in
1832(7). — III. Katherine,b. Sept. 21,1809; m., 1830, Cor-
nelius Spear, of Warren ; r. Searsmont. — IV. Robert, b.
April 9, 1813; d. June 11, 1814. — V. Lydia, b. Sept. 21,
1809; m., Dec. 5, 1830, Charles Hibbard. — VI. Mary, b.
March 21,1815.
Walcott, Spencer, nephew of Penty, and son of Moses
and Mary(?) (Blackington) Walcott; t. 1791 ; settled north
of William Hart; b. at Attleborough, Mass., May, 1767 ;
d. Sept. 22, 1826 ; m. Hannah, b. at Attleborough, Aug. 15,
1774, dr. of David Woodcock. She m., second, Dec. 2,
1830, widower Deacon Robert Thompson, who d. in Hope,
1849. Descendants, — I. Sarah, b. June 30, 1792 ; d. Oct.
7, 1836, in Searsmont; m., March 18, 1813, Sylvanus
Hemenway ; and left Cyrus Thomas, Bickford Nelson, Al-
zina Walcott, Avis Walcott, Gustavus Adolphus, Rebecca
Matthews, Anson Bartlett, Gardner Ludwig. — II. Fanny,
b. Aug. 6, 1795; m., March 16, 1818, John, s. of George
Bowes, of Washington, a farmer and weaver from England,
or perhaps from the Isle of Man ; and had Spencer George,
whose w. was Louisa ; Norris Piper, d. ; Joseph Henry ;
John ; Hannah ; Elizabeth, d. Feb. 1847 ; Mary Ann ;
Moses Walcott ; Avis Hills. — III. Rebecca, b. March 23,
1797 ; m., 1819, Morrill Matthews, of Searsmont; and had
Albert Dillingham, Noah Morrill, Daniel, Spencer Wal-
cott, Sanford Hills, Adolphus, Avis Hills, James Bow-
doin. — IV. Avis, b. Sept. 3, 1799 ; m., first, Sanford Hills,
and, second, Geo. Cummings. — V. Vyna, b. July 19, 1801;
m., July 9, 1823, Bickford C. Matthews, of Searsmont; and
had Jane Bishop, Hannah Mary, Lois Manning, Anas-
tasia Rebecca, Noah Morrill, Sarah Frances. — VI. Moses,
b. Oct. 21 [or, according to town-record, Oct. 9], 1804; m.,
first, June 3, 1828, Mary Chase, dr. of Nathaniel Robbins ;
c. ; r. Washington; and, second, m., early in 1850, Maryr
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514 FAMILY REGISTER.
widow of Andrew Suchfort, and dr. of Isaac Witham. — VII.
Spencer, b. March 11, 1807; r. homestead ; m., May 6, 1830,
Esther, b. in Littleton, Mass., April 18, 1807, dr. of Joseph
and Betsey (Pike) Dedman; and has 1. Hannah, b. Jan. 30,
1831. 2. Loana Maria, b. June 10, 1835. 3. Mary Adams,
b. May 6, 1837. 4. Sanford Hills, b. April 7, 1839. 5.
Joseph Dedman, b. April 20, 1841. 6. Martha Clotilda, b.
July 23, 1849.— VIII. Alzina, b. Nov. 15, 1808 ; m. Ste-
phen S. Hawes. —IX. Manning, b. April 18, 1813; m., Sept.
12, 1837, Mary, dr. of Herman Hawes ; and had 1. Herman
Hawes, b. Aug. 3, 1838. 2. Edgar Hartley, b. May 6, 1842.
Walker, Daniel, son of Asa and Sarah (Burbank)
Walker, b. at Ashby, March 18, 1774; came to Union in
1797; m., June 2 or 10, 1799, Fanny, dr. of Jacob and
Hannah (Jones) Booth, of Gloucester, R. I., b. Nov. 16,
1778, in Uxbridge, Mass ; settled in the north-west part of
the town ; ch. — I. Hannah, b. June 2, 1800 ; d. July 23,
1805. — II. Anna, b. Nov. 14, 1802; m. John Dyer. —
III. Fanny, b. Aug. 16, 1806; m. Sept. 4, 1828, Benjamin
Achorn; had ch. — IV. Hannah, b. Sept. 30, 1808; m.,
Nov. 15, 1835, Shadrach Snell. — V. Asa, b. Oct. 6, 1810 ;
m., 1832, Buth Lermond, of Bremen ; has ch. — VI. Daniel,
b. March 28, 1813 ; m. Lydia Prior, of Bremen; had ch.
John Walker, br. of Daniel, b. at Ashby, Mass., March
23, 1776 ; came to Union in 1798 ; m., Jan. 1, 1802, Sarah,
or Sally, Bowen ; ch. — I. Nathan, b. Oct. 22, 1802; m.,
Nov. 13, 1841, Emeline Amanda Mills, of Natick, b. Sept.
19, 1807 ; r. Woodburn, 111. ; and has 1. John Oscar, b.
March 6, 1845 ; 2. Charles Emmett, b. Dec. 22, 1847. — II.
Julia, or Juliana, b. March 3, 1805 ; m. Godfrey Miller, Dec.
26, 1830, b. at Waldoborough, March 10, 1799 ; r. Washing-
ton; and had 1. Nathan Walker, b. Dec. 24, 1831. 2. Ever-
son Rider, b. April 29, 1833. 3. Helen Arethusa, b. April
23, 1836. 4. John Walker, b. Oct. 4, 1838. 5. Sarah Eli-
zabeth, b. May 20, 1841. 6. Moses Donnel, b. March 7, 1844.
7. A child, b. Nov. 29, 1846. — III. Mary, or Polly, b. Dec.
11, 1807; m., Jan. 30, 1848, Levi Butler. — IV. Esther
Bowen, b. June 5, 1810 ; d. Nov. 17, 1837 ; m., Sept. 11,
1834, Josiah Eley, in Nansemond County, Va., b. at Isle
of Wight County, Va., Oct. 22, 1798; and had Sarah E. C,
b. Sept. 13, 1835. — V. Sarah, or Sally, Bowen, b. Sept.
27, 1813; m., Sept. 11, 1839, her sister Esther's husband;
WALKER. — WARE. 515
c — VI. John, b. April 29, 1817; u. — VII. Elizabeth, b.
May 15, 1823.
Ware, Jason, b. at Franklin, Mass., March 10, 1756 ; d.
May 11, 1843; m., first, Sept. 16, 1782, Polly, dr. of Ste-
phen Peabody, from Saccarappa, then living in Warren, b.
April 11, 1756, d. March 5, 1815; and, second, April 16,
1817, Sally Severance, b. April 21, 1770, d. April 3, 1849.
His ch. were — I. Greenleaf, b. Aug. 22, 1783; d. Sept. 29,
1802. — II. Peggy, b. Dec. 9, 1784; m. Alford Butters,
July 18, 1804, who moved to Ohio, and d. ; ch. 1. Rachel,
b. May, 1805; d. 1811. 2. Alford, b. May 11, 1807; r.
Ohio. —III. Polly, b. July 8, 1787 ; m. Nathan, s. of Reu-
ben Hills, July 9, 1807 ; and had 1. Vinal, b. July 27, 1808 ;
m. Cordelia, dr. of John C. and Berintha Robbins ; r. North-
port. 2. Isaac, b. April 23, 1811 ; m. Eliza Hall, of Crush-
ing; and had (1). Lysander, b. July 4, 1834 ; (2). Syl-
vanus, b. Nov. 26, 1836. 3. Mary,h. Oct. 3, 1813; d.
March 10, 1814. 4. Polly, b. March 2, 1815; m., 1836,
Nathaniel K. Burkett ; and had (1). Isaac H., b. Aug. 24,
1835; (2). Oscar A., b. May 15, 1837; (3). Mary A.,
b. March 27, 1840; (4). Ellen Matilda, b. April 5,
1842; and others. 5. Nancy, b. April 30, 1817; m. a
Clary, of Jefferson. 6. Nathan, b. Sept. 26, 1820; m.
Mary Severing, of Knox ; and had (1). Es telle, b. Nov. 23,
1844; (2). Marjett, b. Dec. 31, 1846. 7. Caroline, b.
July 11, 1823. 8. Silas, b. March 29, 1826. 9. Lavinia,
b. April 21, 1828. 10. Matilda, b. April 18, 1831. — IV.
Vinal, b. July 9, 1789 ; m., Nov. 3, 1825, Lavinia Anthony,
dr. of Matthias Hawes ; ch. 1. Harriet Miranda, b. April 1,
1833; 2. Erastus, b. Sept. 27, 1834. — V. Mela, b. Dec. 1,
1791 ; d. Dec. 3, 1791. —VI. Chloe, b. Nov. 5, 1793 ; m.,
Jan. 19, 1817, Isaac, s. of Reuben Hills; ch. 1. Jason, b. Dec.
12, 1817. 2. Harriet, b. Aug. 22, 1819. 3. Cyrus, b. June 7,
1823; d. Sept. 18 [or gravestone, 19], 1824. 4. Rufus Phi-
lander, b. July 21, 1825. 5. Miranda, b. June 22, 1828 ; d.
Sept. 28, 1828. — VII. Susa, or Susanna, b. June 19, 1795 ;
d. Jan. 2, 1796. — VIII. Jabez, b. July 3, 1 798 ; m., April 24,
1823, Chloe Titus; r. Northport; and had 1. Sarah Melinda,
b. Sept. 26, 1824 ; d. Oct. 19, 1848. 2. Rhode Ann, b. May
26, 1826. 3. Chloe Elvira, b. June 26, 1828. 4. Mary Mi-
randa, b. Aug. 26, 1830. 5. Eliza Mansfield, b. Feb. 9,
1833. 6. Catharine Hatch, b. Feb. 11, 1835. 7. Jason,
b. Jan. 27, 1837. 8. Eunice Augusta, b. June 3, 1839 ; d.
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June 11, 1839. 9. Harriet Amelia, b. June 23, 1840. 10.
Horace Lorenzo, b. May 31, 1842. 11. Jabez Gilbert, b.
July 10, 1844.
West, George, sea-captain, b. March 17, 1744; d.
Sept. 4, 1800, from voluntary starvation;1 m. Mary Chase,
of Martha's Vineyard, b. June 11, 1749, d. May 17, 1802.
During several of the last days of his life, he retained his
senses, but was too feeble to speak, and conveyed his ideas
by making signs. — I. Peter, sea-captain ; m. Sarah Dag-
gett ; r. and d. Martha's Vineyard. — II. Peggy, m. Lot
Luce, a sea-captain; r. and d. Martha's Vineyard. — III.
Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1772; d. Aug. 27, 1832; m. JohnTobey.
— IV. Lovey, m. Nathaniel Robbins. — V. George Wash-
ington, m., Oct. 21, 1798, Hannah Fairbanks; moved to
Ohio, and subsequently still further ; had 1. Charles, b. May
9, 1801. 2. Mary, b. Sept. 9, 1803. 3. Lovey, b. July
22, 1806. 4. Elvira, b. April 5, 1809. 5. Sarah, b.
May 7, 1812. 8. George Washington, b. Jan. 9, 1815. —
VI. Thomas, m. Sally Spalding ; r. Martha's Vineyard, and
lately moved West. — VII. Jane, m. David Grafton, Dec.
31, 1804 ; and d. June 4, 1814, aged twenty-nine years four
months; had 1. George, b. March 18, 1806. 2. John, b.
June 29, 1807 ; m. Webb ; r. Warren. 3. David, b. Oct. 2,
1808. 4. Thomas West, b. Sept. 3, 1810. 5. Lydia, b.
Dec. 4, 1811. 6. Peter West, b. Jan. 2, 1813. 7. Jane
West, b. Feb. 18, 1814.
Wight, John M., b. Wrentham, now Foxborough,
Mass. ; m. Lavinia Morse, Jan. 20, 1793 ; was here in 1787.
He was in the army, where it is said he was whipped. He
taught school near the head of Tolman Pond, and it seems
eloped with the wife of his landlord. The Thomaston town-
records say, "Daniel, b. April 18, 1793. James Ware, b.
Oct. 29, 1795. Henry M., b. March 15, 1798. And, on
the sixth day of December, 1799, the above-named John M.
Wight went away, and left his wife, his family, and this
part of the country ; and, after his departure, his wife bare
twins, viz. Charles and Ormond, b. March 9, 1800."
Woodcock, David, b. at Attleborough, Mass. ; moved
from Medway to Union; d. Dec. 9, 1790, in his forty-ninth
year; lived on the mill-farm; m., Sept. 17, 1765, Abigail
1 Widow Moody, aged sixty-two, died in the same way, April 11,
1809.
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Holmes, who d. Sept. 25, 1823, aged eighty-four; and had
— I. Benjamin, b. Oct. 16, 1766; d. Feb. 9, 1768. — II.
David, b. Oct. 23, 1771 ; m. in the winter of 1794-5, AfTa
Peabody; and had 1. Dexter Hatch, b. Sept. 11, 1795. 2.
Nancy, b. Oct. 29, 1796. 3. David, b. Aug. 26, 1798.
4. Rufus, b. Sept. 26, 1800. 5. John, b. Nov. 25, 1801 ;
m., 1824, Lucy H. Tyler, of Leominster, Mass. ; and had
Jane S o phi a, b. June 27, 1825 ; r. at the Eastward. 6.
Polly, b. May 16, 1803; m. Benjamin Gowen. — III. Han-
nah, b. Aug. 15, 1774; m. Spencer Walcott. — IV. Lynday,
b. Jan. 27, 1777; m., 1794-5, William Peabody; r. East-
ward.—V. Nancy, b. March 23, 1779; m., Oct. 13, 1796,
Samuel Tifft, of Thomaston, and moved to Attleborough. —
VI. Theodore, b. Jan. 12, 1786; r. and d. Searsmont ; m.
Rebecca Packard.
Wyman, John, t. 1796 ; fiddler, carpenter; lived at the
west part of the town ; worked with Charles Barrett on
locks and canals ; moved East ; fiddled for a company ; com-
plained of being unwell, lay down, and d. immediately.
44*
519
GENERAL INDEX.
Abbot, pages 253, 304, 319, 431,
499.
Abrams, Susman, a Jew, 74, 110,
127, 154, 492.
Achorn, 83, 85, 91, 308, 514.
Adams, 75, 76, 83, 90, 196, 223,
305, 307, 327, 490, 492.
Adams, Ebenezer Ward, 75, 202.
Family of, 75, 88, 201, 430. In
office, 122, 123, 127, 129, 254,
305, 306. Military notices of,
339, 378.
Adams, Eunice, teacher, 294.
Adams, Joel, Capt., 42, 51, 57, 69,
114, 152, 258, 259, 304, 338,
490. An early settler, 46. His
marriage and family, 49, 64, 67,
75, 430. On committees, 60,
143-145, 164, 192, 195, 302-
304. In office, 117-120, 123,
127. Methodist, 194-196. His
petition to the legislature, 262.
In the army, 328.
Adams, John and Peter, and
others, 94, 118, 232, 250, 270,
305, 307, 308, 339, 377, 471,
- 473, 494, 508, 509.
Adams, Ward, and family, 83, 430.
Agassiz, Louis, Prof., 56.
Aglar, Nathaniel K., 78.
Aikin, 434.
Alden, Ebenezer, 74, 109, 111,
112, 114, 134, 154, 201, 226,
249. His family, 74, 82, 430.
In office, 120, "128, 306. On
committees, 195, 199, 233, 290.
Coroner, 254. Postmaster, 255.
Alden, Ed., Dr., 82, 225, 322, 431.
Alden Lyman, 29, 225, 227, 308,
399. His family, 85, 431.
Alewives, 55f 420.
Alexander, Timothy, 96.
Alford, 76, 194, 195, 197.
Allen, 75, 177, 458, 462.
Ames, John, 495.
Amory, landowners, 42, 65t 143-
145, 276, 431.
Anderson, and Anderson party,
27-31, 59, 105, 387, 390, 394.
Andre, John, 327.
Andrews, 81, 85, 307, 377, 433,
434, 470, 505.
Annapolis, Nova Scotia, 477.
Apples, 107.
Arnold, 92, 452, 453.
Aroostook War, 377.
Articles of Faith, 173.
Ashcraft, Nathan 13., Rev., 219.
Assessors, 119.
Athearn, Rebecca, 444, 445.
Attleborough, Mass., 65, 69, 71,
451, 469, 516.
Audubon, J. J., 99.
Avery, 33, 511.
Aye/ and Ayers, 220, 323, 364,
367, 483.
B.
Babb, George, 250.
Babbidge, Benjamin, 500.
Bachelder, Benjamin, and others,
92, 223, 323, 472.
Bachelder, Cyrus G., 117, 225,
226, 307, 342.
Bachelder, John, 75, 116, 223,
227, 306. Family of, 75, 92,
327, 447, 454. Town-clerk,
117. Military officer, 342, 351,
353. Court-martialled, 362.
Bachelder, Lewis, and family,
76, 96, 223, 225, 227, 280, 306,
479. Military officer, 338, 342.
At the muster, 355, 361. Court-
520
GENERAL INDEX.
martialled, 364. Proposition
to re-elect him, 373.
Bachelder, Nathan, 76, 223, 225,
226, 280, 290, 306-308, 341.
Family of, 92. Selectman, 118.
Justice, 254. Captain, 342,
374.
Bachelder, Nathaniel Q., 96, 327,
479.
Bachelor, Nathaniel, Capt., 43,
201, 223, 225, 226, 305, 306,
His family, 75, 431, 479. Offi-
ces held by, 1 18, 280. On com-
mittees, 170, 198, 289, 304.
Representative, 248, 249. Jus-
tice, 252.
Bachelor's Mills, 2, 11, 28, 288,
391, 467.
Bacon, William, 486.
Bagley, Harriet, 513.
Bailey, George, 249.
Baker, Joseph and Samuel, Rev.,
219.
Balkam, Uriah, Rev., and family,
32, 215.
Ball, Daniel, 455.
Band, 326.
Banister, 320.
Bank- tax for schools, 311.
Baptists and societies, 194, 195,
197, 220.
Barber, 506.
Barbour, Elizabeth, 476.
Barker, 84, 86, 308, 457, 483, 505.
Barley, 105.
Barnard, 75, 88, 120, 197, 226,
280, 307, 308, 328, 442, 476,
493, 505.
Barns, built, 39, 41. Burnt, 43.
Barrett, 74, 92, 113, 317, 320, 461,
517.
Barrett, Amos, Capt., 19, 129,
154, 201, 237, 303. On com-
mittees, 150, 163, 164, 166, 167,
169, 170, 195, 303. In Concord
battle, 328. Family of, 431.
His houses burnt, 447.
Barrett's Pond, 3.
Barrett's Town, 68, 113, 276,488.
Barter, George, 445.
Bartlett, 74, 120, 304, 306, 435,
439, 463, 485, 488, 489, 499,
504.
Barton, 500.
Bates, Nancy, 471.
Baum, Col., 449.
Baxter, F. W., Rev., 226, 305.
Bayley, Kiah, Rev., 172, 178, 182,
191.
Beals, Samuel, 456.
Bean, 225, 485, 502, 507.
Blkrd, 506.
Bears hunted and killed, 36, 395,
502.
Beauchamp, John, 22.
Beavers, 411.
Becket, 110, 249, 253.
Bees, 418.
Belden, Jonathan, Rev., 189, 208.
Belknap, John, 389.
Bell, the, 135, 226.
Bemis, 74, 96.
Benner, 349, 442.
Bennet, 154, 201, 324, 486, 489.
Bernard, Isaac, Dr., 294, 321.
Beveridge, 81, 256, 454, 456.
Bewitched horse, 228.
Bickford, Sally, 506.
Bigelow, Asaph, 455.
Biguyduce, 47, 71, 258, 334.
Billings, Caleb O., 441.
Bills, 75, 96, 127, 349, 438, 508.
Bird, Nancy, or Agnes, 467.
Bishop, 436, 497.
Blackbirds, 416.
Black land, 98, 391.
Blackington, 79, 122, 306, 513.
Blacksmithing, early, 43, 56t 58,
464.
Blake, 462, 468, 482.
Blake, Nathan, 113, 467. Offices
held by, 118, 252. Motions
made by, 165, 166, 169. On
committees, 167-170, 192, 195,
290, 302-304. His complaint
against Hills, 181. His family,
432.
Blake, Walter, and family, 75,
86, 127, 128, 249, 292, 305, 307.
On committees, 132, 156, 164,
198. Justice, 253.
Blanchard, 192, 339, 433.
Blood, 95, 465, 470, 486, 493.
Blunt, Ebenezer, in office, 63, 119,
121, 122, 124, 306. His family,
76, 87, 133, 433.
GENERAL INDEX.
521
Blunt, Henry, and family, 76,
223, 249, 250, 305, 433. As-
sessor, 120, 121. On commit-
tees, 133, 198, 292, 304.
Boating, 277.
Boggs, 14, 35, 452, 459, 470.
Boggs, Calvin, and family, 80,
128, 308.
Boggs, Life W., 76, 339, 380.
Boggs, Samuel, 25, 386, 390, 411.
Escapes from Indians, 26.
Boggs, William, 76, 120, 127,
140, 195.
Boggs's Landing, 30.
Boody, Benjamin and Ann, 471.
Books used in schools, 295, 309.
Boomer, J. B., Rev., and Nancy
M., 471.
Booth, 76, 196, 449, 458.
Bosworth, 146, 494.
Boundaries, 1, 62. French and
English, 22.
Bowen, Ezra, and others, 42, 64,
75, 117, 130, 143, 194, 195, 197,
258, 259, 317, 434.
Bowen, Isaac, Dr., and family,
318, 322, 434.
Bowes, 127, 317, 513.
Bowker, S., Rev., and family, 82,
128, 216, 251, 305.
Bowker Brook, 3, 37, 401.
Bowley, 134, 454, 467.
Bowman, Lydia, 473.
Boyd, 482.
Boyden, Justus, 434.
Boynton, William, 451.
Brackett, 94, 322.
Bradbury, J. W., Hon., 320.
Bradford genealogy, 477.
Bradstreet, 476, 50*5.
Brass band, 326.
Bray, S., Rev., 219, 474.
Brazier, Susan, 487.
Breck, 76, 444, 475.
Brett, Pliny, Rev., 219.
Brick, 330, 459.
Bride's dowry, 53, 503.
Bridges, 40, 61, 287.
Briggs, 79, 177, 219, 458, 489.
Bristol, 58, 433, 434, 469.
Brittoh, James B., Rev., 316.
Broad, 506.
Brown, 75, 76, 83, 90, 94, 95, 127,
196, 226, 252, 325, 364, 442,
460, 484, 505, 509.
Brown, John, Dr., 323, 460.
Brown, John Carter, library of, 2.
Brown, Jonathan, and family, 347,
434.
Browning, Charles L., Rev., 220.
Bruce, Abigail, 94.
Bryant, 76, 94, 133, 280, 306, 440,
474.
Bryant, Benjamin, Rev., and fami-
ly, 96, 220.
Bryant, Joseph, and family, 76,
91, 307, 504.
Bulfinch, John, 252, 304, 319.
Bullen, 74, 223.
Bump, 77, 196, 250, 306, 314, 487.
Bunker Hill battle, 33, 328, 333.
Bunting, 140, 236, 304, 347.
Burbank, Sarah, 514.
Burgess, Peter, Rev., 220. Fami-
ly of, 434.
Burgoyne's surrender, 42, 43, 329.
Burials, 135.
Burkett, 75, 83, 84, 112, 226, 327,
515.
Burns, 76, 90, 91, 94, 226, 251,
307, 442, 444, 469, 479, 487.
Burroughs, 82.
Burton, 85, 251, 483.
Burton, Benjamin, Col., 38, 41,
335.
Burying-grounds, 18, 19, 130.
Butler, 75, 79, 80, 86, 90, 127,
474, 508.
Butler, Christopher, 67, 145, 146,
148, 151, 152, 164, 291. In
office, 119, 126, 127, 129. Me-
thodist, 194, 196. His family,
435.
Butler, E. N., family of, 90.
Butler, George W., and family,
86, 127, 437.
Butler, Gorham, and family, 74,
79, 194, 196, 435.
Butler, Gorham, and family, 78,
432, 435, 447.
Butler, Jedidah, 444.
Butler, Jeruel, 87, 280, 438.
Butler, John, 30, 144, 258, 259,
288, 289, 419. With Dr. Tay-
lor, 30, 32, 34. His marriage
and family, 43, 64, 436. In
522
GENERAL INDEX.
office, 125, 126, 129. Hun-
ter, 397.
Butler, John, 74, 194, 196, 217,
306. His family, 74, 79, 435.
Butler, John, 75, 437.
Butler, John, family of, 78, 436.
Butler, Joseph, 126, 194, 196.
Family of, 436.
Butler, Matthias, family of, 86.
Butler, Phinehas, 25, 39, 258, 259,
411, 425, 427. With Dr. Tay-
lor, 30, 32, 34, 35. Kills a
bear, 36. In the army, 41, 50,
329. Settles in town,*50. His
Avife and family, 50, 437.
Butler, Phinehas, and family, 75,
86, 127, 129, 306, 308, 437,
505.
Butler, Thomas, and family, 76,
87, 152, 194, 196, 438, 440.
Butler, Waldron S., and family,
87, 307, 438.
Butters, 120, 127, 192, 194, 196,
457, 511, 514.
Buttman, Mary Jane, 507.
Buxton, 321, 505.
Buzzell, 197, 488.
C.
Camden, 1, 20, 21, 55, 343.
Camp at South Union, 28, 31, 35,
387, 411.
Campbell, 364, 508.
Camp-meetings, 219.
Canals, 112.
Cannon, 347.
Canterbury, Wm. and Ruth, 497.
Carkin, Isaac, 194, 196.
Carriel, or Carroll, 90, 91, 94, 308,
433.
Carriel, Danford, family of, 91,
439.
Carriel, David, and family, 75,
- 201, 439.
Carriel, Jonathan, and family, 76,
127, 133, 169, 177, 201,' 212,
302, 304, 439.
Carriel, Jonathan, 76, 91, 118,
201, 305, 439.
Carriel, Stephen, and family, 90,
280, 307, 440. Representa-
tive, 250.
Carrigain, Philip, Dr., 321.
Carrying-places, 391, 393.
Carting goods to Boston. 112.
Carver, Nathan, 194, 195, 197.
Case, 119, 162, 440.
Cashman, 3, 42, 164.
Castine, 334, 346. See Biguy-
duce.
Caswell, 445.
Caswell, Judson, and family, 76,
93, 307, 474.
Caswell, William, and family, 84,
94, 122, 128, 307, 473.
Cat-and-clay chimneys, 55.
Cattle, 140.
Cat-vaughan, or Catamount, 408.
Censuses, 73.
Cents and dollars, 264.
Chadwick, Emily, 444.
Chaffin, 194, 196, 469.
Chain on the North River, 328.
Champlain explores the Penob-
scot, 20.
Chapman, 216, 327, 488, 495, 500.
Charles I., places named bv, 2, 21.
Chase, 79, 111, 233, 347, 512, 516.
Cheney, Jonathan, Rev., 219.
Child and Childs, 197, 464.
Chimneys, 52, 55.
Churches organized, 172, 188.
Clark and Clarke, 76, 87, 129, 192,
194, 196, 197, 209, 433, 440,
460, 468, 490, 500.
Clark, Asa, and family, 441.
Clark, Benjamin, and family, 94,
513.
Clark, Nathan, and family, 95.
Clark, Nathaniel, familv of, 92,
504.
Clark, Walter W., family of, 93,
308.
Clary, 88, 466, 515.
Cleaveland, 458.
Clough, Jeremiah, 194.
Clouse, 84, 443.
Cloyce and Cloyes, 455, 475.
Cobb, 76, 83, 127, 481.
Cobb, Ebenezer, 75, 116, 139, 223,
225, 226, 306, 307, 453. Fami-
ly of, 75, 82, 83, 452. In office,
124,126. Builds a town-house,
141, 142. Licensed, 230. Jus-
tice, 253. Lieutenant, 342, 371,
372.
GENERAL INDEX.
523
Cochran, Thomas, Rev., 170.
Coffin, Uriah, 146, 441.
Coggan, William, and others, 76,
92, 119-121, 307, 308,333,445,
510.
Coggswell, 491.
Colby, 438, 507.
Cole, 90, 308, 367, 456, 478.
Collamore, 75, 93, 194, 196, 440,
442, 458.
Collectors, 123.
College-graduates, 163, 167-170,
318, 471, 479.
Collier, 93, 482.
Collins, 82, 135, 430, 437, 456.
Collins, Zuinglius, and family,
82, 117, 227, 447, 454.
Colored persons, 96, 272, 484, 485.
Comet, Wm. Dicke and the, 26.
Comings. See Cummings.
Commissioners, highway, 280.
Common, the, 1, 19, 136.
Concord and Lexington battle, 33,
34, 328, 331, 332.
Congress, votes for members of,
239.
Conklin, 465, 481.
Constables, 121.
Consumption, remedy for, 17.
Cony, Daniel, 363.
Cook, Dr., 323. Peggy, 507.
Coolidge, Abraham, 330.
Coombs, 56, 88, 92.
Cooper, Sally, 76, 80.
Copeland, 469, 481.
Copp, Susan, 441.
Copperas, 97.
Corduroy roads, 277.
Coroners, 254.
Cotterell, 479.
Councils, 177, 181, 205, 215, 216.
Court-martials, 362, 364, 366, 375,
378.
Covenant, 175.
Cox, 91, 220, 449.
Crabtree, 90, 461.
Craft, Samuel, and family, 472.
Cranberry Island, 330, 494.
Crane, 470, 505.
Crawford, 6, 28, 445.
Crawford's Meadow and Pond
and River, 3, 4, 6, 19, 334, 335,
416, 424.
Creed, 173.
Cressev, Anna, 507.
Croad,"501.
Crockett, 2, 4, 5, 96, 489.
Cromett, or Crommett, 83, 91,
121, 490.
Crooks, 455.
Crosby, John and Polly, 499.
Crowell, 82, 85, 453.
Crows, 416.
Croxford, Lydia, 452.
Cummings, David, 54, 152, 223,
306. Takes bread, 54. Pamilv
of, 75, 96, 441.
Cummings, George, and familv,
95, 223, 225, 226,253, 307,441.
Cummings, Joseph G., and family,
96, 441.
Cummings, Richard, 38, 115, 152,
195, 258, 259, 347. Settler, 38.
His grain burnt, 44. His fami-
ly, 64, 69, 441. Tanner, 110.
In office, 123, 126, 127. His
dog, 388, 394. Hunts, 400.
Cummings, Samuel, family of, 83,
308, 441.
Cummings, Suell, and family, 75,
88, 307, 442.
Cunningham, 251, 442, 457.
Currier, Sarah, 464.
Curtis, 82, 88, 451, 466,493,512.
Cushman, 75, 88, 305, 443.
Cut-downs, burning of, 98.
Cutler, Manasseh, Rev., 170.
Cutler, Nelson, 83, 224-226. Fa-
mily of, 83, 320. In office, 121,
122, 124, 280, 307. Licensed,
230. Representative, 250. Jus-
tice, 253, 254. Lawyer, 320.
Captain, 377.
Cutter, 216, 505.
Cutting, Jane, 192, 209.
D.
Daggett, 50, 66, 176, 430, 433,
438, 482, 508, 510, 516.
Daggett, Aaron, and family, 66,
443.
Daggett, Brotherton, and family,
66, 76, 94, 111, 133, 444.
Daggett, Ebenezer, 158, 445.
Daggett, Ebenezer, and family, 75,
89, 96, 445.
524
GENERAL INDEX.
Daggett, Ebenezer, Mrs., 65. Her
letter, 70. Her family, 470.
Daggett, Edmund, and family, 76,
327, 446.
Daggett, Elijah, Dr., and family,
443.
Daggett, John, of Attleborough,
69, 471.
Daggett, Jonathan, and family,
129, 444.
Daggett, Matthew, 443, 445.
Daggett, Mayhew and Chloe, of
Attleborough, 470.
Daggett, Samuel, 75, 117, 120,
127, 133, 168, 169, 267, 303.
His bewitched horse, 228. In
the Jersey prison-ship, 329.
His family, 444.
Daggett, Samuel, and family, 76,
95, 122, 133, 307, 445.
Daggett, Thomas, 66, 126, 144,
145, 152, 158, 162, 163, 166,
176, 445.
Daggett, Thomas, 66, 129, 194,
195, 197, 445.
Daggett, William, and family, 75,
209, 307, 444.
Dakin, Dr., 215.
Dam, Nancy Nelson, 462.
Daniels, F. A., and family, 80,
308, 447.
Daniels, Joseph, and family, 80,
308, 447.
Daniels, Milton, and family, 81,
225, 307. 447.
Daniels, Nathan, and family, 74,
80, 154, 201, 446. In office,
118, 120, 306, 307.
Daniels, Nathan, 29. Family of,
77, 78, 447.
Daniels Brook, 3.
Davis, 14, 79, 81, 82, 85, 93, 333,
387, 430, 453, 454, 462, 472,
488, 495, 505.
Davis, Isaac, Capt., of Acton, 328.
Davis, Jason, and family, 76, 80,
81, 227, 280, 306, 308, 470.
Davis, Mark, family of, 81, 447.
Davis, Pond, and family, 91, 308.
Davis, Sterling, and family, 76,
114, 120, 127, 194, 195, 447. >
Davis, Sterling, and family, 80,
81, 307, 448.
Davis, Wilber, and family, 80,
307, 448.
Day, 74, 304-307, 432.
Dean, 79, 438, 450, 500, 501.
Dearborn, Henry, Gen., 73.
Death, Caleb and Abigail, 476.
Decker, Capt., 30.
Decoster, 88.
Dedman, 441, 514.
Deed of land to Taylor, 32.
Deer, 388, 389.
Delusions, 227.
Demerritt, Hannah, 437.
Demuth, 84, 475.
Devereux, Nathaniel, Rev., 219.
Dicke, 6, 24, 26, 28, 59, 387.
Dickey, 75, 84, 90, 95, 113, 464.
Dike, 497, 498.
Dillingham, 465.
Dix, Sally, 476.
Dodge, 320, 511.
Dods, John Bovee, 75, 223, 304.
Doe, Samuel, 249.
Dogs and dogwhippers, 159, 387,
392, 394, 403, 411.
Dole, 34, 494.
Dollars and cents, 264.
Door [Dorr, or Duer ?], 449.
Dorman, 86, 254, 433.
Doty, 485, 510.
Dougherty, William, Dr., and fa-
mily, 201, 321, 469.
Douglas, Mass., 34, 48.
Douglass, Hannah, 491.
Dow, 77, 93. Rev. Mr., 171.
Sarah, 502.
Dowry, bride's, 53, 503.
Dows, Joseph, 330.
Drake, Amos, and family, 78,
250, 453. In office, 126, 304,
305, 307.
Drake, Jesse, and family, 74, 82,
95, 196, 223, 306, 453, 493.
Drake, John, and others, 74, 82,
122, 123, 154, 194, 196, 223.
Drummond, Alexander, 364.
Drury and wife, 455.
Ducks, 413.
Dudlev, Albion S., Rev., 224-
226,*305.
Dunbar, 482, 483.
Dunham, 448.
Dunning, John A., 376.
GENERAL INDEX.
525
Dunster, Henry, President, 389.
Dunton, Chloe, Mrs., and family,
25, 39, 82, 414, 427, 452, 488,
489.
Durgin, Joseph, 81.
Dutton, Louisa, 491.
Dwinell, Anclrus, 435.
Dyer, 127, 129, 141, 149, 159,
194, 196, 448, 507.
E.
Eagles, 421.
Eames, Anna, 455.
Eastman, 75, 84, 129, 154, 194,
196, 227, 307, 317, 464, 466,
471, 504, 507.
Eaton, 24, 507.
Ecclesiastical History, 161.
Eddy, Caroline, 430.
Educational History, 294.
Eels, 421.
Eley, Josiah, and family, 514.
Elkins, John, 499.
Elliott, Charles, 465.
Ellis, 177, 209, 446, 482.
Embargo, 232.
Emerson, Noah, Rev., 204, 207,
209.
Emerton, 511.
Emery, 320, 499.
Emmons, Nathaniel, Rev., 57,190.
Erskine, 434.
Esensa, 194, 196, 228, 449.
Estabrook, J. H., Dr., 323.
Esty, Reuben, 476.
Evans, Enoch B., 95.
Everett, Erastus D., and family,
471.
Everton, Zeph., 450.
Eves, Emily, 466.
F.
Factories, 109.
Fairbanks, 46, 79, 84, 325, 330,
450, 452, 474, 476, 508, 516.
Fairfield, Lois, 501.
Fales, 32, 37, 38, 42, 195, 197, 281,
451, 456, 459, 460, 479, 484, 487.
Fanning, 505.
Fargo, George W., Rev., 214.
Farley, Joseph, 407.
Farnham, Dudley, 87.
Faux, 455.
45
Felt, Joseph B., Rev., 496, 497.
Ferguson, Hannah, 433.
Fessenden, S. C, Rev., 216, 217,
Field, B. P., 319.
Filer, 88.
Finnegan, John, Rev., 219.
Fires in the woods, 99.
Fish, Susan, 458.
Fish Wardens, 129, 420. Laws,
418. Hawks, 421.
Fisher, Eliza, 434. Rev. Jabez
P., 168. Nancy, 453. Marvr
459. _ Peter, 463.
Fiske, Jemima, 432.
Flagg, S. A., Rev., 220.
Flanders, 507.
Fletcher, 442, 465, 493.
Flies, annoving, 56.
Flint, 459, 497.
Flitner, Isaac, Dr., 83, 305, 322,
511.
Flucker, Thos., 28, 29, 33, 50, 61.
Fobes, Perez, Rev., 167, 169.
Fogler, John, 77, 154, 201, 223.
Ann, 79. Mary, 192. Miranda,
483.
Fogler, Charles, and family, 54,
84, 227, 318, 439. In office,
121, 122, 307.
Follansbee, Leonard, 77, 306.
Follet, Susanna, 497.
Food, scarcity of, 44, 45, 54, 55,
67.
Foote, Col., 344.
Fossett, 16, 84, 93, 94, 122, 458.
495.
Fossett, Henry, 16, 76, 93, 133,
223, 305, 306.
Fossetts' Mills, 3, 111, 256, 469.
Foster, Edward, loyalist, 333.
Foster, Robert, 77, 111, 154, 201,
231, 237, 248, 249, 304, 305,
333, 345.
Foster, Robert N., 317.
Fourth- of- July celebrations, 236.
Fox, Mary Esther Jane, 461.
Foxes, 408.
Fox Islands, named by Pring, 20.
Abandoned, 47, 487.
Framingham, Mass., 109, 320, 321,
456.
Franklin, Mass., settlers from, 41,
46, 50, 54, 430, 453, 460, 485.
526
GENERAL INDEX.
Frary, Jeanette Kingsley, 461.
Frazer, 501.
French, James, 320. Polly, 502.
Polly, 503. Daniel and Sarah,
506.
French war expected, 336.
Freshets, 9.
Frogs, 12.
Fruit, 107.
Frye, Benj., and family, 93.
Fuller, 220, 221, 470*. Albert,
and family, 89. Amelia, 84.
Edmund, and family, 505. Es-
ther, 470. Henry D., and fam-
ily, 80. Isaac, 308, 441. James,
and Givens, 442. John, 339,
378. Jonathan, 505. Rhoda,
91. Rosanna, 87. Samuel, and
family, 76, 91. Samuel C, 308.
Sarah, 469. Simon, 76, 127,
193, 306. Susannah, 433.
Funerals, 130, 135, 231.
Furbush, Keziah, 474.
G.
Gage, 506.
Gallop, 78, 253, 435.
Gannett, Benj. and Deborah, 478.
Gardiner, Robert H., 424.
Gardner, 76, 80, 305, 306, 447.
Gary, George, Rev., 219.
Gav, 459, 460, 477. Abiel and
family, 74, 135, 223, 306, 451.
David, 74, 436. Elijah, 74,
223,451. Elizabeth, 85. James,
in the army, 347, 451. John C,
and others, 82. Jonah, and
family, 65t 71, 101, 451. Mar-
tha H., 82. Mary, 194, 195,
197. Mary F., 82. Richard,
223, 452. Willard, 76.
George, 466, 503.
Getchell, 506.
Ghentner, Reuben, 445.
Gibbs, Daniel, 434. John, 455.
Gilchrist, Eliza, 512.
Gillett, E., Rev., 177, 182, 215.
Gillmor, David, 54.
Gillmor, David, and family, 129,
136, 138, 149-152, 328, 338, 452.
Gillmor, Marcus, and family, 74,
326, 342, 424, 454.
Gillmor, Millard, 339, 454.
Gillmor, Robert, 491.
Gillmor, Rufus, 54, 65, 115, 137,
138, 147, 152, 154, 201, 225,
226, 237, 347, 364. His fami-
ly, 74, 82, 453. Offices held by,
118, 122, 123, 129, 131. On com-
mittees, 146, 149, 151, 164, 288.
To purchase ammunition, 337.
Military officer, 339. Buys beef,
346. Has tame cubs, 397. Takes
fish, 420.
Gillmor, Rufus, 339, 453.
Gilman, 87, 501.
Gilmore, Jonathan, 168.
Giraldman, Margaret, 432.
Glass, 509.
Gleason, Aaron, 197, 456.
Gleason, Calvin, and others, 76,
95, 120, 127, 132, 133, 222, 250,
253, 306, 308, 441, 455.
Gleason, John, Col., and family,
177, 209, 329, 455. John, of
Thomaston, 62.
Gleason, Joseph, 28, 223, 227, 308,
First settlement near, 31, 39.
Family of, 85, 90, 456.
Gleason, Joseph M., family of,
94, 455. In office, 120-122,
124, 280.
Gleason, Mica] ah and Polly, and
family, 77, i54, 201, 306, 324,
455. " His fulling-mill, 109.
Offices held by, 118, 203. On
committees, 134, 292, 304. Mili-
tary, 340.
Gleason, Nathan M., and family,
92, 455.
Gleason, Wm, 77, 132, 225, 226,
306, 307. Censuses taken by,
77. Family of, 85, 456. His fac-
tory, 109. In office, 121, 122.
Justice, 253, 254. On fish, 420,
422, 423.
Goodridge, 501.
Goodspeed, Rebecca, 440.
Goodwin, 254, 446.
Gordon, 91, 128, 404, 430.
Gordon, William, cited, 23.
Gore, Thomas, Dr., 304, 322.
Gough, Athelinda, 434.
Gould, 79, 364, 497.
Gove, 92, 503.
Governors, votes for, 232, 242.
GENERAL INDEX.
527
Gowen, Asa, and family, 93, 504. j
Benjamin, 307, 473, 517. Cy- \
rus, 121. Elizabeth H., 94. j
John, 76, 93, 120, 254, 280, 306. !
John H., and family, 308, 504. j
Nathaniel B., 94. Rebecca H., j
93, 209. William H. and Lou- j
isaA., 81, 454
rradur
ates.
Grafton, 195, 339, 347, 442, 509,
516.
Grain, 30, 35, 105.
Grant, Elizabeth, 505.
Graves, Bathsheba, 437.
Gray, Mary, 436.
Greeley, 219, 505, 509.
Greene, David, 33.
Greene, Joshua S., and family, 82,
251, 256, 305. His high-school,
316.
Grinnell, Bailev, and family, 75,
126, 152, 194', 196, 457.
Grinnell, Hannah, 465.
Grinnell, James, and family, 75,
86, 227, 307, 458.
Grinnell, Mace S., and family, 196,
457.
Grinnell,Philip, and wife,133,457.
Grinnell, Richard, 129, 194, 196,
329.
Grinnell, Royal, 55, 68, 129, 194,
196, 276, 329, 510. His fami-
ly, 56, 64, 75, 458. Takes sal-
mon, 420.
Grist-mills, 41, 55.
Groton, 378, 443.
Guild, Joseph, 65, 117, 145, 267,
459, 481.
Guns, on setting, 395.
Gurnev, Kingman, 465.
Gushee, 165, 443, 453, 489.
H.
Hadley, 434, 506.
Hagar, Ezekiel, and others, 77,
129, 327, 453. Hunts, 397.
Hagar, John, and family, 89, 308.
Hagar, Reuben, and family, 90,
227, 469.
Hagar, Samuel, 77, 305-307, 495.
Hagar, Sewell, and family, 89,
305, 307.
Hagar, Thomas, and others, 90.
Hahn, 479.
Hail, 11.
Hall, 76, 307, 515.
Hamlin, 215, 250, 470.
Hammond, Dimmis, 485.
Handay [Hendee?1, 83.
Hanson, 321, 478,479, 497, 500.
Harding, Daniel F., and family,
74, 78, 177, 227, 318, 432. In
office, 126, 127, 206, 304, 306.
Candidate for representative,
249, 250. Justice, 253, 254.
Lawyer, 319.
Harding, Elisha, Dr., 74, 223-225,
227, 304, 305, 307, 380, 452.
Senator, 247. Road commission-
er, 280. Lecturer, 316. Physi-
i cian, 322, 324. At the muster,
356, 360. His family, 463.
; Harding, Phillips C, 77, 135, 223,
227, 250, 270. Family of, 77,
I 85. In office, 118-120, 306.
Justice, 254.
1 Hardy, Seeth, 500.
I Harriman, 86, 509.
Harris genealogy, 482.
: Harris, from England, 483.
! Harris, Elizabeth, 488.
Harris, Obadiah, and family, 75,
\ 87, 127, 128, 225, 250,482.
Harris, Thaddeus William, on in-
Hart, 77, 84, 85, 129, 430, 479.
i Hart, Fisher, 26, 77, 83, 154, 201,
223, 225, 227, 305-307, 463.
I Hart, John F., and family, 26, 29,
! 65, 77, 85, 306, 308, 327, 423,
459. His dogs, 411.
Hart, Miriam, Mrs., 148, 459.
j Caught in a bear-trap, 405.
I Hart, Stephen, escapes from In-
! dians, 26.
Hart, William, Lieut., 14, 65, 66,
: 101, 129, 201, 338, 412, 448, 513.
His family, 77, 85, 459. En-
lists men for the French war,
336.
Hartford, 447.
Harthhorn and Hathorne, 435,
468.
Harvard University, 20, 64, 389.
Harwood, 488, 508.
528
GENERAL INDEX.
Haskell, 79, 83, 122, 466.
Hastings, 81, 467.
Hatch, George, 444.
Hathaway, Elizabeth, 438.
Hathorne or Harthhorn, 435, 468.
Haverhill, Mass., 498, 503.
Hawes, 464, 482.
Hawes, Abijah, Deacon, 41, 121,
127, 152, 176, 201, 210, 211,
259. Settles, 41. His family,
64, 75, 459. On committees,
143, 162, 168. In the army, 328.
Hawes, Charles A., and family,
78, 122,463, 511.
Hawes, Galen, and family, 306,
317, 462.
Hawes, Herman, 8, 47, 62, 201,
223, 249. His family, 75, 96,
463. Offices held by," 118, 120,
122, 124, 280, 305, 306. On
committees, 198, 292. Military
officer, 340. On eagles and
fishhawks, 421.
Hawes, Madison, cited, 219, 459.
Family of, 462.
Hawes, Matthias, 7, 152, 305.
His account-book cited, 7, 50,
51, 58, 107, 161. His barn
struck by lightning, 15. Land
bought by, 42. His settlement,
46. Marriage, 51. Log-house,
51. His family, 64, 75, 460.
Offices held by, 118, 119, 126,
129. On committees, 130, 143,
164, 290, 302, 303. Methodist,
194,196,218. Exposure of, 273.
In the revolutionary army, 328.
Hawes, Matthias, Mrs., 51, 55, 67,
460. Her dowry, 53. Visiting,
278.
Hawes, Moses, 25, 152, 157, 258,
259, 294, 325. Settles, 47.
Town-officer, 60, 61, 117, 118,
119, 121, 122, 129. On com-
mittees, 60, 143, 144, 164, 231,
268, 302, 303. His family, 64,
462. In the army, 328.
Hawes, Moses, and family, 87,
121,463.
Hawes, Noyes P., 7, 304, 315,
317. His notices of the town
cited, 45, 74, 103, 107, 130, 309.
His family, 462.
Hawes, Otis, and family, 88, 250,
251, 307, 317.
Hawes, Silas, and family, 84, 462.
Hawes, Stephen S., and family,
38, 96, 120, 121, 225, 227, 251,
307, 352, 463, 514.
Hawes, Whiting, and family, 42,
96, 201, 306, 317, 460.
Hawes, William G., and family,
96, 119, 121, 225, 226, 307, 463,
493.
Hayden, Angela, 457.
Heald, Abigail, 430.
Healey, Sally, 435.
Hearses, 135.
Heaton, Isaac, 248, 249.
Hedding, Elijah, Bishop, 466.
Heisler, John, and family, 80.
Hemenway, 76, 79, 127, 177, 195,
197, 306, 433, 456, 513.
Henderson, Gavinus, 225, 322.
Hewes, Solomon, 76, 127, 194,
196.
Hewitt, Hannah, 463.
Heywood, Mary, 505.
Hibbard, C, and family, 92, 307,
513.
Hichborn, Charles, 75, 223.
Higgins, Joshua, Key., 220.
High-schools, 315.
Highways, 61,273, 440. Survey-
ors, 279. Compensation for work,
282. Breaking, in winter, 284.
Hill, Marv, 457.
Hilliard, 503.
Hillman, Samuel, Rev., 219.
Hills, 85, 98, 127, 128, 464, 471.
Hills, Benj. B., and family, 78.
Hills, Cyrus, Dr., 322, 464.
Hills, Edward, and family, 83,
122, 254, 255, 305, 453.
Hills, Isaac, 112, 124, 128, 196,
306, 307, 317, 464, 515.
Hills, Jabez Eisher, 321, 464.
Hills, Joel, and family, 317, 464.
Hills, Josiah, and family, 75, 84,
464.
Hills, Nathan, and family, 75, 84,
194, 196, 223, 225, 230, 290,
292, 464, 490, 515. In office,
119, 120, 122, 124, 280, 306-
308. On committees, 132, 156.
Vinal, 307, 315.
GENERAL INDEX.
529
Hills, Reuben, 75, 134, 194, 196,
288, 289, 291, 464.
Hills, Reuben, and family, 75,
194, 196, 223, 317, 464.
Hills, Samuel, 8, 152, 209, 289,
321, 400. His journal, 8. In
want, 55. Blacksmith, 56, 58,
464. His arrival, 58. On com-
mittees, 60, 136, 144, 162, 164,
166, 231-233, 251, 237, 303, 304.
His family, 64, 77, 464. In
office, 119, 121, 123, 126, 127,
129. His opposition to Mr.
True, 172-214. Writes, for
Esensa, to Germany, 449.
Hills, Samuel, and family, 75, 83,
194, 196, 225, 226, 462, 464.
Representative, 250.
Hills, Sanford, and family, 77, 83,
86, 96, 306, 464.
Hills' Mills, 2, 101, 291, 420, 510.
Hills Point, 58, 69, 388.
Hilt, 4, 80, 467.
Himes, 511.
Hoar, Cyrena, 214.
Hobart, Peter, Rev., and Jael, 478,
479.
Hobbs, Josiah, of Hope, 63.
Hodge and Hodges, 320, 475, 500.
Hogs and hogreeves, 136.
Holbrook, Susanna, 476.
Holman, Betsey Barr, 500.
Holmes, 57, 64, 464, 484, 487, 517.
Hook, Charles, 471.
Hopkins, 163, 220, 254, 305.
Hopkinson, Lydia, 499.
Hopkinton, N.H., 107, 417, 495,
503.
Horse, bewitched, 228.
House, 450, 513.
Houses, first built, 35, 39. See
Log-houses.
Hovey, Isaac C, and family, 84,
327, 462.
How, Elizabeth, 455.
Howard, 43, 76, 80, 89, 195, 479,
495.
Howland, S. M., and family, 85,
128.
Hoyt, 502, 506.
Hubbard, Daniel,33. Rev. R.,219.
Hudson, 371.
Hull, David, and family, 79.
45*
Humphrey and Humphreys, 164,
219, 279, 376.
Hunnewell, 77, 490.
Hunt, 34, 430, 488, 490.
Hunter, Lithgow, 318.
Hunting, 386. Matches, 417.
Hunting, Timothy, 472.
Huse, Jonathan, Rev., 171, 206-
208,212. His letter, 171.
Huse, Stephen, and family, 458.
I.
Ide, 469.
Ilsley, Horatio, Rev., 215, 305.
Incorporation of the town, 60.
Indian doctor, 323.
Indians, carried off by Wey-
mouth, 2. Names given by, 2,
4, 21. Notices of, 23. Hart's
and Boggs's escape from them,
26.
Infantry and officers, 338. At
the muster, 355.
Ingraham, John H., Rev., 207.
Irish, Cornelius B., Rev., 46, 68,
127, 194, 196, 218, 249, 250. His
family, 75, 88, 465.
Irish, Ichabod, and family, 67,
195, 248, 268, 465.
Irish, Ichabod, and family, 76,
466.
Irish, Joseph, family of, 88, 466,
In office, 127, 250, 251, 305, 308.
Irish, Milton, in the Texan war,
348. His family, 466.
Iron- works, 111.
Isense, John Andrew, 450.
J.
Jackson, 87, 446, 512.
Jacobs, 201, 347.
James, Mrs., doctress, 321.
Jameson., Samuel, 75. Eliza B.,
83. Ellen, 87. Maria, 94. Si-
lence, 437. B rice, 441. Lydia,
445. Mary K., 457. Henry,
and family, 472. Deborah, 474.
Priscilla, 482.
Jefferson, Thomas, President, 232.
Jellard, Betsey, 488.
Jennison, Ebenezer, 62, 149, 294,
325, 436. Offices held by,
118-120, 123, 252, 303.
530
GENERAL INDEX.
Jennison, Timothy L., Dr., 32.
Jermison, William, Dr., and fami-
ly, 47-50, 61, 64, 275.
Jewett, 219, 364, 375, 490, 503.
Jews, 110.
Johnson, Alfred, Rev., 170.
Jones, Benjamin, Rev., 219, 220.
Jones, 250, 489. Benjamin L.,
327. Daniel, 495. Elizabeth,
434. George II., and family,
85. Hannah, 449. Lucy L.,
78. Mary, 110. Mary, 481.
Mary S., 470, 492. Melicent,
512. Michael, 495. Sally, 434.
Jones, Edward, and others, 110,
111, 115, 466. Town-officer,
117-119,123,126,127,129. On
committees, 145, 163, 164, 195,
231, 30 1-304. Pew-owner, 152,
218. Methodist, 194, 196. Re-
presentative, 247. Justice, 251,
252. To purchase stores, 336.
Jones, John, and family, 75, 82,
308, 327, 416.
Jones, John, family of, 93.
Joy, Emery Franklin, 491.
Judd, 454.
Justices of the Peace, 251.
K.
Kahler, 128, 490.
Kastner, 472.
Keene, 84, 446.
Kellar, 441, 492. See Kelloch.
Kellerin, 459.
Kelloch, Adam, 435. Alexander
and Mary, 462. Eliza, 436.
Elizabeth Libbey, 472. Lory,
459. Margaret, 441. Rosanna,
441. Silas, 453. William, 442.
Kellogg, Ezra, Rev., 219, 220, 249.
Kellogg, Samuel E., 433.
Kendrick, 469.
Kennedy, Henry, 375.
Kenniston, 504.
Kieff, 90, 127, 194, 196, 466.
Kilgore, Eveline, 430.
Kimball, Daniel, and family, 500.
George, 199, 237, 319. John
and family, 86. Sarah, or Sally,
444.
Kinney, Harriet, 438.
Kirkpatrick, Jane, 192.
Knapp, 463.
Knight and Knights, 488, 500.
Knowlton, 93, 509.
Knox, Henrv, Gen., 8, 113, 171,
214, 266, 414.
Kuhn, Jacob, 443.
L.
Labadea, 348, 349.
Labor and money compared, 286.
Lair or Lehr, 83, 444, 458.
Lakin, 100, 279.
Lamb, Elizabeth, 467.
Lambert, Sarah, 500.
Lambricht, Dr., 324.
Lamson, Mary, 481.
Lanfest, 87, 94.
Law, 76, 77, 89, 90, 176, 209, 306,
307, 442, 494.
Lawrence, 76, 81, 126, 510.
Lawyers, 318.
Lea, Robert, 476.
Leach, Ambrose, and family,
78, 307. Samuel, and family,
449. Waterman, 470. William
A. J., 91.
Leathers, Patty, 439.
Leavitt, 127, 500.
Le Brocke, Bathsheba, 478, 479.
Le Doit, 197, 456, 466.
Lee, Jesse, Rev., 217.
Lehr or Lair, 83, 444, 458.
Leland, 65, 67, 276, 456.
Lennan, 216, 470.
Lermond, 13, 82, 197, 308, 468,
514.
Lermond, Elbridge, family of, 81,
467. In office, 119, 121, 122,
307. Senator, 247. Represen-
tative, 251.
Lermond, John, and family, 101,
467.
Lermond, John, 76, 114, 134,
195, 223, 231, 305. Family of,
76, 81, 467. Offices held by,
118, 269, 280. On committees,
203, 270, 292, 304. Represen-
tative, 247.
Lermond, John, and family, 81,
227, 308, 467.
Lermond, John W., and family,
80, 307.
Lermond, William, 13, 76, 195.
GENERAL INDEX.
531
Lewis, 148, 152, 219, 450, 467.
Lexington fight. See Concord,
Libbey, 87, 463, 468, 481.
Libbev, Andrew, and family, 82,
117*, 305.
Libbey, Wm, 75, 226, 305-307.
Libraries, 317.
Light, 443, 458.
Light-infantry, 237, 340.
Lightning, damage by, 13.
Lime-casks, 102.
Lincoln, 11, 16, 87, 430,490.
Lindall, 61.
Lindley, John, and family, 87,
280/468.
Lindley, John W., 62, 201, 227,
248. His family, 75,88,468. Of-
fices held by, 118-120, 203. On
committees, 134, 290, 304, 306.
Justice, 253, 254. Military no-
tices of, 340, 347.
Linniken, 76, 85, 248, 485, 510.
Linscott, 504.
Litchfield, Benjamin, and family,
47, 75, 88, 305, 307, 481.
Litchfield, Zaccheus, and others,
74, 127,306, 441, 472, 511.
Lithgow, 59, 364.
Little, John, 74, 84, 102, 111, 114,
115, 134, 154, 201, 215, 304.
Town-officer, 117, 120, 126.
Inn-holder, 158. Justice, 253.
Little, John M., 84, 492.
Littlehale, George S., and family,
81, 473.
Littlehale, James, 76, 196, 197,
226. In office, 118, 120.
Livermore, Abigail, 455.
Locke, John, 64.
Log-houses, built, 35, 39, 54.
Described, 35, 40, 51, 55, 294.
Crowded, 40.
Long, John, Capt., 335.
Looms, 52, 108.
Loons, 415.
Lord, 82, 500.
Loring, Judith, 437.
Lothrop, 81, 90, 458.
Loup-cervier, 412.
Loyalists, 333, 334.
Lucas, 75, 87, 91, 194, 458, 473.
Luce, Abigail, 479. Edmund,
195, 497. George, and family,
95. Jeremiah, 196, 468. Jo-
seph and Lydia, 435. Lot, 516.
Moses, and family, 89, 510.
Prince, 127, 436, 468. Rebec-
ca, 445. Remember, 89. Wil-
liam S., 307.
Luce, Seth, and family, 67, 76,
126, 145, 152, 169, *176, 201,
209, 468, 489.
Luce, Thaddeus, and family, 76,
90, 127, 128, 194, 196, 306* 308,
456, 468.
Ludwig, William, .Col., 353.
Lumber, Eliony, 459, 460.
Lummus, Elizabeth, 491.
Lunt, 480.
Lyceum, 316.
Lyon, Maria, 460. R. E., 227.
M.
McAllister, 96, 493.
McClellan, John, 471.
McClintock, Robert, 318.
McCurdy, 84, 159, 249, 449, 469.
McDowell, 170, 248, 250, 482, 492.
McGray, William, Rev., 219.
McGregor, 334.
McGuier, Robert, and family, 29,
78, 308, 470.
Mclntyre, 30, 256, 257.
McKinney, Caroline, 95.
McLean, 11, 92, 163, 377.
McLellan, Nancy, 481.
McPheters, 87. "
Maddocks, 75, 87, 113, 196, 328,
483, 510.
Maidman, Martha, 446.
Maine, separation of, 231.
Malcom, James, 27.
Mallard, Edmund, 111, 198, 232,
304, 325, 340, 347.
Mann, Beriah, 460.
Mansfield, Daniel H., 450.
March, 117, 164, 166-168, 176,
186, 202, 252, 303.
Marriages, 158.
Marsh, Jeremiah, Rev., 219.
Marshall, Emily, 444.
Martha's Vineyard, Q6f 67, 516.
Martin, Adam* 75, 196, 402, 481.
Betsey, 444, 485. Prances, 455,
Isley, and family, 88, 120, 128,
308*481. Leander, 512. Mar-
532
GENERAL INDEX.
garet, 436. Mary, 493. Samuel,
58, 401.
Mason, John, 459.
Mass. Provincial Congress, 34.
Matthews, 436, 489, 513.
Maxcy, Benjamin, and his family,
65, 69, 469.
Maxcy, Hervey, and family, 70,
154* 194, 196, 341, 405, 471.
Maxcv, Joseph, 65, 66, 69, 116,
293* 405. Offices held by, 118,
119. On committees, 144, 149,
170, 264, 302, 303. Military
officer, 338. His family, 469.
Maxcv, Josiah, 65, 194, 405.
Offices held by, 117, 120, 129.
On committees, 163, 251, 303,
304. Family, 470.
Maxcy, Josiah A., 80.
Maxcy, Sally. See Daggett, Ebe-
nezer, Mrs.
Maxcv, Ward, and family, 223,
372* 470, 492.
Maxfield, 75, 127, 194, 196, 510.
May, Dorothy, 478.
Mayhew, 438.
Mavnard, Jonathan, 455.
Meclomac River, 1, 3, 62, 390, 407.
Meduncook, 4.
Meeting-houses, 139, 143, 215,
218, 221, 226.
Megunticoock, 4.
Meredith, N.H., 502, 503.
Mero, Amariah, 54, 144, 147, 152,
201, 278,412, 485. His family,
54, 64, 75, 471. Offices held
by, 117, 118, 121-123, 129, 159.
On committees, 131, 136, 145,
149, 150, 251, 264, 288, 290,
292. Agent to court, 201, 336.
In the army, 329. Takes fish,
420.
Mero, Hermon, and family, 87,
306, 472, 492.
Mero, John, 291,491.
Mero, Sanford, 94.
Mero, Spencer, 75, 120, 225, 227,
306, 307. Family of, 88, 471.
Selectman, 118. Military offi-
cer, 342.
Mero, Susan, Mrs., 37, 40, 177,
278, 398, 427, 471, 494.
Merrifield, Asaph, 476.
Merrill, J. G., Rev., 216.
Merritt, Timothy, Rev., 219.
Merry, Prudence, 467.
Mesarvy and Meservey, 29, 404,
487, 494.
Messer, Alice, 494.
Messer, Asa, and family, 76, 472.
Seizes a fox, 410.
Messer, Asa, and family, 83, 225,
254, 305, 463, 473.
Messer, Ebenezer S., family of,
94, 473.
Messer, Minot, family of, 94, 473.
Messer, Parker, family of, 90, 473.
Messer, Thomas, and family, 76,
196, 473.
Mctcalf, 85, 93, 322, 328, 463, 491.
Methedists and Meeting-house,
116,194, 196, 217.
Miles, Nathan, Capt., 455.
Military History, 327.
Mill Farm, 5, 55. First settle-
ment there, 28.
Miller, Abijah, 467. Alvitia C,
431. Betsey, 448. Charles,
and family, 81, 225. George,
93. Godfrey and family, 514.
Hannah, 512. Horace, and fa-
mily, 81, 459. Joanna, 452.
Johnson, 83. Joseph, and fa-
mily, 76, 81, 154, 196, 305, 306,
307*, 408. Margaret and Sa-
lome, 445. Nancy, 447. Noah,
346. Oliver, 334. Seth and
family, 88, 512. Sarah Catha-
rine, 504.
Miller's Brook, 3. Landing, 30.
Rocky Point, 26.
Mills, 2, 41, 55, 101.
Mills, Emeline Amanda, 514.
Minerals, 97.
Minks, 412.
Minott, 431.
Mirick, 498.
Mitchell, 154. A., and family, 445:
474. Christiana, 89. Rev. Da
vicl M., 190, 207. Henry, 89
Jabez N., and family, 122, 123.
474. Jane W., 475. Jeremiah
and family, 76, 123, 129, 177
201, 209, 474. Jeremiah W., 94,
Rev. M., 220. Mary and Mer-
cy, 177, 209. Rachel, 76, 474.
GENERAL INDEX.
533
Mitchell, Thomas, Thomas, jun.,
and others, 76, 127, 131, 133,
164, 167, 168, 176, 177, 201,
212, 249, 250, 304-306, 474.
In office, 118, 120, 122-124, 253.
Mitchell, Thomas A., 76, 317, 474.
Money and labor compared, 286.
Monhegan, 2.
Montgomery, 69, 70, 257.
Moody, 94, 465, 492, 516.
Moore, Tryphena and Albert D.,
81.
Moose, 31, 388, 389, 395.
More, Bailev, 120, 339, 433.
Morrill, 220*, 479.
Morse, Abner, Rev., 477.
Morse, Asa, and family, 47, 308,
481. Barnard, and familv, 317,
479. Calvin, and family, 129,
177, 201, 475. Catherine, 457.
George W., and family, 65, 78,
225, 480. James, 455. James
B. and Mary A., 8">. Jedidiah,
and family, 88, 481. Jeremiah,
455. Jonathan, and family, 76,
133, 306, 475. Lavinia, 516.
Morse, Joseph, and familv, 57,
76, 118, 127, 199, 249, 292, 305,
306, 340, 455, 476.
Morse, Joshua, and families, 76,
83, 226, 307, 308, 457.
Morse, Levi, 64, 126, 129, 201,
227, 303, 432. His family, 74,
476. In the army, 329.
Morse, Levi, 65. Family of, 78,
480.
Morse, Micajah, G., family of, 84.
Morse, Moses, 14, 201, 305, 451.
Family of, 77, 78, 477.
Morse, Obadiah, and family, 14,
57, 75, 194, 196, 480.
Morse, Walter, and family, 317,
464, 478.
Morse, William B., and family,
327, 480.
Morton, 76, 95, 455, 481.
Mosquitos, 56.
Moss, as a guide, 273.
Moulton, Batt, 498.
Mount Pleasant, 1, 20.
Mowry, B. Jt., and familv, 74, 84,
111. 126, 511.
Muddy Pond, 5, 402, 411.
Murphy, Charles, 81.
Murray, 194, 475, 502.
Muscongus Patent, 22.
Muscongus River, 406.
Music, 325. At the muster, 359.
Musquash, 412.
Musters, military, 352. At Wal-
doborough, 354. At Warren,
371. At McLean's Mills, 377.
Description of, 385.
Muzzey, 461.
N.
Nash, Mary Ann, 442.
Nason, Abram, 488.
Needham, Thomas and Ruth, 497.
Neptune, Governor of the Penob-
scot Indians, 2, 5.
Nevans, 505.
Newbit, 14, 334, 435, 443, 482,
488, 510, 511.
Newcomb, 80.
Newhall, James, 251, 482. Jo-
nathan, and familv, 115, 192,
195, 302, 481. Roderic G., 93.
William, 248, 249.
Nichols, John S., and familv, 486.
Nicholson, 158, 176, 192, 347.
Nolen, Patrick, 510.
Non-resident proprietors, 61, 266.
Norwood, 76, 93, 440.
Noyes, 79, 436, 448, 489.
Nurse, Mehetabel, 475.
Nye, Cvrus Crocker, and fami-
ly, 75, 483. Edward T., 483.
Stillman, and family, 87, 482.
Thomas, and familv, 23, 75,
129, 198, 482. Thomas C, and
family of, 86, 483.
O.
Oakes, 92, 94, 129, 444, 475,
483.
Oath for town-officers, 116.
Odlin, Elisha and Marv, 501.
Olney, 272, 484.
O'Meira. 95, 96.
O'Neil, John, 435.
Orchards, 107.
Ordwav, 507.
Overlook, Sally, 450.
Owen, Susan B., 316.
Owl's Head, 20, 21.
534
GENERAL INDEX.
Oxton, William, 92.
P.
Packard, 517. Benjamin, 35, 38,
39. Joanna, 438. Reuben, 76.
Packard, Hezckiah, Rev., 170,
206. Mr. Huse's letter to him,
171.
Packard, Marlboro', and their fa-
milies, 75, 88, 118, 193-195,
197, 227, 280, 301, 306, 307.
Page, 90, 4 30, 454, 469.
Palmer, 480, 512.
Paper-mills, 109.
Pardoe, John, and family, 85, 111.
Parker, 472. Iiev. Freeman, 170,
214.
Parks, 351, 509.
Partridge, 50, 57, 64, 130, 404,
464, 484.
Patch, Daniel, 434.
Patten, Hugh, Capt., 364.
Patterson, 499, 506.
Paupers, 270.
Payne, Elizabeth, 431.
Payson, Jesse W., and family, 83,
122, 225, 255, 327, 463.
Payson, John, 74, 225, 226, 389.
His family, 80, 446. In office,
118, 280, 306.
Payson, Madan K., and family,
95, 327, 464.
Payson, Nathan D., and family,
78, 327.
Pavson, Samuel and Sarah, 51,
460.
Payson, Eunice, 450.
Peabodv, 80, 84, 197, 443, 460,
466, 481, 484, 485, 515, 517.
Peace, 346.
Peaches, 107.
Peale, Elizabeth, 498.
Pearce or Pearse, 490.
Pearson, Rachel, 474.
Pease, 16, 63, 90, 93, 410, 432,
437, 448, 466, 468, 505, 508.
Peck, Capron, 471.
Pelton, Moses, 249-251.
Pendleton, xVbby, 441.
Penny, William, and family, 473.
Penobscot, 20, 334. Explored by
Champlain, 20. See Biguy-
duce.
Pentecost Harbor, 2.
Perham, Samuel, and family, 442.
Perkins, 220, 485, 502.
Perry, 330, 347, 436, 455.
Pettengill Stream, 2, 391.
Pevee [Peavey r], Jacob, 474.
Philbrook, 89, 465, 504.
Phippen, 500, 507.
Phipps, 330.
Physicians, 320.
Pickerel, 423.
Pickering, 447, 470.
Picket, Anna, 500.
Pickworth, 497.
Pigeons, 413.
Pike, 319.
Pilsbury, 76, 127.
Pinkham, 93.
Piper, 456.
Pitcairn, 332.
Pitcher, 85.
Pitkin, J. B., Rev., 315.
Pitman, 95, 339.
Pitts, Abner, 74.
Plantation organization, 59.
Plums, 107.
Politics, 230.
Pomerov, 476.
Pond, 446, 460, 463, 481.
Ponds in Union, 4.
Poor, Betsev, 478.
Pope, 111, 116, 195, 232, 233, 304.
Popham, George, 2, 20.
Population, 73.
Porterfield, 44.
Post, 78, 85, 307.
Post-offices, 115, 254.
Potatoes, 106.
Potter, Mary, 431.
Pound, 140.
Powder and Powder-house, 153,
337.
Pratt, 193, 195, 305, 485, 510.
Preaching, the first, 162.
Preble, Martha, 450.
Prescott, Rufus, 83.
Preston, John, 493.
Priest, John Baxter, 470.
Prince, 216, 271, 464, 485.
Pring, Martin, Capt., at Fox
Islands, 20.
Prior, 476, 514.
Proctor, John, family of, 92.
GENERAL INDEX.
535
Publishments, 158.
Putnam, town of, 62.
Q.
Quakers, 67, 192, 195.
Quantabacook, 389, 392.
Quiggle, 76, 79, 293, 304, 485,
488.
R,
Raccoons, 411.
Rackliffe [Radcliffe r], Isaac, 90.
Rains, 9.
Raisings, 39, 147.
Raizor, Dolly, 474.
Ransom, Olivia, 487.
Rawson, Averv, Col., 353, 357,
361, 365, 369.
Read, 505.
Reed, 34, 50, 101, 134, 266, 432,
454, 471.
Remely, Matthias, Journal of, 24.
Revolution, incidents in the, 258,
334.
Revolutionary soldiers, 41, 327.
Rice, 96, 225, 227, 342, 455.
Rice, Elisha E., and family, 122,
127, 254, 319, 320.
Rice, Franklin, family of, 92, 492.
Rice, Isaac, family of, 506.
Rice, James, 114, 129, 177, 201,
204, 209, 210. His family, 320.
Rice, Nathan D„ 46, 141, 194,
196, 218, 306, 442. Family of,
75, 90, 320. In office, *122,
124, 128, 129, 253, 254, 305.
Rice, Noah, 14, 75, 201,280, 291,
304, 306, 307, 479, 480. Mili-
tary officer, 338, 339. At the
muster, 356, 360, 374. Re-
elected captain, 374. Court-
mar tialled, 375.
Rice, Noah S., and family, 86, 225,
479.
Rice, Richard D., and family, 320.
Rich, 76, 220-222, 446.
Richards, 74, 510.
Richardson, John W. and Abi-
gail, 462.
Ricker, 192, 219.
Riddel, and family, 163.
Rifle Company, and officers, 341,
351. At the muster, 355. Dis-
banded, 377.
Ring, Jacob, 127, 194, 195, 197.
Ripley, 88, 89, 347, 439,440, 443,
445, 474, 508.
Ripley, Ezra, Rev., 169, 189.
Rising, 79, 439.
Rivers, 1.
Roads, 61. See Highways.
Roakes, 334. Robert and John,
16. Marcus, 78. James, and
family, 93. Sarah and E. P., 93.
Margaret, 434. Daniel, 437.
Robbins genealogy, 486.
Robbins, 76, 79, 80, 84, 92, 95,
96, 262, 339, 374, 380,445,452,
489.
Robbins, Augustus C, 253, 318,
319. Cited, 315. Information
from, 425. His family, 493.
Robbins, Eela, 47, 64, 75, 127,
145, 194, 196, 302. In the
army, 330. Deer-reeve, 389.
His family, 486.
Robbins, Cyrus, and family, 76,
90, 91, 280, 307, 339.
Robbins, David, 37, 130, 152, 154,
201, 209, 258, 259, 279, 403,
484. An early settler, 38, 39.
Distressed for food, 45. His
family, 75, 488. In office, 119,
121, 123, 127, 129, 159. On
committees, 136, 168, 170, 290.
Church-member, 177. Hunter,
387, 397. Pigeon-catcher, 414.
Robbins, David, and family, 75,
96, 201, 223, 305-308, 489.
Robbins, Ebenezer, 38, 330, 494.
Robbins, Ebenezer, and others,
47, 64, 75, 80, 87, 145, 146, 196,
258, 259, 303, 347, 445, 469,
475, 487.
Robbins, Jacob, 331, 334, 494.
Robbins, Jason, and others, 50,
75, 95, 226, 306-308, 400, 488,
491.
Robbins, "Aunt Mima," 176,
321, 493.
Robbins, Jessa, 25, 37-39, 47, 50,
54, 69, 126, 129, 152, 154, 159,
201, 258, 259, 331, 337, 425.
On going to mill, 56. His
family, 64, 75, 95, 490. A
hunter, 390, 396, 408. Oldest
person in town, 427.
536
GENERAL INDEX.
Robbins, Jesse, and family, 226,
227, 491.
Robbiiis, John C, and family, 75,
122, 124, 306, 490. His mili-
tary performances at musters,
358, 370.
Kobbins, John P., 42, 201, 225,
227, 400. Family of, 75, 95,
491. Military officer, 339. At
the muster, 355, 356. Court-
martialled, 366. Proposition to
re-elect him, 373.
Robbins, Joseph, and family, 76,
489.
Robbins, Josiah, 7, 131, 146, 152,
176,274,413,420. Early settler,
54. His family, 57, 64, 65, 176,
491. In office, 117, 119, 123,
129. On committees, 136, 143-
145, 150, 162, 166, 167, 198,
267, 290. In the army, 330.
Robbins, Lewis, and family, 75,
83, 292, 493.
Robbins, Nathan B., and family,
83, 254, 49.3.
Robbins, Nathaniel, 56, 152, 154,
201, 226, 279, 416, 419, 467.
On black flies, 56. Storekeep-
er, 111, 112, 114. Moderator,
116. In office, 117, 118, 120,
123,126,129,252-254. Monu-
ment to, 132. Takes jobs, 155,
291. On committees, 170, 192,
199, 232, 233, 288, 289, 302,
304. Of the legislature, 247-
249. A hunter, 400, 407.
Catches pigeons, 414. Infor-
mation from, 425. His family,
491.
Robbins, Nathaniel, and family,
79, 226, 307, 415, 492.
Robbins, Oliver, and others, 58,
436, 437.
Robbins, Philip, 7, 25, 59, 114,
115, 130, 152, 258, 259, 275,
397, 420. Builds, 40. His fa-
mily, 64, 487, 493, 504. Raises
rye, 105. In office, 117, 129.
On committees, 143-147, 162,
163, 198, 267. First preaching
at his house, 162. Licensed, 230.
Agent, 257. In the revolution,
331, 334, 335. Hunts, 394.
Robbins, Willard, 54, 63, 225,
226, 307. Family of, 84, 492.
In office, 119, 121, 254, 280.
Burying-ground and, 131, 132.
Robbins Neck, 24, 318. Taken
possession of, 28. Settled, 54.
Moose and bears on the, 392,
401.
Robbins's Point, 130, 388.
Robertson, Paulina Pottle, 441.
Robinson, 75, 95, 308, 320, 437,
442, 444, 448, 450, 488, 501,
503, 511.
Rogers, 129, 293, 494, 501.
Rogue's March, 359, 365.
Rolfe, 450.
Rollins, 80, 82, 96.
Ropes, John, 499.
Hosier's account of Weymouth's
voyage, 2, 3, 20.
Round Pond, 5. Beaver-dam at,
411. Meadows, 45, 387.
Rowell, Ruth, 436.
Ruggles, John, 364.
Russ, Jane Houston, 436.
Russell, 48, 459.
Rust, 248.
Ryan, Daniel R., and family, 85.
Rye, 7, 30, 35, 39, 105.
S.
Sables, 393, 412.
Sagadahoc, 2, 20.
St. Clair, 80, 127.
St. George's Island Harbor, 2.
St. George's River, 1, 19, 105.
Proposed as a boundary, 22.
Salmon, 419.
Sambo, the dog, 403.
Sampson, 320. Deb., 478.
Sanford, 512.
Sargent, 127, 317, 507.
Sargus, 482.
Savage, 320.
SawTin, Phares and Mary, 476.
Saw-mills, 41, 101.
Sawyer, 177, 1S2, 498, 501.
Say ward, 78, 88, 305, 451, 495.
Schenck, Capt., 449.
Schools, 294. Districts, 302.
Houses, 303. Committees, 303.
Agents, 305. Children, 308.
Money, 310. State-grants for,
GENERAL INDEX.
531
311. High schools, 315. For
writing, 315.
Scott, 182, 467.
Searles, Stephen, 30.
Seaton, James and Abigail, 502.
Seavey, David, and wife, 481.
Segocket, the river, 1, 2, 20.
Seiders, Henry, 38. Family of, 96.
Selectmen, 117.
Senators, 247.
Sennott, Francis, 88.
Setting guns for bears, 395.
Seven Brook, 3, 19.
Seven-tree Pond, 5. Persons
drowned in, 69. Bear in, 397.
Loons in, 415. Eagles there,421.
Severance, Severing, or Sevrance,
194, 196, 483, 515.
Sewall, and the Hills' party, 172,
177.
Seymour, Hi : , 3.
Shattuck, 479, 480, 494.
Shaw, 457, 499, 511.
Shepard, 76, 89, 90, 92, 95, 176,
195, 201, 209, 280, 292, 448,
451, 471, 494.
Shepard, Chloe, 451. Eunice W.,
471.
Shepard, Prof., 216.
Shepherd or Shepard, Wm,, 75,
128, 249, 250. Justice, 253.
Lieutenant, 342.
Shepherd, of Stratham, 501.
Sherburne, Mass., 64, 65.
Sherman, 475, 510.
Sherror or Sherrod, 444.
Shibles, James, 75.
Shingles, 100.
Shorey, 506.
Sibley genealogy, 495.
Sibley, Jacob, 16, 195, 197, 306.
Struck by lightning, 16. Fa-
mily of, 76, 87, 504.
Sibley, John L., 318, 409, 497.
Sibley, Jonathan, Dr., 9, 107, 314,
412, 413, 439, 453. Cited, 9,
11, 13. Family of, 75, 84, 134,
476, 495. Town-clerk, 117. On
committees, 198, 199, 303, 304.
Justice, 252, 253. His lyceum-
lectures, 316, 426. Physician,
321 324.
Sidelinger,*77, 88, 89, 306-308.
46
Sikes, O., Rev., and family, 214,
304.
Silloway, George, 75, 84, 464.
Simmons, 75, 83, 87, 93, 94, 120,
194, 195, 197, 306, 443, 454,
455, 463, 472, 481, 504.
Simulium molestum, 56.
Simulium nocivum, 57.
Sinclair, James, 76, 197.
Singer, Jane, 437.
Singing- schools, 325.
Skidmore, 93, 251, 280, 306-308.
Skinner, 76, 81, 339, 380.
Sleds, 278.
Sleeper, Albert, 438.
Small, 307, 497.
Smelts, 422.
Smith, 95, 129, 320, 436, 491,
493 499.
Smith, Rev., 207, 215, 219.
Smith, John, Capt., explores the
coast, 2. His books and map,
2, 20. His attempt to form a
colony, 21.
Smith, S. E., Governor, 156, 375.
Snell, 126, 157, 194, 196, 506.
Snow, 431, 452, 508.
Somes, 485, 486.
Southworth, Alice, 478, 479.
Spalding and Spaulding, 434, 516.
Spear, 81, 201 [?], 436, 457, 513.
Speed, Benjamin, 100.
Spencer, Mass., 111.
Spinning-wheels, 108.
Spooner, Reliance, 457.
Spurr, Samuel, 196, 201 [?].
Standish, Eliza, 513.
Stanley, John, 450.
Stanwood, 511.
Staples, Mariah, 471.
Starr, Rev. Mr., 325.
Starrett, 114, 192, 209, 304, 448,
480.
Staunton, Paul, and family, 503.
Stearns, Charles, 84.
Sterling, 83, 308, 489.
Sterling, in Warren, 24, 27.
Stetson, 86, 445, 483.
Stevens, 76, 83, 90, 93, 95, 307,
308, 502, 503, 512.
Stewart, Holmes, 508.
Stewart, I. D., Rev., 500, 502, 506.
Stewart, O. 0., 87, 128, 491, 508.
538
GENERAL INDEX.
Stewart, Timothy, 76, 152, 194,
196, 412. Family of, 87, 508.
In office, 120, 129, 136, 252, 253.
Stewart, W. D., family of, 87, 508.
Stimson and Stimpson, 75, 219.
Stinson, 506.
Stirling, Lord, 27.
Stirlington, 27. A plantation, 59.
Stoddard, Abby Maria S., 442.
Stone, Allen, and family, 75, 508.
Caroline F., 78. Eben, 341,
509. Jonas, 347, 509. Micah,
456. Rachel, 76. Rufus and
Silvia G., 94.
Stone, Samuel, 76, 223, 250, 251.
Family of, 76, 94, 509. Offices
held by, 118, 120, 132, 256,
280, 306, 308, 341.
Stone, Waldron, and family, 119,
136, 152, 303, 433, 508.
Storer, Horatio Robinson, 419.
Stores, 111.
Stoughton, Mass., settlers from,
38, 54.
Strachey manuscript, 2, 20.
Stratham, N. H., 440, 490, 498.
Stratton, 477, 506.
Stuart, Anna, 501.
Stubbs, 127, 194, 196, 347, 430.
Suchfort, 11, 43, 44, 92, 449, 514.
Sullivan, James, Governor, 2, 7.
Sumner, 86, 448.
Sunnybec Pond, 1, 4, 43, 424.
Superstitions, 227.
Surplus revenue, 269.
Surveyors of highways, 279.
Sutton, Mass., 439, 498.
Swain, John and Abigail, 499.
Swan, 77, 483.
Sweetser, Olive, 468.
Swivel, 347.
Symonds, 500.
T.
Tanneries, 110.
Taxes, 256. Petitions to the Le-
gislature respecting, 257, 262.
In other towns, 260. Tables
of, 261, 262, 281. Paid in pro-
duce, 261, 310. Time for pay-
ing, 265. Reed's case, 266.
Highway, 280. For schools, 310.
Taxes, parish or ministerial, 164,
165, 193. Remission of, 145
146, 193-197.
Taylor, 78, 91, 92, 219, 447, 467,
470.
Taylor, J., Dr., 29, 101, 266, 436.
Purchases the township, 29,61.
His arrival, 30. Deed to, 32.
His life, character, and family,
34, 48. Purchases made of,
36, 42, 45, 50. His trade and
quarrel with Jennison, 47. His
death, 48. His conveyance to
Reed, 50.
Taylortown, 28. Organization of,
59.
Temperance, 230.
Tenney, 75, 502.
Tew, Elethan, 482.
Texas and Texan War, 348, 441.
Thatcher, Ebenezer, 214.
Thayer, 128, 454.
Thing, Nancy, 499.
Thomas, Waterman, 63. Emery,
and family, 81. James, 90.
Mary, 451. Catherine and
Mary, 457.
Thomaston, 1, 2, 347.
Thompson, 75, 76, 81, 86, 89, 92,
122, 127, 194, 196, 305-307,
320, 392, 443, 454, 465, 509,
510, 513.
Thorndike, 77, 82, 154, 227, 459,
491, 492.
Thurrell, Patience, 501.
Thurston, 216, 305.
Thurston, Nahum, 50, 66, 75,
307. Family of, 95, 133, 483,
484.
Thurston, Philo, and family, 57,
75, 85, 91, 227, 306, 449, 489.
Military notice of, 339, 377.
Thwing, James, Rev., 220. Jo-
siah, 453.
Tibbets and Tibbetts, 486, 500.
Tifft, 517.
Tilson, 448.
Timber, 97.
Tinkham, 479.
Tithingmen, 126.
Titus, 75, 91, 128, 129, 152, 194,
196, 223, 278, 510.
Tobey, Cecilia and George, 442.
Tobey, John, Capt., 57, 152, 201,
UENERAL INDEX.
539
228, 281, 292,401,402. Family
of, 76, 95, 133, 177, 512. As-
sessor, 120.
Tobey, Nathaniel, and family, 76,
223, 306, 307, 339, 512.
Tolman, 79, 434, 438.
Tombs, 134.
■Toothaker, 438.
Tories, 333, 334.
Town histories, 2, 24.
Town-house, 141.
Town-lines perambulated, 62.
Town-meetings, 114.
Townsend, 76, 94, 95.
Trade, 111.
Trask, 500.
Travelling, early, 257, 273, 277.
Treasurers, 126.
Trees, felling of, 98.
Tripp, Charles, 90.
Trout, 423.
True, Ezekiel, of Montville, 106.
True, Henry, Rev., 17, 249, 326,
344. Notices deaths, 17. Fa-
mily of, 75, 169, 432. Offices
held by, 117, 253, 304. Settled
as a clergyman, 169. Oppo-
sition to him, 170, 177. Dis-
missed, 203, 204, 208.
True, H. Rev., Methodist, 219.
True, Henry A., Dr., 25, 316, 318,
322, 432. Cited, 25, 493.
Tuck, 88, 90.
Tucker,47, 129, 192, 194, 195, 197.
Tuner, the dog, 387.
Turner, 364, 367, 498.
Twining, Mary, 452.
Twins, exemption from taxes for,
262.
Tyler, 431, 517.
U.
Ulmer, Sally, Catherine, and
Elizabeth, 437. Dr. Charles,
452. James A., 57, 439, 481.
Underwood, Joshua, 455.
Universalists, 222.
Upham, 76, 93, 94, 306, 444, 480.
Urine doctor, 324.
Urquhart, 161.
Y.
Valpey, 499.
Vaughan or Vaughn, Joseph, 29,
74, 112, 139, 154,201,289,291,
305, 307, 469. Family of, 78.
Vaughan, Joseph, and family, 85,
111, 120, 307.
Vaughan, Stetson, and family,
456.
Vaughan, William, family of, 78.
Vaughan' s Iron Works, 111.
Vaughn for Vaughan, 305.
Vinal, Phebe, 473.
Visiting by early settlers, 277.
Vose, Elijah, and family, 83, 325,
432. In office, 121, 126. On
committees, 132, 305. Justice,
254. Lawyer, 319.
Vose, Joanna E., 432.
W.
Wade, 75, 95, 306, 320, 445, 504.
Wadsworth, Peleg, Gen., 258,
335.
Walcott, Jon a., and family, 497.
Walcott, Manning, family of, 96,
514.
Walcott, Pente, and family, 76,
304, 473, 513.
Walcott, Spencer, and family, 74,
86, 492, 513. In office, 120,
122, 123, 126, 127, 129, 305.
Baptist, 193, 195, 197. Votes,
247.
Walcott, Spencer, and family, 87,
226, 307, 514.
Waldo, 6, 33.
Waldo patent, 22.
Waldoborough, 1, 62. Military
difficulty with, 350.
Walker, Abel, 76, 127-129, 194,
195, 197, 306. Family of, 79,
470.
Walker, Amos, 74, 127, 306, 307,
459. Family of, 82, 447. Of
the Hill's party, 177, 209.
Walker, Asa, 308, 514. Benja-
min and family, 76, 86, 127.
Daniel and family, 76, 91, 127,
194, 209-212, 307, 514. John
and family, 76, 91, 127, 305-
307, 514. Dr. John B., 323.
Mercy, 476. Nathan and
others, 128, 514. Silas and fa-
mily, 76, 79.
Walpole, Mass., settlers from, 36.
540
GENERAL INDEX.
Walton, J. II., and family, 466.
War of 1812, 343.
Ward, 476, 499.
Ware, Jason, 15, 114, 259, 264,
275,328. Struck by lightning,
15. Buys land, 42. Settles, 46,
51. His family, 64,75,511,515.
Offices held by, 117, 119, 121,
126, 127, 304. Methodist, 194,
196,218. A hunter, 403. His
dog Sambo, 403.
Ware, Vinal, 46, 75, 198, 307,
411. Family of, 90, 515.
Ware, Warren, 248.
Warning out of town, 270.
Warren, Eaton's History of, 24.
Controversy with, 256.
Warren, Cyrus, Rev., 220.
Washington, town of, 1, 100.
First team to, 279.
Waters, 325, 443.
Weasel, 412.
Weaver, Polly, 487.
Webb, 69, 268, 456, 499, 500, 516.
Webster, 81, 220, 305, 454, 512.
Wedding, the first, 49.
W"eeks 490.
Wellington, 127, 168, 177, 328,
332, 433, 493.
Wellman, 69,82.
Wells, Sarah, 498, 501.
Wentworth, Lemuel, 14, 15, 333.
Joshua W., and family, 80.
Warren, 83. Mary, 87. Rev.
Daniel, 219. Freelove, 447.
Lewis, 451.
West, George, 115, 126, 149, 152,
288, 401, 441, 467. On com-
mittees, 145, 146. His family,
516.
West, George W., 129, 195-197,
222, 516.
Weston, 219, 445.
Wetherbee, 482, 509.
Weymouth, George, Capt., 2, 20.
Weymouth, Timothy, 508.
Wheaton, Mason, Col., 45, 47, 49,
51, 60, 66, 251, 275, 484.
Whedon, 76.
Whipple, 49.
Whitcomb, 465.
White, 78, 219, 454.
White, William, writes a petition,
233. His Fourth-of-July Ora-
tion, 236. Postmaster, 255. On
a committee, 304. Lawyer, 318.
White Hills visible, 20.
Whiting, 236. Thurston, and
family, 79, 122, 227,439. B. G.
and Nancy, 85. Nathan, 122.
John, 197, 253. Hervey, 452.
Whitney, 79, 86, 127, 128, 197,
444, 476.
Whittemore, 85, 327.
Whittier, 226, 470.
Wight, 129, 461, 516.
Wilder, Lydia, 506.
Wiley, 443, 489.
Williams, John, and family, 85.
Martha, 176, 192. Capt. Na-
than, 340. Sarah Elizabeth,
and others, 431. John, 456.
Lucy, 468. Roger, 482. Eli-
jah, Elizabeth, and Eunice, 485.
Williamson, 219, 472.
Wing, 444.
Wingate, 77, 83, 95, 197, 512.
Winslow, 33, 471, 488, 489.
Witchcraft, 228.
Witham, 514.
Witt, William, 249, 251.
Wolves and wolf-hunt, 406.
Woodcock, 114, 126, 129, 130,
144, 162, 302, 490, 516.
Woodhull, R., Rev., 216, 217.
Woodman, Charlotte, 434.
Woodward, Nathan, 46.
Worth, 457.
Wright, Thos., 30, 34. Eliab, 460.
Writing-school, 315.
Wyman, 30, 517.
Yellalee, Robert, Rev., 219.
York, Thomas and Mahala, 493.
Young, 74, 79, 86, 92, 127, 194,
196, 250, 251, 491.
Young, Christopher, 76, 225. Fa-
mily of, 82, 454. In office, 120,
122, 251, 306-308.
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