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GENEALOGICAL  AND  FAMILY  HISTORY 
STATE  OF  MAINE 


COMPILED   UNDER   THE    EDITORIAL   SUPERVISION   OF 

GEORGE  THOMAS  LITTLE,  A.  M.,  Litt.  D. 

Vice-President  Maine  Genealogical  Society 
Librarian  of   Bowdom  College  Honorary  Member  Minnesota  Historical  Society 

^rier  i::rtrHir  Isociation         Member  of  Council,  American  Library  Association 

Author  "Little  Genealogy 


AND  INCLUDING  AMONG  OTHER  LOCAL  CONTRIBUTORS 

REV.  HENRY  S.  BURRAGE,  D.D. 

State  Historian 


Chaplain  of   National  Home,  Togus 


ALBERT  ROSCOE  STUBBS 

Librarian  Maine  Genealogical  Society 


VOLUME   III 


ILLUSTRATED 

LEWIS    HISTORICAL    PUBLISHING    COMPANY 

NEW  YORK 
1909 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


The  records  of  Essex  county,  iMas- 
AYER     sachusetts,   have  this   name   under 

many  forms,  such  as :  Aars,  Aers, 
Aier,  Aiere,  Aiers,  Air,  Aires,  Ares,  Ayeres, 
Aver.  Eayer,  Eayre,  Eyer,  Eyers,  Eyre. 

(I)  The  ancestors  of  most  of  the  name  in 
New  England,  and  the  earHest  in  Essex 
county  was  John  Ayer.  It  is  supposed  that 
he  came  from  England,  and  was  living  in 
Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1640,  removed  to 
Ipswich  in  1646.  next  year  to  Haverhill,  and 
died  there  March  31,  1657.  His  wife  Hannah 
died  October  8,  1688.  Children:  John,  Re- 
becca, Robert,  Thomas,  Peter,  JMary,  Obadiah, 
Nathaniel  and  Hannah.  The  eldest  received 
the  homestead  by  will. 

(II)  Cornet  Peter,  fourth  son  of  John  and 
Hannah  Ayer,  was  born  about  1633,  perhaps 
in  England,  and  was  a  freeman  in  Haverhill 
in  May,  i666.  He  was  a  farmer,  member  of 
general  court  1683-85-89-90,  and  active  in 
town  aiifairs  and  in  the  Indian  wars.  He  mar- 
ried, November  i,  1659,  Hannah,  born  June, 
1642,  in  Salisbury,  daughter  of  William  and 
Hannah  (Goodale)  Allen.  She  died  De- 
cember 22,  1729.  He  died  in  Boston  in  Jan- 
uary, 1689.  Children,  born  in  Haverhill : 
Ruth,  Hannah,  Abigail,  Mary,  Martha,  Sam- 
uel, William,  Rachel,  Ebenezer. 

(III)  Captain  Samuel,  eldest  son  of  Cornet 
Peter  and  Hannah  (Allen)  Ayer,  was  born 
September  28,  1669,  in  Haverhill.  He  was  a 
man  of  property,  and  owned  a  negro  slave 
named  Lot.  He  succeeded  his  father  as  mem- 
ber of  committee  for  control  of  common  lands 
of  Haverhill.  His  efficient  leadership  in  the 
Indian  v.-ars  did  much  to  prevent  savage  out- 
rages. He  died  January  2,  1744.  He  mar- 
ried, November  21,  1693.  Elizabeth  Tuttle, 
of  Ipswich,  who  died  November  29,  1752. 
Children :  Hannah,  Peter,  Samuel,  William, 
Ebenezer,  Elizabeth,  Simon  and  Sarah. 

(IV)  Lieutenant  Ebenezer,  fourth  son  of 
Captain  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Tuttle)  Ayer, 
was  born  in  Haverhill,  February  18,  1705, 
and  settled  in  Methuen,  Massachusetts.  Upon 
the  establishment  of  the  province  line  in 
1 741  his  homestead  became  a  part  of  Sa- 
lem.    New     Hampshire,     and     the     following 


inscription  is  found  on  his  tombstone  in  that 
town ;  "Here  lies  ye  body  of  Lieutenant  Ebe- 
nezer Ayr;  he  departed  this  life  JMarch  3,  1763, 
aged  57  years."  He  married  (first),  March 
29,  1726,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Susanna  (Atwood)  Kimball,  of  Bradford, 
Massachusetts.  She  was  born  I\Iay  25,  1707, 
and  died  September  26,  1749 ;  five  children  died 
young,  the  others  being :  Ebenezer,  Peter, 
Timothy,  Joseph  and  Isaiah.  Lieutenant  Ebe- 
nezer   married     (second)     Elizabeth    , 

born  1715,  died  January  2,  1786;  children: 
William,  Elizabeth,  Samuel,  Philip  and  John. 

(V)  Peter  (2),  second  son  of  Lieutenant 
Ebenezer  and  Susanna  (Kimball)  Ayer,  was 
born  in  Methuen,  Massachusetts,  May  12, 
1737.  He  lived  in  that  part  of  Methuen  set 
aside  as  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  in  1741,  re- 
moving to  Buxton,  Maine,  about  1776.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution.     He  married 

(first)  Rebecca ,  who  died  October  28, 

1795;  children:  Benjamin,  Jonathan,  Benja- 
min, Sarah,  Ebenezer,  Elizabeth  and  Philip. 
He  married  (second)  January  19,  1796,  Widow 
Sarah  Jenkins,  of  Pepperellboro  (Saco). 

(\T)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Peter  (2)  and 
Rebecca  Ayer,  was  born  in  Salem.  New- 
Hampshire,  November  23,  1763,  and  died  in 
L'nity,  Maine,  July  29,  1844.  Besides  culti- 
vating a  farm,  he  was  an  itinerant  Methodist 
preacher  and  resided  in  Falmouth,  now  Port- 
land, and  Freedom,  Maine.  He  enlisted  in  the 
war  of  the  revolution  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and 
served  with  bravery.  He  married,  April  2, 
1785,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Rachel 
(Shaw)  Sanborn,  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev. 
Stephen  Bacheler,  one  of  the  founders  of 
Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  She  was  born 
in  Hampton  Falls,  New  Hampshire,  July  19, 
1762,  and  died  at  the  home  of  her  son  Peter, 
in  Freedom,  Maine.  Children :  Annis  M., 
Lydia  S..  Peter,  Benjamin,  Rachel,  John,  San- 
born, Rachel  and  Thomas  Burnham. 

(\TI)  Thomas  Burnham.  youngest  child  of 
Rev.  Benjamin  and  Rachel  (Sanborn)  Ayer, 
was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  June  i,  1800, 
and  died  in  West  Waterville,  April,  1864. 
Owing  to  the  frequent  change  of  residence  of 
the  family,  rendered  necessary  by  the  preach- 


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ing  of  Rev.  Benjamin,  the  e<lncation  obtained 
by  the  children  was  chiefly  dependent  upon  the 
teaching  of  the  fatlier,  with  short  intervals  in 
local  schools.  These  terms  were  mainly  ob- 
tained in  Freedom,  Maine,  where  Thomas 
Burnham  worked  upon  the  farm  of  his  father 
and  subsequent!}-  became  its  proprietor.  Later 
he  removed  to  West  Waterville,  now  Oakland, 
Maine.  He  married,  April,  1823,  Sybil,  daugh- 
ter of  Job  and  Jane  (Potter)  Chase,  and  a 
cousin  of  the  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy,  the  noted 
Abolitionist.  She  was  born  in  I'nity,  Maine, 
September  10,  1801,  and  died  in  Oakland,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1884.  Children:  i.  Benjamin, 
born  in  Unity,  1824,  became  a  New  York  tea 
merchant.  2.  John,  see  forward.  3.  Mary 
Jane,  1827,  married  Dr.  Francis  Manson,  of 
McDonough,^and  died  in  Atlanta,  Georgia, 
1873.  4.  Parrish  L.,  1829,  died  in  Astoria, 
Oregon,  1891.  5.  Elsie  P.,  1832,  married  Joel 
Whitney,  and  died  in  Atlanta.  Georgia,  1876. 
6.  Betsey  Ellen,  1834,  died  in  Oakland.  7. 
Sarah  C,  1836,  died  in  Unity,  1850.  8.  Au- 
gustus, 1841.    9.  Augusta,  1844. 

(\Tn)  John,  second  son  and  child  of  Thom- 
as Burnham  and  Sybil  (Chase)  Ayer,  was 
born  in  Freedom.  Maine,  November  i.  1825. 
His  preparatory  education  was  obtained  in  the 
district  school  of  Unity  and  at  the  Maine  Wes- 
leyan  Seminary  at  Kents  Hill,  following  which 
he  matriculated  at  Bowdoin  College.  He  did 
not  complete  the  classical  course,  preferring  to 
talce  up  mathematics  and  civil  engineering,  and 
subsequently  made  the  latter  his  profession  for 
many  years.  He  was  the  civil  engineer  and 
superintendent  in  charge  of  the  construction  of 
the  Portland  &  Kenneljec  and  the  Penobscot  & 
Kennebec  railroads,  1851-56;  was  employed  in 
railroad  surveys  in  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota, 
1857-59;  in  the  employ  of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool 
Company,  manufacturers  of  scythes,  Oakland, 
Maine,  first  as  traveling  salesman,  then  as 
treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the  corpora- 
tion, since  i860;  director  of  the  Somerset  Rail- 
road Company  since  1858,  and  president  since 
1872  ;  trustee  of  the  I\Iaine  Wesleyan  Seminary 
since  1869 ;  trustee  and  first  president  of  the 
Cascade  Savings  Bank  from  1869 ;  built  the 
Cascade  Woolen  Mills  in  1883,  w-as  made  di- 
rector of  the  corporation  at  the  time  of  its 
organization  and  became  treasurer  in  1889. 
He  continued  in  the  offices  of  treasurer  and 
manager  of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company  and 
president  of  the  Somerset  Railroad  Company 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  His  most  marked 
characteristics  were  strong  individuality,  incor- 
ruptible integrity  and  tenacity  of  opinion ;  he 
was  reserved  and  reticent  in  manner,  forbear- 


ing toward  his  enemies  and  charitable  almost 
to  a  fault.  His  political  affiliations  were  with 
the  Repulilican  party,  but  he  was  neither  an 
office  seeker  or  holder.  Mr.  Ayer  married 
(first),  April,  1855,  Olive  A.,  born  March  22, 
1836,  daughter  of  B,  F.  and  Dolly  (Lancy) 
I'^urber;  children:  1.  William  Madison,  see 
forward.  2.  Mary  F.,  born  in  Oakland,  Maine, 
September  4,  1868,  whose  education  was  ac- 
quired in  the  best  schools  of  Massachusetts  and 
completed  in  Paris,  France ;  she  married  David 
K.  Phillips,  of  Phillips  Beach,  Swampscott, 
Massachusetts,  presiclent  of  the  National 
Grand  Bank  of  Marblehead,  Massachusetts. 
1892.  Mr.  Ayer  married  (second),  Septem- 
ber 12,  1880,  Annabel,  daughter  of  A.  F.  and 
Lizzie  Holt,  of  New  Sharon,  Maine ;  children  : 
I.  John  Jr.,  born  April  30,  1883.  2.  Benjamin, 
November  17,  1885.  3.  Paul,  November  8, 
1887. 

(IX)  William  Madison,  eldest  child  and 
only  son  of  John  and  Olive  A.  (Furber)  Ayer, 
was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  March  22,  1856. 
He  was  less  than  a  year  old  when  his  family 
removed  to  West  Waterville,  and  his  education 
was  acquired  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
tow'u,  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary,  West- 
brook  Seminary,  Dean  Academy  at  Franklin, 
Massachusetts,  and  Tufts  College.  He  pur- 
sued a  course  of  study  which  fitted  him  for 
the  same  profession  followed  by  his  father, 
civil  engineering,  and  was  engaged  along  these 
lines  for  many  years.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  engineering  corps  employed  in  the  survey 
for  the  construction  of  the  Somerset  railway ; 
from  January,  1876,  until  December,  1879,  he 
was  a  general'  ticket  agent  and  since  that  time 
has  been  manager  of  the  Somerset  Railroad 
Company,  and  extended  the  line  from  Bing- 
ham to  Kineo.  He  is  senior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Ayer  &  Greeley,  dealers  in  coal  and 
wood,  of  Oakland ;  superintendent  of  the  Dunn 
Edge  Tool  Company,  manager  and  treasurer 
of  the  Dedlin  Granite  Company,  president  of 
the  Oakland  W^oolen  Company,  of  wdiich  he 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  first  president, 
director  of  the  Madison  Woolen  Company,  has 
been  president  of  the  Cascade  Savings  Bank 
of  Oakland  since  1901,  and  is  connected  with 
a  number  of  other  business  enterprises  of  im- 
portance. He  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  Governor  Hill  in  1902,  served  four 
years  and  has  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  house  of  representa- 
tives, 1891-92,  and  in  November  of  the  latter 
year  was  a  delegate  from  the  third  Maine  con- 
gressional district  to  the  convention  at  Min- 
neapolis which  nominated  Benjamin  Harrison. 


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Member  of  Maine  senate,  1904  to  1909,  serv- 
ing as  chairman  of  interior  waters,  labor, 
towns,  federal  relations,  and  member  of  mili- 
tary affairs  both  terms  and  on  various  other 
committees.  He  is  a  member  of  Messalonskee 
Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ; 
Drummond  Chapter.  Royal  Arch  ]\Iasons; 
Mount  Lebanon  Council,  Scottish  Rites ;  St. 
Omar  Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He 
served  as  grand  representative  from  Maine 
to  the  General  Grand  Chapter,  held  in  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  in  1889,  and  in  1904  was  appointed 
grand  representative  of  the  Grand  Chapter  of 
Minnesota  to  the  Grand  Chapter  of  Maine.  He 
is  widely  known  by  reason  of  his  business  con- 
nections and  his  activity  in  the  Republican 
party.  Mr.  Ayer  married,  October  3,  1883, 
Lizzie  E.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  F.  Otis,  late 
of  Oakland. 


(For   early  generations  see  John  Ayer  I.) 

(V)  Major  Ebenezer  (2),  eldest 
AYER  son  of  Lieutenant  Ebenezer  ( i ) 
and  Susanna  (Kimball)  Ayer,  was 
born  March  22,  1727,  in  that  part  of  Methuen 
which  is  now  Salem.  He  settled  in  Pepperell- 
borough,  now  Saco,  Maine.  In  early  life  he 
was  one  of  Captain  John  Lovewell's  men  in 
the  memorable  Indian  fight  at  Pequaket,  and 
was  engaged  in  other  expeditions.  He  was 
in  the  ill-fated  excursion  of  Benedict  Arnold, 
through  the  wilds  of  Maine,  in  the  winter  of 
1775-76.  After  the  revolution  he  did  not  re- 
turn to  Saco.  He  was  married  July  4,  1754, 
to  Hannah  (Plaisted)  Scammon,  widow  of 
James  Scammon.  They  were  undoubtedly  the 
parents  of  the  next  mentioned. 

(VI)  John  Ayer.  of  Standish,  Maine,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Pike,  of  Salisbury,  IMassachu- 
setts,  she  being  a  descendant  of  John  Pike, 
who  came  to  America  from  England  in  1630. 
John  and  Elizabeth  were  admitted  into  mem- 
bership of  the  Congregational  church  in  Stand- 
ish, ]\Iay  II,  1777.  Some  time  after  1777  they 
settled  in  Hiram,  Oxford  county,  Maine,  as  in 
volume  one.  Eastern  deeds,  etc.,  of  Massachu- 
setts, it  appears  that  Nathanial  Wells  deeded 
(in  1791)  to  John  Ayer  and  Joseph  Bean, 
"settlers  within  Cutler's  grant,  so-called,  in 
the  county  of  York,  husbandmen,  who  settled 
within  said  Cutler's  grant  and  made  separate 
improvements  thereon  before  the  first  day  of 
January,  1784."  John  Ayer  was  evidently  of 
strong  religious  convictions,  for  he  is  spoken 
of  by  historians  of  the  period  as  an  exhorter 
and  itinerant  preacher,  and  the  first  religious 
services  of  which  we  have  any  account  in  the 
town  of  Hiram  were  held  by  him.    He  was  in- 


dustrious and  enterprising,  and  is  said  to  have 
built  the  first  saw  and  grist  mill  in  the  town 
of  Hiram,  which  was  located  on  his  property 
"on  the  thirteen  mile  brook,  so-called,  just 
above  the  'red  mill.'  "  He  and  Captain  Charles 
Wadsworth  built  the  first  bridge  across  the 
Saco  river  in  Hiram,  about  1805.  The  names 
of  his  twelve  children  were :  Timothy ;  Hum- 
phrey, mentioned  below;  John  Pike;  Betsey, 
married  Joseph  Chadbourne;  Sally,  married 
Thomas  Barker ;  Nancy,  married  David  Mor- 
rill;  Susan,  married  Thaddeus  Morrill,  of  Ber- 
wick, Maine ;  Lydia,  married  a  Jackson  ;  Jacob 
and  Mary,  died  in  youth ;  Hannah,  married 
Nathan  Hilton,  of  Bridgton,  Maine.  They 
conveyed  all  of  their  property  in  Hiram  to 
their  son  Humphrey,  in  June,  1797.  It  would 
appear  that  they  remained  in  Hiram  for  a 
time  thereafter  and  then  removed  to  Cornish, 
Maine,  in  1798  or  1799,  for  the  name  of  John 
Ayer  appears  on  the  Cornish  tax  list  for  the 
years  1801-1802-1810-1811,  and  the  name  of 
Humphrey  Ayer  appears  on  said  list  from 
1799  to  1813,  inclusive,  subsequent  records 
having  been  burned.  The  date  of  the  deaths  of 
John  Ayer  and  his  wife  is  unknown.  They 
were  buried  in  the  old  burial  lot  in  what  is 
now  the  pasture  of  W.  W.  &  F.  B.  Pike,  on 
Towle's  Hill,  so-called,  in  Cornish,  nearly  op- 
posite the  Wedgewood  place,  so-called,  but 
there  is  nothing  left  to  mark  their  resting 
place. 

(VH)  Humphrey  Ayer  was  born  in  Stand- 
ish, Maine,  in  1775,  second  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Ayer.  and  died  in  Cornish  in  1828. 
He  married  Patience  Chadbourne,  who  died 
January  7,  1864,  aged  eighty-six  years  ten 
months.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Francis 
Chadbourne,  of  Berwick,  Maine,  and  was  a 
direct  descendant  of  William  Chadbourne, 
from  whom  the  Chadbourne  family  of  America 
descended,  and  who  came  to  this  country  in 
1634  and  settled  in  what  is  now  South  Ber- 
wick, Maine.  (Detailed  information  of  the 
Chadbourne  line  may  be  gleaned  from  the 
Chadbourne  genealogy  published  by  William 
M.  Emery.  A.  M..  of  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts.) Humphrey's  family  consisted  of  eight 
children,  as  follows :  Isaiah,  married  Hannah 
Eastman,  of  Cornish;  Jacob,  married  Abbie 
Sargent,  of  Cornish ;  Humphrey,  married  Bet- 
sey ]\IcLucas,  of  Brownfield,  Maine;  Patience, 
married  Wyer  Pike,  of  Cornish  ;  Asenath,  mar- 
ried Simeon  Pike,  second  husband,  Joshua  D. 
Small ;  Olive,  married  Wells  Larrabee,  of  Se- 
bago,  Maine;  Francis,  married  Lucinda  Lib- 
bey,  of  Porter,  JMaine ;  James  Monroe,  men- 
tioned below. 


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(VIII)  James  Monroe  Aver  was  born  in 
Cornish,  Maine.  Tanuary  9,  1819,  wliere  he  re- 
sided until  his  death,  May  23,  1886.  He  mar- 
ried AdeHne  Hubbard  Thompson,  daughter  of 
Deacon  Isaac  Thompson,  who  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Cornish,  and  a  brother  of  Jo- 
seph M.  Thompson,  also  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Cornish.  James  Monroe  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  but  later  in  life  took  up  the 
occupation  of  farming  and  was  a  successful 
business  man.  The  children  born  to  James 
Monroe  and  Adehne  Hubbard  Ayer  were : 
Tames  Curtis,  mentioned  below ;  Mary  Ella, 
and  Emma,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mary  Ella 
married  Howard  Brackett,  of  Cornish,  and 
they  have  two  children  :  Marcia  E.,  wife  of 
Fred  Robinson,  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts ; 
and  Ardelle  Genevieve,  wife  of  William  H. 
Hatch,  of  Cornish. 

(IX)  James  Curtis  Ayer,  born  in  Cornish, 
I\Iaine,  December  4,  1846,  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  where  he 
has  always  resided.  He  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  in  his  youth  and  has  followed  the  occu- 
pation of  farming  all  his  life.  He  is  one  of  the 
leading  citizens  of  his  town.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican  and  has  been  a  deputy  sherif?  of 
York  county  since  1886,  excepting  the  year 
1893-94,  when  he  was  a  member  of  the  Maine 
legislature.  He  was  for  many  years  town 
clerk,  and  is  now  chairman  of  the  board  of 
selectmen,  which  position  he  has  held  twelve 
years,  and  has  held  many  other  offices  of  pub- 
lic confitjence  too  numerous  to  mention.  He 
is  prominent  in  the  Masonic  fraternity,  being 
a  past  master  of  Greenleaf  Lodge,  No.  117,  a 
member  of  Aurora  Chapter,  No.  22 ;  of  Aurora 
Chapter,  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star,  all  of 
Cornish;  of  Maine  Council,  Royal  and  Select 
Masters  of  Saco ;  of  Bradford  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  of  Biddeford;  and  of  Kora 
Temple,  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Lewis- 
ton.  He  is  a  past  district  deputy  grand  mas- 
ter of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  of  Maine,  a 
past  junior  grand  warden  of  said  Masonic 
Grand  Lodge,  and  grand  representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  near  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Maine.  Being  greatly  interested  in 
all  that  pertains  to  farming,  he  is  on  the  roll 
of  Cornish  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 
His  wife,  Mary  Armine  (Bennett)  Ayer,  was 
born  in  Parsonsfield,  Maine,  April  22,  1845, 
and  was  the  daughter  of  John  P.  and  Armine 
Bennett.  Their  family  consists  of  Harry  B., 
mentioned  below.  Fred  J.,  born  December  25, 
187;,  merchant  at  Cornish.  Frank  Percy, 
NovvTiber  2,  1878,  an  attorney  at  law.     Leon 


Malcolm,  November  26,  1881,  residing  on 
home  farm.  Lester  Curtis,  April  8,  1888,  stu- 
dent. 

(X)  Harry  B.  Ayer,  born  in  Cornish,  April 
14,  1871,  was  graduated  from  the  Cornish 
high  school.  He  worked  on  his  father's  farm 
in  summer  and  taught  school  in  winter  for  sev- 
eral years.  He  began  the  study  of  law  in  the 
office  of  George  F.  Clifford,  of  Cornish,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  York  County  bar  in  1895. 
He  opened  an  office  in  Westbrook,  Maine,  and 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  about 
one  year,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
the  Hon.  Abner  Oakes,  of  South  Berwick, 
Maine.  He  continued  in  practice  until  Jan- 
uary I,  1901,  when  he  assumed  the  duties  of 
register  of  probate  for  York  county,  to  which 
office  he  has  since  given  his  entire  time  and 
attention.  He  is  a  past  master  of  Greenleaf 
Lodge,  No.  117,  and  a  member  of  Aurora 
Chapter,  No.  22,  both  of  Cornish ;  a  member 
of  Maine  Council ;  of  Bradford  Commandery, 
No.  4;  of  Kora  Temple,  Order  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine ;  also  a  member  of  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, No.  22,  of  Alfred;  and  of  Portland 
Lodge,  No.  188,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks.  On  April  5,  1899,  he  married 
Susan  E.  Bacon,  granddaughter  of  the  late 
Dr.  Horace  Bacon,  of  Biddeford,  Maine,  and 
since  1903  has  made  his  residence  in  the  city 
of  Biddeford. 


(For  early  generations  see  John  Ayer   I.) 

(VIII)  Jacob  Ayer,  son  of  Hum- 
AYER  phrey  Ayer,  was  born  in  Cornish, 
Maine.  He  settled  in  Westbrook, 
Maine.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and 
throughout  his  active  life  followed  that  trade. 
Children :  Wyer  P. ;  Edwin  W.,  mentioned 
below  ;  Albion,  Patience,  Abbie  A. 

(IX)  Edwin  W.,  son  of  Jacob  Ayer,  was 
born  in  Cornish  in  1840  and  died  at  Westbrook 
in  1890.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Westbrook.  He  began  to  work  in  his  youth 
in  the  paper  mill  at  Cumberland  Mills,  Maine, 
and  won  his  way  by  successive  promotions  to 
the  position  of  superintendent  of  the  S.  D. 
Warren  Company's  mills  at  the  town  of  Cum- 
berland Mills  and  elsewhere.  He  filled  this  re- 
sponsible and  trying  position  with  credit  all 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  member 
of  Warren  Philips  Lodge  of  Free  ?iIasons ; 
Eagle  Chapter.  Royal  Arch  IMasons ;  Ammon- 
congin  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  all  of  West- 
brook. He  was  a  Congregationalist  in  reli- 
gion. He  married  Maria  Bacon,  born  in  1839 
at  South  Windham,  ]\Iaine,  and  died  in  1892, 


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daughter  of  John  and  Eunice  Bacon,  of  South 
Windham.  Their  only  child  is  Wilham  Edwin, 
mentioned  below. 

(X)  ^^'illiam  Edwin,  son  of  Edwin  W. 
Ayer,  was  born  in  Westbrook,  December  2, 
1S63.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  the  State  Normal  school  at 
Gorham,  Maine,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1883.  During  the  next  four  years  he  taught 
school  in  Westbrook.  He  then  became  the 
purchasing  agent  of  the  S.  D.  Warren  Paper 
Company  at  Cumberland  Mills  and  continued 
in  that  position  for  a  period  of  twelve  years. 
He  embarked  in  Imsiness  on  his  own  account 
in  1900  as  a  manufacturer  of  basswood  veneer 
for  electrical  work,  and  for  carriages  and 
sleighs,  at  Foxcroft,  in  the  firm  of  Ranger  & 
Ayer.  He  bought  out  his  partner's  interest  in 
1905  and  incorporated  the  business  under  the 
name  of  the  Ranger  &  Ayer  Manufacturing 
Company,  of  which  he  is  the  principal  stock- 
holder, treasurer  and  manager.  In  a  few  years 
the  business  has  increased  from  a  plant  using 
eighteen  hundred  feet  of  lumber  a  day  to  its 
present  capacity  of  ten  thousand  feet  made 
into  veneer  daily.  In  politics  Mr.  Ayer  is  a 
Republican  and  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
school  committees  of  Westbrook  and  of  Fox- 
croft. He  was  at  one  time  his  party's  candi- 
date for  mayor  of  the  city  of  Westbrook.  He 
is  a  member  of  Warren  Phillips  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons,  Westbrook ;  Eagle  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  ]Masons,  Westbrook;  St.  John  Com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templar,  of  Bangor.  In  re- 
ligion he  is  a  Congregationalist.  He  married, 
January  25,  1889,  Louise,  daughter  of  Free- 
man Brown,  of  Raymond,  Maine.  Children : 
I.  Florence  Erminie.  born  in  \A'estbrook,  May 
14,  1891.    2.  Doris  N.,  April  11,  1896. 


This  old  Scotch  name  was  very 
BLACK     early  represented  by  immigrants 

from  northern  Ireland,  who  set- 
tled at  various  points  in  New  England,  soon 
after  the  opening  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
It  was  planted  in  southwestern  Maine,  at  Kit- 
tery  and  other  points  in  York  county,  but  the 
exact  time  of  coming  seems  impossible  of  dis- 
covery. There  were  settlers  bearing  the  name 
in  York  before  1 700. 

(I)  ^^'illiam  Black's  will  was  proved  in 
York  count}-,  January  i,  1727-28.  It  names: 
Wife  Sarah,  and  sons  William  and  Joshua. 
William  Black,  at  the  time  of  making  his  fa- 
ther's will,  had  children,  William  and  Eliza- 
beth, and  soon  after  he  and  his  family  re- 
moved to  Bailey's  Island,  Harpswell,  Maine. 

(II)  Joshua,    son    of   William    and    Sarah 


Black,  made  his  will  in  1753,  and  this  was 
proved  April  6,  1756.  His  wife  Mary  was 
probably  not  then  living,  as  she  is  not  men- 
tioned in  the  will.  Their  descendants  are  still 
living  in  Kittery  and  some  have  changed  their 
names  to  Blake.  The  children  recorded  were : 
Benjamin,  Jonathan,  Mary,  Joshua,  Henry 
(died  young),  Henry,  Thomas  (died  young), 
Sarah,  Almy,  Catherine,  Thomas  and  Mar- 
gery. Of  these  only  two  sons  survived  the 
period  of  childhood. 

(III)  Jonathan,  son  of  Joshua  and  Mary 
Black,  was  born  February  15,  1720,  and  Hen- 
ry, December  i,  1726.  There  can  be  little 
doubt  that  one  or  the  other  of  these  was  the 
father  of  Josiah  next  mentioned. 

(IV)  Josiah,  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  prob- 
ably a  son  of  the  above  mentioned,  was  born 
in  1750,  settled  in  Limington,  Maine,  before 
the  revolution,  and  served  as  a  soldier  in  the 
continental  army.  He  is  on  record  as  being 
at  Hubbardstown,  Vermont,  and  also  under 
General  Stark,  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne, 
October  7,  1777.  He  died  in  Limington,  July 
4,  1840.  He  married  Martha  Cookson,  of 
Standish  ;  children :  Mary,  John,  Joab,  Josiah, 
Mercy,  Aaron  and  Elizabeth. 

(V)  John,  eldest  son  of  Josiah  and  Martha 
(Cookson)  Black,  was  born  August  31,  1777, 
in  Limington,  where  he  passed  his  life  and 
was  probably  engaged  in  agriculture.  No 
public  record  appears  of  his  death  or  of  his 
children.  His  wife,  Abigail  (Small)  Black, 
was  probably  a  granddaughter  of  Joshua  and 
Susannah  (Kennard)  Small,  of  Limington, 
a  descendant  of  Francis  Small,  an  immigrant 
from  England,  who  purchased  from  the  In- 
dians lands  lying  between  Big  and  Little  Os- 
sipee  rivers,  included  in  the  present  towns  of 
Cornish,  Limerick  and  Parsonsfield,  and  who 
settled  in  Kittery,  Maine,  whence  he  went  in 
1700  to  Truro,  ^lassachusetts,  and  there  died 

1714-15- 

(VI)  Jacob,  son  of  John  and  Abigail 
(Small)  Black,  was  born  in  Limington, 
Maine,  September  16,  1812,  died  in  Limerick, 
August  2,  1 88 1.  He  attended  the  district 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  while  still  very 
young  showed  signs  of  the  energy  and  activity 
which  later  were  prominent  features  in  his 
character.  He  learned  shoemaking  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years  and  followed  this  occupation 
for  twelve  years  in  Alfred,  Maine.  L^pon  his 
return  to  Limington  he  purchased  a  farm  of 
sixty  acres  adjoining  the  farm  of  his  father, 
and  resided  upon  it  for  many  years.  He  re- 
moved to  Lebanon  in  1869,  where  he  bought 
a  fruit  farm  which  he  cultivated  for  two  years, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


then  sold  the  jji-operty  to  Ole  Bull,  the  famous 
violinist,  whose  widow  still  owns  the  farm 
and  resides  on  it  during  the  summer  months. 
He  was  a  candidate  for  "the  ofifice  of  high  sher- 
iff of  York  county  while  residing  in  Lehanon, 
and  removed  from  thence  to  Limerick,  where 
he  bought  a  farm  located  on  the  border  of  the 
Little  Ossipee  river.  He  was  a  progressive 
and  successful  farmer,  a  thoroughly  self-made 
man  and  one  who  made  the  best  use  of  every 
opportunity  for  advancement  which  presented 
itself.  In  politics  he  was  an  active  supporter 
of  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
during  the  war  of  the  rebellion  gave  his  ear- 
nest support  to  the  Union  cause.  He  was 
keeper  of  the  York  county  jail  at  Alfred  for 
four  years,  and  rendered  most  valuable  service 
to  the  Republican  party  as  chairman  of  the 
county  committee.  Although  he  never  aspired 
to  local  offices,  he  wielded  a  strong  influence 
in  the  public  affairs  of  the  county.  Mr.  Black 
married,  in  1842,  at  Hollis,  Maine,  Charlotte 
Butters,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Deborah 
(Drake)  Swett,  of  Pittsfield,  New  Hampshire, 
the  former  a  son  of  Thomas  R.  Swett,  and  a 
descendant  of  Sir  Francis  Drake.  Children : 
I.  George  E.,  born  1843,  resided  in  West  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  and  enlisted  in  1862  as 
a  private  in  Company  H,  Twenty-seventh  Reg- 
iment, Maine  Volunteers,  served  nine  months 
and  rose  to  the  rank  of  second  sergeant:  upon 
his  return  to  his  home  he  was  for  some  time 
engaged  in  teaching  school  in  Limerick  and 
South  Waterboro,  and  was  finally  appointed 
depot  master  for  the  Boston  &  Providence 
Railroad  Company  in  Boston ;  later  he  became 
general  freight  agent,  a  position  he  filled  for 
some  years.  2.  Lucius  A.  3.  Moses  S.  4. 
Almena  C.  married  Sherman  E.  Piper,  of 
Parsonsfield,  ]\laine.  5.  Georgia  E.,  married 
Charles  Stimpson,  a  prosperous  farmer  of 
Limerick.  6.  Frank  S.,  see  forward.  7.  Rod- 
ney. 8.  Edwin.  9.  Lillian  D.,  married  Arthur 
P.  Merrow,  of  Freedom,  New  Flampshire, 
formerly  a  merchant  and  now  agent  of  the 
Phoenix  Insurance  Company  for  Carroll  coun- 
ty.    10.  Kate  M.     11.  Infant,  unnamed. 

(VII)  Frank  Swett,  fourth  son  and  sixth 
child  of  Jacob  and  Charlotte  B.  (Swett)  Black, 
was  born  in  Limington,  York  county,  Maine, 
March  8,  1853,  and  was  brought  up  on  his  fa- 
ther's farm,  on  which  he  became  accustomed 
to  manual  labor  while  very  young,  his  work 
on  the  farm  beiwg  confined  to  the  summer 
months,  and  in  the  winter  he  attended  the  dis- 
trict schools.  When  his  father  removed  to 
Alfred,  to  take  charge  of  the  county  jail,  he 
attended  the  Alfred  high  school.     Determined 


to  gain  a  college  education,  he  saved  his  small 
earnings  and  was  thus  enabled  to  attend  the 
Lebanon  Academy,  and  in  his  preparation  for 
college  he  was  later  assisted  by  private  in- 
structors connected  with  the  Limerick  Acad- 
emy. He  increased  his  tuition  fund  by  teach- 
ing school,  and  when  eighteen  years  of  age  he 
entered  Dartmouth,  but  his  college  attendance, 
like  that  of  so  many  of  Dartmouth's  students 
at  the  time,  was  interrupted  by  periodical  ab- 
sence each  winter  in  order  to  teach  school  to 
replenish  his  slender  purse.  His  editorial  abil- 
ity was  first  recognized  at  Dartmouth,  where 
he  was  successively  editor  of  the  three  col- 
lege papers.  He  was  graduated  one  of  the 
honor  men  of  the  class  of  1875,  and  given  the 
degree  of  A.  B.  on  Commencement  Day. 
After  graduation  he  peddled  chromos  in  cen- 
tral New  York,  and  this  experience  brought 
him  in  contact  with  the  publisher  of  the 
Johnstoivn  Journal,  a  weekly  newspaper  pub- 
lished at  Johnstown,  New  York,  and  he  be- 
came editor  of  that  paper.  His  short  editorial 
career  fully  justified  the  prophesy  made  while 
in  college  that  he  would  make  a  brilliant  jour- 
nalist. His  own  ambition,  however,  was  to 
become  a  lawyer,  and  to  this  end  he  secured 
a  place  as  law  clerk  and  law  student  in  the 
office  of  Robertson  &  Forster  in  Troy,  New 
York.  To  gain  the  money  to  bear  the  ex- 
penses without  interfering  with  his  studies,  he 
worked  nights  as  a  reporter  on  the  Troy 
Whig,  and  part  of  each  day  as  registry  clerk 
in  the  Troy  postoffice.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1879,  and  his  first  independent  posi- 
tion as  lawyer  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Smith,  Wellington  &  Black.  He  withdrew 
from  the  firm  in  1880,  and  put  out  his  "shin- 
gle" as  "Frank  S.  Black,  Attorney  and  Coun- 
cilor at  Law,"  and  he  has  ever  since  done 
business  alone.  His  knowledge  of  the  law 
was  sufficient  for  any  branch,  and  his  thorough 
preparation  and  mastery  of  every  detail  of 
the  cause  he  undertook  to  handle  won  him 
immediate  success  and  he  became  a  recognized 
leader  of  the  bar  in  Rensselaer  county.  He 
was  frequently  consulted  and  employed  by 
other  lawyers  in  the  preparation  of  cases  that 
needed  expert  professional  service ;  in  this 
wav  he  gained  the  good  will  of  the  bar  and 
was  ready  with  sound  advice  to  both  the  office 
lawyer  and  the  advocate  before  the  bar.  He 
had  inherited  from  his  father  sound  Repub- 
lican principles,  founded  upon  those  of  the  old- 
line  ^^'hig  party,  and  yet  the  political  field  of- 
fered him  no  great  allurement  for  many  years. 
In  1888  and  1892  he  made  occasional  cam- 
paign speeches  in  behalf  of  the  candidacy  of 


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Benjamin  Harrison.  In  1893,  when  he  was 
chairman  of  the  Rcpubhcan  county  committee 
for  Rensselaer  county,  the  practice  of  "repeat- 
ing" and  the  adoption  of  other  methods  for 
sweUing  the  vote  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
the  county,  but  principally  in  the  city  of  Troy, 
came  before  the  county  committee.  Through 
Mr.  Black's  initiative,  the  committee  made  a 
vigorous  and  successful  movement  to  overcome 
the  unlawful  practices.  On  i\Iarch  7,  1893,  a 
Republican  worker  at  the  polls,  Robert  Ross, 
was  murdered  and  Chairman  Black  took  both 
a  professional  and  a  personal  part  in  bringing 
the  assassin  before  the  courts  and  securing  his 
conviction.  This  prosecution,  so  largely  di- 
rected by  him  as  special  counsel  for  the  in- 
vestigation committee,  won  for  him  not  only 
the  applause  of  the  Republican  party,  but  that 
of  the  entire  order-loving  and  law-abiding  cit- 
izens of  the  state,  as  the  assassin  was  defended 
by  the  best  legal  talent  of  the  opposing  politi- 
cal party  and  thus  hedged  about  by  barriers 
hard  to  surmount  or  overcome.  This  achieve- 
ment brought  Mr.  Black  before  the  political 
leaders  of  the  Republican  party  of  the  state 
and  v^'ise  politicians  saw  in  the  young  and  al- 
most unknown  "Coimsellor  Black  of  Troy" 
the  sound  timber  for  successful  public  achieve- 
ment, and  the  next  year  he  was  made  the  can- 
didate by  his  party  for  representative  for  the 
Troy  district  in  the  fifty-fourth  United  States 
congress.  He  carried  the  election  in  Novem- 
ber, 1894,  by  a  large  plurality,  defeating  the 
skilled  politician  and  political  leader  of  the 
Democratic  party  of  the  district,  Edward  Mur- 
phy Jr.,  who  was  supposed  up  to  this  time  to 
be  invulnerable  either  as  a  candidate  or  friend 
of  a  candidate.  In  the  fifty-fourth  congress, 
Black  was  given  a  place  on  the  private  land 
claims  committee  and  on  that  of  the  Pacific 
railways.  While  the  first  term  of  any  repre- 
sentative in  the  United  States  congress  is 
bound  to  be  uneventful,  the  eyes  of  the  Re- 
publican party  leaders  were  upon  Representa- 
tive Black,  and  at  the  meeting  of  the  Repub- 
lican state  convention,  assembled  at  Saratoga 
in  August,  1896,  he  received  the  nomination 
of  his  party  as  their  most  available  candidate 
for  the  highest  office  in  the  gift  of  the  people 
of  the  state,  that  of  governor,  to  succeed  Levi 
P.  Morton.  Mr.  Black  received  187,576  votes 
to  174,524  for  Wilbur  F.  Porter,  and  26,698 
for  D.  G.  Griffin,  in  the  convention,  and  he 
was  triumphantly  elected  in  November,  1896, 
and  served  his  adopted  state  acceptably,  and 
with  credit  to  himself,  the  party  by  whose 
votes  he  was  elected,  and  the  people  of  the 
great  Empire  State,     In  1898  Dartmouth  Col- 


lege conferred  on  him  the  honorary  degree  of 
LL.  D,  At  the  meeting  of  the  Republican 
state  convention  in  i8g8,  he  was  a  candidate 
for  renomination,  his  opponent  in  the  conven- 
tion being  Theodore  Roosevelt ;  the  first  ballot 
gave  Black  two  hundred  and  eighteen  votes 
and  the  hero  just  returned  from  the  Spanish- 
American  war  seven  hundred  and  fifty-three 
votes,  and  the  delegates  in  the  convention  sup- 
porting Governor  Black  made  the  vote  for 
Colonel  Roosevelt  unanimous.  Under  the  ad- 
ministration of  Governor  Black  the  birth  of 
Greater  New  York  occurred,  due  to  the  pas- 
sage of  the  act  on  March  23,  1897,  by  a  vote 
of  one  hundred  and  eighteen  to  twenty-eight, 
vetoed  by  Mayor  Strong  and  passed  again  by 
the  assembly  by  a  vote  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  to  thirty-two,  April  12,  1897,  which  bill 
as  then  passed  received  the  signature  of  Gov- 
ernor Black,  May  5.  1879,  and  went  into  effect 
January  i,  1898.  He  also  signed  the  bill  al- 
lowing the  expenditure  of  $2,500,000  for  the 
improvement  of  Bryant  Park  and  the  building 
of  a  free  library  building  to  be  occupied  by 
the  New  York  Public  Library  and  the  Astor, 
Lenox  and  Tilden  foundations ;  one  to  au- 
thorize the  city  to  contract  with  the  Grant 
Memorial  Association  for  the  preservation  of 
the  tomb  of  General  Grant  and  to  provide  for 
the  completion  of  the  State  Capitol  building 
at  Albany,  He  secured  appropriation  for  the 
purchase  and  reclamation  of  Adirondack  lands, 
and  during  his  administration  several  thousand 
acres  were  added  to  the  state's  domain.  In 
1898  he  called  an  extra  session  of  the  legis- 
lature for  July  II,  to  take  action  upon  "an 
appropriation  to  meet  the  expense  of  providing 
New  York's  share  of  troops  required  for  the 
war  with  Spain ;  a  plan  to  enable  voters  ab- 
sent from  their  homes  in  the  military  service 
of  the  United  States  to  vote  at  the  coming 
elections,  and  a  provision  to  better  protect  citi- 
zens who  would  vote  according  to  law  and 
more  certainly  prevent  and  punish  those  who 
would  vote  otherwise."  The  result  of  the  state 
election,  November  8,  1898,  was  661,707  votes 
for  Theodore  Roosevelt,  including  4,503  bal- 
lots cast  by  the  military,  the  preponderance 
of  which  vote  was  in  favor  of  Theodore 
Roosevelt,  but  it  stands  upon  record  that  Gov- 
ernor Black  in  November,  1896,  received  125  - 
869  votes  more  than  did  Roosevelt  in  1898; 
while  the  fact  of  1896  being  a  presidential 
year  did  not  cause  the  total  vote  for  governor 
to  exceed  that  of  1898  by  more  than  43,000 
votes. 

On  retiring  from  the  governorship  of  New 
York,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  law  by  re- 


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moving  his  office  from  Troy  to  JManhattan 
Borough,  New  'i'ork  City,  establishing  him- 
self in  law  offices  at  170  Broadway,  where  he 
carries  on  a  general  practice.  His  most  nota- 
ble case  in  the  criminal  courts  was  his  defense 
of  Roland  B.  Molineaux.  who  had  been  con- 
victed of  murder  in  the  first  degree  and  sen- 
tenced to  electrocution.  He  took  up  the  des- 
perate case  at  this  crisis  and  obtained  for  the 
accused  a  new  trial;  and  in  this  trial  he  satis- 
fied the  jury  of  the  innocence  of  his  client, 
despite  his  former  conviction  and  sentence ; 
convinced  by  his  reasoning  and  the  logic  of 
his  argument  the  jury  brought  the  verdict  of 
"not  guilty,"  and  young  Molineaux  walked 
out  of  the  courtroom  a  free  man.  While  do- 
ing business  in  New  York  City,  Governor 
Black  has  continued  to  retain  his  residence  at 
Troy,  where  he  spends  his  Sundays.  He  has 
a  summer  home  at  Freedom.  New  Hampshire, 
and  passes  about  five  months  of  the  year  in 
that  charming  spot.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Unitarian  church  of  Troy,  and  is  associated 
with  the  following  organizations :  The  Repub- 
lican clubs  of  Troy  and  New  York,  Lawyers' 
Club  of  New  York,  and  New  England,  Maine 
and  New  Hampshire  societies.  He  married, 
November  27,  1879,  Lois  B.  Hamlin,  of  Prov- 
incetown,  Massachusetts,  and  their  only  child, 
Arthur  Black,  resides  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts :  lie  was  graduated  at  Harvard,  A.  B., 
1903,  LL.  B.  1906.  He  married  Frances  G. 
Purdy,  of  \\'akefield,.  Massachusetts,  and  has 
one  child,  Frank  Swett  Black,  born  July  19, 
1907. 


This  family  is  doubtless  of  Scotch 
BLACK     ancestry.     Samuel   Black,  a  ship 

owner  of  considerable  property, 
died  in  Boston  in  1749.  His  will,  dated  Feb- 
ruary II,  1749,  bequeathed  to  his  friends 
George  Glenn  and  wife,  to  a  negro  boy  to 
whom  he  gave  his  freedom  and  some  property, 
to  brothers  Aaron,  Alexander  and  John  Black ; 
to  the  sons  of  his  brother,  Moses  Black ;  to 
sisters  Elizabeth  and  j\Iargaret ;  "to  two  broth- 
ers by  my  father's  side,"  James  and  Robert. 
Just  what  this  means  we  have  not  learned, 
probably  James  and  Robert  were  by  a  difi:er- 
ent  wife  than  Samuel's  mother.  But  the  will 
states  that  "his  brothers  and  sisters  are  in 
Ireland,"  affording  proof  of  the  Scotch-Irish 
origin  of  his  family.  Some  of  them  appear  to 
have  come  to  Boston  soon  afterward.  A 
James  Black  died  there  in  1770^  leaving  a 
widow  Susanna. 

(I)  John  Black,  immigrant  ancestor  of  this 


family,  may  have  been  brother  of  Samuel  men- 
tioned above.  If  so,  he  was  in  Boston  but  a 
short  time  before  his  death.  We  know  noth- 
ing about  him  except  from  the  probate  of  his 
estate  and  that  of  his  widow.  He  was  a 
mariner.  His  widow  Elizabeth  was  appointed 
administratrix  of  his  estate  April  g,  1751.  She 
died  January  17,  1775,  making  a  nuncupative 
will  drawn  by  Dr.  John  Stedman  and  signed 
also  by  her  daughter.  Mary  Fullerton,  proved 
and  allowed  February,  1775,  in  Suffolk,  be- 
queathing to  her  children:  i.  Elizabeth,  who 
was  given  the  largest  share  and  the  residue. 

2.  Mary,  married  Fullerton.    3.  Jane, 

married Brewer.    4.  Henry,  mentioned 

below.     5.  John  Jr. 

(II)  Henry,  son  of  John  Black,  was  born  in 
Boston,  October  6,  1739,  from  old  family  Bi- 
ble, and  died  in  Prospect,  Maine,  June  15, 
18 1 7,  and  is  buried  at  Sandy  Point,  Stockton. 
He  received  by  his  mother's  will  the  great 
family  Bible,  a  sight  of  which  would  be  great- 
ly appreciated  by  the  family  historian.  He 
married,  August  16.  1764,  Sarah  Stowers,  who 
was  born  in  Chelsea  (Rumney  Marsh,  Bos- 
ton), January  25,  1744,  and  died  in  Prospect, 
Maine,  October  5,  1816.  He  and  his  wife  were 
admitted  to  the  Chelsea  Church,  owning  the 
covenant,  July  25,  1765.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Samuel  Sprague's 
company,  1775.  Children,  born  in  Boston  in 
what  is  now  Chelsea  and  baptized  in  the  Chel- 
sea Church:  i.  Henry  Jr.,  November  10, 
1765,  baptized  November  17;  mentioned  below. 
2.  Sarah.  June  17,  1767,  baptized  June  28; 
married  Josiah  Ames.  3.  John,  June  25,  1769, 
baptized  October  15,  1769;  married  Rebecca 
Stimpson.  4.  James,  November  5,  1770,  bap- 
tized June  30,  1771  ;  married  Rebecca  Brown. 
5.  Elizabeth,  January  2,  1775,  married  Joseph 
Matthews.  6.  Jane,  April  20,  1776,  married 
Field.  7.  Mary,  March  23,  1778,  mar- 
ried Jonathan  Dow.  8.  Alexander,  March  20. 
1780.  He  was  a  saddler  by  trade.  He  re- 
moved to  Prospect,  Waldo  county,  Maine,  dur- 
ing the  revolution.  His  house  was  burned  by 
the  British  when  their  fleet  sailed  up  the 
river.  He  used  to  do  leather  work  for  the 
revolutionary  soldiers  at  Fort  Pownal,  Cape 
Jellerson.  He  was  once  placed  under  arrest 
for  criticizing  the  bravery  of  Commander 
Saltonstall.  He  represented  his  town  in  the 
Massachusetts  general  court  in  1806-07-08-09- 
lo-ii.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of 
the  town. 

(III)  Henry  Jr.  (2).  son  of  Henry  Black, 
was  born  in  Boston,  November  10.  1765.  and 


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baptized  in  the  Chelsea  Church  November  17, 
1765.  He  hved  at  Prospect,  Maine,  and  died 
there  September  11,  1828.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  prominent  citizen.  He  married,  August 
25,  17S9,  Annie  Brown,  born  in  Belfast,  Maine, 
March  18.  1766,  and  died  at  Searsport,  Maine, 
July  21,  1857.  Children:  i.  Ann,  born  June 
6,  1790,  married  James  Leach.  2.  Sally, 
March  3,  1792,  married  Andrew  Leach.  3. 
Mary,  January  18,  1794,  married  James 
Greely.  4.  Henry,  February  3,  1796.  5.  John, 
May  2,  1799,  married  (first)  Mary  Pierce,  and 
(second)  Mrs.  Tyler.  6.  Clarissa,  February 
17,  1802,  married  Isaac  Carver.  7.  Joshua  T., 
June  6,  1805,  mentioned  below.  8.  Hannah, 
April  24,  1807,  married  Alexander  Nichols. 
9.  Otis  P.  D.,  February  4,  1810,  married  (first) 
Hannah  C.  Nichols;  (second)  Maria  R.  Mari- 
thew. 

{ly )  Joshua  T.,  son  of  Henry  (2)  Black, 
was  born  in  Prospect,  IMaine,  June  6,  1805, 
died  in  Searsport,  July  12,  1873.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  After  he  left  school  he  was  a  teamster 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  then  in  trade  at 
Searsport,  where  he  owned  a  market  and  pro- 
vision store.  He  sold  his  business  and  be- 
came a  farmer  at  Searsport,  and  followed  that 
occupation  the  remainder  of  his  active  life.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  state  militia  in  his  younger  days. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Searsport.  Lie  married  (first), 
January  28,  1838,  Eleanor  M.,  born  in  Bel- 
fast, December  20,  1807,  died  in  Searsport, 
June  18,  1850,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Han- 
nah (Mitchell)  Houston,  and  granddaughter 
of  Captain  Samuel  and  Esther  (Rogers) 
Houston.  Children:  i.  Robert,  died  in  in-- 
fancy.  2.  Joshua  \V.,  born  August  16,  1842, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Edward  Dayton,  May 
16,  1844,  a  grocer  at  Melrose:  married  (first) 
Emma  Wood,  (second)  Georgianna  Crofts; 
children  of  second  wife  :  Charles,  James,  John, 
Elizabeth.  4.  Charles  Bently,  July  16,  1845, 
died  August  30,  1845.  He  married  (second) 
Jane  R.  Houston,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife, 
July  17,  1853;  she  was  born  in  Belfast,  June 
12,  1800,  died  IMarch  20,  1884,  in  Searsport. 
The  following  was  taken  from  the  IVatervillc 
Sentuicl  of  July  17,  1908:  "While  George  W. 
Frisbee  was  with  a  picnic  party  on  Vaughan's 
shore  in  East  Belfast  he  discovered  an  old 
tombstone  that  had  been  thrown  into  the 
bushes  on  the  bank.  It  was  made  from  com- 
mon field  rock,  the  base  pointed  and  the  top 
arched  and  bordered  with  leaves,  and  was  evi- 


dently homemade.  It  bore  the  following  in- 
scription :  'Erected  in  memory  of  Mrs.  Esther 
Houston  the  wife  of  Captain  Samuel  Houston 
who  died  Nov.  8th,  1794  in  the  bist  year  ot 
her  age.  Retire  my  friends  dry  up  your  tears, 
here  I  must  lie  till  Christ  appears.'  Almost 
every  trace  of  Belfast's  first  cemetery  has  been 
obliterated,  and  it  is  believed  that  the  above- 
mentioned  stone  is  practically  the  only  one 
that  has  withstood  time  and  weather.  Mrs. 
Houston  was  the  daughter  of  Major  Robert 
Rogers,  an  officer  in  the  French  war.  Her 
husband,  Samuel  Houston,  was  one  of  the 
original  proprietors,  drawing  lots  number  6 
and  13,  and  settling  on  the  latter  in  1771, 
where  he  built  a  log  hut.  The  house  and  barn 
he  built  later  were  burned  by  the  British  dur- 
ing the  Revolution.  He  was  the  second  town 
clerk,  a  member  of  the  first  committee  of  safe- 
ty, and  captain  of  the  first  militia  company. 
His  son,  Samuel  Jr.,  enlisted  in  the  army  a 
week  after  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and 
was  a  member  of  Washington's  life  guard." 

(V)  Joshua  Wilson,  son  of  Joshua  T.  Black, 
was  born  in  Searsport,  Maine,  August  16, 
1842,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  that  town.  He  enlisted  in  April,  1861, 
among  the  first  in  Company  I,  Fourth  Maine 
Regiment  of  Volunteers,  and  w-ent  to  Rock- 
land with  the  regiment.  He  returned  home  on 
account  of  not  being  of  suitable  age.  He  re- 
enlisted  September  10,  1862,  in  Company  K, 
Twenty-sixth  Regiment.  (See  history  of 
Twenty-sixth  Maine  Regiment,  p.  313.)  He 
took  part  in  the  expedition  under  General 
Banks  and  was  at  the  siege  of  Port  Hudson 
and  at  the  battle  of  Springfield  Landing.  He 
was  mustered  out  August  16,  1863.  He  re- 
turned to  Searsport  and  opened  a  meat  and 
provision  market  in  that  town,  conducting  it 
until  1866,  when  he  removed  to  Marlborough, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  conducted  a  meat 
market  for  two  years.  He  was  then  in  the 
same  line  of  business  for  two  years  and  a  half 
in  Boston.  After  spending  a  year  of  travel 
through  the  western  states  he  returned  to 
Searsport.  He  was  census  enumerator  for  the 
federal  census  of  1870  and  1880  in  Searsport. 
He  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  of  the  county 
in  1872  and  served  until  1878.  He  was  agent 
for  the  American  Express  Company  at  Sears- 
port for  nine  years.  From  1884  to  1887  he 
was  deputy  collector  of  customs  at  Searsport. 
He  was  appointed  postmaster  by  President 
Harrison  in  1889  and  again  in  1898  by  Presi- 
dent McKinley,  and  has  been  reappointed 
twice  since  then  and  is  now  serving  a  fourth 


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four-\-ear  term.  He  lias  given  the  utmost  sat- 
isfactVin  to  the  public  and  the  department  as 
postmaster.  At  the  present  time  he  is  also 
judge  of  the  municipal  court.  He  was  appoint- 
ed trial  justice  by  Governor  Plaisted  in  1882. 
He  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  by  Gov- 
ernors Robie  and  Burleigh  and  reappointed 
by  Governor  Cobb.  He  is  a  Republican  of 
much  influence  and  activity,  and  after  twenty- 
five  consecutive  years  of  service  on  the  Re- 
publican congressional  district  committee  was 
re-elected  April  29.  1908,  for  another  term. 
He  is  president  of  the  Searsport  Water  Com- 
pany. He  is  a  member  and  past  master  of 
Mariners  Lodge  of  Free  iMasons  of  Searsport ; 
of  Searsport  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of 
King  Solomon  Council.  Royal  and  Select  blas- 
ters, Belfast;  of  Anchor  Chapter,  Eastern 
Star,  of  Searsport;  and  past  grand  of  Sears 
Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  belongs  to  Free- 
man McGilvery  Post,  No.  30,  Grand  Army, 
and  was  on  the  staff  of  Commander  Adams 
of  the  Maine  department.  He  is  an  attendant 
of  the  Congregational  church.  He  married, 
August  12,  1874.  Eliza  E.,  born  June  13,  1843, 
daughter  of  josiah  Bickmore,  of  Montville. 
Children:  i.  Frederick  Frasier,  born  Sep- 
tember 26,  1876,  mentioned  below.  2.  Jessie 
Mildred,  April  6,  1884,  married,  February  23, 
1908,  John  H.  Montgomery,  of  Bucksport,  a 
druggist.  3.  Edna  Eleanor,  July  4,  1886,  was 
associated  with  her  father  in  the  postoffice 
from  1903  until  her  sudden  death,  June  15, 
igo8. 

(\T)  Frederick  Frasier,  son  of  Joshua  Wil- 
son Black,  was  born  September  26,  1876,  in 
Searsport,  and  educated  there  in  the  public 
schools,  attending  the  University  of  Maine  for 
two  years.  He  began  his  career  as  freight 
clerk  on  a  Boston  steamship.  In  September, 
1898,  he  entered  the  L^nited  States  Military 
Academy  at  West  Point  and  was  graduated 
in  1902.  He  entered  the  army  and  was  sent 
to  the  Philippines,  where  for  two  years  he  was 
stationed  at  the  headquarters  of  General  Sum- 
ner at  Zamboanga,  and  he  had  charge  of  the 
yellow  fever  camps.  He  was  transferred  to 
San  Francisco  after  the  earthquake  disaster 
and  had  charge  of  a  camp  of  fifteen  thousand 
homeless  people.  Afterward  he  was  stationed 
at  Seattle  and  then  at  Fort  Liscomb,  Alaska, 
in  charge  of  a  target  camp.  In  1908  was  pro- 
moted to  first  lieutenant  of  Eleventh  Infantry, 
and  is  on  duty  in  Cuba.  He  is  a  member  of 
Mariners'  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  Searsport ; 
of  Searsport  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
and  of  Palestine  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar, Belfast. 


The  Black  family  of  York  and: 
BLACK  Kittery,  Maine,  was  of  Scotch 
ancestry.  Daniel  Black  settled  in 
York.  Maine,  before  1700.  He  was  a  son  of 
Daniel  Black,  of  Rowley  and  Boxford,  Mas- 
sachusetts. (See  history  of  Boxford,  Massa- 
chusetts.) He  bought  land  of  Samuel  Web- 
ber, February  29,  1703-04,  located  on  the  north 
side  of  Sentry  hill.  He  deeded  two  acres  on 
the  north  side  of  Hull's  creek  in  York  to 
Peter  Nowell.  August  24,  1709.  (York  Deeds 
Book  viii  fol.  30.)  He  died  before  17 12, 
when  his  widow  bought  land  of  Peter  Nowell, 
twenty  acres  on  the  northeast  side  of  the 
highway  by  the  market  place  in  York.  His 
first  deed  on  record  was  dated  September  24, 
1698,  when  he  bought  eleven  acres  at  Burnt 
Plain  in  York  of  Thomas  Wise.  He  bought 
two  acres  at  Dummers  Cove  of  Thomas 
Moore,  and  September  5,  1700,  mortgaged  to 
James  Gooch  three  acres  of  land  and  build- 
ings on  the  highway  and  Meeting  House 
creek,  York.  But  still  earlier  Daniel  Black 
had  a  town  grant  of  twenty  acres,  which  was 
sold  by  his. widow  and  son  Samuel  to  John 
Harmon,  December  5,  1717.  Sarah  and  Sam- 
uel deeded  to  Jonathan  Young  Jr.  teri  acres 
near  Cape  Neddick  pond,  York.  Later  they 
deeded  other  parcels  of  land.  Children  of 
Daniel  and  Sarah  Black :  Samuel,  Elizabeth, 
Mehitable. 

The  history  of  Kittery,  !Maine,  says  that 
Josiah  Black  was  in  York  before  1700.  If  so, 
he  left  no  traces  before  1700  on  the  land  rec- 
ords, but  the  name  is  preserved  in  the  family 
in  later  generations.  In  a  deed  dated  April  6, 
1719,  Lewis  Bane,  Job  Banks  and  Benjamin 
Preble  conveyed  land  to  him.  These  were 
Scotch  settlers,  and  Bane  was  ancestor  of  a 
large  family,  the  later  generations  spelling  the 
name  Bean.  The  consideration  of  the  deed 
being  love  and  affection,  there  was  doubtless 
some  relationship  between  them.  Peter  Nowell, 
mentioned  above,  w^as  also  a  relative.  Ridlon 
thinks  this  Josiah  was  among  the  Scotch-Irish 
pioneers  of  1718.  Further  trace  of  him  is  not 
found. 

(II)  William  Black  was  son  of  one  of  the 
earlv  settlers,  doubtless  Josiah,  for  Daniel  left 
but  one  son,  Samuel,  as  shown  by  the  settle- 
ment of  his  estate.  The  will  of  William  Black 
was  proved  at  Kittery,  January  i,  1727-28, 
bequeathing  to  wife  Sarah  and  to  sons  Will- 
iam and  Joshua.  Children:  i.  William,  had 
children  William  and  Elizabeth ;  removed  to 
Harpswell,  Maine,  and  lived  on  Bailey's  Is- 
land.    2.  Joshua,  mentioned  below. 

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at  York  about  1695,  died  in  1753.  His  will 
was  proved  April  6,  1756.     He  married  Mary 

.     Descendants  are  still  living  in  Kit- 

tery,  some  having  changed  their  names  to 
Blake.  Children  recorded  at  Kittery :  i. 
Benjamin,  born  April  19,  1719,  not  named  in 
father's  will  but  was  in  grandfather's.  2. 
Jonathan,  February  15,  1720,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Mary,  January  2,  1722.  4.  Joshua  Jr. 
(twin),  December  27,  1724,  died  May  3,  1742. 
5.  Henry  (twin),  December  27,  1724,  died 
February  following.  6.  Henry,  December  i, 
1726.  7.  Thomas,  August,  1728,  died  in  1729. 
8.  Sarah,  May  12,  1730,  married  Nicholas  Col- 
lins. 9.  Almy  or  Amy,  March  8.  1731.  10. 
Catherine,  May  15,  1734.  11.  Thomas.  Oc- 
tober, 1738,  died  about  1756,  unmarried,  in 
his  majesty's  service  in  the  French  war;  will 
dated  April  30,  1756;  brother  Henry' a  lega- 
tee.    12.  Margery,  August  19,  1739. 

(TV)  Jonathan,  son  of  Joshua  Black,  was 
born  February  15,  1720.  He  probably  settled 
in  Limington. 

(V)    Josiah,    son   or   nephew    of   Jonathan 
Black,  was  born  in   1750,  died  at  Limington, 
July  4,  1840.     According  to  the  Saco  history 
he  W'as  of  the  family  given  above.    The  above 
records,    in    fact,    include    all    that    is    known 
of  this  family  down  to  Josiah  Black,  of  Lim- 
ington.   He  married  Martha  Cookson  and  set- 
tled in  Limington  before  the  revolution.     He 
was   a   soldier   in   the   continental   army,    and 
served   in   the   campaign   in   Vermont   ending 
with  Burgoyne's  surrender,  October  7,   1777. 
Children:     i.  Mary,  born  May  10,  1775,  mar- 
ried Jacob  Small.     2.  John,  August  31,  1777, 
mentioned  below.    3.  Joab,  November  4,  1780, 
married    Hannah    Hamlin ;    children    born    at 
Limington:    i.  Josiah,  born  October  31,  1802; 
ii.  Olive,  August  14,  1804;  iii.  Hannah,  Decem- 
ber  18,   1809;  iv.  Ira,  September  8,   181 1;  v. 
Lovina,  October  20,  1814.     4.  Josiah,  August 
31,    1784,   married   Mary   Libby,   of   Scarbor- 
ough, where  he  died  July,   1864;  children:  i. 
Zebulon,  born  December  12,  1808,  married  El- 
mira  Emerson;  ii.  John,  December  24.   1810, 
married,  July  17,  1837,  Roxanna  Andrews,  of 
Bethel,    and    has    two    daughters, ,  Olive    and 
Hannah;  iii.  Josiah   S.,    November  29,    1812, 
married  Eunice  B.  Smith  and  had  son  David 
T.,  born , December  27,  1838;  iv.  Jilercy,  Jan- 
uary 21,  1815,  died  young;  v.  Martha,  March 
29,  1817,  married  John  J.  Plaisted ;  vi.  David 
I..  September  28.  1819;  vii.  Joab,  had  son  Al- 
vah,   father  of  Charles   A.   Black,  teacher  in 
Paris  Hill  Academy  and  Norway  Liberal  In- 
stitute;  viii.  Aimer,  April    13.    1824,  married 
Betsey  Bailey;  ix.  Mary  L.,  May  6,  1827,  mar- 


ried Lorenzo  Goodwin.  5.  IMercy,  January  8, 
1789,  married  Amos  Libby.  6.  Aaron,  Sep- 
tember ID,  1791,  married  Lydia  Libby.  7. 
Betsey,  February  22,  1798. 

( \'I )  John,  son  of  Josiah  Black,  was  born, 
in  Limington,  Maine,  August  31,  1777.  He 
married  Hannah  Hamlin.  Children  born  ini 
Limington:  i.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.- 
Samuel. 

(VII)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Black, 
born  in  Limington  in  1807,  died  in  1879.  He' 
married  Mary  Anderson,  of  Limington.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Porter,  Maine:  Frank  Melville, 
Alary,  Marcia,  Abbie,  Henry,  James  Anderson, 
mentioned  below. 

(VIII)  James  Anderson,  son  of  John  (2)' 
Black,  was  born  February  3,  1851,  in  Porter,. 
Maine.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools- 
of  his  native  town.  When  he  was  fifteen  years- 
old  he  removed  to  Lynn  and  went  to  work  in. 
a  boot  and  shoe  factory,  attending  the  night 
school  for  two  years.  He  then  returned  tO' 
Porter  and  engaged  in  farming  for  a  time.  He 
removed  to  Moultonborough,  New  Hampshire, . 
and  established  himself  in  the  wood  and  lum- 
ber business.  He  continued  in  business  for 
about  sixteen  years.  He  was  a  Republican  in: 
politics  and  served  on  the  board  of  selectmen! 
of  the  town  of  Moultonborough.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  Lodge  at 
Kezar  Falls,  Alaine.  He  married,  October 
25,  1876,  Dora  Lizzie  Fox,  of  Porter,  born 
April  24,  1858.  Children:'  i.  James  Orion. 
2.  Laura  May,  mentioned  below.  3.  Nina 
Marcella. 

(IN)  Dr.  Laura  May,  daughter  of  James 
Anderson  Black,  was  born  in  Porter,  Septem- 
ber 8,  1879.  She  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Aloultonborough  and  Brewster  Academy 
at  Wolf  borough,  New  Hampshire,  graduating 
in  i8g8.  After  teaching  school  two  years,  she 
began  the  study  of  her  profession  in  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Boston, 
where  she  graduated  in  1904  with  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  Since  January,  1906,  she  has  been 
practicing  medicine  at  Saco,  Maine. 


Thomas  Plenry  Black  was  born 
BLACK     in  Ireland  in  1798.     He  came  to 

St.  Alartins,  New  Brunswick, 
about  1820,  and  having  received  an  excellent 
education  in  Ireland,  he  engaged  as  a  school- 
teacher in  New  Brunswick,  and  later  in  life 
served  as  lumber  merchant,  ship-builder  and 
general  merchandise  storekeeper.  He  married 
Alary  Fownes,  who  was  a  native  of  St.  Alar- 
tins,  New  Brunswick.  Children,  all  born  in 
St.  Alartins :   Alelissa,  Sarah  Jane,  William  T., 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Mary,  Louise,  Henry  Allen,  a  successful  con- 
tractor and  builder  in  Boston,  Massachusetts ; 
Grace.  Judson  Burpee,  a  physician  and  mem- 
ber of  the  parliament  of  the  Dominion  of  Can- 
ada, and  in  1908  was  returned  with  the  largest 
majority  in  Nova  Scotia.  Thomas  Henry 
Black  died  at  St.  Martins,  New  Brunswick, 
i860. 

(H)  W'illiam  T.,  eldest  son  and  third  child 
of  Thomas  Henry  and  Mary  (Fownes)  Black, 
was  born  in  St.  Martins,  New  Brunswick,  Oc- 
tober 20,  1830.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  public 
'  schools  of  St.  Martins  and  at  Mount  Allison 
Academy,  Sackville,  New  Brunswick,  and  was 
graduated  from  the  Provincial  Normal  school. 
Saint  John,  New  Brunswick.  He  gained  his 
first  knowledge  of  medicine  in  the  office  of 
James  Hunter,  M.  D.,  of  St.  John,  New 
Brunswick,  where  he  read  medicine  under  the 
direction  of  Dr.  Hunter,  one  of  the  most 
learned  physicians  and  surgeons  of  his  time 
in  the  province.  He  then  took  the  regular 
course  in  medicine  and  surgery  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania I\Iedical  College,  under  such  noted 
teachers  as  the  elder  Stille,  Francis  G.  Smith, 
etc.,  graduating  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1857. 
He  began  practice  in  Moncton,  New  Bruns- 
wick, and  his  skill  was  soon  recognized  by  the 
public  and  by  the  officers  of  the  European  and 
North  American  railway  (now  the  Interco- 
lonial), then  under  construction,  which  gave 
him  unusual  opportunities  in  the  practice  of 
surgery.  In  i860  he  removed  to  Calais,  Maine, 
where  he  practiced  medicine  and  surgery  up 
to  the  advent  of  the  southern  rebellion,  wdien 
he  volunteered  his  service  in  the  Union  army 
and  was  commissioned  assistant  surgeon  in 
the  Twelfth  i\Iaine  Volunteer  Infantry  and 
mustered  in  December  28,  1861,  and  his  regi- 
ment was  assigned  to  the  southern  division 
under  General  Butler,  and  with  his  regiment 
was  among  the  first  of  the  army  to  occupy 
New  Orleans.  Fie  was  appointed  medical 
examiner  for  the  first  Union  volunteer  regi- 
ments raised  in  New  Orleans,  and  was  ap- 
pointed surgeon  of  First  Louisiana  Volunteers. 
He  remained  in  the  United  States  volunteer 
service  up  to  May  29,  1863,  when  he  was 
granted  leave  of  absence  on  account  of  the 
condition  of  his  health,  impaired  by  service  in 
the  sickly  camp  occupied  by  the  Union  army 
on  the  Mississippi  river.  He  was  granted  a 
leave  of  absence  and  returned  to  Maine  hoping 
that  a  northern  climate  would  restore  his 
health :  in  this  he  was  disappointed,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  his  leave  of  absence  tendered  his 
resignation,  and  was  honorably  discharged  on 


July  23,  1863.  He  resumed  the  practice  of 
medicine  at  Calais,  Maine.  In  the  latter  part 
of  1869  and  until  August,  1870,  he  spent  in 
Europe  visiting  the  medical  schools  in  Great 
Britain  and  the  Continent.  In  1885  he  was 
forced  by  ill  health  to  relinquish  his  practice 
and  retire  to  a  farm  in  Nova  Scotia  which  he 
purchased  and  cultivated  for  nearly  five  years. 
This  treatment  of  his  body  and  mind  served 
to  reinstate  his  health,  and  he  resumed  his 
practice  and  was  still  so  engaged  in  1908, 
although  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  He  had 
hoped  for  years  to  retire  from  active  practice, 
but  the  old  friends  who  relied  on  him  for 
medical  advice  and  help  would  not  allow  him 
to  entirely  discontinue  practice,  but  he  took 
no  new  business  and  gradually  obtained  the 
ease  he  had  so  well  earned,  through  the  con- 
sideration of  these  friends.  He  found  his  best 
comfort  and  ease  in  his  beautiful  home  below 
the  city  of  Calais  on  the  bank  of  the  river 
Ste.  Croix,  and  from  there  he  kept  in  touch 
and  continued  his  membership  in  the  Wash- 
ington County  jMedical  Society  and  the  Coun- 
cil of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New  Bruns- 
wick. He  has  been  a  member  of  the  United 
States  Pension  Examining  Board  at  Calais  for 
many  years,  and  since  July,  1908,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  board.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  being  a  Blue  Lodge  and 
Royal  Arch  Mason. 

Dr.  Black  married,  December  9,  1857, 
Frances  E.  Cutts,  of  Eastport,  Maine.  They 
never  had  their  lives  made  glad  by  the  birth 
of  children,  but  this  deprivation  was  the  gain 
of  the  children  of  others  who  came  within  the 
larger  circle  of  their  lives,  giving  them  the 
unstinted  love  and  care  that  they  were  de- 
prived of  showering  on  their  own. 


The  name  of  Lewis  was  formerly 
LEWIS     Lewes     and     originated     in     the 

county  of  Kent,  England.  It  has 
been  stated  by  some  authorities  that  George 
Lewes,  of  Barnstable,  the  emigrant  ancestor 
of  the  Bridgton  Lewises,  was  the  father  of  the 
George  Lewis  who  was  of  Casco  in  1640,  but 
this  has  been  proved  erroneous  by  Mr.  Sav- 
age, and  they  were  probably  not  related  to 
each  other.  The  Goodman  George  Lewes, 
Senior,  and  Goodman  George  Lewes,  Junior, 
of  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  mentioned  by  the 
Rev.  John  Lothrop,  were  undoubtedly  father 
and  son.  Goodman  George,  Senior,  wrote  his 
name  Lewes,  and  his  descendants  retained  that 
form  of  spelling  until  about  the  year  1700, 
since  which  time  the  present  orthography  has 


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been  in  general  use.  Many  men  of  marked 
ability  have  brought  honor  and  distinction  to 
the  name  in  America. 

(I)  George  Lewes,  of  East  Greenwich,  in 
Kent,  was  a  clothier  and  probably  followed 
his  trade  in  London  before  coming  to  New 
England.  It  is  quite  probable  that  he  was  a 
member  of  Mr.  Lothrop's  church  in  London 
at  the  time  of  its  disruption  in  1632,  and  he 
evidently  emigrated  shortly  afterward  as  he 
was  in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  in  1633,  and 
two  years  later  he  rejoined  his  former  pastor 
in  Scituate,  where  he  was  admitted  a  freeman 
in  1636-37.  His  home  in  Scituate  was  located 
on  Kent  street,  the  residents  of  which  were 
mostly  from  that  county  in  the  mother  coun- 
try and  known  as  "the  men  of  Kent."  In 
1639  he  sold  his  property  in  order  to  remove 
with  Mr.  Lothrop  and  the  other  church  mem- 
bers to  Barnstable,  and  in  common  with  the 
rest  he  received  land  grants  in  the  latter  place. 
He  served  as  surveyor  of  highways  in  1648 
and  1650,  rendered  jury  duty  in  1649  ^'^d 
was  constable  in  1651.  tie  was  an  honest  man 
and  a  sincere  Christian,  whose  chief  desire 
was  to  live  in  peace  with  his  fellowmen,  to 
avoid  actions  at  law  and  to  yield  rather  than 
contend  with  his  neighbors.  He  died  in  Barn- 
stable in  1662  or  1663.  His  first  wife,  whom 
he  married  in  England  about  1626,  was  Sarah 
Jenkins,  a  sister  of  Edward  Jenkins,  who  was 
subsequently  a  resident  of  Scituate.  She  ac- 
companied him  to  America  and  died  in  Barn- 
stable. The  maiden  surname  of  his  second 
wife  is  unknown,  but  her  given  name  was 
Mary,  and  she  was  living  in  1670.  He  was  the 
father  of  eight  children,  five  of  whom  were 
probably  born  in  England.  Their  names  were : 
Mary,  Thomas,  George,  James,  Edward,  John, 
Ephraim  and  Sarah.  (N.  B.  These  children 
are  not  given  in  the  order  of  their  birth.) 

(II)  Lieutenant  James,  son  of  George  and 
Sarah  (Jenkins)  Lewes,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1631.  Although  compelled  to  work 
hard  from  daylight  to  dark  he  nevertheless 
found  the  means  of  gratifying  a  desire  for 
the  acquisition  of  knowledge  by  devoting  the 
long  winter  evenings  to  study  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  pastor,  and  at  his  majority  he  was 
well  prepared  for  the  business  of  life.  Like 
his  father  he  was  both  honest  and  industrious, 
but  unlike  his  progenitor  he  possessed  the  fac- 
ulty of  acquiring  property  and  he  became 
wealthy.  He  was  made  a  freeman  in  1658; 
rendered  the  customary  jury  service;  was  for 
many  years  an  officer  in  the  local  militia  com- 
pany and  probably  served  in  King  Philip's 
war;  was  a  selectman  for  the  years  1679-81- 


89-90;  but  did  not  unite  with  the  church  until 
1699,  when  he  was  si.xty-eight  years  old.  He 
died  October  4,  1713.  His  will  was  dated 
May  8,  1713,  and  proved  October  17  of  that 
year.  October  31,  1655,  he  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  George  Lane,  of  Hingham.  Their 
children,  all  born  in  Barnstable,  were ;  John, 
Samuel,  Sarah,  James,  Ebenezer,  George,  Jo- 
seph, Susannah,  Mary  and  Hannah. 

(III)  Ebenezer,  fourth  son  and  fifth  child 
of  Lieutenant  James  and  Sarah  (Lane)  Lewes, 
was  born  in  Barnstable,  December  20,  1666. 
He  acquired  both  wealth  and  prominence ; 
was  one  of  the  most  able  business  men  of 
Barnstable  in  his  day ;  held  various  town  offices 
and  was  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas. 
The  date  of  his  death  does  not  appear  in  the 
records  at  hand.  In  1691  he  married  Anna, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Barnabas  Lothrop,  and  on 
February  28,  1728.  he  married  for  his  second 
wife  Rebecca  Sturgis,  of  Yarmouth.  The  lat- 
ter died  April  10,  1734,  aged  sixty-five  years. 
His  children,  all  of  his  first  union,  were: 
Sarah,  Susannah,  James,  Ebenezer,  Hannah, 
Lothrop,  George,  Nathaniel,  John,  David  and 
Abigail. 

(IV)  George  (2),  fourth  son  and  seventh 
child  of  Ebenezer  and  Anna  (Lothrop)  Lewes, 
was  born  in  Barnstable,  April  5,  1704.  He 
occupied  the  homestead  and  was  an  industrious 
and  useful  citizen  who  refrained  from  partici- 
pating in  public  affairs.  Being  contemporary 
with  his  Uncle  George,  he  is  designated  in  the 
Barnstable  town  records  as  George  Lewes, 
Junior,  and  he  died  about  the  year  1757.  His 
will,  which  was  dated  July  19,  of  that  year, 
disposed  of  property  inventoried  at  two  hun- 
dred and  eighty-four  pounds.  September  12, 
1737,  he  married  Sarah  Thacher,  of  Yar- 
mouth, and  her  death  occurred  April  30,  1762. 
Their  children  were :  "Annah,"  Thankful 
(who  died  in  infancy),  John,  Thankful,  Sarah, 
Temperance  (who  also  died  in  infancy), 
George,  Temperance  (who  died  aged  about 
seven  months),  Josiah,  another  Temperance, 
Susannah  and  James. 

(V)  Major  George  (3)  Lewis,  second  son 
and  seventh  child  of  George  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Thacher)  Lewes,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
April  9,  1741.  He  was  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished members  of  the  family,  acquiring 
prominence  both  in  civil  and  militarv  life,  and 
he  settled  in  Gorham,  Maine,  where  his  death 
occurred  July  24,  1819.  October  12,  1760,  he 
married  for  his  first  wife  Mary,  daughter  of 
Hon.  Daniel  Davis,  a  revolutionary  soldier  of 
distinction,  and  she  died  in  February,  1782, 
aged   forty-one  years.     His   second   wife  was 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Desire,  daughter  of  Samuel  Parker,  of  West 
Barnstable.  His  first  wife  bore  him  eleven 
.children:  Mehitable,  Colonel  Lothrop,  Sarah, 
"Annah,"  James,  Ansel,  George,  Daniel  Davis, 
Mary,  Robert  and  Abigail,  the  last  two  of 
whom  were  twins.  Colonel  Lothrop  Lewis 
was  a  prominent  resident  of  Gorham;  a  sur- 
veyor of  recognized  ability  and  at  one  time 
state  land  agent.  Abigail  married  Captain 
William  Prentiss  and  became  the  mother  of 
the  distinguished  American  lawyer  and  orator, 
Sargent  S.  Prentiss ;  also  of  Rev.  George  Lew- 
is Prentiss,  D.  D.,  the  eminent  theologian. 

(VI)  Major  George  (4),  fourth  son  and 
seventh  child  of  Major  George  (3)  and  Mary 
(Davis)  Lewis,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
March  28,  1775.  Locating  in  Bridgton,  Maine, 
he  turned  his  attention  to  agriculture  and  be- 
came one  of  the  prominent  farmers  of  that 
locality.  For  many  years  he  was  connected 
with  the  militia  and  held  the  rank  of  major. 
His  death  occurred  in  Bridgton,  September 
19,  1857.  He  married  Ruthy  Lincoln,  and 
their  children  were:  Ruth,  Lincoln,  Royal, 
Harriet,  Tabitha,  Lothrop,  Jerusha  and  Sarah. 

(VII)  Lothrop,  third  son  and  sixth  child 
of  Major  George  (4)  and  Ruthy  (Lincoln) 
Lewis,  was  born  in  Bridgton,  September  4, 
1805.  He  was  reared  and  educated  in  his 
native  town,  where  in  early  manhood  he  en- 
gaged in  tilling  the  soil,  and  the  active  period 
of  his  life  was  devoted  to  that  calling.  During 
the  anti-slavery  agitation  he  earnestly  support- 
ed the  cause  of  Abolition,  and  in  1847  repre- 
sented his  district  in  the  lower  branch  of  the 
state  legislature.  He  also  supported  with  vigor 
the  cause  of  total  abstinence  from  intoxicating 
liquors  and  belonged  to  the  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance. He  was  very  active  in  religious  work 
and  a  leading  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Bridgton  Center.  He  died  in  that 
town,  October  25,  1879.  December  25,  1832, 
he  married  Mary  Jones,  of  Waterford.  She 
became  the  mother  of  five  children :  Caroline 
Peabody,  Mary  Elizabeth,  George,  Lothrop 
Lincoln  and  Edward  Lyman. 

(VIII)  Rev.  George,  D.  D.  (5),  third  child 
and  eldest  son  of  Lothrop  and  Mary  (Jones) 
Lewis,  was  born  in  Bridgton,  January  21, 
1839.  From  the  North  Bridgton  Academy  he 
entered  Bowdoin  College,  receiving  his  bach- 
elor's degree  and  later  entering  the  Bangor 
Theological  Seminary,  was  graduated  in  1865. 
He  was  ordained  a  Congregational  minister 
the  same  year  and  installed  pastor  of  a  church 
in  Bedford,  Massachusetts,  but  owing  to  im- 
paired health  was  later  obliged  to  suspend  his 
labors    and    seek    a    warmer    climate.      After 


spending  some  time  in  Florida  with  beneficial 
results  he  resumed  pastoral  work  in  Jersey 
City,  remaining  there  three  years,  and  from 
1874  to  the  present  time  he  has  been  located 
in  South  Berwick.  Bowdoin  College  conferred 
upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity  in  1 904.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. On  November  28,  1865,  Dr.  Lewis  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Katharine  B.,  daugh- 
ter of  Colonel  Hugh  D.  and  Elizabeth  (Lewis) 
McLellan,  of  Gorham.  The  McLellans  are  of 
Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  and  are  said  to  be  the 
descendants  of  Sir  Hugh  McLellan,  of  Argyle- 
shire,  Scotland.  They  took  refuge  in  the 
North  of  Ireland  during  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. The  Gorham  family  was  founded  in 
America  by  Hugh  and  Elizabeth  McLellan. 
of  county  Antrim,  Ireland,  who  came  from 
Londonderry  to  Boston  in  1733,  and  proceed- 
ing to  Alaine  they  settled  as  pioneers  in  Gor- 
ham. Their  children  were :  William,  born 
in  Ireland ;  Abigail,  Mary,  Alexander,  Cary. 
Jane,  Martha,  Thomas  and  Martha.  Dr. 
George  and  Katharine  B.  (McLellan)  Lewis 
are  the  parents  of  three  sons :  Hugh  Mc- 
Lellan, born  October  26,  1868;  Philip  Prescott, 
September  26,  1870,  and  George  Lothrop, 
June  10,  1878.  All  were  fitted  for  college  at 
the  South  Berwick  Academy.  Hugh  j\l.,  who 
is  a  graduate  of  the  L'niversity  of  Maine,  is 
married  and  resides  in  Brunswick,  Maine. 
Philip  P.  is  a  graduate  of  the  Maine  Medical 
school  of  Bowdoin  College,  and  is  now  a  phy- 
sician in  Gorham.  George  L.,  a  graduate  of 
Bowdoin,  is  now  librarian  of  the  Westfield 
(Mass.)  Atheneum. 


This  surname,  identical  with 
MOOR     More,    Moore,    Muir,    ]\Iure    and 

Moir  in  Scotland,  is  credited  with 
various  derivations,  the  most  obvious  being 
the  taking  of  the  name  from  the  race  of 
Moors,  in  the  same  way  that  we  find  such 
names  as  Scott,  English,  French,  etc.  The 
Scotch  family  of  this  name  was  established 
before  1263,  in  Ayrshire.  Lanarkshire  and 
Renfrewshire.  When  King  James  planted  the 
English  Presbyterians  in  the  north  of  Ireland, 
the  history  of  the  Scotch-Irish  there  began. 
In  the  precinct  of  Orier,  county  Armagh,  one 
thousand  acres  were  granted  to  Sir  Gerald 
Aloore,  knight,  privy  councillor.  In  the  pre- 
cinct of  Tullagharvy,  county  Cavan,  fifteen 
hundred  acres  were  granted  to  Brent  Moore, 
and  Archibald  (Arthur)  Moore.  In  the  pre- 
cinct of  Portlough,  county  Donegal,  Hugh  and 
William  ^loore  were  settlers  as  early  as  1613. 
In  1629,  in  the  precinct  of  Lurg  and  Coolema- 


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kernan,  county  Fermanagh,  among  the  lessees 
of  John  Archdale,  occur  the  names  of  Thom- 
as and  Wilham  Edward  Moore.  Sir  Gerald 
Moore  built  a  stone  "bawn"  (sic)  and  a  small 
house  "inhabited  by  an  Irishman,"  on  his  thou- 
sand acres.  Before  1630  Archibald  Moor  had 
a  grant  in  Clonmahone,  county  Cavan,  and 
there  erected  a  strong  sod  "bawn"  and  an  Irish 
house.  From  1610  to  the  present  time  the 
Moor  family  of  the  north  of  Ireland  have  been 
practically  all  of  pure  Scotch  ancestry,  and 
Presbyterian  in  religion.  In  the  three  coun- 
ties of  Antrim,  Londonderry  and  Tyrone  one 
hundred  and  eighty-five  of  this  surname  were 
born  in  1890,  indicating  a  population  in  those 
■counties  alone  of  upward  of  eight  thousand 
by  the  name  of  Moore  or  Moor. 

(I)  Deacon  James  Moor,  immigrant  ances- 
tor  of  the   family   in   America,   was  born   in 
1702,  in  county  Tyrone,  Ulster  province,  Ire- 
land,   descended    doubtless    from    one    of   the 
Scotch  pioneers  mentioned  above.     He  died  in 
Pembroke,    formerl}'    Suncook,    New    Hamp- 
shire, March  11,  1773.     He  came  to  America 
in   1725,  and  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
New  Hampshire  at  what  was  called  Suncook 
by  the  Indians.     He  went  to  Londonderry  on 
a  tour  of  inspection,  and  secured  the  refusal 
of  the  rights  of  Joseph  Farrar,  June  5,  1729, 
bought  tlie  property  by  deed  dated  November 
24,  1729.  and  used  to  say  that  his  family  was 
the   second   to   settle   in   the   township,   where 
■he  built  the  first   frame   dwelling,   which,  al- 
tered from  time  to  time,  is  yet  standing  on 
the  old  farm,  and  was  lately  occupied  by  Sam- 
uel  Emery,  grandson  of  the  pioneer.     Moor 
was  deacon  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  a 
man  of  prominence.     He  married,  in  Ireland, 
Agnes   Colbreth    ( family   name   also   Colbath, 
Colbreath,    and    Galbraith).      Vice-President 
Henry  Wilson  was  a  Colbath  by  birth,  having 
had  his  name  changed  after  he  was  an  adult. 
His  ancestors  came  from  the  same  section  of 
Ireland  as  Agnes   Colbreth — Londonderry  or 
Tyrone.    Children  of  James  Moor:     i.  James. 
2.  William,  married  Hannah .    3.  Han- 
nah, born  August  5,  1732.     4.  Ephraim,  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  Rogers;  (second)  Febru- 
ary 27,  1783,  Jennie  Moore.    5.  John,  had  sev- 
en   children    at    Pembroke.     6.   Daniel,    men- 
tioned below.     7.  Robert,  born  May  i,   1741, 
married    Ruhamah    Mitchell.      8.    Daughter, 
married  Robert  Kelsea.    9.  Daughter,  married 
Ephraim  Foster.      10.    Eunice,  married,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1781,  James  Merrill,  of  Chichester. 
(II)   Captain  Daniel,  son  of  Deacon  James 
Moor,   was  born   in   Pembroke,   New    Hamp- 
shire, June  21,  1735.     He  settled  in  Deerfield, 


adjacent  to  Pembroke,  and  became  a  promi- 
nent citizen  and  soldier.    He  was  friendly  with 
the  Indians  until  the  French  and  Indian  war, 
when   the   Indians   left   the   vicinity   of    Pem- 
broke, and  went  to  Canada,  committing  out- 
rages and  taking  prisoners  on  the  way.    Moor 
was  in  service  against  them.     When  the  revo- 
lution broke  out  he  was  one  of  the  first  on 
his  way  to  Lexington  at  the  head  of  a  com- 
pany, and  fought  under  Colonel  John  Stark  at 
Bunker  Hill,  and  stood  at  the  side  of  Major 
McClary  when  he  was  struck  with  a  cannon 
ball,    and    was    one    of   those   who    opened    a 
grave  and  buried  him  on  the  spot.     He  was 
also  in  the  service  in  1776-77,  and  at  the  bat- 
tle of  Saratoga.     Later  in  life  he  was  a  pen- 
sioner on  account  of  his   revolutionary  serv- 
ice.    He  kept  the   first  tavern   in   Pembroke. 
Some  of  his  children  spelled  their  name  Moor, 
others  Moore,  and  their  descendants  are  sim- 
ilarly divided.     Captain  Moor  married  (first) 
Margaret  White;    (second)    Elizabeth   White, 
not  a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  born  March,  1738. 
died  November  29,  1828,  daughter  of  William 
White.     Some  of  the  children   were  born  at 
Deerfield,  others  at  Pembroke.     By  first  wife : 
I.  Jane  White,  born  October,   1761,   married 
Theophilus  Stevens.     2.   Isaac,  drummer  boy 
at  Bunker  Hill,  in  his  father's  company.     3. 
James,  married,  June  21,  1787,  Elizabeth  For- 
rest, of  Pembroke;  was  in  his  father's  com- 
pany as  waiter  or  servant  at  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill.     4.  Agnes,  married  David  Robinson,  of 
Deerfield.   5.  Betsey.   6.  Daughter,  died  young. 
Children  of  second  wife :   7.  Daniel,  mentioned 
below.     8.  Peggy,  married  Hunt ;  set- 
tled at  Cayuga  Lake,   New  York.     9.   Polly, 
married  Joseph  Prescott,  of  Deerfield ;  died  at 
Garland,  Maine,  ilarch  26,  1841.     10.  Joseph, 
lost  at  sea.     11.  Abigail,  married   (first)   Gil- 
man  Fellows;  (second)  John  Philbrick ;  lived 
in  Waterville,  Maine ;  she  died  at  Skowhegan, 
Maine,  ninety-eight  years  old,  and  is  buried 
at  Waterville.     12.  Nancy,  born  November  19, 
1781,  married  Captain  James  Moore,  of  Pem- 
broke. 

(Ill)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Captain  Daniel 
(i)  Moor,  was  born  in  Pembroke,  February 
17,  1771,  died  at  Waterville,  Alaine,  August 
30,  1 85 1.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution. 
He  removed  to  Winslow,  now  Waterville, 
Maine,  in  1798.  He  was  a  farmer.  His  three 
eldest  sons  were  engaged  in  boating  and  lum- 
bering, and  kept  a  general  store.  They  built 
river  steamers  by  the  score,  sold  five  in  Cali- 
fornia, two  of  their  steam  vessels  were  bought 
by  Cornelius  \'anderbilt  Sr.  for  use  in  the 
South   American  trade,   and   several   went   to 


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STATl':  OF  MAINE. 


Nova  Scotia.  A  large  mimber  plied  the  Ken- 
nebec, and  it  was  a  common  sight  to  see  half 
a  dozen  at  a  time  at  the  wharf  in  Waterville, 
where  the  Lockwood  mills  now  stand.  In 
1848  there  were  five  steamboats  plying  daily 
between  Waterville  and  Augusta.  Daniel 
Moor  married  Rebecca  Spring,  born  Septem- 
ber 19,  1771,  died  August  14,  1831,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Norcross)  Spring.  Chil- 
dren :  1.  Joseph  March,  born  1798,  married 
Caroline  Barnerville.  2.  Agnes,  1800.  3. 
Julia,  1803.  4.  William,  see  forward.  5. 
Henry,  1807,  graduate  of  Waterville  College, 
entered  United  States  navy,  died  in  Cuba. 
March  21,  1853;  married  Ann  Nora  Lyon,  of 
New  York  city.  6.  Daniel,  i8og,  died  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1890;  married  Mary  Ann  Moore.  7. 
W\man  Bradbury  Sevey,  181 1,  died  March 
10,  1869;  was  a  well-equipped  lawyer;  became 
prominent  in  politics;  was  for  a  time  United 
States  senator  from  Maine;  afterward  consul- 
general  to  Canada,  residing  in  Montreal ;  held 
important  government  position  in  Washington 
City,  where  his  death  occurred  from  eiifects  of 
impure  water ;  married  Clara  Ann  Cook.  8. 
Rebecca  Elizabeth,  1814,  died  March  30,  1902; 
married  Rev.  Freeman  Tilton ;  (second)  Rev. 
Arthur  Drinkwater. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  Moor, 
was  born  March  i,  1805.  died  in  Minneapolis, 
1872.  He  was  in  partnership  with  his  broth- 
ers in  the  ship-building  business,  as  described 
above.  In  the  forties  he  and  his  brother  Dan- 
iel built  a  long  four-story  building  in  which 
they  manufactured  gang-saws,  iron  and  steel 
shovels,  and  operated  a  plaster  mill  and  grist 
mill.  Part  of  the  building  was  also  used  by 
the  firm  for  storage  for  their  extensive  grain 
and  feed  business  and  merchandise.  This 
building  was  lost  by  fire  July  15,  1849,  was 
rebuilt,  and  burned  down  again  in  1859.  After 
the  Maine  Central  railroad  came  to  Water- 
ville from  Portland,  ship-building  and  trading 
on  the  river  collapsed,  and  the  vessels  were 
sent  to  other  ports.  Mr.  Moor  married,  Sep- 
tember ID,  1832,  Cornelia  Ann  Dunbar,  born 
January  9,  1809,  died  October  13,  1883.  daugh- 
ter of  Lemuel,  born  May  3,  1781,  died  August 
16,  1865,  and  Cordana  (Fobes)  Dunbar,  of 
Bridgewater,  born  October  i,  1783,  died  April 
18,  1869.  Her  father  was  son  of  Peter  and 
Alice  (Alger)  Dunbar,  grandson  of  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Hay ward)  Dunbar,  and  great- 
grandson  of  James  and  Jane  (Harris)  Dun- 
bar. James  Dunbar  was  a  son  of  Robert  and 
Rose  Dunbar,  who  came  from  Dunbar.  Scot- 
land, and  settled  in  Hingham,  Massachusetts, 
in  1650.     (Hingham  History.)     Jane  Dimbar 


was  daui;hter  of  Isaac  and  Mercy  (Latham) 
Harris,  granddaughter  of  Robert  and  Susan- 
na (Winslow)  Latham,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  John  and  Mary  (Chilton)  Win- 
slow.  Mary  Chilton  came  to  Plymouth  in  the 
"Mayflower"  with  her  parents,  and  was  the 
first  woman  to  step  ashore  at  the  landing  of  the 
Pilgrims;  she  died  in  Boston,  in  1679.  Chil- 
dren of  William  Moor:  i.  Daniel  Webster, 
born  June  27,  1833,  killed  in  California  by  the 
explosion  of  a  steamboat,  1853.  2.  Ann  Cor- 
nelia, February  16,  1835,  married,  October  24, 
1855.  Dr.  Nathan  G.  H.  Pulsifer  (see  sketch). 
3.  William  Alonzo,  born  November  24,  1838, 
died  in  Minnesota;  married  (first)  Clara  Day; 

(second)   Estella  ;  had  three  children 

by  first  and  one  by  second  wife.  4.  Edwin  B., 
born  June  28,  1842,  died  1892;  married  Clara 
Watson;  (second)  Estella  Parker.  5.  Andrew 
J.,  born  December  22,  1846,  died  in  1895.  Chil- 
dren of  Lemuel  and  Cordana  (Fobes)  Dun- 
bar :  Otis,  married  Mary  Talbot.  Cornelia 
Ann,  married  William  Moor.  Olivia  S.,  born 
September  3,  181 1,  died  April  30,  1836.  Mary 
Haywood,  born  August  27,  1816,  died  Febru- 
ary 27,  1885;  married  a  Mr.  Coffin.  Peter, 
born  Rlay  12,  1821,  died  March  3,  1861  ;■  for  a 
second  wife  married  a  Garcelon.  Edwin,  mar- 
ried Eliza  Joy.  Alice  Alger,  born  October  3, 
1818,  died  September  16,  1900.  Armenia 
Fobes,  born  November  28,  1823,  died  Novem- 
ber 17,  1887.  Lemuel,  born  April  17,  1826, 
died  March  3,  1908. 


This  surname  is  of  French 
PULSIFER  origin,  and  the  progenitor 
was  of  French  Huguenot 
stock.  The  name  is  spelled  Pulsever,  Pulcifer, 
and  in  various  other  ways,  in  the  early  rec- 
ords. The  name  is  not  recognized  by  the 
authorities  as  an  English  surname,  though  t'-e 
first  settler  may  have  been  from  Guernsey,  or 
elsewhere  on  or  near  the  English  char  ae\, 
where  many  French  Protestants  took  rcf  ge. 
The  nearest  French  resemblance  to  the  name 
is  Pulosevits,  the  pronunciation  of  which 
might  give  rise  to  the  spellings  in  vogue  dur- 
ing the  life  of  the  pioneer.  The  coat-of-arms 
is  given  in  Rietstap :  De  gu.  a'une  aigle  de 
profil  d"or  le  vol  leve  perchee  sur  un  serpent 
de  sin.  ondoant  en  forme  de  S  pose  en  bends  la 
tete  en  haut.  Crest :  Un  lion  ramp,  patti  d'or 
et  de  gu.  tenant  de  ses  pattes  un  demi-vol 
de  gu. 

(I)  John  Pulsifer,  immigrant  ancestor,  born 
about  1650-60.  in  France,  found  a  Huguenot 
place  of  refuge  in  England.  He  settled  in 
Gloucester,  [Massachusetts,  in   1680,  according 


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to  tradition,  on  the  spot  still  occupied  by  a 
descendant  on  the  old  road  leading  to  Coffin's 
Beach.  In  1688  he  had  a  parcel  of  land  grant- 
ed by  the  town,  "given  to  the  house  where  he 
then  lived."  He  married,  in  Gloucester,  De- 
cember 31,  1684,  Joanna  Kent.  The  only 
other  early  settler  named  Pulsifer  was  Bene- 
dict Pulsifer,  of  Ipswich,  who  was  probably 
father  or  near  relative  of  John.  The  "His- 
tory of  Gloucester"  says :  "A  tradition  was 
current  some  years  that  a  man  of  this  family 
was  one  of  a  number  of  fishermen  who  were 
taken  from  two  schooners  by  Indians  at 
Sheepscot  river,  Maine,  in  the  early  part  of 
last  (eighteenth)  century.  The  Indians  fas- 
tened the  men  to  stakes  and  then  barbarously 
tomahawked  them  all  except  Pulsifer,  who 
was  suffered  to  live,  and  after  three  months 
confinement  among  the  savages  made  his  es- 
cape and  returned  to  Gloucester.  His  mind 
was  so  much  affected  by  the  awful  sight  of 
the  murder  of  his  companions  and  his  own  suf- 
ferings that  the  mention  of  the  word  Indian 
would  throw  him  into  a  paroxysm  of  fright. 
It  is  said  that  in  one  of  these  paroxysms  he 
wandered  about  in  the  woods  a  week,  having 
fled  thither  upon  being  told  that  some  sav- 
ages were  near  in  a  boat."  Children  of  John 
Pulsifer:  i.  John,  born  November  17,  1685, 
died  August  27,  1707.  2.  Joanna,  October  7, 
1688.  3.  Mary,  April  8,  1691.  3.  Thomas, 
February  10,  1693,  had  homestead  at  Glouces- 
ter; married  (first)  Sarah  Grover,  January  6, 
1726;  (second)  October  29,  1730,  Hannah 
Woodward ;  had  sons  Thomas,  Nathaniel  and 
Samuel,  and  three  daughters ;  Nathaniel,  born 
May  29,  1736,  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war;  married,  1765,  Abigail  Proctor; 
had  five  daughters  in  succession,  then  four 
sons — Nathan,  Samuel,  Epes  and  Isaac ;  th-e 
last  named  Nathan  died  December  25,  1765, 
aged  eighty-six ;  Thomas,  the  father,  died  Sep- 
tember 27,  1778.  4.  Ebenezer,  July  20,  1695, 
married,  February  11,  1720,  Huldah  Silley, 
and  had  several  children.  5.  Mary,  April  2"], 
1697.  6.  David,  January  9,  1701,  see  for- 
ward. 7.  Jonathan,  July  30,  1704,  married. 
December  11,  1729,  Susanna  Hadley ;  children: 
Susanna,  Jonathan,  Samuel. 

(II)  David  (i),  son  of  John  Pulsifer,  was 
born  in  Gloucester,  January  9,  1701.  He  re- 
sided there,  and  married  Mary  .     He 

doubtless  followed  the  sea.  Children  :  David, 
and  three  daughters. 

(III)  David  (2),  son  of  David  Pulsifer,  was 
born  in  Gloucester,  September  29,  1731.  He 
married  a  cousin,  Flannah  Pulsifer,  of  Brent- 
wood, New  Hampshire,  and  settled  in  Poland, 


Maine.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution, 
from  Gloucester,  a  private  in  Captain  Charles 
Smith's  company,  also  matross  in  Captain 
William  Ellery's  company.  First  Artillery, 
1776.  Children:  Jonathan,  and  probably 
others. 

(IV)  Jonathan,  son  of  David  (2)  Pulsifer, 
was  born  in  Gloucester  about  1770.  He  mar- 
ried, August  30,  1789,  Polly  Rust,  born  Sep- 
tember I,  1769,  died  1862.  He  settled  in 
Poland,  Maine,  with  his  father.  Two  chil- 
dren grew  to  maturity :  Moses  Rust,  men- 
tioned below,  and  Benjamin. 

(V)  Moses  Rust,  M.  D.,  son  of  Jonathan 
Pulsifer,  born  in  Poland,  Maine,  September 
10,  1799,  died  January  2"],  1877.  He  was  ed- 
ucated in  the  district  schools,  and  studied  the 
profession  of  medicine.  He  practiced  at  Eden, 
Sullivan  and  Ellsworth,  Hancock  county, 
Maine.  He  married,  1819,  Mary  Strout  Dunn, 
born  May  30,  1801,  died  March  11,  1850, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Josiah  and  Sally  (Barnes) 
Dunn.  Her  father  was  born  September  8, 
1779,  and  died  February  3,  1843.  Her  mother 
was  born  January  11,  1783,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 29,  1858,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Barnes,  who  was  a  representative  to  the  gen- 
eral court  of  Massachusetts ;  a  monument  to 
his  memory  was  erected  in  Norway,  Maine,  by 
the  Universalists.  Children  of  Dr.  Moses  Rust 
Pulsifer;  I.  Josiah  Dunn,  born  1822,  was  the 
first  stenographer  employed  in  the  courts  of 
Maine  for  reporting,  and  held  that  office  a 
number  of  years ;  he  compiled  a  "Digest  of 
Maine"  during  this  period.  2.  Nathan  Gold- 
smith Howard,  January  24,  1824,  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Reuben,  1826.  a  farmer.  4.  Caro- 
line, married  B.  F.  Crocker,  of  Hyannis,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 5.  Augustus  Moses,  June  15,  1834, 
see  forward.  6.  Horatio,  became  a  medical 
practitioner.  7.  Thomas  Benton,  became  a 
physician ;  practiced  at  Yarmouth,  Massachu- 
setts. 8.  Ella  Dunn,  married  Joseph  Bassett, 
of  Yarmouthport,  Massachusetts.  Children  of 
second  wife :  9.  Georgia,  married  Dr.  Charles 
Byron  Porter,  of  Old  Town,  Maine.  10. 
Charles  Leslie,  a  farmer  at  Corinna,  Maine. 

(VI)  Nathan  Goldsmith  Howard,  M.  D., 
son  of  Dr.  Moses  Rust  Pulsifer,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 24,  1824,  in  Eden,  Mount  Desert,  Han- 
cock county,  Maine,  and  died  in  Waterville, 
Maine,  December  3,  1893.  He  attended  the 
common  schools  of  Eden  and  Minot,  Maine, 
and  studied  for  his  profession  at  the  Dart- 
mouth Medical  School,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated with  the  class  of  1847.  He  had  previ- 
ously studied  in  the  offices  of  his  father  and 
Dr.  N.  C.  Harris,  and  assisted  them  in  prac- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


tice.  Immediately  after  receiving  his  degree 
he  began  to  practice  at  Fox  Island,  Maine. 
In  1849,  when  the  gold  fever  broke  out,  he 
went  to  California  as  doctor  in  the  barkentine 
"Belgrade,"  around  Cape  Horn,  the  voyage 
lasting  six  months.  He  remained  in  California 
two  years,  returning  in  185 1  to  Ellsworth, 
where  he  practiced  a  short  time,  then  spent  a 
year  in  study  in  medical  schools  and  hospitals 
in  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  and  from  1852 
to  the  time  of  his  death  practiced  in  Water- 
ville,  Maine.  He  had  a  very  large  practice, 
and  ranked  among  the  leaders  in  his  profes- 
sion for  many  years.  He  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  his  fellow  practitioners  as 
well  as  by  the  families  whom  he  served.  His 
judgment  was  sound,  his  ability  and  fidelity 
remarkable.  He  was  a  director  and  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  People's  National  Bank  of  Water- 
ville,  and  was  president  for  ten  years  imme- 
diately preceding  his  death.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Republican,  and  in  religion  a  Unitarian. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Homoe- 
opathic Association,  and  the  Maine  State 
Homoeopathic  Society.  During  the  last  twen- 
ty years  of  his  life  he  devoted  much  attention 
to  his  real  estate  investments  in  Waterville, 
and  was  prominent  in  financial  circles.  He 
married,  October  24,  1855,  Ann  Cornelia 
Moor,  born  February  16,  1835,  in  Waterville, 
daughter  of  William  and  Cornelia  Ann  (Dun- 
bar) Moor.  (See  Moor  family.)  Children: 
I.  Nora,  born  January  24,  1856,  married 
Frank  Lorenzo  Thayer,  son  of  Lorenzo  Eu- 
gene and  Sarah  (Chase)  Thayer;  children: 
Nathan  Piilsifer,  born  December  20,  1878; 
Lorenzo  Eugene,  born  March  8,  1883 ;  Frank 
L.  Jr.,  born  December  5,  1895.  2.  Cornelia 
Ann,  August  8,  i860,  married  Herbert  L.  Kel- 
ley,  son  of  Herbert  L.  and  Mary(Crie)  Kel- 
ley ;  child  :  Cornelia  Pulsif  er,  born  February 
17,  1897.  3.  William  ]\Ioor,  August  18,  1863, 
see  forward.  4.  Ralph  H.,  August  19,  1865, 
see  forward. 

(VH)  William  Moor,  M.  D.,  son  of  Dr. 
Nathan  G.  H.  Pulsifer,  was  born  in  Water- 
ville, August  18,  1863.  He  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools,  graduated  from  Coburn  Classical 
Institute  in  1878,  from  Colby  University  in 
1882,  and  from  the  Harvard  Medical  School 
in  1887.  He  took  a  post-graduate  course  in 
the  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  Philadelphia, 
in  1890.  He  opened  an  office  and  practiced  for 
a  time  in  Skowhegan,  removed  in  1892  to 
W'ater\^ille.  where  he  practiced  until  1900, 
when  he  again  located  in  Skowhegan.  and  has 
since  been  engaged  in  practice  there.  He 
married,   October   2,    1896,    Helen   G.    Libby, 


daughter  of  Isaac  C.  and  Helen  Libby.  They 
have  one  child,  Libby  William  Moor,  born 
March  27,  1899. 

(VH)  Ralph  H.,  M.  D.,  son  of  Dr.  Nathan 
G.  H.  Pulsifer,  was  born  in  Waterville,  Au- 
gust 19,  1865.  He  attended  the  public  schools; 
prepared  for  college  in  the  Coburn  Classical 
Institute,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1882. 
He  graduated  from  Colby  University  in  the 
class  of  1886.  He  studied  for  his  profession 
at  the  Boston  University  Medical  School, 
where  he  received  his  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
1889.  He  also  graduated  from  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  of  Philadelphia  in  1890.  He 
practiced  for  two  years  in  Waterville,  for  five 
years  in  Vassalborough,  then  at  Skowhegan 
until  1897,  when  he  returned  to  Waterville, 
where  he  is  now  permanently  located.  He 
married,  February  23,  1893,  Grace  Goodridge 
Yeaton,  born  May  23,  1871,  daughter  of  Free- 
man G.  and  Ellen  (Page)  Yeaton,  of  Bel- 
grade. Child,  Page  Moor,  born  August  20, 
1896. 

(VT)  Augustus  Moses,  son  of  Dr.  Moses 
Rust  Pulsifer,  was  born  in  Sullivan,  Hancock 
county,  Maine,  June  15,  1834.  He  received 
his  early  education  at  Hebron  Academy 
(Alaine),  the  IMaine  Wesleyan  Seminary  at 
Kent's  Hill  and  'J^V'aterville  Academy  (Maine), 
and  after  attending  Waterville  College,  now 
Colby  University,  one  year,  entered  Bowdoin 
College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1858.  He 
taught  in  the  public  schools  of  Maine,  Massa- 
chusetts and  New  Hampshire  and  in  1858-59 
was  principal  of  the  Lewiston  Falls  Academy 
in  Auburn,  Maine.  He  read  law  in  the  offices 
of  Record,  Walton  &  Luce  at  Auburn,  iMaine, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Androscoggin  county 
bar  in  September,  i860.  From  that  time  he 
has  practiced  law  in  Auburn.  From  1870  to 
1873  he  was  county  attorney  of  Androscoggin 
county.  He  has  also  been  chairman  of  the 
school  board  of  Auburn  and  president  of  the 
common  council.  He  is  president  of  the  water 
commissioners,  organized  in  1895,  and  was 
one  of  the  projectors  arid  prime  movers  in 
forming  the  Auburn  Aqueduct  Company.  He 
w'as  interested  in  building  Roak  Block,  Au- 
burn, and  in  other  real  estate  investments  in 
that  city.  He  has  been  exceedingly  active  in 
business,  especially  in  promoting  various  cor- 
porate and  public  enterprises.  In  1870  he 
organized  the  Androscoggin  Water  Pow'er 
Company  and  has  been  treasurer  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  This  corporation  owns  and  operates 
the  Barker  Cotton  Alill  in  Auburn,  of  wdiich 
]Mr.  Pulsifer  is  treasurer  and  managing  di- 
rector.   He  is  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Au- 


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burn  public  library  and  has  been  trustee  from 
the  first ;  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
Auburn  Young  Men's  Christian  Association; 
also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Sixth  Street 
Congregational  Church  of  Auburn,  of  which 
he  is  a  member.  He  has  been  prominent  in 
the  temperance  movement.  In  politics  he  has 
always  been  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Maine  Historical  Society  and  of  the  Maine 
Genealogical  Society ;  also  of  the  Home  Mar- 
ket Club  of  Boston.  He  married,  July  2, 
1863,  Harriet,  daughter  of  Hon.  George  W. 
Chase,  of  Auburn.  Children:  i.  Jennie 
Deane,  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  art  depart- 
ment of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University.  2. 
James  Augustus,  attorney  at  law  at  Auburn. 
3.  Dr.  Tappan  Chase,  graduate  of  Columbia 
Medical  College.  4.  Mary  Helen,  graduate  of 
Mount  Holyoke  College.  5.  Chase,  graduate 
of  Bowdoin  College,  class  of  1897.  6.  Nathan, 
graduate  of  Bates  College.  7.  Harriet  Chase, 
graduate  of  the  Auburn  high  school. 


(For  early  generations  see  John  Pulslter  I.) 

(\')  Benjamin,  son  of  Jon- 
PULSIFER  athan  Pulsifer,  was  born  in 
Poland,  Maine,  about  1810, 
and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  harness  maker  and  fol- 
lowed it  during  his  active  life.  He  lived  at 
what  is  called  Minot's  Corner  in  the  town  of 
Poland.  He  married  (first)  Miss  Ford;  (sec- 
ond) ]\Iiss  Chandler,  and  (third)  Mrs.  Bur- 
nett. Children:  i.  Fobes  F.,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Angelina,  widow  of  Timothy  Down- 
ing, of  Auburn,  Maine. 

(VI)  Fobes  P.,  son  of  Benjamin  Pulsifer, 
was  born  in  Poland,  Maine  (now  Minot),  died 
1877  in  Minot.  He  attended  the  common 
schools  and  learned  the  trade  of  his  father — 
harness  making.  Later  he  took  up  shoema- 
king,  which  he  followed  most  of  his  active 
years.  He  married  Adelaide  Bucknam,  born 
in  Massachusetts ;  they  lived  in  Auburn  and 
Minot,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Orpha  E.,  un- 
married. 2.  James  Brown,  mentioned  below. 
(\TI)  James  Brown,  son  of  Fobes  F.  Pulsi- 
fer, was  born  in  Auburn,  October  7,  1875. 
He  was  brought  up  in  the  family  of  an  uncle, 
Aldin  C.  Pulsifer,  where  his  mother  also 
made  her  home,  and  from  early  youth  worked 
at  farming.  After  receiving  a  common  school 
education  in  Auburn  and  three  years  in  Heb- 
ron Academy,  he  worked  for  a  time  in  a  shoe 
factory.  He  then  engaged  in  the  retail  milk 
business  on  his  own  account  and  was  very  suc- 
cessful. After  eight  years  of  prosperous  busi- 
ness he  and  Calvin  C.  Young  bought  the  coal 


and  wood  business  of  Hastings  &  Smith  and 
have  since  conducted  it  under  the  firm  name  of 
Pulsifer  &  Young.  Mr.  Pulsifer  is  a  member 
of  Tranquil  Lodge,  Free  Masons;  of  Bradford 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of  Lewiston 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  of  Kora 
Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  Lewiston.  In  politics 
an  Independent.  He  married,  October  29, 
1900,  Maidee  Parsons,  born  at  Turner,  Maine, 
January  6,  1877,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Mary  (Allen)  Parsons,  of  Auburn.  Child, 
Pauline  Rebecca,  born  March  22,  1907. 


This  old  Scotch  name  has 
MITCHELL  long  been  conspicuous  in 
the  history  of  New  England, 
and  its  bearers  have  been  noted  for  those 
Scotch  qualities  of  industry,  grit  and  stern  ad- 
herence to  principles  which  are  proverbial. 
Many  immigrants  have  come  to  these  shores 
directly  from  Scotland  and  others  from  Eng- 
land, but  the  name  is  of  noted  Scotch  origin 
in  the  early  ages  of  Great  Britain.  In  the 
early  settlement  of  Maine  and  the  development 
of  its  industries,  past  and  present,  it  has  borne 
no  mean  part,  and  is  now  known  honorably 
throughout  the  United  States,  many  of  its  rep- 
resentatives being  descendants  of  those  stern 
old  Maine  pioneers. 

(I)  Experience  Mitchell  was  one  of  the 
forefathers  of  Pilgrims,  as  those  immigrants 
were  called  who  came  to  New  England  in  the 
first  three  vessels ;  he  arrived  at  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  ship  "Ann"  in  1623  and 
had  a  share  in  the  first  division  of  lots  in 
that  year  and  of  the  live  stock  in  1627.  He 
sold  this  place  in  163 1  and  removed  to  Ducks- 
bury,  where  he  purchased  another  in  1650. 
He  was  an  original  proprietor  of  Bridgewa- 
ter,  Massachusetts,  but  did  not  remove  thither 
until  late  in  life.  He  died  there  in  1689,  aged 
about  eighty.  His  will  was  made  at  Leyden 
with  the  Pilgrims  and  he  left  a  brother  Thom- 
as, who  lived  and  died  in  Holland.  His  first 
wife  was  Jane,  a  daughter  of  Frances  Cook, 
who  arrived  in  the  "Mayflower"  in  1620.  His 
second  wife  bore  the  same  baptismal  name, 
but  her  family  name  is  unknown.  His  will 
and  other  documents  show  the  names  of  the 
following  children  :  Thomas.  John,  Jacob,  Ed- 
ward. Elizabeth,  Mary,  Sarah  and  Hannah. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Experience  and  J\lary 
Mitchell,  was  probably  born  in  the  old  world 
and  resided  at  Dartmouth,  now  Fairhaven, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  died  in  1675.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  was  ensign  of  the 
military  company,  and  was  killed  with  his  wife 
by  the  Indians  while  they  were  on  their  way 


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in  the  early  morning  to  the  garrison.  Their 
children  had  been  placed  in  the  garrison  the 
night  before,  and  thus  escaped  the  massacre. 
Thev  were  Jacob,  Thomas  and  Mary.  Edward 
Mitchell,  a  younger  brother  of  John,  who  was 
then  childless,  took  and  reared  these  children 
in  Dridgewalcr.  The  daughter  was  married 
in  1696 "to  Samuel  Kingman.  Jacob  Mitchell's 
wife,  to  whom  lie  was  married  in  1666,  was 
Susanna,  daughter  of  Thomas  Pope,  of  Plym- 
outh. 

(III)  Jacob  (2),  eldest  child  of  Jacob  (i) 
and  Susanna  (Pope)  Mitchell,  was  born  about 
1668  and  resided  in  Bridgewater.  He  mar- 
ried Deliverance,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth Kingman,  of  West  Bridgewater,  and 
granddaughter  of  Henry  Kingman,  of  Wey- 
mouth, where  he  was  made  a  freeman  in  1636. 
She  was  born  in  1676  and  lived  but  a  short 
time  after  her  marriage.  Soon  after  her  death 
Jacob  Mitchell  removed  to  Kingston,  Rhode 
Island,  where  he  married  (second)  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Cushman.  He  was  a  black- 
smith and  sold  out  his  establishment  in  Kings- 
ton in  1728  and  removed  to  North  Yarmouth, 
Maine,  where  he  died  about  1744.  One  child, 
Jacob,  was  born  in  Bridgewater.  Others  in 
Kingston. 

(IV)  Jacob  (3),  eldest  child  of  Jacob  (2) 
and  Deliverance  (Kingman)  Mitchell,  was 
born  January  10,  1697,  in  Bridgewater,  fol- 
lowed his  father  to  North  Yarmouth  in  1743, 
and  died  there  December  i,  1784.  He  was 
elected  a  deacon  at  the  church  at  North  Yar- 
mouth, July  10,  1745.  He  was  married  (first) 
in  1 72 1  to  Mary  Howland,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  Mary  and  John.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Rachel  (Lewis)  Gushing,  who  was  born 
June  19,  1694,  and  died  March  15,  1768,  a 
daughter  of  John  Lewis.  The  records  of  North 
Yarmouth  give  the  following  children  :  David, 
Rachel,  Jacob  and  Sarah.  The  family  records 
give  the  birth  of  the  next  mentioned  as  Yar- 
mouth, Massachusetts.  He  was  undoubtedly 
the  son  of  Jacob  and  Rachel  (Lewis)  Mitchell, 
born  during  a  temporary  residence  in  Yar- 
mouth, which  was  then,  of  course,  a  part  of 
Massachusetts. 

(V)  John,  undoubtedly  son  of  Jacob  (3) 
and  Rachel  (Lewis)  (Gushing)  Mitchell,  was 
born  in  1733  in  Yarmouth,  Massachusetts,  and 
settled  in  Unity,  Maine,  when  it  was  a  wilder- 
ness. He  was  a  farmer,  merchant  and  local 
magistrate  and  took  an  active  interest  in  the 
development  of  the  town  and  the  advancexnent 
of  church  work  and  education.  He  erected 
a  saw  and  grist  mill  and  operated  them  until 
he  turned   them  over  to  his  son,   Isaac,  who 


succeeded  him  in  business.  He  was  religiously 
trained,  maintained  a  high  character  and  at- 
tained an  honorable  position  in  that  part  of  the 
state  where  he  resided.  He  was  so  set  in  his 
religious  belief  that  he  would  not  allow  food 
to  be  cooked  in  his  house  on  Sunday.  He 
held  an  office  in  the  revolutionary  army.  He 
married  Mary  Vickery  Weston,  a  native  of 
England,  who  came  to  America  a  short  time 
before  her  marriage.  No  record  appears  of 
their  children,  but  the  family  account  makes 
the  next  mentioned  their  son. 

(VI)  Isaac,  fourth  son  of  John  and  Mary 
Vickery  (Weston)  Mitchell,  was  born,  lived 
and  died  in  Unity.  He  followed  his  father's 
line  of  occupation,  belonged  to  the  same 
church  and  maintained  a  similar  interest  in 
municipal  and  educational  matters.  He  re- 
built and  enlarged  the  Mitchell  mills  as  they 
were  called,  and  filled  every  elective  office  in 
the  town,  being  for  many  years  chairman  of 
the  board  of  selectmen.  He  built  the  house 
now  occupied  by  Silas  Either  near  L'nity  Pond 
at  Bither's  Mills  and  his  children  were  born 
there.  While  breaking  a  colt  he  was  thrown 
against  a  rail  of  the  bridge  near  his  home  and 
was  so  seriously  injured  as  to  cause  his  death. 
He  married  Hannah  Vickery,  of  Unity,  and 
their  children  were :  Isaac,  Reuben,  Happy, 
Sybil,  Lydia,  Susan,  Solomon  Stuart.  James 
Madison,  Rufus  B.  and  Eliza  W. 

(VII)  Solomon  Stuart,  third  son  of  Isaac 
and  Hannah  (Vickery)  Mitchell,  was  born  in 
Unity,  1807,  and  died  at  Troy,  1850.  He  fol- 
lowed the  occupation  of  his  father  and  grand- 
father and  was  a  farmer  and  millman  in 
Unity.  His  education  was  what  was  acquired 
at  home  and  in  the  town  and  in  high  or  graded 
schools.  He  lost  his  life  by  exposure  in  run- 
ning his  mills,  dying  before  he  was  thirty  years 
of  age.  He  was  a  member  of  the  local  military 
company,  and  in  politics  was  a  Whig,  but  he 
held  no  public  offices.  He  married  Lucinda 
Tyler,  who  was  born  in  Dixmont,  and  died  at 
Unity  in  1846,  daughter  of  Major  Roland  and 
Sallie  Tyler,  of  Hampden.  Roland  Tyler  was 
a  son  of  General  Ebenezer  Tyler,  of  Attleboro, 
Massachusetts,  who  took  part  in  the  battle  of 
Lexington ;  was  an  officer  in  the  ]\Iassachusetts 
military  forces  during  the  revolution  :  attained 
the  rank  of  major  general  in  the  military  es- 
tablishment of  Massachusetts ;  was  a  member 
of  the  general  court  of  that  state  for  several 
terms,  and  always  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
public  aflfairs,  educational,  political  and  mili- 
tary. The  children  of  Solomon  Stuart  and 
Lucinda  (Tyler)  Mitchell  were:  ^^'ilfred  A., 
who  was  killed  at  Port  Hudson,  Louisiana,  in 


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the  civil  war ;  Roland  T.,  who  resides  in  Sac- 
ramento, California ;  and  Henry  L.,  who  is 
next  mentioned. 

(VIII)    Henry   Lyman,   youngest   child   of 
Solomon  Stuart  and  Lucinda  (Tyler)   Mitch- 
ell, was  born  in  Unity,  February  6,  1845.    He 
attended  the  town  schools,  private  schools  and 
high  schools  in  several  different  towns,  Corin- 
na  Academy  for  several  years,  and  was  a  pri- 
vate   student    under   the    instruction   of    Pro- 
fessors E.   E.   Small,  Isaac  W.  Gates  and  J. 
H.  Sawyer,  all  graduates  from  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, and  of  the  best  teachers  turned  out  by 
that  college.     He  was  left  alone  in  the  world 
when  under  five  years  old,  without  money  or 
friends  to  assist  him,  and  had  early  knowledge 
of  the  many  trials  and  disappointments  that 
fall   to  a  boy  in  those  circumstances,  yet  he 
made  the  acquisition  of  the  best  education  pos- 
sible his  sole  aim,  and  constructed  a  foundation 
upon  which  he  could  stand  and  defend  him- 
self, for  he  had  to  defend  himself,  as  he  had 
no  one  to  rely  on,  no  one  to  care  for  or  en- 
courage him,  and  very  many  who  sought  to 
push  him  back  or   drag  him  down.     But  in 
spite     of     misfortune     and     opposition,     and 
strengthened  by  the  efforts  he  was  compelled 
to  make,  he  succeeded  and  acquired  in  youth 
a  training  that  has  served  him  well  through 
life.     For  two  years  he  was  assistant   under 
Professor    Sawyer   at   Corinna.      In    1865    he 
began  the  study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  ;\Iaine  bar  in  1870,  United  States  circuit 
court  in  1880,  and  United  States  court  of  ap- 
peals, 1891.    Since  his  admission  to  the  bar  of 
Maine  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession   in   Bangor,   where  he   has   at- 
tained a  leading  position  as  a  lawyer.    In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican,  and  began  to  march 
for  Republican   candidates   four  years   before 
he  became  a  voter.    He  never  aspired  to  public 
offices  other  than  in  the  line  of  his  profession 
as  a  lawyer.     He  was  elected  ten  consecutive 
years  to  the  office  of  attorney  for  the  city  of 
Bangor,    without    canvassing    for    office,    and 
while  he  held  that  position  the  Piscataquis  rail- 
road, running  from  Bangor  to  Greenville,  in 
which  the  city  of  Bangor  had  a  two-million- 
dollar  interest,  was  disposed  of.    The  railroad 
excise  tax  on  the  European  North  American 
railway,  in  which  the  people  of  Bangor  held 
$i,goo.ooo   in   securities   which  had   not  been 
taxed   for  several  years,  was  restored  b_v  his 
efforts :  the  celebrated  case  relating  to  the  use 
of   the   "Hersey   Trust    Fund,"    so   called   for 
the  erection  of  a  new  city  hall,  was  disposed 
of  in  favor  of  the  city,  requiring  a  special  act ; 
a  new  law  was  passed  by  the  legislature,  pla- 


cing the  police  force  upon  permanent  basis ; 
the  fire  department  was  reorganized ;  as  well 
as  many  other  matters  of  importance  to  the 
people  of  the  city.  In  military  affairs  Mr. 
Mitchell  has  long  been  active.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Maine  Cavalry  Volunteers; 
adjutant  of  the  Second  Maine  Volunteers; 
colonel  of  the  Second  Maine  Regiment,  M.  V. 
M. ;  and  for  several  years  brigadier  general, 
commanding  the  First  Brigade,  M.  V.  M.  In 
religious  faith  he  is  an  Independent  Congrega- 
tionalist  (Unitarian).  He  was  a  member  of 
the  standing  committee  fifteen  years,  and 
chairman  of  the  committee  ten  years.  In  1895 
General  Mitchell  organized  the  Penobscot 
Loan  and  Building  Association,  which  has 
done  a  large  and  flourishing  business.  He  is 
secretary  and  director  of  the  company.  He  is 
a  past  chancellor  of  Norembega  Lodge,  No.  5, 
now  Condeskeag,  No.  53,  Knights  of  Pythias ; 
past  master  workman  of  Bangor  Lodge,  No. 
7,  Ancient  Order  United  Workmen ;  and  past 
post  commander  of  Hannibal  Hamlin  Post, 
No.  65,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

Henry  L.  Mitchell  married,  September  22, 
1880,  in  Albion,  ]\Iaine,  Emma  L.  Ryder,  who 
was  born  in  Washington,  Maine,  and  educated 
in  the  town  and  private  schools  and  in  the  La- 
dies' Boarding  School  at  Brunswick.  Her 
father,  Robert  E.  Ryder,  a  practicing  physician 
and  surgeon,  held  every  municipal  office  he 
could  be  induced  to  accept,  was  twice  a  mem- 
ber of  the  house  of  representatives,  and  twice 
elected  to  the  senate.  He  rendered  no  militarj' 
service,  but  took  a  very  active  part  in  looking 
after  the  welfare  of  the  Union  soldiers  in 
the  war  of  the  rebellion.  Many  of  Mrs. 
Mitchell's  ancestors  were  celebrated  in  the  line 
of  their  calling  as  editors,  doctors  and  law- 
yers. Her  mother  was  Emily  E.  (Rust)  Ry- 
der, a  descendant  of  Henry  Rust,  the  progeni- 
tor of  the  Rust  family  in  America,  who  came 
from  Hingham,  Norfolk  county,  England,  in 
1623,  and  settled  in  Hingham,  Massachusetts. 
Mrs.  Mitchell  met  with  a  very  serious  acci- 
dent six  months  prior  to  her  marriage,  which 
left  her  an  invalid  for  life,  but  she  has  borne 
up  under  her  sufferings,  bright  and  cheerful, 
and  looked  on  the  fair  side  of  life  with  patient 
resignation,  and  with  the  assurance  that  her 
trials  and  sufferings  in  this  life  will  fit  her 
for  the  hereafter. 


The  name  of  Mitchell  was 
AIITCHELL     well  known  in  this  country 

in  the  early  part  of  the  sev- 
enteenth century.  Paul  Mitchell  came  dver 
with  John  Winter,  and  died  in  1654.     Captain 


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John  Mitchell  married  the  widow  of  Hugh 
Gunnison  and  died  in  1664.  He  was  of  Smut- 
tynose  Island  in  1660. 

(I)  Christopher  Mitchell  is  mentioned  in 
the  court  records  May  21,  1660.  His  house 
at  the  head  of  Braveboat  Harbor  is  mentioned 
in  the  deed  of  April  22,  1665.  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Joan  Andrews, 
who  was  bo'rn  about  1641,  as  shown  by  a  depo- 
sition. He  administered  the  estate  of  his 
brother-in-law,  John  Searle,  in  1675.  Widow 
Sarah  was  administratrix  of  his  estate  March 
13,  1686.  Incidental  statements  in  deeds  and 
town  records  assign  him  the  following  fam- 
ily: I.  William,  married  (first)  Honor ; 

(second)  Elizabeth  Tenney.  2.  Christopher, 
thrice  married.  3.  Richard,  see  forward.  4. 
Joseph,  married  Joanna  Couch.  5.  Robert, 
married  Sarah  Deering.  6.  Elizabeth,  married 
(first)  John  Tenney;  (second)  Samuel  John- 
son. 

(II)  Richard,  third  son  and  child  of  Chris- 
topher and  Sarah  (Andrews)  Mitchell,  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Joanna 
(Deering)  Couch.  Their  children  were:  i. 
John,  born  May  14,  1701.  2.  Sarah,  July  9, 
1702,  married,  April  4,  1723,  Thomas  Adams, 
of  York.  3.  Joanna,  February  19,  1704.  4. 
Joseph,  "oldest  son"  in  1756,  was  made  admin- 
istrator of  his  father's  estate  July  12  of  that 
year;  married  Isabella  Bragdon.  5.  William, 
see  forward.  6.  Richard,  married  (first)  Hul- 
dahWeare;  (second)  Mary  (Deering)  Jones. 
7.  Hannah,  married  Captain  Robert  Oram.  8. 
Mary,  married,  January  29.  1729-30,  Captain 
Solomon  Mitchell.  9.  Temperance,  married 
William  Rackliff.     Published  June  16,  1739. 

(III)  William,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Richard  and  Sarah  (Couch)  Mitchell,  married 
(first),  published  February  27,  1741,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Peter  Weare,  of  North  Yarmouth. 
She  renewed  the  covenant  July  15,  1751,  and 
had  daughter  Lucy  baptized.  He  married 
(second).  May  9,  1756,  Sarah  Sellers,  of 
York.  October  3,  1759,  Jacob  Brown,  of 
North  Yarmouth,  was  made  guardian  of  Dan- 
iel, Sarah  and  Lucy  Mitchell,  children  of  Sarah 
Mitchell,  deceased,  who  was  the  daughter  of 
Peter  Weare.  William  Mitchell's  will,  dated 
June  18,  1784,  probated  September  13,  1788, 
mentions  wife  Sarah  and  children :  Daniel ; 
Sarah,  unmarried  in  1790;  Lucy,  baptized  July 
15,  1751,  married,  February  27,  1772,  Reuben 
Brown,  of  North  Yarmouth ;  Mary,  unmarried 
in  1790;  Lydia,  unmarried  in  1790;  William. 

aV)  William  (2),  youngest  child  of  Will- 
iam (1)  and  Sarah  Mitchell,  was  born  about 
1753.    He  was  the  executor  of  his  father's  will, 


and  was  a  revolutionary  soldier.  He  lived  at 
Braveboat  Harbor  and  died  March  19,  1827. 
He  married,  January  i,  1776,  Susanna  Foy, 
born  1753,  died  November  20,  1836.  His  chil- 
dren in  1838  were:  i.  Joseph,  married  Han- 
nah Nelson ;  died  without  issue,  January  6, 
1837.  2.  Charles,  see  forward.  3.  Susanna, 
married  Andrew  W.  Black.  4.  Martha,  mar- 
ried, about  1812.  Henry  Black  or  Blake.  5. 
Richard,  married  Esther  Williams. 

(Y)  Charles,  second  son  and  child  of  Will- 
iam (2)  and  Susanna  (Foy)  Mitchell,  was 
born  about  1783,  died  July  23,  1850.  Fie  mar- 
ried Olive  Ingersoll,  born  November  14,  1780, 
died  February  13,  1864.  Their  children:  i. 
Captain  Charles,  born  1812,  drowned  off  Rye, 
New  Hampshire,  August  31,  1855.  He  mar- 
ried   Sarah ,    and    had    children :      i. 

Charles,  married  Sarah  Moggrage  ;  ii.  Frances, 
married,  November  27,  1853,  Elias  Bowdy.  2. 
Captain  Horace,  born  182 1,  died  July  11,  1889; 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Josiah  Tobey, 
and  had  children :  i.  Miriam,  married,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1861,  Robert  Billings;  ii.  Jane,  mar- 
ried Charles  Mills,  of  Kittery.  3.  Reuben,  see 
forward.  4.  Hannah,  married  John  Parrott. 
5.    Sally,   married   Benning   More.     6.   Olive, 

married  (first)  More;  (second) 

Tendel. 

(VI)  Reuben,  third  son  and  child  of  Charles 
and  Olive  (Ingersoll)  Mitchell,  was  born  in 
Kittery  Point,  June  13,  1824.  His  earlier 
years  were  spent  in  the  calling  of  a  fisherman, 
having  had  at  one  time  a  number  of  fishing 
vessels  in  his  charge.  Later  he  worked  in  the 
navy  yard  as  a  riveter,  and  in  this  occupation 
he  contracted  a  cold  which  developed  into 
pneumonia  and  resulted  in  his  death,  August 
30,  1893.  He  was  a  stanch  supporter  of  Re- 
publican principles,  a  member  of  the  Free  Bap- 
tist church,  and  of  the  Order  of  the  Golden 
Cross.  He  married,  June  27,  1846,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Olive  ( Eaton )  Say- 
ward,  of  Wells.  Their  children  were:  i. 
George  W.,  born  March  12,  1849,  married, 
1873,  Abbie  Getchell,  of  Kittery.  2.  Horace, 
see  forward.  3.  Arabella,  September  7,  1859, 
married,  April  6,  1885,  Herbert  C.  Baker.  4. 
Phila,  March  22,  1862,  died  July  26,  1872. 

(VII)  Hon.  Horace,  second  son  and  child 
of  Reuben  and  Hannah  (Say ward)  Mitchell, 
was  born  in  Kittery,  March  13,  1857.  After 
an  elementary  education  received  in  the  district 
and  high  schools  he  spent  two  years  in  coast- 
ing. Upon  his  return  to  his  home  his  educa- 
tion was  resumed  at  Kittery  high  .school  and 
continued  at  the  New  Hampton  Literary  In- 
stitute and   Business   College.     The  thorough 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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training  he  received  in  these  institutions  en- 
abled him  to  immediately  engage  in  teaching, 
which  he  followed  successfully  for  thirty-four 
terms.     He  then  accepted  a  clerkship  in  the 
Marshall   House  at  York   Harbor,   where   he 
remained  for  three  years.     In  this  new  occu- 
pation he  achieved  success  and  filled  a  similar 
position  in  the  Wentworth  at  New  Castle.  New 
Hampshire,   for   one   year,   subsequently   con- 
ducting the  Pocahontas  of  Gerrish  Island  for 
five  years.    He  now  formed  the  plan  of  build- 
ing a  summer  house   according  to   what   his 
ideal  of  a  summer  hotel  should  be.    He  bought 
the  old  Plill  House,  and' in  1890  erected  on  the 
site  the  Champernowne.     This  being  supplied 
with    the    best    accommodations,    enables    its 
guests  to  thoroughly   enjoy  the  pleasures  of 
a  summer  vacation.     It  is  furnished  with  all 
modern  improvements  and  has  ample  facilities 
for  boating  and  bathing,  in  addition  to  pleas- 
ant walks  and  other  amusements.     Caring  for 
his  guests  so  generously,  j\Ir.  Mitchell  has  be- 
come one   of  the  most   popular   landlords   on 
the  coast,  and  his  house  takes  its  place  among 
the  most  enjoyable  resorts  in  New  England. 
He  purchased  and  succeeded  to  the  business  of 
Frank  E.  Rowell,  attorney,  in  1901.     In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  has  been 
an  able  leader  of  his  party  in  the  district.     He 
was  nominated  to  the  office  of  state  senator 
by  acclamation  and  elected  in  1895  for  a  term 
of  two  years  by  a  large  majority.     He  was 
president  of  the  school  board  for  two  years ; 
postmaster  under  President  Harrison's  admin- 
istration ;  represented  Kittery  in  the  house  of 
representatives   in    1891 ;    represented    Kittery 
and  Eliot  in  1893 ;  superintendent  of  schools, 
1898-99;  in   1896  the  governor  of  Maine  ap- 
pointed him   a  commissioner  to  examine  the 
state    treasurer's    accounts,    and    in    1897    he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  same  commission. 
He  was  largely  instrumental  in  forming  Kit- 
tery Water  District  in   1907,  and  is  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees.     One  of  the  trustees 
of  the  Robert  W.  Trail  Academy  and  a  dele- 
gate to  the   National  convention  at  Chicago, 
1908.      He   is    connected    with    the   following 
organizations :    Member  of  Naval  Lodge,  No. 
184,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Kittery ;  Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
of  South  Berwick ;  Bradford  Commandery,  of 
Biddeford,  Maine ;  grand  senior  deacon  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Maine :  past  master  of  Naval 
Lodge ;  past  grand  of  Riverside  Lodge ;  past 
patriarch  of  Dirigo  Encampment,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Kittery ;  organized 
Constitution    Lodge,    Knights    of   Pythias,   of 
Kittery,    in    1883,   and   is   past   chancellor   of 


same ;  first  grand  commander  and  grand  keep- 
er of  the  records  of  the  Order  of  the  Golden 
Cross  of  the  State  of  Maine ;  member  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  December  24,  1884,  Lucy  A.,  who 
died  in  1900,  daughter  of  Aaron  Frost,  of 
Pembroke,  Maine.  They  had  one  child,  Ethel 
May,  born  in  1888,  who  was  educated  in  the 
high  school  of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire, 
and  is  now  a  student  at  Wellesley  College. 
Hon.  Horace  Mitchell  married  (second),  De- 
cember 25,  1901,  M.  Gertrude,  daughter  of 
James  E.  Chase,  and  has  one  son,  Horace  Jr., 
born  Jime  29,   1904. 


This  family,  which  came  or- 
MAYBURY     iginally    from    the    north    of 

Ireland  to  Massachusetts, 
subsequently  established  themselves  in  the  wil- 
derness of  the  province  of  Maine,  and  de- 
scendants of  the  original  immigrants  are  now 
quite  numerous. 

(I)  About  the  year  1730  William  Maybury, 
accompanied  by  his  family,  departed  from 
what  appeared  to  be  the  scene  of  perpetual 
religious  strife  in  the  north  of  Ireland  to 
seek  a  home  in  America,  where  liberty  of  con- 
science was  unmolested,  and  upon  his  arrival 
here  settled  in  Marblehead,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  and  during  his  ten 
years'  residence  there  he  acquired  considerable 
property.  In  1740  he  became  one  of  the 
grantees  of  New  Marblehead,  Maine,  which 
was  afterward  incorporated  as  the  town  of 
Windham,  and  was  the  second  settler  in  that 
plantation.  He  located  upon  home  lot  number 
twenty-seven,  situated  some  thirty  rods  from 
the  river,  and  he  cleared  a  good  farm.  He 
was  the  first  blacksmith  in  Windham,  and  fol- 
lowed his  trade  in  connection  with  farming 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  which  termi- 
nated March  15,  1764.  The  maiden  name  of 
his  wife  was  Bethsheba  Dennis.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  John,  Thomas,  Seafair  (who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Stephen  Manchester),  Nancy 
(who  married  Gershom  Winship),  and  Rich- 
ard. 

(II)  Captain  Richard,  son  of  William  and 
Bethsheba  (Dennis)  Maybury,  was  born  in 
Marblehead  about  1737.  He  was  reared  at  the 
homestead  in  Windham,  and  with  the  ardor 
and  patriotism  of  his  liberty-loving  race  en- 
tered the  Continental  army  for  service  in  the 
revolutionary  war.  He  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain of  the  Windham  company  February  8, 
1775,  subsequently  serving  as  such  on  Colonel 
Ebenezer  Francis'  regiment.  He  shared  in  the 
hardships,    adversities    and    victories,    partici- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


pated  in  the  capture  of  Ticonderoga  and  under 
General  Washington  at  Valley  Forge.  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1756,  he  married  Martha  Bolton,  of 
Falmouth,  Maine;  children:  i.  Mary,  born 
November  i,  1756,  married  Edward  Anderson. 
2.  William,  December  12,  1758.  3.  Thomas, 
May  21,  1761.  4.  Bethsheba,  November  13, 
1763,  married  Abijah  Purington.  5.  Anna, 
February  9,  1766,  died  in  infancy.  6.  Rich- 
ard, see  next  paragraph.  7.  Anna,  November 
30,  1769,  married  Ezekiel  Jordan,  whose  line 
of  descent  was  Dominicus-5,  Nathaniel-4, 
Dominicus-3,  Dominicus-2,  Rev.  Robert-i  (see 
Jordan).  8.  Daniel,  March  4,  1773.  9.  Ed- 
ward, September  9,  1775.  10.  Martha,  Sep- 
tember, 1778,  married  John  Lakey. 

(III)  Richard  (2),  third  son  and  sixth  child 
of  Captain  Richard  (i)  and  Martha  (Bolton) 
Maybury,  was  born  April  25,  1767.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Jordan. 

(IV)  Jordan,  son  of  Richard  (2)  and  Mary 
(Jordan)  Maybury,  married  Sally  Hodgdon 
and  resided  in  Casco  and  Peru,  Maine. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  only  child  of  Jordan  and 
Sally  (Hodgdon)  Maybury,  was  born  in  Cas- 
co, July  4,  1827.  In  childhood  he  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Peru,  where  he  attended  the 
district  school  and  engaged  in  farming.  From 
Peru  he  moved  to  Turner,  Maine,  and  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  butchering  business.  In 
politics  he  was  independent.  He  attended  the 
Universalist  church.  December  31,  1849,  he 
married  Annarilla  C.  Stockbridge,  born  in 
Dixfield,  Maine,  October  16,  1828,  died  in  May, 
1903.  (N.  B.  The  Stockbridges  of  Maine  are 
descended  from  John  Stockbridge,  an  immi- 
grant from  England  in  1635,  who  settled  in 
Scituate,  Massachusetts.)  She  was  the  mother 
of  five  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 
Those  who  lived  to  maturity  are :  Frank  D., 
William  Jordan  and  Edgar  M. 

(VI)  William  Jordan,  M.  D.,  son  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Annarilla  C.  (Stockbridge)  May- 
bury, was  born  in  Peru,  March  27,  1858.  His 
early  education  was  acquired  in  the  public 
schools,  including  the  Turner  high  school, 
from  which  latter  he  entered  the  Westbrook 
Seminary.  His  professional  preparations  were 
completed  at  the  Medical  School  of  Maine 
(Bowdoin  College),  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1886,  and  he  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  at  Springvale  in  the  town  of  San- 
ford,  remaining  there  six  years.  About  the 
year  1892  he  removed  to  Saco,  where  he  is 
still  residing,  and  he  has  attained  prominence 
both  as  a  physician  and  as  a  citizen.  While 
residing  in  Sanford  Dr.  Maybury  was  super- 
intendent of  schools.     In  Saco  he  has  served 


upon  the  board  of  health,  was  United  States 
pension  examiner  during  President  Harrison's 
administration,  and  from  1897  to  1900  served 
as  surgeon-general  on  Governor  Powers'  staflE 
with  the  rank  of  colonel,  having  charge  of  the 
sick  soldiers  of  the  Maine  regiments  during 
the  Spanish-American  war.  For  several  years 
he  was  a  director  of  the  Saco  National  Bank. 
In  1900  he  was  mayor  of  Saco,  rendering  ex- 
cellent service  in  that  capacity,  and  in  1903 
represented  that  city  in  the  lower  house  of  the 
state  legislature.  In  1903  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Maine  board  of  registration  of 
medicine,  and  two  years  later  was  chosen  sec- 
retary, which  position  he  now  holds.  In  addi-' 
tion  to  various  medical  bodies  he  is  a  member 
of  Saco  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  York  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
Bradford  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
which  latter  he  is  past  eminent  commander. 
In  his  religious  belief  he  is  a  Universalist. 

On  July  4,  1885,  Dr.  Maybury  married  Ella 
W.  Berry,  daughter  of  Dexter  W.  and  Emma 
(Rogers)  Berry,  of  Phippsburg,  Maine.  Dr. 
and  ]\Irs.  Maybury  have  one  son,  Robert,  born 
in  Springvale,  November,  1887,  and  is  now 
a  student  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, Boston. 


A  British  soldier  by  the  sur- 
LEONARD     name  of  Leonard  was  at  the 

siege  of  Louisburg,  and  on 
the  return  of  the  troops  to  New  England  went 
to  Taunton,  Bristol  county,  in  1740.  Having 
received  a  grant  of  land  in  Nova  Scotia  from 
the  Crown  for  services  in  the  expedition 
against    the    French,    he    settled    upon    it    in 

1755- 

(I)  Thomas  Leonard,  son  of  this  British 
soldier,  born  in  Windsor,  Nova  Scotia,  mar- 
ried Christine  MacNab,  an  immigrant  from 
Scotland. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Thomas  and  Christine 
(MacNab)  Leonard,  was  born  in  Windsor, 
Nova  Scotia,  in  1783.  He  was  a  shoemaker 
all  his  life.  He  married  Mary  Smith ;  chil- 
dren :  Ann,  Maria,  Mary,  Bertha,  William, 
Thomas  (q.  v.)  and  John.  William  Leonard, 
the  father,  died  in  Windsor,  Nova  Scotia,  in 
1848. 

(III)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  William  and 
Mary  (Smith)  Leonard,  was  born  in  Windsor, 
Nova  Scotia,  where  he  learned  the  trade  of 
joiner  and  worked  at  his  trade  up  to  1844, 
when  he  removed  to  Bath,  Maine.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  at 
Bath  united  with  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  was  the  oldest  mem- 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1075 


ber  of  the  parish.  He  married,  in  Windsor, 
Nova  Scotia,  Katherine,  daughter  of  William 
Davis ;  children :  Charles  E.,  a  resident  of 
California;  Fred  C,  who  made  his  home  in 
Bath,  Maine  ;  Flora  ;  Lillian  ;  E.  Randall ;  Jen- 
nie. 

(IV)  E.  Randall,  son  of  Thomas  and  Kath- 
erine (Davis)  Leonard,  was  born  in  Bath, 
Maine,  attended  the  public  schools  of  that 
city  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  began  his 
active  business  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  drug-store. 
In  1894  he  established  a  drug-store  which  he 
carried  on  with  very  profitable  results.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Bath,  and 
was  elected  from  the  seventh  ward  of  the 
city  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen.  He 
was  a  member  of  Solar  Lodge,  F.  A.  M.,  of 
Bath.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Lincoln 
Lodge,  No.  10,  I.  O.  O.  F.  He  was  brought 
up  in  Grace  Episcopal  Church.  He  married, 
May  17,  1899,  Alary  F.,  daughter  of  John  W. 
and  Elizabeth  (Shaw)  Merrill,  of  Freeport, 
Maine ;  child,  Katherine  Elizabeth.  As  his 
wife  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  he  after  his  marriage  attended  with  her 
the  Winter  Street  Congregational  Church,  of 
Bath. 


■The  Heald  family  from  which  is 
HEALD  descended  Perham  S.  Heald, 
postmaster  of  Waterville,  Maine, 
is  of  English  origin,  and  some  of  its  members 
were  pioneer  settlers  at  Concord,  Massachu- 
setts, less  than  fifteen  years  after  the  Puritan 
settlement  at  Plymouth. 

(I)  Major  Ephraim  Heald  was  of  the  New 
Hampshire  branch,  and  came  to  Maine  from 
Temple,  New  Hampshire,  about  1765.  He  is 
credited  with  service  in  the  revolutionary  war. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years,  and 
was  buried  at  T'emple. 

(II)  Ephraim  (2),  son  of  Major  Ephraim 
(l)  Heald,  born  1770,  died  June  29,  1803, 
and  was  buried  at  Bingham,  Maine. 

(III)  Ephraim  (3),  son  of  Ephraim  (2) 
Heald,  born  October  20,  1791,  near  Madison, 
Maine,  died  September  3,  1865,  and  was  buried 
in  Bingham,  Maine.  He  settled  on  Dead  River 
and  cleared  up  a  large  tract  of  land  from  the 
wilderness,  and  on  a  part  of  this  the  Parsons 
Hotel  now  stands.  He  kept  a  tavern  and  also 
engaged  in  farming  and  lumbering.  He  mar- 
ried Katherine  Houghton,  born  October  30, 
1793,  died  July  29,  1869.  Children:  i.  Har- 
riet, born  March  24,  1814,  died  March  17, 
1896.  2.  Susan  D.,  July  15,  1816,  died  De- 
cember 27,  1896.     3.  Ephraim  Harrison,  May 


17,  1818,  died  April  19,  1900.  4.  Thomas  H., 
see  forward.  5.  Alen,  June  21,  1822,  died 
September  22,  1907.  6.  Azel,  September  6, 
1824,  died  February  12,  1904.  7.  Esther,  De- 
cember 26,  1826,  died  August  24,  1908.  8. 
Alva,  May  30,  1829.  9.  Katherine  H.,  August 
10,  1831.     10.  Marcia  A.,  April  18,  1834. 

(IV)  Thomas  H.,  fourth  child  and  second 
son  of  Ephraim  (3)  and  Katherine  (Hough- 
ton) Heald,  born  April  3,  1820,  died  Decem- 
ber II,  1906.  He  was  a  house  carpenter,  and 
also  owned  and  operated  a  grist  mill  at  Madi- 
son and  Solon,  besides  being  engaged  in 
lumbering.  Prior  to  the  civil  war  he  re- 
moved to  Norridgewock,  and  about  1870 
went  to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  contracting  and  building 
until  1880.  That  year  he  went  to  Luden, 
South  Dakota,  and  took  up  a  tract  of  wild 
government  land,  and  opened  up  a  farm,  upon 
which  he  resided  for  about  ten  years.  He 
then  returned  to  Maine,  and  made  his  home 
with  his  son,  Perham  S.  Heald,  until  his  death. 
He  was  captain  of  militia,  holding  a  commis- 
sion under  Governor  Fairchild.  He  was  for- 
merly a  Whig,  and  became  a  Republican  at 
the  organization  of  that  party.  In  religious 
belief  he  was  a  Congregationalist.  He  mar- 
ried,  in    1839,    Mary   A.    Rogers,    died    1904, 

daughter    of    Peter    and (Gilman) 

Rogers.  Her  father  was  a  revolutionary  sol- 
dier, and  in  an  early  day  carried  on  horse- 
back the  mail  between  Waterville  and  Nor- 
ridgewock. Children  of  Thomas  H.  and  Mary 
A.  (Rogers)  Heald:  i.  Payson  T.,  served  in 
civil  war,  in  Company  A,  Nineteenth  Regi- 
ment Maine  Volunteers;  died  from  effects  of 
wound  received  in  battle  of  Gettysburg.  2. 
Perham  S.,  see  forward.  3.  and  4.  Abbie  and 
Emma  A.,  twins.  5.  Daniel  K.  6.  Thomas 
G.  7.  and  8.  Children  died  in  infancy.  9. 
Cora,  deceased. 

(V)  Perham  S.,  second  child  and  second  son 
of  Thomas  H.  and  Mary  A.  (Rogers)  Heald, 
was  born  in  Solon,  Maine,  December  20,  1842. 
Fie  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of 
Norridgewock  and  Skowhegan,  and  subse- 
quently learned  the  trade  of  tailor,  at  Water- 
ville, where  he  worked  for  one  year.  On  Au- 
gust 25,  1862,  he  enlisted  from  Norridgewock 
as  a  private  in  Company  A,  Nineteenth  Regi- 
ment Maine  Volunteers,  with  his  brother,  Pay- 
son  T.  Heald.  His  regiment  was  mustered 
into  the  service  of  the  United  States  at  Bath, 
Maine,  and  joined  the  Second  Corps,  Army  of 
the  Potomac.  He  participated  in  many  of  the 
hard-fought  battles  of  that  splendid  command 
— Fredericksburg,      Chancellorsville.      Gettvs- 


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burg,  Bristow  Station,  Mine  Run,  Spottsyl- 
vania,  River  Po,  North  Anna,  Potomay,  Cold 
Harbor,  Petersburg  and  Jerusalem  Roads.  In 
the  last-named  engagement  he  was  taken  pris- 
oner, June  22,  1864,  and  confined  in  Anderson- 
ville  and  Libby  Prison  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  enduring  all  the  horrible  hardships  of 
those  notorious  prison  pens.  After  his  dis- 
charge from  service,  at  Augusta,  Maine,  in 
1865,  he  located  in  Waterville,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  clothing  business  in  company 
with  E.  N.  Fletcher.  This  partnership  con- 
tinued for  two  years,  when  Mr.  Heald  pur- 
chased Mr.  Fletcher's  interest  and  conducted 
the  business  alone  and  with  much  success  until 
July  I,  1906,  when  he  sold  it  to  the  Heald 
Clothing  Company,  controlled  by  his  son,  Fred 
P.  Heald.  Mr.  Heald  has  for  many  years 
been  prominently  connected  with  corporation 
and  public  afifairs,  serving  as  president  of  the 
Building  &  Loan  Association,  and  director  of 
the  Waterville  Trust  Company.  He  served 
for  three  years  on  the  board  of  assessors ;  as 
a  representative  in  the  state  legislature  1887- 
90,  and  as  state  senator  for  two  terms  begin- 
ning in  1897.  In  all  these  positions  he  has 
acquitted  himself  most  efficiently  and  credit- 
ably. He  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Water- 
ville, July  I,  1906,  by  President  Roosevelt, 
which  position  he  now  occupies.  He  is  a  com- 
rade and  past  commander  of  W.  S.  Heath 
Post,  G.  A.  R. ;  and  is  affiliated  with  Water- 
ville Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  IMasons ;  Ti- 
conic  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  and  St.  Omar  Com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templar.  Politically  he  is 
a  Republican,  and  he  attends  the  Baptist 
church.  He  married,  in  November,  1868, 
IMary  E.  Webb,  born  in  Waterville,  1843,  died 
1894,  daughter  of  Deacon  David  Webb. 

(VI)  Fred  P.,  only  child  of  Perham  S.  and 
Mary  E.  (Webb)  Heald,  was  born  in  1876. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  the 
Coburn  Classical  Institute.  He  entered  his 
father's  store,  and  is  now  manager  of  the ' 
Heald  Clothing  Company.  He  married,  1896, 
Claire  E.  Jackson,  of  Milford,  Maine. 

This  name  is  spelled  various  ways 
ALLEN     in  the  early  records,  such  as  Al- 

lin,  Allyne,  and  otherwise,  and 
had  many  representatives  in  eastern  Massa- 
chusetts at  the  beginning  of  settlement  there. 
There  were  more  than  one  bearing  the  bap- 
tismal name  of  William,  and  these  have  been 
somewhat  confounded  by  various  writers. 

(I)  William  Allen,  American  progenitor  of 
a  numerous   family,  was  a  resident  of  Salis- 


bury, Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1639,  ^"^ 
received  land  there  in  the  first  division  and 
again  in  1640.  He  was  a  house  carpenter, 
and  an  active  and  useful  member  of  the  infant 
colony,  dying  in  Salisbury,  June  18,  1686. 
He  married  (first)  Ann,  daughter  of  Richard 
and  Dorothy  Goodale.  She  died  "about  ye  last 
of  i\Iay."  1678,  and  he  married  (second), 
about  1684,  Alice,  widow  of  John  Roper  and 
John  Dickison.  His  children,  born  of  the 
first  wife,  were  :  Abigail,  Hannah,  Mary,  Mar- 
tha, John,  William,  Benjamin,  Joseph,  Rich- 
ard, Ruth  and  Jeremiah. 

(II)  Captain  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  William 
and  Ann  (Goodale)  Allen,  was  born  August 
13,  1653,  in  Salisbury,  and  was  a  blacksmith 
and  "yeoman."  In  1674  he  was  induced  by  a 
grant  of  land  to  settle  in  Gloucester,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  there  was  urgent  need  of  such 
a  mechanic.  He  proved  an  active  and  useful 
citizen,  serving  on  important  committees,  as 
selectman,  as  representative  in  1705,  and  com- 
manded a  company  of  militia.  In  1675  he  pur- 
chased a  house  and  land  near  the  meeting 
house  in  Gloucester,  and  there  lived  until  his 
death,  October  6,  1724,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
one  years.  He  was  married  (first),  July  29, 
1680,  to  Alice  Griggs,  of  Gloucester,  who  died 
April  26,  1684.  He  was  married  (second), 
November  20,  1684,  to  Rose  Howard,  of  Cape 
Ann,  who  survived  him  three  weeks,  dying 
October  27,  1724.  The  first  wife  was  the 
mother  of  three  children,  and  the  second  of 
fourteen.  Their  names  were :  Joseph,  Jere- 
miah (died  young),  Rachel,  Solomon,  Benja- 
min, son  unnamed,  Thomas,  Anna,  John,  Rose, 
William,  Mary  and  Patience  (twins,  both  died 
young).  Jeremiah,  Samuel,  Zerubbabel  and 
Mary. 

(III)  Captain  Joseph  (2),  eldest  child  of 
Joseph  (i)  and  Alice  (Griggs)  Allen,  was 
born  June  2,  1681,  in  Gloucester,  and  resided 
there  until  his  death,  April  6,  1750.  In  his 
early  years  he  was  a  mariner,  and  in  1720  he 
settled  down  in  his  native  place,  becoming  a 
merchant.  He  evidently  made  good  use  of 
his  observations  while  on  the  sea  and  of  his 
later  opportunities,  his  estate  being  appraised 
after  his  death  at  over  i5,i30  sterling.  He 
owned  much  land  and  eight  negro  slaves,  and 
his  fortune  was  an  ample  one  for  that  day. 
In  old  documents  he  is  styled  "gentleman,"  and 
during  the  last  fifteen  years  of  his  life  "Es- 
quire." He  was  married  in  January,  1707,  to 
RIary  Coit,  who  survived  him  more  than 
twenty-seven  years,  passing  away  September 
12,   1777.     Their  children   were:     Mary,   Jo- 


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seph,  Rachel,  Elizabeth,  Abigail,  William,  Na- 
thaniel, Martha,  Anna,  Susanna  and  Lucy. 

(IV)  Colonel  William  (2),  second  son  of 
Captain  Joseph  (2)  and  Mary  (Coit)  Allen, 
was  born  June  30,  1717,  in  Gloucester,  where 
he  resided"  until  his  family  was  grown.  He 
built  a  large  house  east  of  the  site  of  the  old 
meeting  house,  where  his  fourteen  children 
were  born.  Late  in  life  he  removed  to  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  probably  accompanying  or 
following  some  of  his  children,  and  was  among 
the  first  settlers  there.  No  record  of  his  death 
appears.  He  was  married.  April  11,  1745,  to 
Mary  Osgood,  of  Andover,  Massachusetts,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  :  Mary  (died  young), 
Joseph,  Mary,  William,  Elizabeth,  Dorcas, 
John,  Benjamin,  Nathaniel  Coit,  Aaron  and 
Christopher,  (died  young),  Christopher  and 
Aaron. 

(V)  Joseph  (3),  eldest  son  of  Colonel  Will- 
iam (2)  and  iMary  (Osgood)  Allen,  was  born 
February  24,  1746,  in  Dover.  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  came  to  Piscataqua  Corner  in  Fal- 
mouth in  early  youth  with  parents,  and  died 
and  was  buried  at  Gray,  1847-48.  From  a 
deposition  made  by  Joseph  Allen,  of  Gray, 
county  of  Cumberland,  Maine,  it  is  learned 
that  he  enlisted  in  the  revolutionary  war, 
March  4,  1777,  for  three  years,  joined  Colo- 
nel Alden's  regiment,  and  after  the  death  of 
Colonel  Alden  the  regiment  (Seventh  MaslJi- 
chusetts)  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Brooks. 
He  served  the  period  of  his  enlistment  and 
was  honorably  discharged  at  West  Point,  New 
York,  March  4,  1780.  In  April,  1780,  he  en- 
listed for  eight  months'  service,  joined  Cap- 
tain Pride's  company.  Colonel  Prince's  regi- 
ment, stationed  at  Falmouth,  now  Portland, 
and  was  discharged  at  Portland,  November, 
1780.  At  the  time  of  his  enlistment  he  was 
an  inhabitant  of  Falmouth,  from  whence  he 
removed  to  Gray,  Maine,  March  17,  1835. 
In  his  deposition  subscribed  and  sworn  to 
June  23.  1835,  Mr.  Allen  stated  that  he  never 
received  a  grant  of  land,  or  money  in  lieu 
thereof,  from  the  Commonwealth  of  Massa- 
chusetts, for  his  said  service  in  the  revolution- 
ary war.  In  another  deposition  he  appointed 
Josiah  Hobbs,  of  Falmouth,  his  true  and  lawful 
attorney  to  receive  from  the  land  agent  of  the 
state  of  Maine  such  certificate  as  he  may  issue 
to  him,  in  virtue  of  a  resolve  of  the  said  state, 
passed  March  17,  1835,  entitled  a  "Resolve  in 
favor  of  certain  Officers  and  Soldiers  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  the  Widows  of  the 
deceased  Officers  and  Soldiers,"  to  the  benefit 
of  which  resolve  he  was  entitled.  He  also  ap- 
pointed Harlow  Spaulding,  Esq.,  of  Augusta, 


Maine,  his  attorney  to  receive  from  the  land 
agent  of  the  state  of  Maine  such  certificate  as 
may  be  issued  to  him,  in  virtue  of  said  re- 
solve, and  for  me  and  in  my  name  and  stead 
to  bargain  for,  sell,  dispose  of  and  transfer 
to  any  person,  and  upon  such  terms  as  he  may 
think  best.  Joseph  Allen  married  (first),  De- 
cember 30,  1782,  Mary  Baker;  married  (sec- 
ond) Dorcas  Meserve.  Children:  i.  Emery. 
2.  Andrew.  3.  Joseph.  4.  Josiah.  5.  Otis, 
see  forward.  6.  Daniel,  a  farmer.  Free  Baptist 
preacher,  died  April  9,  1855,  aged  sixty-three 
years,  buried  at  Gray.  Married  (first)  Betsey 
Leighton,  daughter  of  John  and  Leonia  (Saw- 
yer) Leighton,  who  was  buried  at  Gray.  Chil- 
dren:  i.  David,  born  March  15,  1818,  died 
1844,  buried  at  Poland;  ii.  Leonia,  born  June 
23,  1820,  married  Ansel  L.  Libby,  deceased ; 
she  is  now  living  with  daughter  at  Lewiston; 
iii.  Peter  Leighton,  born  October  8,  1822,  died 
June  17,  1897,  aged  seventy-four  years;  buried 
at  Cumberland.  Daniel  married  (second) 
Mary  Fenley,  daughter  of  Abigail  Fenley,  who 
came  from  Scotland  and  who  married  Jere- 
miah Fields.  Mary  (Fenley)  Allen  died  Jan- 
uary 19,  1855,  aged  seventy-seven  years,  and 
was  buried  at  Gray.  Children :  iv.  Betsey, 
died  at  Poland,  October  15,  1842,  aged  seven- 
teen years  ten  months;  v.  Jane,  died  (light- 
ning stroke)  at  Baker  Corner,  Windham;  vi. 
Caroline  M.,  died  October  29,  1853,  aged 
twenty  years  ten  months ;  she  married,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1851.  William  Hancock,  of  Buxton, 
had  one  child,  Georgie  Caroline,  who  married 
Alonzo  Allen.  7.  William.  8.  Hannah.  9. 
Dorcas.  10.  Statira.  11.  Lucy.  12.  Elvira, 
married,  January  10,  1847,  Isaac  Adams.  Jo- 
seph Allen,  father  of  these  children,  had  a  half- 
brother,  Edward  Allen,  of  Gray,  lived  in  Fal- 
mouth, 1826,  and  was  the  father  of  four  chil- 
dren :  Dr.  Nicholas,  Alfred,  Thomas,  Arexine. 
(VI)  Otis,  son  of  Joseph  Allen,  was  born 
in  Windham,  Maine,  and  lived  there  until 
about  1866-67,  when  he  removed  to  West 
Gray,  and  there  died,  in  1872-73,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six.  He  was  a  well-known  farmer. 
He  served  in  the  war  of  1812.  The  name  of 
Otis  Allen  appears  with  the  rank  of  private 
upon  the  roll  of  Captain  Watson  Rand's  de- 
tached company  of  militia  from  the  First  Bri- 
gade, Twelfth  Division,  in  service  at  Forts 
Preble  and  Scammel,  Portland  Harbor,  from 
August  Sth  to  November  5th,  1814,  under  Ma- 
jor George  Rogers,  and  under  supervision  of 
LTnited  States  officers,  were  paid  by  the  L^nited 
States  government.  He  also  served  in  Cap- 
tain Ira  Bartlett's  company  of  militia  in  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel    Samuel     Holland's     regiment 


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raised  in  Hartford,  and  in  service  at  Portland 
from  14th  to  24th  September,  1814  (with 
three  days  additional  for  travel).  Served  as 
a  private.  He  married  Clarissa,  daughter  of 
John  and  Leona  (Sawyer)  Leighton,  of  Cum- 
berland ;  she  was  born  there  1800,  and  died 
1887.  Children:  i.  Mary  Jane,  died  Novem- 
ber 22,  1838,  aged  sixteen  years.  2.  Betsey, 
died  February  12,  1839,  aged  twelve  years. 
3.  Cynthia  A.,  died  October  20,  1842,  aged 
thirteen  years.  4.  Alvin,  died  November  23, 
1858,  aged  twenty-two  years  two  months  seven 
days.  5.  Huldah,  married  John  Dolley ;  lived 
at  South  Windham,  where  both  died ;  two 
daughters  and  one  son.  6.  Alfred  R.,  see  for- 
ward. 7.  William,  married,  and  had  daughter 
who  died  in  infancy ;  he  served  during  the 
entire  civil  war,  in  First,  Tenth  and  Thirtieth 
Maine  regiments,  and  at  close  of  war  died  of 
yellow  fever.  8.  Sarah,  married  (first)  Ama- 
sa  Wentworth,  and  (second)  Alvin  Frank; 
several  children  by  second  marriage ;  lives  in 
Westbrook.  9.  Charles  B.,  died  1905 ;  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Doughty.  10.  Alonzo  P.,  see  for- 
ward. II.  Lovina,  married  Benjamin  EI  well, 
lived  in  Westbrook,  and  both  died  there.  Of 
these  children  there  are  living  only  Sarah, 
aged  seventy-six,  and  Alonzo  P.,  aged  sixty- 
three. 

(VH)  Alfred  R.,  son  of  Otis  and  Clarissa 
(Leighton)  Allen,  died  May  6,  1855.  He 
spent  some  years  as  a  mariner,  then  settled  on 
a  farm  in  Gray,  where  he  resided  several  years, 
and  was  killed  by  an  explosion  while  working 
in  the  South  Windham  powder  mill.  He  mar- 
ried, June  12,  1847,  Salome  Libby,  bom  March 
16,  1824,  died  March  24,  1902,  aged  seventy- 
eight  years  eight  days.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  William  and  Hannah  (Gould)  Libby  (see 
Libby,  VH).  Two  children  were  born  of  this 
union:  William  Alfred,  see  forward.  Cynthia 
Ann,  died  young. 

(VH)  Alonzo  P.,  son  of  Otis  and  Clarissa 
(Leighton)  Allen,  was  born  1845,  married 
Georgie  Caroline  Allen ;  had  son  Edgar,  who 
lives  at  Peaks  Island,  Portland.  In  August, 
1862,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  Alonzo  P.  Allen 
enlisted  as  a  drummer  in  Company  D,  Twen- 
tieth Regiment  Maine  Volunteers.  He  partici- 
pated in  the  battles  of  Antietam,  Fredericks- 
burg, South  Mountain,  Gettysburg,  and  sev- 
eral less  important  engagements,  and  was  dis- 
charged in  1864  for  disability,  due  to  diphthe- 
ria. In  1877  he  enlisted  in  Battery  H,  First 
United  States  Artillery,  at  Fort  Preble,  Maine, 
and  with  which  he  served  ten  years.  He  en- 
listed at  the  recruiting  office  in  Portland, 
Maine,  and  served  at  the  recruiting  stations  at 


Washington  City,  Boston  and  Portland ;  was 
four  years  fife  and  drum  instructor,  and  was 
transferred  to  First  United  States  Infantry, 
in  California,  and  served  several  years  at  Bene- 
cia.  Angel  Island  and  the  Presidio,  San  Fran- 
cisco ;  accompanied  his  regiment  to  Cuba,  and 
served  there  during  the  Spanish-American 
war ;  was  assigned  to  Fifty-ninth  Company, 
Coast  Artillery,  in  Porto  Rico,  and  served  with 
same  until  1904,  when  he  was  honorably  re- 
tired after  thirty  years'  faithful  and  meritori- 
ous service. 

(VIII)  William  Alfred,  only  son  of  Alfred 
R.   and   Salome    (Libby)    Allen,  was  born   in 
Falmouth,  May  8,  1849.     When  si.x  years  old 
he  was  left  to  the  sole  care  of  his  mother,  who 
continued  to  reside  in  her  home  in  Falmouth 
until  i860,  when  she  removed  with  her  son  to 
Portland.       There     he     attended     the    public 
schools  until  1865,  and  then  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Moses  Colley  for  the  purpose  of  learn- 
ing the  trade  of  carpenter.   Mr.  Colley  suffered 
serious  injury  by  the  great  fire  of  1866,  and 
his   apprentice   was   compelled   to   seek   other 
employment.     For   a   time  he  worked   in   the 
market,  and  then  went  with  his  uncle,  Joseph 
G.   Libby,  to  complete  his  knowledge  of  the 
trade  of  carpenter.    In  1868  he  began  learning 
the    trade    of    stair    builder    with    George    L. 
Hooper,  and  remained  one  year.     In  1869  he 
became   superintendent   of  the  plant  of  John 
Edwards,  stair  builder,  of  Marblehead,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  filled  that  position  until  1873. 
In   the   latter  year   he   returned   to    Portland, 
Maine,  and  established  a  business  of  his  own 
on  a  very  modest  scale  on  Preble  street,  as 
a    stair    builder,    his    only    assistant    being    a 
young  apprentice.     The   quality  of  his   work 
created  a  good   demand   for  his  product,   his 
success    surpassed    his    expectations,    and    his 
orders,  before  the  summer  was  over,  demand- 
ed the  assistance  of  three  men.     After  a  time 
he  removed  to  Doten's  mill  on  Cross  street, 
where  he  remained  nine  months,  and  then  went 
to    Brackett's   mill  on   Kenebec   street,   where 
for  a  time  he  was  in  partnership  with  W.  H. 
Stone.     In  July,  1876,  the  mill  burned  to  the 
ground,    Mr.   Allen   having  no   insurance,   he 
lost  all  he  had  invested  there.    He  immediately 
rebuilt  and  continued  his  business  at  that  place 
for  a  number  of  years,  when  he  built  his  first 
mill,  but  still  continued  the  occupancy  of  the 
leased   mill.     In    1888  he  completed   his  own 
mill,  which  was  fifty  feet  by  eighty-seven,  two 
stories  high,  well  equipped,  and  there  he  turned 
out   mantels,    hall    work   and    furnishings    for 
in  forty-six  days  Mr.  Allen  had  a  three-story 
builders.     In    1890,  this  mill  was  burned,  but 


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building,  iifty  by  eighty-seven  feet  in  dimen- 
sions, fully  equipped,  with  machinery  in  run- 
ning order  to  take  the  place  of  the  structure 
that  was  lost.  He  now  has  the  largest  con- 
cern of  the  kind  east  of  Boston,  employs  twen- 
ty-five men,  and  turns  out  all  kinds  of  interior 
finish,  store  fixtures,  show  cases  and  stairways. 
In  1894  he  erected  a  storehouse  one  hundred 
by  twenty-two  feet,  two  stories  high,  and  in 
addition  to  his  manufacturing  he  handles  tiling 
and  has  a  salesroom  at  No.  424  Congress 
street. 

In  politics  Mr.  Allen  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  much  interested  in  aquatic  sports,  owns  a 
yacht,  is  a  member  of  the  Portland  Yacht 
Club,  and  lives  in  summer  with  his  family  in 
a  pleasant  cottage  on  the  shore.  He  is  a 
member  of  Hadattah  Lodge,  Independent  Or- 
der of  Odd  Fellows :  Eastern  Star  Encamp- 
ment ;  Daughters  of  Rebekah ;  Ivanhoe  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  of  which  he  is  a  past  chan- 
cellor; Michigonne  Tribe,  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men,  of  which  he  is  a  past  sachem ;  Tribe 
of  Daughters  of  Pocahontas ;  New  England 
Order  of  Protection,  of  which  he  is  a  past 
grand  warden  and  supreme  representative ; 
Maine  Charitable  Mechanics"  Association. 

Mr.  Allen  married  Kate  W.  Carle,  a  na- 
tive of  Eastport,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Anna 
Belle,  born  December  26,  1868,  married 
Charles  E.  Beane,  of  South  Portland;  one 
child,  Leona  Beane,  born  August  19,  1894.  2. 
William  Fernald,  born  November  30,  1870, 
married  Elizabeth  T.  Cogan,  of  Rochester, 
New  York.  3.  Emma  Ada  Rogers,  born  April 
2,  1873,  married  Harry  Rowe.  of  Ellsworth, 
Maine.  4.  Nellie,  born  July  i,  1874,  died  Sep- 
tember 2,  1874.  5.  George  Emery  Bartlett, 
born  September  17,  1875,  married  Ethel  Jor- 
dan, of  Portland,  Maine.  6.  Harry  Frederick, 
born  October  15,  1876,  married  Veda  Bennett, 
of  Portland,  Maine.  7.  Benjamin  Franklin, 
born  November  18,  1878,  married  Mabel  Hol- 
man,  of  Colebrook,  New  Hampshire ;  one 
child,  Katherine  Margaret  Allen,  born  Decem- 
ber 8,  1903.  8.  Eva  May,  born  November  18, 
187S,  died  February  13,  1880. 


The  family  of  Libby,  one  of  the 
LIBBY     most    ancient    in    Maine,    is    first 

mentioned  in  the  herald's  visita- 
tion of  Oxfordshire,  England,  for  1574,  as 
stated  by  Charles  T.  Libby  in  his  valuable  and 
comprehensive  work,  "The  Libby  Family  in 
America,"  from  which  most  of  the  data  for 
this  article  is  obtained.  The  name  seems  to 
have  first  appeared  either  in  Cornwall  or 
Devon.  England,  and  spread  into  other  parts 


of  tliat  country.  Tradition  states  that  the 
originator  of  the  American  family  came  from 
the  west  of  England,  but  of  what  stock,  wheth- 
er of  Sa.xon,  Welch  or  French,  is  a  matter  of 
which  no  man  has  any  knowledge.  The  posi- 
tion of  the  members  of  this  family  with  ref- 
erence to  rank  has  been  in  that  sturdy,  up- 
right and  honest  division  which  constitutes  the 
chief  reliance  of  the  nation  for  its  character, 
and  is  generally  termed  the  "middle  class." 
Concerning  this  great  family,  one  of  the  most 
numerous  in  Maine,  it  was  recently  stated  by 
one  best  qualified  to  know,  that  he  had  never 
known  of  a  criminal  or  a  pauper  in  it.  Strong- 
ly domestic  in  their  nature,  the  Libbys  have 
been  builders  and  owners  of  homes  where  in 
many  instances  the  same  family  has  resided 
for  generations.  As  love  of  home  is  next  to 
a  love  of  countr}',  the  family  has  shown  its 
patriotism  by  sending  many  of  its  sons  to 
every  war  in  which  the  country  has  been  en- 
gaged. One  hundred  and  seventy-five  were 
in  the  revolution  from  Maine  and  Massachu- 
setts, and  two  hundred  and  fifty-six  enlist- 
ments are  credited  to  the  family  in  Maine 
alone  in  the  civil  war.  As  a  family,  the  peo 
pie  of  this  stock  have  been  very  devout,  and 
much  more  largely  in  evidence  in  the  religious 
than  in  the  civil  institutions  of  the  communi- 
ties in  which  they  have  lived.  The  family  has 
abounded  in  Christian  ministers,  elders  and 
deacons,  while  generation  after  generation 
have  died  in  the  faith.  In  most  recent  years 
various  members  have  made  themselves  prom- 
inent in  the  state  in  mercantile  and  profession- 
al pursuits. 

(I)  John  Libby,  born  in  England  about  the 
year  1602,  stated  in  a  petition  in  July,  1677. 
that  "the  good  and  pious  report  that  was 
spread  abroad,  into  our  Native  Land  of  this 
country,  caused  your  petitioner  to  come  for 
this  land  47  yeares  agoe,  where  he  hath  ever 
since  continued."  If  the  statement  is  literally 
true,  he  came  to  this  country  in  1630,  but  it 
is  believed  that  his  landfall  occurred  some- 
what later.  In  1631  Robert  Trelawny  and 
Moses  Goodyeare,  of  Plymouth,  Devonshire, 
England,  procured  a  patent  which  included 
Richmond's  Island,  a  small  island  on  the  coast 
of  Cumberland  county,  distant  about  a  mile 
from  the  coast  of  Cape  Elizabeth,  and  soon 
after  established  a  trading  post,  with  John 
Winter  as  their  agent,  and  carried  on  fisheries, 
bought  furs  from  the  Indians,  and  supplied  the 
wants  of  people  on  the  numerous  fishing  ves- 
sels who  might  come  to  them  for  such  articles 
as  they  had  use.  John  Libby  was  doubtless 
one  of  those  sent  over  bv  Trelawnv  to  aid  in 


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the  prosecution  of  his  business.    July  15,  1639, 
Winter  made  to  Trelawny  a  report  of  his  man- 
agement of  the  station  for  the  year.     In  that 
report  it  appears  that  John  Libby  received  for 
his  year's  service  the  sum  of  five  pounds,  as 
follows:    Aqua  vitse   (brandy),  four  shillings 
sixpence ;  wine,  thirteen  shillings ;  money  paid 
to  John   Sharpe  by  Trelawny,   three  pounds ; 
and  the  balance  of  one  pound  two  shillings  and 
sixpence  he  received  in  beaver  skins  at  eight 
shillings  each.     From  this  and  other  accounts 
it  appears  that  John  Libby  was  in  the  employ 
of  Trelawny  four  years,  from  the  summer  of 
1635  to  the  summer  of   1639,  at  five  pounds 
a  year  paid  to  him,  and  another  and  probably 
larger  amount  paid  for  the  support  of  his  wife 
whom  he  had  left  in  England.     In   1640  he 
took  up  his  residence  on  the  neighboring  main- 
land.    On  what  has  since  been  called  Libby 
river,  in  Scarborough,  he  built  a  house,  and 
for   years   he   seems    to    have    been    a   tenant 
there,  and  probably  devoted  a  good  deal  of  his 
time  to  fishing  until  he  could  prepare  the  place 
for  agricultural  processes.     January   i,   1663, 
John  Libby  received  from  Henry  Joscelyn  a 
grant  of  land,  and  finally  became  one  of  the 
principal  planters  of  Scarborough.    In  1664  he 
was  constable,  and  his  name  stands  first  of  the 
four  selectmen  in  a  grant  made  in   i66g.     In 
King  Philip's  war,  which  carried  devastation 
to  all  parts  of  New  England,  John  Libby  lost 
everything  he  had  except  his  plantation.     In 
the  late  summer  of  1675  he  was  compelled  to 
leave  his  homestead  and  the  diary  of  Captain 
Joshua  Scottow,  who  had  charge  of  the  Boston 
soldiers  who  were  trying  to  protect  the  settlers, 
contains  the  following:    "Sept.  7,  1675,  Being 
Lords  day     *     *     =1=     tjig     *     *     *     enemy 
*     *     *     before  of  their  designs  early  in  the 
morning  burnt  those  houses  and  barnes  our 
Company    saved   the   day   before — they   burnt 
also  8  or  9  deserted  houses  belonging  to  Libby 
and  children."    In  October,  1676,  Black  Point 
Garrison  was  deserted,   and   most  of  the   in- 
habitants fled  to  Boston.     John  Libby  and  his 
wife  and  younger  children  were  still  in  Bos- 
ton, July  ID,  1677,  and  on  that  date  petitioned 
the  governor  and  council  there  assembled,  that 
his   sons   Henry  and  Anthony,   on   whom   he 
stated  he  was  dependent  for  support,  might  be 
discharged    from    the    Black    Point    garrison, 
which  at  that  time  had  again  been  taken  pos- 
session of  by  the  English.     The  petition  was 
granted  the  same  day.     John  Libby  probably 
returned  to  Black  Point  soon  after  and  spent 
the  remaining  years  of  his  life  there,  and  ac- 
quired a  comfortable  property.     He  died  at 
about  eighty  years  of  age.     His  will  is  dated 


February  9,  1682,  and  his  inventory  May  5, 
1683.  The  value  of  the  property  enumerated 
in  the  latter  was  one  hundred  and  eighteen 
pounds  six  shillings.  From  proceedings  re- 
corded in  the  probate  court  in  1720,  it  appears 
that  John  Libby  left  one  hundred  acres  of  up- 
land, nine  acres  of  fresh  meadow,  and  one 
hundred  acres  of  salt  marsh.  His  first  wife 
was  the  mother  of  all  his  sons  except  Matthew 
and  Daniel,  and  probably  of  all  his  daughters. 
Nothing  more  is  known  of  her.  His  second 
wife  was  Mary.  She  survived  her  husband 
some  years.  The  children  of  John  Libby  were : 
John,  James,  Samuel,  Joanna,  Henry,  An- 
thony, Rebecca,  Sarah,  Hannah,  David,  Mat- 
thew and  Daniel. 

(II)  John  (2),  eldest  child  of  John  (i) 
Libby  by  his  first  wife,  was  born  probably  in 
England,  in  the  year  1636.  He  was  brought 
up  in  Scarborough.  In  August,  1668,  which 
was  probably  soon  after  his  marriage,  he 
bought  fifty  acres  of  land  adjoining  his  fa- 
ther's plantation.  There  he  probably  lived 
during  his  sojourn  at  Black  Point.  After- 
ward he  received  several  other  grants  from 
the  town.  The  part  he  took  in  town  business 
was  active,  and  he  served  as  selectman  dur- 
ing the  years  1670-74-83  and  1687.  In  May, 
1690,  while  the  settlement  at  Black  Point  was 
still  ill  equipped  to  repel  an  invader.  Fort 
Lo_\-al,  on  Casco  Neck,  a  few  miles  north  of 
Black  Point,  was  attacked  by  a  large  body  of 
Indians  and  French.  The  fort  stood  a  siege 
of  five  days,  and  then  surrendered,  and  the 
inhabitants  of  Scarborough,  not  waiting  to  be 
attacked,  immediately  deserted  their  homes 
and  fled  to  safer  localities.  John  Libby  as- 
sembled his  family  and  betook  himself  to 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  his  youngest 
son  Jeremiah  then  being  ten  years  old.  Mr. 
Libby  remained  in  Portsmouth  the  remainder 
of  his  life,  and  followed  the  occupation  of 
miller.  During  the  earlier  part  of  his  term 
of  residence  there  he  was  often  chosen  to  fill 
minor  offices.  In  1720,  when  he  was  very  old, 
he  made  a  deposition  about  early  affairs  in 
Scarborough.  How  much  longer  he  lived 
after  that  is  unknown.  His  wife's  name  was 
Agnes;  she  was  living  in  1717,  but  probably 
died  before  her  husband.  They  had  seven 
children,  all  born  in  Scarborough:  John,  Jo- 
seph, Samuel,  James,  Daniel,  Benjamin  and 
Jeremiah. 

(HI)  James,  fourth  son  and  child  of  John 
(2)  and  Agnes  Libby,  was  born  in  Scarbor- 
ough about  1676.  From  the  time  he  was  four- 
teen years  of  age  until  his  death  he  lived  in 
Portsmouth.     He  followed  the  occupation  of 


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house  carpenter,  but  received  large  grants  of 
land,  and  lived  on  a  farm  up  to  1747,  when 
he  sold  to  Colonel  Nathaniel  Meserve,  and 
bought  a  house  and  garden  spot,  where  he 
died  in  1754.  He  was  a  man  of  considerable 
activity,  and  among  the  New  Hampshire  state 
papers  is  now  to  be  seen  an  order  about  agree- 
ing with  James  Libby,  carpenter,  for  finishing 
a  line  of  fortifications  near  Portsmouth.  He 
was  at  the  first  town  meeting  of  Scarborough. 
In  1712  he  was  constable  "for  the  Bank,"  that 
is.  Strawberry  Bank,  the  ancient  name  for 
Portsmouth,  and  subsequently  had  many  town 
offices,  from  selectman  down.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Church  of  Christ.  He  married, 
June  9,  1698,  JMary  Hanson,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  IMary  Hanson,  of  Portsmouth,  who  was 
probably  the  mother  of  his  children.  She  is 
last  mentioned  in  August,  1718.  In  1736  he 
married  a  second  wife,  whose  name  was  Eliza- 
beth, and  she  survived  him  ten  years  or  more. 
His  children  were  :  James,  Mary,  Sarah,  Isaac^ 
John,  Hanson,  Ichabod,  Shuah  and  Elizabeth. 

(IV)  James  (2),  eldest  child  of  James  (i) 
and  Mary  (Hanson)  Libby,  was  born  in 
Portsmouth,  November  23,  1700.  He  was  a 
carpenter,  but  after  receiving  from  his  father 
all  his  lands  and  rights  in  Scarborough,  he 
took  up  his  residence  there  about  1729,  and 
became  a  farmer.  He  lived  to  the  east  of 
Oak  Hill,  and  died  about  1770.  He  married, 
December  23,  1725,  Elizabeth  Meserve,  who 
lived  to  an  advanced  age,  and  died  about  1790. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Clement  Meserve, 
who  removed  from  New  Hampshire  to  Scar- 
borough soon  after  it  was  settled  the  second 
time.  He  died  about  1740.  Among  his  chil- 
dren was  Nathaniel,  the  celebrated  New 
Hampshire  colonel.  The  children  of  James 
and  Elizabeth  (Meserve)  Libby  were:  Clem- 
ent, Anna,  Arthur,  Asa,  James,  Ichabod  and 
Elizabeth. 

(V)  Asa,  fourth  child  and  third  son  of 
James  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Meserve)  Libby, 
was  born  in  Scarborough  in  1737,  and  died  in 
Belgrade,  November  5,  1828.  He  was  a  far- 
mer. A  few  years  after  his  marriage  he  set- 
tled in  Falmouth,  and  from  that  place  shortly 
before  the  revolution  he  removed  to  Gray.  He 
and  John  Nash  went  to  Gray  about  the  same 
time,  and  both  lived  with  Daniel  Libby  until 
they  had  built  houses  and  cleared  some  land. 
Asa  Libby  settled  about  two  miles  west  of 
Gray  Corner.  There  he  lived  until  he  was  far 
advanced  in  age,  and  then  took  up  his  abode 
with  his  son  Asa,  in  Belgrade.  He  was  a  revo- 
lutionary soldier ;  the  Massachusetts  Revolu- 
tionary Rolls  state :  "Asa  Lebby,  private.  Cap- 


tain Samuel  Knight's  Company ;  enlisted  July 
15,  1775;  service  six  months  one  day;  com- 
pany stationed  at  Falmouth,  Cumberland 
County,  for  defence  of  sea-coast."  He  mar- 
ried, April  15,  1759,  Abigail  Coolbroth,  of 
Scarborough,  who  died  in  Belgrade  at  the 
house  of  Asa,  her  son,  about  1814.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  union  were :  Arthur,  Joel,  Abi- 
gail, Betsey,  Asa,  Sally  and  Shuab. 

(VI)  Arthur,  eldest  child  of  Asa  and  Abi- 
gail (Coolbroth)  Libby,  was  born  in  Scarbor- 
ough, February  28,  1760.  He  moved  before 
his  marriage  from  Gray  to  Falmouth,  and 
there  resided  several  years  on  a  farm  which 
he  subsequently  sold,  and  settled  in  Windham. 
The  original  house  on  the  latter  farm,  built  in 
1802,  is  still  standing.  He  died  in  June,  1835. 
Fie  married  Mary  Allen,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Dolly  (Leighton)  Allen,  of  Falmouth, 
who  died  in  March,  1846.  Their  children 
were :  William,  Abigail,  Gideon,  Isaac,  Asa, 
Peter,  James,  Martha,  Betsey  and  Lewis. 

(VII)  William,  eldest  child  of  Arthur  and 
Mary  (Allen)  Libby,  was  born  in  Falmouth, 
December  6,  1786,  and  died  in  the  same  town 
at  the  home  of  his  son  Fernald,  March  10, 
1861.  After  his  marriage  he  divided  his  time 
for  some  years  between  Windham  and  Gray. 
In  1820  he  moved  from  Gray  to  Windham, 
and  settled  on  the  farm  afterward  occupied  by 
his  son  Arthur.  In  1832  he  removed  to  Fal- 
mouth, and  settled  on  a  farm  still  occupied 
by  his  descendants.  He  married,  November 
14,  1809,  Hannah  Gould,  daughter  of  Moses 
Gould,  of  New  Portland.  She  survived  her 
husband,  and  died  in  Portland,  December  14, 
1864.  Their  thirteen  children  were  :  Abigail, 
Arthur,  William,  Elizabeth,  Moses  Gould,  Asa, 
Mary  Jane,  Salome,  .Lucy  Ann,  Edward 
Gould,  Hannah,  Joseph  Gould  and  Fernald. 

(VIII)  Salome,  eighth  child  of  William  and 
Hannah  (Gould)  Libby,  was  born  March  16, 
1824,  and  married,  June  12,  1847,  Alfred  R. 
Allen,  of  Gray  (see  Allen  VII). 


Luther  Franklin  McKinney, 
McKINNEY     former    clergyman     of    the 

Universalist  church,  later 
member  of  congress  from  New  Hampshire, 
still  later  minister  of  the  federal  government 
to  the  Republic  of  Colombia,  South  America, 
and  now  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in 
Bridgton,  Alaine,  is  a  native  of  Ohio  and  a 
descendant  of  an  old  and  prominent  Scotch- 
Irish  family  which  has  been  seated  in  the 
southern  border  counties  of  Pennsylvania  for 
more  than  a  century  and  a  half. 

His  grandfather,  John  McKinnev,  was  born 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


in  Chambersburg,  York  county,  Pennsylvania, 
in  1758,  died  in  1850,  and  even  before  his  time 
his  parents  had  dwelt  in  that  region,  where 
the  people  were  largely  of  Scotch-Irish  and 
German  descent.  The  wife  of  John  McKinney 
was  Rachel  Belford,  who  was  born  in  Virginia 
and  came  of  one  of  the  well-known  families 
of  the  "old  dominion."  Children  :  Mary,  Ra- 
chel, Margaret,  Nancy.  Alexander,  Martha, 
John,  Joseph,  William,  Samuel,  Robert.  Be- 
sides these  there  were  two  other  children, 
both  of  whom  died  in  extreme  infancy. 

Alexander,  son  of  John  and  Rachel  (Bel- 
ford  )  McKinney,  was  born  in  Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1798,  and  died  in  January, 
1880.  He  attended  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  township  until  he  was  about  fourteen 
years  old,  and  after  that  age  he  made  his  own 
way  in  life,  his  best  equipment  for  which  was 
a  good  elementary  eilucation,  a  strong  physical 
constitution  and  a  determination  to  succeed  and 
establish  himself  in  comfort.  He  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  in  the  region  now  Ohio,  having 
settled  himself  near  what  now  is  Newark,  and 
was  a  farmer  there  all  his  life ;  thrifty  and 
successful,  building  from  the  stump,  opening 
up  and  developing  a  fine  farm  in  a  frontier 
region  and  ultimately  attaining  the  end  he  set 
out  to  accomplish.  It  is  not  known  that  Alex- 
ander McKinney  was  particularly  interested 
in  public  affairs  during  the  long  period  of  his 
life  in  Ohio,  but  it  is  known  that  he  early  al- 
lied himself  to  the  old  Whig  party  and  later 
became  a  Republican  upon  the  organization  of 
that  party  in  1856.  And  he  always  adhered 
firmly  to  the  religious  teachings  of  his  father, 
who  was  a  Scotch  Presbyterian,  the  faith  of 
his  ancestors.  In  1824  Alexander  McKinney 
married  Elizabeth  Miller,  of  Newark,  who  was 
born  in  1805  and  died  in  1882.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Abraham  Miller,  of  Newark,  but 
a  descendant  of  a  Virginia  family.  Of  this 
marriage  ten  children  were  born :  Eliza,  Fi- 
delia. Sarah,  Mary  J\I.,  Luther  Franklin,  Ann, 
Martha,  Alexander,  besides  two  others  who 
died  very  young. 

Luther  Franklin,  son  of  Alexander  and 
Elizabeth  (Miller)  McKinney,  was  born  near 
Newark,  Ohio,  April  25,  1841,  and  received 
his  earlier  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
Newark  and  in  private  and  high  schools  in 
Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  and  his  higher  education  at 
St.  Lawrence  University,  in  Canton,  St.  Law- 
rence county.  New  York.  In  the  latter  insti- 
tution he  fitted  himself  for  the  ministry  of  the 
L^niversalist  church,  and  received  his  diploma 
and  degree  there  in  the  year  1870.  In  the 
same  year  he  came  to  Maine  and  in  August 


began  the  pastorate  of  the  Universalist  society 
and  church  in  Bridgton,  remained  there  until 
1873,  then  went  to  South  Newmarket,  New 
Flampshire  (now  Newfields),  and  took  charge 
of  the  church  in  that  town  during  the  next 
two  years.  In  1875  he  was  called  to  the 
church  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and 
filled  the  pastorate  in  that  city  for  the  next  ten 
years.  Before  beginning  his  university  course, 
however,  Mr.  McKinney  enlisted,  in  August, 
1861,  in  Company  D  of  the  First  Ohio  Cav- 
alry, served  with  that  command  under  Gen- 
erals Thomas,  McCook  and  Sherman  until 
February.  1863,  and  then  much  to  his  own 
regret  was  discharged  on  account  of  disabili- 
ties. He  himself  had  enlisted  more  than  half 
the  men  of  his  company,  and  was  its  sergeant, 
and  it  was  his  earnest  hope  that  he  might  be 
able  to  continue  with  them  to  the  end  of  the 
term  of  enlistment,  but  by  reason  of  sickness 
contracted  in  the  service  he  was  compelled  to 
accept  an  honorable  discharge  and  return 
home.  Afterward  for  a  time  he  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Newark,  then  sold  out 
his  business  and  taught  school  in  Ohio  and 
Iowa.  Mr.  IMcKinney  is  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics, but  never  took  an  active  part  in  political 
matters  until  1884,  when,  much  against  his 
will,  he  was  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  a 
seat  in  the  lower  house  of  the  national  con- 
gress, but  was  defeated  in  that  Republican 
stronghold.  In  1886  he  was  again  nominated 
and  was  elected,  notwithstanding  the  normal 
Republican  majority  against  him  in  the  dis- 
trict. He  was  elected  again  in  1890.  In  1892 
he  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic  state 
convention  as  its  candidate  for  the  governor- 
ship of  New  Hampshire,  and  while  he  was 
defeated  at  the  polls,  the  fact  that  he  fell  short 
of  election  by  only  two  hundred  and  seventy- 
two  votes  in  that  almost  overwhelmingly  Re- 
publican state  was  to  him  a  source  of  much 
gratification  as  an  expression  of  the  esteem  in 
which  he  was  held  by  the  people  of  the  state. 
In  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  envoy  extraordinary  and  min- 
ister plenipotentiary  to  the  Republic  of  Co- 
lombia, South  America,  and  represented  the 
United  States  government  in  that  foreign  state 
during  the  next  four  years ;  and  when  Mr. 
McKinley  succeeded  Mr.  Cleveland  in  the 
presidency  he  urged  !Mr.  INIcKinney  to  retain 
his  post  under  the  new  administration,  but  the 
incumbent  felt  it  his  duty  to  decline  the  prof- 
fered office,  and  therefore  returned  to  private 
citizen.ship  in  Bridgton,  IMaine,  where  he  has 
since  lived. 

After   returning   from   the   consular   service 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


io8j 


Mr.  McKinney  would  have  preferred  to  aban- 
don public  life  and  engage  in  mercantile  pur- 
suits, but  it  was  not  a  long  time  after  he  had 
located  in  Bridgton  that  he  was  again  pressed 
into  party  service  in  a  political  campaign 
where  it  was  hoped  that  his  personal  popu- 
larity, high  character  and  known  qualifications 
for  high  public  office  might  turn  the  scale  of 
doubtful  contest.  He  first  ran  for  congress  in 
this  state  as  the  candidate  of  the  Democratic 
party  against  Thomas  Benton  Reed,  the  Re- 
pubhcan  nominee,  and  afterward  against  a 
man  of  such  political  strength  as  Amos  L. 
Allen.  In  both  contests  Mr.  iVIcKinney  was 
defeated,  the  normal  opposition  against  his 
party  being  too  great  for  even  him  to  over- 
come ;  and  no  Democratic  candidate  in  Alaine 
ever  could  beat  "Tom"  Reed,  that  mighty  giant 
of  republicanism,  and  Allen  was  the  peer  of 
Reed  with  Maine  Republicans. 

Having  given  his  party  long  and  faithful 
service,  often  at  the  sacrifice  of  personal  inter- 
ests, Mr.  McKinney  retired  from  active  par- 
ticipation in  politics  and  devoted  his  attention 
to  other  employments.  In  i8g8,  in  company 
with  P.  P.  Burnham,  he  engaged  in  the  dry 
goods  business  in  Bridgton,  continuing  about 
two  years,  then  sold  out  and  acquired  a  con- 
siderable interest  in  the  Bridgton  Furniture 
Company,  with  John  Roes  and  Byron  Kim- 
ball. Soon  afterward  he  bought  Mr.  Roes' 
share  in  the  concern,  and  upon  the  death  of 
Mr.  Kimball  purchased  his  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness. As  now  constituted  the  officers  of  the 
company  are  Mrs.  F.  L.  McKinney,  president; 
Mr.  McKinney,  treasurer  and  manager;  and 
Harry  McKinney,  secretary. 

During  all  the  years  of  his  political  activity 
Mr.  McKinney  never  has  relaxed  his  earnest 
devotion  to  the  church  and  has  given  to  it  at 
all  times  the  same  attention  and  service  as 
when  he  was  its  pastor  in  various  fields.  In 
1903  he  went  to  Brooklyn,  New  York,  re- 
mained there  a  year  and  a  half  in  building  a 
parish  house.  In  1901  for  one  year  was  pastor 
of  the  Universalist  church  in  Kansas  City,  and 
during  his  residence  in  Bridgton  he  supplied 
the  pulpit  of  his  church  in  that  town.  Mr. 
McKinney  has  again  entered  the  ministry  and 
assumed  charge  of  the  Universalist  church  in 
Gardiner,  Maine.  His  business  in  Bridgton  is 
under  the  charge  of  his  son,  Harry  W.  Mc- 
Kinney. His  interest  in  public  affairs  also  has 
continued,  although  the  offices  in  which  he  has 
recently  served  have  been  local  rather  than 
general  in  character.  He  has  been  selectman 
of  Bridgton,  and  in  igo6  represented  his  town 
in  the  state  legislature,  in  the  house  serving 


on  the  committee  on  libraries  and  on  pensions, 
and  also  on  the  special  committee  appointed  to 
arrange  for  the  celebration  of  Longfellow's 
birthday.  Mr.  McKinney  is  a  Mason,  mem- 
ber of  Oriental  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Oriental 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M..  and  Oriental  Commandery, 
K.  T.,  all  of  Bridgton ;  a  member  of  Louis 
Bell  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Manchester,  New 
Hampshire ;  and  a  member  of  Ridgley  Lodge, 
I.  O.  O.  F..  of  Manchester.  In  Odd  Fellow- 
ship he  has  been  elected  to  the  exalted  office  of 
grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  jurisdic- 
tion of  New  Hampshire,  and  grand  represent- 
ative to  the  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge,  and  is 
member  of  Wonalancet  Encampment  of  Man- 
chester. 

On  August  I,  1 87 1,  in  Bridgton,  Mr.  Mc- 
Kinney married  Sharlie  Paine  Webb,  daugh- 
ter of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (Witham)  Webb, 
of  Raymond,  Maine.  Two  children  have  been 
born  of  this  marriage:  i.  James  Franklin, 
born  in  Bridgton,  November  7,  1872.  Having 
graduated  from  I^Ianchester,  New  Hampshire, 
high  school,  he  entered  St.  Lawrence  Uni- 
versity, Canton,  New  York,  and  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1895.  He  then  en- 
tered the  law  department  of  the  University 
of  Maryland,  made  the  course  of  that  cele- 
brated school  and  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  LL.  B.  in  1897.  He  is  engaged  in  active 
general  practice  in  New  York  City  in  part- 
nership with  Comptroller  Grout,  a  leading  pub- 
lic man  in  New  York  municipal  political  life. 
Mr.  McKinney  married  Jessie  Hanna,  of  Den- 
nison,  Texas,  and  has  one  child,  Robert  Frank- 
lin iMcKinney,  born  January  14,  1902.  2. 
Harry  Webb,  born  in  Manchester,  New 
Hampshire,  January  14,  1878.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  Manchester,  in  St.  Johns  College, 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  in  a  military  academy 
in  Pennsylvania.  He  went  to  South  America 
with  his  father  and  now  is  engaged  in  business 
as  secretary  of  the  Bridgton  Furniture  Com- 
pany. 


This  name  is  not  a  common 
DENNEN     one    in    this    country,    and    it 

seems  to  be  confined,  in  the 
earlier  generations  at  least,  to  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  where  we 
find  it  spelled  Denen,  Denin,  Dinnin,  Den- 
ning and  Dinning.  Nicholas  Denning  seems 
to  be  the  first  American  ancestor  of  whom  we 
have  any  record,  and  he  was  at  Gloucester 
in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
His  son,  Nicholas  (2),  received  a  grant  of 
land  there  in  1724,  and  in  1725  this  son,  with 
his   wife    Elizabeth    and    daughters    Margaret 


1084 


STATE  OF  MAINK. 


and  Hannah,  were  baptized  in  that  town. 
Nicholas  (2)  Denning  was  married  to  a  sec- 
ond wife,  Mrs.  Ann  Fuller,  on  January  14, 
1732,  and  a  son,  Nicholas  (3),  was  born  Oc- 
tober 12,  1732.  The  only  Samuel  Denning 
recorded  was  born  in  1707,  the  son  of  William 
and  Hannah  (Paine)  Denning,  and  probably 
the  grandson  of  Nicholas  (i).  He  could 
hardly  have  been  the  Samuel  Denning  of  the 
following  line,  because  he  would  have  been  too 
old  for  a  revolutionary  soldier.  There  is  little 
doubt,  however,  that  the  Maine  branch  is  de- 
rived from  the  Massachusetts  stock ;  but  the 
imperfection  of  the  records  renders  it  impos- 
sible to  give  the  e.xact  relationship. 

(I)  Samuel  Dennen  was  a  revolutionary 
soldier,  and  died  at  Minot,  Maine.  The  Mas- 
sachusetts Rolls  say  that  Samuel  Dennen,  a 
seaman,  was  in  the  list  of  prisoners  sent  from 
Halifax  to  Boston  in  the  cartel  "Swift,"  Sep- 
tember 30,  1778,  according  to  the  return  made 
by  Thomas  Baildon,  commissary  of  prisoners. 

(H)  Simeon,  son  of  Samuel  Dennen,  was 
born  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  August  10, 
1771,  and  died  at  Shirley,  Maine,  in  1848  or 
1849.  Simeon  Dennen,  with  his  elder  brother 
George,  moved  to  Pigeon  Hill,  in  Poland, 
Maine,  in  1792.  He  lived  in  various  places  in 
the  town  till  1830,  when  he  and  a  part  of  his 
family  moved  to  what  is  now  the  town  Shir- 
ley, near  Moosehead  Lake,  where  some  of  their 
descendants  are  now  living.  He  served  in  the 
war  of  1812  as  a  volunteer,  as  did  also  his 
sons  Simeon  Jr.  and  Peter.  About  1793 
Simeon  Deimen  married  Rebecca  Chickering, 
of  Hebron,  who  was  born  March  18,  1774. 
There  were  twelve  children:  1.  Simeon  (2), 
whose  sketch  follov\s.  2.  Peter,  born  April  7, 
1796.  3.  Frederic,  November  16,  1798.  4. 
John,  September  19,  1800.  5.  Levi,  March  16, 
1803.  6.  Liford,  February  16,  1805.  7.  Elena, 
October  19,  1807.  8.  Rebecca,  December  20, 
1809.  9.  Lydia,  March  29.  181 1.  10.  Joseph, 
March  17,  1813.  11.  Lois,  November  16, 
1817.     12.  Otis,  May  9,  1820. 

(HI)  Simeon  (2),  eldest  child  of  Simeon 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Chickering)  Dennen,  was 
born  at  Poland,  Maine,  October  4,  1794,  and 
died  at  Oxford,  April  12,  1869.  During  his 
early  life  he  was  a  farmer,  but  later  moved  to 
Oxford,  where  he  became  a  millman,  lumber 
merchant  and  manufacturer.  On  September 
14,  1823,  Simeon  (2)  Dennen  and  Sally  Ryer- 
son,  of  Paris,  were  published ;  Dennen  was 
living  at  Hebron,  Maine,  at  the  time.  They 
had  four  children:  i.  Nelson,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy. 2.  John  W.,  born  April  11,  1827,  served 
in  the  Fifth  Maine  Battery.     3.  Keziah.  .'\pril 


9,    1830.     4.    William   W.,   whose   sketch   fol- 
lows. 

(I\')  William  \\'.,  third  son  of  Simeon  (2) 
and  Sally  (Ryerson)  Dennen,  was  born  at 
O.xford,  Maine,  June  5,  1837,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
town.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade,  at  which  he  worked  for  six 
years.  When  the  civil  war  broke  out  he  en- 
listed in  Company  K,  First  Maine  Volunteers. 
August  22,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  Company  K. 
Seventh  Maine  X'olunteers,  was  promoted  to 
rank  of  corporal,  and  discharged  for  disability, 
July  25,  1862.  He  returned  to  Oxford  and 
engaged  in  farming,  which  he  followed  for 
eight  years.  About  1870  he  became  interested 
in  the  manufacture  of  paper,  and  for  several 
years  was  engaged  in  the  building  and  equip- 
ment of  mills.  In  1883  he  came  to  East  Poland 
and  built  the  mill  of  which  he  has  been  super- 
intendent ever  since.  The  establishment  em- 
ploys about  forty  men.  Mr.  Dennen  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  served  as  representa- 
tive in  1890-91,  and  as  selectman  in  1896-97. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Odd 
Fellows,  has  filled  all  chairs  in  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  and  also  of  the  Grange.  On 
Harris  Hill,  William  W.  Dennen  married 
IMarie  B.,  daughter  of  Ebin  and  Mary  (Ste- 
vens) Maxwell,  of  Excelsior  No.  5,  Dead 
River.  Children:  i.  Addie  O.,  born  Septem- 
ber 8,  1867,  was  drowned  near  her  home  at 
Kent's  Hill,  September  27,  1903;  she  was  mar- 
ried to  Professor  J.  O.  Newton,  of  Maine 
Wesleyan  Seminary  ;  children  :  Ma.x,  Rownald 
and  Robert.  2.  Charles  E.,  July  11,  1869.  3. 
William  W.,  June  18,  1875.  4.  Ansel  C.. 
July  18,  1880,  graduated  from  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege in  1905 ;  is  now  in  charge  of  a  large 
leather  board  mill  in  Herkimer,  New  York ; 
married  Elizabeth  H.  Cuskley,  June  24,  1908. 


The  plantation  of  Broad  Bay, 
SEIDERS     now    Waldoboro,    Maine,    was 

settled  by  German  immigrants 
of  the  Lutheran  faith.  The  first  settlement 
was  made  in  1740-42,  and  additional  colonists 
followed  in  1748-53.  They  were  induced  to 
come  to  this  country  by  General  Samuel  Wal- 
do and  later  by  his  son.  Colonel  Samuel 
Waldo.  They  were  promised  one  hundred 
acres  of  land  each,  subsistence  for  at  least  six 
months,  and  other  important  benefits.  Under 
these  promises  during  the  years  mentioned,  it 
is  probable  that  at  least  fifteen  hundred  set- 
tled at  Broad  Bay.  They  suffered  extreme 
hardships  and  privations,  having  been  landed. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1085 


in  a  wilderness  and  having  little  or  no  means 
of  subsistence  of  their  own.  Their  sufferings 
were,  in  a  great  measure,  due  to  the  fact  that 
the  promises  made  to  them  by  General  Waldo 
were  not  carried  out.  In  1745-46  the  settle- 
ment was  completely  wiped  out  by  the  In- 
dians. For  three  years  it  remained  desolate. 
Many  of  the  inhabitants  with  their  families 
joined  the  Louisburg  E.xpedition,  some  fled 
to  neighboring  settlements,  while  others  were 
killed  or  taken  in  captivity  to  Canada  by  the 
Indians.  At  the  close  of  the  fifth  Indian  war 
those  who  survived  the  Louisburg  Expedition, 
with  those  who  returned  from  captivity,  and 
from  neighboring  places,  renewed  their  set- 
tlement at  Broad  Bay.  These  colonists  suf- 
fered much  greater  hardships  even  than  the 
first  settlers  of  Massachusetts,  but  Germanlike, 
ti.ey  adhered  to  their  undertaking  and  finally 
built  up  a  settlement,  which  in  1840  exceeded 
any  other  in  numbers  and  prosperity  then  in 
the  present  territories  of  Lincoln  and  Kno.x 
counties.  From  these  colonists  have  descend- 
ed many  whose  names  have  appeared  in  the 
professions,  in  conunercial  affairs,  and  in  act- 
ive public  service. 

(I)  Conrad  Seiders  came  to  the  plantation 
of  Broad  Bay  in  1748  and  brought  with  him 
his  son  Cornelius,  who  was  then  but  eight 
years  old.  The  name  of  Conrad  Seiders  ap- 
pears on  the  records  of  the  town  of  Waldoboro 
in  later  years.  Cornelius,  his  son,  married 
Elizabeth  Leistner.  daughter  of  Charles  Leist- 
ner.  General  Waldo's  agent.  Their  grave- 
stones, now  standing  in  the  Old  Meeting 
House  Cove  burying  ground,  near  Dutch 
Neck,  alone  identify  that  old  burial  place.  A 
number  of  children  were  born  to  them,  name- 
ly :     Jacob,  Henry,  Philip,  and  daughters. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Conrad  Seiders,  married 
Mary  Given  and  they  resided  in  Waldoboro 
during  their  lives.  The  following  children 
were  born  to  them :  Henry,  Francis,  John,  Ed- 
ward, Ambrose  and  Reuben,  sons ;  and  Jane, 
who  married  Charles  Little,  and  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Ezra  I.  Wall,  daughters.  John 
resided  on  the  home  farm  at  Waldoboro  until 
his  decease.  Edward  and  Ambrose  in  their 
early  twenties  went  to  New  Orleans  and  the 
latter  never  was  heard  from  afterward.  Ed- 
ward was  in  the  Texan  war  and  afterward 
settled  at  Austin,  Texas,  where  he  died  a  few 
years  since,  leaving  a  family,  all  sons,  who 
have  largely  settled  in  Te.xas.  Reuben  grad- 
uated from  Bowdoin  College  and  married  Su- 
san Austin,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  He 
taught  at  Cambridge  for  some  years  and  after- 
ward graduated   from  the   Divinity   School  at 


Harvard  College  and  became  a  Unitarian 
clergyman.  The  two  daughters,  Jane  and 
Elizabeth,  lived  and  died  in  Augusta,  Maine, 
leaving  families. 

(Ill)    Henry,  first  son  of  Jacob  and   Mary 
(Given)    Seiders,  was  born  in  Waldoboro  in 
1798.     Before  reaching  his  majority  he  went 
to    Thomaston,    Maine,   where   he   worked   in 
the  ship  yards.    In  1837  he  moved  to  the  town 
of  Union  and  settled  there  on  a  farm,  where 
he  lived  till  the  close  of  his  life  in  1881,  aged 
eighty-three  years.     He  took  great  interest  in 
both  political  and  religious  matters,  and  was 
active    in    building    the    first    Congregational 
church    in    that   place.      In    1827    he   married 
Mary  Whiting  Starrett,  of  Warren,  who  was 
born    Decernber   24,    1808.   daughter  of  John 
and  Margaret  (Fitzgerald)   Starrett,  of  War- 
ren, Maine.     John  Starrett  was  a  descendant 
of  Colonel  Thomas  Starrett,   who  was  active 
in  public  affairs  of  Warren,  and  who  was  a 
descendant    of    William    Starrett,    who    came 
from   Scotland   to  Pemaquid   and   from  there 
joined  the  Waldo  colony  located  in  the  town 
of  Warren  in  1736.     Children  of  Henry  and 
xMary  W.  (Starrett)  Seiders:     i.  John  Henry, 
died  in  infancy,  April  5,  1832.     2.  Mary  Jane, 
born  in  1829,  married  Captain  Oliver  J.  Star- 
rett, of   Warren,   and   died   on   passage   from 
New    Orleans   to    Liverpool   in    1855.     Their 
only  issue,  Mary  Alice,  deceased  in  childhood. 
3.  Margaret  S.,  born  in  1837,  married  Charles 
G.  Snell,  of  Waldoboro,  and  is  now  living  at 
Portland,    widow.      Their   only    issue,    Henry 
Seiders  Snell,  deceased  in  childhood.     4.  Jo- 
seph Henry,  born  in  1836,  died  of  yellow  fever 
at  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  1857,  unmarried. 
5.  Edward,  born  in  1838,  was  engaged  in  sea- 
faring life,  and  as  mate  of  a  vessel  on  passage 
from  New  York  to  New  Orleans,  was  lost  at 
sea  in  1863,  unmarried.     6.  Emerson,  born  in 
1839,  was  lost  on  Lake  Erie  in  1864,  unmar- 
ried.    7.  Sarah  L.,  born  in  1842,  single,  now 
lives  in  Portland,  Maine.     8.  George  M.,  re- 
ceives extended  mention  below.     9.  Frederick 
A.,   born   in    1848,   is   now   living  on   the   old 
homestead    at    Union.      In    1871    he    married 
Sarah   Jane    Linscott,   of   Palermo,   to    whom 
there  have  been  born  four  children,  all  living, 
to    wit :    Harold    Latimer,    Conrad   Arvidsoni 
Carl  Frederic  and  Clarice  Hayes. 

(IV)  George  Melville,  eighth  child  and  fifth 
son  of  Henry  and  Mary  W.  (Starrett)  Seiders, 
was  born  in  L-nion  in  1844.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
place.  September  10,  1862,  when  attending 
the  high  school,  he  enlisted  in  Company  B, 
Twenty-fourth  Maine  \'olunteer  Infantry'  and 


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STATE  OF  MAIXE. 


was  made  a  corporal.  The  company  rendez- 
voused first  at  Augusta,  then  at  East  New 
York,  Long  Island.  Later  in  the  fall  the  regi- 
ment was  transported  on  the  "Lizzie  South- 
ard" to  New  Orleans.  After  remaining  there 
for  a  few  days  it  was  encamped  for  some 
weeks  at  Bonnet  Carre,  al>jve  New  Orleans, 
and  later  joined  the  forces  then  besieging  Port 
Hudson.  While  at  Bonnet  Carre,  Mr.  Seiders 
had  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever  and  a  relapse 
therefrom,  and  after  recovering  joined  his  reg- 
iment at  Port  Hudson.  In  the  meantime  Vicks- 
burg  was  besieged  and  taken,  and  also  Port 
Hudson  shortly  after.  The  regiment  returned 
home  via  the  Mississippi  river  and  Chicago, 
and  was  mustered  out  of  service  at  Augusta, 
Atigust  25,  1863. 

After  the  war  Mr.  Seiders  returned  to 
Union  and  remained  on  the  home  farm  un- 
til he  attained  his  majority,  then  he  went  to 
Portland,  where  he  obtained  employment  in 
the  machine  shops  of  Charles  Staples  &  Son, 
where  he  remained  some  months.  Having  a 
desire  to  obtain  a  better  education,  he  left 
the  workbench  in  1866,  attending  two  terms 
at  Kent's  Hill  Seminary,  and  subsequently 
continuing  and  finishing  his  preparatory  course 
for  college  at  Lincoln  Academj',  Newcastle, 
Maine.  He  entered  Bowdoin  College  in  the 
class  of  1872.  During  his  preparatory  and 
college  courses  he  paid  his  way  by  teaching 
in  district  schools  and  academies.  Lie  gradu- 
ated with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  and  later  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  A.  M.  After  his  gradu- 
ation he  was  immediately  appointed  principal 
of  Greelev  Institute,  Cumberland  Center, 
Maine,  which  position  he  occupied  two  years, 
during  which  time  the  institute  enjoyed  a 
larger  degree  of  prosperity  than  it  had  ever 
before  or  has  since.  At  the  close  of  his  serv- 
ices at  Greeley  Institute  he  was  elected  sub- 
master  of  the  high  school  at  Waltham,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  taught  one  year,  when, 
having  received  an  advantageous  offer,  he  ac- 
cepted a  professorship  in  the  Episcopal  Acad- 
emy of  Connecticut  at  Cheshire,  Connecticut, 
where  he  taught  during  the  school  year  of 
1875-76.  While  there  he  took  up  the  reading 
of  law,  and  in  July,  1876,  entered  the  office  of 
Thomas  Brackett  Reed,  at  Portland,  and  there 
continued  the  study  of  law.  In  October,  1878, 
Mr.  Seiders  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  took 
desk  room  with  Hon.  F.  M.  Ray  for  a  few 
months,  when  he  returned  to  ]\Ir.  Reed's  office 
and  remained  in  association  with  him  until  Mr. 
Reed  moved  to  New  York  in  igoi.  In  Jan- 
uary, 1893,  Mr.  Seiders  and  F.  V.  Chase,  Esq.. 
formed   a   co-partnership   under   the    style   of 


Seiders  &  Chase,  which  continued  until  Jan- 
uary, 1901.  In  1883  he  was  appointed  as- 
sistant counsel  for  the  United  States  in  the 
Alabama  Court  of  Claims,  and  acted  in 
that  capacity  during  the  continuance  of  the 
court. 

In  1885  he  was  electejil  county  attorney  for 
the  county  of  Cumberland  and  again  in  1887, 
serving  two  terms.  During  his  services  as 
county  attorney  many  important  cases  were 
tried  by  him,  including  murder  cases.  After 
having  completed  his  services  in  that  capacity 
he  was  engaged  in  both  civil  and  criminal 
practice.  He  defended  two  murder  cases 
which  perhaps  e.xcited  as  much  jniblic  inter- 
est as  any  that  have  been  tried  in  the  county 
of  Cumberland.  During  the  period  when  Mr. 
Seiders  was  reading  law  and  for  two  years 
after  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  lived  in  the 
town  of  North  Yarmouth,  where  he  was  elect- 
ed representative  to  the  Legislature  of  1878  on 
the  Republican  ticket  by  the  classed  towns  of 
Yarmouth  and  North  Yarmouth.  Although 
he  had  not  been  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  was 
appointed  on  the  judiciary  committee  and 
others  of  importance.  He  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Portland  in  1880.  In  1892  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  and  served  on  the 
judiciary  and  other  important  committees. 
Two  years  later  he  was  re-elected  and 
was  unanimously  chosen  president  of  that 
body. 

His  business  methods,  prompt  and  courteous 
rulings,  and  impartial  dealings  in  public  af- 
fairs secured  for  him  strong  support,  which 
in  1901  was  the  means  of  his  being  elected 
attorney  general  of  the  state.  Lie  was  re- 
elected in  1903,  serving  two  full  terms.  His 
administration  of  this  office  was  highly  com- 
mended. In  1898  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Republican  state  committee,  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  1905.  Mr.  Seiders  has 
been  attorney  for  and  officially  connected  with 
many  corporations.  From  his  youth  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 
He  is  a  member  of  Bosworth  Post.  G.  A.  R., 
of  the  Cumberland  Gub,  and  of  Bramhall 
League,  all  of  Portland. 

He  married,  November  24,  1874,  Clarice 
Small  Hayes,  who  was  born  in  North  Yar- 
mouth in  1854,  daughter  of  Isaac  S.  and 
Asenath  (Batchelder)  Hayes,  of  North  Yar- 
mouth. They  have  three  children,  all  living  r 
Grace  Ruiten,  born  1875:  Mary  Asenath.  born 
1877:  and  Pliilip  Reed,  born  1885.  Grace  R. 
married  Dr.  Phillip  Webb  Davis  in  1903.  They 
have  two  children,  Mary  Louise,  born  1904, 
and  Kathcrine,  born  1906. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1087 


The  Wingates  of  England 
VVINGATE  are  an  interesting  and  profit- 
able family  to  study,  and  it 
has  always  been  the  ambition  of  the  Wingates 
of  America  to  secure  an  unbroken  chain  to 
connect  the  two  families,  but  up  to  this  time 
the  missing  links  have  not  been  restored,  and 
only  in  an  indirect  way  can  the  relationship 
be  established.  In  view  of  this  it  is  not  our 
purpose  to  regard  the  English  family,  but  to 
name  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  America 
and  to  trace  from  him  the  subject  we  have 
in  hand. 

(I)  John  Wingale,  American  progenitor  of 
the  Wingates  of  New  England  and  of  the 
northwest,  if  not  of  the  entire  family  in  Amer- 
ica, came  to  New  Hampshire  from  England 
when  an  independent  young  man  with  no  re- 
sponsibility of  family  or  relatives.  He  was 
credited  with  being  in  the  service  of  Thomas 
Layton,  who  located  at  Hilton's  Point,  now 
known  as  Dover  Neck.  New  Hampshire,  as 
early  as  1658.  Thomas  Layton  gave  him  a 
consideration  for  services  already  rendered, 
or  to  be  rendered,  twenty  acres  of  land  in  the 
Neck,  and  the  selectmen  of  the  town  thought 
it  expedient  to  grant  him  an  allotment  of 
twenty  acres  immediately  adjoining  that  given 
him  by  his  master.  He  thus  became  an  im- 
portant yeoman  or  farmer  in  the  colony.  He 
built  a  house  and  established  a  homestead 
which  has  been  handed  down  from  generation 
to  generation  in  uninterrupted  succession,  even 
to  this  day.  In  early  records  his  name  is  writ- 
ten "John  Winget"  and  there  appear  various 
other  spellings  of  the  name.  He  married,  after 
securing  a  homestead,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Elder  Hatevil  Nutter,  a  stern  and  exemplary 
Puritan,  and  they  had  two  children:  Anne, 
born  February  18.  1667.  and  John.  July  13, 
1670.  His  wife  died,  and  about  1676  he  mar- 
ried as  his  second  wife  Sarah,  widow  of 
Thomas  Carney,  by  whom  he  had  five  chil- 
dren, as  follows :  Caleb,  Moses,  Mary,  Joshua 
and  Abigail.  lohn  Wingate  died  December  9, 
1687. 

(II)  John  (2).  eldest  son  of  John  (i)  and 
IMary  (Nutter)  Wingate,  was  born  in  Dover. 
New  Hampshire.  July  13,  1670.  As  the  eldest 
son,  he  inherited  the  homestead  and  it  was 
his  home  during  his  entire  life.  He  com- 
manded a  company  of  militia  in  the  expedi- 
tions to  Port  Royal,  1707-10.  His  wife  was 
Ann,  and  after  she  had  borne  him  twelve 
children,  and  he  had  left  her  a  widow,  she 
married,  December.  1725,  Captain  John  Heard. 
The  children  of  Captain  John  and  Ann  Win- 
gate were:     i.  Mary,  born  October  3,   1691. 


2.  John,  April  10,  1693,  died  September,  1694. 

3.  Ann,  February  2,  1694,  died  1787.  4.  Sarah, 
February  17,  1696.  5.  Moses,  December  27, 
1698,  died  February  9,  1782.  6.  Samuel,  No- 
vember 27,  1700.  7.  Edmond,  February  27, 
1702.  8.  Abigail,  March  2,  1704.  9.  Elizabeth, 
February  3,  1706.  10.  Mehitable,  November 
14,  1709.  II.  Joanna,  January  6,  171 1.  12. 
Simon.  September  2,  1713.  Captain  John 
Wingate  died  in  1715. 

(Ill)  Simon,  youngest  son  and  child  of 
Captain  John  (2)  and  Ann  Wingate,  was 
born  on  the  homestead  in  Dover  Neck,  New 
Hampshire,  September  2,  1713,  two  years  be- 
fore the  death  of  his  father,  who  left  him  to 
the  care  of  his  mother  and  eldest  son  John  to 
be  brought  up.  He  sold,  in  1736,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  his  youngest  sister,  Joanna,  to  their 
brother,  Moses  Wingate,  for  thirty  pounds,  "a 
part  of  thirty  acres  of  land  granted  by  Dover 
to  our  honored  father,  John  Wingate,  late  of 
Dover,  deceased."  The  deed  is  dated  May  26, 
1736.  He  removed  from  Dover  to  Biddeford, 
Maine,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  First 
Church  of  that  town,  October  17,  174a,  and 
he  soon  after  was  elected  a  deacon  of  the 
church.  He  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Ebe- 
nezer  and  Abie!  (Snell)  Hills,  and  she  was 
admitted  to  the  First  Church,  November  29, 
1774.  They  had  twelve  children  born  to  them 
in  Biddeford,  as  follows:  i.  Anne.  2.  Eliza- 
beth. 3.  Hannah.  4.  Snell,  baptized  February 
3,  1744.  5.  Simon,  baptized  June  21,  1747. 
6.  John,  baptized  April  8,  1750.  7.  Lydia,  bap- 
tized .April  26.  1752.  8.  Edmond,  baptized 
January  5,  1755.  9. .  10.  Lucy,  bap- 
tized December  25.  1757.  11.  Sarah,  baptized 
March  22,  1761.     12.  Susanna. 

(I\')  Snell,  eldest  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Simon  and  Lydia  (Hill)  Wingate,  was  bap- 
tized February  3,  1744.  He  married  (first) 
Margaret  Emery,  of  Biddeford,  Maine,  who 
died  November  29,  1783,  and  (second)  Me- 
hitable Davis  Crocker,  of  Dunstable,  Massa- 
chusetts, widow  of  Elijah  Crocker,  who  was  a 
sea  captain  and  sister  of  Daniel  Davis,  so- 
licitor-general. After  his  marriage,  Snell  Win- 
gate removed  from  Biddeford  to  Buxton, 
Maine,  and  built  a  house  on  Lot  No.  12, 
Range  D.,  Third  Division.  He  was  a  select- 
man for  eleven  years.  His  five  children  by 
his  first  wife  were:  i.  Molly,  baptized  April 
13,  1770.  married  Daniel  Bradbury,  of  .\thens, 
Maine.  2.  Samuel,  baptized  August  26,  1772. 
3.  Daniel,  baptized  .August  27,  1775  or  1776, 
married  Sarah  Whittier  in  1802,  settled  in 
Buxton  near  his  father,  had  one  son  John, 
who  left  Buxton  and  was  never  heard  from. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


and  his  large  family  of  daughters  married  and 
removed  from  P.uxton.  4.  Abigail,  baptized 
August  3,  1777.  5.  Simon,  born  August  27, 
1780  {t)r  bai)tized  September  i,  1781).  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  6.  Robert  Davis,  born 
August  8.  1789,  died  April  23,  1806.  7.  Elijah 
Crocker,  born  December  17,  1790,  married 
Mary  Lombard,  of  Gorham,  Maine,  and  died 
without  issue.  8.  Snell,  born  August  7,  1792, 
died  1814.  9.  Ansel,  born  March  16,  1794, 
died  1814,  while  a  soldier  in  the  American 
army  in  the  war  of  1812.  10.  Margaret  Em- 
ery,'born  January  3.  1797.  11.  John,  born 
April  28,  1799,  married,  January  22.  1821, 
Salome  Small,  of  Buxton,  Maine,  and  (sec- 
ond), September  22,  1829,  to  Sophronia,  wid- 
ow of  Mr.  Frost.  John  Wingate  lived  in  Gor- 
ham, Maine,  and  had  by  his  first  wife  three 
children  and  by  his  second  eight.  He  died 
at  Gorham,  Maine,  in  1859.  Snell  Wingate, 
his  father,  died  in  Buxton,  Maine,  early  in 
the  nineteenth  century,  but  no  date  is  on  rec- 
ord. 

(\^)  Samuel,  eldest  son  and  second  child  of 
Snell  and  IMargaret  (Emery)  Wingate,  was 
born  in  Buxton  Center,  Maine,  and  baptized 
August  26,  1772.  He  married  Molly  Wood- 
man, of  Buxton,  Maine,  October  17.  1796,  and 
lived  in  West  Buxton,  where  five  children 
were  born  of  the  marriage:  i.  William.  2. 
Edmund,  who  lived  and  died  in  Saco,  Maine, 
and  left  a  son  who  lived  at  Boston.  3.  Mar- 
garet. 4.  Nabby,  married  a  Mr.  Scribner, 
lived  at  Buxton,  Maine,  and  had  three  sons. 
5.  Harriet. 

(\T)  William,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and 
Molly  (Woodman)  Wingate,  was  born  at 
West  Buxton,  Maine,  his  birth  probably  oc- 
curring in  1797  or  1798.  He  was  married  to 
Mary  Ann  Coolberth,  of  Standish,  Maine,  and 
they  lived  first  at  Steep  Falls  in  the  town  of 
Standish  and  later  at  Limerick,  Maine.  He 
was  a  merchant,  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  a  devoted  advocate  of  the  principles  of 
the  Whig  party,  and  as  a  Republican  he  was 
elected  selectman  in  1861.  He  served  in  the 
Thirteenth  Maine  Regiment  in  the  civil  war 
and  was  a  member  of  the  military  order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  L^nited  States.  Will- 
iam and  Mary  Ann  (Coolberth)  Wingate  had 
two  children,  Edwin  R.  and  Mary  Ann. 

(VH)  Edwin  R.,  only  son  of  \^Mlliam  and 
Mary  Ann  (Coolberth)  Wingate,  was  born 
at  Steep  Falls,  town  of  Standish,  Maine.  He 
became  a  merchant,  and  also  held  the  office 
of  postmaster  at  Steep  Falls,  in  the  township 
of  Standish,  Maine.  He  was  also  a  manufac- 
turer.     In    the   civil    war    he    enlisted    in    the 


Thirteenth  Maine  Volunteer  Regiment  and 
served  during  the  entire  war,  receiving  the 
credit  of  being  a  good  soldier,  a  faithful  officer 
and  a  patriot  of  undoubted  repute.  His  church 
affiliation  was  with  the  Free  Will  Baptist  de- 
nomination, and  his  political  faith  was  with  the 
party  that  put  down  the  Rebellion  and  pre- 
served the  L'nion  of  the  states.  He  was  a  com- 
panion of  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal  Le- 
gion of  the  L'nited  States  and  a  cominander 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  mar- 
ried, 1868,  Harriet  Boulter,  of  Steep  Falls, 
and  they  had  three  children:  i.  Edwin  R., 
who  became  a  hotel  clerk  in  Swampscott,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 2.  Thomas  H.,  a  clerk  and  partner 
in  his  father's  business,  t,.  William  W.  (q. 
v.). 

(VHI)  William  W.,  son  of  Edwin  R.  and 
Harriet  (Boulter)  Wingate,  was  born  at  Steep 
Falls,  Standish  township,  Maine,  September  12, 
1870.  He  attended  the  public  school  and  was 
graduated  at  Fryeburg  Academy,  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, and  Harvard  University  Law  School,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  established  him- 
self in  the  practice  of  law  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  v\ith  offices  at  44  Court  street.  He 
became  a  Republican  politician  and  served  as 
counsel  for  the  sheriff  of  Kings  county,  New 
York,  and  as  undersherift"  of  the  county.  He 
was  appointed  attorney  for  the  state  comp- 
troller, January  i,  1909.  He  affiliates  with 
the  Masonic  fraternity  and  with  the  order  of 
Elks,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Republican  Club 
of  New  York,  of  the  Reform  Club  and  of  the 
Maine  Society  of  New  York.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Plymouth  Congregational  Church  of 
Brooklyn.    Mr.  Wingate  is  unmarried. 


The  surname  Burleigh  is  an 
BURLEIGH  ancient  English  family  name. 
The  most  common  spellings 
of  this  name  in  the  early  records  are  Burleigh, 
Burlcy,  Burly,  Birle,  Birley,  Birdley  and  Burd- 
ley.  No  less  than  nineteen  branches  of  this 
family  in  England  had  or  have  coats-of-arms. 
(I)  Giles  Burleigh,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  American  family,  was  an  inhabitant  of 
Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1648,  and 
was  born  in  England.  He  was  a  commoner  at 
Ipswich  in  1664.  He  was  a  planter,  living 
eight  years  on  what  was  later  called  Brooke 
street,  owning  division  lot  No.  105.  situate  on 
Great  Hill,  Hogg  Island.  His  name  was 
spelled  Birdley,  Birdly,  Burdley  and  Budly  in 
the  Ipswich  records,  and  his  name  as  signed 
by  mark  to  his  will  is  given  Ghils  Berdly.  He 
bequeathed  to  his  wife  Elizabeth  (called  else- 
where   Rebecca):    his   son    Andrew:   his    son 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1089 


James  ;  his  son  John,  and  an  uncle  whose  name 
is  not  given.  Theophilus  Wilson  was  execu- 
tor. Deacon  Knowlton  and  Jacob  Foster,  over- 
seers, Thomas  Knowlton  Sr.  and  Jacob  Foster 
the  witnesses.  Soon  after  his  death  his  widow 
was  granted  trees  for  a  hundred  rails  and  a 
hundred  posts,  June  13.  1668.  She  married 
(second),  February  23,  1669,  Abraham  Fitts, 
of  Ipswich.  Children:  i.  Andrew,  born  at 
Ipswich,  September  5,  1657,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Governor  Roger  Conant.  2. 
James,  February  10,  1659,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Giles,  July  13.  1662.  5.  John,  July  13,  1662, 
died  February  27,  1681. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Giles  Burleigh,  was  born 
in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  February  10,  1659, 
died  in  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  about  1721. 
Married  (first).  May  25,  1685,  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Susannah  (Worces- 
ter) Stacy.  She  died  October  21,  1686.  Her 
mother  was  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Witham 
Worcester,  of  Salisbury,  Massachusetts.  His 
sons  Joseph,  Giles,  Josiah  and  James  made  a 
written  agreement  in  1723.  Children:  i. 
William,  born  in  Ipswich.  Massachusetts,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1692-93,  was  at  Newmarket  in  1746. 
2.  Joseph,  April  6,  1695.  3-  Thomas,  .-Vpril  5, 
1697.  4.  James,  Exeter,  1699.  5.  Josiah, 
1701,  mentioned  below.  6.  Giles,  1703,  mar- 
ried, December  9,  1725,  Elizabeth  Joy,  of  Salis- 
bury, Massachusetts. 

(III)  Josiah,  son  of  James  Burleigh,  was 
born  in  Ipswich  in  1701,  died  in  Newmarket, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1756.  He  married  Han- 
nah; daughter  of  Hon.  Andrew  Wiggin,  judge 
of  probate,  son  of  Andrew  Wiggin  (2)  and 
his  wife,  Hannah  (Bradstreet)  Wiggin. 
Thomas  Wiggin,  father  of  Andrew  (2),  was 
the  immigrant,  coming  in  1631  as  agent  for 
the  proprietors  of  New  Hampshire.  Hannah 
Bradstreet  was  a  daughter  of  Governor  Simon 
and  Ann  ( Dudley )  Bradstreet,  ami  grand- 
daughter of  Governor  Thomas  Dudle}-.  A  tract 
of  land  at  Exeter  was  set  aside  for  him  by 
the  committee  in  1718.  He  signed  a  petition 
for  a  bridge  at  Newmarket  in  1746.  Children  : 
I.  Josiah,  died  at  Newmarket,  married  Judith 
Tuttle.  2.  Thomas,  born  about  1730,  men- 
tioned below.     3.  Samuel. 

(IV)  Thomas,  son  of  Josiah  Burleigh,  was 
born  about  1730.  He  was  an  inhabitant  of 
Deerfield,  New  Hampshire,  in  1766,  and  was 
appointed  on  a  committee  to  locate  the  meet- 
ing-house. He  married  Mercy  Norris.  In 
1775  he  settled  at  Sandwich,  New  Hampshire, 
on  what  is  now  known  as  Burleigh  Hill.  He 
was  a  farmer.  Children:  i.  Deacon  Thomas, 
married  (first),  April  6,  1779,  Hannah  Ether- 


idge ;  (second)  Susan,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Lydia  (Hanson)  Watson,  widow  of  Colo- 
nel Lewis  Wentworth,  of  Dover.  2.  Mercy, 
married,  March  5,  1784,  Eliphalet  Smith,  son 
of   Colonel   Jacob   and   Dolly    (Ladd)    Smith. 

3.  Benjamin,  born  about  1755,  mentioned  be- 
low. 4.  Samuel,  died  at  Sandwich,  July  5, 
1851  ;  married,  March  7,  1785,  Ruth,  daughter 
of  Joshua  and  Ruth  (Carr)  Prescott.  5.  Jo- 
siah, died  at  Sandwich,  August  31,  1845;  mar- 
ried, February  27,  1788,  Rosamond  Watson,  of 
Moultonborough,  New  Hampshire.     6.  Dolly. 

(\')  Benjamin,  son  of  Thomas  Burleigh, 
was  born  about  1755,  in  Deerfield,  New  Flamp- 
shire.  He  was  a  merchant,  having  a  general 
store  at  Sandwich.  New  Hampshire,  the  first 
in  that  town.  He  married,  November  23,  1779, 
Priscilla  Senter,  of  Centre  Harbor,  New 
Hampshire,  born  November  i,  1759,  died  Jan- 
uary I,  1819.  She  married  (second)  Colonel 
Parker  Prescott,  son  of  Lieutenant  John  and 
Molly  (Carr)  Prescott,  born  at  Manchester, 
Massachusetts,  April  4,  1767,  died  December 
17,  1849.  Children:  i.  (Tolonel  Moses,  born 
March  25,  1781,  mentioned  below.  2.  Ben- 
jamin, born  at  Holderness,  March  i,  1783,  died 
at  Oakfield,  Maine ;  married  Hannah  Sanborn, 
of  Centre  Harbor.  3.  Thomas,  March  i,  1783, 
married,  April  21.  1808,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Thomas   and  Hannah    (Etheridge)    Burleigh. 

4.  Priscilla,  1785,  married  William  Cox.  5. 
Polly,  born  at  Sandwich,  1787,  died  May.  1831 ; 
married  Captain  Ezekiel  Hoit,  son  of  Joseph 
and  Betsey  Hoit.  6.  Olive,  April  12,  1789. 
7.  — ,  born  1790. 

(\T)  Colonel  Moses,  son  of  Benjamin  Bur- 
leigh, was  born  at  Sandwich,  New  Hampshire, 
March  25,  1781  ;  died  at  Linneus,  Maine,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  i860:  marrietl  Nancy  Spiller.  He 
settled  before  181 2  in  Palermo,  Maine,  where 
he  lived  until  1830,  when  he  removed  to  Lin- 
neus, Aroostook  county,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death.  At  Palermo  he  was  elected  to 
various  offices  of  trust  and  honor.  He  was 
captain  of  the  militia  company  there  when 
called  into  service  in  the  war  of  1812,  and 
marched  with  his  company  to  Belfast  at  the 
time  that  the  British  vessels  entered  the  Penob- 
scot river,  to  destrox'  the  LTnited  States  frigate 
"Adams."  He  was  commissioned  captain  in 
the  Fourth  Regiment,  Second  Brigade, 
Eleventh  Division,  Massachusetts  militia,  in 
1 81 4,  and  promoted  to  lieutenant-colonel  in 
1816.  He  was  a  representative  to  the  general 
court  of  Massachusetts  wdien  Maine  was  a  part 
of  that  state  and  afterward  was  in  the  Maine 
state  legislature.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
convention  in  1816  at  Brunswick,  to  frame  the 


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constitution  for  the  state  of  Maine.  He  car- 
ried the  first  mail  by  carriage  from  Augusta  to 
Bangor,  it  having  been  carried  on  horseback 
previously.  At  Liniieus  he  was  appointed  by 
the  marshal  to  take  the  census  in  the  north- 
ern section  of  Washington  county.  When  he 
was  engaged  in  that  service,  the  provincial 
warden,  alleging  that  he  was  in  disputed  ter- 
ritory in  violation  of  the  provincial  law,  pur- 
sued with  authority  to  arrest  Colonel  Burleigh, 
but  the  latter  was  successful  in  eluding  the 
pursuit  and  completing  his  work.  In  1831  he 
was  appointed  assistant  land-agent,  to  guard 
that  section  of  the  public  lands,  and  in  that 
office  drove  various  parties  of  Canadian  squat- 
ters back  to  the  provinces.  He  was  for  several 
years  postmaster  at  Linneus.  We  are  told  by 
his  biographer  that  he  was  a  man  of  activity, 
energy  and  probity  of  character ;  his  hospi- 
tality was  particularly  marked,  the  hungry 
were  fed  and  the  weary  found  rest  beneath  his 
roof. 

His  wife  died  January  2,  1850,  aged  sixty- 
four.  "She  lived  a  life  of  usefulness,  was  kind 
and  beneficient,  beloved  and  respected  by  her 
numerous  friends."  Children  of  Colonel  Moses 
and  Nancy  ( Spiller)  Burleigh;  i.  Elvira 
Senter,  born  January  7,  1806,  died  October 
27,  -1829.  2.  Benjamin,  March  6,  1809.  3. 
Benjamin,  February  21,  181 1.  4.  Hon.  Parker 
Prescott,  May  16,  1812,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Nancy  Spiller,  married  Jabez  Young,  of  Houl- 
ton,  Maine.  6.  Moses  Carlton,  born  at  Paler- 
mo, May  15,  1818,  married,  1843,  Caroline 
Elizabeth  Frost,  of  Lubec.  Maine.  7.  Samuel 
Kelsey,  January  8,  1820.  married  Keziah  By- 
ron, of  Linneus.  8.  Olley  Seaver,  September 
II,  1822,  died  March  20,  1876;  married  Dud- 
ley Shields.  9.  Rufus  Burnham.  February  g, 
1826,  died  at  Fulton,  Arkansas,  April  30,  1864; 
married,  at  Belfast,  Maine,  September  21. 
1857,  Ann  Sarah  Flanders. 

(VH)  Hon.  Parker  Prescott,  son  of  Moses 
Burleigh,  was  born  in  Palermo,  Maine,  May 
16,  1812.  Fie  was  educated  at  the  Hampden 
Academy,  in  Maine,  and  the  Hartford  (Con- 
necticut) grammar  school,  at  that  time  one  of 
the  best-known  schools  of  the  country.  At 
the  same  time  he  received  instruction  in  mili- 
tary tactics  from  Colonel  Seymour,  afterwards 
governor  of  the  state.  He  removed  with  his 
father  from  Palermo  to  Linneus  in  1830,  and 
devoted  some  time  to  obtaining  instruction  in 
land-surveying.  His  knowledge  of  timber 
lands  in  the  Maine  wilderness  was  excelled  by 
none,  and  he  invested  extensively  in  this  form 
of  property.  He  followed  the  profession  of 
civil  engineering  and  surveying,  in  addition  to 


farming.  As  state  chairman  in  1869  of  the 
Maine  commission  on  the  settlement  of  the 
public  lands  of  Maine,  he  contributed  largely 
to  the  development  and  settlement  of  Aroos- 
took county.  He  was  elected  state  land-agent 
in  1868  and  served  in  that  office  eight  years. 
He  himself  was  one  of  the  pioneers  there,  in 
1830.  and  at  the  incorporation  of  the  town  of 
Linneus  in  1836  he  was  chosen  tow^n  clerk, 
treasurer,  collector  of  taxes  and  chairman  of 
the  school  committee.  Throughout  his  long 
life  he  held  nearly  all  the  time  some  office  of 
trust  and  honor.  In  1839  'i^  \^'^*  commis- 
sioned captain  of  Company  M,  Sixth  Regiment, 
First  Brigade,  Third  Division,  of  Maine  mili- 
tia, and  in  1840  was  elected  lieutenant-colonel 
of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  a  position  he  held 
for  seven  years.  He  was  appointed  county 
commissioner  by  Governor  Kent  in  1841,  and 
was  subsequently  elected  to  that  office ;  was 
county  treasurer  also,  and  postmaster  at  North 
Linneus  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  house  of  representatives  in 
1856-57,  and  a  state  senator  in  1864-65,  1877- 
78.  Fle  was  chairman  of  the  boaid  of  select- 
men several  years.  He  died  April  29,  1899, 
in  Houlton,  Alaine. 

He  married  (first)  Caroline  Peabody,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  and  Sally  (Clark)  Chick,  of 
Bangor.  She  was  born  January  31,  181 5,  died 
April  6,  1 86 1.  He  married  (second)  May  29, 
1873,  Charlotte  Mehitable,  daughter  of  Colo- 
nel James  and  Mehitable  (Jones)  Smith,  of 
Bangor.  Children  of  first  marriage:  i.  Hon. 
Albert  Augustus,  born  at  Linneus,  October  12, 
1841,  married  Lucinda  G.  Collins:  enlisted  in 
the  Union  army  in  the  civil  war  in  1864;  was 
wounded,  taken  prisoner  and  confined  at 
Petersburg  and  Richmond ;  resided  at  Oakfield 
and  Houlton,  Maine ;  was  commissioner  of 
Aroostook  county  twelve  years ;  surveyor  of 
land  by  profession  :  children  :  i.  Everett  Edwin, 
born  November  9.  1862:  ii.  Albert  Augustus, 
January  8.  1864,  died  July  30,  1864;  iii.  Pres- 
ton Newell,  born  at  Oakfield,  February  18, 
1866:  iv.  Park-er  Prescott,  February  15,  1868; 
V.  Frances  Lucinda,  November  19,  1871  ;  vi. 
Harry  Ralph,  October  5,  1874.  2.  Hon.  Edwin 
Chick,  mentioned  below. 

(\'III)  Hon.  Edwin  Chick,  son  of  Hon. 
Parker  Prescott  Burleigh,  was  born  in  Lin- 
neus, Maine,  November  27,  1843.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  at  the  Houlton  Academy,  where  he 
fitted  for  college.  Following  the  example  of 
his  father,  he  educated  himself  as  a  land  sur- 
veyor, a  profession  that  oflfered  excellent  op- 
portunities at  that  time  to  young  men  on  ac- 


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count  of  the  necessity  of  surveying  timber 
lands.  For  a  time  after  leaving  the  academy 
he  taught  school,  but  when  the  civil  war  broke 
out  he  and  his  brother  went  to  Augusta  and 
enlisted  in  the  District  of  Columbia  cavalry, 
but  he  was  rejected,  on  account  of  the  state  of 
his  health,  by  the  e.xamining  surgeon,  Dr. 
George  E.  Brickett.  Disappointed  in  his  am- 
bition to  enter  the  service,  he  accepted  a  clerk- 
ship in  the  office  of  the  adjutant  general  of 
Alaine,  and  remained  to  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  then  followed  his  profession  of  surveyor 
and  the  business  of  farming  until  1870,  when 
he  was  appointed  clerk  in  the  state  land  office 
at  Bangor,  and  two  years  later  made  his  home 
in  that  city.  In  1876-77-78  he  was  state  land 
agent,  and  during  the  same  years  also  assistant 
clerk  of  the  house  of  representatives.  In  1880 
he  was  appointed  clerk  in  the  office  of  the 
state  treasurer  and  removed  permanently  to 
Augusta.  In  1885  he  was  elected  treasurer  of 
the  state,  an  office  that  he  filled  with  con- 
spicuous ability  and  success.  He  was  reelected 
in  1887,  and  in  the  year  following  was  chosen 
governor  of  the  state,  with  a  plurality  of  18,- 
053  votes.  In  i8qo  he  was  reelected  governor 
with  a  phirality  of  18,899  votes.  His  adminis- 
tration of  state  affairs  was  pre-eminently  con- 
structive and  progressive  in  character.  His 
e.xperience  in  public  life,  his  executive  ability 
and  well-balanced  character  fitted  him  admir- 
ably for  the  office  of  governor.  Democratic  in 
his  ways,  indefatigable  in  his  attention  to  the 
varied  duties  of  his  position,  he  strengthened 
himself  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  during  his 
term  of  office.  He  was  popular  and  won  the 
commendation  of  press  and  public  alike.  His 
appointments  were  satisfactory.  His  addresses 
to  the  legislature  and  on  public  occasions 
marked  him  as  a  master  of  e.xpression. 
Through  his  influence  and  action,  the  plan  to 
remove  the  state  capitol  from  Augusta  to 
Portland  was  defeated,  and  an  appropriation 
of  $150,000  made  for  the  enlargement  of  the 
old  state  house.  He  was  chairman  of  the  com- 
mission in  charge  of  the  state-house  addition, 
hicidentally  the  state  saved  at  least  two  mil- 
lion dollars  by  refusing  to  abandon  the  old 
capitol.  In  1899  Governor  Burleigh  became 
chairman  of  a  committee  to  locate  and  pur- 
chase a  permanent  muster  field,  and  after 
something  of  a  contest  he  secured  the  selection 
of  historic  Camp  Keyes,  in  Augusta,  an  ideal 
field  for  the  purpose,  at  a  cost  of  $3,500.  The 
value  of  the  real  estate  has  since  then  tripled, 
and  the  wisdom  of  the  choice  has  been  often 
applauded.  During  the  winter  of  1889  he 
called   attention   through   the   columns  of   his 


newspaper,  the  Kennebec  Jonnial.  to  the 
crowded  condition  of  the  state  insane  hos- 
pital, and  the  legislature  authorized  the  ap- 
pointment of  a  commission  to  purchase 
grounds  near  Bangor  for  the  erection  of  a  new 
state  hospital  for  the  insane.  At  the  sugges- 
tion of  Governor  Burleigh  the  valuations  foi 
the  purpose  of  taxation  were  investigated  by  a 
commission,  and  the  state  valuation,  as  a  con- 
sequence, increased  from  $236,000,000  to 
$309,000,000,  and  a  state  board  of  assessors 
created.  Taxes  have  since  then  been  more 
justly  and  equitably  levied  in  Maine.  In  fund- 
ing the  state  debt.  Governor  Burleigh  effected 
a  substantial  saving  to  the  taxpayers.  At  his 
suggestion  the  legislature  authorized  an  issue 
of  bonds  to  take  up  the  entire  state  debt  which 
was  then  bearing  interest  at  the  rate  of  six  per 
cent.  These  three  per  cent,  bonds  were  sold 
at  a  premium  of  $79,900  and  an  annual  saving 
of  $71,520  effected  at  the  same  time.  In  1891 
he  advocated  the  Australian  ballot  system  in 
his  address  before  the  legislature.  The  house 
of  representatives  voted  against  the  bill,  but 
the  governor  fought  hard,  the  popular  support 
was  given  him,  and  in  the  end  the  bill  was 
enacted.  Since  then,  this  system  of  voting  has 
been  adopted  in  almost  every  state  in  the 
Union.  On  the  recommendation  of  Governor 
Burleigh,  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  agri- 
culture was  given  a  larger  salary  and  quarters 
in  the  state  house,  largely  increasing  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  board.  On  his  recommendation, 
the  appropriation  for  state  aid  for  soldiers,  dis- 
abled veterans  of  the  civil  war,  was  increased 
from  $70,000  to  $135,000.  At  the  same  time 
he  eft'ected  great  improvements  in  the  National 
Guard  of  Maine.  It  was  upon  his  recommen- 
dation that  the  law  was  passed  providing  heavy 
penalties  for  the  careless  setting  of  forest  fires, 
making  the  land  agent  the  forest  commissioner 
of  Maine,  with  wardens  in  every  section.  The 
results  of  this  legislation  have  been  very  ef- 
fectual and  valuable.  When  the  state  library 
was  to  be  moved  to  its  new  quarters  in  the 
State-house  extension  in  1891,  he  advocated  a 
modern  card  catalogue,  the  appropriation  for 
which  was  made,  and  to-day  the  state  library 
of  Maine  in  convenience  and  usefulness  is  sec- 
ond to  none  in  New  England.  During  his  ad- 
ministration, it  should  be  added,  the  rate  of 
taxation  reached  the  lowest  point  in  the  history 
of  the  state,  notwithstanding  the  progress  and 
improvements  mentioned. 

When  his  four  years  as  governor  expired, 
Mr.  Burleigh  had  aspirations  to  go  to  con- 
gress, and  in  the  campaign  of  1892  he  sought 
the  nomination,  against  Hon.  Seth  L.  Milliken, 


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of  Belfast,  then  member  from  the  tliinl  district. 
Mr.  MiUikcn  won  after  a  lively  and  close  con- 
test, and  was  given  the  cordial  support  of  Mr. 
Burleigh.  In  1897,  when  Mr.  Milliken  died. 
the  nomination  was  given  Governor  Burleigh 
by  acclamation.  In  congress  Mr.  Burleigh's 
ability  and  usefulness  have  been  conspicuous. 
His  first  important  achievement  in  congress 
was  the  apportionment  bill  in  the  fifty-sixth 
congress,  when  he  served  on  the  select  com- 
mittee on  the  census.  Chairman  Hopkins,  of 
Illinois,  had  a  bill  for  three  hundred  and  fift}-- 
seven  members,  based  on  a  population  of  208,- 
868  for  each  member,  while  Governor  Bur- 
leigh's bill  provided  for  three  hundred  and 
eighty-six  members,  based  on  a  population  of 
194,182  for  a  district,  the  smallest  number  that 
would  allow  Maine  to  retain  four  members  of 
the  house.  The  Hopkins  bill  was  approved 
by  the  majority  of  the  committee,  but  on  the 
floor  of  the  house  the  Burleigh  bill  was  suc- 
cessful. As  a  legislator  Mr.  Burleigh  has  been 
remarkably  successful,  having  the  tact  and 
ability  to  persuade  others  to  his  way  of  think- 
ing. After  the  custom  of  his  state,  he  has 
been  reelected  at  each  successive  election  to 
the  present  time.  Since  the  death  of  the  late 
Congressman  Boutelle,  Governor  Burleigh  has 
been  Maine's  member  of  the  National  Repub- 
lican Congressional  Committee. 

Mr.  Burleigh  has  large  investments  in  tim- 
ber lands,  especially  in  Aroostook  county.  He 
was  interested  with  his  brother,  Albert  A.,  in 
constructing  the  Bangor  &  Aroostook  railroad 
into  the  Aroostook  wilderness,  an  enterprise 
that  has  had  a  great  influence  in  the  develop- 
ment and  upbuilding  of  that  resourceful  re- 
gion. For  a  number  of  years  past  his  chief 
business  interest  has  centered  in  his  newspaper, 
The  Kennebec  Journal.  Associated  with  him 
in  the  management  and  ownership  is  his  son, 
Clarence  B.  Burleigh,  wdio  holds  the  position 
of  managing  editor,  and  Charles  F.  Flynt,  a 
practical  printer  of  long  experience,  who  has 
charge  of  the  business  department.  When 
congess  is  not  in  session  he  may  nearly  always 
be  found  at  his  desk  in  the  Journal  building,  or 
in  the  private  office  of  his  summer  cottage  on 
the  shore  of  Lake  Cobbosseecontee,  where  he 
spends  part  of  the  summer  with  his  family. 
Congressman  Burleigh  is  a  frequent  contribu- 
tor to  the  newspaper,  which  has  held  its  posi- 
tion and  the  high  reputation  it  won  under  the 
management  of  Luther  Severance,  James  G. 
Blaine  and  John  L.  Stevens  as  an  organ  of  the 
Republican  party,  to  which  the  growth  and 
strength  of  that  party  were  in  no  small  degree 
due.     He  is  a  director  of  the  First  National 


Bank  and  of  the  Granite  National  Bank,  and 
trustee  of  the  Augusta  Trust  Company.  He 
is  a  member  of  Augusta  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M. 

Governor  Burleigh  married.  June  28,  1863, 
Marv  Jane,  born  in  Linneus,  Maine,  November 
9,  1841,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Anna 
( Tyler )  Bither.  Her  father  was  the  son  of 
Peter  Bither,  a  native  of  England,  who  died 
in  Freedom,  Maine,  and  who  served  in  the 
American  army  in  the  revolution.  Benjamin 
Bither  was  in  the  service  in  the  war  of  1812. 
Children:  i.  Clarence  Blendon.  born  at  Lin- 
neus, ?\laine.  November  i,  1864,  graduate  of 
Bowdoin  College  in  the  class  of  1887,  married 
Sarah  P.,  daughter  of  Hon.  Joseph  H.  and 
Nancy  (Fogg)  Quimby,  of  Sandwich,  New 
Hampshire  ;  children  :  i.  Edwin  Clarence,  born 
in  Augusta,  December  9,  1891  ;  ii.  Donald 
Quimby,  born  in  Augusta,  June  2,  1894.  2. 
Caroline  Frances,  born  at  Linneus,  July  23, 
1866.  married  Robert  J.  Alartin,  M.  D.,  of 
Augusta,  whose  father.  Dr.  George  W.  Martin, 
was  a  leading  physician  of  that  city ;  Dr.  Rob- 
ert J.  Martin  was  drowned  June  16,  1901, 
while  attempting  to  rescue  a  drowning  girl ; 
they  had  one  child,  Robert  Burleigh  Martin, 
born  September  3,  1888.  3.  \'allie  Mary,  born 
at  Linneus,  June  22,  1868,  married  Joseph 
Williamson  jr.,  of  Augusta,  son  of  Hon.  Jo- 
seph Williamson,  of  Belfast,  Maine  ;  children  : 
i.  William  Burrill  Williamson,  born  Novem- 
ber 20,  1892;  ii.  Robert  Byron  Williamson, 
born  August  23,  1899.  4.  Lewis  Albert,  born 
at  Linneus.  March  24,  1870,  graduate  of  Bow- 
doin College  in  1891  and  Harvard  Law  School 
in  1894,  is  practicing  law  in  Augusta  with  his 
brother-in-law,  under  the  firm  name  of  Will- 
iamson &  Burleigh  ;  was  city  clerk  of  Augusta  ; 
and  at  present  writing  (1909)  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Maine  House  of  Representatives ; 
married  Caddie  Hall,  daughter  of  Hon.  S.  S. 
Brown,  of  Waterville,  Maine;  child,  Lewis 
.\lbert  Jr..  born  July  20,  1897.  5.  Lucy  Emma, 
born  in  Bangor,  February  9,  1874,  married 
Flon.  Byron  J3oyd,  ex-secretary  of  state  and 
now  (1908)  chairman  of  the  Republican  state 
committee :  son  of  Dr.  Robert  Boyd,  of  Lin- 
neus; children:  i.  Dorothy  Boyd,  born  No- 
vember 12,  1895;  ii.  Robert  Boyd  2d,  born 
Tune  25,  1902;  iii.  Mary  Edwina  Boyd,  born 
December  21,  1903;  iv.  Richard  Byron  Boyd, 
born  December  10,  1904;  v.  Edwin  Burleigh 
Boyd,  born  December  12,  1905.  6.  Ethelyn 
Hope,  born  in  Linneus,  November  19,  1877, 
married,  April  20,  1904,  Dr.  Richard  H. 
Stubbs,  son  of  Hon.  P.  H.  Stubbs,  of  Strong, 
Maine. 

( IX  )  Clarence  Blendon.  eldest  child  of  Hon. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1093 


Edwin  Chick  Durleigh,  was  born  November  i, 
1864,  in  I.inneus,  Maine,  and  educated  in  the 
conmion  schools  of  Bangor  and  Linneus,  and 
New  Hampton  Literary  Institute,  graduating 
in  1883.  He  then  entered  Bowdoin  College, 
from  which  he  graduated  with  the  class  of 
1887,  after  which  he  became  editor  of  the  Old 
Orchard  Sea  Shell,  which  was  published  bj'  the 
Biddeford  Times  until  the  close  of  the  beach 
season,  when  he  returned  to  the  city  of  Au 
gusta,  where  he  purchased  an  interest  in  the 
Kennebec  Journal  in  1887.  In  1896  he  was 
elected  state  printer,  which  office  he  held  until 
igo6.  During  the  years  1896-97  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Maine  Press  Association.  He  has 
been  president  of  the  Augusta  City  Hospital 
since  its  estalilishment :  was  member  of  the 
board  of  assessors  in  1897;  president  of  the 
Augusta  board  of  trade  in  1899-1900;  chair- 
man Republican  city  committee  since  1902. 
He  is  the  author  of  the  following  works : 
"Bowdoin  '87,  a  History  of  Undergraduate 
Days,"  "Camp  On  Letter  K,"  "Raymond  Ben- 
son at  Kranipton,"  "The  Kenton  Pines"  and 
other  works.  He  is  a  member  of  Augusta 
Lodge  of  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  . 
Chushuc  Chapter,  No.  43,  Royal  Arch  Ala- 
sons  ;  Trinity  Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
Augusta,  and  the  Maine  Consistory,  thirty- 
second  degree,  Portland,  Maine ;  also  is  iden- 
tified with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Or- 
der of  Elks.  In  religious  affiliations  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  parish.  iMr. 
Burleigh  was  married,  November  24,  1887,  to 
Sarah  P.  Quimby.  born  May  22,  1864,  in 
Sandwich,  New  Hampshire,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph H.  and  Nancy  P.  ( Fogg)  Quimby.  Their 
children  are :  Edwin  C,  born  December  9, 
1891  ;  Donald  O.,  June  2,  1894. 

(IX)  Lewis  Albert,  son  of  Hon.  Edwin 
Chick  Burleigh,  was  born  in  Linneus,  Maine, 
March  24.  1870.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  at  Bangor  and  Au- 
gusta, graduating  from  the  Cony  high  school 
in  1887  and  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1891. 
He  studied  his  profession  in  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  de- 
gree of  LL.  B.,  in  1894.  In  the  same  year 
he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kennebec 
county,  and  in  October  of  that  year  engaged 
in  practice  in  partnership  with  his  brother-in- 
law,  Joseph  Williamson.  The  firni  has  taken  a 
leading  position  among  the  lawyers  of  the 
state,  doing  a  general  and  corporation  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Burleigh  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  has  been  city  clerk  of  Augusta,  and 


at  present  writing  (1909)  is  a  member  of 
the  Maine  House  of  Representatives.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of  Au- 
gusta;  in  1903  was  appointed  one  of  the  three 
United  States  commissioners  by  Judge  Clar- 
ence Hale,  of  the  L^nited  States  district  court, 
to  succeed  W.  S.  Choate,  and  in  1907  was  re- 
appointed to  this  responsible  office.  He  was  a 
director  of  the  Augusta  National  Bank  until 
it  went  into  liquidation.  Mr.  Burleigh  is  very 
prominent  in  Masonic  circles.  He  is  a  past 
master  of  Augusta  Lodge  of  Free  Masons ; 
member  of  Cusuhue  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons ;  of  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters  ;  of 
Trinity  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and 
has  attained  tlie  thirty-second  degree  in  Ma- 
sonry. He  is  a  member  of  Kora  Temple,  Or- 
der of  the  Alystic  Shrine,  Lewiston.  In  1907 
he  was  master  of  the  Lodge  of  Perfection.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  Augusta  Lodge  of  Odd 
Fellows :  of  Augusta  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias ;  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, and  of  Augusta  Lodge,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  Congre- 
gationalist  and  a  member  of  the  prudential 
committee  of  the  Congregational  church.  He 
married,  October  18,  1894,  Caddie  Hall  Brown, 
born  in  Fairfield,  Maine,  April  22,  1871, 
daughter  of  Hon.  S.  S.  Brown,  of  Waterville. 
Maine  (see  sketch).  They  have  one  child, 
Lewis  Albert  Jr.,  borri  July  20,  1897. 


The   family  of    Dunn    settled    in 
DL'NN     southwest  Maine  many  years  ago. 
and  the  name  of  Jonah  Dunn  ap- 
pears often  in  the  histories  of  the  towns  lying 
along  the  course  of  the  Saco  river.     Several 
Dunns  were  men  of  prominence  there. 

(I)  Jonah  Dunn  lived  in  Cornish,  York 
county.  Maine,  where  he  was  selectman,  1806- 
08-09-15:  there  he  married  and  his  children 
were  born.  In  1826  he  removed  with  his  fam- 
ily to  Houlton.  Their  journey  was  made  in 
the  winter  and  part  of  it  lay  over  the  frozen 
surface  of  the  Baskehegan  river  to  its  head, 
where,  leaving  it,  they  pursued  the  remainder 
of  their  journey  through  woods,  guided  by 
spotted  trees.  He  was  a  Friend,  or  Quaker, 
a  man  of  good  education,  with  a  clear  head 
and  a  keen  power  of  discernment.  He  held 
the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  and  made 
many  conveyances  and  other  papers  requiring 
legal  form.  He  was  familiarly  known  as 
Squire  Dunn.  He  always  used  the  words 
thee  and  thou  when  addressing  another  per- 
son. About  the  time  of  his  settlement  at 
Houlton,  the  British  military  authorities  of 
New  Brunswick  were  bullying  the  settlers  on 


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STATE  OF  MAINI 


American  territory,  and  this  soon  became  un- 
bearable. At  this  juncture,  when  the  settlers 
had  passively  borne  British  insults  for  some 
time,  Jonah  Dunn  said :  "This  state  of  things 
must  not  and  shall  not  continue.  The  federal 
power  we  will  invoke,  and  it  shall  all  be  known 
that  the  United  States  of  America  can  protect 
its  subjects  and  its  territory."  He  wrote  sev- 
eral communications  to  the  papers  of  Maine  re- 
hearsing the  situation,  and  calling  upon  the 
people  to  give  expression  to  their  feeling  upon 
the  subject.  In  the  settlement  he  first  men- 
tioned the  subject  to  John  Hodgdon  in  his 
office,  and  wished  a  petition  to  congress  drawn 
asking  that  Houlton  be  made  a  military  post, 
and  that  an  appropriation  be  made  for  the 
support  of  the  same.  Colonel  Hodgdon  drew 
up  the  petition,  and  it  was  numerously  signed. 
This  was  probably  in  1827.  In  response  to 
this  petition  a  military  post  was  created  at 
Houlton,  a  garrison  established,  and  British 
interference  with  the  settlers  was  forevei 
ended.  He  married  Lydia  Trafton,  who  died 
in  Houlton.  His  death  occurred  in  Augusta. 
(II)  Charles,  youngest  child  of  Jonah  and 
Lydia  ( Trafton )  Dunn,  was  born  in  Cornish. 
December  13.  1813,  died  in  Houlton,  Novem- 
ber, 1897.  He  went  with  his  father  and  fam- 
ily to  Houlton  in  1826.  He  was  fond  of 
horses,  which  he  managed  with  skill,  was  a 
fine  reinsman  and  handled  four  or  six  horses 
as  well  as  men  usually  handle  one.  He  estab- 
lished lines  of  transportation  in  different  di- 
rections from  Houlton,  and  for  twenty-eight 
years  carried  the  mails  from  that  place  to  all 
points  north.  In  connection  with  his  mail 
service,  he  did  a  large  express  business,  and 
carried  many  passengers,  especially  during  tht 
war.  In  1868  others  underbid  him  for  carry- 
ing the  mail,  and  he  sold  the  successful  bid- 
ders his  entire  outfit  and  retired  from  active 
life.  From  that  time  he  lived  quietly  in  Houl- 
ton, speculating  in  farms.  He  was  a  staunch 
Democrat,  but  supported  the  war  measures  of 
the  government.  He  married,  in  1859,  Lydia 
Cloudman,  born  in  Saint  David's  Parish,  New 
Brunswick,  1833,  died  in  Houlton,  June  20, 
1 861,  two  years  after  her  marriage  and  eleven 
days  after  the  birth  of  her  only  child.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  James  Cloudman,  of  Wake- 
field, New  Hampshire,  and  granddaughter  of 
Gilman  Cloudman.  Her  mother  was  Hannah 
(Foster)  Cloudman,  of  Saint  David's  Parish, 
daughter  of  George  and  Cynthia  (Chase) 
Foster,  and  granddaughter  of  Colonel  Benja- 
min Foster,  a  hero  of  two  wars,  a  soldier  in 
Pepperell's  army  at  the  capture  of  Louisburg, 
ancl  the  companion  of  O'Brien  in  the  capture 


of  the  "Margaretta,"  at  Machias,  at  tlie  begin- 
ning of  the  revolution.  James  Cloudman  was 
left  an  orphan  at  a  tender  age,  and  was 
brought  up  by  his  grandfather,  who  lived  at 
Home's  Mills,  Wakefield,  New  Hampshire 
At  eighteen  years  of  age  he  went  to  the  lum 
ber  regions  of  St.  John,  in  New  Brunswick 
Subsequently  he  settled  on  a  farm  at  Oak  Bay, 
in  St.  David's  Parish.  Hearing  of  the  fertile 
country  of  the  Aroostook,  he  went  there  on  a 
tour  of  observation  in  1S44,  and  the  next 
spring  moved  to  Presque  Isle,  where  he 
farmed  continuously  till  1883.  He  was  a  suc- 
cessful farmer,  and  made  a  specialty  of  raising 
fine  beef  cattle.  He  sold  this  farm  in  1883  and 
went  to  the  village  south  of  Presque  Isle, 
where  he  afterwards  resided.  He  died  in  Port- 
land, at  the  residence  of  his  grandson,  Charlci 
Dunn  Jr.,  in  1892.  He  was  six  feet  four  inches 
high,  straight,  lean,  strong  as  a  giant  and 
weighed  two  hundred  pounds.  His  wife,  Han- 
nah Cloudman,  died  in  1889.  Charles  Dunn 
married  (second),  1868,  Jennie,  widow  oi 
George  Bagley  and  daughter  of  George  and 
Cynthia  Whidden,  of  Presque  Isle. 

(HI)  Charles  (2),  son  of  Charles  (i)  and 
Lydia  (Cloudman)  Dunn,  was  born  in  Houl- 
ton, June  9,  1 86 1,  and  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  and  the  Ricker  Institute 
where  he  prepared  for  college.  He  then  began 
the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  General 
Charles  P.  Mattocks,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1885,  after  three  years'  study.  He  en- 
tered upon  the  practice  of  liis  profession,  which 
he  followed  seven  years  in  Portland.  In  1892 
he  was  a  member  of  the  city  council.  In  189a 
he  was  attacked  by  an  illness  which  rendered 
him  an  invalid  for  nine  years,  during  which 
time  he  was  engaged  in  out-of-door  employ- 
ment. Recovering  his  health  in  1901,  he  re- 
ceived the  appointment  as  deputy  from  Sherifl 
Pearson,  who  died  in  1902,  and  was  succeeded 
by  Mr.  Dunn,  who  served  out  the  remaindei 
of  the  term,  about  one  year.  On  leaving  office 
he  became  special  agent  of  the  Equitable  Life 
Insurance  Company,  of  New  York.  He  was 
afterward  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  sheriff 
on  the  Independent  Democratic  ticket  and  was 
defeated.  He  was  master  of  Portland  Lodge, 
No.  I,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  in  1895: 
is  a  member  of  Greenleaf  Royal  Arch  Chapter, 
No.  13,  of  which  he  has  been  an  officer  for 
two  years  past ;  and  Portland  Council,  Royal 
and  Select  Masters.  Charles  Dunn  married, 
in  Portland.  November  21,  1888,  Grace  Eliza- 
beth, born  in  Portland.  November  2,  1862, 
daughter  of  Mark  and  Elizabeth  (Pote)  Wal- 
ton.    Mark  Walton  was  a  designer  of  furni- 


STATE  OF  MALVE. 


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ture,  and  for  thirty  years  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  widely  known  firm  of  Walter  Corey. 
His  father,  Mark  Walton  Sr.,  came  from  the 
Isle  of  Shoals,  and  was  brought  up  by  Judge 
Sewell,  of  York.  Mark  Walton  Jr.  died  about 
1864,  and  his  wife  died  in  1905.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dunn  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church. 
They  have  one  child,  Esther  Cloudman,  born 
May  6,  1891,  now  in  the  third  year  of  the 
Portland  high  school. 


Herbert  S.  Dyer,  only  son  of  Ste- 
DYER     phen     K.     and     Emily     (Jordon) 

Dyer,  was  born  in  Portland,  May 
6.  1858,  and  died  at  Madrid,  December  20, 
1907.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
graduating  from  the  high  school  in  the  class 
of  1876.  He  soon  afterward  went  to  New 
York  City,  where  for  about  twelve  years  he 
was  employed  by  the  E.  S.  Higgins  Carpet 
Company  as  a  house  salesman,  and  later  with 
Arnold,  Constable  &  Company,  in  the  whole- 
sale carpet  department.  During  his  employ- 
ment his  health  failed  to  such  an  extent  that 
it  was  impossible  for  him  to  continue,  and 
from  the  nature  of  the  trouble,  which  was 
caused  by  overwork  and  close  confinement  to 
business,  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  take 
to  horseback-riding  as  an  exercise.  This  sug- 
gested to  him  the  institution  of  a  riding- 
academy,  and  he  established  the  Belmont  Ri- 
ding Academy,  and  conducted  it  for  some  time 
with  success.  He  went  into  other  ventures, 
and  about  1892  returned  to  Portland  to  en- 
gage in  various  patent  enterprises,  the  first 
being  that  of  the  Brooks  Arms  &  Tool  Com- 
pany. This  was  qperated  for  some  time,  and 
then  he  became  interested  in  other  matters. 
About  1900  he  engaged  in  the  life  insurance 
business,  for  which  he  was  fitted  by  nature  to 
perfection,  and  in  which  he  made  a  remarkable 
success.  He  became  state  agency  director  for 
the  New  York  Life,  from  which  he  changed 
some  time  afterward  to  the  John  Hancock,  for 
which  he  was  also  state  agent.  A  few  years 
ago  he  became  the  local  representative  of  the 
New  York  banking  business  of  Kountze 
Brothers,  and  was  with  that  concern  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  had  been  from  his 
youth  an  enthusiast  in  geology  and  mineralogy, 
and  had  always  evinced  an  interest  in  the 
minerals  of  this  state.  He  labored  long  and 
earnestly  before  the  state  board  of  trade  and 
the  legislature  for  an  appropriation  for  a  state 
mineralogist  and  for  a  survey  of  the  state  to 
determine  the  location  and  approximate  ex- 
tent and  value  of  its  mineral  wealth.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  common  council  in  1898-99, 


and  was  president  of  that  body  during  his 
second  term.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  was  an  active  candidate  for  postmaster,  to 
succeed  the  late  Clark  H.  Barker.  For  some 
time  lie  had  been  one  of  the  most  energeticmem- 
bers  of  the  board  of  trade,  and  was  one  of  its 
directors  and  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
entertainment.  In  1907  he  introduced  at  a 
meeting  of  the  board  a  resolution  favoring 
legislative  action  which  should  lead  to  the 
adoption  of  uniform  couplings  for  hydrants 
throughout  the  state.  He  and  his  family  for 
years  before  his  death  were  connected  with  the 
High  Street  Congregational  Church  circles, 
and  there,  as  in  other  associations,  Mr.  Dyer 
was  always  of  assistance  in  the  time  of  need. 
He  was  killed  by  the  accidental  discharge  of 
his  rifle.  Mr.  Dyer  was  well  known  and  uni- 
versally respected  and  liked.  He  was  full  of 
energy,  a  man  of  force  of  character,  which 
gave  him  great  influence  in  board  of  trade  mat- 
ters and  on  public  questions.  In  social  circles 
he  left  a  vacant  place  than  can  never  be  filled. 
Possessed  of  an  unusually  bright  and  cheery 
nature,  people  turned  to  him  as  flowers  to  the 
sunshine,  and  his  presence  at  any  afifair  was 
always  an  inspiration.  To  know  Herbert  S. 
Dyer  was  to  love  him,  and  to  have  the  privi- 
lege of  his  friendship  was  to  have  a  strong 
arm  to  lean  on.  He  was  a  thoroughly  unselfish 
friend,  who  was  never  weary  of  welldoing.  In 
social  life  he  gave  that  which  is  a  rare  thing 
to  find,  a  friendship  on  which  one  could  al- 
ways rely. 

He  married,  July  6,  1880,  Elizabeth,  a  native 
of  Portland,  daughter  of  John  and  Marv  (  Har- 
ris) Bradford.  Mr.  Bradford  was  a  well- 
known  spar-maker  in  Portland.  Children:  i. 
Helen  AI.,  married  Walter  Elden  Smart.  2. 
Edith  Bradford.  3.  Hamilton  H.,  a  student  in 
the  high  school.     4.  Jeannette. 


This  is  not  an  uncommon  name 
HEATH     in    New    England,   although   the 

Heaths  have  not  been  a  prolific 
family.  The  name  comes  here  from  England, 
the  mother  country,  and  was  planted  on  this 
side  of  the  Atlantic  ocean  some  time  previous 
to  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century.  John 
Heath,  brother  of  the  immigrant,  appears  to 
have  received  greater  attention  from  chron- 
iclers of  the  famil\-  history,  but  it  is  doubtful 
if  he  occupied  a  higher  station  in  early  town 
affairs  than  his  brother.  Both  are  frequently 
mentioned  as  Heth,  but  similar  errors  on  the 
part  of  town  and  parish  clerks  are  not  infre- 
quent, and  they  need  not  be  surprising  when 
we    consider    the    verv    limited    education    of 


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STATE  OF  MAIM':. 


those  of  our  New  England  ancestors  who 
came  here  to  dwell  among  Indians,  in  a  wil- 
derness region,  without  more  than  the  plainest 
comforts  of  life,  and  when  schools  for  sev- 
eral years  were  almost  unheard  of. 

(I)  Bartholomew  Heath,  brother  of  John 
above  mentioned,  was  first  of  Newbury,  iVIas- 
sachusctts  Bay  colony,  and  afterward  of  Hav- 
erhill, where  the  greater  part  of  his  Hfe  was 
spent.  Savage  says  he  was  born  about  1600, 
but  other  authorities  say,  with  more  accuracy, 
that  he  was  born  about  1615;  and  he  died 
in  January.  168 1.  Chase,  in  his  "History  of 
Haverhill,"'  says  that  in  1645  "considerable 
land  was  this  year  granted  to  individuals  west 
of  Little  river,  on  the  Merrimack,  and  Hugh 
Sharratt,  Bartholomew  Heath,  James  Fiske 
and  John  Cheuarie  had  liberty  to  lay  down 
their  land  on  the  plain,  and  have  it  laid  out 
over  Little  river,  westward."  In  1646  he 
owned  lands  which  were  estimated  as  of  the 
value  of  one  hundred  and  forty  pounds,  and 
when  plans  were  made  for  another  distribu- 
tion of  the  town's  territory,  called  the  "second 
division  of  plough-lands,"  Bartholomew  Heath 
was  allotted  lot  number  four.  He  was  one 
of  the  signers  of  the  petition  praying  that  the 
penalty  imposed  on  Mr.  Pike  on  account  of 
his  religious  exhortations  be  remitted  him,  and 
in  this  and  many  other  respects  he  appears 
to  have  been  a  leading  man  in  the  town.  In 
1665  with  one  Andrew  Grealey  he  entered  into 
an  agreement  with  the  town  to  set  up  and  keep 
in  repair  the  corn  mill,  operate  it.  and  in  con- 
sideration of  the  expense  they  might  be  put 
to  in  placing  the  mill  in  repair,  the  town  voted 
them  the  right  "to  have  so  much  privilege  of 
the  land  in  the  street  on  both  sides  of  the 
brook  at  the  end  of  Michael  Emerson's  lot  as 
may  be  convenient  to  set  up  another  mill  on, 
or  any  other  place  on  the  town's  land"  ;  and 
the  town  did  also  "engage  that  no  other  man 
shall  set  up  a  mill  or  mills  upon  any  land  that 
is  the  town's,  with  any  order  from  the  town." 
In  other  words  the  town  ordered  that  Barthol- 
omew Lleath  and  Mr.  Grealey  have  an  ex- 
clusive mill  privilege  in  Haverhill,  and  it  may 
be  said  here  that  they  carried  on  this  business 
for  several  years,  to  their  own  profit  and  to  the 
great  convenience  of  the  inhabitants.  Mr. 
Heath's  wife  was  Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Moyce,  and  she  died  in  Haverhill,  July  9, 
1677.  There  does  not  appear  to  be  any  record 
of  their  marriage,  and  from  the  fact  that  they 
had  a  son  Samuel,  whose  name  is  not  given 
among  their  children  born  in  Newbury  or 
Haverhill,  it  may  be  assumed  that  they  mar- 
ried in  old  Guilford,  Surrey,  England,  whence 


they  came  to  this  country ;  and  it  is  probable 
that  this  son  Samuel  either  remained  in  Eng- 
land at  the  time  of  his  father's  immigration  or 
subsequently  returned  there,  married  and  lived 
there  some  years  before  coming  over  again. 
As  shown  by  the  Newbury,  Haverhill  and 
other  records  the  children  of  Bartholomew  and 
Hannah  (Moyce)  Heath  were  Samuel,  John, 
Joseph,  Joshua,  Hannah,  Josiah,  Elizabeth 
(died  young),  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth.  John, 
the  second  child,  was  born  in  1643,  ^"^1  Eliza- 
beth, the  youngest,  was  born  September  5,' 
1658. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Bartholomew  (i) 
Heath,  was  born  in  England,  married  there, 
and  had  children,  among  them  a  son  John. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Samuel  Heath,  was  born 
in  England,  married  there,  and  La;l  children, 
among  them  a  son  Bartholomew. 

(IV)  Bartholomew  (2),  son  of  John  Heath, 
was  born  in  Surrey,  England,  in  1710  and 
came  to  New  England  in  1737.  This  is  stated 
on  the  authority  of  a  private  family  record, 
and  from  the  same  source  it  is  learned  that 
this  Bartholomew  was  the  son  of  John,  and 
that  John  was  the  son  of  Samuel,  and  that 
Samuel  was  the  son  of  the  first  Bartholomew. 
The  last  mentioned  Bartholomew  Heath  mar- 
ried twice,  and  by  his  first  wife  had  one  child ; 
by  his  second  wife  he  had  nine  children.  Soon 
after  the  death  of  his  first  wife  he  settled  in 
Sharon,  Connecticut,  married  his  second  wife 
there  and  raised  a  large  family  of  children. 
His  sons  were  Bartholomew,  Thomas,  Oba- 
diah,  Joseph.  John,  Hezekiah  and  Daniel.  De- 
scendants of  Hezekiah  are  now  living  in  IMil- 
waukee,  Wisconsin,  and  so  late  as  183 1  Thom- 
as and  Obadiah  were  living  on  the  old  farm  in 
Sharon,  and  in  the  old  house  which  their  fa- 
ther had  built  over  a  century  earlier. 

(V)  Bartholomew  (3),  son  of  Bartholomew 

(2)  Heath  and  his  first  wife,  was  born  in 
Lebanon,  Connecticut,  and  was  an  infant  when 
his  mother  died.  He  married  Ann  Millard, 
born  in  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  near  Hart- 
ford, and  by  whom  he  had  three  children:  i. 
Asa.  2.  Nathan,  who  cared  for  his  mother 
after  the  death  of  her  husband.  She  lived  to 
the  good  old  age  of  ninety-nine  years.  3. 
Oliver,  who  entered  the  profession  of  law, 
went  to  England  and  settled  in  Liverpool. 

(VI)  Rev.  Asa    (i),  son  of   Bartholomew 

(3)  and  Ann  (Millard)  Heath,  was  born  in 
Hillsdale,  Columbia  county,  New  York,  July 
31,  1776,  and  married,  March  26,  1801,  Sarah 
^Ioore,  whose  great-grandparents  came  from 
Londonderry.  Ireland,  and  her  grandfather 
was   born   on   board   the   ship   in    which    they 


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came  to  this  country.  They  had  the  grant  of 
Cape  EHzabeth,  but  not  liking  it  exchanged 
it  for  a  township  of  land  in  New  Hampshire, 
now  the  town  of  Derry.  Rev.  Asa  and  Sarah 
(Moore)  Heath  had  two  sons,  Asa  and  Jon- 
athan, and  six  daughters. 

(VH)  Asa  (2),  son  of  Rev.  Asa  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Moore)  Heath,  married  (first)  Mar- 
garet Boynton  and  (second)  Mary  Clary.  He 
was  a  physician  by  profession,  a  Methodist  in 
religious  preference,  and  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. His  children  were  Flavius,  Margaret, 
Alvan  M.  C,  George,  Adelia,  Mary,  Martha, 
■Genevieve,  Olive  and  Eva. 

(Vni)  Alvan  M.  C,  son  of  Dr.  Asa  (2) 
Heath,  was  a  printer  by  trade  and  newspaper 
editor  by  principal  occupation;  a  soldier  of  the 
civil  war  and  was  killed  in  battle  at  Freder- 
icksburg, December  13.  1862.  He  married 
Sarah  H.  Philbrook,  daughter  of  Milton  and 
Ora  (Kendall)  Philbrook,  and  by  whom  he 
had  four  children:  i.  Herbert  M..  born  Au- 
gust 27,  1853.  2.  Willis  K.,  February  12, 
1855.  3.  Dr.  Frederick  C,  1857,  "ow  a  physi- 
cian in  active  practice  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana. 
4.  Dr.  Gertrude  E.,  January  20,  1859,  engaged 
in  medical  practice  at  Gardiner,  Maine. 

(IX)  Herbert  M.,  lawyer,  son  of  Alvan  M. 
C.  and  Sarah  H.  (Philbrook)  Heath,  was  born 
in  Gardiner,  Maine,  August  27.  1853,  and 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
town,  graduating  from  the  high  school  in 
1868,  and  at  Bowdoin  College,  where  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  EJ.  in  1872. 
After  leaving  college  he  devoted  the  next  four 
years  chiefly  to  pedagogical  work  and  during 
the  latter  part  of  that  period  took  up  the  study 
of  law.  In  the  fall  of  1872  he  was  appointed 
principal  of  Limerick  Academy,  Limerick, 
Maine,  remained  there  one  term,  and  from  the 
beginning  of  the  school  year  in  1873  until  the 
close  of  the  session  in  1876,  he  was  principal 
of  Washington  Aca<lemy  at  East  Machias, 
Maine.  In  August,  1876,  he  was  admitted  to 
practice  in  the  courts  of  this  state,  and  since 
that  time  has  been  a  member  of  the  .-\ugusta 
bar  and  has  always  held  a  standing  of  enviable 
prominence  in  all  court  and  professional  cir- 
cles throughout  the  entire  state.  Few  lawyers 
have  more  extended  acquaintance  than  he,  and 
few  indeed  are  they  who  have  given  more 
faithful  service,  whether  as  a  lawyer  at  the  bar 
of  the  courts  or  a  public  servant  in  the  dis- 
charge of  official  duties.  Mr.  Heath  is  a  Re- 
publican in  all  that  the  name  implies,  and 
while  active  in  politics  was  recognized  as  one 
of  the  leading  men  in  the  councils  of  the  Re- 
publican party  in  the  state.   His  political  career 


may  be  said  to  have  begun  when  he  was  a 
boy  of  thirteen  years,  for  in  1866  and  the  next 
succeeding  three  years  he  was  a  page  in  the 
senate  of  the  Maine  legislature.  In  1870  he 
was  appointed  assistant  secretary  of  the  sen- 
ate and  served  in  that  capacity  through  that 
and  the  ne.xt  three  legislative  sessions.  In 
1878  he  was  elected  city  solicitor  of  Augusta 
and  in  1879  was  elected  county  attorney  for 
Kennebec  county,  filling  the  latter  office  for 
three  years.  In  1883  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Maine  house  of  representatives,  served  until 
the  end  of  the  session  in  1886,  in  all  four  years, 
and  during  the  following  four  years,  1887- 
1890,  occupied  a  seat  in  the  senate  of  the 
state.  In  1883  he  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mission appointed  to  revise  the  statutes  of  the 
state.  Mr.  Heath  is  a  Mason,  member  of  the 
various  subordinate  bodies  of  the  craft,  and 
of  the  higher  bodies  up  to  the  thirty-second 
degree ;  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Kennebec  Savings  Bank  and  of  the  Augusta 
Trust  Company ;  member  of  Zeta  Psi  fra- 
ternity, Bowdoin,  and  of  the  Abnaki  Club  of 
Augusta.  He  married  at  East  Machias,  Maine, 
August  2-j,  1876,  Laura  S.  Gardner,  born  East 
Machias,  June  5,  1855,  second  daughter  of 
Daniel  F.  and  Sarah  (Lincoln)  Gardner,  of 
East  Machias.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heath  have  four 
children:  i.  Marion,  born  November  26,  1879. 
2.  Gardner  K.,  May  29,  1886.  3.  Gertrude  L., 
twin  with  Herbert  M.,  April  14,  1892.  4. 
Herbert  M.,  twin  with  Gertrude  L.,  April  14, 
1892. 


Among  the  chief  Anglo-Nor- 
KEATING  mans  who  went  with  Strong- 
bow  to  Ireland  and  received 
large  grants  of  land  were  the  Keatings,  who 
settled  in  Wexford,  and  have  been  one  of  the 
noble  families  since  the  reign  of  King  John, 
the  head  of  the  family  being  the  Baron  of 
Kilmananan.  At  the  time  of  the  first  land- 
ing of  the  Keatings  in  Ireland,  one  is  said  to 
have  exclaimed,  after  a  repulse :  "We  will 
land  by  'hook  or  by  crook,'  which  gave  the 
name  to  two  points  of  land  off  which  lay  the 
boats  which  conveyed  them.  He  thereupon 
took  his  battle-axe,  cut  off  his  right  hand  and 
threw  it  ashore.  By  this  act  he  claimed  to 
have  effected  a  landing,  and  this  is  the  origin 
of  the  Keating  crest — the  "Bloody  Hand." 
Wexford  was  long  known  as  Keating  county, 
but  the  lands  of  the  family  were  confiscated 
in  1798.  From  the  original  settler  of  the  fam- 
ily in  Ireland  has  sprung  a  numerous  progeny 
now  scattered  throughout  the  world. 

(I)  Captain  Richard  Keating,  son  of  Nich- 


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STATE  OF  MAINK. 


olas  and  Ann  (McDonald)  Keating,  was  born 
in  St.  Michael's  parish,  Dublin,  Ireland,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1813,  and  died  in  Brighton,  Eng- 
land, October  i,  1877.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
he  entered  the  service  of  the  Honorable  East 
India  Company,  and  was  under  it  at  St.  Hele- 
na from  1831  to  1844.  In  1840  he  was  one 
of  the  guard  of  honor  on  the  occasion  of  the 
removal  of  the  body  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte, 
the  great  French  emperor,  from  St.  Helena  to 
Paris,  by  consent  of  the  British  government, 
at  the  solicitation  of  Louis  Philippe,  king  of 
the  French.  He  afterward  volunteered  into 
the  Royal  Artillery,  and  in  1869  was  retired 
as  a  captain  on  half-pay,  after  a  continuous 
and  honorable  service  of  thirty-eight  years. 
He  married  (first),  in  1846,  Margaret  Kyle, 
who  died  at  Portsmouth,  England,  December 
30,  1850,  aged  twenty-three  years.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  Sophia  Sarah  Bennison,  born 
January  28,  1830,  eldest  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Ann  Sophia  (Earle)  Bennison,  of  St. 
Pancreas,  London,  England.  Her  father  was 
a  civil  engineer.  Her  mother  was  born  in 
Winchester,  Hampshire.  By  his  first  marriage 
Captain  Richard  Keating  had  a  son,  Richard 
B.,  who  came  to  Massachusetts  about  the  time 
of  the  breaking  out  of  the  great  civil  war ;  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Second  Regiment 
Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery,  with  which  he 
went  to  the  front  and  served  with  honor  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  then  returned  to 
the  LTnited  Kingdom,  and  finally  settled  in 
Scotland,  after  having  served  in  the  British 
army  for  twenty-eight  years.  He  received 
from  the  LTnited  States  a  pension  for  disabili- 
ties contracted  in  service,  and  from  which  he 
died  in  1900.  Other  children  of  Captain  Rich- 
ard Keating's  first  marriage  were :  Mar- 
guerite, who  resided  with  her  stepmother,  in 
Brighton,  England,  and  who  died  in  1905 ;  and 
Nicholas  Henry,  who  died  single,  in  1891. 

(II)  John  Bernard,  only  child  of  Captain 
Richard  and  Sophia  Sarah  (Bennison)  Keat- 
ing, was  born  in  Plumstead,  county  Kent,  Eng- 
land, October  7.  1859.  During  the  years  of 
his  childhood  and  youth  he  resided  in  the 
island  of  Mauritius  for  five  years,  thence  went 
to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  South  Africa,  the 
island  of  St.  Ilelena,  and  to  Gosport,  the  fa- 
mous fortified  seaport  town  opposite  Ports- 
mouth, England,  His  schooling  was  finished 
at  Cordier  Hill  Academy,  in  the  Island  of 
Guernsey,  in  the  English  Channel.  He  grew 
up  in  the  midst  of  a  military  environment,  and 
through  that  influence  developed  a  love  for  the 
army  and  military  aflfairs.  After  acquiring 
proper  instruction  in  military  science,  especial- 


ly in  engineering,  he  joined  the  Royal  Engi- 
neers in  May,  1879,  with  which  corps  he  served 
efficiently  in  Canada,  at  Gibraltar  and  Ber- 
muda. On  account  of  impaired  health  he  re- 
tired from  the  army  in  1886,  and  in  1888  en- 
tered the  British  consular  service  as  a  clerk 
in  Boston.  There,  after  serving  in  various 
grades,  he  was  called  to  the  position  of  acting 
vice-consul,  and  after  serving  as  such  for  six 
months  was  appointed  pro-consul,  and  served 
as  such  for  a  like  period.  So  greatly  was  his 
work  in  Boston  appreciated  that  upon  the 
death  of  Mr.  Starr,  British  vice-consul  at  Port- 
land, Maine,  Mr.  Keating  was  selected  from 
among  a  number  of  likely  candidates  to  be  his 
successor.  He  entered  upon  his  vice-consular 
duties  at  Portland  on  April  2,  1895,  and  has 
now  (1908)  creditably  occupied  that  position 
for  a  period  of  thirteen  years.  At  the  begin- 
ning of  his  term  of  service  the  office  was  not 
regarded  as  particularly  important,  and  the 
duties  of  the  representative  of  the  imperial 
government  were  not  onerous.  To-day,  how- 
ever, largely  through  Mr.  Keating's  initiative, 
*he  British  vice-consulate  is  one  of  the  busiest 
centers  of  the  city,  where  the  maritime  activi- 
ties of  the  port  are  focussed  and  watched. 
He  is  a  very  active  official,  and  has  done  much 
to  foster  friendly  feelings  and  build  up  a  great 
commerce  between  the  United  States  and  Can- 
ada and  the  mother  country.  In  the  Jubilee 
Year  of  Queen  Victoria's  reign  (1897)  it  was 
largely  through  Mr.  Keating's  instrumentality 
that  Her  Majesty's  ship  "Pallas"  entered  the 
port  and  her  company  was  entertained  by  the 
municipality.  Again,  during  the  war  with 
Spain,  the  vice-consul  arranged  and  carried 
through  a  visit  of  Canada's  premier  regiment, 
the  Fihh  Royal  Scots,  as  the  official  guests 
of  Portland,  ostensibly  to  celebrate  the  jubilee 
of  the  Grand  Trunk  railway,  but  in  reality  to 
show  the  people  of  Maine  that  Canada  was  in 
sympathy  with  the  United  States  while  the 
war  drums  were  beating.  Several  times  since 
Canadian  regiments  have  crossed  the  frontier 
in  peaceful  invasion — visits  arranged  by  the 
patriotic  enterprise  of  the  vice-consul  at  Port- 
land. Finally,  it  was  Mr.  Keating  who  planned 
and  carried  out  the  impressive  memorial  serv- 
ice at  St.  Luke's  Cathedral  on  the  death  of 
Queen  Victoria.  The  legislature  at  Augusta 
was  adjourned  as  a  mark  of  respect  and  the 
services  at  the  cathedral  were  attended  by  the 
governor,  his  staff  and  council.  He  was  also 
chiefly  instrumental  in  furnishing  and  main- 
taining a  home  for  seamen  of  all  nationalities, 
which  was  provided  with  reading  room  and 
cheerful  recreations.     That  his  efforts  in  this 


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direction  were  appreciated  b}-  those  who  fol- 
lowed the  sea  was  evidenced  by  their  large  at- 
tendance at  the  institute,  whicltis  now  closed. 
Since  his  installation  in  office  the  shipping  be- 
tween Portland  and  the  ports  of  the  United 
Kingdom  has  increased  about  five  hundred  per 
cent,  a  result  which  may  without  doubt  be 
largely  attributed  to  his  zeal  and  influence. 
As  a  judge  of  British  naval  courts  of  in- 
quiry. Air.  Keating  has  shown  his  ability  and 
force  of  character,  combined  with  justice  and 
mercy.  His  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the 
laws  and  regulations  governing  in  cases  con- 
nected with  shipping  matters  which  come  be- 
fore him  for  adjustment  as  the  representative 
of  Great  Britain  in  a  foreign  port,  is  such  as, 
coupled  with  the  absolute  impartiality  with 
which  his  office  is  administered,  to  have  earned 
for  himself  the  highest  respect  of  the  shipping 
community.  Among  commercial  enterprises 
which  he  has  assisted  may  be  mentioned  the 
large  importation  of  Welsh  coal  to  Portland 
and  other  parts  of  the  New  England  seaboard 
during  the  American  coal  strike ;  and  his  suc- 
cessful assistance  in  the  preliminaries  of  the 
building  of  the  second  Grand  Trunk  elevator, 
at  that  time  the  second  largest  east  of  Detroit. 
Indeed,  it  may  be  truly  said  that  in  all  he  has 
undertaken,  as  a  public  functionary,  Mr.  Keat- 
ing has  proved  himself  the  right  man  in  the 
right  place,  and  his  success  has  been  unfailing. 
On  the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  His  Royal 
Highness  the  Prirxe  of  Wales  to  St.  John, 
New  Brunswick,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Keating  were 
presented  to  him,  and  they  were  shown  excep- 
tional honor  at  that  time.  Mr.  Keating  has 
been  commodore  of  the  East  End  Yacht  Club, 
and  he  occupies  at  the  present  time  the  unique 
position  of  British  vice-consul  and  honorary- 
member  of  the  Portland  Naval  Reserve. 
AA'iiile  commodore  of  the  yacht  club  he  insti- 
tuted the  beautiful  custom  of  strewing  the  sea 
with  flowers,  which  is  now  universally  carried 
out,  thus  revering  the  memory  of  the  deceased 
seamen  of  the  civil  war,  as  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  honors  its  soldier  dead  by  the 
decoration  of  their  graves.  Twice  during  his 
residence  in  Portland  has  a  British  fleet  an- 
chored in  his  district.  At  Bar  Harbor,  at  the 
dinner  given  by  the  petty  officers  of  the  Amer- 
ican navy  to  the  petty  officers  of  the  British 
navy,  and  to  the  sergeants  of  the  British  ma- 
rine, Mr.  Keating  was  called  upon  for  a 
speech,  and  in  happy  vein  struck  so  responsive 
a  chord  in  the  hearts  of  his  hearers  that  at  the 
close  of  his  address  he  was  lifted  on  the  shoul- 
ders of  his  auditors  and  carried  about  the 
banquet   hall  to  the  strains  of  "He's  a   jolly 


good  fellow."  Similarly,  on  the  last  visit  of 
the  British  fleet,  Mr.  Keating  presided  as 
chairman  of  the  banquet  given  by  the  Ameri- 
can warrant  officers  to  the  warrant  officers  of 
the  British  navy. 

Mr.  Keating  is  a  Free  Mason,  raised  in  1885 
in  Broad  Arrow  Lodge  in  Bermuda,  under 
the  Grand  Registry  of  England ;  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Civil  and  Military  Lodge  in 
Bermuda  under  the  Grand  Registry  of  Scot- 
land, and  an  honorary  life  member  of  the  lat- 
ter lodge ;  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  under  the 
Grand  Registry  of  Ireland ;  and  an  affiliated 
member  in  Mount  Vernon  Chapter,  Portland ; 
he  was  made  a  Knight  Templar  of  St.  Alban 
Commandery,  Portland,  and  afterward  an  hon- 
orary member  of  Sussex  Preceptory  of  Knights 
Templar  of  Sherbrooke,  Province  of  Quebec; 
he  is  also  a  member  of  Karnak  Temple,  An- 
cient Arabic  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of 
Montreal.  He  is  a  member  of  the  British  Na- 
val and  I\Iilitary  Veterans  of  Massachusetts,  of 
the  United  States  Naval  Reserves  at  Portland, 
an  honorary  member  of  Bosworth  Post,  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  Portland,  and  an  hon- 
orary member  of  the  British  Empire  Club  of 
Boston. 

Mr.  Keating  was  married  in  Devonshire 
Church,  Bermuda,  July  6.  1886,  to  Emily  Han- 
nah .'\da  Hoare,  born  in  Queensland,  Aus- 
tralia, 1864,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Buckler 
and  Esther  (Firman)  Hoare,  of  Warminster, 
Wiltshire,  England,  she  being  a  connection  of 
the  prominent  Buckler  family  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Keating  have  had 
four  children:  i.  Percy  Firman,  born  in  At- 
lantic. Massachusetts,  March  i,  1888,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Bishops  College  School,  Canada, 
and  now  engaged  in  the  insurance  business. 
2.  Mildred  Sophia,  born  in  I-Iyde  Park,  Mas- 
sachusetts. November  29,  1889,  who  was  edu- 
cated in  private  schools.  3.  Harold  John  Buck- 
ler, born  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  March 
15,  1893.  4.  Charlotte  Buckler,  born  in  Ash- 
mont,  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  T»ly  IS> 
1895. 


(For  preceding  generation  see  Robert  Quiraby  I.) 

(II)  Robert  (2),  second  son  of 
QUINBY  Robert  (i)  and  EHzabeth  (Os- 
good) Quimby,  was  born  in 
Amesbury,  and  resided  in  that  town.  He  was 
given  a  seat  in  the  meeting  house  in  1699,  and 
was  one  of  "the  five  late  constables"  who  were 
prosecuted  on  October  18,  1708,  for  not  ma- 
king up  their  accounts  according  to  law.  His 
estate  was  administered  June  6,  1715,  and 
divided  in  December  of  the  same  vear.     He 


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had  three  sons  and  three  daughters:  Joseph, 
John.  Mary,  Benjamin,  Hannah  and  Anne. 
(Different  branches  of  the  family  spell  their 
name  Ouimbv  and  Quinby. ) 

(III)  Inseph,  eldest  child  of  Robert  (2) 
and  Mary  ( )ninbv.  resided  in  Amesbury  and 
was  known  as  "junior"  until  1736.  on  account 
of  an  uncle  who  bore  the  same  name.  He 
married  Lydia  Hoyt,  daughter  of  John  (3) 
and  Elizabeth  (Challis)  Hoyt,  granddaughter 
of  John  (2)  and  great-granfldaughter  of  John 
(i)  Hoyt,  of  Amesbury.  She  was  born  June 
15,  1686,  in  Amesbury,  and  was  the  executrix 
of' her  husband's  estate,  appointed  September 
30,  1745-  The  children  of  Joseph  Quinby 
we're:  Joseph  and  Benjamin  (twins).  Ann, 
Hannah,  Daniel  (died  young),  Robert,  Daniel 
and  probably  Mary. 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  child  of  Joseph  (i) 
Quinby,  was  born  171 5,  probably  in  Ames- 
bury, and  settled  in  1740  at  Falmouth,  now 
Portland,  Maine,  where  he  was  an  industrious 
and  successful  citizen,  acquiring  considerable 
property  and  becoming  prominent  in  the 
community.  After  the  burning  of  Portland, 
he  joined  his  twin  brother  Benjamin,  who  was 
a  mill-owner  in  Saccarappa,  :Maine,  and  there 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  died 
April  14,  1776.  He  was  married  (intentions 
published  September  28,  1740)  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Parsons) 
Haskell.  She  was  born  April  22  1722,  and 
died  April  12,  181 5.  Their  children  were: 
Mary,  Rebecca,  Joseph,  Sarah,  Eunice,  Thom- 
as, Marv.  Captain  John  and  Levi. 

(V)  Captain  John,  third  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Mary  (Haskell)  Quinby,  was  born  May 
12,  1760,  at  Falmouth,  "and  died  September 
27,  1806,  at  Stroudwater.  His  entire  life  was 
passed  in  that  vicinity  and  he  was  a  ship- 
owner. Two  of  his  ships  were  captured  by  the 
French  in  1799.  He  was  married,  October 
31,  1782,  to  Eunice,  daughter  of  Joshua  and 
Lois  (Pearson)  Freeman.  She  was  born  Jan- 
uary 18.  1762,  and  died  December  12,  1790. 
They  were  the  parents  of  six  children:  i. 
Eunice,  born  1783,  married  Ezekiel  Day.  2. 
Thomas,  September  18,  1784,  died  October  22, 
1802.  3.  Moses,  April  19,  1786.  4-  Le^'.  No- 
vember 12,  1787,  married  Mary  Titcomb.  5. 
George,  May  22,  1789,  died  September  21, 
1790.    6.  Infant,  born  and  died  in  1790. 

(VI)  Moses,  son  of  Captain  John  and 
Eunice  (Freeman)  Quinby.  was  born  April  19, 
1786,  at  Stroudwater,  Maine,  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Philips  Exeter  Academy  and  was  one 
of  the  six  constituting  the  first  graduating 
class   of   Bowdoin   College   in    1804.      He    re- 


ceived his  early  legal  training  in  the  office  of 
Stephen  Longfellow,  of  Portland,  Alaine,  and 
was  an  active  and  successful  lawyer  and  the 
most  prominent  person  in  the  community  at 
Stroudwater,  where  he  died  May  6,  1857.  He 
was  married,  December  31,  1809,  to  Anne  Tit- 
comb,  who  was  born  June  17,  1789,  and  died 
April  2,  1859,  daughter  of  Andrew  Philips 
and  Mary  (Dole)  Titcomb.  Their  children 
were:  Andrew  T.  (died  young),  Mary  Anne, 
Andrew  T.,  Eunice  Day.  John,  Almira  and 
Thomas. 

(\TI)  Thomas,  second  son  of  Moses  and 
Anne  (Titcomb)  Quinby,  was  born  December 
15,  181 3,  in  Stroudwater,  and  died  there  June 
18,  1885.  He  was  a  civil  engineer  and  became 
superintendent  of  the  Portland  and  Rochester 
railroad  and  managing  agent  of  the  Saco  Wa- 
terpower  Company,  which  latter  position  he 
held  to  the  end  of  his  business  career.  He  was 
married  in  1835  to  Jane  Elizabeth  Brewer, 
born  March  22,  1819,  in  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  died  March  3,  1903,  in  Portland, 
Maine.  Their  children  were  :  Lucretia,  Henry 
Brewer,  Frederick  and  Thomas  Freeman. 

(VIII)  Henry  Brewer,  eldest  son  of  Thom- 
as and  Jane  E.   (Brewer)    Quinby.   was  born 
June   10,   1846,  in  Biddeford,  Maine,  and  be- 
gan his  education  in  the  schools  in  his  native 
town.     He  continued  his  preparation  for  col- 
lege at  the  Nichols  Latin  School  in  Lewiston 
and  graduated  from   Bowdoin  College  in  the 
class  of  1869.  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. ;  three 
years  later  his  alma  mater  honored  him  with 
the  degree  of  A.  M.     Shortly  after  graduation 
he  became  identified  with  the  Cole  Manufac- 
turing  Company,    at    Lakeport.    New    Hamp- 
shire, with   which  he  has  continued  until  the 
present  time,  having  risen  to  the  position  of 
president  and  treasurer  of  the  concern.      He 
has  taken  the  foremost  place  among  the  busi- 
ness  men   of   Laconia.  of   which    Lakeport   is 
a  suburb,   and   has   filled   with   unfailing  suc- 
cess numerous  positions  of  trust.     He  is  now 
president  of  the  Laconia  National   Bank,  one 
of  the  most  successful  financial  institutions  in 
that  city.    While  he  is  actively  engaged  in  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Quinby  has  always  had  time  for  the 
encouragement   of   the    leading   and   uplifting 
cities  of  the  community  in  which  he  resides. 
He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  political  affairs, 
and  though  not  a  professional  orator  has  con- 
tributed much  by  his  addresses  to  the  success 
of  his  party.     At  the  age  of  twenty-six  years 
Mr.  Quinby  was  appointed  colonel  on  the  staff 
of  Governor  Straw  and  held  this  position  two 
years.     In  1887  he  was  elected  representative 
to  the  general  court,  and   served   in   the   fol- 


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lowing  session,  and  in  1889-90  was  state 
senator  from  his  district.  In  igoi-02  he 
was  a  member  of  the  governor's  council,  and 
was  chairman  of  the  state  prison  commit- 
tee of  the  council  during  this  incumbency. 
He  had  long  been  a  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Insane, 
and  these  services  made  him  familiar  with 
the  practical  management  of  New  Hamp- 
shire institutions.  In  1892  the  Republican 
party  of  the  state  chose  him  delegate-at-large 
to  the  National  Convention  at  Minneapolis, 
and  at  the  State  Convention  at  Concord  in 
i8g6  he  acted  most  acceptably  as  chairman. 
His  frequent  appointment  on  various  conven- 
tions, on  committees  and  on  resolutions,  offer  a 
tribute  to  his  literary  ability.  In  recognition 
of  his  valuable  public  services  he  was  selected 
as  its  candidate  for  the  highest  office  in  the 
state,  that  of  governor,  and  in  November,  1908, 
he  was  elected  to  that  position.  In  religious 
matters  Colonel  Ouinby  is  a  Unitarian.  He 
was  married,  June  22,  1870,  to  Octavia  M. 
Cole,  daughter  of  Hon.  B.  J.  Cole,  of  Lake- 
port.  They  are  the  parents  of  a  son  and  a 
daughter.  The  elder,  Candace  Ellen,  is  the 
wife  of  Hugh  N.  Camp  Jr.,  residing  in  New 
York  City,  and  has  a  son,  Hugh  N.  Camp  (3). 
(IX)  Henry  Cole,  only  son  of  Henry  B. 
and  Octavia  M.  (Cole)  Quinby,  was  born  at 
Lake  Villasje,  New  Hampshire,  July  9,  1872. 
Graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1894  and 
from  the  Harvard  Law  School  two  years  later, 
and  is  now  practicing  law-  in  New  York  City. 
He  married  Florence  A.,  daughter  of  Charles 
W.  and  Amanda  (  Hoag)  Cole. 


Sir  John  Leavitt  was  born  in 
LEA\TTT  England  and  probably  in  Dor- 
setshire in  1608.  He  was  of 
the  Teutonic  race,  their  language  modified  by 
the  periods  of  .\nglo-Saxon  Old  English, 
Middle  English  to  Modern  English  usage.  His 
advent  in  New  England  was  but  eight  years 
after  the  "Mayflower"  passengers  landed  at 
Plymouth  and  his  first  home  in  America  bor- 
dered on  the  Plymouth  Colony.  He  was  un- 
disputably  the  first  of  the  name  of  Leavitt  to 
make  a  home  in  the  New  World. 

{ I )  John  Leavitt  was  about  twenty  years  old 
when  he  reached  the  shores  of  the  New  World. 
He  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  the  common 
land  known  as  Mattapan,  which  plantation, 
September  7,  1630,  was  established  under  the 
direction  of  the  general  court  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony  as  the  town  of  Dorchester. 
John  White,  the  first  minister  of  the  church 
established  as  the  nucleus  of  the  town,  and  his 


followers  were  mostly  from  Dorsetshire,  Eng- 
land, and  they  gave  to  the  new  town  the  name 
of  the  municipal  borough  and  capitol  of  the 
shore  Dorchester,  located  eight  miles  north  of 
the  seaport  at  Weymouth,  from  which  port 
they  probably  took  ship  for  New  England,  and 
it  is  safe  to  presume  that  John  Leavitt  was  a 
Dorsetshire  man.  The  settlement  at  Matta- 
pan antidated  the  settlement  of  the  town  of 
Charlestowne,  Watertown,  Roxbury  and  Bos- 
ton, although  the  general  court  established  the 
town  government  of  Charlestown,  August  23, 
1630,  and  of  Boston,  Dorchester  and  Water- 
town  on  September  7,  1630,  and  of  Roxbury, 
September  28,  1630.  In  1633  the  town  of  Dor- 
chester was  described  as  "ye  greatest  towne  in 
New-  England."  John  Leavitt  appeared  be- 
fore the  general  court  and  took  the  freeman's 
oath  March  3,  1636,  he  having  removed  from 
Dorchester  to  that  part  of  the  colony  which 
included  the  common  lands  known  as  Borilove, 
established  as  the  town  of  Hingham,  Septem- 
ber 2.  1635.  He  was  deacon  of  the  church  for 
many  years;  was  selectman  of  the  town  1661- 
63-65-68-72-74  and  1675  ;  was  a  representative 
in  the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  Colony 
1656-64,  and  held  other  offices  of  trust  and 
honor  in  the  town  and  colony.  He  was  mar- 
ried about  1636  but  the  name  of  his  wife  is 
not  recorded.  She  died  July  4,  1646,  and  he 
married  for  his  second  wife  Sarah ,  De- 
cember 16,  1646,  died  May  26,  1700.  Deacon 
John  Leavitt  was  by  trade  a  "tayler,"  and  died 
in  Hingham,  November  20,  1691,  aged  eighty- 
three  years.  The  children  of  Deacon  John 
Leavitt  by  his  first  wife  were:  i.  John,  of 
Hingham,  born  1637,  married  Bathsheba, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Peter  Hobart,  June  2-],  1664. 
He  died  soon  after,  and  his  wife  married,  No- 
vember 19.  1674,  Joseph  Turner.  2.  Hannah, 
baptized  April  7,  1639,  married  John  Lobdell, 
of  Hull.  3.  Samuel,  baptized  April,  1641,  re- 
moved to  Exeter,  New  Hampshire.  4.  Eliza- 
beth, baptized  April  8,  1644,  married  Samuel 
Judkins,  March  25,  1667.  5.  Jennial,  baptized 
March  i,  1645-46,  removed  to  Rochester, 
Plymouth  Colony.  Children  of  John  Leavitt 
and  his  second  wife,  Sarah:  6.  Israel  (q.  v.), 
baptized  April  23,  1648.  7.  Moses,  baptized 
April  12,  1650,  removed  to  Exeter,  New 
Hampshire.  8.  Josiah,  May  4,  1653.  9.  Ne- 
hemiah,  January  22,  1655-56.  10.  Sarah,  Feb- 
ruary 25.  1658-59,  married  Nehemiah  Clapp, 
of  Dorchester,  and  as  her  second  husband 
Samuel  Howe.  11.  Mary,  June  12.  1661,  mar- 
ried Benjamin  Bates,  of  New  London,  Con- 
necticut, October  10,  1682.  12.  Hannah  (2d), 
March   20,    1663-64.   married   Joseph   Loring, 


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October  25,  1683.  13.  Abigail,  December  9, 
1667,  married,  January  20,  1685-86,  Isaac 
Lasell. 

(II)  Israel,  eldest  cliild  of  Deacon  John,  the 
immigrant,  and  Sarah  Leavitt,  was  baptized  in 
the  church  in  Hingham,  Plymouth  county, 
April  23,  1648.  He  was  a  husbandman  by  oc- . 
cupation,  and  was  married,  January  10,  1676, 
to  Lydia,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Remem- 
ber (Morton)  Jackson,  of  Plymouth,  and  they 
had  nine  children,  as  follows:  i.  John,  July 
6,  1678.  2.  Israel,  August  i,  1680.  3.  Solo- 
mon (q.  v.),  October  24,  1682.  4.  Elisha,  July 
16,  1684.  5.  Abraham,  November  2j,  1686. 
6.  Sarah,  February  8,  1688.  married  John 
Wood,  of  Plymouth,  February  10,  1797-98.  7. 
Lydia,  born  1691,  married.  May  23,  1712.  Jon- 
athan Sprague,  of  Bridgewater.  8.  Hannah, 
June  30,  1693,  married  James  Hobart,  Decem- 
ber II,  1718.  9.  Mary,  February  18,  1695, 
married  Ebenezer  Lane.  Israel  Leavitt  died  in 
Hingham.  December  26,  1696,  and  his  widow 
Lydia  (Jackson)  Leavitt,  married  as  her  sec- 
ond husband,  Preserved  Hall. 

(III)  Solomon,  third  son  of  Israel  and 
Lydia  (Jackson)  Leavitt,  was  born  in  Hing- 
ham, Massachusetts,  October  24,  1682.  He  re- 
moved from  Hingham  to  Pembroke,  Plymouth 
county,  probably  at  the  establishment  of  the 
town  March  21,  1712,  when  the  territory  in- 
cluded in  the  new  town  was  set  off  from  that 
part  of  Duxbury  called  Alattakeeset,  a  tract 
of  land  known  as  the  Major's  Purchase,  and 
the  land  called  Marshfield  Upper  lands  of  Mat- 
takeeset. 

(IV)  Jacob,  son  of  Solomon  Leavitt,  was 
born  in  Pembroke,  Plymouth  Colony,  February 
4,  1732.  He  was  married  by  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Leires,  of  Pembroke,  on  March  15,  1753,  to 
Sylvia,  daughter  of  Ichabod  and  Mary  (Tur- 
ner) Bonney,  of  Pembroke.  She  was  born  in 
Pembroke,  September  3,  1733,  and  died  in 
Turner,  Maine,  December  31,  1810.  Jacob 
Leavitt  removed  from  Pembroke  to  Turner, 
Androscoggin  county,  Maine,  August  6,  1778, 
with  his  wife  and  family  of  seven  children, 
having  been  preceded  in  1772  by  his  son  Jo- 
seph, who,  with  Daniel  Staples,  Thomas  and 
Elisha  Records  and  Abner  Phillips,  became 
pioneers  in  Sylvester  Town,  a  township  grant- 
ed by  the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  in 
1765  to  the  heirs  of  Captain  Joseph  Sylvester 
and  his  company  for  services  rendered  in  Can- 
ada in  1690,  and  a  lien  of  a  grant  previously 
made  to  lands  in  New  Hampshire.  These  five 
pioneers  were  voted  a  bounty  of  £10  on  condi- 
tion of  "completing  the  terms  of  settlement." 
The  proprietors  at  Pembroke,  July   19,   1774, 


selected  Ichabod  Bonney  to  go  to  Sylvester- 
Canada,  Maine,  and  forward  the  building  of  a 
saw  and  grist  mill.  This  was  the  beginning 
of  the  town  of  Turner,  Maine,  and  in  1778 
Jacob  Leavitt,  with  his  wife  and  family,  made 
the  journey  to  the  new  land  discovered  by  his 
son  Joseph,  and  became  prominent  settlers, 
making  tbeir  home  in  the  house  erected  by 
Uieir  son.  The  venerable  pioneer  was  the  patri- 
arch of  the  Leavitt  families  of  Turner.  Jacob 
Leavitt  died  in  Turner,  Maine,  January  25, 
1 814,  aged  eighty-two  years.  He  was  the  fa- 
ther of  thirteen  children,  born  of  his  marriage 
with  Sylvia  Bonney  and  of  a  second  wife.  Of 
these,  Joseph  (q.  v.),  born  in  Pembroke.  Mas- 
sachusetts, 1755-56;  Sylvia,  married  Levi  Mor- 
rill ;  Tabitha,  married  Benjamin  Jones ;  Isaiah, 
married  Lydia  Ludden,  September  7,  1797;  Ja- 
cob, married  Rhoda  Thayer ;  Anna,  married  a 
Mr.  Stockbridge  ;  Cyrus,  married  Sarah  Pratt : 
Sarah,  married  Jeremiah  Dillingham:  Isaac, 
married  Ruth  Perry  in  1797.  Fle  married  as 
his  second  wife  Hannah  Chandler,  who  bore 
him  two  children,  and  his  third  wife  had  no 
children. 

(V)  Joseph,  eldest  son  of  Jacob  and  Sylvia 
(Bonney)  Leavitt,  was  born  in  Pembroke, 
Plymouth  county,  Massachusetts  in  1755  or 
1756;  was  one  of  the  first  of  the  young  men 
of  Pembroke  to  enter  for  service  in  the  patriot 
cause  in  the  American  revolution.  He  served 
one  enlistment  of  three  months,  when  he  de- 
termined to  "raise  bread  for  the  soldiers,"  and 
he  went  to  Maine  to  assist  in  the  survey  of 
the  lands  granted  to  soldiers  for  former  serv- 
ice to  the  colony.  He  was  eighteen  years  old 
when  he  was  assisting  in  the  survey  of  the 
township  in  Androscoggin  county,  Elaine,  and 
liking  the  county  he  expressed  to  the  surveyors 
a  desire  to  settle  there,  and  he  was  assigned 
a  lot  in  Sylvester  township,  next  to  the  meet- 
ing house  lot  on  Upper  street,  and  he  returned 
the  next  spring  alone  and  lived  in  the  wilder- 
ness with  only  savages  about  him,  and  he 
made  a  clearing  and  erected  a  block  house. 
He  sowed  seed  from  which  he  realized  a  good 
crop.  Lie  aided  in  founding  the  town,  which 
was  first  named  Sylvester  and  then  Turner,  in 
honor  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Turner,  the  first 
minister.  He  built  the  first  frame  building 
in  the  town,  which  became  known  as  the  Jo- 
seph Leavitt  place,  planted  the  first  apple  trees 
and  raised  the  first  apples.  He  maintained  his 
house  as  a  home  for  travelers,  although  he 
never  put  out  a  sign  that  w'ould  indicate  it 
was  a  tavern.  He  married,  in  1778,  Anna, 
daughter  of  Moses  and  Hannah  Davis  Ste- 
vens, of  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  and  the  is- 


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sue  of  this  marriage  was  eight  children,  the 
■eldest,  Joseph,  being  the  first  white  child  born 
in  Turner,  Maine.  By  his  second  wife,  Han- 
nah (Chandler)  Leavitt.  he  had  two  children, 
and  his  third  wife,  Elsie  (Croswell)  Leavitt, 
was  childless.  The  children  of  Joseph  Leavitt 
were  remarkable  for  longevity,  most  of  them 
living  beyond  threescore  years  and  ten,  some 
of  them  attaining  fourscore  years  and  over. 

(VI)  Ichabod,  son  of  Joseph  and  Anna 
(Stevens)  Leavitt,  was  born  in  Turner,  Maine, 
and  as  a  young  man  served  in  the  war  of  1812. 
He  married  Aseneth  Bryant  and  they  had  chil- 
dren born  in  Turner,  Maine,  and  brought  up 
•on  the  farm  carried  on  with  thrift  and  profit  by 
his  father. 

( VII)  Leonard,  son  of  Ichabod  and  Aseneth 
(Bryant)  Leavitt.  was  born  in  Turner,  Maine. 
When  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  left  the  farm 
and  worked  in  the  construction  of  the  Grand 
Trunk  railroad,  making  his  residence  at  Ox- 
ford, Maine.  He  was  married  May  30,  1828, 
to  Olive  A.,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth (Witham)  Goss,  of  Danville,  Maine.  He 
left  railroad  building  in  1866  and  retired  to 
his  farm  near  Turner,  where  he  died  in  July, 
1907,  having  nearly  reached  the  one  hundredth 
year  of  his  age.  Children:  i.  Ida  B.,  mar- 
ried Rufus  Haskell,  of  Turner.  2.  Etta  F., 
married  F.  E.  Whiting,  of  Turner.  3.  Frank 
L.,  married  Mary  Cobb,  of  Auburn.  4.  Fred 
L.  (q.  v.).  5.  Jennie  L.,  born  October  21, 
1864,  married  Isaac  Chase,  of  Turner. 

(\TII)  Fred  L.,  second  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Leonard  and  Olive  A.  (Goss)  Leavitt,  was 
born  in  Oxford,  Maine,  December  7,  i860.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Turner  while  as- 
sisting in  the  cultivation  of  his  father's  farm, 
and  when  twenty  years  old  he  left  the  farm 
and  took  a  course  in  surgical  dentistry  at  the 
Philadelphia  Dental  College,  graduating  D.  D. 
S.  in  1888.  He  practiced  his  profession  in 
Lewiston,  Maine,  up  to  November,  1903.  when 
he  became  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  \'ic- 
toria  Manufacturing  Company  of  Auburn, 
Maine,  manufacturers  of  acetylene  generators. 
He  affiliates  with  the  Republican  party,  and  in 
1906  served  as  a  member  of  the  common  coun- 
cil of  the  city  of  Auburn,  and  in  1907  was 
president  of  the  council.  His  fraternity  affilia- 
tions are  with  the  Masons,  Odd  Fellows,  and 
Patrons  of  Husbandry.  He  was  vice-president 
of  the  National  Photographers  Association  of 
America,  Department  of  the  State  of-  Maine. 
His  religious  afiiliation  is  with  the  Methodist 
denomination  and  with  his  family  he  attends 
the  High  Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
•of  Auburn.     He  married.  December  24,   1889, 


Cynthia  E.,  daughter  of  William  and  Fannie 
(Delano)  Dustin,  and  a  descendant  of  Hannah 
Dustin,  the  unfortunate  captive  and  subse- 
quent heroine  in  the  Indian  warfare  at  Haver- 
hill, Massachusetts.  The  children  of  Dr.  Fred 
L.  and  Cynthia  E.  (Dustin)  Leavitt  are: 
Madge  Dustin,  Frank  L.  and  Dorothy  L. 
Leavitt. 


(For   early   generations   see   preceding   sketch.) 

(V)    Isaac,  son  of  Jacob  and 
LEAVITT     Sylvia  (Bonney)  Leavitt,  mar- 
ried   and    had    a    son    Branch, 
born  at  Turner,  Maine. 

(VI)  Branch,  son  of  Isaac  Leavitt,  married 
Lucy  Pratt,  and  was  a  farmer  in  the  township 
of  Turner,  Maine. 

(VII)  Lewis,  son  of  Branch  and  Lucy 
(Pratt)  Leavitt,  was  born  in  Turner,  Maine, 
May  II,  1834.  He  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  and  continued  the  occupation  of 
his  forefathers  in  that  town,  that  of  farming. 
He  was  a  progressive  agriculturist,  and  from 
raising  sweet  corn  for  the  market  simply,  as 
a  farmer,  he  in  1880  combined  the  business  of 
canning  the  corn,  establishing  a  cannery  in 
Livermore,  which  he  successfully  conducted 
for  nine  years,  selling  it  out  in  1889  to  the 
Baxter  Canning  Company.  His  church  affilia- 
tion, like  that  of  his  progenitors  for  three  or 
more  generations,  was  with  the  Universalist 
Society,  until  his  first  marriage,  when  he  be- 
came a  Baptist  and  remained  so  until  his  death. 
He  was  originally  a  Free  Soil  Whig  and  went 
with  the  adherents  of  that  party  to  the  ranks 
of  the  Republican  party  in  1856.  He  joined 
the  Masonic  fraternity  early  in  life,  and  was 
advanced  to  high  degree  in  that  ancient  order. 
He  was  married  (first)  to  Persis  Berry,  by 
whom  he  had  two  children — Abbie  B.  and 
Fred  A.  He  married  (second)  Betsey  Jane, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Bisbee,  and  by  her  he 
had  two  children,  one  dying  in  early  infancy, 
and  a  son,  A.  Judson,  born  April  15,  1877. 
His  second  wife  died  October  15,  1903.  and 
he  died  in  Livermore,  Maine. 

(VIII)  A.  Judson,  son  of  Lewis  and  Betsey 
Jane  (Bisbee)  Leavitt,  was  born  in  Livermore, 
Maine,  April  15,  1877.  Fie  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Livermore  and  Hebron  Academy 
and  on  leaving  school  became  a  clerk  and  stu- 
dent in  pharmaceutics  in  a  drug  store  in  Dix- 
field.  and  after  two  and  a  half  years  practical 
training  in  the  business  he  completed  his  pro- 
fessional training  in  the  Massachusetts  College 
of  Pharmacy,  graduating  with  the  class  of 
1903.  He  spent  six  months  of  1905  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  on   returning  home  he  located   in 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Brunswick,  Maine,  where  in  1906  he  estab- 
lished one  of  the  most  finely  equipped  and  up- 
to-date  drug  stores  in  the  state  of  Maine.  He 
was  married  October  4,  1899,  to  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  Wallace,  of  Windsor, 
New  Brimswick,  and  they  made  their  home  in 
Brunswick,  Maine.  Their  children  are  Thel- 
ma  Arlene,  born  in  Livermore,  and  Edessa  Ra- 
mona,  born  in  Brunswick. 


Abraham  Leavitt,  without 
LEAVITT  doubt  a  descendant  of  Deacon 
John  (i)  Leavitt,  of  Hing- 
ham,  was  a  resident  of  Scarborough,  Maine, 
w-as  a  prominent  citizen,  well  known  to  the 
citizens  of  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century  as  "SheriiT  Leavitt."  He  was  hon- 
ored with  the  friendship  and  confidence  of  Sir 
William  Pepperell,  with  whom  in  some  way  he 
had  an  intimate  connection.  He  was  the  an- 
cestor of  all  the  Leavitts  living  in  Scar- 
borough. 

(1)  Aaron  B.  Leavitt  was  born  in  Scarbor- 
ough, where  he  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools.  He  early  went  to  sea  and  in  time  be- 
came captain  and  part  owner  of  various  ves- 
sels, which  at  different  times  he  commanded. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  ]\Ietho  list 
Episcopal  church.  He  married  (first)  Diana 
Seavey;  children:  Abiathar  W.,  George  W., 
Aaron,  John,  Francis  W.,  Anne,  Amos  C,  El- 
len. He  married  (second)  a  Miss  Richardson. 
By  her  he  had  Alvan,  Diana,  Edna,  Clarabella, 
I  ouisa  and  Sarah. 

(H)  Francis  Woods,  fourth  son  of  Aaron 
B.  and  Diana  (Seavey)  Leavitt,  was  born  at 
Saco  Ferry,  York  county,  February  18.  1831. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and 
like  his  father  betook  himself  to  the  sea  at  an 
early  age.  His  first  voyage  was  as  a  member 
of  the  crew  of  a  ship  commanded  by  his  broth- 
er. Captain  Aaron  Leavitt.  In  a  comparative- 
ly short  time  he  became  captain  and  part  owner 
of  the  ship  "Franconia."  In  1880  he  left  the 
sea,  after  being  a  mariner  many  years,  and 
settled  at  Saro,  where  he  engaged  in  the  coal 
trade,  doing  a  flourishing  business  for  about 
ten  years.  He  died  April  29,  1890.  He  was 
a  parish  member  of  the  Unitarian  church  of 
Saco ;  in  politics  a  Republican ;  of  a  retiring 
disposition,  never  seeking  public  office.  He 
married,  August  29,  i860,  Sarah  O.,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Joseph  P.  and  Elizabeth  (Foss)  Grant, 
of  Saco.  Dr.  Joseph  Perkins  Grant  was  born 
in  Saco,  and  was  of  Scotch  parentage.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Saco  and  sub- 
sequently graduated  from  Bowdoin  College 
and    practiced    metlicine    at    Saco    for    many 


years,  lie  took  high  rank  in  his  profession 
and  was  one  of  the  prominent  physicians  of 
Maine  in  his  day.  He  died  July  2},,  1881.  He 
was  a  Republican  and  an  attendant  of  the  Uni- 
tarian church.  He  married  Elizabeth,  of  Sal- 
mon I-'alls  daughter  of  XMlliam  and  Olive 
(Seavey)  Foss.  She  died  February  17,  1901. 
Their  children  were :  Sarah  O.,  mentioned 
above;  Marianna,  married  Amos  C.  Leavitt; 
George  C,  unmarried ;  lawyer  in  Saco.  Chil- 
dren of  Francis  W.  and  Sarah  O.  (Grant) 
Leavitt  were:  i.  Elizabeth  A.,  born  April  23, 
1862,  died  young.  2.  Josephine  G.,  June  23, 
1865,  married  Dr.  F.  P.  Graves,  of  Saco.  3. 
Anna  E.,  October  2,  1866,  married  Herbert 
R.  Jordan,  of  Saco.  4.  Frank,  May  18,  1870, 
died  young.  5.  Frank  G.,  August  29.  1873, 
married  Grace  Pillsbury,  of  Biddeford,  now 
a  jeweler  in  Portland.  6.  Henry  F.,  June  8, 
1876,  electrician.  New  Haven,  Connecticut; 
married  Florence  Belcher,  of  California.  7. 
Philip  .\.,  March  21,  1881,  dentist,  Providence, 
Rhode  Island. 


Identical  w  i  t  h  Wad- 
W^ADSWORTH  worth,  Waddeworth, 
Wadeworth,  Waddes- 
worth,  Wordsworth,  Wardysworth.  XN^ordis- 
worth  and  Wordsworth,  and  derived  from 
Woods  Court  or  court  in  the  woods.  The  last 
visit  of  the  good  ship  "Lion"  to  Boston  har- 
bor, Massachusetts  Bay,  was  in  1632.  This 
ship,  wdiich  had  brought  so  many  sturdy  ad- 
venturers to  the  same  port,  had  on  board  one 
hundred  and  twenty-three  passengers,  of 
whom  fifty  were  children,  and  Captain  Pierce, 
on  entering  the  harbor  and  casting  anchor  on 
Sunday  evening,  September  16,  1632,  reported 
his  passengers  in  good  health,  although  they 
had  been  on  shipboard  twelve  weeks  and  eight 
weeks  had  elapsed  since  he  left  Lands  End, 
England.  On  this,  her  last  visit  to  JNIassachu- 
setts  Bay,  she  first  sighted  land  at  Cape  Ann, 
and  was  held  in  the  bay  five  days  before  an- 
choring in  the  harbor  owing  to  a  thick  fog. 
The  passenger  list  was  not  preserved  intact, 
and  only  about  thirty  of  the  names  are  re- 
corded, among  them  William  Wadsworth  and 
family  of  four.  Wlien  the  passengers  were 
discharged  the  ship  took  on  freight,  including 
nine  hundred  beaver  skins  and  two  hundred 
skins  of  the  otter,  and  on  leaving  the  harbor, 
November  4,  1632,  was  bound  for  James- 
town, 'Virginia,  as  w-as  customary,  intending 
to  clear  thence  to  England.  While  in  Bos- 
ton Captain  Pierce  had  accompanied  Governor 
Winthrop  and  others  on  an  overland  trip  to 
Plymouth.    The  next  heard  of  the  ship  "Lion" 


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1 105. 


was  that  she  ran  on  a  shoal  in  Virginia  bay, 
and  all  but  ten  of  the  crew  perished.  The 
object  of  this  introductory  statement  explains 
the  appearance  of  the  name  of  one  of  the  pas- 
sengers of  the  "Lion"  on  the  list  of  passengers. 
This  name  is  that  of  William  Wadsworth,  a 
descendant  of  a  long  line  of  ancestry  dating 
from  Peter,  son  of  Henry  de  Wodsvvorth,  who 
was  contemporaneous  with  King  John,  sur- 
named  Lackland,  brother  of  Richard  Lion- 
heart,  who  appointed  him  his  successor  to  the 
throne,  and  he  became  King  of  England  in 
1 199,  and  was  compelled  to  sign  the  Magna 
Charter  in  1215,  the  repudiation  of  which  char- 
ter thereafter  caused  war  with  the  barons,  dur- 
ing the  waging  of  which  he  died  at  Newark, 
October  19,  12 16.  The  line  of  descent  from 
Peter  includes  lords,  barons,  esquires  and  men 
of  letters  and  of  the  church.  The  relationship 
of  William  Wadsworth,  one  of  the  passengers 
of  the  ship  "Lion,"  with  Xtopher,  is  later 
shown  to  have  been  established,  and  the  claim 
that  William  and  Christopher  came  on  the 
same  ship  and  were  brothers  is  well  estab- 
lished. While  William  Wadsworth  was  the 
progenitor  of  the  family  in  Connecticut  and 
New  York,  Christopher  is  the  common  ances- 
tor of  the  Wadsworths  of  Maine  and  Massa- 
chusetts, including  Henry  Wadsworth  Long- 
fellow, the  poet. 

(I)  Christopher  Wadsworth,  or  as  his  name 
was  early  written,  Xtopher  Waddesworth, 
landed  in  Boston  by  the  ship  "Lion,"  Septem- 
ber 16,  1632.  His  birthplace  in  England  has 
not  been  ascertained,  nor  his  positive  parent- 
age. The  name  of  Thomas  Wadsworth  is 
written  before  that  of  Christopher  in  a  family 
Bible  printed  in  London  by  Benham  Norton 
and  John  Bell,  1625,  formerly  the  property  of 
Rev.  John  Pierce,  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts, 
and  descended  to  his  son,  John  T.  Pierce,  of 
Geneseo,  Illinois,  which  Bible  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  Samuel  W.  Cowles,  of  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  and  was  examined  by  Mr. 
Horace  A.  Wadsworth,  of  Lawrence,  Massa- 
chusetts. Mr.  Wadsworth  copied  the  inscrip- 
tion found  in  the  handwriting  of  Christopher 
Wadsworth,  the  immigrant,  which  reads : 
"Christopher  Wadsworth  His  Book 
"Christopher  and  William  Wadsworth  landed 

in  Boston  by  ye  ship  Lion. 
"i6th  September,  1632,  together  in  ye  ship." 
And  elsewhere  in  the  same  Bible  he  found  the 
name  of  Thomas  Wadsworth  before  Chris- 
topher's in  such  a  way  as  to  convey  the  idea 
of  its  being  the  name  of  his  father.  Kent, 
Braintree,  Chelmsford  in  Kent,  and  the  Pala- 
tinate of  Durham  are   each  entitled   to  some 


consideration  as  his  birthplace  or  residence. 
Kent  probably  has  the  strongest  claim.  We 
find  Christopher  Wadsworth  in  Duxbury, 
Plymouth  colony,  in  1633,  and  he  was  elected 
a  constable  in  January,  1634,  the  highest  office 
in  the  gift  of  the  town,  and  on  him  devolved 
the  duty  of  jailor,  sheriff  in  executing  punish- 
ments and  penalties,  crier  to  give  warning  in 
church  of  the  marriages  approved  by  the  civil 
authorities,  sealer  of  weights  and  measures, 
and  surveyor  of  lands.  His  name  appears  on 
every  page  of  the  town  records  of  the  time, 
and  shows  his  life  in  Duxbury  to  have  been 
one  of  incessant  activity.  He  was  deputy,  se- 
lectman, surveyor.  He  owned  land  at  Holly 
Swamp  as  early  as  1638,  and  in  1655  bought 
more  land  of  John  Starr  and  Job  Cole.  He 
erected  a  house  about  a  mile  west  of  Captains 
Hill  near  the  new  road  to  Kingston,  and  his 
lands  ran  down  to  the  bay  formerly  known  as 
Morton's  Hole.  The  place  remained  in  the 
Wadsworth  family  up  to  1855,  when  it  was 
sold  after  the  death  of  Joseph  F.  Wadsworth 
in  that  year,  and  it  passed  out  of  the  family. 
The  immigrant  made  his  will  July  31,  1677, 
and  it  was  filed  at  the  Plymouth  court  in  Sep- 
tember, 1678,  and  it  is  between  these  dates 
that  his  death  occurred.  He  made  provisions 
for  his  wife  Grace  and  daughter  Mary  An- 
drews, gave  his  home  place  to  his  son  John  and 
part  of  his  Bridgewater  grants  and  other  lands 
to  his  son  Joseph,  having  in  his  lifetime  deeded 
part  of  his  Bridgewater  grants  to  his  son  Cap- 
tain Samuel,  of  Milton,  who  married  Abigail 
Lindall,  and  was  killed  fighting  the  Indians 
at  Sudbury,  1676.  The  children  of  Christo- 
pher, the  immigrant,  and  Grace  (Cole)  Wads- 
worth were:  Samuel  (q.  v.).  Joseph,  Mary 
and  John.    Joseph  and  John  lived  and  died  in 

Duxbury,  and  ]\Iary  married Andrews, 

and  was  a  widow  at  the  time  her  mother  made 
her  will,  January  13,  1687,  which  instrument 
was  proved  June  13.  1688. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Christopher  and  Grace 
(Cole)  Wadsworth,  was  born  in  Duxbury, 
Plymouth  colony,  and  he  there  married  Abi- 
gail Lindall,  whose  parents  were  neighbors  of 
the  Wadsworths.  They  removed  to  Milton, 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  where  he  was  cap- 
tain in  the  militia,  and  he  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  while  in  command  of  his  company  at 
Sudbury,  1676,  leaving  a  widow  and  seven 
children.  His  widow  died  in  Milton  in  1687. 
The  children  of.  Captain  Samuel  and  Abigail 
(Lindall)  Wadsworth  were:  i.  Christopher, 
born  in  1661,  died  in  1637.  and  his  tombstone 
is  the  oldest  in  the  Milton  burying  ground, 
consequently   he    must    have    died    before    his 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


mother,  whose  death  occurred  in  the  same  year. 

2.  Ebenezer  (q.  v.),  horn  1660.  3.  Timothy, 
1662.     4.   Joseph,    1667.     5.    Benjamin,    1670. 

6.  Abigail,  1672.  married  Andrew  Boardman. 

7.  John,  1674,  died  1734,  according  to  tomb- 
stone in  the  jMilton  burying  ground. 

(III)  Ebenezer,  eldest  son  of  Captain  Sam- 
uel and  Abigail  (Lindall)  Wadsworth,  was 
born  in  Milton,  Massachusetts,  in  1660.  He 
was  a  deacon  in  the  First  Church  in  Alilton, 

and   married    Mary  ■ .      His   tombstone, 

now  standing  in  the  church  burying  ground 
near  that  of  his  brother  Christopher,  which  is 
the  oldest  in  the  grounds,  records  the  date  of 
her  death  as  1717.  The  children  of  Ebenezer 
and  Mary  Wadsworth  were:     i.  Mary,  born 

1684,  married   a    Mr.    Simpson.      2.    Samuel, 

1685.  3.  Recompense,  1688.  4.  George  (q.  v.). 

(IV)  George,  youngest  child  of  Ebenezer 
and  Mary  Wadsworth,  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Stoughton,  Massachusetts,  was  ensign  in 
Captain  Gofi'e's  company  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war,  attained  considerable  military  re- 
nown and  was  always  addressed  as  Ensign 
George.  He  married  Hannah  Pitcher,  and 
their  children  were  :  1.  Lydia,  born  in  Stough- 
ton, 1720.     2.  Esther,   1722,  married  E.  May. 

3.  Ruth,  1724,  married  E.  Tilden.  4.  Christo- 
pher, 1727.  5.  Recompense,  1729.  6.  Susanna, 
1731.    7.  John  (q.  v.). 

(V)  John,  youngest  child  of  George  and 
Hannah  (Pitcher)  Wadsworth,  was  born  in 
Stoughton,  Massachusetts,  1735.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  American  revolution,  and  died 
from  disease  contracted  while  in  the  patriot 
army.  He  was  married  in  1759  to  Jerusha 
White,  and  they  had  children:  i.  Susanna, 
born  Stoughton,  Massachusetts,  1761,  married 
Joseph  Cheney.  2.  John,  1763.  3.  Jerusha, 
1764,  married  Stewart  Foster.  4.  Eunice, 
1766,  married  Daniel  Robbins.  5.  Mar\-,  1768, 
married  Ezra  Briggs.  6.  Aaron.  1770,  mar- 
ried Lucy  Stevens.  7.  Miriam,  1772.  8. 
Moses   (q.  v.). 

(VI)  Moses,  son  of  John  and  Jerusha 
(White)  Wadsworth,  was  born  in  Stoughton, 
Massachusetts,  1774.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  a  farmer,  his  farm 
being  located  on  the  Neck  at  Litchfield,  IMaine, 
and  he  was  an  elder  in  the  Friends  Society 
for  forty  years.  He  removed  to  Litchfield, 
Maine,  in  1798,  and  they  had  twelve  children, 
as  follows:  i.  Daniel,  born  Litchfield,  Maine. 
May  15,  1799,  married  Margaret  F.  Goodwin, 
and  lived  in  Auburn,  Illinois.  2.  Ephraim, 
born  March  16,  1801,  married  Sarah  Bailey, 
September  22,  1825,  and  lived  on  his  father's 
farm    on    the    Neck,    Litchfield,    Maine.      3. 


Thomas,  born  May  9,  1803,  married  Ro.xanna 
Webber  in  1830.  4.  Peleg,  born  May  1,  1805, 
married  Emily  Stone.  5.  Anna  F.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1807.  married  Nathaniel  Webber. 
6.  Eunice,  born  October  25,  1808,  married, 
February  26,  1829,  William  Farr.  7.  Miriam, 
born  February  i,  181 1,  married  Andrew  Pink- 
ham,  and  lived  in  West  Gardiner,  Alaine.  8. 
Moses  Stevens  (q.  v.)  9.  Joshua,  born  Jan- 
uary 2,  1817,  married,  1842,  Sarah  J.  McGraw. 
ID.  Sybil,  born  April  2,  1819.  died  1843.  H- 
Nathan,  born  October  26,  1823,  died  February 
8,  1824.  12.  John  W.,  born  October  26.  1824, 
died  in  November,  1846.  Elder  Moses  Wads- 
worth died  in  Litchfield,  Maine,  December  21, 
1851. 

fVII)  Moses  Stevens,  son  of  Elder  Moses 
and  Hannah  (Stevens)  Wadsworth,  was  born 
in  Litchfield,  Maine,  (3ctober  29,  1814.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder,  as  well  as  a 
cabinet  maker,  having  learned  the  respective 
trades  in  Gardiner,  Maine.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Company  K,  Ninth  New  England  Regi- 
ment, in  the  Mexican  war,  and  on  returning 
from  the  seat  of  war  in  Mexico  he  continued 
the  business  of  house  building  and  cabinet 
work  in  Gardiner  in  the  volunteer  army,  being 
a  member  of  Company  C,  Third  Maine  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  and  he  was  with  the  regiment 
in  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run,  July  21,  1861, 
and  the  succeeding  battles  in  which  the  Third 
Maine  engaged  up  to  the  disbanding  of  the 
regiment  in  1864,  after  three  years'  service. 
He  then  re-enlisted  in  the  Veteran  Corps  of 
Volunteers  known  as  Hancock's  Corps,  and 
he  served  with  that  organization  up  to  the 
close  of  hostilities  in  1865,  when  he  received 
an  honorable  discharge,  but  he  kept  up  his 
interest  in  military  affairs  as  lieutenant  of  the 
Artillery  Company  of  Gardiner.  He  repre- 
sented the  choice  of  the  Republican  party  in 
the  office  of  councilman  in  the  city  government 
of  Gardiner.  He  was  a  class  leader  and  val- 
ued worker  in  the  Metliodist  church  ;  was  a 
member  of  Gardiner  Lodge,  Independent  Or- 
der of  Odd  Fellows ;  a  member  of  Harmon 
Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ; 
served  the  city  of  Gardiner  as  chief  of  the 
fire  department  and  chief  of  the  police  depart- 
ment. The  latter  years  of  his  life  he  spent 
retired  of  the  cares  of  business.  He  was  mar- 
ried, October  31,  1837,  to  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Knox  and  Hannah  (Soule)  Knox, 
of  Gardiner.  Their  children  were :  Charles 
Osgood,  born  September  8,  1839 ;  Ada  F., 
Frederick  A.,  Margaret  E.,  Elenora  H.  Moses 
Stevens  Wadsworth  died  in  Gardiner,  Maine. 
November  30,  1875,  and  his  widow,  Margaret 


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(Osgood)   Wadsworth,  died  in  the  same  city, 
in  the  home  of  her  married  life,  1906. 

(VIII)  Charles  Osgood,  eldest  son  of  Moses 
Stevens  and  Margaret  (Osgood)  Wadsworth, 
was  born   in   Gardiner,   Maine,   September  8, 
1839.     He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Gardiner  and  West  Gardiner,  learned  the 
carpenter  and  joiner  trades  from  his   father, 
and  continued  in  that  vocation  for  four  years, 
1858-62.     In   1862  he  volunteered  his  service 
in  the  Union  army  for  the  suppression  of  the 
rebellion  of  the  Southern  states,  in  which  serv- 
ice his   father  had  already  been   actively  en- 
gaged since  June,  1861,  and  he  was  assigned 
to    the    Sixteenth    Maine    Volunteer    Infantry 
and  assigned  to  Company  B  of  that  regiment. 
He  was  with  his  regiment  in  the  Fredericks- 
burg  and   Chancellorsville   campaign    in    Vir- 
ginia,  the    Gettysburg  campaign   in    Pennsyl- 
vania, the  Rappahannock  and  Wilderness  cam- 
paigns under  General  Grant,  and  he  took  part 
in  all  the  eventful  battles  of  these  memorable 
campaigns,  including  the  terrible  slaughter  at 
Cold  Harbor.     He  then  was  in  the  final  cam- 
paign in  front  of  Petersburg  that  resulted  in 
the  fall  of  that  city  and  of  Richmond,  and  the 
surrender  of  Lee's  army  at  Appomattox.  While 
in  front  of  Petersburg  he  was  wounded  in  the 
knee,  June  21,  1864,  by  a  rifle  ball,  and  he  was 
sent    to    the    Stanton    Hospital,    Washington, 
from  where  he  heard  of  the  closing  events  of 
the  war,  and  on   sufficiently   recovering   from 
his  wound  he  was  sent  home  on  furlough  and 
assigned  to  the  care  of  the  chief  surgeon  of 
the  General  Hospital  at  Augusta,  Maine,  where 
he  remained  until  September,    1865,  when  he 
was   honorably   discharged    from   the   service. 
As  he  was  still  suffering  from  lameness,  the 
result   of   his    severe    wound,   he   engaged    in 
peddling  tinware  and  produce  from  a  wagon, 
making    his    headquarters    at    Gardiner,    and 
traversing  the  highways  of  Kennebec  county. 
This  open-air  occupation  aided  in  resting  his 
broken  health,  and  after  four  years  occupied 
in  peddling,  he  accepted  the  position  of  book- 
keeper for  William  (jrant,  engaged  in  the  gen- 
eral merchandising  business  and  remained  in 
his  salesrooms  for  four  years,  after  which  he 
was  bookkeeper  for  various  establishments  in 
the  trade  for  six  years.    He  then  secured  from 
the  Republican  party,  of  which  he  was  a  mem- 
ber, the  position  of  city  clerk  by  election,  and 
he  took  office  in   March,   1878    and  has  been 
continued   in   that  ofiice  to  the  present  time. 
He  is  a  comrade  of  Health  Post,  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  quartermaster  of  United  Vet- 
eran Union  since  1873,  and  has  served  as  com- 
mander and   adjutant  of  the   command.     He 


has  also  served  as  quartermaster-general  of 
the  Union  Veteran  Union  Department  of 
Maine.  He  was  also  made  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  Veterans  in  acknowledgment  of  the 
service  of  his  father  in  the  civil  war,  being  as- 
sociated with  Staples  Camp  of  Augusta, 
Maine. 

He  was  married,  October  17,  1873,  to  Angle 
M.,  daughter  of  Stephen  C.  and  Prudence 
(Fisher)  Baldwin,  of  Laconia,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  their  children,  both  born  in  Au- 
gusta, Maine,  are:  Mildred  B.,  November  15, 
1877,  a  graduate  of  the  high  school  at  Gardi- 
ner. Frank  C.  September  17,  1880,  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  was  reporter  for  the 
Kciincbcc  Journal  for  a  time,  and  now  (  1908) 
is  with  the  Plympton  Press,  at  Norwood,  Mas- 
sachusetts, these  children  are  in  the  ninth 
generation  from  Christopher  Wadsworth,  the 
Plymouth  colony  immigrant,  Christopher  (  i ) , 
Samuel  (2),  Eb'enezer  (3).  George  (4),  John 
(5),  Moses  (6),  Moses  S.  (7),  Charles  Os- 
good (8). 


William  Manley  was  from 
MANLEY     Weymouth.  Massachusetts,  and 

resided  in  Easton,  that  state, 
m  1694.  He  served  in  the  Indian  war.  He 
left  three  sons. 

(II)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i)  Man- 
ley,  was  born  in  1679,  died  January,  1764. 
He  married,  February  22,  1710,  Mercy  Howin, 
born  about  1677,  'i  Taunton,  Massachusetts, 
died  January  6,  1777. 

(III)  John,  son  of  William  (2)  and  Mercy 
(Howin)  Manley,  was  born  in  Easton,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  2j,  171 5.  He  served  in 
Captain  John  Andrew's  company,  Colonel 
Doty's  regiment,  in  the  revolutionary  army. 
He  married,  November  27,  1739,  Mercy  Smith, 
born  February  19,  1718,  in  Stoughton,  Massa- 
chusetts.    He  left  two  sons,  James  and  Jesse. 

( I\')  Jesse,  son  of  John  and  Mercy  (Smith) 
Manley,  was  born  May  28,  1754,  and  lived  in 
Royalston,  Massachusetts.  He  removed  to 
Dummerston,  Windham  county,  Vermont,  and 
married,  February  15,  1778,  Eunice  Holmes. 
Chddren:  Jesse,  Amasa.  Eunice,  Nathaniel, 
Hannah,  Betsey,  William,  Sally,  Polly,  John 
and  Luke. 

(V)  Amasa,  second  son  of  Jesse  and  Eu- 
nice (Holmes)  Manley,  was  born  May  11, 
1780,  in  Dummerston,  Vermont,  died  Septem- 
ber 24,  1850,  in  Augusta.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary 26,  1806,  Lydia  French,  born  July  9, 
1784,  in  Dummerston,  died  November  i,  1874, 
in  Augusta.  Amasa  Manley  removed  to  Nor- 
ridgewock,  Maine,  in  1819. 


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STATE  OF  maim:. 


{\l)  James  Sullivan,  third  son  of  Amasa 
and  Lydia  (French)  Alanley,  was  born  in 
Putney,  Vermont,  July  17,  1816.  He  lived  first 
in  Norridgewock,  Maine,  and  then  moved  to 
Augusta.  He  published  the  Gospel  Banner 
and  the  Maine  Fanner  in  Augusta.  He  mar- 
ried, November  2j,  1839,  Caroline  Gill  Sewall, 
born  in  Augusta,  April  12,  1818.  He  died  De- 
cember 9,  1861,  in  Augusta. 

(VHj  Joseph  Homan,  eldest  son  of  James 
Sullivan  and  Caroline  Gill  (Sewall)  Manley, 
was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  October  13,  1842, 
died  in  Augusta,  February  7,  1905.  His  great- 
grandfather, Henry  Sewall,  was  captain  in  the 
revolutionary  army.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Augusta  and  Abbott's  Little  Blue 
School  in  Farmington,  where  he  fitted  for  col- 
lege. His  health,  which  had  interfered  with 
his  early  opportunities,  forced  the  abandon- 
ment of  a  college  education.  He  began  the 
study  of  law  in  the  Boston  ofifice  of  Sweetsir 
&  Gardiner,  and  in  September,  1863,  gradu- 
ated from  Albany  Law  School.  He  formed  a 
law  partnership  in  Augusta  with  H.  W.  True, 
and  in  1865  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
United  States  and  district  courts,  and  was  ap- 
pointed a  commissioner  of  the  latter  court. 
From  1869  to  1876  he  was  special  agent  of  the 
internal  revenue  department.  After  this  he 
was  in  Washington  as  agent  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad.  In  1878  he  purchased  a  half 
interest  in  the  Maine  Farmer.  In  May,  1881, 
he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Augusta.  Dur- 
ing the  first  term  in  this  ofifice  he  instituted 
many  improvements  in  the  postal  service  and 
was  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  secure  the  fine 
postofifice  building  which  now  adorns  the  cap- 
ital city,  and  to  Mr.  Manley  more  than  to  any 
other  is  due  the  credit  of  it?  erection.  He  was 
reappointed  in  1889.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
First  National  Bank,  president  of  the  Augusta 
Savings  Bank,  treasurer  of  the  Augusta  Water 
Company,  director  of  the  Kennebec  Light  and 
Heat  Company,  of  the  Edwards  Manufactur- 
ing Company,  of  the  Maine  Central,  Knox  and 
Lincoln,  Portland  and  Rochester  railroads,  of 
the  Portland,  Mount  Desert  and  Machias 
Steamboat  Company,  of  the  Portland  Publish- 
ing Company,  of  the  State  Publishing  Associa- 
tion. He  was  a  thirty-third  degree  Mason. 
In  1889-91  he  represented  Augusta  in  the  leg- 
islature. In  1899-iqoi  he  was  also  a  member 
of  that  body  and  its  speaker  the  last  year.  In 
1903  he  was  a  member  of  the  state  senate.  As 
a  factor  in  the  political  affairs  of  the  state 
and  nation  Mr.  Manley  was  widely  known. 
For  twenty  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican state  committee,  and  for  sixteen  years 


its  chairman ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Repub- 
lican National  conventions  in  1880  and  1888; 
was  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  National  Republican  committee  in  1888-92- 
96-1900,  and  Its  secretary  in  1896  and  1900. 
He  married,  October  4,  1866,  Susan,  daughter 
of  Governor  Samuel  Cony.  Mrs.  Manley  died 
in  Augusta,  February  17,  1896.  Children: 
I.  Samuel  Cony.  2.  Lucy  Cony,  married 
Chase  Mellen,  of  New  York.  3.  Harriet,  mar- 
ried George  V.  S.  Michaelis,  of  Augusta.  4. 
Sydney  Sewall,  married  Duer  du  Pont  Breck, 
of  New  York. 

(VIII)  Samuel  Cony,  eldest  child  and  only 
son  of  Joseph  Homan  and  Susan  (Cony) 
Manley,  was  born  July  21,  1867,  in  Augusta. 
He  was  educated  in  the  city  schools,  graduated 
from  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  in  1885,  and 
from  Harvard  College  in  1889  with  honorable 
mention  in  history.  He  was  clerk,  chief  clerk 
to  superintendent  and  train  master  with  the 
Maine  Central  railroad  from  1889  to  1899.  He 
is  now  president  and  general  manager  of  the 
Maine  Water  Company,  vice-president  of  the 
Sagadahock  Light  and  Power  Company,  treas- 
urer of  the  Kennebec  Light  and  Heat  Com- 
pany, treasurer  of  the  Maine  Farmer  Publish- 
ing Company,  trustee  of  the  Augusta  Savings 
Bank,  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Augusta,  of  tne  Edwards  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, of  the  Portland  Publishing  Company,  of 
the  State  Publishing  Association,  treasurer  of 
the  Small  Point  \'\'ater  Company,  president  of 
the  trustees  of  the  Cony  Female  Academy, 
member  of  the  board  of  education  of  Augusta, 
member  of  the  Republican  city  committee.  He 
has  been  treasurer  of  the  Augusta  Water 
Company,  director  of  the  Williams  school  dis- 
trict, member  of  the  superintending  school 
committee,  member  of  the  Augusta  park  com- 
mission, member  of  the  Augusta  common 
council  and  board  of  aldermen,  and  president 
of  both  boards.  He  belongs  to  the  Patrons  of 
Husbandry ;  Bethlehem  Lodge,  Cushnoc  Chap- 
ter, Trinity  Commandery  ;  Abnaki  Club  of  Au- 
gusta ;  Small  Point  Club  of  Phippsburg;  Port- 
land Country  Club  and  the  Cumberland  Club 
of  Portland ;  to  the  New  England  and  Ameri- 
can Water  Works  and  Maine  Press  associa- 
tions; and  to  the  Maine  Genealogical  Society. 
He  has  never  married. 


Dr.  Anthony  Luques,  immi- 
LUQUES     grant    ancestor,    was    born    in 

Retz,  France,  October  28,  1738. 
He  was  educated  for  his  profession  as  physi- 
cian and  surgeon  in  the  schools  of  Paris.  He 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1785,  soon  after 


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1 109 


the  close  of  the  revolution,  and  settled  in  Bev- 
erly, Massachusetts.  His  full  name,  accord- 
ing to  the  Beverly  records,  was  Simon  Judge 

Anthony  Luques.   He  married  Hannah , 

born  June  11,  1771.  In  1802  he  removed  to 
Lyman,  Maine,  and  died  May  20,  1820.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Beverly:  i.  Andrew,  born  May 
8,  1 79 1,  mentioned  below.  2.  Hannah,  bap- 
tized June  4,  1797.    3-  Anthony,  born  October 

7.  1798. 

(H)  Andrew,  son  of  Dr.  Anthony  Luques. 
was  born  in  Beverly,  May  8,  1791.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lyman, 
Maine,  whither  his  parents  removed  when  he 
was  young.  He  was  a  Methodist  in  religion 
and  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  was  a  mer- 
chant. He  married,  in  Alfred,  Maine,  January 
16,  1815,  Betsey  White,  born  May  3,  1794. 
Children,  born  at  Lyman:  i.  Samuel  White, 
August  3,  1816,  mentioned  below.  2.  An- 
thony, June  26,  1819.  Born  in  Kennebunk- 
port:  3.  Andrew  J.,  June  15.  1824.  4.  Alary 
Elizabeth,  November  4,  1826.  5.  Hannah 
Ann,  June  2,  1830.  6.  Emmeline,  April  24, 
1836.  " 

(HI)  Samuel  White,  son  of  Andrew 
Luques,  was  born  in  Lyman,  Maine,  August  3, 
1 816,  died  .August  31,  1897.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary 
at  Kent's  Hill,  and  studied  law  with  Hon.  E. 
E.  Bourne,  of  Kennebunk,  Maine.  He  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  the  Harvard  Law  School 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1841,  in  York 
county,  Alaine.  being  one  of  the  oldest  mem- 
bers. He  practiced  at  first  in  Kennebunkport, 
removing  to  Biddeford  in  1846,  where  he 
practiced  his  profession.  He  was  very  con- 
servative in  financial  affairs  and  his  influence 
was  strongly  felt  by  his  associates.  He  was 
rated  as  the  wealthiest  citizen  of  Biddeford, 
and  one  of  the  most  prominent.  He  was  ap- 
pointed judge  of  the  municipal  court  in  1876 
and  held  the  office  for  several  years.  He  was 
a  Whig  in  early  life,  and  later  a  Republican 
in  politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
tarian church,  and  of  Mavishan  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Biddeford.  He  was 
elected  a  director  of  the  City  Bank  (now  the 
First  National)  in  1856.  He  married,  Decem- 
Ijer  9.  1852,  Hannah  Maria  Child,  born  in 
Augusta,  Maine,  June  27,  1828,  died  April 
29,  1886,  daughter  of  Elisha  and  Maria  (Pal- 
mer) Child,  of  Augusta  who  were  married 
December  4,  1822.  Her  father  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  citizens  of  Augusta,  and 
died  March  4,  1839.  Her  mother,  Maria  (Pal- 
mer) Child,  was  born  October  6,  1792,  died 
August   17,   1858,   daughter  of  Jonathan   and 


Mary  (Roberts)  Palmer,  of  Wakefield,  New 
Hampshire.  Children,  born  in  Biddeford:  i. 
Edward  Child,  born  July  31,  1858,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Herbert  Llewellyn,  born  November 
4,  1861,  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College.  1882; 
resided  at  Passaic,  New  Jersey.  3.  Frank  An- 
thony, born  December  3,  1863,  died  August  8, 
1895 ;  educated  at  Phillips  Academy  at  And- 
over,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1886. 
(I\')  Edward  Child,  son  of  Samuel  White 
Luques,  was  born  in  Biddeford,  Maine,  July 
31,  1858,  and  was  educated  -in  the  public 
schools  of  that  city  and  at  Dartmouth  College, 
graduating  in  the  class  of  1882.  In  1887  he 
engaged  in  the  retail  coal  and  lumber  business 
in  Biddeford,  and  continued  with  marked  suc- 
cess until  his  father's  death,  when  he  disposed 
of  his  business  to  devote  all  his  time  to  the 
care  and  development  of  his  father's  real  es- 
tate and  other  property.  He  has  conducted 
some  real  estate  business,  however  and  his  of- 
fices at  Biddeford.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  has  been  in  the  common  council  of 
Biddeford,  and  in  1895  was  in  the  board  of 
aldermen  of  the  city  of  Saco.  He  is  a  member 
of  Dunlap  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  of  York 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of  Maine  Coun- 
cil, Royal  and  Select  blasters ;  of  York  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar  and  of  Kora  Tem- 
ple, Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Lewiston. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  Laconia  Lodge  of  Odd 
Fellows  of  Biddeford,  and  is  past  chief  pa- 
triarch of  York  Encampment,  and  has  held  all 
the  offices  in  succession  iji  Canton  Dear- 
born. He  is  a  Unitarian  in  religion.  At  the 
present  time  he  resides  in  Saco.  He  married, 
March  8,  1883  Dora  Boynton,  born  in  Bidde- 
ford. July  12,  1856,  daughter  of  Woodbury  J. 
and  Esther  (Day)  Boynton,  of  Cornish,  Maine. 
Her  father  was  overseer  of  the  Pepperill  Mills 
for  many  years.  Children:  i.  Edward  W., 
born  February  17,  1884:  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Saco  and  at  Thornton  Academy  and 
at  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  gradu- 
ating in  March,  igo6;  now  a  druggist  at  Wa- 
terville,  Maine.  2.  Alargaret,  born  March  24, 
1895  ;  student  in  Thornton  Academy. 


Robert  Page,  immigrant  ancestor, 
PAGE     was  born  in  1604  in  England,  son 

of  Robert  and  Margaret  Page,  of 
Ormsby,  county  Norfolk,  England.  On  April 
II,  1637,  Robert  Page,  aged  thirty-three,  with 
wife  Lucy,  aged  thirty,  and  children,  Francis, 
Margaret  and  Susanna,  and  servants,  W'illiam 
Moulton,  aged  twenty,  and  Ann  Wadd.  aged 
fifteen,  of  Ormsby,  passed  the  required  exami- 
nation to  go  to  New  England.     They  settled 


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in  Salem,  where  Lucy  was  admitted  to  the 
church  in  1639.  He  removed  that  year  to 
Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  had  a 
grant  of  land  between  the  homesteads  of  Will- 
iam Rlarston  and  Robert  Marston,  on  Meet- 
inghouse Green.  The  original  grant  is  still 
held  in  the  family,  or  was  recently.  He  was 
selectman  of  Hampton  six  years ;  deputy  to  the 
general  court  of  Massachusetts  two  years ; 
marshal  of  the  old  county  of  Norfolk,  and 
served  on  many  important  committees  of  the 
town.  He  was  elected  deacon  in  1660,  and 
from  1671  to  1679  was  the  only  deacon  of  the 
church.  He  had  a  brother,  Edward  Colcord, 
whose  wife's  name  was  Ann  (probably  broth- 
er-in-law), for  whom  he  secured  claims  in 
1654  and  1679.  He  died  September  2.2,  1679. 
His  will,  dated  September  g,  proved  Septem- 
ber 29,  1679.  bequeathed  to  sons  Francis  and 
Thomas ;  daughters  Mary  Fogg,  Margaret 
Sanborne,  and  Hannah,  wife  of  Henry  Dow ; 
grandchildren  Seth,  James  and  Hannah  Fogg; 
Joseph,  Benjamin,  Robert,  Hannah,  Sarah  and 
Ruth  Moulton;  Jonathan  Sanborne;  Rebecca, 
Hannah,  Samuel,  Lucy  and  Maria  Marston; 
Joseph,  Samuel,  Symon  and  Jabez  Dow  ;  Rob- 
ert, Samuel,  John,  Mary  and  Lucy  Page  (some 
of  these  grandchildren  were  called  by  their 
marriage  names  in  the  will).  His  age  at 
death  was  given  as  seventy-five  years.  Lucy, 
his  wife,  died  November  12,  1665,  aged  fifty- 
eight  years.  Children:  i.  iMargarct,  born  in 
England,  1629,  married  Jonathan  Sanborn.  2. 
Francis,  1633,  mentioned  below.  3.  Susanna, 
born  in  England!  4.  Thomas,  born  in  Salem, 
1639,  married,  February  2,  1664,  Mary  Hus- 
sey.  5.  Hannah,  married  Henry  Dow.  6. 
Mary,  born  about  1644,  married  Samuel  Fogg. 
7.  Rebecca,  baptized  at  Salem,  September  i6, 
1639.  8.  Samuel  baptized  September  16,  1639. 
(H)  Deacon  Francis,  son  of  Robert  Page, 
was  born  in  England  in  1633.  He  married, 
December  2,  1669,  Meribah,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Smith.  He  resided  on  the  homestead  of 
his  brother-in-law,  William  Marston.  Children: 
I.  Samuel,  born  March  3,  1671,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Lucy,  September  22,  1672,  married 
Ichabod  Robie.  3.  Susanna,  December  20, 
1674,  married  (first)  Benjamin  Betchelder ; 
(second)  John  Cram.  4.  Francis,  December 
14,  1676,  married  Hannah  Nudd ;  died  August 
19'  1755-  5-  Meribah,  March  17,  1679,  "i^''" 
ried  (first)  Josiah  Shaw,  son  of  Joseph  Shaw; 
(second)  Samuel  Tilton ;  (third)  Benjamin 
Sanborn.  6.  Rebecca,  November  24,  1681, 
married  Samuel  Palmer;  died  April  30,  1759. 
7.  Joseph,  November  25,  1686,  married  Sarah 
Moulton;  died  February  5,  1773. 


(HI)  Lieutenant  Samuel  (i),  son  of  Dea- 
con Francis  Page,  was  born  March  3,  1671. 
He  resided  in  Hampton  on  the  old  road 
through  the  meadows.  He  married  (first), 
January  9,  1696,  Hannah  Williams,  who  died 
December  24,  1701.  He  married  (second), 
November  18,  1702,  Anne  Marshall,  of  Oyster 
River  (Durham).  He  married  (third),  March 
8,  1726,  Mary  (Smith)  Thomas,  widow, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Smith,  of  Durham.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Hannah,  born  October  3,  1796.  2. 
Samuel,  May  3,  1698,  died  young.  3.  Meribah, 
December  18,  1699.  4.  Samuel  baptized  Oc- 
tober 3,  1703,  mentioned  below.  5.  Hannah, 
baptized  September  3,  1704.  6.  Prudence,  born 
September  2,  1706,  married  (first)  Samuel 
Hilton;  (second)  John  Marston;  (third)  Cap- 
tain William  Branscomb.  7.  Elizalx-th,  born 
January  12,  1708,  married,  January  13,  1737, 
Isaac  Tobey.  8.  Benjamin,  born  March  6, 
1709,  died  young.  9.  Rev.  Solomon,  born 
March  16.  1710,  married  Dorothy  Dunster ; 
was  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  and  removed 
to  Maine.  10.  John,  baptized  November  18, 
1712,  married,  March  14,  1751,  Lydia.  daugh- 
ter of  Reuben  Sanborn.  11.  Benjamin,  bap- 
tized November  21,  1714,  married  Mary  San- 
born. 12.  Stephen,  baptized  January  22,  1716, 
married  Ann  Perkins;  married  (second)  Mary 
Burnham ;  died  March  21,  1804.  13.  Joseph, 
baptized  April  14,  1717.  14.  Anna,  baptized 
December  7,  171 8.     15.  Simon,  baptized  March 

17.  1723- 

(IV)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Lieutenant  Sam- 
uel (i)  Page,  was  baptized  October  3,  1703, 
and  died  August  9,  1774.  He  resided  at  Ken- 
sington, New  Hampshire.  He  married,  July  2, 
1729,  Mary  Clark.  Children:  i.  Stephen,  re- 
sided at  Kensington  in  1790  and  had  a  family 
of  two  males  over  si.xteen,  and  three  females. 
2.  Simon,  died  young.  3.  Elizabeth,  resided 
at  Kensington.  4.  Ann.  5.  Mary.  6.  Mercy. 
7.  Sarah.  8.  Enoch,  g.  Simon,  born  about 
1750  mentioned  below.  10.  Robert,  removed 
to  Winthrop,  i\Iaine;  was  moderator  in  1784- 
86-88;  selectman  1787;  deputy  to  the  general 
court  1784-85;  on  committee  to  build  a  meet- 
ing house  in  1786;  on  committee  in  1784  to 
see  about  "procuring  fresh  fish  through  the 
mill  dam" ;  had  son  Robert,  graduated  at  Bow- 
doin  College  in  18 10;  removed  to  Readfield, 
Maine. 

(V)  Simon,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Page,  was 
born  about  1750  in  Kensington,  and  removed 
to  Winthrop,  Maine,  where  he  was  living,  as 
was  his  brother  Robert,  in  1790.  At  that  time 
his  family  consisted  of  three  males  over  six- 
teen, three  under  si.xteen,  and  seven  females. 


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He  served  in  the  revolution,  on  the  Hst  of  those 
from  Hampton  and  vicinity,  in  Captain  Henry 
Elkins'  company,  the  Third,  Second  Regiment, 
under  Colonel  Enoch  Poor,  in  1775.  He  and 
his  son,  Simon  Jr.,  were  among  the  incor- 
porators of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
in  1800.  Among  his  children  was  Simon  Jr., 
mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Simon  (2),  son  of  Simon  (1)  Page, 
was  born  in  Kensington,  New  Hampshire,  in 
1773,  and  when  nine  years  old  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Winthrop,  Maine,  remaining 
there  until  1815.  He  then  removed  to  Nor- 
riflgewock,  Maine,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
the  village.  Fie  followed  farming  until  his 
death,  September  9,  1833,  and  his  farm  has 
since  been  known  as  the  Page  homestead.  He 
married  Susan  Smith,  born  at  Middleborough, 
Massachusetts,  died  at  Norridgewock,  April 
16,  1856  aged  eighty-six  years.  Children; 
I.  John  Calvin,  married  Fanny  Fould.  2. 
Horatio  N.,  born  February  9,  i8og,  mentioned 
below.     3.  Henry  Lewis,  died  aged  five  years. 

(VH)  Horatio  Nelson,  son  of  Simon  (2) 
Page,  was  born  in  Winthrop,  Maine,  Febru- 
ary 9,  1809.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Norridgewock  and  the  academy  at 
Farmington,  Maine.  He  taught  school  in 
Madison,  Mercer  and  Norridgewock.  He 
lived  on  the  homestead  with  his  parents,  and 
followed  farming  successfully.  The  farm  con- 
tains a  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  fine  land. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Whig,  and  later  a  Re- 
publican, casting  his  first  presidential  vote  for 
William  Henry  Harrison.  He  was  for  thirteen 
years  town  clerk ;  was  chairman  of  the  board 
of  selectmen.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons 
of  Temperance.  He  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Congregational  church  for  forty 
years.  He  served  as  clerk  of  the  parish  and 
was  twenty  years  deacon.  He  died  1890.  He 
married,  October  10,  1837.  Hannah,  born  in 
Winthrop,  November  20,  1818,  daughter  of 
Sewell  and  Mary  (White)  Page.  Her  father 
was  a  farmer  of  Winthrop,  and  her  mother 
was  born  in  Newmarket,  New  Hampshire. 
Children:  i.  George  Nelson,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  December  18, 
1842,  died  February,  1905.  3.  Edward  Pay- 
son,  mentioned  below.  4.  Henry  L.,  born  Oc- 
tober 4,  1858,  died  March  12,  1883. 

(VIII)  George  Nelson,  eldest  son  of  Flora- 
tio  Nelson  Page,  was  born  on  the  farm  in 
Norridgewock,  Maine,  October  17,  1838,  died 
September  2,  1906.  He  was  reared  on  his  fa- 
ther's farm,  and  his  education  was  acquired  at 
Eaton  Academy  in  Norridgewock  village  and 
at  Bloomfield  Academy.     During  the  civil  war 


he  obtained  a  position  in  the  adjutant  general's 
office  at  Augu.sta,  and  in  1871  he  came  to 
Skowhegan  to  accept  the  position  of  cashier  of 
the  First  National  Bank,  which  he  held  for  a 
period  of  thirty-five  years,  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  a  member  of  Somerset  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  had  served  as 
its  treasurer  for  more  than  twenty  years  ;  mem- 
ber of  De  Molay  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar, of  which  he  was  recorder  for  many  years. 
In  early  life  he  united  with  the  Congregation- 
al church  at  Norridgewock,  and  during  resi- 
dence in  Skowhegan  was  a  constant  attendant, 
a  valued  and  exemplary  member  of  the  Island 
.^Xvenue  society  of  that  denomination,  serving 
as  clerk  of  the  parish  for  over  ten  years.  He 
was  quiet  and  domestic  in  his  habits,  devoted 
to  his  business,  generous  and  charitable  and 
respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 

He  married,  June  16,  1868,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Savage,  born  in  Augusta,  Maine,  October  9, 
1835,  died  April  6,  1904,  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Rebecca  (Hixon) 'Savage,  who  were  the 
parents  of  one  other  child,  Hannah  Heywood, 
married  Nathan  Church.  Daniel  Savage  mar- 
ried (second)  Frances,  a  sister  of  his  first 
wife  ;  children  :  Daniel  Byron,  Charles  Henry. 
Daniel  Savage  was  son  of  Daniel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Pierce)  Savage,  the  former  of  whom 
married  Mary  Fletcher,  and  grandson  of  Cap- 
tain Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Robinson)  Savage, 
the  former  of  whom  married  (second)  Anna 
Johnson.  George  Nelson  and  Mary  Elizabeth 
(Savage)  Page  had  one  child,  Hannah  Re- 
becca, born  in  Skowhegan,  Maine,  November 
10,  1872. 

(VIII)  Hon.  Edward  Payson,  second  son 
of  Horatio  Nelson  Page,  was  born  December 
26,  1846,  in  Norridgewock,  Maine,  and  died 
suddenl)',  January  3,  1907.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  his  na- 
tive town  and  in  the  Maine  W^esleyan  Semi- 
nary at  Kent's  Hill.  In  1871  he  went  to 
Skowhegan  and  was  employed  with  his  broth- 
er, who  was  cashier  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  which  had  been  organized  but  a  short 
time  previousl3^  He  was  soon  offered  the  po- 
sition of  treasurer  of  the  Skowhegan  Savings 
Bank,  which  he  held  for  thirty-five  years,  re- 
signing but  a  short  time  before  his  death  in 
order  to  accept  the  presidency  of  the  bank.  In 
his  early  manhood  he  acquired  a  knowledge  of 
timber  and  land  values,  and  his  name  was 
prominent  among  the  lumber  dealers  of  Maine. 
He  was  connected  with  various  companies,  and 
interested  in  many  and  varied  enterprises.  He 
was  president  of  the  Skowhegan  Electric  Light 
Company,  treasurer  of  the   Skowhegan    Pulp 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Company,  and  a  heavy  stockholder  in  both 
these  institutions,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  that  operated  the  Riverside  Pulp  Mill,  and 
connected  with  other  like  enterprises.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Republican,  and  active  in  the 
interests  of  his  party.  He  was  representative 
to  the  Maine  legislature  in  1901-03,  and  served 
on  the  financial  committee  the  first  term.  In 
igo6  he  was  elected  to  the  senate,  and  among 
the  important  committees  in  which  he  served 
were  banks  and  banking,  appropriations  and 
financial  afi^airs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  sen- 
ate at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  financial 
judgment  was  considered  remarkably  sound, 
and  many  a  man  with  small  means  owed  his 
first  success  in  life  to  Mr.  Page,  for  extending 
credit  when  a  less  discerning  man  would  have 
refused  it.  He  was  a  loyal  friend  to  a  large 
number  of  people,  and  all  sincerely  mourned 
his  loss.  During  his  funeral  all  places  of  busi- 
ness in  the  town  remained  closed  as  a  mark  of 
respect  to  his  memory.  Rev.  B.  B.  Merrill,  of 
the  Island  Avenue  Church,  which  Mr.  Page 
and  his  family  attended,  was  the  officiating 
clergyman.  The  attendance  was  large ;  all 
walks  of  life  were  represented,  and  among 
them  the  number  of  prominent  men  of  afifairs 
from  other  communities  was  especially  notice- 
able. Mr.  Page  married,  June  10,  1879,  Lizzie 
M.  Randall,  of  Vassalboro,  Maine  (see  Ran- 
dall family).  Children:  i.  Blin  W.,  born 
April  5.  1882,  cashier  of  Eirst  National  Bank; 
Republican  ;  member  of  various  Masonic  or- 
ders.   2.  Edna  C,  born  March  16,  1884. 


John  Randall,  immigrant  an- 
RANDALL     cestor,  was  born  in  England, 

and  died  in  Westerly.  Rhode 
Island,  about  1684-85.  He  lived  at  Westerly 
until  about  1670,  when  he  sold  his  land  to 
Thomas  Beal,  November  30,  1670,  and  re- 
moved to  Stonington,  Connecticut,  where  he 
was  admitted  an  inhabitant  later.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth .     He  took  the  oath  of 

allegiance  September  7,  1669,  and  was  deputy 
to  the  general  assembly.  1682.  Singularly 
enough,  a  widow,  Elizabeth  Randall,  settled  at 
Watertown,  Massachusetts,  about  the  same 
time  and  had  sons  Stephen  and  John,  whose 
children's  names  were  similar  to  those  of  the 
Westerly  family.  That  these  families  were 
related  w-e  must  believe.  Children  of  John 
Randall,  born  at  Westerly:  i.  John  Jr.,  born 
1666.  2.  Stephen,  1668,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Matthew-,  1671,  died  at  Hopkinton,  Rhode  Is- 
land. 4.  Peter,  died  at  Preston,  Connecticut. 
(II)  Stephen,  son  of  John  Randall  Jr.,  was 
born  at  Westerly  in  1668.  He  went  to  Stoning- 


ton with  the  family.  Children,  born  there : 
I.  Abigail,  December  20,  1698.  2.  Samuel, 
May  19,  1701.  3.  Stephen,  March  13,  1704, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Jonathan,  Alarch  17, 
1707.  5.  Elizabeth,  September  25,  1709,  died 
July  2,  171 1.  6.  Phebe,  September  18,  1712. 
7.  William,  February  26,  171 5.  8.  David,  May 
7,  1719,  the  only  son  remaining  at  Stoning- 
ton. 

(III)  Stephen  (2),  son  of  Stephen  (i) 
Randall,  was  born  at  Stonington,  Connecticut, 
March  13,  1704.  He  is  believed  to  have  set- 
tled in  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  and  to  be 
the  same  as  Stephen  of  Falmouth.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  .    Stephen  was  a  shipwright 

by  trade,  doubtless  learning  his  trade  at  Sto- 
nington. He  was  of  Falmouth,  July  5.  1731, 
when  he  bought  one  hundred  and  twelve  acres 
of  land  along  the  falls  at  Falmouth.  Later 
he  was  called  a  miller,  probably  ow-ning  a  mill 
on  this  property.  He  sold  land  in  1732  to 
Nathaniel  Jordan  at  Scarborough.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Deborah  Saw\'er,  of  Gloucester 
(intentions  at  Falmouth,  October  6,  1750). 
Children:  i.  Stephen,  born  at  Falmouth,  No- 
vember 27,  1726,  baptized  at  the  First  Church 
of  Falmouth,  September  24,  1727;  soldier  in 
the  revolution;  married,  April  25,  1761.  Mercy 
Dyer;  (second)  at  Cape  Elizabeth,  October  20, 
1774,  Lydia  Roberts.  2.  Mary,  November  12, 
1728,  baptized  November  24,  1728.  3.  Cath- 
erine, August  15,  1733,  baptized  June  10,  1733. 
4.  Susannah,  February  10,  1735.  5.  Sarah, 
April  4,  1738.  6.  Jacob,  was  a  taxpayer  in 
Falmouth  in  1760  (five  shillings  sixpence), 
and  was  lost  at  sea  in  1768.  7.  Thankful,  died 
October  i,  1769.  8.  Isaac,  mentioned  below. 
9.  John,  settled  at  Royalsborough ;  married, 
November  22,  1769,  Ann  Roberts;  son  Isaac 
born  April  18,  1787. 

(IV)  Isaac,  son  of  Stephen  (2)  Randall, 
was  born  about  1735-40.  He  was  on  the  tax- 
list  in  1760  for  five  shillings  sixpence.  Ste- 
phen and  Jacob  were  also  taxpayers.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  revplution,  in  Captain  Caleb 
Turner's  company  in  1775;  later  was  corporal 
in  1775,  serving  at  Georgetown,  Maine. 

(V)  Dr.  Isaac  H.,  son  or  nephew  of  Isaac 
Randall,  was  born  about  1780-90  at  Falmouth. 
He  came  to  Vassalborough,  Maine,  to  practice, 
and  died  there  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight.  He 
had  a  brother.  Job  Randall,  of  Falmouth 
(Portland).  There  were  other  children.  He 
married  Rachel  Fuller  Percival.  widow  of  Na- 
thaniel Percival,  a  native  of  Cape  Cod.  Chil- 
dren :  Hildanus,  George,  Dulcy  and  James  D., 
born  at  Vassalborough,  1817.  mentioned  be- 
low.   Rachel  Fuller  above  mentioned  was  born 


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in  Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  and  was  one  of 
several  children. 

(VI)  James  D.,  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  H.  Ran- 
dall, was  born  at  Vassalborough,  October  10, 
1817.  He  lived  in  his  native  town  all  his  life. 
He  married,  August  18,  1840,  Mary  Percival, 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Percival,  who  was 
lost  at  sea.  Captain  Percival  was  a  brother  of 
Nathaniel  and  Bathsheba  Percival,  all  born 
on  Cape  Cod.  Children  :  Hollis  R..  born  De- 
cember 26,  1841.  Osborne  P.,  July  18,  1845. 
Lizzie  M.,  born  at  Vassalborough,  July  26, 
1854,  married  Edward  P.  Page.  (See  Page 
family  herewith.) 


John  Page,  immigrant  ancestor, 
PAGE     was  born  in  England.     He  settled 

first  in  Hingham,  Massachusetts, 
and  was  one  of  the  signers  of  a  petition  to 
the  general  court,  November  4,  1646.  He  re- 
moved to  Haverhill  about  1652.  He  d'ed  No- 
vember 23,  1687.  Administration  of  his  es- 
tate was  granted  to  his  grandson,  Thomas 
Page,  March  12,  1721-22,  and  the  estate  was 
finally  divided  in  November,  1723.  His  wid- 
ow died  February  15,  1796-97.  He  married 
Mary  Marsh,  daughter  of  George  Marsh. 
Children:  i.  John,  baptized  July  11,  1641, 
married  in  Hingham,  June  14,  1663,  Sarah 
Davis.  2.  Onesiphorus,  baptized  November  20, 
1642,    at    Hingham,    married,    November    22, 

1664,  Mary  Hauxworth;  (second)  July  31, 
1695,  Sarah  Rowell,  widow.  3.  Benjamin, 
born  1644,  baptized  July  14.  1644:  married, 
September  21,  1666,  Mary  Whittier.  4.  Mary, 
baptized   May  3,   1646,  married,   October   23, 

1665,  John  Dow;  married  (second),  July  14, 
1673,  Samuel  Shepard.  5.  Joseph,  baptized 
March  5.  1647-48.  married,  at  Hingham,  Jan- 
uary 21,  1671,  Judith  Guile;  married  (second), 
December  2,  1673,  Martha  Heath.  6.  Corne- 
lius, baptized  July  15,  1649,  mentioned  below. 
7.  Sarah,  baptized  July  18,  1651,  at  Hingham, 
married,  January  14,  1669,  James  Sanders.  8. 
Elizabeth,  born  June  15,  1653,  died  July  3, 
1653.  9.  Mercy,  born  April  i.  1655,  married, 
November  13,  1674,  John  Clough.  10.  Son, 
born  and  died  March  26,  1658.  11.  Ephraim, 
born  February  27,  1658-59,  died  July  22,  1659. 

(II)  Cornelius,  son  of  John  Page,  born  1649, 
baptized  July  15,  1649.  He  married,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1674,  Martha  Clough,  who  died  May 
II,  1683.  at  Haverhill.  He  married  (second). 
January  16,  1684,  Mary  Marsh,  daughter  of 
Onesiphorous  Marsh,  and  granddaughter  of 
George  Marsh.  She  died  November  24,  1697. 
His  estate  was  administered  July  18,  1698,  and 
"divided  in  1699.     He  was  a  planter  in  Haver- 


hill. Children,  born  in  Haverhill:  i.  John 
Jr.,  born  September  27,  1675,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Amos,  born  October  22,  1677,  married  Han- 
nah   .    3.  Elizabeth,  born  September  14, 

1679.  4.  Joanna,  born  March  6.  1680,  died 
young.  5.  Mehitable,  born  February  i,  1681, 
died  May  9,  1682.  6.  Cornelius,  born  April  i, 
1683,  died  May  24,  1683.  Children  of  second 
wife:  7.  Joseph,  born  September  21,  1686, 
died  P>bruary  12,  1687.  8.  Joseph,  born  Sep- 
tember 12,  1689,  married  Mary  Thompson.  9. 
Sarah,  born  November  23,  1691,  died  June  18, 
1762.  10.  Thomas,  born  February  4,  1692. 
II.  Cornelius,  born  May  20,  i6g6. 

(  HI )  John  (2),  son  of  Cornelius  Page,  was 
born  in  Haverhill,  September  27,  1675.  He 
married.  May  21,  1700,  Sarah  Singletary, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  granddaughter  of 
Richard  .Singletary,  of  Haverhill.  He  resided 
in  Haverhill  and  died  there  March  7,  1717-18. 
His  estate  was  administered  October  13,  1718, 
and  divided  in  1722.  His  widow  Sarah  was 
then  living.  Children :  Nathaniel.  Sarah, 
Jonathan,  John,  Edmund,  mentioned  below; 
Abiel,  Mehitable. 

(IV)  Edmund,  son  of  John  (2)  Page  Jr., 
was  born  in  Haverhill,  November  7,  1708.  He 
married,    February    5,    1734,    Abigail 


who  was  born  March  23,  1717.  Children:  i 
Daniel,  born  November  6,  1735,  died  1830.  2 
Captain  David,  born  November  23,  1737.  3 
Ruth,  born  March  14.  1739,  died  March  i6 
1739.  4.  Jesse,  born  February  16,  1740.  5 
William,  born  March  14,  1752.  6.  Deborah 
born  July  13,  1753.  7.  Job,  born  November 
10,  1755.    8.  Jeremiah,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Jeremiah,  .son  of  Edmund  Page,  was 
born  March  25,  1751.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
revolution  from  Conway,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  settled.  He  was  on  the  list  of  sol- 
diers in  1775.  His  farm  was  in  East  Conway. 
He  married  Mary  Dustan,  born  August  10, 
1752,  died  November  i,  1808.  granddaughter 
of  Hannah  Dustan,  who  killed  her  Indian 
captors  and  escaped  in  1693  after  the  Haver- 
hill massacre.  Children,  born  in  Conway  (rec- 
ord of  the  family)  :  i.  Abigail,  born  Sunday, 
November  24,  1776.  2.  Thomas,  born  April 
18,  1779,  mentioned  below.  3.  Duston,  born 
July  4.  1782,  on  Thursday.  4.  Mary,  born 
Monday,  June  4,  1787,  died  January  25,  1850. 

5.  Jesse,  born  on  Thursday.  March  31,  1789. 

6.  Abigail,  born  on   Thursday,  July  7,    1791. 

7.  Hannah,  born  on  Thursday,  September  26, 

{W)  Colonel  Thomas,  son  of  Jeremiah 
Page,  born  at  East  Conway,  New  Hampshire, 
April    18.   1779,  died   February  8,    1864.     He 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


removed  in  1826  from  his  native  town  to 
Lowell,  Maine,  as  it  is  now  known,  and  he 
built  the  first  sawmills  there,  the  locality  being 
known  still  as  Page's  Mills.  He  took  up  pub- 
lic land  and  built  new  roads.  At  one  time  he 
owned  most  of  the  land  now  comprising  the 
town  of  Burlington,  Maine.  To  each  of  his 
sons  he  gave  a  wedding  present  of  a  hundred 
acres  of  land  in  Burlington,  and  to  each  daugh- 
ter two  hundred  dollars  in  money,  a  cow  and 
half  a  dozen  sheep.  He  was  colonel  of  his 
militia  regiment,  a  prosperous  farmer  and 
miller,  a  sagacious  and  successful  business 
man.  He  married  Elizabeth  Charles,  of  Frye- 
burg,  New  Hampshire,  born  May  2,  1786,  died 
May  22,  1875.  Children,  born  in  Conway,  ex- 
cept the  youngest:  i.  Ansel,  born  February 
12,  1808.  2.  Dean,  born  March  4,  1810,  died 
February  9,  1874.  3.  Jeremiah,  born  June  20, 
1812  died  November  24,  1887.  4.  John,  born 
July  II,  1814,  mentioned  below.  5.  Elizabeth, 
born  December  21,  1816,  died  February  23, 
1898.  6.  Norman,  born  February  19,  1819, 
died  October  18,  1893.  7.  Catherine,  born 
January  18,  1823.  9.  Dorcas,  born  October 
30,  1825,  died  December  6,  1891.  10.  Her- 
man S.,  born  March  4,  1828,  died  April  26, 
1903. 

(VH)  John  (3),  son  of  Thomas  Page,  was 
born  in  Conway,  New  Hampshire,  July  11, 
1814.  He  was  educated  and  reared  in  Bur- 
lington. Maine,  where  he  has  lived  most  of  his 
long  life.  He  married,  September,  1844,  Eliza- 
beth McCorrison,  of  Standish,  Maine,  born 
September  21,  1823,  died  March  29,  1900. 
Children,  born  in  Burlington:  i.  Ansel,  born 
October,  1845.  -■  Melvin,  born  April  11,  1847, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Irene  N.,  born  July  11, 
1849,  died  January,  i860.  4.  Edelle  May,  born 
May  I,  1 85 1,  married  William  Henry  Taylor, 
general  agent  of  the  Penn  Mutual  Life  In- 
surance Company,  Bangor,  Maine,  born  Au- 
gust 2},,  1843,  at  Enfield,  Maine:  children:  i. 
Jesse  Wright  Taylor,  born  July  i.  1871  ;  ii. 
Irene  Page  Taylor,  born  April  13,  1874, 
died  September  28,  1874;  iii.  Russell  Morrison 
Taylor,  born  April  6,  1875;  iv.  Josiah  Towle 
Taylor,  born  February  13,  1876;  v.  Ella  Maud 
Taylor,  born  January  27,  1878;  vi.  John  Page 
Taylor,  born  November  14,  1879,  died  Novem- 
ber 12,  1880;  vii.  Marcia  Adelle  Taylor,  born 
July  27,  1881 ;  viii.  Hattie  Maria  Taylor,  born 
June  20.  1885.  5.  Lizzie  A.,  born  June  16, 
1853,  died  April,  1890  or  1891.  6.  Stella  J., 
born  April  21,  1855. 

(VIII)  Melvin,  son  of  John  (3)  Page,  born 
in  Burlington,  Maine,  April  11,  1847,  died  No- 
vember 7,  1890.    He  married  Sarah  Ella  Estes, 


born  in  Vassalborough,  Maine.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
and  at  Lee  Normal  Academy.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  carpenter  and  during  his  active  life 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder.  He  was  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  politics.  He  died  in  Milford,  Maine, 
where  he  spent  his  later  years.  Children:  i. 
Dr.  Prince  Caleb,  mentioned  below.  2.  Julia 
Emily. 

(IX)  Dr.  Prince  Caleb,  son  of  Melvin  Page, 
was  born  in  Lee,  Maine,  September  6,  1874. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Winn  public  schools, 
at  Lee  Normal  Academy,  the  schools  of  Old 
Town  and  the  Bangor  Business  College.  He 
began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  Baltimore 
Medical  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1901  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
He  began  to  practice  in  Lagrange,  Maine,  and 
went  thence  to  Bangor,  w'here  he  was  located 
for  about  three  years.  He  came  from  Bangor 
to  Biddeford  in  1905  and  since  then  has  been 
practicing  in  this  city.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  in  religion  an  Episcopalian.  He 
is  a  charter  member  of  Abenkis  Tribe,  No.  6, 
Independent  Order  of  Red  Men  of  Bangor. 
He  married,  April,  1901,  Ida  May  North, 
daughter  of  Augustus  North,  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  They  have  one  child,  Thomas  Neilson, 
born  August  3,  1902. 


John  Macomber,  who  it  is 
MACOMBER     believed     came     with     his 

brother  William  from  In- 
verness, Scotland,  1638,  settled  at  Taunton, 
Massachusetts,  and  was,  as  the  records  show, 
subject  to  military  duty  in  1643.  He  was  a 
landowner  as  it  is  shown  that  he  paid  taxes 
amounting  to  seven  shillings  in  1659,  on  twen- 
ty-four acres  and  four  "head."  His  first  wife's 
name  is  not  known.  His  second  wife  was 
Mary  Babcock,  whom  he  married  January  7, 
1686.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  accumulated 
considerable  property,  which  he  bequeathed 
to  his  children,  John  and  Mary  (Staples).  He 
died  between  1687  and  1690. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Macomber, 
was  in  Queen  Anne's  war,  1691.  He  was  mar- 
ried July  16,  1678,  to  Anna  Evans,  of  Taun- 
ton. Their  children  were :  Thomas,  John, 
William  and  Samuel. 

(III)  John  (3),  second  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Anna  (Evans)  Macomber,  was  born  early 
enough  to  have  participated  in  Queen  Anne's 
war.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Williams, 
and  (second)  Mrs.  Lydia  (King)  Williams. 
His  will,  dated  December  28,  1742,  named  nine 
children,  all  by  the  first  wife.  He  died  at 
Taunton,  December  14,  1747. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1115 


(IV)  Nathaniel,  eldest  son  of  John  (3)  Ma- 
comber,  was  born  February  9,  1709.  He  was 
of  a  very  religious  disposition  and  served  as 
deacon  in  the  Congregational  church  of  Taun- 
ton many  jears.  He  married,  in  1735,  Priscil- 
la  Southworth,  of  Middleboro,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  an  industrious  man  in  business  affairs, 
and  while  he  worked  for  the  interest  of  his 
family  never  neglected  his  church  duties  and 
that  of  the  public  in  general.  As  is  shown  by 
the  inscription  on  his  tombstone,  he  died  No- 
vember 10,  1787,  aged  seventy-nine  years.  His 
children  were:  Job,  born  1737;  George,  Na- 
thaniel, Ichabod,  Ezra  and  John. 

(V)  George,  second  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Priscilla  (Southworth)  Macomber,  was  born 
July  7,  1740,  and  but  little  can  be  learned  of 
him  further  than  that  he  was  a  soldier  in  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  married  Susan  Paull, 
January  27,  1767.  He  became  the  father  of 
the  following  children :  Mary,  Ezra  and  John 
(twins),  Azalle,  George,  Paul,  Nathaniel,  Su- 
sanna, Philena,  Ebenezer  and  Samuel. 

(VI)  George  (2),  third  son  of  George  (i) 
and  Susan  (Paull)  Macomber,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 17,  1772,  and  married  Anna  Harkness, 
September  17,  1801.  She  was  born  October 
24,  1782.  Their  children  were:  Sarah  B., 
Betsey  B.,  George  Washington,  William  H., 
Esther  H.  and  David  W.  The  father  died 
aged  fifty-seven  years,  January  31,  1830. 

(VII)  George  Washington,  son  of  George 
(2)  and  Anna  (Harkness)  Macomber,  born 
September  26.  1807,  at  Pelham,  Massachusetts, 
died  at  Augusta,  Maine,  August  31,  1864.  He 
became  a  resident  of  Augusta  at  a  very  early 
age  of  his  life,  and  worked  as  a  granite  cutter 
and  general  contractor  on  the  state  house.  He 
followed  the  granite  business  throughout  his 
life.  Until  the  formation  of  the  Republican 
party  he  was  a  Whig,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  both  city  and  county  government.  In  his 
religious  faith  he  was  a  Baptist  and  served  as 
deacon  in  that  church  many  years.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  P.  Ripley,  by  whom  two 
children  were  born :  Emily  F.  and  Esther  H. 
He  married  (second)  Hannah  Kalloch,  born 
December  10,  1820.  died  September  i,  1905, 
at  Augusta.  She  was  the  mother  of  two  chil- 
dren :    George  E.  and  Henry  D. 

(VIII)  George  Ellison,  son  of  George 
Washington  and  Hannah  (Kalloch)  Macomb- 
er, was  born  at  Augusta,  Maine,  June  6,  1853. 
He  obtained  his  education  at  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  city,  and  subsequently  entered 
the  grocery  store  of  Luther  Mitchell  as  a 
clerk,  which  position  he  filled  a  short  time, 
and  then  accepted  a  position  in  the  Augusta 


postofifice,  where  he  remained  si.x  years.  In 
March,  1876,  he  purchased  the  insurance  busi- 
ness conducted  by  David  Cargill,  and  was  en- 
ergetic and  highly  successful  in  the  business 
until  1886,  alone,  but  at  that  date  he  took  his 
brother,  Henry  D.  Macomber,  into  partnership 
with  him.  This  association  existed  until 
broken  by  death  of  the  brother,  when  Charles 
R.  Whitten  became  a  partner  in  the  business, 
continuing  until  1904.  In  1908  the  business 
was  carried  on  by  a  company,  consisting  of 
H.  C.  Carl,  Charles  H.  Howard  and  R.  H. 
Bodwell.  The  insurance  business  was  by  no 
means  the  only  calling  Mr.  Macomber  pur- 
sued with  diligence  and  success ;  he  was  treas- 
urer of  the  Augusta,  Hallowell  &  Gardiner 
Electric  Railroad  Company  until  that  road  was 
sold  to  the  L.  A.  &  W.  Company,  in  1907.  He 
is  now  treasurer  of  the  Norway  &  Paris  Elec- 
tric Railroad  Company;  the  Austin  Traction 
Company,  of  Austin,  Texas;  treasurer  of  the 
Hutchinson  Water,  Light  and  Gas  Company, 
of  Hutchinson,  Kansas.  Being  recognized  as 
a  man  of  correct  business  methods,  he  was 
elected  to  the  important  position  of  president 
of  the  Springfield  Railway  and  Light  Com- 
pany, of  Springfield,  Missouri.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  Augusta  Trust  Company, 
Kennebec  Savings  Bank  and  Augusta  Opera 
House  Company ;  a  director  in  the  Granite 
National  Bank ;  treasurer  of  the  Augusta  Real 
Estate  Association,  and  a  trustee  of  "the  Maine 
Insane  hospitals  located  at  Augusta  and  Ban- 
gor. His  long  career  as  an  insurance  man 
causes  him  now  to  be  the  special  agent  for  the 
following  insurance  companies:  Insurance 
Company  of  North  America,  Philadelphia  Un- 
derwriters' Alliance,  Granite  State  Fire  In- 
surance Company,  and  others.  He  is  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Augusta  Hotel  Company,  and 
has  numerous  other  interests  and  enterprises 
which  demand  his  time  and  special  attention. 
He  was  married  to  Sarah  V.  Johnson,  born 
March  31,  1857,  '"  Edinboro,  Pennsylvania, 
daughter  of  Hiram  and  Almira  Johnson.  Their 
children  are:  Alice  H.,  married  R.  H.  Bod- 
well.   Annie  J.,  married  Guy  P.  Gannett. 


One  authority  says  the  Mor- 
MORTON  tons  of  Gorham  came  original- 
ly from  Cape  Cod;  another 
states  that  the  descendants  of  Bryant  Morton, 
the  first  settler  of  the  name  in  southwest 
Maine,  claim  him  to  have  been  English.  No 
authority  has  yet  been  found  which  decides 
the  matter.  Many  of  the  descendants  of  Bry- 
ant Morton  have  been  leading  citizens  in  the 
communities  where  they  have  resided — prom- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


inent  in  politics,  patriotic  in  war,  and  indus- 
trious in  peace. 

(I)  Captain  Bryant  Morton  first  appears  in 
the  records  about  the  year  1738,  as  a  citizen 
of  old  Falmouth  (now  Cape  Elizabeth),  where 
he  was  a  taxpayer  in  1743.  On  September  28, 
1750,  Bryant  Morton  of  Cape  Elizabeth  bought 
of  Augusta  Bearse  his  right  in  Gorhamtown. 
June  28,  175 1,  the  proprietors  of  Gorham  deed 
Bryant  Morton  certain  land,  at  which  time 
he  is  described  as  of  Gorhamtown.  He  set- 
tled in  Gorhara  between  the  dates  mentioned 
probably,  and  lived  on  thirty-acre  lot  No.  15, 
at  Gorham  Corner.  His  dwelling  stood  back 
from  the  street  near  where  Emery's  brick  store 
now  stands.  He  was  an  energetic,  active  man, 
a  good  trader,  dealt  largely  in  lands,  and  few 
men  in  town  bought  and  sold  more  lots  than 
he. 

"In  1772  Mr.  Morton  was  one  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Safety  and  Correspondence ;  and  was 
a  delegate  to  the  Provincial  Congress  held  at 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  He  went  to  Cam- 
bridge on  horseback,  with  Benjamin  Cham- 
berlain behind  him  to  bring  his  horse  back. 
He  was  a  representative  to  the  general  court 
several  years ;  and  captain  in  the  army  during 
the  war  of  the  revolution.  He  had  command 
of  a  company  of  eighty  men,  called  sea-coast 
guards ;  and  was  stationed  at  Fort  Hancock, 
on  Cape  Elizabeth.  This  fort  was  located  on 
the  spot  now  occupied  by  Fort  Preble,  and 
■consisted  of  a  battery  of  several  cannon  for 
the  defence  of  Portland,  then  Falmouth.  For 
several  years  Mr.  Morton  was  a  firm  sup- 
porter of  the  old  Congregational  Church,  and 
was  one  of  the  ruling  elders  in  1758-59.  With 
many  others  he  became  dissatisfied  with  the 
ministrations  of  Mr.  Lombard,  and  with  them 
drew  off,  built  a  new  meeting  house,  and  set- 
tled the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Thompson.  Captain 
Morton  in  his  latter  years  became  a  zealous 
Free  Will  Baptist.  Before  his  second  mar- 
riage he  provided  well  for  his  first  children. 
His  homestead  at  Gorham  Corner  he  con- 
veyed to  his  son  Bryant,  who  by  his  deed  con- 
veyed "the  lot,  No.  15,  with  the  Bryant  ]\Iorton 
house,  and  the  lot  opposite,  where  the  Bryant 
Morton  barn  now  stands,'  to  Gary  McLellan. 
After  his  second  marriage  Captain  Morton 
moved  on  a  small  farm,  since  called  the  'Cham- 
berlain Place.'  Here  he  died  in  the  year  1793, 
aged  about  eighty-eight.  At  his  death  his  es- 
tate, real  and  personal,  was  appraised  at  about 
seven  hundred  dollars." 

Bryant  Morton  married  (first)  Thankful 
.  We  do  not  know  her  antenuptial  sur- 
name or  the  date  of  her  birth  or  death.     He 


married  (second),  in  Cape  Elizabeth,  June  23, 
1 77 1,  Lucy  (White)  Chamberlain,  who  was 
born  in  Falmouth,  December  i,  1732,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Jerusha  White.  She  was 
the  widow  of  Aaron  Chamberlain.  She  sur- 
vived Captain  Morton  many  years,  and  died 
about  the  year  1813.  Captain  Morton's  ten 
children  by  his  first  wife  were  all  born  before 
he  moved  to  Gorham.  They  were:  Thomas, 
Martha,  Joseph,  Ebenezer,  Thankful,  Jabez. 
Bryant,  Elisha,  Anna  and  Phineas.  The  chil- 
dren by  the  second  wife,  Lucy  Chamberlain : 
Jerusha,  John,  who  is  the  subject  of  the  next 
paragraph. 

(II)  John,  only  son  of  Captain  Bryant  and 
Lucy  (White)  (Chamberlain)  Morton,  was 
born  in  Gorham,  February  11,  1775.  He  mar- 
ried, about  1799.  Mary,  eldest  child  of  Stephen 
and  Hannah  (Gushing)  Tukey,  of  Portland. 
She  was  born  March  19,  1781,  and  died  De- 
cember 12,  1854.  She  was  a  descendant  of 
John  Winter  and  Rev.  Robert  Jordan  (see 
Jordan  I),  and  also  of  Colonel  Ezekiel  Gush- 
ing, all  of  Cape  Elizabeth.  Stephen  Tukey  was 
a  revolutionary  soldier.  His  father,  John  Tu- 
key, the  immigrant,  married  Abigail  Sweetser, 
in  1749.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Sweetser,  a  soldier  in  the  Louisburg  expedi- 
tion, 1745,  and  descendant  from  Seth  Sweetser, 
the  immigrant,  1636.  Their  children  were: 
I.  Juliana,  born  September  21,  1800,  who  mar- 
ried John  Sargent,  sea  captain.  2.  Ebenezer 
IMiller,  December  16,  1801,  died  young.  3. 
John,  September  26,  1804,  who  went  to  sea 
and  was  never  again  heard  of.  4.  Stephen 
Tukey,  March  7,  1807,  sea  captain.  5.  William 
White,  next  mentioned. 

(III)  U'illiam  White,  youngest  child  of 
John  and  ]\lary  (Tukey)  Morton,  was  born 
in  Gorham,  February  5,  1809,  and  died  in 
Windham,  July  27,  1868.  At  an  early  age  he 
became  a  sailor,  with  the  intention  of  fitting 
himself  to  be  a  master  mariner,  for  which  he 
was  in  everything  but  experience  well  quali- 
fied. He  was  in  the  merchant  service,  and 
made  various  voyages  between  New  York  and 
other  domestic  ports  and  European  ports.  At 
the  age  of  thirt}'  he  lost  his  hearing  as  the  re- 
sult of  a  fever,  and  was  compelled  to  give  up 
his  plans,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life 
on  a  farm  in  Windham,  where  he  lived  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  good  man, 
an  active  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  and  one  of  its  liberal  supporters.  He 
married.  May  29,  1842,  Adeline  Hale  Barton, 
who  was  born  July  27,  1823,  died  April  11, 
i8g8.  She  was  an  unassuming  and  intellectual 
woman,   a   faithful   wife  and  a   good  mother. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1117 


Her  grandparents  on  the  paternal  side  were 
Ebenezer  and  Dorothy  (EHott)  Barton,  of 
Windham.  Ebenezer  Barton  served  three  years 
five  months  and  fourteen  days  in  tlie  revolu- 
tionary army,  was  at  Hubbardton,  Stillwater, 
Saratoga,  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne,  spent 
the  winter  at  Valley  Forge,  and  was  at  Mon- 
mouth in  Colonel  Benjamin  Tuppcr's  Eleventh 
Massachusetts  Regiment.  He  was  killed  by  a 
falling  tree  at  Windham,  April  15,  1785,  aged 
about  thirty-five  years.  The  children  of  Will- 
iam W.  and  Adeline  H.  (Barton)  Morton 
were:  i.  Stephen  Tukey,  a  volunteer  in  the 
Seventeenth  Maine  Regiment,  was  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  in  1862.  2.  Will- 
iam Francis,  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  Maine  Regi- 
ment, was  at  the  assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  and 
was  killed  before  Richmond  in  1864.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, died  young.  4.  Caroline,  died  young. 
5.  Seth  C.  see  below.  6.  Julia  H.,  married 
Walter  Hussev  and  lives  in  Windham. 

(IV)  Seth  Clark,  third  son  of  William  W. 
and  Adeline  H.  (Barton)  Morton,  was  born 
in  Windham,  November  25,  1858.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Windham  public  schools  and 
at  the  Quaker  high  school.  His  first  work 
of  consequence  away  from  home  was  in  build- 
ing" the  pulp  mill  at  South  Windham,  where 
he  worked  as  a  machinist  for  the  Sabago 
Wood  Board  Company  from  1876  to  the  sum- 
mer of  1881.  In  the  same  year,  July  26,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  S.  D.  Warren  &  Com- 
pany, proprietors  of  the  pulp  mill  at  West- 
brook.  For  a  time  he  was  a  machinist  and 
the  superintendent  of  the  machine  shop  and 
mechanical  department  where  three  hundred 
men  are  employed.  This  position  he  now 
holds.  Mr.  Morton  is  a  Democrat  and  has 
been  called  to  fill  various  municipal  offices. 
He  was  the  first  fire  warden  of  Westbrook, 
and  is  now  fire  commissioner  and  chief  engi- 
neer of  the  fire  department  of  the  city.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  1903- 
04-05,  and  was  elected  mayor  igo6,  and  re- 
elected in  1907.  He  has  discharged  his  duties 
faithfully  and  well,  and  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  his  fellow  citizens.  He  at- 
tends and  contributed  liberally  to  the  support 
of  the  Universalist  church.  Fie  is  a  member 
of  Warren  Phillips  Lodge,  No.  186,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons ;  member  of  Ammoncongin 
Lodge,  No.  76,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fello\^■s,  of  which  he  is  a  past  grand :  and 
Presumpscot  Valley  Lodge,  No.  4,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  of  which  he  is  a  past  chancellor  com- 
mander. He  was  captain  and  first  base  of  the 
famous  Presumpscot  baseball  team,  recognized 
as  the  best  strictlv  amateur  baseball  team  in 


Maine  for  several  years.  Seth  C.  Morton  was 
married  in  South  Windham,  November  30, 
1879,  to  Althea  Small,  of  Gray,  who  was  born 
September  28,  1846,  in  Framingham,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  Stephen  and  Hannah 
( Tweed )  Small.  They  have  one  daughter, 
Bertha  C,  born  October  22,  1883;  she  is  a 
musician  and  an  ardent  devotee  to  the  study 
of  the  drama. 


The  Aliens  in  America  are  of 
ALLEN  both  Scotch  and  English  descent. 
In  England  the  name  was  for- 
merly and  still  is  subjected  to  various  forms 
of  spelling,  as  Allen,  Allin,  Allyn,  etc.,  all  of 
which  are  undoubtedly  from  one  source.  The 
original  Scotch  spelling  was  Allan.  In  the 
early  records  of  Esse.x  county,  Massachusetts, 
is  found  the  name  of  William  Allen,  born  in 
Manchester,  Englaiid,  about  1602;  came  to 
New  England  with  the  Dorchester  Company, 
which  settled  temporarily  on  Cape  Ann  in 
1623;  accompanied  Roger  Conant  to  Salem 
in  1626;  and  was  adnfitted  a  freeman  in  1631. 
Another  early  emigrant  of  this  name  was 
George  Allen,  born  in  England  during  the 
reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  came  to  Amer- 
ica with  his  family  in  1635,  when  sixty-seven 
years  old,  in  order  to  escape  religious  persecu- 
tion. A  Samuel  Allen  and  his  wife  Ann  catiie 
from  Braintree,  England,  and  were  among  the 
first  settlers  in  Braintree,  Massachusetts.  Colo- 
nel John  Allan,  born  in  Edinburgh  Castle, 
Scotland,  January  31,  1746,  son  of  Major 
William  Allan,  of  the  British  army,  became 
the  progenitor  of  a  Maine  family,  some  of 
whom,  if  not  all,  retain  the  original  Scotch 
spelling. 

(I)  Jotham  Allen,  an  early  settler  in  Al- 
fred, went  there  from  either  York  or  Kittery 
subsequent  to  the  revolutionary  war,  and 
cleared  a  farm  from  the  wilderness.  (N.  B. 
It  is  stated  by  some  of  his  descendants  that 
their  branch  of  the  family  is  the  posterity  of 
an  immigrant  from  Scotland.)  The  Christian 
name  of  his  wife  was  Susan  and  their  children 
were :  Jeremiah,  Amos,  Jotham,  John,  Olive, 
Susan  and  Hannah. 

(II)  Amos,  second  child  of  Jotham  and 
Susan  Allen,  born  in  Alfred  in  1801,  died  in 
1874.  Adopting  agriculture  when  a  young 
man,  he  purchased  a  farm  in  Waterboro  and 
tilled  the  soil  industriously  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  It  was  his  custom  to  vary  the 
monotony  of  farm  life  by  frequent  excursions 
into  the  forests  for  the  purpose  of  hunting, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  most  noted  hunters  artd 
trappers  of  his  locality.     He  married  Eleanor 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Ridle.v,  of  Alfred,  born  in  1801,  died  in  1874. 
They'were  the  parents  of  children:  Jeremiah, 
Isaiah,  Otis,  Mary.  Jotham,  Amos  Lawrence, 
Lydia,  Timothy  and  Sarali. 

(Ill)   Hon.  Amos  Lawrence,  fifth  son  and 
sixth  child  of  Amos  and  Eleanor  (Ridley)  Al- 
len, was  born  in  Waterboro,  IMarch  17,  1837. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Waterboro 
and   Alfred,   was   prepared    for   his   collegiate 
course  at  the  Whitestown  (New  York)  Semi- 
nary, and  entering  Bowdoin  College  as  a  so- 
phomore was  graduated  with  the  class  of  i860. 
At  Bowdoin  he  was  a  classmate  of  Thomas 
Brackett  Reed,  with  whom  in  after  years  he 
became  closely  connected.    He  was  subsequent- 
ly  engaged   in   educational  work   for  a  short 
time,  teaching  at  the  Alfred  Academy ;  also  in 
Gardiner,  Sanford,  Waterboro  and  Pembroke, 
Maine.     His   legal   studies,  begun   in   Alfred, 
were  completed  at  the  Columbian  Law  School, 
Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  and  he  was 
admitted  to  the  York  county  bar  in  1866.    Mr. 
Allen  served  for  short  intervals  as  clerk  in  the 
treasury  department  at  Washington  and  in  the 
postoffi'ce  of  the  national  house  of  representa- 
tives, and  also  in  the  office  of  the  York  county 
clerk  of  courts.  In  1870  he  was  elected  clerk  of 
courts  in  York  county,  retaining  that  office  for 
a  period  of  twelve  years,  and  returning  to  the 
national  capital  he  acted  as  clerk  of  the  judici- 
ary committee  of  the  lower  house  in  1883-84. 
He  was  next  employed  for  a  year  as  a  special 
examiner  by   the   pension   bureau,   and   being 
elected  a  representative  to  the  Maine  legisla- 
ture he  served  in  that  capacity  for  the  years 
1886-87.     In  December,   1889,  he  became  pri- 
vate secretary  to  the  Hon.  Thomas  B.  Reed, 
speaker  of  the  national  house  of  representa- 
tives,   serving   as    such    during   the   fifty-first, 
fifty-fourth   and  fifty-lifth  congresses,   and  in 
1896  was  a  delegate  at  large  from  Maine  to 
the    Republican    national    convention    at    St. 
Louis,    being   assigned   to    the    committee    on 
resolutions.     At  a  special  election  held  in  the 
first  congressional  district,  November  16,  1899, 
Mr.  Allen  was  elected  the  successor  of  Repre- 
sentative   Reed,    who   resigned   his   seat   as   a 
member  of  the  fifty-sixth  congress,  and  he  con- 
tinued   in    office    through    re-elections    to   the 
sixtieth  congress,  and  was  renominated  to  the 
sixty-first.     In    1904  he   defeated    his   Demo- 
cratic opponent,  Luther  R.  Moore,  by  a  ma- 
jority of  4,989,  in  a  vote  of  31,613;  in  1906 
he  defeated  the  same  gentleman  by  a  major- 
ity of    1,649;  3nd  in    1908  his   majority   was 
,  about  3,300.     Mr.  Allen's  intimate  association 
with  his  illustrious  predecessor  made  him  es- 
pecially qualified  to  represent  the  first  district 


in  congress,  and  his  ability  has  been  amply 
demonstrated.  He  is  a  Master  Mason,  affili- 
ating with  Fraternal  Lodge  of  Alfred,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Grange  in  North  Alfred.  He 
attends  the  ^lethodist  Episcopal  church. 

In  1858  Mr.  Allen  married  Esther,  daughter 
of  Jacob  and  Eunice  Maddox,  of  Waterboro. 
Her  grandfather,  also  named  Jacob  ]\Iaddox, 
came  from  England  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century ;  he  settled  upon  a  tract  of 
wild  land  in  the  town  of  Waterboro,  and  im- 
proved it  into  a  good  farm.     His  son  Jacob, 
born  in  Waterboro,  served  in  the  defence  of 
Kittery  during  the  war  of   1812-15.     He  be- 
came a  prosperous  farmer  in  his  native  town, 
and  lived  to  be  eighty-five  years  old.     He  was 
twice  married  and  of  his  first  union  there  were 
three  children.     His  second  wife,  Eunice,  bore 
him  four  children  :  Daniel,  a  resident  of  Stand- 
ish ;  John  F.,  of  Alfred ;   Harriet,   widow  of 
John  Dame ;  Esther,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Hon.  Amos  L.  Allen.    Mrs.  Allen  died  March 
20,  1900,  in  Washington,  D.  C.     She  was  the 
mother  of  three  children:     i.  Herbert  L.,  born 
December  24.    1861,  a  graduate  of   Bowdoin, 
1883,   and   now   superintendent   of  schools   in 
Dalton,     Massachusetts ;    he    married    Annie 
Bradbury,  of  Limerick,   Maine,  and  has  two 
children:    Amos  L.,  born  February   14,   1895, 
and  Laura  E.,  born  June  22,  1903.     2.  Laura 
E.,  born  March  3,  1863,  resides  with  her  fa- 
ther.    3.   Edwin   H.,  born  April    14,    1864,   a 
graduate  of  Dartmouth,  1885,  a  practicing  phy- 
sician  of   Boston,   and   is  connected   with   the 
John  Hancock  Insurance  Company ;  he  mar- 
ried Linda  W.  Forbush,  of  Boston,  and  has 
one  son,  Nathaniel  Draper  Whiting  Allen,  born 
July  31,  1903. 


Among  those  who  wrought 
PEASLEE  our  early  history  in  colonial 
days,  in  "times  that  tried 
men's  souls,"  were  the  Peaslees,  who,  like  most 
other  old  Maine  families,  are  credited  with  a 
Massachusetts  origin,  and  developed  around 
Haverhill.  The  name  Peaslee  is  claimed  by 
some  to  have  sprung  from  Peter,  from  which 
we  have  Peers,  Pearse  and  Pears.  Others  as- 
sume it  was  an  offshoot  from  peas,  a  legum. 
Peas  were  grown  in  the  east  from  time  imme- 
morial and  were  introduced  into  Europe  in 
the  Middle  Ages.  Shakespeare  spoke  of  peas- 
blossom.  Lee  is  from  lea,  a  pasture.  The 
man  who  was  the  son  of  Mr.  Peas  perhaps 
lived  on  the  lea,  and  to  distinguish  him  from 
the  other  Mr.  Peas  he  was  called  Peas-at-lea, 
and  finally  Peaslee.  Hon.  Charles  H.  Peaslae, 
a    distinguished    statesman    and    congressman 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1119 


from  New  Hampshire  ;  Chief  Justice  Nathaniel 
Peaslee  Sargent,  of  Massachusetts ;  the  Hon. 
WilHam  Pitt  Fessenden ;  the  Honorables  Lot 
M.  and  Anson  P.  Morrill,  governors,  members 
of  congress,  and  a  cabinet  officer  j  the  Hon. 
Daniel  J.  Morrill,  member  of  congress  from 
Pennsylvania;  Professor  Edmund  Randolph 
Peaslee,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.,  a  great  physi- 
cian, author  of  medical  books,  and  professor 
in  Dartmouth  college ;  the  Hon.  John  D.  Peas- 
lee, of  Ohio ;  and  Judge  Daniel  Peaslee,  of 
Vermont,  were  of  this  line. 

(I)  Joseph  Peaslee  was  founder  of  the  Peas- 
lee family  in  America.  He  was  a  native  of 
England,  the  tradition  in  the  family  is  that  he 
was  born  and  lived  in  the  western  part  of 
England,  near  the  river  Severn,  adjoining 
Wales.  With  his  wife  and  two  or  three  chil- 
dren he  emigrated,  about  1635,  and  came  to 
Newbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1642.  He  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  land  in  Haverhill,  Massachu- 
setts, March  14.  1645,  ^""^^1  'I's  name  appears 
in  the  first  list  of  landholders  of  Haverhill  in 
1645.  He  settled  in  the  easterly  part  of  the 
town  near  "Reaks  Bridge,"  over  the  Merrimac 
river,  and  received  grants  of  land  from  1645 
to  1656,  when  divisions  of  land  were  made  by 
vote  of  the  town  of  Haverhill,  was  one  of  the 
commissioners  for  the  settlements  of  claims, 
and  selectman  of  Haverhill  in  the  years  1649- 
50-53.  He  was  made  a  "townsman"  of  Salis- 
bury "Newtown"  ( now  Amesbury,  Massachu- 
setts) July  17,  1656,  granted  "twenty  acres 
of  upland,  bought  of  Thomas  Macy,  and  ten 
acres  of  meadow,  for  which  the  town  agreed 
to  pay  si.x  pounds  to  Thomas  Macy."  In  di- 
visions of  land  in  Salisbury  "Newtown"  in 
the  years  1656-57-58,  Joseph  Peaslee  received 
liberal  shares.  It  was  the  custom  in  the  new 
settlement  to  give  lands,  to  induce  persons 
having  a  trade  such  as  a  mason,  blacksmith, 
etc.,  to  settle  in  the  new  towns.  Joseph  was 
a  lay  preacher  as  well  as  a  farmer,  and  was 
reputed  to  have  some  skill  in  the  practice  of 
medicine.  In  the  recognition  of  these  natural 
gifts,  he  was,  undoubtedly,  made  a  citizen  of 
Salisbury  "Newtown."  Later  this  gift  of 
preaching  made  trouble  in  the  new  settlement 
and  history  for  Joseph.  Soon  after  he  re- 
moved to  "Newtown,"  the  inhabitants  neglect- 
ed to  attend  the  meetings  for  worship  in  the 
old  town  and  did  not  contribute  to  the  support 
of  the  minister.  They  held  meetings  for  wor- 
ship at  private  houses,  and  in  the  absence  of 
a  minister,  Joseph  Peaslee  and  Thomas  Macy 
officiated.  The  general  court,  which  had  juris- 
diction over  territory  from  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts,  to   Portsmouth,   New   Hampshire    (and 


was  called  Norfolk  county),  soon  fined  the 
inhabitants  of  "Newtown"  five  shillings  each 
for  every  neglect  of  attending  meetings  in  the 
old  town  and  an  additional  fine  of  five  shillings 
each  to  Joseph  and  Macy  if  they  exhorted  the 
people  in  the  absence  of  a  minister.  This  de- 
cree was  not  heeded.  Meetings  were  held  and 
Joseph  and  his  friend  continued  to  preach.  The 
general  court  made  additional  decrees  and 
fines,  which  also  were  not  heeded.  Macy  fled 
from  persecution  in  Massachusetts  and  settled 
in  Nantucket,  then  a  port  of  New  York,  in 
1659.  Joseph  Peaslee  was  a  Puritan,  a  re- 
formed Episcopalian.  The  creed  was  to  aban- 
don everything  that  could  boast  of  no  other 
authority  than  tradition,  or  the  will  of  man, 
and  to  follow  as  far  as  possible  the  "pure  word 
of  God."  The  Puritans  came  to  the  wilder- 
ness of  America  to  escape  persecution  in  Eng- 
land and  to  enjoy  their  own  religious  liberty, 
but  not  to  allow  religious  freedom  to  any  who 
differed  from  them.  Nowhere  did  the  spirit 
of  Puritanism,  in  its  evil  as  well  as  its  good, 
more  thoroughly  express  itself  than  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. The  persecution  of  Joseph  was  of 
short  duration,  as  he  died  at  Salisbury  "New- 
town," December  3,  1660.  He  made  his  will 
November  11,  1660,  proved  February  9,  1661 ; 
Mary  Peaslee,  executrix.  By  tradition  Joseph 
married  Mary  Johnson,  of  Wales,  England,  the 
daughter  of  a  farmer  of  comfortable  worldly 
estate.  In  1662  the  widow,  Mary  Peaslee,  was 
granted  one  hundred  and  eight  acres  of  land 
in  Salisbury.  The  administration  of  her  es- 
tate was  granted  September  27,  1694,  to  her 
son  Joseph.  Their  children  were :  Jane,  Mary, 
Elizabeth,  Sarah  and  Joseph. 

(II)  Joseph  (2),  fifth  child  and  youngest 
son  of  Joseph  (i)  and  Mary  (Johnson)  Peas- 
lee, was  born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts, 
September  9,  1646.  He  received  "children's 
land"  in  1660  and  a  "Township"  in  1660,  being 
a  tract  of  land,  conferring  the  right  to  vote 
and  take  part  in  town  meetings  when  of  age. 
He  resided  in  Salisbury  "Newtown"  until  after 
his  marriage  and  birth  of  his  eldest  child, 
Mary,  when  he  removed  to  Haverhill,  iMassa- 
chusetts.  He  was  a  physician  and  farmer ; 
owned  saw  and  .grist  mills,  a  large  landholder 
by  grants,  inheritance  and  purchases,  and  had 
large  tracts  of  land  beyond  the  Spicket  river, 
now  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  inherited  from 
his  father.  He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  and 
fidelity  at  Haverhill  in  1677;  built  a  brick  gar- 
rison house  with  bricks  imported  from  Eng- 
land about  1673.  This  house  is  in  East  Haver- 
hill on  the  highway  now  called  the  "River 
Road,"   and   is  still   standing  in   good  repair, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


one  of  the  landmarks  of  the  Merrimac  valley. 
He  married,  January  2,  1672,  Ruth,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Barnard,  of  Haverhill.  Massachu- 
setts, who  was  born  October  16,  1651,  and  died 
November  25,  1723;  he  married  second  Mary 
(Tucker)  Davis,  widow  of  Stephen  Davis.  He 
held  many  town  offices,  was  much  in  public 
life,  and  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
For  many  years  there  was  an  established  meet- 
ing of  that  denomination  at  his  house.  He 
died  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts.  March  21, 
1735,  and  his  widow  was  living  in  1741.  From 
the  records  he  evidently  distributed  his  estate 
by  deeds  to  his  heirs,  with  this  closing  clause, 
"Saving  always  and  hereby  reserving  unto  my- 
self the  free  use  and  Improvement  of  ye  prem- 
ises During  my  natural  life."  Children  by  first 
wife :  Mary,  married  an  ancestor  of  John 
Greenleaf  Whittier ;  Joseph,  Robert,  John,  Na- 
thaniel. Ruth,  Ebenezer  and  Sarah. 

(HI)  John,  fourth  child  and  third  son  of 
Joseph  (2)  and  Ruth  (Barnard)  Peaslee,  was 
born  February  25,  1679,  and  married,  iVIarch 
I,  1705,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Martin.  He 
resided  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  and  New- 
ton, New  Hampshire,  and  was  prominent  in 
town  and  church  affairs,  a  farmer,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  Friends.  Meetings  were 
established  at  his  house  in  Newton,  and  later 
a  meeting-house  was  built  on  his  land  and 
near-by  there  was  a  Friends  burial  ground, 
which  is  now  in  a  fair  state  of  preservation. 
The  ancient  headstones  are  plain  field  stones 
not  lettered.  He  died  in  1752.  Children:  Jo- 
seph, John,  Ruth,  Sarah,  Jacob,  Nathan,  Da- 
vid, Moses,  James,  Ebenezer  and  Mary.  John 
and  Mary  (Martin)  Peaslee  had  ninety-eight 
grandchildren,  and  two  hundred  and  eighty- 
four  great-grandchildren. 

(IV)  Nathan,  sixth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (Martin)  Peaslee,  was  born 
September  20,  171 1,  and  married,  December 
8,  1 74 1,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Lancaster)  Gove,  who  was  born  June  i,  1701, 
in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  Nathan  re- 
sided in  Newton.  New  Hampshire,  and  was 
a  farmer.  He  and  his  brother  Moses  married 
Methodist  wives,  and  were  disowned  by  the 
Society  of  Friends,  as  was  the  prevailing  prac- 
tice at  that  time.  They  joined  the  Methodists. 
Nathan's  grandson.  Rev.  Reuben  Peaslee,  was 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  Methodist  min- 
isters of  his  day  in  New  England,  and  was 
author  of  several  books.  Children :  Oliver, 
Nathan,  Reuben,  Jacob,  Daniel,  Ezekiel,  Jon- 
athan, Ruth  and  Sarah. 

(V)  Jonathan,  seventh  child  and  son  of  Na- 


than and  Lydia  (Gove)  Peaslee,  was  born  in 
September,  1764,  and  died  in  1826.  He  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Glidden,  and  their  children  were: 
Jonathan,  Susanna.  Sarah,  Abigail,  George, 
Katherine,  Jacob,  Ruel  and  Riley. 

(VI)  Ruel,  eighth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
Jonathan  Peaslee,  was  born  July  15,  1804,  and 
married,  February  5,  1823,  Harriet  Hilton. 
He  removed  to  Jefferson,  Lincoln  county, 
Maine,  and  there  had  the  following  children  r 
Harriet,  Edward,  John  Thurston,  Eben  Blunt 
and  Eliza. 

(VII)  John  Thurston,  third  child  of  Ruel 
and  Harriet  (Hilton)  Peaslee,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 17,  1830,  in  Jefiferson,  Maine,  and  mar- 
ried Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  W.  and 
Nancy  (Foye)  Paine,  of  Alma,  Maine,  where 
he  resides.  He  received  a  common  school  ed- 
ucation, became  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  is  a 
Republican,  and  has  been  town  treasurer  and 
representative  to  the  legislature.  His  religious 
affiliations  are  with  the  Baptists.  Children  r 
Clarence  Ardeen,  Beatrice  and  Winfield  Scott. 

(VIII)  Clarence  Ardeen,  eldest  child  and 
son  of  John  Thurston  and  Mary  E.  (Paine) 
Peaslee,  was  born  in  Alma,  ]\Iaine,  August  16, 
1853,  and  married  Augusta  Maria,  daughter  of 
David  and  Sophia  (Tutman)  Hill,  of  Bath, 
IMaine.  Dr.  Peaslee  received  his  preliminary 
training  at  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary, 
Kents  Hill,  graduated  from  the  medical  de- 
partment of  Bowdoin  College  in  1883,  New 
York  Polyclinic  School  in  1894,  New  York 
Post-Graduate  School  in  1905,  and  London, 
England,  Post-Graduate  School  in  1905.  He 
settled  in  Wiscasset,  Maine,  and  practiced  his 
profession  for  twenty-one  years.  While  there 
he  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  selectmen, 
and  representative  to  the  legislature  in  1895 
and  1899.  He  moved  to  Bath,  Maine,  in  1904, 
where  he  now  resides,  engaged  in  professional 
duties.  He  was  president  of  the  board  of 
L^nited  States  pension  examiners  four  years, 
at  Bath,  member  of  the  Maine  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, American  Medical  Association,  Maine 
Academy  of  Medicine,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent in  1905-06.  He  stands  in  high  repute  as 
a  physician,  and  is  frequently  called  into  con- 
sultation by  other  members  of  the  craft  in 
difficult  cases.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  con- 
nected with  the  Central  Congregational 
Church ;  past  master  of  Blue  Lodge,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  past  high  priest  of 
Royal  Arch  Chapter,  member  of  Commandery 
and  Mystic  Shrine,  and  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  past  noble  grand  and  past  dis- 
trict deputy,  past  chancellor  commander  and 


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II2I 


past  district  deputy  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks  of  Bath,  Maine,  of  which 
he  is  lecturing  knight. 


Anthony  Besse,  immigrant  an- 
BESSE  cestor,  was  born  in  England  in 
1609  and  came  to  America  in  the 
ship  "James,"  sailing  from  England  in  July, 
1635.  He  was  a  man  of  education,  and  used 
to  preach  to  the  Indians.  He  was  among  the 
first  to  remove  from  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  to 
Sandwich,  on  Cape  Cod.  He  was  before  the 
court  in  1638,  and  was  one  of  the  petitioners 
asking  Mr.  Leveredge  to  remain  at  Sandwich. 

1655.  His  widow  Jane  married  the  notorious 
George  Barlow.  In  her  will,  dated  August  6, 
1693,  she  bequeaths  to  her  daughters,  Anne 
Hallett,  Elizabeth  Bodfish,  Rebecca  Hunter, 
and  sons,  Nehemiah  Besse  and  John  Barlow. 
Anthony   Besse's   will   is   dated    February    10, 

1656,  his  inventory  May  21,  1657.  He  be- 
queaths to  wife  Jane,  daughters  Dorcas,  Ann, 
Mary  and  Elizabeth ;  sons  Nehemiah  and  Da- 
vid, providing  that  if  his  mother  in  England 
should  send  over  anything,  as  she  had  formerly 
done,  it  should  be  divided  among  all  the  chil- 
dren. Children  :  I.  Anthony,  who  was  of  age 
in  1664.  2.  Nehemiah,  mentioned  below.  3. 
David,  born  at  Sandwich,  May  23,  1649.  4- 
Anne,  married  Andrew  Hallett.  5.  Elizabeth, 
married  Joseph  Bodfish.  6.  Rebecca,  married 
Hunter.     7.  Dorcas.     8.  Mary. 

(II)  Nehemiah,  son  of  Anthony  Besse,  was 
born  as  early  as  1641,  for  he  was  of  age  in 
1662.  He  was  a  townsman  of  Sandwich,  in 
1675,  the  only  one  of  the  family:  he  was  a 
freeman,  on  the  list  of  1678 ;  was  entitled  to 
share  lands  at  Sandwich  on  the  list  dated 
March  24,  1702.  His  name  appears  frequently 
in  the  town  records  and  he  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  citizens.     He   married   Mary 

.    Children,  born  at  Sandwich  :  i.  Mary, 

November  16,  1680,  married  Benjamin  Curtis. 
2.  Nehemiah,  July  3,  1682.  3.  Hannah,  1684- 
85,  married,  October  5.  1708,  Thomas  Jones. 
4.  Robert,  April  30,  i6go,  married.  May  9, 
1712,  Ruth  Pray,  of  Bridgewater.  5.  Joshua, 
February  14,  1692-93;  married,  at  Wai'eham, 
September  17,  1743,  Lydia  Sandes,  and  re- 
moved to  Wareham.  6.  David.  December  23, 
1693.  married,  July  18,  1717,  Mary  Pray.  7. 
Benjamin,  September  20,  1696.  8.  Ebenezer, 
mentioned  below. 

(III)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Nehemiah  Besse, 
was  born  in  Sandwich,  April  30,  1699.  He 
removed  to  Wareham  and  was  admitted  to  the 
church   there  July   20,    1740.      All   five  of  his 


brothers  also  located  in  Wareham.  Robert 
Besse  and  his  wife  Ruth  joined  the  First 
Church,  April  18,  1742;  David  Besse  and  wife, 
July  II,  1742;  Joshua  Besse,  December  12, 
1742;  Benjamin  Besse's  wife  jMartha,  July  22, 
1744,  and  Nehemiah's  wife  Sarah.  Their  de- 
scendants have  been  and  are  still  very  numer- 
ous in  the  town  of  Wareham.  From  the  foun- 
dation of  that  town  the  Besse  family  has  been 
one  of  the  foremost  in  numbers  and  influence. 

Ebenezer  married  Deborah .     Children, 

born    at    Wareham:      i.    Ann,    December    16, 

1739,  baptized   in   the  First  Church,  July  27, 

1740.  2.  Ruth,  August  25,  1740,  baptized  Oc- 
tober 12,  1740.     3.  Reuben,  mentioned  below. 

(I\')  Reuben,  son  of  Ebenezer  Besse,  was 
born   May    12,    1745.     He   removed  to   Win- 

throp,    Maine.      He   married    Keziah . 

Children,  born  in  Winthrop :  i.  Deborah,  Oc- 
tober 19,  1768.  2.  Reuben  Jr.,  July  24,  1770, 
settled  finally  in  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts, 
a  town  near  Wareham.  3.  Abigail,  January  17, 
1773.  4.  Jonathan,  July  24.  1775,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Samuel :  children,  born  in  Winthrop  : 
Alden,  February  21,  1795;  John,  April  7, 
1797;  Andrew  Blunt,  August  11,  1799. 

(V)  Jonathan,  son  of  Reuben  Besse,  was 
born  in  Winthrop,  Maine,  July  24,  1775.  He 
married  Asenath  Smith.  Among  his  children 
was  Jonathan  Belden,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Jonathan  Belden,  son  of  Jonathan 
Besse,  was  born  in  1820,  in  Wayne,  Maine,  a 
town  near  Winthrop,  where  his  parents  then 
lived.  He  died  Majch  5,  1892,  aged  seventy- 
two  years,  in  Albion,  Maine.  He  was  a  tan- 
ner by  trade.  When  a  young  man  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  tanner  of  sole  leather  by  the 
Southwicks  in  \'assalborough,  Maine.  After- 
ward he  worked  for  William  Healy,  a  tanner 
at  Albion,  and  eventually  became  the  owner  of 
the  Healy  tannery,  at  Albion  Corners,  and  had 
a  prosperous  business.  In  1878  he  added  to 
his  business  the  tanning  of  sheep  skins.  After 
his  son  was  admitted  to  partnership  the  busi- 
ness was  conducted  under  the  firm  name  of  J. 
B.  Besse  &  Son,  and  in  1890  he  moved  it  to 
Clinton,  Maine,  and  the  firm  built  a  tannery 
there,  though  Mr.  Besse  retained  his  residence 
in  the  town  of  Albion.  Mr.  Besse  was  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Christian  Church.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Free  Masons,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Roy- 
al and  Select  Masters,  and  Knights  Templar. 
He  was  a  shrewd  and  successful  business  man, 
upright  and  honorable  in  his  methods  and  of 
sound  judgment.  He  commanded  the  respect 
and  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  all  his  towns- 
men and  was  well  known  throughout  his  sec- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


tion  of  the  state.  He  was  the  first  white  child 
born  in  the  town  of  Wayne,  and  he  took  no 
little  pride  in  that  fact  and  in  the  town  itself. 
He  married  (first).  July  ii,  1852,  at  Albion, 
Isabella  F.,  daughter  of  Lewis  Hopkins,  of 
Belgrade ;  the  ceremony  was  performed  by  Dr. 
A.  P.  Fuller;  she  died  August  8,  1870,  aged 
thirty-seven  years  ten  months.  He  married 
(second),  in  Brunswick,  December  4,  1872, 
by  the  Rev.  E.  Byrington,  M.  S.  Springer,  of 
Brunswick,  born  in  Livermore,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Springer.  Children,  by  first  wife : 
I.  Mary  Asenath,  born  in  Albion,  September 
5,  1853,  died  December  2,  1869.  2.  George 
Byron,  November  30,  1855,  died  October  13, 
1862.  3.  Hannah  B.,  August  28,  1857.  4. 
Frank  Leslie,  April  8,  1859,  mentioned  below. 
5.  Everett  B.,  1861.  6.  Byron,  January  12, 
1865,  died  January  9,  1883.  7.  Bertie,  July 
16,  1868,  died  February  7,  1881. 

(VII)  Frank  Leslie,  son  of  Jonathan  Bel- 
den  Besse.  was  born  in  Albion,  April  8,  1859. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  started 
to  learn  the  trade  of  tanner  in  his  father's 
business  and  was  soon  afterward  admitted  to 
partnership  by  his  father.  The  firm  name  was 
J.  B.  Besse  &  Son  during  his  father's  life. 
He  succeeded  to  the  business,  after  his  father 
died,  and  has  conducted  it  under  his  own  name 
to  the  present  time.  The  business  has  grown 
to  large  proportions,  the  capacity  of  the  tan- 
nery at  Clinton  being  three  thousand  skins  a 
day,  employing  a  regular  force  of  twenty 
journeymen.  In  addition  to  his  extensive 
leather  business,  Mr.  Besse  conducts  a  large 
farm  ;  is  president  of  the  Clinton  Electric  Light 
and  Power  Company ;  half-owner  of  the  mill 
property  on  the  Sebasticook  dam ;  president  of 
the  Besse,  Osborne  &  Odell  Company,  a  cor- 
poration engaged  in  the  general  leather  trade, 
with  ofSces  at  51  South  street,  Boston;  direc- 
tor of  the  People's  National  Bank  of  Water- 
ville ;  trustee  of  the  Central  Institute  at  Pitts- 
field.  Maine.  He  is  a  member  of  Sebasticook 
Lodge  of  Free  Masons ;  of  Dunlap  Chapter 
of  China,  Alaine ;  of  St.  Omer  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  of  Waterville  ;  also  of  Pine 
Tree  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Clinton.  He 
is  an  active  and  influential  Republican,  often 
serving  as  delegate  to  nominating  conventions, 
member  of  the  Republican  county  committee. 
He  stands  among  the  foremost  business  men  of 
the  town  and  county,  and  being  of  sound 
judgment  and  spotless  integrity  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 
He  has  given  freely  of  his  means  in  projects 
supported  by  public  spirit  and  for  charity.     He 


married,  September  7,  1885,  Mary  Alberta 
Proctor,  born  September  7,  1865,  in  Albion, 
daughter  of  Albert  and  Mary  (Whittier) 
Proctor. 


The  study  of  the  history  of  the 

COOMBS  Coombs  family  leads  us  far 
back  into  the  past,  among  many 
contrasting  conditions  of  life,  and  among  peo- 
ple who  spell  their  name  in  various  ways.  But 
wherever  these  historic  trails  lead  us  we  dis- 
cover the  same  sturdy  physical  characteristics ; 
the  same  glowing  patriotism ;  the  same  unflag- 
ging industry  ;  the  same  untiring  perseverance  ; 
the  same  love  of  home ;  the  same  triumphs 
over  difficulties  which  at  first,  and  even 
through  long  years  might  have  seemed  ap- 
palling to  hosts  of  others. 

Sir  Mathew  Hale,  in  his  "Norman  People." 
gives  many  noble  records  of  the  family  who 
spelled  their  name  Combes,  Combs  and 
Coombs.  Theobald  Combes  was  of  Normandy 
in  1180-1195,  with  noble  sons  Giselbert,  Nigil 
and  Richard.  Robert  Combes  made  the  far 
year  1198  shine  with  his  sturdy  valor.  Orli- 
dulph  Comes  lived  as  brave  and  true  a  life 
in  Devon  in  1272 ;  as  did  also  Sir  Richard 
Comes.  Roger  and  Nicholas  Combes  were  in 
Oxford  and  other  towns  at  an  early  date. 
Brownings  "Americans  of  Royal  Descent" 
shows  one  of  the  noblest  of  Coombs  lines  from 
William  the  Conqueror  down  to  Matilda 
Woodhull  of  Princeton,  daughter  of  Dr.  John 
H.  Woodhull  and  Ann  Wycoff,  who  married 
Judge  Joseph  Coombs. 

The  description  of  the  coat-of-arms  of  the 
Coombs  family  in  England  is  that  of  a  man 
standing  upright,  with  the  hilt  resting  on  the 
ground.  The  spear  is  represented  as  being 
broken  oiY  perhaps  a  foot  from  the  point,  but 
the  bearer  of  it  seems  ready  to  face  any  foe 
with  what  remains  of  the  weapon.  The  legend 
accompanying  this  device  may  be  freely  trans- 
lated, "He  who  fights  shall  win  the  victory." 
It  has  been  said  that  the  family  name,  which 
was  spelled  Comb,  Combe,  Coomb  and 
Coombs,  was  from  the  Welch  owmb  (Cumb 
or  Coomb),  meaning  a  narrow  valley.  But 
Scotland,  too,  is  a  land  of  oombs,  or  valleys, 
and  here  are  found  many  of  the  Coombs  name, 
some  of  them  being  men  of  considerable  note. 
Some  spell  their  name  McComb,  and  some  of 
their  descendants  in  America  still  retain  the 
name  in  that  form,  though  the  majority  spell 
it  Coombs. 

(I)  The  large  majority  of  the  members  of 
the  Coombs  family  in  the  New  England  States, 
and   of  those   which   are   so   w'idely   scattered 


VT. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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over  the  west,  trace  their  origin  to  a  sturdy 
ancestor,  Anthony  Coombs,  who  was  born  in 
France  about  1656  and  came  to  America  about 
1674,  landing  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts. 
From  thence  he  removed  to  New  Meadows, 
near  Brunswick,  Maine,  buying  a  large  tract 
of  land  of  the  Indians.  Being  driven  from 
thence  by  the  savages  he  removed  to  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  died ;  but  some  of  his  chil- 
dren returned  to  the  lands  in  Maine,  and  be- 
came, like  those  of  the  family  who  remained 
in  Massachusetts,  the  ancestors  of  many  no- 
ble, patriotic  men  and  women,  all  records  for 
our  country's  struggles  for  liberty  being 
starred  many  times  with  the  names  of  Coombs 
patriots.  The  name  of  the  Coombs  ancestor 
at  New  Meadows,  INIaine,  is  spelled  Allister, 
in  the  old  records.  He  was  married,  Septem- 
ber 5,  1688,  to  "Dorkas"  Woodin.  This  an- 
cestor, Anthony  Coombs,  is  said  to  have  been 
of  one  of  the  best  French  families,  and  by  his 
father  was  designed  for  a  priest,  but  his  noble 
spirit  revolted  at  the  restrictions  laid  upon  the 
priesthood.  He  soon  found  that  an  old  friend 
of  his  had  a  portion  of  the  English  Bible, 
which  he  diligently  read  in  secret.  He  was  so 
impressed  by  the  sincerity  and  faith  of  this 
old  man,  and  by  what  he  read  in  the  Bible, 
that  he  determined  to  become  an  earnest  Chris- 
tian, though  he  knew  the  discovery  of  this 
purpose  meant  death  for  him.  At  length  he 
ventured  to  talk  about  this  with  his  mother, 
and  found  that  she  held  the  same  ideas  which 
made  his  life  have  such  a  new  meaning.  She 
aided  him  with  money  and  means  to  escape  on 
a  vessel  to  America,  though  she  well  knew 
that  she  might  never  again  look  into  the  face 
of  this  beloved  son.  No  wonder  that,  with 
such  an  ancestry  as  this,  the  members  of  the 
Coombs  family  through  long  generations  have 
been  men  and  women  of  noblest  thought  and 
Christian  faith. 

(II)  Lieutenant  Peter,  son  of  Anthony  and 
Dorcas  (Woodin)  Coombs,  was  born  1690  at 
New  Meadows,  and  died  there  March  30,  1768. 
His  wife's  Christian  name  was  Joanna,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of :  George,  Anthony, 
Peter,  Samuel,  Caleb,  Asa  and  Abigail. 

(III)  Anthony  (2),  second  son  of  Lieuten- 
ant Peter  and  Joanna  Coombs,  was  born  about 
1715,  probably  at  Gloucester,  Massachusetts, 
and  lived  for  a  time  upon  the  paternal  lands 
at  New  IMeadows  (now  a  part  of  Brunswick), 
whither  he  removed  about  1750;  thence  he  re- 
moved to  the  town  of  Islesboro,  Maine,  where 
he  was  town  officer  in  1789,  and  died  in  181 5, 
at  the  age  of  one  hundred  years.  His  wife, 
Ruth  (surname  unknown),  survived  him  about 


eleven  years,  dying  in  1826.  They  had  seven 
sons  and  two  daughters,  but  the  names  of  the 
latter  are  not  preserved.  The  sons  were :  An- 
thony, Jesse,  Robert,  Ephraim,  Benjamin  and 
Jonathan. 

(IV)  Jesse,  second  son  of  Anthony  (2)  and 
Ruth  Coombs,  was  probably  born  at  Glouces- 
ter, Massachusetts.  He  removed  with  his  fa- 
ther to  Islesboro,  Maine,  and  died  there  Sep- 
tember 5,  1823.  He  was  married  April  16, 
1794,  to  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  Rich- 
ards, of  Bristol,  Maine.  She  died  November 
16,  1859,  in  Islesboro.  where  all  their  children 
were  born,  viz. :  Jesse,  Sally,  Othniel,  Wealthy, 
Temperance,  Rebecca,  Philip,  Pillsbury,  Lucin- 
da,  Hannah  and  Cyrena. 

(V)  Othniel,  second  son  of  Jesse  and  Han- 
nah (Richards)  Coombs,  was  born  June  25, 
1799,  in  Islesboro,  where  he  passed  his  life. 
He  was  a  man  of  remarkable  energy  and  in- 
dustry and  was  governed  by  the  highest  prin- 
ciples of  honor  in  all  his  dealings.  He  was 
therefore  much  esteemed  and  respected,  and 
died  mourned  by  most  of  the  inhabitants  in 
the  town.  His  old  age  was  passed  in  the  care 
of  his  youngest  son.  Joseph,  who  inherited  the 
paternal  estate.  His  marriage  intentions  were 
published  April  2"/,  1816,  and  the  \vedding  no 
doubt  occurred  very  soon  thereafter,  the  bride 
being  Sally  Marshall,  of  Islesboro.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Sarah,  born  November  20, 
1818,  married  William  Farrow  of  Islesboro. 
2.  Lois,  February  6,  1821,  married  Henry  Rue, 
of  Islesboro.  3.  llydia  J.,  April  6,  1832,  married 
Samuel  Coombs.  4.  Arphaxad,  February  12, 
1826.  5.  Martin  S.,  IMarch  30,  1829,  married 
Catherine  Thomas,  died  September  8,  1868;  his 
children :  Wellington,  born  September  16, 
1854:  Eliza  C,  October  26,  1857;  Robert  P., 
May  3,  i860.  6.  Lucenia,  June  10,  1831,  died 
w'hen  sixteen  years  old.  7.  Mary  Ann,  Feb- 
ruary I,  1835,  died  April,  1838.  8.  Eliza  F., 
November  22,  1837,  died  November  26,  1857. 
9.  George  A.,  August  30,  1840,  married  Lydia 
Burgess.  10.  Joseph  L.  S.,  September  24, 
1842,  married  Lucy  Parker. 

(VI)  Arphaxad,  eldest  son  of  Othniel  and 
Sally  (Marshall)  Coombs,  was  born  Febru- 
ary 12,  1826,  in  Islesboro,  and  died  in  New 
York,  November  i,  1883.  In  1838  he  went 
to  sea  as  cabin  boy,  and  worked  up  to  master 
mariner.  In  1875  he  left  the  high  seas  and  en- 
gaged in  the  towing  business  in  New  York 
Citv.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity and  a  Congregationalist  in  religion. 
He  married  Harriet  L.  Coombs,  daughter  of 
Fields  and  Betsey  (Ames)  Coombs,  of  Isles- 
boro.    She  was  born  October   15,   1827,  and 


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died  September  lo,  1897.  They  were  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters:  i. 
Arphaxad,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  years. 
2.  Angehna,  married  (first)  George  Russell, 
of  Belfast,  and  (second)  Roscoe  Robbins,  and 
resides  in  Union,  Maine.  3.  Hattie  I.,  born 
July  8,  1857,  died  March  3,  1897,  while  the 
wife  of  Arthur  Paine,  of  Camden.  4.  Preston 
W.,  born  July  14,  1863,  died  March  7,  1901. 
5.  James  Bliss,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  James  Bliss,  youngest  child  of  Ar- 
phaxad and  Harriet  L.  (Coombs)  Coombs, 
was  born  July  12,  1865,  in  Islesboro,  and  re- 
ceived a  limited  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Belfast,  Maine,  and  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
He  came  to  the  latter  city  at  the  age  of  eleven 
years  and  one  year  later  became  an  office  boy 
with  Miller  &  Houghton,  in  business  on  South 
street,  Manhattan,  and  here  he  continued  five 
years.  Before  beginning  his  business  career 
he  attended  school  one  year  in  Brooklyn.  At 
the  age  of  seventeen  he  took  employment  with 
L.  W.  &  P.  Armstrong,  merchants,  sugar  ex- 
porters and  importers  and  steamship  agents, 
in  New  York.  Since  that  time  he  has  remained 
continuously  connected  with  this  firm,  and  in 
1903  became  one  of  its  partners.  His  keen  in- 
terest in  the  business  and  activity  in  its  pro- 
motion has  contributed  in  considerable  degree 
to  the  success  of  the  establishment.  He  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club 
of  Brooklyn,  and  is  now  an  active  member 
of  the  Marine  and  Field  clubs  in  that  city,  the 
Indian  Harbor  Yacht  Club,  and  of  the  Produce 
and  Maritime  exchanges  of  New  York.  He 
is  a  trustee  of  the  Bedford  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Brooklyn,  and  in  politics  is  an 
earnest  and  straightforward  Republican.  He 
is  one  of  the  Sons  of  Maine  who  have  gone 
out  into  the  world  and  achieved  success  unaid- 
ed, amidst  the  crushing  competitions  of  a  great 
city.  He  married,  June  10,  1896,  Lulu  Tirrell, 
a  native  of  Boston,  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Sarah  Tirrell,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

(HI)  Peter  (2),  third  son  of  Peter  (i)  and 
'  Joanna  Coombs,  was  a  resident  of  Brunswick. 

(IV)  Hosea,  probably  son  of  Peter  (2) 
Coombs,  removed  from  Brunswick  to  Isles- 
boro and  settled  on  the  next  lot  below  Sab- 
bath Harbor.  He  married  (first),  September 
25,  1782,  Elizabeth  Page,  supposed  to  be  either 
a  daughter  or  sister  of  Rev.  Solomon  Page, 
who  was  the  minister  of  Bath,  Maine,  about 
1762.  Peter  Coombs  married  (second),  Sep- 
tember II,  1 81 3,  Judith  (Maddocks)  Buck- 
more,  a  widow.  Their  children  were  probably  : 
Simon,  Fields,  Hosea,  Otis,  Solomon  Page, 
Jeremiah,  Betsey.  Isaac  and  John. 


(V)  Captain  Fields,  second  son  of  Hosea 
and  Elizabeth  (Page)  Coombs,  was  born  Jan- 
uary, 1786,  in  Islesboro,  where  he  passed  his 
life  and  died  May  2,  1848.  He  married,  De- 
cember 26,  1814,  Betsey  Ames,  who  died  Au- 
gust 15,  1865,  aged  seventy-nine  years  and 
five  months.  Their  children:  i.  Emeline, 
born  May  17,  1816,  died  January,  1892;  mar- 
ried Thomas  H.  Parker,  February  6,  1839.  2. 
Eliza  J.,  March  23,  1817,  married  Mark  Pen- 
dleton Jr..  1837.  3.  Otis,  1819,  died  March, 
1820.  4.  Otis  F.,  February  22,  1821,  married 
Angelina  Veazie,  who  died  December  19,  1891. 
5.  Catherine,  February  23,  1823,  died  August 
9,  1826.  6.  Deborah,  April  27.  1825,  married 
(first)  Otis  C.  Veazie,  January  21,  1844,  (sec- 
ond) John  Veazie,  who  died  i'888.  7.  Lincoln, 
August  3,   1830,  married  Louisa  Farnsworth. 

8.  Charles  A.,  February  22,  1832,  married 
(first)  Euraina  Veazie,  (second)  Helen  Smith. 

9.  Theresa,  March  11,  1835,  died  January  9, 
1838.  10.  Edwin,  October  29,  1837,  married 
(first)  Louisa  IMarshal,  January  29,  i860,, 
(second)  Augusta  \'eazie,  September  25.  1864. 
Otis  F.  Coombs  represented  the  town  in  the 
legislature  and  was  the  first  master  of  Island 
Lodge  of  Free  Masons.  He  was  postmaster,, 
town  clerk,  and  a  man  of  honor  and  esteem. 
He  died  on  board  his  vessel,  the  brig,  "Caro- 
line Eddy,"  in  the  Mediterranean  .Sea.  Decem- 
ber 19,  1877,  and  was  buried  in  Islesboro  with 
Masonic  rites. 


Many  members  of  the  Coombs 
COOIMBS  family  appeared  in  America  at 
early  dates,  and  trace  their  ori- 
gin to  England.  John  Coombs  was  a  passen- 
ger on  a  ship  from  London,  October  13,  1635, 
and  is  considered  to  be  the  same  John  Coombs 
who  was  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  at  an 
early  date. 

The  old  records  of  Boston.  Massachusetts, 
contain  mention  of  several  worthy  citizens  who 
bore  the  name  of  Coombs.  None  of  the  de- 
scendants left  statements  which  prve  how  these 
were  related  to  or  if  they  were  near  relatives 
of  John  Coombs,  of  Plymouth.  One  of  the  ear- 
liest Coombs  records  in  Boston  mentions  the 
marriage  of  one  John  Coombs  to  Elizabeth 
Barlow  on  February  24,  1661.  His  children 
were  :  Elizabeth  ;  John,  who  was  born  July  20, 
1664.  and  daughters  Mary  and  Sarah.  The 
son  John  was  a  famous  "Taylor"  in  Boston, 
and  had  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  children: 
Thomas,  Peter  and  Mary,  and  two  sons  John, 
one  of  whom  died  young,  the  other  John  being 
a  very  successful  mariner,  who  made  his  will 
at  Boston,  September  26,  1751.  mentioning  his 


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wife  Elizabeth  and  children  John,  Jonathan 
and  Elizabeth.  One  of  the  executors  of  this 
will  was  Philip  Coombs,  of  Newbury,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

(I)  Philip  Coombs  was  a  shipwright  at 
Newbury,  JMassachusetts,  in  1751,  and  appears 
to  have  resided  in  that  town  for  many  years. 
He  was  a  man  of  great  constructive  skill,  and 
was  a  townsman  of  excellent'repute.  The  chil- 
dren born  to  him  by  his  wife  Lydia  at  New- 
bury are  thus  named  in  the  old  records :  Will- 
iam, mentioned  below;  Martha,  ]\Iay  29,  1739; 
Betty,  June  8,  1744. 

(II)  William,  only  son  of  Philip  (i) 
Coombs,  was  born  September,  1736. 

(III)  Philip  (2),  son  of  William  Coombs, 
was  a  man  of  very  sturdy,  enterprising 
character,  who  removed  to  Bangor,  Maine, 
in  1814,  becoming  a  very  successful  mer- 
chant there,  and  one  who  was  highly  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  "In  1836  Philip 
Coombs,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Ban- 
gor, with  his  son  Philip  H.  and  his  son-in-law 
Frederick  Hobbs,  Esq.,  conveyed  to  the  city  of 
Bangor  what  was  then  called  'Coombs  City 
Common,'  containing  five  acres,  to  be  forever 
kept  as  a  park.  During  the  administration  of 
Mayor  Arthur  Chapin  the  name  of  this  park 
was  changed  to  Chapin  Park." 

(IV)  Philip  Henry,  son  of  Philip  (2) 
Coombs,  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Massachu- 
setts, February  21,  1803,  died  November  22, 
1 87 1.  He  moved  to  Bangor,  Maine,  when  he 
was  a  lad  and  became  a  very  successful  mer- 
chant in  that  city.  He  was  widely  noted  for 
his  great  executive  ability,  his  honest  dealings 
with  all  classes  of  customers,  and  for  his  grand 
help  in  all  matters  of  public  interest.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Society 
of  Bangor,  and  a  Republican  in  politics.  He 
married  Eliza  Boardman,  born  August  26, 
1805,  died  j\lay  25,  1873.  They  had  several 
children,  only  two  who  arrived  at  maturity : 
I.  Fred  H.,  born  May  i,  1832,  died  December 
16,  1887,  unmarried ;  he  was  a  successful  civil 
engineer  and  city  engineer  of  Bangor.  2. 
Philip,  see  forward. 

(V)  Phihp  (3),  son  of  Philip  Henry 
Coombs,  was  born  in  Bangor,  August  5,  1833. 
died  November  9,  1906.  He  graduated  from 
the  high  school  of  that  city,  and  at  an  early 
age  became  a  bookkeeper  and  an  expert  ac- 
countant. One  of  the  many  obituaries  of  him 
states :  "Mr.  Coombs  was  a  man  who  was 
recognized  as  the  very  soul  of  honor  and 
probity.  He  was  scrupulously  exact  in  all  busi- 
ness matters,  and  used  the  utmost  care  in  every 
detail  of  his  work.     He  was  deeply  interested 


in  all  charitable  and  religious  work,  and  along 
all  such  lines  did  as  much  as  several  men 
usually  do.  He  was  willing  to  go  without 
many  things  which  seemed  quite  essential  to 
his  comfort  if  only  the  poor  could  be  cheered 
and  the  cause  of  religion  advanced.  His  death 
will  be  regretted  by  a  large  circle  of  friends." 
Philip  Coombs  married  Sarah  F.,  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Richard  Woodhull,  and  descended 
from  a  long  line  of  ancestry.  The  mother  of 
Sarah  F.  Woodhull  was  Sarah  Forbes,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Forbes,  the  second  postmaster 
at  Bangor,  Maine,  who  was  appointed  to  that 
office  April  i,  1804.  William  Forbes  took  up 
one  of  the  original  settlers'  lots  on  the  Penob- 
scot river,  near  the  present  Mount  Hope  ceme- 
.tery,  at  what  is  called  Red  Bridge,  and  the 
farm  has  ever  since  been  owned  in  the  family. 
It  is  now  occupied  by  the  widow  of  Charles  H. 
Forbes,  son  of  William  Forbes.  Philip  Coombs 
and  wife  had  six  children,  one  of  whom  died 
in  infancy.  The  others  were:  i.  Philip  Hen' 
ry.  2.  Eliza  Boardman,  married  Rev.  J.  G. 
Smiley.  3.  Mary  Woodhull,  married  Dr.  Fred- 
erick M.  Brown.  4.  Caroline,  married  Henry 
E.  Kelley.  5.  Helen,  who  is  unmarried  and 
resides  in  Connecticut. 

(VI)  Philip  Henry  (2),  son  of  Philip  (3) 
and  Sarah  F.  (Woodhull)  Coombs,  was  born' 
in  Bangor,  Maine,  December  24,  1856.  He 
has  always  resided  at  Bangor.  He  entered  in 
1875  the  engineering  office  of  his  uncle,  Fred 
H.  Coombs,  where  he  learned  civil  engineering. 
After  the  death  of  his  uncle,  in  1887,  he  en- 
tered into  partnership  with  T.  W.  Baldwin. 
Since  1892  Mr.  Coombs  has  been  in  sole  con- 
trol, and  has  a  very  large  business,  which 
reaches  far  and  wide  outside  of  the  city.  Foi' 
over  twenty  years  Mr.  Coombs  has  been  city 
engineer  for  Bangor.  It  is  very  interesting  to 
notice  that  this  civil  engineering  office  was 
started  by  the  great-uncle  of  Mr.  Coombs, 
William  Coombs,  over  seventy  years  ago,  and 
then  continued  by  his  nephew,  Fred  H. 
Coombs,  and  then  as  stated  by  Philip  H.  Mr. 
Coombs  is  consulted  on  important  matters  by 
people  all  over  his  native  state.  The  following 
list  of  the  achievements  of  Philip  H.  Coombs 
was  furnished  by  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers :  "Assistant  on  original  sur- 
vey for  location  of  Penobscot  Chemical  Fiber 
Company,  Pulp  Mills,  Great  Works,  ]\Iaine, 
in  1881.  Acting  resident  engineer  on  the  con- 
struction of  canal  and  mill,  1882  and  1883,  for 
T.  W.  Baldwin ;  civil  engineer  from  the  time 
of  breaking  ground  until  the  mill  was  suc- 
cessfully running.  Original  cost  of  this  mill 
about  $150,000.    This  was  the  first  large  pulp 


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mill  erected  in  Maine.  Resident  engineer  in 
laying  out  and  construction  of  pulp  and  paper 
mill,  Eastern  Manufacturing  Company,  at 
Brewer,  Maine,  1889,  this  costing  about  $200,- 
000.  Resident  engineer  pulp  and  paper  mill, 
Orono  Pulp  and  Paper  Company,  Basin  ]\Iills, 
Orono,  Maine.  iSgo,  the  work  costing  about 
$250,000.  Resident  engineer  Pulp  and  Paper 
Company,  Webster  Paper  Company,  Orono, 
Maine,  1890,  cost  about  $250,000.  Engineer 
on  laying  out  Bangor,  Maine,  street  railway, 
1888.  This  was  the  first  electric  road  built  in 
Maine,  and  among  the  first  to  be  successfully 
operated  in  the  United  States.  Original  length 
of  this  road,  one  and  one-half  miles.  Mr. 
Coombs  has  been  engaged  as  engineer  in  lay- 
ing out  and  improving  roads  for  several  com- 
panies centering  in  Bangor  most  of  the  time 
since  1888  up  to  date.  City  engineer  and  su- 
perintendent of  sewers,  Bangor,  from  Novem- 
ber, 1883,  until  March,  1893,  inclusive.  City 
engineer,  1 894-99- 1 90 1  -02-03-04-05-06-07-08. 
The  cost  of  sewers  constructed  during  these 
years  was  $323,348.  The  cost  of  bridges  con- 
structed in  that  time,  $201,777.  Mr.  Coombs 
was  principal  assistant  with  city  engineers 
from  1875  to  1882,  inclusive.  He  made  the 
plans,  specifications  and  contracts,  and  super- 
intended the  construction  of  the  masonry  pier 
and  abutments  for  Kenduskeag  Bridge  in  1884 
and  1889,  and  for  masonry  pier  for  Franklin 
street  bridge  in  1885,  the  cost  of  both  being 
$60,000.  This  work  was  done  jointly  by  the 
city  of  Bangor  and  the  United  States  govern- 
ment, the  government  first  approving  the  de- 
signs, plans  and  specifications  and  finally  ac- 
cepting the  work  and  paying  one-half  the  cost. 
He  made  surveys  and  plans  with  profiles  for 
sewer  system  for  towns  as  follows:  1892, 
De.xter,  Maine,  estimated  cost  to  complete, 
$54,000;  1894,  Dover,  Maine,  estimated  cost  to 
complete,  $30,000:  1904,  Foxcroft,  Maine,  es- 
timated cost,  $30,000;  1904,  Newport,  Maine, 
estimated  cost,  $20,000.  Engineer  on  survey, 
plans  and  specifications,  contract  and  in  charge 
of  construction  for  sewer  system  for  a  part  of 
the  city  of  Brewer,  Maine,  in  1898,  cost  $10,- 
000.  In  1901,  same  kind  of  work  for  Maine 
State  Prison,  cost  about  $6,500.  Engineer  on 
original  and  subsequent  sewerage.  Eastern 
Maine  Insane  Hospital,  from  purchase  of  the 
property  in  1899  to  date.  Principal  construc- 
tion, 1895  to  1900.  Administrations  of  three 
different  commissions.  Made  plans,  specifica- 
tions and  contract  for  engineering  construc- 
tion, among  which  may  be  mentioned  earth 
and  ledge  excavations,  about  $45,000;  sewer 
system,  about  $1,500;  a  deep  well  water  sup- 


ply sufficient  for  one  thousand  patients,  cost 
about  $2,500;  and  the  building  of  about  one- 
half  of  the  macadam  road  on  the  grounds; 
also  designed  what  landscape  work  was  done. 
Cost  of  this  institution,  about  $300,000.  Resi- 
dent engineer  on  construction  and  completion 
of  foundation  and  building  of  Stewart  Free 
Library,  Corinna,  IMaine,  1897-98,  including 
design  and  laying  out  of  grounds ;  cost  about 
$45,000.  On  this  work  Mr.  Coombs  also  acted 
as  agent  of  the  owners,  who  lived  in  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota.  Engineer  engaged  in  or- 
iginal survey  for  water  works  system.  Dexter, 
Maine,  in  1898,  and  on  survey,  plan,  specifica- 
tions and  construction  of  system,  including 
concrete  reservoir  of  five  hundred  thousand 
gallons  capacity,  in  1903  ;  cost  of  system  built, 
about  $50,000.  One  of  the  two  commissioners 
authorized  by  the  Maine  legislature  in  1901 
and  appointed  by  the  Penobscot  Log  Driving 
Company  on  a  hydraulic  survey  of  the  Penob- 
scot river.  West  Branch  watershed,  to  investi- 
gate and  determine  present  storage,  need  of 
increased  storage  for  log  driving,  manufac- 
turing and  other  purposes.  This  survey  cov- 
ered two  years  and  cost  $13,000.  Reported  to 
the  legislature  of  1903,  upon  which  legislation 
and  business  transactions  have  since  been 
based.  Mr.  Coombs  is  still  engaged  by  the 
Penobscot  Log  Driving  Company,  principally 
on  hydraulic  work.  Chief  engineer  for  the 
Bangor  Terminal  Railway  Company  on  sur- 
vey, location,  etc.,  of  six  miles  of  road  con- 
templated to  connect  Bangor  with  the  North- 
ern Maine  seaport  branch  of  the  Bangor  and 
Aroostook  railway  at  Hermon,  Maine,  con- 
struction pending.  Engineer  on  working 
plans  and  in  charge  of  construction  of  Chapin 
Park,  Bangor,  1899  and  1901,  cost  about 
$8,000.  Same  position  on  working  plans,  spe- 
cifications, contract  under  charge  of  construc- 
tion of  Broadway  Park,  Bangor,  1904  and 
1905 ;  cost,  about  $10,000.  Same  position  on 
survey,  plan  and  design  for  Summit  Park, 
Bangor,  1904;  estimated  cost,  $5,000.  Engi- 
neer on  design,  plan,  specifications,  inspection 
of  construction,  etc.,  of  fishways  for  Maine 
Fisheries  Commissioners  from  1889  to  pres- 
ent date." 

Mr.  Coombs  is  deeply  interested  in  Masonic 
work ;  is  an  active  member  of  Rising  Vir- 
tue Lodge,  No.  10,  F.  and  A.  M..  of  which  he 
is  past  master;  Mt.  Moriah  Chapter,  No.  6, 
R.  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  high  priest;  Bangor 
Council,  R.  and  S.  ^I.,  of  which  he  is  master; 
St.  John's  Commandery,  No.  3,  K.  T.,  of 
which  he  is  eminent  commander ;  Eastern  Star 
Lodge     of     Perfection ;     Palestine     Council, 


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Princes  of  Jerusalem;  Ancient  and  Accepted 
Scottish  Rite,  thirty-second  degree.  He  is  also 
an  Odd  Fellow,  member  of  the  Masonic  Club, 
and  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers. 
Mr.  Coombs  married  Millie  M.,  daughter  of 
Samuel  B.  and  Mary  Proctor  (Burr)  Field; 
two  children :  Grace  Field,  born  September 
6,  1886;  Leola  Woodhull,  March  10,  1889. 
Samuel  B.  Field  was  born  at  Carmel,  Maine, 
October  4,  1817,  died  November  19,  1902;  he 
was  a  very  faithful  soldier  in  the  civil  war, 
mustered  in  December  12,  1861,  first  lieuten- 
ant of  Company  C,  Second  Regiment  of  Alaine 
Volunteers ;  he  was  a  charter  member  of  B.  H. 
Beal  Post,  No.  12,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public. 


The  immigrant  ancestor  of  this 
COOMBS     branch  of  the   Coombs   family 

was  of  French  Huguenot  an- 
cestry. All  we  know  of  him  is  that  he  came 
to  America,  lived  for  a  time  in  Plymouth 
county,  Alassachusetts,  and  then  at  Newbury- 
port.  He  was  doubtless  a  seafaring  man  and 
there  is  reason  to  believe  that  he  died  when 
a  young  man.  There  are  many  reasons  for 
thinking  him  a  grandson  or  at  least  a  near 
relative  of  Henry  Coombs,  of  Marblehead. 
who  is  the  progenitor  of  a  large  part  of  the 
Coombs  families  of  America.  He,  too,  was 
French  in  descent,  though  of  English  birth 
probably.  Henry  Coombs  had  land  laid  out 
to  him  in  Marblehead,  December  22,  1648; 
had  charge  of  the  ferry  in  that  town  in  1661  ; 
died  1669 ;  children  of  Henry  and  wife  Eliza- 
beth :  i.  Henry,  settled  in  Salem  Village  and 
had  a  son  John,  who  died  in  1690;  ii.  Hum- 
phrey, born  1635,  married  Bathsheba  Ray- 
mond :  iii.  Deborah ;  iv.  Elizabeth ;  v.  Mi- 
chael, resided  in  Marblehead ;  vi.  Susannah, 
married,  October  22,  1668,  Francis  Grant; 
vii.  Richard,  died  January.  1693-94.  Children 
of  the  Maine  family's  progenitor:  i.  Peter, 
came  to  Brunswick,  Maine,  about  1730,  and 
settled  at  Havard's  Point  a  short  distance  be- 
low the  Bartlett  Adams  place,  removed  to  the 
Freeman  Gross  place  near  Harding  Station ; 
children :  George,  Peter,  Samuel.  Caleb.  2. 
Anthony,  mentioned  below.  3.  John,  settled 
on  Great  Island,  Harpswell,  Maine,  and  was 
grandfather  of  Elisha,  Anthony,  John  and 
Isaac  Coombs  of  that  town.  We  find  John 
Coombs,  born  August  14,  1695,  at  Hull,  Mas- 
sachusetts, son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Coombs,  probably  the  pioneer  ancestors  of  this 
family. 

(II)    Anthony   Coombs,   son   of   the   immi- 
grant, was  born  in  171 5.     He  went  to  Bruns- 


wick, Maine,  with  his  two  brothers.  He  set- 
tled on  the  James  Larrabee  place.  He  re- 
moved to  Islesborough,  Maine,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers.  He  was  a  prominent 
citizen  and  held  various  offices.  He  sold  his 
farm  at  Islesborough  to  Mighall  Parker,  Au- 
gust 6,  1791,  and  spent  his  last  years  in 
Brunswick,  where  he  died  in  1815  at  the  age 
of  one  hundred  years.  His  widow  Ruth  died 
1826.  Children:  i.  Anthony  Jr.,  died  Jan- 
uary 8,  1735,  a  town  officer;  married  Hannah 
Holbrook.  2.  Jesse,  married,  April  16,  1794, 
Hannah  Richards,  of  Bristol.  3.  Robert,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Ephraim,  died  January  9, 
1812,  aged  thirty-si.x.  5.  Benjamin,  married, 
June  16.  1 791,  Abigail  Williams,  who  died 
July  13,  1842.  6.  Jonathan,  married,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1790,  Martha  Warren  and  removed  to 
Albion,  Maine.  7.  Abiezer,  married,  Novem- 
ber 23,  1823,  Marv  Burke;  he  died  October  3, 
1861  ;  she  died  May  5,  1881. 

(III)  Robert,  son  of  Anthony  Coombs,  was 
born  in  Islesborough  or  New  Meadows 
(Brunswick)  about  1755.  He  lived  in  West 
Bay,  Islesborough,  near  Jeremiah  Hatch.  He 
married,  July  10,  1790,  Lucy  Thomas.  He 
may  have  been  a  soldier  in  the  revolution, 
though  the  record  has  not  been  found.  Of 
the  revolutionary  soldiers  of  the  family  we 
find  from  Brunswick  alone  Fields  Coombs, 
Benjamin  Coombs,  Hezekiah  Coombs,  Joseph 
Stout  Coombs  and  Nathan  Coombs.  Robert 
Coombs  was  a  captain  in  the  coasting  trade, 
and  like  many  of  the  privateers  in  the  revolu- 
tion his  contribution  to  the  cause,  if  any,  might 
not  be  found  in  the  printed  rolls.  He  married 
(second)  .  Children,  born  in  Isles- 
borough: I.  Robert  Jr.,  June  25,  1783,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Jacob,  March  31,  1785,  mar- 
ried Prudence  Turner  (intentions  dated  April 
15,  1821).  3.  Lucy,  February  28,  1787,  mar- 
ried, October  7,  1816,  Otho  Abbott,  of  Mont- 
ville,  Maine.  4.  Jesse,  April  4,  1789.  married 
Desire  Turner,  March  2,  181 6.  5.  Isaac,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1790,  married  Betsey  Boardman.  6. 
Luther,  June  3,  1805,  married  Dean  Basford, 
of  Belfast,  May  9,  1828.  7.  Catherine,  May 
13,  1809,  married  Charles  Bagley,  of  Belfast. 
8.  Louisa,  July  18,  181 1,  married,  June  21, 
1832,  Arthur  Farnsworth.  Child  of  his  sec- 
ond wife:     9.  Isaiah,  August  16,  1838. 

(IV)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Robert  (i) 
Coombs,  was  born  in  Islesborough,  June  25, 
1783.  He  began  to  go  to  sea  when  a  boy, 
and  led  the  life  of  a  sailor  during  his  youth 
and  early  manhood.  In  1830  he  removed  to 
Belfast,  Maine,  and  purchased  a  farm  of  some 
sixty  acres,  where  he  lived  the  remainder  of 


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■his  life,  and  died  July  9,  1862.  He  married, 
December  25,  1823,  Jane  Gilkey,  born  in  Isles- 
borough,  April  9.  1807,  died  in  Belfast,  Au- 
gust I,   1884.     Children:     i.  Lucy  Jane,  born 

'September  5.  1824,  died  January  23,  1827.  2. 
Statira  Preble,  April  13,  1826.  3.  Robert  H., 
July   3,    1828,  mentioned  below.     4.    Lucretia 

■  Mary,  married  A.  J.  Macomber.  5.  Lorenzo 
D.,  Noyerpber  20,  183 1,  was  a  forty-niner.    6. 

.  Charles  Henry,  went  to  California  in  1853, 
and  not  heard  from  since  1865,  when  he 
joined  a  company  of  cavalry  and  took  part  in 

'-  the  close  of  the  civil  war.  7.  Ludia  Jane, 
March  15,  1835.  8.  Hollis  M.,  March  15,  1837, 
resides  ,in  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  9. 
Franklin  S.,  January  5,  1839.     10.  Philip  G., 

-resides  in  Belfast.  11.  Royal  Augustus, 
drowned  while  bathing  at  the  age  of  fifteen. 
12.  Caroline  F.,  died  young.  13.  Welcome 
Jordan,  resides  on  the  homestead.  14.  Emma 
Frances,  married  Charles  Hayes. 

(V)  Captain  Robert  H.,  son  of  Robert 
Coombs,  was  born  in  Islesborough,  Maine, 
July  3,  1828,  and  died  in  Belfast.  Maine,  No- 
vember 7,  1897.  He  had  but  a  limited  educa- 
tion, entering  on  his  career  as  a  sailor  when 
but  nine  years  old.  He  went  first  as  cook  on 
a  coasting  vessel,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
was  master  of  the  schooner  "Jane"  of  Belfast. 
After  that  he  commanded  a  variety  of  craft, 
including  the  schooner  "Dime,"  "Eri,"  "Royal 
Welcome,"  "Tippecanoe,"  "Pensacola,"  "Fred 
Dyer,"  "Lydia  Brooks,"  the  brig  "Russian," 
the  bark  "P.  R.  Hazeltine,"  the  bark  "Diana," 
the  ship  "Live  Oak,"  the  ship  "Cora,"  named 
for  his  daughter.  During  the  war  he  sailed 
the  "Diana,"  under  the  Hanoverian  flag,  from 
America  to  India  and  to  the  Lhiited  Kingdom. 
In  the  spring  of  1865  he  sold  this  vessel  in 
Copenhagen.  In  the  "Cora"  he  sailed  round 
the  world,  touching  at  Chinese  ports  and 
others  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and  for  twenty 
years  his  vessel  was  not  on  the  American  coast. 
About  1880  he  returned  to  Belfast  and  gave 
up  sea-going  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  engaged  in  the  furniture  trade  and  under- 
taking business  in  Belfast.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternity,  and  his  diploma  was  a  most 
interesting  document,  coming  from  the  Grand 
Orient  in  Paris,  where  he  was  made  an  M.  M., 
bearing  indorsements  from  many  lodges ;  from 
Excelsior  Lodge  in  Buenos  Ayres  in  1862; 
New  Zealand  Lodge.  Wellington,  New  Zea- 
land, 1866;  Bute  Lodge,  Cardiff,  Wales,  1859; 
Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  New  Orleans,  1859; 
Lodge  of  Love,  Falmouth,  Cornw^all,  England, 
i860;  Rising  Star.  Bombay,  September,  1876: 


St.  Andrew  Lodge,  Calcutta.  1877;  and  St, 
John  Lodge,  Hong  Kong,  China,  1880.  His 
home  membership  was  with  Phoenix  Lodge, 
No.  24,  Belfast,  Maine.  He  married,  June  11, 
1850,  Harriet  E.  Pendleton,  born  April  13, 
1 83 1,  died  June  7,  1894,  daughter  of  Jared 
Pendleton,  of  Belfast.  Children:  i.  Walter 
H.,  resides  in  Belfast.  2.  Cora  J..  September 
18,  1852,  married  Alexander  Leith  and  had 
two  children.  3.  Daughter,  died  young.  4. 
Charles  R.,  March  20,  1862,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(\T)  Charles  R.,  son  of  Captain  Robert  H. 
Coombs,  was  born  in  Belfast,  March  20,  1862. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Belfast. 
When  he  was  but  ten  years  old  he  went  to 
England  with  his  mother,  and  while  there  con- 
tinued his  schooling  for  two  years.  When  he 
returned  home  he  took  a  course  in  the  Bryant 
&  Stratton  Business  College  in  Boston.  He 
became  associated  in  business  with  his  father 
in  February,  1882,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Robert  H.  Coombs  &  Son,  undertakers  and 
dealers  in  furniture,  in  Belfast.  Their  busi- 
ness was  prosperous  and  the  partnership  con- 
tinued until  the  father's  death  in  1897.  Since 
then  the  junior  partner  has  been  the  sole  pro- 
prietor. In  1900  he  sold  the  furniture  store 
and  business  and  has  devoted  his  attention  ex- 
clusively to  the  undertaking  business.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of 
Phcenix  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  Belfast,  and 
at  present  its  worshipful  master.  He  is  a 
member  also  of  the  Corinthian  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  of  Belfast,  and  of  King  Solo- 
mon Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  also 
of  Waldo  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  Belfast ;  of 
Penobscot  Encampment  and  Aurora  Lodge  of 
Rebekahs.  In  religion  he  is  a  L'nitarian.  He 
married,  September  4,  1902,  Helena  C.  Mat- 
thews, born  January  11,  1872,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Carrie  Matthews,  of  Belfast.  They 
have  no  children. 


Henry  Coombs  was  of  Marble- 
COOMBS     head,    Massachusetts,   as   early 

as  December  22,  1648,  when  he 
with  others  had  lots  of  land  laid  out  in  the 
swamp.  On  April  11.  1653,  he  sold  a  cow 
lease  to  John  Legg,  and  in  1656  was  elected 
"way  warden."  In  1661  he  had  temporary 
charge  of  the  ferry,  near  which  he  appears  to 
have  lived.  In  1667  he  was  complained  against 
for  having  uttered  alleged  slanderous  reports 
concerning  the  minister  at  Marblehead,  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Walton,  saying  that  "he  preached 
nothing  but  lies,  and  that  he  could  prove  him 
to  be  a  knave."    Henry  Coombs  was  a  fisher- 


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man.  The  inventorv  of  his  estate  was  taken 
September  16,  1669,  by  Henry  Bartholomew, 
Moses    Maverick    and    Hilliard    Veren.      His 

wife  was  Elizabeth ,  and  administration 

was  granted  on  her  estate  June  13,  1709,  to 
her  son-in-law,  Francis  Grant,  and  his  wife 
Susannah,  the  latter  the  youngest  daughter 
of  the  decedent.  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Coombs 
.had  seven  children:  i.  Henry,  was  living  in 
1690,  when  he  was  in  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
and  settled  the  estate  of  his  brother  John.  2. 
Humphrey,   born    about    1635.    married,    July 

29.  1659,  Bathsheba  Rayment  (Raymond), 
'daughter  of   Richard   Rayment,  of  Seabrook, 

Connecticut.    3.  Deborah,  who  married 

House.  4.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Thomas 
Trevey.  5.  Midiael  (see  post).  6.  Susannah, 
■who  married,  October  22,  1668,  Francis  Grant, 
■of  ;\Iarblehead,  and  had  nine  children:  Mary, 
born  July  16,  1669,  died  young;  Susannah, 
August  19,  1671.  died  before  1718,  married, 
July  4,  1692,  Thomas  White ;  Francis,  No- 
vember  25,    1673;    Sarah,    August   24,    1675, 

:married    Merritt ;    Jane,    August    29, 

1679,  married Knight;  John,  August 

30,  1682;  David,  November  14,  1684,  died  be- 
fore 1718;  Henry,  July  30,  1687;  Mary,  April 
12,  1694,  married  Pitman.  7.  Rich- 
ard, died  January,  1693-94;  married  Margaret 
,  and  had  one  child,  Bridget,  born  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1689,  married,  January  10,  1710, 
John  Lapthorne. 

(H)   Michael,  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth 

Coomlas,  married  Joanna ,  and  by  her 

had  two  children:  Michael  (see  post)  and 
Joshua,  born  February  23,  1670-71,  no  further 
record. 

(HI)  Michael  (2).  son  of  Michael  (i)  and 
Joanna  Coombs,  was  born  ^Marcli  22,  1668-69, 
and  died  July  26,  1730.  He  was  witness  to 
a  nuncupative  will  made  by  Thomas  Rhoades, 
of  Marblehead,  to  John  Sampson,  on  board 
the  ship  "Essex"  at  sea,  wherein  it  was  agreed 
that  if  either  died  during  the  voyage  the  sur- 
vivor should  have  whatever  clothes  and  wages 
the  other  possessed  at  the  time  of  his  decease. 
It  so  happened  that  Sampson  was  killed  during 
the  voyage.  Mr.  Coombs  married,  July  12, 
1694,  Ruth  Rhoades  and  had  six  children:  i. 
Joanna,  baptized  May  19,  1695,  married,  De- 
cember 29,  171 5,  Benjamin  Girdler.  2.  Rich- 
ard, baptized  February  14,  1696-97.  3.  Josh- 
ua (see  post).  4.  Michael,  born  February  28, 
1702-03,  died  January,  1782;  married  (first), 
March  12,  1724-25,  Remember  White,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Susanna  (Grant)  White. 
Their  children  were  Mary,  baptized  December 
II,  1726;  Ruth,  baptized  September  28,  1729, 


died  in  infancy;  Ruth,  baptized  June  30,  1731, 
died  November  8,  1814,  married,  June  18, 
1751,  Mark  Haskell;  Thomas,  baptized  No- 
vember 25,  1733,  died  December,  1764.  5. 
Ruth,  baptized  iMarch  25,  1705,  married,  June 
12,  1726,  John  Down,  of  St.  Island,  New 
Hampshire.  6.  Elizabeth,  baptized  July  26, 
1 71 3,  no  further  record. 

(IV)  Joshua,  son  of  Michael  (2)  and  Ruth 
(Rhoades)  Coombs,  was  baptized  June  11, 
1699,  and  died  before  February  27,  1764,  the 
date  his  will  was  proved.  He  was  a  member 
of  St.  Michael's  Episcopal  Church  of  Marble- 
head.  He  married,  January  29,  1721,  Mary 
Goree,  and  by  her  had  four  children:  i.  Mi- 
chael (see  post).  2.  Susaimah,  married  a  Mr. 
Nicholson.  3.  Joanna,  married  a  ]\Ir.  Nelson. 
4.  Richard,  date  of  birth  unknown,  died  young. 

(Y)  Michael  (3),  son  of  Joshua  and  Mary 
(Goree)  Coombs,  was  baptized  February  25, 
1727-28,  and  died  in  1806.  During  the  revo- 
lution he  cast  his  fortunes  with  the  British, 
and  having  become  a  Tory  he  fled  from  home 
and  all  his  property,  with  that  of  other  Tories 
in  the  vicinity  of  Marblehead,  was  confiscated. 
In  regard  to  his  movements  the  following  an- 
nouncement was  made  by  the  committee  of 
correspondence  at  Marblehead,  in  June,  1781, 
through  Jonathan  Glover,  chairman  of  the 
committee :  "This  may  certify  that  Mr.  Mi- 
chael Coombs,  late  an  inhabitant  of  Marble- 
head, in  said  county  (Essex),  mariner,  has 
absented  himself  for  3  weeks  and  upwards 
from  the  usual  place  of  his  abode  and  we 
verily  believe  went  to  our  enemies."  On  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1782,  Michael  Coombs'  wife  present- 
ed a  petition  to  the  general  court  asking  that 
a  portion  of  his  estate  which  had  been  con- 
fscated  should  be  set  off  and  sold,  which  re- 
quest was  granted  and  one-third  of  it  was  set 
oft",  including  the  !iiouse  and  the  land  around  it, 
located  "on  training  field  hill."  On  January  4, 
1753,  Michael  Coombs  married  Sarah  Girdler. 
In  his  will  he  mentions  only  one  son,  Nicholas 
(VI),  to  whom  he  gives  his  great  coat,  and 
to  Joshua,  son  of  said  Nicholas,  he  gave  all 
the  rest  of  his  wearing  apparel.  To  his  wife 
Sarah  he  gave  one-third  part  of  his  real  es- 
tate. 

(VII)  Joshua,  son  of  Nicholas  Coombs  and 
grandson  of  Michael  Coombs,  of  both  of  whom 
mention  is  made  in  the  preceding  paragraph, 
was  born  in  Bowdoin,  Maine,  July  7,  1775,  and 
died  November  29,  185 1.     He  married  Mary 

,  who  was  born  December  7,  1772,  and 

died  in  October,  1843. 

(VTII)  James,  son  of  Joshua  and  Mary 
Coombs,  was  born   in   Bowdoin,   Maine,   No- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


vember  7,  1798,  and  died  in  Lisbon,  Alaine, 
September  i.  1880.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by 
trade.  The  greater  part  of  his  Hfe  was  spent 
in  his  native  town  of  Bowdoin,  but  during  his 
latter  years  he  lived  in  Lisbon,  where  he  died. 
He  married  (first)  Love  Getchel,  who  was 
born  July  26.  1801.  and  died  December  20, 
1 85 1,  having  borne  him  thirteen  children.  He 
married  for  liis  second  wife  Mrs.  Mary  Gould, 
and  by  her  had  one  child.  His  children:  i. 
William  Given  (see  post).  2.  Nathaniel  G., 
born  February  5,  1821,  died  October,  1876. 
3.  John  G.,  May  19,  1822.  4.  Mary,  July  28, 
1823,  died  July  6,  1824.  5.  Mary,  June  21. 
1825.  6.  James,  January  13,  1827,  died  Au- 
gust. 1864.  7.  Hannah,  March  5,  1828,  died 
March  5,  1828.  8.  Daniel  C.,  March  3,  1830, 
died  September  26,  1891.  9.  Martha,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1834,  died  September,  1871.  10.  Charles 
B.,  July  28,  1837,  died  September,  1875.  11. 
Susan,  October  28,  1839,  <i'sd  January  3,  1842. 

12.  Ruth  L.,  April  17,  1841,  no  further  record. 

13.  Frank  B.,  September  13,  1847,  no  further 
record.  14.  Nathan  S.,  November  25,  1853,  no 
further  record. 

(IX)  William  Given,  eldest  son  and  child 
of  James  and  Love  (Getchel)  Coombs,  was 
born  in  Bowdoin,  Maine,  October  i,  i8ig,  and 
died  in  Auburn,  Maine,  March  6,  1898.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  which  he  followed 
all  of  his  life.  In  1852  he  removed  to  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  and  subsequently  located 
in  Auburn,  where  the  later  years  of  his  life 
were  passed.  His  wife  was  Clarina  Ann 
Kinsley,  daughter  of  Daniel  Kinsley,  of  Au- 
burn, Alaine,  by  whom  he  had  two  children  : 
James  Edward,  born  in  Lisbon  Falls,  July  3, 
1845.     Delbert  Dana  (see  post). 

(X)  Delbert  Dana,  youngest  of  the  tw'o  sons 
of  William  Given  and  Clarina  Ann  (Kinsley) 
Coombs,  was  born  in  Lisbon  Falls,  Maine, 
July  26,  1850.  When  he  was  two  years  old 
his  parents  removed  to  New  Gloucester,  one 
of  the  most  picturesque  old  towns  in  Maine. 
No  doubt  the  natural  beauty  surrounding  him 
made  a  deep  impression  on  the  sensitive  mind 
of  the  young  -boy  and  was  the  first  cause  of 
the  art  impulse  that  early  showed  itself.  No 
artistic  ancestors  as  far  as  known  and  no 
art  influence  whatever  about  him.  Here  in 
this  quiet  village  he  received  his  early  edu- 
cation at  the  common  school.  A  severe  illness 
when  he  was  about  tw-elve  years  old  (the 
effects  of  which  were  felt  for  many  years)  un- 
fitted him  for  the  broader  education  his  am- 
bition craved.  When  almost  a  babe  he  would 
spend  hours  at  his  mother's  side  cutting  out 
all  kinds  of  figures  with  the  scissors  and  even 


then  it  is  said  he  showed  remarkable  skill  in 
some  of  his  work.  At  school  his  pencil  often 
brought  him  trouble,  but  the  corner  grocery 
store  was  the  place  where  it  found  encourage- 
ment. Many  evenings  has  he  entertained  the 
frequenters  of  that  resort,  sketching  on  the 
rough  wrapping  paper  anything  they  would 
call  for.  Crude  no  doubt  these  sketches  were, 
but  it  was  the  school  that  trained  the  pencil 
for  the  rapid  work  required  for  animal  paint- 
ing later  in  life.  The  old  village  smithy,  too, 
was  a  picture  gallery  for  the  young  artist, 
where  the  boy's  father  proudly  exhibited  to  his 
customers  his  son's  skill  in  chalk  on  the  black- 
ened wall  of  the  old  shop.  It  was  a  great  day 
for  young  Coombs  when  Scott  Leighton,  the 
celebrated  Boston  animal  painter,  came  to  New 
Gloucester  to  paint  some  horses.  This  w^as 
the  turning  point  in  Mr.  Coombs'  life. 
Through  the  kind  encouragement  of  Mr. 
Leighton  he  soon  took  up  the  brush  and  for 
nearly  forty  years  he  has  been  an  active  w'ork- 
er  in  his  chosen  art.  Mr.  Coombs  had  many 
difficulties  in  his  way.  He  lacked  the  physical 
strength  to  pursue  the  course  that  many  art 
students  take,  and  his  father  lacked  the  means, 
but  he  gave  him  what  was  perhaps  better,  en- 
couragement and  faith.  Mr.  Coombs  took 
a  few  lessons  at  first  of  Mr.  Leighton  and 
also  of  H.  B.  Brown,  of  Portland,  the  marine 
and  landscape  painter.  In  1870  he  took  a 
studio  in  Lewiston  for  a  short  time,  receiving 
a  number  of  pupils,  but  little  encouragement. 
He  soon  after  went  to  Portland,  when  his 
parents  had  removed,  and  while  there  he  spent 
a  short  time  with  Mr.  Lamson,  the  photog- 
rapher, learning  the  principles  of  his  profes- 
sion. This,  however,  did  not  satisfy  his  love 
of  art.  A  business  enterprise  brought  him 
again  to  Lewiston,  but  he  soon  gave  this  up 
to  return  to  his  brush.  He  again  opened  a 
studio  in  Lewiston,  and  soon  took  up  sign 
painting  as  a  support  to  his  art  work.  He  also 
took  pupils  and  for  over  twenty  years  he  had 
quite  a  following  of  art  students.  About  this 
time  he  won  some  recognition  as  a  caricaturist. 
His  work  in  this  line  attracted  the  attention 
of  the  late  James  G.  Blaine,  who  sent  for  ]\Ir. 
Coombs  and  made  arrangements  to  use  his 
cartoons  in  the  political  campaign.  This  work 
seemed  to  establish  Mr.  Coombs'  reputation 
as  an  artist,  and  he  w^as  enabled  to  give  up 
sign  painting  and  devote  all  his  time  to  art 
work.  At  this  time  he  did  considerable  illus- 
trating and  there  was  a  good  demand  for  his 
work.  A  Boston  engraving  company  gave  him 
a  call  to  take  charge  of  their  illustrating,  but 
he  had  been  with  them  but  a  few  months  when 


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he  was  called  to  Auburn  by  the  serious  illness 
of  his  father.  The  Lewiston  Journal  was 
about  establishing  an  illustrating  plant,  and 
they  engaged  Mr.  Coombs  to  take  charge  of 
that  department.  Here  Mr.  Coombs  found 
free  course  for  his  pencil  and  an  opportunity 
to  express  himself  in  caricature,  and  his  suc- 
cess in  that  line  was  most  marked,  his  subjects 
being  always  appropriately  chosen  and  his 
tastes  inclining  to  the  higher  order  of  por- 
trayals rather  than  to  those  of  the  baser  order. 
But  notwithstanding  his  success  in  caricature 
and  the  freedom  of  his  connection  with  news- 
paper illustrating  and  its  comfortable  income, 
Mr.  Coombs'  old  love  for  color  finally  over- 
powered all  other  considerations  and  drew  him 
back  into  the  domain  of  legitimate  art ;  and 
while  he  would  have  gone  abroad  for  a  deeper 
and  broader  study,  conditions  he.  could  not 
control  forbade  the  consummation  of  his  high- 
est aims;  and  yet  he  has  by  intuition  and  na- 
tive genius  been  enabled  to  acquire  such  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  technique  and  in  the 
finesse  and  finish  of  his  work  that  he  has  come 
to  be  recognized  as  one  of  our  famous  .Ameri- 
can artists.  j\Ir.  Coombs  never  graduated 
from  an  art  school,  never  belonged  to  an  art 
club  and  has  lived  and  worked  in  a  community 
far  removed  from  art  and  artists.  He  re- 
ceived instruction  from  some  of  the  best  Bos- 
ton artists  from  time  to  time,  as  circumstances 
would  allow,  and  he  kept  in  touch  with  the 
art  world  by  visiting  the  Boston  and  New 
York  art  exhibitions,  and  for  several  winters 
had  a  studio  in  Boston.  His  pictures  are  sel- 
dom seen  at  exhibitions  or  on  sale  at  art 
stores,  yet  his  landscapes  and  cattle  pieces  are 
owned  from  Maine  to  California  and  many  of 
them  represent  scenes  of  his  old  boyhood  home 
in  New  Gloucester.  The  first  picture  sold 
from  the  Poland  Spring  art  gallery  was  one  of 
his  cattle  pieces  and  is  owned  in  Philadelphia. 
He  has  painted  many  of  Maine's  distinguished 
sons.  Examples  of  his  work  in  these  lines 
may  be  found  in  the  collection  of  eight  of  his 
portraits  that  adorn  the  walls  of  the  state 
house  gallery  at  Augusta.  A  large  portrait 
of  the  late  Chief  Justice  Peters,  of  Maine,  is 
hung  at  Yale  College,  and  a  life-size  portrait 
of  Judge  Haskell  was  burned  in  the  city  hall 
fire  in  Portland.  His  most  recent  work  is 
"Calling  the  Cows,"  painted  from  life  at  the 
Poland  Spring  farm.  The  canvas  is  four  by 
six  feet  in  size  and  represents  the  herd  of 
over  fifty  cows  in  the  pasture,  with  the  farm 
buildings  and  hotels  in  the  distance.  This 
picture  is  owned  by  H.  Ricker  &  Sons,  and  is 
hung  in  their  New  York  office. 


On  September  10,  1902,  Mr.  Coombs  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Martha  Lufkin  and  has  one  child, 
Martha  Pauline  Coombs,  born  in  Auburn,  July 
19,  1907. 


In  early  times  the  patronymics, 
NEWELL     Newell,  Newall  and  Newhall, 

seem  to  have  been  one  and  the 
same,  but  after  the  migration  to  America  each 
name  seems  to  have  preserved  its  identity. 
The  origin  of  Newhall  is  evident,  and  the  old- 
est mention  of  it  in  printed  history  confirms 
the  natural  supposition.  "Bloomfield's  His- 
tory of  Norfolk"  says  that  a  certain  manor 
was  bestowed  bv  one  of  the  baronial  proprie- 
tors upon  one  of  his  sons,  who  built  a  new 
hall,  whence  he  obtained  the  name  of  Johannis 
de  Nova  Aula,  otherwise  John  de  Newehall. 
The  earliest  manuscript  record  of  the  name 
dates  from  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  century ; 
it  relates  to  the  will  of  one  Thomas  Newhall, 
whose  will,  written  in  Latin  in  1498.  was 
proved  on  April  22.  1499.  He  appoints,  among 
others,  his  wife  Emnieta  to  be  executrix,  and 
wishes  his  body  to  be  buried  in  the  chapel  of 
Witton  and  makes  bequests  to  the  Abbot  and 
Convent  of  the  Blessed  Mary  of  Vale  Royal, 
and  for  the  repairs  of  the  church  of  End- 
worth.,  all  of  which  places  are  in  Cheshire. 
The  first  immigrants  of  the  name  to  the  new 
world  were  two  brothers,  Thomas  and  An- 
thony Newhall,  who  came  to  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts, about  1639,  and  are  the  ancestors  of  a 
numerous  posterity,  which  has  filled  such  an 
honorable  place  in  that  town. 

There  were  several  early  immigrants  by  the 
name  of  Newell.  Thomas  Newell  settled  at 
Farmington,  Connecticut,  soon  after  1640, 
coming  there  from  Hartford.  He  married 
Rebecca  Olmstead  and  reared  a  numerous 
family.  Abraham  Newell,  of  Roxbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, came  over  in  the  ship  Francis  in 
the  year  1634.  He  was  older  than  most  of  the 
immigrants,  being  fift)-  at  the  time  he  made  a 
change  of  continents;  and  he  brought  a  wife 
and  several  full  grown  children  with  him. 
One  of  the  sons  named  Isaac  married  Eliza- 
beth Curtis,  and  among  their  children  was  an 
Ebenezer,  born  November  29,  1673.  Ebenezer 
(i)  Newell  had  a  wife  Mary,  and  among  their 
children  was  an  Ebenezer  (2),  born  in  171 1, 
who  died  in  1746.  All  of  these  generations 
lived  in  Roxbury.  There  were  other  early 
Newells  living  in  Massachusetts,  but  it  seems 
quite  probable  from  the  identity  of  the  Chris- 
tian names  that  the  following  line  is  descend- 
ed from  Abraham,  though  the  connecting  link 
is  lacking. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


(I)  Ebenczer  Newell,  whose  descendants 
have  occupied  an  honored  place  in  the  state 
of  Maine  lor  five  generations,  was  born  in 
Brookline,  Massachusetts,  March  i8,  1747,  and 
died  in  Maine,  November  20,  1791.  He  moved 
to  Cape  Elizabeth,  Maine,  in  early  life  and 
came  to  Durham,  which  was  his  final  home,  in 
1779.  He  served  in  the  revolution  during 
1775  as  first  lieutenant  in  Captain  Samuel 
Dunn's  company,  Colonel  Phinney's  regiment. 
In  1 781  he  was  first  lieutenant  in  the  ancient 
militia  or  training-band  of  Royalsborough. 
which  was  the  early  name  for  Durham.  He 
was  also  town  clerk  for  many  years,  which 
would  indicate  that  he  had  a  good  education 
for  the  times.  On  December  12,  1765,  Ebe- 
nezer  Newell  married  (first)  Catharine, 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Woodward) 
Richards,  who  was  born  at  Newton,  Massa- 
chusetts, December  15,  1747.  Nine  children, 
the  three  eldest  of  whom  were  born  in  New- 
ton, the  next  three  at  Cape  Elizabeth,  and  the 
last  three  at  Royalsborough:  i.  Ebenezer, 
August  23,  1767.  2.  Enoch,  February  14, 
1770.  3.  William,  whose  sketch  follows.  4. 
Sally.  Cape  Elizabeth,  November  20,  1773. 
married  David  Gross,  of  Pejepscot.  5.  Daniel, 
October  5,  1775.  6.  John,  July  20,  1778, 
drowned  when  a  young  man.  7.  Mary,  Roy- 
alsborough,  April    20,    1 78 1,   married   

Bond,  of  Jay.  8.  Jesse,  July  20,  1783,  died 
at  sea.  9.  Rev.  Samuel,  became  a  missionary. 
Mrs.  Catharine  (Richards)  Newell  died  No- 
vember 21,  1788,  and  on  July  13,  1789,  Lieu- 
tenant Ebenezer  Newell  married  (second) 
Hannah  Sylvester,  of  Harpswell.  They  had 
one  child,  Barstow,  born  April  19,  1791,  died 
of  sickness  in  the  war  of  1812.  Lieutenant 
Newell  died  in  a  little  more  than  two  years 
after  his  second  marriage,  and  on  August  19, 
1802,  eleven  years  after  his  death,  his  widow 
married  a  second  husband,  Anthony  Murray, 
of  Pejepscot. 

The  career  of  Samuel  Newell  was  so  re- 
markable that  it  deserves  special  mention.  He 
was  the  youngest  of  the  nine  children  of  the 
first  marriage,  and  the  family  were  left  in  lim- 
ited circumstances  by  their  father's  earlv 
death.  He  longed  for  an  education,  which  his 
native  village  could  not  afford :  so  at  the  age 
of  fifteen,  he  set  out  for  his  grandfather's  in 
Newton.  Taking  the  traditional  bundle  in  a 
bandana,  he  walked  from  Durham  to  Portland, 
and  there  found  a  sea  captain,  who  was  so  at- 
tracted to  him  that  he  offered  to  give  him 
passage  in  his  vessel.  Judging  from  his  por- 
traits, Samuel  was  possessed  of  a  beautiful 
countenance  as  well  as  character ;  at  all  events 


his  personality  was  so  winning  that  the  cap- 
tain invited  him  to  spend  a  night  at  his  home 
at  Roxbury  Hill.  There  he  offered  to  sub- 
scribe two  hundred  dollars  for  his  education, 
introduced  him  to  two  friends,  who  added  one 
hundred  and  fifty  each,  and  the  old  Roxbury 
school-master,  who  heard  his  story  with  tears 
and  shouted :  "I  will  be  good  for  three  hun- 
dred more."  Three  years  under  this  teacher 
at  the  Roxbury  Latin  School  fitted  the  boy  for 
Harvard,  where  he  graduated  with  honor  in 
1807.  He  was  principal  of  Lynn  Academy  for 
a  short  time,  but,  feeling  the  missionary  call, 
he  entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 
where  he  became  intimate  with  Rev.  Adoniram 
Judson.  Samuel  Newell  was  one  of  the  sign- 
ers of  the  memorandum  from  Andover,  July 
27,  1810,  that  led  to  the  organization  of  the 
American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  and  was 
one  of  the  first  four  who  offered  themselves 
to  that  society  for  missionary  service.  After 
graduating  from  Andover  in  1810  Samuel 
Newell  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia,  and 
on  February  19,  1812,  set  sail  for  India,  ac- 
companied by  his  young  wife,  formerly  Miss 
Harriet  Atwood,  of  Bradford.  The  scene  of 
Samuel  Newell's  labors  was  at  Ceylon  and 
Bombay,  and  he  died  at  the  latter  place,  March 
30,  1821.  At  the  Centennial  of  Durham,  Au- 
gust 22,  1889,  the  poet  of  the  occasion,  i\Iiss 
F.  C.  Durgin,  thus  speaks  of  the  departed  # 
missionary,  whose  earthly  career  had  ended 
nearly  seventy  years  before  : 

"In    far-off   lands,    'mid   sorrows   manifold. 

lie  sowed  the  seed   that  grew  to   harvest  white  ; 
The    sun   of  India   pours    its   liquid   gold 

Upon   our  Newell's   grave  :   he   walks   in   light. 
A  son,  a  saint — a  conqueror  through  God's  great  night." 

(II)  William,  third  son  and  child  of  Ebe- 
nezer and  Catharine  (Richards)  Newell,  was 
born  at  Newton,  Massachusetts,  May  25,  1772. 
He  married,  February  19,  1797,  Anna  Hoyt ; 
children:  i.  John,  born  April  7,  1798,  mar- 
ried Lucy  Vining,  November  30,  1820;  he  died 
December  28,  1884.  2.  William,  P^larch  23, 
1800,  was  a  colonel  of  the  militia;  he  died  un- 
married, January  3,  1881.  3.  Nancy,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1802,  married  her  cousin,  Ebenezer 
Newell,  and  died  in  May,  1880.  4.  David, 
mentioned  in  next  paragraph.  5.  Samuel, 
April  3,  1807.  married  Deborah  Sawyer,  De- 
cember 30,  1832;  he  died  June  30,  1834.  6. 
Joseph,  August  29,  1810,  died  in  Havana, 
Cuba,  in  October,  1S30.  7.  Harriet  A.,  Jan- 
uary 13,  1813,  married  William  Wallace 
Strout,  August  25,  1830,  and  died  June  21, 
1898.  8.  Katharine,  November  21,  181 5,  died 
the  next  year. 

(III)  Rev.  David,  third  son  of  William  and 
Anna   (Hoyt)    Newell,  was  born  in  Durham, 


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Maine,  January  20,  1805,  and  died  at  Gor- 
ham,  March  2,  1891.  He  studied  for  the  min- 
istry, and  held  successive  pastorates  over  five 
Free  Baptist  churches,  baptizing  people  at  dif- 
ferent times  and  places.  On  August  27,  1825, 
he  married  Jane  S.  Brackett,  of  Gorham, 
Maine,  who  died  on  April  2,  1877.  Children : 
I.  William  B.,  whose  sketch  follows.  2.  Charles 
C.  whose  sketch  follows.  3.  Harriet  A.,  born 
September  29,  1835,  died  January  7,  1886;  she 
was  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  many  years. 
4.  Margaret  B.,  born  April  22,  1838,  married 
Joseph  W.  Libby  and  died  at  Ocean  Park,  Old 
Orchard,  September  7,  1896.  5.  Henry  H., 
born  November  5,  1840,  enlisted  at  the  out- 
break of  the  rebellion,  and  died  at  Alexandria, 
Mrginia,  November  28,  1861.  6.  Lizzie  A., 
born  at  Durham,  September  28,  184^- 

(IV)  William  B.,  eldest  child  of  Rev.  David 
and  Jane  S.  (Brackett)  Newell,  was  born  at 
Portland.  Maine,  May  12,  1827,  died  June  24, 
1899.  In  early  life  he  secured  a  good  common 
school  education,  which  in  after  years  he  em- 
ployed to  good  advantage  during  his  thirty 
winters  of  teaching.  In  those  days  it  was  not 
an  uncommon  occurrence  "to  carry  the  master 
out  and  lock  the  door,"  but  Mr.  Newell's  abil- 
ity to  inspire  the  confidence  and  respect  of  his 
pupils  and  to  secure  the  co-operation  of  their 
parents  made  his  career  as  a  teacher  an  un- 
qualified success,  even  in  difficult  districts. 
Mr.  Newell  inherited  those  excellent  mental 
and  moral  characteristics  which  have  distin- 
guished the  family  for  generations,  and  he 
could  have  chosen  no  profession  where  his 
sense  of  justice,  his  ability  to  decide  fairly  and 
his  firmness  in  adhering  to  that  decision,  in 
short,  all  those  qualities  which  leave  a  moral 
impress,  could  have  had  a  wider  influence  in 
moulding  the  character  of  the  succeeding  gen- 
eration than  the  vocation  of  an  old-fashioned 
school-master.  For  nearly  half  a  century  he 
had  made  his  home  in  Durham,  during  the 
greater  part  of  which  time  he  has  occupied  the 
farm  and  homestead  where  he  died.  He  had 
always  been  closely  identified  with  the  life  of 
the  town,  and  he  had  served  at  various  times 
as  town  clerk,  superintendent  of  the  school 
committee,  selectman  and  town  treasurer.  He 
is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  for  many  years 
was  moderator  of  the  annual  town  meeting. 
In  religion  he  was  a  Congregationalist.  No 
citizen  of  Durham  had  a  better  reputation  for 
honesty  and  uprightness  than  Mr.  Newell, 
and  his  word  was  as  good  as  his  bond. 

On  June  15,  1850,  William  B.  Newell  mar- 
ried Susannah  K.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
'Charlotte  Weeks,  who  was  born  May  12,  1827. 


Children  :  Ida  E..  born  January  12,  1852,  who 
has  always  lived  at  home ;  and  William  H., 
whose  sketch  follows. 

(V)  Hon.  William  H.,  only  son  of  William 
B.  and  Susannah  K.  (Weeks)  Newell,  was 
born  at  Durham,  Maine,  April  16,  1854.  His 
elementary  education  was  gained  in  the  local 
schools,  and  his  first  advanced  preparation 
from  the  Western  State  Normal  School  at 
Farmington  from  which  he  graduated  in  1872. 
He  afterward  attended  the  Maine  Wesleyan 
Seminary  at  Kent's  Hill,  and  receiving  the 
classical  diploma  from  this  institution  in  1876. 
During  the  next  six  years  Mr.  Newell  was 
principal  of  the  grammar  school  at  Brunswick, 
a  difficult  position,  which  put  all  the  resources 
of  the  young  teacher  to  the  test.  Besides  the 
satisfaction  of  wresting  success  from  adverse 
circumstances,  Mr.  Newell  had  one  great  ad- 
vantage at  this  period,  and  that  was  the  op- 
portunity to  pursue  a  wide  course  of  study  and 
reading  at  the  library  of  Bowdoin  College. 
All  his  spare  time  was  occupied  in  this  way, 
and  in  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Weston 
Thompson,  Esq.,  and  while  he  was  still  teach- 
ing he  was  admitted  to  the  Sagadahoc  county 
bar  at  Bath,  Maine.  In  1882  he  gave  up  his 
school  and  removed  to  Lewiston  in  order  that 
he  might  devote  his  whole  time  to  his  profes- 
sion. At  first  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
D.  J.  McGillicuddy  and  F.  X.  Belleau.  but  he 
soon  withdrew  from  this  concern  and  united 
himself  with  Wilbur  H.  Judkins  under  the 
firm  name  of  Newell  &  Judkins.  This  arrange- 
ment lasted  till  January  i,  1894,  when  Mr. 
Newell  withdrew  and  became  senior  member 
of  the  present  firm  of  Newell  &  Skelton,  now 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  law  firms 
of  Androscoggin  county.  Like  his  father,  Mr. 
Newell  belongs  to  the  Democratic  party,  and 
though  in  no  sense  a  politician  he  has  fre- 
quently been  called  upon  to  serve  the  public. 
In  1885  he  was  city  auditor  of  accounts  for 
Lewiston,  and  in  1890  was  made  city  solicitor. 
During  the  latter  year  he  was  elected  county 
attorney  of  Androscoggin  county  by  a  large 
majority  in  a  district  which  had  always  been 
strongly  Republican.  In  the  spring  of  1891 
he  was  elected  mayor  of  Lewiston  and  was  re- 
elected the  year  following.  So  satisfactory 
was  his  administration  of  civic  affairs  that  in 
i8y8,  at  the  earnest  request  of  taxpayers  and 
representative  citizens,  he  again  became  a  can- 
didate for  mayor  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
and  w-as  elected  by  a  majority  of  almost  four 
hundred  against  a  Republican  majority  of 
nearly  a  thousand  at  the  previous  election. 
He    was    elected    September,    1904,   and    took 


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oath  of  office  January  i,  1905.  judge  of  pro- 
bate. 

Mr.  Newell's  fidelity  to  his  cHents,  his  strict 
integrity  and  executive  ability  have  brought 
hininnich  business  in  the  way  of  management 
of  large  estates,  and  while  in  no  way  with- 
drawn from  the  active  duties  of  an  advocate, 
he  enjoys  an  extensive  practice  in  the  dignified 
and  lucrative  branch  of  probate  and  commer- 
cial transactions.  Incidentally,  many  legal 
honors  have  come  to  Mr.  Newell.  He  was  a 
delegate  from  the  Maine  State  Bar  Associa- 
tion to  the  twenty-first  annual  convention' of 
the  American  Bar  Association  at  Saratoga  in 
1898.  -About  the  same  time  Chief  Justice 
Peters  appointed  him  to  membership  on  the 
commission  to  draft  a  plan  for  the  annexation 
of  the  city  of  Deering  to  Portland.  Mr.  New- 
ell is  interested  in  many  important  business 
enterprises.  He  is  president  and  director  of 
the  JNIanufacturers'  National  Bank  of  Lewis- 
ton,  was  director  and  clerk  of  the  Rumford 
Falls  and  Rangeley  Lakes  railroad,  president 
of  the  Maine  Pulp  and  Paper  Company,  and 
was  director  of  the  Androscoggin  Water 
Power  Company  until  this  company  became 
the  E.  Plummer  &  Sons,  when  JMr.  Newell 
was  made  president.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  and  of  the  local  social  clubs 
and  organizations  in  Lewiston.  Mr.  Newell 
belongs  to  the  Odd  Fellows  and  to  all  the  lo- 
cal Masonic  bodies,  and  is  a  member  of  Kora 
Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  at- 
tended the  annual  convention  of  Mystic 
Shriners  at  Dallas,  Texas,  in  June,  i8g8,  as 
supreme  representative  from  Maine.  Gener- 
ous, hospitable  and  public-spirited  to  a  marked 
degree.  Mr.  Newell  makes  and  holds  friends 
in  all  the  walks  of  life.  His  kindness  of  heart 
is  proverbial,  and  it  is  so  often  shown  to  mem- 
bers of  his  own  profession  that  the  younger 
attorneys  say  that  no  one  who  applies  to  him 
is  ever  refused  assistance,  no  matter  what  im- 
portant engagements  their  adviser  may  have. 

On  September  20,  1883,  William  H.  Newell 
married  Ida  F.,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Au- 
gusta Plummer,  of  Lisbon  Falls.  Maine.  Chil- 
dren :  Augusta  Plummer,  March  17,  1887.  de- 
ceased. Gladys  Weeks,  October  13,  1890. 
Dorothy,  February  2,  1904. 

(IV)  Charles  C,  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
David  and  Jane  S.  (Bracket!)  Newell,  was 
born  August  11,  183 1.  at  Otisfield,  ^Nlaine.  He 
was  reared  in  Gray,  Maine,  attended  the  Litch- 
field Academy,  after  which  he  taught  public 
school  and  in  addition  to  this  taught  writing, 
having  been  an  excellent  penman.  His  son. 
Charles  D.,  has  the  Lord's  Prayer  written  in 


eleven  diliferent  styles  executed  by  his  father, 
which  is  a  piece  of  art.  He  settled  in  Rich- 
mond, Maine,  before  the  civil  war,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  livery  business.  September  15, 
1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Twenty- 
fourth  Maine  Volunteer  Infantry,  went  out  as 
first  lieutenant  and  commanded  the  company 
during  its  term  of  service,  and  in  July.  1863, 
he  was  killed  in  his  tent  at  Port  Hudson  by  an 
insane  man  who  thrust  a  bayonet  through  bim. 
he  was  a  Baptist  in  religion  and  a  Republican 
in  politics.  Mr.  Newell  married,  1857,  Juliette, 
born  in  Bowdoin,  Maine,  1840,  died  April  27, 
1900,  daughter  of  Humphrey  and  Harriet 
(Brown)  Purington,  natives  of  Bowdoin;  sev- 
en children,  all  now  deceased,  as  follows: 
Humphrey,  John,  Abizer,  Ellen,  Jane.  Juliette 
and  Angle.  Mr.  Purington  was  a  farmer  and 
justice  of  the  peace ;  he  was  a  man  of  standing 
in  the  community,  to  whom  people  looked  for 
settlement  of  disputes  and  estates.  Air.  and 
Mrs.  Newell  had  two  children:  i.  Harriet, 
who  married  George  Merriman ;  no  children ; 
she  died  November  20,  1886.  2.  Charles  D., 
see  forward. 

(\')  Charles  D.,  only  son  of  Charles  C.  and 
Juliette  (Purington)  Newell,  was  born  in 
Richmond,  Maine,  November  20,  i860.  When 
four  years  of  age  he  went  with  his  widowed 
mother  to  Litchfield,  where  he  resided  until 
twenty  years  of  age,  receiving  there  a  common 
school  education,  which  was  supplemented  by 
attendance  at  the  Litchfield  Academy.  He 
then  returned  to  Richmond  and  entered  the 
law  office  of  Spaulding  &  Buker  and  read  law, 
being  admitted  to  practice  in  1884.  The  fol- 
lowing year  he  began  the  active  practice  of 
his  profession  on  his  own  account,  and  has 
since  continued  in  Richmond,  succeeding  in 
building  up  and  retaining  the  largest  practice 
in  that  city.  Mr.  Newell  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  has  held  many  of  the  offices  in  the 
gift  of  the  citizens  of  his  town.  Member  of 
the  board  of  health,  of  which  he  was  chairman 
for  a  number  of  years  :  town  clerk ;  member  of 
the  school  board  and  superintendent  for  many 
years ;  county  attorney  of  Sagadahoc  county, 
Maine,  fourteen  years,  and  a  member  of  Gov- 
ernor Cobb's  council.  He  attends  the  Baptist 
church.  His  fraternal  affiliations  include  mem- 
bership in  Richmond  Lodge,  No.  63,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.,  Dunlap  Commandery.  K.  T.,  Sagadahoc 
Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  No.  67.  i\Iount  Carmel  Chap- 
ter, Order  of  Eastern  Star,  and  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Woodmen  of  America  and  Forresters  of 
America. 

I\lr.  Newell  married,  June  27,  1885,  Cora 
E.,   of   Richmond,   daughter  of   William   and 


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1135 


Ellen  (Ring)  Harlow,  also  of  Richmond. 
Children:  1.  Charles  \V.,  a  registered  drug- 
gist of  Portland,  Maine.  2.  Harriet  M.,  mar- 
ried Zelma  M.  Dwinal,  of  Richmond.  3.  Jo- 
seph H.,  a  student  in  Bowdoin  College. 


The  original  home  of  the 
WTXSLOW  \\inslo\vs  of  America  was  in 
Worcestershire.  England. 
They  were  among  the  earliest  families  emi- 
grating to  this  country.  The  family  was  dis- 
tinguished by  a  remarkable  intellectual  ability, 
a  son  of  the  emigrant  Edward  becoming  the 
first  native  born  general  and  first  governor  of 
the  Massachusetts  Colony,  and  in  many  impor- 
tant trusts  acquitted  himself  with  superior 
ability  and  was  active  and  influential  in  all  the 
initiatory  labors  attending  the  establishment 
of  the  little  colony.  In  the  covenant,  signed 
before  the  disembarking,  the  name  appears 
third  on  the  list.  The  family  generally  has 
maintained  a  high  reputation  for  its  excellent 
qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  and  enjoyed  in  a 
large  degree  not  only  the  esteem  and  confi- 
dence but  honors  of  its  fellow  citizens.  Ed- 
ward \\inslow,  the  third  governor  of  Plym- 
outh Colony,  was  born  in  Droitwich,  Worces- 
tershire, England,  October  19,  1595.  He  came 
to  this  country  in  the  "Mayflower"  in  1620 
from  Southampton.  He  had  previously  joined 
the  pilgrims  at  Leyden,  Holland,  and  em- 
barked with  them  from  Delfthaven  for  Eng- 
land. He  was  the  principal  leader  of  the  pil- 
grims at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Elizabeth  Marker,  of  Leyden.  May 
16,  1618.  who  died  March  24.  1621  ;  and  (sec- 
ond) ^Irs.  Susanna  (Fuller)  White,  widow 
of  \\'illiam  White,  ]May  12.  162 1,  and  died  at 
sea  near  Hispaniola,  May  8,  1655.  His  second 
wife  died  October,  1680.  Their  children  were  : 
Edward.  John,  Elynor,  Kenelm.  Gilbert,  Eliza- 
beth. Magdalen  and  Josias.  Only  one  of  his 
sons  grew  to  maturity,  and  his  descendants  in 
the  male  line  soon  disappeared. 

(I)  Edward  Winslow  and  his  wife.  Mag- 
dalen (Oliver)  Winslow.  were  residents  of 
Droitwich,  Worcestershire,  England,  and  sev- 
eral of  their  sons  came  to  .\merica.  One  of 
these,  John,  came  in  the  ■"Fortune."  in  162 1, 
and  another  came  later  and  settled  at  Plym- 
outh. 

(II)  Kenelm.  son  of  Edward  and  Magdalen 
(Oliver)  Winslow.  was  born  in  England.  April 
30.  1599.  He  emigrated  to  this  country  and 
settled  in  PhTnouth.  ilassachusetts.  about 
1629.  and  was  made  a  freeman  January  i. 
1633.  He  removed  to  Marshfield.  Massachu- 
setts, in  1641.  having  received  a  grant  of  land 


there,  then  called  Green's  Harbor,  March  5, 
1638.  which  was  then  considered  the  "Eden 
of  the  Region."  He  was  a  "Joiner"  and  a 
"Planter."  He  represented  the  town  in  the 
general  court  for  eight  years,  1624-44  and 
1649-53.  He  was  a  man  of  "good  condition." 
and  was  engaged  in  the  settlement  of  Yar- 
mouth and  other  towns.  He  married,  June,* 
1664.  Ellen  (Newton)  Adams,  widow  of  John 
Adams,  of  Plymouth,  and  died  in  Salem,  Mas- 
sachusetts, September  12,  1672.  His  widow 
died  at  Marshfield,  Massachusetts,  December 
5,  16S1,  aged  eighty-three.  Children:  i. 
Kenelm.  mentioned  further  below.  2.  Ellen, 
born  about  1638,  married.  December  29,  1656, 
Samuel  Barker,  and  died  August  27.  1676.  3. 
Nathaniel,  born  about  1639,  died  December  i, 
1719.    4.  Job. 

(Ill)  Kenelm  (2),  eldest  son  of  Kenelm 
(i)  and  Eleanor  or  Ellen  (Newton)  (Adams) 
\\'inslow,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Ph-mouth 
Colony,  about  1635.  He  early  removed  to 
Cape  Cod  and  settled  in  that  part  of  Yar- 
mouth which  was  subsequently  incorporated 
as  the  town  of  Hardwich  and  later  known  as 
Brewster.  He  built  a  house  near  the  westerly 
border  of  the  town,  and  now  known  as  West 
Brewster  Satucket  or  Winslow's  Mills.  We 
find  him  mentioned  in  the  Yarmouth  records 
as  early  as  1668,  and  in  tlie  list  of  freemen  of 
Yarmouth  in  1678  he  is  styled  "Colonel  Win- 
slow,"  and  in  recorded  deeds  he  is  called  yeo- 
man and  planter.  He  purchased  large  tracts 
of  wild  land  in  what  became  the  town  of 
Rochester,  Massachusetts,  on  which  tract  sev- 
eral of  his  children  settled.  He  was  one  of 
the  "thirty  partners"  who  purchased  the  tract 
in  1679.  Among  his  portions  was  a  good 
"water  privilege,"  which  he  sold  in  1699  to  his 
son  Kenelm.  and  it  thus  became  the  site  of  one 
of  the  first  fulling  mills  erected  in  New  Eng- 
land, and  in  1877  it  was  owned  by  his  great- 
great-great-grandson,  William  Winslow  (7), 
of  West  Brewster,  Massachusetts.  In  1700  he 
purchased  of  George  Denison,  of  Stonington. 
Connecticut,  one  thousand  acres  of  land  in 
Windham,  located  in  that  part  of  the  town 
which  was  set  off  as  the  town  of  Mansfield, 
Connecticut,  paying  for  the  same  as  recorded 
b\-  deed  on  file  in  the  record  of  Mansfield  and 
dated  ^larch  11.  1700,  for  which  one  thousand 
acres  he  paid  £30,  and  this  land  he  gave  to  his 
son  Samuel  (3),  October  7.  1700.  and  Samuel 
sold  it  to  his  brother  Kenelm  (3)  (q.  v.).  It 
does  not  appear  from  the  records  that  the 
Winslows  ever  lived  in  Windham  or  Mansfield, 
Connecticut,  and  the  land  probably  passed  in- 
to other  hands.     Like  his  father,  Kenelm  Jr. 


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appears  to  have  incurred  the  displeasure  of  the 
general  court  of  Plymouth  Colony,  and  he 
was  fined  on  October  3,  1662,  "for  riding  a 
journey  on  the  Lord's  day  although  he  pleaded 
some  disappointment  enforced  him  thereunto, 
ten  shillings."  His  religious  faith,  however. 
was  not  to  be  doubted  when  we  learn  that  he 
on  three  or  more  occasions  made  the  journey 
of  sixty  miles  to  Scituate  to  the  Second 
Church  that  his  children  should  not  remain  un- 
baptized. 

He  was  married  September  23,  1667,  to 
Mercy,  daughter  of  Peter  Jr.  and  Mary  Wor- 
den,  of  Yarmouth.  She  was  born  about  1641 
and  died  September  22,  1688,  "in  the  48th 
year  of  her  age,"  as  recorded  on  her  grave- 
stone in  the  Winslow  burial  ground  in  Dennis. 
The  monument  is  of  hard  slate  and  is  said  to 
have  been  brought  from  England  and  is  the 
oldest  in  the  grounds.  The  headstones  of 
Kenelm  Winslow,  his  two  sons  and  many  of 
his  descendants  are  to  be  seen.  He  died  in 
Harwich,  Cape  Cod,  J\Tassachusetts,  Novem- 
ber II,  1715.  The  childreu'of  Kenelm  and 
Mercy  (Worden)  Winslow  are  recorded  as 
follows:  I.  Kenelm  (q.  v.).  2.  Captain  Jo- 
siah,  born  November  7,  1669.  married  Mar- 
garet Tisdale;  (second)  Mrs.  Hannah  Win- 
slow;  (third)  Mrs.  Hannah  Booth;  (fourth) 
Martha  Hathaway;  (fifth)  Mary  Jones.  3. 
Thomas,  baptized  March  3,  1672-73,  in  the 
Second  Church,  Scituate,  and  died  April  6, 
1689,  "in  the  17th  year  of  her  age."  4.  Sam- 
uel, born  about  1674,  married  Bethia  Hol- 
brook;  (second)  Mary  King;  (third)  Ruth 
Briggs.  5.  Mercy,  born  about  1676,  married 
Melthiah  White,  of  Rochester,  Massachusetts, 
who  died  August  21,  1709;  married  (second), 
before  December  22,  1715,  Thomas  Jenkins,  of 
Barnstable.  6.  Nathaniel,  born  about  1679, 
married,  July  9,  1701,  Elizabeth  Holbrook.  7. 
Edward,  born   January   30,    1680-81,   married 

Sarah  ,  born    1682;  he  died  June  25, 

1760.  8.  Damaris,  married,  July  30,  1713, 
Jonathan  Small  or  Smalley,  of  Harwich.  9. 
Elizabeth,  married,  August  9,  171 1,  Andrew 
Clark,  of  Harwich.  10.  Eleanor,  married, 
March  25,  1719,  Shubael  Hamblen,  of  Barn- 
stable. II.  John,  born  about  1701,  married, 
March  15,  1721-22,  Bethiah  Andrews;  he  died 
about  1755. 

(IV)  Kenelm  (3),  eldest  son  of  Kenelm 
(2)  and  Mercy  (Worden)  Winslow,  was  bap- 
tized at  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  August  g, 
1668.  He  was  a  clothier  or  cloth  dresser, 
which  business  he  established  at  Satucket  or 
Winslow's  Mills,  and  the  business  thus  inaugu- 
rated was  carried  on  by  his  descendants   for 


many  years.  He  inherited  the  homestead  at 
Harwich,  and  purchased  of  his  brother  Sam- 
uel one  thousand  acres  of  land  at  Windham 
(now  Mansfield),  Connecticut,  which  Samuel 
had  received  as  a  gift  from  his  father,  October 
7,  1700.  He  was  town  treasurer  at  Harwich 
1707-12;  selectman  1713-16;  representative  to 
the  general  court  in  1720,  and  held  many  po- 
sitions of  trust  to  lay  off  lands  and  determine 
bounds.  He  owned  "Negro  and  Mulatto  serv- 
ants." which  his  will  provided  should  be  sold. 
He  had  second  choice  in  the  allotment  of  pews 
in  the  new  meeting  house  in  1723,  and  was 
rated  £7,  10  toward  the  £130  realized  from  the 
sale.  He  was  sole  executor  of  his  father's 
will  and  inherited  the  homestead.  He  was 
married  January  5,  1689-90,  to  Bethia,  daugh- 
ter of  the  Rev.  Gershom  and  Bethiah  (Bangs) 
Hall,  of  Yarmouth,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Edward  Bangs,  of  Plymouth,  a  passenger 
in  the  "Ann"  in  1623.  She  was  published 
March  19,  1729-30,  to  Joseph  Hawes,  and  they 
were  married  JMarch  21,  1729-30,  and  Joseph 
Hawes  was  married  again  July  20,  1732,  and 
the  records  would  indicate,  in  the  absence  of 
divorce,  not  known  to  be  popular  in  that  day, 
that  she  died  before  the  latter  date.  Her  first 
husband,  Kenelm  Winslow,  died  in  Harwich, 
March  20,  1728-29.  Children  of  Kenelm  and 
Bethia  (Hall)  Winslow  were  all  born  in  Har- 
wich and  were  as  follows:  i.  Bethia,  born 
about  i6gi,  married,  March  5,  1712-13,  John 
Wing,  and  died  June  19,  1720.  2.  Mercy,  about 
1693,  married,  March  8,  1710-11,  Philip  Vin- 
cent and  resided  in  Yarmouth  in  1723.  3. 
Rebecca,  about  1695,  married,  March  24,  1719- 
20,  Samuel  Rider,  resided  in  Yarmouth  in  1723 
and  afterward  in  Rochester,  Alassachusetts. 
4.  Thankful,  about  1697,  married,  February 
14,  1722-23,  Theophilus  Crosby,  son  of  Jo- 
seph and  Mehitable  (Miller)  Crosby,  of  Yar- 
mouth, grandson  of  John  and  Margaret 
(Winston)  Miller,  and  great-grandson  of  Jo- 
siah  Winslow  ( i )  and  of  Rev.  Thomas  Cros- 
by, of  Eastham;  Theophilus  and  Thankful 
(Winslow)  Crosby  were  residing  in  Yarmouth 
in  1723.  5.  Kenelm  (q.  v.).  6.  Thomas, 
about  1704,  married  ]\Iehitable  Winslow  (4), 
February  12,  1722,  and  died  April  10,  1779. 
7.  Mary,  baptized  September  21,  1707,  married 
Ebenezer  Clapp,  of  Rochester,  Massachusetts, 
IMarch  9,  1726-27.  8.  Hannah,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 9,  171 1,  married  Edward  Winston  Jr. 
(4),  December  14.  1728.  9.  Seth,  born  in 
1715,  married  Thankful  Sears  and  (second) 
Friscilla  Freeman. 

(V)    Kenelm    (4),    eldest    son    of    Kenelm 
(3)  and  Bethia  (Hall)  Winslow,  was  born  in 


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Harwich,  Massachusetts,  about  1700.  He  was 
a  clothier,  following  the  business  of  his  father, 
and  he  established  a  fulling  mill  on  Stony 
brook  about  1730,  and  he  also  succeeded  to 
the  homestead  in  Harwich  and  was  sole  execu- 
tor of  his  father's  will.  His  prominence  in 
the  afifairs  of  the  town  made  him  one  of  the 
thirteen  justices  who  signed  the  following 
declaration  against  the  acts  of  parliament  al- 
most two  years  before  the  signing  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence  :  "Whereas  there  has 
been  of  late  several  acts  of  the  British  Parlia- 
ment passed  tending  to  introduce  an  unjust 
and  partial  administration  of  justice;  to 
change  our  free  constitution  into  a  state  of 
slavery  and  oppression,  and  to  introduce 
Popery  in  some  parts  of  British  America  &c. ; 
.Therefore  we  the  subscribers  do  engage  and 
declare  that  we  will  not  accept  of  any  com- 
mission in  consequence  of,  or  in  conformity  to, 
said  acts  of  Parliament,  nor  upon  any  uncon- 
stitutional regulations :  and  that  if  either  of  us 
is  required  to  do  any  business  to  our  officers  in 
conformity  to  said  acts  or  any  way  contrary  to 
the  charter  of  this  province,  we  will  refuse  it 
although  we  may  thereby  lose  our  commis- 
sions. As  witness  our  hands  at  Barnstable, 
September  27,  1774.  (Signed)  James  Otis, 
Thomas  Smith,  Joseph  Otis,  Nymphas  Mars- 
ton,  Shearjashub  Bowne,  David  Thatcher, 
Daniel  Davis,  Melatiah  Bowne,  Edward  Ba- 
con, Isaac  Hinckley,  Solo  Otis,  Kenelon 
Winslow,  Richard  Bowne." 

Kenelm   Winslow   was   married    September 
14,  1722,  to  Zerviah  Rider,  and  she  died  April 

5,  1745,  in  the  fifty-second  year  of  her  age. 
He  married  (second).  May  8,  1746,  Abigail 
Sturgis,  of  Yarmouth,  and  she  died  September 
17,  1782,  in  the  seventy-seventh  year  of  her 
age.  Kenelm  Winslow  died  June  28,  1783, 
and  he  and  his  two  wives  were  buried  in  \Vin- 
slow's  burying  ground,  Dennis,  IMassachusetts. 
His  thirteen  children,  all  by  his  first  wife,  were 
born  in  Harwich  and  were  named  as  follows : 
I.  Zerviah,  bom  September  11,  1723,  married 
Ebenezer  Crocker.    2.  Kenelm.    3.  John,  April 

6,  1727,  died  June  25,  1727.  4.  John,  June  16, 
1728,  married  Dorcas  Clapp,  published  Oc- 
tober 30,  1748.  5.  Isaac,  September  14,  1729, 
died  May  22,  1730.  6.  Isaac,  February  6,  1731, 
died  July  7.  1731.  7.  Isaac,  March  18,  1732, 
died  April  24,  1732.  8.  Berthia,  May  23,  1733, 
married  Thomas  Snow  (3).  9.  Phebe,  July  28, 
1735,  married,  February  20,  1755,  Daniel 
Crocker.  10.  Nathan  (q.  v.).  11.  Sarah,  May 
25,  1738,  married  Prince  Marston,  July  21, 
1757.  12.  Mary,  May  25,  1738,  died  during 
the   year    1739.      13.   Joshua,   November   22, 


1740,  married  Hannah  Delano  and   (second) 
Salome  Delano. 

(VI)  Nathan,  eighth  son  of  Kenelm  (4) 
and  Zerviah  (Rider)  Winslow,  was  born  in 
Harwich,  Massachusetts,  iXIarch  14,  1737.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and  a  deacon  in  the  church  at 
Harwich.  He  was  married,  September  12, 
1760,  to  Eunice  Mayo,  who  w'as  born  in  Har- 
wich in  1737  and  died  there  August  8,  1814, 
aged  seventy-seven  years,  according  to  the 
gravestone  in  Brewster  burying  ground.  Dea- 
con Nathan  Winslow  died  in  Harwich,  De- 
cember 31,  1820.  All  their  children,  nine  in 
number,  were  born  in  Harwich,  the  names  and 
dates  of  birth  with  marriages  as  far  as  is 
known  being  as  follows:  i.  Eunice,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1 761,  married  Josiah  Hall,  died  June 
13,  1832.  2.  Seth,  June  i,  1764,  married 
Hannah  Crosby,  March  13,  1788:  she  was 
born  September  5,  1766,  and  died  December, 
1821  ;  there  were  five  children  born  of  this 
marriage;  he  married  (second),  in  November, 
1826,  Mary  Allen,  who  died  in  March.  1842; 
he  died  August  17,  1854,  aged  ninety  years. 
3.  Josiah,  August  7.  1766,  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Reuben  and  Jerusha  (Freeman) 
Clark,  and  had  two  children:  Freeman  and 
Benjamin.  4.  Nathan,  December  17,  1768, 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary  Nye,  of  Sandwich.  5.  Phebe,  April, 
1 77 1,  died  September,  1771.  6.  Joseph  (q. 
v.).  7.  Heman,  August  25.  1775,  married 
Rebecca  Howes  Seers,  of  Dennis.  8.  John, 
September  9,  1777,  married  Sally  Lovell, 
daughter  of  Simeon  and  Nabby  (Lovell)  Free- 
man, of  Hyants,  Massachusetts.  Their  daugh- 
ter, Nabby  Lovell,  born  September  9,  1809, 
married  Kenelm  Winslow  (7),  and  their  daugh- 
ter, Julia  Ann,  married  William  Winslow  (7). 
9.  Rebecca,  October,  1780,  died  in  infancy. 

(VH)  Joseph,  son  of  Nathan  and  Eunice 
(Mayo)  Winslow.  was  born  in  Harwich,  Mas- 
sachusetts, November  15,  1772.  He  was  a 
merchant  in  Brewster.  He  was  married,  De- 
cember 20,  1794,  to  Abigail  Snow,  daughter 
of  Enos  Snow,  of  Brewster,  and  their  ten 
children  were  born  in  that  town,  formerly 
known  as  Harwich.  Joseph  Winslow  died  in 
Brewster,  May  18,  1816,  the  record  in  the 
burial  ground  at  Brew-ster  giving  his  age  as 
forty-three  years  si.x  months.  His  widow  died 
at  the  home  of  her  son.  Dean  Winslow,  North 
Falmouth,  Massachusetts,  March  31,  1844, 
and  was  buried  beside  her  husband.  Their 
children  were:  i.  Phebe,  August  22,  1795, 
married  Job  Chase,  died  August  25,  1839. 
2.  and  3.  Dean  and  Joseph  (twins),  February 
26,  1800;  Dean  was  a  farmer,  and  justice  of 


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the  peace  in  North  Falmouth;  married,  Oc- 
tober 10,  1822,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  James 
H.  Long,  of  Brewster ;  Joseph  was  a  sea  cap- 
tain ;  married  Hope  Doane,  daughter  of  Isaiah 
Chase,  and  died  of  fever  in  the  port  of  Wil- 
mington North  CaroHna,  August  28,  1822. 
4.  Abigail,  July  i,  1797,  married  Nehemiah 
Drew  Simmons,  died  April  6,  1822.  5.  Elka- 
nah,  December  11,  1803,  married  Mary 
Crocker,  of  Brewster;  Captain  Elkanah  Win- 
slow  died  in  IMausanilla,  Mexico,  July  3,  1851. 
6.  Gilbert,  May  7,  1805,  was  a  merchant  in 
Brewster;  married  Amanda  Minerva,  daugh- 
ter of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Wilder,  of 
Truro,  Massachusetts,  ancl  he  died  in  Brew- 
ster. August  25,  1839.  7.  Sophronia,  Decem- 
ber 10.  1808,  married  Samuel  Flinckley  Allyne, 
of  Sandwich,  Massachusetts;  he  died  April  28, 
1841.  8.  Mehitable  Snow,  June  23,  181 1,  died 
October  26,  1812.  9.  Alfred  (q.  v.).  10. 
John,  December  2,  1816,  was  married  May  19, 
1845,  to  Louisa  B.  Fuller. 

(VHI)  Alfred,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail 
(Snow)  Winslow,  was  born  in  Brewster, 
Massachusetts,  October  16,  1813.  Having 
learned  the  tanning  trade  in  Roxbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, he  came  to  West  Waterville  in 
1836  and  there  established  a  tannery  and  con- 
tinued the  business  up  to  1863,  when  he  sold 
out  the  tannery,  built  a  store,  and  began  a 
general  merchandising  business  under  the 
name  of  A.  Winslow  &  Company,  and  contin- 
ued the  business  up  to  the  time  of  his' death. 
He  served  the  town  as  Republican  selectman, 
and  he  was  also  trial  justice  and  a  strong  ad- 
vocate of  Prohibition.  He  was  trustee  of  the 
Cascade  Savings  Bank,  and  director  in  the 
Messoulouskee  National  Bank.  He  attended 
the  Universalist  church,  and  was  clerk  of  the 
church  society  for  many  years,  and  also  held 
the  office  of  deacon.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Messoulouskee  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  of  the  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance. Lie  died  in  Oakland,  Maine,  Decem- 
ber 26,  1897.  ^^  ^^'^^  married  in  Waterville, 
Maine,  May  2,  1839,  to  Eliza  Carr,  daughter 
of  Hiram  and  Sarah  F.  (Carr)  Crowell,  of 
West  Waterville,  Maine,  and  they  had  six 
children.  His  first  wife  died  December  17, 
1849,  ^'""i  l"*^  married  (second),  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  October  25,  1850,  Sarah  \Var- 
ren  Crowell,  sister  of  his  deceased  wife,  born 
January  23,  1828,  in  West  Waterville,  where 
she  died  October  6,  1867.  Lie  married  as  his 
third  wife  Martha  Maria  Crowell,  sister  of 
his  two  deceased  wives,  in  Philadelphia,  No- 
vember 30,  1868,  and  she  died  in  C)akland, 
Maine.  February  5,  1892.     Children  of  Alfred 


and  Eliza  C.  (Crowell)  Winslow,  all  born  in 
West  Waterville,  Maine,  were:  1.  and  2. 
Abby  Snow  and  Sarah  Crowell  (twins),  born 
March  13,  1843,  died  in  December,  1847,  one 
week  intervening  between  their  deaths.  3. 
Hiram  Crowell,  January  18,  1844,  enlisted  in 
the  Twenty-first  Maine  Regiment  and  served 
under  General  N.  P.  Banks  in  Louisiana  and 
Texas  and  in  the  battle  of  Port  Hudson  ;  he 
entered  as  sergeant  in  his  company  and  came 
out  in  command  of  same,  all  his  superior  offi- 
cers being  either  killed  or  disabled ;  on  re- 
tiring from  the  war  he  became  a  harness  ma- 
ker and  trunk  dealer  in  West  Waterville.  He 
died  June  3,  1902.  4.  Eliza  Florence,  born 
June  8,  1845,  married,  September  3,  1868, 
William  Harrison  Wheeler,  son  of  Erastus  O. 
and  Ruth  Marston  Wheeler ;  he  was  a  house 
carpenter  in  West  Waterville.  5.  Chester 
Eugene  Alfred  (c[.  v.). 

(IX)  Chester  Eugene  Alfred,  son  of  Alfred 
and  Eliza  C.  (Crowell)  Winslow,  was  born  in 
West  Waterville,  now  Oakland,  Maine,  April 
24,  1847.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Oakland,  and  he  learned  the  trade 
of  harness  maker  in  the  .shops  of  his  brother, 
Hiram  C.  Winslow,  in  Oakland,  and  remained 
with  him  for  six  years,  wdien  he  became  a 
partner  in  the  general  merchandising  house 
of  A.  Winslow  &  Company.  Later  his  broth- 
er, Hiram  C,  consolidated  his  business  with 
that  of  A.  Winslow  &  Company,  continuing 
the  business  of  manufacturing  and  merchan- 
dising under  the  same  firm  name,  A.  Winslow 
&  Company,  until  the  death  of  H.  C.  Winslow, 
since  which  time  Chester  E.  A.  Winslow  has 
conducted  it.  He  early  joined  the  Messou- 
louskee Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  and  was  advanced  to  membership  in 
the  Drummond  Chapter.  His  church  affilia- 
tion is  with  the  Lhiiversalists,  in  which  church 
his  father  was  clerk  and  deacon.  He  was  mar- 
ried October  16,  1878,  to  Alice  Hitchings, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  C.  and  Lucy  (Hitch- 
ings) Benson,  and  their  only  child  is  Arthur 
Eugene,  born  in  Oakland,  November  13,  1884, 
graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  in  the  class  of 
1907,  and  now  employed  by  the  Fort  Halifa.x 
Power  Company  at  Winslow,  Maine.  He  is 
the  ninth  generation  from  Kenelm  Winslow, 
the  immigrant  ancestor  who  came  to  Plymouth 
Colony  with  his  brother.  Governor  Edward 
Winslow,  in  the  "Mayflower"  in  1620. 


."X-S  an  historic  family  name  in 

WINSLOW     New  England  but  few  if  any 

excel  that  of  Winslow.  Early 

in  the  history  of  the  country  it  furnished  high- 


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miofiod  and  talented  members  in  the  person- 
ages of  Josias  and  Edward  Winslow,  who  were 
governors  of  the  Plymouth  Colony,  New  Eng- 
land.   Josias  was  the  father  of  Edward. 

(I)  Thomas  Winslow  was  among  the  early 
settlers  at  Freeport,  Maine,  where  for  many 
years  he  followed  ship-building  on  an  exten- 
sive scale.  The  records  of  this  special  branch 
of  the  family  have  not  been  carefully  pre- 
served. It  is  not  known  to  whom  he  was  mar- 
ried, but  it  is  quite  certain  that  he  had  six 
children,  among  whom  was  a  son  Joseph. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  Winslow,  was 
probably  born  in  Freeport,  Maine,  and  learned 
the  ship  carpenter's  trade  from  his  father,  who 
was  a  ship-builder.  Later  in  life,  however, 
he  settled  on  a  farm,  which  he  operated  him- 
self. He  married  (first)  Lucinda  Mitchell, 
by  whom  the  following  children  were  born : 
Dennis,  Horace,  Clara,  and  possibly  others. 
For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Winslow  married 
Helen  Bennet ;  no  issue. 

(HI)  Dennis,  eldest  cliild  of  Joseph  and 
Lucinda  (Mitchell)  Winslow,  was  born  in 
Freeport,  Maine,  October  21,  1847.  He  se- 
cured his  early  education  in  the  public  schools, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years  commenced 
to  learn  the  trade  of  carpenter.  After  master- 
ing his  trade  he  moved  to  Yarmouth,  where 
he  was  a  carpenter  and  builder  many  years. 
As  age  advanced,  and  his  circumstances  were 
such  that  he  did  not  need  to  pursue  his  trade 
longer,  he  sought  the  more  independent  and 
retiring  life  of  a  farmer.  He  married  Sarah 
Ellen  iMayhew,  of  Portland,  Maine,  by  whom 
he  had  thirteen  children,  as  follows :  Lucy  A., 
Edith  L.,  Bert  H.,  died  aged  five  years;  Lot- 
tie M.,  Charles  D.,  Perlie  E.,  of  whom  further 
notice  is  made;  Sarah  Emma,  Carrie  O.,  died 
aged  nineteen  years ;  Mary  A.,  Meldon  E., 
Raymond  A.,  deceased ;  Ernest,  deceased ; 
Hattie,  deceased. 

(IV)  Perlie  E.,  sixth  child  and  third  son 
of  Dennis  and  Sarah  Ellen  (Mayhew)  Win- 
slow,  was  born  in  Cumberland,  Elaine,  March 
9,  1881,  and  received  his  education  at  the 
public  schools  of  Yarmouth.  When  nineteen 
years  of  age  he  began  learning  the  drug  busi- 
ness and  had  so  far  mastered  it  in  June,  1908, 
that  he  was  fully  competent  to  conduct  a  busi- 
ness for  himself,  and  purchased  the  drug  store 
belonging  to  A.  W.  Keirstead,  at  Lisbon  Falls, 
Maine,  which  he  is  now  operating  in  an  up- 
to-date  manner.  Mr.  Winslow  is  numbered 
among  the  honored  and  active  members  of  the 
Masonic,  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Royal  Arca- 
num civic  societies.  In  his  religious  faith  he 
is    a    Congregationalist,    while    in    politics    he 


votes  an  independent  ticket,  s.eeking  out  the 
most  suitable  man  instead  of  adhering  to  strict 
party  lines.  He  married,  June  27,  1906,  Car- 
rie B.,  daughter  of  Edwin  R.  and  Carrie  (Ba- 
ker) Humphrey.  They  have  one  child,  Elean- 
or, born  August  i,  1907. 


A  traveler  who  recently  saw 
WINSLOW  the  coast  of  Maine  from  the 
deck  of  a  steamer  for  the 
first  time  was  filled  wath  wonder  at  the  new 
villages  which  had  sprung  up  like  magic,  and 
at  the  rows  of  cottages  and  hotels  on  beaches, 
headlands  and  islands.  "I  have  seen  nothing 
like  this,  though  I  have  visited  many  lands," 
he  said.  "What  is  the  reason  of  it  all,  for 
evidently  these  people  have  abundant  means  to 
go  elsewhere  if  they  wished  to  do  so?"  "Oh, 
the  Pine  Tree  State  has  always  had  a  magnet- 
ic coast,"  was  the  reply.  "It  drew  thither 
many  of  the  early  explorers  from  the  fairer 
lands  to  the  south.  Though  early  settlements 
were  laid  waste  by  the  Indians,  and  the  rigors 
of  the  climate  were  exaggerated  across  the 
seas,  people  continued  to  be  drawn  here  as 
by  a  magnet.  And  when  the  Pilgrims  had 
landed  at  Plymouth,  and  other  sturdy  men  and 
women  had  seemed  well  content  with  their 
choices  of  locations  along  the  shores  of  other 
states,  these  people,  or  their  children,  felt 
themselves  drawn  irresistibly  to  our  Maine 
shores.  And  when  they  came  they  clung  like 
the  barnacles  to  the  rocks.  The  strength  of 
Maine  history  lies  in  its  magnetic  shores.'  " 
The  speaker  had  thus  turned  to  pages  of 
glowing  interest  which  the  student  of  Maine 
history  reads  with  growing  wonder  and  inter- 
est. It  is  a  fact  of  great  worth  that  every 
"Mayflower"  family  of  strength  sent  repre- 
sentatives .to  our  shores.  A  descendant  of 
Myles  Standish  was  early  on  the  shores  of 
the  Kennebec  near  Bath.  '  Harpswell  had  her 
Eatons  of  noblest  stock.  The  Soules  early 
"sought  the  pleasant  shores  of  Freeport."  Sev- 
eral members  of  the  Hoplins  family  sought 
the  coast  of  Cumberland  county  and  the  Pen- 
obscot. But  the  descendants  of  Edward  Win- 
slow,  the  third  governor  of  Plymouth  Colony, 
came  in  larger  numbers  to  ancient  Falmouth, 
and  to  other  points,  than  any  other  Pilgrim 
family,  and  held  fast  to  their  faith  and  manly 
and  womanly  qualities  with  a  strong  grasp. 
Maine  owes  much  to  this  "God-fearing  Plym- 
outh stock." 

( I )  Samuel  Winslow  was  born  November 
26,  1767,  and  married  Susannah  Lewis,  who 
was  born  March  24,  1767,  and  died  October 
30,   1871.     Their  children  were:     i.  William, 


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born  April  3,  1791.  2.  Ruth,  April  7,  1793. 
3.  Sarah,  December  g,  1794-  4-  Thankful, 
September  29,  1796.  5.  Samuel,  November  3, 
1798.  6.  Eli,  May  31,  1801.  7.  Homes,  De- 
cember 9,  1803.  8.  Nathaniel,  March  29,  1806. 
9.  Andrew,  January  18,  1808. 

(II)  Eli,  son  of  Samuel  and  Susannah 
(Lewis)  Winslow,  was  born  in  what  is  now 
called  West  Falmouth,  Maine,  May  31,  1801. 
and  died  in  Dexter,  Maine,  August  11,  1876. 
He  was  born  in  the  house  which  was  used 
for  many  years  as  a  hotel,  and  which  still 
stands,  near  the  old  Blackstrap  observatory. 
He  learned  the  chairmaker's  trade  in  Portland 

■  and  followed  the  business  for  a  number  of 
years  in  New  Gloucester.  He  removed  to 
Dexter  about  the  year  1829.  being  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  that  town.  He  married  Polly 
Adams,  a  direct  descendant  of  John  and  Pris- 
cilla  (Molines)  Alden.  Their  children  were: 
I.  Susannah  Adams,  born  July  29,  1824,  died 
March  15,  1908.  2.  Samuel  Adams,  Novem- 
ber 12,  1826.  3.  Mary  Jane,  December  2. 
1830,  died  October  22,  1883.  4.  Roscoe 
Greene,  November  18,  1835,  died  in  South 
Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  March  31,  1906.  5. 
John  Bates,  January  20,  1839,  died  May  30, 
1863.  6.  Clarissa  Thomas,  September  6,  1841, 
died  August  6,  1878. 

(III)  Samuel  Adams,  son  of  Eli  and  Polly 
(Adams)  Winslow,  was  born  in  New  Glouces- 
ter, November  12,  1826,  died  December  2, 
1905.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Dexter,  and  learned  the  trade  of  painter 
and  decorator,  which  trade  his  father  fol- 
lowed to  some  extent.  Samuel  followed  this 
trade  all  his  life  and  was  considered  one  of 
the  finest  workmen  in  the  state.  He  had  a 
wonderful  ability  for  grasping  the  details  of 
any  mechanical  work,  especially  anything  per- 
taining to  the  building  trades,  and  kiiew  exact- 
Iv  how  work  ought  to  be  done,  even  though 
lie  might  not  be  able  to  do  it  himself.  He 
also  had  a  remarkable  memory  for  events  con- 
nected with  the  early  history  of  Dexter,  and 
has  given  able  assistance  in  collecting  together 
some  of  the  early  historical  records  of  the 
town.  In  politics  he  was  a  very  strong  Re- 
publican, and  as  he  had  a  very  impressive  and 
convincing  manner  of  giving  his  views  among 
all  classes  of  men,  he  became  a  very  influential 
man,  and  his  sentiments  were  all  the  more 
forceful  when  it  was  found  that  nothing  could 
induce  him  to  seek  after  an  office  of  any  kind. 
He  married  Sarah  Parker,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard York  and  Sarah  Parker  (Thompson) 
Lane,  of  Ripley.  Their  children  were:  i. 
Waldo  Rist,  born  June  29,  1855,  now  lives  in 


Dexter.  2.  Herbert  Stanley,  April  13,  1857, 
died  February  18,  1902.  3.  Mary  Louise, 
January  20,  1859,  married  H.  N.  Goodhue,  of 
Fort  Fairfield,  in  1882.  4.  Katie  Persis,  De- 
cember 20,  1864,  married  H.  W.  Trafton, 
Esq.,  of  Fort  Fairfield,  in  1891.  5.  Annie 
Isabel,  January  7,  1867,  married  Dr.  J.  H. 
Murphy  in  1893  and  now  lives  in  Dexter.  6. 
John  Bates,  February  15,  1869,  and  is  now 
living  in  Westbrook.  7.  Sarah  Parker,  June 
29,  1 87 1,  and  is  now  living  in  the  old  home 
in  Dexter. 

(IV)  John  Bates,  son  of  Samuel  Adams 
and  Sarah  Parker  (Lane-)  Winslow,  was  born 
February  15,  i86g.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Dexter,  graduating  from  the 
high  school  in  1888.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  followed  his  father's  business,  and  in  1895 
entered  the  office  of  Dr.  F.  O.  Cobb  in  Port- 
land to  study  dentistry.  He  attended  the 
Philadelphia  Dental  College,  graduating  from 
that  institution  in  1899.  After  graduating  he 
worked  with  Dr.  Cobb  until  June,  1904,  when 
he  opened  an  office  in  Westbrook,  and  now 
enjoys  a  very  good  dental  practice.  In  poli- 
tics he  has  always  been  a  Republican.  He  is 
a  Mason,  being  a  member  of  Temple  Lodge, 
No.  86,  of  Westbrook,  and  also  of  Eagle  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  and  Westbrook  Council  of 
Royal  and  Select  Masters.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  Westbrook  Lodge,  No.  27,  Knights  of 
Pythias.  He  married,  June  11,  1895,  Ida  El- 
len, daughter  of  Jesse  A.  and  Ellen  (Sher- 
burne) Fuller,  who  was  born  in  West  Gardi- 
ner. She  is  an  active  worker  in  the  Univer- 
salist  church  and  also  in  the  Eastern  Star, 
being  a  member  of  Mizpah  Chapter,  No.  3, 
and  also  a  member  of  Calanthe  Temple,  Pyth- 
ian Sisters.  Their  children  are:  i.  Kath- 
erine  May,  born  July  6,  1899.  2.  John  Clif- 
ford, July  24,  1901.  3.  Annie  Louise,  March 
18,  1907. 


The  Weston  or  Wesson  family 
WESTON     is    of   ancient    English    origin, 

the  founder  having  come  to 
England  with  William  the  Conqueror,  from 
whom  he  received  valuable  estates  in  Stafford- 
shire and  elsewhere  for  his  services.  The 
coat-of-arms  had  the  motto  "Craignez  honte." 
(I)  John  W^eston,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  1631,  in  Buckinghamshire,  England, 
and  died  about  1723.  About  1644,  when  only 
thirteen  years  old,  his  father  being  dead,  he 
sailed  as  a  stowaway  in  a  ship  bound  for 
America.  He  settled  in  Salem,  ^Iassachusetts, 
where  in  1648,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Church.     About  1653  he 


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removed  to  that  part  of  Reading  now  known 
as  Wakefield,  and  accumulated  one  of  the 
largest  estates  in  the  town,  his  lands  adjoin- 
ing the  IMeeting  House  Square  and  extending' 
southerly.  He  was  captain  of  a  trading  ves- 
sel and  made  several  vo)^ges  to  England. 
He  was  a  Puritan,  very  earnest  in  his  piety, 
and  his  gravestone  in  the  Reading  graveyard 
shows  that  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
church  there.  He  served  in  King  Philip's  war. 
He  married,  April  18,  1653,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Zachariah  and  Mary  Fitch,  of 
Reading,  and  this  is  the  first  marriage  in 
Reading  of  which  there  is  any  record.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  John,  born  August  17,  1655,  died 
August  19,  1655.  2.  Sarah.  July  15,  1656, 
died  January  27,  1685,  unmarried.  3.  Mary, 
]\Iay  25,  1659.  4-  John.  ]\Iarch  9,  1661,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  Elizabeth,  February  7,  1662. 
6.    Samuel,   April    16,    1665,   married   Abigail 

.     7.   Stephen,   December  8,    1667.     8. 

Thomas,    November   2,    1670.   married    Sarah 
Townsend. 

(H)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Weston, 
was  born  March  9,  1661,  and  died  in  1719. 
He  resided  in  Reading  and  married,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1684,  Mary,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Mary  (Kendall)  Ijryant.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  1685.  killed  in  the  war  in  1707.  2.  Abra- 
ham, 1687,  died  1765.  3.  Samuel,  1689.  4. 
]\lary,  1691.  5.  Stephen,  December  i,  1693, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Zachariah,  1695.  7. 
James,  1697.  8.  Benjamin,  1698.  9.  Jere- 
miah, 1700.  10.  Timothy,  1702,  probably  died 
young.  II.  Timothy,  1704,  removed  to  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  with  his  brother  Stephen. 
12.  Jonathan,  1705.  13.  Sarah,  1707.  14. 
John.  1709. 

(HI)  Stephen,  son  of  John  (2)  Weston, 
was  born  in  Reading.  December  i,  1693,  died 
December  28,- 1780.  He  removed  to  Concord 
about  1726  and  lived  in  what  is  now  Lincoln. 
The  name  was  more  generally  called  Wesson 
in  Concord,  though  that  spelling  was  common 
in  all  branches  of  the  family  in  the  early  rec- 
ords. He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Lincoln  church  in  1747.  His  brother  Timothy 
was  also  a  charter  member.  Stephen  was  the 
first  treasurer,  elected  in  1746.  The  church 
was  formally  organized  August  18,  1747.  He 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Gershom  and 
Hannah  Flagg,  of  Woburn.  Children:  i. 
Hannah,  born  March  5,  1716.  married  Josiah 
Hosmer.  2.  Mary,  September  22.  1717.  mar- 
ried Nathaniel  Ball.  3.  Abigail.  April  27, 
1719,  married  John  Jones.  4.  Stephen,  No- 
vember 16,  1720,  married  Lydia  Billings.  5. 
Sarah,    November    11,    1727,    married    Peter 


Hey  wood.  6.  Joseph,  March  7,  1732,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Benjamin,  June  30,  1734, 
died  August   20,    1735.     8.   Esther,   June   22, 

1735,  married  Brown.     9.   Hepsibah, 

April  3.  1743.  Four  others,  died  young  or 
unmarried. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  Stephen  Weston,  was 
born  in  Concord,  March  7,  1732.    About  1769 
he   removed  to   Lancaster  and   shortly  after- 
ward   went   to   Maine.     Peter   Heywood,   Jo- 
seph Weston  and  Isaac  Smith  were  the  pioneer 
settlers  of  that  part  of  old  Canaan,  now  Skow- 
hegan,   Maine.,    Peter   Heywood   and   Joseph 
Weston  came  first  in  the  early   fall  of   1771 
with    some   of    the   boys    and   bringing    some 
young  cattle.     They  cut  hay  on  some  of  the 
adjacent  islands  that  had  been  cleared  by  the 
Indians,  built  a  camp  and  left  two  of  the  boys, 
Eli    Weston   and    Isaac    Smith,   to   spend   the 
winter  and  care  for  the  cattle.     The  location 
was  eighteen  miles  above  Winslow,  the  near- 
est settlement,  to  which  place  the  boys  made 
one  visit  during  the  long  winter.    Weston  was 
so  late  in   starting  from   Massachusetts   with 
his  family  that  he  could  not  get  up  the  river, 
so  they  stopped  in  Dresden  until  January,  then 
moved   on   to   Fort   Halifax,   and   the   last  of 
April,  1772,  "we  got  to  my  own  house."   They 
located    about    two    miles    and    a    half   below 
Skowhegan  Falls  near  the  islands,  so  that  by 
cultivating  the  land  on  the  islands  and  cutting, 
burning  and  clearing  small  tracts  on  the  shore, 
they  were  able  to  raise  a  sufficient  crop   for 
their'needs.    Heywood  probably  came  with  his 
family  the  summer  of  1772.    His  farm  includ- 
ed the  Leighton  and  Abram  \\'yman  farms  on 
the   south  river  road,   Skowhegan,  and  Wes- 
ton's was  below.     Joseph  Weston  traded  in  a 
small  way,  carried  on  his  farm,  and  worked 
at  his  trade  as  a  tailor  when  occasion  offered. 
In    1775,   when   Arnold's   forces   went  up  the 
river  on  their  way  to  Quebec,  Weston  and  two 
of  his  sons.  Eli  and  WilHam,  assisted  in  get- 
ting the   boats   from   their  settlement   up   the 
river,    over    Skowhegan    and    Norridgewock 
Falls.     From  this  hardship  and  exposure  he 
took  a  severe  cold,  and  died  October  16,  1775. 
He    married,    in    1756,    Eunice,    daughter    of 
Aaron    and    Hannah    (Barron)     Farnsworth. 
Children:     i.  Joseph,  born  January  17,  1757, 
died  March  22,  1838;  married  Sarah, Emery. 
2.    Samuel,   January    17,    1757    (twin),    men- 
tioned below.     3.   John,   July    19,    1758,   died 
November   12,   1842;  married    (first)    Azubah 
Piper;  (second)  Anna  Peaks.    4.  Eli,  July  4, 
1760.   died   October  4,    1846;   married   Sarah 
Kemp.     5.  William,  November  11,  1763.  died 
December   29,    1840;   married    (first)    Betsey 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Clark;  (second)  Mary  Pinkham.  6.  Benja- 
min, February  3,  1765,  died  April  7,  185 1  ; 
married  Annie  Powers.  7.  Eunice,  August  25, 
1766,  died  August  12.  1779.  8.  Hannah,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1768,  died  February  11,  1800;  mar- 
ried Noah  Parkman.  9.  Stephen,  September 
15,  1770:  ched  May  31,  1847;  niarried  Martha 
Gray. 

(V)  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph  Weston,  was 
born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  January  17, 
1757,  died  June  7,  1802.  He  went  to  Maine 
with  his  parents  and  resided  in  Canaan  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  well  educated 
and  a  prominent  man  of  the  town.  He  was 
justice  of  the  peace,  representative  to  the  legis- 
lature, and  held  various  town  offices  of  trust 
and  responsibility.  He  was  appointed  by  the 
general  government  in  1798  assessor  of  direct 
taxes.  He  surveyed  Bingham's  Purchase  of  a 
million  acres,  the  Androscoggin  river  up  as 
far  as  "Livermore's  town"  and  forty  or  fifty 
miles  of  the  lower  Kennebec.  He  w-as  agent 
for  the  Plymouth  company  and  had  charge  of 
land  for  various  men  living  in  Massachusetts. 
He  also  kept  a  country  store.  He  married,  in 
1782,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Whitney)  White.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
December  19,  1782,  died  December  21,  i860; 
married  Eleazer  Coburn.  2.  Betsey,  March  5, 
1784,  died  March  22,  1871  ;  married  (first) 
Amos  Baker;  (second)  Samuel  Lewis.  3. 
Cephas,  March  27,  1786,  died  July  8,  1786. 
4.  Cynthia,  April  27,  1787,  died  September 
28,  1872;  married  George  Pooler.  5.  SSmuel, 
May  24,  1788,  died  April  22,  1838.  6.  Ste- 
phen, September  22,  1789,  died  April  17,  1869. 
7.  Eusebius,  April  22,  1791,  died  April  8,  1866; 
married  Delia  Dickenson.  8.  John  Whitney, 
March  27,  1793,  mentioned  below.  9.  Daniel 
Cony,  January  27,  1795,  died  December  26, 
1878.  10.  Clarissa,  October  19,  1796,  died 
April  25,  1856;  married  Thomas  Brown.  11. 
Increase  Sumner,  April  30,  1798,  died  Febru- 
ary 14,  1885;  married  Caroline  (Neil)  Jewett. 
12.  Roxanna,  March  29,  1800,  died  June  30, 
1891.  13.  Ebenezer,  August  25,  1802,  died 
April  30,  1894;  married  Delia  Bliss. 

(VI)  John  Whitney,  son  of  Samuel  Wes- 
ton, was  born  in  Canaan,  now  Skowhegan, 
Maine,  March  27,  1793,  died  October  9,  1878. 
In  1 8 19  he  purchased  the  interest  in  the  saw 
mill  of  his  cousin,  Cyrus  Weston,  and  contin- 
ued lumbering  all  his  life.  Owning  timber 
lands  in  the  Dead  river  region,  he  was  the 
first  man  to  cut  spruce  timber  to  run  down 
the  Kennebec  river  for  the  market,  and  did 
an  extensive  business  sending  rafts  of  pine 
boards  down  the  river  to  Augusta.     In  poli- 


tics he  was  a  Whig,  and  in  religion  a  Univer- 
salist.  He  married,  in  182 1,  Sarah  Parker 
_iValker.  born  in  Bedford,  New  Hampshire, 
February  4,  1800,  died  January  15,  1845, 
daughter  of  William  and  Lydia  (j\Iartin) 
Walker,  w^ho  came  from  Derry,  New  Hamp- 
shire, to  Madison.  Children:  i.  Samuel  Will- 
iam, born  September  23,  1821,  died  Septem- 
ber 4,  1851.  2.  Henry,  January  9,  1823,  mar- 
ried (first)  Lois  Angela  Mead;  (second)  El- 
len Poitevent  McAvoy.  3.  Levi  Wyman,  Oc- 
tober 9,  1824,  mentioned  below.  4.  Gustavus 
Adolphus,  December  17,  1826,  died  Septem- 
ber 15,  1844.  5.  Algernon  Sidney,  July  22, 
1828,  died  March  30,  1897;  married  (first) 
Hannah  Eliza  Hollister ;  (second)  Letitia 
Baird  Livezey.  6.  Mary  White,  January  13, 
1 83 1,  married  Josiah  Parker  Varney.  7.  Ho- 
ratio Stephen,  January  8,  1833,  died  May  29, 
1866;  married  Caroline  Wyman.  8.  Emily, 
Augu.st  18,  1835,  died  June  7,  1845.  9-  Eliza 
Sophia,  May  22,  1838,  died  June  17,  1897.  10. 
Increase  Sumner,  April  20,  1840,  died  Sep- 
tember 6,  1840.  II.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  July  20, 
1 84 1,  died  April  29,  1842. 

(\'II)  Levi  Wyman,  son  of  John  Whitney 
Weston,  was  born  October  9,  1824,  on  Skow- 
hegan Island,  in  the  old  mill  hotise  on  the 
mill  lot  near  the  sawmill.  He  received  his  ed- 
ucation at  the  public  schools  and  at  Bloom- 
field  Academy,  and  afterward  worked  for  his 
father  in  the  mill.  In  the  spring  of  1841,  at 
the  age  of  seventeen,  he  went  to  Moosehead 
Lake  to  drive  logs,  and  continued  to  drive 
logs  every  spring  until  1847,  having  charge  of 
crews  and  sections  of  the  main  river  drive. 
In  1844  he  helped  build  the  starch  mill  at 
Skowhegan,  and  superintended  the  making  of 
starch  for  three  seasons  until  the  potato  rot 
destroyed  the  business.  In  1847  he  went  to 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  found  work  in  a 
machine  shop,  where  he  remained  two  years. 
Returning  to  Skowhegan  in  May,  1849,  he  es- 
tablished the  first  permanent  machine  shop 
there,  which  he  conducted  for  six  years.  He 
then  bought  the  foundry  of  Lemuel  Fletcher, 
wdiich  he  run  in  connection  with  the  machine 
shop,  enlarging  and  rebuilding  the  plant.  In 
1855  he  sold  half  the  interest  in  the  business 
to  Amos  H.  Fletcher,  and  the  firm  of  Weston 
&  Fletcher  continued  until  1858,  when  he  sold 
his  remaining  interest.  In  November,  1858, 
he  went  to  New  Orleans  and  visited  Logtown, 
Mississippi,  where  he  assisted  his  brother 
Henry  to  rebuild  his  steam  sawmill,  which  had 
been  burned.  He  returned  to  Skowhegan  and 
in  December,  i860,  bought  out  his  younger 
brother,    I.    S.   Weston,   who  owned   half  the 


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1143 


sawmill  and  lumber  business  at  Skowhegan,  in 
company  with  his  father,  the  business  being 
continued  under  the  firm  name  of  J.  W.  &  L. 
W.  Weston.  In  July,  1866,  his  father  sold  his 
interests  to  Colonel  William  F.'*Baker,  of  Mos- 
cow, Maine,  and  the  firm  became  Weston  & 
Baker.  In  November,  1871,  Mr.  Weston 
bought  out  his  partner's  interests,  and  contin- 
ued alone  until  November,  1880,  when  he  took 
into  partnership  his  stepson,  Charles  M.  Brain- 
ard,  and  the  firm  was  Weston  &  Brainard. 
The  firm  bought  the  carding  and  cloth  dress- 
ing mill  of  Benjamin  and  Calvin  Stinchfield 
in  1884,  which  added  greatly  to  their  water 
power,  and  continued  to  enlarge  their  plant 
and  improve  the  business  until  the  death  of 
Mr.  Brainard  in  1893.  The  following  April 
Mr.  Weston  bought  of  the  estate  the  interests 
of  his  former  partner,  and  continued  the  busi- 
ness until  1897,  when  he  sold  to  the  Skow- 
hegan Electric  Light  Company.  Mr.  Weston 
has  always  been  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
lias  taken  a  keen  interest  in  the  aflrairs  of  the 
town.  He  served  as  selectman  and  on  the 
school  committee  of  •Blffomfield.  -WJien  the 
towns  of  Bloomfield  and  Skowhegan  were 
united,  he  was  elected  the  first  school  agent 
for  the  unitetl  dis^ict  No.  i,  serving  alto- 
gether about  twent'v  years  on  the  school  com- 
mittee in  both  towns.  HeTias  served  on  the 
building  committees  for  erecting  many  of  the 
public  buildings  in  Skowhegan,  and  has  been 
connected  with  a  number  of  corporations.  He 
is  president  of  the  Somerset  Building  and 
Loan  Association,  a  direcfcpr  Jpf  .the  Savings 
Bank  of  Skowhegan,  and  tRe  Skowhegan  Wa- 
ter Company,  and  trustee  of  the  Bloomfield 
Academy  Fund  and  of  the  public  library. 

He  married  (first),  February  15,  1853, 
Sophia  Wyman  Walker,  who  died  June  13, 
1858.  He  married  (second),  November  19, 
1861,  Clementine  (Houghton)  Brainard,  born 
January  22,  1831,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah  (Spaulding)  Houghton.  Children:  i. 
Agnes  Augusta,  born  December  21,  1862,  died 
March  4,  1877.  2.  Gertrude  Sophia,  March 
20.  1866.  3.  Ernest  Gustavus,  November  7, 
1867,  died  January  27,  1869.  4.  Ethel  Hough- 
ton, May  30.  died  January  17,  1870.  5.  Mar- 
garet Houghton,  September  i,  1873,  died  Au- 
gust 23,  1875. 

(V)  Deacon  Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph  Wes- 
ton, was  born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
February  3,  1765,  and  died  April  7,  1851. 
When  seven  years  old  he  was  brought  by 
his  parents  to  Canaan  (later  Bloomfield,  now 
Skowhegan),  Maine,  where  he  was  reared 
on  a  new  farm,  and  resided  until  1786,  when 


he  purchased  a  tract  of  heavily  timbered  land 
in  the  town  of  Madison,  a  mile  and  a  half 
above  the  present  village  of  Madison.  This  he 
cleared  up  from  wilderness  condition,  and  the 
farm  is  now  occupied  by  his  grandson,  Theo- 
dore Weston.  He  afterward  purchased  from 
time  to  time  until  he  owned  about  a  thousand 
acres,  all  of  which  is  now  owned  by  his  de- 
scendants. For  many  years  before  his  death 
his  name  headed  the  list  as  the  largest  tax- 
payer in  the  town.  He  was  classed  as  a  Puri- 
tan of  the  Puritans.  He  was  the  first  deacon 
of  the  Congregational  church  of  Madison.  In 
politics  he  was  an  old-line  Whig.  He  mar- 
ried, March,  1788,  Annie,  eldest  daughter  of 
Levi  and  Mary  (Chase)  Powers,  of  Canaan, 
granddaughter  of  Peter  Powers,  the  first  set- 
tler of  Hollis,  New  Hampshire,  and  on  the 
maternal  side  a  direct  descendant  of  Aquilla 
Chase,  of  Newbury,  Massachusetts.  Mrs. 
Weston  was  a  woman  of  more  than  ordinary 
intelligence,  strength  of  character  and  culture. 
Their  childrens  eleven  in  number,  all  lived  to 
maturity,"  and  ten  became  heads  of  families, 
and  were:  i.  Stephen,  born  1789,  died  1841 ; 
farmer  in  Madison  ;  soldier  in  war  of  1812.  2. 
Benjamin,  1790,  see  forward.  3.  Anna,  1792, 
died  1873;  married  Samuel  Burns,  of  Madi- 
son. 4.  Nathan,  October  9,  1796,  for  many 
years  extensively  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade 
with  his  brother  Benjamin.  5.  Betsey,  1798, 
died  1882 ;  married  Rufus  Bixby.  6.  Mary, 
1800,  died  1874;  married  Ephraim  Spaulding, 
of  North  Anson.  7.  Electa,  1802,  die^  1^885; 
married  Hon.  William  R.  Flint.  8.  Eunice, 
1804,  died  1841  ;  married  Merrill  Blanchard, 
of  Houlton.  g.  Hannah,  1808,  died  unmar- 
ried, 1862.  10.  William,  1810,  died  1882,  at 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin ;  was  merchant,  lum- 
berman and  manufacturer  in  North  Anson ; 
went  to  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  1859;  was 
colonel  of  militia.  Deacon  Weston  had  one 
hundred   grandchildren. 

(\T)  I3enjamin  Jr.  (2),  son  of  Deacon- 
Benjamin  (i)  Weston,  was  reared  on  the- 
paternal  farm,  and  after  reaching  manhood 
lived  on  one  adjoining.  He  became  extensive- 
ly engaged  in  lumbering,  iron  mining  and 
stone  quarrying,  in  all  of  which  he  was  highly 
successful,  and  for  his  time  he  was  a  man 
of  wealth.  He  brought  the  first  raft  of  lum- 
ber across  Moose  Head  Lake,  and  made  the 
first  drive  of  logs  down  the  Kennebec  river, 
in  company  with  his  brother  Nathan,  an  in- 
dustry which  has  now  assumed  large  propor- 
tions. He  built  the  first  Congregational  church 
in  Madison,  and  received  his  pay  from  sale  of 
pews.     He  was  public  spirited,  and  did  much 


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toward  the  upbuilding  of  what  is  now  the 
thriving    town    of    'Madison.       He    married 

(first)     ;     (second)     Ann    F.    Jewett, 

daughter  of  Pickard  Jewett,  of  Skowhegan. 
His  children  were  thirteen  in  number,  by  first 
marriage. 

(VH)    Benjamin    Pickard    Jewett,    son    of 
Benjamin   (2)   Weston,  was  born  August  13, 
1841,    in   the   house   in   which   he    died,    Sep- 
tember   12,    1907.      He   was   educated    in    the 
common  schools,  and  Maine  State  Seminary, 
now  Bates  College,  and  while  a  student  in  the 
last  named  institution  experienced  an  accident 
which    almost    made    him    a    cripple    for    life. 
After  his   father's   death   he   made   his   home 
on  the  ancestral  farm.     As  a  boy  he  assisted 
his   father  about  the  quarry  and  the  general 
store   connected    therewith,    on    Chaleur   Bay. 
About  1872  he  became  a  member  of  the  mer- 
cantile firm  of  Blackwell  &  Weston,  and  this 
connection   was  maintained   until    1877,  when 
the  partnership  was  dissolved,  and  he  fitted  up 
a  store  in  Madison,  near  the  railroad  crossing, 
which  he  conducted  for  some  years.     He  was 
active  in  securing  the  location  of  the  railroad 
at  Madison,  when  that  town  was  to  be  left 
away  from  its  line,  and  with  other  prominent 
citizens  brought  it  to  the  town  by  taking  the 
contract  to  build  the  road  to  the  river,  accept- 
ing railroad  bonds  (then  considered  as  of  lit- 
tle value)   for  the  larger  portion  of  their  out- 
lay.   This  is  but  indicative  of  his  public  spirit 
and  foresight  in  the  interest  of  the  community. 
The  'water  power  of  Madison  was  practically 
undeveloped  until  1881,  when  Mr.  Weston  and 
his  brother  Thomas,  who  lived  in  Portland,  in- 
terested a  practical  woolen  manufacturer,  and 
procured    the    means    for    building    the    old 
wooden  mill.  This  was  completed  early  in  1882, 
and   the   manufacture   of  woolen   faljrics   was 
immediately  begun.    This  was  followed  by  the 
building  of  the  first  brick  mill  in  1885,  and  the 
Indian  Spring  mill,  in  1887.     He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the   building  committee   of  each,    and 
upon  him  devolved   in  large  degree  the  pro- 
curing of  labor  and  material  for  construction. 
In    1889,   when   the   forerunner  of   the   Great 
Northern    Paper    Company    was    embarrassed 
by  finding  clouded  titles  to  needed  property, 
Mr.   Weston's   wonderful    energy   and   perse- 
verance   were    brought    into    play,    and    after 
overcoming    what    to   most   men    would    have 
been  insuperable  difficulties,  he  succeeded,  and 
the   work  of  construction   was  entered   upon. 
About    1880    he   purchased    the   old    sawmill 
standing  in  the  present  yard  of  the  paper  com- 
pany, and  after  selling  it  he  erected  the  mill, 
which    he    thenceforward    operated    until    his 


death.  He  was  ever  active  in  community  in- 
terests, from  the  time  when  soon  after  attain- 
ing his  majority  he  was  elected  to  the  common 
council,  and  he, frequently  thereafter  served  in 
responsible  positions  to  which  he  was  called 
by  vote  of  his  fellow  citizens.  An  earnest 
Republican  in  politics,  he  neither  had  leisure 
nor  ambition  for  public  station,  and  refused 
frequently  to  allow  himself  to  be  made  a  can- 
didate for  political  position.  His  sole  interests 
were  for  the  local  good,  and  his  influence  and 
means  were  always  devoted  to  improved  school 
accommodations  and  educational  facilities.  He 
served  as  president  of  the  Madison  Board 
of  Trade,  and  of  the  Madison  Soldiers'  iMonu- 
ment  Association,  as  town  auditor,  and  as  trus- 
tee of  the  Forest  Hill  Cemetery  Association. 
After  the  purchase  of  the  cemetery  property 
by  that  body,  he  selected  a  lot  thereon,  re- 
moved to  it  the  remains  of  his  honored  par- 
ents, and  there  his  own  interment  was  made. 
In  early  life  he  became  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church,  and- Mrs.  Susan  Dinsmore 
is  now  the  only  oiie.  living  whose  name  was 
entered  before  his  own  on  the  church  rolls. 
He  was  always  an  active  participant  in  all 
the  affairs  of  the  society,  and  it  was  largely 
through  his  effort  that  the  lot  was  secured  and 
the  present  house  of  worship  erected.  In  his 
personal  relations  he  was  the  true  gentleman 
of  the  old  school — kind  and  obliging,  gener- 
ous to  a  fault,  and  a  thorough  optimist,  to 
whom  every  cloud  had  a  silver  lining.  He 
married,  in  1866,  Emily  H.  Baker,  of  Bing- 
ham, who  only  lived  four  months  after  their 
union.  In  1869  he  married  .Sarah  J.  Dins- 
more,  who  with  their  five  children  lives  to 
mourn  his  loss,  while  he  was  yet  in  the  prime 
of  his  vigor  and  usefulness.  Their  children : 
I.  Nathan  A.,  born  November  12.  1870,  see 
forward.  2.  Ernest  C,  October  30,  1873, 
farmer,  Madison ;  married  Efifie  M.  Day ;  chil- 
dren :  Clayton  and  Barbara.  3.  Charles  P., 
November  8,  1875,  professor  in  University  of 
Maine.  4.  Benjamin  T.,  November  20,  1877, 
civil  and  mechanical  engineer.  5.  Susan,  April 
6,  1882. 

(VIII)  Nathan  Alvan,  eldest  child  of  Ben- 
jamin Pickard  Jewett  Weston,  was  born  in 
Madison,  November  12,  1870.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town. 
For  two  years  he  worked  in  his  father's  mill 
in  IMadison.  for  two  years  thereafter  for  the 
Manufacturing  Investment  Company,  now  the 
Great  Northern  Paper  Company,  and  again  for 
three  years  in  the  sawmill.  For  about  a  year 
he  was  in  the  employ  of  his  second  cousin, 
Levi  W.  Weston,  then  purchasing  the  interest 


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of  his  cousin's  partner,  and  the  firm  becom- 
ing Weston  &  Weston.  He  operates  the  Wes- 
ton grist  mill  at  Madison,  and  transacts  an 
extensive  business,  besides  his  lumbering  and 
farming  interests.  He  is  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  Madison,  and  is  well  and  fa- 
vorably known  through  his  section  of  the 
state.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  of  Madison,  and  in  politics  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  member  of  Indian  Spring 
Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F. ;  the  Order  of  Foresters ; 
the  Order  of  Maccabees.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1903,  Mabel  Davis,  born  May  i, 
1883,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Mira  (Clark) 
Davis,  of  Madison.  They  have  one  child, 
Emilv,  born  January  7,  1904. 


The  name  of  Bradbury  is  of 
BRADBURY     Saxon    origin    and    was 

formed  by  the  combination 
of  two  words  :  Brad,  meaning  broad,  and  bury, 
which  is  variously  defined  as  a  house,  a  hill, 
a  domain  and  a  town.  In  the  ancient  English 
records  there  are  several  variations  in  its  or- 
thography, such  as  Bradberrie,  Bradburye, 
Bradberry  and  Bradbury.  In  England  the 
line  of  descent  from  Thomas,  the  immigrant, 
can  be  traced  backward  through  several  gen- 
erations. 

(I)  Wymond  Bradbury,  who  was  of  the 
seventh  generation  in  descent  from  the  earliest 
known  member  of  the  family  under  consid- 
eration, resided  in  the  county  of  Essex  during 
the  reign  of  James  the  First,  and  married 
Elizabeth  Gill  (nee  Whitgift).  He  did  not 
come  to  America. 

(II)  Thomas,  second  son  of  Wymond  and 
Elizabeth  Bradbury,  and  of  the  eighth  genera- 
tion in  descent,  according  to  the  English  pedi- 
gree, was  baptized  at  Wicken  Bonant,  Essex, 
on  the  last  day  of  February,  1610-11.  It  is 
plainly  evident  that  he  acquired  the  advantages 
of  a  good  education,  as  early  in  the  year  1634 
he  appeared  at  Agamenticus  (now  York, 
i\Iaine)  as  the  agent  or  steward  of  Sir  Fer- 
nando Gorges,  proprietor  of  the  province  of 
Maine,  and  must  therefore  have  possessed  both 
social  and  intellectual  qualifications  for  such 
a  position.  He  did  not,  however,  remain  for 
any  length  of  time  in  the  service  of  Gorges, 
as  in  1636  he  became  a  grantee  at  Salisbury, 
Massachusetts,  whither  he  removed  and  where 
for  more  than  half  a  century  he  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  residents.  He  was  admit- 
ted a  freeman  at  Sa4isbury  in  1640,  and  served 
as  schoolmaster,  town  clerk,  justice  of  the 
peace,  deputy  to  the  general  court,  county 
recorder,  associate  judge  and  captain  of  the 


local  military  company,  winning  credit  for 
himself  and  giving  general  satisfaction  to  his 
fellow  townsmen  in  all  of  these  offices.  In 
1 64 1  he  was  appointed  first  clerk  of  the  writs 
of  Salisbury;  was  seven  times  chosen  deputy 
to  the  general  court  between  the  years  1651 
and  1666;  and  from  1654  to  1669  served  upon 
various  committees  formulated  for  the  purpose 
of  adjusting  land  disputes,  locating  grants  and 
establishing  boundaries.  He  died  in  Salisbury, 
March  16,  1695.  In  1636  he  married  Mary 
Perkins,  daughter  of  John  the  elder  and  Ju- 
dith Perkins,  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts.  John 
Perkins,  born  at  Gloucester,  England,  in  1590, 
embarked  at  Bristol  with  his  family  on  board 
the  ship  "Lyon,"  Captain  William  Pearce, 
master,  and  Roger  Williams  was  a  fellow 
passenger.  Arriving  in  Boston,  February  5, 
1 63 1,  John  Perkins  was  admitted  a  freeman 
the  same  year,  and  in  1633  settled  in  Ipswich, 
acquiring  possession  of  an  island  at  the  mouth 
of  the  river,  which  became  known  as  Perkins 
Island.  He  held  town  offices  in  Ipswich  and 
was  deputy  to  the  general  court.  He  died 
prior  to  1655.  His  children  were :  John, 
Thomas,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Lydia  and  Jacob. 
Mary  Perkins,  who  became  the  wife  of  Thom- 
as Bradbury,  had  the  misfortune  in  her  old 
age  of  being  tried  and  convicted  of  witch- 
craft during  the  excitement  caused  by  the  ter- 
rible delusion  of  1692,  which  resulted  in  the 
ignominious  death  of  so  many  innocent  people, 
but  she  escaped  punishment  and  died  a  natural 
death  December  20,  1700.  She  was  the  moth- 
er of  eleven  children :  Wymond,  Judith, 
Thomas,  Mary,  Jane,  Jacob,  William,  Eliza- 
beth, John,  Ann  and  Jabez,  all  of  whom, 
excepting  the  eldest,  were  born  in  Salisbury. 

(Ill)  Wymond  (2),  eldest  child  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Perkins)  Bradbury,  was  born 
April  I,  1637.  Plis  death,  which  was  untimely, 
occurred  April  7,  1669,  on  the  Island  of  Nevis, 
West  Indies,  the  birthplace  of  Alexander 
Hamilton.  May  7,  1661,  he  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah  Pike,  and  a 
sister  of  Rev.  John  Pike,  pastor  of  the  church 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire.  Robert  Pike,  one 
of  the  most  advanced  men  of  his  time  in 
New  England,  came  from  England  to  Salem 
with  his  parents  when  nineteen  years  old,  and 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Salisbury.  He  be- 
came a  fearless  champion  of  truth,  justice  and 
liberty  of  conscience,  and  was  the  hero  of  sev- 
eral important  controversies.  He  was  openly 
against  the  ill  treatment  of  the  Indians,  op- 
posed the  dogmatic  authority  of  the  Rev.  John 
Wheelwright,  pastor  of  the  church  in  Salis- 
bury, and  stood  forth  pre-eminent  in  opposi- 


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tion  to  the  Rev.  Cotton  Mather  and  other  su- 
perstitious clergymen  during  the  witchcraft 
prosecutions  of  1692,  defending  the  innocent 
victims  to  the  extent  of  his  ability.  Wymond 
Bradbury's  widow  married  for  her  second 
husband  John  Stockman,  who  died  December 
10.  1686.  Of  her  first  union  there  were  three 
children:  I.  Sarah,  born  February  26,  1662, 
married  Abraham  Merrill.  2.  Ann,  born  No- 
vember 22,  1666,  married  Jeremy  Allen.  3. 
Wymond. 

(IV)  Wymond  (3),  youncest  child  of  Wy- 
mond (2)  and  Sarah  (Pike)  Bradbury,  was 
born  in  Salisbury,  May  13,  1669.  He  spent 
his  declining  years  in  York,  Maine,  where  bis 
son  had  settled,  and  died  there  April  17,  1734. 
He  married  Mariah  Cotton,  born  January  14, 
1672,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Cotton  Jr.  and 
Joanna  (Rossiter)  Cotton,  granddaughter  of 
the  distinguished  Boston  minister,  Rev.  John 
Cotton,  who  came  from  old  Boston  in  Lincoln- 
shire, and  who  married  Sarah  Story.  Joanna 
Rossiter  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Bryan  Ros- 
siter, of  Guilford,  Connecticut.  Wymond 
Bradbury's  widow  married  for  her  second 
husband  John  Head,  of  Kittery,  Maine,  when 
more  than  sixty-two  years  old,  and  she  died 
in  that  town  January  30,  1736.  The  children 
of  Wymond  and  Mariah  (Cotton)  Bradbury 
were:  Jabez,  born  in  1693;  William,  169.S; 
John,  1697;  Rowland,  1699:  Ann,  1702:  Jo- 
siah,  1704:  Theophilus,  1706;  Maria,  1708; 
Jerusha,  171 1. 

(V)  John,  third  child  of  Wymond  (3)  and 
Mariah  (Cotton)  Bradbury,  was  born  in  Sal- 
isbury, September  9,  T697.  He  settled  in 
York,  Maine,  early  in  the  eighteenth  century, 
and  was  the  founder  of  the  York  branch  of 
the  Bradbury  family.  He  became  an  elder  oi 
the  Presbyterian  church,  and  was  also  promi- 
nent in  civic  affairs,  serving  in  the  provincial 
legislature  several  terms,  as  a  member  of  the 
executive  council  for  ten  years  and  as  iudge 
of  probate.  At  the  commencement  of  the 
revolutionarv  war  he  vigorously  supported  the 
cause  of  national  independence,  and  it  is  re- 
lated that  he  rebulced  his  minister  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  congregation  for  having  expressed 
in  his  sermon  sentiments  disloval  to  the  Amer- 
ican cause.  He  died  December  3,  1778.  He 
married  Abigail,  dausrhter  of  Lieutenant  Jo- 
seph and  Abigail  (Donnell)  Young,  of  York, 
and  her  death  occurred  September  28,  1787. 
Their  children  were:  Cotton,  see  succeeeding 
paragraph;  Lucy,  born  January  8,  1725;  Beu- 
lah,  March  20,  1727;  Mariah,  April  5,  1729; 
Abigail,  August  12,  1731  ;  Elizabeth,  January 


5,  1734;  John,  September  18,  1736;  Joseph, 
October  23,  1740;  Anne,  June  2,  1743. 

(VI)  Cotton,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Abi- 
gail (Young)  Bradbury,  born  in  York,  Oc- 
tober 8,  1722,  died  in  that  town  June  4,  1806. 
He  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Elias  Weare, 
of  York,  and  had  a  family  of  nine  children : 
Lucy,  born  June  20,  1754;  Edward,  May  20, 
1757;  Daniel,  April  7,  1759;  Betsey,  December 
10,  1760;  Abigail,  December  16,  1765;  Olive, 
January  3,  1768:  Joseph,  May  i,  1770:  James, 
see  next  paragraph;  Ruth,  October  19,   1774. 

(VTI)  Dr.  James,  eighth  child  and  youngest 
.son  of  Cotton  and  Ruth  (Weare)  Bradbury, 
was  born  in  York,  April  24,  1772.  Having 
acquired  a  good  general  education  he  studied 
medicine,  his  professional  training  being  the 
best  that  could  be  obtained  at  that  period,  and 
after  practicing  in  Ossipee,  New  Hampshire, 
for  a  year  he  located  in  Parsonsfield,  Maine, 
going  there  in  1798  and  building  up  a  large 
general  practice  which  he  maintained  for  more 
than  forty  years.  In  addition  to  being  an  able 
physician,  he  was  an  excellent  instructor  and 
directed  the  preliminary  studies  of  a  consid- 
erable number  of  students,  some  of  whom  be- 
came noted  practitioners.  When  the  infirmi- 
ties of  old  age  began  to  develop  he  established 
his  home  near  the  residence  of  his  only  daugh- 
ter in  Windham,  and  he  died  there  February 
7,  1844.  In  1816  he  united  with  the  Free 
Will  Baptist  church  and  continued  his  fellow- 
ship with  that  denomination  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  Dr.  Bradbury  was  married  in  the 
year  1800  to  Mrs.  Ann  Moulton,  born  in 
Newbury,  Massachusetts,  September  2,  1777, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Noyes) 
Moulton.  By  a  previous  marriage  with  her 
cousin,  Samuel  Moulton,  son  of  Cotton  Moul- 
ton, she  had  two  children ;  and  those  of  her 
second  union  were:  i.  James  Weare,  born 
June  10,  1803,  married  Eliza  Ann  Smith,  and 
became  a  prominent  citizen  of  Augusta,  ac- 
quiring political  distinction.  2.  Samuel  Moul- 
ton, who  will  be  again  referred  to.  3.  Clarissa 
Ann,  born  June  19,  1807,  became  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Charles  G.  Parsons,  of  Windham ;  died 
December  5,  1850.  The  mother  of  these  chil- 
dren died  March  10,  1835.  Dr.  Bradbury 
married  (second).  November  i,  1836.  Nancy 
Chapman,  born  January  3,  1800.  The  only 
child  of  this  union  was  Cotton  M.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1839,  removed  from  Windham  Hill 
to  South  Windham,  September  10,  1877, 
thence  to  Cumberland  Mills,  December  6.  1895, 
where  he  now  resides,  an  industrious  and  high- 
ly respected  citizen.     He  married   (first)    Su- 


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sanna  D.  Hussey,  born  1833,  died  August  20, 
1877,  ^''lo  bore  him  two  children:  James  Cot- 
ton, born  October  16,  1865,  died  March  14, 
1905;  Jennie  AI.,  born  July  9,  1868,  died  De- 
cember 10,  1901.  Married  (secondj  Ella  T. 
Harris,  born  1858,  died  April  5,  1893,  who 
bore  him  four  children :  Nellie  G.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1880,  married  Harry  Feldman,  1905; 
resides  in  Boston,  jMassachusetts.  Alice,  born 
May  7,  1881,  died  October  8,  1884.  Frank  H., 
born  November  20,  1883,  married  Julia  Quinn, 
1905,  has  one  child,  Christella :  resides  in 
Westbrook.  Fred  E.,  born  June  11,  1885,  un- 
married. 

(Vni)  Samuel  Moulton,  M.  D.,  second 
child  of  Dr.  James  and  Ann  (Moulton)  Brad- 
bury, was  born  in  Parsonsfield,  August  22, 
1804.  He  began  the  study  of  medicine  with 
his  father,  was  graduated  from  the  Maine 
Medical  School  (Bowdoin  College)  in  1831, 
and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Parsonsfield.  In  1836  he  removed  to  Liming- 
ton,  where  he  resided  for  more  than  fifty 
years,  and  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  was  still 
in  active  practice,  attending  regularly  to  his 
professional  duties.  He  was  not  alone  re- 
spected for  his  professional  ability  and  per- 
sonal integrity,  as  his  public  services  and  ef- 
forts to  increase  the  educational  facilities  of 
Limington  were  exceedingly  beneficial  to  the 
town,  and  his  desire  for  the  advancement  of 
its  general  welfare  was  frequently  emphasized 
while  serving  as  town  clerk,  selectman  and  as 
representative  to  the  state  legislature.  In  pol- 
itics he  was  a  Democrat.  As  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  the  Limington  Academy  he  labored 
zealously  in  its  behalf  and  served  as  president 
of  its  board  of  trustees  for  thirty  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  Adoniram  Lodge,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  one  of  the 
principal  supporters  of  the  Baptist  church. 
Dr.  Samuel  M.  Bradbury  died  in  Limington, 
September  22,  1888,  having  attended  to  his 
patients  up  to  a  week  prior  to  his  demise,  and 
his  passing  away  was  sincerely  regretted  by 
the  entire  community.  He  was  first  married 
in  1831  to  Susan  Brackett,  born  in  Parsons- 
field, November  11,  181 1,  died  November  27, 
1846,  daughter  of  James  and  Betsey  (Fogg- 
Brackett)  Brackett.  He  married  (second) 
her  sister  Elizabeth,  born  in  1821,  died  April 
4,  1899.  They  were  descended  in  the  eighth 
generation  from  Anthony  (i)  Brackett,  of 
Portsmouth,  the  immigrant,  through  Thomas 
(2),  Samuel  (3).  Samuel  (4),  John  (5), 
James  (6),  and  James  (7).  Their  father, 
who  was  a  native  of  Berwick  and  a  prosperous 
farmer   of    Parsonsfield,    died   there    in    1844. 


He  married  Betsey  Brackett  (nee  Fogg),  his 
brother's  widow.  Dr.  Bradbury's  first  wife 
bore  him  two  children :  John  Brackett,  born 
June  I,  1833,  died  April  27,  1858;  graduated 
from  Colby  University,  Waterville,  in  1857. 
Ann  Elizabeth,  born  August  24,  1837,  died 
May  8,  1855.  The  children  of  Dr.  Bradbury's 
second  union  are :  James  Otis,  who  is  referred 
to  again  in  the  next  paragraph.  Eva  Carrie, 
born  October  28,  1834,  died  August  24,  1862. 
Frank  M.,  born  February  28,  1858,  married 
Alice  S.  Cousins ;  they  now  reside  at  the  Brad- 
bury homestead  in  Limington,  Maine.  Lizzie, 
born  May  27,  1862,  became  the  wife  of  Hardy 
H.  McKenney,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Liming- 
ton, married  May  25,  1895. 

(IX)  James  Otis,  eldest  child  of  Dr.  Sam- 
uel M.  and  Elizabeth  (Brackett)  Bradbury, 
was  born  in  Limington,  July  19,  1850.  From 
the  Limington  Academy  he  entered  the  West- 
ern State  Normal  school  at  Fannington,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1874,  and  being 
thus  well  equipped  for  educational  pursuits  he 
embraced  that  useful  calling,  becoming  a  high 
school  teacher  of  recognized  ability.  While 
thus  employed  he  devoted  his  vacations  and 
other  spare  moments  to  the  study  of  law  under 
the  direction  of  Colonel  William  McArthur  in 
Limington,  and  after  his  admission  to  the  Som- 
erset county  bar  at  Skowhegan  in  1876  lo- 
cated for  practice  in  Hartland,  Maine,  having 
become  solicitor  for  several  large  corporations 
in  that  section  of  the  state.  Removing  from 
the  latter  place  in  1889  he  established  himself 
in  practice  at  Saco  the  following  year  and  has 
ever  since  transacted  a  general  law  business  in 
that  city,  having  attained  prominence  in  his 
profession  through  his  legal  ability  and  high 
personal  character.  While  residing  in  Hart- 
land  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  board  of 
selectmen,  as  superintendent  of  public  schools 
and  as  trustee  of  state  normal  schools,  and 
from  1882  to  1886  was  county  attorney  for 
Somerset.  In  1892-93  he  was  mayor  of  Saco 
and  served  two  terms,  1894-95,  as  city  so- 
licitor of  that  city.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. His  fraternal  affiliations  are  with  Saco 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
Hobah  Encampment  and  Canton  J.  H.  Dear- 
born. Patriarchs  Militant,  all  of  Saco.  He 
attends  the  Unitarian  church.  On  August  5, 
1877,  Mr.  Bradbury  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Ella  S.,  of  Wells,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Butler,  and  she  died  June  29,  1889.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  union  are :  Mary  Alma,  born 
September  26,  1882 ;  and  Eva  Elizabeth,  born 
April  12,  1886,  who  died  in  Norton,  Massa- 
chusetts,  December  24,    1906.     September  3, 


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igoo,  Mr.  Bradbury  married  for  his  second 
wife  Mrs.  Imoocne  Savage  Haskell,  daughter 
of  General  Eibridge  G.  Savage,  of  Solon, 
Maine. 


The  surname  Swett  is  identical 
SWETT     with    Sweete   and    Sweet    in   the 

earl)^  records.  The  family  is 
traced  back  in  England  to  the  time  of  Edward 
VI  at  Travne  and  after  that  at  Oxton,  Devon- 
shire, England.  This  family  bore  coat-of- 
arms  as  follows :  Gules  two  chevrons  between 
as  many  mullets  in  chief  and  a  rose  in  base 
argent  seeded  or.  Crest :  A  mullet  or  pierced 
azure  between  two  gilly-flowers  proper. 

(I)  John  Swett,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  England  about  1590,  and  is  said  to 
have  come  from  Guernsey  in  the  English 
Channel,  which  was  made  a  temporary  stop- 
ping place  for  many  English  families  on  their 
way  to  the  new  world.  He  settled  first  in 
Salem  as  early  as  1636  and  finally  in  what  is 
now  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a 
grantee  of  Newbury,  December  7,  1642,  one 
of  the  original  ninety-one.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  May  18,  1642.  His  widow  Phebe 
died  May,  1663.  While  he  was  living  in  Sa- 
lem he  shot  a  wolf  dog  belonging  to  Colonel 
Endicott  in  the  colonel's  backyard,  and  the 
owner  of  the  obnoxious  wolf  dog  prosecuted 
him  for  the  killing.  Fined  five  pounds  June 
6,  1637,  after  what  must  have  been  a  sensa- 
tional trial  for  his  day.  Children,  born  in 
England:  i.  Stephen,  born  about  1624,  a 
cordwainer  by  trade,  lived  at  Newbury ;  mar- 
ried. May  24.  1647,  Hannah  Merrill:  second, 
August  4.  1663,  Rebecca  Smith.  2.  Captain 
Benjamin,  born  about  1626,  married,  Novem- 
ber I,  1647,  Esther  Weare,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Weare,  of  Newbury,  and  she  married 
second,  March  31,  1678,  Stephen  Greenleaf, 
of  Newbury;  Swett  settled  in  Hampton,  New 
Hampshire,  and  was  a  very  prominent  citizen, 
captain  of  the  military  company  and  noted  for 
his  skill  and  daring  in  fighting  the  Indians, 
especially  during  King  Philip's  war,  1675-76, 
and  was  killed  by  the  savages  at  Black  Point, 
Scarborough,  Maine ;  his  sons  were  also  very 
prominent  citizens.  3.  Joseph,  mentioned  be- 
low.   4.  Sarah,  died  December  11,  1650. 

(II)  Toseph,  son  of  John  Swett,  was  born 
about  1630.  He  was  living  in  Newbury  until 
1650.  was  of  Haverhill  in  1653  and  later  re- 
moved   to    Boston.      He    married    Elizabeth 

.     Children:     i.  Joseph,  born  October 

26,  1658,  w-as  drowned  near  his  home  in 
Truro,  Massachusetts,  November  29,  1716, 
with    an    Indian   and    four   other    Englishmen 


going   from   Eastham   harbor  to   Billingsgate. 
2.   Benjamin,  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph  Swett,  was 
born  in  Boston,  January  29,  1660.  According 
to  family  tradition  he  and  his  brother  settled 
when  young  men  on  Cape  Cod,  the  brother 
Joseph  at  Truro  and  he  at  Wellfleet.  They 
must  have  been  both  seafaring  men.  Benja- 
min Swett  was  one  of  the  ta.xpayers  of  Well- 
fleet  who,  June  22,  1724,  protested  against 
paying  rates  or  continuing  in  the  ministry  of 
Rev.  Josiah  Oakes.  This  record  possibly  be- 
longs to  his  son  Benjamin. 

(IV)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
Swett,  was  born  in  Welfleet  about  1700.  The 
available  public  records  tell  us  nothing  definite 
of  him. 

(V)  Benjamin  (3),  son  or  nephew  of  Ben- 
jamin (2)  Swett,  was  born  about  1740.  He 
was  a  soldier  under  Captain  Joshua  Gordon 
in  Colonel  Jonathan  Mitchell's  regiment  in 
July,  1779,  in  the  Penobscot  Expedition.  This 
service  in  Maine  indicates  that  he  rather  than 
his  son  Benjamin  settled  first  in  Maine.  Chil- 
dren :  Noah,  Benjamin,  mentioned  below' ; 
James  and  John. 

(\T)  Benjamin  (4),  son  of  Benjamin  (3) 
Swett,  was  born  at  Wellfleet,  Massachusetts, 
December  29,  1769,  and  died  at .  Hampden, 
IMaine,  October  13,  1854.  Early  in  life  he 
w^as  a  mariner  and  sea  captain,  afterward  a 
farmer.  lie  settled  about  1795  at  Hampden, 
Maine.  Fle  married  first,  in  1793,  Joanna  At- 
wood,  a  native  of  Wellfleet,  who  died  at 
Hampden  in  ]\Iay,  1796.  He  married  second, 
late  in  1801,  Mehitable  Atwood,  of  Orrington, 
whither  he  went  to  live.  She  died  1839. 
There  also  came  to  Orrington  Solomon  Swett, 
said  to  be  not  related,  though  coming  from 
Wellfleet  also.  Child  of  first'Wife :  Delia  D., 
born  January  4,  1796,  died  January  14,  1884. 
Children  of  second  wife:  i.  Joanna  A.,  born 
October  3,  1802,  died  1903.  2.  Emily  H.,  F'eb- 
ruary  21,  1804,  died  April  27,  1901.  3.  Noah, 
July  29,  1805,  died  September  8,  1873.  4. 
Benjamin,  September  6,  1806,  died  April  14, 
1894;  was  a  California  gold  seeker  in  1849. 
5.  James  A.,  January  16,  1808,  died  May  4, 
igoi.  6.  John,  March  4,  1809,  died  June  30, 
1879.  7.  i\Iary  E.,  May  30,  1810,  died  June  6, 
1899.  8.  Sarah  C,  September  2,  181 1.  died 
April  20,  igoi.  9.  Mehitable  A.,  March  8, 
1813,  died  May  4,  1906.  10.  Charles  M.,  .Au- 
gust 29,  1814,  died  February  10,  1892.  11. 
William  A.,  July  10,  1816,  mentioned  below. 
12.  David  W.,  ]\lay  17.  iSr8.  died  January  18, 
igo2.  He  was  a  master  mariner,  captain  of 
the    shi])    "Gold    Hunter,"    which   carried    the 


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gold  seekers  around  the  Horn  to  California. 
Naphthali,  an  adopted  son  and  nephew,  was 
born  August  22,  1795.  James  A.,  Wilham  A. 
and  David  W.  traded  as  the  Swett  Company  of 
Bangor,  engaging  in  the  coasting  trade  and 
fish  business  in  Bangor.  Maine,  and  Glouces- 
ter, Massachusetts,  and  in  the  manufacture  of 
barrels  at  Hampden  and  Bangor.  When  the 
father  died  all  of  his  children  were  living ;  the 
first  to  die  was  aged  sixty-eight,  while  the  eld- 
est child  of  the  second  marriage  lived  to  be 
over  a  luindred.  The  sons  were  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Hampden  and  at  Hamp- 
den Academy.  Three  of  the  sons  were  sea 
captains  for  a  number  of  years,  and  the  others 
were  farmers  and  merchants.  The  family  was 
Methodist  in  religion. 

(VH)  William  Atwood,  son  of  Benjamin 
(4)  Swett,  was  born  in  Hampden,  Maine, 
July  10,  1816,  died  at  Bangor,  January  25, 
1902.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  schools 
.and  spent  his  youth  and  much  of  his  later  life 
in  farming  on  the  homestead.  He  also  had 
a  general  store  for  ten  years  in  Hampden,  and 
then  removed  to  Bangor,  where  he  was  in 
business  in  company  with  his  brothers,  James 
A.  and  David  W.,  as  narrated  above.  Will- 
iam A.  was  active  in  business  until  a  few 
years  previous  to  his'  death,  when  he  retired. 
He  spent  his  last  years  in  Bangor.  He  was 
a  Methodist  in  religion  and  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  married  Mary  Banks  Putnam, 
born  at  Waltham,  Massachusetts,  July  16, 
1805,  died  at  Bangor,  July  i,  1878,  daughter 
of  Daniel  Putnam,  of  Chelmsford,  Littleton 
and  Framingham,  Massachusetts,  grand- 
daughter of  Israel  Putnam,  of  Bedford  and 
Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  a  first  cousin  of 
General  Rufus  Putnam,  the  revolutionary  sol- 
dier, and  founder  of  Ohio.  Deacon  Israel  Put- 
nam, father  of  Israel  Putnam  just  mentioned, 
was  of  Salem  Village  and  Bedford,  a  first 
cousin  of  General  Israel  Putnam,  and  deacon 
of  the  first  church  at  Bedford  and  first  con- 
stable of  that  town.  Child,  Atwell  William, 
torn  May  3,  1840,  mentioned  below.  May  21, 
1890,  William  A.  Swett  married  (second) 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Patten)  Kimball,  of  Hermon, 
Maine,  daughter  of  William  Jr.  and  Sophronia 
(Dole)  Patten,  who  still  (1908)  survives  him, 
living  in  Bangor. 

(VIII)  Dr.  Atwell  William,  son  of  William 
Atwood  Swett,  was  born  at  Hampden,  Maine, 
May  3,  1840.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  Hampden  Academy. 
He  was  graduated  from  Dartmouth  Medical 
School  in  the  fall  of  1863  and  then  took  post- 
graduate courses  in  the  Post  Graduate  PTos- 


pital  of  New  York,  Jefiferson  Medical  School 
of  Philadelphia  and  DeMilt  Dispensary,  New 
York  City,  where  he  was  interne.  He  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  Monroe,  Maine,  until  the 
spring  of  1864,  when  he  enlisted  as  assistant 
surgeon  in  the  Twenty-ninth  Maine  Regiment 
in  the  civil  war.  His  regiment  was  sent  to 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Winchester.  It  was  reorganized  after  this 
battle  and  sent  to  Savannah,  Georgia,  and 
later  to  South  Carolina,  where  it  was  located 
until  February,  1866.  He  was  then  mustered 
out  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  and  brevet 
captain.  He  at  once  located  at  Winterport, 
Maine,  where  for  a  period  of  nineteen  years 
he  practiced  medicine.  Since  1885  he  has 
practiced  in  Bangor,  ranking  among  the  lead- 
ers of  his  profession  in  that  section  of  the 
state.  Has  been  on  the  medical  staff  of  the 
Eastern  IMaine  General  Hospital  since  1893. 
He  has  had  a  very  large  general  practice  as  a 
physician  and  surgeon  in  both  communities. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Penobscot  County 
Medical  Association,  the  Maine  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, and  the  American  Medical  Association 
of  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  is  a  member  of  Han- 
cock Lodge,  Free  Masons,  Hampden ;  of  Han- 
cock Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons  of  Bucks- 
port,  and  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion,  Department  of  Maine. 

He  married,  in  Plampden,  July  22,  1868, 
Elizabeth  Jane  Patten,  born  in  Hampden, 
April  20,  1845,  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  Hampden  and  the  Hampden  Acad- 
emy and  studied  music  in  Portland,  a  daughter 
of  John  Ellingwood  Patten,  of  Hampden, 
master  ship-builder,  and  descendant  of  Elder 
William  Brewster,  of  the  "Mayflower,"  and  of 
the  Gushing  family  of  Hingham,  Massachu- 
setts, and  the  Prince  family  that  settled  on 
Prince's  Point,  Portland,  removing  thence  to 
Yarmouth,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Frederick 
George,  born  at  Winterport.  September  16, 
1869,  educated  at  Buckport  Seminary,  Ban- 
gor high  school  and  Bowdoin  College,  class 
of  1892;  1893  to  1898  was  a  reporter  on  the 
Times-Democrat  of  New  Orleans,  returning 
then  to  Bangor  as  telegraph  editor  of  the 
Bangor  Daily  Commercial,  resigning  in  Sep- 
tember, 1907.  Since  then  has  been  traveling 
in  Great  Britain  and  the  continent,  returning 
in  1908.  Is  unmarried.  2.  Carlotta  Mary, 
born  in  Winterport,  December  4,  1873,  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  graduate  of  Welles- 
ley,  class  of  i8g6,  and  of  Johns  Hopkins  Med- 
ical School  in  1901  ;  practiced  with  her  father 
at  Bangor  until  the  spring  of  1907:  married, 
June   19,   1907,  Charles  Henry  Bunting,  then 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


professor  of  pathology  in  the  University  of 
Virginia,  a  fellow  student  at  Johns  Hopkins ; 
he  is  now  professor  of  pathology  at  University 
of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wisconsin,  where  they 
reside.  They  have  one  child,  Elizabeth,  born 
October  ii,   1908. 

The  original  place  of  settle- 
EVERETT  nient  of  the  earliest  immi- 
grants of  the  name  Everett 
was  Kittery  (1640).  Others  of  this  name 
lived  at  Reading  and  Dedham,  Massachusetts, 
the  latter  place  being  a  notable  seat  of  the 
family.  The  Everetts  of  this  sketch,  however, 
seem  to  be  descended  from  a  later  settler  from 
England. 

( I )  A  man  named  Everett  whose  baptismal 
name  was  probably  John  accompanied  the  Al- 
len family,  which  settled  at  Gouldsborough 
Point  in  the  town  of  Gouldsborough.  They 
probably  removed  from  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire,  or  the  vicinity  of  that  place.  Mr. 
Everett  may  have  come  into  this  country  re- 
cently, as  there  is  a  tradition  among  the  old 
inhabitants  of  Gouldsborough  that  he  was 
called  "the  little  Englishman."  He  may  have 
been  a  drum  major,  and  evidently  died  quite 
young  while  fighting  Indians  in  the  west,  per- 
haps in  Ohio.  At  the  time  of  his  death  his 
family  was  in  straitened  circumstances,  as  ap- 
pears from  the  fact  that  his  children  were  sep- 
arated and  brought  up  in  different  families  in 
the  neighborhood  of  their  residence.  John 
Everett  married  a  Miss  Allen,  of  the  family 
with  which  he  went  to  Gouldsborough.  After 
her  husband's  death  Mrs.  Everett  married  a 
Mr.  Chilcott,  from  Iron  Bound  Island,  Mt. 
Desert,  who  was  the  grandfather  of  James 
Chilcott,  long  time  editor  of  the  Ellszcorth 
American.  Mr.  Chilcott  was  living  in  Sulli- 
van in  1838.  The  children  of  John  Everett 
were :     John,  Henry,  Mary  and  Hannah. 

(II)  Henry  was  the  second  son  of  John 
Everett.  The  date  of  his  death  is  not  known. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  and  the  separa- 
tion of  the  family,  Henry  Everett  became  a 
member  of  a  family  named  Moore,  who  lived 
at  Prospect  Harbor,  by  whom  he  was  brought 
up.  At  a  meeting  of  the  freeholders  and  in- 
habitants of  Gouldsborough,  August  26,  1793, 
the  following  record  was  made :  "Upon  the 
constable's  notification,  Henry  Everett  was 
drawn  to  serve  on  the  petit  jury  to  be  holden 
at  Penobscot  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  Sep- 
tember next."  April  7,  1794,  Henry  Everett 
was  elected  one  of  the  hogreeves  of  Goulds- 
borough. June  14,  1794,  Henry  Everett's 
highway   tax   was   assessed    at    five    shillings. 


Ajjril,  1794,  his  tax  was  two  shillings,  two 
and  one-half  pence;  in  March  the  same;  No- 
vember 5,  1795,  his  state  tax  was  twenty-eight 
cents,  and  his  town  ta.x  and  county  tax  each 
the  same.  September  i,  1796,  in  another  dis- 
trict his  highway  tax  was  $1.89;  and  Novem- 
ber 7  of  the  same  year  his  state  and  town  tax 
were  twenty-eight  cents  each.  It  appears  from 
the  record  of  the  commitments  of  highway 
taxes  (1795)  that  he  resided  in  (Abijah) 
Cole's  Ward,  which  included  territory  between 
Prospect  Mill  and  the  country  road.  In  1828, 
or  the  follow'ing,  year,  Henry  Everett  went 
with  Captain  Samuel  Hadlock,  Steve  and  Obed 
Clark  to  St.  Mary's  Bay,  Newfoundland,  in  a 
vessel  called  the  "Minerva.''  As  nothing  was 
ever  heard  of  the  vessel,  it  is  supposed  that 
she  was  lost  with  all  on  board.  June  6,  1813, 
Henry  Everett  and  Sally  (Sarah)  Cole,  born 
March  i,  1793,  were  married  by  Thomas  Hill, 
Esq.  Her  parents  were  Abijah  and  Nancy 
(Williams)  Cole.  Abijah  Cole  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier.  The  children  of  Henry  and 
Sally  were :  Henrietta,  Timothy,  Charlotte, 
Clement.  Eliza  Ann  and  George  Henry. 

(III)  Timothy,  eldest  son  and  second  child 
of  Henry  and  Sally  (Cole)  Everett,  was  born 
in  Prospect  Harbor,  Maine,  October  30,  1819, 
and  sailed  from  Portland  as  captain  of  the 
barque  "Louise''  !March  4,  1869.  The  vessel 
was  lost  with  all  on  board.  He  was  a  sea 
captain,  and  when  home  resided  in  Bath  from 
1845  till  1869.  He  married,  September  4, 
1845,  at  Portland,  Sarah  Love,  born  in  Port- 
land, February  27,  1825,  daughter  of  John 
Bradley  and  Harriet  (Bagley)  Hudson,  of 
Portland.  The  children  of  this  union  were 
five,  two  boys  dying  in  infancy :  Ella  Mar- 
guerita,  Annie  Hay,  Edward  Sewall. 

(IV)  Edward  Sewall,  third  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Timothy  and  Sarah  Love  (Hudson) 
Everett,  was  born  in  Bath,  November  4.  1855,. 
and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
city.  In  1871,  being  then  sixteen  years  of  age, 
he  entered  the  employ  of  W.  F.  Phillips  & 
Company  of  Portland,  wholesale  dealers  in 
drugs  and  medicines,  and  from  that  time  till 
now  he  has  been  with  the  same  establishment, 
in  which  firm  he  was  admitted  partner.  After 
three  years  Mr.  Phillips'  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness was  purchased  by  the  other  members  of 
the  firm  and  April,  1884,  the  name  of  the  firm 
was  changed  to  Cook,  Everett  &  Pennell.  Mr. 
Everett's  energies  have  always  been  directed 
to  the  advancement  of  the  business  in  which 
he  has  been  employed ;  and  in  all  the  fifty-two 
years  of  his  life,  thirty-six  of  which  he  has 
been  in  business,  he  has  never  been  a  member 


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1151 


of  a  secret  society.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, but  he  has  never  considered  his  du- 
ties to  the  public  required  of  him  anything 
beyond  the  casting  of  his  vote  and  the  example 
of  good  citizenship.  He  married,  September 
3,  1879,  Lena  Marston  Josselyn  (see  Alarston 
VIII),  who  was  born  May  27,  1857,  daughter 
of  William  Harrison  and  Mary  (Marston) 
Josselyn,  of  Phillips.  They  have  one  child, 
Harold  Josselyn,  born  October  12,  1883. 


This  name  is  traced  in  Eng- 
MARSTON     lish  history  to  the  time  of  the 

Conquest.  A  Marston  of  no- 
ble lineage,  the  commander  of  an  army  corps, 
came  over  to  England  with  William  the  Con- 
queror in  1066;  and  for  his  military  services  in 
the  Conquest  he  was  granted  large  estates  in 
Yorkshire,  wherein  is  situated  "Marston 
Moor,"  the  famous  battlefield.  Edward  de 
Marston  and  John  de  Marston  are  mentioned 
in  English  records  of  the  thirteenth  century. 
In  1497,  when  Sir  William  Frost  was  mayor 
of  York,  William  Marston  was  one  of  his  tw^o 
sheriffs.  John  Marston  (1575-1634),  a  fa- 
mous dramatic  writer,  was  imprisoned  by  King 
James  i  for  satirizing  the  Scotch  people  in  one 
of  his  plays.  The  original  traits  of  the  Hamp- 
ton Alarstons  are  firmness,  faithfulness,  piety 
and  perseverance ;  and  even  now  these  are 
ruling  principles  in  this  family  of  which  men 
of  high  reputation  and  great  professional  at- 
tainments are  found  in  many  of  the  states. 

(I)  Captain  William  Marston,  a  native  of 
England,  was  born  about  1592,  and  tradition 
makes  Yorkshire  the  county  of  his  birth.  He 
came  to  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  163 1,  with 
his  family  and  was  probably  accompanied  by 
his  two  brothers,  Robert  and  John.  He  re- 
sided in  Salem  about  five  years,  receiving  a 
grant  of  land  from  the  general  court  in  1636, 
but  soon  after  went  to  Newbury  for  a  short 
time,  thence  in  October  to  Winnecunnet, 
where  he  with  fifty-four  others  settled  on  lands 
granted  them  by  the  general  court.  They 
called  their  place  of  settlement  Hampton 
(Norfolk  county),  now  in  New  Hampshire, 
after  the  English  home  of  a  part  of  the  set- 
tlers, and  by  this  name  it  was  incorporated. 
"Land  was  granted  him  as  early  as  June  30, 
1640,"  says  one  authority,  "and  it  is  probable 
that  a  house  lot  had  been  assigned  him  ear- 
lier." He  lived  near  the  present  site  of  the 
town  house.  He  was  a  kind-hearted,  benevo- 
lent and  godly  man,  a  Quaker,  and  suft'ered 
persecutions  for  aiding  and  harboring  his  dis- 
tressed brethren,  and  was  robbed  by  exorbitant 
fines.    October  14,  1657,  William  Marston  pe- 


titioned the  court  at  Hampton  for  the  remis- 
sion of  a  fine  of  fifteen  pounds,  which  had  been 
imposed  on  him  for  having  in  his  possession 
two  books  which  taught  Quaker  doctrines. 
He  died  at  Hampton,  June  30,  1672,  aged 
about  eighty  years.  Some  time  before  his 
death  he  made  a  will  which  he  subscribed  with 
his  mark.  The  inventory  of  his  estate  amount- 
ed to  £123  10  shillings;  and  his  debts  were 
£20.  There  are  reasons  for  believing  that  he 
had  a  wife  living  in  1651,  and  that  she  died 
not  many  years  afterward.  At  his  death  he 
left  a  widow  nametl  Sabina,  who  was  the 
executrix  of  his  will.  She  had  borne  him  one 
child,  but  it  is  evident  that  his  other  children 
were  by  a  former  marriage.  His  widow  mar- 
ried (second)  John  Redman.  His  children, 
the  first  three  born  in  England,  were :  Thom- 
as, William,  John,  Prudence  and  Tryphena. 

(II)  Thomas,  eldest  child  of  Captain  Will- 
iam Marston,  was  born  in  England  (prob- 
ably Yorkshire)  about  May  or  June,  1617, 
and  came  in  1630  to  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
with  his  father,  whom  he  accompanied  to 
Newbury  and  later  to  Hampton.  He  died  in 
the  last  named  town  September  28,  1690,  in 
the  seventy-fourth  year  of  his  age.  He  set- 
tled on  an  estate  where  his  lineal  descendant, 
Jeremiah  Marston,  lately  resided,  which  had 
descended  to  him  in  a  direct  line  from  Thomas 
through  Ephraim,  Jeremiah  ( i ) ,  Jeremiah 
(2).  The  provincial  records  show  him  to  have 
been  capable  and  highly  esteemed,  and  promi- 
nent in  the  town  business  aft'airs.  Thomas 
Marston  married,  in  1647,  Mary  Eston  (Eas- 
ton  or  Eastow),  a  daughter  of  William  Eston. 
The  children  born  to  this  union  were :  Isaac, 
John,  Bethiah,  Ephraim,  James,  Caleb,  Mary, 
Hannah  and  Sarah. 

(HI)  Ephraim,  fourth  child  and  third  son 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Easton)  Marston,  was 
born  in  Hampton,  New"  Hampshire,  August  8, 
1654  (O.  S.),  and  died  of  cancer,  October  10, 
1742.  He  lived  on  the  homestead  devised  to 
him  in  his  father's  will.  He  was  a  farmer, 
and  had  an  orchard  with  a  variety  of  fruits, 
even  at  that  early  day.  He  was  also  a  brewer, 
and  had  his  malt  house  in  the  meeting  house 
green,  nearly  opposite  his  residence.  His  will 
and  deeds  afford  evidence  of  large  holdings 
of  real  estate.  He  deeded  each  of  his  sons  a 
farm  and  settled  them  in  life,  conveying  to 
Jeremiah  the  homestead  and  brewer}-.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  citizens  of  the 
town ;  he  was  representative  to  the  general 
court  several  years :  was  a  government  con- 
tractor ;  and  his  name  appears  often  in  pro- 
vincial documents.     He  married,  Februarv  19, 


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$TATE  OF  MAINE. 


1677,  Abial  Sanborn,  daughter  of  Lieutenant 
John  and  Mary  (Frick)  Sanborn.  She  was 
born  February  25,  1653,  and  died  January  3, 
1743.  Their  children  were:  Abial,  Mary, 
John,  Simon,  I'hebe,  Thomas,  Jeremiah, 
Ephraim  and  Abial  (second).  The  marriage 
of  the  first  Abial,  the  eldest  child,  so  displeased 
her  father  that  he  disowned  her  for  some 
years ;  and  on  the  birth  of  his  youngest  daugh- 
ter named  her  Abial.  But  later  father  and 
daughter  were  reconciled  and  in  his  will  he 
gives  his  "beloved  daughter  Abial  Green  one 
feather  bed  or  £4  money."  This  will  was 
"signed  and  sealed"  "in  the  reign  of  King 
George  II,  9th  year,  Jan.  13,  1736,  A.  D." 

(IV)  Simon,  fourth  child  and  second  son 
of  Ephraim  and  Abial  (Sanborn)  Marston, 
was  born  October  10,  1683,  and  settled  in 
Hampton.  He  died  May  4,  1735.  He  was 
a  prosperous  farmer,  highly  respected  and  a 
prominent  citizen.  He  married,  January  26, 
1705,  Hannah  Carr,  daughter  of  James  and 
Mary  (Sears)  Carr,  of  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts. Their  children  were  :  Jonathan,  Sarah, 
Daniel,  Deborah  and  Simon. 

(V)  Captain  Daniel,  third  child  and  second 
son  of  Simon  and  Hannah  (Carr)  Marston, 
was  born  September  13.  1708.  He  resided  in 
North  Hampton  on  a  farm  given  him  by  his 
father.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  English  Co- 
lonial army  during  the  French  war  and  served 
in  Canada  and  in  Nova  Scotia  with  General 
Loudon.  The  record  of  his  death  in  his  fam- 
ily Bible  is  as  follows :  "This  Bible  of  Daniel 
Marston.  In  the  year  1757  in  the  month  of 
November  a   Freyda  ye  eleventh  about  eight 

of  the  clock  in  ye  eavening  at  in 

the  province  of  the  Meassites  at  the  bowse  of 
John  Taylor  as  innholder,  and  buried  Sunday 
at  the  burying-place  of  the  meeting  house, 
aged  fifty  yeaires  in  the  month  of  September 
the  fourteenth."  Recorded  June  26.  1765.  He 
married  (first),  January  i,  1732,  Anna  Win- 
gate,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  and  Mary 
Wingate,  of  Hampton;  (second)  December 
31,  1735,  Sarah  Clough,  of  Salisbury,  Massa- 
chusetts. His  children,  all  but  the  first  by  the 
second  wife,  were:  Anna  (died  young),  Si- 
mon, Samuel  (died  young),  Daniel,  Samuel, 
Anna,  Robey,  Meriam,  Sarah,  Theodore  and 
David.  Simon,  Samuel,  Theodore  and  David 
were  soldiers  in  the  revolutionary  war.  Simon 
was  a  captain ;  Samuel  died  at  Ticonderoga. 

(VI)  Theodore,  ninth  child  and  sixth 
son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Clough)  Marston, 
was  born  September  28,  it755,  and  died  May 
25,  1830.  He  was  twenty  years  of  age  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  revolutionary  war  in  which 


he  served  at  various  times.  Theodore  Mars- 
ton, as  shown  by  the  New  Hampshire  revolu- 
tionary records,  was  a  private  in  Captain 
Moore's  company  irj  Colonel  John  Stark's  reg- 
iment, in  which  he  enlisted  May  i,  1775;  in 
his  brother  Captain  Simon  Marston's  com- 
pany in  Colonel  Joseph  Senter's  regiment, 
which  was  raised  for  the  defence  of  Rhode 
Island  the  last  half  of  1777  and  into  the  fol- 
lowing year — six  months:  June  22,  1778,  The- 
odore Marston,  of  Deerfield,  was  paid  advance 
wages,  bounty  and  mileage ;  eleven  pounds 
nineteen  shillings  and  sixpence ;  September 
29,  1 781,  Theodore  Marston  enlisted  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Captain  Joseph  Parson's  company, 
Colonel  Runnell's  regiment  of  New  Hamp- 
shire militia,  for  three  years  for  twenty  silver 
dollars  and  a  month,  going  in  the  service  of 
the  town  of  Portsmouth,  marching  October  4. 
He  settled  in  Mount  \'ernon,  Maine,  where 
he  was  a  thrifty  farmer,  pious,  honest  and  ec- 
centric. He  always  asked  the  same  price  for 
his  produce,  whether  it  was  higher  or  lower 
than  the  current  market  price.  When  seed 
was  scarce  he  trusted  the  poor,  but  would  not 
sell  to  the  rich  for  money.  His  daughter  Mi- 
riam spoke  of  him  as  a  very  stern  man  who 
believed  in  work  for  all.  The  family  always 
rose  as  early  as  five  o'clock  in  the  morning. 
He  married,  in  1785,  Joanna  Ladd.  They  had: 
Sarah,  Stephen,  Theodore,  Daniel,  Jeremiah 
(died  young),  Jeremiah  and  Meriam. 

(VII)  Colonel  Theodore  (2),  third  child 
and  second  son  of  Theodore  ( i )  and  Joanna 
(Ladd)  Marston,  was  born  October  17,  1791, 
and  died  in  1862.  At  nineteen  years  of  age  he 
left  home  and  went  to  Phillips,  where  he 
bought  five  hundred  acres  of  forest  land,  upon 
which  he  settled,  and  in  the  course  of  time 
converted  into  a  fine  productive  farm  upon 
which  he  built  a  neat  residence  and  three 
large  barns.  Besides  farming  he  dealt  in 
produce. 

He  was  a  man  of  sterling  integrity  and  one 
of  the  leaders  in  town  affairs,  and  for  years 
was  a  colonel  in  the  militia.  He  married,  in 
1 81 2,  Polly  Sonle.  who  was  born  in  1787,  and 
died  in  1864.  Their  children  were:  Daniel, 
Jeremiah,  and  Mary,  who  is  next  mentioned. 

(VIII)  Mary,  third  and  youngest  child  of 
Colonel  Theodore  and  Polly  (Soule)  Marston, 
was  born  in  Phillips.  May  22.  1818.  and  mar- 
ried. May  I,  1839,  William  Harrison  Josselyn, 
of  Phillips.  Of  this  marriage  were  born  six 
children :  Theodore,  Geneva,  Lewis.  Emma, 
Lena  M.,  and  one  who  died  young.  Lena  M. 
married,  September  3.  1879,  Edward  Sewall 
Everett.     (See  Everett  IV.) 


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1153 


Samuel  Webb,  immigrant  ances- 
WEBB  tor,  was  born  in  Redritif,  near  Lon- 
don, England,  December  25,  i6g6, 
son  of  Captain  Samuel  Webb,  who  was  in  the 
service  under  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  and 
who  was  lost  at  sea  in  1708.  He  was  left  an 
orphan,  his  mother  having  died  in  1706,  two 
years  before  his  father,  and  he  was  "bound 
out"  to  learn  his  trade.  His  master  or  guard- 
ian did  not  allow  him  as  much  liberty  as  he 
desired  and  in  1713  he  ran  away,  taking  pas- 
sage on  a  ship  for  America.  Where  he  went 
first  on  reaching  this  country  is  uncertain.  It 
is  likely  that  he  followed  the  sea  for  a  time. 
In  an  account  of  him  written  by  his  grandson, 
Seth  Webb,  it  is  stated  that  he  landed  in  Rhode 
Island  and  was  taken  into  the  family  of  Mr. 
Mclntyre,  a  blacksmith,  of  Tiverton,  Rhode 
Island,  and  there  learned  his  trade.  While 
his  name  is  not  found  in  the  town  records  of 
Tiverton,  there  is  no  reason  why  it  should  be 
there,  for  he  was  a  minor.  The  town  records 
contain  records  of  birth,  marriage,  death,  elec- 
tions to  public  office,  etc.  The  first  public  rec- 
ord of  him  is  in  Braintree  and  Weymouth, 
giving  his  marriage  September  13,  1721,  to 
Susanna,  born  in  Weymouth,  January  14, 
1702-03,  died  there  December  22,  1724,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Susanna  (Porter)  Randall. 
He  married  (second),  August  11,  1726,  Bethi- 
ah  (Farrow)  Spear,  born  at  Hingham,  No- 
vember 29,  1704,  died  at  Little  Isle  of  Holt, 
November  30,  1770,  daughter  of  John  and 
Persis  (Holbrook)  Farrow,  of  Hingham,  and 
widow  of  David  Spear,  of  Braintree.  These 
marriages  were  performed  by  Rev.  Nehemiah 
Hobart  of  the  Cohasset  parish  and  are  re- 
corded in  the  Weymouth  town  records.  Sam- 
uel Webb  may  have  been  distantly  related  to 
the  other  Webbs  of  Braintree  and  Weymouth. 
It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  he  should 
choose  for  his  residence  on  leaving  Rhode  Is- 
land the  same  town  in  which  Richard  Webb 
settled  as  early  as  1640,  but  a  mile  or  so  from 
the  home  of  Christopher  Webb,  of  Braintree. 
But  a  thorough  search  shows  that  he  was  not 
a  direct  descendant  of  any  of  the  pioneers  of 
this  name.  There  is  no  reason  to  doubt  the 
family  record  of  his  birth  in  England.  About 
1730  Webb  moved  away  from  Weymouth, 
leaving  his  sons  Samuel  and  Thomas  with 
their  grandfather,  John  Randall,  who  was 
chosen  guardian  for  the  son  Samuel,  March 
14,  1736.  according  to  the  Suffolk  probate 
records.  The  history  of  Deer  Isle  states  that 
he  once  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  Salem.  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  in  that  part  of  Falmouth 
now  Westbrook  in  1740.    The  history  of  Gor- 


ham  states  that  he  was  in  Boston  in  1744.  He 
moved  to  what  is  now  Windham  in  1745  and 
settled  on  home  lot  No.  23.  He  was  a  black- 
smith there  and  the  first  schoolmaster.  He 
served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Indian  wars  of 
1747-48  and  in  1757.  He  probably  moved 
from  Windham  to  North  Yarmouth  about 
1760,  and  about  1764  to  Little  Isle  of  Holt. 
After  the  death  of  one  of  his  sons  in  1784 
he  moved  to  Deer  Isle,  where  he  died  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1785.  In  the  burying  ground  of 
North  Weymouth,  Massachusetts,  is  a  large 
granite  monument  erected  by  his  descendants 
over  the  spot  where  his  first  wife  lies  buried, 
and  upon  which  is  the  following  inscription : 
"Samuel  Webb,  son  of  Samuel  Webb,  born  in 
London,  England,  1606,  died  in  Deer  Isle, 
Maine,  Feb.  15,  1785."  Other  family  names 
are  inscribed  thereon,  including  that  of  his 
first  wife.  He  and  his  second  wife  are  buried 
in  the  old  graveyard  at  Deer  Isle.  Children  of 
first  wife:  i.  Samuel,  born  July  31,  1722.  2. 
Thomas,  December  21,  1723,  died  January  31, 
1724.  3.  Thomas,  December  i,  1724.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife :  4.  David,  born  March 
29,  1727.  5.  Susannah,  March  29,  1729.  6. 
Ezekiel.  7.  Seth,  1732.  8.  John.  9.  Eli,  No- 
vember 17,  1737,  mentioned  below.  10.  Eliah 
Adams.  11.  Elizabeth,  June  14,  1744-45.  12. 
James.  13.  Josiah,  January  21,  1745.  14. 
Elizabeth,  i\Iarch  4,  1746-47. 

(II)  Eli,  son  of  Samuel  Webb,  was  born 
November  17,  1737.  He  went  with  his  father 
to  Windham,  where  he  married,  April  20, 
1760,  Sarah,  born  in  Westbrook,  February  5, 
1742,  died  February  28,  1826,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward and  Anna  (Collins)  Cloutman.  Her 
father  operated  the  fir.st  sawmill  at  Presump- 
scot  Lower  Falls.  This  mill  was  burned  by 
the  Indians  in  1741,  and  then  he  moved  by 
boat  to  Stroudwater,  and  from  there  in  1745 
to  Gorham,  and  settled  above  the  village. 
Cloutman  was  a  large  and  powerful  man,  and 
was  much  feared  by  the  Indians.  In  the  spring 
of  1746,  while  sowing  wheat  in  his  field,  he 
was  set  upon  by  a  party  of  savages,  and  after 
a  desperate  resistance  finally  overpowered  and 
carried  as  a  captive  to  Canada.  In  November 
he  escaped  from  captivity  by  digging  under 
the  prison  walls,  but  was  never  afterward 
heard  from.  The  next  year  his  skeleton  was 
found  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Champlain,  where 
he  had  perished.  Edward  Cloutman  was  born 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  February  15,  1714, 
and  married,  in  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  April 
16,  1738,  Anna  Collins,  born  January  16, 
1718,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Sarah  Collins 
of  that  city.     Eli  Webb  spent  his  youth  in  the 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


midst  of  Indian  troubles  and  narrowly  escaped 
capture  when  his  brother  Seth  was  shot  and 
taken  by  the  Indians  in  1750.  Webb  Pond 
in  I'ranklin  county  was  named  by  Seth  and 
Eli  Webb,  who  were  great  hunters  and  often 
went  to  that  vicinity  for  game.  Eli  Webb 
was  a  .soldier  from  Windham  under  Colonel 
Jedediah  Preble  in  1758.  He  was  at  the  at- 
tack on  Ticonderoga,  and  was  with  General 
Howe,  the  commander-in-chief,  when  he  was 
shot,  catching  him  as  he  fell.  He  was  later  a 
member  of  tlie  Rogers  Rangers,  a  select  body 
of  men  employed  as  scouts  under  the  com- 
mand of  the  famous  Captain  Rogers,  of  New 
Hampshire,  and  saw  much  hard  service  while 
in  that  command,  which  lost  so  many  men  in 
skirmishes  that  it  had  to  be  recruited  several 
times.  He  was  also  a  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion. He  settled  in  Windham,  but  afterward 
sold  his  property  there,  and  in  July,  1777, 
moved  to  Gorham  and  was  the  first  of  the 
family  at  Gambo  Falls,  his  farm  being  near 
where  the  powder  mills  now  are.  He  died 
November  26,  1826.  Children:  i.  Edward, 
born  December  z-j,  1760,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Annie,  1763.  3.  Lorana,  1766.  4.  Mary,  1768. 
5.  James.  1770.  6.  Ezekiel,  1773.  7.  Abra- 
ham, 1775.  8.  Seth,  1778.  9.  Rachel,  July  2, 
1781. 

(III)  Edward,  son  of  Eli  Webb,  was  born 
at  Windham,  December  zj,  1760.  He  removed 
to  Gorham,  where  he  died  November  18, 
1846,  and  was  buried  in  Gorham  not  far  from 
Newhall.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution 
under  Captain  Benjamin  Walcott,  Colonel 
Thomas  Marshall's  regiment,  and  served  three 
years.  He  was  in  the  Saratoga  campaign  and 
spent  the  winter  of  1777-78  at  Valley  Forge, 
and  fought  in  the  battle  of  Alonmouth.  He 
married.  May  10,  1787,  Sarah,  born  June  18, 
1761,  died  August  28,  1850,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Bolton,  of  Windham.  Children:  i.  Will- 
iam, born  June  16,  1788,  died  October  5,  1841. 
2.  Lydia,  January  i.  1790.  3.  Asa,  November 
4,  1791.  4.  Eli,  June  30,  1793,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Mary,  July  23.  1795,  died  April  16, 
1834.  6.  Rachel,  February  14,  1797,  died 
March  28,  1822.  7.  James,  March  7,  1798, 
died  1881.  8.  Thomas,  June  14,  1800,  died 
April  17,  1850.  9.  Solomon,  October  30,  1801. 
10.  Sarah.  January  30,  1803. 

(IV)  Eli  (2),  son  of  Edward  Webb,  was 
born  in  Gorham,  June  30,  1793,  died  in  Port- 
land, January  31,  1877.  He  moved  to  Port- 
land when  a  young  man  and  resided  there  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  For  many  years  he  was 
street  commissioner  of  Portland.  He  was  a 
staunch  Whig  and  a  great  admirer  of  Henry 


Clay.  He  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  busi- 
ness life  of  Portland  during  the  early  part  of 
the  last  century.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he 
bought  the  house  at  106  State  street,  which 
was  afterward  called  the  Dean  House,  and 
lived  there  for  some  years.  About  1830  he 
sold  his  State  street  house  and  later  purchased 
a  house  on  Casco  street,  where  he  lived  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  married,  in  Wind- 
ham, January  30,  1820,  Mary,  born  July  26, 
1795,  died  May  5,  i86r,  daughter  of  John  and 
Abigail  (Witham)  Cobby.  Children:  i.  Lu- 
cinda,  born  May  3,  1821.  2.  Ellen,  March  30, 
1823.  3.  Nathan,  May  7,  1825.  4.  Dexter, 
August  6,  1828.  5.  Riason  Greenwood,  July 
24,  1832,  mentioned  below.  6.  George  Dexter, 
May  14,  1835.     7.  Charles  Davidson,  ^lay  17, 

1837; 

(V)  Mason  Greenwood,  son  of  Eli  (2) 
Webb,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  July  24, 
1832.  He  was  for  many  years,  and  until  the 
last  six  months  of  his  life,  engaged  in  business 
on  Commercial  street,  Portland,  as  a  wholesale 
flour  dealer,  at  one  time  being  associated  with 
General  Samuel  J.  Anderson,  the  firm  name 
being  Webb  &  Anderson.  Upon  General  An- 
derson's retirement  to  become  president  of 
the  Portland  &  Ogdensburg  Railroad  Com- 
pany, Air.  Webb  formed  a  partnership  with 
C.  B.  Varney  under  the  firm  name  of  M.  G. 
Webb  &  Company.  This  firm  was  dissolved 
in  1870,  Mr.  Webb  retiring  on  account  of  ill 
health.  The  business  was  continued  under 
the  name  of  C.  B.  \'arney  &  Company,  and 
is  still  being  carried  on  at  the  old  stand.  In 
the  fall  of  '1870  Mr.  Webb  left  Portland,  ho- 
ping to  find  a  more  congenial  climate  in  Kan- 
sas, but  after  six  months'  residence  in  Fort 
Scott,  Kansas,  died  there  March  28,  1871.  He 
married,  in  Portland,  December  4,  1862,  Eliza- 
beth N.,  born  in  Norridgewock,  Maine,  Jan- 
uary II,  1839,  daughter  of  Solomon  W.  and 
Mary  Ann  (Niel)  Bates.  She  still  resides  in 
Portland.  Children:  i.  Richard,  born  No- 
vember 19,  1863,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary, 
December  28,  1865.  3.  Edward  Cloutman, 
October  18,  1867. 

(VI)  Richard,  son  of  Mason  G.  Webb,  was 
born  in  Portland,  November  19,  1863.  He 
graduated  from  Portland  high  school  in  i88i 
and  in  1882  entered  Dartmouth  College  as  a 
sophomore,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1885. 
He  read  law  in  the  office  of  Holmes  &  Pay- 
son  in  Portland,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Cumberland  bar  in  1887.  He  immediately  en- 
tered into  the  general  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, which  he  has  ever  since  carried  on  alone. 
He  was  for  four  years  a  member  of  the  su- 


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perintending  school  committee  of  Portland, 
from  1889  to  1893.  He  was  assistant  county 
attorney  from  1893  to  1897  and  a  member  of 
the  legislature  two  temis,  1899  and  1901,  in 
his  latter  term  being  a  member  of  the  house 
committee  on  apportionment,  and  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  judiciary  committee.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican,  and  in  1908  was  a  delegate 
from  the  first  congressional  district  of  Maine 
to  the  Republican  National  convention  at  Chi- 
cago. He  is  a  member  of  the  Cumberland  Bar 
Association  and  the  American  Bar  Association, 
Maine  Historical  Society,  Maine  Genealogical 
Society,  Loyal  Legion,  Lincoln  Club,  Frater- 
nity Club,  Cumberland  Club,  and  is  president 
of  the  First  Parish  (Unitarian)  Society.  He 
married,  in  Portland,  February  15,  1893,  Sara 
Evenina,  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  May 
17,  1867,  daughter  of  Louis  Drake  and  Isabel 
(Brigham)  Brinckerhoff.  They  have  no  chil- 
dren. 


The  patronymic  assigned  to  this 
WEBB     article  is  scattered  in  every  county 

in  Maine.  Included  among  those 
greatly  distinguished  have  been  Judge  Nathan 
Webb,  of  the  United  States  district  court ; 
Hon.  Lindley  M.  Webb,  and  a  first  lady  in 
the  land  in  the  person  of  Lucy  Webb,  who 
was  the  wife  of  President  Hayes  and  was  of 
Massachusetts  posterity.  It  crisscrossed  way 
back  in  the  eighteenth  century  into  the  family 
of  Benjamin  Franklin,  his  sister  marrying  a 
Webb  and  came  to  Maine  to  reside.  The 
name  colloquially  meant  a  weaver.  The  old 
couplet  ran, 

'■My   wife   was   a   webbe. 
And   woolen   cloth   made." 

In  medieval  records  we  find  the  name  Elyas  le 
Webbe,  hence  it  has  great  historical  reach. 
From  it  comes  the  Webbers  and  Websters. 
Michael  Webb,  who  by  his  name  must  have 
had  an  Irish  mother,  was  in  Bridgton,  whilom 
called  Pondicherry,  Maine,  along  in  1794.  We 
do  not  know  the  name  of  his  wife  unless  it 
may  have  been  the  mother  of  the  next  subject, 
Annie  Leonard,  who  was  from  James  Leon- 
ard, of  Dighton,  Massachusetts,  the  one  who 
received  an  allotment  of  land  by  the  King 
Phillip  deed  in  1672. 

(II)  We  are  assuming,  and  it  by  no  means 
is  a  gratuitous  assumption,  for  Michael  Webb 
was  the  only  male  adult  bearing  the  name  in 
Bridgton  at  the  time  James  Webb  was  born, 
whose  mother  we  know  was  Annie  Leonard, 
was  a  son  of  said  Alichael.  James  was  born 
in   Bridgton,   March    19,   1796,  and  died   No- 


vember 28,  1825.  He  was  tinsmith  by  trade 
and  lived  in  Bucksport,  Maine.  He  married 
Harriett  King  Shaw,  born  July  18,  1800,  whose 
ancestor  was  an  early  settler  in  Portland  and 
was  shot  by  -the  Indians.  They  had  Annie 
Leonard,  who  married  Thomas  C.  Farris,  and 
Jahaziah  S. 

(Ill)  Jahaziah  Shaw,  only  son  of  James 
and  Harriett  K.  (Shaw)  Webb,  was  born  in 
Bucksport,  Maine,  October  28,  1824.  After 
such  schooling  as  the  town  afforded,  he  came 
to  Bangor  in  young  manhood  and  became  a 
confectioner  and  baker.  Subsequently  he  en- 
gaged in  the  cooperage  business,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Farris  &  Webb,  and  for  forty 
years  this  was  one  of  the  most  substantial  and 
solid  firms  of  Bangor ;  they  were  extensive 
manufacturers  of  barrels  and  conducted  a  gen- 
eral cooperage  business.  Mr.  Webb  continued 
in  that  business  until  his  death,  February  11, 
1890.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics.  He 
married,  in  1881,  Evelyn  Treat,  born  near 
Colorado  Springs  in  the  territory  of  Colorado, 
1862,  but  came  east  when  a  child,  daughter  of 
Miles  F.  and  Nancy  (Colburn)  Hartford,  of 
Winterport,  Maine.  Miles  F.  Hartford  was  a 
ship  carpenter  by  trade ;  his  parents  conducted 
farming  operations  near  Unity,  Maine.  Chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webb:  Edwin  J.  S., 
died  at  the  age  of  five ;  ]\Iary  Louise,  Anna 
Leonard  .and  Jahaziah  S.  The  three  latter 
named  reside  with  their  mother  in  Bangor, 
Maine. 


The  name  of  Cram  is  unusual  in 
CRAM     this  country.   It  is  spelled  Cramme 

in  the  early  records.  This  family 
was  among  those  who  settled  in  Maine  before 
the  revolution,  and  though  not  numerous  it  is 
distinguished  for  the  high  average  of  intel- 
ligence of  its  members,  who  in  most  instances 
were  among  the  prominent  citizens  of  the 
localities  they  inhabit. 

(I)  John  Cram,  twelfth  child  of  Burkart 
and  Barbary  Cram,  of  New  Castle-on-Tyne, 
England,  was  born  there,  1607,  emigrated  to 
Boston,  Massachusetts.  1635,  ^'id  'h  1639  was 
with  the  first  settlers  in  Exeter,  New  Hamp- 
shire, being  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Com- 
bination, soon  after  the  settlement  of  that 
town.  In  1650  he  removed  to  Hampton,  and 
settled  on  the  south  side  of  Taylor's  river 
(now  Hampton  Falls),  near  the  site  of  the 
Weare  monument,  and  there  died,  INIarch  5, 
1 68 1.  On  the  books  at  Hampton  Falls  his 
death  is  recorded  thus :  "Good  Old  John 
Cram  one  Just  in  his  Generation."     His  wife, 


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Hester  Cram,  died  at  Hampton  Falls,  May  17, 
1677.  Their  children  were :  Joseph,  Benja- 
min, Thomas,  Mary  and  Lydia. 

(H)  Thomas,  third  son  of  John  and  Hester 
Cram,  was  born  in  Hampton  Falls,  New 
Hampshire,  died  there  between  the  years  1734 
and  1738.  He  married,  December  20,  1681, 
Elizabeth  Weare,  born  in  Newbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  5,  1658,  died  in  Hampton 
Falls  previous  to  1722.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  five  children,  among  whom  was 
Thomas. 

(HI)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (Weare)  Cram,  was  born  in  Hamp- 
ton Falls,  New  Hampshire,  November  g,  1696, 
died  there  in  August,  1751.  He  married  Mary 
Brown,  born  in  Hampton  Falls,  1696,  died 
there,  March  31,  1756.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  ten  children,  among  whom  was  Daniel. 

(IV)  Daniel,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and  Mary 
(Brown)  Cram,  was  born  in  Hampton  Falls, 
New  Hampshire,  March  28,  1724,  died  in 
Standish,  Maine,  March  13,  1815.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Green,  born  in  Hampton  Falls, 
died  in  Standish.  Six  children  were  born  to 
them,  among  whom  was  Levi. 

(V)  Levi,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Green) 
Cram,  was  born  in  Standish,  Maine,  1776, 
died  in  Windham,  Maine,  March  16,  1816. 
He  married,  in  Standish,  December  20,  1801, 
Anna  Butterfield,  born  in  Standish,  November 
5,  1781,  died  in  Windham,  March  25,  1856. 
One  of  their  eight  children  was  Andrew. 

(VI)  Andrew,  son  of  Levi  and  Anna  (But- 
terfield) Cram,  was  born  in  Windham,  Maine,. 
April  8,  i8og,  died  in  Deering,  Maine,  May 
26,  1884.  He'  was  a  merchant  and  farmer 
in  Westbrook  and  Deering.  He  married,  in 
Westbrook,  December  20.  1831,  Caroline 
Estes,  born  in  Falmouth,  Maine,  November 
13,  1813,  died  in  Deering,  February  23,  1872. 
Children:  Orlando  B.,  Algernon  S.,  Mel- 
ville G.,  Abby  C,  married  John  W.  Burrill, 
of  Lynn,  Massachusetts :  Silas  H.,  Andrew  L., 
Charles  F.,  Amanda  E.,  died  unmarried; 
George  E.,  died  in  infancy. 

(VII)  Orlando  Bridgman,  eldest  son  of 
Andrew  and  Caroline  (Estes)  Cram,  was 
born  in  Westbrook,  Maine,  March  13,  1833, 
died  in  Portland,  January  i,  igo6.  He  was 
employed  on  various  railroads  in  Maine,  finally 
entering  the  construction  service  of  the  Maine 
Central,  where  he  remained  nearly  forty-five 
years,  completing  his  fiftieth  year  in  the  rail- 
road service  in  1903.  In  politics  he  was  an 
Independent.  He  was  a  member  of  Maine 
Lodge,  No.  I,  and  Machigonne  Encampment, 
No.    I,   Independent   Order  of  Odd    Fellows, 


and  Rockamucook  Tribe,  No.  22,  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men,  of  Portland.  He  married, 
November  24,  1859,  Lucy  J.,  born  in  Fal- 
mouth, Maine,  June  5,  1834,  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Minerva  (Shaw)  Leighton,  of  Fal- 
mouth.    One  child,  Harry  L. 

(VTII)  Harry  Lorenzo,  only  child  of  Or- 
lando B.  and  Lucy  J.  (Leighton)  Cram,  was 
born  in  Deering,  Maine,  February  7,  1871. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  graduated  from  the  high 
school  in  1888.  Soon  afterward  he  took  a 
position  in  the  office  of  the  Maine  Central 
Railroad  in  Portland,  and  was  in  the  service 
of  that  road  until  1899,  as  a  clerk  and  sten- 
ographer in  the  general  freight  department. 
Afterward  he  was  stenographer  to  Hon. 
Clarence  Hale,  and  while  filling  this  position 
read  law,  and  in  1904  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  since  which  time  he  has  been  in  active 
practise  in  Portland.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. In  1906  he  was  elected  to  the  com- 
mon council  of  Portland,  and  the  following 
year  was  reelected,  and  was  made  president 
of  the  board.  In  1908  he  was  elected  alder- 
man from  Ward  9.  He  is  a  member  of  Deer- 
ing Lodge,  No.  183,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons ;  past  sachem  of  Rockamucook  Tribe, 
No.  22,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men ;  mem- 
ber of  Fraternity  Lodge,  No.  6,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  being  elected  noble 
grand  for  the  year  1909:  member  of  Lebanon 
Commandery,  No.  220,  Knights  of  Malta,  and 
of  the  Economic  Club.  Mr.  Cram  is  interested 
in  church  work,  being  a  member  of  the  Port- 
land Society  of  the  New  Jerusalem.  Mr. 
Cram  married,  in  Portland,  September  24, 
1895,  Florence  Bertha,  born  in  Portland, 
April  25,  1870,  daughter  of  James  and  Mar- 
garet J.  (Sawyer)  Greenhalgh.  One  child, 
Edith  Greenhalgh,  born  March  30,  1897. 


The   Scottish   element   in   Amer- 
ALLAN     ican   history   has   been   dominant 

on  every  battle  plain  of  the  Re- 
public. The  distinguishing  traits  of  the 
Scotch  are  grit  and  hard-headedness.  The 
motto  of  one  of  the  clans  was  "Hold  fast,  hold 
firm,  and  hold  long."  These  qualities  of  ad- 
hesiveness to  an  ideal  are  what  makes  the 
Scotch  people  so  successful  in  a  land  respon- 
sive to  well-directed  industry. 

(I)  Major  William  Allan  was  born  in 
Scotland  in  1720,  and  came  to  Halifax,  Nova 
Scotia,  in  1749,  and  died  there  in  1790,  a 
septuagenarian.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  Brit- 
ish army.  The  French  name  of  Nova  Scotia 
was  Acadia,  meaning  a  pollock,  and  when  the 


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territory  was  granted  to  Sir  William  Alexan- 
der, secretary  of  state  for  Scotland,  it  was 
called  by  its  present  name.  IMajor  Allan,  ta- 
king his  young  wife  and  two  children,  went 
to  fhis  new  land  of  promise,  hoping  to  better 
his  condition.  He  served  as  an  officer  in  the 
French  war  from  1754  to  1763,  and  received 
a  large  grant  of  fertile,  alluvial  land,  which 
the  poor,  deported  Acadians  had  with  much 
labor  banked,  in  order  to  protect  it  from  the 
inroads  of  the  bay.  In  a  few  years  he  became 
wealthy  and  prosperous,  his  labor  being  per- 
formed by  the  Acadians,  who  for  a  time  be- 
came servants  of  the  conquerors.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  colonial  legislature,  and  his 
children  became  connected  by  intermarriage 
with  the  best  families  of  the  province.  In  re- 
ligion he  was  an  Episcopalian,  and  was  a  man 
of  energy  and  intelligence.  He  married  Isa- 
belle,  daughter  of  Sir  Eustace  JMaxfield.  Chil- 
dren :  John,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  William,  James, 
Jean,  Winkworth  and  Isabelle. 

(II)  Colonel  John,  eldest  son  of  Major 
William  and  Isabelle  (Maxfield)  Allan,  was 
born  in  Edinburgh  Castle,  Scotland,  January 
3,  1746,  whither  his  parents  had  repaired  for 
refuge  during  the  rebellion.  The  youth  was 
brought  by  his  father  to  Halifax  when  three 
years  old.  It  is  intimated  that  he  received  his 
education  in  Massachusetts,  as  he  was  thor- 
oughly educated  according  to  the  standard  of 
that  time.  During  the  events  leading  up  to 
the  moving  of  the  Acadians,  many  Bostonian 
gentlemen  went  to  Nova  Scotia  on  business, 
and  it  is  thought  quite  likely  that  a  man  of 
Major  Allan's  means  would  be  desirous  to 
have  his  ambitious  son  well  educated,  and  it 
was  during  his  residence  in  Massachusetts 
that  he  probably  imbibed  his  liberal  notions  of 
self-government,  and  was  how  he  later  was 
led  to  side  with  the  colonists  in  their  troubles. 
The  father  probably  placed  John  in  charge 
of  one  of  the  Massachusetts  men  who  came  to 
Cumberland  with  General  Winslow.  His 
father  gave  him  a  part  of  his  large  domain 
in  Cumberland  county,  which  was  called  "In- 
vermary."  It  was  located  seven  miles  from 
Fort  Cumberland,  on  the  Bay  Verte  road. 
Besides  his  own  mansion,  there  were  smaller 
ones  for  the  Acadian  peasants  who  did  the 
work.  He  was  clerk  of  the  sessions,  and  clerk 
of  the  supreme  court,  and  representative  to 
the  provincial  assembly  until  his  seat  was  for- 
feited by  non-attendance.  John  was  born 
amid  tumultuous  surroundings  in  old  Scot- 
land, and  his  whole  life  was  pre-eminently  a 
military  one,  striving  for  the  life  of  the  na- 
tion in  which  he  had  cast  his  lot.     Mr.  Allan 


was  an  outspoken  man,  and  his  open  expres- 
sion of  sympathy  with  the  Americans  brought 
him  direful  consequences,  and  he  was  driven 
from  his  patrimonial  estate,  seeking  an  asylum 
in  the  United  States.  He  took  his  final  de- 
parture from  his  favorite  Cumberland,  Au- 
gust 3,  1776,  in  an  open  boat,  with  a  few 
companions,  the  party  encountering  a  stormy 
passage  along  the  Bay  of  Fundy.  On  the 
13th  they  entered  Machias  harbor,  and  were 
warmly  welcomed  by  the  inhabitants  thereof. 
In  November  he  went  by  boat  to  Portsmouth,. 
New  Hampshire,  and  thence  by  stage  to  Bos- 
ton. He  there  conversed  with  the  patriot 
Samuel  Adams,  and  proceeded  to  New  York 
on  horseback,  where  he  had  an  interview  with 
Washington.  His  journey  was  beset  with 
many  dangers,  as  the  country  was  full  of 
Tory  soldiers.  He  was  received  by  congress 
in  session  at  Baltimore,  by  whom  he  was  ap- 
pointed superintendent  of  the  eastern  Indians, 
and  colonel  of  infantry.  Having  received  full 
instructions  from  John  Hancock,  he  left  for 
Boston  on  the  17th  of  March.  Murdock,  the 
historian  of  the  province,  says  of  him :  "If  the 
traditions  I  have  heard  about  John  Allan  are 
correct,  he  could  not  have  been  much  over 
tzventv-onc  years  old  in  1775.  As  he  had  no 
New  England  ancestors,  his  escapade  must  be 
attributed  to  ambition,  romance  or  pure  seal 
for  idiat  he  thought  was  just  and  right.  For 
the  feelings  against  the  crown  in  Nova  Sco- 
tia, in  1775,  were  confined  to  the  Acadian 
French,  who  resented  their  conquest,  the  In- 
dians who  were  attached  to  them  by  habit  and 
creed,  and  the  settlers  who  were  emigrants 
from  New  England." 

After  his  departure.  Colonel  Allan's  house 
in  Cumberland  was  burned  by  the  British, 
with  all  its  contents.  His  family,  consisting 
of  a  wife  and  five  little  ones,  fled  from  the 
scene  of  devastation  with  scarcely  any  cloth- 
ing, and  hid  themselves  in  the  woods  three 
days  without  food.  Mrs.  Allan  crawled  up  to 
the  smoking  ruins  of  her  once  happy  home, 
and  found  some  potatoes  baked,  or  rather 
burned.  On  these  she  and  her  children  sub- 
sisted till  found  by  her  father,  Mark  Patton,, 
who  took  them  home.  His  house  was  sur- 
lounded  by  the  British,  who  demanded  the 
immediate  surrender  of  the  rebel's  wife.  She 
was  carried  to  Halifax  a  prisoner,  leaving 
their  children  with  their  grandfather.  She 
was  taken  before  the  governor,  who  demanded 
that  she  reveal  her  husband's  hiding-place.  She 
absolutely  refused  for  several  days,  but  finally 
told  her  persecutors  that  he  had  escaped  "to 
a  free  country."     She  was  confined  in  durance 


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vile  for  eight  months,  separated  from  her  hus- 
band and  children.  She  was  small  in  stature, 
delicate  in  constitution,  and  ill  adapted  to  bear 
such  rough  usage.  She  often  was  insulted 
and  suffered  from  the  insolence  and  brutality 
of  her  keepers.  Colonel  Allan  organized  the 
expedition  up  the  St.  Johns  river  for  the  pur- 
pose of  ascertaining  the  condition  of  the  In- 
dians and  making  them  allies.  He  fought  the 
battle  of  Machias,  August  13,  1777.  He  kept 
a  depot  of  supplies  at  Machias  for  the  Indians, 
and  the  set  of  books  in  which  he  kept  the  ac- 
counts with  each  tribe  are  in  the  archives  of 
Massachusetts.  As  the  supplies  were  some- 
times short,  he  was  obliged  to  deny  the  In- 
dians and  his  life  was  often  in  danger. 
Hardly  any  situation  could  be  more  precarious 
than  having  to  appease  a  lot  of  half-starved 
Indians  and  keeping  them  loyal  to  our  side 
when  the  British  emissaries  were  sending  them 
messages  and  offering  them  everything  they 
wanted  if  they  would  join  the  Royalists.  It 
is  impossible  to  estimate  the  importance  of 
Colonel  Allan's  work  in  this  department  and 
his  diplomacy  and  tact  in  dealing  with  the 
iconoclastic  redskins.  It  averted  us  much 
bloodshed,  and  saved  the  East  from  falling 
into  the  hands  of  the  British.  In  the  fall  of 
1780  a  famine  seemed  imminent  at  Machias, 
supplies  were  not  forthcoming.  Colonel  Al- 
lan had  sent  in  vain  to  Boston,  his  letters  to 
the  government  were  numerous  and  urgent, 
and  the  Indians  were  threatening  to  desert. 
Finally  he  went  to  Boston,  in  the  hope  to  re- 
lieve the  delicate  situation.  He  left  his  sons, 
William  and  Mark,  as  hostage.  They  re- 
mained with  the  Indians  a  year  or  more,  liv- 
ing on  fish  and  parched  corn.  They  suffered 
many  hardships,  and  were  in  a  wretched  con- 
dition when  they  finally  reached  civilization, 
ragged,  dirty  and  covered  with  vermin.  The 
boys  were  great  favorites  with  the  Indians, 
learned  their  language,  and  always  had  an 
attachment  for  them  in  after  years,  and  aided 
them  in  many  ways.  The  British  were  very 
bitter  against  the  colonel,  and  often  sought 
his  life.  An  attack  was  made  upon  him  at 
Machias,  in  the  house  now  occupied  by  Oba- 
diah  Hill,  by  an  Indian  incited  by  the  English. 
A  friendly  Indian  came  into  the  room  where 
Colonel  Allan  was  seated,  and  soon  another 
Indian  came  in,  and,  advancing  toward  the 
colonel,  brandished  a  huge  dirk  knife.  The 
friendly  Indian,  who  had  foreknowledge  of  the 
affair,  sprang  from  behind  the  door  and  felled 
the  hired  assailant.  The  Indians  frequently 
baffled  the  English  in  their  attempts  to  cap- 
ture him. 


In  1784  he  began  a  mercantile  business  on 
Allan  island,  near  Lubec.  This  was  not  suc- 
cessful, as  his  generosity  of  heart  led  him  to 
trust  everybody.  In  1792  twenty-two  thou- 
sand acres  of  wild  land  were  granted  him  by 
the  government  of  Massachusetts,  now  the 
town  of  Whiting,  ]Maine,  but  the  family  never 
realized  much  from  it.  The  colonel  had  been 
greatly  impoverished  by  the  war,  and  felt  the 
pinch  of  poverty  in  his  declining  years.  In 
1801  congress  conveyed  to  him,  on  his  repre- 
sentation that  he  had  lost  ten  thousand  dollars 
by  joining  the  American  cause,  two  thousand 
acres  of  land  in  Ohio,  where  the  city  of  Col- 
umbus now  stands,  but  this,  like  the  other 
grant,  proved  of  little  value  to  the  family, 
owing  to  its  remoteness  and  they  having  dis- 
posed of  it  too  early.  The  colonel  was  in- 
terested in  the  adoption  of  the  federal  con- 
stitution, and  worked  assiduously  for  it,  and 
was  particularly  concerned  in  the  eastern 
boundary  dispute,  always  contending  that  the 
iMagaguadavic  was  the  true  St.  Croix,  and 
was  much  dissatisfied  with  the  settlement  of 
the  line,  believing  that  the  island  of  Grand 
Manan  should  have  gone  to  the  United  States. 
In  personal  appearance  he  was  tall,  straight  as 
a  gun-barrel,  and  inclined  to  portliness  in 
his  later  years.  He  had  dark-brown  hair  and 
blue  eyes.  His  religion  was  the  Sermon  on 
the  Mount,  carried  into  practical,  every-day 
life.  He  died  February  7,  1805,  nearly  a 
sexagenarian,  and  was  buried  under  the  old 
elms  and  spreading  chestnut-trees  on  the  island 
in  Lubec  harbor  on  which  he  had  lived,  and 
which  bears  his  name.  Over  thirty  of  his 
descendants  served  in  the  Union  army  during 
the  civil  war.  Of  his  great  services  in  hold- 
ing together  the  Indians  for  our  side,  nobody 
disputes,  and  he  is  among  the  revolutionary 
worthies  entitled  to  the  lasting  gratitude  of 
his  countrymen. 

(III)  Mark,  second  son  of  Colonel  John 
and  Mary  (Patton)  Allan,  was  born  in  Cum- 
berland, Nova  Scotia,  March  31,  1770,  and 
died  September  22,  1818.  As  a  youth,  he 
shared  with  his  mother  many  hardships  in 
Nova  Scotia,  and  was  a  hostage  with  the  In- 
dians during  his  father's  journey  to  Boston  to 
obtain  needed  supplies  for  the  starved  red- 
skins. He  learned  their  woodland  ways  and 
their  language,  and  was  ever  their  friend  and 
counselor.  He  married  Susan  Wilder,  born 
in  1774,  died  in  1852.  Children:  Susan, 
Anna,  Marv,  Lydia,  Elizabeth.  Jane,  John, 
Theophilus 'Wilder.  Sally.  William.  Patton, 
Abigail  and  Ebenezer. 

(IV)  Theophilus    Wilder,    second    son    of 


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Mark  and  Susan  (Wilder)  Allan,  was  born 
April  28,  1804,  and  was  a  lumber  manufac- 
turer. He  was  of  an  upright  and  exemplary 
character,  and  was  a  follower  of  Thomas 
Barnes,  who  first  preached  Universalism  in 
Aiaine.  He  married  Martha  R.  Sargent,  of 
Portland,  Maine,  born  in  1808,  died  in  1865. 
Children :  Nelson  S.,  Martha  Ann,  Theo- 
philns,  Harriet  L.,  who  married  the  Rev.  A.  J. 
Rich,  and  was  mother  of  Edgar  J.  Rich,  gen- 
eral counsel  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  rail- 
road ;  John  Davis,  Susannah,  Elizabeth  L.  and 
William  R. 

(V)  John  Davis,  third  son  of  Theophilus 
W.  and  Martha  R.  (Sargent)  Allan,  was  born 
in  Dennysville,  Maine,  March  11,  1839.  His 
schooling  was  acquired  in  his  native  town 
and  at  the  academy  at  Milltown,  New  Bruns- 
wick. He  worked  for  his  father  in  the  lum- 
ber business  as  a  clerk  until  i860.  In  1865  he 
went  into  the  hotel  and  livery  business,  and 
operated  stage-lines  from  Cherryfield  to  East- 
port.  In  January,  1902,  he  purchased  a  tract 
of  land  and  sawmill  and  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  lumber  until  1906.  Since  1906  he 
has  been  out  of  active  business,  and  is  en- 
joying a  limited  leisure  at  his  beautiful  home 
at  Dennysville,  surrounded  by  every  comfort. 
He  is  a  member  of  Crescent  Lodge,  F.  and  A. 
M.,  of  Pembroke;  a  Republican  in  politics. 
He  married  (first)  ■Margaret  S.,  daughter  of 
John  H.  Hersey,  of  Pembroke,  Alaine.  July 
15.  i860:  she  died  in  1873.  Married  (second) 
in  1874,  Emma  J.,  daughter  of  Levi  K.  Cor- 
thell,  of  Addison,  Maine ;  she  died  in  Decem- 
ber, 1903.  Married  (third)  October  19,  1904, 
Mrs.  Nellie  S.  Hussey,  of  California,  who 
was  a  Dyer  before  marriage ;  she  was  born 
in  Unity,  Maine,  March  20,  1849;  she  had 
one  son  by  her  first  husband,  Ralph  H.  Hus- 
sey, who  married  IMargarct  Gordon  ;  resides 
at  Tonopah,  Nevada.  Children  of  John  Davis 
and  Emma  J.  (Corthell)  Allan:  i.  Herbert 
Hayes,  see  forvi'ard.  2.  Fannie  Louise,  born 
in  September,  1881,  died  1897.  3-  Walter 
Maxwell,  born  in  January,  1886. 

(VI)  Herbert  Hayes,  eldest  son  of  John 
Davis  and  Emma  J.  (Corthell)  Allan,  was 
born  in  January,  1877,  and  is  known  in  that 
part  of  the  state  as  "the  potato  king."  He 
married  into  an  old  Denneysville  familv,  the 
Kilbys,  his  wife's  name  being  Deborah,  and 
they  have  no  children.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Maine  legislature  in  1904-06,  as  a  Democrat, 
his  district  being  strongly  Republican :  this 
was  considered  a  great  compliment  and  at- 
tests his  popularity  in  his  own  town,  to  whose 
interests  he  is  actively  devoted. 


An  ancient  New  England 
TILLSON  name  is  found  in  the  early 
records  with  the  spelling  as 
above  given,  and  also  Tilson,  the  latter  pre- 
dominating among  the  first  generations.  In 
the  line  herein  treated  the  spelling  at  the  head 
of  this  article  was  adopted  in  the  present  gen- 
eration. The  family  is  supposedly  of  English 
or  Scotch  origin,  but  nothing  appears  in  the 
records  to  show  whence  it  came  to  this  coun- 
try. It  has  been  identified  with  the  progress 
and  development  of  New  England  and  of  the 
nation  in  full  proportion  to  its  numerical 
strength. 

(I)  Edmund  Tilson  is  first  found  in  Plym- 
outh, Massachusetts,  in  1643,  but  there  is  no 
record  of  the  family  name  of  his  wife  Joan. 
His  known  children  were :  JNIary,  Ephraim, 
Elizabeth  and  Joan. 

(LI)  Ephraim,  elder  son  of  Edmund  Til- 
son, is  given  in  Davis'  "Ancient  Landmarks 
of  Plymouth"  as  the  presumptive  father  of 
the  next  mentioned. 

(III)  Edmund  (2),  presumably  the  son  of 
Ephraim  Tilson,  resided  in  Plymouth  and  was 
married,  in  1691,  to  Elizabeth  Watenftan,  and 
their  children  included  John,  Edmund,  Jo- 
anna, Mary,  Elizabeth  and  Ruth.  He  mar- 
ried, second,  in  1707,  Hannah  Orcut,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  Samuel  and  James. 
His  third  wife,  Deborah,  bore  him  Stephen 
and   Hannah. 

(IV)  John,  eldest  child  of  Edmund  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Waterman)  Tilson,  was  born  1692 
in  Plymouth,  and  had  a  wife  named  Joanna. 
Their  children  of  record  were:  Joseph,  Ben- 
jamin, Mary,  Joanna,  John,  Ephraim  and 
Mary. 

(V)  John  (2),  youngest  son  of  John  (i) 
and  Joanna  Tilson,  was  born  1725,  probably 
in  Piympton,  and  settled  in  that  part  of  the 
town  which  became  a  portion  of  Halifax, 
where  he  was  undoubtedly  a  farmer,  and  died 
March  28,  1790.  His  intention  of  marriage 
was  published  at  Halifax,  June  30,  1751,  and 
on  the  nth  of  November,  following,  the  wed- 
ding took  place,  the  bride  being  Mercy  Stur- 
tevant.  Their  children  of  record  were :  John, 
William,  Mercy,  Perez  and  Lydia.  The 
youngest  son  died  when  a  little  more  than  one 
year  old,  and  there  is  no  record  of  any  other 
of  the  name  in  Halifax,  but  it  is  extremely 
probable  that  they  had  another  of  the  same 
name  which  failed  to  get  on  the  records,  or 
may  have  been  born  in  another  town. 

(VI)  Perez  Tilson  was  a  resident  of 
Thomaston,  Maine,  and  the  records  of  that 
town  show  that  he  w-as  born  in  1765,  in  Hali- 


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fax,  Massachusetts.  There  can  be  Httle  doubt 
that  he  was  a  son  of  John  and  Mercy  (  Sturte- 
vant)  Tilson.  as  there  appears  no  record  of 
another  family  in  that  town  at  that  time.  He 
settled  in  Thomaston,  Maine,  in  May,  1795, 
and  was  actively  identified  with  the  church 
there,  and  is  spoken  of  in  Thomaston  as 
Deacon  Perez.  He  was  married  (first)  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1797,  in  Thomaston,  to  Melinda 
Fales,  whose  death  does  not  appear  of  record. 
His  intention  of  a  second  marriage  to  Mrs. 
Lucy  Holmes  was  published  in  Thomaston, 
October  28,  1831.  and  no  doubt  the  wedding 
took  place  in  due  time.  He  died  October  5, 
1852,  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years.  His 
children  were:  Myra,  Melinda  F.,  Perez.  Han- 
nah. Colonel  Edward  C.  and  Captain  Charles. 

(VH)  Perez  (2),  eldest  son  of  Perez  (i) 
and  Melinda  (Fales)  Tilson,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 21,  1 80 1,  in  Thomaston,  where  his  life  was 
spent  engaged  in  farming.  He  was  married 
(first)  November  16,  1825,  to  Ruth  W.  Sweet- 
land,  of  Hope,  Maine,  and  married  (second) 
in  1833,  Martha  Sawyer,  of  Cape  Elizabeth, 
who  died  December  5,  1845.  Fie  married 
(third  )*June  g,  1847,  Harriet  Collins,  of  Port- 
land. The  children  of  the  second  marriage 
were :  Ruth,  Joanna  F.,  Perez,  Henry  and 
Ethan.  By  the  third  marriage  were  born 
George  C.  (died  young),  John  S.,  George  VV. 
and  Harriet  C. 

(VIII)  George  William  Tillson,  youngest 
son  of  Perez  (2)  Tilson  and  his  thirtl  wife, 
Harriet  (Collins)  Tilson,  was  born  December 
18,  1852,  in  Thomaston,  Maine,  where  he 
passed  his  boyhood,  passing  through  the  pub- 
lic schools,  including  the  high  school,  of  his 
native  town.  He  graduated  from  Bowdoin 
College  as  a  civil  engineer  in  1877,  and  for  a 
few  years  in  early  life  was  chiefly  engaged  in 
teaching  in  Maine  and  Massachusetts.  Fle 
was  subsequently  employed  as  an  engineer  in 
sewer  work  in  RIemphis,  Tennessee,  in  1880. 
In  1881  he  planned  and  superintended  the 
■construction  of  the  sewer  system  of  Kalama- 
zoo, Michigan,  and  before  the  close  of  that 
year  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  and  continued 
there  until  1887,  in  charge  of  pavement  ami 
sewer  construction.  Fie  served  as  city  engi- 
neer of  that  city  from  1887  to  1892,  and  from 
the  latter  year  to  1895  was  engaged  in  en- 
gineering and  construction  work  in  Nebraska, 
Wyoming  and  Colorado.  In  1895  he  was  ap- 
pointerl  assistant  engineer  of  the  department 
of  public  works  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and 
in  1902  was  appointed  chief  engineer  of  the 
bureau  of  highways.  In  June,  1907,  he  was 
appointed    chief    engineer    of    the    bureau    of 


highways,  borough  of  Manhattan,  and  has 
since  filled  that  position.  That  Mr.  Tillson  is 
a  skilful  and  successful  member  of  his  pro- 
fession is  shown  by  his  association  with  the 
leading  organizations,  including  the  American 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  of  which  he  is  a 
director,  and  is  president  of  the  American  So- 
ciety of  Municipal  Improvements.  He  is  a 
member  and  past  president  of  the  Municipal 
Engineers  of  the  city  of  New  York,  also  the 
Brooklyn  Engineers'  Club,  and  is  president  of 
the  Midwood  Club  of  Flatbush,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  and  also 
of  Zeta  Psi.  He  is  the  author  of  "Street 
Pavements  and  Paving  Materials,"  a  standard 
work  of  five  hundred  pages,  published  in  1900 
by  John  Wiley  &  Sons,  and  is  also  a  frequent 
contributor  to  engineering  periodicals  and  so- 
cieties on  street  and  highway  matters. 

He  was  married  October  5,  1887,  at  Lan- 
caster, New  Flampshire,  to  Mary  E.  Abbott, 
of  that  place,  a  daughter  of  Isaac  E.  and  Edna 
(Flill)  Abbott,  of  old  New  England  families. 
They  have  a  daughter,  Madalene  Abbott,  born 
September  20,   1888. 


John  Kilby,  of  Boston,  by  wife, 
KILBY  Rebecca  (Simpkins)  Kilby,  had 
eleven  children  born  in  Boston, 
as  follows:  i.  Elizabeth,  December  15,  1686. 
2.  John,  December  24,  1688.  3.  Sarah,  March 
8,  1691-92.  4.  Christopher,  December  9,  1693, 
died  young.  5.  Richard  (q.  v.),  January  2, 
1694-95.  6.  William,  April  6,  1696-97.  7. 
Catherine,  February  10,  1699-1700.  8.  Re- 
becca, March  30,  1702.  9.  Christopher,  May 
25,  1705.  10.  Nicholas,  July  28,  1708.  11'. 
Ebenezer,  June  25,  171 1. 

(II)  Richard,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
John  and  Rebecca  (Simpkins)  Kilby,  was 
born  in  Boston,  January  2,  1694-95.  He  mar- 
ried. May  14,  1 719,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel and  Elizabeth  (Thaxter)  Gushing,  of 
Hingham,  Massachusetts.  She  was  born  in 
Hingham,  January  i,  1699-1700,  and  after 
her  husband's  death  she  was  married,  May 
10,  1739,  to  William  Stetson.  Richard  Kilby 
was  a  master  mariner,  and  died  shortly  after 
returning  from  Jainaica,  West  Indies,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1736.  He  resided  in  the  second  pre- 
cinct of  Hingham  and  was  only  thirty-nine 
years  of  age  wdien  he  died.  Children,  born  in 
Hingham:  i.  Catherine,  April  26,  1720,  mar- 
ried, March  26,  1745,  Daniel  Lincoln.  2.  John, 
May  14,  1722.  3.  William,  March  23,  1723- 
24,  died  May  20,  1725.  4.  William  (q.  v.), 
baptized  July  17,  1726.  5.  Gushing,  March 
24.   1727-28.     6.   Nathaniel  Gushing,  January 


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2.  1730-31,  died  1732.  7.  Sarah,  February  17, 
1736-37.  8.  Abigail,  twin  of  Sarah,  died  Au- 
gust 14,  1737. 

(Ill)  WiUiam,  third  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Richard  and  Abigail  (Gushing)  Kiiby,  was 
baptized  July  17,  1726.  His  mother  was  born 
in  Hingham,  but  he  probably  settled  in  Co- 
hasset,  Vvfliere  his  son  William  was  born  in 
1763.  This  is  the  more  probable,  as  the  his- 
tory of  the  town  of  Hingham,  published  by  the 
town  in  1893,  gives  the  date  of  his  baptism, 
but  no  account  of  his  life  beyond  that  event. 

(I\')  William  (2),  probably  eldest  son  of 
William  (i),  and  grandson  of  Richard  and 
Abigail  (Gushing)  Kilby,  was  born  in  Co- 
hasset,  Massachusetts,  in  1763.  He  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  and  removed  to  Dennys- 
ville,  Washington  county,  district  of  Maine, 
in  1787.  There  he  married  ]\Iary,  daughter  of 
Gaptain  Theophilus  and  Lydia  (Gushing) 
Wilder,  born  in  Dennysville  in  1768,  and 
their  children  were  born  in  that  town.  He 
was  clerk  of  the  town  for  many  years,  and 
also  served  as  selectman,  town  treasurer  and 
postmaster.  Ghildren :  i.  William,  born  1789, 
married  his  cousin,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Ebe- 
nezer  G.  and  Abigail  (Ayer)  Wilder.  2.  Dan- 
iel, 1 79 1,  married  Joanna,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Joanna  (Hersey)  Hobart,  born  1799.  3. 
John,  1793,  married  Lydia  G.  Hierd,  daughter 
of  Ebenezer  G.  and  Abigail  (Ayer)  Wilder, 
born  1797.  4.  Mary,  1795,  married  Aaron, 
eldest  child  of  Isaac  and  Joanna  (Hersey) 
Hobart.  5.  Theophilus  (q.  v.),  1797.  6. 
Sarah,  1799,  died  1806.  7.  Benjamin,  1801, 
married  (first)  Eliza  Rice,  (second)  M.  H. 
Stoddard.  8.  Sarah,  1807,  died  1827.  9. 
Lydia  C.,  1809,  married  John . 

(V)  Theophilus,  fourth  son  and  fifth  child 
of  William  and  Mary  (Wilder)  Kilby,  was 
born  in  Dennysville,  Maine,  in  1797.  He  mar- 
ried Deborah,  born  March  24,  1796,  daughter 
of  Crocker  and  Deborah  (Jacob)  Wilder,  of 
Hingham,  Massachusetts,  April  27,  1822. 
Ghildren,  born  in  Dennysville,  Washington 
county,  Maine:  i.  Gharlcs  (q.  v.),  1823.  2. 
Alden,    1824,    married    (first)    Lucy    Bugbee. 

3.  Martha  C.,   1826,  married  Edwin  Towers. 

4.  Sarah  C.,   1830,  married  Horlich  Totman. 

5.  Francis,  1832.  6.  Alfred,  1837,  married 
Adaline  (Eastman)  Jones.  7.  Theophilus, 
1841. 

(VI)  Gharles  Henry,  eldest  child  of  Theo- 
philus and  Deborah  (Wilder)  Kilby,  was  born 
in  Dennysville,  Maine,  in  1823.  He  married 
Julia  E.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Joanna 
(Foster)  Foster,  of  East  Machias,  Maine. 
Joanna  Foster  was  a  granddaughter  of  Golo- 


nel  Benjamin  Foster,  niece  of  Samuel  Foster, 
father  of  Benjamin,  who  came  to  Dennysville, 
Maine,  in  1824.  Ghildren  of  Gharles  Henry 
and  Deborah  (Wilder)  Kilby  were  born  in 
Dennysville,  Maine,  as  follows:  i.  Benjamin 
Foster  (q.  v.),  March  i,  1852.  2.  Gharles 
Henry,  July  3,  1853,  a  resident  of  South 
Portland,  Maine.  3.  Emily  Ursulla,  October 
30,  1856,  married  Howard  H.  Kilby,  of  Den- 
nysville. 4.  Herbert,  July  8,  i860,  married 
Hattie  Pike  and  lives  at  Eastport,  Maine. 

(VII)  Benjamin  Foster,  eldest  child  of 
Gharles  Henry  and  Julia  E.  (Foster)  Kilby, 
was  born  in  Dennysville,  Maine,  Alarch  i, 
1852.  He  attended  the  public  schools,  worked 
on  a  farm  and  in  the  mills.  He  then  engaged 
in  the  retail  boot  and  shoe  business  on  his  own 
account  at  Eastport,  Maine,  which  business  he 
carried  on  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  ap- 
pointed to  service  in  the  United  States  cus- 
tom house  at  Eastport,  and  held  his  office 
1889-94,  and  in  1894  he  became  purchasing 
agent  for  the  Sea  Coast  Packing  Company  of 
that  city.  In  1898  he  resigned  from  the  pac- 
king company,  to  accept  from  Governor  Cobb 
the  office  of  register  of  deeds  for  Washington 
county  to  fill  a  vacancy,  and  this  appointment 
caused  him  to  remove  his  residence  to  Machias. 
He  was  elected  to  the  office  by  the  people  at 
the  general  election  of  1906.  In  1883  he  was 
elected  as  representative  in  the  Maine  legisla- 
ture. While  a  resident  of  Eastport  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  trade  of  that 
city.  His  fraternal  affiliation  with  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternity  began  in  Eastport  Lodge,  No. 
7,  and  he  was  advanced  to  the  Royal  Arch 
Chapter,  No.  10.  His  religious  faith  made 
him  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  church.  He 
was  married.  December  19,  1877,  ^o  Lucy 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Levi  K.  and  Mary  Gor- 
thell,  of  Dennysville,  Maine.  Ghildren:  i. 
Edith  Lucy,  born  December  10,  1879,  married 
Charles  Carroll  Rumery,  of  Eastport ;  no  chil- 
dren. ■  2.  Marcia  i\Iary,  born  iMarcli  10,  1S81, 
married  Dr.  Frank  C.  Jewett,  of  Eastport, 
Maine,  and  has  one  child,  Lucy  Clark  Jewett. 
The  mother  of  these  children  died  January  8, 
1884,  and  Mr.  Kilby  married  (second)  Jan- 
uary 22,  1907,  Mary  Ellen,  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander McFaul,  of  Pembroke,  Maine. 


Rankin  is  the  diminutive  of 
RANKIN  Randolph,  formed  as  are  many 
other  old  English  surnames. 
Tradition  traces  the  descent  of  the  family  to 
John,  son  of  a  knight,  Jacob  de  Rankine,  bur- 
gomaster of  Ghent,  who  married  a  daughter 
of  the  house  of  Keith  and  became  progenitor 


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of  the  Rankin  family.  The  name  is  spelled 
Rankincs.  Rankins,  Rankings,  Rangkings,  and 
is  numerous  in  Scotland,  as  well  as  England. 
A  coat-of-arms  borne  by  the  Scotch  Rankins 
at  Orchardhead,  Scotland,  as  early  as  1672 : 
Gules  three  boars'  heads  erased  argent  be- 
tween a  lance  issuing  out  of  the  dexter  base 
and  a  Lochaber  ax  issuing  out  of  the  sinister 
both  erect  of  the  second.  Crest :  A  lance  ar- 
gent. JMotto :  Fortiter  et  recte.  A  branch 
of  the  Scotch  Rankins  settled  in  the  Ulster 
province,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  from 
them  many  of  the  American  families  are  de- 
scended. 

( I )  Robert  Rankin,  progenitor  of  the  fam- 
ily mentioned  in  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Perth,  Scotland.  He  married  Katherine  Mc- 
Claren. 

(II)  Moses,  son  of  Robert  Rankin,  was 
born  in  Perth,  Scotland,  in  1834,  and  died  in 
Sanford,  Maine,  in  1900.  He  married  Isabelle 
Parkhill,  at  Glasgow,  Scotland.  She  was  born 
August  20,  1837,  and  is  now  living  in  San- 
ford, Maine.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his 
native  place  in  Scotland  and  learned  the  trade 
of  block-printing  in  the  mills  there.  He  came 
to  this  country  in  i860,  and  found  employ- 
ment at  his  trade  in  the  mills  of  Lawrence, 
afterwards  working  in  mills  at  Matteawan, 
New  York,  and  Klilton,  New  Hampshire. 
Children:  i.  Mary.  2.  Katherine.  3.  Thom- 
as T.,  mentioned  below.  4.  Margaret.  5. 
Robert.  6.  Darius.  7.  George.  8.  Willis.  9. 
Charles.  All  the  children  were  born  in  this 
country. 

(III)  Thomas  T.,  son  of  ]\Ioses  Rankin, 
was  born  in  Peekskill,  New  York,  May  4, 
1865.  (The  middle  initial  was  added  by  Mr. 
Rankin  and  represents  no  baptismal  or  per- 
sonal name.)  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  the  various  towns  in  which  his 
parents  lived  during  his  youth,  Matteawan, 
New  York;  Milton  INIills,  New  Hampshire; 
and  Sanford,  Maine.  He  was  engaged  for  a 
time  in  the  meat  and  provision  business  in 
Sanford.  He  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff, 
and  in  igoi  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  York 
county  jail,  continuing  to  hold  that  responsi- 
ble position  to  the  present  time.  ]\Ir.  Rankin 
is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Riverside  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
of  Sanford,  and  of  Fraternal  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons,  of  Alfred;  of  White  Rose  Chapter, 
Royal  .\rch  Masons,  of  Sanford,  and  of  Fern 
Chapter,  Eastern  Star.  He  is  a  member  also 
of  the  Alfred  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 
He  married,  in  1884,  Lora  B.  Jones,  daughter 
of    Benjamin    Jones,    of    Kennebunk,    Maine. 


Children,  all  born  in  Sanford:  i.  Lillian,  No- 
vember 9,  1886.  2.  Harry,  August  14,  1888. 
3.  Ethelyn.  December  7,  i8go.  4.  Ev^ett, 
October  24,  1892.  The  two  eldest  are  grad- 
uates of  the  Sanford  high  school. 


Maine  loaned  to  the  great  state 
GREEN     of  Mississippi  Sergeant  S.  Pren- 
tiss,   one    of    the    most    brilliant 
orators   the   south   ever  knew.     Dixie   repays 
the  obligation  by  sending  us  a  scion  from  its 
leading  first   families. 

(I)  The  Right  Rev.  William  Mercer  Green, 
D.  D.,  was  born  in  Wilmington,  North  Caro- 
lina, May  2,  1798,  and  died  at  Sewanee,  Ten- 
nessee, February  13,  1887.  His  father  was  a 
wealthy  rice-planter  in  the  old  North  state. 
His  grandmother  was  of  the  Quaker  faith. 
He  owed  much  to  the  discipline  and  good 
example  of  his  sainted  mother  which  in  after 
life  he  was  never  slow  to  acknowledge.  He 
was  graduated  with  high  honor  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina  in  the  class  of  1818, 
and  immediately  upon  graduating  began  his 
theological  course.  He  was  ordained  deacon 
in  Christ  Church,  Raleigh,  by  Bishop  R.  C. 
Moore,  April  29,  1821,  made  a  priest  in  St. 
James,  Wilmington,  April  20,  1822,  and  be- 
came rector  of  St.  John's,  Williamsburg, 
North  Carolina.  From  there  he  went  to  Hills- 
borough, to  become  rector  at  St.  Matthew's, 
which  he  established.  In  1837  he  was  ap- 
pointed chaplain  and  professor  of  Belles  Let- 
tres  and  Rhetoric  at  his  alma  mater.  Penn- 
sylvania University  conferred  the  degree  of 
D.  D.  upon  him  in  1845.  Dr.  Green  was 
elected  to  the  bishopric  of  the  diocese  of  Mis- 
sissippi in  1849,  ^"d  was  consecrated  in  St. 
Andrew's,  at  Jackson,  February  24,  1850. 
Bishop  Green  was  among  the  most  devoted 
churchmen,  ever  laboring  zealously  for  the  ex- 
tension of  God's  kingdom  on  earth.  After 
sixty-one  years  of  arduous  service  in  the  min- 
istry, thirty-three  of  which  he  served  the 
church  as  bishop,  he  was  compelled  by  in- 
creasing infirmities  to  relinquish  some  of  his 
labors  and  rely  on  a  coadjutor,  but  for  the 
remaining  five  years  of  his  life  he  performed 
many  of  his  official  duties.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  University  of  the  South  at 
Sewanee,  Tennessee,  in  i860,  just  as  the  war 
was  about  to  deluge  the  beautiful  southland  in 
seas  of  blood.  In  1867  Bishop  Green  was 
chosen  chancellor  of  the  university.  He 
printed  several  sermons,  notably  those  on 
"Baptismal  Regeneration"  and  "Apostolic 
Succession,"  but  his  monumental  works  were 
the   life   of   Right    Rev.    Dr.    Ravenscroft.   of 


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North  Carolina  (1830)  and  the  Ufe  of  Right 
Rev.  Dr.  Otey,  of  Tennes.'^ee.  His  second 
wife,  who  died  in  i860,  was  Charlotte  Isabella 
(Fleming)   Green,  of  Wilmington. 

(II)  Rev.  Stephen  H.,  son  of  Bishop  and 
Charlotte  I.  (Fleming)  Green,  was  born  at 
Chapel  Hill,  North  Carolina,  October  28, 
1849.  He  was  educated  at  private  schools  and 
bv  private  tutors,  and  was  a  student  at  the 
Berkley  Divinity  School,  Middletown,  Con- 
necticut, graduating  therefrom  in  June,  187 1. 
He  was  ordained  deacon  June  25,  1871,  at 
Sewanee,  Tennessee,  and  priest  at  Jackson, 
Mississippi,  November  2,  1873.  His  first 
charge  was  at  Grenada,  Mississippi,  1871-77, 
and  the  next  at  Dallas,  Texas,  1877-82.  On 
account  of  the  ill  health  of  his  family  he  re- 
moved to  Elgin,  Illinois,  where  he  was  rector 
for  sixteen  months,  when  he  was  called  to  St. 
John's  Church,  St.  Louis,  of  which  he  had 
charge  for  twelve  years.  His  other  pastorates 
were:  Annastan,  Alabama;  Kirkwood,  Mis- 
souri ;  Memphis,  Tennessee,  and  his  second 
pastoral  charge  at  Elgin,  Illinois.  Removing 
to  the  seacoast.  by  reason  of  sickness,  he  took 
charge  of  St.  Saviour's  church.  Bar  Harbor, 
Maine,  May  i,  1903.  The  name  of  the  church 
suggests  an  interesting  bit  of  history  of  Mt. 
Desert  Island.  The  Jesuits  settled  at  Pemetic, 
now  Northeast  Harbor,  Maine,  in  1613,  seven 
years  before  white  men  landed  on  the  rock  at 
Plymouth.  While  on  a  voyage  from  France 
they  were  driven  out  to  sea  in  a  storm,  and 
prayed  God  to  deliver  them  in  his  mercy.  He 
heard  their  prayer,  for  in  the  morning  the  fog 
cleared  away,  the  stars  shone,  and  the  boat- 
pilot  steered  them  into  a  harbor  which  they, 
in  gratitude,  named  San  Saveur.  in  commem- 
oration of  their  joyful  and  providential  deliver- 
ance. .After  a  few  years'  stay,  during  which 
the  mild-mannered  La  Saussaye  gave  more  at- 
tention to  the  peaceful  pursuits  of  agriculture 
and  the  curing  of  souls,  neglecting  the  sterner 
wants  of  war,  they  were  attacked,  surprised 
and  overwhelmed  by  a  superior  force  in  the 
command  of  Samuel  Argall,  from  Virginia. 
The  dispersion  of  the  Jesuits  ended  French 
domination  on  the  coast  of  Maine,  but  the 
name  of  the  first  Christian  mission  is  per- 
petuated in  the  Episcopal  church  at  Bar  Har- 
bor. Of  this  church  Mr.  Green  assumed  the 
rectorship  in  1903.  In  1878  a  small  stone 
chapel  was  built  for  the  worshipers,  and  this 
was  enlarged  by  the  addition  of  the  present 
nave  and  cancel,  and  seats  comfortably  nearly 
eight  hundred.  By  personal  kindliness  of 
heart  and  public  spirit,  combined  with  a  gra- 
cious dignity  of  manner  and  a  ripe  scholar- 


ship, Mr.  Green  is  fitted  to  commend  to  this 
people  the  message  from  the  Master. 

Rev.  ]\Ir.  Green  married  Cornelia  Matilda, 
daughter  of  William  C.  Casey,  of  Middletown, 
Connecticut ;  seven  children,  two  of  whom 
are  married  and  one  is  studying  with  a  view 
to  entering  the  ministrv. 


The  Stanley  family  in  Eng- 
STANLEY     land  was  of  noble  birth.     Sir 

William  Stanley  bore  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  fight  at  Bosworth  Field,  which 
seated  the  Tudors  on  the  throne  of  England. 
For  his  conspicuous  gallantry  there  he  was 
created  earl  of  Derby,  which  title  now  remains 
in  the  family.  Another  distinguished  name  is 
.\rthur  Penryn  Stanley,  dean  of  Westminister. 
The  name  is  derived  from  two  Saxon  words, 
"stone"  and  "leigh."  and  denotes  a  stoney 
field.  It  has  been  spelled  ".Standley,"  "Stans- 
ley"  and  "Stanslee."  The  family  has  produced 
many  tall  men.  The  first  of  the  name  to  come 
to  this  country  sailed  on  the  good  .ship  "Eliza- 
beth and  Ann,"  and  was  Christopher  Stanley, 
.•\pril  29,  1635,  who  settled  in  Boston. 

(I)  The  founder  of  the  family  in  ]\Iaine 
was  William  Stanley,  of  Kittery,  that  state. 
He  married  Hannah  Pope,  October  20,  1714. 1 
His  will  was  dated  February  23,  1744,  and  was 
probated  April  6,  1747.  He  lodged  in  garrison 
23,  with  nine  other  families,  in  1722.  He 
bought  of  William  Godsoe,  May  13,  1719,  an 
acre  of  land  on  the  York  road,  and  also  owned 
land  on  Spruce  creek. 

(II)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Hannah  (Pope)  Stanley,  was  born  October 
12,  1715,  and  married  Mary  .  He  re- 
moved from  Kittery  to  Shapleigh,  Maine,  in 
1774,  and  settled  on  what  was  afterward  called 
Stanley  ridge.  Their  children  were  John, 
William,  Mary,  Dennis  and  Joseph. 

(III)  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Mary  Stanley,  was  born  in  Shapleigh,  Maine, 
in  1776,  the  year  independence  was  declared; 
he  was  their  second  son  and  child  and  in  ad- 
dition was  the  first  male  child  born  in  the 
town.  L^niting  in  matrimony  with  Susanna 
Morrison,  December  25,  1797,  he  removed  to 

.Porter,  Maine,  thence  to  Hiram,  same  state, 
where  he  built  a  mill  and  cleared  a  farm.  He 
died  April  27,  1822,  at  the  comparatively 
young  age  of  forty-six ;  his  wife  survived 
him  until  July  16,  1836.  Both  were  buried  on 
his  land  at  South  Hiram.  To  this  couple  were 
born  Esther,  Isaac,  William,  Jacob,  Joseph 
and  John. 

(IV)  Rev.  John,  son  of  William  (3)  and 
Susanna   (Morrison)    Stanley,  the  sixth  child 


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and  fifth  son  of  the  union,  was  born  May  28. 
1816,  in  Hiram,  Maine.  He  married  Salome 
Stacy,  of  Porter,  Maine,  April  9,  1840,  Will- 
iam F.  Taylor,  Esquire,  officiating  at  the  cere- 
mony, and  thither  he  removed.  He  was  a 
preacher  of  the  Free  Baptist  denomination 
supplying  at  the  Porter  church.  His  whole 
life  was  devoted  to  the  betterment  of  man- 
kind and  leading  souls  to  the  fold.  He  en- 
deavored to  walk  in  footsteps  of  the  Master, 
showing  the  way  to  others.  The  blessings  of 
the  ministrations  of  the  good  man  of  God  "live 
on"  long  after  he  has  gone  to  his  reward.  Mr. 
Stanley's  labors  were  coeval  with  that  of  the 
founders  and  missionaries  of  the  church,  Da- 
vid Marks,  John  Colby  and  Benjamin  Randall. 
His  family  consisted  of  Lewis  J.,  Sarah  L.. 
Isaac  M.,  Cyrena  F.,  Hannah  J.,  Preston  J., 
Olive  J.,  Salome  V.,  Randall  L.,  Tobias  A. 

(V)  Preston  J.,  son  of  Rev.  John  and 
Salome  (Stacy)  Stanley,  was  born  at  Porter, 
Maine,  January  24,  1853,  and  was  the  sixth 
of  the  family.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  Porter,  and 
worked  as  a  day-laborer  and  as  a  journeyman 
cooper.  When  thirty-five  years  of  age  he 
started  in  the  grocery  business  in  Kezar  Falls 
Village,  remained  there  five  years,  sold  out  to 
George  W.  Wadleigh,  and  was  employed  by 
Allen  Garner  in  a  gents'  furnishing  and  boot 
and  shoe  store,  and  eventually  bought  out  the 
business.  He  took  his  son,  Orman  L.,  into  the 
concern  in  1897,  and  then  added  furniture, 
and  continued  to  assist  in  conducting  it  until 
his  death  in  igo2.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
politics ;  he  was  serving  as  postmaster  at  the 
time  of  his  death ;  had  served  as  town  treas- 
urer, town  clerk,  and  on  the  school  committee 
at  Porter.  He  was  a  member  of  Greenlief 
Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Cornish;  Ossipee 
Lodge,  K.  of  P. ;  Costello  Tribe  of  Red  Men ; 
was  a  member  of  the  L  O.  O.  F.,  and  active 
in  the  Methodist  church.  He  married,  De- 
cember 2,  1874,  Naomi  Stacy,  of  Porter,  born 
1855.  Their  children  were:  Sidney  B.,  now 
R.  F.  D.  carrier  from  Kezar  Falls ;  Orman  Le- 
roy,  Sherman  P.,  Evelvn  i\L,  Florence  M.  and 
Ina  N. 

(VI)  Orman  Leroy,  son  of  Preston  J.  and 
Naomi  (Stacy)  Stanley,  was  born  in  Porter, 
Maine,  December  14,  1876,  educated  in  its 
schools  and  at  North  Parsonfield  Academy, 
graduating  in  1895.  He  taught  the  high 
school  in  Porter,  and  was  superintendent  of 
schools  of  that  town.  He  went  into  business 
with  his  father  in  1897,  and  succeeded  him  at 
his  death,  and  has  managed  it  alone  since.  He 
w-as    appointed    postmaster    to     succeed     his 


father,  which  office  he  now  holds.  He  is  a 
Republican,  and  has  been  chairman  of  the  Re- 
publican town  committee.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  present  (1909)  legislature  of  Maine,  rep- 
resenting the  seventy-fourth  district,  com- 
prising the  towns  of  Porter,  Hiram,  Brown- 
field,  Fryeburg  and  Lovell.  He  is  a  member 
of  Greenlief  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Cor- 
nish, Aurora  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Cornish, 
Oriental  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Bridgeton, 
Kora  Temple,  of  Lewiston,  of  the  Ossipee 
Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  of  which  he  is  a  district 
deputy,  and  for  two  years  has  been  deputy 
grand  chancellor  of  the  eighth  district,  which 
comprises  five  towns.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  Costello  Tribe  of  Red  Men  and  of  the 
Charter  Oak  Grange,  of  Porter.  He  was  mar- 
ried November  28,  1900,  to  Elizabeth  M., 
daughter  of  Walter  H.  and  Carrie  Ridlon,  of 
Kezar  Falls.  Their  children  are :  Doris  M., 
born  May  5,  1902,  Mildred,  January  16, 
1905,  and  Caroline  Naomi,  February  18,  1907. 


The     numerous     family     of 
NEWHALL     Newhall,     variously     spelled 

Newhall,  Newall  and  New- 
ell, is  descended  from  two  brothers  registered 
as  early  settlers  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  in 
the  year  1630.  They  were  grantees  of  lots  in 
a  division  of  lands  there  in  1638.  Not  one  of 
a  large  number  of  wills  examined  in  London 
appears  to  furnish  a  clue  to  trace  their  Eng- 
lish origin.  The  earliest  references  to  the 
name  was  found  in  the  will  of  one  Thomas 
Newhall,  written  in  Latin  in  1498.  Printed 
history  mentions  the  building  of  a  new  hall 
upon  a  baronial  estate  in  Nerfolk  by  a  man 
who  by  so  doing  obtained  the  name  of  Jo- 
hannis  de  Nova  Aula,  otherwise  John  de 
Newe-hall.  This  indicates  the  probable  origin 
of  the  surname.  The  names  of  the  two  pro- 
genitors of  the  Lynn  family  were  the  brothers, 
Thomas  Newhall  and  Anthony  Newhall. 

(I)  Thomas  Newhall,  of  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts, died  there.  May  25,  1674.  Wife  Mary 
died  September  25,  1665.  His  will  was  dated 
April  I,  1668,  and  probated  June  30,  1674. 
He  bequeathed  lands  to  his  sons  Thomas  and 
John,  and  money  to  his  sons-in-law,  Richard 
Haven's  children  and  Thomas  Browne's  chil- 
dren, and  sundry  articles  to  his  two  daughters, 
Susanna  Haven  and  Mary  Browne.  In  his 
inventory  are  mentioned  an  old  dwelling-house 
and  an  old  barn,  six  acres  of  upland  and  twelve 
acres  of  meadow,  besides  other  estate.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Susanna,  born  about  1624,  died  in 
Lynn,  February  7,  1682,  married  Richard 
Haven,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts.     2.  Thomas, 


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born  about  1630,  see  forward.  3.  John,  died 
before  1718,  married  (first)  3,  12  mo.  (Feb- 
ruary), 1657,  Elizabeth  Laighton,  who  died 
October  22,  1677,  and  married  (second)  July 

17,  1679,  Sarah  Flanders,  of  Salisbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 4.  Mary,  born  about  1637,  married 
Thomas  Browne,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts. 

(II)  Ensign  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  New- 
hall,  was  born  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  1630, 
died  there  and  was  buried  April  i,  1678.  Mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Alice 
Potter,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts ;  she  was 
buried  at  Lynn,  February  22,  1686-87.  He 
was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Lynn.  He 
left  an  inventory  of  date  1687,  of  which  he 
was  possessed  of  property  valued  at  nearly 
seven  hundred  pounds.  He  was  an  ensign 
and  his  homestead  was  near  the  center  of 
the  town  near  George  Keser's  tannery  in 
1665.  In  1679  he  purchased  si.xty  acres  near 
the  dividing  line  between  Salem  and  Lynn 
for  a  farm  with  which  to  portion  ofif  his  sons. 
From  the  fact  that  among  his  buildings  was 
a  malt-house,  it  is  conjectured  that  it  once 
formed  a  part  of  the  farm  of  the  first  Thomas 
Newhall,  his  father  having  an  estate  contain- 
ing with  other  buildings  a  malt-house.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Thomas,  born  18,  9  mo.,  1653,  died 
July  3,  1728,  at  Maiden,  Massachusetts;  mar- 
ried, November,  1764,  Rebecca  Green,  of  Mai- 
den, who  died  May  25,  1726.  2.  John,  14,  12 
mo.,  1655,  died  January  20,  1738,  married, 
June  18,  1677,  Esther  Bartram,  of  Lynn,  who 
died  September  28,  1728.  3.  Joseph,  Sep- 
tember 22,  1658,  see  forward.  4.  Nathaniel, 
March  17,  1660,  died  December  23,  1695,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  .  who  married  (second) 

intention  dated  January  8,  1696-97,  John  In- 
gersoll.  5.  Elizabeth,  March  21,  1662,  drowned 
in  April,  1665.  6.  Elisha,  November  3,  1665, 
buried  last  of  February,  1686-87.  7-  Eliza- 
beth, October  22,    1667.     8.   Mary,   February 

18,  1669.  9.  Samuel,  January  19,  1672,  died 
before  January  2,  1718-19;  married  Abigail 
Lyndsey,  of  Lynn.  10.  Rebecca,  July  17, 
1675,  married.  May  22,  1697,  Ebenezer  Parker, 
of  Reading,  Massachusetts. 

(III)  Ensign  Joseph,  son  of  Ensign  Thom- 
as Newhall,  was  born  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts, 
September  22,  1658,  died  January  29,  1705- 
06.  jNIarried  Susanna,  born  March  26,  1659, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Farrar,  of 
Lynn,  Massachusetts;  she  married  (second), 
intention  dated  September  26,  1713,  Benja- 
min Simonds,  of  Woburn.  His  name  appeared 
often  upon  the  records  of  holding  some  po- 
sitions of  honor  or  trust.  He  served  as  repre- 
sentative at  the  general  court  in  1705-06.     He 


'■perished  in  a  snowstorm,  January  29,  1705- 
06,"  Boston  News  Letter  No.  95,  while  he 
was  on  the  road  from  Boston  to  Lynn  during 
his  term  at  the  general  court.  Administration 
on  his  estate  was  granted  July  10,  1706,  in 
which  are  named  his  widow  Susanna,  his  sons 
Thomas  and  Joseph,  Elisha,  Ephraim.  Daniel, 
Ebenezer,  Benjamin,  Samuel,  and  daughters 
Jemima,  Susanna  and  Sarah.  Like  his  father, 
he  was  called  Ensign.  His  homestead,  a  farm 
of  thirty-four  acres,  was  situated  in  the  north- 
erly part  of  Lynn,  on  the  Salem  (now  Pea- 
body)  line.  He  had  also  another  farm  of 
one  hundred  and  seventy  acres  in  the  pres- 
ent town  of  Lynnfield  and  called  the  Pond 
farm.  Children:  i.  Jemima,  born  December 
31,  1678,  married,  June  9,  1698,  Benjamin 
Very,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts.  2.  Thomas, 
January  6,  1680,  died  November  30,  1738, 
married  (first)  December  9,  1707,  Mary  New- 
hall of  Lynn;  married  (second)  December 
12,  1717,  Elizabeth  Bancroft,  of  Lynn.  3. 
Joseph,  February  6,  1683-84,  died  April  27, 
1742;  married,  November  26,  1713,  Elizabeth 
Potter.  4.  Elisha,  November  20,  1686,  died 
in  Lynnfield,  Massachusetts,  March  19,  1773; 
married,  February  27,  1710-11,  Jane  Breed,  of 
Lynn,  who  died  March  22,  1773.  5.  Ephraim, 
February  20,  1688-89,  married,  December 
12,  1716,  Abigail  Denmark,  of  Lynn.  6. 
Daniel,  February  5,  1690-91,  died  Novem- 
ber, 1752;  married,  intention  dated  November 
20,  1713,  Mary  Breed,  of  Lynn,  who  died 
January  i,  1775.  7.  Ebenezer,  June  3,  1693. 
died  June  22,  1766;  married,  intention  dated 
November  8,  1718,  Elizabeth  Breed,  who  died 
at  Lynnfield,  Massachusetts,  February  7,  1770. 

8.  Susanna,  December  19,  1695,  married,  July 
16,  1717,  Joseph  Breed,  of  Lynn.  9.  Benja- 
min, April  5,  1698,  died  June  5,  1763;  mar- 
ried, January  i,  1721,  Elizabeth  Fowle,  of 
Woburn,  Massachusetts,  who  died  at  Lynn, 
January  28,  1760.  10.  Samuel,  March  9, 
1700-01,  see  forward.  11.  Sarah,  July  11, 
1704,  married,  January  3,  1722-23,  Thomas 
Burrage,  of  Lynn. 

(IV)   Samuel,  son  of  Ensign  Joseph  New- 
hall, was  born  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  March 

9,  1700-01,  died  there,  August,  1770.  Mar- 
ried, December  8,  1724,  Kezia  Breed,  who  died 
October  9,  1748,  Lynn  Records,  October  9, 
1749,  Quaker  Records,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Anna  (Hood)  Breed,  of  Lynn,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  adopted  in  his  youth  by  an 
uncle  named  Thomas  Farrar,  who  in  his  will 
bequeathed  the  bulk  of  his  estate  to  him  and 
another  kinsman  named  Richard  Hood.  The 
will    of    Samuel,    dated    July    28,    1768,    and 


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proved  October  i,  1770,  mentions  his  tiiree 
sons,  Pharoah,  Abijah  and  Daniel,  daughters 
Anna  Estes,  Elizabeth  Newhall,  Sarah  New- 
hall,  Lydia  Johnson,  Abigail  Purinton,  Re- 
becca Chase,  and  Ruth  Newhall,  and  also  his 
brother,  Elisha  Newhall.  Children:  i.  Anna, 
born  October  27,  1725,  married,  September  16. 
1746,  Matthew  Estes.  2.  Elizabeth,  March  7, 
1727-28.  3.  Sarah,  August  20,  1730.  4.  Ly- 
dia, January  14,  1732-33,  married,  October  15, 
1753,  Nehemiah  Johnson.  5.  Pharaoh,  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1733-34,  died  September  15,  1821  ; 
married,  April  24,  1764,  Theodate  Breed,  of 
Lynn,  who  died  at  Lynn,  September  10.  1810. 

6.  Abijah,  February  15,  1736-37,  see  forward. 

7.  Abigail,  March  4,  1738-39,  married,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1760,  Samuel  Purinton,  of  Danvers, 
Massachusetts.  8.  Daniel,  February  4,  1740- 
41,  died  November  15,  1793;  married  (first) 
April  25,  1769,  Hannah  Estes,  who  died  No- 
vember 27,  1781  :  married  (second)  May  20, 
1789,  Elizabeth  Dodge,  of  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, who  died  his  widow  at  Lynn,  February, 
1822.  9.  Rebecca,  October  28,  1743,  married, 
April  24,  1764,  Abner  Chase,  of  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts. 10.  Ruth,  October  12,  1746,  mar- 
ried, October  14,  1772,  John  Bassett,  of  Lynn, 
Massachusetts. 

(V)  Abijah,  son  of  Samuel  Newhall,  was 
born  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  February  15, 
1736-37,  died  there  August  30,  1819.  Mar- 
ried (first)  April  29,  1760,  Abigail,  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1737,  died  July  9,  1792,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Lydia  (Hood)  Bassett,  of  Lynn, 
Massachusetts;      married       (second),      Alice 

;  she  died  his  widow,  January  7,  1820. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
His  will,  dated  March  18,  1809,  calls  him  a 
cordwainer,  and  mentions  wife  Alice  and  chil- 
dren Daniel,  Abijah,  Lydia,  Content,  Keziah 
and  Alice,  and  his  son-in-law,  Pelatiah  Purin- 
ton. The  will  was  proved  February  15,  1820. 
His  homestead  appears  to  have  been  in  that 
part  of  Lynn  called  Wood  End.  In  1771  he 
bought  another  lot  of  five  acres,  a  portion  of 
which,  with  a  house  on  it,  was  sold  after  his 
death  by  his  heirs.  Children:  i.  Daniel,  born 
August  3,  1761,  married,  March  24,  1790, 
Mary  Shillaber,  and  removed  to  Henniker, 
New  Hampshire.  2.  Lydia,  February  10,  1763, 
died  December  3,  1840;  married,  September 
21,  1791,  Enoch  Mower,  of  Lynn.  Massachu- 
setts. 3.  Keziah,  August  8,  1865.  married. 
September  17,  1794,  Pelatiah  Purinton.  of 
Lynn,  Massachusetts.  4.  Content,  September 
2,  1767,  married  Abel  Houghton;  they  were 
of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  in  1820.  5.  Rebecca, 
August  7,   1769,  married,   October  10,   1774, 


Stephen  Nichols,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts.  6. 
Alice,  February  15,  1772,  married  (first)  July 
20,  1796,  Thomas  Butman ;  married  (second) 
Nathan  G.  Chase.  7.  Abigail,  February  20, 
1776.  8.  Abijah,  see  forward.  9.  Stephen, 
April  21,  1780,  died  August  16,  1781. 

(VI)  Abijah  (2),  son  of  Abijah  (i)  New- 
hall, was  born  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  Jan- 
uary I,  1779,  died  at  Vassalborough,  ]\Iaine, 
October  6,  i860.  Married,  September  25, 
1804,  Lucy,  born  at  Vassalborough,  Maine, 
October  8,  1785,  died  September  24,  1863, 
daughter  of  Remington  and  Anstrus  (Gardi- 
ner) Hobby.  He  located  early  in  life  at  Vas- 
salborough, Kennebec  county,  Maine,  and  was 
a  farmer  and  a  tanner.  Children:  i.  Cynthia 
Hobby,  born  July  17,  1805,  married,  October 
16,  1827,  Captain  Jabez  Lewis,  of  Vass.al- 
borough,  Maine.  2.  Daniel,  October  3,  i8og, 
married,  January  31,  1838,  Clara  Hoyt.  3. 
Henry  Chase,  February  6,  1814,  see  forward. 

(VII)  Henry  Chase,  son  of  Abijah  (2) 
Newhall,  was  born  at  Vassalborough,  IMaine, 
February  6,  1814,  died  at  Portland,  [Maine, 
February  18,  1877.  Married,  February  6, 
1837,  Lydia  Howland,  born  at  V'assalborough, 
Maine,  April  25,  1817,  died  at  Fairfield,  Maine, 

May  31,  1898,  daughter  of  George  and 

(Howland)  Gelchell.  He  was  first  a  tanner, 
second  he  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness, and  thirdly  in  the  lumber  industry.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  George  Henry,  born  March  18,  1838, 
see  forward.  2.  Charles  Edward,  March  18, 
1842,  died  May  28,  1844.  3.  Lucy  Howland, 
October  6,  1843,  died  July  7,  1868;  married, 
June  28,  1866,  William  Bodfish  Dickey. 

(\TII)  George  Henry,  son  of  Henry  Chase 
Newhall,  was  born  at  Canaan.  Somerset 
county,  Maine,  March  18,  1838,  died  at  Fair- 
field, Maine,  May  2,  1890.  Married  (first) 
August  7.  i860,  Mary  A.  Tobey,  who  died 
January  9,  1873;  married  (second)  March  30, 
1874,  Louise  E.,  daughter  of  Eben  S.  and 
Melinda  B.  (Lawrence)  Page.  He  came  to 
Fairfield  in  1851,  when  his  parents  removed 
there  from  Canaan.  He  received  a  common- 
school  education  and  devoted  his  energies  to 
business.  He  was  associated  for  some  time 
with  his  father,  in  the  employ  of  the  firm  of 
Newhall  &  Gibson.  After  his  father's  death 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lawrence, 
Phillips  &  Company,  lumber  manufacturers, 
and  continued  so  to  the  end  of  his  life.  He 
was  a  Universalist  in  religious  faith.  A  Demo- 
crat in  politics.  Not  ambitious  for  official 
honors,  but  public  spirited  and  interested  in 
the  general  welfare.  He  was  highly  respected 
as  a  citizen  and  successful  as  a  business  man. 


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1 167 


Child  by  first  wife :  i.  Edward  F.,  born  Octo- 
ber 5,  1861,  died  August  9,  1868.  Cliildren  by 
second  wife :  2.  Mary  L.,  born  at  Chicago, 
IlHnois.  July  21,  1876,  is  a  graduate  of  Co- 
burn  Classical  Institute,  at  Waterville,  Maine, 
and  of  Wellesley  College,  Wellesley,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1899.  3.  Henry  C.,  born  at  Fair- 
field, Maine,  February  14,  1882;  after  receiv- 
ing his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
Fairfield,  and  at  the  Phillips  Exeter  Academy, 
at  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  his  father  in  the  lumber  business, 
at  Shawmut,  Maine.  In  company  with  Mr.  G. 
Hume,  he  is  extensively  engaged  as  a  lumber 
manufacturer  in  the  town  of  Fairfield.  He  is 
a  member  of  Siloam  Chapter,  St.  Omar  Com- 
mandery.  and  Kora  Temple,  j\I)-stic  Shrine. 


The  name  Farnham  is  among 
FARXHAM  the  earliest  in  Jilassachusetts 
and  has  been  conspicuous  in 
the  settlement  and  development  of  New  Eng- 
land, especially  at  Concord  and  vicinity,  in 
New  Hampshire  and  at  Rumford,  in  Maine. 
W'hile  most  of  its  bearers  have  been  tillers 
of  the  soil,  they  have  ever  been  identified  with 
the  work  of  the  church  and  other  moral  agen- 
cies, and  still  adhere  to  the  standards  of  their 
Puritan  ancestors.  Many  of  those  in  Maine 
spell  the  name  Farnham,  but  the  New  Hamp- 
shire branch  uses  the  spelling  Farnum.  It  is 
found  in  various  forms  among  the  New  Eng- 
land records. 

(I)  Ralph  Farnham  was  born  in  1603,  and 
sailed  from  Southampton,  England,  with  his 
wife  Alice,  in  the  brig  "James,"  arriving  at 
Boston,  Alassachusetts,  June  5,  1635,  after  a 
voyage  of  fifty-eight  days.  He  was  among 
the  proprietors  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in 
1635.  His  wife  was  born  about  1606,  and 
they  brought  with  them  four  children,  a 
daughter  being  born  of  them  here.  Their 
names  were  as  follows:  Mary,  born  1626; 
Thomas,  1631;  Ralph,  1O33:  Ephraim  and 
Sarah. 

(II)  Ralph  (2),  born  1633,  son  of  Ralph 
(i)  and  Alice  Farnham,  is  said  by  tradition 
(which  is  open  to  question)  to  have  been  a 
native  of  Wales.  He  settled  in  Andover,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  was  a  grand  juryman  in 
1679,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  a  numerous 
posterity.  He  was  married  October  26,  1658, 
to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Holt,  an- 
other pioneer  of  Andover.  She  was  born 
March  30,  1636,  in  Newbury,  JNIassachusetts. 
He  died  January  8,  1692,  in  Andover.  His 
children  were :  Sarah,  Ralph,  John,  Henry, 
Hannah.  Thomas,  Ephraim  and  James. 


(Ill)  John,  son  of  Ralph  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth (Holt)  Farnham,  was  born  April  16, 
166.^,  in  Andover,  where  he  resided  and  died 
in  1729,  having  survived  his  wife  about  twelve 
years.  By  occupation  he  was  a  wheelwright, 
antl  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  church.  He  was 
married  April  10,  1684,  to  Elizabeth  Barker, 
born  January  20,  1663,  a  daughter  of  Nathan 
and  Mary  Barker.  One  of  his  daughters  was 
involved  in  a  witchcraft  excitement. 

(I\')  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Eliza- 
beth (Barker)  Farnham,  born  February  13, 
1684,  died  in  1762.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a 
wheelwright,  residing  all  his  life  in  Andover, 
where  he  was,  like  his  father,  a  deacon  in  the 
church.  He  was  married  February  26,  1710, 
to  Joanna  Barker,  born  July  17,  1687,  a 
daughter  of  Captain  John  and  Mary  Stevens 
Barker.  She  survived  her  husband  about 
twenty-three  years,  dying  in  1785. 

(X)  Captain  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Joanna  (Barker)  Farnham,  born  April  i,  1711, 
died  October  21,  1786,  in  Andover.  He  was 
married  in  1738  to  Sarah  Frye,  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Sarah  (Osgood)  Frye.  She  was 
born  March  25,  1720,  and  died  in  18 16.  They 
were  the  parents  of  twelve  sons  and  one 
daughter,  namely :  Nathan,  John,  Daniel, 
Isaac,  Jedediah  (died  young),  Samuel,  James, 
Peter,  Sarah,  Simeon,  Nathaniel  and  Enoch. 
The  daughter  became  the  wife  of  Brooks 
Emery  and  they  were  the  founders  of  a  dis- 
tinguished family. 

(\T)  Simeon,  tenth  son  of  Captain  John 
(3)  and  Sarah  (Frye)  Farnham,  was  born 
October  9,  1756.  in  Andover,  ilassachusetts, 
and    settled    in    Gorham,    Maine,   as   early   as 

1786.  He  was  a  tanner  by  trade,  and  owned 
a  lot  of  land  subsequently  occupied  by  what 
is  known  as  the  Hinckley  tan-yard.  About 
1805  he  built  on  the  westerly  end  of  his  lot  a 
large,  three-story  brick  house,  which  was  des- 
troyed by  fire  in  1871,  being  used  at  that  time 
as  a  hotel.  His  last  days  were  spent  in  New- 
burg,  Maine.  He  served  as  a  soldier  of  the 
revolution,  and  resided  in  Andover  until  his 
removal  to  Gorham.    He  was  married  May  26. 

1787,  to  Elizabeth  Johnson,  of  Andover,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  Simeon.  John,  Eliza- 
beth, Roxana,  Charles.  Henry  B.,  Frederick 
and  Edward.  A  descendant  of  his.  Captain 
John  Farnum,  was  in  quite  recent  years  post- 
master at  Gorham. 

(VII)  Henry  Bowman,  fourth  son  of  Si- 
meon and  Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Farnham, 
born  April  i,  1798,  in  Gorham,  died  Novem- 
ber 30,  1879,  in  Bangor,  Maine.  For  some 
years  he  was  a  merchant  in  Winthrop.  Maine; 


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was  for  a  short  period  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  at  Scitnate  and  removed  to  Bangor  in 
1832.  He  served  as  city  Marshall  of  Bangor, 
and  was  a  deputy  sheriff  of  Penobscot  county. 
He  was  among  the  early  opponents  of  the 
spread  of  slavery  in  this  country,  and  acted 
during  its  existence  with  the  Free  Soil  party, 
later  joining  the  Republican  party.  He  was 
married  June  11,  1823,  to  Harriett  May,  born 
April  25,  1805,  in  Winthrop,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  John  and  Esther  (Tapper)  May,  who 
came  from  Massachusetts ;  Rev.  John  May 
was  a  Congregational  minister.  Harriett 
(May)  Farnham  died  .September  28,  1894,  in 
Buffalo,  New  York.  Three  of  their  children 
died  in  infancy.  The  others  were:  i.  William 
H.,  born  March  24,  1826,  died  July  27,  1872. 
2.  Harriett,  became  the  wife  of  Henry  M. 
Kent,  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  3.  Elizabeth  T., 
became  the  wife  of  John  Wilder  May,  who 
was  a  judge  of  the  courts  in  Boston.  4.  Au- 
gustus B.,  see  forward.  5.  Laura  M.,  became 
the  wife  of  Mayor  Sidney  W.  Thaxter,  of 
Portland. 

(\'ni)  Augustus  B.,  second  son  of  Henry 
B.  and  Harriett  (May)  Farnham,  was  born 
March  10,  1839,  in  Bangor.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city.  His 
first  active  occupation  was  that  of  bookkeeper, 
being  employed  by  Stetsoft  &  Company,  deal- 
ers in  lumber  and  navigators,  with  head- 
quarters in  Bangor.  He  was  thus  engaged 
when  the  civil  war  broke  out,  and  he  enlisted 
in  Company  H,  Second  Regiment,  Maine  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  going  out  as  first  lieutenant. 
He  was  subsequently  promoted  to  captain  of 
the  same  company.  This  was  a  short-term 
organization  and  participated  in  the  first  battle 
of  Bull  Run.  Soon  after  that  Captain  Farn- 
ham organized  a  company  which  became  a 
part  of  the  Si.xteenth  Maine  Regiment,  and 
was  mustered  in  August  14,  1862.  He  became 
major  of  this  regiment,  and  was  afterward 
promoted  to  lieutenant-colonel  and  participated 
in  the  following  campaigns  and  battles :  The 
Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  Petersburg  and 
Five  Forks.  At  the  last  engagement,  just  be- 
fore the  surrender  of  General  Lee,  Colonel 
Farnham  was  wounded  in  the  left  lung,  April 
I,  1865.  For  meritorious  conduct  on  the  field 
he  was  brevetted  colonel  and  was  mustered 
out  in  1865,  returning  to  Bangor.  He  was 
soon  appointed  deputy  collector  of  customs,  in 
which  capacity  he  served  several  years,  and 
served  ten  years  as  postmaster  of  Bangor:  ap- 
pointed February  27,  1871,  under  Grant:  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1875,  under  Grant:  February  27, 
1879,  under  Hayes;  1883,  under  Arthur;  July 


29,  1890,  under  Harrison.  Following  this,  he 
was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery  busi- 
ness, in  partnership  with  J.  A.  Boardman. 
This  connection  continued  seven  years,  at  the 
end  of  which  period  the  business  was  sold 
out.  At  this  time  Augustus  B.  Farnham  was 
elected  president  of  the  Kenduskeag  National 
Bank,  of  Bangor,  which  position  he  held  until 
the  bank  went  out  of  business,  being  reorgan- 
ized as  a  trust  company.  In  December,  1901, 
he  was  appointed  adjutant-general  of  the 
state,  and  has  continuously  held  that  office 
until  the  present  time,  retaining  his  residence 
at  Bangor,  with  office  in  the  State-house  at 
Augusta.  Mr.  Farnham  is  an  active  and 
valued  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in 
which  he  has  attained  the  thirty-third  degree, 
and  has  affiliated  with  Saint  Andrew's  Lodge, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  Mount 
Moriah  Chapter,  Royal  Ancient  Masters; 
Saint  John's  Comniandery,  Knights  Templar, 
oi  Bangor,  and  with  the  Maine  Consistory. 
He  is  a  past  grand  master  of  the  State  Grand 
Lodge ;  past  grand  commander  of  the  Grand 
Comniandery  of  the  state ;  past  commander  of 
the  State  Comniandery,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  and  president  of  the  Melitia  Club,  of 
Bangor. 

Mr.   Farnham  married    (first)    January   12, 

1871,  Ardelia  B.  Clark,  born  December  8, 
1846,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Mary  (  AIcRuer) 
Clark,  of  Bangor.  By  this  union  there  were 
two  children:    i.  Mary  McRuer,  born  July  5, 

1872,  married  William  Lincoln  Smith,  of  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  and  has  two  children : 
Philip  Loring,  born  March  13,  1906,  and 
Elizabeth  Farnham.  2.  Ardelia  Clark,  born 
June  25,  1874,  died  August  14,  1874.  Mrs. 
Farnham  died  July  18,  1874.  Mr.  Farnham 
married  (second)  March  27,  1878,  Laura 
Wood,  born  April  24,  1864,  daughter  of 
Henry  A.  and  Mary  M.  (Horton)  Wood,  of 
Providence,  Rhode  Island.  By  this  union  one 
child,  Henry  A.,  born  December  30,  1878.  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  Orchard  Lake 
Military  Academy,  of  Michigan,  now  a  jour- 
nalist, connected  with  the  Nczc  York  IVorld. 


There  are  strong  indications 
LED  YARD     that  this  family  was  of  Welsh 

origin.  The  home  of  the 
family  in  Wales  was  Lloydyard,  and,  to  quote 
one  authority,  "it  is  hardly  to  be  questioned 
that  they  were  a  branch  of  the  Llwyds  (or 
Lloyds)  who  traced  their  ancestry  to  the  early 
Britons  who  fought  with  Arthur  against  the 
Saxon  Kings."  The  name  Lidiard,  of  county 
Somerset,    England,    is    given    in    Domesday 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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Book.  Lidig:ar  and  hamlets  in  England  and 
Scotland  bear  the  names  Ledgard.  Ledgiard 
and  Ledeard.  A  branch  was  seated  at  Le- 
diard-Tregoz,  county  Wills,  England,  who 
bore  arms  said  to  be  almost  identical  with 
those  of  the  Welsh  family.  One  of  the  Led- 
yard  descendants  who  visited  Willshire  found 
a  kinsman,  John  Ledyard  Phillips,  of  JMelk- 
sham,  whose  arms  were  the  same  as  those 
borne  in  this  country :  Ermine  on  a  chevron 
or,  five  mullets  gules.  Crest:  a  demi-lion  ram- 
pant argent,  holding  in  the  dexter  paw  a  mul- 
let gules.  Motto :  Per  crucem  ad  Stellas. 
These  arms  were  seen  by  a  grandson  of  the 
emigrant,  John  Ledyard,  "the  traveller,"  on 
a  carriage  in  Bristol,  England,  and  recognized 
as  the  same  borne  by  his  grandfather.  It  is 
said  that  there  is  a  connection  between  the  St. 
John  and  Ledyard  families,  which  may  be  only 
a  tradition.  Henry  St.  John,  Baron  of 
Lidiard-Tregoz,  county  Wills,  England,  was 
created  Lord  Bolingbroke.  It  is  stated  that 
"he  died  childless  in  1751";  but  in  the  contests 
over  the  estate  which  followed,  the  attorney- 
general  proved  that  St.  John  had  a  son  John 
"who  was  lost,"  and  in  the  opinion  of  some 
writers  this  "missing  heir"  was  John  Led- 
yard. who  came  to  America.  Certain  circum- 
stances may  tend  to  bear  out  this  belief,  but, 
on  the  other  hand,  the  following  statements 
seem  to  shed  a  surer  light  on  the  parentage  of 
the  emigrant.  A  merchant  of  Bristol,  Eng- 
land, John  Ledyard,  married,  in  1665,  Eliza- 
beth Hilliard.  of  Bradford,  county  Wills,  and 
had  two  sons,  Ebenezer  and  John.  The  taller 
married,  in  i6go,  Sarah  Windham,  of  Brad- 
ford, and  their  son  John  married  Sarah  Allen. 
Ebenezer,  mentioned  above,  married  a  Miss 
Yarborough.  A  lady  of  this  name  was  known 
as  the  mother  of  John  Ledyard,  the  emigrant, 
and  he  was  known  to  have  written  letters  from 
Groton,  Connecticut,  1739-41,  to  John  Led- 
yard, of  Bristol,  whom  he  addressed  as 
"cousin."  The  letters  indicated  familiar  in- 
timacy and  there  were  complaints  that  "after 
his  arrival  in  New  England  no  letters  have 
reached  him  from  his  relatives  in  London." 
Lacking  any  further  proof,  it  seems  natural  to 
conclude  that  the  American  ancestor  John  was 
the  son  of  Ebenezer  and  his  wife.  Miss  Yar- 
borough, and  that  he  wrote  the  said  letters  to 
his  cousin  John,  of  Bristol  (who  married 
Sarah  Allen),  and  was  the  son  of  his  father's 
brother  John.  It  should  be  noted  also  that 
the  emigrant  perpetuated  his  probable  father's 
name,  Ebenezer.  in  his  own  family  and  that 
the  Yarborough  name  appeared  in  the  family 
of  his  noted  son.  Colonel  William  Ledyard. 


(I)  John  Ledyard,  American  ancestor,  was 

probably    the    son    of    Ebenezer    and    

(Yarborough)  Ledyard,  of  Bristol,  England, 
where  he  was  born  in  1700.  The  date  of  his 
arrival  in  this  country  is  not  given,  but  at  an 
early  age  he  was  engaged  as  teacher  of  a 
Latin  school  at  Southold,  Long  Island.  In  a 
few  years,  1727-30,  he  moved  to  Groton,  Con- 
necticut, and  later  to  Hartford.  His  name 
was  on  the  public  records  of  Connecticut  in 
1732  and  he  became  very  active  and  promi- 
nent in  the  affairs  of  Hartford.  He  was  rep- 
resentative to  the  general  court,  1753  and 
1769,  and  was  prominent  in  securing  the  pro- 
tection and  education  of  the  native  Indians; 
also  in  the  movements  which  resulted  later  in 
the  founding  of  Dartmouth  College.  He  is 
described  as  a  man  of  great  distinction,  in- 
fluence and  literary  culture.  He  married 
(first)  Deborah,  daughter  of  Judge  Benja- 
min Youngs,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Rev.  John  Youngs,  of  Southold,  Long  Island ; 
she  belonged  to  one  of  the  most  prominent 
families  of  that  place.  She  died  1748-49,  and 
Mr.  Ledyard  marriec^  (second)  Mary,  widow 
of  John  Ellery,  and  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Stanley)  Austin.  She  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  Nathaniel  Stanley,  of  Hartford. 
John  Ledyard's  will  was  probated  September 
6,  1771  (i^Iagazine  of  American  History,  Vol. 
VIL,  p.  188).  He  died  in  Hartford,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1 77 1,  and  was  buried  on  the  old  Centre 
burial-ground.  The  inscription  on  his  grave- 
stone reads :  "Sacred  to  the  memory  of  John 
Ledyard  Esq.,  who  departed  his  life  on  the 
3rd  of  September  A.  D.  1771  aged  71  years. 
The  memory  of  the  just  is  blessed."  Children 
of  John  and  Deborah  were:  i.  John  (Capt.), 
born  in  Groton,  1730,  died  March,  1762;  mar- 
ried .Abigail,  daughter  of  Roger  Hempold.  and 
had  six  children.  2.  Youngs  (Capt.),  married 
Amelia  Avery,  of  Groton,  and  had  seven  chil- 
dren.   3.  Deborah.    4.  Mary.    5.  Ebenezer. 

(II)  Ebenezer,  third  son  of  John  and  De- 
borah (Youngs)  Ledyard,  was  born  in  Groton 
in  1736,  died  there  September  29,  181 1.  He 
was  presumably  named  for  his  grandfather  in 
England.  He  appears  to  have  been  prominent 
in  town  affairs,  and  in  1775  had  charge  of  the 
construction  of  Fort  Griswold,  at  Groton. 
where  his  brother,  the  commander  and  noted 
hero  of  the  place.  Colonel  William  Ledyard, 
met  with  a  tragic  death.  Ebenezer  was  held 
as  hostage  for  the  wounded  captured  by  the 
British  at  the  surrender  of  the  fort,  and  on 
their  return  he  was  taken  by  them  to  New 
York.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Latham,  of 
Groton,  born  January  6,  1739,  died  February 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


15-  1779-  The  gravestone  inscription  at  the 
Ledyard  cemetery,  Groton,  reads:  "Mrs.  Mary 
the  amiable  wife  of  Ebenezer  Ledyard  Esq." 
He  died,  as  above  mentioned,  at  seventy-five 
years  of  age.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth 
Gardiner,  of  Stonington,  Connecticut,  who  had 
three  children :  Jonathan,  Henry  G.  and  Guy 
Carlston  Ledyard.  Children  of  Ebenezer  and 
Mary  were:  i.  Ebenezer  Jr.,  born  1760,  died 
at  Groton,  November  17,  1776.  2.  Jonathan. 
3.  David.  4.  Gurdon,  born  1769,  died  1770. 
5.  Gurdon  2nd.  6.  William  Pitt.  7.  Austin. 
8.  Nathaniel.  9.  Benjamin,  born  in  Groton, 
August  28,  1778,  died  April  15,  1788.  10.  Jo- 
seph, his  twin  brother,  died  September  5,  1778. 
(HI)  William  Pitt,  sixth  son  of  Ebenezer 
and  Mary  (Latham)  Ledyard,  was  born  in 
Groton  in  1774,  and  died  in  Bath,  Maine, 
where  he  removed,  August  24,  181 2,  aged 
thirty-eight  years.  He  married  Mercy,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Asa  Palmer,  of  Stonington.  An 
old  day-book  or  blotter  kept  by  the  captain 
contained  an  itemized  account  given  in  the 
currency  of  the  time,  of  one  hundred  or  more 
articles  included  in  the  grandmother's  dowry. 
This  book  of  quaint  interest  is  now  in  pos- 
session of  the  family  of  James  C.  Ledyard. 
The  children  of  William  Pitt  and  Alercy 
were :  Flarriet,  Julia  A.,  William  P.,  Mercy, 
Caroline. 

(IV)  Harriet,  daughter  of  William  Pitt 
and  Mercy  (Palmer)  Ledyard,  married,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1827,  Orrin  D.  Crommett,  born  at 
Waterville,  Maine,  June  10,  1796,  and  died 
there  1845.  He  was  the  son  of  James  Crom- 
mett, a  lumberman,  of  Kennebec  county,  until 
after  the  embargo  act,  when  he  met  with 
heavy  losses.  His  wife  was  a  Miss  Delano, 
daughter  of  Peleg  Delano,  of  Sidney,  Maine. 
Orrin  D.  was  one  of  three  sons.  He  fol- 
lowed the  business  of  millwright  and  owner 
at  Waterville  during  his  active  years  and  was 
fairly  successful.  He  died  about  1840,  and 
his  widow  in  185 1  removed  to  Bath,  j\laine. 

(V)  James  Crommett,  son  of  Orrin  D.  and 
Harriet  (Ledyard)  Crommett,  was  born  in 
Waterville,  December  30,  1833.  He  was  but 
seven  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death,  and  wdien  he  was  eighteen  he  removed 
with  his  mother  to  Bath.  On  reaching  twenty- 
one  years  of  age,  by  a  special  act  of  the  legis- 
lature he  assumed  the  name  Ledyard.  He 
first  engaged  in  business  as  clerk  with  his 
uncle,  William  P.  Ledyard,  after  establishing 
a  furniture  business,  which  he  gave  up  in 
the  early  seventies  to  attend  to  other  interests. 
He  gave  largely  of  his  time  and  ability  to  the 
city  of  Bath,  having  served  in  both  branches 


of  the  city  government.  In  1882  Mr.  Led- 
yard was  unanimously  elected  mayor,  which 
office  he  ably  filled  for  two  years.  He  was 
identified  with  the  school  committee  and  was 
chairman  of  the  committee  which  built  the 
Morse  high  school,  rendering  the  city  invalu- 
able service  and  securing  an  edifice  second 
to  none  in  the  state  for  educational  uses.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  JMaine  legislature  in 
1899,  3rid  was  for  many  years  connected  with 
the  Bath  Savings  Institution  as  director  and 
president.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Lin- 
coln National  Bank  and  a  director  of  the  East- 
ern Steamboat  Company,  and  was  president  of 
the  board  of  managers  of  the  Old  Ladies 
Home.  He  was  a  member  of  Solar  Lodge, 
F.  and  A.  M.,  also  of  Montgomery  and  St. 
Bernard  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  and  a  deacon 
of  the  Central  Congregational  church.  He 
died  in  Bath,  September  26,  1907.  The  fol- 
lowing is  from  an  obituary  of  the  Bath  paper. 
"Mr.  Ledyard  was  beloved  and  respected  by 
the  entire  community  and  his  death  comes  as 
a  great  loss  not  only  to  his  immediate  fam- 
ily, but  to  all  who  knew  him  and  to  this  city 
which  he  has  so  long  and  so  faithfully  served." 
i\lr.  Ledyard  married,  March  24,  1863,  Mary 
Jane,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Elvira  (Weeks) 
Owen,  who  died  September  23,  1904.  Chil- 
dren :  William,  of  Boston,  James  P.,  Owen  J., 
of  Bath,  and  Harriet  C.  Five  other  children 
died  in  infancy. 

The  old  Ledyard  house  at  Hartford,  built 
by  the  ancestor  John,  or,  as  he  was  called, 
Judge  John  Ledyard  (who  died  1771),  was 
on  the  northeast  corner  of  Arch  and  Prospect 
streets.  It  was  a  two-story,  heavy-timbered 
frame  house,  with  a  plain,  straight  roof.  The 
frontage  was  50-60  feet  and  the  depth  35-40 
feet.  There  was  a  wide  hall  and  long,  straight 
staircase  ;  the  rooms  were  large  and  lofty.  Two 
chimneys  were  in  the  body  of  tlie  house  be- 
tween the  rooms.  There  were  two  windows 
on  the  west  and  three  on  the  east  side  of  the 
front  door.  The  doors  were  without  porches. 
An  L  was  constructed  for  a  kitchen  and  well- 
room  and  joined  by  the  main  building.  Large 
cedar-trees  w^re  on  each  side  of  the  front 
door,  and  about  thirty  feet  from  the  house  on 
the  west  side  a  row  of  elm-trees.  To  adapt 
the  building  to  two  families,  in  1830  a  brick 
kitchen  was  erected  and  connected  with  the 
northwest  corner.  In  the  rear  a  one  and  one- 
half  story  house  (probably  originally  the 
negro  servants'  quarters)  was  occupied  by 
colored  people  for  many  years,  till  torn  down, 
1835-40.  It  was  not  included  in  the  Ledyard 
property.     Ledyard   house,    one   of   the   finest 


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residences  in  the  town,  was  torn  down  1865- 
70,  but  most  of  the  fine  elm-trees  remain. 

The    surname    Stanhope    is 
STANHOPE     of   local    origin.      The   first 

record  of  this  ancient, 
knightly  and  noble  family  is  of  Walter  de 
Stanhope,  county  Durham,  whose  son  Richard 
died  in  1338.  The  name  is  taken  from  the 
town  of  Stanhope,  near  Darlington,  county 
Durham,  the  ancient  residence  of  the  family. 
Lord  Stanhope  wrote  a  history  of  the  family, 
entitled  "Notices  of  the  Stanhopes"  (8  vc, 
1855).  The  pedigree  is  traced  to  1216  in 
some  of  the  English  branches.  Of  this  fam- 
ily are  the  Earl  of  Chesterfield,  the  Earl  of 
Stanhope  and  the  Earl  of  Harrington.  There 
are  many  coats-of-arms,  some  of  ancient  date. 
Among  the  oldest  is :  Sable  a  bend  between 
six  crosses  crosslet  argent.  These  arms  were 
placed  in  the  chapel  of  Baliol  College,  O.x- 
ford,  in  1574.  We  find  the  name  in  early 
records  spelled  Stanape  and  Stanup. 

(T)  Ensign  Jonathan  Stanhope,  immigrant 
ancestor,  settled  early  in  Sudbury,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  died  October  22,  1702,  aged 
seventy  years.  Therefore  he  was  born  in 
1632,  doubtless  in  England.  He  married,  at 
Charlestown,  April    16,    1656,   Susanna   Ayer. 

He   married    (second)    Abigail   ,    who 

died  at  Sudbury,  his  widow,  September  17, 
1722.  Children,  born  at  Sudbury:  i.  Jona- 
than, February  2,  1657,  married.  May  11, 
1674,  Sarah  Griffin;  children:  i.  Isaac,  born 
June  27,  1675  ;  ii.  Jonathan,  November  5,  died 
November  19,  1681.  2.  Sarah,  JMarch  25, 
1658.  3.  Hannah,  married,  April  I,  1686, 
Stephen  Jennings.  4.  Joseph,  September  13, 
1662,  mentioned  below.  5.  Jemima,  June  5, 
1665.  6.  Mary,  January  29,  1667,  married 
William  Wesson.  7.  Rebecca,  October  29, 
1670.  8.  Jemima,  married,  October  15,  1689, 
Thomas  Rutter. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Ensign  Jonathan  (i) 
Stanhope,  was  born  in  Sudbury,  Massachu- 
setts, September  n,  1662.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary I,  1684-85,  Hannah  Bradish,  who  died 
July  20,  1727,  daughter  of  Joseph  Bradish. 
Children,  born  at  Sudbury:  i.  Susanna,  Sep- 
tember I,  1685,  married,  September  27,  1727, 
William  Simson.  2.  Jonathan,  January  25, 
1686-87,  rnentioned  below.  3.  Jemima,  mar- 
ried, ^lay  27,  1717,  John  Walker.  4.  Isaac, 
died  December  30,  1729.     5.  Joseph. 

(III)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
Stanhope,  was  born  January  23,   1686-87,  ^^ 

Sudbury.      He    married    Abigail    — ■ .      A 

Jonathan    married,    October    21,    1733,    Bath- 


sheba  Walker,  thought  to  be  his  second  wife. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Joseph,  born  No- 
vember 15,  1715,  mentioned  below.  2.  Anna, 
November  4.  I7r7,  married,  in  Marlborough, 
November  17,  1737,  Jonathan  Whipple.  3. 
Samuel,  April  23.  1719,  settled  at  Bolton,  Mas- 
sachusetts; married,  in  Framingham.  Novem- 
ber 6,  1755,  Elizabeth  Angler;  children:  i. 
Samuel,  born  October  15,  1756,  married,  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1778,  Mary  Goodnow ;  he  was  a 
soldier  in  the  revolution  from  Bolton,  Captain 
Benjamin  Hastings'  company.  Colonel  John 
Whitcomb's  regiment ;  ii.  Elizabeth,  January 
16,  1758,  married,  May  29,  1777,  William  « 
Walker;  iii.  Peter,  November  29,  1759,  revo- 
lutionary soldier  from  Bolton,  married,  No- 
vember 30,  1775,  Elizabeth  Parmenter;  iv. 
Asahel,  October  i.  1761  ;  v.  Jonas,  March  31, 
1764;  vi.  Dinah,  July  23,  1766;  vii.  Anne,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1768;  viii.  Azubah,  November  25, 
1770.     4.  Abigail,  November  23,  1720. 

(I\')  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Stanhope,  was  born  in  Sudbury,  November  15, 
1 71 5.  The  family  of  Joseph  seems  to  have 
moved  to  Maine  about  1760.  Joseph  Stan- 
hope signed  a  petition  to  settle  Rev.  Peter 
Thacher  Smith  at  New  Marblehead,  or  Wind- 
ham, Alaine,  April  12,  1762.  He  was  then  an 
inhabitant  of  the  town.  No  earlier  record  is 
found.  No  later  record  than  1757  is  found 
at  Sudbury.  The  family  was  small.  We  have 
given  the  entire  family  practically  down  to 
the  time  Joseph  located  in  Maine.  No  other 
family  of  the  name  is  to  be  found  in  Massa- 
chusetts or  New  England  before  the  revolu- 
tion. Joseph  married  (first)  at  Sudbury, 
January  24,  1739-40,  Keziah  Parmenter;  (sec- 
ond) January  31,  1755,  Sarah  How.  Children 
of  first  wife:  i.  Mercy,  born  June  22,  1745. 
2.  Abigail,  Alay  30,  1748.  3.  Keziah,  Novem- 
ber 28,  1752.  Children  of  second  wife:  4. 
Isaac.  5.  Joseph,  May  27,  1757,  soldier  in  the 
revolution  from  Deerfield,  Massachusetts. 

(\')  Isaac,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Stanhope, 
was  born  at  Sudbury,  October  15,  1755.  Sol- 
dier in  the  revolution  from  Packersfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts (Maine)  in  Captain  Ezra  Tow'n's 
regiment.  Colonel  James  Read's  regiment, 
aged  nineteen,  height  five  feet  five  inches,  com- 
plexion brown,  eyes  light,  farmer  by  occupa- 
tion,   birthplace    Sudbury,    enlisted    May    13, 

1775- 

( \  I )  Warren,  son  or  nephew  of  Isaac 
Stanhope,  was  born  in  1800;  settled  in  Robin- 
ston  and  Orrington,  Maine,  died  in  1868.  He 
married  Mary  Butler,  of  Calais,  Maine,  born 
1791,  died  1880.  Children:  i.  William,  bom 
in  Orrington,  mentioned  below.     2.   Warren. 


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3.  Curtis,  a  physician.  4.  James  M.,  died  of 
disease  while  a  soldier  of  the  civil  war.  5. 
John,  died  in  Bradford.     6.  Mary  B. 

(VII)  William,  son  of  Warren  Stanhope, 
was  bom  in  Orrington,  Maine,  about  1825, 
died  in  Bradford,  Maine.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  in  his  native  town,  and  fol- 
lowed farming  during  his  active  life  at  Brad- 
ford, Maine. "  He  was  deacon  in  Free  Will 
liaptist  church.  A  Republican  in  politics.  He 
married  Sarah  Howard,  born  in  Bangor, 
Maine,  died  1874,  at  Bradford.  Children:  i. 
William  H.,  soldier  in  the  civil  war;  at 
Drury's   Blufif  he  was  wounded,  and  was   in 

•hespital  three  months;  died  in  Andersonville 
Prison.  2.  Frances  E.,  married  Llewelyn  A. 
Lucas.  3.  Abbie  S.,  married  William  G.  Lar- 
rabee.  4.  Flenry  Brevet,  mentioned  below.  By 
a  subsequent  marriage,  there  is  a  son,  Wesley, 
now  residing  in  South  Lincoln,  Maine. 

(VIII)  Henry  Brevet,  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  (Howard)  Stanhope,  was  born  in 
Bradford,  Maine,  January  5,  1844,  and  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  When  but  seventeen  years  of  age,  in 
September,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  the  civil  war, 
in  Company  E,  Eleventh  Maine  Volunteers, 
and  served  through  the  war,  being  mustered 
out  February  2,  1866,  with  the  rank  of  ser- 
geant of  the  same  company.  He  went  through 
the  Peninsula  Campaign  from  Yorktown  to 
Harrison's  Landing,  and  contracted  the  ty- 
phoid fever  there.  He  was  away  from  the 
regiment  for  a  while,  in  Florida,  and  from 
there  went  back  to  Morris  Island,  and  while 
there  was  in  Battery  Chatfield  about  two 
months,  on  the  upper  end  of  the  island,  shell- 
ing Fort  Sumpter.  He  re-enlisted  January 
4,  and  got  a  thirty-day  furlough  home.  He 
was  back  with  the  regiment  in  \'irginia  again 
in  April,  in  the  Army  of  the  James,  under 
General  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  Tenth  Army 
Corps;  was  wounded  in  May,  but  got  back 
to  finish  the  campaign  of  '64-'65  at  Appornat- 
tox  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Army  Corps,  First 
Division,  Third  Brigade.  He  took  part  in 
many  engagements  and  saw  hard  service  in 
some  of  the  notable  campaigns  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac.  He  was  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, a  few  years,  being  there  at  the  time  of 
the  big  fire,  in  72,  and  was  on  special  police 
in  the  "city  at  the  time  of  the  first  jubilee  there. 
Upon  leaving  the  service  he  went  to  Michigan, 
to  work  in  the  lumbering  industry  of  that  sec- 
tion, and  for  three  years  was  watchman  in  a 
sawmill  at  East  Saginaw,  Michigan.  He  sub- 
sequently engaged  in  farming  and  lumbering. 
In  1884  he  returned  to  Foxcroft,  Maine,  and 


since  then  has  been  engaged  in  farming  in 
that  town  most  of  the  time.  In  1904,  owing 
to  failing  health,  he  sold  his  farm,  and  now 
lives  in  the  village  of  Foxcroft,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  home,  and  is  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness. He  is  a  well  known  and  highly  re- 
spected citizen.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republi- 
can. He  is  a  member  of  Charles  D.  Jamison 
Post,  No.  no,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
of  Bradford  Center,  Maine.  He  was  formerly 
commander  of  C.  S.  Douty  Post,  of  Dover, 
and  Charles  P.  Chandler  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of 
Foxcroft. 

Henry  B.  Stanhope  married,  in  Dexter, 
Maine,  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  M.  Davies,  March 
29,  1874.  Emma  H.  Pratt,  born  December  16, 
1849,  daughter  of  Seth  C.  Pratt,  born  Sep- 
tember 2,  1807,  died  June  2,  1880,  and  Mary 
(Herring)  Pratt,  born  February  2,  1813,  died 
November  22,  1895.  Robert  and  Polly 
(Wagg)  Herring  were  the  parents  of  Mary 
(Herring)  Pratt,  and  they  lived  at  New 
Gloucester,  Maine.  Children  of  Seth  C.  and 
Mary  (Herring)  Pratt:  Cynthia  J.,  Rev. 
George  W.,  Rev.  Henry  O.,  Emma  H.  (Mrs. 
Stanhope)  and  George  W.,  who  died  young. 
Joel  Pratt,  father  of  Seth  C.  Pratt,  was  born 
in  Massachusetts,  in  1776;  married  Sarah 
Jones ;  children :  Reuben,  Nelson,  Lawson, 
Seth  C,  mentioned  above,  Esther,  Marilla,  Joel 
Jr.  and  Sarah  Jones  Pratt.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stanhope   have   no  children. 


There  were  numerous  immi- 
WILLIS  grants  of  this  name  from  Eng- 
land during  the  colonial  period, 
but  the  founder  of  the  family  treated  of  below 
was  probably  the  first  to  arrive  in  this  country. 
(I)  Deacon  John  Willis,  a  Puritan  of  great 
respectabilitv  and  considerable  distinction,  ar- 
rived in  New  England  during  or  prior  to  1637, 
and  settled  in  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  entered  with  spirit  into  the  management 
of  the  early  public  affairs  of  the  town.  He 
sold  his  property  to  William  Pabodie  in  1657, 
removing  to  Bridgewater  as  one  of  the  original 
proprietors.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  town  government,  holding  various  town 
offices,  was  appointed  to  solemnize  marriages 
and  administer  oaths,  served  as  representative 
to  the  general  court  for  a  period  of  twenty- 
five  years,  and  was  the  first  deacon  of  the 
church  in  Bridgewater.  His  will  was  dated 
1692  and  proven  the  following  year.  He  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Hodgkins)  Palmer, 
widow  of  William  Palmer,  and  had  children  : 
Deacon  John,  Nathaniel,  Joseph,  Comfort, 
Benjamin,  Hannah,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah. 


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(II)  Deacon  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  Deacon 
John  (I)  and  Elizabeth  (Hodgkins)  (Palmer) 
Willis,  married  Experience  Byram,  of  Bridge- 
water;  died  in  1712;  had  children:  John,  Ex- 
perience, Samuel,  Mary,  Nathaniel. 

(III)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Deacon  John  (2) 
and  Experience  (Byram)  Willis,  according  to 
tradition,  was  born  about  1700,  in  Taunton, 
Massachusetts  :  married  and  had  two  children  : 
Lemuel  and  another  son. 

(IV)  Lemuel,  son  of  Nathaniel  Willis,  born 
about  1740,  died  1780;  married  Lydia  Hodges, 
born  in  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  1741,  died  at 
Windham,  Vermont,  1810;  had  one  child, 
Lemuel. 

(V)  Lemuel  (2),  son  of  Lemuel  (' i )  and 
Lydia  (Hodges)  Willis,  born  June  29,  1771, 
in  Taunton,  died  in  Westmoreland,  New 
Hampshire,  i\Iay  12,  1849:  married  Fanny 
Cobb,  born  February  24,  1780,  in  Hallowell, 
Maine;  had  children:  Lemuel,  Fanny  C,  John. 
H. 

(VI)  Rev.  Lemuel  (3),  son  of  Lemuel  (2) 
and  Fanny  (Cobb)  Willis,  was  born  in  Wind- 
ham, Vermont,  April  24,  1802,  and  died  in 
Warner,  New  Hampshire,  July  23,  1878. 
After  pursuing  the  regular  course  of  study 
at  the  Chesterfield  Academy,  New  Hampshire, 
he  devoted  himself  to  theology,  and,  entering 
the  ministry  of  the  Universalist  church,  held 
pastorates  in  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire ;  Troy, 
New  York ;  Salem,  Lynn,  Cambridgeport  and 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts ;  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire,  and  other  places.  He  was  a 
pleasing  speaker,  noted  for  his  clear  and  forci- 
ble sermons  and  his  ministry  extended 
throughout  a  period  of  fifty  years.  He  was 
married    (first)   to  Almanda  R.,  daughter  of 

Edward  and ( W'itherill )  Simmons  ;  she 

was  born  in  Westmoreland,  New  Hampshire, 
January  25,  1803,  and  died  September  23,  1846. 
Their  children  w'ere:  i.  Lemuel  Murray,  see 
forward.  2.  Otis  W.,  born  August  24,  1829. 
3.  Algernon,  July  28,  1833.  4.  Mary  L.,  Jan- 
uary 13,  1836,  died  August  20,  i86g;  she 
married  Philip  C.  Bean,  of  Warner,  New 
Hampshire,  and  had  a  son,  L.  Willis  Bean, 
who  is  now  an  employe  of  the  United  States 
government  in  customs  at  Portland,  Maine. 
5.  Harlon  Simmons,  July  18,  1843,  who  has 
a  son,  Arthur  L.,  who  is  the  deputy  secretary 
of  state  of  the  state  of  New  Hampshire.  Rev. 
Lemuel  married  (second)  Abigail  P.  George, 
of  Warner,  New  Hampshire. 

(VII)  Dr.  Lemuel  Alurray,  eldest  child  of 
Rev.  Lemuel  (3)  and  Almanda  R.  (Simmons) 
Willis,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire, 
and  died  in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  Jan- 


uary 17,  1893.  During  his  youth  he  made 
good  use  of  his  time  in  the  study  of  the 
classics,  and  books  on  philosophy,  language 
and  science  were  his  constant  companions  dur- 
ing the  time  when  he  was  directed  in  his 
studies  by  his  proficient  and  painstaking  father. 
Upon  the  completion  of  his  classical  course, 
and  when  he  had  obtained  some  knowledge  of 
his  professional  work,  he  entered  Dartmouth 
Medical  College  and  was  graduated  Doctor  of 
Medicine  with  the  class  of  1847.  He  taught 
school  and  practiced  medicine  in  Eliot,  Maine, 
1848-49,  and  during  the  latter  year  made  the 
trip  to  California  with  other  gold-seekers.  Re- 
turning to  Eliot,  a  wiser  if  not  a  richer  man, 
he  resumed  the  practice  of  medicine,  remain- 
ing there  until  the  spring  of  1858,  when  he 
removed  to  Canton,  Massachusetts,  from 
thence  to  Chelsea,  and  soon  after  to  Charles- 
town.  He  was  made  assistant-surgeon  of  the 
Twenty-sixth  Massachusetts  Volunteer  In- 
fantry in  July.  1862,  and  accompanied  the 
regiment  to  New  Orleans,  where  it  was  sta- 
tioned under  the  general  directions  of  Major- 
General  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  commanding' the 
Department  of  the  Gulf.  He  was  then  sta- 
tioned with  the  regiment  at  Ship  Island  and 
Fort  Pike,  where  his  care  for  and  fatherly  at- 
tention to  the  needs  of  those  entrusted  to  his 
ministrations  won  well-deserved  praise,  and 
was  mustered  out  at  the  close  of  the  war,  in 
1865.  He  returned  to  Charlestown,  again  ta- 
king up  the  practice  of  medicine,  and  "lived  in 
that  town  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  leading  medical  so- 
cieties of  :\Iassachusetts,  held  the  rank  of 
Knight  Templar  in  the  Masonic  fraternity  and 
was  the  founder  and  first  president  of  the  Bos- 
ton Microscopical  Society.  He  was  a  thorough 
musician,  an  expert  performer  on  the  piano 
and  violin  and  possessed  of  rare  artistic  tastes. 
His  love  for  books  made  him  a  discerning  col- 
lector of  French,  German  and  Latin,  as  well 
as  English  classics  and  the  philosophical  and 
scientific  treasures  of  literature  in  the  tongue 
in  which  they  first  appeared  w^ere  his  par- 
ticular delight.  He  contributed  original  and 
translated  scientific  and  medical  articles  of 
merit  to  various  magazines  and  to  the  pro- 
ceedings of  learned  societies,  as  well  as  articles 
having  a  bearing  on  his  professional  and  re- 
search work.  He  married  (first)  in  Eliot, 
Maine,  July  15,  1849,  Paulina  H.,  who  died 
March  23,  1858,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Marv 
(Staples)  Fogg.  They  had  one  child:  John 
Lemuel  Murray,  see  forward.  Dr.  Willis 
married  (second)  February  25,  1865,  Abbie 
A.,  who  died  in  Alalden,  November  21,  1903, 


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and  was  a  daughter  of  Eben  and  Priscilla 
.(Hutchins)  Neal,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts. 
By  this  second  marriage  Dr.  Willis  had  chil- 

.dren:  Harold  N.,  who  became  a  resident  of 
Arlington,  Massachusetts,  and  Edith  G.,  who 
married  Frank  Rideout,  and  made  her  home  in 
Saugus,  Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  John  Lemuel  Murray,  only  child  of 
Dr.  Lemuel  Murray  and  Paulina  H.  (Fogg) 
Willis,  was  born  in  Chelsea,  Massachusetts, 
February  ii,  1856.  He  remained  in  Eliot. 
Maine,  after  the  death  of  his  mother,  and  was 
graduated  from  the  public  schools  and  academy 
of  the  town,  and  also  from  the  Berwick 
Academy.  He  selected  as  his  profession  that 
of   his   father,    and    was   graduated    from   the 

:  medical  department  of  Bowdoin  College  as 
Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1877,  and  was  at  once 
appointed  house  surgeon  of  the  Maine  Gen- 
eral Hospital.  After  a  service  of  one  year 
he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the  Medi- 
cal School  connected  with  the  New  York  Uni- 
versity, then  settled  as  a  physician  and  sur- 
geon in  Eliot,  Maine,  and  made  his  home  in 
the  old  homestead  of  John  Fogg,  which  had 
been  in  the  possession  of  his  mother's  family 
since  1699.  The  house  was  built  in  1737  and 
the  homestead  is  located  on  the  Old  Road  in 
EHot.  The  building  is  beautifully  shaded  by 
two  stately  elms  that  rise  high  above  the  two- 
storied  house  and  give  an  air  of  colonial 
grandeur  to  the  entire  landscape.  Dr.  Willis 
was  early  connected  with  the  public  school 
system  of  Eliot  as  a  teacher  and  subsequently 
as  superintendent  of  schools  and  a  trustee  of 
Berwick  Academy.  He  is  a  member  and  has 
served  as  president  of  the  York  County 
Medical  Society ;  is  a  member  and  has  served 
as  vice-president  of  the  Maine  jNIedical  So- 
ciety ;  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  Maine 
Medical  Board  of  Registration  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Medical  Association  and 
of  the  Strafford  County  Medical  Association. 
His  fraternal  affiliations  are  with  the  Masonic 
order,  in  which  he  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  a  member  of  the  Knights  Templar  and 
a  Noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in  which 
he  has  held  high  official  positions.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society  and 
of  the  Warwick  Club,  of  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire.  He  was  an  active  factor  in  ad- 
vancing the  interests  of  the  William  Fogg  Li- 
brary, made  possible  by  the  benefaction  of 
Dr.  John  S.  H.  Fogg,  of  Boston,  who  was  a 
native  of  EHot,  and  who  provided  for  the 
erection  and  maintenance  of  a  free  public 
library  to  the  memory  of  his  father,  the  in- 


stitution to  bear  the  well-remembered  name 
of  William  Fogg.  The  gift  included  his  li- 
brary of  choice  books,  appraised  at  the  time 
of  his  death  at  ten  thousand  dollars.  This 
institution  now  stands  on  the  very  acres  that 
were  a  part  of  William  Fogg's  homestead  and 
Dr.  Fogg's  birthplace.  The  town  appointed 
Dr.  Willis  as  its  trustee  and  he  has  charge  of 
the  building.  His  private  library  includes 
over  four  thousand  volumes,  collected  by  his 
father  and  himself,  both  enthusiastic  and  dis- 
criminating book-lovers  and  collectors.  On 
June  25,  1902,  Dr.  Willis  was  presented  by 
his  townsmen  with  a  silver  loving-cup  just  as 
he  had  rounded  out  twenty-five  years  of  prac- 
tice among  them.  He  edited  "Old  Eliot,"  a 
valuable  historical,  biographical  and  genea- 
logical quarterly  magazine,  now  in  its  ninth 
year,  and  he  is  president  of  the  Eliot  Histor- 
ical Society. 

He  married,  October  i,  1879,  Carrie  Estelle, 
daughter  of  Freeman  C.  and  Ellen  J.  (Cooper) 
Ham ;  they  have  children :  Elizabeth  Gail, 
born  October  18,  1884,  and  Harlon  Parker, 
born  April  30,  1891. 


Charles  Gardiner,  son  of 
McCULLY  Charles  McCully,  of  Trenton, 
New  Jersey,  and  Jane  Emma 
(Lawrence)  McCully,  of  New  York  City,  was 
born  in  New  York,  "December  29,  1832.  In 
his  early  childhood  the  family  removed  to 
Oswego,  New  York,  where  he  passed  through 
the  first  stage  of  education  in  the  public 
schools.  He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the 
celebrated  academy  at  Homer,  New  York, 
then  under  the  direction  of  Samuel  B.  Wool- 
worth,  afterward  chancellor  of  the  University 
of  the  State.  He  matriculated  at  Yale  Col- 
lege in  1850,  and  was  graduated  A.  B.  in 
1853.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Society  and  in  the  commencement  ap- 
pointments was  in  the  rank  next  after  the 
valedictorian  and  the  salutatorian.  The  class 
numbered  one  hundred  and  four  members, 
among  whom  were  Andrew  Dickson  White, 
first  president  of  Cornell  University  and 
United  States  ambassador  to  Germany,  Ed- 
mund Clarence  Stedman,  the  poet,  'Wayne 
MacVeagh,  attorney-general  of  the  United 
States  and  ambassador  to  Italy,  Hiram  Bing- 
ham, the  missionary-educator,  and  so  many 
others  who  have  gained  high  distinction  that 
it  is  often  designated  "the  famous  class  of 
'53."  After  three  years  spent  in  teaching  in 
Mississippi,  Mr.  McCully  entered  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  of  New  York  City,  and 
was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1859.     His  first 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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charge  was  that  of  the  Congregational  church, 
at   Milltown,  New   Brunswick,  where  he  was 
ordained  July   17,  i860.     He  remained  in  this 
place  until    1866,  having  rendered  in    1865  a 
term  of  service  in  the  Christian  Commission  of 
the  civil  war.     From   1866  to  the  early  part 
of  1876  he  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Hallowell,  Maine.     Thence  he  was 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  church  in  Calais, 
and   continued   in    it   until   his   resignation   in 
April,    igo8,   a   service    of    thirty-two    years. 
Having  declined  the  request  of  the  church  to 
prolong  the  relation  he  was  made  pastor  emer- 
itus.    ^Ir.  ilcCully  has  been  the  moderator  of 
the  general  conference  of  the  Congregational 
churches  of  Maine  and  on  two  occasions  has 
given   the   annual    sermon    before   that    body. 
He  was  a  state  delegate  to  the  International 
Congregational  Council  held  in  Boston,  iSgg, 
and  again  to  that  of  Edinburgh,  in  igoS.     He 
is  one  of  the  oldest  trustees  in  years  of  service 
of  the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  and  has 
served  on  important  committees  in  the  interest 
of  the  institution.     He  has  endeared  himself 
to  the  people  of  Calais  beyond  the  circle  of 
his  own  church,  and  has  taken  a  conspicuous 
and  influential  part  in  all  movements  relating 
to    the    welfare    of    the    community.     During 
many  years  he  has  been  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  Free  Libran,'  and  Reading- 
Room,  and  has  given  much  time  and  labor  to 
the  oversight  of  it.     The  library  is  housed  in 
a   building   which   was   erected   in    i8g4  at   a 
cost  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  the  joint  gift  of 
Frederick    Augustus    Pike     (181 7- 1886),    of 
Calais,  and  Freeman  H.  Todd,  of  St.  Stephen. 
The  library  enjoys  a  liberal  endowment  pro- 
vided by  James  Shephard  Pike,  associate  edi- 
tor of  the  Nciv  York  Tribune,  1850-60,  United 
States   minister   to  the    Netherlands    1861-66. 
A  peculiar   feature  of  the  endowment  is  the 
interdiction   by   the   testator  of  the   purchase 
from  the  fund  of  any  novel  which  has  not  been 
published  more  than  ten  years.     Mr.  McCully 
was  married  December  25,  1867,  to  Frances, 
daughter  of  George  Marks  and  Mary  Bridges 
(Topliff)    Porter.      Their   children    were:     i. 
Emma  Lawrence,  born  January  21,   1873.     2. 
Alary   Porter,  January   17,   1874,  died   Alarch 
17,   i8g9.     Mrs.   McCully  is  a  descendant  of 
John  Porter,  the  immigrant  in  the  following 
line. 


John  Porter,  of  Hingham  and 
PORTER     Salem    (Danvers),  a  tanner  by 

trade  and  occupation,  was  born 
in  England  in  1595.  He  came  probably  from 
Dorsetshire  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony, 


probably    landed    in     Boston     and     going    to 
Dorchester.     He  was  among  those  who  came 
from    Dorchester   to    Hingham   in    1635,    and 
during  his  short  stay  in  that  town  he  owned 
land  at  "Otis  Hill,"  "Over  the  Delaware,"  at 
"Lyford's      Licking      Meadows,"      "Crooked 
Meadows,"  "Plaine  Neck,"  "Weir  Neck,"  and 
at  "Turkey  Meadows."    His  residence  was  on 
East  street,  on  lands  granted  to  him  in  1637, 
and  now  a  part  of  the  Hingham  Agricultural 
and   Horticultural   Society  grounds.     He  was 
constable   in    1641    and  a  deputy  in   the  gen- 
eral  court  of  elections  held   in   Boston,   May 
29,    1664,  and  in  the  same  year  he   removed 
from  Hingham  to  that  part  of  Salem  after- 
wards known  as  Danvers,  and  May  5,   1644, 
Mary    Porter    (supposed    to    have    been    his 
wife)   joined  the  Salem  church,  but  his  own 
name  does  not  appear  on  the  church  records 
.,  until   i64g.     He  sold  his  house  and  lands  in 
Hingham   to   Nathaniel    Baker  in    1648.      He 
had  already  purchased  a  farm  in  Salem  of  the 
Rev.    Samuel   Sharp,   May   10,    1643,   ^or  one 
hundred  and  ten  pounds,  and  he  paid  the  first 
installment  of  fifty  pounds  May  20,  1643,  the 
second  of  thirty  pounds  May  i,  1644,  the  third 
of  thirty  pounds.  May  i,  1645,  he  did  not  pay 
until  January  20,  1652.    On  June  2g,  1648,  he 
bought  of  Simon  Bradstreet,  of  Boston,  one- 
third  of  a   farm  of  one  hundred   and   eighty 
acres  and  the  same  day  bought  of  William  and 
Richard    Haj'nes,    of    Salem,    the    other   two- 
thirds  of  Bishop's  farm.     In   1650  he  bought 
five  hundred  acres  of  land  of  Emanuel  Down- 
ing, of  Salem,  which  farm  he  gave  to  his  son 
Joseph  (q.  v.)  as  a  marriage  portion  in  1663. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  the  largest 
landholder  in  Salem  \nilage,  his  lands  being 
included    in    what    became    the    townships    of 
Danvers,  Salem,  W'indham,  Topsfield  and  Bev- 
erly.    He  was  deputy  from  Salem  to  the  gen- 
eral court  of  elections  held  in   Boston,  April 
29,    1668.      He   died   in   Salem  Village    (now 
Danvers),  September  6,  1676,  and  his  widow 
Mary,  who  probably  came  with  him  from  Eng- 
land,  was   said   by    Perley   Derby,   of    Salem, 
eminent  authority,  to  have  been  living  in  1685. 
The  children  of  John  and  Mary  Porter,  the 
immigrants,   were:      i.   John,  a  mariner,   un- 
married,  who  may   have   been  born   in   Eng- 
land, and  who  died  March  16,  1684.    2.  Sam- 
uel, mariner,  owned  a  large  farm  near  Wind- 
ham, married   Hannah,   daughter  of  William 
and    Elizabeth    Dodge,   of    Beverly,   and   they 
had  one  child,  John,  born   1658.     He  died  in 
1660   and    his    widow    married,    December   2, 
1661,    Thomas    Woodbury,    of    Beverly,    and 
died  January  2,    1689,   aged    forty-five   years. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


She  had  by  her  second  marriage  nine  children. 

3.  Joseph  (q.  v.),  baptized  September  9,  1638. 

4.  Benjamin,  baptized  in  liingham,  November, 
1639;  died  unmarried  January  7,  1722-23.  5. 
Israel,  baptized  in  Hingham,  February  12, 
1643.  I'larried  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William 
and  Ann  Hathorn,  and  died  in  November, 
1706.  6.  Mary,  born  in  Salem  Village,  mar- 
ried Lieutenant  Thomas  Gardner,  April  22, 
1669.  7.  Jonathan,  baptized  in  Salem,  March 
12,  1647-48,  died  before  1676.  8.  Sarah,  bap- 
tized in  Salem,  June  3,  1649,  married  Daniel 
Andrews. 

(II)    Joseph,  third  son  of  John  and  Mary 
Porter,  was  baptized  at  Hingham,  Massachu- 
setts, September  9,   1638,  by  Rev.  Peter  Ho- 
bart.      He   removed  with   his   father  and   the 
others  of  the  family  to  Salem  Village  in  1644, 
and  on  his  marriage  with  Anne,  daughter  of 
Major  William  and  Ann  Hathorn,  on  Janu- 
ary 27,   1664,  he  received  from  his  father  as 
a  marriage  portion  the  five-hundred-acre  farm 
of  Emanuel  Downing  in  Salem,  and  on  Sep- 
tember  17,    1678,  he  bought  of  Hilliard   Va- 
ren  Jr.  forty  poles  of  land  in  Salem.     On  Oc- 
tober 24,  1686,  he  added  to  his  estate  by  pur- 
chase twenty  acres  of  land  on  the  south  side 
of  the  Ipswich  river,  in  Topsfield,  and  adjoin- 
ing lands  of  his  brother,  Benjamin,  which  he 
purchased  from  Sarah,  widow  of  Joseph  Will- 
iams, and  her  son  Daniel.     He  purchased,  on 
June  5,    1704,  from   Ben   Maraton,  of  Salem, 
one  hundred  rods  of  land  on  the  road  leading 
along  North  river.    He  died  in  Salem  Village, 
December  12,  1714,  having  already  buried  his 
wife.    The  children  of  Joseph  and  Anne  (Ha- 
thorn)    Porter,    all    born    in    Salem    Village, 
were:     i.  Joseph,  October  30,  1665,  died  be- 
fore maturity.     2.  Anna,   September  5,   1667, 
married  Dr.  Samuel  Wallis.     3.  Samuel,  Au- 
gust 4,   1669,  married  Love  Howe,  had  three 
children  and  died  before  1750.     4.  Nathaniel, 
March  8,    1670-71,   married   Eleanor  Doman, 
who  had  nine  children  and  died  probably  in 
1756-     5-  Mary,  December  18,   1672,  married 
William  Dodge,  of  Beverly,  and  had  two  chil- 
dren.   6.  William  (q.  v.),  August  30,  1674.   7. 
Eliezer,   May  23,    1676,  died  probably  before 
1714.      8.   Abigail,   twin    of    Eliezer,    married 
Samuel    Symonds,    of    Boxford,    January    8, 
1698.     9.   Hepsibah,  April   11,    1678,   married 
Joseph  Andrews,  June  7,   171 1.      10.  Joseph, 

April,  1681,  married  Mary  ;  had  three 

children  and  died  in  1713.  11.  Ruth,  baptized 
September.  1682,  married  Jesse  Dorman.  12. 
Mehitable,  baptized  September,  1682,  married 
Thomas  Cummings,  of  Boxford,  March  20, 
1705- 


(III)  Deacon  William,  fourth  son  and  sixth 
child  of  Joseph  and  Anne  (Hathorn)  Porter, 
was  born  in  Topsfield,  Massachusetts,  August 
30,  1674,  removed  from  Topsfield  to  Norton 
between  1720  and  1730,  and  there  purchased 
land  of  Joseph  Elliott,  February  8,  1732.  He 
married  Phoebe  Dorman,  December  25,  1706, 
according  to  the  Topsfield  records,  and  he  died 
in  Newton,  May  7,  1732,  and  his  widow 
Phcebe  died  in  Braintree,  June  21,  1736,  aged 
fifty-five  years.  The  children  of  W^illiam  and 
Phoebe  (Dorman)  Porter  were  born  in  Tops- 
field  as   follows:     i.  Ruth,   August  28,   1707. 

2.  Judith,  July  6,  1710,  married  a  Mr.  Hewins. 

3.  Benjamin,  February  4,  1712,  married,  June 
I,  1738,  Dorothy  Curtis.  4.  Seth,  February 
15,  1714,  married,  March  27,  1746,  Abigail 
Herrick.  5.  Anne,  February  21,  1716,  mar- 
ried Deacon  Peter  Thayer,  of  Braintree  and 
Petersboro,  New  Hampshire,  had  twelve  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Braintree.  6.  Phoebe,  June 
18,  1718,  died  July  3,  1718.  7.  Jonathan  (q. 
v.),  December   11,   1720.     8.  Jabez,   February 

( IV )  Dr.  Jonathan,  seventh  child  and  third 
son  of  Deacon  W'illiam  and  Phoebe  (Dorman) 
Porter,  was  born  in  Topsfield,  December  11, 
1720,  or  according  to  Topsfield  records  July 
17  of  that  year.  He  studied  medicine  and 
was  a  practicing  physician  and  surgeon  in 
Braintree  and  Maiden.  Fle  was  married  Sep- 
tember 14,  1742,  to  Hannah,  daughter  of  Jon- 
athan and  Sarah  (Copeland)  Hayden,  of 
Braintree.  Hannah  Hayden  was  born  Decem- 
ber 4,  1724,  died  at  Maiden,  January  20,  181 1. 
Dr.  Jonathan  Porter  died  in  Maiden,  January 
I,  1783.  Their  twelve  children,  of  whom  eight 
were  born  in  Braintree  and  the  others  in  Mai- 
den, were:  i.  William.  September  19,  1743. 
married Lamb  and  died  in  Boston,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1813.  2.  Jonathan,  March  12, 
1745,  married  in  Medford,  1773,  Phoebe  Ab- 
bott, of  Andover,  and  died  in  Medford,  No- 
vember 4,  1817.  3.  Hannah,  April  4,  1748, 
dietl  in  Maiden,  August  17,  1785.  4.  Sarah, 
February  4,  1750,  died  in  Maiden,  September 
31,  1775.  5.  John,  December  28,  1751,  died 
in  Maiden,  August  9,  1798.  6.  Jabez,  Sep- 
tember 26,  1753,  died  in  South  Carolina 
in  1796.  7.  Phnebe,  March  4,  1756,  died 
in  Maiden.  8.  Polly,  April  17,  1758,  died 
in  Maiden,  July  12,  1762.  9.  Samuel,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1 761,  died  in  South  Carolina.  10. 
Polly,  September  27,  1762,  died  in  Salem, 
February,  1838.  11.  Joseph  (q.  v.),  Septem- 
ber 3,  1764.  12.  Benjamin,  March  16,  1767, 
died  in  South  Carolina. 

(V)  Joseph,  eleventh  child  and  sixth  son  of 


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1177 


Dr.  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Haj-den)  Porter, 
was  "born  in  Maiden,  September  3,  1764,  where 
he  was  brought  up  and  educated.  In  1786  he 
went  to  Robbinston,  Maine,  as  private  secre- 
tary to  Edward  H.  Robbins,  Esq.,  of  ]\Iassa- 
chusetts,  lieutenant  and  governor  of  the  Com- 
monwealth, 1802-06.  He  removed  to  Calais, 
Maine,  and  engaged  in  trade  at  Ferry  Point, 
establishing  the  first  general  store  in  the  place. 
In  1785  he  removed  his  business  to  St.  Ste- 
phen, New  Brunswick,  where  he  continued  to 
reside  during  the  remainder  of  his  life  and 
where  he  died  June  19,  1822.  He  was  mar- 
ried September  18.  1793,  to  Betsey,  daughter 
of  Major  Nehemiah  Marks,  of  the  British 
army,  who  had  been  granted  lands  at  St. 
Stephen  by  the  British  government  for  military 
service.  Betsey  Marks  was  born  in  Derby, 
Connecticut,  September  18,  1774,  was  one  of 
a  family  of  twelve  children,  and  she  died  in 
St.  Stephen,  January  4,  1870,  having  by  her 
marriage  with  Joseph  Porter  become  the  moth- 
er of  ten  children,  nine  born  in  St.  Stephen, 
New  Brunswick,  as  follows:  i.  William,  born 
in  Calais.  ^Maine,  February  2,  1795,  died  in  St. 
Stephen,  May  30,  1861.  2.  Betsey  Ann,  May 
17,  1796,  married  James  P.  Bixby,  of  New 
Hampshire.  3.  Hannah  Hayden,  February  2, 
1798,  married  Jonathan  Williams,  of  Massa- 
chusetts, died  January  17,  1828.  4.  John,  Au- 
gust 20,  1802,  married  (first)  Louisa  McAl- 
lister: (second)  Ann  Whitney;  and  died  in 
Boston,  in  February,  1852.  5.  George  Marks 
(q.  v.),  June  24,  1804.  6.  Mary,  July  12. 
1806,  married  Parker  Bixby,  of  Litchfield, 
New  Hampshire.  7.  Eliza,  twin  of  Mary,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Stuart  and  died  in  St.  Stephen, 
March  4,  1828.  8.  Joanna  Brewer,  Septem- 
ber 13,  1808,  married  David  L'pton,  of  St. 
Stephen.  9.  Joseph  Nehemiah,  October  ig, 
181 1,  married  Janette  Grant,  of  St.  Stephen. 
He  died  in  New  York,  February  23,  1852.  10. 
James,  March  18,  1816,  married  Anna  Maria 
Christie,  of  St.  Stephen.  He  died  December 
8,  1859. 

(VI)  George  Marks,  third  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Joseph  and  Betsey  (Marks)  Porter, 
was  born  in  St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick, 
June  24,  1804.  He  was  brought  up  in  St. 
Stephen,  where  he  attended  school,  worked  in 
his  father's  store  and  became  his  successor. 
His  father  having  been  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States,  he,  as  his  son,  had  a  right  to  transact 
business  on  the  Maine  side  of  the  St.  Croix 
river  as  well  as  on  the  New  Brunswick  side 
without  interference  from  the  revenue  collec- 
tors, and  he  had  storehouses  at  both  St.  Ste- 
phen,   New    Brunswick,    and    Calais,    i\Iaine, 


from  which  points  he  carried  on  an  extensive 
business  in  lumber.  He  sent  ship-loads  of 
"deals"  to  the  ports  of  the  British  empire 
and  to  foreign  ports  of  Europe.  He  also  car- 
ried on  ship  yards  at  Calais,  where  he  built 
crafts  of  all  kinds  and  he  was  as  well  a  dealer 
in  general  merchandise  up  to  the  time  of  his 
retirement  some  ten  years  before  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1894.  He  was  married 
March  19,  1829,  to  Mary  Bridges  Topliff,  of 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts.  His  wife  was  born 
in  Dorchester,  August  26,  1809,  and  died  in 
St.  Stephen,  Maine,  October  17,  1846.  The 
children  of  George  Marks  and  Mary  Bridges 
(Toplift)  Porter  were  born  in  St.  Stephen 
as  follows:  i.  Charlotte,  married  Dr.  Amos 
Wilder ;  she  died  October,  1906,  aged  seventy- 
seven  years.  2.  George  Henry,  October  6, 
183 1,  died  when  an  infant.  3.  Anna  Maria, 
August  23,  1833,  died  in  1903.  4.  Mary  Ellen, 
July  29,  1835,  died  in  i860.  5.  Frances  (q. 
v.),  August  25,  1837.  6.  Joseph  N.,  July  5, 
1839.  7-  Charles  Henry,  June  14,  1841,  died 
in  1889.  8.  George  Marks,  December  26, 
1844.  After  the  death  of  the  mother  of  these 
children  in  1846,  j\lr.  Porter  married  as  his 
second  wife  Ellen  Ann  Housley. 

(\'II)  Frances,  daughter  of  George  Marks 
and  Mary  Bridges  (Toplifif)  Porter,  was  born 
in  St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick,  August  25, 
1837,  and  was  married  December  25,  1867,  to 
Rev.  Charles  Gardiner  McCullv,  of  New  York 
City. 


There  were  a  number  of  early 
KNIGHT     immigrants   of   t-liis   name   who 

established  themselves  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  New  England,  and  the  posterity 
of  each  is  quite  numerous.  In  common  with 
all  who  bear  the  name  on  this  side  of  the 
ocean,  the  Scarboro  Knights,  about  to  be  re- 
ferred to,  are  of  English  origin,  and  their  an- 
cestry in  the  mother  country  can  be  traced  to 
a  remote  period.  As  pioneers  they  rendered 
a  good  account  of  themselves,  and  their  de- 
scendants represent  the  highest  type  of  Ameri- 
can citizenship. 

(I)  John  Knight,  a  native  of  Scarboro,  be- 
came an  early  settler  in  Westbrook,  locating 
at  what  was  afterward  known  as  Knight's 
Hill,  and  he  not  only  cleared  his  farm  from 
the  wilderness,  but  devoted  much  time  and 
energy  to  the  improvement  of  his  land,  which 
he  finally  brought  to  a  high  state  of  fertility. 
He  married  Al^igail  Ford,  of  Westbrook,  and 
both  he  and  his  wife  lived  to  an  advanced  age. 
Their  children  were :  Nathaniel,  James,  Hen- 
ry, Sarah,  Jane,  Eunice  and  Zebulon. 


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■  (II)  James,  second  child  of  John  and  Abi- 
gail (Ford)  Knight,  was  born  on  Knight's 
Hill,  August  28,  1812.  In  early  manhood  he 
engaged  in  general  farming  on  his  own  ac- 
count, acquiring  possession  of  a  good  farm  in 
Scarboro.  and  he  tilled  the  soil  industriously 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  realizing  a  com- 
fortable prosperity  as  the  result  of  his  labors. 
In  politics  he  supported  the  Democratic  party, 
and  in  his  religious  faith  he  was  a  Free  Will 
Baptist.  His  death  occurred  May  7,  1883,  at 
the  age  of  seventy  years.  He  married  Alary 
E.  Redlon,  who  was  born  in  Buxton,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1823,  fifth  daughter  of  Amos  and  Sally 
(Emery)  Redlon  (see  separate  article).  She 
became  the  mother  of  twelve  children:  i.  Jo- 
seph E.  2.  Sarah  A.,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Hiram  Gustin  and  has  four  children.  3.  Tur- 
ner H.  4.  Zebulon.  5.  Delia  F.,  became  Mrs. 
Floyd.  6.  Frank  A.  7.  Eliza  E.,  became  Mrs. 
Merrill.  8.  M.  Etta,  who  also  married  a  Mer- 
rill, g.  Nathaniel  C.  10.  Walter  L.  11.  Will- 
iam.    12.  George  W. 

(Ill)  Frank  Amos,  sixth  child  of  James 
and  Mary  E.  (Redlon)  Knight,  was  born  in 
Scarboro,  August  5,  1849.  His  education  was 
acquired  in  the  public  schools  of  Scarboro  and 
Saco.  While  still  a  lad  he  became  a  farm  as- 
sistant, receiving  for  his  labor  the  munificent 
sum  of  five  dollars  per  month  and  his  board. 
Possessing  a  robust  constitution,  together  with 
the  necessary  physical  strength,  he  began  an 
apprenticeship  at  the  blacksmith's  trade  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  with  Leander  B.  Libby,  remain- 
ing with  the  latter  for  some  time,  and  he  com- 
pleted his  trade  under  the  direction  of  A.  J. 
Allen  in  North  Berwick,  where  he  went  to  re- 
side in  1867.  In  1868  he  became  associated 
with  Mr.  Allen  under  the  firm  name  of  Allen 
&  Knight,  and  some  two  years  later  he  pur- 
chased his  partner's  interest.  After  carrying 
on  a  prosperous  general  blacksmithing  business 
alone  for  several  years  he  entered  into  part- 
nership with  his  brother,  Nathaniel  C.,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Knight  Brothers,  and  that 
concern  continued  in  existence  until  Frank  A. 
Knight  relinquished  the  trade  for  other  pur- 
suits. He  had  previously  engaged  in  farming 
as  a  side  speculation,  making  a  specialty  of 
raising  cattle,  and  for  the  past  ten  years  has 
conducted  jointly  with  Oliver  Merrill  Jr.  the 
"Ontio"  at  Ogunquit.  In  politics  Mr.  Knight 
is  a  Republican,  and  has  rendered  able  public 
services  in  various  capacities.  For  three  years 
he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  selectmen, 
served  as  deputy  sheriff  for  six  years,  was  rep- 
resentative to  the  state  legislature  in  1878,  be- 
ing with  the  exception  of  one   the  youngest 


member  of  the  lower  house,  and  for  the  past 
ten  years  has  served  with  marked  ability  as 
postmaster  at  North  Berwick,  to  which  office 
he  was  originally  appointed  by  President  Mc- 
Kinley.  He  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in  St. 
John's  lodge  at  South  Berwick  in  1873,  from 
which  he  was  demitted  to  become  a  charter 
member  of  Yorkshire  Lodge  at  North  Ber- 
wick, and  has  occupied  all  of  the  important 
chairs  in  that  body.  He  also  affiliated  with 
Eagle  Lodge,  No.  47,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  Columbian  Encampment  and 
Ray  of  Hope  Lodge  of  Rebeccas,  all  of  North 
Berwick. 

On  October  31,  1869,  Mr.  Knight  married 
Clara  I.  Johnson,  daughter  of  William  W. 
and  Achsah  Johnson,  of  North  Berwick.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Knight  have  five  children:  i.  Ber- 
tha E.,  born  June  23,  1872,  assistant  to  her 
father  in  the  postoffice.  2.  Frank  Floyd,  born 
October  29,  1875.  3.  Grace  A.,  born  August 
20,  1877,  clerk  in  the  postoffice.  4.  Nathaniel 
Hobbs,  born  September  24,  1883.  5.  Clara 
IM.,  born  November  28,  1889.  Nathaniel  H.  is 
a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College,  class  of 
1907.  Frank  F.,  who  w-as  for  three  years  con- 
nected with  the  North  Berwick  postoffice,  is 
now  in  the  railway  mail  service  between  Bos- 
ton and  Portland. 


G.  T.  Ridlon  in  his  admirable 
REDLON  "History  of  the  Ancient  Rye- 
dales,"  presents  a  catalogue  of 
the  different  variations  to  which  the  original 
name  has  been  subjected,  the  number  being  nO' 
less  than  sixtv.  Prominent  among  these  are : 
Riddell,  Riddle,  Ridley,  Ridlon  and  Redlon. 
The  original,  Ryedale,  means  a  valley  planted 
with  rye.  The  parent  stock  were  among  the 
Scandinavian  conquerors  of  Normandy,  and 
one  of  their  descendants,  Galfridus  Ridel,  who 
appears  in  the  Roll  of  Battle  Abby  as  "Mon- 
sieur Ridel,"  received  from  William  the  Con- 
queror large  landed  estates  in  England  as  a 
reward  for  his  services  in  the  conquest. 

(I)  Magnus  Redlon,  founder  in  America 
of  the  York  county  Redlons,  was  born  at  Shet- 
land, on  the  north  coast  of  Scotland,  in  169S; 
emigrated  to  New  England  in  1717,  settling  in 
York,  Maine,  and  there  purchased  twenty-two 
acres  of  land.  He  subsequently  resided  in 
Biddeford,  Scarboro  and  Saco,  owning  and 
occupying  in  the  latter  place  a  large  tract  of 
land  containing  a  dwelling  house,  situated  on 
Rendezvous  Point,  where  he  died  in  1772.  He 
was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  First 
Church  in  Saco.  He  was  a  hunter,  a  fisher- 
man and  a  noted  Indian  fighter.     Among-  his 


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neighbors  he  was  known  as  "the  Httle  Scotch- 
man," and  the  savages  called  him  the  "white 
scout  with  yellow  hair."  In  1720  he  married 
Mrs.  Susanna  Austin  (nee  Young),  presuma- 
bly born  in  Scotland,  November  23,  1701, 
daughter  of  Matthew  Young  and  widow  of 
Ichabod  Austin.  She  died  in  1730  and  he  sub- 
sequently married  for  his  second  wife  Massie, 
daughter  of  Abraham  Townsend.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  first  union  were :  Susanna,  who 
died  in  infancy;  Ebenezer,  John,  Matthias  and 
Daniel :  those  of  his  second  marriage  were : 
Abraham,  Jeremiah  and  Jacob. 

(II)  Ebenezer,  second  child  and  eldest  son 
of  Magnus  and  Susanna  (Young-Austin) 
Redlon,  was  born  in  York,  February  13,  1723. 
In  1 75 1,  or  shortly  afterward,  he  settled  in 
Narraganset  No.  i,  now  Buxton.  February 
28,  1777,  he  enlisted  in  Captain  Daniel  Lane's 
company  of  Colonel  Ichabod  Alden's  regi- 
ment for  service  in  the  revolutionary  war  and 
died  from  exhaustion  while  in  the  army  May 
5,  of  the  same  year.  His  burial  place  is  un- 
known. August  8,  1751,  he  married  his  cous- 
in, Sarah  Young,  of  either  York  or  Pepper- 
ellborough  (now  Saco).  She  survived  him 
many  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  eight 
children:  David,  Ebenezer,  Jonathan,  Susan, 
Sarah,  Jeremiah,  Anna  and  Moses. 

(III)  Ebenezer  (2),  second  child  of  Ebe- 
nezer (i)  and  Sarah  (Young)  Redlon,  was 
born  in  Narraganset  No.  i,  November  4,  1737. 
He  was  also  a  revolutionary  soldier,  first  as 
a  member  of  Captain  John  Lane's  company 
and  later  in  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment under  Colonel  Thomas  Nixon,  serving 
at  Boston,  Cambridge,  in  Connecticut,  on 
Long  Island,  at  Ticonderoga  and  West  Point 
under  General  Alexander  McDougall.  In  the 
record  of  accounts  of  Captain  Lane's  com- 
pany he  is  called  Ebenezer  Ridley,  and  is 
charged  with  one  "shirt."  He  resided  in  Bux- 
ton and  was  a  shoemaker.  Eccentric,  out- 
spoken and  honest,  he  took  special  delight  in 
exposing  hypocrisy  whenever  an  opportunity 
presented  itself,  and  on  one  occasion,  when  at 
a  gathering  of  farmers  in  a  country  store,  all 
mentioned  some  disease  as  an  excuse  for 
drinking  grog,  Ebenezer  stepped  up  to  the 
counter  and  said,  "Nothing  ails  me,  but  I  want 
a  glass  of  grog  because  I  love  it."  February 
17,  1780,  he  married  Sarah  Hancock,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Hancock,  of  Buxton,  and  she  sur- 
vived him,  dying  in  that  town  December  26, 
1856,  aged  one  hundred  years.  She  was  the 
mother  of  eleven  children :  Isaac  Hancock, 
Amos,  Mary,  Joanna,  Mercy,  Elizabeth,  Sarah, 
Rebecca,   Lucy,   Rev.   Ebenezer,   Selecta,   and 


she  had  at  the  time  of  her  death  two  hundred 
and  seventy-three  descendants. 

(I\')  Amos,  second  child  of  Ebenezer  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Hancock)  Redlon,  was  born  in 
Buxton,  December  10,  1783,  died  there  March 
25,  i860.  He  followed  the  shoemaker's  trade 
in  connection  with  farming  and  was  highly 
respected  for  his  various  commendable  quali- 
ties. He  was  first  married  October  28,  1802, 
to  Sally  Emery,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Mercy  (Moulton)  Emery,  of  Buxton.  She 
died  February  24,  1823,  and  on  November  17, 
1825,  he  married  for  his  second  wife  Eliza- 
beth Berry,  also  of  Buxton.  He  was  the  fa- 
ther of  fifteen  childre'n,  eleven  by  his  first 
union  and  four  by  his  second,  namely :  Ben- 
jamin, Sally,  Thomas  Jefferson,  Dr.  Nathaniel, 
Jonathan.  ^lary,  Miranda,  Cyrus,  Rev.  Amos, 
Almira,  Mary  E.,  Apphia,  Eliza,  Nathaniel, 
Olive. 

(V)  Mary  E.,  youngest  child  of  Amos  and 
Sally  (Emery)  Redlon,  was  born  in  Buxton, 
February  26,  1823.  She  became  the  wife  of 
James  Knight,  of  Scarboro  (see  Knight). 


This  name  has  borne  no  incon- 
PARKER  spicuous  part  in  the  settlement 
and  development  of  New  Eng- 
land, and  is  now  found  in  all  parts  of  the 
country.  Not  all  of  its  bearers  have  been 
traced  to  a  common  origin,  but  most  are 
known  to  have  descended  from  the  Puritan 
Fathers  of  the  New  England  colonies.  The 
name  has  been  honored  in  all  generations,  has 
been  especially  well  known  in  military  annals, 
and  those  who  bear  it  in  this  region  have  held 
up  its  prestige.  It  has  been  associated  with 
civil  reforms,  as  well  as  active  in  military  op- 
erations. 

(I)  Joseph  Parker  came  from  Rumsey, 
county  Hants,  England,  and  sailed  from 
Southampton  in  the  ship  "Confidence,"  in 
1638,  age  twenty-four,  settling  first  at  New- 
bury and  then  in  Andover,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  a  tanner  and  owned  a  corn  mill,  and  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  church  at  Andover 
in  1645.  The  given  name  of  his  wife  was 
Mary,  who  was  hanged  for  witchcraft  in  Sa- 
lem in  1692.  In  the  trial  she  was  accused  by 
Mercy  Wardwell  and  William  Barker  of  join- 
ing with  them  to  afflict  one  Timothy  Swan.  It 
was  alleged  that  several  persons  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  court  were  restored  by  the  touch 
of  her  hand.  On  such  suppositional  evidence 
she  was  convicted  and  hanged.  By  the  means 
of  this  ancient  and  eminent  delusion,  sanc- 
tioned as  it  was  by  those  high  in  authority  and 
prominent  for  piety  and  learning,  many  inno- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


c0Rt  people  were  hurried  out  of  existence  by 
a  species  of  religious  fanaticism,  for  no  offence 
or  crime,  by  a  series  of  foul,  impetuous  and 
inconsiderate  judicial  murders  which  equaled 
in  enormity  but  not  in  extent  the  massacre  of 
St.  Bartholomew  and  the  butcheries  of  the 
Duke  of  Alva  in  the  Low  Countries ;  the  dam- 
nation of  which  has  left  a  blot  on  the  ermine 
and  on  the  cloth  and  on  the  fair  name  of  the 
noble  old  commonwealth,  unmollified  by  the 
mellilluous  influences  of  time.  Her  sons  in  a 
petition  to  the  general  court  said:  "Whereas 
our  honoured  mother  was  Imprisoned  and  up- 
on her  Tryal  was  condemed  for  supposed 
witchcraft  upon  such  evidence,  as  is  now  gen- 
erally thought  to  be  insufficient  and  suffered 
the  Pains  of  Death  at  Salem  in  the  year  1692. 
We  being  well  satisfied  not  only  of  her  inno- 
cency  of  that  crime  that  she  was  condemed 
for  but  of  her  piety,  humbly  desire  that  the 
attainder  may  be  taken  off  so  that  her  name 
that  has  suffered  may  be  restored."  The  sons 
also  show  in  their  petition  that  after  their 
mother's  execution,  an  officer  sent  by  the  sher- 
iff came  to  Andover  to  seize  her  estate.  The 
sons  told  him  she  left  no  estate.  Whereupon 
he  seized  their  cattle,  corn  and  hay,  and  threat- 
ened that  their  whole  belongings  should  be 
sold  unless  they  could  make  a  settlement  with 
the  sheriff.  The  sons  were  obliged  to  journey 
to  Salem  and  expend  money  to  save  their  own 
from  confiscation.  In  their  memorial  to  the 
general  court  they  claim  restitution  for  eight 
pounds.  "Considering  my  great  age  and  in- 
firmity," Joseph  made  his  will  November  4, 
1678,  and  anticipated  his  death  by  one  day. 
His  property  was  appraised  at  five  hundred 
and  forty-six  pounds,  the  dwelling  at  sixty- 
eight  and  the  old  corn  mill  on  the  Cochicho- 
wick  twenty  pounds,  quite  an  estate  for  those 
times.  He  appointed  "my  loving  brother  Na- 
than, my  loving  friend  Left  John  Abbott,  my 
loving  friend  Henry  Ingalls  &  my  loving 
friend  Ensyne  Thomas  Chandler"  overseers  of 
his  estate.  His  children  were :  Joseph,  Ste- 
phen, Samuel,  Mary,  Sarah,  Ruth  and  John. 

(II)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
and  Mary  Parker,  was  born  in  Andover,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  received  as  his  portion  of  the 
patrimonial  property  the  corn  mill  on  the  Co- 
chichowick.  He  was  a  housewright  and  kept 
the  village  ordinary.  He  made  his  will  in 
1684,  also  the  year  of  his  death.  His  worldly 
holdings  amounted  to  four  hundred  and  two 
pounds.  He  married  Elizabeth,  widow  of 
Obadiah  Bridges,  and  had  a  son  Joseph. 

(III)  Joseph  (3),  only  child  of  Joseph  (2) 
and    Elizabeth    (Bridges)    Parker,    succeeded 


his  father  in  keeping  the  Andover  hostelry. 
Innholders  in  those  early  times  were  usually 
the  leading  men  of  the  town.  Here  the  trav- 
eler on  horseback  during  the  midday  heat  drew 
rein  to  inquire  the  way,  to  bait,  and  partake 
of  inner  refreshments.  Here  the  benighted 
stranger,  some  member  of  the  general  court, 
wending  his  homeward  way  at  the  close  of  the 
session,  sought  the  radiant  glow  of  its  fire- 
place and  the  rest  of  its  comfortable  beds  to 
be  early  astir  in  the  morning.  Here  the  vil- 
lage loungers  met  to  exchange  news  and  gos- 
sip. Here  the  marriage  intentions  and  the 
jury  drawings  were  posted  and  here  was  on 
file  the  tory  Boston  News  Letter,  perhaps  the 
only  copy  that  came  to  the  settlement,  for  the 
Parkers  were  good  loyal  people  up  to  the 
troubles  with  the  mother  country.  Among  his 
guests  moved  mine  host  Parker,  a  hail  fellow 
well  met,  beloved  by  all,  respected  by  all  and 
welcoming  all  with  a  true-hearted  hospitality. 
He  represented  Andover  in  the  general  court 
in  1730-35-39.  His  sons  were  James  and 
Peter. 

(IV)  Captain  Peter  (i),  son  of  Joseph  (3) 
Parker,  lived  in  Andover  and  was  in  the 
French-Indian  wars.  His  boys  were  named 
Peter  Robert  and  Nathan. 

(V)  Peter  (2),  son  of  Peter  (i)  Parker, 
was  born  in  Andover,  January  8,  1741,  and 
in  1765  the  records  show  that  he  took  up  his 
abode  in  that  part  of  Hancock  county,  Maine, 
near  Fire  Falls  on  the  Union  river.  The  early 
name  of  the  little  plantation  was  No.  5,  but 
it  underwent  the  usual  evolutionary  process  in 
nomenclature  and  blossomed  into  a  full-fledged 
township  by  the  appellation  of  Newport,  which 
it  subsequently  forsook  for  that  of  Blue  Hill. 
He  married  Phebe  Marble,  in  1766.  Mrs. 
Parker  was  born  July  29,  1744,  and  died  Oc- 
tober I,  1805.  Children:  Phebe,  Serena, 
Peter,  Hansell,  Susannah,  Marble,  Mary, 
Isaac,  Chandler,  Joannah  and  Almira  Ellis. 

(VI)  Peter  (3),  eldest  son  of  Peter  (2)  and 
Phebe  (Marble)  Parker,  was  born  October 
17,  1769,  and  married  Sally  Darling.  Chil- 
dren :  Jonathan  Darling,  Sukey,  Reuben, 
Delia  and  Amasa.  Jonathan  Darling,  Mrs. 
Peter  Parker's  father,  was  a  soldier  at  the 
siege  and  fall  of  Louisburg  in  1759. 

(\TI)  Judge  Jonathan  Darling,  first  son  of 
Peter  (3)  and  Sally  (Darling)  Parker,  was 
born  in  Blue  Hill,  November  24,  1797.  He 
was  a  good  mathematical  student  and  became 
a  land  surveyor.  He  was  very  accurate  and 
in  his  day  run  out  a  good  many  of  the  farms 
in  his  vicinity,  and  he  was  frequently  called 
into  service  whenever  land  titles  were  in  ques- 


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tion,  for  he  knew  the  bounds  and  check-lines 
of  about  every  place.  He  was  a  trial  justice. 
He  married  Sabina  Wakefield,  from  Steuben, 
Maine.  Children :  Charles  E.,  Rebecca  S., 
Benjamin  W.,  Delia,  Nancy  M.,  Delia  A., 
Sarah  L.  and  Edwin  C,  hereinafter  mentioned. 
The  father  of  these  children  died  in  Novem- 
ber, 1880,  at  Mount  Desert. 

(VHI)  Edwin  C,  youngest  son  of  Jon- 
athan D.  and  Sabina  (Wakefield)  Parker,  was 
horn  in  Steuben,  January  15,  1839,  d'^d  No- 
vember 6,  1907.  His  education  was  such  as 
was  acquired  by  a  country  boy  in  Maine  in 
the  forties,  supplemented  by  the  assistance  of 
his  father  at  home,  who  was  a  fine  arithema- 
tician,  and  instilled  a  love  for  the  study  into 
the  mind  of  his  boy.  Up  to  '870  Mr.  Parker 
was  the  village  blacksmith  at  Steuben,  relin- 
quishing his  residence  there  as  well  as  his  busi- 
ness in  1870,  going  from  thence  to  Bar  Har- 
bor. Mr.  Parker,  with  excellent  foresight, 
recognized  the  possibilities  of  the  rapid  growth 
of  Mount  Desert  and  its  adaptability  both  on 
account  of  its  accessible  position  and  its  at- 
tractive surroundings  for  a  tourist  center,  and 
early  became  a  purchaser  of  desirable  building 
sites  and  held  them  for  the  rise,  and  it  was  this 
good  judgment  on  his  part  that  made  him  a 
wealthy  man.  An  Independent  in  religion,  a 
Republican  in  politics,  he  was  unobtrusive  in 
both  and  fair  to  the  man  who  disagreed  with 
him.  Mr.  Parker,  then  just  entering  upon 
man's  estate,  responded  to  the  call  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  and  offered  himself  and  his  life 
if  necessary  that  the  dear  old  flag  might  still 
float  above  us.  He  enlisted  in  the'  Forty-fifth 
Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  under  Major  General 
John  G.  Foster,  in  the  Department  of  the 
Carolinas.  Private  Parker  served  at  Kingston, 
at  Whitehall,  at  Dover  Cross  Roads,  at  Batch- 
elder's  Creek,  at  Goldsboro,  and  at  Gun 
Swamp.  He  was  also  at  New  Berne  and  at 
Marshall  City  on  garrison  duty.  After  three 
weary,  long  years  he  came  back  again,  but  the 
hard,  toilsome  marches,  the  bivouac  at  night 
in  the  pestilential  swamp  with  a  starry  blan- 
ket, the  want  of  proper  nourishment  and  cloth- 
ing probably  shortened  his  days.  He  was  an 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Mason,  and  past 
master  of  his  home  lodge ;  he  had  been  ac- 
corded the  rites  of  the  council  and  initiated 
into  the  capitular  degree  and  raised  to  a  Knight 
Templar  and  was  a  Thirty-second  Degree  Ma- 
son. He  was  made  an  Odd  Fellow  at  Bar 
Harbor.  He  belonged  to  Bay  View  Grange, 
Eastern  Star,  the  James  M.  Parker  Post, 
Grand   Army   of   the    Republic,   of  which    he 


was  a  past  commander,  and  was  senior  vice- 
commander  of  the  Department  of  Maine. 

Mr.  Parker  married  (first)  Sarah  Irene  Ly- 
man. One  child,  Alonzo  W.,  married  Addie 
Cushman.  of  Steuben ;  children :  Irene  Ly- 
man and  Edwin  Campbell.  He  married  (sec- 
ond), November  5,  1872,  Olivia  Jane  Young, 
of  Eden,  Maine,  and  she  survives  to  mourn 
his  loss,  which  is  shared  in  by  the  community 
in  which  he  lived  and  by  which  he  was  greatly 
respected. 


Roger  Sumner  was  a  husband- 
SUMNER     man  of  Bicester,  Oxfordshire, 

England.  He  married  there 
November  2,  1601,  Joane  Franklin.  He  died 
there  December  3,  1608,  and  his  widow  mar- 
ried (second),  January  10,  161 1,  Marcus 
Brian.  Roger  Sumner  had  a  brother  William, 
who  died  at  Bicester  in  1597.  Only  child  of 
Roger  and  Joane  Sumner:  Wilham,  men- 
tioned below. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Roger  Sumner,  was 
born  at  Bicester,  England,  in  1605,  and  mar- 
ried there  October  22,  1625,  Mary  West.  He 
came  to  New  England  in  1636  and  settled  at 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  May  17,  1637,  and  became  a  promi- 
nent man  in  the  province.  He  was  selectman 
there  in  1637  and  for  more  than  twenty  years. 
From  1663  to  1680  he  was  one  of  the  feoffes 
of  the  school  land,  and  from  1663  to  1671  was 
a  commissioner  to  end  small  causes.  In  1663 
he  was  chosen  clerk  of  the  train  band.  He 
was  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1658,  '66  to 
'70,  '72,  '78  to  '81,  and  '83  to  '86.  His  wife 
died  at  Dorchester,  June  7,  1676,  and  he  died 
December  9,  1688.  Children:  i.  William, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Joane,  born  at  Bicester, 
married  Aaron  Way,  of  Dorchester,  Boston 
and  Rumney  Marsh.  3.  Roger,  born  at  Bi- 
cester, 1632.  4.  George,  born  at  Bicester, 
1634.  5.  Samuel,  born  at  Dorchester.  May 
18,  1638.  6.  Increase,  born  at  Dorchester, 
February  23,  1643. 

(III)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i) 
Sumner,  was  born  at  Bicester,  England,  and 
was  a  mariner.  He  came  to  New  England 
with  his  parents  and  settled  first  in  Dorchester. 
He  removed  to  Boston,  where  he  died  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1675.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Augustine  Clement,  of  Dorchester.  She 
died  before  1687.  Children,  the  two  first  born 
in  Dorchester,  the  others  at  Boston:  i.  Eliza- 
beth, born  1652,  married,  1670,  Joshua  Hen- 
shaw;  died  1728.  2.  Mary,  1654,  married, 
January    19,    1672,    Nicholas   Howe;   married 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


(second)  John  Trow;  died  February  i6,  1706. 
3.  William,  February  9,  1656.  4.  Hannah, 
June  10,  1659,  married  John  Goffe.    5.  Sarah, 

February    14,    1662,    married    (first)    

Turell;  (second)  Joseph  Weeks;  died  Febru- 
ary 12,  1736.  6.  Experience,  September  22, 
1664,  married  Thomas  Gould.  7.  Ebenezer, 
October  30,  1666,  lost  in  the  expedition  to 
Canada.  8.  Deliverance,  March  18,  1669, 
married.  May,  1689,  Ebenezer  Weeks.  9. 
Clement,  September  6,  1671,  mentioned  below. 
10.  Mercy,  January,  1675,  died  young. 

(IV)  Clement,  son  of  William  (2)  Sumner, 
was  born  at  Boston,  September  6,  167 1,  and 
resided  at  Boston.  He  married.  May  18,  1698, 
Margaret  Harris.  Children,  born  at  Boston : 
I.  William,  March  18,  1699.  2.  Ebenezer, 
September  i,  1701.  3.  Margaret,  December 
7,  1702,  died  same  day.  4.  Margaret,  July  i8, 
1705,  married.  May  19,  1726,  William  Jepson ; 
died  December  29.  1783.  5.  Elizabeth,  Octo- 
ber 8,  1707,  married,  October  20,  1726,  John 
Bennett.  6.  Samuel,  August  31,  1709,  men- 
tioned below.    7.  Benjamin,  May  28,  171 1. 

(V)  Samuel,  son  of  Clement  Sumner,  was 
born  at  Boston,  August  31,  1709,  died  Jan- 
uary 26,  1784.  He  resided  at  Boston.  He 
married,  May  16,  1734,  at  Charlestown,  Abi- 
gail, died  October,  1772,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Frothingham,  of  Charlestown.  Children,  born 
in  Boston:  i.  Abigail,  1735,  died  young.  2. 
Abigail,  August  24,  1736,  died  June,  1794. 
3.  Samuel,  1738,  died  young.  4.  Samuel,  No- 
vember 3,  1739,  married,  September  13,  1762, 
Ann  Rand.  5.  Ebenezer,  March,  1742,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  William,  1744.  7.  John.  8. 
Susanna,  married,  September  26,  1771,  Zach- 
ary  Dunnell ;  married  (second)  Per- 
kins. 

(VI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Samuel  Sumner,  was 
born  in  Boston,  March,  1742,  died  December 
27,  1823.  He  lived  at  Newburyport.  He 
married  there  January  29,  1772,  Elizabeth 
Tappan,  who  died  January  21,  1817.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Newburyport:  i.  Samuel,  No- 
vember 27,  1772.  2.  Ebenezer,  June  16,  1774. 
3.  jNIichael,  February  23,  1776,  died  August 
27.  1777-  4-  Elizabeth,  November  21,  1777, 
married  Eben  Noyes;  died  June  27,  1809.  5. 
Michael,  January  i,  1780.  6.  John,  October 
29,  1781.  7.  Joseph,  May  26,  1783,  mentioned 
below.  8.  Abigail,  May  25,  1785,  married, 
1809,  Alexander  Baker.  9.  Sarah,  January  6, 
1787,  died  March,  1816.  10.  Esther,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1789,  married,  June  4,  1810,  Jacob 
Merrill;  died  July  25,  1850.  11.  William,  July 
7,  1791,  lost  at  sea  1815.     12.  Mary,  May  13, 


1795,  married,  November  16,  1815,  John  Ord- 
way  Webster  Brown,  of  Newbury. 

(VII)  Joseph,  son  of  Ebenezer  Sumner, 
was  born  at  Newburyport,  I\Iay  26,  1783,  died 
September  21,  1861.  He  removed  from  New- 
buryport to  Lubec,  Maine,  in  181 1.  He  was 
a  merchant.  He  was  commissioned  lieutenant 
in  the  Maine  militia  November  12,  1812,  and 
was  stationed  for  a  time  in  the  war  of  1812 
at  Eastport  and  Castine,  Maine.  Flis  com- 
mand on  one  occasion  marched  all  the  way 
from  Maine  to  New  York  state.  He  was  rep- 
resentative to  the  Maine  legislature  in  1828. 
He  married,  March  18,  1818,  Sarah  Wiggin, 
born  1784  in  Newmarket,  New  Hampshire, 
died  September  21,  1861.  Children,  born  at 
Lubec:  i.  Joseph  Warren,  January  3,  1819. 
2.  William  Hunt  Tyler,  January  13,  1822.  3. 
Sarah  Jane,  August  31,  1824,  married,  De- 
cember 21,  1848,  Taft  Comstock,  of  Lubec. 
4.  Chauncey  Whittlesey,  May  13,  1826.  5. 
Salome  Sears,  August  19,  1828.  6.  Elizabeth 
Tappan,  November  10,  1830.  7.  .A.lexander 
Baker,  February  19,  1833,  mentioned  below. 
8.  George  Wiggin,  April  3,  1835,  died  Decem- 
ber 30,  1858.  9.  Solomon  Thaver,  March  14, 
1839. 

(VIII)  Alexander  Baker,  son  of  Joseph 
Sumner,  was  born  at  Lubec,  Maine,  February 
19,  1833.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town.  When  a 
young  man  he  was  clerk  in  the  general  store 
of  Simeon  Ryerson,  whose  daughter  he  sub- 
sequently married.  He  enlisted  as  a  private 
August  14,  1862,  in  Sixth  Maine  Regiment  of 
Volunteers,  was  commissioned  second  lieuten- 
ant soon  after,  and  served  to  the  end  of  the 
civil  war.  He  was  promoted  first  lieutenant 
and  later  captain  of  his  company.  His  regi- 
ment was  in  the  Sixth  Army  Corps.  He  took 
part  in  the  battle  of  Antietam  and  at  the  en- 
gagement at  Mary's  Heights,  near  Fredericks- 
burg, May  3,  1863,  and  at  Rappahannock, 
where  his  regiment  suffered  severe  losses. 
When  the  term  of  their  enlistment  expired,  in 
June,  1864,  the  remnants  of  the  Si.xth  IMaine 
Regiment  was  incorporated  with  the  Fifth 
and  Seventh  Maine  regiments,  and  Colonel 
Sumner  was  given  a  commission  as  major  in 
a  new  regiment  called  the  First  Maine  \'eteran 
\'oluntecr  Regiment.  He  was  all  through  the 
severe  fighting  in  the  Shenandoah  \'alley  of 
Virginia  under  General  Philip  H.  Sheridan 
and  others.  General  David  A.  Russell  was  in 
command  during  the  campaign  about  Win- 
chester, Virginia.  Colonel  Sumner  was  mus- 
tered out  of  the  service  in  1865  with  the  rank 


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of  lieutenant  colonel  by  brevet.  He  returned 
to  Lubec  and  was  admitted  to  partnership  by 
his  former  employer.  The  firm  conducted  a 
general  store  and  acted  as  shipping  agents  for 
a  number  of  vessels.  Later,  when  Mr.  Ryer- 
son  died,  Colonel  Sumner  continued  the  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  A.  B.  Sumner 
&  Company.  He  has  been  in  active  business 
now  for  a  period  of  more  than  forty  years. 
His  firm  deals  extensively  in  hardware,  grain, 
coal  and  wood» 

He  is  a  prominent  Republican,  having 
joined  the  Republican  party  at  its  organiza- 
tion and  voted  for  Fremont  in  1856  and  for 
the  Republican  ticket  at  every  subsequent  elec- 
tion. He  was  town  treasurer  of  Lubec  two 
years,  town  clerk  three  years,  selectman  of 
Lubec  for  a  number  of  years,  state  senator  in 
1877-78.  He  served  on  important  committees 
and  proved  to  be  a  legislator  of  sound  judg- 
ment. He  w-as  a  member  of  Governor  Joseph 
Bodwell's  council  in  1887-88.  He  was  one  of 
the  delegates-at-large  from  the  state  of  Maine 
to  the  Republican  National  convention  at  Chi- 
cago when  Benjamin  Harrison  was  nominated 
for  president.  He  is  a  member  of  William  H. 
Brown  Post,  No.  138,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, of  Lubec,  Maine,  and  was  the  first 
commander,  serving  for  two  years.  He  is  a 
member  of  Washington  Lodge,  No.  37,  Free 
Masons,  of  which  he  was  secretary  for  sev- 
eral years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  military 
order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  is  now  ( 1908) 
the  only  living  field  officer  of  the  civil  war 
east  of  Bangor  in  the  state  of  Maine.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Lubec  board  of  trade.  His 
family  attends  the  Congregational  church,  but 
Colonel  Sumner  has  no  denominational  pref- 
erence in  religion.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the 
new  Lubec  Trust  and  Banking  Company. 
Colonel  Sumner  has  taken  a  leading  part  in 
public  affairs  for  nearly  half  a  century.  Per- 
haps more  than  any  other  man  in  his  section 
of  the  state  he  enjoys  the  public  confidence 
and  respect.  Of  strict  integrity  in  business,  of 
sterling  character,  a  brave  and  tried  soldier, 
an  efficient  public  servant,  a  public-spirited  and 
useful  citizen.  Colonel  Sumner  deserves  well 
the  high  place  he  has  held  so  long  in  the  hearts 
of  his  fellow  citizens. 

He  married,  October  8,  1866,  Sarah  A.,  of 
Lubec,  born  November  23,  1841,  daughter  of 
Simeon  Ryerson,  who  was  born  June  26,  1814, 
in  Annapolis,  Nova  Scotia.  Her  mother, 
Sarah  (Lamson)  Ryerson,  was  born  in  Bos- 
ton, December  14,  1814.  Her  sister  Harriet 
married  Dr.  A.  T.  Clarke,  of  Cannon  City, 
Colorado;  her  sister,  Clara  Ryerson,  never 
married. 


This  name  is  not  a  common  one 
FILES  and  is  difficult  to  locate.  One 
branch  of  the  Files  family  were 
of  Canterbury,  Kent,  England.  The  circum- 
stances of  the  arrival  of  the  American  an- 
cestor of  the  following  line  were  such  that 
unless  private  family  letters  or  documents  ex- 
ist of  the  earliest  generations,  it  would  be 
hopeless  to  try  to  prove  relationship  with  the 
English  branch. 

( I )  William  Files,  emigrant  and  progenitor 
of  the  Elaine  family,  was  born  in  England, 
1728.  Having  a  stepfather  he  ran  away  from 
home  at  nine  years  of  age,  and  hid  in  the  hold 
of  a  sailing  vessel.  The  captain  discovered 
him  and  finally  landed  him  on  Cape  Cod,  sell- 
ing him  for  the  price  of  his  passage.  The 
boy  worked  until  he  had  settled  the  debt.  In 
1756  he  married  Joanna  (Gordon)  Moore,  of 
Cape  Cod,  and  moved  to  York,  Maine,  and 
thence  to  Gorham.  Eventually  he  accumulated 
a  large  property.  He  bought  of  John  Free- 
man at  Gorham  thirty-eight  acres  of  land,  part 
of  the  two  hundred  granted  by  the  proprietors 
to  the  two  sons  of  Captain  Phinney,  Edmund 
and  Stephen.  He  made  a  clearing  and  built 
a  log  cabin  where  he  lived  for  some  time,  but 
later  erected  a  two-story  house,  afterward  oc- 
cupied by  his  great-grandson,  David  F.  Files. 
William  Files  was  in  the  English  army  at 
Cape  William  Henry  on  Lake  George  and, 
with  another,  was  captured  by  the  Indians,  but 
they  made  their  escape  through  superior 
strength,  and  when  pursued  hid  themselves  in 
a  hollow  log,  and  although  the  Indians  tried 
to  smoke  them  out,  they  finally  concluded  they 
were  wrong  in  supposing  they  were  hidden, 
and  left  them  to  make  a  second  escape,  though 
a  month's  hardships  in  the  woods  nearly  cost 
them  their  lives,  and  they  returned  home  hard- 
ly recognizable  and  almost  in  rags.  William 
was  a  member  of  the  Regiment  of  Rangers 
and  was  known  as  "William  the  old  Ranger." 
He  was  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  of  Gorham  and  a  man  of 
the  strictest  honor  and  integrity.  It  is  told 
of  him  that  he  was  "so  careful  never  to  be  in 
debt  that  he  was  never  known  to  have  paid 
but  twenty  cents  interest."  He  died  March  21, 
1823,  aged  ninety-five,  and  his  wife  died  Jan- 
uary, 1816,  aged  seventy-five.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Ebenezer,  born  in  York,  Maine,  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1758,  married  Molly  Elder  (int.) 
April  8,  1780.  2.  Samuel,  born  in  York,  Au- 
gust 4,  1759,  married  Esther  Thomas.  3. 
William,  born  in  Gorham  (and  those  that  fol- 
low), August  15,  1761,  married,  December  30, 
1784,    Hannah    Sturgis    and    (second)    Mary 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


McKenney.  4.  Robert,  born  February  13, 
1764,  married  (int.)  December  10,  1808,  Ruth 
VVoodman,  of  Minot,  who  died  September  13, 
1809;  he  married  (second)  Sally  Winslip.  5. 
George,  February  2,  1766,  married,  October 
10,  1789,  Temperance,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Temperance  (Gorham)  Sturgis.  6.  Jo- 
seph, December  11,  1767,  married  (int.)  De- 
cember 22,  1798,  Anna  Haskell.  7.  Polly,  July 
2,  1 77 1,  married,  November  14,  1819,  Daniel 
Small,  of  Raymond.  8.  Joanna,  May  11,  1774, 
died  young.  9.  Elizabeth,  July  29,  1799,  mar- 
ried, January  3,  1804,  Rev.  Joseph  Higgins,  of 
Thorndikc. 

(II)  Samuel,  second  son  of  William  and 
Joanna  Gordon  (]\loore)  Files,  was  born  in 
York,  Maine,  where  his  parents  lived  but  a 
few  years.  He  married,  September  28,  1780, 
Esther,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Pick- 
ering) Thomas,  and  sister  of  Ebenezer  Scott 
Thomas,  a  revolutionary  soldier.  Her  grand- 
father was  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  Thomas, 
an  early  inhabitant  of  Falmouth  Neck,  Maine, 
where  he  was  granted  land  in  1716.  Samuel 
Files  and  wife  lived  on  his  father's  farm  be- 
tween West  Gorham  and  Fort  Hill.  lie  died 
April  7,  1835,  and  his  widow  died  March  i, 
1844,  aged  eighty-one.  They  had  ten  children  : 
I.  Samuel,  born  August,  1781,  married  Katie 
Linnell  and  (second)  Sarah  Bryant.  2.  Thom- 
as, 1783,  married,  June  11,  1807.  Statira, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah  P.  (Stuart) 
Phinney,  of  Standish,  and  granddaughter  of 
Captain  John  Phinney,  of  Barnstable,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Falmouth,  Maine.  3.  Joseph, 
born  1785,  married,  January  22,  1810,  Peggy 
Westcott  and  (second)  Sally  Morton,  went  to 
Thorn''ike.  4.  Robert,  1787,  married,  April 
21,  1818,  Patience  Phinney  and  (second)  Ann 
B.  Thomes.  5.  Abigail,  1789.  married  Luther 
Libby,  of  Scarboro,  and  (second)  Rev.  Sar- 
gent Shaw.  She  died  May  27,  18S0.  6.  Eu- 
nice, born  1 79 1,  married  David  Thompson,  of 
Thorndikc.  7.  George,  1793,  married  Anna 
Shaw  ;  went  to  Thorndikc.  8.  Ebenezer  S., 
1795.  married  Patience  Phinney,  May  14, 
1818.  9.  Stephen,  February,  1800,  married 
Eunice  B.  Freeman.  10.  Sally,  1802,  married. 
Janizary  23,  1843,  Luther  Libby. 

(III)  Stephen,  youngest  son  of  Samuel  and 
Esther  (Thomas)  Files,  was  born  in  Gorham, 
Maine,  February.  1800.  He  lived  on  the  home- 
stead farm  at  West  Gorham.  He  married, 
October  21.  1827,  Eunice  B..  daughter  of 
David  and  Bethiah  (Bangs)  Freeman,  who 
was  born  February  4,  1808.  She  was  the 
great-granddaughter  of  Major  John  Freeman, 
who  was  prominent  in  PlynTiuth  Colony  and 


a  soldier  of  King  Philip's  war.  Her  grand- 
parents were  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Chase) 
Freeman,  of  Standish,  Maine.  Stephen  Files 
died  April  14,  1882,  and  his  widow  died  July 
6,  1885.  They  had  five  children:  i.  David 
F.,  born  March  3,  1830.  2.  Hannah  B.,  No- 
vember 16,  1832,  married  Charles  S.  D. 
Prince,  March  28,  1850;  children:  Edward, 
Henry,  Nellie  Thompson  and  Stephen  Files 
Prince;  all  died  young.  3.  Charles,  1842,  died 
April  21,  1843.  4.  Susan  A.,  November  19, 
1844,  married  Paul  R.  Seavey,  of  Bangor. 
Children :  Mary,  born  October  4,  1873,  mar- 
ried liiland  L.  Fairbanks,  December  10,  1902. 
lialler  David,  born  October  3,  1876,  married 
Charlotte  Davis,  June  27,  1905. 

(IV)  David  F.,  eldest  son  of  Stephen  and 
Eunice  B.  (Freeman)  Files,  was  born  in  Gor- 
ham, March  3,  1830,  and  married  (first),  Jan- 
uary I,  1857,  Fannie  Curtis;  (second)  Mor- 
gia  Eastman.  He  followed  the  occupation  of 
farmer  and  was  an  express  messenger.  The 
old  home  farm  is  still  in  possession  of  this 
branch  of  the  family  (1908).  No  children  by 
the  first  marriage.  Children  of  David  F.  and 
Morgia  (Eastman)  Files:  i.  Hannah  Prince, 
born  March  29,  1862.  died  August,  1863.  2. 
Charles  Eben,  September  6,  1863,  married,  De- 
cember, 1908, .    3.  Carrie  Whipple,  July 

3,  1865,  unmarried.  4.  Jane  Eastman,  May  5, 
1867,  unmarried.  5.  Harry  Prince,  July  3, 
1869,  married  Inez  G.  Doane,  October  28, 
1906.  6.  Stephen  Clifton,  May  12,  1871.  mar- 
ried Bertha  M.  Sands,  February  27,  1901.  7. 
Nettie  Seavey,  August  24,  1873,  unmarried. 
8.  William  Rolf,  mentioned  below.  9.  Kath- 
arine, April  28,  1876,  married  Oliver  Dow 
Smith,  September  6,  1899. 

(V)  William  Rolf,  son  of  David  F.  and 
Morgia  (Eastman)  Files,  was  born  in  Gor- 
ham. Maine,  March  11,  1875.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  the  public  schools  of  Gorham  and  the 
L^niversity  of  Maine,  class  '98.  He  followed 
the  profession  of  mechanical  engineer  in  New 
Jersey  and  Pennsylvania,  finally  locating  with 
the  Rhode  Island  Supply  &  Engineering  Com- 
pany at  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican ;  is  unmarried.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Maine  Society  of  New  York, 
and  is  a  member  of  Raritan  Lodge,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.,  No.  61,  Perth  Amboy.  New  Jersey,  and 
Lafayette  Chapter,  No.  26,  Rahway,  New  Jer- 
sey. 


This  is  said  to  be  a  com- 

WILLIAMSON     mon    name    among    the 

English   Quakers  and   is 

fouuf!  upon  the  "Rolls  of  Persecuted  Quakers" 


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1659-86.  Branches  of  the  family  were  scat- 
tered throuoh  five  of  the  English  counties. 
Philip  Williamson,  of  Cambridgeshire,  was 
imprisoned  in  1659  for  nearly  a  year  for  testi- 
fying against  the  corruption  of  the  times.  In 
1660  was  driven  from  his  own  hired  house  and 
1669-72  was  imprisoned  for  non-payment  of 
tithes.  For  this  last  course  Thomas  William- 
son, of  county  Bedford,  was  imprisoned,  also 
Ellen  Williamson,  of  Cheshire.  Thomas, 
George  W.,  Patrick  and  Hugh  Williamson,  of 
county  Durham,  were  also  fined  or  put  in 
prison  for  various  causes,  and  John  William- 
son, of  Lincolnshire,  was  subjected  to  a  fine 
by  the  court.  Besides  these  English  branches, 
the  name  was  known  in  Holland,  and  Willem 
Willemsen,  born  in  that  country  in  1637,  was 
the  progenitor  of  one  branch  in  America.  The 
ancestor  of  the  Williamsons  who  settled  in 
Maine,  however,  is  not  clearly  identified,  nor 
is  the- locality  known  of  his  English  home. 

(I)  Timothy  Williamson,  emigrant  ances- 
tor, was  entered  on  the  town  records  of 
Marshfield,  Massachusetts,  June  24,  1649,  ^^'^^ 
also  in  1657  ^s  "Tymothie  Williamson."  pur- 
chaser of  lands  in  that  town.  He  is  supposed 
by  some  to  be  the  son  of  the  "Master"  George 
Williamson,  who  according  to  history  acom- 
panied  Miles  Standish  in  his  first  interview 
with  Massasoit,  March  22,  1621.  He  lived 
near  the  meeting  house,  "which  he  w'as  ap- 
pointed to  keep  warm  and  clean."  June  3, 
1656,  he  was  propounded  as  freeman  of  Plym- 
outh Colony  and  admitted  a  year  later.  .-Xt  the 
town  meeting  at  Marshfield,  May,  1655,  he 
was  appointed  surveyor;  in  1656  constable  and 
in  1659  pound  keeper.  At  the  general  court 
held  May  4,  1673-74  "Libertie  was  granted  by 
the  court  unto  Timothy  Williamson  to  keep 
an  ordinary  at  Marshfield  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  strangers,  for  lodging,  victualing  and 
the  drawing  and  selling  of  beer."  Timothy 
Williamson  married,  June  6,  1653.  Mary,  the 
daughter  (probably)  of  Arthur  Howland.  of 
Marshfield.  He  died  in  King  Philip's  war, 
and  was  buried  August  6,  1676.  He  left  a  will 
and  the  inventory  of  his  estate  was  about  fifty 
pounds,  .^fter  his  death  his  widow  continued 
his  business  at  inn-keeping,  and  married  (sec- 
ond), January  22,  1679.  Robert  Stanford,  of 
Marshfield,  and  died  1690.  The  children  of 
Timothy  and  ]\'lary  were:  i.  Mary,  born  July 
7,  1654,  married,  March  9.  1678-79,  Josiah 
Slawson.  2.  Timothy.  February  26,  1655,  bur- 
ied September  18,  1682.  3.  John.  November 
21,  1657.  4.  Caleb,  March,  1661-62.  married, 
IMay  3,  1687,  Marv  Cobb.  5;.  Experience,  mar- 
ried, April  25,  1684,  Joseph  Taylor.     6.  Na- 


•;  lived  at  Marsh- 


than,  married  Mary  — 

field.     7.   Martha,   May   i,   1670.     8.   Abigail, 

.-\ugust  10,  1672.    9.  George. 

(II)  George,  youngest  son  of  Timothy  and 
Mary  (Howland)  Williamson,  was  born  at 
Marshfield,  Massachusetts,  May  2,  1675.  He 
married  a  Miss  Crisp  and  moved  from  Marsh- 
field, residing  for  a  time  at  each  of  the  fol- 
lowing towns:  Duxbury,  Rochester,  Truro, 
Eastham  and  Middleboro.  Their  children  :  i. 
Thankful,  May  10,  1702.  2.  Hepzibah,  .A.pril 
29,  1705.  3.  Beulah,  November  29,  1706.  4. 
Mary,  September  10,  1708.  5.  George.  Oc- 
tober I,  1710.  6.  Deborah,  April,  1713.  7. 
Caleb. 

(III)  Caleb,  youngest  son  of  George  and 

■  (Crisp)  Williamson,  was  born  in  1714. 

The  church  records  of  Truro  give  the  bap- 
tismal date  August  28,  1714,  and  he  doubtless 
was  born  there  in  July  as  elsewhere  recorded. 
His  wife  was  Sarah  Ransom.  They  settled  in 
Middleboro  and  had  six  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters, but  two  of  the  sons,  George  and  Caleb, 
left  issue:  George,  born  1754,  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier.  He  moved  to  Canterbury, 
Connecticut,  thence  to  Amherst,  Massachu- 
setts, and  finally  to  Bangor,  Maine,  where  he 
died  1822.  He  married  Mary  Foster,  of  Con- 
necticut, and  had  four  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters. Honorable  William  D.,  judge  of  pro- 
bate, Maine,  and  historian  of  that  state  was 
one  of  their  sons.  Caleb,  probably  younger 
brother  of  George. 

(IV)  Caleb  (2),  second  son  of  Caleb  (i) 
and  Mary  (Foster)  Williamson,  was  born  at 
Harwich,  Massachusetts,  in  1753-56.  No  rec- 
ord of  his  family  has  been  obtained.  Among 
his  children  was  a  son  Nathan. 

(V)  Nathan,  son  of  Caleb  (2)  Williamson, 
was  born  probably  in  Maine.  He  married,  and 
among  children  was  Ebenezer. 

(VI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Nathan  Williamson, 
was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Connecticut,  November 
10,  1 791,  died  October  4,  1873,  at  Shipton, 
Quebec.     Married  Eliza  Willey. 

(VII)  Stephen  Edward,  eldest  son  of  Ebe- 
nezer and  Eliza  (Willey)  Williamson,  was 
born  August  30,  1834,  in  Danville,  Quebec. 
He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  there 
and  the  private  school  of  M.  C.  Forest.  Mr. 
\\'illiamson  first  settled  at  Milan,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  his  present  home  is  in  Berlin.  New 
Hampshire.  He  is  a  carpenter  and  contractor. 
He  married,  at  Milan,  September  30,  1855, 
Ellen  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Hiram  E.  and 
Lucy  A.  (Capen)  Ellingwood,  of  Bethel,  who 
was  born  October  2,  1839.  I"  ^9^5  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Williamson  celebrated  their  golden  wed- 


1 1 86. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


ding.  They  had  three  children :  Walter  D., 
M.  D. ;  Charles  P.,  married  Addie  L.  York ; 
and  Cassius  C,  A.  B.,  Bowdoin  College,  1898, 
married,  October  8.  1908,  Kathryn  \'an 
Horn,  lives  in  Lewistown,  Montana. 

(VHI)  Walter  Darwin,  M.  D.,  eldest  son 
of  Stephen  E.  and  Ellen  E.  (Ellingwood) 
Williamson,  was  born  March  11,  1863,  i^^  ^'i'' 
Ian,  New  Hampshire.  In  his  youth  he  entered 
the  public  schools  in  New  Hampshire  and  the 
North  Bridgeton,  Maine,  Academy.  In  1885 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vermont  and  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1888.  After  a  post-graduate  course  at 
the  Medical  School  of  New  York  City,  he  re- 
turned to  ]\Iilan  and  followed  his  profession 
for  six  months,  when  he  removed  to  Gorham, 
New  Hampshire,  and  established  a  practice 
there  which  he  continued  from  1889  until  1901. 
Soon  after  he  removed  to  Portland,  Maine, 
wiiere  be  built  up  a  lucrative  practice  and  con- 
tinues to  reside.  Dr.  Williamson  is  a  member 
of  the  State  and  County  Medical  societies  and 
of  the  American  Medical  Society ;  F.  A.  M.. 
Gorham,  New  Hampshire  Lodge,  and  has  all 
degrees  through  the  Scottish  and  York  Rites 
to  the  thirty-second;  I.  O.  O.  F.  in  New 
Hampshire  and  K.  of  P.,  New  Hampshire. 
He  is  a  Republican  but  not  specially  active  in 
city  politics.  Dr.  Williamson  married,  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1890,  Hattie  Maria,  daughter  of 
Dennis  Bond  and  Ellen  E.  (Hamlin)  York, 
who  was  born  at  IMilan,  December  16.  1864. 
Fler  mother  was  a  descendant  of  the  late  Hon. 
Hannibal  Hamlin.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Williamson 
have  an  only  child,  Eleanor  Ellen,  born  at 
Gorham,  August  30,  1894. 


Robert  Goodell,  immigrant 
GOODELL  ancestor  of  most  of  this  sur- 
name in  New  England,  was 
born  in  England  in  1604.  He  sailed  from 
Ipswich,  England,  April  30,  1634,  with  wife 
Katherine,  aged  twenty-eight,  son  Abraham, 
aged  two,  and  Isaac,  aged  six  months,  in  the 
ship  "Elizabeth,"  and  settled  in  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  a  farmer  or  planter  and  as 
early  as  1636  became  a  proprietor  of  the  town. 
He  deeded  land  in  1668  to  his  daughter,  Han- 
nah Killum,  and  with  wife  sold  the  land  ad- 
joining. His  will  was  dated  October  12,  1682, 
and  proved  June  27,  1683,  bequeathing  to  his 
wife,  to  daughter  Elizabeth  Bennett  and 
grandchild  John  Smith.  Children;  i.  IMary, 
born  1629,  married  John  Pease.  2.  Abraham, 
1631,  died  young.  3.  Isaac,  1633,  married, 
January  23,  1668.  Patience  Cook;  died  at  Sa- 
lem  in    1679;   left   son   John.      4.    Zachariah, 


1639,  mentioned   below.      5.   Infant,  baptized 

1640.  6.  Jacob,  baptized  January  9,  1642,  died 
1.676  unmarried.  7.  Hannaii,  baptized  August 
6,  1645,  married  Lot  Killum.  8.  Elizabeth, 
married  (first)  John  Smith;  (second)  Will- 
iam Bennett. 

(II)  Zachariah,  son  of  Robert  Goodell,  was 
born  in  1639.  He  married,  June  30,  1666, 
Elizabeth  Beauchamps,  daughter  of  Edward 
of  Salem.  Children,  born  at  Salem:  i.  Zach- 
ariah, February  9,  1667.  2.  Samuel,  Decem- 
ber, 1669.  3.  Joseph,  September  23,  1672.  4. 
Mary,  November  27,  1674.  5.  Thomas,  De- 
cember 30,  1676.  6.  Abraham,  November  7, 
1678.  7.  John,  August  10,  1681.  8.  Benja- 
min (twin),  July  4,  1687.  9.  Sarah  (twin), 
July  4,  1687.     TO.  David,  Alarch  i,  1689-90. 

(III)  Daniel  Goodell,  descendant  of  Robert 
Goodell,  the  immigrant,  was  born  in  1766  at 
Prospect,  Maine,  and  died  in  1855.  He  mar- 
ried Mercy  Harding,  born  1771,  died  1843. 
Among  their  children  was  Sears,  mentioned 
below. 

(IV)  Sears,  son  of  Daniel  (i)  Goodell,  was 
born  in  Prospect,  Maine,  September  17,  1799, 
died  May  6,  1875.  He  was  educated  in  his 
native  town,  and  followed  farming  for  an 
occupation.  He  married,  in  Prospect,  June  17, 
181 7,  Hannah  B.  Smith,  born  December  17, 
1797.  Children,  born  at  Prospect:  i.  Daniel 
Smith,  mentioned  below.  2.  William  L.,  born 
December  29,  1820,  lost  at  sea,  December  30, 
1842.  3.  George,  November  i,  1824,  lost  at 
sea,  August  2^,  1841.  4.  Margaret,  August  8, 
1826,  died  May  18,  1878.  5.  Sarah  P.,  April 
6,  1829,  died  March  15.  1906;  resided  in  Pros- 
pect. 

(V)  Captain  Daniel  Smith,  son  of  Sears 
Goodell,  was  born  in  Prospect,  Waldo  county, 
Maine,  November  12,  1818,  died  March  29, 
1904.  He  attended  the  district  schools  of  his 
native  town  during  the  brief  sessions  before 
he  was  fourteen.  At  that  age  he  went  to  sea 
and  followed  the  life  of  a  mariner  continuous- 
ly afterward  for  some  forty  years  or  more. 
In  1838  he  had  become  a  master  mariner  and 
sailed  to  all  parts  of  the  world,  generally  own- 
ing a  share  in  the  vessel  that  he  commanded. 
His  two  brothers  were  lost  at  sea.  He  was 
enterprising  and  energetic,  making  many  prof- 
itable voyages,  and  being  well  and  favorably 
known  in  the  shipping  world.  He  owned  shares 
in  other  vessels  besides  the  one  he  command- 
ed. In  1855  he  settled  his  family  at  Sears- 
port,  and  in  1874  bought  the  Cole  place,  where 
his  family  has  since  lived.  Captain  Goodell 
was  appointed  deputy  collector  of  customs  at 
Searsport  by  President  Abraham  Lincoln  and 


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1 187 


served  twelve  years.  He  was  consular  agent 
for  the  Spanish  government  at  Searsport  for 
a  time.  He  was  a  prominent  Republican  in 
politics.  In  1840  he  cast  his  vote  for  Harri- 
son. He  was  selectman  of  the  town  of  Sears- 
port  after  he  retired  and  for  a  number  of  years 
was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He  married.  2\Iay 
15,  1841,  Mary  Grant,  of  Prospect.  Children: 
i'  Alexene  L..  bom  JNIay  20,  1845.  married 
Harvey  D.  Hadlock.  a  lawyer  of  Boston ;  chil- 
dreij:  Inez  and  Deming  Hadlock.  2.  Daniel 
S.  Jr.,  February  16,  1853,  married  Minnie  L. 
Murray,  of  Sacramento.  California ;  resides  at 
New  York  City;  has  led  a  maritime  life.  3. 
Mary  A.,  January  29,  1848,  died  aged  twelve 
years.  4.  William  Heagan,  November  12, 
1854,  mentioned  below.  5.  Susan  B.,  Septem- 
ber C,  1861,  married  Fred  A.  Davis,  M.  D.,  of 
Boston ;  son.  Arnold  B.  Davis. 

(\"I)  Captain  William  Heagan.  son  of  Cap- 
tain Daniel  Smith  Goodell,  was  born  in  Sears- 
port.  Maine,  November  12,  1854.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  in  Bucksport  Academy.  He  went 
to  sea  in  his  youth  and  followed  it  until  1889, 
when  he  retired.  He  rounded  Cape  Horn  and 
also  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  before  he  was 
twentv-one  as  master.  He  first  commanded  a 
ship  on  the  voyage  to  Hamburg,  Germany, 
from  \'alparaiso.  South  America.  During  the 
fifteen  years  in  which  he  was  master  mariner 
he  commanded  the  ships  "Robert  Porter," 
"Goodell."  "Governor  Robie"  and  others,  ma- 
king voyages  from  time  to  time  to  China, 
Japan,  the  Philippines,  San  Francisco  and 
South  America,  as  well  as  to  England  and 
various  European  ports.  Since  1889  he  has 
been  retired,  living  at  his  home  in  Searsport, 
]^laine.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  Neptune  Lodge  of  Free  Ma- 
sons, Glasgow,  Scotland ;  of  the  Thetis  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons,  Glasgow,  of  which 
King  Edward  was  grand  master  while  he  was 
Prince  of  Wales.  He  married.  October  19, 
1905,  Elizabeth  Blanche,  born  May  30,  1873, 
daughter  of  F.  E.  Whitcomb,  of  Searsport. 
They  have  one  child,  William  Heagan  Jr., 
born  October  19,  1907. 


The  origin  and  early  ancestry  of 
MINER     the  Miner  family  in  England  is 

given  thus:  Edward  HI  of  Eng- 
land, going  to  war  against  the  French, 
marched  through  "Somersetshire,  came  to 
Mendippe  hills,  where  lived  Henry  Miner,  who 
with  all  carefulness  and  loyalty,  having  con- 
vened his  domestic  and  menial  servants  armed 
with  battle  axes  proffered  himself  and  them  to 


his  master's  service  making  up  a  complete 
hundred."  For  this  service  he  was  granted 
the  coat-of-arms :  Gules  a  fesse  between  three 
plates  argent. 

(I)  Henry  Miner,  mentioned  above,  died  in 
1359.  Children:  Henry,  Edward,  Thomas, 
George. 

(II)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Henry  (i)  Miner, 
married  Henrietta,  daughter  of  Edward 
Hicks,  of  Gloucester.  Children:  i.  William. 
2.  Henrv,  who  served  in  1384  under  Richard 
III. 

(III)  William,  son  of  Henry  (2)  Mmer, 
married  Hobbs,  of  Wiltshire.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Thomas.  2.  George,  lived  in  Shrop- 
shire. 

(IV)  Thomas,  son  of  William  Miner,  lived 

in    Herefordshire    in    1399:    married   , 

daughter  of  Cotton  Gresslap,  Staffordshire. 
Chitdren  :    Lodovic,  George,  Alary. 

(\')  Lodovic,  son  of  Thomas  Miner,  mar- 
ried Anna,  daughter  of  Thomas  Dyer,  of 
Staughton,  Huntingdonshire.  Children:  i. 
Thomas,  mentioned  below.  2.  George  (twin), 
born  1458.  3.  Arthur  (twin),  born  1458, 
served  the  house  of  Austria. 

(VI)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Lodovic  Miner, 
was  born  in  1436.  He  married  Bridget,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  George  Hervie,  of  St.  Martin's, 
county  Middlesex;  died  1480,  leaving  two 
children  to  the  tutorage  of  their  mother 
Bridget,  but  she  resigned  to  her  father  and 
turned  to  monastic  life  in  Datford. 

(VII)  William  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Miner,  married  Isabella  Harcope  de  Folibay 
and  lived  to  revenge  the  death  of  the  two 
voung  princes  slain  in  the  Tower  by  their 
imcle  Richard  HI.  Children:  William, 
George,  Thomas,  Robert,  Nathaniel,  John  and 
four  others.  John  and  Nathaniel  went  to  Ire- 
land in  1541^  when  Henry  Mil  was  pro- 
claimed king  of  Ireland.     Nathaniel  married 

Fitzmaurice,  nee  Catherlough,  in  Lein- 

ster.  Ireland.  John  married  Joselina  O'Brien 
or  O'Brvan  of  Innis,  in  county  Clare. 

(Vllf)  William  (3).  son  of  William  (2) 
Miner,  was  buried  at  Chew  Magna,  February 
23,  1585.     Children:     Clement,  Elizabeth. 

(IX)  Clement,  son  of  William  (3)  :\Iiner, 
died  March  31,  1640,  at  Chew  Magna.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Clement,  married  Sarah  Pope.  2. 
Thomas,  settled  in  Stonington.  Connecticut,  in 
1683.  3.  Elizabeth.  4.  i\Iary.  (This  pedi- 
gree was  prepared  while  the  American  ances- 
tor was  living.) 

(X)  Clement  (2),  son  of  Clement  (i)  ]Mi- 
ner,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Pope, 
of  Norton,  Small  Reward,  Somerset,  England. 


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Clement  is  buried  at  Burslingtoii,  Somerset- 
shire. Children:  William,  Israel,  married 
Elizabeth  Jones. 

(XI)  William  (4),  son  of  Clement  (2)  Mi- 
ner, married  Sarah  Batting,  of  Cliffon, 
Gloucester.  Children :  William,  Sarah,  who 
resided  in  Christmas  street,  London,  in  1683. 

(I)  Silvanus  Miner,  who  was  doubtless  de- 
scended from  the  progenitor  mentioned  above, 
the  lineage  not  being  traced  for  want  of  rec- 
ords, lived  in  New  Brunswick.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  blacksmith  by  trade.  He  married 
Ruth  Stiles,  whose  father  was  a  native  of 
England,  coming  to  New  Brunswick  about 
1800.  Among  their  children  were  Nathan, 
John,  George,  James,  William,  Harvey,  Ruth, 
Jane,  Lucy,  and  three  others  who  died  in  in- 
fancy. 

(II)  Nathan,  son  of  Silvanus  Miner,  was 
born  in  New  Brunswick.  He  was  a  farmer, 
living  at  Mount  Whatley,  New  Brunswick, 
where  he  died  February  10,  1908.  He  married 
Celia,  daughter  of  Llenry  and  Elizabeth 
(Hoegg)  Carter.  Her  father  was  a  native  of 
England,  coming  first  to  New  England  and 
thence  to  New  Brunswick ;  her  mother  was 
daughter  Clara  of  the  same  English  family  as 
General  Lord  Roberts  of  the  British  army. 
Children  of  Nathan  and  Celia  (Carter)  Mi- 
ner: I.  Albert  H.,  born  November  25,  1870, 
manager  of  the  Woodworking  Company  at 
Amherst,  Nova  Scotia.  2.  Walter  Nathan, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Bertha  A.,  April  10, 
1875,  married  Thomas  W.  Keillor;  she  died 
in  1905.  4.  Amelia  R.,  February  10,  1878, 
married  Edgar  Embree,  of  Amherst,  Nova 
Scotia.  5.  Lloyd  G.,  June  8,  1881,  lives  at 
Mount  Whatley,  a  farmer ;  married  Ardella 
West,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  6.  Pearl  L., 
December  11,  1884,  married  William  T.  Keil- 
lor. 

(III)  Dr.  Walter  Nathan,  son  of  Nathan 
Miner,  .was  born  at  Mount  Whatley,  New 
Brunswick,  July  13,  1872.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  the  Nor- 
mal school  at  Frederickton,  New  Brunswick. 
He  taught  school  for  three  years  after  grad- 
uating from  the  normal  school.  While  teach- 
ing at  Rockport  and  Frederickton  he  began 
the  study  of  medicine.  He  then  entered  the 
Baltimore  Medical  College,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1898  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  He  was  attached  to  the 
Medical  General  Hospital  at  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, for  one  year,  and  had  four  months  of 
service  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  Llospital  in  the 
same  city.  He  went  abroad  to  study  and  took 
post-graduate  courses  at  the   Polyclinic   Hos- 


pital in  London.  He  has  had  experience  also 
in  New  York  and  Boston  hospitals.  He  be- 
gan the  general  practice  of  medicine  at  Calais, 
Maine,  in  May,  1898,  and  has  been  very  suc- 
cessful. He  is  a  member  of  the  Provincial 
Medical  Society  of  New  Brunswick ;  Washing- 
ton County  Medical  Society;  is  surgeon  of  the 
Washington  County  Railroad  Company ;  mem- 
ber of  Saint  Croix  Lodge,  No.  46,  Free  Ma- 
sons;  of  Calais  Chapter,  No.  17,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  of  Hugh  de  Payen  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar;  of  the  Order  of  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America ;  Calais  Lodge,  Knights 
of  Pythias.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Calais 
board  of  trade.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican, 
and  has  represented  ward  four  in  the  board  of 
aldermen  of  Calais  for  two  years.  He  is  med- 
ical examiner  for  the  L'nion  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Portland,  Maine;  of  the  Pruden- 
tial Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  Jersey; 
of  the  John  Hancock  Life  Insurance  Company, 
Boston ;  of  the  Northwestern  Life  Insurance 
Company  and  of  the  Travelers'  Life  Insur- 
ance Company.     In  religion  he  is  a  Baptist. 

He  married,  April  29,  1903,  Estella,  born 
April  8,  1874,  daughter  of  James  Edward  and 
Martha  (Amos)  Delahay,  of  San  Francisco, 
California.  Children:  i.  Edward  Nathan, 
born  May  31,  1906,  died  in  infancy.  2.  John 
Prescott,  May  6,  1907. 


The  exact  origin  of  the  name 
COLCORD     is  not  readily  determined,  but 

it  is  found  in  England  spelled 
in  various  ways :  Colquitt,  Colcott,  Colcut, 
Calcord  and  Colcord.  There  is  some  evidence 
that  the  family  of  the  American  ancestors 
were  located  in  county  Norfolk,  England.  The 
first  of  the  name  in  the  country  were  two 
brothers,  Edward  and  Gideon. 

(I)  Edward,  emigrant,  came  to  New  Eng- 
land 163 1,  and  is  recorded  as  planter,  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  1637,  and  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, 1643.  He  witnessed  the  "Wheelwright 
Deed"  1638.  According  to  a  "deposition,"  he 
was  fifty-six  years  of  age  in  1673,  and  there- 
fore born  in  England  about  1617.  His  wife's 
name  was  probably  Anne  Page,  as  Robert 
Page  (wdio  settled  early  in  Salem.  Massachu- 
setts, and  moved  to  New  Hampshire)  men- 
tioned in  a  deed  his  "brother  Edward  Col- 
cord" and  "his  wife  Ann,"  for  whom  he  made 
effort  to  secure  claims  in  1654  and  again  in 
1679.  This  Robert  Page  was  from  Ormsby, 
county  Norfolk  (or  York),  England.  Edward 
Colcord  was  very  active,  evidently  rather  in 
advance  of  his  time;  stirring  up  strife  with 
the  "proprietors"  and  frequently  engaging  in 


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controversies  and  lawsuits,  thus  acquiring  un- 
popularity except  in  liis  own  very  respectable 
circle  of  friends,  by  whom  he  was  well  liked 
and  respected.  He  went  to  Hampton,  New 
Hampshire,  in  1645,  where  he  died  February 
10,  1681-82.  On  one  occasion  he  mentioned 
his  "brother  Deacon  Robert  Page,"  who  had 
shown  much  kindness  to  his  "wife  Anne''  and 
family  and  assisted  in  some  settlement  of  the 
estate  at  Hampton.  Children  of  Edward  and 
Anne  were:  i.  Jonathan,  born  about  1640, 
died  August  3,  1661.  2.  Hannah,  1643,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Dearborn,  and  died  July  17,  1720. 
3.  Sarah,  1646,  married  John  Hobbs.  4.  Mary, 
October  4,  1649,  married  Benjamin  Fifield  and 
died  at  Hampton  Falls,  New  Hampshire,  1741. 
5.    Edward,    February    2,    1652.      6.    Samuel, 

1655.   married    ]\Iary  .     7.    Mehitable, 

1658,  married  Nathaniel  Stevens,  of  Dover. 
8.  Shuah.  May  2,  1664,  married  Tristan  Cof- 
fin,   g.  Abigail,  July  23,  1667. 

(II)  Edward  (2),  second  son  of  Edward 
(i)  and  Anne  (Page)  Colcord,  was  born  at 
Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  February  2,  1652. 
It  is  said  he  was  "killed  by  Indians  June  13, 
1677."  He  had  two  sons,  Gideon  and  Ed- 
ward (3),  who  settled  in  Newmarket,  New 
Hampshire.  The  name  of  his  wife  is  not 
learned.  He  died  "very  much  regretted."  In- 
ventory of  estate,  dated  1677.  (Perhaps 
1697.) 

(III)  Edward  (3),  son  of  Edward  (2)  Col- 
cord, was  born  in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire. 
He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Tristan  and 
Deborah  (Colcord)  Coffin,  of  Kittery,  Maine. 
Her  father  had  inherited  property  at  Dover, 
New  Hampshire.  He  was  captain  of  a  troop 
of  horse  commissioned  November  6,  1732.  He 
left  by  will,  1761,  "to  daughter  Jane  Colcott 
all  lands  in  Rochester  (Me.)  and  also  200 
pounds."  Edward  (3)  Colcord  resided  in 
Newmarket,  New  Hampshire.  He  was  called 
"Edward  Jr."  All  the  Colcords  of  Maine  are 
said  to  be  descended  from  this  Edward  and 
his  brother  Gideon.  Children  of  Edward  (3) 
and  Jane  were:  i.  Gideon  of  Newmarket.  2. 
Nathaniel,  of  Hallowcll,  Maine.  3.  Josiah,  of 
Parsonfield,  Maine.  4.  Joab,  of  Parsonfield. 
5.  Jeremiah,  of  Tuftonboro.  6.  Benjamin,  of 
Northend.     7.  Eunice. 

(IV)  Josiah,  third  son  of  Edward  (3)  and 
Jane  (Coffin)  Colcord,  was  born  in  Newmar- 
ket, New  Hampshire,  April  10,  1755.  It  is 
possible  that  this  Josiah  of  the  fourth  gen- 
eration was  previously  married  and  had  a  son 
David,  bom  1775-76:  from  the  fact  that  Josiah 
had  a  son,  John  S.  Colcord,  and  that  David's 
son  William  gave  his  son  the  same  name,  re- 


corded in  the  same  manner  "John  S.,"  it  would 
seem  that  there  must  be  a  close  relationship. 
(V)  David,  eldest  son  of  Josiah  and  Mary 
(Shepherd)  Colcord,  was  born  about  1775-76. 
He  married  Eunice  Parsons,  and  their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  David  Jr.,  married  (first)  Re- 
becca Smart  and  (second)  Rebecca  Ellis  Har- 
riman  and  had  seven  children :  i.  Elizabeth, 
married  William  J.  Dodge;  ii.  David,  married 
Martha  West;  iii.  Mark,  married  Rebecca  T. 
Marden ;  iv.  James,  married  Eliza  Cumming- 
ham ;  v.  Joshua,  unmarried ;  vi.  Wilson,  mar- 
ried Katharine  Black :  vii.  Amanda,  married 
William  L.  Young.  2.  Benjamin,  married  Abi- 
gail Park  and  had  four  children:  i.  Benja- 
min (2),  married  Abiah  Blanchard ;  ii.  Ala- 
tilda,  married  Augustus  Webber ;  iii.  Amelia, 
married  Nathan  H.  Griffin  :  iv.  John,  married 
Betsey  Curtis.  3.  Chase,  married  Abigail 
Lampher  and  had  seven  children :  i.  Abigail, 
married  Ezekiel  Mosman ;  ii.  Emily,  married 
Alplieus  Fields;  iii.  Chase  (2)  ;  iv.  Mary  Ann, 
married  Mr.  White;  v.  Eunice;  vi.  Elizabeth; 
vii.  Jonathan,  married  Hannah  Smart.  4. 
William,  see  below.  5.  John,  married  Amelia 
Landau  Park,  and  had  three  children :  i.  El- 
mira  J.,  married  James  W.  Mosman:  ii.  Mary 
Ann ;  iii.  John  Green  Pendleton,  married 
Nancy  Penclleton.  6.  Eunice,  married  Captain 
Augustus  Lampher  and  had  five  children :  i. 
Augustus  (2),  married  Elizabeth  Towle;  ii. 
Elisha,  married  Maria  Savery ;  iii.  William, 
married  Abigail  Turner ;  iv.  Abigail,  married 
Thomas  True ;  v.  Eunice,  married  John  Ma- 
son.    7.  Polly,  married  Josiah  Towle  and  had 

eight  children:    i.  Josiah   (2),  married  

Snow ;  ii.  Margaret,  married  A.  T.  C.  Dodge ; 
iii.  Isabell,  married  Levi  Trundy ;  iv.  David; 
V.    Ann,    married    Henry   Sparrow;   vi.    Mary 

Jane,   married   Gardner ;   vii.   Abigail, 

married  Thomas  Piper ;  viii.  Henry  Palmer. 

(VI)  William,  fourth  son  of  David  and  Eu- 
nice (Parsons)  Colcord,  married  Sally  Jane 
Ames,  who  died  in  December,  1858.  William 
Colcord  met  his  death  by  drowning,  in  June, 
1826,  in  Penobscot  bay.    Their  chiUlren  were: 

1.  Mary  Jane,  married   Benjamin  Batchelder. 

2.  Sally,  married  Marshall  Dutch.  3.  John  S., 
married  Sarah  Howe,  living  1908,  aged  ninety- 
four.  4.  William  David,  married  Eleanor 
Hichborn.  5.  Josiah  Ames,  married  Martha 
J.  Berry.  The  mother  married  (second),  in 
1830,  Jonathan  Staples. 

(VII)  Josiah  Ames,  youngest  son  of  ^Vill• 
iam  and  Sally  J.  (Ames)  Colcord,  was  born 
January  22.  1818,  in  Prospect,  Maine  (now 
Stockton  Springs).  He  was  a  ship  owner  and 
captain  and  for  many  years  was  engaged  in 


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ship  building  on  the  Penobscot  river.  He 
died  June  30,  1876,  while  on  a  voyage,  of  yel- 
low fever,  at  Havana,  Cuba.  He  was  an  ac- 
tive Democrat,  "an  old  Jefifersonian,"  and  it 
was  his  ambition  to  see  the  election  of  a 
Democrat  to  the  presidency,  but  this  was  not 
realized.  Captain  Colcord  married,  December 
24,  1840,  Martha  Jane,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Berry,  of  Prospect,  who  was  born  No- 
vember 8,  181 8,  in  Prospect,  and  died  January 
2,  1894,  in  Stockton.  Their  children  were : 
I.  Melvin  E.,  born  November  7,  1844,  see  be- 
low. 2.  Emery  B.,  residing  in  Rockland, 
Maine.  3.  Pauline,  married  C.  C.  Roberts,  of 
Stockton,  and  is  now  deceased.  4.  Clara  E., 
deceased.  5.  Frederick  D.,  a  resident  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  6.  Frank  Augustus, 
mentioned  below. 

(Vni)  Melvin  Edgar,  eldest  son  of  Josiah 
Ames  and  Martha  Jane  (Berry)  Colcord,  was 
born  at  Prospect,  Maine,  November  7,  1844. 
He  married,  at  Stockton,  March  31,  1866, 
Roxanna  Larabee  Cleaves,  born  September  14, 
1844.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Stockton  and  has  followed  the  sea  in  com- 
mand of  vessels  for  forty  years.  Captain  Col- 
cord retired  in  1905  and  resides  in  Stockton 
Springs,  Maine.  He  had  six  children  :  Mari- 
etta, Lizzie  B.,  Evelyn  L.,  Edgar  M.,  Arthur 
B.,  Ethel  M. 

(VHT)  Frank  Augustus,  youngest  son  of 
Josiah  Ames  and  Martha  Jane  (Berry)  Col- 
cord, was  born  at  Stockton  Springs,  June  7, 
1856.  He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools 
of  Stockton  Springs  and  the  Maine  Seminary, 
Bucksport,  and  Pittsfield  Methodist  Seminary. 
He  went  to  sea  from  1869  to  1880,  when  he 
settled  in  New  York  City,  leaving  the  shipping 
to  engage  in  the  clothing  business  at  42  South 
street,  in  partnership  with  his  brother,  Fred- 
erick D.  Colcord.  In  1899  he  purchased  his 
brother's  interest  and  is  now  sole  proprietor. 
The  trade  is  principally  in  fitting  out  sea- 
going people.  In  religious  faith  he  is  a  Uni- 
versalist,  and  adheres  to  old-time  Democratic 
ideas  in  political  matters.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 16,  1880,  Hattie  Louise,  daughter  of  Jack- 
son and  Sarah  E.  (Sullivan)  Rich,  of  Stock- 
ton Springs.  She  was  born  January  16,  i860, 
in  Machias,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Clifford  F., 
in  business  with  his  father.  2.  Howard  F., 
salesman.  New  York  City.  3.  Walter  R.,  a 
junior  at  Cornell  University.  4.  Louise.  5. 
Sarah.  

From    time    out    of    mind    the 
GORDON     Scotch  have   been  noted  as  a 

patriotic  and  valorous  nation — 
and   in   the   forefront  of  the  Scotch   clans   in 


war  and  in  peace  have  stood  the  Gordons. 
Some  of  them  coming  to  this  land  of  greater 
wealth  and  grander  opportunities,  rendered 
yeoman  service  to  the  commonwealths  in 
which  they  became  adopted  citizens,  and 
raised  families  whose  members  have  taken  ac- 
tive and  useful  parts  in  maintaining  the  in- 
tegrity and  promoting  the  prosperity  of  the 
nation. 

(I)  John  Gordon,  said  to  have  been  a  son 
of  the  Duke  of  that  name,  according  to  family 
tradition,  married  Grace  Toy,  who  was  not 
his  equal  in  rank,  and  for  that  act  was  cast 
off  by  his  family  and  went  to  Ireland,  where, 
after  a  residence  of  some  time,  he  died.  His 
widow,  accompanied  by  three  sons,  one  of 
whom  was  Henry,  migrated  to  America  about 
1740,  and  settled  in  Andover.  Massachusetts. 

(II)  Henry,  son  of  John  and  Grace  (Toy) 
Gordon,  was  born  in  Ireland,  was  left  to  the 
sole  care  of  his  mother  when  a  child,  by  the 
death  of  his  father,  accompanied  her  to  Ameri- 
ca, and  when  General  Joseph  Frye  received 
a  grant  of  a  township  of  land  and  settled  in 
Maine,  and  founded  Fryeburg  in  the  wilds  of 
what  was  then  a  part  of  Massachusetts,  Henry 
Gordon,  a  friend  and  neighbor,  accompanied 
him.  Henry  Gordon  married  in  Andover,  and 
children  were  born  to  him  there,  among  whom 
were  Henry  and  two  daughters  who  married 
sons  of  General  Frye.  Another  daughter  mar- 
ried a  son  of  Judge  Simon  Frye. 

(III)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Henry  (i)  Gor- 
don, was  born  in  Massachusetts,  removed  with 
his  parents  and  the  other  members  of  their 
family  to  Fryeburg,  and  spent  his  life  there 
in  the  employments  incident  to  the  time  and 
place. 

(IV)  Stephen,  eldest  son  of  Henry  (2) 
Gordon,  was  born  in  Fryeburg,  October  10, 
1794.  Fie  was  a  farmer,  as  almost  every  man 
was  obliged  to  be  in  those  days,  and  also  did 
considerable  at  lumbering  in  that  region  which 
then  was  covered  with  some  of  the  finest  tim- 
ber within  many  miles  of  the  coast.  He  lived 
to  the  age  of  sixty-nine,  and  died  in  Frye- 
burg, March,  1863.  He  married  Lydia  Buf- 
fington  Chase,  born  in  Fryeburg,  July  10, 
1801,  died  in  Fryeburg,  December,  1864, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Spring) 
Chase.  Thomas  Chase  was  a  son  of  Dr. 
Josiah  and  Mehitable  (Frye)  Chase,  who  was 
a  surgeon  in  the  French  and  Indian  war  and 
served  with  General  Joseph  Frye  and  married 
his  daughter,  Mehitable  Frye.  He  practised 
medicine  in  Canterbury,  New  Hampshire,  for 
some  years,  but  moved'  to  Fryeburg,  being  the 
second  physician  in  that  town,  and  died  there. 


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His  son,  Thomas,  married  Mary  Spring, 
daughter  of  Jedediah  Spring,  of  Fryeburg.  He 
was  the  fourth  Thomas  Chase  from  Aquilla 
Chase,  and  was  born  in  Canterbury,  New 
Hampshire,  and  died  in  Fryeburg,  Maine.  The 
children  of  Stephen  and  Lydia  B.  (Chase) 
Gordon  were :  Setli  Chase,  Marshall,  William, 
Samuel  Chase,  Stephen,  and  Hannah  Stack- 
pole. 

(V)  Dr.  Seth  Chase,  eldest  son  and  first 
child  of  Stephen  and  Lydia  B.  (Chase)  Gor- 
don, was  born  in  Fryeburg,  August  17,  1830. 
Fie  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm  and  attended 
the  district  school  and  Fryeburg  Academy, 
where  he  fitted  for  college.  For  several  win- 
ters he  taught  school  in  country  districts  in 
Fryeburg  and  adjoining  towns.  Fie  also  taught 
one  year  in  Evansville,  Indiana.  He  began  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Ira 
Towle,  of  Fryeburg.  After  spending  two  years 
in  Dr.  Towle  s  office,  he  took  one  course  of  lec- 
tures at  Dartmouth  2\Iedical  School,  and  then 
entered  the  .Maine  Medical  School  at  Bruns- 
wick, where  he  attended  one  term,  and  grad- 
uated with  the  class  of  1855.  He  began  prac- 
tice in  the  town  of  Gorham,  Maine,  at  Little 
Falls,  in  the  village  of  South  \\'indham,  where 
he  remained  until  1861.  In  December  of  that 
year  he  was  appointed  assistant  surgeon  of 
the  Thirteenth  Maine  Volunteer  Infantry 
Regiment,  and  served  with  that  command  in 
the  Department  of  the  Gulf  in  the  Nineteenth 
Army  Corps,  in  Louisiana,  Mississippi,  and 
Texas,  until  October,  1863,  when  he  was  made 
surgeon  of  the  First  Louisiana  \'olunteer  In- 
fantry (white),  which  was  stationed  in  the 
Department  of  the  Gulf.  During  a  part  of 
his  term  of  service  he  acted  as  surgeon  of  the 
District  of  La  Fourche,  on  the  staff  of  General 
Cameron,  and  was  mustered  out  July  12,  1865, 
having  served  nearly  four  years.  Returning 
to  Maine,  he  settled  in  Portland,  October  i, 
1865,  and  has  since  resided  in  that  citv.  His 
four  years'  experience  in  surgery  iia  the  war 
gave  him  training  that  fitted  him  to  take  a 
leading  place  in  surgical  circles,  which  he 
has  ever  since  maintained.  In  1874  he  was 
appointed  surgeon  of  the  Maine  General  Hos- 
pital, and  is  still  one  of  its  stafif,  after  a  serv- 
ice of  thirty-four  years.  He  is  consulting 
surgeon  to  the  Maine  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
was  lecturer  on  diseases  of  women  in  the 
Portland  School  of  Medical  Instruction.  He 
has  served  as  president  of  the  Maine  Medical 
Association,  vice-president  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  and  president  of  the  sec- 
tion of  obstetrics  and  diseases  of  women  of 
the  same  association.     He  is  a  fellow  of  the 


American  and  of  the  British  Gynecological 
Society,  also  of  the  Boston  Gynecological  So- 
ciety and  the  Detroit  Academy  of  Medicine. 
Was  president  of  the  American  Gynecological 
Society  in  1902.  Fle  has  written  much  for 
medical  journals  and  read  numerous  papers 
before  medical  societies,  both  of  this  country 
and  of  Europe,  on  surgical  subjects.  His 
opinion  as  an  expert  in  matters  surgical  and 
medical  has  often  been  required  in  court, 
where  it  has  always  been  a  matter  of  pro- 
fessional pride  with  him  to  give  his  opinions 
as  he  formed  them  from  an  understanding  of 
the  facts,  without  regard  to  the  effect  thev 
might  have  on  either  party  to  the  suit.  Hi's 
place  in  his  profession  is  a  prominent  and  hon- 
orable one,  and  his  services  and  ability  have 
brought  him  many  honors.  His  attainment? 
and  widely  extended  practice,  a  practice  which 
for  years  has  covered  the  state,  and  much  of 
New  England,  has  made  him  one  of  the  most 
useful  citizens  of  the  commonwealth.  In 
politics  he  is  an  uncompromising  Democrat  of 
the  old  school — three  of  his  fundamental  tenets 
being:  Sound  currency,  tariff  for  revenue 
only,  and  the  largest  personal  liberty  con- 
sistent with  the  safety  of  the  community.  He 
has  served  one  year  in  the  Portland  common 
council,  and  three  years  as  a  member  of  the 
school  committee.  His  service  in  these  po- 
sitions was  rendered,  not  in  accordance  with 
his  wishes,  but  in  performance  of  what  he 
believed  to  be  his  duty  to  the  state.  From 
1896  to  1900  he  was  a  member  of  the  National 
Democratic  committee  of  Maine.  In  1905  he 
received  from  Dartmouth  College  the  honor- 
ary degree  of  LL.  D.  The  same  year  he  de- 
livered the  course  in  gynecology  in  Dartmouth 
Medical  School.  In  religious  belief  he  is  a 
Unitarian,  and  to  the  church  of  that  faith  he 
gives  with  such  measures  as  its  needs  require. 
In  1858  Dr.  Gordon  became  a  member  of 
Harmony  Lodge,  Gorham,  Maine,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons.  Since  that  time  he  has  ad- 
vanced in  the  Masonic  Order  through  the  fol- 
lowing organizations:  Eagle  Roval  Arch 
Chapter,  of  Westbrook  ;  Portland  Commandery 
No.  2,  Knights  Templar,  of  which  he  is  a  past 
commander;  and  was  also  grand  commander 
of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Tem- 
plar, of  Maine,  and  commander  of  the  Maine 
Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States.  The  only'  club  of  which  he  is 
a  member  is  the  Cumberland,  of  which  he 
was  president  four  years.  While  never  an 
active  politician,  he  has  always  been  ready  to 
aid  in  support  of  the  principles  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  as  enunciated   above,  and  much 


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aoainst  his  inclination  was  the  candidate  of 
his  party  for  representative  to  congress  in 
1002  in  the  f^rst  congressional  district  of 
I\laine.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  Maine  Historical  So- 
ciety, Portland  Natural  History  Society  Port- 
land Art  Club,  director  in  the  Associated  Char- 
ities and  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Fryeburg  Academy,  in  which  institution  he 
has  for  many  years  taken  much  interest.  He 
has  never  married. 

Peter,  being  one  of  the  twelve 
PERKINS  Apostles,  his  name  was  a  fa- 
vorite one  for  centuries  among 
Christians.  It  assumed  the  form  of  Pierre 
in  France,  whence  it  found  its  way  into  Eng- 
land and  there  took  the  diminuative  form  of 
Perkin.  This  gradually  and  naturally  became 
Perkins,  and,  in  time,  was  bestowed  upon  or 
assumed  by  one  as  a  surname.  Many  of  the 
name  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  New 
England,  and  their  descendants  have  borne 
honorable  part  in  the  development  of  modern 
civilization  in  the  Western  Hemisphere. 

(I)     John    Perkins    was    born    m    Newent, 
Gloucestershire,   England,   in    1590.     On   De- 
cember   I,    1630,   he   set   sail   from   Bristol   in 
the  "Lyon,"  William  Pierce,  master,  with  his 
wife   (Judith  Cater),  five  children  and  about 
a  dozen  other  companions.   They  reached  Nan- 
tasket,  February  5,  1631,  and  settled  in  Bos- 
ton     He  was  the  first  of  that  name  to  come 
to  New  England,  and  was  one. of  the  twelve 
who  accompanied  John  Winthrop  Jr.  to  settle 
in  Ipswich,  where  he  was  made  freeman  May 
18    1631       By   another  authority   he   did   not 
move  until  1633.     On  April  3,  1632,  "It  was 
ordered"  by  the  general  court  "that  noe  pson 
wtsoever    shall    shoot    at    fowle    upon    PuUen 
Poynte  or  Noddles   Illeland;  but  that  the  sd 
places  shal  be  reserved  for  John   Perkins  to 
take   fowle   with   nets."      Also,   November    7, 
1632    John  and  three  others  were  "appointed 
by  tiie  Court  to  sett  downe  the  bounds  be- 
twixte    Dochester    and    Rocksbury."      He    at 
once  took  a  prominent  stand  among  the  colo- 
nists, and  in  1636  and  for  many  years  after- 
wards represented  Ipswich  in  the  general  high 
court.     In   1645  he  was  appraiser  and  signed 
the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Sarah  Dilling- 
ham.    In    1648   and    1652   he    served   on   the 
grand  jury.     In   March,    1650,   "being   above 
the  age  of  sixty  he  was  freed  from  ordinary 
training   of    the   court."      He    made    his    will 
(probate  office,  Salem,  Massachusetts),  March 
28,   1654,  and  died  a  few  months  later,  aged 
sixty-four.     His  children  were:    Judith,  wife 


of  William  Sergeant;  John;  Thomas;  Eliza- 
beth, second  wife  of  William  Sergeant;  Mary, 
married  Thomas  Bradbury ;  Jacob  and  Lydia 
The  last  became  the  wife  of  Henry  Bennett,  of 
Ipswich. 

(II)   Thomas,  second  son  of  John  and  Ju- 
dith (Cater)  Perkins,  was  born  about  1616  in 
England,   and   resided   in   Ipswich  and  Tops- 
field,  Massachusetts.     He  was  made  freeman, 
1648,  in  the  former  town,  and  removed  to  the 
latter  about    1660,  dying  there  May  7,    1686. 
His  will  was  made  December   11,  preceding, 
and   proved   on   September    10,   following  his 
death.     He  owned  Sagamore  Hill,  in  Ipswich, 
which   was  probably   granted   to   him   by   the 
town.     This  has  an  elevation  of  one  hundred 
and  seventy  feet  in  height,  surrounded  by  salt 
marshes.     He  exchanged  this  with  his  brother 
John,   for  a  house  and  lot  in  the  town.     He 
was  a  deacon  of  the  church  in  Ipswich  and 
served  as  selectman  in  Topsfield  in  1676  and 
tithingman  in  1677-78,  and  was  often  on  com- 
mittees in  the  church  and  town  in  settling  vari- 
ous matters.     The  land  records  show  that  he 
bought  and  sold  much  propert) ,  and  he  left  a 
fine  estate  upon  his  death.     He  was  married 
in  Topsfield,  about  1640,  to  Phoebe,  daughter 
of   Zaccheus  Gould,  of  Topsfield.      She   was 
born  in  1620,  and  was  baptized  September  20, 
1620,  in  Hemel  Hempstead,  England,  and  was 
living  at  the  time  his  will  was  made.     Their 
children  were :    John,  Phoebe,  Zaccheus,  Mar- 
tha, Mary,  Elisha,  Judith,  Thomas  and  Timo- 
thy. 

(HI)  John  (2),  eldest  child  of  Deacon 
Thomas  and  Phoebe  (Gould)  Perkins,  was 
born  in  1641  in  Ipswich,  and  resided  in  Tops- 
field,  where  he  died  May  19,  1668.  He  mar- 
ried, November  28,  1666,  Deborah  Browning. 
Their  only  child  was  Thomas,  born  1667-68. 
He  disappears  from  the  Topsfield  records  after 
1685,  and  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  he  is 
the  one  next  mentioned. 

(IV)  Thomas  (2)  Perkins  appears  soon 
after  attaining  his  majority  in  Greenland,  New 
Hampshire,  which  was  then  a  part  of  Ports- 
mouth, residing  near  the  line  of  Dover  and 
Exeter.  In  February,  1706,  he  purchased  an 
estate  there  for  one  hundred  pounds  sterling, 
consisting  of  fifty  acres  of  marsh  and  meadow- 
land,  and  resided  thereon  until  1722.  In  Feb- 
ruary of  the  last-named  year  he  sold  his  prop- 
erty for  four  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  ster- 
ling, his  wife  Marv  signing  the  deed,  and  im- 
mediately thereafter  they  settled  in  Old 
Arundel,  now  Kennebunkport,  Maine.  Pre- 
vious to  his  removal  he  had  acquired  con- 
siderable land  there,  lying  between  the  Kenne- 


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bunk  river  and  a  line  running  from  Backcove, 
througli  Great  Pond  to  the  sea.  This  land 
had  been  i)rcviously  mortgaged  to  Francis 
Johnson,  and  there  was  a  contest  over  its  pos- 
session. The  dispute  was  submitted  to  arbi- 
trators who  charged  fourteen-fifteenths  of  the 
land  to  Captain  Perkins,  the  remainder  going 
to  Stephen  Harding,  wdio  had  purchased  it 
from  Johnson.  Captain  Perkins  erected  a 
garrison  house  near  Butler's  Rocks,  and  either 
he  or  his  son  was  a  sentinel  in  Sergeant  Alli- 
son Brown's  company  of  Indian-fighters,  at 
Arundel,  from  October  15,  1723,  to  June  14, 
1724,  and  a  sergeant  in  Lieutenant  Brown's 
company  from  May  29  to  November  ig,  1725. 
His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  John  Banfiekl,  of 
Portsmouth.  In  1738  Thomas  Perkins  and 
wife  transferred  to  their  son  John,  of  Boston, 
coaster,  their  right  in  the  estate  of  John  Ban- 
field,  late  of  Portsmouth.  Captain  Perkins 
died  about  1741.  His  children  born  before  he 
settled  in  Kennebunkport  were :  John,  Thom- 
as, Lemuel,  Samuel,  George,  Alverson,  Zac- 
cheus,  Mary  and  Chasey. 

(\')  Thomas  (3),  second  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Mary  Perkins,  was  born  about  1700 
and  died  in  Kennebunkport,  February  22, 
1752.  He  was  a  property  owner  and  an  in- 
fluential citizen,  and  tradition  says  he  was  an 
official  surveyor.  He  commanded  a  company 
on  the  surrender  of  Louisburg  to  Sir  William 
Pepperrell,  in  1745,  and  two  years  later  was 
wrecked  in  an  expedition  to  Annapolis,  Nova 
Scotia.  From  Alarch  28,  1748,  to  June  7, 
1749,  he  was  captain  of  a  company  of  sentinels 
doing  guard-duty  to  prevent  a  surprise  by  the 
Indians  at  Arundel.  Some  of  his  sons  were 
perhaps  of  the  same  company.  He  married 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Abigail  (Lit- 
tlefield)  Harding,  of  Kennebunkport,  who  sur- 
vived him.  Notwithstanding  this  marriage, 
the  contest  for  property  previously  mentioned 
caused  an  estrangement  betw-een  the  families. 
Captain  Perkins  died  before  April  7,  1752, 
when  administration  of  his  estate  was  granted 
to  his  son  Abner.  In  this  document  Thomas 
Perkins  is  called  "gentleman."  His  children 
were :  Eliphalet,  Abner,  John,  Thomas, 
George,  James  and  Mary. 

(\T)  Abner,  second  son  of  Thomas  (3)  and 
Lydia  (Harding)  Perkins,  was  born  probably 
between  1724  and  1730,  in  Kennebunkport, 
and  died  there  in  181 1.  He  was  a  tiller  of  the 
soil,  and  in  1748  served  as  scout  in  Captain 
Jonathan  Bean's  company,  his  name  appearing 
on  the  rolls  from  May  5  to  November  24  of 
that  year.  In  the  following  year  he  was  a 
corporal   in  the  company   commanded   by  his 


father  and  was  clerk  of  the  company.  In 
1757  he  was  a  member  of  Captain  John  Fair- 
field's Arundel  company,  and  during  the  revo- 
lution was  a  member  of  the  town's  committee 
of  safety  for  the  year  1777.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ann  (Andrews) 
Robinson,  of  the  same  town.  Samuel  Robin- 
son came  from  Rowley,  Massachusetts,  about 
1730.  Abner  Perkins'  wife  was  not  named  in 
his  will,  and  was  probably  deceased  at  the  time 
of  its  execution,  April  30,  1802.  This  was 
admitted  to  probate  June  17,  181 1.  Their  chil- 
dren mentioned  in  the  will  were:  Daniel,  Ab- 
ner, Jonathan,  Stephen,  Jacob,  Ann  and  Sarah. 

(VII)  Stephen,  fourth  son  of  Abner  and  ■ 
Sarah  (Robinson)  Perkins,  was  born  July  25, 
1765,  in  Kennebunkport,  and  died  there  Au- 
gust 31,  1833.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  mar- 
ried, April  22,  1790,  Alice  Stone,  of  the  same 
town,  daughter  of  Colonel  Jonathan  (2)  and 
Phoebe  (Downing)  Stone,  and  granddaughter 
of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Lovet)  Stone,  who 
came  to  Kennebunkport  from  Beverly,  Massa- 
chusetts, about  1735.  Abner  Perkins'  elder 
brother  and  his  sister  Ann  also  married  chil- 
dren of  Colonel  Jonathan  (2)  Stone.  Alice 
Stone  was  born  June  29,  1769,  and  died  Jan- 
•lary  14,  1850.  Her  children  were:  William,. 
Ann,  Ivory,  Alice,  Stephen,  Jonathan,  Silas, 
Phoebe,  Clement  and  Abner. 

(\TII)  Clement,  sixth  son  of  Stephen  and 
Alice  (Stone)  Perkins,  was  born  March  23, 
1807,  in  Kennebunkport,  and  made  his  home 
there  until  his  death,  March  4,  1884.  Like 
many  in  Maine,  of  his  time  in  the  locality,  he 
went  to  sea  for  many  years  in  early  life  and 
subsequently  settled  upon  a  farm.  He  was 
married  in  1837  to  Mrs.  Lucinda  (Fairfield) 
Emery,  daughter  of  Captain  William  and  Mary 
(King)  Fairfield,  and  widow  of  Captain  Isaac 
Emery,  of  Kennebunkport  (see  Fairfield  VI). 
Their  children  were  :  George  Clement,  William 
L.,  Ernestine  L.,  David  King  and  Caroline 
Amelia. 

(IX)  George  Clement,  eldest  child  of  Clem- 
ent and  Lucinda  (Fairfield)  Perkins,  was 
born  August  23.  1839,  •"  Kennebunkport, 
where  he  remained  until  his  thirteenth  year 
in  attendance  on  the  public  schools.  He  then 
shipped  on  board  a  sailing  vessel  to  New  Or- 
leans, and  continued  at  sea  on  ships  engaged 
in  the  European  trade.  In  1855  he  shipped 
before  the  mast  on  the  sailing  vessel  "Gala- 
tea," bound  for  San  Francisco,  where  he  ar- 
rived in  the  autumn  of  that  year.  The  ex- 
ceptional opportunities  afforded  in  the  new 
Pacific  colony  induced  him  to  retire  from  the 
sea,  and  he  settled  down  to  business  in  an  in- 


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terior  town  in  California.  He  has  been  in- 
terested in  many  lines  of  industry,  such  as 
farming,  merchandising,  banking,  mining, 
manufacture,  whale-fishery  and  the  steamship 
transportations.  With  the  natural  intelligence 
and  honor  of  the  New  England  type,  he  soon 
took  an  active  part  in  the  conduct  of  local 
affairs,  and  in  1869  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  state  senate  and  occupied  that  position 
for  eight  years.  From  1879  to  1883  he 
was  governor  of  the  state  of  California,  and 
was  appointed  United  States  senator,  to  fill 
an  unexpired  term  in  1893.  He  has  been  four 
times  elected  to  that  position  and  his  present 
term  will  expire  in  March,  191 5.  He  has 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  commercial  and 
social  life  of  his  home  state  and  has  served 
as  president  of  the  Merchant's  Exchange  of 
San  Francisco  and  of  the  San  Francisco  Art 
Association.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Califor- 
nia Academy  of  Sciences  and  several  other 
scientific,  benevolent  and  fraternal  organiza- 
tions. His  present  residence  is  at  Oakland. 
On  account  of  distinguished  services  rendered 
during  the  civil  war,  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  California  Commandery  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States.  His  activity  in  the  fraternal  work  of 
the  ^Masonic  order  led  to  his  election  in  1875 
as  grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  F.  and 
A.  M.,  of  California,  having  previously  served 
through  the  various  subordinate  positions  of 
grand  junior  warden,  grand  warden  and 
deputy  grand  master.  In  1883  he  was  elected 
grand  commander  of  the  Grand  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  of  California,  and  in  the 
same  year  was  elected  grand  junior  warden 
of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United 
States  of  America.  In  all  of  his  elections  to 
his  present  honorable  position,  he  was  chosen 
upon  the  first  ballot,  and  his  distinguished 
services  as  a  member  of  the  national  legisla- 
ture has  fully  justified  the  choice  of  the  people 
of  California,  as  represented  by  a  Republican 
majority.  On  the  occasion  of  the  last  choice, 
his  election  was  made  uniformly  on  motion  of 
a  Democratic  member  of  the  legislature.  At 
the  time  of  his  second,  third  and  fourth  elec- 
tions, he  was  attending  to  his  official  duties  at 
the  national  capitol. 

Senator  Perkins  was  married  at  Maysville, 
California,  May  3,  1864,  to  Ruth  Amelia 
Parker,  daughter  of  Edward  Parker,  an  Eng- 
lish excise  officer  who  came  to  California 
when  the  daughter  was  a  child  of  eight  years. 
He  died  in  Oroville,  in  1861,  and  his  widow 
subsequently  married  William  Hesse.  She 
died  May  20,  1881,  in  San  Francisco,  leaving 


her  daughter  as  sole  legatee,  and  naming  Sen- 
ator Perkins  as  executor  of  her  will.  Mrs. 
Perkins  was  born  August  21,  1843,  i"  Cork, 
Ireland,  and  was  christened  in  the  Episcopal 
churcli  of  that  city  when  one  year  old.  Their 
chiUlren :  Fanny  I.,  wife  of  J.  E.  Adams; 
George  E. ;  Susan  C.  (Mrs.  William  H. 
Schmidt);  Fred  K. ;  Milton  G. ;  Ruth  M. ; 
and  Grace  Pansy  (wife  of  Cleveland  H. 
Baker,  district-attorney  of  Tonapah,  state  of 
Nevada). 


(For  preceding   generations  see  John  Perkins  I.) 

(II)  Jacob,  third  son  of  John 
PERKINS  and  Judith  (Gater)  Perkins, 
was  born  in  England  in  1624. 
He  was  chosen  sergeant  of  the  Ipswich  mili- 
tary company  in  1664.  and  was  afterwards 
known  as  Sergeant  Jacob  Perkins.  By  his 
father's  will  he  came  into  possession  of  the 
homestead  and  lands  upon  his  mother's  death. 
At  this  place  there  is  a  well  still  known  as 
"Jacob's  well."  He  was  a  farmer  and  his 
name  frequently  appears  in  the  records  of 
conveyances  of  farming  lands.  He  died  in 
Ipswich,  January  27,  1699-1700,  aged  jeventy- 
six  years.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
(Lovell)  about  1648.  By  her  he  had  nine 
children.  She  died  February  12,  1685,  aged 
fifty-six.  Jacob  afterwards  married  Damaris 
Robinson,  a  widow,  who  survived  him. 

(HI)  Jacob  (2),  second  son  of  Jacob  (i) 
and  Elizabeth  Perkins,  was  born  August  3, 
1662,  and  died  November,  1705.  His  father 
Jacob  gave  him  a  deed  of  land  (to  which  a 
Thomas  Lovell  was  witness,  March  7,  1687). 
December  27,  1684,  he  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Sparks.  They  had  three 
children.  She  died  April  lo,  1692.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  January  5,  1693.  Sarah  Tread- 
well,  who  was  executrix  of  his  will.  By  her 
he  had  five  children. 

(IV)  Jacob  (3),  first  child  of  Jacob  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  Perkins,  was  born  February  15, 
1685.  He  went  to  Cape  Neddick,  now  York, 
Maine,  to  reside,  and  there  died.  He  married 
(first)  Lydia  Stover,  and  had  by  her  three 
children.  He  married  (second)  October  17, 
1717,  Anna,  daughter  of  Josiah  Littlefield,  and 
had  by  her  eight  children,  three  of  whom 
were  Elisha,  Josiah  and  Newman. 

(V)  Josiah,  sixth  son  of  Jacob  (3)  Per- 
kins, and  fifth  child  of  Anna,  his  wife,  was 
born  about  1740,  and  was  a  farmer  in  Wells, 
Maine.  He  married  Susan  Allen,  who  bore 
him  ten  children,  two  of  whom  were  Jonathan 
and  Jacob. 

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Susan  (Allen)  Perkins,  born  in  1734,  at  Weils, 
was  a  farmer  in  that  town.  He  removed 
thence  to  Conway,  New  Hampshire,  where 
the  births  of  his  last  si.x  children  are  recorded. 
The  first  eight  were  born  in  Maine.  He  was 
married  in  1752,  at  age  of  eighteen  years,  to 
iiis  cousin  Lydia,  daughter  of  Newman  and 
Sarah  (Sawyer)  Perkins,  who  was  born  in 
1738,  and  was  therefore  but  fourteen  years 
old  at  the  time  of  the  marriage.  She  was 
considered  the  handsomest  bride  married  in  the 
church  at  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  and  in 
her  old  age  she  resided  at  Windsor,  i\Iaine. 
.\t  the  age  of  ninety  years  she  read  a  page 
in  the  testament  without  glasses  and  died  at 
the  age  of  ninety-six  years,  at  the  home  of 
her  son  Ephraim,  in  Freedom,  Maine.  Among 
their  children  were :  Rebecca,  who  lived  to  be 
one  hundred  and  four  years  old ;  Hannah, 
Martha,  Abigail.  lived  to  be  over  seventy 
years ;  Samuel,  John,  Joseph  anrl  Ephraim. 

(VH)  Ephraim,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Lydia 
(Perkins)  Perkins,  was  born  in  July,  1787,  in 
Conway,  New  Hampshire,  and  for  seven  years 
was  a  sailor  upon  the  sea,  visiting  many  West 
Indian,  South  American  and  European  ports, 
rounding  Cape  Horn  and  cruising  in  the  In- 
dian Ocean.  He  brought  home  many  beautiful 
and  interesting  curios,  gathered  in  these  voy- 
ages. After  his  marriage  he  lived  at  Free- 
dom, Maine,  and  died  in  that  place  November 
18,  1850,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years.  He 
was  a  man  of  medium  height,  with  black  hair 
and  eyes,  and  was  called  fine  looking.  He  was 
married  in  181 5  at  China,  Maine,  to  Mary, 
eldest  of  the  fourteen  children  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  (Hilton)  McCurdy.  She  was 
born  in  .August,  1797,  and  died  in  November, 
i860,  at  Princeton,  Minnesota.  She  was  of 
medium  height,  with  brown  hair  and  handsome 
blue  eyes.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children :  Rebeckah  Ann,  Henry  Franklin, 
two  who  died  in  infancy,  Ephraim,  Eliza 
Jane  and  Aurelia  Frances. 

(VIII)  Aurelia  Frances,  youngest  child  of 
Ephraim  and  Mary  (McCurdy)  Perkins,  was 
born  April  6,  1832,  in  Freedom,  Maine,  and 
married,  Februarv  14,  1858,  William  Edward 
Maddocks,  of  Ellsworth,  Maine  (See  Mad- 
docks  VHI),  whom  she  survives.  As  a 
young  woman  she  was  called  very  handsome, 
having  brown  hair  and  eyes  and  being  of 
medium  stature.  Her  reminiscences  of  early 
life  are  interesting,  including,  as  she  observed, 
the  making  of  the  tallow  dip  and  the  subse- 
quent use  of  the  fish-oil  lamp,  articles  known 
to  but  few  people  now  living.  She  is  among 
those   who   were   sent  as   children  to   borrow 


fire  from  the  neighbors,  before  the  days  of 
lucifer  matches.  She  has  been  awarded  prizes 
at  various  fairs  for  the  hand-stitching  executed 
by  her,  taught  in  the  days  before  the  use  of 
the  sewing-machine  was  general.  With  her 
own  hands  she  spun  from  cotton,  which  had 
been  brought  from  the  West  Indies  by  her 
brother,  the  thread  woven  by  her  mother  into 
towels  for  home  use.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
she  wove  in  one  day  six  yards  of  cloth,  which 
was  considered  a  large  amount  for  a  woman 
to  execute  in  the  time.  At  the  age  of  eighteen 
she  began  teaching  school,  and  also  taught 
painting,  having  inherited  an  artistic  talent, 
probably  from  a  remote  ancestor  named  Will- 
iam Hilton,  v\ho  is  buried  in  Westminster  Ab- 
bey. At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  she  united 
with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  in 
1857  went  west  with  her  widowed  mother  and 
brother,  intending  to  teach.  There  she  met 
and  married  Mr.  Maddocks,  as  above  related, 
they  being  the  first  couple  married  in  Benton 
county,  now  Mills,  Saco  county,  Iowa.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Richard 
Walker,  D.  D.,  who  composed  for  the  occasion 
the  poem  which  here  follows : 

A  GOOD  WIFE. 
To  be   alone,  says  God's  decree, 
Man   is  unblessed,   from   pleasure   free — 
Who  can  to  him   life's  solace  be? 
A    good    wife. 

Who  can   console  the  careworn  heart, 
Shield    from    pain    of    adverse   dart, 
And  to  the  brow  a  smile  impart? 
A    good    wife. 

Who  can  illumine  the  vaJe  of  woe. 
Dry    the    tears    that   mournfully    flow, 
And   give   the   eye  affection's  glow? 
A    good    wife. 

Who  can  make  earth's  bitt'rest  cup  sweet. 
The  heart   in   tender   tone  to   greet, 
The  ills   that   in  it   strangely  meet? 
A    good    wife. 

Who   can   increase  the  sunny  light, 
Of  prospious   rays — the  soul's   delight — 
Dispell  the  gloom    of  sorrow's   night? 
A    good    wife. 

Who  can   heighten   each  lovely   tone. 
Quick  surpress  the  sorrowing  moan. 
And  raise  the  note  of  joy  alone? 
A    good    wife. 

Who  can  give  the  kind,    loving  heart. 
Angelic  tempers  sweet   impart. 
And  teach  proud  man  love's  ruling  art? 
A    good    wife. 

Who  can  the  breast  with  zeal  inspire, 
Allay  the  rising  of  fierce   ire. 
Give  the  nuptial    bliss   that  all   desire? 
A    good    wife. 

Who'll  cheer  when   youthful  joys  decay. 
Support   in   life's  declining   day. 
And   every    anxious   fear  allay? 
A    good    wife. 

Who'll    kindly  watch   life's  ebbing  sand. 
And    near    death's    bed    attentive    stand. 
To  close  the  eye  with  silken  hand? 
A    good    wife. 


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Who'll  bitterly  weep  wben  I'm  dead. 
Sigh   (or   the  same  old  dusty   bed. 
On  which   to   rest  her  aching  head'? 
A    good    wife. 

■Who'll  joyful    look   beyond  the  sky. 
And  long  to  see  my  tearless  eye, 
Where  husband   and   wife   can   ne'er  die? 
A    good    wife. 

Then  let  me  have  the 'kind,  good  wife. 
To  cheer  me  through  this  vale  of  strife. 
And    live  with  me  through   endless   life. 
Prays  every  man. 

Widowed  at  the  age  of  thirt)-one,  she  has 
shown  herself  a  woman  of  remarkable  execu- 
tive ability,  managing  the  estate  of  her  de- 
ceased husband  with  rare  skill  and  success. 
Her  home  is  now  in  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin, 
with  her  only  daughter,  elsewhere  mentioned. 

Thomas  McCurdy,  the  father  of  Mary,  wife 
of  Ephraim  Perkins,  was  born  about  1774,  in 
Bristol,  Massachusetts,  and  resided  at  China, 
Maine,  engaging  in  the  practice  of  law  at 
Augusta.  He  enlisted  February  8,  181 3,  as  a 
member  of  Captain  John  Smith's  company. 
Fourth  United  States  Infantry.  He  received 
a  gunshot  wound  through  the  right  hand  while 
on  guard  at  Champlain,  New  York,  in  June, 
1814,  and  was  discharged  at  Plattsburg,  No- 
vember 5,  following.  His  eldest  son  John, 
then  a  lad  of  eighteen  years,  accompanied  his 
father  as  a  soldier,  died  during  that  service, 
and  was  buried  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Cham- 
plain.  Thomas  McCurdy  was  active  in  the 
Prohibition  movement  in  Maine.  He  died  in 
1863,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years.  He 
was  tall  and  distinguished  looking,  with  a  very 
pleasing  manner,  having  brown  hair  and  blue 
eyes. 


Rev.  William  Perkins  and  his 
PERKINS     brother    John,    who    were    of 

Gloucester,  England,  came  to 
America  in  the  ship  "Lyon,"  in  163 1.  They 
located  in  Ipswich  in  1633  and  the  Rev.  Will- 
iam subsequently  removed  to  Topsfield.  John 
remained  in  Ipswich,  establishing  his  resi- 
dence on  what  was  afterward  known  as  Per- 
kins Island.  He  was  prominent  among  the 
early  settlers  of  the  town,  holding  public  offi- 
ces, and  served  as  deputy  to  the  general  court. 
He  died  prior  to  1655.  The  Christian  name 
of  his  wife  was  Judith.  John,  Thomas,  Eliza- 
beth, Mary,  Lydia  and  Jacob  were  his  chil- 
dren. His  daughter  Mary,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Thomas  Bradbury,  of  Salisbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, was  in  her  old  age  tried  for  witch- 
craft and  convicted,  but  escaped  punishment. 
Jolm  Perkins,  son  of  John  of  Ipswich,  settled 
in  York,  Maine,  and  Jacob  Perkins,  who  was 
born  there  about  1696,  was  probably  his  son. 
Descendants  of  the  York  Perkinses  settled  in 


Wells,  and  the  locality  known  as  Perkinstown 
was  named  for  the  family. 

(I)  Isaac  Perkins,  a  descendant  of  John, 
of  Ipswich,  through  the  latter's  son  John,  of 
York,  resided  in  Perkinstown  subsequent  to 
the  revohitionary  war.  He  reared  a  family, 
but  the  maiflen  name  of  his  wife  or  a  list  of 
his  children  is  not  at  hand. 

(II)  Japhet,  son  of  Isaac  Perkins,  was  born 
in  Perkinstown,  June  26,  1794.  He  married 
Sally  West  and  was  the  father  of  Gilman, 
Isaac,  Mary  Ann,  Jane,  Lewis  Wentworth, 
Abigail,  Melinda  and  Eliza. 

(III)  Lewis  Wentworth,  second  son  and 
fifth  child  of  Japhet  and  Sally  (West)  Perkins, 
was  born  in  Perkinstown,  December  7,  1827. 
He  was  a  capable  and  intlustrious  farmer,  who 
took  a  profound  interest  in  the  general  wel- 
fare of  his  fellowmen,  and  his  untimely  death, 
which  occurred  July,  1863,  deprived  the  com- 
munity of  one  of  its  most  useful  members. 
Politically  he  acted  with  the  Democratic  party. 
In  his  religious  faith  he  was  a  Baptist.  He 
married  Huldah  A.  Perkins,  who  was  born  in 
Perkinstown,  June  12,  1830,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Olive  (Chadbourne)  Perkins.  She 
survived  her  husband  twenty-nine  years,  dying 
July  10,  1892.  Of  this  union  were  born  four 
children  :  Melvina  E.,  Otis  L.,  Addie  A.  and 
George  William. 

(IV)  George  William,  youngest  child  of 
Lewis  W.  and  Huldah  .\.  (Perkins)  Perkins, 
was  born  in  Perkinstown,  December  13,  i860. 
Bereft  of  his  father's  guidance  at  the  tender 
age  of  two  years,  he  was  left  wholly  to  the 
care  of  his  mother,  whose  benign  influence 
and  devotion  to  his  future  welfare  did  much 
toward  moulding  his  character  and  otherwise 
preparing  him  for  the  battle  of  life.  After 
the  conclusion  of  his  studies  at  the  North 
Berwick  high  school  he  went  to  Peabody, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  employed  there  for  a 
short  time.  Returning  to  North  Berwick,  he 
became  an  operative  in  the  finishing  depart- 
ment of  the  North  Berwick  Company's  wool- 
len-mill, but  was  later  transferred  to  the  count- 
ing-room as  a  clerk,  and  still  later  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  position  of  paymaster,  in  which 
capacity  he  has  served  with  ability  for  more 
than  tw-enty-five  years.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  North  Berwick  National  Bank,  and  his 
interest  in  the  industrial  and  financial  welfare 
of  the  town  has  been  frequently  demonstrated. 
For  about  twenty  years  he  has  officiated  as 
town  clerk.  He  is  a  past  noble  grand  of 
Eagle  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, past  chief  patriarch  of  Columbian  En- 
campment,   and    a   member   of  Ray   of   Hope 


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Lodge  of  Rebekah.  He  attends  th^Free  Will 
Baptist  church.  On  September  15,  1886,  Mr. 
Perkins  married  Bertha  C.  Whitten,  daughter 
of  \\'illiam  and  Georgianna  (Staples)  Whit- 
ten, of  North  Berwick.  Her  grandfather, 
Henry  Whitten,  who  was  a  native  of  either 
Springvale  or  Alfred,  reared  a  family  of  seven 
children:  Isaiah,  Charles,  Nellie,  Benjamin, 
Sarah,  Edward  and  William.  William  Whit- 
ten was  born  in  Spring-vale.  For  many  years 
he  has  operated  a  stage  and  express  line  be- 
tween Limerick  and  Waterboro,  and  carried 
on  a  livery  business.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perkins 
have  one  son,  Arthur  Lawrence,  born  Novem- 
ber 15,  18S7,  graduated  from  the  public  schools 
of  North  Berwick  and  attended  Bryant  and 
Stratton's  Business  College,  Boston,  later  en- 
tered the  employment  of  Brown  Dunell  & 
Company,  Boston. 


This  is  an  old  English  fam- 
FAIRFIELD  ily  early  implanted  in  Mas- 
sachusetts and  identified 
with  the  leading  interests  and  influences  of  the 
Massachusetts  Colon)'  and  still  active  in  up- 
holding the  New  England  character.  There 
were  two  of  the  name  in  Massachusetts  as 
early  as  1638.  John,  first  of  Charlestown, 
later  of  Salem  and  Wenham,  and  Daniel,  of 
Boston.  They  are  supposed  to  have  been 
brothers,  but  there  is  no  record  to  show  such 
connection.  Family  tradition  states  that  they 
are  descended  from  French  Huguenots,  whose 
name  was  originally  Beauchamp.  A  repre- 
sentative of  the  name  living  in  France  in  1572 
received  news  of  the  impending  massacre  of 
St.  Bartholomew's  in  time  to  escape  to  Eng- 
land, where  another  member  of  the  family 
was  already  living  at  Warwick.  Representa- 
tives of  this  family  subsequently  settled  in 
Ireland,  whence  John  Fairfield  came  to»,Eng- 
land  in   1638.  y:. ,,   - 

(I)  John  Fairfield  was  a  resident  of  Charles- 
town,  I^Iassachusetts,  in  1638,  and  the  next 
year  was  granted  eighty  acres  of  land  in  Sa- 
lem, where  he  was  admitted  freeman,  May 
14,  1640.  He  lived  near  the  boundary  be- 
tween Salem  and  Ipswich  in  1643,  ^"d  there- 
after moved  to  Wenham,  where  he  died  De- 
cember 22,  1646.  His  will  on  file  at  Salem  was 
made  eleven  days  previously.  According  to 
this  document  his  wife's  name  was  Elizabeth, 
and  two  of  his  children  are  therein  named. 
Three  sons  are  known  to  have  existed,  namely  : 
Walter,  John  and  Benjamin.  A  posthumous 
child,  born  in  1647,  died  before  July  7  of  that 
vear,  without  name.     In  settlement  the  estate 


was  divided  into  four  parts  and  distributed  to 
the  widow  and  three  sons. 

(II)  John  (2),  second  son  of  John  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  Fairfield,  was  born  in  May,  1639, 
probably  in  Salem,  and  lived  in  Wenham  and 
Ipswich.  He  made  no  will,  but  the  inventory 
of  his  estate  was  filed  November  27,  1672. 
He  married,  March  26,  1666,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  William  and  Tryphena  Geare,  of  Wen- 
ham, and  their  children  mentioned  in  the  in- 
ventory were  :  Tryphena,  John  and  Elizabeth. 
The  widow  married  (second)  April  13,  1673, 
in  Wenham,  Daniel  Kilhan,  and  died  January 
20,  1716,  in  Ipswich,  aged  seventy  years,  ac- 
cording to  her  tombstone. 

(III)  John  (3),  probably  only  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Sarah  (Geare)  Fairfield,  was  bom 
about  1668,  probably  in  Ipswich,  and  was 
living  in  that  town  in  1690.  As  shown  by  a 
deed  in  December,  1692,  he  was  living  at 
Muddy  River,  now  Brookline,  and  subse- 
quently he  was  again  in  Ipswich,  as  indicated 
by  a  deed  in  1694.  In  this  instrument  he 
deeded  to  his  cousin,  William  Fairfield,  about 
sixty  acres  of  upland  and  meadow  in  Wenham, 
which  he  had  inherited  from  his  father.  This 
deed  was  acknowledged  November  25,  1703. 
He  was  married  in  Boston,  April  18,  1693,  by 
Rev.  James  Allen,  to  Elizabeth  Badson.  No 
record  appears  of  his  children,  but  a  com- 
parison of  the  records  of  Boston,  Ipswich  and 
Wenham  make  it  very  certain  that  the  next 
named  was  his  son. 

(IV)  Captain  John  (4)  Fairfield  was  the 
first  of  the  name  to  settle  in  Kennebunkport, 
vvhere  he  was  a  leading  citizen.  Some  ac- 
counts £ay  that  he  came  there  from  Worcester. 
For  some  years  he  lived  in  Wells,  Maine,  and 
his  home  in  Kennebunkport  was  near  the 
mouth  of  the  river,  probably  in  the  house 
built  by  Thomas  Perkins  in  1773,  where  he 
was  licensed  to  keep  a  tavern.  He  was  a 
carpenter  by  trade  and  after  1733  removed  to 
the  eastern  part  of  the  town,  where  he  bought 
a  farm.  In  the  Louisburg  expedition  of  1745 
he  was  first  lieutenant  of  Captain  John  Storr's 
company.  Three  years  later  he  served  in  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Perkins'  company  at  Arundel. 
In  1757  he  was  captain  of  the  Arundel  com- 
pany, in  the  First  York  County  Regiment, 
commanded  by  Sir  William  Pepperrell.  His 
sons  John  and  Stephen  were  perhaps  in  this 
company.  He  married  (first)  ^lary,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Samuel  and  Tabitha  (Littlefield) 
Emery,  of  Wells,  born  December  7,  1699.  Her 
father  was  for  many  years  minister  at  Wells. 
He  was  a  son  of  John  (2)  Emery,  and  grand- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


son  of  John  Emery,  of  Romsey,  Hants,  Eng- 
land. Mary  (Emery)  Fairfield  died  about 
1750,  and  Mr.  Fairfield  subsequently  married 
Mrs.  Hannah  (Lovet)  Stone,  widow  of  Jona- 
than Stone.  Captain  Fairfield  died  in  1778 
and  was  survived  by  his  widow.  The  in- 
ventory of  his  estate  included  a  negro  girl, 
valued  at  twenty  pounds,  and  administration 
was  granted  to  his  son  John  "of  said  Arundel, 
gentleman."  Flis  children  by  the  first  mar- 
riage were :  John ;  a  daughter  who  married 
John  Hill;  Mary,  wife  of  Benjamin  Downing; 
Stephen ;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Dixey  Stone. 

(V)  John  (5),  eldest  child  of  John  (4)  and 
IMary  (Emery)  Fairfield,  was  born  about 
1728-30  in  Kennebunk,  and  made  that  town 
his  home  through  life.  In  1757  he  was  a 
member  of  the  military  company  commanded 
by  his  father  in  Colonel  Pepperrell's  regi- 
ment, and  in  1762  was  ensign  in  Captain 
Thomas  Perkin's  Arundel  company  of  Colo- 
nel Nathaniel  Sparhawk's  regiment,  for  service 
in  the  Indian  campaigns.  John  Fairfield  mar- 
ried, October  17,  1751,  Mary  Burbank,  of 
Bradford,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant John  and  Priscilla  (Major)  Burbank. 
Her  father  was  lieutenant  in  Captain  Thomas 
Perkin's  company  at  the  capture  of  Louisburg. 
He  was  born  in  1733  and  died  in  1825,  at  the 
age  of  ninety-two  years.  Their  children  were : 
Samuel,  William,  Sarah,  John,  Stephen,  Mary, 
Benjamin,  Asa,  Moses  and  Elizabeth. 

(VI)  Captain  William,  second  son  of  John 
(5)  and  Mary  (Burbank)  Fairfield,  was  born 
June  26,  1754,  in  Kcnnebunk,  and  died  there 
March  16,  1827.  He  was  a  master  mariner 
and  made  many  voyages  to  sea.  In  1777  he 
enlisted  for  three  years  in  the  revolutionary 
army  and  he  served  successively  in  Captain 
Daniel  Merrill's  company.  Colonel  Samuel 
Brewster's  regiment,  and  in  Captain  Flitch- 
cock's  regiment  and  Colonel  Ebenezer  Sprout's 
regiment.  liis  name  appears  on  the  pay  ac- 
counts for  service  from  February  i,  1777,  to 
the  same  date  in  1780,  and  he  was  allowed 
for  travel  from  his  home  to  Bennington,  Ver- 
mont, the  place  of  rendezvous.  He  married 
(first)  December  27,  1781,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  James  and  Grace  Delzell  (Burnham) 
Bradbury.  She  died  about  1789.  He  married 
(second)  August  25,  1790,  Mary,  daughter  of 
David  and  Elizabeth  (Gray)  King,  of  Bidde- 
ford  (see  King).  She  was  born  December 
14,  1773,  and  died  April  9,  185 1.  Children 
by  the  first  marriage :  James,  William.  Marv, 
Sarah;  by  second  marriage:  Oliver,  Jackson, 
Asa.  Cyrus,  Myranda,  Lucinda,  Liza,  John, 
Joseph,  Charles,  John  and  William. 


(VII)  Lucinda,  fourth  daughter  of  Captain 
William  I^'airfield  and  sixth  child  of  his  sec- 
ond wife,  was  born  November  20,  1802,  in 
Kennebunkport,  and  died  December  31,  1887, 
in  Kennebunk.  She  married  (first)  August 
II,  1823,  Captain  Isaac  Emery,  of  Kennebunk- 
port, who  died  at  sea  in  1830.  She  married 
(second)  in  1837  Clement  Perkins,  of  Ken- 
nebunkport (see  Perkins  VIII). 

Mary  King,  second  wife  of  Captain  William 
Fairfield  above  mentioned,  was  a  daughter  of 
David  King,  a  son  of  John  King,  who  Came 
to  America  from  England  soon  after  the  year 
1700  and  settled  in  Boston.  In  1714  he  mar- 
ried Sarah  Allen,  whose  only  child  died  in  in- 
fancy, and  she  herself  died  about  the  same 
time.  He  married  (second)  in  1718  ^lary, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Stowell,  of  Newton, 
Massachusetts.  Their  marriage  intentions 
were  recorded  April  2,  1717,  in  Boston.  The 
following  children  are  of  record :  Richard, 
Mary,  Sarah,  Mehitable,  David,  Josiah  and 
William.  (2)  David,  second  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Stowell)  King,  was  born  August  21, 
1726,  probably  in  Boston,  and  died  in  Buxton, 
Maine,  March  11,  1807.  In  1746  he  was  a 
witness  to  a  deed  conveying  land  in  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts.  He  removed  to  Saco, 
Maine,  about  1760,  and  was  a  leading  mer- 
chant of  that  town.  In  1761  he  purchased 
land  on  the  Saco  river  and  was  among  the 
first  merchants  or  traders  on  the  east  side  of 
that  stream  at  Saco.  Soon  after  1762  he  re- 
moved to  the  w  est  side  of  the  river.  He  served 
in  the  revolutionary  v^'ar  in  1775  as  sergeant 
in  Captain  Benjamin  Flooper's  company, 
raised  for  seacoast  defense  and  stationed  at 
Biddeford.  Fie  lived  to  be  nearly  eighty-one 
years  of  age  and  resided  in  his  last  days  with 
his  daughter,  Mrs.  John  Hayes,  in  Buxton. 
Fie  married,  March  14,  1762,  by  Rev.  Moses 
Morrill,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Gray,  of 
Biddeford.  She  was  born  in  August,  1745, 
and  died  March  17,  1777.  Their  children 
were :  John,  David,  \^' illiam,  Josiah,  Sarah 
Alden,  Mary  and  William.  "The  youngest 
daughter  became  the  second  wife  of  Captain 
William  Fairfield  as  above  noted. 


Few  families  in  the  country 
CLASHING     have     been     more     celebrated 

than  the  Cushings,  and  proba- 
bly no  other  has  furnished  more  judges  for 
our  probate,  municipal  and  supreme  court<;.. 
The  derivation  of  the  name  is  somewhat  un- 
certain. The  present  form  is  used  by  all  the 
American  descendants  of  Matthew  Gushing, 
who  came  to  America  in  1638,  and  was  prob- 


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ably  the  established  orthography  for  several 
generations  before  this,  as  the  English  and 
Irish  branches  use  the  same  spelling.  Before 
the  si.xteenth  century  the  patronymic  was,  like 
most  proper  names,  written  in  a  variety  of 
ways.  In  various  deeds,  wills  and  charters 
still  extant  in  Norfolk,  England,  referring  to 
the  direct  lineal  ancestors  of  Matthew,  we  find 
Cushyng,  Cushin,  Cushyn,  Cusshyn,  Cussheyn, 
Cusseyn,  Cussyn,  Cusyn  and  Cosyn.  Before 
the  fourteenth  century  it  was  spelled  Cusyn, 
Cosyn  or  Cosseyn.  After  that  time  the  name 
was  always  spelled  with  a  u,  and  generally 
with  sh,  as  Cussheyn,  Cusshyn.  The  final  g 
does  not  appear  till  1500,  when  we  find 
Cushyng,  though  Cushyn  and  Cushin  are  still 
frequent  spellings.  There  are  two  theories  in 
connection  with  the  origin  of  the  name.  The 
first  is  that  the  patronymic  is  derived  from  the 
Anglo-Saxon  designation  of  Cousin  (Cosseyn 
or  Cusseyn).  The  second  theory  asserts  that 
the  name  arose  in  connection  with  the  land 
title  of  Cossey.  Thus  in  the  Domesday  Book 
of  \\'illiam  the  Conqueror,  we  find  that  "the 
ancient  village  and  manor  of  Tokethorpe 
(later  Flockthorpe)  lying  in  the  Forehoe  hun- 
dred" was  in  several  parts,  "two  of  which 
belonged  to  Cossey."  The  same  manor  of 
Flockthorpe  was  possessed  by  the  Cushings 
for  several  generations  thereafter. 

The  original  arms  of  the  Cushing  family 
uere  undoubtedly  "gules,  an  eagle  displayerl 
argent."  This  device  was  later  complicated 
by  quartering,  on  the  occasion  of  marriage 
with  an  heiress,  which  probably  took  place  not 
far  from  1500.  In  the  Heraldic  Visitation  of 
the  County  of  Norfolk,  England,  which  oc- 
curred in  the  year  1563,  the  Cushing  arms  are 
described  :  "Gules,  an  eagle  displayed  argent ; 
quartering,  gules,  three  right  hands  torn  from 
the  wrists,  a  canton  chequery  or  and  azure." 
The  form  advocated  by  the  late  H.  G.  Somer- 
by,  of  England,  as  the  result  of  several  years' 
research  in  the  records  and  deeds  of  Norfolk 
county,  is  substantially  the  same  as  this.  The 
Somerby  form  has  a  crest :  "Two  lions'  gambs 
erased  sable  supporting  a  ducal  coronet  or, 
from  which  hangs  a  human  heart  gules."  The 
motto  underneath  the  escutcheon  reads  "Vir- 
tute  et  Numine"  (By  valor  and  divine  aid). 
It  may  be  remarked  that  the  arms  just  de- 
scribed are  substantially  the  same  as  those 
found  on  the  tombstone  of  Lieutenant-Govern- 
or Thomas  Cushing  in  the  Granary  burying- 
ground,  at  Boston,  which  are  dated  1788. 
These  are  also  as  given  in  the  Gore  Roll,  and 
are  especially  worthy  of  note  as  being  the 
earliest  arms   of   which   we  have  anv   record 


as  being  borne  by  an  American  Cushing.  The 
only  important  difTerence  between  the  Gran- 
ary tombstone  escutcheon  and  that  authorized 
by  H.  G.  Somerby  consists  in  the  fact  that 
the  American  emblem  has  but  two  hands,  in- 
stead of  three.  It  is  suggested  that  this  might 
have  been  a  mistake  on  the  part  of  the  stone- 
cutter, which  would  have  been  quite  natural, 
as  in  the  English  arms  the  third  hand  is  nearly 
covered  by  the  canton. 

Few  families  in  America  can  trace  a  longer 
pedigree  than  the  Cushings,  which  includes 
six  generations  of  authenticated  English  an- 
cestors ;  and  few  families  can  produce  more 
members  who  have  won  high  places  by  their 
own  merits.  Prominent  among  Americans  of 
the  name  have  been  Chief  Justice  William 
Cushing,  who  administered  the  oath  of  office 
to  Washington  at  the  beginning  of  his  sec- 
ond term  as  president,  March  4,  1793.  He 
was  the  last  chief  justice  in  this  country  who 
wore  the  big  wig  of  the  English  judges,  and 
his  full  biography  would  fill  many  pages. 
Seven  years  older  than  Chief  Justice  Cushing, 
but,  like  him,  associated  with  the  founders  of 
our  government,  was  Lieutenant-Governor 
Thomas  Cushing,  of  Massachusetts,  himself 
also  a  judge,  who  was  born  in  Boston,  i\Iarch 
24.  1725.  He  was  the  friend  and  co-worker 
of  Adams,  Otis  and  Warren,  and  the  intimate 
associate  and  counselor  of  Hancock  and 
Franklin.  A  little  later  we  have  Judge  Caleb 
Cushing,  of  Newburyport,  n>inister  to  China, 
and  from  1853  to  1857  attorney-general  of  the 
United  States.  Honorable  Luther  Stearns 
Cushing,  born  at  Lunenburg,  Massachusetts, 
June  22,  1803,  became  famous  as  the  author 
of  Cushing's  Manual ;  and  Frank  Hamilton 
Cushing,  born  in  Erie  county,  Pennsylvania, 
July  22,  1S57,  acquired  renown  from  his 
archaeological  researches  among  the  Zuni  In- 
dians. 

(I)  William  Cushing  (Cussyn  or  Cusseyn) 
was  born  some  time  during  the  fourteenth  cen- 
tury, and  was  either  the  son  or  grandson  of 
the  Galfridus  Cusyn  of  Hardingham,  Norfolk 
county.  England,  who  is  mentioned  in  the  Sub- 
sidy Rolls  for  Norfolk  in  1327.  He  added  to 
the  estates  in  Flartlingham  the  estates  in  Hing- 
ham,  which  were  inherited  by  his  son  Thomas. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  William  Cushing,  was 
born  in  Hardingham,  Norfolk  county,  Eng- 
land, in  the  latter  part  of  the  reign  of  Richard 
II,  1377-1399.  A  deed  dated  1466  contains 
not  only  his  name,  but  also  the  name  of  his 
son  William,  who  is  also  named  in  other  deeds 
and  charters  dated  1474,  1480  and  1484. 
Thomas    Cushing    possessed   large    estates    in 


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Hardinghani,  Hingham  and  other  parts  of  his 
native  county. 

(III)  William  (2),  eldest  son  and  heir  of 
Thomas  Gushing,  was  born  at  Hardingham, 
England,  early  in  the  fifteenth  century,  and 
lived  at  Hingham.  He  died  about  the  time 
that  Columbus  discovered  America,  for  his 
long  and  explicit  will  was  dated  September  26, 
1492,  and  proved  in  the  Bishop's  court  of  Nor- 
wich, ]\larch  II,  1493.  In  ancient  deeds  re- 
lating to  his  estates  in  Hardingham,  Hingham, 
East  Dereham  and  other  parts  of  the  county 
of  Norfolk,  he  is  styled  "Gentleman."  Will- 
iam (2)  Gushing's  wife  Emma  was  executrix 
of  his  will;  and  her  own,  dated  June  16,  1507, 
was  proved  July  26,  1507.  The  archaic  Eng- 
lish of  Mr.  Gushing's  will  is  so  quaint  and  in- 
teresting, and  his  connection  with  the  Roman 
Gatholic  church  so  intimate  that  a  few  sen- 
tences of  this  ancient  document  are  worth 
quoting:  "I  William  Gusshyn  of  Hengham  in 
my  hoel  mend  And  good  memory  beying, 
make  my  testament  and  my  last  will  Declare 
in  this  forme  FoUying:  First  I  comende  my 
sowle  to  god  Almighty,  or  lady  seint  Mary  & 
to  all  the  blessed  copany  of  heven,  and  my 
body  to  be  buryed  in  the  chirchyard  of  Hen- 
ghm  foresaid,  To  the  wich  high  Auter  ther 
for  my  tithes  negligently  wtholden,  I  bequeath 

Xs Itm  I  give  and  bequeth  to  the 

house  of  the  Grey  fryrs  in  Norwich,  in  the 
wich  I  am  a  brother,  Xs  to  sing  and  say 
placebo  and  Dirigo  for  me  wt  a  masse  of  Re- 
quiem      Itm  I  woll  have  a  secular  p'st 

to  syng  and  p'y  for  my  sowle  &  my  faders  and 
modir  by  the  space  of  two  yere,  yt  is  to  say 
oon  yere  in  chirch  of  Henghm  and  a  nother 
yere  in  the  chirch  of  Hardynghm.  The  resi- 
due of  all  my  goods  and  catall  and  lands  in 
this  my  p'sent  testament  and  last  will,  not 
assigned  nor  bequethed,  I  gif  and  bequeth  to 
the  foreseid  Emme  my  wif,  whom  I  chose, 
make  and  ordeyne  of  this  my  p'sent  testament 
and  last  will,  myn  executrixe." 

Eight  children  were  born  to  William  (2) 
and  Emma  Gushing:  John,  the  elder,  whose 
sketch  follows ;  Robert,  of  Hingham,  whose 
will  was  proved  July  10,  1547;  Thomas,  of 
Hardingham,  whose  will  was  proved  January 
15,  1504;  John,  junior,  whose  will  was  proved 
August  I,  1515;  Elyne ;  Annable;  Margaret, 
married  Thomas  Growe;  Agnes. 

(IV)  John,  eldest  child  of  William  (2)  and 
Emma  Gushing,  was  born  at  Hingham,  Eng- 
land, but  lived  at  Hardingham,  where  he  pos- 
sessed estates.  He  also  owned  large  proper- 
ties in  Lombard  street,  London,  and  was 
called  "Gentleman"  in  a  survey  of  the  manor 


of  Flockthorp  in  Hardingham,  dated  1512. 
John  Gushing's  will  was  proved  March  5,  1523, 
and  in  it  he  mentions  his  wife  and  six  chil- 
dren. His  own  name  occurs  in  the  Subsidy 
Rolls  of  Henry  VIII  for  the  year  1523.  Eight 
children  were  born  to  John  Gushing :  John,  of 
Hingham,  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Flockthorpe 
in  Hingham,  Markham's  in  Tothington,  and 
Stalworth  in  Wymondham  ;  Thomas  (2),  men- 
tioned in  the  next  paragraph ;  William,  of 
Hardingham,  to  whom  his  father  gave  a  house 
called  Gilberts;  Margaret;  Isabel;  Margery; 
Elyne;  Agnes. 

(V)  Thomas  (2),  second  son  of  John  Gush- 
ing, inherited  the  homestead  of  his  father  at 
Hardingham,  England,  and  all  the  lands  per- 
taining thereto,  and  died  in  that  place  in  April, 
1558.  He  had  six  children  :  John,  of  Knapton 
in  Norfolk,  whose  will  was  proved  November 
26,  1586;  Ursula;  Nicholas;  Edward;  Stephen; 
Peter,  whose  sketch  follows. 

(VI)  Peter,  youngest  child  of  Thomas  (2) 
Gushing,  was  born  at  Hardingham,  England, 
but  moved  to  Hingham  about  1600,  and  was 
buried  in  the  latter  place  April  26,  1641.  He 
was  probably  one  of  the  first  of  the  Gushings 
to  embrace  the  Protestant  faith,  for  the  wills 
of  his  father  and  eldest  brother  are  in  the 
Gatholic  form.  Peter  Gushing  married  Susan 
Hawes  at  Hardingham,  June  2,  1583,  and  they 
had  seven  children :  Theophilus,  baptized  No- 
vember 4,  1584;  Bridget,  baptized  February 
19,  1586,  married  George  More;  Matthew, 
whose  sketch  follows ;  William,  baptized  April 
I,  1593,  married  Margery  ■ ;  Barbara,  bap- 
tized June  16,  1596,  died  in  January,  1632; 
Peter,  of  London,  married  Godly,  widow  of 

Simon  Payne ;  Katherine,  married Long, 

of  Garlton  Road,  near  Wymondham.  in  Suf- 
folk; Thomas,  of  London,  baptized  May  15, 
1603. 

With  this  generation  ends  the  English  rec- 
ord of  the  Gushings.  Two  of  Peter's  sons. 
Theophilus  and  Matthew,  set  out  for  the  new 
world ;  and  it  is  the  American  branch  of  the 
family,  founded  by  Alatthew,  with  which  we 
shall  hereafter  concern  ourselves.  Theophilus 
Gushing,  the  eldest  son,  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  1633  in  the  ship  "Griffin."  along  with 
the  eminent  Puritan  divines.  Gotten  and 
Hooker.  He  appears  never  to  have  married, 
and  when  his  younger  brother  Matthew  came 
over,  Theophilus  settled  with  him  at  Hing- 
ham, Massachusetts.  Theophilus  was  blind 
for  twenty-five  years  before  his  death,  which 
occurred  IMarch  24,  1679. 

(VII)  Matthew,  second  son  of  Peter  and 
Susan    (Hawes)    Gushing,    was    baptized    at 


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Hardingham,    England,   March   2,    1589,   and 
died  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts,   September 
30,  1660.     For  the  first  fifty  years  of  his  hfe 
he  Hved  at  Hardingham  and  Hingham,  Nor- 
folk county,  England;  but  in   1638,  with  his 
wife  and  five  children,  and  his  wife's  sister, 
Widow    Francis    Riecroft,    who    died    a    few 
weeks   after   their   arrival,    Matthew   Gushing 
embarked  on  the  ship  "Diligent,"  a  vessel  of 
three  hundred  and  fifty  tons,  under  the  com- 
mand of  John  Martin.     This  ship  sailed  from 
Gravesend,  April  26,  1638,  with  one  hundred 
and  thirty-three  passengers,  among  whom  was 
Robert  Peck,  M.  A.,  rector  of  the  parish  of 
Hingham,  England.     The  immediate  cause  of 
their  departure  seems  to  have  been  trouble  in 
ecclesiastical  matters.    Their  rector,  doubtless 
with  the  sympathy  and  aid  of  most  of  those 
constituting  the  emigrating  party,  had  pulled 
down  the  rails  of  chancel  and  altar,  and  leveled 
the  latter  a  foot  below  the  church,  as  it  re- 
mains   to    this     day.     Being    prosecuted     by 
Bishop  Wren,  Reverend  Robert  Peck  left  the 
kingdom,  together  with  his  friends,  who  sold 
their   estates    at    half   their    real    value.      The 
party,   having  landed   at   Boston,   August    10, 
1638,  immediately  proceeded  to  their  destina- 
tion, Hingham,  Massachusetts,  so  named  after 
the   former   home   of   the   Gushing   family   in 
Hingham,  England.     At  a  town  meeting  held 
in  1638  a  house  lot  of  five  acres  on  Bachelor 
(Main)    street,  was  given  to  Matthew  Gush- 
ing, and  it  continued  in  the  possession  of  the 
family  till    1887,  practically  a  quarter  millen- 
nial.    Matthew  Gushing  was  early  engaged  in 
the  afifairs  of  the  town,  and  became  a  deacon 
in   the   church.      He   had   many   eminent   de- 
scendants,   for    it    is    now    a    well-established 
fact  that,  with  the  exception  of  some  recent 
immigrants,   all  the   Gushings   of  the   United 
States  and   Ganada  are   his   direct  lineal   de- 
scendants.     On    August     5,     1613,     Matthew 
Gushing  married  Nazareth  Pitcher,  daughter 
of  Henry   Pitcher,   of   the   famous   family   of 
.Admiral  Pitcher,  of  England.     She  was  bap- 
tized October  30,  1686,  and  died  at  Hingham, 
Massachusetts,   January   6,    1682.     They   had 
five  children,  all  born  in  Hingham,  England : 
Daniel,    April    20,    1619;    Jeremiah,   July   21, 
1621  ;  Matthew,  April  5,  1623  ;  Deborah,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1625,  married  Matthias  Briggs  and 
lived   at   Hingham;   John    (2),   whose   sketch 
follows. 

(Vni)  John  (2),  youngest  of  the  children 
of  Matthew  and  Nazareth  (Pitcher)  Gushing, 
was  bom  at  Hingham,  England,  in  1627,  and 
died  at  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  March  31, 
1708.     At  the  age  of  eleven  he  migrated  to 


America  with  his  people,  and  he  appeared  to 
have  remained  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  till 
after  his  father's  death  in  1660.    In  1657  John 
(2)   Gushing,  together  with  Matthias  Briggs, 
purchased  for  one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds 
the    Varsall    estate    at    "Belle    House    Neck," 
Scituate,  which  consisted  of  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres  with  house  and  barns ;  but  Gush- 
ing did  not  move  there  till  about  1662.     The 
place    derived    its    name    from    the    fact    that 
for  a  century,  at  least,  a  bell  hung  at  the  house 
there   to   give    an   alarm   to   the    neighboring 
country  in  case  of  the  approach   of  the   In- 
dians.    In   1663  John   (2)   Gushing  was  sur- 
veyor of  highways;  in   1667,  receiver  of  ex- 
cises; in  1674  was  deputy  to  the  colony  and 
was  often  re-elected;  in   1673  he  was  on  the 
committee  for  dividing  the  Scituate  lands ;  and 
in  1676  he  was  chosen  to  report  to  the  govern- 
ment a  statement  of  all  services  of  the  soldiers 
of  Scituate  in  the  war  with  King  Philip.     Mr. 
Gushing  was   selectman    from    1674   to    1686, 
inclusive,   and    county   magistrate    (Plymouth 
county)  from  1685  to  1692.    He  was  assistant 
of  the  Old  Golony  government  of  Plymouth 
colony  from  1689  to  1691,  and  representative 
to  the  general  court  at  Boston  in  1692  and  for 
several  succeeding  years,  member  of  the  coun- 
cil in  1796  and  1707,  and  was  colonel  of  the 
Plymouth  regiment.     On  January  20,  1658,  at 
Hingham,   Massachusetts,  John    (2)    Gushing 
married  Sarah  Hawke,  daughter  of  Matthew 
and   Margaret   Hawke,  who  was  baptized   at 
Hingham,  August  i,  1641,  and  died  at  Scitu- 
ate, March  9,  1679.     Her  father  was  the  third 
town  clerk  of  Hingham.     To  John    (2)    and 
Sarah    (Hawke)    Gushing  were  given  twelve 
children :    John,  born  April  28,   1662 ;  Thom- 
as, December  26,   1663;  Matthew,  February, 
1665;  Jeremiah,  July   13,    1666;  James,  Jan- 
uary   27,    1668;    Joshua,    August    27,    1670; 
Sarah,  August  26,  1671 ;  Galeb,  whose  sketch 
follows;    Deborah,    1675;    Mary,    August   30, 
1676;  Joseph,  September  23,  1677;  Benjamin, 
February  4,  1679. 

(IX)  Rev.  Caleb,  seventh  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Hawke)  Gushing,  was  born  at 
Scituate,  Massachusetts,  in  January,  1673,  and 
was  baptized  on  May  1 1  of  that  year.  He  died 
January  25,  1752,  after  a  pastorate  of  fifty- 
six  years  at  Salisbury,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
graduated  from  Harvard  Gollege  in  1692,  and 
went  to  Salisbury  in  March,  1696,  and  was 
ordained  minister  of  the  first  parish,  Novem- 
ber 9,  1698.  He  was  one  of  the  numerous 
signers  of  documents  in  1745,  unfavorable  to 
the  itinerary  of  Whitefield,  and  endorsing  the 
proceedings  of  Harvard  Gollege  in   1744  rel- 


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ative  to  VVhitefield's  career.  The  preacher  of 
Mr.  Cushing's  funeral  sermon  said  of  him: 
"We  know  not  the  man  in  the  County  of  Es- 
sex who  has  moulded  a  broader  and  deeper 
influence  on  the  minds  of  the  people  than  this 
venerable  divine."  The  Boston  Ei'ciiing  Post 
stated :  "He  was  of  excellent  natural  parts, 
judgment  and  memory  vvhich  so  rarely  meet, 
yet  met  in  him  in  so  eminent  degree  that  it 
was  not  easy  to  say  in  vvhich  he  excelled,  and 
at  the  same  time,  he  had  the  easiest  and  hap- 
piest temper,  and  most  benign  soul.  He  was  a 
learned,  solid  divine,  and  of  exemplary  con- 
versation, condescending,  prudent,  benevolent 
and  a  wise  counsellor,  remarkable  for  hospi- 
tality." The  painting  of  him  still  preserved 
shows  a  man  of  large  build,  with  a  long  yet 
rather  full  face,  a  prominent  aquiline  nose, 
keen  dark  eyes,  and  rather  a  humorous  mouth. 
There  is  a  certain  family  resemblance,  par- 
ticularly about  the  eyes  and  nose,  to  Chief 
Justice  William  Cushing  and  to  Lieutenant- 
Governor  Thomas  Cushing.  Reverend  Caleb 
Cushing  is  represented  in  wig  and  bands,  ac- 
cording to  the  custom  of  the  times.  On  March 
14,  1698,  Rev.  Caleb  Cushing  married  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Cotton)  Ailing,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  John  Cotton,  and  widow  of  Rev.  James 
Ailing,  Mr.  Cushing's  predecessor  at  Salis- 
bury. There  were  four  children,  all  of  whom 
filled  creditable  positions  in  life.  i.  Caleb 
Cushing,  the  eldest  son,  born  October  10,  1703, 
became  chief  justice  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas,  was  a  deacon  in  the  church  at  Salis- 
bury, was  colonel  of  the  Essex  Regiment,  and 
for  twenty-seven  years  a  representative  to  the 
general  court.  2.  Rev.  James,  follows  in  the 
next  paragraph.  3.  Rev.  John,  born  April  10, 
1709,  was  graduated  from  tiarvard  College  in 
1729,  and  became  the  first  minister  of  the  sec- 
ond church  at  Boxford,  Massachusetts.  4. 
Elisabeth,  married  Rev.  Joshua  Moody,  of  the 
Isles  of  Shoals. 

(X)  Rev.  James,  second  son  of  Rev.  Caleb 
and  Elizabeth  (Cotton)  (Ailing)  Cushing,  was 
born  at  Salisbury,  iMassachusetts,  November 
25,  1705,  died  May  13,  1764.  He  was  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  College  in  1725,  was  or- 
dained December  2,  1730,  and  settled  as  the 
first  minister  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  and 
Plaistow,  New  Hampshire.  In  the  Collec- 
tions of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society 
we  find :  "Reverend  James  Cushing  was  a 
solid  and  fervent  preacher,  in  conduct  upright, 
prudent  and  steady,  and  recommended  the 
amiable  religion  of  his  Master,  by  meekness 
and  patience,  condescension  and  candor,  a 
tender  sympathy  with  his  flock,  and  a  studious 


endeavor  to  maintain  and  promote  the  things 
of  peace."  On  October  16,  1730,  Rev.  James 
Cushing  married  Anna  Wainwright,  daughter 
of  John  Wainwright,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Simon  Wainwright,  who  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  at  his  own  door.  She  died  Februarv 
12,  1810,  having  reached  the  great  age  of 
ninety-nine  years.  There  were  seven  children, 
one  of  whom  became  a  minister,  and  two  of 
whom  married  ministers,  i.  Caleb  (2),  men- 
tioned in  the  succeeding  paragraph.  2.  Rev. 
James,  born  May  8,  1739,  died  at  Pondicherry, 
in  the  East  Indies,  June  2,  1764.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, born  November  6,  1741,  married  (first) 
Rev.  Jacob  Emery,  of  Pembroke,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  (second)  Captain  Alexander  Todd, 
of  Goffstown,  New  Flampshire.  4.  Moses, 
born  July  14,  1745,  served  as  a  private  in  the 
revolutionary  w-ar.  5.  Lucy,  born  August  12, 
1747,  married  Rev.  Giles  JMerrills,  who  suc- 
ceeded her  father  as  minister  at  Haverhill  and 
Plaistow,  preaching  there  till  his  death  in 
1801.  6.  Dr.  John,  born  December  11,  1749, 
was  twice  married,  and  died  at  Goffstown, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1833.  7.  Thomas,  born 
June  28,  1754,  died  at  the  age  of  ten  years. 

(XI)  Caleb  (2),  eldest  child  of  Rev.  James 
and  Anna  (Wainwright)  Cushing,  was  born 
May  28,  1737,  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts, 
and  died  there  October  6,  1806.  He  fought 
at  Lexington,  and  served  all  through  the  revo- 
lutionary war,  first  as  quartermaster,  and  later 
as  brigade  quartermaster.  On  August  13, 
1761,  Caleb  (2)  Cushing  married  Sarah  Saw- 
yer, born  November  16,  1742,  who  died  at 
Salisbury,  January  10,  1832,  in  her  ninetieth 
year.  There  were  eight  children:  Ann.  born 
January  19.  T763,  married  Timothy  Dunstan ; 
James,  March  9,  1765;  Caleb,  September  4, 
1767;  Theodore,  March  9,  1770;  Sarah,  De- 
cember 26,  1771,  married  Ananiah  Bohonan ; 
Elizabeth,  November  13,  1775,  married  Ben- 
jamin Stark,  of  Derryfield,  New  Hampshire,  a 
son  of  General  John  Stark  of  the  revolution ; 
Abigail,  October  3,  1778;  and  John  Wain- 
wright, whose  sketch  follows. 

(XII)  John  Wainwright,  youngest  of  the 
eight  children  of  Caleb  (2)  and  Sarah  (Saw- 
yer) Cushing,  was  born  at  Haverhill,  Massa- 
chusetts, Julv  23,  1782,  and  died  at  Burling- 
ton, Vermont,  in  August,  1836.  He  spent  his 
life  at  Haverhill,  and  married,  September  29, 
1807,  Sarah  Swett,  of  Salisbury.  They  had 
three  children  :  James  William ;  Joseph  '\\'ain- 
wright,  whose  sketch  follows ;  and  ]\Iary. 
There  were  also  two  W'ho  died  in  infancy. 

(XIII)  Joseph  Wainwright,  second  son  of 
John  Wainwright  and  Sarah   (Swett)    Cush- 


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ing,  was  born  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts, 
about  1812,  and  died  at  Brownsville,  i\laine. 
He  lived  at  Milo  and  Sebec,  Maine,  and  built 
and  operated  woolen-mills  in  both  places.  The 
first  woolen-mill  ever  erected  in  Piscataquis 
was  built  by  Mr.  Gushing.  On  November  26, 
i8..|0,  he  married  Anna   Morrill,  daughter  of 

John   and  Morrill,  of   Sebec.     There 

were  seven  children :  Wainv.-right,  whose 
sketch  follows;  Sarah  Martha,  born  May  28, 
1843;  Caleb,  January  17,  1845,  was  killed  in 
the  battle  of  the  Wilderness;  Celia  Ann,  March 
17,  1847,  married  Edwin  C.  Prentiss,  of  Bos- 
ton; Maria  Josephine,  June  17,  1850,  died 
February  i,  1851  ;  Clara  Elizabeth,  November 
ig,  1854  (Mrs.  Frank  Ellis)  ;  William  Edwin, 
July  3,  1856,  married  Ida  L.  Perry,  and  lives 
at  Somerville,  Massachusetts. 

(XI\')  Wainwright,  eldest  child  of  Joseph 
Wainwright  and  Anna  (Morrill)  Cushing, 
was  born  August  12,  1841,  at  Sebec,  Maine. 
He  was  educated  in  the  town  schools  and  at 
Foxcroft  Academy,  and  worked  in  his  father's 
woolen  mills  at  Sebec.  In  1861  Mr.  Cushing 
enlisted  in  the  Sixth  Maine  Regiment,  Com- 
pany A,  and  later  re-enlisted  in  the  First 
Maine  \'eterans,  a  company  made  up  of  the 
Fifth,  Sixth  and  Seventh  regiments.  Mr. 
Cushing  served  under  Burnside  and  Hooker  at 
Williamsburg,  in  front  of  Richmond,  at  the 
Second  Battle  of  Bull  Run,  at  Antietam  and 
F"redericksburg,  and  campaig'ned  in  the  Shen- 
andoah \'alley  under  Sheridan.  He  enlisted 
as  a  private,  was  twice  wounded,  and  was  dis- 
charged July  5,  1865,  as  a  lieutenant.  After 
the  war  was  over,  Mr.  Cushing  returned  to 
Sebec,  and  went  to  work  in  the  mill  as  dyer. 
In  1869  he  moved  to  Dover,  Maine,  and  went 
to  work  for  the  Brown  Woolen  Company, 
where  he  had  charge  of  the  dye-house  for 
thirteen  years.  \\'hile  engaged  in  this  work 
he  conceived  the  idea  of  developing  a  business 
absolutely  new  to  the  world  by  perfecting  a 
set  of  household  dyes  that  would  replace  the 
family  dye-pot,  in  which  there  had  been  no 
practical  improvement  for  hundreds  of  years. 
Mr.  Cushing  experimented  for  a  whole  decade 
in  his  little  shop  near  the  mill  where  he  was 
employed  during  business  hours,  and  in  1880 
he  started  an  establishment  on  his  own  ac- 
count. He  had  now  to  educate  the  world  to 
the  value  of  his  goods  and  his  methods.  As 
his  ready  means  were  small,  his  progress  was 
naturally  slow,  but  he  was  materially  aided 
by  his  modest  salary  as  register  of  probate 
for  Piscataquis  county,  which  office  he  held  for 
six  terms.  Persevering  in  the  introduction  of 
his  goods,  which,  under  the  name  of  Cushing 


Perfection  Dyes,  soon  became  locally  known 
and  largely  used,  in  1886  Mr.  Cushing  began 
to  advertise  in  a  small  way  by  means  of  cir- 
culars and  samples.  In  six  years  there  were 
placed  upon  the  books  the  names  of  over 
twenty-five  hundred  regular  customers,  many 
of  them  dealers,  agents  and  Indian-traders,  lo- 
cated not  only  in  every  section  of  the  United 
States,  but  in  other  countries,  civilized  and 
uncivilized,  from  Dakota  to  India.  Mr.  Cush- 
ing's  original  shop  or  laboratory  has  grown 
into  a  large  factory  with  commodious  offices, 
and  his  mail  and  express  business  lias  attained 
extensive  proportions,  and  is  constantly  in- 
creasing. It  was  in  1892  that  he  buift  his 
present  large  plant,  containing  some  sixteen 
thousand  square  feet.  The  business  is  now 
run  under  the  name  of  Cushing's  Perfection 
Dyes,  and  the  product  is  sold  all  over  the 
world.  The  firm  is  composed  of  Mr.  Cushing 
and  his  son,  Caleb  H. 

Mr.  Wainwright  Cushing  has  a  beautiful 
home  on  the  banks  of  the  Piscataquis  river,  in 
Foxcroft,  of  which  town  he  is  a  valuable  and 
public-spirited  citizen.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  served  on  the  executive  council 
of  Governor  H.  B.  Cleaves  during  1895-96. 
He  is  a  Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree,  and 
has  served  as  worshipful'  master  of  Mosaic 
Lodge,  and  high  priest  of  Piscataquis  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  j\Iasons,  and  belongs  to  Ban- 
gor Council  and  to  all  the  Scottish  Rite  or- 
ders. He  is  past  chancellor  of  Onawa  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  past  master  workman  of 
Protection  Lodge,  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  and  past  master  of  Piscataquis 
Lodge,  New  England  Order  of  Protection.  In 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  he  has  been 
commander  of  C.  S.  Prouty  I^ost,  No.  21,, 
of  Foxcroft,  and  in  1893  was  department 
commander  of  the  Department  of  Maine.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States,  and  to  the  Union 
Veterans'  Union,  and  has  been  department 
commander  of  the  Department  of  Maine  of 
the  latter  organization.  He  is  active  in  the 
Christian  Science  faith. 

On  October  20,  1866,  Wainwright  Cushing 
married  Flora  A.  Mclntyre,  of  Sebec.  Maine. 
She  was  born  at  Rockport,  Maine,  December 
13,  1849.  daughter  of  Captain  LViah  and 
Susan  (Boardman)  Mclntyre,  the  former  a 
retired  sea  captain.  Two  children  have  been 
born  to  the  Cushings :  Caleb  H.,  October  20, 
1868.  at  Sebec;  and  Annie  F.,  April,  1872,  at 
Foxcroft.  Caleb  H.  Cushing  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  Foxcroft  and  at  Foxcroft 
Academy,    and    is    now    engaged    in    business 


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with  his  father.  He  has  served  three  terms 
as  county  treasurer,  and  is  trustee  of  the  Pis- 
cataquis County  Savings  Bank.  He  married 
Mary  F.  Fogler,  daughter  of  J.  F.  Fogler,  of 
Rockland.  Annie  F.  Gushing  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Foxcroft  and  at  Foxcroft 
Academy,  and  was  graduated  from  Lasell 
Seminary,  Auburndale,  Massachusets,  in  i8g6. 
On  April  30,  1902,  she  was  married  to  Cap- 
tain Walter  J.  Mayo,  son  of  John  G.  Mayo, 
of  Foxcroft. 


There  were  many  pioneers 
STEVENS  bearing  this  name  identified 
with  the  earliest  settlement  of 
Massachusetts,  and  their  descendants  have 
been  numerous  and  widely  scattered,  and  have 
born  no  inconsiderable  part  in  the  develop- 
ment of  this  nation.  John  Stevens,  of  New- 
bury and  Andover,  Massachusetts,  was  born 
about  1606,  and  settled  in  Andover  about  1645  ; 
he  had  six  sons.  William  Stevens,  of  New- 
bury, Massachusetts,  left  three  sons;  Ser- 
geant John  Stevens,  of  Amesbury,  Massachu- 
setts, was  born  about  161 1,  and  resided  early 
in  Salisbury;  he  left  three  sons.  Deacon 
Thomas  Stevens,  of  Amesbury,  Massachusetts, 
was  a  sawyer  and  husbandman,  and  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  the  town.  He  left  three  sons. 
Another  John  Stevens,  of  Amesbury,  left  two 
sons.  It  is  probable  that  the  line  herein  traced 
is  descended  from  John  Stevens,  of  Andover. 

(I)  John  and  Elizabeth  Stevens  lived  in 
Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  in  1679. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Stevens,  was  born  March  24,  1679,  in  Chelms- 
ford, and  was  a  resident  of  Woburn,  Massa- 
chusetts, whence  he  removed  to  Billerica,  same 
state,  in  1710.  He  was  probably  born  about 
1675.  In  1723  he  removed  to  Groton,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  seven  years  later  to  Townsend, 
same  colony,  where  he  died  in  1738.  He  was 
an  able  and  active  citizen ;  selectman  of  Bil- 
lerica, and  at  the  incorporation  of  Townsend, 
in  1732,  was  delegated  by  the  general  court  to 
call  the  first  town  meeting.  He  was  modera- 
tor and  selectman  almost  continually  until  his 
death,  and  was  deacon  of  the  church.  He  was 
married  in  Woburn,  September  24,  1701,  to 
Elizabeth  Tidd,  who  was  born  September  19, 
1679,  '"  that  town,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Fifield)  Tidd,  and  granddaughter 
of  John  and  Rebecca  (Wood)  Tidd.  She  died 
in  Billerica,  February  6,  1714,  and  he  subse- 
quently married  Elizabeth  Sherman.  The 
first  wife  was  the  mother  of  four  of  his  chil- 
dren and  the  second  of  eight.  They  were : 
Joseph  (died  young),  James,  Elizabeth,  Jona- 


than, Joseph  (died  young),  Esther,  Joseph, 
Ephraim,  William,  Jonas  and  Lucy. 

(Ill)  Jonas,  eighth  son  of  Joseph  Stevens 
and  seventh  child  of  his  second  wife,  Eliza- 
beth (Sherman)  Stevens,  was  born  April  26, 
1727,  in  Groton,  Massachusetts,  and  grew  up 
in  Townsend,  whence  he  removed  to  Falmouth, 
Maine,  and  thence  to  the  town  of  Gray,  not 
far  from  Falmouth.  He  cleared  up  a  farm 
in  the  wilderness  and  there  made  his  home 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revo- 
lution, going  from  Gray  as  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain Moses  Merrill's  company  of  Colonel 
Thomas  Phinney's  (third)  regiment,  enlisting 
April  15,  1775,  and  was  allowed  subsistance 
for  seven  weeks  and  two  days.  He  received 
an  order  for  a  bounty  coat  at  Cambridge 
Fort  No.  2,  October  26,  1775,  and  was  among 
those  recruited  by  New  Gloucester  for  the 
Continental  army,  enlisting  for  three  years, 
or  during  the  war,  under  Captain  Paul  Ellis, 
in  Colonel  Timothy  Bigelow's  regiment,  be- 
ing then  a  resident  of  Gray.  His  name  ap- 
pears in  the  pay  accounts  from  March  23, 
1777,  to  the  same  date,  1780.  No  record  of 
his  marriage  appears,  but  his  children  are 
accounted  for  as  follows:  i.  Jonas,  bom 
1747,  married  Mary  Crandall  and  had  chil- 
dren: Benjamin,  William,  Jane,  Elizabeth, 
Amos,  Ruth,  Sarah,  Joseph,  Jonathan.  2. 
Joel,  born  1751,  died  May  18,  1850;  married 
for  third  wife  Olive  Hobbs,  and  had  children : 
Joel,  William,  Eleanor,  Polly,  Charlotte,  Olive, 
Jeremiah,  Job  Eastman,  Dresser,  Miriam, 
Moses,  Sally,  William,  Irene,  Ezra.  3.  Joseph, 
see  forward.  4.  Nathaniel,  born  in  Townsend, 
Massachusetts,  February,  1761,  died  June  30, 
1816.  Married  Rebecca  Cobb,  born  in  Cape 
Elizabeth,  and  had  children  :  Abigail,  Charles, 
Susanna,  Susan,  Rebecca,  Rhoda,  Nathaniel, 
Orpha,  William  and  George.  5.  Ruth,  born 
1762,  married  James  Doughty,  of  Gray.  6. 
Susanna,  married  Samuel  Winslow. 

(I\')  Captain  Joseph  (2),  third  son  and 
child  of  Jonas  Stevens,  came  to  Norway, 
Maine,  from  Massachusetts,  in  1787,  and  built 
the  first  frame  house  in  the  town.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Hobbs,  and  they  had  children : 
I.  Daniel,  see  forward.  2.  Jonas,  born  1782, 
married  Mary  Hobbs.  3.  Amy,  1784,  died 
unmarried.  4.  Apphia,  1786,  married  Benja- 
min Eastman,  of  Conway,  New  Hampshire. 
5.  Joseph,  born  in  Norway,  May  31.  .1788, 
married  Ruth  Bradbury.  6.  Elmira,  1794, 
married  Dr.  John  Eastman,  of  Conway.  7. 
Simon,  August  10,  1798,  married  Rebecca 
Atherton,  of  Waterford. 

(V)  Daniel,  eldest  child  of  Joseph  (2)  and 


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1205 


Elizabeth  (HobbsJ  Stevens,  was  born  in 
Greenwood,  Maine,  in  1780.  He  followed 
the  occupation  of  farming  throughout  his  life. 
He  married  Miriam  Fowler  and  had  chililren  : 
I.  Edmund,  born  November  18,  1804,  died  in 
Missouri.  2.  Ruth,  December  21.  1807,  went 
west  and  is  unmarried.  3.  Daniel,  May  31, 
1809,  resided  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire. 
4.  Ansel,  see  forward.  5.  Amy  S.,  January  28, 
1812,  died  young.  6.  Mary  Jane,  married 
John  G.  Robinson.  7.  William,  who  also  went 
west. 

(VT)  Ansel,  third  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Daniel  and  Miriam  (Fowler)  Stevens,  was 
born  in  Greenwood,  Oxford  county,  Maine, 
July  16,  181 1,  and  died  in  1857.  Like  his 
forefathers,  he  was  a  farmer.  He  moved 
from  Maine  to  Manchaug,  town  of  Sutton, 
Massachusetts,  from  thence  to  Michigan,  and 
still  later  to  Illinois,  where  he  died.  He  was 
a  corporal  at  the  time  of  the  Aroostook  war, 
and  went  as  far  as  Augusta  at  that  time.  He 
married  Sarah  Kniglit.  of  Greenwood,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  years.  Their 
children  were  :  Ferdinand  Ivsley,  Lewis  Ansel, 
Amy  Ann,  Sarah  Octavia,  Daniel  Atwood,  see 
forward  :  Charles  Peter,  Ruth  Ellen. 

(\TI)  Daniel  Atwood,  third  son  and  sixth 
child  of  Ansel  and  Sarah  (Knight)  Stevens, 
was  born  in  Greenwood,  July  26,  1845.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Sut- 
ton, to  which  town  his  parents  had  removed 
when  he  was  seven  years  old.  His  attendance 
at  school  was  confined  to  the  winter  months, 
as  his  assistance  was  required  on  the  farm 
during  the  summer.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
years  he  commenced  an  apprenticeship  to  the 
machinist's  trade  at  Whitinsville,  Massachu- 
setts, but  in  July,  1863,  when  the  civil  war 
was  at  its  height,  he  responded  to  the  call  for 
volunteers  and  enlisted  in  the  Second  Massa- 
chusetts Heavy  Artillery.  His  term  of  serv- 
ice extended  to  September  3,  1865,  when  he 
was  honorably  discharged.  Returning  to 
Whitinsville,  he  finished  his  apprenticeship  and 
subsequently  worked  at  his  trade  until  1878, 
when  he  engaged  as  clerk  for  W.  M.  Walker,^ 
in  York  Village.  Finding  himself  better 
adapted  to  mercantile  duties  than  to  mechani- 
cal labors,  he  established  a  store  of  his  own 
in  1 881  in  the  town  of  York,  and  has  since 
conducted  a  successful  business.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics  and  was  postmaster 
under  Harrison's  administration.  He  was  ap- 
pointed postmaster  at  York  Village  in  1905, 
but  resigned.  He  has  been  actively  engaged 
in  many  useful  enterprises,  and  is  always 
ready  to  assist  in  promoting  any  project  for 


the  good  of  the  community.  Believing  thor- 
oughly in  the  elevating  power  of  religion,  he 
is  "an  active  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  is  a  deacon,  and  has  been  parish  clerk 
for  many  years.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Aspin- 
quid  Lodge,  No.  198,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons ;  Knights  of  Pythias ;  and  Or- 
der of  the  Golden  Cross.  He  married,  May 
5,  1871,  Clara  E.,  daughter  of  Richard  H.  and 
Clarissa  (Wilson)  Walker,  and  they  have  one 
child,  Alice  Emma,  born  March,  1873.  She 
attended  the  town  schools  of  York  and  a 
private  school  in  New  Hampshire.  She  mar- 
ried, 1905,  Walter  C.  Badger,  of_  New  York, 
an  electrician.  They  are  now  living  in  York, 
Maine. 


The  name  Stevens  occurs  in 
STEVENS     the   records  of   Maine  at   an 

early  date,  and  as  early  as 
1720  John  Stevens,  from  whom  the  Stevenses 
of  this  article  may  be  descended,  was  in  Ken- 
nebunkport.  Thirty-five  pages  of  the  record, 
"Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  the 
Revolution,"  are  given  to  accounts  of  the 
Stevenses. 

(I)  Moses  Stevens,  the  earliest  known  an- 
cestor, married,  November  16,  1703,  Elizabeth 
Butland,  of  Wells. 

(II)  Benjamin,  son  of  Moses  and  Elizabeth 
(Butland)  Stevens,  married,  December  3, 
1735,  Mary  Hatch.  He  moved  to  Kennebunk 
in  1751. 

(III)  Joel,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary 
( Hatch)  Stevens,  was  born  in  Kennebunk, 
1744,  died  April  2,  1840.  He  was  a  farmer 
in  Kennebunk;  a  revolutionary  soldier  and 
pensioner.  He  married,  March  10,  1774,  Mary 
Webber. 

(IV)  Calvin,  son  of  Joel  and  Mary  (Web- 
ber) Stevens,  was  born  in  Kennebunk.  March 
14,  1793,  died  March  31,  1877.  He  was  a 
cabinetmaker  and  farmer  in  Standish.  He 
married  (first)  Lydia  P.  Moulton,  who  died 
June  2,  1852,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
Lorenzo,  Leander  and  George.  He  married 
(second)  Mrs.  Lucy  Paine,  a  widow. 

(V)  Leander,  second  son  of  Calvin  and  Ly- 
dia P.  (Moulton)  Stevens,  was  born  in  Stand- 
ish, March  8,  1822,  died  in  Portland,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1903.  He  was  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  in  Boston  and  in  the  hardware  busi- 
ness in  New  York ;  then  was  a  clerk  in  a  Bos- 
ton hotel ;  in  1857  removed  to  Portland, 
Maine,  where  he  was  in  the  employ  of  a  gro- 
cery firm  three  years.  For  a  time  he  was  a 
messenger  on  the  road  between  Portland  and 
Montreal.    He  was  clerk  at  the  Preble  House, 


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Portland,  for  some  years,  until  the  opening  of 
the  Falmouth  in  that  city;  was  then  clerk  at 
:the  Falmoutli  from  1868  to  1876,  and  pro- 
prietor 1876-79,  and  was  for  ten  years  clerk 
at  the  American  House,  Boston.  After  a 
.term  as  clerk  at  the  Poland  Spring  Hotel  he 
retired  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in 
Portland.  In  politics  he  was  an  independent 
voter.  He  served  one  year  in  the  Portland 
city  council.  He  married  Maria  Jane  Han- 
.cock  Wingate,  born  in  Gorham,  November  7, 
1825.  She  was  the  third  child  of  John  and 
Salome  (Small)  Wingate,  of  Gorham,  and 
descended  from  the  first  John  Wingate  who 
■settled  near  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  about 
1658.  (See  Wingate  VI.)  Their  children 
were:  i.  Leander  L.,  born  November  20, 
[849,  married,  December  16,  1874,  Mrs.  Lucy 
Blanchard,  and  they  have  had  two  children : 
Leander  Elwood  and  Alice  G.,  died  young. 
2.  John  Calvin,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lydia 
Maria,  born  August  10,  1859,  married  Stephen 
E.  Winslow,  and  died  April  27,  igoo.  4. 
Henry  Wingate,  born  January  8,  1869,  mar- 
ried Frances  Seely,  and  has  three  children : 
"Wingate  Irving,  Theodore  Moulton  and 
Frances  Louise. 

(\T)  John  Calvin,  second  son  of  Leander 
and  Maria  J.  H.  (Wingate)  Stevens,  was 
born  in  Boston,  October  8,  1855,  and  was 
taken  by  his  parents  when  two  years  old  to 
Portland,  where  he  has  since  spent  his  life, 
except  a  year  and  a  half  in  Boston.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  Portland 
schools,  and  graduated  from  the  Portland  high 
school  in  June,  1873.  In  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  he  entered  the  office  of  Francis  H.  Fas- 
sett,  architect,  in  Portland,  remaining  in  this 
connection  until  1880,  when  he  was  admitted 
to  partnership  with  his  employer,  the  firm 
taking  the  name  of  Fassett  &  Stevens.  A 
branch  office  was  opened  in  Boston,  of  which 
Mr.  Stevens  took  charge  and  there  remained 
eighteen  months.  While  there  he  won,  in  com- 
petition with  other  architects,  the  award  for  a 
design  of  the  Hotel  Pemberton,  afterward 
built  at  Windmill  Point,  Hull,  in  Boston  har- 
bor. Returning  to  Portland  in  the  latter  part 
of  1881,  he  continued  with  j\Ir.  Fassett  until 
the  spring  of  1884,  when  he  opened  an  inde- 
pendent office  in  the  First  National  Bank 
building,  where  he  remained  until  his  removal 
to  his  present  office  in  the  Oxford  building. 
In  1888  he  took  in  a  partner,  A.  W.  Cobb,  of 
Boston,  but  this  relation  was  soon  dissolved, 
and  he  continued  alone  until  1906,  when  his 
son,  John  Howard  Stevens,  was  admitted  as 
an    associate    in    the    business.      The    firm    of 


Stevens  &  Cobb  published  a  book,  "Examples 
of   American   Domestic   Architecture,"    which 
has    received    much    commendation    from    the 
members  of  the  architectural   profession  and 
the  general  public.     Among  prominent  build- 
ings designed  by  Mr.  Stevens,  which  are  men- 
tioned here  as  conveving  some  estimate  of  the 
character  and  extent    of  his  work,  are :    The 
exterior   of   the    Brown    block    on    Congress 
street,  designed  while  in  partnership  with  F. 
H.  Fassett;  the  remodeling  of  the  Union  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  building  for  the  U^nion  Safe 
Deposit  and  Trust  Company  ;  the  Oxford  build- 
ing on   Middle  street ;   the   Eye  and   Ear  In- 
firmary, New  Surgery  building,  at  the  Maine 
General    Hospital ;    the    rebuilding    of    State 
Street  Church;   Maine  Medical  School  build- 
ing; Portland  Athletic  Club  building;  North- 
eastern Telephone  building ;  many  of  the  finest 
residences    in    Portland    and    a    large   number 
of  the  best  summer  residences  about  Portland, 
such  as  those  of  James  Hopkins  Smith  and 
Henry  St.  John  Smith.     A  great  deal  of  his 
work  has  been  out  of  town,  scattered  through 
the  state,  including  the  fine  residence  of  Judge 
Powers  in  Houlton ;  the  residence  of  Governor 
John   F.   Llill  in  Augusta ;  nearly  all  the  re- 
cent buildings  at  the  Soldiers'  Home  at  To- 
gus ;   the   fine   residence   of   F.    E.    Boston   in 
Gardiner ;  the  Academy  building  in  Houlton ; 
the  Academy  and  Dormitory  at  Hebron ;  the 
Maine  State  Sanatorium  for  Pulmonary  Dis- 
eases.  Hebron ;  many   of  the   smaller  Baptist 
churches  throughout  the  state  ;  the  dining-room 
wing  of  the  Poland  Spring  Hotel ;  the  hotel 
at   Belgrade ;  the  Checkley  House  at  Prout"s 
Neck ;    many    summer    residences    at    Front's 
Neck  and  Kennebunkport ;  the  Eastern  Maine 
Insane  Hospital  at  Bangor ;  residences  at  Bar 
Harbor  and  Hancock  Point ;  numerous  pieces 
of  work  outside  the  state,  including  houses  in 
Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  and  New  Castle,  In- 
diana; a  Baptist  church  in  Colorado;  several 
fine  residences  in  Boston ;  Library  building  at 
Rumford  Falls ;  Library  building  at  Houlton ; 
remodelling    and    fire-proofing    of    the    south 
wing  of  the  State  House  at  Augusta.     The 
firm  is  now  building  the   Municipal   building 
at  Skowhegan,  and  are  carrying  on  extensive 
remodelling  at  the  Soldiers'  Home  at  Hamp- 
ton,   Mrginia,    involving    the    expenditure    of 
more  than  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and 
has   been   selected    associate    architects    with 
Carrere  &   Hastings,   of   New   York,   for  the 
new  City  Hall  at  Portland.     In  the  summer  of 
1892  Mr.  Stevens,  with  F.  A.  Elwcll.  of  the 
Portland  Transcript,  organized  an  architectu- 
ral sketching  tour  on  bicycles  through  north- 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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ern  and  central  France,  which  was  very  suc- 
cessful. The  party  included  twenty-three 
members,  and  traveled  over  a  thousand  miles 
awheel,  visiting  many  picturesque  towns  lying 
off  the  route  of  the  ordinary  tourist. 

Mr.  Stevens  is  a  fellow  of  the  American  In- 
stitute of  Architects,  and  has  served  upon  its 
board  of  directors ;  is  a  member  of  the  Boston 
Society  of  Architects;  a  member  of  the  Ar- 
chitectural League  of  New  York ;  member  of 
the  Portland  Art  Society,  of  which  he  was 
president  in  1893,  and  has  served  upon  its 
executive  committee  since  its  organization ; 
member  of  the  Rlaine  Charitable  Mechanics' 
Association,  serving  as  president  in  1890-91 ; 
member  of  the  Portland  Athletic  Club,  of 
which  he  was  third  vice-president  in  1894-95 
and  president  in  igoo;  was  a  member  of  the 
Portland  Wheel  Club,  was  president  of  the  or- 
ganization in  iS88-8g,  and  was  at  that  time 
chief  consul  of  the  Maine  division  of  the 
League  of  American  Wheelmen.  Fie  is  also  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Maine 
Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  and  an  honorary  mem- 
ber of  the  Portland  Yacht  Club.  He  is  a 
prominent  Mason,  being  a  member  of  An- 
cient Landmark  Lodge,  Mount  Vernon 
Royal  Arch  Chapter,  Portland  Council  of 
Royal  and  Select  Masters,  Portland  Com- 
mandery  of  Knights  Templar,  and  Maine  Con- 
sistory of  the  Sublime  Princes  of  the  Royal 
Secret.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Maine  Lodge 
of  Odd  Fellows.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  in  i8go  was  a  member  of  Portland 
city  council  from  ward  seven. 

John  Calvin  Stevens  married,  in  Portland, 
December  25,  1877,  Martha  Louise  Waldron, 
born  in  Buckfield,  Maine,  daughter  of  Howard 
D.  and  Caroline  (Baker)  Waldron.  Chil- 
dren: John  Howard,  married,  September  i, 
1903,  Agnes  McFadden,  of  Portland,  Maine; 
Caroline  Maria,  Margaret  Louise,  Dorothy 
Winsfate. 


"The  English  family  of  Win- 
WINGATE     gate  is  of  great  antiquity.     It 

had  existed  for  several  gen- 
erations previous  to  the  settlement  of  the  fam- 
ily at  Sharpenhoe,  in  the  parish  of  Streatty, 
in  County  Bedford.  The  manor  of  the  family, 
in  the  parish  of  Ellesborough,  in  Bucking- 
hamshire, in  early  days  called  Wyngate's,  is 
now  known  by  the  name  of  Grove."  Win- 
gate  was  used  as  a  surname  in  South  England 
and  Scotland  prior  to  1200,  but  a  writer  states 
that  the  first  known  of  the  family  was  a  cer- 
tain "Hemyng  de  Wingate,"  that  is,  Hemyng 
of   Wyngate,   who   was    lord    of   that    manor 


about  the  reign  of  King  Henry  II,  1 154-1 189. 
From  him  are  descended  eleven  generations  of 
Wingates,  but  no  connection  between  the  Eng- 
lish and  the  American  Wingates  can  be  traced. 
That  the  Wingates  of  America  were  like  their 
British  relations,  worthy  people,  is  known  from 
the  fact  that  the  name  Wingate  occurs  with 
frequency  and  dignity  in  the  history  of  the 
early  colonial  enterprises  in  America.  The 
latitude  in  the  spelling  of  the  name  was  as 
great  in  this  case  as  in  the  average  of  instances 
in  colonial  times. 

(I)  John  \\'ingate,  immigrant,  was  born  in 
England  and  came  to  New  Hampshire  with- 
out a  family.  All  the  members  of  the  Win- 
gate  family  now  in  this  country  can  be  traced 
back  to  this  one  immigrant.  John  Wingate 
was  a  planter  at  Hilton's  Point,  now  Dover, 
as  early  as  1658.  Few  facts  are  known  of 
him,  but  enough  to  indicate  a  good  standing 
among  his  fellow  men  for  probity,  energy 
and  success  in  life.  He  was  "received  inhabe- 
tant  of  Dover  18,  4  mO.  1660,"  but  this  must 
refer  to  citizenship  and  not  to  settlement,  as 
he  had  received  land  of  the  town  11,  11,  1659, 
when  twenty  acres  were  given  him  "at  the 
head  of  Thomas  Laytons  twenty  acker  lott  on 
the  west  side  of  the  back  River  that  joyneth  to 
Elder  Nutter's  20  acker  lott."  It  seems  that 
on  John  Wingate's  first  coming  to  Dover  he 
was  in  the  service  of  Thomas  Layton ;  so  it 
would  appear  from  a  record  in  Dover's  oldest 
town  book,  that  states  that  there  was  con- 
veyed to  him  by  the  selectmen  23,  10,  1658,  a 
lot  of  twenty  acres  on  the  west  side  of  Back 
river,  "at  the  head  of  the  twenty  acker  loet 
given  unto  the  afoersayed  John  Wingett  by  his 
master,  Thomas  Layton,  decesd."  The  rec- 
ords show  that  John  had  other  lands  also : 
whereas  "John  Wingett  has  tenn  acres  of  land 
granted  him  by  the  inhabetants  of  Dover 
Necke"  between  little  John's  creek  and  Ralph 
Twambley's  lot.  It  was  laid  out  3,  3,  1669. 
He  soon  made  his  homestead  on  Dover  Neck, 
where  a  beautiful  farm  of  nearly  one  hundred 
acres  very  near  the  city  of  Dover  has  always 
been  in  the  possession  of  the  Wingate  family, 
having  been  handed  down  in  uninterrupted 
descent  to  the  sixth  generation,  almost  two 
hundred  and  fifty  years.  John  Wingate  paid 
attention  to  his  own  aiTairs  and  prospered, 
and  became  one  of  the  principal  land-holders 
of  Dover;  but  he  was  sometimes  in  the  public 
service,  and  was  grand  juror  and  selectman  in 
the  years  1674-86-87,  being  chairman  the  lat- 
ter year.  He  was  in  active  military  service 
in  1675,  the  year  which  King  Phillip's  war 
broke  out.     John  Wingate  died  December  9, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1687.  His  will,  made  in  the  spring  of  1684, 
was  proved  before  Judge  Barefoot,  March  23, 

1688.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Nutter, 
daughter  of  Hateville  Nutter  (See  Nutter  I). 
He  married  (second)  about  1676,  Sarah, 
widow  of  Thomas  Canny,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Taylor;  she  was  a  daughter  of  Anthony 
Taylor,  who  died  November  4,  1687,  aged 
eighty  years,  and  who  came  to  Hampton  prob- 
ably in  the  summer  of  1640;  Philippa,  his 
wife,  died  September  20,  1683.  John  Wingate 
had  five  chiklren  by  his  last  wife.  The  list  in 
full  is :  Anne,  John,  Caleb,  Moses,  Mary, 
Joshua  and  Abigail. 

(H)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  John  (1)  and 
Mary  (Nutter)  Wingate,  was  born  in  Dover 
Neck,  July  13,  1670,  and  died  in  1715.  He 
inherited  the  paternal  homestead  and  lived 
upon  it  all  his  life.  He  was  prominent  in 
military  afifairs.  When  a  little  under  fifty 
years  of  age  he  commanded  a  company  in  the 
expedition  against  Port  Royal,  but  whether  the 
first  or  second  expedition  is  not  certain.  The 
records  for  the  province  for  April  19,  171 1, 
show  that  "Captain  John  Wingett  was  al- 
lowed 249  pounds  5  shillings  9  pence  for  the 
muster  roll  of  the  company  under  his  com- 
mand upon  an  expedition  to  Port  Royal,"  and 
for  November  ig,  1712,  they  show  that  he 
was  allowed  13  pounds  9  shillings,  7  pence,  for 
muster  roll.  His  will,  made  December  28, 
1714,  was  probated  in  171 5.  He  gave  to  his 
sons,  Moses  and  Samuel,  "/\11  that  hundred 
acres  of  land  which  I  had  of  my  grandfather 
Nutler,  lying  neare  Mr.  Reyner's  farme."  The 
son  Edmund,  thirty  acres  granted  to  him  by 
the  town  "in  Barbadoes  Woods."  To  wife 
Ann,  and  eldest  son  John,  the  dwelling-house, 
farm,  orchards,  etc.,  and  Marsh  flats:  "my 
part  of  a  saw-mill  at  Tole  End,"  to  enable 
them  to  bring  up  my  small  children,  also  live 
stock,  household  goods,  ready  money,  debts 
and  so  forth.  To  his  daughters  five  pounds 
each.  Of  the  wife  of  John  we  know  only  her 
Christian  name,  which  was  Ann.  She  mar- 
ried (second)  December,  1725,  Captain  John 
Heard.  The  twelve  children  of  John  and  Ann 
Wingate  were:  Mary,  John,  Ann,  Sarah, 
Moses,  Samuel,  Edmond,  Abagail,  Elizabeth, 
Mehitable,  Joanna,  Simon,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 

(HI)  Simon,  twelfth  and  youngest  child  of 
John  (2)  and  Ann  Wingate,  was  born  at 
Dover  Neck,  September  2,  1713.  He  moved 
to  Biddeford,  Maine,  was  admitted  to  the  first 
church  of  that  town  October  17,  1742,  and 
became  a  deacon.  He  married  Lydia  Hill, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Abiel  (Snell)  Hill. 


She  was  admitted  to  the  first  church,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1744.  It  is  probable  that  she  married 
a  second  time,  September  29,  1774,  Captain 
Daniel  Stover.  Simon  and  Lydia  had  twelve 
children :     Anna,    Elizabeth,    Hannah,    Snell, 

Simon,  John,  Lydia,  Edmund,  ,  Lucy, 

Sarah  and  Susanna. 

(IV)  Snell,  eldest  son  of  Simon  and  Lydia 
(Hill)  Wingate,  was  baptized  February  3, 
1744.  He  settled  in  that  part  of  Buxton  now 
Buxton  Centre,  and  lived  and  died  in  a  house 
which  he  probably  built  on  lot  12,  range  D, 
of  the  third  division.  Fie  was  selectman  eleven 
years.  He  married  (first)  December  i,  1768, 
Margaret  Enjery,  of  Biddeford,  who  died  No- 
vemlDcr  29.  1783;  (second)  June,  1788,  Me- 
hitable Crocker,  of  Dunstable,  Massachusetts, 
widow  of  Elijah  Crocker,  a  sea  captain,  and 
sister  of  Solicitor-General  Daniel  Davis.  Snell 
Wingate  had  five  children  by  his  first  wife  and 
six  by  his  second  wife,  as  follows :  Molly, 
Samuel,  Daniel,  Abigail,  Simon,  Robert  Davis, 
Elijah  Crocker,  Snell,  Ansel,  Margaret  Em- 
ery, John,  next  mentioned. 

(V)  John  (3),  youngest  child  of  Snell  and 
Mehitable  (Crocker)  Wingate,  was  born  April 
28,  1788,  and  died  in  1859.  He  resided  in 
Gorham.  He  was  married  (first)  January  22, 
1821,  to  Salome  Small,  of  Buxton,  who  was 
born  December  10,  1802:  (second)  September 
22,  1829,  Widow  Sophia  Frost,  who  was  born 
September  5,  1799.  He  had  by  his  first  wife 
three  children  and  by  the  second  wife  eight: 
Ansel  D.,  Sarah  P.,  Maria  J.  H.,  Rebecca  I., 
Salome  S.,  Henry  F.,  James  I.  (died  young), 
James  I.,  Mary  G.,  Ellen  I.  and  John  P. 

(VI)  Maria  J.  H.,  third  child  of  John  (3) 
and  Salome  (Small)  Wingate,  was  born  No- 
vember 7,  1825.  and  married.  November  3, 
184S,  Leander  Stevens  (see  Stevens  V). 


It  is  generallv  supposed 
REYNOLDS  that  the  names  Runnels 
and  Reynolds  have  a  com- 
mon origin ;  and  many  branches  of  the  fam- 
ily with  the  former  spelling  have  changed  it 
to  the  latter  under  the  impression  that  Run- 
nells  is  but  a  corruption  of  Reynolds.  As- 
suming that  the  patronymics  are  identical,  no 
less  than  forty-nine  different  orthographies 
have  been  found  in  written  records.  Some  of 
the  most  noticeable  are  Runals,  Renels,  Ronals, 
Runils,  Renold,  Runolds,  Renls,  Roynalds, 
Ronels,  Reinolds.  Add  to  these  the  variations 
that  may  come  from  doubling  the  middle  let- 
ters n  and  1,  and  it  will  be  readily  seen  that 
a  multiplicity  of  forms  will  result. 

Rev.  Moses  T.  Runnels,  for  some  time  pas- 


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tor  of  the  Congregational  church  at  Sanborn- 
ton,  New  Hampshire,  is  incHned  to  favor  an 
independent  origin  of  the  two  principal  forms, 
Runnels  and  Reynolds.  He  has  devoted  much 
time  to  genealogical  research,  and  thinks  that 
Runnels  is  of  Scotch  origin,  and  that  Reynolds 
is  English  and  Irish.  Reynolds  is  generally 
admitted  to  have  been  derived  from  the  old 
German  Reginald,  or,  possibly,  the  old  Nor- 
wegian Ronald,  while  Runnels  is  thought  to 
have  been  taken  literally  from  the  Scotch 
term,  runnel,  meaning  a  small  brook  or  rivu- 
let. The  only  coat-of-arms  that  has  been 
found  has  for  its  principal  features :  "A  plate 
charged  with  a  rose,  gules,  barbed  and  seeded, 
between  two  fleurs  d  lys,  or.  Crest,  a  fox  pas- 
sant, or.  holding  in  its  mouth  a  rose,  as  in  the 
arms,  slipped  and  leaved,  vert.  Motto:  Mu- 
rus  Aheneus  Esto  (Let  him  be  a  wall  of 
brass).  Underneath  is  the  word  Runnells, 
and  on  the  back  of  the  document  is  the  state- 
ment :  "The  family  of  Runnells  is  originally 
from  the  town  of  Biddeford,  in  the  County  of 
Devon.  These  are  five  descents  in  Sir  Will- 
iam Seager's  visitation  in  1619."  Notwith- 
standing this  bit  of  heraldric  testimony.  Rev. 
M.  T.  Runnels  stoutly  maintains  the  Scotch 
origin  of  the  Runnels  name ;  and  perhaps  the 
armorial  bearings,  if  they  prove  anything, 
merely  emphasize  the  inextricable  confusion 
of  the  two  families  Runnels  and  Reynolds. 

Scarcely  any  name  is  more  numerously  rep- 
resented among  the  early  settlers  of  this  coun- 
try. Savage's  Genealogical  Dictionary  men- 
tions no  less  than  twenty-tw^o  as  being  heads 
of  families  in  New  England  prior  to  1690, 
most  of  whom  wrote  themselves  Reynolds, 
Renold  or  Renolds.  These  were  Richard, 
"passenger  1634";  John,  Watertown,  1634; 
Robert.  Watertown,  1635 ;  William,  Duxbury, 
1636:  William,  Providence,  1637;  William, 
Salem,  1640:  Henry,  Salem,  1642;  James, 
Plymouth,  1643;  John,  Isles  of  Shoals,  1647; 
Nathaniel,  Boston,  1657;  John,  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut, 1659;  John,  Weymouth,  1660;  Thom- 
as, New  London,  1664;  John,  Wcathersfield, 
1667;  Jonathan,  Stamford,  1667;  Robert,  Bos- 
ton, 1670;  John,  Josiah  and  Samuel,  Wick- 
ford,  1674;  John,  Providence,  1676;  Francis 
and  Henry,  Kingston,  Rhode  Island,  1686. 

(I)  Robert  Reynolds,  the  first  American 
ancestor  of  the  following  line,  was  born  in 
England  about  tlie  end  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury, but  the  exact  date  and  place  are  un- 
known. He  died  in  Boston,  April  27,  1659. 
He  is  known  to  have  been  located  in  that 
town  as  early  as  1632,  and  he  was  mentioned 
as  a  "shoemaker  and  freeman,   September  3, 


1634."  Soon  after  he  moved  to  the  neighbor- 
ing village  of  Watertown,  and  finally  migrated 
with  his  brother  John  to  Wcathersfield,  Con- 
necticut, being  dismissed  by  the  church,  March 

29,  1636,  to  form  a  church  at  Wcathersfield. 
He  soon  returned  to  Boston,  however,  and 
there  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  His 
wife's  first  name  was  Mary,  and  she  tlied  Jan- 
uary 18,  1663.  There  were  five  children,  all 
born  in  England :  Nathaniel,  whose  sketch 
follows;  Ruth,  married  John  Whitney;  Tabi- 
tha,  married  Matthew  Abdy ;  Sarah,  married 
Mason ;  Mary,  married  Richard  San- 
ger, or  Sawyer. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  only  son  of  Robert  and 
Mary  Reynolds,  was  born  in  England,  prob- 
ably about  1620,  and  died  at  Bristol,  Rhode 
Island,  July  10,  1708.  When  a  child  he  came 
to  this  country  with  his  people,  and  lived  in 
Boston  or  its  neighborhood  until  1680,  when 
he  moved  to  Bristol,  where  he  spent  the  last 
twenty-eight  years  of  his  life.  He  was  a  shoe- 
maker and  became  a  freeman  in  1665.  In  a 
record  dated  Chelmsford,  February  25,  1676, 
he  was  called  Captain  Nathaniel  Reynolds, 
probably  for  service  in  King  Philip's  war.  He 
was  recognized  in  the  first  town  meeting  at 
Bristol,  "and  became  one  of  the  principal  men 
of  that  town."  He  was  twice  married  and 
had  eleven  children  in  all,  three  by  the  first 
and  eight  by  the  second  wife.    On  November 

30,  1657,  Captain  Nathaniel  Reynolds  was 
united  in  marriage  by  Governor  John  Endi- 
cott  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Dwight,  of 
Dedham.  She  died  July  8,  1663,  leaving  three 
children :  Sarah,  born  July  26,  1659,  married 
John  Fosdick;  Mary,  November  20,  1660,  died 
"January  28,  1663,  aged  two  years  and  two 
months,  and  Nathaniel  (2),  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. Before  February  21,  1666,  Captain 
Nathaniel  Reynolds  married  his  second  wife, 
Priscilla  Brackett,  daughter  of  Peter  Brackett, 
"a  well-to-do  tradesman  of  Boston."  There 
were  eight  children  by  this  marriage:  John, 
August  4,  1668,  died  in  his  eighty-ninth  year, 
without  direct  heirs;  Peter,  January  26,  1670; 
Philip,  September  15,  1672,  died  previously  to 
1706;  Joseph,  January  9,  1677,  lived  to  be 
eighty-two  years  of  age;  Hannah.  January  15, 
1682,  married  Samuel  Rayall ;  Mary,  1684, 
married  Nathaniel  Woodbury;  Benjamin.  May 
10,  1686;  Ruth,  December  9,  1688,  married 
Josiah  Gary. 

(III)  Nathaniel  (2),  only  son  of  Captain 
Nathaniel  (i)  and  his  first  wife.  Sarah 
(Dwight)  Reynolds,  was  born  March  3,  1662- 
63,  probably  in  the  neighborhood  of  Boston, 
and  died  October  29,  1719,  probably  at  Bristol, 


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Rhode  Island.  His  wife's  name  is  said  to 
have  been  Ruth,  and  it  is  thought  that  there 
were  seven  children,  of  whom  the  names  of 
two  only  are  recorded:  Nathaniel  (3),  whose 
sketch  follows ;  John,  born  March  29,  1696. 

(IV)  Nathaniel  (3),  son  of  Nathaniel  (2) 
and  Ruth  Reynolds,  was  born  September  11, 
1689,  probably  at  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  and 
died  in  Boston  in  1740.  He  came  from  Bristol 
to  Boston  in  1735,  and  owned  a  store  there. 
In  1 71 2  Nathaniel  (3)  Reynolds  married 
Mary  Snell,  and  they  had  two  sons ;  Nathaniel, 
born  1716-17,  and  Thomas,  mentioned  below. 
After  the  early  death  of  Nathaniel  (3)  Rey- 
nolds his  widow  moved  to  North  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts,  taking  her  two  sons  with  her. 

(V)  Thomas,  younger  of  the  two  sons  of 
Nathaniel  (3)  and  ]\Iary  (Snell)  Reynolds, 
was  born  March  19,  1718,  probably  at  Bristol, 
Rhode  Island,  and  died  in  1775,  probably  at 
Bridgewater,  Massachusetts.  On  November 
3,  1748,  Thomas  Reynolds  married  Elizabeth 
Turner,  and  raised  up  a  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren, probably  at  North  Bridgewater :  Amy, 
born  October  29,  1749,  died  May  9,  1752;  Jo- 
seph, whose  sketch  follows :  Amy,  February 
25,  1753,  married  Silas  Dunbar;  Elizabeth, 
June  22,  1755;  Susanna,  April  24,  1757,  mar- 
ried Oliver  Howard ;  Martha,  March  23, 
1759.  married  Parmenas  Packard ;  Thomas, 
January  27.  1762.  married  Tabitha  Thayer, 
1785;  Josiah,  July  i,  1766,  married  a  Phillips 
and  moved  to  Vermont. 

(VI)  Joseph,  elder  son  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Turner)  Reynolds,  was  born  June 
22,  1751,  at  North  Bridgewater,  Massachu- 
setts, but  the  date  of  his  death  is  unknown, 
though  it  probably  occurred  in  Maine,  where 
he  moved  in  early  life.  On  September  17, 
1772,  Joseph  Reynolds  married  Jemima  Per- 
kins, and  they  had  eleven  children :  Ichabod, 
whose  sketch  follows;  Joseph,  Daniel,  Simeon, 
Azel,  Thomas,  Olive,  who  married  a  Macom- 
ber ;  Amy,  married  a  Howard ;  Vesta,  married 
a  Clapp :  Susanna  and  Jemima. 

(VII)  Captain  Ichabod,  eldest  son  of  Jo- 
seph and  Jemima  (Perkins)  Reynolds,  was 
born  at  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts,  March 
27.  1773.  au'l  flied  at  Auburn,  Maine,  April 
3,  1855.  On  January  21,  1796,  he  married 
at  Bridgewater,  Polly  Brett,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Priscilla  (Jackson)  Brett,  who  was  born 
at  Bridgewater,  March  i,  1777,  and  died  at 
Auburn,  Maine,  May  19,  1866.  She  was 
seventh  in  descent  from  John  and  Priscilla 
(]\Iullins)  Alden,  who  are  among  the  most 
famous  of  the  "Mavflower"  Pilgrims  (Alden 
VII).      Captain    Ichabod   and   Polly    (Brett) 


Reynolds  moved  to  Minot,  ]\Iaine,  where  they 
had  eleven  children:  Otis,  Ichabod  (2),  men- 
tioned below ;  Madison,  Luke,  Samuel  L.,. 
Adoniram  J.,  Polly,  who  married  a  Kinsley; 
Nancy,  married  a  Bird ;  Betsy,  married  a  Far- 
rington ;  Clara,  married  a  Kinsley ;  Laura, 
married  Franklin  Reynolds. 

(VIII)  Ichabod  (2),  second  son  of  Captain 
Ichabod  (i)  and  Polly  (Brett)  Reynolds,  was 
born  at  Minot,  Maine,  August  7,  1804,  and 
died  at  Bethel,  Maine,  June  26,  1867.  On 
January  17,  1831,  he  married  Laura  Ann 
Woodman,  daughter  of  Jacob  Woodman,  who 
was  born  at  Minot,  Maine,  December  4,  1810,, 
and  died  at  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  May  13, 
1881.  They  had  three  children:  Roscoe  Clin- 
ton, whose  sketch  follows :  Franklin  O.,  of 
]\lichigan;  Julia  E.,  married  E.  M.  Bartlett,  a 
minister,  with  charge  at  Brandon,  Vermont. 

(IX)  Roscoe  Clinton,  son  of  Ichabod  (2) 
and  Laura  A.  (Woodman)  Reynolds,  was  born 
at  Windsor,  ]\Iaine.  February  24,  1838.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lew'is- 
ton  and  at  Lew^iston  Falls  Academy.  In  1854, 
JNIichigan ;  Julia  E.,  married  E.  M.  Bartlett,  a 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  learned  the  machin- 
ist's trade,  and  in  1857  became  master  me- 
chanic at  Bates  Mills,  Lewiston,  where  he  re- 
mained for  thirteen  years.  He  went  from 
there  to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
filled  a  similar  position  in  the  Everett  Mills 
for  five  years.  Returning  to  Lewiston,  he  be- 
came agent  of  the  Lewiston  Machine  Com- 
pany, which  position  he  held  for  twenty-four 
years.  In  1900  he  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness, to  enjoy  a  well-earned  leisure.  Mr. 
Reynolds  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  has 
taken  as  active  a  part  in  city  affairs  as  busi- 
ness interests  would  allow.  In  1870-71-78  he 
was  a  member  of  the  common  council.  an<i  in 
1883  he  was  president  of  that  body.  In  1885 
he  was  elected  alderman,  and  in  1871  was 
representative  to  the  legislature ;  he  was  city 
marshal  in  1871.  In  1895  he  was  made  a 
member  of  the  board  of  water  commissioners,, 
again  in  1901  and  again  in  1907.  ]\Ir.  Reyn- 
olds attends  the  Universalist  church,  and  be- 
longs to  the  Masons,  the  Mystic  Shriners  and 
to  the  Knights  Templar.  On  January  10, 
i860,  Roscoe  Clinton  Reynolds  married  Cath- 
erine Gilmore,  daughter  of  John  Francis  and 
Betsey  (Cushman)  Gilmore,  wdio  was  born  at 
Leeds,  Maine,  February  ig,  1840.  Mrs.  Cath- 
erine (Cilmore)  Reynolds  is  seventh  in  de- 
scent from  Captain  Miles  Standish,  of  Dux- 
bury.  (See  Standish.  ATI.)  They  have  one 
son,  George  F.,  mentioned  below. 

(X)  George  F.,  only  child  of  Roscoe  Clin- 


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ton  and  Catherine  (Gilmore)  Reynolds,  was 
born  at  Lewiston,  March  28,  1865.  On  April 
26,  1888,  he  married  Martha  L.  Holland,  of 
Lewiston.  They  have  two  children :  Roscoe 
Clinton,  born  January  4,  1893,  and  Katherine 
G.,  March  29,  1901. 


In  Lancashire,  England, 
STANDISH  there  stands  a  stately  Stand- 
ish  Hall  inherited  by  a  fam- 
ily which  has  been  there  since  the  Norman 
Conquest.  If  we  may  accept  the  history  pre- 
served of  their  exploits,  they  were  distin- 
guished mainly  as  soldiers.  Under  Richard 
n,  a  John  Standish  was  knighted  for  hav- 
ing stabbed  the  fallen  Wat  Tyler  after  the 
mayor  had  struck  him  from  his  horse.  "Stand- 
v\cich"  is  the  spelling  in  Froissart,  where  the 
story  is  told,  and  he  is  said  to  have  been  one 
of  the  king's  squires,  being  created  knight  ap- 
parently on  that  very  day,  and  being  sent  as 
one  of  three  to  parley  with  the  rioters  at 
Smithfield,  near  London.  Sir  Ralph  Standish 
fought  at  Agincourt  under  Henry  V  in  the 
wars  against  France.  Sixty-seven  years  later 
Alexander  Standish  was  knighted  for  bravery 
in  Scotland.  Still  later,  Ralph  Standish  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
and  lost  his  estate  for  rebellion  against  the 
Crown  in  supporting  the  Pretender. 

There  were  two  branches  of  the  Standish 
family,  one  living  at  Standish  Hall,  the  other 
at  Duxbury  Hall.  At  the  Reformation  the 
two  separated,  the  Standish  Hall  family  re- 
maining Romanists,  while  the  Duxbury 
branch  became  Protestants.  It  is  believed 
that  IMyles  Standish,  the  great  Puritan  cap- 
tain, belonged  to  the  Protestant  branch,  since 
he  named  his  home  in  America  Duxbury.  Yet 
in  his  will  he  says  that  he  is  a  great-grandson 
of  a  younger  brother  from  the  house  of  Stand- 
ish, and  he  bequeaths  the  title  to  these  vast 
estates  to  his  eldest  son.  The  rent-roll  of 
these  lands  is  half  a  million  yearly,  and  to 
defeat  the  claim  of  his  line,  it  is  supposed  that 
the  page  containing  the  parish  record  of  his 
birth  was  fraudulently  defaced. 

(I)  Captain  Myles  Standish  was  born  about 
1584  in  the  parish  of  Chorley,  Lancashire, 
England,  which  would  indicate  his  belonging 
to  Duxbury  Hall,  since  this  is  between  Stand- 
ish Hall  and  the  Chorley  parish  church.  It  is 
probable  that  his  lands  were  "surreptitiously 
detained"  from  him :  at  least  that  is  what  his 
will  says ;  so  we  may  believe  that  he  began  life 
without  any  considerable  property.  We  know 
nothing  of  his  history  till  we  find  him  commis- 
sioned a  lieutenant  among  the  troops  sent  over 


by  Queen  Elizabeth  to  help  the  Dutch  to  main- 
tain their  cause  against  the  Spanish.  It  is  not 
known  just  how  he  happened  to  cast  in  his 
fortunes  with  the  Pilgrims ;  but  it  is  probable 
that  when  the  English  refugees  came  to  Ley- 
den  they  made  the  acquaintance  of  the  captain. 
At  all  events  he  became  the  shield  and  defense 
of  our  Forefathers,  coming  over  in  the  first 
ship,  the  "Mayflower,"  in  1620.  He  lived  in 
Plymouth  till  1639.  when  he  moved  to  the 
northern  part  of  the  harbor  at  Duxbury,  and 
died  there  October  3,  1556,  aged  seventy-two. 
Myles  Standish  was  an  original  proprietor  of 
Bridgewater,  and  a  principal  member  of  the 
committee  who  purchased  the  plantation  from 
Massasoit,  the  Indian  sachem,  in  1649.  Cap- 
tain Myles  Standish  brought  with  him  his  wife 
Rose  who  could  not  endure  the  rigors  of  the 
New  England  cHmate,  and  died  a  month  after 
the  arrival  of  the  "Mayflower,"  January  29, 
1621.  His  second  wife  was  named  Barbara, 
and  it  is  thought  that  she  came  over  in  the  sec- 
ond ship  in  1621.  They  had  six  children: 
Alexander,  mentioned  below ;  Miles,  Josiah, 
Charles,  Lora  and  John.  Lora  died  before  her 
father,  and  John  died  young.  Miles  Standish 
lived  and  died  at  tiie  foot  of  the  hill  in  Dix- 
bury,  named  after  him  "Captain  Hill !" 

(II)  Alexander,  son  of  Captain  Myles  and 
Barbara  Standish,  was  born  at  Duxbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, in  1635,  and  died  at  the  sarne  place 
in  1702.  He  lived  on  the  paternal  estate  at 
the  foot  of  Captain's  Hill,  and  was  made  a 
freeman  in  1648.  Like  his  father,  he  was  twice 
married.  The  first  wife  of  Ale.xander  Standish 
was  Sarah  Alden,  daughter  of  John  and  Pris- 
cilla  (Mullins)  Alden,  who  was  born  at  Dux- 
bury in  1625,  and  died  there  in  1687.  (See 
Alden  I.)  They  had  seven  children:  Miles, 
Ebenezer,  whose  sketch  follows ;  Lorah,  mar- 
ried Abraham  Sampson ;  Lydia,  married  Isaac 
Sampson;  Mercy,  married  Caleb  Sampson; 
Sarah,  married  Benjamin  Soule ;  and  Eliza- 
beth, married  Samuel  Delano.  The  second 
wife  of  Alexander  Standish  was  a  woman 
whose  maiden  name  was  Desire  Doten ;  but 
when  she  married  Standish,  she  had  already 
been  twice  a  widow,  first  of  William  Sherman 
and  second  of  Israel  Holmes.  The  children 
of  Alexander  and  Desire  (Doten)  (Sherman) 
(Holmes)  Standish  were  three;  Thomas,  born 
in  1687;  Ichabod,  married  Phebe  Ring;  and 
Desire,  married  a  Weston. 

(Ill)  Ebenezer,  second  son  of  Alexander 
and  his  first  wife,  Sarah  (Alden)  Standish, 
was  born  at  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1672, 
and  died  at  the  same  place,  March  9,  1755. 
He  married  at  Plymouth,  Hannah  Sturtevant, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


who  was  burn  in  that  town,  January  8,  1687, 
and  (lied  at  Duxbury,  January  23,  1759. 
They  had  seven  children :  Ebenezer,  Zechariah, 
Moses,  Hannah,  Zeruiah,  mentioned  below, 
Sarah  and  Mercy. 

(IV)  Zeruiah,  second  daughter  of  Ebene- 
zer and  Hannah  (Sturtevant)  Standish,  was 
born  at  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  January  7, 
1707 ;  the  date  and  place  of  her  death  are  un- 
known. On  May  20,  1724,  she  was  married 
to  Andrew  Ring,  who  was  born  at  Plymouth, 
March  28,  1695,  and  died  at  North  Yarmouth, 
Maine,  November  17,  1744.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Sarah,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Sarah  Ring,  daughter  of  Andrew  and 
Zeruiah  (Standish)  Ring,  was  born  at  Ply- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  September  2,  1737,  and 
died  at  South  Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  June 
22,  1809.  She  married  Isaiah  Cushman,  who 
was  born  February  2,  1730,  and  died  at  Upper 
Canada,  November  2,  1818.  Among  their 
children  was  Andrew,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Andrew  Cushman,  son  of  Isaiah  and 
Sarah  (Ring)  Cushman,  was  born  at  Plymp- 
ton,  Massachusetts,  January  6,  1761,  and  died 
at  Leeds,  Maine,  February  6,  1844.  On  July 
2,  1788.  he  married  at  Winthrop,  Maine,  Bath- 
sheba  Jennings,  who  was  born  at  Sandwich, 
Massachusetts,  August  12,  1769,  and  died  at 
Leeds,  Maine,  May  12,  1842.  Among  their 
children  was  Betsy,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Betsey  Cushman  was  born  at  Leeds, 
Maine,  January  11,  1814,  and  died  at  Lewiston, 
Maine,  September  25,  1894.  On  May  i,  1839, 
she  was  married  at  Leeds  to  John  Francis 
Gilmore,  who  was  born  at  North  Easton,  Mas- 
sachusetts, May  10,  1816,  and  died  at  Leeds, 
November  2,  1845.  Their  daughter  was  Cath- 
erine Gilmore,  who  was  born  at  Leeds,  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1840,  and  was  married  at  Auburn, 
Maine,  January  10,  i860,  to  Roscoe  Clinton 
Reynolds.     (See  Reynolds,  IX.) 


This  is  a  name  of  Teutonic-Scan- 
ALDEN     dinavian   origin,   being  found   in 

Holland,  Germany,  Denmark  and 
Sweden  under  such  forms  as  Van  Alden,  Aul- 
den  and  Auldine.  The  prefix  "al"  or  "el" 
in  Anglo-Saxon  meant  brave,  strong,  noble, 
illustrious — as  in  Albert,  "the  nobly  bright." 
"Dene"  is  an  old  spelling  for  the  word  Dane ; 
hence  we  have  Alden,  the  brave  or  noble  Dane. 
This  does  not  necessarily  imply  that  the  an- 
cestral Aldens  were  natives  of  Denmark,  be- 
cause the  term  was  applied  in  a  general  way  to 
inhabitants  of  the  northwestern  portion  of 
Europe ;  and  even  our  Saxon  forefathers  some- 


times called   themselves  Danes   in   very  early 
times. 

In  England  the  name  of  Alden  was  wide- 
spread at  the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest  in 
1066.  In  the  Domesday  Book,  the  Conquer- 
or's census  taken  1086,  Aldens  and  Aldines 
are  recorded  in  nearly  all  of  the  eastern  coun- 
tries from  Hertfordshire  north  to  York.  Many 
of  them  are  entered  as  "tenants  in  capite," 
that  is,  as  holding  lands  directly  from  the 
king.  It  is  apparent  from  these  records  that 
many  Aldens  were  men  of  importance  and 
long  establishment  in  England  under  the  Sax- 
on rule.  There  are  several  coats-of-arms 
connected  with  the  Alden  name,  but  none  of 
them  is  of  ancient  date.  The  earliest  of  which 
we  have  any  record  was  granted  to  John  Al- 
den of  the  Middle  Temple  in  1607.  Guillim's 
"Display  of  Heraldry,"  published  in  1610, 
speaks  of  it  as  follows:  "He  beareth  Gules, 
three  Crescents  within  a  Bordure  engrail'd  Er- 
mine by  the  name  of  Alden."  Another  work 
gives  the  crest ;  "Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  per 
pale,  gules  and  sable,  a  demi-lion,  or."  The 
three  crescents  and  the  demi-lion  seem  to  be^ 
the  constant  features  in  armorial  bearings  of 
this  name,  though  one  Alden  coat  has  two 
bats'  wings,  both  on  the  shield  and  on  the 
crest. 

No  name  among  the  early  settlers  of  this 
country  is  associated  with  more  romance  than 
that  of  John  Alden ;  and  according  to  one 
writer,  "No  Pilgrim  blood  has  percolated 
further  through  American  society  than  that  of 
Alden."  Large  families  have  been  the  rule, 
and  it  is  estimated  that  a  complete  genealogy 
of  the  descendants  of  John  and  Priscilla  Al- 
den would  contain  at  least  thirty  thousand 
names.  The  first  President  Adams  was  a 
g'-eat-great-grandson,  through  John  Alden's 
daughter  Ruth,  who  married  John  Bass.  Long- 
fellow traced  his  descent  through  John  Al- 
den's eldest  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  married  a 
Paybodie.  Bryant  was  descended  through 
Anna  (Alden)  Snell,  daughter  of  Zachariah 
Alden,  a  younger  son  of  John.  Many  bearing 
the  Alden  name  have  done  good  w^ork  in  the 
professions,  notably  the  ministry,  and  in  vari- 
ous literary  avocations,  among  them  Mrs.  Isa- 
bella Alden,  better  known  as  "Pansy,"  Dr. 
Joseph  Alden,  editor  of  Bryant's  works,  and 
his  son,  William  L.  Alden.  But  the  most  un- 
usual career  of  all  was  that  followed  by  Gen- 
eral Tom  Thumb,  who,  although  his  real  name 
was  Charles  S.  Stratton,  had  Alden  blood  in 
his  veins. 

(I)   John  Alden,  the  Pilgrim,  was  born  in 


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England  in  1599,  and  died  at  Duxbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, September  22,  1687.  He  came  to 
America  in  the  "Mayflower,"  which  landed  at 
Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  December  22,  1620. 
Governor  Bradford  wrote  of  him:  "John  Al- 
den  was  hired  for  a  cooper,  at  South  Hampton, 
where  the  ship  victualed ;  and  being  a  hopeful 
young  man,  was  much  desired,  but  left  to  his 
owne  liking  to  go  or  stay  when  he  came  here ; 
but  he  stayed,  and  maryed  here."  From  the 
very  beginning  he  seems  to  have  been  one  of 
the  most  useful  men  in  the  colony.  As  early 
as  1627  his  name  appears  as  one  of  the  eight 
"Undertakers"  who  bought  out  the  "Adven- 
turers," and  assumed  the  financial  responsibili- 
ties and  indebtedness  of  the  colony.  From 
1640  to  1650,  almost  continuously,  he  was 
deputy  froin  the  town  of  Duxbury  to  the  Co- 
lonial councils,  and  in  1665  he  was  styled 
deputy  governor.  It  is  probable  that  John  Al- 
den  and  Priscilla  Mulliness  (also  written  Mul- 
lens and  Mullins)  were  married  late  in  162 1 
or  early  in  the  following  year.  Her  father, 
William  Mullines,  and  his  wife  and  their  son 
Joseph,  all  of  Priscilla's  family,  died  within  a 
few  months  after  the  landing,  and  she  was  left 
without  kin  in  the  new  world.  The  Alden- 
Mnllines  marriage  must  have  been  one  of  the 
first  to  take  place  in  the  colony,  because  their 
eldest  child  Elizabeth  was  the  first  white  fe- 
male born  on  New  England  soil.  John  and 
Priscilla  (Mullines)  Alden  had  eleven  children 
in  all.  Elizabeth,  born  1623-24;  Captain  John, 
1626;  Joseph,  whose  sketch  follows;  Sarah, 
1629;  Jonathan,  1632-33;  Ruth,  1634-35;  Re- 
becca, about  1637;  Priscilla;  Zachariah,  about 
1641 ;  Mary,  about  1643  !  David,  about  1646. 

Elizabeth,  the  eldest  child,  married  William 
Paybodie  on  December  26,  1644,  and  after  liv- 
ing forty  years  in  Duxbury,  they  moved  to 
Little  Compton,  Rhode  Island,  their  final  home. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Alden)  Paybodie  lived  to  be 
linety-two,  and  saw  her  own  granddaughter 
Bradford  with  a  grandchild.  It  was  this  hap- 
Dening  which  gave  rise  to  the  well-known 
:ouplet : 

"Rise,    daughter,   to   thy    daughter  run  : 
Thy  daughter's  daughter  hath  a  son!" 

Captain  John  Alden  probably  had  the  most  in- 
:eresting  career  of  any  of  the  children.  He 
noved  to  Boston  where  he  became  master  of 
I  merchantman,  and  for  many  years  comman- 
ler  of  the  armed  vessel  belonging  to  the  Col- 
ony of  Massachusetts  Bay,  which  supplied  the 
Maine  posts  with  provisions  and  stores.  Dur- 
ng  the  witchcraft  craze,  Alden  was  one  of 
hose  accused,  and  he  was  imprisoned  in  Bos- 


ton, but  made  his  escape  after  he  had  been 
confined  fifteen  weeks.  Plis  gravestone  is  one 
of  three  preserved  under  the  portico  of  the 
New  Old  South  Church  in  Boston  ;  he  was  a 
charter  member  of  that  organization.  Sarah, 
the  second  daughter  of  John  and  Priscilla  Al- 
den, married  Alexander  Standish,  son  of  Cap- 
tain Myles  and  Barbara  Standish,  thus  accom- 
plishing the  union  of  the  two  families,  and 
bringing  about  a  sort  of  poetic  justice,  and 
possibly  reconciling  the  doughty  captain  to  his 
loss  of  Priscilla  years  before.  ( See  Standish 
II.)  Ruth  Alden,  the  third  daughter,  mar- 
ried John  Bass.  The  old  record  reads:  "12 
mo.  3d.  1657,  John  Bass  and  Ruth  Aulden 
were  married  by  Mr.  John  Aulden  of  Dux- 
bury." They  had  seven  children :  John, 
Samuel,  Ruth,  Joseph,  Hannah,  Mary  and 
Sarah.  Hannah,  the  second  daughter  of  John 
and  Ruth  (Alden)  Bass,  was  married  to  Jo- 
seph Adams,  of  Braintree,  and  became  the 
grandmother  of  President  John  Adams. 

(II)  Joseph,  second  son  of  John  and  Pris- 
cilla (Mullines)  Alden,  was  born  at  Plymouth. 
Massachusetts,  in  1627,  and  died  at  Bridge- 
water,  that  state,  February  8,  1697.  He  was 
named  after  Priscilla's  brother,  one  of  the  first 
victims  of  that  fatal  winter  following  the 
landing  of  the  Pilgrims.  Joseph  Alden  moved 
to  Bridgewater  in  1679,  where  he  held  lands 
deeded  him  by  his  father.  He  seems  to  have 
been  a  man  of  good  repute,  and  was  often 
elected  to  local  office.  In  1659  he  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Moses  Simmons,  and  of 
this  marriage  were  born  five  children:  Isaac, 
Joseph,  John,  Elizabeth  and  Mary. 

(III)  Isaac,  eldest  child  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Simmons)  Alden,  was  born  at  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts,  in  1660.  On  December 
2,  1685,  he  married  Mehitable  Allen,  who  was 
born  at  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  January  20, 
1685.  They  had  nine  children:  Mehitable, 
Sarah,  mentioned  below,  Mary,  Isaac,  Ebene- 
zer,  John,  Mercy,  Abigail  and  Jemima. 

(IV)  Sarah,  second  child  of  Isaac  and  Me- 
hitable (Allen)  Alden,  was  born  at  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts,  September  24,  1688.  On 
October  13,  1712,  she  was  married  in  that  town 
to  Seth  Brett,  who  was  born  at  Bridgewater, 
February  24,  1688,  and  died  there  January  \\, 
1722.  Among  their  children  was  Samuel,  men- 
tioned below. 

(V)  Samuel,  son  of  Seth  and  Sarah  (Al- 
den) Brett,  was  born  at  Bridgewater,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  22,  1714,  and  died  at  the 
same  place,  March  7,  1807.  He  married  Han- 
nah Packard,   December  21,    1737,   who  was 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


born  at  Bridgewater,  March  i8,  1718,  and  died 
there  February  14,  1802.  Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Isaac,  mentioned  below. 

(\T)  Isaac,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 
(Packard)  Brett,  was  born  at  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts,  September  19,  1738,  and  on 
January  17,  1765,  married  Priscilla  Jackson  of 
that  town.  Among  their  children  was  Polly, 
mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Polly,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Pris- 
cilla (Jackson)  Brett,  was  born  at  Bridgewa- 
ter, March  i,  1777,  and  died  at  Auburn,  Maine, 
May  19,  1866.  She  was  married  at  Bridge- 
water,  January  21,  1796,  to  Captain  Ichabod 
Reynolds,  who  was  born  at  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts,  March  2-j,  1773,  and  died  at 
Auburn,  Maine,  April  3,  1855.  (See  Rey- 
nolds, VII.) 


The  Worthies  of  England  of 
GLOVER  this  name  are  legion.  Anciently 
written  Glofre,then  Glove  in  the 
middle  of  the  fourteenth  century,  and  since  that 
time  the  name  appears  only  as  Glover.  The 
proverbial  carelessness  of  New  England  clerks 
and  recorders  sometimes  have  it  written 
Glouer.  As  to  Christian  names,  William  and 
John  predominated  in  the  middle  of  the  four- 
teenth century.  Sheriffs,  gentlemen,  heralds 
and  heraldic  writers,  vicars,  church-wardens, 
Robert  the  Martyr,  heretics,  authors,  knights, 
•  attorney s-at-law,  poets,  merchants,  members 
of  parliament,  benefactors,  aldermen,  have 
dignified  and  made  historical  the  name  of 
Glover,  and  America  has  not  been  lacking  in 
men  bearing  the  name  who  won  honor  and 
renown  in  the  New  World.  The  father  of 
the  earliest  immigrant  of  the  name  in  Amer- 
ica was  Thomas  Glover,  tanner,  of  Rainhill 
Parish,  Prescot,  Lancashire,  England,  and  his 
mother  was  Margery,  daughter  of  John 
Deane,  of  Rainhill.  They  had  eleven  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  i.  Ellen,  born  1595,  married 
William  Barnes.  2.  and  3.  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (twins),  born  and  died  July  27,  1599.  4- 
John    (q.   v.),   August    12,    1600.      5.    Henry, 

February    15,    1603,   married   Abigail  , 

and  came  to  New  England  1640.  6.  Annie, 
born  and  died  1605.  7.  Thomas,  1609,  mar- 
ried Deborah  Rigby,  of  Cranston,  November 
24,  1664.  8.  William,  1609,  married  Mary 
Bolton,  of  Rainhill,   1664.     9.  George,   161 1, 

married   Margaret  .      10.   Jane,    1612, 

married Watts.  11.  Peter,  161 5,  mar- 
ried     .      Thomas,    the    father,    died    at 

Rainhill,  December  13,   1619. 

(I)   John,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and  Mar- 
gery   (Deane)    Glover,   was   baptized   in   the 


church    of    Rainhill     Parish,     Prescot,    Lan- 
cashire.  England,   August    12,    1600.     He   in- 
herited   large    estates    in    Rainhill,    Eccleston, 
Knowlsbury    and   other   parishes    in    England 
when  but  nineteen  years  of  age,  and  he  was 
made    an    executor    of    his    father's    will,   his 
mother  being  executrix.     He  lived  on  his  es- 
tates, and  in  1625  married  and  three  children 
were  born  to  him  by  his  wife  Anna,  the  last 
in    1629.     He  was  a  member  of  the  London 
Company   formed  in   England  in   1628  to  en- 
courage the  early  planting  of  New  England. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  London,  and 
held    the    rank   of    captain   of   that   venerable 
company.     He  was  also  in  fellowship  with  a 
lodge  of  Free   Masons   in  London,   and   was 
sometimes  called  "the  Worshipful  Mr.  Glov- 
er."    His  name  appears  in  1628  as  one  of  the 
eighteen  adventurers  who  subscribed  £2,150  to 
the  stock  of  the  Adventurers  for  a  plantation 
intended  at  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  Eng- 
land in  America,"  his  share  being  £50.     The 
gentlemen  who  composed  this  company,  headed 
by    Sir    Richard    Saltonstall,    Knight,    were 
strictly  Non-conformists  and  were  styled  Puri- 
tans.    They  set   themselves  apart  for  a  holy 
work — that  of  planting  a  colony  for  religious 
growth  and  freedom.     Mr.  John  Glover  took 
passage  with  the  other  members  of  the  Dor- 
chester company  in  the    "Mary    and    John," 
which  sailed  from  England,  March  20,  1629- 
30,    and    the    vessel    was    under   command   of 
Captain  Squeb  Jr.,  probably  arrived  at  Nan- 
tucket,   May   31,    1630,    where    the    first   pas- 
sengers were  put  ashore,   although   they  had 
the  promise  of  the  captain   to   land  them   at 
Charles  Towne.     Here   some  took  boats  and 
proceeded  to  their  original  destination,  while 
others  made  their  way  to  the   Indian  planta- 
tion called  by  them   Mattapan,  which  is  now 
known  as  Dorchester  Neck,  antl  about  June  i 
commenced  a  settlement  and  called  the  place 
Dorchester   Plantation.      Mr.   Glover   brought 
over  with  him  a  great  number  of  cattle,  pro- 
visions  and    implements,    and     several    men- 
servants  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  tan- 
nery, as  the  company  required  each  member 
to  establish  some   trade  on   his  estate.     This 
business  he  subsequently  transferred  to  Bos- 
ton,   where   he   was     succeeded    by    his    son 
Hobackuk.      He    had    been    made    a    freeman 
before   he   left   England,   accompanied  by   his 
wife   Anna  and  three  children,   the   youngest 
but  one  year  old.     He  was  a  selectman  of  the 
town  of  Dorchester,  1636-50,  a  representative 
in  the  general   court   from   1636  to    1652,  an 
assistant  1652-53,  a  commissioner  to  end  small 


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1215 


causes  1646-47,  and  he  was  appointed  to  im- 
portant duties  by  the  general  court  outside 
the  towns  of  Dorchester  and  Boston,  he  hav- 
ing "sat  at  judgment"  in  Salem,  Charles- 
town  and  Cambridge,  Massachusetts  Bay  Col- 
ony, and  he  also  rendered  valuable  service  in 
council  in  cases  requiring  judicial  knowledge 
at  Barnstable  and  other  places  in  Plymouth 
Colony.  He  died  at  his  home  in  the  town  of 
Boston,  February  11,  1653.  The  children  of 
John  and  Anna  Glover  were:  i.  Thomas,  born 
in  Rainhill  Parish,  Prescot,  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, January  8,  1627,  married,  in  1682,  Re- 
becca, her  father's  name  being  unknown.  2. 
Hobackuk,  May  13,  1628,  married  Hannah 
Eliot,  of  Roxbury.  3.  John,  October  11,  1629, 
married  Elizabeth  Franklin,  of  Ipswich,  in 
1688.  4.  Nathaniel  (q.  v.).  5.  Pelatiah,  No- 
vember, 1637,  married  Hannah  CuUick.  of 
Boston. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  the  fourth  son  of  John,  im- 
migrant, and  Anna  Glover,  was  born  in 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  in 
1630-31,  died  in  Dorchester,  May  21,  1657. 
He  succeeded  to  the  homestead  at  Dorchester 
when  his  father  removed  to  Boston  in  1652, 
and  the  same  year  he  was  married  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Quartermaster  John  and  Mary 
(Ryder)  Smith,  of  Toxteth  Park,  England, 
immigrants  to  Dorchester,  Massachusetts. 
Nathaniel  Glover  was  admitted  as  a  freeman 
upon  taking  the  oath  May  3,  1654.  was  a  se- 
lectman of  the  town  of  Dunbarton,  1656-57. 
The  children  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Smith) 
Glover,  all  born  in  Dorchester,  were:  i.  Na- 
thaniel (q.  v.),  March  30,  1653.  2.  John, 
F'ebruary  15,  1654.  3.  Anne,  1656,  married 
William  Rawson,  of  Boston.  Nathaniel  Glo- 
ver Sr.  died  in  Dorchester,  May  21,  1657,  and 
his  widow  married,  March  2,  1659-60,  Hon. 
Thomas  Hinckley,  of  Barnstable,  who  was 
subsequently  made  governor  of  Plymouth 
Colony,  and  by  this  marriage  she  had :  Mercy, 
Experience,  John,  Abigail,  Thankful,  Ebe- 
nezer  and  Reliance  Hinckley,  who  all  grew 
up  and  married  during  her  lifetime,  except 
Ebenezer.  who  married  after  her  death,  which 
occurred  July  29,  1703,  in  the  seventy-third 
year  of  her  age. 

(III)  Nathaniel  (2),  the  eldest  .son  of  Na- 
thaniel (i)  and  Mary  (Smith)  Glover,  was 
born  in  Dorchester,  Alassachusetts,  March  30, 
1653.  In  1660  he  was  placed  under  the  guar- 
dianship of  his  uncle  Hobackuk  Glover,  of 
Boston,  who  succeeded  his  mother  at  the  time 
of  her  marriage  to  Governor  Hinckley,  and 
removal  to  Braintree.  He  attended  school  in 
Boston    and   boarded    v\ith    his   grandmother. 


Mrs.  Anna  Glover,  and  after  her  decease 
with  his  uncle  and  guardian.  In  1672-73,  at 
the  age  of  twenty,  married  Hannah  Hinckley, 
fourth  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  Hinck- 
ley by  his  first  wife,  Mary  Richards,  grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  and  Welthea  (Loring) 
Richards,  early  settlers  of  Weymouth.  He 
carried  on  the  business  of  tanning  which  he 
inherited  and  which  had  been  carried  on  by 
father  and  grandfather  since  1631.  In  1700 
he  resigned  the  business  to  his  eldest  son, 
Nathaniel  Jr.,  and  the  next  year  removed 
with  his  family  to  the  Newbury  Farm  estate 
in  Dorchester,  which  he  partly  inherited  and 
partly  owned  by  deed  of  gift  from  his  uncle, 
John  Glover.  With  his  wife  Hannah  he  was 
received  in  the  church  at  Dorchester  by  own- 
ing the  covenant  on  "the  second  day  of  the 
eighth  month,  1677,"  and  served  the  town 
first  as  constable  and  afterwards  as  selectman, 
1683-1715.  The  children  of  Nathaniel  and 
Hannah  (Hinckley)  Glover,  all  born  in  Dor- 
chester, were:  i.  Nathaniel,  February  24, 
1674,  died  when  three  days  old.  2.  Nathaniel, 
August  7,  1675.  died  the  same  year.  3.  Na- 
thaniel, November  16,  1676,  married  Rachel 
March,  of  Braintree.  4.  Mary,  April  12, 
1679,  died  after  1743.  5.  Hannah,  July  26, 
1681,  married  Thomas  Laws,  of  Marblehead. 
6.  Elizabeth,  July  26,  1683,  died  unmarried 
April  II,  1725.  7.  John  (q.  v.),  September 
18,  1687.  8.  Thomas,  December  26,  1690,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Clough,  of  Boston.  In  1687 
Nathaniel  Sr.  made  a  division  of  land  with 
Ebenezer  Billings,  who  had  purchased  some 
of  the  rights  in  Newbury  Farm,  purchased  by 
his  grandfather  from  Mr.  Pynchon  when  he 
removed  from  Dorchester  to  Springfield.  Han- 
nah (Flinckley)  Glover  was  born  in  Barn- 
stable, April  15,  1650,  and  died  at  Newbury 
Farm,  in  Dorchester,  April  30,  1730.  Her 
husband  died  at  Newbury  Farm,  January  6, 
1723-24,  and  husband  and  wife  were  buried 
in  the  Avent  burial-ground,  in  the  westerly 
part,  and  the  gravestones  remain  with  inscrip- 
tions worn  by  time  as  make  the  names  and 
dates   scarcely   decipherable. 

(IV)  John  (2).  fourth  son  of  Nathaniel 
(2)  and  Hannah  (Hinckley)  Glover,  was 
born  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  September 
18,  1687.  He  married  (first)  Susannah  El- 
lison (1690-1724),  of  Boston,  January  I, 
1714,  and  (second)  December  22,  1724,  Mary 
Horton,  of  Milton,  who  died  in  Braintree,  De- 
cember 19,  1775,  aged  seventy-one  years. 
John  Glover  died  in  Braintree,  July  6,  1768. 
The  children  of  John  and  Susannah  (Ellison) 
Glover  were:    i.   Susannah,  born  January  8, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


17 1 5,  married  Lazarus  Pope,  of  Stougliton. 
2.  John,  April  4,  171 7.  3.  Joseph,  June  16, 
1720.  4.  Jerusha,  December  3,  1722,  married 
Colonel  William  Burbeck.  The  children  of 
John  and  Mary  (liorton)  Glover  were:  5. 
Nathaniel,  born  and  died  1725.  6.  Josiah,  De- 
cember 2,  1726.  7.  Elisha,  January  9,  1729. 
8.  Nathaniel,  December,  1730.  9.  Ezra, 
January  25,  1732.  10.  Enoch  (q.  v.).  May 
14,  1734.  n.  Mary,  April  21,  1736,  married 
Elijah  Belcher,  of  IBraintree.  12.  Jacob,  July 
29,  1737,  died  in  infancy. 

(V)  Enoch,  eighth  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Mary  (Horton)  Glover,  was  born  in  Dor- 
chester, i\Iassachusetts,  May  14,  1734,  and 
baptized  in  tlie  First  Church,  Braintree,  May 
19,  1734.  Fie  was  a  landed  proprietor  and 
an  innkeeper.  His  mansion  house  was  one 
mile  nearer  Boston  than  the  Dorchester  "Four 
Corners,*  and  in  1867  was  the  property  of 
Edmund  Wright,  of  Boston.  He  married, 
November  23,  1756,  Susannah,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Johannah  (Harris)  Bird,  of 
Dorchester.  She  was  born  in  1736,  and  died 
Octolier  26,  1802.  Their  children  were  born 
in  Dorchester  as  follows:  i.  Johannah,  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1758,  married  Aaron  Bird,  of  Dor- 
chester. 2.  Susannah,  April  2,  1759,  married 
Ebenezer  Baker,  of  Dorchester.  3.  Mary,  Oc- 
tober 18,  1760,  married  Ebenezer  Clap,  of 
Dorchester.  4.  Enoch,  November  5,  1762, 
died  unmarried  February  13,  1817.  5.  Eliza- 
beth, November  i,  1764,  married  Benjamin 
Lyon,  of  Dorchester.  6.  Benjamin,  April  29, 
1766.  died  unmarried  March  17,  1833.  7. 
.\nna,  January  17,  1768,  married  Stephen 
Wales,  of  Dorchester.  8.  Samuel  (q.  v.),  born 
March  29,  1770.  Enoch  Glover,  the  father 
of  these  children,  died  in  Dorchester,  Novem- 
ber 21,  1801. 

(\T)  Samuel,  third  son  of  Enoch  and  Su- 
sannah (Bird)  Glover,  was  born  in  Dorchester, 
IVIassachusetts,  j\larch  29,  1770.  He  married, 
June  I,  1796,  Martha,  daughter  of  Dr.  Phine- 
has  Holden  (1776-1864),  and  granddaughter 
of  Dr.  William  Holden,  born  in  Cambridge, 
March  4,  1713,  who  practiced  medicine  in 
Dorchester.  Samuel  and  Martha  (Holden) 
Glover  resided  in  Dorchester,  near  the  home- 
stead occupied  by  his  father,  and  on  land 
belonging  to  the  homestead  estate.  Here  he 
cultivated  choice  fruit,  propagating  new  va- 
rieties and  marketing  rare  and  beautiful  speci- 
mens in  the  Boston  markets  daily  during  the 
frnit  season.  They  had  two  children  :  i.  Alar- 
tha  Holden,  born  in  Dorchester,  August  11, 
1797,  married  Samuel  Davis,  of  Brighton, 
Massachusetts.     Thev  removed  to  Cincinnati, 


Ohio.  2.  Phinehas  Holden  (q.  v.).  born  Oc- 
tober 16,  1807.  Samuel  Glover  died  in  South 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  suddenly  on  Decem- 
ber 13,  1837. 

(VH)  Phinehas  Holden,  only  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Martha  (Holden)  Glover,  was  born 
in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  October  16, 
1807,  died  February  28,  1884.  He  removed 
to  Calais,  Maine,  where  he  was  a  surveyor  of 
lumber  and  also  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade. 
He  was  for  a  time  deputy  collector  of  L^nited 
States  customs  at  Calais,  Maine.  Upon  re- 
tiring from  active  business  he  removed  from 
Calais,  Maine,  back  to  ^Massachusetts  and 
lived  the  remainder  of  his  days  at  Quincy, 
where  he  died.  He  married.  ]\Iarch  31,  1833, 
Mary  Carlton,  of  Portland,  ?\Iaine,  and  they 
had  seven  children,  born  in  Calais,  Maine,  as 
follows:  I.  Mary  Lizzie,  born  March  9, 
1834,  died  April  i,  1835.  2.  Mary  .\bbot,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1836,  died  unmarried.  3.  Phinehas 
Holden,  October  12,  1S37.  4.  Edward  Kent, 
October  12,  1837.  5-  JMartha  Holden,  No- 
vember 19,  1838,  married  Albert  Mortimer 
Nash,  of  Harrington,  Maine,  born  April  15, 
1833.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nash  :  Mary 
C.  Nash,  married  Dr.  F.  S.  Nickels,  of  Cherry- 
fieW,  Maine;  Grace  P.  Nash;  Elijah  Hamlin 
Nash,  who  became  a  citizen  of  the  state  of 
Washington.  6.  Captain  Russell  (q.  v.),  born 
1841.  7.  lohn  Abbott,  born  March  21,  1849, 
died  1856." 

(VTII)  Captain  Russell,  only  living  son  of 
Phinehas  Holden  and  Mary  (Carlton)  Glov- 
er, was  born  in  Calais,  Alaine,  October  12, 
1841.  He  received  his  school  training  at  the 
Calais  public  school  and  at  Calais  Academy, 
and  when  seventeen  years  old  he  left  school 
and  went  to  sea  before  the  mast  in  the  mer- 
chant service.  He  continued  in  this  service 
about  seven  years,  and  in  1864  was  commis- 
sioned as  a  lieutenant  in  the  United  States 
revenue  cutter  service.  He  continued  in  ac- 
tive service  for  thirty-nine  years,  his  promo- 
tion to  captain  coming  to  him  in  1878,  after 
fourteen  years'  service  as  lieutenant.  The 
port  of  Galveston,  Texas,  is  the  only  one  in 
the  L^nited  States  and  Alaska  in  which  he  has 
not  served,  and  for  about  nine  years  he  was 
superintendent  of  construction  of  the  United 
States  revenue  cutter  service,  and  twenty-three 
life-saving  stations  were  constructed  under  hi? 
supervision,  many  of  them  being  located  on 
the  Great  Lakes  and  including  the  first  series 
of  life-saving  stations.  Captain  Glover  was 
retired  in  1903  and  joined  his  family  at  their 
home  in  Harrington,  Maine.  Captain  Glover 
joined  the  Masonic  fraternity  while  in  Sitka, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1217 


Alaska,  where  he  was  initiated  by  Alaska 
Lodge,  No.  14.  He  was  made  a  member  of 
Tomah  Tribe,  No.  67,  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men,  Harrington,  Maine.  He  joined  the  .Vrmy 
and  Navy  Club  at  Sitka,  Alaska,  and  the 
Olympic  Club,  San  Francisco,  California.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church, 
Baltimore,  Maryland.  Besides  his  winter  home 
at  Harrington,  Maine,  he  maintains  a  summer 
home  at  Point  Ripley,  on  the  coast  of  Alaine. 
He  married.  November  15,  1874,  Elizabeth 
Coffin  Nash,  daughter  of  Stillman  Wass  and 
Melissa  Wass  (Nash)  Nash,  who  was  born 
in  Harrington,  Maine,  August  22,  1845.  Still- 
man  Wass  Nash  was  born  in  Harrington, 
Maine,  May  31,  1809.  He  was  a  merchant 
and  shipbuilder,  also  postmaster  for  twelve 
years.  He  died  May  22,  1880.  Stillman  W. 
and  Melissa  Wass  Nash  had  nine  children  as 
follows:  I.  Albert  ]\Iortimer,  born  April  15, 
1833.  2.  Irene  Lucy,  January  12,  1S35,  mar- 
ried Isaac  H.  Nickerson,  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. 3.  Rebecca  Eliza,  June  31,  1837, 
died  February  28,  1839.  4.  Frederick  Sydney, 
February  28,  1840,  died  April  13,  1840.  5. 
Mary  Longhurst,  August  23,  1841,  died  Jan- 
uary 17,  1849.  6.  Elijah  Hamlin,  September 
17,  1843,  <i'sd  October  15,  1866.  7.  Elizabeth 
Coffin,  August  22,  1845.  8.  Stillman  E.,  July 
17,  1847,  died  May  22,  1880.  9.  Annie  Edith, 
March  17,  1855,  married  Charles  Coffin,  of 
Harrington,  and  had  one  child,  Florence,  who 
died  May,  1883.  The  children  of  Captain  Rus- 
sell and  Elizabeth  Coffin  (Nash)  Glover  were. 
I.  Russell  Henry,  born  at  Portland,  Maine, 
April  23,  1878,  is  a  mining  engineer,  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology,  class  of 
1901.  2.  Philip  Holden,  born  at  Portland. 
February  23,  1883,  graduated  as  civil  engineer 
from  the  University  of  Maine,  class  of  igo6. 


The   immigrant  ancestor  of 
LAUGHLIN     the  family  whose  history  is 

traced  below  left  descend- 
ants who  by  the  use  of  the  good  qualities  they 
inherited  have  become  well  known  and  influ- 
ential citizens  in  Maine. 

( I )  Thomas  Laughlin  was  a  worker  in  iron. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  born  in  Scotland,  to 
have  lived  some  time  in  Ireland,  and  then 
come  to  New  Brunswick  with  his  wife  and 
some  of  their  children.  He  was  buried  in  St. 
Stephen,  New  Brunswick.  His  wife,  Agnes 
(Clark)  Laughlin,  was  a  native  of  Scotland. 
She  was  buried  in  St.  Stephen.  Their  children 
were :  Alexander,  Mary,  Thomas,  Jane,  Rob- 
ert, David,  William,  Arthur,  Katherine,  Henry 
C,  Joseph  and  James. 


( H)  Thomas  (2),  second  son  of  Thomas 
(I)  and  Agnes  (Clark)  Laughlin.  was  born 
Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1817,  and  died  in  Port- 
land, May  23,  1890.  He  came  to  America 
with  his  parents  and  lived  most  of  his  early 
life  in  New  Brunswick,  at  St.  Stephen.  In 
the  forties  he  removed  to  Pembroke,  Maine, 
where  he  lived  until  1870,  when  he  removed 
to  Portland,  and  went  into  partnership  with  his 
son  in  blacksmithing,  the  firm  being  Thomas 
Laughlin  &  Son.  This  relation  was  kept  up 
till  the  death  of  the  senior  partner.  The  busi- 
ness was  prosperous,  and  Mr.  Laughlin  died 
well-to-do.  For  years  he  held  the  office  of 
justice  of  the  peace  in  Pembroke.  He  married 
in  1838,  Mary  Murphy,  who  was  born  in  St. 
David,  New  Brunswick,  1818,  and  died  ■  in 
Portland,  1893.  Children :  i.  Nancy  Jane, 
married  Roderick  McKenzie,  of  Boston.  2. 
Thomas  S.,  mentioned  below.  3.  Hannah  R., 
married  Frank  C.  White,  of  Portland,  and  had 
two  children,  Lester  L.  and  Ernest  M.  4. 
Arthur  W.,  married  Gertrude  Knowlton  and 
has  three  children :  Ethel,  James  K.  and 
Thomas  Earl.  5.  Clara  F.,  resides  at  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  6.  Flelen  C,  lives  at  Boston. 
V  (III)  Thomas  S.,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
and  Mary  (Murphy)  Laughlin,  w-as  born  in 
St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick,  April  13,  1842, 
and  died  in  Portland,  Maine,  February  15, 
1908.  When  he  was  a  small  boy  his  parents 
settled  in  Pembroke,  Maine,  and  there  he  re- 
ceived his  early  school-training.  He  worked 
with  his  father  in  the  blacksmith-shop  at  Pem- 
broke and  learned  the  blacksmith  trade,  1856- 
57.  He  then  came  to  Portland  and  started  a 
small  shop  of  his  own,  which  was  burned  in 
1866.  His  father  came  to  Portland  and  went 
into  partnership  with  him  in  1870.  Later  the 
firm  had  a  shop  at  18-20  Center  street.  Still 
later  salesrooms  were  occupied  on  Commercial 
street.  In  1890  the  buildings  on  the  present 
site  on  Fore  street  were  purchased  and  the 
manufacturing  plant  moved  there.  Upon  the 
death  of  the  father  the  firm  was  incoiporated 
and  became  the  Thomas  Laughlin  Company. 
The  works  have  been  enlarged  from  time  to 
time,  and  the  business  steadily  increased  until 
it  has  become  one  of  the  principal  industries 
of  the  city.  Within  six  months  previous  to  his 
death,  two  fires  had  broken  out  in  the  Laugh- 
lin factory,  and  following  these  ^Ir.  Laugh- 
lin had  considered  the  installation  of  an  auto- 
matic sprinkling  system.  On  the  day  of  his 
death  he  made  an  inspection  of  his  plant,  in 
company  with  his  foreman,  whom  he  left  about 
5  130  p.  m.,  and  w'as  never  seen  alive  again. 
His  bodv  was  found  in  a  tank  of  water  into 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


which  it  is  supposed  he  accidentally  fell  and 
was  drowned.  Thomas  S.  Laughlin  was  pres- 
ident of  the  shipsniith  and  ship-chandlery 
business  which  he  founded,  a  director  of  the 
Associated  Charities,  a  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  Portland  Public  Library, 
prominent  in  Masonry,  an  Odd  Fellow,  in- 
terested in,  though  not  a  member  of,  the  Chest- 
nut Street  and  St.  Lawrence  churches,  a  val- 
ued friend  of  the  Pearson  Gospel  Mission,  as 
he  was  the  friend  and  associate  of  the  founder 
of  that  institution,  an  authority  on  political 
economy,  was  often  chosen  to  represent  Maine 
at  public  gatherings  in  other  states,  and  in 
general  was  a  public-spirited,  broad-gauged 
man  of  affairs,  who  was  a  leader,  though  de- 
clining again  and  again  to  accept  political 
honors. 

Mr.  Laughlin  was  a  firm  believer  in  total 
abstinence  and  lent  a  helping  hand  to  anv 
victim  of  the  drink-habit  who  was  in  lowly 
circumstances  through  that  agency,  securing 
him  work  whenever  opportunity  offered.  His 
stand  on  the  temperance  question  is  too  well 
known  to  require  comment,  and  during  his 
long  period  of  active  life  in  Portland  he  has 
shown  no  shadow  of  turning.  He  was  one  of 
the  bulwarks  of  prohibition  in  Cumberland 
county,  and  gave  his  firm  support  to  Rev. 
Samuel  F.  Pearson  in  his  crusade  against  the 
saloons,  and  gave  his  time  and  money  to  aid 
in  the  work  of  maintaining  the  Pearson  Mem- 
orial Mission.  He  also  supported  Sheriff 
Pearson  in  his  campaign  and  afterward  dur- 
ing his  administration,  and  may  be  said  to 
have  been  one  of  the  most  active  leaders  in  the 
temperance  cause  in  the  state  of  I\Iaine.  As 
a  student  of  political  economy,  Mr.  Laughlin 
had  no  peer  in  Maine,  if  he  had  in  New  Eng- 
land. He  had  one  of  the  most  extensive  and 
best-selected  libraries  on  this  subject  extant, 
and  knew  that  library  from  beginning  to  end. 
He  was  often  called  upon  to  speak  as  a  re- 
sult of  his  well-known  researches  in  this  di- 
rection, and  when  once  into  the  subject  his 
hearers  were  held  spellbound  by  his  grasp  of 
the  essential  properties  of  this  tremendous 
problem.  While  he  was  best  known  as  a  deep 
student  of  political  economy  in  all  its  branches, 
he  also  became  a  master  of  the  tariff  question, 
especially  as  applied  to  American  conditions, 
as  well  as  in  the  abstract.  His  library  called 
forth  expressions  of  admiration  from  all  who 
were  privileged  to  enter  it.  It  embraced 
every  subject  of  general  interest,  well  selected 
as  to  quantity  and  pertinence  to  the  great 
whole  and  containing  just  those  books  neces- 
sary to  the  man  who  was  its  master  mind.     It 


has  been  called  Mr.  Laughlin's  workshop,  and 
no  other  expression  tells  the  story  quite  as 
well.  He  worked  in  it  whenever  his  other  ex- 
tensive duties  permitted  him,  and  it  was  so 
selected  and  so  arranged  that,  busy  man  as 
he  was,  a  few  moments  with  his  books  gave 
him  ready  access  to  the  knowledge  which  he 
sought.  These  odd  moments  of  study,  snatched 
as  they  must  have  been  from  the  life  of  a 
true  captain  of  industry,  gave  to  Mr.  Laugh- 
lin a  knowledge  of  affairs  of  the  world  en- 
joyed by  few  men,  even  students  whose  time 
was  much  less  valuable  and  who  had  much 
more  time  for  study  and  research.  It  has  been 
said  of  Mr.  Laughlin  that  no  deserving  man 
ever  came  to  him  and  asked  aid  that  he  did 
not  receive  not  only  that  which  he  asked,  but 
oftentimes  much  more.  Every  charitable  in- 
stitution was  remembered  by  him  at  Christ- 
mastide  and  Thanksgiving.  Few  gave  as 
liberally  and  none  more  cheerfully.  The  little 
children  occupied  a  warm  place  in  his  heart, 
and  he  chose  to  show  his  regard  for  them  in 
smaller  charities  throughout  the  year,  but 
every  summer  a  steamer  from  one  of  the  har- 
bor lines  was  chartered,  and  the  little  ones 
were  treated  to  a  free  excursion  among  the 
beautiful  islands  of  Casco  Bay  which  will  re- 
main a  sweet  memory  till  they  reach  the  years 
of  manhood  and  womanhood.  Few  will  mourn 
the  death  of  Mr.  Laughlin  as  will  the  children 
of  Portland,  to  whom  he  has  been  so  kind. 
Socially  Mr.  Laughlin  was  very  popular.  His 
friends  believed  in  the  quiet  man,  the  head 
of  a  great  and  growing  business,  and  no  man 
in  private  life  was  more  respected  than  he. 
He  came  of  good  stock,  and  the  name  of 
Thomas  Laughlin  stood  for  many  years  here 
for  honesty  in  business  matters  and  for  ster- 
ling independence  of  character.  The  son  had 
all  his  life  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
father,  and  no  more  was  asked  of  him.  His 
home  was  beautiful.  His  house  was  like  the 
man.  No  outsi<le  show  and  no  ostentation, 
but  his  life  was  a  home  life,  and  he  enjoyed 
being  with  his  family. 

Thomas  S.  Laughlin  married,  in  Falmouth, 
May  6,  1880,  .-Mice  H.  Sargent,  who  was  born 
in  Portland,  March  29,  1856,  daughter  of 
Fitz-Edward  and  Clarissa  Jane  (Hood)  Sar- 
gent. (See  Hood  \'III.)  There  was  born  of 
this  union  one  daughter,  Clarissa  Mary.  Sep- 
tember 12,  1882.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Laughlin 
adopted  Walter  J.,  his  nephew,  son  of  William 
J.  Laughlin,  when  a  child.  He  grew  up  to 
a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  business  of 
which  he  was  superintendent  and  conducted  it 
with  signal  success. 


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Hood  is  the  name  of  one  of  the 
HOOD     pioneer  famihes  of  Massachusetts 

whicli  came  from  England,  and  is 
probably  of  the  same  stock  as  Thomas  Hood, 
the  distinguished  poet,  and  Admiral  Hood,  of 
the  British  navy,  for  the  latter  of  whom  Mount 
Hood,  Oregon,  is  named. 

(I)  John  Hood,  of  Halstead,  Essex  county, 
England,  was  a  weaver  by  trade.  His  will 
was  dated  November  6,  1662,  and  proved  No- 
vember 20,  1662.  He  died  at  Halstead,  leav- 
ing his  real  estate  to  his  son  John,  and  his 
wife  Anne  was  executrix  of  the  will.  She 
married  (second)  Thomas  Beard.  John 
Hood's  children :  John,  mentioned  below ; 
Anne,  James,  Averse,  Catherine,  Grace,  Mary 
and  Rose. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Anne 
Hood,  was  born  in  England  about  1600,  and 
came  to  America  about  1638.  He  was  a 
weaver  and  planter ;  settled  at  Cambridge  as 
early  as  October  20,  1638,  and  leased  his  prop- 
erty at  Halstead.  He  then  removed  to  Lynn, 
where  he  was  living  in  1650.  While  there  he 
took  an  apprentice  named  Abraham  Tilton, 
son  of  Widow  Tilton,  of  Lynn,  December  6, 
1653.  He  returned  to  England  and  sent  word 
to  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  to  deliver  the  appren- 
tice to  his  mother,  who  had  married  a  second 
time  to  Roger  Shaw,  of  Hampton,  Massachu- 
setts, and  had  died.  Accordingly,  the  boy  was 
sent  to  his  brother,  Peter  Tilton,  of  Connec- 
ticut, but  Mrs.  Hood  revoked  this  act  on 
learning  that  the  Hampton  court  had  assigned 
the  lad  to  his  stepfather,  Shaw.  ( Norfolk 
Deeds,  L  103.)  Hood  leased  his  property  at 
Halstead  in  possession  of  his  mother  Anne, 
and  her  second  husband,  Thomas  Bear<l.  Hood 
was  living  in  Kittery,  Maine,  about  1652.  On 
August  14,  1654,  he  sold  to  William  Crofts, 
of  Lynn,  yoeman,  three  tenements  in  Halstead, 
forty  shillings  to  be  paid  each  of  John  Hood's 
sisters,  according  to  the  will  of  their  father. 
Mary  Truesdale  in  her  will  in  1672  mentions 
John  Hood's  two  children.  One  of  them, 
according  to  all  evidence  in  hand,  was  Rich- 
ard,  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  Richard,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth Flood,  came  from  Lynn,  Regis,  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  England,  and.  settled  in 
Lynn,  Massachusetts,  in  1650.  He  was  a 
freeman  in  1691,  and  died  September  12, 
1695.  In  the  deed  of  L}nn  and  Read- 
ing and  the  two  Nahants  September  4, 
1686,  by  the  Indians,  David  Kunkshamoo- 
shaw  and  Abigail,  his  wife,  and  Cicely  alias 
Su  George,  and  James  Quonopohit  and  Mary 
his  wife,  mention  is  made  of  the  place  "where 


Richard  Hood  now  dwelleth."  He  lived  in 
what  is  called  "Nahant  Street."  In  his  age  he 
he  enjoyed  special  privileges  in  the  church, 
which  indicate  he  was  a  person  of  respecta- 
bility and  influence.  In  1692  the  following 
was  entered  in  the  church  record :  "It  is  voted 
that  Thomas  Farrar,  senior;  Crispus  Brewer; 
Allen  Breed,  senior ;  Clement  Caldam,  Robert 
Rand,  senior ;  Jonathan  Hudson,  Richard 
Hood,  senior  and  Sergeant  Haven  should  sit 
in  the  pulpit."  Previous  to  1700  there  were 
three  houses  on  Nahant,  and  they  were  owned 
by  Breed,  Llood  and  Johnson.  Descendants 
of  Richard  Hood  remain  on  the  estate  of  their 
ancestor  on  Nahant  to  this  day.  "In  those 
early  days,  a  young  man,  who  was  inclined 
to  indulge  in  the  laudable  custom  of  courting, 
went  to  visit  a  young  lady  of  this  family 
named  Agnes.  As  he  was  returning,  late  one 
evening,  he  was  overheard  saying  to  himself, 
'Well,  so  far  proceeded  towards  courting  Ag- 
nes'. This  phrase  became  common,  and  has 
been  introduced  into  an  English  comedy." 
There  is  no  mention  of  Richard  Hood's  wife. 
His  children  were :  Richard,  Sarah,  Rebecca, 
John,  Hannah,  Samuel,  Ann,  Joseph  and  Ben- 
jamin. 

(IV)  Richard  (2),  eldest  child  of  Richard 
(i)  Hood,  was  born  November  18,  1655,  in 
Lynn,  where  he  died  before  May  20,  1718.  He 
is  referred  to  in  the  records  of  Lynn  as  a  hus- 
bandman, but  these  records  make  no  mention 
of  his  wife.  About  the  only  reference  to  him 
is  found  in  the  mention  of  his  son. 

(V)  Richard  (3),  son  of  Richard  (2)  Hood, 
was  born  March  30,  1692,  in  Lynn,  and  died 
in  that  town,  October  4,  1762.  It  is  presum- 
able that  he  was  like  his  father,  a  husband- 
man. He  was  married  i\lay  20,  1718,  in 
Lynn,  to  Theodate  Collins,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Collins,  the  gunsmith,  and  his  wdfe  Re- 
becca. She  was  born  July  5,  1700,  but  her 
death  is  not  recorded.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  Theodate,  Jedediah,  Content,  Rebeka, 
Hannah,  Patience,  Abner  and  Abigail. 

(\T)  .Abner,  younger  of  the  two  sons  of 
Richard  (3)  and  Theodate  (Collins)  Hood, 
was  born  September  20,  1733,  in  Nahant,  and 
died  there  Ivlarch  11,  1818.  He  was  married 
there  June  11,  1783,  to  Keziah,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Ruth  (Allen)  Breed,  of  Lynn. 
She  was  born  August  14,  1750.  and  died  No- 
vember 4,  1825.  They  were  the  parents  of 
six  children,  namely:  Abner.  Richard,  Theo- 
date, Benjamin  and  Ebenezer  (twins)  and 
Content. 

(VII)  Richard  (4),  son  of  Abner  and 
Keziah    (Breed)    Hood,  was  born   March   13, 


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1786,  in  Nahant,  and  passed  his  life  in  that 
town.  The  vital  records  of  Lynn  do  not  give 
his  death,  hut  it  is  a  matter  of  family  knowl- 
edge that  he  continued  in  his  native  town 
through  life.  lie  was  a  shoemaker  by  trade, 
became  a  master  mariner,  and  was  proprietor 
of  the  Hood  cottage,  whose  hospitality  was 
widely  known.  He  was  married  (intentions 
published  November  i,  1812)  to  Clarissa  Her- 
ick,  of  Reading,  who  was  born  about  1791,  in 
that  town,  daughter  of  Dr.  Martyn  and  Sarah 
(Wright)  Ilerick.  They  were  the  parents  of 
five  children :  Martin,  Elmira,  Sarah  Maria, 
Clarissa  Jane  and  Susan  Charlotte. 

(VIII)  Martin,  eldest  child  of  Richard  (4) 
and  Clarissa  (Herick)  Hood,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 15,  1813,  in  Nahant,  and  resided  in 
Lynn,  where  he  acquired  wealth  in  the  sole- 
leather  trade  and  was  a  prominent  citizen, 
participating  in  the  city  government.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Goodhue  Hay  and  had  a  son  Oliver, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years. 

(VHI)  Elmira,  eldest  daughter  of  Richard 
(4)  and  Clarissa  (Herick)  Hood,  became  the 
wife  of  Eli  Sargeant  and  had  children :  El- 
vira, Abby,  Martin,  Clara,  Eli,  Alice,  died 
young;  and  Charlotta.  The  first  of  these  be- 
came the  wife  of  John  F.  Randall,  of  Port- 
land, Maine,  and  had  seven  children  (See 
Randall).  The  second  daughter  married  Jo- 
seph Randall,  a  brother  of  her  sister's  huslaand, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  Alice,  Martin  and 
Ernest.  Clara,  third  daughter  of  Eli  Sar- 
geant, married  Albert  Morgan  and  had  three 
children :  Fred,  Arthur  and  Charles.  Car- 
lotta,  youngest  daughter,  married  Porter  Ham- 
ilton and  was  the  mother  of  five  children : 
Fred  T.,  Richard,  Guy,  Porter  and  Carlotta. 
Eli  Sargeant  died  in  the  army  at  or  near  Sa- 
vannah, Georgia. 

(VHI)  Sarah  Maria,  second  daughter  of 
Richard  (4)  and  Clarissa  (Herick)  Hood,  was 
born  May  26,  1818,  became  the  wife  of  Thom- 
as Swain,  and  had  three  children :  Annie, 
Henry  and  Elmira. 

(VIII)  Clarissa  Jane,  third  daughter  of 
Richard  (4)  and  Clarissa  (Herick)  Hood,  was 
born  January  22,  1821.  She  was  married 
November  24,  1842,  to  Fitz-Edward  Sargent, 
who  was  born  April  13,  181 7,  and  died  in  Fal- 
mouth, January  18,  1903.  He  was  probably  a 
native  of  Cape  Ann,  as  he  removed  from  that 
place  to  Portland,  and  after  serving  some  time 
as  a  clerk,  became  a  jiartner  with  Mr.  Loveitt, 
and  under  the  firm  name  of  Sargent  &  Love- 
itt they  dealt  in  fish  for  many  years.  He  had 
five  children:    i.  Erlward  Henry,  born  March 


20,  1844,  married  Mary  Coding  and  had  a 
daughter  Jenny.  2.  George  D.,  born  August 
18,  1846,  married  Olive  F.  Titcomb,  and  had 
four  children :  Oliver  F.  H.,  Fred  B.,  Horace 
E.  and  Marian.  The  eldest  of  these  married 
Mabel  Brooks  and  had  a  daughter  Bernice  and 
son  Caroll,  the  latter  of  whom  was  drowned. 
The  second,  Fred  B.,  married  Lena  Cook,  and 
had  three  children :  R.  Clifton,  Eleanor  and 
Ruth.  3.  Horace  H.,  born  February  17,  1857, 
married  Joanna  Sweat  and  had  four  children : 
Fitz-Edward,  Margaret,  Helen  and  Grace.  4. 
Susan  Jane,  born  April  19,  1853,  married 
Stephen  B.  Locke  (See  Locke).  5.  Alice  H., 
born  March  29,  1856,  married  Thomas  S. 
Laughlin  (See  Laughlin  III). 

(VII)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Abner  and 
Keziah  (Breed)  Hood,  was  born  April  7, 
1790,  in  Nahant,  and  married  Sarah  Phillips. 
They  had  four  children :  namely,  Louisa,  who 
married  Albert  Wyer ;  Anna  Amelia,  died 
young;  Julia  and  Ann.  The  last  name<l  mar- 
ried Dexter  Stetson  and  had  a  daughter 
Helen. 

(VII)  Ebenezer,  fourth  son  of  Abner  and 
Keziah  (Breed)  Hood,  and  twin  of  Benjamin, 
had  a  wife  whose  baptismal  name  was  Abbie. 
They  were  the  parents  of  a  son  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Elbridge  and  Katharine  Emery.  The  son 
married  Nancy  Tarbox,  and  they  had  two 
sons  :  Elbridge  and  John  Flenry.  The  daugh- 
ter married  a  Mr.  Tibbetts  and  had  seven 
children :  Henry,  Elbridge,  William,  George, 
Kate,  Mary  and  Abbie. 

(VII)  Theodate,  elder  daughter  of  .\bner 
and  Keziah  (Breed)  Hood,  was  born  May 
23,  1787,  married  Jabez  Breed,  and  had  five 
daughters:  i.  Abigail,  married  Hiram  Clif- 
ford ;  children :  Ann  Augusta,  Emily  and 
George  Cliflford.  2.  Augusta  ]\Iaria,  married 
a  Mr.  Haskill.  3.  Sarah,  married  a  Mr. 
Briggs.  4.  Lucinda,  married  a  Mr.  Hudson. 
5.  Cynthia,  married  a  Mr.  Warren. 

(VII)  Content,  younger  daughter  of  Abner 
and  Keziah  (Breed)  Hood,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 21,  1792,  and  became  the  wife  of  Gideon 
Phillips.  They  had  two  daughters  and  a  son : 
Annie,  Lucy  and  Charles. 


This  name  appears  in  the 
BOSWORTH  very  early  days  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony. 
Zacheus  or  Zachariah  Bosworth  was  of  Bos- 
ton in  1630,  probably  having  come  over  in  the 
fleet  with  Winthrop.  Benjamin  Bosworth  was 
of  Hingham  in  1635.  John  Bosworth,  of 
Hull,  was  a  freeman  in  1634.     Hananiel  Bos- 


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worth  was  a  citizen  of  Ipswich  in  1648.  From 
these  and  others  came  the  Bosworths  of  to-day 
in  New  England. 

(I)  Robert  Bosworth  came  from  Connecti- 
cut and  settled  in  Bath,  Maine,  and  was  com- 
mander of  many  ships  and  vessels  owned  and 
sailing  from  that  port  in  the  foreign  trade. 
He  married  Sarah  Peterson,  who  was  born  in 
Bath.  They  had  five  children:  Robert,  Na- 
thaniel, John,  Sarah  and  Elizabeth. 

(II)  Robert  (2),  eldest  son  of  Captain 
Robert  and  Sarah  (Peterson)  Bosworth,  was 
born  in  Bath,  March  17,  1800,  died  there 
July,  1852.  He  was  captain  of  many  ships 
sailing  from  that  port  in  the  foreign  trade, 
retiring  as  captain  in  1851.  He  was  a  Whig 
in  politics  and  a  Baptist  in  religious  views.  He 
married,  about  1828,  Mary  A.,  born  in  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  about  1805,  daughter  of 
Captain  Jacob  McDonald.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren :  Ann,  Adriana,  Frederic  Stead,  Mary, 
Eleanor  and  Robert. 

(III)  Captain  Frederic  Stead,  eldest  son  of 
Captain  Robert  (2)  and  Mary  A.  (McDon- 
ald) Bosworth,  was  born  in  Bath,  Maine, 
1835.  Captain  Bosworth's  career  as  a  seaman 
and  shipmaster  was  remarkably  active  and  the 
narrative  is  of  deep  interest.  He  left  school 
at  an  early  age,  and  shipped  at  Bath  in  the 
ship  "Rockaway,"  loaded  with  a  general  car- 
go, and  after  a  nine  days'  passage  arrived 
at  New  Orleans.  There  a  cotton  cargo  was 
taken  aboard,  and  landed  in  Liverpool.  From 
Liverpool  the  ship  sailed  with  a  general  cargo 
to  Philadelphia,  then  going  to  St.  John,  where 
it  took  aboard  lumber  and  three  hundred  emi- 
grants, bound  for  Philadelphia.  The  next 
voyage  was  in  the  same  ship,  from  St.  Jolin 
to  Londonderry,  with  lumber,  and  thence  to 
Philadelphia  with  a  company  of  emigrants. 
Mr.  Bosworth  then  engaged  as  second  mate 
on  the  ship  "Magnolia,"  one  thousand  tons, 
in  which  he  made  a  voyage  to  Mobile,  thence 
to  Liverpool,  and  back  to  New  Orleans,  where 
the  vessel  became  idle,  and  he  came  home 
in  the  "Mary  E.  Whittier,"  bound  for  New 
York.  He  next  voyaged  in  the  new  ship 
"Lawson,"  to  New  Orleans,  Liverpool  and 
Philadelphia.  His  next  ship  was  the  "Mes- 
sina," owned  by  Arnold  &  Curtis,  of  Bath,  in 
which  he  made  a  voyage  from  Boston  to  St. 
John,  thence  to  Liverpool,  and  then  to  Bos- 
ton. There  he  was  made  first  officer,  and 
sailed  for  Mobile,  and  thence  to  New  Orleans. 
The  vessel  having  changed  hands,  the  new 
owners  put  their  own  captain  in  charge,  but 
retained  Mr.  Bosworth  and  the  other  of^cers. 
After  visiting  various  ports,  the  ship  reached 


New  Orleans,  where  yellow  fever  was  found 
raging,  and  Mr.  Bosworth  came  home  in  a 
steamship.  He  ne.xt  shipped  in  the  "N'igilant," 
and  voyaged  to  Nova  Scotia  ports  and  thence 
to  Wales,  where  a  cargo  of  railroad  iron  was 
taken  aboard  for  New  Orleans.  The  rebels 
had  just  begun  the  civil  war  by  firing  upon 
Fort  Sumter,  and  "Yankees"  in  the  Crescent 
City  were  in  a  dangerous  predicament.  At  the 
beginning  of  this  voyage  Mr.  Bosworth  had 
been  made  commander,  and  it  required  great 
discretion  for  him  to  save  his  vessel  from  the 
insurgents.  Loading  with  staves  and  cotton 
for  Bordeaux,  he  left  the  port.  The  owner- 
ship of  the  cargo  being  New  Orleans  people 
probably  saved  his  vessel  to  him,  the  rebel 
tugs  helping  him  out  of  harbor,  while  at  the 
same  time  northern  vessels  were  being  seized. 
Outside  the  bar,  the  "Vigilant"  was  brought 
to  by  a  United  States  man-of-war,  whose 
commander  was  disposed  to  seize  her,  but 
finally  permitted  her  to  proceed  on  her  voyage. 
After  unloading  at  Bordeaux,  Captain  Bos- 
worth brought  his  ship  in  ballast  to  New 
York,  and  there  relinquished  his  command  on 
account  of  sickness  in  his  family.  Shortly 
afterward  the  "Vigilant"  was  burned  at  sea 
by  the  Confederate  cruiser  "Sumter."  This 
was  a  severe  blow  to  Captain  Bosworth,  who 
had  all  his  savings  invested  in  the  vessel.  He 
next  sailed  in  the  "Valencia,"  from  Cardif?, 
Wales,  as  commander,  to  Ceylon,  loaded  with 
coal ;  thence  in  ballast  to  Rangoon,  where  he 
took  in  a  cargo  of  rice  for  London,  where  the 
ship  lay  some  months,  wanting  a  purchaser. 
Disappointed  in  this,  he  loaded  in  coal  at 
Sunderland  and  sailed  for  Genoa,  where  he 
sold  the  ship  and  came  home  overland  via 
Mont  Cenis  Pass  to  the  French  coast,  thence 
to  Liverpool,  and  by  steamer  to  Boston.  He 
was  next  placed  in  command  of  the  "Free- 
man Clark,"  in  which  he  sailed  to  England, 
China,  Germany,  New  York,  San  Francisco, 
South  America  and  Spain ;  to  Savannah,  New 
Orleans,  Havre,  Wales,  New  Orleans,  and  at 
the  last  port  left  the  ship,  to  visit  his  family, 
leaving  in  charge  his  brother  Robert,  who  was 
first  officer.  Having  returned  to  New  Orleans 
and  engaged  a  cargo,  he  received  a  telegram 
from  the  owners  giving  him  leave,  if  he  so 
desired,  to  place  his  brother  Robert  in  com- 
mand, and  come  to  Bath  to  take  charge  of 
the  new  ship  "Carrollton,"  then  nearing  com- 
pletion. He  accepted,  and  joined  her  before 
she  was  launched,  and  sailed  her  to  New 
York,  where  she  was  loaded  for  San  Fran- 
cisco. This  was  in  the  palmy  days  of  deep- 
sea  ships.     The  freights  for  the  outward  voy- 


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age  amounted  to  $31,500;  for  the  voyage  from 
San  Francisco  to  Liverpool  to  $40,000.  At 
New  York  the  ship  was  sold  for  $96,000,  hav- 
ing more  than  paid  for  herself  within  a  year. 
As  the  ship  was  then  nearly  loaded,  and  the 
owners'  captain  was  not  there,  Captain  Bos- 
worth  sailed  her  to  San  Francisco,  and  re- 
turned overland  to  Bath.  There  he  was  given 
command  of  the  new  "Continental,"  built  by 
the  Sewalls.  When  ready  for  sea,  the  Kenne- 
bec v^'as  frozen  over,  and  a  way  to  the  sea  was 
cut  through  the  ice.  After  a  voyage  to  New 
York,  the  vessel  was  there  sold  for  $112,500, 
and  Captain  Bosworth  again  returned  to  Bath 
and  took  command  of  the  ship  "Harvester." 

His  experiences  in  the  "Harvester"  were  of 
thrilling  interest,  and  a  shipwreck  came  well- 
nigh  being  among  the  incidents.  Outbound 
for  Liverpool,  she  developed  cranky  traits, 
being  not  well  ballasted,  and  with  strong  side 
winds  took  in  water  over  her  lee  rails.  In  St. 
George's  Channel,  near  Liverpool,  in  a  severe 
gale,  the  ship,  lying  well  on  her  side,  drifted 
rapidly  inshore.  The  situation  was  very  dan- 
gerous. A  Liverpool  pilot  had  come  aboard 
shortly  before :  being  asked  by  Captain  Bos- 
worth if  there  was  any  enterable  opening  un- 
der his  lee,  he  said  there  was  Beaumaris,  a 
small  port,  but  the  channel  was  so  crooked 
and  narrow  that  he  had  never  entered  it  ex- 
cept in  a  pilot  boat,  but  that  the  water  was 
deep  enough  if  he  could  keep  the  channel. 
Captain  Bosworth  said  he  might  as  well  go 
ashore  trying  to  get  in  as  to  do  so  by  drifting, 
and  the  pilot  consented  to  make  the  attempt. 
It  vtas  in  December,  but  a  few  hours  of  day- 
light remained,  and  if  the  attempt  was  not 
made  the  ship  would  go  ashore  at  any  rate. 
The  pilot  headed  for  the  channel,  and  went 
in  under  the  full  force  of  the  gale,  the  surf 
breaking  against  them  and  the  shoals  close 
abeam.  The  ship  steered  badly,  but  made  the 
passage.  It  was  on  a  Sunday,  and  a  church 
on  the  overrising  clifi  was  emptied  of  its  wor- 
shipers, and  the  life-boat  crew  was  mustered, 
the  captain  of  which  afterward  said  that  in 
such  a  gale  and  sea  their  boat  could  never 
have  been  launched.  On  arriving  in  safe 
water,  it  was  learned  that  a  ship,  under  similar 
circumstances,  had  been  wrecked  in  that  very 
spot,  within  view  of  the  villagers,  and  every 
man  on  board  drowned.  The  "Harvester" 
sailed  to  New  Orleans,  back  to  Liverpool,  to 
San  Francisco,  and  again  to  Liverpool.  After 
other  voyages.  Captain  Bosworth  returned  in 
1880  to  Bath.  Decided  upon  giving  up  sea- 
faring, he  went  to  Portland.  Oregon,  where  he 
conducted   a   ship-brokerage    business    for    a 


couple  of  years.  The  business  gradually  fall- 
ing into  the  hands  of  Englishmen,  he  aban- 
doned it,  and  went  to  San  Francisco.  There 
he  was  placed  in  command  of  the  "Solitaire," 
which  he  sailed  to  Oueenstown,  then  to  Dublin, 
where  he  turned  her  over  to  the  owner,  and 
returned  to  Portland,  Oregon,  where  he  be- 
came surveyor  for  the  Underwriters,  and  also 
for  the  American  Record.  He  returned  to 
Bath  in  1900,  with  the  enviable  record  of 
never  a  wreck  or  serious  accident  at  sea.  Cap- 
tain Bosworth  now  resides  at  Bath. 

He  married,  in  i860,  Juliette  Marsh,  born 
in  Bath,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Rachel 
(Sewall)  Crooker,  of  Bath.  Among  the  chil- 
dren of  Charles  and  Rachel  (Sewall)  Crooker 
were  Emma  D.,  Juliette  M.  and  Adelaide  L. 
Emma  D.  married  Arthur  Sewall.  of  Bath, 
ship-builder ;  Adelaide  L.,  married  Captain 
John  P.  Delano.  Children  of  Frederic  S.  and 
Juliette  M.  (Crooker)  Bosworth:  i.  Charles 
Crooker,  died  in  childhood.  2.  Edward  Percy, 
born  1863,  graduated  from  Bath  high  school, 
went  into  the  banking  business  and  was  em- 
ployed in  the  Pacific  National  Bank,  of  Bos- 
ton, lie  later  removed  to  Portland,  Oregon, 
and  was  teller  in  the  First  National  Bank 
of  that  city  until  ill  health  forced  him  to 
sever  his  connection.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
thirty-five  years.  3.  Arthur  Sewall,  see  for- 
ward.    4.  Frederic  Marsh,  died  in  childhood. 

(IV)  Arthur  Sewall,  third  son  of  Captain 
Frederic  S.  and  Juliette  Marsh  (Crooker) 
Bosworth,  was  born  in  Antwerp,  January  6, 
1867.  He  was  taken  to  Bath  by  his  parents 
at  the  age  of  three  years,  and  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  that  city,  graduating 
from  the  high  school  in  June,  1885.  He  be- 
came a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  vice-president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Maine  Central 
railroad,  remaining  two  years,  after  which  he 
was  transferred  to  the  car  accountant's  office, 
serving  under  W.  B.  Drew  up  to  the  spring  of 
1889.  He  acted  as  secretary  to  the  general 
manager  ( who  personally  superintended  the 
building  of  the  road)  during  the  year  1889, 
while  the  road  was  being  extended  from 
Fabyan  to  Scott  Junction.  In  the  fall  of  1889 
he  was  made  general  storekeeper,  in  charge 
of  company's  stock  of  general  supplies,  later 
given  the  title  of  supply  agent,  and  had  charge 
of  purchasing  supplies  for  the  IMaine  Central 
road,  and  the  title  of  purchasing  agent  was 
conferred  upon  him,  in  which  capacity  he 
served  until  his  resignation  in  June,  1898.  In 
October,  1893,  Mr.  Bosworth  and  Mr.  Samuel 
Cony  Manley  founded  The  Maine  Central,  the 
official  organ  of  the  Maine  Central   railroad, 


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under  the  name  of  Bosworth  &  Manley,  and 
much  of  its  success  was  due  to  the  efforts  of 
Mr.  Bosworth.  December  7,  1892,  Mr.  Bos- 
worth was  elected  treasurer  and  clerk  of  the 
West  End  Land  Company ;  January  25,  1893, 
he  was  elected  clerk  of  the  corporation  and 
board  of  directors  of  the  Knox  &  Lincoln  rail- 
way;  in  August,  1897,  was  elected  a  director 
of  the  Bath  National  Bank;  January  31,  1898, 
elected  treasurer,  general  manager  and  direc- 
tor of  Seaboard  Coal  Handling  Company, 
which  conducted  business  in  Portland  for  ten 
years  and  then  closed  out;  November,  1899. 
elected  treasurer  and  director  of  the  Maine 
Water  Company ;  under  a  special  charter 
grantefl  bv  tlie  Maine  legislature  of  1891  the 
Maine  Water  Company  was  formed ;  it  was 
a  consolidation  of  the  Gardiner  Water  Com- 
pany, constructed  in  1885,  the  Bath  Water 
Supply  Company,  constructed  in  1886,  the 
^Vaterville  Water  Company,  Calais  Water 
Company,  and  the  St.  Croix  Electric  Light  & 
Water  Company,  constructed  in  1887-  the 
Maine  Water  Company  supplied  water  to  the 
following  cities  and  towns :  Bath,  Benton, 
Brunswick,  Calais,  Dover,  Fairfield,  Farming- 
dale,  Foxcroft,  Gardiner,  Waterville,  Wins- 
low,  \\'oolwich,  in  Maine,  and  St.  Stephens 
and  Milltown,  New  Brunswick,  which  have 
a  combined  population  of  over  seventy  thou- 
sand people;  July,  1900,  elected  treasurer  and 
director  of  the  Sagadahoc  Light  &  Power 
Company,  a  public  franchise  company  doing 
an  electric  lighting  and  power  business  in  the 
city  of  Bath;  1902  elected  director  of  the 
Central  Wharf  Tow  Boat  Company,  and  in 
the  same  year  an  incorporator  and  director 
of  the  Ignited  States  Trust  Company;  1905 
elected  vice-president  of  Portland  Golf  Club ; 

1906  elected    treasurer   Portland    Golf   Club; 

1907  elected  treasurer  and  member  of  board 
of  governors  Portland  Country  Club ;  elected 
to  Cumberland  Club,  1895,  and  served  on 
executive  committee  for  eight  consecutive 
years ;  February,  1908,  elected  treasurer  and 
director  of  Brunswick  Electric  Light  St  Power 
Company,  a  public  franchise  company  doing 
electrical  business  in  Brunswick,  Maine.  In 
addition  to  the  above-named  clubs,  Mr.  Bos- 
worth is  a  member  of  the  Portland  Athletic 
Club  and  the  Economic  Club.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat in  politics  and  a  Congregationalist  in  re- 
ligion. 

Mr.  Bosworth  married,  in  Portland,  1902, 
Mary  Wood,  born  in  Portland,  November  29, 
1879,  daughter  of  James  C.  and  Virginia  H. 
(Barker)  Jordan  (see  Jordan  VHIJ.  They 
have  one  child,  Barbara,  born  in  Portland. 


The  arms  of  Jordaine  or  Jor- 
JORDAN  dan,  of  Dorsetshire,  are  de- 
scribed by  Burke  and  others  as 
"Azure  semee  de  crosses  crosslet,  a  lion  ram- 
pant or,"  which  arms  are  said  to  have  been 
used  as  early  as  Edward  L  Hutchins,  in  his 
History  of  Dorset,  says :  "The  Jordans  were 
an  ancient  family  in  Dorsetshire,  and  occur 
very  early  in  Coker-Frome,  at  Frome-White- 
field,  where  they  had  some  interest,  about 
1400.  Their  arms,  similar  to  those  here  de- 
scribed, are  quartered  with  Trenchard  and 
Mohun,  upon  the  painted  glass  windows  of 
the  ancient  Manor  House  of  Wolverton,  long 
since  in  ruins,  but  for  the  time  when  it  was 
built  one  of  the  grandest  in  England.  These 
windows  are  its  noblest  remaining  ornament, 
and  contain  almost  a  complete  pedigree  of  the 
family.  Wolveton  or  Wolverton  Klanor  lies 
about  eight  miles  from  Weymouth  ;  John  Jor- 
dain.  its  ancient  owner,  was  escheator  of  the 
county,  the  fifth  of  Henry  IV,  and  his  name  oc- 
curs in  a  list  of  gentlemen  the  twelfth  of 
Henry  VT.  He  bought  this  place  of  John 
Mohun  and  Alice,  his  daughter,  heir  to  Henry 
Trenchard,  of  Hampshire.  John,  son  of  this 
John  of  Wolveton,  married  Christie,  one  of 
the  heiresses  of  John  Chantruarle,  by  whom 
the  Manors  of  East  Stoke,  Beltwale,  and 
Stoke  Hyde,  near  Blanford,  or  part  of  them, 
accrued  to  the  Jordaines."  Among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Dorset  family  of  Jordans  who 
were  locally  prominent  were :  John  Jordan, 
who  held  land  at  Weymouth  in  1440;  John 
Jurdeyne,  a  member  of  parliament,  1553;  and 
Richard  Jordain,  mayor  of  Melcomb,  1596. 
The  name  Jordan  was  first  adopted  as  a  sur- 
name probably  by  some  man  who  had  been 
a  crusader  or  pilgrim  to  Palestine,  and  looked 
upon  the  historic  stream. 

( I )  Rev.  Robert  Jordan,  a  clergyman  of  the 
Church  of  England",  was  established  at  Rich- 
mond's Island,  near  Portland,  Maine,  as  the 
successor  of  Rev.  Richard  Gibson,  as  early  as 
the  year  1641.  The  exact  time  of  his  arrival 
here  is  not  known,  nor  the  place  of  his  nativ- 
ity in  England,  but  it  is  probable  that  he  came 
in  1639  from  Dorsetshire  or  Devonshire,  the 
district  from  which  many  settlers  came  to 
Maine,  and  where  the  Jordan  name  is  quite 
common.  In  a  letter  from  agent  John  Winter 
to  Robert  Trelaway,  one  of  the  proprietors 
of  a  grant  including  Falmouth  (Cape  Eliza- 
beth) and  Richmond's  Island,  Winter  thus 
speaks  of  Mr.  Jordan :  "Heare  is  on  Mr. 
Robert  Jordan,  a  mynister,  wch  hath  been  wth 
vs  this  three  months,  2  ch  is  a  very  honest  re- 
ligious man  by  anything  as  yett  I  can  find  in 


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him.  I  have  not  yett  agreed  wth  him  for 
staying  heare  but  did  refer  yt  tyll  I  did  heare 
Som  word  from  you ;  we  weare  long  wthout  a 
mynister  &  weere  but  in  a  bad  way  &  so  we 
shall  be  still  iff  we  have  not  the  word  of  God 
taught  vnto  us.  Sometymes  the  plantation 
at  pemaquid  would  willingly  have  him  or  the 
(y)  desire  he  might  be  their  on  halfe  of  the 
yeare  &  the  other  halfe  to  be  heare  wth  vs. 
1  know  not  how  we  shall  accord  uppon  yt  as 
yett  he  hath  been  heare  in  the  country  this  2 
yeares  &  hath  alwaies  lived  wth  Mr.  Pur- 
chase wch  is  a  kinsman  unto  him." 

Rev.  Robert  Jordan  married,  at  Richmond's 
Island,    Sarah,    only    child    of   John    Winter; 
and  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Winter,  in  1646,  Jor- 
dan was  made  the  administrator  of  the  estate. 
By  his  marriage  with  Sarah  Winter,  Mr.  Jor- 
dan became  one  of  the  great  land  proprietors 
and  wealthy  men  of  the  reign ;  "a  source  of 
influence,"    says    a    writer,    "which    he    never 
failed  to  exert  in  favor  of  his  church  and  poli- 
tics."    In  1648  he  petitioned  the  general  court 
to    allow    him    as    administrator    to    sell    the 
property  of  Trelawney,  and  settle  up  the  es- 
tate  of   a   Mr.     Winter.       His     request    was 
granted,  and  Mr.  Jordan  afterward  removed 
from  the  island,  and  settled  on  the  mainland 
portion    of   the   estate   of    Mr.    Winter.     The 
plantation  there  was  called  Spurwink,  a  name 
which  has  been   retained  to   the  present  day. 
It  lies  in  Falmouth,  now  Cape  Elizabeth.    Mr. 
Gibson  and  ]\lr.  Jordan  were  the  pioneers  of 
episcopacy   in    Maine.      Mr.    Gibson    left    the 
country  about  the  year  1642,  but  Mr.  Jordan 
remained  at  the  post  of  duty,  and  never  re- 
linquished his   stand   as   a  churchman  or   his 
professional   character.     He   was  the   soul  of 
the  opposition   to  Massachusetts,  and  a  chief 
supporter  to  the  royal  commissioners  and  the 
anti-Puritan   polity.      Owing   to   his   religious 
affinities  and  associations,  Mr.  Jordan  was  an 
object  of  suspicion  and  hostility  to  the  Puri- 
tan government  of  Massachusetts,  who  for- 
bade him  to  marry  or  baptize.     He  paid  no 
attention  to  this  order,  and  continuing  to  dis- 
charge   the   duties   of   his   office,    the   general 
court  of  Massachusetts  ordered  his  arrest  and 
imprisonment    in    Boston    jail.      He    was    in- 
carcerated  twice,   once   in    1654   and   once  in 
1663.     His  petition  for  release,  written  while 
in  jail  during  the  latter  year,  is  still  extant. 
His   case   was   heard   by  two   commissioners, 
and  he  was  released  on  the  following  declara- 
tion :    "I   hereby  declare  that   I   will  be   sub- 
ject to  yr  authority,  so  far  as  I  may  keep  the 
law,  and  my  conscience  inviolate,  and  promise 
and  bind  myselfe  to  leave  peaceably,  for  the 


future:    Subscrbed  this  4th  of  7  br  (63)   pr. 
me  Robert  Jordan,  Clerk :" 

Mr.  Jordan  was  judge,  or  one  of  the  judges, 
for  many  years.     In  the   second   Indian   war 
he  was  compelled  to  leave  Spurwink,  and  to 
flee  from  the  Indians.     He  left  home  in  haste, 
and  probably  left  all  his  papers  in  his  house. 
Everything  was  in  flames  before  he  was  out 
of  sight.     This  may  account  for  the  fact  that 
so  few  of  his  papers  have  ever  been  found. 
He  went  to  Great  Island,  now  Newcastle,  New 
Hampshire,    which   is    at    the    mouth   of   the 
Piscataqua   river.     Many  other  persons  were 
at  the  same  time  driven  from  Falmouth,  who, 
like  Mr.  Jordan,  did  not  return.     It  is  stated 
that  "One  Mr.  Thorpe,  a  drunken  Preacher, 
was  gotten  to   Preach  at   Black   Point   under 
the  appearance  and  profession  of  a  minister  of 
the  gospel,"  and  that  having  a  spite  against 
Goody  Bayly,  he  attempted  to  make  it  appear 
that  she  was  a  witch,  and  had  bewitched  to 
death  a  cow  belonging  to   Mr.  Jordan.     But 
when  Thorpe  had  her  questioned  for  a  witch, 
Mr.    Jordan    interposed    in    her    behalf;    and 
said  his  cow  died  of  his  servant's  negligence, 
and  to  cover  their  own  fault  they  were  will- 
ing to  have  it  imputed  to  witchcraft,  and  were 
willing  to  act  with  Thorpe  in  his  guilty  plan 
to   harm   Mrs.    Bayly ;   and    so   unriddled   the 
knavery  and  delivered  the  innocent."    "The  in- 
famy was  averted  by  the  common  sense  and 
courage    of    Robert    Jordan."      We    must    at- 
tribute it,  not  to  Jordan's  education  or  asso- 
ciations, but  solely  to  his  clear-headed   com- 
mon   sense — his    native    discernment.      "For 
more    than    thirty     years,"     writes     Tristram 
Frost   Jordan,   the   compiler    of    the    Jordan 
Memorial,  from  which  this  sketch  is  extracted, 
"Rev.   Robert  Jordan  occupied  a  large  share 
in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  the  province. 
He  was  an  active,  enterprising  man,  and  well 
educated.     Although,  being  a  presbyter  of  the 
Church  of  England,  he  came  hither  as  a  re- 
ligious  teacher,  the   affairs   of  the  world   in 
which   he   lived   and   the   achievement   of   his 
ambitious    designs   appear    soon    to   have    ab- 
sorbed the  most  of  his  attention,  and  to  have 
diverted   him   from   the   exercise   of   his   pro- 
fession— a    result    originating    and    hastened, 
doubtless,  by  the  hostility  of  the  government. 
His  posterity  for  many  years  exercised  very 
great  influence  in  the  concerns  of  the  town, 
and   long  maintained  a  high  standing  in  the 
province."    A  descendant  in  the  ninth  genera- 
tion lived  on  the  old  plantation  a  few  years 
ago.     Rev.   Robert  Jordan,  the  progenitor  of 
the   race   of   Jordans    in   America,    ended   his 
active  and  eventful  life  at  Portsmouth,  New 


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Hampsliire,  in  1679,  in  the  sixty-eighth  year 
of  his  age.  His  will,  made  at  Grand  Island, 
in  the  Piscataqua  river,  January  28,  was  proved 
July,  1679.  He  lost  the  use  of  his  hands  be- 
fore death,  and  was  unable  to  si^n  his  will. 
He  left  six  sons,  all  born  before  1664,  among 
whom  his  great  landed  estate  was  divided 
according  to  the  provisions  of  his  will.  His 
wife  Sarah  survived  him,  and  was  living  at 
Newcastle,  in  Portsmouth  Harbor,  in  1686. 
Their  children  w  ere :  John,  Robert,  Domini- 
cus,  Jedediah,  Samuel  and  Jeremiah. 

(li)  Dominiciis,  third  son  of  Rev.  Robert 
and  Sarah  (Winter)  Jordan,  was  born  before 
1664,  at  Spurwink,  now  Cape  Elizabeth,  Cum- 
berland county,  Maine.  He  left  Spurwink 
with  his  father's  family  at  the  beginning  of 
King  Philip's  war,  1675,  \vhen  the  settlement 
was  attacked  and  their  house  was  destroyed 
by  the  Indians.  Six  years  later  he  returned 
w  ith  his  wife.  It  appears  he  had  selected  a 
piece  of  land,  and  his  father  consented  it 
should  be  his  at  the  proper  time.  In  1678  he 
administered  upon  the  estate  of  his  father-in- 
law,  Ralph  Tristram.  July  i,  1678,  by  the 
provisions  of  his  father's  will,  he  came  into 
possession  of  one  thousand  acres  of  land  at 
Spurwink.  It  is  conjectured  that  part  of  the 
six  years  prior  to  his  return  to  Spurwink  was 
passed  at  Winter  Harbor,  only  twelve  miles 
distant  from  Spurwink.  Dominicus  Jordan 
was  a  prominent  man  in  the  settlement,  and 
was  one  of  the  trustees  to  whom  the  township 
of  Falmouth  was  deeded  by  President  Dan- 
forth.  The  second  Indian  war  again  brought 
danger  to  the  settlement,  and  in  i6go,  when 
Falmouth  was  devastated,  Spurwink  was  again 
deserted,  and  remained  unoccupied  till  the 
peace  of  1698.  According  to  tradition,  Do- 
minicus was  a  man  above  the  common  size 
and  of  great  strength  and  endurance.  The 
gun  he  used  was  over  six  feet  in  length.  It 
was  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants 
( eighteen  inches  of  the  barrel  having  been 
cut  off)  until  some  twenty  or  thirty  years 
ago  it  was  presented  to  the  Maine  Historical 
Society  by  Captain  Samuel  Jordan,  of  Deer- 
ing,  Maine.  It  was  the  custom  of  Dominicus 
to  keep  his  gun  and  ammunition  close  at 
hand  all  the  time.  He  was  called  the  "Indian 
Killer,"  and  was  greatly  feared  by  the  savages. 
In  war  he  was  their  deadly  enemy ;  in  peace, 
friendly.  While  at  work  on  his  plantation, 
vi-hich  bordered  the  Spurwink  riveV,  where  he 
had  a  blockhouse  on  a  flat  piece  of  land,  his 
gun  was  strapped  on  his  back,  ready  for  im- 
mediate use  if  necessary.  In  times  of  peace 
the  Indians  were  accustomed  to  call  on  him. 


and  were  hospitably  received,  while  they  ex- 
changed their  furs  for  such  articles  as  they 
wanted.  On  the  breaking  out  of  hostilities  in 
1703,  a  party  of  Indians,  apparently  friendly, 
called  on  Dominicus  August  10  of  that  year, 
to  buy  some  goods.  He  had  no  suspicion  of 
their  treacherous  design,  and  was  waiting  on 
them,  when  one  of  them  who  had  watched  the 
opportunity,  unnoticed  by  Dominicus,  struck  a 
hatchet  into  his  head.  Death  soon  followed. 
His  wife  and  family  of  six  children  and  his 
younger  brother  Jeremiah  were  made  pris- 
oners, and  led  through  the  wilderness  to 
Canada.  All  were  finally  restored  to  liberty 
and  native  land,  but  a  daughter  who  remained 
with  her  masters  in  Canada.  Dominicus  Jor- 
dan married,  in  1681,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Ralph  Tristram,  of  Winter  Harbor,  now  Bid- 
deford,  Maine.  Ralph  Tristram  settled  at 
Biddeford  several  years  before  1655,  in  which 
year  he  was  made  a  freeman.  He  was  for 
years  a  useful,  worthy  townsman,  and  died  in 
1678.  The  children  of  Dominicus  and  Han- 
nah were :  Dominicus,  Samuel,  Mary  Ann, 
Elizabeth,  Hannah  and  Nathaniel. 

(Ill)  Captain  Samuel,  second  son  of  Do- 
minicus and  Hannah  (Tristram)  Jordan,  was 
born  in  1684,  at  Spurwink,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 20,  1742.  At  the  time  of  his  father's 
death  he,  then  eighteen  years  old,  with  his 
mother  and  all  her  children,  was  made  pris- 
oner by  the  Indians  and  taken  to  Trois 
Rivieres,  Canada,  where  he  was  kept  a  cap- 
tive for  seven  years — six  with  the  Indians  and 
one  year  with  the  French.  After  his  return 
he  was  asked  which  he  liked  better — Indians 
or  French — and  he  replied,  Indians.  With 
two  other  white  men,  prisoners  like  himself, 
he  escaped  by  the  agency  of  an  Indian  woman 
named  Mary,  who  guided  them  through  the 
woods  to  Casco  Bay.  They  subsisted  during 
their  journey  on  roots  and  berries.  When 
they  arrived  at  the  fort  at  Falmouth,  not  being 
known,  they  were  refused  admittance.  The 
Indian  woman  climbed  upon  a  large  log,  lying 
upon  the  ground  a  short  distance  from  the 
fort,  and  called  out  in  loud  voice :  "I  be  Molly 
Mun,  you  know  Molly  Mun !"  Some  of  the 
men  in  the  fort  recollected  the  name,  and,  after 
close  examination,  the  wanderers  were  ad- 
mitted. This  must  have  been  in  1710,  or  about 
that  time.  None  of  the  Jordan  family  then 
resided  at  Spurwink.  Samuel,  no  doubt,  went 
to  visit  his  maternal  relatives  at  Winter  Har- 
bor, where  his  uncles  Samuel,  Nathaniel  and 
Benjamin  then  lived.  His  name  first  appears 
in  the  records  of  Winter  Harbor  in  1717. 
There  he  began  business  as  a  trader,  and  for 


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many  years  he  had  the  only  store  m  the  place. 
On  account  of  his  knowledge  of  the  Indian 
language,  acquired  during  his  captivity,  Sam- 
uef  Jordan  was  of  great  service  to  the  govern- 
ment in  the  capacity  of  interpreter.  He  filled 
this  ofiice  August  9-12,  1717,  when  Governor 
Shute  made  a  treaty  with  the  Indians.  He  did 
similar  service  at  the  time  of  making  the 
treaty  with  the  Chief  of  the  Penobscots,  De- 
cember, 1725,  and  at  the  ratification  of  that 
treaty  by  the  Sachems  of  other  tribes,  August 
6,  1726.  The  name  of  Samuel  Jordan  is  borne 
on  that  treaty.  After  the  treaty  of  1717,  Mr. 
Jordan  was  Indian  agent,  as  well  as  inter- 
preter, and  supplied  the  Indians  with  the  goods 
they  wanted,  ordering  them  from  the  govern- 
ment at  Boston.  He  was  also  captain  in  the 
militia.  At  the  time  of  his  decease,  Samuel 
and  his  eldest  son  were  in  business  together. 
They  were  never  known  to  sue  or  distress  a 
customer.  He  built  a  house  about  1727  on  the 
north  side  of  the  gut  or  strait  leading  into  the 
pool,  and  standing  in  good  condition  in  1872, 
built  in  the  style  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
years  ago.  In  1739  he  soW  to  Robert  Mitchel 
his  share  of  land  from  his  father's  estate  at 
Cape  Elizabeth,  containing  one  hundred  and 
forty-three  acres.  Captain  Samuel  Jordan  was 
a  man  of  great  energy  and  perseverance, 
prominent  as  a  business  man  and  in  public 
afTairs,  and  in  the  Congregational  church  of 
which  he  was  a  member.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  merchant,  and  resided  at  Biddeford.  He 
married,  in  York,  Maine,  1718,  Olive  Plaisted, 
who  was  born  May  i,  1698,  and  died  in  1763, 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Rishworth) 
Plaisted,  of  Brunswick.  She  survived  him  and 
married  (second)  January  31,  1744,  Rev. 
James  Smith.  The  children  of  Samuel  and 
Olive  were :  Richworth,  Alice,  Sarah,  Han- 
nah, Samuel,  Tristram  and  Mary. 

(IV)  Colonel  Tristram,  youngest  son  of 
Captain  Samuel  and  Olive  (Plaisted)  Jordan, 
was  born  at  Winter  Harbor,  May  31,  1731, 
and  died  November  i,  1821.  He  was  eleven 
years  old  when  his  father  died.  His  eldest 
brother,  Richworth,  administered  upon  the  es- 
tate of  his  father  and  was  guardian  for  Tris- 
tram. Folsom  says :  "Among  the  first  mer- 
chants or  traders  of  whom  we  have  any  ac- 
count, on  the  east  side  of  Saco  River,  at  the 
falls,  were  Tristram  Jordan,  Andrew  Brad- 
street,  Thomas  Cutts,  Thomas  Donald,  David 
King.  Colonel  Jordan  married,  1749,  when 
but  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  took  the  Pep- 
perell  House.  In  1754  he  was  one  of  the 
selectmen  of  the  town,  although  but  twenty- 
three  years  of  age,  and  about  the  same  time 


received  a  commission  as  captain  of  militia,  an 
ofiice  which  it  was  not  customary  at  that 
period  to  bestow  on  young  men.  He  was  a 
thorough  business  man,  industrious  and  enter- 
prising, not  only  in  business  but  in  the  church. 
He  was  elected  senator  of  the  county  of  York 
to  the  Massachusetts  legislature,  1787,  and 
selectman  of  the  town  from  1754  to  1762. 
Colonel  Jordan  moved  from  the  falls  to  his 
estate  at  Deep  Brook,  two  miles  north  on  the 
Buxton  road,  about  the  close  of  the  revolution- 
ary war,  where  he  died  in  1821.  He  was  emi- 
nently the  "father  of  the  town."  No  other 
individual  was  so  often  entrusted  with  the 
direction  of  its  affairs,  or  exercised  an. equal 
degree  of  influence  during  the  early  period  of 
its  separate  incorporation.  At  a  later  date 
Colonel  Jordan  was  best  known  as  a  magis- 
trate, having  performed  the  greater  part  of 
the  duties  of  a  justice  of  the  peace,  for  the 
east  side  of  the  river,  until  quite  advanced  in 
age.  By  the  council  of  Alassachusetts,  1776, 
he  was  appointed  Colonel."  He  married 
(first)  in  Berwick,  1749,  Hannah  Goodwin, 
who  was  born  July  24,  1730,  and  died  July 
10,  1775,  daughter  of  Captain  Ichabod  Good- 
win. He  married  (second)  in  Falmouth,  De- 
cember, 1778,  Dorcas,  who  died  December  19. 
1 78 1,  witiiout  issue.  He  married  (third)  in 
Berwick,  May  21,  1784,  Hannah  Frost,  who 
died  September  26,  1789.  The  children  by 
the  first  wife  were:  Elizabeth,  Hannah  (died 
young),  Sarah,  Hannah,  Olive,  Tristram, 
Ichabod,  Mary,  Alehitable ;  and  by  the  third 
wife :    Dorcas,  Samuel  and  Richworth. 

(V)  Captain  Ichabod,  second  son  of  Colo- 
nel Tristram  and  Hannah  (Goodwin)  Jordan, 
was  born  in  Saco,  September  24,  1770,  and 
died  in  the  same  house  where  he  was  born. 
May  20,  1865.  In  early  life  he  went  to  sea, 
and  with  his  active  brain  and  energy  he  be- 
came master  of  a  ship  about  the  time  he  was 
twenty-one  years  old.  Known  to  be  scrupu- 
lously honest,  being  a  thorough  sailor,  and  pos- 
sessing good  business  talents,  his  services  were 
in  demand.  Some  of  the  incidents  in  the  life 
of  Captain  Jordan  were  found  in  an  old  memo- 
randum book  in  the  captain's  own  handwri- 
ting. From  this  it  appears  that  the  brig 
"Fame,"  Ichabod  Jordan,  master,  sailed  from 
Portland  to  Tobago  for  Portland,  May  20, 
following.  On  the  23rd  of  the  same  month 
she  was  taken  by  a  British  ship  called  the 
"Favorite,"  commanded  by  Arthur  Wood, 
Esq.,  who  took  from  the  brig  her  captain  and 
his  papers,  put  a  prize-master  on  board  and 
ordered  her  to  Granada.  But  a  few  days  later 
the  mate  of  the  "Fame,"  with  his  people,  dis- 


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possessed  the  prize-master  and  his  people  of 
the  brig,  sent  them  ashore  in  a  boat,  and  then 
put  the  brig  for  Portland.  On  June  i6th  they 
were  taken  by  a  French  schooner  called  the 
"Flying  Fish,"  and  carried  to  Santo  Domingo. 
The  ship  was  condemned,  the  authority  stated, 
for  want  of  captain  and  papers,  and  taken  to 
Porto  Rico,  and  there  sold.  The  vessel  and 
cargo,  which  was  principally  rum,  were  valued 
at  $20,158.19.  In  1805  Captain  Jordan  com- 
manded the  American  ship  "Ocean,"  which 
was  a  vessel  of  246  tons,  a  large  vessel  for 
that  time,  and  went  to  Stockholm,  Sweden. 
The  event  of  the  first  arrival  of  an  American 
ship  at  that  place  was  celebrated  by  the  city, 
and  the  King  and  Queen  came  on  board  and 
dined.  In  the  war  of  1812  Captain  Jordan 
was  a  prisoner  on  the  British  frigate  "Boxer" 
at  the  time  of  the  engagement  of  that  ship 
with  the  United  States  frigate  "Enterprise." 
A  short  time  after  the  close  of  the  war  with 
England,  he  gave  up  going  to  sea,  and  settled 
on  the  old  homestead  of  his  father  at  Saco. 
He  became  a  prominent  politician — a  Demo- 
crat of  the  stamp  of  Jefferson  and  Jackson. 
He  voted  for  Washington  for  president,  and 
for  every  president  to  Lincoln.  In  the  war 
of  the  rebellion  he  was  a  war  Democrat.  He 
reached  the  great  age  of  ninety-four  years, 
five  months,  twenty-six  days,  and  died  in  the 
same  house  in  which  his  father  had  died. 
Captain  Ichabod  Jordan  married,  February  5, 
1797,  at  Saco,  Mary,  daughter  of  James  Cof- 
fin, who  died  October  10,  1859,  aged  eighty- 
five  years.  They  had :  Tristram,  Mary, 
James  Coffin,  Ichabod  Goodwin,  Enoch  Cof- 
fin, George  Vaughan  and  Lawrence. 

(\T)  Captain  James  Coffin,  second  son  of 
Captain  Ichabod  and  Mary  (Coffin)  Jordan, 
was  born  December  16,  1803,  and  died  June 
28,  1839,  i"  the  city  of  New  York.  Captain 
Jordan  left  home  to  go  to  sea.  The  ship  he 
was  to  command  was  about  ready  to  leave 
New  York  on  a  long  voyage.  On  his  arrival 
at  New  York  he  was  taken  suddenly  sick  and 
died  in  a  short  time.  His  body  was  brought 
to  Saco  and  buried  in  the  family  cemetery. 
He  married.  May  27,  1839,  at  Portland,  Mary 
C,  daughter  of  Wintlirop  and  Mary  J.  Stan- 
wood,  of  Portland.  They  had  one  child,  James 
Coffin,  whose  sketch  follows. 

(VII)  James  Coffin  (2),  only  son  of  James 
Coffin  (i)  and  IMary  C.  (Stanwood)  Jor- 
dan, was  born  in  Portland,  January  22,  1840. 
He  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  matches, 
became  proprietor  of  the  Star  Match  factory, 
and  was  very  successful  in  business.  He  mar- 
ried,   September  20,    1861,   at   Standish,   Vir- 


ginia H.  Barker,  who  was  born  in  Hiram, 
May  20,  1841,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Zil- 
pah  Barker.  Six  children  were  born  to  thetn: 
Samuel  Spring,  Marion  Curtis,  Margaret 
Stanwood,  Gertrude  Bradford,  Mary  Wood 
and  Robert  Richworth. 

(\TII)  Alary  Wood,  youngest  child  of  James 
Coffin  (2)  and  \'irginia  H.  (Barker)  Jor- 
dan, was  born  in  Portland,  November  29, 
1879,  ^^^  married  Arthur  Sewall  Bosworth. 
(See   Bosworth    I\'.) 


The  Crookers  of  Maine  are 
CROOKER  principally  of  Scotch  extrac- 
tion and  descended  from 
tliree  brothers  who  settled  in  1748  in  that 
part  of  the  province  of  Maine  which  was  then 
the  frontier.  From  Isaiah  has  descended  a 
large  progeny,  several  of  whom  have  been 
ship-builders  and  prominent  citizens. 

(I)  Isaiah  Crooker  was  born  in  Glasgow, 
Scotland,  in  1730,  and  was  one  of  five  broth- 
ers who  settled  at  Scituate  on  Cape  Cod,  fam- 
ily tradition  states.  It  is  further  stated  that 
two  of  the  brothers  remained  there,  an<l  Isaiah 
and  the  other  two  took  a  vessel  and  went  to 
Maine.  They  were  shipwrecked  in  coming 
past  Sequin,  and  although  none  of  them  were 
lost  they  were  separated.  One  was  a  doctor 
and  settled  somewhere  east  of  the  Kennebec; 
one  went  into  Oxford  county,  and  Isaiah  went 
to  Longreach,  which  then  comprised  only  half 
a  dozen  farms.  At  eighteen  years  of  age 
Isaiah  Crooker  came  to  Bath,  at  that  time 
being  the  possessor  of  ten  thousand  dollars, 
a  large  sum  for  that  day.  Realizing  that 
every  man  should  have  a  trade  at  his  com- 
mand, he  served  an  apprenticeship  as  a  black- 
smith, which  trade  embraced  carriage-making, 
carpentering,  house-shoring,  and,  above  all, 
nail-making,  he  being  an  expert  at  the  latter, 
which  in  those  days  was  considered  a  great 
feat  to  do  well.  In  1761,  when  the  first  church 
was  built  at  Witch  Spring  Burying  Ground, 
on  land  given  by  Nathaniel  Donnell,  men- 
tioned hereafter,  a  large  two-story  structure, 
Mr.  Crooker's  donation  to  it  was  all  the  nails 
used  in  the  building,  w'hich  were  made  bv  his 
ov.  n  hands.  Fie  was  also  a  ship-builder,  and 
the  last  vessel  built  by  him  was  constructed 
on  a  spot  a  short  distance  north  of  Center 
street,  near  a  stream  which  ran  in  a  valley 
now  occupied  by  the  track  of  the  Maine  Cen- 
tral railroad.  The  yard  was  on  the  west 
bank  of  the  stream.  He  bought  a  large  tract 
of  land,  four  miles  in  length,  extending  from 
the  Kennebec  river  on  the  east  to  the  New 
Meadows  river  on  the  west,  with  the  exception 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


of  a  few  lots  which  were  already  occupied 
and  cultivated.  His  purchase  included  Rocky- 
hill.  On  this  he  erected  a  large  house,  called 
Crookcr's  Folly,  on  account  of  its  size.  Mr. 
Crooker  was  one  of  the  earliest  and  most 
prominent  citizens  of  Bath,  residing  until  his 
death  on  High  street.  He  died  September  15, 
1795,  aged  sixty-five  years.  Fie  was  a  very 
heavy  man  and  weighed  350  pounds ;  he  had 
a  chair  made  to  order,  which  is  still  a  clioice 
relic  of  his  descendants.  Flis  six  sons  were 
all  stalwart  men,  standing  over  six  feet  in 
their  stockings,  with  the  exception  of  one 
short  one ;  one  son  weighed  400  pounds. 

Isaiah  Crooker.  married  (first)  October  24, 
1750,  Betsey  Philbrook,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Philbrook,  and  had  one  child,  Priscilla,  born 
in  1757,  who  married  a  Lunt.  Mrs.  Crooker 
died  not  long  after  her  marriage.  Mr.  Crooker 
married  (second)  in  July,  1760,  Hannah 
(Harding)  McKenney,  a  widow  from  Truro, 
by  whom  he  had  ten  children:  i.  Isaiah,  born 
in  1762,  who  married  a  McDonald.  2.  Hul- 
dah,  born  May  2,  1724,  married  John  Whit- 
more.  3.  Jonathan  Harding,  see  below.  4. 
Elizabeth,  born  March  29,  1769,  married  Will- 
iam Webb.  5.  Gamalia,  born  May  20,  1771, 
married  Martha  Foster.  6.  Timothy,  who  died 
at  sea.  7.  Francis  Winter,  born  June  27, 
1775,  married  Jane  McCobb.  8.  William 
Swanton,  born  in  1777,  married  a  Jewett.  9. 
Zachariah,  born  in  1778,  married  a  Merritt. 
10.  Hannah,  born  1781.  married  General 
Denny  McCobb.  General  Denny  and  Jane 
McCobb  were  brother  and  sister. 

(II)  Jonathan  Harding,  second  son  of  Isa- 
iah and  Hannah  (Harding)  (McKenney) 
Crooker,  was  born  in  Bath,  October,  1767.  He 
was  a  ship-builder  by  occupation ;  he  learned 
the  blacksmith  trade,  in  accordance  with  the 
wishes  of  his  father,  who  had  all  his  sons 
learn  a.  trade.  Fie  resided  in  Bath.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  Duncan,  who  was  born  in  1774, 
died  1858,  aged  eighty-four  years.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Duncan,  surgeon 
in  the  revolutionary  war,  who  was  one  of  the 
first  physicians  of  the  town  of  Bath.  Dr. 
Duncan  married  Hannah  Donnell,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Donnell,  who  came  from  Old  York 
before  1734;  he  was  a  son  of  Nathaniel  Don- 
nell. of  York.  Jonathan  H.  and  Hannah 
(Duncan)  Crooker  had  children:  Samuel 
Duncan,  Charles,  see  below,  Lydia  Duncan, 
John,  Arthur  Harding,  William  Donnell. 

(HI)  Charles,  second  son  of  Jonathan  H. 
and  Hannah  (Duncan)  Crooker,  was  born  in 
Bath,  September  20.  1797,  died  February  14, 
1877,  aged  eighty.     He  attended  the  common 


schools  while  a  youth,  and  after  arriving  at 
manhood  engaged  in  building  vessels  with 
James  Church,  under  the  firm  name  of  Church 
&  Crooker,  and  afterward  built  with  his 
brother,  William  D.,  under  the  firm  name  of 
C.  &  W.  D.  Crooker,  until  1853,  when  he  re- 
tired from  the  activities  of  business.  He  was 
a  Republican  and  a  staunch  supporter  of  his 
party.  Flis  residence  was  on  South  street. 
He  married  Rachel  Sewall,  1818,  by  whom  he 
had  children :  Lucy  Holmes,  died  in  infancy ; 
Charles  H.,  died  in  infancy;  Emma  Duneen, 
Juliette  Marsh,  Adelaide  Lydia. 

(IV)  Juliette  Marsh,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Rachel  (Sewall)  Crooker,  was  born  in 
Bath,  March  11,  1839,  died  October  4,  1891. 
She  married  Captain  Frederic  Stead  Bos- 
worth,  of  Bath.     (See  Bosworth  III.) 


The  armorial  bearings  of  this 
CRANE  family  were  ar.  a  crane  sa. 
standing  on  a  staff  raguly  in 
base  vert.  The  name  appeared  in  England  in 
1272,  when  there  was  a  William  de  Crane. 
The  cognomen  is  derived  from  the  town  of 
Crannes,  in  Maine,  an  ancient  province  of 
northern  France.  Crannes,  or  Craon,  has  for 
its  root  the  Gaelic  cran,  meaning  water,  and 
the  birrl  of  that  name  received  its  appellation, 
doubtless,  because  it  frequented  watery  places. 
The  Cranes  were  without  doubt  Normans  who 
came  over  with  the  Conqueror,  who  is  said 
to  have  started  from  Crannes  on  the  river 
Oudin.  Cranae  was  an  island  of  Laconia  in 
the  Mediterranean.  Cranus,  a  town  of  Caria, 
in  Asia  Minor,  and  there  was  a  king  of  Ath- 
ens bearing  the  name.  Cranea  was  a  small 
country  in  Greece  on  the  Ionian  sea,  Craneus 
was  the  first  king  of  Macedonia.  Crania  was 
the  ancient  name  of  Tarrius  in  Cilicia,  and 
Crane  a  city  of  Arcadia,  in  Greece.  In  the 
successive  migrations  of  the  population  from 
the  east  and  south  to  the  north  and  west  it  is 
probable  they  carried  with  them  their  local 
geography.  We  can  in  any  event  see  that 
the  name  of  our  family  is  a  most  ancient  one. 
The  English  home  of  the  Cranes  was  in  Suf- 
folk. In  1382  William  Crane,  of  Stow- 
market,  married  Margaret,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Sir  Andrew  Butler,  Knight,  by  wdiich 
he  came  into  possession  of  Chilton  in  the 
Hundred  of  Stowe.  It  remained  in  the  fam- 
ily over  three  hundred  years.  The  line  of 
heirs  is  delineated  for  twelve  generations,  and 
among  them  was  a  long  roll  of  aristocratic 
land  holders. 

(I)   Henry  Crane,  the  .American  forefather 
of  this   race,  was  born   in   England   in    1621, 


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came  to  this  country  and  located  in  Milton, 
Massachusetts,  in  1667.  He  was  an  iron- 
worker. The  house  in  which  he  lived  was  sit- 
uated on  the  north  side  of  Adams  street,  at 
East  Milton,  in  the  rear  and  between  the 
houses  of  W.  Q.  Baxter  and  E.  B.  Andrews. 
The  open  place  in  that  section  was  called 
"Crane's  Plains."  He  married,  in  England, 
Tabitha.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Kinsley,  of  Braintree, 
Massachusetts:  children,  born  in  Milton: 
Benjamin,  Stephen,  John,  Elizabeth,  Ebene- 
zer,  Anna  C.  M.,  Mary,  Mercy  and  Samuel. 
The  children  had  the  limited  advantages  of  a 
farm  home  in  those  early  days.  There  was  a 
sternness  and  simplicity  to  life  then,  but  from 
the  hardships  and  rough  realities  of  that  gen- 
eration were  evolved  the  unflinching  patriots 
of  the  next,  who  successfully  opposed  the  ob- 
noxious oppression  of  the  mother  country. 

(H)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Henry  and  Eliza- 
beth (Kinsley)  Crane,  was  born  August  10, 
1665.  In  August,  1690,  he  enlisted  in  the 
Dorchester  and  Milton  Company  of  seventy- 
five  men,  and  went  with  Sir  William  Phipps' 
disastrous  expedition  to  Quebec.  Of  the  two 
thousand  troops  comprising  the  land  force, 
two  hundred  were  lost,  and  of  the  two  hun- 
dred and  forty-six  that  belonged  to  his  com- 
pany he  was  one  of  the  twenty-nine  that  re- 
turned home.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Talman.  Among  their  children  was 
Abijah. 

(Ill)  Abijah,  twelfth  child  of  Ebenezer  and 
Mary  (Talman)  Crane,  was  born  in  Milton, 
Novemlaer  2,  1714.  He  married  Sarah  Field, 
of  Braintree,  and  after  her  decease  Sarah 
Beverly. 

(I\')  Brigadier-General  John,  third  son  of 
-Abijah  and  Sarah  (Field)  Crane,  was  born  in 
Milton,  December  7,  1744,  and  died  at  Whit- 
ing, Maine,  August  21,  1805.  In  1759  his 
father  was  drafted  as  a  soldier  in  the  French 
war,  but  being  enfeebled  by  his  infirmities, 
John,  then  fifteen,  went  in  the  place  of  him. 
In  1769  he  assisted  Gilbert  Dubois  in  planting 
the  "Paddock  elms,"  which  came  from  Mr. 
Robbins'  farm  on  Brush  Hill.  In  1767  he 
was  in  Boston,  where  he  lived  eighteen  years 
on  Tremont,  opposite  Hollis  street.  In  1773 
he  was  one  of  the  "Boston  Tea-party,"  and 
was  the  only  man  injured  in  the  melee.  He 
was  found  twenty-four  hours  later  in  the  hold 
of  the  vessel,  disabled.  On  removing  his 
boots  there  was  found  therein  a  quantity  of 
tea.  This  was  preserved  by  the  family,  and 
more  than  a  century  afterward  this  very  tea 
was  shown   at  an  exhibition  on   Washington 


street.      In    1774   he   was   commissioned    lieu- 
tenant of  artillery  in  Rhode   Island,  and  the 
next  year  the  lieutenant  marched  on   Boston 
with    the    Rhode     Island    army.       Lieutenant 
Crane  was  one  of  the  party  with  Major  Vose 
that   burned   the    Boston   light.      In    1776   he 
was  in  the  siege  of  Boston  at  Cambridge  and 
Dorchester  Fleights,  as  major  in  Knox's  ar- 
tillery.    In  August  of  that  year  Major  Crane 
was  at  the  battle  of  Brooklyn ;  in  September 
he  lost  a  portion  of  his  foot  by  a  cannon-ball 
from  the  "Rose''  frigate,  in  the  East  river,  and 
came  near  dying  from  lockjaw;  in  December 
he  was  in  Boston  again,  building  powder-mills. 
In  1777  he  was  promoted  to  the  colonelcy  of 
the  i\Iassachusetts  regiment,  and  led  in  person 
that  body  of  men  at  the  battles  of  Monmouth, 
Branclywine,  Germantown  and  Red  Bank.     In 
17S0  Colonel   Crane  took  part  in   the  unsuc- 
cessful   pursuit   of    Benedict    Arnold,    and    in 
1783  was  commissioned  brigadier-general  for 
active  and  meritorious  service.     He  was  con- 
sidered   the    most    expert    artillerist    on    the 
American  side.    General  Crane  went  to  Quod- 
dy,  Maine,  now  Lubec,  in  1784,  and  was  the 
first   merchant  on    Moose   Island,   now   East- 
port.     In    1786   he   removed   to   Orangetown, 
now  Whiting,  Maine.     He  was  appointed  the 
first  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  for 
Washington   county.     The  name   of  his   wife 
was  Sarah,  and  their  children  were :    Abijah, 
Isaac,  John,  Charlotta. 

(V)  Abijah  (2),  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
Crane,  married  Rgbecca  Crane.  Children : 
William  P.,  Isaac,  Abigail,  Rebecca,  Zebiah, 
Lucretia,  Edward  B.  and  Abijah. 

(\T)  Abijah  (3),  son  of  Abijah  (2)  and 
Rebecca  (Crane)  Crane,  lived  in  Whiting.  He 
married  Lydia  T.  Gilpatrick,  and  had :  Ada- 
laide,  Rufus  T.,  James  E.,  Leander,  Hancock, 
John  Wesley  and  Lucy  H. 

(VII)  Rufus  Trussell,  first  son  of  Abijah 
(3)  and  Lydia  T.  (Gilpatrick)  Crane,  was 
born  in  Whiting,  February  25,  1832.  He  re- 
moved to  Machias,  and  was  a  druggist  there 
for  fifty  years.  He  married  (first)  .A.ngelia 
Gardner,  (second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
William  S.  Peavey.  Children  :  Edna  P.  and 
Frank  T. 

(Vni)  Frank  Trussell,  son  of  Rufus  T. 
and  Elizabeth  (Peavey)  Crane,  was  born  at 
Machias,  April  n,  1869.  He  received  his  pre- 
liminary training  in  the  public  school,  grad- 
uating from  the  Machias  high,  and  from  the 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1891. 
He  immediately  went  into  the  drug  business 
with  his  father,  and  is  now  general  manager 
of  the  same.    Mr.  Crane  is  a  member  of  Har- 


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:TATE  of  MAINE. 


wood  Lodge,  No.  91,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  Macliias,  of  which  he  is 
senior  deacon  :  he  has  been  accorded  the  cap- 
itular degree  in  the  Washington  Chapter,  of 
which  he  has  been  liigh  priest :  he  was  admit- 
ted to  the  rites  of  St.  Elmo  Commandery,  No. 
18,  Knights  Templar,  of  which  he  is  past  com- 
mander ;  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Lodge 
of  Perfection,  and  has  taken  ten  York  de- 
grees in  Masonry  and  fourteen  in  the  Scot- 
tish Rites.  He  is  a  member,  too,  of  the  Ben 
Hur  Lodge  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  of 
which  he  is  past  chancellor :  of  the  Eastern 
Star,  of  which  he  is  past  patron.  In  addition 
to  these,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  of  which  he  has  been 
president.  Lie  belongs  to  the  Sons  of  Amer- 
ican Revolution.  He  is  a  believer  in  the  Jack- 
sonian  principles  of  democracy,  and  has  been 
member  of  the  Democratic  county  committee. 
Mr.  Crane  was  chairman  of  the  JMachias 
school  board  for  five  years,  and  he  is  at  pres- 
ent chief  of  the  city  fire  department. 

Mr.  Crane  married  Bertha  I.,  daughter  of 
Thomas  B.  and  Lucia  (Tuller)  Magie,  of  New 
Haven,  Connecticut.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution,  past  regent  of 
the  Hannah  Weston  Chapter,  and  past  matron 
of  Machias  Chajiter,  O.  E.  S.,  and  at  present 
associate  grand  conductress  of  the  Grand 
Chapter  of  ]\laine.  The  Cranes  are  Congre- 
gational people,  and  Mrs.  Crane  is  superin- 
tendent of  the  Machias  Valley  Junior  Chris- 
tian Endeavor  Society.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crane 
have  three  children  :  Grace  Magie,  born  Sep- 
tember 4,  1893;  Lucia  Elizabeth,  September 
22,  1897,  and  Edna  Peavey,  December,  li 
They  are  attending  the  public  schools. 


Hezekiah  Crane,  immigrant  an- 
CRANE     cestor    of    this    branch    of    the 

Crane  family,  was  born  in  Wind- 
sor. Counecticrt,  1773,  died  at  Constable,  New 
York,  April  30,  18 10.  He  married,  at  Weth- 
ersfield,  \'er!Uont,  November  29,  1796,  Pru- 
dence Lake,  born  at  Rindge,  New  Hampshire, 
February  24,  1778,  died  July  19,  1853,  daugh- 
ter of  Enos  and  Prudence  (Page)  Lake. 
Enos  Lake  was  born  at  Topsfield,  Massachu- 
setts, October  26,  1756,  married  at  Rindge, 
New  Hampshire,  December  18,  1777,  Pru- 
dence Page,  born  March  9,  1760,  at  Groton. 
Massachusetts,  died  September  16,  1794.  Chil- 
dren of  Enos  and  Prudence  (Page)  Lake: 
Prudence,  aforementioned ;  Enos,  David,  Hit- 
ta,  Abigail,  Sewall,  Rebecca,  Silas  and  Sally. 
twms.     Children   of  Hezekiah   and    Prudence 


(Lake)  Crane:  i.  Prudence,  born  in  Wethers- 
field,  January  16,  1798,  married  a  Mr.  Davis, 
of  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  and  had  two 
sons  and  two  daughters.  2.  Hezekiah,  born 
in  Wethersfield,  August  25,  1799,  died  March 
18,  1800.  3.  Gilman,  born  in  Wethersfield, 
June  30,  1801,  died  July  21,  1888;  married, 
August  13,  1S24,  Rosalinda  Ginn,  of  Orland, 
Maine,  daughter  of  Abraham  Ginn ;  chil- 
dren :  Flezekiah,  Harriet  C,  Hezekiah,  Pru- 
dence, Rosalinda,  Gilman,  Catherine,  Alpheus, 
Laura.  4.  Harriet,  born  in  Eden,  Mt.  Desert 
Island,  July  31,  1803,  married  a  Mr.  Choate. 
5.  Oberia,  born  Eden,  April  16,  1807,  died 
i\Iay  16,  1807.  6.  Oberia  Hill,  born  in  Eden, 
June  26,  1808,  died  at  South  Reading,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  i,  1854;  married  Calvin 
C.  Salsbury,  of  Eden,  in  1833,  and  had  two 
daughters,  Frances  and  Laura.  7.  Sewall 
Lake,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Sewall  Lake,  son  of  Hezekiah  and 
Prudence  (Lake)  Crane,  was  born  in  Eden, 
Mt.  Desert,  April  13,  1816,  died  March  16, 
1856.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Bucks- 
port,  Maine.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and  a 
Republican.  He  married  Elizabeth  Lewis 
Howes,  of  Bucksport,  born  June  15,  1816,  died 
December  23,  1885,  daughter  of  Solomon 
Lewis  Llowes,  of  Provincetown,  Massachu- 
setts, and  of  Sarah  (Rich)  Howes,  who  was  a 
native  of  Wellfleet,  Massachusetts.  These 
parents  were  the  representatives  of  some  very 
strong  old  New  England  families.  Solomon 
L.  Howes  was  born  December  18,  1779,  died 
March  16,  1856;  his  wife  was  born  August  30, 
1778,  died  May  22,  1862.  Solomon  L.  Howes, 
father  of  Mrs.  Sewall  Lake  Crane,  came  to 
Maine  when  a  young  man,  settling  at  North 
Bucksport.  He  became  a  master  mariner.  He 
was  a  Whig  politically,  and  he  and  his  wife 
were  members  of  the  Methodist  church.  They 
are  buried  at  Winterport,  Maine.  He  married 
Sarah  Rich,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
eleven  sons  and  one  daughter,  the  only  survi- 
vor (1908)  being  Sarah,  widow  of  Sylvester 
Snowman,  of  Bucksport,  Maine.  She  is  now 
in  her  ninetieth  year  and  remarkably  active 
and  well  preserved.  She  is  tenderly  loved  and 
cherished  in  the  home  of  her  son,  Walter 
Snowman,  in  Bucksport.  Abner  Howes,  the 
father  of  Solomon  Lewis  Howes,  having  been 
a  brave  soldier  in  the  revolutionary  war  from 
Provincetown,  Massachusetts,  was  killed  in 
battle.  The  children  of  Sewall  Lake  Crane 
were:  Clifton  Parker,  Charles  L.,  Joshua  L., 
Sewall  Lake  Jr.,  Albert  A.,  Sarah  R.,  who 
married     Gilman    Campbell,    of    Winterport, 


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Maine:  Caroline  E.,  who  married  Thomas 
Houston,  Marcia,  who  married  Williard  S. 
Dilloway ;  Ella  and  George  Dana. 

(Ill)  George  Dana,  son  of  Sevvall  Lake 
and  Elizabeth  Lewis  (Howes)  Crane,  was 
born  in  Frankfort,  Maine.  August  27,  1847, 
and  is  now  a  well-known  resident  of  Bucks- 
port.  He  studied  diligently  in  the  schools  of 
P'rankfort,  now  W'interport.  until  he  was  four- 
teen years  of  age  and  then  became  a  clerk  at 
Bangor.  He  enlisted  in  the  LTnion  army  from 
Frankfort,  February  11,  1864,  in  Company  D, 
the  Fourteenth  Maine  Infantry  Volunteers, 
under  the  command  of  Captain  John  D.  Quim- 
by,  and  was  honorably  discharged  at  Hilton 
Head,  South  Carolina,  on  the  28th  of  July, 
1865,  having  been  a  brave  soldier  of  the 
truest  type.  He  took  an  active  part  in  many 
important  battles,  among  these  being  the  bat- 
tle at  Winchester,  Virginia,  September  19, 
1864,  Fisher's  Hill,  September  22,  1864,  and 
Cedar  Creek,  October  22,  1864,  and  is  now 
a  United  States  pensioner.  After  the  civil 
war  Mr.  Crane  was  employed  by  the  Penob- 
scot Express  Company  for  two  years,  and 
then  went  to  sea  for  six  years,  making  voy- 
ages to  foreign  ports,  and  rising  from  a  sea- 
man before  the  mast  to  first  mate  of  the  bark 
"Libertad,"  commanded  by  Captain  William 
Henry  Jordan,  of  Bucksport.  On  June  3, 
1872,  J^lr.  Crane  entered  the  service  of  the 
European  and  North  American  Railway  Com- 
pany, which  is  now  a  part  of  the  Maine  Cen- 
tral system,  as  a  telegraph  operator,  was  pro- 
moted to  train-despatcher  and  held  that  po- 
sition for  eight  years  and  a  half.  He  resigned 
this  position  to  accept  that  of  agent  and 
operator  of  the  iMaine  Central  railroad  at  Ells- 
worth, remaining  there  for  six  years,  when,  in 
1890,  he  was  transferred  to  Bucksport  in  the 
same  capacity,  and  is  still  the  very  popular 
station-master  in  that  town.  ■  Mr.  Crane  is 
Independent  in  religion  and  politics.  He  is  a 
very  enthusiastic  Free  and  Accepted  Mason ; 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Lodge  No.  47,  Spring- 
field, Maine.  He  is  also  an  Odd  Fellow,  and 
a  member  of  Fort  Knox  Lodge,  No.  127,  of 
Bucksport,  being  past  noble  grand  of  that 
lodge.  He  was  elected  to  the  ofiice  of  sec- 
ond selectman  of  Bucksport  in  1899,  and  as 
first  selectman  and  chairman  of  the  board  in 
the  years  1900-01-02-03-04-07.  Mr.  Crane 
married,  August  27,  1873,  Nellie  M.  Hayes, 
who  died  July  2,  1908.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Hayes,  of  a  strong  old  English 
family,  and  Mary  Ellen  Hayes,  who  came  of  a 
sturdy  Irish  family.  Mr.  Crane's  children 
were  two:    i.  Charles,  who  died  at  the  age  of 


three  and  one-half  years.  2.  Dr.  Harold 
Hayes  Crane,  a  prominent  physician  of  Ban- 
gor; he  was  graduated  from  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1903  ;  he  married  Lucy  Sawyer  Hink- 
ley  of  Millbridge,  Maine.  Blanche  Nellie 
Hayes,  the  adopted  daughter  of  George  Dana 
Crane,  married  Reginald  H.  Muir.  of  Boston. 

Amos  Bartlett  Haggett  was 
HAGGETT  born  in  Edgecomb,  Maine, 
October  23,  1835,  and  is  a 
son  of  Amos  Haggett,  who  was  born  in  Essex 
county.  New  York,  and  a  grandson  of  Benja- 
min Haggett,  a  soldier  of  the  continental  army 
during  the  revolutionary  war. 

(I)  Benjamin  Haggett  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land and  came  to  America  previous  to  the  rev- 
olution. He  settled  at  Ticonderoga  in  the 
province  of  New  York,  in  a  region  which  was 
the  scene  of  frequent  visits  of  both  the  Ameri- 
can and  British  armies,  and  there,  too,  was 
fought  one  of  the  memorable  battles  of  that 
great  struggle  for  national  independence.  As 
has  been  mentioned  Benjamin  Haggett  was  a 
soldier  of  the  American  army  in  that  war  and 
bore  his  part  well.  In  domestic  life  he  was  a 
farmer  in  old  Essex  county,  living  there  until 
1790,  when  he  removed  to  Maine  and  settled 
in  the  town  of  Edgecomb,  where  he  died.  His 
children  were :  William,  Amos,  Benjamin, 
John,  Mary,  Sarah  and  Ann. 

(II)  Amos,  son  of  Benjamin  Haggett,  was 
born  at  Ticonderoga,  New  York,  July  29, 
1788,  and  died  in  Edgecomb,  Maine,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1863.  He  was  a  farmer  and  lived 
nearly  his  entire  lifetime  in  this  state.  He 
married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Polly 
Merry;  children:     i.  Martha,  born  February 

9,  1813.  2.  Matilda,  July  15,  1815.  3.  Mary 
Ann,  July  24,  181 7.  4.  Li  da,  November  18, 
1818.  5.  Samuel,  twin  with  Lida,  November 
18,  1818.  6.  Kezia,  November  14,  1820.  7. 
Sarah  Ann,  May  26,  1822.  8.  Eliza  Jane, 
February  23,  1824.    9.  Nancy,  April  25,  1826. 

10.  Nandana,  February  20,  1828.  11.  George 
K.,  January  3,  1830.    12.  Betsey,  April  3,  1833. 

13.  Amos  B.,  October  23,  1835,  see  forward. 

14.  Josiah  K.,  June  3,  1838. 

(III)  Amos  Bartlett,  youngest  but  one  of 
the  sons  and  daughters  of  Amos  and  Abigail 
(Merry)  Haggett,  was  born  October  23,  1835, 
and  for  the  last  more  than  fifty  years  has  been 
closely  identified  with  the  great  shipbuilding 
industry  of  Bath,  Maine,  and  in  manv  other 
ways  has  been  an  important  factor  in  the  busi- 
ness life  of  that  city.  His  young  life  was 
spent  in  the  town  of  Edgecomb,  where  he  was 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


born  and  received  his  early  education,  and  at 
the   age   of   about   sixteen   years    he   went    to 
Damariscotta,  learned  the  trade  of  ship  carpen- 
tering there  and  also  acquired  a  good  under- 
standing of  the  business  of  shipbuilding  in  the 
yards  of  Metcalf  &  Norris,  famous  shipbuild- 
ers in  their  day.     After  about  four  years  in 
the  yards  at  Damariscotta   Mr.  Haggett  re- 
moved to  Bath  and  for  the  next  five  years  was 
employed  by  the  shipbuilding  firm  of  Trufant 
&  Drummond,  then,  beginning  in  1865,  he  be- 
came connected  with  the  yards  of  Gross,  Saw- 
yer &  Packard,  at  first  in  the  capacity  of  prac- 
tical workman,  then  as  superintendent  or  fore- 
man of  the  firm's  extensive  works,  and  later 
as  a  member  of  the  firm ;  the  practical  man  of 
the  firm,  with  a  thorough  understanding  of  the 
business   of   shipbuilding   from   the   laying  of 
the  keel  to  the  launching  of  the  completed  ves- 
sel and  the  finishing  work  after  the  hull  was 
afloat.     In  the  course  of  time  he  came  to  be 
the  head  of  the  firm  and  virtually  directed  its 
great  business  enterprises;  and  later,  in  1898, 
when  the  former  firm  reorganized  and  became 
the  New  England  Shipbuilding  Company,  Mr. 
Haggett  was  its  largest  stockholder,  one  of  its 
directors,  and  general  superintendent  of  con- 
struction work  in  the  yards.    This  is  his  pres- 
ent relation  to  the  company  and  its  business, 
and  it  may  be  of  interest  to  mention  the  fact 
at  this  time  that  since  1865,  the  year  in  which 
he  came  to  Bath,  Mr.  Haggett  has  had  charge 
of  the  work  of  construction  of  three  hundred 
and  twenty  vessels  of  all  kinds — ships,  barks, 
barges,  schooners  and  steam  craft ;  and  of  this 
total  number  there  have  been  several  clipper 
steamers  which  were  built  after  designs  origi- 
nated and  plans  drawn  by  Mr.  Haggett  him- 
self, and  they  have  been  numbered  among  the 
most  serviceable  vessels  engaged  in  the  coast 
trade.     From   this   it   must   be   seen   that  the 
many  years  of  persevering  efYort  have  not  been 
spent  in  vain,  have  not  gone  without  their  just 
reward,   and   it   is   equally   clear   that   not   he 
alone,  but   the  city  of    Bath   as   well  and   its 
wage-working   people   have   benefited   by   his 
business  enterprise  and  capacity  to  build  up 
and  successfully  direct  large  operations. 

But  his  time  has  not  been  given  exclusively 
to  personal  concerns,  for  he  has  long  been 
identified  in  various  ways  with  the  best  in- 
terests and  institutions  of  the  city.  Political 
afifairs,  too,  have  claimed  and  received  a  share 
of  his  attention,  he  having  served  two  years 
as  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  and  two 
years  in  the  city  council.  He  is  a  Republican 
by  principle,  a  firm  party  adherent  with  the 


fortunate  capacity  of  being  able  to  express 
his  views  freely  on  all  public  questions, 
whether  of  local  or  general  import,  but  he  is 
not  and  never  has  been  in  any  sense  a  poli- 
tician or  a  seeker  after  office,  and  never  in- 
trudes his  opinions  in  the  presence  of  unwilling 
hearers.  Mr.  Haggett  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Bath  Savings  Institu- 
tion and  the  Bath  Trust  Company,  a  director 
and  vice-president  of  the  Bath  Building  and 
Loan  Association,  a  member  of  Arcadia 
Lodge,  No.  13,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  a  reg- 
ular attendant  at  the  services  of  the  North 
Street  Baptist  Church  and  a  generous  con- 
tributor to  its  support  and  the  maintenance  of 
its  benevolent  and  charitable  dependencies.  He 
is  known,  too,  as  a  liberal  and  public-spirited 
citizen,  considerate  of  the  rights  of  all  men  and 
especially  of  the  hundreds  and  perhaps  thou- 
sands who  have  been  employed  in  the  ship- 
yards in  which  he  has  for  so  many  years  been 
interested. 

He  married  (first)  in  1855,  Lucy,  daughter 
of  the  late  Moses  Benner.  She  died  in  1881, 
and  he  married  (second)  in  1882,  Elizabeth 
A.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Stimpson.  Seven 
children  were  born  of  his  first,  and  three  of  his 
second  marriage:  i.  Ella,  January  27,  1857, 
married  William  Cahill,  of  Bath.  2.  Edith, 
March  29,  1859,  married  John  Madden,  of 
Bath.  3.  Frank  H.,  January  27,  1861.  4. 
Clara,  died  young.  5.  Annie,  died  young.  6. 
William  B.,  May  18,  1869,  married  Katherine 
McCay.  Mr.  Haggett  is  foreman  of  the  ma- 
chine department  of  the  Bath  Iron  Works.  7. 
Lucy  E.,  May  2,  1872,  married  R.  G.  Hillman, 
of  Bangor,  Maine.  8.  Benjamin  S.,  October 
2,  1883,  graduated  A.  B.,  Bowdoin  College, 
1905;  now  principal  of  Asbury  Park  (New 
Jersey)  high  school.  9.  Fred  B.,  August  23, 
1886,  now  bookkeeper  for  the  W.  O.  Parker 
Company  of  Bath.  10.  Amos  Bartlett  Jr., 
February  18,  1894,  student. 


According  to  the  best-preserved 
REMICK     records  in  the  Remick  family, 

the  name  was  originally  spelled 
Remish  and  the  ancestor  of  the  line  in  Amer- 
ica is  said  to  have  come  from  Holland. 

(I)  Christian  Remick,  immigrant,  came 
from  Holland  at  an  early  day  and  settled  in 
Kittery,  Maine.  He  married  and  had  a  son 
Jacob. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Christian  Remick,  was 
born  in  Kittery,  November  23,  1660.  He 
was  a  ship-builder  and  farmer.  He  died  1745- 
He  had  a  son  John. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1233 


(III)  John,  son  of  Jacob  Remick,  was  born 
in  Kittery,  October  7,  1692.  He  had  a  son 
Enoch. 

( lY)  Enoch,  son  of  John  Remick,  was  born 
in  Kittery,  April  i,  1730,  died  May  11,  1800. 
He  married  Abigail  Trefethen.  They  had  six 
sons  and  four  daughters,  among  whom  was  a 
son  William. 

(V)  William,  son  of  Enoch  Remick,  mar- 
ried Abigail  Gilman,  and  had  the  following 
children:  i.  Jacob  Gilman,  born  in  Tamworth, 
New  Hampshire,  March  17,  1798,  married 
Hannah  Shaw.  2.  Samuel,  born  Tamworth. 
3.  Daniel,  see  forward.  4.  Susan,  born  in  In- 
dustry, New  Hampshire,  August  7,  1808,  mar- 
ried, August  12,  1829,  Shubael  Stevenson.  5. 
Louisa,  never  married.  6.  Catherine  Board- 
man,  born  in  Industry,  September  14,  1810, 
married  John  Wilkins  Rice.  7.  George,  of 
Orrington,  unmarried. 

(\T)  Daniel,  son  of  William  Remick.  born 
July  I,  1801,  in  Tamworth,  New  Hampshire, 
removed  to  the  town  of  Industry,  ■Maine,  at  an 
early  age,  where  he  became  a  very  worthy  citi- 
zen. Tie  was  a  very  ingenious  cabinetmaker. 
He  married,  June  14,  1840,  Rhecardo  Tom- 
son  Sherburne,  who  came  from  England  to 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  the  year  1822,  when 
she  was  eleven  years  of  age.  From  thence 
she  removed  to  Castine,  Maine,  and  later  on 
to  Bucksport.  She  was  a  woman  of  great 
strength  of  character.  The  children  were;  i. 
Mary  S..  born  June  24,  1843,  married  George 
F.  Peaks.  2.  Anne  Frances,  February  7,  1845, 
died  October  i,  1866.  3.  Alice,  1847,  married 
Charles  B.  Morse,  who  is  deceased.  4.  Will- 
iam Arthur,  see  forward. 

(VII)  William  Arthur,  son  of  Daniel  and 
Rhecardo  Tomson  (Sherburne)  Remick,  was 
born  in  Bucksport,  August  8,  1849.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Bucksport 
and  for  a  time  was  a  student  at  the  East  Maine 
Conference  Seminary  in  Bucksport.  He  went 
to  sea  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  and  fol- 
lowed this  life  until  six  years  later,  soon  be- 
coming an  "able  bodied  seaman,  and  finally 
rising  to  be  the  very  efficient  first  mate  of  a 
fine  ship."  He  then  returned  to  Bucksport  and 
applied  his  wonderful  energy  and  clear- 
sightedness about  business  methods  to  the  fur- 
niture and  upholstering  business,  in  which  he 
became  engaged  in  the  year  1874,  and  has 
been  very  successful  in  all  the  years  since 
then.  Mr.  Remick  was  town  clerk  of  Bucks- 
port  for  thirteen  years,  from  1887  to  1899.  He 
was  collector  of  taxes  from  1888  to  1900.  He 
was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  in  1888  and 
still  holds  that  office.     In   1898  he  was  ap- 


pointed recorder  of  Western  Hancock  Munici- 
pal Court,  and  his  term  of  office  will  not  ex- 
pire until  January,  1910.  The  jurisdiction  of 
this  court  extends  over  fourteen  towns  :  Bucks- 
port,  Orland,  Penobscot,  Castine,  Blue  Hill, 
Deer  Isle,  Stonington,  Brooksville,  Dedham, 
\'erona,  Sargentville,  Swan's  Island,  Sedgwick 
and  Brookline.  He  is  a  very  enthusiastic 
Mason,  being  a  member  of  Felicity  Blue 
Lodge,  No.  19,  of  Bucksport,  which  is  one  of 
the  oldest  Masonic  Blue  Lodges  in  the  state 
of  Maine,  having  been  instituted  in  the  year 
1809.  He  is  past  master  of  this  lodge,  and 
has  also  filled  most  of  the  subordinate  offices 
in  this  lodge.  He  is  also  a  Chapter  Mason, 
being  a  member  of  Hancock  Royal  Arch  Chap- 
ter. No.  19,  of  Bucksport,  Bangor  Council, 
No.  5,  Blanquefort  Commandery,  No.  13, 
Knights  Templar,  of  Ellsworth,  Maine,  and 
member  of  Kora  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of 
Lewiston.  He  has  taken  all  the  York  rite 
of  Masonry.  In  politics  Mr.  Remick  is  a 
staunch  Republican,  an  Independent  in  reli- 
gion, and  a  member  of  the  New  England 
Order  of  Protection,  of  Bucksport,  Knowlton 
Lodge,  No.  108.  William  A.  Remick  mar- 
ried (first)  in  1872,  Jennie  M.  Holt,  of  Blue 
Hill,  born  1850,  died  September  24,  1881. 
Two  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  Fan- 
nie and  Charles  Morse  Remick,  both  of  whom 
died  in  infancy.  Married  (second)  May  3, 
1886,  Minnie  Blanche  Dow,  of  Prospect, 
Maine,  daughter  of  George  Washington  Dow. 
They  have  no  children. 


Andrew  Murchie  came  from 
MURCHIE  Paisley,  Scotland,  to  St. 
Stephen,  New  Brunswick,  on 
tlie  east  bank  of  the  St.  Croix  river  and  op- 
posite Calais,  Maine,  about  1784.  He  brought 
with  him  from  Scotland  the  enterprise  and 
thrift  that  belong  to  the  fortunate  holders  of  a 
birthright  in  that  conservative  but  determined 
nation,  that  won  the  respect  of  the  world  in 
their  stand  for  the  rights  of  religious  and  per- 
sonal liberty.  He  married,  in  the  Province  of 
New  Brunswick,  Janet,  daughter  of  Colin 
Campbell,  of  the  noted  Campbell  clan  of  Scot- 
land. Andrew  Murchie  was  among  the  origi- 
nal "Loyalist  founders  of  the  Settlement  of 
Quoddy,"  which  became  the  thriving  town  of 
St.  Stephen,  and  he  carried  on  a  farm  which 
afforded  his  family  a  very  respectable  support. 
(II)  James,  son  of  Andrew  and  Janet 
(Campbell)  Murchie,  was  born  in  St.  Stephen, 
New  Brunswick,  August  16,  1813.  He  was 
sent  to  the  common  school  of  St.  Stephen  and 
assisted  his  father  on  the  farm  until  he  had 


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passed  his  majority  by  two  years.  In  1836  he 
married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Jolin  Grim- 
mer, of  St.  Stephen.  His  father-in-law  subse- 
quently served  as  collector  of  customs  for  the 
port  of  St.  Stephen.  James  Murchie  after  his 
marriage  engaged  in  farming  and  in  cutting 
and  marketing  logs  during  the  winter  season. 
He  obtained  a  permit  from  the  government  to 
cut  logs  on  the  common  lands  of  the  Province 
of  New  Brunswick  on  paying  a  small  sum  per 
square  mile  for  the  privilege,  and  he  soon 
became  the  largest  single  operator  in  timber 
in  the  woods  of  the  Province,  which  he  readily 
sold  to  the  various  mill-owners.  He  continued 
this  business  for  eighteen  years,  when  he  re- 
tired with  a  fortune  of  $20,000.  With  this  as 
a  capital,  he  began  the  manufacture  of  lumbci 
in  Calais,  Maine,  and  in  connection  with  that 
business  he  carried  on  a  general  store.  He 
was  captain  of  a  company  of  local  militia  of 
the  Province;  was  justice  of  the  peace  ; 
held  offices  in  the  local  government  of  the 
Province  at  St.  Stephen.  He  built  or 
chased  several  vessels  for  the  prosecution  of 
his  business  beyond  the  confines  of  the  home 
yards,  and  his  son  John  G.  became  a  captain 
of  his  first  vessel  when  he  had  attained  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years,  having  studied  navi- 
gation for  that  purpose.  In  1862  he  launched 
the  bark  "Bessie  Simpson,"  and  Captain  John 
G.  Murchie  was  transferred  to  the  command 
of  the  new  bark,  and  his  third  son,  James  S., 
sailed  with  him  and  fitted  himself  for  the 
future  command  of  a  vessel,  and  a  few  years 
later  he  was  made  captain  of  the  bark  "Mary 
Rideout."  As  business  increased,  Mr.  Mur- 
chie admitted  his  sons,  one  by  one,  his  sons 
John  G.  and  William  A.  becoming  partners  in 
1862,  and  Captain  James  later,  and  the  name 
of  the  firm  became  James  Murchie  &  Sons, 
which  grew  to  be  one  of  the  most  extensive 
business  concerns  in  the  state  of  Maine,  with 
home  office  and  yards  at  Calais.  In  1903  the 
business  was  incorporated  as  James  Murchie 
Sons'  Company,  Calais',  Maine.  In  the  Do- 
minion of  Canada  their  mills  are  located  at 
Benton  Deer  Lake,  Edmuston  and  Frederick- 
ton.  The  corporation  is  a  large  owner  of 
timber  lands  in  Maine,  New  Brunswick  and 
Quebec.  The  children  of  James  and  Mary  x\nn 
(Grimmer)  Murchie  were:  i.  John  Grimmer, 
born  September  2,  1838,  was  mayor  of  Calais 
for  several  terms.  2.  William  Andrew  (q.  v.), 
born  March  25,  1841.  3.  James  Skiffington, 
born  February  12,  1843.  4.  Elizabeth  Caro- 
line, born  September  20,  1844,  married  Charles 
H.  Porter,  and  as  her  second  husband  Adam 
Gillespie.      5.    Mary   Adeline,   born    May    28, 


1846,  married  Alexander  McTavish.  6.  Annie 
M.,  born  October  21,  1847,  married  Fred- 
erick Hall  and  has  one  child,  Charles  Skiffing- 
ton Hall,  born  June,  1887.  7.  George  Albert, 
born  September  16,  1849.  8.  Charles  Fred- 
erick, born  February  25,  1851.  9.  Emma  Jane, 
born  August  28,  1852,  married  Henry  B. 
Eaton  and  had  no  children.  10.  Horace  B., 
born  April  7,  1854,  married  Annie  Eaton  and 
has  three  children  living :  Lillian,  Wilfred 
and  Howard.  The  mother  of  these  children 
died  in  1857,  and  James  Murchie  married 
(second)  in  i860  Margaret,  daughter  of  Jack- 
son Thorpe,  of  St.  George,  New  Brunswick. 
Their  children :  11.  Alice  Mabel,  born  October 
24,  i860,  married  Charles  F.  Eaton,  and  has 
James,  Muriel,  Emerson,  Freedom  and  Henry. 

12.  Flenry  Simpson,  born  October  i,  1862, 
married  Harriet  H.  Caldwell  and  had  two 
children:  Ralph  Dean,  born  October  24,  1889, 
an  undergraduate  at  Dartmouth  College  in 
1908,  and  Harris  Foster,  born  November  14, 
1893,  a  student  at  Calais  high  school  in  1908. 

13.  Frank  Campbell,  born  February  6,  1871, 
married,  September  6,  1899,  Lillian  Lenora, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Alice  P.  (Lane) 
Sadler,  of  Maine.  Mrs.  Margaret  (Thorpe) 
Murchie  died  in  1873.  Mr.  James  Murchie 
was  one  of  the  stockholders  of  the  New  Bruns- 
wick and  Canada  railway,  and  the  difficulties 
he  met  and  overcame  in  carrying  out  this 
work  were  apparently  unsurmountable.  He 
was  one  of  the  builders  of  the  church  at  Old 
Ridge,  New  Brunswick,  and  the  cotton  mill 
at  Milltown,  New  Brunswick,  the  second 
largest  in  Canada.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  legislature  of  the  Province  of  New  Bruns- 
wick in  1874;  he  supported  the  non-sectarian 
school  system  and  was  a  member  of  the  legis- 
lature up  to   1878. 

(Ill)  William  Andrew,  second  son  of  James 
and  Mary  Ann  (Grimmer)  Murchie,  was  born 
in  St.  Stephen,  New  Brunswick,  ]\Iarch  25, 
1841.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  and 
high  schools  of  St.  Stephen.  He  married, 
November  15,  1868,  Ella,  daughter  of  William 
Todd,  of  Milltown,  New  Brunswick.  The  chil- 
dren of  William  Andrew  and  Ella  (Todd) 
Murchie  were:  i.  Mabel  Clarissa,  born  at  St. 
Stephen,  New  Brunswick,  November  21,  1870. 
2.  Guy,  December  5,  1872,  graduated  at  Har- 
vard College,  A.  B.,  1895,  attended  Harvard 
Law  School  and  became  an  attorney  and 
counsellor  at  law  in  Boston,  Massachusetts; 
he  was  in  the  Spanish- American  war  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  L^nited  States  Volunteer  Cav- 
alry ("Rough  Riders"),  Colonel  Leonard 
Wood,    Lieutenant-Colonel   Theodore   Roose- 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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velt,  and  he  was  appointed  by  President  Roose- 
velt United  States  marshal  at  Boston  in  1898 : 
he  has  law  offices  at  45  Milk  street,  Boston. 
3.  Louise  Victoria,  May  24,  1877,  at  Calais, 
S'laine,  married  Frank  P.  Lane,  of  Bangor, 
Maine.  4.  William  Todd,  April  15,  1879,  mar- 
ried Caroline .    Mrs.  Ella  (Todd)  Mur- 

chie,  the  mother  of  these  children  already 
named,  died  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 25,  1885,  and  Mr.  Murchie  married  (sec- 
ond) August  22,  1893,  Mina  De  Hart  Rounds, 
and  they  have  two  children :  Margaret  Wins- 
low,  born  July  22,  1895,  and  James  Norwood, 
born  December  25,  1904.  William  Andrew 
Murchie,  while  a  resident  of  St.  Stephen,  New 
Brunswick,  was  a  member  of  the  Milltown 
Volunteer  militia,  holding  rank  first  as  ensign, 
then  as  lieutenant,  and  finally  as  captain  of 
company.  The  government  of  New  Bruns- 
wick awarded  him  a  medal  for  gallant  service 
during  the  Fenian  raids  in  1868.  In  the  busi- 
ness of  the  firm  of  James  Murchie  &  Sons,  he 
was  partner  in  1862,  and  in  the  corporation  of 
James  Murchie  Sons'  Company  he  holds  the 
office  of  director,  and  has  charge  of  the  cor- 
respondence of  the  company. 


The  surname  Sedgly,  Sedg- 
SEDGELEY     ley,  Sedgely  or  Sedgeley,  is 

not  found  by  the  writer  in 
any  work  on  English  surnames  or  heraldry. 
It  may  be  a  modification  of  the  very  common 
name  Sedley  or  Sedgwick. 

( I )  John  Sedgeley,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  England  before  1700.  He  came  to 
York,  Maine,  when  a  young  man  and  was 
a  turner  by  trade.  He  married,  about  1715, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Adams,  of 
York.  Her  father  gave  them  a  lot  of  land  at 
York,  March  19,  1715-16,  adjoining  land  of 
Daniel  Simpson.  They  had  another  gift  of 
land  from  her  father  January  12,  1716,  and 
four  acres  on  the  southeast  side  of  Scituate 
Plain  farms,  adjoining  land  of  Adams  and 
Sedgeley,  December  15,  1726.  John  also 
bought  about  thirteen  acres  of  John  Harmon 
at  York,  April  2,  1724.  Some  of  the  land 
given  to  them  by  Adams  was  deeded  to  their 
neighbor  Simpson  June  27,  1729.  It  was  situ- 
ate on  the  country  road  opposite  John  Par- 
sons' and  west  of  Daniel  Simpson  Sr.'s  land. 
Her  parents,  Thomas  and  Hannah  Adams. 
were  born  in  England  about  1640-50  and  came 
to  York.  As  their  children  came  of  age  or 
married  they  gave  them  home  lots,  viz. :  i. 
Nathaniel  Adams,  thirty-four  acres  at  York, 
November  18,  171 1.  2.  Hezekiah  Adams, 
twenty  acres  at  York,  January  12,   1715.     3. 


Philip  Adams,  land  adjoining  Hezekiah's, 
January  16,  1716.  4.  Thomas  Jr.,  the  home- 
stead of  forty  acres  on  the  highway  from  the 
meeting-house  to  the  corn-mill,  York,  reserv- 
ing two  acres  and  half  the  income  of  the 
farm ;  also  twenty  acres  between  Daniel 
Black's    and    Scituate    Plain ;    married    Sarah 

.    5.  Samuel  Adams,  house  lot  of  three 

or  four  acres,  February  3,  1721-22;  also  land 
on  the  southwest  side  of  the  York  river,  ad- 
joining lands  of  Lieutenant  Charles  Frost  and 
William  Pepperell  on  the  Kittery  line,  re- 
serving orchard,  November  15,  1711.  6.  Eliza- 
beth Adams,  wife  of  John  Sedgeley,  as  stated 
above.  Thomas  Adams  Sr.  was  in  York  as 
early  as  1678  and  most  of  his  children  were 
born  there.  He  received  a  grant  from  the 
town,  March  12,  1678,  of  forty  acres  on  the 
south  side  of  the  York  river,  adjoining  the 
estate  of  Lieutenant  Job  Allcock. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Sedgeley, 
was  born  about  1730  in  York.  He  removed 
from  York  to  Waterville,  Maine,  and  finally 
to  Limerick,  Maine.  He  married,  but  the 
name  of  his  wife  is  not  known.  Children:  i. 
William,  mentioned  below.  2.  Joseph,  soldier 
in  the  revolution,  private  in  Captain  Samuel 
Sayer's  company.  Lieutenant  Samuel  Young, 
Major  Littlefield's  regiment,  in  the  Penobscot 
expedition,  1779;  also  in  Captain  James  Le- 
mont's  company,  at  Georgetown,  in  1775,  and 
in  Captain  Benjamin  Lemont's  company.  Ma- 
jor Lithgow's  regiment,  in  1779,  with  rank  of 
corporal.  3.  James  (twin).  4.  Jonathan 
(twin).  5.  Timothy.  6.  John,  soldier  in  revo- 
lution, private  in  Captain  Solomon  Walker's 
regiment,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph  Prime, 
from  April  to  December,  1780,  under  Briga- 
dier-General Wadsworth  in  Maine.    7.  Betsey. 

(III)  William,  son  of  John  (2)  Sedgeley, 
was  born  about  1770.    He  resided  at  Limerick 

and    was    a    farmer.      He    married    . 

Children,  born  at  Limerick:  i.  Timothy,  men- 
tioned below ;  Edwin,  Irving,  Levi,  William 
Jr.,  Pattie,  Tabitha,  Roxy,  Betsey. 

(IV)  Timothy,  son  of  William  Sedgeley, 
was  born  in  Limerick,  Maine,  January  6,  i8(X2, 
died  in  1871.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  and  learned  the  trade  of  brick  mason. 
He  followed  his  trade  and  also  conducted  a 
farm  at  New  Portland,  Maine.  He  married 
(first)  February  28,  1828,  Sarah  P.  Burbank, 
born  in  Standish,  Maine,  January  4,  1807,  died 
in  1852.  He  married  (second)  a  Miss  Stow- 
ers,  who  bore  him  one  child,  Ella,  who  died 
in  early  life.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  John, 
born  April  11,  1829,  died  September  3,  1830. 
2.  John,  May  21,  1831,  now  living,  retired,  in 


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Stratton,  Maine.  3.  Mary,  May  22,  1833.  4. 
Sarah,  April  7,  1835.  5.  Caroline,  September 
21,  1836.  6.  William,  October  21,  1838,  was 
a  soldier  in  the  civil  war.  7.  Daniel,  June  30, 
1841,  mentioned  below.  8.  Walter  F.,  Decem- 
ber 19,  1842.  9.  George,  born  about  1851,  died 
August,  1867. 

(V)  Daniel,  son  of  Timothy  Sedgeley,  was 
born  in  New  Portland,  June  30,  1841.  He 
was  educated  there  in  the  common  schools. 
He  began  early  in  life  to  work  on  his  father's 
farm  and  has  followed  farming  all  his  life. 
He  resides  in  Phillips,  Maine.  In  pohtics  he 
is  a  Democrat,  in  reHgion  a  Universalist.  He 
married,  March  29,  1871,  Mary  J.  Burbank, 
born  in  Freeman,  October  26,  1836,  died  in 
Phillips,  January  20,  1908,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin M.  and  Betsey  (Bray)  Burbank.  Chil- 
dren: I.  George  Burbank,  born  December  16, 
1872,  mentioned  below.  2.  Albert  Raymond, 
August  12,  1875,  married  Grace  Harndin ; 
children :  Clarence,  Maurice,  Lucile,  Marian. 
3.  Lillian  May,  born  May,  1878,  married  Dan- 
iel F.  Hoyt,  merchant,  of  Phillips,  Maine. 

(VI)  George  Burbank,  son  of  Daniel  Sedge- 
ley,  was  born  in  Phillips,  December  16,  1872. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  at  the  Farmington  Normal 
school.  He  taught  school  for  two  years  in  the 
vicinity  of  his  home  and  worked  on  the  farm 
one  year.  He  embarked  in  the  retail  dry- 
goods  business  at  Phillips  in  1897.  The  pres- 
sent  name  of  his  firm  is  Sedgeley,  Hoyt  & 
Company.  Mr.  Sedgeley  is  a  Republican.  He 
married,  August  23,  1906,  Lillian  M.,  born 
April  29,  1878,  daughter  of  Frederick  B.  and 
Jane  (Staples)  Sweetser,  of  Phillips,  Maine. 


This  name  was  originally 
MESERVE     spelled    Messervy,    and    was 

changed  by  members  of  the 
American  branch  of  the  family  to  Meserve, 
the  final  letter  of  the  word  being  pronounced 
for  a  time;  but  later  generations  have  pro- 
nounced the  name  in  two  syllables.  The 
genealogist  of  the  family  states  that  the 
Meservy  family,-  like  several  others,  is  probably 
of  pure  Jersey  origin,  all  persons  bearing  this 
cognomen  being  descendants  of  those  who 
formerly  lived  in  the  Isle  of  Jersey  in  the 
English  Channel.  As  to  the  origin  of  the 
name,  one  can  only  make  conjecture.  The 
most  plausible  appears  to  be  that  which  "The 
Armorial  de  Jersey"  gives,  and  according  to 
which  the  name  could  be  nothing  but  the  par- 
ticiple of  the  old  French  verb,  "Messervyr," 
and  signifies  the  "ill-treated."  This  epithet 
was  given  to  an  ancestor  at  the  time  of  the 


cession  of  Normany  to  France  in  1207.  The 
family  of  Messervy  has  given  to  the  Isle  of 
Jersey  many  civil  ofticials,  a  large  number  of 
whom  held  offices  in  the  law  courts.  Few 
families  have  given  so  many  officers  to  the 
army  of  their  country  as  the  Messervy  family 
of  the  United  States.  The  arms  of  the  Mes- 
servy family  of  Jersey  registered  in  1665  are: 
"Messervy :  Or,  three  cherries  gules,  stalked, 
vert.  Crest:  A  Cherry  tree  proper.  Alotto: 
Au  valeureux  coeur  rien  impossible" — to  the 
valiant  heart  nothing  is  impossible.  Agri- 
culture and  the  mechanic  arts  seem  to  have  oc- 
cupied the  time  of  most  of  the  members  of 
the  family,  although  it  has  had  its  share  of 
professional  men,  lawyers,  clergymen  and  doc- 
tors, while  the  name  figures  but  slightly  in 
court  records  either  as  defendants  or  criminals, 
showing  honesty,  integrity  and  uprightness  in 
the  race. 

(I)  Clement  Messervy,  whom  tradition 
makes  to  have  come  from  the  Isle  of  Jersey  to 
America,  was  a  taxpayer  in  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire,  in  1673,  took  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance in  1685,  and  had  a  seat  in  the  meeting- 
house in  1693.  Later  he  lived  in  Newington, 
New  Hampshire.  On  August  6,  17 10,  he  con- 
veyed the  homestead  in  Newington  to  his  son 
Clement.  Both  he  and  his  wife- died  previous 
to  1720.  He  was  very  probably  son  of  John 
Messervy,  of  Gorey,  Grouville,  and  of  Mary 
Malcolm,  his  wife,  and  his  supposetl  ancestry 
is  traced  some  generations  in  Jersey.  His 
wife's  name  was  Elizabeth.  No  list  of  the 
children  of  Clement,  the  immigrant,  has  been 
found  and  we  only  knov^f  positively  that  Clem- 
ent (2)  and  John  were  his  sons  because  so 
called  by  him  in  deeds,  in  1705  and  1710;  but 
as  the  same  documents  speak  of  "other  sons, 
and  daughters,"  and  as  tradition  has  always 
made  three  branches  of  the  family,  in  Maine, 
New  Hampshire,  and  Massachusetts,  the  as- 
sumption seems  warranted  that  he  had :  Aaron, 
Clement,  Daniel,  John,  Elizabeth,  Mary  and 
Jamison. 

(II)  Clement  (2),  son  of  Clement  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  Messervy,  was  born  probably  in 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  about  1678,  and 
was  in  William  Redford's  company  of  militia 
in  1696.  On  Jul}-  15.  1726,  he  and  Daniel 
Moody,  of  Stratham,  New  Hampshire,  pur- 
chased of  William  Cotton,  of  Portsmouth,  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  at  Black  Point,  Scar- 
borough, Maine,  and  in  1729  they  bought  one 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  more  adjoining.  He 
evidently  removed  to  Scarborough  soon  after 
the  purchase  of  Cotton,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  first  church  of   Scarborough,  August   li, 


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1728.  He  married,  September  24,  1702,  Eliza- 
beth Jones.  The  marriage  was  solemnized  by 
Rev.  John  Pike,  in  Portsmouth.  They  both 
owned  the  covenant,  and  were  baptized  in  the 
church  at  Newington,  March  10,  1723,  when 
Mrs.  Aleserve  joined  the  church,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  full  communion.  She  died,  and  he 
married  (second)  August  14,  1738,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Stone,  who  survived  him.  He  died 
(probably)  in  1746,  in  Scarborough.  His  will 
dated  February  18,  1740,  describes  him  as 
■■Joyner,  aged  of  body."  His  will  was  proved 
November  5,  1746.  The  inventory  returned 
by  Elliott  Vaughan,  Daniel  Fogg  and  Samuel 
Sewall,  appraisers,  amounted  to  £896  15s.  7d. 
His  children,  all  born  probably  in  Portsmouth 
or  Newington.  were :  Clement,  Nathaniel, 
Elizabeth,  John,  Abigail,  George,  Peter,  Dan- 
iel and  Joseph. 

McLillan's  "History  of  Gorham"  says  :  "Of 
the  dwellers  in  the  fort  on  Fort  Hill,  during 
the  seven  years'  Indian  war  commencing  in 
1745,  was  one  Clement  Meserve,  or,  as  the 
name  was  often  called,  "Harvey."  On  con- 
sulting the  best  authorities  written  or  read,  we 
have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Meserves 
of  Scarboro  and  Gorham  came  from  Dover  or 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  where  the  name 
appears  to  have  been  quite  common.  There 
was  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  Nathaniel  Meserve, 
of  the  New  Hampshire  troops,  who  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  Louisburg  expedi- 
tion in  1745;  he  is  said  to  have  been  of  the 
same  family  that  came  to  Maine,  and  a  brother 
to  the  Gorham  Clement.  Southgate,  in  his 
history  of  Scarboro,  says  Clement  Meserve 
was  in  that  town  in  1725 ;  that  he  was  a  joiner 
by  trade." 

(III)  John,  third  son  of  Clement  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Jones)  Meserve,  was  born  March 
21,  1700.  He  married  Jemima  Hubbard,  by 
whom  he  had  :  John,  George,  William,  Clem- 
ent, Joseph,  Thomas,  Dorothy,  Abigail,  Mary 
(died  young),  Mary. 

(IV)  John  (2),  eldest  child  of  John  (i) 
and  Jemima  (Hubbard)  Meserve,  was  born  in 
1738.  He  married,  in  1762,  Abigail  Small,  by 
whom  he  had :  Joseph,  Benjamin,  Samuel 
Small,  John  (died  voung),  John,  Abigail, 
Dorothy  and  Annie. 

(V)  Joseph,  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Abigail  (Small)  Meserve,  was  born  in  1763. 
He  married,  in  1788,  Mary  Stone,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  Rufus,  Joseph  (died 
young),  Joseph,  Benjamin,  Solomon,  Abigail, 
Tabitha,  Mary  and  Lydia. 

(VI)  Captain  Benjamin,  fourth  son  of  Jo- 


seph and  Mary  (Stone)  Meserve,  was  born  in 
1805,  died  in  Livingston.  He  married,  in  1830, 
Hannah  Anderson,  daughter  of  Abel  Ander- 
son. The  only  issue  of  this  marriage  was 
Albion  K.  P.,  whose  sketch  follows. 

(VII)  Dr.  Albion  Keith  Paris,  only  child 
of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Anderson)  Me- 
serve, was  born  in  Limington,  June  8,  1833, 
and  died  at  his  home  in  Portland  suddenly, 
September  15,  1904,  of  cerebral  apoplexy,  es- 
teemed, respected  and  honored  by  the  people 
among  whom  he  lived.  Nathan  Goold,  secre- 
tary of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  wrote  of 
him :  "Dr.  Meserve  was  a  man  who  was  sin- 
cere, serious  and  conscientious  and  did  right 
simply  because  it  was  right,  hating  shams. 
He  had  few  intimates  and  was  of  few  words, 
gaining  his  standing  by  the  character  of  his 
life.  With  his  patients  he  vi'as  not  only  their 
physician,  but  also  a  valued  friend.  He  had 
good  understanding,  the  mind  of  an  investi- 
gator, and  was  thoroughly  conversant  with  the 
subjects  that  make  up  life,  always  willing  to 
adopt  the  latest  methods  when  convinced  of 
their  merits.  Work  was  his  pleasure  and  he 
made  a  success  of  his  material  affairs,  all  being 
done  without  ostentation." 

Dr.  Albion  K.  P.  Meserve  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  and  Standish  Academy, 
and  graduated  at  the  Medical  School  of  Maine 
in  1839.  He  first  practiced  medicine  in  Stand- 
ish. but  shortly  afterward  removed  to  Buxton, 
where  he  lived  until  1881,  when  he  moved 
to  Portland,  where  he  afterwards  resided.  He 
was  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  community, 
and  assumed  his  responsibilities  in  life.  He 
served  as  president  of  the  Maine  Medical  As- 
sociation, secretary  of  the  United  States  Pen- 
sion Examining  Board,  chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Health,  of  Portland,  secretary  of  the  Maine 
State  Board  of  Registration  of  Medicine,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  National  Confederation 
of  Examining  and  Licensing  Board.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  Maine  Academy  of 
Medicine  and  Science,  member  of  the  Board 
of  Consulting  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  the 
Maine  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  and  was  active 
and  gave  freely  of  his  time  to  the  charitable 
work  of  that  institution.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  and  was  vice- 
president  of  this  society  from  1889  until  his 
death,  being  deeply  interested  in  the  work  of 
the  society,  and  in  the  subject  of  family  his- 
tory. He  represented  the  town  of  Buxton  in 
the  legislature,  and  was  the  supervisor  of 
schools  of  that  town ;  was  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church  there,  and  of  the  Wil- 


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liston  church  in  Portland,  in  both  of  which  he 
served  as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
schools. 

Dr.  Meserve  compiled  the  Meserve  geneal- 
ogy, and  a  history  of  Standish,  Maine,  both  of 
which  are  in  manuscript.  He  contributed,  in 
other  ways,  much  historical  and  genealogical 
knowledge  which  remains  to  us.  The  Vital 
Records  of  Buxton  were  copied  by  his  eldest 
son,  annotated  by  himself,  then  bound  and 
presented  by  him  to  the  Maine  Genealogical 
Society's  library.  Dr.  Meserve  was  industri- 
ous and  did  good  work,  the  results  of  which 
are  the  cherished  heritage  of  the  family  and 
friends.  At  the  time  of  his  death  it  was  said 
of  him :  "The  community  has  not  only  lost 
a  valued  and  respected  citizen,  a  kind  and 
true  neighbor,  but  as  well  a  skilled  physician, 
the  church  a  faithful  member,  and  his  asso- 
ciates a  sincere  friend." 

Dr.  Albion  K.  P.  Meserve  married,  June 
10,  1857,  at  Freedom,  New  Hampshire,  Mary 
M.  Johnson,  only  child  of  Thomas  and  Doro- 
thy (Libby)  Johnson,  of  Gorham.  She  was 
born  in  Gorham,  February  i,  1836.  Thomas 
Johnson,  son  of  Alatthew  and  Hannah  (John- 
son) Johnson,  married  (first)  Mary  Hamblin  ; 
(second)  Dorothy  Libby,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Elizabeth  Libby.  Mary  M.  Johnson  was 
the  only  child  of  this  second  marriage.  Mrs. 
Meserve  is  a  lady  of  education  and  refine- 
ment and  an  artist  of  recognized  ability.  The 
walls  of  her  handsome  home  in  Emery  street 
are  decorated  with  many  pictures  in  oil,  the 
product  of  her  skill.  To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Me- 
serve were  born  two  sons :  Dr.  Charles  Albion, 
who  died  February  i,  1892,  aged  thirty-three 
years,  and  Lucien  \V.,  born  October  5,  1869, 
married  Geneva  Adams,  and  now  resides  in 
Westbrook  and  is  engaged  in  conducting  a 
poultry-farm. 


Daniel  Clarke,  the  earliest  an- 
CLARKE     cestor     of     Charles     Lorenzo 

Clarke  (YHI)  in  America,*  is 
first  mentioned  in  the  records  of  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  December  29,  1634,  when  the 
town  granted  him  land.  Prior  to  August  5th 
of  that  year  the  place  was  called  Aggawam. 
He  possessed  a  planting  lot  in  1635.  Under 
date  of  December  19,  1648,  he  appears  in  a 
list  of  inhabitants  of  Ipswich,  who  subscribed 
to  the  fund  paid  to  Mayor  Daniel  Dennison  as 


•The  ancestry  of  Charles  U  Clarke,  back  of  his  grand- 
father, Samuel  Clarke  (VI),  is  incorrectly  given  in 
"Men  of  Progress.  Blog.  Sketches  and  Portraits  of  Lead- 
ers in  Business  and  Profesional  Life  in  and  of  the  State 
of  Maine."  Boston.  1897.  The  error  was  due  to  the  in- 
experience of  Mr.  Clarke  in  genealogical  research  at  that 
time,  which  led  to  a  wrong  conclusion  from  improper  data. 


military  leader  of  the  town,  A  part  of  Ips- 
wich, known  as  New  Meadows,  was  named 
Topsfield,  in  October,  1648,  and  set  ofT  as  a 
separate  township  in  October,  1650,  about 
which  time  Daniel  Clarke  was  probably  living 
there,  where  he  remained  until  his  death.  In 
1669  he  was  granted  a  license  to  keep  an  or- 
dinary for  "selling  beer  and  victuals,"  which 
was  renewed  from  time  to  time  up  to  1681, 
and  on  one  occasion  was  fined  ten  shillings 
and  costs  for  selling  a  gill  of  liquor  to  In- 
dians. He  was  returned  as  an  inhabitant  of 
Topsfield,  when  he  took  oath  of  allegiance  in 
December,  1677,  and  January,  1678,  and  again 
on  December  18,  1678,  under  the  special  or- 
der of  Charles  II.  In  the  town  records  for 
March  2,  1676-77,  he  is  referred  to  as  "good- 
man"  Clarke,  a  term  of  special  respect  in  those 
days.  He  was  admitted  to  church  on  Febru- 
ary 27,  1686.  From  the  date  of  his  will,  which 
is  on  file  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  date  of 
probate,  his  wife  Mary,  whose  family  name  is 
unknown,  died  before  January  10,  1688-89, 
he  was  then  living  and  died  before  Alarch  25, 
1690.  The  will  mentions  sons:  John,  Daniel, 
Humphrey  and  Samuel ;  the  latter  then  "in 
England,"  and  refers  to  daughters  and  grand- 
children, some  of  the  latter  Howlett  and 
Home  by  name.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
November  i,  1645.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  No- 
vember 10,  1647;  married  William  Perkins,  of 
Topsfield,  October  24,  1669.  3.  Dorothy,  born 
January  10,  1649-50.  4.  Sarah,  born  January 
31,  1651-52;  married  Samuel  Howlett,  of 
Topsfield,  January  3,  1670-71.  5.  Martha, 
born  November  22,  1655.  6.  Daniel,  born  Oc- 
tober 26,  1657;  died  January  17,  1660-61.  7. 
Judith,  born  January  21,  1659-60.  8.  John, 
born  August  2j,  1661 ;  married  Hannah  Stan- 
ley, September  20,  1689.  9.  Samuel,  born  De- 
cember 8,  1663.  10.  Daniel,  born  November 
20,  1665 ;  married  Damaris  Dorman,  May  29, 
1689.  II.  Humphrey,  born  August  3,  1668; 
perhaps  moved  to  Ipswich  and  married  Eliza- 
beth Patch,  June  27,  1701. 

(II)  Daniel  (2),  tenth  child  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  Clarke,  was  born  in  Topsfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. November  20,  1665,  and  lived  there 
all  his  life.  He  was  an  inn-holder.  Begin- 
ning in  1691  with  the  minor  office  of  con- 
stable, he  held  various  town  offices,  such  as 
cattle  pounder,  road  surveyor,  tithing-man, 
timber  inspector,  fence  viewer  and  selectman, 
besides  serving  on  jury  and  grand  jury.  In 
1716  and  1722  he  was  chosen  by  the  town  as 
representative  to  the  general  court  at  Boston. 
He  is  several  times  referred  to  in  records 
between   1710  and   1717  as  "Seargeant,"  that 


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doubtless  being  his  rank  in  the  "trainband," 
or  Company  of  Topsfield  militia  organized, 
as  was  then  required  in  all  communities  in 
New  England,  for  protection  against  Indians. 
He  married  (first)  Way  29,  1689,  Damaris, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Judith  (Wood)  Dor- 
man.  Damaris  was  born  August  3,  1666,  and 
died  September  20,  1727.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) January  7,  1728-29,  widow  Hannah 
Derby,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  who  survived 
him,  and  was  living  February  13,  1748-49.  He 
died  January  18,  1748-49.  His  will,  dated 
June  7,  1746,  and  probated  February  13,  1748- 
49,  on  file  at  Salem,  mentions  wife  Hannah, 
sons  Samuel,  Israel,  Daniel,  children  of  son 
Jacob  deceased,  daughter  Mercy  Dorman  and 
children  of  daughter  Sarah  Bradstreet,  de- 
ceased. To  his  grandson  Daniel  (4),  son  of 
Samuel  (3),  he  left  "one  of  my  guns."  Chil- 
dren: I.  Samuel,  born  January  13,  1690-91; 
married  Dorothy  Bradstreet,  of  Topsfield,  De- 
cember I,  1712.  2.  Elijah,  baptized  April  2, 
1693.  His  father  applied,  in  1712,  to  the  gen- 
eral court  for  compensation  for  this  son's  death 
from  wounds  in  the  service.  3.  Mary,  born 
August  16,  1694,  died  August  22,  1694.  4. 
Daniel,  born  July  3,  1695.  5.  Jacob,  born 
March  23,  1696-97;  married  Mary  Hewlett, 
December  22,  1729.  6.  Damaris,  born  June  17, 
1698,  died  June  30,  1698.  7.  Mercy,  born 
September  10,  1699 ;  married  Jacob  Dorman, 
December  31,  1722.  8.  Israel,  born  Septem- 
ber 28,  1 701  ;  married  Mercy  Porter,  July  21, 
1730.  9.  Humphrey,  born  December  18,  1703. 
10.  Sarah,  born  January  i,  1705-06;  married 
Samuel  Bradstreet,  August  3,  1822.  11.  Dan- 
iel, born  September  2,  1707;  married  Martha 
Redington,  June  17,  1731.  12.  David,  "still 
born,"  December  12,  1709. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  first  child  of  Daniel  (2)  and 
Damaris  (Dorman)  Clarke,  was  born  at  Tops- 
field,  Massachusetts,  January  13,  1690-91.  He 
was  at  York,  Maine,  as  early  as  July  23.  1709 
(York  deeds),  and  permanently  settled  there 
at  Cape  Neddich  Harbor.  He  was  a  carpenter 
by  trade.  In  his  generation  Cape  Neddick 
Harbor  was  a  trading  port  from  which  con- 
siderable commerce  was  carried  on  in  schoon- 
ers and  large  sloops.  The  small  basin,  well 
protected  from  the  sea,  was  lined  with  wharves 
and  wareliouses,  and  at  the  end  of  navigation 
stood  a  dam  and  tide  grist-mill.  There  were 
also  general  trading-stores  for  supplying  the 
wants  of  the  neighborhood  and  back  country. 
He  was  an  owner  in  the  grist-mill,  and  in 
wharves  and  warehouses,  besides  having  an 
interest  in  a  sawmill  at  the  falls  on  Cape  Ned- 
dick river,  where  fresh  water  and  tide  water 


meet;  he  was  an  extensive  land-owner.  Much 
of  this  commerce  and  prosperity  continued 
until  the  coming  of  railroads,  when  it  was 
diverted  to  larger  ports.  The  tide-mills, 
wharves,  warehouses  and  stores  were  dis- 
mantled or  fell  into  decay,  so  that  to-day  not 
a  vestige  of  them  is  left,  and  Cape  Neddick 
Harbor  is  once  more  only  a  sleepy  inlet  of  the 
sea.  He  early  built  a  home  on  the  north  side 
of  the  river,  on  a  rising  bank  about  opposite 
to  and  a  little  east  of  the  old  short  bridge, 
near  the  head  of  tide-water.  The  house  was 
strongly  built  of  hewn  timber,  with  overhang- 
ing second  story,  for  better  defence  against 
possible  attacks  by  Indians.  It  was  known  as 
the  Clarke  garrison,  and  was  occupied  until 
1839,  when  it  was  torn  down. 

Samuel  Clarke  was  a  public-spirited  citizen, 
ever  ready  to  serve  his  town  in  its  various 
offices.  His  first  position  was  constable  in 
1 72 1,  and  the  last  position  held  by  him  was 
highway  surveyor  in  1760.  Between  these 
dates  he  was  chosen  selectman  at  different 
times  for  nineteen  years,  and  assessor  for 
eighteen  years,  beginning  in  both  instances  in 
1734  and  ending  in  1757,  and  was  twice 
elected  representative  to  the  general  court  at 
Boston,  in  1741  and  again  in  1742.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Parish  Committee  for 
several  years,  and  an  active  member  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  York.  He 
married,  December  i,  1712,  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Bradstreet  (2),  of  Topsfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  granddaughter  of  Governor 
Simon  Bradstreet  and  wife  Anne  Dudley  (2), 
who  was  daughter  of  Major-General  and  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  Dudley  (i),  and  celebrated  as 
the  first  American  poetess.  The  important 
services  which  Governors  Dudley  and  Brad- 
street rendered  the  ]\Iassacliusetts  Colony  are 
a  matter  of  well-known  historical  record,  and 
need  no  mention  here.  Dorothy  was  baptized 
at  Topsfield,  October  25,  1691,  and  died  at 
Cape  Neddick,  February  g,  1780.  Samuel 
Clarke  died  before  her,  on  September  17, 
1778.  Their  remains  lie  unmarked  with  others 
of  later  generations,  in  a  burial-lot  marked  by 
four  corner-posts  of  rough-hewn  granite, 
joined  by  iron  chains,  in  the  old  cemetery,  a 
few  rods  east  of  Cape  Neddick  post-ofiice,  on 
the  road  to  Bald  Head  Cliff.  His  will,  on 
file  at  Alfred,  Maine,  is  dated  July  8,  1777, 
and  mentions  wife  Dorothy;  five  children  of 
a  deceased  son  Daniel,  viz. :  Samuel,  Daniel, 
Jeremiah,  Dorothy  and  Ann ;  two  children  of 
a  deceased  daughter  Mary  Foster,  viz. :  Sam- 
uel and  Hannah:  and  daughters  Mercy  Por- 
ter and  Dorothy  Porter.     He  appointed  "my 


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Grandson  Thomas  Porter"  as  executor.  Chil- 
dren born  at  York:  i.  Dorothy,  born  January 
21,  1721-22;  married  EHjah  Porter,  of  Tops- 
field,  Massachusetts,  intentions  published  Oc- 
tober 6,  1744.  2.  Daniel,  born  June  8,  1724; 
married  Lucy  Moulton,  of  York,  February  25, 
1748.  3.  Mary,  born  March  20,  1727-28; 
married  William  Foster,  of  Boxford,  Massa- 
chusetts, April  21,  1748,  and  died  a  widow  at 
York,  June  14,  1776.  4.  Satnuel,  born  Jan- 
uary 21,  1729-30;  died  February  25,  1729-30. 
5.  Mercy,  born  August  2,  1731  ;  married 
Thomas  Porter,  of  Danvers,  Massachusetts, 
October  16,  1755,  and  living  there  October  5, 
1794.  6.  Anne,  born  January  7,  1733-34;  died 
May  22,  1754. 

(IV)  Daniel  (3),  second  child  of  record  of 
Samuel  and  Dorothy  (Bradstreet)  Clarke,  was 
born  at  Cape  Neddick,  York,  Maine,  June  8, 
1724.  From  1747  to  1761  he  held  various 
minor  town  offices,  but  was  not  active  in  pub- 
lic matters.  His  attention  appears  to  have 
been  given  principally  to  business  affairs.  He 
left  no  will,  but  the  long  inventory  of  his  es- 
tate, dated  July  12,  1763,  on  file  at  Alfred. 
Maine,  is  -replete  with  interesting  information. 
The  estate  was  appraised  at  1221  pounds 
sterling,  besides  a  considerable  sum  due  him 
on  bonds  and  notes.  The  inventory  discloses 
his  partnership  with  his  father,  then  still  liv- 
ing, in  the  homestead  and  dwelling,  "Mills, 
Wharfes  &  all  the  other  Buildings  thereon." 
He  was  a  part  owner  in  the  "Sawmill"  on 
Cape  Netlwick  River ;  owned  "one  Negro  man 
Silas,"  valued  at  53  pounds,  6  shillings  and  8 
pence,  and  "one  woman  Negro  Phillis,"  valued 
at  44  pounds,  the  institution  of  slavery  being 
then  recognized  in  New  England,  and  had  a 
one-half  interest  in  "ye  Sloop  Friendship,"  at 
200  pounds,  and  one-quarter  interest  in  "ye 
Sloop  Charming  Sallev,"  at  87  pounds,  10 
shillings.  The  stock  in  "the  shop"  is  given  in 
the  inventory. 

Daniel  Clarke  married,  February  25.  1748, 
Lucy  Moulton  (4),  daughter  of  Colonel  and 
Judge  Jeremiah  Moulton  (3),  son  of  Joseph 
Moulton  (2)  and  Thomas  Aloulton  (i),  and 
York's  most  famous  citizen  both  in  military 
and  civil  life.  Daniel  Clarke  last  appeared  in 
the  town  records  under  date  of  ]\Iarch  10, 
1761.  and  died  before  July  12,  1763.  His 
wife,  Lucy  Moulton  (4),  was  born  Septem- 
ber 4,  1728;  she  was  living  at  York,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1787,  but  the  time  and  place  of  her 
death  are  unknown.  It  has  been  suggested 
that  she  may  have  died  at  the  house  of  her 
son-in-law,  Joseph  Bradbury,  when  he  was 
living  at   Saco,    Maine.       Children,    born    at 


York,  Maine:  i.  Dorothy,  born  February  24, 
1749-50;  married  Joseph  Bradbury,  of  York, 
August  12,  1768.  2.  Samuel,  born  July  2, 
1752;  married  Anna  Lamson,  of  Topsfield, 
Massachusetts,  intentions  published  June  30, 
1771 ;  died  at  York,  October  19,  1786.  She 
died  June  12,  1838.  3.  Daniel,  born  March  2, 
1754;  married  Hannah  Berry,  of  York,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1784.  4.  Anna,  born  January  6,  1756; 
married  William  Hasty,  of  Scarborough, 
Maine,  May  i,  1781.  5.  Jeremiah,  born  Octo- 
ber 7,  1759;  married  Elizabeth  Hirst  Chaun- 
cey,  of  Kittery,  Elaine,  intentions  published 
October  3,  1789. 

(V)  Daniel  (4),  third  child  of  Daniel  (3) 
and  Lucy  (Moulton)  Clarke,  was  born  at  Cape 
Neddick,  York,  Maine,  March  2,  1754.  He 
was  a  juryman  in  1783,  highway  surveyor  in 
1786,  and  deer  reave  from  1787  to  1794,  when 
he  disappears  from  the  records.  Little  is 
known  of  his  life,  but  disposition  of  property 
by  his  widow,  who  on  November  17,  1804, 
sold  land  with  dwelling,  bam,  two  stores,  a 
wharf  and  grist-mill,  indicates  that  he  had 
been  prosperous,  and  probably  inherited  the 
business  and  trading  instincts  of  his  father. 
According  to  records  of  revolutionary  war 
service  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State 
of  Massachusetts,  he  served  at  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  during  August,  September, 
October  and  November,  1776,  in  Captain  Sam- 
uel Leighton's  company.  Colonel  Ebenezer 
Francis'  regiment.  He  married  Hannah  Berry, 
of  York,  February  26,  1784,  and  died  at  Cape 
Neddick,  August  15,  1795,  "of  fever."  She 
married  (second)  Joel  Bennett,  of  Wells. 
Maine,  intentions  published  October  20,  1809, 
but  returned  to  Cape  Neddick,  where  she  was 
still  living  May  20,  1826.  Children,  born  at 
York,  Maine:  i.  Mary,  baptized  June  19, 
1785;  married  (first)  John  Talpey,  of  York. 
intentions  published  November  12,  1803: 
(second)  John  Norton,  of  York,  intentions 
published  September  23,  1809.  and  again  Oc- 
tober 17.  1812.  2.  Hannah,  baptized  Septem- 
ber 12.  1787;  married  Timothy  Winn,  of 
Wells,  Maine,  intentions  published  November 
23,  181 1.  3.  Samuel,  baptized  August  25, 
1790;  married  (first)  Susan  Wilson,  who  died 
at  Portland.  Maine,  May  25,  1815,  aged 
twentv-four  years;  and  (second)  Patience 
Chamberlain.  October  28,  1816.  4.  Sophia. 
baptized  May  22,  1792;  died  unmarried. 

(VI)  Samuel  (2),  third  child  of  Daniel 
(4)  and  Hannah  (Berry)  Clarke,  was  born  at 
Cape  Neddick,  York,  Maine,  and  baptized 
August  25,  1790.  He  moved  in  early  life  to 
Portland,    Maine,    where,    after    learning   the 


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trade,  he  carried  on  the  business  of  blacksmith 
and  shipsmith.  His  business  proved  unsuc- 
cessful, and  he  removed  to  the  Danish  West 
Indies  about  1828  or  1829,  and  continued  his 
business  at  Christiansted,  on  the  island  of  St. 
Croix.  There  he  prospered,  and  returned  to 
Fortland  in  1840,  with  the  intention  of  again 
resuming  business  there,  which,  however,  he 
never  did.  He  lived  the  remainder  of  his 
life  on  Hancock  street.  He  served  September, 
1814,  on  the  staff  of  the  Second  Brigade 
("Irish  Juniors"),  Twelfth  Division  of  In- 
fantry, Massachtisetts  ]\lilitia  (Maine  was  a 
province  of  Ivlassachusetts  at  that  time),  with 
rank  of  deputy  master,  for  the  defense  of 
Portland  in  the  war  of  1812.  .According  to 
records  covering  the  years  1807  to  1825,  in  an 
orderly  book  of  a  company  of  light  infantry 
called  the  Mechanic  Blues,  which  was  organ- 
ized April  30,  1807,  he  was  elected  ensign  of 
the  company  on  February  8,  1816,  and  elected 
captain  on  November  27,  1818.  His  commis- 
sion, dated  December  17,  1818,  and  signed  by 
Governor  Brooks,  refers  to  him  as  "Captain 
of  a  Company  of  Light  Infantry  anne.xed  to 
the  Third  Regiment  in  the  Second  Brigade 
and  Twelfth  Division  of  the  Militia  of  this 
(Massachusetts)  Commonwealth."  He  re- 
signed and  vi'as  honorably  discharged  from 
service,  March  7,  1821.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Maine  Charitable  Mechanic's  Asso- 
ciation, September  21,  1841.  He  was  a  pew- 
holder  in  the  First  Universalist  church.  Sam- 
uel Clarke  married  (first),  Susan  Wilson, 
whose  parents,  it  is  stated,  came  to  Portland 
from  South  Newmarket,  New  Hampshire.  She 
died  May  25,  1815,  aged  twenty-four  years, 
according  to  the  slate  (gravestone)  over  her 
grave  in  the  Eastern  Cemetery  in  Portland. 
He  married  (second)  October  28,  1816,  Pa- 
tience Chamberlain,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Patience  Chamberlain,  of  Pepperellborough 
(now  Saco),  Maine.     She  died  September  5, 

1845.  aged  fifty-three  years.  He  died  March 
21,  1 85 1,  aged  si-xty-two  years.  His  remains 
lie  with  those  of  his  second  wife  in  the  tomb 
of  Isaac  Knight,  next  to  that  of  Commodore 
Preble,  in  the  Eastern  Cemetery.  Child  by 
wife  Susan:  i.  Susan,  born  Portland,  May  ig, 
1815:  married  Thomas  Starbird.  Children  by 
wife  Patience :  2.  Daniel,  born  Portland,  Au- 
gust 4,  1817:  married  Mary  Lewis  Bragg, 
March  10,  1852,  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts. 
3.  Charles,  born  Portland,  September  21,  1819. 
He  was  a  sailor  and  died  at  home  June  27, 

1846,  of  "ship  fever,"  unmarried.  His  grave, 
with  marble  headstone,  is  in  the  Eastern  Ceme- 
tery,    Portland.       4.     Eglina     Bowers,     born 


Christiansted,  St.  Croix,  Danish  West  Indies, 
August  4,  1832;  married  (first)  Melville  Bev- 
erly Cox  Files,  of  Portland,  October,  1852; 
(second)  William  Henry  Sargent,  of  Port- 
land, September  18,  1870;  and  died  April  8, 
1876. 

(VII)  Daniel  (5j,  second  son  of  Samuel 
(2)  Clarke  and  second  wife,  Patience  Cham- 
berlain, was  born  at  Portland,  Maine,  August 
4,  1817.  He  learned  the  trade  of  printer  in  the 
office  of  the  Portland  Courier,  and  received  a 
certificate  of  his  apprenticeship,  November  28, 
1838.  Shortly  after  he  joined  his  parents, 
then  at  St.  Croix,  Danish  West  Indies,  where 
he  worked  as  overseer  on  sugar  plantations. 
He  did  not,  however,  remain  there  long  after 
the  return  of  his  parents  to  Portland,  in  1840, 
but  went  to  Boston,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
worked  in  newspaper  offices  at  his  trade  as 
printer  for  a  number  of  years,  until  he  moved 
to  Portland,  in  the  early  fifties,  and  went  into 
the  retail  boot  and  shoe  business,  which  be- 
came the  firm  of  Clarke  &  Lowell,  the  leaders 
in  their  line  in  the  State  of  Maine,  and  was 
carried  on  in  a  store  on  Middle  street,  oppo- 
site the  head  of  Union  street.  He  retired 
from  the  firm  and  permanently  from  business, 
April  30,  1878.  His  disposition  was  jovial, 
although  he  never  participated  in  formal  so- 
ciety functions,  and  he  was  highly  esteemed  by 
a  host  of  business  friends  on  account  of  his  un- 
swerving integrity.  He  was  a  faithful  hus- 
band and  kind  father,  indulgent  even  to  an  ex- 
tent not  perhaps  always  warranted  by  his 
means,  when  he  believed  some  advantage  was 
thereby  to  be  gained  to  his  children,  from 
whom,  nevertheless,  he  always  expected 
prompt  and  explicit  obedience  to  his  wishes. 
He  held  in  detestation  any  form  of  trickery  or 
vain  and  presumptions  show  and  living  beyond 
one's  means.  The  death  of  his  son  "Willie," 
in  1876,  the  pet  child  of  his  old  age,  was  a 
blow  too  hard  to  recover  from ;  he  carried  it  to 
the  grave. 

Daniel  Clarke  married  Mary  Lewis  Bragg, 
of  Portland,  March  10,  1852,  at  the  home  of 
one  of  her  brothers  in  Haverhill,  Massachu- 
setts. She  was  born  at  Errol,  New  Hamp- 
shire, December  11,  1830,  daughter  of  Captain 
James  Frye  Bragg  and  wife  Sarah  Graham. 
She  was  a  descendant  of  Ingalls  Bragg  (5), 
of  Andover,  jMassachusetts,  and  later  of  An- 
dover,  Maine,  and  his  celebrated  father-in- 
law,  Colonel  James  Frve  (4),  both  of  whom 
were  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  the  latter 
a  colonel  in  command,  and  the  former  a  pri- 
vate in  Colonel  Frye's  regiment.  Her  family 
line  descends  through  Edward  Bragg  (i),  of 


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Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  Timothy  Bragg  (2), 
of  Ipswich,  Edward  Bragg  (3),  of  Wenham 
and  Andover,  Massachusetts,  and  Thomas 
Bragg  (4),  of  Andover,  Massachusetts.  She 
was  a  rare  woman,  with  native  talents  many, 
including  the  gift  of  a  beautiful  soprano  voice, 
but  which  she  never  had  the  opportunity  to 
cultivate.  Her  life  was  fully,  freely  and  lov- 
ingly devoted  to  home  duties  and  the  welfare 
of  husband  and  children ;  the  sound  of  her 
sweet  voice,  as  she  went  cheerfully  caroling 
from  room  to  room  at  her  work,  was  a  joy  ever 
to  be  remembered.  She  was  proud  of  her 
self-respect,  which  she  zealously  guarded,  and 
sensitive  to  a  slight,  but  with  self-command  to 
conceal  it  from  the  giver.  She  was  quick  of 
temper,  but  harbored  no  resentment  against 
the  cause  of  it ;  her  loving  and  generous  na- 
ture made  her  quickly  forgive  and  forget.  The 
only  living  child  of  these  good  parents  can 
testify  to  what  he  kno'ws  must  have  been  large 
sacrifices,  silently  and  cheerfully  made  by  them 
on  his  behalf,  but  will  doubtless  ever  be  ignor- 
ant of  countless  others,  so  naturally  and  quietly 
were  they  bestowed.  Daniel  Clarke  died  in  his 
home  at  3  Park  Place,  March  14.  1885,  after 
a  long  but  fortunately  painless  illness.  His 
wife  soon  followed  him,  dying  at  the  then 
home  of  their  surviving  son,  at  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  December  19,  1885,  a  communicant  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  church.  Their  re- 
mains lie  buried  with  those  of  their  two  sons 
who  went  before,  in  Evergreen  Cemetery, 
Portland.  Children,  born  in  Portland:  i. 
Charles  Lorenzo,  born  April  16,  1853.  2. 
Frank  Maynard,  born  April  ig,  1856;  died 
February  28,  1858.  3.  William  Bragg,  born 
April  17,  1866;  died  December  3,  1876,  of 
diphtheria. 

(VHI)  Charles  Lorenzo,  first  child  of  Dan- 
iel (5)  and  Mary  Lewis  (Bragg)  Clarke,  was 
bom  at  Portland,  IMaine.  April  16,  1853.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city,  graduating  from  the 
Portland  High  School  in  1870,  and  receiving 
the  Brown  Memorial  Medal  for  scholarship — 
standing  highest  in  rank  among  the  boys  for 
the  four  years'  course.  Soon  after  graduating 
he  was  articled  to  a  civil  engineer  of  Portland, 
and  spent  a  year  in  general  surveying,  becom- 
ing near  the  end  of  that  period  first  assistant 
engineer  on  the  Portland  division  of  the  Bos- 
ton &  Maine  railroad,  which  at  the  time  was 
the  Western  division  of  the  present  Boston  & 
Maine  system  between  Portland  and  Boston. 
He  gave  up  this  position  to  get  a  technical 
education,  and  took  a  four  years'  course  in 
civil    engineering   at    Bowdoin    College,    from 


which  he  graduated  in  1875,  an  honor  man, 
and  was  made  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kap- 
pa fraternity.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity.  At  graduation 
he  received  the  degree  of  B.  S.,  which  was 
supplemented  by  the  post-graduate  degree  of 
M.  S.  in  1879,  and  C.  E.  in  1880.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1875,  he  went  abroad,  to  visit  and 
study  engineering  works,  such  as  docks, 
bridges,  steel  works,  etc.,  in  England,  Wales, 
Ireland,  France,  Belgium  and  Germany,  re- 
turning home  in  May,  1876.  At  that  time 
commerce  and  industries  in  the  United  States 
were  completely  prostrated,  and  Mr.  Clarke 
had  to  meet  with  those  discouragements  which 
are  the  lot  of  most  young 'men  trying  to  get 
an  opening  in  life.  A  large  percentage  of  pro- 
fessional engineers  in  all  branches  were  un- 
employed, and  a  position  was  not  obtainable 
with  the  best  of  introduction  and  credentials. 
Mr.  Clarke  finally  took  up  teaching,  and  be- 
gan almost  to  consider  that  was  to  be  his  life 
work,  when  a  turn  in  the  tide  presented  an 
opening.  On  the  first  day  of  February,  1880, 
he  entered  the  laboratory  of  the  renowned 
inventor,  Thomas  Alva  Edison,  at  Menlo  Park, 
New  Jersey,  as  one  of  his  assistants.  Edison 
had  just  invented  the  electric  incandescent 
lamp,  now  in  such  universal  use,  and  Mr. 
Clarke's  training  as  an  engineer  and  mathe- 
matician was  brought  to  bear  to  assist  in  per- 
fecting the  details  of  a  complete  system  of 
electrical  generation  and  distribution,  upon 
which  Edison  was  working,  to  make  the  new 
lamp  as  easily  and  universally  applicable  to 
general  lighting  purposes  as  gas,  and  which 
included  dynamos,  high-speed  steam-engines, 
underground  system  of  conductors  for  distrib- 
uting the  electric  current,  regulating  and  con- 
trolling devices,  etc.  In  1881,  the  details  of 
the  system  having  been  sufficiently  perfected 
to  warrant  efiforts  for  its  commercial  introduc- 
tion, Edison  moved  to  New  York  City  with 
some  members  of  his  laboratory  staflf,  and  in 
March  of  that  year  Mr.  Clarke  was  appointed 
first  assistant  and  acting  chief  engineer  of  the 
Edison  Electric  Light  Company,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  until  February,  1884.  As  engi- 
neer he  superintended  the  designing  and  con- 
structing of  an  electric  lighting  central  station 
for  the  Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Company 
of  New  York  City,  at  257  Pearl  street,  which 
began  operation  on  September  4,  1882,  and 
was  the  first  comprehensive  electric  lighting 
station  in  the  world.  This  station  was 
equipped  with  six  so-called  "Jumbo"  dynamos 
designed  by  Mr.  Clarke,  and  driven  by  direct- 
coupled  high-speed  engines  making  350  revo- 


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lutions   per   minute.      Each    dynamo    weighed 
complete  2"]  short  tons,  not  including  the  en- 
gine, which  weighed  6,  500  pounds,  and  were 
giants  for  their  day.    The  station  continued  in 
successful  operation  until  it  was  destroyed  by 
fire,  January  2,  1890.     Other  "Jumbo"  dyna- 
moes,  built  in  1882  and  1883,  were  in  opera- 
tion  in    Milan,   Italy,   until    1900,    when    they 
were  put  out  of  service  after  being  in  use  for 
seventeen  years,  to  give  place  to  dynamos  of 
more  modern  design  and  better  economy.     In 
February,  1884,  Mr.  Clarke  resigned  from  the 
Edison  companies  to  become  manager  of  the 
Telemeter  Company  in  New  York,  organized 
to  exploit  inventions  of  his  own  for  electrical 
apparatus   for  indicating  and   recording  tem- 
perature, pressure,  height  of  water  in   reser- 
voirs, etc.,  at  any  desired  distant  point.     He 
remained  with  that  company  until  1887.     The 
enterprise  did  not  prove  a  success,  although 
much  money  was  spent  upon  it.    The  field  that 
had  to  be  depended  upon  to  make  the  under- 
taking  a   commercial   success    was   the   intro- 
duction of  the  apparatus  for  transmitting  and 
recording  temperature  in  refrigeratoring  plants 
of  all  descriptions ;  but  no  metallic  thermom- 
eter,   which    is    the    only   kind    applicable    for 
making  an  electric  contact,  could  be  found  or 
devised  that  was  free  from  tremor  if  the  in- 
strument received  a  mechanical  jar,  and  ab- 
sence of  tremor  was  essential  to  give  such  a 
firm  electric  contact  as  was  necessary  to  in- 
sure preserving  the  transmitting  thermometer 
and   the    distant    receiving    indicator   and    re- 
corder in  unison.    Application  of  the  apparatus 
to  transmitting  and   recording  the  height  of 
water  has  proved  entirely  successful,  because 
a  large  float  operating  the  electric  contact  can 
be  kept  free  from  tremor  in  a  standpipe  with 
small  openings.     In  1887  Mr.  Clarke  became 
electrical  engineer  of  the  Gibson  Electric  Com- 
pany in  New  York,  manufacturers  of  storage 
batteries,  and  continued  in  that  capacity   for 
two  years.     In  the  fall  of  i88g  he  started  in 
business  in  New  York  as  consulting  electrical 
and   mechanical   engineer   and   patent   expert. 
The  principal  employment  that  followed  was 
as  patent  expert,  and  he  was  called  upon  to 
testify  in  several  leading  litigations  over  elec- 
trical patents.     Since  December   16,   igoi,  he 
has  been  in  the  employ  of  the  Board  of  Patent 
Control,  New  York  City,  a  directorate  com- 
posed of  representatives  of  the  General  Elec- 
tric Company  and  the  Westinghouse  Electric 
and   Manufacturing  Company,   for  managing 
their   mutual    patent     interests.       His     duties 
mainly  relate  to  expert  electrical  engineering 
and  patent  expert  matters.     Mr.  Clarke  was  a 


member  of  the  National  Conference  of  Elec- 
tricians, held  in  Philadelphia  in  1884,  and 
member  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  at  the  In- 
ternational Electrical  Exhibition  in  Philadel- 
phia, the  same  year,  serving  on  sections  of 
the  board,  whose  province  was  to  pass  upon 
dynamo-metrical  measurements,  steam  en- 
gines, electrical  conductors  and  underground 
conduits.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  In- 
ternational Electrical  Congress,  held  in  con- 
nection with  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion, at  Chicago,  in  1893.  He  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical 
Engineers  since  November  2,  1882,  and  at 
present  is  a  member  of  its  library  committee. 
He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  American  In- 
stitute of  Electrical  Engineers,  his  connecting 
therewith  as  associate  member  dating  from 
April  15,  1884,  and  as  member  from  January 
6,  1885 ;  he  has  served  on  its  board  of  man- 
agers and  board  of  examiners,  was  chairman 
of  its  editing  committee,  and  at  present  is 
chairman  of  the  Edison  Medal  Committee, 
which  awards  the  gold  Edison  Medal  for 
"Aleritorious  Achievement"  in  electrical  sci- 
ence, electrical  engineering  and  the  electrical 
arts.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York 
Electrical  Society,  New  York  Historical  So- 
ciety, Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  State 
of  New  York,  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Alumni  of 
New  York,  and  Bowdoin  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  New  York.  He  is,  however,  domestic 
in  tastes,  and  typical  clublife  is  not  to  his 
liking.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Evangelical 
Lutheran  church.  In  politics  Mr.  Clarke  has 
always  been  a  Republican,  but  has  never  been 
publicly  active  or  held  political  office.  He  re- 
sides in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey. 

Mr.  Clarke  married  (first)  September  14, 
1 88 1,  Helen  Elizabeth  Sparrow,  born  at  Port- 
land, May  22,  1854,  daughter  of  John  and 
Helen  (Stoddard)  Sparrow.  They  were  di- 
vorced at  Lincoln  county.  South  Dakota,  No- 
vember 6,  1893.  They  have  one  son,  John 
Curtis  Clarke,  born  at  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  August  4,  1886.  Mr.  Sparrow  stood 
in  the  first  rank  in  the  old  school  of  me- 
chanical engineers,  who  had,  of  course,  to 
serve  their  time  as  apprentices  in  the  machine- 
shop.  For  years  he  was  manager  of  the  old 
Portland  Company  Works,  makers  of  marine 
engines,  boilers  and  locomotives ;  later  in  life 
he  was  manager  and  part  owner  of  the  Eagle 
Sugar  Refinery,  where  brown  sugars  were 
early  made  by  the  centrifugal  process.  He 
was  one  of  the  pioneers  interested  in  the  in- 
troduction of  the  beet  sugar  industry  into 
America. 


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Mr.  Clarke  married  (second)  September 
20,  1894,  at  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  Henrietta 
Mary  Augusta  VVillatowski,  of  Sioux  Falls, 
South  Dakota.  They  have  two  children,  both 
born  at  Mt.  Vernon,  New  York :  Mary  Willa- 
towski  Clarke,  born  September  i,  1896,  and 
Daniel  Willatowski  Clarke,  born  September 
25,  1898.  Mrs.  Clarke  was  born  December  7, 
1875,  at  Kiel,  the  principal  naval  station  first 
of  Prussia  and  then  of  the  German  Empire ; 
and  with  four  sisters  was  brought  by  her 
widowed  mother  to  the  home  of  an  uncle  in 
Sioux  Falls,  sailing  from  Hamburg  May  23, 
1886,  in  the  steamship  "Westphalia,"  land- 
ing at  Floboken,  New  Jersey,  June  6,  and  ar- 
riving at  Sioux  Falls  on  June  9th.  Her  father, 
Robert  Julius  Willatowski,  born  February  22, 
1834,  at  Putzig-bei-Danzig,  was  a  chief  en- 
gineer in  the  Royal  Prussia  and  later  Imperial 
German  navy.  His  first  service  was  with  the 
military  force,  beginning  October  10,  1855. 
He  began  service  as  engineer  in  the  navy, 
July  15,  1859,  and  received  his  warrant  as 
chief  engineer  December  i,  1864.  Because  of 
disability,  by  order  of  the  Admiralty,  dated 
October  11,  1879,  he  was  retired  October  31, 
after  twenty  years'  continuous  naval  service. 
He  served  on  the  warships  "Arcona,"  "Ari- 
adne," "Basilisk,"  "Elizabeth,"  "Medusa"  and 
"Vineta" ;  and  was  on  the  "Basilisk"  in  the 
sea-fight  off  Helgoland,  May  9,  1864,  between 
the  Prussian  and  Danish  navies,  where  the 
latter  was  defeated.  He  was  at  one  time  chief 
engineer  of  the  Imperial  yacht  "Hohenzollern," 
in  the  reign  of  Emperor  William  I.  He  re- 
ceived several  decorations  for  distinguished 
services  and  bravery.  After  retiring  from  the 
navy  he  became  superintendent  of  the  Neu- 
werk  salt-works  at  Werl,  province  of  West- 
phalia, where  he  died,  February  26,  1884,  and 
his  remains  are  buried.  Mrs.  Clarke's  mother, 
Marie  (Heynsohn)  Willatowski,  comes  from 
ancestry  who  have  lived  for  generations  in 
Cuxhaven,  Germany,  at  the  mouth  of  the  river 
Elbe,  where  she  was  born  December  30,  1846. 
She  is  now  living  at  Moscow,  Idaho. 

The  accompanying  portrait  of  Mr.  Clarke  is 
from  a  photograph  taken  April  16,  1903,  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  birth. 


The  Woodburys  originated 
WOODBURY  in  southern  Devon";  Eng- 
land, and  the  name  has 
been  a  very  common  one  in  that  locality  for  at 
least  eight  centuries.  The  New  England 
Woodburys  are  the  posterity  of  John  and 
William  Woodbury,  brothers,  who  came  from 
Somersetshire   and   were   among  the  original 


settlers  of  Salem  and  Beverly,  Massachusetts. 
Those  of  the  name  now  residing  in  Saco  are 
descended  from  William.  John  Woodbury, 
known  in  local  history  as  the  "old  planter," 
emigrated  about  the  year  1624,  setted  first  at 
Salem  and  still  later  in  Beverly,  where  he 
died  in  1644.  He  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent men  in  the  colony,  serving  as  deputy  to 
the  general  court,  and  he  was  among  the 
original  members  of  the  Frist  Church  m  Sa- 
lem. William  Woodbury  was  married  at  South 
Petherton,  Somersetshire,  on  the  Devon 
border,  January  29,  1616,  to  Elizabeth  Patch, 
and  three  of  their  sons  were  baptized  at 
Burlescombe,  a  parish  of  Devon.  About  the 
year  1630  he  came  to  Massachusetts,  accom- 
panied by  his  family,  and  joining  his  brother 
at  Salem,  they  settled  in  Beverly  upon  lands 
granted  them  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of 
what  is  now  known  as  Woodbury's  Point. 
William  Woodbury  died  in  Beverly,  January 
29,  1677,  ^^  the  age  of  about  eighty-eight 
years.  In  his  will  he  mentions  his  wife  Eliza- 
beth, sons  Nicholas,  William,  Andrew  and 
Hugh,  and  one  daughter,  Hannah  Haskell. 

(I)  Captain  William  Woodbury,  a  descend- 
ant of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Patch)  Wood- 
bury, is  mentioned  in  the  records  as  William 
4,  which  would  indicate  that  he  was  a  great- 
grandson  of  the  immigrant.  He  was  a  native 
of  Beverly  and  a  shipmaster.  During  the 
revolutionary  war  he  commanded  a  privateer, 
was  captured  by  the  British  and  held  a  pris- 
oner at  Halifax  for  one  year.  He  was  noted 
for  his  courage  and  good  seamanship.  In 
1796  he  abandoned  the  sea  and,  settling  in 
Bridgton,  ]\Iaine,  lived  to  an  advanced  age. 
February  26,  1772,  he  married  Susannah 
Byles,  born  November  27,  1753,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  and  Susannah  Byles.  She  bore  him 
two  children,  Andrew  and  Susan.  The  latter, 
who  was  born  January  12,  1788,  became  the 
wife  of  Benjamin  Cleaves  and  was  the  grand- 
mother of  Hon.  Henry  B.  Cleaves,  late  gov- 
ernor of  Maine. 

(II)  Andrew,  son  of  Captain  William  and 
Susannah  Woodbury,  was  born  in  Beverly, 
March  18,  1776.  When  a  young  man  he  ac- 
companied his  parents  to  Bridgton,  and  about 
the  year  1800  settled  in  Sweden,  Maine,  erect- 
ing the  first  frame  house  in  that  town  and 
becoming  a  very  prosperous  farmer.  He  died 
in  1858.  In  1798  he  married  Sally  Stevens, 
born  in  Andover,  Massachusetts,  1778,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Stevens,  who  at  one  time  owned 
the  entire  township  of  Bridgton.  Mrs.  Sally 
Woodbury  died  at  Sweden  in  i860.  She  was 
the  mother  of  ten  children,  the  last  survivor  of 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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whom,  Judge  Enoch  Woodbury,  of  Bethel, 
was  living  in  1898.  The  others  were:  Sally, 
Susan,  Andrew,  Martha,  Aaron,  Esther,  Will- 
iam, Lucy  Ann  and  Harriet. 

(III)  Aaron,  son  of  Andrew  and  Sally 
(Stevens)  Woodbury,  was  born  in  Sweden. 
He  resided  in  his  native  town  and  died  there. 

He  married    Sarah  ,   and   his  children 

were :  Roliston,  Lincoln,  Clinton,  Edward, 
Hattie,  Kate  and  Sarah. 

( IV)  Roliston,  son  of  Aaron  and  Sarah 
\\'oodbury,  was  born  in  Sweden,  December, 
1838.  From  the  Bridgton  Academy  he  en- 
tered Bowdoin  College,  but  suspended  his 
studies  at  the  commencement  of  the  great  civil 
strife  of  1861-65  in  order  to  enlist  in  the  Fifth 
Maine  Battery,  and  he  served  until  the  close 
of  the  war.  Instead  of  returning  to  Bowdoin 
he  went  to  the  State  Normal  school  at  Farm- 
ington,  where  after  graduating  he  was  re- 
tained as  an  instructor,  and  became  assistant 
principal  of  that  well-known  institution.  In 
1878  he  was  chosen  principal  of  the  State 
Normal  school  at  Castine,  and  he  continued 
to  serve  in  that  capacity  for  the  remainder  of 
his  life,  which  terminated  November  i,  i888. 
As  an  educator  and  as  a  school  director  he 
possessed  superabundant  qualifications,  and  his 
untimely  death  cut  short  the  usefulness  of  one 
of  the  most  efficient  preparatory  teachers  in 
the  state.  In  politics  he  acted  with  the  Re- 
publican party.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church,  and  actively  interested  in 
religious  work.  He  was  made  a  Master 
Mason  in  the  Blue  Lodge  at  Farmington. 
Bowdoin  College  conferred  upon  him  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  Mr.  Wood- 
bury married,  first,  Nellie  Lovejoy,  daughter 
of  Jacob  Lovejoy,  of  Albany,  Maine.  He 
married,  second,  Maria  Billings,  of  Fayette, 
Maine.  He  reared  three  sons:  i.  Ernest 
Roliston,  see  forward.  2.  Nelson  Lovejoy, 
now  a  clerk  in  the  auditing  department  of  the 
Maine  Central  railroad.  3.  William  Billings, 
graduate  of  Deering  high  school  and  Bowdoin 
College;  taught  at  Bucksport  (Maine)  Semi- 
nary ;  principal  of  Pittsford  ( Vermont )  high 
school;  Hanover  (New  Hampshire)  high 
school;  Farmington  (New  Hampshire)  high 
school;  now  principal  of  the  York  (Maine) 
high  school. 

(\')  Professor  Ernest  Roliston,  son  of  Rolis- 
ton and  Maria  (Billings)  Woodbury,  was  born 
in  Farmington,  July  3,  1871.  He  pursued  his 
preliminary  studies  in  the  public  schools  of 
Castine,  was  graduated  from  the  State  Normal 
school  in  that  town  in  1889,  concluded  his 
collegiate  preparations  at  the  Deering  (Maine) 


high  school  in  1891,  and  took  his  bachelor's 
degree  at  Bowdoin  with  the  class  of  1895. 
Being  thus  well  equipped  for  educational 
work,  he  accepted  the  position  of  principal  of 
the  Fryeburg  Academy,  which  he  retained  for 
five  years,  and  in  1900  was  called  to  the  Kim- 
ball Union  Academy  at  Meriden,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  a  similar  capacity,  remaining  there 
for  a  like  period.  From  1905  to  the  present 
time  he  has  been  principal  of  Thornton  Acad- 
emy, Saco.  While  residing  in  Meriden  he 
served  upon  the  school  board,  and  also  as  town 
auditor.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is 
well  advanced  in  the  Masonic  order,  affiliating 
with  Saco  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons;  York  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons; 
Mame  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  and 
Bradford  Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He 
IS  also  a  member  of  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  fra- 
ternity of  Bowdoin  College.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  church. 

On  August  8,  1898,  Professor  Woodbury 
married  Fanny  Louise  Gibson,  born  in  North 
Conway,  New  Hampshire,  August  21,  1878, 
daughter  of  James  Lewis  and  Addie  w! 
(Dow)  Gibson  (see  Gibson,  IX).  Professor 
and  Mrs.  Woodbury  have  three  children: 
Roliston  Gibson,  born  April  19,  1899.  Wen- 
dell DeWitt,  August  22,  1901.  Dorothea, 
February,  1903. 


It  has  not  as  yet  been  definitelv 
GIBSON  determined  whether  the  mother 
country  of  the  Gibsons  was 
England  or  Scotland.  John  Gibson,  immi- 
grant, appeared  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
shortly  after  its  settlement.  As  there  is  no  rec- 
ord of  his  arrival  in  the  colony  it  is  impossible 
to  ascertain  from  whence  he  came,  but  as  the 
Scotch  did  not  begin  to  emigrate  as  early  as 
the  English,  it  is  quite  probable  that  his  former 
home  was  in  England. 

(I)  John  Gibson,  born  about  1601,  probably 
in  England,  was  in  1634  granted  six  acres  of 
land  in  Cambridge  (then  Newtowne),  and  he 
was  admitted  a  freeman  there  in  1637.  If  he 
came  to  New  England  wrth  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Hooker,  as  has  been  supposed,  he  did  not 
accompany  that  religious  leader  to  Hartford, 
as  he  became  a  member  of  the  First  Church  in 
Cambridge  under  the  pastorship  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Shepard  and  in  its  early  records  is 
referred  to  as  Goodman  Gibson.  His  name  is 
frequently  mentioned  in  the  early  town  rec- 
ords of  Cambridge  in  a  manner  which  shows 
that  he  was  a  man  of  prominence,  and  he  died 
in  1694,  aged  ninety-three  years,  leaving  for 
his  descendants  "as  a  legacy  the  escutcheon  of 


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an  honest  man."  His  first  wife,  whose  chris- 
tian name  was  Rebecca,  (Hed  in  1661,  and  the 
following  year  he  married  Mrs.  Jane  Prentice, 
widow  of  Henry  Prentice.  His  children  were : 
Rebecca,  Mary,  Martha,  John  and  Samuel. 

(II)  John  (2),  fourth  child  and  eldest  son 
of  John  ( I )  and  Rebecca  Gibson,  born  in 
Cambridge  about  1641,  died  there  October  15, 
1679.  He  served  in  King  Philip's  war.  In 
1668  he  married  Rebecca  Errington.  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  and  Rebecca  (Cutler)  Er- 
rington ;  she  died  in  Cambridge,  December  4, 
1713.  Their  children  were:  Rebecca,  j\Iar- 
tha,  Mary  and  Timothy. 

(III)  Deacon  Timothy,  youngest  child  and 
only  son  of  John  (2)  and  Rebecca  (Erring- 
ton)  Gibson,  was  born  in  Cambridge  about 
1679.  H's  father  died  w'hen  Ue  was  an  infant, 
and  prior  to  his  majority  he  went  to  reside  in 
Stow,  Massachusetts.  He  later  spent  some 
time  in  Sudbury,  but  returned  to  Stow  and 
owned  a  farm  in  that  part  of  the  town  which 
is  now  within  the  limits  of  Maynard.  His 
death  occurred  in  Stow,  July  14,  1757.  He 
married  (first)  at  Concord,  1700,  Rebecca 
Gates,  born  in  Marlboro,  Massachusetts.  July 
23,  1682,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
(Woodward)  Gates.  She  died  January  21, 
1754,  and  in  the  ensuing  year  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Mrs.  Submit  Taylor,  of  Sudbury,  who 
died  in  Stow.  January  29,  1759.  His  children 
were :  Abraham,  Timothy,  Rebecca,  John, 
Sarah,  Samuel.  Stephen  (died  young),  Er- 
rington, Stephen,  Isaac,  Mary  and  Reuben. 

(I\')  Captain  Timothy  (2),  second  child  of 
Deacon  Timothy  (i)  and  Rebecca  (Gates) 
Gibson,  was  born  in  Stow*.  January  20,  1702. 
When  a  young  man  (1725)  he  located  in 
Groton,  Massachusetts,  but  returned  to  Stow  a 
few  years  later  and  resided  there  until  1774. 
In  the  latter  year,  when  seventy-tw'o  years  old, 
he  removed  to  Henniker,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  signed  the  "Association  Test"'  in 
1776,  and  he  rendered  financial  aid  to  the  cause 
of  national  independence.  Pie  died  in  Henni- 
ker, January  18,  1782.  He  married.  Decem- 
ber 29,  1723,  Persis  Rice,  born  in  Sudbury. 
January  10,  1706-07,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  -Anne  (Darby)  Rice,  granddaughter  of 
Joseph  and  great-granddaughter  of  Deacon 
Edmund  Rice,  an  immigrant  from  England 
who  settled  at  Sudbury  in  1639.  Persis  died 
in  Henniker,  March  22,  1781.  She  was  the 
mother  of  nine  children :  Jonathan,  Timothy 
(died  young),  Timothy,  Persis,  Lucy.  Abel, 
John,  Joseph  and  Jacob. 

(\')  Captain  Timothy  (3),  third  child  of 
Captain  Timothy  (2)  and  Persis  (Rice)  Gib- 


son, was  born  in  Stow,  December  17,  1738. 
During  the  French  and  Indian  war.  while  in 
his  minority,  he  enlisted  in  Captain  Abijah 
Hall's  company,  Colonel  Willard's  regiment, 
which  joined  the  expedition  to  Crown  Point  in 
1759,  anil  he  served  in  the  colonial  army  from 
May  9  of  that  year  to  January  12,  1760,  attain- 
ing the  rank  of  sergeant.  He  was  afterward 
known  as  Captain  Gibson,  although  there  is 
no  record  of  his  having  been  commissioned  as 
such.  Settling  at  Henniker  in  1774,  he  be- 
came a  prominent  figure  in  local  and  state 
political  aftairs,  serving  as  a  delegate  to  the 
provincial  congress  held  at  E.xeter  in  1775 
and  also  to  the  convention  at  Concord  in  1788 
for  the  formation  of  a  state  government,  and 
in  addition  to  these  important  services  he  was 
a  member  of  the  board  of  selectmen  in  Hen- 
niker and  represented  that  town  in  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature.  He  signed  the  "As- 
sociation Test"  in  1776  and  assisted  in  pro- 
curing both  money  and  recruits  for  the  Conti- 
nental service.  In  1798  he  removed  from 
Henniker  to  Brownfield,  Maine,  settling  upon 
nine  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  west  side 
of  the  Saco  river,  and  his  death  occurred  in 
that  town  Januarj'  16,  1814.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1773  to  Margaret  Whitman,  born  in 
Stow,  January  14,  1755,  daughter  of  "Zecha- 
riah"  and  Elizabeth  (Gates)  Whitman,  and 
a  descendant  in  the  fifth  generation  of  John 
\\'hitman,  an  English  emigrant,  who  settled  at 
Weymouth,  Massachusetts,  in  1638,  through 
"Zechariah"  (2),  John  (3),  and  "Zechariah" 
(4).  Margaret  died  in  Brownfield,  June  29, 
1838.  The  children  of  this  union  were: 
Martha,  Jonathan,  Daniel,  Timothy,  Zacha- 
riah.  Henry,  Polly,  Robert.  Abel,  Margaret, 
Jane  and  Samuel. 

(\'I)  Lieutenant  Robert,  sixth  son  and 
eighth  child  of  Captain  Timoth\-  (3)  and  Mar- 
garet (Whitman)  Gibson,  was  born  in  Hen- 
niker, August  22,  1787.  He  served  in  the 
second  war  with  Great  Britain  (1812-15), 
attaining  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant  by  pro- 
motion, and  his  commission  as  such  in  the 
Thirty-fourth  Regiment  United  States  In- 
fantry was  signed  December  27,  1814,  by 
President  IMadison  to  date  from  August  13  of 
that  year.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  lo- 
cated in  Bangor,  Alaine,  where  he  died  March 
12.  1866.  He  married,  February  12,  181 5, 
Sarah  Kast  McHard  Molineaux.  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Peggy  McHard  (Kast)  Moli- 
neaux, of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  Hop- 
kinton.  New  Hampshire.  Sarah  died  in  Frye- 
burg.  Maine,  December  13,  1837.  She  became 
the  mother  of  five  children:     Sarah  M.,  Rob- 


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ort  M.,  Maria  Emclinc,  James  Molincaux  and 
(.icorge  Lafa)ettc. 

(\'1I)  James  Molitieaux,  second  son  and 
fonrlh  child  of  Lieutenant  Robert  and  Sarah 
K.  M.  (MoHneaux)  Gibson,  was  born  in 
r.rownficld,  June  17,  1821.  He  was  a  well- 
known  hotel  keeper  in  the  White  Mountains, 
and  from  1868  to  1878  was  proprietor  of  the 
Washington  House,  at  North  Conway,  New 
Hampshire,  formerly  carried  on  by  IXiniel 
Eastman,  whose  daushler  he  married.  Re- 
moving to  Butte  county.  California,  he  first 
carried  on  a  lumber  business  at  Cohasset,  and 
was  later  engaged  in  the  cultivation  of  fruit 
at  Pine  Creek.  October  18.  1854,  he  married 
Martha  1..  Eastman,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Martha  L.  (Chadbourne)  Eastman.  She  was 
Iwrn  in  North  Conway,  May  13,  1827.  She 
bore  him  seven  children :  James  Lewis, 
George  Kast,  Charles  I'Mgar,  Robert.  Daniel 
Eastman.  Helen  Maria  and  Anna  Molineaux. 

(VHI)  James  Lewis,  eldest  child  of  James 
M.  and  Martha  L.  (Eastman)  Gibson,  was 
born  in  Eryeburg,  December  2,  1855.  He  re- 
sided in  North  Conway.  January  2,  1877,  he 
married  Addie  W.  Dow,  born  June  30,  1854, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Chase)  Dow. 
The  children  of  this  union  are  :  Eanny  Louise, 
born  A\'orlh  Conway,  August  21,  1878,  and 
Harvey  Dow,  born  North  Conway,  March  15, 
1882.  ■ 

(IX)  Eanny  Louise,  eldest  child  of  James 
Lewis  and  Addie  W.  (Dow)  Gibson,  was 
married  August  8,  1898,  to  Professor  Ernest 
R.  Woodbury,  now  of  Saco  (see  Woodbury, 
V).  She  is  a  graduate  of  Eryeburg  (Maine) 
Academy,  1896;  attended  Lasell  Seminary. 
Aubnrndale,  Massachusetts,  1896-97;  Colby 
College,  Watervillc,  Maine,  1897-98. 


The  name  Pingree,  which 
PINGREE  means  Green  Pine,  is  an  hon- 
ored one  and  is  of  Erench  ori- 
gin ;  it  was  probably  taken  into  England  by 
a  Huguenot  refugee.  Many  of  the  name  still 
reside  in  Erance.  Alexander  Guy  Pingree 
was  the  discoverer  of  Pingree's  comet,  also 
court  librarian ;  a  bust  of  hiin  is  in  the  Palace 
at  \'ersailles.  Aaron  and  Moses  Pengry,  as 
the}-  spelled  the  name,  were  the  first  settlers 
of  this  cognomen  in  New  England.  In  the 
records  the  name  appears  as  Pengry,  Pingry, 
Pingrew  and  Pingree. 

(1)  Moses  Pingree,  from  England,  was  a 
freeman  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in  164 1. 
"1641,  I2lh  day  ist  mo.  Barnabas  Norton  of 
Ipswich,  baker,  sold  inito  Moses  Pengry  six 
acres  of  land  within  the  common  fence.  Rich- 


ard Bisgood  on  the  southeast.  1642  Novem- 
l)er  25,  John  Tuttell,  yeoman,  sold  to  him  land 
lately  purchased  of  Richard  Lnin])kin,  de- 
ceased. 1646,  February  4,  William  Whitred 
sold  to  Moses  Pengry,  Saltmaker,  a  dwelling 
house  and  lot.  Aug.  26,  1652,  Richard  Sco- 
field.  leather  dresser,  sold  Moses  Pengry,  yeo- 
man, a  liouse  and  land  for  L\y.  .  Nov.  26, 
1673,  Jacob  Foster  sold  Moses  Pengry  a  half 
acre  house  lot  on  the  corner  of  Summer  and 
Water  Sts.  <ln  the  river  bank  near  the  spot 
now  occupied  by  Glover's  coal  wharf.  Deacon 
Moses  Pengry  had  his  salt  pans  and  works 
for  the  manufacture  of  salt  from  sea  water, 
as  early  as  1652.  In  1673  he  had  a  ship-yard 
on  the  river  bank,  and  in  1676  Edward  Ran- 
dolph wrote  to  Eng.  that  ship-building  was 
an  extensive  industry  in  Ipswich.  Moses  also 
kept  an  ordinary  and  dispensed  spirit.  The 
records  state  that  Deacon  Moses  Pengry  was 
nominated  as  a  suitable  person,  and  received 
his  license  on  Sept.  7,  1658."  His  name  is  on 
the  list  of  voters  December  2,  1679,  and  on  "A 
list  of  the  names  of  those  p'sons  that  have 
right  of  comonage,  according  to  law  &  order 
of  the  Towne,"  February  13,  1678.  Febru- 
ary 7,  1667,  Moses  Pengry  sold  Benedict  Pul- 
cifer  "the  house  and  orchard  wherein  Pulcifer 
dwells."  In  1666  he  was  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  "loyalist  petition."  Another  petition 
addressed  to  the  King  was  drawn  up  by  the 
"Inhabitants  of  Gloucester,  alias  Cape  Ann, 
and  other  places  adjacent,"  and  presented  to 
the  general  court  on  February  16,  1682.  They 
claimed  rightful  title  to  their  lands  upon  the 
grant  of  the  general  court,  under  the  charter 
of  the  Massachusetts  I'ay  Colony,  and  their 
purchase  from  the  natives.  This  was  signed 
by  representatives  from  Gloucester,  Rowley, 
Newbury  and  other  towns,  and  by  fifteen  Ips- 
wich men,  one  of  whom  was  Moses  Pengry, 
Sr.  Deacon  Pengry  was  selectman,  1661  ; 
representative,  1665;  lithingman,  1677;  select- 
man, 1678.  He  died  January  2,  1695.  aged 
eighty-six  years.  He  married  .Abigail  Clem- 
ent, daughter  of  the  first  Robert  Clement.  She 
came  from  London  in  1642,  and  died  January 
16,  1676. 

(II)  Aaron,  son  of  Moses  and  Abigail 
(Clement)  Pingree,  was  born  in  1652,  moved 
to  Rowley.  1696,  and  died  there  in  1697.  He 
resided  on  High  street,  next  to  John  fjrown. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war,  and 
assigned  his  wages  to  Ipswich,  but  no  time  of 
•service  is  specified  in  any  extant  records.  He 
married  Ann,  daughter  of  John  Pickard,  of 
Rowley,  who  died  February  20,  1716. 

(HI)  Job,  son  of  .Aaron  and  .Ann  (Pickard) 


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Pingrce,  was  born  in  Ipswich,  October  17, 
1688,  and  died  April  25,  1785.  He  married 
(first)  November  i,  1717,  Elizabeth  Brockle- 
bank,  who  died  February  12,  1747;  (second) 
Dorothy  Doad,  of  Topsfield ;  (third)  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Platts. 

(IV)  Samuel  Eliot,  son  of  Job  and  Eliza- 
beth (BruCklebank)  Pingree,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 12,  1719,  and  lived  in  Methuen,  where  he 
died  at  the  age  of  thirty-five.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Carlton. 

(V)  Stephen,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth 
(Carlton)  Pingree,  was  born  in  Methuen, 
August  7,  1752,  and  died  April  30,  1840.  He 
was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  served  under 
Washington  in  New  York,  and  was  granted  a 
pension.  The  "Massachusetts  Soldiers  and 
Sailors  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution"  con- 
tains two  records  of  military  service  of 
Stephen  Pingrey ;  the  former  may  refer  to  the 
Stephen  of  this  sketch,  the  second  undoubtedly 
does.  They  are  as  follows  :  "Pingrey,  Stephen. 
Private,  Capt.  Aaron  Jewett's  Co.,  Col.  Job 
Cushing's  regt. :  enlisted  July  27,  1777;  dis- 
charged Aug.  29,  1777;  service  i  mo.,  3 
days;  company  raised  in  Littleton,  Westford, 
Groton,  Shirley,  Tovvnsend,  and  Ashby,  and 
marched  to  Bennington  on  an  alarm;  also, 
Capt.  Aaron  Jewett's  Co.,  Col.  Samuel  Bul- 
lard's  regt.;  enlisted  Aug.  29,  1777;  dis- 
charged Nov.  29,  1777;  service,  3  mos.  12 
days  with  Northern  Army,  including  11  days 
(220  miles)  travel  home;  company  marched 
to  Saratoga ;  roll  dated  Littleton.  Pingrey, 
Stephen.  Private,  Capt.  John  Porter's  Co., 
Col.  Samuel  Denny's  (2d)  regt.;  enlisted  Oct. 
19'  1779;  discharged  Nov.  23,  1779;  service 
I  mo.  15  days,  at  Claverack,  including  10 
days  (200  miles)  travel  home;  regiment  raised 
for  3  months."  After  his  marriage  he  moved 
to  New  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  thence  moved 
to  Derryfield  in  1785,  and  to  Norway,  Maine, 
in  1808.  He  had  visited  Norway  five  years 
previously,  and  .selected  a  lot  of  land  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  town.  He  was  a  devoted 
Methodist  in  religious  faith ;  a  Whig  in  poli- 
tics, he  held  various  offices  of  responsibility. 
"He  was  an  intelligent,  industrious,  and  valu- 
able citizen."  He  married,  September  21, 
1773,  Ruth  Hoyt,  of  Methuen,  who  died  Octo- 
ber 21,  1836.  His  seven  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter were  residents  of  the  same  neighborhood 
with  their  parents.  Their  names  were  :  Dolly 
Baker,  Samuel,  Stephen,  Abner,  Hezekiah, 
John,  Hoyt  and  William. 

(VD  Hoyt,  seventh  child  of  Stephen  and 
Ruth  (Hoyt)  Pingree,  was  born  in  Manches- 
ter, New  Hampshire,  May  14,  1779,  and  died 


in  Waterford,  Maine,  June  23,  1865.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  In  early  life  he 
was  a  Whig,  and  later  a  Democrat.  In  re- 
ligion he  was  a  Swedenborgian.  He  and  his 
wife  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Nor- 
way, Maine.  He  married  Sarah  Turner,  of 
Durham,  Maine,  who  died  in  1876,  aged 
eighty-six.  Their  children,  all  born  in  Nor- 
way, were  named  respectively  :  Mary  Lowell, 
Luther  Farrar,  Dexter  Bearce,  Aaron  Wilkins, 
Hoyt  Milton,  Levi  Whitman,  Ruth  Hoyt  died 
young;  John  Washington,  Hannah  Goodrich, 
Dexter  Milton  and  Lawson  M. 

(VII)  Luther  Farrar,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  Hoyt  and  Sarah  (Turner)  Pin- 
gree, was  born  in  Norway,  May  25,  1813.  He 
spent  his  minority  in  working  upon  the  farm 
and  in  attending  the  district  schools.  He  then 
served  an  apprenticeship  as  a  machinist  and 
pattern  maker,  and  after  that  time  gained 
honorable  distinction  as  a  mechanic  and  in- 
ventor. He  received  numerous  diplomas  and 
medals  for  useful  inventions,  and  also  for 
superior  work,  both  from  associations  and 
from  the  L'nited  States  patent  office.  Among 
the  products  of  his  skill  were  steam  engines, 
carriages,  mills  for  the  manufacture  of  lum- 
ber, models  for  the  patent  office,  and  he  was 
himself  a  patentee  of  artificial  limbs  which 
eminent  surgeons  pronounced  the  best  .in  the 
world.  He  was  always  a  practical  worker, 
but  was  also  a  close  student  in  the  natural 
sciences,  literature,  and  music,  which  were  the 
pastime  and  delight  of  his  life.  He  was  in- 
terested in  military  aiYairs,  served  out  four 
commissions  in  the  old  state  militia ;  was  on 
duty  as  aide-de-camp  and  orderly  officer  when 
the  troops  were  recruited  for  the  "Aroostook 
War,"  and  was  among  the  first  to  enlist  in 
Maine  for  service  in  the  war  with  Mexico. 
He  had  membership  in  several  mechanical  and 
charitable  associations,  and  was  a  prominent 
Odd  Fellow.  He  was  a  citizen  of  Portland 
for  twenty-five  years.  Later  he  resided  at 
Ferry  Village,  Cape  Elizabeth.  In  religious 
faith  he  was  an  ardent  Swedenborgian,  and 
devoted  himself  lecturing  and  distributing  re- 
ligious tracts.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
a  missionary  in  the  New  Church  and  was  a 
great  worker  in  Maine,  Connecticut  and  New 
York.  He  was  a  "War  Democrat"  in  the  time 
of  the  civil  war.  He  held  various  offices  of 
trust  in  Portland.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Marsh,  daughter  of  Deacon  David  Dexter,  of 
Bath,  who  was  born  November  9,  1816,  and 
died  September  28,  1893.  Their  children 
were:  lone  Amelia,  Helen  Jane  Guthrage, 
Frank  Roundy  Ashton,  Sarah  Charlotte  Dex- 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1249 


ter,    Consuelo    Imogene,    Malcolm    Cameron, 
Virginia  Dean  and  David  Henry. 

(VIII)  Malcolm  Cameron,  sixth  child  and 
second  son  of  Luther  F.  and  Elizabeth  Marsh 
(Dexter)  Pingree,  was  born  in  Portland,  Sep- 
tember g,  1852,  and  died  in  South  Portland, 
October  13,  1901.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools,  graduating  from  the  Portland 
high  school.  He  was  a  civil  engineer  for  ten 
years,  employed  in  the  department  of  public 
works  in  Portland.  In  1870  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine,  and  graduated  from  the 
New  York  Homoepathic  Medical  College  in 
1881,  and  then  practiced  in  Portland.  He  was 
a  Free  Mason  and  Odd  Fellow,  a  Knight  of 
Pythias,  a  member  of  the  Improved  C)rder  of 
Red  Men,  and  of  the  Golden  Cross.  He  mar- 
ried, September  18,  1859,  Cora  Louise  Dodge, 
only  child  of  Dr.  Rudolph  L.  and  Harriet 
(Eaton)  Dodge,  of  Portland,  granddaughter 
of  Moses  and  Louisa  (Colifin)  Dodge,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Abner  Dodge,  born 
August  18,  1765,  died  April  28,  1843,  who 
married  Lois  Somers,  who  was  born  March 
25,  1772,  and  died  December  31,  1851.  Dr. 
Dodge  was  born  in  Searsport,  October  2,  1840. 
He  was  brought  to  Portland  in  1844  and  lived 
there  until  his  death.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one 
enlisted  in  the  first  Maine  cavalry  and  served 
during  the  war.  He  entered  Bowdoin  Medi- 
cal School  in  1874,  and  took  a  course  at  the 
Boston  University  Medical  School,  from 
which  he  graduated  the  following  year.  He 
returned  to  Portland  immediately  and  prac- 
ticed medicine  there.  He  died  suddenly  July 
28,  1907,  while  riding  with  his  wife  in  his 
automobile,  near  Pride's  Corner. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pingree  were  the  parents  of 
one  child,  Harold  Ashton,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 

(IX)  Harold  Ashton,  only  son  of  Dr.  Mal- 
colm C.  and  Cora  Louise  (Dodge)  Pingree, 
was  born  in  Portland,  January  16,  1877.  He 
graduated  from  Portland  high  school  in  1894, 
and  from  the  Maine  Medical  College  in  1901. 
After  practicing  in  Stonington  and  Portland, 
Maine,  he  became  an  interne  at  the  Maine 
General  Hospital,  and  held  that  position  dur- 
ing the  years  1902-03,  and  then  settling  in 
Portland,  he  joined  Dr.  E.  G.  Abbott  in  the 
practice  of  orthopedics,  and  together  these  two 
physicians  have  built  up  a  famous  practice  and 
a  payinir  business.  Dr.  Pingree  is  a  Repub- 
lican. He  is  a  Free  Mason,  member  of  Port- 
land Lodge,  No.  I.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Cumberland  County  Medical  Society,  the 
Maine  Medical  Association,  the  Portland  Med- 


ical Club,  the  Practitioners'  Club,  the  Port- 
land Club,  and  the  Phi  Chi  Medical  Fra- 
ternitv. 


This  line  has  a  gene- 
WHITEHOUSE     a  logical    foreground 

worthy  of  any  people. 
The  name  comes  from  two  words,  "white" 
and  "house."  Way  back  in  very  early  Saxon 
times  the  first  to  bear  the  name  was  the  man 
who  lived  in  a  white  house,  and  to  distinguish 
him  from  his  neighbors  he  was  called  Mr. 
Whitehouse.  The  family  was  first  settled  in 
this  country  in  the  state  of  New  Hampshire, 
from  whence  certain  members  emigrated  to 
the  state  of  Maine.  Judge  William  P.  White- 
house,  of  the  Maine  supreme  court,  is  of  this 
lineage. 

(I)  Thomas  Whitehouse  was  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1658,  and  was  the  progeni- 
tor of  the  branch  of  the  family  herein  treated. 
He  was  received  as  an  inhabitant  of  Dover  in 
1665.  upon  the  terms  that  he  was  to  have  what 
he  brought  with  him,  together  with  common- 
age for  cattle,  and  no  other  privilege,  the  town 
having  all  it  could  accommodate.  He  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  and  in  1689  prayed  pro- 
tection of  Massachusetts.  He  was  the  father 
of  two  children,  Thomas  and  Edward.  He 
died  December  3,  1707. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
Whitehouse,  was  born  in  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  married  a  daughter  of  William 
Pomfret,  and  they  had  a  son,  Pomfret. 

(III)  Pomfret,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  White- 
house,  was  born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire. 
He  married  Rebecca  — ■ ;  children  :  Wil- 
liam, Pomfret,  Elizabeth,  Judith  and  Edward, 
twins,  Thomas,  Rosemes,  Samuel,  John  and 
Moses. 

(IV)  William,  eldest  son  of  Pomfret  and 
Rebecca  Whitehouse,  was  born  in  Dover,  New 
Hampshire,  June  8,  1705.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth — ■ ,  and  they  were  both  baptized  May 

12,  1728.  Children:  Turner,  John,  Mary, 
William,  Nathaniel,  Lucy  and  Moses. 

(V)  Turner,  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  Whitehouse,  was  born  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  December  19,  1742,  and 
after  arriving  at  adult  age  removed  to  Roches- 
ter, New  Hampshire,  a  town  adjoining  Dover. 
By  occupation  he  was  a  tanner  and  shoemaker. 
He  married  a  Miss  Hanson,  who  bore  him 
eleven  children,  among  whom  was  Nathaniel. 

(VI)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Turner  and  

(Hanson)  Whitehouse,  was  born  in  New 
Hampshire.  He,  with  several  of  his  brothers 
when  thev  attained  manhood,  settled  in  Mid- 


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dleton,  Strafford  county,  New  Hampshire, 
near  Moose  mountain,  felled  the  forests  and 
paved  the  way  for  civilization  in  that  border- 
land of  the  Cocheco  settlement.  He  married 
and  among-  his  children  was  Benjamin. 

(VII)  Benjamin,  son  of  Nathaniel  White- 
house,  was  born  in  Middleton,  New  Hamp- 
shire, January  14,  1790.  He  came  to  Oxford, 
Maine,  in  1812,  anc!  cleared  a  farm  on  which 
he  resided  until  his  death  in  1870.  having 
attained  the  age  of  eighty-nine,  retaining  his 
faculties  to  a  remarkable  degree.  He  married 
Sally  (Pike)  Buzzcll,  who  lived  to  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-two,  expiring  on  her 
birthday.  Children:  Jonathan,  Benjamin, 
Joan,  Daniel,  Harriet,  Sarah,  Jane  and  De- 
borah. 

(A'TII)  Benjamin  (2),  second  son  of  Ben- 
jamin (i)  and  Sally  (Pike)  (Buzzell)  White- 
house,  was  born  in  Oxford,  Maine,  in  181 5, 
died  1876,  beloved  and  regretted  by  all  who 
knew  him.  After  attending  the  common 
schools,  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits, 
continuing  throughout  the  active  years  of  his 
life.  He  was  one  of  the  soldiers  in  the  civil 
war  from  Maine,  one  of  his  sons  enlisted  in 
the  Seventeenth  Maine  Regiment,  and  his 
son-in-law  gave  his  life  for  the  cause  of  free- 
dom. Mr.  Whitehouse  was  a  Universalist  in 
religion,  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  was  a 
consistent  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  He  married,  in  1839,  Susan 
C,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Susan  (Cobb)  Put- 
nam (see  Putnam,  VIII).  Children:  i. 
George  H.  2.  Eunice  E.,  married  (first) 
Osmond  Town;  (second)  F.  P.  Putnam;  they 
reside  at  Rumford  Falls.  3.  Francis  Clarke, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Alice  M.,  married  B.  W. 
Marston ;  resides  in  Norway.  5.  Alfred  W. 
6.  Edwin  B.  Benjamin  Whitehouse  married 
(second)  and  had  one  child,  Freeland  E. 

(IX)  Francis  Clarke,  second  son  of  Benja- 
min and  Susan  C.  (Putnam)  Whitehouse, 
was  born  in  Oxford,  Maine,  September  18, 
1845.  When  he  was  eight  years  old  his 
parents  removed  to  Norway,  RIaine,  and  in 
the  schools  of  that  town  he  acquired  his  educa- 
tion. At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  left  home  and 
began  life  on  his  own  account.  At  first  he 
clerked  in  a  general  store,  and  then  in  a  drug 
store  as  an  apprentice  in  pharmacy.  At  the 
breaking  out  of  the  civil  war,  1861,  he  en- 
listed, but  was  rejected  on  account  of  his 
youth,  though  his  patriotism  never  waned.  As 
express  messenger  on  the  Grand  Trunk  he  ran 
from  Portland  to  Montreal,  and  in  this  re- 
sponsible position  acquitted  himself  in  a  way 
that    was    eminently    satisfactory    to    his    em- 


ployers, and  upon  his  severing  his  connection 
in  1867  regrets  were  entertained  and  expressed 
freely.  But  a  man  of  Mr.  Whitehoiise's  abil- 
ity was  destined  for  a  broader  career,  to  con- 
trol men  and  to  be  the  fiduciary  custodian  of 
vast  sums.  The  dry  goods  business  at  Me- 
chanics Falls  offered  a  fine  opening,  and  in 
that  thriving  town  of  rapid  growth,  then  in 
the  embryo  period  of  its  development,  he  en- 
tered upon  his  active  career.  In  locating  and 
investing  in  Mechanics  Falls  Mr.  Whitehouse 
displayed  his  good  business  foresight.  In 
1872  he  became  connected  with  the  Dennison 
Paper  Company  ;  in  1888  he  was  manager  of 
the  Lisbon  Falls  Fibre  Company,  superin- 
tended the  erection  of  their  large  mill,  and 
later  was  made  treasurer  of  the  company ;  in 
1893  he  organized  the  Pejepscot  Paper  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  treasurer,  and  the  dams 
and  mill  construction  of  this  concern  were  all 
built  under  his  personal  supervision ;  he  is 
president  of  the  Bowdoin  Paper  Company ;  in 
1904  he  organized  the  Bay  Shore  Lumber 
Company,  purchasing  one  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  acres  of  timber  land  in  New  Bruns- 
wick and  the  Provinces,  operating  mills  at 
each  point ;  in  1906  he  promoted  the  Sagada- 
hoc Towing  Company,  of  which  he  was  made 
treasurer,  and  this  company  owns  large  ocean- 
going tugs  and  barges,  conveying  the  products 
of  the  mills  to  Portland  as  a  distributing  point 
by  rail.  Mr.  Whitehouse  has  great  organizing 
ability,  is  a  fine  executive  officer  and  is  capable 
of  enlisting  the  aid  of  capital  seeking  invest- 
ment in  large  industrial  enterprises.  To  such 
men  as  he  Maine  owes  its  prominence  in  the 
manufacturing  and  business  world.  He  is  a 
thirty-second  degree  Mason  and  a  Knight 
Templar,  has  held  all  the  honors  ami  been 
through  all  chairs  to  which  one  can  aspire, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks.  He  attends  worship 
with  the  LTniversalists.  and  has  been  a  Repub- 
lican since  attaining  his  majority.  Mr.vWhite- 
house  married,  in  1869,  Mary  E.  Pettie. 
Children:  i.  Ada  F.,  married  Henry  H. 
Wood,  of  Brooklinc,  Massachusetts.  2.  Ab- 
bie  E.,  married  Rev.  Norman  i\IcKinnon,  of 
Middleboro,  Massachusetts.  3.  Francis  A., 
died  young.  4.  Susan  M.,  resides  with  her 
parents. 

Elder  Henry  Cobb,  progenitor  of  Susan 
(Cobb)  Putnam,  whose  daughter,  Susan  C, 
married  Benjamin  Whitehouse,  came  to  Plym- 
outh, Massachusetts,  1629,  on  the  second  trip 
of  the  "Mayflower."  He  was  at  Scituate  in 
1633,  and  died  at  Barnstable,  Cape  Cod,  1679. 
In    163 1'  he    married    Patience,    daughter    of 


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Deacon  James  Lothrop.  of  Plymouth.  She 
died  .May  4.  1648.  He  married  (second) 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  Hinckley,  who 
survived  him.     They  left  fifteen  children. 

iH)  James,  second  son  of  Elder  Henry 
and  Patience  (Lothrop)  Cobb,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 14,  1634,  in  Scituate,  Massachusetts.  He 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  George  Lewis,  and 
died  in  1695.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven 
children. 

(HL)  James  (2),  fifth  son  of  James  (i) 
and  Sarah  (Lewis)  Cobb,  was  born,  probably 
in  Barnstable,  July  8,  1673.  He  married 
there  and  reared  nine  children. 

(IV)  James  (3),  first  son  of  James  (2) 
Cobb,  married  Elizabeth  Hallett,  and  among 
their  seven  children  was  Sylvanus,  see  for- 
ward. 

(X'^l  Sylvanus,  son  of  James  (3)  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hallett)  Cobb,  was  born  in  October, 
1701.  He  married  Ivlarcia  Baker,  November 
7,  1728.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven  chil- 
dren, among  whom  was  Ebenezer. 

( \T )  Ebenezer,  son  of  Sylvanus  and  Mar- 
cia  (  Baker)  Cobb,  was  born  March  17,  1759. 
He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Cobb,  of  Carver,  Cape  Cod.  She  was  also 
descended  from  Elder  Henry  Cobb,  mentioned 
above.  Children :  Elizabeth,  Susannah,  Su- 
sannah, Ebenezer,  Lucy,  Cyrus,  Churchill,  Syl- 
vanus and  Samuel. 

(VH)  Lucy,  fourth  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
and  Elizabeth  (Cobb)  Cobb,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1792,  married  Jacob  Putnam  (see 
Putnam).  She  was  aunt  to  Sylvanus  Cobb 
Jr.,  the  prolific  novelist,  who  was  born  in  \Va- 
terville,  Maine. 


The  lineage  of  a  very  large 
PUTNAM  part  of  Putnams  of  New  Eng- 
land is  traced  to  John  Putnam, 
the  immigrant,  the  ancestor  of  several  very 
prominent  citizens  of  the  early  days  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  of  the  famous  General  Israel 
Putnam  of  the  Revolution.  The  name  comes 
from  Puttenham,  a  place  in  England,  and  this 
perhaps  from  the  Flemish  word  pi'ittc,  "a 
well,"  plural  piittcii  and  ham,  signifving  a 
"home."  and  the  whole  indicating  a  settlement 
by  a  well. 

(I)  John  Putnam,  of  Aston  Abbotts,  in 
the  county  of  Bucks,  England,  was  born  about 
1580,  and  died  suddenly  in  Salem  Village, 
now  Danvers,  Massachusetts,  December  30, 
1662,  aged  about  eighty  years.  It  is  known 
that  he  was  resident  in  Aston  Abbotts,  Eng- 
land, as  late  as  1627,  as  the  date  of  the  bap- 
tism of  his  youngest  son  shows,  but  just  when 


he  came  to  New  England  is  not  known.  Fam- 
ily tradition  is  responsible  for  the  date  1634, 
and  the  tradition  is  known  to  have  been  in 
the  family  over  one  hundred  and  fifty  years. 
In  1641,  new  style,  John  Putnam  was  granted 
land  in  Salem.  He  was  a  farmer  and  exceed- 
ingly well  off  for  those  times.  He  wrote  a  fair 
hand,  as  deeds  on  file  show.  In  these  deeds 
he  styled  himself  "yeoman" ;  once,  in  1655, 
"husbandman."  His  land  amounted  to  two 
hundred  and  fifty  acres,  and  was  situated  be- 
tween Davenport's  hill  and  Potter's  hill.  John 
Putnam  was  admitted  to  the  church  in  1647, 
six  years  later  than  liis  wife,  and  was  also  a 
free  man  the  same  year.  The  town  of  Salem, 
in  1644,  voted  that  a  patrol  of  two  men  be 
appointed  each  Lord's  day  to  walk  forth  dur- 
ing worship  and  take  notice  of  such  who  did 
not  attend  service  and  who  were  idle,  etc.,  and 
to  present  such  cases  to  the  magistrate ;  all 
of  those  appointed  were  men  of  standing  in 
the  community.  For  the  ninth  day  John  Put- 
nam and  John  Hathorne  were  appointed.  The 
following  account  of  the  death  of  John  Put- 
nam was  written  in  1733  by  his  grandson  Ed- 
ward :  "He  ate  his  supper,  went  to  prayer 
with  his  family  and  died  before  he  went  to 
sleep."  .  He  married,  in  England,  Priscilla 
(perhaps  Priscilla  Gould),  who  was  admitted 
to  the  church  in  Salem  in  1641.  Their  chil- 
dren, baptised  at  Aston  Abbotts,  were :  Eliza- 
beth, Thomas,  the  grandfather  of  General 
Israel  Putnam  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  John, 
Nathaniel,  Sara,  Phoebe  and  John. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  the  fourth  child  and  third 
son  of  John  ( i )  and  Priscilla  Putnam,  was 
baptised  at  Aston  Abbotts,  October  11,  1619, 
and  died  at  Salem  Village,  July  23,  1700.  He 
was  a  man  of  considerable  landed  property ; 
his  wife  brought  him  seventy-five  acres  addi- 
tional, and  on  this  tract  he  built  his  house  and 
established  himself.  Part  of  his  property  has 
remained  uninterruptedly  in  the  family.  It  is 
now  better  known  as  the  "old  Judge  Putnam 
place."  He  was  constable  in  1656,  and  after- 
wards deputy  to  the  general  court,  1690-91, 
selectman,  and  always  at  the  front  on  all  local 
questions,  whether  pertaining  to  politics,  reli- 
gious affairs,  or  other  town  matters.  "He  had 
great  business  activity  and  ability  and  was  a 
person  of  extraordinary  powers  of  mind,  of 
great  energy  and  skill  in  the  management  of 
affairs,  and  of  singular  sagacity,  acumen  and 
quickness  of  perception.  He  left  a  large 
estate."  Nathaniel  Putnam  was  one  of  the 
principals  in  the  great  law  suit  concerning  the 
ownership  of  the  Bishop  farm.  His  action  in 
this  matter  was  merely  to  prevent  the  attempt 


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of  Zerubabel  Endicotl  to  push  the  bounds  of 
the  Bishop  grant  over  his  land.  The  case  was 
a  long  and  complicated  affair,  and  was  at  last 
settled  to  the  satisfaction  of  Allen  and  Putnam 
in  1683.  On  December  10,  1688,  Lieutenant 
Nathaniel  Putnam  was  one  of  four  messengers 
sent  to  Rev.  Samuel  Parris  to  obtain  his  reply 
to  the  call  of  the  parish.  Parris  was  after- 
wards installed  as  the  minister  of  the  parish, 
and  four  years  later  completely  deceived  Mr. 
Putnam  in  regard  to  the  witchcraft  delusion. 
That  he  honestly  believed  in  witchcraft  and  in 
the  statements  of  the  afflicted  girls  there 
seems  to  be  no  doubt,  that  lie  was  not  inclined 
to  be  severe  is  evident,  and  his  goodness  of 
character  shows  forth  in  marked  contrast  with 
the  almost  bitter  feeling  shown  by  many  of 
those  concerned.  He  lived  to  see  the  mistake 
he  had  made.  That  he  should  have  believed  in 
the  delusion  is  not  strange,  for  belief  in  witch- 
craft was  then  all  but  universal.  The  physi- 
cians and  ministers  called  upon  to  examine  the 
girls,  who  pretended  to  be  bewitched,  agreed 
that  such  was  the  fact.  Upham  states  that 
ninety-nine  out  of  every  one  hundred  in  Salem 
believed  that  such  was  the  case.  There  can 
be  no  doubt  that  the  expressed  opinion  of  a 
man  like  Nathaniel  Putnam  must  have  in- 
fluenced scores  of  his  neighbors.  His  eldest 
brother  had  been  dead  seven  years,  and  he 
had  succeeded  to  the  position  as  head  of  the 
great  Putnam  family  with  its  connections.  He 
was  known  as  "Landlord  Putnam,"  a  term 
given  for  many  years  to  the  oldest  living 
member  of  the  family.  He  saw  the  family  of 
his  brother,  Thomas  Putnam,  afflicted,  and  be- 
ing an  upright  and  honest  man  himself  be- 
lieved in  the  disordered  imaginings  of  his 
grandniece,  Ann.  These  are  powerful  reasons 
to  account  for  his  belief  and  actions.  The  fol- 
lowing extract  from  Upham  brings  out  the 
better  side  of  his  character:  "Entire  confi- 
dence was  felt  by  all  in  his  judgment,  and  de- 
servedly. But  he  was  a  strong  religionist,  a 
lifelong  member  of  the  church,  and  extremely 
strenuous  and  zealous  in  his  ecclesiastical  re- 
lations. He  was  getting  to  be  an  old  man  and 
Mr.  Parris  had  wholly  succeeded  in  obtaining, 
for  the  time,  possession  of  his  feelings,  sym- 
pathy and  zeal  in  the  management  of  the 
church,  and  secured  his  full  co-operation  in  the 
witchcraft  prosecutions.  He  had  been  led  by 
Parris  to  take  the  very  front  in  the  proceed- 
ings. But  even  Nathaniel  Putnam  could  not 
stand  by  in  silence  and  see  Rebecca  Nurse 
sacrificed.  A  curious  paper  written  by  him  is 
among  those  which  have  been  preserved : 
"Nathaniel  Putnam,  senior,  being  desired  by 


Francis  Nurse,  Sr.,  to  give  information  of 
what  I  could  say  concerning  his  wife's  life  and 
conversation.  I,  the  above  said,  have  known 
this  said  aforesaid  woman  forty  years,  and 
what  I  have  observed  of  her,  human  frailties 
excepted,  her  life  and  conversation  have  been 
to  her  profession,  and  she  hath  brought  up  a 
great  family  of  children  and  educated  them 
well,  so  that  there  is  in  some  of  them  apparent 
savor  of  godliness.  I  have  known  her  differ 
with  her  neighbors,  but  I  never  knew  or  heard 
of  any  that  did  accuse  her  of  what  she  is  now 
charged  with."' 

In  1694  Nathaniel  and  John  Putnam  testi- 
fied to  having  lived  in  the  village  since  1641. 
He  married,  in  Salem,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Alice  (Bosworth)  Hutchinson, 
of  Salem  Village.  She  was  born  August  20, 
and  baptised  at  Arnold,  England,  August  30, 
1629,  and  died  June  24,  1688.  In  1648  both 
Nathaniel  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  were  admit- 
ted to  the  church  in  Salem.  Their  children, 
all  born  in  Salem,  were :  Samuel,  Nathaniel, 
John,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Benjamin  and  Mary. 
Benjamin  and  descendants  receive  mention  in 
this  article. 

(HI)  Captain  Benjamin,  sixth  child  and 
fifth  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Hutch- 
inson) Putnam,  was  born  in  Salem  Village, 
December  24,  1664,  and  died  there  about  1715. 
He  was  a  prominent  man  in  Salem,  held  many 
town  offices,  and  always  had  the  title  "Mr." 
unless  other  titles  were  given.  He  held  the 
positions  of  lieutenant  and  captain  (1706-11). 
From  the  time  he  was  chosen  tything  man  at 
the  village  in  1696,  hardly  a  year  passed  but 
what  he  was  honored  by  his  fellow  townsmen. 
He  was  constable  and  collector  in  1700,  was 
constantly  chosen  tything  man  and  surveyor 
of  highways  at  the  village.  In  1707-13  he  was 
one  of  the  selectmen,  and  the  frequency  with 
which  he  was  returned  to  the  grand  and  petit 
juries  shows  that  his  judgment  was  con- 
sidered valuable.  He  is  last  mentioned  on  the 
Salem  records  in  171 2  when  he  was  one  of 
those  chosen  to  delineate  the  bounds  between 
Salem  and  Topsiield.  Decemlier  30.  1709.  he 
was  chosen  deacon  of  the  church  at  the  village, 
receiving  every  vote  of  the  church  except  his 
own.  The  title  of  "Landlord"  was  often  given 
to  the  oldest  living  Putnam,  and  Benjamin  is 
thus  designated  in  the  diary  of  Rev.  Joseph 
Green.  In  June,  1707,  j\Ir.  Green's  diary  men- 
tions "News  of  Captain  Putnam  having  come 
to  Marblehead" ;  and  "Our  country  in  great 
confusion,  some  of  the  army,  and  others 
against  it.  I  went  to  Boston  to  ye  Governor 
to  release  Benjamin   Putnam" ;  but   for  what 


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reason  Captain  Putnam  was  imprisoned  can 
not  now  be  discovered.  He  died  in  1714  or 
171 5.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in  Salem 
during  the  problem  of  the  terrible  witchcraft 
delusion,  but  does  not  appear  to  have  taken 
any  part  in  the  persecutions.  It  seems  that 
the  members  of  the  good  family  who  had  been 
the  victims  of  this  bloody  hallucination  were 
dependents  in  Captain  Putnam's  family,  and 
when  the  indemnities  were  paid  by  the  general 
court  to  the  heirs  of  those  accused  and  im- 
prisoned and  murdered,  William  Good, 
through  the  instrumentality  of  Benjamin  Put- 
nam, obtained  a  large  proportion.  Among  the 
signatures  to  the  certificate  of  character  of 
Rebecca  Nurse,  one  of  the  victims  of  the  time, 
both  those  of  Benjamin  and  his  wife  Sarah  are 
found.  He  never  seems  to  have  appeared  as 
a  witness  of  any  account,  and  probably  kept 
clear  as  far  as  he  was  able  of  the  whole  affair. 
He  married,  according  to  the  Salem  records, 
Hanna  ;  another  authority  says  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Thomas  Putnam.  His  wife 
died  December  21,  1705,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond), July  I,  1706,  Sarah  Holton.  His  chil- 
dren, all  by  the  first  wife,  were:  Josiah, 
Nathaniel,  Tarrant,  Elizabeth,  Benjamin, 
Stephen,  Daniel,  Israel  and  Cornelius. 
( Stephen  and  descendants  receive  notice  in 
this  article.) 

(IV)  Deacon  Nathaniel  (2),  second  son 
and  child  of  Captain  Benjamin  Putnam,  was 
born  in  Salem  Village,  August  25,  1686,  and 
died  October  21,  1754,  aged  sixty-eight.  He 
was  a  yeoman,  and  lived  in  Danvers,  perhaps 
part  of  the  time  in  North  Reading.  He  was 
elected  deacon  of  the  First  Church  at  Danvers, 
November  15,  1731.  He  married,  in  Salem, 
June  4,  1709,  Hannah  Roberts,  who  died  about 
1763.  Their  children,  born  in  Salem  Village, 
were:  Nathaniel  (died  young),  Jacob,  Na- 
thaniel (died  young),  Sarah,  Archelaus, 
Ephraim,  Hannah,  Nathaniel,  Mehitable  and 
Kezia. 

(V)  Jacob,  second  son  and  child  of  Deacon 
Nathaniel  (2)  and  Hannah  (Roberts)  Put- 
nam, was  born  in  Salem  Village.  March  9, 
171 1,  and  died  in  Wilton,  New  Hampshire, 
February  10,  1781.  He  was  a  pioneer  of 
Salem,  Canada,  now  Wilton,  New  Hampshire, 
and  it  is  claimed  that  he  was  there  in  1738. 
It  is  known  that  in  June,  1738,  Ephraim  and 
Jacob  Putnam  and  John  Dale,  all  of  Danvers, 
made  the  first  permanent  settlement  in  Wil- 
ton, and  the  remains  ■^f  a  cellar  mark  the  site 
of  his  house.  This  house  was  of  two  stories  in 
front  and  one  in  the  back.  For  three  years 
the  wife  of  Jacob  Putnam  was  the  only  woman 


who  resided  permanently  in  the  town.  During 
one  winter  the  depth  of  the  snow  and  distance 
from  neighbors  prevented  her  from  seeing  any 
one  but  members  of  her  immediate  family  for 
six  months.  It  is  said  that  the  brothers — 
Jacob,  Ephraim  and  Nathaniel — were  all  early 
at  Wilton,  and  finding  the  Indians  trouble- 
some returned  to  Danvers,  then  a  second  time 
settled  at  Wilton  and  Lyndeborough,  both  of 
which  towns  were  parts  of  Salem.  Jacob  Put- 
nam settled  on  second  division,  lot  number 
three.  He  was  a  man  of  great  industry,  and 
at  one  time  operated  a  saw  mill,  besides  his 
farm.  In  his  old  age  he  employed  himself  in 
making  cans.  He  was  a  leading  citizen,  and 
filled  the  office  of  selectman.  He  married 
(first)  in  Salem,  July,  1735,  Susanna  Harri- 
man  (written  Henman  on  the  Salem  records), 
of  Danvers.  Married  (second)  Susanna 
Styles,  who  died  January  27,  1776.  Married 
(third)  Patience,  mentioned  in  his  will  proved 
February  28,  1791.  His  children  were: 
Sarah,  Nathaniel,  Philip  (died  young), 
Stephen,  Philip,  Joseph,  Mehitable,  Jacob, 
Archelaus,  Caleb,  Elizabeth  and  Peter. 

(VI)  Stephen,  third  son  of  Jacob  (i)  and 
Susanna  (Styles)  Putnam,  was  born  in  Wil- 
ton, Hillsboro  county,  New  Hampshire,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1 74 1,  and  settled  in  Temple,  same 
state,  later  coming  to  Rumford,  Maine.  He 
married  Olive  Varnum,  of  Dracut,  Massachu- 
setts. Children :  Stephen,  Olive,  Samuel, 
Esther,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Israel,  Abigail, 
Rachel,  Jacob  Harriman  and  Ruth. 

(VII)  Stephen  (2),  eldest  son  of  Stephen 
(i)  and  Olive  (Varnum)  Putnam,  was  born 
in  Temple,  New  Hampshire,  August  31,  1765- 
He  removed  to  Rumford,  then  New  Penna- 
cook,  which  was  settled  from  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  and  according  to  the  usual  cus- 
tom the  original  inhabitants  bestowed  upon  the 
infant  settlement  on  the  banks  of  the  turbulent 
Androscoggin  the  name  of  the  old  home  they 
had  recently  forsaken  on  the  banks  of  the 
musical  Merrimac.  He  was  the  first  black- 
smith to  locate,  and  accordingly  he  prospered. 
He  married  Sally  Elliott,  who  was  also  of 
New  Hampshire  stock,  having  been  reared  in 
Newton,  Rockingham  county.  The  Rev.  John 
Strickland  is  reported  to  have  officiated.  Sally 
wove  the  first  web  of  cloth  in  New  Penna- 
cook.  Children :  Stephen,  Sally,  Jacob, 
Pamelia,  Nehemiah,  Abiah,  Benjamin,  Peter, 
Harriman,  Abigail,  Webster,  Daniel  Fillemore 
and  Betsey  Abbott. 

(VIII)  Jacob  (2),  second  son  of  Stephen 
(2)  and  Sally  (Elliott)  Putnam,  was  born  in 
Rfimford,    September    7,    1790.      He   married 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Lucy  Cobb,  whose  pedigree  has  been  traced 
back  to  tlie  "Rfayflower."  Children:  i.  Susan 
C,  married  Benjamin  Whitehouse  (see  White- 
house).  2.  Peter.  3.  Eunice  Waite.  General 
Israel  Putnam,  who  left  the  plow  standing  in 
the  furrow  when  "the  shot  heard  around  the 
world"  was  fired,  was  of  this  genealogy,  also 
Rev.  George  Putnam,  D.D.,  a  celebrated 
divine  of  Boston,  George  P.  Putnam,  the  New 
York  i)ublisher,  and  Judge  William  L.  Put- 
nam, of  the  United  States  circuit  court,  of 
Maine. 


This  ancient  English  name  was 
WIGHT  early  planted  in  the  New  Eng- 
land colonies,  and  has  been  sub- 
sequently identified  with  every  movement  cal- 
culated to  promote  their  progress.  It  has  been 
connected  with  the  pioneer  settlement  of 
Massachusetts.  New  Hampshire,  and  Maine, 
as  well  as  many  other  states. 

( I )  Thomas  Wight,  who  was  of  English 
birth  and  parentage,  is  first  known  on  record 
in  this  country  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  spent  the  winter  of  1633-36.  With 
eleven  others  he  was  an  admitted  inhabitant 
of  Dedham,  July  18,  1637.  At  that  time  he 
had  a  wife  Alice  (sometimes  written  Elsie), 
and  three  sons :  Henry,  John  and  Thomas. 
He  was  first  granted  twelve  acres  of  land  for 
a  homestead,  and  with  his  wife  was  received 
into  the  church  of  Dedham,  September  6,  1640. 
On  October  8  of  the  same  year  he  was  made  a 
freeman.  He  was  selectman  of  the  town  for 
six  years,  beginning  w-ith  1641,  and  was  often 
otherwise  engaged  in  the  public  service,  his 
name  appearing  frequently  in  the  records.  His 
name  is  fourth  on  the  list  of  those  pledged  to 
support  schools,  and  as  a  result  of  this  pledge 
the  first  free  school  in  Massachusetts  was  es- 
tablished. In  1650  he  was  a  member  of  a 
committee  to  erect  a  village  for  the  Indians  at 
Natick.  He  was  identified  with  a  movement 
in  1649  for  the  establishment  of  the  new  town 
of  Medfield.  and  soon  after  removed  to  that 
town.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  there 
in  1677,  and  was  one  of  a  committee  ap- 
pointed November  4,  1669,  to  frame  a  plan 
of  government  for  the  town.  In  1654  he  was 
elected  a  selectman  of  the  town,  continuing  the 
service,  with  the  exception  of  the  years  1656- 
57.  until  his  death,  starch  17.  1674.  He  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  twelve  acres  in  the  first  regi- 
ment at  Medfield,  of  which  town  he  was  one 
of  the  wealthiest  citizens,  and  subsequently 
received  numerous  other  grants.  He  was  also 
among  the  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Medway, 
where  some  of  his  children  settled.    The  valu- 


ation of  his  property  in  1660  was  two  hundred 
sixty-six  pounds.  He  and  all  his  surviving 
sons  in  Medfield,  as  well  as  his  son-in-law, 
subscribed  for  the  new  brick  college  at  Cam- 
bridge, now  known  as  Harvard  University. 
His  wife  Alice  died  July  15,  1665,  and  he  was 
married  .(second)  December  7,  same  year,  to 
Lydia  (Eliot)  Penniman,  widow  of  James 
Penniman  and  sister  of  John  Eliot,  the  apostle 
to  the  Indians.  The  children  of  Thomas 
Wight  were :  Henry,  John,  Thomas,  Mary, 
Samuel  and  Ephraim. 

(II)  Ephraim,  youngest  child  of  Thomas 
and  Alice  Wight,  was  born  January  27,  1645, 
in  Dedham,  and  was  baptized  there  February 
8  of  the  same  year.  He  was  one  of  the  execu- 
tors of  his  father's  will,  and  residuary  legatee 
in  that  instrument.  He  had  previously  re- 
ceived a  deed  of  the  homestead  on  Green 
street  in  Medfield,  where  he  resided.  He  was 
among  the  proprietors  of  Medfield  in  1675, 
and  was  among  those  who  subscribed  two 
bushels  of  "Endian  Corne"  to  the  building  of 
the  new  brick  college  at  Cambridge.  He  was 
an  owner  of  property  in  Medway,  where  some 
of  his  children  lived,  and  with  his  wife  was 
a  member  of  the  church  of  Medfield  in  1697. 
He  died  there  February  26,  1723.  He  was 
married  March  2,  1668,  in  Medfield,  to  Lydia 
Morse,  who  was  baptized  in  Dedham,   April 

13,  1645,  ^"d  died  July  14,  1722.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  Lydia,  Esther,  Ephraim,  Miriam, 
Nathaniel,  Daniel,  Bethia,  Deborah,  and  Ruth. 

(III)  Ephraim  (2),  eldest  son  of  Ephraim 
(i)  and  Lydia  (Morse)  Wight,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 25,  1672,  in  Medfield,  and  settled  in  the 
northern  part  of  that  town,  on  what  is  now 
Farm  street,  in  or  before  1722.  He  was  a 
selectman  of  the  town  in  1732,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary  I,   1744.     He  was  married,   Se]itember 

14,  1702,  in  Medford,  to  Sarah  Partridge,  who 
died  June  28,  1763.  Their  children  were : 
Stephen,  Sarah,  Seth  (died  young),  Seth, 
Caleb,  Ruth,  and  Mary. 

(IV)  Seth,  third  son  of  Ephraim  (2)  and 
Sarah  (Partridge)  Wight,  was  born  October 
g,  1709,  in  Medfield,  and  died  February.  1780, 
on  the  homestead  in  that  town,  where  he  re- 
sided. He  was  a  selectman  in  1754.  In  1736 
he  bought  a  residence  in  Dedham,  but  did  not 
move  there.  This  may  have  been  a  real  es- 
tate speculation.  He  was  married  j\Iarch  10, 
1741,  in  Medfield,  to  Sarah  Pratt,  who  was 
born  August  18,  1718,  and  died  in  Medfield, 
October  12,  1746,  He  was  married  (second) 
March  14,  1751,  to  Hannah  Morse,  who  was 
born  May  2,  171 2.  Three  children  were  born 
of  the  first  wife,  and  a  like  number  of  the  sec- 


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Olid,    namely :      Joel,    Olive,    Nahum,    Eneas, 
Seth,  and  Sarah. 

(V)  Joel,  eldest  child  of  Seth  and  Sarah 
(Pratt)  Wight,  was  born  December  27,  1741, 
in  Medfield,  and  learned  the  trade  of  shoe- 
maker. In  1768  he  removed  to  Dublin,  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  was  a  pioneer  settler, 
and  two  years  later  was  one  of  the  twenty- 
three  voters  in  the  town.  He  enlisted  as  a 
soldier  of  the  revolution  January  i,  1776,  at 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  held  a  lieu- 
tenant's commission  in  Captain  Wadkins"s 
company  of  Colonel  Phinney's  regiment.  At 
the  time  of  his  request  for  a  pension,  in  April, 
1818,  he  was  totally  blind,  and  was  then  resid- 
ing in  Dublin.  His  name,  written  "White," 
appears  on  page  16  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Heads  of  Families  of  the  First  Census  of  the 
United  States  (1790).  In  1819  he  removed  to 
Gilead,  Maine,  to  reside  with  his  son,  Seth 
Wight,  and  died  there  February  19,  1824.  He 
was  married.  May  30,  1768,  to  Elizabeth 
Twitchell,  who  was  born  July  27,  1743,  in 
Sherborn,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Deborah  (Fairbanks)  Twitchell.  She  was 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church  of 
Dublin,  and  is  referred  to  in  the  annals  of 
that  town  as  a  very  pious  and  good  woman. 
She  died  there  April  ig,  1800,  and  he  was 
married  (second)  May  28,  1801,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  ]\Iary  (Kenney) 
Mower  of  Jaffray,  New  Hampshire.  Some- 
time after  1824  she  maried  Daniel  Wight,  of 
Bethel,  Maine.  Joel  Wight's  children  were : 
Hannah,  Ephraim.  Eli  (died  young),  Anna, 
Olive,  Elizabeth,  Seth,  and  Eli. 

(\^I)  Ephraim  (3),  eldest  son  of  Joel  and 
Elizabeth  (Twitchell)  Wight,  was  born  May 
20,  1771,  in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire,  and  set- 
tled in  Gilead,  Maine,  about  the  beginning  of 
the  nineteenth  century.  He  was  a  pioneer  set- 
tler and  cleared  up  the  farm  there  on  which 
he  died  October  3,  1826.  He  was  married, 
November  15,  1797,  to  Susannah  Patch.  They 
were  the  parents  of :  William,  Eliza,  Gard- 
ner, Timothy,  Emily,  Caleb,  Polly  Patch, 
Susannah,  Almira,  Hannah,  and  Ephraim. 

(\'II)  Timothy,  third  son  of  Ephraim  (3) 
and  Susannah  (Patch)  Wight,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 13,  1805,  in  Gilead,  and  passed  most  of 
his  life  in  that  town.  In  the  spring  of  1833 
he  removed  to  Bethel,  Maine,  and  remained 
there  nearly  two  years,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  his  native  town,  where  he  died 
March  13,  1847.  He  was  an  enterprising 
farmer,  a  man  of  agreeable  social  qualities, 
and  as  a  citizen  public-spirited  and  influential. 
Frequently  in  winter  he  taught  district  school. 


For  a  short  time  he  was  deputy  sheriff  of  Ox- 
ford county.    Both  he  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  church.     He  was  mar- 
ried in  Gilead,  May   13,   1828,  to  Mary  Ami 
Green,  who  was  born  January  2,  1810,  daugh- 
ter of  Hezekiah  and  Lydia  (Lombartl)  Green, 
of  Otisfield,  Maine.     She  was  married   (sec- 
ond), October  5,  1852,  to  Caleb  Strong  Pea- 
body  of  Gorham,  New  Hampshire,  to  whom 
she    bore    a    son,    Albert    Caleb.       Timothy 
Wight's   children   were :     Laurentia,    Selvina, 
Obando,     Wesley,     Ephraim,     Lydia     Green, 
John  Green,  Timothy  Nason,  and  Mary  Ann. 
(Vni)  John  Green,  fourth  son  of  Timothy 
and    Mary    Ann    (Green)    Wight,    was    born 
March  2,   1842,  in  Gilead,  and  went  with  his 
mother  to  Gorham  at  the  age  of  ten.    There  he 
grew  to  manhood.     While  living  in  Maine  he 
had  small  opportunity  for  schooling,  but  bet- 
ter facilities  were  afforded  in  Gorham.    Under 
the  instruction  there  he  made  rapid  progress, 
a  small  part  of  each  year  being  given  to  at- 
tendance in  private  high  schools.     Among  his 
instructors  were  several  who  afterwards  filled 
places  of  distinction,  one  being  Henry  C.  Pea- 
body,  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  iMaine, 
who  awakened  in  him  ambition  for  a  college 
training.     Preparation  for  this  was  made  at 
Gould  Academy,  Bethel,  Maine,  and  at  Maine 
State  Seminary  in  Lewiston,  now  Bates  Col- 
lege.   It  is  gratefully  recorded  that  his  brother 
Wesley,  with  rare  generosity,  gave  him  finan- 
cial assistance  in  obtaining  an  education.    En- 
tering Bowdoin  College,  he  was  graduated  in 
the  class  of  1864,  and  thereafter  gave  several 
months  to  the  study  of  law  at  Lancaster,  New 
Hampshire.    His  attention  was,  however,  soon 
turned   to  teaching,   which  has  been   his  life 
work.     In  the  spring  of    1865  he  became  an 
assistant    in     Bridgton    Academy    at    North 
Bridgton,  Maine,  under  Charles  E.  Hilton,  at 
that  time  principal.    In  May  of  the  same  year 
he    was    made    an    assistant    in    Cooperstown 
Seminary  at  Cooperstown,  New  York,  George 
Kerr,  LL.  D..  being  the  principal.     He  held 
the  chair  of  mathematics  in  that  institution  for 
over  two  years.     In  the  fall  of   1867  he  was 
recalled  to  Bridgton  Academy  as  principal  and 
continued  in  that  position  until  the  spring  of 
1870,  teaching  the  classics  in   the  meantime. 
He  was  then  recalled  to  Cooperstown  to  be 
principal  of  the  LTnion  School  and  Academy 
in  that  place.     He  held  this  position  for  more 
than  twenty  years.    In  the  summer  of  1890  he 
was   elected   principal   of   the   Classical   High 
School  at   Worcester,   Massachusetts,   at  that 
time  the   largest   mixed  high  school   in   New 
England,  and  remained  there  four  years.     In 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1894  he  was  made  priiiciiial  of  the  Girls'  High 
School  of  Philadelphia,  and  continued  in  that 
position  three  years.  This  was  one  of  the 
largest  high  schools  in  the  United  States,  hav- 
ing eighty  teachers  and  twenty-five  hundred 
students.  In  1897,  the  year  of  the  establish- 
ment of  high  schools  in  New  York  City,  he 
was  made  principal  of  the  Wadleigh  High 
School  for  Girls,  at  1 14th  street  and  7th  ave- 
nue, which  position  he  still  holds.  This  school 
has  in  a  single  year  enrolled  more  than  thirty- 
five  hundred  students,  and  at  the  time,  with 
its  corps  of  one  hundred  twenty  teachers,  was 
the  largest  known  high  school.  Dr.  Wight 
received  from  Bowdoin  College  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  in  1864,  and  in  1867  that  of  A.  M.  In 
1887  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  from 
Hamilton  College,  and  that  of  Litt.  D.  from 
his  alma  mater  in  1898.  He  has  held  mem- 
bership and  received  honors  in  various  asso- 
ciations, educational  and  other.  In  1883  he 
was  president  of  the  Inter-Academic  Literary 
Union,  an  organization  representing  over 
three  hundred  secondary  schools,  public  and 
private,  in  New  York  State;  he  was  the  first 
president  of  the  Cooperstown  Shakespeare 
Club ;  was  for  one  year,  while  residing  in 
Worcester,  president  of  the  Natives  of  Maine 
Society ;  in  1898  was  president  of  the  School- 
masters' Association  of  New  York  City  and 
Vicinity;  in  1899  was  president  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Colleges  and  Preparatory  Schools 
of  the  Middle  States  and  Maryland ;  in  1905 
was  president  of  the  Bowdoin  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  New  York  City;  and  in  1907  was 
president  of  the  Head  Masters'  Association, 
in  which  are  represented  nearly  one  hundred 
leading  secondary  schools,  public  and  private, 
essentially  college  preparatory,  and  chiefly  of 
the  Middle  States  and  New  England.  Dr. 
Wight  has  decided  literary  tastes  and  is  a 
student  by  nature  and  habit.  He  has  fre- 
quently read  papers  before  educational  and 
other  societies  and  has  contributed  to  various 
periodicals.  He  has  edited  "The  Last  of  the 
Mohicans,"  and  "Selections  from  the  Bible." 
He  is  identified  with  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church,  and,  politically,  with  the  Republican 
party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order 
and  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  being 
eligible  to  the  latter  through  the  service  of  one 
year  in  the  navy  during  the  civil  war.  His 
college  fraternity  is  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon.  His 
residence  is  Marbury  Hall,  164  West  74th 
street,  New  York  City.  Dr.  Wight  was  mar- 
ried. May  13,  1865  to  Flora  Annetta  Stiles, 
daughter  of  Valentine  Little  and  Betsy  Ad- 
ams   (Burnham)    Stiles.     She   was   born   in 


Shelburne,  New  Hampshire,  September  15, 
1844.  At  the  time  of  her  marriage  she  re- 
sided at  Gorham.  She  was  the  second  of  a 
family  of  seven  children,  five  girls  and  two 
boys.  Both  parents  were  natives  of  Gilead. 
Her  father,  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  later 
in  life  a  merchant,  was  in  his  day  one  of  the 
most  influential  business  men  in  the  Upper 
Androscoggin  Valley.  Her  mother  counted 
among  her  ancestors  on  the  Burnham  side  the 
sister  of  General  Israel  Putnam.  Two  chil- 
dren, a  son  and  a  daughter,  are  the  issue  of 
Dr.  Wight's  marriage :  Percy  Loyall,  born 
October  22,  1869,  at  North  Bridgton,  Maine, 
and  Sarita  Stiles,  born  December  30,  1873,  ^' 
Cooperstown,  New  York. 

(IX)  Percy  L.  Wight  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege under  his  father  at  Cooperstown,  and  was 
graduated  from  Hamilton  College  in  1891.  He 
was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  subse- 
quently received  from  the  college  the  degree 
of  A.  M.  His  college  fraternity  is  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon.  After  graduating  he  chose  teaching 
as  his  profession.  For  four  years  he  was  an 
instructor  in  the  Polytechnic  Institute  of 
Brooklyn,  since  which  time  he  has  been  princi- 
pal of  the  high  school  at  Clinton,  Oneida 
county,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  order,  and  a  warden  of  St.  James's 
Protestant  Episcopal  church  of  Clinton.  He 
was  married,  June  30,  1897,  to  Mary  Emily 
Carter  of  Wayside,  New  Jersey.  Miss  Carter 
was  born  in  Knowlton,  Quebec,  August  28, 
1871,  a  daughter  of  Richard  Lee  Carter,  a 
native  of  North  ShefTord,  Quebec,  and  Mary 
Emma  (Knowlton)  Carter,  born  at  Knowlton. 
The  children  of  Percy  Loyall  and  Mary  Emily 
(Carter)  Wight  are:  John  Carter,  born  Sep- 
tember 18,  1900  (died  March  2,  1905),  Pris- 
cilla,  born  March  15,  1903,  and  Dorothy,  born 
January  16,  1907. 

(IX)  Sarita  Stiles  Wight,  the  daughter, 
was  married  June  23,  1898,  to  Robert  Den- 
niston,  M.  D.,  of  Dobbs  Ferry,  New  York, 
which  place  has  since  that  time  been  her  home. 
Dr.  Denniston  was  bom  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania, 
March  19,  1870.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Prince- 
ton LTniversity,  and  of  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  of  New  York  City,  .'\fter 
graduating  from  the  latter  college,  he  studied 
for  about  a  year  in  Germany.  Dr.  Denniston 
is  the  son  of  Admiral  Henry  M.  Denniston, 
Pay  Director  in  the  L^.  S.  Navy,  bom  at 
Washingtonville,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
and  Emma  Jane  (Dusenberry)  Denniston, 
born  in  New  York  City.  The  Denniston  fam- 
ily has  been  for  several  generations  distin- 
guished socially  and  politically  in  the  history 


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of  New  York  State.  To  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Den- 
niston  three  children  have  been  born  :  Rob- 
ert, born  March  14,  1900;  JMary  Wight,  born 
March  g,  1901,  and  Henry  Scott,  born  No- 
vember 5,  1904. 


Freeman,  the  EngUsh  his- 
HASTINGS  torian,  says  there  are  only 
five  families  in  England  that 
can  really  trace  their  lineage  back  of  the  time 
of  Edw^ard  III.  1327-77),  and  that  the  Hast- 
ings family  is  one  of  those.  The  name  is 
older  than  the  Norman  Conquest,  for  the  castle 
and  seaport  of  Hastings  were  held  by  that 
family  when  William  the  Conqueror  came 
over  in  1066.  The  region  of  the  battle  of 
Hastings  was  in  possession  of  the  family  be- 
fore the  Normans  had  settled  in  Gaul  (911), 
for  as  early  as  the  time  of  Alfred  (871-901) 
we  hear  of  a  Danish  pirate  by  the  name  of 
Hastings  who  struck  terror  to  the  Saxons  by 
occupying  with  his  followers  a  portion  of  Sus- 
sex. Many  patronymics  can  be  traced  to  their 
original  derivations  from  a  locality,  an  occu- 
pation or  a  personal  characteristic.  The  fact 
that  no  such  explanation  has  been  found  for 
Hastings  leads  us  to  believe  that  it  has  been 
corrupted  from  some  Danish  word. 

The  first  of  the  familv  who  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage  was  Henry,  Lord  Hastings,  son 
of  William  de  Hastings,  steward  of  Henry  II 
(1154-89).  George,  third  Lord  Hastings,  was 
created  Earl  of  Huntington  in  1529,  and  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  David,  King  of  Scotland. 
He  attended  Henry  VIII  during  the  French 
wars,  and  at  the  capture  of  Thurnay  in  1513. 
The  full  name  of  the  fourteenth  and  present 
Earl  of  Huntington  is  Warner  Francis  John 
Plantagenet  Hastings,  whose  estate  is  at 
Sharavogue,  Kings  county.  Ireland.  One  of 
his  ancestors,  John  de  Hastings,  was  seneschal 
of  Aquitaine,  and  a  claimant  of  the  Scottish 
throne.  Sir  William,  the  first  Baron  Hast- 
ings, became  Master  of  the  Mint  under  Ed- 
ward IV.,  and  first  coined  nobles.  He  built 
Ashley  Castle,  for  a  time  the  prison  of  Mary 
Queen  of  Scots.  He  became  very  powerful, 
and  was  beheaded  by  Richard  of  Gloucester. 

The  full  name  of  the  present  and  twenty- 
first  Raron  Hastings  is  Albert  Edward  Delaval 
Hastings,  whose  estates  comprising  twenty- 
one  thousand  acres  lie  at  Melton  Constable, 
Norfolk,  and  Seaton  Delaval,  Northumber- 
land. The  name  is  quite  prominent  in  army 
and  navy  circles  in  England,  where  are  now 
living  Admiral  .Alexander  Plantagenet  Hast- 
ings, Lieutenant  General  Francis  William 
Hastings,    Major    General    Francis    Eddowes 


Hastings  and  Brigadier  General  Edward 
Spence  Hastings.  The  family  of  Hastings  has 
enjoyed  nineteen  peerages,  but  all  are  now  e.\- 
tinct  except  the  two  previously  mentioned. 
Despite  the  number  of  titles  borne  by  the  fam- 
ily, the  member  of  it  who  is  most  widely 
known  to  the  popular  mind  is  Warren  Hast- 
ings, first  governor  general  of  British  India, 
whose  fariious  trial  has  been  immortalized  by 
the  genius  of  Macauley. 

(I)  Thomas  and  John  Hastings  were  both 
Puritans,  and  were  obliged  by  persecution  to 
leave  their  homes  for  the  New  World.  John 
Hastings  arrived  in  1638.  the  year  that  his 
mother  died.  She  was  the  first  wife  of  Sir 
Henry  Hastings,  fifth  Earl  of  Huntington, 
and  was  Dorothy,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Francis  Willoughby,  of  Woolston,  county 
Notts,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter  and  five 
sons,  John  probably  being  one  of  the  younger 
sons.  The  arms  would  also  indicate  as  much : 
"Ermine  on  a  chief  azure  (blue)  two  mallets 
or  (gold).  Crest:  Star  or  (gold)  known  by 
name  of  Hastings ;  motto :  "In  veritate  vic- 
toria" (in  truth,  victory).  The  arms  of  Hast- 
ings, of  which  an  ancient  painting  is  pre- 
served, are :  First:  Argent  (white)  a  manche 
(sleeve  of  an  ancient  robe)  sable  (black). 
Second :  The  arms  of  France  and  England 
quarterly.  Third:  Or  (gold)  a  lion  rampant ; 
gules  (red),  being  the  ancient  arms  of  Scot- 
land. Fourth:  Barry  eight  martlets  (swal- 
lows of  Palestine)  gules  for  Valence.  Crest: 
A  bull's  head  erased  (torn  of?)  sable,  gorged 
(crowned)  with  a  ducal  coronet  or.  Motto: 
"In  veritate  victoria."  (In  truth  there  is  vic- 
tory.) The  manche  in  the  Hastings  arms  was 
given  to  his  office  as  hereditary  steward  to 
the  Kings  of  England.  The  arms  of  France 
and  England  denote  him  as  one  of  the  heirs 
of  the  Plantagenet  by  marriage  with  the  Prin- 
cess Ida.  The  arms  of  Scotland  were  given 
to  him  as  representing  King  David  the  Lion, 
by  the  Earl  of  Huntington,  who  married 
David's  daughter  and  was  thus  co-heir.  The 
arms  of  Valence  signify  a  service  of  honorable 
distinction  which  the  martletts  indicate  were 
worn  in  Palestine  (the  Holy  Laud),  and  were 
taken  from  the  heirs  of  the  Dv^e  of  Valence 
in  France.  (Genealogical  Dictionary  of  New 
England,  p.  375. )_ 

John  Hastings's  children  by  his  first  wife 
were:  Walter,  born  1631 ;  Samuel,  brought 
from  England :  John,  born  on  the  passage ; 
and  Elizabeth,  born  July  2,  1634.  John  Hast- 
ings's first  wife  died,  and  he  married  (second) 
the  widow  of  John  Means,  who  had  by  her 
first  husband  a  daughter  Sarah,  who  married 


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Walter  Hastings  (2)  for  his  first  wife.  They 
had  eight  children :  Jonathan,  John  Sarah, 
Robert,  Samuel,  Abigail,  Hannah  and  Su- 
sanna. Walter  Hastings's  first  wife,  Sarah 
Means,  died  August  27,  1673,  aged  thirty- 
four;  he  then  married  a  daughter  of  Deacon 
Henry  Bright,  of  Watertown,  July  23,  1674. 
She  died  July  23,  1702,  aged  fifty-six,  and  he 
married  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Elder  Clark, 
January  3,  1703.  His  children  were  numer- 
ous. Walter  Hastings  resided  on  the  estate 
inherited  by  his  first  wife,  on  the  corner  of 
North  Avenue  and  Holmes  Place,  and  after- 
wards bought  lands  in  Cambridge  and  moved 
there,  and  afterwards  to  Haverhill,  where  his 
son  Robert  (3)  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Eaton)  Davis,  Octo- 
ber 31,  1676,  and  their  sons  Robert  and  John 
(4)  married  sisters  Elizabeth  and  Edna, 
daughters  of  Joseph  Bailey,  of  Rowley,  who 
was  the  son  of  Richard,  who  came  from  Eng- 
land in  1635  and  built  the  first  cloth  mill  in 
America. 

(V)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and  Edna 
(Bailey)  Hastings,  was  born  in  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts,  January  23,  1718.  He  married 
Rebecca  Bailey  (sometimes  incorrectly  called 
Kelley),  June  29,  1743.  Children,  recorded 
in  Salem  records:  i.  John,  born  April  11, 
1744;  a  seaman,  who  was  drowned.  2.  Rich- 
ard, October  12,  1745.  3.  Rebecca,  1746.  4. 
Jonas,  November  9,  1747.  5.  Timothy,  April 
12,  1750.  6.  General  Amos;  see  forward. 
John  Hastings  married  (second)  Mary  Amy, 
March  29,  1759.  Children :  7.  Levi,  born 
June  6,  1762.  8.  Evan,  July  12,  1764.  9. 
Mollie,  September  12,  1766.  10.  Joshua,  June 
7,  1768.  II.  Abigail,  August  2.  1770.  12. 
Ann,  March  3,  1772.  13.  David,  June  17, 
1774.  John  Hastings  died  at  his  home  in 
West  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  November 
24,  1794,  and  his  widow  went  to  Fisherfield, 
now  Newbury,  New  Hampshire,  where  some 
of  her  children  had  settled  and  where  she  died. 

(VI)  General  Amos,  youngest  child  of  John 
and  Rebecca  (Bailey)  Hastings,  was  born  at 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  February  3,  1757. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  the  revolution,  was 
at  the  battle  of  Lexington,  helped  to  dig  the  in- 
trenchments  at  Bunker  Hill,  participating  in 
the  battle  next  day,  came  out  of  the  army  with 
a  captain's  commission,  and  was  afterwards 
promoted  to  colonel  and  brigadier-general. 
General  Amos  Hastings  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Bethel,  Maine,  coming  there  soon 
after  his  marriage.  He  was  prominent  in 
eaily  aflfairs  there,  was  a  frequent  town  officer 
and  a  leading  citizen.     He  married,  September 


10,  1778,  Elizabeth  Wiley,  of  Fryeburg, 
Maine.  Children:  i.  Jonas,  married  a  Baker. 
2.  Amos,  married  Deborah  Howe,  and  lived 
in  Fryeburg.  3.  Betsy,  married  Samuel  Rus- 
sell, and  moved  to  Michigan.  4.  Susan,  born 
May  31,  1788;  married  Jonas  Gay,  of  Ray- 
mond, and  moved  to  Saratoga,  New  York.  5, 
Timothy,  October  31,  1791  ;  married  Hannah 
Bean,  and  died  at  Bethel,  in  1844.  6.  Lucinda, 
April  17,  1794;  married  Thomas  Fletcher,  of 
New  Sharon.  7.  John,  mentioned  below.  8. 
Huldah,  April  17,  1798;  married  Nathaniel 
Barker,  of  Newry.  There  was  no  Sally  in 
this  family,  as  erroneously  mentioned  by  Lap- 
ham,  in  Bethel  history. 

(VTI)  John  (4),  third  and  youngest  son 
of  General  Amos  and  Elizabeth  (Wiley) 
Hastings,  was  born  at  Bethel,  Maine,  May  6, 
1796.  He  was  the  well-known  village  black- 
smith for  many  years  at  Bethel  Hill.  He  was 
a  progressive  man,  and  had  much  to  do  with 
the  upbuilding  of  the  town,  and  held  many 
offices.  He  was  coroner  several  years,  and 
treasurer  and  trustee  of  Gould's  Academy. 
He  was  also  quartermaster  of  the  First  Regi- 
ment, Second  Brigade,  Sixth  Division,  State 
Militia,  being  honorably  discharged  in  1831. 
He  married,  May  25,  1820,  .Abigail,  daughter 
cf  Gideon  and  Mary  (Robinson)  Straw,  of 
Newfield,  Maine;  children:  i.  Gideon  Al- 
phonso ;  see  forward.  2.  David  Robinson, 
born  August  26,  1823;  married  Mary  J.  Ellis; 
lived  in  Fryeburg.  3.  John  Decatur,  June  11, 
1825 ;  married  Emma  Kimball.  4.  Daniel 
Straw,  August  12,  1828,  died  July  31,  1833. 
5.  Solon  S.,  August  25,  1832,  died  June  2, 
1833.  6.  Moses  Mason,  December  2,  1834; 
married  Louise  Gould ;  lived  in  Bangor.  7. 
Agnes  Straw,  August  8,  1837;  married  Wil- 
liam O.  Straw.  8.  Daniel  Straw,  May  5, 
1840;  married  Eugenia  L.  D.  Roberts;  has  a 
sheep  ranch  in  the  west.  John  Hastings  died 
April  5,  1859,  at  Bethel. 

(VIII)  Gideon  Alphonso,  eldest  child  of 
John  and  Abigail  (Straw)  Hastings,  was  born 
February  18,  1821,  at  Bethel,  Elaine.  He 
learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  with  his  father, 
but  soon  found  that  he  needed  a  wider  scope 
for  his  activities,  and  took  up  contracting, 
taking  all  kinds  of  work  that  could  be  done 
under  contract.  He  soon  accumulated  con- 
siderable money,  and  with  another  man  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  business  in  Berlin,  New 
Hampshire.  About  the  beginning  of  the  civil 
w'ar  his  partner  disappeared,  taking  all  the 
available  funds,  and  when  Mr.  Hastings  had 
paid  the  debts  of  the  firm  he  found  himself 
without  property.     Every  interest  at  this  time 


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centered  in  the  suppression  of  the  rebelUon, 
and  all  available  men  were  enlisting.  Gideon 
A.  HastinQis  was  mustered  into  .service  as  cap- 
tain of  Company  A,  Twelfth  Maine  Volun- 
teers, November  15,  1861.  was  promoted  to 
major,  transferred  to  the  Twelfth  Maine  Bat- 
talion, and  mustered  out  April  18,  1866.  He 
was  commissioned  to  the  latter  rank  in  June, 
1863,  was  present  at  the  capture  of  New  Or- 
leans, and  served  in  all  the  campaigns  of  the 
Gulf  Department.  He  also  served  in  the 
Shenandoah  \'alley  under  General  Sheridan, 
and  took  part  in  the  bloody  battles  of  Fisher's 
Hill  and  Cedar  Creek,  in  the  autumn  of  1864. 
It  is  noteworthy  that  the  Twelfth  Maine  Regi- 
ment was  largely  officered  by  the  Hastings 
family — Major  Hastings's  brother,  David  B. 
Hastings,  preceded  him  as  major,  October  5, 
1 861,  an  uncle  went  out  as  colonel,  and  a 
cousin  as  lieutenant.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  Major  Hastings  was  appointed  provost 
judge,  and  also  served  as  provost  marshal  of 
"West  Georgia,  with  headquarters  at  Thomas- 
ville.  Later  he  was  detailed  to  serve  in  the 
Freedmen's  Bureau  for  Southwestern  Georgia, 
with  headquarters  at  Albany.  Here  he  held 
both  civil  and  military  command  over  that  sec- 
tion of  the  country  for  ten  months.  These 
several  positions  were  highly  responsible,  re- 
quiring tact,  good  judgment,  firmness  and  de- 
cision. Major  Hastings  was  a  planter  in  the 
south  about  two  years,  and  finding  that  he 
had  recouped  himself  financially  he  returned 
to  Bethel  with  about  twelve  thousand  dollars 
which  he  invested  in  the  lumber  business. 
When  he  died  he  owned  the  Batchelder  grant, 
a  part  of  an  undivided  tract  of  Fryeburg 
Academy,  part  of  the  town  of  Gilead,  and  in 
connection  with  his  sons  seven-eighths  of  the 
town  of  Mason.  The  jJostoffice  of  Hastings 
is  named  for  him.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics, and  served  for  many  years  as  town  clerk, 
selectman,  county  commissioner,  and  repre- 
sentative to  the  state  legislature. 

Major  Gideon  A.  Hastings  married,  Octo- 
ber 3,  1847,  F)olly  Keyes,  daughter  of  Moses 
F.  and  Mary  (Bean)  Kimball,  of  Rumford 
Point,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Moses  Alphonso, 
born  December  31,  1848:  married  Annie  F. 
Poor.  2.  William  Walter,  February  13,  1851. 
3.  Frank  Wallace,  September  25,  1852,  died 
Jul}-  2,  1872.  4.  Florence  Arabella,  May  11, 
1854,  died  August  18  same  year.  5.  David 
Robinson ;  see  forward.  6.  O'Neil  W.  R., 
March  28.  1859:  died  February,  1891.  7. 
Herbert  Bryant,  June  25,  1861.  8.  Tom  Fos- 
kett,  January  14.  1871  ;  was  a  member  of 
Maine  troops  in  the  Aladawaska  war,  caused 


by  a  dispute  over  the  boundary  line  between 
Maine  and  New  Brunswick,  and  the  com- 
pany to  which  he  belonged  was  mustered  out 
at  Augusta  without  participating  in  any  bat- 
tles. 

(IX)  David  Robin.son,  fourth  of  the  seven 
sons  of  Major  Gideon  Alphonso  and  Dolly 
( Kimball )  Hastings,  was  born  January  24, 
1858,  at  Bethel,  Maine.  He  was  educated  at 
Gould's  Academy  in  his  native  town,  and  at 
the  age  of  seventeen  began  work  with  a  sur= 
veyor's  party  on  the  upper  Maine  Central 
railroad,  where  he  was  employed  two  years. 
He  then  returned  to  Bethel  to  attend  and  teach 
school.  In  1879,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one 
years,  he  closed  his  career  as  school  teacher 
and  entered  upon  what  is  known  as  a  lumber 
operator's  calling,  confining  his  operations  to 
cutting  and  hauling  logs  to  the  river,  and  sell- 
ing to  down-river  companies.  In  1882  he  be- 
came junior  member  of  the  mill  company 
known  as  Locke  &  Hastings,  for  the  purpose 
of  manufacturing  lumber  of  all  kinds,  the  mill 
being  located  at  what  is  now  known  as 
Hastings,  succeeding  Locke  &  Hastings,  and 
for  several  years  manufacturing  under  the 
name  of  D.  R.  Hastings,  and  in  turn  being 
succeeded  in  the  manufacturing  industry  by  the 
corporation  known  as  the  Hastings  Chemical 
Company,  for  the  joint  purpose  of  manufac- 
turing lumber  and  extracting  wood  alcohol 
and  its  by-products,  viz. :  acetate  of  lime  and 
soda,  and  charcoal,  also  dealing  in  pulp  wood 
and  timber  lands.  Mr.  Hastings  is  president 
and  general  manaper  of  the  corporation,  his 
associates  being  his  brothers,  W.  W.  and  T.  T. 
Hastings,  of  Bethel,  and  his  son,  Marshall  R. 

Hastings,  who  lives  in  Hastings.     Besides  its 

.  .  .        t 

manufacturing   business,    the   corporation   has 

large  holdings  of  wild  land  in  Albany,  Green- 
wood, Gilead,  Newry,  Riley,  Andover,  Peru, 
Stowe,  Stoneham,  Mason  and  Batchelder's 
Grant. 

Although  Mr.  Hastings  is  at  the  head  of 
large  lumbering  and  manufacturing  industries, 
he  has  found  time  to  do  much  public  service, 
and  has  filled  many  offices.  When  twenty-six 
years  of  age  he  was  made  chairman  of  the 
school  board  of  the  town  of  Gilead,  and- the 
following  year  was  made  chairman  of  the 
board  of  selectmen,  which  position  he  filled 
until  his  removal  to  Hastings  in  1886.  In  1890 
he  returned  to  Gilead  with  his  family,  and 
was  commissioned  postmaster  of  the  town,  un- 
der President  Cleveland's  second  administra- 
tion, and  was  also  the  nominee  of  his  party 
as  a  representative  to  the  state  legislature, 
carried  his  own  town,  hut  failed  of  election. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


as  his  district  was  strongly  Republican.  For 
the  purpose  of  giving  his  children  the  bene- 
fit of  a  higher  education,  Mr.  Hastings  moved 
to  Auburn  July  i,  1895,  and  became  interested 
in  the  coal  and  wood  business,  being  senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Plastings  &  Smith,  of 
that  town. 

In  1900  he  was  elected  alderman  in  Ward 
Two,  and  was  re-elected  in  1901.  He  was  his 
party's  candidate  for  mayor  in  1902,  and  for 
representative  to  the  legislature,  but  was  de- 
feated, his  party  being  in  the  minority.  In 
March,  igo6,  he  was  again  nominated  for 
mayor,  and  was  the  only  Democrat  elected  on 
the  ticket  from  the  four  up-town  wards.  In 
September,  igo6,  he  was  his  party's  candidate 
for  county  sheriff,  and  was  elected,  and  from 
January  i,  1907,  to  March  20  of  same  year 
was  both  mayor  of  the  city  of  Auburn  and 
sheriff  of  Androscoggin  county,  to  which  of- 
fice he  was  elected  in  September,  igo8,  and 
now  holds.  As  mayor  Mr.  Hastings  was  a 
worker  for  good  roads  and  good  sewers,  and, 
first  in  all  school  improvements,  was  instru- 
mental in  having  the  salaries  of  the  school- 
teachers increased,  thereby  securing  the  serv- 
ices of  the  best  teachers.  During  his  term 
of  service  as  sheriff,  he  has  effected  marked 
changes  that  are  beneficial  to  the  interests  of 
the  county  of  Androscoggin  and  conducive  to 
the  better  interests  of  the  prisoners.  He  is  a 
director  in  the  Shoe  and  Leather  Bank,  and 
treasurer  of  the  Skimauc  Land  and  Lumber 
Company,  both  of  Auburn. 

Mr.  Hastings  married.  May  ig,  1881,  Jo- 
sephine A.  Sanderson,  a  daughter  of  ^^larshall 
and  Hannah  (McWain)  Sanderson,  of  Water- 
ford.  To  them  was  born  one  child,  Marshall 
Robinson,  August  29,  1883.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Edward  Lillie  high  school  and  at 
Brow'U  L'niversity,  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
and  is  now  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
Hastings  Chemical  Company  and  D.  R.  Hast- 
ings &  Son. 

David  R.  Hastings  married,  November,  1905, 
Norma  Linscott,  a  native  of  Auburn,  Maine. 
One  child  has  been  born  to  them :  Ruth  Ella, 
February  24,  1907.  Mrs.  Josephine  (Sander- 
son) I-Iastings  died  Tune  20,  i88.:|.  and  Mr. 
David  R.  Hastings  married  (second)  Novem- 
ber 2,  1887,  Ella  J.  Coffin,  daughter  of  Solon 
A.  and  .Selicia  (Farwell)  Coffin,  of  Gilead, 
Maine.  One  daughter,  Florence  O'Neil,  was 
born  to  this  union,  June  2,  1888.  She  received 
her  preliminary  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  Edward  Lillie  high  school  at  Auburn,  and 
is  now  a  sophomore  in  Wellesley  College, 
Wellesley,  Massachusetts. 


The  early  history  of  New  Eng- 
GERRISH     land  shows  no  Gerrish  e.xcept 

William  Gerrish  and  those  de- 
scended from  him ;  and  it  is  probable  that  all 
those  of  the  name  in  America  may  trace  de- 
scent from  the  same  immigrant  forebear. 
Twenty-four  enlistments  in  the  revolutionary 
rolls  of  Massachusetts  are  of  men  named 
Gerrish.  The  name  is  variously  written  and 
there  are  other  enlistments  under  various  or- 
thographies. 

(I)  Captain  William  Gerrish,  immigrant, 
was  born  in  Bristol,  Somersetshire,  England, 
August  20,  161 7.  He  came  to  New  England 
in  1638,  probably  with  the  family  of  Percival 
Lowle  (Lowell),  and  lived  in  Newbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, until  1678,  when  he  removed  to 
Boston.  He  was  the  first  captain  of  the  mili- 
tary band  in  Newbury ;  was  confirmed  as  lieu- 
tenant of  the  troops  of  Essex  county,  March 
27,  1649;  was  representative  of  Newbury 
1650-1653,  and  of  Hampton  1663-70;  was 
chosen  one  of  the  commissioners  for  trying 
civil  causes,  March  25,  1651.  He  was  owner 
of  No.  3  Long  Wharf,  Boston,  where  he  car- 
ried on  business.  He  died  in  Salem,  August 
9,  1687,  at  the  house  of  his  son  Benjamin, 
whither  he  had  gone  a  few  days  before,  in  the 
hope  of  regaining  his  health.  He  married 
(first)  .\pril  17,  1644,  Joanna,  daughter  of 
Percival  Lowle,  his  former  employer,  and 
widow  of  John  Oliver,  of  Newbury.  She  died 
June  14,  1677,  aged  fifty-eight  years.  He 
married  (second)  in  Boston,  Ann,  widow  of 
John  Manning,  and  daughter  of  Richard 
Parker.  He  had  ten  children  by  his  first  wife 
and  one  child  by  his  second  wife :  John,  Abi- 
gail, William,  Joseph,  Benjamin,  Elizabeth, 
Moses,  Mary,  Ann,  Judith  and  Henry,  the 
last  child  being  by  his  second  wife. 

(II)  Captain  John,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
Captain  William  and  Joanna  (Lowell)  Ger- 
rish, was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts, 
February  12,  i64.t,  and  died  in  1714,  aged 
sixty-nine  years.  In  1666  he  settled  in  Dover, 
and  was  a  merchant  and  farmer.  In  1670  he 
was  quartermaster  of  troops ;  captain  of  mili- 
tia in  1672;  high  constable  in  1683;  member 
of  the  special  assembly  convened  by  Governor 
Canficld  in  1684;  representative  from  Dover 
to  the  general  assembly  under  the  administra- 
tion of  Governor  Andros  in  i68g-QO.  In  1692 
he  became  a  royal  councillor  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  April  27,  1697,  he  was  appointed 
by  the  assembly  assistant  justice  of  the  su- 
perior court  of  pleas  of  New  Hampshire,  and 
this  office  he  held  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
He     married     August     19,     1667,     Elizabeth. 


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daughter  of  Major  Richard  Waldron,  of 
Dover.  Children :  Richard,  John,  Paul,  Na- 
thaniel, Timothy,  Joseph  and  Benjamin,  and 
three  daughters. 

(Ill)  Paul,  third  son  and  child  of  Captain 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Waldron)  Gerrish,  was 
born  in  1674,  lived  in  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  died  there  June  6,  1743.  He  mar- 
ried October  2,  1712,  Mary  Leighton,  of  Kit- 
tery,  Maine.  Children:  Paul,  born  1713; 
Elizabeth,  1714;  Mary,  1614;  Samuel,  1722, 
a  distinguished  captain  of  the  old  French  and 
Italian  wars;  Jonathan,  1726;  Lydia,  1730; 
Benjamin,  1732. 

(I\')  Jonathan,  son  of  Paul  and  Mary 
(Leighton)  Gerrish,  was  born  May  24,  1726, 
and  settled  in  Falmouth  (now  Portland).  He 
was  a  lieutenant  in  the  company  commanded 
by  his  brotlier.  Captain  Samuel  Gerrish,  and 
served  under  General  Abercrombie  and  Gen- 
eral Amherst.  He  participated  in  the  battles 
at  Crown  Point,  Ticonderoga  and  Fort  Ni- 
agara. He  married  August  23,  1749,  Eunice 
Tobey,  of  Kittery.  Children :  Nathaniel, 
born  1750;  Mary,  1751 ;  Martha,  1753,  mar- 
ried Benjamin  Frye,  of  Sumner,  Maine: 
Eunice  T.,  1775,  married  Jedediah  Leighton, 
of  Falmouth. 

(\')  Nathaniel,  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Eunice  (Tobey)  Gerrish,  was  born  in  1750, 
and  died  October  31,  1846.  He  settled  in  Fal- 
mouth, and  taught  school  in  that  and  neigh- 
boring towns  during  the  greater  part  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  man  of  education  and  a  very 
successful  teacher.  He  is  remembered  as  hav- 
ing been  a  fine  penman,  and  it  is  said  that  his 
chirography  looked  like  copper-plate  engrav- 
ing ;  and  he  also  was  an  accomplished  per- 
former on  the  violin.  He  married  (first) 
March  25,  1787,  Alice  Abbott,  of  Berwick. 
She  died  in  1828,  and  he  married  (second) 
Hannah  Ward,  of  Standish.  He  had  nine 
children  by  his  first  wife,  and  one  child  by  his 
second  wife:  Nathaniel,  born  1787:  Moses, 
1789;  Betsey,  August  6,  1791,  died  June  21, 
1849,  married  (first)  James  Frye,  (second) 
Jonathan  Frye,  and  had  Eben,  Benjamin,  Jo- 
siah,  Mary  Ann,  Nathaniel,  and  Daniel  Frye ; 
Josiah,  born  December  i,  1793,  died  July  6, 
1867,  married  (first)  April  4,  1822,  Eunice 
Leighton,  of  Falmouth,  (second)  December 
25,  184.:!,  Hannah  Mayberry,  and  had  Eunice 
L.,  Martha,  Ann,  Lorana,  Caroline  W.  and 
Ephraim  Marston ;  Stephen,  born  April  3, 
1796,  died  March  13,  1879,  married  (first) 
May  25,  1832,  Susan  Elliott,  (second)  No- 
vember 26,  1840,  Melinda  Elliott,  and  had 
Angelia ;    William,   born    February   26,    1798, 


died  November  4,  1865,  married  1817,  Sarah 
Hall,  and  had  Louisa  H.,  Alice  Jane,  Phoebe 
Ann,  William,  Horatio,  Augustus  and  Augus- 
tine (twins),  John  Henry  and  Sarah  Helen; 
Nancy,  born  July  6,  1803,  died  October  7, 
1859,  niarried  Asa  Graham,  and  had  three 
children,  all  now  dead. 

(VI)  Nathaniel  (2),  son  of  Nathaniel  (i) 
and  Alice  (Abbott)  Gerrish,  was  born  April 
26,  1787,  and  died  May  27,  1863.  He  settled 
in  the  town  of  Sumner  and  spent  his  life 
there,  a  farmer  and  dealer  in  stock.  He  mar- 
ried February  23,  i8og,  Charlotte  Morrill; 
children :  Betsey  .\nnstrong,  born  March  8, 
1810,  died  August  6,  1845,  married  Levi  Mor- 
rill, and  had  Lucinda,  Levi  W.,  Lucy  Ann, 
Charlotte  G.  and  Nancy  E.  Morrill;  Nathaniel, 
born  1812;  William  A.,  born  1814;  Alice  J., 
born  1817;  Nancy,  born  March  13,  1819,  mar- 
ried (first)  Charles  Gowor,  (second)  Moses 
Frye:  George  M.,  born  April  15,  1821,  went 
west ;  Leonard  H.,  born  September  25,  1825 ; 
William  Armstrong,  born  January  20,  1830, 
married  November  17,  1853,  Elizabeth  A. 
Emery,  and  had:  Elizabeth  L.  (1855),  Charles 
A.  (i8s8),  Benjamin  F.  (1863),  John  D. 
(1867),  Matty  S.  (1872). 

(VII)  Captain  Nathaniel  (3),  son  of  Na- 
thaniel (2)  and  Charlotte  (Morrill)  Gerrish, 
was  born  August  20,  181 2,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 15,  1878.  During  the  earlier  part  of  his 
business  life  he  lived  for  a  short  time  in  West- 
brook,  but  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  Sumner,  wdiere  he  was  a  farmer  and  stock 
dealer,  and  afterward  engaged  in  the  business 
of  packing  beef.  In  1843,  during  the  admin- 
istration of  Governor  Kavanaugh,  he  was 
commissioned  captain  of  militia  and  served  in 
that  capacity  seven  years.  He  married  March 
3,  1840,  Sarah  Jane  Gowor,  of  New  Glouces- 
ter ;  children  :  Orvillc  Knight,  born  April  27, 
1841  :  Eliza  E.,  born  1843;  Caroline  F.,  born 
August  6,  1844,  died  June  10,  1907,  married 
June  10,  1865,  Dr.  A.  H.  Burroughs,  for  many 
years  a  respected  and  highly  successful  physi- 
cian of  the  city  of  Westbrook ;  Charles  F., 
born  1850:  Luella  B.,  born  October  16,  1863. 

(VIII)  Orville  Knight,  son  of  Captain  Na- 
thaniel and  Sarah  Jane  (Gowor)  Gerrish,  was 
born  April  27,  1841.  He  lived  for  many  years 
in  Portland,  and  afterward  became  a  very  suc- 
cessful nurseryman  in  Lakeville,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married  (first)  July  27,  1870,  Lydia 
B.  Hoard,  of  Livermore,  and  (second)  Au- 
gust 8,  1884,  Alice  K.,  daughter  of  William 
Arad  and  Ella  Mason  (Williams)  Thomp- 
son, of  Middleboro,  Massachusetts. 

(VII)    Leonard   H.,   son   of  Nathaniel  and 


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Charlotte  (Morrill)  Gerrish,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 25,  1825,  and  died  March  27,  1854. 
He  married  December  4,  1848,  Mary  Eliza 
Staples;  children:  Emma,  born  1849;  Leon- 
ard II.,  born  1852;  Franklin  S.,  born  1854. 

(VIII)  Leonard  H.  (2),  son  of  Leonard  H. 
(I)  and  Mary  Eliza  (Staples)  Gerrish,  was 
born  in  Sumner,  April  11,  1832,  and  died  Au- 
gust I,  1908.  He  lived  in  Portland  after  he 
was  about  two  years  old.  He  married  Sep- 
tember 20,  1876,  Mary  L.  Stevens,  of  Port- 
land, and  they  had  four  children,  two  of  whom 
grew  to  maturity  :  Leonard  H.,  born  1878, 
and  Harold  D..  born  1883.  The  elder  of  these 
sons  died  in  July,  1908,  and  his  father's  death, 
which  followed  very  soon  afterward,  was  in 
a  great  measure  caused  by  grief  over  the  death 
of  his  son. 

(III)  Nathaniel,  fourth  son  of  Captain 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Waldron)  Gerrish,  was 
born  in  1672.  He  lived  in  Berwick,  Maine, 
and  afterward  in  r\irtsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  married  P.ridget,  daughter  of  Hon. 
William  \'aughn,  of  Portsmouth :  children : 
Nathaniel,  William,  Charles,  George,  Richard 
and  Bridget. 

(IV)  Major  Charles,  third  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Bridget  (Vaughn)  Gerrish,  was  born  in 
Berwick,  Maine,  in  1716,  and  removed  to  Fal- 
mouth (Portland)  in  1748,  and  afterward  to 
Durham  (then  called  Royalsborough),  where 
he  was  the  first  settler.  He  was  frequently 
moderator  of  the  plantation  meetings.  He 
married  Mary  Frost,  of  Berwick ;  children : 
William,  Charles,  Nathaniel,  George,  James 
and  Mary. 

(V)  William,  eldest  son  of  Major  Charles 
and  Mary  (Frost)  Gerrish,  was  born  in  Ber- 
wick, Maine.  June  27,  1744,  and  was  known 
as  Lieutenant  Gerrish.  He  married  April  3, 
1766,  Esther  Parker;  children:  i.  Nathaniel, 
born  August  29,  1767,  died  January  8,  1856; 
see  forward.  2.  Betsey,  born  1769.  3.  Rich- 
ard. 1772.  4.  Benjamin,  April  22,  1774;  died 
August  20,  1854,  married  November  28,  1788, 
S?llie  True  and  had  Almira,  born  1799,  Ar- 
zilla  1801,  Hannah  1803,  Mary  1803,  Sally, 
Abigail  1814,  David  T.,  181 3.  5.  Caroline, 
date  of  birth  unknown.  6.  Jane,  born  1776. 
7.  James,  born  September  16,  1778,  died  Octo- 
ber 8,  1863,  married  November  6,  1801,  Su- 
sanna Roberts,  and  had:  Mercy  1802,  An- 
sel 1804,  Sally  1806,  Irena  1809,  Susanna 
1812,  Angelina  1813,  Salina  1816,  Marcy 
1819.  James  William  1820,  John  1821.  8. 
Sarah,  born  1781.  9.  Molly,  born  1783.  10. 
William,  born  Royalsborough,  May  20,  1786, 
died    Durham,    1862,    married     (first)     181 1, 


Mary     Sydleman,      (second)      1821,     Sophia 
Thomas    (third)    1849,   ^l""*-    (Hoyt)    Adams, 
and   had    Emily,    born    18 12,    Jane    M.    1813, 
Maria    1820,   Jabez   Woodman    1824.   Charles 
1826,  Edwin  1829,  Henry  1832,  Sophia  1838. 
(V)  Charles  (2),  .son  of  Major  Charles  (i) 
and  Mary  (Frost)   Gerrish,  was  born  in  Ber- 
wick, I\laine,  October   18,   1746.     He  married 
August    7,    1770,   Phoebe    Blethen ;   children: 
Huldah,  born   1771  ;  Betsey,  born  1772;  Jere- 
miah, born  October  10,  1774,  died  1822,  mar- 
ried   1800,   Mary  Duvan,   and  had   Hezekiah 
born     1801 ;     Matthew,     1804;     Elsey,     1806 
Sewall,  1809;  Phebe  Jane,  1810;  Sally,  1810 
Mary,    1778;   Charles,    1780;    William,    1782 
Margaret,  1783;  Sally,  1789. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Major  Charles  and 
Mary  (Frost)  Gerrish,  was  born  April  7, 
1 75 1,  and  died  November  28,  1799.  He  was 
a  soldier  of  the  revolution.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 30,  1777,  Sarah  Marriner;  children:  i. 
George,  born  January  24,  1779;  married, 
1803,  Esther  Woodbury,  and  had:  Angeline, 
born  1809;  George  Washington,  181 1;  Jo- 
seph Alarriner.  181 1  ;  Priscilla,  1812  ;  Rebecca. 
1813;  Abner  Harris,  1817.  2.  Joseph  Mar- 
riner, 1783;  see  forward.  3.  Loruhannah. 
1783.  4.  Sarah,  1788.  3.  Abigail,  1790.  6. 
Thirza,  1792.  7.  Moses,  1794.  8.  Nathaniel, 
1797. 

(VI)  Nathaniel,  son  of  William  and  Esther 
(Parker)  Gerrish,  was  born  August  29,  1767, 
and  died  January  8.  1836.  He  married,  in 
Harpswell,  Maine,  ]\lrs.  Sarah  Strout  Mc- 
Grav;  chil4ren  :  i.  Elizabeth,  born  1792.  2. 
Joshua  S..  born  1795.  3.  Esther,  horn  1799. 
married  a  Jones.  4.  Sophia,  born  1803.  mar- 
ried a  Roberts.  3.  Mary,  born  1806.  married 
David  McFarland.  of  Lisbon.  6.  Joseph,  born 
1806.  Nathaniel  Gerrish  married  (second) 
Phoebe  Weymouth ;  children :  7.  Charles 
William,  born  1830,  died  1879;  served  through 
the  civil  war.  and  was  afterwards  a  success- 
ful hardware  merchant  in  Lisbon ;  married, 
1837,  Hannah  Hinkley ;  one  daughter.  Stella, 
now  living  in  Boston,  8.  .Mpheus.  born  1836, 
now  deceased;  removed  to  California,  where 
his  family  reside. 

(VII)  Joshua  Strout.  eldest  son  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Sarah  Strout  (McGray)  Gerrish. 
was  born  in  Durham,  Maine,  May  27,  1795. 
He  married  Charlotte  Sydleman,  of  Durham, 
and  later  moved  to  Lisbon,  Maine.  Children : 
I.  Nathaniel,  born  1818.  died  1842.  in  Choc- 
taw, Mississippi.  2.  .\nn  Elizabeth,  torn 
1820,  died  1824.  3.  Charlotte  A.,  born  1823, 
died  1893,  married  Dr.  David  B.  Sawyer.  4. 
Marv  Eliza,  born  1826,  died  1842.     5.  Everett 


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Munroe,  see  forward.  6.  Edwin  Hobart,  born 
iji  Lisbon,  1840,  died  1901;  he  was  for  many 
years  a  prominent  druggist  in  Lisbon  and 
Lewiston ;  he  married  Abbie  Woodbury,  of 
Bangor,  Maine ;  children  :  Bessie,  a  graduate 
of  Bates  College,  1894,  now  a  teacher  in  Lew- 
iston high  school :  Christine. 

(VIII)  Everett  Munroe,  second  son  of 
Joshua  Strout  Gerrish,  born  in  1835,  died  in 
1901,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and 
after  his  graduation  entered  business  with  his 
father,  and  for  half  a  century  was  a  success- 
ful drygoods  merchant.  He  was  a  public- 
spirited  man,  a  staunch  Republican,  an  active 
member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  for 
twenty  years  superintendent  of  its  Sunday 
school.  For  several  years  he  was  superintend- 
ent of  public  schools.  He  was  a  diligent 
reader,  and  a  very  scholarly  man.  He  was  a 
pleasing  writer,  with  much  newspaper  ability, 
and  for  years  was  correspondent  of  the  Lewis- 
ton  Evening  Journal.  He  married,  in  1874, 
Georgia  Pierpont,  of  Livermore  Falls,  Maine, 
and  to  them  were  born  two  sons,  Lester  Pier- 
pont and  Harold  Sydleman. 

(IX)  Lester  Pierpont,  eldest  son  of  Everett 
Munroe  Gerrish,  was  born  in  Lisbon,  Maine, 
in  1875.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  Nichols's  Latin  School.  In  1896 
he  was  graduated  from  Bates  College  with 
honors.  He  was  a  prominent  athlete  during 
his  years  in  college.  For  four  years  follow- 
ing his  graduation  he  was  principal  of  the 
South  Paris  high  school.  In  1900  he  took  up 
the  study  of  medicine,  and  four  years  later 
was  graduated  from  the  Harvard  Medical 
School,  and  then  served  two  years  as  physi- 
cian and  surgeon  in  the  Boston  City  Hospital. 
At  present  he  is  practicing  medicine  in  Lis- 
bon. Maine.  He  married,  January  23,  1907, 
Anna  Howard ;  they  have  one  child,  Everett 
Pierpont,  born  January  14,  1908. 

(IX)  Harold  Sydleman,  second  son  of 
Everett  Munroe  Gerrish,  was  born  in  Lisbon, 
Maine,  in  1879.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  and  Hebron  Academy,  and  is  now 
continuing  in  his  father's  business.  He  mar- 
ried, 1902,  Mary  E.  Locke,  of  West  Paris, 
and  has  one  child,  Elva  Louise. 

(VI)  Joseph  Marriner,  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Sarah  ( Marriner)  Gerrish,  was  born 
March  24,  1783,  and  died  in  Portland,  Maine, 
in  1853.  He  filled  various  offices  of  trust,  and 
in  all  respects  proved  himself  a  capable  officer. 
He  was  deputy  sherifif  for  many  years,  treas- 
urer of  the  city  of  Portland,  and  representa- 
tive to  the  state  legislature.  He  was  pro- 
prietor of  the  Portland  Advertiser,  and  held  a 


prominent  position  in  Free-Masonry.  "His 
death  was  deeply  lamented  by  the  community, 
which  he  had  served  with  the  utmost  fidelity 
for  nearly  half  a  century.  His  purity  of  char- 
acter, his  kindness  and  his  marked  courtesy 
won  the  admiration  of  all  who  knew  him." 
Mr.  Gerrish  married  (first)  in  1807,  Barbara 
Scott,  and  (second)  in  1842,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann 
Hersey.  He  had  thirteen  children,  all  born  of 
his  first  marriage:  Adeline,  born  1808,  mar- 
ried   W.    E.    Edwards ;    Frances    Ann,    born 

1810,  married  (first)  William  Bartol,  (sec- 
ond) Reuben  Ordway;  Joseph  Frederick  Au- 
gustus, born  1812;  Martha  Martin,  born  1814, 
married  Rufus  Rand;  Ellen  Lucretia,  born 
1816;  Joseph,  born  1817;  Edward  Payson, 
born  1819,  married  Julia  W.  Scott;  Ellen 
Louise,  born  1821,  married  Henry  W.  Hersey; 
Frederick  Augustus,  born  1823,  married  Mar- 
tha J.  Ordway;  Augustus  Franklin,  born  1823, 
married  Caroline  Elizabeth  March ;  William 
Oliver,  born  1827;  Mary  Kidder,  born  1828; 
William  Scott,  born  1830. 

(V)  George,  fourth  son  and  child  of  Major 
Charles  and  Mary  (Frost)  Gerrish,  was  born 
in  Durham,  June  16,  1753,  and  died  May  23, 
1814.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  on  the 
parental  homestead.  He  married,  December 
20,  1781,  Mary  Mitchell,  of  Freeport,  born 
June  21,  1758,  died  December  11,  1816;  chil- 
dren: Susannah,  born  September  10,  1782, 
died  June  i,  1868,  married  March  1801, 
Thomas  Bagley,  and  removed  to  Troy,  New 
York;  James,  born  November  22,  1784;  John, 
born  June    10,    1787,   married   September    15, 

181 1,  Joanna  West,  and  had  Lucy  B.,  born 
1813;  George,  1814;  Mary,  1816;  Alvin,  1818; 
Lydia,  1820;  Charles,  born  August  7,  1789, 
married  March,  181 2,  Betsey  Woo4l3ury,  and 
removed  to  New  York  state ;  Mary,  born  April 
3,  1792,  died  May  7,  1819,  married  May  18, 
1817.  Thomas  Winslow. 

(VI)  James,  eldest  son  and  second  child  of 
George  and  Mary  (JNIitchell)  Gerrish,  was 
born  November  22,  1784,  and  died  June  8, 
1834.  He  was  a  farmer  and  shoemaker.  He 
married  October  8,  1808,  Mary  Sylvester, 
born  1787,  died  August  20,  1859,  daughter  of 
Barstow  Sylvester,  of  Freeport ;  children : 
Harrison,  born  January  27,  1810,  married 
Jane  T.  Small,  of  Lisbon,  and  had :  Melissa 
Jane,  born  1836,  Charles  Harrison,  1838, 
Alary  Adelaide,  1841,  Julius  Alonroe,  1844; 
George  Barstow,  born  July  3,  181 1,  died  Au- 
gust 28.  1850,  married  November  17,  1841, 
Eliza  Field,  and  had :  George  Henry,  born 
1846,  Eliza  Ella,  1848,  Sarah  Eliza,  1850; 
Emeline,  born  March  7,  1817,  married,  March 


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29,  1840,  Amos  Field,  and  had  James 
Lewis,  Emeline  and  Clarence  H.  Field ; 
Stephen  S.,  born  March  23,  1820,  died  May  6, 
1864,  married  October  18,  1848,  Harriet  N. 
Conner,  and  had :  Horace  Greeley,  born 
1850;  Arthur  F.,  1854;  Antoinette,  1856; 
Helena,  1858;  Alice  and  Agnes,  i860;  John 
Jordan,  born  December  21,  1821. 

(VH)  John  Jordan,  yoimgest  child  of 
James  and  Mary  (Sylvester)  Gerrish,  was 
born  in  Durham,  Maine,  December  21,  1821, 
and  died  in  Portland,  April  7,  1904.  After 
his  marriage  he  settled  in  Portland.  He  was 
employed  on  the  Atlantic  and  St.  Lawrence 
railroad  (now  Grand  Trunk)  from  the  time 
the  work  of  construction  was  begun,  and  later 
on  he  became  a  successful  merchant.  After 
leaving  the  service  of  the  Grand  Trunk,  Mr. 
Gerrish  built  the  old  Portland  horse  railroad 
(now  a  part  of  the  city  cystem  of  electric 
street  railways)  and  was  its  superintendent 
for  several  years.  Later  on  he  became  super- 
intendent of  Eutopean  and  Northern  railroad 
(now  part  of  the  Maine  Central  system)  and 
filled  that  position  during  the  next  two  years. 
In  1 871  he  established  himself  in  business  in 
Portland  as  a  dealer  in  railroad  supplies,  and 
for  the  next  twenty-four  years  was  actively 
identified  with  the  business  life  of  the  city.  He 
retired  from  active  pursuits  about  1896.  Be- 
sides being  a  successful  business  man,  Mr. 
Gerrish  was  somewhat  prominently  identified 
with  the  public  and  political  aiifairs  of  the 
city,  serving  in  various  capacities,  and  for 
many  years  he  was  one  of  the  influential  Re- 
publicans in  the  city  and  county.  He  repre- 
sented ward  one  in  the  council  and  also  in 
the  board  of  aldermen,  was  a  trustee  of  Ever- 
green Cemetery  for  eleven  years,  a  prominent 
Mason,  member  of  the  Maine  Historical  So- 
ciety, the  St.  Lawrence  Congregational  church, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  with  a 
single  exception  (Henry  Bodge)  the  oldest 
railroad  man  in  the  state.  He  lived  a  life  of 
much  usefulness  and  was  highly  respected  by 
all  persons  to  whom  he  became  known.  It  is 
to  his  early  researches  that  we  are  indebted 
for  much  of  the  information  contained  in  this 
narrative  which  relates  to  the  branch  of  the 
Gerrish  family  to  which  he  belongs.  Mr.  Ger- 
rish married,  December  21,  1848,  Susan  Rich 
Small,  born  May  i,  1822,  died  March  13, 
1896,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Teb- 
bets)  Small :  children :  Ella  Susan,  born 
March  14,  1851 ;  Mary  Ida,  May  4,  1855 ;  John 
Herbert,  October  13.  1858;  George  Lester, 
x^ugust  9,  i860;  Hattie  Small,  April  7,  1864; 
Elmer  Grenville,  December  28,  1865. 


(VIII)  George  Lester,  second  son  and 
fourth  child  of  John  Jordan  and  Susan  R^ 
(Small)  Gerrish,  was  born  in  Portland, 
Maine,  August  9,  i860,  graduated  from  Port- 
land high  school  in  June,  1878,  and  for  the 
next  ten  or  eleven  years  worked  for  his  father 
in  connection  with  the  various  business  enter- 
prises in  which  he  was  interested.  In  1889  he 
associated  himself  with  Moore  &  Wright,  who 
were  then  engaged  in  deep  water  dredging. 
In  1895  he,  with  Mr.  A.  R.  Wright,  of  the 
above  firm,  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  re- 
tail coal  business,  incorporating  under  the 
name  of  A.  R.  Wright  Co.,  of  which  ]\Ir. 
Wright  was  president  until  his  death  in  1900, 
being  succeeded  in  this  position  by  George  E. 
Runyan,  with  Mr.  Gerrish  its  treasurer  and 
general  manager,  both  of  which  positions  he 
still  fills.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
takes  an  especial  interest  in  the  educational 
afifairs  and  institutions  of  the  city,  having  been 
a  member  of  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittee for  two  terms.  Mr.  Gerrish  is  treas- 
urer and  a  deacon  of  the  St.  Lawrence  Con- 
gregational church.  He  married,  Alay  17, 
1888,  Mary  Emily,  daughter  of  Charles  P. 
and  Ada  (Perry)  Kellogg,  of  Minot,  Maine. 
Three  children  have  been  born  of  this  mar- 
riage: Gertrude  Kellogg,  November  2,  1890; 
Stanley  Small,  June  2,  1896;  Lester  Newton, 
December  i,  1901. 

(HI)  Colonel  Timothy,  fifth  son  of  Captain 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Waldron)  Gerrish,  was 
born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  April  21, 
1683  (or  1684),  and  died  probably  in  Kit- 
tery,  Maine,  in  1756.  He  settled  in  Kittery, 
and  became  a  successful  and  wealthy  farmer 
and  merchant  in  that  town ;  and  he  filled  cred- 
itably various  public  offices.  He  married, 
November  14,  1706,  Sarah  Eliot,  born  Octo- 
ber I,  1687,  died  October  27,  1770,  daughter 
of  Hon.  Robert  and  Margery  (Batson)  Eliot, 
and  who  received  as  her  marriage  dowry  the 
eastern  end  of  the  Champernowe  Island, 
which  contains  nearly  one  thousand  acres  of 
land,  and  which  for  almost  two  hundred  years 
has  been  known  by  the  distinguishing  name  of 
Gerrish's  Island,  and  this  island  is  still  the 
place  of  residence  of  some  of  the  Gerrish  de- 
scendants. Colonel  Timothy's  children  were 
Robert  Eliot,  John,  Timothy,  Sarah,  Anne, 
William,  Abigail,  Nathaniel.  Andrew,  Eliza- 
beth, Benjamin,  Jane  and  Joseph. 

(I\')  Andrew,  sixth  son  and  ninth  child  of 
Colonel  Timothy  and  Sarah  (Eliot)  Gerrish, 
was  born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  August 
4,  1724,  and  died  in  Exeter,  New  Hampshire. 
He  lived  in  several  diilferent  places,  and  his 


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first  two  children  were  born  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island.  The  baptismal  name  of  his 
wife  was  Hannah,  but  her  family  name  is  not 
known.  Their  children  were  Sarah,  who  died 
young;  Elizabeth,  Hannah,  Joseph,  Timothy, 
Sarah  and  Jean. 

(Vj  Timothy  (2),  second  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Andrew  and  Hannah  Gerrish,  was 
born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  April  7, 
1756;  and  died  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, December  30,  1815.  He  was  a  gold- 
smith and  silversmith  by  principal  occupa- 
tion, but  during  the  last  si.xteen  years  of  his 
active  life  he  was  deputy  sheriff  and  jailer. 
He  married  February  6,  1780,  Dorothy  Pat- 
terson, of  Portsmouth  ;  children  :  Abigail, 
Sarah,  Andrew,  Joseph,  Thomas  Patterson, 
Dorothy,  Lydia,  Oliver,  Caroline  and  Mary. 

(VI)  Dorothy,  sixth  child  of  Timothy  and 
Dorothy  (Patterson)  Gerrish,  was  born  Jan- 
uary I,  1 79 1,  and  died  September  27,  1867. 
She  married  (first),  September  i,  1808, 
William  Senter,  and  bore  him  seven  children 
(see  Senter).  She  married  (second),  Octo- 
ber 12,  1829,  Thomas  Currier,  and  bore  him 
tvi-o  children.  Three  of  her  sons  (William, 
Timothy  Gerrish  and  Andrew  Gerrish  Sen- 
ter) lived  in  JMaine.  All  of  her  children  were 
born  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire  (see 
Senter). 

(VI)  Caroline,  daughter  of  Timothy  and 
Dorothy  (Patterson)  Gerrish,  was  born  in 
Portsmouth.  New  Hampshire,  July  8,  1798, 
and  died  February  ig,  1871.  She  married 
October  21,  1821,  Nathaniel  Pearson,  of  E.xe- 
ter,  New  Hampshire,  and  by  him  had  four 
sons  and  two  daughters.  Both  daughters  died 
in  infancy.  The  sons  were  Oliver  Gerrish, 
Edmund,  Nathaniel  and  Augustus  William 
Pearson.  Nathaniel,  the  third  of  these  sons, 
was  born  July  23,  1826.  He  learned  the  trade 
of  watch  making  with  his  uncle,  Oliver  Ger- 
rish, of  Portland,  and  after  working  at  that 
trade  for  several  years  in  New  York  City,  he 
returned  to  Portland  and  became  partner  with 
his  uncle  under  the  firm  name  of  Gerrish  & 
Pearson.  For  many  years  this  firm  carried 
on  a  large  and  successful  business  in  Port- 
land, and  the  junior  partner  was  a  valued 
member  of  the  household  of  the  senior  partner. 
Failing  health  compelled  Mr.  Pearson  to  re- 
tire from  active  pursuits,  several  years  before 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  Bridgton,  Maine. 

(VI)  Oliver,  fourth  son  and  eighth  child 
of  Timothy  and  Dorothy  (Patterson)  Gerrish, 
was  born  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire, 
January  4,  1796,  and  died  in  Portland,  Maine, 
December  3,  1888,  aged  ninety-two  years.    At 


the  age  of  fourteen  he  began  an  apprentice- 
ship to  the  trade  of  watchmaking,  and  served 
his  master  until  he  attained  his  majority.  In 
1807  he  went  as  a  journeyman  to  Boston  and 
there  learned  the  business  of  dealing  in  gold 
and  silver  wares;  but  in  1819  he  .settled  in 
Portland  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  long 
and  usetul  life  in  that  city.  He  had  very  little 
practical  schooling  during  his  boyhood ;  but, 
appreciating  the  advantages  of  an  education, 
he  did  his  utmost  to  remedy  the  deficiencies  of 
his  youth  in  that  respect ;  and  surely  one  who 
met  him  in  middle  life  or  in  his  advanced 
years  would  not  have  suspected  the  defects  in 
his  early  training.  He  became  possessed  of 
one  of  the  finest  private  libraries  in  the  city, 
and  gave  to  each  of  his  children  an  excellent 
education,  lit  possessed  great  love  of  horti- 
culture, and  his  flower  garden  was  always  one 
of  the  very  finest  in  Portland.  He  early  be- 
came interested  in  the  theological  writings  of 
Swedenborg,  and  was  a  devout  communicant 
of  the  church,  which  is  based  on  these  doc- 
trines, as  well  as  a  principal  supporter  of  the 
society  of  that  sect  in  Portland.  His  public 
spirit  was  always  in  evidence,  and  he  freely 
contributed  by  his  personal  effort  and  his 
money  to  the  benevolences  and  philanthropies 
of  the  region.  From  the  time  of  its  founda- 
tion, he  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Port- 
land Savings  Bank,  and  was  its  president  for 
a  number  of  years  previous  to  his  death.  He 
also  was  concerned  in  the  Portland  Athen- 
aeum, the  outgrowth  of  which  is  the  present 
Public  Library ;  of  the  Provident  Associa- 
tion, the  Portland  Dispensary,  and  other  insti- 
tutions established  and  maintained  for  the 
public  good.  He  became  a  Free  Mason  in  his 
early  manhood  and  ever  afterward  felt  a  deep 
interest  in  the  work  of  that  ancient  craft.  He 
held  membership  in  Ancient  Landmark  Lodge, 
F.  and  A.  M. ;  Mount  Vernon  Chapter,  R.  A. 
M.;  Blanquefort  Commandery,  K.  T. ;  and 
other  bodies  in  the  York  rite ;  and  he  took 
thirty-two  degrees  in  the  Scottish  rite.  In 
several  of  these  bodies  he  held  offices  of  trust 
and  honor,  and  was  treasurer  of  the  Grand 
Chapter  for  thirty-four  years.  On  the  fif- 
teenth anniversary  of  his  being  made  a  Master 
Mason  the  lodge  presented  him  with  a  beauti- 
ful gold  junior  grand  warden's  jewel.  In  the 
great  fire  which  swept  through  Portland  in 
1866,  both  his  house  and  his  store  were  de- 
stroyed, with  the  greater  part  of  their  con- 
tents. Just  before  that  disaster  he  was  about 
to  retire  from  active  pursuits,  but  his  losses 
were  such  that  he  was  compelled  to  relinquish 
his  desired  purpose  and  remain  at  his  bench 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


for  further  work,  although  he  was  seventy 
years  old,  and  he  worked  on  uncomplainingly 
for  twenty  more  years.  His  strength  gradu- 
ally waned,  however,  during  his  last  two  years, 
and  at  the  end  of  that  time,  without  disease  or 
suffering  he  sank  gently  into  the  eternal  sleep. 
His  was  a  very  long  life,  filled  with  usefulness 
to  his  fellow  men,  and  he  left  a  memory  of 
uprightness  of  conduct  and  nobility  of  char- 
acter which  are  most  exemplary ;  and  even 
now  he  is  spoken  of  with  admiration,  rever- 
ence, and  affection.  Mr.  Gerrish  married, 
January  6,  1825,  Sarah  Little,  born  in  Wind- 
ham, New  Hampshire,  in  1802,  daughter  of 
Paul  and  Sarah  (Redington-Emerson)  Little. 
The  five  children  born  of  this  marriage  were : 
Frances,  Sarah  Caroline,  Charles  Oliver,  Wil- 
liam Little  and  Frederic  Henry. 

(VH)  Charles  Oliver,  eldest  son  and  third 
child  of  Oliver  and  Sarah  (Little)  Gerrish, 
was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  March  19,  1834, 
and  died  January  24,  1896.  For  many  years 
he  was  a  jeweler  and  watchmaker  in  Saco, 
Maine.  He  marrieil,  March  19,  1867,  Julia 
Perkins  Jordan,  born  January  13,  1843, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Scamman  and  Clarissa 
Hovey  (Perkins)  Jordan,  of  Saco.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  marriage  are  William  Little  Ger- 
rish, dealer  in  real  estate  and  collector  of  cus- 
toms at  Saco,  e.x-city  clerk,  and  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars ;  and  Clara  Ara- 
bella, widow  of  Donald  McLean  Barstow, 
M.D.,  late  of  New  York  City. 

(VH)  William  Little,  second  son  of  Oliver 
and  Sarah  (Little)  Gerrish,  was  born  in  Port- 
land, Maine,  August  31,  1841,  graduated  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  1864,  and  promptly  en- 
tered the  volunteer  service  during  the  civil 
war,  enlisting  in  the  Nineteenth  Maine  In- 
fantry. He  left  the  state  as  orderly  sergeant, 
was  soon  promoted  second  lieutenant,  and  then 
became  acting  adjutant,  and  that  regardless 
of  the  fact  that  there  were  several  iirst  lieu- 
tenants in  the  regiment.  His  commission  as 
first  lieutenant  was  on  its  way  to  him  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  was  the  result  of  a 
congestive  chill  at  Hatcher's  Run,  before 
Petersburg,  Virginia,  February  11,  1865.  His 
standing  as  a  student  was  of  the  highest  or- 
der, his  soldierly  qualities  were  tested  in  sev- 
eral battles  and  found  true,  and  he  was  a  great 
favorite  among  his  fellows,  both  in  college  and 
in  the  army ;  his  ability,  unflinching  courage, 
fidelity  to  duty,  and  winning  personality  being 
recognized  by  all  who  knew  him. 

(VII)  Frederic  Henry,  third  son  and 
youngest  child  of  Oliver  and  Sarah  (Little) 
Gerrish  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  March 


21,  1845,  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in 
1866,  received  the  degrees  of  Master  of  Arts 
and  Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the  same  insti- 
tution in  1869,  and  since  that  year  has  prac- 
ticed general  medicine  in  Portland.  He  has 
given  much  attention  to  professional  teaching, 
having  occupied  successively  the  chairs  of 
microscopy  and  histology,  physiology,  anat- 
omy, and  surgery  in  the  Portland  School  for 
Medical  Instruction ;  the  professorships  of 
materia  tnedica  and  therapeutics,  anatomy, 
and,  finally,  of  surgery,  in  the  Medical  School 
of  Maine  (the  medical  department  of  Bowdoin 
College)  :  and  the  chair  of  therapeutics  and 
physiology-  in  the  Medical  College  of  the  L^ni- 
versity  of  Michigan,  1873-75.  --Mmost  from 
the  inception  of  the  Maine  General  Hospital 
he  has  held  official  positions  in  it :  first  as 
secretary  of  the  corporation  and  board  of 
directors,  then  for  a  long  term  as  visiting  sur- 
geon, and  now  and  for  many  years  past  as 
consulting  surgeon.  He  was  largely  instni- 
mental  in  effecting  the  establishment  of  the 
State  Board  of  Health,  in  1885,  and  was  its 
first  president,  resigning  that  office  in  i88g. 
The  passage  of  the  anatomical  bill  in  1897 
was  to  a  great  e.xtent  due  to  his  efforts,  and 
under  its  operation  and  workings  the  study  of 
practical  anatomy  is  pursued  with  much  more 
ease  and  advantage  than  ever  before  in  this 
state.  In  1904,  the  University  of  Michigan 
conferred  on  him  the  honorary  doctorate  of 
laws,  and  the  same  degree  was  given  him  by 
his  alma  mater  in  1905.  He  is  a  member  of 
.\lpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity,  and  also  is  a  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  an  overseer  of  Bowdoin  College, 
a  trustee  of  the  Portland  Public  Library, 
president  of  the  Portland  Charitable  Dispen- 
sarv,  member  of  the  Maine  Historical  So- 
ciety, Maine  Genealogical  Society,  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars,  and  also  of  the  Fraternity, 
Cumberland,  Athletic,  Economic,  Country  and 
Naturalists  clubs.  Among  professional  or- 
ganizations he  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Surgical  Association,  fellow  and  ex-president 
of  the  American  Academy  of  Medicine,  presi- 
dent ( 1908-9)  of  the  American  Therapeutic 
Societv,  member  of  Societe  Internationale  de 
Chirurgie,  the  Association  of  .'\merican  Anat- 
omists, the  American  Congress  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  the  American  Society  of 
Naturalists,  the  National  Association  for  the 
Study  and  Prevention  of  Tuberculosis,  the 
Maine  Medical  Association  (and  its  ex-presi- 
dent) and  member  and  ex-president  of  the 
Cumberland  County  Medical  Society;  he  is  at 
this  time  county  examiner  of  insane  convicts. 
To  the  literature  of  his  profession  he  has  made 


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a  number  of  contributions,  being  editor  and 
in  large  part  author  of  the  "Text-Book  of 
Anatomy  by  American  Authors"  (1889) 
translator  and  editor  of  "Championniere's 
Chirurgie  Antiseptique"  (1881);  author  of 
"Prescription  Writing"  (1878)  ;  of  articles  in 
Dennis"  "System  of  Surgery"  (1895),  Park's 
"Treatise  on  Surgery"  (i8g6),  and  Keen's 
Surgery  ( igo6)  ;  and  of  many  articles  con- 
tributed to  various  journals  and  the  transac- 
tions of  societies.  Dr.  Gerrish  married,  De- 
cember 31,  1879,  Emily  Manning  Swan, 
daughter  of  Francis  Keyes  and  Emily  ( Brad- 
bury)  Swan,  of  Portland   (see  Swan). 


William  Senter  married,  Sep- 
SENTER  tember  i,  1808.  Dorothy,  born 
January  i,  1791,  died  Septem- 
ber 27,  1867,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Doro- 
thy (Patterson)  Gerrish  (see  Gerrish).  After 
the  death  of  William  Senter  his  widow  Doro- 
thy married,  October  12,  1829,  Thomas  Cur- 
rier. By  her  first  husband  she  had  seven  chil- 
dren, among  them  sons  William,  Timothy 
Gerrish  and  Andrew  Gerrish,  all  of  whom 
were  born  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire. 

(II)  William,  son  of  William  and  Dorothy 
(Gerrish)  Senter,  was  born  October  11,  1813, 
and  died  December  22,  1888.  He  served  an 
apprenticeship  with  his  uncle,  Oliver  Gerrish, 
of  Portland,  and  made  his  home  in  his 
master's  family ;  and  the  intimacy  thus  estab- 
lished ripened  into  an  enduring  friendship. 
Having  completed  his  term  of  service,  Mr. 
Senter  at  once  formed  a  partnership  with 
Abner  Lowell,  who  had  been  his  fellow  ap- 
prentice under  Mr.  Gerrish,  and  the  new  firm 
rapidly  built  up  in  Portland  a  large  business  as 
dealers  in  watches,  clocks,  jewelry  and  orna- 
mental wares,  and  also  as  general  repairers  of 
watches  and  jewelry.  Mr.  Senter  was  pos- 
sessed of  a  frank  and  kindly  nature,  which, 
combined  with  an  incorruptible  character  and 
rare  good  comradeship,  attracted  and  held  to 
him  a  large  number  of  friends.  His  mind  was 
distinctly  scientific  and  so  well  stored  with 
valuable  information  that  it  was  often  said  of 
him  that  if  one  were  puzzled  for  a  fact  he 
should  ask  Mr.  Senter.  He  loved  nature  in 
all  of  her  aspects,  and  found  much  enjoyment 
in  the  fields  and  woods  with  their  flora  and 
fauna,  and  in  the  ocean  with  its  ever-changing 
beauties.  His  yacht  "Sparkle"  was  a  novelty 
and  a  wonder  in  its  time  and  his  hunting  dogs 
were  trained  to  perfection.  His  affection  for 
dumb  companions  was  shown  in  the  burial  of 
a  favorite  setter  dog,  in  the  same  lot  where 
his  own  body  was  to  lie — a  fact  not  revealed 


until  after  his  death.  He  was  not  an  office- 
seeker,  but  the  demands  of  his  friends  and 
fellow  citizens  made  him  repeatedly  alderman 
of  his  ward,  and  afterward  for  several  years 
mayor  of  the  city.  His  name  is  worthy  of 
lasting  remembrance  in  these  annals. 

(II)  Timothy  Gerrish,  son  of  William  and 
Dorothy  (Gerrish)  Senter,  was  born  Febru- 
ary I,  1817,  and  died  August  7,  1872.  He 
taught  in  the  pnlilic  schools  of  Portsmouth 
from  1836  to  1858;  became  principal  of  Ward 
4  grammar  school  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  in 
1858,  and  held  that  position  until  1866,  and 
then  removed  to  Franklin,  Massachusetts,  to 
become  first  principal  of  Dean  Academy.  He 
filled  this  responsible  position  until  1871,  and 
then  resigned  to  take  much  needed  rest.  He 
afterward  removed  to  Portland,  where  all  of 
his  children  who  grew  to  maturity  are  now 
living.  Mr.  Senter  was  greatly  interested  in 
Free  Masonry  and  Odd  Fellowship,  and 
ranked  high  in  each  of  these  orders.  In  the 
profession  of  pedagogy  he  was  remarkably 
successful,  and  his  natural  acuteness  of  mind, 
perfect  poise,  judicial  habits  and  thorough 
kindliness  peculiarly  fitted  him  for  the  arduous 
duties  of  his  profession  and  gained  for  him  a 
wide  celebritv  in  educational  circles.  His  pres- 
ence inspired  a  degree  of  confidence  which 
never  was  disappointing  on  more  intimate  ac- 
quaintance. He  was  loved  and  honored  by  all 
who  came  within  the  circle  of  his  acquaintance. 
Professor  Senter  married,  IMarch  18,  1841, 
Emeline  Dodge,  and  of  their  children  three 
attained  ages  of  maturity :  Joseph  Herbert, 
Emma  Dodge  and  William. 

(II)  Andrew  Gerrish,  son  of  William  and 
Dorothy  (Gerrish)  Senter,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 19,  1819,  and  died  October  23,  1861.  He 
lived  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in 
Portland  and  was  chiefly  employed  by  his 
brother  William.  He  was  a  skilled  workman 
in  his  business  occupation,  a  genial  com- 
panion, an  exemplary  husband  and  devoted 
father,  and  a  patient  sufferer  during  years  of 
protracted  invalidism.  He  married,  August  8, 
1847,  Eliza  Ann  Stubbs,  and  of  their  four 
children,  two  died  in  infancy.  His  daughter, 
Annie  Hay,  is  the  widow  of  James  E.  Jen- 
kins, of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  and  has  one 
child,  Helen  Jenkins.  His  son,  Frank  Gerrish, 
born  January  23,  1856,  married  .^nnie  S. 
Palmer,  of  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  and  now 
lives  in  Mexico. 

(III)  Joseph  Herbert,  son  of  Timothy  Ger- 
rish and  Emeline  (Dodge)  Senter,  was  born 
September  24,  1842,  graduated  from  Harvard 
College    in    1861,    the    youngest    man    in    his 


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class.  lie  studied  theology  in  the  Harvard 
Divinity  School  and  entered  the  ministry  of 
the  Unitarian  church.  His  tastes,  however, 
were  decidedly  in  another  direction  and  after 
several  years  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  he 
left  it  for  library  work,  and  since  that  time 
he  has  held  important  positions  in  the  libraries 
of  Harvard  University,  in  the  city  of  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  the  Century  Club,  of  New  York 
Citv,  and  also  in  the  Astor  Library  in  New 
York. 

(HI)  Emma  Dodge,  daughter  of  Timothy 
Gerrish  and  Emeline  (Dodge)  Senter,  lives  in 
the  city  of  Portland,  Maine,  and  is  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  work  of  many 
worthy  philanthrophies. 

(HI)  William,  son  of  Timothy  and  Eme- 
line (Dodge)  Senter,  was  born  November  5, 
1850.  He  learned  his  trade  with  his  uncle, 
and  ultimately  succeeded  him  in  business.  He 
is  a  Mason  and  an  Odd  Fellow,  member  of 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Cumber- 
land Club,  the  Athletic  Club,  the  Country  Club 
and  the  Yacht  Club,  having  been  commodore 
of  the  latter  for  seven  years.  He  married, 
October  30,  1894,  Grace,  daughter  of  Win- 
throp  S.  Jordan,  of  Portland,  Maine. 


In  the  early  days  of  the  colonies 
SWAN     several    settlers    of    the    surname 

Swan  found  homes  in  Massachu- 
setts Bay,  and  among  them  Henry  Swan  ap- 
pears to  have  been  the  first  of  his  own  sur- 
name. On  the  revolutionary  muster  rolls  of 
Massachusetts  are  found  no  less  than  sixty-six 
men  who  bore  the  surname  Swan. 

(I)  Henry  Swan,  immigrant,  came  from 
England  to  New  England  in  the  ship  "Castle," 
of  London,  and  landed  in  Charlestown,  in  the 
colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  July,  1638. 
He  soon  settled  in  the  plantation  at  Salem, 
where  he  had  a  grant  of  half  an  acre  of  land 
in  1639,  was  admitted  to  church  communion 
in  May  of  same  year,  and  in  the  latter  month 
also  was  made  freeman.  The  exact  date  of 
his  death  is  not  known,  but  it  was  previous  to 
1652.  He  married  Joanna,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Ruck  ;  children  :  Thomas,  Elizabeth, 
and  one  other. 

(II)  Thomas,  eldest  child  and  only  son  of 
Henry  and  Joanna  (Ruck)  Swan,  was  bap- 
tized February  26,  1643,  ^"d  died  February 
8,  1687.  He  was  a  chirurgeon,  and  is  said  to 
have  practiced  medicine  and  surgery  in  Rox- 
bury  and  Boston.  He  married  Mar>',  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  Lamb,  of  Rox- 
bury,  and  by  her  had  ten  children. 

(III)  Thomas   (2),  third  child  of  Thomas 


(i)  and  Mary  (Lamb)  Swan,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1669,  and  died  October  19,  1710; 
graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1689,  and 
was  a  teacher,  physician,  and  also  registrar  of 
probate  of  [Middlesex  county,  jMassachusetts. 
The  last  seven  years  of  his  life  he  "did  prac- 
tise physick  and  chirurgery"  at  Castle  William, 
in  Boston  Harbor,  where  he  died.  He  mar- 
ried Prudence,  daughter  of  ilajor  Jonathan 
Wade,  of  Medford,  and  granddaughter  of 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Prudence  (Wade)  Swan,  was  born  May  12, 
1686,  was  a  mariner,  captain  of  a  ship,  and 
died  at  sea  about  1716.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1706,  Prudence,  daughter  of  Timothy 
Foster,  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts. 

(V)  William,  only  son  of  Ebenezer  and 
Prudence  (Foster)  Swan,  was  baptized  in 
1715  and  died  in  1774.  His  occupation  was 
that  of  gold  and  silversmith,  and  he  had  a 
place  of  business  in  Boston.  He  married  (in- 
tentions published  December  27,  1742)  Livina, 
daughter  of  Gershom  Keyes.  Of  their  thir- 
teen children,  a  daughter  Livina,  born  1749, 
was  grandmother  of  the  famous  artist,  William 
Morris  Hunt,  and  a  son  Edward,  born  1754, 
a  soldier  of  the  revolution. 

(\T)  Wilham  (2),  second  son  and  child 
of  William  (i)  and  Livina  (Keyes)  Swan, 
was  born  in  Boston  in  1746,  and  died  June 
24,  1835.  He  was  a  merchant  in  Groton, 
Massachusetts,  for  a  number  of  years,  then 
removed  to  Maine  and  lived  successively  in 
the  towns  of  Otisfield,  Gardiner  and  Winslow. 
During  the  revolution  he  was  an  officer  in  the 
Sixth  Massachusetts  regiment  of  militia,  and 
his  commission,  dated  in  1778,  is  signed  by 
fifteen  members,  "a  major  part  of  the  council 
of  the  state  of  Massachusetts  Bay."  In  1789 
he  was  commissioned  justice  of  the  peace,  with 
authority  to  act  as  trial  justice,  and  his  com- 
mission bears  the  signatures  of  John  Han- 
cock, governor,  and  Samuel  Adams,  lieuten- 
ant governor.  Mr.  Swan  is  remembered  as 
a  genial,  cultivated  christian  gentleman,  and 
he  appears  to  have  enjoyed  in  a  marked  de- 
gree the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  men 
with  whom  he  was  acquainted.  Although  a 
devout  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal church,  he  always  manifested  a  hearty 
sympathy  with  all  efforts  to  promote  the  cause 
of  religion  in  other  branches  of  Christ's  great 
family.  In  1776,  he  married  Mercy  Porter,  of 
Weymouth  ;  children  :  Sarah,  Elizabeth.  Wil- 
liam, Edward,  Francis,  Thomas,  Sophia, 
Mary,  Lavina  and  Catharine. 

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Mercy  (Porter)  Swan,  was  born  in  Groton, 
Massachusetts,  in  1783,  and  died  in  Gardiner, 
Maine,  in  i860.  He  was  brought  up  and 
trained  to  mercantile  pursuits,  but  for  many 
years  was  cashier  of  the  old  Gardiner  Bank. 
Subsequently  he  became  president  of  the  Co- 
basseconte  Bank  of  Gardiner,  and  for  many 
years  occupied  a  prominent  position  in  the 
business  life  of  that  town  and  subsequent  city. 
He  served  as  representative  and  also  as  sen- 
ator in  the  state  legislature,  was  a  member  of 
the  electoral  college  which  placed  Mr.  Lin- 
coln in  the  national  presidency  in  i860,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  mayors  of  Gardiner  under 
the  city  charter.  He  was  president  of  the  first 
marine  insurance  company  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  this  state,  and  in  many  other  re- 
spects was  a  leading  man  in  the  community 
throughout  the  long  period  of  his  active  life. 
His  character  for  integrity  was  above  sus- 
picion, and  the  soundness  of  his  judgment 
was  recognized  wherever  he  was  known ;  and 
like  his  father,  he  won  and  always  held  the 
unbounded  confidence  of  the  entire  com- 
munity. He  was  a  communicating  member  in 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  church.  He  married 
(first)  Susan  Shaw,  died  1847,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Shaw,  of  Gardiner.  In  1849  he 
married  a  second  wife.  He  had  nine  children, 
all  born  of  his  first  marriage :  Edward 
Bridge,  married  Sarah  Ann  Davis ;  William, 
married  Elizabeth  Wylde,  of  Runcorn,  Eng- 
land ;  Catherine,  married  Joseph  Adams ; 
Thomas,  married  Margaret  Shaw ;  Margaret, 
married  Peter  Grant ;  George ;  Christina ; 
Mercy  Porter,  married  Charles  Barnard 
Clapp :  Emma  Jane  Gardiner,  married  Frank- 
lin Glazier. 

(VII)  Francis  Swan,  third  son  and  fifth 
child  of  William  (2)  and  Mercy  (Porter) 
Swan,  was  born  in  Groton,  Massachusetts, 
June  26,  1785,  and  began  his  business  career 
in  Gardiner,  Maine,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother  Edward,  in  1807.  In  1809  he  entered 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Winslow,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  live  until  1834,  then  removed  to 
Calais  and  lived  there  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  in  June,  i862._  His  removal  to  Calais 
was  determined  by  his  having  purchased  with 
several  others  the  so-called  Fowler  and  Ely 
township  of  wild  land,  about  twenty-two  miles 
from  Calais,  the  management  of  which  he 
controlled  for  many  years,  he  retaining  one- 
third  of  the  property  during  his  life.  He  re- 
tired from  active  mercantile  pursuits  in  1848. 
He  was  a  man  of  firm  principles,  undoubted 
integrity,  and  of  very  superior  judgment.  In 
religious  sympathies  he  was  an  orthodox  Con- 


gregationalist,  and  for  more  than  a  (|uarter 
century  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  church 
of  that  denomination  in  Calais.  The  old  man- 
sion house  in  Winslow  which  Francis  Swan 
occupied  still  stands,  delightfully  situated  on 
the  bank  of  the  Sebasticook  river,  near  its 
junction  with  the  Kennebec,  directly  facing 
the  site  of  Fort  Halifa.x  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  Sebasticook,  which  with  the  old  block- 
house (still  standing)  was  built  in  1757  dur- 
ing the  French  and  Indian  war.  Francis 
Swan  married,  November  12,  1814,  Hannah 
Child,  born  at  Augusta,  Maine,  March  2,  1795, 
daughter  of  James  and  Hannah  (Gushing) 
Child.  She  died  in  Calais  May  20,  1869,  hav- 
ing borne  her  husband  six  children :  Sarah 
Porter,  James  Chikl,  William  Henry,  Francis 
Keyes,  Charles  Edward  and  Eugene.  Each 
of  these  children  receive  brief  mention  in 
these  annals. 

(VIII)  Sarah  Porter  Swan,  eldest  child 
and  only  daughter  of  Francis  and  Hannah 
(Child)  Swan,  was  born  February  5,  1816, 
and  died  at  Santa  Cruz,  West  Indies,  whither 
she  had  gone  for  the  benefit  of  her  health, 
December  21,  1841.  She  married,  November 
7,  1840,  Richard  Henry  Manning,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  for  many  years  a  merchant  of 
New  York  city.  He  died  November  2,  1887. 
They  had  one  daughter,  Sarah  Augusta  Man- 
ning, born  July  24,  1841,  married  June  13, 
1865,  Dean  Sage. 

(VIII)  James  Child  Swan,  eldest  son  of 
Francis  and  Hannah  (Child)  Swan,  was  born 
in  Winslow.  Maine,  August  4,  18 17,  and  died 
in  Calais,  October  15,  1853.  He  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  Texan  colonization  from  the 
north.  In  1838,  having  associated  with  Dr. 
Cyrus  Hamlin  (brother  of  Hannibal  Ham- 
lin), he  chartered  a  vessel,  and  with  a  full 
cargo  and  a  colony  of  thirty  young  men  from 
eastern  Maine  sailed  for  the  "'Lone  Star" 
state,  arriving  at  Galveston,  their  port  of 
destination,  in  December  of  the  same  year ; 
but  after  nearly  three  years  of  trying  experi- 
ences, among  which  was  the  loss  from  yellow 
fever  of  one-third  of  the  colony,  including  Dr. 
Hamlin,  Mr.  Swan  returned  north  and  to  his 
old  home  in  Maine.  A  portion  of  the  follow- 
ing year  he  spent  in  Nassau,  N.  P.,  where  he 
was  associated  in  business  with  Timothy  Dar- 
ling, then  United  States  consul  at  Nassau.  In 
1844  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  at 
Calais,  and  continued  in  business  until  the 
time  of  his  death,  most  of  that  time  being  in- 
terested with  James  S.  Pike  in  their  various 
enterprises.  He  was  an  active  promoter  of  the 
construction  of  the  Calais  '&  Baring  railroad. 


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the  first  railroad  in  Eastern  Maine,  and  was 
its  treasurer  and  managing  director  from  1849 
to  1853.  In  1849-50  he  was  city  treasurer  of 
Calais.  Mr.  Swan  married  September  9, 
1845,  Helen  Trask,  of  Portland,  and  by  her 
had  four  daughters,  two  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  two  daughters  who  grew  to  ma- 
turity are  Sarah  Porter  and  Anna  Child  Swan, 
both  of  Portland. 

(VIII)  William  Henry  Swan,  second  son 
of  Francis  and  Hannah  (Child)  Swan,  was 
born  January  13,  1819,  and  died  at  Poland 
Spring,  Maine,  July  5,  1890.  He  was  con- 
nected with  the  commission  house  of  Grin- 
nell,  Minturn  &  Co.,  of  New  York  city,  at 
first  in  the  capacity  of  clerk,  and  as  partner 
from  184 1  until  1887,  when  he  retired  from 
active  business  life.  Mr.  Swan  is  buried  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  Portland. 

(\'ni)  Francis  Keyes  Swan,  third  son  and 
fourth  child  of  Francis  and  Hannah  (Child) 
Swan,  was  born  October  20,  1820,  and  died 
May  28,  1896.  He  entered  Waterville  Col- 
lege (now  Colby)  in  1836,  but  was  compelled 
by  ill  health  to  abandon  his  college  course  in 
1838.  From  184 1  until  1848  he  was  engaged 
in  business  with  his  father  in  Calais,  and  in 
1849  and  1850  he  was  cashier  of  the  Gardiner 
Bank,  Gardiner,  Maine.  In  1852  and  1853 
he  was  cashier  of  the  Calais  Bank,  and  re- 
signed that  position  on  the  death  of  his 
brother  James  to  take  the  latter's  place  as  man- 
ager and  treasurer  of  the  Calais  &  Baring 
railroad.  He  was  the  first  banking  commis- 
sioner of  the  state,  and  held  that  office  from 
1 861  until  1866;  and  from  1853  ""^il  1867  he 
also  was  engaged  in  fire  and  marine  insur- 
ance. In  the  fall  of  1865  he  removed  to  Port- 
land, and  two  years  afterward  formed  a  part- 
nership with  George  Potter  Barrett  under  the 
firm  style  of  Swan  &  Barrett,  bankers  and 
dealers  in  investment  securities,  in  which  firm 
he  continued  an  active  member  for  almost 
nineteen  years  and  then  retired  from  business 
pursuits,  in  1885.  Mr.  Swan  had  a  remark- 
able capacity  for  business,  having  keenness  of 
penetration,  breadth  of  view,  rapidity  of  cal- 
culation, and  unquestioned  integrity.  His  ex- 
perience as  bank  commissioner  gave  him  a 
wide  acquaintance  throughout  the  state  and 
brought  him  into  association  with  men  of 
finance,  and  this  was  of  especial  advantage 
when  he  established  himself  in  business  in  the 
city  of  Portland.  In  his  new  field  he  intro- 
duced methods  previously  untried  in  the  re- 
gion and  he  quickly  built  up  a  large  and  profit- 
able business.  He  was  urged  to  accept  a 
mayoralty    nomination    when    his    candidacy 


would  have  been  equivalent  to  election,  but  he 
felt  impelled  to  decline  the  proffered  honor 
because  of  the  limitations  of  his  physical 
strength,  which  from  youth  had  been  much 
impaired  by  ill  health;  but  he  always  was  in- 
terested in  public  affairs  and  felt  it  a  duty  to 
participate  in  them  as  fully  as  possible.  His 
nature  was  profoundly  religious,  and  he  took 
an  earnest  interest  in  the  work  of  his  church. 
His  disposition  was  most  genial  and  kindly, 
generous  and  charitable  in  the  best  sense,  and 
to  a  wonderful  extent  he  diffused  an  at- 
mosphere of  affection  around  him.  After  his 
retirement  from  business  he  devoted  much 
time,  energy  and  money  to  genealogic  study, 
particularly  in  respect  to  his  own  family  and 
the  family  of  his  wife ;  and  the  greater  part 
of  our  present  narrative  is  taken  from  his 
manuscripts.  Francis  Keyes  Swan  married 
September  16,  1843,  Emily  Bradbury,  born  in 
Alfred,  Maine,  May  18,  1821,  died  in  Port- 
land. December  4,  1877,  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah and  Mary  Langdon  (Storer)  Bradbury, 
and  by  whom  he  had  four  children :  Henry 
Storer,  a  physician  of  Lakeville,  Massachu- 
setts; Emily  Manning,  wife  of  Frederic  Henry 
Gerrish,  M.D.,  of  Portland  (see  Gerrish)  ; 
Marcia  Bradbury  and  Florence  Wainwright, 
both  of  Boston. 

(VTII)  Charles  Edward  Swan,  fourth  son 
and  fifth  child  of  Francis  and  Hannah  (Child) 
Swan,  was  born  September  5,  1822,  and  died 
Tuly  13,  1908,  after  a  brief  illness,  in  the 
homestead  built  by  his  father  in  1836.  It  is 
given  to  few  men  to  be  so  universally  hon- 
ored and  respected  in  his  own  community  as 
was  Dr.  Swan.  He  was  graduated  from  Bow- 
doin  College  in  1844,  and  received  his  degree 
in  medicine  from  that  honored  institution  in 
1847.  After  a  valuable  hospital  experience  in 
New  York  City  and  Boston  he  settled  per- 
manently in  Calais,  Maine,  and  practiced  his 
profession  for  more  than  sixty  }ears.  Dr. 
Swan  took  an  earnest  and  commendable  in- 
terest in  public  affairs  in  Calais,  and  twice 
filled  the  office  of  mayor  of  the  city ;  for  many 
years  he  was  the  Nestor  of  his  profession  in 
that  part  of  the  state.  Dr.  Swan  married 
(first)  September  26,  1S49,  Mary  D.,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  George  Downes,  of  Calais,  by 
whom  he  had  two  daughters,  both  of  whom 
died  in  infancy.  He  married  (second)  Sep- 
tember 8,  1890,  Mrs.  Minerva  K.  Horton, 
daughter  of  Gilman  D.  King. 

(VIII)  Eugene  Swan,  youngest  son  and 
child  of  Francis  and  Hannah  (Child)  Swan, 
was  born  July  23,  1824,  and  passed  nearly  the 
whole  of  his  life  on  the  old  family  homestead 


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in  Calais.  He  died  March  30,  igcx),  in  Bald- 
winville,  Massacliusetts,  wliere  he  had  gone 
for  the  benefit  of  his  health. 


The  name  of  Durgin  is  not  a 
DURGIN     common  one,  though  it  is  fairly 

numerous  in  certain  parts  of 
New  Hampshire,  notably  Sanbornton  and  the 
Franconia  valley.  The  first  American  an- 
cestor appears  to  have  been  William  Durgin, 
who  is  said  to  have  come  from  England  in 
"1690  and  settled  in  Massachusetts.  As  in  the 
case  of  most  patronymics,  there  have  been  con- 
siderable variations  in  the  spelling,  Durgen, 
Durgan,  Durgain  and  Durgin,  being  found  in 
some  of  the  older  records.  In  Colonial  times 
Benjamin  Durgan,  of  Rowley,  Massachusetts, 
appears  on  the  muster  roll  of  Captain  Joseph 
Smith's  company,  and  in  1776  James  Durgen 
was  in  the  company  of  Captain  Moses  ]\lac- 
Farland,  Colonel  Nixon's  regiment.  In  later 
times  Dr.  Samuel  Holmes  Durgin.  born  at 
Parsonfield,  Maine,  1839,  has  been  a  conspicu- 
ous figure  in  the  medical  profession,  having 
been  a  lecturer  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School 
since  1884,  and  president  of  the  American 
Flealth  Association. 

(I)  Job  Durgin,  grandfather  of  Dr.  Henry 
I.  Durgin,  of  Eliot,  Maine,  was  born  in  Ver- 
mont about  1800.  He  conducted  farming 
operations  in  Eaton,  New  Hampshire,  being 
among  the  first  to  plant  apple  and  other  fruit 
trees  and  in  the  raising  of  fine  graded  sheep 
and  cattle,  and  he  was  assisted  in  this  work  by 
his  eldest  son,  Joshua.  He  married  Betsey 
Durgin,  of  Eaton,  New  Hampshire,  who  bore 
him  ten  children,  namely :  Joshua,  Calvin, 
Lydia,  Elizabeth,  Newell,  Lorenzo,  Lucetta, 
Francena,  Adeline  and  Alvinza. 

(II)  Joshua,  son  of  Job  and  Betsey  (Dur- 
gin) Durgin,  and  father  of  Dr.  Flenry  I.  Dur- 
gin, was  born  October  31,  1825.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Freedom,  New  Hamp- 
shire. In  early  manhood  he  purchased  a  large 
tract  of  wooded  land  which  he  cleared  and 
converted  into  a  valuable  stock  farm,  which 
was  a  source  of  admiration  to  his  neighbors ; 
the  improved  methods  of  farming  followed  by 
him,  the  diversity  of  crops,  the  large  quantity 
of  fruit  raised,  especially  apples,  also  the  fine 
sheep,  cattle  and  hogs,  as  well  as  the  excellent 
farm  buildings,  were  an  uncommon  sight  in 
those  primitive  days.  He  made  excellent  ex- 
hibits at  the  early  district,  county  and  state 
fairs,  and  created  a  large  trade  in  blooded  cat- 
tle, sheep  and  horses.  His  oxen  and  steers 
became  famous  owing  to  the  skill  with  which 
he  matched  and  trained  them.     His  superior 


methods  made  his  farm  well  known,  and  in 
1878,  finding  an  opportunity  to  dispose  of  it 
to  good  advantage,  accepted  the  ofifer  and  re- 
moved with  his  family  to  Cornish,  Maine.  He 
remained  there  until  1881,  engaged  in  lumber- 
ing and  milling,  and  then  purchased  a  large 
farm  in  Centre  Effingham,  New  Hampshire, 
which  he  materially  improved  and  on  which 
he  continued  to  live  until  the  death  of  his  wife 
in  1900,  when  he  was  induced  to  make  his 
home  with  his  son,  Dr.  Henry  I.  Durgin. 
Joshua  Durgin  died  in  Eliot,  September  20, 
1905.  Joshua  Durgin  married,  September  17, 
1847,  ^lary  Elizabeth,  born  March  28,  1827, 
died  in  Centre  Effingham,  May  15,  1900, 
daughter  of  John  and  Folly  (Thurston)  Ken- 
ison,  of  Effingham,  New  Hampshire.  Their 
children,  all  born  in  Freedom,  New  Hamp- 
shire, were:  i.  Evelyn  A.,  married  (first) 
Alonzo  Ward,  by  whom  she  had  two  children, 
Lilla  M.  and  Grace  E.  Ward ;  she  married 
(second)  Joseph  Marslon.  2.  Susan  Lilla, 
died  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years.  3.  .Adeline, 
died  in  infancy.    4.  Henry  Irwin. 

(Ill)  Henry  Irwin,  only  son  of  Joshua  and 
Mary  E.  (Kenison)  Durgin,  was  born  in 
Freedom,  New  Hampshire,  April  21,  1864. 
He  attended  the  district  schools  of  Freedom, 
New  Hampshire,  and  high  school  at  Cornish, 
IMaine,  later  the  New  Hampton  Literary  In- 
stitute, New  Hampton,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  was  prepared  for  college,  but  on 
account  of  impaired  health  he  abandoned  his 
studies  and  from  1881  to  1885  taught  school 
and  also  served  as  assistant  in  the  Masonic 
Charitable  Institute  at  Effingham.  Subse- 
quently he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  with 
Dr.  J.  E.  Scruton,  after  which  he  pursued  one 
year's  course  in  the  L'niversity  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Vermont,  and  then  entered  the  medi- 
cal department  of  the  L'niversity  of  the  Cit)f 
of  New  York,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  March,  1889.  He 
received  an  appointment  on  the  medical  staff 
of  Lincoln  Hospital  and  Home  in  New  York, 
and  during  this  service  gained  a  valuable  ex- 
perience which  proved  of  benefit  in  his  active 
career.  During  the  summer  of  i88g  he  went 
to  Newfield,  Elaine,  and  November  5  of  the 
same  year  went  to  Eliot.  Maine,  where  he 
purchased  the  estate  of  the  late  Calvin  H. 
Guptill,  who  had  practiced  medicine  in  the 
town  of  Eliot  for  forty-four  years,  gaining  a 
large  practice  during  this  extended  period  of 
professional  life.  The  house  was  built  by  Dr. 
Horace  Stacey  in  1845  o"  Bolt  Hill,  sold  by 
him  to  Dr.  Mark  F.  \\'entworth,  from  whom 
it  passed  to  Dr.  Guptill.     In  addition  to  his 


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practice,  which  has  steadily  increased  in  vol- 
ume and  importance  with  each  passirig  year, 
Dr.  Durgin  has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
in  educational  affairs,  and  he  was  for  eight 
years  elected  a  member  of  the  school  board, 
and  also  a  member  of  the  building  committee 
entrusted  by  the  town  with  the  erection  of  a 
new  high  school  building.  Dr.  Durgin  holds 
membership  in  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, Maine  Medical  Association,  York  County 
Medical  Society,  having  served  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  president,  and  the  Portsmouth  Med- 
ical Society.  By  right  of  inheritance  he  was 
admitted  to  memberehip  in  the  Society  of  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution,  and  is  past  presi- 
dent of  the  Paul  Jones  Club  of  that  society. 
Pie  is  a  member  and  past  master  of  Naval 
Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Kittery,  Maine;  Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  South  Berwick,  Maine ;  Maine 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  De  Witt 
Clinton  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire.  He  is  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason  of  the  Ancient  Accepted 
Scottish  Rite ;  being  a  past  thrice  potent  grand 
master  of  Ineffable  Grand  Lodge  of  Perfec- 
tion, Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire;  a  member 
of  Grand  Council,  Princes  of  Jerusalem,  of 
Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire ;  New  Plamp- 
shire;  Chapter,  Rose  Croix,  of  Dover,  New 
Hampshire;  and  of  New  Hampshire  Con- 
sistory, of  Nashua,  New  Hampshire.  He  is 
a  member  of  Kora  Temple  Order  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  of  Lewiston,  Maine.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  Patrons  of 
Husbandry,  Eastern  Star,  Improved  Order  of 
Red  Men,  of  which  he  is  past  sachem,  Knights 
of  Pvthias.  of  which  he  is  past  chancellor  com- 
mander, Navy  League  of  the  United  States 
and  the  Warwick  Club  of  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire. 

Dr.  Durgin  marriel,  December  3,  i8go,  Alta 
Moulton,  daughter  of  Ira  Sewall  and  Susan 
Abigail  (Pinkham)  Knox,  of  Milton,  New 
Hampshire.  Her  ancestors  in  America  em- 
brace several  noted  New  England  families, 
and  we  trace  them  by  generations  as  follows : 

(I)  Thomas  Knox,  immigrant,  came  from 
Scotland  to  Dover,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony, 
in  1652.     He  had  a  son  Sylvanus. 

(II)  Sylvanus,  son  of  Thomas  Kno.x,  had  a 
son  Zachariah. 

(III)  Zachariah,  son  of  Sylvanus  Knox, 
had  a  son  Zachariah. 

(IV)  Zachariah  (2),  son  of  Zachariah  (i) 
Knox,  married  Judith  Pitman  and  had  a  son 
John. 

(V)  John,  eldest  son  of  Zachariah  (2)  and 


Judith  (Pitman)  Knox,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
American  revolution,  enlisting  in  Berwick, 
Maine,  between  May  30,  and  June  15,  1775, 
for  a  term  of  three  years  in  Captain  Samuel 
Derby's  company.  Colonel  John  Bailey's  bat- 
talion. In  the  muster  rolls  in  the  "Massachu- 
setts Archives"  his  name  appears  as  "John 
Noox."  He  was  a  private  at  Valley  Forge, 
January  25,  1778;  served  from  May  i,  1777, 
to  December  31,  1779,  and  from  January  i, 
1780,  to  May  21  following.  Before  going  to 
the  war  he  married  ]\Iolly  Grant  and  removed 
to  Lebanon,  Maine,  and  is  recorded  as  a  pen- 
sioner living  in  that  town  as  late  as  1820.  One 
son  of  John  and  Molly  (Grant)  Knox  was 
Samuel,  evidently  named  in  honor  of  Captain 
Samuel  Derby. 

(VI)  Samuel,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Molly 
(Grant)  Knox,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Maine, 
in  1767,  and  died  in  1852.  He  married  Sally 
Gerrish,  born  in  1768,  daughter  of  George 
and  Mary  (James)  Gerrish  ;  children  :  Mary, 
George,  John,  Samuel,  Ada,  Sarah  and  La- 
vinia.  The  mother  of  these  children  died  in 
Lebanon,  December  20,  1846. 

(\TI)  John  (2),  second  son  of  Samuel  and 
Sally  (Gerrish)  Knox,  was  born  in  Lebanon, 
Maine,  in  1799.  He  married  Betsey  Jones; 
children :     George  Orrin  and  Ira  Sewall. 

(VIII)  Ira  Sewall,  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Betsey  (Jones)  Knox,  was  born  in  Lebanon. 
Maine,  January  17,  1830.  He  married  Susan 
x'\bigail  Pinkham,  born  in  Milton,  New  Hamp- 
shire, February  29,  1828,  daughter  of  James 
Knox  and  Sally  Dearborn  (Jewett)  Pinkham, 
and  they  are  the  parents  of  Clara  Jane,  Ella 
Jeanette,  Frank  Irwin,  and  Alta  Moulton,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Dr.  Henry  Irwin  Durgin, 
of  Eliot. 

Sally  Gerrish,  wife  of  Samuel  Knox,  and 
grandmother  of  Alta  JNIoulton  (Knox)  Dur- 
gin. was  the  dau.ghter  of  George  Gerrish  of 
the  fifth  generation,  granddaughter  of  John 
Gerrish  of  the  fourth  generation,  who  married 
Margery  Jackson,  daughter  of  Dr.  George  and 
Joanna  (Pepperell)  Jackson,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Colonel  William  and  Margery 
(  Brav)  Pepperell,  of  Kittery,  Maine.  Colonel 
William  Pepperrell  came  to  Cape  Cod,  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony,  from  Tavistock,  Corn- 
wall, England,  and  engaged  in  the  fishing 
trade  first  on  the  Isle  of  Shoals  and  subse- 
quently at  Kittery,  where  he  was  married,  and 
their  only  son,  General  William,  was  the  first 
native  born  American  to  be  created  a  baronet 
of  Great  Britain,  and  for  services  in  the 
French  and  Indian  war  was  commissioned 
major-general,    and    was    acting   governor   of 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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Massachusetts  colony  1756-58;  was  commis- 
sioned Jieutenant-general  in  1759,  and  died  at 
Kittery,  Maine,  July  6,  1759.  In  the  Gerrish 
line  from  John  of  the  fourth  generation  we 
have  Colonel  Timothy  of  the  third.  Captain 
John  of  the  second,  and  Captain  William,  the 
immigrant.  In  this  way  we  trace  her  direct 
line  of  descent  from  three  distinct  and  notable 
families  of  the  early  history  of  New  England. 
Thomas  Knox,  the  immigrant,  with  his  de- 
scendants prominent  in  the  history  of  the 
American  Revolution ;  Captain  William  Ger- 
rish, another  immigrant  of  note ;  William  Pep- 
perrell,  who  gave  New  England  history  pe- 
culiar brilliancy  through  his  son,  Sir  William, 
the  distinguished  Colonial  military  and  civil 
officer.  It  would  be  interesting  to  trace  the 
descent  of  Mrs.  Durgin  through  the  Pitmans, 
Grants,  Jacksons,  Joneses,  Sewalls,  Pinkhams, 
but  space  will  not  permit. 


This  name,  first  a  forename 
GEORGE  and  later  a  surname,  is  derived 
from  two  Greek  words  and  sig- 
nifies "earth-worker,"  or  "farmer."  The 
families  of  this  name  are  probably  of  different 
ancestors,  and  are  scattered  throughout  the 
United  States.  The  members  of  the  George 
family  who  settled  in  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth 
century  came  from  the  south-eastern  part  of 
England  and  as  traditions  of  the  family  indi- 
cate were  three  brothers,  arriving  in  America 
at  nearly  the  same  time. 

(I)  Gideon  George,  from  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, with  his  wife  and  son  Gideon,  sailed  for 
Salem,  Massachusetts,  about  1680.  A  son 
John  was  born  during  the  ocean  voyage,  and 
left  a  numerous  progeny.  His  descendants 
have  been  active  and  useful  citizens. 

(II)  John,  second  son  and  child  of  Gideon 
George,  was  born  upon  the  ocean  about  1680. 
He  lived  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  and  his 
name  is  found  in  the  list  of  petitioners  for  a 
schoolhouse  in  the  northeastern  part  of  Haver- 
hill, in  171 1.  He  was  drowned  while  attempt- 
ing to  cross  the  Merrimack  river  on  the  ice, 
February  27,  1715.  He  married,  about  1700, 
Ann  Swaddock,  who  died  February  7,  1763. 
Their  children  were :  John  Swaddock,  Wil- 
liam, Augustin,  Elizabeth  and  Gideon. 

(III)  Gideon  (2).  fourth  son  and  youngest 
child  of  John  and  Ann  (Swaddock)  George, 
was  born  in  Haverhill,  May  27,  1712,  and 
lived  in  Haverhill  and  Bradford,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married.  April  14,  1737,  Elizabeth 
Jewett,  born  in  Rowley.  June  18,  1718,  daugh- 


ter of  Deacon  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Hopkin- 
son)  Jewett. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Gideon  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Jewett)  George,  was  born  in  Brad- 
ford, November  18,  1737,  and  died  in 
Plymouth,  New  Hampshire,  January  12,  1820. 
After  his  marriage  he  lived  in  Haverhill  about 
four  years,  and  then  removed  to  Hampstead, 
New  Hampshire.  From  thence  he  removed  to 
Plymouth,  New  Hampshire,  in  1777.  In  the 
midst  of  a  large  and  fertile  farm  he  built  a 
log  house,  and  as  he  prospered,  afterward  built 
a  frame  house.  He  was  a  selectman  for  four 
years,  and  December  21,  1784,  was  appointed 
a  coroner  for  Grafton  county,  an  office  he  re- 
signed December  13,  1792.  From  the  date  of 
this  appointment  he  was  styled  William 
George,  Esq.,  but  was  not  a  justice  of  the 
peace.  He  was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  a 
respected  citizen.  He  married  (first)  May  26, 
1763,  Ruth  Hastings,  born  in  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts,  August  8,  1742,  died  June  i, 
1809,  daughter  of  Robert  Jr.  and  Ruth  (San- 
ders) Hastings.  He  married  (second)  Feb- 
ruary 19,  181 1,  Abigail  Dearborn,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Dearborn.  She  had  previously  been 
married  to  Peter  Hobart,  Thomas  McCulner 
and  Rev.  Samuel  Currier.  She  survived  her 
husband  and  died  April  8,  1839.  William 
George  had  four  children,  all  by  first  wife : 
Robert,  see  forward;  ^\'illiam,  King,  Moses. 

(V)  Robert,  son  of  William  and  Ruth 
(Hastings)  George,  was  born  in  Hampstead, 
January  5,  1768.  He  was  a  farmer  in 
Plymouth  and  built  a  house  in  South  Ply- 
mouth, where  he  probably  resided.  He  died 
by  accident  in  1834;  while  crossing  a  brook 
upon  a  log  he  fell  and  was  drowned.  He  mar- 
ried. May  5,  1793,  Sarah  Dearborn,  born  April 
21,  1774,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Clough)  Dearborn.  She  died  January  18. 
1851.  They  were  the  parents  of  children: 
Gideon,  Leonard,  Clarissa.  Samuel  Dearborn. 
Hiram,  Malvina,  Moor  Russell,  Mary  Ann 
and  Ruth. 

(V)  King,  second  son  of  William  and  Ruth 
(Hastings)  George,  was  born  in  Hampstead. 
New  Flampshire,  May  19,  1771.  Plymouth, 
New  Hampshire,  at  the  confluence  of  the  Mer- 
rimack and  the  Pemigewasset,  heretofore  a 
trackless  wil(!erness,  the  home  of  savage  beasts 
and  more  savage  Indians,  was  to  blossom  into 
a  prosperous  pioneer  settlement  with  the  ad- 
vance of  man  and  the  quickening  influences  of 
civilization.  Thither  removed  King  George 
before  1787,  then  the  outpost  of  intruding 
northern  settlement.     In  that  year  the  Congre- 


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gatioiial  cluirch  was  burned,  and  Mr.  George 
allowed  the  worshipers  to  meet  in  his  spacious 
barn,  which  stood  near  the  present  residence 
of  ]\lrs.  Solomon  A.  Smith,  on  the  Riimney 
road.  He  seems  to  have  been  very  prominent 
in  the  church,  and  had  received  in  youth  some 
education,  for  he  taught  school  in  Plymouth, 
and  was  also  a  farmer.  He  married  Ruth 
Eaton :  children :  Eaton,  William,  Daniel, 
David  and  Asa. 

(VI)  Asa,  son  of  King  and  Ruth  (Eaton) 
George,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Grafton 
county,  New  Hampshire,  November  2,  1809, 
died  May  6,  1887.  He  moved  to  Groton, 
then  old  Cockermouth.  New  Hampshire, 
a  near-by  town,  and  in  1850  became  a 
resident  of  Charlotte,  North  Carolina.  Like 
his  respected  father,  he  was  deeply  interested 
in  the  Orthodox  church,  and  possessed  a  strik- 
ing physique.  In  the  south  Asa  George  was 
an  extensive  land-owner  and  planter.  He 
married,  February  22,  1832,  Adeline  Kemp, 
who  died  in  1843.  Children:  David  Kemp, 
died  aged  two  years ;  Edward  Payson,  see  for- 
ward;  Mary  Adeline  (Mrs.  Prather),  a 
widow,  residing  in  Charlotte,  North  Carolina. 

(VII)  Edward  Payson,  son  of  Asa  and 
Adeline  (Kemp)  George,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Groton,  Grafton  county.  New  Hamp- 
shire, July  4,  1840.  He  took  a  collegiate 
course  at  Davidson  College,  North  Carolina, 
and  at  the  outbreaking  of  the  civil  war  joined 
the  Confederacy,  becoming  a  captain  in  the 
commissary  department.  After  the  cessation 
of  hostilities  he  removetl  to  Denver,  Colorado, 
and  engaged  in  the  insurance  business.  He 
next  studied  dental  surgery  in  Boston,  Mas- 
sachusetts, locating  soon  after  in  Frankfort, 
Germany.  It  was  there  he  met  the  lady  who 
became  Mrs.  George.  Returning  to  America 
he  located  in  Thomaston,  Maine.  Seven 
years  more  and  we  find  him  again  in  Europe, 
this  time  at  Hanover,  Germany,  besides  travel- 
ing extensively  on  the  Continent.  When  in 
the  United  States  again  he  settled  on  the  old 
Creighton  homestead  in  Thomaston,  his  wife's 
birthplace.  He  was  a  devoted  member  of  the 
Congregational  church.  February  i,  1887,  he 
married  Harriet  Rose,  daughter  of  James 
Alexander  Creighton,  of  Thomaston.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  had  three  children  :  Alice  Creigh- 
ton, born  in  Frankfort,  Germany,  November 
21,  1888;  Hilda  Mav,  Thomaston,  Maine,  Oc- 
tober 8,  1891 ;  Donald  Payson,  Portland, 
Maine,  February  5,  1893.  Mr.  George  died 
December  19,  1907.  In  his  will  he  bequeathed 
the  following  benefactions:  To  the  town  of 
Thomaston,   six   thousand   dollars,  to  aid   the 


needy  poor  requiring  hospital  service.  To  the 
Congregational  church,  two  thousand  dollars. 
To  Thomaston  Public  Library,  one  thousand 
dollars.  He  also  had  in  his  lifetime  given 
liberally  to  Booker  T.  Washington's  Tuskegee 
Institute,  the  Children's  Aid  Society  of  New 
York,  and  Jacob  Riis'  worthy  schemes  in  tene- 
ment district  work  in  New  York.  A  leading 
newspaper  in  the  state  has  this  to  say  of  him : 

"Dr.  Edward  P,  George  was  an  educated, 
refined  and  cultured  gentleman,  with  the 
graceful  manners  of  the  old  school.  He  had 
decided  opinions  on  the  questions  of  the  day, 
but  did  not  advertise  them  or  obtrude  them 
upon  others.  He  was  always  considerate,  and 
treated  every  one  with  extreme  courtesy.  He 
came  to  Thomaston  a  stranger,  but  at  once  and 
always  commanded  the  highest  respect  and  es- 
teem of  our  people,  and  his  death  is  mourned 
bv  the  entire  community.  He  was  unosten- 
tatiously charitable.  '''  '^  * 

"While  he  resided  in  Thomaston,  he  took 
great  interest  in  local  affairs,  and  especially  in 
beautifying  the  town  and  promoting  the  effi- 
ciency of  its  schools.  He  was  instrumental  in 
the  establishment  of  the  \'illage  Improvement 
Society  in  Thomaston,  and  was  active  in  hav- 
ing the  street  sides  kept  neat  and  trim.  -^  *  * 
It  was  through  his  energetic  and  diplomatic 
efforts  that  the  town  finally  voted  to  introduce 
the  study  of  music  in  the  schools." 

The  line  of  Creighton  runs  back  to  David, 
who  was  a  Scotch-Irish  settler  in  Warren, 
Maine,  and  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  1744. 
His  children  were :  .Abraham,  Samuel  and 
David. 

(II)  Samuel,  second  son  of  David  Creigh- 
ton, married  Lucretia  Howell,  of  Bridge- 
water,  Maine.  Their  children  were :  Captain 
James,  John  and  Jane  (Mrs.  Jonathan  Ful- 
ler).    Samuel  died  November  10,  1783. 

(HI)  John,  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Lu- 
cretia (Howell)  Creighton,  was  born  March 
24,  1774,  and  married  Joanna  Jordan.  Their 
children  were :  Captain  Samuel,  Robert,  John, 
Captain  Ebenezer,  Keziah,  Joshua,  Jordan, 
Captain  James  Alexander  and  Lucretia  J. 

( I\' )  Captain  James  Alexander,  sixth  son 
of  John  and  Joanna  (Jordan)  Creighton,  was 
born  June  6,  182 1.  He  went  to  sea  at  an 
early  age  and  was  master  mariner  at  twenty- 
one,  following  aboard  ship  till  he  was  thirty- 
two,  wdien  he  returned  to  Thomaston,  and 
began  the  burning  of  lime.  The  captain  was 
as  prosperous  on  land  as  he  had  been  on  deck, 
and  built  up  a  large  business.  He  also  oper- 
ated a  grist-mill,  a  general  store,  coal  and 
wood-yards.     He  married  Emily,  daughter  of 


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Nathaniel  Meserve)-,  of  Rockland,  Maine.  The 
children  were:  i.  Emily,  married  Sidney 
Smith.  2.  Clara  A.,  deceased.  3.  James  Ed- 
win, died  in  infancy.  4.  Harriet  R.,  widow  of 
Dr.  Edward  Payson  George,  of  Thomaston, 
whose  ancestors  are  sketched  in  this  work.  5. 
Elizabeth,  died  in  childhood.  6.  John  M.,  see 
forward.  7.  Charles  A.,  interested  in  the  firm 
of  J.  A.  Creighton  and  Company.  8.  James 
Arthur,  died  in  childhood.  Captain  Creigh- 
ton  married  (second)  Isabelle  Lewis,  of  Al- 
fred, Maine,  who  died  in  1900,  without  issue. 
Captain  Creighton  died  in  December,   1893. 

(V)  John  M.,  eklest  son  of  Captain  James 
Alexander  and  Emily  (Meservey)  Creighton, 
was  born  November  8,  1856.  His  education 
was  due  to  the  local  schools  of  Thomaston,  and 
at  the  age  of  nineteen  he  entered  the  store  of 
his  father  as  clerk.  In  1879  h^  was  made  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  J.  A.  Creighton  & 
Company.  He  married  Hattie  May,  daughter 
of  Ferdinand  Robinson,  of  Worcester,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  has  one  child,  Emily  Creigh- 
ton. 


This  name,  which  is  spelled 
TWITCHELL  Twitchell,  Tuchill  and 
Twitchwell,  was  borne  by 
three  men  who  were  probably  immigrants, 
that  is,  Benjamin  of  Dorchester,  probably  of 
Medfield,  1663,  and  Francis  and  Joseph,  both 
of  Dorchester,   1633. 

(I)  Joseph  Twitchell,  perhaps  a  brother  of 
Francis,  was  of  Dorchester,  JMassachusetts,  in 
1633;  was  admitted  freeman  May  14,  1634, 
and  was  still  a  resident  of  Dorchester  in  1656. 
He  was  a  man  of  irreproachable  character,  and 
tradition  represents  him  to  have  been  a  Cy- 
clops in  stature  and  a  Hercules  in  strength. 
He  had  a  son  Joseph  and  four  daughters. 

(II)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (1)  Twitch- 
ell, was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war.  "A 
List  of  Captain  Samuel  Mosselys  Company 
taken  at  Dedham  the  9th  day  of  Xber  1675," 
includes  the  name  of  "Joseph  Touchwill." 
Among  those  "Credited  with  Military  Service 
under  Captain  Mosely,  December  loth  1675" 
is  "Joseph  Twitchell  £4  19s  04d."  Joseph 
Twitchell  settled  in  Sherborn  immediately  after 
King  Philip's  war  and  died  in  Sherborn,  Oc- 
tober 24,  1 710.  He  united  with  others  to 
extinguish  the  Indian  titles  in  Sherborn  and 
became  the  owner  of  one  hundred  acres  of 
the  first  grants  there  in  1682. 

(III)  Joseph  (3),  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
Twitchell,  was  born  in  Sherborn,  September 
3,  1688,  and  died  there  January  31,  1728.  He 
married,  March  27,  1718,  Elizabeth,  daughter 


of  John  and  Silence  Holbrook,  the  latter  a 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Wood,  who  was  massa- 
cred by  the  Indians  the  day  before  her  birth, 
and  whose  mother  expired  soon  after. 

(IV)  Captain  Joseph  (4),  son  of  Joseph 
(3)  and  Elizabeth  (Holbrook)  Twitchell,  was 
born  in  Sherborn,  February  13,  1719,  and 
died  there  March  12,  1792.  His  home  in 
Sherborn  was  on  the  east  side  of  a  place  still 
known  as  "Dirty  Meadow,"  on  the  south  side 
of  a  steep,  rocky  hill.  Among  the  trusts  im- 
posed on  him  was  the  guardianship  of  the 
Natick  Indians,  in  settling  their  estates.  Long 
after  these  estates  were  settled  and  he  was 
deceased,  the  Indians  were  in  the  habit  of 
coming  to  the  old  homestead  then  occupied 
by  his  son  Peter,  to  see  if  there  was  not  still 
something  due  them.  He  was  a  man  of  good 
judgment  and  common  sense,  and  the  follow- 
ing anecdote  illustrates  his  practicality.  He 
had  been  on  a  business  trip  to  Halifax,  and 
while  returning  the  vessel  in  which  he  sailed 
encountered  a  violent  storm,  lost  her  rudder, 
and  became  unmanageable.  The  captain  was 
in  utter  despair  and  considered  his  ship  as 
good  as  lost.  Captain  Twitchell  examined 
the  nature  of  the  accident,  and  at  once  sug- 
gested a  remedy ;  a  man  was  suspended  head 
downward  over  the  stern  of  the  ship,  being 
held  by  his  ankles,  and  in  that  position,  with 
an  a.x,  cut  a  hole  through  the  ship  into  the 
cabin,  and  through  this  hole  he  fastened  a 
temporary  tiller  by  means  of  which  the  vessel 
was  steered  safely  into  Boston  Harbor.  The 
historian  of  Sherborn  says  of  him :  "Tradi- 
tion has  brought  down  a  high  character  for 
this  man,  and  the  record  confirms  it.  He  was 
captain  of  the  militia,  commissary  for  the 
army  in  the  war  of  1776,  town  clerk,  repre- 
sentative and  negotiate,  and  the  leading  man 
of  the  town  until  succeeded  by  his  half- 
brother,  Hon.  Daniel  Whitney."  In  the  month 
of  June,  1768,  a  township  of  land  situated  on 
both  sides  of  a  river  in  Maine  was  granted  to 
the  descendants  of  those  men  who  went  from 
Sudbury,  Massachusetts,  and  adjacent  towns 
on  the  Canada  expedition  in  1690.  This  grant 
was  called  Sudbury  Canada,  and  is  now 
Bethel.  Joseph  Twitchell,  a  man  of  affairs, 
was  chosen  president  of  the  proprietors,  and 
took  great  interest  in  the  plantation.  He  be- 
came a  very  large  proprietor  by  bidding  oflf 
lands  sold  for  taxes,  and  by  purchasing  rights 
of  others,  so  that  he  had  nearly  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  soil.  Neither  he  nor  any  of 
the  other  original  proprietors  were  residents, 
but  four  of  his  sons  became  residents  of  Sud- 
bury Canada,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  their 


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days  there.  Josepli  Twitchell  caused  a  grist- 
mill and  a  sawmill  to  be  built  on  tlie  Mill 
brook  at  the  foot  of  Bethel  hill  in  1774.  These, 
save  perhaps  a  nule  camp  or  two,  were  the 
first  buildings  erected  in  the  township.  In 
1779  a  house  was  built  for  the  use  of  the 
miller,  the  first  framed  building  erected  for 
a  dwelling.  He  married  (first)  June  28, 
1739,  Deborah  Fairbanks,  daughter  of  Joseph 
F.  Fairbanks,  of  Sherborn,  and  with  her  was 
received  into  the  church  July  27,  1740.  He 
married  (second)  Widow  Deborah  (Sanger) 
Fasset,  January  5,  1786.  He  was  the  father 
of  fourteen  children,  all  by  the  first  wife: 
Samuel,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Eleazer,  Ezra, 
Martha,  Deborah  (died  young),  ATjel,  De- 
borah, Molly,  Amos,  Eli,  Peter  and  Julia.  Eli 
and  Peter  served  in  the  revolutionary  war. 
Eli  left  no  descendants.  Eleazer  and  Eli  lived 
in  Bethel. 

(V)  Deacon  Ezra,  fifth  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Joseph  (4)  and  Deborah  (Fairbanks) 
Twitchell,  was  born  in  Sherborn,  Massachu- 
setts, June  23,  1746,  and  died  in  Bethel,  Maine. 
He  settled  in  Bethel  about  the  time  his  brother 
Eli  died,  and  was  a  farmer.  He  first  re- 
sided in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire,  where  his 
brother  Samuel  also  lived,  Ezra  Twitchell 
was  in  the  battle  of  Saratoga  and  several  other 
engagements  in  revolutionary  war,  and  the 
sword  he  carried  is  in  the  possession  of  the 
family.  While  in  Dublin  four  of  his  children, 
all  that  were  then  born  to  him,  died  in  one 
day  of  throat  distemper  (diphtheria).  So 
stupefied  were  the  parents  by  this  terrible 
stroke  that  they  could  not  shed  a  tear  at  the 
time.  He  was  chosen  deacon  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  in  Bethel,  and  worthily  filled 
the  office  till  his  death.  He  married  Susanna 
Rice,  of  Framingham,  Massachusetts,  by 
whom  he  had  eleven  children:  Susanna  (died 
young),  Hannah  (died  young),  Anna  (died 
young),  Calvin  (died  young),  Susanna,  Cal- 
vin, Eliza,  Eli,  Thaddeus,  Anna  and  Nathan  F, 

(VI)  Ezra  (2),  seventh  child  and  third 
son  of  Deacon  Ezra  (i)  and  Susanna  (Rice) 
Twitchell,  was  born  November  24,  1781,  and 
died  1874.  He  was  a  farmer  and  masofi,  and 
lived  on  the  north  side  of  the  Androscoggin 
river,  below  Mayville.  He  married  Betsey 
Coffin,  Their  children  were :  Daniel,  Alphin, 
Nancy,  Cynthia,  Abiah,  Samuel  (died  young), 
Samuel  Birge,  Richard  Eastman,  Betsey  Chap- 
man and  Lucian. 

(VII)  Alphin,  second  son  and  child  of  Ezra 
(2)  and  Betsey  (Coffin)  Twitchell,  was  born 
in  Bethel,  DecemlDer  27,  1804.  Fie  lived  near 
Mavville,    was    an    active    business    man    and 


dealer  in  cattle,  often  in  town  office,  a  good 
citizen  and  highly  respected.  He  married 
Roxanna  A.  Twitchell,  his  cousin,  who  was 
born  December  20,  18 16,  and  died  September 
15,  1892,  daughter  of  Thaddeus  and  Betsey 
(Barker)  Twitchell.  They  had  seven  chil- 
dren : 

I.  Adelbert  B.,  born  December  14,  1836, 
was  an  officer  in  the  Seventh  Battery  in  the 
civil  war ;  married  Marietta  Northrup,  and 
had  three  children  :  Richard,  Adelbert  B.,  mar- 
ried Catherine  Mead,  and  Henry  F.,  married 
Leslie  Wells;  two  sons:  John,  born  October, 
1903,  and  David,  1908.  2.  Adeltha,  April  13, 
1840,  married  Colonel  Benjamin  Thompson, 
of  Minneapolis,  and  had  two  children :  How- 
ard and  Harry.  3.  Amelia  J.,  September  2, 
1842,  married  ]\Iajor  John  M.  Gould,  and  had 
three  children :  Annie  A.,  missionary  in  China 
and  killed  during  the  Boxer  trouble  in  that 
country ;  Oliver  C.  and  Theodore.  4.  Adelia 
B.,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Mary  Ella,  April  23, 
1849,  married  Ed^vard  C.  Chamberlain,  of 
Bethel,  and  has  three  children  :  Beulah,  Albert 
and  Alice.  6.  Herbert  F.,  mentioned  below, 
7.  Clara  F.,  May  25,  1864,  married  Horatio 
N.  Upton,  of  Bethel, 

(VIII)  Herbert  Francis,  second  son  and 
sixth  child  of  Alphin  and  Roxanna  A. 
(Twitchell)  Twitchell,  was  born  in  Bethel, 
November  16,  1859,  He  was  educated  in  the 
Bethel  public  schools  and  at  Gould's  Academy, 
and  was  then  a  clerk  in  a  retail  drygoods  store 
for  a  year.  In  1880  he  matriculated  in  the 
Maine  Medical  School,  from  which  he  took  his 
degree  in  1883.  The  following  year  he  was 
interne  at  the  Alaine  General  Hospital,  and 
in  1884  commenced  the  general  practice  of 
his  profession  at  Freeport,  where  he  remained 
until  1892.  He  then  settled  in  Portland,  where 
he  has  practiced  medicine  and  surgery,  and  at- 
tained much  success,  ranking  now  among  the 
leaders  of  the  profession  in  the  state.  He  is 
surgeon  and  clinical  instructor  in  surgery  in 
the  Maine  General  Hospital.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Pathological  Club,  the  Portland 
Medical  Club,  the  Academy  of  Medicine  and 
Science,  the  Cumberland  County  Medical  So- 
ciety, and  the  Maine  Medical  Association ;  also 
the  Portland  Club.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in 
Rising  Star  Lodge,  of  Freeport,  Maine.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  in  religious 
views  a  Congregationalist.  Dr.  Herbert  F. 
Twitchell  married.  May  14,  1885,  Alice  J. 
Gould,  who  was  born  in  Avon,  Maine,  June 
12,  1855,  daughter  of  Rev,  Samuel  L.  and 
Ann  (Poor)  Gould,  of  Andover,  Massachu- 
setts, 


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12/7 


There  were  several  an- 
WAKEFIELD     cestors  bearing  this  name 

who  settled  very  early  in 
the  New  England  colonies,  and  their  descend- 
ants have  been  conspicuous  for  good  citizen- 
ship through  the  numerous  generations  that 
have  taken  their  turn  upon  the  stage  of  life. 
A  town  in  Massachusetts  has  been  named  for 
the  family,  and  its  members  have  been  con- 
spicuous in  the  fields  of  education,  medicine, 
law  and  the  ministry.  They  have  also  been 
active  as  business  men  and  have  contributed 
universally  to  the  mental  and  moral  growth 
of  society  as  well  as  the  material  develop- 
ment of  the  commonwealth  in  which  they  lived. 
( I )  John  Wakefield,  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  which  has  been  very  numerously  rep- 
resented in  ]\Iaine,  was  a  native  of  England. 
The  first  record  of  him  found  in  this  country 
bears  date  January  i,  1637,  when  at  the  town 
meeting  held  at  Salem  he  was  assessed  fifteen 
shillings  as  an  inhabitant  of  Marblehead  in  the 
colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay.  It  is  presum- 
able that  he  came  as  early  as  the  previous 
summer.  On  the  fourteenth  of  the  same 
month,  among  the  several  portions  of  land 
laid  out  at  Marblehead,  he  received  four  acres 
"on  the  Neck."  Prior  to  1648  he  lived  in 
Salem,  which  then  included  the  present  town 
of  Marblehead.  He  first  appears  on  record 
in  IMaine  in  1641,  when  he  and  his  brother- 
in-law,  John  Littlefield,  received  a  grant  of 
what  is  known  as  the  Great  Hill  Farm.  The 
hill  at  that  time  extended  much  farther  into 
the  sea  than  it  now  does,  and  with  the  pro- 
jecting land  at  the  eastern  end  was  called  the 
Great  Neck.  This  was  in  the  ligonia  patent, 
and  neither  of  the  grantees  took  possession 
probablv  on  account  of  the  uncertainty  as  to 
their  title.  John  Wakefield  settled  in  the  town 
of  Wells,  where  he  attained  considerable 
prominence.  He  served  as  commissioner  and 
selectman  in  1648-34-57.  In  each  instance  his 
father-in-law,  Edmund  Littlefield,  served  in 
the  same  capacity.  In  1652  John  Wakefield 
purchased  Wakefield's  Island  and  removed 
to  it  in  that  year  and  there  resided  for  a  time. 
He  subsequently  purchased  land  in  Scarboro 
and  resided  upon  it  several  years.  Thence  he 
removed  to  that  part  of  Biddeford  which  is 
now  Saco,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 
That  he  was  a  man  of  considerable  substance  is 
evidenced  by  the  fact  of  his  buying  and  selling 
lands,  and  he  was  frequently  called  upon  to 
witness  deeds  for  others.  In  1670,  when  he 
was  probably  incapacitated  by  illness  or  the 
infirmities  of  age,  his  wife  acted  as  his  at- 
torney in   selling  parcels   of  land.      He   died 


February  15,  1674,  and  was  buried  at  Bidde- 
ford. The  destruction  of  the  records  of  Wells, 
Maine,  leaves  us  no  accurate  data  as  to  the 
time  of  his  marriage  or  his  birth  or  the  births 
of  his  children.  His  wife  Elizabeth  was  a 
daughter  of  Edmund  and  Annis  Littlefield,  of 
Wells.  Her  death  is  not  recorded.  Their 
children  included  :  John,  James,  Henry,  Will- 
iam, Mary  and  Katherine. 

(II)  James,  second  son  and  child  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Littlefield)  Wakefield,  was 
born  about  1670,  probably  at  Wells,  Maine, 
where  his  father,  the  original  immigrant  of 
this  line,  had  settled  as  early  as  1648,  having 
moved  down  the  coast  from  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts. James  Wakefield  lost  his  life  by  drown- 
ing on  October  25,  1707.  In  1699  he  was 
granted  a  tract  of  one  hundred  acres  of  land 
on  the  Kennebunk  river,  near  the  landing. 
Like  most  of  the  men  of  that  time  and  re- 
gion, he  was  probably  as  much  engaged  in 
fishing  as  farming.  On  the  day  that  he  lost 
his  life  he  had  gone  out  with  his  brother,  Will- 
iam Wakefield,  Moses  and  Job  Littlefield,  and 
Job  Storer  (2).  Bourne's  History  of  Wells 
and  Kennebunk  says  that  they  "went  out  in  a 
small  sloop  to  fish,  there  was  a  heavy  sea  at 
the  bar,  and  as  they  attempted  to  drive  the 
sloop  over  it;  she  was  upset  and  all  were 
drowned ;  bodies  of  four  were  recovered. 
These  men  were  all  valuable  citizens  and  their 
aid  was  greatly  needed."  Some  time  prior 
to    1700   James    Wakefield    married    Rebecca 

Gibbons,     daughter    of    James     and    

(Lewis)  Gibbons,  of  Saco.  James  Gibbons 
was  "master  of  the  magazine,"  and  a  landed 
proprietor  of  Saco.  His  wife  was  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  Lewis,  one  of  the  original  owners 
of  the  "Lewis  and  Boynton  Patent,"  through 
whom  he  inherited  an  estate.  James  Gibbons 
died  in  1730  and  provided  for  his  daughter, 
Rebecca  Wakefield,  among  his  other  children. 
To  James  and  Rebecca  (Gibbons)  Wakefield 
were  born :  James,  who  married  Mary  Dur- 
rell,  on  December  18,  1719;  John  (2),  whose 
sketch  follows;  Keziah,  married.  May  27,  1724, 
Philip  Durrell  (2)  ;  Nathaniel,  married  Han- 
nah Emmons  in  1730;  Samuel,  married  Ruth 
Godfrey,  about  1736;  Gibbons,  who  served  in 
the  expedition  against  Rasle  in  August,  1724. 

(HI)  John  (2),  second  son  and  child  of 
James  (i)  and  Rebecca  (Gibbons)  Wakefield, 
was  born,  probably  at  Saco,  Maine,  about  the 
year  1700.  but  the  date  of  his  death  is  un- 
known. He  was  a  resident  of  Kennebunk, 
and  previous  to  the  building  of  the  new  meet- 
ing-house in  1750  meetings  were  held  at  his 
house.     On  August  25  of  that  year  he  was 


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one  of  the  committee  to  receive  the  answer  of 
Mr.  Daniel  Little,  who  was  invited  to  settle 
with  them  as  minister.  By  the  tax-list  of  the 
new  pari.sh,  1750,  John  Wakefield  was  assessed 
two  pounds,  one  shilling.  In  early  life  he  saw 
military  service,  for  in  August,  1724,  he  was 
in  the  company  of  Captain  Moulton  at  Nor- 
ridgewock,  Maine,  in  the  expedition  against 
Rasle.  His  brothers,  Nathaniel  and  Gibbons 
Wakefield,  were  also  in  this  expedition.  On 
May  27,  1724,  John  (2)  Waketield  married 
Elizabeth  Durrell,  and  on  the  same  day  his 
sister  Keziah  married  Philip  Durrell  (2),  evi- 
dently a  double  wedding  of  two  brothers  and 
two  sisters.  To  John  (2)  and  Elizabeth 
( Durrell )  Wakefield  were  born  eight  chil- 
dren:  John,  April  16,  1725,  married  Ruth 
Cousins;  Gibbons,  March  7,  1726-27,  married 
Mary  Goodwin;  Elizabeth,  August  20,  1730, 
died  October  7,  1736;  Rachel,  June  24,  1733, 
married  Nicholas  Bunnell ;  James,  whose 
sketch  follows;  Elizabeth,  April  14,  1740,  mar- 
ried Jonathan  Taylor;  Jacob,  July  26,  1742, 
died  on  August  10  of  that  year;  Isaiah,  De- 
cember 29,  1743,  married  Susanna  Fiske. 

(IV)  James  (2),  third  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Durrell)  Wakefield,  was  born  May 
7,  1736,  at  Kennebunk,  Maine,  and  died  in 
October,  1779.  He  was  a  farmer  near  Wells, 
Maine,  and  in  the  quaint  language  of  one  his- 
torian, "was  one  of  those  early  settlers  who 
thought  more  of  the  house  of  God  than  their 
own."  This  inference  is  drawn  from  the 
fact  that  at  his  death  his  house  was  appraised 
at  seventy-three  dollars  and  his  pew  in  church 
at  sixty-seven.  This  does  not  imply,  however, 
that  he  was  a  man  of  little  means,  for  the  total 
inventory  of  his  estate  amounted  to  five  hun- 
dred and  forty-seven  pounds  and  twenty  shil- 
lings. James  (2)  Wakefield  married,  July  i, 
1756,  Miriam  Burbank,  daughter  of  John  Bur- 
bank,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Arundel  and 
a  lieutenant  at  the  taking  of  Louisburg  in 
1745.  Six  children  were  born  to  James  (2) 
and  Miriam  (Burbank)  Wakefield:  Eliza- 
beth, married  Jacob  Waterhouse ;  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Dennet ;  Miriam,  married  Lewis 
Martin ;  Hannah,  married  William  Water- 
house  ;  Abigail,  married  Peter  Roberts ;  James, 
whose  sketch  follows.  Fifteen  months  after 
her  husband's  death,  Mrs.  Miriam  (Burbank) 
Wakefield  married  Lewis  Martin,  of  Wells; 
this  marriage  occurred  January  27,  1781. 

(V)  James  (3),  only  son  and  youngest  of 
the  six  children  of  James  (2)  and  Miriam 
(Burbank)  Wakefield,  was  born  in  Kenne- 
bunk, IMaine,  October  4,  1775,  and  died  at 
Etna,  October  8,    1848.     He  was  a  lumber- 


man by  occupation,  and  lived  at  Buxton  and 
Etna,  Maine.  About  1796  he  married  Han- 
nah Smith,  who  was  born  February  25,  1777. 
They  had  seven  children :  Elisha,  January  i, 
1797;  Abigail,  May  26,  1799;  Harriet,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1801  ;  James,  November  i,  1803; 
Hannah,  August  4,  1806;  Darius,  March  9, 
1809;  and  Archibald,  whose  sketch  follows. 
Four  of  the  children,  Abigail,  Harriet,  James 
and  Hannah,  joined  the  Poland  Shakers  and 
lived  there  till  their  death.  Their  mother, 
Mrs.  Hannah  (Smith)  Wakefield,  lived  till 
November  2,  1872,  dying  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight. 

(VI)  Archibald,  fourth  and  youngest  son  of 
James  (3)  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Wakefield, 
was  born  at  Buxton,  Maine,  August  23,  181 1, 
and  died  at  Lewiston,  Maine,  February  2, 
1882.  Like  some  of  his  elder  brothers  and 
sisters,  he  was  brought  up  by  the  Poland 
Shakers,  with  whom  he  lived  till  he  was 
twenty  years  of  age.  He  lived  at  different 
times  at  Buxton,  Alfred,  Poland  and  Lewis- 
ton,  Maine,  and  at  Boston,  Massachusetts.  On 
November  27,  1834,  he  married  Sarah  Davis, 
daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Curtis)  Davis, 
of  Lewiston.  Her  father,  David  Davis,  was 
the  second  male  child  born  in  that  town,  the 
date  occurring  September  i,  1775.  Archibald 
and  Sarah  (Davis)  Wakefield  had  seven  chil- 
dren: David  Davis,  born  January  12,  1837, 
died  at  the  age  of  four  months ;  Seth  Davis, 
whose  sketch  follows;  Edwin,  March  15,  1840; 
Harriet,  July  5,  1843 !  Flannah  R.,  November 
21,  1849;  Sarah  A.,  September  30,  1853; 
Helen,  November  3,  1855. 

(VII)  Seth  Davis,  second  son  and  child  of 
Archibald  and  Sarah  (Davis)  Wakefield,  was 
born  at  Lewiston,  Maine,  February  22,  1838. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Lewiston,  at  Lewiston  Falls  Acad- 
emy, Kent's  Hill  and  Litchfield  Liberal  In- 
stitute. In  1856  he  went  into  the  drygoods 
business  in  the  old  Garcelon  Block,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Clark  and  W'akefield.  He  re- 
mained there  till  the  latter  part  of  1857,  when 
he  went  to  Dubuque,  Iowa.  In  1858  he  re- 
turned to  Auburn,  Maine,  and  went  into  the 
dry-goods  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
Parcher  &  Wakefield.  When  his  father  built 
a  store  in  Central  Block,  in  Lewiston,  he 
moved  into  it.  After  a  time  Seth  D.  Wake- 
field thought  he  wanted  to  see  something  of 
the  country,  so  he  started  for  California,  go- 
ing by  the  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama, 
which  was  a  tedious  journey  in  those  days, 
requiring  about  a  month.  Having  seen  as 
much   of   the   country   as   he   desired,   he    re- 


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turned  to  Lewiston  and  started  the  Merchants' 
Express,  Lewiston  to  Boston  by  way  ot  the 
Bath  boat,  an  enterprise  which  is  still  doing 
business.  Mr.  \\"akefield's  next  venture  was 
in  the  shoe  business,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Gorham  &  Wakefield,  which  became  the  S.  D. 
Wakefield  Company  after  the  death  of  Mr. 
Gorham.  After  six  years  of  this,  Mr.  Wake- 
field had  an  opportunity  to  learn  something  of 
the  drug  business.  Finding  it  to  his  liking,  on 
December  i.  1868,  he  purchased  the  drug 
business  of  A.  G.  Rankin,  which  he  still  con- 
ducts, after  forty  years  of  successful  con- 
tinuance. The  firm  name  became  Wakefield 
Brothers  upon  the  admission  of  Edwin  Wake- 
field, and  after  the  death  of  the  latter  in  1899 
^Ir.  Seth  D.  Wakefield  conducted  the  business 
alone,  but  still  retained  the  early  name.  In 
addition  to  his  regular  occupation,  for  four 
years  (1897  to  1901)  i\Ir.  ^Vakefield  was  in- 
terested in  a  coal  and  wood  business  in  Au- 
burn, under  the  firm  name  of  Wood  &  Wake- 
field ;  but  he  eventually  sold  out  to  his  part- 
ner. Mr.  S.  D.  Wakefield's  father,  Archibald 
Wakefield,  was  for  many  years  a  director  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Lewiston,  and 
upon  his  death  in  1882  Seth  D.  Wakefield  was 
elected  to  fill  his  place ;  and  still  later  was 
made  vice-president  of  the  bank,  which  posi- 
tion lie  still  holds.  He  is  also  a  director  of 
the  Androscoggin  County  Savings  Bank,  of 
Lewiston.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  but 
in  1875  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature, 
largely  by  the  help  of  the  Republicans,  as  his 
own  party  was  in  the  minority.  He  has  also 
served  on  the  board  of  assessors,  and  in  1876 
was  on  the  commission  for  readjustment.  He 
is  an  attendant  of  the  Universalist  church.  On 
August  25,  1859,  Mr.  Wakefield  married  Mary 
E.  Coffin,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Fear  Parker 
(Drisco)  Coffin,  of  Washington  county, 
Maine.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage, both  in  Lewiston :  Archibald  C,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1861  :  and  Frederick  S.,  December 
10,  1873.  Archibald  C.  is  a  clothing  merchant 
in  Albany,  New  York.  Frederick  S.  married 
Jane  Kerr,  of  New  York  City,  and  is  a  physi- 
cian living  in  Lewiston,  making,  a  specialty  of 
the  eye.  ear,  nose  and  throat. 


The  family  of  Morrison  is 
MORRISON     very  numerous  in   Scotland 

and  the  surname  has  been 
fixed  there  and  in  the  adjacent  island  of 
Lewis  for  many  centuries,  probably  for  a  thou- 
sand years.  It  is  an  old  surname  in  the  coun- 
ties of  Lincoln,  Hertford  and  Lancaster,  Eng- 
land, where  persons  of  the  name  were  knighted 


and  received  coats-of-arms.  The  family  has 
spread  over  England,  Ireland  and  America. 
It  appears  to  be  evident  that  all  of  the  name 
spring  from  the  same  stock  and  have  a  com- 
mon origin.  The  island  of  Lewis,  on  the  west 
coast  of  Scotland,  is  undoubtedly  the  place 
where  the  family  originated,  though  its 
founder  was  probably  of  Norwegian  origin. 
The  family  has  two  tartans — a  beautiful  red 
clan  tartan  and  a  green  hunting  tartan.  While 
there  is  more  than  one  coat-of-arms,  that  in 
most  general  use  and  presumed  to  be  the  most 
ancient  is :  Azure  three  Saracen  heads  con- 
joined in  one  neck  proper,  the  faces  look  to 
the  chief,  dexter  and  sinister  sides  of  the 
shield.  This  design  is  in  general  use  as  a 
crest,  and  the  three  Moors'  or  Saracen  heads 
in  other  designs  are  on  the  shields  of  other 
Morrison  families.  Motto:  Pretio  prudentia 
praestat.  (Prudence  excels  reward.  Or,  Pru- 
dence is  better  than  profit ;  or  Long-headed- 
ness  is  above  price.)  It  is  claimed  that  the 
arms  and  crest  were  bestowed  upon  a  Morri- 
son during  the  Crusades  for  some  deed  of 
daring  by  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion.  The  name 
has  been  variously  spelled  Maryson,  Moreson, 
Moryson,  Morreson,  Moorison,  Morrisson, 
Morson,  Morisown,  Morisone,  Morison,  Mor- 
rison, Murison  and  Morrowson.  In  early 
days  the  family  in  Scotland,  England,  Ireland 
and  America  almost  invariably  spelled  the 
name  Morison.  About  1800  Morrison  came 
into  general  use  in  Scotland,  England,  Ire- 
land and  America,  and  has  continued  to  the 
present  time.  The  best  authority  on  the  origin 
of  the  name  state  that  it  means  the  son  of 
Mary,  Moore  or  Maurice,  and  the  name  as 
originally  written  in  Sa.xon  English  would  be 
Moores-son  or  j\lores-son,  or,  if  the  Gaelic 
form  were  retained,  Mhores-son.  In  Norse 
the  name  would  be  Moors-son,  Moorsonm, 
Mhors-son,  everything  indicating  a  close  con- 
nection between  the  Moor  and  Morrison  fam- 
ilies. 

(I)  Daniel  Morrison,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  about  1669,  undoubtedly  of  Scotch 
ancestry,  but  whether  born  in  England  or 
Scotland  is  yet  unknown.  He  settled  in  New- 
bury, Massachusetts,  before  1690  and  was  a 
farmer  there  for  many  years  afterward.  On 
May  20,  1695,  he  and  Thomas  Staples  pur- 
chased of  Abiel  Long  and  wife  Hannah,  eigh- 
teen acres  of  land.  On  February  28,  1696,  he 
was  one  of  sixty-four  persons  taxed  for  build- 
ing the  West  End  Meeting-house.  On  March 
14,  1699-1700,  then  of  Newbury,  he  bought 
of  Moses  Chase  of  that  town  fifteen  acres ; 
February  3,  1706-07,  he  purchased  of  Stephen 


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Greenleaf.  of  Newbury,  twenty-seven  acres, 
known  as  the  Rate  lot.  He  married  (first) 
Hannah  Griffin,  daughter  of  John  and  Lydia 
(Shatswell)  Griffin.  Lydia  was  a  daughter  of 
Theophilus  Shatswell,  son  of  Theophilus  Sr., 
of  Haverhill.  Massachusetts.  Hannah  (Grif- 
fin) Morrison  was  born  in  Bradford  with  her 
twin  brother  John,  April  2,  1671,  and  died  in 
Newbury,  October  9,  1700.  His  widow,  Lydia 
Griffin,  and  children  deeded  to  Stephen 
Barker,  April  7,  1709,  for  one  hundred  and 
five  pounds  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sev- 
entv-eight  acres  of  land  given  to  the  Widow 
Griffin  by  her  father,  Theophilus  Shatswell. 
This  land  was  on  the  north  side  of  the  river 
at  Haverhill.  In  this  deed  Daniel  Morrison 
signs  in  behalf  of  his  former  wife,  Hannah 
Griffin.  Daniel  bought  land  June  20,  1710,  in 
partnership  with  his  brother-in-law,  Thomas 
Staples.  He  deeded  forty  acres  of  land  in 
Newbury  "for  love  and  affection"  March  16, 
1726,  to  his  son  John.  He  sold  for  seven  hun- 
dred and  ninety  pounds  a  house  and  thirty- 
two  acres  of  land,  probably  his  homestead, 
April  I,  1731,  to  Timothy  i\lorse,  and  bought 
a  home  in  Rowley  of  John  Stevens,  December 
23,  1 73 1,  with  thirty  acres  of  land.  He  and 
his  wife  Mary  deeded  thirty  acres  at  Row- 
ley for  love  and  affection  to  Roger  Chase  and 
his  wife  Abigail,  of  Newbury,  mentioning  the 
dwelling-house,  barn  and  orchard.  His  wife 
Hannah  died  October  9,  1700.  He  married 
(second)  March  27,  1707,  Mary,  dattghter  of 
Deacon  John  Foulson,  of  Exeter,  New  Hamp- 
shire. She  was  born  September  27,  1664,  and 
died  February  14,  171 1.     He  married  (third) 

Mary  ,  who  survived  him.     His   will, 

dated  November  3,  1736,  was  proved  May  10, 
1737.  To  his  wife  Mary  he  gave  ten  pounds 
bill  of  credit  "provided  she  accept  of  this  last 
will  and  testament.  In  case  she  does  not  ac- 
cept this  my  last  will  then  I  do  not  give  her 
anything.  The  reason  why  I  thus  deal  with 
her  is  because  I  have  given  her  forty  pounds, 
which  she  hath  disposed  of,  which  money  was 
in  lieu  of  a  bargain  made  betw^een  us  before 
marriage."  ChiUh-en :  i.  Daniel,  born  in 
Newbury,  August  i,  1691,  resided  in  Row- 
ley. 2.  John,  mentioned  below.  3.  Hannah, 
Newbury,  January  27,  1695-96.  4.  Ebenezer, 
Newbury,  October  6,  1697,  resided  in  Stra- 
tham.  5.  Mary,  Newbury,  March  20,  1699, 
married  Charles  Annis.  6.  Abigail,  married 
Roger  Chase,  of  Newbury.  March  16,  1725. 
Children  of  second  wife:  7.  Lydia  (twin), 
February  4,  1710,  died  young.  8.  Beriah 
(twin),  February  4,  1710,  died  young.  9.  and 
10.  Twins  born  and  died  April  i  and  2,  1712. 


(II)  John,  son  of  Daniel  Morrison,  was 
born,  in  Newbury,  iMarch  28,  1693.  On  De- 
cember 9,  1 717,  he  bought  a  house  and  land 
on  the  north  side  of  the  King's  Highway,  in 
Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  of  Nathaniel  Ladd, 
of  Stratham.  ,  He  was  a  resident  of  Newbury, 
Massachusetts,  however.  On  ^ larch  16,  1726, 
he  received  a  deed  of  gift  from  his  father 
Daniel,  forty  acres  of  land  in  Newbury,  on 
the  Bradford  road.  Later  he  was  a  resident 
of  Haverhill,  apparently  in  the  east  parish; 
was  a  rate-payer  there  in  1741  and  signed 
petitions  there  in  1743  and  1748.  His  will, 
recorded  at  Salem,  was  dated  August  18, 
1769,  and  proved  February  7,  1770.  He  was 
a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He  married  Lydia 
Robinson.  She  was  allowed  one  hundred  and 
thirty-four  pounds,  five  shillings,  five  pence, 
out  of  her  husband's  estate,  which  was 
rendered  insolvent  September  24,  1770.  His 
son-in-law,  John  Goodrich,  was  executor. 
Children:    i.   Bradbury,  born  iMarch    i,   1720, 

married  Elizabeth  .     2.  Daniel,  settled 

in   Gilmanton  or  Kingston,   New   Hampshire. 

3.  David,  born   1732-33,  lived  in  Sanbornton. 

4.  Samuel,  lived  in  Sanbornton.  5.  Ebenezer, 
lived  in  Sanbornton.  6.  Jeremiah,  "went  to 
some  unknown  region."  7.  Hannah.  8.  Abi- 
gail,  married  Folsom,   of   Gilmanton. 

9.  Lydia,  married  John  Goodrich.  10.  Jona- 
than, died  young.  11.  ^lolly.  12.  John,  men- 
tioned below. 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Morrison, 
was  born  in  Sanbornton  about  1750.  He  re- 
sided in  Epping  and  Candia,  New  Hampshire, 
and  is  the  progenitor  of  the  Candia  family  of 

Morrisons.    He  married .    Among  their 

children  was  David,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  David,  son  of  John  (2)  Morrison, 
was  born  in  Candia,  New-  Hampshire,  March 
30,  1792,  and  died  in  Palermo,  Maine,  April 
25,  1833.  He  married  Eleanor  Lang,  born  in 
Candia,  February  22,  1793,  died  in  Madrid, 
Maine,  June  24,  i860.  Children:  i.  David 
Jr.,  born  April  1812,  died  July  30,  t86o.  2. 
James,  February  10,  1814,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Moses  Baker,  December  4,'  18 15.  4.  Ben- 
jamin Lang,  April  19,  1818.  6.  Louisa  Jane, 
June  I,  1820.  6.  Cyrus,  April  2,  1822,  died 
December  30,  1863.  7.  Dairus,  August  2, 
1824,  died  October  27,  1825.  8.  Salome,  Sep- 
tember II,  1826,  died  November  5,  i860.  9. 
Mary,   May  9,   1828,   died  October  27,    1850. 

10.  Eleanor,  April  15,  1831. 

(V)  Captain  James,  son  of  David  Morrison, 
was  born  in  Candia,  New  Hampshire,  Febru- 
ary ID,  1814,  and  died  in  Phillips,  Maine,  No- 
vember   12,   1884.     He  was  educated   in   the 


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common  schools  in  Candia,  and  when  twelve 
years  old  removed  with  his  parents  to  Waldo 
county,  Maine,  where  his  father  built  a  saw 
and  grist-mill  in  Palermo.  When  a  young 
man  he  settled  in  Madrid,  Franklin  county, 
and  built  mills  which  he  conducted  for  many 
years.  Later  he  bought  a  farm  in  Phillips. 
Maine,  but  retained  the  mills  at  Madrid.  He 
was  in  active  business  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican.  He 
was  captain  of  the  militia  company  at  Madrid. 
He  married  Mary  Leach  Doten,  born  in 
Buckfield.  Maine,  May  13,  1807,  died  July  14, 
1887.  Children:  I.  James,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Mary  Ellen,  born  June  17,  1845,  married 
Leroy  A.  Smith,  who  died  in  1896;  had  two 
children,  Bertha  and  Eugene  Smith ;  resided 
in  Rangely,  but  at  present  in  Los  Angeles, 
California. 

(\T)  Hon.  James  (2),  son  of  Captain 
James  (i)  Morrison,  was  born  in  Madrid, 
Maine,  March  14.  1841.  When  he  was  six 
years  old  his  parents  removed  to  Phillips, 
Maine,  and  he  worked  on  the  farm  and  in  his 
father's  sawmill,  attending  school  as  he  found 
opportunity.  At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he 
enlisted  in  the  second  regiment,  Maine  Cav- 
alry, in  the  civil  war,  and  served  in  the  De- 
partment of  the  Gulf.  He  was  at  New  Or- 
leans, Thibodeaux,  Louisiana  ;  Brashear  City  ; 
Pine  Barren  Creek  and  Milton,  Florida,  Pol- 
lard, Alabama,  and  the  taking  of  Mobile,  and 
was  with  the  cavalry  detachment  that  led  the 
Sixteenth  Army  Corps  up  through  Alabama, 
and  occupied  the  city  of  Montgomery.  At 
the  close  of  the  war  he  came  home  and  re- 
sumed the  occupation  of  teacher,  which  he  had 
engaged  in  from  time  to  time.  He  began  the 
study  of  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Frank- 
lin county  bar  in  September,  i86g.  He  was 
superintending  school  committeeman,  one  of 
the  selectmen  of  Phillips  for  about  tw-elve 
years,  representative  to  the  general  court  in 
1877,  senator  in  1878  and  1879,  serving  one 
term  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  legal 
affairs  and  one  term  on  the  judiciary.  He 
was  appointed  judge  of  probate  for  Franklin 
county  by  Governor  Robie  in  1883,  to  fill  a 
vacancy,  elected  for  four  years  in  1884,  re- 
elected in  1888-92-96.  He  continued  in  the 
practice  of  law  for  five  years  after  his  admis- 
sion to  the  bar,  but  failing  health,  the  result 
of  hardships  and  exposure  during  the  war, 
compelled  him  to  partly  give  up  his  ofiice 
work  and  devote  much  of  his  time  in  work 
upon  his  farm,  although  he  still  retains  an 
office.  Fie  is  interested  in  the  raising  of 
blooded  stock,  and  also  in  the  buving  and  sell- 


ing of  timber  lands.  Judge  Morrison  has 
always  been  a  Republican  and  served  six  years 
on  the  Republican  state  committee,  and  has 
done  considerable  work  in  the  field  and  on 
the  stump.  He  is  a  radical  temperance  advo- 
cate, and  believes  in  the  Maine  law  prohibiting 
the  manufacture  and  sale  of  into.xicating 
liquor.  A  man  of  sterling  character  and  strict 
integrity,  he  commands  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  his  townsmen.  He  is  a  member 
of  Blue  Mountain  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  at 
Phillips,  Maine;  of  Franklin  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  Farmington ;  of  Jephtha  Coun- 
cil, Royal  and  Select  Masters,  Farmington ;  of 
Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
Farmington ;  of  Sherburne  Chapter,  Eastern 
Star,  Phillips.  He  is  a  member  also  of  Mount 
Saddleback  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  Phillips, 
and  of  Hope  Lodge  of  Rebekahs ;  of  Franklin 
Grange,  No.  186,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of 
the  Pomona  and  State  Grange.  He  married, 
March  14,  1871,  Louisa  E.  Chick,  of  Madrid, 
Maine,  born  December  14,  1850,  died  Novem- 
ber 4,  1903,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Chick,  a 
native  of  Ossipee,  New  Hampshire.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Phillips:  I.  Grace  Winnefred, 
born  January  25,  1872,  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  at  Phillips  Academy  and  at  the  Farm- 
ington Normal  school ;  married  Orrin  Young, 
a  carpenter,  in  Greenville,  Maine,  Moosehead 
Lake;  child,  Rodney  Young.  2.  Cassandra 
Mary,  born  September  20,  1880,  married  Har- 
old W.  Worthley,  of  Avon,  a  farmer;  chil- 
dren: Herbert  M.  Worthley,  Louisa  Worth- 
ley and  George  Worthley.  3.  James  Blaine, 
born  August  10,  1884,  law  student  in  the 
office  of  Hon.  Frank  W.  Butler,  Farmington, 
Maine. 


is  a  family  name  of  local 
KENDALL  derivation,  borrowed  probably 
from  Kendal,  a  noted  town  in 
Westmoreland  county.  England,  on  the  bor- 
ders of  the  river  Ken,  and  signifying  the  val- 
ley of  the  Ken ;  or,  as  it  is  thought  by  some, 
from  Kent-dale,  that  is,  a  dale  in  the  county 
of  Kent.  From  one  or  the  other  of  these 
sources  the  Kendalls  in  England  and  their 
descendants  in  America  derived  their  origin 
and  their  name.  The  family  in  England  is 
very  large  and  widely  distributed,  many  of 
the  branches  bearing  arms  and  having  dis- 
tinguished members.  The  name  is  found  com- 
mon in  Bedfordshire,  at  Basingborne,  Esse.x ; 
in  Lancashire;  at  Smithby,  Derbyshire;  in 
Cornwall ;  in  Devonshire ;  and  Hertfordshire. 
In  1575  a  branch  of  the  family  settled  in 
Thorpthules,  Durham,  a  younger  son  of  the 


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Kendall  family  of  Ripon,  Yorkshire,  where 
the  family  lived  at  an  early  date.  Among  the 
early  Kendalls  who  were  prominent  was  John 
Kendall,  sheriff  of  Nottingham,  killed  in  the 
battle  of  Bosworth  in  1485,  fighting  in  the 
army  of  Richard  III. 

(I)  John  Kendall,  progenitor  of  the  Amer- 
ican family,  lived  in  the  county  of  Cambridge, 
England,  1646,  died  there  in  1660.  Two  of 
his  sons  came  to  America:  i.  Francis,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Deacon  Thomas,  who  was 
a  proprietor  of  Reading,  Massachusetts,  in 
1644:  was  admitted  freeman  May  10,  1648; 
had  nine  daughters  and  one  son.  One  daugh- 
ter and  the  son  died  in  infancy,  thus  leaving 
no  descendants  bearing  his  name. 

(II)  Francis,  son  of  John  Kendall,  born 
1620,  in  England,  is  supposed  to  have  been 
the  ancestor  of  all  of  his  name  in  New  Eng- 
land prior  to  the  revolution.  He  came  from 
Kent,  England,  and  was  in  Charlestown,  in 
1640,  where  he  subscribed  the  "Town  Or- 
ders" for  Woburn  in  December  of  that  year ; 
and  was  taxed  among  the  earliest  inhabitants 
of  Woburn,  1645,  arid  built  the  first  grist- 
mill there.  His  house  was  about  one  mile 
west  of  Woburn  Center,  on  the  Lexington 
road.  A  family  tradition,  communicated  many 
years  ago  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Kendall,  of  Wes- 
ton, is  that  in  order  to  conceal  from  his  par- 
ents his  intention  to  emigrate  to  this  country, 
he  embarked  in  England  under  an  assumed 
name.  Miles.  Perhaps  he  was  related  to  Miles 
Kendall,  governor  of  the  Bermuda  Islands  in 
1619.  He  died  in  1708,  when  according  to 
testimony  given  by  him  in  court,  1700,  he 
must  have  been  eighty-eight  years  old.  He 
was  a  gentleman  of  great  respectability  and  in- 
fluence in  the  place  of  his  residence.  He 
served  the  town  at  different  times,  eighteen 
years  on  the  board  of  selectmen,  and  w^as  often 
appointed  on  important  committees,  especially 
on  one  for  distributing  the  common  lands  of 
the  town,  1664;  and  on  another  respecting  the 
erection  of  the  second  meeting-house,  1672. 
In  his  will,  dated  May  g,  1706,  when  he  was 
"stricken  in  years"  (he  writes)  ''and  expecting 
daily  his  change,"  he  styles  himself  a  miller; 
and  gives  one-half  of  his  mill,  with  a  propor- 
tionate interest  in  the  streams,  dams  and  uten- 
sils thereto  belonging,  to  his  son  John,  one- 
quarter  to  Thomas,  and  one-quarter  to  Sam- 
uel. This  mill  has  ever  since  been  in  the 
possession  of  his  posterity.  He  remembered, 
likewise,  in  his  will  the  eight  daughters  of  his 
brother  Thomas,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Reading.  The  record  of  his  marriage  reads 
thus :     "Frances    Kendall,    alias    Miles,    and 


Mary  Tedd  (Tidd)  Maryed  24th  of  10  mo. 
(24  of  December)  1644."  This  lends  sup- 
port to  the  family  tradition  as  to  his  feigned 
name.  Mrs.  Kendall  was  the  daughter  of 
John  and  Margaret  Tidd,  died  in  1705.  Their 
children  were :  John,  Thomas,  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth, Hannah,  Rebekah,  Samuel,  Jacob  and 
Abigail.  All  the  sons  made  Woburn  their 
place  of  residence,  where  their  descendants  be- 
came very  numerous,  though  now  but  few  re- 
main. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  second  son  of  Francis  and 
Mary  (Tidd)  Kendall,  was  born  January  10, 
1649,  "i  Woburn,  where  he  lived,  was  a 
farmer,  and  died  May  25,  1730.  He  married 
(first)  in  1673,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Ruth  (Iggleden)  Blodgett,  of  Woburn.  She 
was  born  December  28,  1656,  in  that  town, 
and  died  December  18,  1695.  He  married 
(second)  March  30,  1696,  Abigail  Broughton, 
who  died  December  31,  17 16.  She  was  the 
widow  of  Captain  John  Broughton,  of  Salmon 
Falls,  now  Berwick,  Maine,  who  was  killed  by 
Indians,  June  19,  1689,  and  daughter  of  Rev. 
John  Reyner,  of  Dover,  New  Hampshire.  His 
children,  all  born  of  the  first  marriage,  were : 
I.  Ruth,  February  17,  1675,  married  John 
Walker.  2.  Thomas,  May  19,  1677,  who 
settled  in  Framingham.  3.  i\Iary,  February 
21,  1 68 1,  married  Joseph  Whittemore  in  1699. 
4.  Samuel,  October  29,  1682,  was  lieutenant 
under  Governor  Belcher.  5.  Ralph,  mentioned 
below.  6.  Eliezer,  November  16,  1687.  7. 
Ephraim,  i6go,  who  lived  in  Wilmington.  8. 
and  g.  Jabez  and  Jane,  twins,  September  10, 
1692.  ID.  Son,  still-born.  The  youngest 
daughter  married  Joseph  Russell  in  171 2,  and 
Jabez  remained  in  Woburn. 

( I\' )  Ralpn,  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Ruth 
(Blodgett)  Kendall,  was  born  May  4,  1685,  in 
Woburn,  and  lived  in  that  town  until  1719-20, 
when  he  moved  to  Lancaster,  Massachusetts, 
and  there  passed  his  last  years.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  May,  1707,  in  Woburn,  to  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  John  and  Ruth  (  Burn- 
ham)  Carter,  of  that  town.  She  was  born 
March  30,  1689.  Their  first  seven  children 
were  born  in  Woburn,  and  six  more  in  Lan- 
caster, as  follows:  t.  Ralph,  died  at  the  age 
of  four  days.  2.  Peter,  born  October  14,  1710. 
3.  Abigail,  August  14,  1712.  4.  Esther,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1714.  5-  Jonathan,  February  14, 
1716.  6.  Bezell,  April  7,  1718.  7.  Keziah, 
January  12,  1719.  8.  Uzziah,  .-Kpril  11.  1721, 
in  Lancaster.  9.  .^biarthar,  February  22, 
1723.  10.  Ruth,  February  9,  1725.  11.  Abi- 
gail, July  20,  1728.  12.  Benjamin,  September 
12,  1731.     13.  Eunice,  May  14,  1733. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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(\')  Benjamin,  twelfth  child  of  Ralph  and 
Abigail  (Carter)  Kendall,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 12,  1731,  in  Lancaster,  Massachusetts,  and 
like  most  of  his  father's  children  settled  in 
Maine.  He  located  at  first  at  Georgetown, 
where  his  first  two  children  were  born,  and 
subsequentl}-  lived  in  Dresden,  Maine.  The 
last  fifteen  years  of  his  life  were  spent  at 
Freeport,  Maine,  where  he  died  February  28, 
1805.  Benjamin  served  in  Captain  Eicazer 
Melvin's  company,  1754,  in  the  Shirley  expe- 
dition against  Niagara.  He  married  Jennie 
Rogers  (styled  in  her  father's  will  Jean),  who 
was  born  June  25,  1733,  in  Londonderry,  New 
Hampshire,  and  survived  him  nearly  three 
years;  died  April  i,  1808.  She  was  a  grand- 
daughter of  George  Rogers,  a  Scotch  Presby- 
terian, who  came  from  Londonderry,  Ireland, 
about  1720,  and  lived  at  Londonderry,  New 
Hampshire,  before  he  settled  at  Georgetown, 
New  Hampshire.  He  was  born  about  1662  in 
Ireland,  and  died  October  30,  1743,  in  George- 
town. His  wife,  Isabella,  was  born  about 
1678  and  died  December  5,  1743.  Their 
gravestones  are  still  to  be  seen  in  the  Dro- 
more  burying-ground  at  Phippsburg,  Maine. 
Their  son.  William  Rogers,  the  father  of  Jen- 
nie Rogers,  was  born  in  northern  Ireland  in 
1702  and  was  still  a  minor  when  he  came  to 
America  with  his  father.  He  married  Dinah, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Rankin,  and  settled  about 
1735  at  Georgetown,  now  Phippsburg,  where 
he  died  February  23,  1763.  The  children  of 
Benjamin  Kendall  were:  Abigail,  William, 
Benjamin,  Annie,  John,  Hugh  Rogers,  Thom- 
as, Fanny  and  Robert  Rogers. 

(VI)  Captain  Robert  Rogers,  youngest 
child  of  Benjamin  and  Jean  (Rogers)  Kendall, 
was  born  March  21,  1773,  in  Dresden,  Maine, 
and  settled  in  Freeport,  Maine,  soon  after 
the  incorporation  of  the  town.  He  built  a 
house  on  Main  street  at  what  is  known  as 
Kendall's  Corner,  and  this,  though  enlarged, 
is  still  standing  and  occupied  by  his  descend- 
ants. He  died  May  25,  1858.  He  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  war  of  1812,  and  was  a  prominent 
and  liighly  respected  citizen.  Fle  was  noted 
as  a  swordsman,  and  it  is  related  that  in  a 
test  of  his  skill  as  a  swordsman  he  success- 
fully defended  himself  against  two  men  at- 
tacking him  simultaneously  with  bayonetted 
guns.  He  was  married  May  25,  1797,  to  his 
cousin,  Margaret  Miller  Rogers,  daughter  of 
\\'illiam  and  Eleanor  (Stanwood)  Rogers. 
She  was  born  February  26,  1778,  in  Bruns- 
wick, Maine,  and  died  at  Freeport,  January  24, 
i860,  surviving  her  husband  nearly  two  years. 
Their  children  were :    William  Rogers,  Hora- 


tio Gates,  Robert  Pope,  Eleanor  Jane,  Nathan 
Nye  and  Julia  Margaret. 

(VII)  William  Rogers,  eldest  child  of  Cap- 
tain Robert  Rogers  and  Margaret  M.  (Rog- 
ers) Kendall,  was  born  .\ugust  18,  1799,  in 
Freeport,  and  in  his  earlier  years  was  a  fisher- 
man, captain  of  a  mackerel  "handliner."  Later 
in  life  he  was  a  farmer  upon  the  paternal 
homestead  in  Freeport,  where  he  died  about 
1880.  Like  his  father  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Freeport  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons, and  each  in  turn  occupied  the  chair  in 
the  East.  His  ruling  passion  was  the  desire 
to  shoot  wild  geese  and  for  this  purpose  he 
always  kept  behind  the  "entry"  door  an  old 
flint  lock  Queens  Arm  and  a  bored-out  .Spring- 
field rifle  ever  loaded.  It  is  said  that  the  only 
chance  he  ever  had  to  shoot  any  geese  was  on 
a  foggy  morning  when  a  flock  flew  low  be- 
tween his  barn  and  house.  Never  thinking  of 
his  guns,  he  ran  out,  seized  a  stick  of  wood 
from  the  fuel-pile  and  let  it  go  at  the  disap- 
pearing birds.  The  proof  of  this  story  lies  in 
the  fact  that  the  guns  are  still  in  the  posses- 
sion of  his  grandson,  though  the  charges  have 
been  drawn.  He  w'as  noted  in  the  neighbor- 
hood as  a  drummer.  He  married  in  Decem- 
ber, 1829,  to  Minerva  Converse,  of  Freeport, 
Maine.  She  was  a  woman  of  marked  social 
gifts,  and  was  especially  noted  as  a  skilful 
whist-player.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Cap- 
tain George  Rogers,  was  a  daughter  of  Dr. 
John  and  Sally  (Hanson)  Converse,  of  Dur- 
ham, Maine,  and  was  born  February  2^,  1807, 
in  Durham.  One  of  her  relatives,  named  Rog- 
ers, was  an  officer  during  the  war  of  1812, 
probably  on  the  ship  "Enterprise,"  and  among 

the  relics  preserved  by  her  descendants  is  a  • 
round  mahogany  dining-table  that  was  taken 
from  the  "Enterprise"  or  "Boxer"  after  the 
naval  battle  of  Portland  in  1813.  Mrs.  Ken- 
dall died  in  Freeport  in  1881  at  the  age  of 
seventy-five  years.  She  was  devoted  to  her 
grandchildren  and  it  was  due  to  her  persistent 
insistence  that  her  grandson,  Dr.  William  C. 
Kendall,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  was  kept  in 
school.  Her  children  were :  William  Pote, 
John  Converse,  Sarah  and  Horatio. . 

(VIII)  William  Pote,  eldest  child  of  Will- 
iam Rogers  and  Minerva  (Converse)  Kendall, 
was  born  .\ugust  12,  1831,  in  Freeport,  and 
died  March  i,  igoi.  By  trade  he  was  a 
painter  and  was  employed  almost  exclusively 
on  the  ships  built  during  the  heighth  of  that 
industry,  for  which  Freeport  was  for  a  long 
time  noted.  After  the  decline  of  ship-building 
he  engaged  in  painting  buildings  and  was  also 
a  grainer,  paper-hanger  and  glazier.     He  took 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


little  interest  in  public  affairs  and  was  not 
identified  with  any  church  or  fraternal  or- 
ganization outside  of  the  Grand  Army  Post 
at  Freeport,  of  which  he  was  a  past  com- 
mander and  chaplain.  Shortly  after  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war,  with  his  brother  John 
C,  he  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Twenty-fifth 
Maine  \'ohintecrs,  in  which  he  had  the  rank 
of  corporal  and  in  which  his  brother  became 
major.  William  P.  Kendall  nearly  lost  his 
life  of  typhoid  fever  at  Arlington,  and  re- 
tired from  the  service  after  the  expiration  of 
the  nine  months  for  which  he  had  enlisted. 
The  brother  re-enlisted  in  the  Thirtieth  Regi- 
ment and  became  captain  of  his  company. 
William  P.  Kendall  found  his  chief  recre- 
ations in  fishing  for  brook  trout  and  hunting 
grouse.  He  married  Mary  Frances,  daughter 
of  Barnabas  Bartol  and  Mary  (Cofifin)  Carver, 
and  granddaughter  of  Seth  and  Jane  (Brown) 
Carver,  of  Freeport.  She  was  born  February 
24,  1832,  and  resides  in  Freeport.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  William  Converse,  Nathan  Nye, 
Fanny  G.  and  Sarah  Schieffelin.  The  elder  be- 
came the  wife  of  Arthur  Grant,  of  Freeport, 
and  died  one  day  previous  to  her  husband. 
The  younger  is  the  wife  of  Linwood  E.  Porter, 
of  Freeport,  and  has  two  daughters,  Vivian 
Kendall  and  Frances. 

(IX)  William  Converse,  elder  son  of  Will- 
iam P.  and  Mary  Frances  (Carver)  Kendall, 
was  born  April  4,  1861,  in  Freeport,  and 
spent  his  early  life  in  that  town.  In  his 
schooldays  he  seldom  had  even  a  summer  vaca- 
tion, being  kept  in  a  private  school  after  the 
public  schools  were  closed.  As  soon  as  he  was 
old  enough  he  was  the  constant  companion  of 
his  father  in  fishing  and  hunting  expeditions, 
developed  a  great  enthusiasm  in  those  sports 
and  is  still  fond  of  traversing  the  fields  where 
he  spent  so  much  time  with  his  father.  He 
graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1885,  with 
a  degree  of  A.  B.,  and  received  the  degree  of 
A.  M.  from  that  institution  in  i8go.  He  en- 
tered the  medical  school  of  Georgetown  Uni- 
versity, from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1896.  For  a  few 
years  he  was  engaged  in  school-teaching,  and 
in  1889  joined  the  United  States  fish  com- 
mission, with  which  he  is  still  connected  as 
naturalist.  His  numerous  scientific  papers 
have  appeared  mainly  in  the  bulletins  and 
reports  of  the  commission  and  in  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  United  States  National  Mu- 
seum. He  has,  however,  contributed  articles 
on  natural  history  subjects  and  short  stories 
to  the  popular  magazines.  He  is  a  fellow 
of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advance- 


ment uf  Science,  a  member  of  Washington 
Academy  of  Science,  the  Washington  Biologi- 
cal Society,  Maine  Ornithological  Society, 
American  Fisheries  Society,  American  For- 
estry Association,  Portland  (Maine)  Society 
of  Natural  History,  and  was  for  some  time 
an  associate  member  of  the  American  Ornitho- 
logists Union.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of 
A.  C.  Pray  Camp,  No.  2,  Sons  of  Veterans,  of 
Auburn,  Maine,  and  is  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Geological  Society  of  Washington,  from 
which  organizations  he  resigned  after  a  mem- 
bership of  about  two  years  each.  In  college 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Fraternity,  Theta 
Delta  Chi.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Harra- 
seeket  Lodge,  No.  30,  Knights  of  Pythias,  of 
Freeport,  Maine,  and  of  Freeport  Lodge,  No. 
23,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  in  which  both 
his  great-grandfather  and  grandfather  were 
presiding  officers,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Maine  Grange.  Dr.  Kendall  was  married 
April  3,  1893,  in  Washington,  to  Ida  Wilhel- 
mina,  daughter  of  Henry  Aschenbach,  of  that 
city,  and  they  have  one  child,  Minerva  ( Con- 
verse) Kendall,  born  June  29,  1897,  in  Wash- 
ington. 

(IX)  Nathan  Nye,  younger  son  of  William 
P.  and  Mary  Frances  (Carver)  Kendall,  was 
born  April  15,  1864,  in  Freeport,  where  he 
now  resides.  He  married  Linnie  Marston,  of 
Freeport,  and  they  have  a  son,  Lloyd  Mayne. 


(For    preceding    generations    see    John    Kendall    I.) 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas 
KENDALL     Kendall,    was    born    October 
29,  1682.     He  married  Eliza- 
beth   .     Giildren,  all  born  in  Woburn  : 

I.  Rev.  Samuel,  born  June  30,  1708,  married 
Annie  Green;  died  January  31,  1792:  pastor 
of  church  at  New  Salem.  Massachusetts,  many 
years.    2.  James,  born  April  28,  17 10,  married 

(first)  Lydia ;  (second)  July  21,  1735, 

Sarah  Richardson;  (third)  March  i,  1740, 
Lydia  Richardson;  died  November  25,  1796. 
3.  Josiah,  born  September  i,  1712,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Ezekiel,  born  March  14,  171 5.  mar- 
ried (first)  March  3,  1742,  Hannah  Pierpont; 
(second)  December  21,  1752,  Mary  May;  died 
December  28,  1802.  5.  Timothy,  born  March 
23,  171 7,  married,  November  13,  1740,  Esther 
Walker;  died  July  21,  1780.  6.  Elizabeth,  born 
September  3,  1719,  married  John  Brooks.  7. 
Jonas,  born  March  10,  1721.  married,  August 
8,  1751,  Elizabeth  Bennet ;  died  July  22,  1799. 
8.  Sarah,  born  April  16.  1723,  married  John 
Kendall.  9.  Susanna,  born  July  5,  1724.  un- 
married. 10.  Obadiah,  born  September  3, 
1725,    married,    October    17,    1755.    Elizabeth 


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Miles;  died  February  10,  1841.  11.  Jesse, 
born  May  15,  1727,  married  Elizabeth  Evans; 
dietl  April  14,  1797.     12.  Seth,  born  January 

4,    1728-29,    married    Deborah    ;    died 

July  5,  1790.  13.  Abigail,  born  February  27, 
1730-31,  married  Jacob  Pierce.  14.  Ephraim, 
bom  November  9,  1732,  died  February  16, 
^733-  15-  Jerusha,  born  February  13,  1734-35' 
married  Reuben  Richardson  Jr.,  of  Woburn. 

(V)  Josiah,  son  of  Samuel  Kendall,  was 
born  in  Woburn,  September  i,  1712.  He  re- 
moved to  Lancaster  soon  after  his  marriage 
and  settled,  with  two  brothers,  in  the  west 
parish,  on  Chocksett  hill,  later  known  as  Ken- 
dall hill.  His  homestead  is  or  was  lately 
owned  by  Daniel  and  James  F.  Kendall,  direct 
descendants.  He  was  admitted  to  the  church 
January  13,  1745.  He  was  selectman  from 
1743  to  1746,  inclusive,  also  from  1777  to 
1781.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  convictions, 
and  often  was  in  trouble  on  account  of  his 
quick  tongue.  He  had  a  controversy  with  the 
pastor  of  the  church,  but  was  exonerated  from 
all  blame  in  the  trial  of  the  case.  It  is  said 
that  when  he  differed  with  any  statement  that 
the  pastor  made  in  his  sermon  he  would  sig- 
nify his  disapproval  by  rapping  on  the  pew  in 
a  very  decided  and  telling  manner.  He  was 
an  ardent  patriot  and  a  leading  man  in  the 
cause  of  liberty.  He  purchased  in  1777  land 
known  as  the  Charlestown  grant.  He  mar- 
ried, March  17,  1736,  Tabitha  Wyman,  born 
April  7,  1714,  died  April  22,  1800.  He  died 
July  22,  1785.  Their  gravestones  are  in  the 
old  cemetery  at  the  foot  of  Kendall  hill.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth 
Wyman,  among  the  first  settlers  of  Woburn : 
Children:  i.  Josiah,  born  j\Iay  3,  1738,  mar- 
ried, March  26,  1760,  Esther  Sawyer;  died 
January  10,  1816.  2.  Heman,  born  May  20, 
1740,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lucy,  born  No- 
vember 3,  1743,  married  (first)  July  8,  1762, 
Stephen  Smith;  (second)  June  30,  1779,  Jona- 
than Whitney;  died  October  11,  1817.  4. 
Ethan,  born  September  25,  1748,  married, 
July  4,  1771,  Thankful  Moore;  died  Septem- 
ber 22.  1834.  5.  Esther,  born  January  23, 
1750,  died  March  10.  1756. 

(VI)  Heman,  son  of  Josiah  Kendall,  born 
May  20,  1740,  died  June  9,  1800.  He  resided 
in  that  part  of  Sterling  known  as  the  "Leg," 
and  a  portion  of  his  farm  was  bounded  by  the 
Holden  line.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revo- 
lution, at  one  time  stationed  in  New  York. 
He  died  intestate.  He  married,  June  20, 
1765,  Mary  Fairbanks,  born  February  22, 
1744,  died  July  18,  1827,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Dorothy  Fairbanks,  of  Lancaster.     Thev 


are  buried  in  the  Leg  cemetery,  and  his  grave- 
stone contains  the  following  stanza  : 

"Why   do    we    mourn    departed    friends. 

Or    shake    at    death's    alarms? 
'Tis  but   the  voice   that  Jesus  sends, 

To   call  them   to  his  arms." 

Children,  the  first  four  born  at  Westminster, 
the  others  at  Lancaster:  i.  Abel,  born  June 
19,  1766,  married,  February  6,  1791,  Betty 
Wilder;  married  (second)  April  4,  1816,  Mrs. 
Polly  Brewster;  died  i\lay  29,  1825.  2.  Molly, 
born  April  21,  1768;  married  Jeremiah  Burpee 
Jr.;  died  April  7,  t8oi.  3.  Lucy,  born  June  8, 
1770,  married  Theodore  Gibbs;  died  Novem- 
ber 22,  1865.  4.  Dolly,  born  August  6,  1772, 
married  Fortunatus  Eager;  married  (second) 
Helon  Brooks;  died  March  8,  1835.  5.  Eunice, 
born  June  11,  1774,  married  Mannasseh 
Houghton ;  died  February  28,  1857.  6.  Susey, 
born  December  11,  1776,  married.  May  28, 
1800,  Nathaniel  Smith,  of  Dana.  7.  Nathan, 
born  August  11,  1779,  mentioned  below.  8. 
Azubah,  born  April  3,  1781,  married  Theo- 
philus  Eveleth;  died  1839.  9.  Heman,  born 
July  22,  1783,  married  (first)  Submit  Tuttle; 
(second)  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Brooks;  died  Au- 
gust 28,  1857.  10.  Betty,  born  June  16,  1785, 
died  unmarried  April  28,  1821.  11.  Peter, 
born  May  12,  1787,  married,  December  28, 
1814,  Susanna  Keyes ;  died  April  8,  1817. 

( YII)  Nathan,  son  of  Heman  Kendall,  born 
August  II,  1779,  died  October  4,  1869.  He 
settled  in  Alfred,  Maine,  in  1807,  and  was  a 
merchant.  He  held  the  following  military 
commissions:  Captain,  March  23,  1812,  by 
Caleb  Strong,  governor  and  commander-in- 
chief  of  Massachusetts:  major,  April  6,  1813; 
colonel,  October  15,  1816,  by  John  Brooks, 
governor.  He  was  deacon  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  from  1822  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  married,  March  7,  1812,  Lydia 
Emerson,  born  April  17,  1789,  died  February 
23,  1850,  daughter  of  Joseph  L.  and  Lydia 
(Durrell)  Emerson,  of  Topsfield.  Lydia  w:as 
daughter  of  Major  Durrell,  of  Kennebunk, 
Maine.  Children:  i.  Nathan  Otis,  born  May 
I,  1 81 3,  mentioned  below.  2.  Elizabeth,  born 
July  I,  1816,  died  July  28,  1816.  3.  Mary 
Elizabeth,  born  April  17,  1818.  4.  Lydia 
Emerson,  born  February  22,  1820,  married, 
March  16,  1841,  Benjamin  Franklin  Chad- 
bourne.  5.  Joseph  Augustus,  born  May  7, 
1823,  married,  December  9,  1849,  Mary  Anna 
Cole.  6.  Sarah  Maria,  born  April  20,  1825, 
living  in  Alfred :  graduate  of  the  public 
schools  and  academy ;  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  at  Alfred. 

(Vni)  Nathan  Otis,  son  of  Nathan  Ken- 
dall, born  May  i,  1813,  died  October  i,  1878. 


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He  settled  in  Sanford,  Maine,  but  soon  re- 
moved to  Saco,  and  in  1847  to  Biddeford, 
Maine.  He  was  a  merchant.  He  married, 
October  i,  1844,  Susan  Eliza  Lowe,  born 
February  21,  1819,  daughter  of  Captain  Jo- 
seph and  Susanna  Lowe,  of  York,  Maine. 
Children:  i.  LeRoy  Sidney,  born  April  30, 
1846,  in  Sanford,  married,  March  28,  1878, 
Dora  A.  Whittier,  of  Allsworth,  Maine,  born 
September  27,  1855.  2.  Lelia  Florence,  born 
February  2,  1850,  in  Biddeford,  married,  Au- 
gust 19,  1873,  Rev.  John  D.  Emerson,  born 
]\iay  29,  1828;  children:  i.  Winifred  Emer- 
son, born  September  24,  1874;  ii.  Ralph  Otis 
Emerson,  born  March  3,  1876;  iii.  Leon  Lowe 
Emerson,  born  February  13,  1878;  iv.  Alfreda 
Emerson,  born  October  10,  1880.  3.  Lucius 
Harvey,  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Lucius  Harvey,  son  of  Nathan  Otis 
Kendall,  was  born  in  Biddeford,  ^Maine,  Jan- 
uary I,  1853.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Biddeford,  graduating  from  the 
high  school  in  1869.  He  learned  the  trade  of 
merchant  tailor  and  followed  it  for  a  number 
of  years.  Owing  to  ill  health  he  gave  up  his 
business  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
bricks  in  order  to  have  an  outdoor  occupa- 
tion. In  1890  he  entered  partnership  with  J. 
H.  Dearborn,  in  the  manufacture  of  ladies' 
shoes,  under  the  firm  name  of  Dearborn  & 
Kendall,  and  continued  for  years,  when  he 
withdrew  from  the  firm  and  since  then  has 
devoted  his  attention  to  the  care  and  improve- 
ment of  his  real  estate.  Colonel  Kendall  has 
been  ])romincnt  in  military  affairs,  and  is  one 
of  the  best-known  militia  officers  of  the  state. 
Lie  enlisted  in  the  Biddeford  Light  Infantry 
in  1876:  was  elected  second  lieutenant  Au- 
gust 30.  1876:  fir.st  lieutenant  ^lay  27,  1880: 
captain  December  31,  1880.  He  was  ap- 
pointed commissary  with  the  rank  of  major 
on  the  staff  of  Governor  Joshua  L.  Chamber- 
lain, February  20,  1884,  but  the  legislature  of 
1885  failed  to  choose  a  successor  to  General 
Chamberlain:  he  resigned  and  was  discharged 
March  31,  1885.  A  few  months  later,  Au- 
gust 18,  1885,  he  was  unanimously  elected  to 
his  old  command,  captain  of  the  Biddeford 
Infantry.  He  rose  finally  to  the  rank  of  colo- 
nel, being  elected  in  1889,  and  held  that  com- 
mission for  eighteen  _\'ears,  and  served  at 
the  head  of  his  regiment  in  the  Spanish  war 
in  1898.  He  was  retired  with  rank  of  briga- 
dier-general, August  6,  1907.  In  politics 
Colonel  Kendall  is  a  Republican.  He  has 
been  candidate  of  his  party  for  mayor  of  Bid- 
deford several  times  and  received  a  handsome 
vote,  though  his  party  was   in   the  minority. 


He  was  a  state  senator  in  1889,  and  has  been 
influential  and  prominent  in  the  councils  of 
his  party  for  many  years.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  Lodge,  of  Biddeford, 
of  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  and  of  York  En- 
campment and  Canton  J.  H.  Dearborn.  He  is 
a  prominent  Free  -Mason,  member  of  Dunlap 
Lodge,  of  Biddeford;  of  York  Chapter,  Royal 
^•Vrch  JMasons ;  of  Maine  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters.  He  is  an  attendant  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Biddeford. 

He  married,  August  26,  1874,  Fannie  Adesta 
Lee  Hall,  born  August  25,  1856,  in  Levviston, 
daughter  of  John  Randall  and  Rebecca  (Lee) 
Hall.  Children,  born  in  Biddeford:  i.  Clar- 
ence F.,  born  January  15,  1876,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  iMarion  Hall,  born  November  20, 
1893. 

( X )  Dr.  Clarence  Fairbanks,  son  of  Lucius 
Harvey  Kendall,  w'as  born  at  Biddeford,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1876.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  city,  graduating  from  its  high 
school  June  25,  1894,  and  from  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege in  the  class  of  1898.  He  studied  his  pro- 
fession in  the  Maine  Medical  College,  gradu- 
ating with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1901.  He 
practiced  medicine  the  following  year  in  Bid- 
deford ;  then  accepted  the  appointment  of  house 
doctor  in  the  Maine  General  Hospital  in  Port- 
land for  one  year.  He  located  then  at  Jones- 
port,  Washington  county,  Maine,  but  in  1905 
returned  to  his  native  city  and  since  then  has 
practiced  successfully  in  Biddeford.  In  poli- 
tics Dr.  Kendall  is  a  Republican.  He  has 
served  the  city  as  city  physician.  He  is  a 
member  of  Dunlap  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  of 
Biddeford,  in  1907  was  senior  w^arden  of  that 
lodge,  and  in  December,  1907,  was  elected 
master  of  lodge.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Bid- 
deford and  Saco  Medical  Club,  the  York 
County  Medical  Society,  the  Maine  ]\Iedical 
Society  and  the  American  iMedical  Society :  is 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  medical  department 
of  tbe  national  guard  of  the  state.  He  at- 
tends the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

He  married,  December  30.  1903,  Annie  L, 
Norton,  born  January  25,  1880,  daughter  of 
Thomas  P.  and  Matilda  L.  (Pittman)  Nor- 
ton, of  Jonesport.  Children:  i.  Lucia  .\., 
born  November  29,  1904.  2.  Otis  A.,  No- 
vember 23,  1906. 


This  family  traces  its  .\mer- 
SAFFORD     ican    ancestry    from    Thomas 

Saft"ord,  the  immigrant,  to 
Ipswich,  ^Massachusetts  Colony,  through  a 
long  line  prominent  in  the  formation  and  ad- 
vancement   of   the   growth   of   the    American 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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colonies,  and  on  the  record  of  each  the  verdict : 
"He  did  what  he  could  for  the  betterment  of 
the  human  kind  with  which  he  was  brought 
in  contact"  is  true  and  just.  From  the  Eng- 
lish ancestral  record.s  we  find  that  the  sur- 
name occurrs  frequently  in  the  early  part  of 
the  thirteenth  century  and  appears  to  be  of 
Saxon  derivation.  The  name  appears  in  the 
inscription  engraved  on  the  seal  of  an  ancient 
town  on  the  English  coast,  and  reads  as  fol- 
lows :  "Sigillum  Burgensium  de  Saffordia." 
It  also  appears  among  the  lists  of  immigrants 
who  came  from  England  to  the  Colony  of 
Virginia  between  1613  and  1623. 

(I)  Thomas  Saflford  was  born  in  Suffolk 
county,  England,  and  first  appeared  in  Ips- 
wich, Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  prior  to 
1630.  He  owned  land  in  Ipswich  before  xApril 
6,  1641  ;  was  made  a  freeman  by  the  general 
court  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  Decem- 
ber ig,  1648.  He  died  February  20,  1667, 
having  before  his  death  made  provision  for  the 
certain  support  of  his  widow  and  unmarried 
daughters,  directing  that  a  fixed  amount 
should  be  paid  to  them  annually  out  of  the 
first  proceeds  from  the  product  of  his  farm 
of  sixty  acres  and  this  annuity  to  be  continued 
during  the  life  of  his  widow  and  her  depend- 
ent daughters.  His  widow,  Elizabeth,  died 
March  4,  1671,  in  Ipswich.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Joseph,  born  in  Ipswich  in  1631.  2. 
John,  see  forward,  and  the  three  daughters 
for  whom  provision  was  made  in  his  will  were  : 
Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Abigail. 

(II)  John,  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth Safford,  was  born  in  Ipswich  in  1633. 
He  evidently  lived  on  the  farm  of  his  father 
and  was  engaged  in  its  cultivation  probably  in 
partnership  with  his  brother  Joseph,  and  be- 
fore his  death  made  provision  similar  to  that 
made  by  his  father,  by  which  his  wife,  Sarah, 
and  daughter  were  placed  beyond  danger  of 
want  in  any  contingency,  by  an  annuity  to  be 
paid  out  of  the  product  of  the  farm,  and  his 
wife  joined  him  in  the  conveyance  of  the 
sixty-acre  farm  on  such  condition,  the  deed 
being  signed  by  them  September  5,  1665.  He 
and  his  wife  Sarah  had  children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  July  14,  1664,  died  July  21,  171 2.  2. 
Margaret,  February  28,  1666.  3.  Rebecca, 
August  30,  1667.  4.  Mary,  February  26, 
i66g.  5.  Elizabeth,  February  27,  1671.  6. 
Thomas,  see  forward.     7.   Joseph,  March   12, 

1675- 

(III)  Thomas  (2),  eldest  son  and  sixth 
child  of  John  and  Sarah  Safiford,  was  born 
in  Ipswich,  October  16.  1672.  He  lived  on 
the  farm  cultivated  by  his  ancestors  and  added 


to  it  by  the  purchase  of  six  or  more  parcels  of 
land.  He  married  (first)  October  7,  1698, 
Elinor    Setchwell,    who    died    December    22, 

1724.  Their  children  were:  i.  Sarah,  born 
March  29,  1701,  died  July  10,  1702.  2.  Thom- 
as, see  forward.  3.  Joseph,  March,  1704-05. 
4.  Daniel,  1706.  5.  John.  6.  Nathan,  March 
16,  1712.  7.  James,  June  2-],  17 14.  8.  Steph- 
en. March  10,  1716-17.  9.  Titus,  baptized 
February  24,  1722-23,  died  April  11,  1729. 
Thomas   Safi'ord  married    (second)    June  29, 

1725,  Sarah  Scott,  of  Rowley,  Massachusetts, 
who  bore  him  no  children. 

(IV)  Thomas    (3),  eldest  son  and  second    • 
child  of  Thomas  (2)  and  Elinor  (Setchwell) 
Safford,  w-as  born  in  Ipswich,  April  28,  1703. 
He  married  Sarah  Dresser;  child,  Moses,  see 
forward. 

(V)  Moses,  son  of  Thomas  Jr.  (3)  and 
Sarah  (Dresser)  Safiford,  was  born  in  Ips- 
wich, July,  1746.  He  removed  to  York,  Maine, 
m  1768.  He  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter 
of  Nathan  Hood,  of  Topsfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  had  children :  John,  born  in  York,  :\Iaine, 
September  19,  1769,  married  and  had  chil- 
dren: I.  Moses,  see  forward.  2.  Jeremiah, 
born  May  20,  1772,  not  named  in  his  father's 
will  and  presumably  died  before  the  making  of 
the  testament,  as  there  is  no  record  of  his  adult 
life.  3.  Israel  Putnam,  August  14,  1775,  mar- 
ried and  had  children.  Moses  married  (sec- 
ond) i\Iay  3,  1777,  Mary,  daughter  of  An- 
drew Sargent,  of  York,  Maine,  and  had  chil- 
dren: 4.  Thomas,  April  5,  1778.  5.  Elizabeth, 
November  12,  1780. 

(\T)  Moses  (2),  second  son  and  child  of 
Moses  (i)  and  Mary  (Hood)  Saflford,  was 
born  in  York.  Maine,  March  9,  1771,  and  died 
in  Kitter}',  Maine,  April  28,  1816.  He  or- 
ganized the  first  Christian  (Disciples)  Church, 
of  Kittery,  in  1805,  with  the  co-operation  of 
Ephraim  Stinchfield,  of  New  Gloucester,  and 
was  pastor  of  the  church  for  about  ten  vears, 
nearly  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Roger  and  Abigail  (Ger- 
rish)  Mitchell,  of  Kittery,  and  granddaughter 
of  Robert  Eliot  Gerrish  and  "of  Roger  and  > 
Mary  (Goold)  Mitchell.  Sarah  Mitchell  was 
born  August  14,  and  baptized  August  20, 
1776,  and  died  July  7,  1845.  They  had  chil- 
dren: I.  Roger  Mitchell,  born  in  Kittery, 
July  31,  1795;  served  as  a  soldier  during  the 
war  of  1 81 2  and  died  a  prisoner  of  war  in 
Dartmoor  Prison,  England,  1814.  2.  Mary 
Hood.  September  2,  1797,  married  James  Pet- 
tigrew.  3.  Sarah  Ann,  September  6,  1799.  4. 
Abigail  Mitchell,  July  30,  1801.  5.  Moses, 
June  22,  1804,  died  June  i,  1823.    6.  Edward 


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Bearing,  see  forward.  7.  Robert  Gerrish,  Jan- 
uary 4,  1809,  died  in  Springfield,  Wisconsin, 
October  16,  1891  ;  be  married  Louisa  Boston. 
of  York,  Maine,  and  had  children :  Robert 
H.,  Mary  A.,  Louisa  and  Alice.  8.  Hannah 
Jane,  October  29,  181 1,  died  in  October,  1820. 

(VH)  Edward  Bearing,  third  son  and  sixth 
child  of  Moses  (2)  and  Sarah  (Mitchell)  Saf- 
ford,  was  born  in  Kittery,  Maine,  July  17, 
1806,  and  died  in  the  same  town,  August  19, 
1856.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  until  he  was  nine  years  of  age, 
leaving  home  at  that  time  to  become  a  sailor, 
and  as  he  became  older  was  advanced  through 
the  various  grades  until  he  attained  the  rank 
of  master  mariner  in  command  of  a  ship. 
While  living  on  shore  he  learned  and  carried 
on  the  business  of  blacksmith.  His  interest  in 
politics  made  him  a  useful  and  active  member 
of  the  Bemocratic  party  and  he  served  his 
town  on  the  board  of  aldermen,  and  repre- 
sented Kittery  in  the  legislature  of  the  state 
of  Maine  in  1851-52-33.  He  was  a  con- 
sistent and  earnest  member  of  the  Baptist 
church  and  held  the  office  of  deacon  for  sev- 
eral years  prior  to  his  death.  The  evils  of 
intemperance  which  he  had  witnessed  in  his 
career  on  the  sea  led  him  to  take  an  active 
part  in  temperance  organization  and  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance  many 
years,  filling  at  various  times  all  the  positions 
of  honor  and  the  offices  in  the  executive  work 
of  the  order.  He  married,  Becember  22, 
1832,  Mary  R.,  daughter  of  Bavid  and  Anna 
(Wilson)  Lewis,  granddaughter  of  Peter  and 
Elizabeth  (Haley)  Lewis,  and  a  descendant 
in  a  direct  line  of  John  Lewis,  the  immigrant 
settler  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts  Bay  Col- 
ony, 1640.  She  was  born  in  Kittery,  Maine, 
January  7,  1808,  and  died  there  September  2, 
i860.  The  children  of  Edward  Bearing  and 
Mary  R.  (Lewis)  Saflford  were:  i.  Moses  At- 
wood,  see  forward.  2.  Edward  F.,  born  Au- 
gust 29,  1835,  died  October  16,  1898,  having 
been  the  proprietor  of  the  Pepperell  Hotel  at 
Kittery  Point  for  many  years ;  he  married, 
March  15,  1868,  Eunice  G.  Seward.  3.  John 
S.,  September  21,  1837,  is  now  living  at  Kit- 
tery Point;  he  married.  May  12,  1857,  Lizzie 
G.  Frost.  4.  Ann  Mary,  March  i,  1845,  "J'S*^' 
in  infancy. 

(Vni)  Moses  Atwood,  eldest  child  of  Ed- 
ward Bearing  and  Mary  R.  (Lewis)  SafTord, 
was  born  at  Kittery  Point,  Maine,  Septem- 
ber 28,  1833.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Kittery,  was  graduated  from  the  high 
school  and  later  became  a  student  at  the  New 
Hampton   Literary   Institute,   New   Hampton, 


New  Hampshire.  He  served  as  page  in  the 
house  of  representatives,  at  Augusta,  Maine, 
in  1853;  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state  during  the  regime  of  Governor  Wells, 
1856;  read  law  with  Stillman  B.  Allen,  of 
Kittery,  and  in  the  office  of  Josiah  H.  Brum- 
mond,  of  Waterville,  Maine,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  September,  1861.  In  that 
year  he  volunteered  in  the  United  States  navy 
as  yeoman  on  board  the  ship  "Constellation," 
Portsmouth  navy  yard,  then  fitting  out  for 
service,  and  was  subsequently  ordered  to  the 
Mediterranean  Sea,  where,  after  some  years' 
cruising,  the  ship  was  ordered  to  join  Far- 
ragut's  squadron  at  Mobile  Bay,  the  ship  being 
placed  out  of  commission  in  January,  1865,  and 
was  later  used  as  a  school-ship  at  Newport, 
Rhode  Island.  Mr.  SafTord  resumed  the  prac- 
tice of  law  after  being  discharged  in  Norfolk, 
Virginia,  in  1865,  opening  an  office  at  Kit- 
tery, and  in  addition  to  his  law  practice  dis- 
charged the  duties  of  clerk  in  the  United 
States  navy  yard  for  a  time.  He  succeeded  to 
the  practice  of  Francis  Bacon,  of  Kittery,  in 
1871,  and  for  more  than  twenty  years  his  was 
the  only  law  office  in  the  place.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  party  politics  and  has  served  as 
selectman  of  the  town,  town  agent,  superin- 
tendent of  schools,  member  of  school  com- 
mittee, register  of  probate  for  York  county, 
1877-85,  and  representative  in  the  state  legis- 
lature in  1907.  He  is  president  of  the  Rice 
Public  Library,  of  Kittery,  having  been  a 
leading  spirit  in  securing  this  institution  to 
the  town,  and  served  as  chairman  of  the  build- 
ing committee.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Piscataqua  Pioneers  and  served  as  first 
president  of  that  body.  He  affiliates  with  the 
Masonic  fraternity  as  a  member  of  Naval 
Lodge,  No.  184,  of  Kittery,  was  a  commander 
of  E.  G.  Parker  Post,  No.  99,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic,  and  has  served  in  the  state  and 
National  department  offices,  in  the  couiicil  of 
administration  and  holds  the  office  of  judge 
advocate  and  inspector.  He  has  represented 
the  state  in  the  National  Encampments  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  for  many  years, 
and  in  meetings  of  local,  state  and  national 
council  he  was  a  recognized  leader.  In  early 
life  he  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Baptist 
church  of  Kittery,  but  later  associated  hituself 
with  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  becom- 
ing a  communicant  of  Christ  church,  Ports- 
mouth. 

He  married,  November  29,  1866,  Catherine 
Cecelia,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Fanny 
(Keen)  Bellamy,  granddaughter  of  John  and 
Tamsen    (Haley)    Bellamy   and   great-grand- 


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daughter  of  John  and  Alary  (Burnham) 
Bellamy.  John  Bellamy  Sr.  was  a  resi- 
dent of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and 
probably  a  son  of  Matthew  Bellamy.  Cath- 
erine Cecelia  Bellamy  was  born  in  Kit- 
tery.  Maine,  December  13,  1830,  and  died 
in  the  same  town,  December  5,  1907.  Upon 
the  death  of  her  father,  September  22,  1831, 
her  mother  married  Charles  G.  Bellamy, 
brother  of  her  deceased  husband,  and  by  this 
marriage  eight  children  were  born  between 
April,  1836,  and  October,  185 1.  Moses  At- 
wood  and  Catherine  Cecelia  (Bellamy)  Saf- 
ford  had  children:  i.  Moses  Victor,  born  in 
Kittery,  1867,  was  graduated  Bachelor  of  Arts 
from  Dartmouth  College  in  i8go,  and  Doctor 
of  ]\Ie(licine  from  the  medical  department  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1893.  He 
was  a  practising  physician  in  New  York  City ; 
surgeon  of  the  Department  of  Emigration  on 
Ellis  Island,  New  York  Harbor,  for  several 
years,  and  is  now  surgeon  of  the  United  States 
emigration  department  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married,  October  5,  1899,  Mary 
Westaway  Steward.  2.  Mary  Bellamy,  Jan- 
uary 29,  1869,  resides  with  her  father  in  Kit- 
tery. 3.  Edward  Hart,  July  20,  1871,  died 
March  31,  1904;  was  graduated  Bachelor  of 
Arts  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1894,  and 
Bachelor  of  Laws  from  the  Boston  University 
Law  School  in  1897:  he  practiced  law  in  Bos- 
ton up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  4.  Stanley, 
October  27,  1872,  died  in  infancy. 


George  Vaughan,  immigrant 
VAUGHAN  ancestor,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1621,  died  October 
20,  1694,  at  Middleborough,  Massachusetts. 
He  married,  in  1652,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Edmund  Hincksman,  of  Marshfield.  She  died 
June  24,  1693,  aged  sixty-three.  He  settled 
first  in  Scituate  as  early  as  1653  and  removed 
to  Middleborough  in  1663.  He  appears  to 
have  had  a  liking  for  litigation,  as  he  appears 
frequently  in  the  court  records,  both  as  plain- 
tiff and  defendant.  For  a  time  he  resided 
at  Marshfield  also.  He  was  appointed  on 
a  committee  June  i,  1669,  with  William  Cro- 
w'ell.  to  determine  the  boundary  line  between 
Nantasket  Men's  Land,  called  the  Major's 
Purchase,  and  the  towns  of  Marshfield,  Dux- 
bury  and  Bridgewater.  He  kept  the  first  li- 
censed ordinary  in  the  town.  In  1671  he  w^as 
placed  on  a  committee  to  view  the  damage 
done  by  horses  and  dogs  of  the  English  to 
property  of  the  Indians.  He  bought  part  of 
the  land  in  the  Twenty-six  Men's  Purchase. 
He"  was   one  of  the  town   garrison   in    King 


Philip's  war.  His  will  was  dated  June  30, 
1694,  and  proved  November  10,  1694.  His 
house  was  in  that  part  of  Middleborough 
known  as  Nappanucket.  Children:  i.  Eliza- 
beth, born  April  8,  1653.  2.  Joseph,  August 
20,  1654,  mentioned  below.  3.  Daniel.  4. 
John,    1658,  drowned   at  the  age  of  eighteen. 

5.  Mary,  married,  1683,  Jonathan  Washburn. 

(II)  Captain  Joseph,  son  of  George 
Vaughan,  was  born  in  Middleborough,  Au- 
gust 20,  1654,  died  there  March  2,  1734.  He 
married,  May  7,  1680,  Joanna  Thomas,  who 
died  April  11,  1718,  aged  sixty-one.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  December  2,  1720,  Mrs.  Mercy 
Fuller,  widow  of  Jabez  Fuller.  (Married  by 
Peter  Thatcher.)  He  was  ensign  of  the  Mid- 
dleborough military  company  as  early  as  1706, 
and  lieutenant  in  1712.  His  house  was  known 
as  the  Captain  Nathaniel  Wilder  house  and  he 
owned  much  land  in  the  town.  He  owned  a 
share  in  the  Sixteen  Shilling  Purchase  also. 
Children:  i.  Elisha,  born  February  7,  1681, 
lived  in  Middleboro.  2.  Jabez,  April  30,  1682, 
mentioned  below.  3.  George,  October  3,  1683, 
married  (first)  Rebecca— ,  who  died  Feb- 
ruary I,  1718-19;  married  (second)  Faithful 
— ,  who  died  April  5,  1753,  aged  sixty- 
six.  4.  Ebenezer,  February  22,  1684.  5. 
Elizabeth,  March  7,  1686,  married,  December, 
171 1.  6.  Hannah,  November  18,  1688,  died 
April  6,  171 5.  7.  Joseph,  October  2,  1690, 
died  April  5,  1718.  8.  John,  September  8, 
1692,  married,  February  19,  1718,  Jerusha 
Wood,  at  Middleborough.     9.  Mary,  October 

6,  1694.  10.  Josiah,  February  2,  1698-99,  died 
February  13,  1723-24.  11.  Joanna,  January 
26,  1701-02. 

(III)  Jabez,  son  of  Joseph  Vaughan,  was 
born  in  Rliddleborough,  April  30,  1692.  He 
married,  November  23,  1710,  Deborah  Ben- 
nett and  resided  in  i\Iiddleborough.  Children, 
born  there:  i.  Daniel,  born  October  29,  1712, 
died  young.  2.  Elizabeth,  September  21, 
1713,  died  March  22,  1714.  3.  Hannah,  July 
6,  1716,  died  September  15,  1716.  4.  Deborah, 
September  11,  1717.  5.  Daniel  (twin),  April 
9,  1719.  6.  Joanna  (twin),  April  9,  1719.  7. 
Jabez  (twin),  September  7,  1722,  mentioned 
below.  8.  Ebenezer  (twin),  September  7, 
1722. 

(IV)  Jabez  (2),  son  of  Jabez  (i)  Vaughan, 
was  born  in  Middleborough,  September  7, 
1722. 

(V)  Jabez  (3),  believed  to  be  son  of  Jabez 
(2)  Vaughan,  was  an  early  settler  in  Pomfret, 
Vermont.  A  Lieutenant  Jabez  Vaughan  was 
a  soldier  in  the  revolution  from  Lyme,  New 
Hampshire,   in    1775,   in   Colonel   David    Ho- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


bart's  regiment.  Jabez  \'aughan  was  in  Cap- 
tain Bartholomew's  Vermont  company  in  the 
revolution,  1781.  According  to  the  federal 
census  of  1790,  the  only  family  of  this  sur- 
name in  Pomfret  was  that  of  Jabez.  He  had 
two  sons  under  sixteen  and  three  females  in 
his  family  at  the  time. 

(VI)  Jonah,  son  of  Jabez  (3)  X'aughan. 
was  born  August  15,  1781,  at  Pomfret,  and 
died  at  New  Vineyard,  Maine,  May  24,  1855. 
He  removed  to  New  Vineyard  when  a  young 
man  and  had  a  farm  there.  He  also  owned  a 
saw-mill  and  a  grist-mill  at  New  Vineyard. 
He  married  Rebecca  Morton,  born  in  Middle- 
borough,  Massachusetts,  September  25,  1785, 
died  July  10,  1845.  Children:  1.  Ira,  born 
July  12,  1807,  died  February  9,  1849.  2. 
Zephaniah,  July  10,  181 1,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Jonah  Jr.,  October  10,  1813,  died  June, 
1894.  4.  Daniel,  April  17,  1817,  died  August 
2,  1885.  5.  Joseph  D.,  December  17,  1819, 
died  December  5,  1889.  6.  William,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1822,  died  March  20,  1877.  7.  George 
M.,  March  11,  1825,  died  Jime  23,  1884.  All 
the  children  were  born  at  New  Vineyard. 

(VII)  Hon.  Zephaniah,  son  of  Jonah 
Vaughan,  was  born  in  New  Vineyard,  July  10, 
181 1,  died  June  17,  1882.  He  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools.  He  helped  his  father 
on  the  homestead  and  later  cleared  his  own 
farm.  He  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  and 
in  addition  to  his  farming  was  a  builder  dur- 
ing his  active  life.  He  built  many  of  the 
houses  and  mills  in  New  Vineyard.  He  was 
a  prominent  citizen  there.  After  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Republican  party  he  was  a  zealous 
supporter  of  its  principles  and  candidates.  He 
was  a  selectman  for  several  years  and  held 
various  other  offices  of  trust  and  honor  in  the 
town.  He  represented  his  district  in  the  state 
legislature  two  terms  and  was  state  senator 
one  term,  serving  on  important  committees. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  and 
active  in  the  Free-will  Baptist  church.  He 
married  (first)  July  30,  1832,  Catherine  L. 
Johnson,  who  died  May  2,  1839.  He  married 
(second)  October  9,  1839,  Clarissa  McLain, 
born  at  New  Vineyard,  December  14,  18 15, 
died  October  4,  1870,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Betsey  (Merchant)  McLain,  and  granddaugh- 
ter of  Ichabod  McLain,  a  revolutionary  sol- 
dier of  Scotch  origin.  Children  of  first  wife : 
I.  Melville,  born  July  11,  1833,  died  February 
25,  1 90 1.  2.  Augustus,  October  21,  1836, 
died  March  18,  1879;  served  in  the  civil  war 
in  Company  G,  Seventeenth  Maine  Regiment, 
and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness, 
Gettysburg     and     Antietam,     among     others. 


Children  of  second  wife  :  3.  Sylvester,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1840,  served  in  the  same  company  at 
the  same  time,  three  years,  as  his  brother  Au- 
gustus. 4.  Rebecca  P.,  January  9,  1842.  5. 
Charles  M.,  October  7,  1843,  served  one  year 
in  the  navy  in  the  civil  war.  6.  Roscoe,  Octo- 
ber 10,  1845.  7.  Zephaniah,  June  5,  1848. 
8.  Jonah,  April  30,  1851.  9.  Catherine  L., 
August  20,  1853.  10.  William,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(V'lllj  Rev.  William,  son  of  Zephaniah 
Vaughan,  was  born  in  New  Vineyard,  Maine, 
September  21,  1855.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  Wilton  Academy, 
Kent's  Hill  Seminary,  completing  his  prepara- 
tion for  college  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  graduated  in  1881  with  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  from  Rutgers  College,  at  New  Bruns- 
wick. He  then  entered  the  New  Brunswick 
Theological  Seminary,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  the  class  of-  1883.  His  first  charge 
was  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  of  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey,  in  1883.  He  resigned  this 
pastorate  in  1888,  to  become  pastor  of  the  Col- 
legiate Reformed  Church  in  New  York  City 
and  continued  until  1902,  when  on  account  of 
failing  health  he  resigned  and  removed  to  Bel- 
fast, Maine.  Here,  by  request  of  his  neigh- 
bors, services  were  held  in  a  schoolhouse,  and 
from  this  small  beginning  grew  Trinity  Re- 
formed Church,  a  congregation  organized  un- 
der and  belonging  to  the  Classis  of  New  York 
City,  with  Mr.  Vaughan  as  the  first  pastor. 
The  church  has  been  singularly  prosperous 
and  useful  during  the  period  of  his  ministry. 
The  congregation  numbers  thirty-six  mem- 
bers and  has  built  on  Searsport  avenue  a  neat, 
beautiful  stone  building,  in  which  they  wor- 
ship. In  addition  to  his  pastoral  duties  he 
has  conducted  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
acres,  and  until  recently  has  carried  on  a 
large  dairy  business.  In  politics  Mr.  Vaughan 
is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  Phenix 
Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  Belfast.  He  married, 
August  30,  1883,  Amanda  Irene,  born  in 
Farmington,  Maine,  October  22,  1856,  daugh- 
ter of  Moores  J.  and  Irene  Bass,  of  Farm- 
ington IMaine. 

Children:  i.  Otto  Bass,  born  in  Farmington, 
July  23,  1884,  graduate  of  Trade  School  of 
New  York  City;  assists  father  in  management 
of  the  farm.  2.  Clarissa  Belle,  born  in  Jer- 
sey City,  January  i,  1886,  graduate  of  the 
Belfast  high  school.  3.  William  Jr.,  born  in 
Jersey  City,  January  23,  1888,  educated  in  the 
Belfast  public  schools,  a  graduate  of  high 
school,  student  in  LTniversity  of  Maine,  at 
Orono,  class  of  1912.    4.  Donald  Wentwo;;th, 


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born  in  New  York  City,  April  7,  1893.  5. 
Malcolm,  born  in  New  York  City,  November 
15,  1894.  6.  Austin  Knox,  born  in  Farming- 
ton,  Maine,  June  8,  1899. 


Edward  Ingraham,  immi- 
INGRAHAM  grant  of  this  line  of  In- 
graliams,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, probably  in  1721,  came  to  this  country 
when  a  young  man  and  settled  in  York,  Maine. 
He  died  at  Kittery,  March  6,  1807.  (See 
Necrology  of  York,  Historical  Deeds,  \'ol.  10, 
Series  H.)  He  married  Lydia,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Holt,  of  York.  The  records  of  York 
of  that  time  show  that  he  was  the  proprietor 
of  the  village  inn,  was  a  highly  respected  citi- 
zen, and  took  an  interest  in  all  that  pertained 
to  the  welfare  of  the  town.  He  was  a  man  of 
quiet  and  retiring  manners  and  was  promi- 
nent in  the  affairs  of  the  village  church.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Elizabeth,  born  August  6,  1743.  2. 
Edward,  January  i,  1746.  3.  Lydia.  March 
28,  1749.  4.  Joseph  Holt,  February  10,  1752. 
5.  Mary.  May  14,  1755.  6.  Ruth,  October  22, 
1758-     7-  William,  September  25.  1761. 

(H)  Joseph  Holt,  .son  of  Edward  and  Ly- 
dia (Holt)  Ingraham.  was  born  in  York.  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1752,  and  his  early  youth  was  spent 
in  his  native  town.  In  1768,  when  only  six- 
teen years  of  age.  he  moved  to  Portland  and 
established  himself  in  the  silversmith's  trade. 
By  his  industry  and  thrift  he  built  up  a  large 
business,  but  reverses  followed  through  no 
fault  of  his.  He  lived  in  a  troublous  time, 
for  no  sooner  did  he  move  to  Portland  than 
the  germs  of  the  revolutionarv  war  were  be- 
ginning to  take  root.  In  1775  Captain  Mow- 
att  bombarded  and  burned  the  town  and  the 
comfortable  home  of  Joseph  Holt  Ingraham 
was  laid  in  ashes.  Not  discouraged,  however, 
he  erected  in  1777  the  first  dwelling-house  in 
Portland  after  the  bombardment.  (See  Wil- 
lis' History  of  Portland,  page  550.)  His  in- 
vestments must  have  taken  the  form  largelv 
of  real  estate,  as  the  early  records  show  he  had 
large  holdings  in  this  line.  In  1793  he  built 
Ingraham  wharf,  now  called  Commercial 
wharf.  In  1799  he  laid  out  State  street  with 
its  beautiful  rows  of  trees  which  makes  it 
to-day  a  magnificent  residential  street  of 
which  the  city  of  Portland  is  justly  proud. 
He  gave  this  street  from  Congress  to  the  har- 
bor to  the  town  of  Portland,  and  it  is  this 
gift  which  places  him  among  the  greatest  bene- 
factors and  public-spirited  citizens  of  Port- 
land. He  also  opened  Market  street  from 
IMiddle  to  Fore.  In  1801  he  built  the  beau- 
tiful house  on  the  easterly  corner  of  State  and 


Danforth  streets,  which  in  later  years  has 
been  known  as  the  Churchill  and  Dole  House. 
In  addition  to  his  magnificent  gift  of  State 
street  to  the  city  of  Portland,  he  gave  other 
valuable  property,  and  the  early  records  of  the 
city  clerk's  office  speak  of  his  generosity.  In 
1805  he  gave  a  lot  of  land  on  the  corner  of 
Milk  and  Market  streets,  where  the  armory 
now  stands,  to  be  used  for  a  market  place. 
As  evidence  of  his  public  spirit,  there  is  in  the 
deed  conveying  this  property  a  clause  which 
reads  as  follows:  "With  a  view  to  serve  the 
interests  of  the  town  and  to  accommodate  the 
inhabitants  thereof."  'Interested  in  the  educa- 
tion of  the  youth  of  his  day,  he  gave  a  lot  of 
land  on  Spring  street,  near  State,  on  which 
the  town  erected  a  schoolhouse.  This  lot  is 
now  used  by  the  city  for  fire  department  pur- 
poses, being  occupied  by  Engine  Company  No. 
4.  To  show  his  love  for  Portland,  there  is  in 
the  deed  conveying  this  property  a  clause 
which  reads  as  follows :  "In  consideration  of 
my  regard  and  attachment  for  the  town  of 
Portland."  His  next  gift  was  that  of  the 
three-acre  lot  on  what  is  now  Portland  street, 
just  west  of  Deerings  Oaks,  for  the  site  of  the 
City  Alms  House,  and  here  that  institution 
stood  till  1905,  when  it  was  removed  to  the 
Deering  district.  He  also  gave  his  time  and 
services  for  the  public  good  of  his  town.  For 
eleven  years  he  served  as  one  of  the  select- 
men and  for  ten  years  represented  Portland  in 
the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  when  Maine 
was  a  part  of  that  commonwealth. 

He  w-as  married  three  times;  married  (first) 
Alarch  i,  1775,  .Abigail,  of  Portland,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Milk.  One  child,  James  Milk. 
Abigail  died  May  17,  1783.  (See  Smith  and 
Dean's  Journals,  page  353.)  Married  (sec- 
ond) in  1786,  Lydia  Stone,  of  Brunswick. 
Maine.  She  only  lived  a  short  time.  They 
had  one  child,  William  Stone,  who  died  at 
forty  years  of  age,  unmarried.  Married 
(third).  Ann  Tate,  in  1789.  She  was  born 
March  18,  1767,  died  March  25,  1844.  in 
Portland.  (See  Smith  and  Dean's  Journal, 
page  250,  and  Willis'  History  of  Portland, 
page  841.)  She  was  a  niece  of  Admiral  Tate, 
of  the  Russian  navy.  Children  of  third  mar- 
riage:  I.  Elizabeth  Ross,  born  September  17, 
1791.  2.  John  Hermiker,  June  i.  1793,  died 
at  twenty-four  years  of  age.  3.  George  Tate, 
September  13.  1795.  4.  .Samuel  Parkman.  No- 
vember 22,  1796.  5.  Edward  Tyng,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1799,  died  1828.  6.  Holt,  May  22, 
1800,  died  October  2,  1877.  7.  .Ann  Tate, 
March  23,  1802,  died  February  26,  1844.  8. 
Joseph  \\'hite.  January  18,  1804,  died  at  four- 


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teen  years  of  age.    9.  Mary  Little,  September 

13,  1806,  died  at  about  six  years  of  age.  10. 
Lydia,  died  at  fifteen  years  of  age.  11.  Na- 
thaniel, died  at  ten  years  of  age. 

Joseph  Holt  Ingraham  built  and  for  years 
lived  in  the  house  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Elias 
Thomas  on  the  corner  of  Danforth  and  Win- 
ter streets,  and  it  was  in  this  house  that  he 
died  October  30,  1841,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine  years.  He  was  buried  in  the  old  In- 
graham tomb  in  the  Eastern  cemetery  in  Port- 
land, overlooking  the  scenes  of  his  activities, 
the  town  he  loved  so  well. 

(III)  Samuel  Parkman,  son  of  Joseph  H. 
and  Ann  (Tate)  Ingraham,  was  born  in  Port- 
land, November  22,  1796,  died  there  June  26, 
1863.  On  June  15,  1825,  he  married  Mary 
Adams,  born  October  15,  1798,  in  Thomaston, 
Maine,  died  in  Portland,  February  4,  1876. 
He  was  a  merchant  and  always  attended  to 
his  business  in  a  quiet  but  successful  way.  He 
was  in  business  in  Haliowell,  Maine,  for  sev- 
eral years,  under  the  firm  name  of  Ingraham, 
Smith  &  Company,  which  business  was  dis- 
solved August  I,  1827.  He  then  moved  to 
Camden,  Maine,  where  he  continued  in  the 
business  of  a  general  store-keeper  for  some 
years  and  later  moved  to  Portland.  He  took 
no  part  in  public  afifairs,  but  was  respected 
and  honored  as  a  citizen.  Their  children 
were:  i.  George  B.  C,  born  June  22,  1826, 
in  Haliowell,  died  May  i,  1865,  in  Hono- 
lulu ;  married  a  Pattengall,  of  Pembroke, 
Maine ;  two  children,  Mary  and  Clara,  who 
now  live  in  Washington,  D.  C.  2.  Lydia 
Adams,  January  6,  1829,  in  Camden,  died  Au- 
gust 22,  1845,  while  a  student  at  the  Gor- 
ham   Normal  school.     3.   Darius  H.,  October 

14,  1837,  ill  Camden. 

(IV)  Darius  Holbrook,  son  of  Samuel  P. 
and  Mary  (Adams)  Ingraham,  was  born  in 
Camden,  Maine,  October  14,  1837.  He  was 
educated  at  Bridgton  Academy,  and  in  1853 
received  the  appointment  to  the  United  States 
Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  where  he  stayed 
for  a  year  and  a  half,  when  ill  health  com- 
pelled him  to  resign.  After  regaining  his 
health  he  studied  law  for  one  year  in  the  office 
of  John  Neal,  and  completed  his  studies  in 
the  office  of  Deblois  &  Jackson,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Cumberland  bar  in  1859.  In  • 
i860  he  was  elected  clerk  of  the  common 
council,  and  a  member  of  the  school  committee, 
which  position  he  held  for  three  years.  In 
1876  he  served  as  secretary'  of  the  Democratic 
state  committee,  and  later  served  on  the  con- 
gressional committee.  In  1879  he  was  one  of 
the    representatives    to    the    legislature    from 


Portland.  In  July,  1885,  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Cleveland  consul  at  Cadiz,  Spain, 
which  position  he  held  until  October,  1889, 
when  the  administration  changed.  In  1892  he 
was  elected  mayor  of  Portland  and  in  the 
same  year  was  nominated  by  his  party  for 
congress.  In  June,  1893,  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Cleveland  consul-general  to  Hali- 
fax, Nova  Scotia,  where  he  remained  until 
August,  1897,  another  change  of  administra- 
tion having  taken  place.  In  1899  and  in  1903 
he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for  mayor  of 
Portland,  and  in  1908  one  of  the  nominees 
for  presidential  elector.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Cumberland  Club  and  the  Maine  Historical 
Society.  He  married,  June  25,  1868,  Ella, 
daughter  of  William  Moulton,  of  Portland. 
Children:  i.  Alice,  born  March  28,  1869.  2. 
William  Moulton,  November  2,  1870. 

(V)  William  Moulton,  only  son  of  Darius 
H.  and  Ella  (Moulton)  Ingraham,  was  born 
in  Portland,  November  2,  1870.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  and  fitted  for  college  in  the 
high  school,  from  which  he  went  to  Bowdoin 
College,  and  there  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1895.  He  then  attended  Harvard  Law 
School  for  one  year  and  completed  his  legal 
studies  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Augustus  F. 
Moulton,  of  Portland,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  October  19,  1897,  and  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  in  his  native  city. 
He  traveled  extensively  in  Europe  in  1896 
and  1900.  On  September  10,  1906,  he  was 
elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket  judge  of  the 
probate  court  of  Cumberland  county  for  the 
term  of  four  years,  and  assumed  the  duties  of 
the  office  January  i.  1907.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Cumberland  Club,  also  of  the  Maine 
Historical  Society,  the  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and 
American  Bar  Association.  He  married  Jes- 
samine Phipps  Damsel,  in  Evanston,  Illinois, 
June  I,  1901.  She  was  born  in  Mansfield, 
Ohio,  April  i,  1877,  daughter  of  William  H. 
and  Susan  R.  (Nace)  Damsel.  Mr.  Damsel 
is  vice-president  of  the  Adams  Express  Com- 
pany. 


(For    preceding   generations    see   William    Moulton   I.) 

(V)  Daniel  (2),  fifth  son  of 
MOULTON  Captain  Daniel  (i)  and 
Grace  (Reynolds)  Moulton. 
was  born  in  Scarborough,  May  25,  1764.  died 
February  17,  i8..;9.  He  was  called  "No 
finger  Daniel"  from  the  fact  of  his  having  lost 
the  fingers  on  one  hand.  He  lived  at  Scar- 
borough Corner,  where  John  and  William 
Moulton,  his  grandsons,  now  live.     He  mar- 


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ried,  November  20,  1790,  Deborah  Dyer,  who 
died  April  13,  1852.  aged  eighty.  Children: 
James,  John,  Daniel,  Gratia,  William,  Eliza, 
Morris,  Mehitable  and  Dorcas. 

(VI)    William,   fourth   son   of   Daniel    (2) 
and   Deborah    (Dyer)    Moulton,   was  born  in 
Scarborough,    March   27,    1801,   died   Decem- 
ber 28,   1868.     He  lived  first  on  his  father's 
place  in  Scarborough,  afterwards  removed  to 
Hartford,  Oxford  county,  and  then  to  Port- 
land.     He    was    called    the    "Duke    of    Scar- 
borough."    He  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
grocery   business   in    Portland    with    Charles 
Rogers,   and    for  years   was   president  of  the 
Cumberland    National    Bank.      In   politics    he 
was  a  Democrat  and  although  he  never  sought 
political  office  or  took  a  very  active  part,  he 
was  always  interested  in  whatever  pertained  to 
the  welfare  of  the  party.     He  was  one  of  the 
nominees  for  presidential  elector  in  i860.     He 
was  an   attendant  at   High   Street  Congrega- 
tional church.     He  married,  October  31,  1836, 
Nancy  McLaughlin,  daughter  of  Henry  V.  S. 
and    Catherine    (McLaughlin)     Cumston,    of 
Monmouth,  Maine,  but  formerly  of  Scarbor- 
ough.    Children:    I.  Sarah  Cumston,  born  in 
Portland,  January  11,  1838,  died  in  that  city, 
November  12,   1849.     2.  Ella,  born   in   Port- 
land,  January   27,    1842,   married   Darius   H. 
Ingraham  (See  Ingraham  IV),  June  25,  1868. 
Children:    Alice,  born   March  28,    1869,  and 
William   Moulton,   November    2,     1870    (See 
Ingraham    V).     3.    William   Henry,    born    in 
Portland,  March  18,  1852,  graduated  from  the 
Portland  high  school,  class  of  1870,  and  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  the  class  of  1874.   He  has 
been  engaged  in  the  banking  business,  and  for 
years  has  been  a  director  and  president  of  the 
Cumberland    National    Bank,    trustee    of    the 
Portland  Savings  Bank  and  vice-president  and 
director  in  the   Portland  Gas  Company.     He 
has  been  interested  in  the  Maine  General  Hos- 
pital and  has  served  many  years  on  the  board 
of  directors  of  that  institution.    He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Cumberland  Club  and  the  Maine 
Historical   Society.     On   December    15,    1880, 
Mr.  Moulton  married  Dora  Adelaide  Deering, 
oldest  daughter  of  the  late  George  W.  Deer- 
ing, of  Portland.     She  died  in  Portland,  Jan- 
uary 21,  1904. 

The  Cumston  (formerly  spelled  Conip- 
ton)  family  arrived  in  this  country  from 
England  as  early  as  1750  and  settled  in  Bos- 
ton. The  immigrants  of  this  line  of  Cumstons 
were  John  and  Elizabeth.  Their  children  were 
John  and  Edward,  twins,  born  February  10, 
1752.  and  Henry,  a  half-brother  of  John  and 
Edward,  who  was  born  in  England  and  died 


in  Boston.  John  and  Edward  served  in  the 
revolutionary  war.  They  accompanied  Arnold 
on  his  march  to  Quebec.  John  was  a  lieu- 
tenant in  Captain  Goodrich's  company  and 
was  taken  prisoner  at  the  storming  of  Quebec. 
(See  the  diary  of  General  Henry  Dearborn  in 
the  Boston  Public  Library.)  John  Cumston 
married  Sarah  Moody,  of  Kittery,  November 
20,  1771.  She  was  born  June  15,  1753,  died 
May  17,  1795.  She  was  the  niece  of  Sir  Will- 
iam Pepperell,  was  brought  up  in  his  family 
and  was  highly  cultivated  and  very  beautiful 
in  person.  John  Cumston  died  in  Saco,  Maine, 
April  26,  1787.  Children:  i.  Henry  Van 
Schaick,  born  August  22,  1782,  died  in  Mon- 
mouth, Maine,  iVIay  6,  1870.  2.  Joshua 
Moody,  August  8,  1784,  died  July  18,  1835. 
3.  John  Greenleaf  Clark,  October  20,  1786, 
died   January   31,    1787. 

(II)  Henry  Van  Schaick,  son  of  John  and 
Sarah  (Moody)  Cumston,  married  Catherine 
McLaughlin,  December  16,  1812.  She  was 
born  July  3,  1785,  died  November  19,  1877. 
They  were  both  from  Scarborough.  He  repre- 
sented the  town  of  Scarborough  in  the  Maine 
legislature  in  1824  and  1826  and  the  town  of 
Monmouth  in  1842,  having  moved  to  the  lat- 
ter town  in  1834.  Children:  i.  Nancy  ]Mc- 
Laughlin,  born  in  Scarborough,  August  11, 
1814,  died  in  Portland,  January  21,  1898.  She 
married  William  Moulton,  of  Scarborough, 
October  31,  1836  (see  Moulton  VI).  Their 
children  were :    Sarah  Cumston,  born  January 

11,  1838,  died  November  12,  1849;  Ella,  Jan- 
uary 27,  1842,  married  Darius  H.  Ingraham, 
June  25,  1868  (See  Ingraham  IV)  ;  William 
Henry  (See  Moulton  Genealogy),  March  18, 
1852.  2.  Joshua,  born  May  16,  1816,  died 
in  Monmouth,  July  9,  1891.  3.  Robert  Mc- 
Laughlin, born  November  3,  1817,  died  of 
cholera  at  Panama  while  on  his  way  to  Cali- 
fornia, August  4,  1849.  4.  Sarah,  born  Au- 
gust 9,  1820,  died  in  Monmouth,  January, 
1900.     5.  Charles  McLaughlin,  born  January 

12,  1824,  died  February  11,  igo6. 

(Ill)  Charles  McLaughlin,  youngest  child 
of  Henry  \^an  Schaick  and  Catherine  (Mc- 
Laughlin) Cumston,  was  educated  at  ]\ Ion- 
mouth  .\cademy  and  Bowdoin  College,  grad- 
uating from  that  institution  in  the  class  of 
1843.  After  graduating  he  gave  his  atten- 
tion to  teaching  and  made  that  his  life's  work. 
In  1844  he  taught  at  Alfred  .Academy,  in  1845 
at  North  Reading,  Massachusetts,  then  at  Wo- 
burn  in  1846.  In  1847  ^^^  became  master  of 
the  North  Phillips  grammar  school  at  Salem. 
Massachusetts,  and  in  1848  became  usher  in 
the  English  high  school  at  Boston.     He  was 


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elected  sub-master  in  the  same  school  in  1854, 
and  in  1869  became  head  master,  which  po- 
sition he  held  until  1874,  when  he  retired.  In 
1870  Bowdoin  College  conferred  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  upon  him.  Reference  is  hereby  made 
for  a  more  complete  record  of  this  family  to 
the  Cumston  Genealogy  written  by  Charles  M. 
Cumston,  in  the  Library  of  the  Maine  Genea- 
logical Society. 


There  is  no  question  what- 
CLE\"ELAND  ever  as  to  the  antiquity  of 
the  English  branches  of 
the  Cleveland  family,  which  traces  to  one 
Thorkil  de  Cliveland,  whose  name  appears  in 
history  about  the  time  of  the  Norman  con- 
quest ;  and  from  that  time  coming  down 
through  the  centuries  there  were  those  bear- 
ing the  surname  in  some  of  its  various  ortho- 
graphical forms  who  were  peers,  dukes  and 
earls,  titles  conferred  by  sovereigns  as  marks 
of  royal  favor,  for  deeds  of  valor  in  the  wars 
or  service  to  the  crown  in  official  station. 
With  titles  there  also  were  coats-of-arms, 
some  of  them  suggesting  an  ancient  Welsh 
origin;  and  while  all  of  these  marks  of  dis- 
tinction were  put  away  when  the  immigrant 
American  ancestor  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the 
shores  of  this  country,  his  numerous  descend- 
ants look  with  satisfaction  on  these  emblems 
of  gentility  in  their  family  in  ancient  times. 
That  which  appears  to  be  the  accepted  coat- 
of-arms  of  the  Cleveland  family  of  the  branch 
under  consideration  in  this  place  is  thus  de- 
scribed in  Burke's  "Peerage":  "Per  chevron 
sable  and  ermine,  a  chevron  engrailed  counter- 
changed."  Crest:  A  demi  old  man  proper, 
habited  azure,  having  on  a  cap  gules  turned 
up  with  a  fair  front  holding  in  the  dexter  hand 
a  spear,  headed  argent,  on  the  top  of  which  is 
fixed  a  line  proper,  passing  behind  him,  and 
coiled  up  in  the  sinister  hand."  Burke  gives 
no  motto,  but  three  such  at  least  are  inscribed 
on  the  scrolls  accompanying  the  arms :  "Pro 
Deo  at  Patria" — For  God  and  Country; 
"Semel  et  Semper" — Once  and  Always ;  "Vin- 
cit  Armor  Patriae" — Love  of  Country  Con- 
quers. 

Even  greater  antiquity  is  accorded  the  Cleve- 
land family  than  that  suggested  in  a  preceding 
paragraph,  if  we  may  accept  the  conclusions 
of  students  whose  researches  have  carried  back 
into  the  remote  ages  antedating  the  Christian 
era  to  B.  C.  55,  to  Caesar,  who  led  the  Romans 
into  Britain  and  subdued  the  aborigines,  which 
conquest  was  made  complete  A.  D.  72.  Then 
the  district  now  known  as  Cleveland,  in  York- 
shire, England,  was  given  the  name  Caluvium, 


which  name  by  the  time  of  the  Norman  con- 
quest, 1066,  had  become  Cliveland — a  name 
descriptive  of  the  region — and  in  the  course  of 
time  became  Cleveland,  as  now  known,  the 
seat  of  the  family  in  the  north  riding  of  York- 
shire. 

Such  in  brief  is  a  mere  outline  of  pre-Amer- 
ican  history  of  the  Cleveland  ancestor  who 
transplanted  the  name  into  the  fertile  region 
of  New  England  in  the  year  1635,  and  from 
whom  has  sprung  a  numerous  family  of  de- 
scendants, now  scattered  from  ocean  to  ocean, 
from  the  far  north  to  the  gulf  on  the  extreme 
south  ;  and  towns  and  cities  have  been  named 
in  allusion  to  his  descendants,  while  one  who 
bears  this  honorable  name  has  been  twice  ele- 
vated to  the  highest  seat  in  our  national  gov- 
ernment— in  its  character  and  dignity  a  seat 
as  exalted  as  that  of  any  foreign  potentate. 

(I)  Moyses  Cleaveland — ^Moses  Cleveland 
— the  common  ancestor  of  all  who  bear  this 
surname  and  are  of  New  England  origin, 
went  from  Ipswich,  Suffolk  county,  England, 
to  London,  and  thence  sailed  for  America  in 
the  year  1635,  landing  at  Plymouth  or  Bos- 
ton, then  being,  according  to  family  tradition, 
about  eleven  years  old,  for  the  court  files  in 
Woburn  in  1663  state  his  age  as  thirty-nine. 
There  are  various  traditions  regarding  his 
immigration  to  America,  and  the  question 
never  has  been  settled  satisfactorily;  and  we 
only  know  that  he  was  a  boy  of  less  than 
twelve  years  when  he  came  to  this  country. 
He  settled  in  Woburn  and  was  admitted  free- 
man there  in  1643,  had  lands  granted  him, 
was  a  member  of  the  trainband,  married  and 
died  there.  He  died  January  9,  1701-02.  He 
married,  September  26,  1648,  Ann  Winn,  of 
whom  one  tradition  says  that  she  was  born  in 
Wales,  and  another  in  England,  about  1626, 
and  died  in  Woburn  before  May  6,  1682.  The 
lecords  of  births,  deaths  and  marriages  for 
Woburn  mentions  their  eleven  children  as  fol- 
lows:  I.  Moses,  born  September  i,  1651,  died 
before  October  30,  1717;  married,  October  4, 
1676,  Ruth  Norton.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
King  Philip's  war.  2.  Hannah,  born  August 
4,  1653  ;  married,  September  24,  1677,  Thomas 
Henshaw,  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war.  3. 
Aaron,  born  January  10.  1655,  died  Septem- 
ber 14,  1716;  married  (first)  September  26, 
1675,  Dorcas  Wilson;  (second)  about  1714-15, 

Prudence  .     He  was  a  soldier  in  King 

Philip's  war.  4.  Samuel,  born  June  9,  1657 
(see  post).  5.  Miriam,  born  July  10,  1659, 
died  August  31,  1745;  married,  December  10, 
1683,  Thomas  Foskett,  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth  (Leech)  Foskett.     6.  Joanna,  born  Sep- 


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tember  19,  1661,  died  March  12,  1667.  7.  Ed- 
ward, born  May  20,  1664,  died  Pomfret,  Con- 
necticut, 1746;  married  (first)  about  1684, 
Deliverance  Palmer;  (second)  January  i, 
1722,  Zeruiah  Church.  8.  Josiah,  born  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1666-67,  died  Canterbury,  Connecti- 
cut, April  26,  1709;  married,  about  1689,  Mary 
Bates.  9.  Isaac,  born  May  11,  1669,  died  Nor- 
wich, Connecticut,  August  10,  1714;  married, 
July  17-18,  1699,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Curtis,  widow 
of  John  Curtis  and  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Mary  Pierce.  10.  Joanna,  born  April  5,  1670, 
died  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  March  18, 
1758;  married.  May  28,  1690,  Joseph  Keyes. 
II.  Enoch,  born  August  i,  1671,  died  August 
I,  1729;  married  (first)  October  9,  1695, 
Elizabeth  Counce ;  (second)  July  9,  1719, 
Elizabeth  Wright. 

(II)  Sergeant  Samuel,  third  son  and  fourth 
cliild  of  Moses  and  Ann  (Winn)  Cleveland, 
was  born  in  Woburn,  June  9,  1657,  and  died 
in  Canterbury,  Connecticut,  March  12, 
1735-36.  He  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's 
war  and  held  the  rank  of  sergeant,  serving  in 

1675  under    Major    Simon    Willard,    and    in 

1676  under  Captain  Joseph  Sill.  He  was  made 
freeman  in  1689-90,  and  lived  in  Chelmsford, 
Massachusetts ;  returned  to  Woburn  in  1693 
and  in  the  same  year  removed  to  Canterbury, 
Connecticut.  In  the  latter  town  he  took  a 
prominent  part  in  public  affairs  and  was  one 
of  the  men  selected  for  considering  "all  that 
may  tend  to  the  good  well  fare  of  this  town." 
Sergeant  Cleveland  married  (first)  in  Chelms- 
ford, May  17,  1680,  Jane  Keyes,  born  in  New- 
bury, Massachusetts,  June  25,  1660,  died  No- 
vember 14,  1681,  daughter  of  Solomon  and 
Frances  (Grant)  Keyes.  "Serg.  Solomon 
Keies  from  England,  of  Newbury,  Mass., 
1653,  he  and  his  brother  Joseph  took  up  land 
in  Chelmsford  1664-5.  town  clerk,  tything 
man,  his  old  homestead  still  stands  in  West- 
ford,  Middlesex  co.,  Mass.;  married  Oct.  2, 
1653,  Frances  Grant."  Samuel  Cleveland 
married  (second)  May  23,  1682,  Persis  Hil- 
dreth,  born  in  Chelmsford,  February  8,  1660, 
died  in  Canterbury,  February  22,  1698,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  Hildreth.  He 
married  (third)  July  25,  1699,  Mrs.  Margaret 
Fish,  widow  of  John  Fish.  Samuel  Cleveland 
had  nine  children:  i.  Jane,  born  about  1681, 
died  Southborough,  Massachusetts,  April  12, 
1745;  married,  1702,  Colonel  William  Ward. 
2.  Persis,  born  April  21,  1683;  married,  Octo- 
ber 24,  1706,  Thomas  Hewitt.  3.  Samuel, 
born  January  12.  1685,  died  Canterbury,  Octo- 
ber I,  1727.  4.  Ephraim,  born  April  10,  1687, 
died  Canterbury,  March  13,  171 1.     5.  Joseph, 


born  July  18,  1689,  died  Canterbury,  March 
II,  1766;  married  (first)  February  7,  17 10- 11, 
Abigail  Hyde,  born  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts, August  8,  1688,  died  Canterbury, 
December  16,  1724;  married  (second)  March 
31,  1725,  Sarah  Ainsworth,  or  Ensworth,  born 
Plainfield,  Connecticut,  June  12,  1699,  died 
Canterbury,  June  21,  1761.  6.  Elizabeth,  born 
June  26,  1693;  married  (first)  April  21,  1717, 
John  Ensworth;  married  (second)  May  2, 
1733,  Christopher  Huntington.  7.  Mary,  born 
June  14,  1696,  died  March  11,  1766;  married, 
October  5,  1719,  Joseph  Ensworth.  8.  Abi- 
gail, born  April  23,  1700,  died  February  23, 
1717-18.  9.  Timothy,  born  August  25,  1702, 
died  January  19,  1784. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Samuel  and  Persis  (Hildreth)  Cleveland,  his 
second  wife,  was  born  in  Chelmsford,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  18,  1689,  and  died  in  Canter- 
bury, Connecticut,  March  11,  1766.  He  was 
called  sergeant  and  sometimes  was  addressed 
as  mister,  in  order,  it  is  said,  to  distinguish 
him  from  his  cousin  of  the  same  name.  He 
held  an  important  place  in  town  affairs  and 
served  as  surveyor  of  highways,  hayward  and 
fenceviewer.  Married  (first)  Abigail  Hyde, 
February  7,  1710-11.  She  was  born  in  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  August  8,  1688,  and 
died  in  Canterbury,  December  16,  1724, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Dorothy  (Kidder) 
Hyde.  Jonathan  Hyde,  born  Newton,  Massa- 
chusetts, April  I,  1655,  was  a  son  of  Sergeant 
Jonathan  Hyde,  born  1626,  and  was  of  New 
Cambridge  (Cambridge)  Massachusetts.  His 
wife  was  Mary  French.  For  his  second  wife 
Joseph  Cleveland  married,  March  31,  1725, 
Sarah  Ainsworth,  born  in  Plainfield,  Connec- 
ticut, June  12,  1699,  died  June  21,  1761.  He 
had  nine  children,  seven  by  his  first  and  two 
by  his  second  marriage:  i.  Ephraim,  born 
February  3,  1711-12,  died  after  1781.  2. 
Jonathan,  born  May  9,  1713,  died  Canterbury, 
March  19,  1754;  whether  single  or  married 
unknown ;  inherited  property  from  his  father. 
3.  Benjamin,  born  May  20,  1714,  died  East 
Brookfield,    Orange    county,    Vermont,    1797; 

married,    1736,   Rachel   .     4.    Dorothy, 

born  March  31,  1716,  died  probably  unmar- 
ried ;  admitted  to  the  church  at  Canterbury, 
October  25,  1739.  5.  John,  died  Canterbury, 
March  5,  1754.  6.  Elijah,  born  January  5, 
1720-21,  died  Hillsdale,  Columbia  county. 
New  York,  September  28,  1794;  married, 
about  1748,  Alice  Lawrence.  7.  Persi%  born 
1723,  baptized  Canterbury,  April  7,  1723 ;  mar- 
ried, Pomfret,  February  18,  1754,  Henry 
Bacon.     8.  Ezra,  born  1726,  baptized  Canter- 


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bury,  April  17,  1726,  died  1802.  9.  Samuel, 
born  June  7,  1730,  died  Royalton,  Vermont, 
September,  1809;  married  (first)  May  7, 
1751,  Ruth  Darbe ;  married  (second)  March 
II,  1784,  Anna  Welch. 

(IV)  Ephraim,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
Joseph  Cleveland,  was  born  in  Canterbury, 
Connecticut,  February  3,  1711-12,  and  died 
later  than  1781.  He  left  Canterbury  and  set- 
tled at  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  and  in  1743 
owned  land  in  Hardwick.  He  afterward  lived 
in  West  Bridgewater  and  in  1762  located  in 
Hardwick,  where  he  was  a  saddler.  He  was 
assessor  in  1781.  He  married  (first)  Janu- 
ary 14,  1734-35,  Abigail  Curtis,  bom  in  Rox- 
bury,  November,  17 16,  died  at  Dedham,  Au- 
gust 30,  1738,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Sarah  (Lyon)  Curtis.  He  married  (second) 
November  21,  1738,  Ruth  Nichols,  who  died 
October  14,  1744;  married  (third)  March  26, 
1746-47,  Mrs.  Hannah  Hay  ward,  whose  fam- 
ily name  was  Paige.  Ephraim  Cleveland  had 
fourteen  children:  i.  Ephraim,  born  Septem- 
ber 13,  1737;  married,  November  15,  1770, 
Dorothy  (or  Dolly,  or  Lydia)  Whipple.  2. 
Jacob,  born  October  3,  1739,  baptized  First 
Church,  Dedham,  October  7,  1739.  3.  Sarah, 
born  December  21,  1740.  4.  Rebekah,  born 
July  3,  1742;  married,  1763,  Simon  Chamber- 
lain. 5.  Abigail,  born  May  21-28,  1744;  mar- 
ried Amos  Hunter.  6.  Louis,  twin,  born  Jan- 
uary 9,  1747-48,  died  December  22,  1752.  7. 
Louisa,  twin,  born  January  9,  1747-48;  mar- 
ried John  Gardner,  dwelt  Hardwick.  Gard- 
ner, Worcester  county,  Massachusetts,  named 
for  descendants.  8.  Joseph,  born  April  26, 
1749,  died  Richmond,  New  York,  April  9, 
1844;  married  (first)  May  4,  1772,  Elizabeth 
Wheeler,   died   1827;  married    (second)    Mrs. 

,  widow.     9.  Benjamin,  born  December 

18,  1 751;  reported  to  have  settled  in  Oneida 
county.  New  York.  10.  Elijah,  born  June  i, 
1753-54,  died  July  15,  1812.  11.  Ebenezer, 
twin,  born  December  21,  1755,  died  Decem- 
ber 7,  1800;  married,  November  28,  1790,  Bet- 
sey Barnard.  12.  Lucia,  twin,  born  December 
21,  1755;  marriage  published  December  4, 
1780,  Ichabod  Eddy.  13.  Olive,  born  Febru- 
ary 14,  1759;  married,  April  17,  1785,  Silas 
Whittaker.  14.  Persis,  born  February  25, 
1760,  died  Richmond,  New  Hampshire, 
December,  1798;  married,  October  9,  1783, 
Aaron  Cooley,  born  1743,  died  June,  1833. 

(V)  Elijah,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah 
(Paigel  (Hay  ward)  Cleveland,  his  third 
wife,  was  born  June  i,  1753  (or  1754)  and 
died  in  Hardwick,  Massachusetts,  July  15, 
1812.      He    succeeded    to   the    farm    formerly 


owned  by  his  father  which  afterward  passed 
to  his  own  son  Elijah.  His  wife,  whom  he 
married  May  15,  1789,  was  Sarah  Alarsh,  who 
died  April  2,  1842,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah  (Olmstead)  Marsh  (whose  baptismal 
name  was  Ephraim)  was  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Trumbull)  Marsh,  grandson  of 
Samuel  and  Mary  (Allison)  Marsh,  great- 
grandson  of  John  Marsh,  whose  first  wile  was 
Annie  (Webster)  Marsh,  and  great-great- 
grandson  of  John  Marsh,  of  Braintree,  Eng- 
land, who  was  of  Chelmsford,  Massacliusetts, 
in  1638.  Elijah  and  Sarah  (Marshj  Cleve- 
land had  seven  children:  i.  Elijah,  born 
October  16,  1790,  died  October  28,  1856;  mar- 
ried, December  14,  1819,  Lucy  Barnes.  2. 
Royal,  born  March  25,  1793,  died  February 
26,  1875;  married,  June  i,  1820,  Sarah  Smith. 
3.  Polly,  born  May  12,  1797,  died  Greenwich, 
Massachusetts,  May  i,  1854;  married,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1818,  Rufus  Barnes.  4.  Joseph,  born 
August  16,  1800,  died  May  15,  1894.  5.  Cal- 
vin, born  October  2,  1803,  or  1804,  died  Fitch- 
burg,  Alassachusetts,  June  4,  1878;  married, 
December  16,  1829,  Sarah  Eaton.  6.  Alvin, 
born  August  23,  1807,  married,  Surrey,  New 
Hampshire,  February  5,  1836,  Rosetta  Darte. 
7.  Cutler,  born  181 1,  died  1812. 

(VI)  Joseph  (2),  fourth  child  of  Elijah 
and.  Sarah  (Marsh)  Cleveland,  was  born  in 
Hardwick,  Massachusetts,  August  16,  1800, 
died  there  May  15,  1894.  Although  but  a  boy, 
he  served  in  the  war  of  1812-15  as  a  drummer, 
and  the  drum  he  used  in  service  is  still  in  the 
possession  of  his  descendants.  By  occupation 
he  was  a  farmer.  He  was  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  whom  he  married  a  week  after 
Thanksgiving  day  in  1820,  was  Amy  Barnes, 
who  was  born  in  Hardwick  in  December, 
1806,  died  there  March  17,  1823,  a  daughter 
of  Adonijah  and  Chloe  (Knights  or  Wheeler) 
Barnes.  His  second  marriage,  published  in 
Hardwick,  September  12,  or  15,  1825,  was 
with  Bathsheba  Burgess,  who  was  born  in 
Hardwick,  January  14,  1806,  died  there  No- 
vember 5,  1881,  daughter  of  Luther  and  Sarah 
(Carpenter)  Burgess.  One  child  was  born 
to  the  first  wife  and  twelve  to  the  second:  i. 
Jason  Welcome,  born  July  30.  1822,  married, 
January  24.  1842,  Lucy  Harriet  Smith.  2. 
Joseph  Andrew,  born  February  20,  1827,  died 
Coldbrook,  Massachusetts,  January  16,  1883; 
married,  November  22.  1846,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Chamberlain.  3.  Son,  born  February  24,  1828, 
died  in  infancy.  4.  Henry  Luther,  born  Au- 
gust 5.  1829,  married,  October  23,  1851, 
Amanda  Keith.  5.  Charles  Cutler,  born  Au- 
gust 18,  1 83 1,  died  February  22,  1885;  mar- 


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ried,  1855.  Eliza  Alaria  Lovell.  6.  Charlotte 
Samantha,  born  December,  1833,  died  August 
14,  1835.  7.  Frederick  Mortimer,  born  Jan- 
uary 20).  1836,  died  December  9,  1876.  8. 
Alviii  Albert,  born  May  7,  1838;  married 
(first)  December  22,  1858,  Mary  Jane  Lowe, 
died  April  28,  1878;  married  (second)  August 

25,  1879,  Mrs.  Mary  (Bennett)  Stone.  9. 
William  Harrison,  born  March  25,  1841,  died 
August  29,  1862,  while  being  removed  on  a 
boat  from  Fredericksburg,  \'irginia,  to  Alex- 
andria, Virginia;  married,  July  17,  1861,  Mary 
Alice  Atwood ;  served  in  civil  war.  10. 
Dwight  S.,  born  November  22,  1843,  served  in 
nineteen   battles   in  civil   war ;   married,  June 

26,  1861,  Sarah  Jane  Atwood.  11.  Franklin 
Herbert,  born  December  11,  1846,  served  in 
civil  war;  married,  June  11,  1870,  Ida  Maria 
Lamb.  12.  Alpheus  Austin,  born  June  3, 
1852,  married  .Vrabella  Warner.  13.  Son, 
born  December  29,  1854,  died  December  31, 
1854. 

(VII)  Frederick  Mortimer,  seventh  child 
and  sixth  son  of  Joseph  (2)  and  Bathsheba 
(Burgess)  Cleveland,  was  born  in  Hardwick, 
Massachusetts,  January  29,  1836.  Early 
thrown  on  his  own  resources,  he  determined 
to  obtain  a  thorough  education  and  succeeded, 
by  dint  of  hard  work  and  close  application,  so 
well  that  he  was  able  to  take  up  teaching  as  a 
business.  He  followed  that  profession  for 
twenty-two  years  and  won  an  excellent  repu- 
tation as  an  educator.  In  1876  he  visited  the 
centennial  exposition  at  Philadelphia,  and 
upon  returning  to  his  home  was  taken  with 
typhoid  fever  and  died  December  9,  1876,  at 
Hardwick.  He  married,  in  Hardwick,  May 
4,  1864,  Ellen  Jane  Barnes,  born  at  Hard- 
wick, March  11,  1843,  daughter  of  William 
Sumner  and  Lucinda  Howe  Barnes.  After 
the  death  of  her  first  husband,  Mrs.  Cleveland 
married,  at  Greenwich,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 19,  1880,  Hervcy  Walker  King,  who  was 
born  in  Hardwick,  August  16,  1852,  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (Richardson)  King.  Children 
of  Frederick  Mortimer  and  Ellen  Jane 
(Barnes)  , Cleveland:  i.  Eugene  Sumner, 
born  March  31,  1865;  married,  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  December  25,  1889,  Carrie 
Belle  Poland,  born  Friendship,  Maine,  March 
19,  1872,  daughter  of  Captain  Sylvester  Mor- 
ton and  Frances  Ellen  (Condon)  Poland; 
children :  Frederick  Eugene,  Ethel  Francis, 
Morris  M.  and  Richard  Sumner.  2.  Leslie 
Linwood,  born  March  10,  1871,  graduated 
from  Athol,  Massachusetts,  high  school,  1887; 
Cushing  Academy,  Ashburnham,  Massachu- 
setts, 1889;  Williams  College,  1893.    3.  Heber 


Howe,  born  September  3,  1872  (see  post).  4. 
Ernest  Elgin,  born  July  23,  1876,  graduate  of 
Massachusetts  Institute  Technology,  Boston. 

(VIII)  Heber  Howe,  third  son  and  child 
of  Frederick  Mortimer  and  Ellen  Jane 
(Barnes)  Cleveland,  was  born  in  Barre, 
Massachusetts,  September  3,  1872.  His  father 
died  when  he  was  but  four  years  old,  and  he 
was  left  in  nuich  the  same  position  in  which 
his  father  had  been  in  his  youth.  When 
eleven  years  old  he  began  to  make  his  own 
way  in  the  world,  earning  money  by  peddling 
shavings  at  ten  cents  per  barrel.  In  this  con- 
nection may  be  mentioned  an  incident  which 
will  show  the  discouragements  and  difficulties 
that  even  a  child  may  meet  when  he  faces  the 
world  alone.  Setting  out  one  day  with  four 
or  five  barrels  of  shavings,  he  called  on  a 
man  who  told  him  that  the  shavings  were  not 
pressed  down  properly.  Mr.  Cleveland  in- 
formed him  that  he  had  trodden  them  down  as 
best  he  could,  whereupon  the  man  began 
treading  down  the  shavings,  and  being  a  heavy 
man,  finally  succeeded  in  getting  the  shavings 
from  three  barrels  into  one,  then  pompously 
informing  him  that  he  "called  that  a  barrel- 
full,"  he  handed  him  ten  cents  and  told  him 
to  "run  along."  Soon  after  this  he  was  given 
the  chance  to  "pile  staves"  at  eight  cents  per 
thousand;  working  before  and  after  school 
hours  he  soon  became  expert  and  often  on 
Saturday  earned  as  much  as  two  and  a  half 
dollars.  This  work  he  continued  until  he  en- 
tered the  high  school,  where  as  janitor  he 
paid  his  way.  After  graduating  from  the 
high  school  he  entered  Cushing  Academy  at 
Ashburnham,  Massachusetts,  worked  his  way 
by  doing  whatever  he  could  find  and  gradu- 
ated in  1891.  After  leaving  the  academy  he 
taught  school  for  two  years,  in  the  same  school 
where  his  father  had  taught  for  so  many  years 
and  where  many  of  his  pupils  were  children  of 
parents  who  had  been  taught  by  his  father. 
He  then  entered  Williams  College,  at  Willams- 
town,  Massachusetts,  and  one  year  later,  in  the 
fall  of  1895,  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at 
Harvard  Medical  School,  where  he  graduated 
M.D.  in  1899.  During  his  college  course  he 
won  a  scholarship  of  two  hundred  dollars,  and 
also  earned  his  way  through  college  by  tutoring. 
While  in  his  senior  year  at  Harvard  he  passed 
the  state  medical  examination,  and  after  gradu- 
ation began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Bos- 
ton, where  he  remained  until  1900,  when  he 
removed  to  Auburn,  Maine.  In  his  practice 
he  has  specialized  in  surgery  and  in  1903  was 
appointed  to  the  staff  of  attending  surgeons 
of  the  Central  Maine  General  Hospital,  which 


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position  he  still  holds.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Medical  Research,  Androscoggin  County 
Medical  Society,  Maine  Medical  Association, 
American  Health  Association,  National  Aux- 
iliary Committee  of  Medical  Legislation, 
Tranquil  Lodge,  No.  29,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
Bradford  Chapter,  No.  38,  R.  A.  M.,  Lewis- 
ton  Commandery,  No.  6,  Dunlap  Council  of 
Auburn,  Kora  Temple,  and  Conwav  Castle, 
No.  3,  K.  G.  E. 

Dr.  Cleveland  married,  June  25,  1901,  Josie 
L.  Blanchard,  born  July  17,  1877,  daughter  of 
George  W.  and  Theodosia  (Hutchinson) 
Blanchard,  and  granddaughter  of  Calvary 
Blanchard.  Two  children  have  been  born  to 
this  marriage,  Frederick  George,  born  March 
18,  1904;  and  Theodosia  Helen,  born  June  10, 
1907. 


Ralph  Jones,  immigrant  ancestor, 
JONES     was  born  in  England.     He  was  a 

settler  at  Plymouth  before  1643, 
when  his  name  appears  :n  the  list  of  those 
able  to  bear  arms.  He  removed  to  Barn- 
stable as  early  as  1654  and  lived  in  the  sec- 
tion called  Scorton.  His  house  was  on  the 
main  land  a  few  feet  from  the  Sandwich  line, 
and  many  of  his  descendants  have  lived  in  the 
town  of  Sandwich.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
owned  lands  with  the  Fuller  family  with  which 
he  was  connected  by  marriage.  As  early  as 
1657  he  was  inclined  to  the  Society  of  Friends, 
for  in  that  year  he  was  fined  for  not  attend- 
ing meeting,  though  the  meeting  house  of  the 
parish  was  six  miles  away.  He  took  the  pre- 
scribed oath  of  allegiance  in  1657,  an  oath 
that  Quakers  did  not  take  as  a  rule.  But  he 
soon  became  a  zealous  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  as  shown  by  the  following  quaint 
account  by  George  Keith  of  his  persecution  by 
the  Puritan  zealots :  "From  an  honest  man, 
a  Quaker,  in  the  town  of  Barnstable,  were 
taken  four  cows  with  some  calves,  the 
Quaker's  name  being  Ralph  Jones,  who  is  yet 
alive,  and  these  cattle  were  taken  away  by  the 
Preacher  of  that  town — his  son-in-law  who 
had  married  his  daughter  and  returned  to  the 
Priest  as  a  part  of  his  wages.  The  Priest 
sent  to  Ralph  Jones  to  tell  him  he  might  have 
two  of  his  cows  returned  to  him  if  he  could 
send  for  them.  But  he  never  sent  and  so  the 
priest  used  them  and  disposed  of  them  as  his 
own,  killed  one  of  the  calves  and  sent  a  part 
of  it  to  his  daughter  that  lay  in  child  bed ;  she 
no  sooner  did  eat  a  little  of  the  calf  but  fell 
into  great  trouble  and  cried :  'Return  home 
the  man's  Cows.  I  hear  a  great  noise  of 
them ;'  and  so  died  in  that  trouble.    The  Priest 


alleged  the  Quakers  had  bewitched  the 
daughter  although  it  cannot  be  proved  that 
ever  they  had  any  business  with  her.  But  to 
what  evil  construction  will  not  malice  and 
Hypocrisie  and  covetousness  bend  a  thing? 
Sometime  after — the  said  Preacher  killed  some 
of  these  cows  to  be  eat  in  his  house  saying  he 
would  try  if  the  Quakers  would  bewitch  him, 
and  not  long  after  he  died  even  before  the 
flesh  of  these  cows  was  all  eat.  This  passage 
is  so  fresh  in  that  town  that  it  is  acknowledged 
by  divers  of  the  neighbors  to  be  true."  This 
account  was  printed  as  early  as  1693  and 
again  in  1702.  It  would  be  explained  that 
the  Quakers  refused  to  pay  rates  to  support 
the  ministers  of  the  Puritan  town  churches; 
the  cows  were  taken  for  delinquent  taxes  and 
the  constable  (probably  Deacon  Job  Crocker) 
who  took  the  cows  was  son-in-law  of  the  min- 
ister. Rates  were  paid  in  cattle,  grain,  etc., 
by  the  citizens  and  received  at  a  stipulated 
amount  by  the  minister,  money  being  not  avail- 
able even  to  pay  taxes  and  minister's  salaries. 
Crocker  was  son-in-law  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Walley. 

Jones  made  his  will  May  11,  1691  ;  it  was 
proved  April  29,  1692,  bequeathing  to  "my 
friends  called  Quackers" ;  to  wife  "land 
bought  by  my  father  Fuller" ;  to  sons  Shubael. 
Ralph,  Samuel,  Matthew,  Ephraim  and  John ; 
daughters  Mercy,  Mary  and  Mehitable  (Hit- 
table).  He  married,  April  17,  1650,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Captain  Matthew  Fuller,  of 
Plymouth.  Children,  born  at  Barnstable:  i. 
Mehitable,  born  about  165 1,  probably  at 
Plymouth ;  married  John  Fuller  Jr.  and  set- 
tled "at  East  Haddam,  Connecticut.  2. 
Matthew,  married,  January  14,  1694-95,  Mary 
Goodspeed.  3.  Shubael,  born  August  27, 
1654,  was  living  in  Sandwich  in  1692.  4. 
Jedediah,  born  August  14,  1656.  married, 
March  18,  1681-82.  Hannah  Davis:  his  son 
Isaac  had  a  son  Jedediah,  who  married.  April 
14,  1737,  Mary  Fuller,  of  Sandwich.  5.  John, 
born  August  14,  1659,  removed  from  Barn- 
stable. 6.  Mercy,  born  November  14,  1666. 
7.  Ralph,  born  October  i,  1669.  8.  Samuel, 
married,  June  26,  1718,  Mary  Bliss.  9. 
Ephraim.     10.  Mary. 

(I)  Eliphalet,  descendant  of  Ralph  Jones, 
and  probably  of  his  son  Shubael  who  settled 
in  Sandwich,  was  born  and  lived  in  Sand- 
wich. The  condition  of  the  records  makes  it 
impossible  to  trace  the  two  or  more  genera- 
tions between  Shubael  and  Eliphalet,  but  it 
is  known  that  all  the  Sandwich  family  are  de- 
scended from  Ralph  Jones.  Eliphalet  was 
born  about   1770.     He  was  probably  a  ship- 


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wright  by  trade.  He  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  married  Prudence  Hall.  Their  son 
Eliphalet  is  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Eliphalet  (2),  son  of  EHphalet  (i), 
Jones,  was  born  in  Boston,  August  31,  1797. 
He  attended  the  Eliot  School  in  Boston  under 
Masters  Little  and  Tileston  in  the  palmy  days 
of  the  ferule  and  rattan,  and  made  a  cred- 
itable record  for  scholarship.  He  was  at 
graduation  one  of  the  Franklin  medal  schol- 
ars, and  on  selectmen's  day  had  the  honor 
with  the  other  Franklin  medal  scholars  of 
dining  with  the  dignitaries  in  Fanueil  Hall. 
In  181 1  he  became  junior  clerk  in  the  store  of 
Norcross,  Mellen  &  Company,  dealers  in 
crockery,  earthenware  and  pottery,  Boston. 
He  became  a  partner  of  Otis  Norcross,  the 
senior  member  of  this  firm,  a  few  years  later 
and  the  firm  name  became  Otis  Norcross  & 
Company.  This  name  continued  as  long  as 
Mr.  Jones  was  in  the  firm,  although  Otis  Nor- 
cross Jr.  succeeded  his  father  in  the  firm. 
The  business  was  very  prosperous  and  made 
several  fortunes.  In  1847  ^^''^-  Jones  retired 
from  business  to  enjoy  the  wealth  he  had 
acquired.  He  made  his  home  in  Boston  dur- 
ing and  after  his  business  activity  and  was  a 
leading  citizen.  For  seven  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  old  volunteer  fire  department. 
In  1847  he  was  a  member  of  the  common 
council  of  Boston  from  ward  five,  and  in  1850 
he  represented  his  district  in  the  general  court. 
In  politics  he  was  originally  a  Whig,  but  a 
Republican  after  that  party  was  organized. 
He  was  for  many  years  a  director  of  the 
Union  Mutual  Fife  Insurance  Company.  Mr. 
Jones  was  greatly  respected  in  the  business 
community  for  his  intelligence,  industry  and 
integrity  and  highly  prized  by  his  numerous 
personal  frientls  for  his  genial,  liberal  and 
manly  characteristics.  He  was  interested  in 
history  and  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society, 
a  liberal  contributor  to  the  fund  for  the  pur- 
chase of  the  present  building  on  Somerset 
street.  Many  of  the  facts  of  this  sketch  are 
taken  from  a  memoir  in  the  proceedings  of  that 
society,  written  by  George  Montfort,  of  Bos- 
ton. Mr.  Jones  died  March  17,  1873.  and  was 
buried  at  Mount  Auburn  cemetery.  He  mar- 
ried, March  28,  1824,  Sally  Paine  Adams  Rust, 
bom  April  18,  1802,  died  July  6,  1883.  (See 
Rust,  VII.)  Children,  born  in  Boston:  i. 
Henry  Rust,  born  January  19,  1826,  died  July 
30,  1838.  2.  Otis  "Norcross.  mentioned  below. 
3.  Mary,  born  March  14,  1830,  died  young. 

(Ill)  Otis  Norcross,  son  of  Eliphalet  (2), 
Jones,   was  born   in   Boston,   March  6,    1828, 


died  May  20,  1892.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  at  a  boarding  school.  He 
became  a  clerk  in  his  father's  firm,  Otis  Nor- 
cross &  Company,  when  a  young  man.  Be- 
sides dealing  in  glassware,  crockery,  earthen- 
ware, etc.,  this  firm  established  a  glass  fac- 
tory at  Sand\\ich,  Massachusetts,  one  of  the 
first  in  successful  operation  in  this  country, 
though  glass  had  been  made  on  a  small  scale 
much  earlier.  He  traveled  extensively.  When 
he  was  twenty-one  years  old  he  made  a  trip 
around  the  world.  He  lived  for  some  time  in 
Hong  Kong,  China,  in  Calcutta  and  Bombay, 
India,  and  in  Paris,  France.  He  joined  the 
gold-seekers  who  went  to  California  in  1849 
and  was  in  the  mining  districts  about  a  year. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Republican.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Unitarian  church.  He  married, 
May  27,  1869,  Kate  H.  Frost,  born  in  Nor- 
way, Maine,  Alay  2,  1844,  daughter  of  William 
and  Lydia  E.  (Foster)  Frost.  (See  Frost, 
VII.)  Children:  i.  William  Frost,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Otis  Norcross  Jr.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1873,  died  at  Colorado  Springs, 
aged  twenty  years.  3.  Mary  Ellen,  August  3, 
1874,  married  Professor  Henry  C.  Metcalf,  of 
Tufts  College. 

(IV)  William  Frost,  son  of  Otis  Norcross 
Jones,  was  born  in  Boston,  April  5,  1871.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  in  Boston,  the  Bos- 
ton Latin  school  and  Harvard  College  where 
he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.-  B. 
in  the  class  of  1892.  He  accompanied  his 
brother,  whose  health  had  failed,  to  Colorado 
Springs  and  remained  with  him  until  his 
death.  He  returned  to  his  home  at  Norway, 
Maine,  and  read  law  in  the  ofiice  of  Charles 
E.  Holt,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1898  and 
began  to  practice  his  profession  in  Norway 
immediately.  He  has  been  in  active  and  suc- 
cessful practice  since.  At  the  present  time  he 
is  judge  of  the  municipal  court  in  Norway. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  school  board,  trustee  of  the 
public  library  and  superintendent  of  schools. 
He  married,  June  22,  1897,  Elinor  Frances 
Hunt,  born  December  21,  1871,  daughter  of 
George  W.  and  Ella  F.  Hunt,  of  Bath,  Maine. 
Children:  i.  ICatherine  H.,  born  July  30, 
1898.  2.  Otis  N.,  December  26,  1899.  3. 
Frances,  December  7,  1901.  4.  Mary  E.,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1903. 


The  surname  Rust  is  an  ancient 
RUST     one,  a  Hugh  Rust  having  lived  in 

England  as  early  as  131 2.  The 
naine  is  also  common  in  Germany.  Henry 
Rust,  immigrant  ancestor,  came  from   Hing- 


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ham,  county,  Norfolk,  England,  and  settled 
in  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  in  1633  or  1635. 
He  was  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  country, 
and  was  a  glover  by  trade.  He  had  a  grant  of 
land  at  Hingham  in  1635  in  June,  and  other 
grants  March  5,  March  23  and  August  14  of 
the  same  year.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman 
March,  1637-38.  February  16,  1638,  he  was 
chosen  to  "make  the  rates,"  and  in  1645  was 
town  clerk  of  Hingham.  He  was  admitted  as 
an  inhabitant  of  Boston,  and  March  31,  1651, 
bought  property  of  Audrey  Palmer,  a  house 
and"  land.  This  land  he  deeded  later  to  his 
son,  Nathaniel  Rust,  and  son-in-law,  Robert 
Earle.  The  site  is  now  occupied  by  Trinity 
church,  corner  of  Summer  and  Hawley  streets, 
then  Bishop's  alley.  The  seven  Star  Inn,  or 
Pleiades,  formerly  stood  there.  The  wife  of 
Henry  Rust  was  admitted  to  the  church  with 
him  February  20,  1669.  Children:  i.  Sam- 
uel, baptized  at  Hingham,  August  5,  1638, 
married  Elizabeth  Rogers.  2.  Nathaniel,  bap- 
tized February  2,  1639-40,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Hannah,  baptized  at  Hingham,  November 
7,  1641,  married  Robert  Earle.  4.  Israel,  bap- 
tized November  12,  1643,  married  Rebecca 
Clark.  5.  Benjamin,  baptized  April  5,  1646. 
6.  Benoni,  baptized  October  23,  1649. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Henry,  was  baptized 
at  Hingham,  February  2,  1639-40.  He  fol- 
lowed his  father's  trade  of  glover.  He  re- 
irioved  to  Ipswich,  was  living  there  in  1661, 
and  resided  there  until  his  death.  He  was 
often  appraiser  of  estates,  and  was  lot  layer 
in  1692-93.  He  died  in  1713  and  his  estate 
was  administered  December  23,  17 13,  by 
Daniel  Rindge  and  Thomas  Norton.  He  mar- 
ried Mary,  born  1642,  died  July  7,  1720, 
daughter  of  William  and  Alice  Wardell. 
Children:  i.  Mary,  born  June,  1664,  married 
Captain  Daniel  Rindge.  2.  Nathaniel,  March 
16,  1667,  married  Joanna  Kinsman.  3.  Mar- 
garet, February  7,  1669,  married  Samuel 
Williams.  4.  Elizabeth,  March  14,  1672,  mar- 
ried, December  7,  1693,  William  Fellows.  5. 
Mercy,  married,  November  14,  1700,  Thomas 
Norton.  6.  Dorothy,  born  March  10,  1682, 
died  November  10,  1684.  7.  John,  born  July 
9,  1684,  mentioned  below.  '8.  Sarah,  born 
1686,  died  January  26,  1739;  married  January 
I,  1706-07,  Nathaniel  Hart,  born  April  3, 
1677,  died  September  9,  1746. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Nathaniel  Rust,  was 
born  July  9,  1684,  and  died  at  Ipswich,  Jan- 
uary, 1713.  He  married,  September  26,  1705, 
Sarah  (Potter)  Fellows,  born  December  11, 
1685,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Potter,  and 
widow    of    Jonathan    Fellows.      She   adminis- 


tered his  estate,  being  appointed  January  22, 
1716-17.  Children:  i.  John,  born  March  18, 
1707,  mentioned  below.  2.  Daniel,  October 
20,  1708,  died  August  17,  1724.  3.  Sarah, 
June  28,  1 710,  married,  December  17,  1729, 
Thomas  Hovey.  4.  Nathaniel,  March  29, 
1713  (posthumous),  married  Sarah  Wallis. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Rust,  was 
born  at  Ipswich,  March  18,  1707,  died  Novem- 
ber, 1750.  He  was  a  tanner  by  trade.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  and 
ensign  in  the  eighth  company  under  Captain 
Thomas  Stanford,  Colonel  Robert  Hale's  fifth 
regiment,  in  the  Louisburg  expedition  in  1745. 
He  married,  November  12,  1730,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  .Abraham  and  Abigail  Foster. 
She  was  appointed  administratrix  of  his 
estate;  she  married  (second)  October  31, 
1752  (intentions  published  October  28),  Jacob 
Parsons,  of  Gloucester.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  May  22,  1732,  sea  captain,  died  unmar- 
ried. 2.  Sarah,  September  25,  1735,  married, 
in  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  January  5,  1755, 
William  Parsons.  3.  Henry,  August  23,  1737, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Mary,  July  16,  1737.  3. 
Abigail,  November  6,  1742,  married,  January 
18,  1763,  Benjamin  Witt.  6.  Daniel,  June  21, 
1747,  killed  by  a  horse. 

(V)  Henry  (2),  son  of  John  (2)  Rust,  was 
born  at  Ipswich,  August  23,  1737,  died  at  Sa- 
lem, September  28,  18 12.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools,  and  learned  the  trade  of 
joiner  as  apprentice  of  Jonathan  Gavet.  During 
the  revolution  he  made  money,  taking  consider- 
able risks  in  shipping.  He  began  in  business 
as  a  cabinetmaker  and  merchant  and  became 
interested  in  manufacturing  as  well  as  ship- 
ping. He  built  a  brick  store  in  Salem  in  1786 
on  the  site  of  the  old  court  house  and  had 
large  holdings  in  land  in  the  vicinity  of  Rust 
street  which  he  opened  when  developing  his 
property  for  house  lots.  In  1787  he  bought 
six  thousand  acres  of  land  for  four  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds,  the  site  of  the  township  of 
Rustfield,  now  Norway,  Maine,  and  his  three 
sons,  Henry,  John  and  Joseph,  settled  in  that 
town  and  became  influential  citizens.  Captain 
Rust  settled  Essex  county  and  often  visited  it, 
coming  on  horseback  or  in  his  chaise,  which 
upon  the  occasion  of  his  first  trip  in  it,  in  1804, 
had  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  wheeled 
carriage  seen  in  the  town  of  Norway.  He 
built  a  summer  home  at  Pike's  Hill,  the  door- 
step for  which,  cut  from  solid  rock,  still  marks 
the  site  of  the  buildings.  He  was  kind  and 
generous  to  the  settlers,  selling  land  to  them 
without  money,  taking  his  pay  in  labor  at  the 
rate  of  a  da^'s  work  for  an  acre  of  land  until 


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each  had  a  homestead  of  his  own.  He  built  a 
saw  mill  and  grist  mill  in  Norway  in  1789  and 
later  a  tannery  and  opened  a  general  store. 
He  gave  land  for  the  church  and  cemetery. 
He  brought  the  first  glass  windows  to  the 
town,  small  four-square  windows  with  panes 
six  by  eight  inches  and  distributed  them,  two 
or  three  to  each  settler.  In  1797  he  took  his 
grandson,  Henry  Rust,  then  ten  years  old,  to 
spend  the  summer  with  him  in  Rustfield.  His 
will  was  dated  July  10  and  proved  October  5, 
1812.  He  married  (first)  December  25,  1759, 
Lydia  James,  born  JMay  12,  1740.  died  August 
24,  1808,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Lydia 
James,  of  Salem.  He  married  (second)  May 
28,  1809,  Abigail  Benson,  widow  of  Captain 
Thomas  Benson.  She  died  at  Salem,  January, 
1823.  Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i.  Henry, 
born  September  21,  1760,  married  Sally 
Archer.  2.  John,  April  4,  1762,  married 
Nancy  Mansfield.  3.  Joseph,  January  i,  1767, 
married  Ruth  Lash,  of  Boston.  4.  Lydia,  Jan- 
uary '  7,  1765,  married  Joseph  Austin.  5. 
Sally,  March  5,  1767,  died  September  29, 
1768.  6.  Polly  Hooper,  August  5,  1768,  died 
August  18,  1770.  7.  Daniel,  June  23,  1770, 
died  November  8,  1771.  8.  Daniel,  July  22, 
1772,  married  Elizabeth  Leach,  of  Salem.  9. 
Jacob  Parsons,  August  15,  1774,  mentioned 
below.  10.  Sally,  May  18,  1776,  married, 
December  28,  1801,  John  Daland,  died  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1803.  II.  Nathan,  February  28, 
1778,  died  September  28,  1778.  12.  Nathan, 
June,  1779,  died  aged  three  days.  13.  Nathan, 
August,  1780,  died  aged  five  days.  14. 
Nathan,  June,  1781,  died  aged  five  hours.  15. 
Israel,  July  18,  1782,  died  August  18,  1795. 
16.  Polly  Jane,  November  6,  1783,  died 
December  25,  1843,  married,  December  2, 
1810,  Samuel  Lee  Paige,  who  died  at  Salem, 
December  22,  1824. 

(VI)  Jacob  Parsons,  son  of  Henry  (2) 
Rust,  was  born  at  Salem,  August  15,  1774, 
died  January  6,  1828.  He  is  buried  in  the 
old  Granary  cemetery  at  Boston.  He  was  a 
merchant  and  owned  a  house,  land  and  store 
in  Salem,  and  land  and  buildings  on  Prince 
street,  Boston ;  also  a  right  in  the  Charles 
river  bridge.  His  son  Jacob  was  appointed 
administrator  of  his  estate  January  14,  1828, 
and  the  division  was  made  April  27,  1829.  He 
married  (first)  April  23,  1797,  Mary  Adams, 
of  Boston.  He  married  (second)  November 
3,  1823,  Abigail  Reynolds,  who  died  January 
I,  1837.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Thomas 
Adams,  born  January  15,  1798,  married  (first) 
Abbie  Williams;  (second)  Harriet  Freeman; 
(third)    Phebe   Chamberlain.     2.    Mary,   July 


30,  1799,  died  August,  1799.  3.  Jacob,  July 
19,  1800,  died  unmarried  at  Somerville,  Au- 
gust 5,  1847;  merchant.  4.  Sally  Paine 
Adams,  April  18,  1S02,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Diana  Adams,  March  28,  1806.  married  Henry 
Hooper  and  resided  at  Boston.  6.  William 
Paine  Adams,  January  26,  1808,  married,  Jan- 
uary 25,  1832,  Caroline  J.  Chase,  died  May 
29,  1857;  carpenter;  had  Lucy  Ann,  died 
October  2y,  1843.  7-  Joseph  Henry,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1809,  married  Emily  White,  died  Sep- 
tember 18,  1835,  and  is  buried  in  the  old 
Granary  burying  ground ;  widow  married 
(second)  A.  A.  Dana  and  had  three  sons.  8. 
John,  March  8,  1814,  married  Susan  West. 
Children  of  second  wife :  9.  Mary  Adams, 
March  17,  1825,  married,  July  8,  1845,  Edwin 
Howdand,  died  May  10,  185 1.  10.  George 
Reynolds,  August  26,  1827,  died  November 
27,"  1828. 

(VII)  Sally  Paine  Adams,  daughter  of 
Jacob  Parsons  Rust,  was  born  April  18,  1802, 
died  July  6,  1883.  She  married,  March  28, 
1824,  Eliphalet  Jones.     (See  Jones,  II.) 


George    Frost    lived    at    Winter 
FROST     Harbor,    Saco,    Maine,    and    was 

appraiser  of  the  estate  of  Richard 
Williams  in  1635.  He  served  on  the  grand 
jury  in  1640.  Goody  Frost  was  assigned  to 
a  pew  in  the  church  at  \\'inter  Harbor  next 
to  the  pew  of  Goody  Wakefield,  September 
22,  1666.  He  is  supposed  to  be  the  father  of 
the  following  children:  i.  Rebecca,  married 
Simon  Booth ;  removed  to  Enfield,  New 
Hampshire,  and  died  in  1668.  2.  John,  mar- 
ried Rose  .  3.  William,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(II)  William,  son  of  George  Frost,  wit- 
nessed a  deed  in  Winter  Harbor  in  1667  and 
bought  land  in  Saco  of  William  Phillips  in 
1673.  It  may  have  been  he  who  had  a  grant 
of  land  on  Crooked  Lane  in  Kittery  in  1658. 
The  Indian  war  drove  him  to  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  was  living  from  1675  to 
1679.  William  Frost,  cordwainer,  of  Salem, 
bought  land  in  Wells,  Maine,  in  1679,  ''"^ 
had  various  grants  and  mill  privileges  in 
Wells  until  1690.  His  estate  was  adminis- 
tered in  1690  by  Israel  Harden,  and  William 
Frost  Jr.  was  his  bondsman.  Roger  Hill 
wrote  to  his  wife  May  7,  1690,  "The  Indians 
have  killed  Goodman  Frost  and  James  Little- 
field  and  carried  away  Nathaniel  Frost  and 
burnt  several  houses  here  in  Wells."  William 
Frost  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Littlefield)  Wakefield,  and  grand- 
daughter   of    Edmund   and    Annis    Littlefield. 


1302 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Children:  i.  William,  married  (first)  Rachel; 
(second)  April  5,  1796,  Elizabeth  Searle ;  died 
September  23,  1721.  2.  Nathaniel,  captured 
by  the  Indians  in  1690.  3.  Elizabeth,  married, 
November  8,  1698,  Daniel  Dill.  4.  Mary,  born 
at  Salem,  July  31,  1677.  5.  Abigail,  married, 
January  14,  1702-03,  Samuel  Upton.  6. 
James,  mentioned  below. 

(III)  James,  son  or  nephew  of  William 
Frost  (Hist,  of  Kittery,  Maine),  married, 
May  15,  1707-08,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
William  and  Deliverance  (Taylor)  Goodwin. 
He  was  a  planter  and  owner  of  a  mill  in  South 
Berwick,  RIaine.  He  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Congregational  church.  His  will 
was  made  in  1744,  proved  July  4,  1748.  Chil- 
dren, baptized  at  South  Berwick:  1.  James 
born  November  5,  1708,  married  Sarah  Nason. 
2.  William,  February  15,  1710,  married  Love 
Butler.  3.  Nathaniel,  August  14,  1713,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  John,  baptized  October  22, 
1716,  went  to  Nova  Scotia.  5.  Stephen,  bap- 
tized April  12,  1719,  married  Lucy .    6. 

Mary,  baptized  September  29,  1723,  married 
Major  Charles  Gerrish.  7.  Jeremiah,  baptized 
December  24,  1725,  married  Miriam  Harding; 
went  to  Nova  Scotia.  8.  Jane,  baptized  May 
10,  1728,  married,  March  10,  1747.  Caleb 
Emery.  9.  Margaret,  baptized  July  13,  1730, 
married,  June  18,  1752,  William  Haskell. 

(IV)  Nathaniel,  son  of  James  Frost,  was 
born  August  14,  1713,  and  died  about  1763. 
He  lived  in  Falmouth  and  Gorham,  Maine. 
He  married  Elizabeth,  who  died  about  1768. 
Children:  i.  Abigail,  born  about  1741,  mar- 
ried, December,  1758,  James  i\iosher.  2.  Ben- 
jamin, born  about  1742,  married  Susanna 
Frost,  1765.  3.  David,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Peter,  born  about  1746,  married  Margaret 
• .  5.  Nathaniel,  born  about  1748,  mar- 
ried (first)  June  3,  1780,  Polly  Berry;  (sec- 
ond) June  16,  1787,  Sally  Brown,  of  Fal- 
mouth; (third)  October  3,  1801,  Mrs.  Rebecca 
Higgins,  of  Standish.  6.  Enoch,  born  about 
1750,  married,  April  24,  1780,  Alice  Davis.  7. 
Elizabeth,  born  about  1752,  married,  Novem- 
ber 26.  1778,  Benjamin  Adams;  (second) 
Charles  Patrick.  8.  Hannah,  born  about  1754, 
married,  February  3,  1775,  Joshua  Adams. 

(V)  David,  son  of  Nathaniel  Frost,  was 
born  about  1744  in  Gorham,  Maine,  or  Fal- 
mouth. He  married  (intention  dated  April 
10,  1766)  Mary  Johnson.  Four  of  hie^sons 
settled  on  Frost  Hill,  Norway,  Maine,  and 
late  in  life  he  also  settled  there.  Children, 
born  in  Gorham:  i.  David  Jr.,  removed  to 
East  Machias.  2.  William,  married,  July  2, 
181 5,   Polly   Stevens.     3.   Charles,   resided   in 


Portland.  4.  Peter,  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Samuel  Perkins.  5.  Nathaniel  settled  in 
Gorham.  6.  Eunice,  married  Samuel  An- 
drews; resided  in  Norway.  7.  Nancy,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Hamblen ;  resided  in  Norway.     9. 

Jennie,   married  Webster.      10.   John, 

resided  in  Norway ;  married  Jane  Richmond. 

11.  Robert,  mentioned  below. 

(\T)  Robert,  son  of  David  Frost,  was  born 
in  Gorham.  Alaine,  March  26,  1782.  He  mar- 
ried Betsey  Jordan,  born  at  Otisfield,  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1789.  He  settled  in  Norway  in 
1803.  Children,  born  in  Norway:  i.  Mercy, 
November  8,  1807;  married  (first)  Thomas  J. 
Everett;  (second)  Jacob  Parsons.  2.  Charles, 
December  13,  1809,  married  Hannah  Foster. 
3.  William,  January  9,  1812,  mentioned  be- 
low. 4.  Robert,  June  9,  1814,  died  March  i, 
1816.  5.  Timothy  J.,  April  17,  1816,  married 
Mary  A.  Goss.  6.  Eliza,  July  8,  1818,  mar- 
ried Simon  Lewis.  7.  Polly,  October  22,  1820, 
married  John  Davis.  8.  Robert  J.,  February 
25,  1823,  married,  April  30,  1856,  Alice  N. 
Shedd,  born  July  27,  1829.    9.  David  W.,  July 

12,  1825,  married  Vesta  Briggs.  10.  Esther, 
born  June  12,  1827,  married  Joshua  Crockett. 
II.  Aaron,  September  8,  1829,  died  April  23, 
1832.     12.  Catherine,  May  26,  1833,  died  May 

1,  1840. 

(VII)  William,  son  of  Robert  Frost,  was 
born  in  Norway,  January  9,  18 12.  He  mar- 
ried, 1842,  Lydia  Foster,  who  died  September, 
1851.  Married  (second)  1853,  Mrs.  Mary  A. 
Whitcomb,  nee  Harris.  Children:  i.  Kate 
H.,  born  in  Norway,  May  2,  1844,  niarried 
Otis  Norcross  Jones  in  1869  (see  Jones,  HI). 

2.  Lydia  Ellen,  June  17,  1847,  died  June  30, 
1894. 


Nathaniel     M.    Jones    emigrated 
JONES     from    Wales    to    Turks     Island, 

West  Indies,  by  the  way  of  Ber- 
muda, where  he  made  a  brief  tarry.  He  was  a 
goldsmith  by  trade  and  also  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  salt  at  Turks  Island.  His  wife 
Harriet  accompanied  him,  and  their  son, 
Hiram  Thomas,  was  born  there  in  1837. 

(II)  Hiram  Thomas,  son  of  Nathaniel  M. 
and  Harriet  Jones,  was  born  in  1837  and  re- 
ceived his  school  training  in  Turks  Island, 
West  Indies,  which  was  his  birthplace.  When 
of  age  he  became  a  merchant  and  manufac- 
turer of  salt,  which  business  had  been  carried 
on  by  his  father  for  several  years.  He  re- 
moved to  Bangor,  Maine,  in  1876  and  became 
head  bookkeeper  for  the  Hinckley  &  Egery 
Iron  Company  for  a  time,  and  then  engaged 
with  G.  W.  Merrill  in  the  furniture  business. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1303 


When  he  left  Turks  Island,  he  arranged  to 
have  his  business  continued,  and  he  attended 
to  it  by  correspondence.  He  was  married  in 
Turks  Island  to  Helen  Ewing,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  James  Morrison,  a  Presbyterian  divine, 
who  were  attendants  of  the  Methodist  church. 
They  have  seven  children  all  born  in  Turks 
Island,  West  Indies,  and  their  names  accord- 
ing to  the  order  of  their  birth  are  as  follows : 
I.  Nathaniel  M.  (q.  v.).  2.  Emily  H., 
married  John  M.  Jones,  of  New  Yerk 
City.  3.  Hiram  Thorborn,  died  1902.  4. 
Lilla  A.  5.  James  W.,  who  removed  to  Oak- 
land, California.  6.  Hilton  B.,  who  also  re- 
moved to  Oakland,  California.  7.  Ella  Stew- 
art, born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  married  George 
W.  Thoms,  a  lawyer,  of  Lincoln,  Maine. 

(Ill)  Nathaniel  Morrison,  eldest  child  of 
Hiram  Thomas  and  Helen  Ewing  (Morrison) 
Jones,  was  born  in  Turks  Island,  West  Indies, 
and  was  educated  in  the  best  schools  that 
island  afforded.  He  came  to  Bangor,  Maine, 
alone,  in  1874,  and  engaged  as  clerk  in  the 
office  of  T.  J.  Stewart  &  Company,  where  he 
remained  for  several  months,  leaving  to  take 
a  position  with  James  E.  Crosby,  a  grocer,  as 
clerk  and  bookkeeper,  for  whom  he  worked 
for  about  eighteen  months.  He  was  next  a 
stevedore  on  the  river  docks  and  next  a  clerk 
in  a  meat  market  and  a  helper  in  the  produce 
commission  house  of  James  A.  Greenacre.  In 
1880  he  went  into  the  fruit  and  produce  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account,  which  business  he 
sold  out  in  1882  and  became  express  messen- 
ger for  the  Bangor  and  Boston  Express  Com- 
pany on  the  Boston  &  Bangor  Steamship  line, 
and  after  two  seasons  of  such  work  went  with 
the  Hinckley  &  Egery  Iron  Works  Company 
as  bookkeeper  and  secretary  where  he  re- 
mained seven  years.  In  1890  he  bought  an 
interest  in  the  water  power  at  Howland  Falls, 
Maine,  and  assisted  in  organizing  the  How- 
land  Falls  Pulp  Company,  in  which  he  owned 
stock.  He  was  made  general  manager  after 
first  year  and  held  this  position  for  three 
years  when  the  mills  were  burned.  He  at  once 
drew  plans  for  new  mills,  which  were  accepted 
by  the  company,  and  he  directed  the  building 
of  the  mills.  At  about  this  time  he  secured 
by  purchase  the  property  of  the  Lincoln  Pulp 
&  Paper  Company  at  Lincoln,  Maine,  and  re- 
built both  mills.  He  also  furnished  detail 
plans  and  built  a  mill  at  Ausable  Forks,  New 
York,  for  J.  J.  Rogers  &  Company,  and  a 
mill  at  Fort  Edward,  New  York  for  the  Glens 
Falls  Paper  Company,  and  one  at  Lockport. 
New  York,  for  the  Traders'  Paper  Company. 
This  business  as  a  mill  architect  came  to  him 


through  the  success  he  had  made  at  the  How- 
land  Falls  Mills.  The  patents,  designs,  and 
methods  used  by  him  in  the  construction  of 
the  mills  and  the  handling  of  the  material 
attracted  the  attention  of  the  paper  and  pulp 
manufacturers  over  the  entire  country.  In 
1895  he  resigned  his  position  as  general  man- 
ager of  the  Howland  Falls  Paper  &  Pulp 
Company,  and  sold  out  all  his  interests  in  the 
other  mills  as  enumerated,  and  devoted  his 
time  to  the  oversight  of  the  Katahdin  Pulp  & 
Paper  Company  of  Lincoln,  Maine,  of  which 
he  was  general  manager.  He  was  made  a 
director  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank,  and 
a  member  of  the  executive  board  of  the  East- 
ern Trust  and  Banking  Company,  both  of 
Bangor.  He  was  appointed  a  state  survey 
commissioner.  He  was  the  Republican  repre- 
sentative from  the  Howland  and  Lincoln  dis- 
tricts in  the  Maine  state  legislature,  1895-98, 
serving  one  term  from  each  district,  and  he 
was  state  senator  from  the  Bangor  district, 
1899-1902,  a  member  of  Governor  Hills' 
council,  1903-04,  and  of  Governor  Cobb's 
council,  1905-06,  being  chairman  of  the  coun- 
cil during  the  years  of  1905-06  of  the  last 
named  governor.  He  was  instrumental  in 
1905  in  obtaining  an  appropriation  from  the 
state  legislature  to  build  a  bridge  across  the 
Penobscot  river  at  Howland,  Maine,  and  he 
was  made  a  member  of  the  commission  ap- 
pointed to  plan  and  superintend  its  construc- 
tion. He  discharged  this  diity  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  the  public.  He  is  a  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  Mason,  belonging  to  Composite 
Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  La  Grange,  Alaine; 
Royal  Arch  Chapter  at  Mattawamkeag;  St. 
John's  Commandery,  K.  T. ;  Eastern  Star 
Lodge  of  Perfection ;  Palestine  Council, 
Princes  of  Jerusalem ;  Bangor  Chapter  Rose 
Croix  (Scottish  Rite  bodies)  ;  the  Maine  Con- 
sistory at  Portland  and  the  Mystic  Shrine  at 
Lewiston,  Maine.  He  is  also  a  useful  mem- 
ber of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 

He  married,  December  5,  1880,  Hattie  T., 
daughter  of  Josiah  B.  Harthorn,  of  Bangor, 
Maine,  and  their  children  are :  Sidney  Mor- 
rison, a  graduate  of  the  L^niversity  of  Maine, 
and  Hattie  Harthorn,  educated  in  the  public, 
grammar  and  high  schools  of  Bangor,  and 
Miss  Porter's  School  of  Farmington,  Con- 
necticut. James  Morrison,  father  of  Helen 
Ewing  (Morrison)  Jones,  and  maternal  grand- 
father of  Nathaniel  Morrison  Jones,  was 
a  Presbyterian  divine  of  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
and  in  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century 
went  to  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  was 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


a  professor  in  the  theological  school  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  He  was  later  sent  to 
Bermuda,  where  he  built  the  first  Presbyterian 
church  erected  in  Bermuda. 


The  surname  Templeton 
TEMPLETON  is  of  local  origin.  There 
is  a  village  of  this  name 
in  Devonshire,  antl  another  in  Pembrokeshire, 
and  the  family  originally  took  the  name  of  the 
place,  after  a  common  custom,  when  adopting 
a  surname.  The  family  of  Templeton  in  Scot- 
land bore  these  arms  as  early  as  the  si.xteenth 
century :  Gules  a  temple  argent  on  a  chief 
sable  a  star  or.  The  English  family  bears  : 
Azure  a  fess  or  in  a  base  a  church  argent. 
Crest :  A  holy  lamb  regardant  argent  sus- 
taining over  the  shoulder  a  banner  gules.  The 
word  originally  meant,  of  course,  a  town  in 
which  a  temple  or  church  was  located. 

(I)  Adam  Templeton  was  of  the  Scotch 
family,  from  a  brancli  located  in  Ulster  with 
the  Scotch  Presbyterians.  The  family  had 
not  been  in  Ireland  long  before  he  came  to 
America.  Even  he  himself  may  have  been 
born  in  Scotland.  The  family  is  still  some- 
what numerous  in  county  Antrim.  Adam 
Templeton  came  from  Ireland  with  his 
brother-in-lav\',  .-Xlexander  Simpson,  about 
1735  or  a  little  later,  and  both  settled  in  Wind- 
ham, a  part  of  the  original  New  Hampshire 
colony  of  Scotch-Irish.  He  bought  nine  and 
three-quarters  acres  of  land  of  James  Wilson 
for  one  hundred  and  ten  pounds,  old  tenor, 
November  24,  1747,  and  located  with  Simpson 
in  the  meadow  southeast  of  Robert  Simpson's 
horse,  where  each  built  a  log  cabin.  Temple- 
ton afterwards  built  a  house  in  a  more  health- 
ful locality  near  the  present  Robert  Simpson 
house.  He  was  a  wheelwright  by  trade  and 
made  spinning  wheels  used  by  all  the  early 
settlers.  He  carried  his  wheels  about  on 
horseback  through  the  section  and  sold  them 
to  the  Scotch  settlers,  at  the  same  time  that 
he  was  struggling  to  clear  his  farm.  His 
name  appears  on  the  town  records  as  early  as 
1753  and  as  late  as  1776.  He  went  to  Antrim 
in  his  old  age  and  died  there  at  the  home  of 
his  son  Matthew  in  1795,  aged  eighty-four 
years.  Children:  i.  John,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Daniel  lived  in  Hillsborough,  but  died  or 
removed  before  1790  from  the  state  of  New 
Hampshire.  3.  James,  resideil  in  Peter- 
borough, New  Hampshire :  removed  to  Mont- 
pelier,   Vermont,   in    1800,   and   died   there   in 

1807;   rnarried    Jennet ;    children:      i. 

Agnes,   born    September  24,    1758;   ii.    Mary, 
April  10,  1760;  iii.  William,  October  24,  1762. 


married  Mary  Moore,  of  Sharon ;  iv.  John, 
November  14,  1764;  v.  Jenny,  1766,  married 
Charles  McCoy.  4.  Matthew,  born  in  Ireland 
and  came  to  Windham  with  his  parents,  was 
a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  wars  in 
1758,  was  constable,  removed  to  Peter- 
borough as  early  as  1770  and  to  Antrim  in 
1775;  married  Jennie  Harkness,  who  died 
1780,  aged  forty-three;  he  returned  to  Peters- 
borough  in  1784  and  died  there  May  30,  1809, 
aged  seventy-three ;  a  very  rigid  and  stern 
Presbyterian;  children:  i.  Betsey,  born  1770, 
married  John  Holmes  and  settled  in  Mont- 
pelier;  ii.  .Samuel,  1772,  married  Jane  Miller 
and  succeeded  to  the  homestead ;  iii.  Jean, 
1774,  married  Hugh  Miller,  of  Peterborough, 
and  died  June  9,  1845;  v.  Jennie,  1778,  at 
Antrim,  died  unmarried  February  19,  1849. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Adam  Templeton,  was 
born  about  1740.  He  married  Mary  ]\Iay- 
hew  and  settled  in  Windham,  the  only  one  of 
the  sons  to  remain  in  that  town.  He  signed 
a  petition  of  Windham  inhabitants  1787. 
Children:  i.  Isaac,  married,  March  15,  1814, 
Mary  Ross ;  lived  in  Hillsborough,  Antrim  and 
Deering,  New  Hampshire,  and  died  at  Hills- 
borough, April  19,  1869;  thirteen  children.  2. 
John,  mentioned  below.     Probably  others. 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i),  Temple- 
ton, was  born  in  Windham,  New  Hampshire, 
about  1780-90.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  War 
of  1 81 2.  He  settled  afterward  in  Ossipee, 
New  Hampshire.  He  married  Betsy  Eldridge. 
Children :  Charles,  Nathaniel,  Andrew  Jack- 
son, mentioned  below;  John,  Ira,  Abiel,  Eliza- 
beth, Jerusha,  Harriet. 

(IV)  Andrew  Jackson,  son  of  John  (2) 
Templeton,  was  born  April  13,  1816,  at  Ossi- 
pee, New  Hampshire,  died  April  i,  1879.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Ossipee. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  went  to  work  in 
a  cotton  mill  and  learned  the  business 
thoroughly.  He  held  responsible  positions  in 
the  employ  of  various  manufacturers.  He 
started  in  business  on  his  own  account  during 
the  civil  war  and  manufactured  cotton  batten 
in  Auburn,  Maine,  until  his  death.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  A.  Muzzey,  born  May  17,  1820, 
died  May  11,  1869.  Children:  i.  Albert  La- 
Roy,  born  November  4,  1842,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Alice  Jane,  September  22,  1845,  <^'^f' 
July  29,  1895.  3.  Emma  Josephine,  October 
18,  1850.  died  June  6,  1900. 

(V)  .Albert  LaRoy.  son  of  Andrew  Jack- 
son Templeton.  was  born  November  4,  1842, 
in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Lake  \'illage,  Man- 
chester, New   Hampshire,   Providence.  Rhode 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1305 


Island,  and  Lewiston,  Maine.  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  he  began  work  as  clerk  in  the  Lew- 
iston Falls  Bank  and  later  was  merged  into 
the  First  National  Bank,  Lewiston,  where  he 
worked  under  Cashier  Albert  H.  Small.  He 
was  promoted  step  by  step  and  in  1874  became 
cashier,  a  position  he  has  filled  with  conspicu- 
ous ability  and  success  to  the  present  time.  In 
1908  he  had  completed  forty-eight  successive 
vears  in  the  service  of  this  bank.  His  honesty, 
integrity  and  fidelity  have  become  proverbial 
in  the  community.  He  is  known  in  banking 
circles  throughout  the  state  and  ranks  high  in 
the  estimation  of  banking  men.  He  is  among 
the  oldest  bank  cashiers  of  New  England  still 
in  active  life.  Few  men  have  so  completely 
won  the  love  and  esteem  of  their  townsmen  as 
Mr.  Templeton.  He  is  kindly  and  democratic 
in  his  manner,  inviting  confidence,  retaining 
respect  and  coining  friendships  year  after 
year.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Rabboni  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons,  Lewiston;  treasurer  of  the 
Knights  of  Honor  and  of  the  Congregational 
church,  of  which  he  is  a  prominent  member. 
He  is  a  Republican,  but  not  active  in  politics. 
He  married,  December  22,  1874,  Nellie  L. 
Sands,  daughter  of  James  and  Caroline 
(Bradford)  Sands,  of  Waterborough,  Maine, 
and  a  descendant  of  Governor  William  Brad- 
ford of  the  "Mayflower."  Children:  i.  Car- 
rie E.,  born  March  3,  1876,  died  April  9,  1878. 
2.  Mabel  L.,  January,  1878.  3.  Bessie  Sands, 
April  12,  1 88 1,  a  teacher  in  the  kindergarten 
schools  of  Lewiston,  Maine.  4.  James  An- 
drew, April  8,  li    ' 


The  Farrington  name 
FARRINGTON     dates  far  back  in  English 

history,  and  in  old 
Saxon  was  called  Ferndon,  signifying  Fern 
hill.  There  is  an  ancient  town  called  Farring- 
don  in  Berks  county,  west  of  London.  There 
is  a  township  named  Farrington  in  Lancaster 
county,  and  a  parish  of  the  same  name  in 
another  part  of  Englanfl.  The  most  ancient 
family  of  Farringdons  live  at  Shaw  Hall  in 
Lancashire.  They  arose  at  the  time  of  the 
Conquest,  and  have  since  preserved  an  unin- 
terrupted male  succession.  They  lived  in  the 
township  of  Farrington  till  the  time  of  Eliza- 
beth, continued  at  Wearden  till  the  close  of 
the  sixteenth  century,  and  have  since  resided 
at  Shaw  Hall ;  all  these  places  are  in  the  Parish 
of  Leyland  and  county  Palatine  of  Lancaster. 
The  manor  and  hundred  of  Levland  was  held 
by  them  of  King  Edward  the  Confessor ;  and 
the  men  of  the  manor,  which  was  of  a  su- 
perior order,  as  well  as  those  of  Salford,  en- 


joyed the  privilege  of  attending  to  their  own 
harvest  instead  of  the  king's.  Another  family 
of  Farringtons,  who  spell  their  name  with  the 
double  fF,  are  lineal  descendants  of  John  de 
Ffarington  in  the  time  of  Henry  HI.  His  will 
was  dated  1549.  and  the  motto  of  his  armorial 
bearings  was  "Domat  Omnia  Virtus"  (\'irtue 
Subdues  All).  Sir  Anthony  Farrington  was 
knighted  in  1766,  and  from  him  are  descended 
the  Farringtons  of  Blackheath,  County  of 
Kent. 

One  of  the  earliest  Farringtons  to  come  to 
this  country  was  Edmund,  who  emigrated 
from  Southampton,  England,  and  settled  first 
at  Lynn,  Massachusetts.  In  May,  1640,  he 
with  some  others  embarked  at  Lynn  in  a  ves- 
sel commanded  by  Captain  Howe,  and  arrived 
at  Cow  Bay,  Long  Island,  where  they  pur- 
chased from  the  Indians  a  tract  of  land  ex- 
tending from  the  eastern  part  of  Oyster  Bay 
to  Cow  Bay.  They  were  afterwards  dispos- 
sessed by  the  Dutch  Governor  Kieft,  and  Far- 
rington returned  to  Lynn ;  but  two  of  his  sons, 
Thomas  and  Edmund,  subsequently  settled  at 
Flushing,  Long  Island,  and  from  them  the 
New  York  Farringtons  are  descended. 

(I)  John  Ffarrington,  son  of  Edmond  and 
Eliza  Ffarrington,  was  born  in  Olney,  Buck- 
inghamshire, England,  about  1624,  and  sailed 
to  this  country  in  the  ship  "Hopewell"  in  1635. 
He  died  at  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  April  27, 
1676,  and  administration  of  his  estate  was 
granted  to  his  "relict  Mary  and  son  John"  on 
June  29  of  that  year.  In  1646  John  Ffarring- 
ton was  admitted  a  townsman  of  Dedham  and 
granted  two  acres  of  upland,  and  in  1648  he 
bought  William  Barstow's  grant  of  eight 
acres.  In  1652  he  was  taxed  one  poimd,  two 
shillings  and  tenpence,  and  he  was  elected 
woodreeve  in  1635-37-58.  He  was  made  a 
freeman,  that  is.  joined  the  church,  March  9, 
1667.  His  wife  was  admitted  to  the  church 
fifteen  years  earlier.  May  16,  1652.  In  1649 
John  Ffarrington  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
William  Bullard,  and  ten  children  were  born 
to  them:  i.  Mary,  January  26,  1650,  married 
John  Pidge.  2.  Sarah,  July  i,  1652.  3.  John, 
February  25,  1654,  married  Mary  James.  4. 
Nathaniel,  June  6.  1656.  5.  Eleazer,  February 
II,  1660.  6.  Hannah,  July  22.  1662.  7. 
Daniel,  whose  sketch  follows  8.  Judith,  June 
I,  1666,  died  March  3,  1676.  9.  Abigail,  April 
30,  1668.     10.  Benjamin,  June  15,  1672. 

(II)  Daniel,  fourth  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Bullard)  Farrington,  was  born  in  Dedham, 
Massachusetts,  April  10,  1664,  and  died  in 
Wrentham,  that  state,  April  7,  17 18.  He  re- 
moved  to    W^rentham   about    1690   and    there 


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married,  October  5,  1691,  Abigail  Fisher. 
Eleven  children  were  born  of  this  marriage : 
I.  Jemima,  May  11,  1695.  2.  Abigail,  Octo- 
ber II,  1696.  3.  Daniel  (2),  whose  sketch 
follows.  4.  Milcah,  June  i,  1700.  5.  Han- 
nah, August  22,  1703.  6.  Elisha,  April  2, 
1705-  7-  ^lary,  September  22,  1706.  8.  Eli- 
jah, March  14,  1709.  9.  Ruth,  December  15, 
171 1.  10.  Benjamin,  March  12,  1714-15.  11. 
Athemar,  November  18,  171 7. 

(III)  Daniel  (2),  eldest  son  of  Daniel  (i) 
and  Abigail  (Fisher)  Farrington,  was  born 
in  1698-99,  probably  at  Wrentham,  Massachu- 
setts, and  died  February  5,  1755.  He  held  the 
title  of  lieutenant,  and  in  1731  married 
Bethiah  Mann. 

(IV)  Daniel  (3),  probably  the  son  of 
Daniel  (2)  and  Bethiah  (Mann)  Farrington, 
was  born  in  1771,  lived  in  Vermont.  In  mid- 
dle life  he  moved  with  his  family  to  Keene. 
New  York,  where  he  cleared  a  farm  on  which 
he  lived  till  his  death,  August  25,  1854.  He 
married  Rebecca  Kendall,  either  in  Westmore- 
land, New  Hampshire,  or  in  some  place  in 
Vermont.  She  was  born  in  1776,  died  Octo- 
ber 28,  i860.  They  had  ten  children:  Daniel, 
Isaac,  Jacob,  Rufus,  whose  sketch  follows ; 
Ira  P.,  Horace,  Harriet,  Lucinda,  Lucy  and 
Laura.  It  is  thought  that  these  children  were 
all  born  in  Western  Vermont. 

(V)  Rufus,  son  of  Daniel  (3)  and  Rebecca 
Farrington,  was  born  October  28,  181 8,  in 
Vermont,  and  died  at  Fort  Ann,  New  York, 
February  6,  1893.  In  early  life  he  moved  with 
his  parents  to  Keene,  New  York,  and  became 
owner  of  the  home  farm  there,  which  he  sub- 
sequently exchanged  for  a  store  at  West  Fort 
Ann.  About  i860  he  was  made  postmaster, 
which  position  he  held  several  years ;  he  later 
sold  his  store  and  purchased  a  farm  in  Fort 
Ann,  New  York.  Mr.  Farrington  married 
Maria  S.  Holt,  born  January  14,  1823,  died 
April  24,  1887,  daughter  of  Alva  and  Polly 
(Pease)  Holt,  of  Keene,  New  York.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Ira  Kendall,  born  July  31,  1841,  died 
in  Chicago,  April  26,  1891.  2.  Alva  Monroe, 
born  February  2,  1845,  resides  in  Whitehall, 
New  York.  3.  Albert  Henry,  born  February 
II,  1848.  4.  Clayton  James,  see  forward.  5. 
Fred  R.,  born  December  15,  1852.  6.  Frank 
William,  born  May  12,  1857,  died  June  or 
July,  1865.  7-  Jennie  Maria,  born  October  5, 
1864,  married  Dr.  Douglass. 

(VI)  Clayton  James,  fourth  son  of  Rufus 
and  Maria  (Holt)  Farrington,  was  born 
March  31,  1849,  at  Keene,  New  York.  At  the 
age  of  eleven  he  left  home  and  began  work  on 
a  farm  with  the  privilege  of  attending  school 


during  the  winters.  In  his  fifteenth  year  he 
was  a  pupil  at  a  private  school,  and  at  the  age 
of  sixteen  he  went  to  Portland,  Alaine,  where 
he  entered  the  employ  of  his  uncle,  Ira  P. 
Farrington,  in  the  retail  clothing  and  gents' 
furnishing  business.  While  there  he  attended 
evening  school  for  some  time,  and  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  was  taken  into  partnership  with 
his  uncle.  Upon  the  retirement  of  the  latter, 
Clayton  J.  Farrington  continued  the  business 
until  1893.  In  November,  1896,  he  came  to 
Lewiston  and  became  interested  in  the  Bates 
Street  Shirt  Company,  and  upon  its  incor- 
poration, ten  years  later,  was  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  concern,  with  which  he  is 
connected  at  the  present  time  (1909).  Mr. 
Farrington  is  a  Republican,  attends  the  Uni- 
versalist  church,  and  has  been  grand  coin- 
mander,  Knights  Templar,  for  the  state  of 
Maine. 

On  July  7,  1869,  Clayton  James  Farrington 
married  Ella  Leontine  Adams,  daughter  of 
Elijah  and  Cordelia  (Knight)  Adams,  of 
Portland,  Maine.  Mrs.  Farrington  is  a  de- 
scendant in  the  eighth  generation  of  John  and 
Priscilla  Alden,  and  a  descendant  in  the  fifth 
generation  of  Joseph  Adams,  of  Braintree, 
Massachusetts,  the  grandfather  of  President 
John  Adams.  (See  Adams,  VIII.)  Three 
daughters  were  born  to  Clayton  J.  and  Ella  L. 
(Adams)  Farrington:  Leontine  .\dams,  De- 
cember 19,  1869,  married  Frederick  J. 
Stevens,  who  died  .^pril  18,  1908.  Delia 
Maria,  Jamiary  14,  1871,  married  R.  W. 
Hilliard,  has  one  son,  Clayton  Adams,  .\lice 
T.,  January  16,  1873,  married  Henry  S.  Hig- 
gins. 


The  career  of  a  success- 
FARRINGTON     ful     business     man     not 

only  benefits  society,  but, 
when  the  result  of  individual  effort,  it  afifords 
an  incentive  to  others  for  high  endeavor  and 
the  achievement  of  like  success.  For  this 
reason,  worthy  examples  not  only  justify,  but 
merit  a  place  on  the  historic  page.  Ira  Put- 
nam Farrington's  career  was  in  the  line  of 
these  observations.  The  theatre  of  his  activi- 
ties was  in  the  city  of  Portland,  but  his  birth 
and  early  training  were  in  the  country,  a  fact 
quite  noticeable  in  the  lives  of  distinguished 
men  in  all  ranks  and  professions.  He  was 
born  in  Weston,  Vermont,  November  18,  1820, 
and  was  one  of  a  family  of  fourteen  children, 
all  of  whom  survived.  His  father  Daniel  (see 
preceding  sketch),  when  this  son  was  about 
four  years  of  age,  removed  to  Keene,  New 
York,  and  cultivateil  a  farm,  assisted  by  Ira 


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STATE  OF  :\IAINE. 


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until  the  latter  reached  the  age  of  sixteen 
years.  But,  dependent  upon  his  own  efforts 
for  fighting  the  battle  of  life,  his  tastes  led 
him  to  choose  a  different  pursuit  from  that 
which  his  father  contemplated  for  him. 

In  the  spring  of  1845  'i^  came  to  Portland. 
There  he  established  himself  in  business,  occu- 
pying a  store  on  Middle  street,  near  Exchange 
street,  where  he  remained,  using  it  later  as  an 
office,  until  his  death,  December  17,  1894.  He 
transacted  a  large  and  profitable  business  until, 
by  unremitting  industry  and  the  application  of 
those  cjualities  which  insure  success,  his 
property  interests  had  assumed  a  magnitude 
to  demand  his  exclusive  attention.  To  the 
management  of  these  he  devoted  himself 
mainly  in  his  later  years,  and  by  assiduity  and 
unusual  skill  he  accumulated  a  large  estate, 
and  became  one  of  the  most  prominent  capital- 
ists in  Portland  and  the  state. 

It  was  well  said  by  one  of  the  Portland 
journals  in  a  tribute  to  his  memory,  that 
■'though  never  seeking  honors  or  notoriety,  the 
community  was  not  slow  to  appreciate  his 
capacity  for  business  and  trustworthiness,  and 
hence  availed  itself  of  his  service  in  many 
local  and  prominent  institutions.  Among  the 
trusts  to  which  he  was  invited  was  that  of 
director  (and  afterwards  president)  of  the 
Casco  National  Bank,  president  of  the  Sail- 
ors' Home,  of  the  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  and 
of  the  Home  for  Aged  Men,  a  trustee  of  the 
Portland  Benevolent  Society,  an  active  partici- 
pant in  the  financial  management  of  Preble 
Chapel  and  of  the  First  Parish  (Unitarian) 
Church,  in  whose  prosperity  he  was  warmly 
interested."  His  death  was  deplored  as  a  pub- 
lic loss,  and  elicited  from  the  press  and  from 
various  institutions  with  which  he  was  iden- 
tified honorable  tributes  to  his  memory,  and 
usefulness,  some  of  which  may  well  be  placed 
on  record. 

It  was  said  in  the  Christian  Register  by  one 
who  knew  whereof  he  spoke:  "He  has  always 
been  associated  with  the  most  worthy  charities 
of  the  city,  and  usually  in  some  official  ca- 
pacity. His  judgment  in  business  affairs  was 
of  a  high  order.  This  ability  he  has  always 
freely  shared  with  the  organization  in  which 
he  was  active.  For  twenty-seven  years  Mr. 
Farrington  was  treasurer  of  the  Ministry  at 
Large,  known  as  Preble  Chapel.  This  is  the 
means  by  which  the  First  Parish  reaches  the 
poor  of  Portland.  In  this  office  Mr.  Farring- 
ton had  the  practical  control  over  the  work- 
ing of  the  institution." 

The  managers  of  the  Home  for  Aged  Men 
placed  on  its  records  the  following  tribute  to 


his  memory:  "Resolved,  that  in  the  death  of 
our  late  associate  we  have  sustained  a  loss 
which  \yords  fail  to  express.  A  prime  mover 
in  the  foundation  of  the  institution,  he  con- 
tinued to  be  its  supporter  and  friend,  and 
ready  to  give  assistance  in  the  promotion  of 
this  charity,  his_  life  stands  as  an  example  for 
us  who  remain,  while  his  memory  will  be 
cherished  as  long  as  the  Home  endures." 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  institution  a 
further  memento  was  placed  on  record  as  fol- 
lows :  "This  institution  met  with  a  serious  loss 
in  December,  when  Mr.  Ira  P.  Farrington,  one 
of  the  pioneers  in  this  undertaking,  and  for 
many  years  its  president,  passed  to  another 
life.  His  interest  in  everything  that  pertained 
to  the  House  was  unflagging.  He  knew  its 
needs,  he  hoped  for  it  a  great  usefulness.  Now 
that  his  earthly  presence  is  missing,  he  has 
emphasized  his  belief  in  the  cause  by  a  munifi- 
cent bequest,  a  remembrance  which  will  give 
fresh  impetus  and  solve  some  troublesome 
problems." 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Maine  Eye 
and  Ear  Infirmary,  at  a  special  meeting,  en- 
tered the  following  record :  "It  is  with  feel- 
ings of  deep  sorrow  that  we  record  the  death 
of  the  President  of  the  corporation  of  the 
Maine  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  and  one  of  the 
esteemed  associates  of  this  Board,  Mr.  Ira 
Putnam  Farrington,  who  died  at  his  residence 
on  Free  street  on  Monday,  December  17,  1894. 
Mr.  Farrington  early  saw  the  importance  of 
the  work  of  the  infirmary,  and  the  field  it  was 
destined  to  occupy  as  a  state  institution.  He 
was  constant  in  his  attendance  at  our  meet- 
ings, and  always  took  a  great  interest  in  the 
work,  and  welfare  of  the  institution,  annually 
contributing  liberally  to  its  support.  He  was 
a  careful  observer,  painstaking  in  his  methods 
to  ascertain  the  facts,  and  possessed  a  high 
ideal  of  how  things  should  be  done.  We  there- 
fore deem  it  a  high  endorsement  of  the  man- 
agement of  the  infirmary  that  the  methods 
pursued  met  his  entire  approval.  He  early 
recognized  that  in  its  origin,  in  its  method  of 
management,  and  in  the  scope,  extent  and 
variety  of  its  usefulness,  the  infirmary  was 
unique  in  its  existence,  and  without  a  parallel 
in  its  accomplishments.  The  munificent  gift 
of  a  portion  of  his  estate,  as  provided  in  his 
will,  is  the  final  consummation  of  his  benefi- 
cent acts,  and  the  highest  evidence  of  the  es- 
teem in  which  he  held  the  institution." 

Mr.  Farrington  gave  in  his  will  many  large 
and  beneficent  charitable  bequests :  T?o  the 
American  Unitarian  Association,  in  aid  of  the 
church   building   fund,   twenty    thousand   dol- 


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lars;  to  the  trustees  of  the  Portland  .Ministry 
at  Large,  twenty-one  thousand  dollars,  to  be 
known  as  the  Farrington  fund,  the  income  of 
fifteen  thousand  dollars  to  be  used  for  the 
benevolent  purposes  of  the  society,  and  that 
of  the  remainder  to  be  paid  over  to  its  minis- 
ter and  missionary,  now  Rev.  W.  T.  Phelan, 
for  distribution  to  the  poor  of- the  mis.sion ;  to 
the  Home  for  Aged  Men  at  Portland,  forty 
thousand  dollars,  the  income  to  be  applied  to 
the  charitable  purposes  of  the  institution ;  to 
the  Home  for  Aged  Women,  ten  thousand 
dollars,  under  the  same  conditions ;  and  to  the 
Female  Provident  Association,  two  thousand 
dollars.  He  divided  between  the  Maine  Eye 
and  Ear  Intirmar\  and  the  Portland  Public 
Library  a  large  residuary  fund  estimated  at 
about  three  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Mr.  Farrington  was  exact  in  all  his  methods, 
and  required  exactness  of  all  with  whom  he 
had  business  relations.  But  while  on  the  one 
hand  he  demanded  the  strict  fulfillment  of  all 
agreements,  on  the  other  he  was  free  and 
generous  in  his  charities,  although  discrimi- 
nating carefully  in  their  bestowment  b)'  con- 
fining them  to  such  as  he  found  to  be  worthy 
and  meritorious.  He  was  simple  in  his  habits 
and  mode  of  life,  but  he  indulged  in  all  things 
needful  to  make  his  home  an  abode  of  com- 
fort and  refinement,  and  for  travel  in  the 
United  States  and  abroad.  To  him  the  for- 
mer was  the  most  attractive  on  either  conti- 
nent, and  his  domestic  life  was  most  fortunate 
and  happy.  He  was  twice  married ;  his  sec- 
ond wife  survived  him  to  mourn  his  loss,  but 
he  left  no  children. 


In  all  lands  and  in  all  ages  cir- 
ADAMS  cumstances  have  created  oppor- 
tunities for  gifted  men  to  dis- 
tinguish themselves  above  their  fellows.  In 
some  instances  inherited  talent  has  made  it 
possible  for  men  in  successive  generations  of 
the  same  family  to  fill  high  positions  in  the  same 
general  line,  as  in  finance,  literature  or  states- 
manship. This  ability  to  see  opportunities  and 
this  strength  to  perform  great  labor  was  not 
a  fortuitous  gift  to  the  individual,  but  is  a 
characteristic  that  has  often  developed  in  this 
great  family,  for  nearly  all  the  Adamses  of 
New  England  are  of  one  stock.  Its  individual 
members  have,  as  a  rule,  been  persons  of  abil- 
ity, industry,  energy,  honor,  honesty,  sobriety, 
of  genial  disposition,  good  neighbors  and 
steadfast  friends,  persons  of  substance  and  in- 
fluence. From  this  sturdy  family  that  landed 
on  the  shores  of  New  England  nearly  three 
centuries    ago    have    come    a    host,    who    as 


yeoman,  bankers,  manufacturers,  lawyers,  doc- 
tors, clergymen  and  statesmen  have  serveil 
well  in  the  situations  they  have  been  called  to 
fill. 

(I)  Henry  Adams,  of  Braintree,  is  called 
thus  because  he  was  one  of  the  earliest  or  first 
settlers  in  that  part  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
designated  "Mt.  Wollaston,"  which  was  in- 
corporated in  1640  as  the  town  of  Braintree. 
then  including  what  is  now  Quincy,  I'raintree 
and  Randolph,  Massachusetts.  He  is  believed 
to  have  arrived  in  Boston  with  his  wife,  eight 
sons  and  a  daughter,  in  1632  or  1633,  but 
whence  he  came  is  a  matter  of  conjecture,  ex- 
cept that  he  was  from  England.  The  colonial 
authorities  at  Boston  allotted  to  him  forty 
acres  of  land  at  "the  Mount"  for  the  ten  per- 
sons in  his  family,  February  24,  1640.  The 
name  of  his  wife  is  not  known,  nor  where  or 
when  she  died.  Henry  Adams  died  in  Brain 
tree.  October  6,  1646.  It  is  known  that  he  was 
a  maltster  as  well  as  a  yeoman  or  farmer,  and 
a  plain,  unassuming  man  of  tact  and  ability 
who  came  to  America  for  a  better  opportunity 
for  his  large  family.  His  sons  were:  Lieu- 
tenant Henry,  Lieutenant  Thomas,  Captain 
Samuel,  Deacon  Jonathan,  Peter,  John,  Joseph 
and  Ensign  Edward. 

(II)  Joseph,  seventh  son  of  Henry  Adams, 
of  Braintree.  Massachusetts,  and  his  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  is  unknown,  was  born  in 
England  in  1626,  and  died  at  Braintree, 
Massachusetts,  December  6,  1694,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-eight.  He  was  a  maltster  by  occupation, 
and  was  made  a  freeman  in  1653  and  select- 
man of  the  town  in  1673.  On  November  26, 
1650,  Joseph  -Adams  married  at  Braintree 
Abigail  Baxter,  daughter  of  Gregory  and 
Margaret  Baxter,  of  Boston:  she  died  in  Bos- 
ton. August  27.  1692,  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight. 
Twelve  children  were  born  to  Joseph  and  Abi- 
gail (Baxter)  .\dams :  Hannah,  November 
13,  1652,  married  Deacon  Samuel  Savil ;  Jo- 
seph (2).  whose  sketch  follows:  John,  Feb- 
ruary 13.  1656,  died  January  27,  1657:  Abi- 
gail, February  27.  1658.  married  John  Bass 
(2)  :  Captain  Tohn,  December  20,  1661,  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  Webb,  (second)  Hannah 
Checkley :  Bethia  (twin),  December  20.  1601. 
married  John  Webb;  Mary,  September  8, 
1663.  died  young;  Samuel,  September  3,  1665, 
died  in  infancy ;  Mary,  February  25,  1668, 
married  Deacon  Samuel  Bass ;  Captain  Peter, 
February  7,  1670,  married  Mary  Webb;  Jona- 
than. January  31,  1671  ;  Mehitable,  November 
■23.   I '^73-  niarried  Thomas  White   (2). 

(HI)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
and    Abigail    (Baxter)    Adams    was    born    in 


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Braintree,  Massachusetts,  October  24.  1654, 
and  died  there  February  12,  1737.  He  was 
selectman  of  his  native  town  in  1673  and  in 
1698-99.  In  August,  1676,  he  and  John  Bass 
were  credited  to  Braintree  for  services  in  the 
war  with  the  Indians.  Joseph  (2)  Adams  was 
thrice  married,  and  he  had  eleven  children  in 
all,  two  by  the  first,  eight  by  the  second  and 
one  by  the  third  marriage.  On  February  20. 
1682,  Joseph  (2)  Adams  married  Mary 
Chapin,  who  was  born  .August  27,  1662,  and 
died  June  14,  1687.  They  had  two  daughters: 
Mary,  born  at  Braintree,  February  6,  1683, 
married  Ephraim  Jones  (2);  Abigail,  Febru- 
ary 17,  1684,  married  Seth  Chapin  (2).  In 
1688  Joseph  (2)  .-Vdams  married  Hannah 
Bass,  daughter  of  John  and  Ruth  (Alden) 
Bass,  who  was  born  June  22,  1667,  and  died 
October  24,  1705.  This  woman  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  John  and  Priscilla  (MuUins)  .\1- 
den,  whom  Longfellow  has  immortalized  ;  and 
she  was  destined  to  become  the  grandmother 
of  John  Adams,  second  president  of  the 
United  States.  She  had  reason  to  be  proud 
of  her  ancestry,  but  her  posterity  were  des- 
tined to  bring  her  more  reason.  To  Joseph 
(2)  and  Hannah  (Bass)  Adams  were  born 
eight  children ;  Reverend  Joseph,  January  4, 
1689;  Deacon  John,  February  8,  1691-92; 
Samuel,  whose  sketch  follows;  Josiah,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1696,  married  Bethia  Thompson; 
Hannah,  February  21,  1698,  married  Benja- 
min Owen;  Ruth,  March  21,  1700,  married 
Rev.  Nathan  Webb,  of  U.xbridge,  Massachu- 
setts; Bethia,  June  13,  1702,  married  Ebenezer 
Hunt;  Captain  Ebenezer,  December  20,  1704. 
married  Annie  Boylston,  sister  of  Susanna 
Boylston.  Of  this  family  Rev.  Joseph  Adams, 
the  eldest  son,  was  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  in  1710,  was  ordained  and  settled  at 
Newington,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  re- 
mained as  pastor  sixty-six  years,  and  where 
he  died  May  20,  1783,  in  his  ninety-fifth  year. 
Deacon  John  .\dams,  the  second  son,  married 
Susanna  Boylston,  daughter  of  Peter  and  .\nn 
(White)  Boylston,  of  Brookline,  Massachu- 
setts ;  she  lived  to  be  ninety-eight  years  and 
six  weeks  old,  dying  April  17,  1797.  They 
had  three  sons :  John,  who  became  the  sec- 
ond president  of  the  United  States ;  Captain 
Peter  Boylston,  who  lived  at  Braintree  and 
was  representative  to  the  general  court ;  and 
Captain  Elihu,  who  lived  at  Randolph.  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  died  during  the  revolution, 
aged  thirty-five.  The  father  of  President  John 
Adams  was  a  farmer  and  cordwainer,  which 
in  its  original  meaning  signified  a  worker  in 
Cordovan  leather,  and  was  finally  applied  to 


all  cobblers  and  shoemakers.  Joseph  (2) 
-Adams  had  a  third  wife,  Elizabeth  Hobart, 
daughter  of  Caleb  Hobart,  of  Braintree,  whom 
he  married  about  1706-07.  There  was  one 
child  of  this  third  marriage,  who  lived  but 
nine  days:  Caleb,  born  May  26,  died  [une 
4.  1 710. 

(I\')  Samuel,  third  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
Adams  and  his  second  wife,  Hannah  (  Bass) 
Adams,  was  born  at  Braintree.  Massachusetts, 
January  28,  1694,  and  died  July  17.  1751. 
This  Samuel  was  first  cousin  of  Samuel 
Adams,  the  elder,  as  he  is  usually  called,  to 
distinguish  him  from  his  son,  Samuel  Adarns, 
the  patriot.  On  October  6,  1720,  Samuel 
Adams  married  Sarah  Paine,  daughter  of 
Deacon  Moses  Paine ;  she  died  in  Aledway, 
Massachusetts,  June  23.  1777,  aged  seventy- 
nine.  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Paine)  Adams 
lived  in  Braintree,  now  Quincy,  Massachu- 
setts, where  their  eight  children  were  born : 
Samuel,  June  15,  1723:  Sarah,  March  4,  1726; 
Mary,  .\pril  4,  1728:  Joseph,  December  17, 
1730;  Moses,  January  31,  1733;  Aaron,  July 
29,  1736:  Elijah,  whose  sketch  follows;  and 
Nathaniel,  January  19,  1745. 

(V)  Elijah,  fifth  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Paine)  Adams,  was  born  at  Braintree,  Mas- 
sachusetts, March  16,  1738,  and  died  in  Bos- 
ton. August  22,  1798.  He  was  twice  married, 
and  had  two  children  by  the  first  wife.  About 
1760  Elijah  Adams  married  Mrs.  Deborah 
Miner,  who  died  February  14,  1778,  at  the  age 
of  forty  years.  There  were  two  children : 
Captain  Elijah,  born  at  Boston,  .\pril  5,  1762, 
who  followed  the  sea,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-three;  and  Moses,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. Elijah  Adams  married  for  his  second 
wife  Mrs.  Judith  Townsend,  widow  of  Nathan 
Townsend,  who  died  August  22,  1808,  in  her 
fifty-fifth  year. 

(VI)  Moses,  second  son  of  Elijah  and 
Deborah  (Miner)  .A.dams.  was  born  in  Bos- 
ton, in  1767,  and  died  at  Portland.  Maine, 
March  7.  1820.  On  March  30,  1796,  he  mar- 
ried Nancy  Paine,  who  died  October  30,  1838, 
aged  sixty-four.  They  lived  in  Portland, 
Maine,  where  their  nine  children  were  born : 
Sophia,  1797,  died  April  20,  1845;  Mary  A., 
1800,  married  Elijah  .Adams;  Adeline,  1802, 
died  June  10,  1840;  William,  1804,  died  Au- 
gust 30,  1820;  Loui.sa,  1806,  married  Elijah 
Adams;  Charles  P.,  1808,  died  September  11, 
1827;  Maria  G.,  1810,  died  November  14, 
1840;  Elijah,  1812,  died  .August  21,  1813, 
aged  ten  months;  Elijah  (2),  whose  sketch 
follows. 

(MI)    Elijah   (2).  youngest  and  only  sur- 


I3IO 


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viving  son  of  Moses  and  Nancy  (Paine) 
Adams,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  March 
I,  1814,  and  died  there  September  i,  1875. 
His  death  was  sudden,  and  was  occasioned  by 
heart  disease.  On  March  2,  1845,  Elijah  (2) 
Adams  married  Cordelia  Knight,  daughter  of 
Captain  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Hutchinson.) 
Knight,  of  Portland.  Mrs.  Adams  died  July 
19,  1853,  in  her  thirty-fifth  year,  leaving  chil- 
dren:  Frank  Eugene,  born  December  2,  1846; 
Charles  Moses,  November  6,  1847,  married 
Lizzie  Ann  Quinn ;  Harriet  M.,  died  young; 
Ella  Leontine,  mentioned  below ;  Delia  Maria, 
May  18,  1853,  died  January  3,  1871.  On 
March  26,  1855,  Elijah  (2)  Adams  married 
his  second  wife,  Mrs.  Olive  P.  (Hanscom) 
Talcott.  There  were  no  children  by  this  mar- 
riage. 

(MH)  Ella  Leontine,  daughter  of  Elijah 
(2)  and  Cordelia  (Knight)  Adams,  was  born 
in  Portland,  Maine,  April  29,  1850.  On  July 
7,  1869,  she  was  married  to  Clayton  James 
Farrington,  a  resident  of  Portland,  who  was 
born  at  Keene,  New  York,  March  31,  1849. 
They  have  three  daughters :  Leontine  A., 
Delia  M.  and  Alice  T.    (See  Farrington,  VL) 

The  coat-of-arms  of  the  English 

EATON     family  of  Eaton  is:    Azure  fret 

on   a  field.     Crest :    An  eagle's 

head  erased  sable  in  the  mouth  a  sprig  vert. 

Motto:     "Vincit    Omnia    Veritas."       (Truth 

conquers  all  things.) 

The  surname  Eaton  is  of  Welsh  and  Saxon 
origin,  a  place  name  meaning  hill  or  town 
near  the  water.  In  Welsh  "Aw"  means 
water,  and  "Twyn,"  a  small  hill;  Awtyn, 
called  "Eyton,"  a  small  hillock  near  the  water. 
In  Saxon  "Ea"  means  water  and  "Ton"  town 
■ — the  same  significance,  viz. :  A  town  or  hill 
near  the  water.  And  from  some  place  bearing 
this  name  the  first  of  the  family  to  use  tlje 
surname  took  their  home-town  name,  after  a 
very  common  custom.  The  name  of  the  fam- 
ily is  spelled  in  various  ways :  Eton,  Etton, 
Eyton  and  Eaton  by  all  authorities  during  the 
early  days,  but  the  latter  spelling  became  gen- 
erally used  several  generations  before  the  first 
emigrant  came  to  America.  The  English  an- 
cestry has  been  traced  as  follows : 

(I)  Banquo,  Thane  of  Lochabar,  A.  D. 
1000. 

(II)  Fleance,  son  of  Banquo,  married 
Guenta  Princess,  of  North  Wales. 

(III)  Alan  Fitz  Flaald,  son  of  Fleance,  mar- 
ried Amieria. 

(IV)  WiUiam  Fitz  Alan  (son  of  Alan) 
»ii?rried  Isabel  de  Say. 


(V)  Robert  de  Eaton,  son  of  William  Fitz 
Alan. 

(VI)  Peter  de  Eaton,  son  of  Robert  de 
Eaton. 

(\TI)  Sir  Peter  de  Eaton,  son  of  Peter  de 
Eaton,  married  Alice  . 

(\TII)  William  de  Eaton,  son  of  Sir  Peter, 
married  Matilda . 

(IX)  Sir  Peter  de  Eaton,  son  of  William 
de  Eaton,  married  Margery . 

(X)  Peter  de  Eaton,  son  of  Sir  Peter. 

(XI)  John  de  Eaton,  son  of  Peter  de  Eaton. 

(XII)  Peter  de  Eaton,  son  of  John  de 
Eaton. 

(XIII)  Humphrey  Eaton  (dropping  the 
preposition  de  (of),  son  of  Peter. 

(XIV)  Georgius  Eaton,  son  of  Humphrey 
Eaton. 

(XV)  Sir  Nicholas  Eaton,  son  of  Georgius 
Eaton,  married  Katerina  Talbott. 

(XVI)  Louis  Eaton,  son  of  Sir  Nicholas, 
married  Anna  Savage. 

(X\TI)  Henry  Eaton,  son  of  Louis  Eaton, 
married  Jane  Cressett. 

(X\TII)  William  Eaton,  son  of  Henry 
Eaton. 

(XIX)  William  Eaton,  son  of  William 
Eaton,  married  Jane  Hussey.  He  died  before 
1584;  his  widow  Jane  died  that  year,  leaving 
a  will  dated  August  27,  1584,  and  proved  De- 
cember 29  following.  She  left  instructions 
to  be  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  James, 
at  Dover,  England,  where  the  family  lived. 
She  named  her  son-in-law,  James  Huggen- 
son,  executor,  and  gave  directions  for  the 
education  of  her  sons  John,  Peter  and  Nicho- 
las, and  her  eldest  son  William.     One  of  the 

daughters  married  Allen  and  Barbara 

Allen   administered  her  father's  estate  a  few 
months   after   her   mother's    death. 

(XX)  Peter  Eaton,  son  of  William  Eaton, 
married  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Patterson.  Children : 
I.  William,  came  to  Reading,  Massachusetts, 
from  Staple,  England,  sailing  from  Sandwich 
before  June  9,  1637;  settled  first  at  Water- 
town,  where  he  was  a  proprietor  as  early  as 
1642;  removed  to  the  adjacent  town  of  Read- 
ing, where  he  was  a  proprietor  in  1644  and 
a  town  officer  later;  he,  his  wife  and  children 
were  legatees  in  the  will  of  his  wife's  sister, 
Margaret  Lane,  of  London,  England,  dated 
September  3,  1662;  he  died  at  Reading,  May 
i3>  1673.  2.  Jonas,  mentioned  below.  Per- 
haps others. 

(I)  Jonas  Eaton,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
this  branch  of  the  American  family,  was  son 
of  Peter  Eaton.  He  first  settled  with  his 
brother  in  Watertown  and  bought  land  there 


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1311 


and  had  his  residence  there  in  1643.  He  and 
his  brother  WilHam  were  among  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Reading,  Massachusetts.  Jonas  and 
his  wife  Grace  were  admitted  to  the  church 
at  Reading,  September  29,  1648,  or  eariier. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1653  and  was 
selectman  of  Reading  for  several  years.  His 
residence  and  farm  were  on  Cowdrey's  Hill, 
in  the  northwest  part  of  the  town,  now  within 
the  limits  of  Wakefield.  He  and  several  of 
his  neighbors  were  fined  sixpence  each  for 
being  late  to  town  meeting  on  one  occasion. 
He  died  February  24,  1674,  and  his  widow 
married,  November  18,  1680,  Henry  Silsbee, 
of  Lynn.  His  will  was  proved  April  7,  1674. 
He  bequeathed  to  his  wife  Grace,  sons  John, 
James,  Joseph,  Joshua,  Jonathan  and  daugh- 
ter Mary.    Children:    i.  Mary,  born  February 

8,  1643-44,  died  1731.  2.  John,  September  10, 
1645,  mentioned  below.  3.  Jonas,  born  and 
died  September  10,  1645.  4-  Jonas,  born  and 
died  September  24,  1648.  5.  Sarah,  1650.  6. 
Joseph,  January  5,  1651.    7.  Joshua,  December 

4,  1653.  8.  Jonathan,  December  6,  1655.  9. 
David,   September  22,    1657,  died   October  7, 

1657- 

(H)   John,  son  of  Jonas  Eaton,  was  born 
September  10,  1645,  ^i^d  was  called  "John  of 
the  Plains."     He  died  in  Reading,  Massachu- 
setts, May  25,  1691.     He  married,  November 
26,  1674,  Dorcas  Green,  and  settled  in  Read- 
ing.     Children:     i.    Jonas,    born    March    13 
1676,    died    March    28,    1676-77.      2.    Grace 
January  12,  1677,  married  John  Boutelle.     3 
Noah,  January  26,  1678,  died  1701.    4.  Thorn 
as,  June  22,   1679,  died  November  30,   1679 

5.  Jonas,  May  18,  1680,  mentioned  below.  6 
Joseph.  April  18,  1681.  died  April  29,  1681 
7.  Benjamin,  January  16,  1683-84,  died  Febru 
ary  2,  1683-84.    8.  Joseph,  settled  in  Reading, 

9.  Benjamin,  settled  in  Roxbury.  10.  Dorcas 
July  26,  1688,  died  young.  11.  Stephen,  Au- 
gust II,  1689,  died  August  25,  1689.  12 
Phebe,  August  25,  1690,  married  Jonathan 
Nichols. 

(HI)  Jonas  (2),  son  of  John  Eaton,  was 
born  Alay  18,  1680.  He  was  a  carpenter  and 
bricklayer  and  settled  in  Framingham.  He 
was  selectman  there  in  1717.  He  purchased, 
March  10,  1705-06,  the  east  half  of  what  was 
known  as  the  "Half  Mile  Square,"  and  died 
there  August  13,  1727.  He  married,  in  1705, 
Mehitable  Gould.  Children:  i.  Mehitable, 
born  February  17,  1706-07.  2.  Noah,  July 
22,  1708.  3.  John,  September  3,  17 10,  settled 
in  Killingly,  Connecticut.  4.  Phebe  twin),  Oc- 
tober 22,  1714.     5.  Jbnas  (twin),  October  22, 


1714,  mentioned  below.  6.  Joseph,  March  12, 
1716.  7.  Mary,  March  12,  1718.  8.  Joshua, 
July  I,  1 72 1,  settled  in  Voluntown,  Connecti- 
cut. 9.  Benjamin,  October  9,  1723.  10.  Ebe- 
nezer,  September  2,  1727,  cordwainer. 

(IV)  Jonas  (3),  son  of  Jonas  (2)  Eaton, 
was  born  October  22,  17 14.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 3,  1738,  Mary  Emerson.  He  was  taxed 
from  1739  to  1773  in  Framingham,  and  then 
removed  to  Charlestown,  where  he  lived  at  the 
time  the  town  was  burned  by  the  British.  He 
made  a  claim  in  1775  for  loss  of  property  for 
himself  and  his  three  sons,  Jonas,  Daniel  and 
Ebenezer.  Children:  i.  Jonas,  born  June  16, 
1739,  died  young.  2.  Jonas,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 8,  1740-41,  mentioned  below.  3.  Daniel, 
baptized  January  16,  1743-44.  4.  Ebenezer, 
baptized  November  4,  1744.  5.  Benjamin.  6. 
Mary,  baptized  November  6,  1748,  married, 
1772,  Silas  Parker.  7.  James,  baptized  Jan- 
uary 20,  1751-52.  8.  Joseph,  baptized  July  22, 
1753.    9.  Joshua,  baptized  March  28,  1757. 

(V)  Jonas  (4),  son  of  Jonas  (3)  Eaton, 
was  baptized  February  8,  1740-41,  and  was 
a  currier  by  trade.  The  marriage  intentions 
between  Jonas  Eaton  and  Mildred  Rand  were 
published  October  26,  1765,  and  were  "For- 
bidden by  the  man  himself."  He  married, 
December  i,  1767,  Mary  Wyer,  of  Charles- 
town,  where  he  settled.  He  owned  a  lot  on 
Main  street,  part  of  which  he  sold  to  Benja- 
min Frothingham.  He  was  taxed  in  Charles- 
town  from  1762  to  1766.  He  served  in  the 
revolution  in  Captain  Jesse  Fames'  company, 
Colonel  Samuel  Bullard's  regiment.  Fifth 
Middlesex,  in  1776,  and  also  in  Captain  David 
Brewer's  company.  Colonel  Abner  Perry's 
regiment,  Tenth  Middlesex,  in  the  Rhode 
Island  campaign.  He  died  in  1787  and  his 
estate  was  administered  by  his  son  Daniel. 
Children:  i.  Jonas,  baptized  February  11, 
1770,  mentioned  below.  2.  Elizabeth  (twin), 
baptized  March  8,  1772.  3.  Mary  (twin), 
baptized  March  8,  1772.  4.  Daniel.  5.  Ben- 
jamin. 6.  James.  When  Charlestown  was 
burned  in  1775,  his  wife  and  three  children 
escaped  in  a  rowboat  and  fled  to  Framingham, 
where  Jonas  joined  them  later,  and  from  there 
enlisted  for  the  war. 

(VI)  Jonas  (5),  son  of  Jonas  (4)  Eaton, 
was  baptized  in  Charlestown,  February  11, 
1770,  and  was  with  his  mother  when  they 
escaped  from  Charlestown  in  1775,  at  the 
burning  of  the  town.  He  married,  in  1792, 
Mary  Corey,  whose  father  was  a  revolutionary 
soldier.  He  resided  in  Groton,  Massachu- 
setts,   where   his   children    were   born.      Chil- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


dren  :  Josluia,  Alary,  .-\iiielia,  Jonas.  Charlotte, 
\\'illiam,.  Sara,  Joseph  Emerson,  Susan  and 
Henry  Frankhn. 

(VJI)  Henry  Franklin,  son  of  Jonas  (5) 
Eaton,  was  born  in  Groton,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  educated  there  in  the  public  schools. 
He  .settled  in  New  Brunswick,  and  was  very 
successful  in  the  lumbering;  business.  He 
lived  in  Milltown,  New  Brunswick,  and 
Calais,  Maine.  He  married,  October  17,  1842, 
Anna  Louisa,  born  at  Portland,  Maine,  De- 
cember 12,  1822,  daughter  of  William  and 
Esther  ( Wigglesworth)  Boardman.  Chil- 
dren:   I.  Henry  F.,  deceased.     2.  George  H. 

3.  Henrietta  AL,  married  Rev.  J.  J.  Blair; 
three  children  :    Helena,  Annie  and  Kenneth. 

4.  Henry  B.  5.  Franklin  M.  6.  Annie  K.. 
married  Horace  B.  Alurchie;  three  children: 
Wilfred,  Howard  and  Lillian.     7.  Wilfred  L. 

(  \in  )  Hon.  George  Howard,  son  of  Henrv 
Franklin  Eaton,  was  born  at  Alilltown,  New 
Brunswick,  Alarch  14,  1848.     He  prepared  for 
college  at  Phillips  Academv,  Andover,  Alassa- 
chusetts,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1866.     He 
entered  Amherst  College,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  the  class  of  1870,  with  the  degree  of 
A.    B.     He  then   became  associated   with   his 
father    and    brother    in    the    lumber    business, 
under  the  firm   name  of   Henry   F.   Eaton   & 
Sons,  at  Calais,  Alaine.     The  firm  deals  in  all 
kinds   of  eastern   lumber   and    has   enjoyed   a 
large  and  flourishing  trade.     It  ranks  among 
the  largest  houses  in  this  line  of  business  in 
that  .section  of  the  state.    Mr.  Eaton  is  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Croix  Lodge,  No.  46,  Free  Alasons, 
and  of  the  St.  Croix  Club,  of  which  he  has 
been  president.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Calais 
Board  of  Trade :  was  president  of  the  Calais 
National   Bank  for  a  number  of  years;  now 
president  of  the  International  Trust  and  Bank- 
ing Company  of  Calais.     He  is  a  trustee  of 
the    Bangor   Theological    Seminary,   and   cor- 
porate member  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Alis- 
sions,  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  Amer- 
ican   Sunday-school    Union.      Mr.    Eaton    has 
been  honored  with  various  offices  of  trust  and 
responsibility.     He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Calais 
public  library.     In  1901  he  was  elected  to  the 
state   legislature   and   served   two   terms   with 
credit.     He  was  state  senator  in  1906,  serving 
on  important  committees,  and  was  re-elected  in 
1908.     He  married,  in  Alilltown,  New  Bruns- 
wick, August  22.   1 87 1,  Elizabeth  Woodbury, 
of  Chicago,  Illinois,  born  at  Amherst,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  27,  1849,  daughter  of  James 
W.    Boyden,   a   lawyer,   of   Beverlv,   graduate 
of  Harvard  College,  who  settled  in  Amherst 
and   later  in   life   in    Chicago,  to  practice   his 


profession.  Children  :  i.  George  Dudley,  born 
August  31,  1872.  2.  Elizabeth  B.,  September 
I.  1874,  graduate  of  Aliss  Wheeler's  School 
at  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  3.  John  Boy- 
den, February  7,  1877.  4.  Harris  Dickinson, 
January  7,  1879.  5.  Anna  Louise,  Alarch  7, 
i«8i.  6.  Ahriam  Breed,  November  7,  188^  7 
Alice  Alay,  June  20,  1887,  graduate  of  Aliss 
Wheelers  School,  as  were  also  all  her  sisters- 
now  a  student  at  Wellesley  College,  class  of 
1910.    8.  Louis  Woodbury,  Alarch  28,  1892. 

TTATr^x-  '^'^'^  Eatons  of  the  following 
Ii-AION  line  are  not  directly  descended 
from  the  pioneer  of  that  name 
wlio  came  to  Alassachusetts  before  1700  but 
are  ot  a  family  which  came  to  these  shores 
about  a  century  ago  (being  descended  from 
one  of  the  pioneers  who  settled  for  a  time  in 
Connecticut  and  returned  to  England)  and 
settled  m  Alaine  soon  after  their  arrival  in 
America. 

(I)  Thomas  Eaton  came  from  Warrington 
England,  and  .settled  in  Bellingham,  Massa- 
chusetts, about  1805.  He  married,  at  Belling- 
ham Airs.  Rebecca  Barton,  a  widow  with  two 
children,  Seth  and  Rebecca.  He  afterward 
moved  to  Bath,  Alaine,  where  he  was  engaged 
as  a  ropemaker.  By  his  second  marriage  he 
had  four  daughters  and  two  sons:  i  Eliza- 
beth, married  Robert  Goddard.  2.  Hannah 
married  a  Mr.  Godfrey.  3.  Alary  Ann,  mar- 
ried Zachariah  T.  Thornton.  4. 'William  B 
died  ,n  infancy.  5.  Sarah  AL,  died  young! 
o.   ihomas,  see  forward. 

(II)    Thomas    (2),    son    of    Thomas   (i) 
and  Rebecca  Eaton,  was  born  in  Bellingham 
Massachusetts,   December    18,    1813,  and  died 
m   Brunswick,   Alaine,  August   16    1887      He 
resided   in   Bath    from   the  time   he   was   one 
year  old  until  he  removed  to  Brunswick,  April 
1865.     He  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  har- 
ness and  carnagemaker.    He  married,  at  Bath 
October  21.   1838,  Emilv  Bartlett  Nash,  who 
was  born  in  Bath.  November  22,  1819   dauo-h- 
ter  of  William  and  Lvdia  (Shaw)  Nash   bemcr 
a   descendant   of   Elder   Brewster,   who   came 
over  in  the  "Alayflower.'-     Thev  had  six  chil- 
dren:    I.  Maria  Frances,  married  George  S 
Berry,    of    Damariscotta,    and    has    one  Irhild 
living,   George  S.,  who    resides    in    Denver 
Colorado.      2.    Sarah    Ellen,    married    Finley 
Lattimore.    of    Washington,    D.    C,    and    has 
t\vo   children:    Emily,    the    wife    of    Sidney 
Coombs,  and  Katharine.    3.  Emma  J.  S.,  some 
years  after  the  death  of  her  sister    Sarah  E 
became  the  wife  of  Finlev  Lattimore.    4   Ray 
P.„  married  Ella  Cutter  and  has  two  children'- 


STATE  OF  :\IAIXE. 


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Abbif  .M.  ami  Alice  H.  3.  Thomas  H.,  see 
forward.  6.  Charles  H.,  who  married  Ella 
Blethen  and  has  one  child,  Harold  D. 

(Ill)  Thomas  H.,  fifth  child  and  second 
son  of  Thomas  (2)  and  Emily  Bartlett  (Nash) 
Eaton,  was  born  in  Bath,  Maine,  August  2t„ 
1849.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city,  where  he  prepared  for  college,  and 
in  1865  entered  Bowdoin  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  with  honors  in  the  class  of  1869, 
and  three  years  later  received  the  degree  of 
M.  A.  After  graduation  he  went  to  Burling- 
ton, Iowa,  where  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  office 
of  the  Chicago.  Burlington  &  Ouincy  rail- 
road. In  1873  he  became  clerk  in  the  First 
National  Bank  of  ]\Iadison,  \\'isconsin,  where 
he  remained  two  years.  From  that  place  he 
went  to  the  Iowa  National  Bank  of  Ottumwa, 
Iowa,  and  filled  the  position  of  bookkeeper  for 
some  years.  In  1883  he  went  to  London, 
England,  as  the  representative  of  the  Anglo- 
American  Investment  Company,  where  the 
business  in  which  he  was  engaged  required  his 
presence  eight  months.  After  his  return  to 
Ottumwa  he  was  made  teller  of  the  Iowa  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  later  was  promoted  to  cash- 
ier of  that  bank.  After  a  period  covering 
twenty-two  years  he  severed  his  connection 
with  that  institution  and  returned  to  Maine  in 
1896.  He  immediately  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Chapman  National  Bank  of  Portland,  and 
two  years  later,  i8g8.  was  made  its  cashier, 
and  has  held  that  place  ever  since.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Port- 
land Club,  but  he  is  not  a  politician,  nor  has 
he  any  affiliation  with  fraternal  societies. 


This  name,  which  is  variously 
WINN     spelled    Winne    and    Wynne,    also 

without  the  final  e,  is  of  ancient 
Welsh  origin,  being  derived  from  gii'yn,  mean- 
ing white.  "Burke's  Peerage"  has  this  to 
say  of  the  English  family :  "To  the  House  of 
Gydir,  now  represented  maternally  in  one  of 
its  branches  by  the  Williams-Wynns  of  Wynn- 
stay,  must  be  conceded  the  first  rank  in  Cam- 
brian genealogy.  This  eminent  family  de- 
duces male  descent  through  their  immediate 
ancestor.  Rhodri,  Lord  of  Anglesey,  vounger 
son  of  Owen  Gwynedd,  Prince  of  North 
Wales,  from  Anarawd,  King  of  North  Wales, 
eldest  son  of  Rhodri  Mawr,  King  of  Wales. 
This  last  monarch,  the  descendant  of  a  long 
line  of  regal  ancestors,  succeeded  to  the  crown 
of  Powys  on  the  demise,  in  843,  of  his  father. 
Mer\-yn  \"rych.  King  of  Po-wys,  and  by  in- 
heritance and  marriage  acquired  the  king- 
doms of  North  Wales  and  South  Wales." 


Rhodri  ap  Owen  Gwynedd,  Lord  of  An- 
glesey, mentioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph, 
was  born  about  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  cen- 
tury, and  married  Agnes,  daughter  of  Rhys  ap 
Griffith  ap  Rhys  ap  Tewdyr  Mawr,  King  of 
South  U'ales.  Tenth  in  descent  from  this 
couple  was  John  Wynne  ap  i\Ieredith  of 
Gwydir,  county  Caernavon,  who  died  in  1559- 
He  seems  to  have  been  the  first  to  bear  the 
name  of  Wynne  in  its  present  form.  His 
grandson.  Sir  John  Wynn,  of  Gwydir,  born 
in  1553,  was  the  well  known  author  of  the 
History  of  the  Gwydir  Family.  The  arms  of 
Wynn  of  Gwydir  are :  Quarterly :  first  and 
fourth,  -rert,  three  eagles,  displayed  in  fesse, 
or^  for  Owen  Gwynedd,  King  of  North  Wales ; 
second  and  third,  giilcs,  three  lions,  passant,  in 
pale  argent,  armed  azure,  for  Griffith  ap 
Cynan.   King  of  North  Wales. 

(I)  Edward  Winn,  the  progenitor  of  the 
New  England  family,  was  born  about  the  be- 
ginning of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  came 
with  his  family  from  Ipswich,  England,  to 
Massachusetts  about  1638-40.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Woburn.  being  there  in 
1641,  and  he  died  in  that  town.  September  5, 
1682.  He  was  married  three  times.  His  first 
wife,  Joanna,  came  from  England  with  him,  and 
their  son  Increase,  born  December  5,  1641, 
was  the  first  child  whose  birth  is  found  in  the 
records  of  Woburn.  It  is  probable  that  the 
son  Joseph  and  the  daughters  Ann  and  Eliza- 
beth were  older,  and  came  from  England  with 
their  parents.  Joanna,  wife  of  Edward  Winn, 
died  March  8,  1649,  '"id  on  August  2  of  that 
year  he  married  Sarah  Beal.  She  died  March 
15,  1680,  and  Edward  Winn  married  Mrs. 
Ann  or  Hannah  Wood,  widow  of  Nicholas 
W'ood,  who  survived  him,  dying  in  1686. 
Children :  i .  Joseph,  see  forward.  2.  Ann, 
married.  September  26.  1648,  Moses  Cleveland, 
of  Woburn.  3.  Elizabeth,  married.  May  21, 
1649,  George  Polly,  of  Woburn.  a  carpenter 
by  trade ;  she  died  May  2,  1695.  4.  Increase, 
married,  in  Woburn,  July  13,  1665,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Richard  Sawtell. 

(II)  Joseph,  eldest  son  of  Edward  and 
Joanna  \\'inn,  was  born  in  England,  and  came 
to  this  country  with  his  parents  about  1640. 
He  died  in  Woburn.  where  he  spent  his  life 
and  reared  his  family,  in  1641.  .About  1664 
Joseph  Winn  married  Rebekah,  daughter  of 
William  and  Mabel  Reed,  and  sister  of  the 
first  George  Reed,  of  Woburn.  Joseph  and 
Rebekah  (Reed)  Winn  had  children:  i.  Re- 
bekah. born  ]\lay  25,  1665,  died  April  6,  1679. 
2.  Sarah,  November  9,  1666,  married  Ebenezer 
Johnson.     3.  Joanna,    1668,  married   Edward 


I3I4 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Knight.  4.  Abigail.  June  18,  1670,  lived  but 
one  week.  5.  Joseph,  jNIay  15,  1672.  6.  Jo- 
siah,  whose  sketch  follows.  7.  Timothy,  1676, 
died  ]\larch  22,  1678.  8.  and  9.  Rebekah  and 
Hannah  (twins j,  February  14,  1679.  10. 
Anne,  November  i,  1684,  died  September  13, 
1686.  II.  Timothy,  February  27,  1687,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Brooks,  who  had  a  son.  Deacon 
Timothy  Brooks,  who  became  wealthy. 

(Ill)  Josiah,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Re- 
bekah (Reed)  Winn,  was  born  at  Woburn, 
Massachusetts,  March  15,  1674,  and  died  at 
Wells,  ]\Iaine,  in  1734.  In  1700  he  received 
a  grant  of  ten  acres  of  land  at  Wells,  and 
moved  there,  probably  increasing  his  holdings 
from  time  to  time.  He  was  one  of  the  select- 
men, and  took  part  in  Lovell's  war,  which 
ended  in  1726.  He  appears  to  have  been  a 
man  who  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  com- 
munity, because  the  care  of  the  estate  and 
children  of  Josiah  Littlefield,  who  had  been 
captured  by  the  Indians  in  1708,  was  assigned 
him  (Winn)  by  order  of  the  probate  court. 
Josiah  Littlefield  was  an  uncle  of  the  wife  of 
Josiah  Winn,  and  the  stewardship  resulted  in 
one  of  those  long  family  quarrels  which  was 
not  ended  by  the  death  of  the  chief  partici- 
pants. The  History  of  IVells  and  Kennehunk 
devotes  several  pages  to  the  matter,  and  the 
author  is  inclined  to  blame  Littlefield's  second 
wife  for  all  the  trouble.  From  all  accounts 
Winn  had  conducted  affairs  in  a  judicious 
manner,  and  Littlefield  himself  would  have 
found  no  fault  had  he  not  been  egged  on  bv 
his  wife.  The  contest,  originally  a  private 
one,  assumed  such  proportions  and  involved 
so  many  people  that  the  litigation  lasted  for 
forty  years,  from  1710  to  1750,  and  Edward  E. 
Bourne,  the  historian  of  Wells,  thinks  it  is 
without  a  parallel  in  New  England.  Josiah 
Winn  married  Lydia  Littlefield,  and  there  were 
two  sons,  Josiah  and  John,  and  probably  some 
daughters.  Josiah  (2)  was  probably  born 
about  1705,  as  a  list  of  the  ninety-one  male 
inhabitants  of  the  town,  made  in  1726,  in- 
cludes him,  as  well  as  his  father.  They  are 
the  only  Winns  mentioned  and  the  son  prob- 
ably would  not  have  been  enrolled  had  he  not 
been  of  age. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Josiah  and  Lydia  (Little- 
field) Winn,  was  born  in  1710,  probably  at 
Wells,  Maine.  From  the  side  lights  we'  are 
able  to  get  on  his  career,  he  was  a  man  noted 
for  his  bravery  and  decision  of  character.  In 
1737  Captain  John  Winn,  in  company  with 
John  Webber  and  James  Littlefield,  purchased 
the  schooner  "Prosperous,"  of  York.  This 
vessel  was  engaged  in  the  coasting  trade,  and 


was  commanded  by  Captain  Winn.  How  long 
the  latter  followed  the  sea  is  not  known,  but 
he  was  appointed  one  of  the  committee  to 
build  the  new  meeting-house  in  1766.  He  saw 
some  service  in  the  revolution,  for  we  read  that 
in  1779  Captain  John  Winn,  in  company  with 
Major  Daniel  Littlefield,  Captain  Samuel  Saw- 
yer, and  others  of  the  most  substantial  and 
energetic  citizens  of  Wells,  was  called  upon 
to  take  part  in  the  expedition  to  the  Penobscot. 
The  American  fleet,  consisting  of  seventeen 
vessels  and  a  large  number  of  transports,  en- 
tered the  bay  on  July  21,  and  a  cannonade  was 
soon  begun.  But  a  large  addition  to  the  ene- 
my's vessels  arrived,  and  the  failure  of  our 
own  government  to  furnish  the  required  num- 
ber of  soldiers  resulted  in  defeat,  and  the 
American  army  made  their  retreat  in  the  best 
manner  they  could  through  the  wilderness. 
They  finally  reached  their  homes  after  great 
suffering.  Major  Littlefield  and  Captain  Saw- 
yer lost  their  lives  in  this  expedition,  but 
Captain  \\'inn,  though  sixty-nine  at  the  time, 
probably  survived ;  at  least,  we  have  no  ac- 
count of  his  death.  Captain  John  Winn  was 
married  probably  as  early  as  1735;  at  least, 
we  have  record  of  a  school  being  kept  in  his 
house  about  that  date.  He  had  two  wives, 
Huldah  and  Abigail  Littlefield,  probably  sis- 
ters, and  there  were  five  sons,  and  perhaps 
daughters. 

(V)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  Captain  John 
(i)  and  Huldah  (Littlefield)  \\'inn.  was  born 
in  1736,  at  Wells,  ;\Iaine.  The  only  informa- 
tion that  we  have  been  able  to  find  concern- 
ing him  relates  to  the  seating  of  the  new 
meeting-house  in  June,  1769.  This  was  an 
important  ceremony  in  old  times,  and  people 
were  seated  according  to  their  rank  or  wealth. 
John  (2)  \\'inn  was  assigned  to  the  front  rank 
in  the  gallery,  where  the  pews  were  rated  at 
six  pounds,  eight  shillings.  John  (2)  Winn 
married  Priscilla  Littlefield :  their  children 
were :  Ebenezer,  Isaac  and  three  daughters. 

(VI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Pris- 
cilla (Littlefield)  ^^'inn,  was  born  at  Wells, 
Maine,  1768.  Nothing  further  is  known  about 
him  except  that  he  had  two  wives,  the  first 
Olive  Goodwin,  the  second,  Abigail  Staples. 

(VII)  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Winn,  was  born  in  1818,  died  January  8, 
1852.  He  married  Sally,  daughter  of  Elihu 
and  Sarah  Hayes.  Children:  i.  John,  see 
forward.  2.  Charles  E.  3.  Charles  H.  4. 
Mary  E.,  married  James  I.  Shapleigh.  5. 
Hannah  E.,  married  John  S.  Peasley.  6. 
Laura  J.,  married  (first)  W.  P.  Morrison; 
(second)   George  W.  Janvrin. 


^  ^^> 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1315 


(\"III)  John  (3),  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  and 
Sally  (Hayes)  Winn,  was  born  at  Lebanon, 
Maine,  November  7,  1842.  At  the  age  of  nine 
years,  on  account  of  his  father's  death,  he 
went  to  work  on  a  neighboring  farm,  gaining 
such  education  as  the  district  schools  of  the 
time  afforded.  When  a  young  man  he  learned 
the  business  of  manufacturing  cotton  goods, 
and  he  has  been  engaged  in  this  work  ever 
since,  at  Lewiston,  Maine.  He  belongs  to  the 
Masonic  order,  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
a  Presbyterian  in  religion.  October  25,  1864, 
John  (3)  Winn  married  Margaret  O'Meara, 
of  LeW'iston,  Maine.  They  have  two  children  : 
George  Hayes,  whose  sketch  follows ;  and 
Therese  Belle,  born  October  21,  1885. 

(IX)  George  Hayes,  only  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Margaret  (O'Meara)  Winn,  was  born  at 
Lewiston,  Maine,  November  30,  1880,  and  ob- 
tained his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  that  city.  He  was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Maine  in  the  class  of  1900  and 
from  the  law  department  of  the  same  institu- 
tion in  1903.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
February  7,  1904.  Mr.  Winn  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  has  been  secretary  of  the  city 
committee  for  five  years.  He  has  twice  been 
candidate  for  representative,  but  was  defeated 
on  account  of  the  city  being  strongly  Demo- 
cratic. During  the  session  of  the  Maine  legis- 
lature in  1907  he  served  as  secretary  of  the 
committee  on  legal  affairs.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
in  which  he  is  an  active  worker,  has  filled  all 
chairs  and  is  now  exalted  ruler. 


(For    aucestry    see    preceding    sketch.)  ' 

(V)  Nathaniel  Winn  was  a  con- 
WINN  temporary  of  John  Winn  (4), 
probabl}-  a  cousin.  He  lived 
at  Wells,  Maine,  and  in  1769,  when  the  seating 
of  the  new  meeting-house  was  in  progress,  he 
was  assigned  by  the  committee  one  of  the  pews 
of  second  rank  in  the  gallery,  which  was 
valued  at  five  pounds.  Nathaniel  Winn  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  and  in  early  middle  life 
moved  wdth  his  family  to  Clinton,  Alaine, 
where  he  was  among  the  first  settlers. 

(VI)  Japheth,  son  of  Nathaniel  Winn,  was 
born  at  Wells,  Maine,  near  the  close  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  died  at  Benton,  Maine, 
in  1875.  In  his  younger  days  he  followed  the 
sea  as  a  cook  aboard  ship  on  the  vessels  that 
sailed  from  Wells.  After  a  time  he  gave  up 
his  seafaring  life,  and  learned  the  blacksmith's 
trade,  at  which  he  worked  during  the  greater 
part  of  his  days,  having  his  home  at  Benton. 


He  was  a  staunch  Democrat,  attended  the 
Universalist  church,  and  at  one  time  was  a 
major  in  the  militia.  About  1817  he  married 
Annie  Simpson,  who  was  born  at  Winslow, 
Maine,  and  died  at  Benton.  They  had  nine 
children  :  Charles  H.,  Abigail  A.,  Japheth  M., 
whose  sketch  follows,  George  W.,  Olive  J., 
Eliza  A.,  Maria  A.,  iSIary  C.  and  Frances. 

(VII)  Japheth  Miles,  son  of  Major  Japheth 
and  Annie  (Simpson)  Winn,  was  born  at 
Clinton,  jMaine,  May  14,  1822.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  schools  of  Clinton,  which  is  now 
a  part  of  Benton,  and  also  at  Benton  Academy. 
He  then  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmith  with 
his  father.  At  twenty  years  of  age  he  went 
to  Boston,  where  he  remained  but  a  short  time, 
when  he  went  to  Bingham,  Maine,  where  he 
learned  to  make  axes  by  hand,  following  gen- 
eral work  for  one  year,  working  for  Cyrus 
Hunter.  In  1843  ]Mr.  Winn  returned  to  his 
native  town  of  Clinton,  where  he  built  a  black- 
smith-shop of  his  own ;  shod  many  oxen, 
manufactured  axes  by  hand,  and  conducted  an 
extensive  business  in  general  work.  In  1867 
he  sold  his  business  to  Messrs.  Hussey  and 
Thompson,  and  became  a  dealer  in  lumber  and 
wood.  He  supplied  the  Maine  Central  rail- 
road with  wood  until  they  adopted  the  use  of 
coal.  For  two  or  three  years  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  John  Jewell  in  the  ownership  of  a 
general  store  at  Clinton,  but  in  1875  !Mr.  Winn 
sold  out  his  interest,  and  has  since  been  re- 
tired from  active  business.  He  attends  the 
L'niversalist  church,  and  is  a  Democrat  in 
politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
selectmen  in  Clinton  during  the  years  1859-66, 
serving  as  chairman  of  the  board,  and  with 
the  exception  of  two  years  was  town  treasurer 
from  1867  to  1880;  in  1880  served  one  year 
as  county  commissioner.  IMr.  Winn  married, 
December  31,  1852,  Eleanor  S.,  born  at  Clin- 
ton, August  17,  1833,  daughter  of  David  (2) 
and  Mary  (Hay ford)  Hunter.  They  had 
three  children:  Annie  M.,  born  April  18,  1854, 
died  September  25,  i860.  2.  Mary  A.,  Feb- 
ruary 5.  1857.  died  September  13,  i860.  3. 
Frank,  August  2,  1867,  died  April  10,  1869. 


The  posterity  of  Rev.  Will- 
TOMPSON  iam  Tompson,  immigrant,  of 
Braintree,  and  particularly 
the  line  written  in  the  present  article,  is  re- 
markable for  the  moral  and  mental  qualities 
of  many  of  those  who  constitute  it,  and  the 
number  of  clerg\-men  and  graduates  of  Har- 
vard College  which  it  has  produced. 

(I)  Rev.  ^^'illiam  Tompson,  or  Thompson, 
as  the  name  was  sometimes  spelled,  matricu- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


lated  at  Brazen  Nose  College,  Oxford,  Eng- 
land. January  28,  1620,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one,  but  his  degree  is  not  found  in  the  Fasti. 
He  had  been  a  preacher  in  Warwick,  a  parish 
of  his  native  Lancashire,  before  he  came  to 
our  side  of  the  sea  in  1637,  and  was  engaged 
first  at  Kittery  or  York.  He  brought  with 
him  his  wife  .\bigail  and  sons  Samuel  and 
William,  perhaps  daughter  Mary,  and  Elinor, 
who  was  born  in  1626.  He  had  born  here 
Joseph  and  Benjamin.  He  settled  in  Brain- 
tree,  Massachusetts,  in  1639,  ^''"^  "^"^'^s  made  a 
freeman  Alay  13,  1640.  and  in  the  same  year 
received  a  grant  of  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  land.  Also,  on  July  29,  1644,  a 
grant  was  made  to  "Thompson,  William  and 
Flint,  Henry  Alarsh  in  the  three  hills  march 
not  formerly  granted  to  J.  Wheelwright,  to- 
gether with  two  hillocks  of  upland."  He 
owned  and  occupied  an  estate  on  the  west  side 
of  the  sea.  now  Chestnut  street,  and  Rev. 
Peter  Whitney  and  Rev.  Henry  Flint  had 
property  on  the  east  side  of  the  same  street. 
"The  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson,  pastor  of  the  First 
Church  of  Braintree,  was  selected  as  chaplain 
to  sound  the  silver  trumpet  along  with  the 
army,"  when  a  draft  w-as  ordered  on  Brain- 
tree  for  soldiers,  August  5,  1645,  '^o  fill  a 
quota  of  two  hundred  men  to  go  to  tight  the 
Narragansetts,  but  the  deputies  of  Pessacus 
and  the  other  chiefs  averted  war  at  that  time. 
After  the  dismissal  of  Mr.  Wheelwright,  the 
people  of  Braintree  called  Mr.  Tompson  to 
be  their  pastor  and  Mr.  Henry  Flint  to  be 
their  teacher.  From  a  report  of  a  committee 
made  in  1657  it  appears  that  they  received 
fifty-five  pounds  as  their  salary.  The  original 
covenant,  as  signed  by  the  members  of  the 
First  Cluirch  of  Braintree,  at  their  first  gather- 
ing. September  16,  1639,  had  for  its  first  sub- 
scriber "Wm.  Tompson,  Pastor."  Mr.  Tomp- 
son was  ordained  November  19,  1639,  and  ]\lr. 
Flint.  March  17,  1640.  According  to  the  dis- 
tinction observed  in  those  early  times  in 
churches,  !Mr.  Tompson  became  pastor  and 
Mr.  Flint  teacher.  One  of  the  most  important 
incidents  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Tliompson  was 
his  being  chosen  one  of  the  ministers  to  go 
on  a  mission  to  \'irginia  in  1642,  upon  a  re- 
quest from  certain  individuals  in  that  remote 
colony  that  competent  ministers  of  the  Con- 
gregational order  should  be  sent  to  preach  the 
gospel  to  them.  The  following  e.xtract  from 
Hubbard's  History  of  New  England  will  ex- 
plain the  reasons  and  object  of  this  mission: 
"In  the  same  year,  1642,  one  Mr.  Bennett,  a 
gentleman  of  \'irginia,  arrived  in  Boston, 
bringing  letters  with  him   from   sundry  w-ell- 


disposed  jieople  there,  to  the  ministers  of  New 
England,  bewailing  their  sad  condition  for 
want  of  the  means  of  salvation,  and  earnestly 
entreating  a  supply  of  faithful  ministers,  whom 
upon  experience  of  their  gilts  and  godliness, 
they  might  call  to  office.  Mr.  Knowles  and 
Mr.  Tompson  were  sent  away  by  the  con- 
sent of  their  churches  and  departed  on  their 
way  on  October  7,  1642,  to  meet  the  vessel 
that  should  transport  tliem,  at  Narragansett. 
They  were  long  wind-bound  at  Rhode  Island, 
and  met  many  other  difficulties,  so  as  they 
made  it  eleven  weeks  of  a  dangerous  passage 
before  they  arrived  there ;  but  had  this  ad- 
vantage in  the  way,  that  they  took  a  third 
minister  along  with  them  in  the  person  of  Mr. 
James,  of  New  Haven.  They  found  loving 
and  liberal  entertainment  in  the  country,  and 
were  bestowed  in  several  places  by  the  care  of 
some  honest-minded  persons,  that  much  de- 
sired their  company  rather  than  by  any  care  of 
the  governor.  And  though  the  difficulties  and 
dangers  they  w'ere  continually  exercised  with 
in  their  way  thither,  put  upon  them  some  ques- 
tion whether  their  call  were  of  God  or  not, 
yet  they  were  much  encouraged  by  the  suc- 
cess of  their  ministry,  through  the  blessing  of 
God,  in  that  place.  Mr.  Tompson,  a  man  of 
melancholy  temper  and  crazy  body,  wrote 
word  back  to  his  friends  that  he  found  his 
health  so  repaired,  and  his  spirit  so  enlarged, 
that  he  had  not  been  in  the  like  condition 
since  he  first  left  England.  But  he  fared  with 
them  as  it  had  done  before  with  the  Apostles 
in  the  primitive  times,  that  the  people  magni- 
fied them,  and  their  hearts  seemed  to  be  much 
inflamed  with  an  earnest  desire  after  the  Gos- 
pel, though  the  civil  rulers  of  the  country  did 
not  allow  of  their  public  preaching,  because  they 
did  not  conform  to  the  orders  of  the  Church 
of  England :  however,  the  people  resorted  to 
them,  in  private  houses,  as  much  as  before. 
At  their  return,  which  was  the  next  summer, 
by  the  letters  which  they  brought  with  them, 
it  appears  that  God  had  greatly  blessed  their 
ministry  for  the  time,  while  they  were  there, 
which  was  not  long;  for  the  rulers  of  the 
country  did  in  a  sense  drive  them  out,  having 
made  an  order  that  all  such  as  would  not  con- 
form to  the  discipline  of  the  English  Church, 
should  depart  the  country  by  such  a  day.  It 
appears  from  what  is  related  concerning  this 
mission  that,  although  it  did  not  succeed,  as 
had  been  anticipated,  and  was  abruptly  ter- 
minated by  the  order  from  the  authorities  of 
the  Virginia  Colony,  yet  it  was  not  wholly 
without  fruit.  ^lany  seem  to  have  been  favor- 
ably impressed  by  the  preaching  of  Tompson 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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and   his   associates ;    and   Daniel    Gookins    re- 
moved   from    X'irginia    and    settled    in    Cam- 
bridge, and  was  later  Major  General  of  j\las- 
sachusetts    Colony,   and   was    author   of   "The 
Historical  Collections  of  the  Indians  of  New 
England.'     Mr.   Tompson  met  with  a  severe 
bereavement  in  the  death,  during  his  absence, 
of  his  wife,  who  died  January  i,  1643.     She 
is  described  as  a  Godly  young  woman,  and  a 
comfortable  help  to  him,  being  left  behind  with 
a  comjiany  of  small  children.     She  was  taken 
away  by  death  and  all  his  children  scattered, 
but  well  disposed  of  among  his  Godly  friends. 
Mr.  Tompson  married  (second)   1646  or  1647, 
Anne,  the  widow  of  Symon  Crosbie,  of  Cam- 
bridge.     Their   only   child,    Anna,    was   born 
March  3,   1648.     In   1648  Mr.  Tompson  was 
connected  with  the  synod  which  convened  at 
Cambridge,  and  framed  the  platform  of  church 
discipline    for    the    Congregational    churches. 
For  several  years  before  his  death  Mr.  Tomp- 
son's  happiness  and  usefulness  appear  to  have 
been  destroyed  by  a  fixed  melancholia  which 
amounted  at  times  to  mental  alienation.     He 
left    his    public   labors   as   a    preacher    in   the 
year  1658,  about  seven  years  before  his  death. 
The   state  of  his  mind   in   the   latter  part  of 
his    life    cloubtless    incapacitated    him    for   the 
management  of  his  temporal  affairs,  as  well 
as  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties.     In  the 
archives  of  the  state  is  a  documenf  entitled  'A 
proposal  for  the  issue  of  the  complaints  pre- 
sented by  the  beloved  brethren,  the  Deacon  of 
the  Church  of  Braintree,  in  reference  to  our 
beloved    sister,    Mrs.    Tompson,    yet    standing 
member  of  the  Church  of  Cambridge,  drawn 
up  by  the  elders  and   some  brethren  of  that 
church,  who  had  a  hearing  thereof  at  Cam- 
bridge, October  15,   1661.     This  unhappy  dif- 
ference between  Mrs.  Tompson  and  the  offi- 
cers of  the    Braintree  church   seems  to   have 
continued.     After  the  decease  of  her  husband 
she  presented  a  petition,  in  1668,  to  the  gen- 
eral court,  in  which  she  complains  of  certain 
moneys  being  withheld  that  were  due  to  her 
husband  for  his  services,  and  asks  relief,  al- 
though she  humbly  craves  that  she  may  not 
be   interpreted   to   accuse   the   church   of   any 
acts  of  injustice  or  neglect  in  the  place  where 
she  lives."     In  this  connection  it  may  be  men- 
tioned that  in  the  Dorchester  church  records 
is  the  following  entry:   "The  26  ( I )  '65.    The 
day  aforesaid,  at  the  Motion  of  Mr.  Mather, 
there  was  a  contribution  for  Mr.  Tomson  of 
Braintree,  into  which  there  was  given  in  money 
£6  OS   9d,   besides  notes   for   corn   and   other 
things  above  30s ;  and  some  more  money  was 
added  afterwards  to  the  value  of  8s  3d."    Mr. 


Tompson"s  reduced  circumstances  were  due 
probably  to  the  mode  of  Raising  the  minister's 
salary  in  Braintree,  which  was  by  contribution, 
and  varied  from  time  to  time.  Death  at  length 
came  to  deliver  the  pastor  from  his  outward 
straits,  and  to  relieve  his  mental  distress.  It 
is  gratifying  to  be  assured  that  before  his  de- 
parture, the  cloud  that  had  settled  upon  him 
for  years,  lifted,  and  he  enjoyed  a  brief  season 
of  peace.  He  died  December  10,  1666.  He 
was  buried  in  the  old  Hancock  cemetery,  and 
his  headstone,  the  oldest  to  be  found  there, 
bears  the  inscription:  "Here  lies  buried  the 
body  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  William  Tompson,  the 
first  pastor  of  Braintrey  Church,  who  de- 
ceased December  10,  1666.  Aetatis  suae,  68. 
He  was  a  learned,  solid,  sound  divine,  whose 
name  and  fame  in  both  Englands  did  shine.' 
And  by  his  side  lies  Mrs.  Ann  Tompson,  his 
wife,  deceased  October  ye  11,  1675.  Aged 
68  years.  Mr.  Tompson  died  intestate.  There 
is  in  the  Suffolk  Probate  Office  an  inventory 
of  his  effects,  which  corresponds  too  closely 
with  Mather's  lines :  "Braintree  was  of  this 
jewel  then  possest.  Until  himself  he  labored 
into  rest.  His  inventory  then,  with  John's  was 
took ;  A  rough  coat,  girble,  with  the  Sacred 
book." 

(II)  Deacon  Samuel,  eldest  son  of  Rev. 
William  and  Abigail  Tompson,  was  born  in 
England  in  1631,  and  died  in  Braintree,  June 
18,  1695.  The  house  in  which  the  public 
Latin  school  was  taught  for  many  years  was 
first  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Samuel  Tomp- 
son, who  in  1672  sold  it  to  the  Rev.  Moses 
Fisk,  the  second  settled  clergyman  of  the 
First  Church.  This  estate  then  consisted  of  a 
house,  barn,  orchard  and  six  acres  of  land,  and 
was  purchased  for  £115.  Samuel  Tompson 
was  appointed  ensign  October  15,  1684.  He 
was  ordained  deacon  of  the  First  Church  in 
Braintree,  November  2,  1679,  though  his 
name  is  not  found  in  the  list  of  freemen.  He 
was  an  influential  man  in  political  affairs,  and 
was  representative  from  1676  to  1686,  except 
in  1681-82,  and  again  filled  that  office  in  1691. 
Among  the  bequests  in  the  will  of  William 
Fenn,  of  Boston,  were  :  "To  Deacon  Tompson, 
of  Brantry,  two  pounds  in  silver ;  and  to 
his  son  Edward  I  give  two  pounds  in  Money." 
Samuel  Tompson  married  (first)  April  25, 
1656,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Edward  Shepard, 
who  died  January  15,  1680,  aged  forty-three. 
He  married  (second)  Widow  Elizabeth  Bil- 
lings, perhaps  the  daughter  of  Roger,  of  Dor- 
chester, who  died  November  5,  1706,  aged 
sixty-nine.  She  was  buried  in  the  old  Han- 
cock cemetery,  and  her  gravestone  is  inscribed  : 


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"Here  lyes  buried  ye  Body  of  Elizabeth 
Tompson,  wife  of  Deacon  Samuel  Tompson 
of  Braintry,  aged  69  yrs.  Died  Nov.  5,  1706." 
The  children  of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Shepard)  Tompson  were:  Sarah  (died 
young),  Deborah,  Samuel,  Edward,  Abigail, 
Sarah  (died  young).  Hannah,  William  (died 
young),  William  and  Sarah. 

(III)  Rev.  Edward,  second  son  of  Deacon 
Samuel  and  Sarah  (Shepard)  Tompson,  was 
born  in  Braintree,  April  20,  1665,  graduated 
from  Harvard  College  in  1684,  and  died 
March  16,  1705.  He  taught  school  several 
years  before  and  after  leaving  college,  and 
began  to  preach  at  Simsbury,  June,  1687.  He 
was  ordained  at  jMarshfield,  October  14,  1696, 
and  remained  there  till  his  death.  His  wife's 
baptismal  name  was  Sarah.  Their  children 
were :  Samuel,  Edward,  William,  John,  Jo- 
seph, Sarah,  Anna  and  Abigail. 

(IV)  Rev.  William  (2),  third  son  of  Rev. 
Edward  and  Sarah  Tompson,  was  born  April 
26,  1697,  died  Februar>'  13,  1759.  He  grad- 
uated from  Flarvard  College  in  1718.  He  be- 
gan preaching  in  Scarborough  in  1728,  and 
in  September  of  the  same  year  accepted  a  call 
to  settle  there  in  the  ministry,  and  was  or- 
dained to  the  charge  of  the  newly  formed 
society.  The  number  of  male  members  whose 
names  were  enrolled  on  the  church  record  at 
the  time  of  the  organization  was  fifteen.  This 
was  the  first  regularly  organized  church 
within  the  town  of  which  there  is  any  record. 
The  salary  of  Mr.  Tompson  was  £100  the  first 
year,  £110  the  second,  £120  the  third,  and  so 
to  continue  until  the  inability  of  the  towns- 
men to  pay  more  should  prevent  further  addi- 
tion. When  Mr.  Tompson  began  his  labors, 
in  1728,  he  preached  at  the  house  of  Arthur 
Bragdon,  who  lived  on  the  plains  near  the 
Black  Point  graveyard.  In  March  following 
the  town  voted  to  build  a  meeting-house  which 
was  erected  in  the  northwest  corner  of  the 
present  Black  Point  burial-ground,  and  soon 
afterwards  another  was  built  on  what  is  now 
the  common  at  Dunstan.  Mr.  Tompson 
preached  alternately  in  these  two  divisions  of 
the  town  until  a  second  society  was  formed  at 
Dunstan  in  1744,  by  setting  oflf  fifteen  males 
and  as  many  females  from  the  Black  Point 
Society.  Mr.  Tompson  continued  his  labors 
until  his  death.  He  was  held  in  high  esteem 
by  his  townsmen,  and  his  loss  was  deeply  felt 
and  severely  lamented  by  the  whole  commun- 
ity. The  expenses  of  his  funeral  was  de- 
frayed by  the  '"town  as  a  town" ;  and  it  was 
moreover  voted  in  town  meeting  "that  ex- 
clusive of  cotton  gloves,  &c.,  for  the  funeral 


of  the  deceased,  and  all  necessaries,  that  the 
Town  will  give  a  suit  of  mourning  to  the 
widow."  The  committee  appointed  to  oversee 
the  ceremonies  returned  an  account  of  ex- 
penditures amounting  to  £22,  of  which  there 
was  allowed  £3  6s.  8d.  "for  the  Rings  of  the 
Bearers."  Such  items  illustrate  the  customs 
of  the  day.  February  21,  1759,  the  following 
entry  was  made  in  Father  Smith's  diary:  "I 
rode  with  my  wife  to  Mr.  Tompson's  Funeral. 
There  was  a  great  concourse  of  people :  as 
many  from  my  parish  as  there  were  Horses 
and  Sleighs."  Mr.  Tompson  married  Anna 
Hubbard,  of  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  who 
was  born  July  22,  1702,  daughter  of  John  and 
Jane  (Collensby)  Hubbard,  of  Salisbury.  She 
v/as  a  granddaughter  of  Richard  and  Martha 
(Allen)  Hubbard.  The  children  of  Rev.  Will- 
iam and  Anna  (Hubbard)  Tompson  were: 
William,  Anna  and  John.  William  was  chief 
justice  of  the  court  of  sessions  of  Cumberland 
county.    A  sketch  of  John  follows. 

(V)  Rev.  John,  second  son  of  Rev.  William 
(2)  and  Anna  (Hubbard)  Tompson,  was 
born  in  Scarboro,  October  3,  1740,  and  died 
in  Berwick,  December  21,  1828.  He  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  College  in  1765,  and  was 
ordained  October  26,  1768,  the  first  settled 
minister  of  Standish.  The  ordination  cere- 
monies were  performed  in  Rev.  Mr.  Smith's 
meeting-hcruse  in  Falmouth  (now  Portland). 
At  that  time  there  was  a  church  organized 
of  seven  male  members,  and  there  were  in  the 
town  of  Standish  about  thirty  families.  To 
the  year  1766  he  received  his  support  princi- 
pally from  the  proprietors  of  the  township, 
but  after  that  year  they  withheld  it,  believing 
the  inhabitants  were  numerous  and  able 
enough  to  maintain  their  minister  themselves. 
Mr.  Tompson  on  this  occasion  acted,  in  imi- 
tation of  the  Lord,  the  part  of  true,  disin- 
terested benevolence,  for  he  continued  to 
preach  there  five  years  without  compensation. 
In  1 781,  however,  he  suspended  his  ministra- 
tions in  Standish  and  sought  other  fields  of 
labor,  and  in  Alay,  1783,  he  was  dismissed  at 
his  own  request,  and  in  the  same  month  was 
installed  minister  of  South  Berwick,  the  suc- 
cessor of  Rev.  Jacob  Foster.  The  prospects  of 
Mr.  Tompson  in  pecuniary  alifairs  were  now 
bright  and  promising,  for  the  parish  owned  a 
tolerable  parsonage  and  other  property  to  the 
amount  of  two  thousand  dollars,  to  which 
must  be  added  General  Lord's  donation  of 
fifteen  hundred  dollars  to  the  funds  of  the 
society.  But  the  church  was  small,  no  general 
revival  of  religion  having  ever,  till  lately,  dis- 
tinguished its  annals.     Surely  so  good  a  min- 


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ister  as  IVIr.  Tompson  might  often  feel  his 
heart  bleed  on  perceiving  lukewarmness  so 
protracted  among  a  people  remarkable  for  so- 
briety and  the  best  habits.  Still,  he  believed 
there  would  be  fruits  to  be  failed  not.  He 
was  persevering,  therefore,  in  his  labors  like  a 
primitive  apostle,  and  he  possessed  "like  pre- 
cious faith."  His  ministry  was  of  uncommon 
length,  being  in  the  whole  sixty  years,  forty- 
nine  of  which  were  at  South  Berwick.  He 
married  (first)  November  22,  1768,  Sarah 
Small,  of  Somersworth,  New  Hampshire,  by 
whom  he  had  eight  children.  His  second  wife 
was  Widow  Sarah  i\Ierrill,  and  they  had  two 
children. 

(VI)  Samuel,  son  of  Rev.  John  Tompson, 
was  born  in  Standish,  October  11,  1773.  He 
married  Mary  Lancaster,  born  January  i, 
1774,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Lancaster; 
she  died  February  11,  1813.  Among  their 
children  was  a  son  \\'illiam. 

(VH)  Captain  William  (3),  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Mary  (Lancaster)  Tompson,  was 
born  in  Scarborough,  November  20,  1796,  and 
died  in  Scarborough,  January  15,  1849.  He 
was  a  master  mariner,  and  resided  at  Scar- 
borough. He  married,  September  23,  1819, 
Rhoda  Libby,  who  was  born  in  Scarborough, 
June  13,  1792,  and  died  in  Portland,  June  23, 
1876.  Her  parents  were  Seth  and  Lydia 
(Jordan)  Libby  (See  Libby  V).  The  chil- 
dren of  Captain  William  and  Rhoda  Tompson 
were:  Mary  Lancaster,  Benjamin  Larrabee, 
Sally  Hayman,  John  Adams  and  William. 

(\'III)  John  Adams,  second  son  of  Cap- 
tain William  (3)  and  Rhoda  (Libby)  Tomp- 
son, was  born  in  Scarborough,  Z\Iarch  10,  1828, 
and  died  in  Portland,  December  21,  i88g.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools.  Soon 
after  his  marriage  he  moved  to  Portland, 
W'here  he  engaged  in  the  express  and  transfer 
business,  which  he  followed  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  He  was  a  member  of  the  common 
council  in  1867.  In  religious  affiliation  he  was 
a  Congregationalist.  He  married,  in  Scar- 
borough, May  2,  1852,  Mary  Elizabeth  Libby, 
who  was  born  in  Scarborough,  March  22, 
1830,  daughter  of  George  and  Lydia  (Libby) 
Libby.  (See  Libby  VI.)  Their  children 
were :  Benjamin  Franklin,  born  in  Portland, 
August  26,  1853,  died  young;  Frederick  Au- 
gustus, whose  sketch  follows  ;•  Edward  Fran- 
cis, July  30,  i860;  and  Charles  Howard,  July 
27,  1863,  died  young. 

(IX)  Frederick  Augustus,  second  son  of 
John  A.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Libby)  Tomp- 
son, was  born  in  Portland,  August  10,  1857, 
and   was   educated    in    the    Portland    public 


schools,  graduating  from  the  high  school  in 
1876.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  en- 
tered the  office  of  F.  H.  Fassett,  architect,  by 
whom  he  was  employed  for  nine  years.  Jan- 
uary I,  1886,  he  became  Mr.  Fassett's  partner, 
the  firm  taking  the  name  of  Fassett  &  Tomp- 
son, and  continuing  until  January  i,  1891. 
Since  that  time  ]\lr.  Tompson  has  been  in 
business  alone.  He  has  prepared  the  plans  and 
superintended  the  construction  of  many  build- 
ings in  Portland  and  vicinity,  among  which 
are  Young  Men's  Christian  Association's  build- 
mg,  Union  ]\Iutual  Life  Insurance  building, 
Exchange  street;  Deering  high  school.  Con- 
gress Square  Hotel  Annex  and  Wilde  Memo- 
rial Chapel.  In  politics  Mr.  Tompson  is  a 
Republican.  '  He  has  never  held  a  political 
office  or  aspired  to  one.  He  is  a  Free  Mason 
and  a  member  of  the  following  divisions  of 
that  order :  Ancient  Landmark  Lodge,  Green- 
leif  Chapter  and  Council,  and  St.  Albans  Com- 
mandery.  He  is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a 
member  of  Harmony  Lodge,  Eastern  Star 
Encampment.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Port- 
land Club,  the  Country  Club,  the  Kotzschmar 
Club,  the  Portland  Society  of  Art,  American 
Institute  of  Architects.  He  married,  in  Port- 
land, October  17,  1894,  Harriet  Jane  Larra- 
bee, who  was  born  in  Portland,  May  17,  1863, 
(See  Larrabee  VH),  daughter  of  George  H. 
P.  and  Jane  Bayes   (Phillips)   Larrabee. 

The   derivation   of   this   name, 
PERHAM     its    origin    or    the    locality    in 

England  of  the  family  has  not 
been  determined.  In  America  the  name  is 
rare  among  the  immigrant  ancestors,  and  in 
fact  we  only  find  two  families  that  might  claim 
the  name,  and  one  of  these  disappears  after 
the  second  generation. 

John  Peram  is  found  as  early  as  1643  •" 
the  settlement  made  at  Seaconk,  in  Plymouth 
Colony,  on  land  owned  by  Elizabeth  Pole,  or 
Pool,  and  known  as  tlie  Pole  settlement.  His 
name  is  given  among  the  proprietors  of  the 
ancient  town  of  Seaconk,  versus  Rehoboth, 
1643,  written  John  Perram,  John  Peram,  John 
Peren  and  John  Perrum.  His  estate  is  valued 
originally  at  sixty-seven  pounds  sterling,  and 
in  the  same  list  he  acquires  another  estate 
valued  at  sixty-one  pounds.  On  May  28, 
1672,  his  name  is  written  John  Perrim  Senior 
when  given  among  the  proprietors  of  the  lands 
of  the  North  Purchase  of  Rehoboth  in  the 
division  of  lands,  March  18,  1668-69.  This 
purchase  became  the  town  of  Attleborough  in 
1694.  His  name  as  last  written  would  suggest 
a  son  John  and  other  records  a  son  Abraham, 


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but  as  the  name  then  entirely  disappears  it  is 
probably  due  to  accident  of  birth,  the  two 
brothers  either  not  marrying  or  having  only 
female  issue.  The  only  immigrant  that  posi- 
tively left  male  issue  and  became  the  forebear 
of  the  Perhams  in  America  was  the  Chelms- 
ford, Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  immigrant. 

(I)  John  Perham  appeared  in  Chelmsford 
as  a  young  man  in  1664,  with  no  property, 
relatives  or  friends,  and  was  bound  out  or 
apprenticed  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
law  of  the  colony  then  in  force.  He  evidently 
served  his  term  of  apprenticeship  very  faith- 
fully. He  was  born  in  England,  probably 
about  1633,  but  just  when  or  by  which  vessel 
he  reached  the  coast  of  New  England  is  not 
known.  Evidently  he  learned  the  business  of 
farming,  as  we  find  that  to  have  been  his 
life's  occupation.  He  must  have  been  thrifty 
and  able  to  accumulate  sufficient  money  to 
purchase  a  farm  and  establish  himself  as  a 
freeman,  as  he  is  recorded  as  having  taken 
the  freeman's  oath,  as  provided  in  the  laws  of 
the  colony.  He  married,  December  15,  1664, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  John  Shepley,  of  Chelms- 
ford, settled  upon  a  farm  in  that  town  and 
died  there,  June  21,  1721,  aged  about  eighty- 
eight  years.  The  five  children  of  John,  the 
immigrant,  and  Lydia  (Shepley)  Perham, 
were  born  on  his  farm  in  Chelmsford,  Middle- 
sex county,  Massachusetts,  as  follows:  i. 
Mary,  January  8.  1665.  2.  John  (q.  v.).  3. 
Joseph,  October  22,  1669.  4.  Lydia,  February 
19,  1673.  5.  Benoni,  married,  December  6, 
1704,  Sarah  Robbins,  of  Cambridge.  The 
Perham  farm  acquired  by  John  Perham,  the 
immigrant,  has  the  peculiar  historic  interest  of 
having  been  the  home  of  one  or  more  of  his 
descendants  of  the  name  of  Perham  through 
nine  generations,  and  is  still,  1909,  by  right  of 
unbroken  successive  ownership,  "the  Perham 
Farm."  It  has  always  been  celebrated  for  its 
fertility  and  healthfulness  and  notable  for  its 
fine  apple  orchards,  the  products  of  which  in 
both  fruits  and  apple-cider  have  been  standard 
articles  of  merchandise  in  the  Boston  market 
and  the  occasion  of  regular  autumnal  visits  to 
the  farm  to  see  the  fruit-burdened  trees  and 
witness  the  process  of  cider-making.  It  is 
probable  that  the  name  has  become  more  fa- 
miliar to  New  Englanders  through  "Perham 
Farm  Apples"  and  "Perham  Farm  Cider" 
than  falls  to  the  lot  of  farmers. 

(II)  John  (2),  eldest  son  and  second  child 
of  John  ( I ) ,  immigrant,  and  Lydia  ( Shep- 
ley) Perham,  of  Chelmsford,  Middlesex 
county,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Chelms- 
ford, January  27,   1667,  and  died  in  Grafton, 


Worcester  county,  Massachusetts,  July  29, 
1743.  He  removed  from  Chelmsford  to  L'p- 
ton  in  1728,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Indian  wars. 
He  lived  in  Grafton  after  1738  and  was  a 
farmer  and  probably  an  innkeeper.  He  mar- 
ried, December  29,  1692,  Lydia,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Fletcher  and  granddaughter  of  Rob- 
ert F'letcher,  the  immigrant,"  who  came  to  New 
England  in  1630.  The  children  of  John  (2) 
and  Lydia  ( Fletcher )  Perham  were  born  in 
Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  as  follows:  i. 
Lydia,  October  25,  1693.  2.  John,  January 
12,  1695,  married  Experience  Powers.  3. 
Samuel,   Alay   6,    1698.     4.    IMary,   December 

24,  1700.  5.  Sarah,  October  16,  1703.  6. 
William,  January  16,  1706,  married  Susanna 
Powers,  November  10,  17^0.  7.  Benjamin 
(q.  v.). 

(HI)  Benjamin,  youngest  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Lydia  ( Fletcher)  Perham,  was  born  in 
Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  February  23, 
1707,  and  died  in  L^pton,  Massachusetts. 
March  20,  1787.  He  was  a  hotelkeeper  and 
a  farmer ;  served  as  soldier  in  the  Indian 
wars,  as  did  his  father,  his  position  in  the 
military  company  being  an  ensign,  and  he 
became  known  as  Ensign  Perham.  He  mar- 
ried Esther,  born  March  19,  1709,  died  De- 
cember 16,  1790,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Elizabeth  Butterfield,  of  Chelmsford,  in  1731. 
In  his  will  dated  Jul)-  14,  1770,  he  names  his 
sons  and  daughters  as  follows :  Benjamin. 
Lemuel  (q.  v.),  Jacob,  Esther  Keys.  Olive 
Tinney,  Lydia  Learned  and  Sybil  Wood.  Of 
these  children,  Benjamin  Jr.,  born  February 
I3»  1733'  married  Rachel  Clemens  and  had 
five  children  born  between  1757  and  1777. 

(IV)  Lemuel,  second  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Esther  (Butterfield)  Perham,  was  born  in 
Upton,  Worcester  county,  Massachusetts,  May 

25,  1735,  and  died  in  Guilford,  \"ermont,  De- 
cember 6,  1814.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm  and  aided  him  in  the  harvest ; 
he  became  a  prominent  citizen  of  Upton, 
serving  as  selectman,  constable  and  land-sur- 
veyor. He  served  in  the  early  part  of  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  w^as  an  innkeeper  at 
West  Upton  for  forty  years,  up  to  1804,  when 
he  removed  to  a  farm  in  Guilford,  \  ermont, 
where  he  died.  He  married,  April  10,  1755, 
Mary,  born  July  28.  1735,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Kezia  Butterfield,  of  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  was  with  his  mother,  Esther, 
the  sole  executors  of  his  father's  will,  made 
July  14,  1770.  Children  of  Lemuel  and  Mary 
(Butterfield)  Perham,  were  born  in  Upton, 
Massachusetts,  as  follows:  i.  Joanna.  April 
10,  1757,  died  young.     2.  Lemuel  (q.  v.).     3. 


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Bett_v.  May  2},.  1764.  4.  Joanna,  March  3, 
1770.  5.  Molly,  April  13,  1774.  6.  Lovicy, 
March  17,  1777. 

(\'j  Lemuel  (2).  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  Lemuel  (i)  and  Mary  (Butterfield) 
Perham,  was  born  in  Upton,  Worcester 
county,  Massachusetts,  Decehiber  29,  1760, 
and  died  in  Woodstock,  Maine,  March  i, 
1833.  He  was  brought  up  in  West  Upton. 
Massachusetts,  where  his  father  was  a  town 
ofScer  and  innkeeper,  and  he  removed  to 
Paris,  Oxford  county,  Maine,  where  he  was 
an  early  settler  and  a  farmer.  He  marrietl,  in 
May,  1780,  Betsey,  daughter  of  Elisha  and 
Jane  (Kinginan)  Gurney,  of  Worcester,  Mas- 
sachusetts. Elisha  Gurney  removed  from 
Worcester  to  Paris,  Maine,  in  1791,  with  his 
family.  Lemuel  Perham  first  lived  on  what 
was  called  the  center  lot,  afterward  moved  to 
High  street  and  about  1S12  to  Woodstock. 
The  children  of  Lemuel  (2)  and  Betsey  (Gur- 
ney )  Perham  w  ere  born  in  Paris,  O.xford 
county.  Maine,  as  follows:  i.  Patty,  April  6, 
1781,  married  Abiather  Tuel,  of  Paris.  2. 
Jonathan,  March  22,  1784,  married  Lucy  Felt. 
3.  Betty,  August  28,  1787,  died  young.  4. 
Lemuel.  November  10,  1788,  married  Sally  T. 
Chase.  5.  Lovicy,  February  20.  1794,  mar- 
ried Cyprian  Cole.  6.  Joel  (q.  v.).  7.  Aziel, 
July  4,  1805,  married  Elvira  Bowker. 

(VI)  Joel,  son  of  Lemuel  (2)  and  Betsey 
(Gurney)  Perham,  was  born  in  Paris  Hill. 
Oxford  county,  Maine,  March  31,  1797,  and 
died  in  Woodstock,  Maine,  January  24,  1877. 
He  was  a  farmer,  merchant  and  large  raiser 
of  sheep,  often  caring  for  six  hundred  of  these 
animals  in  his  large  barns  through  the  long 
winters.  He  married  Sophronia.  born  in 
Paris,  Maine,  April  i,  180 1,  died  in  Wood- 
stock, Maine,  November  7,  1865,  daughter  of 
Rouse  and  Hannah  (Carroll)  Bisbee,  grand- 
daughter of  Calvin  Bisbee  and  a  descendant 
of  Thomas  Bisbee,  who  came  from  Europe  to 
New  England  and  landed  in  Scituate  Harbor 
in  1634.  The  children  of  Joel  and  Sophronia 
(Bisbee)  Perham  were  born  in  Woodstock. 
Oxford  county,  Maine,  as  follows:  i.  Sidney 
(q.  v.).  2.  Betsey  G.,  March  13,  1821.  3. 
Kilborn,  August  8,  1822.  4.  Joel,  May  8, 
1826,  merchant  at  Bryant  Pond.  Maine,  1854- 
63 ;  tow-n  clerk  and  treasurer  of  Woodstock 
1856-57;  justice  of  the  peace  1852-70;  United 
States  commissioner  of  board  of  enrollment 
with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  United  States 
army  1863-66 :  messenger  in  United  States 
senate  1867;  government  inspector  1869;  real 
estate  dealer,  \\'ashington,  District  of  Colum- 
bia,   Auburn.    Maine,    Boston,    Massachusetts, 


and  Chicago,  Illinois,  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death  in  Boston.  5.  X'iania,  April  10,  1832. 
6.  Cynthia.  June  27,  1839. 

(  \  II)    Si(hiey,  son  of  Joel  and  Sophronia 
(Bisbee)    Perham,    was   born    in    Woodstock. 
Oxford  county,  Maine,  March  2j,  i8ig.     He 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm  and  was 
a   pupil   in  the   public   schools   of   Woodstock 
and  at  Gould's  Academy,  Bethel.  Maine,  and 
engaged  in  teaching  school  during  the  winter 
months,  working  on  the  farm  in  the  summer, 
as  had  been  his  custom  from  early  boyhood. 
In    1837  he   purchased  of  his   father  the  old 
homestead  farm  in  Woodstock  and  continued 
the    business   of    farming,     stock-raising    and 
sheep-husbandry.    Like  his  father,  his  tlock  of 
sheep   numbered   five   hundred   and    were   the 
especial  pride  of  the  neighborhood.     He  was 
made  a  member  of  the  Maine  board  of  agri- 
culture in    1853-54,  being  twice  elected.     He 
continued  his  agricultural  pursuits  even  dur- 
ing  his   public    duties    up   to    1886,   when    he 
made  Washington  his  permanent  home,  but  he 
still  spent  his  summer  vacations  at  Paris  Hill. 
Maine.    He  became  an  active  Democratic  poli- 
tician soon   after  reaching  his   majority,   and 
he  was  elected  selectman  of  his  native  town 
in  1839  and  continued  in  various  town  offices 
up  to  the  time   his  public  services  interfered 
with  his  private  duties.     He  was  sent  to  the 
state  legislature  in  1854  and  made  speaker  of 
that  body  on   the  opening  of  the  session   in 
1855,  the  first  instance  in  the  history  of  the 
state  when  a  person  without  legislative  experi- 
ence  was   so  honored.     He   voted   for  A.   P. 
Morrill  for  governor  in  1853.  helped  to  found 
the  Republican  party  in  Alaine  in   1856,  was 
presidential  elector  on  the  Fremont  and  Day- 
ton  ticket    in    1856.   and    in    1857   the    Maine 
electors   voted   for  the   Republican  candidate. 
He  was  an  elector  on  the  Harrison  and  Mor- 
ton ticket  in   1888,  when  the  Maine  Republi- 
can  electors  were  again  chosen.     He  served 
his  county  as   clerk   of  the   supreme   judicial 
court,  1858-62,  and  the  second  Maine  district 
as   representative  in  the   thirty-eighth,   thirty- 
ninth    and    fortieth    congresses,    1863-69,    his 
first  election  being  by  a  majority  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  votes  and  he  was  re-elected  by 
six  thousand,  five  hundred  votes. 

He  was  made  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  pensions  at  the  opening  of  the  thirty-eighth 
congress,  which  was,  owing  to  the  close  of 
the  civil  war,  a  very  important  house  com- 
mittee, and  he  served  on  the  committee 
throughout  his  three  terms  in  congress.  He 
was  largely  responsible  for  the  increase  of  in- 
valid pensions;  for  stated' pensions  for  loss  of 


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STATE  OF  .MAINE. 


limb  and  additional  pensions  to  soldiers' 
widows  having  minor  children  to  support.  He 
was  honored  with  the  chairmanship  of  the 
committee  during  the  entire  thirty-ninth  and 
fortieth  congresses.  He  was  also  active  in  in- 
fluencing national  legislature  and  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  impeachment  proceed- 
ings against  President  Johnson.  He  \yas 
elected  governor  of  Maine  for  three  successive 
terms,  1871-74,  and  his  repeated  re-elections 
are  the  highest  compliment  that  could  be  paid 
a  public  servant,  as  it  was  the  voice  of  the 
people  of  Maine  who  selected  him  to  serve  in 
the  highest  office  in  their  gift,  as  an  endorse- 
ment of  his  labor  in  behalf  of  prison  reform, 
the  establishment  of  free  high  schools  and  bi- 
ennial elections.  He  served  as  secretary  of 
state  of  the  state  of  Maine,  appointed  by 
Governor  Dingley  in  the  fall  of  1875  to  fill  a 
vacancy,  and  he  held  the  office  until  the  legis- 
lature met  in  1876  and  elected  S.  J.  Chadborne 
to  the  office.  He  next  served  as  appraiser  of 
the  public  store  connected  with  the  United 
States  custom  house  in  the  port  of  Portland, 
Maine,  1877-85,  receiving  his  appointment 
from  President  Hayes.  In  1891  President 
Harrison  appointed  him  a  member  of  a  com- 
mission to  select  a  site  on  the  coast  of  the 
United  States,  located  on  the  Gulf  of  Mexico, 
suitable  for  the  erection  of  a  drydock  for  the 
use  of  the  United  States  navy.  His  interest  in 
education  was  manifested  during  his  terms  as 
governor,  when  he  was  instrumental  in  secur- 
ing for  the  state  an  Industrial  School  for 
Girls,  and  he  was  made  the  first  president  of 
the  institution,  serving  for  a  period  of  twenty- 
seven  years,  1872-99,  and  resigned  in  1899. 
Governor  Perham  was  also  active  in  eiicourag- 
ing  temperance  associations,  teacher's  insti- 
tutes and  educational  conventions,  before 
which  gatherings  he  was  a  willing  and  effec- 
tive speaker.  He  served  as  president  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Westbrook  Seminary 
and  Female  College  and  gave  to  all  the 
schools,  under  the  direction  of  the  Universalist 
denomination,  his  unqualified  support.  He 
helped  to  form  the  first  temperance  society  in 
Woodstock  and  in  1857  he  spoke  in  two  hun- 
dred towns  in  Maine,  urging  the  re-enactment 
of  the  repealed  prohibition  law.  He  became 
a  worthy  grand  patriarch  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  Order  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance,  of 
the  state  of  Maine,  and  worthy  grand  templar 
of  the  Grand  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of 
Good  Templars,  of  the  state  of  Maine,  and 
was  often  a  representative  in  the  national  or- 
ganizations of  both  of  these  orders.  His  con- 
nection   with    the    Universalist    denomination 


commenced  when  he  was  nineteen  years  of 
age  and  he  served  as  president  of  the  Uni- 
versalist state  convention  and  of  the  national 
convention.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  general  convention  of  the 
church  for  twenty-seven  years  and  often 
served  as  president  of  the  board. 

Governor  Perham  married,  January  i,  1843, 
Almena  Jane,  daughter  of  Lazarus  and  Lucy 
(Cole)  Hathaway,  of  Paris,  Maine.  They  had 
four  children,  including  Captain  A.  S.  Per- 
ham. Almena  Jane  (Hathaway)  Perham  died 
at  her  residence,  905  Westminster  avenue, 
Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  June  5, 
1902,  and  her  husband,  Governor  Perham, 
died  April  9,  1907.  Both  were  buried  at  Bry- 
ant Pond,  near  the  place  of  his  birth,  and 
near  the  L'niversalist  church,  which  was  built 
largely  through  his  efforts. 


The   Danforths   of   Suiifolk 
DAN  FORTH     county,    England,    were    of 

considerable  repute  in  the 
county  for  many  generations.  At  an  early 
date  the  surname  was  very  much  varied,  and 
the  parish  register  at  Framingham,  county 
Sufifolk,  recorded  it  in  many  ways :  Daneford, 
Darneforde,  Darnford,  Derneforth,  Danford 
and  Danforthe.  One  authority  gives  the  ori- 
gin of  the  name  "the  ford  of  the  Danes." 
There  is  no  evidence  that  the  Danforths  were 
of  the  gentry,  for  though  highly  esteemed, 
they  were  sometimes  recorded  "yeomen."  Cot- 
ton Mather  wrote  of  Nicholas  Danforth,  the 
emigrant  from  Framingham,  Sufifolkshire,  "he 
was  a  Gent  of  such  Estate  and  Repute  that  it 
cost  him  a  considerable  sum  to  escape  Knight- 
hood *  *  *  and  of  such  esteem  in  the 
church  that  he  procured  that  famous  Lecture- 
ship at  Framingham  where  he  had  a  fine 
Manour."  This,  however,  seems  not  intended 
to  convey  an  idea  of  great  wealth,  although 
his  father's  will  shows  film  to  have  been  in 
comfortable  circumstances  and  owner  of  some 
property  in  England.  Nicholas  Danforth  set- 
tled in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts  in  1636,  but 
the  records  do  not  connect  him  with  the 
Ipswich  branch,  yet  it  is  not  improbable  that 
there  was  relationship  and  that  County  Suffolk 
was  the  common  home. 

(I)  William,  the  emigrant  ancestor,  was  on 
record  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in  1660,  in 
the  employ  of  William  Pritchell,  and  may 
have  arrived  there  several  years  earlier.  In 
a  deposition  which  he  made  in  court  in  behalf 
of  William  Pritchall,  September  29,  1663,  he 
stated  that  he  was  twenty-two  years  of  age, 
therefore  his  birth  date  was  1640-41.    In  1675 


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he  removed  to  Byfield  (or  Newbury)  and  took 
the  oath  of  alleg-iance  1678.  In  1681  he  was 
called  to  court  "with  his  partner,  William 
Longfellow,  ancestor  of  the  poet,"  for  slaugh- 
tering animals  belonging  to  others  and  fined 
the  value  of  same.  In  1688  his  tax  was 
abated,  and  tlie  constable  wrote  the  name  Dan- 
forth,  though  he  was  previously  known  as 
Danford.  William  married  (first)  at  Ips- 
wich, March  20,  1670,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
pioneer  Robert  Kinsman,  who  was  born  at 
Ipswich  about  1644.  Her  father  left  her  by 
will,  1664,  forty  pounds.  She  died  at  New- 
bury, October  18,  1678,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Sarah,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Ann 
Thurloe.  who  deeded  them  land  January  i, 
1696.  This  land  "William  Danforth  and 
wife  Sarah  sold  in  1698."  William's  death 
occurred  after  March  27,  1721,  when  the  sale 
of  his  wood-lot  was  recorded.  Children  by 
first  marriage:  William  (?)  and  ^lary,  born 
September  19.  1673.  By  the  second  mar- 
riage :  Richard,  born  in  Newbury,  January 
31,  1679-80:  John.  December  8,  1681  ;  Jona- 
than, iMay  18,  1685:  Thomas,  December  26, 
1688,  whose  inventory  showed  that  he  owned 
land  at  Casco  Ba}-.  in  Falmouth ;  Francis, 
March  16,  1691 ;  Joseph,  May  12,  1694,  and 
"perhaps  Rebecca." 

(II)  John,  third  son  of  William  and  Sarah 
(Thurloe)  Danforth,  was  born  in  Newbury, 
Massachusetts.  December  8,  1681.  The  name 
of  his  first  wife  is  unknown.  He  married 
(second)  November  24,  1703,  Doris  White, 
a  member  of  the  Byfield  church,  in  1744. 
She  died  March  26,  1788,  aged  ninety  or 
ninety-one.  He  died  after  two  years  of  help- 
lessness, October  i.  1772,  aged  nearly  ninety- 
two.  Children:  Nathaniel,  born  1703-04; 
Thomas,  about  1705;  William,  about  1708; 
Samuel,  December  11,  1715;  John,  February 
17,  1720;  Oliver,  baptized  December  24,  1720; 
Moses:  Sarah,  married  James  Head;  i\Iary, 
married  James  Gibson ;  Elizabeth. 

(III)  Nathaniel,  eldest  son  of  John  and 
Doris  (White)  Danforth,  was  born  in  New- 
bury, 1703-04,  was  married  in  Bo.xford,  Octo- 
ber 8,  1724,  to  Priscilla  Wycom.  He  was 
baptized  an  "adult"  in  Rowley,  Massachu- 
setts, December  3,  1727,  and  two  of  his  chil- 
dren at  the  same  time,  and  he  probably  re- 
sided there  for  a  time.  He  removed  to  Con- 
toocook,  New  Hampshire,  as  shown  by  land 
transactions,  and  was  styled  in  the  deed  "hus- 
bandman." He  was  one  of  the  Contoocook 
soldiers  who  petitioned  for  protection  from 
the  Indians,  I\Iarch  21,  1755.  He  removed 
to  Boscawen,  New  Hampshire,  before  1766,  it 


is  stated.  Among  the  names  of  first  settlers  at 
Boscawen,  which  was  "granted  1733  under 
the  name  of  Contoocook,"  were  those  of 
William  and  Nathaniel  Danforth  and  prob- 
ably Nathaniel  (the  son  of  William),  moved  to 
the  part  of  the  town  then  named  Boscawen 
about  1766.  Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Pris- 
cilla :  Eunice  and  Nathaniel,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 3,  1727;  Stephen,  baptized  October  5, 
1729;  John  and  Jonathan,  born  in  Boxford 
(Georgetown)  January  14,  baptized  February 
3,  and  died  February  14,  1744;  Hepsibah, 
baptized  February  22,  1746-47. 

(IV)  Nathani'el  (2),  eldest  son  of  Na- 
thaniel (i)  and  Priscilla  (Wycom)  Dan- 
forth, was  born  in  Rowley,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  baptized  on  the  same  day  with 
his  father  and  sister  Eunice,  December  3, 
1727.  He  went  with  his  father  to  New  Hamp- 
shire when  young,  and  it  is  a  family  tradition 
that  he  and  his  brother  Stephen  were  soldiers 
of  the  revolutionary  war.  The  record  of  his 
marriage  does  not  appear,  nor  can  the  name 
of  his  wife  be  learned  at  this  writing,  but 
there  is  conclusive  evidence  of  the  birth  of  a 
son  bearing  his  name.  The  repetition  of  Na- 
thaniel for  three  generations  has  doubtless 
caused  confusion,  but  the  New  Hampshire 
town  records  should  be  further  consulted.  .It 
is  testified  by  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  of  the 
fifth  generation  that  her  father,  Dudley  D., 
told  her  that  "his  father,  grandfather  and 
great-grandfather  were  all  named  Nathaniel," 
and  as  this  Nathaniel  of  the  fourth  genera- 
tion was  the  only  one  who  went  to  New 
Hampshire,  the  record  given  is  doubtless  cor- 
rect. 

(Y)  Nathaniel  (3).  son  of  Nathaniel  (2) 
Danforth.  was  born  in  Concord,  New  Hamp- 
shire, November  5,  1768,  and  married  his  first 
wife  there,  name  unknown.  After  her  death 
he  left  his  two  children  with  her  family  in 
Concord,  and  went  to  the  Kennebec  river, 
[Maine,  and  settled  at  China.  About  1800  he 
married  (second)  Ann  Doe,  who  was  born  in 
China,  November  28,  1776.  They  removed  to 
Bangor,  and  thence  to  Argyle,  Maine,  where 
he  died  January  27.  1861,  and  his  wife  died 
January  11,  1834.  Children  by  the  first  mar- 
riage: I.  Rufus,  born  in  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  unmarried  and  blind.  2.  Lucy, 
born  in  Concord,  married  Evans,  of  China, 
Maine.  Children  by  second  marriage  :  3.  Na- 
thaniel, married  and  died  in  Argyle,  and  had 
four  children :  Waldo.  Matilda,  Addie,  and 
P.  Dutton,  who  died  in  the  civil  war.  4. 
Sophia,  married  Thomas  Roberts,  of  How- 
land,  ]\Iaine,  and   had  three   sons :     Thomas, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Danforth  and  Mark.  5.  Louisa,  married  John 
Lamb,  of  Argyle,  and  had  Rufus  and  Na- 
thaniel. 6.  Dudley  D.,  October  26,  1807,  Hv- 
ing  1904,  married,  April  22,  1841,  in  Argyle, 
Maria  R.  Comstock,  born  April  2,  1823,  died 
June  21,  1896,  at  Prescott,  Wisconsin,  where 
they  removed  from  Argyle,  October,  1854; 
they  had  seven  children :  Theodore  R.,  born 
January  28,  1842,  died  August  30,  1881,  at 
Hancock,  Minnesota,  married  May,  1870,  Fan- 
nie A.  Ferris,  of  Illinois,  and  had  two  sons: 
Jesse  and  Charlie ;  Charles  W.,  May  29,  1843, 
enlisted  in  army  at  Prescott,  Wisconsin,  Au- 
gust 4,  1862,  died  January  13,  1863,  Madison, 
Wisconsin;  Maria  J.,  born  January  13,  1845, 
married,  December  30,  1865,  Jack  Wilson,  of 
Prescott ;  Susan  D.,  born  June  18,  1852,  died 
August  8,  1882,  Hancock,  Minnesota;  Matilda 
\'.,  born  Prescott,  August  5,  1856,  married, 
January  8,  1879,  Frank  W.  Wilcox;  Benja- 
min F.,  born  September  18,  1859,  married 
Mary  P.  Davidson,  and  had  son  Victor  and 
one  daughter,  Lucy  E.,  March  11,  1862,  Pres- 
cott, where  she  resided.  7.  William  Doe, 
August  6,  1812  (see  below).  8.  Susan,  born 
at  Argyle,  married  George  Brown,  and  moved 
to  Westfield,  New  Jersey.  9.  Nancy,  married 
Ezra  Clarke.  10.  Lucy,  married  Gideon 
Clarke.  11.  Debora,  born  in  Argyle,  married 
Edward  Brown,  and  moved  to  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey. 

(VI)  William  Doe,  third  son  of  Nathaniel 
(3)  and  Ann  (Doe)  Danforth,  was  born  in 
Argyle.  Maine,  x\ugust  6,  1812,  and  married 
in  Greenbush,  Maine,  Nancy  Jane,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  and  Betsey  Abbott,  of  that  place, 
who  was  born  in  Farmington,  Maine.  Jan- 
uary 16,  181 5.  and  died  in  Carroll,  Maine, 
November,  1880.  He  died  there  February  14, 
1893.  They  had  seven  children:  David  W., 
born  January  29,  1839  (see  below)  ;  Abigail, 
born  in  Carroll,  May  17,  1842,  died  Novem- 
ber 26,  1903,  in  Minnesota;  Betsy,  born  July, 
1844,  died  in  Carroll,  March,  1864;  Martha 
E.,  born  in  Carroll,  July  5,  1846,  living  in 
Peabody,  Massachusetts:  Charles  W.,  born  in 
Carroll,  December  4,  1848;  Frank  E.,  born 
in  Carroll,  April  27,  1851  ;  John  A.,  born  in 
Carroll,  March  26,  1853.  The  last  three  re- 
side in  Carroll. 

(\'II)  David  Worcester,  eldest  son  of  Wil- 
liam Doe  and  Nancy  J.  (Abbott)  Danforth, 
was  born  in  Greenbush,  IMaine,  January  29, 
1839.  He  married,  in  Carroll,  November  28. 
1861,  Jeannette  M.,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Rachel  Peeples.  who  was  born  October  17, 
1836,  at  Steep  Creek,  Nova  Scotia,  and  died 


at  Peabody,  Massachusetts,  December  25. 
1906,  where  they  had  removed  in  1893,  ^^'^^ 
where  her  husband  now  resides.  He  is  en- 
gaged in  real  estate  business,  and  is  a  con 
carpenter  and  builder.  Children:  i.  Waldo 
R.,  born  February  23,  1863,  died  in  Peabody, 
December  2,  1899,  married.  April  19,  1886, 
Bertha,  daughter  of  Leonard  and  Vesta  Stick- 
ney,  born  jMarch  i,  1865,  and  had  Mabel  E., 
died  in  infancy;  Earnest  L.,  died  aged  fifteen, 
and  Roland  E.,  born  1898.  \\'aldo  R.  was  a 
machinist  and  millwright  of  considerable  skill. 
2.  \\'ill  T.,  born  March  29,  1866,  married, 
January  17,  1897.  Lima  B.,  daughter  of  Gard- 
ner and  Henrietta  Conforth,  born  March  i, 
1872.  3.  Albion  G.,  born  February  26,  1868. 
4.  Harland  A.,  August  8,  1872.  5.  Ralph  M., 
July  4,  1878.  6.  Mattie,  May  15,  1881,  died 
.\ugust,  1882. 

(Vni)  Albion  Gates  (D.  D.  S.),  third  son 
of  David  W.  and  Jeannette  (Peeples)  Dan- 
forth, was  born  in  Carroll,  Maine,  February 
26,  1868.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and 
Ricker  Classical  Institute  at  Houlton,  Maine. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  following  societies :  Aroostook 
Valley  Lodge,  No.  88.  I.  O.  O.  F.;  the  local 
lodge.  Knights  of  Pythias ;  Caribou  lodge,  A. 
F.  and  A.  M.;  Garfield  Royal  Arch  Chapter 
of  Caribou.  Dr.  Danforth  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Philadelphia  Dental  College,  class  of  1905. 
He  practiced  dentistry  in  Caribou,  Maine,  for 
six  years,  until  failing  health  compelled  a  two 
years'  rest.  He  then  removed  to  New  York 
City,  where  he  pursues  his  profession  at  55 
West  Thirty-ninth  street.  He  married  (first) 
in  Caribou,  1894,  Gertrude  M.  Briggs,  who 
died  there  October  28,  1895;  and  (second)  in 
Carroll.  ]\Iaine,  Lulu  R.,  daughter  of  John  and 
Dina  Brown,  who  was  born  in  Carroll,  and 
died  May  25,  1908,  in  Tappan,  New  York, 
where  the  family  resides.  Children  by  first 
marriage :  Gertrude  Albion,  born  October 
21,  1895:  by  second  marriage:  John  Roscoe. 
born  in  New  York  City,  July  8,  1905,  and  in- 
fant son.  born  Mav  19,  igo8. 

(VIII)  Harland  A.  (M.  D.),  fourth  son  of 
David  W.  and  Jeannette  (Peeples)  Danforth, 
was  born  at  Carroll,  August  8,  1872,  and  mar- 
ried at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  May  16,  1907, 
Bessie  May,  daughter  of  George  and  Georgi- 
ana  Pinkham,  who  was  born  at  Lynn,  Septem- 
ber 29.  1878.  He  graduated  from  Ricker 
Classical  Institute,  Houlton,  Maine,  class  of 
1896,  and  L^niversity  of  \'ermont  Medical 
School,  class  of  1904.  Dr.  Danforth  followed 
his  profession  for  some  time  at  Lynn,  Massa- 


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chusetts,  and  then  removed  to  Cliftondale, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  has  an  extensive 
practice. 

(VIII)  Ralph  M.  (D.  D.  S.),  fifth  son  of 
David  W.  and  Jeannette  (Peeples)  Danforth, 
was  born  at  Carroll,  Maine,  July  4,  1878,  and 
married  in  Littleton,  North  Carolina,  May  30, 
1907,  Rosa,  daughter  of  Samuel  J.  and  Betty 
Veach,  who  was  born  at  Warsaw,  North  Caro- 
lina, October  9,  1877.  Dr.  Danforth  is  a 
graduate  of  Philadelphia  Medical  College, 
class  of  1904,  and  since  that  date  has  been 
practicing  dentistry  at  Lynn,  where  he  resides. 


The  Greenwoods  of 
GREENWOOD     Greenwood    Lee,    county 

York,  England,  have 
been  located  in  that  place  since  1154.  The 
name  appears  to  have  originated  with  Richard 
Greenwode,  who  was  pursuant  under  Richard 
III,  and  was  continued  in  that  office  for  up- 
wards of  ten  years  by  Henry  VII.  He  was 
also  "Bailiff  of  Richmond  Fee  in  the  countie 
of  NoriTolke."  The  Myles  Greenwood  fam- 
ily of  Greenwood,  Yorkshire,  England,  were 
doubtless  descended  from  this  stock,  and  the 
progenitors  of  at  least  two  and  probably  three 
of  the  American  immigrants  was  Myles  or 
iSIiles  Greenwood,  a  weaver  of  Greenwood, 
Yorkshire,  who  was  admitted  as  a  citizen  of 
Norwich,  May  3,  1627,  having  come  to  that 
place  when  very  young  and  apprenticed  to 
Josiah  Robbs,  a  worsted  weaver.  He  was  the 
son  of  Myles  and  Anna  (Scott)  Greenwood, 
and  was  baptized  in  St.  Peter's  church,  Sep- 
tember I,  1600,  married  Abigaill  ,  and 

died  in  Norwich,  England,  in  1658,  leaving  a 
widow  and  several  children.  The  coat-of-arms 
of  the  Greenwoods  of  Norwich  is :  "Argent, 
a  fesse  sable,  between  three  spur-rowles  in 
chief  and  three  ducks  in  base,  all  of  the  sec- 
ond." This  family  arms  is  cut  upon  the  tomb 
of  Nathaniel  and  his  brother  Greenwood  in 
the  Copps  Hill  burial  ground  in  Boston.  Mun- 
sell's  American  Genealogy  credits  Miles 
Greenwood  as  the  father  of  Nathaniel,  Sam- 
uel and  Thomas  Greenwood,  the  distinctive 
heads  of  three  New  England  families,  and 
each  of  whom  appear  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony,  about  the  middle  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  That  Nathaniel  and 
Samuel  were  his  sons  is  left  without  doubt, 
but  no  other  authority  gives  definite  place  to 
Thomas,  and  his  name"  does  not  appear  on 
the  English  register  of  the  children  of  Miles 
Greenwood.  That  he  was  an  Englishman  and 
a  near  relation  of  the  other  two  immigrants  is 
a  reasonable  supposition. 


(I)  Thomas  Greenwood,  according  to 
"Munsell's  American  Genealogy,"  the  son  of 
Miles  and  Abigaill  Greenwood,  of  Norwich. 
England,  first  appeared  in  New  England  and 
was  a  weaver  in  the  town  of  Boston  in  1665. 
Munsell  gives  the  date  of  his  birth  1643,  which 
birth  date  places  him  between  the  two  known 
immigrant  sons  of  Miles  Greenwood,  younger 
than  Nathaniel  and  older  than  Samuel. 
Thomas  Greenwood  removed  from  the  town 
of  Boston  as  early  as  1668  and  received  a 
grant  of  land  in  the  town  of  Cambridge,  the 
land  being  located  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Charles  river  and  subsequently  included  in 
the  town  of  Brookline.  He  was  made  a  free- 
man by  the  general  court  of  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  and  was  admitted  to  church  mem- 
bership in  the  South  parish  of  Cambridge  in 
1 681.  He  served  the  town  of  Cambridge  as 
selectman,  town  clerk  and  constable.  He  was 
married  July  8,  1670,  to  Hannah,  daughter  of 
John  Wood,  a  freeman  of  the  town  of  New- 
ton, and  they  had  two  children :  John,  who 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  James  Trow- 
bridge, made  his  home  in  Newton,  where  he 
became  a  prominent  citizen,  and  where  seven 
children  were  born  of  the  marriage,  and  where 
he  died  August  29,  1737.  Rev.  Thomas,  born 
January  27,  1673,  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Noel  Wiswell,  had  six  children,  and 
died  September  7,  1720.     Thomas  Greenwood 

married   as   his   second  wife   Abigail  , 

and   by   her   had    two   children :      James    and 
William. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail 
Greenwood,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony,  October  14.  1689.  He 
married,  June  21,  1715.  Abigail,  daughter  of 
John  Woodward,  of  Cambridge,  and  removed 
to  Sherborn  about  1725,  where  he  secured  a 
considerable  grant  of  land  in  the  new  town 
and  engaged  extensively  in  business,  besides 
carrying  on  the  cultivation  of  his  farm.  He 
was  a  deacon  in  the  church  at  Sherborn,  town 
clerk,  selectman  and  a  representative  from  the 
town  in  the  general  court  of  the  colony.  Wil- 
liam and  Abigail  (Woodward)  Greenwood 
had  at  least  nine  children,  their  son  Joseph 
being  the  ninth  child.  William  Greenwood 
died  in  Sherborn.  Massachusetts,  about  1756. 
(Ill")  Joseph,  ninth  child  of  William  and 
Abigail  (Woodward)  Greenwood,  was  bom 
in  .Sherborn,  Massachusetts,  Jun»  10,  1734. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter  and  joiner, 
and  also  employed  his  spare  time  in  weaving, 
which  occupation  was  an  inheritance  from  his 
father  and  grandfather.  He  was  married  about 
T758   to    his   cousin    Sarah,    daughter   of    lo- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


siah  Greenwood.  Soon  after  liis  marriage  he 
removed  to  Holden,  Alassaclnisetts,  and  thence 
to  Dubhn,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  became 
a  useful  and  esteemed  citizen  and  the  most 
important  business  man  in  the  town.  He 
served  at  various  times  as  schoohnaster,  justice 
of  the  peace,  town  clerk,  selectman,  treasurer 
of  the  town,  and  he  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to 
the  last  Provincial  congress  of  New  Hamp- 
shire before  the  adoption  of  a  state  constitu- 
tion. In  1793  he  removed  to  Bethel,  Maine, 
where  he  died  December  27,  1825,  aged 
ninety-one  years.  The  three  sons  of  Joseph 
and  Sarah  (Greenwood)  Greenwood  were: 
Ebenezer,  died  young.  John,  born  December 
24,  1760,  died  young.     Nathaniel  (q.  v.). 

(IV)  Nathaniel,  youngest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Sarah  (Greenwood)  Greenwood,  was  born 
November  6,  1761,  and  was  brought  up  in  the 
town  of  Dublin,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  re- 
ceived his  school  training.  He  was  married, 
June  24,  1782,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Lydia  (Knapp)  Mason,  of  Dublin,  New 
Hampshire,  and  in  1793  he  removed  with  his 
own  family  and  that  of  his  father  to  Bethel, 
Maine,  and  the  three  sons  by  this  marriage — 
Ebenezer,  Nathaniel  Jr.  and  Thaddeus — set- 
tled in  Farmington,  Maine.  Thaddeus,  who 
married  Belinda  Caldwell,  of  Hebron,  subse- 
quently removed  from  Farmington  to  Indus- 
try, Maine,  where  he  died  in  1864.  His  wife 
Mary  died  in  Bethel,  February  25,  1825,  and 
he  was  married  in  1827  to  Abigail  Irving,  of 
Paris,  Alaine,  and  he  had  by  this  second  mar- 
riage three  children.  He  subsequently  re- 
moved from  Bethel  to  Farmington,  where  he 
spent  the  declining  years  of  his  life  and  where 
he  died,  surrounded  by  children  and  grand- 
children, November  7,  1846. 

(V)  Nathaniel  Jr.  (2),  second  son  of  Na- 
thaniel (i)  and  Mary  (Mason)  Greenwood, 
was  born  in  Dublin,  New  Hampshire,  Decem- 
ber 2^,  1790.  When  three  years  old  he  was 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Bethel,  Maine,  where 
he  was  brought  up  and  where  his  school  ad- 
vantages were  very  limited.  He  was,  how- 
ever, a  studious  lad,  and  by  self-instruction 
and  reading  he  became  well  informed  and  able 
to  take  a  prominent  part  in  the  business  world 
in  which  he  lived.  He  married  and  removed 
to  Farmington,  I\Iaine,  and  in  January,  1832, 
purchased  a  farm  in  that  town,  now  the  prop- 
erty of  L.  6.  Manter,  and  he  at  the  same  time 
purchased  the  saw  mills  located  on  the  Farm- 
ington Falls,  where  he  carried  on  an  extensive 
lumber  business,  employing  a  large  number  of 
men  during  the  winter  season  in  cutting  and 
logging,  preparatory  to  the  spring  freshets  and 


summer  manufacture  of  lumber  at  the  mills. 
He  was  the  first  to  manufacture  hogsheads  for 
use  in  the  sugar  markets  of  the  south,  for 
transporting  molasses,  and  affording  them  at  a 
reasonable  price  by  knocking  down  each  hogs- 
head or  cask  and  securing  these  parts  in  well 
mowed  shooks  ready  to  reform  into  their 
original  forms  by  inexperienced  coopers  when 
they  reach  the  sugar  plantation  and  were  to  be 
used  at  the  cane  mills.  This  device  proved 
to  be  very  profitable  to  both  the  maker  and 
purchaser,  and  became  generally  adopted  in 
the  trade.  He  also  engaged  in  farming,  and 
he  served  his  adopted  town  in  various  official 
positions.  He  was  married  on  May  11,  1815, 
to  Huldah,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Betty  (Fos- 
ter) Howe.  Jacob  Howe  had  served  in  the 
army  in  the  American  revolution,  and  his 
daughter  Huldah  was  born  in  Maine,  May  25, 
1796.  Nathaniel  Jr.  and  Huldah  (Howe) 
Greenwood  had  ten  children:  i.  Julia,  bom 
in  Bethel,  Maine,  March  14,  1816,  married 
George  B.  Brown,  of  New  Sharon,  Maine.  2. 
Mason  Knob,  July  17,  1818,  died  December 
9,  1827.  3.  Albert  Newton,  August  14,  1820, 
married  Alatilda  A.  Soule,  resides  in  Fairfield, 
Maine,  and  has  served  as  county  commis- 
sioner. 4.  Zina  Hyde  (q.  v.).  5.  Alfred  Alan- 
son,  February  25,  1827,  married  twice,  had  six 
children,  and  resides  in  Attica,  Indiana.  6. 
Marcia  Almeda,  born  March  28,  1829,  mar- 
ried three  times  and  has  no  children  living.  7. 
Huldah  Jennie,  June  17,  1831,  died  ^larch  28, 
1885.  8.  Alma  Esther,  May  11,  1833,  married 
James  H.  Bullen,  had  five  children,  and  re- 
sides in  Perry,  Oklahoma.  9.  Charles  Mel- 
len,  1834,  died  1836.  10.  Charles,  February 
17,  1837,  married  Martha  A.  Prescott,  of  Hal- 
lowell,  Maine,  has  three  children,  and  was  a 
hardware  merchant  first  in  Farmington,  then 
in  Augusta  and  later  in  Lewiston,  Maine,  now 
of  Maiden,  Massachusetts.  Nathaniel  Green- 
wood Jr.  died  in  Farmington,  Maine,  April 
15,  1867,  and  his  widow  at  the  home  of  her 
son,  Zina  Hyde,  in  Farmington,  1892,  in  the 
ninety-seventh  year  of  her  age. 

(VI)  Zina  Hyde,  third  son  of  Nathaniel 
Jr.  (2)  and  Huldah  (Howe)  Greenwood,  was 
born  in  Bethel,  Maine,  September  21,  1824, 
He  was  educated  in  the  excellent  public 
schools  of  Farmington,  learned  the  trade  of 
carpenter  and  builder,  worked  at  his  trade  in 
Augusta,  Maine,  upto  1854,  and  became  an 
expert  bridge  builde'r  in  Farmington,  being 
appointed  by  the  town  authorities  to  superin- 
tend the  building  of  the  large  bridges  that 
were  yearly  severely  tested  and  frequently  de- 
stroyed by  the  spring  freshets  with  great  loss 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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to  the  tow  11,  the  reconstruction  of  some  of  the 
bridges  costing  many  thousand  dollars.     He 
conducted  a  fire  insurance  business  in  Farm- 
ington  from  1854  up  to  1893,  but  was  forced 
to  find  more  active  employment  for  the  pres- 
ervation of  his  health.    He  purchased  the  farm 
owned  by  Jesse  Butterfield  Jr.,  and  became  a 
farmer  and  bridge  builder.     He  also  engaged 
in   canning   sweet   corn    for   the   market,   and 
has  formed  a  company,  erected  a  large  can- 
ning establishment  and  carried  on  a  very  use- 
ful   and    profitable    business    known    as    the 
Sandy  River  Packing  Company.     This  addi- 
tional care  obliged  him  to  leave  the  farm  in 
1885,  and  he  purchased  in  1887  nine  acres  of 
the  Stewart  farm  on  High  street,  and  on  this 
estate  erected  a  handsome  and  substantial  resi- 
dence and  sold  building  lots  to  home  seekers 
who  were  willing  to  improve  and  beautify  the 
neighborhood.    He  served  as  selectman  of  the 
town   for   seven  years,    1865-68  and    1876-77. 
He  was  made  a  life  member  of  the  Franklin 
County  Agricultural  Society  and  of  the  Maine 
State  Agricultural  Society.     He  was  married 
November  8,   1849.  to  Emily  Merrill,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  and  Sarah   (Bradbury)   Fellows, 
of  Athens,  Maine,  born  June  11,  1829.     Zina 
Hyde   and    Emily    M.    (Fellows)    Greenwood 
had  six  children:     i.  Edward,  born  November 
17,   1850,  married  Emma  R.  Dutton ;  he  has 
charge  of  the  railroad  shops  at  Phillips,  Maine. 
2.  Albert   Mellen.  February  2,   1853,  married 
Affie  yi.   Sanborn,  June  22,   1882;  he  was  a 
jeweller    in    Phillips,    Maine,    now    resides    in 
Farmington.     3.  (Drville  Short,  July  14,  1855, 
married  Cora  L.  Prescott,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren:   Mildred  Francis,  born  January  5,  1883  ; 
Philip   Prescott,   October   9,    1884;    Fred   Al- 
bert, April   19,   1887.     4.  Chester   (q.  v.).     5. 
Lizzie  A.,  April  13,  1861,  graduated  at  State 
Normal    school    and    became    a    professional 
teacher.    6.  Emilie,  June  28,  1863,  educated  in 
the  public  and  high  schools,  and  engaged   in 
preparatory  gardening,  bedding  plants  under 
glass  for  market  gardens  up  to  igo6. 

( VH)  Chester,  son  of  Zina  Hyde  and  Emily 
M.  (Fellows)  Greenwood,  was  born  in  Farm- 
ington, Maine,  December  4,  1858.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Farmington  public  school  and 
Wilton  Academy.  He  patented  an  ear  pro- 
tector, which  he  devised  w'hen  fifteen  years 
old  and  patented  when  seventeen.  It  came  into 
almost  universal  use,  and  to  meet  the  demand 
of  the  trade  he  manufactured  the  protector 
on  a  large  scale,  first  on  the  farm  near  Farm- 
ington and  in  1883  moved  the  industry  to 
West  Farmington ;  in  1887  he  erected  a  large 
building   for   the   purpose   in    Centre   Milage, 


whicii  he  gave  up  in  1901  to  take  possession 
of  a  large  brick  factory  which  he  had  erected 
on  Depot  street.  He  invented  his  own  machin- 
ery, and  the  factory  continued  to  turn  out 
sixty  thousand  pairs  annually,  and  of  late  years 
as  high  as  eighty  thousand,  the  business  being 
conducted  as  Chester  Greenwood  &  Company. 
He  organized  the  Franklin  Independent  Tele- 
phone Company,  and  was  made  president  and 
manager  of  the  corporation,  and  shortly  after 
he  negotiated  a  sale  of  the  property  to  the 
Rockland  Telephone  Company.  He  is  also 
largely  interested  as  owner  and  trustee  of  val- 
uable and  profitable  real  estate.  He  is  a  Pro- 
hibitionist in  pc)litical  faith,  and  a  member  of 
Franklin  Lodge,  No.  58,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Farmington.  He  was 
married  October  12,  1884,  to  Sarah  Isabel 
Whittier,  of  Chesterville,  Maine.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Phineas  Whittier,  an  extensive 
farmer  and  orchardist,  and  at  one  time  known 
as  the  "Apple  King"  of  Maine.  The  children 
of  Chester  and  Sarah  Isabel  (Whittier) 
Greenwood  are:  i.  Lester  C,  born  July  28, 
1885,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College,  A.B., 
1908,  and  at  once  entered  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, Boston,  in  naval  architecture  and 
marine  engineering.  2.  Donald  Whittier,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1887,  matriculated  at  Dartmouth 
with  the  class  of   1910.     3.  Vodisa  E.,  Octo- 


ber 


1888,   matriculated   at    Smith   College, 


class   of    1912.     4.    Clinton   W.,    February   6, 
1893,  a  sophomore  at  Brewster  Free  Academy. 


The  tradition  of  this  family 
ELDER  states  that  the  early  ancestors 
were  Scotch  and  went  to  Ireland 
in  the  time  of  the  great  exodus  from  the  for- 
mer to  the  latter  country  in  the  seventeenth 
century.  The  name  Elder  is  from  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  ealdor,  meaning  older  or  senior,  and 
the  earliest  progenitor  of  the  family,  as  well 
as  the  name,  may  have  come  from  some  point 
south  of  the  Scotch  border. 

(I)  Samuel  and  Robert  Elder,  brothers, 
came  from  Ireland,  one  authority  says  from 
Londonderry,  another  says  Artmore,  county 
of  Antrim,  in  the  north  of  Ireland.  Robert 
settled  at  Cape  Elizabeth,  Maine,  and  Samuel 
made  his  settlement  at  Presumpscot  Falls,  in 
the  year  1729,  at  which  time  a  company  of 
Scotch-Irish  came  to  this  state.  In  1743  Sam- 
uel removed  to  Windham,  then  called  New 
Marblehead,  where  he  purchased  home  lots 
Nos.  45  and  46,  and  there  he  and  his  son  Wil- 
liam made  themselves  a  "Dubble  house,"  as 
was  sometimes  done  by  well-to-do  settlers. 
The  ordinary  house  of  pioneer  days  consisted 


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STATE  QF  MAINE. 


of  a  single  room  built  (generally)  of  logs. 
The  double  house  had  two  such  rooms,  and  a 
space  between  them  roofed  and  floored,  but 
having  no  outer  walls.  This  middle  space  was 
a  very  handy  and  comfortable  place  to  work 
in  warm  weather.  Samuel  Elder  married  a 
Huston,  by  whom  he  had  seven  children:  i. 
^Margaret,  born  in  Ireland,  married  (first) 
1752,  Samuel  Watts;  (second)  November  9, 
1759,  Isaac  Gilkey,  of  Gorham.  2.  William, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Isaac,  born  in  Falmouth, 
January  19,  1739,  married,  October  16,  1761, 
Mary  Hunnewell.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  in  Fal- 
mouth, 1741,  married,  July  23,  1761,  Simon 
Huston,  who  moved  in  1763  to  Gorham,  and 
died  there.  5.  Eunice,  born  1745,  married, 
January  i,  1767,  Gary  McLellan,  of  Gorham. 
6.  Samuel,  born  August  29,  1748,  married 
(first)  March  3,  1774,  Hannah  Freeman; 
(second)  Mary  Graffam.  7.  Jane,  whose  date 
of  birth  is  not  known,  married  Eleazer  Chase, 
of  Standish,  Maine,  and  settled  in  Windham, 
where  she  died. 

(II)  William,    eldest    son    of    Samuel    and 

■ ■  (Huston)  Elder,  was  born  in  Ireland, 

and  was  brought  in  early  childhood  to  Maine 
bv  his  parents.  He  married  Mary  Akers,  and 
they  lived  and  died  in  the  "Dubble  house," 
which  stood  on  the  River  road,  near  the  spot 
where  Caleb  Elder  later  lived,  in  the  south 
part  of  Windham.  They  had  twelve  children : 
I.  John,  born  August  20,  1752,  married  Re- 
becca Grafifam.  2.  William,  February  ig, 
1754,  married  Keziah  Hanson.  3.  Prudence, 
June  30,  1756,  died  July  9,  1756.  4  and  5. 
Joseph  and  .Samuel,  twins,  July  26,  1757,  Jo- 
seph married  Hannah  LeGrow ;  Samuel  died 
April  10,  1758.  6.  Prudence,  May  31,  1759, 
married  Thomas  Craig.  7.  Samuel,  March 
18,  1761,  died  March  30,  1761.  8.  Reuben, 
June  22,  1762,  married  Elizabeth  Huston.  9. 
Rebecca,  August  27,  1764,  married  James 
Webb.  ID.  Charles,  June  29,  1767,  married 
Betsey  Kingsbury.  11.  Silas,  March  2,  1789, 
married  Abigail  Chesley.  12.  Isaac,  next  men- 
tioned. 

(III)  Isaac,  youngest  child  of  William  and 
Mary  (Akers)  Elder,  was  born  December  9, 
1770,  died  December  3,  1844.  He  settled  in 
East  Windham,  and  cleared  a  farm  of  one 
hundred  acres,  the  title  of  which  has  never 
since  been  out  of  the  Elder  name.  The  house 
he  built  on  this  farm  is  still  standing,  some- 
what modernized  in  its  appearance,  it  is  true, 
but  many  of  its  rooms  remaining  as  he  fin- 
ished them  and  the  wooden  cornice  in  the  par- 
lor, around  its  upper  part,  remains  exactly  as 
he  made  it.     In  recognition  of  the   fact  that 


they  were  Scotch-Irish,  and  that  their  an- 
cestor, Samuel  the  emigrant,  came  directly 
from  Ireland,  the  neighborhood  and  school 
district  in  which  Isaac  Elder  cleared  his  farm 
and  lived,  was  called  Ireland,  while  the  neigh- 
borhood next  south,  for  similar  reasons,  was 
called  Scotland,  both  of  these  localities  retain- 
ing their  respective  names  to-day.  Isaac  El- 
der married  (first)  Hannah  Chesley,  born 
July  12,  1792,  died  June  2,  1798.  He  married 
(second)  Mary  Jackson,  born  April  23,  1778, 
died  July  11,  1832.  By  his  first  wife  he  had 
four  children:  i.  Joseph,  born  February  18, 
1792,  married  Ruth  Quint,  and  settled  in  An- 
son, Maine.  2.  Mary,  December  30,  1793, 
married,  June  3,  1830,  Major  William  Smith. 
3.  Charles,  December  i,  1795,  married  Esther 
Lowry.  4.  Rhea,  November  8,  1797,  married 
Harriet  Fields.  By  his  second  wife,  Mary 
Jackson,  the  children  were  as  follows:  i. 
Hannah,  September  9,  1799,  married  Amos 
LeGrow.  2.  Eleanor,  February  16,  1801,  died 
unmarried.  3.  Betsey,  November  17,  1802, 
married  Ezekiel  Mayberry.  4.  Lydia,  April 
8,  1905,  died  unmarried.  5.  Richard  Jackson, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Frances,  born  August  4, 
1810,  married  Edward  Mayberry.  7.  Esther 
A.,  May  25,  1813,  married  John  E.  Kemp.  8. 
Jane  B.,  November  28,  1817,  married  Peter 
Craig.  9.  Catherine,  June  6,  1820,  married 
Ebenezer  Field. 

(IV)  Richard  Jackson,  only  son  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  (Jackson)  Elder,  was  born  in 
Windham,  July  11,  1807,  and  died  in  Wind- 
ham, in  the  same  house  in  which  he  was  born, 
February  i,  1877.  He  received  a  common 
school  education,  and  devoted  himself  to  culti- 
vating the  soil  and  was  a  farmer  in  comfort- 
able circumstances.  He  was  industrious,  loved 
his  home  and  had  no  use  for  secret  societies. 
He  was  progressive  in  politics,  kept  abreast  of 
public  thought,  and  was  a  strong  supporter  of 
Lincoln  and  his  war  policy.  He  married 
(first)  Roxcillana  Washburn,  born  in  Hebron, 
Maine,  February  28,  1810,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Washburn,  of  Hebron.  She  died  in 
Windham,  June  11,  1866.  Stephen  Wash- 
burn, a  miller  by  trade,  moved  from  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts,  to  Hebron,  Maine.  He 
married  Betsey  Record,  by  whom  he  had 
Anna,  1792;  Betsey,  1794;  Stephen,  1796; 
Calvin,  1798:  Luther,  1800;  Otis,  1802;  Hulda. 
1804;  Thankful,  1806;  and  Mercy,  1806 
(twins).  The  children  by  his  second  wife 
were:  Ruth,  born  in  1809;  Roxcillana,  1810; 
Isaac,     1812 ;    and    Lovisa.      Ruth    married 

(first)  Washburn;   (second)  Zacariah 

Field.     Roxcillana,  married  Richard  J.  Elder. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1329 


Isaac,  married  Cynthia  Stevens.    Lovisa,  mar- 
ried James   Hadlock.     Ruth   had   by   second 
husband:    James,    who    was    drowned    while 
young;  Ellen  who  married  Albert  Libby,  and 
Georgia,    who    died    unmarried.      Isaac    had 
Charles,   who   died  leaving  no  issue ;   Emma, 
who  married  Warren  Dorman,  and  had  one 
child,  Nellie  W.  Dorman ;  Lovisa  died  leaving 
eight    children.      Richard    J.    Elder    married 
(second)  Adah  S.  Elder,  widow  of  Peter  El- 
der, who  was  born  in  1805  and  died  in  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  in  1895.     Children  of  Richard 
J.   and   Roxcillana    (Washburn)    Elder  were: 
I.  Cynthia  Jane,  born  December  14,  1838,  mar- 
ried  Jordan    McLellan   and   died   January   2, 
1894.     They   had:     i.   Stephen,   died   young; 
ii.  ^linnie  E.,  married  Clarance  Rolfe,  and  has 
five  children :     Luther  Wiswel,  born  Novem- 
ber 18,  1883;  Jennie  Gertrude,  August.  1885; 
Iris  Ola,  1887;  j\Iona  Ball  and  Guy  Ellsworth, 
ii.  Lana,  married  William  McLellan,  and  died 
in  1894,  leaving  five  children,  Mamie  Gertrude, 
November  29,  1833,  Jordan  Elmo,  1885,  Edna 
P.,  1888,  Bessie.  1890,  and  Ruby  Lana,  1894. 
iii.    Guy    Richard,    died    young,      iv.    Wesley 
Mayberry,   married    Maud    Barrows    and   has 
two  children,  Horace  and  Cynthia.     2.  Isaac, 
born  March  6,  1840,  died  March  24,  1846.    3. 
Stephen  Washburn,  born  June  30,  1841,  died 
February  5,  1843.    4.  Mary  Lovisa,  born  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1843,  died  unmarried,  April  9,  1878. 
5.  Almeda  Louisa,  born  March  29,  1844,  died 
single.  May  26.  i860.     6.  Stephen  Washburn, 
born  June  2,  1845,  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-fifth 
Regiment,   Maine  Volunteers,   when  but   six- 
teen years  old,  served  his  term  of  enlistment 
and  was   honorably   discharged.     He   learned 
the  carpenter's  trade   and   worked   in   Boston 
and   Portland ;   then   went   to   San   Francisco, 
where  he  carried  on  a  large  business  as  house 
carpenter,    contractor    and    builder,    returning 
to  Portland  in   1879;  ^^  married  Lucetta  F. 
LeGrow  and  settled  in  Portland,  where  he  con- 
tinued his  business.     He  died  May   18,  1908, 
leaving  one  child,  Cona  Bertrand,  who  mar- 
ried Lizzie  Smith,  and  with  his  mother  con- 
tinues to  live  in  Portland.     7.  Isaac  L.,  men- 
tioned below.     8.  Ellen  Maria,  born  Septem- 
ber  16,   1850,  died  March  31,  1851.     9.  Elva 
Roselett.  born  August  7,   1851,  began  teach- 
ing at  the  age  of   fourteen,   teaching  in   the 
towns    of    Windham,    Westbrook,    Falmouth, 
Orrington  and  Brewer ;  she  was  assistant  prin- 
cipal of  Hampden  Academy  for  one  year  and 
then  went  to  San  Francisco,  where  siic  LaugnL 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  city  for  twenty- 
five    years    and    then    returned    to    Portland, 
where   she   is   living  with   her  brother   Isaac. 


Elva  R.  graduated  from  Westbraok  Seminary 
in  the  class  of  1894.     She  was  never  married. 
(V)  Isaac  Luther,  fourth  son  of  Richard  J. 
and  Roxcillana  (Washburn)   Elder,  was  born 
in  Windham,  July  27,  1849.    He  attended  the 
public    schools    in    Windham    and    Westbrook 
Seminary,   graduating   from   the   seminary   in 
the  class  of  1868.     He  entered  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege in   1869,  and  graduated   in  the  class  of 
1873.     He  acquired  his   higher  education  by 
dint  of  his  own  efforts,  teaching  school  during 
the  time  in  Falmouth,  Windham,  Westbrook 
and  Bristol,  and  after  graduation  at  Orring- 
ton for  two  years  was  principal  of  Hampden 
Academy.     During  a  portion  of  the  time  he 
was  put  to  much  inconvenience  by  reason  of 
trottble    with    his    eyes,    often    suffering    ex- 
tremely, and  during  his  college  course,  for  a 
period  of  six  months,  he  was  unable  to  use 
them  at  all,  not  reading  a  line  of  print  in  a 
book.     But  he  was  energetic  and  determined, 
and   succeeded  in   securing  his   diploma  with 
his  class,  in  spite  of  all  the  obstacles  which 
hindered  but  could  not  stop  his  progress.     In 
1875  Mr.  Elder  entered  the  ofiice  of  Strout  & 
Gage  of  Portland  to  read  law,  and  in  Octo- 
ber,   1877,   passed    his   examination    and   was 
admitted   to   the   bar    of   the    supreme   court. 
Soon  afterwards  he  began  the  practice  of  law 
in   Portland,  where  he  has   since  built   up   a 
successful  business.     Politically  Mr.  Elder  has 
been   a  lifelong  supporter  of  the  Republican 
party.     From  1894  to  1896  he  was  city  solici- 
tor of  Deering,  and  from  1893  to  1897  judge 
of  the  Deering  municipal  court,  when  he  re- 
signed because  of  his  private  business.     From 
1902  to  1906  he  was  chairman  of  the  Cumber- 
land   County    Republican    committee.      Since 
1896  he  has  been  on  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Westbrook  Seminary.     His  ]\Iasonic  standing 
is  as  follows :    Made  a  Mason  in  Presumpscot 
Lodge,  No.  127,  at  Windham;  joined  Deering 
Lodge,  No.   183,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of  which  he  is  a  past  master;  Mount  Vernon 
Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No.   i ;   Portland  Com- 
mandery,  No.  2,  Knights  Templar;  Portland 
Council,    No.    i.    Royal    and    Select    Masters; 
and  Deering   Chapter,   order   of  the    Eastern 
Star.      He    is    also    a    member   of    Fraternity 
Lodge,  No.  6,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, Rocky  Hill  Lodge,  No.  51,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  of  which  he  is  a  past  chancellor.    He 
is  also  a  past  grand  representative,  past  dep- 
uty errand  chanc^'iiu. ,  past  grand   chancellor 
ana  past  supreme  representative  in  that  order. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  Cumberland  Lodge, 
No.  45,  New   England   Order  of   Protection, 
and  Presumpscot  Grange,  No.  27,  Patrons  of 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Husbandr}-,  of  which  he  is  a  past  master.  For 
many  years  Mr.  Elder  has  Hved,  first  in  the 
town  of  Deering,  then  the  city  of  Deering, 
and  then  Ward  8,  in  the  city  of  Portland,  on 
Dalton  street,  Pearl  street  and  finally  on 
Coyle  street,  in  one  house  which  he  built  and 
from  which  he  has  never  moved. 

Isaac  L.  Elder  married  (first)  at  Windham, 
October  31,  1875,  Georgia  A.  Starbird,  born 
in  Gray,  November  10,  1846,  daughter  of  El- 
lery  H.  and  Olive  Ann  (Wilson)  Starbird,  of 
Falmouth.  ]\lr.  Starbird  was  born  in  Gray 
and  moved  to  Falmouth,  where  he  was  a  far- 
mer, teacher,  surveyor,  and  one  of  the  lead- 
ing citizens  for  forty  j-ears ;  about  1878  he  re- 
moved to  Gray,  where  he  died.  Mr.  Elder 
died  in  Deering,  August  3,  1897,  and  was 
buried  in  Evergreen  cemetery.  Mr.  Elder 
married  (second)  in  Portland,  October  18, 
1902,  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  in  Standish,  June 
28,  1849,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Alary 
Jane  (Hamlin)  Moody,  of  Standish,  and 
widow  of  Benjamin  A.  LeGrow.  The  chil- 
dren, both  by  first  wife,  were :  i.  Olive  Marie, 
born  November  2,  1879,  graduated  from 
Westbrook  Seminary  in  the  class  of  1895  and 
entered  Colby  University.  Unable  by  reason 
of  ill  health  of  entering  upon  her  studies  at  the 
University,  she  spent  several  years  in  Cali- 
fornia and  the  west  in  a  vain  efifort  to  regain 
her  health,  finally  returning  to  her  father's 
house  in  Portland,  where  in  1904  she  died  and 
was  buried  in  Evergreen  cemetery,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-seven  years.  Ollie  Marie  was  never 
married.  2.  Harold  Starbird,  born  June  24, 
1884,  was  taught  by  his  mother  until  able  to 
enter  Westbrook  Seminary,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  the  class  of  1902,  entering  Bowdoin 
College,  graduating  from  that  institution  in 
the  class  of  1906,  and  is  now  a  student  in  his 
father's  office.  In  college  both  father  and  son 
were  members  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  a 
Greek  letter  fraternity,  and  both  are  members 
of  Rocky  Hill  Lodge,  No.  51,  Knights  of 
Pythias. 


The  surname  Babson  is  of  an- 
BABSON     cient    English    origin,    derived 

like  Robson,  Batson,  Watson, 
Jackson,  from  abbreviated  personal  names. 
The  family  has  never  been  numerous  in  the 
mother  country.  The  author  of  the  history  of 
Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  a  learned  man,  and 
perhaps  the  most  prominent  of  the  American 
family,  searched  at  the  registrar-general's 
office  in  London  and  found  no  recent  traces  of 
the  family  in  the  L'nited  Kingdom.  Tradition 
in  one  branch  of  the   American   familv  grave 


the  English  home  as  Bristol,  but  the  records 
he  examined  showed  no  trace  of  the  name.  It 
is  possible  that  the  name  is  the  same  as  Bat- 
son. 

(  I  )  James  Babson  and  wife  Isabel,  together 
with  infant  son  James,  left  England  with  a 
party  of  emigrants  for  the  United  States.  On 
the  trip  over  James  died.  Isabel  Babson, 
widow,  was  the  first  of  the  name  in  America, 
and  she  and  her  only  son  James  are  progeni- 
tors of  all  of  the  name  in  this  country.  She 
was  a  mid-wife  and  nurse  at  Gloucester, 
Massachusetts.  She  had  several  grants  of 
land,  of  which  the  earliest  was  in  1644.  Even 
before  this  grant  she  bought  a  lot  of  Mr.  Mil- 
ward,  known  as  the  Ashley  lot,  two  acres,  part 
of  which  is  now  the  site  of  73  and  -jj  Front 
street,  which  she  left  to  her  son  James,  valued 
at  twenty-seven  pounds,  six  shillings.  The 
place  remained  in  the  Babson  family  a  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years.  She  died  at  Gloucester, 
April  6,  1661,  aged  about  eighty-four  years, 
indicating  that  her  birth-year  was  1577.  James 
appears  to  be  her  only  child,  although  tradi- 
tion says  there  was  a  son  John. 

(II)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (O  and  Isa- 
bel Babson,  was  born  in  England  about 
1620-25.  His  age  is  given  as  about  thirty  in  a 
deposition  dated  1663,  but  he  was  married  as 
early  as  1647  and  grantor  in  a  deed  of  that 
year,  and  must  have  reached  his  majority.  He 
settled  in  Little  Good  Harbor,  Gloucester,  and 
was  a  cooper  by  trade,  making  barrels  for  the 
fishermen,  etc.  He  had  a  small  farm  also. 
The  town  granted  December  23.  1658,  twelve 
acres  of  fresh  meadow  lying  above  the  mill, 
and  twenty  acres  of  upland  lying  alongside  it. 
On  this  grant  he  settled  and  it  finally  passed 
into  the  hands  of  his  son-in-law,  Thomas 
Witham,  husband  of  his  daughter  Abigail,  and 
it  has  remained  in  the  Witham  family  to  the 
present  generation.  He  died  December  21, 
1683.  His  will  was  dated  December  4,  1683, 
and  proved  March  25,  1684,  bequeathing  to 
wife  Elinor,  son  John  and  other  children, 
making  his  son  Philip  executor.  The  in- 
ventory of  his  estate  amounted  to  one  hundred 
and  eleven  pounds,  sixteen  shillings,  an  aver- 
age estate  for  his  day.  He  married,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1647,  Elinor  Hill,  at  Gloucester,  who 
died  March  14,  1714,  aged  eighty-three  years, 
sister  of  Zebulon  Hill,  who  came  from  Bristol, 
England.  Children,  all  born  at  Gloucester : 
I.  James,  born  September  29,  1648.  2.  Elinor, 
June  13,  165 1.  3.  Philip,  October  15,  1654, 
settled  in  Salem,  married  Hannah  Baker,  Oc- 
tober 22,  i68g;  had  daughter  Anna,  who  mar- 
ried Israel  Hendricks.    4.  Sarah,  February  13, 


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1656-57,  died  1676.  5.  Thomas,  May  21,  1658, 
soldier  in  King  Philip's  war.  6.  John,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1660,  married,  1686,  Dorcas  Ehvell, 
had  grant  at  Strattsmouth  in  1695  to  set  up 
fishing;  both  he  and  wife  died  1737;  iiad  nine 
children.  7.  Richard.  June  i.  1663,  mentioned 
below.  8.  Elizabeth,  October  8,  1665.  9. 
Ebenezer,  February  8,  1668,  a  notorious  char- 
acter, called  by  Cotton  Mather  a  "playmate  of 
the  devil."     10.  Abigail,  1670. 

(III)  Richard,  son  of  James  (2)  Babson, 
was  born  June  i,  1663,  at  Gloucester.  He 
married  (first)  Mary  Jane  Reading,  \yho  died 
February  14,  1718,  aged  fifty-four  years.  He 
married  (second)  October  14,  1718,  Jane 
Reading,  probably  widow  of  John  Reading. 
He  was  a  mariner  or  coaster  and  may  have 
removed  to  Falmouth,  Maine,  before  1727.  as 
a  deed  conveying  his  house  and  land  at  Fresh 
Water  Cove  to  his  son  John  for  thirty-four 
pounds  was  acknowledged  at  that  place  Octo- 
ber 10,  1720.  He  had  ten  daughters  and  one 
son.  Five  of  the  daughters  lived  to  marry. 
Of  the  son  John,  mentioned  below,  there  are 
many  descendants. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Richard  Babson,  was 
born  July  9,  1687.  He  had  the  homestead  of 
his  father  at  Fresh  Water  Cove,  Gloucester. 
He  married,  August  20,  171 1,  Hannah  Hodg- 
kins.  Children:  i.  Thomas,  born  and  died 
1712.  2.  John,  born  1713,  married  (first)  Jan- 
uary II,  1739;  (second)  December  2,  1756, 
Abigail  Allen,  perhaps  widow  of  John,  and 
(third)  March  20.  1771,  Anne  Savery ;  he  re- 
sided in  what  is  known  as  the  old  Garrison 
House  on  Back  street  and  died  March,  1797, 
aged  eighty-four  years ;  son  Samuel  settled  in 
Lincoln,  Massachusetts.  4.  Samuel  (twin), 
June  12,  1715.  5.  Solomon  (twin),  June  12, 
1715,  married,  November  9,  1739,  Elizabeth 
Parsons,  probably  daughter  of  John :  had  six 
daughters,  and  three  sons.  Solomon,  John  and 
Zebulon.  6.  Philip.  July  29.  1719.  marrietl, 
July  24,  1744,  Mary  Elwell.  7.  William,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1721,  married  (first)  July  24,  1744. 
Mary  Williams;  (second)  Elizabeth  Choate. 
8.  Joseph,  mentioned  below.  Others  died 
young. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  John  Babson.  was  born 
in  Gloucester,  July  18,  1732,  died  in  Brooklin, 
Maine,  January  15,  1815.  In  November,  1773, 
he  removed  to  Naskeag  (now  Brooklin), 
Maine,  where  he  was  active  in  repulsing  the 
encroachments  of  the  British  upon  the  terri- 
tory about  Castine  when  it  was  occupied  by 
them  during  the  revolutionary  war.  and  also 
upon  their  occupancy  of  Castine   during  the 


war  of  1812;  during  that  war  he  was  captain 
and  owner  of  privateer  and  captured  at  Cas- 
tine after  having  captured  a  vessel  loaded 
with  supplies  for  the  British  army.  He  mar- 
ried Martha  Sonfes,  June  12,  1755.  Children: 
Joseph,  born  December  6.  1756,  died  in  New- 
buryport,  .April  I,  1843;  Martha,  Abram,  Eliz- 
abeth, Susanna,  John,  mentioned  below ; 
James,  born  at  Xaskeag.  1775,  died  1863. 

(\'I)  John  (2),  son  of  Joseph  Babson,  was 
born  in  Gloucester,  December  11,  1768.  He 
married  Emma  Brown.  They  lived  in  Brook- 
lin, Maine.  Children,  probably  not  in  order 
of  birth :  John  W.,  Sivilian,  mentioned  be- 
low ;  Samuel  Brown,  mentioned  below ;  James 
Madison,  Elizabeth,  Sophia,  Susan  and 
Louisa. 

(VH)  Captain  Sivilian.  son  of  John  (2) 
Babson,  was  born  in  Brooklin,  Maine,  1810, 
and  died  in  Brookville,  Maine,  in  1888.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  Early  in 
his  youth  he  began  to  go  to  sea  and  he  was 
mariner  until  1873.  when  he  retired.  He  be- 
came a  master  mariner  when  a  young  man 
and  commanded  his  own  vessel  and  owned  his 
cargoes  for  many  years.  He  traded  between 
Boston  and  Baltimore  to  the  south  and  to  St. 
John,  New  Brunswick,  to  the  northward.  Dur- 
ing the  civil  war  he  owned  several  vessels 
chartered  by  the  govenmient  for  transports. 
In  politics  Captain  Babson  was  a  Republican. 
He  married  Abbie  Perkins,  born  in  Penob- 
scot, Maine,  1823,  died  1904.  Children:  I. 
Emma  F.,  born  1849.  died  in  1863.  2.  George 
Jay,  born  1855,  mentioned  below.  3.  Edwin 
P.,  born  1857,  merchant  at  Blue  Hill.  Maine, 
married  Rose  A.  Billings ;  child.  Mabel.  4. 
Clara  P.,  born  1868.  married  William  H. 
Chadbourne.  of  East  Waterford.  Maine ;  raises 
fancy  cattle  and  is  a  lumberman;  children:  i. 
Fred  Chadbourne  and  Philip  Chadbourne. 

( VIII)  George  Jay.  son  of  Captain  Sivilian 
Babson.  was  born  in  Brooksville.  Maine.  1855. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Brooksville.  Maine,  and  at  the  State  Normal 
school,  Castine,  Maine.  He  taught  school  for 
a  time,  then  traveled  through  the  west  buying 
wool.  He  came  to  Foxcroft,  Maine,  in  1887, 
and  was  engaged  in  merchandizing  and  lum- 
ber business,  and  built  up  a  large  and  flourish- 
ing business  which  was  incorporated  in  1907 
as  Babson  &  Company.  He  married  (first) 
in  1885,  Lillian  A.  Perkins,  born  in  Penob- 
scot, daughter  of  Horace  Perkins.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  in  1900,  Jessie  Oakes,  born  in 
Sangerville.  daughter  of  William  P.  and  Edith 
(Lewis)    Oakes,  of  Foxcroft.     Child  of  first 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


wife:  Horace  P.,  born  June  19,  1889.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife :  Keith  O.,  born  June  13, 
1901  ;  George  Jay  Jr.,  August  2,  1905. 

(VII)  Samuel  Brown,  son  of  John  Babson, 
was  born  in  Brooklin,  Maine.  October  2,  1812. 
Married  Nancy  Tapley,  born  Brooksville, 
Maine,  March  29,  1811.  Children:  John 
Walker,  mentioned  below.  Albert  M.,  bom 
December  18.  1844,  died  July  31,  1848.  James 
A.,  born  November  7,  1847,  died  November 
4,  1889. 

(VIII)  John  Walker,  son  of  Samuel  Brown 
Babson,  was  born  in  Brooksville,  Hancock 
county,  Maine,  August  15,  1835.  He  attended 
the  local  schools,  Blue  Hill  Academy  and  the 
academy  at  Kent's  Hill.  He  served  as  post- 
master of  the  town  of  Brooksville  from  1856 
to  1859;  appointed  clerk  to  Hannibal  Hamlin, 
vice-president  of  the  United  States  in  1861 
and  served  in  the  United  States  capitol  until 
1866,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  pension 
bureau  and  made  deputy  commissioner  of 
pensions  in  1869;  in  1872  was  transferred  to 
the  United  States  patent  office  and  appointed 
chief  of  the  issue  and  gazette  division,  which 
position  he  held  for  more  than  thirty-five 
years.  A  staunch  Republican  in  politics,  he 
has  served  as  chairman  of  the  county  com- 
mittee four  years.  He  is  a  member  of  B.  B. 
French  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
Washington,"  D.  C,  1866;  National  Geo- 
graphic Society;  East  Washington  Citizens' 
Association ;  Anthropological  Society,  and  a 
director  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  He  married  (first)  November  5, 
1855,  at  Bangor,  Maine,  Louise  A.  Tibbetts, 
born  in  Brooklin,  Maine,  March  14,  1838. 
Married  (second)  September  i,  1868,  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  Eliza  A.  Tibbetts,  born  in 
Brooksville,  Maine,  February  8,  1838,  daugh- 
ter of  Noah  N.  and  Elvina  (Norton)  Tib- 
betts, who  were  the  parents  of  six  other  chil- 
dren :  Elvina,  Clara,  Lydia,  Minnie,  Noah 
and  James;  Noah  N.  Tibbetts  was  a  sea  cap- 
tain for  more  than  forty  years.  Children  of 
first  wife:  i.  May  Winifred,  born  Brooks- 
ville, August  3,  1856,  married,  1877,  Dr.  Wil- 
liam B.  French  at  Washington,  D.  C.  2.  Ab- 
bie  Nancy,  Brooksville,  November  28,  1857, 
died  October  2,  1861.  3.  Eugene  St.  L., 
Brooksville,  February  4,  1861,  died  February 
I,  1888.  Children  of  second  wife:  4.  Rosie 
Myrtle,  Washington,  D.  C,  June  29,  1869, 
died  March  8,  1904.  5.  Don  Hamlin,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  January  19,  1871,  died  same 
day.  6.  John  Walker,  Washington,  D.  C, 
April  22,  1876,  educated  in  public  schools  and 
high  school  of  Washington,  graduating  from 


the  latter  institution  in  1893;  immediately  en- 
gaged in  business  with  the  Norris  Peters  Com- 
pany, lithographers,  where  he  has  gradually 
w-orked  his  way  to  the  front  until  now  he  is 
secretary  of  the  corporation.  In  1899  he  mar- 
ried Mary  Elizabeth  Halley  in  Washington, 
D.  C. ;  children:  Isabel,  Berwyn  B.,  Beulah 
Louise  and  John  W.,  the  third.  7.  Bertha 
Belle,  Brooksville,  August  28,  1878,  died 
June  7,  1889.  8.  Berwyn,  Washington,  D.  C, 
July  27,  1879,  died  December  30,  1884. 


Occasionally  one  finds  a  name 
DEARTH     so  unusual  that  it  seems  to  be 

in  a  class  by  itself.  In  such 
cases  it  is  not  unreasonable  to  suppose  that 
the  form  under  consideration  may  be  a  modi- 
fication, brought  about  either  by  accident  or 
design,  of  some  patronymic  more  widely  dis- 
tributed. In  this  case  it  is  possible  that  Dearth 
may  be  derived  from  Death,  a  surname  rather 
uncommon  in  this  country,  but  still  more  nu- 
merously found  than  Dearth.  The  family  of 
Dearth  appears  to  be  non-existent  in  England, 
and  in  America  it  has  been  traced  to  but  two 
localities  outside  of  Maine.  One  Thomas 
Dearth,  born  March  26,  1777,  lived  at  Brim- 
field,  Massachusetts,  where  he  married  Me- 
hitable  Bliss.  Henry  Golden  Dearth,  born  at 
Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  in  1863,  is  an  artist  of 
repute,  and  a  member  of  the  American  Na- 
tional Academy.  He  is  probably  a  descend- 
ant of  Captain  Golden  Death  who  lived  at 
Bristol  in  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury and  was  part  owner  of  a  privateer  during 
the  war  of  181 2. 

(I)  Leonard  Dearth  was  born  at  Sherborn, 
Massachusetts,  in  1792,  and  died  at  East 
Sangerville,  Maine,  in  1880.  In  early  life  he 
moved  from  Massachusetts  to  Sangerville,  and 
cleared  the  land  where  he  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  days,  and  where  all  his  children  were 
born.  Leonard  Dearth  married  Fannie  Cars- 
ley  of  Sangerville,  and  their  children  were: 
Freeman  D.,  Leander,  Henry  L.,  Mercy,  Hul- 
dah  and  Rebecca. 

(II)  Freeman  Daniel,  youngest  son  of 
Leonard  and  Fannie  (Carsley)  Dearth,  was 
born  at  Sangerville,  Maine,  about  1829,  and 
died  in  that  town  in  1886.  He  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  and  at  Foxcroft  Acad- 
emy. He  was  a  farmer  all  his  life  and  lived 
and  died  on  the  old  home  place,  which  his 
father  had  cleared  and  where  he  himself  was 
born.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  About  1853 
Freeman  Daniel  Dearth  married  Mary  B. 
Spooner,    daughter    of    Daniel    and    Jemima 


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1333 


(Knowlton)  Spooner,  of  Sangerville,  Maine. 
(See  Spooner,  VI).  Freeman  D.  and  Mary 
B.  (Spooner)  Dearth  had  children:  Elwin, 
deceased;  Charles  F.  and  Amelia  E.  (twins), 
the  former  of  Foxcroft  and  the  latter  of  Bos- 
ton;  Leonard,  of  California:  Albert  E.  and 
Alice  (twins),  the  former  of  Lowell  and  the 
latter  deceased;  Freeman  Daniel,  mentioned 
below :  Elbridge  H.,  of  Lowell ;  Huldah  H. 
(Mrs.  Warnell),  deceased;  Asa  E.,  of  Lowell; 
Arthur  L.,  of  Boston;  Gertrude  M.,  of  Dex- 
ter ;  Blanche  E.,  of  Boston. 

(IIL)  Freeman  Daniel  (2),  fifth  son  of 
Freeman  Daniel  (i)  and  Mary  B.  (Spooner) 
Dearth,  was  born  at  Sangerville,  Maine,  April 
16,  1861.  He  obtained  his  preliminary  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools,  at  Foxcroft  Acad- 
emy, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1881, 
and  at  the  Maine  Central  Institute,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1883.  He  entered 
Bowdoin  College,  from  which  he  took  his  de- 
gree in  1887.  After  graduation  he  became  the 
principal  of  the  high  school  at  Castine  and 
also  taught  school  at  Bolton,  Alassachusetts, 
for  one  year.  He  was  then  appointed  to  a 
government  position  in  the  railway  mail  ser- 
vice on  the  route  between  Bangor  and  Green- 
ville, and  also  between  Bangor  and  Vance- 
boro.  While  holding  these  positions  he  be- 
gan reading  law  and  studied  in  the  office  of 
Crosby  &  Crosby  at  Dexter.  He  was  admit- 
ted to  the  Maine  bar  in  1896.  He  opened  a 
law  office  in  Dexter  on  November  16  of  that 
year,  and  has  been  in  successful  general  prac- 
tice there  ever  since.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  has  for  three  years  served  as 
judge  of  the  municipal  court.  He  resigned 
this  office  in  order  to  accept  that  of  postmaster, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  in  1900.  Mr. 
Dearth  takes  an  active  part  in  the  afifairs  of 
the  town,  and  holds  many  positions  of  trust. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  Abbott  Memorial  Library,  is  a  director  of 
the  First  National  Bank,  and  has  been  chair- 
man of  the  school  board.  He  belongs  to 
Bedivere  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  at  Dex- 
ter; and  to  Penobscot  Lodge,  No.  39,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  also  to  the  East- 
ern Star.    He  attends  the  Universalist  church. 


This  family  is  descended 
SPOONER  from  the  Spooners  of  Ply- 
mouth and  Dartmouth,  Mas- 
sachusetts, who  were  among  the  first  settlers 
in  the  last  named  town,  and  figured  quite 
prominently  in  the  early  history  of  that  sec- 
tion of  Bristol  county.  One  of  the  most 
notable  representatives  of  the  family  was  the 


Hon.  Walter  Spooner,  a  staunch  revolution- 
ary patriot,  and  descendants  of  the  original 
settler  are  scattered  through  the  New  Eng- 
land and  other  states. 

(I)  William  Spooner,  the  first  of  the  name 
on  this  side  of  the  ocean,  probably  arrived  in 
New  England  from  the  mother  country  in 
1637,  locating  in  Plymouth,  and  as  he  is  first 
mentioned  in  the  records  of  that  town  as  an 
apprentice,  it  may  be  inferred  that  he  was  a 
minor.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1654 
and  resided  in  Plymouth  until  about  the  year 
1660,  when  he  removed  to  that  part  of  Dart- 
mouth which  is  now  Acushnet.  He  died  at 
Dartmouth,  1684.  He  married  (first)  Eliza- 
beth Partridge,  who  died  April  28,  1648.  Mar- 
ried (second)  March  18,  1652,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Joshua  Pratt.  His  children  were : 
John,  Sarah,  Samuel,  Martha,  William,  Isaac, 
Hannah,  Mercy  and  Ebenezer. 

(II)  Samuel,  elder  son  of  William  Spooner 
and  his  second  wife,  Hannah  (Pratt)  Spooner, 
was  born,  probably  at  Plymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, January  14,  1655,  and  died  at  Dart- 
mouth, IMassachusetts,  in  1739.  When  Sam- 
uel was  five  years  old,  his  father  removed  to 
the  new  settlement  of  Acushnet  in  the  Dart- 
mouth purchase,  and  the  son  spent  all  of  his 
long  life  in  that  place  or  the  immediate  neigh- 
borhood. He  inherited  lands  from  his  father, 
and  his  homestead  contained  one  hundred  and 
four  acres  and  a  half  "Situate  and  being  on 
ye  eastward  side  of  Acooshnet  river."  Sam- 
uel Spooner  was  constable  in  1680  and  also  in 
1684,  served  on  the  grand  and  petit  juries, 
and  held  other  positions  of  trust.  He  and  his 
brother  John,  with  others  of  the  Dartmouth 
proprietors,  were  successful  defendants  in 
suits  brought  by  Zachary  Allin,  William 
Wood  and  others  in  1684  and  1686.  Samuel 
Spooner's  will  was  dated  September  27.  1731, 
and  proven  February  19,  1739.  In  it  he  pro- 
vides for  his  wife  and  eleven  children ;  but  the 
provisions  of  the  will  indicate  that  he  had 
already  divided  a  considerable  portion  of  his 
estate  among  the  latter.  About  1688  Samuel 
Spooner  married  Experience,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Wing,  and  his  second  wife,  Anna 
(  Ewer)  Wing.  Daniel  Wing  came  from  Eng- 
land with  his  parents  in  1632  and  settled  in 
Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  sev- 
eral times  fined  for  being  a  Quaker.  On  four 
of  these  occasions  he  was  obliged  to  pay  five 
pounds,  and  at  another  time  ten.  Experience 
(Wing)  Spooner  was  born  August  4,  1668, 
and  was  living  in  1731.  To  her  and  her  hus- 
band, Samuel  Spooner,  were  born  eleven  chil- 
dren:      William,    February    13,    1689;    Mary, 


■3,U 


STATE  OF  iMAIXE. 


January  4.  1691,  married  Caleb  Peckham ; 
Samuel,  February  4,  1693 ;  Daniel,  whose 
sketch  follows;  Seth,  January  31,  1695;  Han- 
nah, January  27,  1697;  Jashub,  November  13, 
1698:  Anna,  April  18,  1700;  Experience,  June 
19,  1702;  Beulah,  June  zj,  1705,  married  John 
Spooner;  Wing,  April  30,  17 — . 

(Ill)  Daniel,  third  son  of  Samuel  and  Ex- 
perience (Wing)  Spooner,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1694,  at  Dartmouth,  Massachusetts, 
and  died  at  Petersham,  that  state,  in  1797.  He 
went  from  Dartmouth  to  Newport,  Rhode  Is- 
land, where  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the 
colony  in  May,  1732,  and  where  he  carried  on 
the  business  of  house  carpentry  in  company 
with  his  brother.  Wing  Spooner.  After  a 
time  Daniel  returned  to  New  Bedford,  but  he 
removed  to  Hardwick  prior  to  June  16,  1748. 
In  a  deed  of  July  14,  1750,  he  is  describetl 
as  of  Nichewoag  (Petersham),  but  he  moved 
there  more  than  a  year  earlier,  because  on 
April  2,  1749,  Daniel  Spooner  and  his  wife 
were  received  into  the  membership  of  the  l-'irst 
Church  at  Petersham  on  letters  from  the 
church  at  Dartmouth.  On  July  11,  1750,  Dan- 
iel Spooner  was  chosen  one  of  the  deacons  of 
the  First  Church  at  Petersham,  which  office 
he  held  many  years.  Deacon  Spooner  was  an 
energetic,  reliable  man  and  a  sturdy  patriot. 
Although  eighty-one  years  of  age  when  the 
revolution  broke  out,  he  took  a  decided  inter- 
est in  the  struggle  and  gave  his  ardent  sup- 
port to  the  American  cause.  In  the  town 
offices  of  Petersham  he  served  in  one  capacity 
or  another  from  1755  to  1768.  As  an  evi- 
dence of  his  vigorous  old  age,  it  is  said  that 
after  he  had  passed  his  ninetieth  year,  he  made 
the  journey  to  Vermont  on  horseback  to  visit 
his  sons.  Although  devoted  to  his  family  and 
an  excellent  provider,  he  was  a  stern  disci- 
plinarian, after  the  fashion  of  the  times.  A 
great-grandson  of  his  relates  that  the  "Dea- 
con was  a  carpenter  and  joiner,  and  worked 
much  from  home  during  the  week,  and  on  his 
return  Saturday  night,  he  would  call  up  his 
large  family  of  boys,  and,  without  any  inquiry, 
would  give  each  of  them  a  whipping,  presum- 
ing that,  by  their  conduct  through  the  week, 
they  had  deserved  it."  On  October  10,  1728, 
Daniel  Spooner  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  John  and  Hannah  (Devotion)  Ruggles, 
who  was  born  October  21,  1710,  and  died  in 
August,  1767.  They  had  ten  children,  many 
of  whom  seemed  to  have  inherited  their  fath- 
er's trait  of  longevity,  for  three  of  them  lived 
to  be  past  eighty,  and  three  more  continued 
well  along  into  the  nineties.  The  children 
were:      Lucy,    born    August    29,    1729,    died 


April  2,  1821  ;  Elizabeth,  January  14,  1731, 
died  November  24,  1756;  Philip,  December  13, 
1733,  died  September  30,  1826;  Shearjashub, 
August  14,  1735,  died  April  25,  1785;  Rug- 
gles, March  24,  1737,  died  in  1831  ;  Wing, 
whose  sketch  follows;  Eliakim,  April  7,  1740, 
died  January  3,  1820;  Daniel,  December  10, 
1741.  died  in  November,  1828;  Hannah,  June 
25.  1743,  died  young;  Paul,  March  20,  i'746, 
afterwards  lieutenant  governor  of  Vermont, 
died  September  5,  1789.  The  next  month 
after  the  deatii  of  his  first  wife,  on  September 
3,  1767,  Deacon  Daniel  Spooner  married 
Bethiah  Nichols.  The  funeral  baked  meats 
must  literally  have  furnished  forth  the  mar- 
riage tables.  Perhaps  the  good  deacon  must 
not  be  too  harshly  judged,  however,  for  both 
his  elder  daughters  had  married  at  the  age 
of  eighteen,  his  youngest  daughter  had  died 
young,  the  youngest  of  his  seven  sons  was 
twenty-one,  and  house-keepers  were  probably 
hard  to  get.  Wives  were  evidently  to  be  had 
in  indefinite  succession,  for  on  October  16. 
1780.  at  the  age  of  eighty-six,  he  espoused  his 
third,  Mrs.  Mary  Dean,  widow  of  Paul  Dean, 
and  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Rosilla 
(Coombs)  Whitcomb.  She  was  comparatively 
a  young  woman  at  the  time  of  her  Spooner 
marriage,  being  thirty-three  years  the  junior 
of  the  Deacon,  whom  she  survived  a  quarter 
of  a  century.  Mary  (Whitcomb)  (Dean) 
Spooner  was  born  October  9,  1727,  and  died 
i\Iay  9.  1822.  She  was  admitted  to  the  church 
in  Petersham.  September  10.  1781,  on  a  letter 
from  the  church  in  Hardwick. 

( I\^ )  Wing,  fourth  son  of  Deacon  Daniel 
and  Elizabeth  (Ruggles)  Spooner,  was  born 
December  29.  1738,  and  died  at  Petersham, 
Massachusetts,  December  7,  18 10.  Like  his 
elder  brothers,  Shearjashub  and  Ruggles,  and 
his  younger  brothers,  Eliakim  and  Daniel, 
Wing  Spooner  entered  the  army  and  fought 
in  the  wars  of  his  country,  finally  reaching  the 
rank  of  captain.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
French  and  Indian  war.  Wing  Spooner,  then 
only  nineteen  years  of  age,  enlisted  in  the 
company  of  Captain  Stone,  and  in  1758  was 
transferred  to  the  company  of  Captain  Alex- 
ander Dalrymple  where  he  served  for  a  long 
time.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  advocate  the 
cause  of  American  independence,  and  was  ac- 
tive and  efficient  in  raising  volunteers  and  in 
helping  to  devise  ways  and  means  for  the 
prosecution  of  the  war.  So  great  was  his 
patriotic  ardor  that  he  caused  his  two  eldest 
sons  to  enlist  in  the  Federal  service  when 
they  were  mere  youths  and  not  legally  re- 
quired to  bear  arms.     In  April,  1775,  Wing 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1335 


Spooner  enlisted  in  the  company  of  Captain 
John  Wheeler,  and  soon  after  was  raised  to 
the  rank  of  captain.  He  commanded  a  com- 
pany in  the  regiment  of  Colonel  Nathan  Spar- 
hawk  at  the  battle  of  Bennington,  and  took 
part  in  the  battle  of  ^^^lite  Plains  and  other 
important  conflicts.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Petersham  most  of  his  life,  and  the  house 
where  he  and  his  wife  passed  the  entire  forty- 
eight  years  of  their  union  was  standing  in 
that  town  in  1883,  situated  about  half  a  mile 
west  of  the  village.  Wing  Spooner  held 
many  important  local  offices,  and  showed  good 
judgment  in  his  management  of  public  trusts. 
On  January  27,  1763,  Wing  Spooner  married 
Eunice,  daughter  of  Joseph  Stevens,  who  was 
born  August  31,  1746,  and  died  in  August, 
1838.  Twelve  children  were  born  to  Wing 
and  Eunice  (Stevens)  Spooner:  Stevens, 
whose  sketch  follows ;  Ruggles.  April  18, 
1765;  Hannah,  January  7,  1767;  Dolly,  May 
12,  1769;  Joel,  April  26,  1771  ;  Charles,  Janu- 
ary 13,  1773;  Wing  and  Eunice  (twins)  No- 
vember 20,  1775;  Asa,  February  20,  1778; 
Daniel,  May  25,  1780,  moved  to  Walpole,  New 
Hampshire;  Joseph,  August  29,  1782,  died  on 
October  1 1  of  that  year ;  Lois,  December  24, 

1783- 

(V)  Stevens,  eldest  child  of  Captain  Wing 
and  Eunice  (Stevens)  Spooner,  was  born  at 
Petersham,  Massachusetts,  August  17,  1763, 
and  died  at  Sangerville,  Maine,  August  17, 
1827.  While  a  lad  he  enlisted  as  a  soldier  in 
his  father's  company,  and  later  was  a  volun- 
teer in  the  company  of  Captain  Peter  Wood- 
bur)-.  He  saw  considerable  active  service ; 
was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Bennington ;  was 
present  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne  (being 
but  fourteen  at  the  time  these  two  events  oc- 
curred) ;  and  was  on  duty  at  West  Point  at 
the  time  of  the  attempted  treason  of  Arnold. 
Soon  after  marrying  Mr.  Spooner  moved  to 
Sangerville,  ]\Iaine,  where  he  bought  land  and 
became  a  farmer.  He  was  an  active,  indus- 
trious and  enterprising  citizen,  and  enjoyed 
the  respect  of  the  community  where  he  dwelt. 
On  July  2,  1787,  Stevens  Spooner  married 
Sally,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Rice) 
Hodgkins,  who  died  July  4,  1841.  Eight  chil- 
dren of  this  couple  are  recorded :  Lois,  De- 
cember 3,  1791 ;  Lewis,  August  23,  1793; 
Clarissa,  October  26,  1795:  Leonard,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1798:  Paul.  December,  1800;  Eunice, 
January  2,  1802;  Lucretia,  February,  1805; 
and  Daniel  (2),  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Daniel  (2),  youngest  of  the  eight 
children  of  Stevens  and  Sally  (Hodgkins) 
Spooner,  was  born  at  Sangerville,  Maine,  De- 


cember 26,  1808,  and  died  November  19,  1884. 
On  December  6,  1832,  he  married  Jemima 
Knowlton,  born  April  2,  181 1,  died  Septem- 
ber 14,  1895;  they  had  six  children:  Mary  B., 
married  Freeman  Daniel  Dearth  (see  Dearth, 
II)  ;  Benjamin  F.,  died  young;  Asa  S.,  Benja- 
min F.,  Lucretia,  Ella  Maria. 


This  family  was  one  of 
WOODCOCK  the  earliest  in  Massachu- 
setts, and  its  descendants 
now  number  many  thousands.  In  early  times 
they  were  prominent  in  Indian  wars,  and  later 
in  the  revolution  they  bore  their  part.  They 
have  always  been  energetic  and  progressive. 

(I)  The  name  of  John  Woodcock  Sr.  ranks 
high  among  the  early  colonists  of  Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts.  In  Hotten's  Emigration  Lists 
is  given  a  John  Woodcock,  who  emigrated 
March  20.  1635,  from  Weymouth,  England, 
to  New  England,  described  as  being  a  little 
over  twenty  years  of  age,  and  this  is  supposed 
to  be  the  John  referred  to.  He  lived  in  the 
North  Purchase,  at  which  place  he  was  al- 
lowed one  and  one-half  acres,  by  Rehoboth, 
in  1666.  His  house  was  at  Ten  Mile  River, 
now  a  part  of  the  town  of  Attleboro.  In  1673 
he  was  made  ffeeman.  He  was  a  man  of  true 
worth,  an  enterprising  and  successful  citizen, 
and  a  brave  soldier.  His  house  was  a  strate- 
gic point  in  Indian  warfare  in  1676,  and  many 
important  meetings  were  arranged  for  at  this 
place.  His  house  was  a  landmark  for  many 
miles  around,  and  was  given  prominence  in 
directing  the  route  of  travellers  who  started 
out  from  Boston.  About  1649  he  married 
Sarah,  the  mother  of  his  children.  She  died 
in  1676,  at  Attleboro,  and  by  1692  he  had 
married  Joanna,  his  second  wife.  His  children 
were :  John,  Israel,  Jonathan,  Thomas,  a 
daughter  who  became  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Estabrook,  Mary  and  Deborah. 

(II)  Jonathan,  third  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
Woodcock,  married  Mar}-,  about  1698.  and 
had  children  as  follows :  Deborah,  Phosbe, 
Jonathan.  Thomas,  Benjamin  and  William. 

(III)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Jonathan  and 
]\Iary  Woodcock,  was  born  June  12,  1707,  at 
Attleboro,  and  died  in  1759  or  later.  He  mar- 
ried Margaret  White,  and  their  children  were : 
I.  Benjamin,  born  December  31,  1735.  2. 
Nathan,  January  9,  1737-38.  3.  Margaret, 
August  26,  1740.  4.  David,  June  4,  1742.  5. 
John,  June  15,  1744.  6.  Mary,  March  13, 
1745-46.  7.  Ruth,  February  27,  1747-48.  8. 
A  child,  June  3,  1750.  9.  Hannah,  April  29, 
1752.  10.  Jonathan,  April  28,  1753.  11.  Hep- 
zibah,  June  4,  1758. 


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(IV)  David,  third  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Alargaret  (White)  Woodcock,  was  born  June 
4,  1742.  He  was  a  sergeant  in  Captain  Jacob 
Ide's  company,  of  Attleboro,  Massachusetts, 
who  marched  on  the  alarm  of  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  He  was  also  in  Captain  Stephen 
Richardson's  company  in  the  six  weeks  cam- 
paign at  Roxbury  in  1775,  and  was  one  of  the 
company  of  five  months  men  that  "went  to 
Yorke"  in  1776.  He  was  sergeant  in  Captain 
Alexander  Foster's  company  from  Attleboro, 
in  Colonel  Thomas  Carpenter's  regiment  in 
the  campaign  at  Rhode  Island,  from  July  27 
to  August  12,  1778.  With  his  wife  and  six 
children,  he  removed  from  Attleboro  to 
Union,  Maine,  in  1784,  and  at  once  became 
prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  town.  He  set- 
tled upon  what  was  called  the  "Mill  Farm," 
where  he  built  a  grist-mill.  He  was  active  in 
church  matters,  and  was  one  of  a  committee 
to  raise  funds  for  building  a  church.  He  was 
selectman  in  1788,  and  in  1790  is  mentioned 
as  a  tithingman ;  the  same  year  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  town  as  one  of  a  committee  to 
look  for  a  plot  of  ground  and  secure  it  for  a 
burying-ground.  He  died  December  7,  1790, 
and  was  the  first  person  interred  in  this  "bury- 
ing-place."  September  17,  1765,  he  married 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah 
(Hastings)  Holmes;  she  was  born  June  10, 
1741,  and  died  September  25,  1823.  Their 
children  were :  Benjamin,  David,  Hannah, 
Linda  (Belinda),  Nancy,  Polly  and  Theodore. 
All  except  the  last-named  were  born  at  Attle- 
boro, Massachusetts. 

(V)  David  (2),  second  son  of  David  (i) 
and  Abigail  (Holmes)  Woodcock,  was  born 
October  23,  1771,  at  Attleboro,  Massachu- 
setts, and  married  Aphia  Peabody.  Their  son, 
Dexter  Hatch,  was  born  September  11,  1795, 
and  John  Thompson  was  born  November  25, 
1801,  both  at  Union,  Maine.  (Further  men- 
tion is  made  in  this  article  of  John  Thomp- 
son Woodcock.) 

(VI)  Dexter  Hatch,  elder  son  of  David  (2) 
and  .A.phia  (Peabody)  Woodcock,  was  born 
September  11,  1795,  at  Union,  Maine.  In 
1 82 1  he  married  Jane  Hovey,  and  their  chil- 
dren were :  Nancy  Jane,  John  Calvin,  David 
James,  Dorothy  Ann,  .\aron  Hovey,  Hannah 
Smith,  Thomas  Jefferson  and  William  Dexter. 

(VII)  Aaron  Hovey,  third  son  of  Dexter 
Hatch  and  Jane  (Hovey)  Woodcock,  was 
born  February  11,  1832,  at  Alexander,  Maine, 
and  died  in  1906  at  Calais,  Maine.  He  was 
town  clerk  of  Princeton,  Maine,  about  1870, 
and  was  elected  from  Princeton  to  the  Maine 
legislature.      He   married    (first)    Olive    Jane 


Gould,  born  at  Baring,  Maine.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Fannie  Eva,  married  E.  B. 
Larrabee,  of  Carroll,  Maine,  and  has  four 
children.  Mrs.  Larrabee  now  resides  at 
Tewksbury,  Massachusetts.  2.  Lindsay  Todd. 
3.  Edna  Gertrude,  married  Edgar  H.  PoUeys, 
of  Baring,  Maine,  and  has  four  children.  4. 
Fidelia  Gould.  Mr.  Woodcock  married  (sec- 
ond) Addie  Robbins,  of  Bailey ville,  Maine, 
and  they  had  children  as  follows:  i.  Dexter. 
2.  Dora,  who  died  in  infancy.  3.  Belle,  now 
a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Calais, 
Maine.  4.  George  W.,  now  residing  in  .Bovie, 
Minnesota. 

(VIII)  Lindsay  Todd,  son  of  Aaron  Hovey 
and  Olive  Jane  (Gould)  Woodcock,  was  born 
August  23,  1858,  at  Baring,  Maine.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  Princeton,  JMaine,  and 
his  first  business  experience  was  in  a  country 
store.  He  had  charge  of  the  store  of  F.  Shaw 
&  Brother,  Grand  Lake  Stream,  Maine,  for 
some  time,  until  he  removed  to  Chicago,  in 
1876.  In  the  following  year  he  entered  the 
service  of  Field  Leiter  &  Company,  in  their 
retail  store,  and  he  has  continued  ever  since 
in  the  employ  of  that  firm  and  its  successor, 
Marshall  Field  &  Company.  In  1878  he  be- 
came assistant  manager  of  the  ribbons,  jew- 
elry, fans  and  umbrella  sections,  and  three 
years  later  became  manager  of  these  depart- 
ments. In  1889  he  became  superintendent  of 
the  retail  establishment,  and  by  his  enterprise 
and  zeal  has  contributed  largely  to  the  suc- 
cess of  the  firm.  In  January,  1907,  he  was 
made  general  manager  of  the  retail  store.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  New  England  Society,  also 
of  Sons  of  American  Revolution.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Young  ]\Ien's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation of  Oak  Park,  also  of  the  Presbyterian 
League  of  Chicago.  He  is  a  member  of  Oak 
Park  Club  of  Oak  Park,  the  Westward  Ho 
Golf  Club  of  Oak  Park,  and  the  Union 
League  Club  of  Chicago.  j\lr.  Woodcock  is 
also  director  of  the  Oak  Park  Trust  &  Sav- 
ings Bank.  He  married,  at  Chicago,  June  3, 
1884,  Maude  H.,  daughter  of  Charles  K.  and 
Josephine  (.Abbott)  Waterhouse.  She  was 
born  January  2,  1865,  at  Boston,  ]\Iassachu- 
setts.  Their  children  are:  i.  Robert  Lind- 
say, born  September  21,  1886.  2.  Marjorie 
Louise,  December  28,  1894.  3.  Helen  Gladys, 
April  12,  1894.  4.  Lois  Todd,  October  29, 
1899. 

(\T)  John  Thompson,  son  of  David  (2) 
and  Aphia  (Peabody)  Woodcock,  was  bom 
November  25.  1801,  at  Union,  Maine.  He 
married,  November  16,  1826,  Harriet  Jones, 
of  Robinston,  Maine,  and  their  children  were : 


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I.  Alfred  Carpenter,  born  March  16,  1828.  2. 
Sarah  Ann,  August  31,  1830.  3.  Caroline 
Thaxter,  October  11,  1832.  4.  John  Leigh- 
ton,  January  30,  1836.  5  and  6.  Elizabeth 
McAllister  and  Mary  Brook,  October  3,  1838. 

7.  Belinda    Thompson.    February    14,    1841. 

8.  Abigail  Howe,  April  26,  1844. 

( ^TI )  John  Leighton,  second  son  of  John 
Thompson  and  Harriet  (Jones)  Woodcock, 
was  born  January  30,  1836.  After  attending 
the  public  schools  of  Calais,  Maine,  he  went 
to  St.  Stephens  Academy  for  a  short  time, 
after  which  he  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness at  Calais.  In  1856  he  removed  to  Chi- 
cago, Illinois,  and  remained  in  that  city  for 
three  years,  when  he  returned  to  Maine.  In 
1867  he  came  to  Chicago  again,  and  was  for 
thirty-five  years  engaged  in  conducting  vari- 
ous hotels.  He  was  one  of  the  firm  of  Wood- 
cock &  Loring,  who  kept  the  Matteson  House, 
corner  Jackson  street  and  Wabash  avenue, 
also  the  Clifton  House,  corner  of  Monroe 
street  and  Wabash  avenue.  Mr.  Woodcock 
was  very  successful  in  these  enterprises,  and 
in  December,  1892,  sold  his  interests  and  re- 
tired. He  is  a  Republican  in  political  views, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Union  Park  Congre- 
gational Church.  His  residence  is  No.  1218 
W'ashington  Boulevard.  He  married  Elsie 
Watts,  daughter  of  Samuel  W.  and  Mary  B. 
Haycock,  of  Calais,  Maine,  and  their  children 
are:  i.  Charles  Price,  born  October  15.  i860, 
at  Calais.  Maine ;  secretary  of  firm  of  E. 
Schneider  &  Company.  Chicago ;  married 
Jeannet  Service :  one  child,  William  Price.  2. 
Samuel  Jones.  July  11.  1862,  died  August  22, 
1863.  3.  Elsie  Gertrude,  June  7.  1864.  4.  Har- 
riet Farrar.  September  12.  1866.  5.  Alfred 
Kimball.  September  21.  1868,  at  Chicago:  is  a 
resident  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri ;  married 
Jessie  Jackson  and  thev  have  two  children : 
Willis  j.  and  Charles  J.'  6:  Robert  Hill,  Au- 
gust 12,  1870,  at  Chicago:  he  is  a  resident  of 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  where  he  is  employed 
in  the  treasurer's  office  of  Allis-Chalmers 
Company ;  married  Alma  Wilson  and  they 
have  one  son,  Robert.  7.  John  Thompson, 
April  2,  1874.  at  Chicago,  and  is  now  a  resi- 
dent of  the  state  of  Idaho :  married  Grace 
Gardner  and  they  have  one  child,  Ruth  Alden. 
8.  Ralph  Emerson,  January  21,  1878,  died  Jan- 
uary 14.  1883.  9.  Grace  Loring,  September 
16, '1884. 


On  the  31st  of  March,  1632,  at  Exeter,  Eng- 
land, a  license  to  marry  was  given  to  James 
Richards  (i),  of  Silverton,  Devonshire,  and 
Wilmot  Digon.  Of  the  eight  children  born  of 
this  marriage,  the  one  in  whom  this  article 
is  interested  is  the  sixth  child  and  fifth  son, 
Henry. 

(II)  Henry,  fifth  son  of  James  and  Wilmot 
(Digon)  Richards,  was  born  in  Silverton  and 
baptized  in  the  church  at  that  place,  April  16, 
1634.  He  married  Dorothy  Pease,  and  had 
nine  children. 

(III)  James  (2),  eldest  son  of  Henry  and 
Dorothy    (Pease)    Richards,    lived   and    died 

in   Silverton,   England.     He  married  , 

and  had  four  children. 

(  I\' )  John,  eldest  son  of  James  (2)  and 
• Richards,  of  London  and  Edmonton. 


In    England    the    family    of 
RICHARDS     Richards     were     principally 
yeomen,    gentleman    farmers 
and  merchants  engaged  in  shipping  trade. 


was  a  merchant  in  London,  and  there  carried 
on  an  extensive  shipping  trade  with  Spain  and 
her  colonies.  He  married  Dorothy,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Galliard.    He  died  in  August,  1736. 

(V)  John  (2).  eldest  son  of  John  (i)  and 
Dorothy  (Galliard)  Richards,  was  baptized 
March  4,  1737.  in  the  church  at  Edmonton, 
England.  He  owned  the  estate  of  North 
House.  Catherington,  in  Hambledon,  Hamp- 
shire, England,  on  which  he  lived  as  a  gentle- 
man farmer.  He  married  Maria  Downman, 
who  died  in  Hambledon,  November  11,  1826, 
having  outlived  her  husband  seven  years,  he 
having  died  at  that  place.  July  27,  1819.  The 
children  of  John  and  Maria  (Downman)  Rich- 
ards were :  John,  Richard,  George,  Dorothy, 
Maria,  Anne,  Frances. 

(VI)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (2) 
and  ^laria  (Downman)  Richards,  of  North 
House.  Catherington,  was  born  in  Hambledon, 
Hants,  May  9,  1768,  and  died  in  London, 
March  26,  1835.  In  his  youth  he  came  to  this 
country  in  the  employ  of  the  Barings,  and  was 
afterwards  a  merchant  in  Boston,  living  on 
Chestnut  street,  where  he  was  a  friend  and 
patron  of  Gilbert  Stuart,  the  painter,  whose 
portraits  of  members  of  the  family  are  con- 
sidered his  greatest  works  (vid.  Century  Cy- 
clopedia of  Names).  He  married  Susan 
Coffin,  youngest  daughter  of  Stephen  Jones,  of 
Machias.  Maine,  judge  of  probate  court  of 
Calais.  Maine.  His  children  were :  John, 
George,  Francis,  Henry,  ]\Iaria  Downman, 
Charles  Jones.  After  the  panic  of  1817  he  re- 
turned to  England,  and  lived  with  his  sisters 
on  his  estate  at  North  House. 

(\  11)  Francis,  son  of  John  (3)  and  Susan 
(Coffin)  Richards,  was  born  in  Gouldsboro, 
Maine,  May  13,  1805.  He  was  educated  at 
Hvde   Abbey   school,   near   Winchester,   Eng- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


land,  and  returned  to  New  England  in  or 
about  the  year  1827.  living  in  Calais,  Maine, 
where  in  com])any  with  his  twin  brother 
Henry,  who  accompanied  him  to  America,  he 
found  employment  on  the  Bingham  estate  in 
that  place.  They  subsequently  engaged  in 
the  lumber  trade,  manufacturing  lumber  on  a 
large  scale,  and  continued  in  this  business  up 
to  1832,  when  Francis  removed  to  Gardiner, 
Maine,  at  the  solicitation  of  his  wife's  uncle, 
Frederick  Tudor,  and  engaged  with  him  in 
the  ice  business.  The  business  was  ruined  by 
the  experiment  of  shipping  ice  to  the  West 
Indies  and  by  the  loss  of  the  ice  plant  on  the 
Kennebec  river  by  a  freshet.  Mr.  Richards 
tlien  returned  to  England,  where  he  studied 
the  principles  of  the  manufacture  of  paper, 
and  acquiring  the  art  in  a  paper  mill  in  Eng- 
land he  returned  to  Maine  and  started  a  paper 
mill  in  Gardiner  with  a  partner,  the  firm  be- 
ing Richards  &  Hoskins.  They  continued  the 
business  1853-58,  and  in  the  latter  year  the 
firm  was  dissolved  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Rich- 
ards. He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church  of  Gardiner,  was 
warden  of  Christ  Church,  and  a  prominent 
church  worker  in  the  diocese  of  Maine.  He 
was  married,  September  18,  1832,  to  Anne 
Hallowell  Gardiner,  daughter  of  Robert  Hal- 
lovvell  and  Emma  Jane  (Tudor)  Gardiner,  of 
Oaklands,  Garfliner,  Maine.  .She  was  born  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  December  5,  1807,  died 
in  Paris,  France,  1876.  The  death  of  Francis 
Richards  occurred  in  Gardiner,  Maine,  1858. 
He  had  children  :  Francis  Gardiner,  George 
Henry,  Sarah  Sullivan,  John  Tudor,  Robert 
Hallowell,  Henry. 

(VHI)  Henry,  youngest  son  of  Francis 
and  Anne  Hallowell  (Gardiner)  Richards, 
was  born  in  Gardiner,  Maine,  July  17,  1848. 
He  received  his  primary  and  secondary  school 
training  in  Gardiner ;  his  intermediate  course 
of  instruction  at  Wellington  College,  Woking- 
ham, Berkshire,  England,  taking  a  five  years 
course  in  that  institution ;  prepared  for  matric- 
ulation at  Harvard  College  at  Dixwell's  school 
in  Boston ;  was  graduated  at  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, A.B.,  1869:  took  a  post-graduate 
course  in  architecture  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology.  He  practiced  this 
profession  in  Boston  up  to  1876,  when  he  re- 
turned to  Gardiner,  where  in  company  with 
his  brothers,  Francis  G.  and  John  Tudor,  he 
took  up  the  paper  manufacturing  business 
founded  by  his  father  which  had  been  pur- 
chased from  the  estate  by  Francis  G.  and  was 
carried  on  by  him  under  the  firm  name  of 
Richards  &  Company  until  his  death  in  1884. 


It  was  then  formed  into  a  joint  stock  com- 
pany known  as  the  Richards  Paper  Company, 
and  so  continued  up  to  1900,  when  the  busi- 
ness was  consolidated  with  the  International 
Paper  Company,  that  great  corporation  pur- 
chasing the  property.  Henry  Richards  then 
engaged  in  architectural  business  during  the 
winter  season,  and  during  the  summer  carries 
on  a  summer  camp  for  boys  at  Great  Pond  in 
Belgrade,  Maine.  He  has  always  been  inde- 
pendent of  political  parties,  voting  for  men 
and  measures  rather  than  with  party  organi- 
zations. He  has  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Gardiner  school  board  :  trustee  of  the  Gardiner 
Water  District ;  director  of  the  Public  Library 
of  Gardiner ;  member  of  the  city  council.  He 
is  a  communicant  of  Christ  Church,  Gardiner, 
and  served  as  a  vestryman  for  many  years. 
He  was  married  June  17,  1871,  to  Laura 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  Gridley  and 
Julia  (Ward)  Howe,  of  Boston.  Laura  E. 
was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  February 
2j,  1850;  she  was  educated  in  private  schools 
in  Boston,  and  became  widely  known  by  her 
books,  written  principally  for  the  young. 
Among  the  titles  with  year  of  first  publica- 
tion are:  "Sketches  and  Scraps,"  1881  ;  "Five 
Mice  in  a  Mouse  Trap,"  1883;  "The  Joyous 
Story  of  Toto,"  1885;  "Toto's  Merry  Winter," 
1887;  "Queen  Hildegarde,"  1889;  "Captain 
January,"  1890;  "In  My  Nursery,"  i8go; 
"Hildegarde's  Holiday,"  1891  ;  "Hildegarde's 
Home,"  1892:  "When  I  Was  of  Your  Age," 
1893;  "Glimpses  of  the  French  Court,"  1893; 
"Melody."  1893;  "Marie,"  1894;  "Nautilus," 
1895;  "Jim  of  Hellas,"  1895;  "Five  Minute 
Stories,"  1895:  "Hildegarde's  Neighbors," 
1895;  "Narcissa,"  1896:  "Some  Day,"  1896; 
"Isla  Heron,"  1896:  "Three  Margarets,'' 
1897;  "Hildegarde's  Harvest,"  1897;  "Rosin 
the  Beau,"  1898;  "Margaret  Montfort,"  1898; 
"Love  and  Rocks,"  1898;  "Quicksilver  Sue," 
1899;  "Peggy,"  1899;  "Rita,"  1900;  "For 
Tommy,"  1900;  "Snow  White,"  1900;  "Fernly 
House,"  1901  ;  "Geofifry  Strong,"  1901 ;  "Mrs. 
Tree,"  1902;  "The  Hurdy-Gurdy,"  1902; 
"!\Irs.  Tree's  Will,"  1905;  "The  Journal  and 
Letters  of  Samuel  Gridley  Howe,"  1906;  "The 
Wooing  of  Calvin  Parks,"  1908;  "The  Golden 
Windows,"  1903;  "The  Silver  Crown,"  1906; 
"The  Piccolo,"  1906;  "Grandmother,"  1907. 

Samuel  Gridley  Howe,  the  father  of  Laura 
Elizabeth  (Howe)  Richards,  was  born  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  November  10,  i8oi,  son 
of  Joseph  N.  and  Patty  (Gridley)  Howe.  He 
was  graduated  at  Brown  University,  A.B., 
1821,  and  at  Harvard  Medical  School,  M.D., 
1824.    He  was  a  member  of  the  Patriot  army 


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in  Greece,  fighting  for  the  freedom  of  that 
ancient  country,  1824-30,  and  was  surgeon  of 
the  Greek  naval  fleet,  1827-30.  He  visited  the 
United  States  in  1827  and  raised  funds  for  the 
reHef  of  famine  stricken  people  of  the  land 
whose  cause  he  had  espoused,  and  later 
founded  a  colony  of  Greeks  on  the  Isthmus  of 
Corinth.  In  1830  he  returned  to  Boston,  and, 
under  Dr.  Fisher"s  suggestion,  prepared  to 
start  a  school  for  the  blind.  With  this  end  in 
view  he  visited  Europe  in  1831  to  study  the 
methods  there  in  use  for  educating  the  blind. 
While  in  Paris  his  sympathies  were  enlisted  in 
behalf  of  the  Polish  patriots,  and  he  was  made 
president  of  a  committee  organized  for  their 
relief  by  General  Lafayette.  While  carrying 
the  relief  thus  raised  to  a  detachment  of  the 
Polish  army  he  was  arrested  by  the  Prussian 
government,  imprisoned  for  six  weeks,  and 
then  conveyed  to  the  frontier  of  France  and 
liberated,  after  being  forbidden  to  return 
within  the  Prussian  borders.  Having  fulfilled 
his  mission  for  the  Polish  Relief  Committee, 
he  returned  to  Boston  to  take  up  the  more 
peaceful  work  of  educating  the  blind,  and 
there  started  in  his  father's  house  the  school 
which  was  the  foundation  of  wdiat  is  now 
known  as  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massa- 
chusetts Asylum  for  the  Blind,  of  which  he 
was  superintendent  for  forty-five  years,  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death.  His  greatest  achieve- 
ment in  this  undertaking  was  the  education  of 
Laura  Dewey  Bridgman,  the  blind  and  deaf 
mute,  and  the  attention  this  remarkable  ac- 
complishment called  to  his  success,  brought 
him  pupils,  endowments  and  patrons  that  in- 
sured his  success.  He  also  organized  and 
founded  the  Massachusetts  School  for  Idiots 
and  Feeble-minded  Youth,  and  he  was  super- 
intendent also  of  that  institution  1848-75.  (vid. 
The  Journals  and  Letters  of  Samuel  Gridley 
How'e,  ed.  Laura  E.  Richards.)  He  married, 
in  1843,  .Tulia  Ward,  the  well  known  author, 
woman  suffragist  and  reformer,  best  known 
popularly  as  the  author  of  the  "Battle  Hymn 
of  the  Republic,"  who  in  1908,  when  eighty- 
nine  years  of  age,  was  still  actively  engaged 
in  her  philanthropic  work  and  an  eloquent 
speaker  before  public  assemblages.  Mrs.  Rich- 
ards is  a  writer  of  rare  force,  and  her  two 
score  and  more  books  for  the  young,  and  her 
innumerable  short  articles  in  prose  and  verse, 
which  find  place  in  current  literary  journals 
all  over  the  English  speaking  world,  are  lov- 
ingly drawn  from  the  beautiful  home  life  en- 
joyed at  Gardiner.  Her  parents  named  her 
Laura  as  a  compliment  to  Laura  Dewey  Bridg- 
man  (1829-1889). 


The  seven  children  of  Henry  and  Laura  E. 
Richards  are:  i.  Alice  Maud,  born  in  Bos- 
ton. July  24,  1872,  now  a  teacher  in  the  Gardi- 
ner high  school.  2.  Rosalind,  born  June  30, 
1874.  3.  Henry  Howe,  born  February,  1876, 
A.B.,  Harvard,  1898,  teacher  in  Groton  school, 
Groton,  Massachusetts.  4.  Julia  Ward,  born 
in  Gardiner,  Maine,  1878,  married  Carleton  A. 
Shaw,  teacher,  Groton,  Massachusetts.  5. 
Maud,  born  1881,  died  in  infancy.  6.  John, 
born  February  13,  1884,  A.B.,  Harvard,  1907, 
student  in  Harvard  Law  School.  7.  Laura 
Elizabeth,  born  February  12,  1886. 


In    the    tide   of    sturdy    emi- 
SARGENT     grants     who    left     England's 

shores  to  settle  along  the 
"stern  and  rockbound  coast"  of  New  England 
in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeeth  century 
was  the  ancestor  of  the  Sargents,  who  have 
thought  more  about  the  clearing  away  of  the 
wilderness,  the  making  of  homes  and  farms, 
the  erection  of  workshops  and  factories,  the 
rearing  of  churches  and  schoolhouses,  and  the 
founding  of  a  great  free  nation,  than  of  keep- 
ing a  record  of  their  acts.  A  brief  account  of 
some  of  them  is  here  given.  The  earliest  rec- 
ord seeming  to  bear  on  the  origin  of  the  Sar- 
gent family  of  this  article  appears  in  the  Ab- 
bey church  at  Bath,  England,  under  date  of 
November  22,  1602,  where  the  record  of  the 
marriage  of  Richard  Sargent  and  Katherine 
Stevens  is  set  out,  and  it  states  further  "Ano 
Dom.  1630,  Jenning  Walters  and  Joane  Sar- 
gent were  married  April  15,"  and  under  "Bap- 
tism," "Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of  Richard 
Sargent,  28  day,  1603,  October;  1606,  June, 
William  the  Sonne  of  Richard  Sargent  the 
28th ;  March,  1609,  Joane  the  daughter  of 
Richard  Sargent  was  baptised  the  26th."  No 
further  record  of  father  or  son  is  found  there, 
and  it  is  inferred  that  they  may  have  gone  to 
London  and  William  shipped  from  there. 

(I)  One  historian  of  the  Sargent  family 
says :  "At  first  I  was  not  inclined  to  believe 
this  William  was  our  ancestor,  or  from  this 
part  of  England.  But  since  learning  that  the 
father  of  William's  first  wife,  'Quarter  Mas- 
ter John  Perkins,'  was  at  Agawam  in  .\ugust, 
1 63 1,  a  short  time  after  arriving  in  .\merica, 
and  that  he  came  from  near  Bath,  England,  it 
seems  quite  probable  that  if  William  was  from 
there  and  with  Captain  Smith  in  1614,  when 
the  latter  landed  at  Agawam  and  wrote  up  its 
beauties  and  advantages,  William  may  have 
returned  and  induced  John  Perkins  and  others 
to  emigrate."  The  first  record  found  of  Wil- 
liam is  in  the  general  court  records  of  Massa- 


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STATE  UF  .MAIXE. 


chusetts  Colon\-  in  April,  1633,  where  a  copy 
of  an  act  appears  to  protect  him  and  other 
grantees  of  land  at  Agawam,  now  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  in  their  rights.  The  next  rec- 
ord is  that  of  his  oath  of  allegiance  and  fidelity 
in  1639.  It  is  shown  hy  records  and  deeds 
that  he  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Wessa- 
cucoh,  now  Newbury,  in  1635;  at  Winnacun- 
net,  now  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  in  1638; 
at  South  Merrimac,  now  Salisbury,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1639.  and  that  "William  Sargent, 
townsman  and  commissioner  of  Salisbury," 
had  a  tax  rate  December  25,  1650,  of  7s.  4(1. 
He  was  next  located  at  Salisbury  New  Town, 
now  Amesbur}-  and  Merrimack,  in  1655. 
where  he  resided  until  his  death  in  1675.  He 
is  believed  to  have  married  Elizabeth  Perkins 
about  1633,  as  she  came  with  her  parents  to 
America  in  the  ship  "Lion,"  in  the  spring  of 
1631.  She  died  before  September  18,  1670, 
for  William  married  at  that  time  Joanna  Row- 
ell,  who  survived  him  and  married  Richard 
Currier,  of  Amesbury.  The  children  of  Wil- 
liam Sargent  seem  to  have  been  as  follows, 
but  owing  to  lack  and  contradiction  of  records 
there  is  uncertainty  about  them :  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth, died  young;  Thomas,  William,  Lydia, 
Elizabeth,  died  young;  Sarah,  died  young; 
Sarah  and  Elizabeth. 

(II)  Thomas,  third  child  and  eldest  son  of 
William  and  Elizfibeth  Sargent,  was  born  in 
Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  June  11,  1643,  died 
February  27,  1706;  he  was  a  farmer,  and  re- 
sided on  "Bear  Hill."  He  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  and  fidelity  at  Amesbury  before 
Mafor  Robert  Pike,  December  20,  1677;  ^'^'^^^^ 
public  office,  and  was  quite  a  prominent  man 
in  civil  affairs,  and  a  lieutenant  in  the  militia. 
His  will  was  dated  February  8,  1706.  and 
probated  at  Salem,  April  8,  1706.  He  mar- 
ried, January  2,  1667,  Rachel,  born  February 
3,  1648,  daughter  of  William  Barnes,  of 
Amesbury  and  Salisbury.  She  died  in  1719. 
Both  were  buried  in  the  "Ferry  Cemetery." 
Their  children  were :  Thomas,  died  young ; 
John,  died  young ;  Mary,  Hannah,  Thomas, 
Rachel,  Jacob,  William,  Joseph,  Judith,  died 
young;  Judith  and  John. 

(III)  John,  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and 
Rachel  ( Ijarncs )  Sargent,  was  born  in  Ames- 
bury, Massachusetts.  May  18,  1692.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  held  the  position  and  rank  of 
captain  in  the  Colonial  militia.  He  married, 
in  Amesbury,  January  12,  1713.  Hannah 
Quimby,  of  Amesbury,  born  August  23,  1692, 
and  they  had  eight  children.  Captain  John 
Sargent  died  in  Amesbury.  May  19.  1762,  and 
was  buried  there.     His   will  was  probateil  in 


Salem  in  1762.  The  children  of  Captain  John 
and  Hannah  (Quimby)  Sargent  were  all  born 
in  Amesbury.  as  follows:  i.  Mary,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1714,  married  Stephen  Patten.  2. 
Robert,  October  u,  1716,  married  Anne  Cof- 
fin, of  West  Newbury,  and  he  died  F'ebruary 
20,  1796.  3.  Joshua,  November  5,  17 19.  died 
October  22,  1757.  4  John  (q.  v.),  March  18. 
1721.  5.  Josiah,  March  18,  1724.  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Sarah  (Bag- 
ley)  Sargent,  and  he  died  April  17,  1818.  b. 
Thomas.  March  20,  1727,  married  Sarah 
Clement,  and  died  March  16,  1794.  7.  Han- 
nah, February  25,  1730,  married  Mr.  Colby. 
8.  Rachel,  February  19,  1732,  married  Aaron 
Sawyer,  AI.D.,  of  Amesbury. 

(R')  John  (2),  third  son  of  Captain  John 
(I)  and  Hannah  (Quimby)  Sargent,  was 
born  in  Amesbury,  Alassachusetts,  March  18, 
1 72 1.  He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  in 
IMethuen  after  his  marriage,  February  26, 
1746,  to  Mary  Tucker,  of  Amesbury,  and  they 
had  ten  children,  all  born  in  Methuen.  Mary 
(Tucker)  Sargent  died  February  28,  1777. 
and  he  married,  September  30,  1777,  ]\Iiriam 
Swan,  of  }iletluien,  by  whom  he  had  no  chil- 
dren. The  children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Tucker)  Sargent  were:  i.  John,  born 
March,  1746.  died  August  11,  1749.  2.  John 
(q.  v.).  August  5,  1749.  3.  Molly,  January 
16,  1751.  4.  Olive,  February  14,  1753,  mar- 
ried John  Masten.  5.  Ebenezer,  October  26, 
1755,  married  Mar\-  March  and  died  Novem- 
ber 8,  1838.  6.  Joshua.  November  26,  1757. 
claimed  to  have  served  in  the  revolutionary 
war,  married  Abigail  Ladd,  and  died  February 
23,  1844.  7.  Molly.  September  6,  1759.  8. 
Alice,  .-Xrgust  14.  1761,  married  Jonathan 
Swan,  of  Sunberton,  New  Hampshire.  9. 
Benjamin,  September  2,  1763,  married  Olive 
Bodwell,  of  Alethuen.  10.  Jacob,  August  25, 
1765,  married  Mercy,  daughter  of  James  and 
Meribah  (Ordway)   Sargent. 

(\')  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mary 
(Tucker)  Sargent,  was  born  in  Methuen, 
Massachusetts,  August  5,  1749.  He  was  a 
manufacturer  of  woolens  and  established  the 
first  fulling  mill  in  that  section  of  Massachu- 
setts now  the  center  of  both  cotton  and  woolen 
manufactory  of  the  United  States.  He  also 
conducted  a  flour  mill  and  had  the  first  mill 
in  which  flour  was  bolted  so  as  to  separate 
the  flour  from  the  middlings,  by  a  process  of 
sifting  that  he  introduced.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1771,  Elizabeth  Bodwell,  of 
Methuen;  children:  i.  Asa,  born  in  Methuen, 
April  25,  1773.  (He  is  supposed  to  be  the 
Asa  Sargent  who  was  a  surgeon  in  the  L'nited 


STATE  OF  AIAIXE. 


1341 


States  army  in  1800.)  2.  Abigail,  January 
26,  1775.  married  Stephen  Runnells,  of 
Methuen.  3.  JNIolly,  Methuen,  April  21,  1777, 
married  John  Cluff,  and  had  seven  children. 
4.  Elizabeth,  May  20,  1779.  died  1788.  5. 
Frederick,  April  17,  1781.  6.  Sally,  May  17, 
1783,  married  Daniel  Morrill,  of  Sutton,  New 
Hampshire.  7.  Sophia,  April  27,  1785,  died 
1788.  8.  John,  May  18,  1787,  died  young.  9. 
John  Tucker,  April  24,  1790,  married  .\biah 
M.  Frye.  and  died  March  ig,  1840.  10.  Wil- 
liam A.,  Januar)-  26,  1792,  married  W'ealthy 
Austin,  of  Salem,  New  Hampshire.  11.  Eliza 
B.,  May  20,  1794,  married  Ebenezer  Kimball. 
12.  Rufus  King,  January  13,  1797,  married 
Hannah  Shaw,  and  died  at  Haverhill,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  29,  1850.  13.  Jedediah,  Sep- 
tember. 1799,  died  young.  Elizabeth  (Bod- 
well)  Sargent  died  in  Methuen,  Massachu- 
setts, November  29,  1803,  and  on  October  12, 
1804,  her  husband  married  as  his  second  wife 
Dorothy  Huse,  of  Methuen,  who  was  born  in 
Wilton,  New  Hampshire,  in  1773,  and  died  at 
Methuen,  August  8,  1852.  The  children  of 
John  and  Dorothy  (Huse)  Sargent  were:  i. 
Jedediah  Warren,  born  May  2.  1805,  married 
Clara  F.  Smith,  of  Newton,  Massachusetts. 
Jedediah  Warren  Sargent  was  a  Baptist  cler- 
gyman receiving  his  training  in  theology  at 
the  Newton  Theological  Institution,  Newton 
Centre,  Massachusetts,  graduating  in  1834.  2. 
Sulvanus  Gilman,  February  19,  1807,  married 
Martha  A.  Richards,  of  Hallowell,  Maine,  was 
a  graduate  of  Waterville  College,  1834,  be- 
came a  Baptist  clergyman  and  died  at  Au- 
gusta, Maine,  February  21,  1896.  3.  Walter 
Taylor  (q.  v.),  February  3,  1809.  4.  George 
Anson.  February  22,  181 1. 

(VI)  Walter  Taylor,  third  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Dorothy  (Huse)  Sargent,  was  born  in 
Methuen,  Massachusetts,  February  3,  1809. 
Fie  attended  the  public  school  of  Methuen, 
worked  in  his  father's  fulling  mill,  and  after 
1828  in  a  woolen  mill  at  Andover,  Massachu- 
setts; again  attended  school  1831-32  in  South 
Reading:  Waterville  Academy  1833-34; 
matriculated  at  Colby  College,  Waterville,  in 
1834,  but  was  obliged  to  leave  by  reason  of 
continued  ill  health  and  he  worked  in  his  fath- 
er's fulling  mill  in  ^lethuen  and  in  1836  took 
up  an  elective  course  at  Colby  and  was  li- 
censed to  preach  by  the  Baptist  church  of 
Methuen.  He  supplied  churches  at  Billerica 
and  Randolph,  Massachusetts,  and  at  Somers- 
worth.  New  Hampshire,  and  in  1837  took  his 
first  regular  pastorate  at  Buxton,  Elaine,  and 
served  that  church  one  year..  In  July,  1838, 
he   accepted   a  call   to  the   Baptist  church   at 


Damariscotta,    Maine,    and    in   August,    1838, 
was  ordained  as  pastor,  the  service  of  ordina- 


tion being  held  August    14,    i 


He  went 


from  there  to  Bowdoinham,  where  he  was 
pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  that  place  up 
to  the  spring  of  1842,  when  he  went  to  Mount 
Vernon,  where  he  served  1843-49;  was  at 
Acton,  Maine,  1849-55;  Sanford,  ;\Iaine, 
1855-57;  Green,  Maine.  1857-64,  where  in  a 
very  small  parish  he  baptized  eighty-four 
converts.  He  was  in  Dexter,  Maine,  1864-66; 
Richmond,  Maine.  1866-70;  Freeport,  Maine, 
1870-75;  retired  from  active  service  in  1875, 
but  continued  his  residence  in  Freeport,  v^'here 
he  died  in  1886.  He  married.  May  3,  1837. 
Mary  L.  Hayden,  of  Winslow,  ]\Iaine,  born 
February  10,  1817,  daughter  of  General 
Charles  Hayden.  The  two  children  born  to 
Rev.  W'alter  Taylor  and  Mary  L.  (Hayden) 
Sargent,  were  Charles  and  Walter,  and  both 
died  in  infancy.     The  mother  died  April  30, 

1840,  The  Rev.  Samuel  F.  Smith,  of  New- 
ton Centre,  author  of  "America,"  preached 
the  funeral  service  of  Mrs.  Sargent,  and  min- 
istered at  the  burial  of  her  two  children,  and 
he  had  less  than  three  years  before  conducted 
the  ceremony  of  the  marriage  of  Mrs.  Sar- 
gent.    Mr.  Sargent  married  (second)  June  3, 

1841,  Joan  Greenleaf  Quint,  of  Topsham,  born 
in  Bowdoinham,  Maine,  in  1820.  Children: 
I.   Marv    Ellen,   born    Bowdoinham,   Julv   28, 

1842,  married  A.  R.  G.  Smith,  M.D.,  of  North 
Whitefield.  2.  Maria  Frances,  born  at  Mount 
\'ernon,  April  26,  1844,  married  James  M. 
Sanborn.  3.  Susan  Jane,  born  at  Brunswick, 
Maine,  October  18.  1845,  died  May  17,  1878. 
4.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  in  Topsham,  July  16, 
1848.  married  Waterman  T.  Moore.  5.  Anna 
Louisa,  born  in  Acton,  January  19,  1852,  mar- 
ried Edward  J.  Wight,  of  Tacoma,  Washing- 
ton. 6.  Emma  Caroline,  born  in  Acton,  Sep- 
tember I,  1854,  a  school  teacher  in  Freeport. 
7.  William  Edward  (q.  v.).  8.  Alice  Crosby, 
June  5,  1864,  deceased.  9.  Kate  Gertrude. 
June  7,  1866,  deceased. 

(VII)  William  Edward,  only  son  of  Rev. 
Walter  Taylor  and  Joan  Greenleaf  ( Quint ) 
Sargent,  was  born  in  Sanford,  Maine,  !\Iay 
23,  1856.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Green,  Dexter  and  Freeport,  and  was  gradu- 
ated at  Bowdoin  College,  A.B..  1878.  He  was 
master  of  the  Topsham  high  school  1878-80; 
of  the  Freeport  high  school  1880-85  •  princi- 
pal of  Hebron  Academy  since  1885.  He  has 
seen  the  school  grow  from  sixty  students  in 
1885  to  over  two  hundred  in  1908,  and  he  has 
been  obliged  to  turn  scores  of  applicants  away 
each  year.     The  original  endowment  of  $60.- 


1342 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


ooo  in  1885  has  grown  to  over  $200,000,  and 
the  buildings  to  house  the  students.  Hbrary, 
laboratory,  gymnasium  and  classes  are  among 
the  best  appointed  in  the  state.  The  acad- 
emy celebrated  its  one  hundredth  anniversary 
in  1904.  Professor  Sargent  is  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  church ;  of  the  Republican  party ; 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows;  of 
the  Free  and  Accepted  Masons:  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  of  several  learned 
societies.  He  married.  August  20,  1883.  Ella 
Caroline  Morgan,  daughter  of  Captain  Philip 
and  Mary  Ann  ( Dickman )  Hale,  of  Balti- 
more, Maryland. 


The  name  Runnells  is  sup- 
RUXXELLS  posed  to  be  of  Scotch  ori- 
gin. The  coat  of  arms 
borne  by  the  family  is  as  follows :  Argent 
masoned,  sable  upon  a  chief  indented  of  the 
last,  a  plate  charged  with  a  rose,  gules,  barbed 
and  seeded,  between  two  fleur-de-lis,  or. 
Crest :  a  fox  passant  or,  holding  in  its  mouth 
a  rose,  as  in  the  arms,  slipped  and  leaved  vert. 
Motto :  Mitriis  ahcnctis  esto.  Underneath, 
Runnells. 

(I)  Sergeant  Samuel  Runnells  was  born, 
according  to  family  tradition,  in  1674,  near 
Port  Royal,  Nova  Scotia.  The  tradition  says 
that  he  and  an  elder  brother  escaped  from  an 
attack  of  Indians  or  pirates  on  their  father's 
residence  near  Halifax  and  came  in  an  open 
boat  to  New  England.  He  resided  in  Brad- 
ford, Massachusetts,  where  he  owned  a  farm. 
He  also  owned  land  in  Boxford,  and  erected 
a  house  there.  He  was  admitted  to  full  com- 
munion in  the  Bradford  Congregational 
church  November  27,  1709.  His  will  was 
dated  March  5,  1744-45  and  proved  Novem- 
ber 25,  1745.  He  married  Abigail  Middleton, 
about  1700.  She  died  October  11,  1753,  and 
he  died  October  27,  1745.  Children:  i. 
Stephen,  born  May  14.  1703.  2.  Samuel, 
December  17,  1706.  3.  John,  March  9,  1710, 
died  young.  4.  John,  born  April  8,  1711,  died 
July  6,  1713.  5.  Job,  born  June  18,  1712.  6. 
Sarah,  born  October  31,  1716.  7.  Abigail, 
November  11,  1722.  8.  Ebenezer,  November 
20,  1726,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Samuel  Runnells, 
was  born  in  Bradford,  November  20,  1726, 
and  baptized  the  ne.xt  day.  He  was  a  black- 
smith by  trade,  and  bought  January  7,  1744, 
from  the  town  of  Haverhill,  a  piece  of  land 
on  the  Merrimack  river,  and  March  6,  1748, 
a  lot  and  dwelling  house.  He  was  successful 
in  his  business,  and  dealt  largely  in  real  estate. 
He  owned  much  land  in  Hollis,  New  Hamp- 


shire, and  in  Dunstable,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  engaged  considerably  in  the  ironing  of 
\'essels,  and  had  an  interest  in  shipbuilding  in 
Newburyport.  His  residence  was  situated  on 
the  present  \\'ashington  Square,  with  the  gar- 
den in  the  rear  extending  to  the  Little  river. 
His  shop  was  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road, 
in  the  rear  of  the  present  Christian  Baptist 
church.  His  will  was  dated  February  10, 
1795,  and  he  died  August  4,  1795.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  1747,  Abigail  Sollis,  of  Bev- 
erley, who  died  October  3,  1765.  He  married 
{ second )  Hannah  Smith,  born  in  Haverhill, 
May  31,  1742.  died  there  March  29,  1814. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Benjamin,  born 
Alarch  31,  1748,  mentioned  below.  2.  Eben- 
ezer, born  April  21,  1750.  3.  John,  born  Au- 
gust 14,  1752,  died  September  14,  1753.  4. 
Stephen,  born  July  3,  1754.  5.  John,  born 
June  18,  1756,  died  June  16,  1760.  6.  Molly, 
born  July  1758.  7.  Abigail,  born  December  7, 
1760.  8.  Thomas,  born  December  14.  1763, 
died  November  16,  1765.  Children  of  second 
wife:  9.  Samuel,  born  March  15,  1767.  10. 
Thomas,  born  February  7,  1769.  11.  Nathaniel 
Stevens,  born  June  23,  1771.  12.  Daniel,  born 
October  22,  1773,  died  September  22,  1774. 
13.  Daniel,  born  December  18  ( family  record 
says  September  22),  1775.  14.  Ebenezer,  born 
1778.  15.  Hannah,  born  April  22,  1783,  died 
February  22,  1787.  16.  Hannah,  born  July 
12,  1787. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Ebenezer  Runnells, 
was  born  in  Haverhill,  March  31,  1748.  In 
1769  he  went  to  Pownalborough,  Maine,  and 
thence  to  what  is  now  Augusta,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers.  He  afterwards  sold 
his  land  in  Augusta  for  two  dollars  an  acre. 
He  served  about  two  years  in  the  revolution, 
and  was  with  the  army  in  New  York.  He 
was  a  private  in  Captain  Timothy  Heath's 
company.  Colonel  Samuel  McCobb's  regi- 
ment June  30  to  September  25,  1779.  His 
trade  being  that  of  a  blacksmith,  he  helped  to 
forge  the  chain  which  was  stretched  across 
the  Hudson  at  West  Point  to  keep  the.  Brit- 
ish ships  from  going  up  the  river.  Meanwhile 
his  family  remained  at  Augusta,  in  constant 
danger  from  the  Indians.  One  night  seven 
Indians  came  to  their  house,  ransacked  it,  and 
spent  the  night,  to  the  terror  of  his  wife  and 
children.  His  wife  always  said  that  her  life 
was  only  spared  at  the  intervention  of  a  squaw 
who  was  one  of  the  party.  In  1778  he  re- 
moved farther  up  the  river  and  built  the  first 
framed  house  in  Waterville.  about  1793.  He 
did  lumbering,  and  built  a  small  vessel,  claimed 
to  be  the  first  one  launched  on  the  upper  Ken- 


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nebec,  and  ran  it  to  Augusta,  twenty  miles, 
before  being  rigged.  He  also  built  the  first 
saw  mill  in  W'aterville,  and  subsequently  the 
first  at  Pittsfield.  He  was  the  first  representa- 
tive from  the  combined  towns  of  Waterville 
and  Winslow  to  the  general  court  at  Boston, 
and  became  owner  of  so  much  land  that  he 
was  nicknamed  "King"  Runnells.  Later  he 
lost  much  of  his  property  through  the  failure 
of  one  Shepard,  an  English  contractor,  and  by 
other  misfortunes,  especially  by  losing  on  a 
contract  of  his  own  for  furnishing  masts  to 
be  sent  to  England.  He  died  in  Winslow, 
Maine,  June  22,  1802.  He  married,  in  1768, 
Hepsibah  Bradley,  of  Haverhill,  who  died 
December  25,  1798.  The  family  burial  ground 
was  selected  by  her  on  the  east  bank  of  the 
Kennebec,  a  mile  or  two  above  Waterville. 
Children:  i.  James,  born  January,  1769,  in 
Haverhill.  2.  ^lary,  born  May,  1770,  in  Pow- 
nalborough,  Maine.  3.  John,  born  November 
19,  1771,  mentioned  below.  4.  Benjamin, 
born  April,  1773,  in  Augusta.  5.  Stephen, 
born  February,  1775,  in  Augusta.  6.  Ruth, 
born  December,  1776,  in  Augusta.  7.  Abigail, 
born  March  4,  1778,  in  Winslow,  Elaine.  8. 
Rachel,  born  Alarch  24,  1782,  in  Winslow.  9. 
David,  born  October  5,  1783,  in  Winslow. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Benjamin  Runnells,  was 
born  November  19,  1771.  He  resided  in 
Winslow,  and  later  in  Clinton,  Maine.  He 
married,  October  19,  1795,  Mary  Brown,  of 
Hancock  Plantation.  He  died  February  14, 
1807,  aged  thirty-six.  His  wife  inscribed  his 
gravestone  with  her  own  hands,  at  Benton, 
near  Kendall's  Mills,  and  died  there  in  March, 
1856.  Children,  the  two  eldest  born  in 
Winslow,  the  others  in  Clinton:  i.  John, 
born  November  12,  1796.  2.  Oliver,  born 
March  14,  1798,  drowned  near  Kendall's 
Mills,  in  the  Kennebec,  November  28,  1818. 
3.  Damon,  born  July  11,  1800.  4.  Elnathan, 
born  December  8,  1802,  died  at  Winslow, 
December  i,  1824.  5.  James,  born  ]\Iay  9, 
1804,  mentioned  below.  6.  Benjamin,  born 
July  15,  1806. 

(V)  James,  son  of  John  Runnells,  was  born 
in  Clinton,  Maine,  May  9,  1804.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  at  Kent's  Hill, 
and  taught  school  up  to  the  time  he  was  si.xty- 
five  years  old.  He  had  schools  in  Frankfort, 
Stockton,  Sear.sport  and  Prospect,  Maine.  He 
settled  in  1823,  in  Frankfort,  where  he  re- 
sided most  of  his  life.  His  last  years  were 
spent  on  his  farm  there.  He  was  a  lieutenant 
and  afterwards  captain  in  the  militia  at  the 
time  of  the  Aroostook  war.     He  died  in  1886. 


In  religion  he  was  a  ]\Iethodist.  He  married 
(first)  January  12,  1829,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Dwelley,  of  Prospect,  Elaine,  born  September 
18,  1808.  died  December  29,  1855.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  in  May,  1859,  Rosilla  Luce,  of 
L'nion,  Maine.  Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i. 
Lydia  Ann,  born  January  12,  1831.  2.  Wil- 
liam Thomas  Curtis,  born  October  3,  1835, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Artemiza,  born  August 
16,  1840,  died  at  Frankfort,  August  6,  1841. 
4.  Aurelia  Adelaide,  born  July  6,  1850. 

(\T)  William  Thomas  Curtis,  son  of  James 
Runnells,  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Maine,  Oc- 
tober 3,  1835.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  by  his  father,  and  studied  three 
years  under  the  tuition  of  Samuel  Johnson,  of 
Jackson,  l\Iaine,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege. Fle  read  law  in  the  offices  of  Nehemiah 
Abbott,  of  Belfast,  ^Maine,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  i860.  He  began  to  practice  in 
Searsport  in  the  following  year,  and  has  con- 
tinued to  the  present  time  with  eminent  suc- 
cess. He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
L'nited  States  courts  in  1875.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Prohibitionist.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  school  committee  of  Searsport,  superin- 
tendent of  the  schools,  and  county  attorney  for 
two  years.  He  married,  January  i,  1864, 
Caroline  Sophia  Frederika  Hansen,  born  in 
Elsinore,  Denmark,  January  27,  1841,  daugh- 
ter of  Johan  F.  and  Caroline  (Hagedorn) 
Llansen,  of  Copenhagen,  Denmark.  Children  : 
I.  William  Franklin,  born  February  18,  1865. 
mentioned  below.  2.  Lillian  Grace,  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1874,  educated  by  her  father,  and 
in  the  State  Normal  School,  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts ;  teacher  in  Searsport  schools 
six  years,  in  Rockland  (Massachusetts) 
schools  five  years,  and  for  the  past  three  years 
in  Melrose.  Massachusetts. 

(\TI)  William  Franklin,  son  of  William 
Thomas  Curtis  Runnells,  was  born  in  Sears- 
port, j\Iaine,  February  18,  1865.  He  was  edu- 
cated by  his  father,  and  taught  school  for  sev- 
eral years.  He  read  law  under  his  father's 
instruction,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Waldo  county  in  1886.  He  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Sauk  Rapids,  Minnesota,  and  Su- 
perior, Wisconsin,  but  after  a  few  years  re- 
turned east  and  located  in  Winterport,  Maine. 
He  left  his  practice  there  to  take  the  position 
of  superintendent  and  general  manager  of  the 
foundry  business  of  his  wife's  father  at  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  which  he  has  held 
for  fifteen  years,  during  that  time  enlarging 
the  works  and  becoming  a  principal  owner. 
;\Ir.     Runnells     married,     r^Iarch     20,     1889, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Eleanor  C.  Russell,  born  ^ larch  20,  1869, 
daughter  of  Edward  P.  Russell,  a  prominent 
manufacturer  of  Newburyport. 


This  name  spelled  variously  Bis- 
BISBEE  bredge,  Besbridge,  Bes'brech, 
Besbitch,  Bresbrech,  Bisbe,  Bes- 
be\',  Bisby  and  Bisbee,  is  now  written  Bis- 
be'e,  the  accepted  orthography  of  the  family  in 
America.  The  first  and  only  one  we  find 
among  the  early  founders  of  New  England  is 
Thonias  Besbeech,  of  Sandwich,  England, 
who,  with  his  six  children  and  three  servants 
(according  to  the  History  of  Sandwich  by 
Wilhams  Boys,  Canterbury,  1786),  were 
emigrants  on  the  ship  "Hercules"  of  Sand- 
wich of  two  hundred  tons.  John  Witherley, 
master,  bound  for  "the  plantation  called  New 
England  in  America  with  certificate  from  the 
ministers  where  they  last  dwelt  of  their  con- 
versation and  conformity  to  the  orders  and 
discipline  of  the  church,  and  that  they  had 
taken  the  oath  of  allegiance  and  supremacy." 
Thomas  Harman,  vicar  of  Hedcorn,  March  6, 
1634,  and  Thomas  Warren,  rector  of  St. 
Peter's,  Sandwich,  March  13,  1634,  furnished 
the  necessary  certificates  to  this  Thomas  Bes- 
beech, and  these  passengers  constitute  those 
who  departed  on  the  "Hercules"  in  or  imme- 
diately after  March,  1634-35. 

(I)  Thomas  Bisbee,  or  as  spelled  on  the 
ship's  list  "Bisbedge,"  must  have  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  parish  of  St.  Peter's,  Sandwich, 
England,  or  the  rector,  Thomas  Warren, 
would  not  have  issued  so  important  a  certifi- 
cate. The  name  or  fact  of  his  having  a  wife 
in  his  company  does  not  appear,  and  the  pres- 
ence of  three  servants  establishes  his  standing 
as  a  man  of  some  wealth  and  position,  as  does 
his  will  in  which  he  bequeathed  all  his  lands  in 
Hedcorn  and  Frittenden,  Old  England,  to  his 
grandson,  Thomas  Brown.  The  "Hercules" 
on  which  he  reached  Plymouth  Colony,  landed 
in  Scituate  Harbor  in  the  spring  of  1634,  and 
he  at  once  aided  in  the  foundation  of  the  town 
incorporated  in  1636.  The  parish  records  of 
the  early  church  have  been  lost,  but  the  first 
church  was  regtdarly  formed,  a  minister  set- 
tled, and  a  society  fully  organized  January  18, 
1634,  O.  S.  A  meeting  house  for  public  wor- 
ship had  been  erected  some  years  earlier,  and 
the  pulpit  was  occupied  successively  by : 
Lothrop,  Chauncey  Dunster  and  Baker.  The 
first  regularly  ordained  minister  of  the  First 
Church  of  Scituate  was  Mr.  John  Lothrop,  the 
ceremony  of  induction  into  office  were  the 
laying  on  of  the  hands  of  the  elders  with 
prayer.     These  elders  were  elected,  probably. 


on  the  same  day  on  which  the  ordination  ser- 
vice was  held,  January  18,  1634,  O.  S.,  and 
they  themselves  ordained  before  they  per- 
formed the  office  on  Mr.  Lothrop,  and  at  this 
meeting  Mr.  Thomas  Besbedge  was  insti- 
tuted one  of  the  deacons  of  the  church,  and 
in  this  way  he  became  a  founder  of  the  town, 
having  been  made  a  freeman  by  the  general 
court  of  Plymouth  Colony,  in  company  with 
Rev.  John  Lothrop  and  three  others  in  1637. 
He  did  not  remain  long  in  Scituate,  however, 
as  he  purchased  a  house  in  Duxbury  from 
William  Palmer  in  1638,  and  moved  his  fam- 
ily into  it.  In  December,  1638,  he  was  one 
of  a  committee  of  eight  former  or  present 
residents  of  Scituate  to  receive  a  grant  of 
lands  at  Seipican  (now  Rochester),  but  the 
people  of  Scituate  did  not  accept  the  grant,  as 
thev  had  determined  to  remove  to  Barnstable, 
and  in  1639  a  majority  of  Mr.  Lothrop's 
church  did  settle  in  Barnstable,  but  Mr.  Bis- 
bee remained  in  Duxbury,  and  in  1643  was 
with  William  Basset  elected  deputies  to  the 
general  court  from  that  town.  He  next  ap- 
pears as  a  petitioner  from  the  town  of  Marsh- 
field  to  the  general  court,  and  his  next  move 
was  to  Sudbury,  where  he  died  March  g,  1674. 
If  he  had  six  children  as  appears  on  the  ship's 
list  of  passengers,  three  must  have  died  un- 
married, as  only  Elisha  (q.  v.)  ;  Alice,  who 
married  John  Bourne,  and  Mary,  who  married 
William  Brown,  of  Sudbury,  are  foimd  in  the 
records,  and  there  is  no  mention  of  them  or  of 
his  wife  in  his  will  which  made  his  grandsons, 
William  and  Edward  Brown,  executors. 

( II )  Elisha,  only  known  son  of  Thomas  Bis- 
bee, immigrant,  was  born  probably  in  his  es- 
tates in  Hedcorn,  England,  and  came  with  his 
father  to  America  in  1634.  The  only  way  we 
can  approximate  as  to  his  age  is  the  fact  that 
in  1644  he  kept  the  ferry  in  Scituate,  where 
L'nion  Bridge  was  subsequently  built.  He  was 
a  cooper  by  occupation,  and  his  house  at  the 
ferry  was  used  by  his  son  Elisha  and  a  tavern 
stood  on  the  west  side  of  the  highway.  The 
christian  name  of  his  wife  was  Joanna,  and 
the  birth  of  his  first  child  was  in  1645,  '"''f' 
it  is  presumable  he  married  in  Scituate  and 
that  his  children  were  born  there.  They  were : 
I.  Hopestill,  born  1645,  married,  his  wife 
Sarah  surviving  him,  and  married  (second) 
Joseph  Lincoln,  of  Hingham,  thus  becoming 
his  second  marriage.  2.  John  (q.  v.),  1647. 
3.  Mary,  1649,  married  Jacob  Best,  of  Hing- 
ham, January  15,  1678-79.  4.  Elisha,  1654, 
married  (first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
King,  of  Scituate,  and  (second)  March  25, 
1685,  Mary  (Jacob)  Bacon,  w'idow  of  Samuel 


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Bacon,  and  daughter  of  John  and  Margery 
(Eames)  Jacob.  Ensign  Eh.sha  resided  in 
South  Hiiighani,  where  he  died  March  4, 
1715-16.  5.  Hannah,  1656,  married,  1689, 
Thomas  Brooks,  and  Martha,  probably  his 
daughter,  married  Jonathan  Turner. 

(III)  John,  second  son  of  Elisha  and  Jo- 
anna Bisbee,  was  born  in  Scituate  in  1647.  He 
married,  in  Marshfield,  September  13,  1687, 
Joanna  Brooks,  moved  to  Pembroke  and  died 
there  September  24,  1726,  his  wife  having  died 
on  August  17,  of  the  same  year.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Martha,  born  October  13,  1688. 
2.  John,  .September  15,  1690,  married  Mary 
Oldham.  3.  Elijah,  January  29,  1692,  mar- 
ried Sarah .    4.  Mary,  March  28,  1693. 

5.  Mioses  (q.  v.),  October  20,  1695.  6.  Elisha, 
May   3,    1698,   married    Patience    Soanes.     7. 

Aaron,  married  Abigail  .    8.  Hopestill, 

April  16,  1702,  removed  to  Plympton  and  mar- 
ried Hannah  Churchill. 

(IV)  Moses,  third  son  of  John  and  Joanna 
(Brooks)  Bisbee,  born  October  20,  1695,  mar- 
ried and  removed  to  East  Bridgewater,  where 
his  wife  Mary  bore  him  six  children,  as  fol- 
lows:  I.  Abigail,  who  died  young.  2.  Miriam, 
born  1724.  3.  Charles  (q.  v.),  1726.  4.  Jo- 
anna, 1729,  married  John  Churchill.  5.  Mary, 
1733,  died  young.    6.  Tabitha,  1735. 

(V)  Charles,  son  of  Moses  and  Mary  Bis- 
bee, was  born  in  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts, 
1726.  After  the  revolutionary  war  he  settled 
in  Sumner,  Maine,  where  on  June  9,  1874, 
there  was  a  gathering  of  his  descendants  at 
the  old  Bisbee  Homestead,  the  invitation  to 
thus  meet  having  been  given  by  Captain  Lewis 
Bisbee,  grandson  of  the  patriarch,  Charles, 
who  lived  at  the  time  on  the  old  homestead 
and  was  made  chairman  of  the  meeting,  and 
an  address  was  delivered  by  George  D.  Bis- 
bee (q.  v.),  of  the  fourth  generation  from  the 
patriarch.  He  married  Eeulah.  daughter  of 
Rowse  Howland.  of  Pembroke,  probably  a  de- 
scendant of  Arthur  Howland,  of  Marshfield, 
who  subsequently  removed  to  Pembroke.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  American  revolution,  his 
two  eldest  sons,  Elisha  and  Charles,  also 
taking  part  in  that  conflict,  and  after  the  close 
of  the  war  he_  joined  the  company  of  adven- 
turers who  left  the  old  colony  town  to  make 
a  new  home  in  the  Maine  woods,  and  he  pur- 
chased land  in  the  township  of  Sharon  ( after- 
ward Butterfield),  and  the  part  of  Butterfield 
in  which  he  settled  was  incorporated  in  1798 
as  the  town  of  Sumner.  In  1783  he  visited  his 
land  and  put  up  a  rude  tenement  for  his  fam- 
ily in  the  then  wilderness,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing spring  he  with  his  family  took  packet  from 


Scitnate  Plarbor  and  landed  at  Yarmouth,  pro- 
ceeding thence  through  the  wilderness  on 
horseback  to  his  waiting  cabin,  and  arrived 
there  June  5,  1784.  With  the  aid  of  his  seven 
stalwart  boys  he  soon  cleared  up  a  good  farm 
and  he  lived  to  see  his  children  comfortably 
settled  around  him.  He  died  in  Sumner, 
Maine,  June  5,  1807,  the  twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary of  his  arrival  with  his  family  in  the 
place  which  had  grown  into  a  prosperous 
town.  His  widow  Beulah  outlived  him  nine 
vears,  and  died  September  i,  18 16.  Their 
children,  all  born  in  Pembroke,  Massachu- 
setts, were:  I.  Elisha  (q.  v.).  2.  Charles, 
1758,  married  Desire  Dingley,  of  Marshfield, 
and  was  a  soldier  in  the  American  revolution. 
3.  Mary,  1760,  married  Charles  Ford.  4. 
Moses,  February  21,  1765,  married  Ellen 
Buck.  5.  John,  married  Sarah  Philbrick.  6. 
Solomon,  September  3,  1769,  married  Ruth 
Barrett.  7.  Calvin,  October  14,  1771,  married 
Bethiah  Glover.  8.  Rowse,  October  17,  1775, 
married  Hannah  Caswell.  9.  Celia,  married 
Joshua  Ford. 

(\T)  Elisha  (2),  first  child  of  Charles  aJid 
Beulah  (Howland),  was  born  in  Duxbury, 
i\Iassachusetts,  in  1757,  removed  with  the  fam- 
ily to  the  wilderness  of  Maine  after  the  revo- 
lutionary war,  in  which  he  served  as  a  sol- 
dier, married,  in  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  in 
1/79'  Mary  Pettingill,  and  his  wife  and  two 
children  accompanied  him  to  their  new  home 
in  Sumner,  Maine,  where  their  other  eight 
children  were  born.  The  date  of  the  death  of 
the  father  and  mother  is  not  recorded.  The 
children  of  Elisha  and  Mary  (  Pettingill)  Bis- 
bee were:  i.  Susan,  born  in  Duxbury,  ]\Iassa- 
chusetts,  March  26,  1780,  married  Nathaniel 
Bartlett,  of  Hartford,  Maine,  March  28,  1802. 
2.  Sally,  born  in  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  be- 
fore 1784,  married  Gad  Hayford,  of  Hartford, 
Maine.  3.  Anna,  born  in  Maine  after  1784, 
married,  March  24,  1805,  Stephen  Drew,  of 
Turner,  Maine.  4.  Elisha  Jr.  (q.  v.).  May  8, 
1786.  5.  Daniel,  married  Sylvia  Stevens,  of 
Sumner.  6.  Hopestill,  April  2."],  1791,  mar- 
ried, December  18,   1817,  Martha  Sturtevant. 

7.  Molly,  January  4,  1794,  married  Nehemiah 
Bryant,  probably  in  1810,  and  (second)  Lem- 
uel Dunham,  of  Hartforfl,  Maine,  October  3, 
1825,  and  had  four  children  by  each  husband. 

8.  Theresa,  married  Barney  Howard,  and  had 
five  children.  9.  Huldah,  married  Sampson 
Reed,  of  Hartford,  had  eight  children,  and 
died  in  1842.  10.  Horatio,  August  13,  1800, 
married  Eunice  White,  March  27,  1823,  and 
had  ten  children. 

(\TI)   Elisha  Jr.   (3),  eldest  son  of  Elisha 


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(2)  and  Mary  ( Pcttiiigill)  Bisbee,  was  born 
in  Sumner,  Maine,  May  8,  1786.  He  was 
married  April  10,  18 10,  to  Joanna  Sturtevant, 
and  the  children  born  to  them  were:  i.  El- 
bridge  G.,  February  8,  181 1,  died  October  2, 
1812.  2  and  3.  Thomas  J.  and  George  W. 
(twins),  born  July  6,  1812.  Thomas  J.  was 
married  in  June,  1840,  to  Sylvia  Stetson,  of 
Sumner,  and  he  died  in  Rumford,  December 
10,  1874.  George  W.  (q.  v.).  4.  Mary  P., 
June  6,  181 5,  married  Freeman  Reed,  April, 
1840.  5.  Elisha  S.,  born  in  April,  1822,  died 
September  24,  1853.  Elisha  Jr.  married  (sec- 
ond) Fanny  Bryant,  May  9,  1825,  and  the 
children  by  this  marriage  were :  6.  Sarah  W.,  ' 
February  21,  1826,  married  Orville  Robinson. 
7.  Sophia  G.,  April  7,  1827.  8.  Levi  B.,  July 
10,  1828,  married  Eliza  A.  C.  Heald.  9. 
Elisha  S.,  April  15,  1830,  married  Jane  Par- 
sons, January  4,  1857.  lO-  Asia  H.,  January 
6,  1832,  married  and  died  in  Portland.  Ore- 
gon, June  I,  1870.  II.  Daniel  H.,  October  9, 
1833,  ■^^'ho  married.  12.  Jane  ,Y.,  July  i,  1835, 
married  James  McDonald,  October  i,  1855. 
13.    Hopestill    R.,    June    21.    1837,    married 

.      14.   Hiram   R.,   December    11,    1839, 

sergeant  in  Company  F.,  Ninth  Maine  Volun- 
teers, was  shot  on  the  line  of  battle  and  died 
at  Bermuda,  May  20,  1864. 

(VHI)  George  W..  son  of  Elisha  Jr.  (3) 
and  Joanna  (Sturtevant)  Bisbee,  was  born  in 
Sumner,  Maine,  July  6,  1812.  He  married. 
January  i,  1836,  Mary  B.  Howe,  of  Rumford, 
Maine,  and  their  only  child,  George  Dana 
(q.  v.)  was  born  July  9,  1841.  George  W. 
Bisbee  died  in  Peru,  Maine,  January  2-}.  1872. 

(IX)  George  Dana,  only  child  of  George 
W.  and  Mary  B.  (Howe)  Bisbee,  was  born 
in  Hartford,  Maine,  July  9,  1841.  He  was 
obliged  to  work  from  his  early  boyhood  days, 
and  his  school  days  were  in  the  common  dis- 
trict school  and  the  high  school  in  West  Peru. 
His  life  found  a  decided  change  in  1861  when 
the  civil  war  broke  out  and  the  government 
asked  for  men  to  put  down  the  Southern  re- 
bellion. Maine  had  witliin  her  borders  an 
army  of  able,  willing  and  loyal  men,  undisci- 
plined, but  patriotic,  ready  to  answer  to  their 
country's  call.  Responding  to  the  call  of  Pres- 
ident Lincoln,  young  Bisbee  enlisted  in  the 
Sixteenth  Maine  Regiment  at  its  organiza- 
tion, and  passed  with  the  regiment  an  active 
and  eventful  career  of  danger  and  daring  and 
an  intimate  acquaintance  with  what  had  been 
heretofore  the  horror  of  sudden  death.  He 
found  war  to  be  indeed  a  Hades,  and  he 
passed  through  its  very  door  and  witnessed 
its  intensest  scenes  of  suffering.    He  had  part 


in  the  successive  campaigns  under  McClellan, 
Burnside,  Hooker,  ^leade  and  Grant.  This 
meant  the  unsuccessful  attempt  to  recover 
some  of  the  foothold  lost  in  \'irginia  by  the 
Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville  cam- 
paign ;  the  second  falling  back  on  Washington, 
and  the  brilliant  and  successful  Antietam  cam- 
paign that  saved  the  National  Capital  and 
drove  the  Confederates  to  the  dangerous 
necessity  of  making  a  stand  on  the  free  soil 
of  Pennsylvania,  resulting  in  the  decisive  bat- 
tle of  Gettysburg  with  a  glorious  ending  at 
Appomattox.  To  have  passed  through  such 
a  series  of  campaigns  with  entire  safety  would 
be  impossible,  and  our  Maine  soldier  felt  the 
dark  side  of  war  in  wounds  received  at  Fred- 
ericksburg, from  which  he  has  never  fully  re- 
covered ;  from  the  disappointment  of  capture 
and  imprisonment  on  the  first  day  at  Gettys- 
burg, July  I.  1863,  where  with  his  entire  regi- 
ment he  was  made  a  prisoner  of  war  and  con- 
fined in  Libby  and  other  southern  prisons  un- 
til finally  paroled  in  December,  1864,  and  then 
only  in  consideration  of  the  wounded  condi- 
tion of  his  body  that  he  w'ould  never  be  fit  for 
duty  again  ;  but  this  was  to  have  its  recompense 
for  after  a  special  exchange  he  with  his  regi- 
ment participated  with  the  army  of  General 
Grant  under  Sheridan  in  the  final  battle  of  the 
war  resulting  in  the  surrender  of  General  Lee 
at  Appomattox,  which  Mr.  Bisbee  says  amply 
repaid  him  for  all  the  hardships  he  e.xperi- 
enced  during  the  three  years  of  strenuous  war- 
fare or  of  lingering  in  almost  hopeless  inac- 
tivity in  southern  prisons.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  army  with  his 
regiment. 

The  Bisbee  family  were  noted  for  the  cour- 
age of  their  convictions  and  a  will  power  equal 
to  the  occasion.  This  was  true  of  young  Bis- 
bee while  in  the  army.  Severely  wounded  at 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg  he  refused  to 
have  his  wounded  arm  amputated,  and  while 
in  the  hospital  he  received  notice  of  his  pro- 
motion as  an  ofiicer ;  he  desired  to  go  to  the 
front  and  accept  his  commission,  but  the  hos- 
pital physician  refused  the  request  saying  that 
"Sick  and  wounded  men  at  the  front  were  of 
no  use."  Young  Bisbee  was  discharged  from 
the  L^nited  States  service  on  account  of 
wounds  and  physical  disability.  He  obtained 
a  permit  through  \'ice-President  Hamlin  to 
visit  his  regiment  and  was  mustered  again 
into  the  service  under  his  commission  as  lieu- 
tenant :  was  actively  engaged  in  the  battle  of 
Chancellorville  carrying  his  wounded  arm  in  a 
sling:  paroled  from  the  southern  prisons  on 
account  of  wounds  after  eighteen  months  con- 


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finement,  he  refused  a  discharge  from  the  ser- 
vice and  obtained  a  special  exchange,  rejoined 
his  regiment  and  saw  the  Union  army  come 
oft  victorious. 

On  returning  home  he  took  up  the  study  of 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  Oxford  bar  in 
December,  1865.  his  mind  having  gained  in 
his  war  college  course  a  grasp  of  the  princi- 
ples of  law  and  equity  that  no  law  school 
could  possibly  instill.  He  opened  a  law  office 
in  Buckfield,  Maine,  in  January,  1866,  and 
continued  the  practice  of  law  in  that  place  up 
to  1892,  when  he  removed  to  Rumford  Falls, 
where  he  is  now  senior  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Bisbee  &  Parker.  Fie  is  a  member  of 
the  bar  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United 
States.  Besides  a  large  practice  in  Oxford 
county  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  foremost 
business  lawyers  in  the  state,  and  is  employed 
in  important  cases  outside  his  own  county. 
He  has  served  as  county  attorney  of  Oxford 
county ;  been  both  representative  and  senator 
in  the  legislature  of  Maine ;  has  served  as 
United  States  marshall  for  the  district  of 
Maine :  as  state  bank  examiner  and  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Governor  Cobb's  council  in  1905-07. 
He  is  besides  being  a  leading  and  active  Re- 
publican, a  strong  advocate  of  temperance  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Rumford 
Falls.  His  business  interests,  independent  of 
his  professional  or  political  connections  there- 
with, include  the  presidency  of  the  Rumford 
Falls  Trust  Company,  in  the  organization  of 
which  corporation  he  was  active,  and  he  is 
also  connected  as  a  director  and  attorney  with 
the  Portland  and  Rumford  Falls  railroad  and 
with  several  other  local  enterprises.  Mr.  Bis- 
bee was  made  chairman  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  Hebron  Academy  in  1907,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  institution,  having  served  as 
vice-president  of  this  board  for  several  years. 
He  married,  July  8,  1866,  Anna  Louise, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Isaac  N.  Stanley,  of  Dix- 
field,  and  their  children  are  Stanley  (q.  v.), 
and  Mary  Louise,  wife  of  Everett  R.  Josselyn, 
of  the  firm  of  Brown  &  Josselyn,  of  Portland, 
Maine,  wholesale  flour  dealers. 

(X)  Stanley,  son  of  George  Dana  and  Anna 
Louise  (Stanley)  Bisbee,  was  born  in  Buck- 
field,  Alaine,  April  25,  1867.  He  attended 
Hebron  Academy  and  Coburn  Classical  Insti- 
tute and  commenced  business  as  a  clerk  in  a 
general  store  in  Buckfield,  of  which  he  soon 
became  proprietor,  remaining  in  that  business 
up  to  1893,  when  he  sold  out  and  became 
agent  for  the  American  Express  Company 
opening  an  office  in  Rumford  Falls  just  as  the 
place  became  an  important  railroad  center.    In 


1895  he  engaged  in  the  hardware  business  and 
still  conducts  the  business.  He  was  elected 
selectman  of  the  town  of  Buckfield,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Rumford  for 
six  years.  He  was  initiated  in  the  Masonic 
fraternity  through  membership  in  the  Blazing 
Star  Lodge  of  Rumford,  was  advanced  to  the 
Rumford  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  Strathglass 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of  Rumford, 
Maine.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Penacook 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of 
Rumford  Falls ;  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
Metalluc  Lodge,  Rumford  Falls,  and  a  com- 
panion of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United 
States.  In  1909  he  represented  the  town  of 
Rumford  in  the  seventy-fourth  legislature. 
He  married,  March  12,  1889,  Nellie  B., 
daughter  of  Cyrus  E.  and  Ellen  Young 
Spaulding,  of  Buckfield,  Maine,  and  their 
children  are :  Spaulding,  bom  in  Buckfield, 
January  6,  1890,  Louise,  born  in  Rumford, 
July  2T„  1896. 

(XI)  Spaulding,  son  of  Stanley  and  Nellie 
B.  (Spaulding)  Bisbee,  and  of  the  eleventh 
generation  from  Thomas  Bisbedge,  the  immi- 
grant, 1635,  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Rumford  Falls  and  is  now  a  student  at 
Hebron  Academv- 


This  ancient  family 
CHADBOURNE  whose  progenitor  set- 
tled in  Maine  nearly 
three  centuries  ago  is  one  of  distinction  be- 
cause of  the  character  and  quality  of  its  mem- 
bers, who  in  every  generation  from  the  time 
of  the  immigrant  have  been  representative 
men,  progressive,  energetic,  moral  and  gen- 
erally well-to-do.  According  to  President 
Paul  A.  Chadbourne  the  family  name  signi- 
fies "the  dwelling  by  the  ford."  A  theory  also 
held  is  that  it  refers  to  the  race  of  St.  Chad 
(or  Ceadda),  an  English  ecclesiastic,  who 
died  672  A.D.  In  the  old  documents  the 
spelling  is  variously  Chadbourne,  Chadbourn, 
Chadben,  Chadbon,  Cliadborn,  Chadbou,  Chad- 
boun,  Chadburn,  Chadburne,  Chatbunn  and 
Chatburn.  The  following  account  of  a  section 
of  the  family  is  taken  from  the  Chadbourne- 
Chadbourn  Genealogy  by  William  Morrill 
Emery,  A.  M.  , 

(I)  William  Chadbourne,  the  immigrant 
ancestor  from  whom  descends  the  American 
family  of  that  surname,  came  to  this  country 
in  1634  and  settled  in  what  now  is  South  Ber- 
wick, Maine.  His  son  Humphrey  had  pre- 
ceded him  in  1631.  Doubtless  they  came  from 
Devonshire,  England,  many  of  the  Kittery  set- 
tlers   having    emigrated    from    Dartmouth   or 


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STATE  OF  ?^IAINE. 


Kingsweare,  lying  on  opposite  sides  of  the 
river  Dart.  William  Chadborne  arrived  at 
Kittery  on  July  8,  1634,  coming  with  two  com- 
panions, James  ^\'all  and  John  Goddard,  in  a 
vessel  called  the  "Pied  Cow."  The  place 
where  they  landed  is  known  as  Cow  Cove  to 
this  dav.  These  men  were  carpenters,  who 
had  come  over  to  build  for  the  patentee,  Cap- 
tain John  Mason,  what  was  probably  the  first 
saw  mill  erected  in  New  England.  The  three 
came  under  a  contract  to  work  for  JNlason  five 
years,  after  which  they  were  to  have  fifty 
acres  of  land  on  lease  for  the  term  of  three 
lives  (generations),  paying  an  annual  rent  of 
three  bushels  of  corn.  Mason,  however,  died 
the  following  year.  The  work  which  they 
accomplished  is  quaintly  described  in  the  fol- 
lowing deposition  made  by  Wall  eighteen 
years  later. 

The  Deposition  of  James  Wall :  Taken  the 
21  of  the  3  month,  1652. 

This  Deponent  say  the,  that  aboute  the 
yeare  1634,  he,  with  his  partners,  W^illiam 
Chadbourne  and  John  Goddarde,  came  over 
to  New  England  upon  the  accompte  of  Cap- 
taine  John  Mason  of  London,  and  also  for 
themselves,  and  were  landed  at  Newich.nwan- 
nock.  vpon  certaine  lands  there  which  mr. 
Joieslenn,  Captaine  Mason's  Agente,  brought 
them  vnto,  with  the  landings  of  some  goodes, 
and  there  they  did  build  vpp  at  the  fall  there 
(called  by  the  Indian  name  of  Ashbesebedick) 
for  the  use  of  Captaine  Mason  &  our  selues, 
one  sawe  mill  and  one  stampinge  mill  for 
Coone,  w'ch  we  did  keep  for  the  space  of  three 
or  foure  yeares  next  after ;  and  further  this 
Deponent  saythe,  he  builte  one  house  vpon 
the  same  lands,  and  soe  did  William  Chad- 
burne  another  &  gave  it  to  his  sonne  in  Law, 
Thomas  Spencer,  who  now  lives  in  it. 

And  this  Deponent  also  say  that  we  had 
peaceable  and  quite  possession  of  that  lande 
for  the  vse  of  Captain  Mason  afi'oresaide,  and 
that  the  saide  Agente  did  buye  some  planted 
ground  of  some  of  the  Indians,  w'ch  they  had 
planted  vpon  the  sayd  land,  and  that  Captaine 
IMasons  agentes  servants  did  breake  vp  & 
cleered  certaine  lands  there,  and  planted  Corne 
vpon  it,  and  all  this  to  his  beste  remembrance. 

James  Wall  sworne,  whoe  affirmed  vpon  his 
oath  that  p'misses  is  true.  Sworne  before  me 
George  Smyth." 

The  date  of  William  Chadbourne's  death  is 
not  known.  He  was  still  living  in  1662,  for 
his  name  appears  on  the  act  of  submission  to 
Massachusetts  signed  by  forty-one  inhabitant^ 
of  Kittery  on  November  16  of  that  \ear.  He 
is  known  to  have  had  three  children,  William, 


Humphrey  and  Patience.  Of  these  children, 
William  lived  in  Plymouth,  and  had  a  wife 
Mary  and  a  daughter  Mary,  the  latter  of 
whom  was  born  in  Boston  in  1644  and  married 
John  Frost,  of  Dover,  New  Llampshire.  It 
is  believed  that  the  family  of  this  W^illiam  re- 
turned to  England.  Patience,  the  only  daugh- 
ter of  William,  the  ancestor,  married  Thomas 
Spencer,  a  planter,  lumberman  and  tavern 
keeper  at  Berwick. 

(11)  Humphrey,  son  of.  William  Chad- 
bourne,  the  great  landowner  and  leader 
among  men,  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  in  the  town  of  Kittery.  He  was  born 
probably  about  1600.  He  came  over  in  the 
bark  "Warwick,"  landing  September  g,  163 1, 
three  years  before  his  father,  and  as  chief  car- 
penter for  David  Thompson,  patentee,  built 
what  was  called  the  Great  House  at  Straw- 
berry Bank,  now  Portsmouth,  where  he  lived 
for  several  years.  The  Great  House  was  a 
blockhouse  for  defence  against  the  Indians, 
but  probably  became  subsequently  a  "truck 
house,"  or  trading  post.  Hubbard  calls  Hum- 
phrey Chadbourne  "chief  of  the  artificers." 
Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich,  in  his  delightful  work 
on  Portsmouth,  "An  Old  Town  by  the  Sea," 
remarks:  "It  was  not  until  1631  that  the 
Great  House  was  erected  by  Humphrey  Chad- 
bourne on  Strawberry  Bank.  Mr.  Chad- 
bourne, consciously  or  unconsciously  sowed  a 
seed  from  which  a  city  has  sprung."  Eventu- 
ally Humphrey  Chadbourne  took  up  his  abode 
at  Newichawannock,  where  he  waxed  prosper- 
ous. It  is  said  that  he  succeeded  .-Xmbrose 
Gibbons  as  steward  for  Mason  at  this  place. 
May  10,  1643,  ^''s  bought  of  the  Indian  Saga- 
more Roles  (or  Rowles)  a  large  tract  of  land 
at  Newichawannock.  This  land,  in  whole  or 
in  part,  remained  in  the  Chadbourne  family  for 
more  than  two  hundred  years.  In  1651-32 
Humphrey  Chadbourne  received  grants  of 
about  three  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Kittery. 
Pie  took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the 
town,  and  is  referred  to  by  Miss  Sarah  Orne 
Jewett  as  "the  lawgiver"  of  Kittery.  In  165 1 
he  wa's  elected  one  of  the  townsmen  or  select- 
men. He  was  ensign  of  the  militia  in  1653, 
and  unquestionably  bore  his  part  in  the  wars 
with  the  Indians.  From  1654  to  1659  he  was 
town  clerk.  He  was  a  deputy  to  the  general 
court  in  1657-59-60,  and  in  1662  was  ap- 
pointed one  of  the  associate  judges  of  the 
county  of  York.  He  signed  the  submission  to 
Massachusetts  in  1652. 

His  will,  dated  May  25,  1667,  is  a  long  and 
interesting  document.  The  testator  mentions 
his  wife  Lucy,  his  eldest  son  Humphrey,  his 


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younger  sons  James  and  William,  liis  "little 
daughters,"  Lucy,  Aylce  and  Katherine.  There 
was  also  a  posthumous  child.  According  to 
the  English  custom  he  made  his  eldest  son 
Humphrey  his  principal  heir,  supplementing 
his  gifts  of  real  estate  with  that  of  his  saddle 
horse  "with  all  the  furniture  to  him  belong- 
ing." Provision  was  also  made  for  the  other 
sons  and  the  widow,  and  to  each  of  the  daugh- 
ters he  left  one  hundred  pounds.  To  his 
"otinckle,"  Nicholas  Shapleigh.  the  testator 
gave  "one  very  good  beaver  hat,"  and  to  his 
cousins  William  Spencer  and  John  Shapleigh 
each  "a  good  castor  hatt  as  good  as  can  be 
gotten."  Humphrey  Chadbourne  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  in  the  summer  of  1667,  was 
owner  of  farms,  mills  and  timberlands.  The 
inventory  of  his  estate,  returned  by  the  ap- 
praisers September  12  of  that  year,  placed 
the  value  of  his  property  at  1713  pounds,  14 
shillings,  an  enormous  fortune  for  that  time. 
The  property  included  "900  acres  of  land  by 
estimation." 

Humphrey  Chadbourne  married  Lucy,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Katherine  (Shapleigh) 
Trevvorgy,  of  Kittery,  who  was  much  youpger 
than  himself.  She  married  (second)  Thomas 
Mills,  of  Kittery,  who  made  her  a  marriage 
settlement  April  i,  1669,  and  married  for  her 
third  husband  Hon.  Elias  Stileman,  of  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire.  She  died  in  1707. 
Children  of  Humphrey  Chadbourne:  i.  Hum- 
phrey, born  1653,  died  1694.  2.  Alice,  mar- 
ried (first)  after  November  5,  1677,  Samuel 
Donnell :  (second)  Jeremiah  Moulton,  of  New 
York.  3.  Katherine,  married  ( first )  Edward 
Lydstone ;  ( second )  James  Weymouth.  4. 
James,  died  about  1686.  5.  William,  did  not 
marry ;  was  taken  prisoner  by  Indians  and 
released  at  Pemaquid  on  the  Penobscot  when 
Major  Waldern's  expedition  went  to  the  east- 
ward in  1676 ;  was  ransomed  with  other  cap- 
tives for  twelve  skins  each.  6.  Lucy,  married 
Peter  Lewis  Jr.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  1667,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Alcock. 

(HI)  Humphrey  (2),  son  of  Humphrey 
(i)  and  Lucy  (Treworgy)  Chadbourne,  was 
born  in  Kittery  in  1653  3"^  '^^^'^  there  about 
1694.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Bolles,  of  Wells  and  Cape  Porpoise.  She  was 
born  January  20,  1657,  and  bore  her  husband 
five  children:  i.  Humphrey,  born  September 
2,  1678,  died  January  26,  1763.  2.  W'illiam, 
born  about  1683.  3.  Elizabeth,  supposed  to 
have  married  Amos  (or  Andrew)  Fernald,  of 
Portsmouth.  4.  ]\Iary,  married,  July  i,  1708, 
William  Dyer.    5.  Joseph. 

(IV)    W^illiam    (2),   second   son   and   child 


of  Humphrey  (2)  and  Sarah  (Eiolles)  Chad- 
bourne, was  born  about  1683.  and  both  he  and 
his  wife  were  baptized  and  owned  the  cove- 
nant at  South  Berwick,  November  21,  1714. 
His  wife's  baptismal  naine  was  Mary,  but  her 
family  name  is  not  known.  They  had  eleven 
children:  I.  W'illiam,  born  June  30,  1714.  2. 
Humphrey,  June  19,  1716.  3.  Benjamin,  July 
23,  1718,  died  March  16,  1799.  4.  Joseph, 
June  I,  1720,  died  January  15,  1808.  5. 
Thomas,  June,  1723,  died  young.  6.  Thomas, 
July,  1724,  died  young.  7.  Elizabeth,  died 
young.  8.  Sarah,  baptized  June  9,  1728,  mar- 
ried (first)  Ichabod  Smith;  (second)  William 
Ross.  9.  Catherine,  baptized  March  28,  1736, 
died  young.  10.  Elizabeth,  baptized  March  28, 
1736,  died  before  1762.  11.  Thomas,  born 
March  26,  1736-37,  died  March  7,  1810. 

(\^)  Elder  Humphrey  (3),  second  son  and 
child  of  William  and  Mary  Chadbourne,  was 
born  June  19,  1716,  and  died  in  Corinth, 
Maine,  August  11,  1798.  In  1757  he  was 
elected  deacon  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Ber- 
wick and  in  1761  became  one  of  its  elders.  He 
frequently  conducted  religious  worship  and 
was  generally  called  Elder  Chadbourne ;  it  is 
said  that  he  was  ordained  in  the  ministry.  A 
leaf  in  an  old  family  Bible  contains  a  state- 
ment to  the  effect  that  Elder  Chadbourne  was 
owner  of  the  farm  in  Berwick  "lying  on  the 
westerly  side  of  the  main  road  leading  from 
North  Berwick  to  South  Berwick  village, 
known  as  the  "Chick  farm,"  and  that  he  "was 
also  an  elder  and  minister."  He  married  in 
April,  1742,  Phebe  Hobbs,  who  died  in  Wa- 
terboro,  August  6,  1807,  aged  eighty-three 
years,  by  whom  he  had  eleven  children.  Five 
of  his  sons  were  soldiers  of  the  revolution. 
His  children:  i.  Humphrey,  born  May  24, 
1744,  died  March  21,  1792.  2.  Elizabeth.  May 
20,  1746,  married,  February  8,  1764,  Elijah 
Hayes.  3.  Paul,  March  20,  1748,  died  Decem- 
ber 13,  1821.  4.  Simeon,  April  16,  1750,  died 
October  29,  1846.  5.  Silas,  August  8,  1752, 
died  June  15,  1823.  6.  Thomas,  born  1754, 
died  young.  7.  Sarah,  March  10,  1756,  mar- 
ried, September  12,  1776,  Nathaniel  Brackett. 
8.  Rev.  Levi,  April  18,  1758.  9.  Phebe  Hobbs, 
September  13,  1760,  married,  Deceniber  30, 
1778,  Jonathan  Dana  Clark.  10.  Rev.  William, 
January  17,  1763.  II.  James  Hobbs,  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1766,  died  September  12,  1846. 

(VI)  Rev.  William  (3),  son  of  Elder  Hum- 
phrey (3)  and  Phebe  (Hobbs)  Chadbourne, 
was  born  on  the  old  "Chick"  farm  in  Berwick, 
January  17,  1763,  and  died  December  15, 
1863.  He  was  a  Calvinistic  Baptist  minister, 
a  man  of  much  character  and  strength,  and 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


from  1807  to  1817  was  pastor  of  the  Third 
Baptist  Church  of  Berwick  (South  Berwick). 
He  was  one  of  the  five  sons  of  Elder  Chad- 
bourne,  who  served  in  the  American  army 
during  the  war  of  the  revolution.  He  mar- 
ried, February  2,  1786,  Margery,  daughter 
of  Israel  and  ]\Iary  (Lord)  Hodgdon.  She 
was  born  August  4,  1766,  and  died  January 
12,  1823,  having  borne  her  husband  eleven 
children:  i.  Hannah,  born  July  19,  1786, 
married  a  Hodgdon.  2.  Israel,  November  i, 
1788.  3.  Rebecca,  May  16,  1791,  married  a 
Shorey.  4.  William,  July  8,  1793.  5.  Isaac, 
July  24,  1795.  6.  Dorcas,  January  4,  1798, 
married  a  Guptill.  7.  Margery,  February  9, 
1800,  remained  single.  8.  Nancy,  May  13, 
1802,  married  a  Hay.  9.  Zintha  (Cynthia), 
June  2,  1804,  married  a  Tibbetts.  10.  James, 
June  17,  1806,  died  single.  11.  Oliver,  May 
12,  1809,  died  October  30,  1852. 

(VII)  Israel,  eldest  son  and  second  child  of 
Rev.  Williarri  (3)  and  Margery  (Hodgdon) 
Chadbourne,  was  born  on  the  "Chick"  farm  in 
Berwick,  November  i,  1788,  and  died  June  5, 
1865.  From  1831  until  1855  he  lived  in  the 
town  of  Alfred,  and  was  jailer  for  six  years 
and  sheriff  of  York  county  for  twenty  years. 
He  was  a  man  of  considerable  influence  and 
held  the  respect  of  a  large  acquaintance  in 
the  county ;  as  a  public  official  his  character 
was  above  reproach.  He  married,  June  19, 
1810,  Rebecca  Goodwin,  born  October  24, 
1788,  died  November  6,  1883,  and  bore  her 
husband  eight  children:  i.  George,  died  Feb- 
ruary  13,    1863,  married   Nancy  ,  who 

died  October  18,  1861,  and  their  only  daugh- 
ter Ann  died  August  9,  1866.  2.  Benjamin 
Franklin,  born  January  15,  1815.  3.  William 
Goodwin,  April  25,  1818.  4.  Harriet,  Decem- 
ber 20,  1820,  died  after  March  6,  1880,  mar- 
ried Forest  Eaton.  5.  James,  died  December 
25,  1882.  6.  Emeline,  died  November  7,  1882. 
7.  Greenleaf.  8.  Sarah  Jane,  born  April  10, 
1831.  Rebecca  (Goodwin)  Chadbourne,  wife 
of  Israel  Chadbourne,  was  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  James  Goodwin,  who  was  born  August 
16,  1768,  and  married  Lovey  Shinburne,  who 
was  born  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire. 
Their  children  were  :  Rebecca  (Chadbourne), 
Eleanor  (Waldrow),  James,  Olive  (Hart- 
ford), Sally  (never  married),  Statira  (Went- 
worth),  and  Lovey  (never  married).  James 
Goodwin  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Goodwin,  son 
of  James,  son  of  James.  The  Goodwin.s,  like 
the  Chadbournes,  were  among  the  earliest  set- 
tlers in  Maine,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in 
the  early  settlement  and  history  of  the  several 
localities  in  which  thev  lived.     The  old  Good- 


win farm  on  the  Salmon  Falls  river  in  Ber- 
wick continued  in  the  family  for  many  years 
and  descended  from  father  to  son  through  sev- 
eral generations. 

(\III)  Benjamin  Franklin,  son  of  Israel 
and  Rebecca  (Goodwin)  Chadbourne,  was 
born  in  Berwick,  Maine,  January  15,  1815, 
and  died  in  the  city  of  Portland,  February  19, 
1888.  He  obtained  a  good  academic  educa- 
tion, and  after  leaving  school  was  appointed 
deputy  sheriff"  of  York  county  under  his 
father.  Also  for  some  time  he  was  clerk  in 
the  office  of  the  registrar  of  deeds  of  the 
county.  In  1854  he  was  elected  member  of  the 
lower  house  of  the  state  legislature.  For 
many  years  Mr.  XThadbourne  was  proprietor  of 
one  of  the  largest  clothing  and  men's  furnish- 
ing houses  in  the  town  of  Berwick  and  carried 
on  a  very  large  and  correspondingly  success- 
ful business.  However,  immediately  after  the 
end  of  his  term  in  the  legislature  he  removed 
to  Portland  and  formed  a  partnership  with  his 
brother-in-law,  J.  A.  Kendall,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Chadbourne  &  Kendall,  dealers  in 
woolens  and  tailors'  trimmings.  Later  on  he 
erected  a  commodious  store  building  on  Middle 
street,  which  afterward  was  removed  to  make 
room  for  the  First  National  Bank  building. 
After  that  the  firm  occupied  the  ground  floor 
under  the  Falmouth  hotel,  and  still  later  re- 
moved to  No.  229  Middle  street.  At  the  time 
of  Mr.  Chadbourne's  death  the  firm  of  Chad- 
bourne &  Kendall  was  the  oldest  concern  in 
business  without  change  in  the  city.  During 
the  latter  part  of  his  active  business  life  Mr. 
Chadbourne  became  considerably  interested  in 
real  estate  and  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  its 
care  and  improvement,  leaving  his  mercantile 
interests  in  charge  of  his  partner;  and  during 
the  thirty-two  years  he  was  in  business  in 
Portland  he  was  universally  respected  and  his 
death  was  looked  upon  as  a  public  loss.  He 
was  in  all  respects  a  capable  business  man, 
successful  in  his  endeavors,  and  perfectly 
faithful  to  every  trust,  whether  public  or  pri- 
vate. He  represented  ward  4  in  the  common 
council  in  1859-60,  during  the  administrations 
of  ^layors  Jewett  and  Thomas.  In  politics 
Mr.  Chadbourne  was  a  firm  and  consistent 
Democrat,  in  religious  preference  a  Congre- 
gationalist,  and  a  regular  attendant  at  the 
High  Street  Church.  He  was  one  of  the  foun- 
ders of  the  organization  of  which  the  out- 
growth is  the  present  Bramwell  League,  and 
was  also  one  of  the  principal  founders  of  the 
league  itself.  His  nature  was  generous,  his 
companionship  always  agreeable,  and  his  char- 
acter above  suspicion. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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I\Ir.  Cliadbourne  married  in  Alfred,  Maine, 
March  15,  1841,  Lydia  Emerson  Kendall, 
born  Alfred,  February  22,  1820,  died  Port- 
land, i\Iarch  3,  1907,  daughter  of  Nathan  Otis 
and  Elizabeth  (Emerson)  Kendall,  who  were 
parents  of  six  children :  Augustus.  Mary, 
Sarah,  Otis,  Lydia  E.  and  Elizabeth  Kendall. 
Benjamin  Franklin  and  Lydia  Emerson  (Ken- 
dall) Chadbourne  had  three  children:  i. 
Frank  Augustus,  born  December  11,  1845, 
died  January  18.  1854.  2.  Octavia  Augusta, 
born  January  26,  1848,  married  Charles  B. 
Belknap.  3.  Myra  Fairbanks,  born  May  2, 
1854.  married,  August  13,  1874,  John  Stevens 
Al  orris,  who  was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1849,  son  of  John  Chambers  Morris. 
Three  children  were  born  of  this  marriage : 
i.  Franklin  Chadbourne,  born  I\larch  15,  1875, 
married  Ada  Leavens  and  has  one  son.  Rich- 
ard \Mnthrop,  born  April  22,  1895.  ii.  Daniel 
Belknap,  born  July  i,  1877,  married  Helen 
Lois  Brown,  and  has  one  son,  John  Kendall, 
born  February  3,  1904.  iii.  Payson  Tucker, 
born  February  21,  1880,  died  September  7, 
1881. 


The  Harris  family  here  treated 
HARRIS     comes     of     English     ancestors 

and  dates  its  history  in  New 
England  from  the  first  half  of  the  seventeenth 
century.  In  England  the  family  is  of  great 
antiquity  and  among  those  w-ho  bore  that  sur- 
name in  the  mother  country  were  persons  of 
large  estate  and  high  official  and  social  sta- 
tion. In  New  England  the  particular  family 
here  considered  begins  its  history  in  Charles- 
town  in  the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  with 
one  who  has  been  referred  to  as  John  Harris, 
of  Charlestown  and  North  Yarmouth,  and 
who  is  said  by  some  chroniclers  to  have  been 
the  John  Harris  who  married  Amy  Hills. 
This,  however,  is  not  certain,  for  there  were 
two  John  Harrises  in  Charlestown  and  not  of 
the  same  family,  so  far  as  is  known.  The 
John  Harris  who  married  Amy  Hills  appears 
to  have  remained  in  Massachusetts,  and  spent 
his  life  in  Charlestown  and  Newbury,  and 
there  is  no  evidence  that  he  ever  went  to 
Maine,  while  the  John  Harris,  of  Charles- 
town and  North  Yarmouth,  did  remove  to  that 
colony  and  lived  there  for  a  time  at  least.  The 
more  probable  theory  is,  therefore,  that  John 
Harris,  of  Charlestown  and  North  Yarmouth, 
was  a  son  of  Thomas  Harris,  of  Charlestown, 
whose  grandfather  was  John  Harris,  of  Dev- 
onshire, England.  These  premises  are  not 
assumed  as  having  substantial  proof  to  sustain 


them,  but  rather  a  reasonable  and  logical  con- 
clusion arrived  at  after  careful  examination 
of  the  circumstances  connected  with  the  lives 
and  movements  of  the  two  Charlestown  fam- 
ilies, the  head  of  each  of  which  was  John  Har- 
ris and  whose  lives  so  far  as  the  meagre  rec- 
ords show  were  contemporary. 

(I)  John  Harris  lived  in  Ottery,  St.  Mary's, 
Devonshire,  England. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  John  Harris,  of,  Ot- 
tery, was  baptized  there  August  26,  1806. 

(III)  John  (2),  of  Charlestown  and  North 
Yarmouth,  perhaps  a  son  of  Thomas  and 
grandson  of  John  (i)  Harris,  of  Ottery,  Dev- 
onshire, England,  was  founder  of  the  New 
England  family  of  the  Harris  surname  pur- 
posed to  be  treated  in  these  annals.  He  is  the 
John  Harris  who  by  some  reliable  chroniclers 
is  said  to  have  married  Amy  Hills  and  had 
several  children,  among  them  a  son  Joseph, 
the  latter  an  ancestor  in  the  line  of  the  family 
here  under  consideration ;  but  such  claim  is 
not  put  forth  here,  neither  is  it  disputed. 

(IV)  Joseph,  of  Charlestown  and  North 
Yarmouth,  son  of  John  (2)  Harris,  and  per- 
haps a  grandson  of  Thomas  Harris,  and  great- 
grandson  of  John  ( I )  Harris,  of  Ottery,  Dev- 
onshire, England,  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
^Massachusetts,  November  17,  1665,  removed 
to  North  Yarmouth,  Alaine,  lived  there  and 
subsequently  returned  to  Charlestown.  He 
married  Naomi  Stevens,  born  December  16, 
1665,  died  December  16,  1710,  daughter  of 
Amos  Stevens,  of  North  Yarmouth.  They 
had  eight  children  :  i.  Joseph,  born  August  4, 
i68g.  2.  Jonathan,  December  2,  1690.  3. 
Amos,  August  19.  1693,  married,  November 
8,  1722,  Hannah  Laraby  (Larrabee).  4.  Sam- 
uel, August  18,  1695.  married,  January  6, 
1718-19.  Mary  Newcomb.  5.  Naomi,  Septem- 
ber 13,  1697,  married  November  8,  1716,  Wil- 
liam Gowin.  6.  Mary,  December  7,  1699,  mar- 
ried October  16,  1729,  Daniel  Edes.  7.  Jo- 
siah,  January  9,  1701-02,  8.  Huldah,  March 
29,  1704,  married  September  7,  1727,  Samuel 
Edes. 

(V)  Josiah,  son  of  Joseph  and  Naomi 
(Stevens)  Harris,  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  January  9,  1701-02,  and  mar- 
ried, November  28,  1723,  Hannah  King,  born 
January  13,  1704-05,  probably  a  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  and  Hannah  (Manning)  King.  They 
had  six  children:  i.  Josiah,  born  July  31, 
1725,  married  (first)  1747,  Millicent  Esta- 
brook  (second)  Joanna  Abraham.  2.  Wil- 
liam, June  7,  1727,  married,  August  20,  1767, 
Rebecca   Mason.     3.   Hannah,   May  8,   1729, 


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STATE  OF  MAINK. 


married.  February  19,  1754,  Thomas  Larkin.  4. 
Samuel,  Deceniljer  4,  1731.  5.  Ebenezcr.  Au- 
gust, 1734.     6.  Mary,  September,  1738. 

(\T)  Samuel,  son  of  Josiah  and  Hannah 
(King)  Harris,  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
December  4,  1731,  died  in  Boston,  May  25, 
1789,  having  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  the  latter  city.  He  married  (first)  Sarah 
More,  the  mother  of  all  of  his  children ;  mar- 
ried (second)  Widow  Hannah  Parker,  whose 
family  name  was  Call.  She  died  in  October, 
1801.  His  children:  i.  Samuel,  born  1753, 
died  young.  2.  William,  February  26,  1755, 
died  July  3,  1803.  3.  Sarah,  December  22, 
1756,  died  young.  4.  Samuel,  September  13, 
1758,  died  March  8,  1814.  5.  Hannah,  1763. 
6.  Andrew  Burger,  1765.  7.  Sarah,  December 
22,  1766,  married  Samuel  Bowles.  8.  Josiah, 
February  27,  1770. 

(\TI)  Josiah  (2),  .son  and  youngest  child 
of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (More)  Harris,  was 
born  in  Boston,  February  27,  1770,  and  spent 
his  business  life  largely  in  mercantile  pursuits 
in  that  city  and  in  East  Machias,  Maine.  He 
was  a  young  man  of  seventeen  years  when  he 
first  went  to  Maine,  and  there  found  employ- 
ment with  John  Avery,  then  register  of  pro- 
bate for  Washington  county.  He  remained 
there  one  year  engaged  in  recording  legal  doc- 
uments and  performing  such  other  duties  as 
were  required  of  him.  then  in  1788  returned 
to  Boston  and  became  clerk  in  a  mercantile 
house,  but  in  the  following  year  he  went  again 
to  East  Machias  and  there  laid  the  foundation 
of  his  own  later  business  career  as  an  em- 
ployee of  E.  H.  &  N.  J.  Robbins,  of  Boston 
and  Milton,  Massachusetts,  who  were  also  the 
founders  of  the  town  of  Robbinston.  Maine. 
After  a  time  he  acquired  a  partnership  inter- 
est in  the  firm  and  still  later  began  business  on 
his  own  account.  He  was  a  man  of  good  un- 
derstanding, capable,  straightforward  in  his 
business  dealings,  and  for  many  years  occu- 
pied a  standing  of  prominence  in  the  town. 
He  died  June  17,  1845.  His  wife,  whom  he 
married  December  11.  1796,  was  Lucy  Tal- 
bot, born  January  18,  1775,  died  at  East  Ma- 
chias, December  27,  1861,  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Lucy  (Hammond)  Talbot  (see  Talbot, 
IV).  Josiah  and  Lucy  (Talbot)  Harris  had 
nine  children:  i.  John  Fairbanks,  born  Octo- 
ber 18,  1797,  died  September  30,  1877;  mar- 
ried, January  6,  1822,  Drucilla  West  Foster. 
2.  Stephen  Talbot,  September  9,  1800,  died 
January  30.  1879:  married  (first)  Cynthia 
Foster;  (second)  February  i,  1858,  Toanna, 
widow  of  Joel  Chase.  She  died  February  18. 
1897.     3.  George,  March  i8,  1802,  died  April 


15,  1876;  married  (first)  Lucy  Gooch  Chal- 
oner ;  (second)  Alary  Ann  Palmer.  His  son, 
Rev.  George  Harris,  D.D.,  is  an  eminent  di- 
vine, at  one  time  professor  of  theology  at 
Andover  Seminary,  occasional  preacher  at 
Harvard  University  and  at  present  the  presi- 
dent of  Amherst  College.  4.  Lucy  Talbot, 
December  2,  1803,  died  August  4,  1805.  5. 
Sarah  Bowles.  July  25,  1805,  died  unmarried 
January  21,  1879.  6.  Lucy  Talbot,  June  4, 
1807,  died  March  24,  1895;  married  Jeremiah 
Foster.     7.  Peter  Talbot,  September  12,  1808. 

8.  Betsey  Talbot,  July  24,  1810  (or  1811),  died 
August  19,  1834;  married  in  1832  Hiram  Hill. 

9.  Samuel,  June  14,  1814,  died  June  25,  1899; 
married  (  first )  Deborah  Robbins  Dickinson  ; 
(second)  October  11,  1877,  Mrs.  Alary  Sher- 
man (Skinner)  Fitch.  He  was  Rev.  Dr.  Sam- 
uel Plarris,  eminent  theologian  and  distin- 
guished educator ;  professor  in  Bangor  The- 
ological Seminary,  president  of  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, and  professor  in  Yale  Theological  Sem- 
inary. 

(\  IH)  Peter  Talbot,  son  of  Josiah  (2)  and 
Lucy  (Talbot)  Harris,  was  born  in  East 
Machias,  Maine,  September  12,  1808,  and  died 
October  4,  1855.  He  was  a  successful  mer- 
chant and  a  man  of  large  influence  in  the  town. 
He  took  a  prominent  part  in  public  afifairs, 
served  in  various  important  local  capacities 
and  was  representative  from  East  Machias  to 
the  state  legislature.  He  married,  August  25, 
1835,  Deborah  Longfellow,  born  Machias, 
December  z"],  1809,  died  in  East  Machias, 
September  22,  1893,  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Tahpenes  (Longfellow)  Longfellow  and  of  the 
same  family  from  which  came  the  poet  Long- 
fellow. Peter  Talbot  and  Deborah  (Longfel- 
low) Harris  had  three  children:  i.  Edgar, 
born  1836,  died  August  15,  1851.  2.  Austin, 
July  10,  1841.    3.  Herbert,  December  17,  1846. 

(IX)  Austin,  son  of  Peter  Talbot  and  De- 
borah (Longfellow)  Harris,  was  born  in  East 
Machias,  Maine,  July  10,  1841,  and  died  there 
January  7,  1899.  He  was  a  man  of  extensive 
influence  in  the  state,  was  devoted  to  the  best 
interests  of  native  town  and  was  highly  re- 
spected by  all  who  came  in  contact  with  him. 
His  early  education  was  received  at  Washing- 
ton Academy,  and  his  later  at  Amherst  Col- 
lege, where  he  graduated  in  1863.  He  then 
entered  upon  a  mercantile  business  in  East 
Machias,  but  after  a  few  years  forsook  this 
for  the  lumber  business  in  Charlemagne,  Can- 
ada, where  he  resided  from  1872  until  1877. 
Later  he  engaged  in  extensive  lumber  and 
mercantile  enterprises  in  East  Machias,  where 
he  was  managing  partner  of  the  firms  of  Pope, 


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Harris  &  Company  and  J.  ().  Pope  &  Com- 
pany until  his  death,  the  demand  for  his 
"services  in  pubHc  office  was  greater  than  he 
was  able  to  grant ;  but  he  had  served  the  state 
as  representative,  senator  and  member  of  the 
Republican  state  committee,  and  was  treasurer 
of  Washington  county  and  treasurer  and  ex- 
ecutive officer  of  Washington  Academy  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  In  his  ,\oung  manhood  he 
was  active  in  Free  Masonry,  and  held  office 
in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine.  He  was  a 
member  of  Warren  Lodge,  No.  2,  and  a  char- 
ter member  of  Washington  and  Warren  Royal 
Arch  Chapter.  He  married,  December  15. 
1868,  Emily  Frances  Pope,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Warren  and  Betsey  Jones  (Talbot)  Pope, 
who  survives  him.  They  had  six  children :  i. 
Florence,  born  August  14,  1869,  married  Al- 
bion W.  Hobson,  December  25.  1896.  2.  Edna 
Pope,  June  17,  1871,  died  in  infancy.  3.  Ma- 
bel, March  11,  1875,  married,  June  28,  1906, 
Stanwood  Merton  Rose.  4.  Samuel  Pope, 
February  3,  1878,  died  June  27,  1908.  5. 
Philip  Talbot,  Februarv  10.  188 1.  6.  Emilv, 
May  2,  1882. 

(IX)  Herbert,  son  of  Peter  Talbot  and  De- 
borah (Longfellow-)  Harris,  was  born  in  East 
Machias,  Maine,  December  17,  1846,  and  is 
vvidelv  known  in  musical  circles  throughout 
New  England,  an  organist  and  teacher  of 
music  of  superior  ability.  His  elementary  edu- 
cation was  acquired  in  public  schools,  his  sec- 
ondary education  at  Washington  Academy, 
and  his  higher  education  at  Bowdoin  College, 
where  he  entered  in  1868  for  the  classical 
course,  and  graduated  A.B.  in  1872;  A.AI. 
in  course,  1875.  After  leaving  college  he  took 
up  the  study  of  music  in  Boston,  and  having 
attained  the  degree  of  proficiency  to  which  he 
aspired  has  since  devoted  his  attention  to 
teaching,  and  with  most  gratifying  success. 
As  an  organist  he  ranks  with  the  best  per- 
formers in  New^  England,  and  as  such  has 
officiated  in  both  Boston  and  Portland 
churches,  besides  having  taught  music  in  each 
of  those  cities.  Mr.  Harris  also  is  very  well 
known  in  social  and  fraternal  circles,  espe- 
cially in  Free  Masonry,  he  having  been  made 
a  thirty-third  degree  Mason  in  1891.  He 
holds  membership  in  Warren  Lodge,  No.  2. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  of  East  Machias,  the  second 
lodge  instituted  in  this  state,  and  is  a  charter 
member  of  Warren  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  St. 
Elmo  Commandery,  K.  T.,  Delta  Lodge  of 
Perfection  and  Deering  Chapter,  Princes  of 
Jerusalem,  A.  A.  S.  R.  He  is  past  senior 
grand  warden  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine, 
F.  and  A.  M.,  past  grand  king  of  the  Grand 


Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  past  commander  of  the 
Grand  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Maine,  and 
has  been  grand  organist  of  the  Supreme  Coun- 
cil, Northern  Masonic  Jurisdiction,  A.  A.  S. 
R.  He  is  an  occasional  contributor  to  the 
various  periodicals  of  the  craft  and  also  to  the 
general  literature  of  the  order :  and  at  the 
present  time  he  is  foreign  correspondent  of 
the  Grand  Chapter  of  Royal  Arch  Masons. 
He  is  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  member  of  the  Maine 
Genealogical  Society  and  the  IMaine  Historical 
Society.  The  recently  published  "Genealogy 
of  the  Harris  Family  of  Machias,  Maine"  is 
his  work  and  the  result  of  his  exhaustive  re- 
searches in  the  boundless  field  of  genealogy. 


In  A.  D.  1035  Hugh  Talebot 
T.\LBOT  granted  a  charter  to  Trinite  du 
Mont,  Rouen.  Normandy,  and 
A.D.  1066  le  Sire  Talebot,  a  Xornian  knight, 
went  into  England  with  William  the  Con- 
queror, and  fought  under  him  at  Hastings ; 
his  name  is  on  the  roll  of  Battle  Abbey.  There 
were  peers  among  the  English  Talbots,  and 
nobles,  gentlemen,  scholars,  and  men  famed  in 
the  wars.  In  1442  John  Talbot  was  created 
first  Earl  of  Shrewsbury.  This  earldom  was 
actually  patented  to  Talbot  as  Earl  of  Salap, 
but  both  he  and  his  descendants  called  them- 
selves Earls  of  Shrewsbury.  The  living  rep- 
resentative of  the  Shrewsburys  is  Major  Gen- 
eral Honorable  Sir  Reginald  Arthur  John 
Talbot,  son  of  the  eighteenth  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury. He  is  the  governor  of  Mctoria,  Aus- 
tralia, and  forght  in  the  war  with  the  Zulus. 
Among  the  more  distinguished  American  Tal- 
bots there  may  be  mentioned  the  name  of  Cap- 
tain Silas  Taibot,  L'.  S.  N.,  Governor  Talbot, 
of  Massachusetts,  and  Bishop  Ethelbert  Tal- 
bot, of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church  in 
Pennsylvania.  Generally  the  Talbots  both  of 
the  mother  country  and  America  run  to  the 
learned  professions,  the  arts  and  the  sciences. 
(I)  Peter  Talbot,  immigrant,  son  of  George 
Talbot,  was  born  in  Blackburn,  England,  and 
came  to  America  under  duress,  from  Carr, 
Lancashire,  England.  While  at  school  in 
Edinburgh  he  was  taken  with  others  and  im- 
pressed on  board  a  British  man  of  war  bound 
for  America,  and  when  off  the  coast  of  New 
England  he  sprang  overboard  and  swam 
ashore  at  some  place  in  Rhode  Island.  He 
then  made  his  way  to  Dorchester  and  went  to 
work  to  earn  money  sufficient  to  pay  his 
passage  back  to  England,  but  the  vessel  sailed 
without  him.  From  Dorchester  he  went  to 
Chelmsford,  married  there  and,  according  to 
the  tradition,  afterward  made  another  attempt 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


ro  return  to  tlie  mother  country,  and  being  de- 
feated he  iletermincd  to  remain  in  New  Eng- 
land. He  raised  a  family,  and  while  living 
in  Chelmsford  his  home  was  attacked  by  In- 
dians, his  wife  made  prisoner  and  her  infant 
child  was  killed.  The  other  children  con- 
cealed themselves  and  thus  escaped  capture, 
although  the  eldest  son  v^'as  killed  while  fight- 
ing the  savages.  The  wife  was  afterward  re- 
captured and  afterward  the  family  settled  in 
that  part  of  Dorchester  which  now  is  Stough- 
ton.  Peter  Talbot  died  about  1704.  He  mar- 
ried, January  12,  1677,  Mary  Waddell,  who 
died  August  29,  1687,  and  he  afterward  mar- 
ried for  his  second  wife,  Hannah  (Clarke) 
Frizzell,  widow  of  William  Frizzell  and  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Margery  Clarke.  He  had 
seven  children,  four  by  his  first  and  three  by 
his  second  wife:  i.  Edward,  born  ]March  31, 
1679.  2.  Dorothy,  February  20,  1680,  mar- 
ried, about  1703,  James  Cutting,  of  Water- 
town.  3.  May  (or  Mary),  January  15,  1682. 
4.  Peter,  June  i,  1684.  5.  George,  December 
28,  1688.  6.  Sarah.  7.  Elizabeth,  married, 
November  2"],  1713,  Eleazer  Pufifer. 

(II)  George,  son  of  Peter  and  Hannah 
(Clarke-Frizzell)  Talbot,  was  born  December 
28,  1688.  and  died  July  31,  1760.  He  was  a 
husbandman  and  lived  in  that  part  of  Dor- 
chester which  became  Stoughton,  on  lands 
which  have  remained  in  possession  of  his  de- 
scendants to  the  present  time.  On  April  4, 
1714,  he  was  admitted  to  communion  in  the 
church  in  Milton,  and  November  12,  1717, 
"Bro.  Talbot  and  wife,"  with  others,  "had 
their  dismissal  to  ye  church  in  Dorchester  New 
Village."  He  married  (first)  February  18, 
1706-07,  in  Milton,  Mary  Turell,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Anna  (Barrell)  Turell;  and  mar- 
ried (second),  July  27,  1737,  Elizabeth  With- 
ington,  who  died  April  30,  1774,  aged  seventy- 
four  years.  George  Talbot  had  nine  children, 
all  born  in  Stoughton  and  baptized  in  Milton: 
I.  Mary,  March  24,  1708.  2.  Daniel,  March 
9,  1709-10,  married,  1734,  Martha  Stearns,  of 
Lexington.  3.  Hannah,  May  i,  1712.  4. 
George,  October  24,  1714,  removed  to  Free- 
port,  Maine.  5.  Peter,  1717.  6.  Sarah,  Au- 
gust 23,  1719.  7.  Jerusha,  October  6,  1721, 
married,  November  20,  1746,  Jonathan  Capen 
Jr.,  of  Dorchester,  and  removed  to  Stoughton. 
8.  Ebenezer,  December  24,  1723.  9.  Experi- 
ence, February  20,  1725. 

(III)  Peter  (2),  son  of  George  and  Mary 
(Turell)  Talbot,  was  born  in  Stoughton  and 
baptized  in  Milton,  March  3,  1717,  died  Octo- 
ber 13,  1793.  He  married  (first)  December 
5,  1744,  Abigail  Wheeler,  who  died  November 


3,  1750;  married  (second)  January  8,  1752, 
Mary  Bailey,  who  died  ]\Jay  17,  1782;  and 
married  (third)  Rebecca,  widow-  of  Samuel 
Dickernian,  and  whose  family  name  was  Brent. 
Peter  Talbot  had  six  children,  three  by  his 
first  and  three  by  his  second  wife:  i.  Peter 
Jr.,  born  November  17  (one  account  says  No- 
vember 6),  1745.  2.  Captain  Samuel,  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1747,  died  November  29,  1821  ;  mar- 
ried,  September  5,   1769,  ^lary  ,  died 

November  20,  1821.  3.  Abigail,  married 
Ebenezer  Paul,  of  Dedham,  Massachusetts.  4. 
Jabez,  April  20,  1753.  died  December  8,  1816; 
married,  November  22,  1784,  Susannah  Guild, 
died  March  29,  1790.  5.  Richard,  married 
and  had  children.  6.  Anna,  1763,  died  Jan- 
uary 24,  1778. 

(lY)  Peter  (3),  son  of  Peter  (2)  and  Abi- 
gail (Wheeler)  Talbot,  was  born  in  Stough- 
ton, Massachusetts,  November  17,  1745,  and 
spent  the  greater  part  of  his  active  life  in 
Maine,  where  he  died,  at  East  Machias,  April 
28,  1836.  He  came  to  Maine  in  1771  and  for 
many  years  was  one  of  the  most  influential 
men  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  state ;  a  man  of 
large  stature,  muscular,  and  of  corresponding 
mental  strength.  In  business  life  he  was  en- 
ergetic and  thrifty,  and  hence  was  successful. 
He  fulfilled  the  duties  of  various  town  offices, 
and  when  representative  to  the  general  court 
of  Massachusetts  it  was  his  custom  to  ride  on 
horseback  from  Machias  to  Boston  to  attend 
the  sessions  of  that  body.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  nearly  ninety-one  years  old.  He 
married,  June  4,  1771,  Lucy  Hammond,  of 
Brookline,  Massachusetts,  born  July  25,  1752, 
died  East  Machias,  June  10,  183 1,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Lucy  (Jones)  Hammond,  of 
Brookline.  They  had  seven  children,  all  born 
in  Machias:  i.  Apphia,  April  6,  1772,  mar- 
ried, 1790,  Abijah  Foster.  2.  Lucy,  January 
18,  1775,  married  Josiah  Harris  (see  Harris, 
VII).  3.  Stephen,  February  7,  1781,  died  un- 
married April  29,  181 1.  4.  Peter,  jMarch  29, 
1783,  married  twice.  5.  John  Coffin,  October 
13,  1784,  married  Mary  Foster.  6.  Micah 
Jones.  May  18,  1787,  married  Betsey  Rich. 
7.  Sally  Jones,  February  24,  1792,  died  No- 
vember 29,  1856,  married  Caleb  Gary,  who 
died  December  30.  1848. 


It  would  be  an  interesting 
MILDON  study  to  review  the  influences 
upon  our  industrial  develop- 
ment of  Nova  Scotia  emigration  to  the  New 
England  states.  They  are  among  the  highest 
type  of  manhood  infused  into  our  composite 
citizenship    from    foreign    lands.      They   have 


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1355 


not  refused  to  t?ke  a  hand  in  civic  affairs  and 
their  official  rer  '  stands  to  their  credit  as 
faithful  and  de^  •  ving  public  servants. 

(I)  Thomas  .dildon  was  born  in  Devon- 
shire. England,  March  5,  1810.  and  died  Sep- 
tember 13.  i'jo6.  at  Weymouth,  Xova  Scotia. 
He  came  from  England  to  Weymouth  in  1845 
and  -.v-  -  a  school  teacher.  He  married  Susan 
Mar\  ivis,  of  Somersetshire,  England,  born 
Nover  -■  28,  1826.  died  November  28,  1906, 
her  f  .tleth  birthday.  She  was  a  relative 
of  S:r  Robert  Sale  of  England,  who  distin- 
g"'  ed  himself  in  the  Crimean  war.  Chil- 
I        :      Walter    Brind,    Elizabeth,    Frederick 

oert  Sales,  who  was  mayor  of  Marlboro, 
.vlassachusetts ;  Thomas  C.  and  William  S. 
(twins),  and  Maria.  Up  to  the  time  Thomas 
was  ninety-six  he  had  lost  none  of  his  seven 
children,  none  of  his  nine  grandchildren  nor  of 
his  five  great-grandchildren. 

(II)  The  Hon.  William  Shaw,  third  and 
twin  son  of  Thomas  and  Susan  Mary  (Davis) 
iMildon,  was  born  in  ^^'eymouth,  Xova  Sco- 
tia, March  16,  1855.  The  Weymouth  schools 
supplied  his  tutorage,  and  he  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  some  time  before  coming  to 
Eastport,  Maine,  in  1881,  where  he  established 
a  department  store  which  he  still  conducts, 
and  there  gained  friends,  trade  and  with  these 
official  preferment.  He  was  alderman  of  his 
adopted  city  in  1898.  overseer  of  the  poor  in 
1899,  mayor  in  1904.  His  recognized  fitness 
for  this  office  was  conceded  by  his  political 
opponents  and  he  was  courageous  and  ener- 
getic in  the  performance  of  his  duties  and 
prompt  to  push  to  completion  measures  of 
public  utility  needed  by  the  exigencies  of  the 
times.  Mayor  Mildon  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trade,  of  Eastern  Lodge,  Xo.  7,  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  which  he 
was  past  worshipful  master,  of  Royal  Arch 
Chapter,  of  which  he  is  past  high  priest :  of 
.St.  Bernard  Commandery,  Knights  Templar ; 
of  Border  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows;  Moose  Island  Encampment,  Patri- 
archs Militant  Odd  Fellows;  and  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
I\Iayor  IMildon  worships  at  the  Episcopal 
church.  He  married,  April  2,  188,^,  Sabina, 
daughter  of  Xathaniel  and  Ellen  (Churchill) 
Travis,  of  Kentville,  Xova  Scotia. 


William  Dodge,  eldest  son  of 
DODGE     John    and    Margery    Dodge,    of 

Somersetshire,  England,  came  to 
Salem,  ^Massachusetts,  in  1629,  in  the  "Lion's 
\Mielp,"  sailing  from  Yarmouth,  England, 
^la}-  1 1,  and  landing  at  Salem  on  June  29.    He 


was  described  as  a  skillful  and  painstaking 
husbandman,  and  was  recommended  to  be  pro- 
vided with  a  team  of  horses,  and  especially 
commended  to  the  care  of  Governor  Endicott 
by  Rev.  John  White,  in  a  letter  to  the  gov- 
ernor, sent  with  "forty  plates  for  Dorchester 
and  places  adjacent,  many  mariners,  species 
of  ordnance,  provisions,  and  four  goats,"  as 
the  cargo  of  the  ship,  consigned  to  the  gov- 
ernor. William  Dodge  settled  in  that  part  of 
Salem  which  became  Beverly  in  1668,  then 
known  as  Bass  River  Side,  separated  by  the 
bay  from  Salem  proper.  He  possibly  returned 
to  England  to  be  married.  He  became  free- 
man April  17,  1637;  received  a  grant  of  sixty 
acres  September  3,  1637;  o"  J""^  29,  1644, 
bought  two  hundred  acres,  pa\ing  forty 
poimds,  "late  the  property  of  Peter  Palfrey," 
granted  to  Palfrey  at  the  time  John  Balch, 
William  Frost,  John  Woodberry  and  Richard 
Conant  each  received  two  hundred  acres,  a 
part  of  the  Old  Planters'  tract,  granted  by  the 
town  to  these  immigrant  settlers,  January  25, 
1635.  William  Dodge  came  to  America  nine 
years  earlier  than  his  brother  Richard,  over 
whom  he  thus  gained  prominence,  being  gen- 
erally recognized  as  the  ancestor  of  all  the 
Dodges  in  America.  However,  the  records 
show  that  the  descendants  of  Richard  are  more 
numerous.  William  was  probably  twenty-five 
years  old  when  he  landed  at  Salem,  and  Rich- 
ard was  probably  two  years  his  senior ;  a  sec- 
ond brother,  Alichael,  lived  and  died  in  East 
Coker.  Their  parents  were  John  and  IMargery 
Dodge.  The  name  of  William  Dodge's  wife 
is  not  known.  His  father,  when  William  re- 
turned to  England  to  gain  his  consent  that  he 
should  make  a  permanent  home  in  America, 
imposed  the  condition  that  he  should  marry, 
and  he  would  make  him  a  present.  But  one 
deed  made  in  William's  lifetime  gives  the 
name  of  a  wife — "Mary,  wife  of  Captain  Wil- 
liam ;"  she  was  a  Conant  when  she  married, 
and  was  widow  of  John  Balch.  William  Dodge 
was  selectman,  grand  juryman,  trial  juryman, 
and  served  the  town  in  various  ways.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Captain  John,  see  forward.  2.  Cap- 
tain William,  born  September  19,  1640,  died 
]\Iarch.  1720.  3.  Hannah,  1642.  married  Sam- 
uel Proctor,  who  died  1660;  (second)  Thomas 
Woodberry,  December,  1661.  Israel  Dodge, 
killed  in  the  Xarragansett  war,  1675,  may 
have  been  another  son. 

(II)  John,  son  of  William  Dodge,  was  born 
probably  in  Salem,  1636.  \\'hen  he  came  to 
manhood  he  settled  in  the  Beverly  section, 
later  annexed  to  the  town  of  Wenham,  and 
here  built  a  saw  and  probably  grist  mill  on 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Mill  river,  in  Wenham  Neck;  the  mill  was  yet 
in  use  in  1872.  He  received  of  his  father's 
estate  about  eighty  acres  about  the  mill,  and 
five  acres  of  meadow  on  the  same  side  of 
Langham  Bank.  He  was  mentioned  in  the 
will  of  his  grandfather,  John  Dodge,  who  died 
in  England,  1635.  John  Dodge  (2)  was  an 
important  man  in  Beverly,  and  held  every 
town  office  requiring  intelligence  and  business 
ability,  between  1667  and  1702;  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court,  1676-78-79-80-81-83; 
was  cornet,  or  standard  bearer,  and  afterward 
lieutenant,  of  the  Wenham  militia  company, 
with  which  he  served  in  the  Narragansett  war, 
1675.  He  married,  April  10,  1659,  Sarah 
Proctor,  who  died  February  8,  1705-06,  aged 
sixty  years;  he  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
widow  of  John  Woodberry.  John  Dodge  died 
171 1,  and  his  widow  1726,  aged  ninety-four 
years.  Children:  John,  William,  Sarah, 
Hannah,  Hannah,  Martha  and  Jonathan. 

(HI)  Jonathan,  youngest  child  of  Lieuten- 
ant John  and  Sarah  Dodge,  was  born  between 
1675  and  1680.  He  lived  in  Salem  and  Bev- 
erly Cove,  was  a  man  of  considerable  means, 
and  when  he  died  his  estate  inventoried  £1,822 
5s.  He  married  (first)  December  17,  1701- 
02,  Elizabeth  Goodhue; (second)  May  15,  1705. 
Jerusha  Raymond,  widow.  Children,  by  first 
wife:  Francis,  born  March,  1703,  married, 
Februarv  19,  1729,  Sarah  Dodge;  by  second 
wife:  Jonathan,  see  forward;  Peter;  Hannah, 
married  Deacon  Joshua  Dodge. 

(IV)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
and  Jerusha  Dodge,  was  baptized  at  Beverly, 
September  3,  1721.  He  was  a  weaver,  sold 
out  his  business  in  1747,  removed  to  Ipswich, 
where  he  resided  twenty-five  years,  then  re- 
turned to  Beverly,  where  he  lived  from  1772 
to  1788,  and  died  between  1788  and  1792.  He 
married,  April  13.  1743,  Deborah,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Benjamin  Balch.  Children :  Cor- 
nelius, Benjamin  Balch,  Mial  Balch,  Benjamin 
Balch  and  Abner. 

(V)  Abner,  youngest  child  of  Jonathan 
(2)  and  Deborah  (Balch)  Dodge,  was  born 
in  Beverly,  March  27.  1755,  died  January  28, 
1839;  married  (first)  October  16,  1777. 
Eleanor  Dodge,  of  Beverly,  died  July  24, 
1780;  married  (second)  October  25,  1781. 
Elizabeth  Sears,  who  lived  to  the  age  of 
ninety-two  years,  and  is  said  to  have  drawn  a 
pension  of  ninety-six  dollars  a  year  to  the  time 
of  her  death  for  services  of  her  husband  in 
the  revolutionary  war.  Abner  Dodge  was  a 
mason  in  Beverly,  and  a  landowner ;  he  sold 
to  Isaac  Woodberry,  carpenter  in  Ipswich,  ten 
acres  in  Beverly,  Septernber  11,  1792,  sale  in- 


cluding his  house  and  barn,  consideration 
£210;  same  day  he  sold  to  William  Sears, 
cooper,  of  Beverly,  half  of  a  ten  acre  lot  in 
Wenham,  and  house  on  Prison  lane,  Salem; 
also  to  Isaac  Woodberry  one  pew  on  main 
aisle  of  Upper  Parish  meeting  house,  Septem- 
ber 12,  1792,  for  £20;  and  his  interest  in  es- 
tate of  his  "honored  mother,  Deborah  Dodge, 
deceased,"  to  William  Sears,  for  £80.  This 
was  preparatory  to  removing  to  the  wilds  of 
Alaine,  where  he  located  at  Bridgton,  then  in 
the  wilderness,  where  he  carved  a  farm  out 
of  tlie  woods,  and  cultivated  a  productive 
farm  until  his  death.  By  his  second  wife  he 
had  six  children,  born  in  Beverly,  Alassachu- 
setts,  and  the  foUowipg  born  in  Bridgton. 
I\Iaine:  i.  Benjamin.  2.  Job,  June  7,  1795, 
died  April  27,  1864.  3.  George.  4.  Char- 
lotte. 

(VI)  Caleb  Abner,  son  of  Abner  and  Eliza- 
beth (Sears)  Dodge,  was  born  in  Beverly, 
Massachusetts,  and  in  1792  went  with  his 
father  and  family  to  Bridgton,  Maine,  where 
father  and  son  became  early  settlers  in  Cum- 
berland county,  then  a  wilderness.  In  1816 
he  removed  to  Burnham,  Waldo  county,  where 
he  was  a  farmer,  lumberman,  served  as  town 
collector,  and  died  in  1820.  He  married  a 
Perley. 

(VII)  John  Perley,  son  of  Caleb  Abner 
Dodge,  was  born  in  Bridgton,  Maine,  1810, 
died  in  Benton,  Maine,  1878.  He  was  six 
years  old  when  his  father  removed  the  family 
to  Burnham,  and  he  was  there  brought  up, 
acquiring  a  full  knowledge  of  farming  and 
lumbering.  In  1833  he  removed  to  Clinton, 
Kennebec  county,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  calling  named.  He  married,  1837,  Ro- 
sanna  Richardson,  a  native  of  that  part  of 
Clinton  now  Benton;  she  was  born  in  1810, 
in  Clinton,  daughter  of  William  and  Hannah 
(Wilson)  Richardson;  her  father  was  ensign 
in  the  war  of  1812,  was  of  the  sixth  genera- 
tion from  Thomas  Richardson,  one  of  the 
earliest  settlers  of  Woburn,  Massachusetts. 
She  died  in  1867,  in  Benton,  ]\Iaine,  and  Mr. 
Dodge  married  (second)  1871,  Mrs.  Sarah 
Libby,  of  Unity,  Maine.  Children  of  Mr. 
Dodge,  by  first  marriage,  born  in  Benton, 
Maine:  i.  Howard  Winslow.  2.  Hobart 
Richardson.  3.  John  Orin.  4.  Lottie  Louise, 
married  George  W.  Plaisted,  of  Everett, 
Massachusetts.  Hobart  R.  and  John  O. 
Dodge  became  lumbermen  in  Pennsylvania, 
and  both  served  in  the  civil  war. 

(\TII)  Hon.  Howard  Winslow,  eldest  child 
of  John  Perley  and  Rosanna  (Richardson) 
Dodge,  was  born  in  Benton,  Maine,  Februarv 


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i6,  1838.    He  was  reared  on  the  parental  farm, 
and  educated  at  the  pubHc  schools  and  Sebas- 
ticook  Academy.    As  a  young  man  he  engaged 
in  lumbering,  at  times  in  business  for  himself, 
at  other   times  for  others,   or   with   partners. 
From   1867  to  1870  he  was  in  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,   in   the   employ   of   William   E. 
Dodge   &   Company,   of   New   York,  in  their 
extensive  lumber  plant  at  that  place.     For  a 
time  he  was  engaged  in  buying  sheep  in  Can- 
ada,  for  the   Brighton    (Massachusetts)    and 
the  Maine  markets.     In   1871   he  engaged  in 
a  mercantile  business  in  Clinton,  Maine,  which 
he  conducted  successfully  for  a  period  of  thir- 
ty-two years,  having  various  partners — in  the 
firm  of  Hunter  &  Dodge,  later  with  Dodge  & 
Jaquith,    for    twenty    years;    and    still    later 
Dodge  &  Cain.     In  connection  with  his  gen- 
eral  mercantile   business   he   was   engaged   in 
shipping   produce.      His    business    career    has 
been  one  of  marked  success,  testifying  at  once 
to  his  ability,  integrity  and  enterprise,  and  he 
has  ever  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
his    fellow   citizens.      He   has   been   entrusted 
with  the  settlement  of  large  estates  from  time 
to   time,    and   his    continuous    employment    in 
various  positions  of  trust  has  furnished  addi- 
tional evidence  of  the  estimation  in  which  he 
is   held.     He   has   served   as  a   notary  public 
since   1883;  has   served  as  town   clerk,   mod- 
erator,   treasurer,    for   eight   years    as   select- 
man  of   Clinton,   and   formerly   selectman   of 
Benton.     He  was  three  times  the  unsuccessful 
candidate    for   state   senator,   county   commis- 
sioner and  high  sheriff,  his  party  being  in  a 
hopeless   minority,   and   he   a   staunch   Demo- 
crat.    In   1885  he  witnessed  the  inauguration 
of   President  Cleveland — the  first  Democratic 
president   since  he  came  of  voting  age.     He 
has  been  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the  Brown 
Memorial  Library  since  its  establishment;  was 
one   of   the   organizers   and   a   trustee  of   the 
Waterville  (Maine)  Trust  Company;  and  was 
a  trustee  of  the  Nobleboro  Camp  Meeting  As- 
sociation.    He  has  been  vice-president  of  the 
Clinton  Board  of  Trade,  and  also  of  the  State 
Board  of  Trade.    He  was  made  a  Mason  Feb- 
ruary 2.  1864,  in  Star  of  the  West  Lodge,  of 
Lenity,    Maine ;   was    demitted   to    Sebasticook 
Lodge  in   1872:  took  the  Royal  Arch  degree 
in  1870.  in  Dunlap  Chapter,  at  China,  Maine; 
was  knighted  in  De   ^lolay  Commandery,  at 
Skowhegan,  Maine,  in  1872;  and  was  a  char- 
ter   member    of    St.    Omer    Commanderv.    at 
Waterville,   Maine.     In    1867   Mr.   Dodge  be- 
came connected  with  the  Good  Templars,  and 
has  been  constantly  active  and  prominent  in 
advancing  the  cause  of  temperance  and  total 


abstinence,  and  has  served  as  worthy  chief 
templar  of  Kennebec  county,  and  state  deputy 
of  the  grand  lodge. 

IMr.  Dodge  married,  December  5,  1885,  Cora 
Ada,    born    in    Clinton,    Maine,    January    26, 
1856,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Olive  (Berry) 
Jaquith.     Her  father  was  born  in  Bloomfield, 
Maine,  now  a  part  of  Skowhegan,  July  3,  183 1, 
son    of   David    and    Sally    (Young)    Jaquith. 
David  Jaquith  was  a  son  of  Andrew,  who  came 
from    Massachusetts    to    Maine    among    the 
pioneers,  served  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  of 
revolutionary  descent.    Sally  Young  was  born 
^in  Madison,  Maine.    Olive  Berry  was  a  daugh- 
'ter  of  Eben  Berry.     Children  of  Howard  Xv. 
and  Cora  Ada  (Jaquith)   Dodge:     i.  Charles 
Everett,  born   September   30,    1886,   graduate 
of    Maine    Wesleyan    Seminary,    Kent's    Hill, 
and  a  teacher  by  profession.     2.  Lottie  Myra, 
August  6,  1887,  graduate  of  Coburn  Classical 
Institute,  Waterville;  married,  August  6,  1907, 
George  N.  Wakely,  of  Clinton.    3.  Alice  Olive, 
December    21,     1888,    graduate    of    Coburn 
Classical  Institute.     Mr.  Dodge  and  family  at- 
tend the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  in  which 
he  has  long  been  a  working  member  and  offi- 
cer,   and    his    benefactions    to    religious    and 
benevolent  organizations  have  been  liberal  and 
continuous.     He  was  made  a  lay  delegate  to 
the  East  Maine  Conference  in  May,  1908.    On 
January  5,  same  year,  at  the  one  hundred  and 
si.xth  anniversary  of  Brown  Memorial  Metho- 
dist   Episcopal    church,    Mr.    Dodge    was    se- 
lected to  deliver  the  historical  address,  and  he 
presented  'a    carefully    prepared    and    perma- 
nently valuable  history  of  that  body,  his  effort 
being  most  favorably  commented  upon  by  the 
press  throughout  the  country.    Mr.  Dodge  and 
wife  are  both  active  members  of  the  Grange, 
and  he  is  press  correspondent. 


The  name  Pitman  is  said  to  be 
PITMAN     derived    from   residence   in   the 

neighborhood  of  a  pit,  and  the 
patronymic  is  found  among  very  early  Eng- 
lish records.  Johannes  Piteman  is  mentioned 
in  the  Hundred  Rolls,  1273.  A  family  of  Pit- 
man has  been  seated  at  Dunchideockhouse, 
county  Devon,  for  several  generations,  and  is 
recorded  in  the  parish  registers  from  the  vear 
1552.  Geoffrey  Pitman  was  sherifl  of  Suffolk 
county  hi  1625,  and  Pitman  is  also  found  in 
Yorkshire  pedigrees.  There  are  at  least  two 
entirely  distinct  coats-of-arms  in  England, 
showing  that  the  different  families  must"  have 
had  a  separate  origin.  In  New  England  we 
find  seven  early  settlers  of  the  name  "scattered 
among  the  different  states.     Thomas  Pitman, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


born  in  1614,  settled  at  i\Iarblehead.  Massa- 
chusetts; and  Mark,  born  in  1622,  settled  in 
the  same  place.  William  Pitman,  born  in 
1632,  made  his  home  at  Oyster  River,  now 
Durham.  New  Hampshire.  Nathaniel  Pitman 
settled  at  Salem.  Massachusetts,  in  1639,  J°" 
seph,  at  Charlestown  in  the  same  state  in  1658; 
and  Jonathan  at  Stratford,  Connecticut,  in 
1 68 1.  Perhaps  the  most  romance  gathers 
about  Henry  I'itman,  who  about  1666  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  at  Nassau,  New  Provi- 
dence, one  of  the  Bahama  Islands.  He  built 
a  house,  planted  fruit-trees,  and  made  great 
improvements,  dwelling  there  about  fifteen 
years.  He  died  about  the  time  of  the  fishing 
for  the  Plate  wreck,  when  Sir  William  Phipps 
was  trying  to  recover  the  treasure  wrecked 
in  a  Spanish  vessel.  Henry  Pitman's  house 
was  burned  in  the  depredations  of  enemies ; 
but  his  son  John,  born  in  1663,  afterwards 
came  into  possession  of  the  plantation  and  im- 
provements. He  built  himself  a  house,  estab- 
lished a  shipyard,  constructed  several  vessels, 
and  lived  on  the  island  till  the  taking  and 
burning  of  New  Providence  by  the  French 
and  Spaniards  in  July,  1703.  He  moved  to 
other  islands  in  the  same  group,  and  finally,  in 
1710,  came  to  New  England  and  settled  at 
Newport,  Rhode  Island.  He  left  five  sons, 
who  married  and  had  children ;  so  that  a  nu- 
merous progeny  can  trace  their  descent  to 
Henry  Pitman,  of  Nassau.  It  has  not  been 
possible  to  connect  the  following  linfe  with  any 
of  these  early  settlers ;  and  it  may  be  derived 
from  a  more  recent  immigrant. 

(I)  John  Pitman  was  born  at  Concord,  New 
Hampshire,  in  1797,  and  died  in  1837.  His 
father's  Christian  name  is  unknown,  but  he 
was  one  of  several  Pitmans  who  saw  service 
in  the  revolution.  As  no  Pitman  appears  on 
the  list  of  revolutionary  soldiers  from  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire,  it  is  inferred  that  the 
senior  Pitman  must  have  been  living  in  an- 
other town,  or  possibly  another  state,  at  the 
time.  John  Pitman  had  two  elder  brothers, 
David  and  Samuel,  and  their  mother  was  a 
Carlton.  AMien  a  young  man  John  Pitman 
moved  from  Concord  to  Bartlett,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  he  was  a  farmer  and  lumberman, 
and  built  several  mills.  He  married  Abigail 
Carlton,  daughter  of  Woodman  Carlton,  a  rev- 
olutionary soldier:  Mrs.  Woodman  Carlton 
lived  to  be  one  hundred  and  three  years ;  at 
ninety-five  she  was  very  active.  Children : 
Hazen.  Abiah,  David  C,  John,  W'oodman  C. 
and  Abigail.  None  of  these  is  now  living  ex- 
cept Woodman  C,  whose  sketch  follow-s. 

(II)  Woodman   Carlton,   son  of  John   and 


Abigail  (Carlton)  Pitman,  was  born  at  P.art- 
lett.  New  Hampshire,  January  2.  1822.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  at  Bartlett  Academy,  after 
which  he  taught  school  for  a  short  time  at 
Center  Bartlett.  He  then  went  to  Lowell, 
^Massachusetts,  and  worked  at  odd  jobs  and 
farming  for  a  while.  Returning  to  Bartlett, 
he  worked  in  a  mill  for  a  year.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-two  he  began  working  on  the  construc- 
tion of  the  Concord  and  Montreal  railroad,  at 
Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  soon  had 
charge  of  a  crew  of  men.  He  went  west  and 
was  conductor  on  Michigan  Central  railroad 
for  a  year.  He  contracted  .some  of  the  work 
on  the  Maine  Central  railroad  between  Water- 
ville  and  Bangor,  and  engaged  in  railroad  con- 
tracting until  1867.  During  this  time  he  built 
for  the  European  and  North  American  rail- 
road a  line  of  track  from  Benham  to  the  sea- 
shore, constructing  the  work  by  means  of 
his  own  cars  and  engines.  He  still  kept  up 
h<s  railroad  connection  after  1867  by  getting 
out  telegraph-poles  and  railroad-ties  during 
the  winter,  but  in  summer  he  imported  flour 
and  other  goods  from  Canada,  sometimes 
bringing  in  as  many  as  a  thousand  barrels  at 
a  time.  Mr.  Pitman  was  the  first  to  bring 
flour  from  Canada  to  Maine.  In  1892  he  re- 
tired from  active  business.  He  attends  the 
Unitarian  church,  and  in  early  life  belonged 
both  to  the  r)dd  Fellows  and  the  Masons,  but 
withdrew  from  these  organizations  at  the  time 
of  his  marriage.  Mr.  Pitman  is  passing  a 
serene  old  age,  and  at  eighty-seven  years  is 
still  fairly  active,  interested  in  passing  events, 
and  thoughtful  of  the  present  generation.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Madockawanda  Club  and 
enjoys  there  a  social  hour  with  old-time 
friends. 

In  1857  \\'oodman  Carlton  Pitman  married 
Fannie  I'^uller,  daughter  of  John  Fuller,  of 
Carmel,  Maine:  she  died  in  1890.  Their  three 
children  died  in  infancv. 


The  Olivers  of  New  England 
OLIVER  are  descendants  of  the  Olivers 
of  Lewes,  Susse.x,  England, 
from  which  place  Thomas  Oliver  came  with 
his  wife  .Anne  and  children  in  1632,  and  settled 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony.  The 
family  is  undoubtedly  of  Scotch  origin,  and 
one  Rev.  Andrew^  Oliver  came  from  Scotland 
to  Londonderry,  New  Hampshire,  about  the 
middle  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  in  1795 
removed  to  Otsego  county.  New  York,  where 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  church 
of  Springfield.    Others  of  the  name  have  come 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1359 


to  America  from  time  to  time,  but  the  only 
early  New  England  immigrants  appears  to 
have  been  Thomas  and  Anne  Oliver,  Boston. 
1632.  The  most  noted  of  the  name  in  New 
England  was  Peter  Oliver,  a  graduate  of  Har- 
vard. A.  B..  1735,  A.  M.,  1773,  D.  C.  L..  Ox- 
ford, England.  1776;  lived  in  Aliddleburgh, 
Massachusetts,  who  was  chief  justice  of  the 
supreme  court  of  judicature  for  the  province 
of  Massachusetts,  1771-75;  was  a  Loyalist  and 
returned  to  England  in  1776,  upon  the  evacu- 
ation of  Boston  by  the  British  troops,  and 
died  in  Birmingham,  England,  October  13, 
1791. 

( I )  John  Oliver  was  born  in  Phippsburg, 
Maine,  in  1788.  He  went  to  W'innegance, 
Maine,  when  a  young  man,  and  established  a 
general  merchandise  store  which  he  conducted 
during  his  entire  life.  His  wife,  Catharine 
Oliver,  bore  him  eight  children,  the  eldest  son 
receiving  his  father's  name.  John  Oliver  Sr. 
died  in   Phippsburg  in   1858. 

(H)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  John  (i)  and 
Catharine  Oliver,  was  born  in  Phippsburg, 
April  4.  1820.  He  received  his  educational 
training  in  the  local  school,  and  when  a  man 
became  an  employee  in  the  mills  at  Phipps- 
burg and  received  promotion  in  the  business, 
continuing  at  the  same  occupation  during  his 
lifetime  of  active  work.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Baptist  church.  He  married  Elsie, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Alarr ;  children :  Lucretia. 
Cleveland  Marr,  Camalia,  Charles  \V.,  Kather- 
ine,  Chester,  George,  Emma  and  Wilbur  Car- 
ter. 

(HI)  Wilbur  Carter,  youngest  child  of  John 
(2)  and  Elsie  (Marr)  Oliver,  was  born  in 
Phippsburg,  February  29,  i860.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  his  na- 
tive town  and  at  Bath,  to  which  city  he  moved 
at  the  age  of  eleven  years.  Although  desirous 
of  a  liberal  education,  he,  like  many  another 
who  has  made  a  success  in  the  financial  world, 
was  compelled  by  circumstances  to  relinquish 
his  cherished  hopes,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  began  to  struggle  in  the  great  workshop, 
the  world,  entering  a  grocery-store  as  clerk, 
and  there  obtained  his  first  experience  in  deal- 
ing with  men.  After  some  time  he  relin- 
quished this  occupation  and  went  to  Gloucester. 
Massachusetts,  where  for  two  seasons  he  was 
employed  as  fisherman,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  Bath  and  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Torry  Roller  Bushing  Works.  In  that  con- 
cern he  familiarized  himself  with  every  detail 
and  thus  became  well  equipped  to  enter  upon 
a  business  which  under  his  control  has  grown 
and  to-day  is  one  of  the  valued  enterprises  of 


Bath.  In  1883  ^Ir.  Oliver  established  the 
business  of  galvanizing  iron  in  Bath,  under 
the  firm  name  of  The  Bath  Galvanizing 
Works,  of  which  he  is  sole  proprietor  and 
owner.  At  first  he  began  in  a  modest  way ; 
at  the  present  time  (1908)  his  works  are 
established  at  the  corner  of  \'ine  and  Water 
streets;  it  is  a  well-equipped  plant,  where  he 
is  able  to  carry  on  a  very  profitable  and  grow- 
ing business  which  extends  to  all  parts  of 
Elaine.  The  extensive  building  of  torpedo- 
boats  for  the  United  States  government  at  the 
Bath  shipyards  demanded  larger  vats,  in  or- 
der to  take  in  the  larger  parts  of  the  boats  re- 
quired in  the  galvanizing  process,  and  by  the 
expenditure  of  thousands  of  dollars  he  met 
the  demand  and  thus  largely  increased  his 
business  and  its  profits. 

Mr.  Oliver  is  a  very  active  and  enthusiastic 
supporter  of  the  administration  and  of  the 
Republican  party  in  general.  His  good  work 
as  a  local  politician  was  recognized  in  1904 
by  his  election  as  a  member  of  the  common 
council  of  Bath  from  the  second  ward :  in 
1906  he  was  elected  alderman  from  his  ward 
and  in  the  board  was  recognized  as  a  superior 
presiding  officer,  and  he  has  been  for  two 
years  president  of  the  board ;  he  is  now  in 
the  direct  road  to  the  office  of  mayor,  having 
been  considered  an  available  candidate  ever 
since  he  became  president  of  the  board  of  al- 
derman, and  in  1908,  at  the  party  elections  in 
March,  he  was  the  unanimous  choice  of  his 
party  for  the  office,  but  he  persistently  de- 
clined the  nomination.  He  is  now  serving  his 
second  year  as  chairman  of  the  Republican  city 
committee.  He  is  also  active  in  Masonic 
circles.  He  is  a  member  of  Solar  Lodge,  No. 
14,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ; 
Montgomery  and  St.  Bernard  Royal  Arch 
Chapter,  No.  2 ;  Dunlap  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  No.  5,  of  Bath ;  Maine  Consistory, 
Sublime  Princes  of  the  Royal  Secret,  of  Port- 
land ;  Mystic  Shrine  and  Kora  Temple,  of 
Lewiston.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  No. 
934,  of  Bath ;  the  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men,  Sagamore  Tribe,  No.  64;  Arcadia  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  No.  12,  of  Bath. 

Air.  Oliver  is  greatly  interested  in  every- 
thing pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  city  of 
Bath,  and  is  ever  ready  to  do  what  he  can  to 
better  her  public  institutions.  In  1906  he  was 
instrumental  in  causing  an  investigation  of 
the  Bath  City  Alms  House  and  to  improve 
its  condition.  By  his  untiring  zeal  and  per- 
sistency along  these  lines,  the  mayor's  atten- 
tion  was  elicited  and  as  a    result  manv   well 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


needed  improvements  were  made  and  many  of 
the  unfortunate  poor  of  Bath  are  receiving 
that  attention  which  is  rightfully  theirs, 
through  the  thoughtfulness  and  persistency  of 
]Mr.  Oliver.  In  recording  the  achievements 
of  successful  men,  one  naturally  looks  for  the 
cause  of  such  success  and  then  point  it  out  for 
coming  generations  to  emulate.  Persistency, 
attention  to  detail  and  strict  honesty  are  usu- 
ally the  salient  features  in  a  successful  career, 
and  these  stand  out  prominently  in  the  busi- 
ness life  of  Mr.  Oliver.  Starting  out  to  fight 
the  battles  of  life  at  the  tender  age  of  fifteen, 
without  a  dollar  or  influential  friends,  and  at- 
taining affluence  at  the  age  of  forty-eight  is  a 
record  of  achievements  which  are  worthy  of 
the  highest  commendation,  and  will  stand  out 
as  a  living  monument  to  those  qualities,  which 
are  truly  American. 

Mr.  Oliver  married,  November  9,  1881, 
Esther,  daughter  of  Arthur  Gibbs,  of  New 
Brunswick;  children:  i.  Arthur,  born  May 
2,  1883,  married,  in  1904,  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Mary  Dane,  and  they  have 
two  children :  Warren  and  Evelyn  Oliver. 
2.  Wilbur  C,  died  in  infancy. 


^  The  pioneer  family  of  this 

GREENLEAF  name  has  existed  in  New 
England  well  on  toward 
three  hundred  years,  and  in  that  time  has  pro- 
duced many  scions  who  have  honored  their 
progenitor  and  gained  places  of  credit  among 
their  fellow  citizens.  Several  have  been  dis- 
tinguished in  war  and  not  a  few  have  proved 
efficient  instructors.  The  great  majority  of 
the  race  have  been  sturdy,  honest  toilers  and 
law-abiding  citizens,  whose  labors  have  helped 
to  make  a  great  nation. 

(I)  Edmund  Greenleaf,  common  ancestor 
of  the  Greenleafs  of  New  England,  born  in 
1573,  baptized  January  2,  1574  (O.  S.),  died 
March  24,  1671,  aged  ninety-eight.  He  was 
evidently  an  Englishman,  and  was  by  trade 
a  dyer.  He  came  to  Massachusetts  about 
1635,  with  a  wife  and  children — five  says  Sav- 
age, nine  says  the  compiler  of  the  Greenleaf 
genealogy.  He  was  one  of  the  original  set- 
tlers of  Quasca  Cunquen,  afterward  New- 
bury, Massachusetts,  where  each  of  the  first 
settlers  was  granted  a  house  lot  of  at  least 
four  acres,  with  a  suitable  quantity  of  salt  and 
fresh  meadow.  In  addition  to  this  he  had  a 
grant  of  twelve  acres,  which  shows  him  to 
have  been  one  of  the  eighteen  principal  pion- 
eer settlers.  To  the  other  grantees  the  num- 
ber of  acres  varied  from  ten  to  eighty.  June 
15,    1638,    "The   court   having   left    it   to   the 


liberty  of  particular  townes  to  take,  order,  and 
provide,  according  to  their  discretion,  for  the 
bringing  of  arms  to 'the  meeting  house,  it  is 
for  the  present  thought  fitt  and  ordered  that 
the  town  being  divided  in  four  several  equal 
parts,  sayd  part  shall  bring  compleat  armes 
according  to  the  direction  of  those  whom  the 
town  hath  appointed  to  oversee  the  busynesse 
in  order  and  manner  as  followeth ;  namely, 
John  Pike,  Nicholas  Holt,  John  Baker,  and 
Edmund  Greenleafe  being  appointed  as  over- 
seers of  the  busynesse,  are  ordered  to  follow 
this  course  namely :  They  shall  give  notice 
to  the  party  of  persons  under  their  severall 
divisions  to  bring  their  armes  compleat  one 
Sabbath  day  in  a  month  and  the  lectureday 
following,  in  order  successively  one  after  an- 
other, and  the  persons  aforementioned  shall 
cause  every  person  under  their  severall  divis- 
ions to  Stand  sentinell  at  the  doores  all  the 
time  of  the  publick  meeting  every  one  after 
another  either  by  himself  in  person  or  by  a 
sufficient  substitute  to  be  allowed  by  the  over- 
seer of  the  Ward.  And,  further,  it  is  ordered 
that  the  sayd  overseers  shall  diligently  mark 
and  observe  any  that  shall  be  defective  in 
this  respect,  having  careful  warning,  and  they 
.  together  with  the  Surveyor  of  the  arms  shall 
collect  or  distrain  twelve  pence  for  every  de- 
fault, according  as  hath  been  thought  fitt  by 
order  of  the  court  in  this  case  provided."  He 
was  made  a  freeman  March  13,  1639,  in  June 
following  was  ordered  to  be  ensign  for  New- 
bury, and  in  1644  was  head  of  the  militia 
under  Gerrish.  July  15,  1648,  Lieutenant  Ed- 
mund Greenleaf  was  allowed  to  keep  an  or- 
dinary. About  1650  he  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  was  admitted  inhabitant  September 
27,  1654.  He  was  a  man  of  much  more  than 
ordinary  means  and  mental  qualifications,  and 
was  an  efficient  and  leading  citizen  of  New- 
bury, in  whom'  his  fellow  citizens  reposed 
trust  and  confidence.  He  married  (first)  in 
England,  Sarah  Dole,  perhaps  a  sister  of  Rich- 
ard Dole.  Tlie  date  and  place  of  her  birtli 
are  unknown.  She  died  in  Boston,  January 
18,  1663.  He  married  (second)  Mrs.  Sarah 
Hill,  daughter  of  Ignatius  Jurdaine,  of  Exeter, 
England,  widow,  first  of  a  Mr.  Wilson,  second 
of  William  Hill,  of  Fairfield,  Connecticut. 
She  died  in  Boston  in  1671.  The  children  of 
Edmund  and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf  were: 
Enoch  (died  young),  Samuel,  Enoch,  Sarah, 
Elizabeth,  Nathaniel,  Judith,  Stephen  and 
Daniel. 

yXiV)  Stephen,  fourth  son  of  Edmund  and 
Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf,  bom  about  1628. 
baptized  at  St.  Mary's  August  10,  1628,  died 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1361 


December  i,  1690.  He  came  to  America  with 
his  parents  and  resided  at  Newbury  until  his 
death.  He  was  one  of  the  company  of  twenty 
persons  formed  by  Thomas  Moey,  1659,  who 
purchased  the  Island  of  Nantucket,  and  hav- 
ing an  equal  share.  The  island  is  fourteen 
miles  long  and  three  and  one-half  miles  wide, 
and  the  price  paid  for  it  was  £30  and  two 
beaver  hats.  Mr.  Greenleaf  was  admitted  free- 
man at  Newbury,  May  23,  1677.  He  was  a 
religious  man,  a  member  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational church  in  Newbury,  to  which  he  was 
admitted  December  6,  1674.  He  was  represen- 
tative in  the  general  court  1676-86,  and  a 
member  of  the  council  of  safety,  1689.  His 
will  was  made  December  25,  1668,  and  pro- 
bated February  12,  1691.  He  married  (first) 
November  13,  1651,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens)  Coffin,  of 
Newbury.  She  died  November  19,  1678.  He 
was  married  (second)  March  31,  1679,  by 
Commissioner  Dalton,  to  Mrs.  Esther  (Weare) 
Swett,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Weare  and 
widow  of  Benjamin  Swett,  of  Hampton,  New 
Hampshire.  She  died  January  16,  1718,  aged 
eighty-nine  years.  The  ten  children  of  Stephen 
Greenleaf,  all  by  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth, 
were:  Stephen,  Sarah,  Daniel,  Elizabeth, 
John,  Samuel,  Tristram,  Edmund,  Mary  and 
Judith. 

(Ill)  Captain  Stephen  (2),  eldest  son  of 
Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Greenleaf, 
born  in  Newbury,  August  15,  1652,  died  in 
Newbury,  October  13,  1743,  aged  ninety-one 
years.  He  was  the  first  grandchild  of  Tris- 
tram Coffin,  and  well  remembered  his  great- 
grandmother  and  lived  to  see  his  great-grand- 
children. He  was  a  prominent  man  in  public 
affairs,  and  famed  for  his  services  in  the  In- 
dian wars.  He  was  known  as  the  "great  In- 
dian fighter" ;  and  while  the  public  records  of 
the  Indian  troubles  of  those  days  are  meagre 
in  their  accounts,  family  tradition  has  handed 
down  through  the  generations,  and  the  records 
bear  evidence  of,  some  of  that  service.  In 
the  town  records  he  was  distinguished  as  Cap- 
tain Stephen.  Robert  Pike  thus  writes  in 
1690:  "Capt.  Pierce,  Capt.  Noyes,  Capt. 
Greenleaf,  and  Lieut.  Moores,  with  the  rest 
of  the  gentlemen  of  'Newbury ; — whose  assist- 
ance, next  under  God  was  the  means  of  the 
preservation  of  our  towns  of  Salisbury  and 
Amesbury,  in  the  day  of  our  distress,  by  the 
assaults  of  the  enemy."  In  1675-76  he  was 
one  of  the  selectmen  of  Newbury.  August 
25,  1675,  he  was  wounded  by  the  Indians.  In 
1689  he  was  appointed  agent  of  the  state  to 
treat  with  the  Indians  at  Pennacook.    Mav  18, 


1695,  he  files  a  petition  for  relief,  and  presents 
the  bill  for  professional  services  of  Dr.  Hum- 
phrey Bradstreet,  which  reads :  "Bill  for 
curing  Capt.  Stephen  Greenleaf,  who  was 
wounded  while  moving  a  family  who  had  been 
taken  from  Newbury  by  the  Indians,  £12-6-9." 
March  i,  1696,  the  town  granted  to  Stephen 
Greenleaf  four  or  five  rods  on  the  flats,  from 
Watt's  cellar  spring  to  Ensign  Greenleaf's 
and  Mr.  Davidson's  grant,  from  high-water 
mark  to  low-water  mark,  to  build  a  wharf  and 
a  place  to  build  vessels  upon  on  certain  con- 
ditions ;  one  was  that  it  come  not  within  ten 
or  twelve  feet  of  the  spring.  On  the  fifth  of 
March,  1696,  Captain  Greenleaf  addressed  the 
following  petition  to  the  general  court :  "The 
petition  of  Captain  Greenleaf,  of  Newbury, 
Humbly  Showeth:  That  upon  the  Seventh  of 
October  last,  about  three  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon, a  party  of  Indians  surprised  a  family  at 
Turkey  Hill  in  said  town,  captured  nine  per- 
sons, women  and  children,  rifled  the  house, 
carrying  away  bedding  and  dry  goods.  Only 
one  person  escaped,  and  gave  notice  to  the 
next  family,  and  they  to  the  town ;  upon  the 
alarm  your  petitioner  with  a  part  of  men 
pursued  after  the  enemy,  endeavoring  to  line 
the  river  Merrimack  to  prevent  their  passage, 
by  which  means  the  captives  were  recovered 
and  brought  back.  The  enemy  lay  in  a  gully 
hard  by  the  roadway,  and  about  nine  at  night 
made  a  shot  at  Your  Petitioner,  and  shot  him 
through  the  wrist,  between  the  bones,  and 
also  made  a  large  wound  in  his  side,  which 
would  have  been  very  painful  and  costly  to 
your  petitioner  in  the  cure  of  them,  and  have 
in  a  great  measure  utterly  taken  away  the 
use  of  his  left  hand,  and  wholly  taken  off  from 
his  employment  this  winter.  Your  petitioner 
therefore  honorably  prays  this  honorable  court 
that  they  would  make  him  such  compensation 
as  shall  seem  fit;  which  he  shall  thankfully 
acknowledge,  and  doubts  not  but  will  be  an 
encouragement  to  others,  and  possibly  to  re- 
lieve their  neighbors  when  assaulted  by  so 
barbarous  an  enemy.  And  your  petitioner 
shall  ever  pray 

"(Signed)  Stephen  Greenleaf." 
"March  6 — Read  and  voted  that  there  be 
paid  out  of  the  province  treasury  to  the  Peti- 
tioner the  sum  of  forty  pounds."  The  coat 
which  Captain  Greenleaf  wore  in  his  pursuit 
of  the  Indians  is  still  preserved  by  his  descend- 
ants, together  with  the  bullet  which  was  ex- 
tracted from  his  wound.  This  is  said  to  be 
the  only  instance  in  which  the  Indians  at- 
tacked, "captivated,"  or  killed  any  of  the  in- 
habitants   of   Newbury.     He    married    (first) 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


October  23,  1676,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Joanna  (Goodule)  (Oliver)  Ger- 
rish,  of  Nevvbiir}-,  born  September  10,  1654, 
died  August  5,  1712;  (second)  1713,  Airs. 
Hannah  Jordan,  of  Kittery,  Maine,  who  died 
September  30,  1743.  His  ten  children,  all 
by  the  first  wife  Elizabeth,  were:  Elizabeth, 
Daniel,  Stephen  (died  young),  William,  Jo- 
seph, Sarah,  Stephen,  John,  Benjamin  and 
Moses. 

(IV)  Stephen  (3),  fourth  son  of  Stephen 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Gerrish)  Greenleaf,  born 
in  Newbury,  October  21,  1690,  died  in  1771. 
It  has  been  supposed  that  Stephen  removed 
to  Woolwich  from  Newbury  about  the  year 
1720,  but  it  now  appears  he  had  intermediate 
residence  between  Newbury  and  Woolwich. 
In  1720  but  slight  beginnings  had  been  made 
in  the  settlement  of  the  district,  the  Indian 
war  soon  began  and  drove  out,  it  is  said,  every 
one  who  had  entered.  It  would  appear  that 
he  moved  first  to  York,  Maine,  from  Massa- 
chusetts, probably  about  1720-21,  then  farther 
east  to  Falmouth,  about  1731,  as  by  the  rec- 
ords there  we  find  :  "Stephen  Greenleaf,  Mari- 
ner, York,"  bought  lot  and  house  in  the  pres- 
ent Portland  in  1731.  "Stephen  Greenleaf. 
Pound  Keeper,"  Back  Cone,  Falmouth,  March 
26,  1734.  "Stephen  Greenleaf,  of  Falmouth, 
and  Mary,  wife  sells  title  in  Mill  stream  and 
Mills  in  Falmouth,"  in  1736.  Stephen  Green- 
leaf had  conveyance  of  his  land  in  June,  1738, 
in  Woolwich.  "Stephen  Greenleaf  paid  for 
killing  a  Wild-cat,"  Alay  i.  1743.  Richard 
Greenleaf,  his  son,  sells  land  "improved  and 
possessed  twenty-nine  years  last  past,"  in  1767. 
It  also  appears  upon  the  records  that  "Stephen 
Greenleaf,  York,  Coaster,  ct  all"  bought  a  right 
in  land  in  Monsweag  Bay,  in  1729,  including 
the  tract  on  which  he  afterwards  lived.  Land 
conveyances  being  acepted,  under  conditions, 
as  evidence  of  residence,  it  would  appear  that 
1738  was  the  time  of  his  taking  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Monsweag,  now  Woolwich.  He  mar- 
ried, October  7,  1712,  Mary  Mackres,  born  in 
1691,  died  in  Woolwich  in  1771,  aged  eighty. 
They  had  eight  children :  Enoch,  Richard, 
Samuel,  Ebenezer,  Lydia,  Stephen,  Joseph  and 
Mary. 

(V)  Joseph,  sixth  son  of  Stephen  (3)  and 
Mary  (Mackres)  Greenleaf,  born  in  York, 
Maine,  July  2.  1727,  and  died  in  1772.  Jo- 
seph Greenleaf  was  commissioned  June  3, 
1745,  in  the  First  Company  of  Artillery  from 
York  county,  Maine,  Captain  Peter  Staples, 
afterward  conmianded  by  Captain  Richard 
Mumford,  First  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
commanded  by   Sir  \\'illiam   Pepperell  at   the 


capture  of  Louisburg.  He  was  also  mar- 
shal of  a  court-martial,  June  23,  1745.  Jo- 
seph Greenleaf  entered,  September  24,  1750, 
Captain  James  Thompson's  companv,  in  the 
Boston  service,  ranging  the  woods,  and  served 
until  November  i,  1750.  He  was  also  a  pri- 
vate. April  30,  1757,  in  Captain  Jonathan 
Williamson's  company.  District  of  Wiscasset, 
Maine.  Also  ensign,  August  9,  1757,  on  a  re- 
turn of  officers  belonging  to  the  Alassachusetts 
forces,  commanded  by  Colonel  Joseph  I'rye, 
which  was  in  the  capitulation  of  Fort  William 
Henry.  Joseph  Greenleaf  is  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  petition  of  inhabitants  of  the  Kennebec 
river  for  protection,  July  21,  1760.  He  mar- 
ried, about  1752.  Dorcas  Gray,  who  survived 
him  and  married  (second)  Lieutenant  Moses 
Hilton.  Their  intention  was  filctl  March  22, 
1781,  and  the  marriage  was  solemnized  by 
Thomas  Moore.  The  eight  children  of  Jo- 
seph and  Dorcas  were :  Ebenezer,  John,  Mar- 
tha, Sally,  Rachel,  Joshua,  William  and  Ly- 
dia. 

(\  I)  John,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Dor- 
cas (Gray)  Greenleaf,  was  born  on  Gewnky 
Neck,  in  Woolwich  or  Wiscasset,  Maine,  No- 
vember 6,  1755,  and  died  June  5,  1846,  aged 
ninety-one.  The  name  of  John  Greenleaf,  of 
Powiialborough,  Maine,  is  on  a  certificate  of 
enlistment  dated  June,  1776,  signed  by  him- 
self and  others,  who  promised  to  march  to 
New  York  and  continue  in  service  till  Decem- 
ber I.  1776.  unless  sooner  discharged.  He 
joined  the  American  army  at  New  York  in 
the  early  days  of  the  revolution,  and  served 
as  a  soldier  at  \'alley  Forge  in  the  memorable 
winter  of  1777-78.  He  was  also  in  the  en- 
gagements at  Brandywine,  Long  Island,  White 
Plains  and  Fishkill.  June  3,  1778,  he  began 
a  term  of  service  of  nine  months  from  his  ar- 
rival at  Fishkill.  He  was  in  Colonel  McCobb's 
( First )  regiment,  raised  by  resolve  of  April 
20,  1778,  from  Pownalborough  (Wiscasset), 
Maine.  Return  made  by  Brigadier-General 
Charles  Gushing.  In  the  description  list  of 
men  enlisted  from  Lincoln  countv  for  the 
term  of  nine  months  from  the  time  of  their 
arrival  at  Fishkill,  he  is  described  as  follows : 
"x\ge  22 ;  stature  5  ft.  7  inches ;  complexion, 
light."  From  town  of  Pownalborough,  Cap- 
tain Decker's  company  (  First  Regiment ) ,  time 
of  arrival  at  Fishkill,  June  19.  After  his  serv- 
ice in  the  revolutionary  war  he  returned  to 
Wiscasset  and  married.  Early  in  the  spring  of 
1782  he  and  his  brother  Ebenezer,  with  their 
wives,  together  with  Joshua,  another  brother, 
went  to  the  Sandy  river,  where  each  took 
up   a    farm  of  productive   and   valuable   land. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


I3'53 


The  first  two  settled  in  the  town  of  Starks,  and 
Joshua  located  immediately  opposite  there,  in 
iMercer.  A  few  years  later  a  younger  brother, 
William,  and  four  sisters,  Martha,  Sally,  Ra- 
chel and  Lydia,  married,  settled  and  resided 
in  the  vicinity.  John  Greenleaf  possessed  con- 
siderable property  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  had  great  caution,  was  very  prudent  and 
exact  in  his  dealings,  but  gave  liberally  to  the 
poor.  His  remains  lie  in  the  old  family  bury- 
ing-ground,  beneath  the  soil  he  once  tilled. 
He  married,  December  29,  1781,  Anna  Pierce 
Roberts,  of  Wiscasset,  born  1761,  died  April 
27,  1853,  aged  ninety-two.  They  had  twelve 
children:  John,  Sarah,  Anthony.  Levi,  Jo- 
seph, William,  Stephen.  George,  Cyrus, 
Joshua,  Rachel  and  Elias. 

(\  II)  Stephen  (4),  si.xlh  son  of  John  and 
Anna  Pierce  (Roberts)  Greenleaf,  born  in 
Starks,  August  26,  1794,  died  in  Starks,  Octo- 
ber 15,  1881,  aged  eighty-seven.  After  com- 
pleting his  studies  in  the  district  school,  he 
and  his  brothers  William  and  George  went  to 
Wiscasset  Academy,  where  they  received 
thorough  instruction  for  three  years,  from 
181 1  to  1814.  While  pursuing  his  studies, 
August,  1814,  news  came  that  the  British  were 
threatening  to  enter  the  mouth  of  the  Kenne- 
bec river.  He  at  once  started  on  foot  for 
home  to  join  the  militia  company  of  his 
brother.  Captain  John.  Contracting  a  severe 
cold,  he  was  confined  several  days  to  his  bed 
with  fever.  After  recovering,  he  "scoured 
up"  his  father's  old  "fusee,"  which  he  carried 
in  the  revolutionary  war,  and  started  for  the 
scene  of  action  with  the  company  in  the  capa- 
city of  clerk  and  orderly  sergeant.  Before  the 
end  of  his  service  of  sixty  days  the  British 
abandoned  their  project,  and  the  militia  were 
dismissed. 

For  twenty  years  or  more  after  the  war  he 
was  a  successful  school-master.  He  and  his 
brother  William  bought  the  two  farms  just 
north  of  Starks  Village  in  1817,  one  of  which 
he  owned  and  occupied  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  a  period  of  sixty-four  years.  He  was  a 
justice  of  the  peace  for  nearly  fifty  years, 
and  being  a  fine  penman,  he  was  sought  by  his 
townsmen  to  a  considerable  extent  to  draft 
deeds  and  other  legal  documents.  He  was  a 
man  of  extensive  reading,  and  kept  in  touch 
with  events  and  current  topics  till  the  end  of 
his  life.  In  politics  he  was  (as  was  each  of 
his  seven  sons)  a  staunch  and  prominent 
Democrat,  and  did  not  fail  to  vote  the  straight 
ticket  for  more  than  sixty  annual  elections. 
He  held  the  several  town  ofiices  of  town  clerk, 
treasurer,     school    committeeman,    selectman. 


and  so  forth,  for  many  years,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  house  of  representatives  in  the  state 
legislature  in  1837.  He  was  familiarly  known 
to  his  townsmen  and  friends  as  the  "Squire," 
and  was  addressed  as  Esquire  Greenleaf.  In 
person  he  was  five  feet  and  nine  inches  in 
height,  and  very  erect ;  his  weight  about  one 
hundred  and  sixty  pounds ;  his  eyes  blue ;  his 
forhead  high  and  full ;  his  hair  fine,  silky  and 
dark,  and  held  its  lustre  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  exceedingly  agile,  and  when 
past  seventy-five  years  of  age  he  was  as  spry 
as  most  boys.  As  an  instructor,  husband  and 
father  he  was  greatly  beloved.  .As  a  towns- 
man he  was  highly  and  universally  esteemed, 
and  enjoyed  the  full  confidence  of  his  neigh- 
bors and  acquaintances,  who  sincerely 
mourned  his  loss  as  that  of  an  honest  and 
good  man.  He  married  (first)  1819,  Rhoda, 
daughter  of  John  Metcalf,  of  Anson.  She 
died  July  27,  1823,  and  he  married  (second) 
May  6,  1826,  Fanny,  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Lydia  (  Williamson )  Taylor,  of  Starks.  She 
was  born  February  16,  1805.  died  February 
12,  1895,  aged  ninety.  "Aunt  Fanny,"  as  she 
was  lovingly  called,  survived  her  husband 
fourteen  years,  living  with  her  faithful  and 
devoted  daughter,  Mrs.  Lydia  Greaton,  when 
she  peacefully  entered  her  eternal  home.  To 
her  children  she  was  a  beacon-light,  always 
shining  brightly  to  point  out  the  way  of  life 
and  those  paths  of  peace  which  she  so  serenely 
trod.  Blest  with  a  voice  of  rare  quality,  pur- 
ity and  volume  of  tone,  the  worshipers  of  the 
sanctuary  had  many  years  been  led  in  their 
devotions  by  the  sweet  influence  of  her  heart- 
felt songs ;  and  it  was  remarkable  that  in  her 
later  years  the  voice  of  song  remained  to  her 
in  a  great  degree.  Many  of  the  older  resi- 
dents can  remember  her  as  she  appeared  in 
early  life,  possessing  unusual  beauty  and  a 
tall,  graceful  carriage,  both  of  which  she  re- 
tained in  her  later  da_\s — her  sunset  of  life — 
which  was  so  calm  and'  beautiful,  and  in  peace- 
ful harmony  with  that  long  line  of  years  in 
which  her  children  will  always  fondly  love  to 
dwell.  Their  storehouse  of  memory  is  well 
filled  with  "precept  upon  precept"  of  her 
teachings  of  wisdom,  and  "line  upon  line"  of 
love  and  devotion.  Fortunate,  indeed,  are 
they  in  such  possessions,  and  the  loftiness  of 
her  pure  and  noble  character,  the  gentleness 
and  loveliness  of  her  ways,  will  be  to  those 
she  has  left  behind  to  follow  her  as  a  bene- 
diction of  a  life  of  a  noble  and  generous 
woman.  To  Stephen  and  Rhoda  (Metcalf) 
Greenleaf  was  born  one  child,  Cyrus  Metcalf. 
To   Stephen   and    Fanny    (Taylor)    Greenleaf 


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STATE  OF  AIAINE. 


were  born  nine  children :  Enocli,  Lincoln, 
Wakefield,  Rhoda,  Lydia,  Gason,  JMary 
Mooers,  George,  Charles  and  Levi,  whose 
sketch  follows. 

(VIII)    Levi,   ninth   child  of   Stephen    (4) 
and  Fanny   (Taylor)    Greenleaf,  was  born  in 
Starks,  December  30,  1849.     He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools,  and  later 
attended  Bloomfield  and  Anson  academies  one 
year  each  and  then  fitted  for  college  at  Nich- 
ols  Latin   school,    Lewiston.      After   teaching 
two  years  he  entered  the  junior  class  at  West- 
brook  Seminary  in  1872,  and  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1873.     He  was  a  successful  and 
competent   teacher  in  the  public  schools.     In 
March,   1874,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  Hon.  S.  S.  Brown,  then  at  Fair- 
field, and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Somerset 
county  in  April,  1876.     He  at  once  opened  an 
office  at  Solon.     In  1878  he  removed  to  Pitts- 
field,  and  in   1884  to  Lewiston,  where  he  re- 
mained until  May,  1895,  when  he  settled  in 
Portland,  where  he  now  resides.     His  course 
in  life  shows  that  he  has  inherited  a  fair  share 
of  the  energy  and  ability  that  distinguished  his 
long  line  o"!  ancestors  and  the  Greenleaf  fam- 
ily generally,  and  he  has  been   successful   in 
his  profession  and  has  filled  various  political 
offices.     In  1879  he  was  elected  county  attor- 
ney for  the  county  of  Somerset,  which  office 
he  held  one  term,  then  of  three  years.     While 
a  resident  of  Pittsfield  he  also  held  the  offices 
of  chairman  of  the  board  of  selectmen,  assess- 
ors, etc.,  and  was  a  member  of  the  superin- 
tending  school    committee    of    that   town    for 
several    years,    resigning    when    he    removed 
therefrom.      He    is    a    member   of    the    Cum- 
berland bar  and  of  the  State  Bar  Association 
of  Maine.    In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  of  un- 
swerving fidelity  and  is  active  and  well  known 
throughout  the  state  in  political  circles.     He 
assisted  in  the  compilation  of  the  "Genealogy 
of  the  Greenleaf  Family,"   whose  chief  com- 
piler,  James   Edward   Greenleaf,   thus   speaks 
of  him  in  the  preface  of  that  work :    "To  Levi 
Greenleaf,  Attorney  and   Counsellor  at  Law, 
formerly  of  Lewiston,  now  of  Portland,  Maine, 
I  am  especially  indebted  for  assistance  in  pre- 
senting the  descendants  of  Joseph,  the  son  of 
Stephen,  son  of  Stephen  Jr.,  a  branch  omitted 
from  Chart  XXIII  of  the  book  published  in 
1854,   and  of  which  my  collection   was   frag- 
mentary,   unconnected,    and    seemingly    hope- 
lessly   obscure.       He    has    generously    given 
largely  of  his  valuable  time,  and  most  faith- 
fully pursued  and  followed  out  to  a  conclusion 
the  various  and  somewhat  at  times  myth-like 
clues  in  the  line  of  genealogical  chains,  until 


at  last  is  presented  a  record  of  rare  fulness 
and  completion."  He  is  a  prominent  Odd  Fel- 
low, and  has  held  the  offices  of  senior  warden, 
chief  patriarch,  and  high  priest,  of  Worumbus 
Encampment,  No.  13,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Encampment  of  Maine,  He  married, 
October  3,  1878,  Adelaide,  eldest  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Melissa  M.  (Russell)  Mason,  of 
Bethel  (see  IMason,  \"III).  She  was  born 
August  22,  1854,  and  died  in  Portland,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1905.    They  had  no  children. 


(For   preceding   generations  see   Edmund   Greenleaf   I.) 

(HI)  John,  third  son  of 
GREENLEAF     Stephen     and      Elizabeth 

(Coffin)  Greenleaf,  was 
born  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  June  21, 
1662,  and  died  in  Newbury,  l\Iay  or  June  24, 
1734.  He  was  admitted  to  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Newbury,  with  his  first 
wife,  Elizabeth  (Hills)  Greenleaf,  January  31, 
1696.  He  was  buried  near  the  north  corner  of 
the  "Oldtown"  meeting-house.  He  married 
(first)  October  12,  1685,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Hills,  of  Newbury.  She  died  August 
5,  1712.  He  married  (second)  May  13,  1716, 
Lydia,  widow  of  Benjamin  Pierce,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Major  Charles  Frost,  of  Kittery,  Maine. 
She  died  May  15,  1752,  aged  seventy-eight. 
The  children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Hills) 
Greenleaf  were :  Elizabeth.  Jane,  Judith,  Dan- 
iel, John,  Parker,  Samuel,  Martha,  Benjamin 
and  Stephen. 

(IV)  Daniel,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hills)  Greenleaf,  was  born  December 
24,  1690,  in  Newbury,  where  he  lived,  and 
died  February,  1726,  drowned  on  Newbury 
bar.  He  married,  November  17,  1710,  Sarah 
Moody,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Eliza- 
beth, Martha,  Jane,  Sarah,  David,  Jonathan, 
Parker  and  Mary. 

(V)  Hon.  Jonathan,  second  son  of  Daniel 
and  Sarah  (Moody)  Greenleaf,  was  born  July, 
1723,  in  Newbury,  where  he  resided,  and 
died  May  24,  1807.  His  father  was  drowned 
when  he  was  but  a  little  above  five  years  of 
age,  and  his  mother  was  left  in  very  destitute 
circumstances,  with  a  large  family  of  children. 
At  seven  years  of  age  he  was  apprenticed  to 
Edward  Presbury,  and  learned  the  trade  of 
ship-carpenter.  He  carried  on  the  business  of 
ship-building  in  person  for  about  twenty  years, 
and  after  this  carried  it  on  more  extensively, 
and  accumulated  a  large  estate.  From  about 
the  year  1768  to  1792  he  was  much  in  public 
life,  and  the  stirring  scenes  of  the  revolution 
engaged  his  energies.  For  the  whole  of  that 
time   he   sustained    some   public   office.      Sep- 


STATE  OF  ]\IAINE. 


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tember  26,  1774,  he  was  unanimously  chosen 
to  represent  the  town  of  Newburyport  in  the 
general  court.  He  was  a  member  of  the  con- 
tinental congress  at  the  commencement  of  the 
war.  June  2,  1786,  he  was  made  one  of  the 
governor's  council  for  Essex,  and  was  elected 
senator,  February  11,  1788.  In  the  JMassa- 
chusetts  assembly  for  the  ratification  of  the 
federal  constitution,  he  and  Hon.  Benjamin 
Greenleaf  were  among  the  "yeas."  He  was 
made  ensign  February,  1762,  in  Captain 
Joshua  Coffin's  company,  Newburyport,  first 
company  in  the  regiment,  Colonel  Joseph  Ger- 
rish  second  regiment  militia.  March  25,  1767, 
he  was  commissioned  captain  in  Colonel  Jona- 
than Bagley's  regiment,  Lieutenant  Caleb 
Gushing.  He  was  on  the  Lexington  alarm 
roll,  in  Captain  Isaac  Hull's  company.  Colo- 
nel Thomas  Gardner's  regiment,  which 
marched  April  19,  1775,  from  Medford.  Mr. 
Greenleaf  was  a  well-built  man,  about  five 
feet  high,  of  spare  habit,  not  inclining  to  cor- 
pulency. He  had  a  high  forehead,  a  large 
aquiline  nose,  full  dark-hazel  eyes,  and  rather 
prominent  front  teeth,  which  he  retained  to 
the  last.  In  dress  he  followed  the  peculiar 
fashions  of  gentlemen  of  the  day.  He  was 
a  religious  man  from  early  life,  becoming  a 
member  of  the  church  about  the  time  of  his 
marriage,  in  1744.  For  many  years  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Newburyport.  Nothing  but  absolute  necessity 
kept  him  from  public  worship  on  the  Sabbath, 
and  he  was  scarce  ever  known  to  omit  regular 
morning  and  evening  family  worship.  He 
married,  in  1744,  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward 
Presbury.  She  died  May,  1807,  a  few  days 
previous  to  her  husband.  They  lie  buried 
near  the  eastern  gate  on  "Burying  Hill."  Their 
children  were  :  David,  Jonathan,  Mary,  Simon, 
Sarah,  Moses,  Enoch,  Catherine  and  Richard. 
(VI)  Captain  Moses,  fourth  son  of  Hon. 
Jonathan  and  Mary  (Presbury)  Greenleaf, 
was  born  May  19,  1755,  in  Newbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  died  in  New  Gloucester,  Maine, 
December  18,  1812.  He  learned  how  to  build 
ships  in  his  father's  shipyard,  but  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  entered  the  American  army  as  a 
lieutenant,  and  in  1776  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain and  served  until  nearly  the  close  of  the 
war.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  July  8,  1775, 
and  was  discharged  November  i,  1775.  He 
was  lieutenant  in  Captain  Moses  Nowell's  com- 
pany from  November  i,  1775,  to  January  i, 
1776,  his  residence  being  Newport.  He  was 
commissioned  lieutenant  by  legislative  enact- 
ment. June  29,  1776.  He  was  second  lieu- 
tenant  in   Captain   Moses   Nowell's   company. 


January  29,  1776;  first  lieutenant  in  Captain 
John  Peabody's  company,  Colonel.  Michael 
Farley's  regiment,  and  also  in  Colonel  Eben 
Francis'  regiment.  He  marched  to  join  a  regi- 
ment August  9,  1776,  raised  in  the  defense  of 
Boston.  February  3,  1777,  he  became  captain 
in  the  militia.  He  retired  November  6,  1776, 
and  was  captain  February  20,  1777,  and  was 
again  commissioned  captain  June  i,  1777. 
This  commission  was  confirmed  by  congress 
September  6,  1779.  He  was  in  Colonel  Tup- 
per's  Eleventh  Massacliusetts  Regiment  from 
January  i,  1777,  to  December  31,  1779;  cap- 
tain in  Colonel  Benjamin  Tupper's  regiment, 
January  25,  1778;  captain  same  regiment  (Fif- 
teenth) April  5,  1779,  in  West  Point  service; 
captain  in  same  regiment  from  January  i  to 
October  15,  1780;  captain  September  15,  1780; 
also  October  to  December,  1780,  at  the  Huts, 
near  West  Point,  in  Colonel  Tupper's  regi- 
ment. He  retired  with  the  rank  of  captain  in 
the  Eleventh  Massachusetts  Regiment,  Jan- 
uary, 1781.  In  the  same  year  he  began  ship- 
building in  Newburyport  in  connection  with 
his  father,  and  from  that  time  till  the  year 
1790  they  built  twenty-two  ships  and  brigs. 
Their  shipyard  was  a  little  south  of  the  Lower 
Long  Wharf,  Moses  Greenleaf  and  his  brother 
Enoch  both  occupied  the  large  old  house  "up 
the  yard."  In  November,  1790,  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  the  then  Province  of  Maine, 
and  settled  at  New  Gloucester,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  farming  till  his  death.  Captain 
Greenleaf  was  made  a  Mason  in  St.  Peter's 
Lodge,  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  in  1778. 
Washington  Lodge,  No.  i-o,  a  traveling  lodge 
in  the  revolutionary  army,  was  chartered  Oc- 
tober 6,  1779.  He  was  worshipful  master  of 
this  lodge  in  the  field,  July  6,  1780.  Older 
brethren  had  often  heard  him  remark  that  he 
hac[  many  a  time  commanded  the  commanding 
general  of  the  army  in  the  lodge  meetings,  for 
General  Washington  frequently  attended,  and 
always  came  as  a  private  member  without 
ceremony.  He  was  instrumental  in  establish- 
ing Cumberland  Lodge,  Maine.  Captain 
Moses  Greenleaf  married,  September  17.  1776, 
Lydia  Parsons,  who  was  born  in  Newbury- 
port, Massachusetts,  April  3,  1755,  and  died 
in  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  March  21,  1834, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Jonathan  Parsons,  of  New- 
buryport, who  married,  December  14,  1731, 
Phebe  Griswold,  who  was  born  April  22, 
1716,  daughter  of  Judge  John  Griswold,  who 
was  the  grandson  of  Matthew  Griswold,  born 
1620,  died  1698,  who  emigrated  to  New  Eng- 
land in  1639,  and  settled  in  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut,   and    afterward    at    Saybrook    and 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Lyme,  Connecticut.  Matthew  Griswold  mar- 
ried, October  i6,  1646,  Anna  Walcott,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Walcott,  of  Windsor.  He  was 
one  of  three  brothers,  Edward  and  Thomas 
being  tlie  other  two,  sons  of  George  Griswold. 
All  three  brothers  emigrated  from  Kenilworth, 
in  the  county  of  Warwick,  England.  Of  this 
remarkable  family  it  appears  that  twelve  were 
governors  of  states,  thirty-six  high  judges 
(most  of  them  distinct  persons  from  any  of 
the  governors),  and  many  of  them  eminent 
men.  The  children  of  Moses  and  Lydia  (Par- 
sons) Greenleaf  were :  Moses,  Clarina,  Par- 
sons. Ebenezer,  Simon  and  Jonathan. 

(VII)  Hon.  Simon,  third  son  of  Captain 
Moses  and  Lydia  (Parsons)  Greenleaf,  was 
born  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1783,  and  died  in  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, October  6,  1853.  James  Edward 
Greenleaf's  "Genealogy  of  the  Greenleaf  Fam- 
ily" states  that  Simon  Greenleaf  "Receivetl  an 
acaflemic  education  at  the  Latin  school  in  New- 
buryport, imder  the  tuition  of  Mr.  Michael 
Walsh,  who  was  well  known  in  his  day,  and 
for  many  years  of  the  early  part  of  the  pres- 
ent century,  as  the  author  of  the  'Mercantile 
Arithmetic'  which  was  not  only  a  popular 
text-book,  but  a  counting-house  companion.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  he  entered  on  the  study  of 
law  with  Ezekiel  Whitman.  Esq.,  then  of  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  but  afterw^ards  of  Port- 
land, and  a  judge  of  common  pleas.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Cumberland  county,  in 
1805,  opened  an  office  first  in  Standish,  then 
in  Gray,  and  in  1817  at  Portland,  Maine.  He 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts  in  1817,  at  Bowdoin  College,  and  was 
also  in  that  year  an  overseer  of  the  college. 
At  Gray,  being  the  first  lawyer  in  the  place, 
he  soon  acquired  a  very  considerable  practice, 
w^hicli  he  retained  and  enlarged  by  his  fidelity 
anrl  skill.  As  his  family  increased  he  de- 
sired to  extend  the  range  of  his  business  and 
increase  his  emoluments,  and  in  18 18  removed 
to  Portland.  .At  that  time  the  two  leading 
members  of  the  bar  had  been  drawn  aside 
from  their  profession  into  public  life.  Judge 
Mellen  was  in  the  United  States  senate,  and 
Judge  Whitman  in  the  house  of  representa- 
tives; and  Mr.  Orr,  wdio  had  a  large  practice 
in  Cumberland  county,  was  also  in  congress. 
This  encouraged  the  accession  of  other  promi- 
nent men  to  Portland;  of  these  were  Mr. 
Greenleaf  and  the  late  Judge  Preble,  who 
came  the  same  year.  Mr.  Greenleaf  was  not 
disappointed ;  his  business  and  his  fame  in- 
creased, and  the  larger  and  more  cultivated 
society,  and  its  superior  advantages  in  other 


respects,  stimulated  his  susceptible  powers  to 
higher  efforts.  He  now  took  rank  among  the 
foremost  men  at  the  bar,  and  b_\-  his  winning 
manners  and  persuasive  style  of  speaking  and 
address,  accompanied  by  the  skill  and  ingen- 
uity of  his  arguments,  established  his  reputa- 
tion and  his  practice  on  a  firm  basis. 

"In  the  act  of  the  new  state,  establishing 
the  supreme  judicial  court,  passed  June  24, 
1820,  the  governor  and  council  were  required 
"to  appoint  some  suitable  person  learned  in  the 
law  to  be  a  reporter  of  the  decisions  of  the 
Supreme  Judicial  Court,'  and  publish  them 
whenever  they  would  compose  a  suitable  vol- 
ume. "  His  compensation  was  fixed  at  si.\  hun- 
dred dollars  a  year  salary  and  the  profits  aris- 
ing from  the  publication.  Mr.  Greenleaf  was 
immediately  appointed  reporter  under  this  act, 
and  entered  on  his  duties  at  York  county,  .■\u- 
gust  term,  1820.  He  continued  faithfully, 
promptly  and  very  ably  to  discharge  the  duties 
of  this  arduous  and  responsible  office  for 
twelve  years,  closing  with  the  July  term  at 
Waldo  county,  in  1832.  The  cases  determined 
during  this  period  are  contained  in  nine  vol- 
umes, the  last  embracing  a  table  of  cases  and 
a  digest  of  the  whole.  *  *  '■'■  *  The  reports  are 
distinguished  for  the  clear  and  concise  manner 
in  which  the  points  of  law  are  stated  and  the 
arguments  of  counsel  given.  They  took  high 
rank  in  this  class  of  legal  productions,  and 
were  received  as  standards  of  authority 
throughout  the  L'nion.  They  were  deservedly 
considered  among  the  most  valuable  of  Amer- 
ican reports,  and  so  highly  were  they  esteemed 
that  a  new  edition  was  demanded  by  the  pro- 
fession— a  very  rare  thing  in  this  class  of 
works — which  was  published  with  annotations 
by  Mr.  Abbot,  of  Cambridge,  a  short  time 
previous  to  Mr.  Greenleaf's  death.  So  con- 
spicuous had  Mr.  Greenleaf  become  about  the 
time  that  he  closed  his  duties  as  reporter,  that 
the  attention  of  Judge  Story,  then  at  the  head 
of  the  law  school  at  Cambridge,  was  turned  to 
him  as  the  most  suitable  person  to  fill  the  place 
in  that  department  of  the  university  rendered 
vacant  by  the  death  of  the  lamented  Professor 
Ashman,  and  he  immediately  determined  to 
bring  Mr.  Greenleaf  to  Cambridge  if  he  could. 
At  that  time  Judge  Story,  holding  his  court  in 
Portland,  had  an  interesting  case  in  admiralty. 
This  branch  of  the  law  was  known  only  in  our 
largest  commercial  cities,  and  not  to  many  of 
the  profession  there.  And  Judge  Story  was 
surprised  when  he  found  that  Mr.  Greenleaf 
brought  to  this  case  a  thorough  acquaintance 
with  this  very  peculiar  system  of  law,  which 
he  himself  deemed  of  great  importance,  and 


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which,  foreseeing  its  constantly  increasing 
value,  he  wished  to  make  prominent  in  the  in- 
struction of  the  law  school.  *  *  *  *  In  1833 
Mr.  Greenleaf  was  appointed  Royal  Professor 
of  Law  at  Harvard  College,  as  associate  to 
Professor  Ashman.  He  received  at  Harvard, 
the  year  of  his  removal  to  Cambridge,  1833,  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws,  and  the  same  de- 
gree at  Amherst  the  next  year.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Royal  Professor  of  Law  at  Harvard 
L'niversity,  as  successor  to  Professor  Ash- 
man, in  1833,  which  office  he  held  two  years, 
when  he  was  appointed  to  the  chair  of  the 
Dane  Professorship,  a  worthy  successor  to  that 
chair  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Judge 
Story.  In  consequence  of  ill-health,  he  re- 
signed this  chair  in  1848,  when  he  was  hon- 
ored with  the  title  of  Emeritus  Professor  of 
Law  in  the  University.  His  connection  with 
the  law  school  marked  a  season  in  its  history 
of  great  prosperity.  He  became  a  Mason  in 
Cumberland  Lodge,  Maine,  and  was  the  sec- 
ond grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  ]\Iaine. 
In  1820  and  1 82 1  he,  with  Asa  Clapp  and 
Nicholas  Emery,  represented  Portland  in  the 
legislature  of  Maine.  As  these  were  sessions 
when  the  new  government  was  put  in  opera- 
tion, the  duty  was  responsible,  and,  to  a  law- 
yer who  was  expected  to  pass  upon  the  code 
of  laws  to  be  adopted  on  careful  revision,  ar- 
duous. Mr.  Greenleaf  was  faithful  to  his  trust 
and  beneficial  to  the  country.  With  this  ex- 
perience he  retired  at  once  and  forever  from 
political  office.  Mr.  Greenleaf  was  a  grave, 
sedate-looking  man,  and  very  quiet  in  his 
movements.  He  was  about  five  feet  ten 
inches  in  height,  rather  stout  built,  full  face, 
with  a  small,  sharp  eye,  nearly  black.  His 
original  hair  was  very  dark  brown ;  his  pos- 
ture a  little  stooping,  with  his  head  pro- 
jecting forward ;  his  countenance  was  ex- 
pressive of  benignity  and  intelligence. 

The  following  are  some  of  the  works  which 
have  proceeded  from  his  pen :  "A  Brief  In- 
quiry into  the  Origin  and  Principles  of  Free 
jMasonrv,"  published  at  Portland  in  1820.  An 
anonymous  pamphlet  entitled  "Remarks  on  the 
Exclusion  of  Atheists  as  Witnesses,"  octavo ; 
published  in  Boston  in  1839.  "Catalogue  of  a 
Select  Law  Library,"  also  a  "Course  of  Legal 
Studies,"  etc.  "A  Letter  to  a  Person  Engaged 
in  a  Lawsuit  by  a  Lawyer;  by  a  Member  of 
the  Profession."  published  as  a  tract  by  the 
American  Tract  Societv.  "An  Examination  of 
the  Testimony  of  the  Four  Evangelists  by  the 
Rules  of  Evidence  Administered  in  Courts  of 
Justice;  With  an  Account    of    the    Trial    of 


Jesus,"  published  in  Boston  in  1846  and  re- 
printed in  London  in  1S47.  "-'^  Discourse 
Pronounced  at  His  Inauguration  as  Royal 
Professor  of  Law,  in  Harvard  University." 
"A  Discourse  Commemorative  of  the  Life  and 
Character  of  Joseph  Story,"  pronounced  Sep- 
tember 18,  1845.  "Testamentary  Counsels  and 
Hints  to  Christians  on  the  Right  Distribution 
of  Their  Property  by  Will,  by  a  Retired  Solici- 
tor," carefully  revised  by  a  member  of  the 
American  bar ;  published  at  Troy,  New  York, 
in  1845.  "A  Treatise  on  the  Law  of  Evi- 
dence," three  volumes.  An  edition  of  "Cruise's 
Digest  of  the  Law  of  Real  Property,  with 
Notes,  1849-50." 

Professor  Simon  Greenleaf  married,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1806,  Hanah  Kingman,  born  Au- 
gust 5,  1787,  died  January  13.  1857,  daughter 
of  Ezra  and  Susanna  (Whitman)  Kingman. 
Fifteen  children  were  born  of  this  marriage, 
of  whom  eleven  died  in  infancy.  Those  who 
attained  mature  age  and  married  were :  Pat- 
rick Henry,  Charlotte  Kingman,  James,  Caro- 
line Augusta. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Edmund  Greenleaf  I.) 

(Ill)  Edmund  (2),  son 
GREENLEAF  and  eighth  child  of  Steph- 
en and  Elizabeth  (Coffin) 
Greenleaf,  was  Ixirn  in  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts, May  10,  1670,  and  died  there  about  1740. 
He  married,  July  2,  1691,  .Abigail  Somerby, 
born  in  Newbury,  January  25,  1670,  daughter 
of  Abiel  Somerby.  Children:  i.  Judith,  born 
December  15,  1692,  died  February  10,  1762 
or  1772;  married,  April  22,  1713,  John  Cof- 
fin, eldest  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah 
(Brocklebank)  Coffin,  died  September  30, 
1762.  2.  Abigail,  born  March  6,  1695,  died 
same  day.  3.  Mary,  born  September  10,  1697, 
married,  November  15,  1723,  Rowland  Brad- 
bury. He  married  (second)  Elizabeth  Oliver, 
of  York.  4.  Rebecca,  born  February  23,  1699, 
died  September  29,  1702.  5.  Edmund,  born 
February  27,  1702.  6.  Henry,  born  July  22, 
1705,  married  in  Boston,  June  26,  1726,  Eliza- 
beth Burnall.  7.  Rebecca,  born  November  5, 
1707,  died  August  19.  1709.  8.  Richard,  born 
May  II,  1710.  9.  Rooksby,  born  May  11, 
1713,  married,  April  21,  1738,  John  Clark,  of 
Kings  Towne. 

(i\')  Edmund  (3),  fifth  child  and  eldest 
son  of  Edmund  (2)  and  Abigail  (Somerby) 
Greenleaf,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts, February  27,  1702.  He  married.  May 
4.  1725,  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
( Moody")  Hale,  and  granddaughter  of  John 
Hale,  who  married  Sarah  Somerby,  daughter 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


of  Henry  and  Judith  (Greenleaf)  Somerby. 
Edmund  Greenleaf  and  wife  had  two  children  : 

1.  William,  born  November  28,  1725.  2. 
Mary,  born  April  30,  1729. 

(V)  Captain  William,  only  son  of  Edmund 
and  Mary  (Hale)  Greenleaf,  was  bom  No- 
vember 28,  1725,  died  January  7,  1800.  He 
married  (first)  Ruth  Pearson,  of  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts,  who  died  March  22,  1779.  He 
married  (second)  April  11,  1784,  Mary  Soley, 
of  Haverhill,  who  died  November  7,  1802. 
He  lived  in  Harverhill  and  was  landlord  of  the 
Sun  Tavern  until  his  death,  and  was  then 
succeeded  by  his  son  William.  He  is  said  to 
have  been  a  very  religious  man  and  one  of 
the  pillars  of  the  Calvinist  Baptist  church.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  "fire  society"  of  Haver- 
hill in  1768  and  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolu- 
tion. He  had  eight  children,  all  born  of  his 
first  marriage:    i.  Daniel,  born  April  19.  1745. 

2.  William,  born  June  16,  died  October  9, 
1747.  3.  Hannah,  born  July  30,  1748.  died 
July  I,  1749.  4.  Edmund,  born  November  15, 
died  November  25.  1749.  5.  Samuel,  born 
July  24,  1752,  died  March  20,  1795;  married, 
December  9,  1779,  Alice  Ladd,  of  Haverhill. 
6.  William,  born  November  9,  1754,  died 
March  29,  1833;  married,  March  16,  1788, 
Abigail  Soley.  daughter  of  his  father's  second 
wife.  7.  Ruth,  born  July  17,  1758.  8.  Han- 
nah, born  September  14,  1762. 

(VI)  Daniel,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Cap- 
tain William  and  Ruth  (Pearson)  Greenleaf, 
was  born  April  ig,  1745,  died  June  10,  1794, 
in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts.  He  married,  in 
1765,  Ruth  Dalton,  of  Newbury,  and  had  ten 
children:  i.  James,  born  September  i,  1766, 
died    1796;    married     Sarah     Townsend.       2. 

Mary  P.,  born  July  i,   1768,  married  

Palmer.  3.  Daniel,  born  August  29,  1770,  died 
in  infancy.  4.  Hannah,  born  August  18,  1771, 
married  ]\Ioses  Kelley.  5.  Abigail,  born  Sep- 
tember 9,  1773,  married,  November  25.  1801, 

John  .     6.   Ruth,  born  July  31,    1775, 

married  William  Hook,  of  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts; had  four  children,  of  whom  Elias  and 
George  G.  were  the  celebrated  church-organ 
builders  of  Boston.  7.  Rebecca,  born  March 
28,  1778,  died  August  26,  1859,  at  Salem; 
married,  September  3,  1797.  Ephraim  Bea- 
man,  died  Rlay  6,  1822.  8.  Daniel,  born  May 
5,  1780,  died  April  23,  1854;  married.  May, 
1803,  Elizabeth  W.  Gale,  of  Concord,  New 
Hampshire ;  died  June  8.  1847.  9-  William, 
born  September  3,  17S2.  10.  Sally,  born  March 
19,  1785,  married  Joseph  Brown,  of  Hampton, 
New  Hampshire. 

(VII)  William,    ninth   of   the    children    of 


Daniel  and  Ruth  (Dalton)  Greenleaf,  was 
born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  September 
2,  1782,  died  January  2,  1855.  He  married 
Ann  Taylor,  born  April  11,  1785,  in  Halifax, 
England,  by  whom  he  had  eight  children :  i . 
William  Taylor,  born  September  6,  1807,  died 
August  20,  1843 ;  married  Agnes  R.  Alilican. 

2.  James,  born  March  17,  1810.  3.  John,  born 
July  5,  181 1,  married  Louisa  Poland,  who  died 
December  6,  1847.  4-  Charles  T.,  born  Jan- 
uar\-   28,    1815,   died  December  26,    1886.     5. 

,  born  October  3,  1817,  married  James 

William  Fisher.  6.  Edmund  D.,  born  October 
16,  1820.  7.  Francis,  born  April  3,  1824.  8. 
Mary,  born  October  19,  1825. 

(VIII)  Charles  T.,  fourth  son  and  child  of 
William  and  Ann  (Taylor)  Greenleaf,  was 
born  January  28,  1815,  died  at  Bath,  Maine, 
December  26,  1886.  He  married,  at  Newport, 
Kentucky,  November  i,  1841,  Mary  J.  Wheel- 
er, of  Warwick,  New  York,  and  in  a  few 
years  removed  east  to  Bath,  Maine,  where  he 
established  himself  in  the  hardware  business, 
in  which  he  continued,  at  the  same  time  con- 
ducting an  ice  business,  until  1867,  when  he 
received  appointment  as  postmaster  of  Bath, 
which  position  he  filled  two  terms.  He  was 
also  city  marshal  for  a  number  of  years.  J-Iis 
wife  died  in  June,  1893,  having  borne  her  hus- 
band seven  children:  i.  Charles  Henry,  born 
September  27,  1842.  2.  William  Franklin, 
born    October    28,    1844,    died  May  7,   1845. 

3.  Eugene,  born  October  12,  1846,  died 
November  26.  1892,  at  Bath;  married,  June 
14,  1870,  Emma  J.  Hartwell,  had  one 
child,  Alice  E.,  born  July  i,  1872.  4.  George 
Rogers,  born  May  10,  1849,  ^'^d  J"'."^'  23, 
1850.  5.  Albert,  born  May  9,  1851,  died  No- 
vember 14.  185 1.  6.  Fred  A.,  born  November 
27,  1853.  died  October  22,.  1885:  married  Lil- 
lian S.  Snow,  had  no  children.  7.  Annie  T., 
born  November  6,  1855,  died  October  7.  1865. 

(IX)  Charles  Henry,  eldest  son  and  child 
of  Charles  T.  and  Alary  J.  (Wheeler)  Green- 
leaf, was  born  in  Newport,  Kentucky,  Septem- 
ber 27,  1842.  When  he  was  four  years  old 
his  father  removed  with  the  family  from  New- 
port to  Bath,  Maine,  and  he  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  that  city,  graduated  from 
the  high  school,  and  then  took  a  course  at  the 
Eastman  Business  College  at  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  in 
the  summer  of  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  Company  A  of  the  Third  IMaine  Regiment, 
saw  active  service,  and  for  gallantry  on  the 
field  was  breveted  second  lieutenant  by  General 
Kearney,  at  Malvern  Hill.  He  was  in  the 
army   for  two  years,   then   was  compelled  by 


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the  state  of  his  heaUh  to  return  home,  but 
acted  as  recruiting  officer  until  the  close  of 
the  war.  He  then  entered  the  post-office  as 
assistant  to  his  father,  who  was  postmaster  at 
the  time,  and  later  was  with  A.  Sewall  &  Com- 
pany, as  bookkeeper,  having  an  excellent  repu- 
tation as  an  expert  accountant.  He  then  for 
a  number  of  years  filled  the  position  of  purser 
on  a  line  of  steamers  plying  along  the  Pacific 
coast,  then  returned  to  Bath  to  enter  upon  the 
duties  of  local  manager  and  superintendent  for 
the  American  Express  Company.  From  1885 
to  1896  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Galen  JMoses, 
and  in  the  latter  year  was  appointed  collector 
of  taxes,  in  which  office  he  was  retained  for 
eleven  years,  retiring  in  March,  1907,  and  dur- 
ing this  period  he  also  acted  as  representative 
of  the  Cunard  and  Allen  lines  of  steamships. 
He  was  for  several  years  treasurer  at  the 
Worombo  Mills.  In  politics  Mr.  Greenleaf 
Vi-as  a  Republican,  served  several  terms  in  both 
branches  of  the  city  council,  also  for  eleven 
years  as  alderman  from  ward  seven,  and  gave 
freely  of  his  time  and  service  for  the  interest 
of  the  city.  As  expert  accountant  he  served 
during  most  of  his  time  while  alderman  as 
chairman  of  the  finance  committee.  He  also 
served  as  trustee  of  the  Bath  Savings  Insti- 
tution and  of  the  Patten  free  library,  had  been 
treasurer  of  the  Eastern  Electric  Construction 
Company,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Bath  Real  Es- 
tate Company.  He  was  a  prominent  Mason, 
a  member  of  Polar  Star  Lodge,  No.  114,  F. 
and  A.  M. ;  Montgomery  Chapter,  No.  2,  R. 
A.  M.;  St.  Bernard  Council,  R.  S.  M.;  Dun- 
lap  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Bath ;  Kora  Tem- 
ple, A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of  Lewiston;  Mt. 
\'ernon  Council,  of  Brunswick.  He  was  an 
enthusiastic  member  of  Sedgwick  Post,  G.  A. 
R.,  having  served  as  commander  and  patriotic 
instructor  of  the  Bath  Post,  and  he  also  held 
membership  in  the  Sagadahoc  Club  and  Dro- 
more  Grange.  He  was  a  consistent  member 
of  the  Universalist  church,  and  as  a  young 
man  for  several  years  was  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday-school  of  his  parish. 

Mr.  Greenleaf  married,  August  15,  1871, 
Emma  C.  Allen,  'daughter  of  Amos  L.  Allen, 
of  Bath,  a  prominent  ship-builder  of  Ports- 
mouth. Virginia,  before  the  war,  where  he 
built  seven  gunboats  for  the  government.  At 
the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  he  returned  to 
Bath,  where  he  built  the  gunboats  "Katahdin" 
and  "Iosco"  for  the  government,  also  building 
vessels  and  repairing  at  East  Boston,  ?\Iassa- 
chusetts.  Mrs.  Greenleaf,  his  daughter,  at  the 
present  time  has  a  claim  pending  for  payment 


for  the  construction  of  the  latter  vessel,  the 
government  never  having  fulfilled  this  obliga- 
tion. Mr.  Greenleaf  died  at  his  home  in  Bath, 
Alaine,  November  29,  1907,  after  a  brief  ill- 
ness with  typhoid  pneumonia,  and  his  loss  was 
keenly  regretted  by  an  unusually  wide  circle 
of  friends  and  acquaintances.  He  was  a 
man  of  uncommonly  fine  qualities,  broad- 
minded,  generous,  patriotic  and  of  sterling  in- 
tegrity and  correct  business  methods,  and  his 
loss  was  deeply  felt  by  those  who  had  chosen 
him  for  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility. 
Mr.  Greenleaf  is  survived  by  his  wife,  but  had 
no  children. 


(For  ancestry  see  preceding  Greenleaf  sketches.) 

(V)  Samuel,  third  child 
GREENLEAF  and  son  of  Stephen  (3) 
and  Mary  (Mackres) 
Greenleaf,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts, June  12,  1718,  and  married  Hephzibah 
Preble,  of  York,  born  in  1725,  died  in  Wool- 
wich in  1792,  her  husband  dying  in  1792  at 
Westport,  Maine.  Samuel  removed  to  York 
with  his  father,  and,  like  his  father,  was  a 
coastwise  seaman.  Children :  Stephen,  Sam- 
uel, Enoch,  Olive,  Benjamin,  Hannah  and 
Dorcas. 

(\T)  Stephen  (4),  eldest  son  of  Samuel  and 
Hephzibah  (Preble)  Greenleaf,  w^as  born  in 
York  or  Westport,  Maine,  1747,  and  married 
Mary  Knight,  November  25.  1769,  of  Scar- 
borough, Maine,  who  was  born  jMay  2,  1749, 
died  May  11,  1832,  surviving  her  husband 
nineteen  years;  he  died  in  1813.  Children: 
Nathaniel,  Sarah,  Mary,  Stephen,  Westbrook, 
Abigail,  Ebenezer,  Samuel,  Ohve,  Thankful 
and  Ebenezer. 

(VH)  Westbrook,  fifth  child  and  third  son 
of  Stephen  (4)  and  Mary  (Knight)  Green- 
leaf, was  born  in  Westport,  Maine,  in  1778, 
and  married  in  1800  jMary  Dunton,  and  (sec- 
ond) Ruth  B.  Harriman.  Westbrook  lived  to 
attain  the  age  of  eighty-eight,  and  was  vigor- 
ous, hale  and  hearty  up  to  his  death.  Chil- 
dren :  Abigail,  Mary,  Westbrook,  Austin, 
Daniel  D..  Eliza  A..  Wilmot,  Mary  McCarty 
and  Silas  H.    He  resided  in  Westport,  Maine. 

(\'III)  Westbrook  (2),  third  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Westbrook  ( i)  and  Alary  (Dunton) 
Greenleaf,  was  born  January  28.  1806.  died 
January  18,  1883.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  was  a  farmer  and 
fisherman  by  occupation,  and  resided  in  West- 
port  all  his  life.  He  was  for  a  time  port- 
collector,  and  was  active  in  church  work.  We 
surmise,  by  the  naming  of  his  children  after 
prominent  Democratic  politicians,  that  he  was 


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of  that  party.  He  married  (first)  Emeline, 
daughter  of'WiUiam  Clittord,  of  Edgecomb. 
She  died  in  1846.  Married  (second)  Mrs. 
Diademia  Cathran  (love,  who  died  April  3, 
1883.  Children:  .Mercy,  Sarah  C,  William 
Clifford,  Daniel  D.,  Silas  Nelson,  Levi  Wood- 
bury, James  D.,  Richard  M..  Johnson,  Gran- 
ville C.  and  Westbrook.  They  all  lived  to 
years  of  maturity,  with  the  exception  of  James 
D.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nine,  from  an  in- 
jury received  from  sliding.  Of  the  seven 
brothers,  all,  with  the  exception  of  one,  Levi 
W'.,  who  was  lost  at  sea  at  the  age  of  about 
twenty-one,  were  master  mariners. 

(IX)  Granville  C,  ninth  child  and  seventh 
son  of  Westbrook  (2)  and  Emeline  (Clif- 
ford) Greenleaf,  was  born  in  Westport,  Elaine, 
November  8,  1844.  Educated  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  town,  at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  be- 
came a  fisherman,  sailing  to  the  fishing-banks 
and  following  the  sea  for  seven  years.  Feb- 
ruary I,  1866,  he  came  to  Bath,  engaging  in 
the  grocery  business,  which  he  continued 
eleven  years.  He  then  took  charge  of  the 
Kennebec  Steamship  Company  as  agent,  and 
when  this  company  became  part  of  the  Eastern 
Steamship  Compan\',  he  was  continent  agent 
and  general  agent  of  the  Boothbay  division, 
which  position  he  now  holds.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat; was  alderman  from  the  fourth  ward 
from  Bath  in  the  years  1881-83-84;  was  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  mayor,  i88g.  He  belongs 
to  Lincoln  Lodge,  No.  10.  Sagadahoc  En- 
campment. No.  6,  and  Canton  King,  No.  10, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  is  ac- 
tive in  the  Universalist  church.  He  married. 
April  2T^,  1867,  Clara  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Henry  Fowle,  of  Westport.  She  died  May 
II,  1890.  Children:  Gertrude  Clifford  and 
Earl  Granville. 

Miss  Mary  Blanche  Bixby,  of  Pasadena, 
California,  formerly  of  Skowhegan,  Alaine, 
wrote  to  Governor  Hill,  calling  his  attention 
to  the  fact  that  the  first  commission  ever  is- 
sued to  a  keeper  of  a  lighthouse  on  the  coast 
of  the  Lnited  States  was  issued  to  a  Maine 
man,  and  that  this  original  commission  is  now 
in  existence  in  that  city.  Miss  Bixby  thinks 
it  would  be  a  good  idea  to  have  the  commis- 
sion purchased  and  brought  back  to  Maine, 
where  it  could  be  hung  in  the  rooms  of  the 
Maine  Historical  Society,  or  in  the  State 
House.  It  is  in  splendid  state  of  preservation, 
she  says,  excepting  that  a  small  piece  is  gone 
from  one  of  the  lower  corners,  opposite  the 
signature.  This  piece  is  about  an  inch  by  half 
an  inch.  The  commission  is  neatly  framed 
and  covered  by  glass,  which  protects  it.    Under 


this  commission  was  appointed,  by  President 
George  Washington,  the  first  keeper  of  tiie 
I'ortland  head  lighthouse,  which  was  the  first 
beacon-light  to  be  establishe<l  on  the  coast  of 
the  nation.  This  light  still  sends  out  its  warn- 
ing rays  to  mariners  bound  for  Maine's  most 
prominent  seaport.  At  the  time  the  commis- 
sion was  issued  Maine  was  a  district  of  Mas- 
sachusetts. The  follow'ing  is  a  copy  of  the 
commission : 

"GEORGE  WASHINGTON 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 

OF  AMERICA 

TO    ALL    WHO    SHALL    SEE    THESE 

PRESENTS 

GREETING: 

"KNOW  YE,  That  I  have  appointed  and  do 
appoint  Joseph  Greenleaf  Keeper  of  the  Light 
House  at  Portland  in  the  District  of  Maine  in 
the  State  of  Massachusetts  to  exercise  and  ful- 
fill the  Powers  and  Duties  of  Office :  And  to 
have  and  to  hold  the  same,  with  all  the  Au- 
thorities, Privileges  and  Emoluments  there- 
unto of  Right  appertaining  during  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  UNITED  STATES  for  the  time 
being. 

"(jIVEN  under  my  Hand  at  the  City  of 
New  York,  the  seventh  Day  of  January  in  the 
Year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand  seven  hun- 
dred and  ninety-one. 

"GO  WASHINGTON." 


The  Masons  of  pioneer  days  in 
MASON       the  New  England  colonies  were 

numerous,  and  many  of  them 
were  men  of  more  than  ordinary  ability.  Ten 
or  twelve  men  of  this  name  are  mentioned 
among  the  well-known  immigrants  in  the 
colonies  before  1650. 

(I)  Captain  Hugh  Mason,  a  tanner,  one  of 
the  very  first  settlers  of  Watertown,  was  ad- 
mitted freeman  March  4.  1635:  was  repre- 
sentative 1 644-45-60-6 1 -64-7 1 -74-75-76  and 
yj ;  selectman  twenty-nine  years,  between 
1649  and  1678,  inclusive :  a  lieutenant  as  early 
as  1649,  and  made  captain  May  5,  1652.  He 
was  for  many  years  one  of  the  three  com- 
missioners appointed  by  the  county  court  to 
determine  small  cases.  This  was  before  the 
appointment  of  justices  of  the  peace.  October 
30.  1657,  he  was  a])poiute(l  by  the  court  one 
of  a  commitlee  to  attend  to  the  defects  in 
several  bridges  in  the  county.  December  18, 
1660,  he  was  appointed  on  a  committee  to 
take  account  of  John  Steadman,  county  treas- 
urer, and  make  a  levy,  etc.  It  has  been  con- 
jectured that  he  was  a  brother  of  Captain 
John   Mason,   the   distinguished    Pequot   war- 


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rior.  He  died  October  10,  1678,  aged  seventy- 
three.  By  his  wife  Esther,  who  died  May  i, 
1692,  he  had  seven  children :  Hannah,  Ruth, 
Mary,  John,  Joseph,  Daniel  and  Sarah. 

(11)  John,  eldest  son  of  Captain  Hugh  and 
Esther  Mason,  born  January  i,  1645,  was  a 
tanner,  and  settled  at  Cambridge  Village,  now 
Newton,  where  he  died  about  1730,  aged 
eighty-five.  He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
secession  petition,  1678,  was  constable  in  Cam- 
bridge Village,  1679,  and  selectman  five  years. 
His  residence  was  near  the  Falls.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Hammond,  born  March  6,  1655, 
died  November  13,  1715.  Their  children 
were :  John,  Elizabeth,  Abigail,  Daniel,  Sam- 
uel and  Hannah. 

(HI)  Daniel,  second  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hannnond)  Mason,  was  born  between 
1679  ^nd  1689,  in  Newton,  where  he  became 
a  farmer.  He  married  (first)  1717  Experi- 
ence Newcomb,  and  had :  Daniel,  Samuel, 
Abigail,  Hannah,  John,  William,  Moses  and 
others. 

(IV)  Moses,  son  of  Daniel  and  Experience 
(Newcomb)  Mason,  born  in  Newton,  Massa- 
chusetts, settled  in  New  Hampshire.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Boston,  June  6,  1749  (records  of 
King's  Chapel),  or  June  20  (town  records), 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Mary  Knap, 
and  settled  in  Newton.  He  removed  to  Sher- 
born  about  1757.  July  27,  1767,  he  sold  his 
land  in  Sherborn  and  thence  removed  to  Dub- 
lin, and  settled  on  lot  10,  range  i,  and  died 
October,  1775.  His  widow  removed  with  th^ 
family,  1798,  to  Bethel,  Maine,  and  died  there 
July  2,  1802,  aged  seventy-three.  Their  chil- 
dren, four  born  in  Newton,  four  in  Sherborn 
and  two  in  Dublin,  were :  Martha,  Lucy,  Ly- 
dia, Moses,  Mary,  Hannah,  Betty,  Walter, 
John  and  Thirza. 

(V)  Moses  (2),  eldest  son  of  Aloses  and 
Lydia  (Knap)  Mason,  born  April  26,  1757, 
died  in  Bethel,  Maine,  October  31,  1837,  aged 
eighty.  He  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  revo- 
lution and  fought  under  General  Stark  at  the 
battle  of  Bennington.  His  name  is  on  the 
"IMuster  and  Pay  Rolls  of  Captain  Joseph 
Parker's  Company  raised  out  of  Col.  Enoch 
Hale's  Regiment;  joined  the  Northern  Army 
at  Ticonderoga  inustered  and  paid  July  18, 
1776  by  Enoch  Hale  muster  and  pay  master.'' 
On  Colonel  Enoch  Hale's  return,  1777,  he  is 
registered  as  enlisted  from  Dublin  for  nine 
months'  service  and  described  as  twenty-one 
years  of  age  and  five  feet  six  inches  high.  His 
name  is  on  the  pay  roll  of  a  company  com- 
manded by  Captain  John  Mellin  which 
marched    from    Fitzwilliam   and    towns    adja- 


cent to  reinforce  the  garrison  at  Ticonderoga 
on  the  alarm  in  June  and  July,  1777;  "date  of 
entry,  June  28,  time  of  service,  five  days,  date 
of  discharge,  July  2."  Also  on  "Pay  Roll  of 
Captain  Salmon  Stone's  Company  in  Col. 
Nichol's  Regiment,  General  Stark's  Brigade, 
raised  out  of  the  Fifteenth  Regiment  of  New 
Hampshire  JMilitia,  Enoch  Hale  Colonel,  which 
company  marched  from  Rindge  in  said  state 
July  1777,  and  joined  the  Northern'  Conti- 
nental Army  at  Bennington  and  Still  water." 
He  enlisted  July  21,  and  was  discharged  Sep- 
tember 26,  1777,  having  served  one  month  and 
ten  days.  There  also  appears  the  following  re- 
ceipt : 

"Dublin  May  5th  1786  Then  Reed  of 
Simeon  Bullard  the  sum  of  thirteen  shillings 
and  four  pence  for  my  rations  and  travel 
money  to  Springfield  under  the  command 
of  Dane  Runnels  Lieut  Colo  in  the  year 
1 781 

"Per  Me  Moses  Mason." 

After  his  marriage  he  settled  in  Dublin,  where 
he  removed  in  1799  to  Bethel,  Maine,  and 
occupied  the  place  opposite  Bethel  Hill,  after- 
wards owned  and  occupied  by  his  son  Aaron, 
and  later  by  his  grandson,  Moses  A.  Mason. 
He  was  representative  five  years,  1813-1817, 
and  justice  of  the  peace.  He  married,  June 
20,  1780,  Eunice,  daughter  of  William  Ayer, 
of  Dublin.  She  died  February  4,  1846,  aged 
eighty-five.  They  had  eleven  children : 
Thirza,  Susan.  Moses  (died  young),  Aaron, 
Moses,  Lydia,  Eunice,  Hannah,  Charles,  Ayres 
and  Louisa. 

(VI)  Ayres,  tenth  child  and  youngest  son 
of  Moses  (2)  and  Eunice  (Ayer)  Mason, 
born  in  Bethel,  December  31,  1800,  died  in 
Bethel,  1890,  aged  ninety  years.  He  occupied 
the  interval  farm  on  Middle  Interval  road,  a 
mile  from  Bethel  Hill.  He  married,  January 
9,  1826,  Eunice  (Hale)  Mason,  widow  of  his 
brother  Charles.  She  died  July  19,  1865. 
Their  children  were :  Charles,  Maria  Antoin- 
ette, Oliver  Hale,  William  Wallace  and  Mary 
Ellen. 

(VII)  Charles,  eldest  child  of  Ayres  and 
Eunice  (Hale)  Mason,  born  in  Bethel,  Jan- 
uary 17,  1827,  died  November  16,  1904,  aged 
seventy-seven.  He  was  long  in  business  in 
Bethel  village,  from  which  he  retired  about 
1895.  He  was  clerk  in  the  store  of  Abernathy 
Grover,  commenced  trade  for  himself  with 
Clark  S.  Edwards,  and  afterwards  carried  on 
business  alone,  selling  a  large  amount  of  dry- 
goods  and  groceries  every  year.  He  was  also 
interested  in  timber  lands  and  in  lumbering. 
He  served  the  town  as  clerk  and  treasurer,  and 


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STATE  OF  MAIXR. 


was  a  leading  man  in  the  village  corporation. 
He  married,  October  13,  1853,  Melissa  Al., 
born  September  24,  1832,  daughter  of  Ezra 
Tvvitchell  and  Phebe  (Kimball)  Russell.  She 
died  April  2,  1907.  Their  children  were: 
Adelaide,  Fannie  May,  Susie  A.,  Ellen,  Charles 
Ayres,  Harry  Ezra  and  Grace  G. 

'(Vni)  Adelaide,  eldest  child  of  Charles 
and  Melissa  M.  (Russell)  ^^lason.  was  born 
August  22,  1854,  and  married,  October  3. 
1878,  Levi  Greenleaf,  now  of  Portland,  Maine. 
(See  Greenleaf  VHI.) 


England,  for  five  hundred  years 
HYDE  before  the  first  of  the  Hyde  immi- 
grants left  their  native  land  to 
make  a  home  in  the  Xew  \\'orld,  had  recorded 
among  the  chief  actors  in  her  history  notable 
men  bearing  the  name  of  Hyde.  Coming 
down  to  times  contemporaneous  with  the 
exodus  of  the  adventurers  bent  upon  making 
new  homes  and  renewing  their  fortunes  in 
Massachusetts  and  \'irginia.  we  find  in  Eng- 
lish history  that  Sir  Nicholas  Hyde  was  chief 
justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  1626;  that 
Sir  Robert  Hyde  was  chief  justice  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas  in  1660;  and  that 
Sir  Edward  Hyde,  Earl  of  Clarendon,  was 
lord  chancellor  at  the  Restoration,  1660. 
Sir  Edward  was  grandfather  of  Queen  Mary 
2d,  and  of  Queen  Anne,  and  of  Edward  Hyde 
(Lord  Granbury),  provincial  governor  of 
New  York.  In  the  records  of  Massachusetts 
and  Virginia  the  name  appears  variously  as 
Hide,  Hides  and  Hyde,  and  among  the  immi- 
grant progenitors  of  the  different  American 
families  we  have:  Samuel  Hyde,  who  at  the 
age  of  forty-seven  embarked  at  London  on  the 
ship  "Jonathan,"  in  the  spring  of  1639,  for 
New  England,  and  settled  at  New  .Cambridge 
(Newton)  about  1640,  and  was  admitted  as  a 
freeman  May  2,  1649.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  deacons  of  the  church  at  Newton,  and  his 
wife  Temperance  survived  him,  as  did  his 
younger  brother  Jonathan,  who  married  Mary 
French,  and  after  her  death  married  Mary 
Rediat.  Jonathan  had  nineteen  children,  and 
was  grandfather  of  Jonathan  Hyde,  of  Pom- 
fret,  Connecticut,  17 14,  who  had  six  sons  and 
was  the  progenitor  of  most  of  the  Hydes  of 
Connecticut,  especially  of  Pomfret  and  Canter- 
bury. Another  progenitor.  Humphrey  Hyde, 
came  from  England  to  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
in  1655,  and  was  an  extensive  landholder. 
Edward  Hyde  was  born  in  England  about 
1650,  and  he  was  sent  out  to  North  Carolina  in 
171 1  as  governor  of  the  province,  and  he 
was   instrumental  in   restoring  order  between 


the  rival  governments  cstaijlished  in  the  prov- 
ince between  the  Anglican  and  Quaker  fac- 
tions, and  by  aid  of  the  governor  of  the  prov- 
ince of  \'irginia,  Thomas  Corey,  the  governor 
by  the  will  of  the  Quakers,  was  expelled 
forcibly,  and  this  action  added  to  his  aft'ord- 
ing  protection  from  the  Indians  through  the 
victory  over  the  Tuscararas  near  Newberne 
in  1712,  gained  him  much  popularity.  About 
1750  John  Hyde  came  from  England  to  Rich- 
mond, \'irginia,  and  his  descendants  are  found 
in  all  tl'.e  southern  states.  For  the  purpose  of 
this  sketch,  however,  we  have  to  do  with 
William  Hyde,  who  appeared  in  Newton,  Mas- 
sachusetts Bay  Colony,  in  1633,  and  in  Hart- 
ford colony  in  the  Connecticut  valley  in  1636. 
and  his  name  is  recorded  on  a  monument 
erected  in  the  ancient  burial-ground  of  that 
city  as  one  of  the  original  settlers. 

(I)  William  Hyde,  the  immigrant  last  des- 
ignated, had  lands  granted  him  in  the  Hart- 
ford colony  in  1636,  and  was  probably  a  mem- 
ber of  the  party  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  who 
migrated  from  Roxboro  and  Newton.  As  to 
the  fact  of  his  coming  from  Newton  (or  New 
Cambridge,  as  the  place  was  first  called), 
where  the  brothers  Samuel  and  Jonathan  Hyde 
afterward  settled,  there  is  no  evidence  that 
they  were  of  the  same  family,  although  dis- 
tantly related.  The  relationship  cannot  be 
fixed,  as  the  ages  of  the  three  immigrants 
cannot  be  definitely  fixed.  Samuel  was  fort}'- 
seven  3ears  old  before  he  left  England,  and 
his  brother  Jonathan  was  much  younger,  and 
William  was  old  enough  to  be  deacon  in  the 
church  at  New  Cambridge  in  1633;  his  son 
Thomas  was  born  in  Hartford,  probably  in 
1637,  soon  after  the  arrival  of  his  father  in 
that  place.  \\'illiam  Hyde  and  his  family  re- 
moved from  Hartford  to  Saybrook,  and  his 
daughter  married  there  in  1652,  and  he  became 
one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Norwich  in 
1660.  where  he  was  a  man  of  considerable 
importance  among  the  first  settlers,  and  was 
frequently  a  selectman  of  the  town.  He  died 
in  Norwich,  January  6,  1681.  The  name  of 
his  wife  is  unknown.  His  eldest  child,  Hes- 
ter, was  probably  born  in  England,  and  she 
was  married  in  SaA'brook  as  early  as  1652,  to 
John  Post. 

(II)  Samuel,  second  child  and  only  son  of 
W'illiam  Hyde,  the  immigrant,  was  born  in 
Hartford  colony,  and  was  married  in  June, 
1659,  to  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lee  and 
his  wife,  who  bore  the  surname  of  Brown. 
This  Thomas  Lee  came  from  England  in  1641 
with  his  wife  and  three  children,  and  died  on 
the  passage,  and  his  widow  and  children  set- 


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1373 


tied  in  Saybrook,  one  of  the  children  being 
named  Thomas,  and  his  sister  Sarah  married 
John  Large  and  settled  on  Long  Island.  Sam- 
uel and  Jane  (Lee)  Hyde  settled  in  Norwich, 
Connecticut,  in  1660.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
an  original  settler  of  Norwich,  and  his  daugh- 
ter Elizabeth  was  the  first  white  child  born 
in  the  town.  He  had  land  assigned  to  him 
at  Norwich  West  Farms,  and  died  there  at 
the  age  of  forty  years,  in  1677,  leaving  eleven 
children,  and  John  Berchard  became  their 
guardian  by  order  of  the  court.  These  chil- 
dren were  all  born  in  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
in  the  following  order :  Elizabeth,  August, 
1660,  married  Lieutenant  Richard  Lord ; 
Phoebe,  January.  1663,  married  Matthew 
Griswold ;  Samuel,  May,  1665;  John,  Decem- 
ber, 1667,  married  E.xperience  .\bel :  William, 
January,  1670.  married  .\nne  Bushnell ;  Thom- 
as, July,  1672,  married  Alary  Backus ;  Sarah, 
February,  1675,  died  the  same  year;  and  John, 
May,  1677,  married  Elizabeth  Bushnell. 

(Ill)  Samuel  (2),  eldest  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
and  Jane  (Lee)  Hyde,  was  born  in  Norwich, 
Connecticut,  in  May,   1665.     He  married,  De- 
cember 10,  i6go,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
and    Sarah    Calkins,    and    granddaughter    of 
Hugh  and  Ann  Calkins.     Hugh  Calkins,  the 
immigrant,  born  in  Chepstow,  England,  1600, 
came     from     Monmouthshire,     England,     to 
Marshfield,  Plymouth  Colony,  about  1640,  re- 
sided in  Lynn  and  Gloucester,  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  removed  to  New  London,  Con- 
necticut, and  finally  settled  in  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut,  in    1660,   and   represented   the   town 
in  the  general  court  of  Connecticut.     Samuel 
and  Elizabeth  (Calkins)  Hyde  lived  in  Wind- 
ham,  Connecticut,  until   1700,  when  they  re- 
moved to  Lebanon,  where  he  died  November 
6,    1742,   leaving  a   widow   and   ten   children. 
The  first  four  of  these  children  were  born  in 
Windham,  and  the  last  six  in  Lebanon :    Sam- 
uel,   .September    10,    1691,    married    Priscilla 
Bradford:  Daniel,  August    16,   1694,  married 
Abigail  Wattles;   Sarah,  December  20,   i6g6, 
married    Ebenezer    Brown ;     Caleb,    April    g, 
1699,    married    Mary    Blackman ;    Elizabeth, 
baptized  December   12,     1703,    married    Rev. 
Timothy  Collins;  Elijah,  born  1705    (q.  v.)  ; 
Ebenezer,    was    married    twice;    Lydia,    born 
about  1710,  married  Jonathan  Aletcalf ;  David, 
baptized    March    22,     1719,     married     Althea 
Bradford :  Anne,  who  was  married  twice. 

(R')  Elijah,  fourth  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  (Calkins)  Hyde,  was  born  in 
Lebanon,  Connecticut,  1705.  He  was  married 
November  12,  1730,  to  Ruth,  daughter  of  John 
and   Elizabeth    (Leffingwell)    Tracy,   of  Nor- 


wich, settled  at  Norwich  West  Farms,  now 
Franklin,  Connecticut,  and  in  1742  removed 
to  Lebanon,  where  his  wife  died  October  15, 
^77 i>  aged  sixty-two  years,  and  he  married 
(second)  Mercy  Coleman,  a  widow,  on  May 
3,  1774,  and  she  died  August  3,  1783,  without 
issue  by  him,  and  he  died  at  the  homestead  in 
Lebanon,  August  10,  17S3.  The  children  of 
Elijah  and  Ruth  (Tracy)  Flyde  were:  An- 
drew, born  in  Norwich,  Connecticut,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1732,  married  Hannah  Thomas;  Eli- 
jah, January  17,  1735,  married  Mary  Clark; 
Eliphalet,  May  4,  1737,  died  November  4, 
1743;  Caleb,  July  2g,  1739,  married  Elizabeth 
Sacket;  Zina  (q.  v.),  April  2,  1741 ;  Ruth, 
January  21,  1743,  died  March  29,  1743; 
Eliphalet  ( 2 ) ,  born  in  Lebanon,  Connecticut, 
May  9,  1744,  married  Naomi  Flint  and  mar- 
ried (second)  Abigail  Washburn;  Moses,  Sep- 
tember II,  1 75 1,  married  Sara  Dana;  Ebene- 
zer, November  26,  1753,  married  Lucy  Hun- 
tington; Ruth  (2),  May  5,  1746,  married  Cap- 
tain Andrew  Huntington. 

(V)  Zina,  fifth  son  of  Elijah  nad  Ruth 
(Tracy)  Hyde,  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Con- 
necticut, April  2,  1 74 1.  He  was  a  farmer  in 
Lebanon,  and  was  married  November  30,  1769, 
to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah 
(Case)  Goodwin,  and  they  had  six  children,  as 
follows:  Erastus,  born  August  31,  1771,  died 
April  20,  1774;  Jonathan,  July  20,  1772,  mar- 
ried Deborah  Thomas;  Sarah,  February  23, 
1775,  married  the  Rev.  J.  Belden ;  Erastus  (2) 
July  30,  1777.  died  August  24,  1777;  Wealthy, 
July  27,  1778,  died  July  28,  1783;  Philomela, 
Alarch  29,  1782,  died  Alay  27,  1783.  The 
mother  of  these  children  died  August  4,  1783, 
and  her  husband  married  (second),  February 
2-1-  1785'  Lois,  daughter  of  Oliver  Bosworth, 
of  Chatham,  and  he  had  by  this  marriage  three 
children:  Wealthy  (2),' December  i,  1785, 
died  July  12,  1809,  unmarried;  Zina  (q.  v.), 
born  October  14,  1787;  Erastus,  November  9, 
1790,  died  at  sea,  unmarried,  in  1812. 

(\T)  Zina  (2),  eldest  son  of  Zina  (i)  and 
Lois  (Bosworth)  Hyde,  was  born  in  Lebanon, 
Connecticut,  October  14,  1787.  He  removed 
to  Bath,  Maine,  in  1802,  where  his  brother 
Jonathan  was  carrying  on  a  general  merchan- 
dising business,  and  he  learned  the  business 
and  soon  became  a  partner,  and  finally  opened 
business  on  his  own  account  as  Zina' Hyde  & 
Company,  dealers  in  hardware  and  ship- 
chandlery.  He  became  identified  with  the  state 
militia,  and  served  in  the  defence  of  the  town 
in  the  war  of  1812,  when  the  town  and  state 
of  Maine  were  in  danger  of  blockading  British 
men-of-war,  and  he  was  adjutant  of  the  regi- 


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ment  and  brigadier  major.  He  married,  June 
10,  1816,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Colonel  Daniel 
and  Mary  (Jewell)  Buck,  of  Bucksport, 
Maine.  His  father-in-law  was  a  well-known 
citizen  of  Maine,  and  the  town  of  Bucksport 
was  named  in  his  honor.  Mrs.  Hyde  was 
born  in  Bucksport,  Maine,  September  4,  1789, 
and  died  in  Bath,  Maine,  January  2,  181 7, 
without  issue.  j\lr.  Hyde  was  a  founder  of  the 
Swedenborgen  church  in  Bath,  Maine,  but 
had  been  brought  up  in  the  Congregational 
church  and  was  a  member  of  both  the  Old 
North  and  the  Old  South  Church  of  Bath, 
and  like  his  intimate  friend,  the  pastor  of  the 
Old  South  Church,  Rev.  Dr.  W.  Jenks,  he 
became  more  liberal  in  his  views  and  embraced 
the  teaching  of  Swedenborg.  He  was  mar- 
ried (second),  April  13,  1840,  to  Eleanor 
Maria,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Lydia  Davis,  of 
Jamaica  Plain,  ^lassachusetts,  and  widow  of 
Israel  Little,  of  Boston,  and  they  traveled  in 
Europe  for  two  years.  Their  first  child  was 
born  in  Florence,  Italy,  and  named  Thomas 
Worcester  (q.  v.).  Their  second  child,  Mary 
Eleanor,  was  born  in  Bath,  Maine,  November 
4,  1842.  Major  Hyde's  health  became  much 
impaired,  and  he  withdrew  from  active  busi- 
ness life.  About  fifteen  years  after  his  death 
at  his  home  in  Bath,  Maine,  September  19. 
1856,  his  widow  removed  to  London,  England, 
hoping  to  benefit  her  health,  and  she  died 
there  July  28,  1885,  when  eighty-two  years 
old.  and  her  daughter  was  her  companion  in 
exile  during  her  last  days. 

(VII)  Thomas  Worcester,  only  son  of 
Zina  (2)  and  Eleanor  Maria  (Davis)  (Little) 
Hyde,  was  born  in  Florence,  Italy,  January  15, 
1841,  and  soon  after  his  birth  was  brought  by 
his  parents  to  their  home  in  Bath,  Maine, 
where  he  was  brought  up.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  in  the  schools  of  Bath,  and  was 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  A.  B.,  1861,  the 
year  of  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war,  and 
while  a  postgraduate  student  at  the  Old  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  he  enlisted  in  a  Chicago 
regiment,  which  regiment  was  not  accepted  by 
the  government,  and  was  disbanded.  He  re- 
ceived his  degree  from  the  university,  being 
one  of  the  first  graduates  of  1861,  and  re- 
turned to  Bath  and  set  about  raising  a  com- 
pany for  a  regiment  of  Maine  troops,  which 
became  the  Seventh  Regiment  Maine  Volun- 
teers. He  went  into  camp  as  captain  of  his 
company,  at  Augusta,  was  elected  major  of 
the  regiment,  and  in  the  absence  of  his  superior 
officers  he  took  the  regiment  to  the  field  in 
Virginia,  and  it  formed  part  of  McClellan's 
Army  of  the  Potomac  in  the  siege  of  York- 


town  and  in  the  battles  of  Williamsburg  and 
Mechanicsville,  and  in  the  seven  days'  battle 
before  Richmond.  He  was  in  command  of 
the  regiment  in  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run 
under  General  John  Pope,  and  under  General 
McClellan  at  Crompton's  Gap  and  Antietam. 
In  the  battle  of  Antietam  he  was  directed 
to  attack  and  gain  possession  of  the  position 
of  the  Confederates  that  defended  the  head- 
quarters of  Stonewall  Jackson,  and  in  a  des- 
perate charge  which  he  led,  Major  Hyde  was 
enabled  to  break  through  the  Confederate  lines 
and  the  Seventh  Maine  came  out  of  the  fight 
with  sixty-five  men,  commanded  by  Major 
Hyde  alone,  and  in  the  desperate  struggle  his 
horse  was  shot  three  times,  but  not  so  as  to 
fall,  and  he  was  himself  slightly  wounded. 
The  regiment  was  ordered  back  to  Maine  to 
recruit  its  ranks,  and  its  first  batallion  was 
fitted  up  and  took  the  field  the  following 
spring,  and  on  being  assigned  to  a  place  in 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  Major  Hyde  was 
placed  on  staff  duty  as  acting  inspector-general 
of  the  left  division,  and  when  that  organization 
was  disbanded,  he  was  retained  upon  the  staff 
of  the  Sixth  Corps  as  aide-de-camp  and  pro- 
vost-general to  General  Sedgwick,  commander 
of  the  corps.  This  position  gave  him  an  im- 
portant position  in  the  storming  of  Marye's 
Heights,  and  after  the  battle  at  Salem  Church 
he  was  selected  to  present  to  General  Hooker 
the  flags  captured  from  the  enemy,  and  he  was 
also  recommended  for  promotion.  He  fol- 
lowed the  fortunes  of  General  Sedgwick  as  a 
staff  officer  through  the  three  days  at  Gettys- 
burg, Pennsylvania,  and  in  all  the  battles  in 
which  the  Sixth  Corps  was  engaged,  and  he 
was  by  the  side  of  his  chief  at  Spottsylvania 
when  he  was  killed.  He  was  about  the  same 
time  promoted  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colo- 
nel, and  after  the  death  of  Sedgwick  was  re- 
tained on  the  staff  of  the  Sixth  Corps.  When 
his  three  years'  term  of  service  expired  he 
was  commissioned  colonel  and  assigned  to 
command  the  First  Maine  Veteran  Volunteers, 
organized  from  the  veterans  of  the  Fifth, 
Sixth  and  Seventh  Maine  Volunteers.  He 
joined  his  volunteer  regiment  in  the  Shenan-  , 
doah  Valley,  and  although  but  twenty-three  I 
years  of  age,  he  was  placed  in  command  of 
the  Third  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Sixth 
Army  Corps,  where  Commander-General  Bid- 
well  had  been  killed  at  Cedar  Creek,  and  he 
commanded  the  brigade  to  the  close  of  the 
war  and  was  with  the  Sixth  Corps  when  he 
led  his  brigade  in  the  assault,  familiarly  known 
as  the  "Wedge,"  which  broke  the  enemy's 
lines  and  secured  the  possession  of  Petersburg. 


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He  was  next  at  Sailor's  Creek  and  at  the  sur- 
render of  Lee's  army  at  Appomattox,  and  was 
with  the  column  under  Sheridan  sent  to  North 
Carolina  to  attack  the  army  of  General  Joseph 
E.  Johnston,  the  only  formidable  Confederate 
force  left  in  the  field,  and  on  reaching  Dan- 
ville, Virginia,  and  learning  of  the  surrender 
of  Johnston,  he  was  made  military  governor 
of  that  place  and  of  the  adjoining  counties. 
After  two  months'  service  as  military  governor 
he  returned  to  Washington  and  was  mustered 
out  in  the  summer  of  1865,  after  four  years' 
active  service,  and  was  commissioned  brevet 
major-general.  He  was  at  once  selected  to 
command  a  brigade  in  a  provisional  corps  that 
it  was  proposed  at  army  headquarters  to  form 
out  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  for  duty  in 
the  south,  but  this  purpose  was  not  carried 
out.  He  returned  to  Bath  and  engaged  in  the 
iron  business.  He  was  state  senator  for  the 
Bath  district  for  three  terms,  1873-75,  and  in 
1874-1875  was  president  of  the  state  senate. 
He  was  mayor  of  the  city  of  Bath  in  1876  and 
1877,  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  visitors 
to  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at 
West  Point,  New  York,  for  eight  years,  from 
1877.  He  also  received  appointment  for  the 
United  States  Congress  as  a  member  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  Soldiers'  Home  at 
Togus,  Alaine,  in  1883.  He  was  a  companion 
and  commander  of  the  Maine  Commandery  of 
the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
L'nited  States ;  president  of  the  Sagadahoc 
Club  of  Bath,  and  a  member  of  the  Cumber- 
land Club  of  Portland,  Somerset  Club  of  Bos- 
ton and  Metropolitan  Club  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  received  his  master's  degree  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  1864.  In  the  fall  of  1865 
he  leased  the  Bath  Iron  Foundry,  of  which 
valuable  plant  he  subsequently  became  owner, 
and  in  1884  he  caused  it  to  be  incorporated  as 
the  Bath  Iron  Works,  and  was  president  of 
the  corporation  1884-99.  ^^^  ^^^9  he  also  pur- 
chased the  Goss  Marine  Iron  Works,  estab- 
lished in  1887,  and  he  consolidated  it  with  the 
Bath  Iron  Works  and  entered  the  field  as  ship- 
builders. At  the  works  was  built  the  first 
triple-expansion  marine  engine  built  in  the 
United  States,  which  was  placed  in  the  yacht 
"Meteor,"  now  "Golden  Rod."  This  was  in 
1889,  and  the  same  year  they  contracted  for 
the  construction  of  the  "Cottage  City,"  a 
wooden  steamship  for  the  Maine  Steamship 
Company.  In  April,  1890,  the  Bath  Iron 
Works  signed  the  contract  with  the  United 
States  government  for  building  two  gunljoats. 
the  "Machias"  and  "Castine,"  at  the  contract 
price  of  $310,500  each,  and  both   boats,  the 


first  steel  vessels  built  by  the  company,  ex- 
ceeded by  two  and  three  knots  respectively  the 
contract  speed.  In  1894  the  "City  of  Lowell,'' 
a  twin-screw  steamer,  was  built,  which  for 
four  years  held  the  pennant  as  the  fastest  ves- 
sel on  the  Sound.  The  same  year  the  yacht 
"Eleanor"  was  under  construction,  at  the  time 
the  largest  American-built  steam-yacht  afloat. 
The  United  States  armored  ram  "Katahdin" 
was  on  the  stocks  at  the  yard  at  the  same 
time  when  the  works  were  destroyed  by  fire  in 
1894.  The  w'ooden  buildings  destroyed  were 
replaced  by  those  built  of  steel,  and  in  1896 
the  "Newport"  and  "Vicksburg,"  United 
States  gunboats,  were  on  the  stocks,  and  in 
1897  the  two  first  thirty-knot  torpedo-boats, 
"Dahlgren"  and  "Craven,"  were  in  course  of 
construction,  and  the  battleship  "Georgia,"  a 
fifteen-thousand-ton,  nineteen-knot  steel  ves- 
sel, which  held  the  record  of  speed  of  any  bat- 
tleship in  the  American  navy.  At  the  yards 
the  steamer  "Camden,"  the  second  turbine 
steamer  built  in  the  United  States,  was 
launched.  The  old  Hyde  Foundry,  changed  in 
1889  to  the  North  Division  of  the  Bath  Iron 
Works,  became  known  as  the  Hyde  Windlass 
Company,  and  now  sustains  a  plant  equal  in 
size  to  the  Iron  Works  itself,  and  is  devoted 
to  the  manufacture  of  the  Hyde  patent  steam 
windlass  used  on  half  the  vessels  used  in  this 
country.  It  also  manufactures  the  Hyde  man- 
ganese bronze  used  for  propellers,  and  both 
heavy  and  light  ship  castings.  General  Hyde's 
health  failed  in  1898,  and  in  September,  1899, 
he  resigned  from  all  connection  with  the  con- 
cern, and  his  son,  Edward  W.  Hyde,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  presidency  of  the  corporation, 
and  another  son,  John  Sedgwick  Hyde,  was 
made  vice-president.  General  Hyde  was  a  di- 
rector of  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  Company 
for  twelve  years.  He  was  married,  1866,  to 
Annie,  daughter  of  John  and  iMartha  Hayden, 
of  Bath,  Maine,  and  their  children  were:  i. 
John  Sedgwick,  born  March  26,  1867.  2. 
Edward  Warden,  born  August  9,  1868.  3. 
Ethel,  born  August  30,  1871,  died  in  1899. 
4.  Arthur  Sewall,  born  February  21,  1875, 
resides  in  New  York.  5.  Eleanor  Hayden, 
born  August  6,  1880;  married,  January  11, 
1908,  John  C.  Phillips,  i\I.  D.,  of  Boston.  6. 
MadelVn,  born  August  4,  1883,  died  in  1904. 

General  Hyde  repaired  to  the  Hotel  Cham- 
berlain. Old  Point  Comfort.  Mrginia,  with 
his  family,  hoping  that  a  milder  climate  would 
benefit  his  health,  but  on  November  14,  1899, 
his  death  occurred,  and  proved  a  great  blow 
to  his  family  and  friends,  who  had  hoped  to 
have  him  return  to  Bath  greatly  benefitted  in 


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physical  health.  The  Bath  Iron  Works  is  a 
monument  to  his  business  ability,  and  he  will 
also  be  remembered  as  a  soldier,  financier, 
statesman,  literateur  and  scholar.  He  was 
author  of  a  military  work  entitled  "Following 
the  Greek  Cross."  The  "Odes  of  Horace" 
were  translated  into  English  by  ^Irs.  Hyde, 
and  he  put  them  in  verse.  Gladstone  praised 
the  work  and  sent  Mr.  Hyde  a  postcard,  com- 
mending the  same. 

(Vni)    John    Sedgwick,    son    of    General 
Thomas    \Vorcester     and     Annie     (Hayden) 
Hyde,  was  born  in  Bath,   Maine,  ]\Iarch  26, 
1867.     He    was   prepared    for   college    in    the 
public  schools  of  Bath,  and  took  a  three  years' 
course  in  mechanical  engineering  in  the  Mas- 
sachusetts   Institute   of   Technology,    1885-88, 
and  on  graduating  returned  to  Bath,  and  be- 
ginning at  the  bottom,  learned  from  practical 
work    every   detail    of    the   business    of    ship- 
building.    On  the  retirement  of  his  father  in 
1899,  he  was  made  vice-president  of  the  cor- 
poration, but  did  not  change  his  plan  of  mas- 
tering the  business  of  the  works  in  every  de- 
tail, and  it  was  not  till  the  early  part  of  1905 
that  he  was  willing  to  accept  control  of  the 
business,  when  he  purchased  the  entire  capital 
stock  of  and  was  made  president  of  the  cor- 
poration.    The  building  and  launching  of  the 
"Chester,"    which    in    her    speed-trial    trip    of 
four  hours'  duration  averaged  26.52  knots  per 
hour,  and  which  speed  has  not  been  exceeded 
by  any  United  States  vessel   (except  torpedo 
craft)   built   by   any  shipyard   in  the  United 
States,  stands  to  the  credit  of  John  Sedgwick 
Hyde,   and    is   a   record    of   which   anv    ship- 
builder in  the  world  may  be  proud  when  they 
beat   it.     He   is  a  Republican   in  politics   and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  common  council 
and  the  board  of  aldermen,  and  representative 
and  senator  to  the  state  legislature.     He  is  a 
member  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion ;  American  Society  of  Mechanical  En- 
gineers ;  British  Institute  of  Naval  Architects ; 
American    Society   of   Naval    Engineers ;    So- 
ciety of  Naval  Architects  and   Alarine  Engi- 
neers ;   Engineers'   Club  of  New  York  City ; 
Sagadahoc   Club   of   Bath ;   Cumberland   Club 
of  Portland,  and  Army  and  Navy  and  Metro- 
politan clubs  of  Washington,  D.  C.     He  is  a 
director   of   the   Lincoln    National    Bank    and 
trustee   of   the   Bath    Savings   Institute.      ]\Ir. 
Hyde  married,  June  4,  1898,  Ernestine  Shan- 
non. 

(VIII)  Edward  Warden  Hyde,  second  son 
and  child  of  Thomas  Worcester  and  Annie 
(Hayden)  Hyde,  was  born  in  Bath,  Maine, 
August  9,  1868.    He  was  educated  in  the  Bath 


public  schools  and  Phillips  Exeter  Academy, 
after  which  he  spent  one  year  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  at  Boston. 
He  then  entered  the  office  of  F.  H.  F"assett,  of 
Portland,  where  he  spent  one  and  a  half  years, 
receiving  practical  instruction.  He  then  re- 
turned to  Bath  and  entered  the  Bath  Iron 
Works,  and  became  successively  storekeeper, 
purchasing  agent,  treasurer,  vice-president  ana 
president,  remaining  v/ith  the  Bath  Iron 
Works  until  it  was  sold  to  the  Ship  Builders' 
Trust.  Mr.  Hyde  has  been  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  business  interests  of  Bath  for 
many  years.  He  was  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  and  is  a  director ;  also  a  di- 
rector of  the  Marine  National  Bank,  one  of 
the  organizers  and  first  vice-president  of  the 
Bath  Trust  Company ;  w  as  treasurer  of  the 
Hyde  Windlass  Company — in  fact,  is  con- 
nected financially  with  many  business  concerns 
of  Bath.  Mr.  Hyde  is  president  of  the  Bath 
Anvil,  a  weekly  newspaper.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican,  and  has  taken  a  very  active  part 
in  the  counsels  of  the  party.  He  was  mayor 
of  Bath  three  terms — 1901-2-3;  chairman  of 
the  Bath  Republican  committee,  and  has  re- 
cently been  nominated  and  elected  to  the  state 
legislature.  Mr.  Hyde  is  equally  prominent  in 
fraternal  and  social  affairs.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  the 
Sagadahoc  and  Suffolk  clubs  of  Bath,  and  has 
been  commodore  of  the  Kennebec  Yacht  Club 
four  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Naval  Architects  and  Marine  Engineers,  and 
was  president  of  the  Sagadahoc  Club  seven 
years. 

December  4,  1904,  Mr.  Hyde  married  Alice 
Morse,  daughter  of  Alonzo  A.  A'lorse,  of  Bath. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hvde  have  no  children. 


De  Boterel,  of  Stafford- 
WTIITMORE     shire,    England,    had    two 

sons:William  (1100-1135), 
who  had  a  son  William  (1158-1161)  ;  and 
Peter  (q.  v.). 

(II)  Peter  de  Boterel  had  a  son  born 
in  Staffordshire,  who  was  named  Radalph  or 
Ralph  (q.  v.). 

(III)  Ralph,  son  of  Peter  de  Boterel.  was 
born  in  11 52,  and  died  in  1771.  He  married 
twice,  and  by  his  first  wife  had  a  son  William, 
who  married  .\visa  de  Whitmore  (1197).  By 
his  second  wife  he  had  a  son  Ralph  (q.  v.). 

(IV)  Ralph  (2),  son  of  Ralph  (i)  by  his 
second  wife,  had  a  son  John  (q.  v.). 

(Y)  John,  son  of  Ralph  (2)  de  Boterel,  be- 
came   .Sir   John    de   Whitmore.      He   married 


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(1252-1276),   and   among  his 


children  were  three  sons:  John  (q.  v.),  Lord 
of  Whitinore,  founder  of  the  Caunton  line ; 
W'illiam.  who  married  Alice  Fanners,  and  had 
a  son  Philip,  founder  of  the  Claverly  line; 
and  Ralph. 

(M)   John    (2),  son  of  Sir  John    (i)   and 

Agnes  de  ^^'hitmore,  married  JMargerie 

(1270-1301).  He  was  Lord  of  Whitinore, 
and  had  a  son  Richard  (q.  v.). 

(VII)  Richard,  son  of  John  (2),  Lord  of 
Whitmore,  married  Susannah  Draycote, 
daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Draycote  of  Painesley, 
knight.  The  children  of  Richard  and  Susan- 
nah (Draycote)  de  Whitmore  were:  Jane, 
married  John  Blunt :  Mary,  married  John 
Gifford ;  Beatrix,  married  John  Chebwind ; 
Christina,  married  Richard  Flutvvood ;  Philip 
(q.  v.). 

(\TII)  Philip,  youngest  son  of  Richard  of 
Whitmore  and  Susanna  (Draycote),  married 
Thomasine,  daughter  of  Richard  Oliver  (  ?). 
and  then  had  a  son  Richard  (q.  v.). 

(IX)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Philip  and 
Thomasine  (Oliver  (?)  AMiitmore,  married 
(first)  a  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  Bagot ;  (sec- 
ond) a  daughter  of  Richard  Devereaux  and 
(third)  a  daughter  of  Simon  Harcourt,  who 
was  probably  of  Ellenhall,  Staffordshire,  and 
bv  his  third  wife  he  had  a  son  Nicholas 
(q.  v.). 

i^X)  Nicholas,  son  of  Richard  Whitmore  by 
his  third  wife,  married  Annie,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Aston,  of  Tixall.  Staffordshire,  and 
had  two  children :  Mary,  married  William 
Lusone :  Anthony  (q.  v.). 

(XI)  Anthony,  only  son  of  Nicholas  and 
Annie  (Ashton)  Whitmore,  married  Christ- 
man,  daughter  and  heir  of  Nicholas  Vaux,  and 
thev  had  two  children :  Joan  and  William 
(q.'v.). 

(XII)  William,  only  son  of  Anthony  and 
Christina  (Vaux)  Whitmore.  married,  and 
had  children,  including  a  son  John  (q.  v.). 

(XIII)  John  (3),  second  son  of  William 
Whitmore,  of  Caunton,  married  (first),  dur- 
hig  the  reign  of  Henry  VI,  Alice,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Robert  Blyton  of  Caunton,  and 
(second)  Catherine,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Robert  Compton  of  Hawton,  Visitation  of 
York,  1536,  and  had  two  sons — William,  and 
Robert    (q.  v.). 

(XR")  Robert,  son  and  heir  of  John  Whit- 
more, of  Caunton,  married  (first)  Catherine, 
daughter  of  George  Claye,  of  Finningly,  Visi- 
tation of  Yorkshire,  and  they  had :  William, 
the  heir,  who  married  a  daughter  of  John 
Ridley,  lived  in  Rotterdam,  where  he  died  in 


1508,  (second)  Alice  Atwoodc,  of  Harling- 
ton,  Bedfordshire,  and  by  this  marriage  had : 
I.  Richard,  died  without  issue.  1559.  2.  John, 
living  in  1545.  3.  Charles  (q.  v.).  4.  Thcm- 
as,  probably  died  about  1603.  5.  Edward, 
living  in  1359.  6.  Rowland,  living  in  1591.  7. 
James.     8.  Randall.     Also  three  daughters. 

(XV)  Charles,  probably  third  son  of  Rob- 
ert and  Alice  (Atwoode)  Whitmore,  lived  in 
Tuxworth,  where  he  married,  and  had  chil- 
dren:  I.  William,  died  in  1582.  2.  John,  was 
living  in  Staffordshire,  where  he  died  in  1571. 
3,  Robert,  died  in  1608.  4.  Richard,  died  in 
1578-  5-  James,  died  in  1614.  6.  Thomas,  of 
Hitchen,  who  had  a  wife  by  the  Christian 
name  of  ]\Iary,  and  died  in  1649.  Two  of 
his  sons,  Thomas  and  John,  emigrated  to  New 
England — Thomas,  who  spelled  his  surname 
Whittemore.  to  Charlestown,  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  and  settled  in  Maiden  ;  and  John 
Whitmore  to  Stanford,  in  the  colony  of  Con- 
necticut, where  his  two  children,  John  and 
Elizabeth,  were  born.  7.  Roger  (q.  v.).  8. 
Christopher,  died  in  1640.  9,  10,  11  and  12, 
daughters.  13.  (jcorge.  Charles  Whitmore, 
father  of  these  children,  died  in  Hitchin,  Hert- 
fordshire, England,  in  1568.  Three  of  his 
sons  adopted  the  spelling  Whitemore,  three 
Watmore,  and  one  retained  the  spelling  Whit- 
more as  used  by  their  father,  and  which  pre- 
vails in  England. 

(X\'I)  Roger,  seventh  son  of  Charles 
Whitmore,  lived  in  Hitchin,  Hertfordshire, 
where  he  married  and  became  the  father  of 
Nicholas. 

(X\^II)  Nicholas,  son  of  Roger  Whitmore, 
and  first  cousin  of  Thomas  Whittemore,  of 
[Maiden,  and  of  John  WHiitmore,  of  Stanford, 
also  American  immigrants  and  heads  of 
American  families  of  the  name.  Nicholas  had 
by  marriage,  besides  other  children,  two  sons : 
Frances  (q.  v.).  and  Thomas,  who  settled  in 
Middletown,  Connecticut  Colony. 

(I)  Francis,  son  of  Nicholas  Whitmore, 
was  of  the  eighteenth  generation  of  the  family 
in  England,  and  appears  as  of  the  first 
generation  in  America.  He  was  born  in 
Hitchin,  Hertfordshire,  England,  in  1625. 
He  married  Isabel,  daughter  of  Richard 
and  Margery  (Crane)  Parke,  some  time 
after  reaching  America,  where  he  first  located, 
between  1630  and  1640,  in  the  town  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  and  removed 
across  the  Charles  river  to  Cambridge  before 
1648.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  King  Phillip 
war,  and  served  as  selectman  and  constable  of 
the  town  of  Cambridge  in  i6fi8.  His  first 
wife,  Isabel  Parker  Whitmore,  died  after  bear- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


ing  him  six  cliildrcn:  I.  Elizabeth,  born  May 
2,  1649;  married  November  3,  1669,  Daniel 
Markham.  2.  Francis,  October  12,  1650;  mar- 
ried, February  8,  1674,  Hannah  Harris.  3. 
John  (q.  v.).  4.  Samuel,  May  i,  1658;  married, 
March  31,  1686,  Rebecca  Gardner.  5.  Abigail, 
July  30,  1660;  married,  May  9,  1683,  Samuel 
Wilcox.  6.  Sarah,  March  7,  1662,  married 
William  Locke.  After  the  birth  of  his  child  his 
wife  died,  and  he  married  (second)  Margaret 
Harty.  November  10,  1666,  and  by  her  had: 
7.  Margaret,  September  9,  1668;  married 
Thomas  Carter.  8.  Frances,  March  3,  1671 ; 
married  Jonathan  Thompson.  9.  Thomas, 
1673;  married  Mary  Jennison.  10.  Joseph, 
1675;  married  Mary  Kendall,  February  13, 
1698.  Francis  Whitmore,  the  immigrant  to 
Boston  and  Cambridge,  died  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  October  12,  1685. 

(II)  John,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
Francis  arid  Isabel  (Parke)  Whitmore,  was 
born  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  October  i, 
1654.  He  married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Fran- 
ces and  Mary  (Saunders)  Eliot  and  widow  of 

Poulter.   who   was  born   October   25, 

1643,  and  died  March  20,  1723.  They  resided 
in  Cambridge,  and  removed  to  Medford,  of 
which  town  he  was  a  large  land  owner,  as  he 
was  also  in  Billerica.  He  was  a  deacon  in 
the  First  Parish  Church  of  Medford,  and 
served  the  town  as  treasurer.  He  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Indian  wars,  and  served  in  the 
regiment  of  Major  Swayne  at  Saco,  in  the 
district  of  i\Iaine.  He  had  by  his  first  wife 
three  children,  and  after  her  death  he  married 
as  his  second  wife,  June  3,  1724,  Rebecca 
Cutter,  who  was  childless,  and  became  his 
widow  on  his  death  in  Medford,  February  22, 
1739.  Children  of  John  and  Rachel  (Eliot) 
Poulter  Whitmore:  i.  Francis,  born  May  8, 
1678,  married  (first),  December  7,  1699,  Anna 
Pierce,  and  (second)  Mary,  surname  is  not 
recorded.  2.  Abigail,  twin  of  Francis,  mar- 
ried John  Elder.     3.  John   (q.  v.). 

(III)  John  (2),  second  son  and  third  child 
of  John  and  Rachel  (Eliot)  Poulter  Whit- 
more, was  born  in  ^ledford,  Middlesex  county, 
I\Iassachusetts.  .April  27,  1683.  He  learned 
the  trade  of  housewright.  but  did  not  long 
continue  in  that  occupation.  He  became  a 
partner  with  his  brother  Francis  in  the  busi- 
ness of  general  merchandising  in  Medford  and 
Billerica.  and  dealer  in  real  estate  in  both 
these  towns.  He  was  one  of  the  chief  factors 
in  organizing  the  town  of  Bedford,  which  was 
incorporated  September  23,  1729,  having  been 
established    from    lands     belonging    to    both 


Billerica  and  Concord.  He  was  married,  in 
1706,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  and 
Susan  (Whipple)  Lane,  of  Billerica.  She 
was  born  in  that  town  May  15,  1686,  and  died 
there  March  27,  1783.  John  Whitmore  was 
prominent  in  the  First  Parish  Church  in  Med- 
ford, and  is  mentioned  in  the  records  of  the 
church  for  his  many  benefactions.  He  was 
foremost  and  liberal  in  town  affairs,  but  held 
no  town  offices.  He  spent  his  last  days  at  the 
home  of  his  son  John,  in  Billerica,  where  his 
wife  died,  and  that  event  was  soon  followed 
by  his  own  death.  Children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Lane)  Whitmore,  born  in  Medford:  i. 
Mary,  July  17,  1707;  married,  August  19, 
1725,  J.  Webber,  and  when  his  widow  she 
married White.  2.  Susannah,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1708;  married,  September  16,  1727, 
Benjamin  Webber,  and  when  his  widow,  she 

married Page.    3.  John,  April  5,  171 1 ; 

married  Martha  Lane.  4.  Francis  (q.  v.).  5. 
Martha.  February  23,  1717-8;  married  Jehn 
Skinner,  December  22,  1743,  and  died  March 
7,  1780.  6.  William,  December  19,  1725;  mar- 
ried, October,  1747,  "Mary  Brooks. 

(IV)  Francis,  second  son  and  fourth  child 
of  John  (2)  and  Mary  (Lane)  Whitmore, 
was  born  in  Medford,  October  4,  1714.  He 
learned  the  business  of  general  merchandising 
in  the  stores  of  his  father  and  uncle,  and  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business  on  his  own  account.  He 
also  became  largelv  interested  in  property  in 
the  district  of  Maine  about  1760,  and  spent 
much  of  his  time  there,  becoming  a  permanent 
settler.  He  purchased  large  tracts  of  land 
along  the  Kennebec  river,  selling  it  to  actual 
settlers  and  cutting  from  the  forests  timber 
for  masts  and  spars  for  the  Royal  navy.  He 
was  a  pioneer  in  the  lumber  business  on  the 
Kennebec  river,  and  finally  settled  at  Bow- 
doinham,  named  for  William  Bowdoin,  of 
Boston,  and  located  on  the  river,  ten  miles 
north  of  Bath,  in  Sagadahoc  (then  Lincoln) 
county,  where  he  died  April  27,  1794.  He 
married,  January  i,  1739,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Lieutenant  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Fowle) 
Hall,  born  April  17,  1719,  died  October  20, 
1791,  and  their  children  were  all  born  in  Med- 
ford: I.  Stephen  (q.  v.).  2.  Francis,  Au- 
gust 16,  1741 ;  married,  December  30,  1764, 
Elizabeth  Bowman.  3.  William.  September  6, 
1746.  4.  Mary,  December  25.  1750:  married 
Thomas  Blodgett.  5.  Elizabeth,  November 
27,  1752:  married  Elisha  Seavins.  6.  John, 
November  25,  1754:  married,  April  12.  1781, 
Huldah  Crookes,  and  died  November  29,  1820. 
7.  Susannah.    September    14.    1757:    married 


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Thomas  Dhismore.  8.  Andrew,  October  2, 
1760;  married  Lucy  Cowillard,  and  died 
March  31,  1839. 

(V)  Stephen,  eldest  child  of  Francis  and 
Marv  (Hall)  Whitmore,  was  born  in  Med- 
ford,  October  21,  1739.  He  was  brought  up 
to  the  mercantile  business  in  i\Iedford,  and  in 
1767  removed  to  the  Kennebec  river,  district 
of  Alaine.  where  he  assisted  his  father  in  his 
large  lumber  interests.  He  settled  in  Bow- 
doinham,  at  that  time  in  Lincoln  county,  and 
which  was  incorporated  as  a  town  in  1762. 
He  was  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the 
place,  and  foremost  in  the  formation  of  the 
town  government,  and  served  as  selectman  for 
many  years ;  also  as  constable  and  collector  in 
1785,  and  as  town  clerk  for  a  number  of 
years.  In  1793  he  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness, and  changed  his  residence  to  the  "Ridge," 
where  he  had  a  beautiful  home,  and  where  he 
died  October  15,  181 5.  He  married,  July  14, 
1763.  Mary,  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  (Spring)  Whittemore,  who  was 
born  May  6.  1741,  and  they  had  eleven  chil- 
dren, the  last  ten  born  in  Bowdoinham,  Maine, 
Elizabeth  and  Stephen  in  Medford,  Massachu- 
setts. These  children  were:  i.  Elizabeth, 
May  19,  1764,  married  John  Springer.  2. 
Stephen,  September  15,  1765,  lost  at  sea,  1787. 
3.  Samuel,  June  11,  1768,  married  Mary  Por- 
ter, and  died  October  30,  1818.  4.  William, 
June  II,  1768.  married  Rachel  Adams,  and 
died  May  28,  1850.  5.  John  (q.  v.).  6.  Jon- 
athan, August  22,  1773,  married,  November 
27,  1797,  Mary  Rogers,  and  died  1820.  7. 
Benjamin,  July  12,  1775,  married  Elizabeth 
Temple,  and  died  August  24,  1847J  8.  Mary, 
October  26,  1777:  married  William  Givin,  and 
died  1867.  9.  Rhoda,  February  9,  1779, 
named  Alexander  Preble.  10.  Sarah,  Octo- 
ber 12,  1782,  married  (first)  Joseph  Perry, 
(second)  — Deering.  11.  Andrew,  Oc- 
tober T,  1785,  died  October  i,  1785. 

(VI)  John  (3),  fourth  son  and 'fifth  child 
of  Stephen  and  Mary  (\\''hittemore)  Whit- 
more, was  born  in  Bowdoinham.  Maine,  No- 
vember 25,  1771,  and  died  .\ugust  2,  1865, 
aged  ninety-four  years,  eight  months.  He  at- 
tended school  and  engaged  in  the  lumbering 
business  with  his  father  and  as  his  successor, 
taking  his  place  in  various  enterprises  and  ably 
seconding  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  good  schools, 
roads,  and  transportation  facilities.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  McLellan,  born  in  1778,  and  they 
lived  and  died  in  Bowdoinham,  she  dving 
April  ID,  1839.  Children,  all  born  in  Bow- 
doinham: I.  Amherst,  September  18,  1805; 
married  Mary  Jane  Perry,  and  died  May  22, 


1886.  2.  Philena,  March  2,  1807;  died  un- 
married, September  16,  1892.  3.  John,  Jan- 
uary 29,  1809;  married  Mary  Berry,  of  Lis- 
bon, Maine,  and  died  April  15,  i8g6.  4.  Han- 
nah, September  16,  1810,  died  unmarried, 
September  20,  1884.  5.  Nathaniel  ]\IcLellan, 
October  i,  1812;  graduated  at  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege. A.  B.,  1833;  was  a  lawyer  in  Gardiner, 
Maine :  died  February  26,  igoo.  6.  Stephen. 
Alay  9,  1814;  graduated  at  Medical  School  of 
Maine,  Bowdoin  College,  M.D.,  1836;  was  a 
physician  and  surgeon  in  Gardiner,  Maine; 
married  Maria  Haskell,  and  died  in  Gardiner, 
Maine,  February  9,  1880.  7.  Sarah,  January 
9,  1816;  never  married.  8.  Chadburne  War- 
ren, October  4.  1818:  graduated  at  Medical 
School  of  Maine.  Bowdoin  College.  1839;  mar- 
ried. January  i,  1850,  Harriet  E.  Sampson; 
he  died  in  Washington,  D.  C,  March  24,  1884. 
9.  Samuel. 

(\'^II)  Samuel,  youngest  child  of  John  (3) 
and  Sarah  (McLellan)  Whitmnre,  was  born 
in  Bowdoinham,  February  13.  1820,  and  died 
in  1898.  He  was  a  leading  business  man  in 
his  native  town,  and  greatly  esteemed  for  his 
solid  worth  and  unostentatious  charities.  He 
married,  in  September,  1849,  Helen  Mahr, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rhoda  Stinson ;  she 
was  born  October  19,  1823,  and  died  in  1902. 
Children,  born  in  Bowdoinham:  i.  Steplien 
Chalmers,  July  19,  1850;  graduated  at  Bow- 
doin College,  A.  B.,  1875;  practiced  law  in 
Bowdoinham ;  married  there.  1879,  Estelle 
Guiboard.      2.  Albion    Stinson :    see    forward. 

3.  John  A.,  February  26,  1853 ;  married  Anna 
Crehore;  he  died  September  3.  1895.  4.  Anna 
Philena,  May  i,  1857.    5.  Helen  Maria,  April 

4,  1859.  6.  Florence.  August  6,  1861,  died 
1878.' 

(VIII)  Albion  Stinson.  second  son  and 
child  of  Samuel  and  Helen  ^Mahr  (Stinson) 
Whitmore,  was  born  in  Bowdoinham,  Maine, 
December  13.  1851.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  at  Kent's  Hill, 
where  he  prepared  for  college,  and  at  Bow- 
doin College,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
A.  B.  in  1875,  3"d  received  the  degree  of 
.■\.  M.  in  1878.  He  studied  for  his  profession 
at  Columbia  University  Medical  School,  New 
York  City,  from  which  he  received  his  degree 
of  M.  D.  in  1878.  He  has  practiced  medicine 
and  surgery  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  since 
the  year  of  his  graduation,  with  offices  at  No. 
18  L'nion  Park,  and  has  been  consulting  physi- 
cian and  surgeon  of  the  Peabody  New  Eng- 
land Home  for  Crippled  Children  at  Hyde 
Park,  of  which  institution  he  was  a  trustee. 
In  1 88 1,  at  the  opening  of  the  Home  for  Aged 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Couples,  he  became  attending  physician  and 
surgeon,  continuing  in  that  capacity  for  ten 
vears,  since  wliich  time  he  has  been  consulting' 
physician  and  surgeon.  His  skill  as  a  surgeon 
has  brought  to  him  many  important  and,  to  the 
profession,  interesting  cases,  in  which  he  has 
been  called  in  consultation,  and  in  this  way 
he  has  become  widely  known  and  highly  es- 
teemed for  his  professional  skill  and  his  en- 
tire willingness  to  give  it  freely  in  cases  of 
dire  calamity  or  extreme  urgency.  His  pro- 
fessional affiliation  includes  membership  in  the 
American  Medical  Association  :  the  Massachu- 
setts ^Medical  Society ;  the  Boston  Medical  Li- 
brary Association,  rooms  at  No.  8  Fenway ; 
the  New  England  Electro-Therapeutical  As- 
sociation, the  first  of  its  kind  in  the  country; 
and  the  New  England  Association  of  Gradu- 
ates of  New  York  Medical  Colleges.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Bow- 
doin  College  Club,  Pine  Tree  Club  (of  which 
he  was  a  director  for  many  years),  the  Zeta 
Psi  college  fraternity ;  and  is  affiliated  with 
various  Masonic  bodies :  St.  John's  Lodge  No. 
7,  F.  and  A.  M.:  St.  Andrew's  Chapter  No.  7, 
R.  A.  M.;  Boston  Council,  R.  S.  AL;  De 
Molay  Commandery,  K.  T. ;  and  Aleppo  Tem- 
ple, A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.  He  is  a  trustee  of 
the  Penny  Savings  Bank  of  Boston. 

Dr.  W'hitmore  married,  October  14,  1885, 
Maude,  daughter  of  Moses  j\L  and  Nancy  G. 
(Norcross)  Swan.  Mrs.  Whitmore  was  born 
in  Augusta,  Maine,  where  her  father  was  a 
jeweler  for  many  years. 


"The    posterity    of    William 
HASKELL     Haskell  is  believed  to  be  much 

more  numerous  than  that  of 
any  other  early  settler,"  says  the  genealogist 
of  the  Haskell  family  of  Gloucester,  Massa- 
chusetts. A  large  number  of  his  descendants 
remain  in  town,  but  a  still  greater  number 
are  scattered  abroad  over  the  country.  From 
six  generations  of  this  prolific  stock  emigrants 
have  gone  forth,  who,  whether  they  braved 
the  dangers  and  hardships  of  pioneer  life  in 
the  forests  of  Maine  or  sought  a  kinder  soil 
than  their  own  in  more  settled  and  cultivated 
regions,  or  engaged  in  handicraft  and  trade  in 
the  marts  of  business,  have  generally  sustained 
the  character  for  usefulness  and  respectability 
which  the  family  have  always  borne  in  its  an- 
cient seat. 

Captain  William  Haskell  was  born  about 
1620.  and  was  connected  with  the  family  of 
Roger  Haskell,  of  Salem.  He  first  appears  in 
Gloucester  in  1643 ;  and  in  1645  rnention  is 
made  of  his  land  at  Planter's  Neck.    He  prob- 


ably resided  here  a  few  years  following  the 
last  date ;  but  the  hiatus  in  the  recorded  births 
of  his  children  alTords  ground  for  conjecture 
that  he  was  not  a  permanent  resident  from 
that  time.  If  he  left  town  for  a  season,  he 
had  returned  by  1656,  and  settled  on  the  west- 
erly side  of  Amisquane  river,  where  he  had 
several  pieces  of  land,  among  which  was  a 
lot  of  ten  acres,  with  a  house  and  barn,  bought 
of  Richard  Window,  situated  on  the  west  side 
of  Walker's  Creek,  which  is  still  occupied  by 
descendants.  The  public  offices  to  which  he 
w  as  elected  affords  sufficient  proof  that  he  was 
a  prominent  and  useful  citizen.  He  was  a 
selectman  several  years  and  representative  six 
times  in  the  course  of  twenty  years.  In  1681 
he  was  appointed  by  the  general  court  lieu- 
tenant to  the  train  band,  of  which  he  was 
afterward  captain.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
two  of  whom  we  have  any  knowledge  who 
were  deacons  of  the  First  Church.  He  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Walter  Tybbot,  No- 
vember 16,  1643.  She  died  August  16,  1693; 
and  he  four  days  after  (on  the  20th),  leaving 
an  estate  of  ^548,  12s.  His  children,  whose 
births  are  recorded  were :  William,  Joseph, 
Mark,  Sarah  and  Eleanor.  Besides  these,  he 
had  sons  Benjamin  and  John  and  daughters 
Ruth  and  Mary.  Various  descendants  of  Will- 
iam Haskell  settled  in  Falmouth  and  New 
Gloucester.  Maine,  among  them  being  Moses, 
Job,  of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  and 
Nathan,  who  settled  in  the  latter  place,  but  no 
history  of  the  following  generations  of  this 
article  has  been  connected  with  that  of  the 
Gloucester  parent  family,  though  there  is  no 
doubt  of  their  descent. 

(I)  Jacob  Haskell  is  said  to  have  come 
from  Cape  Ann,  Massachusetts,  and  settled  in 
New  Gloucester,  where  he  raised  a  family  ;  no 
dates  given. 

(II)  Jacob  (2),  son  of  Jacob  (i)  Haskell, 
also  resided  in  New  Gloucester,  and  is  said 
to  have  had  a  first  wife  whose  surname  was 
Godfrey  before  marriage. 

(III)  Peter,  son  of  Jacob   (2)   and  

(Godfrey)  Haskell,  was  born  in  1769,  and  died 
in  New  Gloucester.  July  14,  1849,  where  he 
was  a  prosperous  farmer.  He  married,  De- 
cember 8,  1791,  Salome  Parsons,  born  in 
Gloucester,  1772,  died  March  25,  1858,  in 
New  Gloucester.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Colonel  Isaac  Parsons,  who  came  to  New- 
Gloucester  from  Gloucester.  Massachusetts,  in 
1 76 1.  He  was  the  leading  man  in  that  part 
of  Cumberland  county  in  the  days  before  the 
revolution.  It  was  he  who  discovered  a 
method  of  planting  corn  so  that  it  could  be 


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raised  successfully  on  newly  cleared  land,  and 
thereby  conferred  a  great  boon  upon  the 
straggling  settlers.  His  farm  was  at  what  is 
now  Gloucester  Lower  Corner,  and  descended 
to  the  Haskell  family  through  the  daughter 
Salome,  who  married  Peter  Haskell. 

(IV)  Captain  Peter  (2)  son  of  Peter  (i) 
and  Salome  (Parsons)  Haskell,  was  born  in 
New  Gloucester,  January  10,  1797,  and  died 
in  New  Gloucester,  May  6,  1875.  He  was  a 
prosperous  farmer  and  an  old-time  militia  offi- 
cer. He  married,  April  i,  1823,  Sally  Pulsi- 
fer,  by  whom  he  had  Mary  F.,  Jacob  W.,  Eze- 
kiel,  Lucy.  He  married  (second)  January  30, 
1834,  Betsey  Hawes,  born  March  5,  1806,  died 
January  21,  1881,  aged  seventy  four,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Thomas  and  Betsey  (Whitman) 
Hawes  of  ^^■ellfleet,  Massachusetts.  Betsey 
and  Chief  Justice  Whitman  were  the  only 
children  of  Josiah  \\'hitman,  of  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts.  Children  of  Peter  and  Betsey 
(Hawes)  Haskell:  Charles  Peter  and  Thomas 
Hawes.    . 

(V)  Charles  Peter,  son  of  Captain  Peter 
(2)  and  Betsey  (Hawes)  Haskell,  was  born 
March  8,  1833.  and  is  a  farmer,  residing  on  the 
old  homestead.  He  married  (first)  March  5, 
1868,  Helen  Marr,  born  March  22,  1841, 
daughter  of  Hezekiah  and  Eunice  (Harmon) 
Crockett.  She  died  January  4,  1884.  He 
married  (second)  March  19,  1885,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Elbridge  and  Amanda  (Bevens) 
Tarbox.  She  was  born  September  30,  1859. 
Four  children  were  born  to  the  first  marriage : 
Mary  Cross,  August  20,  1870;  Eugene  ]\Iaur- 
ice,  January  16.  1873;  Fannie  Crockett.  De- 
cember 27,  1874,  died  young;  and  Fred  Peter, 
June  7,  1877. 

(V)  Hon.  Thomas  Hawes,  youngest  son  of 
Peter  (2)  and  Betsey  (Hawes)  Haskell,  was 
born  in  New  Gloucester,  May  18,  1842,  and 
died  in  Portland,  September  24,  1900.  He 
grew  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  before 
he  was  twenty  years  old  had  attended  the 
public  schools  and  the  academies  at  Auburn 
and  Paris  Hill,  graduating  from  Norway  In- 
stitute in  1862,  and  fitted  himself  for  college, 
intending  to  enter  Bowdoin,  but  instead  en- 
listed in  Company  I  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Maine 
Regiment  of  Infantry  commanded  by  Colo- 
nel Francis  Fessenden,  and  served  as  a  ser- 
geant with  his  regiment  in  Virginia.  It  was 
a  nine  months'  regiment,  and  after  his  dis- 
charge, in  the  summer  of  1863,  he  entered  the 
office  of  Judge  Nahum  Morrill,  of  Auburn, 
as  a  law  student.  In  1865  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  that  county.  The  following  ac- 
count of  him  is  taken  from  "The  Green  Bag," 


vol.  vii,  published  1895.  For  a  time  he  re- 
mained with  his  instructor,  but  moved  to 
Portland  in  1866,  where  he  resided  ever  after- 
ward, and  continued  in  active  practice  of  his 
profession  until  called  to  the  bench,  March  31, 
1884,  succeeding  Hon.  Joseph  Symonds,  who 
had  resigned.  He  held  no  political  office  out- 
side the  line  of  his  profession,  except  as  a 
member  of  the  city  council  of  Portland.  He 
served  as  county  attorney  for  part  of  a  term,  in 
1870,  being  appointed  by  the  court  to  fill  a 
vacancy,  and  again  in  1878;  and  was  appointed 
to  the  office  by  the  governor  in  1879,  serving 
until  the  expiration  of  the  term.  He  was  also 
a  commissioner  of  the  circuit  court  of  the 
United  States.  He  was  for  a  time  the  law 
partner  of  the  late  Judge  Goddard  of  the 
superior  court  for  Cumberland  county,  and  of 
Hon.  W.  W.  Thomas  Jr.,  late  our  minister  to 
Sweden,  and  of  Hon.  Nathan  Webb  at  the 
time  he  was  appointed  United  States  district 
judge  in  1882.  In  1881  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Plaisted  upon  a  commission  to  inves- 
tigate abuses  in  the  Reform  School.  He  made 
a  separate  report  that  was  full  and  exhaustive, 
and  he  drew  and  secured  the  passage  of  the 
law,  approved  March  15,  1883,  now  governing 
that  institution,  establishing  regulations  for 
the  prevention  of  abuses,  establishing  a  me- 
chanical school,  and  providing  for  a  woman 
visitor  and  also  a  letter-box  for  the  boys 
where  they  can  deposit  letters  without  scru- 
tiny of  the  officers  of  the  school. 

He  early  developed  in  the  profession  an 
aptitude  for  pleadings,  and  became  proficient 
and  successful  in  the  branches  of  the  law  re- 
lating to  admiralty,  corporations,  bankruptcy, 
criminal  and  commercial  law.  "Don't  do  too 
much  for  your  boys,"  said  a  shrewd  merchant, 
"if  you  expect  them  to  make  anything  of  them- 
selves." No  doubt,  confidence  and  self-reli- 
ance come  largely  in  that  way,  but  the  suc- 
cessful lawyer  must  have  a  fearless  and  in- 
dependent spirit  to  build  upon ;  and  I  found 
that  was  the  case  with  Judge  Haskell  the  first 
time  that  I  saw  him.  It  was  when  I  was 
holding  a  bankrupt  court  as  register  in  a 
neighboring  city,  he  appeared  in  opposition  to 
a  very  able  lawyer,  skilled  in  all  the  tactics 
that  long  practice  afTords,  who  sought  to  pro- 
tect a  preferential  mortgage.  The  proceed- 
ings before  me  consisted  in  taking  examina- 
tions of  witnesses  by  Judge  Haskell,  who  read- 
ilv  succeeded  in  laving  the  foundation  for  va- 
cating the  preference,  notwithstanding  the  in- 
terruptions, bluster  and  threats  of  his  antag- 
onist. I  could  but  admire  his  coolness  and 
courage,   for  older  lawyers   and   even  judges 


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dreaded  to  encounter  this  member  of  the  bar. 
As  the  proceedings  lasted  several  days,  the 
young  lawyer  was  put  upon  his  mettle,  but  he 
came  off  triumphant,  for  his  antagonist  yielded 
in  the  end  and  complimented  him  in  an  un- 
usual degree.  It  gave  him  also  an  enviable 
reputation  that  time  only  generally  affords. 
He  was  a  good  lawyer  and  gained  the  con- 
fidence of  those  who  were  associated  with 
him  as  counsel  and  client,  for  ability,  integrity 
and  industry — qualities  all  and  each  of  which 
are  necessary  to  create  and  hold  the  esteem 
of  the  bar,  upon  whose  recommendation  he 
was  promoted  to  the  bench.  He  has  fine  pow- 
ers of  observation  and  is  well  informed  in 
other  things  outside  his  profession.  In  this 
respect  he  exceeds  the  average  professional 
man.  He  is  many-sided,  and  would  have  suc- 
ceeded well  as  a  naturalist,  bank  president  or 
manager  and  financier  for  a  corporation.  He 
loves  a  fine  horse  or  a  bit  of  intricate  machin- 
ery. Inventive  and  ingenious,  without  me- 
chanical training,  he  could  both  plan  and  build 
a  house  with  enough  closets  and  bow  windows 
to  satisfy  any  woman.  To  these  powers  add 
a  methodical  and  critical  faculty  developed, 
strengthened  and  broadened,  and  you  have  the 
qualities  of  mind  which  are  readily  seen  in 
the  way  he  has  built  his  library,  both  law  and 
miscellaneous.  While  on  the  other  hand  you 
cannot  find  there  a  single  useles  volume,  many 
of  which  will  gather  in  lawyers'  bookcases. 
On  the  other  hand,  there  are  rare  and  original 
editions  and  some  valuable  for  their  previous 
ownership,  attested  by  the  autographs  of  Si- 
mon Greenleaf  and  others  distinguished  in  the 
profession.  He  has  a  good  combined  selection 
of  American  and  English  books  for  every- 
day use,  and  his  private  library  has  been 
brought  together  in  the  same  choice  and 
orderly  method.  He  has  good  taste  in  all 
the  details  of  bookmaking,  as  will  be  seen  in 
"Haskell's  Reports  of  Fox's  Decisions  in  the 
United  States  District  Court  for  the  District 
of  Maine,"  which  he  prepared  and  edited  in 
1887-88.  His  tasteful  execution  of  a  reporter's 
work  in  these  two  volumes  gave  him  the  credit 
of  a  connoisseur  for  skill  and  ability,  and  my- 
self a  good  excuse,  when  I  began  my  duties 
as  reporter  of  decisions  of  this  court,  to  call 
upon  him  for  advice  and  information,  which 
he  always  accorded  in  a  friendly  and  helpful 
way.  These  two  volumes  of  Haskell's  Re- 
ports, work  which  he  did  after  he  went  upon 
the  bench,  are  not  exceeded  by  any  reports  that 
I  have  seen  for  aptness  and  precision  in  the 
headnotes.  Grasping  the  salient  points  of 
each  case,  they  have  the  happy  medium  be- 


tween over-conciseness  and  prolixity  that  com- 
mends a  value  of  reports  to  a  busy  lawyer, 
and  is  thus  a  vast  saving  of  time.  In  his  pre- 
fatory note  he  modestly  claims  that  he  has 
only  endeavored  to  verify  the  citations  and 
quotations,  to  guard  against  all  errors  of  the 
press,  and  says :  "I  only  desire  that  my  work 
may  be  charitably  received  and  prove  valuable 
to  my  professional  brethren."  Following  this 
in  the  article  quoted  is  a  running  commentary 
on  opinions  rendered  by  Judge  Haskell,  as  re- 
ported in  the  Maine  Reports,  interesting  only 
to  those  connected  with  the  courts.  In  one 
place  he  speaks  of  the  judge  as  follows:  "Of 
his  opinions,  and  only  a  few  cursory  glances 
are  attempted  here,  it  may  be  truly  said  that 
they  disclose  force,  diligence,  and  vivacity. 
There  is  nothing  feigned  in  them ;  on  the  con- 
trary, they  possess  a  genuineness  of  his  own, 
hearty,  and  sometimes  idiomatic  way,  based 
on  the  primary  virtue  of  justice  and  the  cour- 
age to  be  just.  He  has  an  alert  mind.  "He 
is  one  of  the  quickest,"  says  a  well-known 
federal  judge,  "to  see  a  point  upon  which  a 
case  turns."  His  style  reminds  one  at  times 
of  the  old  English  judges,  and  almost  rivalling 
in  brevity  his  associate,  Mr.  Justice  Walton. 
His  familiarity  with  decided  cases  gives  him 
the  power  of  selecting  the  best  material  and 
cases ;  and  he  loves  to  give  credit  to  attorneys 
who  furnish  full  and  orderly  briefs.  Without 
"an  almost  ignominious  love  of  detail,"  as  Sir 
Arthur  Helps  says,  he  sees  all  there  is  in  a 
case,  and  counsel  find  it  so  in  their  practice 
before  him.  A  love  of  order  and  system, 
combined  with  industry,  enable  him  to  turn 
off  his  judicial  labors  with  ease ;  and  when 
he  returned  at  night  to  his  home,  the  cares  of 
office  do  not  follow  him.  Rather  indifferent 
to  fame,  he  would  be  among  the  last  to  adopt 
Benvenuto  Cellini's  advice,  "that  all  men  after 
they  have  reached  forty  should  write  down 
their  own  lives" ;  nor  is  it  difficult  for  the 
believer  in  heredity  to  see  how  his  favorite 
judge  has  become,  to  use  a  military  phrase,  "a 
chief  of  staff"  of  the  court  in  the  midst  of  his 
varied  usefulness  on  the  bench.  He  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Bowdoin 
College  in  1894." 

In  an  obituary  notice  of  Judge  Haskell  pub- 
lished in  the  Eastern  Argus,  September  25, 
1900,  it  is  stated  that  he  was  appointed  to  the 
supreme  bench  in  1884,  reappointed  in  1891, 
and  again  in  1898,  and  served  till  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  was  the  author  of  the  "Cen- 
tennial History  of  New  Gloucester,"  published 
in  1874.  He  was  a  member  of  Bosworth  Post, 
Grand    .'Vrmy   of   the    Republic,   in   which    he 


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was  greatly  interested,  but  belonged  to  no 
other  organization.  He  was  a  constant  attend- 
ant of  the  First  Parish  Church  and  served  as 
moderator  of  the  parish  meeting  for  many 
years.  "His  special  delight  was  the  study  of 
physics  and  particularly  of  the  steam-engine. 
He  had  a  workshop  fitted  up  in  his  house,  and 
was  never  so  happy  as  when  working  with  his 
tools  of  experimenting  with  fine  pieces  of 
mechanism.  For  this  reason  his  opinions  were 
always  sought  upon  cases  involving  practical 
questions  of  mechanics  or  similar  matters." 

Thomas  H.  Haskell  married,  in  Nashua, 
Xew  Hampshire.  November  27,  1867,  Eliza- 
beth Parsons  Whitman,  born  in  Nashua,  New 
Hampshire,  March  13,  1842,  only  daughter  of 
Isaac  Parsons  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Jordan) 
Whitman,  who  survives  him,  and  resides  in 
Portland.     (See  \\'hitman  VHI.) 


In  the  days  of  the  coloniza- 
WHITMAN  tion  of  New  England,  before 
1680,  four  men  named  Whit- 
man came  to  New  England.  Two  of  them, 
John,  of  Weymouth,  and  Zachariah,  were 
brothers,  but  are  not  known  to  be  related  to 
either  of  the  others.  John  is  claimed  as  the 
ancestor  of  a  large  part  of  the  Whitmans  of 
New  England. 

(I)  Deacon  John  Whitman  came  from  Eng- 
land and  became  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of 
Weymouth,  Massachusetts.  When  he  came  or 
how  long  he  had  been  in  Weymouth  before 
he  was  made  freeman  there,  December,  1638, 
is  not  known.  In  1645  he  was  appointed  en- 
sign in  the  militia  and  also  appointed  to  end 
small  controversies,  a  position  equivalent  to 
that  of  justice  of  the  peace  at  the  present  time. 
He  was  also  deacon  of  the  church  in  Wey- 
mouth, probably  from  its  first  establishment 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  November  13, 
1692,  when  he  was  nearly  ninety  years  old, 
it  is  said.  His  family  did  not  come  to  this 
country  until  1641.  four  years  or  more  after 
his  arrival.  John  Whitman  lived  upon  a  farm 
adjoining  the  north  side  of  the  highway,  lead- 
ing by  the  north  side  of  the  meeting-house  of 
the  North  Parish  in  Weymouth,  and  directly 
ofif  against  it,  and  extending  to  Weymouth 
river;  and  his  dwelling-house  was  situated 
near  the  center  of  it.  The  same  farm,  entire, 
descended  by  bequest  from  father  to  son  until 
1806,  when  the  title  went  into  a  female  line 
of  descendants,  who  still  occupy  the  place. 
John  Whitman  was  among  those  citizens  of 
Weymouth  who  received  allotments  of  land  in 
1642,  as  follows :  Twenty-one  acres  in  the 
west  field,  fifteen  of  them  upland  and  six  of 


salt  marsh;  four  acres  and  a  half  on  the  west- 
ern neck;  eleven  acres  in  Harrisons  range, 
first  given  to  him;  sixty  acres  by  the  goat- 
pond  first  given  to  Mr.  Hull;  and  four  acres 
of  fish-marsh,  first  given  to  Mr.  Hull.  In  the 
list  of  1 65 1.  Ensign  Whitman  is  given  twelve 
lots  of  land,  and  on  the  list  of  1663  he  received 
eighty-one  lots,  comprising  sixty  acres.  The 
first  deed  on  record  to  John  Whitman  bears 
date  10,  28,  1649,  iri  which  Thomas  Jenner,  of 
Charlestown,  grants  to  Elder  Bates  and  John 
Whitman,  of  Weymouth,  "one  dwelling-house 
at  Weymouth  (now  in  possession  of  John 
King),  two  orchards  and  twenty-one  acres  ad- 
joining more  or  less ;  also  twelve  acres  of  Ye 
Western  Neck,  be  it  more  or  less,  also  half 
an  acre  upon  Grape  Island,  be  it  more  or  less ; 
also  forty  acres,  which  is  his  own  pp  (proper) 
lot,  be  it  more  or  less ;  and  eighteen  acres 
which  was  his  father's;  also  ye  round  marsh, 
being  four  acres  more  or  less,  and  one  acre 
of  fresh  marsh  adjoining,  and  six  acres  of 
marsh  above  ye  fresh  pond  and  a  wood  lot  on 
Hingham  side."  The  first  deed  on  record 
made  by  John  Whitman  bears  date  March  19, 
1648,  by  which  he  sells  to  William  Hayward 
about  twenty-two  acres  of  land  in  "Braintry,"' 
which  he  had  purchased  of  James  Nash. 
Those  entries  show  that  he  must  have  been 
one  of  the  most  extensive  real  estate  owners 
in  the  town.  His  office  of  ensign  he  held  till 
;\Iarch  16,  1680.  At  a  session  of  the  general 
court,  held  May  15,  1664,  on  the  occasion  of 
John  Burrell  and  Richard  Wager  being  sent 
as  messengers  to  the  Indians,  John  Whitman 
was  allowed  four  shillings  a  day  "for  his 
paynes"  and  use  of  "his  horse  in  ye  journey 
he  was  employed  in  for  the  countrey's  service 
to  the  Narrowgansetts."  From  an  entry  in  the 
Weymouth  records,  it  seems  that  John  Whit- 
man's wife's  name  was  Ruth,  and  that  she  died 
"8,  17,  1662."  He  had  four  sons  and  five 
daughters,  all  but  one  of  whom  survived  him, 
and  six  of  \vhom  lived  to  be  over  eighty  years 
of  age.  They  were:  Thomas,  John,  Zechariah, 
Abiah.  Sarah,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Hannah  and 
Judith. 

( II)  Thomas,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Whit- 
man, was  born  in  1629,  and  was  about  twelve 
years  old  when  he  came  with  his  mother  and 
some  others  of  the  children,  about  1641,  to 
settle  in  this  country.  In  1653  he  was  made 
a  freeman  in  Boston,  being  then  twenty-four 
years  of  age.  and  a  church  member,  of  course. 
He  settled  first  in  Weymouth;  but  in  1662 
sold  his  farm  there,  as  did  his  father-in-law, 
Nicholas  Bryan,  and  both  removed  to  Bridge- 
water,    twelve    miles    south    of    Weymouth, 


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where  each  settled  himself  upon  a  valuable 
tract  of  land  in  the  easterly  part  of  the  town, 
then  in  a  state  of  nature.  That  selected  by 
Thomas  Whitman  was  what  has  since  been 
called  Whitman's  Neck,  containing  about  two 
hundred  acres,  and  lying  between  the  rivers 
Saiucket  and  Matfield,  and  coming  to  a  point 
at  their  junction.  A  more  eligible  situation 
could  not  have  been  found.  There  he  resided 
fifty  years,  until  his  decease  in  1712,  aged 
eighty  years.  He  built  three  residences.  The 
first  house,  built  in  1663,  was  destroyed  by 
the  Indians  in  1676:  the  second,  erected  in 
1676,  he  occupied  only  a  few  years ;  the  third, 
built  in  1680,  was  occupied  by  four  genera- 
tions, and  was  the  birthplace  of  thirty-six 
children.  Thomas  Whitman  provided  for 
each  of  his  three  sons  by  deeds  of  conveyance 
before  his  decease,  and  by  his  will  dated  171 1, 
made  them,  after  the  decease  of  their  mother, 
his  residuary  legatees.  The  estate  he  left  was 
valuable  and  attests  his  good  habits,  industry 
and  good  judgment.  Thomas  Whitman  mar- 
ried, November  22,  1656,  Abigail,  daughter 
of  Ensign  Nicholas  and  ]\Iartha  (Shaw) 
Bryan,  who  probably  came  over  with  his 
father.  Abigail  survived  her  husband  many 
years,  living  to  be  very  aged.  They  had  seven 
children :  John,  Ebenezer,  Nicholas,  Susanna, 
Mary,  Naomi  and  Hannah. 
.  (Ill)  Nicholas,  third  son  of  Thomas  and 
Abigail  (Bryan)  Whitman,  was  born  in  1675 
and  died  August  6,  1746.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  vigor,  industry  and  activity.  He  had 
his  father's  homestead  and  lived  with  him. 
His  dwelling  was  near  Matfield  river.  In  re- 
ligious notions  he  partook,  in  some  measure, 
of  the  times  and  was  somewhat  pertinacious. 
It  is  related  of  him  that  having  grown  up 
while  it  was  fashionable,  owing  probably  to 
the  open  and  unfinished  state  of  the  meeting 
houses  in  early  times,  for  the  men  to  put  on 
their  hats  during  sermon  time,  he  could  not 
readily  conform  to  an  innovation  even  in  this 
particular.  This  practice  had  existed  during 
the  whole  of  the  ministry  (about  fifty  years) 
of  the  first  settled  minister,  after  which  his 
successor,  a  fashionable  young  man  from  the 
metropolis,  who  was  able  to  persuade  all,  ex- 
cept Mr.  Whitman,  to  lay  aside  the  practice, 
and  finding  him  conscientious,  he  delivered 
a  discourse  on  the  subject;  but  before  he  had 
finished  Mr.  Whitman  arose  and  with  great 
gravity,  and  possibly  without  intending  sar- 
casm, remarked  "That  rather  than  offend  a 
weak  brother,  he  would  pull  oft"  his  hat,"  and 
accordingly  did  so  thereafter,  as  well  during 
the  sermon  as  prayer  time.     Before  his  death 


he  settled  portions  of  his  homestead  upon  his 
sons,  Thomas  and  John,  and  Seth,  Eleazer, 
and  Benjamin  were  settled  on  his  outlands. 
His  other  children,  except  David,  who  was 
provided  for  by  his  Uncle  John,  after  his  de- 
cease, had  between  them  the  residue  of  the 
homestead.  Nicholas  Whitman  had  the  rare 
felicity  of  having  eleven  of  his  children  all  set- 
tled, and  well  settled,  in  the  same  town  with 
himself,  where  they  all  spent  their  lives  in 
good  repute.  Five  of  them  lived  to  be  of  the 
ages  respectively,  eighty,  eighty-six,  eighty- 
seven,  ninety,  ninety-seven.  The  other  six 
died  between  thirty  and  seventy  years  of  age. 
He  came  to  his  death  on  August  6,  1746,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-one,  being  crushed  under 
the  wheels  of  a  cart  loaded  with  hay  which  he 
was  hauling  from  the  field.  He  married 
(first)  1700,  Sarah  Vining,  of  Weymouth,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children;  she  died  in  1713, 
and  he  married  (second)  Mary,  daughter  of 
Francis  and  Hannah  (Brett)  Cary,  by  whom 
he  had  two  children;  she  died  in  1716,  and  he 
married  ( third )  the  same  year,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Mary  (Trow)  Conant,  the 
great-granddaughter  of  Roger  Conant :  and 
by  this  last  marriage  he  had  eight  children, 
four  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Children  of 
Nicholas  were:  Thomas,  John,  Josiah  (died 
young),  David,  Jonathan,  Seth,  Eleazer,  Ben- 
jamin, Mary,  William,  Josiah,  Sarah,  Abigail, 
Nicholas,  Susanna  and  Ebenezer. 

(I\')  John  (2),  second  son  of  Nicholas  and 
Sarah  (Vining)  Whitman,  was  born  in  1704, 
and  died  in  1792.  He  had  a  share  of  his  fath- 
er's estate,  including  that  part  on  which  his 
grandfather,  Thomas,  had  his  dwelling. 
Judge  Whitman  says  of  him:  "He  was 
regular  in  his  habits,  but  not  very  labori- 
ous, sufficiently  so,  however,  to  maintain 
his  family,  and  keep  his  patrimony  together, 
until,  in  his  old  age.  his  son  John  took  charge 
of  it,  and  of  the  maintenance  of  himself  and 
wife."  He  married  (first)  1726,  Elizabeth 
Richard  of  Plympton,  who  died  in  1727.  He 
married  (second)  1729,  Ehzabeth  Cary,  born 
1700,  died  1742,  daughter  of  James  Cary.  He 
married  (third)  1743,  Hannah,  widow  of  Dea- 
con Isaac  Snow  and  daughter  of  Joseph  Shaw, 
ried  (fourth)  September  30,  1765,  Hannah, 
widow  of  Joseph  ]\Iitchell,  of  Hingham,  and 

daughter   of    Hearsey,    of    Abington. 

She  was  born  1703,  and  died  1788.  Six  chil- 
dren were  born  to  him :  Samuel,  Elizabeth, 
John.  James,  Daniel  and  Ezra. 

(V)  Deacon  John  (3),  second  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Cary)  Whitman,  was  born 
in  Bridgewater,  March  17,  O.  S.  or  28  N.  S., 


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1735,  and  died  Jul^'  26,  1842,  aged  one  hun- 
dred and  seven.  On  the  maternal  side  he  was 
the  fourth  in  descent  from  Captain  Miles 
Standish  of  the  "Mayflower,"  the  line  of  de- 
scent being  as  follows:  Josiah,  son  of  Miles 
Standish,  of  Bridgewater :  Mary,  daughter  of 
Josiah  and  wife  of  James  Cary  ;  their  daugh- 
ter. Klizabeth  Cary,  wife  of  John  (2)  Whit- 
man and  mother  of  John  (3).  At  the  age  of 
seventeen  John  Whitman  was  apprenticed  to 
I^eacon  Cary,  of  North  Bridgewater,  to  learn 
the  trade  of  "shop  joiner,"  as  it  was  then 
called  ;  after  leaving  Deacon  Cary  he  worked 
for  Captain  Daniel  Xoyes,  of  Abington.  Dur- 
ing the  time  he  was  at  the  latter  place  he  was 
drafted  for  service  in  the  French  war.  His 
brother  Samuel  furnished  him  with  means  to 
procure  a  substitute,  and  soon  afterward  he 
went  to  New  Jersey,  where  he  stayed  two 
years.  He  then  returned  home  to  take  charge 
of  his  father  and  sister,  settling  on  his  fath- 
er's homestead.  In  the  first  year  after  his 
marriage  he  and  his  wife  joined  the  church 
in  East  Bridgewater,  and  endeavored,  to  quote 
his  own  words — "to  walk  in  all  the  command- 
ments and  ordinances  of  the  Lord  blame- 
lessly." About  1775  he  was  chosen  deacon  of 
the  church,  an  office  which  he  held  till  his  ad- 
vanced age  rendered  it  fitting  that  he  should 
retire.  At  the  commencement  of  the  revolu- 
tionarv  war  he  was  chosen  lieutenant  of  a 
company  of  militia  untler  Captain  Alden, 
which  office  he  held  till  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  was,  however,  called  into  service  but  twice, 
and  only  once  went  into  camp,  when  he  was 
stationed  for  three  months  in  Rhode  Island 
guarding  the  coast.  After  the  war  he  walked 
from  Rhode  Island  to  East  Bridgewater. 
When  almost  home  he  was  quite  discouraged 
with  thinking  what  a  hard  time  was  in  store 
for  him,  as  it  was  quite  late  in  the  season  and 
his  crops  not  planted.  When  he  came  to  a 
small  "grog  shop"  he  bought  a  drink  of  grog- 
to  revive  his  spirits,  for  which  he  paid  eleven 
dollars  in  Continental  money.  This  was  the 
last  liquor  he  ever  took,  and  he  lived  to  be  one 
hundred  and  seven  years  old.  He  was  a  strong 
temperance  man  in  a  time  when  temperance 
was  not  fashionable.  For  several  years  he 
She  was  born  1704,  and  died  1762.  He  mar- 
was  selectman,  overseer  of  the  poor  and  as- 
sessor of  taxes,  but  his  retiring  disposition 
prevented  hitii  from  being  put  forward  for 
offices  of  distinction.  After  the  death  of  his 
wife,  he  made  arrangements  with  his  son 
.\lfred  to  take  charge  of  the  farm,  and  he 
boarded  with  him  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  married    (first)    October   11,   1764,  Lydia 


Snow,  born  in  1740,  died  April  25,  1771, 
daughter  of  David  and  Joanna  (Hay ward) 
Snow.  He  married  (second)  August  5,  1775, 
Abigail  \\'hitman,  born  August  5,  1751,  died 
September  16,  1813,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Elizabeth  (Sinith)  Whitman.  His  children 
were :  Lydia,  Elizabeth,  James,  Catherine, 
Bathsheba,  Josiah,  Alfred,  Obadiah,  Na- 
thaniel, Hosea,  John,  .\bigail,  Bernard  and 
Jason. 

(\  I)  Obadiah,  fourth  son  of  Deacon  John 
(3)  and  Abigail  (Whitman)  Whitman,  was 
born  in  1783,  and  died  January  8,  1862.  He 
removed  to  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  where 
he  was  a  farmer  and  a  prominent  and  exem- 
plary- citizen.  He  held  various  town  offices 
and  represented  the  town  in  the  legislature  two 
terms.  He  shared  the  deep  religious  feelings 
that  had  been  instilled  into  all  his  children  by 
Deacon  John.  He  married.  May  i.  1805, 
Susannah  Parsons,  daughter  of  Colonel  Isaac 
Parsons,  of  New  Gloucester.  She  died  No- 
vember 7,  1859.  They  had  six  children,  all 
born  in  New  Gloucester:  Edwin,  Isaac  Par- 
sons, George  Washington,  Susannah,  Rufus 
Anderson  and  John, 

(VH)  Isaac  Parsons,  second  son  of 
Obadiah  and  Susannah  (Parsons)  Whitman, 
was  born  in  New  Gloucester,  October  12, 
1809,  and  died  in  Portland,  February  24,  1888. 
He  was  a  practical  machinist.  He  resided  in 
Nashv.a,  New  Hampshire,  man\-  years,  and 
while  there  he  held  many  local  offices  and  rep- 
resented the  cit}-  in  the  legislature  two  years. 
In  1872  he  removed  to  Portland,  Maine,  where 
he  spent  his  last  years.  He  married.  May  12, 
1841,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Jordan,  of  Biddeford, 
born  in  1814,  died  in  Portland,  June  7,  1904, 
daughter  of  Ichabod  and  Betsy  (Nason)  Jor- 
dan, of  Biddeford.  (See  Jordan,  \T.)  They 
had  two  children — Elizabeth  Parsons,  and 
Isaac  Henry,  who  died  in  infancy. 

(\TII)  Elizabeth  Parsons,  only  daughter  of 
Isaac  Parsons  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  (Jordan) 
Whitman,  was  born  in  Nashua,  New  Hamp- 
shire, March  13,  1842.  She  was  married  No- 
vember 27.  1867,  to  Thomas  Hawes  Haskell, 
of  New  Gloucester.     (See  Haskell,  \'.) 


(For    preceding    generations    see   Rev.  Robert  Jordan  I.) 

(IV)  Judge  Rishworth,  eldest 
JORDAN     child    of    Captain    Samuel    and 

Olive  (Plaisted)  Jordan,  was 
born  in  W'inter  Harbor,  now  Biddeford,  York 
county,  jMaine,  in  1719,  and  died  April  18, 
1808,  aged  eighty-nine  years.  He  lived  in  the 
lower  part  of  the  town,  in  a  house  since  occu- 
pied by  his  son,  Ralph  Tristram  Jordan,  and 


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by  his  grandson,  Robert  Elliot  Jordan.  Early 
in  the  revokition  he  was  raised  to  the  bench 
of  the  cotnt  of  common  pleas,  ott  which  he 
subsequently  became  chief  justice,  and  was 
universally  esteemed  for  his  able  and  upright 
discliarge  of  the  duties  of  his  ofilice.  For 
more  than  fifty  years  he  took  an  active  and 
prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  town  and 
church,  enjoying  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  the  inhabitants.  From  early  manhood  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 
He  was  a  man  of  impressive  person- 
ality, of  a  type  which  has  passed  away. 
He  was  six  feet  in  height,  broad  shouldered, 
of  light  complexion,  and  possessed  of  a  very 
loud,  strong  voice.  His  figure  was  very  erect 
till  bowed  by  age.  He  wore  small  clothes,  a 
three-cornered  hat  and  a  wig.  Judge  Jordan 
married,  in  Kittery,  1742,  Abigail  Gerrish, 
born  1720,  died  October  25,  1794,  daughter 
of  Colonel  Timothy  Gerrish.  (See  Gerrish, 
HI.)  Their  children  were:  Olive,  Abigail, 
Sarah,  Mary,  Samuel,  Rishworth,  Jane,  Jo- 
seph, Elizabeth  and  Ralph  Tristram. 

(V)  Major  Rishworth  (2),  second  son  of 
Judge  Rishworth  (i)  and  Abigail  (Gerrish) 
Jordan,  was  born  in  Biddeford  in  1754,  and 
died  there  October  23,  1843,  aged  eighty-nine. 
His  entire  life  was  spent  in  that  town,  his 
homestead  being  located  a  mile  and  a  half  from 
Saco  Falls.  He  married  (first)  Sarah  For- 
syth, who  died  in  1786,  aged  thirty-five  years; 
(second)  Sarah  (Goodman),  widow  of  Tem- 
ple Hight,  of  Berwick.  She  died  February 
26,  1825.  His  children  were:  Rishworth, 
Ichabod,  Temple  and  Sarah  Goodwin. 

(VI)  Ichabod,  second  son  of  Major  Rish- 
worth (2)  and  Sarah  (Forsyth)  Jordan,  was 
born  in  Biddeford,  February  2,  1782,  and 
died  August  7,  1874,  in  the  ninety-third  year 
of  his  age.  In  early  business  life  he  was  en- 
gaged in  a  country  store  for  some  years;  was 
early  identified  in  town  affairs;  held  various 
offices  of  trust;  was  representative  to  the  gen- 
eral court  in  Boston;  was  for  many  years 
deputy  sheriff  of  York  county;  was  uni- 
versally known  and  respected  not  only  in  his 
own  town,  but  throughout  the  county.  He 
married  Betsy  Nason,  and  they  were  the  pa- 
rents of  George  F.  H..  Noah  Nason,  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  Abigail  Hight,  Rishworth.  Ichabod 
Goodwin,  Andrew  S.,  Daniel  S.,  William  G., 
Ethelbert  G.  and  Annie. 

(VTI)  Sarah  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of 
Ichabod  and  Betsy  (Nason)  Jordan,  was  born 
in  1814,  and  died  1904.  She  married  Isaac  P. 
Whitman,  of  New  Gloucester.  (See  Whit- 
man, VII.) 


In  England  the  family  name 
PEASE  Pease  has  been  known  for  at 
least  four  centuries,  and  as  early 
as  1472  the  name  John  Pease,  LL.D.,  appears 
in  a  published  book.  It  is  claimed  by  some 
antiquarians  that  the  name  is  of  German  ori- 
gin and  that  families  of  that  name  emigrated 
from  Germany  to  England  about  the  fifteenth 
or  sixteenth  centuries.  On  the  other  hand  it 
is  claimed  by  reliable  authorities- that  the  Eng- 
lish I'ease  family  comes  of  an  ancient  Latin 
race,  and  this  belief  seems  to  have  found  sup- 
port in  this  country,  where  we  have  an  account 
of  one  of  them  who  dropped  his  name  Pease 
and  in  its  place  adopted  that  of  Pise,  which  is 
said  to  be  the  Italian  equivalent  of  Pease,  and 
has  the  same  pronunciation,  or  perhaps  more 
like  "Pees."  This  particular  member  of  the 
Pease  family  was  a  descendant  of  the  Enfield 
branch  of  the  American  family  and  therefore 
of  kin  to  the  family  of  whom  this  narrative 
is  intended  to  treat.  In  respect  to  the  origin 
of  the  name  it  may  be  said  that  it  is  supposed 
to  have  been  in  some  manner  associated  with 
the  esculent  plant  pea.  The  Pease  coat-of- 
arms  granted  by  Otho  II  had  for  its  crest  an 
eagle's  head,  holding  in  its  beak  a  stalk  of 
Pea-haulm,  from  which  it  appears  reasonable 
that  the  family  name  was  in  fact  associated 
with  the  pea-plant.  The  branch  of  the  family 
here  considered  comes  of  the  English  family 
of  the  same  name  and  on  this  side  of  the  At- 
lantic dates  its  history  from  the  year  1634, 
and  has  for  its  principal  ancestor  in  the  sec- 
ond generation  one  John  Pease,  son  of  the 
immigrant.  In  this  connection  it  may  be  well 
to  mention  that  between  the  years  1635  and 
1672  there  were  no  less  than  six  persons  in 
New  England  who  bore  the  name  of  John 
Pease,  and  on  that  account  some  confusion  has 
arisen  among  their  numerous  descendants ; 
and  in  the  family  here  treated  the  baptismal 
name  John  has  been  transmitted  from  sire  to 
son  in  every  generation  and  in  nearly  all  the 
families  from  the  time  of  the  immigrant  to 
the  present  day. 

(I)  Robert  Pease,  immigrant,  is  supposed 
to  have  been  born  in  Great  Baddow,  Essex, 
England,  son  of  Robert  and  Margaret  Pease, 
of  Great  Baddow.  He  came  to  America  in 
1634  in  the  ship  "Francis"  from  Ipswich,  Eng- 
land, to  Boston,  New  England,  with  his  son 
John,  then  four  years  old,  and  his  brother 
John.  He  settled  in  Salem,  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  and  died  there  in  1644,  aged 
about  thirty-seven  years.  No  mention  is  made 
of  his  wife,  or  of  other  children  than  the  boy 
John,    and    it     is    presumed    that    he    was    a 


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widower  when  he  came  over  with  his  brotlier 
and  son. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Robert  Pease,  the  immi- 
grant, and  the  only  child  of  whom  the  records 
give  us  any  account,  was  born  in  England, 
probably  about  1630,  for  he  is  mentioned  as 
having  been  four  years  old  when  his  father 
came  to  this  country.  He  was  John  Pease, 
of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  Enfield,  Con- 
necticut, progenitor  of  most  of  the  New  Eng- 
land families  of  that  name,  as  well  as  many 
of  those  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey.  He 
married  (first)  Mary  Goodell,  who  died  in 
1669,  soon  after  the  birth  of  her  fifth  child. 
IMarried  (second)  Ann,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Cummings,  of  Topsfield,  Massachusetts,  and 
soon  afterward  removed  to  Enfield,  where  he 
died.  He  had  five  children  by  his  first  and 
three  bv  his  second  wife:  John,  Robert,  Mary, 
Abraham.  Jonathan,  James,  Isaac  and  Abi- 
gail. 

(III)  Jonathan,  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Goodell)  Pease,  was  born  in  .Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  2,  1669,  and  died  in  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  in  1 72 1.  Although  a  minor  in 
1689,  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  he 
seems  to  have  presented  the  inventory  of  his 
estate  and  gave  bond  in  the  sum  of  three  hun- 
dred pounds  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  the 
duties  of  administrator.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber II,  1692,  Elizabeth  Booth,  who  is  said  to 
have  been  a  daughter  of  Simeon  Rooth,  who 
came  to  America  from  Wales  and  settled  in 
Enfield  in  1680.  The  children  of  Jonathan 
and  Elizabeth  (Booth)  Pease  were  Rebecca, 
Jonathan.  David,  Samuel,  John  (a  soldier  of 
the  French  and  Indian  war  and  killed  at  Fort 
Dunimer  in  1725),  Josiah,  Peletiah  and  Eliza- 
beth. Of  these  children  Jonathan  and  David 
were  progenitors  of  the  Pease  families  of 
New  Jersey,  concerning  whom  one  writer  of 
the  family  history  says  "there  seems  to  have 
been  two  branches  of  them,  but  they  were 
related.  One  branch  is  traced  back  to  three 
brothers,  Cornelius,  Adam  and  Jonathan." 
This  Jonathan  was  captain  of  a  company  of 
New  Jersey  troops  during  the  revolution  and 
took  part  in  the  battle  of  ^Monmouth.  He  died 
without  issue.  On  the  same  subject  another 
writer  says :  "We  have  for  some  time  been 
inclined  to  the  opinion  that  the  New  Jersey 
Peases  came  originally  from  Enfield,  Con- 
necticut. John  R.  Pease,  of  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, has  recently  informed  us  that  he  re- 
members of  hearing  Mr.  John  Pease,  the  con- 
fectioner, inform  his  father,  the  late  Dr.  John 
C.  Pease,  that  his  ancestor  came  from  En- 
field.    It  seems  probable  that  they  belong  to 


the   descendants  of  Jonathan,   the   fourth   son 
of  John  Pease,  senior,  of  Enfield."' 

("l\)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
and  Elizabeth  (Booth)  Pease,  was  born  in 
Enfield,  Connecticut,  in  1696,  and  is  believed 
to  have  been  progenitor  of  one  branch  of  the 
Pease  family  of  New  Jersey.  Concerning  him 
a  contemporary  writer  says  "we  have  no  his- 
tory of  him  after  1726.  His  name  is  men- 
tioned in  the  settlement  of  his  father's  estate, 
and  on  January  7,  1726,  he  had  letters  of  ad- 
ministration granted  him  on  the  estate  of  his 
brother  John."  As  this  Jonathan  is  believed 
to  have  founded  one  branch  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey Pease  family  this  record  is  made  of  him, 
but  it  is  not  understood  that  he  was  the  imme- 
diate ancestor  of  the  family  treated  in  this 
narrative. 

(I\')  David,  son  of  Jonathan  (  I)  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Booth)  Pease,  was  born  in  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  in  1698.  He  "emigrated  to  the 
southern  states  and  settled  there  and  had  a 
family,"  says  the  history  of  Enfield.  Refer- 
ring to  him  another  account  says  "it  seems 
probable  that  he  left  Enfield  not  long  after 
the  death  of  his  father,"  and  "if  he  only  re- 
moved to  New  Jersey  it  might  have  been  said 
in  those  times  that  he  went  to  the  southern 
states." 

( V)  Cornelius,  wdio  is  believed  to  have  been 
a  son  of  David  Pease,  was  born  April  i,  1735, 
and  with  his  brothers  Adam  and  Jonathan 
settled  in  Freetown,  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  they  were  farmers  and  exten- 
sive landowners.  Jonathan,  as  has  been  men- 
tioned, was  the  revolutionary  officer,  and  died 
without  issue.  Adam  married  and  had  sons 
David  and  John,  and  three  daughters.  Cor- 
nelius married,  July  11,  1758.  Elizabeth  Clark, 
and  had  five  sons  and  three  daughters.  The 
sons  were  David,  John  C,  William,  Adam  and 
Josiah. 

(\'I)  Josiah,  son  of  Cornelius  and  Eliza- 
beth (Clark)  Pease,  was  born  and  spent  his 
life  in  ]\Ionmouth  county.  New  Jersey.  He 
is  remembered  as  a  mail  of  excellent  princi- 
ples and  was  highly  respected  for  his  charac- 
ter and  worth.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Anderson,  and  after  her  death  married  Eliza- 
beth   .     He  had  six  children  :     John   .\., 

Elizabeth,    W^illiam,    Martha    Ann,    Charlotte 
and  Cornelius. 

(\II)  William,  son  of  Josiah  and  Eliza- 
beth (Anderson)  Pease,  was  born  near  Free- 
hold, Monmouth  county,  Nev\'  Jersey,  No- 
vember 17,  1806,  and  died  in  Verona,  New 
Jersey,  February  19,  1895.  He  was  engaged 
in  the  shipping  business  in   New  York  City, 


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was  a  capable  and  straightforward  business 
man  and  held  the  confidence  of  all  with  whom 
he  became  acquainted.  In  religious  preference 
he  was  a  Baptist,  conscientious  and  consist- 
ent in  his  daily  walk,  and  in  politics  was  a 
firm  Democrat.  Mr.  Pease  married,  in  Kings- 
ton, Ulster  county,  New  York,  January  lo, 
1833,  Caroline  A.  Silkworth,  born  New  York 
City,  October  10,  18 15,  died  Verona,  New 
Jersey,  October  26,  1887.  Her  ancestors  were 
of  English  stock  and  on  coming  to  America 
settled  first  in  Canada,  removing  thence  to 
Ulster  county.  New  York.  Her  great-grand- 
father, William  Silkworth,  was  a  soldier  in 
the  American  army  during  the  revolution. 
William  and  Caroline  A.  (Silkworth)  Pease 
had  nine  children:  i.  John  A.,  born  New 
York  City,  December  23,  1833,  married 
(first)  September  6,  1852,  Harriet  L.  DuBois, 
died  Brooklyn,  New  York,  June  2,  1900; 
married  (second)  October  16,  1901,  Harriet 
Heyman.  2.  Maria  Elizabeth,  born  Brook- 
lyn, October  31,  1835,  died  there  April  9, 
1836.  3.  Caroline  Augusta,  born  Brooklyn, 
J\Iarch  17,  1837,  married,  in  Verona,  New 
Jersey,  January  14,  1863,  Sidney  S.  Arm- 
strong. 4.  Julia  Maria,  born  New  York  City, 
February  8,  1839,  married,  in  Verona,  May 
5,  1864,  Alfred  D.  Willifer,  who  died  in  Au- 
gust, 1907.  5.  William  H.,  born  New  York 
City,  March  29,  1841.  6.  Emma  Jane,  born 
Brooklyn,  June  i,  1844,  married,  in  Verona, 
June  19,  1873,  Albion  H.  Barter,  of  St. 
George,  Maine.  7.  Cassie  Elizabeth,  born 
Verona.  August  18,  1846,  died  there  June  27, 
1873.  8.  Gilbert  Browne,  born  Verona,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1850,  married,  in  Mont  Clair,  New 
Jersey,  April  18,  1892,  Mary  E.  Unger,  of 
Mont  Clair.  9.  Sarah  Frances,  born  Verona, 
May  I,  1852,  married,  in  Verona,  November 
23,  1871,  Austin  G.  Jacobs,  who  died  in  Jan- 
uary, 1905. 

(VIII)  Rev.  William  Henry,  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Caroline  A.  (Silkworth)  Pease,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  March  29,  1841,  died 
in  Portland,  Maine,  January  23,  1904.  He 
was  educated  at  Colgate  University,  gradu- 
ating from  there  with  the  class  of  1868.  He 
entered  the  ministry  and  during  the  civil  war 
was  chaplain  of  a  New  York  regiment.  After 
leaving  the  army  he  devoted  himself  earnestly 
to  the  work  of  the  ministry  and  filled  pas- 
torates successively  about  as  follows :  Jay, 
Cold  Spring,  Groton,  Jordan  and  Johnson 
Creek,  New  York  :  Somerset,  Massachusetts  ; 
and  Block  Island,  Rhode  Island.  On  August 
II,  1868,  at  Hancock,  New  York,  Mr.  Pease 
married  Frances  Lodema  Hyatt,  born  in  Law- 


rence, New  York,  August  15,  1S46,  daughter 
of  Nelson  G.  and  Mary  M.  (Wilsey)  Hyatt, 
of  Hancock.  Her  father,  Nelson  G.  Hyatt, 
was  born  in  Otego,  Otsego  county.  New 
York,  and  her  mother,  Mary  (Wilsey)  Hyatt, 
was  a  native  of  Rensselaerville,  Rensselaer 
county,  New  York.  They  had  only  one  child, 
Harry  Hyatt  Pease,  see  forward. 

(IX)  Harry  Hyatt,  only  son  and  child  of 
Rev.  William  Henry  and  Frances  I-odema 
(Hyatt)  Pease,  was  born  in  Hancock,  Dela- 
ware county.  New  York,  May  22,  1871,  and 
received  his  education  in  public  schools.  Dean 
Academy  at  Franklin,  ]\lassachusetts,  Peddie 
Institute  at  Hightstown,  New  York,  where  he 
was  a  student  one  year,  and  at  Eastman's 
Business  College,  Poughkeepsie,  New  York, 
where  he  took  a  thorough  commercial  course. 
His  business  career  was  begun  as  travelling 
salesman  for  the  Vacuum  Oil  Company,  of 
Boston,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  May,  1893, 
he  went  to  Portland,  ?\Iaine,  and  established 
the  branch  house  of  the  company  in  that  city, 
of  wlwch  he  has  since  had  the  management. 
Mr.  Pease  is  a  Mason,  member  of  Atlantic 
Lodge,  and  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  member  of 
Columbus  Lodge,  No.  33,  of  Block  Island, 
Rhode  Island.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican, 
but  takes  little  active  part  in  public  affairs.  He 
married,  at  Block  Island,  October  6,  1891, 
Charity  Littlefield,  born  April  22,  1871,  daugh- 
ter of  Ray  S.  and  Sophronia  (Rose)  Little- 
field.  For  many  years  Mr.  Littlefield  was  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits,  also  was  post- 
master, and  one  time  a  member  of  the  state 
senate.  He  had  two  children.  Harold  R.,  who 
married  Ada  Littlefield,  and  Charity,  who  be- 
came Afrs.  Pease.  Mr.  and  [Mrs.  Pease  have 
one  child.  William  Ray  Pease,  born  March  7, 
1893. 


(By     John   T.     Hyatt.) 

This  name  is  quite  common  in 
HYATT     England,  both   in  modern  times 

and  on  the  old  records.  It  oc- 
curs frequently  in  the  records  of  wills  in  Doc- 
tors Commons,  London,  as  Hyat  and  Hyett. 
The  earliest  representative  of  the  family  in 
America  is  Thomas  Hyatt  (the  first),  called 
"Brother"  in  the  will  of  John  Russell,  of  Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts,  who  died  August  26, 
1633.  The  name  of  this  ancestor,  Thomas 
Hyatt,  appears  of  record  at  a  town  meeting  of 
the  early  settlers  held  at  Stamford.  Connecti- 
cut. A  town  meeting  held  at  that  place,  De- 
cember 7,  1641,  granted  him  and  others  "be- 
sides house  lotts  as  other  men  *  *  * 
everv  one   of  them  twoe  acres,   and   3   acres 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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wood  land  in  the  feiled  now  to  be  enclosed." 
He  held  a  Squire's  Commission  from  the 
Crown. 

"Thomas   Hiout"   was  a   witness   in   Stam- 
ford, February  26,   1647.     His  name  appears 
on  the  Stamford  records  in  boundaries  of  land 
several  times  in  1649,  '^"^  1650.     Sometimes 
it  was  spelled  "Tjomas  Hyout"  and  "Tjomas 
Hyat."     He  bought  seven  and  one-half  acres 
of  upland  in  "Rocky  Necke,"  April  3,   1650. 
The  Stamford  records  state  that  "Thos.  Hyat 
died  9  Sept.   1656,"  and  an  inventory  of  his 
estate  amounting  to  132  pounds  2  shillings  3 
pence  was  filed  in  the  court  at  Stamford  on 
June  16,  1662.     After  deducting  the  widow's 
third   there   remained    "in   ye   hands   of   Cor- 
nelius Jones  ye  sume  of  88  pounds,  i  shilling 
and    6    pence,"    as    portions    to    be    divided 
amongst   the   six   children    according   to   law. 
The  published  records  of  New  Haven  Colony 
also   mention  this  inventory  of  the  estate  of 
"Thomas    Hyatt,"    late    of    Stamford.      Cor- 
nelius Jones,  administrator  of  his  estate,  mar- 
ried the  widow  "Elizabeth  Hyat,"  October  6. 
1657,  and  in  1669  and  1674  three  of  the  chil- 
dren  signed  receipts  to  their  stepfather  Cor- 
nelius Jones  for  their  respective  shares  in  the 
estate  of  their  father  "Thomas  Hyatt."   These 
receipts   are   copied   on   the   same   page    with 
those  of  the  children  of  Simon  Hoyt ;  but  they 
were  evidently  written  in  later  with  different 
ink,  in  the  vacant  spaces  left  at  the  bottom  of 
the  pages.     The  name   of  Thomas   Hyatt   is 
printed  Hoyt  in  the  "List  of  Pioneers,"  his- 
tory of  Stamford,  but  it  is  not  so  written  on 
records,    and    we    find    no     descendants    of 
Thomas  who  bear  any  other  name  than  Hyatt, 
and  the  various  modifications,  to  wit :     Hyat, 
Hyet,  Hiet,  Hiout,  etc.,  except  in  one  or  two 
entries    where    Hoit    is    plainly   an    error    for 
Hyatt. 

The  names  of  the  children  of  Thomas 
Hyatt,  as  given  in  the  history  of  Stam- 
ford, are  as  follows:  i.  Caleb  Hyatt,  receipt 
to  his  stepfather,  dated  December  23,  1661.  2. 
Ruth  Hyatt ;  she  married  John  Wescott  be- 
fore February  g,  1667.  3-  Debora  Hyatt;  she 
received  her  portion  of  her  father's  estate, 
November  30,  1669,  with  the  consent  of  her 
guardian,  Mr.  Richard  Lays.  4.  John  Hyatt, 
of  Stamford,  sold  land  in  Stamford  to  John 
Weed  in  1668,  recorded  in  1669.  The  name 
of  John  Hyatt  occurs  as  a  witness  to  deeds 
in  Stamford  in  1678  and  1680.  He  had  re- 
moved from  Stamford,  Connecticut,  to  Yonk- 
ers.  New  York,  some  time  before  July  6, 
1689,  at  which  time  he  discharged  his  step- 


father, Cornelius  Jones,  of  Stamford,  from  all 
claims  of  inheritance,  according  to  Stamford 
records.  5.  Rebecca  Hyatt.  She  received  her 
share  of  her  father's  estate  October  13,  1674, 
as  appears  on  the  records  at  Stamford.  6. 
Thomas  Hyatt  (2).  He  received  his  share  of 
his  father's  estate,  October  21,  1674,  as  appears 
by  the  Stamford  records.  He  was  a  witness 
in  Stamford,  January,  1681. 

(H)  Thomas  (2)  Hyatt  moved  to  Norwalk, 
Connecticut.  He  was  there  as  early  as  Feb- 
ruary, 1671,  when  his  name  appears  on  the 
town  table  of  estates.  He  married  Mary 
Sention,  daughter  of  Mathias  Sention,  of 
Norwalk,  "about  the  loth  of  Nov.  1677,"  and 
his  home  lot  is  mentioned  in  that  year.  Seven 
acres  of  land  were  granted  to  him  by  a  vote 
of  the  town  in  January,  1676,  on  account  of 
his  valiant  services  as  "a  souldier  in  the  In- 
dian Warres,"  and  he  was  known  as  Captain 
Thomas  Hyatt.  This  land  was  exchanged  in 
1682.  He  bought  land  in  1679;  drew  lot  No. 
22  "over  Norwalk  River,"  December,  1687, 
and  his  name  is  on  the  table  of  the  estates 
dated  January,  1687,  and  on  the  list  of  voters 
at  town  meetings  in  Norwalk,  December, 
1694.  Captain  Thomas  Hyatt  died,  intestate 
sometime  before  March  28,  i6g8,  at  which 
time  the  inventory  of  his  estate  was  filed  at 
Fairfield.  The  estate  was  distributed  in  1718. 
His  widow,  Mary  Hyatt,  survived  him.  Sev- 
eral tracts  of  his  land  were  recorded  after  his 
death,  and  following  the  custom  of  ancient 
spelling,  his  name  is  variously  spelled  on  the 
records,  Hyatt,  Hyat,  Hyett,  Hyet,  Hiett,  Hiet, 
Hiot,  Hyot,  and  in  a  single  instance  on  the 
probate  records  Hoit.  Thomas  and  Mary 
Hyatt,  of  Norwalk,  had  children :  Rebecca, 
Thomas  (3),  Maria,  Ruth,  Sarah,  John,  Eliza- 
beth, Ebenezer  and  Millison.  The  names  of 
all  these  children  appear  on  the  probate  rec- 
ords in  1698. 

(Ill)  Thomas  (3)  Hyatt  was  born  at  Nor- 
walk, Connecticut,  about  1680.  He  received 
a  royal  patent  for  land  at  Rye  in  1710.  Af- 
ter his  marriage  he  moved  to  Ridgefield  as 
early  as  171 5,  when  land  was  entered  on  the 
Norwalk  records.  A  deed  from  Thomas  Hyatt 
of  Ridgefield  dated  1718  was  recorded  at  Nor- 
walk, December,  1721.  His  will  dated  June 
10,  1759,  proved  February  5,  1760,  is  recorded 
at  Danbury.  In  it  he  mentions  his  wife,  Ex- 
perience, and  the  following  children :  Han- 
nah, Mary,  Elizabeth,  Zibiah,  Rebecca  and  his 
only  son,  Thomas  Hyatt  (4).  One  of  the 
daughters  of  Thomas  Hyatt  (the  third)  mar- 
ried a  man  by  the  name  of  St.  John,  some  of 


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tlie  descendants  of  whom  are  farmers  living 
in  Otego.  New  York,  and  one  of  them  is  a 
banker  and  lives  in  New  York  City. 

(I\)  Thomas  (4)  Hyatt  was  born  at 
Ridgefield,  Connecticut,  in  1729.  In  his  will 
probated  at  Norwalk  in  1800,  he  mentions  his 
children  as  follows:  Elvin,  Samuel,  my 
great-grandfather;  Jessie,  Stephen,  Gilbert. 
Betty.  Susanna  and  Hannah.  Thomas  Hyatt 
married  Elsie  Smith,  daughter  of  a  prominent 
family,  and  we  find  the  names  of  Smith  Hyatt 
and  llyatt  Smith  were  common  in  the  family 
during  this  generation. 

(\')  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas  (4)  Hyatt, 
was  born  at  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  March  20, 
1759.  and  died  at  Otego,  New  York,  October 
14.  1831.  He  married  Julia  Pope  in  the  year 
1783.  when  she  was  twenty-three  years  old. 
Although  but  a  lad  when  the  revolution  broke 
out.  he  joined  the  Continental  army  and  was 
subsequently  made  chief  of  an  observation 
corps  whose  duty  it  was  to  keep  track  of  and 
report  the  movements  of  the  enemy.  He 
served  throughout  the  war,  and  his  daring  and 
numerous  hairbreadth  escapes  are  a  family 
legendary.  About  the  year  1807  Samuel 
Hyatt,  with  a  portion  of  the  Pope  and  St. 
John  families,  pushed  from  Connecticut  to 
Otego,  Otsego  county.  New  York,  which  W'as 
then  a  wilderness,  he  being  among  the  first  set- 
tlers of  that  region.  Some  of  these  travelers 
located  in  the  East  Otsego  Valley,  on  land 
later  owned  by  John  Wilsey. 

From  the  old  family  Bible  in  my  possession 
which  belonged  to  my  grandfather,  and  from 
memoranda  among  my  father's  effects,  I  have 
gathered  much  of  the  following  information 
about  Samuel  Hyatt  and  his  children.  To 
Samuel  Hyatt  and  Juda,  his  wife,  were  born 
the  following  children-:  i.  Samuel  (2)  was 
born  August  15.  1785:  he  had  a  large  family. 
and  died  in  Otego  when  about  sixtv-three 
years  of  age.  2.  Elsy  was  born  December  23, 
1767.  She  married  a  man  by  the  name  of 
Faucher,  and  died  at  Unadilla.  Otsego  county. 
New  York,  leaving  to  survive  her  a  family  of 
some  size.  3.  Thomas  (5),  my  grandfather, 
of  whom  I  will  speak  later.  4.  Amerilius  was 
bom  August  15,  1792.  She  married  Cephus 
Hathaway,  who  lived  near  Goatsville,  in  the 
town  of  Otego.  To  them  were  born  two  sons 
and  four  daughters.  5.  Susan  was  born  Octo- 
ber 16,  1794.  6.  Lewis  was^'born  September 
23,  1796.  He  was  a  Universalist  minister, 
and  died  in  Otsego  county,  New  York,  leav- 
ing to  survive  him  two  sons :  Charles,  who 
lived  at  Unadilla ;  Frank,  a  dentist,  who  lives 
at  Cortland,  New  York.     7.  Betsy,  born  Octo- 


ber 21,  1798.  8.  Polly,  born  December  10, 
1800.  Susan,  Polly  and  Betsy  all  married 
men  by  the  name  of  Bunnell.  Susan  and 
Betsy  lived  for  many  years  in  Maine,  Broome 
county.  New  York,  and  died  there,  Betsy 
leaving  three  married  daughters  living  there, 
and  one  son.  Fitch  Bunnell,  who  lived  at 
Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  he  having  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Doebler  of  that  place.  Polly  died 
at  Butternuts,  Otsego  county.  New  York, 
leaving  sons :  9.  Charles  Smith  Hyatt,  born 
August  30,  1802.  He  died  in  Delaware 
county,  New  York,  where  his  wife,  Roxanna, 
was  still  living  in  1887  with  her  only  daugh- 
ter. 10.  Fitch  Hyatt  was  born  March  3,  1805. 
He  lived  for  many  years  in  Chautauqua 
county.  New  York,  but  died  in  Erie  county, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1880,  leaving  three  sons: 
Smith,  Williard,  Willis,  and  two  daughters. 
Smith  settled  in  Texas.  Willis  in  Colorado, 
and  Williard  in  Cambridge,  Crawford  county, 
Pennsylvania. 

(VI)  My  grandfather,  Thomas  (5)  Hyatt, 
second  son  of  Samuel  Hyatt,  was  born  at 
Norwalk,  Connecticut,  February  28,  1790,  and 
when  about  seventeen  years  old  moved  with 
his  parents  to  Otego,  Otsego  county.  New 
York.  He  served  his  country  as  a  drummer 
boy  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  Sabrina 
Grififith,  of  Lawrence,  Otsego  county,  Octo- 
ber 30,  1813.  My  grandmother  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Nijah  and  Hannah  Grifiith.  and  was 
seventeen  years  old  when  married  to  my 
grandfather.  My  grandfather  settled  upon  a 
farm  near  his  father's  home.  He  erected  a 
saw  mill  thereon  and  divided  his  time  between 
lumbering  and  farming.  After  making  sev- 
eral payments  on  his  land,  and  having  lum- 
ber enough  cut.  which  when  sold  would  pay 
the  balance  of  his  indebtedness,  a  heavy  flood 
swept  away  his  lumber  which  caused  him  to 
lose  his  farm,  and  he  had  to  start  life  anew. 
He  purchased  a  farm  on  the  East  Osdavva 
creek,  where  most  of  his  twelve  children  were 
born.  He  donated  the  ground  whereon  is  now 
erected  the  Christian  church  of  that  valley. 
Among  the  excellent  neighbors  of  my  grand- 
father, my  father  mentions  Freeman  W. 
Edison,  \Villiam  Brown.  Thurston  Brown, 
Samuel  Emerson,  Lovett  Jenks,  James  Brown 
and  Anson  Judson.  In  1849  '"">'  grandfather 
sold  this  farm  and  moved  to  Troy,  Bradford 
county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  bought  a 
farm  whereon  the  railroad  depot  of  that  place 
is  now  erected,  the  railroad  company  having 
purchased  the  farm  from  him.  My  grand- 
father then  bought  from  a  Mr.  Hackett  an- 
other farm,  located  about  one  mile  north  of 


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Smithfield  Centre,  in  the  same  county,  and 
moved  upon  this  farm  in  the  year  1852,  where 
he  remained  until  his  death,  June  4,  1862,  aged 
seventy-two  years  three  months  and  seven 
days.  "He  died  as  he  had  Hved,  an  honest, 
Christian  gentleman,"  and  is  buried  in  the 
cemetery  just  east  of  the  village  of  Smithfield 
Centre,  being  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  mem- 
ber of  tfie  Disciple  Church.  To  my  grand- 
parents   were    born    the    following    children : 

1.  Emeline,  born  August  3,  1814,  died  Sep- 
tember 10,  1814. 

2.  Nelson  G.  Hyatt,  born  October  19, 
181 5.  He  married  Mary  M.  Wilsey,  of 
Ctego,  New  York,  January  4,  1838.  They 
subsequently  moved  to  Hancock,  New  York, 
where  my  uncle  bought  a  farm  upon  which 
be  lived  until  his  death  in  1896.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  al?airs  of  that  place, 
was  a  fine  Christian  gentleman,  and  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him.  Four  daugh- 
ters and  one  son  were  born  to  this  marriage : 
(a)  Lemira  was  drowned  when  a  child,  (b) 
Edgar  joined  the  Northern  army  during  the 
civil  war,  and  was  killed  at  Chancellorsville 
by  a  shot  in  the  forehead,  (c)  Euphemia 
married  a  Mr.  Fleming.  (d)  Frances 
Lodema,  who  was  always  one  of  my  father's 
favorites  and  married  a  Baptist  minister,  Wil- 
liam FI.  Pease,  by  name,  by  whom  she  had 
one  child,  Harry  H.  Pease,  a  prominent  busi- 
ness man,  now  connected  with  the  X'acuum 
Oil  Company,  a  subsidiary  corporation  of  the 
Standard  Oil  Company,  at  present  living  at 
Portland,  ]Maine.  (e)  Emma,  married  Charles 
Nichols,  of  Hancock,  New  York. 

3.  Lewis  Burdick  Hyatt.  He  was  first  mar- 
ried to  Maria  K.  Smith,  of  Lawrence,  Otsego 
county.  New  York,  in  1840.  She  died  at  Troy, 
Pennsylvania,  as  a  result  of  being  thrown 
from  a  carriage  in  Springfield,  Pennsylvania. 
Their  only  daughter,  Imogene,  is  married  to 
Dr.  Samuel  Reynolds,  of  Reynoldsville,  Jef- 
ferson county,  Pennsylvania.  This  uncle 
married  for  his  second  wife  Emma  P., 
daughter  of  Judge  Bullock,  of  Smithfield, 
Pennsylvania,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons : 
Charles  Hyatt  and  Dr.  Stanford  Hyatt,  and 
two  daughters,  Ella  and  Mary,  now  residing 
at  Connellsville,  Pennsylvania.  L.  B.  Hyatt 
was  a  minister  of  the  Disciple  church,  and 
during  his  ministry  baptized  over  2,500  con- 
verts. 

4.  Ezra  D.  Hyatt  was  born  September  8, 
i8ig,  and  died  at  Otego,  New  York,  August 
16,  1821. 

5.  Samuel  Hyatt  (2),  born  July  25,  1821, 
and  died  at  Smithfield  Centre,  April  4,   1878. 


He  was  a  stock  dealer  by  occupation,  and  on 
September  29,  1850,  he  married  Elizabeth  Aus- 
tin, of  Lewisville,  Otsego  county,  New  York, 
by  whom  he  had  three  boys  and  four  girls. 
His  widow,  the  last  I  knew  of  her,  lived  near 
her  daughter,  Hattie  Phelps,  of  Phelps, 
Phelps  county,  Nebraska. 

6.  Salina  Hyatt  was  born  October  16,  1823, 
and  died  at  Smithfield  Centre,  Pennsylvania, 
January  27.  1875.  She  married  Richard  Cope, 
of  Butternuts,  New  York,  by  whom  she  had 
two  sons. 

7.  Delos  Hyatt,  born  March  28,  1826,  and 
died  at  Otego,  November  10,  1829. 

8.  Ophelia  A.  Hyatt  was  born  February  16, 
1828,  and  died  at  Smithfield,  Pennsylvania, 
April,  1874.  She  married  Adam  Schill,  of 
Smithfield,  by  whom  she  had  three  children. 

9.  Euphemia  (1.  Hyatt,  born  January  3, 
1830,  and  died  at  Otego,  Otsego  county.  New 
York,  February  8,  1842. 

10.  El\-  E.  Hyatt  was  born  at  Otego,  Otsego 
county,  New  York,  June  22,  1832.  He  was 
married,  November  11,  1856,  to  Emma  F. 
Herr,  of  Salona,  Clinton  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, by  whom  he  had  six  children:  (a) 
Hattie,  intermarried  with  Elmer  Jakeway, 
now-  deceased,  (b)  Charlotte  (Lottie),  in- 
termarried with  John  T.  Thompson,  by  whom 
she  lias  the  following  children :  Clinton,  Ran- 
dolph, Helen  and  Emma.  Mr.  Thompson  and 
family  are  located  at  Salona,  Pennsylvania. 
He  has  been  very  successful  as  a  lumberman, 
cattle  dealer  and  farmer,  and  served  a  term 
as  Treasurer  for  Clinton  county,  (c)  George, 
intermarried  with  Effie  McKibben,  operates 
a  flour  mill  at  Salona,  and  has  the  following 
children:  Ely  McKibben,  Sarah  J.,  Char- 
lotte M.,  Georgianna  and  Fernando  P.  (d) 
H.  Clinton,  intermarried  with  Marion  Brown, 
is  a  director  of  the  Lewisburg  Trust  and  Safe 
Deposit  Company ;  resides  at  Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania,  and  has  the  following  children : 
Ernestine,  Eleanore  and  Brown,  (e)  Annie, 
intermarried  with  Thomas  Harris,  now  living 
at  Tremont,  Illinois,  and  has  the  following 
children,  Marion  and  Benjamin,  (f)  Jennie, 
intermarried  with  Charles  Krape,  a  merchant, 
lives  at  Lewisburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  one 
child,  Charles,  by  name. 

I  spent  a  good  deal  of  my  boyhood  days 
with  my  LTncle  Ely,  at  East  Smithfield,  Penn- 
sylvania, where  he  owned  a  large  farm  and 
dairy ;  at  Lamar,  where  he  was  an  ax  manu- 
facturer, and  at  Salona,  w^hen  he  was  retired 
from  business.  He  also  spent  considerable 
spare  time  with  my  father  at  our  home,  and 
I  learned  to  love  him  next  onlv  to  mv  father. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


As  a  young  man  he  went  into  an  enterprise, 
in  which  he  lost  all  that  he  had,  and  $1,500 
besides.  Although  this  venture  left  him 
penniless,  he  did  not  slop  until  he  had  earned 
and  paid  back  to  his  creditors  every  cent  that 
he  owed  them.  He  was  a  man  whose  word 
could  never  be  questioned,  and  whose  un- 
selfishness, charity,  and  broad  sympathy  en- 
deared him  to  all  who  came  in  contact  with 
him.  He  was  a  philosopher,  and  a  mathemati- 
cian that  probably  knew  more  of  astronomy 
and  higher  mathematics  than  most  college  pro- 
fessors. He  would  get  up  at  two  or  three 
o'clock  in  the  morning  to  study  certain  stars 
and  constellations  which  did  not  appear  un- 
til that  time.  Often  as  a  boy,  when  driving 
with  him  at  night,  he  would  map  out  the 
heavens,  and  explain  to  me  the  lore  of  the 
celestial  bodies.  He  died  at  Salona,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  is  buried,  in  1894.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  my  father  was  the  American 
consul,  and  I  vice  consul,  at  Santiago,  Cuba. 
I  shall  never  forget  the  time  when  the  news 
of  his  death  reached  us.  My  father  closed  the 
doors  of  the  consulate,  and  his  grief  was  un- 
consolable.  My  Uncle  Ely's  death  was  an 
irreparable  loss  to  me. 

11.  Pulaski  F.  Hyatt,  my  father,  an  account 
of  whose  life  I  will  give  later. 

12.  Dilwin  L.  Hyatt,  born  at  Otego,  Otsego 
county.  New  York,  October  30,  1838,  and 
died  at  the  same  place  February  9,  1842. 

Griffith  Family. — Sabrina  Griffith,  my 
grandmother,  was  the  daughter  of  Nijah  and 
Hannah  Griffith,  of  Lawrence,  Otsego  county, 
New  York.  She  was  born  Alay  10,  1796,  and 
married  my  grandfather,  Thomas  Hyatt,  Oc- 
tober 30,  1813,  when  seventeen  years  of  age. 
The  Griffiths  are  of  Welch  descent,  but  when 
they  came  to  this  country  is  beyond  my  knowl- 
edge. My  great-great-grandfather,  Daniel 
Griffith,  was  born  July  8,  1726,  I  think,  at 
Oxford,  Massachusetts.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried ;  by  the  first  wife  he  had  six  children,  and 
by  the  second  wife  nine  children,  fifteen  all 
told.  Their  names  and  dates  of  birth  appear 
in  our  family  Bible.  Six  of  the  sons  were 
revolutionary  soldiers.  My  great-grandfather, 
Nijah  Griffith,  the  third  son  by  the  second 
marriage,  was  born  in  Lawrence,  Otsego 
county.  New  York,  May  18,  1768,  and  was 
married  to  Hannah  Rolland,  who  was  born 
March  2,  1768,  by  whom  he  had  thirteen  chil- 
dren, eight  boys  and  five  girls.  He  was  a 
tanner  by  trade,  and  kept  a  general  store. 
Three  of  his  children  at  an  early  date  settled 
near  Vandalia,  Illinois,  where  man}'  of  their 
descendants    still    live.      The    two    girls    who 


went  there  married  brothers  by  the  name  of 
Washburn,  one  being  the  mother  of  seven- 
teen children,  and  the  other  of  eighteen.  My 
great-grandfather  Griffith  died  February  27, 
1831.  Ilis  wife  died  February  5,  1840,  and 
they  are  both  buried  in  a  country  graveyard 
at  Lawrence,  Otsego  county.  New  York. 

"The  writer  of  this  sketch,  Pulaski  Fer- 
nando Hyatt,  the  seventh  son  and  eleventh 
child  of  Thomas  and  Sabrina  S.  Hj'att,  was 
born  in  Otego,  Otsego  county.  New  York, 
June  4,  1836,  near  the  Christian  church  on  the 
West  Otsdawa  cteek. 

"My  early  days  were  spent  on  the  farm  and 
attending  school.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  I 
went  to  Troy,  Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania^ 
to  live  with  my  brother,  L.  Burdick  Hyatt,  and 
to  attend  the  Troy  Academy.  Soon  after- 
ward my  father  sold  his  farm  in  New  York, 
and  moved  to  Troy  also.  He  sold  the  farm 
in  Troy  and  moved  to  Smithfield,  I  going  with 
him.  For  a  time  I  divided  my  time  between 
farming  and  attending  school  at  the  Troy 
Academy.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  I  com- 
menced teaching  school  during  the  winter 
months,  first  teaching  the  Harkness  school  in 
Springfield.  For  three  successive  winters  I 
taught  what  is  known  as  the  Bitner  School  in 
Beech  Creek,  Clinton  county,  Pennsylvania. 
When  twenty-one  years  of  age  I  commenced 
the  study  of  medicine,  with  Dr.  E.  P.  Allen, 
of  Smithfield,  but  before  concluding  my  stud- 
ies was  induced  to  turn  my  attention  to  den- 
tistry, and  graduated  from  the  Baltimore  Col- 
lege of  Dental  Surgery  in  ]\Iarch,  i860,  after 
which  I  settled  in  Lock  Haven  to  practice  my 
profession.  While  living  there  I  became  ac- 
quainted with  Miss  Maggie  E.  Allen,  of 
Montoursville,  Lycoming  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  was  married  to  her  by  my  brother, 
Rev.  L.  B.  Hyatt,  January  i,  1861,  at  2:30 
p.  m.,  and  commenced  housekeeping  in  Lock 
Haven,  April  i,  1861.  And  I  will  here  add 
that  my  wife  has  at  all  times  been  a  most 
faithful  and  devoted  wife  and  helpmate. 

"We  had  not  much  more  than  got  to  house- 
keeping when  the  civil  war  between  the  North 
and  South  broke  out,  and  in  October,  1861,  I 
joined  Company  D  of  the  old  Eleventh  Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers,  commanded  by  Colonel 
Richard  Coulter,  of  Greensburg,  Pennsylvania, 
and  donned  my  first  military  suit  at  Camp 
Curtin,  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania.  My  pa- 
rents were  greatly  grieved  because  of  this  step 
on  my  part,  fearing  that  between  the  dangers 
of  war  and  their  advanced  age,  we  would 
never  meet  again,  but  before  leaving  Camp 
Curtin  I  got  a  leave  of  absence  and  went  to 


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see  them  at  Smithfield.  They  were  not  ex- 
pecting me,  and  the  emotions  which  came  over 
us  will  have  to  be  left  to  the  imaginations  of 
the  reader.  I  remained  with  them  but  a  day, 
and  parted  from  them  with  my  mother's  bless- 
ing, and  a  father's  admonition  to  do  my  duty 
bravely,  and  never  be  found  with  a  bullet  hole 
in  my  back,  unless  the  ball  had  passed  through 
me. 

"I  never  saw  my  father  again,  as  he  died 
on  the  fourth  of  the  following  June.  Soon 
after  rejoining  my  regiment  we  took  up  the 
line  of  march  and  finally  brought  up  at 
Annapolis,  Maryland.  Our  regiment  re- 
mained at  Annapolis  doing  patrol  duty  until 
April,  1862,  when  we  joined  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  under  the  command  of  General  Mc- 
Clellan,  opposing  General  Robert  E.  Lee.  Our 
regiment  was  kept  well  to  the  front,  and  did 
much  hard  fighting  during  the  spring,  sum- 
mer and  autumn  of  1862.  Besides  numerous 
hard  skirmishes  not  known  as  battles  during 
this  time,  we  were  in  the  thickest  of  the  fol- 
lowing battles,  viz. :  South  Mountain,  Cul- 
peper  Courthouse,  Thoroughfare  Gap,  Second 
Bull  Run,  Antietam  and  Fredericksburg. 

"After  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  which 
occurred  December  12,  1862,  I  was  detailed  to 
accompany  the  sick  and  wounded  to  Wash- 
ington, and  while  in  Washington  was  by  order 
of  the  Secretary  of  War  transferred  to  the 
regular  army,  after  which  I  was  by  order  of 
the  Surgeon  General  assigned  to  duty  at  Car- 
ver United  States  General  Hospital,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  under  command  of  Surgeon  O.  A. 
Judson,  where  I  remained  until  September, 
1865,  the  war  having  closed  on  the  April 
previous. 

"My  duties  at  Carver  Hospital  were  re- 
sponsible but  satisfactory.  Owing  to  favor- 
able and  near  proximity  to  the  Georgetown 
Medical  College,  1  took  advantage  of  the  sit- 
uation to  renew  my  medical  studies,  and  grad- 
uated in  medicine  from  that  institution.  Im- 
mediately after  graduation  I  was  ordered  be- 
fore the  United  States  Medical  Examining 
Board  at  Washington,  and  after  passing  the 
required  examination  was  appointed  A.  A. 
Surgeon, -U.  S.  A.,  and  at  the  request  of 
Surgeon  O.  A.  Judson  was  returned  to  Carver 
United  States  General  Hospital  for  duty,  and 
closing,  in  1865,  after  which  I  resigned  and 
was  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  same  at  its  final 
closing,  in  1865;  after  which  I  resigned  and 
returned  to  civil  life,  although  offered  bv  the 
Surgeon  General  a  place  as  surgeon  in  the 
regular  army. 

"Having    during    the    war    invested    some 


money  in  a  farm  at  Smithfield,  in  Bradford 
county,  Peimsylvania,  I  decided  to  go  there 
for  a  time  to  rest  and  deliberate  upon  my 
future  course." 

(My  father,  Dr.  Pulaski  F.  Hyatt,  started 
to  write  an  account  of  his  own  life  in  1887. 
He  got  as  far  as  the  paragraphs  quoted,  which 
I  found  between  the  leaves  of  the  family  Bible, 
but  he  never  finished  the  work.) 

Dr.  Hyatt  formed  a  strong  friendship  dur- 
ing the  war  for  Czar  Dunning.  He  sold  his 
farm  at  Smithfield  and  moved  to  the  city  of 
Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  in  1866,  where  he 
and  Mr.  Dunning  bought  a  drug  store  to- 
gether, and  Dr.  Hyatt  practiced  medicine.  The 
doctor  subsequently  bought  out  Mr.  Dunning's 
interest  in  the  drug  store. 

Dr.  Hyatt  was  one  of  the  pallbearers  at  the 
funeral  of  Admiral  Charles  Steward,  com- 
monly called  "Old  Ironsides,"  who  was  com- 
mander of  the  "Constellation"  and  "Constitu- 
tion," during  the  war  of  1812,  and  who  died 
at  Bordentown,  July  28,  1869.  During  the 
bitter  presidential  fight  of  1876  Dr.  Hyatt  was 
sent  to  Florida  as  Samuel  J.  Tilden's  confiden- 
tial representative,  to  superintend  and  investi- 
gate the  count  of  the  election  boards  of  that 
state.  Fie  served  for  fifteen  years  as  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  public  schools 
of  Bordentown,  and  for  years  was  trustee  and 
secretary  of  the  Bordentown  Female  College. 
He  declined  the  nomination  as  mayor  of  the 
city,  and  also  a  nomination  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  for  member  of  the  legislature  at  a  time 
when  Burlington  county  was  strongly  Demo- 
cratic and  a  nomination  equivalent  to  an  elec- 
tion. 

He  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  medicine 
at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  1883-84,  and 
moved  with  the  familv  to  Lewisburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, April  I,  1885.  In  Lewisburg  he 
served  for  several  years  on  the  Board  of  Min- 
isterial Education  of  Bucknell  University,  and 
as  deacon  of  the  Baptist  church  nearly  all  the 
years  he  lived  in  that  place.  He  was  a  man 
who  never  divorced  politics  and  religion,  and 
saw-  no  reason  why  a  man  should  abandon  the 
latter,  if  active  in  the  former.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Democrat,  and  for  two  successive  terms 
he  vvas  Democratic  Chairman  of  his  county 
(Union).  Following  this  for  three  successive 
terms  he  was  elected  Democratic  chairman  of 
the  sixth  Division  of  Pennsylvania,  including 
Potter,  Tioga,  Clinton,  Lycoming,  Union  and 
Snyder  counties,  and  in  1891  was  prominently 
mentioned  throughout  the  commonw^ealth  for 
Democratic  state  chairmanship.  While  divi- 
sion chairman.  Dr.  Hyatt  early  felt  the  public 


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bearing  favorably  for  the  nomination  of  Rob- 
ert E.  I'attison  as  governor  of  the  common- 
weahh,  and  he  consuhed  with  the  late  I  Ion. 
Charles  S.  Wolf  concerning  the  advisability 
of  bringing  Mr.  Pattison  out  as  a  candidate. 
Mr.  Wolf  replied  that  in  a  political  sense  he 
owed  the  ex-governor  nothing,  but  as  he  be- 
lieved Mr.  Pattison  an  upright,  fearless  and 
able  man,  peculiarly  suited  to  the  times,  he 
would  support  the  e.x-governor  if  a  candi- 
date. Joel  Herr  Esq.,  of  Clinton  county,  a 
prominent  Republican  and  Cranger,  and  many 
others  of  like  kind,  informed  the  chairman  lo 
the  same  effect.  Armed  with  this  knowledge 
he  wrote  Mr.  Pattison  of  the  situation  in  cen- 
tral Pennsylvania,  and  Mr.  Pattison  consulted 
with  Hon.  William  F.  Harrity,  then  post- 
master at  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Harrity  then  in- 
formed Chairman  Hyatt  that  if  the  sentiment 
elsewhere  in  the  state  should  crystalize  in 
favor  of  Mr.  Pattison,  the  ex-governor  would 
enter  the  field  as  a  candidate.  Circumstances 
favorable  to  the  accomplishment  of  this  end 
came  thick  and  fast.  It  was  thought  if  the 
Republicans  put  forth  Delamatcr  there  would 
be  enough  deflection  from  the  Republican 
ranks  to  elect  Mr.  Pattison.  Tiie  division 
chairmen,  nine  in  all.  controlled  the  place  and 
date  of  the  Convention.  Excluding  the  vote 
of  Chairman  Hyatt,  there  was  a  deadlock  as 
to  the  arrangements.  His  vote  decided  that 
the  nomination  convention  of  1890  should  be 
held  after  the  Republican  state  convention,  and 
at  Scranton,  a  Pattison  stronghold,  instead  of 
Harrisburg,  where  the  Wallace  men  wanted  it. 
After  Mr.  Pattison's  nomination  and  election, 
to  secure  which  Chairman  Hyatt  worked  with 
tireless  energy,  no  recognition  was  asked  of 
the  Governor  for  himself,  but  he  did  ask  the 
Governor  that  the  services  of  his  division  sec- 
retary, T.  Kittera  Van  Dyke  Esq.,  and  of  the 
Hon.  Charles  V.  Wolfe,  be  properly  recog- 
nized. Mr.  Van  Dyke  was  made  chief  clerk 
in  the  corporation  department  in  the  state  ad- 
ministration, and  Mr.  Wolfe  was  appointed 
director-general  of  the  Pennsylvania  exhibit 
at  the  World's  Fair,  Chicago,  although  he  did 
not  live  to  assume  the  duties  of  his  appoint- 
ment. 

Governor  Pattison  having  declined  to  stand 
in  the  way  of  ex-President  Cleveland's  nomi- 
nation at  Chicago,  and  Mr.  Harrity  becoming 
Democratic  national  chairman  in  the  mean- 
while, both  gentlemen  were  in  a  position  to  be 
heard  by  Mr.  Cleveland  after  his  election,  and 
they  made  it  a  personal  matter  to  urge  my 
father  for  a  foreign  appointment.  Letters  of 
endorsement  were  addressed  to  Mr.  Cleveland 


by  e.x-Governors  Curtin  and  Beaver;  Con- 
gressman Wolverton,  McAleer,  Hutchler, 
Kribbs,  Beltshoover,  Reilly  and  Hincs;  Demo- 
cratic State  Chairman  James  Kerr,  President 
Judges  Orvis.  McClure,  Savage,  Peek,  Metz- 
ger  and  others.  The  result  was  his  appoint- 
ment on  June  8,  1893,  as  United  States  Consul 
at  Santiago  de  Cuba,  with  sub-ofifices  at 
Daiguiri,  Guantanimo.  Santa  Cruz  del  Sur  and 
Mauzanille — a  jurisdiction  in  which  over 
§17,000,000  of  .American  capital  were  invested, 
and  which  shipped  over  1,000.000,000  pounds 
of  freight  monthly  to  the  United  States.  The 
commercial  side  of  this  appointment,  however, 
was  soon  dwarfed  in  importance  by  the  diplo- 
matic duties  which  arose  because  of  the  out- 
break in  Cuba  of  a  desolating  insurrection,  the 
first  official  information  of  whicii  was  given 
our  government  by  my  father  in  dispatch  No. 
95,  of  February  23.  1895.  '^^'o  tlays  before  the 
formal  birth  of  the  war.  This  dispatch,  to- 
gether with  others  relating  to  subsequent 
"Affairs  in  Cuba,"  were  published  in  a 
message  from  President  Cleveland  in  1895, 
making  a  document  of  206  pages,  about  one- 
half  of  which  were  written  by  my  fatlier.  anrl 
concerning  which  e.x-Minister  Moret,  the 
greatest  Spanish  authority  on  international 
law,  said  in  a  speech  in  the  Spanish  national 
cortes :  "\\'hen  the  work  was  published  for 
the  first  time  somebody  well  versed  in  diplo- 
matic affairs  told  me  that  it  was  an  admirable 
paper,  in  which  were  reflected  the  history  of 
the  insurrection  and  the  character  it  bore  at  its 
beginning,  .\fter  I  read  it  I  found  that  the 
aforesaid  opinion  was  well  grounded,  and  I 
am  constrained  to  believe  that  when  you  shall 
hear  what  I  am  going  to  tell  you,  you  will 
agree  with  me,  at  least  as  far  as  regards  the 
importance  of  the  revelations  it  contains." 

The  energetic  protection  given  the  .Ameri- 
can interests  by  Consul  Hyatt  prior  to  our  war 
with  Spain  so  aroused  the  animosity  of  the 
Spanish  residents  at  Santiago  that  they  made 
several  attacks  upon  the  consulate.  Among 
others,  he  secured  the  release  of  Thomas  Bol- 
ton, Manuel  Fuentes,  correspondent  of  the 
Nezi'  York  World;  and  Dr.  .\gremonte.  Julian 
Sains  and  .Augustus  Richelieu,  American  citi- 
zens, whose  unjustifiable  arrests  and  confine- 
ment in  the  foul  prisons  of  Eastern  Cuba 
created  no  little  excitement  in  this  country. 
During  the  days  of  Weyler's  reconcentration 
he  distributed  about  twenty  shiploads  of  medi- 
cine, clothing  and  provision  contributed  by 
the  .American  people  for  the  suffering  Cubans. 
When  diplomatic  relations  with  Spain  were 
broken   off.   immediatelv  before   the  outbreak 


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of  the  Spanish-American  war,  the  American 
government  sent  instruction  through  Consul 
Dent,  of  Jamaica,  recalHng  Consul  Hyatt,  and 
the  steamship  Brookhne  was  dispatched  to 
Santiago  to  relieve  him.  But  Consul  Hyatt 
refused  to  abandon  his  post  at  such  a  time  un- 
til he  got  orders  direct  from  Washington,  and 
held  the  ship  twenty-four  hours  pending  their 
receipt.  When  he  left  Santiago,  soon  to  be- 
come the  principle  theatre  of  war,  he  was, 
upon  order  of  General  Toral,  Spanish  mili- 
tary governor,  escorted  by  fifty  policemen 
from  the  consulate  to  the  ship  in  waiting  as 
a  protection  against  the  assaults  of  the  gath- 
ering mob. 

January  i,  1861,  Dr.  Hyatt  married  .Mar- 
garet E.  Allen,  of  Williamsport,  Pennsyl- 
vania, by  whom  he  had  the  following  chil- 
dren:  I.  Maggie  Hyatt,  born  October  14, 
1864,  died  at  birth.  2.  Paul  .Allen  Hyatt,  born 
March  16,  1866,  died  February  6,  1870.  3. 
John  T.  Hyatt  Esq.,  born  September  12,  1868, 
now  practicing  law  at  Jersey  Shore,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 4.  Fred  P.  Hyatt,  born  ( )ctober  ig, 
1871,  died  .A.pril  2;},.  1878. 

From  an  editorial  in  the  irHliuiiisport  Sim 
of  January  18,  1904: 

"Pulaski  F.  Hyatt,  whose  death  occurred 
at  Jersey  Shore  last  evening,  was  a  man  of 
more  than  ordinary  abilitw  a  fact  that  was 
recognized  by  both  President  Cleveland  and 
President  McKinley.  By  the  former  he  was 
appointed  consul  at  Santiago  de  Cuba,  and  his 
services  were  so  ably  and  satisfactorily  per- 
formed that  he  was  retained  in  the  position  by 
Mr.  McKinley.  His  work  in  behalf  of  the 
Cuban  people  prior  to  the  Spanish  war  won 
for  him  the  praise  of  the  American  nation. 
Mr.  Hyatt  was  a  man  of  rare  good  judgment 
and  intrepid  courage.  His  death  removes  one 
of  the  most  highdy  respected  residents  of  the 
We.st  Branch  valley." 

Taken  from  the  eulogy  of  Dr.  Enoch  Per- 
rine,  Professor  of  Literature  at  Bucknell 
University,  and  delivered  at  the  funeral  of 
Dr.  Pulaski  F.  Hyatt,  at  Jersey  Shore,  Penn- 
sylvania, Wednesday,  January  20,  1904  : 

"Because  we  live  so  close  to  the  mountains 
we  take  little  note  of  them  and  rarely,  if  ever, 
bid  them  a  cool  'Good  morning,'  When  we 
are  far  away  on  some  wide  extended  plain  or 
when  only  the  level  and  boundless  ocean  sur- 
rounds us,  then  we  are  sure  to  appreciate  them 
as  we  recall  how  they  silently  but  constantly 
lift  their  lofty  heads  to  the  skies,  bidding  us 
follow.  So  with  our  friends.  It  requires  that 
Death  shall  bear  them  from  us  on  the  long 
voyage — and  then  they  loom  up  large,  becom- 


ing eloquent  through  the  unbroken  silence 
into  which  they  have  passed. 

"There  is  little  of  noble  ambition  in  the 
world  compared  with  what  there  might  be, 
and  this  small  amount  is  so  often  done  to 
death  by  the  disappointments  of  the  years,  that 
his  early  and  ceaseless  desire  to  push  onward 
strikes  us  most  forcibly  in  the  life  of  Dr. 
Hyatt.  That  little  farm  in  New  York  in  the 
early  fifties  of  the  last  century  was  in  his 
opinion  too  narrow  a  field  and  the  wide  world 
with  a  conspicuous  place  in  it  became  his  goal 
while  yet  a  boy.  Hence  there  was  the  gradu- 
ation from  a  medical  college,  the  unselfish  de- 
votion of  physician  and  surgeon  in  both  war 
and  peace,  the  political  leadership  in  National 
as  well  as  in  State  and  local  politics,  the  splen- 
did work  as  representative  of  his  country  on 
foreign  shores,  and  crowning  all  his  promi- 
nence in  the  church  of  his  choice — an  ambition 
to  play  well  a  man's  part  on  as  wide  a  stage 
as  he  could  command.  Disappointments?  Yes, 
a  plenty  of  them ;  but  these  slackened  his  steps 
not  for  a  moment,  and  nothing  but  a  deadly 
malady  called  even  a  halt  to  his  stout  heart 
always  aspiring  to  better  things. 

"But  ambition,  even  though  its  quality  be 
noble,  is  not  always  displaced  in  a  winsome 
personality.  Some,  like  the  younger  Adams, 
confer  a  favor  in  such  a  way  as  to  make  of  its 
recipient  an  enemy ;  and  others,  like  Gold- 
smith, love  to  do  good  by  stealth,  not  caring 
whether  it  be  found  out  even  by  accident.  Of 
these  latter  was  Dr.  Hyatt.  It  was  the  writer's 
fortune  to  be  by  his  side  in  secret  consultation 
with  the  President  of  the  L'nited  States  in  the 
White  House;  by  his  side  when  a  new  life 
raised  its  first  cry  to  the  world,  when  applaud- 
ing citizens  w-elcomed  him  home  from  posi- 
tions of  difficulty  and  peril,  often  in  the  pri- 
vacy of  his  own  home, — and  in  every  case  it 
was  the  calm,  quiet,  unassuming,  genial,  mas- 
terful spirit  thinking,  speaking,  acting  as 
though  Eternity  itself  were  looking  at  him. 
Eternity  in  whose  presence  the  mean  and  the 
base  cannot  live,  Eternity  that  pours  around 
all  who  stand  in  awe  of  it  a  light  far  more 
attractive  to  the  beholder  than  that  which 
paints  the  sunset  cloud  with  unspeakable 
beauty  at  the  close  of  an  October  day. 

"No  wonder  that  the  same  spirit  so  domi- 
nant in  his  life,  should  persist  to  the  last,  and 
that  those  who  stood  by  when  the  final  mo- 
ment came,  as  they  looked  and  listened,  could 
truly  exclaim  as  Air,  Blaine  did  of  the  dying 
Garfield :  'Let  us  think  that  his  dying  eyes 
read  a  mystic  meaning  which  only  the  rapt 
and  parting  soul  may  know.     Let  us  believe 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


that  in  the  silence  of  the  receding  world  he 
heard  the  great  waves  breaking  on  a  farther 
shore  and  felt  already  upon  his  wasted  brow 
the  breath  of  the  eternal  morning."  It  is  one 
of  the  compensations  of  life  to  know  inti- 
mately those  who  illustrate,  in  these  ways,  the 
better  side  of  human  nature ;  to  discover  them 
ere  yet  Death  has  put  them  beyond  the  grasp 
of  our  hands  is  a  benediction ;  and  to  bid  them 
'Farewell'  is  but  to  look  longingly  after  them 
as  they  go  into  a  world  whither  we  shall  fol- 
low and  in  which  no  word  is  ever  spoken." 

Jonathan  Fairbanks  (  Faire- 
FAIRBANKS  banke,  Fairbank)  was  born 
before  1600  in  England. 
But  little  is  known  of  his  immediate  English 
ancestors.  He  came  from  Sowerby,  in  the 
West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  in  1633,  to  Bos-  , 
ton,  Massachusetts,  and  settled  in  Dedham, 
where  he  built  the  noted  Fairbanks  House. 
This  house  is  an  object  of  great  interest  to 
visitors  to  Dedham.  The  house  as  it  stands 
to-day  was  probably  complete  as  early  as 
1654.  It  is  claimed  that  the  oldest  part  was 
built  in  1636.  In  his  will,  dated  June  4,  1668, 
he  bequeathed  the  house  to  his  eldest  son 
John,  and  it  has  since  been  occupied  succes- 
sively by  John,  Joseph,  Joseph,  Ebenezer, 
Ebenezer,  Prudence,  Sarah,  Nancy  and  Re- 
becca. In  July,  1892,  the  house  was  struck 
by  lightning  and  damaged,  and  Rebecca  Fair- 
banks removed  for  a  time  to  Boston,  but  later 
returned  and  occupied  it  until  1904,  when  the 
Fairbanks  Association  took  possession  of  it 
and  will  preserve  it  indefinitely. 

Jonathan  Fairbanks  signed  the  famous  Ded- 
ham covenant  which  regulated  the  future  con- 
duct of  the  town.  Among  the  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  signers  were  his  sons  John, 
George  and  Jonathan  Jr.  Jonathan  Fairbanks 
was  admitted  a  freeman  March  23,  1637-38, 
and  received  numerous  grants  of  land.  He 
joined  the  church  August  14,  1646.  He  died 
in  Dedham,  December  5,  1668.  He  married 
Grace  Smith,  who  died  December  28,  1673,  or 
May  19,  1676.  Children,  born  in  England: 
I.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Captain  George, 
married  Mary  Adams.  3.  Mary,  born  April 
18,  1622,  died  May  10,  1676,  or  June  4,  1684; 
married  Michael  Metcalf  April  2,  1644;  mar- 
ried (second)  August  2,  1654,  Christopher 
Smith.  4.  Susan,  died  July  8,  1659;  married 
Ralph  Day.  5.  Jonas,  killed  by  the  Indians 
during  a  raid  in  King  Philip's  war  February 
10,  1676;  married.  May  28,  1658,  Lydia  Pres- 
cott.  6.  Jonathan,  died  January  28,  1711-12; 
married  Deborah  Shepard. 


(II)  John,  son  of  Jonathan  Fairbanks,  was 
born  in  England  and  died  November  13, 
1684.  He  was  the  eldest  son,  and  inherited 
the  homestead,  where  he  lived.  In  1638  he 
was  appointed  with  John  Rogers  to  survey 
the  Charles  river.  He  was  one  of  the  sign- 
ers of  the  Dedham  Covenant.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  townsman  as  early  as  1642.  He 
married  Sarah  Fiske,  March  16,  1641,  and  she 
died  November  26,  1683.  He  received  two 
grants  of  land,  one  in  1640,  the  other  a  year 
later,  and  in  1656  a  third.  In  1663  he  was 
sent  in  company  with  Daniel  Fisher  to  ex- 
amine the  land  at  Deerfield.  He  held  some 
local  offices  and  was  admitted  to  the  church 
May  4.  1 65 1.  His  will  was  dated  November 
10,  1684,  and  proved  February  19,  1685. 
Children:  i.  Joshua,  born  jNIay  26,  1642,  died 
February  5,  1661.  2.  Lieut.  John,  February 
7,  1643,  disd  September  14,  1706;  married, 
March  i,  1671-72,  Hannah  Whiting.    3.  Sarah, 

December   9,    1645,   married  Sawyer. 

4.  Jonathan,  November  10,  1648,  died  March 
I,  1661-62.  5.  I\lary,  December  25,  1650,  died 
December  31,  1650.  6.  Martha  (twin),  De- 
cember 25,  1650,  died  January  6,  165 1.  7. 
Joseph,  May  10,  1656,  mentioned  below.  8. 
Hannah,  February  10,  1657,  married,  June 
26,  1688,  Samuel  Deerin,  of  Milton,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 9.  Benjamin,  February  17,  1661, 
died  December  5,  1694. 

(III)  Deacon  Joseph,  son  of  John  Fair- 
banks, was  born  in  Dedham,  ]\Iay  10,  1656, 
died  June  14,  1734.  He  made  an  agreement 
with  his  brother  Benjamin,  the  original  of 
which  is  still  preserved  in  the  old  house, 
whereby  he  retained  a  part  of  the  homestead, 
where  he  resided.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man in  May,  1678.  He  married,  in  1683,  Dor- 
cas   ,  who  died  Januar)'  9,  1738.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Dorcas,  born  March  14,  1686,  mar- 
ried (first)  May  20,  1714,  Rev.  James  Hum- 
phrey; married  (second)  July  "9,  1735,  Will- 
iam Woodward;  married  (third)  August  7, 
1 75 1,  Andrew  Blake.  2.  Joseph,  mentioned 
below. 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Deacon  Joseph 
(i)  Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Dedham,  April 
26,  1687.  He  inherited  a  part  of  the  home- 
stead, and  resided  there.  On  March  9,  1752, 
he  sold  the  homestead  and  eight  other  tracts 
of  land  to  his  son  Joseph  Jr.  He  married, 
May  3,  1716,  Abigail  Deane,  born  in  Ded- 
ham, June  12,  1694,  died  December  31,  1750, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Deane.  They 
were  both  admitted  to  the  church  October  31, 
1725.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  bom  May  21, 
1717,   mentioned  below.     2.   John,   December 


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9.  1718,  died  October  25,  1794;  married  Mrs. 
Mary  Lewis   (intentions  dated  November  30, 
1753)-     3-  Abigail,  March  9,  1721,  died  Sep- 
tember 20,  1798,  unmarried,  "of  a  palsie."     4. 
Israel,  May  28,  1723,  died  February  25,  1809; 
married,    May   30,    1751,    Elizabeth    Whiting. 
5.   Sarah,  June  4,    1726,   died   September   11, 
1749,  unmarried.     6.   Samuel,   September    14, 
1728,  died  March  28,   1812;  was  in  the  revo- 
lution; married,  May  15,  1752,  Mary  Draper. 
7.   Ebenezer,   September  26,    1732,  died   Feb- 
ruary   II,    1812;   in   the  revolution:   married, 
December  16,  1756,  Prudence  Farrington.     8. 
Benjamin,  August  17,  1739,  in  the  revolution; 
married,  September  9,  1762,  Sarah  Kingsbury. 
(V)   Joseph    (3),  son  of  Joseph  (2)   Fair- 
banks, was  born  in  Dedham,  May  21,   1717. 
He  lived  on  the  homestead  and  in  Wrentham, 
where  some  of  his  children  were  born.     He 
removed  to  ]\Iaine,  and  his  name  appears  on 
the  records   of  Winthrop,   Maine,   in   March, 
1775.      He     settled    on    lot    82,    at    present 
known  as  the  Haskell   farm,   where  he  lived 
until  the  last  few  years  of  his  life,  which  were 
spent  at  the  home  of  his  son  Joseph,  a  mile 
distant.     He   died   November   27,    1794.     He 
was  remarkably  gifted  in  a  mechanical  way,  a 
trait    which    was    inherited    by    many    of    his 
descendants.     In  all  things  which  demanded  a 
knowledge  of  mechanics,  a  Fairbanks  seemed 
to  be  the  one  who  could  best  supply  the  de- 
mand,   and    they    became    noted    as    the    best 
workmen   in   the  country.     Joseph   Fairbanks 
married     in    April,     1744     (intentions    dated 
March     24,     1743-44),     Frances     Estey,     of 
Stoughton,  who  died  in  \Mnthrop,  ]\Iaine,  No- 
vember   10,    1806,   in  her  ninety-second   year. 
Children,  the  first  five  born  in  Dedham,  the 
others  in  Wrentham:    I.  Experience  (Temper- 
ance),  February  21,    1744-45,   died   April  29, 
1769.     2.  Benjamin,  November  20,  1746,  died 
in  Winthrop,   May  28.   1828;  married   (first) 
October   29,    1772,   Keturah   Luce;    (second) 
May  17,  1808,  Lydia  White;  (third)  February 
8,   1821,  Sally  Blue,    3.  Sarah,   September  4, 
1749,  died   jNIarch   4,    1835;  married   Captain 
\Villiam  PuUen.     4.  Joseph,  August  4,   175 1, 
died  July  4,  1807 ;  married,  October  16,  1776, 
SybiPGrover.     5.    Nathaniel,   July    15,    1754, 
mentioned   below.     6.    Elijah,    September    16, 
1756,   died   May    i,   1836;   in  the   revolution; 
married,  1781,  Elizabeth  Hopkins.    7.  Abigail, 
January  20,  1760,  married.  May  30,  1781,  Rial 
Stanley  ;  died  July  23,  1843, 

(VI)  Colonel  Nathaniel,  son  of  Joseph  (3) 
Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Dedham,  July  15, 
1754.  He  was  a  resident  of  Winthrop,  Maine, 
and  closely  identified  with   everything   which 


promoted  the  growth  and  welfare  of  the  town 
from  the  beginning.  He  settled  in  what  has 
since  been  known  as  the  ^Nletcalf  neighbor- 
hood, then  and  for  many  years  the  center  of 
the  town.  In  1778  he  built  a  house,  which  is 
now  or  was  lately  standing  in  good  preserva- 
tion. Here  he  entertained  many  men  of  note, 
among  them  Tallyrand,  the  French  diplomat, 
and  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  afterwards  Louis 
Phillippe,  as  they  made  a  journey  through  the 
country  in  1794.  That  year  he  built  a  tan- 
nery which  he  conducted  until  1800,  when  he 
removed  to  the  village.  He  enlisted  in  1775  in 
Captain  Samuel  McCobb's  company,  Colonel 
John  Nixon's  regiment,  and  was  afterwards  a 
member  of  Benedict  Arnold's  expedition  up 
the  Kennebec  to  Quebec,  He  took  part  in  the 
siege  of  Boston,  and  served  six  weeks  after 
his  term  had  expired.  He  received  a  captain's 
commission  from  Governor  Hancock  in  1788 
and  was  the  first  man  in  Winthrop  to  be  com- 
missioned colonel  of  a  regiment.  He  held 
many  positions  of  trust,  and  served  in  almost 
every  office  within  the  gift  of  the  town.  He 
was  nine  years  representative  to  the  general 
court  and  was  delegate  to  the  Portland  con- 
vention in  1794,  He  was  well  educated  and 
gifted  with  a  charming  presence.  He  could 
entertain  both  in  private  conversation  and  in 
public  speaking.  He  was  fond  of  reading  and 
well  versed  in  the  topics  of  the  day.  His  gift 
of  story-telling  was  remembered  with  delight 
by  his  grandchildren,  to  whom  he  often  told 
tales  of  his  pioneer  days.  In  1814  he  removed 
to  Wayne,  where  he  was  also  active  in  public 
afifairs,  and  where  he  died,  jNIarch  27,  1838. 

He  married  (first)  October  21,  1778,  Su- 
sanna IMetcalf,  born  May  27,  1759,  died  in 
Franklin,  Massachusetts,  September  24,  1791, 
daughter  of  Dr,  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Haven) 
Metcalf,  of  Wrentham.  He  married  (second) 
January  i,  1793,  Lydia  Chipman,  born  in 
Halifax,  Massachusetts,  January  11,  1767,  died 
in  Wayne,  Maine,  August  23,  1855,  daughter 
of  Jacob  and  Anna  (Waterman)  Chipman, 
She  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  Pilgrim, 
John  Howland.  Children  of  the  first  wife, 
born  in  Winthrop:  i.  Hannah,  December  20, 
1781,  married,  November  29,  1798,  Liberty 
Stanley;  died  July  5,  1813,  2,  Philo,  Febru- 
ary 21,  1784,  died  December  24,  1868;  mar- 
ried (first)  Susanna  Besse;  (second)  July  30, 
1862,  J\Iary  Witham.  3.  Calvin,  August  5, 
1789,  died  February  28,  1856;  married,  June 
7,  1819,  Hannah  Thompson,  Children  of 
second  wife:  4.  Columbus,  November  7,  1793, 
mentioned  below,  5.  Franklin,  June  18,  1795, 
killed  while  driving  a  coach  between  Frederic 


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and  Hagerstown.  Maryland,  July  26,  1832; 
married,  September  26,  1819,  Hannah  Sewall. 
6.  Susan,  December  15,  1796,  married,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1823,  Rev.  David  Starrett;  died 
August  16,  189 1.  7.  George  W.,  August  5, 
1803,  died  October  13,  1888:  married,  April  i, 
1828,  Lucy  Lovejoy. 

(VII)  Columbus,  son  of  Colonel  Nathaniel 
Fairbanks,  was  born  in  W'inthrop,  Maine,  No- 
vember 7,  1793,  died  September  7,  1882.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  the  oldest  native- 
born  citizen  of  Winthrop.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  it  is  said  that  he  earned  his  first  money, 
when  nine  years  old,  by  driving  oxen  for 
one  cent  a  day  and  his  dinner.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  181 2.  He  and  his  wife 
joined  the  church  in  1820.  He  was  industri- 
ous and  a  respected  citizen  of  the  town.  He 
was  well  versed  in  the  traditions  of  his  family 
and  was  proud  of  his  ancestry.  He  married 
(first)  September  17,  1816,  Lydia  Wood  Tink- 
ham,  born  May  22.  1797,  died  May  10,  1859, 
daughter  of  Seth  and  Catherine  (Woodman) 
Tinkham,  of  Wiscassett,  Alaine.  He  married 
(second)  November  8.  i860.  Mrs.  Lydia  T. 
Wing,  born  December  i,  1803,  died  June  8. 
1895,  widow  of  Isaac  D.  Wing,  and  daughter 
of  Joshua  and  Abigail  (Lambert)  Trufant,  of 
Winthrop.  Children,  all  by  first  wife,  born  in 
Winthro]) :  1.  Horatio  Wood,  June  2-.  1817. 
died  August  4,  1856:  married,  June  12,  1839, 
Mary  Caroline  Ladd.  2.  Franklin  Tinkham, 
October  21,  1818,  married  (first)  June  2, 
1842,  Susan  Johnson  Cony  Stewart;  (second) 
August  17,  1878,  Mrs.  Henrietta  Elizabeth 
(Benteen)  Doyle.  3.  Joseph  Woodman,  No- 
vember 16,  1821,  mentioned  below.  4.  Phebe 
Wood,  December  31,  1824,  died  June  19,  1856. 
5.  Charles  Henry.  November  20,  1827,  died 
September  30,  1828.  6.  Charles  Nelson,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1829,  married  (first)  February  27, 
1859,  Phebe  Jane  Crandall ;  (second)  Decem- 
ber 25,  1864,  Julia  Stubbs  Hunter;  died  Jan- 
uary 9,  1868;  no  issue.  7.  Edwin  Bartlett, 
December  18,  1831,  died  August  25,  1833.  8. 
Emily,  February  22,  1834,  married,  October 
29,  1856,  Dr.  Israel  Tisdale  Talbot.  9.  Sam- 
uel, April  2,  1839,  died  May  30,  1839. 

(VIII)  Hon.  Joseph  W.  Fairbanks,  son  of 
Columbus  Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Winthrop, 
Maine,  November  16,  1821,  died  December  8, 
1905.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  school 
of  his  native  town.  In  September,  1844,  he 
went  to  Farmington  and  entered  the  store  of 
his  brother,  Franklin  T.,  as  clerk,  in  his  shoe- 
store.  Two  years  later  he  bought  the  business 
of  his  brother,  and  continued  in  the  business 
with   great   success   until    1878.    when    he    re- 


tired from  active  work.  After  that  time  he 
was  identified  with  the  banking  interests  of  the 
town.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Franklin 
County  Savings  Bank,  and  vice-president  of 
the  First  National  Bank,  the  successor  of  the 
Sandy  River  National  Bank,  of  which  he  was 
president.  He  was  active  in  town  afYairs,  and 
lent  his  aid  and  influence  to  all  public  enter- 
prises. He  was  representative  and  senator 
during  1864  and  1868  and  valuation  commis- 
sioner in  1880-81.  He  was  a  trustee  of  State 
Normal  school.  He  served  the  town  as  as- 
sessor for  several  years  and  as  selectman  and 
was  instrumental  in  greatly  reducing  the  in- 
debtedness of  the  town.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Republican.  He  married  (first)  October  14, 
1852,  Susan  Evelina  Belcher,  born  March  29, 
1825,  died  November  8,  1875,  daughter  of 
Hon.  Hiram  and  Evelina  (Cony)  Belcher,  of 
Farmington,  Maine.  He  married  (second) 
October  25.  1876,  Henrietta  F.  S.  Wood,  of 
Winthrop,  daughter  of  General  Samuel  and 
Florena  (Sweet)  Wood.  (See  Wood  \TI.) 
Children,  all  by  first  wife  :  1.  A  daughter,  born 
July  4,  1854.  died  same  day.  2.  Mittie  Bel- 
cher, August  24,  1855.  3.  Emily  Talljot,  July 
6,  1857,  died  June  7,  1861.  4.  Charlotte  Bel- 
cher, June  5,  1859,  married,  October  2,  1890, 
Clift'ord  Wood,  son  of  Colonel  Henry  Clay 
and  Marv  Frances  (Lord)  Wood;  he  was 
born  in  Standish,  Maine,  and  educated  at 
Tha\'er  Academy,  Braintree,  Massachusetts; 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technolog>'  and 
Harvard  Law  School.  Children :  i.  Clififord 
\\'ood,  born  March  g,  1892 ;  ii.  Frances  Wood. 
September  3,  1893  ;  iii.  Eveline  ^^'ood,  Septem- 
ber 6,  1896:  iv.  Phebe  Wood,  August  4.  1898; 
V.  Lois  Wood,  February  26,  1901.  5.  Wallace 
Joseph,  January  19,  1868,  died  May  3.  1874. 


The  origin  of  the  name  is  the 
WOOD     same    as    that    of    By  wood,    .\t- 

wood,  etc.,  all  being  originally 
designations  of  persons  from  the  location  of 
their  homes  in  or  near  woods,  similar  in 
derivation  to  the  names  Hill,  Pond,  Rivers. 
Lake,  Bridges,  etc.  The  medieval  spelling 
of  this  surname  was  Ate  Wode,  afterwards 
modified  to  Atwood  and  in  a  majority  of 
cases  to  Wood,  as  the  prefixes  Ap,  Mc,  De.  Le 
were  dropped  in  other  surnames.  Almost 
every  conceivable  wood  in  England  surnamed 
some  family  in  the  tenth,  eleventh  and  twelfth 
centuries.  In  Domesday  Book  the  name  is 
found  in  its  Latin  form  de  Silva  in  county 
Suffolk.  Some  branches  of  the  family  have 
retained  the  ancient  form  of  spelling  to  the 
present  time,  and  the  name  Atwood  is  com- 


uc/  c^r/^//r^ 


STATE  OF  !^IAINE. 


1399 


moil  in  the  I'nited  Kingtloni  as  well  as  Amer- 
ica. The  American  families  are  descended 
from  Philip  Atwood,  who  settled  at  ^lalden, 
Massachusetts,  married  Rachel  Bacheller  and 

Elizabeth  Grover  and  Elizabeth  ;  from 

Herman  Atwood,  cordwainer,  who  came  from 
Sanderstead.  county  Surrey,  fifteen  miles  from 
London,  to  Boston'before  1643;  deacon  of  the 
Second  Church:  died  165 1.  and  from  the  sev- 
eral immigrants  at  Plymouth,  many  of  whose 
descendants  settled  upon  the  spelling  Wood. 
In  fact,  the  Plymouth  Atwoods,  even  the  im- 
migrants themselves,  used  the  two  spellings 
interchangeably,  to  judge  from  the  records. 

( I )  Henry  Wood,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
in  Plvmouth  as  early  as  September  16.  1641, 
when' he  bought  of  John  Dunham,  the  younger, 
his  house  and  land  at  Plymouth,  for  seven 
pounds.  He  was  among  the  Plymouth  men 
reportetl  in  1643  ^^  s'^''-"  '^"  ^^^^  arms.  He  re- 
moved to  Yarmouth,  where  his  children.  Sam- 
uel and  Sarah,  were  born,  but  in  1649  re- 
turned to  Plymouth.  In  1655  he  settled  at 
Middleborough.  He  was  not  among  the 
twenty-six  original  purchasers,  but  received 
the  share  set  out  to  John  Shaw,  and  part  of 
his  original  homestead  is  still  in  the  possession 
of  his  descendants.  He  was  an  original  pro- 
prietor of  the  Little  Lotmen's  Purchase.  His 
home  was  near  the  General  Abiel  Washburn 
place.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the  col- 
ony in  1648;  was  grand  juror  1648-56-59-68. 
and  often  on  other  juries.  He  was  one  of  the 
complainants  against  the  rates  at  Plymouth. 
In  1665  he  had  one  share  of  thirty  acres  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Xemasket  River.  His  name 
is  sometimes  spelled  "Wood,  alias  Atwood," 
in  the  records.  His  son  Samuel  and  son-in- 
law  John  Nelson  were  appointed  administra- 
tors of  his  estate  October  29,  1670.  He  mar- 
ried, April  25,  1644,  Abigail  Jenney,  daughter 
of  John,  who  owned  land  in  Lakenham.  now 
Carver,  April  28,  1644.  Their  sons  Abiel  and 
Samuel  were  among  the  original  members  of 
the  church  at  ]\Iidflleborough.  Their  son 
John  made  a  nuncupative  will  dated  April  13, 
1673,  bequeathing  to  his  two  youngest  broth- 
ers, sister  IMary  and  mother  .Abigail,  and  later 
the  court  ordered  the  eldest  brother  SauTuel  to 
give  over  his  land  to  the  youngest  brothers, 
Abiel  and  James.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  born 
May  25,  1647:  mentioned  below.  2.  Jonathan, 
born  January  i,  1649-50.  3.  David,  born  Oc- 
tober 17,  165 1  :  married  ]\Iary  (Cuthbertson) 
Coombs,  daughter  of  Cuthbert  Cuthbertson, 
widow  of  Francis  Coombs.  4.  John.  5.  Jo- 
seph. 6.  Benjamin.  7.  Abiel,  married  Abiah 
Bowers.     8.  James.     9.  Sarah,  born  at  Yar- 


mouth :  married,  November  28,  1667,  John 
Nelson.  10.  Abigail,  married  November  2, 
1664-65,  Jonathan  Pratt.  11.  Susanna,  mar- 
ried December  11,  1661.  John  Holmes.  12. 
Isaac,  born  1654. 

(II)  Samuel,  .'^on  of  Henry  Wood,  was 
born  at  Yarmouth,  May  25,  1647.  He  came  to 
Middleborough  with  liis  father,  among  the 
first  settlers  of  the  town,  and  became  a  leading 
citizen.  He  was  highway  surveyor  in  1673; 
constable  in  1682:  selectman  in  1684-89  and 
other  vears,  fifteen  in  all.  He  was  one  of  the 
original  members  of  the  First  Church,  organ- 
ized December  26,  1694.  After  the  death  of 
his  father,  by  agreement  among  the  heirs,  he 
received  thirteen  acres  of  upland,  containing 
the  homestead,  also  a  portion  of  the  Tispequin 
purchase  known  as  Wood's  purchase.  He  was 
an  original  owner  of  what  was  known  as  the 
Sixteen  Shilling  purchase.    He  died  February 

3,    1718.     He   married   Rebecca  ,   who 

died  February  lo,  1718.  She  joined  the  First 
Church,  March  27,  1716.  Children,  born  at 
Middleborough:      i.  Henry,  mentioned  below. 

2.  Ephraim.  born  January,  1679  :  deacon  of  the 
church:  died   1744:  married  Susanna  . 

3.  Deacon  Samuel,  born  September  19,  1684; 

married    Elizabeth .      4.    Jabez,    born 

i6go:  married,  1716.  Mercy  Fuller.  5.  Jo- 
anna.    6.   Anne,  born  January  20,    1687.     7. 

Rebecca,     April     9,     1682.     married     

Smith.     8.  Susannah. 

( III)  Henry  (2),  son  of  Samuel  Wood,  was 
born  in  Midclleborough,  Massachusetts.  He 
married,  December  24,  1717,  Mary  Tinkham. 
Children,  born  at  Middleborough:  i.  Samuel, 
September  27,  17 18.  2  Esther,  July  31, 
1720-21:  died  May  9,  1721.  3.  Joanna, 
March  30,  1722;  died  unmarried,  April  7, 
1797.  4.  Susanna,  April  24,  1724;  married, 
December  24,  1767,  Samuel  Smith.  5.  Henry 
Jr.,  February  27,  1726-27;  died  December  26. 
1806  (gravestone)  :  married,  August  i,  1754. 
Lydia  Benson.  6.  \Moses,  February  3,  1730- 
31  ;  married,  January  12,  1762,  Lydia  Water- 
man. 

(IV)  Henry  (3),  son  of  Henry  (2)  Wood, 
was  born  at  Middleborough,  February  27, 
1726-27;  died  December  26,  1806.  He  mar- 
ried, August  I,  1754,  Lydia  Benson,  born 
1737.  died  February  2,  181 4.  Most  of  this 
family  settled  in  ]\Iaine.  Children,  born  at 
Middleborough:  i.  Deliverance.  Alarch  25, 
1755:  died  August  19,  1769.  2.  Mary,  May 
16,  1756;  died  August  6.  1808:  married  March 
25,  1778,  John  Tinkham.  3.  Hope,  October 
15,  1757;  married  Leonard  Briggs.  4.  Sam- 
uel. September  10,   1759;  died  September  10, 


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1848;  married  November  14,  1782,  Phebe 
Morton.  5.  Martha,  April  9,  1761 ;  died  Au- 
gust 4,  1782;  married  (intention  dated  Jan- 
uary 27,  1781)  Ebenezer  Morton.  6.  De- 
borah, May  12,  1763;  died  November  18, 
1833;  married  January  15,  1799,  Isaac  Shaw. 
7.  Keziah,  January  6,  1765 ;  died  September, 
1854;  married,  October  i,  1793,  Dudley  Dear- 
born. 8.  Enoch  (twin),  June  24,  1769;  died 
February  14,  1836;  married,  October  30,  1791, 
Priscilla  Camp.  9.  Elijah  (twin),  mentioned 
below.  10.  Susanna,  March  12,  1771  ;  died 
September  29,  1776.  11.  Joanna,  April  9, 
1773;  married  John  Harlow.  -12.  Henry,  Jan- 
uary 14,  1779;  died  February  14,  1836;  mar- 
ried, October  i,  1800,  Eunice  Howe. 

(V)  Elijah,  son  of  Henry  (3)  Wood,  was 
born  in  Middleborough,  June  24,  1769;  died 
July  28,  1848.  He  removed  to  Winthrop, 
Maine,  with  other  of  the  family.  He 
was  a  general  merchant  there  for  many 
years  and  manufactured  wrought  iron  nails, 
employing  twenty  or  more  journeymen 
blacksmiths  in  this  industry.  An  interesting 
anecdote  of  his  sister-in-law,  Mrs.  Phebe, 
wife  of  Samuel  Wood,  is  told  in  the  history  of 
Winthrop.  Colonel  Nathaniel  Fairbanks 
called  upon  her  one  morning  to  ask  her  to 
spend  the  day  at  his  house.  "I  cannot  go  to- 
day," she  said,  "for  I  am  just  kneading  a 
batch  of  rye  and  Indian  bread  which  I  must 
bake."  But  the  colonel  was  not  to  be  put  off. 
He  persuaded  the  good  lady  to  mount  his 
horse,  and  taking  the  bread  trough  before  him 
they  travelled  safely  to  their  destination.  She 
baked  the  bread  at  his  house  and  carried  it 
home  at  night.  He  married  Sarah  Clifford. 
Children,  born  at  Winthrop:  i.  Samuel,  De- 
cember I,  1798;  mentioned  below.  2.  Truxton, 
December  28,  1799;  died  November  28,  1868; 
married  May  i,  1823,  Submit  T.  Blaisdell.  3. 
George  Washington,  born  April  7,  1801  ;  died 
unmarried,  June  15,  1836,  at  Bartholomew, 
Chicot  county,  Arkansas.  4.  Joanna,  January 
9,  1803 ;  died  unmarried,  July  4,  1874,  at  Win- 
throp. 5.  Sarah  Clifford,  November  14,  1805 
(twin)  ;  married,  October  18,  1837,  Philander 
Morton.  6.  Elijah  (twin),  November  14, 
1805;  died  January  4,  185T  ;  married  January 
27,  1829,  Esther  Stafford.  7.  Mary,"  Febru- 
ary 2,  1808;  died  November,  1879;  married. 
May  25,  1828,  Sewall  Prescott  Jr.  8.  Abigail 
March  30,  1810:  married,  November  21,  1839, 
Charles  B.  Stinchfield.  9.  Lewis,  February  29, 
1812;  married.  November  21,  1839,  Ann  A. 
Snell:  died  December  5,  1892. 

(VI)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Elijah  Wood,  was 
born  in  Winthrop,  Maine,  December  i,  1798. 


died  May  26,  1874.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  became  clerk 
in  his  father's  general  store  and  was  asso- 
ciated with  him  in  business.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent Whig  and  chairman  of  the  town  com- 
mittee of  that  party ;  representative  from  Win- 
throp to  the  state  legislature  for  two  terms 
and  served  as  engrossing  clerk  of  the  legis- 
lature. He  was  town  clerk  of  Winthrop  for 
many  years,  also  county  commissioner.  He 
was  charter  member  of  the  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons  at  ^\'inthrop.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  church,  and  an  active,  up- 
right and  useful  citizen,  having  the  esteem  of 
all  his  townsmen.  He  married,  January  18, 
1824,  Florena  Sweet,  born  at  Winthrop, 
Maine,  February  10,  1798,  died  July  25,  1862, 
daughter  of  Arnold  and  Mary  (Bonney) 
Sweet.  Children:  i.  Henrietta  Florena 
Sweet,  mentioned  below.  2.  General  Henry 
Clay,  born  May  26,  1832,  resides  at  350  West 
End  avenue,  near  One  hundred  and  Second 
street.  New  York  City,  a  retired  officer  of  the 
United  States  army;  his  son,  Winthrop  S. 
Wood,  also  a  United  States  army  officer,  lives 
in  Seattle,  Washington. 

(VII)  Henrietta  Florena  Sweet,  daughter 
of  .Samuel  Wood,  was  born  at  Winthrop,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1825.  She  received  a  good  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  and  taught  school 
for  some  years  before  the  civil  war  in  the 
state  of  Kentucky.  She  married,  October  25, 
1876,  in  Winthrop,  Joseph  Woodman  Fair- 
banks, born  in  Winthrop,  November  16,  1821, 
died  December  8,  1905.  (See  Fairbanks  \'III.) 


The  surname  Goodwin  is  of 
GOODWIN  ancient  origin.  Several  pio- 
neers of  that  name  settled  in 
New  England  before  1650.  William  and 
Ozias  Goodwin,  brothers,  settled  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  about  1632;  Christopher  Good- 
win in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  his  de- 
scendants removing  to  Boston,  Reading  and 
Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  and  York,  Maine. 
Richard  Goodwin  resided  in  Gloucester, 
Massachuetts,  in  1660,  and  many  of  his  de- 
scendants of  that  section  spell  the  name  God- 
ding. Edward  Goodwin  was  in  Boston  in  1640, 
and  another  Edward  in  Gloucester  in  1660. 

(I)  Daniel  Goodwin,  immigrant  ancestor, 
believed  to  be  a  brother  of  Richard  Goodwin, 
of  Gloucester,  and  son  of  Bridget  Goodwin, 
who  married  (second)  Henry  Travers,  and 
(third)  Richard  Window.  She  died  in 
Gloucester,  where  her  inventory  was  dated 
August  9,  1673.  There  is  good  reason  for  be- 
lieving that  the  home  of  Daniel  Goodwin  in 


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England  was  Torrington,  near  Plymouth. 
Daniel  Goodwin  was  in  Kittery,  York  county, 
Maine,  as  early  as  1652.  He  married,  first,  in 
Kittery,  Margaret  Spencer,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and"Patience  (Chadbourne)  Spencer. 
Patience  Chadbourne  was  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam. Goodwin  married,  second,  after  March, 
1670,  Sarah  (Sanders)  Turbet,  widow  of 
Peter  Turbet.  Daniel  Goodwin  died  about 
1712.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Kittery, 
a  surA'eyor,  innkeeper  and  large  landed  pro- 
prietor. Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Daniel, 
born  1656,  mentioned  below.  2.  James,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Thompson.  3.  Thomas,  men- 
tioned elsewhere.  4.  William,  married  Deliv- 
erance Taylor.  5.  Moses,  married  Abigail 
Taylor.  6.  Patience,  married  Daniel  Stone. 
7.  Elizabeth,  married,  first,  Zachery  Emery ; 
second,  Philip  Hubbard.  8.  Sarah,  married 
Isaac  Barnes.  9.  Adams,  presented  at  court 
December  19,  1675,  for  non-attendance  at 
meeting.  10.  David,  mentioned  in  court  rec- 
ords of  New  Hampshire  in  1670,  aged 
t\vent)'-two. 

(II)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  Good- 
win, was  born  in  1656;  married,  December  17, 
1682,  Amy,  daughter  of  Miles  and  Ann 
Thompson.  He  died  at  Berwick,  April,  1726. 
Children:  i.  Margaret,  born  August  23, 
1683;  married  Joseph  Hodsdon.  2.  Daniel, 
born  June  13,  1685,  married  Abigail  Roberts. 
3.  Miles,  born  July  31,  1687.  4.  Nathaniel, 
born  October  29,  1689,  married  about  171 2, 
Mary  Gyles.  5.  Amy,  born  April  19,  1693, 
married,  November  6,  1712,  Moses  Goodwin. 
6.  Samuel,  born  May  24,  1693.  married  Sarah 
Davis  and  Mrs.  Judith  (Prebel)  Smith.  7. 
James,  born  July  15,  1697,  married  Elizabeth 
—and  lived  at  Falmouth.  8.  Thomas,  ,born 
August  15,  1699,  mentioned  below.  9.  Sarah, 
born  September  23,  1701,  married  Josiah  Paul. 
ID.  Anne,  born  October  19,  1703.  died  No- 
vember 24,  1703.  II.  Ann,  born  February  16, 
1704,  married,  January  16,  1723. 

(HI)  Thomas,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  Goodwin, 
was  born  August  15,  1699,  died  April  3,  1769. 
Married,  December  20,  1722,  .\bigaij  Seward. 
Children:  i.  Henry,  baptized  November  21, 
1723,  married,  February  28,  1747,  Elizabeth 
Weymouth.  2.  Susannah,  baptized  May  23, 
1725;  married  March  13,  1784:  died  in  Bidde- 
ford  March  9,  1813.  3.  Danid,  baptized  De- 
cember 25,  1726;  married  September  14, 
1747,  Martha  Pierce.  4.  Gideon,  baptized 
October  5,  1732;  married  Elizabeth  Jenkins. 
5.  Thomas,  baptized  October,  5.  1732;  men- 
tioned below.  6.  .Reuben,  baptized  October 
29,    1736.     7.    Charity,   baptized    October   29, 


1736;  married,   December    18,   1760,   Thomas 
Abbot. 

(IV)  Thomas  (2)  Goodwin,  son  of  Thomas 
( I )  Goodwin,  was  baptized  in  Berwick,  Octo- 
ber 5,  1732;  married,  October  25,  1753,  Su- 
sannah Downing,  born  1732  in  Kennebunk- 
port,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth 
(Fabians)  Downing  (4),  Captain  John  (3), 
John  (2),  Dennis  Downing  (i),  of  Kittery. 
They  resided  in  Wells,  where  the  wife  died 
December  26,  1791.  Thomas  died  in  May, 
1799,  aged  sixty-six.  (It  is  possible,  as  sug- 
gested in  the  genealogy  that  this  Thomas 
Goodwin  may  have  been  confused  with  one 
of  his  cousins  of  the  same  name  and  some 
have  thought  his  mother  Hannah  (Wells) 
Goodwin  instead  of  Elizabeth,  as  here  given. 
There  is  also  some  doubt  as  to  the  correct- 
ness of  the  family  historian  in  making  this 
Thomas  Goodwin  (3),  son  of  James  Good- 
win (2),  but  the  writer  believes  the  lineage 
here  given  established  after  considering  all 
the  records  found.) 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Susannah  Good- 
win :  I.  Hannah,  born  October  18,  1754, 
married  Theophilus  Waterhouse.  2.  Eliza- 
beth, born  January  2.  1756,  married  Thomas 
Clark.  3.  Thomas  Wells,  born  March  16, 
1757,  died  young.  4.  Alice,  born  May  14, 
1759,  married  Stephen  Ricker.  5.  John 
Fabians,  born  September  10,  1760,  married 
Lucy  Storner  and  died  without  issue.  6.  Wil- 
liam, born  June  28,  1762,  died  in  infancy.  7. 
Richard,  born  July  20,  1763,  married  Mrs. 
Salome  Cousins.  8.  Susannah,  born  ]\Iarch 
5,  1765,  married  Zebulon  Larabee.  9.  Down- 
ing, born  August  15,  1766,  died  in  infancy. 
ID.  Sarah,  born  December  3,  1767,  married 
John  Goodwin.  11.  Lydia,  born  March  3, 
1769,  married  Thomas  Clark.  12.  Downing, 
born  November  18.  1770,  mentioned  below. 
13.  Thomas  Wells,  born  September  28,  1771, 
died  in  Wells.  14.  Benjamin,  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1773.  married  Susan  Day;  daughter 
Lucy  S.  married  Calvin  Dunton,  of  East 
Charlestown,  Vermont.  15.  Mehitable.  born 
March  10,  1777,  married  Pike  Gordon  and 
Dr.  Marshall. 

(V)  Downing,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Good- 
win, was  born  November  18,  1770,  in  Wells; 
married  in  Topsham,  Maine,  Mary  (or  Polly) 
Haley,  born  1772,  daughter  of  Joseph  Haley, 
born  in  Kittery  in  1738,  and  Alary  Goodwin, 
his  wife,  sister  of  Samuel  Goodwin,  of  Wells, 
and  perhaps  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Han- 
nah (Wells)  Goodwin,  granddaughter  of  Dan-_^ 
iel  Goodwin  (2),  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Daniel  Goodwin   ( i ) .     Downing  Goodwin  re- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


sided  ill  Freeport,  Maine,  removing  to  Bruns- 
wick and  thence  to  Topshain,  Maine.  In  Feb- 
riiarv.  1807,  he  settled  in  Burton  (tlien  Al- 
bany), New  Hampshire,  where  his  wife  Mary 
died  March  21,  1836,  aged  sixty-four  years 
and  three  months.  He  died  March  i,  1841, 
in  Baldwin.  Children:  i.  Susan,  died  young. 
2.  John,  born  August  31,  1794.  mentioned  be- 
low. 3.  Downing,  married  Hannah  Yeaton. 
4.  Sarah,  married  twice.  5.  Mary,  married 
Levi  Whitten.  6.  Susan  Downing,  married 
John  Clark.  7.  Hannah,  married  David  Harri- 
man.  8.  Lydia,  died  young.  9.  Aaron,  mar- 
ried Martha  Hamblin.  10.  Moses,  born  Jan- 
uary 2,  1808,  married  Jane  Rounds.  11.  Jo- 
seph Haley,  married  Sarah  Atkinson  and 
Lydia  Pratt.  12.  Joshua,  born  September  i, 
1812,  married  Sophia  Marden. 

(VI)  John,  son  of  Downing  Goodwin,  born 
in  Topsham,  Maine,  August  31,  1794,  died  at 
Baldwin,  Maine,  August  19,  1873.  Mar- 
ried (first)  Abigail  Brown,  born  November 
21,  1792,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Huldah 
(Richardson)  Brown.  She  died  December 
14,  1833,  and  he  married  (second)  Sarah 
Cole,  born  August  25,  1798,  died  July  11, 
1840.  Mr.  Goodwin  married  (third)  Eliza 
Richardson,  born  August  11,  1808,  daughter 
of  Elisha  Richardson.  She  died  April  6,  1867. 
He  married  (fourth)  Clarinda  Buzzell.  He 
resided  in  Baldwin,  Maine,  from  1817  for 
over  fort\'  years,  a  general  merchant  in  part- 
nership with  Lot  Davis  at  the  "Comer."  He 
kept  a  tavern  from  1830  to  1853,  removing 
afterward  to  Limington.  Children  of  first 
wife:  I.  Emeline,  born  April  30,  1820,  died 
September  19,  1862,  unmarried.  2.  John  Mun- 
roe,  born  September  3,  1822,  mentioned  be- 
low, 3.  George  Peabody,  born  April  21, 
1825,  married  Lucia  (Williams)  Atherton ; 
died  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  June  12,  1878.  4. 
Hannah  Brown,  born  March  13,  1827,  died 
June  26,  1829.  5.  Ephraim  Henry,  born 
March  31,  1829,  died  at  Stowell,  Victoria, 
Australia.  August  20,  1901  ;  married  Matilda 
Ashton.  6.  Abigail  Brown,  born  July  25,  1831, 
died  August  19,  1903;  married  L.  W.  Small. 
Child  of  second  wife :  7.  Olive  Maria,  born 
August  16,  1836,  marripd  James  K.  Emery. 
Children  of  third  wife :  8.  Eugene,  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1848,  married  Clara  Eastman.  9. 
Mary  Eliza,  born  September  30,  1849,  mar- 
ried George  B.  Schermerhorn.  10.  Newton, 
born  September  30,  1852,  married  Nellie  Bur- 
ling. 

(V^II)  John  Munroe,  son  of  John  Good- 
win, was  born  September  3,  1822.  in  Bald- 
win,  iviaine.     He  attended  the  public  schools 


of  his  native  town,  Yarmouth  Academy  and 
graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1845.  ^^^ 
taught  school  in  the  old  .\lfred  Academy  at 
Alfred,  Maine,  and  the  acailem_\-  at  Dennys- 
ville.  He  then  turned  to  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  Judge  Wells,  of  Portland,  and  in 
1848  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  came  to 
Biddeford,  Maine,  in  1850.  and  began  to  prac- 
tice his  profession  in  that  city.  He  achieved 
a  prominent  place  in  his  profession  and  also 
in  public  life.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  a  Re- 
publican state  and  continued  steadfast  in  his 
allegiance  to  the  party  through  all  its  vicissi- 
tudes. He  was  elected  from  time  to  time  to 
various  offices  of  trust  and  honor ;  was  in  the 
common  council  and  board  of  aldermen  of 
Biddeford ;  was  city  solicitor  for  a  number  of 
years ;  superintendent  of  schools,  city  treas- 
urer and  collector.  He  was  representative  to 
the  state  legislature  in  1863-64  and  was  a 
state  senator  in  1855.  In  1876  he  was  a  can- 
didate for  congress  against  Hon.  Thomas  B. 
Reed.  He  was  once  nominated  for  attorney 
general  of  Maine  by  the  Democrats  in  the 
legislature  and  once  for  Uniterl  States  sena- 
tor. He  was  the  first  president  of  the  Citi- 
zens' Municipal  Association  of  Biddeford,  and 
was  at  the  head  of  that  organization  many 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  Dunlap  Lodge  of 
Free  Masons.  He  attended  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  He  died  March  8,  1905,  aged 
eightv-two  years  and  six  months.  He  married, 
July  16,  1850,  Harriet  Proctor  Herrick,  born 
January  17,  1829,  in  Alfred,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Jones  and  Mary  (Conant)  Herrick. 
Children:  i.  Francis  Jones,  born  January  12, 
1852,  married  Emily  R.  Milliken.  2.  George 
Brown,  born  ]\larch  4,  1855,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Mary  Isabel,  born  February  22,  1857,  mar- 
ried Frederick  Gold  Lyman,  of  Alontreal, 
where  she  died  in  1888,  4.  Henry  Herrick, 
born  November  29,  1859;  married  Jennie  Mur- 
ray. 5.  William  Burton,  born  January  11, 
1864.  married  Mary  Hills. 

(\TII)  George  Brown,  son  of  John  Mun- 
roe Goodwin,  was  born  March  4,  1855.  He 
received  his  rudimentary  eilucation  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Piiddeford  and  at  Kent's  Hill 
Academy.  He  spent  two  years  and  a  half  in 
foreign  travel  in  Germany  and  Switzerland. 
When  he  returned  home  he  took  up  the  study 
of  law  in  the  office  of  his  father  and  later  of 
\\'illiam  L.  Putnam,  of  Portland,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1877.  Instead  of  prac- 
ticing his  professicm.  however,  he  turned  to 
journalism.  He  went  on  the  stai?  of  the  Bos- 
ton Post  and  for  seven  years  was  an  associate 
editor.     In    1885  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 


I 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1403 


dent  Cleveland  consul  to  Annaberg,  Germany, 
and  served  during  the  Cleveland  administra- 
tion. From  1889  to  1892  he  was  editor  and 
proprietor  of  the  Denison  (Texas)  Herald  and 
from  1892  to  1905  was  connected  in  an  edi- 
torial capacity  with  the  New  York  World  and 
Herald.  In  1903  he  resumed  the  practice  of 
law.  being  admitted  to  the  New  York  bar  in 
that  year.  L'pon  the  death  of  his  father  in  1905 
he  returned  to  Biddeford  and  has  practiced 
law  there  to  the  present  time.  In  national 
politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1881,  Grace  L.  Webster,  born  Feb- 
ruary 8,  i860,  daughter  of  James  Webster,  of 
Orono.  Maine.  They  have  one  daughter,  their 
only  child,  Marian  Herrick,  born  July  29, 
1882,  at  Oono,  Maine. 

(Vnij  Francis  Jones,  son  of  John  Munroe 
Goodwin,  was  born  in  Biddeford,  January  12, 
1852;  married  Emily  R.  Milliken.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
at  Amherst  College,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1873.  Children:  i.  Austin  M., 
editor  of  the  Portland  Express.     2.  Emily  R. 

(Vni)  Henry  Herrick,  son  of  John  Mun- 
roe Goodwin,  was  born  November  29,  1859, 
at  Biddeford.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  at  Maine  State 
College.  He  married,  at  Berlin,  Germany, 
Jennie  S.  Murray,  a  native  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  Children:  i.  Isabel  Smead,  born  in 
Biddeford,  educated  at  Bradford  Academy.  2. 
Henry  Murray,  born  in  Biddeford. 

(VHI)  William  Burton,  son  of  John  Mun- 
roe Goodwin,  was  born  in  Biddeford,  January 
II,  1864.  He  was  educated  in  Hallowell 
Classical  Institute  and  Phillips  Exeter  Acad- 
emy, graduating  from  Yale  in  1887.  He 
studied  law  in  the  New  York  University  Law 
School  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
York  city,  where  he  has  since  practiced,  being 
at  present  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Gould  & 
Wilkie,  2  Wall  street.  He  married  Mary  Ho- 
bart  Hills,  of  Chicago.  Their  only  child,  Helen 
Merrill,  was  born  in  New  York  city. 


(For  first  generation  see  preceding  sketch.) 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Daniel 
GOODWIN  Goodwin,  was  born  in  Kit- 
tery,  about  1660-65;  married, 
about  1685,  Mehitable  Plaisted,  daughter  of 
Lieutenant  Roger  and  granddaughter  of 
Ichabod  Plaisted.  In  1689-90  his  wife  was 
taken  captive  by  the  Indians,  together  with 
her  infant  son,  whom  they  killed.  She  was 
kept  in  captivity  five  years  before  she  was  re- 
stored to  her  family  in  Berwick.  He  married 
(second)    Sarah .      He    and   his    sec- 


ond wife  deeded  land  to  his  son  Thomas,  De- 
cember, 1711.  He  was  an  ensign  in  his  mili- 
tary company.  He  lived  in  South  Berwick, 
Maine.  Children:  i.  Son,  killed  by  the  In- 
dians 1689-90.  2.  Thomas,  born  July  12,  1697, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Ichabod,  born  June  17, 
1700,  married  Elizabeth  Scammon.  4.  Olive, 
born  1708,  baptized  March  14,  1717-18;  mar- 
ried Timothy  Davis.     5.  Mary,  baptized  June 

18,  1710,  married Abbot  and  (second) 

John    Cooper.     6.    James,    married    Margaret 

Wallingford.      7.    Daughter,    married    ■ 

Shapleigh.    8.  Bial  (daughter),  baptized  May 

6,  1716. 

(Ill)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
Goodwin,  was  born  July  12,  1697,  at  South 
Berwick;  married,  December  2,  1722,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  TTiomasand_Elizabeth.  But- 
ler. Children:  I.  Elisha,  baptized  October 
9,  1726.  2.  Thomas,  also  baptized  October  9, 
1726,'  mentioned  below.  3.  Olive,  baptized 
July  28,  1728,  married  Nathan  Lord  Jr.  4. 
Moses,  baptized  October  27,  1728,  died  1766, 
unmarried.  5.  Elizabeth,  baptized  August  9, 
1730,  married  Alexander  Shapleigh.  6.  Mary, 
baptized  April   15,   1733,   died  July   18,   1736. 

7.  James,  born  j\larch  17,  1735,  died  July  21, 
1736.  8.  Reuben,  baptized  October  29,  1736. 
9.  Charity,  baptized  October  29,  1736,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Abbot.  10.  James,  baptized  May 
I5>  ^7Z7'  married  Sarah  Griffith.  11.  Daniel, 
baptized  August  19,  1739.  12.  Mollie,  bap- 
tized January  25,  1740,  unmarried  in  1766. 

(IV')  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Goodwin,  born  in  South  Berwick,  baptized 
October  9,  1726.  From  the  names  of  chil- 
dren in  the  two  families,  the  age  of  Thomas 
compared  with  others,  and  various  other  evi- 
dences establishes  the  accuracy  of  the  lineage 
as  traced.  He  may  have  married  (second) 
July  29,  1754,  Mary  Hicks.    His  first  wife  was 

Eunice .      He    was    close!)'    connected 

with  Thomas  Goodwin,  of  Maine,  if  not  the 
same  man.  Thomas  and  Etmice  had  son  Jon- 
athan, mentioned  below.  Perhaps  other  chil- 
dren. 

(V)  Jonathan,  son  of  Thomas  (3)  Goodwin, 
born  in  Berwick,  baptized  there  January  22, 
1752.  He  married  (intentions  dated  in  Ber- 
wick, April  7,  1770)  Elizabeth  Clark.  He  re- 
sided in  Lyman,  Maine.     After  his  death  his 

widow  married   (second)   ■ —  Welch,  and 

resided  in  Waterborough.  where  she  died. 
Children:  i.  George  Clark,  born  February, 
1772,   married   Ruth    Page.     2.   Andrew.      3. 

Jonathan  Jr.,  married Earle.    4.  Uriah, 

died  at  New  Orleans.  5.  Reuben,  mentioned 
below. 


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STATE  OF  AlALXE. 


(\T)  Reuben,  son  of  Jonathan  Goodwin, 
was  born  in  Lyman,  Maine,  about  1790.  He 
married   (first)    Elizabeth   Pray  and   (second) 

Polly .       Children     born     in     Lyman, 

Maine:  i.  Reuben  Jr.  2.  Joseph  Pray,  born 
January,    1821,    mentioned    below.      3.    Sarah. 

4.  Elizabeth. 

(\II)  Joseph  I'ray,  son  of  Reuben  Good- 
win, born  in  Lyman.  Maine,  January,  1821, 
was  educated  there  in  the  common  schools. 
He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  and  removed 
to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  became  a  con- 
tractor and  builder  on  his  own  account.  After 
some  years  he  removed  to  Saco  and  finally 
to  Biddeford.  Maine,  continuing-  his  business 
as  a  carpenter  and  luiilder  as  long  as  he  lived. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat  and  served  on 
the  hoard  of  aldermen  of  Biddeford.  He  was 
a  Methodist  in  religion.  He  married  Mary  A. 
Hayford,  born  in  Tamworth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, 1822,  died  in  Biddeford,  November  6, 
1899.  He  died  December  24,  1883.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Sarah,  born  1848.  2.  Charles  E., 
born  April  2,  1850,  mentioned  below.  3.  For- 
rest J.,  born  April  8,  i860.     4.  Abbie  (twin). 

5.  Emma  (twin).  6.  .\lbert  R.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 29,  1864,  an  assistant  in  the  Biddeford 
National  Bank. 

(Vni)  Charles  Edwin,  son  of  Joseph  Pray 
Goodwin,  was  born  in  Biddeford,  April  2, 
1850.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city  and  Cjray's  Business  College,  Port- 
land, in  which  he  was  a  student  in  the  year 
1867.  In  the  same  year  he  took  a  position 
as  clerk  in  the  Biddeford  National  Bank,  in 
1872  was  made  assistant  cashier,  a  position 
that  he  efficiently  and  capably  filled  until  1875, 
when  he  was  made  cashier,  which  position  he 
still  retains.  Fie  has  been  connected  with  this 
bank  for  a  period  of  forty  years,  and  is  one  of 
the  best  known  and  most  prominent  men  in 
business  and  financial  circles  in  Biddeford. 
Mr.  Goodwin  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
has  served  the  city  as  member  of  the  common 
council  and  board  of  aldermen.  He  was 
mayor  of  the  city  in  1888-89  and  his  adminis- 
tration was  eminently  successful.  He  was 
treasurer  of  the  city  from  1887  to  1894.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Orthodox  Congregational 
church.  He  married,  January  24,  1872,  Lucy 
J.,  born  October.  185 1,  daughter  of  Joshua 
Dver,  of  Dayton,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Fred 
C,  born  February  3,  1873,  graduate  of  Yale 
College  in  1895 ;  director  of  the  Biddeford 
National  Bank  and  director  and  treasurer  of 
the  Biddeford  &  Saco  Coal  Company ;  he  mar- 
ried. September,  1897.  Jane  Steinhelper.  of 
Newbern,  North  Carolina.     Children :  i.  Rob- 


ert S.,  born  June,  1899;  ii.  Katherine,  born 
August,  1900.  2.  Rena  M..  born  October  30, 
1876.  educated  in  the  common  and  high 
schools  of  Biddeford,  at  Lasell  Seminary,  Au- 
burndale,  Massachusetts,  and  at  the  New  Eng- 
land Conservatory  of  Music,  Boston ;  is  now 
a  clerk  in  the  bank  of  which  her  father  is 
cashier. 


This  occupation  surname  which  is 
HUNT     of     ancient     Anglo-Saxon     origin 

and  signifies  hunter  is  found  in 
the  annals  of  New  England  before  the  expira- 
tion of  a  score  of  years  after  the  landing  of 
the  "Mayflower"  at  Plymouth.  Edmund  lluht 
was  of  Duxbury  as  early  as  1637:  Robert, 
CharlestovMi,  1638.  an  original  proprietor  of 
Sudbury:  and  Piartholomew  was  of  Dover. 
1640.  The  number  of  immigrant  ancestors 
was  large  and  the  number  of  their  progeny 
very  great.  The  Hunts  have  been  and  still 
are  an  energetic,  industrious  and  reliable  race, 
and  their  record  is  excellent.  There  are  over 
three  hundred  entries  of  enlistments  in  the 
revolutionary  records  of  Massachusetts  under 
this  name,  and  in  local  afifairs.  wherever  set- 
tled, the  Hunts  have  been  people  whose  influ- 
ence was  appreciably  and  properly  exerted. 

(I)  Deacon  Jonathan  Hunt,  born  1637.  a 
maltster  by  occupation,  moved  from  Connecti- 
cut to  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  about 
1660,  and  was  made  a  freeman  of  the  colony 
1662;  was  deacon  from  1680  to  1690,  and  was 
representative  to  the  general  court.  1690.  He 
died  September  29,  1691,  aged  fifty-four.  His 
father  v\as  John  Hunt  (as  near  as  can  be  as- 
certained) and  his  mother  was  Mar\-,  the 
daughter  of  John  Webster,  chosen.  1836.  the 
fifth  governor  of  Connecticut ;  whose  will, 
made  June  25.  1659.  named  grandchildren 
Jonathan  and  Mary  Hunt.  Governor  Web- 
ster was  previously  of  Salem,  where  his 
daughter  was  a  member  of  the  church :  and  he 
moved  from  Connecticut  to  Hadley  with  his 
wife  Agnes,  and  died  April  5,  1661.  Jona- 
than Hunt  married,  September  3,  1662,  Clem- 
ence  Hosmer,  of  Hatfield.  In  1694  she  be- 
came the  second  wife  of  John  Smith,  of  Mil- 
ford,  Connecticut,  who  died  1704.  The  chil- 
dren of  Jonathan  and  Clemence  were: 
Thomas,  Jonathan  (died  young),  Jonathan. 
John.  Hannah,  Clemence,  Ebenezer  ( died 
young),  Ebenezer,  Mary,  Sarah  and  Samuel, 
(li)  Jonathan  (2).  third  child  of  Jonathan 
(  I )  and  Clemence  (Hosmer)  Hunt,  was  Ijorn 
Ianuar\  20.  1665,  at  Northampton,  and  died 
julv  I.  1738.  He  made  his  will  January  4. 
1735.  which  was  probated  in  .\ugust.  1738.  He 


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married  ^lartha  Williams,  sixth  daughter  of 
Samuel  aud  Theoda  (Park)  Williams,  of 
Pomlret.  She  was  born  i\iay  19,  1671,  and 
died  March  21,  1751.  Their  children  were: 
Theoda,  Jonathan,  Martha  Elizabeth,  Samuel, 
Mary,  Joseph  and  John. 

(Ill)  CajHain  Samuel,  second  son  of  Jona- 
than (2)  and  Martha  (Williams)  Hunt,  was 
born  in  1703,  and  died  February  28,  1770.  He 
was  a  substantial  man  and  possessed  fine  busi- 
ness ability.  Twenty-five  conveyances  of  land 
to  him  are  cited  by  the  genealogist.  He  was 
the  father  of  Governor  Jonathan  Hunt.  He 
resided  and  died  in  Xorthfield.  A  horizontal 
monument  bears  this  inscription :  "In  mem- 
ory of  Capt.  Samuel  Hunt,  who  died  ve(r)y 
suddenly  of  an  apoplectick  fit,  Feb.  28th.  A.D, 
1770,  in  the  67th  year  of  his  age."  He  mar- 
ried Ann  Ellsworth,  who  was  born  April  27, 
1705,  daughter  of  John  and  Esther  Ellsworth, 
of  Windsor,  Connecticut.  Xear  her  husband's 
monument  stands  an  upright  marble  slab  on 
which  is  inscribed :  "Aladam  Anna  Hunt 
Relict  of  the  late  Capt.  Samuel  Hunt  Ob  May 
6,  1794  Aetat  90."  Their  children  were: 
Samuel,  Anne,  Jonathan,  Elisha,  .\rad,  Sarah 
and  Martha. 

(I\")  Elisha.  third  son  of  Captain  Samuel 
and  Ann  ( Ellsworth )  Hunt,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 22,  1740,  and  died  November  27,  1810. 
He  lived  in  Northfield.  He  married,  October 
24,  1 77 1,  Mary  Lyman,  daughter  of  Aaron 
and  Unice  (Dwight)  Allen,  who  was  born 
November  12,  1745.  Their  children  were: 
Samuel,  Mary,  Ellsworth,  Martha,  Frederick, 
Elisha,  Sally  and  Jonathan. 

(Y )  Ellsworth,  second  son  of  Elisha  and 
Mary  ( Lyman )  Hunt,  was  born  in  North- 
field,  November  5,  1775,  and  died  1823.  He 
married,  December  21,  1797,  Electa  Allen, 
daughter  of  Zebulon  and  Freedom  (Cooley) 
Allen,  a  sister  of  Hon.  S.  C.  Allen,  who  was  a 
member  of  congress  sixteen  years  in  succes- 
sion. She  was  born  February,  1775,  and  died 
March  16,  1825.  They  had  two  children: 
Frederick  Ellsworth  and  Mary. 

(VI)  Frederick  Ellsworth,  only  son  of  Ells- 
worth and  Electa  (.\llen)  Hunt,  was  born  in 
Northfield,  Massachusetts,  April  20,  1803,  and 
died  in  Louisiana,  1840.  He  resided  in  Derry, 
New  Hampshire,  and  was  a  merchant.  He 
married,  October  i.  1825,  Eliza  Kilburn 
Smith,  a  native  of  Gloucester,  Massachusetts, 
born  September  3,  1802,  who  died  November 
22,  1840.  She  was  daughter  of  Captain  Na- 
thaniel and  .\nna  (Kinsman)  Smith,  of 
Gloucester,  Massachusetts.  (See  Smith, 
VII.)      They    had    five    children:      i.    Anna 


Electa,  born  October  23,  1826,  died  March  5, 
1855.  2.  George  Smith,  born  P^ebruary  8, 
1829.  3.  Enoch  Ordvvay,  born  November  12, 
1 83 1,  died  December  24,  1831.  4  Abigail 
Smith,  born  February  19,  1833.  died  Decem- 
ber 4,  1841.  5.  Susan  Eliza,  born  January  ii, 
1839,  married  Albert  H.  Breed,  of  Lynn,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1879. 

(\TI)  George  Smith,  eldest  son  of  Fred- 
erick E.  and  Eliza  K.  (Smith)  Hunt,  was 
born  February  8,  1829,  and  died  in  Portland, 
Maine.  March  9,  1897.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  and  mother  in  the  fall  of  1839,  he  went 
to  Portland  on  account  of  the  loss  of  his  pa- 
rents, became  a  member  of  the  family  of  his 
relative,  William  Allen,  and  so  remained  for 
twenty-one  years.  Until  at  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen he  attended  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  of  Portland,  at  which  time,  without 
pecuniary  aid  from  others,  he  started  out  for 
himself.  For  five  years  he  was  a  clerk  in  a 
jobbing  fruit  store.  In  1853  he  became  a  clerk 
for  P.  F.-  Varnum,  a  jobber  of  flour  and  grain, 
and  remained  four  years  in  that  employ.  In 
1857  he  spent  two  months  on  the  Island  of 
Cuba,  where  he  formed  an  extensive  business 
acquaintance  and  entered  into  arrangement 
with  several  Cuban  merchants  to  export  vari- 
ous American  products.  In  May  he  returned 
with  a  large  importation  of  cigars,  and  made 
his  trip  a  profitable  one  and  of  future  interest. 
He  at  once  opened  an  office  on  Commercial 
street  and  commenced  a  trade  with  Cuba,  ex- 
porting lumber  and  general  merchandise,  and 
receiving  sugar  and  molasses.  In  that  year 
a  heavy  financial  crisis  came  upon  the  busi- 
ness men  in  this  country ;  yet  so  well  were  his 
plans  laid,  and  so  judicious  was  his  judgment, 
that  his  first  year's  extensive  business  was  car- 
ried through  safely,  but  with  little  profit.  A 
second  and  a  third  visit  to  Cuba  in  1859-60, 
gave  him  increased  opportunities  for  an  ex- 
tensive business,  which  ranked  him  among  the 
most  enterprising,  active,  and  successful  "busi- 
ness men  of  Portland.  In  1859  he  first  inter- 
ested himself  in  shipping,  and  he  subsequently 
had  interests  in  a  large  number  of  vessels  be- 
longing to  the  district  of  Portland.  In  1874 
he  associated  with  himself  in  business  two  for- 
mer clerks,  Joseph  P.  Thompson  and  Fred- 
erick E.  Allen,  and  the  new  firm  took  the  style 
of  George  S.  Hunt  &  Company.  Mr.  Hunt 
was  interested  in  many  local  enterprises,  and 
was  ever  prompt  to  render  aid  and  counsel  in 
their  management.  He  was  actively  identified 
with  the  sugar  business  for  many  years,  being 
agent  of  the  Eagle  sugar  refinery  from  1871 
until  it  ceased  doing  business.     He  was  one 


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of  the  original  stockholders  of  the  Forest  City 
Sugar  Refining  Company,  of  which  he  was  for 
twelve  years  treasurer  and  business  manager. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  beet 
sugar  enterprise,  being  president  of  the  com- 
pany. He  was  president  of  the  Central  Wharf 
Corporation,  a  director  in  the  Portland  Trust 
Company,  and  in  other  local  corporations.  In 
Tanuary'  1865.  he  was  elected  director  in  the 
Merchants'  National  Bank,  and  in  1875  he  be- 
came its  vice-president.  He  succeeded  to  the 
office  of  president  in  May,  1888,  and  filled  that 
office  until  his  death.  He  was  well  and  favor- 
ably known  as  a  financier,  and  none  of  his 
associates  were  more  fortunate  than  he  in  com- 
mercial and  financial  enterprises.  He  mar- 
ried, September  22,  1863,  Augusta  Merrill 
Barstow,  of  Portland,  Maine,  who  was  born 
Tune  6,  1842.  She  is  the  daughter  of  George 
Simonton  and  Ellen  (Merrill)  Barstow,  of 
Portland.  (See  Barstow,  VI.)  The  children 
born  of  this  union  are :  Arthur  Kinsman  and 
Philip  Barstow. 

(VIII)  Arthur  Kinsman,  son  of  George  S. 
and  Augusta  M.  (Barstow)  Hunt,  was  born 
in  Porttand,  Maine.  June  19,  1864,  and  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Portland  and 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  in 
Boston.  In  1883  he  took  a  short  trip  abroad, 
and  in  the  following  January  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  George  S.  Hunt  &  Company.  He  be- 
came a  partner  in  this  firm  January  i,  1888, 
remaining  there  until  the  firm  was  dissolved 
by  the  death  of  his  father.  He  then  became  a 
partner  of  George  O.  K.  Cram  in  the  firm  of 
George  S.  Hunt  &  Cram,  sugar  brokers,  which 
firm  is  still  in  active  business.  In  January, 
1897,  he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Swan 
&  Barrett,  bankers,  and  remained  there  until 
that  firm  was  merged  with  the  Portland  Trust 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Hunt  was  made  vice- 
president.  Mr.  Hunt  removed  to  Boston  in 
1905,  and  is  now  the  senior  partner  of  Hunt, 
Saltonstall  &  Company,  bankers  and  bond 
dealers.  While  in  Portland  Mr.  Hunt  was  in- 
terested in  the  welfare  of  his  native  city,  and 
for  three  years  represented  his  ward  in  the  city 
government.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order.  Arthur  K.  Hunt  married,  October  4, 
1888,  Fannie  Louise  Piper,  born  in  Boston, 
July  17,  1864,  daughter  of  Frederick  K.  and 
Frances  Ellen  (Page)  Piper.  They  have  four 
children,  all  born  in  Portland,  Maine :  Ka- 
tharine, April  29,  1892 ;  Madeleine,  December 
6,  1894;  Eleanor,  October  17,  1898;  Freder- 
ick Kinsman,  April  il,  1901. 

(VIII)  Philip  Barstow,  second  son  of 
George  S.  and  Augusta  M.  (Barstow)  Hunt, 


was  born  in  Portland,  June  13,  1869,  and  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  Portland  and  one 
year  at  Tufts  College.  He  then  went  to  Min- 
neapolis, Minnesota,  where  he  is  now  gen- 
eral manager  of  a  large  insurance  com- 
pany. He  is  a  Republican  and  a  Univers- 
alist.  He  married,  November  7,  1894,  in 
St.  Paul,  Fannie  Ella  Perry  Kibbee.  born 
in  Jefferson,  Wisconsin,  daughter  of  Chand- 
ler Waldo  and  Hattie  (Stebbins)  Kibbee, 
who  then  (1894)  resided  in  St.  Paul.  The 
children  of  Mr.  and  ]\Irs.  Hunt  are:  George 
Smith,  born  November  i,  1895;  Mar- 
jorie  Frances,  April  17,  1899;  and  Philip 
Barstow,  April  24,  1905. 


This     family,     whose     name 
BARSTOW     sometimes    appears    in    early 

records  as  Bairsto,  and  Bere- 
sto,  is  of  English  origin,  and  from  the  West 
Riding  of  Yorkshire,  where  the  name  still  oc- 
curs. The  Barstow  arms  are :  Ermine,  on  a 
fesse  sable,  three  crescents,  or.  Crest :  A 
horse's  head  couped  argent.  Four  brothers 
of  this  name  came  early  to  New  England,  and 
settled  at  Cambridge,  Watertown  and  Ded- 
ham,  Massachusetts.  These  were  George, 
Michael,  John  and  William.  Of  but  two, 
George  and  ^^'illiam,  is  there  any  account  of 
the  time  or  manner  of  their  coming.  The 
place  from  which  they  came  is  not  given,  but 
they  were  probably  of  Yorkshire.  The  de- 
scendants of  William  Barstow  are  widely 
scattered  over  the  northern  and  western  states, 
and  wherever  known  are  men  of  respectable 
standing,  and  several  have  risen  to  eminence 
and  honor,  in  the  councils  of  states,  and  the 
congress  of  the  nation. 

(I)  William  Barstow,  aged  twenty-three, 
and  George  Barstow,  aged  twenty-one.  em- 
barked at  London.  September  20,  1635,  for 
New  England  in  the  "Freelove,"  John  Gibbs, 
master.  William  Barstow  was  of  Dedham, 
1636,  and  signed  the  petition  for  the  incor- 
poration of  that  town  under  the  name  of  Con- 
tentment. "The  16  day  of  the  12  month, 
1642,  grants  of  upland  ground  fir  for  improve- 
ment with  the  plough"  were  made  to  him  and 
to  his  brother  George.  He  was  a  freeman  in 
Scituate,  1649,  ^"d  the  first  settler  of  whom 
there  is  any  record  of  the  present  territory  of 
Hanover.  The  outlines  of  the  cellar  of  the 
house  of  William  Barstow,  carpenter  or  ship- 
wright, were  yet  visible  some  years  ago.  That 
he  had  an  orchard  is  attested  by  the  record 
of  a  suit  in  which  he  was  plaintiflf  against 
John  Palmer,  claiming  iio  damages  "for  pull- 
ing down  fence,  and  daminfying  his  apel  trees, 


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and  for  stroying  his  corn,  English  and  In- 
dian, with  his  hoggs."  Across  the  North 
river,  in  October,  1656,  Wilham  Barstow  Sr. 
was  authorized  to  build  a  bridge,  "above  the 
third  herring  brook  at  Stoney  reach,  being 
the  place  where  now  passengers  goe  fre- 
quently over;  the  said  bridge  to  bee  made 
sufficient  for  horse  and  foot;  and  to  cleare 
and  marke  a  way  to  Hughes  cross,  and  to 
open  and  clear  and  mae  a  way  along  beyand 
Hughes  Crosse  toward  the  bay,  soe  as  to  avoid 
a  certain  Rocky  Hill  and  swamp ; — he  to  have 
£12  current  countrey  pay  for  so  doing."  July 
27,  1662,  Mr.  Barstow  agreed  with  Mr.  Con- 
stant Southworth  and  Major  Josias  Winslow, 
in  behalf  of  the  Colony  of  New  Plymouth,  ''to 
keep  in  repair  and  maintaine  the  bridge  called 
Barstow's  bridge,  upon  the  North  River,  in 
consideration  of  £2.0  in  hand  paid,  to  serve 
for  transportation  of  passengers,  horses,  cat- 
tle, and  all  such  use  as  they  shall  ordinarily 
put  it  to,"  and  pledge  for  the  fulfilment  of  this 
contract,  the  house  and  land  in  and  on  which 
he  dwelt,  a  small  tract  already  disposed  of 
to  his  son  (in-law)  ]\Ioses  Simmons,  only  ex- 
cepted." This  was  the  first  bridge  built  on 
this  stream  and  its  old  piers  are  still  visible. 
In  1657  Mr.  Barstow  was  "allowed  by  the 
Court  to  draw  and  sell  wine,  beer  and  strong 
waters  for  passengers  that  come  and  goe  over 
the  bridge  he  hath  lately  made,  or  others  that 
shall  have  occasion,  unless  any  just  exception 
shall  come  in  against  him."  He  had  been 
previously  licensed  to  keep  an  ordinary ;  so 
that  it  appears  probable  that  near  the  bridge 
he  had  a  small  building  as  a  kind  of  toll  house, 
ind  here  his  refreshments  were  kept.  About 
1662  a  grant  of  land  was  made  to  William 
Barstow,  "lying  westward  of  Cornett  Stud- 
sons  graunt,  in  reference  to  satisfaction  for 
his  pains  etc.  in  the  countreys  business ;"  and 
the  commissioners  were  instructed  to  lay  out 
not  less  than  forty  nor  more  than  fifty  acres 
of  arable  land.  William  Barstow  died  in 
Scituate  in  1668,  aged  fifty-six.  He  left  no 
will,  and  his  widow  administered  on  his  es- 
tate. Mr.  Barstow  was  a  noted  man  in  his 
day,  as  appears  from  what  has  just  been  said 
of  him.  He  was  an  extensive  landholder,  a 
man  of  high  respected  ability,  and  a  worthy 
and  enterprising  citizen.  He  probably  married 
his  wife  Anne  after  he  came  to  New  England, 
but  there  is  no  record  of  his  marriage,  and 
nothing  is  known  of  his  wife's  parentage  or 
surname  before  her  marriage.  She  became 
a  member  of  the  church  in  April,  1641,  the 
same  month  in  which  her  son  Joseph  was  bap- 
tized.    They   had :     Joseph,   Mary,    Patience, 


Sarah,  Deborah,  William,  Martha,  and  one 
other  child.  \Vidow  Ann  married  (second) 
John  Prince,  of  Hull. 

(II)  Joseph,  eldest  child  of  William  and 
Anne  Barstow,  was  born  in  Dedham,  June 
4,  1639,  and  died  April  17,  1712.  In  March, 
1672,  liberty  was  "granted  and  allowed  to 
Joseph  Barstow  to  keep  an  ordinary  at  the 
place  where  he  now  lives,  and  that  he  be  pro- 
vided always  with  neassaries  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  travellers,  and  keep  good  order  in  his 
house,  that  there  be  no  just  cause  of  complaint 
against  him  in  that  behalfe."  He  was  an  ex- 
tensive landholder,  as  appears  from  the  record 
of  grants  made  to  him  by  the  colonial  court, 
the  amount  thus  received  running  into  the 
hundreds  of  acres,  now  lying  chiefly  in  Abing- 
ton.  These  grants  were  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
grants  made  to  Cornet  Stetson,  with  whom 
Mr.  Barstow  seems  to  have  been  on  terms  of 
intimate  friendship,  and  whose  will  he  wit- 
nessed. He  married.  May  16,  1666,  Susanna 
Lincoln,  of  Hingham>,  who  died  January  31, 
1730.  Their  children  were  :  Susanna,  Joseph, 
Benjamin,  Deborah  and  Samuel. 

(III)  Captain  Joseph  (2j,  eldest  son  of  Jo- 
seph (i)  and  Susanna  (Lincoln)  Barstow, 
was  born  in  Hanover,  January  22,  1675,  ^^^ 
died  there  July  25,  1728.  Captain  Barstow, 
in  connection  with  Benjamin  Stetson,  received 
in  1720  a  grant  of  two  acres  of  land  on  the 
Indian  Head  river,  betvi'een  Pine  Hill  and 
Rocky  Run,  for  the  accommodation  of  a  forge 
and  finery,  and  erected  the  forge  subsequently 
known  as  Barstow's  forge,  and  later  as  Syl- 
vester's, and  which  was  improved  by  his  de- 
scendants for  nearly  a  century,  or  until  about 
the  year  1800.  He  lived  on  Broadway,  and 
it  is  said  built  the  house  known  one  hundred 
and  fifty  years  later  as  the  Salmond  House. 
He  was  a  man  of  much  wealth  for  those  times, 
and  owned  a  great  amount  of  land.  The  in- 
ventory of  his  estate  mentions :  one-fourth 
of  a  sloop ;  his  farm  of  seventy  acres ;  the 
farm  of  forty  acres  on  which  William  Stet- 
son lived  in  Scituate ;  the  farm  of  the  Widow 
Amy  Dvvelly,  of  Scituate,  twenty-four  acres ; 
three  hundred  and  twenty-eight  acres  called 
the  Court  Grant,  between  lands  of  Deacon 
Stockbridge  and  Samuel  Barstow ;  thirty-two 
acres  of  cedar  swamp,  partly  in  said  grant ; 
seventy  acres  joining  the  north  side,  of  Elijah 
Cushing's  farm ;  forty-five  acres  on  the  south 
side  of  said  Cushing's  farm;  six  acres  fresh 
meadow ;  one-fourth  of  the  new  forge ;  five 
and  one-third  acres  by  Gershom  Stetson's ; 
six  acres  adjoining  Charles  Stockbridge's ;  one 
and  a  fourth  acres  on  the  north  side  of  the 


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road  to  Benjamin  Perry's;  one-ninth  of  a  saw 
mill;  one  hundred  and  eighty-four  acres  of 
land  in  Pembroke,  adjoining  the  new  forge; 
fourteen  acres  in  Pembroke,  near  Major's 
Purchase;  one-fourth  of  a  grist  mill  at  the 
new  forge ;  one-half  acre  by  North  river 
bridge ;  and  a  negro  woman  named  Rose.  The 
whole  was  appraised  at  £6,926.  His  wife's 
forename  was  Mar}-.  She  married.  May  14, 
1735,  after  his  death,  Thomas  Bryant,  of 
Scituate.  The  chjldren  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
Barstow  were:  Elizabeth,  Joseph  (died 
young),  Joseph,  Joshua  (died  young),  Mary 
(died  young),  James,  Mary,  Joshua  and  Abi- 
gail. 

(I\')  Joshua,  fifth  son  of  Captain  Joseph 
(2)  and  Mary  Barstow,  was  born  in  Scituate, 
September  8,  1720,  and  died  October  3,  1763. 
He  was  the  proprietor  of  the  forge  built  by 
his  father,  1720,  which  he  operated  until  his 
decease ;  it  is  also  probable  that  he  occupied 
his  father's  house.  An  inscription  on  a  stone 
in  the  Hanover  graveyard  states  that  he  "was 
drowned  at  the  Eastward,  Oct.  3,  1763,  ae. 
44."  He  married,  April  21,  1741,  Elizabeth 
Foster,  of  Scituate.  Their  children  were : 
Joseph,  Mary,  James,  Barshaway,  Abigail 
(died  young),  Joshua,  Calvin,  Ezekiel,  Tim- 
othy, Foster,  Elizabeth  and  Joseph. 

(\')  Timothy,  seventh  son  of  Joshua  and 
Elizabeth  (Foster)  Barstow,  was  born  in 
Hanover,  Massachusetts,  probably,  February 
22,  1762,  and  died  in  Portland,  Maine,  Au- 
gust 9,  1837.  He  settled  in  Portland,  and 
there  married  Susanna  Simonton,  of  Cape 
Elizabeth,  their  intentions  of  marriage  being 
filed  November  18,  1797.  She  was  born  Sep- 
tember 30,  1766,  and  died  in  Portland,  March 
5,  1848. 

(VI)  George  Simonton.  son  of  Timothy  and 
Susanna  (Simonton)  Barstow,  was  born  in 
Portland,  December  21,  1807,  and  died  March 
7,  1874.  He  married  Ellen  Merrill,  of  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  January  7,  1830. 
(See  Alerrill,  \  II.)  She  was  born  in  New 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  May  17,  1807,  and 
died  in  Portland,  August  17,  1873.  Their 
children  were:  i.  Susan  Ellen,  married  Cap- 
tain Daniel  Bragdon,  died  March  12,  1894.  2. 
Abbie  M.,  married  Dudley  Blanchard,  died 
October,  1887.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  married 
Gains  B.  McGregor.  4.  Julia  B.,  married  J. 
Wayland  Kimball.  5.  Margaret  Ann,  married 
Rev.  Edwin  C.  Bolles,  died  September  15, 
1907.  6.  Augusta  Merrill,  born  June  6,  1842, 
married  George  S.  Hunt  (see  Hunt,  \TI).  7. 
George  Alvin,  married  Alice  G.  Beach,  died 
July,  1905. 


(For  first  generaUon  see  Nathaniel    I.) 

(II)  Sergeant  Daniel,  fourth 
AIERRILL  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Susanna 
(Jordan)  Merrill,  was  born  in 
Newbury,  August  20,  1642,  and  was  admitted 
freeman.  May  7,  1684.  March  22,  1677,  Moses 
I'ilsbury  and  Daniel  Merrill  were  chosen  fence 
viewers  "at  the  farter  end"  of  the  town  of 
Newbury.  In  1665,  Daniel  Merrill  was  one 
of  those  who  were  called  upon  and  did  take 
the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  King,  in  a  modi- 
fied form.  His  name  again  appears  among 
those  who  took  the  oath  "as  it  is  by  law  es- 
tablished within  the  Kingdom  of  England," 
in  1678.  In  the  "Invoyes"  of  August,  1688, 
Daniel  Merrill's  list  enumerates  two  heads 
(persons);  two  houses;  twelve  acres  plow 
lands  ;  two  horses  ;  two  oxen  ;  five  cows  ;  eight 
younger  cattle ;  thirty  sheep  and  six  hogs ; 
showing  him  to  have  been  in  very  comfortable 
circumstances.  In  1689  he  was  chosen  "Way 
Warden."  He  was  admitted  to  Newbury 
church  in  1681,  and  to  the  Salisbury  church 
later.  He  died  June  27,  1717,  in  Salisbury. 
His  will,  made  May  10,  was  probated  July  12, 
1717.  In  it  his  wife  Sarah  is  mentioned,  and 
"cousin"  Thomas  Merrill,  to  whom  he  gave 
land  in  Haverhill.  Daniel  Merrill  married 
(first)  May  14,  1667,  in  Newbury,  Sarah 
Clough,  who  was  born  June  28,  1646,  and  died 
Alarch  18,  1706,  at  Salisbury,  Massachusetts. 
He   married    (second)    May   29,    1708,    Sarah 

,  who  was  born  October    14,    1650,   in 

Salisbury,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Sarah 
(Clement)  Morrill,  and  wddow  of  Philip 
Rowel!  and  of  one  Siphorus  Page.  They  had 
Daniel,  John.  Sarah,  Ruth,  Moses,  Martha 
and  Stephen. 

(Ill)  Daniel  (2),  eldest  son  of  Daniel  (i) 
and  Sarah  (Clough)  Merrill,  was  born  in 
Newbury,  March  8,  1672,  and  received  his 
father's  homestead  by  will  in  1717.  His  es- 
tate was  administered  upon  September  29, 
1725.  In  1706  his  name  is  on  the  list  of  those 
who  are  appointed  to  keep  snow-shoes  and 
moccasins  for  use  in  service  against  Indians. 
In  the  same  year  Daniel  Merrill  is  a  member 
of  the  North  Regiment  in  Essex  in  "My  Par- 
ticular Company," — probably  commanded  by 
Captain  Thomas  Noyes,  in  whose  company 
other  records  show  him  to  have  been.  He  mar- 
ried Esther,  eldest  child  of  Aquila  and  Esther 
(Bond)  Chase,  who  was  born  November  18, 
1674,  in  New'bury,  who  survived  him  and 
died  1 75 1.  Their  children  were:  Joseph, 
Daniel.  Abigail,  Judith,  Peter,  Sarah.  Benja- 
min, Thomas,  Enoch,  Edmund,  and  Moses, 
whose  sketch  follows. 


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(I\")  Aloses.  youngest  child  vi  Daniel  (2) 
and  Esther  (Chase)  Merrill,  was  born  in  New- 
bury, April  5,  1719,  and  died  about  1788.  He 
married,  April  5,  1743,  Alary  Plummer,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Plummer,  of  New- 
bury, who  was  born  November  26,  1723,  and 
died  in  1793.  , 

( V )  Thomas,  son  of  Moses  and  Mary 
(Plummer)  .Merrill,  was  born  in  Newbury, 
October  24,  1745,  and  died  at  Newburyport, 
February  12,  1882.  In  1788  Thomas  Merrill 
had  a  tavern  on  State  street.  Among  the  ad- 
vertisers mentioned  in  the  history  of  New- 
buryport. as  of  ancient  times,  is  Thomas  Mer- 
rill, who  kept  a  tavern  near  Rev.  Mr.  Gary's 
meeting  house,  in  what  is  now  Market  Square, 
which  announced  to  customers  that  he  made 
"Apple  and  Mince  Pies  in  the  neatest  and  best 
manner,"  and  sold  them  at  a  reasonable  price. 
April  13,  1812,  Thomas  Merrill  conveyed  to 
Henry  Merrill,  treasurer  and  agent  for  the 
Baptist  church  and  society,  in  Newburyport, 
a  lot  of  land  forty  feet  wide,  on  Silk  (now 
Congress)  street,  on  which  a  small  brick  meet- 
ing house  was  erected.  A  lane  which  was 
afterwards  a  street  was  named  in  honor  of  the 
Merrill  family  in  1774.  Thomas  Merrill  mar- 
ried, about  August  25,  1770,  Hannah  Butler, 
born  about  1747,  and  died  August  22,  1833. 

(\T)  Colonel  Paul,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Hannah  (Butler)  Merrill,  was  born  in  New- 
buryport, November  23,  1783,  and  died  March 
10,  1818.  He  married,  October  30.  1806, 
Eleanor  Stevens,  of  Westbrook  ( formerly 
called  Falmouth),  Maine,  who  was  a  daughter 
of  Tristam  and  Margaret  (Patrick)  Stevens, 
born  November  20,  1785,  and  died  June  14, 
1867,  at  Portland,  Maine.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Ellen,  born  May  17,  1807.  2.  Paul 
Stevens,  born  December  27,  1809,  at  New- 
buryport, Massachusetts,  married,  November, 
1835,  Caroline  Blanchard.  of  Cumberland. 
Maine,  died  June,  i8gi,  at  Lock  Haven,  Penn- 
sylvania. 2.  .Samuel  Thompson,  born  Decem- 
ber g,  1813,  at  Newburyport,  Alassachusetts, 
died  very  young.  3.  Elizabeth  Titcomb,  born 
May  2,  1816,  at  Newburyport,  Massachusetts, 
married,  1836,  William  Edward  Short,  died 
February  g,  1898,  at  Portland,  Alaine.  4. 
Margaret  .Ann.  born  July  30,  1818.  at  New- 
buryport, Massachusetts,  died  before  reaching 
twenty  years  of  age. 

(\TI)  Ellen,  daughter  of  Colonel  Paul  and 
Eleanor  (Stevens)  Merrill,  was  born  in  New- 
buryport, May  17,  1807,  and  died  August  17, 
1873,  at  Portland,  Maine.  She  married,  Jan- 
uary 7.  1830,  George  Simonton  Barstow.  (See 
Bar.stow,  VI.) 


There  is  no  surname  which  sug- 
S.MlTll  gests  to  the  student  of  history 
more  of  interest  than  Smith.  To 
the  Smith  the  world  is  indebted  chiefly  for  its 
progress  and  accomplishments,  for  without  the 
smith  and  his  ingenuity  in  invention  and  skill 
in  making  there  could  have  been  little  if  any 
civilization.  The  man\'  families  of  Smiths  de- 
scending from  smiths  of  ability  have  been 
among  the  leaders  in  progress  and  culture. 
Not  a  few  of  such  are  found  in  New  England. 

(I)  Richard  Smith,  of  Ipswich,  Massachu- 
setts, may  have  been  a  son  of  Richard,  of 
Shropham,  county  Norfolk,  England,  a  short 
distance  from  East  Harling.  Dates  of  his 
birth,  death,  marriage,  the  name  of  his  wife 
and  the  dates  of  her  birth  and  death  are  want- 
ing. In  the  summary  of  names  of  early  set- 
tlers of  Ipswich  occurs  the  name  Richard 
Smith,  opposite  which  is  the  date  of  settle- 
ment 1645.  His  name  is  found  in  "The  list 
of  those  that  by  law  are  allowed  to  have  there 
votes  in  Town  affairs.  \'oted  to  be  recorded 
at  the  Towne  meeting,  December  th  2nd  1679." 
In  1678  he  was  one  of  those  who  had  the 
right  of  commonage.  Richard  Smith  had  a 
difficulty  with  the  officers  of  the  town  in  1645 
and  was  so  indiscreet  as  to  say,  "Though 
Father,  Son  &  Holy  Ghost  were  against  him, 
yet  he  had  the  victory,"  or  to  this  purpose. 
For  this  he  was  sentenced  to  "make  ac- 
knowledgement of  his  blasphemy"  or  pay  a 
fine  in  addition  to  the  forty  shillings  already 
levied.  The  house  lot.  owned  by  Andrew 
Hodges  in  1646,  was  sold  by  .Andrew  Burley 
to  Richard  Smith,  "the  house  and  land  for- 
merly Hodges,"  one  and  a  half  acres,  March 
24.  1680. 

(II)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Richard  Smith, 
was  born  in  Ipswich,  about  1642.  He  mar- 
ried, November,  1660,  Hannah  Cheney,  of 
Newbury. 

fill)  John,  son  of  Richard  (2)  and  Han- 
nah (Cheney)  Smith,  was  born  in  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  in  1677,  and  died  May  20, 
1713.  He  married,  December  4,  1702,  Mercy 
-Adams. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Mercy 
(.Adams)  Smith,  w'as  born  in  Ipswich,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1707,  and  died  July  11,  1768.  He 
married,  in  1728,  Hannah  Treadwell,  and  died 
before  1762. 

(V)  Major  Charles,  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Hannah  (Treadwell)  Smith,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1737,  and  died  March  16,  181 5.  He 
married,  February  11,  1760.  Martha  Rogers, 
of  Ipswich,  who  was  born  May  12,  1738,  and 
ilied  March  6,  1821. 


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STATE  OF  iMAINE. 


("VI)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Major  Charles  and 
Martha  (Rogers)  Smith,  was  born  September 
5,  1774,  in  Derry,  New  Hampshire,  and  died 
in  Gloucester,  Alassachusetts,  November  29, 
■1829.  He  married,  January  7,  1799,  Anna 
Kinsman,  of  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  who 
was  born  in  1775. 

(VH)  Eliza  Kilburn,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Anna  (Kinsman)  Smith,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1802,  and  died  November  22,  1840. 
She  married,  in  1825,  Frederick  Ellsworth 
Hunt,  who  was  born  April  20,  1803,  and  died 
about  1840.     (See  Hunt  VI.) 


The  Wheeler  family  is  of 
WHEELER     English     origin.       J3etween 

1620  and  1650  many  immi- 
grants of  the  name  came  to  America,  settling 
in  Virginia,  Connecticut  and  Massachusetts. 
These  were  distinguished,  at  least  as  far  as 
connection  with  this  country  is  concerned,  and 
all  were  of  very  good  stock.  The  name  has 
figured  creditably  in  both  military  and  civic 
annals  through  many  generations,  and  has 
now  living  in  Maine  some  very  worthy  repre- 
sentatives. 

(I)  Among  the  earliest  in  this  country  was 
John  Wheeler,  who  came  from  Salisbury, 
Wiltshire,  England,  where  he  was  born  about 
1580.  He  sailed  IMarch  24,  1634,  in  the  "Mary 
and  John,"  and  settled  in  the  town  in  Massa- 
chusetts which  took  its  name  from  his  Eng- 
lish birthplace.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a  bar- 
ber, the  profession  in  that  day  partaking  some- 
what of  that  of  the  surgeon  and  embodied 
among  other  duties  those  of  cupping  and  leech- 
ing. He  was  a  member  of  Salisbury  in  1652 
and  removed  to  the  adjacent  town  of  New- 
bury, where  his  wife  Ann  died  August  15, 
1662.  He  survived  her  about  eight  years,  dy- 
ing in  1670.  His  will  dated  March  28,  1668, 
and  proved  October  11,  1670,  bequeathed  to 
son  David ;  to  sons  John  and  Adam,  of  Salis- 
bury, England;  to  son  William,  if  he  come 
over  to  this  country ;  to  Mercy,  Elizabeth  But- 
ton and  Ann  Chase;  to  Susanna,  wife  of  his 
son  George,  and  to  his  children,  Mary  and 
Elizabeth :  to  daughter-in-law  Susanna,  the 
land  formerly  given  to  her  husband  George,  on 
which  he  built.  He  appointed  his  son  Henry 
executor.  His  son  David  came  in  the  ship 
"Confidence"  in  April,  1638,  aged  eleven. 

(II)  George,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Wheeler, 
was  born  about  161 5.  in  Salisbury,  England, 
and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Concord. 
Massachusetts,  where  he  settled  as  earlj  as 
1638,  and  perhaps  in  1635.  His  name'  ap- 
pears in  various  petitions  to  the  general  court. 


and  upon  the  town  records  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  between  1685  and  1687.  He  v^as  se- 
lectman in  1660  and  held  many  other  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  honor,  serving  on  many 
committees.  He  owned  land  in  every  part  of 
the  town :  Brook  Meadow,  Fairhavens 
Meadow,  the  Cranefield,  Bywalden,  Goose 
ana  Flint's  Ponds,  on  White  Pond  Plain  and 
on  the  Sudbury  line.  He  was  twice  married, 
but  no  record  of  his  first  wife  is  obtainable. 
His  second  wife,  Katherine,  died  January  2, 

1685.  He  had  five  children  born  in  England 
and  three  in  Concord,  namely:  i.  Thomas, 
married,  October  12,  1657,  Hannah  Harrod. 
2.  Elizabeth,  married,  October  i,  1656,  Fran- 
cis Fletcher.  3.  William,  married,  October 
30,  1659,  Hannah  Buss.  4.  Ruth,  married, 
October  26,  1665,  Samuel  Hartwell.  5.  Han- 
nah, named  in  will  as  daughter  Hannah 
Fletcher.  6.  Sarah,  born  at  Concord,  March 
30,  1640,  married,  October  26,  1665,  Francis 
Dudley.  7.  John,  born  March  19,  1642-43,  see 
forward.  8.  Mary,  born  September  6.  1645, 
married,  October  26,  1665,  Eliphalet  Fox. 

(Ill)  John  (2),  third  son  of  George  Wheel- 
er, was  born  ]\Iarch  19,  1642-43,  in  Concord, 
and  died  there  September  27,  1713.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  1690,  and  was  constable 
in  1684,  when  Robert  Blood  Sr.  was  fined 
ten  pounds  for  assaulting  him.  He  was  prom- 
inent in  town  affairs  and  was  a  deacon  of  the' 
church  and  also  a  sergeant  of  militia.  His 
house  lot  was  south  of  the  mill  pond  between 
the  corner  of  Maine  street  and  the  present  site 
of  the  almshouse  adjoining  the  present  site  of 
the  Trinitarian  meeting  house.  He  was  mar- 
ried, March  25,  1663,  to  Sarah  Larkin,  who 
was  born  in  Concord  in  1647,  died  August  12, 
1725,  a  daughter  of  Deacon  Edward  and  Jo- 
anna Larkin.  Their  children  were  as  follows  : 
I.  John,  born  February  6,  1664.  2.  Samuel, 
July  6,  1665.  3.  Sarah,  December  12,  1667. 
4.  Edward,  July  17,  1669.  5.  Joanna,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1671.  6.  Mary,  September  15,  1673. 
7.  Lydia,  October  27,  1675.  8.  Esther,  De- 
cember I,  1678.  9.  Joseph,  January  27,  1680. 
10.  Ebenezer,  June  3,  1682.  11.  Thankful, 
tW'in  of  Ebenezer.     12.   Sarah,  November   11, 

1686.  13.  Abigail.  December  29,  1689. 

(IV^)  Deacon  Samuel,  second  son  of  Ser- 
geant John  (2)  and  Sarah  (Larkin)  Wheeler, 
was  born  July  6,  1665,  in  Concord,  where  he 
removed  and  was  an  excellent  citizen,  and 
died  December  20,  1717,  during  the  prevalence 
of  unusual  sickness  in  the  community.  He 
was  marrierl  January  27,  1690,  to  ^lary  Hos- 
mer,  born  May  2,  1668,  in  Concord,  daughter 
of  Steven  and  Abigail  (Wood 'I  Hosmer.     She 


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1411 


was  married  December  5,  1721,  to  John  Bel- 
lows, who  was  born  May  13,  1666,  a  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (Wood)  Bellows,  of  Marl- 
boro. She  did  not  long  survive  this  marriage, 
as  John  Bellows  was  married  (third)  August 
30,  1723,  to  Sarah  Johnson.  The  children  of 
Samuel  and  Mary  Wheeler  were:  i.  Mary, 
born  November  12,  1690.  2.  Dorothy,  June 
2,  1693.  3.  Joanna,  May  12,  1696.  4.  Steven, 
April  12,  1698,  married  Ruth  Hall,  of  Charles- 
town.     5.  Jacob,  mentioned  at  length  below. 

(V)  Jacob,  youngest  child  of  Samuel  and 
Mary  (Hosmer)  Wheeler,  was  born  June  26, 
1702,  in  Concord,  and  lived  in  Southboro  for 
at  least  twenty  years.  His  subsequent  history 
has  not  been  ascertained.  He  was  married  in 
Marlboro,  January  12,  1727,  to  Amity  x-\msden, 
who  was  born  October  9,  1704,  in  that  town, 
a  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  Howe  Ams- 
den.  Four  of  their  children  are  recorded  in 
Southboro,  namely:  i.  John,  born  February 
5,  1732.  2.  Jonas,  May  10,  1734,  married,  Jan- 
uary 22,  1756,  Margaret  Whitney  and  settled 
in  Petersham.  3.  Joel,  mentioned  hereinafter. 
4.  Silas,  February  24,  1744,  married  Sarah 
Miller  and  probably  removed  to  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

(VI)  Joel,  third  son  of  Jacob  and  Amity 
(Amsden)  Wheeler,  was  born  January  27, 
1743,  in  Southboro,  died  in  Petershajn,  Decem- 
ber 10,  1814.  He  settled  as  a  young  man  at 
Petersham,  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution,  serving  in  Captain  John 
King's  company  in  the  siege  of  Boston,  1775, 
and  in  Colonel  Dike's  regiment,  1776-77.  He 
was  living  in  Petersham  in  1790,  and  died 
there.  The  records  of  that  town  are  very 
meagre.  He  was  married  December  19,  1765, 
to  Mary  Dudley,  who  was  born  December  6, 
1740,  in  Sutton,  Massachusetts,  died  March 
II,  1810,  a  daughter  of  Francis  and  Sibillah 
Leland  Dole.  Their  children  recorded  in 
Petersham  were:  i.  David,  born  May  29, 
1767.  2.  Joel,  October  29,  1768.  3.  Jacob, 
mentioned  hereinafter.  4.  Zeriah.  July  2, 
1773-  5-  Joel,  May  9,  1775.  died  before  fif- 
teen years  of  age.    6.  Dolly,  January  z"],  1782. 

(VII)  Jacob  (2),  second  son  of  Joel  and 
Mary  Dudley  (Dole)  Wheeler,  was  born  in 
Petersham,  Massachusetts,  September  29, 
1771,  and  died  in  Corinth.  Maine,  April  21, 
1842.  In  the  fall  of  1795  he  moved  from 
Petersham  to  Bangor,  Maine,  where  he  re- 
mained that  winter,  and  in  the  spring  of  1796 
moved  to  Corinth,  where  he  purchased,  July 
4,  1797,  from  Robert  Campbell,  one  hundred 
acres  of  land,  in  third  range,  and  the  dwellings 
thereon.    In  1803  he  built  the  first  frame  house 


in  the  town,  it  being  built  with  nails  forged 
by  hand,  also  shaved  shingles  and  shaved 
clapboards.  It  was  in  this  house,  by  his  invi- 
tation, that  the  early  religious  services  were 
held,  for  the  town  had  no  church  until  1832. 
He  was  an  industrious  and  enterprising  citizen 
and  was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  town 
and  surrounding  country.  Jacob  Wheeler 
married  (first)  Azubah  Skinner,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Skinner,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Corinth.  She  was  born  February  29,  1777, 
and  died  December  19,  1819.  Their  children 
were:     i.  Polly,  born  November  14,  1799.    2. 

Eunice  G.,  February  23,  1802,  married 

Sweet.  3.  Harriett,  November,  1804.  4.  Nel- 
son, November  28,  1807,  died  in  Exeter,  May 
21,  1890;  he  married  Abigail  B.  Hih  (see 
HiU),  of  Exeter.  5.  Carolin,  September  19, 
181 1,  died  February  25,  1820.  On  July  25, 
1821,  Jacob  Wheeler  married  (second)  Abi- 
gail (Hunting)  Bragdon,  born  May  7,  1784, 
at  New  London,  New  Hampshire,  a  daughter 
of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah  (Ordway)  Hunting. 
She  died  at  Corinth  in  1850.  To  Jacob  and 
Abigail  (Bragdon)  Wheeler  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1823,  one  child,  Joseph  Bragdon 
Wheeler,  whose  sketch  follows.  She  first 
married  Joseph  Bragdon,  October  21,  1816, 
who  was  born  May  8,  1784,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 24,  1819.  Three  children  were  born  to 
Joseph  and  Abigail  (Hunting)  Bragdon, 
namely :  i.  Elbridge  H.,  born  January  7,  1812, 
died  April,  1900,  at  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts; married  Sarah  Marshall.  2.  Enoch  H., 
born  January  2,  1814,  died  1868  in  Corinth; 
married  Sarah  Skinner.  3.  Hannah  Ordway, 
bom    March    4,    1817,    died    1864;    married 

(first)   Ricker,  and   (second)   Reuben 

Hammonds. 

(\TII)  Joseph  Bragdon,  only  child  of 
Jacob  (2)  and  Abigail  (Hunting)  (Bragdon) 
Wheeler,  was  born  in  Corinth,  ;\iaine,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1823,  and  died  there  February  13, 
1897.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  at  the  Charles- 
town  Academy,  and  later  taught  more  than 
twenty-five  terms  of  school  during  the  winter 
months  in  Corinth  and  adjacent  towns.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  men  in  his  town,  serv- 
ing in  various  town  offices,  being  on  the  board 
of  selectmen  for  fifteen  years  or  more.  He 
was  enrolling  officer  at  the  time  of  the  civil 
war,  and  in  1872  he  represented  his  class  in 
the  Maine  legislature.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Whig  until  the  formation  of  the  Republican 
party.  He  was  a  man  who  took  great  interest, 
not  only  in  the  affairs  of  his  own  town  and 
state,   but   of   the   nation.      In    1851    he    pur- 


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STATE  OF  MAIXE. 


chased  of  General  Isaac  Hodsden  the  farm 
adjoining  his  father's  on  which  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  days.  On  July  8,  185 1,  Jo- 
seph Bragdon  Wheeler  married  Cordelia  A. 
Hill,  fourth  daughter  of  Colonel  Francis  and 
Elizabeth  (Wason)  Hill,  of  Exeter,  Maine 
(see  Hill),  who  was  born  at  Exeter,  Elaine, 
August  19,  1827,  died  at  Corinth,  Elaine,  April 
20,  1887.  Their  children  were:  i.  Leslie 
Hill,  mentioned  hereinafter.  2.  ^lary  Ella, 
born  May  19.  1859,  died  February  2-],  1863. 
3.  Myra  E.,  born  April  2"/,  1865,  married  Fred 
E.  ^IcCard,  of  Exeter.  Maine,  February  6, 
1888.  They  had  six  children,  namely:  i. 
Gladys  M.,  born  July  27,  1890;  ii.  Geneva  C, 
February  2.  1893 :  iii.  Fred  L.,  October  10, 
1894:  iv'.  Mildred  E.,  October  4.  1898;  v.  Ger- 
trude P.,  December  10,  1900.  died  February 
18,  1904:  vi.  Joseph  L.,  March  4,  1904.  died 
October  10.  1904. 

(IX)  Leslie  Hill,  only  son  of  Joseph  Brag- 
don and  Cordelia  (Hill)  Wheeler,  was  born 
in  Corinth,  Maine.  August  16,  1854.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  and  private  schools  in  his  native 
town.  Corrinna  Union  Academy  and  Eastern 
State  Normal  school  at  Castine.  Maine.  Dur- 
ing the  early  part  of  his  life  he  taught  some 
ten  terms  of  school  in  Penobscot  county,  and 
for  two  years  was  connected  with  his  uncle, 
George  S.  Hill,  of  Exeter,  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness. In  1878  he  entered  the  office  of  his 
cousin,  Dr.  Francis  X.  Wheeler,  of  Exeter, 
where  he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine 
and  entered  the  medical  department  of  Bow- 
doin  College  in  the  class  of  1880.  graduating 
in  the  class  of  1882.  In  October.  1882  he 
moved  to  South  Brewer.  Maine,  where  he  has 
had  an  active  and  successful  practice  of  his 
profession  since  that  time.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Maine  Medical  Association  and  the 
Penobscot  County  Medical  Association.  Also 
examiner  in  several  of  the  leading  old  line  life 
insurance  companies.  He  has  been  interested 
in  the  wholesale  ice  business  on  the  Penobscot 
for  the  last  twenty  years.  He  married,  June 
12,  1901.  Harriett  Chambers  Xickerson.  of 
Brewer.  Maine,  born  March  16.  1872.  died 
September  22,  1905.  daughter  of  Charles  F. 
and  Annett  (Chambers)  Xickerson.  of  Brewer, 
Maine.  Her  father.  Charles  F..  was  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Brewer. 
He  was  sergeant  of  Company  C.  Second  Maine 
Regiment.  Lnited  States  Volunteers,  in  the 
late  civil  war.  and  for  many  years  served  as 
postmaster  at  South  Brewer,  Maine.  Harriett 
Chambers  Xickerson  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Brewer  and  graduated  from  Brewer 


high  school  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years.  She 
was  for  several  years  prior  to  her  marriage 
the  successful  and  popular  principal  of  the 
South  Brewer  grammar  school.  Leslie  Hill 
and  Harriett  C.  (Xickerson)  Wheeler  have 
one  child,  Cordelia  Hill  Wheeler,  born  June 
6,  1904. 


This  occupative  name,  now 
WHEELER  obsolete  and  succeeded  by 
the  term  wheelwright,  is  as 
ancient  as  the  art  of  making  wheels  in  Britain, 
and  has  been  used  as  a  cognomen  from  the 
"time  whereimto  the  memory  of  man  runneth 
not  to  the  contrary."  The  Wheelers  were 
among  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Massachusetts, 
and  among  these  pioneers  were :  John.  1634 : 
Isaac,  1639;  Obadiah.  1638:  Thomas.  1636; 
Thomas,  1639;  and  others.  The  history  of 
the  town  of  Concord,  where  the  present  line 
of  Wheelers  started,  states :  "This  name  was 
originally  and  has  ever  been  borne  by  more 
persons  than  any  other  in  the  town.  George, 
Joseph,  and  Obadiah  were  among  the  first 
settlers,  and  Ephraim,  Thomas  and  Timothy 
came  in  1639  and  were  all  heads  of  families. 
Tradition  says  they  came  from  Wales,  but  it 
is  uncertain.  Their  descendants  have  been  so 
numerous,  and  so  many  have  borne  the  same 
christian  name,  that  their  genealogy  is  traced 
with  great  difficulty.  Among  the  births  re- 
corded by  the  town  clerk  between  1650  and 
1670,  six  bore  the  name  of  John  Wheeler." 

(I)  George  Wheeler,  as  well  as  Joseph  and 
Obadiah  Wheeler,  settled  in  Concord.  Massa- 
chusetts, by  1635  or  1636.  In  1654  Concord 
was  divided  into  three  parts  called  quarters, 
and  George  Wheeler  is  mentioned  as  living  in 
the  "South  Quarter."  which  contained  the  land 
south  and  southwest  of  ^lill  brook.  George 
Wheeler  had  eleven  acres  of  land,  near  which 
was  Joshua  Wheeler's  lot  of  fourteen  acres. 
In  1654  George  Wheeler  had  an  enlarge  of 
twenty  acres,  it  having  been  agreed  in  town 
meeting  ■"'That  some  particular  persons  shall 
have  some  enlargement  who  are  short  in  lands, 
paying  I2d  per  acre,  as  others  have  don.  and 
6d  per  acre,  if  the  towne  consent  thereto."  In 
the  list  of  land-owners  in  the  South  Quarter 
is  the  name  of  "George  Wheeler.  24  lots.  434 
acres."  George  Wheeler  seems  to  have  been 
a  man  of  consequence,  and  presumably  a  man 
of  education  and  judgment,  as  he  was  often  in- 
terested in  important  matters  and  put  on  many 
committees  for  the  transaction  of  public  busi- 
ness. He  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  owned 
land  in  every  part  of  the  township.  Bnx)k 
Meadow,  Fairhaven  Meadow,  the  Cranfield.  bv 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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Walden.  Goose  and  Flint  Ponds,  on  White 
Pond  Plain,  on  the  Sudbury  line.  etc.  His 
will  was  dated  January,  1685.  and  probated 
June  2.  1687.  His  wife's  name  was  Katherine, 
but  nothing  more  is  known  concerning  her 
except  that  she  died  in  Concord.  Januan.-  2, 
1684.  They  had  eight  children,  five  of  whom 
were  probably  born  in  England,  as  their  births 
are  not  recorded  here.  Their  names  are : 
Thomas.  Elizabeth.  William.  Ruth,  Hannah, 
.•^arah.  John  and  Mary. 

(H)  William,  third  child  and  second  son 
of  George  and  Katherine  Wheeler,  was  born 
probably  in  England,  and  died  in  Concord. 
Massachusetts.  December  31.  1683.  He  mar- 
ried. October  30.  1659.  Hannah  Buss,  by  whom 
he  had  Hannah.  Rebecca.  Elizabeth.  William. 
George.  John.  Richard  and  probably  others. 

(HI)  George  (2).  second  son  of  \\"illiam 
and  Hannah  ( Buss )  Wheeler,  was  bom  in 
Concord,  in  1674.  and  died  July,  1737.  He 
married  (first)  August  16.  1695,  Abigail 
Hosmer:  (second)  December  3,  1719.  Abigail 
Smith. 

(I\')  Peter,  son  of  George  (2)  and  Abi- 
gail ( Hosmer )  \\'heeler.  was  born  in  Con- 
cord, October  2},.  1704.  and  died  in  Holhs. 
New  Hampshire.  ^Nlarch  28.  1772.  He  mar- 
ried, 1731.  Hannah,  family  name  unknown, 
by  whom  he  had :  Lucy.  Alice,  Ebenezer.  Leb- 
bens,  Jemima,  in  Hollis.  and  others  born  earlier 
in  Concord. 

(,\")  Peter  (2).  son  of  Peter  (i)  and  Han- 
nah Wheeler,  was  born  in  Concord.  Massa- 
chusetts. December  22.  1732.  and  died  in 
Temple.  New  Hampshire,  where  he  resided 
for  many  years.  He  married  Mehitable  Jew- 
ett.  of  Bradford,  Massachusetts.  March  19, 
1 75 1,  and  had:  ;Mehitable.  Peter,  Samuel, 
Esther,  Hannah.  Benjamin.  Joseph,  Jonathan 
and  Xathan. 

(\T)  Joseph,  seventh  child  and  fourth  son 
of  Peter  (2)  and  Mehitable  ( Jewett)  Wheeler, 
was  bom  in  Hollis.  New  Hampshire.  Novem- 
ber 13.  1766.  and  died  in  Bethel.  Maine,  April 
29.  1829.  He  removed  to  Bethel  in  the  fall 
of  1793.  He  had  previously  been  there  and 
made  a  small  clearing  upon  lot  29  in  the  fifth 
range.  He  had  a  bam  thirty-six  by  forty 
feet  in  dimensions  built  upon  it,  for  which  he 
paid  one  hundred  silver  dollars.  He  was  an 
industrious  man  and  cleared  up  a  large  farm 
which  is  still  in  possession  of  the  familv.  He 
married,  November  9,  1788.  Naomi,  daughter 
of  Deacon  James  and  Sarah  (  Wellman  )  Gro- 
yer,  pioneer  settlers  of  Bethel,  who  was  bom 
in  Mansfield.  Massachusetts.  September  28. 
1770,  and  died  September  2,  1829.     The  chil- 


dren of  Joseph  and  Naomi  were :  Joseph, 
James.  Naomi  (died  young),  Daniel,  Benja- 
min. Jedediah,  Peter,  Sarah.  Joel,  Alvah,  Eli- 
jah and  Naomi. 

(\'n)  Peter  (3).  seventh  child  and  sixth 
son  of  Joseph  and  Naomi  (Grover)  Wheeler, 
was  born  in  Bethel,  Maine.  August  27,  1797. 
He  was  a  life  occupant  of  the  old  homestead 
on  Grover  Hill.  "He  was  an  honest  and 
painstaking  farmer  and  a  kind  and  accommo- 
dating neighbor."  He  married  Phebe  Has- 
kell, of  Sweden.  Their  children  were  :  Caro- 
line, William  M.,  Peter,  Galen  and  Rowena. 

(\'ni)  Galen,  fourth  child  and  third  son 
of  Peter  ( 3 )  and  Phebe  ( Haskell )  \\'heeler, 
was  born  in  Bethel,  October  12.  1833.  At  the 
age  of  thirt)-six  years  he  removed  to  Milan, 
where  he  now  resides.  He  has  always  been 
a  farmer,  and  by  industry  and  economy  has 
laid  by  a  competence  which  he  has  lived  to 
enjo}-  after  passing  his  three  score  and  ten. 
He  is  a  man  of  broad  views,  believes  in  the 
"square  deal."  is  a  Universalist  and  a  Re- 
publican. He  married  Frances  Ann  Harden, 
who  was  born  in  Bethel,  December  25,  1837, 
daughter  of  Elijah  and  Betsey  S.  (Bell)  Har- 
den, or  Harding,  of  Bethel,  and  is  the  sec- 
ond of  ten  children,  named  as  follows :  Han- 
nah Eliza,  Frances  Ann,  Mary  Ellen,  George 
W.,  Orlando  Evander,  Cuvier  Grover,  Abbie 
M.,  Lizzie  D.,  \'ictoria  B.  and  Ella  A.  The 
children  of  Galen  and  Frances  A.  (Harden* 
Wheeler  are:  i.  Elwin  E.,  born  Januar)-  20, 
1857,  rnarried  Donnie  Phipps.  and  has  four 
children :  Ella,  Harold,  Florence  and  Herman. 
2.  Nellie  E.,  November  4.  i860,  married  A.  L. 
Austin,  of  Riunford,  and  has  two  children : 
Floyd  and  Lawrence.     3.   Frank  E..  October 

26,    1862,    married    Minnie   .    and    has 

two  children.  Pearl  and  Ruby.    4.  Ernest  A., 
mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Ernest  Alberto,  youngest  child  of 
Galen  and  Frances  Ann  ( Harden  j  Wheeler, 
was  bora  in  Bethel,  Maine.  April  6,  1866.  At 
three  years  of  age  he  was  removed  by  his 
parents  to  Milan,  New  Hampshire,  where  he 
grew  up.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Milan,  and  graduated  from  the 
high  school  of  that  place  in  1883,  a"d  later 
took  a  course  in  Shaw's  Business  College. 
Portland.  He  was  a  clerk  in  a  general  store 
in  ^lilan  for  four  years,  and  then  removed 
to  Portland.  Maine,  in  1S86.  and  became  as- 
sistant bookkeeper  for  Emerv",  Waterhouse  & 
Company,  and  filled  that  place  three  years.  In 
1890  he  went  into  the  employ  of  F.  and  C. 
B.  Nash  as  a  bookkeeper,  and  in  1894  was 
made  president  of  the  corporation,  a  place  in 


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which  he  has  displayed  all  the  qualifications 
of  a  successful  business  man  for  fourteen  con- 
secutive years.  He  votes  the  Republican 
ticket,  and  is  a  consistent  member  of  the  Free 
Street  Baptist  Church.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution ;  An- 
cient Landmark  Lodge,  No.  17,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons  of  Portland;  Bramhall  Lodp:e, 
No.  3,  Knights  of  Pythias;  the  Portland  Ath- 
letic and  the  Century  clubs.  Ernest  A.  Wheel- 
er married,  in  Portland,  June  25,  1890,  Lizzie 
Maria  Nash,  who  was  born  in  Portland,  Au- 
gust 6,  1864,  daughter  of  Charles  B.  and 
Julia  Maria  (Stuart)  Nash.  Charles  B.  Nash, 
born  in  Raymond,  May  24,  1835,  is  a  son 
of  John  Nash,  whose  six  children  were : 
Oliver  M.,  Daniel  Webster,  Freedom,  Charles 
B.,  Samuel  and  Mary.  Charles  B.  learned 
the  tinsmith  and  plumbing  business,  and  in 
1856  started  in  trade  for  himself  at  Ex- 
change and  Fore  streets,  Portland,  where  he 
carried  on  business  until  1889.  Charles  B. 
succeeded  his  uncle  in  trade,  and  the  store 
now  occupied  by  Mr.  Wheeler  has  been  oc- 
cupied by  members  of  the  Nash  family  for 
seventy-five  years.  Charles  B.  Nash  was  a 
member  of  the  Free  Street  Baptist  Church, 
the  Veteran  Firemen,  the  Masons,  the  Odd 
Fellows  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  The  chil- 
dren of  Charles  B.  and  Julia  M.  ( Stuart j 
Nash  are :  Lizzie  M.,  Maria  J.,  Edward  H. ; 
the  latter  married  Katherine  Bradford.  The 
children  of  Ernest  A.  and  Lizzie  M.  (Nash) 
Wheeler  are:  Philip  West,  born  January  28, 
1894;  Paul  Stuart,  December  12,  1900;  Ruth 
Frances,  July  14,  1902. 


Stubbs    is    an    ancient    English 
STUBBS     surname  and  the  family  has  been 

prominent  in  Durham,  Hert- 
fordshire, Lincolnshire  and  London.  The 
coat-of-arms :  Sable  on  a  bend  or  between 
three  pheons  argent  as  many  round  buckles 
gules.  Crest :  A  demi-eagle  displayed  argent 
holding  in  the  beak  an  acorn  slipped  vert 
fructed  or.  The  name  is  also  spelled  Stubs 
and  Stubbes,  even  at  the  present  time,  in  Eng- 
land. There  were  two  early  immigrants  of 
the  name,  Richard,  mentioned  below,  and 
Joshua,  who  settled  in  Watertown,  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  May  2,  1649:  married  Abi- 
gail; Benjamin  died  at  Charlestown  about 
1655- 

(I)  Richard  Stubbs,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  England  and  was  one  of  the 
first  planters  at  Hull,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
mentioned  in  the  records  of  the  general  court, 
May  20,  1642.     He  married,  March  3,  1659, 


Margaret  Reed.  He  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth    ,    who    survived   him.      His    will 

was  dated  May  22,  1677,  and  proved  June 
21,  1677,  bequeathing  to  his  wife  during  her 
life  or  until  she  should  marry  again,  his  four 
children,  who  were  not  mentioned  by  name,  to 
have  portions  when  they  came  of  age.  Chil- 
dren :  Richard,  mentioned  below,  and  three 
other  children,  probably  daughters. 

(H)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Richard  (i) 
Stubbs,  was  born  in  Hull  about  1660.  He  suc- 
ceeded to  the  homestead  at  Hull  and  appears 
to  have  lived  there  all  his  life.     He  married 

Rebecca  .     Children,  born  at  Hull:    i. 

Richard,  January  10,  1692,  mentioned  below. 
2.  William,  March  30,  1694.  3.  Luke,  July  5, 
1696.  4.  Experience,  April  6,  1698.  5.  Mar- 
garet, January  22,  1700.    6.  Benjamin,  March 

2,  1701-02.  7.  James,  March  2,  1701-02 
(twin).  8.  Samuel,  November  22,  1704.  9. 
Rebecca,  November  18,  1707.  10.  John,  May 
12,  1710. 

(IH)  Richard  (3),  son  of  Richard  (2) 
Stubbs,  was  born  at  Hull,  Massachusetts,  Jan- 
uary 10,  1692,  died  there  before  1751.  He 
married,  about  1716,  Jael  .  He  mar- 
ried (second)  1748,  Rhoda  (Chandler)  Rus- 
sell, widow  of  James  Russell.  He  resided  at 
Hull,  but  late  in  life  removed  to  North  Yar- 
mouth, Maine.  Children,  born  at  Hull:  i. 
Richard,  July  19,  1717,  died  July  5,  1785.  2. 
Mary,  July  13,  1718,  married  Nathaniel  Locke. 

3.  Jonathan,  baptized  July  16,  1732.  4.  Han- 
nah, born  October  21,  1722,  died  November 
30,  1797;  married,  1744,  Philip  Greeley;  mar- 
ried (second)  June  22,  1749,  Jonathan  Under- 
wood. 5.  Jael,  December  26,  1724,  died  Octo- 
ber 9,  i8og;  married  John  Farrow.  6.  Re- 
becca, married  (intention  dated  September  14) 

1 75 1,  Peter  Dunbar.  7.  Sarah,  married  (in- 
tention dated  December  26,  1742)  Joseph 
Brown,  who  died  November  7,  1746. 

(IV)  Richard  (4),  son  of  Richard  (3) 
Stubbs,  was  born  in  Hull,  July  19,  1717,  died 
July  5,  1785.  He  settled  in  North  Yarmouth, 
Maine.  He  married  (intention  dated  October 
^3'  1739)  Mercy  Brown,  who  died  1795.  Chil- 
dren, born  and  baptized  at  Yarmouth,  Maine : 
I.  William,  baptized  October  11,  1741.  2. 
Susannah,  baptized  January  23,  1743.  3. 
Richard,  born  October  21,  1744,  soldier  in  the 
revolution.      4.    Abner,    born    about    1748   or 

1752,  mentioned  below.  5.  Samuel,  baptized 
April  15,  1750,  soldier  in  the  revolution.  6. 
John,  baptized  July  18,  1756.  7.  Moses,  bap- 
tized May  28,  1758,  dismissed  from  the  North 
Yarmouth  to  the  Cumberland  church,  October 
I,  1795.    8.  Mercy,  baptized  August  3,  1760. 


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9.   Anna,   baptized  November   7,   1762.     Per- 
haps others. 

(V)  Abner,  son  of  Richard  (4)  Stubbs,  was 
born  about  1748  or  1752  in  North  Yarmouth, 
Maine.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revohition, 
a  corporal  in  Captain  George  Rogers'  com- 
pany, transferred  from  the  second  Cumberland 
county  company  to  work  on  the  fort  at  Fal- 
mouth, November,  1775.  He  removed  to  Cum- 
berland (formerly  part  of  Yarmouth)  after 
the  revolution.  Children,  born  at  North  Yar- 
mouth and  baptized  there  September  15,  1782: 
William,  mentioned  below ;  Reuben,  Ann. 

(VI)  William,  son  of  xA.bner  Stubbs,  was 
born  in  Cumberland,  then  or  formerly  North 
Yarmouth,  Maine,  October  25,  1776,  died  in 
Fayette,  Maine,  September,  1813.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Morse,  September  19,  1802.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Cumberland  or  Fayette,  i\Iaine : 
Abner,  Emily,  Philip  Morse,  mentioned  below ; 
Martha. 

(VII)  Philip  Morse,  son  of  Wilham  Stubbs, 
was  born  in  Fayette,  Maine,  1804,  died  Au- 
gust 26,  1876.  His  father  died  when  he  was 
seven  years  old,  and  he  went  to  school  winters 
and  helped  on  the  farm  summers.  He  at- 
tended the  Livermore  and  Farmington  Acad- 
emy and  then  taught  school.  He  studied  law 
with  Judge  Washburn,  of  Livermore,  and 
Judge  Preston,  of  Norridgewock,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1831.  In  1832  he  settled 
in  Strong,  Maine,  and  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  the  same  building  in  which 
he  retained  his  office  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  later  a 
Republican,  and  was  judge  of  probate  for 
Franklin  county  for  fourteen  years.  He  was 
one  of  the  builders  of  the  Leeds  &  Farming- 
ton  railroad,  and  was  also  connected  with  the 
Androscoggin  Railroad  Company.  He  also 
was  largely  interested  in  real  estate.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  Blue  Mountain  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons  at  Phillips,  Maine,  and  was 
its  second  master.  He  married,  1835,  Julia 
A.  Eastman,  born  in  Strong,  April  2,  1815, 
died  November  3,  1887;  (see  Eastman  family 
herewith).  Children:  i.  Emma  J.,  born  De- 
cember 7,  1836,  died  i860.  2.  Philip  Henry, 
April  7,  1838,  mentioned  below.  3.  Dr.  George 
E.,  December  30,  1839,  married  Annie  Bell 
and  resides  in  Philadelphia.  4.  John  Francis, 
May  30,  1845,  died  at  the  age  of  three,  Au- 
gust 20,  1848. 

(VIII)  Hon.  Philip  Henry,  son  of  Judge 
Philip  M.  Stubbs,  was  born  in  Strong,  April 
7,  1838.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  and  prepared  for  college  at 
the    Farmington    Academy.      He    graduated 


from  Bowdoin  College  in  i860.  He  began 
the  study  of  law  in  his  father's  office,  and  at- 
tended the  Harvard  Law  School,  graduating 
in  1863.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the  same 
year,  and  began  the  practice  of  law  soon  after 
in  the  office  with  his  father,  and  has  continued 
in  the  same  place  ever  since.  He  is  justice 
of  the  peace  and  notary  public,  and  has  served 
as  school  superintendent  of  Strong.  He  is  an 
active  Republican,  and  has  served  two  terms 
as  county  attorney,  from  1870  to  1876,  and 
two  terms  as  state  senator,  1883  to  1886,  when 
he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  of  legal 
affairs.  Since  1884  he  has  held  the  office  of 
treasurer  of  the  Franklin  &  Megantic  rail- 
road, and  is  one  of  the  directors.  He  was 
also  a  director  of  the  Sandy  River  railroad, 
built  in  1878.  He  was  instrumental  in  having 
the  narrow  guage  railroad  built  from  Farm- 
ington. He  also  has  large  real  estate  in- 
terests. He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  and  of  the  Blue  Mountain  Lodge  of 
Free  ]Masons  at  Phillips,  Maine.  He  mar- 
ried, June  2,  1868,  Julia  Augusta  Goff,  born 
March  10,  1844,  daughter  of  Dana  and  Abby 
(Baker)  Goff,  of  Auburn,  Maine.  Her  father 
was  a  railroad  man.  Her  mother  was  a  native 
of  Yarmouth,  and  died  January  6,  1846.  Chil- 
dren of  Philip  H.  and  Julia  A.  Stubbs:  i. 
Emma  A.,  married  Rev.  Roscoe  W.  Peterson, 
of  Cornish,  Maine.  2.  Philip  D.,  graduated 
at  Bowdoin  in  1895;  read  law  with  his  father; 
admitted  to  bar  in  1898;  now  practicing  at 
Strong  with  his  father.  3.  Annie  B.,  married 
Dr.  C.  W.  Bell,  of  Strong.  4.  Richard  H., 
a  physician  in  Augusta,  Maine ;  married  Ethe- 
lyn  Hope  Burleigh,  youngest  daughter  of  Hon. 
Edwin  Chick  Burleigh  of  Augusta  (see  Bur- 
leigh sketch).  5.  Robert  Goff,  now  attending 
Bowdoin  College. 


The  surname  Eastman  is 
EASTMAN     synonymous  with  Easterling. 

A  native  of  the  Hanse  towns 
or  of  the  east  of  Germany  was  known  as  an 
"easterling."  In  mediaeval  times  merchants 
trading  with  the  English  in  that  quarter  were 
known  as  mercatores  esternses.  The  surname 
Eastman  is  also  synonymous  with  Eastmond, 
Estmond,  Easemond,  Easman  and  Esmond. 
A  branch  of  this  Eastman  family  came  early 
to  the  Barbadoes.  The  only  coat-of-arms  of 
the  Eastman  family  is :  Gules  the  dexter  chief 
point  an  escutcheon  argent  charged  with  a 
lion  rampant.  The  Eastman  genealogv  gives 
the  abstract  of  will  of  John  Eastman,  of  Rom- 
sey,  Southampton,  England,  dated  September 
24,  1602,  and  proved  October  22,  1602,  pro- 


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viding  for  his  burial  there  and  bequeatliing  to 
sons  Roger  and  John  and  daughters  EUzabeth 
and  Margaret,  all  minors. 

(I)  Roger  Eastman,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  Wales  in  161 1,  and  died  in  Sims- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  December  16,  1694.  He 
came  from  Langford,  Wiltshire,  England, 
sailing  from  Southampton  in  April,  1638,  in 
the  ship  "Confidence,"  John  Jobson,  master, 
registered  as  servant  of  John  Saunders.  He 
was  the  ancestor  of  all  the  old  families  of 
New  England  bearing  this  surname.  The 
name  was  often  spelled  Easman  and  Easmen. 
He  settled  in  Salisbur)-,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  received  land  in  the  first  division,  1640- 
43.  He  contributed  to  the  minister's  ta.x  in 
1650  eight  shillings,  three  pence.  The  fam- 
ily became  numerous  in  the  second  generation 
in  southern  New  Hampshire  and  northern 
Massachusetts,  and  later  extended  to  all  parts 
of  the  country.  I\lr.  Eastman  was  a  house 
carpenter  by  trade.  He  was  a  proprietor  of 
Salisbury  in  1639.  He  deposed,  April  11, 
1671,  that  he  was  aged  si.xty  years,  and  his 
wife  Sarah  on  the  same  day  deposed  that  she 
was  aged  about  fifty.  He  died  December  16, 
1694.  His  will  was  dated  June  26,  1691,  and 
proved  March  27,  1695.  His  widow  Sarah 
died  March  11,  1697-98.  He  married  Sarah 
Smith,  born  1621.  Children,  born  at  Salis- 
bury: I.  John,  January  9,  1640.  2.  Nathan- 
iel, March  18,  1643.  3.  Philip,  October  20, 
1644.  4.  Thomas,  September  11,  1646.  5. 
Timothy,  September  29,  1648.  6.  Joseph,  No- 
vember 8,  1650.  7.  Benjamin,  December  12, 
1652.  8.  Sarah,  July  25,  1655.  9.  Samuel, 
September  20,  1657,  mentioned  below.  10. 
Ruth,  January  21,  1661. 

(H)  Samuel,  son  of  Roger  Eastman,  was 
born  at  Salisbury,  September  20,  1657,  died 
February  27,  1725.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man in  1690  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
in  1677.  He  removed  from  Salisbury  to 
Kingston  about  1720,  and  was  dismissed  from 
the  Salisbury  church  to  the  church  in  Iving- 
ston,  September  26,  1725.  He  received  a  grant 
of  land  from  the  town.  He  married  (first) 
November  4,  1686,  Elizabeth  Scriven,  who 
was  baptized  and  admitted  to  the  church  at 
Salisbury,  October  8,  1690.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) September  17,  1719,  Sarah  Fifield,  who 
died  at  Kingston,  August  3,  1726.  Children, 
all  by  first  wife:  i.  Ruth,  born  January  5, 
1688.  2.  Elizabeth,  December  i,  1689,  mar- 
ried, December  10,  1713,  Thomas  Fellows.  3. 
Mary,  January  4,  1691,  married,  November  4, 
1714,  John  P.urley.  4.  Sarah,  April  3,  1694. 
5.    Samuel.   January    5,    1695-96.      6.   Joseph, 


January  6,  1697,  married  Patience  Smith.  7. 
Ann,  Alay  22,  1700.  8.  Ebenezer,  January  11, 
1701.  9.  Thomas,  January  21,  1703.  10.  Tim- 
othy, March  29,  1706.  11.  Edward.  ?iiarch  30, 
1708,  married,  January  21.  1730,  Deborah 
Graves.     12.  Benjamin,  July  13,  1710. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Samuel  Eastman, 
was  born  at  Salisbury,  January  11.  1701,  died 
at  Kingston,  February  16,  1746.  He  resided 
at  Kingston.  He  married.  May  5,  1726,  Mary 
Sleeper,  widow.  Children,  baptized  at  King- 
ston:  I.  Samuel,  May  7,  1727,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Edward,  February  25,  1732,  married, 
May  12,  1758,  Anna  Judkins.  3.  Mary,  .Au- 
gust 25,  1734.    4.  Hannah,  May  3,  1741. 

(I\')  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  East- 
man, was  baptized  at  Kingston.  May  7,  1727. 
died  in  1799.  He  was  a  town  officer  at  King- 
ston, where  he  resided  until  1761,  when  he 
removed  to  Pittston,  Maine.  He  was  the 
builder  of  the  bridge  at  Togus,  Maine.  He 
married,  September  8,  1748.  .\bigail  Hubbard. 
Children:  i.  Dolly,  married  Christopher  Jack- 
son. 2.  Elizabeth,  died  August  13,  1790;  mar- 
ried David  Lawrence.  3.  Mary,  born  1758. 
unmarried.  4.  Benjamin,  born  C)ctober  27, 
1761,  mentioned  below.  5.  Hattie,  born  1764. 
married  Stephen  Rowe,  a  Quaker.  6.  Samuel, 
born  1767,  married  Sally  Stevens  and  resiiled 
in  Gardiner,  Maine.  7.  Hubbard,  born  1770, 
died  August,  1843. 

(\")  iienjamin,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  East- 
man, was  born  at  Kingston,  New  Hampshire. 
October  27,  1761,  and  died  at  Strong,  Maine, 
July  14,  1831.  He  married,  February  6,  1783, 
Ann  Carr  Barker,  born  at  Fort  Weston,  Au- 
gusta, Maine,  September  8,  1766,  died  at 
Strong,  March  29,  1852,  daughter  of  John 
and  Cirance  (Wright)  Barker,  formerly  of 
Hanover,  Massachusetts.  Her  father  and 
grandfather  owned  and  worked  a  foundry  for 
casting  bells,  at  Hanover,  and  during  the  revo- 
lution cast  cannon  for  the  army.  The  works 
were  destroyed  by  fire  and  the  family  re- 
moved to  Maine.  Mrs.  Eastman  was  grand- 
daughter of  Ann  Carr,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Carr,  who  was  son  of  Sir  Robert  Carr,  ap- 
pointed one  of  the  four  commissioners  to  settle 
the  controversy  between  Connecticut  and  Mas- 
sachusetts as  to  the  ownershin  of  Rhode 
Island.  The  decision  was  rendered  by  Charles 
H  at  Warwick,  April  4.  1665.  Caleb  Carr, 
probably  son  of  Sir  Robert  Carr,  was  elected 
governor  of  Massachusetts  in  May,  1695,  and 
died  in  office.  Benjamin  Eastman  resided  in 
Dresden,  Mount  \'ernon  and  .Avon,  Maine. 
.A.  Benjamin  Eastman,  given  as  of  Hawkes,  a 
nearby  village,  was  in  the  revolution  in   1775. 


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Children,  all  born  in  Mount  N'ernon  except 
the  last,  who  was  born  at  Avon:  i.  Samuel, 
October  27,  1784,  mentioned  b^low.  2.  Su- 
sannah, January  18,  1786,  died  in  Charleston, 
August  21,  1863;  married  David  Stimson.  3. 
Nancy,  February  6,  1788,  died  July  12,  1873: 
married  Lemuel  Ueland.  4.  Martha,  April  20, 
1790,  died  in  Ohio,  February  9,  1862;  mar- 
ried Ephraim  Stevens.  5.  Violelta,  July  31, 
1792,  died  in  Strong,  May  11,  1881  ;  married 
Benjamin  Hitchcock.  6.  Benjamin,  March  23, 
1794,  died  October  6,  1800.  7.  John,  April 
2,  1796,  die<l  in  Blinois,  April  7,  i860:  mar- 
ried Sibyl  Stevens.  8.  Edward,  March  8, 
1798,  died  at  Mount  Vernon,  Maine,  October 
5,  1800.  9.  Colonel  Benjamin  Franklin,  No- 
vember 15,  1800,  died  February  10,  1894;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Dyer.  10.  Eliza  W.,  April  28, 
1803  died  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  March 
29,  1872;  married  John  Carr.  11.  Philip  A., 
July  29,  1805,  died  in  Illinois,  April  18,  1863, 
marriefl  Mary  Day. 

(VI)  Honorable  Samuel  (3),  son  of  Benja- 
min Eastman,  was  born  at  Mount  Vernon, 
Maine,  October  27,  1784,  and  died  at  Strong, 
Maine,  January  20,  1864.  He  resided  at 
Strong,  where  he  was  local  justice.  He  was 
also  a  state  senator  and  a  captain  in  the  militia. 
Fie  married,  March  22,  1807,  Jane  Hitchcock, 
born  September  29,  1786,  died  in  Strong,  July 
10,  1865.  Children:  i.  William  H.,  born 
April  13,  1808,  died  at  Green  Bay,  Wisconsin, 
January  10,  1887;  married,  February  20,  1832, 
Eliza  A.  Norris.  2.  Hiram,  September  10, 
1809,  died  October  4,  1809.  3.  Samuel,  Octo- 
ber 19,  1810,  died  at  New  Orleans,  Louisiana, 
October  2,  1732,  unmarried.  4.  Hon.  Benja- 
min C,  October  24,  1812,  died  at  Plattville, 
Wisconsin ;  married  Charlotte  S.  Sewell,  of 
Hallowell,  Maine,  no  children ;  member  of 
congress  from  Wisconsin.  5.  Julia  A.,  April  2. 
181 5,  married  Philip  M.  Stubbs.  (See  Stubbs 
family  herewith.)  6.  Dr.  Ezekiel  Porter,  June 
18,  1817,  died  at  Lynn,  February  18,  i860. 
7.  Colonel  Harry  Eugene,  May  3,  1819,  died 
at  Benton  Harbor,  Michigan;  married,  March 
2,  1843,  Elizabeth  W.  Arndt.  8.  John  Al- 
bert, March  4,  1821,  died  at  Benton  Harbor, 
Michigan,  April  11,  1895;  married,  January  6, 
1848,  Helen  M.  Darling.  9.  Mary  Jane,  No- 
vember 24,  1822,  died  at  sea  June  14,  1848 ; 
married  Captain  Augustus  Hitchcock,  of 
Damariscotta,  Maine.  10.  George  W.,  March 
29,  1824,  married  Annie  Monroe  and  resided 
at  Plattville,  Wisconsin.  11.  Frances  A.,  July 
10,  1826,  died  at  Strong,  October  31,  1845. 
12.  Henry  Clay,  December  14,  1830,  died  No- 
vember 14,  1832. 


The  surname  Hughes  is  de- 
HUGHES     rived  from  the  ancient  personal 

name  Hugh  and  is  found  from 
ancient  times  in  England.  Many  of  the  name 
have  achieved  distinction  in  America  as  w'ell 
as  England.  The  surname  is  spelled  also 
Hewes  and  Hues. 

(I)  Captain  John  Hughes,  immigrant  an- 
cestor, was  born  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1751.  He  came  to  Truro,  Massachu- 
setts, when  he  was  twelve  years  old  and  from 
that  time  till  his  death  followed  the  sea.  He 
rose  to  tl;e  rank  of  master  mariner.  It  is  not 
known  that  any  others  of  his  family  ever  came 
to  Truro.  He  was  lost  in  the  bay  at  Pond 
Landing  from  a  whale-boat  while  returning 
from  his  vessel  with  Captain  Shubael  Coan, 
aged  thirty-four  years,  Paul  Dyer  Jr.,  aged 
twenty-nine  years,  Hutta  Dyer,  aged  seventeen 
years,  all  of  whom  were  lost.  The  inscription 
on  his  gravestone  states  that  he  died  May  2, 
1799,  aged  forty-seven  years,  eight  months. 
He  married,  at  Truro,  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Fulk  and  Elizabeth  Dyer.  She  died  February 
12.  1836,  aged  seventy-eight  years  (grave- 
stone). He  was  a  member  of  the  Truro 
church.  Children,  baptized  at  Truro:  i. 
Emma,  August  12,  1781.  2.  Mary,  July  20, 
1783-  3-  John,  August  17,  1788,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Anna,  January  9,  1791.  5.  James, 
January  i,  1794.  6.  Atkins,  April  24,  1796, 
lost  at  sea  April,  1828. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  Captain  John  (i) 
Hughes,  was  born  at  North  Truro,  Alassa- 
chusetts,  :May  29,  1788,  baptized  in  the  Truro 
church,  .August  17,  1788.  Like  his  father,  he 
began  early  in  life  to  follow  the  sea.  He  had 
a  common  school  education.  After  his  mar- 
riage he  engaged  in  farming  and  market-gar- 
dening in  Truro,  and  died  there  February  21, 
1865.  He  married  Hannah,  born  in  North 
Truro,  September  23,  1796,  died  July  2,  1874, 
daughter  of  Hezekiah  Paine.  (See  Paine 
VH.)  Children,  born  at  North  Truro:  John. 
March  6,  1814;  Elizabeth  P.,  June  6,  1817; 
Hezekiah  P.,  October  24,  1819;  Hannah,  Oc- 
tober 19,  1821  ;  Lydia  S.,  August  3,  1824; 
Jedediah  P.,  September  20,  1826;  Emma,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1828;  Mary  N.,  September  10, 
1830;  Phoebe  A.,  October  27,  1832 ;  Rachel  F., 
September  17,  1834:  Rebecca  T.,  August  23, 
1837;  Hezekiah  P.,  July  29,  1839. 

(III)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Hughes, 
was  born  at  North  Truro,  March  6,  1814,  died 
September  22,  1900.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town.  He  w-as 
an  especially  skilful  penman  and  in  his  younger 
days  used   to  teach   handwriting   in   tlie  once 


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popular  "writing  schools  of  a  generation 
past."  He  began  to  follow  the  sea  in  early 
youth  and  continued  until  he  was  forty-five 
years  old,  chiefly  on  fishing-vessels  from  Cape 
Cod.  For  many  years  he  was  a  bookkeeper 
in  a  store  in  Provincetown,  Alassachusetts. 
During  the  last  twenty-five  years  of  his  life 
he  lived  with  his  son,  John  Franklin  Hughes, 
at  Foxcroft,  Maine.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Odd  Fellows  Lodge  at  Provincetown.  He 
was  a  Methodist  in  religion  and  a  Republican 
in  politics.  He  married,  January  14,  1839, 
Betsey  Dyer,  of  New  Sharon,  Maine.  She 
lived  but  a  few  years  after  their  marriage. 
They  had  but  one  child,  John  Franklin,  men- 
tioned below. 

(IV)  John  Franklin,  son  of  John  (3) 
Hughes,  was  born  in  North  Truro,  May  17, 
1841.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  a  small 
child  and  he  went  to  live  with  his  grand- 
parents, the  Dyers,  at  New  Sharon,  Maine, 
when  he  was  thirteen  years  old.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  of 
New  Sharon,  the  Maine  State  Seminary '  at 
Lewiston  and  Bates  College.  In  1866  he  en- 
gaged in  the  grocery  business  in  Foxcroft, 
Maine,  in  partnership  with  T.  F.  Dyer.  He 
added  hardware  to  his  business  and  later  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  pianos.  In  1880 
he  withdrew  from  his  other  enterprises  and 
devoted  himself  exclusively  to  the  manufac- 
ture of  pianos,  continuing  in  partnership  with 
Mr.  Dyer  until  1895,  when  he  bought  out  his 
partner,  who  was  succeeded  in  the  firm  by 
R.  W.  Hughes,  his  son.  The  name  of  the 
firm  was  changed  to  Hughes  &  Son,  and  con- 
tinued until  igo2,  when  the  firm  became  a 
corporation,  under  the  title  of  Hughes  &  Son 
Piano  Manufacturing  Company.  The  business 
is  very  prosperous  and  has  grown  to  large 
proportions.  The  product  of  this  company  is 
held  in  high  esteem  by  the  musical  world,  and 
the  standing  of  the  firm  and  company  in  the 
business  world  has  been  of  the  best.  Mr. 
Hughes  is  a  prominent  factor  in  the  financial 
affairs  of  the  community.  He  is  a  director 
and  vice-president  of  the  Kineo  Trust  Com- 
pany ;  trustee  of  the  Piscataquis  County  Sav- 
ings Bank  for  thirteen  years  past ;  trustee  of 
the  Foxcroft  Academy  and  for  a  period  of 
fourteen  years  was  president  of  the  Building 
&  Loan  Association  of  Foxcroft.  He  is  a 
member  of  Mosaic  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  of 
Foxcroft  and  of  Kineo  Lodge  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows. In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  an 
active  and  influential  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  of  Foxcroft.  He  married, 
October  i,  1866,  Josephine  M.,  born  June  29, 


1845,  daughter  of  Captain  Abner  Turner  and 
Sarah  Elizabeth  (Ayer)  Wade.  (See  Wade 
VII.)  Children:  i.  Ralph  Wade,  mentioned 
below\  2.  Ethel  Bess,  April  5,  1870,  educated 
in  the  Foxcroft  public  schools  and  at  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  Boston ; 
now  bookkeeper  in  her  father's  office.  3.  Jo- 
sephine, December  30,  1872,  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Foxcroft  and  at  Bradford 
Academy ;  now  living  in  Haverhill,  Massa- 
chusetts. 4.  Sarah  Eleanor,  September  29, 
1882,  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Fox- 
croft and  at  Lasell  Seminary,  Auburndale, 
Massachusetts ;  now  living  at  home. 

(V)  Ralph  Wade,  son  of  John  Franklin 
Hughes,  was  born  in  Foxcroft,  Maine,  June 
30,  1868.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Foxcroft  and  the  Eastman  Business  College 
of  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1886.  He  went  into  his  father's 
piano  factory  and  learned  the  art  of  making 
pianos  and  studied  the  business  carefully.  He 
was  admitted  to  partnership  by  his  father  in 
1896,  and  when  the  business  was  incorporated 
as  the  Hughes  &  Son  Piano  Manufacturing 
Company  he  became  the  treasurer,  a  position 
he  has  held  since  then.  He  is  a  prominent 
Free  Mason,  past  master  of  Mosaic  Lodge  of 
Foxcroft ;  member  of  Piscataquis  Chapter, 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters ;  of  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  Bangor.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Foxcroft  Board  of  Trade  and  trustee  of  the 
Building  and  Loan  Association  of  that  town. 
He  married,  December,  1891,  Maude  Merrill, 
of  Dexter,  Maine,  born  December  i,  1869, 
daughter  of  Ithamar  and  Mary  (Toward) 
Merrill.  Children:  i.  Donald  Scott,  born 
November  14,  1892.  2.  Mary  Wade,  August 
30,  1907. 


Thomas  Paine,  the  progenitor  of 
PAINE     this     branch    of    the     family     in 

America,  is  supposed  to  be  the 
Thomas  Payne  who  settled  in  Yarmouth,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  was  the  first  deputy  to  the 
general  court  from  that  place  in  June,  1639. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman  June  4,  1639,  ^'^'^ 
w^s  on  the  list  of  those  able  to  bear  arms  in 
1^3.  He  resided  there  as  late  as  1650. 
Traditions  vary  as  to  the  place  from  which 
he  came,  and  no  positive  information  may  be 
had  on  that  point.  He  had  a  son  Thomas, 
mentioned  below. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
Paine,  came  to  New  England,  according  to 
tradition,  when  a  lad  about  ten  years  old,  with 
his  father.     It  is  said  that  he  lost  the  sight  of 


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one  of  his  eyes  by  an  arrow.  He  settled  in 
Eastham,  and  was  a  prominent  man.  In  1653 
he  was  constable  of  Eastham,  and  was  on  a 
list  of  townsmen  in  1655.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  June  i,  1658.  He  was  surveyor  of 
highways  in  1662  and  in  1664  was  deputy  to 
the  general  court  and  on  the  jury.  He  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  land  in  1667,  and  two  years 
later  purchased  land  at  Namskaket,  now  Alid- 
dleborough,  adjoining  that  of  John  Alden.  In 
1670  he  was  appointed  an  inspector  of  ordi- 
naries in  the  town,  to  see  that  there  was  no 
excessive  drinking.  In  1670  he  purchased  land 
in  Truro,  which  he  sold  later  to  his  son  Thom- 
as. For  many, years  he  served  as  "bayley  by 
land  and  water"  to  receive  certain  prescribed 
sums  from  the  fishermen,  and  to  enforce  the 
rules  concerning  the  care  of  the  shore  by 
them.  He  was  deputy  to  the  general  court  in 
1671-72-73-76-78-80-81-90.  He  was  selectman 
of  Eastham  in  1671  and  several  years  there- 
after. In  1676  he  was  one  of  a  committee  to 
collect  a  debt  from  Sandwich,  and  also  to 
build  the  meeting-house.  He  was  treasurer  of 
the  town  from  1674  to  1694.  In  1677  he  and 
three  others  hired  the  fishing-privileges  and 
profits  at  the  head  of  Cape  Cod  for  a  period 
of  seven  years,  paying  yearly  the  sum  of  thirty 
pounds.  At  some  time  previous  to  1693  he  re- 
moved to  Boston,  and  purchased  the  home- 
stead of  Thomas  Stableford,  situated  at  the 
South  End.  In  1697  he  sold  it  to  Eleazer 
Darby,  and  the  same  year  sold  his  share  of 
land  in  Showamet,  Bristol  county.  He  was  a 
cooper  by  trade,  and  was  also  skilled  at  mill- 
building,  being  employed  in  erecting  mills  in 
various  places.  He  built  two  grist-mills  in 
Eastham.  He  was  a  fine  penman,  and  wrote  a 
clear  hand  when  he  was  far  advanced  in  years. 
He  died  at  an  advanced  age,  August  16,  1706. 
His  will  was  dated  May  12,  1706,  and  proved 
October  2,  1706.  He  married  Mary  Snow, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Constance  Snow. 
Her  father  came  over  in  the  ship  "Ann"  in 
1623.  She  died  April  28,  1704.  Children : 
I.  Mary,  married  (first)  James  Rogers,  Jan- 
uary II,  1670;  (second)  April  24,  1679,  Israel 
Cole.  2.  Samuel.  3.  Thomas,  mentioned  be- 
low. 4.  Eliezar,  born  March  10,  1638.  5. 
Elisha.  6.  John,  born  March  14,  1660-61.  7. 
Nicholas.  8.  James,  born  July  6,  1665.  9. 
Joseph.  10.  Dorcas,  married  Benjamin  Vick- 
erie :  died  October  30,  1707. 

(Ill)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Paine,  was  born  in  1656  or  1657,  and  died 
June  23,  1 721.  A  slate  stone  marks  his  grave 
in  the  old  burying-ground  in  the  church-vard 
at  Truro.     He  was  admitted  a  freeman   June 


6,  1684,  and  settled  at  Truro,  on  land  bought 
from  his  father.  The  site  of  his  house  may 
still  be  seen  on  the  north  side  of  Little  Pamet 
river.  He  was  clerk  of  the  proprietors  and  of 
the  town  for  many  years.  He  was  selectman 
of  Truro  six  years  and  deputy  to  the  gen- 
eral court  five  years.  He  was  clerk,  selectman 
and  representative  of  Eastham  before  the  in- 
corporation of  Truro.  He  was  captain  of  the 
militia  and  justice  of  the  peace.  He  was  ap- 
pointed special  justice  for  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas.  July  6,  1713,  and  held  the  office 
continuously  until  his  death.  Pie  married 
(first)  August  3,  1678,  Hannah  Shaw,  died 
July  24,  1713,  in  her  fifty-second  year,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  Shaw.  He  married  (second) 
March  8,  1714-15,  Elizabeth  Fairs,  widow,  of 
Boston.  She  survived  him  and  died  at  an  ad- 
vanced age  in  Bellingham.  His  will  was  dated 
April  6,  1720.  and  proved  July  4,  1721.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Hannah,  born-  April  6,  1679,  died 
November  17,  1681.  2.  Hugh.  July  3,  1680, 
died  November  29,  1681.  3.  Thomas,  Febru- 
ary 28,  1881-82.  4.  Hannah,  March  12,  1684, 
married.  May  3,  1704,  John  Binney ;  died  Jan- 
uary 14,  1757.  5.  Jonathan,  February  i,  1685- 
86,  mentioned  below.  6.  Abigail,  March  4, 
1687,  died  January  23,  1688.  7.  Abigail,  No- 
vember 3.  1689,  married,  November  8,  171 1, 
Ebenezer  White  ;  died  July  13,  1 73 1.  8.  Phebe, 
March  14,  1691,  died  January  21,  1693-96.  9. 
Elkanah,  February  1,  1692-93.  10.  Moses, 
September  28,  1695.  11.  Joshua,  August  28, 
1697.  12.  Phebe,  February  11,  1698-99,  mar- 
ried, February  28,  1729,  Paul  Knowles ;  died 
June  3,  1748.  13.  Lydia,  December  4,  1700, 
married,  March  2,-  1719-20,  Josiah  Hinckley. 
14.  Barnabas,  November  13,  1705. 

(I\')  Jonathan,  son  of  Thomas  (3)  Paine, 
was  born  February  i,  1683-86,  and  settled  in 
Truro.  He  died  May  23,  1732.  He  served 
the  town  many  years  as  selectman  and  was 
deputy  to  the  general  court  three  years.  His 
will  was  dated  January  28,  1732,  and  proved 
June  23,  1732.  He  married  (first)  October 
7,  1709,  Sarah  Mayo,  died  February  11,  1718- 

19,  ('aughter  of  Daniel  Mayo,  of  Eastham.  He 
married"  (second)  June  29.  1719,  Mary  Pur- 
rington,  of  Truro,  who  died  May  17,  1760, 
aged  seventy-eight  years.  All  are  buried  in 
the  old  graveyard  at  Truro.  Children  of  first 
wife:  I.  John,  born  September  3,  1710,  died 
September  13,  1710.     2.  Jonathan,  September 

20,  1711,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah,  June 
17.  1714.  married.  March  2,  1731-32.  An- 
thony Snow.  4.  Daniel,  ^lay  12,  1716.  3. 
Elizabeth,  December  14,  1718,  married,  Feb- 
ruary  16,   1741-42,  Thomas   Smith  Jr.     Chil- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


dren  of  second  wife :  6.  Hannah,  February  9, 
1721-22,  married,  January  14,  1743-44,  Isaac 
CrowcU.  7.  Phebe,  December  2,  1724,  mar- 
ried, December  i,  1743,  Constant  Hopkins. 

(V)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Paine,  was  born  September  20,  171 1,  and  died 
April  5,  1761.  He  resided  in  Truro,  where 
he  was  a  citizen  of  influence.  He  owned  slaves 
and  it  is  said  that  one  of  them,  Pompey,  "taken 
from  the  coast  of  Guinea  by  some  whalemen 
and  sold  to  Mr.  Paine,"  when  a  boy,  hung 
himself  near  his  master's  house  after  a  few 
years  in  his  service,  expecting  by  the  act  to 
see  again  the  home  of  his  childhood.  Mr. 
Paine  was  a  strict  Puritan  and  a  kind  master. 
His  will  was  dated  March  13,  1761,  and  proved 
February  2,  1762.  He  married,  March  6,  1739- 
40,  Hannah  Lombard,  of  Truro,  who  died  in 
1805,  aged  eighty-five  years.  Children:  i. 
Jedediah,  born  December  9,  1740,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Jonathan,  July  28,  1744,  married, 
May  28,  1765,  Rebecca  Dyer.  3.  Hannah,  Au- 
gust 9,  1747,  died  unmarried,  June  22,  1801. 
4.  John,  August  20,  1749,  married  Anna  Pike 
and  settled  in  Gorham,  Maine.  5.  Ebenezer, 
June  5,  1752,  married,  February  21,  1782, 
Abigail  Paine.  6.  Solomon,  November  23, 
1754,  died  unmarried.  7.  Richard,  October 
30,  1756,  died  unmarried. 

(VI)  Jedediah,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  Paine, 
was  born  in  Truro,  December  9,  1740,  and 
died  October  10,  1784.  He  married,  April  12, 
1760,  Hannah  Paine,  of  Truro,  who  died  June 
19,  1796,  aged  fifty.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  bap- 
tized November  11,  1764.  2.  Jedediah,  died 
at  sea  August  21,  1790,  aged  twenty-four.  3. 
Hezekiah,  baptized  June  18,  1769,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Eliakim,  lost  at  sea  in  1794,  aged 
twenty-two.     Perhaps  others. 

(VII)  Hezekiah,  son  of  Jedediah  Paine,  was 
born  at  Truro  and  baptized  June  18,  1769.    He 

married  Elizabeth  ,  who  died  January 

16,  1816,  aged  forty-five  years.  Children, 
born  at  Truro:  i.  Jedediah,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 8,  1793.  2.  Hannah,  born  September  23, 
1796,  married  fohn  liuohes.  (See  Hughes 
II.) 


Nicholas  Wade,  immigrant  an- 
WADE  cestor,  was  born  in  England,  prob- 
ably in  1616,  but  on  account  of 
religious  persecution  left  England  and  came 
to  Scituate,  Plymouth  county,  Massachusetts, 
about  1631.  lie  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  and 
allegiance  in  }f>^^8.  Plis  house  was  on  the 
west  side  of  Brushy  Hill,  northeast  of  the 
road  where  Shadrach  Wade  resided  a  genera- 
tion  ago.     In    1657  he   was   licensed  to  keep 


an  ordinary  or  tavern  in  Scituate.  He  died 
in  1683,  at  an  advanced  age.  Jonathan  and 
Richard  Wade,  pioneers  to  Massachusetts, 
were  probably  his  brothers.  Children,  born  in 
Scituate  or  England:  i.  John.  2.  Thomas, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Nathaniel.  4.  Elizabeth, 
married  Marmaduke  Stevens  and  was  divorced 
in  1679  because  Stevens  already  had  two  wives. 
5.  Joseph,  was  killed  in  the  Rehoboth  battle  in 
King  Philip's  war.  6.  Hannah.  7.  Nicholas. 
8.  Jacob,  lived  in  Scituate,  left  no  family. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Nicholas  Wade,  was 
born  in  Scituate  about  1650.  He  settled  in 
Bridgewater,  ^Massachusetts,  in  1680.  and  some 
of  his  children  were  born  there.  He  bought 
the  farm  of  Samuel  Staples  at  Bridgewater, 
near  Nippemicket  Pond,  in  1693.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1672,  Elizabeth  Curtis,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Curtis.  He  died  in  1726.  Children, 
born  at  Scituate:  i.  Jacob,  1673,  settled  in 
Scituate.  2.  Joseph,  1675,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Sarah,   1678.     4.  Thomas,  1680,  resided  in 


Bridgewater.     Born  at  Bridgewater  : 


Han- 


nah, 1682,  married  Edward  Lathrop.  6.  Icha- 
bod,  1685,  resided  at  Bridgewater.  7.  Moses, 
1689.  resided  at  Bridgewater.  8.  Deborah, 
1691,  married  Jonathan  Phinney,  of  Middle- 
borough.  9.  Rachel,  1692,  married,  1731, 
Israel  Alger. 

(III)  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  Wade,  was 
born  in  Scituate,  Massachuetts,  in  1675.  He 
settled  in  his  native  town.  He  married  there 
in  1705  Ruth  Gannett.  Children,  born  at 
Scituate:  i.  Ruth,  1706.  2.  Elizabeth,  1708. 
3.  Joseph,  1710,  mentioned  below.  4.  Jacob, 
1712,  married,  1734,  Rachel  Turner.  5.  Issa- 
char,  1714,  married,  1750,  Thankful  Merritt. 
6.  Zebulon,  17 16,  married,  1744,  IMercy  Nor- 
ton. 7.  Sarah,  1719.  8.  Simeon,  1722,  mar- 
ried, 1750,  Eunice  Studley. 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Wade, 
was  born  in  Scituate  in  1710.  He  married 
Rachel  Turner  and  among  their  children  was 
Abner,  mentioned  below.  A 

(V)  Abner,  son  of  Joseph  (2)   Wade,  was       " 
born  in  Scituate,  [Massachusetts,  November  14, 
1746.    He  served  eight  years  and  eight  months 

in  the  revolutionary  army,  attaining  the  rank 
of  captain.  He  was  nearly  if  not  quite  all  the 
time  under  the  immediate  command  of  Gen- 
eral W'ashington.  He  married  Widow  Hope- 
still  Bradford,  and  among  their  children  was 
Turner,  mentioned  below. 

(\T)  Turner,  son  of  Abner  Wade,  was  born 
in  Woolwich.  Maine,  September  23,  1789.  He 
lived  at  Woolwich,  Maine.  Married  Hannah 
Carlton  Farnham,  of  W'oolwich ;  children : 
Jane  Farnham,  Abner  Turner,  Abigail  Ever- 


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son,  Joshua  Farnham,  Eben  Delano,  Hannah 
Carlton  and  Hannah  Farnham. 

(VH)  Captain  Abner  Turner,  son  of  Tur- 
ner Wade,  was  born  November  i,  1817.  He 
followed  the  sea ;  for  many  years  was  captain 
of  large  sailing  vessels  going  from  Bath, 
Maine,  to  Europe.  He  was  not  a  church  mem- 
ber, but  prominent  in  church  work.  He  was 
a  Democrat;  served  two  terms  in  the  legisla- 
ture. He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  or- 
der. He  married  Sarah  Elizabeth  Ayer,  born 
June  20,  1820,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Lydia 
(Hale)  Ayer,  of  Sangerville,  Maine.  She  was 
born  in  Norway,  Maine,  and  later,  until  her 
marriage  resided  in  Bangor,  Maine.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Sangerville,  Maine:  i.  Sarah 
Sophia,  July  26,  1844.  2.  Josephine  Matilda, 
June  29,  1845,  married  John  Franklin  Hughes 
(see  Hughes  IV).  3.  Abner  Russell,  March 
12,  1847.  4-  Charles  Calvin,  May  22,  1852.  5. 
Jennie  Farnham,  July  4,  1855.  6.  Anne  Hale, 
January  3,  1857,  married  I.  A.  Sutherland; 
children:  Clarence  Hale,  Margaret  Ayer  and 
Elizabeth  Wade  Sutherland.  7.  Bertha  Alice, 
July  15,  1859. 


The  name  is  given  as  of 
HASKELL  Welsh  origin  in  Arthur's 
"Etymological  Dictionary  of 
Family  and  Christian  Names,"  and  it  is  com- 
monly spelled  Hascal,  Hascall,  Hascol,  Has- 
coll,  Haskol,  Haskall,  Haskel,  Haskil,  HaskiU, 
Haskal,  Haskall,  Haskul,  Haaskull,  Hasghal, 
Haschall,  Haskill  and  Haskell.  The  deriva- 
tion of  this  name  is  from  "hasg,"  a  place  of 
rushes,  in  a  low  sedgy  place,  and  "hall,"  or 
"hayle,"  a  marsh  or  moor  giving  the  name  the 
signification ;  a  place  of  rushes  in  the  marsh 
or  "the  sedgy  place,"  and  no  doubt  this  name 
was  first  given  to  a  family  or  tribe  dwelling  in 
a  marshy  place. 

"It  would  be  difficult,"  says  Ulysses  G.  Has- 
kell, a  genealogical  writer,  "to  find  among  the 
early  settlers  of  New  England  a  single  family 
whose  genealogy  would  interest  more  persons 
than  that  of  the  Haskell  family,  and  as  yet 
there  has  been  but  little  attempt  made  to  pre- 
serve any  information  relating  thereto.  The 
first  settlers  of  the  name  in  America  appear 
to  have  been  the  three  brothers,  Roger,  Will- 
iam and  Mark,  the  patriarch  heads  of  the 
family  in  this  country.  Roger  was  the  eldest 
and  Alark  the  youngest  of  the  two  who  prob- 
ably came  to  New  England  together  from 
Bristol.  England,  as  early  as  1637,  for  they 
are  all  three  found  to  have  been  very  early 
settlers  in  that  part  of  Salem  which  is  now 
Beverly."  *  *  *  "The  second  brother,  William 


Haskell,  is  the  ancestor  of  most  of  the  Has- 
kells  in  this  country.  His  posterity  is  believed 
to  be  much  more  numerous  than  that  of  any 
other  of  the  early  settlers  of  Gloucester,  where 
he  permanently  resided.  A  large  number  are 
still  to  be  found  in  that  place  and  large  num- 
bers are  scattered  abroad  over  the  country. 
From  this  prolific  stock  emigrants  have  gone 
forth  who,  whether  they  braved  the  dangers 
and  hardships  of  pioneer  life  in  the  forests  of 
Maine,  or  sought  a  kinder  soil  than  their  own 
more  settled  regions,  or  engaged  in  handicraft 
and  trades  in  the  marts  of  business,  have  gen- 
erally sustained  the  character  of  usefulness 
and  respectability  which  the  family  has  always 
borne  in  its  more  ancient  seat." 

(I)  "Willam  Haskell,  the  first  of  the  name 
to  settle  in  Gloucester,  then  called  Cape  Ann, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  England  in  161 7, 
came  to  New  England  about  1637  with  his 
brothers  Roger  and  Mark,  with  whom  he  at 
first  settled  in  the  part  of  Salem,  now  Beverly, 
then  known  as  Cape  Ann  Side,  and  subse- 
quently became  a  permanent  resident  of 
Gloucester,  where  he  died  August  20,  1693, 
leaving  an  estate  valued  at  £548,  02s.  He  first 
appears  in  Gloucester  in  1643,  and  in  1645 
mention  is  made  of  the  land  at  Planters  Neck 
where  he  probably  resided  for  a  few  years 
following  the  latter  date,  but  the  information 
obtained  from  the  recorded  births  of  his  chil- 
dren affords  room  for  the  conjecture  that  he 
was  not  a  permanent  resident  from  that  time. 
If,  however,  he  left  town  for  a  season,  he  had 
returned  in  1656,  and  settled  on  the  westerly 
side  of  Annisquam,  where  he  had  several 
pieces  of  land,  among  which  was  a  lot  of 
ten  acres  with  a  house  and  barn  thereon 
bought  of  Richard  Window,  situated  on  the 
westerly  side  of  Walker's  Creek.  His  two 
sons  took  up  land  on  both  sides  of  this  creek 
which  is  still  occupied  by  his  descendants.  He 
was  a  mariner,  and  was  engaged  in  the  fishing 
business,  and  was  known  as  captain  and  lieu- 
tenant. The  public  offices  to  which  he  was 
chosen  afford  sufficient  proof  that  he  was  a 
prominent  and  useful  citizen.  He  was  select- 
man several  years  and  a  representative  to  the 
general  court  six  times  in  the  course  of  twenty 
years.  In  1661  he  was  appointed  by  the  gen- 
eral court  lieutenant  of  the  "trayned  band'  of 
which  he  was  afterwards  captain.  It  is  stated 
that  in  1688  'some  feeble  but  magnanimous 
efforts  of  expiring  freedom  were  exhibited  in 
the  refusal  of  several  towns  to  assess  the 
taxes  which  the  governor.  Sir  Edmond  An- 
dros,  as  Council  of  New  England,  had  levied 
upon  them.     One  of  these  towns  was  Glouces- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


ter,  seven  of  whose  citizens,  namely :  William 
Haskell,  Sen.,  James  Stevens,  Thomas  Riggs, 
Sen.,  Thomas  Millett,  Jeffrey  Parsons,  Timo- 
thy Somers  and  William  Sargent,  Sen.,  were 
fined  by  the  Superior  Court  at  Salem  for  the 
non-compliance  of  the  town  with  a  warrant 
for  the  assessment  of  those  'odious  taxes'  in 
1688.  The  first  five  were  selectmen  and  Som- 
ers was  constable.  All  but  Somers  were  fined 
forty  shillings,  with  three  pounds  and  a  shil- 
ling added  as  fees.  Somers  was  let  off  on 
payment  of  fees  only.  In  1681  he  was  one 
of  the  petitioners  to  the  King,  praying  for 
the  Crown's  interposition  to  prevent  the  dis- 
turbance of  titles  to  real  estate  at  Gloucester 
by  Robert  Mason,  who  had  made  claims  there- 
to. At  the  General  Court  1685  one  Grace 
Dutch  was  appointed  administrator  of  her 
husband  Osmond  Dutch  'with  the  advice  and 
assistance  Lieutenant  William  Haskell.'  "  He 
was  also  one  of  the  firm  of  two  of  whom  we 
have  any  knowledge,  who  were  deacons  of  the 
first  church  at  Gloucester.  He  married,  No- 
vember 16,  1643,  Mary,  daughter  of  Walter 
Tybbot  who  died  four  days  before  her  hus- 
band, by  whom  he  had  the  following  children : 
William,  Joseph,  Benjamin,  John,  Ruth,  Mark, 
Sarah,  Elinor  and  Mary.  Generations  after 
the  death  of  William  Haskell  various  of  his 
descendants  settled  in  the  then  wilderness  of 
the  province  of  Maine,  and  from  them  have 
sprung  most  of  those  in  this  state  of  the  name 
of  Haskell. 

(II)  Jabez  Haskell,  probably  a  descendant 
of  William  Haskell,  the  immigrant,  was  a  citi- 
zen of  New  Gloucester,  an  enterprising  man, 
who  carried  on  a  successful  business  as  farmer 
and  miller.  Politically  he  was  a  Democrat, 
and  both  he  and  his  wife  were  liberal  in  their 
religious  belief.  He  married  Nancy  Chipman, 
of  Poland,  who  died  August  29,  1848.  The\- 
had  five  children. 

(III)  Captain  I\Ioses  M.,  third  son  of  Jabez 
and  Nancy  (Chipman)  Haskell,  born  1804, 
died  June  22.  1849.  He  succeeded  to  his 
father's  occupations,  which  he  carried  on 
throughout  his  life  in  New  Gloucester.  He 
was  liberal  in  religious  faith,  in  politics  an 
excellent  Democrat,  and  was  for  years  a  cap- 
tain in  the  militia.  He  married  (first)  Sarah 
Merrill,  of  New  Gloucester,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Merrill.  She  died,  leaving  one  child, 
Mary  A.  He  married  (second)  Polenah  S. 
Mclntyre,  born  June,  1809,  died  April  12, 
1877.  By  his  wife  Polenah  S.  he  had  two 
children :    Charles  A.  and  Sydney  H. 

(IV)  Charles  Augustine,  son  of  Moses  M. 
and    Polenah    S.     (Mclntyre)    Haskell,    was 


born  in  New  Gloucester,  May  13,  1836.  After 
leaving  the  district  schools  where  he  acquired 
his  education,  he  learned  the  trade  of  horse- 
shocr  and  followed  that  calling  six  years  in 
New  Gloucester.  In  1866  he  bought  a  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  forty  acres,  in  Windham, 
where  he  has  since  resided.  Forty  acres  of 
this  he  has  put  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  £ 
and  is  successfully  engaged  in  general  farm-  " 
ing.  His  specialty  has  been  dairying  and  but- 
ter-making, all  his  butter  being  taken  by  spe- 
cial customers  in  Portland.  In  religious  faith 
and  political  views  he  has  followed  his  pa- 
ternal ancestors.  As  a  Democrat  he  has  been 
staunch  and  influential  in  his  town,  and  was 
elected  to  the  board  of  selectmen  in  1874-75, 
serving  as  chairman  the  latter  year,  and  again 
in  1901-02-03.  In  1876  he  was  nominated 
as  a  candidate  for  representative  of  the  state 
legislature,  but  was  defeated  by  seven  votes. 
In  i8gi  he  served  as  collector  of  the  town 
of  Windham.  Charles  A.  Haskell  married, 
April  14,  1863,  Hannah  Allen  Libby.  born 
March  29.  1838,  daughter  of  Elias  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hawkes)  Libby,  of  Windham.  (See 
Libby  \'1I.)  They  are  the  parents  of  four 
children:  i.  Frederick  Lincoln,  born  New 
Gloucester,  September  12,  1865,  married,  No- 
vember 19,  1887,  Jessie  A.  Le  Grow,  of  Wind- 
ham ;  they  have  two  children  :  Walter  Everett, 
born  Windham,  January  15,  1889,  and  Wini- 
fred Hannah,  Cumberland,  August  2,  1895. 
2.  Ella  Florence,  born  Windham,  October  30, 
1867,  is  wife  of  Eugene  Brooks  Lamb,  of 
Naples ;  they  have  one  child,  Luella  May,  born 
Windham,  May  29,  1894.  3.  Frank  H.,  has 
extended  mention  below.  4.  Alta  Gertrude, 
born  Windham,  March  i,  1875,  married  Will- 
iam Jordon  Cooke,  of  Casco,  and  lives  in 
Casco ;  they  have  two  children :  Alice  Ger- 
trude, born  in  Casco,  May  22,  1900,  and  Helen 
Elizabeth,  born  in  Poland,  March  23,  1903. 

(V)  Frank  Herbert,  second  son  of  Charles 
A.  and  Hannah  A.  (Libby)  Haskell,  was  born 
in  Windham,  July  i,  1871,  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools,  at  Bridgton  Academy, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1890;  and  at 
Bo\\doin  College,  where  he  took  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  in  1895.  In  1897  he  entered  upon  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Isaac  L.  Elder, 
in  Portland,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
the  completion  of  his  studies,  1899.  In  .April 
of  that  year  he  opened  an  office  in  Portland, 
and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has  devoted 
himself  to  his  profession  with  a  degree  of  dili- 
gence that  has  placed  his  name  among  those 
of  the  young  lawyers  whose  future  seems  as- 
sured with  more  than  the  ordinary  measure  of 


STATE  OF  AIAINE. 


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success.  In  1895  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  school  board  for  two  years ;  from  i8g6 
to  1900  he  was  collector  of  taxes,  and  in 
1901-02  was  representative  of  Windham  in  the 
state  legislature.  In  political  affiliation  he  is 
a  Republican.  He  and  his  wife  are  members 
of  the  Congregational  Square  Universalist 
Church.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Presum- 
scot  Lodge,  No.  127,  in  Windham,  April  25, 
1896,  and  is  now  a  past  master.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  Mt.  Vernon  Chapter,  No.  i,  Port- 
land Council,  No.  i,  and  Deering  Chapter, 
No.  59,  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star.  Also  of 
Rocky  Hill  Lodge,  No.  5,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
Woodfords.  His  club  membership  includes  the 
Portland,  the  Deering  and  the  C<jngress  Square 
iMen"s  Club.  Frank  H.  Haskell  married,  in 
Fryeburg,  April  27,  1901,  Martha  Whiting 
Howe,  born  in  Fryeburg,  January  4,  1871, 
daughter  of  William  Johnston  and  Annie 
Paulina  (Withan)  Howe.  Mr.  Howe  was  the 
son  of  Ebenezer  and  Dolly  (Irish)  Howe,  the 
former  of  Standish,  later  of  Fryeburg,  the  lat- 
ter of  Gorham,  being  a  granddaughter  of  Mary 
Gorham  Phinny,  the  first  white  child  born  in 
that  town. 


(For  first  generation  see  William  Haskell  I.) 

(II)  William  (2),  eldest  son 
HASKELL  of  William  (i)  Haskell,  was 
born  in  Gloucester,  Colony  of 
Massachusetts  Bay,  August  26,  1644.  He 
owned  and  carried  on  .the  business  of  a  grist 
and  sawmill  located  in  that  part  of  the  town, 
now  the  town  of  Rockport.  In  the  division  of 
his  estate,  which  was  inventoried  at  £666  and 
consisted  of  lands,  mills,  home  buildings  and 
farm  stock  and  his  extensive  grist  and  saw- 
mills, became  the  share  of  the  eldest  son,  Will- 
iam. He  was  married  July  3,  1667,  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Brown,  and 
Tier  mother  marrying  as  her  second  husband 
Henry  Walker,  she  took  the  name  of  her  step- 
father and  was  known  as  Mary  Walker.  Will- 
iam Haskell  Jr.  died  in  Gloucester,  June  5, 
1708,  and  his  widow,  Mary  (Walker)  Haskell, 
November  12,  1715,  she  being  at  the  time  of 
her  death  sixty-six  years  of  age.  The  chil- 
dren of  William  and  Mary  (Walker)  Haskell, 
all  born  in  Gloucester,  were:  i.  Mary,  born 
April  29,  1668,  married  (first)  September  14, 
1687,  Jacob  Davis;  (second)  April  15,  1719, 
Ezekiel  Woodward.  2.  William,  November  6, 
1670.  3.  Joseph,  April  20,  1673.  4.  Abigail, 
March  2,  1675,  married  (first)  Nathaniel  Par- 
sons, December  27,  1697;  (second)  Isaac  Eve- 
leth,  December  20,  1722.  5.  Henry,  April  2, 
1678.     6.   Andrew,   July   27,    1680,   died   Au- 


gust 14,  1680.  7.  Lydia,  September  4,  i68i, 
probably  married  Ebenezer  Parsons,  February 
3,  1734,  and  was  the  mother  of  the  Rev.  Moses 
Parsons,  whose  son,  Theophilus  Parsons,  was 
chief  justice  of  the  supreme  judicial  court 
of  Alassachusetts,  1806-13.  8.  Sarah,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1684,  died  February  20,  1691.  9. 
Elizabeth,  April  5,  1686,  married  Thomas  Sar- 
gent, September  27,  1710,  and  James  Godfrey. 
10.  Hannah,  October  30,  1688,  died  February 
15,  1691.  II.  Jacob  (q.  v.).  12.  Sarah,  Sep- 
tember II,  1692,  married  her  cousin  Daniel, 
son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Graves)  Haskell, 
born  DecemlDer  16,  1688,  the  marriage  taking 
place  December  30,  1716,  and  she  died  July 
10,  1773- 

(III)  Jacob,  youngest  son  and  eleventh  child 
of  William  (2)  and  Mary  (Walker)  Haskell, 
was  born  in  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1691.  He  was  deacon  of  the  Second 
Church  in  Gloucester.  He  was  married  De- 
cember 31,  1716,  to  Abigail  ]\Iorey,  and  their 
children  were  born  in  Gloucester  and  all  but 
their  second  son  Abner  married  in  their  native 
town.  Children:  i.  Jacob,  born  October  27, 
1718.  2.  Abner,  December  5,  1721.  3.  Abi- 
gail, January  27,  1724,  married  Thomas  Luf- 
kin,  of  Ipsw'ich,  Massachusetts.  4.  Alexander, 
IMarch  4,  1726,  and  after  his  marriage  with 
Lucy  Haskell,  April  27,  1749,  removed  to 
Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  in  1756,  and  on  Oc- 
tober 7,  1762,  he  married  for  his  second  wife 
Rachel  Stan  wood.  5.  Israel  (q.  v.).  6.  Amos, 
twin  of  Israel,  October  30,  1729,  married 
(first)  Mary  Riggs,  November  20,  1750; 
(second)  Abigail  Boay,  April  9,  1754.  7. 
Esther,  baptized  January  2;^,  1732,  married 
Samuel  Stone,  of  Manchester,  Alassachusetts. 
8.  Zebulon,  October  17,  1734. 

(I\  )  Israel,  twin  son  with  Amos  of  Jacob 
and  Abigail  (Alorey)  Haskell,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 30,  1729.  He  first  lived  in  Gloucester, 
Massachusetts,  but  removed  to  New  Glouces- 
ter, Maine,  and  thence  in  the  spring  of  1775 
to  the  ''Sylvester  plantation,"  which  became 
know^n  subsequently  as  Turner,  Maine,  and  his 
family  were  the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  town. 
He  was  married  December  13,  1753,  to  Abi- 
gail Davis,  and  had  nine  children ;  his  seventh 
and  eighth  children,  Asa  and  Elizabeth,  were 
baptized  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Turner  on  a  visit 
he  made  to  the  place  in  1776,  and  on  his  sec- 
ond visit  their  ninth  child,  Mary,  together 
with  William  Bradford,  a  descendant  of  Gov- 
ernor Bradford,  and  children  of  other  of  the 
settlers.  Children  of  Israel  and  Abigail 
(Davis)  Haskell  were:  i.  Abigail,  married 
Richard   Phillip  Jr..   December   12,    1796.     2. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Hannah,  married  Abncr  Phillips,  brother  of 
Richard  Jr.    3.  Israel,  married  Juda  Wellman. 

4.  Jacob,  married  Mary  Jonson,  March  15, 
1793.  5.  Esther,  married  Joseph  Tyler,  2vlarch 
15,    1793.     6.   Phebe,   married   Samuel   Tyler. 

7.  Asa  (q.  v.).  8.  Elizabeth,  married  Daniel 
Bray,  January  16,  1794.  9.  Alary,  married 
Nehemiah  Savvtelle;  married  (second)  No- 
vember 22,  1801,  Thomas,  son  of  Abel  and 
Elizabeth  (Page)  Merrill,  born  August  19, 
1774.  Harriet,  daughter  of  Abel  Merrill  Jr., 
sister  of  Thomas  Merrill,  married  Washington 
Haskell,  who  lived  in  Auburn,  Maine,  1872. 

(V)  Asa,  third  son  of  Israel  and  Abigail 
(Davis)  Plaskell,  was  born  probably  in  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  February  22,  1772.  He 
was  a  farmer  in  New  Portland,  Maine,  and 
married  Jemima  Bray,  before  1795;  she  was 
born  July  10,  1774.  Children:  i.  Zelotes, 
born  in  New  Portland,  Maine,  March  21, 
1795.  2.  Abigail,  July  2,  1797,  married  a  Mr. 
Cole.  3.  Sophronia,  July  14,  1799.  married 
Zebulon  True.     4.  Almond,  August  29,  1801. 

5.  Allura,  November  10,  1803.  6.  Roxcelona, 
November  4,  1805,  married  a  Bradley.  7. 
Eliza,  December  4,    1807,  married  a  Clough. 

8.  Alonzo,  February  2,  1810,  married  a  Nicker- 
son.  9.  Marshall,  April  5,  1812,  probably  died 
young.  10.  Clorinda,  December  10,  1813,  mar- 
ried Stephen  Welcome.  11.  Marshall  J.  (q. 
v.).  12.  Julia  A.  13.  Jacob  W^,  February  8, 
1821,  married  Alary  Eliza  Jordan. 

(VI)  Marshall  J.,  son  of  Asa  and  Jemima 
(Bray)  Haskell,  was  born  in  New  Portland, 
Maine,  February  22,  1816.  He  was  brought 
up  on  his  father's  farm,  where  he  gained  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  agriculture,  and  he  at- 
tended the  district  school  and  became  well 
founded  in  the  rudimentary  elements  of  an 
education  as  was  suited  to  his  avocation  and 
intended  vocation  as  a  practical  tinsmith.  He 
learned  his  trade  in  Westbrook,  Alaine,  1837- 
41,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  possessed  with  a 
desire  to  see  his  native  country  outside  the 
state  of  Maine,  and  he  journeyed  as  far  west 
as  Wisconsin,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade 
for  a  time,  and  he  then  went  thence  to  South 
Carolina,  covering  in  his  journey  most  of  the 
states  convenient  to  his  line  of  trade.  In  the 
south  (this  was  ten  years  before  the  civil  war 
broke  out)  he  found  the  institution  of  slavery 
too  unusual  and  repulsive  to  desire  to  ever 
work  at  his  trade  there,  although  he  tried  it  in 
South  Carolina,  but  his  Whig  and  Free  Soil 
principles  were  not  to  be  denied  expression 
and  his  opinions  antagonizing  his  fellow  work- 
men he  decided  to  return  home,  and  upon 
reaching    Auburn,    Maine,     he     resumed     liis 


chosen  vocation.  He  was  married  in  1847  to 
Joanna  Sawyer  Dyer,  daughter  of  Mark  Dyer, 
of  Cape  Elizabeth,  and  their  children  were : 
I.  Otis  Dyer,  born  November  29,  1848,  mar- 
ried Eliza  A.,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 

(York)  Jacobs;  three  children:  Anne,  Otis 
and  Albert.  2.  Lewis  Washburn  (q.  v.).  3. 
Albert,  born  June  23,  1853,  married  Effie  E., 
daughter  of  Sewell  and  Ann  (Maxwell) 
Campbell ;  three  children :  Charles  A.,  Clara 
Alay  and  Otis  Campbell.  Marshall  J.  Haskell 
died  in  Auburn,  Maine,  February  28,  1886, 
and  Joanna  Sawyer  (Dyer)  Haskell  is  now 
living  with  her  son,  Lewis  \V.  Haskell,  in  Au- 
burn, Maine. 

(VH)  Lewis  Washburn,  son  of  Marshall  J. 
and  Joanna  Sawyer  (Dyer)  Haskell,  was  born 
in  Portland,  Maine,  April  18,  1851.  He 
worked  in  the  tin-shop  of  his  father  while  a 
boy  and  acquired  the  trade  by  the  time  he  had 
completed  his  course  of  instruction  in  the  pub- 
lic school.  He  worked  as  a  journeyman  until 
1877,  when  he  conducted  business  on  his  own 
account,  and  in  1879  the  firm  of  L.  W.  Haskell 
&  Company  was  formed  to  carry  on  the  busi- 
ness which  has  steadily  increased  in  volume 
from  that  time,  requiring  additional  room  and 
finally  an  entire  block  was  purchased  and  a 
suitalDle  building  erected  to  meet  the  demands 
of  the  trade  he  had  built  up.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  common  council  for  a  time,  and 
then  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  of 
the  city  of  Auburn,  and  in  1885-86  served  as 
mayor  of  Auburn.  He  was  always  a  vigilant 
fire-fighter  and  member  of  the  fire  department 
of  Auburn  from  the  time  he  was  allowed  to 
serve,  and  he  became  chief  of  the  department 
and  continued  from  1893-94,  and  re-elected  in 
1903,  not  being  allowed  to  resign.  The  repu- 
tation of  the  Auburn  firemen  is  established 
throughout  the  state  as  being  present  at  all 
fires  needing  help  outside  the  city  within  rea- 
sonable distance,  and  the  alacrity  with  which 
they  respond  to  the  fire  alone  has  won  for 
the  department  first  position  in  the  state.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  street  commissioners ; 
a  thirty-second  degree  Mason ;  member  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine ;  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  both  in  the  lodge  and 
encampment ;  a  Knight  of  Pythias ;  a  member 
of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He 
was  married  June  20,  1877,  to  Rosa  E.,  daugh- 
ter of  Washington  and  Elizabeth  (Haskins) 
Parker,  granddaughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Ruth 
(Stetson)  Parker,  great-granddaughter  of 
Elisha  Stetson,  great-great-granddaughter  of 
Anthony  Stetson,  great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of  Robert   and    Mary    (Collamore) 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1425 


Stetson,  great-great-great-great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Prudence  Stetson,  and  great- 
great-great-great-great-granddaughter  of  Cor- 
net Robert  Stetson,  the  immigrant.  Children 
of  Lewis  Washburn  and  Rosa  E.  (Parker) 
Haskell,  all  born  in  Auburn,  Maine,  were:  i. 
Martha  W.,  born  April  13,  1878.  2.  Lewis 
Washburn  Jr.,  November  28,  1879,  married 
Ethel  M.,  daughter  of  Edmund  Spearing,  June 
8.  1905,  and  they  named  their  first  children 
Ruth  E.  and  Lewis  Washburn,  3d.  3.  Albert, 
born  August  20,  1883,  married  Sadie  G., 
daughter  of  Frank  Harmon  ;  child,  Albert  Jr. 
4.  Henry  Irving,  born  September  22,  1887.  5. 
Rosa  Elizabeth,  born  January  20,  1893. 


(For  preceding   generation  see  William  Haskell   I.) 

(II)    Mark,  son  of   William, 
HASKELL     the     immigrant,     and     ]\Iary 

(Tybbot)  Haskell,  was  born  . 
in  Gloucester,  RIassachusetts,  April  8,  1658, 
and  died  there  September  8,  1691.  He  mar- 
ried, December  16,  1685,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Lieutenant  John  Giddings,  of  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  who  bore  him  three  children, 
and  after  his  death,  September  8,  1691,  his 
widow  married  John  Dennison,  of  Ipswich,  and 
the  records  of  the  probate  court  show  that 
Mark  and  William  Haskell,  children  of  Mark 
and  Elizabeth  Haskell,  received  on  January 
16,  1725,  of  their  "honored  father-in-law,  Mr. 
John  Dennison  and  their  honored  mother,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Dennison,  alias  Haskell,  both  of 
Ipswich,  certain  money  due  from  their  grand- 
father William  Haskell."  The  children  of 
Mark  and  Elizabeth  (Giddings)  Haskell,  born 
in  Gloucester,  JMassachusetts,  were:  i.  George, 
born  October  10,  i686,  died  November  10, 
1686.  2.  Alark,  September  16,  1687,  married 
Martha  Tuthill  and  had  nine  children  born  in 
Ipswich,  Massachusetts.  3.  William  (q.  v.). 
(Ill)  William  (2),  third  son  of  Mark  and 
Elizabeth  (Giddings)  Haskell,  was  born  in 
Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  January  i,  1689- 
90,  and  died  there  December  10,  1766.  He 
was  selectman  of  the  town,  deacon  of  the 
church  for  many  years,  and  a  representative 
in  the  general  court  in  1735.  He  married 
Jemima  Hubbard,  who  bore  him  eight  chil- 
dren, and  died  in  1762,  aged  seventy-seven 
years.  Children,  born  in  Gloucester,  Massa- 
chusetts, were  as  follows:  i.  Jemima,  March 
2,  1713,  died  March  2,  1735.  2.  Job,  April 
27,  1 716,  married,  January  26,  1737-38,  Marcy 
Leavitt,  settled  in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire, 
resided  at  Hampton  Falls  and  later  at  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  where  he  died  in  July, 
1806.    He  had  five  children,  born  '/i  Hampton 


Falls:  Thomas,  Nathaniel,  Job,  Jemima  and 
William,  between  1739  and  1755.  3.  Comfort, 
May  22,  1717,  married  Parker  Sawyer,  No- 
vember 10,  1742,  and  died  September  5,  1809. 
4.  Nathaniel.  January  16,  1719.  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Rev.  John  White,  and  had 
nine  children.  5.  Hubbard,  May  3,  1720,  died 
April  9,  181 1  ;  married  Anna  Millett  and  had 
ten  children.  6.  Elizabeth,  November  8,  1723, 
died  December  8,  1723.  7.  William  (q.  v.), 
January  17,  1726.  8.  George,  February  10, 
1729,  died  February  19,  1729. 

(IV)  William  (3),  third  son  and  seventh 
child  of  William  (2)  and  Jemima  (Hubbard) 
Haskell,  was  born  in  Gloucester,  Massachu- 
setts, January  17,  1726,  and  died  there  April 
27,  1806.     He  married  Elizabeth 


No- 
vember 6,  1746,  and  their  five  children  were 
born  in  Gloucester,  as  follows:  Benjamin, 
Jemima,  Moses  (q.  v.),  Elizabeth,  Elias,  who 
married  and  had  twelve  children  born  in 
Gloucester. 

(V)  Moses,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
William  (3)  and  Elizabeth  Haskell,  was  born 
in    Gloucester,    Massachusetts,    in    1767.      He 

married  and  had  children,  as  follows : 

I.  Benjamin  (q.  v.),  1785.  2.  Moses,  1787. 
3.  Betsey,  1790,  married  a  Haskell.  4.  Susan, 
1792.  5.  Jacob,  1794,  married  and  had  three 
children.  6.  Abigail,  1796.  7.  William,  1798. 
8.  Micajah,  1801,  had  seven  children.  9.  Alary 
J.,  1803,  married  a  Jones.  10.  Martha  H., 
1806,  married  a  Goodwin.     11.   Sewell,   1808. 

(VI)  Benjamin,  eldest  child  of  Moses  Has- 
kell, was  born  in  Gloucester,  Massachusetts, 
1785,  died  in  Bangor,  Maine,  1832.  He  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Daniel  Ful- 
ler, Congregational  clergyman  of  Gloucester, 
Massachusetts.  Their  four  eldest  children  were 
born  in  Gloucester  and  the  youngest  in  Ban- 
gor. Children:  i.  Mary,  died  before  she  at- 
tained womanhood.  2.  Hannah,  died  before  she 
attained  womanhood.  3.  Susan  Ann,  married 
Moses  P.  Hanson  in  Bangor;  lived  in  Sanger- 
ville,  Maine,  Salem  and  Chelsea,  Massachu- 
setts, and  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin;  children: 
Mary  F.,  married  ;  Margaret,  deceased  ;  Char- 
lotte E.,  married ;  Bertha,  unmarried ;  Eva, 
married  ;  James,  deceased  ;  Albert  Parker,  mar- 
ried. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hanson  died  in  Milwau- 
kee. 4.  Elizabeth  Davis,  married  William  S. 
Warren  in  Bangor;  in  1849  moved  to  San 
Francisco;  children:  William,  born  in  Bangor, 
deceased;  Sarah,  married;  George,  deceased; 
Henry,  married.  5.  Loomis  Pomroy,  see  for- 
ward. 

(VII)  Loomis  Pomroy,  only  son  and  fifth 
child  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Fuller)  Haskell, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


was  born  in  }5angor,  Maine,  April  25,  1826. 
His  fatlier  died  when  he  was  six  years  old,  and 
in  1838  his  mother,  having  married  a  second 
time,  "removed  to  Salem,  ^ias^achnsetts,  where 
he  attended  school.  He  was  an  apprentice  in 
a  printing-office  four  years  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. In  1845  he  took  up  the  study  of 
dentistry  with  Dr.  M.  P.  Han.son,  and  the 
two  dentists  removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wiscon- 
sin, in  1856,  and  in  1857  Dr.  Haskell  removed 
to  Chicago,  Illinois,  where  for  eleven  years  he 
was  associated  with  Dr.  W.  W.  .\llport  in  the 
practice  of  dentistry.  In  1868  this  partner- 
ship was  dissolved  and  Dr.  Haskell  continued 
his  practice  alone.  He  was  professor  of  pro- 
sthetic dentistry  in  the  Chicago  Dental  Col- 
lege, the  first  four  years  of  the  institution,  and 
held  a  similar  chair  in  the  dental  department 
of  the  Northwestern  University,  the  first  three 
years  of  that  department  of  the  university.  In 
1889  he  established  the  Haskell  Post-Gradu- 
ate  School  of  Prosthetic  Dentistry,  which  was 
the  first  post-graduate  dental  school  of  den- 
tistry in  the  United  States,  and  was  the  head 
of  that  institution.  Students  came  from  every 
state  in  the  United  States,  and  from  Canada, 
Europe,  India,  Egypt,  Japan,  Australia  and 
New  Zealand,  to  gain  the  advantages  offered 
by  a  post-graduate  course  in  dentistry.  The 
school  continued  in  the  work  for  fifteen  years, 
and  in  1903  was  consolidated  with  the  Chi- 
cago Post-Graduate  School.  Besides  his  duties 
to  the  American  school.  Dr.  Haskell  visited 
Europe  three  times  and  instructed  post-grad- 
uate classes  in  dentistry  in  Berlin,  Hamburg, 
\'ienna  and  Paris.  On  the  occasion  of  the 
eightieth  anniversary  of  his  birth,  April  25, 
1906,  the  Chicago  Odontographic  Society,  the 
largest  dental  society  in  the  world,  having  a 
membership  of  eight  hundred,  gave  him  a 
complimentary  dinner.  He  was  as  a  young 
man  a  member  of  the  Free  Soil  party  and  he 
attended  the  first  state  convention  held  by 
the  party  in  Massachusetts,  at  Worcester,  and 
the  Republican  party,  being  organized  in  1856, 
took  over  this  party  organization,  and  Dr. 
Haskell  has  been  true  to  the  principles  repre- 
sented by  that  party  in  thirteen  Republican 
national  conventions,  from  the  nomination  of 
John  C.  Fremont  in  1856  to  that  of  William 
Howard  Taft  in  1908.  He  has  remained  true 
to  the  religion  of  his  forefathers  and  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  He 
was  married  at  Chelsea,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 3,  1848,  to  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  John 
Wasson,  of  Derry,  New  Hampshire;  children  : 

1.  Harriet   C,  born   in   Chelsea,   died   yoimg. 

2.  Ella    P.,   born    in    Chelsea,   unmarried.      3. 


Eliza  N.,  born  in  Chelsea,  married  the  Rev. 
W.  J.  Clark,  a  Congregational  minister,  and 
their  children  were  Paul  Haskell  and  Elizabeth 
Toy.  4.  Sarah  Isabell,  born  in  Milwaukee, 
married  J.  B.  Parsons,  of  Dwight,  Illinois,  a 
native  of  Maine ;  one  child,  Florence  P.  5. 
Annie  Nutt,  married  William  T.  Barr,  of  ^Nlis- 
sissippi ;  children  :  Willie  P.,  deceased  ;  Mar- 
guerite, Mary  and  Charlotte.  Mary  Barr  mar- 
ried A.  J.  Svnder,  of  Milwaukee,  \\''isconsin. 


The  family  of  Hopkins  has 
HOPKINS     been  well  represented  in  New 

England  since  the  landing  of 
"The  Ma}tlovver"  in  1620,  and  there  have  been 
many  famous  men  of  this  name,  many  of  them 
men  of  letters,  and  not  a  few  have  held  pub- 
lic offices  of  trust.  By  intermarriage  they  have 
been  connected  with  many  prominent  families, 
among  them  the  Brewsters,  Princes  and  Free- 
mans. 

(I)  Stephen  Hopkins,  who  was  a  passenger 
on  "The  Mayflower,"  had  previously  visited 
this  country.  He  was  one  of  those  who  came 
over  in  the  ship  "Sea  .Adventure,"  which 
sailed  from  England  in  the  year  1608.  She 
was  wrecked  on  one  of  the  Bermuda  islands. 
The  a<lventurers  constructed  a  small  boat  in 
which  the\-  finally  reached  the  mainland.  It 
is  supposed  they  joined  the  Jamestown  colony. 
Mr.  Hopkins  returned,  but  by  what  route  is 
not  known.  He  probably  succeeded  in  reach- 
ing the  fishing-fleet  oft'  the  main  coast,  and 
sailed  on  a  returning  vessel  to  London. 

He  brought  with  him  to  Plymouth  his  wife 
Elizabeth,  his  son  Giles,  and  daughter  Con- 
stance, by  a  former  wife  Damaris,  a  daughter 
of  his  second  wife,  and  a  son  Oceanus,  who 
was  born  on  the  voyage.  He  also  brought  his 
two  servants,  Edward  Dotey  and  Edward  Les- 
ter, who  fought  the  first  duel  recorded  in 
Plymouth.  Stephen  Hopkins  was  an  "assist- 
ant" from  1633  to  1636,  and  died  in  Plymouth 
in  1644.  His  wife  Elizabeth  died  sliortly  before 
his  death.  He  had  by  his  first  wife  :  Giles  and 
Constance,  both  born  in  England.  The  latter 
became  the  wife  of  Nicholas  Snow.  He  had 
by  his  second  wife  Damaris,  born  in  England, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Jacob  Cook  :  Oceanus, 
born  on  the  voyage  to  America,  who  died  the 
first  year:  Deborah,  born  about  1622,  who  mar- 
ried Andrew  Ring;  Caleb,  who  died  unmar- 
ried at  Barbadoes;Ruth,  who  died  in  infancy; 
another  child  who  died  in  infancy ;  and  Eliza- 
beth, who  died  in  1666,  unmarried, 

(II)  Giles,  eldest  child  of  Stephen  Hopkins, 
was  born  in  England,  and  came  with  his  father 
to    Plvmouth    in    1620;    he    removed   to   Yar- 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1427 


mouth,  ^Massachusetts,  and  died  in  Eastham 
in  1090.  He  married,  in  October,  1639,  Cath- 
erine (on  records  spelled  Catorne)  Wheldon, 
of  Yarmouth,  and  had  children  as  follows : 
Mary,  born  1640;  Stephen,  1642;  John,  1643; 
Abigail,  October,  1644,  married  William  Mer- 
rick; Deborah,  June.  1648;  Caleb,  January, 
1651:  Ruth,  June,  1653;  Joshua,  June,  1657; 
William,  January  9,  1661,  and  Elizabeth,  No- 
vember, 1664,  who  died  in  infancy.  The  last 
six  children  were  probably  born  in  Eastham, 
Massachusetts. 

(Ill)  Stephen  (2),  eldest  son  of  Giles  and 
Catherine  (Wheldon)  Hopkins,  was  born  in 
September,  1642,  and  died  Harwich,  October 
10,  1718.  He  lived  in  Eastham,  Massachu- 
setts, and  married  (first)  May  23,  1667,  Mary, 
daughter  of  William  Merrick  (or  Myrick), 
and  (second)  Bethia  Atkins,  who  died  March 
28,  1726.  His  children  were:  Elizabeth,  born 
June,  1668;  Stephen,  July  15,  1670;  Ruth, 
November,  1674;  Judah,  January  16,  1677  o"" 
78:  Samuel,  March,  1682:  Nathaniel,  March, 
1684;  Joseph,  1688;  Benjamin,  February, 
1690;  and  Mary,  April  15,  1692,  married  John 
Maker. 

(I\')  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Stephen  (2) 
Hopkins,  was  born  in  1688,  and  .^pril  17, 
1 712,  married  Mary,  daugliter  of  Hon.  John 
Mayo  and  Hannah  (Freeman)  Mayo,  born 
October  26,  1694.  Major  John  Freeman,  the 
noted  Indian  fighter,  married  Mercy,  daughter 
of  Governor  Prince,  and  his  daughter  Hannah 
married  John  Alayo,  thus  uniting  the  lines. 
The  children  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Mayo) 
Hopkins  were:  Isaac,  born  March  10,  1713; 
Joseph,  jNIay  10,  1715:  Mary,  December  13, 
1716;  Jonathan,  February  12,  1719;  Hannah, 
October  22,  1722:  Nathan,  LA.ugust  22,  1726; 
Prince.  July  8,  1729.  died  young:  Elizabeth: 
Prince,  July  7,  1731  ;  Nathan.  October  6,  1733 ; 
Elizabeth,  June  6.  1738. 

{  \' )  Prince,  next  to  the  youngest  son  of  Jo- 
seph and  Mary  (INIayo)  Hopkins,  was  born 
July  7,  1 73 1,  lived  in  Harwich,  and  married 
Patience,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Thankful 
(Gage)  Snow.  Date  of  death  not  known. 
She  (  Patience )  was  descended  from  Con- 
stance Hopkins,  who  came  over  on  the  "Mav- 
flower"  with  her  father,  Stephen  Hopkins. 
She  was  also  descended  from  Elder  William 
Brewster,  who  was  the  ablest  man  in  Plym- 
outh Colony.  Thus,  those  named  below  are 
all  descended  from  four  of  the  "Mayflower" 
passengers,  viz. :  Stephen,  Giles,  and  Con- 
stance Hopkins  and  William  Brewster.  Chil- 
dren of  Prince  and  Mary  Hopkins :  Seth. 
born  July  6,   1753;  Thomas,  June   10,    1755; 


Sarah,  March  27,  1757;  Joseph  and  Nathaniel, 
January  27,  1760  (Nathaniel  probably  died  in 
infancy)  ;  Thankful,  February  2^.  1766  (prob- 
ably died  young)  ;  Prince,  September  21,,  1768: 

Reuben    ;     Nathaniel,     December     2^, 

1770;  Elizabeth 


(\T)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Prince  and  Pa- 
tience (Snow)  Hopkins,  was  born  in  East 
Brewster,  December  25,  1770.  He  was  a 
physician,  and  lived  and  died  in  East  Brewster, 
Massachusetts.  He  married,  July  7,  1799,  An- 
nie Armstrong,  of  Franklin,  Connecticut.  He 
died  Alarch  26,  1826.  Their  children,  born  at 
East  Brewster,  Massachusetts,  were:  i.  Na- 
thaniel, of  Foxcroft,  Maine,  October  11,  1800, 
died  October  26,  1872.  2.  Franklin,  of 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  .\ugust  12,  1802, 
died  June  28,  1869.  3.  Samuel,  of  East 
Brewster,  'Slay  16,  1804.  4.  Nancy  A.,  May 
16,  1806,  died  April.  1843.  5.  Joseph,  of 
-Mount  \'ernon,  Maine,  January  16,  1808.  6. 
Abariah,  of  Alalden,  June  15.  1810,  died  Jan- 
uary 7,  1841.  7.  Mary  West,  March  31.  i8i2, 
died  March  10,  i860.     8.  Calvin.  January  16, 

1814,  died .     9.  George,  December  24, 

18 16,  died  June  5,  1839.  10.  Thomas,  August 
18,  1819,  died  November .  1878. 

(\7I)  Joseph  (2),  fourth  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Annie  (Armstrong)  Hopkins,  was  born 
January  16,  1808,  at  East  Brewster,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  when  a  young  man  removed  to 
i\Iount  \'ernon,  IMaine,  where  he  married  Han- 
nah S.,  flaughter  of  Nathan  and  Sally  (Sher- 
burne) Philbrick,  December  31,  1833;  he  died 
September  12,  1886,  and  his  wife  died  April 
26,  1873.  (See  Philbrick,  VHI.)  Mr.  Hop- 
kins was  a  tanner  and  farmer,  and  for  about 
forty-seven  years  was  an  honored  and  useful 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Mount  \'er- 
non.  He  was  one  of  its  first  members,  and  was 
baptized  by  Elder  Drinkwater.  His  children 
were:  I.  Leroy  Davis,  bom  July  24,  1836, 
died  December  26,  1864;  he  was  a  member  of 
the  First  Maine  Cavalry ;  in  1862  he  married 
Abbie  P.  Scribner,  and  had  one  child,  Fred 
L.,  born  November  20,  1862.  He  is  a  farmer, 
and  resides  at  Mount  Vernon,  Maine;  he  mar- 
ried, November  10,  1885,  Hattie  Hall,  and 
they  have  four  children :  Helen  E.,  born 
March  8,  1892;  LeRoy  T.,  February  24,  1894; 
Hazel  A.,  November  2,  1895,  and  Lawrence 
P.,  April  30,  1905.  2.  Susan  Philbrick,  born 
May  18,  1838,  unmarried,  and  lives  on  the  old 
homestead  at  Mount  Vernon.  3.  Thomas 
Snell. 

(\TII)  Thomas  Snell  Hopkins,  the  younger 
son  of  Joseph  (2)  and  Hannah  S.  (Philbrick) 
Hopkins,  was  born  April  22,  1845,  at  Mount 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Vernon,  Maine,  and  after  attending  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  his  native  town,  studied  at  the 
Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary,  Kent's  Hill.  In 
June,  1862,  when  but  seventeen  years  of  age, 
he  enlisted  in  the  famous  fighting  Sixteenth 
Regiment  Maine  Infantry  Volunteers,  serving 
three  years  and  until  the  close  of  the  war.  At 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  Decem- 
ber 13.  1862,  his  company,  in  a  charge  made  by 
the  regiment,  lost  sixty-two  per  cent,  of  its 
number  in  killed  and  wounded,  and  JMr.  Hop- 
kins was  among  those  wounded.  After  the 
close  of  the  war  he  graduated  from  the  Law 
Department  of  Columbian  College  (now 
George  Washington  University)  of  Washing- 
ton, District  of  Columbia,  and  in  1869  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  He  has  met  with  success 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States.  His  son  is  associated  with  him 
under  the  firm  name  of  Hopkins  &  Hopkins, 
and  they  are  the  Washington  representatives 
of  important  corporate  interests,  domestic  and 
foreign ;  they  are  also  legal  advisors  in  Wash- 
ington of  a  number  of  foreign  governments, 
and  have  been  identified  with  large  matters  of 
international  character.  In  1897-98  Mr.  Hop- 
kins was  department  commander  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic.  He  was  for  several 
years  governor  of  the  Society  of  Mayflower 
Descendants  in  the  District  of  Columbia ;  is 
president  of  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Tem- 
porary Home  at  Washington,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Cosmos  Club.  He  was  married. 
January  4,  1866,  tp  Carrie  W.,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  W.  and  llucy  Emeline  (Cook)  East- 
man, and  they  reside  at  Washington,  having  a 
summer  home  at  the  old  homestead,  in  Mount 
Vernon,  Maine,  where  he  casts  his  vote  at 
elections.  They  have  two  children:  i.  Cap- 
tain Sherburne  Gillette,  born  October  5,  1867, 
who  was  mustered  into  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia Navfel  Reserve,  in  May,  1898,  was  com- 
missioned by  President  McKinley  lieutenant 
and  lieutenant-commander,  respectively,  and  as 
such  was  in  command  of  the  United  States 
steamships  "Oneida"  and  "Fern,"  until  his 
resignation  in  1900.  He  is  a  lawyer,  and  is 
associated  in  business  with  his  father.  Janu- 
ary 21,  1891,  he  married  Hester  I.  Davis,  and 
they  have  two  children  :  Sherburne  Philbrick, 
born  December  3,  1891,  and  Marjorie  Ger- 
trude, born  August  5,  1894.  2.  Jessie  East- 
man, born  September  18,  1875,  married  Dr. 
Edward  G.  Seibert,  a  physician  of  Washing- 
ton, March  5,  1904,  and  they  have  two  chil- 
dren, viz. :  Thomas  Hopkins,  born  October  19, 
1904,  and  Carolyn  Eastman,  December  8,  1908. 


The    Philbricks    and    Phil- 

PHILBRICK  brooks,  although  now  dis- 
tinct families  owing  to  a 
variation  in  the  orthography,  are  in  all  proba- 
bility of  the  same  origin.  They  were  mariners 
in  England  prior  to  the  emigration  period,  and 
not  a  few  of  them  on  this  side  of  the  ocean 
have  followed  that  occupation. 

( I )  Thomas  I'hilbrick,  who  is  supposed  to 
have  been  a  shipmaster,  arrived  in  New  Eng- 
land about  the  year  1630,  and  was  well  ad- 
vanced in  years,  some  of  his  children  being 
already  married.  He  settled  first  in  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts,  from  whence  he  removed 
in  165 1  to  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  where 
his  sons  John  and  Thomas  had  previously  set- 
tled. His  wife,  Elizabeth,  died  in  Hampton, 
12  mo.  19,  1663.  His  will,  in  which  he  alludes 
to  himself  as  being  very  aged,  was  made  in 
March,  1664,  and  his  death  occurred  in  1667. 
Children :  James,  John,  Thomas,  Elizabeth, 
Hannah,  Mary,  and  Martha. 

(H)  James,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth Philbrick,  was  born  about  1622.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Rob- 
erts, and  (second)  Ann  Roberts,  her  sister, 
and  by  the  second  marriage  had  nine  children, 
as  follows:  i.  Bethia,  married  Caleb  Per- 
kins. 2.  Captain  James,  Junior.  3.  Apphia, 
born  March  19,  1655,  married  Timothy  Hil- 
liard.  4.  Esther,  born  March  i,  1657,  niarried 
(first)  Joseph  Beard,  and  (second)  Sylvanus 
Nock.  5.  Thomas,  born  March  14,  1659,  mar- 
ried Mehitable  Ayres.  6.  Sarah,  born  Febru- 
ary 14,  1660-61.  7.  Joseph,  born  October  i, 
1663,  married  Triphena  Marston.  8.  Eliza- 
beth, July  24,  1666.  9.  Mehitable,  July  19, 
1668,  said  to  have  married  Timothy  Hilliard 
after  the  death  of  Apphia,  her  sister. 

(Ill)  Captain  James  (2),  eldest  son  of 
James  (i)  and  Ann  (Roberts)  Philbrick,  was 
born  July  13,  165 1,  and  died  in  1723.  He  was 
a  mariner  and  resided  at  Hampton,  where  he 
married,  December  4,  1674,  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Isaac  Perkins,  born  February  14,  1656.  She 
died  May  13,  1739.  They  resided  on  the  home- 
stead, and  had  eight  sons  and  three  daughters. 
Their  children  were :  Haimah.  born  in  1676, 
married  Stephen  Sanborn  ;  Daniel,  1678  ;  Jona- 
about  1689;  Abigail,  horn  June  25,  1692,  mar- 
ried (first)  Ensign  John  Sanborn,  and  (sec- 
ond) Lieutenant  Thomas  Rawlins;  Ebenezer; 
Apphia,  born  April  8,  1685 ;  Isaac,  August  5, 
1688,  married  Mary  Palmer;  James,  born 
about  1689;  Abigail,  born  June  25,  1692,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Haines ;  Deacon  Joseph,  born 
February  5,  1694,  married  (first)  Ann  Dear- 
born,    (second)     Elizabeth    Perkins,     (third) 


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Sarah  Nay;  Nathan,  born  August  19,  1697, 
married  Dorcas  Johnson ;  and  Mary,  born 
1701,  died  in  1721. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  third  son  of  Captain  James 
(2)  and  Hannah  (Perkins)  Philbrick,  was 
born  October  29,  1683,  and  in  1743  removed 
to  Rye,  New  Hampshire,  where  his  will  was 
proved  December  31,  1760.  He  married  Bethia 
Aloulton,  and  they  had  four  children,  all  born 
at  Hampton :  James ;  Ruth,  baptized  October 
13'  ^7^7'^  Bethia,  born  June  8,  1719,  in  1755 
was  not  married ;  and  Elsenezer,  born  May  27, 
1721,  married  Hannah  Moulton,  and  in  1760 
was  a  cordwainer  at  Rye. 

(V)  James  (3),  elder  son  of  Ebenezer  and 
Bethia  (Moulton)  Philbrick,  was  born  June 
2,  1714,  at  Hampton,  went  to  Deertield,  in 
1770,  and  in  1795  sold  to  his  son  Nathan 
"Deer  Thatch  Ground"  in  Rye,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  died  in  1796.  He  married  (first) 
Elizabeth  Rand,  and  had  thirteen  children,  and 
married  (second)  Sarah  Rand.  (There  is 
some  discussion  over  whether  he  married  both 
Elizabeth  and  Sarah,  or  married  only  one  of 
them,  and  which  one.)  His  children,  born  in 
Portsmouth  or  Rye,  New  Hampshire,  were : 
James,  born  August  29,  1736-37;  Sarah,  1738; 
Elizabeth,  May  22,  1739;  Jonathan,  1740; 
Mary,  1742;  Titus,  1744,  removed  to  Mount 
Vernon,  Maine  ;  Nathaniel ;  Nathan  ;  Ruth  ; 
Joseph;  Benjamin;  Anna;  Stephen,  born  May 
16,  1763,  married  Betsey  Folsom. 

(VI)  Nathan,  fifth  son  of  James  (3)  and 
Elizabeth  (Rand)  Philbrick,  was  born  April 
II,  1749;  he  was  a  joiner,  and  resided  at  Deer- 
field,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  died  Decem- 
ber II,  1824.  He  married  Gertrude,  daughter 
of  Matthew  Harvey,  of  Nottingham,  and  they 
had  eight  children,  born  at  Deerfield  :  Nathan ; 
Jonathan,  born  September  6,  1778,  married 
Abi  Woodman;  Hannah,  born  June  30,  1781, 
died  1799;  Rev.  Peter,  born  October  9,  1783, 
a  Free  Baptist  minister,  married  Betsey  Dud- 
ley; Joseph,  born  November  16,  1785;  Su- 
sanna, December  23,  1788;  Levi,  May  3,  1793, 
and  John,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years. 

(VII)  Nathan  (2),  eldest  son  of  Nathan 
(i)  and  Gertrude  (Harvey)  Philbrick,  was 
bom  May  23,  1776;  he  was  a  farmer,  and 
about  1800  removed  to  Mount  Vernon,  Maine, 
where  he  died  September  30,  1834,  a  man  who 
had  made  his  presence  felt  and  regretted  by 
the  whole  community.  April,  1802,  he  married 
Sally,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Samuel  and 
Phebe  (Chapman)  Sherburne,  who  died  June 
10,  1846,  and  they  had  six  children:  i.  Sally, 
born  January  30,  1803,  married  Thomas  Snell. 
2.    Susan,   born    February   28,    1805,   married 


David  M.  Greeley,  of  Mount  Vernon.  3.  Han- 
nah S.,  born  August  11,  1809.  4.  Harriet,  born 
July  I,  1813,  married  Aaron  S.  Lyford.  5. 
Mary  Jane,  born  December  7,  1816,  married 
Joseph  Blake.  6.  Philena  A.,  born  November 
II,  1818,  married  James  G.  Patterson. 

(VIII)  Hannah  S.,  third  daughter  of  Na- 
than (2)  and  Sally  (Sherburne)  Philbrick, 
was  born  August  11,  1809,  married  December 
31,  1833,  Joseph,  son  of  Dr.  Nathaniel  and 
Annie  (Armstrong)  Hopkins.  (See  Hopkins, 
VH). 


About   the  year   1650  William 
VARNEY     Varney    and   his    wife    Bridget 

came  from  England  and  settled 
in  the  plantation  at  Ipswich  in  the  colony  of 
Massachusetts.  Little  is  known  of  this  pro- 
genitor of  a  now  numerous  and  very  re- 
spectable family  of  descendants  except  that  he 
lived  for  a  time  at  Ipswich  and  died  in  Salem 
in  1654,  about  four  years  after  his  arrival  in 
this  country.  His  widow  Bridget  afterward 
removed  to  Gloucester  and  died  there  October 
25,  1672.  Children :  Rachel,  Humphrey, 
Thomas  and  Sarah. 

(II)  Humphrey,  son  of  William  and 
Bridget  \'arney,  lived  for  a  time  in  Gloucester 
and  was  of  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  as  early 
as  1659.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of_  El- 
der Edward  Starbeck.  Of  their  children,  John 
Riley,  born  in  Dover,  became  one  of  the  most 
eminent  physicians  of  his  day.  Ebenezer  be- 
came prominently  identified  with  the  civil  and 
military  life  of  New  Hampshire.  Sarah  mar- 
ried Jeffrey  Parsons,  of  Gloucester.  Rachel 
married  William  Vinson,  of  Gloucester.  These 
sons-in-law,  Jeffrey  Parsons  and  William  Vin- 
son, were  among  the  foremost  men  on  Cape 
Ann,  pioneers  there  and  in  many  ways  con- 
cerned in  the  affairs  of  the  town. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Humphrey  and 
Sarah  (Starbeck)  Varney,  was  born  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  and  like  his  father  became  a 
man  of  influence  and  substance.  During  the 
Indian  troubles  which  accompanied  the  wars 
between  the  English  and  French  powers  his 
house  was  strongly  fortified  and  called  Varney 
garrison  house,  and  history  states  that  it  fre- 
quently afforded  safe  refuge  for  the  families 
of  the  locality  against  the  incursions  of 
marauding  Indians. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Ebenezer  Varney,  was 
born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  about  1701, 
and  married,  in  1723,  Sarah  Robinson. 

(V)  Timothy,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Rob- 
inson) Varney,  was  born  in  Dover  and  re- 
moved in  1783  to  Windham,  Maine.    He  mar- 


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ried  Joanna  Kennard ;  children :  Ichabod, 
Ezra,  Alichajah.  Patience,  Hannah,  Samuel, 
Abijah,  married  Lydia  Kennard  and  had  a 
son  Joel    (see  sketch). 

(\T)  Ichabod,  son  of  Timothy  and  Joanna 
(Kennard)  Varney,  was  born  in  Windham, 
Maine,  and  afterward  removed  to  Topsham, 
Maine.  He  married,  February  3.  1785,  Abi- 
gail Conant;  children:  i.  Hannah,  married 
Benjamin  Hodges,  of  Hallowell,  Maine,  for 
inany  years  proprietor  of  the  Hallowell  House  ; 
children :  Caroline  Hodges,  born  March  10, 
1816,  and  George  Winslow  Hodges,  Novem- 
ber, 1818.    2.  Patience.    3.  Samuel.    4.  Enoch. 

(VH)  Enoch,  youngest  child  of  Ichabod 
and  Abigail  (Conant)  Varney,  was  born  in 
Saco,  Maine,  in  1787,  and  was  a  lumberman 
by  occupation.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war 
of  1812-15.  His  wife,  whom  he  married  in 
Saco,  June  18,  1815,  was  Mary,  daughter  of 
William  Getchell,  of  New  Meadow,  Maine. 
He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolutionary  war  and 
in  1776  was  second  lieutenant  of  the  Sixth 
Brunswick  company  of  the  Second  Cumber- 
land county  regiment.  His  father,  Captain 
John  Getchell.  was  an  officer  of  the  British 
army  during  the  French  and  Indian  war  and 
afterward  became  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Brunswick,  Maine.  Children  of  Enoch  and 
Mary  (Getchell)  Varney:  i.  John,  born  in 
Saco,  Maine,  181 5,  drowned  1825.  2.  James, 
born  in  Saco,  1817,  died  January  2,  1890,  mar- 
ried (first)  Elizabeth  Gore  Wing,  of  Bruns- 
wick, Maine ;  children :  i.  Louisa  Evel)n, 
married,  January  13,  1866,  Edward  Gardiner, 
of  Fultonville,  New  York  ;  ii.  James  Henry ; 
iii.  Sarah  Adelaide ;  iv.  \'esta ;  v.  Samuel 
Wellington,  married,  January  6,  1899,  Lulu 
Thomas,  of  Boston ;  vi.  Susan  Jeanette,  born, 
June  23,  1854,  married,  October  12,  1875,  Dr. 
William  Craige  Burke,  of  South  Norwalk, 
Connecticut ;  vii.  James  Arthur,  born  March 
14,  1857,  married,  1879,  Cora  Kennison,  of 
Bath,  Maine.  James  \'arney  married  (sec- 
ond) Harriet  Boynton  Williams,  of  Topsham, 
Maine  ;  children  :  i.  Elsie  Nora  ;  ii.  Kingsbury 
Melvin,  married  Lizzie  Fuller,  of  Brunswick ; 
iii.  Julia ;  iv.  John  Henry ;  v.  Wiley  Rogers 
Varney.  3.  Tristram  Hooper.  4.  William 
Henry.  5.  Joseph.  6.  Melissa  A.  7.  Court- 
ney. 8.  Lizzie.  9.  William  Wilson,  married 
Rebecca  Crawford,  of  Bath ;  was  a  lumber- 
man for  several  years  and  later  moved  to  a 
farm  and  became  an  extensive  dairyman  and 
milk  producer  in  West  Bath ;  children :  i. 
Lunette,  died  young;  ii.  Leola,  married  Edwin 
Brown,  of  Bath:  iii.  Margaret  Lunette,  mar- 
ried  Edward   Alonzo    Stevens,   of    Bradford, 


New  Hampshire,  and  died  in  August,  1907; 
children :  Ralph  Alonzo,  Roy  Oscar  and  How- 
ard Edward  Stevens,  iv.  Howard  Eugene, 
married  Mattie  Clark,  of  Bath ;  v.  Lizzie 
Melissa,  married  Milton  Montgomery  (one 
child,  William  Alontgomery,  born  Westboro, 
Massachusetts).  10.  Ann  Eliza,  married  Rob- 
ert C.  Coombs,  of  Lisbon,  Maine  ;  children  :  i. 
Edward  Coombs,  died  young;  ii.  Lizzie 
Coombs,  married  Frank  Purrington,  of  Bath 
(had  Carlos  Walter  Purrington)  ;  iii.  Charles 
x-Mbert  Coombs,  married  Rhoda  Perry  (had 
Charles  and  Margaret  Coombs)  ;  iv.  Fred 
Manley  Coombs,  married  Clara  Fisher,  of 
Bath  (had  Edward  and  John  Coombs)  ;  v. 
Carlos  Ball  Coombs,  married  Ella  Cameron 
(had  Adelaide  Coombs);  vi.  Walter  Merton 
Coombs,  n.  Elizabeth  Wing,  born  in  Bruns- 
wick, married  Carlos  E.  Ball,  of  Acworth, 
New  Hampshire,  and  lives  in  Maiden,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  child,  Blanche  Evans  Ball,  married, 
April  21,  1897,  Edmund  Alfred  Hopkins,  of 
Chelsea,  Massachusetts  (had  Edmund  Ball 
Hopkins,  born  in  Maiden,  March  27,  1900). 

(\TII)  Joseph,  son  of  Enoch  and  Mary 
(Getchell)  \'arney,  was  born  in  Topsham, 
Maine,  February  22,  1824,  and  died  in  the  city 
of  Bath,  February  8,  1900.  W'hen  he  was  an 
infant  his  parents  removed  from  Topsham  to 
Brunswick,  where  he  attended  school  and 
afterward  set  up  a  small  fruit  and  confection- 
ary store.  In  this  business,  however,  his 
profits  were  less  than  he  had  hoped  to  realize, 
so  he  gave  up  the  store  and  went  to  work  at 
log  driving  on  the  Androscoggin  river.  For 
a  time  he  had  charge  of  the  drive,  and  it  was 
while  at  this  employment  that  he  saved  the 
lives  of  two  men,  at  the  peril  of  his  own,  by 
jumping  into  the  river  and  bringing  them 
safely  to  the  shore.  Later  on  he  engaged  in 
making  box  shocks  for  the  Cuban  and  West 
Indies  trade.  In  1853  Mr.  X'arney  went  to 
North  Bath  and  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Adam,  Lemont  &  Company,  lumbermen  and 
manufacturers  of  lumber,  and  continued  in 
that  firm  until  1864,  when  he  purchased  the 
interests  of  his  partners  and  became  sole  pro- 
prietor of  the  business,  and  from  that  time 
Varney's  mills  did  the  largest  lumber  business 
on  the  Kennebec  river  for  many  years.  He 
employed  at  times  as  many  as  fifty  men,  and 
made  long  and  short  lumber,  house  frames  and 
ship  timber,  and  shipped  the  manufactured 
product  of  his  mills  in  his  own  vessels  to  Bos- 
ton, New  York  City  and  other  principal  mar- 
ket ports.  He  also  built  up  an  extensive  local 
trade,  and  as  his  mills  were  about  three  and 
one-half  miles   from   Bath  he  established   an 


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1431 


extensive  lumber  yard  in  that  city  in  1885.  In 
1894  his  mills  were  destroyed  by  fire  and  in 
the  following  year  he  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness pursuits,  having  accumulated  a  com- 
fortable fortune  in  real  estate,  houses  and 
other  valuable  and  paying  property.  Mr.  Var- 
ney  died  February  8,  1900.  He  was  a  strictly 
temperate  man  in  all  of  his  habits,  always 
straightforward  in  his  extensive  business  deal- 
ings, sincere  and  conscientious  in  his  devotion 
to  the  First  Baptist  church,  liberal  in  his  dona- 
tions for  church  support,  and  generous  in  the 
distribution  of  his  charities.  In  every  way  he 
was  an  honest  and  honorable  man.  and  was 
highly  esteemed  in  the  city  and  locality  in 
which  so  many  of  the  years  of  his  life  were 
spent. 

In  1847  he  married  (first)  jMelinda  J. 
Bishop,  of  Brunswick,  who  died  June  26,  i860. 
He  married  (second)  in  1862,  Julia  A.  Wil- 
liams, of  Topsham.  Four  children  by  his  first 
and  eight  by  his  second  marriage :  i .  Mary 
Melinda,  married  Charles  Bowker,  of  Phipps- 
burg.  Maine,  and  had  Clarence  Murray,  of 
Portland,  Ethel  Maud  Doughty  of  Yarmouth, 
and  Joseph  ^'arney  Bowker,  of  Portland.  2. 
Joseph  IMurray,  of  Bath,  married  Melvina 
Hasson  and  had  Mattie  Melinda,  deceased ; 
Oma  Viola,  deceased ;  Irvin  Clifford,  Jennie 
Morse,  Josephine  Melvina,  Edwin  Fuller,  de- 
ceased. 3.  Edward  Bishop.  4.  Hattie  Ken- 
dall. 5.  Annie  Elizabeth,  deceased.  6.  Corrie 
Helen.  7.  Nellie  Maude,  deceased.  8.  Clara 
Adela.  9.  Ralph  Waldo,  deceased.  10.  Ger- 
trude Williams,  deceased.  11.  Melinda,  de- 
ceased.    12.  Alice  Edna. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  William  Varney  I.) 

(VI)   Abijah,  son  of  Timothy 

VARNEY     A'arney,  was  a  pioneer  farmer, 

lumberman      and      mill-owner, 

■resided    at    W'indliam,    Maine,    married   Lydia 

Kennard. 

(VII)  Joel,  son  of  .-Kbijah  \"arney,  was 
born  January  6,  1809,  and  was  a  prosperous 
farmer  at  Windham,  Maine.  He  married, 
September  25,  1836,  Jane,  daughter  of  James 
and  Mercy  (Hawkes)  Lowell,  who  was  born 
November  26,  181 5,  at  Westbrook,  Maine, 
and  died  at  Brunswick,  Maine,  October  28, 
1867.  (See  Lowell,  VIII.)  The  children  of 
Joel  and  Jane  (Lowell)  Varney  are:  i.  Lois 
Winslow,  born  August  25,  1837,  at  Windham, 
died  July  26,  1853;  she  married  Dr.  H.  D. 
Torrey,  of  Massachusetts.  2.  Colonel  Almon 
Libby.  3.  Edward  Lowell,  born  August  23, 
1842,  was  a  non-commissioned  officer  in  the 
Sixteenth     Maine     Infantry     Regiment,     was 


made  prisoner  of  war  at  the  battle  of  Gettys- 
burg,  and  spent  some  time   in  Libby   Prison 
Hospital,  where  he  suffered  and  died  for  his 
country  December   10,   1863.     4.  Elma  Dora, 
born  November  3,   1850,  married,   September 
6,  1892,  Alfred  Mordecai,  a  colonel  in  the  ord- 
nance department  of  L^nited  States  army,  who 
is  now  on  the  retired  list  as  brigadier-general. 
(VIII)  Colonel  Almon  Libby,  eldest  son  of 
Joel    and   Jane    (Lowell)    \'arney,   was   born 
April  5,  1839,  ^t  Windham,  I\Iaine,  and  grad- 
uated from  Bowdoin  College  in  1862  with  de- 
gree A.   B.,  three  years   later  having  degree 
A.  M.  conferred  on  him.     In  1861,  while  still 
at  college,  he  was  appointed  first  lieutenant  in 
the  Thirteenth  Maine  Regiment,  the  commis- 
sion being  dated  December  9,   1861.     L'nder 
command  of  General  Butler  and  later  under 
Genera!   Banks,  he  with  his  regiment   served 
at   various  points   in   the   Department  of  the 
Gulf,  among  them  Ship  Island,  Texas,  Louisi- 
ana (Red  River  Campaign),  and  finally  in  the 
Shenandoah  \'alley,  Virginia.     In  the  summer 
of  1863  he  acted  as  judge  advocate  of  a  gen- 
eral court  martial  in  New  Orleans,  in  Decem- 
ber of  that  year  and  January  of  the  next  he 
filled    a    similar    position    at    Decrows    Point, 
Texas,  and  again  at  the  headquarters  of  the 
Nineteenth  Army  Corps  at  Alexandria,  Louisi- 
ana, in  June,  1864.     In  December  of  the  same 
year  he  was  president  of  a  military  commis- 
sion acting  at  Martinsburg.  Virginia,  for  the 
trial  of  citizens  charged  with  giving  "aid  and 
comfort  to  the  enemy."     Colonel  Varney's  ap- 
pointment in  the  ordnance  corps  dates  from 
February  15,  1865,  when  he  was  commissioned 
second    lieutenant,    since   which   time    he    has 
served  successively  at  Clinton,  Iowa  (where  he 
received  the  arms  of  the  returning  Iowa  Vol- 
unteers) ;    Watervliet    Arsenal,    New    York; 
Watertown     Arsenal,     Massachusetts ;     Chey- 
enne, Wyoming:  Leavenworth  Arsenal,  Kan- 
sas; Rock  Island  Arsenal,  Illinois;  was  chief 
ordnance   officer  on   stal?   of   Major   General 
Pope,   commanding   department   of   Missouri ; 
again    at    Watervliet    Arsenal,    New    York; 
again   at  Rock   Island    Arsenal,   Illinois;   and 
again  at  Watertown   Arsenal,   Massachusetts. 
From   1892  till   1899  he  was  in  command  of 
the  arsenal  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  then  went 
to   San   Antonio,   Texas,    where   he   remained 
until  1903,  when  he  reached  the  army  age  limit 
of  sixty-four  years,  and  was  retired.     He  is  a 
member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,   and   while   in 
Indianapolis  was  a  member  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Society  of  Indianapolis,  and  the  Indian- 
apolis Literary  Club.     He  is  also  a  member  of 
the   American   Association    for   the    Advance- 


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ment  of  Science.  Colonel  Varney  has  trav- 
elled extensively,  and  has  lately  returned  from 
Africa.  He  married,  May  9,  1866,  Hannah 
Josephine,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary  A. 
(Shattuck)  Gibson,  born  January  22,  1843, 
at  Winchester,  Massachusetts,  and  their  chil- 
dren are:  i.  Gordon  Edward,  born  February 
26,  1867.  He  married  Katlierine,  daughter  of 
the  late  Edward  B.  Porter,  of  Indianapolis, 
Indiana.  Edward  B.  Porter  was  son  of  the 
late  Governor  Albert  G.  Porter,  of  Indian- 
apolis, who  was  United  States  minister  to 
Italy.  Gordon  E.  and  Katherine  (Porter) 
Varney  have  three  children :  Gordon  Edward 
(2d),  Edward  Porter  and  Josephine.  2.  Theo- 
dore, born  January  27,  1874,  is  a  graduate  in 
the  class  of  1894  in  electrical  engineering 
course  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. He  married  Elizabeth  Phylisana, 
daughter  of  Augustus  I.  Lyon,  of  Bedford, 
Pennsylvania,  and  they  have  no  children. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  William   Varney  I.) 

(Ill)    Joseph   \'arney,   son   of 

VARNEY  Humphrey  Varney,  was  born 
in  Dover,  October  8,  1667.    He 

married  Abigail .     Among  his  children 

were:  i.  Jedediah,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Mary,  married,  June  30,  1736,  Samuel  Varney, 
son  of  Ebenezer,  and  her  cousin.  Perhaps 
others. 

{l\  )  Jedediah,  son  of  Joseph  Varney,  was 
born  about  1705;  married,  February  24,  1729- 
30,  Elizabeth  Hanson.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  Dover,  as  were  his 
father  and  probably  all  others  of  the  family 
for  several  generations.  Children,  born  at 
Dover:  i.  Abigail,  married  James  Hanson. 
2.  Jedediah,  mentioned  below.  3.  Ebenezer. 
4.  Thomas.  5.  Nicholas,  removed  to  Fal- 
mouth, now  Portland,  Maine.  6.  Susanna, 
born  1744,  married  Benjamin  Astin  (Austin). 
7.  John.  8.  Hanson.  9.  Isaac,  born  June, 
1752.  ID.  Hannah,  born  August  20,  1754. 
died  young. 

(\')  Jedediah  (2),  son  of  Jedediah  (i) 
Varney,  was  born  in  1732  in  Dover,  died  there 
January  25,  1799;  married  Mary,  born  about 
1732,  daughter  of  Tobias  and  Judith  (V^arney) 
Hanson.  She  died  at  Dover  in  1798.  (See 
Hanson  IV.)  Among  their  children  was 
Jedediah,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Jedediah  (3),  son  of  Jedediah  (2) 
Varney,  was  born  about  1760;  removed  to 
Nine  Partners  in  November,  1801.  Lived 
around  Berwick  and  Scarboro.  Children : 
John,  Levi,  Ezekiel,  David,  Peace,  Thankful, 


Comfort,   Ascenath    (Moore),   Sarah    (Hard- 
ing), Hannah. 

(VII)  Jedediah  (4),  son  or  nephew  of  Jede- 
diah (3)  Varney,  was  bom  in  1782  in  Wind- 
ham, Maine,  died  in  Lowell,  Maine,  1878.  He 
married  (first)  a  Miss  Jellison ;  (second) 
Elinor  Mac  Pheters,  a  widow,  December  20, 
1822.  Isaac  Varney,  of  Windham,  perhaps  a 
brother,  was  a  soldier  from  that  town  in  the 
war  of  1812.  Jedediah  settled  in  Lowell, 
Maine.  He  was  a  farmer,  a  Republican  and 
a  Quaker.  Children  by  first  wife :  Mary 
Jane,  \\'illiam  and  David.  By  second  wife : 
John  M.,  born  June  6,  1823;  Jedediah,  March 
4,  1825;  Isaac  C,  January  4,  1827;  Levi  L., 
February  27,  1829;  Joseph  C..  December  24, 
1831  ;  Stephen  H.,  February  9,  1833;  Lydia 
M.,  April  25,  1835;  Samuel  ].,  May  5,  1837. 

(VIII)  Jedediah  (5),  son  of  Jedidiah  (4), 
Varney,  was  born  in  East  Lowell,  then  known 
as  Cold  Stream  Plantation,  Maine,  March  4, 
1825.  He  received  a  common  school  educa- 
tion. He  worked  with  his  father  lumbering 
and  farming  and  remained  on  the  homestead. 
He  was  engaged  in  lumbering  and  farming  all 
his  active  years.  His  farm  is  about  half  a 
mile  from  his  father's  farm,  where  he  was 
born.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics ;  he  has 
been  postmaster  of  the  town  of  Lowell  and 
many  years  was  selectman.  He  is  a  member 
of  Eckutarsis  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry, 
and  has  been  its  master.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He  married, 
April  20,  1853,  Mary  Jane  Cummings,  of  Lin- 
coln, Maine,  born  August  31,  1828,  died  July 
23,  1900,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary  Jane 
(Annas)  Cummings.  Children,  born  at  Low- 
ell: I.  George  I.,  born  July  13,  1854,  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  fishing  rods  at  Mon- 
tague City,  ^Massachusetts ;  married  Mary  H. 
Porter:  children:  i.  Lucinda  B.,  married  Jar- 
vis  Edwards,  of  Greenfield,  Massachusetts;  ii. 
Vivian  V.,  died  in  1888;  iii.  George  I.  2.  Na- 
than H.,  born  May  24,  1856,  has  the  home- 
stead at  East  Lowell ;  married  Lucinda  Cum- 
mings ;  children :  Ida  Lutina,  Jesse,  Rose, 
died  1901  ;  Ora,  Clyde;  child  died  in  infancy. 
3.  Arthur  Eugene,  born  May  i,  i860,  resides 
in  Aberdeen,  Washington ;  married  Amanda 
E.  Witham;  children:  Ada  Ella  (Mrs.  Hop- 
kins) and  Merle.  4.  Ada  Ella,  bom  June  11, 
1866,  died  September  15,  1869.  5.  Fred  Lord, 
mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Dr.  Fred  Lord,  son  of  Jedediah  (5) 
Varney,  was  born  in  East  Lowell,  July  10, 
1873.  He  was  educated  there  in  the  public 
schools,  at  Lee  Normal  school,  at  the  Ricker 


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Classical  Institute,  at  Houlton,  Maine,  and  at 
the  State  Normal  school  of  Farmington, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1900.  He  attended 
the  University  of  Maine  also  for  one  term. 
He  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  that  neigh- 
borhood for  nine  years,  twenty-seven  terms  in 
all,  with  marked  success.  He  taught  in  En- 
field, Passadnmkeag,  Lowell,  Strong,  Madrid, 
Winthrop  and  Greenbush.  He  then  read  med- 
icine with  Dr.  L.  M.  Howes  and  was  gradu- 
ated at  the  Maine  Medical  College,  Brunswick, 
Maine,  in  the  class  of  1907  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  He  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the 
Tufts  Medical  School  of  Boston,  and  settled 
for  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Monson, 
Maine,  in  1907.  Dr.  V'arney  is  a  Republican 
in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  Lodge  of  For- 
resters, Shirley,  Maine ;  of  the  Lake  Hebron 
Camp  of  Woodmen  of  Monson ;  of  Juanita 
Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  Monson.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Free  Street  Baptist  church 
of  Portland.  Most  of  his  ancestors  were 
Quakers.     He  is  unmarried. 


(For  preceding  generations  see   ■W'illiani   Varuey   I,) 

(III)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Hum- 
VARNEY  phrey  and  Sarah  Varney,  re- 
sided in  Dover.  He  married 
Mary  Otis,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Mary 
(Pitman)  Otis,  and  granddaughter  of  Richard 
Otis,  who  was  killed  at  the  capture  and  de- 
struction of  the  garrison  at  Dover  under  Ma- 
jor Richard  Waldron  in  1689.  In  1696  he 
took  possession  of  the  "Hill"  (the  Otis  es- 
tate), which  his  wife  inherited.  She  bore 
him  thirteen  children :  i\Iary,  Sarah,  Stephen, 
Abigail,  John,  Ebenezer,  Nathaniel,  Thomas, 
Judith,  Samuel,  Martha,  Paul  and  Anne. 

(R)  Ebenezer  (2),  third  son  and  sixth 
child  of  Ebenezer  (i)  and  j\lary  (Otis)  Var- 
ney, was  born  in  Dover,  March  21,  1704.  He 
was  married  in  1729-30  to  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  Hanson.  Mrs.  Var- 
ney's  mother  was  the  Elizabeth  Hanson,  an  ac- 
count of  whose  captivity  is  given  in  Belknap's 
History.  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  were  the 
parents  of  ten  children :  Abigail,  Judith,  Ebe- 
nezer, Thomas,  Nicholas,  Susanna,  John, 
Hanson,  Isaac  and  Hannah. 
•  (V)  Isaac,  sixth  son  and  ninth  child  of 
Ebenezer  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Hanson)  \'ar- 
ney,  was  born  at  Dover  in  1752,  died  in  1826. 
He  was  married  in  1781  to  Lydia  Rogers. 
His  children  were :  William,  Aaron,  Alehit- 
able,  Timothy  and  Mary. 

(\'I)  Timothy,  third  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Isaac  and  Lydia  (Rogers)  \'arney,  was 
born  in  Dover.  1793.  died  in  Kennebunk,  1861. 


As  a  youth  he  assisted  his  father  in  carrying 
on  the  homestead  farm  in  Standish.  He  sub- 
sequently worked  at  the  blacksmith's  trade  and 
was  also  employed  in  the  mills  at  Dover.  He 
was  called  to  Kennebunk  to  assist  in  con- 
structing mills,  and  after  their  completion  he 
engaged  in  business  for  himself,  establishing 
a  plant  for  the  manufacture  of  plows  and 
agricultural  machinery.  He  conducted  that 
business  successfully  for  the  remainder  of  his 
life  and  was  succeeded  by  his  sons.  In  politics 
he  was  in  his  last  years  a  Republican.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He 
married  Mary  Southwick,  a  native  of  Alassa- 
chusetts,  and  she  became  the  mother  of  four 
children :    Elizabeth,  Lydia,  George  and  Isaac. 

(VII)  Isaac  (2),  youngest  child  of  Tim- 
othy and  Mary  (Southwick)  Varney,  was 
born  in  Kennebunk,  July  19,  1839.  He  was 
reared  and  educated  in  his  native  town,  and 
at  an  early  age  he  began  to  familiarize  him- 
self with  both  the  industrial  and  business  de- 
partments of  his  father's  factory.  In  1861  he 
and  his  brother  succeeded  to  the  business  un- 
der the  firm  name  of  G.  and  I.  Varney,  and 
in  addition  to  agricultural  implements  they 
manufactured  fine  hardware.  This  partner- 
ship continued  for  eighteen  years,  and  in 
1881  Mr.  Varney  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Amoskeag  Corporation  in  Manchester,  New 
Hampshire,  as  a  machinist,  remaining  there 
for  six  years.  Removing  to  North  Berwick  in 
1887,  he  re-established  himself  in  business, 
erecting  a  machine-shop  and  subsequently  a 
mill  for  the  manufacture  of  lumber,  box- 
shooks  and  boxes,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Isaac  Varney  &  Sons.  This  business  devel- 
oped into  an  extensive  and  profitable  enter- 
prise, and  in  1905  a  stock  company  was  or- 
ganized and  incorporated  as  the  Isaac  Varney 
-Sons  Company.  In  politics  Mr.  Varney  is  a 
Republican.  In  his  religious  belief  he  is  a 
Congregationalist.  On  October  29,  1862,  he 
married  Phebe  E.  Bufifum,  daughter  of  Cyrus 
and  Lydia  (Estes)  Buffum,  of  North  Ber- 
wick. Her  father,  born  October  19,  1800,  died 
October,  1842,  was  a  farmer  and  a  dealer  in 
real  estate.  Cyrus  and  Lydia  Bufifum  were 
the  parents  of  seven  children :  Edward, 
Charles,  Samuel,  Maria,  Louisa.  Phebe  E.  and 
Hannah.  Airs.  \'arney's  great-grandparents 
were  Samuel  and  Hannah  (X'arney)  Buffum, 
and  she  is  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  genera- 
tion of  Robert  and  Tamsin  Buffum,  who  came- 
from  England  about  the  year  1638,  and  set- 
tled in  Salem.  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  \'arney  have  had  ciiildren : 
I.  Louise  B.,  born  August  8,  1864.    2.  Edward 


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B.,  born  January  lo,  1869.  3.  George,  born 
January  10,  1869.  4.  William  R.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 11,  1871,  died  June  23,  iSgS. 


CIcneral  George  Varney,  born 
\'ARXEY  in  Levant,  Maine,  July  30, 
1834.  is  the  son  of  Paul  and 
Eliza  (Freethyj  \arney,  the  former  of  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  the  latter  of  York,  Maine, 
grandson  of  Ebenezer  \'arney,  and  great- 
grandson  of  Zaccheus  \'arney.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  was  for 
a  time  in  the  Chauncey  Hall  School  of 
Boston,  also  in  various  schools  in  Bangor,  and 
finally  took  a  course  in  East  Corinth  Academy, 
]\Iaine.  In  1853  he  accepted  a  position  as 
clerk  with  Charles  Hayward  &  Company, 
wholesale  grocers  in  Bangor,  and  in  i860 
was  admitted  as  a  member  of  the  firm.  His 
labors  for  the  company  were  interrupted  by 
the  civil  war,  but  at  the  close  of  the  contest 
he  resumed  his  old  relations  with  the  con- 
cern, and  as  the  older  members  of  the  firm 
had  all  died,  the  business  was  incorporated 
under  the  former  name  in  1902,  and  General 
Varney,  to  whose  excellent  management  much 
of  its  prosperity  was  owing,  was  made  presi- 
dent of  the  corporation.  Their  trade  extends 
throughout  that  section  of  the  country  in 
which  Bangor  is  located.  General  Varney  was 
major  in  a  regiment  of  state  militia  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  and  this  regiment 
was  equipped  and  mustered  into  the  United 
States  service  for  a  period  of  two  years.  He 
was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colo- 
nel in  August,  1861  :  upon  the  resignation  of 
the  colonel  he  was  made  colonel,  having  com- 
manded the  regiment  while  Colonel  Roberts 
was  on  furlough.  He  served  in  the  Fifth 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac,  throughout  the 
war.  was  a  prisoner  for  several  weeks  in  1862 
in  Libby  prison,  and  was  wounded  in  the  battle 
of  Fredericksburg.  At  the  conclusion  of 
the  contest  he  was  made  brevet  brigadier- 
general.  He  is  a  supporter  of  Republican 
principles  and  served  one  term  in  the  state 
legislature.  General  Varney  is  associated  with 
a  number  of  organizations,  among  them  being : 
i\Iaine  Commandery  of  the  Military  Order 
Loyal  Legion  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public ;  Army  and  Navy  Clubs  of  New  York 
City  and  of  Washington,  District  of  Colum- 
bia ;  St.  Andrews  Lodge,  No.  83,  Free  and 
Accepted  ]\Iasons;  Mount  Moriah  Chapter, 
No.  6,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Bangor  Council, 
Royal  and  Select  Masters:  St.  Johns  Com- 
mandery, No.  3 ;  member  and  was  commander 
of  B.  H.   Beale  Post,  No.   12,  Grand  Army 


of  the  Republic ;  Cumberland  Club  of  Port- 
land, jNIainc;  and  Tarratine  Club  of  Bangor. 
He  was  married  in  1865  to  Jane  2\Ioore, 
daughter  of  Franklin  Smith,  of  Waterville, 
Maine,  and  had  two  children,  one  of  whom 
died  in  youth.  iNIrs.  Varney  died  in  1881. 
The  surviving  child,  Helen;  married  John  L. 
Cutler,  a  commission  merchant  of  New  York 
City.  Their  children  are :  Mary,  Margaret 
\'arney,   Eleanor,   Constance   and   George. 


(For  preceding  generation  see  Percival  Lowell  I.) 

(II)  Richard,  second  son  of 
LOWELL  Percival  and  Rebecca  Lowell, 
was  born  in  1602  in  England, 
and  died  August  5,  1682,  at  Newbury,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  came  from  Bristol,  England, 
with  his  father,  in  the  ship  "Jonathan,"  landed 
at  Boston,  in  1639.  and  settled  at  Newbury, 
Massachusetts.  In  1670,  in  a  deed,  he  is  called 
"gentleman."  He  married  his  first  wife,  Mar- 
garet, in  England,  and  she  died  in  Newbury, 
January  2"],   1642.     He  married    (second)    at 

Newbury,   Margaret .   born   November 

2~.  1604,  who  was  living  as  his  widow  in 
1685-86.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  four  chil- 
dren, all  born  at  Newbury:  Percival,  Rebecca. 
burn  January  27,  1642.  Samuel,  1644.  and 
Thomas,  September  28,  1649. 

(Ill)  Percival  (2),  eldest  son  of  Richard 
and  Margaret  Lowell,  was  born  in  1639-40, 
at  Newbury,  i\lassachusetts,  and  in  the  records 
is  called  "yeoman."  He  married,  .September 
7,  1664.  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
(Fowler)  Chandler,  and  she  died  February  5, 
1708,  at  Newbury.  They  had  six  children,  as 
follows:  I.  Richard,  born  December  25,  1668. 
2.  Captain  tjideon.  3.  Samuel,  born  January 
13,  1675-76:  he  went  to  F'almouth,  Maine, 
with  his  brother  Gideon,  where  they  were 
granted  land.  4.  Edmund,  born  September  24, 
1684.  5.  ^Margaret.  6.  Johanna,  born  about 
1690. 

(1\')  Captain  Gideon,  second  son  of  Per- 
cival (2)  and  Mary  (Chandler)  Lowell,  was 
born  September  3,  1672,  at  Newbury,  and  died 
at  Amesbury,  Massachusetts,  before  1753:  in 
his  will  he  calls  himself  "yeoman,"  and  when 
his  will  is  executed  he  is  called  "captain."  In 
1696  his  name  appears  on  the  records  as  cord- 
wainer,  and  in  1706  as  mariner  and  coaster. 
He  removed  to  Amesbury  about  1719,  and  be- 
came the  owner  of  several  vessels,  which  he 
also  built.  He  took  his  wife  INIiriam  with  him 
on  many  of  his  voyages,  and  at  least  one  of 
his  children  were  born  on  such  trips,  and  prob- 
ably more.  In  1728-29  he  and  his  brother 
Samuel    purchased    land    in    Falmouth    (now 


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Portland),  Maine,  and  he  was  then  voted  free- 
man at  that  place,  and  had  the  ear-mark  of  his 
cattle  recorded.  He  never  resided  in  that 
town,  but  transferred  his  land  to  his  son  Ab- 
ner.  In  1690  Captain  Lowell  was  a  soldier  in 
the  First  Expedition  to  Canada.  He  had  a 
wharf  at  the  mouth  of  the  Powow  river,  w^here 
he  landed  his  "Rhum"  and  "Shugar"  from 
the  West  Indies,  and  other  cargoes.  Captain 
Gideon  was  a  good  financier,  and  amassed  a 
considerable  fortune.  He  married  (first)  July 
7,  1692,  Miriam  (Mary)  Swett,  by  whom  he 
had  ten  children,  and  (second)  June  4,  1735, 
Widow  Elizabeth  Colby,  by  whom  he  had  no 
children.  His  children  were :  JMar}-,  bom 
1692-93;  Lieutenant  John,  February  i,  1696- 
97,  in  South  Carolina,  while  on  a  voyage; 
Captain  Samuel,  about  1698 ;  Gideon,  about 
1700;  Stephen,  February  ig,  1703;  Corporal 
Moses,  about  1705;  Hannah,  April  11,  1707; 
Joseph,  about  1709;  Abner ;  Jonathan,  Alarch 
24,  1714. 

(V)  Abner,  seventh  of  the  eight  sons  of 
Captain  Gideon  and  Miriam  (Swett)  Lowell, 
was  born  November  29,  171 1,  and  died  in 
1 761.  In  1737  he  removed  to  Falmouth, 
Maine,  and  settled  at  Clarks  Point,  on  land 
given  him  by  his  father;  he  lived  there  for 
the  remainder  of  his  life,  being  drowned  there 
in  sight  of  his  home.  He  was  one  of  a  com- 
pany stationed  in  Fort  Pemaquiil  in  one  of 
the  Indian  w'ars,  and  May  26,  1747,  while  out 
with  a  party  of  fifteen  they  were  ambushed, 
ten  of  the  party  .being  killed  and  three  cap- 
tured ;  he  was  badly  wounded  in  the  wrist,  but 
escaped  and  saved  the  boy  (Ezekiel)  Webb, 
who  was  with  him.  By  the  good  care  and 
nursing  of  a  neighbor  woman  his  hand  was 
saved,  but  w-as  useless  ever  after.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  September  26,  1737,  at  Hampton 
Falls,  Lydia  Purrington,  and  is  supposed  to 
have  married  (second)  Joanna  Richards,  born 
March  16,  1719,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
though  the  record  of  this  second  marriage 
cannot  be  found.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  five 
children:  Mary,  born  July  30,  1738,  at  Fal- 
mouth; Captain  Abner,  December  28,  1740 
(was  a  captain  in  the  revolutionary  war)  ; 
Joshua,  John  and  Lydia. 

(VI)  John,  third  and  youngest  son  of  Ab- 
ner and  Lydia  (Purrington)  Lowell,  was 
born  August  11,  1748,  and  died  at  Windham, 
Maine,  in  1838.  He  was  a  joiner,  lived  first 
at  Falmouth,  Maine,  then  for  a  time  at  Harri- 
son and  Westbrook,  and  about  1785  removed 
to  Windham,  Maine.  He  was  accounted  the 
best  joiner  of  Old  Falmouth,  working  much 
for   Brigadier  General   Preble,  and   lived   for 


some  time  in  his  family.  He  and  his  brother 
Joshua  worked  in  partnership.  Lie  married 
Alary  Chapman  or  Chatman.  of  Westbrook, 
Maine,  and  had  ten  children,  as  follows :  Sam- 
uel Waldo;  Edward,  born  1781,  at  Portland; 
Mary,  who  died  unmarried  in  1837-38,  aged 
seventy-one;  Simon  C,  born  April  24,  1784; 
Alexander,  1788;  James;  Salome,  died  an  in- 
fant; William,  died  of  brain  fever;  Jane 
.Moody,  born  March  25,  1804;  John,  died  four 
years  of  age. 

(VII)  James,  fifth  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Chapman)  Lowell,  was  born  Alarch  20,  1789, 
and  died  February  23.  1884.  He  learned  the 
tailor's  trade  at  Portland,  Maine,  and  settled 
at  Westbrook,  but  removed  to  Windham.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and  good  Quaker,  and  at  the 
age  of  eighty-eight  years  was  in  good  health, 
bright  and  cheerful,  and  able  to  tell  a  good 
story.  He  married,  August  20,  1814,  in  West- 
brook, Mercy  Hawkes,  and  had  three  children  : 
Jane,  Nathaniel  Hawkes  and  Edward  Jones. 

(VHI)  Jane,  only  daughter  of  James  and 
Mercy  (Hawkes)  Lowell,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 26,  181 5.  and  died  at  Brunswick,  Maine, 
October  28,  1867.  She  married,  September  25, 
1836,  Joel  Varney.     (See  Varney,  VII.) 


"By   ascending   to    an   associ- 
BRADISH     ation  with   our  ancestors;  by 

contemplating  their  example 
and  studying  their  character ;  by  partaking 
their  sentiments  and  imbibing  their  spirit ;  by 
accompanying  them  in  their  toils ;  by  sympa- 
thizing in  their  sufferings,  and  rejoicing  in 
their  successes  and  their  triumphs — we  mingle 
our  own  existence  with  theirs  and  seem  to  be- 
long to  their  age.  And  in  a  like  manner  by 
contemplating  the  probable  fortunes  of  those 
who  are  coming  after  us ;  by  attempting  some- 
thing which  may  promote  their  happiness  and 
leave  some  not  dishonorable  memorial  of  our- 
selves for  their  regard  when  we  shall  sleep 
with  the  fathers,  we  protract  our  own  earthly 
being  and  seem  to  crowd  whatever  is  future 
as  well  as  all  that  is  past,  into  the  narrow 
compass  of  our  earthly  existence." — Daniel 
Webster.  '  -;^ 

(I)  Robert  Bradish  embarked  from  Har- 
wich and  came  over  in  the  ship  "Defence," 
and  was  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  in 
1635.  He  bought  a  house  and  lot  of  John 
Steel  on  the  corner  of  Harvard  and  Holyoke 
streets,  where  the  Holyoke  house  now  stands, 
and  owned  tillage  beyond  the  village.  The 
first  name  of  his  wife  was  Mary  and  she  died 
in  childbirth.  The  next  year  he  married 
\"ashti .    Robert  died  in  1659,  ^nd  after 


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his  death  she  kept  the  village  ordinary.  Mary 
Bradish  had  one  child  Joseph,  and  \'ashti  was 
the  mother  of  Sanuiel".  James,  Hannah  and 
Mary. 

(II)  Joseph,  iinly  son  of  Robert  and  Mary 
Bradish,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  in  May,  1638, 
dying  in  1725.  He  lived  in  Sndbury,  of  Way- 
side Inn  notoriety,  also  in  Framingham,  but 
returned  to  Cambridge  to  reside.  The  fi  ire- 
name  of  his  wife  was  Mary  and  by  her  he 
had  Mary,  Hannah,  Joseph.  James,  Ruth  ami 
John. 

(III)  Deacon  John,  youngest  son  of  Joseph 
and  Mary  Bradish,  was  born  the  year  his 
father  returned  to  Cambridge,  and  we  are  not 
sure  whether  he  was  a  native  of  that  college 
burg  or  of  Framingham.  Suffice  it  to  say,  the 
deacon  was  very  prominent  in  church  afifairs 
and  served  on  the  committee  to  consult  with 
the  pastor  respecting  measures  to  promote  a 
reformation.  This  important  body  continued 
to  exist  for  fifty  years.  The  wife  who  bore 
him  all  his  children  was  Hepsibah  Billings 
and  the  baptismal  record  follows :  Hannah, 
John,  James,  Elizabeth,  Jonathan.  William, 
Ebenezer,  Sarah.  Rebecca,  Mary  and  Isaac. 
Hepsibah  died  in  1735.  and  three  years  later 
he  married  Mrs.  Abigail  Tucker,  who  sur- 
vived him  thirty   years. 

(I\')  Jonathan,  second  son  of  Deacon  John 
and  Hepsibah  ( Billings)  Bradish,  was  born 
in  Cambridge,  September  16,  1713,  and  died 
in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  in  1788,  hav- 
ing passed  the  three  score  mark  and  lived  to 
see  his  country  achieve  its  independence  and 
start  on  its  predestined  course  of  national 
greatness  and  of  empire.  The  old  Bradish 
mansion  in  Charleston  where  Jonathan  lived 
was  on  the  opposite  corner  of  Union  and 
Maine  streets  and  was  a  wooden  house  painted 
yellow  and  stood  somewhat  back  from  the 
street  in  a  yard  in  which  were  lombardy, 
poplar,  and  balm  of  Gilead  trees.  Xear  it 
was  the  gunsmith  shop  of  Abijah  Moore. 
After  her  parent's  death.  Catherine,  a  maiden 
lady  of  refinement,  resided  in  the  house.  It 
went  out  of  the  family  in  1837  and  Union  block 
^  now  stands  on  its  former  site.  In  1735  Jona- 
than married  Abigail  Johnson,  born  in  1714, 
died  in  1803.  The  birth  record  as  given : 
Mary,  Billings,  Jonathan,  Abigail,  David, 
Susannah,  Eleazer.  Catherine  and  John. 

(V)  Major  David,  third  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Abigail  (Johnson)  Bradish,  was  born  in 
Charlestown,  and  removed  to  Portland.  JMaine. 
He  raised  a  company  of  minutemen  and 
marched  to  Cambridge  in  1774.  was  commis- 
sioned   a    major    in    Colonel    Bigelow's    regi- 


ment and  served  throughout  the  war.  The 
major  was  a  brave  officer,  beloved  by  \\\>  men 
and  respected  by  his  superiors.  In  war  he 
stood  amid  the  din  and  smoke  of  battle ;  in 
peace  he  lived  in  the  plaudits  of  his  country- 
men and  secure  in  the  decorations  he  had  won. 
He  died  at  a  serene  old  age,  leaving  to  his 
posterity  a  name  they  can  mention  with  par- 
donable pride.  He  married  Abiah  Merrill, 
July,  1776,  a  few  days  after  our  independence 
was  declared,  and  his  rejoicings  were  of  a  two- 
fold character,  the  freedom  of  his  country  in 
which  he  had  taken  a  no  inconspicuous  part 
and  his  marriage.  Their  children  were : 
Mary,  Levi,  Eunice,  Elizabeth,  Abigail,  David 
and  Sarah.     Major  Bradish  died  in  1818. 

(VI)  David  (2),  youngest  son  of  Major 
David  (i)  and  Abiah  (Merrill)  Bradish,  was 
born  in  Portland.     He  had  a  son  Martin. 

(\'I1)  Martin,  son  of  David  (2)  Bradish, 
was  born  in  Portland,  i\Iay  2,  1815,  the  month 
before  the  battle  of  Waterloo.  He  removed 
to  Eastport  and  conducted  a  bakery.  He  mar- 
ried Louisa,  daughter  of  Calvin  Gilson,  of 
Buckfield,  Maine,  and  had  two  boys,  Martin, 
and  Walter  F.,  the  subject  of  the  ne.xt  para- 
graph. 

(VIII)  Walter  F.,  second  son  of  Martin 
and  Louisa  (Gilson)  Bradish,  was  born  in 
Eastport,  September  7,  1844.  While  still  a 
pupil  in  the  public  schools,  embued  with  the 
martial  spirit  of  his  great-grandfather,  Walter 
F.  enlisted  in  Company  I,  Twenty-Eighth 
Maine  Regiment,  and  served  in  the  Nineteenth 
Army  Corps  under  General  Banks  in  the  siege 
of  Port  Hudson,  and  Fort  Donaldson.  Louisi- 
ana. Private  Bradish  was  in  General  T.  W. 
Sherman's  division,  General  Nickerson's  bri- 
gade. The  battle  was  fought  May  27,  1863, 
and  the  position  of  the  Twenty-eighth  was  on 
the  extreme  left  of  the  L'nion  line.  He  par- 
ticipated in  the  charge  of  Nickerson's  men  at 
two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  in  which  the  bri- 
gade was  terribly  cut  up.  It  was  at  this 
battle  that  General  Neal  Dow  was  wounded. 
After  his  return  from  the  front  he  engaged  in 
the  bakery  business  with  his  father  and  event- 
ually bought  him  out.  Mr.  Bradish  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  trade  of  Eastport ;  Eastern 
Lodge,  No.  7,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  Eastport  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No. 
10;  St.  Bernard  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar ;  of  Kora  Temple,  Arabic  Order  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  and  has  been  advanced  eigh- 
teen degrees  in  the  consistory  of  Scottish  Rite 
]\Iasonry.  He  was  charter  member  of  East- 
port  Lodge,  No.  880,  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  and  belongs  to  Meade 


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Post.  No.  40,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 
Mr.  Bratlish  has  served  on  the  board  of  edu- 
cation and  votes  the  Republican  ticket.  He  is 
liberal  in  his  religious  belief  and  friendly  to- 
ward all.  He  married  Frances  R.  Swett,  of 
Eastport,  and  she  was  killed  in  the  railroad 
accident  at  Atlantic  City,  October  28,  1906. 
Mr.  Bradish  married  (second)  Rena  Spoor, 
of  Coxsackie,  New  York.  The  children  of 
Walter  F.  and  Frances  R.  (Swett)  Bradish 
were  christened  and  born  as  follows:  i.  Ar- 
thur Jefferson,  May  4,  1871,  died  May  22, 
1908.  2.  Scott  Philson,  April  6,  1873,  mar- 
ried Mary  McCulloch,  of  Calais,  Maine.  3. 
Frank  Lester,  January  20,  1875,  married 
Ethel  Calder,  of  Campobello,  New  Brunswick. 

4.  Ralph  Walter,  February  12.  1880,  married 
Nancy  Conklin,  of  Somerville.  Massachusetts. 

5.  antl  6.  Murray  Swett  and  Donald  Dunbar 
(twins). 


There  are  various  traditions 
LARR-A-BEE  relative  to  the  origin  of  the 
Larrabees  of  America,  all 
resting  upon  inconclusive  evidence.  That  the 
name  is  of  French  origin  is  little  doubted, 
and  that  the  famfly  is  of  Huguenot  extraction 
is  generally  credited,  but  nothing  is  definitely 
known  as  to  who  was  the  immigrant  ancestor 
of  any  of  the  various  families  of  Larrabee,  or 
when  the  "settler"  came  to  these  shores.  For 
a  portion  of  the  following  account  of  the 
family,  credit  is  due  to  G.  T.  Ridlon's  "Saco 
\'alley  Settlements  and  Families.'" 

(i)  Stephen  Larrabee  is  stated  in  a  petition 
by  Isaac  Larrabee,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts, 
dated  March  6,  1732,  to  be  the  father  of  sons 
named  Stephen,  William,  John,  Thomas,  Sam- 
uel, Isaac.  Benjamin,  Ephraim,  and  a  daugh- 
ter Jane.  The  same  names,  with  the  addition 
of  the  name  of  Hannah  as  the  daughter  of 
Jane,  are  mentioned  in  the  will  of  William 
Larrabee,  of  Maiden,  Massachusetts,  made 
October  24,  1692,  in  which  they  are  men- 
tioned as  "loving  kinsmen  and  kinswomen." 

(II)  Thomas,  evidently  the  fourth  son  of 
Stephen  Larrabee,  seems  to  have  removed 
from  Maiden,  Massachusetts,  to  North  Yar- 
mouth, Maine.  The  year  1660  is  given  as  the 
date  of  his  birth.  He  owned  land  in  Scar- 
borough in  1 68 1,  was  a  resident  as  early  as 
1683,  but  when  the  war  with  the  Indians  broke 
out  in  1686  he  fled  with  the  other  inhabitants 
of  that  district  to  Kittery  or  Portsmouth,  and 
there  some  of  his  children  were  born  and  mar- 
ried. In  1720,  soon  after  the  second  settle- 
ment of  Scarborough,  Thomas  Larrabee  re- 
turned  to  his  plantation,   was  present  at   the 


meeting  for  the  organization  of  the  town 
government  in  1720,  and  resided  in  the  town 
two  years,  next  following,  and  April  19,  1723, 
with  his  son  Anthony  was  killed  by  the  In- 
dians while  at  work  in  a  field  at  some  dis- 
tance from  his  house.  The  place  where  they 
were  at  work  was  called  the  ten-acre  home 
lot.  They  were  buried  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Block  Point  road,  not  far  from  the  scene  of 
the  tragedy.  Thomas  Larrabee  was  an  in- 
dustrious citizen  and  highly  esteemed.  The 
names  of  seven  persons  supposed  to  be  his 
children  are  given,  as  follows :  Anthony, 
Eleanor.  Thomas,  Jane,  Hannah,  John  and 
Benjamin. 

(Hi)  Benjamin,  seventh  child  and  fourth 
son  of  Thomas  Larrabee,  lived  on  Pleasant 
Hill  in  Scarborough.  He  died  December  17, 
1763,  in  the  sixty-third  year  of  his  age,  and 
was  buried  in  Block  Point  cemetery.  He  mar- 
ried, December  4,  1724,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Abigail  Johnson,  of  Kittery.  She 
died  December  26,  1789,  in  the  eighty-si.xth 
year  of  her  age.  They  had  eight  children ; 
William,  Sarah,  Elizabeth.  Hannah,  Lydia, 
Benjamin,   Miriam  and  Jonathan. 

(IV)  Benjamin  (2),  sixth  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  Benjamin  (i)  and  Sarah  (John- 
son) Larrabee,  was  born  ]May  23,  1740,  and 
died  April  17,  1829.  He  was  a  patriot  sol- 
dier and  the  "Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sail- 
ors in  the  War  of  the  Revolution"  contains  the 
following  record  of  him :  "Captain ;  engaged 
July  I,  1775;  service,  6  months  16  days,  on 
seacoast  in  Cumberland  County ;  also,  official 
record  of  a  ballot  by  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives, dated  February  5,  1776:  said  Larrabee 
chosen  second  major,  Col.  Jonathan  Mitchell's 
( Second  Cumberland  County )  regiment  of 
Massachusetts  ]Militia ;  appointment  concurred 
in  by  Council  February  7,  1776;  reported  com- 
missioned Feb.  7,  1776."  He  was  a  man  of 
action  and  a  leader  among  his  townsmen.  He 
married,  July  28,  1778,  Hannah  Skillings,  who 
died  September  26,  1828,  aged  eighty-one. 
The  children  were:  Hannah,  Benjamin  and 
Joseph. 

(V)  Benjamin  (3),  the  elder  of  the  two 
sons  of  Benjamin  (2)  and  Hannah  (Skil- 
lings) Larrabee,  was  born  June  24,  1781,  and 
died  February  25,  1823.  He  was  a  pros- 
perous farmer  in  Scarborough,  a  wel?  in- 
formed and  popular  man,  and  served  as  select- 
man and  represented  his  town  in  the  legisla- 
ture. He  married,  October  10,  1805,  Susanna 
Libby,  who  was  born  in  Scarborough,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1784,  daughter  of  Seth  and  Lydia 
(Jordan)    Libby.      She    died    May    17,    1846, 


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aged  sixty-two  years.  They  had  seven  chil- 
dren: Mary,  Jolin,  Benjamin,  Seth  L.,  Han- 
nah, Jordan  L.  and  Albion  K.  P. 

(VI)  Benjamin  (4),  second  son  of  Ben- 
jamin (3)  and  Susanna  (Libby)  Larrabee, 
was  born  in  Scarborough,  August  8,  1810,  died 
in  Portland,  August  2,  1874.  He  was  a  car- 
penter and  settled  in  Portland  about  1834;  he 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  there.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  political  faith  and  was 
customs  inspector  at  Portland  from  1852  to 
i860.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  and  is  spoken  of  as  a  very 
worthy  man.  He  married,  October  4,  1836, 
Harriet  Jane  Pearson,  born  in  1817,  died  in 
Portland,  July  22,  1841,  daughter  of  George 
H.  and  Harriet  (Rice)  Pearson.  They  had 
one  child,  George  H.  P.,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 

(VII)  George  Henry  Pearson,  only  child 
of  Benjamin  (4)  and  Harriet  Jane  (Pearson) 
Larrabee,  was  born  in  Portland,  January  31, 
1841.  He  is  a  farmer  and  lumber  surveyor, 
and  resides  at  Pride's  Corner.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Free  Masons.  He  votes  the  Re- 
publican ticket,  but  has  never  held  or  sought 
public  office.  He  married  (first)  July  30, 
1862,  Jane  Boyes  Phillips,  born  in  Portland, 
August  18,  1841,  died  June  3,  1877,  daughter 
of  Warren  and  Mary  (Parker)  Phillips,  of 
Portland.  He  married  (second)  July  16, 
1878,  Ella  Margaretta  Everett,  born  in  Bath, 
Maine,  May  25,  1847,  daughter  of  Timothy 
and  Sarah  L.  (Hudson)  Everett,  of  Bath. 
Mr.  Everett  followed  the  sea  for  many  years, 
was  a  master  mariner,  and  sailed  principally 
to  South  America,  Australia  and  India.  The 
children  of  George  H.  P.  and  Jane  Boyes 
(Phillips)  Larrabee  were:  Harriet  Jane  and 
Elizabeth  P.  Harriet  J.,  born  May  17,  1863, 
graduated  from  the  Portland  high  school  in 
1883,  and  married  Frederick  A.  Tompson 
(see  Tompson  IX).  Elizabeth  P.  died  in  in- 
fancy. Mr.  Larrabee's  children  by  his  sec- 
ond wife  are:  i.  George  P.,  born  in  Scarboro, 
June  23,  1881,  is  a  druggist  in  Presque  Isle, 
Maine ;"  he  married  Mary  Collins.  2.  Winni- 
fred  S.,  born  Westbrook,  July  8,  1885,  mar- 
ried Harold  V.  Goodhue.  3.  Sarah  E.,  born 
Westbrook,  September  21,  1886.  4.  Lena,  born 
Westbrook,  April  3,  1888. 

(VI)  Jordan  L.,  sixth  child  and  fourth  son 
of  Benjamin  (3)  and  Susanna  (Libby)  Lar- 
rabee, was  born  in  Scarborough,  June  4,  1818, 
died  April  8,  1884.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
also  engaged  in  carpentering.  He  was  intel- 
ligent and  honorable  and  served  his  towns- 
men several  years  as  a  member  of  the  board 


of  selectmen.  Pie  married,  November  9,  1849, 
Caroline  F.  Beals,  born  November  28,  1826, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Francis  (Leonard) 
Beals,  of  Leeds.  She  died  July  2,  1907,  aged 
eighty  years.  Two  children  were  born  of  this 
union :  Albion  W^  and  Seth  L.  Albion  W. 
was  born  August  20,  1852,  took  a  course  in 
medicine  at  Dartmouth  Medical  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1873,  practiced  his 
profession  in  Saco  and  Scarborough,  and  died 
in  the  latter  town  September  29,  1892.  He 
married,  in  Boston,  October  11,  1873,  Susan 
Brown,  of  Portland,  who  survives  him. 

(Vll)  Seth  L.,  second  son  of  Jordan  L. 
and  Caroline  F.  (Beals)  Larrabee,  was  born 
in  Scarborough,  January  22,  1855.  His  boy- 
hood was  passed  on  the  ancestral  homestead, 
about  equally  divided  between  attending  the 
district  school  and  in  the  performance  of  the 
labor  necessary  on  the  farm.  Later  he  fitted 
for  college  in  Westbrook  Seminary,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1870.  He  entered 
Bowdoin  College  in  1871  and  graduated  from 
that  institution  with  the  class  of  1875.  He 
taught  several  terms  in  the  common  schools 
while  pursuing  his  college  course,  and  after 
his  graduation  was  instructor  of  languages 
one  year  in  Goddard  Seminary  at  Barre,  Ver- 
mont. In  1876  he  entered  the  law  office  of 
Strout  &  Gage  in  Portland,  where  he  studied 
until  admitted  to  the  Cumberland  bar  in  Octo- 
ber, 1878.  He  immediately  opened  an  office 
in  Portland  and  soon  built  up  a  large  prac- 
tice, having  for  his  patrons  many  of  the 
prominent  business  men  of  Portland  and  the 
surrounding  territory.  For  nearly  thirty  years 
"his  commanding  figure  and  his  masterly  con- 
duct of  cases  have  been  well  known  in  the 
Maine  Courts."  "Mr.  Larrabee  is  a  Repub- 
lican and  his  influence  in  political  circles,  his 
ability  to  win  and  keep  friends,  and  his  social 
popularity  have  combined,"  says  the  Bench 
and  Bar  of  jMaine,  "to  render  him  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  party  to  which  he  has 
rendered  important  service."  In  1880  he  was 
elected  register  of  probate  for  Cumberland 
county,  and  filled  that  place  for  nine  years. 
In  1 89 1  he  was  elected  city  solicitor  for  Port- 
land, and  re-elected  in  1893.  In  1895  and 
again  in  1897  he  was  chosen  representative 
to  the  state  legislature.  On  the  assembling 
of  that  body  after  his  second  election  he  was 
its  sole  choice  as  a  candidate  for  the  speaker- 
ship, and  was  elected  to  that  office  without 
a  dissenting  vote,  and  filled  it  with  dignity, 
ability  and  a  charm  of  personal  manner  sel- 
dom equalled.  His  business  qualifications  and 
critical  judgment  have  placed  him  in  a  num- 


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ber  of  responsible  trusts.  For  many  years 
past  he  has  been  an  influential  member  of  the 
Portland  Board  of  Trade.  He  was  one  of  the 
promoters  and  organizers  of  the  Casco  and 
of  the  Portland  Loan  and  Building  Associa- 
tions, in  both  of  which  he  is  a  director, 
treasurer  and  attorney.  He  was  also  an  origi- 
nal incorporator  and  president  of  the  Port- 
land &  Yarmouth  Electric  Railway  Company ; 
and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chapman 
National  Bank,  of  which  he  was  vice-president 
and  director  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Cullen  C. 
Chapman,  March  22,  1903,  and  was  then 
elected  to  the  presidency  of  that  institution. 
He  was  instrumental  in  chartering  and  found- 
ing the  Mercantile  Trust  Company,  of  which 
he  is  vice-president,  trustee  and  attorney.  The 
care  of  various  estates  has  also  been  placed  in 
Mr.  Larrabee's  hands,  and  in  all  these  posi- 
tions he  has  proved  himself  to  be  conservative 
yet  progressive,  prudent  yet  active  and  alert. 
He  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  Atlantic 
Lodge,  a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  member  of 
Bromhall  Lodge,  No.  3.  He  is  a  member  of 
Cumberland  Club  and  many  other  social  and 
civic  organizations.  For  two  years  he  served 
as  captain  of  the  First  Battery,  Maine  Na- 
tional Guard.  Seth  L.  Larrabee  married,  Oc- 
tober 21,  1880,  Lulu  B.  Sturtevant,  of  Scar- 
boro,  who  was  born  February  i,  1858,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Harriet  AL  (Bartels)  Stur- 
tevant. They  have  two  children  :  Sydney  Bar- 
tels, born  July,  1881  ;  and  Leon  Sturtevant, 
December,  1882. 


(For  earlier  generations  see  preceding  sketch.) 

(HI)  John,  one  of  the 
LARRABEE  3'ounger  children  of  Thomas 
Larrabee  and  wife,  who  re- 
sided at  Scarborough,  married  Mary  Inger- 
soll,  of  Kittery,  January  13,  1726,  and  by 
this  union  the  following  children  were  born : 
I.  Deborah,  born  July  24,  1728,  married  her 
cousin,  Isaac  Larrabee,  and  settled  in  Machias, 
Maine,  where  she  survived  her  husband  and 
reached  the  exceptional  age  of  one  hundred 
years.  She  was  the  first  white  woman  within 
the  town  and  her  descendants  are  very  nu- 
merous. 2.  Solomon,  married  Elizabeth  Win- 
ters. 3.  John.  4.  Mary.  5.  Stephen.  6. 
Phebe.  7.  Philip.  8.  Eunice.  9.  John.  10. 
Jonathan. 

(IV)  Philip,  seventh  child  of  John  and 
Mary  (Ingersoll)  Larrabee,  was  born  March 
3,  1744.  married  Sally  Smith,  of  Berwick,  and 
settled  in  Scarborough,  where  he  died  August 
22,  1 82 1,  aged  about  seventy-seven  years. 

(V)  John    (2),    son    of    Philip    and    Sally 


(Smith)  Larrabee,  was  born  .'\ugust  5,  1769. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  later  in  life  became  a 
timber  and  lumber  dealer,  being  a  resident  of 
Wales,  Maine,  where  he  resided  from  1793  to 
the  time  of  his  death  in  1854.  He  was  a 
staunch  old-time  Democrat,  and  in  religion 
a  believer  in  the  Universalist  faith.  He  mar- 
ried Susan  Andrews,  a  native  of  Wales,  Maine, 
and  their  children  were :  Presina,  Hannah, 
Philip,  John,  Daniel,  William  (died  young), 
and  William,  who  grew  to  manhood. 

(VI)  Daniel,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Susan 
(Andrews)  Larrabee,  born  July  2,  1805,  in 
Wales,  Maine,  died  March  4,  1883,  in  Gar- 
diner. In  his  youth  and  young  manhood  he 
farmed,  but  at  the  age  of  about  nineteen  years 
entered  the  ship-yards  at  Bath,  Maine,  where 
he  learned  the  ship-building  trade.  In  1838  he 
went  to  Louisiana,  as  a  superintendent  for  the 
government,  looking  after  the  cutting  of  live 
oaks,  which  timber  was  used  in  ship-building. 
After  one  year  in  the  south,  and  early  in  the 
forties,  he,  in  company  with  his  brothers, 
Philip  and  John  Larrabee,  went  to  Virginia 
and  engaged  in  the  business  of  getting  out 
ship-frames,  which  they  supplied  to  Bath  ship- 
builders. They  continued  in  this  business 
until  1861,  when  Daniel  returned  to  Gardiner, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  staple  and  fancy 
grocery  business,  with  Cyrus  Libby.  This 
partnership  was  in  effect  until  the  death  of 
,Mr.    Libby,   when   his    brother,     Samuel    W. 

Libby,  came  into  the  firm,  and  this  firm  con- 
ducted the  business  until  1870,  when  Mr.  Lar- 
rabee retired  and  resided  on  his  farm,  which 
he  still  retained.  Lie  was  a  Democrat  until 
1862,  then  threw  his  vote  and  influence  with 
the  Republican  party,  and  became  a  promi- 
nent figure  in  city  government,  holding  the 
office  of  councilman,  and  at  another  time  was 
elected  alderman.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Gardiner  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar, 
and  also  belonged  to  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  Devoted  to  Christianity,  he 
had  his  church  home  with  the  Baptist  denomi- 
nation, and  was  deacon  many  years.  He  was 
married  to  Sabrina  Ricker,  born  i\Iay  16,  1802, 
in  Milton,  New  Hampshire,  died  February  23, 
1882,  in  Gardiner,  Maine.  Their  children 
were :  Statira,  Jane,  Jarnes  M.,  Ezra  K.,  who 
died  in  infancy. 

(VII)  James  Morrill,  third  child  of  Daniel 
and  Sabrina  (Ricker)  Larrabee,  was  born 
December  4.  1833,  in  Wales,  Maine.  He  se- 
cured a  good  education  at  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  place,  which  he  attended  several 
years,  then  spent  three  years  at  the  Maine 
Seminary,  at  Kent's  Hill,  and  also  one  year  at 


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Phillips  Exeter  Academy.  After  obtaining  his 
education,  he  clerked  one  year  for  John  Stone 
in  the  retail  grocery  business.  Not  feeling 
satisfied  with  that  line  of  merchandising,  he 
took  a  position  in  the  dry-goods  house  of 
Frost  &  Judkins,  at  Gardiner,  remaining  there 
one  year.  In  1857  he  taught  school  in  the 
New"  Mills  district,  one  term  in  Gardiner.  In 
1858  he  taught  the  Highland  grammar  school, 
and  continued  in  that  school  for  three  years, 
resigning  on  account  of  his  health.  He  ne.xt 
joined  his  father  on  the  farm,  where  he  re- 
sided until  1879.  From  1880  to  1884  he  re- 
sided in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  agent  for 
Appleton's  American  Encyclopedia.  Return- 
ing from  Pennsylvania  to  Gardiner,  in  July, 
1885,  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  municipal 
court.  Among  the  various  public  positions  he 
has  held  are  those  of  assessor,  and  overseer 
of  the  poor,  from  1864  to  1869:  also  presi- 
dent of  both  branches  of  the  Gardiner  city 
government.  Mr.  Larrabee  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Herman  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  since 
1855;  of  Jerusalem  Chapter,  for  the  same 
period ;  the  Maine  Commandery  of  Knights 
Templar  since  1856.  He  was  master  of  the 
lodge  in  i860,  and  is  the  senior  living  past- 
master  of  the  lodge,  and  has  been  secretary  of 
the  same  since  1894.  He  was  the  first  high 
priest  of  Lebanon  Chapter,  serving  in  1864- 
65.  In  1862  he  was  elected  commander  of  the 
Maine  Commandery,  serving  five  years,  and  in 
the  seventies  he  was  again  elected  and  served 
two  years.  He  was  master  of  the  council  for 
twenty  years;  grand  high  priest  of  the  Grand 
Chapter  of  Maine,  1868-69;  deputy  grand 
commander  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of 
ilaine,  1867-68;  senior  grand  warden  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  in  1905.  Mr.  Lar- 
rabee was  among  the  patriotic  defenders  of 
the  L^nion  cause  during  the  civil  war  period, 
having  been  a  member  of  the  Eleventh  Maine 
regimental  band  from  September  8.  1861,  to 
August  19,  1862,  when  they  were  discharged 
from  further  service,  by  act  of  congress.  He 
is  numbered  among  the  active  members  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  He  was  mar- 
ried to  Priscilla  Woodward,  daughter  of  Amos 
and  Nancy  (Mussey)  Woodward;  the  date  of 
her  birth  was  January  13.  1834,  in  Winthrop. 
Their  children  were :  Edgar  W.,  Harry  E., 
Daniel,  James  M.,  Joseph  H.,  Edith  M.  and 
Helen  W.   (twins),  and  Austin  P. 


This   is   one   of   the   surnames 
SAWYER     which  probably  arose  from  an 
occupation,  and  has  been  hon- 
ored  in   America    since   its   transportation   by 


many  leading  citizens  of  various  states.  It 
has  figured  conspicuously  in  the  United  States 
senate,  in  the  ministry,  in  law  and  in  the 
various  callings  pursued  by  the  American 
people.  It  is  ably  and  numerously  represented 
in  Massachusetts  and  has  contributed  its  pro- 
portion to  the  progress  and  development  of  the 
state.  Within  a  few  years  after  the  landing 
of  the  Pilgrims  at  Plymouth  it  appears  in  the 
records  of  the  settlements  of  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  and  this  patronymic  of  Sawyer 
has  been  borne  and  honored  by  men  who  have 
been  successful  leaders  in  nearly  all  the  walks 
of  life.  As  pioneers  they  showed  those  quali- 
ties of  character  which  planted  civilization  in 
a  land  inhabited  with  savages,  and  under  con- 
ditions that  would  have  disheartened  any  but 
the  strongest  and  bravest.  Their  hardihood 
and  Christian  fortitude  made  them  fit  instru- 
ments for  the  advancement  of  civilization  upon 
the  underlying  foundation  principles,  the  ob- 
ject which  is  the  enjoyment  of  "life,  liberty, 
and  the  pursuit  of  happiness."  As  defenders 
of  these  principles  they  were  ever  ready  to 
face  death,  as  the  records  of  the  early  In- 
dian wars  in  New  England  show,  as  well  as 
those  of  the  revolution,  and  in  later  years  when 
their  country  required  defenders.  It  is  a  mat- 
ter of  record  that  eighteen  members  of  the 
Sawyer  family  from  Lancaster,  Massachusetts, 
alone  were  in  the  military  service  at  the  same 
time  during  the  revolution,  and  that  one  com- 
pany recruited  in  that  town  was  officered  from 
captain  down  by  Sawyers.  John  Sawyer  (or 
Sayer)  was  a  farmer  in  Lincolnshire,  Eng- 
land, where  he  is  supposed  to  have  been  a 
landholder  also.  He  was  the  father  of  three 
sons :  William,  Edward  and  Thomas,  who 
left  England  on  the  ship  commanded  by  Cap- 
tain Parker,  and  settled  in  Massachusetts  about 
1636. 

(I)  William  Sayer,  the  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  about  1613,  probably  in  England. 
He  was  in  Salem,  Alassachusetts.  and  later 
in  Wenham,  from  1640  to  1645.  His  name  at 
that  time  was  spelled  Sayer.  He  subscribed  to 
the  oath  of  allegiance  in  1678,  and  became  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Boston, 
with  his  wife  and  several  others  of  Newbury 
in  1 68 1.  It  is  probable  that  he  had  then  re- 
sided in  Newbury  for  forty  years.  A  branch 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church  was  formed  in 
Newbury  in  1682,  and  William  and  John 
Sayer  and  others  were  among  its  members. 
He  was  still  living  in  1697,  and  his  estate  was 
administered  by  his  son-in-law,  John  Emery, 
in  March,  1703.  The  name  of  his  wife  was 
Ruth,  and  his  children  were :    John,  Samuel, 


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Ruth,  Mary  (died  young),  Sarah,  Hannah 
(died  young),  William,  Frances  (died  young), 
Mary,  Stephen  A.,  Hannah  and  Frances. 

( H )  John,  eldest  child  of  William  Sawyer, 
or  Sayer,  was  born  August  24,  1645,  in  New- 
bury, and  bought  land  in  Haverhill  in  1669;  he 
probably  lived-  in  that  town  for  a  time.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  of  New- 
burv  with  his  parents  in  1682,  and  died  March, 
1689,  his  death  being  recorded  in  Salem.  He 
married,  February  18,  1676,  in  Newbury, 
Sarah,  fifth  daughter  of  John  Poore,  of  New- 
bury. She  was  granted  administration  of  his 
estate  March  25,  1690,  and  it  was  divided  in 
November,  1697.  She  married  (second)  No- 
vember 2~.  1707,  Joseph  ISailey.  John  and 
Sarah  (Poore)  Sawyer  were  the  parents  of 
Ruth.  William,  Sarah,  John  (died  young), 
Jonathan,  David  and  John. 

(HI)  David,  fourth  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Poore)  Sawyer,  was  born  January  13,  1687, 
in  Newbury,  and  settled  in  that  part  of  Kit- 
tery  which  is  now  Eliot,  Maine.  He  was  there 
married.  February  28,  171 1,  to  Elincir  Frost, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Frost,  a  beaver  trader, 
and  his  wife,  Mary  (  Small )  Frost.  He  prob- 
ably passed  his  life  in  Eliot,  as  the  marriage 
and  the  births  of  all  his  children  are  recorded 
there.  They  were  :  John,  Mary,  David,  Jona- 
than, Sarah  and  Steven. 

(IV)  David  (2),  son  of  David  (i)  and 
Elinor  (Frost)  Sawyer,  was  born  February 
12.  1715,  in  Eliot,  and  early  settled  in  Pep- 
perellboro,  now  Saco,  Maine.  He  served  as 
a  soldier  of  the  revolution  from  that  town.  No 
record  of  his  marriage  or  children  appears,  but 
he  is  known  to  have  been  the  father  of  the 
next  mentioned. 

(V)  Abner,  son  of  David  (2)  Sawyer,  was 
born  about  1757  in  Saco,  and  died  there  No- 
vember 15,  1823.  He  was  a  revolutionary  sol- 
dier, like  his  father.  By  engaging  in  ship- 
building he  accumulated  a  considerable  for- 
tune, and  was  able  to  give  each  of  his  sons  a 
good  farm.  He  married  Mary  Staples,  who 
was  born  about  1760  in  Saco,  and  died  April 
12.  1842.  These  records  are  from  their  tomb- 
stones in  Saco.  They  had  a  family  of  ten 
children  who  married  into  the  best  families  of 
the  neighborhood,  and  were  evidently  of  good 
social  standing. 

(VI)  Captain  Mark,  son  of  Abner  and 
Alary  (Staples)  Sawyer,  was  born  December 
'3'  1/99'  in  Saco,  and  in  common  with  his 
brother  was  a  seafaring  man  and  the  com- 
mander of  a  vessel.  When  he  retired  from  the 
sea  he  settled  upon  the  farm  inherited  from 
his  father  in  the  town  of  Saco,  where  he  died 


April  15,  1865,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years. 
He  married,  April  21,  1825,  Asenath  Patter- 
son, born  March  2y,  1803,  died  July  14,  1866, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Sarah  (Sawyer) 
Patterson  (see  Patterson  HI).  Their  chil- 
dren who  survived  the  period  of  infancy  were : 

1.  Cordelia,  wife  of  Captain  George  Titcomb. 

2.  Horace  Bacon,  mentioned  below.  3.  Green- 
leaf,  who  died  upon  the  paternal  homestead. 

4.  Charles  Evans,  who  now  resides  in  Saco. 

5.  Sarah,  married  Edward  Stiles,  of  Saco. 
(\TI)   Horace  Bacon,  eldest  son  of  Captain 

Mark  and  .\senath  (Patterson)  Sawyer,  was 
born  February  16,  1830,  in  Saco,  where  he 
grew  up  and  began  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon school.  He  was  subsequently  a  student 
at  Kent's  Hill,  Maine,  and  in  the  school  of 
Theology  at  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  Vermont  Methodist 
Conference  on  probation,  and  was  first  sta- 
tioned as  a  pastor  at  Hartland,  and  subse- 
quently at  Putney,  \"ermont.  He  removed 
from  the  latter  place  to  iMaine  and  was  pastor 
of  the  church  at  Wells,  in  1862-64.  For  three 
years  he  engaged  in  business  and  subsequently 
returned  to  \'ermont,  where  he  was  ordained 
in  the  Baptist  church  and  occupied  a  pastorate 
for  some  years  in  Danbury,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  was  very  successful.  He  returned 
to  business  life  again  until  1873,  when  he  was 
made  pastor  of  a  church  in  Albion,  Maine. 
In  1875  he  retired  from  the  ministry,  and 
after  five  years  of  business  life  settled  on  a 
farm  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  where  he  con- 
tinued nine  years.  He  then  sold  the  farm  and 
removed  to  Turner,  Maine,  whence  he  went  to 
Massachusetts  and  died  at  Haverhill  in  that 
state,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years.  Al- 
though }ilr.  Sawyer  was  generally  conceded 
to  be  a  speaker  of  interest  and  ability  upon 
religious  matters  by  those  who  heard  him,  he 
was  naturally  independent  in  his  thoughts  and 
unusually  free  in  the  expression  of  those 
thoughts  for  those  times.  This  tendency  grew 
upon  him  the  more  he  thought  upon  religious 
matters,  causing  him  to  frequently  resign  po- 
sitions where  he  felt  that  he  could  not  longer 
continue  with  a  free  conscience.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  was  an 
active  and  prominent  citizen,  and  while  re- 
siding in  Albion  was  supervisor  of  schools. 
He  married,  July  31,  i860,  at  White  River 
Junction,  Vermont,  Clarissa  Jane  Carter, 
daughter  of  Horace  Black  and  Ruth  J. 
(Wood)  Carter,  of  Lebanon,  New  Hamp- 
shire (see  Carter,  VIII).  She  was  born  March 
15,  1841.  Her  children  were:  Sarah.  Asenath. 
George     Mark,     Harvey     Lincoln.     Clarence 


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Evans  and  Clara  Mabel.  The  oldest  daughter 
is  a  music  teacher  and  the  eldest  son  engaged 
in  business.  The  second  son  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years.  The  third  is  the  sub- 
ject of  the  following  paragraph.  The  younger 
daughter  is  the  wife  of  Williard  O.  Copithorn, 
a  dentist,  of  Natick,  Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  Clarence  Evans,  third  son  of  Rev. 
Horace  B.  and  Clarissa  J.  (Carter)  Sawyer, 
was  born  August  7,  1869,  in  Wilmot,  New 
Hampshire,  and  was  about  six  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  removed  to  Brunswick, 
Maine.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
that  town  and  the  Adams  Academy  at  Quincy, 
Massachusetts.  While  pursuing  his  education 
he  was  busily  employed  during  spare  time  as 
a  clerk  in  a  grocery  store  in  order  to  bear  the 
expenses  of  his  education.  Later  he  engaged 
in  teaching  school  and  the  funds  thus  earned 
were  employed  in  pursuing  a  partial  course  at 
Bowdoin  College  in  the  class  of  1893  and  in 
the  study  of  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1895  and  at  once  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Brunswick,  where  he  has  since 
continued,  and  has  built  up  a  tine  reputation 
and  remunerative  practice.  In  1908  he  re- 
moved his  residence  to  Portland  because  of  his 
increasing  professional  employment  at  the 
county  seat,  but  continues  his  law  office  at 
Brunswick,  as  well  as  one  in  the  city.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  cherishes  the  fraternal 
sentiments  of  these  orders.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 18,  1896,  Blanche  M.,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain John  F.  and  Mary  A.  J.  (Lovell)  Brown. 
They  are  the  parents  of  three  children :  Rus- 
sell Fulton  Brown,  Lovell  Brown  and  Louise 
Burton. 

Airs.  Sawyer's  ancestry  was  very  early  iden- 
titied  with  the  township  of  North  Yarmouth, 
Maine.  The  tirst  in  the  line  of  whom  she  has 
knowledge  was  Reuben  Brown,  whose  wife 
was  Elizabeth  Parker.  They  were  the  parents 
of  Moses,  Benjamin,  Joanna,  Jeremiah,  Ra- 
chel and  Abigail,  the  last  two  being  twins. 
Captain  Jeremiah,  third  son  of  Reuben  and 
Elizabeth  (Parker)  Brown,  was  born  May  12, 
1798.  Though  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  he  be- 
gan to  follow  the  sea  early  in  life,  commanded 
the  schooner  "Phoenix,"  and  carried  the  first 
load  of  stone  to  build  Fort  Sumter,  famous  in 
the  civil  war.  He  married,  September  13, 
1833,  Eliza  Ann  Fulton,  who  was  born  in 
i8og,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Abigail 
Reade,  Martha  Ann,  Mary  Jane,  John  Fulton, 
Samuel  Larrabee,  Eliza  Ellen,  Harriet,  Au- 
gusta and  Charles  Albert.  Captain  John  Ful- 
ton,  oldest   son   of    Jeremiah   and    Eliza    Ann 


(Fulton)  Brown,  born  August,  1842,  followed 
the  sea  with  marked  success  from  1862  to 
1896.  He  served  in  the  United  States  navy 
on  the  "Ohio,"  the  "Santee,"  the  "Sabine" 
and  the  "Florida."  After  the  war  he  com- 
manded the  "Giles  Loring,"  the  "Ida  M.  Com- 
ery"  and  the  "Jennie  Phinney,"  which  was 
built  for  him  at  Yarmouth,  until  1886.  Sub- 
sequently he  sailed  the  brig  "Screamer," 
"Elizabeth  Winslow,"  "Henry  B.  Cleaves"  and 
the  bark  "H.  J.  Libbey."  He  now  resides  on 
the  Brown  homestead  at  Bay  View,  Yarmouth. 
He  married  Mary  Abbie  Jane  Lovell,  of  Gray, 
Maine,  November  28,  1867,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of :  Hattie  Fulton,  Blanche  May,  Ed- 
mund Phinney,  Burton  Eugene  and  Gertrude 
Louise  (twins),  and  John  Millard.  Blanche 
May,  second  daughter  of  Captain  John  F.  and 
Mary  A.  J.  (Lovell)  Brown,  was  born  INIay  8, 
1874,  in  Yarmouth,  Maine,  and  married,  Au- 
gust 18,  1896,  Clarence  E.  Sawyer,  of  Bruns- 
wick (see  Sawyer  VIII  above.) 


(For    first    generation   see  W'illiam    Sawyer    (Saver)    I.) 

(II)  William  (2),  third  son  of 
SAWYER  William  (i)  and  Ruth  Sawyer, 
was  born  February  i,  1656,  in 
Newbury,  and  settled  in  Wells,  Maine.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  Narragansett  campaign  in 
1675  and  bought  land  in  Wells  in  1679  and 
1685.  The  first  date  probably  indicates  the 
time  of  his  settlement  there.  He  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court  in  1707,  1716-17  and 
died  June  7,  1718.  His  will  was  dated  three 
days  previous  to  his  death.  He  was  married 
about  1677  to  Sarah  Littlefield,  daughter  of 
Francis  and  Rebecca  Littlefield,  of  Wells,  and 
granddaughter  of  Edmund  Littlefield,  who 
came  from  Tichfield,  England,  to  Wells  about 
1637.  She  was  born  about  1650,  and  married 
(first)  at  Wells;  she  survived  her  second  hus- 
band and  was  baptized  and  received  into  the 
church  at  Wells,  July  27,  1718.  She  died  in 
January,  1735.  Their  children  were:  Joseph, 
Frances,  Daniel,  Hannah  and  Ruth. 

(HI)  Daniel,  third  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Sarah  (Littlefield)  Sawyer,  was  born  May  26, 
1683,  in  Wells,  and  seems  to  have  resided 
there  through  life,  dying  between  1714  and 
1716.  The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  was 
Sarah.  After  his  death  she  married  Joseph 
Hill,  of  Wells,  the  intention  being  published 
March  23,  1739.  Daniel  Sawyer's  children 
were  :  William,  Sarah,  Lydia,  Daniel  and  Han- 
nah. 

(IV)  William  (3),  eldest  son  of  Daniel  and 
Sarah  Sawyer,  was  born  February  6,  1705,  in 
Wells,  and  died  there  in  1768.     His  first  wife 


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bore  the  name  of  Mary.  The  second  was 
Love,  daughter  of  Arthur  Bragdon,  of  York, 
their  intention  being  pubUshed  March  30, 
1734.  Their  children  were:  Phoebe,  Sarah, 
Lydia,  Daniel,  Samuel,  ]\Iary,  Sarah  and  Will- 
iam. 

(V)  Wilham  (4),  youngest  child  of  Will- 
iam (3)  Sawyer  and  fourth  child  of  his  sec- 
ond wife,  was  born  about  1740  in  Wells,  and 
probably  settled  in  Cumberland.  There  is  a 
family  tradition  that  he  with  several  compan- 
ions walked  from  Gilmanton  to  Westbrook  in 
the  winter  season  because  at  that  time  the  ice 
furnished  a  means  of  crossing  the  rivers.  He 
had  children :  Benjamin,  William,  Rebecca, 
Asa  and  John. 

(VI)  William  (5),  second  son  of  William 
(4)  Sawyer,  was  born  about  1766  and  died 
February  8,  1856,  in  Pownal,  Maine.  He  mar- 
ried Susanna  Blake,  of  Harpswell,  Maine,  and 
settled  in  Pownal,  same  state.  Susanna  Blake's 
mother  was  Jane,  daughter  of  Waitstill  Weber. 
She  was  born  1731,  died  in  1797.  The  name 
of  her  husband  was  John  Blake.  Waitstill 
Weber  was  a  son  of  Samuel  Weber,  born  163 1 
and  killed  by  the  Indians  in  1716.  Samuel 
Weber  was  a  son  of  Wolfert  Weber  Jr.,  grand- 

\son  of  William  the  Silent,  Prince  of  Orang;e, 
and  was  born  1604,  and  died  1670.  The  chil- 
dren of  William  and  Susanna  (Blake)  Sawyer 
were :  Benjamin,  William,  Jeremiah,  Susan, 
Abigail,  John,  Charles,  Charlotte  and  Rebecca. 

(VII)  Benjamin,  eldest  son  of  William  (5) 
and  Susanna  (Blake)  Sawyer,  was  born  Au- 
gust II,  1795.  in  Pownal.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary 26,  1825,  Lydia  Fields,  of  Freeport, 
Maine.  Their  children  were:  i.  Lydia,  born 
June  26,  1825,  married  Simon  Fickett.  2. 
Elijah  F.,  September  24,  1827.  3.  Lewis  F., 
June  19,  1829,  married  Laura  Plummer,  of 
Alna,  Maine.  4.  Harriet  B.,  November  2, 
1832,  married  Joshua  Witham,  of  Gray,  Maine. 
5.  Melissa  E.,  November  12,  1843,  married 
Edward  Bowie,  of  Durham,  Maine. 

(VIII)  Elijah  Field,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Lydia  (Fields)  Sawyer,  was  born  in  Pownal, 
Maine,  September  24,  1827,  and  died  Septem- 
ber I,  1906.  In  early  youth  he  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Cumberlan<l.  from  thence  to 
New  Gloucester,  and  lived  on  a  farm  until  he 
arrived  at  manhood  and  then  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Bath  and  became  a  prominent  figure 
in  the  industrial  and  business  life  of  that  city. 
It  was  in  the  year  1847  ^^'^^^  ^^^-  Sawyer  went 
to  Bath  and  began  learning  the  trade  of  ship- 
carpentering  in  the  yards  of  the  late  William 
D.  Sewall,  where  he  himself  carried  on  busi- 


ness  in   later   years.      In    1865,   with   Captain 
Guy  C.   Goss  as  his  partner,  under  the  firm 
style  of  Goss  &  Sawyer,  the  young  ship-car- 
penter began  his  active  business  life  and  in 
that    year    built    and    launched    the    schooner 
"John   Crooker";   but  this   was   only   the  be- 
ginning in  a  small  way  of  what  soon  became 
one   of   the   largest  firms  in   ship-building   in 
New. England.     In  1872  B.  F.  Packard  came 
into  the  firm,  the  name  of  which  then  changed 
to  Goss,  Sawyer  &  Packard,  and  the  business 
was  continued  without  material  change  in  the 
pcrsonell  of  the  partnership  for  about  twelve 
or  fourteen  years  and  then  was  incorporated 
as  the  New  England  Shipbuilding  Company. 
But  during  the  years   in  which   Mr.   Sawyer 
was  a  member  of  the  old  firm  of  Goss  &  Saw- 
yer and  the  successor  firm  of  Goss,  Sawyer  & 
Packard,  the  yards  built  and  put  afloat  two 
hundred  vessels  of  all  kinds  to  be  used  in  the 
carrying    trade.      In     1886    Mr.    Sawyer,    in 
company   with   his     son-in-law,    D.     Howard 
Spear,  and  Captain  John  R.  Kelley,  became  or- 
ganizers of  the  Keliey-Spear  Company,  build- 
ers of  steam  and  sailing  vessels,  barges  and 
lighters.      Mr.    Sawyer   was  president  of  the 
company  from  1902  until  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  during  the  period  of  his  connection  with  it 
the  company  built  one  hundred  and  forty-four 
vessels ;  and  during  all  the  years  of  his  con- 
nection   with   the     ship-building    industry     of 
Bath,  the  firms  in  which  he  was  a  partner  and 
the  company  of  which  he  was  president  con- 
structed and  launched  a  total  of  three  hundred 
and  forty-four  vessels  of  all  kinds,  a  greater 
number  than  stands  to  the  credit  of  any  other 
wooden  ship-builder  in  this  country.    This  has 
meant  something  to  the  business  interests  of 
Bath,   with   the  hundreds   and   perhaps   thou- 
sands of  mechanics  employed  in  the  years  in 
which  Mr.  Sawyer  was  financially  interested, 
and  it  has  meant  something  to  the  industrial 
history  of  the  state  of  Maine. 

During  the  long  period  of  his  business  life 
Mr.  Sawyer  was  an  extensive  employer  of 
workmen,  skilled  mechanics  most  of  them,  and 
the  state  of  Maine  has  yet  to  produce  the  man 
at  the  head  of  a  great  industrial  enterprise 
who  has  been  more  considerate  than  he  of  the 
interests  and  comforts  of  wage-earners  in  his 
service,  or  the  man  more  universally  respected 
for  the  qualities  of  honesty,  integrity  and  fair- 
ness, or  the  man  who  has  at  heart  the  best  in- 
terests and  welfare  of  the  city  in  which  Mr. 
Sawyer  lived  so  long.  In  his  nature  there 
was  neither  arrogance,  vanity  nor  selfish  am- 
bition, no  thought  to  enrich  himself  at  the  ex- 


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pense  of  other  men  or  profit  by  tlieir  misfor- 
tunes ;  neither  was  he  ever  unmindful  of  the 
claims  of  other  interests  than  his  own  upon 
his  time,  as  is  shown  by  his  service  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  city  government  of  Bath,  his  devo- 
tion to  and  liberal  support  of  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church.  He  was  naturally  of  thought- 
ful mind,  pious  meditations,  correct  in  his  daily 
walk,  always  cheerful  himself  and  every  ready 
to  contribute  to  the  comfort  of  those  about 
him.  whether  in  counsel  or  financial  aid,  and 
his  dispensations  for  charitable  purposes,  more 
than  a  few,  were  made  quietly,  so  that  atten- 
tion should  not  be  attracted  to  the  donor.  He 
was  interested  in  a  number  of  the  best  institu- 
tions of  Bath,  its  churches,  schools,  and  Old 
Ladies  Home,  and  also  held  investments  in 
other  than  the  ship-building  company  of  which 
he  was  the  head.  He  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  Peoples'  Safe  Deposit  and  Sav- 
ings Bank.  On  December  27,  1851,  Mr. 
Sawyer  married  Sarah  Noyes  Marston,  who 
was  born  June  27,  1830,  and  died  May  28, 
1904.  Of  this  marriage  five  children  were 
born:  i.  Emma,  died  young.  2.  Ada  R.,  born 
May  25,  1856.  married,  December  27,  1876, 
D.  Howard  Spear.  3.  George,  died  young.  4. 
Harry  B.,  December  27,  1863.  5.  Jennie  M., 
September  27,  1867,  died  December  20,  1880. 
(IX)  Harry  Banks,  son  of  Elijah  Field 
and  Sarah  Noyes  (Marston)  Sawyer,  was 
born  in  Bath,  Maine,  December  27,  1863.  He 
acquired  his  early  education  in  the  Bath  pub- 
lic schools  and  his  higher  education  at  the 
Polytechnic  Institute  in  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  graduated  in  1886.  He  took 
up  school-teaching  as  a  profession,  going  first 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  and  from  there  to  St. 
Paul,  Minnesota,  where  he  taught  ten  years 
in  public  schools.  He  returned  to  Bath  in 
1898  and  was  in  the  grain  business  for  a 
time,  then  became  associated  with  the  Kelley- 
Spear  Shipbuilding  Company,  as  an  assistant 
to  his  father,  the  president  of  the  company  and 
who  felt  the  burden  of  advancing  years.  Upon 
the  death  of  the  elder  Sawyer  in  1906,  Mr. 
Sawyer  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  company 
and  is  still  in  that  ofifice.  In  addition  to  these 
duties  he  also  serves  as  trustee  of  the  Peoples" 
Safe  Deposit  and  Savings  Bank  and  of  the 
Bath  Trust  Company.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican and  has  been  somewhat  interested 
in  that  field,  having  represented  the  seventh 
ward  in  the  common  council  in  igo2  and 
served  as  alderman  from  the  same  ward  from 
1903  to  1907.  He  is  also  prominent  in  fra- 
ternal circles,  a  member  of  Solar  Lodge,  No. 
14,  F.  and  A.  M.:  Montgomery  and  St.  Ber- 


nard R.  A.  C,  No.  3  ;  Dunlap  Commandery, 
No.  5,  K.  T. ;  and  Lodge  No.  943,  B.  P.  6. 
E.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Kennebec  Yacht 
Club.  Mr.  Sawyer  is  a  liberal  supporter  and 
with  his  family  an  attendant  at  the  services  of 
the  L'niversalist  church.  He  married,  August 
22,  1889,  Gertrude  Hannah  Frank,  daughter 
of  Anthony  and  Arietta  Frank,  of  Bath,  born 
December  2,  1863.  jOne  child  has  been  born 
to  them,  Jennie  Alae  Sawyer,  June  28,  1894, 
at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 


(For    early    family    history   see   preceding   sketch.) 

(  I )  John  .lawyer  was  a  far- 
SAWYER.  mer  in  Lincolnshire,  Eng- 
land, where  he  is  supposed  to 
have  been  a  landholder  also.  He  was  the  father 
of  three  sons :  William,  Edward  and  Thomas, 
who  left  England  on  a  ship  commanded  by 
Captain  Parker,  and  settled  in  Massachusetts 
about   1636. 

(II)  Edward,  son  of  John  Sawyer,  brought 
over  with  him  from  England  his  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Mary  Peaseley,  and  their 
children,  Mary,  Henry  and  James,  and  settled 
first  in  Ipswich,  and  then  in  Rowley,  Massa- 
chusetts. No  more  is  known  of  Edward  or 
his  wife. 

(III)  James,  youngest  child  of  Edward  and 
]\Iary  (Peaseley)  Sawyer,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  came  to  Alassachusetts  with  his  pa- 
rents. He  was  a  weaver,  and  settled  in  Glouces- 
ter, where  he  died  May  31,  1703.  One  author- 
ity says  tliat  he  is  doubtless  the  son  of  Edward 
of  Ipswich,  while  another,  having  searched 
the  records  of  Ispwich,  was  unable  to  verify 
this.  Beginning  with  the  first  appearance  of 
James  in  Gloucester,  his  identity  in  connection 
with  the  generations  succeeding,  as  herein 
mentioned,  does  not  seem  to  admit  of  doubt. 
About  a  week  before  his  death,  James  made 
his  will  which  gave  the  names  of  his  children 
then  living.  The  diary  of  a  clergyman  tells  of 
meetings  held  at  the  house  of  James,  also  of 
his  being  present  at  the  death  of  a  daughter 
there.  James  Sawyer  married  Sarah  Bray,  of 
Gloucester,  born  1651,  died  April  24,  1727, 
probably  a  second  wife.  His  children  named 
in  the  will  were:  Thomas,  John,  Nathaniel, 
Abraham,  Isaac,  Jacob,  Mary,  Sarah  and 
James. 

(I\')  John  (2),  second  son  of  James  Saw- 
yer, was  born  in  1676.  and  died  in  1760.  In 
1719  he  moved  with  his  family  from  Glouces- 
ter, Massachusetts,  to  Cape  Elizabeth,  IMaine. 
He  was  buried  in  the  graveyard  at  Meeting 
House  Hill,  Cape  Elizabeth,  and  his  store  was 
standing  at  a   recent  date.     He  married   Re- 


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Aecca  Stanford,  February  20,  1701.  His  chil- 
dren born  before  1719  were:  Job.  Sarah, 
Mary,  Rebecca,  Bethiah,  John,  Jonathan,  Dan- 
iel, and  Joseph,  next  mentioned. 

(V)  Joseph,  youngest  child  of  John  (2)  and 
Rebecca  (Stanford)  Sawyer,  was  born  in 
Gloucester.  Massachusetts,  JMay  7,  171 1,  and 
died  March,  1800.  He  married  Joanna  Cobb, 
by  whom  he  had  Ebenezer,  Mary,  Lemuel, 
James,  Jabez,  John,  Rachel,  Mercy  and  Re- 
becca. 

(\T)  John  (3),  fourth  son  of  Joseph  and 
Joanna  (Cobb)  Sawyer,  married  at  Blue  Hill, 
Maine,  January  20,  1768,  Isabella  Martin,  of 
that  place,  where  he  lived.  They  subsequently 
removed  to  Buxton,  and  died  there.  Their 
children  were :  Sally,  Hannah,  Mary,  John, 
Robert,  Lemuel,  Abigail,  Joanna,  David  and 
Rachel. 

(\TI)  John  (4),  eldest  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Isabella  (Martin)  Sawyer,  was  born  in  Bux- 
ton, October  4,  1775,  and  died  in  Standish, 
May  6,  1849.  The  farm  on  which  he  lived  is 
in  that  part  of  the  town  called  Standish  Neck, 
and  on  the  main  road  which  connects  Standish 
Corner  with  Windham  Upper  Corner.  His 
brother  settled  on  an  adjoining  farm.  John 
Sawyer  married  Grace  Jenkins,  who  was  born 
December  19,  1776,  and  died  February  16, 
1853,  in  Standish,  daughter  of  Dennis  Jenkins. 
Their  children  were :  John,  Dennis,  Lemuel 
and  Thomas. 

(VIII)  John  (5),  eldest  child  of  John  (4) 
and  Grace  (Jenkins)  Sawyer,  was  born  on  the 
old  farm  in  Standish,  July  11,  1800,  and  died 
in  Casco,  October  18,  1870.  He  lived  at  first 
on  a  farm  on  the  river  road,  a  mile  or  more 
above  South  \Mndham  Village.  In  1829  he 
moved  to  Raymond,  to  live  with  Eli  Longley, 
his  father-in-law.  Until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Longley,  in  1839,  ^^^-  ^nd  Mrs.  Sawyer  as- 
sisted in  keeping  Mr.  Longley's  hotel  there, 
and  they  conducted  it  afterward  until  1864, 
when  the  hotel  was  sold  and  they  went  to 
Casco,  to  live  with  their  daughter,  ]\Irs.  J. 
Frank  Holden.  John  (5)  Sawyer  married, 
June  19,  1825,  Rebecca  Longley,  who  was  born 
in  Waterford,  August  28,  1802,  and  died  in 
Casco,  February  24,  1879,  daughter  of  Eli 
Longley. 

Following  is  some  account  of  >Eli  Longley, 
grandfather  of  Whitman  Sawyer,  mentioned 
below.  Eli  Longley  was  born  December  13, 
1762,  and  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Anna 
Longley,  of  Bolton,  IMassachusetts.  On  March 
9,  1784.  he  married  Mary  Whitcomb,  daugh- 
ter of  John  \Miitcomb,  of  Bolton,  a  prominent 
man  in  town  affairs,  one  of  the  committee  of 


correspondence  in  the  revolutionary  war,  and 
a  member  of  the  general  court  of  Massachu- 
setts. In  June,  1789,  Eli  Longley  with  his 
wife  moved  from  Bolton  to  Waterford,  Maine, 
when  the  first  settlers  were  locating  there.  He 
immediately  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  af- 
fairs of  the  growing  town,  and  at  his  "log 
house,  a  sort  of  tavern,"  plantation  meetings 
were  held.  Later  he  built  the  first  hotel  and 
store  and  was  the  first  postmaster.  His  tavern 
was  the  social  headquarters  of  the  town,  and 
his  sign  read  "Eli  Longley"s  Inn,  1797,"  the 
same  sign  being  later  in  service  for  him  at 
Raymond,  Maine.  In  1817  he  sold  the  tavern 
with  a  view  of  locating  in  the  west,  but  a  brief 
experience  altered  his  mind,  and  he  tried  to 
regain  the  tavern.  Being  unable  to  obtain  it. 
he  bought  the  hotel  at  Raymond  so  long  known 
as  Longley's,  afterward  as  Sawyer's  tavern, 
where  he  died  in  1859.  His  old  sign  of  1797 
was  in  time  replaced  by  one  reading  "Lafay- 
ette House,"  which  was  retained  by  his  suc- 
cessor. In  1807  John  Ward,  of  Fryeburg, 
made  for  Mr.  Longley  at  a  cost  of  £80,  a  tall 
"grandfather's  clock,"  which  stood  in  the  din- 
ing room  of  the  tavern  at  Waterford,  and  in 
the  bar  room  at  Raymond,  where  for  many 
vears  it  was  the  standard  time  indicator  for 
the  village  and  for  the  traveling  public.  Hav- 
ing passed  through  the  successive  generations, 
the  clock  in  1904  is  in  the  possession  of  his 
great-grandson,  Edward  E.  Sawyer,  of  Low- 
ell, Massachusetts. 

The  children  of  John  and  Rebecca  Sawyer 
were:  i.  Franklin,  born  May  23,  1826,  died 
April  16,  1888.  He  lived  many  years  in  Port- 
land, and  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life  held 
a  responsible  position  in  the  custom  house 
there.  2.  Hamilton  J.,  born  February  g,  1828, 
died  August  9,  1898.  He  left  home  at  Ray- 
mond, at  an  early  age,  and  went  to  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  learned  the  machin- 
ist's trade.  In  1849  the  gold  excitement  led 
him  to  California,  where  he  spent  several  years 
engaged  in  mining.  He  then  returned  to  Low- 
ell and  established  a  small  shop  in  which  he 
carried  on  the  business  of  machinist  over 
thirty  years.  After  a  few  years  of  retired  life, 
he  died  and  was  buried  at  Lowell.  3.  Mary 
Grace,  born  June  7,  1831,  married  George 
Walker.  4.  Charles  Carroll,  born  January  3, 
1833,  died  June  27,  1904.  During  the  civil 
war  he  had  a  lucrative  appointment  as  sutler 
and  furnished  army  supplies  for  several  vears. 
Fie  afterward  engaged  in  other  lines  of  busi- 
ness, in  Boston,  and  for  many  years  lived  in 
the  vicinity  of  that  city.  He  died  and  was 
buried  at  Waltham.    5.  Caroline  Peabodv,  born 


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October  20,  1835,  died  April  23,  1872;  mar- 
ried Alvin  B.  Jordan,  of  Raymond.  6.  Whit- 
man, mentioned  below.  7.  Sarah  Brooks,  born 
May  I,  1840,  married  Jesse  F.  Holden,  of 
Casco.  8.  Jane  Lamson,  born  June  17,  1842, 
married  John  Tukey,  a  soldier,  died  in  1864 ; 
she  married  (second)  in  1870,  William  Henrv 
Bickford. 

(IX)  Captain  Whitman,  fourth  son  of  John 
(5)  and  Rebecca  (Longley)  Sawyer,  was 
born  in  Raymond,  June  10,  1838,  and  died  in 
Portland,  June,  1904.  He  lived  in  Raymond 
until  his  early  manhood,  and  at  the  outbreak 
of  the  civil  war  he  offered  his  services  for  the 
preservation  of  the  union.  Following  is  his 
war  record:  Compiled  from  official  and  au- 
thentic sources  by  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors' 
Historical  and  Benevolent  Society,  of  which  he 
was  a  member,  duly  signed  and  sealed : 
"Whitman  Sawyer  enlisted  from  Cumberland 
county,  Maine,  on  the  loth  day  of  September, 
1862,  to  serve  nine  months,  and  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  at  Portland, 
Maine,  on  the  29th  day  of  September,  1862, 
as  first  lieutenant  of  Captain  Charles  H. 
Doughty's  Company  'C,'  25th  Regiment  Maine 
Volunteer  Infantry,  Colonel  Francis  Fessen- 
den  commanding.  The  Twenty-fifth  was  the 
second  regiment  from  the  Pine  Tree  State  to 
enter  the  service  of  the  United  States  for 
nine  months  duty,  and  was  the  first  for  that 
term  to  leave  the  State.  It  was  mustered  into 
the  United  States  service  at  Portland  on  the 
2gth  day  of  September,  1862,  with  the  follow- 
ing field  officers  :  Francis  Fessenden,  colonel ; 
Charles  E.  Shaw,  lieutenant-colonel ;  Alexan- 
der M.  Tolman,  major.  The  regiment  left  the 
State  on  the  i6th  of  October  for  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  where  it  arrived  on  the  i8th  and 
went  into  camp  on  East  Capitol  Hill,  where  it 
was  assigned  to  the  3rd  Brigade,  Casey's  Divi- 
sion, 22d  Corps,  Defenders  of  Washington, 
and  was  immediately  engaged  in  drills  and 
evolutions  of  the  line  under  General  Casey. 
On  Sunday,  October  26th,  the  regiment 
moved,  through  a  furious  storm,  to  a  camping 
ground  on  Arlington  Heights,  Virginia,  im- 
mediately in  front  of  the  line  of  earth  works 
for  the  defense  of  Washington,  remaining 
here  until  March  24,  1863,  constantly  engaged 
in  guarding  Long  Bridge  on  both  sides  of  the 
Potomac  and  in  constructing  batteries  and 
fortifications.  In  December,  1862,  the  Third 
Brigade  of  Casey's  Division  was  broken  up, 
and,  with  the  Twenty-seventh  Maine,  the  regi- 
ments were  organized  into  the  First  Brigade 
of  Casey's   Division,  with   which  it   remained 


until  its  final  muster  out.  Although  in  no 
pitched  battles,  the  command  had  a  number  of 
encounters  with  guerillas  and  marauding 
bands,  in  all  of  which  it  acquitted  itself  ad- 
mirably. The  said  Whitman  Sawyer  was 
honorably  discharged  at  Portland,  Maine,  on 
the  3d  day  of  July,  1863,  by  reason  of  expira- 
tion of  his  term  of  enlistment. 

"He  reenlisted  at  Augusta,  Maine,  on  the 
19th  day  of  December,  1863,  to  serve  three 
years  or  during  the  war,  and  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  and  commis- 
sioned as  Captain  of  Company  'C,'  Thirtieth 
Regiment  Maine  Volunteer  Infantry,  Colonel 
Francis  Fessenden  commanding.  The  Thir- 
tieth Maine  was  formed  of  exceptionally  good 
soldierly  material  to  a  large  extent,  and  also 
had  a  number  of  old  men  and  discharged  sol- 
diers whose  disability  was  only  apparently  re-  J 
moved,  a  large  proportion  of  its  officers  and  • 
men,  however,  were  experienced  soldiers.  The 
regiment  was  organized  at  Augusta,  on  the 
9th  day  of  January,  1864,  with  the  following 
field  officers,  viz. :  Francis  Fessenden,  colonel : 
Thomas  H.  Hubbard,  lieutenant  colonel ;  and 
Royal  E.  Whitman,  major.  On  the  7th  of 
February,  being  fully  armed  and  equipped,  the 
command  proceeded  to  Portland,  and  from 
there  embarked  on  the  steamer  "Merrimac," 
for  New  Orleans,  where  they  arrived  on  the 
night  of  the  i6th,  thence  moved  up  Bayou  1 
Teche  to  Franklin,  Louisiana,  where  they  were  | 
assigned  to  the  Third  Brigade,  First  Division, 
Nineteenth  Corps,  Army  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Gulf,  and  later  took  in  the 
Red  River  Expedition,  and  engagements  at 
Sabine  Cross  Roads,  Mansfield,  Pleasant  Hill, 
Cane  River,  Clouterville,  Alexandria,  Man- 
sura,  Marksville,  Yellow  Bayou,  Atchafalaya 
Bayou,  and  Morginzia,  Louisiana.  In  July 
the  regiment  sailed  from  Morginzia  for  Vir- 
ginia, reaching  Fortress  ]\Ionroe  on  the  i8th, 
and  was  sent  immediately  to  Deep  Bottom, 
where  it  held  a  picket-line  in  the  face  of  the 
enemy  for  twenty-four  hours,  and  later  took 
part  in  an  engagement  at  Bermuda  Hundred, 
\'irginia,  and  a  number  of  skirmishes.  The 
regiment  lost  two  hundred  and  ninety  by  death 
while  in  service.  The  said  Whitman  Sawyer 
was  brevetted  major  for  brave  and  meritori- 
ous service,  and  while  in  line  of  duty  con- 
tracted malaria  from  which  he  suffered  a  num- 
ber of  times  for  short  periods.  He  was,  how- 
ever, at  all  times  to  be  found  at  his  post  of 
duty,  performing  faithful  and  efficient  service, 
and  achieving  an  enviable  record  for  bravery 
and    soldierly   bearing.      He    received    a    final 


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honorable  discharge  at  Savannah,  Georgia,  on 
the  20th  day  of  August,  1865,  by  reason  of  the 
close  of  the  war." 

Returning  from  the  war  Captain  Sawyer 
settled  in  Falmouth,  where  for  a  few  years  till 
March,  1870,  he  was  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business.  He  then  removed  to  Portland  and 
formed  a  partnership  in  the  livery  stable  busi- 
ness with  the  late  N.  S.  Fernald.  This  firm 
did  an  extensive  business  and  after  a  time  was 
formed  into  a  stock  company  and  named  after 
Mr.  Sawyer  the  Whitman  Sawyer  Stable 
Company,  he  being  the  treasurer  and  business 
manager.  Captain  Sawyer  was  one  of  the 
strongest  of  Republicans  and  had  often  been 
honored  with  political  positions.  While  living 
in  Falmouth  he  represented  that  town  in  the 
legislature,  1869,  and  in  1892  was  elected  one 
of  the  legislative  representatives  from  Port- 
land. He  was  also  in  the  city  government 
from  ward  five,  beginning  as  one  of  the  coun- 
cilman and  being  advanced  to  alderman  in 
1885  and  being  re-elected  in  the  following 
year  when  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the 
board.  For  several  years  he  was  chairman  of 
the  board  of  prison  inspectors,  having  been 
reappointed  for  the  third  time  in  December, 
1903.  by  Governor  Hill.  He  was  a  member 
of  Windham  Lodge  of  Masons  and  of  Unity 
Lodge,  No.  3,  Lidependent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, of  Portland,  and  a  prominent  member  of 
Bosworth  Post,  No.  2,  Department  of  Maine, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  in  which  he 
filled  all  the  chairs.  Captain  Sawyer  died  at 
his  residence,  650  Congress  street,  and  was 
buried  in  Evergreen  cemetery.  In  fhe  annual 
report  of  the  prison  inspectors,  they  thus  ex- 
pressed their  regret  at  the  loss  of  their  chair- 
man :  "In  commencing  this  report  we  are 
sensibly  reminded  of  our  loss,  and  the  loss  of 
the  whole  state,  in  the  death  of  Hon.  Whitman 
Sawyer,  late  of  Portland,  who,  with  marked 
ability  and  efficiency  served  the  State  for  nine 
years  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  prison  and 
jail  inspectors.  And  we  here  record  this  ex- 
pression of  our  esteem  of  his  manly  qualities, 
his  unfailing  charity,  his  loyalty  to  principles 
and  faithful  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his 
office."  Other  bodies  of  which  he  was  a  mem- 
ber passed  resolutions  of  sorrow  over  his 
death  and  commendation  of  his  high  character 
and  sterling  worth.  A  paragraph  in  one  of 
the  leading  Portland  papers  stated  :  "Not  only 
all  old  soldiers,  but  all  good  citizens  regretted 
the  death  of  Captain  Whitman  Sawyer.  He 
was  a  good  representative  of  our  sturdy  Maine 
stock.    His  word  was  as  good  as  his  bond,  and 


he  was  faithful  in  all  his  relations  of  life. 
Such  a  man  is  a  distinct  loss  to  any  com- 
munity. Captain  Sawyer  will  be  long  remem- 
bered because  of  his  manly  qualities  of  hand 
and  heart." 

Captain  Whitman  Sawyer  married,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1865,  Maria  Lucy  Fulton  Dingley, 
widow  of  Sumner  Stone  Dingley,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Elijah  and  Lucy  (Abbott)  Fulton.  She 
was  born  in  Limington,  November  8,  1836. 
Elijah  Fulton  was  born  April  8,  1809, 
and  died  in  Raymond.  Maine,  April  7,  1874. 
Lucy  Abbott  was  of  Limington,  Maine,  born 
July  II,  1807,  and  died  in  Raymond,  Novem- 
ber I,  1873.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Lucy  (Crockett)  Abbott.  Mr. 
Fulton  was  the  son  of  Robert  Fulton,  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, born  1784,  died  i860,  and  Gracena 
(Weeks)  Fulton.  Five  children  were  born  to 
Elijah  and  Lucy  (Abbott)  Fulton:  i.  Mi- 
nerva Ann,  married  Rev.  Jeremiah  Hayden. 
2.  Mercy  Jane,  died  single.  3.  Maria  Lucy, 
mentioned  above.  4.  James  Edward,  married 
Keziah  Dingley  Murch,  and  by  her  had  four 
children :  Sumner,  Mabel,  Lucy  A.  and  Me- 
lissa. 5.  Melissa  Ellen,  married  Gideon  P. 
Davis,  and  had  one  child,  Nellie  Maria,  who 
married  Charles  H.  Gififord,  of  Boston.  They 
have  four  children:  Robert  Fulton,  Stanley 
Easton,  Raymond  Mayne  and  Eleanor  Davis. 
Mrs.  Sawyer  is  an  active  and  honored  mem- 
ber of  Bosworth  Relief  Corps;  the  first  or- 
ganization of  its  kind  in  the  United  States. 
She  has  held  the  highest  offices  in  that  and  in 
the  State  Corps,  and  is  also  a  member  and 
president  of  the  Young  Woman's  Christian 
Association.  Bosworth  Relief  Corps  was  or- 
ganized in  1869.  James  Fulton,  Mrs.  Saw- 
yer's brother,  served  in  the  Seventeenth  Maine. 
Mr.  Sawyer  left  an  adopted  daughter,  Nellie 
Maria,  now  the  wife  of  C.  H.  Gifford. 


(I^or    ancestry    see  preceding    sketch.) 

(VIII)  Lemuel,  third  son  of 
SAWYER  John  (4)  and  Grace  (Jenkins) 
Sawyer,  born  July  18,  1807, 
died  August  12,  1888,  aged  eighty-one.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  resided  in  Standish.  He 
married  Esther  Purinton,  born  January  30, 
1807,  died  December  14,  1880.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Meshach  and  Sarah  (Gerish) 
Purinton,  of  Durham  and  Windon.  Meshach 
was  son  of  David  Purinton;  Sarah  was  a 
daughter  of  William  Gerish.  The  children  of 
this  marriage  were:  i.  Sarah  Ann,  born  July 
8,  1833,  married  George  E.  Mead,  of  Bridg- 
ton,  and  died  December  21,  1859.     2.  Dennis 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Jenkins,  born   April  6,    1835,   married    (first) 
Sarah  J.  Yarney,  by  whom  he  had  oiie  child. 
Eugene    H.,    who    married    Emma    Thurlow ; 
(second)  Charitv  Ann  Smith,  by  whom  he  had 
three    children:'     George    P.,    who    married 
Georgia  Phinney  and  had  one  child,  Arthur ; 
William   A.,   who    married    Lulu    Nash;    and 
Luella      3.  Maria,  born   September   11.   1836, 
married   John    B.   Winslow.      4-    EUery    Pox- 
craft,  born  March   13.   1838,   died   March    19, 
1876,  married  Ellen  Nichols  and  had  two  chil- 
dren-    Charies  L..  who  married  a  Ahss  Hall 
and  had  one  child  Hall ;  and  Chester.     5.  John 
Purinton,    born    October    30,     1839.    married 
Louisa  Bodge  and  had  one  child,  Clarence  P., 
who  married  Louisa  Dunn,  and  they  have  one 
child    Philip.     6.  Emilv  Freeman,  born  April 
21.  1842,  died  March   13,   1888;  she  married 
Charies  A.  Nichols,  who  was  born  April  22, 
1842,  and  died  February   14.  1908;  their  five 
children  are:    Thomas  B..  who  married  Irene 
Calef,  and  has  one  child,  Ira;  John  C,  wdio 
married  Josephine  Hanson,  and  has  three  chil- 
dren •     George  A.,  Donald  and  Emily ;  Ernest 
L.,  who  married  Sadie  L.  Porter;  Grace   E., 
wife  of  Fred   Frisbee ;  and  Ahce  L.,  wife  of 
George  E.   M.  Lindenberg.     7.  Alfred  Stan- 
ford,  mentioned  below.     8.   Harriet  L.,  born 
July    I,    1847,    died    December    2-],    1830.      9. 
Marietta,  born  June  27,  1850.  married  Samuel 
C.  Richard,  has  one  child,  Ellery  C. 

(IX)    Dr.   Alfred   Stanford,   fourth   son  ot 
Lemuel  and  Esther   (Purinton)    Sawyer,  was 
born  in  Standish,  August  13,  1844,  and  spent 
his   eariv  life   on   his   father's   farm.     He  re- 
ceived  his    literary    education    in    the    private 
schools  and  from  private  tutors.    He  remained 
on  the  farm  until  1882,  teaching  a  part  ot  each 
year  after  1865.     In  1882  he  entered  upon  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr.  George 
H   Cummings,  of  Portland,  reading  until  1886 
and  then  entered  Dartmouth  College,  medical 
department,  from  which  he  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1887.    After  graduation  he  began  his 
professional  career  at  Charlestown,  Massachu- 
setts   from  which  place  he  went  to  Plamfield, 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  remained  till  the 
fall   of    1889.     In  that   year   he   removed  to 
Portland,  Maine,  where  he  sojourned  a  short 
time    and  then   staved  a   short  time  in   Scar- 
borough (till  1890),  and  then  settled  in  South 
Portland,  and  has  since  resided  there.     Studi- 
ous habits,  a  natural  adaptation  to  his  profes- 
sion   an  upright  character  and  pleasing  man- 
ners' have  made  his  life  a  success.     He  is  de- 
voted  to   his   profession   and   gives   but   little 
time  to  matters  outside  of  his  business.     He 


is  a  member  of  Presumpscot  Lodge,  No^i27 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  and  Eagle  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  No.  11. 

Dr  Alfred  S.  Sawyer  married,  m  Standish, 
Maine,  March  23,  1881,  Hannah  E.  Rich,  born 
Tulv  ^S  1857,  only  child  of  William  and  Lucy 
(Freeman)  Rich,  of  Standish.  They  have  one 
child  Ralph  Eldon,  born  December  8,  1884, 
who  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1908, 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 

The  name   of    Sawyer   is   ex- 
SAWYER     ceedingly     numerous     in     the 

states  of  Massachusetts,  Maine 
and  New  Hampshire,  and  it  is  a  matter  of 
great  difficulty  to  trace  the  relationship  of  the 
different  branches.  In  many  cases  there  is 
probably  no  direct  connection.  There  is  a 
likelihood  that  the  folloNving  hue  is  c^escended 
from  William  Sawyer  or  Sayer,  as  he  spelled 
his  name,  who  was  at  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
in  1640,  and  afterwards  lived  at  Newbury, 
that  state,  for  more  than  half  a  centurv.  His 
descendants  are  numerous  in  that  region  to- 
day Joseph,  one  of  William's  great-grand- 
sons, born  at  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  in 
1706,  settled  at  Falmouth,  ^lame  and  is  the 
ancestor  of  most  of  the  Sawyers  who  belong  in 
the  Saco  valley,  but  who  are  apparently  unre- 
lated to  the  line  under  consideration.  Possi- 
bly the  following  branch  may  be  descended 
from  Thomas  Sawver.  an  English  immigrant 
who  settled  at  Rowley,  Massachusetts,  'n.  i639- 
The  only  reason  for  this  supposition  is  tie 
prevalence  of  the  name  Jonathan  among  the 
descendants  of  Thomas  Sawyer.  One  ot  the 
Jonathan"  born  at  Marlborough,  Massachu- 
setls.  in  1817.  was  the  father  of  Governor 
Charles  H.  Sawyer,  of  New  Hampshire. 

(I)  Jonathan  Sawyer  lived  at  Salem,  Mas- 
sachusetts, about  the  mi.ldle  of  the  eighteenth 

S^ry,  and  died  at  Boothbay  Maine,  about 
the  year  181 1.  The  name  of  his  wife  is  un- 
known; but  there  were  seven  children  of 
whom  four  lived  to  grow  up,  and  all  made 
tl  home  in  Maine.  The  children  were 
Phebe  who  lived  at  Boothbay ;  one  who  prob- 
ably died  young,  name  unknown;  Clarissa 
who  lived  at  Hope;  two  daughters  who  died 
Tung;  Jonathan  (2),  whose  sketch  follows, 
Alfred,  who  lived  at  Knox. 

(II)  Jonathan   (2),  elder  son  of  Jonathan 
(I)    Sawver,  was  born  at  Salem,  Massachu- 

etts,  about  1771.  and  died  at  Levant  Maine 
in  184s  ^^■hen  a  boy  he  moved  with  his 
father  to  Boothbay,  where  he  became  a  black- 

mith      About  1802  he  married  Martha  Reed, 


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STATE  OF  MAIXE. 


1449 


of  Boothbay:  children:  i.  Betsey,  died  at 
Camden,  Maine.  2.  Sarah,  died  in  \'e\v  York. 
3.  Mary  Haskell,  died  at  Brewer,  Maine,  April 
17,  1892.  4.  Joseph  Reed,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows.    5.  Warren,  died  at  Calais,  Maine. 

(Ill)  Joseph  Reed,  elder  son  of  Jonathan 
(2)  and  Martha  (Reed)  Sawyer,  was  born  at 
I  Boothbay,  Maine,  March  11,  1809,  and  died 
at  Oldto'wn,  that  state,  October  i,  1884.  He 
received  a  common  school  education,  and  was 
a  cooper  by  trade.  After  marriage  he  took  up 
his  abode  at  Levant,  Maine,  and  carried  on 
that  business  till  he  moved  to  Oldtown  in 
1867.  He  was  postmaster  at  Levant  for  sev- 
eral years,  and  also  kept  a  hotel  and  general 
store.  After  moving  to  Oldtown  he  continued 
to  manufacture  fish  barrels  until  he  retired 
from  business  on  account  of  failing  health. 
about  1882.  He  employed  from  ten  to  fifteen 
men  in  his  cooper  shop.  .\t  Oldtown  he  also 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  .sons,  .\ndrew 
C.  and  Hudson,  in  the  dry  goods  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  J.  R.  Sawyer  and  Sons, 
which  continued  for  several  years.  Mr.  Saw- 
yer was  a  Democrat  till  the  civil  war,  when  he 
changed  and  voted  the  Republican  ticket  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  On  November  27,  1839, 
at  Levant,  Maine,  Joseph  Reed  Sawyer  mar- 
ried Sarah  Randall  Haskell,  daughter  of  Job 
and  Hannah  Blanchard  (Cutler)  Haskell. 
(See  Ha,skell,  VH.)  Mrs.  Sarah  (Haskell) 
Reed  was  born  at  Greene,  Maine,  September 
19,  1820,  and  died  at  Oldtown,  March  20, 
1006.  Children:  i.  Georgiana  Celeste,  born 
at  Levant,  Maine,  August  i,  1840;  married 
William  Manley,  August  5,  1856,  and  is  now 
(1908)  a  widow,  and  living  at  the  Sawyer 
homestead  in  Old  Town.  2.  Hudson,  born  at 
Levant,  Maine,  July  6,  1842,  died  at  Togus, 
Maine,  November  10,  1904.  He  was  a  soldier 
and  clergyman.  He  enlisted  in  the  First  Maine 
Cavalry,  October  i,  1861,  was  appointed  chief 
bugler  of  the  regiment,  August  26,  1862,  and 
was    discharged    from    service,    February     i, 

1863.  He  re-enlisted  on  July  21  of  that  year, 
in  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  and  was 
appointed  quartermaster-sergeant,  January  14. 

1864.  He  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant. 
July  27,  1864;  captain  of  Company  L  .\pril 
25,  1865,  brevet  major  to  rank  as  such  from 
March  13,  1865;  and  was  discharged  from 
service,  September  11,  1865.  Major  Sawyer 
served  as  assistant  aide  de  camp  on  the  stafif 
of  Brigadier-General  R.  De  Trobriand  from 
September,  1864.  to  June,  1865,  and  as  assist- 
ant provost  marshal  of  the  defences  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  on  the  stai¥  of  General  Alartin 
A.  Hardin  from  June  29  to  September,  1865. 


Major  Sawyer  was  an  Episcopalian,  and  was 
ordained  deacon  at  Dexter.  Maine,  December 
19,  1873,  and  priest  at  Augusta,  May  23,  1875. 
both  times  by  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  A.  Neeley, 
D.  D.  Major  and  Rev.  Hudson  Sawyer  was 
appointed  chaplain  of  the  eastern  branch  of 
the  National  Soldiers'  Home,  Discharged  \^ol- 
unteer  Soldiers,  at  Togus.  Maine,  December 
23,  1901,  and  held  this  position  till  his  death, 
nearlv  three  years  later.  jMajor  Hudson  was 
buried  at  Boulder,  Colorado,  the  home  of  his 
daughter.  3.  Andrew  C,  see  next  paragraph. 
4.  Joseph  Warren,  born  April  24,  1846,  died 
on  January  29  of  the  next  year  at  Levant, 
Maine.  5.  Joseph  W'arren,  born  April  14, 
1848.  at  Levant,  Maine,  died  December  16, 
1902,  at  Old  Town,  !\Iaine.  6.  .Ada  Frances, 
born  October  18.  1854.  married  Charles  F. 
McCuUoch,  of  Old  Town,  Maine,  and  is  now 
living  at  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  7.  Mar- 
tha Hannah,  born  December  6.  1856.  died  Au- 
gust I,  1863,  at  Levant,  Maine.  8.  Charles 
Haskell,  born  .\pril  14,  1863,  at  Levant,  is  now 
living  at  Fo.xcroft,  Maine. 

(R")  Andrew  Chesley,  second  son  of  Jo- 
seph Reed  and  Sarah  R.  (Haskell)  Sawyer, 
was  born  at  Levant,  Maine,  March  22,  1844. 
He  was  educated  in  the  local  schools,  and  at 
the  age  of  eighteen  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
Company  F,  Eighteenth  ^Maine  Regiment,  in 
the  fall  of  1862.  Later  he  was  transferred  to 
the  First  ]\Iaine  Heavy  .\rtillery.  and  served 
for  a  year  and  a  half  on  the  defences  at  Wash- 
ington. In  the  spring  of  1864  his  company 
was  joined  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  with 
which  he  served  till  the  end  of  the  war.  On 
February  18,  1865,  he  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  sergeant  major.  In  June,  1865, 
Major  Sawyer  came  to  Bangor,  Maine,  where 
he  engaged  as  clerk  in  a  shoe  store.  In  1867 
he  started  in  the  retail  shoe  business  on  his 
own  account,  and  in  1872  went  into  the  whole- 
sale shoe  business.  In  1892  he  incorporated 
the  business  as  the  Sawyer  Boot  &  Shoe  Com- 
pany, with  Andrew  C.  Sawyer  as  president. 
In  1890  he  began  the  manufacture  of  moc- 
casins in  connection  with  his  general  business. 
His  shoe  trade  extends  over  Maine,  New 
Hampshire  and  Vermont,  while  the  moccasins 
and  moccasin  slippers  go  to  all  parts  of  the 
L^nited  States,  to  England  and  throughout  Eu- 
rope. The  latter  business  has  grown  to  great 
proportions,  although  in  its  infancy,  having 
only  been  a  distinctive  feature  since  1905. 
Major  Sawyer  may  well  be  satisfied  with  the 
success  of  this  enterprise,  wdiich  is  due  to  his 
own  energy  and  business  ability,  ably  assisted 
bv  his  sons.    He  belongs  to  Hannibal  Hamlin 


145° 


STATE  rDF  MAINE. 


Post,  No.  165,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  for  many  years  has  been  deacon  of  the 
Central  Congregational  church.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican. 

On  July  18,  1 87 1,  Major  Andrew  Chesley 
Sawyer  married  Ella  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  E.  and  Abigail  A.  Pendleton,  of 
Bangor,  and  a  descendant  in  the  ninth  genera- 
tion from  John  and  Priscilla  Alden.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Howard  Field,  born  November  18, 
1872,  attended  public  schools,  associated  with 
his  father  in  business  since  sixteen  years  of 
age,  now  treasurer  of  company ;  married,  Oc- 
tober 7,  1906,  Blanche  Clayton,  of  Bangor; 
child,  Elizabeth.  2.  Rowland  Judson,  born 
December  25,  1873,  attended  public  schools, 
at  age  of  sixteen  entered  father's  store,  now 
vice-president  of  company ;  married,  June  3, 
1908,  Helen  Hill,  of  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts. 3.  Harold  C,  born  January  26,  1880, 
attendef I. public  schools,  been  engaged  in  busi- 
ness with  father  since  sixteen  years  of  age; 
married,  October  22,  1901,  Marion  Hart,  of 
Bangor ;  children :  Lovis,  Alden  Hart  and 
Priscilla.  4.  Edith  May,  born  May  19,  1885. 
educated  in  West  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts. 
5.  IMabel  Louise,  born  July  20,  1887,  educated 
at  Newton,  Massachusetts. 

In  his  maternal  line  Major  Sawyer  is  de- 
scAnded  from  William  Haskell,  the  immigrant 
(q.  v.),  as  follows : 

(II)  Mark,  fifth  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Mary  (Tybbot)  Haskell,  was  born  April  8, 
1658,  and  lived  in  Gloucester,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  died  September  8,  1691,  at  the  early 
age  of  thirty-three  years.  On  December  16, 
1685,  he  married  Elizabeth  Giddings,  supposed 
to  be  daughter  of  Lieutenant  John  Giddings, 
of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts.  She  afterwards 
married  John  Dcniiison,  of  Ipswich.  Children  : 
I.  George,  born  October  18,  1686,  died  No- 
vember 10,  1686.  2.  Mark,  born  September 
16,  1687.  3.  William  (2),  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 

(HI)  William  (2),  youngest  of  the  three 
sons  of  Mark  and  Elizabeth  (Giddings)  Has- 
kell, was  born  at  Gloucester,  Massachusetts, 
January  i,  1689-90,  and  died  there  December 
10,  1766,  aged  seventy-seven  years.  He  was 
a  selectman  of  the  town,  a  deacon  of  the  sec- 
ond church  for  many  years,  and  in  1736  was 
a  representative  to  the  general  court.  He  mar- 
ried Jemima  Hubbard,  who  died  in  1762,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  Children:  i. 
Jemima,  born  March  2,  171 3,  died  March  2, 
1735.  2.  Job,  whose  sketch  follows.  3.  Com- 
fort, May  28,  1 71 7,  married  Parker  Sawyer, 
November   10,   1742,  died  September  5,   1809, 


aged  ninety-two  years.  4.  Natha-niel,  January 
16,  1719.  5.  Hubbard,  May  3,  1720.  6.  Eliza- 
beth, November  8,  1723,  died  at  the  age  of  one 
month.  7.  William,  January  17,  1726.  8. 
George,  February  10,  1729,  died  at  the  age  of 
nine  days. 

(IV)  Job,  eldest  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Jemima  (Hubbard)  Haskell,  was  born  at 
Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  April  27,  1716,  and 
died  at  Levant,  Maine,  in  July.  1806.  When 
a  young  man  he  moved  to  Hampton  Falls, 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  united  with  the 
church  in  1737,  being  dismissed  from  the 
church  in  Gloucester.  Job  Haskell  for  many 
years  made  his  home  in  what  was  originally 
the  Gorges  tavern,  where  in  1737  the  legis- 
lature of  New  Hampshire  met  that  of  Massa- 
chusetts for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a 
boundary  line  between  the  two  states.  Prob- 
ably he  kept  a  public  house  part  of  the  time, 
as  he  had  a  license  from  the  selectmen  to  mix 
and  sell  spirituous  liquors.  He  also  took  care 
of  the  church,  and  was  a  revolutionary  soldier. 
It  is  not  known  just  what  year  he  moved  to 
Maine,  but  probably  about  1787,  as  his  name 
disappears  from  the  records  of  Hampton  Falls 
about  that  time.  He  was  then  seventy  years 
of  age,  and  probably  went  to  live  with  his  chil- 
dren or  grandchildren.  In  1738  Job  Haskell 
married  Mercy,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Lock)  Leavitt,  of  Hampton  Falls. 
Children:    i.  Thomas,  born  January  2,   1739. 

2.  Nathaniel,  February  14,  1742.  see  forward. 

3.  Job,  November  22,  1744.    4.  Jemima,  June 

23,  1749,  married Tobey.     5.  William, 

July  30,  1755. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Job  and  Mercy 
(Leavitt)  Haskell,  was  born  at  Hampton 
Falls,  New  Hampshire,  February  14,  1742,  and 
died  at  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  February  14, 
1794.  The  tombstone  of  Lieutenant  Nathan- 
iel Haskell,  in  the  New  Gloucester  cemetery, 
was  visited  by  Rev.  Hudson  Sawyer,  of  Togus, 
Maine,  November  7,  1902,  and  he  found  the 
following  carved  thereon :  "In  memory  of 
Capt.  Nathaniel  Haskell,  who  was  an  officer  in 
the  American  Revolutionary  War.  He  died 
February  14,  1794,  age  52."  When  a  young 
man  he  moved  to  New  Gloucester,  where  he 
served  in  the  revolution.  He  is  recorded  on 
the  rolls  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  Thirty- 
first  Regiment,  Captain  Moses  Merrill,  Colo- 
nel Edmund  Phinney,  from  April  24  to  July 
5,  1775.  Lieutenant  Nathaniel  Haskell  mar- 
ried Deborah  Bailey,  who  died  at  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  February  16,  1806.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Nathaniel.  2.  Job,  see  forward.  3. 
Dorothy,  born  May  9,  1768.     4.  Deborah.     5. 


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I\Iercy.  6.  Joseph.  7.  Thankful  8.  Jemima, 
born  January  15,  1775.  9.  Dennis.  10.  Will- 
iam, born  November  6,  1780.  11.  Hannah, 
died  in  New  Gloucester,  December  31,  1797, 
aged  thirteen  years.     12.  Aretas. 

(\T)  Job  (2),  son  of  Lieutenant  and 
Deborah  (Bailey)  Haskell,  was  born  at  New 
Gloucester,  Maine,  JMay  11,  1765,  and  died  at 
Levant.  Maine.  January  18.  1847,  at  the  home 
of  his  daughter.  Sarah  (Randall)  Sawyer.  He 
lived  in  New  Gloucester,  Greene,  Monmouth, 
Poland,  Detroit,  and  Levant,  Maine.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  April  25,  1790,  Judith  Dwinal ;  she 
died  in  New  Gloucester,  Alaine.  He  married 
(second)  March  18,  1802,  Widow  Mary 
Bailey,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary  Cox ; 
she  died  in  New  Gloucester.  He  married 
(third)  Hannah  Cutler,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Hannah  Blanchard ;  she  died  April  8, 
1852.  Children  by  Judith  (Dwinal)  Haskell, 
all  born  in  New  Gloucester,  Maine:  i.  Annis, 
January  10,  1 791.  2.  Judith,  February  29, 
1792.  3.  Job,  May  29.  1794.  4.  Deborah, 
February  29,  1796.  5.  Mary,  June  i,  1797. 
6.  Betsey,  October  22,  1798.  7.  Lois,  May  16, 
1800.  Children  by  Mary  (Cox)  (Bailey) 
Haskell,  all  born  in  New  Gloucester,   Maine : 

8.  Submit,  March  11,  1803.  9.  Nathaniel,  Au- 
gust I,  1804.  10.  Katherine,  June  9,  1806.  ii. 
Nathaniel,  August  i,  1808.     12.  John,  August 

9,  1810.  13.  Sophronia,  July  4,  1813.  14. 
Lucy  Ann,  May  13,  181 5.  Children  by  Han- 
nah (Blanchard)  (Cutler)  Haskell;  15.  Ruth 
Alaria,  born  July  12,  1818,  in  New  Gloucester, 
Maine.  16.  Sarah  Randall,  September  19. 
1820,  in  Greene,  Maine.  17.  Dorcas  Cox, 
March  27,  1822,  in  Monmouth,  Maine.  18. 
Ann  (twin),  March  27,  1822,  in  Monmouth, 
Maine.  19.  Infant.  20.  Charles  Blanchard, 
January  7,  1828,  in  Poland,  Maine. 

(\'II)  Sarah  Randall,  daughter  of. Job  (2) 
and  Hannah  (Blanchard)  (Cutler)  Haskell, 
was  born  at  Greene,  Maine,  September  19, 
1820,  and  died  at  Old  Town,  Maine,  March  20, 
1906.  On  November  27,  1839,  she  was  mar- 
ried at  Kenduskeag,  INlaine,  to  Joseph  Reed 
Sawyer,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  Sawyer,  who  was 
born  in  1819,  at  Boothbay,  Maine.  They  set- 
tled in  Levant,  Maine,  where  they  lived  until 
1867,  then  moved  to  Old  Town,  Maine.  (See 
Sawyer  family.) 


The  name  of  Sawyer  is  exceed- 
SAWYER     ingly  numerous  in  Maine,  New 

Hampshire  and  Massachusetts ; 
and  as  the  early  records  are  scanty  and  have 
never  been  correlated,  it  is  almost  impossible  to 


trace  some  of  the  branches  prior  to  the  revo- 
lution. 

( I )  Aaron  Sawyer  was  born  at  Danvers, 
Massachusetts,  in  1758.  In  early  life  he  moved 
to  Boothbay,  Maine,  where  the  name  was  very 
numerous  about  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury. There  were  several  heads  of  families  in 
the  town  at  that  time,  but  whether  they  were 
brothers  or  not  is  uncertain.  One  of  these 
men  was  Jonathan  Sawyer,  born  March  6, 
1749,  died  October  21,  1809.  He  was  town 
clerk  of  Boothbay  from  1794  to  1806.  and 
noted  for  his  artistic  penmanship.  Lhifortu- 
nately,  he  did  not  leave  any  records  about  his 
ancestry,  though  it  is  thought  that  he  and  all 
others  bearing  the  patronymic  came  from 
Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  and  that  neigh- 
borhood. Jonathan  had  a  brother,  Jacob  Saw- 
yer, who  lived  at  Sawyer's  Island  in  Booth- 
bay  Harbor,  and  died  March  9,  1821.  It  is 
thought  that  .Aaron  Sawyer  was  not  a  brother 
to  these  two  men :  but  Aaron  had  a  brother 
Samuel  Sawyer,  who  built  the  first  tannery  in 
town,  on  the  mainland,  opposite  Hodgdon's 
Island.  The  name  of  Aaron  Sawyer  appears 
in  the  revolutionary  rolls  on  a  return  of  men 
raised  from  Colonel  Jones'  regiment  for  guards 
over  convention,  magazines  and  public  stores, 
under  General  Heath.  The  order  was  dated 
at  Pownalboro,  August  20,  1778,  and  the  resi- 
dence of  Aaron  Sawyer  was  given  at  Booth- 
bay.  On  March  27,  1780,  Aaron  Sawyer,  of 
Boothbay,  and  Sally  Hodgdon,  of  Edgecomb, 
were  published  in  marriage.  She  was  born  at 
Boothbay  in  1759.  Children:  Aaron,  born  in 
1781  ;  Benjamin,  1783;  Joshua,  1785;  Sally, 
1787;  Jonathan.  1789;  Jacob,  1791  ;  Stephen, 
whose  sketch  follows. 

(II)  Captain  Stephen,  youngest  child  of 
Aaron  and  Sarah  (Hodgdon)  Sawyer,  was 
born  at  Mount  Desert,  Alaine,  July  4,  1795, 
died  July  17,  1849.  He  lived  at  East  Booth- 
bay,  and  from  his  title  must  have  been  a  sea- 
faring man.  Captain  Samuel  Sawyer  and 
Captain  Simeon  Sawyer  also  lived  at  Booth- 
bay  contemporaneous  with  Captain  Stephen, 
but  if  they  were  brothers  their  names  are  not 
recorded  in  the  list  of  the  children  of  Aaron 
and  Sarah  (Hodgdon)  Sawyer.  About  1829 
Captain  Stephen  Sawyer  married  Abigail  An- 
derson, born  at  Wiscasset,  Maine,  October  17, 
1798,  died  December  31,  1870.  Children:  i. 
\\'ilmarth,  February  25,  1821.  2.  Louisa,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1822.  3.  Stephen,  .\ugust  24.  1824. 
4.  Simeon,  September  17,  1826,  was  a  Forty- 
niner,  went  to  California,  where  he  died,  and 
accumulated  considerable  wealth.     5.  Abigail, 


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October  7,  1828.    6.  Stephen,  October  2,  1831. 

7.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  December  15,  1833,  mar- 
ried   Elias    H.    Fish,    of    Newcastle,    Maine. 

8.  Henry  C,  February  27.  1836,  went 
to  San  Francisco,  California,  where  he  was  an 
overseer  of  ship-building,  accumulated  much 
wealth,  and  died  there.  9.  William  M.,  whose 
sketch  follows. 

(III)  William  M.,  si.xth  son  of  Captain 
Stephen  and  Abigail  (Anderson)  Sawyer,  was 
born  at  East  Boothbay,  Maine,  June  29,  1838, 
died  August  17,  1906.  He  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools,  and  when  a  boy  showed  his 
enterprise  by  starting  in  business  as  the  pro- 
prietor of  a  small  candy-store.  But  the  sea- 
faring instinct  was  strong  in  his  blood,  and  he 
soon  drifted  into  an  intimacy  with  old  ocean, 
which  continued  through  his  life.  Mr.  Saw- 
yer's first  marine  venture  was  the  purchase  of 
a  small  vessel  with  which  he  traded  up  and 
down  the  coast,  buying  old  iron  and  metal.  He 
took  up  his  abode  at  Boothbay  Harbor,  where 
he  bought  vessels  and  wreckage,  trading  as 
occasion  offered,  and  at  different  times  he 
owned  sixty  sailing-vessels.  In  1876  he  be- 
came a  ship-chandler,  and  started  a  store  in 
Boothbay,  where  he  handled  all  kinds  of  sea- 
man's supplies,  and  also  dealt  in  general  mer- 
chandise. Mr.  Sawyer  continued  in  this  busi- 
ness for  thirty  years,  or  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  a  director  in  the  savings  bank 
at  Boothbay  Harbor,  and  was  in  all  respects  a 
useful  and  respected  citizen  of  his  town.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of 
Boothbay  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  at- 
tended the  Congregational  church.  He  mar- 
ried Angle  Jack,  of  Richmond,  IMaine,  born  in 
1831,  died  in  1886.  Children:  Melville  D., 
born  in  1861,  now  in  the  fish  business  in 
Boothbay  Harbor,  and  William  Elmer,  whose 
sketch  follows. 

(IV)  William  Elmer,  younger  of  the  two 
sons  of  William  M.  and  Angle  (Jack)  Saw- 
yer, was  born  at  East  Boothbay,  Maine,  June 
15,  1863.  He  was  educated  in  the  town 
schools,  and,  true  to  his  ancestry,  took  to  the 
sea  in  early  life.  For  six  years  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  coasting  trade,  having  charge  of 
the  schooners  "Rosa  E.,"  "Frolic,"  "Sarah 
Jane"  and  "Sunbeam" ;  and  he  became  a  mas- 
ter mariner.  He  has  been  master  of  a  num- 
ber of  other  vessels,  also  owner  of  different 
vessels.  He  left  the  sea  to  go  into  the  ice 
business,  and  also  engaged  in  furnishing  fisher- 
men's supplies.  In  1906,  on  the  death  of  his 
father,  Mr.  Sawyer  took  over  his  store,  and 
now  manages  it  in  connection  with  his  ice 
business  and  other  interests.     He  owns  a  trap 


business  and  fish  wears.  For  seventeen  years 
he  has  held  the  state  position  of  wrecking 
master,  is  also  wrecking  commissioner,  and  has 
wrecked  more  than  twenty-five  sailing  vessels, 
from  eleven  hundred  tons  down.  This  is  re- 
sponsible work,  requiring  good  judgment  and 
a  knowledge  of  all  kinds  of  nautical  affairs  and 
requirements.  At  his  store  Mr.  Sawyer  car- 
ries every  variety  of  fishermen's  supplies  and 
outfits,  besides  all  kind  of  groceries.  He  also 
handles  about  six  thousand  tons  of  ice  yearly. 
Mr.  Sawyer  is  much  interested  in  fraternal 
organizations,  is  a  member  of  Boothbay  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  of  the  Pythian  Sisterhood, 
of  Seaside  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Pentecost  Royal  Arch  Chapter, 
Boothbay  Harbor,  and  of  the  Royal  Arcanum. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  attends  the 
Methodist  church.  On  December  22,  1890, 
he  married  Minnie  P.,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Rachel  Gove,  of  Newcastle,  Maine.  Children: 
Angle  Ray,  born  in  1892;  Valeria  Edith,  1894; 
Elmer,  1895. 


The  Sawyer  name  is  one  of  the 
S.-XWYER     most  numerous  in  the  state  of 

Maine,  and  it  is  not  always 
possible  to  connect  the  different  branches.  The 
antecedents  of  Nathaniel  Sawyer  have  not  been 
discovered. 

(I)  Nathaniel  Sawyer,  born  November  18, 
1792,  died  at  Isleborough,  Maine,  November 
26,  1870.  He  was  a  master  ship-builder,  and 
came  to  Isleborough  from  Isle  au  Haut  in  the 
Penobscot  Bay,  which  may  have  been  his  birth- 
place. It  is  possible  that  he  was  descended 
from  one  of  three  brothers,  Jacob,  John  and 
Israel,  who  moved  to  Falmouth,  Maine,  1716- 
19.  These  men  were  the  grandsons  of  Will- 
iam Sawyer  who  was  at  Gloucester,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1640.  ijacob  Sawyer  married 
Sarah  Wallis,  and  John  Sawyer  married  Re- 
becca Stanford,  and  some  of  their  descend- 
ants settled  at  Durham,  Maine.  Nathaniel 
Sawyer,  of  Isleborough,  married  Sarah  Gro- 
ver,  born  September  16,  1794,  died  February 
14,  1871.  Children:  t.  William,  born  March 
24,  1817,  died  April  22  of  that  year.  2.  Eliza 
B.,  August  28.  1818.  married  David  Collins.  3. 
Paul,  whose  sketch  follows.  4.  .Amelia,  Jan- 
uary 14,  1823,  married  \'\^illiam  Collins.  5. 
Nathan,  September  i,  1826.  died  in  infancy. 
6.  Matilda  T.,  twin,  September  i,  1826.  mar- 
ried Gamaliel  R.  Pendleton.  7.  George  W.. 
October  30.  1828,  married  (first)  Druzetta 
Sprague,  (second)  Arvilla  Davis.  8.  Elbridge 
B.,  July  10,  1832,  married  Hope  Clark.  9. 
Lydia  A.,  March  3,  1837,  married  Stephen  B. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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Coombs.    10.  Mary  A.,  twin  to  Lydia  A.,  mar- 
ried Charles  A.  Coburn. 

(II)  Paul,  second  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Sarah  (Grover)  Sawyer,  was  born  August  24, 
1820,  probably  at  Isle  au  Haut,  Maine,  and 
died  December,  1888.  He  was  a  sea  captain, 
and  followed  the  sea  nearly  all  his  life.  About 
1848  Captain  Paul  Sawyer  married  Lovina  E., 
daughter  of  John  and  Lovina  C.  Ray,  of  Cas- 
tine.  Their  children:  i.  Druzetta  C,  born 
November  24,  1849,  died  at  the  age  of 
ten.  2.  William  Nathaniel,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 3.  Arvilla  E.,  May  16,  1857,  Mrs.  W. 
H.  Margesson.  4.  Florence  S.,  February  3, 
1861,  died  at  age  of  ten. 

(III)  William  Nathaniel,  only  son  of  Cap- 
tain Paul  and  Lovina  E.  (Ray)  Sawyer,  was 
born  at  Isleborough,  Maine,  March  28,  1852. 
He  was  educated  in  the  local  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  at  the  high  school  in  Stock- 
ton, Maine.  From  the  time  he  was  ten  till  he 
was  eighteen  he  went  to  school  winters  and 
to  sea  summers,  thus  gaining  a  thorough 
practical  training  in  the  school  of  industry, 
courage  and  helpfulness,  at  the  same  time  that 
he  was  acquiring  knowledge  of  books.  Dur- 
ing this  time  he  went  to  Philadelphia  on  one 
trip ;  for  seven  seasons  he  went  on  fishing  ves- 
sels from  Gloucester  and  other  places.  In 
1870,  being  eighteen  years  at  the  time,  he  came 
to  Bangor,  Maine,  and  served  as  an  apprentice 
to  a  mason  for  three  years.  The  next  five 
years  he  worked  as  a  journeyman  mason.  In 
1878  he  started  into  business  for  himself  as  a 
contractor  for  masonry.  He  is  now  a  general 
contractor :  subletting  all  but  the  mason  work. 
The  following  large  and  substantial  buildings 
which  he  has  erected  will  give  some  idea  of  the 
size  and  importance  of  Mr.  Sawyer's  con- 
tracts :  Opera  House,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Columbia, 
Bass  and  McGuire  buildings,  and  two  school- 
houses,  all  in  Bangor ;  the  first  Experiment 
Station  and  the  mason  work  for  Lord  Hall, 
both  at  the  LTniversity  of  Maine  at  Orono ; 
State  Normal  School  at  Castine ;  Stewart  Li- 
brary Building  at  Corinna ;  two  school-houses 
in  Old  Town;  Inn  at  Dark  Harbor;  the  Odd 
Fellows  Hall  at  Camden ;  and  the  Steel  Ball 
factory  at  Brewer.  He  is  also  the  owner  of  the 
Bangor  Broom  Company,  makers  of  all  kinds 
of  house  brooms,  and  of  the  Penobscot  Box 
Company.  Mr.  Sawyer  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  represented  ward  three,  Bangor, 
in  the  common  council  for  two  years.  He  at- 
tends the  LTniversalist  church,  and  is  a  Mason, 
belonging  to  Rising  Virtue  Lodge,  No.  10, 
Mount  Moriah  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No.  6, 
Bangor   Council,   Royal   and    Select    Masters, 


Saint  John's  Commandery,  No.  3,  Knights 
Templar,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows. 

Mr.  Sawyer  married,  November  25,  1875, 
Carrie  May,  daughter  of  Charles,  born  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  and  Mercy  (Fly)  Fenno, 
born  in  Embden,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Ina 
May,  born  November  15,  1876,  married,  in 
1897,  Nealey  Barrows,  of  Hamlin,  Maine ; 
children :  Doris  May  and  Elva  Louise  Bar- 
rows. 2.  Winfield  F.,  born  November  25, 
1890. 


Reuben  A.  Sawyer,  father  of 
SAWYER  Dr.  Alfred  Dow  Sawyer,  was 
born  in  Maine  in  1810.  He 
owned  a  farm  at  Pownal,  Maine,  and  married 
Hannah  Libby,  who  became  the  mother  of  his 
three  children  :  Alfred  Dow  (q.  v.),  born  Jan- 
uary 8,  1855;  Allen  J.  G.,  who  lived  at  Sabat- 
tas,  Maine;  and  Greenleaf  T.,  who  settled  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts.  Reuben  A.  Sawyer 
died  in  Lisbon,  Androscoggin  county,  Maine, 
in  1882.  He  was  an  industrious  farmer,  and 
brought  up  his  boys  to  habits  of  industry  and 
frugality,  they  working  on  the  farm  while  at- 
tending the  district  school.  Late  in  life  he 
left  the  farm  at  Pownal  and  removed  to  Lis- 
bon. 

(II)  Alfred  Dow,  son  of  Reuben  A.  and 
Hannah  (Libby)  Sawyer,  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Pownal,  Maine,  January  8, 
1855.  He  attended  the  district  school  of  his 
native  place,  and  worked  on  the  farm  until  he 
left  home  to  prepare  for  entrance  to  the  Maine 
Medical  School  connected  with  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, having  previously  prepared  for  college  at 
Litchfield  Academy.  He  left  the  Medical 
School  of  Maine  before  graduating  to  attend 
lectures  at  the  medical  department  of  the  New 
York  University,  where  he  was  graduated  M. 
D.  in  1880.  He  practiced  medicine  and  sur- 
gery at  Lisbon  Falls,  Maine.  1881-85,  ^'^d  in 
1885  removed  to  Fort  Fairfield,  Aroostook 
county,  Maine,  and  established  himself  in  that 
place  as  a  physician  and  surgeon.  He  was 
made  a  member  of  the  school  board  of  Fort 
Fairfield  immediately  on  taking  up  his  resi- 
dence in  that  place,  and  for  most  of  the  time 
during  the  next  twenty  years  was  superintend- 
ent of  schools.  His  professional  affiliations  are 
membership  in  the  Aroostook  Medical  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Maine  Medical  Association. 
His  fraternal  affiliations  are  membership  in  the 
Eastern  Frontier  Lodge,  No.  112,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  Fort  Fairfield,  Maine; 
Aroostook  Council,  Presque  Isle,  Maine ;  Gar- 
field  Chapter,   Royal   Arch   Masons;  and   St. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Aldcmar  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
Houlton,  Maine.  He  married,  1880,  Mabel, 
daughter  of  Gardner  Speer,  of  Lisbon,  Maine, 
and  their  children  were  as  follows:  i.  Alfred 
Loomis,  born  December  23,  188 1,  graduated  at 
Bowdoin  College,  A.  B.,  1904,  and  at  the 
Medical  School  of  Maine,  M.  D.,  1907.  2. 
Warren,  September  5,  1883,  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Fort  Fairfield.  3.  Herbert  G.,  April  — , 
1886,  a  druggist  in  Boston,  Massachusetts. 


The  large  family  of  this  name 
CARTER     whose  branches  stretch  from  the 

shores  of  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific  coast  could  in  a  majority  of  cases  per- 
haps trace  their  ancestry  back  to  the  educated 
English  immigrant  who,  like  many  others,  put 
freedom  to  the  worship  of  God  according  to 
the  dictates  of  his  own  conscience  above  every- 
thing else.  The  early  Carters,  like  most  men 
similarly  situated,  pioneer  builders  of  a  com- 
monwealth, were  farmers.  Naturally  they 
were  sturdy  and  industrious.  They  were  kind- 
hearted  and  public-spirited,  because  they  were 
often  compelled  to  ask  favors,  and  they  real- 
ized that  there  was  strength  in  union.  They 
were  sensible  and  God-fearing,  withal,  as  these 
were  inherited  characteristics.  It  is  noticeable 
that  many  of  the  virtues  of  the  early  stock 
are  prominent  in  the  later  progeny,  who  with 
greater  opportunities  have  accomplished  more 
than  was  possible  for  the  pioneers  and  their 
immediate  descendants.  The  early  records 
show  the  Carters  of  those  days  to  have  been 
prominent  in  all  matters  of  public  interest; 
the  division  of  land,  and  the  laying  out  of 
roads,  the  building  of  the  meeting-house,  the 
founding  of  churches,  and  the  establishment 
of  schools  were  entrusted  to  them.  Many  also 
were  active  in  the  military  organizations  and 
duties  of  their  day,  so  that  much  of  the  re- 
ligious, moral  and  intellectual  culture  and  pros- 
perity of  tlie  communities  where  they  settled  is 
due  to  the  labors  of  these  ancestors. 

(I)  Rev.  Thomas  Carter  was  born  in  1610, 
and  graduated  at  St.  John's  College,  Cam- 
bridge, England,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts,  in  1629,  and  Master  of  Arts,  1633. 
He  came  from  St.  Albans,  Hertfordshire,  Eng- 
land, in  the  "Planter,"  embarking  April  2, 
1635.  He  came  ostensibly  as  a  servant  of 
George  Giddings,  because  of  the  difficulty  in 
obtaining  leave  to  emigrate.  On  his  arrival  in 
this  country  he  was  admitted  an  inhabitant  of 
Dedham,  Massachusetts,  in  September,  1636. 
He  was  then  a  student  in  divinity.  Subse- 
quently he  removed  to  Watertown,  Massachu- 
setts, and   was  ordained  the  first  minister  of 


the  church  in  Woburn,  Massachusetts,  No- 
vember 22,  1642.  His  death  occurred  Sep- 
tember 5,  1684.  He  preached  his  first  sermon 
there  December  4,  1641,  and  upon  his  ordina- 
tion was  presented  with  a  house  built  for  his 
use.  His  salary  was  fixed  at  eighty  pounds 
annually,  one-fourth  in  silver  and  the  re- 
mainder in  the  necessities  of  life  at  the  cur- 
rent prices.  In  1674  twenty  cords  of  wood 
were  given  him  annually  in  addition.  He  per- 
formed all  the  duties  of  his  office  as  pastor  for 
thirty-six  years  unaided.  Afterwards  Rev. 
Jabez  Fox  became  his  assistant  till  the  end 
of  life.  He  was  characterized  by  one  who 
knew  him  well  as  a  "reverend,  godly  man,  apt 
to  teach  the  sound  and  wholesome  truths  uf 
Christ,"  and  "much  encreased  with  the  en- 
creasings  of  Christ  Jesus."  Prior  to  1640  he 
married  Mary  Dalton,  who  died  ]March  28, 
1687.  His  children  were:  Samuel,  Judith, 
Theophilus,  Abigail,  Deborah,  Timothy  and 
Thomas. 

(II)  Rev.  Samuel,  eldest  child  of  Rev. 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Dalton)  Carter,  was 
born  August  8,  1640,  graduated  at  Harvard 
College,  1660,  married,  1672,  Eunice  Brooks, 
daughter  of  John  and  Eunice  (iMonsall) 
Brooks,  born  in  Woburn,  October  10,  1655, 
and  died  minister  of  the  church  in  Groton, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  autumn  of  1693.  Mr. 
Carter  was  admitted  an  inhabitant  and  pro- 
prietor of  the  common  lands  by  vote  of  the 
town  of  Woburn,  January  4,  1665-66.  and  sus- 
tained at  different  times  several  responsible 
offices  in  the  town — selectman,  1679-81-82-83; 
commissioner  of  rates,  1680;  town  clerk,  1690; 
and  was  engaged  as  teacher  of  the  grammar 
schools  in  1685-86.  He  owned  land  on  George 
Hill  (Lancaster)  given  to  him  by  the  town, 
and  this  land  was  occupied  by  his  descendants 
for  several  generations.  He  sometimes 
preached  in  Lancaster  between  the  }ears  1681 
and  1688  and  perhaps  resided  there  a  short 
time.  His  widow  married  for  her  second  hus- 
band Captain  James  Parker.  After  his  death 
she  became  the  wife  of  John  Kendall.  Of  the 
time  and  place  of  her  death  we  have  no  infor- 
mation. Children  of  Samuel  and  Eunice 
(Brooks)  Carter  were:  Mary,  Samuel  (died 
young),  Samuel,  John,  Thomas,  Nathaniel, 
Eunice,  Abigail  (died  young),  and  Abigail. 

(III)  Thomas  (2),  fourth  son  of  Rev.  Sam- 
uel and  Eunice  (Brooks)  Carter,  was  born 
April  3,  1682,  in  Woburn,  and  died  March 
31,  1737,  in  Lancaster,  r^Iassachusetts,  where 
he  made  his  home.  He  was  married  in  1707 
to  Ruth,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Ruth  (An- 
drews)   I'helps;  they  had  ten  children. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1455 


(I\)  Colonel  John,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Ruth  (Phelps)  Carter,  was  born  in  Woburn, 
April  23,  1713,  died  ]\Iay  8,  1766,  in  Lancas- 
ter, where  he  resided  through  life.  He  mar- 
ried, IMarch  10,  1737,  Abigail  Joslin,  of  Lan- 
caster, and  they  were  the  parents  of  nine  chil- 
dren. 

(\')  Joseph,  son  of  Colonel  John  and  Abi- 
gail (Joslin)  Carter,  was  born  November  17, 
1745,  in  Lancaster,  and  removed  in  old  age 
to  Fitzwilliam,  New  Hampshire,  in  1803.  He 
bought  land  at  the  north  end  of  the  common 
and  there  resided  and  died,  June  17,  1804.  He 
married  (first)  February  22,  1769,  Beulah, 
daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Abigail  (Wilder) 
Carter,  of  Lancaster.  She  was  a  descendant 
of  Rev.  Samuel  Carter  (2),  born  October  14, 
1747,  and  died  October  22,  1774.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Ann,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Hepzibah  (Stearn)  Smith,  of  Weston,  Mas- 
sachusetts. She  was  born  January  19,  1751, 
(lied  November  30,  1834.  Their  children,  born 
in  Lancaster,  .were:  Joel,  Joseph,  William, 
Elizabeth,  Ann,  Lucy,  Sophia,  Josiah,  Abigail 
and  Joel. 

(VI)  William,  third  son  of  Joseph  Carter 
and  child  of  his  second  wife,  Ann  (Smith) 
Carter,  was  born  May  11,  1779,  in  Lancaster, 
and  removed  to  New  Hampshire,  as  did  some 
of  his  brothers.  He  settled  in  the  town  of 
Mason,  where  he  died  May  7,  1857.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  i\Iarch  7,  1813,  Jane  Scott,  of  New 
Ipswich,  who  soon  after  died  with  her  child. 
He  married  (second)  Priscilla  Cambridge, 
daughter  of  a  British  soldier  who  came  to  this 
country  and  enlisted  in  the  patriot  army  in  the 
Rhode  Island  regiment.  She  died  at  L'nity, 
New  Hampshire,  at  the  age  of  seventy-three 
years.  William  Carter  was  a  member  of  the 
unfortunate  party  wdio  marched  in  Benedict 
Arnold's  company  in  the  winter  of  1775-76, 
through  the  woods  of  northern  Maine  to  at- 
tack Quebec. 

(\'II)  Horace  Black,  only  son  of  William 
and  Priscilla  (Cambridge)  Carter,  was  born 
November  20,  1812,  in  Mason,  New  Hamp- 
shire, died  at  West  Lebanon,  October  25, 
1877.  Hs  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
woolen  cloth  in  company  with  his  cousin, 
Philip  Cambridge,  in  a  mill  erected  on  the 
Mascoma  river,  in  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire. 
The  mill  was  removed  to  make  way  for  the 
railroad  in  1847,  ^"d  he  was  employed  to  fur- 
nish brick  and  stone  for  the  buildings  of  the 
railroad.  He  never  used  tobacco  or  intoxicat- 
ing liquors,  and  was  a  kind  husband  and 
father,  respected  in  the  community  where  he 
lived.     He  married    (first)    May  20,   1839,  at 


West  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire,  Ruth  Jane 
Wood,  born  September  22,  1818,  in  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire,  eldest  daughter  of 
Asa  and  Elizabeth  (Wiggins)  Wood,  the 
former  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Ruth  (Bailey) 
Wood,  and  the  latter  a  descendant  of  Captain 
Thomas  Wiggin,  all  of  early  English  families. 
He  married  (second)  Beda  Maria  Powers, 
who  died  July  i,  1863,  at  the  age  of  thirty 
years.  He  married  (third)  Laurena  Bates, 
of  Lebanon,  who  died  1876,  at  the  age  of 
fifty-two.  Horace  Carter's  children,  all  born 
of  the  first  wife,  were :  Clarissa  Jane,  Har- 
vey Horace,  George  Henry,  Elizabeth  Ann, 
Ella  Melissa. 

(VHI)  Clarissa  Jane,  eldest  daughter  of 
Horace  B.  and  Ruth  J.  (Wood)  Carter,  was 
born  March  15,  1841,  in  West  Lebanon,  New 
Hampshire,  and  became  the  wife  of  Rev. 
Horace  Bacon  Sawyer  (see  Sawyer,  \TI). 
She  survived  her  husband  and  is  still  living 
in  West  Lebanon.  She  was  educated  at  the 
Tilden  Ladies'  Seminary,  of  that  town,  wdiere 
she  was  a  student  from  1854  until  1859,  when 
the  death  of  her  mother  caused  her  to  leave 
school. 


The  Scotch-Irish  immi- 
PATTERSON  gration  of  1 718  brought  to 
our  shores  many  people  of 
energy,  intellect  and  sound  sense.  They  were 
very  strict  Presbyterians  and  set  up  a  moral 
example  which  had  a  most  beneficent  influence 
upon  the  civilization  of  the  primitive  com- 
munities wherein  they  settled,  and  has  also 
developed  a  progeny  rich  in  the  virtues  which 
go  to  make  good  citizenship. 

(I)  Robert  Patterson  was  born  in  167 1  in 
Northern  Ireland  and  came  to  New  England 
in  1718,  and  settled  at  Saco,  Maine,  in  1729. 
He  maintained  a  ferry  across  Saco  river  and 
built  a  house  at  Rendezvous  Point.  Soon 
after  he  settled  at  Saco,  his  wife  and  children 
came  from  Ireland,  landing  at  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  and  were  thence  conducted 
through  the  wilderness  to  their  pioneer  log 
cabin  home.  Mr.  Patterson  was  one  of  the 
thirteen  charter  members  of  the  first  church 
at  Saco,  and  was  one  of  the  first  selectmen 
chosen  upon  the  organization  of  that  town.  He 
was  very  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and 
was  often  chosen  as  chairman  of  committees. 
He  died  August  27,  1769,  and  four  gener- 
ations have  occupied  his  farm  upon  the  Saco 
ferrv  road. 

(il)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Robert  (i)  Pat- 
terson, was  born  1713  in  Northern  Ireland, 
and  w-as  a  boy  of  sixteen  years  when -he  joined 


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his  father  in  America.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  church  at  Saco,  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  the  ownership  of  the  farm 
and  ferry,  and  died  there  June  27,  1797.  He 
married  Jean  Gilmore,  of  Londonderry,  New 
Hampshire,  who  survived  him  more  than 
twelve  years  and  died  August  19,  1809,  at 
Saco,  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight  years.  Their 
sons  were  Andrew,  Samuel,  Benjamin,  David, 
Abraham  and  Daniel. 

(HI)  Abraham,  fifth  son  of  Robert  (2)  and 
Jean  (Gilmore)  Patterson,  was  born  about 
1755  at  Saco,  and  died  there  February  16, 
1832.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution.  He 
married,  December  7,  1780,  Sarah  Sawyer, 
who  died  August  3,  1828.  Their  children 
were:  Sarah,  Mary,  Abraham,  Elizabeth, 
Jane,  James,  Almira,  Isabel  and  Asenath. 

(IV)  Asenath,  youngest  child  of  Abraham 
and  Sarah  (Sawyer)  Patterson,  was  born 
March  27,  1803,  in  Saco,  and  married,  April 
21,  1825,  Mark  Sawyer,  of  that  town  (see 
Sawyer,  VI). 

Few  American  names  boast  a 
STURGIS     longer  record  than  this,  for  it 

can  be  traced  five  generations 
beyond  the  Colonial  ancestor  who  came  to 
Massachusetts  in  1634,  even  to  Roger  Sturges, 
of  Clipston,  England,  whose  will  was  dated 
in  1530.  The  patronymic  is  spelled  in  vari- 
ous ways,  Sturgis  and  Sturges  being  used  in- 
terchangeably in  modern  times ;  the  first  Eng- 
lish form  is  De  Turges.  If  we  may  be  per- 
mitted to  go  back  into  the  somewhat  shadowy 
days  before  William  the  Conqueror,  we  may 
find  the  original  owner  of  the  name  in  one 
Turgesius,  a  Scandinavian  prince  of  the  ninth 
century.  The  following  quotation  is  a  trans- 
lation from  a  book  published  in  French  by 
Abbe  Mac  Groghegan :  "About  the  year  815, 
during  the  reign  of  Conor,  who  reigned  four- 
teen years,  Turgesius,  a  son  of  a  king  of  Nor- 
way, landed  a  formidable  fleet  on  the  coast  of 
Ireland ;  and  again,  about  the  year  835,  a  fleet 
commanded  by  the  same  man  landed  on  the 
west  side  of  Lough  Rea,  where  he  fortified 
himself,  and  laid  waste  Connaught,  Meath  and 
Leinster,  and  the  greater  part  of  Ulster,  and 
was  declared  king.  He  reigned  about  thirty 
years.  Finally,  the  people  revolted,  and,  under 
the  lead  of  Malarlin,  Prince  of  Meath,  he  was 
defeated  by  a  stratagem  and  put  to  death." 

In  English  history  the  first  authentic  men- 
tion of  the  name  occurs  in  the  reign  of  Edward 
I,  when  William  de  Turges  held  grants  of  land 
from  the  king.  This  estate,  which  included 
the  village  of  Turges,  was  situate  in  the  county 


of  Northampton,  where  for  many  generations 
the  family  was  located.  The  village  of  Turges 
was  afterwards  called  Northfield.  The  sur- 
name was  changed  to  substantially  its  present 
form  some  time  during  the  sixteenth  century. 
The  coat-of-arms,  according  to  Burke,  reads : 
"Sturgis,  Hannington,  co.  Northampton,  Eng- 
land. Arms,  Azure,  a  chevron  between  three 
crosses  crosslet,  fitchee  or,  a  border  engrailed 
of  the  last.  Crest :  A  talbot's  head,  or,  eared 
sable.  Motto:  Esse  quam  videri  (To  be, 
rather  than  to  seem).  The  crest,  in  untech- 
nical  language,  depicts  a  hunting-dog  in  gold 
with  black  ears. 

(I)  Roger  Sturgis,  and  his  wife  Alice,  with 
whom  the  authenticated  line  begins,  lived  at 
Clipston,  Northampton,  England.  The  exact 
dates  of  birth  and  death  are  unknown,  but  the 
will  of  Roger  Sturgis  was  executed  November 
ID,  1530.  They  had  six  children,  three  sons 
and  three  daughters :  Richard,  Robert,  Thom- 
as, Ellen,  who  married  a  Raullen ;  Agnes,  who 
married  a  Hull;  and  Clementina. 

(II)  Richard,  eldest  child  of  Roger  and 
Alice  Sturgis,  lived  at  Clipston.  His  wife's 
name  is  unknown,  but  there  are  three  children 
recorded:  Roger  (2),  mentioned  below  :  John, 
who  had  five  children  living  in  1579;  and 
Thomas,  of  Stannion,  Northampton  county. 

(III)  Roger  (2),  eldest  son  of  Richard 
Sturgis,  lived  at  Clipston.  The  date  of  his 
death  is  unknown,  but  his  will  was  executed 
September  4,  1579.  His  wife  was  named  Ag- 
nes, and  two  children  are  recorded :  Robert, 
mentioned  below  ;  and  John. 

(IV)  Robert,  elder  son  of  Roger  (2)  and 
Agnes  Sturgis,  lived  at  Faxton,  Northampton 
county,  where  he  was  church  warden  in  1589. 
He  was  buried  at  Faxton,  January  2,  161 1, 
and  his  will,  dated  April  9,  1610,  was  proved 
on  September  ig,  161 1.  His  wife's  name  is 
unknown ;  but  two  children  are  recorded : 
Philip,  whose  sketch  follows ;  and  Alice. 

(V)  Philip,  elder  son  of  Robert  Sturgis, 
lived  at  Hannington,  Northampton  county,  and 
his  will  was  dated  1613.  The  name  of  his  first 
wife  was  unknown,  but  the  children  were  Ed- 
ward, whose  sketch  follows ;  Robert  and  Eliza- 
beth. The  second  wife  of  Philip  Sturgis  was 
Anne  Lewes ;  and  their  three  children  were : 
Alice,  baptized  January  17,  1698;  Anne,  born 
September  29,  1609 ;  and  William,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  161 1. 

(VI)  Edward,  eldest  child  of  Philip  Sturgis 
and  his  first  wife,  was  born  in  Hannington, 
England,  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1634, 
and  died  at  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  in  Oc- 
tober, 1695.    He  seems  to  have  spent  most  of 


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his  life  at  Yarmouth  on  Cape  Cod,  though 
Sandwich  was  the  place  of  his  landing  and 
his  burial.  He  reached  this  country  in  1634, 
and  the  same  year  he  moved  to  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  remained  five  years, 
going  to  Yarmouth  in  1639.  He  was  constable 
at  Yarmouth  in  1640-41 ;  member  of  grand  in- 
quest, 1650;  surveyor  of  highways,  1651 ;  ad- 
mitted freeman  on  June  5,  1651 ;  committee- 
man on  affairs  of  the  colony,  1657;  constable, 
1662;  and  deputy  to  the  general  assembly  in 
1672.  He  left  a  large  estate,  heavily  encum- 
bered. If  the  dates  of  the  births  of  his  eldest 
children  are  correct,  he  must  have  been  a  very 
old  man  at  the  time  of  his  death,  approaching 
one  hundred.  The  name  of  the  first  wife  of 
Edward  Sturgis  is  variously  given  as  Alice 
and  Elizabeth,  with  the  preponderance  of  evi- 
dence in  favor  of  the  latter  name.  She  died 
February  14,  1691,  and  in  April,  1692,  when 
he  was  past  ninety,  Edward  Sturgis  married 
his  second  wife,  Mary,  widow  of  Zachariah 
Rider,  who  was  the  first  male  child  born  of 
English  parents  in  Yarmouth.  The  eleven 
children  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  Sturgis,  of 
whom  the  first  four  were  bom  in  England, 
were:  Alice,  December  23,  1619;  Maria,  Oc- 
tober 2,  1621 ;  Edward,  April  10,  1624;  Re- 
becca, February  17,  1626-27;  Samuel,  1638; 
Thomas,  appointed  in  1695  "to  seat  men, 
women  and  others  in  the  meeting-house'' ; 
Mary,  baptized  at  Barnstable,  January  i,  1646, 
married  Benjamin  Gorham ;  Elizabeth,  born  at 
Yarmouth,  April  20,  1648;  Sarah,  married  Jo- 
seph Gorham;  Joseph,  buried  March  29,  1650, 
aged  ten  days;  and  Hannah,  who  married 
(first)  a  Gray,  (second)  Jabez  Gorham,  and 
moved  to  Bristol,  Rhode  Island.  The  interval 
of  eleven  years  between  the  births  of  Rebecca 
and  Samuel  would  indicate  that  some  children 
must  have  died  unrecorded ;  or  possibly  that 
the  children  belonged  to  two  wives,  one  named 
Alice  and  the  other  Elizabeth.  The  latter 
proposition  is  simply  advanced  as  a  theory, 
but  the  confusion  of  names  in  regard  to  the 
mother  of  the  children  and  the  discrepancy 
between  the  dates  of  their  birth  would  seem 
to  lend  it  some  credence. 

(VII)  Samuel,  second  son  of  Edward  and 
Elizabeth  Sturgis,  and  according  to  the  rec- 
ords the  first  child  of  his  parents  after  they 
had  emigrated  to  America,  was  born  in  1638, 
probably  at  Charlestown.  Massachusetts, 
though  he  must  have  gone  with  his  parents  the 
next  year  to  Yarmouth.  He  died  November 
3,  1674,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-six  years. 
In  1667  Samuel  (i)  Sturgis  married  Mary 
Hedge,  daughter  of  Captain  William  Hedge, 


and  they  had  a  son,  Samuel  (2),  whose  sketch 
follows.  Five  years  after  the  death  of  Sam- 
uel ( I )  Sturgis,  his  widow  married  Thomas 
Cockshall,  of  Rhode  Island,  October  10,  1679. 

(VIII)  Samuel  (2),  only  son  of  Samuel 
(I)  and  ]\Iary  (Hedge)  Sturgis,  was  born  at 
Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  aljout  1668.  On 
October  14,  1679,  he  married  Mrs.  Mary  Or- 
ris, widow  of  Nathaniel  Orris,  and  they  had 
seven  children :  Nathaniel,  born  January  8, 
1699,  died  January  20,  171 1;  John,  June  6, 
1701  ;  Solomon,  September  25,  1703;  Mary, 
February  14,  1706;  Moses,  June  18,  1708; 
Jonathan,  November  i,  1711;  and  Nathaniel, 
whose  sketch  follows.  Mrs.  Sturgis  had  by 
her  first  husband,  Nathaniel  Orris,  who  came 
from  Nantucket  to  Barnstable  and  died  No- 
vember 23,  1696,  three  daughters :  Susan, 
Deborah  and  Jane. 

(IX)  Nathaniel,  youngest  of  the  seven  chil- 
dren of  Samuel  (2)  and  Mary  (Orris)  Stur- 
gis, was  born  February  2,  171 5,  at  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts.  On  February  20,  1734,  he  mar- 
ried Abigail  Cobb,  and  they  had  eight  children  : 
James,  born  April  27,  1735;  Elizabeth,  De- 
cember 31,  1736;  Nathaniel,  October  28,  1739; 
Jonathan,  whose  sketch  follows ;  David,  May 
II,  1745;  Joseph,  May  4,  1748;  Abigail,  July 
22,  1752;  Ebenezer,  January  28,  1756. 

(X)  Jonathan,  third  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Abigail  (Cobb)  Sturgis,  was  born  at  Barn- 
stable, Massachusetts,  April  9,  1743,  and  died 
May  ID,  1833,  at  West  Gorham,  Maine.  Jona- 
than was  the  first  of  his  name  in  the  new  state, 
coming  up  there  from  Barnstable  with  his  wife 
and  two  children  in  1769.  He  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier,  enlisting  in  April,  1775,  in 
Captain  Hart  Williams'  company.  Thirty-first 
Regiment,  commanded  by  Colonel  Edmund 
Phinney.  Colonel  Phinney  led  his  regiment 
into  Cambridge  soon  after  the  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill,  and  Jonathan  Sturgis  was  among  the 
first  to  march  into  Boston  after  its  evacuation 
by  the  British.  It  may  be  mentioned  here 
that  the  Phinneys,  like  the  Sturgises,  were  of 
Barnstable  origin.  Colonel  Edmund  Phinney, 
then  a  youth,  came  with  his  father,  Captain 
John  Phinney,  to  what  is  now  Gorham,  in 
May,  1736.  Edmund  Phinney  cut  the  first 
tree  in  the  new  settlement,  and  they  raised  a 
good  crop  of  corn,  some  peas,  and  about  ten 
cartloads  of  watermelons  the  first  year.  The 
watermelon  seed  were  brought  along  bv  acci- 
dent, instead  of  pumpkin  seed ;  but  the  melons 
proved  to  be  useful  in  feeding  the  hogs.  When 
Jonathan  Sturgis  arrived  in  1769  he  took  up 
a  hundred  acres  in  the  new  settlement,  and 
cleared  a  farm  on  which  he  lived  and  died.  On 


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February  7,  1765,  Jonathan  Sturgis  married, 
at  Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  Temperance 
Gorham,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Temper- 
ance (Havves)  Gorham,  of  Barnstable.  (See 
Gorham  \T.)  She  died  November  26,  1824, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-two.  Jonathan  and  Tem- 
perance (Gorham)  Sturgis,  had  ten  children: 
Hannah,  born  December  g,  1766;  Temperance. 
November  5,  1768;  James  G.,  December  3, 
1771  ;  Nathaniel,  September  3,  1774:  Abigail, 
March  4,  1776;  David,  January  2-j,  1779;  Jo- 
seph, January  30,  1783;  Sarah,  July  21,  1785; 
Jonathan,  February  6,  1788;  and  Ebenezer, 
June  9,  1790. 

(XI)  James  Gorham,  eldest  son  of  Jona- 
than and  Temperance  (Gorham)  Sturgis,  and 
the  first  of  their  children  to  be  born  in  Maine, 
was  born  at  Gorham,  in  that  state,  December 
3,  1771,  and  died  there  February  14,  1825.  Me 
lived  in  that  part  of  the  town  of  Gorham 
known  as  White  Rock.  On  November  15, 
1791,  he  married  Molly  Roberts,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Mary  (Weeks)  Roberts,  whose 
father  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution.  She 
died  September  7,  1859,  ^S^d  ninety-two. 
James  Gorham  and  Molly  (Roberts)  Sturgis 
had  nine  children :  A  son,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  nine  months;  Susan,  born  December  14, 
1794,  married  Solomon  Libby ;  Mary  W.,  Au- 
gust 19,  1796,  married  John  Littlefield,  of 
Topsham ;  Temperance  G.,  August  4,  1798, 
married  Joseph  Cannell ;  William  R.,  Febru- 
ary 4,  1801,  married  Joan  McDonald:  .Abigail, 
April  23,  1803,  married  James  McDonald  (2)  : 
John,  whose  sketch  follows :  Ebenezer  G.,  De- 
cember 3,  1807,  married  Mary  Ann  Babb ;  Ben- 
jamin R.,  January  18,  1811. 

(XII)  beacon  John,  third  son  of  James 
Gorham  and  Molly  (Roberts)  Sturgis,  was 
born  July  2,  1805,  at  Gorham,  Maine,  and  died 
from  an  accident,  July  14,  1854.  He  was  a 
deacon  of  the  White  Rock  church.  In  1834 
he  married  Mary  Purinton,  daughter  of 
Meshach  and  Sarah  (Gerrish)  Purinton,  of 
Windham,  Maine.  They  had  five  children : 
Jane,  died  in  infancy,  September  25,  1836: 
Benjamin  F.,  whose  sketch  follows;  William 
P.,  born  September  4,  1840,  married  Margaret 
Libby,  of  Portland,  and  lives  in  Brooklyn,  New- 
York ;  John  Irving,  December  24,  1844,  mar- 
ried (first)  Myra  Hayden,  (second)  Jennie 
Hayden,  and  is  a  physician  at  New  Gloucester; 
James  Edgar,  December  14,  1847,  married  Ida 
Barrett,  of  Portland,  and  lives  in  the  west. 
The  death  of  Deacon  and  Captain  John  Sturgis 
occurred  in  a  singular  and  painful  manner.  On 
July  14,  1854,  Berry's  shoe-shop,  which  stood 
near  the  White  Rock  cliurch,  and  also  near  the 


home  of  Captain  Sturgis,  was  burned.  While 
the  latter  and  his  son  Benjamin  were  helping 
to  remove  property  from  the  burning  building, 
both  were  severely  burned  by  an  explosion  of 
camphene.  The  son  recovered,  but  the  father 
died  the  same  day.  His  widow  married 
George  Hammond,  of  New  Gloucester,  and 
died  in  that  town,  September  14,  1887,  aged 
seventy-seven. 

(XIII)  Dr.  Benjamin  Franklin,  eldest  son 
of  Deacon  John  and  ^lary  (Purinton)  Sturgis, 
was  born  at  Gorham,  Alaine,  October  28,  1837. 
He  studied  medicine  and  became  a  physician 
at  Auburn,  where  he  has  also  been  prominent 
in  church  work  and  has  held  several  offices 
under  the  city  government;  was  mayor  of  Au- 
burn in  1884.  He  has  served  as  councilman 
and  alderman,  was  representative  in  1874-75, 
and  state  senator  in  1876-77.  December  11, 
1859,  Dr.  Sturgis  married  Ellen  Hammond, 
daughter  of  George  and  Martha  Hammond,  of 
New  Gloucester.  There  were  two  children : 
Alfreda  H.,  born  August  29,  i860,  died  Au- 
gust 9,  1864;  and  Mary,  born  December  25, 
1861.  Mrs.  Ellen  (Hammond)  Sturgis  died 
March  11,  1868.  On  February  4,  1870,  Dr. 
Sturgis  married  Jennie  Brooks,  daughter  of 
Ham  and  Margaret  Brooks,  of  Lewiston, 
Maine.  They  have  had  five  children :  Dr. 
John,  born  September  6,  1871  ;  Alargaret  El- 
len, September  21,  1873,  died  April  i,  1892; 
Dr.  Benjamin  F.  Jr.,  March  14,  1875  ;  Chester 
King,  April  20,  1878,  died  November,  1879; 
Dr.  Karl  li.,  born  April  11,  1881. 


This  family  traces  its  gene- 
GORHAM  alogy  back  to  the  De  Gorrams 
of  La  Tanniere  near  Gorham 
in  Maine,  on  the  borders  of  Brittany,  where 
William,  son  of  Ralph  de  Gorham,  built  a 
castle  in  1128.  During  the  reign  of  William 
the  Conqueror  several  of  the  name  moved  to 
England,  where  many  of  them  became  men  of 
learning,  wealth  and  influence.  In  America 
the  name  has  an  ancient  and  honorable  stand- 
ing. Although  Ralph  Gorham,  the  immigrant, 
did  not  come  over  in  the  "Mayflower,"  both 
the  parents  and  grandparents  of  his  son's  wife 
were  passengers  in  that  famous  vessel,  so  that 
descendants  of  this  line  have  the  blood  of  four 
"Mayflower"  Pilgrims  in  their  veins. 

(I)  James  Gorham,  of  Bcnefield,  Northamp- 
tonshire, England,  was  born  in  1550  and  died 
in  1576.  In  1572  he  married  Agnes  Berning- 
ton,  and  the  only  son  of  whom  we  have  record, 
and  perhaps  the  only  child,  was  Ralph,  men- 
tioned in  the  next  paragraph. 

( II  )  Ralph,  son  of  James  and  Agnes  (Ber- 


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nington)  Gorham,  was  born  in  1575.  probably 
at  Benefield,  England,  and  died  about  the  year 
1643,  '"  Phnioiitli,  Massachuset;S.  Ralph  Gor- 
ham married  in  England,  and  came  with  his 
family  to  America  in  the  ship  "Philip"  about 
the  year  1635.  Of  his  family  but  little  is 
known,  the  only  recorded  child  being  John, 
whose  sketch  follows.  It  is  probable  that  there 
was  a  son  Ralph,  born  in  England,  as  the 
records  of  Plymouth  Colony  indicate  that  there 
were  two  persons  of  that  name  in  Plymouth  in 
1639.  At  the  time  of  Ralph  Gorham's  death 
he  left  no  widow  and  an  only  son  John,  who 
inherited  his  father's  estate.  No  other  Gor- 
hams  are  known  to  have  been  in  the  colony 
during  the  seventeenth  century,  after  the  death 
of  Ralph,  besides  John  and  his  descendants. 

(Ill)  Captain  John,  son  of  Ralph  Gorham, 
was  baptized  in  Benefield,  Northamptonshire. 
England.  January  28,  1621,  and  died  at  Swan- 
sea, Massachusetts,  while  in  command  of  his 
company,  February  5,  1676.  He  had  a  good 
common  school  education,  and  was  brought  up 
in  the  Puritan  faith.  His  occupation  was  that 
of  a  tanner  and  currier  of  leather,  which  busi- 
ness he  carried  on  in  the  winter,  working  on 
his  farm  in  the  summer.  In  1646  he  moved 
from  Plymouth  to  Marshfield,  and  in  1648 
was  chosen  constable  of  that  town.  On  June 
4,  1650,  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the 
colony,  and  in  1651  was  a  member  of  the 
grand  inquest  of  the  colony.  In  1652  he  moved 
to  Yarmouth,  purchasing  a  house-lot  adjoin- 
ing the  Barnstable  line ;  and  from  this  time  he 
added  to  his  estate  till  he  became  a  large  land- 
owner and  also  the  proprietor  of  a  grist  mill 
and  a  tannery.  He  was  deputy  from  Yar- 
mouth to  the  Plymouth  colony  court  at  the 
special  session  of  April  6,  1653,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  was  survej'or  of  highways  in 
the  town  of  Yarmouth.  In  1673-74  he  was 
one  of  the  selectmen  at  Yarmouth,  and  during 
the  former  year  received  the  appointment  of 
lieutenant  of  the  Plymouth  forces  in  the  Dutch 
war.  King  Philip's  men  made  an  attack  upon 
Swansea  the  next  June,  and  on  the  twenty- 
fourth  of  that  month,  which  was  observed  as  a 
day  of  fasting  and  prayer.  Captain  John  Gor- 
ham and  twenty-nine  mounted  men  from  Yar- 
mouth took  their  first  march  for  Mount  Hope. 
In  August  the  war  was  transferred  to  the 
banks  of  the  Connecticut  and  Captain  Gorham 
and  his  company  marched  into  Massachusetts. 
The  results  were  discouraging,  and  in  a  letter 
to  the  governor,  still  preserved  in  the  office  of 
the  secretary  of  state  at  Boston,  Captain  Gor- 
ham says  that  his  soldiers  are  much  worn, 
"having  been  in  the  field  this  fourteen  weeks 


and  little  hopes  of  finding  the  enemy, — but  as 
for  my  own  part,  I  shall  be  ready  to  serve  God 
and  the  country  in  this  just  war,  so  long  as  1 
have  life  and  health."  October  4,  1675,  he 
was  appointed  by  the  court  captain  of  the  sec- 
ond company  of  the  Plymouth  forces  in  King 
Philip's  war.  Captain  Gorham  and  his  com- 
pany were  in  the  sanguinary  battle  at  the 
Swamp  Fort  in  the  Narragansett  country, 
fought  December  19,  1675,  which  crushed  the 
power  of  King  Philip  and  his  allies.  There 
was  great  suffering  and  exposure,  beside  loss 
of  life.  The  troops  of  the  United  Colonies 
had  to  remain  all  night  in  the  open  field,  "with 
no  other  covering  than  a  cold  and  moist  fleece 
of  snow."  On  the  dawn  of  the  nineteenth  they 
started  on  their  weary  march,  and  at  one 
o'clock  they  reached  the  fort,  which  was  built 
on  an  island  containing  five  or  si.x  acres,  set  in 
the  midst  of  a  swamp.  Entrances  could  be  ef- 
fected in  only  two  places,  by  means  of  fallen 
trees,  to  cross  which  meant  almost  certain 
death  from  the  Indian  sharpshooters.  After 
three  or  four  hours'  of  hard  fighting,  the  Eng- 
lish succeeded  in  taking  the  fort,  sustaining^ 
loss  of  eighty  men,  beside  the  wounded.  Hub- 
bard estimated  that  no  less  than  seven  hun- 
dred Indians  were  killed.  Captain  Gorham 
never  recovered  from  the  cold  and  fatigue  to 
which  he  was  exposed  during  this  expedition. 
He  was  seized  with  a  fever  and  died  at  Swan- 
sea, where  he  was  buried  I'ebruary  5,  1675- 
76.  In  1677,  in  consequence  of  the  good 
service  Captain  Gorham  had  rendered  the 
country  in  the  war  in  which  he  lost  his  life, 
the  court  confimied  to  his  heirs  and  successors 
forever  the  hundred  acres  of  land  at  Papas- 
quash  Neck  in  Swansea  which  he  had  selected 
during  his  lifetime.  In  1643  Captain  John 
Gorham  married  Desire  Howland,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Tilley)  Howland,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  and  Bridget  (Van  De 
Velde)  Tilley,  all  of  whom  came  over  in  the 
"Mayflower."  Desire  (Howland)  Gorham  was 
born  at  Plymouth  in  1623,  and  died  at  Barn- 
stable, October  13,  1683.  Eleven  children  were 
born  to  this  couple:    Desire,  Plvmouth,  April 

2,  1644,  married  John  Hawes,  of  Yarmouth  • 
Temperance,  Marshfield,  May  5,  1646,  mar- 
ried (first)  Edward  Sturgis ;  '(second)  Thom- 
as Baxter;  Elizabeth,  Marshfield,  April  2 
1648,  married  Joseph  Hallett ;  James  (2)', 
whose  sketch  follows;  John,  Marshfield  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1651-52;  married  Hannah  Hu'ckins ; 
Joseph,  Yarmouth,  Februarv  16.  1653-54,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Sturgis ;  Jabez,  'Barnstable,  August 

3,  1656.  married  Hannah  (Sturgis)  Grav  • 
Mercy,  Barnstable,  January  20,  1658,  married 


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George  Denison ;  Lydia,  Barnstable,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1661,  married  John  Thacher ;  Hannah, 
Barnstable,  November  28,  1663,  married  Jo- 
seph Wheelding;  Shubael,  Barnstable,  October 
21,  1667,  married  Puella  Hussey. 

(IV)  James  (2),  eldest  son  of  Captain  John 
and  Desire  (Howland)  Gorham,  was  born  at 
Marshfield,  Massachusetts,  April  28,  1650,  and 
died  in  1707.  In  the  division  of  his  father's 
homestead  he  had  the  northwesterly  and  cen- 
tral portions  on  which  he  built  a  large  and  ele- 
gant mansion  house.  In  1703,  according  to 
the  division  of  the  common  lands,  he  was  the 
richest  man  in  the  town  of  Barnstable.  On 
February  24,  1673-74,  James  (2)  Gorham 
married  Hannah  Huckins,  daughter  of  Thom- 
as Huckins,  of  Barnstable.  She  died  February 
13,  1727,  aged  seventy-four  years.  There  were 
eleven  children  :  Desire,  February  9,  1674-75  ; 
James,  May  6,  1676-77,  married  May  Joyce; 
Experience,  July  28,  1678;  John,  August  2, 
1680,  married  Anne  Brown;  Mehitable,  April 
28,  1683;  Thomas,  December  16,  1684;  Mercy, 
November  22,  1686;  Joseph,  ]\Iarch  25,  1689; 
Jabez,  March  6,  1690-91  ;  Sylvanus,  October 
13,  1693;  Ebenezer,  whose  sketch  follows. 

(V)  Ebenezer,  youngest  son  of  James  (2) 
and  Hannah  (Huckins)  Gorham,  was  born  at 
Barnstable,  February  14,  1695-96,  died  Novem- 
ber 16,  1776.  As  a  young  man  he  lived  in 
Scituate,  and  on  November  i,  1725,  he  was 
dismissed  from  the  South  Church  in  that  town 
to  the  East  Church  in  Barnstable.  He  was  a 
farmer,  lived  in  a  large  two-story  house,  and 
seems  to  have  been  the  only  one  of  his  father's 
eleven  children  who  did  not  squander  the 
wealth  they  inherited.  On  September  22,  1727, 
Ebenezer  Gorham  married  Temperance  Hawes, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  Hawes,  of  Yar- 
mouth. She  died  February  21,  1767,  in  the 
sixty-second  year  of  her  age.  Both  she  and 
her  husband  have  monuments  in  the  old  grave- 
yard near  the  Unitarian  meeting-house  in 
Barnstable.  Nine  children  were  born  to  Ebe- 
nezer and  Temperance  (Hawes)  Gorham: 
Ebenezer,  August  7,  1729;  Prince,  March  14, 
1730-31  ;  Hannah,  April  16,  1733;  Mary,  June 
16,  1735;  Sarah,  baptized  May  22,  1737; 
Thankful,  baptized  April  22,  1739;  Sarah,  bap- 
tized April  19,  1741;  Temperance,  baptized 
May  20,  1744;  Sylvanus,  baptized  July  17, 
1746. 

(VI)  Temperance,  sixth  and  youngest 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Temperance 
(Hawes)  Gorham,  was  born  at  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  spring  of  1744,  and  was 
baptized  on  May  20  of  that  year.  She  died 
November  26,  1824,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two. 


probably  at  Gorham,  Maine,  where  she  had 
lived  since  1769.  On  February  7,  1765,  Tem- 
perance Gorham  was  married  to  Jonathan 
Sturgis,  of  Barnstable,  who  later  became  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Gorham.  (See  Stur- 
gis, X.)  This  is  only  one  of  several  inter- 
marriages that  have  taken  place  between  the 
Gorhams  and  Sturgises,  both  ancient  families 
of  Plymouth  Colony  and  Cape  Cod. 


This  patronymic  and  its  cognate 
HAYES  forms,  Hawes,  Heywood,  Haw- 
ton,  Hawley  and  the  like,  are  un- 
doubtedly derived  from  hay,  meaning  hedge — 
a  word  which  finds  its  counterpart  in  the 
Mediaeval  Latin  haga ;  Anglo-Saxon  hege ; 
Dutch  Hague;  French  haie;  English  haw;  and 
Scotch  hag  or  haigh.  The  direct  meaning  of 
hawthorn  is  hedge-thorn.  The  hayward,  in 
ancient  times,  was  the  person  who  kept  the 
cattle  that  grazed  on  the  village  common  from 
straying  outside  the  hay  or  hedge.  Gradually 
it  referred  to  more  general  guardianship.  In 
"Piers  Plowman"  we  have  the  expression : 

"I  have   an  home,    and  be  a   hayward. 

And   liggen   out   a   nightes 
And  keep   my  corne  and  my  croft 

From   pykers   and    thieves.'' 

Of  the  two  common  forms  of  the  surname, 
Hay  and  Hayes,  the  former  seems  to  belong 
to  Scotland  and  the  latter  to  England.  As 
early  as  1185  the  lands  of  Errol  were  granted 
by  William  the  Lion,  King  of  Scotland,  to 
William  de  Haya,  and  for  six  generations  the 
name  appears  in  that  form ;  afterwards  it  is  re- 
corded as  Hay.  In  England,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  name  Hayes  is  quite  common  from 
the  fifteenth  century  down.  There  are  seven- 
teen Hayes  coats-of-arms  given  by  Burke ; 
and  there  is  a  village  named  Hayes  in  Kent 
and  another  in  Middlesex.  The  former  was 
the  seat  of  the  great  Lord  Chatham,  the  place 
where  he  died,  and  the  spot  where  his  son, 
the  second  William  Pitt,  was  born.  During 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  we  find  the  name 
associated  with  the  early  efforts  for  coloniza- 
tion in  America.  Edward  Hayes  was  captain 
and  owner  of  the  "Golden  Hinde,"  the  only 
ship  in  Sir  Humphrcv  Gilbert's  Newfound- 
land expedition  of  1583  which  ever  returned 
to  England. 

Four  men  by  the  name  of  Hayes  emigrated 
to  New  England  during  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. Three  of  these,  Thomas,  Nathaniel  and 
George,  settled  in  Connecticut,  while  John 
came  to  New  Hampshire.  Thomas  Hayes  es- 
tablished himself  at  Milford,  Connecticut,  in 
1645,  but  removed  a  few  years  later  to  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  where  his  descendants  are 


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living  to  this  day.  Nathaniel  settled  at  Nor- 
walk  in  1651,  but  this  line  disappears  after 
1729.  George  came  to  Windsor,  Connecticut, 
as  early  as  1680,  and  there  is  a  tradition  that 
he  was  a  brother  of  John  of  New  Hampshire, 
but  no  proof  has  been  found.  The  following 
famih-  traces  its  origin  to  the  New  Hamp- 
shire immigrant. 

(I)  John  Hayes  settled  at  Dover  Corner, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1680,  and  is  the  ancestor 
of  most  of  the  people  of  that  name  living  in 
the  surrounding  region  and  along  the  Maine 
coast.  It  is  said  that  he  came  from  Ireland, 
but  the  form  of  his  name  is  English ;  however, 
it  would  be  quite  easy  to  add  additional  letters 
upon  coming  to  a  new  country.  It  is  also  said 
that  John  had  a  brother  Ichabod,  who  came 
over  with  him,  but  afterwards  went  south. 
John  Hayes  had  a  grant  of  land  at  Dover  in 
1693-94,  and  he  died  there  October  25,  1708. 
On  June  28,  1686,  he  married  Mary  Home, 
and  there  is  a  tradition  that  she  was  but  thir- 
teen years  old  at  the  time.  There  were  ten 
children  :  John,  born  in  1687  ;  Peter,  mentioned 
below:  Robert;  Ichabod,  March  13,  1691-92; 
Samuel,  March  16,  1694-95 ;  William,  Sep- 
tember 6.  i6g8;  Benjamin,  September,  1700;  a 
daughter  who  married  an  Ambrose  of  Salis- 
bury (probably  Massachusetts)  ;  a  daughter 
who  married  an  Ambrose  of  Chester. 

(ID  Peter,  second  son  and  child  of  John 
and  Mary  (Home)  Hayes,  was  born  about 
1688,  at  Dover,  New  Hampshire.  He  lived  at 
what  was  called  Tole  End  in  that  town,  and 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Wingate. 
There  were  eight  children  :  Ann,  June  3,  1718  ; 
Reuben,  May  8,  1720;  Joseph,  March  15.  1722  ; 
Benjamin,  March  i,  1724;  Mehitable,  Decem- 
ber II,  1725;  Deacon  John,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows; Elijah  and  Ichabod,  who  lived  at  Ber- 
wick, Maine. 

(Ill)  Deacon  John  (2),  fourth  son  of  Peter 
and  Sarah  (Wingate)  Hayes,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 27,  1728,  probably  at  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  his  father  lived.  He  moved  to 
North  Yarmouth,  Maine,  and  died  there  March 
19,  1795.  He  married  Jane,  born  in  1732,  died 
August  24,  181 2,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth Loring.  Her  father  was  the  elder  brother 
of  the  Rev.  Nicholas  Loring  (see  Loring  IV). 
Jane  Loring  was  twice  married,  and  the  rec- 
ords vary  as  to  whether  Jacob  Mitchell  was 
her  first  or  second  husband.  From  the  dates 
of  birth  of  the  children  it  seems  probable  that 
Deacon  John  Hayes  married  Jane  Loring,  De- 
cember 5,  1754,  and  that  after  his  death  she 
married  Jacob  ^Mitchell.  If  her  marriage  to 
Jacob  Mitchell  came  first,  in  1754,  as  one  docu- 


ment states,  and  she  married  Deacon  John 
Hayes  November  11,  1756,  he  must  have  had 
a  previous  wife,  of  whom  there  is  no  record. 
Records  of  baptism  of  six  of  the  children  of 
Deacon  John  Hayes  have  been  preserved : 
David  Allen,  December  14,  1755;  Jacob,  Au- 
gust 6,  1757;  Joseph,  February  7,  1760,  died 
March  8  of  that  year;  Reuben,  February  15, 
1761;  Levi,  October  20,  1765;  Jane,  July  19, 
1767.  There  were  probably  three  others. 
Judith,  who  died  February  28,  1760,  was  un- 
doubtedly twin  to  Joseph.  Deacon  John  (3), 
bom  in  1770,  was  probably  the  youngest, 
though  we  have  no  record  of  his  baptism.  The 
records  for  1763  have  been  lost,  as  that  was 
the  year  the  minister  died,  and  the  church  was 
repaired  and  enlarged,  but  it  is  reasonable  to 
suppose  that  a  child  was  born  to  Deacon  John 
and  Jane  (Loring)  Hayes  during  that  year. 
David  Allen,  the  eldest  son,  married  Dorcas 
Allen,  and  their  son,  William  Allen  Hayes, 
born  October  20,  1783,  became  a  lawyer  at 
South  Berwick,  Maine,  and  for  twenty  years 
was  the  judge  of  probate  for  York  county. 
The  memory  of  Levi  Hayes,  the  fifth  son,  is 
preserved  by  an  epitaph  in  the  old  Yarmouth 
graveyard :  "In  memory  of  Mr.  Levi  Hayes, 
son  of  Mr.  John  Hayes  member  of  the  Senior 
Class  in  the  College  at  Providence  Rhode 
Island  who  departed  this  life  May  8,  1789  in 
the  24th  year  of  his  age. 

Death  is   a   debt  to  nature  due 
As  I  have  paid   so  must  you." 

(IV)  John  (3),  son  of  Deacon  John  (2) 
and  Jane  (Loring)  Hayes,  wa&  born  in  1770, 
probably  in  Yarmouth,  Maine,  and  died  in  Au- 
burn in  1842.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  his  native  town,  and  was  a  tan- 
ner by  trade.  Owing  to  his  integrity  and 
strict  attention  to  business,  he  soon  became  a 
prominent  and  highly  respected  citizen.  John 
(3)  Hayes  married  Mrs.  Jane  Moulton,  widow 
of  Captain  Myrick  Moulton,  who  was  lost  at 
sea.  There  were  eight  children,  seven  daugh- 
ters and  one  son :  Eliza ;  Penelope,  married 
Rev.  George  Giddings,  of  Galena,  Illinois; 
Jane,  married  Colonel  Elijah  Hayes,  of  North 
Berwick,  Maine ;  William,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows ;  Sarah,  married  Deacon  David  R.  Lor- 
ing, of  Yarmouth,  Maine,  and  died  in  1890; 
Rachel,  married  John  Barrall,  of  Turner, 
Maine  ;  Huldah  and  Hannah. 

(V)  William,  only  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Jane  (Moulton)  Hayes,  was  born  at  Yar- 
mouth, Maine.  He  married  Hannah  Patter- 
son Boynton,  of  Portland,  and  they  had  six 
children  :  Thomas,  died  young;  Mary  H.,  mar- 
ried Luther  Jones,  of  Lewiston ;  Harriet  A., 


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married  Melville  Sawyer,  of  Saint  Louis; 
John,  died  in  the  west  in  1862  at  the  age  of 
twenty-four;  Carrie  E.,  married  William  E. 
Worthen,  of  Amesbury,  Massachusetts ;  and 
Richmond  B. 

(VI)  Richmond  B.,  son  of  William  and 
Hannah  P.  (Boynton)  Hayes,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 20,  1849,  at  Lewiston.  Maine.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  his  native  town, 
and  at  an  early  age  entered  the  Lewiston  Mills 
as  an  office  boy.  After  remaining  there  some 
time,  he  became  money  clerk  in  the  office  of  the 
American  Express  Company.  His  accuracy  as 
an  accountant  and  readiness  in  handling  cash 
brought  him  the  position  of  teller  of  the  Manu- 
facturers' National  Bank  of  Lewiston,  where 
he  was  advanced  to  cashier  in  igoo.  Mr 
Hayes  is  a  Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree, 
belonging  to  Rabboni  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  attends  the 
Congregational  church.  On  July  13,  1886, 
Richmond  B.  Hayes  married  Nellie  ^L,  daugh- 
ter of  Hiram  and  Betsey  (Hatch)  Fairbanks, 
of  Auburn.  They  have  had  four  daughters  : 
Bessie  B.,  born  ISIay  26,  1887,  died  at  the  age 
of  six  years;  Mildred  B.,  June  16,  1889;  Ruth 
M.  and  Florence  ]\L  (twins),  born  March  10, 
1895.  Mrs.  R.  B.  Hayes  is  a  lineal  descendant 
of  "Mayflower"  stock,  being  descended  from 
Governor  Bradford. 


(For   early    generations    see   Jotin   Hayes   I.) 

(IV)  Deacon  Jacob,  second  son 
HAYES  of  Deacon  John  ( 2 )  and  Jane 
(Loring)  Hayes,  was  born  at 
North  Yarmouth,  Maine,  August  6.  1757,  but 
date  of  his  death  is  unknown.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  enlisted,  probably  with  other  boys 
in  the  neighborhood,  and  did  some  local  work 
for  the  revolution.  The  Massachusetts  Rolls 
say :  "Jacob  Hays,  private  Captain  George 
Rogers'  Co.  Served  4  days.  Company  de- 
tached from  Second  Cumberland  Co.  regi- 
ment by  order  of  Col.  Jonathan  Mitchel  to 
work  on  the  fort  at  Falmouth  in  November, 
1775."  About  1780  Deacon  Jacob  Hayes  mar- 
ried Jane,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Mitch- 
ell) Gray,  of  North  Yarmouth,  who  was  born 
November  23,  1760,  and  died  October  4,  1839. 
Their  five  oldest  children,  Andrew,  Jacob, 
Sarah,  Dorcas  and  Jane,  were  all  baptized  on 
the  same  day,  July  31,  1791 :  this  was  during 
the  time  of  the  great  revival.  There  are  rec- 
ords of  two  younger  children :  John,  baptized 
September  8,  1793,  and  Rachel,  July  2,  1797. 

(V)  Jacob  (2),  second  son  of  Deacon  Jacob 
(i)  and  Jane  (Gray)  Hayes,  was  born  at 
North  Yarmouth,  Maine,  about  1785,  and  was 


a   farmer   in   that    town.       IMarried     Eleanor 
Skillin. 

(VI)  Samuel  S.,  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and 
Eleanor  (Skillin)  Hayes,  was  born  in  North 
Yarmouth,  Maine,  about  1809,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 29,  1884.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupa- 
tion, a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  Congrega- 
tionalist  in  religion.  Samuel  S.  Hayes  mar- 
ried Mary  Richmond  Loring.  October  10, 
1833,  eldest  child  of  Lot  and  Sabra  ( Blanch- 
ard)  Loring.  (See  Loring,  VII.)  They  had 
eight  chili'ren  :  David  G.,  Jacob  L.,  Lydia  S. 
wdio  married  G.  G.  Knapp ;  Charles  E.,  Desiah, 
Sylvanus  B.,  whose  sketch  follows ;  Augustus 
^I.,  and  Mary  R.,  who  married  W.  J.  Mc- 
Cullum. 

(\"J1)  Sylvanus  Blancliard,  fourth  son  of 
Samuel  S.  and  Alary  Richmond  (Loring) 
Hayes,  was  born  at  Yarmouth,  Maine,  Septem- 
ber I,  1846,  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  the  North  Yarmouth  Academy. 
After  leaving  school  he  followed  the  sea  for 
one  voyage,  visiting  New  Orleans,  Havana. 
Cuba  and  Scotland.  While  in  Havana  he  was  ^ 
attacked  by  the  yellow  fever.  He  went  to  ' 
Lewiston,  and  in  company  with  his  brother, 
Jacob  L.,  established  the  present  grain  busi- 
ness. Mr.  Hayes  has  served  two  years  in  each 
branch  of  the  city  government,  and  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  is  a  deacon  in  the 
Congregational  church,  and  is  also  on  the  Sun- 
day-school commission.  He  belongs  to  the 
Masons  and  to  the  Odd  Fellows.  On  January 
I,  1877,  Sylvanus  Blanchard  Hayes  married  S. 
Amanda  Flewelling,  daughter  of  Samuel  E. 
and  Amaret  (Covert)  Flewelling,  of  King's 
county,  Kingston,  New  Brunswick.  They 
have  six  children :  Frank  Carleton,  born  May 
4,  1878;  William  Richmond,  March  2,  1880; 
Helen  Gage,  May  18,  1882;  Lincoln  Loring, 
Mav  31,  1883,  married,  May  6,  1908,  Alice  M. 
Kimball,  daughter  of  George  E.  Kimball ; 
Mary  Louise  and  Naida  Flewelling  (twins), 
September  26,  1886. 


Joseph  Hayes  was  born  in  Port- 
HAYES  land,  Maine,  June  2,  1787.  His 
father  died  when  he  was  a  mere 
lad  and  he  was  brought  up  by  an  uncle,  the 
brother  of  his  deceased  mother,  whose  name 
was  Long,  and  the  family  descendants  of 
Richard  Warren  of  the  "Mayflower"  and  of 
Thomas  Clark,  a  passenger  of  the  "Ann," 
which  ship  arrived  at  Plymouth  in  1623, 
through  Thomas  and  Bathsheba  (Churchill) 
Long,  whose  son  Zadoc  married  Julia  Temple 
Davis,  lived  in  Buckfield,  Oxford  county, 
Maine,   and  were  the  parents  of  John   Long 


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1463 


Davis,  governor  of  j\Iassachiisetts  and  secre- 
tary of  the  United  States  navy.  The  uncle 
Hved  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  where 
Joseph  Hayes  was  brought  up,  and  received  a 
fair  public  school  training.  In  early  life  he 
left  his  uncle's  home,  went  to  Portland,  Maine, 
where  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  rope-maker,  and 
after  completing  his  term  of  apprenticeship  he 
was  twenty  years  old,  and  he  went  to  Topsham. 
Maine,  with  Samuel  Yeazie,  and  they  carried 
on  the  tobacco  business  in  partnership,  1804- 
06.  Seeking  a  larger  field  for  the  business,  he 
removed  to  Bath  in  1806,  and  opened  a  to- 
bacco establishment  on  his  own  account,  which 
was  phenomenally  successful.  He  eni])lo_\ed  a 
large  number  of  hands  in  the  manufacture  of 
cigars,  and  these  were  sold  to  the  retail  trailc 
throughout  the  country  towns  from  wagons, 
thus  employing  a  large  number  of  teams.  His 
factory  was  enlarged  from  time  to  time  as 
trade  increased,  at  last  called  into  requisition 
a  three-story  building  erected  expressly  for  the 
business.  He  was  a  recruiting  otificer  in  Bath 
during  the  war  of  181 2,  and  held  the  non- 
commissioned rank  of  orderly  sergeant  while 
in  this  service  for  the  United  States  army.  In 
1841  he  embraced  the  temperance  cause  with 
extraordinary  ardor,  and  he  advocated  the 
cause  on  the  lecture  platform  in  all  parts  of 
the  state  of  Maine  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life  with  effective  results  to  the  cause.  He 
was  employed  in  this  cause  by  the  promoters 
of  the  Washingtonian  movement,  and  whether 
Mr.  Hayes  was,  as  were  so  many  of  their  ef- 
fective speakers  of  the  period,  reformed  drunk- 
ards, as  was  John  B.  Gough  of  later  period, 
does  not  appear,  but  that  he  was  a  means  of 
doing  great  good  and  securing  pledges  of  total 
abstinence  from  large  numbers  of  every  one 
of  his  auiliences  is  well  established,  and  it  may 
be  said  to  his  credit  that  he  remained,  not  only 
an  advocate  but  an  example  of  total  abstinence 
himself  to  the  end  of  his  life,  which  was  not 
true  generally  of  the  large  number  of  advo- 
cates employed  in  the  movement  which  was 
spectacular  in  its  full  glory,  but  subsided  as 
suddenly  as  it  reached  its  zenith.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1806  to  Anstress  Davis,  daughter  of 
Captain  Elisha  Turner,  of  Topsham,  Maine. 
They  had  ten  children,  including  Joseph  IMars- 
ton  (q.  v.). 

(II)  Joseph  Marston,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Anstress  Davis  (Turner)  Hayes,  was  born  in 
Bath,  Maine,  June  4,  1832.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Bath,  and  when  four- 
teen years  of  age  went  to  the  college  that  has 
turned  out  so  many  successful  men,  the  print- 


ing office.  He  learned  the  trade  of  printer  in 
the  office  of  the  Old  Weekly  Times,  became 
foreman  of  the  shop,  and  left  the  Times  office 
to  start  a  weekly  newspaper  for  a  syndicate  at 
Damariscotta,  Maine,  and  he  made  the  name 
of  his  venture  the  American-  Sentinel,  which 
he  removed  to  Bath  in  1854,  and  he  continued 
its  publication  up  to  1863,  when  he  resigned 
the  editorship  to  accept  the  political  office  of 
clerk  of  the  Sagadahoc  county  courts,  and  his 
first  service  in  the  court  was  when  Edward 
Kent  was  judge  of  the  court.  He  continued 
this  ser\ice  to  his  county  for  thirty-five  years, 
resigning  in  1898.  It  seems  needless  to  add 
that  his  political  faith  is  that  of  the  Republican 
party,  as  his  tenure  in  office  readily  suggests 
the  fact.  His  Masonic  service  carried  him  to 
the  highest  degree  in  the  fraternity,  and  his 
progress  is  marked  by  membership  and  initia- 
tion in  Solar  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  No.  14;  Montgomery  and  St. 
Bernard  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No.  2 ;  Dunlap 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  No.  5,  of 
Bath;  Maine  Consistory,  S.  P.  R.  S.,  of  Port- 
land, Arcadia  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  No. 
13,  of  Bath.  His  Masonic  associates  have 
honored  him  with  the  offices  of  senior  grand 
warden,  grand  high  priest,  and  for  several 
terms  district  deputy.  In  Blue  Lodge  and  in 
Royal  Arch  he  was  district  deputy.  His  finan- 
cial and  commercial  interests  made  him  a  di- 
rector of  the  Marine  National  Bank  of  Bath, 
serving  from  1856  to  the  present  time,  and 
was  vice-president  of  the  bank  at  one  time. 
His  religious  life  has  been  associated  with  the 
L'niversalist  church  and  Sunday-school  since 
1 861,  and  he  has  been  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday-school  since  1867.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1870,  Ella  Frances,  daughter  of 
Jeremiah  and  Betsey  (Tucker)  Cotton,  and 
they  had  one  child,  N'elmer  Francis  (q.  v.). 
The  mother,  Ella  Frances  (Cotton)  Hayes, 
died  in  Bath,  Maine,  January  13,  1871,  and 
the  father,  Joseph  Marston  Hayes,  retired 
from  active  business  life  in  1899,  and  is,  in 
1908.  living  with  his  son  and  grandchild  at 
the  old  homestead  in  Bath — one  of  the  notable 
old  places  in  tlie  town. 

(Ill)  A'elmer  Francis,  only  child  of  Joseph 
]\Iarston  and  Ella  Frances  (Cotton)  Hayes, 
was  born  in  Ijath,  Maine.  January  3,  1871.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  cit\% 
Gray's  Commercial  College,  Portland,  and 
Eastman's  Business  College.  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York.  He  married.  April  16,  1905, 
Loweno  Thomas.  Children :  Frances  and 
Joseph. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Tlie  Lorings  of  Massachusetts 
LORING     and    New    Hampshire    descend 

from  three  brothers,  John,  David 
and  Solomon,  who  emigrated  from  the  prov- 
ince of  Lorraine,  France,  and  settled  in  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  It  is  said  that  these  three  were 
the  younger  brothers  of  a  marquis,  and  that 
the  original  family  name  was  Lorraine. 

(I)  Deacon  Thomas  Loring,  the  first  Amer- 
ican ancestor,  came  from  Axminster,  now  a 
manufacturing  town  on  the  river  Ax,  Devon- 
shire, England,  to  Dorchester,  Massachusetts, 
December  22,  1634.  He  moved  to  Hingham, 
and  then  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Hull,  where 
he  died  in  1661.  Deacon  Loring  brought  with 
him  from  England  a  wife  whose  maiden  name 
is  unknown,  and  two  sons,  the  younger  four 
years  old  at  the  time.  Two  other  sons  were 
born  in  this  country.  The  names  of  the  chil- 
dren are:  Thomas  (2)  ;  John,  whose  sketch 
follows:  Josiah  and  Benjamin.  Three  brothers 
settled  in  Hull,  Massachusetts ;  but  Josiah  con- 
tinued to  live  in  Hingham.  Josiah  Loring 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Prince, 
the  first  of  the  Prince  family  who  came  to 
America. 

(II)  John,  second  son  of  Deacon  Thomas 
Loring,  was  born  in  England,  probably  at 
Axminster,  about  1630,  and  came  with  his 
people  to  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  in  1634. 
The  date  of  his  death  is  unknown.  John  Lor- 
ing was  twice  married;  (first)  to  Mary  Baker, 
who  bore  him  fourteen  children,  many  of  whom 
died  young;  and  (second)  to  Mrs.  Rachel 
Buckley,  of  Braintree,  by  whom  there  were 
four  more.  The  children  of  the  first  marriage 
were  :  John,  Joseph,  Thomas,  Isaac,  Nathaniel, 
David,  Jacob,  Israel,  Sarah,  Mary,  Rachel, 
John,  Sarah  and  Israel.  The  children  of  the 
second  marriage  were:  John  (2),  whose  sketch 
follows ;  Israel,  Caleb,  and  a  daughter  who 
died  young. 

(III)  John  (2),  eldest  child  of  John  (i) 
Loring  and  his  second  wife,  Rachel  (Buckley) 
Loring,  was  born  at  Hull,  Massachusetts, 
about  1680,  and  died  in  that  town  in  1720. 
John  (2)  Loring  married  Jane  Baker,  and 
they  had  six  children:  John,  born  January  15, 
1708;  Jane,  October  7,  1709;  Nicholas,  whose 
sketch  follows;  Thomas,  August  30,  1713 ; 
Solomon,  January  12,  1715;  and  Rachel,  Oc- 
tober 17,  1717.  Of  these  children  all  but  two 
finally  settled  in  North  Yarmouth,  Maine. 
Jane  Loring  married  Ephraim  Andrews,  of 
Hingham,  and  both  died  early,  leaving  one 
son,  Joseph.  Thomas  Loring  was  a  hatter, 
and  also  lived  at  Hingham.  John  Loring,  the 
eldest  son,  first  occupied  the  ancestral  home  in 


Hull,  and  then  moved  to  North  Yarmouth, 
where  he  was  soon  followed  by  his  brother 
Solomon,  who  had  learned  the  blacksmith's 
trade  at  Pembroke.  Rachel  Loring  married 
Deacon  John  White,  of  Weymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, and  eventually  moved  to  North  Yar- 
mouth, where  he  was  deacon  of  the  First 
Church. 

(IV)  Rev.  Nicholas,  second  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Jane  (Baker)  Loring,  was  born  at 
Hull,  Massachusetts,  September  i,  171 1,  and 
ffied  at  North  Yarmouth,  Maine,  July  21, 
1763.  He  was  but  nine  years  old  when  his 
father  died,  so  that  for  much  of  his  training 
and  success  he  must  have  been  indebted  to  his 
mother.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  in  1832,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  In 
February,  1735,  ''"^  began  preaching  in  various 
places  near  his  early  home,  and  in  May,  1736, 
he  was  directed  to  North  Yarmouth  by  a  col- 
lege classmate.  Rev.  Ephraim  Keith,  who  had 
declined  settlement  on  account  of  feeble  health. 
After  the  usual  preliminaries,  Mr.  Loring  was 
ordained  November  17,  1736,  and  settled  by 
the  town,  where  he  continued  to  preach  till  his 
death,  a  period  of  twenty-seven  years.  In  those 
days  the  parish  embraced  the  present  towns  of 
Cumberland,  Yarmouth,  North  Yarmouth, 
Pownal,  Freeport  and  Harpswell.  From  this 
wide  range  his  hearers  gathered  in  the  old 
meeting-house  "below  the  ledge,"  and  over  it 
the  \oung  minister  extended  his  pastoral  labors. 
About  ten  years  before  Mr.  Loring's  death,  the 
church  of  Harpswell  was  set  off,  and  since  that 
time  six  other  churches  have  been  formed  from 
the  original  "North  Yarmouth  First  Church.'" 
When  Mr.  Loring  was  called  to  his  labors,  the 
town  voted  a  settlement  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds,  and  an  annual  salary  of  one  hun- 
drey  and  fifty  pounds.  During  his  ministry  the 
Indians  frequently  attacked  the  place,  once 
near  the  meeting-house,  June  20,  1748.  Three 
men  were  fired  upon,  and  one,  Ebenezer 
Eaton,  was  killed.  The  neighbors,  including 
Mr.  Loring,  seized  their  guns  and  gave  chase. 
The  savages  dropped  a  tomahawk,  which  their 
pursuers  picked  up  and  gave  the  minister  as  a 
reward  for  his  valor.  Mr.  Loring  has  been 
represented  as  tall  and  slender  and  of  rather 
delicate  physique,  but  this  incident  shows  that 
he  was  not  lacking  in  courage. 

On  February  17,  1737.  Rev.  Nicholas  Loring 
married  Mary  Richmond,  of  Tiverton,  Rhode 
Island.  She  was  brought  up  in  affluence,  and 
as  a  part  of  her  marriage  portion  received 
"Billinder,"  a  voung  colored  woman,  who 
served  the  family  faithfully,  and  was  supported 
by  the  heirs,  according  to  the  provisions  of 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1465 


the  minister's  will.  Mrs.  Loring  was  charac- 
terized by  good  sense,  dignified  deportment 
and  precise  dress,  and  was  called  Madam  Lor- 
ing, after  the  fashion  of  the  day.  There  were 
ten  children,  all  of  whom  lived  to  adult  years. 
These  were  trained  to  habits  of  industry  and 
economy  that  they  might  be  examples  to  the 
flock.  In  warm  weather  they  went  to  meeting 
bare-footed,  that  those  who  could  not  have 
shoes  might  not  stay  away. 

The  children  of  Rev.  Nicholas  and  Mary 
(Richmond)  Loring  were:  i.  Richmond,  born 
March  29,  1738,  married  Lucinda  Bucknam. 
2.  Bezaleel,  April  13,  1739,  married  Elizabeth 
Mason.  3.  Levi,  December  3,  1740,  was  twice 
married.  4.  Lucretia,  January  3,  1742,  mar- 
ried Deacon  David  Mitchell.  5.  Mary,  Novem- 
ber 22,  174a.  married  Captain  Joseph  Gray.  6. 
Elizabeth,  February  22,  1746,  married  Hum- 
phrey Chase.  7.  Rachel,  November  2,  1748, 
married  Jotham  Mitchell.  8.  Thomas,  whose 
sketch  follows.  9.  Nicholas,  June  23,  1755, 
was  lost  at  sea.  10.  Jeremiah,  April  12,  1758, 
married  Jane  Hayes. 

When  Mr.  Loring  died  a  special  town-meet- 
ing was  called,  August  i,  1763,  and  the  fol- 
lowing vote  was  passed,  which  throws  a  flood 
of  light  on  the  customs  of  the  times :  Voted, 
"That  Colonel  Jeremiah  Powell,  Deas.  Jonas 
Mason  and  David  Mitchell  be  a  Committee  for 
providing  such  things  as  the  town  may  order 
for  the  Rev.  Mr.  Loring's  funeral.  That  Fans, 
Gloves,  Shoes,  Ribbons,  Buckles,  Buttons, 
Vails  and  Hoods  for  the  four  daughters ;  Hat- 
bands. Buckles  and  Gloves  for  the  three  eldest 
sons ;  and  a  Fan,  Gloves  and  Handkerchief  for 
Bezalel  Loring's  wife  be  provided  by  the  Com- 
mittee at  the  expense  of  the  town.  Voted,  that 
the  widow  Loring  be  put  in  decent  mourning, 
at  the  discretion  of  the  Committee.  Voted, 
that  the  Committee  provide  four  crape  gowns 
for  the  four  daughters  of  Rev.  Mr.  Loring. 
Voted,  that  the  three  youngest  sons  be  clothed 
in  mourning,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Com- 
mittee. Voted,  that  Rings  and  Gloves  be  pro- 
vided for  the  six  pall-bearers,  and  Gloves  for 
the  porters,  or  under-bearers.  Voted,  that  the 
Committee  provide  what  other  things  are  nec- 
essary for  the  funeral,  at  their  discretion." 
Mrs.  Loring  survived  her  husband  forty  years, 
dying  September  15,  1803.  at  the  age  of 
ninety. 

(V)  Thomas  (2),  fourth  son  of  Rev.  Nich- 
olas and  Mary  (Richmond)  Loring,  was  born 
June  6,  1 75 1,  at  North  Yarmouth,  IMaine,  and 
died  in  August,  1828.  He  settled  at  Walnut 
Hill  as  a  farmer,  and  reared  a  family  of  eleven 
children.      Both    he   and   his    wife   were    sub- 


jects of  the  great  revival  in  1791,  uniting  with 
the  First  Church  on  June  5  of  that  year. 
Thomas  (2)  Loring  married  Phebe  Gray,  and 
their  children  were:  Lot,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows; Sarah,  married  Elbridge  Drinkwater : 
Ebenezer,  died  an  infant;  Ichabod  Richmond, 
married  Margery  York;  David,  married  Mary 
Chadbourne;  Phebe  Gray,  died  young;  John, 
accidentally  killed  in  boyhood ;  Lucy,  married 
Andrew  Hayes;  Jeremiah,  occupied  the  home- 
stead and  married  Jane  Leonard ;  Dorcas,  died 
unmarried ;  Jacob  Gray,  married  Desire  Bates, 
was  a  trader  and  ship-builder  at  Yarmouth 
Falls  atld  became  wealthy. 

(VI)  Lot,  eldest  child  of  Thomas  (2)  and 
Phebe  (Gray)  Loring,  was  born  November 
22,  1774,  and  died  July  22,  1847.  He  mar- 
ried Sabra  Blanchard,  and  they  had  four  chil- 
dren:  Mary  Richmond,  mentioned  below; 
Perez  B.,  married  Margery  Greely;  David 
Meaubec,  married  three  times  and  had  five 
children;  Sarah  Ann,  married  Samuel  Law- 
rence. 

(VII)  Mary  Richmond,  eldest  child  of  Lot 
and  Sabra  (Blanchard)  Loring,  was  born 
about  1808  in  North  Yarmouth,  JMaine.  She 
married  Samuel  S.  Hayes,  son  of  Jacob  (2) 
Hayes,  of  that  place,  and  they  had  eight  chil- 
dren.    (See  Hayes,  VI.) 


John  Johnson,  immigrant  an- 
JOHNSON  cestor  of  this  branch  of  the 
Johnson  family,  was  born  in 
England,  and  came  to  America  in  the  fleet  with 
Winthrop  accompanied  by  his  wife  ^largery, 
who  died  at  Roxbury,  June  9,  1655.  and  their 
sons,  Isaac  and  Humphrey,  and  probably  other 
children.  Savage  thinks  there  were  three 
daughters.  Johnson  was  admitted  a  freeman 
May  18,  1630.  He  settled  in  Roxbury  and  was 
called  a  yeoman.  He  was  chosen  by  the  gen- 
eral court,  October  ig,  1630,  constable  of  Rox- 
bury and  surveyor  of  all  the  arms  of  the  col- 
ony, and  was  a  very  industrious  man  in  his 
place.  He  kept  a  tavern  and  was  agent  for 
Mrs.  Catherine  Sumpner,  of  London,  in  1653. 
He  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  much  distinction. 
He  was  a  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1634 
and  many  years  afterward.  His  house  was 
burned  August  2,  1645,  with  seventeen  barrels 
of  his  country's  powder  and  many  arms  in  his 
charge.  At  the  same  time  the  town  records 
were  destroyed.  He  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Artillery  Company  in  1638.  He  signed  the 
inventory  of  Joseph  \\'eld's  estate  in  1646.  He 
died  September  30,  1650,  and  his  will  was 
proved  October  15  following,  dividing  his 
property  among  his  five  children,  the  eldest  to 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


have  a  double  portion.  The  estate  amounted 
to  six  hundred  and  sixty  pounds.  He  married 
(second)  Grace  (Xegus)  l-'awer.  widow  of 
Barnabas  Fawer.  Her  will  was  made  Decem- 
ber 21,  1 67 1,  and  proved  December  29,  1671, 
leaving  all  her  estate  to  her  brothers  Jonathan 
and  Benjamin  Xegus.  Children,  all  by  first 
wife:  I.  Isaac,  married,  January  20,  1637, 
Elizabeth  Porter;  killed  in  the  Narragansett 
fight  in  King  I'hili]i's  war,  December  19,  1675. 
2.  Flumphrey,  mentioned  below.  3.  Alary,  mar- 
ried Roger  Movvry,  of  Providence,  who  sold 
her  share  in  the  estate  October  12,  1659.  Two 
other  daughters. 

(II)  Humphrey,  son  of  John  Johnson,  was 
born  in  England.  He  came  to  America  with 
his  parents  and  settled  in  Roxbury  as  earlv  as 
1643,  when  his  name  appears  on  a  deed.  He 
was  a  resident  of  Scituate  in  1651,  and  while 
he  was  considered  an  able  and  shrewd  man  he 
was  continually  getting  into  trouble  with  the 
authorities.  As  he  came  to  Scituate  without 
the  consent  of  the  governor  and  two  assist- 
ants, he  was  ordered  to  remove,  and  March 
30,  1674,  he  removed  to  Hingham.  He  was 
given  permission  by  the  selectmen  to  settle 
upon  the  common  land,  provided  he  would 
move  at  three  months'  notice.  On  April  22. 
1675,  he  was  granted  privileges  for  making  im- 
provements on  the  land.  He  resided  on  Lib- 
erty Plain  at  South  Hingham.  He  married 
(first)  in  1642,  Eleanor  Cheney,  of  Roxbury, 
who  died  at  Hingham,  September  28,  1678. 
He  married  (second)  Abigail .  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  AJehitable,  born  1644. 
2.  Martha,  1647.  3-  John,  1653,  drowned  at 
Hingham,  June  12,  1674.  4.  Joseph,  1655, 
died  young.  5.  Benjamin,  1657.  6.  Margaret, 
1659.  married  at  Hingham,  October  20.  1676, 
Josiah  Leavitt.  7.  Deborah,  1661,  died  April 
I,  1669.  8.  Mary,  1663.  9.  Nathaniel,  July, 
1666.  10.  Isaac,  February  18,  1668,  men- 
tioned below.  II.  Joseph,  September  6,  1676. 
Children  of  second  wife:  12.  John,  June  8, 
1680.     13.  Deborah,  February  19,  1682-83. 

(III)  Captain  Isaac,  son  of  Humphrey 
Johnson,  was  born  at  Hingham.  February  18, 
1668,  and  died  in  1735.  He  married  Abiah, 
Abial  or  .Ahibail  Lazell,  born  1667,  widow  of 
Isaac  Lazell  (by  whom  she  had  two  sons)  and 
daughter  of  John  Leavitt.  Isaac  Johnson  set- 
tled in  West  Bridgewater  about  1700.  He  was 
a  captain,  member  of  the  general  court,  and  a 
civil  magistrate.  Children,  the  first  five  born 
at  Hingham,  the  others  at  West  Bridgewater: 
I.  Abigail,  April  28,  1689.  2.  David,  October 
16,  1692.  3.  Hannah,  January  17.  1694-95.  4. 
Solomon,  March  9,  1696-97.     5.  Daniel,  April 


20,  1700.  6.  James,  married  Jane  Harris, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Harris.  7.  Deborah,  mar- 
ried, 1723,  Benjamin  Perry.  8.  Rebecca,  mar- 
ried, 1 7 19,  Jonathan  Washburn,  g.  Sarah, 
born  1702,  married,  17 19,  Solomon  Pratt.  lo. 
John,  1705,  mentioned  below.  11.  Benjamin, 
1711.  13.  Mary,  1716,  married,  1737,  James 
Hooper. 

(I\')  Major  John,  son  of  Captain  Isaac 
Johnson,  was  born  at  West  Bridgewater  in 
1705  and  died  in  1770.  He  married  (first)  in 
1 73 1,  Peggy,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  Hol- 
man.  She  died  in  1757  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond)   Esther   (probably).      Children, 

born  at  Bridgewater:  i.  Sarah,  1733.  2. 
Abial,  1735,  married  (first)  John  Alger,  1754; 
(second)  1758,  Ebenezcr  Pratt.  3.  Lewis, 
1738,  mentioned  below.  4.  Patience,  1744.  5. 
Joseph,  1747.  6.  Content,  1749,  married  Cap- 
tain Jacob  Thomas.    7.  Calvin,  1751. 

(V)  Lewis,  son  of  Major  John  Johnson,  was 
born  at  Bridgewater  (Stoughton),  in  1738. 
He  settled  in  Stoughton.  He  was  a  soldier, 
private  in  Captain  Peter  Talbot's  company. 
Colonel  Lemuel  Robinson's  regiment,  on  April 
19,  1775;  also  in  Captain  Simeon  Leach's  com- 
pany early  in  1776;  also  first  lieutenant  in 
Captain  Simeon  Leach's  company.  Colonel 
Benjamin  Gill's  regiment,  marching  from 
Stoughton  to  Braintree,  March  21,  1776,  after 
the  evacuation  of  Boston,  when  the  British 
ships  were  in  the  harbor.  He  was  also  first 
lieutenant  in  Captain  Robert  Swan's  company 
( sixth ) ,  the  west  company  of  the  second 
parish  of  Stoughton.  Colonel  Benjamin  Gill's 
regiment  (third  SufYolk)  later  in  1776.  He 
was  second  lieutenant  in  Captain  Moses  Ad- 
ams's company.  Colonel  Eleazer  Brooks's  regi- 
ment, in  1778.  He  kept  a  tavern  and  Wash- 
ington was  his  guest  once.  He  married  (in- 
tentions dated  September  14),  December  19. 
1765,  Mary  Ma}-,  of  Stoughton  (by  Rev.  Sam- 
uel Dunbar).  Children,  born  in  Stoughton: 
I.  Mary,  August  22,  1766.  2.  Nathaniel,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1768,  mentioned  below.  3.  John, 
September  5,  1770.  4.  Lewis,  November  29, 
1772,  married,  1799,  Betsey  Sturtevant,  who 
died  November  28,  1832.  5.  Holman.  6. 
Sally.    7.  Lucy.    8.  Sarah. 

(VI)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Lewis  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Stoughton,  Massachusetts,  September 
12,  1768,  died  at  China,  Maine,  February  6, 
1849.  He  removed  from  his  native  town  to 
Maine  about  1803  and  bought  a  farm  at  China. 
He  was  a  prominent  citizen  and  held  many 
positions  of  trust  and  honor.  He  was  for  some 
years  high  sheriff  of  Kennebec  county.  He 
married     Sarah     Gay,    born    at    Bridgewater, 


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Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Sarah 
(Holmes)  Gay.  She  died  at  China,  Maine,  in 
March,  1857.  Children,  born  at  China :  Lucy, 
Stephen,  Nathaniel  H.,  Adeline  M.,  Elbridge, 
mentioned  below,  Fisher  H. 

(VII)  Elbridge,  son  of  Nathaniel  Johnson, 
was  born  in  China,  October  12,  1810,  and  died 
in  Albion,  January  20,  1886.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  from  an  early  age  worked  on  his 
father's  farm.  He  settled  in  Albion,  Maine, 
after  his  marriage  and  owned  a  farm  there. 
Besides  farming  he  did  teaming  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  a  wool  buyer  in  that  sec- 
tion of  the  state.  Mr.  Johnson  was  a  Whig  in 
politics,  but  after  the  dissolution  of  the  Whig 
party  became  a  steadfast  Republican.  He  was 
always  active  in  the  church.  He  first  joined  the 
Baptist  Church,  later  the  Christian  church  at 
Albion,  of  which  he  was  a  loyal  and  promi- 
nent member.  He  married  R'lary  A.  Worth, 
of  Vassalborough,  who  died  March  25,  1885, 
daughter  of  Alvin  Worth.  Children,  born  in 
Albion:  Charles  Henry,  George  Edwin,  judge 
of  probate  court,  Waldo  County,  Maine,  a 
resident  of  Belfast:  Samuel  Worth,  mentioned 
below :  Warren  Gardner,  Fisher  Gay,  El- 
bridge jr.,  Frank  Shaw. 

(VIII)  Samuel  Worth,  son  of  Elbridge 
Johnson,  was  born  in  Albion,  Maine,  October 
15,  1842.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Albion  and  the  China  Academy.  He  studied 
the  profession  of  medicine  at  the  Maine  Med- 
ical College,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  in  1864.  He  opened  an  office 
in  Dixmont,  Maine,  immediately  after  grad- 
uating, and  practiced  there  until  1882,  when 
he  removed  to  the  large  field  in  Belfast.  He 
has  a  large  practice  in  that  city,  where  he  has 
since  been  located.  He  served  on  the  United 
States  pension  examining  board  for  twelve 
years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Medical 
Society.  He  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in 
the  organization  of  the  Waldo  Hospital.  Dr. 
Johnson  has  been  prominent  also  in  public 
life.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  active 
and  influential  in  his  party.  He  was  on  the 
Dixmont  school  committee  several  years  and 
representative  from  Dixmont  to  the  state  leg- 
islature in  1876.  In  1908  Dr.  Johnson  was 
appointed  collector  of  customs  for  the  port  of 
Belfast,  an  office  he  now  fills.  He  married, 
April  2,  1870,  Laura  J.  Boody,  daughter  of 
David  and  Lucretia  Boody,  of  Jackson,  Maine. 
(See  Boody).  Children:  i.  Fred,  born  at 
Dixmont,  September  2,  1875,  now  a  dry  goods 
dealer  at  Belfast,  married,  February  19,^1908, 
Elena  P.  Ellis.    2.  Maud  L.,  born  in  Dixmont, 


November,  1877,  married,  1902,  William  B. 
Woodbury,  principal  of  the  schools,  York, 
Maine. 


Zechariah  Boody,  immigrant  an- 
BOODY     cestor,    came    to     this     country 

about  1695.  History  says  that 
he  was  a  deserter  from  a  French  ship  which 
landed  at  Boston,  and  that  he  escaped  when 
his  companions  were  captured  and  executed. 
He  settled  in  the  parish  of  Madbury,  Cocheco, 
now  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  and  had  a  farm 
of  about  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  acres. 
He  had  a  grant  of  ten  acres  from  the  town  of 
Dover.  He  and  his  wife  both  lived  to  an 
advanced  age,  and  he  died  about  1755.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Madbury:  i.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Ebenezer  Pitman.  2.  Hannah,  married 
Robert  Huckins.  3.  Charity,  married  Abed- 
nego  Leathers.  4.  Sarah,  married  Benjamin 
Jenkins.     5.  Abigail,    married    David    Drew. 

6.  Betty,  married  James  Rowe.  7.  Daughter, 
died  young.  8.  Keziah,  unmarried  in  "1758. 
9.  Azariah,   mentioned   below. 

(II)  Azariah,  son  of  Zechariah  Boody,  was 
born  in  Madbury.  New  Hampshire,  August 
15,  1720.  He  resided  there  until  about  1760, 
when  he  purchased  a  farm  in  Canaan,  at  Bar- 
rington,  where  he  settled.  He  died  February 
26,  1803.  He  married  (first)  Bridget  Bush- 
bie,  whose  parents  are  said  to  have  lived  at  the 
Bermudas  and  in  Boston,  and  whose  ancestor, 
Nicholas  Bushbie,  came  to  this  country  in  the 
ship  "True  Love"  in  1637.  She  died  in  Bar- 
rington,  July  30,  1785,  aged  about  seventy 
years.      Two   years   later   he   married   second 

,  of  Berwick,  Maine.    It  is  said  that  he 

brought  her  from  Berwick,  a  distance  of  some 
twenty  miles,  on  horseback,  behind  him  on 
a  pillion,  and  that  their  combined  weight  was 
not  less  than  four  hundred  pounds.  (Children, 
all  by  first  wife:  i.  Robert,  bom  April  3, 
1743,  mentioned  below.  2.  Zechariah,  August 
12,  1745,  married  Mary  Demerritt.  3.  John, 
June  23,  1749,  married  Susannah  Langley 
about  1750;  died  April  23,  1815.  4.  Molly, 
June  23,  1749  (twin),  married  Peter  Hodg- 
don.  5.  Joseph,  May  16,  1752,  married  Olive 
Drew:  died  1824.  6.  Sarah,  March  8.  1755. 
married  Isaac  Waldron  ;  died  March  6,  1805.' 

7.  Hannah,  March  29,  1758,  married  Aaron 
Waldron :  died  February  7,  1830.  8.  Azariah, 
November  29,  1761,  died  young.  9.  Betsey! 
November  2,  1763,  married  John  Caverly; 
died  November  17,  1832. 

(III)  Rev.  Robert,  son  of  Azariah  Boody, 
was  born  April  3,  1743,  died  April  21,  1814. 
He  settled  first  at  New  Durham,  New  Hamp- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


shire,  in  1770.  Two  years  later  he  removed  to 
Limington,  Maine.  He  held  many  positions 
of  trust  in  the  town,  and  was  selectman  and 
treasurer  alternately  up  to  the  end  of  his  life. 
He  was  a  clergyman  of  the  Quakers,  and  one 
of  the  leading  men  of  that  denomination  in 
Maine  and  New  Hampshire.  On  June  30, 
1780,  he  and  his  brother  Joseph  Boody  united 
with  Rev.  Benjamin  Randall  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Freewill  Baptists,  On  September 
2  of  that  year  Robert  Boody  was  ordained  to 
preach  and  to  serve  as  the  first  deacon  of  the 
church.  He  was  a  man  held  in  high  esteem 
by  his  townsmen.  He  married,  April  13,  1763, 
Margery  Hill,  born  April  23,  1744,  Children: 
I,  Azariah,  born  February  6,  1764,  married, 
March  30,  1789,  Betsey  Chick,  of  Falmouth; 
died  November  16,  1836.  2.  Molly,  May  26, 
1766,  married  Robert  Hasty,  of  Parsonfield, 
Maine;  died  October,  1833.  3.  Robert,  Au- 
gust 27,  1768,  married,  in  1795,  Mercy  Stover, 
of  Limerick,  Maine;  died  April,  1836.  4.  Ab- 
igail, November  2,  1770,  died  November  17, 
1770.  5.  Sarah,  August  28,  1771,  married 
David  Stover.  6.  John  H..  September  18, 
1773,  mentioned  below.  7.  Betsey,  January 
15,  1777,  married,  August  5,  1798,  Ebenezer 
Morton;    died    February    4,    1846.      8.  Ruth, 

June    13,    1779,   married  Greene   and 

went  west;  it  is  said  that  at  the  age  of  thirty 
she  weighed  three  hundred  and  thirty  pounds. 
9.  Joseph.  January  31,  1782,  married  Soloma 
Clark.  ID.  "Israel, "February  12,  17S4,  married, 
December  12,  1800,  Hannah  Strout;  died  De- 
cember I,  1854.  II.  Benjamin,  April  11, 
1786.  married '(first)  in  1806  Jane  Crane, 
who  died  April  22,  1826;  married  (second) 
April  21,  1830,  Sarah  Winslow;  died  Decem- 
ber 16,  1844.  12.  Edmund,  August  15,  1788. 
married  Lydia  Jones,  of  Windham,  Maine ; 
died  December,  "1853.  13.  Henry  H.,  August 
15,  1788  (twin),  married  Mary  Bond;  died 
with  no  issue  in  1852. 

(IV)  John  H.,  son  of  Rev.  Robert  Boody, 
was  borii  in  New  Durham,  New  Hampshire, 
September  18,  1773,  died  July  15,  1848.  He 
settled  at  Jackson,  Waldo  county,  Maine.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  owned  a  farm 
there.  He  married  Patience  Redman,  of  Scar- 
borough, Maine,  who  died  in  August,  1854. 
Children:  i.  John,  born  in  Scarborough,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1796,  died  at  sea.  2.  Isabella, 
April  ID,  1799,  married  (first)  Edward 
March,  of  Portland;  (second)  Charles  Brad- 
ford, of  Bangor;  (third)  Gollof  (Gal- 
lup?). 3.  Sally,  June  16,  1801,  married,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1842,  John  Emery,  of  Ripley,  and 
had    three   children.      4.  Lucinda,    .August    7, 


1803,  married  Moses  Saunders,  of  Bangor, 
and  had  one  child.  5.  David,  mentioned  be- 
low. 6.  Redman,  April  4,  181 1,  married,  in 
1833-34,  Mary  Twichell,  of  Di.xmont,  Maine, 
and  had  ten  children.  7.  Harriet,  October  31, 
1812,  married,  December  5,  1839,  Samuel 
Eastman  and  had  three  children.  8.  Hon. 
Henry  H.,  November  10,  1816,  married,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1846,  Charlotte  Mellon  Newman,  of 
Berwick,  and  had  two  children.  9.  Alvin, 
July  12,  1819,  married  Sarah  Ellen  Sewell,  of 
Auburn,  Maine ;  died  in  October,  1855. 

(V)  David,  son  of  John  H.  Boody,  was 
born  November  9,  1807,  died  August,  1879,  of 
a  cancer.  He  married  Lucretia  Mudget,  of 
Prospect,  Maine.  He  resided  in  Jackson, 
Maine,  his  native  place,  all  his  life.    Children  : 

1.  Fitz  Henry  A.,  born  April  27,  1832,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Jane  Ames,  of  Stockton,  Maine, 

2.  David,  August  13,  1837,  married,  June  i, 
1863,  Abbie  H.  Treat,  of  Frankfort,  Maine, 
and  had  five  children.  3.  John  H.,  April  23, 
1847,  married,  in  1874,  Nora  Pilley  and  had 
one  child.  5.  Laura  Jane,  1843,  married  Dr. 
Samuel  W.  Johnson,  of  Belfast,  Maine.  (See 
Johnson  VHI.)  6.  Napoleon  B.  7.  Jose- 
phine, married  Andrew  B.  Fogg,  of  Dixmont. 


Captain  Edward  Johnson,  im- 
JOHNSON     migrant  ancestor,  was  born  in 

Canterbury,  county  Kent. 
England,  and  baptized  there  September  16  or 
17,  1598.  He  was  son  of  William  Johnson. 
He  came  to  Charlestown  with  the  first  immi- 
grants, but  soon  returned  to  England,  and 
about  1636  or  1637  brought  his  wife,  seven 
children  and  three  servants,  to  New  England. 
He  was  a  man  of  influence  in  the  colony,  and 
resided  in  Woburn,  where  he  held  many  im- 
portant offices.  At  the  first  meeting  of  the 
commissioners  for  the  settlement  of  the  new 
town,  he  presented  a  plan  of  the  territory  to  be 
included  within  its  limits,  and  was  appointed 
the  first  recorder  or  town  clerk.  He  was  ac- 
tive in  founding  the  first  church,  and  com- 
manded the  first  military  company  in  Woburn. 
He  was  the  author  of  some  unique  lines  at 
the  beginning  of  the  first  volume  of  the  Wo- 
burn town  records,  and  also  of  "Wonder- 
working Providence  of  Sion's  Savior  in  New 
England,"  first  printed  in  London  in  1653. 
He  was  famous  as  a  surveyor  and  early  ex- 
plorer. He  was  appointed  in  1665  by  the  gen- 
eral court  to  make  a  map  of  the  colony,  in 
conjunction  with  William  Stevens.  In  1672, 
after  his  death,  die  general  court  passed  an 
order  regarding  the  chronicle  of  the  early  his- 
torv  of  the  colonv,   which   reads  as   follows : 


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"The  court  considering  how  many  ways  the 
providence  of  God  hath  mercifully  appeared 
in  behalf  of  his  people  in  these  parts,  since 
their  coming  into  this  wilderness,  and  us  of 
this  colony  in  particular,  do  judge  it  our  duty 
to  endeavor  that  a  register  or  chronicle  may  be 
made  of  the  several  passages  of  God's  provi- 
dence, protecting  of  and  saving  from  many 
eminent  dangers,  as  well  in  transportation,  as 
in  our  abode  here  making  provision  beyond 
what  could,  in  reason,  have  been  expected, 
and  preventing  our  fears  many  a  time;  so  that 
our  posterity  and  the  generation  that  shall 
survive,  taking  a  view  of  the  kindness  of  God 
to  their  fathers,  it  may  remain  as  an  obligation 
upon  them  to  serve  the  Lord  their  God  with 
all  their  hearts  and  souls."  The  court,  there- 
fore, appointed  a  committee  "to  make  diligent 
inquiry  in  the  several  parts  of  this  jurisdic- 
tion concerning  anything  of  moment  that  has 
passed,  and  in  particular  of  what  has  been 
collected  by  Mr.  John  Winthrop,  Sen.,  Mr. 
Thomas  Dudley,  Mr.  John  Wilson,  Sen.,  Capt. 
Edward  Johnson,  or  any  other ;  that  so,  mat- 
ter being  prepared,  some  meet  person  may  be 
appointed  by  this  court  to  put  the  same  into 
form ;  that  so,  after  perusal  of  the  same,  it 
may  be  put  to  press."  No  fuller  account  of 
the  origin  and  settlement  of  a  town  of  equal 
age  in  New  England  has  been  given  than  that 
by  Captain  Johnson  in  his  "Wonder-working 
Providence." 

He  died  in  Woburn  April  23,  1672.  His 
will  was  dated  May  15,  1671,  and  the  in- 
ventory, returned  May  11,  1672.  gives  the 
amount  of  the  estate  as  seven  hundred  and 
five  pounds,  five  shillings  and  six  pence.  Of 
this  amount  about  half  was  for  property  in 
England.      He    married    Susan    or    Susanna 

,  who  died  March  7,  1689-90.    Her  son 

John,  with  whom  she  dwelt  after  her  hus- 
band died,  was  the  sole  beneficiary  of  her  will. 
Children:  i.  Edward,  baptized  November  7, 
1619,  married,  February  10,  16-19-50,  Kath- 
erine  Baker.     2.  George,    baptized    April    3, 

1625,   married   Katherine  .     3.  Susan, 

baptized  April  i,  1627,  married  James  Pren- 
tice. 4.  William,  baptized  March  22,  1628-29, 
married.  May  16,  1665,  Esther  Wiswall.  5. 
Martha,  baptized  INIay  i,  1631,  married,  March 
18,  1649-50,  John  Amee.  6.  Matthew,  bap- 
tized March  30,  1633,  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber 12,  1656,  Hannah  Palfrey;  (second)  Oc- 
tober 23,  1662,  Rebecca  Wiswall.  7.  John, 
mentioned  below. 

(H)  John,  son  of  Captain  Edward  John- 
son, was  born  in  England  and  baptized  May 
10,    1635,   in   Canterbury,   county   Kent.     He 


died  in  Canterbury,  Connecticut.  He  married, 
April  26,  1657,  Bethia  Reed,  died  about  1718, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mabel  Reed.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  January  24,  1659,  mar- 
ried Mary  Carley.  2.  Bethia,  born  January 
20,    1660,   married    (first)    Jonathan    PCnight; 

(second)  Woolcott.    3.  William,  born 

September  29,  1662.  4.  Obadiah,  born  June 
15,  1664,  mentioned  below.  5.  Joseph,  born 
about  1666.  6.  Samuel,  born  October  29, 
1670.    7.  Nathaniel,  born  May  15,  1673. 

(HI)  Obadiah,  son  of  John  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Woburn,  June  15,  1664.  He  removed 
to  Canterbury,  Connecticut,  in  1690.  Among 
his  children  was  Obadiah  Jr.,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(IV)  Obadiah  (2),  son  of  Obadiah  (i) 
Johnson,  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Connecti- 
cut, April  10,  1702,  and  died  there  April  10, 
1765.  He  married,  November  6.  1723,  Lydia 
Bushwell,  whose  mother,  Mary  Bushwell,  was 
a  member  of  the  Canterbury  church.  Among 
their  children  was  Jacob,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Jacob,  son  of  Obadiah  (2)  Johnson, 
was  born  in  Canterbury,  1734,  and  died  at 
Plainfield.  Connecticut,  1816.  He  married 
Abigail  Waldo,  of  Canterbury.  Children :  Al- 
fred, born  July  25,  1766;  Louise,  Jacob,  Wal- 
do, Obadiah,  .\nson,  mentioned  below;  Eb- 
enezer,   and   Mary. 

(VI)  Anson,  son  of  Jacob  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Plainfield,  April,  1778.  and  died  there 
June  20,  1859.  He  married  Hulda  Hunting- 
ton, born  1784  and  died  at  Belfast,  January, 
1861.  Children,  born  in  Plainfield:  Jacob. 
Susan,  Cora,  Horatio  Huntington,  mentioned 
below. 

(VII)  Horatio  Huntington,  son  of  .\nson 
Johnson,  was  born  at  Plainfield,  December  10, 
1808,  and  died  at  Belfast,  Maine,  March  31, 
1885.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
years  he  left  home  and  became  a  clerk  in  the 
store  of  his  cousin,  Ralph  C.  Johnson,  Bel- 
fast, Maine.  A  year  later  he  became  a  partner 
under  the  firm  name  of  R.  C.  Johnson  &  Com- 
pany. After  five  years  in  this  business  he 
engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business  on  his  own 
account  under  the  name  of  H.  H.  Johnson. 
He  built  up  a  large  and  flourishing  business, 
one  of  the  largest  dry  goods  stores  in  this 
section,  and  was  in  business  for  a  period  of 
sixty  consecutive  years.  He  retired  a  short 
time  before  his  death.  In  politics  Mr.  John- 
son was  originally  a  Whig,  later  a  Republican, 
and  active  in  public  aflfairs.  He  was  an  alder- 
man of  the  city  of  Belfast,  and  a  member  of 
the  governor's  council  during  the  administra- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


tion  of  Governor  Crosby  for  two  years.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Universalist 
church.  He  married,  December  2,  1841,  Ann 
Frances  Lothrop,  born  at  Searsmont,  January 
3,  1819,  daughter  of  Ansel  Lothrop,  born 
September  12,  1783,  died  December  8,  1834, 
and  Lois  (Whittier)  Lothrop,  born  December 
2,  1785,  died  February  19,  1839.  Children, 
born  at  Belfast:  i.  Arabella,  September  21, 
1842,  married  Philo  Hersey,  of  Canton, 
Maine.  2.  Horatio  H.,  1845.  3-  Charles  Ed- 
ward, March  8,  1847,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Mary  Frances,  1858,  died  July  21,  1906. 

(\Tn)  Charles  Edward,  son  of  Horatio 
Huntington  Johnson,  was  born  March  8,  1847. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Bel- 
fast. He  became  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  dry  goods  business  and  was  active  in  its 
management.  Since  the  death  of  his  father  he 
has  been  occupied  in  the  care  and  improvement 
of  real  estate  and  other  investments.  In  poli- 
tics Mr.  Johnson  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
member  of  Timothy  Chase  Lodge,  No.  126, 
Free  Masons,  of  Belfast;  Corinthian  Chapter, 
No.  7,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  King  Solomon 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  Palestine 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  is  an 
active  member  of  the  Universalist  church.  He 
married,  June,  1874,  Maria  S.  Hodsdon,  born 
at  Dexter,  Maine,  1843,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Frederick  A.   Hodsdon. 


The  Brazier  family  of  Port- 
BRAZIER  land,  Maine,  is  in'  all  proba- 
bility a  branch  of  the  Brazier 
family  of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  The  fact 
that  the  two  families  are  related  is  said  to  have 
been  demonstrated  years  ago  when  lawyers 
were  employed  by  the  Portland  Braziers  to 
determine  what  interest,  if  any,  they  had  in 
certain  valuable  property  in  Boston.  The  in- 
vestigation proved  that  there  were  nearer  re- 
latives of  the  former  owner  of  the  property 
in  the  vicinity  of  Boston  than  those  in  Port- 
land were.  The  earliest  mention  of  members 
of  this  family  is  found  in  the  record  of  bap- 
tisms of  the  First  Church  of  Falmouth  (now 
Portland),  Maine.  Brazier.  Zachary  Harri- 
son, of  Bathsheba,  1734;  Brazier;  A  child  of 
Zachary  Harrison  and  Sarah,  1759.  The  arms 
of  the  English  Brazier  family  is :  A  shield 
gules,  amulets  argent,  and  a  bend  or.  Crest : 
A  white  dove,  with  (green)  olive  branch  in 
mouth. 

(i)  Zachary  Harrison  Brazier,  mentioned 
above,  was  born  at  a  place  and  time  not  now 
know.  He  served  as  a  private  in  Captain  Jo- 
seph Noyes's  company,  for  seacoast  defense 


at  Falmouth,  July  17,  to  December  31,  1775; 
and  again  as  quarter  gunner  in  Captain  Abner 
Lowell's  company  of  Matross,  stationed  at 
Falmouth  from  the  first  day  of  January  to  the 
last  day  of  March,  1777.  Zachary  H.  Brazier 
married  Sarah  (Sally)  Guston,  born  January 
9,  1736,  died  February  10,  1821.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  John,  Moses,  Enoch,  Daniel, 
Sarah,  Nathaniel,  Lucy,  Anne  (Nancy),  Har- 
rison  and   Betsey. 

(II)  Harrison,  sixth  son  of  Zachary  H. 
and  Sarah  (Sally)  (Guston)  Brazier,  was 
born  in  Portland,  August  9,  1777,  died  No- 
vember 8,  1855.  He  was  a  house  carpenter 
and  lumber  dealer.  The  following  article  re- 
cently (1908)  appeared  in  print:  "The  old 
McLellon-Wingate  house,  one  of  the  best  of 
the  old  residences  in  Portland,  located  at  the 
corner  of  Spring  and  High  streets,  is  to  be 
used  as  an  art  museum  by  the  Portland  So- 
ciety of  Art.  The  finish  on  the  inside  of  the 
house  is  excellent,  and  in  the  centre  of  the 
spacious  hall  is  a  run  of  flying  stairs,  unsup- 
ported except  at  the  top  and  bottom,  with  a 
passage  at  each  side.  The  stairs  turn  each 
way  at  the  top  to  the  corridor,  which  is  the 
same  width  as  the  hall  below.  The  hall  was 
finished  by  Harrison  Brazier,  one  of  the  best 
known  workmen  of  his  time,  and  he  worked 
on  it  continuously  ninety-seven  davs."  On 
August  21,  1831,  The  Portland  Society  of  the 
New  Jerusalem  was  formed,  and  on  August 
20,  1836,  Harrison  Brazier  united  with  this 
society  and  was  confirmed.  August  31.  1836 
the  society  was  incorporated  under  the  name 
of  "The  First  New  Jerusalem  Society  of  Port- 
land," and  soon  afterward  purchased  land  on 
Congress  street,  on  which  to  build  a  house  of 
worship :  and  Harrison  Brazier,  George  Ropes 
and  Arthur  M.  Small  were  appointed  to  su- 
perintend the  building  of  the  temple.  Harri- 
son Brazier  married  (first),  December  17, 
1799,  Abigail  Riggs,  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
Riggs.  She  was  born  March  10.  1777,  died 
April  7,  1823,  leaving  a  family  of  eleven  chil- 
dren. He  married  (second),  September  17. 
1823,  Ann  Lowell,  who  died  June  15,  1859 
By  the  second  marriage  there  were  no  chil- 
dren. The  children  by  first  marriage  were: 
I.  Sophia,  born  October  6,  1800,  died  March 
26,  1878;  married  Joseph  M.  Kellogg,  an  of- 
ficer in  the  United  States  revenue  marine  serv- 
ice, and  had  four  children :  Joseph,  Eunice 
McLellan,  Elijah  and  Sophia.  2.  John  Har- 
rison, bom  September  i,  1802,  died  February 
19,  1850;  married,  October  25,  1827,  Ruth 
Ann  Strout.  by  whom  he  had  John  Harrison 
and  Mary  Brazier.    3.  Abigail  Cobb,  born  Au- 


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1471 


gust  14,  1804,  died  August  6,  1818.  4.  Enoch, 
born  June  g,  1806,  died  in  Cuba,  Februarx-  2j. 
1856;  married,  August  21,  1831,  Phebe  Ilsley, 
who  died  January  21,  1852,  leaving  one  child, 
Lucy  A.,  who  married  John  Sawyer.  5.  Jo- 
seph Riggs.  mentioned  below.  6.  Daniel,  born 
December  29,  1809,  died  January  12,  1849; 
married,  November  19,  1834.  Alary  L.  Ingra- 
ham ;  they  had  two  children :  Annie  Brazier, 
who  married  David  Franklin  Corser ;  and 
Joseph  H.,  who  married  Ellen  Bartol ;  they 
reside  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  have 
children  :  Emeline  Josephine  and  Harry  Bartol. 
7.  Margaret,  born  January  3,  1812,  married, 
November  5,  1839,  David  Perkins.  8.  Eunice 
Osgood,  born  January  18.  1814,  died  June  24, 
1818.  9.  Elizabeth  Tobey,  born  December  17, 
1815,  died  July  22,  1843;  married,  December 
II,  1834,  Abner  Lowell,  and  had  two  children  : 
John  A.,  who  lives  in  Boston;  and  Abby,  who 
married  (first)  Edward  Emerj',  of  Portland, 
Maine;  (second)  a  Mr.  Brewer,  of  New  York. 
10.  Mary  M.,  born  March  28,  1818,  died  No- 
vember 21,  1843  ;  married,  November  23,  1841, 
Theodore  Moses,  of  Chelsea,  Massachusetts, 
and  died  childless.  11.  Charles,  born  Septem- 
ber 23,  1821,  died  October  4.  1821. 

(Ill)  Joseph  Riggs,  third  son  of  Harrison 
and  Abigail  (Riggs)  Brazier,  was  born  July 
18,  1808,  died  August  28,  1878.  He  resided 
in  Portland.  He  married,  July  9,  1835,  Har- 
riet Porter  Lowell.  Children:  i.  Harriet, 
married  Payson  Tucker,  of  Portland,  manager 
of  the  Maine  Central  railroad.  2.  Lucy  Low- 
ell. 3.  Daniel,  see  below.  4.  Henry  Clay, 
died  young.  5.  William  Harrison,  died  in 
1900;  married  Alice  J.  Bagley ;  they  had  one 
child,  Helen  Louise  Brazier,  born  January, 
1884. 

(lY)  Daniel,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  Riggs 
and  Harriet  Porter  (Lowell)  Brazier,  was 
born  in  Portland,  September  5,  1851,  died  Au- 
gust 29,  1895.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  by  private  tutors,  and  after  leav- 
ing school  took  a  clerical  position  with  the 
Eastern  Express  Company.  After  a  period 
of  service  there  he  became  a  clerk  in  the 
Maine  Savings  Bank,  and  in  a  short  time  was 
made  assistant  treasurer  and  teller,  and  held 
that  position  twenty  years,  till  his  retirement 
from  business  after  a  continuous  service  of 
twenty-five  years.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  but  not  a  politician,  and  held  no  po- 
litical offices.  He  attended  the  State  Street 
Congregational  Church.  He  was  a  member  of 
Ancient  Landmark  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M. ;  Mt. 
Vernon  Royal  Arch  Chapter;  Portland  Coun- 
cil, Roval  and  Select  Masters,  and   Portland 


Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  Daniel 
Brazier  married,  in  Portland,  November  15, 
1882,  Nellie  Louise  Foss,  who  was  born  May 

14.  1856,  si.xth  child  of  Alexander  and  Susan 
Farley  (Little)  Foss,  of  Portland.  One  child, 
Hattie  Payson  Brazier,  born  September  2, 
1888,  now  a  senior  in  Wellesley  College. 

Susan  Farley  (Little)  Foss,  above  men- 
tioned, twelfth  child  of  Stephen  (3)  and  Re- 
becca (Dodge)  (Caldwell)  Little,  was  born 
in  Portland,"  Maine,  June  5,  1819,  and  mar- 
ried. May  31,  1840,  Alexander  Foss,  of  Port- 
land, who  died  August  19,  1864.  They  had 
nine  children:  i.  Frank  Little,  born  July  11, 
1841,  married,  May  14,  1864,  Helen  M. 
Thomas.  2.  Elizabeth  Maria,  September  29, 
1843,  married,  March  15,  1864,  Albion  P., 
Chapman,  of  Deering.  3.  Sarah  Hartley, 
May  26,  1847,  married,  December  8.  1870, 
Augustus  Schlotterbeck.  4.  Charles  S.,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1849,  died  young.  5.  Georgiana 
Dow,  March  8,  1854,  married,  January  29, 
1878,  Albert  M.  Wentworth.  6.  "Nellie'Lou- 
ise,  born  May   14,    1856,  married,  November 

15,  1882,  Daniel  Brazier,  of  Portland.  7. 
Charles  Sumner,  married  Cara  ;\Iacy.  8. 
Edward  Little,  March  29,  1858,  married 
Bertha  Thompson.  9.  Annie  Nason.  Jan- 
uarv  14,  1864,  married  James  Nowlan. 


Several  settlers  named  Crosby 
CROSBY  came  to  New  England  early 
enough  to  be  classed  among 
the  pioneers.  From  them  sprung  a  hardy  race 
of  frontiersmen,  who  were  industrious  work- 
ers in  peace,  and  hard  fighters  in  the  wars 
with  French  and  Indians.  Still  later  genera- 
tions of  Crosbys  have  won  honorable  mention 
as  business  men,  college  professors  and  pro- 
fessional men.  The  name  signifying  "cross- 
town,"  or  "town  built  by  the  cross,"  was  first 
used  as  the  name  of  a  settlement  and  later 
as  a  surname. 

(I)  Simon  Crosby,  perhaps  a  brother  of 
Thomas,  of  Cambridge  and  Rowley,  embarked 
for  New  England  in  the  "Susan  and  Ellen," 
April  13,  1635.  He  was  at  that  time  twenty- 
six  years  of  age.  His  wife  Ann  was  twenty- 
five,  and  their  son  Thomas  was  eight  weeks 
old.  He  resided  at  the  corner  of  Brattle 
street  and  Brattle  square,  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, nearly  where  the  old  Brattle  house 
now  stands.  He  was  prominent  among  the 
pioneers,  and  was  selectman  in  1636-38,  and 
died  September,  1639,  aged  only  thirty-one. 
The  children  of  Simon  and  Ann  were : 
Thomas,  born  in  England,  and  Simon  and  Jo- 
seph,   born    in    Cambridge.      .-Xnn,    after    the 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


death  of  lior  luusbaiul,  married  the  Rev.  Wil- 
Ham  Thompson,  of  Braintree,  before  1646, 
and  became  a  second  time  a  widow  at  his 
death,   December    10,    1666. 

(11)  Simon  (2).  second  son  and  child  of 
Simon  (i)  and  Ann  Crosby,  born  in  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  August,  1637,  died 
January  22,  1726,  in  the  eighty-ninth  year  of 
his  age.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers 
of  Billerica,  his  residence  being  on  the  north 
side  of  Bare  hill.  He  became  a  large  land- 
holder, was  the  first  innholder  in  the  town, 
was  a  leading  citizen,  and  representative  1691- 
97-98.  His  will  made  June,  1717,  was  proved 
February  26,  1725.  He  married,  July  15, 
1659,  Rachel  Brackett.  born  November  3, 
1639,  daughter  of  Deacon  Richard  and  Alice 
Brackett,  of  Braintree.  She  was  living  at  the 
date  of  his  will.  The  children  of  Simon  and 
Rachel  were :  Rachel,  Simon.  Thomas,  Joseph, 
Hannah,  Nathan,  Josiah,  I\lary  and  Sarah. 

(HI)  Joseph,  third  son  of  Simon  (2)  and 
Rachel  (Brackett)  Crosby,  born  July  5,  1669, 
died  about  1736,  in  Billerica,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  passed  his  life,  residing  east  of  Nut- 
ting's pond.  He  married.  May  6,  1691,  Widow 
Sarah  Stark,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  William 
and  Mary  (Lathrop)  French,  of  Billerica. 
She  was  born  October  29,  1671,  and  was  the 
mother  of  the  following  children :  Joseph, 
Sarah,  Rachel,  William,  Mary,  Thomas,  Da- 
vid, Prudence,  Hannah,  Deborah,  Robert  and 
Peletiah. 

(IV)  Robert,  fifth  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
(French)  (Stark)  Crosby,  was  born  July  20, 
171 1,  in  Billerica,  and  was  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Townsend,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  died  in  1743.  He  married,  February  7, 
1732,  in  Andover,  jMehitable  Chandler,  born 
about  1709,  in  Andover,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Mehitable  Chandler,  of  Westford  (see 
Chandler,  V).  He  died  there,  and  she  mar- 
ried (second)  Andrew  Spalding,  of  Westford. 
Robert  Crosby's  children  were :  Robert,  Jo- 
nah, Phoebe,  Joel  and  Josiah. 

(V)  Jonah,  second  son  of  Robert' and  Me- 
hitable (Chandler)  Crosby,  baptized  at  the 
Townsend  church,  October  3,  1776,  died  in 
Winslow,  Maine,  in  1813.  He  was  probably 
born  in  Townsend,  and  was  received  into  the 
church  there  from  New  Ipswich  in  1759.  He 
resided  in  New  Ipswich  a  short  time,  and  re- 
turned to  Townsend  from  that  town.  While 
residing  in  New  Ipswich,  New  Hampshire,  he 
was  married  in  Townsend,  December  22,  1757, 
to  Lydia  Chandler,  of  Westford,  Massachu- 
setts. She  was  born  December  10,  1735,  in 
that  town,  and  was  baptized  December  14,  fol- 


lowing. He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war,  and  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Winslow,  Maine,  where  he  cleared  up  land  in 
the  forest,  and  was  a  leading  and  influential 
citizen.  His  children  were :  Ezra,  Jonah, 
Stephen,  Jesse,  Thomas,  Eben,  Rhoda,  Ellen, 
Lydia.  Abigail,  Susan,  Mary,  Robert,  Joel. 

(VI)  Ezra,  eldest  son  of  Jonah  and  Lydia 
(Chandler)  Crosby,  was  born  in  Winslow, 
Maine,  where  he  passed  his  life  engaged  in 
farming,  and  died  in  1814.  He  married 
Teresa  Sherwin,  born  June  24,  1768,  in  Dun- 
stable, Massachusetts,  died  in  Hartland,  1850, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years.  Their  children 
were:  Jane,  Artemas,  Mehitable,  Joel,  Sybil, 
Cummins,  Eunice,  Phoebe,  Sherwin,  Lucena 
and  Vina. 

(VII)  Sherwin,  son  of  Ezra  and  Teresa 
(Sherwin)  Crosby,  born  August  29,  1805,  in 
Winslow,  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years, 
in  December,  1886.  He  was  left  an  orphan 
at  the  age  of  nine  years,  and  was  forced  to 
maintain  himself  almost  fully  from  that  age. 
He  had  little  opportunity  for  education,  and 
was  occupied  largely  through  life  as  a  farmer 
and  farm  laborer.  He  was  an  extremely  re- 
ligious man,  actively  identified  with  the  Aleth- 
odist  church.  He  took  little  interest  in  any 
other  matters,  and  lived  a  most  exemplary 
life,  respected  by  all  his  contemporaries.  He 
married,  in  1832,  at  Unity,  Nancy  Jordan 
Clifford,  born  August  6,  1808,  in  Northport, 
died  December  16,  1877,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
nine  years.  She  was  a  woman  of  exception- 
ally bright  mind,  remarkable  for  her  common 
sense  and  executive  ability,  and  was  an  able 
assistant  to  her  husband  in  his  church  and 
moral  work.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  (Priest)  Clifford.  His  children 
were :  Teresa,  Dana  Boardman,  Mulberry 
Burnham,  John  Sherwin,  Luann  Whitmore, 
Jacob  Trueworthy  and  Eli  Mckery.  The  first 
three  died  in  infancy.  The  fourth  receives  fur- 
ther notice  in  the  succeeding  paragraph.  Luann 
Whitmore  is  the  wife  of  William  Hamilton, 
of  Unity,  Maine.  Jacob  Trueworthy  is  a  cler- 
gyman, residing  in  Auburn,  Maine  (mentioned 
below ) ,  and  the  youngest  son  resides  in  Albion, 
same   state. 

(VIII)  John  Sherwin,  eldest  surviving  son 
of  Sherwin  and  Nancy  Jordan  (Clifford) 
Crosby,  was  born  January  13,  1842,  in  Free- 
dom, Waldon  county,  ALTine.  near  L'nity  Vil- 
lage, where  he  passed  his  boyhood.  At  sixteen 
years  of  age  he  went  to  Hingham,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  remained  for  a  year  work- 
ing in  a  shoe  manufactory  and  devoting  his 
evenings   to    study,   his   purpose    on     leaving 


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home  having  been  to  acquire  a  liberal  educa- 
tion. From  Hingham  he  went  to  Hanover, 
in  the  same  county,  with  a  view  to  entering 
Hanover  Academy,  in  which  he  soon  became 
a  student,  supporting  himself  at  first  by  shoe- 
making  after  school  hours,  but  in  a  short  time 
by  acting  as  an  assistant  teacher  in  the  Acad- 
emy. With  the  exception  of  a  year  at  Phillips 
Exeter  Academy  and  a  part  of  a  year  at  Tufts 
College,  he  continued  teaching  in  the  private 
and  public  schools  of  Plymouth  county  from 
1859  to  1866,  meanwhile  pursuing  with  the 
aid  of  private  instructors  the  various  branches 
of  a  college  course  of  study.  From  1863  to 
1866  he  was  principal  of  Assinippi  Institute, 
a  classical  school  at  West  Scituate,  during 
which  time  he  read  law  with  Hon.  Perez  Sim- 
mons, a  leading  lawyer  of  the  state,  to  whose 
wise  and  fatherly  counsel  he  has  ever  felt 
deeply  indebted.  In  1866  he  accepted  the 
priucipalshii)  of  the  high  school  at  St.  Joseph, 
^lissouri,  a  position  which  he  retained  until 
the  spring  of  1877,  when  failing  health  ne- 
cessitated a  change  of  occupation,  and  he  en- 
tered into  a  law  partnership  with  ex-Governor 
Silas  Woodson,  which  continued  until  the 
elevation  of  the  latter  to  the  bench  some  five 
years  later.  In  1885  '""^  removed  from  St. 
Joseph  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  from  which 
time  until  i8g6  he  maintained  offices  in  both 
cities,  practising  in  the  state  and  federal  courts 
of  Missouri  and  Kansas.  In  the  fall  of  the 
latter  year,  at  the  solicitation  of  the  single 
taxers  of  Delaware,  he  went  to  reside  at  Wil- 
mington, and  in  the  following  winter  ad- 
dressed the  legislature  and  the  constitutional 
convention  of  that  state  in  the  interest  of  the 
single  tax  movement.  In  April,  1897,  he  set- 
tled in  New  York  city,  where  he  practised 
law  until  1 901,  when  he  was  appointed  to  his 
present  position  of  expert  accountant  and 
auditor  in  the  finance  department  of  that  city. 
Mr.  Crosby,  who  was  eminently  successful 
as  a  teacher,  has  been  equally  so  in  the  trial 
of  causes.  As  a  jury  lawyer  he  is  said  to 
have  had  no  superior  at  the  Missouri  bar. 
His  enthusiasm  for  the  practise  of  law  has, 
however,  abated  somewhat  with  the  increasing 
tendency  toward  a  monopoly  of  the  courts  by 
corporations,  the  creation  of  which  artificial 
persons  he  has  long  held  to  be  an  abuse  of 
civil  power.  In  1884,  while  practising  in  St. 
Joseph,  he  published  "The  Primer,"  said  to 
have  been  the  pioneer  of  single  tax  periodicals, 
in  which  he  advocated  the  philosophy  of  Hen- 
ry George,  and  foretold  that  the  monopolistic 
combinations  since  known  as  trusts  would  in- 
evitably   result    from   the    grant   of   corporate 


privilege  for  purposes  of  private  gain.  In 
1896  he  published  a  short  treatise  on  govern- 
ment, entitled  "An  Inquiry  into  the  Nature 
and  Functions  of  the  State,"  a  second  edition 
of  which  was  issued  in  1901.  He  is  now  re- 
vising the  work  with  a  view  to  making  it  a 
popular  text  book  on  the  science  of  govern- 
ment. He  has  always  taken  an  active  interest 
in  the  cause  of  popular  education  and  during 
the  last  thirty  years  has  devoted  much  time  to 
the  public  discussion  of  political  and  economic 
questions  upon  which  he  has  spoken  in  almost 
all  parts  of  the  United  States  and  Canada.  In 
the  "History  of  Hanover  Academy,"  pub- 
lished in  1899,  the  author  says  of  him:  "As 
a  platform  speaker  he  stands  in  the  opinion  of 
many,  almost  unrivalled  for  magnetic  and  ef- 
fective oratory,  and  has  been  called  'the  Wen- 
dell Phillips  of  the  single  tax  movement.' " 
While  he  has  never  sought  office  he  has  been  a 
candidate  on  various  occasions  for  member  of 
congress,  supreme  and  appellate  court  judge, 
and  other  official  positions,  his  nomination 
having  generally  been  made  during  his  absence 
from  the  field.  Of  strong  individuality,  he  has 
seldom  allied  himself  with  organizations  re- 
ligious or  fraternal.  He  has  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Manhattan  Single  Tax  Club,  and 
is  now  president  of  the  Missouri  Society  of  the 
City  of  New  York.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Maine  Society  of  that  city,  of  the  Ameri- 
can Economic  Association,  and  one  of  the  in- 
corporators of  the  New  York  County  Law- 
yers' Association.  In  religious  belief  he  is 
liberal,  finding  some  good  in  every  sect  and 
creed.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  of  the 
school  of  Jefferson  and  Lincoln,  holding  that 
the  only  legitimate  purpose  of  any  government 
is  to  secure,  to  all  persons  within  its  jurisdic- 
tion, peaceable  enjoyment  of  the  natural,  equal 
and  inalienable  rights  of  man.  Mr.  Crosby  is 
a  man  of  large  physique,  commanding  pres- 
ence and  genial  personality. 

Mr.    Crosby    married,    at    Hanover,    June 

30,  1865,  Abby  Josephine  Gardner,  born  July 

31,  1842,  in  Marshfield,  Massachusetts,  died 
November  24,  1881,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Maria  Ford  Gardner,  of  Marshfield.  She  be- 
gan teaching  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  and 
was  an  enthusiast  in  that  work,  continuing  in 
it  some  time  after  her  marriage.  She  was 
greatly  loved  by  the  people  of  St.  Joseph,  and 
her  funeral  was  one  of  the  most  largely  at- 
tended ever  held  in  that  place.  She  left  one 
son,  John  Sherwin,  recently  deceased,  and  one 
daughter,  Louise  Leonard,  who  became  the 
wife  of  the  late  Frank  Albert  Drew,  for  many 
years  president  of  the  Boston  tax  board,  and 


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now  resides  in  Boston.  She  has  two  children : 
Josephine  Amelia  and  Crosby  Lawrence.  Mr. 
Crosby  married  (second)  in  St.  Louis,  July 
22,  1896,  Bertie  Fassett,  widow  of  Walter  H. 
Fassett,  of  Portland,  Maine,  and  daugh- 
ter of  James  Mellon,  of  Houlton,  j\Iaine. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crosby  have  a  mutual  in- 
terest in  the" grandchildren  of  both,  to  whom 
they  are  much  devoted. 

(VIII)  Rev.  Jacob  True  worthy,  second 
surviving  son  of  Sherwin  and  Nancy  Jordan 
(Clifford)  Crosby,  was  born  February  16, 
1847,  'ii  Unity,  and  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  New  England.  At  the  age  of  eight- 
een years,  he  abandoned  temporarily  the  pur- 
suit of  an  education  to  become  a  soldier  in 
the  civil  war,  joining  Company  B,  Twenty- 
ninth  Maine  Veteran  Volunteers,  for  one  year. 
His  service  continued  for  thirteen  months,  and 
he  was  honorably  discharged.  He  returned 
home  and  entered  in  business,  l)ut  was  not 
satisfied  with  a  business  career,  however,  and 
closed  out  his  interest  and  began  studying  to 
fit  himself  for  the  ministry.  He  joined  the 
East  Maine  Methodist  conference  and  served 
as  pastor  for  the  following  churches :  China, 
Georgetown,  Wiscasset,  Pittston,  Dresden, 
Guilford,  Sangerville,  Ellsworth  and  Brewer, 
Maine. 

He  was  then  transferred  to  the  Alaine  con- 
ferences and  was  successively  pastor  at  Bath 
Wesley  Church,  Saco  and  Auburn.  '  At  the 
close  of  his  Auburn  pastorate,  Mr.  Crosby 
withdrew  from  the  conference  and  re- 
ceived an  honorable  discharge.  This  step 
was  taken  because  he  could  not  longer  con- 
sistently proclaim  the  creed  of  the  ]\Ieth- 
odist  church.  His  views  are  quite  liberal  and 
though  he  is  not  now  connected  with  any 
church,  he  is  frequently  called  upon  to  speak 
in  nearly  all  the  churches  in  Lewiston  and 
Auburn  and  the  surrounding  towns ;  in  the 
meantime,  as  a  means  of  gaining  a  livelihood, 
he  is  doing  something  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness. He  was  married  October  23,  1871,  to 
Annie  Maria  Symonton,  of  Camden,  Maine, 
daughter  of  Patrick  and  Mary  (Pascal)  Si- 
monton,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  a  daugh- 
ter and  a  son:  Maria  Mary  Josephine  and 
Henri  Sherwin.  The  former  was  born  Oc- 
tober 21,  1875,  in  Waldoborough.  and  is  now 
the  wife  of  Frank  Cayer,  residing  in  Auburn, 
Maine.  The  son  was  born  May  21,  1882,  mar- 
ried Maude  Evelyn  Marshall  and  resides  in 
Auburn.  He  has  a  daughter  and  a  son  :  Mar- 
rion  Josephine  and  Sherwin  Marshal,  born 
respectively  December  23,  1905,  and  January 
18,   1907. 


A  time-honored  name  in 
CHANDLER     American     annals,     among 

the  first  in  Maine,  this  has 
been  conspicuous  in  many  states,  and  is  among 
the  most  prominent  of  this  coninK)nwealth 
to-day.  As  jurists  and  legislators,  as  business 
men  and  philanthropists,  its  bearers  have  done 
service  to  their  native  land  and  have  received 
honor  at  its  hands.  It  has  been  said  that  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts,  received  the  best  of  the 
English  emigrants  in  Puritan  days,  and  this 
family  has  furnished  since  those  olden  days 
many  of  the  best  pioneers  in  many  states  of 
the  Union. 

(I)  William  Chandler,  immigrant  ancestor, 
with  his  wife,  Annis,  and  four  children  settled 
at  Roxbury  in  1637.  Annis  is  supposed  to 
have  been  a  sister  of  Deacon  George  Alcock, 
of  Ro.xbury.  One  child  was  born  to  them  at 
Roxbury  between  1638  and  1640.  William 
Chandler  appears  as  the  owner  of  twenty-two 
acres  of  land,  with  seven  persons  in  his  fam- 
ily. He  was  charged  with  the  care  on  the 
commons  of  one  goat  and  kid,  the  least  of  any 
of  the  residents.  He  took  the  freeman's  oath 
in  1640,  and  was  at  that  time  stricken  with 
disease  which  caused  his  demise  November 
26,  1641.  He  was  among  the  proprietors  of 
Andover,  with  his  son  Thomas,  and  tradit'on 
says  he  was  the  owner  of  the  tannery  at  the 
corner  of  Bartlett  street  and  Shawmut  ave- 
nue, Roxbury.  A  chronicler  of  his  time  says 
he  "Lived  a  religious  &  godly  life  among  us 
&  fell  into  a  Consumption  to  which  he  had,  a 
long  time,  been  inclined ;  he  lay  near  a  yeare 
sick,  in  all  which  time  his  faith,  patience  & 
Godliness  &  Contentation  So  Shined  that 
Christ  was  much  glorified  in  him — he  was  a 
man  of  Weak  parts  but  Excellent  faith  and 
holiness ;  he  was  a  Very  thankful  man,  and 
much  magnified  God's  goodness.  He  was 
poor,  but  God  prepared  the  hearts  of  his  peo- 
ple to  him,  that  he  never  wanted  that  which 
was  (at  least  in  his  Esteem)  Very  plentiful 
and  comfortable  to  him — he  died  in  the  year 
1 641,  and  left  a  Sweet  memory  and  Savor  be- 
hind him."  His  widow  was  married  July  2, 
1643,  to  John  Dane,  of  Barkhampstead,  Eng- 
land, who  died  in  September,  1658.  and  she 
married  (third),  August  9,  1660,  John  Par- 
menter,  of  Sudbury,  Massachusetts.  The  chil- 
dren of  William  and  Annis  Chandler  were : 
Hannah,  Thomas,  William,  John  and  Sarah. 

(II)  Captain  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Annis  (Alcock)  Chandler,  born  in 
1630,  died  "15  day,  1703."  He  came  with  his 
parents  to  New  England  in  1637,  when  he 
was  about  seven  vears  old.    He  was  one  of  the 


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proprietors  and  early  pioneer?  in  the  settle- 
ment of  Andover,  and  his  name  is  twenty- 
third  "of  the  householders  in  order  as  they 
came  to  town."  He  was  employed  with  George 
Abbot,  senior,  and  others,  to  lay  out  lands 
granted  individuals  by  the  general  court.  An 
old  record  reads :  "It  is  ordered,  that  Thomas 
Chandler  be  leften'nt  in  ye  ffoot  Company  in 
Andover,  John  Stephens,  Ensign,  under  the 
command  of  Dudely  Bradstreet,  Capt."  He  was 
representative  to  the  general  court  in  1678-79, 
from  Andover.  Loring's  "History  of  Andover" 
savs :  "Thomas  Chandler  was  a  blacksmith, 
ultimately  a  rich  man,  carrying  on  a  consid- 
erable iron  works."  It  is  a  tradition  that  iron 
works  existed  where  Marland  village  now  is. 
Thomas  Chandler's  son,  Captain  Joseph,  sold, 
1718,  "one  half  of  ye  whole  Iron  works  in 
Salisbury  on  ye  falls  commonly  called  ye  Pow- 
wow River."  Thomas  Chandler  married  Han- 
nah Brewer,  of  Andover.  She  died  in  An- 
dover, October  25,  1717,  aged  eighty-seven. 
Their  children  were :  Thomas  (  died  young) , 
John,  Hannah,  William,  Sarah,  Thomas,  Hen- 
ry and  Joseph. 

(Ill)  William  (2),  third  son  of  Thomas 
and  Hannah  (Brewer)  Chandler,  born  May 
28,  1659,  was  married  April  21,  1687,  to 
Eleanor  Phelps,  of  South  Andover.  They 
were  the  first  couple  married  by  Rev.  Francis 
Dane,  of  Andover,  and  that  was  April,  1687, 
for  until  1686.  the  expiration  of  the  first  char- 
ter, marriages  were  performed  only  by  magis- 
trates and  persons  appointed  for  that  purpose. 
The  church  records  of  Westfield  say  "Ad- 
mitted 10,  November  1728,  Eleanor  Chandler, 
widow."  She  was  the  fortieth  person  admit- 
ted to  that  church.  The  following  is  an  ab- 
stract of  deed  given  by  William  and  Eleanor 
Chandler :  "I  William  Chandler,  of  Andover, 
Husbandman,  Sell  for  eighty  pounds,  land 
sixty  acres,  all  that  my  homestead  as  de- 
scribed in  a  deed  of  my  father  Chandler  to 
me  having  date  ye  twelfth  Day  of  June  1697, 
to  William  Foster  of  Boxford,  weaver,  on  3 
September,  1697.  He  acknowledged  the  above 
September  18,  1697,  his  wife  Eleanor,  at  the 
same  time  resigning  her  right  of  Dower. 
Signed  William  Chandler  and  Eleanor  Chand- 
ler." Their  children  were:  Eleanor,  William, 
Benjamin  and  Moses. 

(I\')  William  (3),  eldest  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Eleanor  (Phelps)  Chandler,  born 
July  20,  1689,  in  Andover,  died,  as  indicated 
by  the  inscription  on  his  gravestone,  at  West- 
ford,  Massachusetts,  July  27,  1756,  being 
sixty-seven  years  and  seven  days  old.  William 
Chandler,   of    Billerica,    bought    of    William 


Gaines,  of  Billerica,  December  18,  1714,  land 
in  Billerica  acknowledged  August  9,  1716,  and 
recorded  July  14,  1726.  William  Chandler,  of 
Billerica,  clothier,  bought  of  N.  Longley  for 
one  hundred  and  thirty-three  pounds  several 
messuages  of  land  in  Chelmsford,  July  3, 
1724,  first  parcel  on  Kings  brook,  of  ten  acres, 
second  parcel  of  twenty  acres  on  both  sides  of 
Stone  brook,  third,  saw-mill  land,  fourth,  land 
by  Flushing  pond,  and  fifth,  sixty  acres, 
bounded  east  by  land  of  Major  Henchman, 
deceased.  William  Chandler  sold  to  N.  Spake 
for  three  hundred  pounds  one  messuage  of 
house  lot  of  ninety-five  acres  in  Billerica,  on 
the  west  side  of  Concord  river,  with  dwelling 
house  and  barn,  bounded  northerly  by  Broad 
Meadow,  and  westerly  by  Chelmsford  line. 
Deed  signed  William  Chandler,  and  his  wife, 
Susannah,  by  her  mark,  August  4,  1724.  He 
also  sold  other  lands  at  various  times,  which 
would  indicate  that  he  was  quite  an  extensive 
landowner.  He  was  married  to  Susannah 
Burge,  of  Westford,  Massachusetts.  Their 
children  were:  Benjamin,  William,  Moses, 
Aaron,  John,  Henry,  Joseph,  Isaac,  Rachel, 
Sarah  (died  young),  Lydia,  Samuel,  Sarah 
and  probably  Jacob. 

(V)  Lydia,  tenth  child  of  William  (3)  and 
Susannah  (Burge)  Chandler,  born  December 
10,  1735,  baptized  December  14,  1735.  She 
was  married  December  22,  1757,  in  Towns- 
end,  to  Jonah  Crosby,  of  New  Ipswich,  New 
Hampshire.     (See  Crosby,  V). 

(II)  William  (2),  second  son  of  William 
and  Annis  (Alcock)  Chandler,  married,  Au- 
gust 18,  1658,  Mary  Dame,  born  1638,  in 
Ipswich,  died  May  10,  1679,  in  Andover.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Dane  ("chirer- 
gen"),  and  his  first  wife,  Eleanor  (Clark) 
Dane.  Dr.  John  Dane  was  a  son  of  John 
Dane,  of  Bishop's  Stortford,  Herts,  England, 
whose  second  wife  was  Annis,  widow  of  Will- 
iani  Chandler  (i).  Dr.  John  Dane  was  the 
author  of  "A  Declaration  of  Remarkable 
Providences  in  the  Course  of  my  Life"  (re- 
published in  the  "New  England  Historical 
and  Genealogical  Register"  for  1854),  in 
which  he  declares  that  he  was  a  "Taylor  by 
trade,"  when  residing  near  Bishop's  Stort- 
ford, England.  William  Chandler  married 
(second),  October  8,  1679,  Bridget  (Hinch- 
man),  widow  of  James  Richardson.  She  died 
March  6,  1731,  aged  one  hundred  years.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1669.  He  was  a 
brickmaker  in  Andover,  and  kept  an  inn  on 
the  road  from  Ipswich  to  Billerica,  being  li- 
censed June  17,  1692.  He  died  in  1698,  in 
Andover,  and   left  a  large  estate.     His  chil- 


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dren,  all  born  of  first  wife,  were :  Mary,  Will- 
iam, Sarah,  Thomas  (died  young),  John,  Phile- 
mon, Hannah,  Thomas,  Joseph  (died  young), 
Phebe,  Joseph  and  Rhoda. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  youngest  son  of  William  (2) 
and  Mary  (Dane)  Chandler,  born  July  17, 
1682,  in  Andover,  died  April  23,  1734,  at  the 
same  place,  in  his  fifty-second  year.  He  mar- 
ried, June  10,  1708,  Mehitable  Russell,  of 
Andover.  She  with  her  husband  were  received 
into  the  church  at  South  .Andover,  on  profes- 
sion of  faith,  June  5,  1720,  and  she  remained 
a  member  until  her  death.  In  his  will  of 
December  18,  1733,  and  which  was  "proved 
and  approved"  May  20,  1734.  he  mentions  his 
"wife  Alehitable,"  "my  Eldest  son  Thomas," 
whom  he  makes  sole  executor  and  to  have  the 
"Homestead,"  "Joseph,"  and  "John,"  "my 
daughter,  Mehitable  Crosby."  and  daughters, 
"Mary."  "Phebe,"  "Bridget"  and  "my  Young- 
est Daughter  Hannah  Chandler,"  "my  Execu- 
tor, is  to  provide  for  her,"  "my  execiitor" 
is  to  provide  for  his  mother  and  to  give 
her  a  "Christian  burial  if  she  die  my  widow," 
but  "if  she  sees  reason  to  marry  again  my 
Executor  is  to  be  free  from  what  I  have  or- 
dered him  to  do  for  her."  Their  children 
were:  Mehitable,  Thomas,  Mary,  Phebe, 
Joseph,  Bridget,  John,  Infant  son  (died 
young)  and  Hannah. 

(R')  Mehitable,  eldest  child  of  Joseph  and 
IMehitable  (Russell)  Chandler,  was  born  about 
1709,  in  Andover.  She  married  (first),  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1732,  Robert  Crosby,  of  Townsend, 
Massachusetts  (see  Crosby,  IV).  At  the  time 
of  his  marriage  he  was  one  of  the  proprietors 
of  North  Town  (Townsend).  She  was  dis- 
missed December  7.  1734.  from  the  church  in 
Andover  to  the  church  in  Townsend.  She 
married  (second),  November  26,  1745,  An- 
drew Spalding,  born  December  8,  1701,  son  of 
Andrew  and  grandson  of  Edward  Spaldincr. 
He  was  deacon  of  the  church  in  New  Ipswich. 
New  Hampshire,  and  was  one  of  the  grantees 
of  that  town.  He  applied  to  the  general  court 
of  Massachusetts  for  aid  for  his  son-in-law, 
Joel  Crosby,  who  had  been  taken  captive  by 
the  Indians  at  Half  Way  brook,  near  Lake 
George,  June  20.  1758.  Her  children  by  Rob- 
ert Crosby  were :  Robert,  Jonah,  Phebe,  Joel 
and  Josiah.  Children  by  Andrew  Spalding 
were:    Ruth,  Solomon,  Henry  and  Abigail. 


The  first  of  this  name  in  New 
LYFORD     England    was    Rev.    John    Ly- 
ford,  a  minister  of  the  Estab- 
lished  Church  of  England,  who  was  sent  to 
Plymouth,    Massachusetts,    in   the    spring    of 


1624  by  the  English  proprietors,  probaljly  for 
the  purpose  of  counteracting  as  far  as  possible 
among  the  colonists  the  religious  teachings 
of  their  non-conformist  spiritual  leaders.  His 
mission  to  Plymouth  proved  futile,  however, 
and  upon  his  expulsion  from  the  colony,  in 
the  summer  of  1624,  he  went  to  Nantasket, 
where  he  became  intimately  associated  with 
Roger  Conant,  whom  he  accompanied  to  Cape 
Ann  and  later  to  Naumkeag  (Salem).  From 
the  latter  place  he  went  to  Virginia,  where 
he  died.  He  left  at  least  one  son,  "Morde- 
cay,"  whose  name  appears  in  the  records  of 
Suffolk  deeds  in  1642,  but  whether  or  not  the 
Rev.  John  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Francis 
Lyford,  about  to  be  mentioned,  is  purely  a 
matter  of  conjecture. 

( I)  Francis  L>ford,  place  and  date  of  birth 
unknown,  was  a  resident  of  Boston  in  1667 
and  for  several  years  afterward,  as  is  shown 
in  Suffolk  deeds  of  that  period,  in  which  his 
name  appears  as  a  party  to  various  real  es- 
tate transactions.  In  or  prior  to  1680  he  re- 
moved to  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  and  in 
the  records  of  both  places  he  is  referred  to  as 
a  mariner.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
master  of  a  sloop  engaged  in  transporting  lum- 
ber and  other  merchandise  to  and  from  Boston 
to  the  Piscataqua,  and  on  one  occasion  he 
was  sent  to  Saco,  Maine,  to  rescue  and  bring 
to  Portsmouth  the  inhabitants  of  that  town 
who  were  exposed  to  the  ravages  of  the  In- 
dians. In  a  list  of  persons  who  had  been 
granted  land  in  Exeter  prior  to  JMarch  28, 
1698,  his  name  appears  as  having  received  two 
hundred  acres,  and  he  also  acquired  consid- 
erable real  estate  by  purchase.  He  was  a  se- 
lectman in  Exeter  for  the  years  1689-go.  In 
King  William's  war  he  served  as  a  soldier 
from  February  6  to  March  3,  1696.  In  1709 
he  was  chosen  constable,  but  the  general  as- 
sembly, acting  upon  information  to  the  effect 
that  he  was  incapacitated  for  service  by  physi- 
cal disability,  ordered  the  selectmen  of  Exeter 
to  appoint  another  in  his  place.  In  a  deed 
recorded  in  171 5  he  is  designated  as  a  weaver. 
His  will  was  made  December  17,  1723,  and 
proved  September  2,  1724,  showing  that  his 
death  must  have  occurred  sometime  between 
these  dates.  In  June,  1671.  he  was  married 
in  Boston  to  Elizabeth  Smith,  born  November 
6,  1646,  daugliter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Smith.  His  second  wife,  whom  he  married  in 
Exeter,  November  12,  16S1.  was  Rebecca 
Dudley,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  and 
granddaughter  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley. 
His  children  were:  i.  Thomas,  born  in  Bos- 
ton,  March   25,   1672.     2.   Elizabeth,   born   la 


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Boston,  July  19,  1673,  united  with  the  Old 
South  Church.  October  7,   i6q6;  died  single. 

3.  P^rancis,  born  in  Boston,  May  31,  1677;  all 
of  his  first  union.     4.  Stephen,  see  forward. 

5.  Ann,  who  became  the  wife  of  Timothy 
Leavitt,  son  of  Moses  Sr.  and  Dorothy  (Dud- 
ley) Leavitt,  of  Exeter.  6.  Deborah,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Follett.  7.  Re- 
becca, who  married  Hardie   (Hardy). 

8.  Sarah,  who  became  the  wife  of  John  Foul- 
sham  (Folsom),  son  of  John  and  grandson 
of  John  and  Mary    (Oilman)    Foulsham.     9. 

Mary,  who  married  Hall.     All  were 

born  in  Exeter,  but  the  record  at  hand  fails 
to  give  dates  of  their  birth. 

(H)  Stephen,  son  of  Francis  and  Rebecca 
(Dudley)  Lyford,  resided  in  Exeter,  and  in 
a  list  of  grantees  of  land  dated  April  12,  1725, 
is  mentioned  as  having  received  one  hundred 
acres.  In  1734  he  served  as  a  selectman.  He 
died  in  Exeter.  December  20,  1774,  and  among 
the  items  of  his  estate,  which  was  valued  at 
fifteen  hundred  and  seventy-five  pounds,  ten 
shillings  and  nine  pence,  was  a  negro  woman 
"Syl,"  and  a  negro  girl  "Nants."  He  was 
married  in  Exeter  to  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Moses  and  Dorothy  (Dudley)  Leavitt.  Moses 
Leavitt,  born  August  22,  1650,  was  a  son  of 
John  Leavitt.  and  Dorothy,  his  wife,  was  a 
daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley,  the  latter 
a  son  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley.  Sarah 
(Leavitt)  Lyford  died  October  13,  1781.  She 
was  the  mother  of  seven  children:  i.  Biley, 
born  in  1716;  see  sketch  on  following  page. 
2.  Stephen,  born  in  Newmarket,  New  Hamp- 
shire, April  12,  1723,  was  a  revolutionary 
soldier,  serving  in  Colonel  Nicholas  Oilman's 
regiment.  New  Hampshire  militia,  in  1777, 
and  in  September  of  that  year  was  at  Saratoga 
with  Captain  Porter  Kimball's  company  of 
Colonel  Stephen  Evan's  regiment.     3.  Moses. 

4.  Samuel,  died  February  8,  1788.    5.  Francis. 

6.  Theophilus.  7.  Betsey  (Elizabeth),  who 
became  the  wife  of  Joshua  Wiggin,  of  Strat- 
ham.  New  Hampshire. 

(Ill)  Moses,  son  of  Stephen  Lyford,  was 
a  tailor  by  trade  and  resided  for  many  years 
in  Brentwood,  New  Hampshire.  He  died  in 
Exeter,  April  13,  1799.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 22,  1748,  Mehitable  Smith,  daughter  of 
Oliver  Smith,  of  Exeter.  In  a  deed  recorded 
in  the  Exeter  probate  records  Oliver  Smith,  of 
Exeter,  Gent.,  conveys  to  Moses  Lyford,  son- 
in-law,  and  Mehitable,  his  wife,  four  acres  of 
land  in  Brentwood.  Mehitable  died  some  time 
between  July  15.  1803,  and  December  4,  1806. 
They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children:  i. 
Dudley,  born  July  28,  1749.    2.  Francis,  bap- 


tized May  12,  1 75 1,  died  young.  3.  Oliver 
Smith,  see  succeeding  paragraph.  4.  Mehit- 
able, born  October  29,  1755,  became  the  wife 

of  — Swain.     5.  Jonathan,  born  January 

24,  1758.  6.  Nathaniel  Lad  (Ladd),  born 
January   26,    1762.     7.  Sarah,  born   April    5, 

1764,  became  the  wife  of Merrill.    8. 

Francis,  born  April  12,  1766.  9.  Elizabeth 
(Betty),  born  in  1768,  was  married  in  1781 
to  .Abraham  Sanborn,  born  October  4,  1766, 
died  December  21,  1845;  Elizabeth  died  April 
20,  1819.  10.  Dorothy  (Diilly),  date  of  birth 
not  at  hand ;  became  the  wife  of Bean. 

(IV)  Oliver  Smith,  son  of  Moses  Lyford, 
was  born  (presumably)  in  Brentwood,  Au- 
gust 24,  1753.  He  served  in  the  war  for  na- 
tional independence  and  his  military  record, 
contained  in  the  New  Hampshire  State  Pa- 
pers, vol.  xiv,  is  as  follows :  'Tn  Capt.  Daniel 
Moore's  company.  Col.  Stark's  regiment,  from 
August  I  to  October  17,  177=;,  and  in  Capt. 
Wilson  Harper's  Company,  Col.  Isaac  Wy- 
man's  regiment,  for  Canada,  mustered  July 
16,  1766."  His  death  occurred  in  178S.  In 
1780  he  married  Elizabeth  Johnson,  bom  May 
26,  1 76 1,  daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  and  Ann 
(Lane)  Johnson,  of  Brentwood  and  Hamp- 
ton. She  was  a  sister  of  Alarv  Johnson,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  Lad  (Ladd) 
Lyford,  previously  mentioned.  In  the  will  of 
Mehitable  (Smith)  Lyford,  widow  of  Moses 
Lyford,  the  following  children  are  mentioned 
as  being  those  of  her  son,  Oliver  Smith  Ly- 
ford:  I.  Dudley,  born  in  Brentwood,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1 78 1.  2.  Anne  (Nancy),  born  in 
1783,  married  David  Phillirock,  by  whom  she 
had  eight  sons  and  two  daughters.  3.  Mehit- 
able, who  in  1804  became  the  wife  of  Samuel 
Blake,  born  at  Epping,  New  Hampshire,  in 
January,  1779  (died  in  January,  1838.  at  Au- 
gusta, ]\Iaine).  He  was  a  son  of  Robert  and 
Martha  (Dudley)  Blake,  of  Epping,  and  a 
grandson  of  Jedediah  Blake.  4.  Charlotte, 
born  May  4,  1788,  died  January  19,  1831.  In 
November,  1807,  she  became  the  wife  of  John 
Stevens  (born  in  1788;  died  in  1857).  Their 
son,  Hon.  John  Leavitt  Stevens,  who  was 
born  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Maine,  1820,  and  died  at 
Augusta  in  1895,  was  United  States  minister 
to  Hawaii.  The  latter  married.  May  10,  1848, 
Mary  Lowell  Smith,  of  Hallowell,  Maine. 

(V)  Dudley,  only  son  of  Oliver  Smith  and 
Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Lyford,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1781,  in  Brentwood,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  settled  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Maine,  in 
1804-05.  When  fourteen  years  of  age  he 
was  apprenticed  to  a  carpenter  and  became 
master  of  the  trade,  but  cleared  up  a  farm  in 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Mt.  Vernon  and  made  all  the  woodwork  of 
his  house,  furniture  and  agricultural  tools.  He 
continued  to  reside  in  Alt.  Vernon  until  his 
death  in  December,  1S56.  He  was  deacon  of 
the  Baptist  church  and  a  very  decided  Whig 
in  polilical  sentiment.  About  1803  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  (Betsey),  daughter  of  Esquire 
Jabez  Smith,  of  Brentwood,  and  very  soon 
thereafter  settled  in  Mt.  Vernon.  Mrs.  Lyford 
was  born  July  25,  1786,  in  Brentwood,  and 
was  the  mother  of  eleven  children,  namely : 
I.  Sophronia  S.,  became  the  wife  of  William 
Coggswell  and  died  in  Mt.  Vernon.  2.  Eben 
S.  3.  Aaron  S.,  who  was  selectman,  town 
clerk  and  representative,  and  died  in  Mt.  Ver- 
non. 4.  Betsey.  5.  Fanny,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Louis  Bradley,  and  died  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts.  6.  Moses,  for  thirty 
years  a  teacher  in  Colby  College ;  died  at 
Springfield.  7  and  8.  Daniel  S.  and  Samuel 
T.,  both  died  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years. 
9.  Oliver  Smith,  mentioned  below.  10.  Fran- 
cis, who  died  at  Mt.  Vernon.  11.  Dudley  A., 
who  died  in  California  in   1857. 

(VI)  Oliver  Smith  (2),  ninth  child  of 
Dudley  and  EHzabeth  (Betsey)  (Smith)  Ly- 
ford, was  born  June  19,  1823,  in  Mt.  Vernon, 
and  grew  up  there  upon  the  paternal  farm. 
His  education  was  completed  by  twelve  weeks' 
attendance  at  the  village  high  school,  and  in 
1846  he  entered  the  services  of  the  Boston  & 
Lowell  railroad  as  watchman  and  assistant 
baggageman.  In  October  of  that  year  he  be- 
came ticket  agent  and  remained  in  the  service 
of  that  compau)-  until  I'"ebruary,  1 85 1,  in  that 
capacity  and  extra  passenger  conductor.  In 
November  of  the  last-named  vear  he  became 
clerk  of  the  Erie  railroad  at  Dunkirk,  New 
York,  and  so  continued  until  October,  1855, 
when  he  became  passenger  conductor  on  the 
same  road.  From  October,  i860,  to  Novem- 
ber, 1863,  he  was  station  agent  of  the  Erie  and 
Atlantic  and  Great  Western  roads  at  .Sal- 
amanca, New  York.  In  .\pril,  1869,  he  became 
division  superintendent  of  the  Great  Western 
and  so  continued  until  November,  1871,  when 
he  became  assistant  general  superintendent  of 
the  same  road.  From  the  last  named  date 
until  July,  1872,  he  was  division  superinten- 
dent of  the  Buffalo  and  Rochester  division  of 
the  Erie  railroad.  For  about  sixteen  months 
thereafter,  he  was  general  superintendent 
of  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  railroad, 
and  from  December,  1874,  until  Novem- 
ber. 1876,  was  general  superintendent  of 
the  Kansas  Pacific.  From  January  i,  1878, 
to  February,  1886,  he  was  superintendent  of 
the  Chicasro  and  Eastern  Illinois  railroad,  and 


for  the  succeeding  year  and  a  half  was  general 
manager  of  that  line  and  continued  in  that 
capacity  with  the  additional  duties  of  vice- 
president  from  November,  1887,  to  February, 
1890.  Since  that  time,  on  account  of  advanc- 
ing years,  he  has  resigned  the  position  of  gen- 
eral manager,  but  has  continued  to  serve  as 
vice-president.  The  long  service  of  Mr.  Ly- 
ford through  various  promotions  in  railroad 
operations  testifies  to  his  ability  as  a  railroad 
operator  and  his  character  as  a  man.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  New  England  Society  of  Chi- 
cago, and  since  1850,  when  he  united  with  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Lowell,  has  been  iden- 
tified with  that  sect.  While  an  active  sup- 
porter of  Republican  principles,  he  has  taken 
no  active  part  in  political  action  other  than 
to  cast  his  vote  with  regularity.  He  mar- 
ried, September  27,  1852.  Lavinia  A.  Norris, 
daughter  of  Grafton  and  Mary  (Stevens) 
Norris.  After  the  death  of  Grafton  Norris, 
his  widow  became  the  wife  of  labez  S.  Thyng. 
The  family  was  located  in  Livermore,  Maine. 
The  children  of  Oliver  S.  and  Lavinia  A.  Ly- 
ford were:  i.  Frank  Emilus,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  eighteen  months.  2.  Fannie,  wife  of  J. 
W.  Grififith,  resided  in  Omaha.  3.  Will  H., 
mentioned  below.  4.  Harry  B.,  connected 
with  the  great  hardware  house  of  Hibbard, 
Spencer  and  Bartlett,  in  Chicago.  5.  Charles 
W.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three  years.  6. 
Oliver  S.  Jr.,  a  resident  of  New  York  City. 

(VII)  Will  H.,  eldest  surviving  son  of 
Oliver  Smith  (2)  and  Lavinia  A.  (Norris) 
Lyford.  was  born  September  15,  1858,  in 
Waterville,  Maine,  and  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  and  Colby  College, 
Maine,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1879. 
He  pursued  the  study  of  law  in  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois 
Railroad  Company,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  bar  in  1886.  Two  years  later  he  be- 
came the  head  of  the  law  department,  and  still 
remains  general  counsel  of  the  same  company. 
Having  thoroughly  prepared  himself  for  his 
profession,  he  has  been  an  active  and  success- 
ful attorney  in  his  adopted  citv  where  he  still 
resides.  He  is  an  earnest  Republican  in  po- 
litical sentiment  and  is  a  member  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Union  League,  Chicago  Athletic,  Mid- 
Day.  University,  and  .South  Shore  Country 
clubs  of  Chicago.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Bar  Association  and  of  the  Manhat- 
tan, Lawyers,  and  Railroad  clubs  in  New 
York.  In  religious  sentiment  he  is  a  Baptist, 
while  his  family  is  identified  with  the  Episcopal 
church.  He  married.  April  28,  1886,  at  Ne- 
braska Citv,  Nebraska,  Marv  Lee  Mac  Comas, 


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of  that  place,  a  daughter  of  Rufus  French  and 
EHzabeth  (Simpson)  Mac  Comas,  of  Chicago. 
They  are  the  parents  of  two  children  :  Gertrude 
Wells  and  Calhoun  Lyford.  : 


(For  preceding   generations  see   Francis   Lyford    I.) 

(Ill)  Biley,  son  of  Stephen 
LYFORD  Lyford,  was  born  at  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1716,  and 
died  at  Brentwood,  February  10,  1792.  He 
was  in  the  revolution  in  Colonel  Nicholas  Gil- 
man's  regiment  of  militia,  September  12,  1777, 
and  in  Captain  Porter  Kimball's  company,  Col- 
onel Stephen  Evans'  regiment  at  Saratoga  in 
September,  1777.  In  his  will  he  says:  "My 
will  is  that  my  two  negroes  shall  live  with 
any  of  my  children  they  see  fit  or  otherwise 
to  have  their  freedom  as  they  choose."  He 
also  leaves  ]\Iolly  and  Judith  each  one  hundred 
Spanish  milled  dollars.  His  estate  was  valued 
at  one  thousand,  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  pounds,  seven  shillings  and  five  pence.  He 
married,  August  25,  1743,  Judith  Wilson,  born 
February  18,  1717,  died  1789,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Wilson.  Children:  i.  Rebecca,  born 
July  26,  1744,  died  April  10,  1782;  married 
Samuel  Dudley.  2.  Dorothy,  born  September 
5,  1746,  married,  January  10,  1765,  James 
Robinson.  3.  Alice,  baptized  June  26,  1748, 
died  July  3,  1748.  4.  Mary,  born  .\ugust  10, 
1749.  5.  Alice  (Elsey),  born  April  19,  1751, 
married  John  Sanborn.  6.  Anne,  born  July 
13,  1753,  married  Bartholomew  Thyng.  7. 
Biley  Dudley,  born  October  19,  1755,  men- 
tioned below.  8.  Sarah,  born  February  22, 
1757,  died  August  2,  1810;  married  Enos  San- 
born. 9.  Judith,  born  March  29,  1760.  10. 
John,  born  August  12,  1762,  died  January  16, 
1812:  married,  November  20,  1786,  Lois 
Smith. 

(IV)  Biley  Dudley,  son  of  Biley  Lyford, 
was  born  October  19,  1755,  died  April  16, 
1830,  at  Fremont,  New  Hampshire.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary  Robinson;  (second)  Dor^ 
othy  Blake,  born  April  4,  1770,  died  April  9, 
1835.  Child  of  first  wife:  John,  born  Janu- 
ary I,  1782,  mentioned  below.  Children  of 
second  wife:  i.  Dudley,  born  October  14, 
1793-  2.  James,  February  25,  1795.  3.  Eze- 
kiel,  November  24,  1796,  died  March  3,  1814. 

4.  Mary,  September  27,  1798,  died  December 

5.  1887.     5.  Epaphras  Kibby,  July  21,   1800. 

6.  Henry,   July   31,    1803.     7.  Dorothy,   June 
6,     1810,    died    January    14,    1895;    married 

(first)     Johnson;     (second)     Lyman 

Worthen.     8.  Washington,  March   10,   1805. 

(Y)  John,  son  of  Biley  Dudley  Lyford,  was 
born    January    i,    1782,   died    at    St.    Albans, 


Maine,  January  i.  1854.  He  married  (first) 
Marian  Rowe,  of  Brentwood,  New  Hamp- 
shire. Alarried  (second)  March  2,  1817,  Abi- 
gail Fogg  Baine  (or  Bean),  a  widow  of  Will- 
iam Baine.  She  was  born  June  10,  1792,  at 
Raymond^  New  Hampshire,  died  December  20, 
1878,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ruth  (Lane) 
Fogg.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Biley,  born 
at  St.  Albans,  January  22,  1805.    2.  Mary,  St. 

Albans,    November    30,    1807,    married    

Snow.  3.  Albert,  St.  Albans,  June  26,  1810. 
4.  Dolly,  Brentwood,  New  Flampshire,  Janu- 
ary 16,  1812,  died  October  10,  1850;  married, 
March  30,  1823,  Thomas  Boynton  Tenney. 
Children  of  second  wife  :  5.  John  Fogg,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1818,  mentioned  below.  6.  James 
Robinson,  April  10,  1819,  married,  January  8, 
1861,  Mary  Elizabeth  Ellis.  7.  WilHam  King, 
August  13,  1820,  died  January  12,  1836.  8. 
Maria  Rowe,  November  13,  1821,  died  June 
21,  1840.  9.  Pamelia,  January  5,  1823,  died 
August  9,  1848;  married.  1841,  Enoch  W. 
Rollins.  10.  Sullivan,  May  25,  1824,  died  No- 
vember 14,  1863.     II.  Abigail,  December  27, 

1825,  died  December  26,  1848;  married 

Bates.      12.    Frances   H.,   July   7,    1828,    died 

September  28,    1851 ;  married  Given. 

13.  Samuel  Fogg,  May  15,  1830.  14.  Lois 
Ann,  February  5,  1832,  married  L.  E.  Judkins. 
IS-  Sarah  W.,  July  4,  1836,  died  October  26, 
1861. 

(VI)  John  Fogg,  son  of  John  Lyford,  was 
born  February  17,  181 8,  at  St.  Albans,  Maine. 
He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and 
after  he  grew  to  manhood,  bought  the  home- 
stead of  his  father.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town.  In  addition 
to  farming  he  engaged  extensively  in  lumber- 
ing. In  1901  he  sold  his  farm  and  retired 
from  active  business,  and  since  then  he  has 
been  living  with  his  daughter  at  Pittsfield, 
Maine.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics ;  was 
for  some  years  on  the  board  of  selectmen,  was 
collector  of  taxes  and  held  various  other  town 
offices.  He  married,  February  8,  1844,  Fannie 
Bean  Rowe,  born  at  St.  Albans,  Maine,  Au- 
gust 6,  1819,  died  November  22,  1896,  daugh- 
ter of  David  and  Betsey  (McClure)  Rowe,  of 
Newmarket,  New  Hampshire.  Children :  i. 
Franklin  Orestes,  born  January  21,  1847,  men- 
tioned below^  2.  Horace  Kibby.  June  17, 
1848,  married  (first)  August  30,  1870,  Sophia 
Stinchfield;  (second)  November  27,  1876, 
Clara  Ann  Stinchfield  :  he  now  resides  at  Man- 
ly, Iowa.  3.  Vesta  Lizzie,  January  31,  1852, 
lives  with  her  father  at  Pittsfield. 

(VII)  Franklin  Orestes,  M,  D.,  son  of  John 
Fogg  Lyford,  was  born  in  St.  Albans,  Maine, 


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January  21,  1847.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  town,  at  Corinna  Acad- 
emy, at  Oak  Grove  Seminary,  Vassalborough, 
and  at  Hahnemann  iMedical  College,  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  was  graduated  with  the  de- 
gree of  M.  D.,  March  8,  1877.  He  began  to 
practice  his  profession  at  Farmington,  March 
31,  1877,  and  has  continued  in  that  city  for 
thirty-one  consecutive  years.  He  has  an  ex- 
tensive practice  and  stands  high  in  his  pro- 
fession. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics;  has 
been  supervisor  of  schools  in  Farmington  for 
fourteen  years  and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
health  for  seventeen  years.  He  is  a  prominent 
Mason,  a  member  of  Maine  Lodge,  No.  20,  of 
Farmington ;  of  Franklin  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  of  Jephtha  Council.  Royal  and  Select 
Masters ;  of  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  of  Farmington  ;  of  Maine  Consistory, 
Scottish  Rite  Masonry,  Portland;  a  thirty-sec- 
ond degree  Mason.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  of  Farmington.  He  is 
a  Congregationalist.  He  mirried,  January  22, 
1873,  Ellen  S.  Skinner,  born  in  St.  xA.lbans, 
Maine,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Olive 
(Hackett)  Skinner,  of  St.  Albans.  Their  only 
child,  Earle  Howard,  is  mentioned  below. 

(VHI)  Earle  Howard,  son  of  Dr.  Franklin 
O.  Lyford,  was  born  at  St.  Albans,  December 
22,  1873.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Farmington  and  in  Bovvdoin  College,  where 
he  graduated  in  the  class  of  i8g6.  He 
attended  the  Boston  School  of  Pharmacy  and 
received  his  degree  in  1901.  He  is  at  present 
in  business  as  a  druggist  at  Berlin,  New 
Hampshirp,  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Lyford  & 
Currier,  established  in  1902.  He  is  a  member 
of  Maine  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  No.  20,  of 
Farmington ;  of  Franklin  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  of  Jephtha  Council,  Royal  and  Select 
Masters ;  of  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  of  Farmington,  and  of  the  Scottish 
Rite  degree.  Concord,  New  Hampshire.  He 
belongs  to  the  Odd  Fellows  of  Farmington 
and  tlie  Independent  Order  of  Red  Men,  Lew- 
iston,  Maine.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics 
and  a  Congregationalist  in  religion.  He  mar- 
ried, April  7,  1908,  Cora  S.  Burleigh,  daughter 
of  Oilman  Burleigh,  of  Vassalborough,  now  of 
North  Carolina. 


The  Dillingham  family  is 
DILLINGHAM     an  old  one  in   England, 

was  early  transplanted  to 
New  England  and  has  been  prominent  for 
several  generations  in  the  history  of  Maine. 
It  has  sent  out  from  that  State  many  worthy 


sons  who  have  made  their  mark  in  the  various 
professions  and  callings  of  life. 

(I)  Edward  Dillingham,  the  American  pro- 
genitor, came  from  Bitteswell,  in  Leicester- 
shire, England,  to  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  in 
1630.  In  1637  he  was  one  of  ten  residents  of 
that  town  to  receive  a  grant  of  land  from  the 
general  court.  This  land  was  located  in  Sand- 
wich and  the  pioneer  ten  were  soon  joined  by 
many  others  from  Lynn,  Duxbury  and  Ply- 
mouth. Edward  Dillingham  was  appointed, 
April  16,  1641,  to  divide  the  meadow  land  in 
Sandwich,  of  which  eight  acres  were  awarded 
to  him.  (")n  September  27,  of  the  following 
year,  he  was  chosen  deputy  from  .Sandwich  to 
the  general  court  at  Plymouth,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  was  on  the  list  of  thofe  liable  to 
bear  arms  in  Sandwich.  In  1647-48,  he  was 
one  of  the  three  who  made  inventory  of  the 
propcrtv  of  James  Holloway  and  George  Knot. 
He  was  appointed  an  associate  of  Richard 
Bourne,  January  26,  1654,  to  act  in  behalf  of 
the  town  in  a  contract  witli  Thomas  Dexter 
for  building  a  mill.  At  the  same  time  he  was 
appointed  on  a  committee  to  frame  a  petition 
to  the  general  court  for  a  grant  and  assistance 
in  the  purchase  of  Mohamet.  On  May  18, 
of  the  succeeding  year,  Edward  Dillingham 
and  Thomas  De.xter  were  appointed  to  make 
a  rate  which  would  suffice  to  bring  the  town 
out  of  debt.  He  was  one  of  those  who  signed 
an  invitation  to  a  clergyman  to  settle  at  Sand- 
wich, and  in  1658  he  was  a  member  of  a 
committee  to  determine  the  true  boundary  of 
the  land  of  every  inhabitant  in  Sandwich.  In 
that  year  he  was  sued  by  an  Indian  because  of 
damage  to  the  latter's  corn,  by  Dillingham's 
horse.  Edward  Dillingham  died  in  1667.  His 
will  was  made  the  previous  year  and  probated 
on  June  i,  immediately  succeeding  his  death. 
It  would  appear  from  matters  mentioned  in  his 
will  that  he  had  taken  cattle  and  horses  from 
several  former  neighbors  in  his  native  place 
to  be  kept  for  a  portion  of  their  increase.  Ed- 
ward Dillingham's  wife,  Dusilla  (miiden  name 
unknown),  died  February  6,  1656.  Their  chil- 
dren, of  record,  were:  Henry,  John  and  Osiah 
(daughter). 

(II)  Henry,  elder  son  of  Edward  and  Du- 
silla Dillingham,  was  born  1627,  in  England, 
and  lived  in  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  His 
name  appears  on  the  list  of  those  able  to  bear 
arms  in  1643.  '^"d  nine  years  later  he  was 
one  of  those  appointed  to  lay  out  the  most 
convenient  way  from  Sandwich  to  Plymouth. 
In  1659  he  was  fined  two  pounds,  ten  shillings, 
for  refusing  to  serve  as  constable,  and  three 


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1481 


years  later  he  was  fined  fifteen  shillings 
for  refusing  to  assist  the  marshal  in  prosecut- 
ing Quakers.  In  the  same  year,  October  2, 
his  wife  was  fined  ten  shillings  for  attending 
a  Quaker  meeting.  He  is  recorded  in  Sand- 
wich. February  23,  1675,  as  having  a  just 
right  to  the  privileges  of  the  town.  From  this 
it  would  appear  that  his  leaning  toward  the 
Quakers  had  been  condoned.  In  the  same  year 
he-  was  made  one  of  the  council  of  war.  On 
a  list  made  July  15,  1678,  he  is  recorded  as 
one  of  those  who  had  taken  the  oath  of  fidelity 
and  in  1702,  June  25,  he  is  listed  as  one  of 
the  freemen  in  Sandwich.  He  was  married 
June  24,  1652,  to  Hannah  Perry,  who  died 
June  9,  1673.  Children  :  Mary,  Edward,  John 
and  Dorcas. 

( III)  John,  younger  son  of  Henry  and  Han- 
nah (Perry)  Dillingham,  was  born  February 
24,  1658.  in  Sandwich,  and  died  there.  May  2, 
1733.  He  appears  to  have  been  a  good  hus- 
bandman who  took  no  part  in  public  affairs. 
His  name  appears  in  the  records  of  1681,  as 
a  freeman  who  had  taken  the  oath  of  fidelity. 
No  record  of  his  wife  appears.  His  children 
were  :    John  and  Meletiah. 

(I\')  Meletiah,  younger  son  of  John  Dil- 
lingham, was  born  about  1700,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 25,  1786.  He  appears  to  have  resided  in 
Hanover,  where  he  exchanged  lots  in  1744, 
and  in  1748-49  bought  land  in  Hanover.  He 
was  engaged  in  shipbuilding  and  is  also  de- 
scribed in  deeds  as  a  blacksmith.  He  bought 
land  in  Scituate  in  1768,  and  in  Hanover  in 
1771.  He  built  a  home  near  "The  Corners," 
in  Hanover,  and  his  descendants  lived  in  that 
town  for  some  generations ;  in  the  last  century 
the  name  has  not  appeared  in  Hanover.  He 
was  married  October  28,  1723,  at  Scituate,  to 
Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Curtiss,  of  Han- 
over, Massachusetts.  She  was  born  August 
22,  1691,  and  died  December  17,  1727,  leaving 
a  son.  He  was  married  (second)  February 
18,  1730,  to  Phoebe  Hatch,  of  Hanover,  who 
died  January  31.  1732,  leaving  no  living  issue. 
He  was  married  (third)  January  31,  1735,  to 
Mariah  Gilford,  who  died  December  21,  1784, 
aged  seventy-five  years.  His  children  were : 
Lemuel,  Lydia,  Hannah,  Content,  Thomas, 
Joshua,  Meribah,  William.  Ann  and  Phoebe. 
The  first  was  the  child  of  first  wife. 

(V)  Lemuel,  child  of  ]\Ieletiah  and  Mary 
(Curtiss)  Dillingham,  was  born  before  Decem- 
ber 17,  1727,  in  Hanover  or  Scituate,  and 
settled  in  Bristol  (Bremenport),  Maine,  where 
he  died  after  1800.  He  was  in  Bristol  as  early 
as  June  21,  1774,  on  which  date  he  bought 
seventy-five  acres  of  land,  and  in  November, 


five  years  later,  he  wrote  from  that  point,  ask- 
ing a  removal  certificate  from  the  Quaker 
church,  in  Massachusetts.  In  December,  1779, 
this  certificate  was  sent,  directed  to  Falmouth, 
Maine,  to  the  monthly  meeting  of  Friends  at 
Casco  Bay.  The  seventy-five  acre  lot  which 
he  purchased  was  sold  by  him,  in  1795,  to  John 
Johnson,  and  was  again  purchased  by  Dilling- 
ham in  1796.  This  was  again  conveyed  to 
Johnson,  September  9,  1800.  He  was  a  con- 
sistent Quaker  and  was  buried  in  the  Quaker 
cemetery  in  Bristol,  in  an  unpainted  coffin 
according  to  the  custom  of  that  sect.  The  fol- 
lowing anecdote  is  related  to  indicate  the  char- 
acter of  men  like  Lemuel.  On  one  occasion 
he  invited  David  Collamore  to  have  breakfast, 
but  the  latter  declined  at  first,  but  afterwards 
said,  "I  believe  I  will  have  a  cup  of  coffee." 
To  this  Dillingham  replied,  "Thee  cannot  lie 
in  my  house."'  and  Collamore  was  obliged  to 
forego  the  refreshment.  The  brother  of  the 
last  named.  John  Collamore,  of  Bristol,  mar- 
ried Dillingham's  daughter,  Sarah,  and  a  con- 
tract appears  on  record,  dated  September  9, 
1800,  which  shows  that  John  Collamore  under- 
took the  care  of  Lemuel  Dillingham,  in  his 
old  age,  agreeing  to  provide  him  with  whole- 
some victuals,  drink  and  clothing,  with  com- 
fortable bed  and  bedding  and  a  fire  when 
necessary,  and  also  medical  attendance,  and 
the  care  of  a  nurse  if  required.  Collamore 
further  bound  himself  to  see  that  Dillingharn 
was  decently  buried  at  death.  He  was  married 
September  23,  1756,  to  Sarah  Palmer,  born  in 
Hanover,  Massachusetts,  and  died  in  Bristol, 
Maine.  Their  children  were :  Lemuel, 
Joshua.  Sarah,  Josiah  and  Lydia. 

(VI)  Joshua,  son  of  Lemuel  and  Sarah 
(Palmer)  Dillingham,  was  born  November  12, 
1758,  in  Hanover,  and  removed  to  Bristol, 
Maine,  prior  to  1774.  He  bought  land  in 
Bristol,  December  10,  1779,  located  on  the 
south  branch  of  Pemaquid  pond.  During  that 
year  he  served  as  a  seaman  on  the  colonial 
frigate  "Boston."  He  is  described  as  a  black- 
smith in  a  deed  of  land  made  June  10,  1782, 
and  the  next  year  he  sold  that  land  in  Megunti- 
cook.  In  1795  he  gave  a  deed  in  which  he  is 
described  as  a  resident  of  Camden.  On  Sep- 
tember 16,  1798,  he  received  from  Henry 
Knox,  of  Thomaston,  a  deed  of  land  embrac- 
ing one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  acres,  on 
the  west  bank  of  Penobscot  Bay,  for  which  he 
paid  $441.32.  In  1801  he  purchased  another 
tract  of  seventy  acres  in  the  same  locality,  and 
in  1803  a  lot  of  nearly  thirty-four  acres.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  Camden,  hav- 
ing removed  from  Bristol  about  1782,  in  a  ves- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


sel.  and  landed  on  what  has  ever  since  been 
called  Dillingham  Shore.  He  had  previously 
erected  a  log  cabin  near  the  shore,  and  in 
this  he  lived  for  some  time.  He  was  followed 
to  Camden  within  a  few  years  by  his  brothers, 
Lemuel  and  Josiah.  Their  lands  were  prob- 
ably taken  on  warrants  as  revolutionary  vet- 
erans, and  when  the  Waldo  patent  came  into 
the  hands  of  General  Knox,  their  titles  had  to 
be  confirmed  by  deeds  which  were  granted 
after  he  moved  his  family  to  Thomaston. 
Joshua's  land  was  subsequently  divided  into 
several  farms  on  which  three  of  his  children 
settled.  He  was  one  of  the  first  Universalists 
in  the  town  of  Camden,  and  often  read  ser- 
mons at  meetings  of  that  sect  held  in  private 
houses.  This  section  was  then  a  part  of  Mass- 
achusetts, and  in  1808,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  legislature.  He  died  May 
6,  1820,  in  Camden.  He  was  married  Febru- 
ary 4,  1778,  to  Mary  Palmer,  a  sister  of  the 
wife  of  his  elder  brother.  Lemuel.  She  was 
born  October  28,  1760,  and  died  March  18, 
1848,  having  survived  her  husband  nearly 
twenty-eight  years.  Their  children  were : 
Nathaniel,  Rachael,  Sally  and  Joshua. 

(VH)  Nathaniel,  eldest  son  of  Joshua  and 
Mary  (Palmer)  Dillingham,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 13,  1783,  in  Camden,  and  settled  on  a 
part  of  his  father's  land  in  that  town.  He 
was  first  selectman  of  Camden,  from  1824  to 
1 83 1,  and  was  for  many  years  cashier  of  the 
Megunticook  bank  of  that  town.  He  was  a 
staunch  supporter  of  the  temperance  move- 
ment, and  was  president  of  the  Camden  Tem- 
perance Society  in  1829.  His  chief  occupa- 
tions were  farming  and  lumbering.  About 
1850  he  moved  to  Old  Town,  Maine,  where 
his  son  resided,  but  subsequently  resided  with 
a  son  in  Bangor,  where  he  died  May  30,  1863. 
He  was  married  August  25,  1805,  to  Deborah 
Myrick,  of  Princeton,  Massachusetts,  bom 
November  4,  1782,  in  that  town,  and  died 
September  2,  1862,  in  Old  Town,  Maine. 
Children :  Theodore  Heald,  Frederick  Hart- 
well,  Edward  Hamilton,  George  Humphrey, 
Harriet  Maria  and  Nathaniel  Himelius.  The 
second  son  was  a  deputy  and  special  deputy 
collector  in  the  Bangor  custom  house  twenty- 
six  years,  and  died  there  in  1901.  The  third 
son  died  in  infancy,  as  did  the  fourth.  The 
daughter  lived  and  died  in  Camden,  unmar- 
ried. The  youngest  son  lived  in  Bangor  where 
he  died  April  19,  1899. 

(Vni)  Theodore  Heald,  eldest  child  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Deborah  (Myrick)  Dillingham, 
was  born  December  2,  1806,  in  Camden,  and 
died  March  7,  1858.    He  moved  from  Camden 


to  Warren,  Maine,  where  he  engaged  in  trade. 
He  moved  to  Old  Town  prior  to  1835,  and  was 
in  lumber  business  and  in  trade.  He  served 
for  a  time  as  Indian  agent.  In  1838  he  re- 
moved to  Bangor,  but  returned  to  Old  Town 
in  October,  1844,  and  continued  there  until 
his  death.  He  was  married  (first)  January 
2,  183 1,  to  Angelica  Hovey,  daughter  of  Dea- 
con John  Miller,  of  Warren,  Maine.  She  was 
born  March  13,  1812,  and  died  November  16, 
1839,  and  he  was  married  (second)  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1842,  to  Susan  Kent  Beverage,  of  Cam- 
den, Maine.  She  died  in  that  town  August  19, 
1873.  Their  children  were :  Edwin  Frederic, 
George  Francis,  Harriet  Maria,  Charles  Theo- 
dore, Albert  Heald  and  Henry  N.  The  second 
son  died  in  Bangor  in  1904'.  The  daughter 
died  at  the  age  of  sixteen  months.  The  third 
son  resides  in  New  York  City,  member  of  firm 
Charles  T.  Dillingham  &  Company,  wholesale 
booksellers.  The  youngest  son  died  before 
two  years  of  age. 

(IX)  Edwin  Frederic,  eldest  child  of  Theo- 
dore Heald  and  Angelica  H.  (Miller)  Dilling- 
ham, was  born  June  6,  1832,  in  Warren, 
Maine.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Bangor  and  was  for  a  short  time  a  student 
in  a  private  school  at  Old  Town.  In  1844  he 
became  a  student  of  the  Bangor  high  school 
and  continued  there  one  year.  He  entered  the 
book  store  of  David  Bugbee  in  Bangor,  May 
24,  1847,  ^^'^  continued  as  a  clerk  until  1854. 
From  August  25  of  that  year,  until  February 
9,  1899,  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  D. 
Bugbee  &  Company,  and  on  the  last  named 
date  became  sole  proprietor  of  the  business. 
This  concern  has  remained  in  tlie  same  local- 
ity, and  in  connection  with  the  sale  of  books, 
stationery  and  wall  paper,  since  June,  1836,  in- 
cludes a  blank  book  factory  and  bindery.  He 
is  a  member  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church, 
of  which  he  is  junior  warden  ;  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Parish  for  more  than  fifty  years, 
and  is  the  oldest  living  male  communicant. 
Fie  has  been  the  longest  in  active  business  of 
any  one  in  Bangor,  covering  a  period  of  sixty- 
one  years  in  the  same  store.  He  is  the  oldest 
member  and  past  master  of  St.  Andrew's 
Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  is  also  the  oldest 
past  high  priest  of  Mount  Moriah  Chapter, 
R.  A.  M.  He  is  the  oldest  past  commander 
of  St.  John's  Commandery,  K.  T.,  and  the 
oldest  member  of  the  Scottish  Rite  body  of 
that  town.  He  has  been  treasurer  of  this 
association  for  twenty  years  and  for  forty- 
six  years  has  been  treasurer  of  Saint  An- 
drew's Lodge.  He  holds  the  oldest  policy 
in    the    Connecticut    Mutual    Life    Insurance 


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Company  in  the  state  of  Maine  and  province 
of  New  IJrunswick.  Mr.  Dillingham  is  first 
vice-president  of  the  Bangor  Loan  and  Build- 
ing Association  and  is  recognized  as  one  of 
the  leading  business  men  of  his  own  town.  He 
is  an  active  supporter  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  served  as  a  member  of  the  common  coun- 
cil of  Bangor  in  1864-5-6,  being  the  o  ily  sur- 
vivor of  the  former  body.  For  over  fifty 
years  he  has  spent  his  summers  at  Camden, 
where  he  and  his  sons  own  a  tract  of  ten  acres, 
with  cottages,  the  location  being  known  as 
Dillingham's  Point.  He  was  married  May  8, 
1855.  in  Bangor,  to  Julia,  daughter  of  Martin 
and  Jane  (Cutter)  Snell,  a  descendant  of  John 
and  Priscilla  Alden.  (See  Alden.)  Children: 
I.  Frederick  Henry.  2.  Edwin  Lynde.  3. 
Jenny  Cutter,  wife  of  Dr.  George  S.  Macpher- 
son,  of  Boston  ;  daughter,  Janice  Russell.  4. 
Julia  Field,  married  William  H.  Stalker,  and 
resides  in  New  York  City. 

(X)  Frederick  Henry,  eldest  child  of  Edwin 
F.  and  Julia  (Snell)  Dillingham,  was  born 
April  7,  1857,  in  Bangor,  and  attended  the 
public  schools  of  that  city.  He  was  graduated 
from  Bowdoin  College  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  .Arts  in  1877,  and  three  years  later 
received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from 
the  same  institution.  Having  decided  to  en- 
gage in  the  practice  of  medicine,  he  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in 
New  York  City,  and  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1880,  and 
since  that  date  has  been  continuously  and  ac- 
tively engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  New  York  City.  In  January,  1882,  he  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  board  of  health, 
and  continued  as  a  member  of  that  body,  hold- 
ing the  position  of  assistant  sanitary  superin- 
tendent, when  he  resigned  May  i,  1903.  He 
is  an  adjunct  professor  of  dermatology  in  the 
New  York  Polyclinic  and  Hospital,  visiting 
physician  and  dermatologist  of  St.  Joseph's 
Hospital,  and  consulting  dermatologist  of  St. 
Francis'  Hospital.  Dr.  Dillingham  "is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Academy  of  Medicine  of  New  York 
and  the  State  and  County  Medical  societies. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Medical  Association  of 
Greater  New  York;  the  New  York  Polvclinic 
Clinical  Society;  and  the  West  Side  Clinical 
Society.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Phy- 
sicians' Mutual  Aid  Association,  the  Society 
for  the  Relief  of  Widows  and  Orphans  of 
Medical  Men,  and  of  the  Maine  Society  of 
New  York.  Since  1887  he  has  been  secretary 
of  the  Bowdoin  Alumni  Association  of  New 
York.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity, affiliating  with  the    Blue   Lodge  and 


Royal  Arch  Chapter.  A  man  of  genial  nature 
and  large  heart,  he  brings  to  the  practice  of 
his  protestion  that  personal  magncusm  whicli 
is  one  of  the  strongest  equipments  in  a  phy- 
sician. Possessed  of  a  fine  literary  taste,  Dr. 
Dillingham  is  and  always  has  been  a  student, 
and  keeps  abreast  with  the  best  thought  of  the 
times  and  the  progress  and  advancement  in  his 
profession.  He  was  married  (first)  November 
15,  1893,  to  Helen  Alexandra,  daughter  of 
James  Edward  and  Helen  Ganson,  of  New 
York  City.  She  died  January  20,  1894,  and 
he  was  married  (second)  November  3,  1897, 
to  Susy  Maria  Ferguson,  of  New  York  City, 
widow  of  John  Henry  Ferguson,  and  sister  of 
his  first  wife. 

(X)  Edwin  Lynde,  second  child  uf  Edwin 
F.  and  Julia  (Snell)  Dillingham,  was  born  in 
Bangor,  Maine,  May  3,  1861.  He  attended 
public  schools  in  Bangor  and  was  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1882  (A.  B.).  He  engaged  in 
business  in  New  York  City  after  graduating, 
and  in  November,  1886,  moved  to  Bos, on, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  connected  with 
Ticknor  Company  and  Lee  &  Shepard  nr.til 
February,  1892,  when  he  returned  to  New 
York  to  enter  the  firm  of  Charles  T.  Dilling- 
ham &  Company,  wholesale  book  sellers, 
where  he  continued  until  j\Iarch,25,  1896. 
Since  October,  1896,  has  been  head  of  the 
F.  Dillingham,  is  descended  from  John  .Alden 
subscription  book  department  of  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons. 

Julia  (Snell)  Dillingham,  wife  of  Edwin 
(who  is  fully  written  of  in  other  pages  of  this 
work)  and  his  son  Joseph,  through  the  follow- 
ing line  : 

(III)  Deacon  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph 
(i)  and  Mary  (Simmons)  Alden,  was  prob- 
ably born  at  Bridgewater.  and  lived  in  South 
Bridgewater.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Daniel  Dunham,  of  Plymouth,  in  1690. 
Children:  Daniel,  Joseph  (died  young), 
Eleazer,  Hannah,  Mary,  Joseph,  Jonathan, 
Samuel,  JMehitabel  and  Seth. 

(IV)  Eleazer,  third  child  of  Deacon  Joseph 
(2)  and  Hannah  (Dunham)  Alden,  was  born 
1694,  at  South  Bridgewater,  and  died  in  1773. 
He  lived  all  his  life  in  South  Bridgewater, 
where  he  was  a  highly  respected  citizen,  at- 
taining to  a  ripe  old  age.  He  married,  1720, 
Martha,  daughter  of  Joseph  Shaw ;  she  died 
in  1769,  aged  sixty-nine  years.  Children: 
Jonathan,  Eleazer,  Abraham,  David,  Joshua, 
Caleb,  Ezra  and  Timothy. 

(V)  Eleazer  (2),  second  son  of  Eleazer 
(I)  and  Martha  (Shaw)  Alden.  was  born  in 
1723,  at  South  Bridgewater,  and  died  there  in 


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1803.  He  married,  in  1748,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Nicholas  Whitman,  who  died  in  1819,  aged 
ninety-three  years.  Children  :  Martha,  Mary, 
Abigail,  Sarah,  Hannah  and  Eleazer. 

(VI)  Abigail,  third  child  of  Eleazer  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Whitman)  Alden,  was  born  in 
1756.  She  married,  in  1774,  William  Snell, 
at  South  Bridgewater,  and  there  their  first 
three  children  were  born ;  afterward  they  re- 
moved to  Ware,  and  again  to  Tamworth,  New 
Hampshire.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French 
war,  where  he  lost  a  leg,  and  was  a  very  great 
sufferer  from  his  wounds.  He  was  also  a 
teacher  in  the  schools  of  his  town,  and  was 
called  "Master  Snell."  Children :  William, 
Seth,  Smyrdus,  Eleazer,  Alden  and  Martin. 

(VII)  Martin,  sixth  child  of  William  and 
Abigail  (Alden)  Snell,  was  born  May  4,  1793, 
in  Ware,  Massachusetts,  and  was  graduated 
from  Brown  University  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1818.  He  took  a  post- 
graduate course  at  Yale,  and  received  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts  in  1821.  He  engaged 
in  teaching,  and  was  a  candidate  for  orders 
in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  but  did  not 
take  them  on  account  of  poor  health.  He  mar- 
ried, March  9,  1825,  Jane  Cutter,  born  July 
15,  1801,  and  died  in  Bangor,  Maine,  ilay 
29,  1854.  Children:  William  Cutter  (died 
at  age  of  seven  years),  Elizabeth  Jane,  Henry 
Martin,  Julia  and  William. 

(VIII)  Julia,  younger  daughter  of  Martin 
and  Jane  (Cutter)  Snell,  was  born  July  18, 
183 1,  in  Eastport,  Maine,  and  became  the 
wife  of  E.  F.  Dillingham.  (See  Dillingham, 
IX.) 


The  Champlin  family  in  the 
CHAMPLIN  United  States  is  of  Nor- 
man-French rather  than  of 
English  origin,  it  is  supposed.  Families  of 
this  name  are  still  found  in  Normandy,  and 
few  if  any  in  England.  Samuel  de  Cham- 
plain,  the  distinguished  navigator  and  explor- 
er, the  founder  of  Quebec  and  the  first  gov- 
ernor of  New  France,  was  a  Norman.  A  cel- 
ebrated French  painter,  born  at  Les  Andelys 
in  1825,  bore  the  name,  Charles  J.- Champlin. 
(I)  Geoffrey  Champlin.  the  first  to  bear 
the  Champlin  name  in  this  country,  reached 
the  new  world  in  some  way  not  now  known. 
It  is  thought  that  he  may  have  landed  in  Bos- 
ton or  some  other  Massachusetts  port,  and 
have  left  there  with  the  company  of  Dissen- 
tients who  followed  Coddington  and  Arnold 
into  the  wilderness.  He  was  on  the  island  of 
Rhode  Island  as  early  as  t6^8.  and  within  a 
vear    after    the    earliest    white    settlers    made 


their  homes  there.  Wc  find  him  at  first  a 
resident  of  Portsmouth,  but  he  soon  made  his 
home  in  Newport.  On  the  twenty-fourth  of 
the  eleventh  month,  1638,  he  was  admitted 
an  inhabitant,  and  was  made  a  freeman  Sep- 
tember 14,  1640.  While  at  Newport,  if  not 
before,  he  acquired  property,  and  in  1661  re- 
moved to  Misqiamacut,  now  known  as  West- 
erly. His  home  lot  and  dwelling  in  Newport, 
with  forty  acres  of  land,  he  sold  in  1669. 
His  name  appears  in  the  list  of  free  inhabit- 
ants of  Westerly  in  1669.  In  1661  he  took 
the  oath  of  fidelit}'  to  the  colon\-.  During  King 
Philip's  war,  1675-76.  he  ]5robably  returned 
to  Newport.  He  died  on  or  before  1695,  as  in 
that  year  he  is  mentioned  in  a  confirmition  of 
a  deed  by  his  son  Jeffrey  as  "my  deceased 
father."  Previous  to  1650  Geoffrey  Champlin 
married  f probably  in  Newport),  but  the  name 
of  his  wife  is  unknown.  His  children,  so  far 
as  has  been  ascertained,  were  Jeffrey,  William 
and  Christopher. 

(II)  Jeffrey,  the  oldest  son  of  Geoffrey 
Champlin,  was  born  probably  at  Newport, 
about  1650,  some  say  in  1652.  May  17,  1671, 
he  was  called  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  colony,  but  did  not  appear.  He  took 
the  oath  September  17,  1679.  The  same  year 
he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  town  council 
in  Westerly.  In  1680  he  was  the  moderator 
of  the  town  meeting.  His  is  the  earliest  rec- 
ord of  a  moderator  in  Westerly.  He  was  the 
moderator  of  tow;i  meetings  also  in  1681-84. 
With  the  exception  of  1683  he  represented 
Westerly  in  the  general  assembly  from  1681 
to  1685.  In  1685  he  bought  of  Anthony  Low 
six  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Kingston,  and 
removed  thither  in  1686.  In  1690,  when  Cap- 
tain of  the  train  band  of  Kingston,  he  was 
appointed  on  a  commission  to  raise  money 
to  pay  soldiers  to  be  used  "against  their  Maj- 
esty's enemies."  The  government  of  Rhode 
Island  as  organized  in  1647  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  of  the  patent  brought  from 
England  in  1644  by  Roger  Williams,  con- 
sisted of  a  president  and  an  assistant  from 
each  town.  In  case  of  the  absence  or  death 
of  the  president,  his  place  was  to  be  taken  by 
the  assistant  of  the  town  from  which  the 
president  was  chosen.  Jeffrey  Champlin  was 
the  Kingston  assistant  from  1896  (with  the 
exception  of  1697)  to  171 5,  the  year  in  which 
he  died.  He  had  one  son  Jeffrey,  and  a  daugh- 
ter Hannah,  born  about  1677,  who  married 
John  Watson  Jr.,  April  8,   1703. 

(III)  Jeffrey  (2),  only  son  of  Jeffrey  (i) 
and  Hannah  Champlin,  was  born  probably  in 
Westerly,  about  1672.     About  1700.  while  re- 


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siding  in  Kingston,  he  married  Susanna  El- 
dred,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Susanna 
(Cole)  Eldred,  and  granddaughter  of  Susanna 
Hutchinson,  youngest  child  of  the  well-known 
Anne  Hutchinson.  Their  children  were  En- 
blin.  born  January  30,  1701-02,  married,  De- 
cember 25,  1721,  Joseph  Wilbour,  and  Jeffrey, 
born  February  2,  1702-03,  married,  September 
26,  1725.  Mary  Northrup.  I\Irs.  Susanna  (El- 
dred) ChampHn  died  about  1705-06,  and  Jef- 
frey Champlin  married  (second)  Hannah 
Hazard,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary 
(Brownell)  Hazard,  of  Kingston,  and  grand- 
daughter of  the  ftrst  Thomas  Hazard,  of  Bos- 
ton, ilassachusetts,  and  Portsmouth,  Rhode 
Island.  Their  children  were :  Thomas,  born 
September  3,  1708,  Stephen,  see  forward,  and 
William,  bom  March  3,  1712-13,  probably 
died  before  1730.  Mrs.  Hannah  (Hazard) 
Champlin    died    March    5,    1713,    and   Jeffrey 

Champlin   married    (third)    Susanna   . 

Their  children  were  Hannah,  born  January 
II,  1715:  and  John,  born  February  12,  1716- 
17,  married  Freelove  Watson.  Jeffrey  Champ- 
lin died  in  1718.  His  will,  made  February  14, 
1717-18,  was  proved  March  10,  1718.  The 
inventory  amounted  to  £1,457,  7^.  id.  His 
widow  married,  May  26,  1720,  Samuel  Clarke, 
of  Westerly. 

(IV)  Stephen,  of  South  Kingston,  second 
son  of  Jeffrey   (2)    and    Hannah     (Hazard) 
Champlin.    was    born    February    16,    1709-10. 
He  married,  in    1733,  Mar\-  Hazard,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Sarah  (Borden)  Hazard,  of 
North  Kingston.     He  lived   on   Point  Judith 
Neck.     He  was  admitted  a  freeman   May  2, 
1732.     In  1746  he  bought  of  Thomas  Hazard 
two  hundred  acres  of  land  on  Boston  Neck, 
and  later  three  hundred  and  thirty  acres  on  the 
coast.     He  died  on  his  estate  July  22,   1771. 
In   his   will,   July    I,    1771,   he   gave   each   of 
his  daughters  £400.     His  children  were  Ste- 
phen, born  September  29,  17^4:  Hannah,  Jan- 
uary  20,   1735-36;   Sarah,   August    18,    1737 
Mary.   April    14.    1739:   Susanna,   March   26, 
1742:    Jeffrey,    March    21.    1744-45;    Robert 
April  12,  1747;  Thomas,  November  26,  1755 
Mary  Champlin,  widow  of  Stephen  Champlin 
born  February  23,  1716,  died  March  13,  1773 
Her  father,  Robert  Hazard,  left  her  £500  at 
his  decease,  May  20,  1762. 

(V)  Robert,  of  South  Kingston,  third  son 
of  Stephen  and  Mary  (Hazard)  Champlin, 
born  April  12,  1747,  married,  in  1768,  Mary 
Browning,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Haz- 
ard) Browning,  of  South  Kingston.  He  was 
a  sea-captain,  sailing  from  Newport  to  the 
coast  of  .Africa.  \\'est  Indies,  &c.     He  died  in 


.South  Kingston,  September  25,  1809.  Mrs. 
Mary  (Browning)  Champlin,  born  in  1737, 
died  April  8,  1823.  Their  children  were  Rob- 
ert, born  November  i,  1769;  Sarah,  June  i, 
1771;  Lucy,  1774,  John,  April  7,  1775;  Ste- 
phen, 1776. 

(VI)  John,  second  son  of  Captain  Robert 
and  Mary  (Browning)  Champlin,  married 
(first)  Abigail  Carpenter,  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Ruth  (Cornell)  Carpenter,  of  North 
Kingston,  Rhode  Island.  She  died  at  Col- 
chester, Connecticut  (to  which  place  they  had 
removed),  November  13,  1800.  and  John 
Champlin  married  (second)  in  1803,  Martha 
Armstrong,  of  South  Kingston.  He  died  there 
June  4,  1852.  Mrs.  Martha  (Armstrong) 
Champlin,  born  September  9,  1779,  died  at 
Lebanon,  May  24,  1843.  Their  children  were 
Robert,  born  January  22,  1805;  Sarah,  March 
17,  1806;  John,  .April  28,  1807;  Stephen,  April 
II,  1808;  James  Tift,  June  9,  181 1;  George, 
May  17,  1813;  Lydia,  August  29,  1816;  Mar- 
tha, September  19,  1819;  Mary,  September 
19,    1819    (twins). 

(VII)  James  Tift,  the  fourth  son  of  John 
and  ]\Iartha  (.Armstrong)  Champlin,  was 
born  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  June  9,  1811. 
Not  long  after  his  birth  his  parents  took  up 
their  residence  in  Lebanon,  Connecticut.  His 
was  a  typical  New  England  home,  in  which 
were  taught  lessons  of  duty,  frugality  and 
piety.  When  about  fourteen  years  of  age  he 
united  with  the  Baptist  church  in  Lebanon. 
A  thoughtful,  studious  boy,  both  father  and 
mother  easily  discovered  the  bent  of  his  mind, 
and  his  aptitude  and  wishes  for  school  advan- 
tages found  in  them  hearty  support.  The  de- 
sire for  a  collegiate  education  early  took  pos- 
session of  him,  and  in  the  autumn  of  1828  he 
entered  the  academy  at  Colchester  and  de- 
voted himself  to  college  preparatory  studies. 
These  studies  were  continued  at  the  academy 
in  Plainfield.  Connecticut.  Having  completed 
his  preparatory  course,  he  entered  the  fresh- 
man class  of  Brown  University,  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  in  .September,  1830.  At  Brown 
he  came  under  the  influence  of  Francis  Way- 
land,  the  distinguished  president  of  the  LTni- 
versity,  and  one  of  the  foremost  educators 
of  his  time.  From  Dr.  Wayland  he  received 
an  impulse  along  intellectual  and  spiritual 
lines  that  followed  him  through  life.  During 
his  college  course  he  won  first  rank  as  a  stu- 
dent and  at  graduation  was  the  valedictorian 
of  his  class.  Even  before  his  graduation  he 
was  looking  forward  to  the  vocation  of  a 
teacher,  and  was  elected  principal  of  the  Nor- 
mal Labor  School  at  Pawtuxet.  Rhode  Island ; 


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but  the  position  lacked  the  attraction  of  edu- 
cational work  along  lines  with  which  he  was 
especially  familiar,  and  he  returned  to  the  col- 
lege as  a  graduate  student.  Probably  this  was 
with  reference  to  a  position  in  the  University, 
as  at  the  opening  of  the  next  collegiate  year 
he  received  an  ap]Jointment  as  a  tutor  at 
Brown,  a  position  which  he  held  until  March, 
1838.  Unexpectedly,  early  in  February  of 
that  year,  he  received  a  call  to  the  pastorate 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in  Portland, 
Maine.  Dr.  Maginnis,  the  pastor  of  the 
church,  had  resigned  in  order  to  accept  the 
professorship  of  biblical  theology  in  the  The- 
ological Seminary  at  Hamilton,  New  York, 
and  he  directed  the  attention  of  the  church  to 
Tutor  Champlin  as  a  desirable  candidate  for 
the  vacancy.  The  call  was  so  urgent  on  the 
part  of  the  church  that  while  looking  forward 
to  the  work  of  teaching  as  his  life-work,  Mr. 
Champlin  decided  to  visit  Portland  and  look  at 
the  field.  This  he  did,  and  after  spending 
several  weeks  in  Portland  he  accepted  the 
call  and  was  ordained  in  Portland  as  pastor 
of  the  church.  May  3,  1838,  President  Patti- 
son,  of  Waterville  College,  preaching  the  ser- 
mon. Mr.  Champlin  entered  upon  his  labors 
with  great  earnestness,  and  proved  an  efficient 
and  successful  pa.stor.  Tune  12,  18^9,  he  was 
married  to  Mary  Ann  Pierce,  of  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  daughter  of  Mr.  Asa  Pierce,  a 
prominent  Providence  merchant,  President 
Wayland  being  the  officiating  clergyman.  Mrs. 
Champlin  was  a  descendant  of  Captain  Mi- 
chael Pierce,  of  Scituate,  Plymouth  Colony, 
who  was  slain  at  the  head  of  his  command  in 
King  Philip's  war  on  Sunday,  March  26,  1676. 
Captain  Pierce  was  a  brother  of  John  and 
Captain  William  Pierce,  and  came  to  New 
England  not  far  from  1645.  locating  first  at 
Hingham  and  later  at  Scituate.  Mr.  Champ- 
lin's  pastorate  at  Portland  was  a  happy  one, 
but  the  location  of  Portland  on  the  sea-coast 
was  unfavorable  for  a  bronchial  rlifficulty  that 
had  fastened  itself  upon  him,  and  which  made 
it  difficult  for  him  to  discharge  his  pulpit 
duties;  and  when,  in  the  summer  of  1841,  Mr. 
Champlin  was  elected  professor  of  ancient 
languages  in  Waterville  College,  he  deemed 
it  his  duty  to  accept  the  appointment  and  re- 
signed his  pastorate.  At  Waterville  he  en- 
tered upon  what  proved  to  be  his  life-work. 
His  associates  were  scholarly  men,  and  his 
new  duties  were  congenial  to  him.  To  the 
work  of  instruction  he  added  the  task  of  pre- 
paring needed  text-books.  In  1843  he  pub- 
lished his  "Demosthenes  on  the  Crown,"  which 
soon   came   into  use   in   manv   American   col- 


leges. Professor  Felton,  of  Harvard  College, 
reviewed  the  work  in  the  North  American 
Revieii',  and  called  attention  to  it  as  "a  valu- 
able addition  to  the  series  of  classical  books 
published  in  the  United  States."  For  more 
than  thirty  years  this  was  the  text-book  in 
general  use  in  American  colleges,  in  the  study 
of  this  masterly  oration.  Other  classical  works 
followed.  In  1855  Mr.  Champlin  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from 
Rochester  University.  Two  years  later  he 
was  elected  president  of  Waterville  College. 
He  was  also  made  professor  of  moral  and 
intellectual  philosophy.  The  college  at  that 
time  had  three  buildings,  and  an  invested  fund 
of  twelve  or  fifteen  thousand  dollars.  Dr. 
Champlin  at  once  entered  upon  the  task  of 
securing  for  the  college  an  ampler  endowment 
and  equipment.  The  outbreak  of  the  civil 
war  in  1861  interfered  for  a  while  with  his 
well-matured  plans,  but  in  the  third  year  of 
the  war  he  drew  the  attention  of  Air.  Gardner 
Colby  to  the  needs  of  the  college.  Mr.  Colby 
was  a  prosperous  Boston  merchant,  some  of 
whose  early  years  had  been  spent  in  Water- 
ville and  Winslow,  and  whose  mother  had 
been  befriended  by  the  first  president  of  the 
college.  On  revisiting  Waterville  in  1866,  by 
invitation  of  Dr.  Champlin,  he  was  present  at 
the  Commencement  dinner,  and  took  the  oc- 
casion to  ofifer  to  give  the  college  $30,000  on 
condition  that  the  friends  of  the  college  would 
raise  $100,000  additional.  By  heroic  efforts 
on  the  part  of  Dr.  Champlin  and  some  of  his 
colleagues  this  amount  was  raised.  At  the 
suggestion  of  Dr.  Champlin,  in  recognition 
of  Mr.  Colby's  generous  gift,  the  trustees  of 
the  college  voted  to  ask  the  legislature  of 
Maine  to  change  the  name  of  the  institution 
to  Colby  University.  This  was  done,  and 
later  the  name  was  changed  to  Colby  College, 
its  present  designation.  Added  funds  for 
building  purposes  soon  came  into  the  treasury 
of  the  college.  Memorial  Hall  and  Coburn 
Hall,  costing  upwards  of  $75,000,  were 
erected ;  and  the  old  chapel  and  North  College 
were  remodeled  at  an  expense  of  $14,500.  In 
1872  the  funds  of  the  college  had  increased 
to  $200,000.  During  this  period  of  endow- 
ment and  upbuilding,  Dr.  Champlin  prosecuted 
his  studies  and  work  of  instruction  with  old- 
time  vigor.  With  energy  and  fidelitv  he  dis- 
charged his  many  important  duties.  But  in 
1872,  having  served  the  college  thirty-one 
years,  he  asked  to  be  relieved  of  the  burden  • 
he  had  carried  so  long.  By  request  of  the 
trustees  he  continued  his  labors  another  year, 
and  then  brought  his  connection  with  the  col- 


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leg^e  to  a  close,  save  that  he  accepted  an  elec- 
tion as  a  member  of  its  board  of  trustees,  a 
position  which  he  retained  until  his  death. 
In  1874  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Portland, 
where  the  years  of  his  devoted  ministry  were 
spent;  and  there  among  his  books,  and  in  the 
prosecution  of  added  literary  labors,  he  passed 
the  evening  of  life.  Brown  University  in 
1850  had  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  Colby  Uni- 
versity in  1872  conferred  upon  him  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  He  died  in 
Portland.  Alarch  15,  1882.  The  Rev.  Dr. 
losepli  Ricker,  of  Augusta,  who  was  closely 
identified  with  the  interests  of  Colby  during 
Dr.  Champlin's  connection  with  the  college, 
well  said  of  Dr.  Champlin :  "With  an  unus- 
ually robust  intellect,  an  honest  heart  and  a 
fixed  purpose  he  pushed  his  investigations  into 
every  field  of  inquiry  pertaining  to  the  several 
branches  of  learning  he  was  called  to  teach. 
With  unflagging  industry  he  toiled,  with  pre- 
eminent fidelity  he  sought  to  discharge  the 
great  trusts  committed  in  his  keeping,  and 
was  faithful  in  little  and  also  in  much.  His 
life  has  been  a  tlistinguished  benediction, 
whether  considered  in  its  relation  to  the  church 
or  state,  to  learning  or  to  religion."  His 
widow,  Mary  Ann  (Pierce)  Champlin,  died 
in  Portland.  May  17,  1892.  Their  children 
were  James  P.,  Augustus,  Caroline  and  Frank 
Armstrong. 

(VHI)  James  Pierce,  oldest  son  of  the 
Rev.  Dr.  James  Tift  and  Mary  Ann  (Pierce) 
Champlin,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  June 
9,  1840.  He  attended  the  schools  in  Water- 
ville.  including  the  Waterville  Academy,  then 
under  the  principalship  of  James  H.  Hanson, 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  of  the  heads  of 
the  secondary  schools  in  Maine.  In  1854  he 
went  to  Suffield,  Connecticut,  where  he  con- 
tinued his  studies  in  the  academy  at  that  place, 
remaining  a  year.  In  the  spring  of  1855,  ™ 
accordance  with  a  fixed  purpose  to  enter  upon 
a  business  career,  he  obtained  a  clerkship  in 
the  publishing  house  of  Phillips.  Sampson  & 
Company  in  Boston,  and  remained  with  this 
house  a  year.  In  the  spring  of  1856  he  re- 
turned to  Maine  and  obtained  a  situation  in 
Portland  as  a  clerk  in  the  wholesale  grocery 
establishment  of  Davis,  Twitchell  &  Chap- 
man. Here  he  remained  until  the  spring  of 
i860,  when  he  again  took  up  his  residence  in 
Waterville  and  engaged  in  business  there.  But 
after  a  year  he  returned  to  Portland  and  en- 
tered into  partnership  with  John  G.  Twitchell, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Twitchell  &  Champ- 
lin, the  firm  conducting  a  wholesale  flour  busi- 


ness. This  partnership  continued  until  1865, 
when  Mr.  Champlin  and  Air.  Twitchell  bought 
out  the  interests  of  Frederick  Davis  and  El- 
bridge  Chapman  in  the  firm  of  Davis,  Twitch- 
ell &  Chapman,  wholesale  grocers,  and 
changed  the  name  of  the  firm  to  Twitchell 
Brothers  &  Champlin.  In  1868  John  Q. 
Twitchell  and  James  P.  Champlin  bought  out 
the  interest  of  Mr.  Thomas  E.  Twitchell,  and 
continued  the  wholesale  grocery  business  until 
1872,  when  they  admitted  to  the  firm  Mr. 
Champlin's  brother,  Frank  A.  Champlin. 
Twitchell,  Champlin  &  Company  continued 
the  business  along  the  same  lines  as  hitherto 
until  1890,  when  the  firm  was  incorporated 
under  the  name  of  The  Twitchell  Champlin 
Company.  At  the  first  election  held  by  the 
stockholders  Mr.  James  P.  Champlin  was 
made  one  of  the  directors  and  the  directors 
elected  Air.  Champlin  president  each  year  until 
1903,  when  he  declined  a  re-election.  Since 
that  time  he  has  kept  in  touch  with  the  busi- 
ness of  the  company,  but  has  not  taken  an 
active  part  in  its  management.  The  corpora- 
tion has  prospered  from  its  beginning.  A 
branch  house  was  opened  in  Boston  at  the 
time  of  the  incorporation  of  the  company.  In 
addition  to  its  large  plant  on  Commercial 
street,  Portland,  the  company  has  established 
caimeries  in  many  places,  including  those  at 
Hiram,  Waldoboro,  Sedgwick,  Machiasport 
and  Lubec,  Maine,  and  Wolcolt,  New  York; 
while  at  the  home  establishment  in  Portland 
vegetables  and  fruits  are  canned  in  their 
season.  The  company  also  manufactures 
brooms  and  other  articles  at  the  Portland 
plant.  The  pay-roll  of  the  company  at  the 
present  time  amounts  to  about  $2,000  a  week. 
The  Boston  branch  is  continued  and  The 
Twitchell,  Champlin  Company  has  a  wide  rep- 
utation for  business  integrity  and  enterprise. 
Mr.  James  P.  Champlin  married,  November  2, 
1864,  Helen  F.  Perry,  daughter  of  Ezra  N. 
Perry,  of  Portland.  She  died  October  ig, 
1895.  Their  children  are  Marion  Pierce, 
George  Pierce,  Arthur  Perry  and  James 
Pierce  Jr.  After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Champlin, 
Mr.  Champlin  made  his  home  in  Boston,  giv- 
ing his  attention  largely  to  the  company's 
business  interests  there.  February  16,  1898, 
he  married,  in  Bangor,  Nettie  C.  Wiggin, 
daughter  of  Andrew  Wiggin,  of  Bangor. 
They  remained  in  Boston  until  1901,  when 
they  returned  to  Portland  and  took  possession 
of  the  fine  residence  erected  by  Mr.  Champlin 
on  Vaughan  street.  Released  from  the  over- 
sight of  large  business  interests,  Mr.  Champ- 
lin in  recent  years  has  devoted  much  of  his 


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time  to  travel.  With  Mrs.  Champlin  he  has 
visited  many  parts  of  the  United  States,  in- 
chiding  the  southern  states,  California  and 
Alaska.  They  had  also  spent  some  time  among 
the  islands  of  the  West  Indies,  including 
Trinidad,  Porto  Rico,  Cuba  and  Jamaica,  and 
in  visiting  some  of  the  South  American 
states.  They  have  traveled  also  extensively 
in  the  various  countries  of  Europe,  in  Egypt 
and  in  Palestine.  Though  often  urged  to  ac- 
cept public  office,  Mr.  Champlin  has  declined 
such  service  on  account  of  the  large  demands 
of  his  growing  business  interests.  These  have 
so  largely  engrossed  his  time  and  attention 
as  to  leave  no  opportunity  for  service  in  other 
fields,   however  attractive. 

(VIII)  Augustus,  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  James  Tift  and  Mary  Ann  (Pierce) 
Champlin.  was  born  in  Waterville,  March  9, 
1842.  With  a  view  to  professional  life  he 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Waterville  Acad- 
emy. Entering  Waterville  College  in  1858,  he 
was  graduated  in  1862  in  the  second  year  of 
the  civil  war.  The  year  following  he  taught 
a  school  in  Evansville,  Illinois.  Then  for  a 
year  he  was  principal  of  the  academy  in 
China,  Maine.  He  then  devoted  himself  to  the 
study  of  law,  and  after  admission  to  the  bar 
entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Dexter,  Maine.  Later  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  fire  insurance,  and  removing  to  Ban- 
gor opened  an  office  in  that  city.  In  1878  he 
removed  to  Portland  and  associated  himself 
in  the  fire  insurance  business  with  Sterling 
Dow,  under  the  firm  name  of  Dow  &  Champ- 
lin. Subsequently  he  devoted  himself  to  the 
adjustment  of  fire  insurance  claims.  Later 
he  became  the  resident  secretary  of  the  North 
British  and  Mercantile  Insurance  Company. 
His  judgment  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  fire 
insurance  was  frequently  sought.  He  married, 
February  23,  1888,  Carrie  H.,  daughter  of 
William  T.  and  Lucetta  S.  (Libby)  Kilborn, 
of  Portland,  Maine.  Mr.  Champlin  died  in 
Portland.  September  12,  1897,  leaving  besides 
his  widow  one  daughter,  Mary,  born  in  Port- 
land, April  23,  1889. 

(VIII)  Caroline,  only  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  James  Tift  and  Mary  Ann  (Pierce) 
Champlin,  was  born  in  Waterville,  January  4, 
1846.  She  studied  at  the  academy  in  Water- 
ville, and  later  at  Miss  Bonney's  school  in 
Philadelphia.  While  at  school  in  Philadelphia 
she  was  baptized  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  George  Dana 
Boardman,  and  united  with  the  First  Baptist 
Church  in  that  city.  Of  a  charming  person- 
ality, active  in  social  and  church  relations, 
she    endeared    herself    to    a    wide    circle    of 


friends.  May  19,  1873,  she  was  married  to 
the  Rev.  Henry  S.  Burrage,  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  church  in  Waterville.  In  October, 
1875,  her  husband  became  editor  and  pro- 
prietor of  Zion's  Advocate,  a  weekly  religious 
paper  published  in  Portland,  Maine,  and  that 
city  became  their  residence.  Two  children 
were  born  to  them,  Champlin  and  Thomas 
Jayne.  Mrs.  Burrage  died  in  Portland,  No- 
vember 24,  1875. 

(IX)  Marion  Pierce,  only  daughter  of 
James  Pierce  and  Helen  F.  (Perry)  Champ- 
lin, was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  September 
24,  1869.  She  was  educated  in  the  Portland 
schools,  and  was  graduated  at  the  high  school 
in  1889.  Afterwards  she  attended  Mrs.  Reed's 
school.  Fifty-third  street.  New  York  City. 
October  9,  1895,  she  was  married  to  Mr. 
Fred  E.  Small,  of  Portland,  a  salesman  and 
department  manager  of  The  Twitchell, 
Champlin  Company,  and  a  son  of  Benjamin 
Irving  and  Henrietta  L.  (Shaw)  Small.  They 
have  one  child,  Helen  C.  Small,  born  in  Port- 
land, August  20,  1896. 

(IX)  George  Pierce,  eldest  son  of  James 
Pierce  and  Helen  F.  (Perry)  Champlin,  was 
born  in  Portland,  March  8,  1872.  He  was 
graduated  at  the  Portland  high  school,  and 
later  attended  the  Portland  Latin  school  one 
year.  In  1890  he  became  connected  with  the 
Boston  house  of  The  Twitchell  Champlin 
Company  as  clerk,  and  is  still  connected  with 
that  house  as  one  of  the  directors,  and  as  as- 
sistant manager  of  the  corporation.  .Septem- 
ber 30,  1896,  he  married  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, Mabel  Kurr,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Dorothy  Pierce,  born  in  Boston,  November 
II,   1897. 

(IX)  Arthur  Perry,  second  son  of  James 
Pierce  and  Helen  F.  (Perry)  Champlin,  was 
born  in  Portland,  June  2,  1873.  He  studied 
at  the  Portland  public  schools,  and  later  at  the 
Highland  Militar}-  Academy  at  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  with  which  he  was  connected 
three  years.  In  1892  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Portland  house  of  The  Twitchell 
Champlin  Company  as  clerk.  Since  1903  he 
has  been  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation. 
April  7.  1904,  he  married  Frances  L.  Chap- 
man, of  Portland,  daughter  of  the  late  Cullen 
Carter  and  Abbie   (Hart)   Chapman. 

(IX)  James  Pierce  Jr.,  youngest  son  of 
James  Pierce  and  Helen  F.  (Perry)  Champ- 
lin, was  born  in  Portland,  September  8.  1880. 
After  graduating  at  the  Butler  grammar 
school  in  Portland,  he  entered  the  Highland 
Military  Academy  at  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts, and  was  graduated  in    1889.     He  then 


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passed  his  examinations  for  entrance  to  Brown 
University,  and  intended  to  enter  the  fresh- 
man class  of  that  institution  in  September, 
but  was  taken  ill,  and  died  August  30,  1889, 
before  the  opening  of  the  collegiate  year. 


This  old  English  name  is  among 
FLINT  those  early  planted  in  Massachu- 
setts, and  is  now  represented 
throughout  the  United  States  by  numerous 
worthy  descendants.  It  has  contributed  much 
to  the  military  annals  of  New  England  and 
has  also  been  known  in  considerable  part  in 
civil  development.  The  Flints  of  Bedford 
are  descended  from  sturdy  Puritan  ancestry, 
and  have  preserved  intact  the  sterling  integrity 
and  profound  religious  faith  of  their  fore- 
fathers. 

There  are  two  Thomas  Flints  among  the 
early  settlers  of  this  country.  Thomas  Flint, 
who  settled  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  is  men- 
tioned for  the  first  time  in  the  town  records 
for  the  year  1650.  His  descendants  lived  in 
that  historic  place  for  several  generations,  but 
about  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury. Captain  Nathaniel  Flint  moved  to  New 
Boston,  New  Hampshire,  founding  a  branch 
of  the  family  now  represented  in  Bedford, 
that  state.  The  Thomas  Flint,  whose  line  fol- 
lows, settled  at  Concord,  Massachusetts,  where 
his  posterity  lived  for  many  generations,  and 
so  far  as  can  be  ascertained  he  is  no  connec- 
tion of  the  Thomas  Flint  who  settled  at  Salem, 
Massachusetts. 

(I )  Hon.  Thomas  Flint,  born  in  1603,  came 
from  Matlock,  Derbyshire,  England,  to  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  in  1638,  and  brought 
with  him  four  thousand  pounds  sterling.  He 
died  in  Concord,  October  8,  1653,  and  his  will 
is  the  first  recorded  in  the  Middlesex  probate 
records.  His  brother.  Rev.  Henry  Flint,  of 
Braintree,  and  his  uncle,  William  Wood,  were 
executors.  According  to  Shattuck's  History 
of  Concord,  "He  possessed  wealth,  talents  and 
a  Christian  character;  represented  the  town 
four  years,  and  was  an  Assistant  eleven."  In 
Johnson's  Historical  Collections,  he  is  repre- 
sented as  "a  sincere  servant  of  Christ,  who 
had  a  fair  yearly  revenue  in  England,  but 
having  improved  it  for  Christ  by  "casting  it 
into  the  common  treasury,  he  waits  on  "the 
Lord  for  doubling  his  talent,  if  it  shall  seem 
good  unto  him  so  to  do,  and  the  mean  time 
spending  his  person  for  the  good  of  his  people 
in  the  office  of  magistrate." 

Johnson,  in  his  "Collections,"  further  com- 
memorates the  noble  old  Soldier  of  the  Cross 
in  the  following  verses : 


"At   Christ's   commauds.    thou    leav'st   thy    lands,   and    na- 
tive habitation  ; 

His   folks  to   aid.    in   desert    straid,   for   gospel's  exaltaUon. 

tlint.   hardy  thou,   wilt  not   allow,   the  undermining   fox, 

With   subtill  skill.   Christ's  vines  to  spoil,  thy  sword  shall 
give    them    kno<:ks. 

Vet  thou   base  dust,  and   all  thou   hast  Is  Christ's,  and  by 
him  thou 

Art  made  to  be,  such  as  we  see;  hold  fast  forever  now." 

Airs.  Abigail  Flint,  wife  of  the  Hon.  Thomas, 
died  in  1689,  but  nothing  further  is  known 
about  her.  There  were  two  sons:  Colonel 
John,  whose  sketch  follows;  and  Captain 
Ephraim,  born  Tanu-'rv  14,  1642,  died  .\u'just 
3,  1723-  On  March  20,  1683-84,  Captain 
Ephraim  Flint  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Edward  Bulkeley,  and  died  without  issue.  He 
owned  about  one  thousand  acres  of  land,  in- 
cluding Flint's  Pond,  which  was  named'  for 
him.  All  these  items  indicate  that  the  Flints 
were  people  of  the  first  standing  in  the  early 
history  of  Concord,  Massachusetts. 

(II)   Colonel    John,    elder    son     of    Hon. 
Thomas   and   Abigail    Flint,   was   born,   prob- 
ably at  Concord,   Massachusetts,  about   1640, 
and  died  there  December  5,  1686.     He  was  a 
deputy  to  the  general  court  from  1678  to  1680, 
and  again  in   1682.     On  November  12,  1667! 
he  married  Mary  Oakes,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Jane  Oakes,  and  a  sister  of  Rev.  Urian 
Oakes,  president  of  Harvard  College  in  1667 
Mrs.  Mary  (Oakes)   Flint  died  June  9,  1690. 
There  were  eight  children  born  to  her  and  her 
husband:    Mary.  October  26,  1668,  died  May 
31.    1675;  Thomas,  December   12,   1670,  died 
May  29,    1675:   John,   March   31,    1673,  died 
June  6,   1675;  .\bigail,  January   11,   1674-75, 
married  Colonel  Daniel  Esterbrook ;  John  (2), 
whose  sketch  follows;  Mary,  August"  11,  i68o[ 
married  Timothy  Green  ;  Thomas,  January  16! 
1682-83,  married  Mary  Brown ;  Edward,  July 
6,   1685,  married  Love   (Minott)   Adam's.     It 
will  be  noticed  that  the  three  eldest  children 
all  died  within  five  weeks  of  each  other,  which 
calls  to  mind  the  sad  lack  of  medical  knowl- 
edge in  those  days,  which  often  gave  to  dis- 
eases, which  are  now  easily  controlled,  the  na- 
ture of  an  epidemic. 

(Ill)   John   (2),  third  son  of  Colonel  John 
(i)    and   Mary    (Oakes)    Flint,  was  born  at 
Concord,   Massachusetts,    Tulv   18,   1677,  died 
October  25,  1746.     On  May  7,  1713,  he  mar- 
ried  Abigail    Buttrick,   who  died   October   7, 
1746,   two   weeks   and    four   days   before   her 
husband.     It  would  seem  that  in  some  of  the 
early  New  England  towns,  women  were  not 
wholly  without  importance,  even  in  those  days, 
for  the  Concord  records  make  this  statement: 
"Colonel   John   Flint    Late   Husband   to  mrs. 
Abigail  his  \Viie   (now  Decasd)    Died  Octo- 
ber 25:1746."     Seven  children  were  born  to 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Colonel  John  (2)  and  Abigail  (Buttrick) 
Flint:  Ephraim,  March  4,  1713,  graduated 
from  Harvard  College,  1733;  Abigail,  Febru- 
ary 24,  1715-16;  Mary,  December  17,  1717, 
died  May  20,  1719;  Sarah,  May  3,  1720;  John 
(3),  whose  sketch  follows;  Hannah,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1724;  Jane,  April  23,  1727. 

(IV)  John  (3),  second  son  of  Colonel 
John  (2)  and  Abigail  (Buttrick)  Flint,  was 
born  at  Concord,  Massachusetts,  May  12,  1722, 
died  January  20,  1792.  He  was  one  of  the 
selectmen  from  1771  to  1774.  On  January 
12,  1744-45,  John  (3)  Flint  married  (first) 
Hepzibah  Brown,  daughter  of  Eleazer  and 
Abigail  (Chandler)  Brown,  and  there  were 
seven  children,  whose  births  occur  with  bi- 
ennial uniformity:  Hepzibah,  November  i, 
1747;  Edward,  whose  sketch  follows;  John, 
August  II,  1751;  Abigail,  September  6,  1753. 
died  fifteen  days  later;  Nathan,  February  11, 
1755;  Ephraim,  April  17,  1757;  Thomas,  May 
6,  1759-  John  (3)  Flint  married  (second) 
Submit  (Bateman)  Brown,  daughter  of  John 
and  Anna  (Wheeler)  Bateman,  who  was 
about  twenty  years  younger  than  himself,  for 
the  record  says  that  she  died  October  11,  1791, 
aged  forty-nine. 

(V)  Edward,  eldest  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Hepzibah  (Brown)  Flint,  was  born  at  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  1749,  and  died  there 
March  .18,  1812.  His  marriage  record  reads 
as  follows  in  the  old  town  book :  "Edward 
Flint  and  Hephzibah  Fletcher  Both  of  Con- 
cord was  married  at  Litchfield  by  the  Revd. 
mr.  John  Cotton  of  that  Town  by  Virtue  of 
Licence  Granted  him  by  the  Govenor  of  that 
province  of  newhampshire  February  ye  28, 
1770."  Nine  children  were  born  to  Edward 
and  Hephzibah  (Fletcher)  Flint;  Ephraim, 
September  14,  1770;  Rebeckah.  February  2, 
1773,  died  September  13,  1774;  Hephzibah. 
February  22,  1775;  Samuel,  March  16.  1780; 
Ephraim,  whose  sketch  follows ;  Elizabeth, 
April  22,  1785;  Abigail,  December  2,  1787; 
Edward,  March  31,  1793:  John,  February  20, 
1797. 

(\T)  Ephraim.  third  son  of  Edward  and 
Hephzibah  { Fletcher)  Flint,  born  at  Concord, 
Massachusetts,  August  5,  1782,  was  named 
after  his  elder  brother  who  died  in  babyhood. 
Ephraim  Flint  moved  to  Baldwin,  Maine,  in 
1806,  being  the  first  of  his  line  to  forsake  the 
ancestral  dwelling-place,  and  he  died  in  his 
adopted  town  September  21,  1865,  after  a  resi- 
dence there  of  nearly  sixty  years.  Ephraim 
Flint  married  Phebe  Snow,  and  among  their 
children  was  Ephraim  (2),  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 


(VH)   Ephraim    (2),  son  of  Ephraim    (i) 
and  Phebe   (Snow)   Flint,  was  born  at  Bald- 
win, Maine,  March  11,  1819,  and  died  in  Do- 
ver, that  state,  June   17,   1894.     He  was  edu- 
cated   in   the   common    schools   of   his   native 
town,   and   at   Westbrook    Seminary    and   the 
academies   of   Parsonfield,   Gorham,   Bridgton 
and  Fryeburg,  Maine,  where  he  obtained  his 
preparation   for  Norwich  Universitv  in  Ver- 
mont, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1841, 
after  a  course  at  the  Harvard  Law  school.   He 
read  law  with  Fessenden  and  Willis  of  Port- 
land, and  was   admitted  to  the  bar  in    1843, 
and  the  following  year  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  at  JNIonson.    He  remained  there 
seven   years,    or   until    185 1,    when    he    was 
elected  clerk  of  courts  and  removed  to  Dover, 
which  became  his  permanent  home.     He  held 
the  office  of  clerk  of  the  courts  twelve  years, 
or  until    1863.     From    1864  to   1867  he   was 
secretary  of  state,  and  in  1868  was  a  member 
of  Governor  Chamberlain's  council.     In  poli- 
tics he  was  originally  a  Whig,  and  afterwards 
became    a    Republican.      By    appointment    of 
Governor  Coburn  he  served  on  the  commis- 
sion to  locate  the  normal  schools  at  Farming- 
ton  and  Castine,  and   in    1869  was  chairman 
of  the  board  of  commissioners  to  revise  the      _ 
statutes  of  the  state.    Fie  represented  his  town     I 
in   the   legislature   of    1881.      jNIr.   Flint   con-      ■ 
tinned  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death.     He  was  a  member  of 
Mosaic  Lodge,   Ancient   Free   and   Accepted 
Masons   of  Dover,   and  also  belonged  to  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.    On  June 
16,   1844,   Ephraim    (2)    Flint  married  Laura 
Maria  Riley,  born  at  Norwich,  Vermont,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1822,  died  at  Dover,  April  3,  1899. 
Five  children  were  born  of  this  marria^je,  of 
whom  the  elder  two,  Edward  and  Fannie,  born 
at     Monson,    both    died    in   babyhood.      The 
sketch  of  Henry  B.,  tlie  eldest  surviving  son, 
follows  in  the  next  paragraph.     Edgar  T.,  the 
third  son,  was  born  at  Dover,  Maine,  and  died 
at  Savannah,  Georgia,  where  he  was  emplo\ed 
in  the  post-office.     His  death  was  caused  by 
yellow   fever.      Clara   F.   Flint,   the  youngest 
child,  was  born  at  Dover,  and  was  married  to 
Walter  Thomas,  of  Waltham,  Massachusetts. 
who  is  now  in  the  dry  goods  business  at  War- 
ren, Ohio.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  have  two 
children  :     Marjorie  and  Harold. 

(\TII)  Henry  B..  second  son  of  Ephraim 
(2)  and  Laura  M.  (Riley)  Flint,  was  born  at 
^lonson,  Maine,  September  10,  1850.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  Dover,  Foxcroft 
Academy,  Franklin  School  for  Boys  at  Tops- 
ham,  Maine,  East  Maine  Conference  Seminary 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1491 


at  Bucksport  and  at  Gray's  Commercial  Col- 
lege in  Portland.  He  studied  civil  engineering- 
in  the  office  of  Green  &  Danforth  in  the  lat- 
ter city.  In  1869  he  entered  the  employ  of 
General  George  Thom,  of  the  United  States 
engineering  corps,  and  was  engaged  in  harbor 
improvements  and  in  removing  obstructions 
at  various  places  along  the  New  England 
coast.  \\'hile  engaged  in  this  work  he  held 
the  position  of  inspector.  In  1874  he  returned 
to  Dover  and  was  elected  clerk  of  the  courts, 
assuming  the  duties  of  that  office  January  i, 
1875,  and  serving  continuously  till  the  present 
time  (1908).  Besides  his  official  duties  Mr. 
Flint  has  large  farming  interests  and  owns 
one  of  the  finest  and  most  extensive  apple 
orchards  in  the  state.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  attends  the  Congregational 
churc'i.  He  belongs  to  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen  and  to  the  Royal  x\rcanum. 
On  .August  15,  1872,  Henry  B.  Flint  married 
Caro  E.  Emery,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Mary  Emery,  who  was  born  in  Bangor,  Oc- 
tober 28,  1852.  Three  children  were  born  of 
the  marriage:  i.  Robert,  born  April  13,  1873, 
died  June  21,  1876.  2.  Edgar  T.,  born  June 
2.  1877,  at  Dover,  Maine,  obtained  his  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  Dover  and  at  Foxcroft 
Academy,  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vermont,  and  Baltimore  Medical 
College.  He  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
at  Fort  Kent  in  Aroostook  county,  and  is  now 
settled  at  l\Iars  Hill  in  the  same  county.  3. 
Charlotte  Woodman,  born  at  Foxcroft.  Maine, 
April  15,  1882.  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  Foxcroft  Academy.  She  also 
took  a  musical  course  at  Dana  Musical  Insti- 
tute, Warren.  Ohio,  and  at  the  New  England 
Conservatory  of  Nfusic  in  Boston.  She  has 
taught  school  in  Sebec  and  Jackman,  Maine, 
and  is  now  supervisor  of  music  in  the  public 
schools  of  Guilford. 


There  are  two  ways  of 
THATCHER  spelling  this  name,  with  the 
middle  t  and  without.  The 
Thachers  claim  that  their  method  is  the  true 
and  ancient  one.  But  this  probably  belongs 
to  that  large  class  of  surnames,  like  Webster, 
Fletcher,  Fisher,  Fuller  and  their  counterparts, 
which  were  derived  from  an  occupation ;  al- 
though in  primitive  times,  when  everybody 
had  to  be  a  jack-of-all-trades,  it  might  be 
thought  that  the  process  of  thatching  roofs 
would  hardly  have  been  a  distinctive  craft  or 
business. 

Still,  if  the  occupations  of  farmer  and  car- 
penter, which  must  have  been  of  almost  uni- 


versal application,  could  furnish  patronymics, 
why  not  thatcher?  The  family,  whether  they 
use  the  middle  /  or  not,  appear  to  have  made 
an  excellent  record  in  this  country,  for  they 
began  with  some  early  ministers  of  distinc- 
tion, and  have  since  included  judges  of  the 
supreme  court  and  other  men  of  rank. 

The  first  of  the  name  of  whom  we  can  find 
any  record  is  the  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  who 
lived  in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury at  Sarum,  England,  where  he  was  rector 
of  the  parish  of  Saint  Edmund's  for  the  space 
of  nineteen  years.  He  was  a  man  of  talent 
and  possessed  a  liberal  and  independent  mind ; 
but  he  dissented  from  the  established  church, 
and  being  harrassed  by  the  spiritual  courts,  he 
resolved  to  turn  his  back  on  ecclesiastical  per- 
secution and  migrate  to  New  England,  but  the 
death  of  his  wife  altered  his  plans.  The  pur- 
pose of  the  father  was  destined  to  be  carried 
out  by  the  eldest  son,  who  subsequently  be- 
came the  Rev.  Thomas  Thacher,  minister  of 
the  church  at  Weymouth,  Massachusetts,  and 
the  first  pastor  of  the  Old  South  in  Boston, 
whose  pulpit  he  was  filling  at  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1678.  Rev.  Thomas  Thacher  seems 
to  have  been  quite  a  remarkable  man.  He 
was  only  fifteen  when  he  arrived  in  this  coun- 
try, June  4,  1635,  but  he  had  the  good  fortune 
to  become  an  inmate  of  the  family  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Chauncey,  afterwards  president  of 
Harvard  College.  Young  Thacher  not  only 
achieved  distinction  in  the  pulpit,  but  he 
studied  medicine  as  well,  and  united  the  voca- 
tions of  physician  and  clergyman,  a  useful 
combination  in  those  days.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  learning,  and  President  Stiles  speaks  of 
Air.  Thacher  as  the  best  Arabic  scholar  known 
in  the  country,  and  states  that  he  composed 
and  published  a  Hebrew  lexicon.  Mather  says 
he  was  a  most  incomparable  scribe,  and  there 
are  yet  extant  monuments  of  Syriac  and  other 
Oriental  characters  in  his  handwriting,  which 
are  hardly  to  be  imitated.  Rev.  Thomas 
Thacher  seems  to  have  been  a  man  held  in 
the  highest  veneration  by  his  felliiws,  and  his 
death  inspired  Eleazer,  an  Indian  student  at 
Harvard,  to  write  an  elegy  from  which  the 
following  extract  is  taken.  Although  the 
verse  is  conventional,  it  is  perhaps  worthy  of 
note  as  coming  from  a  red  man  in  the  year 
1678. 

"Thacher.  'tis  virtue  that  thy  name  endears, 
Virtue,  that  climbs  beyond  the   starry  spheres. 
To  men  of  station,   and   of  low   degree. 
Thy    faith   shines   forth   like  beacons  o'er  the   sea. 
•  *•*••• 

Thy  cross  of  suffering  thou  shalt  bear  no  more, 
Temptations,    perils,    sorrows,    all    are    o'er. 
Death,  the  destroyer,   died — the  last  of  foes — 
And    life    renewed,    to   life   Immortal    grows." 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Rev.  Thomas  Thacher  left  a  long  line  of 
ministerial  descendants.  His  youngest  son, 
Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  was  for  forty-seven 
years  the  beloved  pastor  of  the  church  at  Mil- 
ton, Massachusetts.  His  son,  Rev.  Peter  (2) 
Thacher,  was  for  thirty-five  years  in  charge 
of  the  church  at  Middleboro,  Massachusetts. 
His  son,  Rev.  Peter  (3)  Thacher,  preached 
at  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  for  forty-three 
years,  or  until  his  death,  which  occurred  Sep- 
tember 13,  1785,  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his 
age.  Perhaps  the  most  noted  Rev.  Peter  of  all 
was  Rev.  Peter  Thacher  who  received  his 
doctor's  degree  from  the  University  of  Edin- 
burgh. He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Oxenbridge 
Thacher,  who  was  a  grandson  of  Rev.  Peter 
(i).  Dr.  Peter  Thacher  had  his  first  pastor- 
ate at  Maiden.  Massachusetts,  but  in  1785  was 
called  to  the  Brattle  Street  Church  in  Boston. 
He  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  the 
Historical  Society,  and  belonged  to  nearly  all 
the  literary  and  charitable  institutions  then  ex- 
isting in  New  England.  Two  of  Dr.  Peter 
Thacher's  sons,  Thomas  Gushing  and  Samuel 
Cooper  Thacher,  also  became  ministers,  the 
first  at  Lynn,  and  the  second  in  Boston.  There 
were  also  many  collateral  relatives  who  were 
clergymen.  In  fact,  it  is  doubtful  if  any  fam- 
ily in  the  country  has  furnished  more  preach- 
ers of  the  Gospel. 

(I)  Samuel  Thatcher,  the  ancestor  of  the 
following  line,  was  admitted  freeman  at 
Watertown,  Massachusetts,  May  18,  1642. 
No  relationship  is  known  to  exist  fjetween  him 
and  Rev.  Thomas  Thacher,  mentioned  in  the 
introduction,  but  the  fact  that  they  were  con- 
temporaneous settlers  in  the  new  world,  and 
bore  the  same  rather  unusual  surname,  would 
indicate  that  they  might  have  sprung  from 
the  same  English  stock  a  few  generations  back. 
The  date  of  Samuel  Thatcher's  birth  is  un- 
known, but  he  died  November  30,  1669.  The 
inventory  of  his  estate  amounted  to  a  little 
more  than  six  hundred  and  seventy-five 
pounds,  a  comfortable  property  for  those  days. 
Samuel  Thatcher  was  a  deacon,  served  sev- 
eral times  as  selectman,  and  held  the  office 
of  representative  in  1665-66-68-69.  Deacon 
Thatcher  left  a  widow,  Hannah,  whose  maiden 
name  is  unknown ;  two  children :  Hannah, 
born  October  9,  1645;  Samuel  (2),  whose 
sketch  follows.  Hannah  Thatcher  was  mar- 
ried to  John  Holmes,  but  she  had  died  previ- 
ous to  April  16.  1682,  the  date  of  her  mother's 
will.     This  will  was  proved  April  3,  1683. 

(II)  Samuel  (2),  only  son  of  Deacon  Sam- 
uel (i)  and  Hannah  Thatcher,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 20,   1648,  lived  at  Watertown,  Massa- 


chusetts, and  died  October  21,  1726.  He  was 
a  lieutenant,  and  was  admitted  freeman  April 
18,  1690.  His  wife  Mary,  whose  maiden 
name  is  unknown,  died  August  17,  1725. 
Children:  i.  Mary,  August  i,  1681,  died  the 
next  May.  2.  Samuel,  April  8,  1683.  3. 
John,  January  22,  1685-86,  married  Elizabeth 
Morse.  4.  Anna,  April  30,  1688,  died  July 
22,  1690.  5.  Mary,  September  17,  1690,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Child.  6.  Hannah,  December  10, 
1692.  7.  Abigail,  June  6,  1694.  8.  Mercy, 
January  2,  1697-98.  9.  Sarah,  November  30, 
1699,  died  June  13,  1727.     10.  Ebenezer. 

(III)  Ebenezer,  third  and  youngest  son  of 
Lieutenant  Samuel  (2)  and  Mary  Thatcher, 
was  born  March  17,  1703-04,  lived  at  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts,  and  died  in  1757.  Jan- 
uary  27,  1731-32,  he  married  Susanna  Spring,  ■ 
and  they  had  seven  children:  i.  Samuel  (3),  ^ 
whose  sketch  follows.  2.  Sarah,  February  20, 
1733-34-  3-  Mary,  December  27,  1735.  4. 
Ebenezer.  August  20,  1737,  died  in  October, 
1741.  5.  Susanna,  July  3,  1739.  6.  .Sarah, 
October  3,  1741,  died  September  3,  1749.  7. 
Ebenezer,  January  15,  1742-43. 

(IV)  Samuel  (3),  eldest  child  of  Ebenezer 
and  Susanna  (Spring)  Thatcher,  was  bap- 
tized November  5.  1732.  lived  at  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  which  town  he  represented  in 
the  legislature,  and  died  in  1792.  On  Septem- 
ber 3,  1753,  he  married  Mary  Brown,  of  Lex- 
ington, daughter  of  James  and  Jane  (Bow- 
man) Brown,  who  was  born  August  13,  1735. 
Children:  i.  Susanna,  1755,  married  Jesse 
Putnam.  2.  Ebenezer,  born  and  died  in  1759. 
3.  Mary,  1767,  married  Thomas  IMayhew.  4. 
Elizabeth,  1771.  5.  Samuel  (4)  whose  sketch 
follows.  6.  Ebenezer.  1778,  married  Lucy  F. 
Knox.  Ebenezer  Thatcher,  the  youngest  son, 
was  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1798, 
moved  to  Thomaston.  Maine,  where  he  became 
a  lawyer,  militia  officer  and  judge  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas.  He  afterwards  removed  to 
Bingham,  where  he  died  June  12.  1841.  The 
second  of  Ebenezer  Thatcher's  children.  Com- 
modore Henry  Knox  Thatcher,  was  graduated 
from  West  Point  in  1827.  and  commanded  the 
frigate  "Colorado"  at  the  storming  of  Fort 
Fisher. 

(\')  Honorable  Samuel  (4),  second  son  of 
Samuel  (3)  and  Mary  (Brown)  Thatcher, 
was  born  at  Cambridge.  Massachusetts,  July 
I,  1776,  and  died  at  Bangor,  Maine,  July  18, 
1870.  In  1793,  when  a  youth  of  seventeen,  he 
was  graduated  from  Harvard  College.  He 
studied  law  with  Hon.  Timothy  Bigelow,  of 
Groton,  Massachusetts,  settled  first  at  New 
Gloucester,    Maine ;    removed    to   Warren   in 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1493 


1800,  where  he  lived  till  1833,  at  which  time 
he  moved  to  Brewer ;  he  spent  his  last  years 
in  Bangor.  He  represented  the  town  of  War- 
ren in  the  state  legislature  for  eleven  years, 
and  was  representative  to  congress  for  two 
terms,  1803-07.  He  was  sheriff  of  Lincoln 
county  from  1812  to  1821,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  Warren  Academy.  January 
15,  1800,  he  married  Sarah  Brown,  daughter 
of  Reuben  and  Molly  (Howe)  Brown,  of 
Concord,  Massachusetts.  She  was  born  in 
Concord,  December  17,  1776,  and  died  at 
Bangor,  Maine,  September  22,  1851.  Five 
children,  but  one  of  whom  survived  their 
father:  i.  Harriet  Howard,  born  at  Warren, 
Maine,  May  28,  1801,  died  at  Bangor,  June 
23,  1865.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  at  Concord, 
Massachusetts,  April  i,  1803,  died  at  Warren, 
June  23,  1827.  3.  Samuel,  born  at  Warren, 
February  11,  1805,  lived  at  Bangor  for  some 
vears,  removed  to  Saint  Anthony,  Minnesota, 
in  1851,  where  he  died  August  31,  1861.  He 
was  much  esteemed,  and  a  promoter  of  every 
good  work  in  his  native  state.  He  married 
Elizabeth  L.  P.  Johnston.  4.  George  Augus- 
tus, whose  sketch  follows.  5.  Benjamin  Bus- 
sey,  born  in  Warren,  October  8,  1809,  was 
graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1826, 
studied  law  and  had  an  office  in  Boston,  but 
he  relinquished  his  profession  in  order  to 
devote  his  time  to  literary  pursuits.  He  was 
a  constant  contributor  to  magazines  and  news- 
papers, and  wrote  well  on  many  subjects.  He 
died  in  Boston,  July  14,   1840. 

(VI)  George  Augustus,  second  son  of 
Samuel  (4)  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Thatcher, 
was  born  at  Warren,  Maine,  August  24,  1806, 
and  died  at  Bangor,  iMaine,  December  i,  1885. 
He  moved  to  Bangor  in  1822  and  was"  clerk 
for  George  W.  Pickering  till  1826,  when 
they  entered  into  partnership  under  the  firm 
name  of  George  A.  Thatcher  and  Company. 
In  after  years  Mr.  Thatcher  was  associated 
with  other  firms  till  he  retired  from  active 
business  in  1847.  He  joined  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  in  1828,  and  was  chosen 
deacon  in  1840,  and  for  many  years  was 
trustee  of  the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary. 
He  was  originally  a  Whig  and  afterwards  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  served  as  assessor 
for  several  years.  He  was  early  identified  with 
the  anti-slavery  and  temperance  movements  in 
Bangor.  October  i,  1832,  he  married  Re- 
becca Jane  Billings,  daughter  of  Caleb  C.  and 
Nancy  (Thoreau)  Billings,  who  was  bom 
June  23,  1813,  died  October  27,  1883.  Chil- 
dren: I.  George  Putnam,  born  July  14,  1833, 
lives    in    California.     2.  Frederick   Augustus, 


September  25,  1835,  died  January  10,  1838. 
3.  Charles  Alfred,  May  16,  1837,  gave  his  life 
for  his  country;  he  died  at  Red  River,  Lou- 
isiana, November  26,  1864,  while  in  command 
of  the  United  States  steamer,  "Gazelle."  4. 
Benjamin  Bussey,  April  21,  1839,  was  a  mer- 
chant in  Bangor;  has  been  representative  and 
held  other  official  positions;  married  (first) 
Mary  E.  Walker,  born  August  19,  1842,  died 
January  12,  1875;  married  (second)  Decem- 
ber 4,  1877,  Charlotte  P.  Walker,  sister  of  his 
first  wife;  they  have  two  children:  George  T. 
and  Lottie  May;  Benjamin  B.  Thatcher  died 
June  3,  1906.  5.  Caleb  Billings,  November  5, 
1840,  lives  at  Bangor.  6.  Sarah  Frances, 
June  7,  1842,  deceased.  7.  Henry  Knox, 
whose  sketch  follows. 

(VII)  Henry  Knox,  youngest  of  the  six 
sons  of  George  Augustus  and  Rebecca  J. 
(Billings)  Thatcher,  was  born  at  Bangor, 
Maine,  August  3,  1854.  He  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  was  gradu- 
ated from  Harvard  College  in  1877,  and  from 
the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia 
in  1881.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  Cambridge,  Maine,  in  1882,  and 
moved  to  Dexter,  Maine,  in  1885,  where  he 
has  been  located  ever  since.  Dr.  Thatcher  is 
one  of  the  leading  physicians  in  that  region, 
and  has  a  large  and  constandy  increasing 
practice.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and 
attends  the  Congregational  church.  He  be- 
longs to  Penobscot  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Dexter,  and  to  Saint 
John  Royal  Arch  Chapter.  January  17,  1882, 
Dr.  Thatcher  married  Annie  Ross,  daughter 
of  Hugh  and  Ann  Ross,  of  Bangor.  They 
have  one  child,  Henry  David  Thoreau,  born 
July  12,  1884.  The  son  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Dexter,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  L^niversity  of  Maine  at  Orono  in  1905.  In 
1907  he  married  Mary  MacNamara,  of  Orono, 
and  is  now  living  at  Wharton,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  is  a  civil  engineer.  They  have  one 
child,  Anna  Rebecca,  born  July  12,  1908. 


Here  is  another  Maine  fam- 
WASGATT     ily  who  have  filled  to  the  full 

the  measure  of  usefulness,  as 
soldiers,  preachers,  physicians,  seamen  and 
farmers,  and  their  record  in  all  stations  of  life 
is  an  enviable  one.  The  name  is  German, 
from  which  country  their  ancestors  came. 

(I)  Davis  Wasgatt.  born  March  11,  175 1, 
enlisted  in  the  Continental  army,  and  fought 
in  the  revolution.  He  married  Rachael  Rich- 
ardson, born  November  27,  1752,  died  June 
30,    1841.     The  husband   died  November  27, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1843.  Children:  Davis  Jr.,  Rachael,  Cor- 
nelius, Jameson,  Rufus,  Sarah  H.,  Rufus, 
Hanna  R.,  David  R.,  Asa  and  Margaret  D. 

(II)  Rev.  Asa,  seventh  child  and  sixth  son 
of  Davis  and  Rachael  (Richardson)  Wasgatt, 
was  born  at  Mt.  Desert,  Maine,  August  19, 
1793,  died  January  24,  1879.  He  was  a  Meth- 
odist minister,  and  in  the  war  of  1812.  He 
married  Sarah  Gott,  born  August  23,  1796, 
died  December  29,  1855.  Their  children  were: 
Asa  Jr.,  Rhoda  Haines,  Sarah  E.,  Thomas  A., 
Cornelius,  Delia  Gott,  Deborah,  Mary  Berry, 
David,  Charles  Wesley,  E.  Spurling  and  Na- 
thaniel G.  Two  living  at  the  present  time : 
Rhoda  H..  at  liar  Harbor,  now  in  her  eighty- 
sixth  year,  and  Cornelius,  of  Everett,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

(III)  Charles  Wesley,  son  of  Rev.  Asa 
and  Sarah  (Gott)  Wasgatt,  was  born  in 
Somerville,  ^It.  Desert,  Maine,  July  27,  1837, 
died  ■May  6,  1898.  He  followed  the  sea  in 
early  manhood  as  man  and  master  until  1830, 
when  he  retired  to  a  farm  in  his  native  town, 
on  which  he  resided  for  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  very  prominent  in  his  section, 
holding  important  offices,  and  acting  as  ad- 
ministrator of  estates.  He  was  a  shrewd  and 
successful  business  man.  He  married  Marga- 
ret Gray,  born  July  31,  1841.  Children:  i. 
Charles  R..  chief  bookkeeper  at  Kittery  navy 
yard;  married,  1896,  Mabel  Moore,  of  Kittery; 
have  one  child,  Hazel.  2.  \'ernon  G.,  as- 
sistant treasurer  of  Bar  Harbor  Banking  and 
Trust  Company;  married,  November,  1895, 
Caro  Richards,  of  Bar  Harbor ;  four  chil- 
dren :  Margaret,  Boyd,  Asa,  Richard.  3. 
Lotta,  widow  of  Dr.  Byron  D.  Spencer,  of 
Bangor;  resides  at  Surry,  Maine,  with  her 
mother:  one  child,  Doris.  4.  Rowland  J.,  see 
forward. 

(IV)  Rowland  J.,  youngest  son  ar.d  child 
of  Charles  Wesley  and  Margaret  (Gray) 
Wasgatt,  was  born  March  9,  1873,  in  Ells- 
worth, and  attended  the  common  schools,  fin- 
ishing his  education  in  Bucksport  Seminary 
in  1892.  He  received  his  professional  train- 
ing at  Hahnemann  Medical  College,  and  was 
appointed  house  surgeon  of  the  Hahnemann 
Hospital,  Philadelphia.  Prior  to  this  he  taught 
school  in  Addison  and  Greenville,  Maine.  In 
1897  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  at 
Union,  Maine,  coming  to  Rockland,  that  state, 
in  1898,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  1903 
he  took  a  post-graduate  course  at  the  New 
York  Homeopathic  Medical  College,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1906  studied  at  the  New  York 
Post-Graduate  Medical  School.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Homeopathic  Society,  the 


Hahnemann  Alumni  Society,  and  Maine  Ho- 
meopathic Society,  of  which  he  was  president 
in  1907.  Dr.  Wasgatt  has  an  extensive  and 
profitable  practice,  and  is  accounted  very  skill- 
ful as  a  physician  and  surgeon.  He  belongs 
to  Aurora  Lodge,  No.  50,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons  ;  King  Solomon  Temple,  No. 
8,  Royal  Arch  Chapter ;  King  Hiram's  Coun- 
cil, No.  6,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  Clare- 
mont  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
Rockland;  and  Rockland  Lodge,  No.  1008, 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  Elks.  He  mar- 
ried Josephine,  daughter  of  Joseph  E.  Nicker- 
son,  of  Orrington,  Maine,  June  27,  1906.  One 
child,  Mary,  born  April  9.  1907. 


From  what  part  of  England 
WALKER  the  Walkers  of  New  England 
came  is  not  definitely  known, 
as  the  name  is  common  to  many  counties  of 
old  England  and  the  first  of  the  family  who 
settled  in  the  colonies  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
or  of  Plymouth  appears  to  have  been  Robert 
Walker,  who  came  to  Lynn  (Saugus)  1630, 
with  the  first  settlers  of  that  place.  The 
"W'idow"  Walker  and  her  sons  and  nephews 
appear  as  passengers  on  the  ship  "Elizabeth" 
at  Hingham,  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  1634,  son, 
Samuel,  was  one  of  the  passengers  and  at 
once  joined  his  father  at  Lynn,  while  the  other 
cousins  went  to  Plymouth  colony,  or  as  far 
south  as  Taunton,  which  was  at  the  time  of 
its  first  settlement  part  of  the  town  of  Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  but  after- 
wards included  in  the  Colony  of  Plymouth. 
Samuel  Walker,  another  immigrant,  appeared 
at  Woburn,  Middlesex  county,  1655,  as  a  tax- 
payer. According  to  an  affidavit  made  by 
himself  and  his  son,  Samuel,  April  2,  1661.  he 
was  born  in  England  about  1617,  and  he  is 
recorded  as  having  held  public  office  in  the 
town  of  Woburn.  There  is  some  confusion 
in  these  records,  by  reason  of  the  father  and 
the  son  having  the  same  baptismal  name  as 
one  of  the  sons  of  Richard,  who  also  lived  in 
Reading  about  the  same  time,  and  it  does  not 
appear  that  the  two  Samuels  were  always  des- 
ignated by  naming  the  father.  Samuel  of  Wo- 
burn was  an  innkeeper,  and  was  given  a 
license  to  sell  liquors,  his  license  being  granted 
by  the  county  court  in  April,  1662.  He  re- 
sided for  a  time  in  the  towa  of  Reading,  ad- 
joining Woburn.  and  his  children  by  his  first 
wife  were  born  in  that  town,  hence  the  con- 
fusion with  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Richard  of 
Plymouth,  1630,  who  also  lived  at  Reading 
and  had  many  children.  Samuel,  the  original 
immigrant  to  Woburn,  does  not  appear  to  be 


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in  any  way  related  to  Richard  of  Lynn.  His 
wife's  name  was  evidently  Ann,  and  their 
names  are  recorded  as  having  been  dismissed 
tcPthe  church  at  Reading,  March  26,  1650, 
and  to  have  ceased  to  be  members  of  that 
church  on  their  return  to  Woburn  in  1654. 
His  children  by  his  first  wife  were :  Samuel, 
born  in  Woburn,  1643:  Joseph,  164s ;  Israel, 
1648;  John,  1649;  Benjamin,  1651.  The  chil- 
dren of  .Samuel  (2)  (son  of  Richard  of  Lynn, 
Reading,  and  finallv  Lynn,  where  he  died  and 
was  buried  \lay  16,  1687)  were:  John,  born 
in  Reading  in  1665;  Samuel,  1669;  Timothy, 
1672;  Isaac  (q.  v.),  1677;  ^"^  Ezekiel,  1679. 
(I)  Captain  Richard  Walker,  founder  of 
this  line,  is  first  found  of  record  at  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  in  1630,  when  he  was  ensign 
of  the  local  military  company.  As  the  settlers 
of  that  town  were  English,  there  is  no  doubt 
that  he  was  of  the  same  nativity,  but  the 
place  of  his  birth  is  unknown,  and  its  time 
can  only  be  approximated.  The  time  of  his 
death  is  indicated  by  the  record  which  shows 
that  he  was  buried  at  Lynn,  May  16,  1687, 
when  his  age  is  given  as  ninety-five  years, 
indicating  that  his  birth  occurred  about  1592. 
He  was  made  a  freeman  in  1634  at  Lynn.  In 
163 1  the  neighboring  Indians  threatened  the 
infant  settlement  and  Ensign  Walker  was  in 
service  on  guard.  One  night  he  heard  a  noise 
in  the  forest  near  him  and  felt  an  arrow  pass 
through  his  coat  and  buff  waistcoat.  He  dis- 
charged his  gun  into  the  bushes,  and  it  was 
burst  by  the  heavy  charge  it  contained.  He 
gave  the  alarm  and  returned  to  his  post,  after 
which  he  was  again  fired  at.  The  next  day 
an  assemblage  of  men  made  a  demonstration 
which  frightened  away  the  marauders  for 
some  time.  In  1637  ^f""-  Walker  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  which  made  division  of 
the  common  lands  of  the  community,  and  in 
1638  he  received  an  allotment  of  two  hundred 
acres,  upland  and  meadow.  In  1645  he  ac- 
companied Robert  Bridges  and  Thomas  Mar- 
shall in  negotiating  with  Lord  de  la  Tour  and 
Monsieur  D'.\ulney,  governors  of  French 
provinces  on  the  north.  As  regard  for  his 
services  in  this  expedition  Lieutenant  Walker 
received  four  pounds  sterling.  In  1657  he 
was  one  of  those  who  deposed  as  witnesses 
against  the  claim  to  Nahant  of  Thomas  Dex- 
ter, who  had  purchased  it  from  an  Indian  for 
a  suit  of  clothes.  In  1678  he  was  one  of  the 
selectmen,  then  called  "the  Seven  Prudential 
Men."  The  name  appears  in  the  muster  roll 
of  the  Honorable  .Artillery  Company  of  Eng- 
land in  1620.  L^pon  the  petition  to  the  general 
court  made  by  the  new  troop  of  Lynn,  formed 


in  1679,  that  he  be  its  commander  (which 
petition  was  granted),  he  is  called  "Captain 
Walker."  He  was  by  occupation  a  farmer. 
His  wife,  Sarah,  was  the  administratrix  of 
his  estate.  He  had  two  sons  and  two  daught- 
ers, and  may  have  had  others.  The  elder  son, 
Richard,  born  in  England  in  161 1,  was  at 
Reading  in  1635,  and  represented  that  town 
several  times  in  the  general  court.  The  other 
receives  extended  mention  below.  His  daugh- 
ter, Tabitha,  was  married  March  11,  1662,  to 
Daniel  King:  and  the  other,  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Ralph  King,  March  2,  1663. 

(II)  Samuel,  younger  son  of  Captain  Rich- 
ard Walker,  was  born  in  England  and  came 
with  his  father  to  New  England  in  1630.  He 
settled  first  in  Reading,  which  was  originally 
Lynn  Village,  and  removed  thence  to  Woburn 
(formerly  Charlestown  Village),  where  he  is 
found  of  record  in  a  tax  list  of  1655,  and 
again  ■  February  25,  1662,  having  been  ap- 
pointed a  surveyor  of  highways  at  a  town 
meeting  of  that  date.  He  was  selectman  in 
1668.  He  was  a  maltster,  and  in  1662  re- 
ceived the  first  license  to  sell  spirits  granted 
in  Woburn.  It  seems  that  his  good  nature  at 
one  time  overrode  his  judgment,  as  it  is  of 
record  that  he  was  fined  ten  shillings  for  sell- 
ing to  a  notorious  toper,  the  latter  being  fined 
five  shillings  at  the  same  time  for  being  drunk. 
That  he  was  a  man  of  character  and  standing 
is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  he  was  one  of  a 
committee  appointed  at  a  meeting  held  March 
28,  1667,  empowered  to  divide  the  public 
lands.  For  this  service  the  committee  received 
seven  acres  for  themselves  in  addition  to  the 
several  allotments  to  them  as  individuals.  He 
died,  November  6,  1684,  aged  about  seventy. 
His  first  wife,  whose  name  is  unknown,  bore 
him  seven  children,  namely :  Samuel,  Joseph, 
Hannah  (died  at  four  months),  Hannah,  Is- 
rael, John,  Benjamin.  His  second  wife,  Ann, 
was  the  widow  of  Arthur  Alger,  of  Scarbor- 
ough, and  daughter  of  Giles  Roberts,  of  that 
place.  She  died  in  Woburn,  March  21,  1716. 
She  was  the  mother  of  Mr.  W^alker's  two 
youngest  children,  namely :  Isaac  and  Ez- 
ekiel. 

(III)  Isaac,  sixth  son  of  Samuel  Walker 
and  grandson  of  Captain  Richard  Walker,  of 
Saugus  (Lynn),  1630,  was  born  in  Woburn, 
Middlesex  county,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony, 
November  i,  1677.  He  was  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  town  of  Penacook,  established 
as  a  town  under  the  direction  of  the  general 
court  of  Massachusetts,  all  the  territory  after- 
wards set  off  as  New  Hampshire  being  then 
in   Norfolk  county,  Colony  of   Massachusetts 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Bay,  and  he  built  a  log  house  on  the  lot  ap- 
portioned to  him,  which,  being-  the  strongest 
and  most  capable  of  withstanding  any  assault 
from  the  Indians,  was  made  the  garrison 
house  of  the  little  colony,  and  in  this  house 
his  son  Isaac  Jr.  died  the  same  day  that  his 
relative.  Rev.  Timothy  Walker,  died  (Septem- 
ber I,  i/Si).  Remarried,  February  20,  1704, 
Marjory  Bruce,  and  had  five  sons,  all  born 
in  Woburn,  namely:  Isaac,  1707;  Ezekiel, 
1709;  Timothy.  171 1  ;  \Mlliam,  1715;  Samuel, 
1723. 

(IV)  Isaac  (2),  eldest  son  of  Isaac  (i) 
and  Marjory  (Bruce)  Walker,  was  born  in 
Woburn,  July  12,  1707.  He  was  by  trade  a 
tailor,  and  was  known  by  his  familiar  friends 
as  "Tailor  Isaac."  He  married,  about  1730, 
Sarah  Breed,  and  they  had  five  sons :  Joseph, 
1732;  Ezekiel,  1735;  James  (q.  v.),  1739; 
Isaac,  1741:  Samuel,  1745;  all  borii  in  Pen- 
acook ;  he  lived  in  the  "Garrison  House" 
erected  by  his  father,  and  died  there  Septem- 
ber I,  1782.  He  removed  to  Penacook,  Mas- 
sachusetts (now  New  Hampshire),  before  the 
organization  of  that  town,  and  was  an  original 
proprietor,  taking  part  in  the  formation  of 
town  government  under  the  direction  of  the 
general  court  of  the  province  of  Massachu- 
setts Bay  in  1725.  The  name  of  the  town  was 
changed  to  Rumford  in  1730.  and  in  1765, 
when  the  boundary  between  New  Hampshire 
and  Massachusetts  was  fixed,  the  place  became 
Concord,  New  Hampshire. 

(V)  James,  son  of  Isaac  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Breed)  Walker,  was  born  in  Rumford.  Mas- 
sachusetts, .\pril  2,  1739.  He  married  Ruth 
Abbott  and  had  cliildren,  including  James, 
mentioned  belov^-. 

(\T)  James  (2).  .son  of  James  (i)  and 
Ruth  (Abbott)  Walker,  was  born  in  Concord. 
New  Hampshire,  July  26,  1778.  He  married 
a  Miss  Charles,  and  lived  in  Stowe;  Maine, 
and  had  eight  children,  as  follows :  Judith, 
Sally,  Abigail,  Susan.  Samuel.  James,  Barnes. 
Isaac.  James  (2)  Walker  was  killed  by  being 
run  over  by  an  ox  team  while  driving  home 
from  Portland,  the  accident  taking  place  at 
Standish  Plains,  ]\[aine. 

(VII)  Isaac  (3),  fourth  son  and  voungest 
child  of  James  (2)  Walker,  was  born  1799,  ' 
in  Stowe,  Maine,  was  educated  in  the  common 
district  school  of  his  native  frontier  town,  and 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm.  On 
reaching  manhood  he  bought  a  farm  in  Frye- 
burg,  Maine.  He  married  Eliza  Colby,  who 
was  born  in  Fryeburg  in  1806,  and  they  had 
four  children,  as  follows :  Simeon  Colby,  died 
January   12,   i860:  Sarah  Elizalieth,  .Vi'gustus 


Hall.  Olive  Chandler.  He  was  a  Whig  in 
state  anil  national  politics,  and  served  as  a 
member  of  the  board  of  selectmen  of  Frye- 
burg. He  was  a  member  of  the  Congrcgja- 
tional  church  of  that  town.     He  died  1840. 

(\TII)  Augustus  Hall,  youngest  son  of 
Isaac  (3)  and  Eliza  (Colby)  Walker,  was 
born  in  Fryeburg,  Maine,  December  22,  1833. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  school,  Bridg- 
ton  Academy,  at  North  Bridgton,  and  Bow- 
doin  College,  where  he  passed  through  the 
freshman  and  sophomore  years,  and  then  en- 
tered the  junior  class  of  Yale  College,  and  was 
graduated  A.  B.  in  1856.  He  then  read  law  in 
the  office  of  D.  R.  Hastings,  of  Lovell,  Maine, 
and  with  the  law  firm  of  Fessenden  &  Butler, 
and  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858.  He 
practiced  law  in  .Anoka,  Minnesota,  up  to  July, 
1859,  when  he  returned  to  Maine  on  account 
of  the  severe  illness  of  his  brother.  Simeon 
Colby  Walker,  who  died  January  12,  i860, 
and  he  thereupon  began  the  practice  of  law  at 
Fryeburg  Village,  and  he  carried  on  a  success- 
ful practice  there  up  to  October,  1861,  when 
he  returned  to  Lovell,  Maine,  and  was  equally 
successful  for  twenty  years.  In  June,  1881, 
he  went  to  Bridgton,  where  he  opened  a  law 
ofiice  and  became  president  of  the  Briilgt<in 
Savings  Bank :  was  elected  state  senator  for 
two  terms,  1881-82,  and  in  the  senate  he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  legal 
affairs  and  as  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
towns,  and  was  the  only  lawyer  on  that  com- 
mittee. He  served  as  judge  of  probate  for 
Oxford  county  for  thirteen  years ;  was  made 
a  member  of  Delta  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M. ; 
of  the  Oriental  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  and  Ori- 
ental Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He 
married,  October  i,  1863,  Mary  E.,  daughter 
of  Stephen  Thurston,  of  Bangor,  Maine,  and 
they  had  one  daughter,  Alice  Thur.ston,  born 
October  12,  1865.  The  mother  dieil  ^March 
26,  1875,  and  the  daughter  August  24,  1876. 
November  17,  1881,  Mr.  Walker  married  his 
deceased  wife's  sister,  Emma  Thurston.  He 
is  an  attendant  of  and  contributor  to  t'le  work 
in  the  Congregational  church  at  Bridgton, 
Cumberland  county,  Maine,  where  he  reads 
and  practices  law. 


George  Summerfield  Walker, 
WALKER  one  of  the  genial  and  intelli- 
gent citizens  of  Watcrtown, 
whose  friends  are  numbered  by  the  list  of  his 
acquaintances,  is  a  native  of  the  county  and 
a  scion  of  one  of  the  earliest  American  fam- 
ilies. 

( I )   The   records   of   Rehoboth,   Massachu- 


ji^^lir?U^ 


'Ct^i^ 


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setts,  show  that  one  of  the  original  proprietors 
of  the  town  was  "Widow  Walker,"  whose 
property  in  1643  was  valued  at  fifty  pounds 
sterling.  After  1646- the  name  disappears 
from  the  records,  which  may  have  been  due  to 
her  removal  to  another  town,  with  her  sons. 
(II)  James  Walker,  of  Taunton,  Massa- 
chusetts, son  of  ''Widow'"  Walker,  of  Reho- 
both,  was  born  in  England  1619  or  1620,  but 
our  search  has  not  discovered  the  place  in 
which  he  was  born.'  He  was  probably  a  pas- 
senger on  the  "Elizabeth,"  Master  William 
Stagg,  who  sailed  his  ship  from  London,  April 
15,  1634,  as  the  names  of  James  Walker,  aged 
fifteen,  and  Sara  Walker,  aged  seventeen, 
servants,  and  that  of  Jo.  Browne,  a  baker,  and 
William  Brassy,  a  linen  draper,  in  Cheapside, 
London,  had  signed  their  certificate  of  their 
conformity.  On  the  sarhe  ship  were  Richard 
W^alker.  aged  twenty-four,  and  William 
\A'alker.  aged  fifteen,  and  their  certificate  was 
signed  by  Sir  William  Whitmore  and  Sir 
Nicholas  Ranton.  This  is  the  first  and  only 
time  the  name  appears  on  any  ship's  list  of 
passengers  before  1635.  and  there  is  only  one 
year  variance  between  the  age  of  this  James 
Walker  and  the  records  of  the  gravestone  in 
the  Walker  burial  place  in  South  Taunton, 
where  he  was  buried.  The  ship  "Elizabeth" 
landed  at  Nantesket.  or  Hingham,  in  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  and  William,  one  of  the  pas- 
sengers, went  to  Salem.  The  Richard  ^^'alker 
named  was  a  son  of  Richard,  of  Saugus,  or 
Lynn,  the  father  having  preceded  him.  Sara, 
his  sister,  married  John  Ti^dill,  of  Duxbury, 
and  James  married  Elizabeth  Phillips.  As 
Taunton  was  originally  a  portion  of  the  town 
of  Dorchester,  the  settlement  in  that  place  is 
entirely  reasonable.  These  three  Walkers, 
evidently  cousins,  distributed  as  follows : 
James  and  Sara  settled  in  Taunton  with  John 
Browne,  their  uncle  and  guardian.  William 
in  Eastham,  and  Richard  joined  his  father  in 
Lynn.  James  is  first  recorded  as  being  in 
Taunton,  1643,  being  enrolled  as  able  to  bear 
arms,  the  list  appearing:  "Mr.  John  Browne, 
Mr.  William  Poole,  John  Browne,  James 
Walker."  James  Walker,  the  Hingham  im- 
migrant, 1634,  son  of  "Widow"  Walker,  the 
mother  of  all  the  Walker  immigrants  of  this 
period,  was  a  settler  in  Taunton,  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony,  before  1643.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  appointed  to  dis- 
tribute the  portion  of  the  relief  fund  for  those 
suffering  from  Indian  warfare,  and  when  the 
division  was  marked  between  Massachusetts 
Bay  colony  and  Plymouth  coIon\'  he  was  a 
deputy    to    the    Plymoutii    court    for    sixteen 


years  from  1654.  He  was  a  member  and 
chairman  of  the  town  council  of  war,  1667, 
and  again  1675  and  1678,  and  one  of  the 
council  of  war  of  Plymouth  colony  in  1658- 
61-71-81.  He  was  assigned  in  the  division  of 
lands  ninety-six  acres.  He  had  no  military 
title,  but  was  content  to  be  a  servant  in  both 
church  and  state.  The  children  of  James  and 
Elizabeth  (Phillips)  Walker  were :  i.  James, 
1645-46,  married  Bathsheba  Brooks,  died  June 
22,  1718.  2.  Peter  (q.  v.).  3.  Hester,  1650, 
married  Joseph  Woods,  had  four  children,  and 
died  April  9,  1696.  4.  Eleazer,  1662,  never 
married,  died  December  15,  1724.  5.  De- 
borah, married  George  Goodwin,  died  about 
May,  1726. 

(III)  Peter,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Phillips)  Walker,  was  born  in  Taunton, 
1649,  married  Hannah  Hutchinson,  and  was 
engaged  in  the  town  business  with  Hon.  James 
Phillips.  He  had  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters, as  follows:  i.  Peter  (q.  v.).  2.  Ed- 
ward, 1692,  married  Mercy  Richard.  The 
name  "Peter"  is  retained  in  each  successive 
generation  that  lived  in  Taunton  to  the  fifth 
and  sixth,  and  as  no  child  named  Peter  ap- 
pears in  the  Woburn  or  Lynn  families  it  is 
reasonable  to  assume  that  Peter,  the  immi- 
grant, was  the  earliest  determined  ancestor  of 
Charles  Francis  Walker,  of  Gardiner,  Kenne- 
bec county,  Maine,  and  this  would  place  Peter, 
of  York,  Maine,  who  married  Hannah  Hutch- 
inson, in  the  third  generation  from  James, 
the  immigrant  of  Rehoboth  and  Taunton. 

(IV)  Peter  (2),  supposedly  son  of  Peter 
(i)  and  Hannah  (Hutchinson)  Walker,  and 
grandson  of  James  Walker,  was  born  about 
1689,  and  lived  in  York,  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony,  and  removed  to  Kennebunkport,- 
where  he  married  and  had  a  son  Joshua. 

(V)  Joshua,  son  of  Peter  (2)  Walker,  of 
York,  Maine,  born  about  1705,  lived  in  Ken- 
nebunk,  where  he  married  Hannah   Perkins. 

(VI)  John,  son  of  Joshua  and  Hannah 
(Perkins)  Walker,  born  in  1739,  came  to 
Litchfield,  Maine,  from  Kennebunkport  in 
1798,  and  settled  east  of  Oak  Hill  on  the  road 
leading  from  the  Hall  school  house  to  Litch- 
field Corner.  He  served  in  the  .\merican  rev- 
olution, and  was  ensign  of  his  company.  He 
was  married  in  1759  to  Elizabeth  Burbank, 
and  he  died  in  Litchfield,  Kennebec  county, 
Maine,  May  2,  1816,  aged  seventy-seven 
years.  The  children  born  in  Kennebunkport 
and  who  came  with  him  to  Litchfield  were :  i. 
Captain  Lemuel.  2.  Betsy,  married  Jonathan 
Walker,  and  died  in  Litchfield,  March  14, 
1846.     3.  Sarah,  married  Harrison  Downing. 


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4.  Hannah,  married  Bracey  Curtis,  lived  in 
Kennebunkport.  5.  Ebenezer,  died  May  22, 
1805,  aged  twenty-nine  years.  6.  Miriam, 
married  James  Alexander.  7.  Esther'  mar- 
ried Gould  Jewell.  8.  Eunice,  married  Robert 
Johnson,  September  23,  1810.  9.  Joshua,  born 
June,  1780,  married  Sally  Huntington  in  1808. 

(YH)  Captain  Lemuel,  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Burbank)  Walker,  was  born  in 
Kennebunkport.  Maine,  about  1765.  Captain 
Lemuel  married  (first)  Hannah  Allen,  born 
in  Kennebunkport  about  1760,  died  in  Litch- 
field, Kennebec  county.  He  was  a  sea  captain 
and  carried  on  an  extensive  trade  with  the 
West  Indies,  making  repeatedly  successful 
trips  between  New  England  ports  and  the 
ports  of  the  West  Indies.  He  served  when 
quite  voung  in  the  American  army  in  the  rev- 
olutionary war,  and  he  was  a  pensioner  before 
taking  up  life  as  a  seaman.  Among  the  ves- 
sels captured  by  the  French  in  1799  was  "the 
ship  'Phoebe,'  Captain  Lemuel  Walker  from 
Kennebunkport."  He  was  a  representative  in 
the  general  court  of  Massachusetts  before  he 
removed  to  Gardiner,  Maine,  in  1802.  He 
served  on  the  school  committee  of  Litchfield 
after  1805,  and  was  also  on  the  school  com- 
mittee. He  married  Hannah  Allen,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  Samuel,  lost  at  sea,  2. 
William,  lost  at  sea,  having  sailed  from  Bath, 
Maine.  3.  George,  married  Abigail  Springer. 
November  25,  1813.  4.  James,  married  Mar- 
garet S.  Chase,  December.  1823.  5.  Elvira 
Dalev,  May,  1830.  6.  Hannah,  married  Thom- 
as Dennis,  November  16,  1813.  and  lived  in 
Hallowell,  Maine.  7.  Elizabeth,  married  John 
Dennis,  November  26,  1807.  8.  Amelia,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Lord,  January  30,  1820,  and 
lived  in  Hallowell.  Maine.  9.  Lemuel,  died 
August  6,  1828.  10.  John,  died  November  3, 
1847.  II.  Charles,  married  Achsah  Sawin, 
and  lived  in  Boston.  12.  Betsy,  died  August 
12,  1828.     13.  Joshua  (q.  v.). 

(Vni)  Joshua,  s6n  of  Captain  Lemuel  and 
Hannah  (Allen)  A\'alker,  born  in  Litchfield, 
Maine.  March  24,  1806,  married,  December 
24.  1829.  Hannah  S..  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
and  Annie  (Springer)  Potter.  She  was  born 
in  Litchfield.  August  5.  1806.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  he  owned  sixty-eight  acres  of 
good  farming  land  in  Litchfield,  which  he  cul- 
tivated up  to  1850.  when  he  sold  his  farm  and 
removed  to  Richmond.  He  was  a  man  of 
public  spirit,  and  was  greatly  interested  in  the 
welfare  of  the  town  of  Litchfield,  where  he 
was  a  member  of  the  school  board  and  a  sur- 
veyor of  highways.  He  was  a  Whig  in  party 
politics,   and   was   a   prompt   attendant   at   all 


public  meetings  and  at  the  polls  at  every  elec- 
tion. He  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Baptist 
church.  Mr.  Walker  died  in  Richmond, 
Maine,  March  28.  1851.  and  his  widow  died 
in  the  homestead.  May  20,  1853.  They  had 
six  children,  all  sons,  born  in  Litchfield,  as 
follows:  I.  Jeremiah  P..  September  27,  1830, 
married  Elizabeth  Call ;  was  a  soldier  in  the 
civil  war  and  died  in  Maryland.  2.  Samuel 
W.,  May  31,  1832,  died  !May  20,  i8:;3.  3. 
James  (q.  v.),  September  24,  1834.  4.  George 
W.,  October  6,  1837,  died  at  St.  Anthony 
Falls,  Minnesota,  January  15,  1856.  5.  Ed- 
win, March  9,  1841,  died  September,  igo6; 
married  Harriett  Howell,  and  lived  in  Ded- 
ham,  Massachusetts.  6.  Isaac  N.,  June  29, 
1843,  died  in  Limestone,  ]\Inine,  July  8,  1861. 
(IX)  Captain  James,  third  son  of  Joshua 
and  Llannah  S.  (Potter)  Walker,  was  born  in 
Litchfield,  Maine,  September  24,  1834.  He 
was  a  pupil  in  tlie  public  schools  of  Litchfield, 
and  when  he  left  school  was  quite  young,  but 
a  rugged,  healthful  youth.  He  was  first  em- 
ployed in  the  lumber  and  saw  mill  business  in 
Richmond,  Maine,  for  the  Foster  &  Spaulding 
Company,  and  after  three  years  such  service 
he  went  to  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  where  he 
spent  one  year  in  prospecting  with  the  inten- 
tion of  settling  in  the  great  west.  At  that 
time  Minnesota  was  the  frontier  of  civiliza- 
tion and  did  not  prove  attractive  to  young  men 
brought  up  in  New  England.  He  returned  to 
Maine.  Gardiner,  and  formed  a  partnership 
with  Mr.  P.ridge,  and  they  built  a  sawmill  at 
Limestone  in  1857,  ''"d  conducted  it  success- 
fully up  to  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  in 
1861.  This  event  changed  all  his  plans,  and 
his  patriotism  was  fired  as  the  news  of  the 
danger  to  the  safety  and  stability  of  the  P-nited 
States  increased  with  the  repeated  di-asters 
that  met  our  army  at  the  beginning  of  the 
war,  and  he  abandoned  the  sawmill  and  en- 
listed. October  31.  1861,  in  the  Fifteenth 
Maine  \'olunteer  Infantry,  and  was  nssioned 
to  Company  E,  which  was  recruiting  at  Fair- 
field, and  the  regiment  was  sent  to  the  south- 
west as  a  part  of  the  expedition  of  General 
Benjamin  F.  Butler,  sent  to  capture  New  Or- 
leans and  open  the  Mississippi  river  in  co- 
operation with  the  nav.Tl  fleet  of  Rear  Admiral 
Farragut  and  Captain  Porter.  He  was  ap- 
pointed sergeant  of  the  company,  second  lieu- 
tenant, September  2.  1863:  captain.  May  9, 
1865.  His  regiment  followed  the  fleet  up  the 
river  on  transports  and  landed  at  New  Or- 
leans upon  the  capitulation  of  that  city,  suc- 
ceeding the  capture  of  the  forts.  He  first  saw 
active  field   service   at   Caniji   Parapit,   Ponsa- 


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cola,  and  then  in  the  defense  of  New  Orleans. 
He  accompanied  the  Bank's  expedition  into 
Louisiana  and  up  tlie  Red  river,  seeing  and 
taking  part  in  the  battles  that  ensued  in  Lou- 
isiana and  Texas.  While  in  Texas  his  regi- 
ment re-enlisted  for  the  war,  and  the  winter 
of  1863  was  spent  in.  Texas.  The  regiment 
was  transferred  from  the  southwest  to  the 
National  capital  in  the  spring  of  1864,  and  he 
was  in  the  battles  before  Washington,  at  Har- 
per's Ferry,  Leesburg  and  in  the  Shenandoah 
W'tlley  un  'er  the  gallant  and  imresistible  Gen- 
eral Sheridan.  In  August,  1864,  the  regiment 
was  sent  on  a  vacation  furlough  in  Maine,  and 
in  September  they  were  ordered  to  Martins- 
burg,  \'irginia,  and  they  guarded  the  army 
supplies  held  in  the  Valley  of  the  Shenandoah, 
spending  the  winter  at  Stephenson's  Station, 
and  in  the  spring,  when  the  confederates  evac- 
uated Richmond,  were  sent  up  the  valley,  and 
marched  to  head  ot¥  any  such  movement.  The 
regiment  was  at  Charlestown,  Virginia,  when 
the  news  of  President  Lincoln's  assassination 
;tartled  the  country  and  shocked  the  world, 
md  this  regiment  was  ordered  to  Washington 
to  guard  the  city.  On  May  24,  1865,  the  regi- 
ment took  part  in  the  grand  review,  and  soon 
after  was  ordered  to  Savannah,  Georgia,  and 
thence  into  South  Carolina  to  protect  the  citi- 
zens in  the  disturbed  condition  of  local  affairs, 
pending  the  formation  of  state  government. 
This  duty  sent  the  regiment  to  the  various 
court  houses  in  the  state,  and  they  continued 
on  such  duty  up  to  July  5,  1866,  when  the 
veteran  regiment  was  mustered  out  of  the 
United  States  service. 

On  returning  to  Gardiner,  the  veteran  sol- 
dier engaged  in  the  brick  manufacturing  busi- 
ness at  Richmond,  Maine,  and  in  1869  sold  out 
the  brick  business  and  engaged  as  a  box  manu- 
facturer and  a  manufacturer  of  spruce  excel- 
sior, and  this  business  he  carried  on  success- 
fully up  to  1903,  when  he  transferred  the  busi- 
ness to  a  ready  purchaser  and  began  the  manu- 
facture of  doors,  sash  and  blinds  with  his 
son,  Charles  F.,  under  the  firm  name  of  James 
Walker  &  Son,  and  they  employed  over 
twenty  trained  workmen  in  thejjusiness  con- 
tinually. He  became  a  prominent  factor  in 
the  Republican  party  in  Maine,  served  in  both 
branches  of  the  city  government  of  Gardiner, 
and  was  mayor  of  the  city  in  1897-98.  He  is 
a  director  in  the  Gardiner  National  Bank  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Gardiner  Savings  Bank.  His 
military  service  was  recognized  by  the  military 
order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States 
through  the  Commandery  of  Maine,  electing 
him   to  companionship,    and    by    the    Grand 


Army  of  the  Republic  through  Heath  Post, 
No.  6,  of  Gardiner,  Maine,  receiving  him  as  a 
comrade  and  electing  him  conm:ander  of  the 
post.  He  is  also  a  master  workman  in  the 
Ancient  Order  United  Workmen,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Free  Baptist  church.  He  was  mar- 
ried, August  21,  1864,  to  Julia,  daughter  of 
Annis  and  Sarah  (Edgcomb)  Douglass,  and 
their  children,  born  in  the  city  of  Gardiner, 
are  :  Charles  Francis  and  Clara  Ellen. 

(X)  Charles  Francis,  eldest  child  and  only 
son  of  Hon.  James  and  Julia  (Douglass) 
Walker,  was  born  in  Gardiner,  Maine,  Sep- 
tember 19,  1872.  He  was  prepared  for  busi- 
ness life  in  the  Shaw  Business  School  of  Au- 
gusta, Maine,  and  on  completing  the  course 
as  prescribed  in  that  school  entered  his  father's 
manufactory  as  a  clerk  and  overseer,  and  in 
1903  he  was  made  a  partner,  the  firm  being 
James  Walker  &  Son.  Like  his  father,  he  is 
an  earnest  Republican,  and  by  right  of  inheri- 
tance became  a  member  of  Danforth  Maxcey 
Camp,  Sons  of  Veterans,  of  Gardiner.  He 
was  also  admitted  to  membership  in  the  Gar- 
diner Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows. He  was  married,  October  12.  1893,  to 
Gertrude,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mattie  E. 
(  Kimbal )  Hamilton,  of  Randolph.  Maine,  and 
their  children,  all  born  in  Gardiner,  Maine, 
are:  i.  Madeline  Hamilton,  born  July  22\ 
1894.  2.  Helen,  April  30,  1895.  3.  James 
Lee,  January  2,  1896.  4.  Julia,  September  12, 
1902,  died  aged  six  months.  5.  Marion  E., 
May  21,   1907,  died  January  21,  1908. 


The    members   of   this   early 
BOYNTON     immigrant  family  in  America 

trace  its  pedigree  through 
many  generations  in  this  country  and  England 
to  the  time  of  the  Conquest.  In  a  sequestered 
rural  neighborhood  bordering  on  the  town  of 
Bridlington  and  not  far  from  the  shore  of  the 
North  Sea,  in  the  eastern  part  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  stands  the  ancient  village  of  Bovn- 
ton,  which  derives  importance  from  its  having 
given  name  to  the  family  of  Boynton,  and  their 
principal  seat  for  centuries.  The  manor  house 
was  from  a  very  early  period  the  residence  of 
the  Boyntons.  the  family  sent  forth  branches 
into  the  neighboring  villages,  at  an  early  pe- 
riod. East  Heslerton  and  Wintringham  being 
the  abode  for  several  generations  of  that 
branch  whose  descendants,  William  and  John, 
came  to  New  England  in  1637  and  settled  at 
Rowley,  Massachusetts. 

(I)  Bartholomew  de  Boynton,  who  was 
seized  of  the  manor  of  Boynton  in  1067,  was 
the  first  mentioned  as  having  used  the  name  as 


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a  surname.    He  was  succeeded  in  his  estnte  by 
liis  son. 

(II)  Walter  de  Boynton,  son  of  Bartholo- 
mew de  Boynton,  was  living  in   1091. 

(III)  Bruis  de  Boynton,  probably  a  son  of 
Walter  (i)  de  Boynton,  left  his  name  on  a 
document    dated    1129. 

(IV)  Sir  Ingram  de  Boynton,  knight,  suc- 
ceeded Bruis  de  Boynton,  and  lived  in  11 59. 
He  left  a  son,  his  heir. 

(V)  Thomas  de  Boynton,  son  of  Sir  In- 
gram de  Boynton,  married  anil  left  at  least 
one   son. 

(VI)  Robert  de  Boynton,  son  of  Thomas 
(i)  de  Boynton,  flourished  in  1205,  and  by 
his  wife,  daughter  of  Thomas  Burgh,  Esq., 
left  a  son. 

(VII)  Ingraham  de  Boynton,  son  of  Rob- 
ert (i)  de  Boynton,  was  Hving  in  1235  and 
1258.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Sir  Walter  Grindall,  by  whom  he  had 
one  child  or  more. 

(VIII)  Walter  (2)  de  Boynton,  son  of  In- 
graham (i)  and  Margaret  (Grindall)  de 
Boynton,  lived  in  1273,  and  married  the  daugh- 
ter of  Ingram  Mounscaux,  and  had  issue. 

(IX)  Ingraham  (2)  de  Boynton,  son  of 
Walter  (2)  de  Boynton,  was  living  in  1272 
and  1307.  He  married  a  dausfhter  of  St. 
Quintine  and  had  one  child  or  more. 

(X)  Sir  Walter  (3)  de  Boynton,  son  of  In- 
graham (2)  de  Boynton,  was  knighted  in 
1356,  being,  in  the  service  of  the  Prince  of 
Wales,  in  lirittany.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
William  Alton,  and  left  issue. 

(XI)  Sir  Thomas  (2)  de  Boynton  of  Ac- 
clam,  son  of  Sir  Walter  (3)  de  ISoynton,  was 
lord  of  the  ancient  demesne  of  Boynton,  of 
Acclome  and  Aresome,  in  right  of  his  mother, 
and  of  Rouseby,  Newton,  and  Swaynton,  by 
his  wife  Catherine,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Gifford  Rossells,  of  Newton,  Knight.  He 
left  a  son. 

(XII)  Sir  Thomas  (3)  Boynton.  Knight, 
■son  of  Sir  Thomas   (2)  de  Boynton,  married 

Margaret,    daughter    of    Speeton,    of 

Sawcock,  and  left  issue. 

(XIII)  Sir  Henry  Boynton,  Knight,  son  of 
Sir  Thomas  (3)  Boynton,  joined  Henry 
Percy,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  who  had 
taken  up  arms  against  Henry  IV,  in  1405. 
They  were  defeated  and  Sir  Henry,  with  seven 
others,  was  executed  at  Sadbury.  in  Yorkshire, 
Julv  2,  1405.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Merrifield,  Knight,  and  by  her 
had  daughters,  Janett  and  Elizabeth,  and  two 
sons,  Thomas,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twelve 
years,  and  William,  next  mentioned. 


(XI\')  William,  son  of  Sir  Henry  Boyn- 
ton, married  Jane,  daugliter  of  Simon  Hard- 
ing, and  left  a  child  or  children. 

(XV)  Sir  Thomas  (4),  Knight,  son  of 
William  (i)  and  of  Jane  (Harding)  Boyn- 
ton, made  his  will  July  28.  1408,  which  was 
proved  on  September  6  following.  He  mar- 
ried Margaret,  daughter  of  William  Norm;n- 
ville,  and  they  had  two  sons— Henry,  the  elder 
and  heir,  and  Christopher,  the  subject  of  the 
next  paragraph. 

(XVI)  Sir  Christopher,  younger  son  of  Sir 
Thomas  (4)  and  Margaret  (Normanville) 
Boynton,  had  his  seat  at  Sadbury,  in  York- 
shire. He  married  the  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Coignes,  of  Orniesbury,  Knight,  and  had  is- 
sue. 

(X\TI)  Sir  Christopher  (2),  of  Sadbury, 
Knight,  son  of  Sir  Christopher  (i)  Bovnton, 
also  had  estates  in  Heslerton  and  Newton,  and 
in  the  parish  of  Wintringham.     His  first  wife 

was  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Wanford, 

by  whom  he  had  one  son,  William,  who  died 
without  issue.  By  his  second  wife.  Jane, 
daughter  of  Robert  Strangeways,  of  Kelton, 
he  had  daughters.  Elizabeth  and  Jane,  and  two 
sons.  Sir  Christopher,  whose  male  issue  is  ex- 
tinct, and  Robert,  next  mentioned. 

(XMII)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Sir  Christo- 
pher (2)  and  Jane  (Strangeways)  Boynton, 
of  East  Heslerton,  died  in  1526,  leaving  by 
his  wife  Anges  sons  :  John,  of  East  Heslerton: 
Richard,  of  Newton,  who  died  in  1539;  Will- 
iam, a  priest,  and  James,  mentioned  in  the  next 
paragraph. 

(XIX)  James,  son  of  Robert  (2)  and  Ag- 
nes Boynton,  of  Wintringham,  made  his  will 
in  1 534  and  died  the  same  year,  leaving  a  wid- 
ow Jane  and  sons  Roger,  William  and  Chris- 
topher. 

(XX)  Roger,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Jane 
Boynton,  was  also  of  Wintringham,  and  re- 
sided  at   Knapton,   in   that   parish.     He  died 

in  1558.   By  his  wife  Jenet,  daughter  of 

Watson,  he  had  sons :  James,  Richard,  Will- 
iam, Edmund,  and  a  daughter  Alice. 

(XXI)  William  (2),  third  son  and  child 
of  Roger  and  Janet  (W'atson)  Boynton,  re- 
sided also  at  Knapton,  in  Wintringham.  He 
died  in  161 5.  leavinsr  a  widow  Marqaret,  who 
was  his  second  wife ;  sons  Francis,  Daniel, 
John  and  William,  and  daughters  .A.nne  and 
Margaret. 

(XXII)  William  (3),  youngest  son  of 
William  (2)  and  Margaret  Boynton,  was  ex- 
ecutor of  his  father's  will,  and  residuary  lega- 
tee. He  continued  to  reside  at  Knapton.  where 
his  sons  William  and  John  were  born.    (Men- 


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tion  of  the  latter  and  descendants  appears  in 
this  article.) 

(XXIII)  William  (4),  son  of_  William  (3) 
Boynton,  was  born  in  1606  at  Knapton,  East 
Riding,  Yorkshire,  England.  With  his  brother 
John  he  embarked  at  Hull  in  the  fall  of  1638 
and  arrived  in  Boston  that  same  year.  The 
party  was  under  the  charge  of  Rev.  Ezekiel 
Rogers,  and  they  settled  in  Rowley,  JNIassachu- 
setts,  where  William  Boynton  was  assigned  a 
lot  of  land  on  Bradford  street,  to  which  he 
subsequently  added  by  extensive  purchases  in 
various  parts  of  the  county.  During  his  life- 
time he  gave  a  farm  to  each  of  his  children, 
and  the  remainder  of  his  estate  he  left  to  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Jackson,  who  came  with  him 
from  England.  In  the  records  he  is  called  a 
planter  and  weaver,  but  in  the  deeds  he  is 
called  a  tailor.  He  must  have  been  a  man  of 
education  and  influence,  for  he  taught  the 
school  from  1656  to  i68i,  and  was  probably 
the  first  person  employed  as  schoolmaster  in 
the  town.  The  children,  born  in  Rowley,  Mas- 
sachuseits,  were :  John,  Elizabetli,  Zachariah, 
Joshua,   Mary,  Caleb  and  Sarah. 

(XXIV')  Joshua,  third  son  and  fourth  child 
of  William  (4)  and  Elizabeth  (Jackson) 
Boynton,  was  born  March  10,  1646,  at  Rowley. 
Massachusetts.  In  1673  his  father  gave  him  a 
farm  in  Newbury  containing  a  hundred  acres, 
where  he  lived  more  than  fifty  years.  He  was 
a  soldier  under  Major  Appleton  in  the  wars 
at  Xarragansett  in  1675,  and  also  under  Cap- 
tain Brocklebank  when  the  latter  was  slain  by 
the  Indians  in  April,  1676.  Joshua  Boynton 
was  thrice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Han- 
nah Barnet,  of  N^ewbury,  to  whom  he  was 
united  April  9,  1678.  She  died  January  12, 
1722.  at  Newbury,  and  he  married  widow 
IMary  Syles,  of  Rowley,  who  died  July  28, 
1727.  On  October  30  of  that  year  he  married 
Mary,  widow  of  his  cousin,  John  Boynton. 
There  were  twelve  children  in  all,  of  whom  the 
first  five  at  least  belonged  to  the  first  marriage. 
There  is  some  discrepancy  in  the  dates  of  birth 
of  the  others,  and  the  record  gives  the  last 
seven  as  born  at  Rowley.  Joshua  Boynton's 
will  was  proved  N^ovember  12.  1736,  showing 
that  he  had  reached  the  age  of  ninety  years. 

(XXV)  Joshua  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joshua 
(i)  and  Mary  (Sikes)  Boynton.  was  born 
May  4,  i66g,  in  Newbury,  and  married  ?\lary, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Gerrish)  Dole, 
in  May,  1708.  She  was  born  in  Newbury,  No- 
vember 14,  1681,  and  they  resided  there.  He 
died  October  29,  1770.  and  she  on  December 
27,1777-  They  had  thirteen  children  :  Sarah, 
Jeremiah,  Jemima,  Mary,  David,  Moses,  Josh- 


ua, Mary,  Apphia,  Jane,  Hannah,  Enoch  and 
Mehitabie. 

(XX_\T)  David,  second  son  of  Joshua  (2) 
and  Mary  (Dole)  Boynton,  was  born  in  New- 
bury, December  15,  1712,  and  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Palmer) 
Stickney,  of  that  town,  September  19,  1738. 
She  was  born  in  Byfield,  Massachusetts,  Sep- 
tember 2,  171 1.  They  resided  in  Newbury, 
and  he  died  there  February  8,  1757.  She  mar- 
ried (second)  Moses,  son  of  Jacob  Hardy,  De- 
cember 3,  1760,  and  removed  to  Dunstable, 
Massachusetts.  He  died,  and  she  then  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Butterfield,  of  .Andover,  iNlassachu- 
setts.  The  record  of  births  are  as  given : 
Sarah,  David,  Samuel,  Amos,  Thomas,  Mary, 
Moses  and  Jonathan. 

(XXVH)  Amos,  third  son  of  David  and 
Mary  (  Stickney)  Boynton,  was  born  in  New- 
bury, February  2,  1745.  He  removed  to  By- 
field,  Massachusetts,  and  thence  to  Machias, 
Maine,  in  1766.  This  town  was  colonized  from 
Scarborough,  Maine,  just  prior  to  .-\mos  join- 
ing the  settlement.  He  signed  the  petition  to 
the  general  court  for  a  charter,  subscribed  for 
the  building  of  the  first  meeting  house,  and 
was  part  owner  of  the  first  sawmill.  He  held 
a  lieutenantcy  in  Captain  Smith's  company,  in 
Colonel  Benjamin  Foster's  regiment,  in  the 
war  of  the  revolution.  He  married  Polly 
Libby,  and  (second)  Lucy  Loring.  Children: 
Sally,  who  married  Jonathan  Longfellow,  who 
was  of  the  poet's  line;  Polly,  married  his 
brother  Isaac ;  Betsey,  Hannah,  Lydia,  Ste- 
phen, Thomas  and  Lucv. 

(XX\TII)  Stephen,  eldest  son  of  Amos  and 
Lucy  (Loring)  Boynton,  was  born  in  Machias 
in  1787.  When  the  war  of  1812  broke  out  a 
military  company  was  formed  in  Machias 
which  should  be  ready  at  a  moment's  notice, 
and  of  this  company  Steohen  was  one,  and  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  land  for  his  services.  The 
war  caused  a  season  of  great  scarcity  in  Ma- 
chias, and  many  of  the  citizens  were  in  ne- 
cessitous circumstances.  To  escape  the  hard 
times,  Stephen  went  to  St.  John,  New  Bruns- 
wick, and  obtained  employment,  remaining  till 
1820.  when  he  returned  to  his  old  home."  He 
died  in  the  centennial  year,  1876.  He  married 
Hannah  Jewett.  Married  (second)  Myra 
Brown.  Married  (third)  Hannah  Bowker. 
Married  (fourth)  Polly  Whitney,  nee  Crocker. 
By  his  first  marriage  he  had  five  children,  four 
by  the  second  and  two  by  the  fourth.  Amos, 
Thomas.  Abigail  T.,  Lucy  L.,  Ezekiel,  Han- 
nah F..  David,  Roscoe  G. ;  a  son  who  died  in 
infancy,  and  Mary  L.,  the  only  member  of  the 
family  who  remained  unmarried. 


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(XXIX)  Roscoe  G.,  second  son  of  Stephen 
and  Myra  (Brown)  Boynton,  was  born  July 
15,  1836,  at  Machias,  and  was  a  farmer  by  oc- 
cupation. He  married  Martha  A.  Bowker  in 
1861.  Children:  Elmira  B.,  Anna  C,  Emily 
J.  and  George  B. 

(XXX)  George  B.,  only  son  of  Roscoe 
Green  and  Martha  A.  (Bowker)  Boynton,  was 
born  in  Machias,  October  13,  1870.  He  at- 
tended the  public  schools,  entered  the  Eastern 
Trust  and  Banking  Company  of  Machias  as 
bookkeeper,  and  subsequently  became  man- 
ager. In  1907  he  organized  the  Dirigo  Can- 
ning Company.  The  plant  is  located  at  Mount 
Monsapec,  Maine,  and  they  can  clams,  blue- 
berries, apples  and  vegetables.  Later  he 
formed  the  Acme  Canning  Company  of  Aver 
Junction,  Maine,  and  the  Machias  Canning 
Company  of  Machiasport,  Maine,  this  latter 
corporation  canning  sardines.  Of  all  of  these 
companies  Mr.  Boynton  is  treasurer.  He  is 
also  a  partner  in  the  general  store  of  Boynton 
&  Estey  at  Whiting,  I\Iaine.  They  do  an  ex- 
tensive business  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber. 
Mr.  Boynton  is  a  member  of  Harwood  Lodge, 
No.  91,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons; 
of  Washington  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
of  St.  Elmo  Commandery,  Knights  Templar ; 
of  the  Arabic  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and 
has  taken  the  thirty-second  degree  in  the 
Scottish  Rite.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Ben 
Hur  Lodge,  No.  "]"],  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 
He  acts  and  votes  with  the  party  of  Lincoln, 
Grant  and  Roosevelt.  He  is  very  broad  and 
liberal  in  his  religious  proclivities.  He  mar- 
ried Gertrude  Frances,  daughter  of  John  and 
Silvia  Perry,  and  they  have  no  children. 


Among  the  early  pioneers  of 
HINCKLEY     Plymouth  Colony  were  those 

bearing  this  name,  and  their 
■descendants  have  had  honorable  records  as 
citizens.  They  have  borne  a  part  in  nearly 
every  line  of  industry  which  has  contributed 
to  the  progress  and  development  of  the  na- 
tion. The  name  has  been  conspicuously  iden- 
tified in  Maine  with  various  lines  of  material 
and  moral  progress. 

(I)  Samuel  Hinckley,  who  was  no  doubt 
the  ancestor  of  all  in  this  country  bearing  the 
name,  was  born  in  1595  in  Tenterdon,  county 
of  Kent,  England,  and  came  to  Boston  in  the 
"Hercules"  of  Sandwich  (two  hundred  tons. 
Captain  John  Witherby),  July  11,  1637.  He 
was  accompanied  by  his  wife  Sarah  and  four 
children,  and  located  first  at  Scituate,  remov- 


ing to  Barnstable  in  1640.  He  died  there  Oc- 
tober 31,  1662,  having  survived  his  wife,  who 
passed  away  August  16,  1656.  He  was  mar- 
ried (second)  December  15,  1657,  to  Bridget 
Bodfish,  widow  of  Robert  Bodfish.  He  was  a 
large  land-holder,  and  of  some  prominence  in 
civil  life.  His  children,  all  born  of  first  wife, 
were :  Thomas,  Susamiah,  Sarah,  Mary,  Eliz- 
abeth, Samuel  (died  young),  Samuel  and 
John ;  besides  a  daughter  and  twin  children 
who  died  in  infancy,  unnamed. 

(II)  Thomas,  eldest  child  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  Hinckley,  was  born  in  1618  in  England 
and  died  April  25,  i^^o.  at  Barnstable,  at  the 
age  of  about  eighty-eight  years.  A  memorial 
stone  is  erected  on  his  grave  in  Barnstable.  He 
had  nearly  attained  to  man's  estate  when  he 
accompanied  his  parents  to  this  country,  and 
soon  took  an  active  and  conspicuous  part  in 
the  conduct  of  colonial  affairs.  He  partici- 
pated in  the  great  Narraganset  fight  in  1665, 
and  was  representative  of  the  general  court  in 
1647.  He  served  as  assistant  to  the  governor, 
who  was  deputy  governor  of  1680,  and  gov- 
ernor from  1681  to  1692.  He  was  king's  coun- 
cilor in  Andros  from  1692  to  1706.  He  was 
married  (first)  December  4,  1641.  to  Mary 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Wealthean  (Loring) 
Richards.  She  died  in  Barnstable,  June  24, 
1639.  and  he  married  (second),  March  16, 
1660,  Mrs.  Mary  Glover,  widow  of  Nathaniel 
Glover,  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  and 
daughter  of  John  Smith.  She  was  born  July 
20,  1630,  at  Toxeth  Park,  near  Liverpool, 
England,  and  died  in  Barnstable,  July  29, 
1703.  Her  father  was  known  by  the  title  of 
quartermaster  and  his  wife  and  her  mother 
was  Mary  Ryder,  of  Toxeth  Park.  Governor 
Hinckley's  children  by  first  marriage  were : 
Mary,  Sarah,  IMalatiah.  Hannah,  Samuel, 
Bathshua,  Thomas,  Mehitable.  Those  of  sec- 
ond marriage  were:  Admire,  Ebenezer  (died 
young),  Mercy,  Experience.  John,  Abagail, 
Thankful,  Ebenezer  and  Reliance. 

(III)  Samuel  (2),  eldest  son  of  Governor 
Thomas  Hinckley  and  his  first  wife,  Alary 
(Richards)  Hinckley,  was  born  February  14, 
1652,  in  Barnstable,  and  passed  his  life  in 
that  town,  where  he  died  March  19,  1697.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  King  Phillip's  war,  and  was 
one  of  the  grantees  of  the  town  of  Gorham, 
in  the  district  of  Maine.  He  was  married  No- 
vember 13,  1676,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain John  Pope,  of  Sandwich.  .■Xftcr  his  death 
she  became  the  second  wife  of  Thomas  Hutch- 
ins,  of  Barnstable.  Children  of  Samuel  (2) 
Hinckley  were:   Mercy  (died  young),  Mehit- 


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able,  Thomas,  Seth,  Samuel,  Elnathan  (died 
young),  Job,  Shubael,  Aifrcy,  Josiah  and  El- 
nathan. 

(Ill)  Thankful,  daughter  of  Governor 
Thomas  Hinckley  and  his  second  wife,  Mary 
(Smith)  (Glover)  Hinckley,  was  born  August 
20,  1671,  in  Barnstable,  and  became  the  wife 
of  Rev.  Experience  Ma>hew,  of  Chilmark. 

(R^)  Samuel  (3),  third  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Pope)  Hinckley,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1684,  in  Barnstable,  and  died  in 
Brunswick,  Maine,  where  he  settled  after 
January,  1720.  He  resided  in  Harwich,  Mas- 
sachusetts, until  1715,  in  wliich  year  lie  re- 
moved to  Truro,  Massachusetts,  going  thence 
to  Alaine.  He  was  married  in  April,  1710,  in 
Harwich,  Massachusetts,  to  Mary,  daughter  of 
Edmond  and  granddaughter  of  I\Iajor  John 
Freeman  of  that  town,  where  she  was  born. 
Children  :  Seth,  Shubael,  Samuel,  Mary,  Ed- 
mond, Reliance,  Aaron,  Mehitable,  Experience, 
Isaac  and  Gideon. 

(V)  Samuel  (4),  third  son  of  Samuel  (3) 
and  Mary  (Freeman)  Hinckley,  was  born 
Febmary  7,  171 1,  in  Harwich,  Massachusetts, 
and  died  in  Georgetown,  Maine.  He  resided 
in  Brunswick  until  after  1742,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Georgetown,  and  there  passed  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  married  in 
Brunswick  to  Sarah  iMiller;  children:  John, 
Mehitable,  Samuel,  Mary,  Josiah,  Edmund, 
William,  Seth,  Nathan,  Sarah  and  Reliance. 

(\T)  Edmund,  fourth  son  of  Samuel  (4) 
and  Sarah  (Miller)  Hinckley,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 29,  1745,  in  Georgetown,  Maine,  where 
he  passed  his  life,  and  was  a  farmer.  He  was 
married  in  1767  to  Mary  Pettingill,  of  North 
Yarmouth,  Maine.  Children  :  Elizabeth,  John, 
Miriam,  Edmund,  Mary,  Martha,  Rebecca  and 
Sarah. 

(VH)  Edmund  (2),  son  of  Edmund  and 
Mary  (Pettingill)  Hinckley,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 6,  1778,  in  Georgetown,  Maine,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  farming  and  fishing.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  was  married 
in  Georgetown,  Maine,  to  Abigail  Oliver,  born 
April  27,  1782,  in  that  town,  daughter  of  Eph- 
riam  and  Anna  (Spinney)  Oliver.  Children: 
Alaria,  William,  Pettingill,  Eliza,  John  Wilson, 
Ann.  Ephraim  Oliver,  Mary  and  Richard. 

(\'III)  Ephraim  Oliver,  fourth  son  of  Ed- 
mund and  Abigail  (Oliver)  Hinckley,  was 
born  August  6,  1818,  in  Georgetown,  Maine, 
where  he  was  reared  and  received  such  educa- 
tion as  the  local  public  school  afforded.  Dur- 
ing the  most  of  his  active  years  he  followed 
a  seafaring  life,  which  proved  detrimental  to 
his  health,  and   for  the  last  twenty  years  he 


has  lived.  ?tffetired  life  on  account  of  physical 
disabilities  «  Georgetown.  He  is  an  earnest 
suppCrter  of  the  Republican  party,  but  takes 
no  active  part  in  political  movements,  and  has 
no  desire  for  official  station.  He  was  married 
in  Georgetown,  September  22,  1845,  to  Maria, 
born  January  28,  1822,  in  that  town,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Ephraim  and  Jerusha  (Spinney)  Oliver. 
Ephraim  Oliver  was  a  farmer  and  fisherman, 
residing  in  Georgetown.  The  children  of  Eph- 
raim O.  and  Maria  (Oliver)  Hinckley  were: 
William,  Loring,  Georgianna,  Sarah  Elizabeth, 
Frederick  James,  Abby  Ellen,  Edward  Clar- 
ence and  Mary  Maria. 

(IX)  Frederick  James,  second  son  of  Eph- 
raim O.  and  Maria  (Oliver)  Hinckley,  was 
born  November  25,  1853,  in  Georgetown,  and 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  town.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  years 
he  went  to  sea  with  his  father,  and  continued 
in  this  line  of  occupation  for  many  years.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-two  years  he  became  master 
of  the  vessel,  and  sailed  in  the  coasting  trade 
and  voyages  to  the  West  Indies  until  1897.  In 
the  last-named  year  he  settled  in  Bath,  Maine, 
where  he  engaged  in  business  as  a  ship  bro- 
ker, and  fire  and  marine  insurance  agent.  In 
this  he  has  been  successful,  and  is  regarded 
as  a  useful  and  leading  citizen.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Atlantic  Carriers'  Association,  and 
of  the  Free  Baptist  church  of  Georgetown, 
Maine.  He  was  married,  January  19,  1875,  to 
Mary  Emma,  of  Phippsburg,  Maine,  daughter 
of  Isaac  Holbrook,  of  that  town.  Two  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  died  in  childhood.  The 
other,  Ethel  Blanche,  is  the  wife  of  Sylvester 
H.  Rowland,  of  Bath,  Maine,  formerly  of  New 
Jersey. 


This  name  was  early  in  New 
HOUGH     England.  William  Hough,  house- 

wright,  was  a  son  of  Edward 
Hough,  of  West  Chester,  in  Cheshire,  Eng- 
land, and  came  to  America,  probably  in  1640, 
with  Rev.  Richard  Blinman.  It  has  not  been 
ascertained  that  this  Edward  Hough  emigrated 
to  America,  but  a  widow,  Ann  Hough,  who 
died  in  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  in  1672, 
aged  eighty-five  years,  was  perhaps  his  relict, 
and  the  mother  of  William  Hough.  William 
Hough  married,  October  28,  1635,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Caulkins,  and  had  Hannah, 
Abiah  and  Sarah.  He  removed  to  New  Lon- 
don, and  there  had  Samuel,  John,  William, 
Jonathan,  Deborah,  Abigail  and  Ann.  Of  sev- 
eral of  these  children  there  are  no  traces.  Jo- 
seph, mentioned  below,  may  be  a  grandchild 
of  William  the  immis:rant. 


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I 


»  STATE  OF  MAINE. 


(I)  Joseph  Hough  was  born  in  "\^/aHjng- 
ford,  Connecticut,  in  i/i",  and  died  June  5, 
1809.  He  married,  June  27,  1745,  Catherine 
Yale,  who  died  October  5,  I7'''7'  agerf  forty- 
six  years.  She  was  tlie  daughter  of  Captain 
Theophilus  and  Sarali  Street  Yale.  Their 
children  were:  Joseph,  Mary,  Lois  (died 
young),  Lent,  Lois,  David,  Joel,  James  (died 
young),  James,  Catherine  and  Sarah. 

(H)  Lent,  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Cath- 
erine (Yale)  Hough,  was  born  in  Walling- 
ford,  Connecticut.  April  4,  1751,  and  died  Oc- 
tober 8,  1837.  He  married  (first)  Rebecca 
Tuttle,  who  died  August  22,  1798,  aged  forty- 
four  years.  He  married  (second)  Mary  An- 
drews, who  was  Mary  Pierrepont,  of  North 
Haven,  before  her  first  marriage.  She  died 
June  27,  1832,  aged  seventy-five.  Children  by 
the  first  marriage  were :  Lucy,  Hannah  and 
Serrajah;  child  by  second  marriage,  Almira. 

(HI)  Serrajah,  only  son  of  Lent  and  Re- 
becca (Tuttle)  Hough,  was  born  in  Walling- 
ford,  March  26,  1780,  and  died  in  Meriden, 
August  3.  1853.  He  married,  February  18, 
1801,  Elizabeth  S.  Avery,  who  was  born  in 
Wallingford,  September  27,  1782,  daughter  of 
Abner  Avery.  Their  children  were:  Lyman 
Worcester,  Lent  Serrajah,  Nancy  Avery,  Re- 
becca Tuttle,  Alonzo  Bennett,  George  Sher- 
man, John  Meers,  William  Augustus  and  Ju- 
lius Ogden. 

( I\' )  Alonzo  IVnnett.  third  son  of  Serrajah 
and  Elizabeth  .S.  (Avery)  Hough,  was  born 
March  25,  1810.  He  resided  in  Ludlow,  Ver- 
mont, Gardiner.  Maine  and  later  in  Vincland, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  in- 
surance business.  He  married  Rebecca  Gil- 
bert, who  died  in  Portland,  at  the  home  of  her 
son,  William  Ogden,  July  i,  i8g8,  aged  eighty- 
six  years.  Children:  i.  Franklin,  died  at 
about  the  age  of  four  years.  2.  William  Og- 
den, see  forward. 

(V)  William  Ogden,  son  of  Alonzo  Ben- 
nett and  Rebecca  (Gilbert)  Hough,  was  born 
in  Ludlow,  Vermont,  March  12,  1843,  died  in 
Portland,  Maine,  December  23,  1902.  At  ten 
years  of  age  he  went  to  Gardiner,  Maine,  with 
his  parents,  and  there  attended  the  public 
schools,  graduating  from  the  high  school.  He 
then  entered  Bowdoin  College,  which  he  at- 
tended two  years.  Entering  the  employ  of  the 
Berlin  Mills  Company  of  Portland,  he  became 
an  expert  accountant,  and  made  bookkeeping 
his  business  the  remainder  of  his  active  life. 
Mr.  Hough  was  a  man  of  very  high  moral 
ideas,  and  was  of  spotless  character.  He  was 
a  Republican  and  stood  for  all  that  was  best 


in  the  platform  of  that  party.  His  strong 
moral  convictions  early  made  Mr.  Hough  a 
Prohibitionist,  in  which  faith  he  grew  strong 
with  advancing  years.  He  was  a  most  ex- 
emplary Christian  and  devoted  church  and 
Sunday-school  worker.  While  in  Portland  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Second  Parish  Church 
(Congregational).  His  devotion  to  his  mother 
during  her  years  of  widowhood  was  a  beauti- 
ful example  of  filial  regard.  For  nearly  forty 
years  they  lived  in  the  house  where  his  widow 
is  now  living.  William  Ogden  Hough  mar- 
ried, in  Portland,  Maine,  June  6,  1900,  Lucy 
Scribner,  born  in  Otisfield,  Maine,  September 
6,  1853,  daughter  of  William  T.  and  Emaline 
(Haskell)  Scribner  the  former  of  Otisfield 
and  the  latter  of  Poland.  Children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Scribner:  i.  Mary  Louise,  born  De- 
cember 14,  1845,  died  A^ay  28,  1880;  married 
David  L.  Mayberry  and  had  a  son  Frederic, 
who  married  Lizzie  Eggleston.  2.  Diana, 
born  January  3,  1849,  residing  with  Mrs. 
Hough.  3.  Lucy,  above  mentioned  as  the 
wife  of  William  Ogden  Hough.  4.  George 
W.,  born  January  15,  1855,  married  (first) 
Rose  J.  Bonney;  married  (second)  Sarah 
Rawson ;  thev  reside  in  Paris,  Maine. 


The  family  of  this  name  of 
TAYLOR  which  this  article  is  written  is 
traced  to  Scotland.  The  chris- 
tian name  of  the  immigrant  to  America  indi- 
cates his  Scotch  birth,  and  probably  Scotch 
parentage.  But  the  name  Taylor,  being  an 
English  name,  suggests  that  those  who  bear  it 
are  descended  more  or  less  remotely  from 
English  forebears,  and  that  this  family  began 
its  existence  under  its  present  surname  south 
of  the  Cheviots. 

( I )  Duncan  Taylor,  a  native  of  Scotland, 
removed  from  Glasgow,  Scotland,  to  Prince 
Edward  Island,  Canada,  where  he  lived  and 
died.  His  wife,  Christena  (Murray)  Taylor, 
died  in  1876,  aged  over  ninety  years.  Ten 
children,  three  eldest  born  in  Scotland,  among 
whom  were :  Duncan,  Neil,  Donald  and  Will- 
iam, twins ;  James,  went  to  California ;  John, 
Malcomb,   Mary,  Alexander. 

(H)  Alexander,  son  of  Duncan  and  Chris- 
tena (Murray)  Taylor,  was  born  in  Prince 
Edward  Island,  April  17,  1830,  died  Novem- 
ber 29,  1878,  aged  forty-eight  years.  He  was 
educated  in  the  cotnmon  schools  and  left 
Prince  Edward  Island  when  a  boy  of  fifteen 
and  came  to  Portland  and  worked  with  his 
brother  William,  who  had  come  before  him. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  shipsmith,  and  worked 


STATE  Ol'   MAINE. 


1505 


at  this  business  all  his  life,  was  an  industrious, 
quiet,  exemplary  citizen,  who  set  a  good  ex- 
ample in  his  daily  life.  He  was  inclined  to  be 
fraternal  in  his  associations  with  his  fellow- 
men,  and  was  a  member  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  lodge,  chapter  and  commandery ;  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  St.  An- 
drew's Society  and  Burns"  Sdciety,  Scotch  .so- 
cieties. 

He  married,  in  Portland,  on  January  1, 
1856,  Mary  Frances  Harden,  born  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  January  9,  1830,  died  in 
Portland,  January  21,  1906,  aged  seventy-six 
years.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Simon  and 
Phoebe  ( Lougee )  Marden,  of  Portsmouth. 
New  Hampshire.  Children:  i.  Addie  I., 
born  February  14,  !8'7,  married  Jnhn  S.  Con- 
ley,  of  Portland;  children:  Walter,  William, 
Arthur  and  Marion.  2.  William  Neil,  men- 
tioned at  length  below.  3.  Sarah  C,  born  in 
Portland,  November  i,  1861  ;  married  (first) 
Benjamin  L.  Johnson:  child.  .Mary  F.,  born 
February  6,  1888:  married  (second)  Samuel 
O.  Carruthers,  and  had  one  child  Ruth,  born 
August  25,  1893.  4.  Walter  M.,  born  March 
3,  1866;  married  Henrietta  Speight,  and  had 
child,  Charles  S.,  born  November  24,  1900. 

(HI)  William  Neil,  second  child  and  elder 
of  the  two  sons  of  Alexander  and  Mary  Fran- 
ces (Marden)  Taylor,  was  linrn  in  Portland, 
February  17,  1859,  graduated  from  the  Port- 
land high  school  in  1876,  and  then  went  with 
the  firm  of  Loring,  Short  &  Harmon  to  learn 
the  stationery  trade  and  the  art  of  blank-book 
making.  After  a  term  of  two  years'  service 
there  he  went  west  and  was  in  various  em- 
ployments for  ten  years.  In  1888  he  returned 
to  Portland  and  became  a  traveling  salesman 
for  his  former  employers,  and  was  on  the 
road  until  1891.  He  then  took  a  position  with 
Randall  &  ^IcAllister,  coal  dealers.  On  the 
death  of  Mr.  Randall,  Oakley  C.  Curtis,  Henry 
T.  Merrill  and  William  N.  Taylor  were  ap- 
pointed trustees  of  the  estate  and  managed  the 
business.  Mr.  Taylor  is  an  active  supporter 
of  the  principles  of  Lincoln  and  Roosevelt,  and 
has  long  been  a  party  worker.  In  1907  he  was 
elected  to  the  city  council  from  Ward  i.  In 
religious  affiliations  he  is  a  Piaptist.  He  ha^^ 
membership  in  the  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  Portland  Lodge,  No.  188,  and 
the  Ancient  Landmark  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M., 
of  Portland. 

He  married,  on  June  4,  1890,  Maud 
Havens,  daughter  of  John  Freeman  and  El- 
vira Small  (Sargent)  Randall  (see  Randall, 
II),  and  they  have  one  child,  Neil  Randall, 
born  November  5,  1903. 


Thomas  Low  or  Lowe,  immigrant 
LOW     ancestor,  was  born  and  came  from 

the  island  of  St.  Michaels  (an  Eng- 
lish possession).  He  is  believed  to  have  been 
the  son  of  Captain  John  Low,  master  of  the 
ship  "Ainbrose"  and  vice-admiral  of  the  fleet 
that  brought  over  Governor  Winthrop's  col- 
ony in  1630.  The  cane  and  Bible,  said  to  have 
belonged  to  Captain  John  Low,  have  been 
handed  down  in  the  families  of  the  Essex 
Lows  and  are  now  in  the  possession  of  Daniel 
W.  Low,  of  Essex,  Massachusetts,  a  descend- 
ant. The  Bible  was  "Imprinted  at  London  by 
Christopher  Barker,  Printer  to  -he  Queen's 
most  excellent  Majestic,  dwelling  in  Pater 
Noster  Rowe  at  the  signe  of  the  Tigershead 
.Anno  1579."  "The  whole  Book  of  Psalms  by 
Sternhold  Hopkins  and  others,  printed  by 
Derye  over  Aldergate  1578."  "Susanna  Low 
her  book  1677,  May  19."  "Thomas  Low  his 
book."  Thomas  Low  came  early  to  America 
and  was  a  resident  of  Ipswich  as  early  as  1641. 
.According  to  his  deposition  made  in  1660  he 
was  born  in  1605.  He  was  a  maltster  by  trade. 
He  died  September  8,  1677.  His  will,  dated 
April  30,  1677,  was  proved  November  6,  1677. 
His  son  John  succeeded  to  his  business  as  nnlt- 
ster  and  carried  it  on  until  1696.  Thoinas  Low 
married  Susanna  ,  who  died  at  Water- 
town,  August  19,  1684,  aged  about  eighty-six. 
Children  :  i.  Margaret,  born  in  England,  mar- 
ried, April  8,  1657,  Daniel  Davidson,  who  was 
afterwards  a  major-general ;  died  July  8,  1668. 
2.  Thomas,  born  in  England,  1632,  died  April 
12,  1712.  3.  Sarah,  born  1637,  if  deposi;ion 
of  father  in  1660  is  correct,  married  Joseph 
Safford.    4.  John,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  Low,  was  born 
about  1640  in  Ipswich.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 10,  1661,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Thorndike,  of  Beverly,  Massachu- 
setts.    He  married    (second)   Dorcas . 

He  died  intestate,  and  in  1705-06  Elizabeth, 
Daniel  and  Joseph  Low,  declining  to  admin- 
ister, the  son  Thorndike  was  appointed.  Chil- 
dren born  at  Ipswich  :  i.  John,  April  24,  1665. 
2.  Elizabeth,  October  10,  1667.  3.  Margaret, 
January  26,  1669.  4.  Dorcas,  November  3, 
1673.  5.  Daniel,  about  1675,  mentioned  be- 
low. 6.  Joseph,  about  1677.  7.  Martha,  Sep- 
tember, 1679.  8.  Thorndike,  about  1680,  died 
1750;  children :  i.  Nathaniel;  ii.  Joseph;  iii. 
Sarah,  married  Abraham  Alartin  Jr. ;  iv.  De- 
borah, married  Isaac  R mdall ;  v.  Martha ;  vi. 
Mary,  married  Nathaniel  Foster ;  vii.  Eliza- 
beth, married  Timothy  Bragg  Jr.;  viii.  Dor- 
othv,  married  Thomas  Yorke ;  ix.  Daughter, 
married  Jacob  Clarke. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


(III)  Daniel,  son  of  John  Low,  was  born 
about  1675,  in  Ipswich.  His  uncle,  Thomas 
Low  Sr.,  who  settled  in  Gloucester  and  mar- 
ried Sarah,  dau.2:hter  of  Harlaakenden  Sym- 
onds,  December  2,  1687,  was  a  grantee  with 
his  son  John  Low  Jr.  and  others  who  bought 
of  Harlaakenden  Symonds  a  tract  of  land 
called  Coxhall,  now  Lyman,  Maine,  six  by 
four  miles.  Most  of  the  grantees  and  first 
settlers  in  this  section  of  York  county,  Maine, 
were  from  Ipswich.  Thomas  and  John  appear 
to  have  lived  always  at  Gloucester.  Daniel 
Low  went  to  York  when  a  young  man  ;  bought 
land  in  Wells,  Maine,  of  Henry  Maddocks,  of 
York,  June  19,  1721,  and  January  29,  1723-24. 
Sarah  Low,  widow  of  Thomas  (3)  Low,  son 
of  Thomas  (2)  Low,  deeded  land  in  Wells 
to  her  son,  John  Low,  of  Gloucester.  There 
is  no  indication  that  either  Thomas  or  John 
became  permanent  residents  of  Maine.  Daniel 
was  killed  by  the  Indians  at  Wells  in  the 
spring  of  1723.  His  property  seems  to  have 
descended  to  Job,  William,  Jeremiah  and  Eph- 
raim  (  i ) ,  doubtless  his  sons.  Job  had  a  house 
in  Wells  in  1735  and  was  an  inhabitant  and 
proprietor  with  William  in  1726.  Jeremiah 
Low  may  have  returned  to  Ipswich ;  his  estate 
was  divided  February  28,  1758,  among  his 
widow,  Elizabeth  Low  (now  Raymond)  ;  chil- 
dren :  Jeremiah,  Mary,  Lydia,  Daniel  and 
Jonathan. 

(IV)  Job.  son  of  Daniel  Low,  was  born 
about  1700-10.  He  lived  in  Wells,  Maine,  and 
in  1735  appears  to  be  the  only  one  of  the  fam- 
ily living  there.  These  appear  to  be  his  sons : 
I.  Jcdediah,  mentioned  below.  2.  John,  mer- 
chant, had  a  ship  built  by  Pelatiah  Littlefield 
at  Wells  in  1792.  3.  Jonathan,  was  soldier  in 
the  revolution  frnm  Wells.  4.  Ephraim  (2). 
born  March  14,  1748,  married  Little- 
field,  of  Wells :  he  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion. 5.  Ebenezer,  went  with  Ephraim  (  i  ) 
and  Jedediah  to  settle  in  Sanford,  Maine; 
Olive,  daughter  of  Ephraim  (  i  ).  born  June  28, 
1742,  was  the  first  white  girl  born  in  Sanford, 
Maine. 

(V)  Jedediah,  son  of  Job  Low,  married 
Mary  Stewart,  of  Wells,  Maine.  He  came 
from  Wells  to  Sanford,  during  or  right  after 
the  revolution  and  settled  on  a  farm  in  what 
is  now  the  lower  part  of  Sanford  Village, 
Maine.  A  year  or  two  previous  to  1779,  Jede- 
diah Low,  taking  with  him  his  father,  Job 
Low,  moved  and  settled  upon  a  farm  about  a 
mile  north  of  Springvale  Village,  Maine,  and 
upon  it  now  lays  the  pond  which  supplies 
Springvale  with  water.  He  was  granted  this 
farm  of  one  hundred  acres  from  the  agents  of 


the  state  of  Massachusetts  during  the  revolu- 
tionary war,  concerning  which  there  had  been 
a  famous  lawsuit.  Alxnit  1785  he  sold  this 
farm,  and,  with  his  family,  consisting  of  six 
children — Jeremiah,  Moses,  Stephen,  Eunice, 
Hannah  and  Abbie — removed  to  Shapl^igh, 
Maine.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in 
the  Wells  company.  Colonel  Joshua  Bragdon's 
regiment,  April  9,  1775,  and  later  in  the  year 
in  Colonel  Scammon's  regiment  (Thirtieth) 
Massachusetts. 

(  \T  )  Jeremiah,  son  of  Jedediah  Low,  born 
in  Sanford,  IMaine,  1779,  died  in  Shapleigh, 
1861.  He  married  .\bigail  Ham,  by  whom  he 
had  eleven  children,  and  after  her  death  mar- 
ried Patience  Abbott,  of  Ossipee,  New  Hamp- 
shire. Children  of  Jeremiah  and  his  wife 
Abigail:  i.  Thomas,  died  in  1819,  aged  nine- 
teen years.  2.  Sarah  Ann,  married  Thomas 
Ricker.  3.  Hannah,  born  March  5,  1805,  mar- 
ried Simon  Wilson  ;  she  died  February  i,  1882. 
4.  Betsey,  born  September  i,  1807,  married 
Oliver  Trafton ;  died  August  15.  1882.  5. 
Samuel,  born  1809,  married  Lvdia  Rhodes.  6. 
Darling,  born  1812,  married  Phebe  Rhodes 
(sister  to  Lydia);  died  October  4,  1874.  7. 
Eunice,  born  1815,  married  James  Nason  ;  died 
June  I,  1890.  8.  Asa,  born  181 8,  married 
Mary  Getchell :  resided  in  Springvale,  a  prom- 
inent citizen  and  lawyer.  9.  Thomas,  born 
1820,  mentioned  below.  10.  Albion,  married 
E^lizabeth  Southwick.  11.  Mary,  married  Dan- 
iel Brown  for  her  first  husband  and  Henry 
Wiggins  for  her  second,  both  of  Danvers, 
Massachusetts.  Of  these  children  Thomas, 
Haimah,  Betsey  remained  in  Sha]ileigh  ;  Eunice 
settled  in  Alfred ;  Sarah  in  Waterboro ;  Asa  in 
Springvale,  Maine ;  Samuel,  Darling,  Albion 
and  Mary  settled  in  Danvers,  and  are  buried 
there,  as  is  Betsey,  who  went  to  Danvers  many 
years  afterwards. 

(\TI)  Thomas,  son  of  Jeremiah  Low,  born 
in  Shapleigh.  1820,  died  in  1875.  He  mar- 
ried, 1847,  Clara,  born  in  Shapleigh,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Trafton)  Staples. 
Thomas  Low  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  during  his  minority,  continuing 
afterward  at  farming  in  his  native  town  all 
his  life  and  on  the  same  farm.  He  was  a 
prominent  citizen.  He  was  for  many  years 
on  the  board  of  selectmen  of  the  town.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican  of  much  influence 
and  high  standing.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  of  Shapleigh.  Children:  i. 
Abbie  C.  born  November  26,  1858,  married 
Closes  ^.lorrison.  of  Springvale.  2.  Jerry  Al- 
bion, born  Februarv  28,   1862,  mentioned  be- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


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low.  3.  Lilla,  born  June  22,  1865,  married 
Walter  Russell,  of  Alfred,  Maine.  4.  Leslie 
T.,  born  January  15,  1867,  married  Eldora 
Hanscome,  of  Lebanon,  Maine ;  he  is  a  shoe- 
maker, residing  at  Whitman,  Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  Jerry  Albion,  son  of  Thomas  Low, 
was  born  in  Shapleigh,  February  28,  1862.  He 
worked  on  his  father's  farm  from  an  early 
age  until  after  he  came  of  a.ge.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Shapleigh.  In 
1887  he  removed  to  Sanford  and  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Sanford  Plush  Manufacturing 
Company  in  the  finishing  department,  and  ten 
years  later,  in  1897,  was  placed  in  charge  of 
the  plush-finisliing  department  as  overseer,  and 
has  held  that  postion  to  the  present  time.  He 
is  a  Republican;  was  a  selectman  in  1894-95 
and  again  in  1906-07-08.  when  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  board.  He  has  been  a  director  of 
the  Sanford  Building  and  Loan  Association 
since  1893  ;  director  of  the  Sanford  Co-opera- 
tive Association  since  its  organization  in  1900. 
He  is  a  member  of  Friendship  Lodge  of  Odd 
Fellows  of  Springvale ;  Morali  Encampment 
of  Sanford ;  and  Riverside  Lodge,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Sanford.  He  attends  the  Baptist 
church  with  his  family.  Mr.  Low  is  interested 
in  all  movements  for  the  public  welfare  and 
the  improvement  of  the  town  in  which  he  lives. 
He  is  highly  esteemed  by  his  townsmen  and 
a  citizen  of  much  influence  for  good  in  the 
community.  He  married,  January  11,  1887, 
Lavinia,  born  May  10,  1862,  daughter  of  Ste- 
phen P.  and  Phebe  Jane  Ham,  of  Shapleigh. 
Children:  i.  Elmer  L.,  born  June  7,  i8yo.  2. 
Llewellyn  J.,  April  29,  1902.  3.  Thomas  i\I., 
June  10,  1904. 


The  family  here  under  considera- 
LOW  tion  is  of  Danish  extraction,  mem- 
bers thereof  being  men  of  character 
and  action  in  all  that  have  contributed  to  the 
welfare  of  the  communities  in  which  they  lo- 
cated. The  race  is  an  energetic  one,  and  its 
members  inclined  rather  to  active  than  se- 
dentary employment.  They  are  self-reliant 
and  accumulate  above  the  average  amount  of 
substance,  this  being  particularly  true  of  the 
present  representative  of  the  family.  Frank 
M.  Low,  one  of  the  leading  \-oung  business 
men  of  Portland,  whose  success  is  attributable 
to  executive  ability,  business  acumen  and  strict 
integrity. 

John  William  Low,  the  first  of  the  family  to 
come  to  the  L'nited  States,  was  born  in  Copen- 
hagen. Denmark,  in  1824,  son  of  Balthazar 
and  Elizabeth  Dorthea  Maria  Low.  He  was 
left  an  orphan  at  the  age  of  si.x  years.    He  ob- 


tained his  education  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  land,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty,  being 
ambitious  and  energetic,  he  left  his  home  for 
the  new  v/orld,  he  having  decided  that  the 
prospects  for  advancement  there  were  better 
than  in  the  old.  After  engaging  in  many  busi- 
ness ventures  in  the  south  and  middle  west,  he 
finally  settled  in  Portland,  Maine,  at  about  the 
age  of  thirty,  and  there  established  a  cloth- 
ing store,  on  a  small  scale,  which  line  of  busi- 
ness he  followed  throughout  the  remaining 
years  of  his  life.  He  was  one  of  the  first  Dan- 
ish settlers  in  the  city  of  Portland.  Before 
coming  to  Portland,  in  the  fall  of  1845,  he 
shipped  at  Norfolk,  X'irginia,  as  hailing  from 
Pennsylvania,  as  a  seaman  aboard  the  "Cy- 
ane,"  a  sloop  of  war  belonging  to  the  United 
States  navy,  and  served  three  years  and  three 
months,  or  through  the  Mexican  war.  He 
was  made  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  in 
New  York  City,  October  12,  1852,  under  the 
name  of  William  Low.  Changed  or  reaf- 
firmed it  in  Portland,  November  23,  1891,  as 
John  William  Low.  He  was  made  a  Mason 
in  Navigator  Lodge,  No.  232,  New  York 
City,  May  22,  185 1.  He  married  Jensine  An- 
toinette Ibsen,  born  in  Denmark,  December  19, 
1830,  died  September  16,  1907.  Children  who 
grew  to  maturity  are :  John,  Soren  Frederick, 
George  B..  Emma  M.,  William  Adolph,  Frank 
Mathias,  see  forward.  John  W.  Low  died  in 
Portland,   February  13,   1904.. 

Frank  Mathias,  ei.ghth  son  and  youngest 
child  of  John  William  and  Jensine  Antoinette 
(Ibsen)  Low,  was  born  in  Portland,  December 
18,  1872.  He  attended  public  schools  until 
fifteen  years  of  age,  and  then  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  a  local  clothing  firm  to  obtain  a  knowl- 
edge of  that  business,  serving  between  two 
and  three  years.  In  1890.  in  partnership  with 
an  older  brother,  they  established  a  clothing 
business,  which  was  the  foundation  for  the 
present  extensive  and  profitable  business 
known  as  Frank  M.  Low  &  Company,  prob- 
ablv  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the  state  of 
Maine.  The  partnership  above  referred  to 
was  dissolved  in  1895,  since  which  time  it  has 
been  conducted  by  Frank  M.,  under  whose 
competent  management  and  administration  it 
has  increased  to  such  large  proportions ;  the 
stock  consists  of  a  full  line  of  all  that  is  worn 
by  men  and  boys,  of  different  grades  of  qual- 
ity to  suit  the  requirement  of  all  classes,  and 
is  known  as  "The  House  of  High  Grade 
Clothing."  His  successful  career  as  a  mer- 
chant has  won  for  him  the  confidence  of  his 
fellow  citizens,  and  he  was  chosen  as  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Fidelity  Trust  Company  at  its  in- 


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corporation,  serving  at  the  present  time,  and 
also  as  director  of  the  Portland  Board  of 
Trade.  In  Free  Masonry  he  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
following  named  organizations :  Ancient 
Landmark  Lodge,  No.  17,  Greenleaf  Royal 
Arch  Chapter,  Portland  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters,  St.  Alban  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  the  Scottish  Rite,  and  Kora 
Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine.  He  also  holds  membership 
in  the  following  clubs ;  Portland,  Athletic, 
Yacht  and  Country.  He  takes  an  active  part 
in  the  politics  of  his  native  city,  giving  his  al- 
legiance to  the  Republican  party,  and  his  in- 
fluence is  always  felt  on  the  side  of  all  that 
pertains  to  the  welfare  and  advancement  of 
the  varied  interests  of  Portland.  Mr.  Low 
married,  in  Portland,  July  31,  1899,  Anna 
Louise,  born  May  20,  1876.  daughter  of  Mel- 
ville C.  and  Abigail  Maria  Hutchinson,  of 
Portland.  Children :  Frank  Mathias  Jr., 
born  1900.    John  Hutchinson,  1902. 


Robert  Low  was  born  October  30, 
LOWE     1759,    died    in    North    Livermore, 

Maine,  January  10,  1849.  He  was 
a  Baptist  preacher,  lived  in  Waterville,  Maine, 
where  his  children  were  born,  and  from  1821 
to  1838  was  a  trustee  of  Waterville  College, 
Waterville.  subsec|uently  known  as  Colby  Uni- 
versity. He  married,  December  9,  1779.  Ju- 
dith Elwell,  born  March  23,  1759,  died  in  East 
Livermore,  Maine.  January  26,  1839.  Robert 
and  Judith  (Elwell)  Low  had  nine  children 
born  as  follows:     i.  Robert.  March    i,   1781. 

2.  Samuel,  November  20,  1782.  3.  David 
(q.  v.),  December  23,  1784.    4.  Moses,  March 

3,  1788.  5.  Sally,  December  31,  1789.  6. 
Mary,  November  7,  1791.  7.  Betsey,  Septem- 
ber 20.  1793.  8.  Sylvania,  October  26,  1796. 
9.  John,  November   17,   1799. 

(H)  David,  third  son  of  Robert  and  Judith 
(Elwell)  Low,  was  born  in  Waterville,  Maine, 
December  22,.  1784.  He  was  married  to  Han- 
nah Sweetser,  by  whom  he  had  three  chil- 
dren:   William   Granville    (q.   v.),  Josephine, 

Laura.    He  married  as  his  second  wife 

Matthews,  by  whom  he  had  two  children :  Ed- 
win and  David. 

(HI)  William  Granville,  first  child  and 
only  son  of  David  and  Hannah  ( Sweetser ) 
Low,  was  born  in  Waterville,  Maine.  His 
children  changed  the  spelling  of  the  name 
from  Low  to  Lowe.  He  was  married  to 
Susan  Moor,  born  in  St.  Albans,  Maine,  and 
he  was  a  farmer  and  carpenter  in  Levant. 
Maine. 


(lY)  Perley, 'son  of  William  firanville  and 
Susan  (Moor)  Low,  was  born  in  Levant, 
j\Iaine,  November  6,  1845.  He  was  brought 
up  on  his  father's  farm  and  attended  the  dis- 
trict schools.  He  enlisted  in  the  L'nion  army 
in  1864,  and  was  in  the  First  District  of  Co- 
lumbia Cavalry  and  later  in  First  Maine  Cav- 
alry (Army  of  the  Potomac),  .Major-General 
George  Crooks;  Third  lirigade.  Colonel 
Charles  H.  Smith,  his  regiment  being  imder 
the  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Jonathan 
P.  Cilley  and  holding  the  right  of  the  brigade 
in  the  Appomattox  campaign,  the  cavalry  be- 
ing in  command  of  Major-General  Philip 
Sheridan.  On  returning  home  at  the  close  of 
the  war,  he  taught  school  in  Maine,  and  in 
1867  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  worked 
in  lumber  yards,  which  employment  led  to 
his  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Thomp- 
son Brothers  &  Lowe,  lumber  dealers,  in  1S85. 
The  firm  became  Kelle\-.  Lowe  &  Company  in 
1889  and  Perley  Lowe  &  Company  from 
1893,  his  partner  being  William  Templeton. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Lumberman's  Ex- 
change of  which  he  was  a  director,  vice-presi- 
dent in  1885  and  president  in  1886.  The  of- 
fices of  Perlev  Lowe  &  Company  are  at  1603 
Railway  Exchange,  Chicago.  Illinois,  and  their 
principal  mills  at  Peshtigo,  Wisconsin.  He  is 
president  of  Mississippi  Lumber  Company. 
He  had  been  all  his  life  an  active  layman  of 
the  ]\Iethodist  Episcopal  church,  and  in  Chi- 
cago became  especially  interested  in  the  Hal- 
stead  Street  Mission.  He  served  as  a  lay  del- 
egate from  the  Rock  River  conference  to  the 
general  conference  at  Los  Angeles,  California, 
in  1904.  He  was  made  president  of  Wesley 
Hospital.  Chicago,  and  a  trustee  of  the  North- 
western University,  Evanston,  Illinois.  His 
club  affiliations  included  the  Westward  Ho! 
Club  of  Chicago.  Chicago  Golf  Club  and 
Union  League.  He  was  married  in  1875  to 
Eliza,  daughter  of  William  and  Annie  Tem- 
pleton, of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  their  chil- 
dren are:  Agnes  S..  Ella  E.,  .Annie  E.  and 
Grace  J.  His  home  is  on  Washington  Boule- 
vard, Chicago. 


Among  the  earliest  records  of 
ELWELL     Massachusetts  is   to   be    found 

the  name  of  Elwell.  and  it  has 
ever  stood  for  integrity,  honesty  and  stead- 
fastness of  ^lurpose.  This  familv  furnished 
soldiers  at  the  time  of  the  revolution,  and  its 
members,  in  times  of  peace,  have  done  their 
part  as  citizens  of  colony  and  state. 

(I)   The  name  of  Robert  Elwell  appears  in 
the  colony  records  of  Gloucester,  Massachu- 


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setts,  in  1635,  when  he  appeared  as  witness 
concerning  the  "outrageous  conduct"  of  one 
Thomas  Wannerton.  No  documentary  evi- 
dence has  been  discovered  to  show  his  family 
connections,  his  social  standing  or  even  his 
nationality.  He  was  admitted  as  a  freeman 
in  1640,  was  a  member  of  Salem  church  in 
1643,  and  was  several  times  made  selectman, 
the  first  time  in  1649.  There  is  a  record  of  his 
buying  land  in  1642,  and  by  further  purchases, 
in  addition  to  grants  from  the  town,  he  became 
possessed  of  several  lots,  among  which  was 
a  neck  of  land  consisting  of  about  thirtv  acres, 
on  the  southeast  side  of  the  Harbor,  known 
as  "Stage  Neck."  His  first  residence  was  at 
the  Harbor,  but  as  most  of  his  land  was  situ- 
ated at  the  Eastern  Point,  it  is  supposed  he 
afterwards  settled  there.  The  term  goodman 
was  often  given  to  him  and  he  was  worthy  of 
this  name  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word.  He 
died  in  1683,  leaving  an  estate  worth  two 
hundred  pounds.  His  first  wife,  Joane.  died 
in  1675;  in  1676  he  married  Alice  Leach,  a 
widow,  who  survived  him.  His  children  were : 
Samuel,  a  second  child  (name  unknown)  who 
died  young,  John.  Isaac,  Josiah,  Joseph,  Sara 
(born  and  died  in  1651),  Sarah,  Thomas,  Ja- 
cob, Richard  and  Mary. 

(II)  Samuel,  the  eldest  son  of  Robert  El- 
well,  was  born  in  1635-36  and  died  about 
1697.  He  married  Esther  Dutch,  who  sur- 
vived him,  and  after  his  death  is  described  as 
a  "poor  distressed  widow,"  in  consequence  of 
sickness  and  poverty;  she  died  in  1721,  aged 
about  eighty-two  years.  Their  children  were : 
Samuel,  Jacob,  Robert,  Esther,  Sarah,  Eben- 
ezer,  Hannah,  Elizabeth  and  Thomas. 

(HI)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Samuel  and 
Esther  (Dutch)  Elwell,  removed  to  Maine, 
and  thereupon  sold  his  property  and  rights  in 
Gloucester  to  some  of  his  children.  He  mar- 
ried, October  12,  1687,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
James  Gardner,  and  their  children  were : 
Robert,  Sarah  (died  young).  Hannah.  Samuel, 
Benjamin,  Sarah,  Joseph,  John  and  Jemimah. 

(iV)  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Robert  (2)  and 
Sarah  (Gardner)  Elwell,  was  born  August 
II,  1705,  in  Gloucester,  and  died  at  Biddeford, 
Maine.  His  wife's  name  and  the  number  of 
his  children  is  not  known. 

(V)  Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph  Elwell,  was 
born  November  10,  1733,  at  Biddeford,  Maine, 
and  died  July  4,  1801,  at  Buxton,  Maine. 
With  his  eldest  son  John  he  enlisted  in  Captain 
Daniel  Lane's  company  in  the  revolutionary 
war.  He  married,  January  22,  1761,  Abigail 
Ingraham.     Record  is  found  of  only  two  of 


their  children,  John,  mentioned  above,  and 
Theodore. 

(\'I)  Theodore,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Abi- 
gail (Ingraham)  Elwell,  was  born  September 
2.  1786,  at  Saco,  Maine,  and  died  June  10, 
1843.  2t  Buxton,  Maine.  He  married  Anna 
Harmon. 

(\'II)  Nathaniel  H.,  son  of  Theodore  and 
■\nna  (Harmon)  Elwell,  was  born  May  23, 
1820,  at  Buxton,  ]Maine.  He  married  Martha 
P.   Harmon. 

(VIII)  Edward  Harmon,  son  of  Nathaniel 
H.  and  Martha  P.  (Harmon)  Elwell,  was 
born  November  9,  1845,  3t  Buxton,  Maine. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  academy  of  his  native  town,  and  prepared 
for  college,  though  he  did  not  enter.  He  has 
been  for  more  than  twenty-five  years  con- 
nected with  the  Michigan  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company,  being  one  of  the  directors  of 
that  company,  and  manager  of  the  northwest- 
ern department  of  said  company.  He  has  been 
a  resident  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  since  1885,  and 
is  one  of  that  city's  representative  business 
men.  Mr.  Elwell  belongs  to  the  Union  League 
Club  and  South  Shore  Country  Club,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  order  of  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons.  He  married,  February  i, 
1882,  Nettie  L.,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary 
F.  (Lunt)  Tuttle  (see  Tuttle,  VIII).  They 
had  two  children:  i.  Russel  Tuttle,  born  Oc- 
tober 20.  1887,  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Culver  Military  Academy ;  entered  Chicago 
Universitv  1906,  will  graduate  1910:  while  at 
Culver  graduated  as  commissioned  officer  and 
stood  high  in  his  rank.  2.  Grace  Edna,  born 
October  13.  1889,  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Stevan  School  for  Girls,  and  in  1908  entered 
Wellesley  College. 


The  name  of  Tuttle  was  com- 
TUTTLE     mon    in    England    for    several 

hundred  years  before  first  heard 
of  in  America,  and  is  generally  supposed  to 
come  from  the  name  of  a  place,  "Toot-hill." 
The  family  here  described  is  of  Welsh  origin, 
and  is  first  heard  of  in  New  Hampshire,  re- 
maining there  for  several  generations. 

(I)  John  Tuttle  was  in  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1640,  his  name  appearing  among  the 
citizens  who  protest  against  the  project  of 
Underbill  to  place  Dover  under  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  Massachusetts.  He  died  in  1663,  leav- 
ing a  widow,  Dorothy,  and  three  children.  One 
child  was  Elizabeth,  who  married  Captain 
Philip  Cromwell,  and  another  was  John. 

(II)  John   (2),  son  of  John   (i)  and  Dor- 


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STATE  OF  iNIAINE. 


othy  Tuttle,  won  distinction  in  civil  and  mili- 
tary affairs.  He  filled  every  public  office  with- 
in the  gift  of  the  citizens  of  Dover,  and  in 
1695  was  by  appointment  judge  of  their  maj- 
esties' court  of  common  picas  under  the  ad- 
ministration of  Lieutenant-Governor  Usher. 
He  held  the  office  of  selectman,  town  clerk  and 
town  treasurer.  He  was  a  member  of  the  as- 
sembly, and  was  one  of  the  six  commissioners 
sent  from  Dover  to  the  convention  of  1689. 
He  died  in  1720.  His  wife's  name  was  Mary. 
(HI)  John  (3),  second  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Mary  Tuttle,  was  born  in  1671,  and  was 
killed  by  Indians,  May  17,  1712.  He  was 
known  as  "Ensign"  Tuttle.  He  married  Ju- 
dith, daughter  of  Richard  and  Rose  ( Stough- 
ton)  Otis.  She  and  her  brother.  Sir  Nicholas 
Stoughton,  were  the  only  children  of  Anthony 
Stoughton,  of  Stoughton  in  Surrey,  England. 

(IV)  Thomas,  fourth  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Judith  (Otis)  Tuttle,  was  born  March  15, 
1699,  and  died  about  1772.  He  married  Mary 
Brackett,  and  they  had  eleven  children.  She 
died  February  28,  1773.  They  were  members 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  most  of  their 
descendants  are  of  that  faith. 

(V)  Reuben,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Brackett)  Tuttle,  was  born  March  26,  1737. 
He  settled  in  Barrington,  New  Hampshire, 
and  in  1785  removed  to  Durham,  Maine, 
where  he  died  in  1814.  He  married.  May  26, 
1762,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Tobias  and  Ju- 
dith (Varney)  Hanson,  and  they  had  eight 
children,  born  at  Barrington,  New  Hampshire. 
In  revolutionary  times  he,  being  a  blacksmith 
as  well  as  a  farmer,  was  often  called  upon  by 
the  patriots  of  New  Hampshire  to  use  his  skill 
to  repair  the  locks  of  their  muskets,  to  fit 
their  bayonets,  and  to  make  them  swords,  and 
this  was  in  direct  oppostion  to  his  convictions 
against  war,  as  he  was  a  Quaker.  He  was  so 
annoyed  by  their  demands  that  he  sold  out 
such  of  his  possessions  as  he  could  not  very 
well  move,  and  with  his  family  left  on  a 
coaster,  from  which  they  disembarked  at  Mast 
Landing.  In  1785  he  removed  to  Durham, 
Maine.  His  wife  died  January  28,  1828. 
Their  children  were :  Elisha,  Judith  and  six 
others. 

(VI)  Elisha,  son  of  Reuben  and  Elizabeth 
(Hanson)  Tuttle,  was  born  September  2-. 
1767,  and  died  December  21,  1854.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Lydia 
(Bishop)  Estes,  who  was  born  March  4,  1772, 
and  they  had  nine  children.  She  died  January 
15,  1857.  Their  children  were:  Lydia,  To- 
bias, Esther,  Thomas,  Judith,  Phiiena,  Pa- 
tience, Sarah  and  Elias. 


(VII)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Elisha  and 
Sarah  (Estes)  Tuttle,  married  Lydia,  daugh- 
ter of  Caleb  Jones,  of  Brunswick,  Maine,  and 
they  had  four  children. 

(VIII)  George,  the  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Lydia  (Jones)  Tuttle,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 18,  1823.  He  married  Mary  F.  Lunt, 
born  February  22,  1828,  and  they  had  seven 
children,  as  follows:  i.  May  Etta,  born  in 
1858,  died  March  13,  1866.  2.  Nettie  L., 
married  Edward  H.  Elwell,  February  i,  1882. 
(See  Elwell,  VIII.)  3.  Thomas  E.  4.  Sarah 
J.,  born  October  24.  1862,  married  Captain  M, 
"D.  Sprague;  she  died  in  1888.  5.  John  H., 
born  August  20,  1863,  married  Flora  E.  Jew- 
ett.  6.  Harry  W.,  born  April  15,  1866,  died 
in  1888,  unmarried.  7.  Fannie  M.,  born  Oc- 
tober 20,  1870,  married  Edward  H.  Jenkins. 


It  is  claimed  that  all  of  the  older 
CHASE     families    of    this    name    in    New 

England  are  descended  from 
Aquila  Chase,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Newbury,  Massachusetts,  and  among  the 
founders  of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  Many 
prominent  citizens  in  various  parts  of  the 
nation  have  borne  this  name. 

(I)  Jacob  B.,  son  of  James  Chase,  was 
born  August  27,  1829.  He  resided  in  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged as  ship  master.  He  married  Hannah 
J.  Thurlow,  who  was  born  in  Newburyport, 
daughter  of  James  Thurlow,  of  Newburyport. 
They  had  seven  children:  i.  Joseph.  2. 
Hannah,  married  John  H.  Bean,  and  has  three 
children  :  Fred,  Lillian  and  Alcena.  3.  Jacob, 
married  Myra  Southwick,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  four  children.  4.  Sarah,  married 
John  Bray  and  has  three  children :  Grace, 
Edward  and  Joseph.  5.  George  W.,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Grace  E.,  married  Allan 
McKenzie  and  has  one  child,  Harold.  7. 
William. 

(II)  Dr.  George  Washington,  third  son  of 
Jacob  B.  and  Hannah  J.  (Thurlow)  Chase, 
was  born  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  Au- 
gust 25,  1857.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  and  in  1880  entered  upon  a  course  of 
mental  therapeutics  under  the  direction  of  Dr. 
E.  J.  Noyes,  of  Boston.  He  completed  his 
course  of  medical  instruction  and  graduated 
from  the  IMetaphysical  College  in  1879,  and 
immediately  engaged  in  the  practice  of  mental 
medicine  in  Newburyport.  He  followed  his 
vocation  there  until  1883,  when  he  removed 
to  Portland,  where  he  has  since  practiced.  He 
is  a  typical  exponent  of  his  school  of  medicine, 
and  has  a  large  clientage.     He  is  a  man  of 


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quiet  manners,  a  lover  of  his  home,  and  a 
member  of  no  secret  order  or  society.  The 
excitement  of  a  political  campaign  has  an  at- 
traction for  him  which  he  likes  to  indulge,  but 
he  has  never  held  or  aspired  to  a  city  office. 
He  is  a  staunch  Republican.  He  married 
Carrie  E.  Williams,  July  5,  1886.  She  is  the 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Lydia  (Davis)  Will- 
iams, of  Amesbury,  ^Massachusetts.  They  have 
two  children:  i.  Marion,  born  July  6,  1888. 
2.  Evelyn,   March   13,    i8gi. 


The  following  account  relative 
SPINXEY     to    the    early    history    of    the 

Spinneys  on  this  side  of  the 
ocean  is  based  partly  upon  f.^mily  tradition, 
while  some  of  the  facts,  particularly  those  con- 
cerning the  arrival  and  settlement  of  the  im- 
migrants, are  to  be  found  in  existing  records. 
James  Spinney,  a  native  of  Plymouth,  Eng- 
land, a  young  man  of  wealthy  parents  and 
therefore  possessed  of  excellent  prospects  in 
life,  accompanied  a  fishing  expedition  to  the 
Bay  of  Fundy,  and  prompted  by  a  spirit  of 
independence  which  was  a  predominating  fea- 
ture of  his  character,  he  decided  to  cast  his 
lot  with  those  of  his  countrymen  who  had 
preceded  him  as  pioneers  in  .America.  Making 
his  way  along  the  coast  to  Kittery  he  acquired 
possession  of  a  large  tract  of  wild  land,  and 
bringing  into  action  a  natural  capacity  for 
enterprise,  he  erected  a  sawmill  on  Sturgess 
creek,  thus  becoming  the  pioneer  lumber 
manufacturer  in  that  locality.  Thomas  Spin- 
ney, a  brother  of  James,  came  to  America  in 
search  of  the  latter,  but  being  unable  to  find 
him  he  at  last  located  himself  at  Eliot  Point,  a 
short  distance  from  the  scene  of  James'  in- 
dustrial enterprise  in  Kittery,  and  ere  long  the 
brothers  were  reunited.  The  Spinneys  of 
York  county  are  the  posterity  of  these  immi- 
grants. In  addition  to  felling  and  manufac- 
turing lumber,  James  Spinney  engaged  in  fish- 
ing, and  as  fast  as  he  cleared  his  land  of  the 
lumber  he  improved  it  for  agricultural  pur- 
poses. He  married  Mary  Gouch  and  reared 
several  children.  His  brother  Thomas  became 
a  prosperous  farmer  and  landholder,  including 
among  his  possessions  a  large  tract  in  North 
Berwick,  which  he  divided  and  sold  to  good 
advantage. 

(I)  Zina    H.    Spinney,    who    was    born    in 
1808,  resided  in  Georgetown,  Maine,  and  died 

there  in   1866.     He  married  ,  and  had 

a  family  of  five  children:    Mary  E..   Palmer 
O.,  David,  Alfred   O.   and   Charles  S. 

(II)  Palmer  O.,   second  child   of  Zina  H. 
Spinney,  was  born  in  Georgetown,  March  18, 


1838.  Having  made  good  use  of  his  educa- 
tional opportunities,  which  were  confined  solely 
to  the  public  school  system  then  in  vogue,  he 
taught  school  for  a  time  and  was  considered 
an  excellent  instructor.  He  was,  however,  at- 
tracted to  the  sea.  and  entering  the  merchant 
marine  service  before  the  mast  he  worked  his 
way  aft  to  the  quarterdeck,  taking  command 
of  a  vessel  while  still  a  young  man.  He  soon 
became  tired  of  battling  with  the  elements,  and 
abandoning  the  sea  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  keeper  of  the  Sequin  light,  at 
the  mouth  of  the  Kennebec  river.  With  a 
view  of  bettering  his  fortunes  he  relinquished 
that  postion,  and  going  to  Lewiston  took 
charge  of  two  corporation  boarding-houses, 
which  he  carried  on  for  some  time.  He  next 
engaged  in  the  clothing  business  in  that  city, 
becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Pulverman 
&  Spinney,  and  selling  his  interest  in  that  con- 
cern some  three  years  later,  he  purchased  a 
farm  in  Brunswick,  where  he  is  now  residing. 
He  is  a  charter  member  of  Mechanics'  Lodge, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  also 
affiliates  with  the  encampment  and  the  canton, 
all  of  Lewiston.  In  politics  he  acts  inde- 
pendently. About  the  year  1858  he  married 
!Marv  J.  Todd,  who  was  born  in  Georgetown 
in  i8-|0.  They  were  the  parents  of  five  chil- 
dren. Annie  L.,  Elvington  Palmer,  Leon  Les- 
lie (who  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in 
1894),  Inez  P.,  Alfred. 

(Ill)  Elvington  Palmer,  second  child  of 
Palmer  O.  and  ]\Iary  J.  (Todd)  Spinney,  was 
born  in  Georgetown,  June  30.  1868.  He  fitted 
for  college  in  the  schools  of  Lewiston  and 
Brunswick,  took  his  bachelor's  degree  at  Bow- 
doin with  the  class  of  1890,  and  as  his  health 
had  become  somewhat  impaired,  at  the  conclu- 
sion of  his  college  course  he  went  to  Wiscon- 
sin to  recuperate.  During  his  year's  residence 
in  the  west  he  taught  school,  and  upon  his  re- 
turn to  his  native  state  devoted  a  similar  pe- 
riod to  teaching  at  the  Paris  Hill  .A.ca<lemv. 
From  the  latter  place  he  went  to  Alfred  as 
principal  of  the  high  school,  and  taking  up  the 
study  of  law  while  residing  in  that  town  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1895.  In 
the  following  February  he  established  himself 
in  practice  at  North  Berwick,  and  has  ever 
since  resided  there,  making  excellent  profes- 
sional progress,  and  in  addition  to  conducting 
a  profitable  general  law  business  has  served  as 
attorney  for  the  town  for  a  period  of  six 
years,  also  acting  in  a  similar  capacity  for 
South  Berwick.  Wells  and  York.  In  politics 
he  is  independent.  He  is  a  member  of  Eagle 
Lodge,   Independent   Order  of  Odd   Fellows, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Columbian  Encampment,  Canton  Columbia 
and  Ray  of  Hope  Lodge  of  Rebeccas,  all  of 
North  Berwick,  and  also  of  the  local  grange. 
At  Bowiloin  he  affiliated  with  the  Alpha  Delta 
Phi  fraternity.  He  attends  the  Free  Will  Bap- 
tist church. 

October  30,  1895,  Mr.  Spinney  was  joined 
in  marriage  with  Grace  E.,  daughter  of  Caleb 
U.  and  Susan  P.  Burbank,  of  Alfred.  They 
have  two  children.  Dorothy  B.,  born  Novem- 
ber 6,  1899,  and  Leon  Leslie,  born  August  19, 
1903. 


The  New  England  Waites  have 
WAITE     not    been    an    especially    prolific 

family,  although  during  the  sev- 
enteenth century  no  less  than  ten  immigrants 
of  the  surname  were  settled  in  the  several 
plantations  east  of  the  Hudson  river  previous 
to  the  year  1665  ;  and  if  we  may  accept  the 
conclusions  of  students  of  the  history  of  the 
European  branches  of  the  family,  the  Waites 
and  Waytes  may  be  said  to  be  one  of  the  most 
ancient  families  in  England,  where  it  was 
found  seated  soon  after  the  Norman  conquest. 
Then  the  name  appears  to  have  been  borne 
only  by  persons  of  rank,  courtiers  and  retain- 
ers of  the  sovereign,  princes,  knights,  and 
others  who  had  won  distinction  in  the  wars. 
But  in  the  generations  following  down 
through  the  centuries  from  the  time  of  the 
Conqueror  to  the  early  years  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  the  surname  passed  through 
many  changes  in  form  of  spelling,  and  those 
bearing  it  so  increased  in  numbers  that  they 
became  well  scattered  throughout  the  kingdom 
and  were  found  in  .some  parts  of  W'ales.  The 
several  chroniclers  of  Waite  family  history 
have  given  us  descriptions  of  its  coat-of-arms : 
Argent,  chevron  gules  between  three  bugle- 
horns  stringed  sable,  but  these  arms  are  said 
to  have  been  taken  from  those  entitled  to  bear 
them  on  account  of  the  part  taken  by  Thomas 
Wayte,  who,  in  1649,  ^*  o"^  of  the  judges, 
signed  the  warrant  for  the  execution  of 
Charles  L,  and  who  himself  was  brought  to 
the  scafTold  by  Charles  H.  The  earliest  im- 
migrant ancestors  of  the  Waite  surname  in 
America  were  Richard,  Boston,  1634,  marshal 
of  the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay;  Gamaliel, 
brother  of  Richard,  Boston,  1634;  Richard, 
Watertown,  1637,  ancestor  of  the  family, 
treated  in  these  annals ;  Thomas,  Portsmouth, 
Rhode  Island,  1639;  John,  Maiden,  1644: 
Alexander,  Boston,  1637;  Thomas,  Ipswich, 
1658:  John,  Windsor,  Connecticut,  1649:  Ben- 
jamin, Hatfield,  Massachusetts,  1663;  George, 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  1649. 


(I)  Richard  Waite,  immigrant,  born  in 
England,  1608,  came  to  New  England  in  1637, 
and  settled  in  the  plantation  at  W'atertown. 
He  is  first  mentioned  in  that  year,  when  he  be- 
came one  of  the  proprietors  of  Watertown  by 
purchasing  all  the  lands  and  rights  of  John 
Doggett,  one  of  the  original  grantees  of  the 
town,  including  six  acres  in  the  West  Plains, 
on  which  he  built  his  homestead.  His  house 
stood  at  what  is  now  the  northwest  corner  of 
Lexington  and  Warren  streets,  Watertown 
In  the  same  year  also  he  received  a  grant  of 
sixty  acres,  being  the  fourth  lot  in  the  seventh 
division  of  "Beaver  Brook  Farm  Lands."  He 
was  made  freeman  of  Watertown  in  March, 
1637-38,  purchased  additional  lands  there  in 
1652,  and  died  January  16,  1669,  aged  about 
si.xty    years.      He    married    in     1637,    Mary 

,  born   1606,   died  January   i,   1678-79. 

Children:  i.  Stephen,  born  February,  1637- 
38,  died  nine  days  old.  2.  John,  May  6,  1639 
(see  post).  3.  Thomas,  March  3,  1640-41, 
died  January  3,  1722-23.  4.  Joseph,  1643, 
died  January  3,  1722-23:  removed  to  Worces- 
ter, 1675,  ^"d  soon  afterward  to  Marlborou'^h. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  Waite. 
was  born  in  Watertown,  May  6,  1639,  and  died 
August  24,  1691  :  married  June  13,  1663-64, 
Mary,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  Wood- 
ward, of  Watertown.  She  was  born  August 
12,  1641,  died  August  23,  1718,  in  that  part  of 
the  town  called  Weston.  Children:  i.  John, 
May  26,  1665,  died  October  12,  1665.  2.  Mary, 
October  9,  1666,  died  November  24,  1690; 
married  John  Randall.  3.  John,  December  27, 
1669,  died  June  24,  1722.  4.  Sarah,  October 
26,  1672.  5.  Amos,  June  4,  1679-80  (see 
post).  6.  Rebecca,  married,  1706,  John  An- 
derson. 

(III)  Amos,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Wood- 
w^ard)  Waite,  was  born  in  Watertown,  Janu- 
ary 4.  1679-80.  He  removed  to  Framingham. 
and  had  his  home  in  the  north  part  of  the 
town.  He  was  constable  there  in  1728,  and 
is  mentioned  at  one  time  as  of  Natick.  He 
married,  in  August,  1701,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  John  Cutting,  locksmith,  and  granddaugh- 
ter of  Richard  Cutting,  wheelwright,  of  Wa- 
tertown, who  came  from  England  in  the 
"Elizabeth"  in  1634  and  settled  at  Watertown. 
Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  Jaiuiary  11, 
1701-02;  married  Moses  Parker.  2.  Susanna. 
October  20,  1704.  3.  Amos,  December  7, 
1727;  was  an  alarm  soldier  of  Grafton  in  Cap- 
tain Samuel  \'arrin's  company,  1757.  4. 
Ezekiel,  September  11,  1710,  died  Wardsboro. 
\'ermont.  5.  John,  June  7,  1713  (see  post). 
6.  Josiah,  February  19,  171 5-16. 


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1513 


(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth 
(Cutting)  Waite,  was  born  in  Framingham, 
Massachusetts,  June  7,  1713,  and  is  men- 
tioned as  of  Framingham  in  1757  and  1761, 
and  of  Worcester  in  1764.  In  Framingham 
he  had  his  home  near  his  father's  house.  April 
26,  1757,  he  was  enrolleyd  in  Colonel  Joseph 
Buckniinster's  regiment.  Subsequently  he  re- 
moved to  Mason.  New  Hampshire,  and  was 
one  of  the  principal  farmers  of  that  town,  and 
his  name  appears  on  the  tax  list  there  as  late 
as  1779.  He  married  (first)  October  18, 
1739,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Graves. 
She  died  May  2~.  1796,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) October  5,  1796,  Lucy  Farmer.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Hannah,  born  in  Framingham.  July 
16,  1740.  2.  Sarah,  March  17,  1741.  3.  John, 
November  15,  1744  (see  post).  4.  Daniel. 
May  28,  1748.  died  at  Brandon,  \^ermont, 
about  1826.  5.  Elizabeth,  baptized  May  3. 
1752.  6.  Ruth,  baptized  August  30,  1755.  7. 
Martha,  baptized  August  30.  1755. 

(V)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  and  Han- 
nah (Graves)  Waite,  was  born  in  Framing- 
ham, November  15,  1744.  He  removed  to 
Spencer,  Massachusetts.  10-1774,  and  in  the 
following  year  enlisted  as  a  soldier  of  the  revo- 
lution, his  service  being  as  follows :  Private 
Captain  Ebenezer  INIason's  company  of  min- 
ute-men in  Colonel  Jonathan  Warren's  regi- 
ment, which  marched  on  the  Lexington  alarm, 
April  19,  1775;  service,  ten  days;  private  Cap- 
tain Joel  Green's  company.  Colonel  Ebenezer 
Leonard's  regiment :  muster  roll  dated  Ar- 
giist  I,  1775;  enlisted  May  4,  1775;  service 
three  months  five  days ;  private  (Z'aptain  Jo- 
siah  Waite's  company,  Lieutenant  Colonel 
Benjamin  Flagg's  division  of  Samuel  Denney's 
Worcester  county  regiment ;  marched  August 
21,  1777,  discharged  August  23,  1777;  service 
five  days,  including  two  days  (forty  miles) 
travel  from  home ;  company  marched  to  Had- 
ley  on  an  alarm  to  the  northward.  After  liv- 
ing for  a  time  in  Sutton  and  Worcester,  Mas- 
sachusetts, John  Waite  removed  to  Mason, 
New  Hampshire,  and  spent  the  remaining 
years  of  his  life  in  that  town.  He  married,  in 
Worcester,  December  24,  1772,  Rachel,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Birch,  of  Sutton.  He  married 
(second)  October  5,  1796,  Lucy  Farmer,  who 
died  at  age  of  one  hundred  two  years.  His 
children:  i.  John.  2.  Amos,  born  Mason, 
July  8,  1785,  died  Weston,  Vermont,  August 
25,  1852.  3.  Daniel  (see  post).  4.  James.  5. 
Sumner.    6.  Sally. 

(VI)  Daniel  Waite,  son  of  John  and  Rachel 
(Birch)  Waite,  was  born  in  Mason,  New 
Hampshire,  March  16,  1789.  and  died  August 


5,  1855.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  1812- 
15,  and  held  a  commission  as  ensign;  and  after 
the  war  was  made  major-general  of  militia. 
Previous  to  the  Morgan  excitement  and  dis- 
appearance he  was  a  prominent  Mason.  He 
married.  May  28,  181 5,  Cynthia  Read,  born  in 
Rockingham,  Vermont,  July  29,  1788,  died 
July  18,  1880,  aged  nearly  ninety-two  years. 
Children:  i.  Martha  Elvira,  born  Chester, 
Vermont,  September  8.  1816;  married  Janu- 
ary 4,  1841,  Franklin  C.  Spaulding.  2.  Otis 
Frederick  Read.  March  3,  1818  (see  post).  3. 
Albert  Scripture,  born  in  Chester,  April  14, 
1821  ;  lawyer;  married  (first)  at  Acworth, 
New  Hampshire.  October  23,  1850,  Caroline, 
daughter  of  Seth  Arnold,  (second)  at  Alstead, 
New  Hampshire,  June  2,  1854.  Harriet  E., 
daughter  of  Ahijah  Kingsbury.  4.  Sarah  Au- 
gusta, April  22,  1823,  died  Boston,  May  2, 
1856.  5.  Daniel  Harkness,  born  Chester,  1824, 
died  April,  1837. 

(\TI)  Major  Otis  Frederick  Read  Waite, 
son  of  Daniel  and  Cynthia  (Read)  Waite,  was 
born  in  Chester,  Windsor  county.  \'ermont, 
March  3,  1818,  learned  his  trade  as  practical 
printer  in  New  York  city,  then  returned  to 
New  England  and  became  foreman  in  the 
office  of  the  Cheshire  Republican,  in  Keene, 
New  Hampshire,  continuing  in  that  capacity 
from  1838  to  1847.  Here  he  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  his  future  career  as  a  successful  news- 
paper man,  and  from  the  composing  room  of 
the  Rcpublieau  went  to  the  higher  position  of 
editor  and  publisher  of  the  Spirit  of  the  Times. 
which  soon  afterward  merged  with  the  Amer- 
ican Vietv.  Later  on  he  was  made  associate 
editor  of  the  Springfield  Republican,  one  of 
the  leading  newspapers  of  New  England,  and 
perhaps  the  very  first  in  point  of  literarv  ex- 
cellence ;  and  still  later  he  published  the  Berk- 
shire County  Eagle,  Pittsfield,  ?ilassachusetts. 
In  1854  Mr.  W'aite  became  owner  and  editor 
of  the  National  Eagle.  Claremont,  and  con- 
tinued its  publication  five  years,  until  April, 
1859.  For  four  years  he  was  associated  editor 
of  the  American  Stock  Journal,  published  in 
New  York  city,  and  he  also  compiled  the  X'ezc 
Hampshire  Register  during  three  vears. 

In  course  of  his  newspaper  work  Mr.  ^^'aite 
had  acquired  an  extensive  acquaintance 
throughout  the  state,  and  in  1856  and  1837  he 
was  engrossing  clerk  in  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  and  state  insurance  commissioner 
for  a  term  of  three  years,  beginning  in  1859. 
In  April,  1861,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Goodwin  recruiting  officer  for  Sullivan  county. 
New  Hampshire,  and  soon  afterward  became 
military  secretary  to  the  war  committee  of  the 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


governor's  council,  the  duties  of  which  office 
he  performed  tlirough  Governor  Berry's  ad- 
ministration, and  rendered  efficient  service  to 
the  state  in  the  organization  and  equipment  of 
regiments  and  companies  and  their  prompt 
transportation  to  the  front.  Thus  for  many 
years  Mr.  Waite  was  a  pubHc  man  in  New 
Hampshire,  and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the 
best  practical  newspaper  men  in  the  state.  Soon 
after  the  war  he  was  appointed  to  write  and 
compile  the  work,  "Claremont  War  History," 
following  this  with  his  "New  Hampshire  in 
the  Great  Rebellion,"  works  which  proved  of 
much  value,  and  which  always  have  been  re- 
garded standard  authorities  on  the  subject 
treated.  Another  of  Mr.  Waite's  contributions 
to  current  literature  of  New  England  is  "East- 
man's Standard  Coast  Guide  Book,"  of  which 
he  was  author,  and  still  another,  although 
local  in  character,  is  his  "Early  History  of 
Claremont,"  a  virtual  reproduction  of  an  ac- 
count read  by  him  at  the  meeting  of  the  New- 
Hampshire  Historical  Society  in  September, 
1891.  He  was  actively  and  for  a  long  time 
identified  with  the  militia  organizations  of 
New  Hampshire,  a  member  of  the  famous 
Keene  Light  Infantry,  later  its  quartermaster, 
and  still  later,  by  successive  promotions,  ad- 
jutant and  major  of  the  Twentieth  regiment 
of  New  Hampshire  militia.  In  1845  he  was 
brigade  inspector.  Originally  he  was  a  Whig 
in  politics ;  became  a  Free-Soiler,  and  was  an 
original  Republican. 

Major  Waite  married  at  Keene,  New 
Hampshire,  September  10,  1843,  Mary  E. 
Barker,  born  Auburn,  New  York,  May,  1823, 
daughter  of  David  Barker.  Children:  i. 
Mary  Augusta,  born  Keene,  November  2, 
1844,  died  November  29,  1844.  2.  David  Sim- 
mons (see  post).  3.  Clara  Simmons,  March 
16,  1848;  married  April  24,  1872,  Luther  M. 
Lovell,  of  Worcester,  and  had  Hiram,  Polly, 
Martha  and  Annie.  4.  Ellen  E.,  August  22, 
1849;  married,  November  25,  1875,  Henry 
Sabin,  of  Boston.  5.  Daniel,  July  19,  1851  ; 
farmer;  married.  May  17,  1876,  Sarah  A. 
White,  of  Bridgewater,  and  has  one  son,  David 
S.,  now  of  Portland,  Maine.  6.  Annie  Eliza, 
December  22,  1855.  7.  Caroline  Long,  born 
Claremont,  New  Hampshire,  March  8,  1858, 
died  May  28,  1858. 

(VIII)  David  Simmons  Waite,  son  of  IMa- 
jor  Otis  Frederick  Read  and  Mary  E.  (Bar- 
ker) Waite,  was  born  in  1846,  and,  like  his 
distinguished  father,  learned  the  printer's 
trade,  completing  his  apprenticeship  when  he 
was  seventeen  years  old;  hut  later  on,  in  1867, 
after  working  for  a  time  on  the  Boston  Her- 


ald, and  in  the  employ  of  Alfred  Mudge  & 
Son,  he  turned  to  mercantile  pursuits,  and 
three  years  afterward,  in  1870,  founded  the 
business  ever  since  carried  on  under  the  style 
of  Bates  Street  Shirt  Company,  and  which  in 
its  s])ecial  manufactures  has  grown  into  one  of 
the  largest  establishments  of  its  kind  in  all 
New  England.  The  company  incorporated  in 
1906,  with  Air.  Waite  as  its  president  and 
treasurer.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Manufac- 
turers' National  Bank  of  Lewistown,  a  Tem- 
plar Mason,  and  in  many  other  ways  is  closely 
identified  with  the  business  and  social  life  of 
the  city  of  Lewi,stown. 

On  March  30,  1870,  Mr.  Waite  married  Jo- 
sephine Louisa,  daughter  of  John  Turner 
Stanton,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut.  Children  : 
I.  Parker,  born  May  27,  1876.  2.  John  Tur- 
ner, born  August  12,  1877;  married  Inez  Gil- 
man,  daughter  of  A.  W.  Gilman,  of  New  York 
city,  and  has  two  daughters,  Virginia  G. 
Waite,  born  February  18,  1898,  and  Josephine 
Louise  Waite,  born  December  25,  1908. 


This  name,  of  which  there  were 
CARLL     not   many  representatives  in   the 

early  colonial  days,  appears  to  be 
of  German  or  Dutch  origin.  However  this 
mav  be,  there  were  members  of  this  family  in 
Cumberland  county,  Maine,  prior  to  the  revo- 
lution, who  showed  great  bravery  in  the  de- 
fense of  the  rights  of  their  adopted  country. 

(I)  Samuel  Carll  was  a  resident  of  Scnr- 
boro,  Cumberland  county,  Maine,  where  he 
died    May    13,     1785.      He    married    Esther 

^^i**^  ,  who  died  Mav  17,  178s.    Thev  raised 
a  large  family. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Esther  Carll,  was  born  in  York,  Maine,  March 
II,  1747,  died  January  11,  1828.  He  served 
as  a  private  in  the  Continental  army  during 
the  revolution,  participating  in  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  Some  of  his  accoutrements,  in- 
cluding his  gun  and  powder-horn,  are  still  in 
the  possession  of  members  of  the  family.  Soon 
after  the  close  of  the  struggle  for  indepen- 
dence he  settled  in  Waterboro  upon  a  large 
tract  of  wild  land  which  he  cleared  for  farm 
purposes,  and  the  remainder  of  his  life  was 
spent  in  that  town.  He  was  one  of  the  early 
pioneers  in  that  section,  and  labored  indus- 
triously to  open  and  develop  its  natural  ad- 
vantages as  an  agricultural  district.  He  sup- 
ported the  old  Whig  party  in  politics.  He  mar- 
ried, September  12,  1771.  Sarah  Burbank,  born 
in  Scarboro,  March  10,  1749,  died  March  29, 
1820.  They  had  seven  children.  Members  of 
the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 


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'J^^^U^i^ 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1515 


(III)  Samuel     (2),    fourth    child    of    Ka- 
'thaniel  and  Sarah  (Burbank)  Carll,  was  born 

in  Scarboro,  October  5,  1781,  died  in  1866. 
While  he  was  yet  an  infant  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Waterboro.  where  he  was  reared  to 
farm  life  and  he  followed  that  occupation 
throughout  his  active  years.  His  natural  in- 
telligence and  sound  judgment  in  all  matters 
relating  to  public  affairs  led  him  into  prom- 
inence. He  not  only  served  as  a  member  of 
the  board  of  selectmen,  but  acted  as  moder- 
ator at  town  meetings  for  twenty  years  in 
succession.  In  his  younger  days  he  united 
with  the  Whig  element  in  politics,  but  joined 
the  Republican  movement  at  its  organization 
and  earnestly  supported  its  principles  during 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  married  (first) 
Charity  Hamilton  and  had  children:  i.  Lou- 
ise, widow  of  Hosea  Alerrifield.  2.  Mercy, 
married  Robert  Huntress.  3.  Olive,  married 
Thomas  Goodwin.  4.  Nathaniel,  married 
Clarissa  Smith.  5.  Mary,  married  Rufus  Mc- 
Kenney.  He  married  (second)  Rhoda  Hunt- 
ress, daughter  of  William  Huntress,  of  Water- 
boro. Their  children  were:  i.  Seth  S.,  see 
forward.  2.  John  S.,  born  August  4,  1822, 
married  Susan  Roberts,  of  Waterboro,  and 
had  children :  i.  Ada  P.,  married  Dr.  Walter 
J.  Downs,  has  children :  Joseph,  Carll  S.  and 
Grover  C. ;  ii.  Warren  R.,  married  Lucy 
Davis,  of  Massachusetts ;  iii.  Walter  B.,  twin 
of  Warren  R..  married  Dora  Ricker,  of  Wa- 
terboro, and  has  children:  Irving  and  Arthur 
C. ;  iv.  Everett  C. ;  v.  Samuel  J. ;  vi.  Eugene 
H. ;  vii.  John  S.  Jr.  3.  Harriet  C,  born  Au- 
gust 17,  1824,  married  Samuel  Jameson,  of 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  has  children : 
i.  Mary  B.,  married  Bart  Bragg,  of  Orange, 
Massachusetts ;  ii.  Carll  S.,  married  Linneth 
Clark,  of  Orange.  Massachusetts,  has  two  chil- 
dren :  Ralph  and  Plorence ;  iii.  Harry,  mar- 
ried Helen  Pratt,  of  Braintree,  ^.lassachusetts, 
iv.  William  C. ;  v.  Lulu,  married  Stephen 
Holmes,  of  Natick,  Alassachusetts,  and  has 
children:  Robert,  Max  and  Marjorie.  4. 
Jason  L.,  born  July  16,  1826,  married  Me- 
linda  Burnhani.  of  Waterboro.  and  has  one 
child,  Alice,  who  married  Henry  Lee,  and  has 
children :  Harry,  John  and  Richard.  5. 
Frances  M.,  born  May  27,  1829,  married 
George  W.  Whipple,  now  deceased.  6.  So- 
phronia,  born  August  11,  1832,  married  Rufus 
D.  Chase,  deceased,  and  has  one  daughter, 
Fanny.     There  were  three  other  children. 

(IV)  Seth  S.,  eldest  child  of  Samuel  and 
Rhoda  (Huntress)  Carll,  was  born  in  Water- 
boro, Maine,  January  22,  1820,  died  November 
19,    1901.      He    learned    the    trade    of    brick- 


laying when  a  young  man  and  followed  this 
occupation  from  1841  until  1853.  With  the 
exception  of  these  years  he  has  always  resided 
in  Waterboro,  and  since  1853  has  devoted  his 
attention  to  cultivating  the  farm  he  owned 
and  occupied.  He  enjoyed  a  long  period  of 
prosperity  as  the  result  of  his  untiring  energy, 
and  was  regarded  by  his  fellow  townsmen  as 
one  of  the  leading  and  most  successful  farm- 
ers in  the  district.  Politically  he  was  a  Re- 
publican, and  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  se- 
lectmen rendered  much  valuable  service  to  the 
town.  He  married,  November  20,  1853,  Jo- 
anna Smith  Roberts,  born  in  Waterboro,  1837, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Roberts.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Sidney  B.,  born  April  28, 
1855,  married,  November  27,  1881,  Joanna  R. 
Thing,  of  Waterboro,  and  has  children  :  Elwin 
S.,  Clarence  T.  and  Arlene.  2.  George  W., 
born  August  7,  1857,  married,  November  9, 
1886,  N.  Alice  Libby,  of  Limerick,  and  has 
children:  Francis  W.,  l\Iadge  M.  and  Earl  C. 
3.  Curtis  S.,  born  February  12,  1861,  died 
November  17,  1895.  He  was  a  very  success- 
ful merchant  of  South  Waterboro,  was  post- 
master and  county  treasurer  for  four  years, 
and  was  an  intelligent,  well  conducted  young 
man,  esteemed  and  respected  by  all.  He  mar- 
ried, December  24,  1884,  Jennie  P.  Sargent,  of 
Portland,  and  left  one  daughter,  Florence  S., 
born  May  22,  1890.  4.  Lizzie  E.,  born  May 
15,  1864,  married  Willis  Coffin.  5.  Jason  S., 
see  forward.  6.  Rhoda  ]\I.,  born  June  3,  1872. 
7.  Herbert  H..  see  forward. 

(V)  Jason  Seth,  fourth  son  and  fifth  child 
of  Seth  S.  and  Joanna  Smith  (Roberts)  Carll, 
was  born  in  Waterboro,  July  7,  1868.  He  was 
educated  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  during  the  whole  course  of  his  busi- 
ness life  has  been  associated  witli  his  brother, 
Herbert  H.  For  a  time  they  worked  in  cul- 
tivating the  farm,  later  owning  a  farm  which 
they  sold  in  1900  and  went  into  trade.  They 
opened  a  general  store  in  Waterboro  Village 
nnd  disposed  of  this  in  1903  and  bought  out 
the  grain  business  of  James  P.  O'Brien,  which 
they  enlarged  considerably  and  have  carried  on 
successfully  since  that  time.  In  addition  to 
this  they  have  an  extensive  canning  plant,  ad- 
joining the  grain  mill,  in  which  they  can  ap- 
ples, corn,  baked  beans,  pumpkin,  squashes  and 
clam  chowder.  During  the  busy  season  they 
employ  forty  hands.  They  are  also  engaged  in 
the  lumber  trade.  They  are  members  of  En- 
terprise Lodse.  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  of  Waterboro,  and  of  the  Grange  at 
South  Waterboro.  They  are  attendants  at 
the  Baptist  church  and  are  Republican  in  poli- 


I5i6 


STATE  OF  MAIXE. 


tics.  Jason  S.  was  town  collector  in  1893, 
town  treasurer  in  1894-95,  and  ajain  in 
1906-07.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the 
county  coinmiltee  during  the  unfinished  term 
of  his  brother.  Curtis  S.,  mentioned  above,  and 
later  two  full  terms.  He  married,  May  24, 
1892,  Annie  C,  daughter  of  Asa  Libby,  of 
Limerick,  and  has  had  children :  Harold  C, 
born  August,  1894,  died  at  the  age  of  six 
months;  Hazel  B.,  May  25,  1896:  Crete  M., 
September  9,  1900;  Belva  C,  December  24; 
1907. 

(V)  Herbert  Hobbs,  youngest  child  of  Seth' 
S.  and  Joanna  Smith  (Roberts)  Carll,  was 
born  in  Waterboro,  September  14,  1875.  For 
details  of  his  career  see  Jason  S.  above.  He 
married,  February  10,  1904,  Cora  A.,  daughter 
of  Arthur  A.  Brown,  of  Deering,  Maine,  and 
they  have  children :  Wilmer  E.,  born  Febru- 
ary 19,   1905,  and  Marion  E.,  June  24,  1907. 


Thomas  Andrew   Brewer   was 
BREWER     born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 

June  15,  179,3.  settled  in  the 
district  of  Maine,  and  died  in  Calais,  Wash- 
ington county,  Maine,  September  5,  1861.  He 
married,  July  23,  1824.  Eliza  Todd,  born  in 
Cherryfield,  Washington  county,  Maine,  No- 
vember 30,  1796.  died  in  Calais,  Maine,  in 
March,  186.3.  Children,  born  in  Calais:  i. 
Thomas  Child,  April  30,  1825,  died  September 
17,  1826.  2.  George  James.  November  7, 
1826;  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  First  Maine 
Heavy  Artillery,  Company  L,  was  promoted 
Jime  23,  1864,  to  second  lieutenant  and  was 
honorably  discharged :  participated  in  the  bat- 
tles before  Petersburg,  June  15  to  19,  1864, 
when  the  Union  losses  were  9,964  killed, 
wounded  and  missing;  his  regiment  went  into 
the  battle  1,200  strong  and  cTme  out  with  400 
effective  men ;  he  was  twice  wounded  in  the 
arm  and  chest  by  gunshots ;  after  the  close  of 
the  war  he  was  given  a  position  in  the  post- 
ofiSce  department  in  Washington,  where  he 
died  September  3,  1899;  married  (first)  Hat- 
tie  H.  Russell,  November  21,  1872;  she  died 
childless,  December  15,  1S73;  married  (sec- 
ond) Laura  Finley,  who  died  childless  in  1892. 
3.  Caroline  Augusta.  ]\Iay  31,  1828.  died  June 
26,  1905;  married,  June  13,  1848,  Smith  Tink- 
ham.  4.  Susan  Maria,  January  i,  1830.  mar- 
ried, December  5,  185^,  Frederick  G.  Balkam ; 
two  children  :  .Smith  T.  and  Fred  G.  Balkam ; 
'Mr.  Balknm  died  April  20,  1858.  and  Mrs. 
Balkam  died  December  27,  1896.  5.  John 
Stephen,  see  forward.  6.  William  Norton. 
John  Stephen,  son  of  Thomas  Andrew  and 


Eliza    (Todd)    Brewer,    was   born    in    Calais, 
Maine,  December  12,  1831.     He  attended  tlie» 
public     schools     at     Calais     and     Robbinston, 
Maine.       He     was    a    clerk     in    a    store    in 
Robbinston.    where    he    received    a    thorough 
business   training,   as   it   was  a   general   store 
and    dealt    in    all    the    commodities    needed 
in     a     frontier    town.       He    left     Robbinston 
in     1849    to    take    a    clerkshiji     in     a     store 
in   Eastport,    Maine,   and   in    1852   located   in 
Chicago,  Illinois,  where  he  was  employed  for 
a  short  time  by  John  H.  Kinzie,  the  second 
white  man  born  in  the  future  city  of  Chicago, 
who  had  literally  grown  up  with  the  place.   He 
became  connected   with  the   railroad  business 
in  1852  in  the  office  of  the  Galena  &  Chicago 
Union   Railroad  Company  as  assistant  secre- 
tary of  the  corporation  and  purchasing  agent 
for    the    road,    which    positions    he    held    for 
twelve  years,  1852-64.     He  was  a  member  of 
the  board  of  trade  of  Chicago,  1864-68,  and  in 
1868  established  himself  in  the  railway  supply 
business  and  he  w^as  still  in  that  business  in 
1908,  with    fortv  years  of  earnest   work.      In 
the  prime  of  his  life  he  was  affiliated  with  the 
leading    clubs    of    Chicago,    but    relinquished 
club  life  for  the  quiet  found  at  home.    He  was 
instrumental  in   founding,  with  the  co-opera- 
tion of  Mr.  W.  H.  Arnold,  the  organization 
known  as  "Sons  of  Maine"  in  Chicago ;  the 
first  meeting  for  the  purpose  being  called  by 
them  at  the  Palmer  House  in  Chicago  in  1877, 
and  the  name  first  adopted  "Sons  of  Maine" 
was  subsequently  changed  so  as  to  include  the 
"Daughters  of  Maine."     iKt  the  first  meeting 
the  Hon.  Thomas  Drummond,  United  States 
district  judge,  was  elected  president  and  Mr. 
Brewer  the  first  secretary  of  the  society.     He 
served  as  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the  Lenity 
Church  Society  of  Chicago  for  a  number  of 
years,    he   having   united   with   the   LTiiitarian 
church.     His  political  preference  was  the  Re- 
publican party,  but  he  was  not  an  office  seeker 
or  a  political  office  holder.     He  married,  De- 
cember   II,    1855,   Helen   Maria,   daughter  of 
Leonard  and  Ann  Shaw,  of  Eastport,  Maine, 
and  their  children,  all  born  in   Chicago,   Illi- 
nois, in  the  following  order,  were:    i.  Frank 
Endicott,  born  June  15,  i860,  died  March  17, 
1870.     2.  Robert  Todd,  June   13.   1863,  mar- 
ried, in  1902,  Paula  F.  Seckel,  no  children.    3, 
Helen    Augusta,    February    i,    1867,    married 
Dr,  Randolph  Brunson,  of  Hot  Springs,  Ar- 
kansas, May  8.   1897,  and  their  children  are: 
Catherine  and  Dorothy    (twins)    and  Francis 
Atherton  Brunson. 


I 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1517 


People  of  this  name  were  very 
SMART  early  in  New  Hampshire  and 
Maine, but  they  seem  to  have  been 
much  more  busily  occupied  in  clearing  away  the 
forest  and  developing  farms  and  workshops 
than  in  recording;  their  progress.  A  thorough 
search  of  the  vital  records  of  New  Hampshire 
fails  to  reveal  their  abiding  places  or  their 
births  and  deaths.  The  founder  of  the  family 
in  this  state  was  a  man  of  considerable  ability 
and  prominence,  and  his  descendants,  whose 
record  of  them  can  be  found,  seems  to  have 
partaken  of  his  character  and  worth. 

John  Smart,  the  ancestor  of  those  in  New 
Hampshire  bearing  the  name,  was  a  native  of 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  England,  whence  he 
came  to  Massachusetts  in  1635.  He  was  ac- 
companied by  his  wife  and  two  sons  and  set- 
tled in  Hingham.  where  he  drew  a  house  lot 
in  1635.  He  soon  removed  to  E.xeter,  New 
Hampshire,  and  received  an  assignment  of 
one  acre  and  twenty-six  poles  of  meadow 
"next  the  town,"  from  which  it  would  appear 
that  he  was  the  owner  of  cattle  or  goats.  His 
homestead  was  on  the  east  side  of  Exeter 
river,  in  what  is  now  Stratham,  but  he  re- 
moved thence  to  the  northern  part  of  Exeter, 
now  Newmarket.  His  descendants  still  live 
in  that  town.  He  did  not  sign  the  "Combina- 
tion" for  the  government  of  Exeter,  but  was 
a  public-spirited  man  and  participated  in  the 
purchase  of  the  Wheelwright  house  for  a  par- 
sonage. His  name  first  appears  on  the  town 
books  January  16,  1645.  On  February  3, 
1698,  he  was  chosen  by  the  town  meeting  as 
a  member  of  the  committee  for  seating  the 
people  in  the  meeting-house. 

Robert  Smart,  probably  a  descendant  of 
John  Smart,  the  immigrant,  was  (according  to 
tradition)  a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian 
war.  enlisting  from  New  Hampshire. 

( I )  Levi  Smart,  the  first  of  the  line  here 
to  be  treated  of  whom  we  have  information, 
mav  have  been  a  son  of  Robert  Smart,  as  his 
father  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian 
war.  Levi  Smart  settled  in  Vassalboro, 
Maine,  about  1812,  was  a  farmer,  and  died 
at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  He  married  a  Miss 
Cowen,  who  bore  him  five  children  :  Milton, 
Hendrick,  see  forward;  Alfred,  Ira  and  Bet- 
sey.    Levi    Smart    married     (second)     Olive 

:    four   children  :    Lydia,   Emily,   John 

and  Ann. 

(II)  Hendrick,  second  son  of  Levi  Smart, 
was  presumably  born  in  Augusta,  Maine,  and 
died  January  7,  1905,  in  his  ninety-fifth  year. 
He  was  a  farmer,  lived  on  "Cross  Hill"  in  Au- 
gusta, and  for  over  seventy  years  resided  on 


one  farm.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Freewill 
Baptist  church,  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
highly  respected  in  the  community.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  about  1838,  Avis  Ross,  born  in 
Sidney,  Maine,  died  1854,  daughter  of  Hugh 
and  Abigail  (Sawtelle)  Ross,  by  whom  he  had 
five  children:  i.  Laura,  died  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years.  2.  Elvira,  married  Abner 
Haskell.  3.  Orren  P.,  see  forward.  4.  and  5. 
Alvah  and  Laura,  twins.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Mrs.  Rachel  Halloway,  nee  Merrill,  who 
bore  him  one  child,  Alice  P.;  Mrs.  Smart  died 
in  1858.  He  married  (third)  Mrs.  Hannah 
(Hicks)  Leighton,  who  bore  him  one  child, 
George;  Mrs.  Smart  died  in  1907. 

(Ill)  Orren  P.,  son  of  Hendrick  and  Avis 
(Ross)  Smart,  was  born  in  Augusta,  Maine, 
September  18,  1844.  He  was  reared  on  a 
farm,  and  acquired  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools.  On  July  31,  1862,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  G,  Nineteenth  Maine  Volunteer 
Infantry,  and  participated  in  the  following 
battles :  First  and  second  battles  of  Fred- 
ericksburg; Chancellorsville ;  Gettysburg, 
where  he  was  wounded ;  Wilderness ;  North 
Anna,  where  he  was  wounded,  May  29,  1864; 
first  and  second  battles  of  Hatchers  Run ; 
Petersburg;  Farmville  and  High  Bridge.  He 
received  an  honorable  discharge  June  7,  1865. 
After  the  war  he  devoted  his  attention  to  farm- 
ing for  two  years,  after  which  he  worked  at 
the  granite  business  for  twenty  years,  and  then 
engaged  in  the  same  line  of  business  on  his 
own  account,  continuing  for  a  period  of  five 
years.  In  1891  he  received  the  appointment  of 
clerk  in  the  newspaper  department  of  the  Au- 
gusta postofifice  and  now,  1908,  is  serving  in 
the  capacity  of  assistant  chief  clerk.  He  has 
served  in  the  city  council  of  Augusta  as  usher 
and  as  a  special  policeman.  He  is  independent 
in  politics,  voting  for  the  candidate  best  quali- 
fied for  ofiice  irrespective  of  party  affiliations. 
He  is  a  member  of  .Augusta  Lodge,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.;  Cushnoc  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.;  Trinity 
Commanderv,  K.  T. ;  Augusta  Lodge,  B.  P. 
O.  E.:  Seth' Williams  Post,  No.  13,  G.  A.  R., 
and  American  Benefit  Fraternal  Order.  He 
married,  August  28,  1864,  Lydia  McFarland, 
born  in  Augusta,  Maine,  January  31,  1845, 
daughter  of  Elijah  and  Betsey  (Dearborn) 
McFarland.  Children:  i.  Edwin  P.,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Ernest  L.,  born  November  16,  i868, 
a  woodworker  in  Augusta.  3.  Flora  M.,  born 
February  21.  1876,  married  Scott  Hewins,  of 
Augusta. 

Tosiah  McFarland,  grandfather  of  Lydia 
(McFarland)  Smart,  was  born  October  31, 
1774,   presumably    in    New    Hampshire,    died 


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March  7,  1833.  He  married  Rebecca  Springer, 
born  January  9,  1785.  died  September  25, 
1867.  Children:  i.  Pamelia,  born  April  28, 
1806,  died  January  19,  1876.  2.  Bradford, 
October  9,  1807.  3.  Sarah,  August  12,  1809. 
4.  Jared.  July  25,  181 1.  5.  Elijah,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Deborah,  September  15,  1815.  7. 
and  8.  Rebecca  J.  and  Alary  Ann,  twins.  9. 
Stutley,  August  i,  1821.  10.  Amy,  October 
17,  1823,  died  September  17,  1827.  11.  Ruel, 
May  7,"  1826. 

Elijah,  son  of  Josiah  and  Rebecca  (Spring- 
er) McFarland,  was  born  October  11,  1813, 
died  August  30,  1893.  He  married  Betsey 
Dearborn,  April  17,  1844;  she  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1824,  died  July  7,  1894.  Children:  I. 
Lydia,  born  January  31,  1845,  aforementioned 
as  the  wife  of  Orren  P.  Smart.  2.  Elizabeth, 
April  21,  1846.  3.  Millard  F..  October  9, 
1848.  4.  Benjamin  F.,  February  21,  1831.  5. 
Maria  J.,  May  28,  1854.  6.  Elijah  F.,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1856. 

(IV)  Edwin  P.,  son  of  Orren  P.  and  Lydia 
(McFarland)  Smart,  was  born  in  Augusta, 
Maine,  April  28,  1866.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools,  and  after  completing  his 
studies  went  into  a  woodworking  shop,  where 
he  remained  for  some  time.  When  about 
twenty-one  years  of  age  he  began  learning 
the  drug  business,  and  four  years  later  en- 
gaged in  business  for  himself  in  Augusta, 
with  Joe  Young,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Young  &  Smart,  which  obtained  for  fifteen 
months,  when  Mr.  Smart  succeeded  to  the  en- 
tire business  and  continued  same  for  seven 
years.  In  1900  he  removed  to  Livermore  Falls 
and  opened  a  drug  store,  which  he  still  con- 
ducts, and  which  has  proved  a  profitable  in- 
vestment. He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Ma- 
son, member  of  Aleppo  Shrine,  B.  P.  O.  E., 
I.  O  .0.  F.,  and  K.  P.  He  married.  July  7, 
1 891,  Margaret  Isabelle,  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  Martin.     No  children. 


Samuel  Cook,  immigrant  ancestor, 
COOK     was  of  English  stock,  but  came  to 

America  from  Dublin,  Ireland, 
with  Michael  Bacon  and  John  Smith.  Alichael 
Bacon  is  the  ancestor  of  many  distinguished 
men  and  prominent  families  of  New  England. 
The  three  men  settled  in  Dedham,  Massachu- 
setts, and  were  evidently  Puritans  as  well  as 
Protestants  when  they  came  over.  Samuel 
Cook  became  a  proprietor  of  Dedham,  July  6, 
1640.  He  was  a  partner  of  Smith,  March  10, 
1639-40.  It  should  be  noted  that  Smith's 
taxes  were  remitted  on  account  of  great  losses 
he  suffered  in  Ireland,  implying  also  that  his 


companion  and  partner  must  have  lost  also. 
While  we  find  no  evidence  of  his  son  Daniel, 
the  Quaker  records  at  Windham,  Maine,  es- 
tablish his  identity  conclusively  enough.  Little 
else  is  known  of  the  immigrant. 

(II)  Daniel,  doubtless  son  of  Samuel  Cook, 
was  born  in  Ireland,  according  to  the  Quaker 
records,  and  settled  in  Dedham,  Massachu- 
setts, perhaps  after  his  father  had  made  his 
home  there.  His  family  appears  at  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  and  he  probably  went  there 
early  in  life.  The  W'indham  records  give  us 
the  record  of  but  one  child,  John,  mentioned 
below. 

(III)  John,  son  of  Daniel  Cook,  was  born 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  May  5.  1692.  He 
married  Lydia ,  born  at  Dover,  Novem- 
ber 29,  1694.  Children,  born  at  Dover:  i. 
Marcy,  born  June  21,  1716.  2.  Hezekiah,  born 
January  i,  1717.  3.  Mary,  born  April  i, 
1720.  4.  Ebenezer,  born  April  26,  1723.  died 
in  the  military  service  in  the  French  war  on 
the  return  from  the  Cape  Breton  expedition, 
August  17,  1745.  5.  John,  born  November  6, 
1725.  6.  Richard,  born  December  21,  1727. 
7.  Phebe,  born  March  17,  1729-30.  8.  Daniel, 
mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  John  Cook,  was 
born  at  Dover,  February  22,  1732.  There 
were  a  number  of  enlistments  in  the  revolu- 
tion credited  to  Daniel  Cook,  and  some  of 
them  may  belong  to  this  man,  though  the  fam- 
il}-  belonged  to  the  .Society  of  Friends.  He 
lived  in  Dover,  and  later  settled  in  Windham, 
Maine.  He  had  ten  children  and  one  hun- 
dred grandchildren  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
Among  his  children  was  John,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(V)  John  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (2)  Cook, 
was  born  at  Windham  or  Dover,  May  25, 
1765.  He  was  a  thrifty  and  well-to-do  farmer, 
and  was  proud  of  the  fact  that  his  farm 
yielded  all  the  necessary  breadstufTs  for  his 
family,  he  never  having  to  buy  material  for 
bread.  Once  in  1817  he  did  swap  some  hack- 
matack knees  for  barley.  He  cleared  the 
farm  now  known  as  the  Lewis  farm  at  East 
'/assalborough,  Maine.  He  was  a  useful  and 
honored  citizen.  He  married  Sarah  Pope, 
born  August  23,  1770,  daughter  of  Elijah  and 
Phebe  (Winslow)  Pope.  Elijah  Pope  was 
^orn  in  Boston,  December  23,  1742,  and  his 
vife  in  1733,  daughter  of  Nathan  Winslow 
(4).  James  Winslow  (3),  father  of  Nathan 
Winslow,  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  removed 
from  Freetown  on  Cape  Cod  to  Falmouth, 
now  Portland,  Maine,  in  1728,  and  was  the 
first  Ouaker  in  Falmouth.    He  was  the  son  of 


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Job  Winslow  (2),  and  grandson  of  Kenelm 
Winslow,  founder  of  this  branch  of  the  Wins- 
low  family  in  America.  Kenelm  Winslow  was 
brother  of  Governor  Edward  Winslow,  who 
came  over  nine  years  earlier  on  the  "May- 
flower" to  Plymouth.  Kenelm  was  born  at 
Droitwich,  England,  in  1599,  son  of  Edward 
Winslow,  of  Droitwich,  and  grandson  of  Ken- 
elm Winslow.  Kenelm  Winslow  (3)  married, 
in  1634,  Eleanor  Newton,  widow  of  John 
Adams,  of  Plymouth;  settled  in  1641  in 
Marshfield,  Massachusetts.  John  Cook  had 
by  his  wife,  Sarah  (Pope)  Cook,  sixteen  chil- 
dren: I.  Phebe,  born  in  Freeport,  July  27, 
1794,  died  November  20,  1795.  2.  Robert, 
born  in  Freeport,  November  4,  1795.  died 
March  12,  179 — .  3.  Daniel,  Iwrn  in  Freeport. 
September  23,  1796.  4.  Elijah,  twin  of  Dan- 
iel, mentioned  below.  5.  Samuel,  born  in 
Freeport,  January  17,  1799.  6.  Robert,  born 
in  Freeport,  May  13,  iSoo,  died  October  20, 
1819.  7.  Joseph,  born  in  Freeport,  March  i, 
1S02.  8.  Daniel,  born  in  Vassalborough,  Jan- 
uary 7,  1804.  9.  Edward,  born  in  Vassal- 
borough,  May  25,  1805.  10.  John  Jr.,  born 
in  \'assaIborough,  January  2j,  1807.  11.  John 
Jr.,  born  in  Vassalborough,  August  24,  1808, 
died  1808.  12.  Ebenezer,  born  in  \^assilbor- 
ough,  July  29,  1810,  died  Novemljer  24,  181 1. 
13.  Marv  Ann,  born  in  Vassalborough,  April 
25,  1812.  14.  Sarah,  born  December  29,  181 5, 
died  1815.  15.  Eliza,  born  in  Vassalborough, 
May  29,  1818.  16.  Charity,  born  in  Vassal- 
borough, April  27,  1819. 

(VI)  Elijah,  son  of  John  (2)  Cook,  was 
born  in  Freeport,  Maine,  Septemlier  23,  1796. 
He  removed  to  Vassalborough  with  his 
father's  family  in  1803.  He  was  educated  in 
the  district  schools,  and  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  in  his  boyhood.  He  was  an  apt  student 
and  became  a  teacher.  He  continued,  after  the 
custom  of  the  school-teachers  of  his  day.  to 
farm  in  summer  and  teach  in  winter  in  towns 
in  vicinity  of  his  home.  He  was  for  a  time 
overseer  in  the  mills  of  North  Vassalborough, 
Maine.  He  died  in  Iowa  in  1880.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  as  were  'his 
ancestors  for  many  generations  before  him. 
In  politics  he  was  originally  a  Whig,  later  a 
Republican.  He  married  Judith  Meader,  born 
December  31,  1801,  died  1875,  'laughter  of 
Micajah  Meader.  One  of  her  ancestors  was 
a  soldier  at  Quebec  under  General  Wolfe. 
Children:  i.  Albert,  born  February  17,  1827. 
2.  Almira,  born  May  23,  1828.  3.  Sarah  J., 
born  July  11,  1829.  4.  Rachel,  born  March 
25,  1831,  died  August  12,  1869.  5.  John  M., 
born  June  14,  1834.     6.  Elijah  Jr.,  born  May 


6,  1839,  cl'sd  December  29,  1899.  7.  George 
Dillwyn,  born  March  2,  1841,  mentioned  be- 
low. 8.  Edward  Hanson,  born  June  10,  1844, 
graduate  of  Haverford  College  in  1868,  teach- 
er in  the  Oak  Grove  Seminary  fifteen  years, 
in  Oakwood  Seminary,  Union  Springs,  New 
York,  one  year,  at  the  Friends'  Institute,  East 
Hamburg,  Erie  county,  New  York,  two  years, 
and  for  seven  years  was  principal  of  the  Oak 
Grove  Seminary  at  Vassalborough.  He  re- 
signed in  1883  and  devoted  his  attention  to  his 
fruit  orchards.  He  became  an  expert  in  apple 
culture,  having  fifty  acres  of  apple  trees,  and 
was  engaged  in  exporting  apples  for  himself 
and  neighbors  many  years ;  was  one  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  Oak  Grove  Sem- 
inary :  was  representative  to  the  state  legisla- 
ture in  1901  :  a  Republican  in  politics  and  a 
Quaker  in  religion ;  member  of  the  Vassal- 
borough Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry;  mar- 
ried. 186S,  Annie  L.  Hamblin,  daughter  of 
Zenas  Hamblin,  of  Falmouth,  Massachusetts; 
died  1899;  children:  Edward  C,  of  York, 
Maine:  Harriet  H.,  Edith  M.,  Anne  E.,  grad- 
uate of  Colby  College. 

(VII)  Dr.  George  Dillwyn,  son  of  Elijah 
Cook,  was  born  in  Vassalborough,  Maine, 
March  2,  1841.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  th'at  town  and  at  the  Maine 
Medical  School,  graduating  from  the  latter 
institution  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  the 
class  of  1866.  After  graduating  he  went  west 
to  accept  an  appointment  as  agencv  doctor  of 
the  United  States  government  in  Indian  Ter- 
ritory in  what  is  now  Oklahoma,  and  he  served 
among  the  Indians  three  years,  obtaining 
much  valuable  experience.  When  he  returned 
to  his  native  state  he  settled  in  Charleston, 
Maine,  and  w^as  occupied  with  a  general  prac- 
tice there  until  1892,  when  he  came  to  Vassal- 
borough, where  he  is  now  living,  having  re- 
tired from  active  practice.  In  politics  Dr. 
Cook  is  a  Republican,  and  in  18S8  he  was  rep- 
resentative to  the  state  legislature  from 
Charleston  district.  In  religion  he  has  held  to 
the  faith  of  his  fathers  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Waterville  Clinical  Society,  and  Neguen- 
keag  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons. He  married  Helen  M.  Dunning,  born 
in  Charleston,  daughter  of  Reuben  and  Lucy 
(Halclen)  Dunning.  Their  only  child  is  Har- 
old Elijah,  mentioned  below. 

{\TII)  Harold  Elijah,  son  of  Dr.  George 
Dillwyn  Cook,  was  born  in  Charleston,  Maine, 
October  26,  1869.  he  w^as  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  at  Charles- 
ton Academy,  Higgins  Classical  Institute,  and 


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the  University  of  Maine  Law  School,  wliere 
he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1900  with  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  March  8,  1900,  and  opened  an  office  at 
Waterville,  Maine,  in  partnership  with  Frank 
J.  Small,  under  the  firm  name  of  Cook  & 
Small.  The  firm  has  established  an  excellent 
general  practice,  and  the  partners  stand  high 
in  their  profession.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. In  September,  1908,  was  elected 
judge  of  probate  for  Kennebec  county,  re- 
ceiving the  largest  vote  and  the  largest  ma- 
jority of  any  candidate  on  the  ticket.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal church  of  Waterville.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Neguenkeag  Lodge,  Free  Masons, 
of  Vassalborough ;  Dulap  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  China,  Maine;  St.  Omer  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar,  of  Waterville,  and 
of  the  Waterville  Masonic  Club.  He  is  past 
district  deputy  grand  master  of  the  Twelfth 
Masonic  District,  an  office  he  has  filled  for 
three  vears  past.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  state.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Royal  Arcanum.  Mr.  Cook  married,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1895,  Alberta  Fayette  Parks,  born 
September  4,  1874,  at  Richmond,  New  Bruns- 
wick, daughter  of  Daniel  and  Catherine  (Hay- 
den)  Parks.  Children:  i.  Hilliard  D„  born 
October  17,  1896.  2.  Harold,  born  July  26, 
1898.  3.  Donald  Parkhurst,  born  September 
10,  1908. 

The  Cooks  not  only  have  the  great 
COOK     honor  of  being    descended    from 

Francis  Cook  of  the  "Mayflower," 
and  from  at  least  eight  others  who  came  on 
that  historic  vessel,  such  as  Myles  Standish, 
John  Alden,  Priscilla  Mullens,  Peregrine 
White,  but  their  lines  of  history  show  a  won- 
derful story  of  "true  and  illustrious  ances- 
tors." "With  the  name  of  Cooke,  wherever 
located  the  wide  world  over  comes  a  strong 
following  of  military  character.  They  carried 
arms  in  the  Holy  Wars,  and  the  Courtois  Col- 
lection gives  them  as :  'Walter  Cok  went  to 
the  Holy  Land  in  1191.  Richard  Cok  went  to 
the  HolV  Land  in  1691."  Add  to  these  Will- 
iam Henry  Cooke,  Recorder  of  Oxford.  Judge 
of  County  Courts,  a  Magistrate  and  Deputy 
Lieutenant  of  Herefordshire,  who  wrote  three 
volumes  of  Collections  toward  the  History 
and  Antiquities  of  County  Hereford,  in  con- 
tinuance of  Duncombe's  'History' ;  also  that 
Sir  Anthony  Cooke,  a  learned  man,  was  tutor 
of  King  Richard  \T  in  1543,  and  I  lead  up 
to  the  natural  inheritance  of  the  special  gifts 
which  the  Cookes  used  for  the  benefit  of  Ply- 


mouth Colony.  Cook  record  accumulates  with 
great  rapidity  in  England;  in  1612  a  Cooke 
was  Chancellor  of  the  Irish  Exchequer.  Sir 
Richard  Cooke  Secretary  for  Foreign  afifairs 
in  the  Cabinet  of  Charles  I,  in  1635 ;  in  1462  a 
Cooke  was  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  an  elec- 
tive postion,  all  remember,  as  for  eight  hun- 
dred years  this  office  was  filled  by  the  votes 
of  the  various  powerful  guilds.  Sir  Thomas 
Cook  of  Worcestershire  founded  Worcester 
College  at  Oxford  and  Sir  James  Cook 
of  Middlesex,  to  keep  up  the  connection 
with  the  first  comers  to  our  country,  was 
Governor  of  the  East  India  Company.  In  the 
army,  the  navy,  the  church,  in  literature  and 
the  learned  professions,  in  politics,  in  the  pul- 
pit, in  the  mother  country  it  would  be  asking 
little  of  them  with  such  a  backing  to  be  much 
to  the  land  of  their  adoption  and  birth,  what- 
ever the  demands  it  might  make." 

Francis  Cook,  of  the  "Mayflower,"  was 
born  in  1577,  and  following  the  unerring 
hand  of  Providence,  fled  to  Holland  with  Pas- 
tor Robinson,  and  for  some  cause  of  affinity  or 
favoritism  became  an  inmate  of  his  family — 
his  personal  charge.  His  wife  Hester  was  one 
of  the  noblest,  most  religious  and  capable 
women  of  her  day.  "He  was  one  of  the  Pil- 
grims who  immediately  occupied  a  very  im- 
portant place,  and  while  the  conviction  of  his 
importance  only  dawns  upon  one  as  ^le  reads 
continuously,  the  fact  exists,  his  record  ac- 
cumulates, and  proves  that  he  was  behind  the 
throne  wielding  immense  influence.  Pursuing 
the  even  tenor  of  his  way,  his  strength  grows 
day  by  day,  until  the  consciousness  comes  that 
he  is  'guiding  the  ship  of  State'  with  the  rare 
judgment  of  his  strong  personality.  Valuable 
as  his  record  is,  it  seems  so  general  and  wide 
spreading  that  everything  is  taken  as  a  matter 
of  course,  hardly  requiring  recognition.  He 
and  his  descendants  held  firm  grip  on  positions 
of  weight  and  trust  all  through  their  life  in 
Plymouth  Colony  and  in  the  surrounding 
towns.  There  is  the  'ring  of  true  metal'  about 
all  the  Cookes.  They  asked  no  favors,  had 
no  special  pleading  for  preference  in  any  re- 
spect, but  they  always  drew  the  'lucky  num- 
ber' in  the  land  divisions.  Francis  Cooke  oc- 
cupied a  house  on  Leyden  street  adjoining  the 
residence  of  Edward  Winslow  and  Isaac  Al- 
lerton,  a  distinction  of  propinquity  which 
places  his  social  position  on  record.  Had  he 
not  been  acceptable  to  these  magnates  there 
would  have  been  some  means  devised  to  pre- 
vent or  remove  his  claim.  Lentil  1640  this 
Pilgrim's  name  appears  constantly  in  some 
capacity  performing  important  duties  for  the 


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Government."  Every  line  of  his  history  that 
we  trace  causes  us  to  be  more  and  more  justly 
proud  of  a  Pilgrim  ancestor  like  this. 

(I)  Samuel  Cook  was  probably  born  in  one 
of  the  strong  old  towns  of  Connecticut  whither 
some  of  the  best  of  the  people  of  Plymouth 
Colony  removed,  the  date  being  October  25, 
1763,  and  the  date  of  his  death  in  \^ermont 
was  October  25,  1838.  Traditions  in  the  fam- 
ilv  indicate  that  he  removed  to  Glover  or 
Craftsbury,  in  Vermont,  about  1783.  Like 
his  ancestor  Francis,  he  made  a  very  wise 
choice  of  lands,  and  his  entire  life  was  devoted 
to  farming  of  a  very  careful  and  successful 
kind.  He  was  one  of  the  most  public-spirited 
men  of  his  day,  and  helped  greatly  in  many 
towns  beside  the  one  where  he  dwelt  for  so 
many  years.  His  wife  bore  the  goodly  name 
of  Priscilla,  and  he  had  four  children. 

(II)  Calvin,  son  of  Samuel  and  Priscilla 
Cook,  was  born  in  Venuont,  March  30,  1787, 
died  September  11,  181 8.  Although  his  life 
was  such  a  short  one  he  was  a  very  good 
farmer  in  Glover  and  Craftsbury,  Vermont. 
His  wife  was  named  Amy,  and  their  children 
were:  i.  Emery,  born  August  26.  1814.  2. 
Lucy  Ann,  born  in  Craftsbury,  .A.pri!  20,  1816, 
died  April  25,  1864.  3.  Fannj',  born  in  Crafts- 
bury, March  16,  1818,  died  May  8,  1849. 

(  HI)  Emery,  son  of  Calvin  and  .'Vmy  Cook, 
was  born  in  Craftsbury,  Vermont,  August  26, 
1814,  died  in  Glover,  May  25,  1882.  He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  moved  to 
Glover,  Vermont,  in  1837.  He  was  one  of  the 
most  efficient  members  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  holding  all  the  offices  with  great 
success,  and  his  work  in  the  Sunday-school 
and  the  Sunday-school  conventions  of  the 
state  was  very  helpful  in  manv  ways.  For 
many  years  he  was  an  associate  judge,  being 
appointed  to  that  office  by  the  governor.  He 
was  a  Master  Mason,  and  was  at  one  time 
the  worshipful  master  of  the  Barton,  Ver- 
mont, Lodge.  He  married  (first)  Julia  Ann 
Reckard,  born  May  27,  1817,  died  September 
28,  1839.  Married  (second)  Calista  S.  Reck- 
ard, a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  and  bearing  a 
very  close  resemblance  to  her  in  the  nobility  of 
her  christian  character.  The  children  of  the 
first  marriage  were:  i.  Amy  Lemira,  born 
in  Craftsbury,  Vermont,  October  9,  1837,  died 
June  19,  1837.  2.  Cnlvin  Eleazer,  born  in 
Craftsbury,  Alay  30,  1839,  died,  in  Glover, 
February  i,  1865.  He  was  a  very  worthy  and 
active  man.  and  one  of  the  bravest  soldiers  in 
the  civil  war,  enlisting  in  Company  I  of  the 
Fifteenth  \'ermont  Infantrv,  and  was  made  a 


corporal  after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  in 
which  he  took  a  valiant  part.  Tlie  children 
of  the  second  marriage  were :  3.  Charles  Wes- 
ley, born  in  Craftsbury,  Aprif  7,  1843.  enlist- 
ing with  his  half-brother  Calvin  in  the  same 
regiment  and  company,  and  served  in  the  same 
important  engagements.  He  is  a  very  success- 
ful farmer  at  Glover.  4.  Joseph  Henry,  born 
in  Craftsbury,  September  3,  1846,  now  resides 
at  Irasburg,  Vermont.  5.  Justine  Emery,  born 
in  Craftsbury.  October  10,  1848,  died  March 
II,  1897.  6.  Leone  Reckard.  7.  Edgar  Ran- 
dall, born  March  30,  1856,  is  a  very  successful 
business  man  in  Barton.  8.  Katherine  Flor- 
ence, born  May  6,  1838,  married  Lyman  Bar- 
ber, of  Glover.  9.  Martha  L.,  born  .\pril  2, 
1862,  died  October  11,  1905;  married  Cortis 
Woodward. 

(IV)  Leone  Reckard,  son  of  Emery  and 
Calista  S.  (Reckard)  Cook,  was  born  in 
Craftsbury,  September  23,  18-3.  and  is  a 
highly  esteemed  resident  of  Yarmouthville, 
Maine.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
and  in  Barton  Academy.  He  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  until  he  was  fifteen  years  old. 
After  about  a  year  he  became  a  clerk  in  a 
drug  store  in  Barton,  remaining  in  that  posi- 
tion nine  months.  For  six  years  he  resided  in 
Island  Pond,  Vermont,  working  three  years 
each  as  clerk  for  George  S.  Robinson  and 
N.  E.  Bonney.  After  this  he  was  clerk  for 
si.x  months  for  J.  C.  Walker,  of  Mechanic's 
Falls,  Maine.  In  1877  he  removed  to  Yar- 
mouth and  bought  out  the  drug  business  of 
George  E.  Thoits,  which  he  has  conducted 
ever  since.  For  the  past  twenty-six  years  he 
has  been  town  clerk  of  Yarmouth.  He  was 
elected  to  the  state  legislature  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket  for  the  term  of  1893-94.  Since 
then  he  has  been  a  very  strong  Prohibitionist. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  Yarmouth  board  of 
selectmen  in  1897-98.  He  is  a  justice  of  the 
peace,  and  has  been  a  trial  justice  for  the  past 
four  years.  He  has  been  for  some  time  a 
very  active  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and 
superintendent  of  its  Sunday-school  for  some 
years.  He  is  the  Maine  member  of  the  Inter- 
national Sunday-school  executive  committee, 
president  of  the  Maine  Sunday-school  .Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  Free  Mason,  a  member  of  the 
Odd  Fellows  and  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
He  was  worshipful  mister  of  Casco  Lodge  for 
two  years;  high  priest  of  Cumberland  Royal 
Arch  Chapter  two  years ;  a  Knight  Templar 
and  worthy  patron  of  Eastern  Star  three 
years.  He  married,  September  8,  1878,  Clara 
J.,   daughter   of   Joseph    Andrew,    of    Island 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Pond,  and  they  have  had  two  children:  i. 
Edith  Lucinda.  born  Jnlv  30,  1881,  died  July 
16,  igoo.  2.  An  infant  dauo;hter  who  died 
April   20,    1887. 


William  Averill,  immigrant 
A\''ERILL  ancestor,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land. He  came  to  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  an  inhabitant  as  early 
as  1638.  He  died  there  in  1653.  His  will 
was  dated  June  3,  1652,  and  proved  March  29, 
1652-53.  He  had  one  son,  William,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  William  {2),  son  of  William  (i)  Av- 
erill, was  born  about  1630,  in  England  or  Ips- 
wich. He  settled  in  Topstield,  Massachusetts, 
about  1662,  and  from  that  time  until  1689 
was  a  protninent  citizen  there.  He  was  a  car- 
penter as  well  as  a  farmer.  His  sons  John, 
Nathaniel,  Job  and  Ebenezer  were  also  useful 
and  prominent  citizens  of  Topsfield  from 
about  1692  to  1727.  Children:  i.  William. 
2.  John.  3.  Nathaniel,  had  sons  Nathaniel, 
Jacob,  Moses  and  Jeremiah.  4.  Job,  born 
January  i,  1666-67,  mentioned  below.  5.  Han- 
nah, December  18,  1667.  6.  Ebenezer,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1669.  7.  Thomas,  December  9,  1672. 
8.  Abigail,  March  8,  1673-74.  9.  Paul,  June 
21,  1677.  10.  Isaac,  November  10,  1680.  u. 
Mary. 

(III)  Job,  son  of  William  (2)  Averill,  was 
born  in  Topsfield,  January  i,  1666-67,  mr- 
ried,  February  i,  1702-03,  Susanna  Brown. 
Children,  born  at  Topsfield:  i.  Job,  August 
II,  1707.  2.  Judith,  May  i,  1710.  3.  Israel, 
April  21,  1713.  4.  Keziah,  May  6,  1715.^  5. 
Samuel,  June  7,  1720.  6.  Susanna,  baptized 
September,  1722.  7.  Stephen.  8.  Joseph,  men- 
tioned below. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  Job  Averill,  was  born 
at  Topsfield.  The  history  of  Kennebunkport 
is  authority  for  the  statement  that  Job  and 
Samuel,  who  were  born  as  stated  in  Topsfield, 
came  with  their  brothers  Stephen  and  Joseph 
to  Kennebunkport  (Arundel)  soon  after  the 
resettlement  of  1714.  They  came  from  Kittery, 
but  as  there  is  no  trace  of  them  on  the  Kittery 
records,  we  believe  that  they  must  have  been 
from  Topsfield  shortly  before  settling  in  Kenne- 
bunkport. Of  these  brothers,  Job  left  no  chil- 
dren ;  Samuel  was  cast  away  on  Mount  Desert 
Island  and  drowned  in  1747:  married  Ruth 
Watson ;  children :  Ruth,  married  James 
Huff ;  Eunice,  married  Jesse  Dorman  ;  Mary, 
married  Joseph  Bickford ;  Samuel  left  no  sons. 
Stephen  seems  to  have  left  no  sons ;  children : 
Phebe,  married  Nicholas  Weeks:  Rebecca; 
Sarah,  married  Maddox  ;  Samuel,  die  1 


young ;  Son  died.  Joseph  Averill  married 
Jane  McClellan ;  seven  of  their  children  died 
of  throat  distemper  in  1735.  The  surviving 
children  were:  i.  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Jane,  married  Hugh  McClellan.  3.  Mar- 
garet, married Hodge.  4.  Molly,  mar- 
ried    Clark. 

(\')  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Averill, 
was  born  about  1735-40.  He  married  Jane 
McLellan.     Children,  born  at  Kennebunkport: 

1.  Shadrach,  married  Hannah  Smith.  2. 
Sarah,  married  David  Boothby.  3.  Joseph, 
married  (first)  Mary  Stone;  (second)  Martha 
Tyler  and  (third)  Polly  Haley.  4.  Samuel, 
lost  at  sea.  5.  Stephen  (non.  comp. ).  6. 
William,  married  (first)  Susan  Boothby;  (sec- 
ond) Mary  Weeks.  7.  Hannah,  married  Eb- 
enezer Hufif.  8.  John,  married  Catherine 
Kimball. 

(VT)  Moses,  son  or  nephew  of  Joseph  (2) 
Averill,  was  an  earlv  settler  at  what  is  now 
Old  Town.  Maine.  He  was  the  foremost  citi- 
zen of  the  town  of  Orono,  being  for  many  years 
town  clerk  and  sole  selectman.  He  was  with 
Richard  Winslow  on  the  first  board  of  select- 
men in  1806  and  served  as  selectman  for  six- 
teen years  or  more  afterward.  He  was  town 
clerk  for  ten  years.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
justices  of  the  peace  of  that  section.  He  came 
to   the   Upper    Stillwater    with    his    father   in 

181 7,  and  took  a  lot  under  the  betterment  act 
and  built  a  house  which  was  owned  later  by 
General  Joseph  Treat.  The  lot  was  known  as 
Settlers  Lot  No.  26.  He  built  a  sawmill  on 
the  outside  of  the  Dry  Way  on  the  head  of  the 
island,  and  though  it  was  abandoned  as  early 
as  1825,  the  site  of  the  structure  is  still  to  be 
found  by  the  old  mudsills,  etc.  He  married 
.  Among  his  children  was  Moses,  men- 
tioned below. 

(ATI)  Moses  (2),  son  of  Moses  (i)  Aver- 
ill, was  born  October  31,  1776,  in  Old  Town, 
Maine,  died  January  3,  1862.  He  settled  in 
Stillwater.  He  married  (first)  Margaret 
Lunt,  May  18,  1804;  she  was  born  ^larch  19. 
1786.  died  December  28.  1834.  Married  (sec- 
ond) Mary  Trask,  October  25,  1S42;  she  was 
born  .August  17,  1815,  died  January  28,  1859. 

Married  (third)  Averill.     Childre  i  of 

first   wife.      i.  Robert,  born  August   7,   1805. 

2.  Harriet,  December  12,  1806.  3.  Seth,  No- 
vember 14.  1808.  4.  Abigail,  April  12,  181 1. 
5.  Hannah,  March  3,  1813.  6.  William,  No- 
vember   5,    1814.      7.  Maria,    November    19, 

1818.  8.  Luther  H.,  November  i,  1822.  9. 
Moses  L.,   Tulv  31,   1825. 

(\TII)  Moses^  L..  son  of  Moses  (2)  Av- 
erill.  was  born   in   Stillwater.   July   31,    1825, 


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died  in  February,  1894,  in  Old  Town.  He 
was  educated  in  the  district  schools.  In  his 
youth  he  learned  the"  art  of  photography  and 
for  some  years  followed  that  business.  For 
several  years  he  was  station  agent  at  Monson 
Station  for  the  P.an,^or  &  Piscataquis  Railroad 
Company.  He  finally  took  up  lumber  and  sur- 
veying- for  his  profession  and  followed  it  dur- 
ing the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Republican.  He  married  Albra  E. 
Gatchell,  born  in  Old  Town  in  1841,  now  Hv- 
ing  (iqoS)  in  Old  Town,  daughter  of  David 
Gatchell.     Children:     i.  Albra  E.,  born  1861. 

2.  Frank  L.,  April  16,  1865,  mentioned  below. 

3.  Gertrude  E.,  March  7,  1867,  in  Old  Town, 
educated  in  the  common  and  Old  Town  high 
schools.  She  was  for  sixteen  years  teacher 
in  the  Old  Town  schools  and  is  now  assistant 
postmaster  of  Old  Town,  Maine. 

(IX)  Frank  Lincoln,  son  of  Moses  L.  Av- 
erill,  was  born  in  Old  Town,  iMaine,  April  16, 
1865,  and  was  educated  there  in  the  public 
schools.  He  chose  a  commercial  life  and  be- 
gan as  clerk  in  a  grocery  store  in  his  native 
town.  He  was  then  for  fifteen  years  a  sales- 
man in  a  retail  shoe  store  of  Old  Town.  He 
became  interested  in  politics  when  a  young 
man  and  has  been  active  and  prominent  in  the 
councils  of  the  Republican  party  to  the  present 
time.  He  has  been  chosen  delegate  to  various 
nominating  conventions  of  his  party  and 
served  on  various  committees.  He  was  city 
treasurer  for  four  years,  and  was  appointed 
to  his  present  position  as  postmaster  of  the 
citv  of  Old  Town  in  1903,  reappointed  in 
1907.     IMr.  Averill  is  unmarried. 


a  Freeman  of  Cape  Neddick,  Maine.  The 
children  of  John  and  Mary  were  :  John  ;  Wil- 
son Eastman ;  Ann,  married  Jenkins, 

and  died  in  Scotland,  Maine ;  Justus ;  Abbie, 
married  — — —  Norton ;  Almira,  married 
Laury,  and  died  in  Portsmouth,  New 


James  Averill  married  Dor- 
A\''ERILL  othy  Eastman.  They  had  sev- 
eral children,  among  whom 
were  two  sons,  John  and  Samuel.  Samuel 
married  Hannah  Winn  and  had  Sarah,  who 
married  Ivory  Winn,  of  Methuen,  Massachu- 
setts ;  Philander,  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts ; 
and  Lucy,  who  married Taylor,  of  Me- 
thuen. 

(II)  John,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Dor- 
othy (Eastman)  Averill,  was  a  blacksmith. 
He  owned  land  in  York.  Maine.  He  married 
Marv,  daughter  of  George  and  Polly  Moulton, 
of  Wells,  Maine,  who  was  born  May  18,  1810. 
The  Moultons  were  from  Ormsley  county, 
Norfolk,  England.  Her  brother,  William 
Moulton,  was  a  ship-builder  of  that  town,  and 
another  brother,  Justus,  who  died  at  Vineland, 
New  Jersey,  was  evidently  prosperous,  as  he 
left  a  legacy  to  the  church  of  $40,000.  Mrs. 
Averill  had  also  a  sister  Maria,  who  married 


Hampshire;  Benjamin;  Joseph  B. 

(HI)  Joseph  B.,  youngest  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Moulton)  Averill,  was  born  at  Cape 
Neddick,  Maine,  October,  1841.  He  followed 
the  business  of  his  father,  that  of  blacksmith. 
He  married,  1871-72,  Luella  Frances,  daugh- 
ter of  Tracy  P.  and  Ellen  (Wallingford) 
Wales,  of  Salem  and  Beverly,  Massachusetts, 
who  was  born  1852-53.  Her  father  was  a 
skilled  machinist  and  in  later  years  he  followed 
the  sea  in  some  such  capacity.  When  about 
fifty  years  of  age  he  died  of  yellow  fever  at 
Liverpool,  England.  His  wife,  Ellen,  was  the 
daughter  of  Joshua  Wallingford,  of  Lebanon, 
Maine,  who  had  several  sons  and  daughters 
residing  there :  Lewis.  John,  Hiram,  Daniel, 
Salome.  Mary,  Hannah  and  Sarah  Walling- 
ford. The  children  of  Joseph  B.  and  Luella 
F.  Averill  were:  Frederic  Benjamin,  born 
May  31,  1872,  and  Everett  John,  April  5,  1874. 

(IV)  Frederic  Benjamin,  eldest  son  of  Jo- 
seph B.  and  Luella  F.  (Wales)  Averill,  was 
born  at  Somersworth,  New  Hampshire,  ^lay 
31,  1872.  His  early  education  was  commenced 
at  the  public  schools  of  Berwick,  Maine,  and 
Dover,  New  Hampshire,  ?nd  later  he  attended 
the  New  Hampshire  Conference  Seminary  at 
Tilton,  New  Hampshire,  and  Maine  Wesleyan 
Seminary,  Kent's  Hill,  Maine.  In  1893  he 
engaged  in  the  printing  busine-s  and  in  1898 
purchased  the  business  of  James  H.  Goodall; 
in  May,  1899,  he  purchased  the  Sanford 
Tyibnnc  of  George  W.  Hul¥,  consolidating  all 
three  and  extending  to  a  large  job-printing 
and  book  business.  Mr.  Averill  in  politics  is  a 
Republican  and  has  served  as  town  auditor  for 
two  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sanford 
Club  and  Sanford  Social  Club,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  following  secret  societies :  Pre- 
ble Lodge,  No.  143,  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted jMasons,  of  Sanford,  Maine;  White 
Rose  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  Sanford,  Maine; 
Maine  Council  of  Saco,  Maine;  St.  Amand 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of  Kenne- 
bunk,  IMaine ;  Kora  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  of 
Lewiston,  Maine;  Chapter  No.  138,  Order 
Eastern  Star,  Sanford,  IMaine ;  Friendship 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
Springvale,  Maine ;  Moreh  Encampment,  No. 
57,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  Riv- 
erside Lodge,  No.  12,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
Sanford ;   Sagamore  Tribe,   No.  33,   Indepen- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


dent  Order  of  Red  Men,  Sanford ;  Harmony 
Council,  Junior  Order  United  American  Me- 
chanics, Sanford  (he  was  also  state  treasurer 
of  this  organization)  ;  American  Royal  Circle, 
Augusta,  of  which  he  is  a  state  trustee.  Mr. 
Averill  married  (first),  September  19,  1894, 
at  Sanford,  Ida  May  Lord,  born  in  North 
Shapleigh,  Maine,  July  4,  1878,  died  at  San- 
ford, May  9,  1903.  He  married  (second),  De- 
cember 26,  1904,  Lilla  Frances,  daughter  of 
Lewis  Franklin  and  Lucy  Merrow  (Hull) 
Hayden,  who  was  horn  in  River  Falls,  Wis- 
consin, July  7,  1885.  Her  father  served  as 
drummer-boy  in  the  civil  war :  he  was  a  mer- 
chant and  died  at  Appleton,  Wisconsin,  July 
27,  1895;  he  was  born  in  Monroe,  Wisconsin, 
but  his  wife,  Lucy  Merrow  (Hull)  Hayden, 
was  a  native  of  Shapleigh,  Maine.  The  two 
children  of  Frederic  B.  and  Lilla  F.  Averill 
are:  Ida  Frances,  born  April  16,  1906,  and 
Olive  Dorothy,  July  31,  1907. 


Deacon  William  White,  immi- 
WHITE  grant  ancestor,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1687.  His  father  was  a 
glover,  and  removed  from  England  to  Lon- 
donderry, Ireland,  when  William  was  an  in- 
fant. He  was  wounded  in  the  siege  of  that 
city  in  1668-69.  William  White  came  early 
to  Londonderry,  New  Hampshire,  and  settleil 
on  the  Double  Range.  In  1733  he  removed  to 
Chester,  and  settled  on  houselot  No.  126, 
where  Joseph  Webster  resided.  He  was  a 
signer  of  the  Presbyterian  Protest,  March  28, 
1735.  He  was  a  linen  weaver  by  trade.  His 
first  wife  died  in  Ireland,  and  he  married 
(second)  Jane,  daughter  of  Robert  Graham. 
Children  of  first  wife:  I.  Henry,  resided  in 
Litchfield,  New  Hampshire;  was  a  mariner 
and  died  at  Halifax  in  1755.  2.  James,  a 
mariner;  unmarried.  3.  Jane,  married  Patrick 
White  and  resided  at  Peterborough.  Children 
of  second  wife :  4.  Robert,  resided  at  GofTs- 
town  and  New  Boston.  5.  David,  married 
(first)  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  Gordon; 
(second)  ]\Iary,  daughter  of  Patrick  Melvin ; 
resided  in  lot  71,  "second  P.  2nd.  D." ;  died 
1776;  widow  married  Stephen  Merrill  and 
died  July,  1833.  6.  Thomas  (twin),  born 
March  4,  1740,  in  Chester,  died  unmarried. 
7.  William   (twin),  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Colonel  William  (2),  son  of  Deacon 
William  ( i )  White,  was  born  in  Chester, 
March  4,  1740-41,  died  November  9,  1829.  He 
resided  on  the  homestead  in  Chester.  He  was 
in  the  revolution,  serving  as  major  in  1775; 
lieutenant-colonel  in  1784;  muster  master  in 
1777-78.    He  was  justice  of  the  peace  in  1791 


and  senator  for  District  3  in  1806-07-08.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  Mills,  Jan- 
uary 24,  1764.  She  died  December  24,  1780, 
aged  forty-three  years,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond), September  17,  1782,  Elizabeth  Mitchell, 
who  died  April  3,  1832,  aged  seventy-one 
years.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Jane.  2. 
Jonathan.  3.  Susannah,  born  1768,  married, 
in  1790,  Jonathan  Quimby.  4.  Robert,  born 
1770,  mentioned  below.  5.  Mary.  6.  Eliza- 
beth. 7.  Ann.  Children  of  second  wife:  8. 
William,  born  1783,  graduate  of  Dartmouth 
College  in  1806;  lawyer  by  profession.  9. 
Jonathan,  born  1785.  10.  Thomas,  died  un- 
married in  1830.  II.  Sarah,  born  June,  1790, 
died  1825.  12.  James,  born  September  2,, 
1792,  graduate  of  Dartmouth;  lawyer.  All 
the  preceding  children  but  Sarah  went  to 
Maine.  13.  David  M.,  born  1795,  died  in 
Chester.  14.  Olive,  born  1798,  died  July  22,. 
1826.  15.  Lavinia,  born  1800,  died  unmar- 
ried July  10,  1836,  16.  Benjamin,  born  Au- 
gust 24,  1807,  resided  in  Ballard  Vale,  I\Ias- 
sachusetts. 

(III)  Robert,  son  of  Colonel  William  (2) 
White,  was  born  in  Chester  in  1770  and  died 
in  Belfast,  Maine,  July  30,  1840.  He  removed 
to  Belfast  in  1797  and  bought  a  farm,  on 
which  there  was  a  log  house,  in  which  he 
lived.  In  1803  he  erected  a  two-story  house, 
which  is  still  standing.  At  one  time  all  his 
seven  children  resided  with  their  families  on 
the  same  street.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  mar- 
ried Susanna  Patterson,  born  July  25,  1781, 
died  April  11,  1867,  daughter  of  James  Pat- 
terson, of  Belfast,  I\Iaine.  Children:  i.  Hon. 
James  P.,  born  in  the  log  house  in  Belfast. 
2.  Starritt,  died  young.  3.  William  Bloom- 
field.  4.  Robert  Jr.,  mentioned  below.  5. 
John  W.  6.  George  F.  7.  Maria.  8.  Ann. 
9.  Susan. 

(IV)  Robert  (2),  son  of  Robert  (i) 
White,  was  born  in  Belfast,  Maine,  in  1807, 
died  December  31,  1866.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  He  became  a  trader  and  owned  a  gen- 
eral store  at  Belfast.  He  extended  his  busi- 
ness to  ship-building  in  partnership  with  his 
brothers  and  Mr.  Conner,  under  the  firm 
name  of  White,  Conner  &  Company,  .\fter 
the  death  of  Mr.  Conner  the  name  became 
White.  McGilvrey  &  Company.  Mr.  White 
became  a  man  of  large  means  and  much  in- 
fluence in  the  community.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Republican  Journal  of 
Belfast.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics  and 
prominent  in  public  life  as  well  as  in  business 
circles.-   He  was  register  of  deeds  from  1847 


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to  1857  and  county  treasurer  at  the  same  time. 
He  was  a  member  of  Waldo  Lodge,  Odd  Fel- 
lows, Belfast.  He  married  (first)  Lois  Loth- 
rop,  of  Searsmont,  born  1810,  died  1842.  He 
married  (second)  Eliza  Simnnton,  born  in 
Camden,  ]\Iaine,  dautjhter  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  Simonton.  Children  of  first  wife : 
I.  Augustus,  unmarried.  2.  Ansel  L.,  born 
Tune  26,  1835.  mentioned  below.  Children  of 
second  wife :  3.  R.  Frank,  married  Lizzie 
Sheldon;  (second)  Kate  Armstrong;  resides 
in  Los  Angeles,  California ;  merchant.  4. 
Frances  E.  (Mrs.  Henry  Norrington),  of  Bay 
City.  Michigan.  5.  Ellen  (Mrs.  John  Mul- 
holiand).  Bay  City,  Michigan.  6.  Henry  P., 
married  Grace  A.  Gould;  Farmington,  Maine; 
merchant. 

(V)  Major  Ansel  Lothrop,  son  of  Robert 
(2)  White,  was  born  in  Belfast,  Maine,  June 
26,  1835.  He  attended  the  public  schoois  in 
his  native  town,  and  began  his  business  career 
there  as  clerk  in  the  general  store  of  Daniel 
Faunce.  where  he  worked  four  years,  then 
went  to  Boston  as  clerk  in  a  wholesale  hard- 
ware store  for  six  years.  He  returned  to  Bel- 
fast to  enlist  in  the  civil  war  and  was  mustered 
in  as  private  in  Company  D,  of  the  Nineteenth 
Maine  Regiment,  August  23,  1862;  he  was 
mustered  out  May  3,  1865.  He  rose  through 
the  various  grades ;  commissioned  officer  to 
that  of  second  lieutenant  of  Company  D,  No- 
vember 2,  1862;  first  lieutenant  Company  B, 
Janvary  22.  1864;  captain  Company  F,  Octo- 
ber 22,  1864  ;  brevetted  major  United  States 
Volunteers,  March  13,  1865,  "for  gallant  and 
meritorious  services."  Served  as  aide  to 
General  Sully  and  other  commanders.  Ord- 
nance officer  Second  Division,  Second  Corps 
(Hancocks).  From  .August,  1862,  he  was  in 
all  the  important  battles  of  the  Armv  of  the 
Potomac,  in  which  the  Nineteenth  bore  a  gal- 
lant part,  including  Fredericksburg,  Chancel- 
lorsville,  Gettysburg,  where  he  was  injured 
by  his  horse  falling  on  him,  killed  by  a  shot, 
the  Wilderness,  Petersburg,  Appomattox, 
Lee's  surrender,  and  the  Grand  Review  at 
Washington.  After  the  war  Major  White  en- 
gaged in  the  drv  goods  business  in  New  York 
City  from  1866  to  1873.  He  bought  an  in- 
terest in  a  dry  goods  store  in  Belfast,  Alaine, 
in  1873,  and  continued  it  four  years.  In  1877 
he  again  returned  to  New  York  and  embarked 
in  the  ship-chandlery  business,  continuing  with 
great  success  until  he  retired  in  1902  from  all 
active  business.  He  spent  a  vear  in  Cal- 
ifornia for  his  health,  and  since  then  has  di- 
vided his  time  between  Belfast  and  New  York. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Com- 


mandery  of  New  York,  and  of  the  Association 
of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 

He  married,  November  24,  1869,  Mary  Al- 
den,  daughter  of  Hiram  O.  and  Emily  (Bing- 
ham) Alden,  of  Belfast.  Her  father  was  born 
in  Claremont,  New  Hampshire,  in  1800,  died 
in  Belfast,  1882,  a  lawyer  by  profession,  part- 
ner of  Governor  Crosby,  son  of  Joseph  Alden, 
a  native  of  New  Hampshire.  Emily  Bingham 
was  born  in  Claremont,  1804,  and  died  in  Bel- 
fast, 1871.  Children  of  Joseph  and  Lucy 
(  Warner)  Alden  ;  Hiram  O.,  mentioned  above  ; 
Emily,  Esther.  Joseph,  Lucy,  Louisa,  Caro- 
line, James.  The  Aldens  were  descendants  of 
John  and  Priscilla  Alden  who  came  in  the 
"Mayflower"  in  1620.  Child  of  Ansel  L.  and 
Mary  (Alden)  White:  Emily  Bingham,  born 
at  Belfast,  1872,  died  in  New  York  City  in 
1880. 


The  \\'hite  family  of  whom  this 
WHITE     sketch  is  written  are  of  French 
ancestry.    The  pioneer  anglicized 
his  name  after  coming  to  ;\merica. 

(I)  Charles  White  was  born  in  France 
about  1790.  He  settled  in  Canada.  Children: 
Joseph,  Levi,  Mary,  Benjamin,  Peter,  men- 
tioned below. 

(II)  Peter,  son  of  Charles  White,  born  in 
Canada  in  1819,  died  in  Millbury,  August  11, 
1882.  He  removed  to  Millbury  from  his 
Canadian  home  when  a  young  man.  He  was 
a  tanner  and  stone  mason  by  trade.  He  mar- 
ried, about  1839,  Victoria  Tebo,  daughter  of 
Francis  Tebo,  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  Canada. 
Children  :  David,  Nelson,  Oliver,  born  March 
27,  1847 ;  Joseph,  Peter,  Mary,  born  April  27, 
1849;  Frank  L.,  born  October,  1852,  men- 
tioned below ;  Zebedee,  Edward,  James,  Celia, 
Alfred  Nathan,  Ellen,  William. 

(HI)  Frank  Levi,  son  of  Peter  White,  was 
born  in  ]\Iillbury,  Massachusetts,  October  25, 
1852.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Mill- 
bury, and  though  he  began  to  work  in  the 
mills  at  an  early  age  he  continued  his  studies 
at  night  and  acquired  an  excellent  rudimentary 
education.  He  is  largely  self-educated,  and 
the  habits  of  study  and  industry  formed  in 
his  youth  in  large  measure  account  for  his 
success  and  for  his  usefulness  in  his  present 
position.  He  came  to  Saco,  Maine,  from  Mill- 
bury, in  July,  1876,  and  was  employed  in  the 
York  mills  of  Saco  and  became  an  expert 
dyer.  In  1892  he  took  charge  of  the  dye 
house  of  the  Otis  Company  at  Three  Rivers, 
Palmer,  Massachusetts.  In  February,  1896, 
he  returned  to  Saco  and  took  charge  of  the 
dye  house  of  the  York  Manufacturing  Com- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


pany,  a  position  which  he  still  holds,  and  in 
which  he  has  achieved  a  marked  success.  Mr. 
White  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a 
member  of  Saco  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  and 
of  Unity  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Saco. 
He  married  (first),  February  3,  1873,  Delia 
Gcrmaine,  who  died  June  14,  1900,  daughter 
of  Frank  Germaine,  of  St.  Albans,  Vermont. 
He  married  (second)  September  16,  1901, 
Mary  Louise  (Germaine)  Bursaw,  daughter 
of  Frank  Germaine  and  sister  of  his  first  wife. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Mary  Louise,  born 
January  13,  1876,  married  Rev.  Herbert  A. 
Barker,  of  Jamaica  Plain,  Massachusetts.  2. 
Wilfred  Henry,  born  November  13,  1877,  re- 
sides in  Charlotte,  North  Carolina.  3.  Charles 
Edward,  born  June  19,  1879,  now  of  Atlanta, 
Georgia.  4.  Ida  Estelle,  born  June  21,  1882, 
a  trained  nurse,  residing  in  Waltham,  Massa- 
chusetts. 


This  is  one  of  New  Eng- 
HUTCHINSON     land's  celebrated,  as  well 

as  world-wide  known 
families.  It  produced  the  great  family  stock 
of  Hutchinsons  known  as  the  "Tribes  of  Jesse 
and  Asa,"  whose  rare  musical  talent  was  for 
half  a  century  appreciated  by  lovers  of  vocal 
music  in  nearly  all  the  large  towns  and  cities 
of  this  country  and  ir  many  lands  beyond  the 
sea.  During  the  days  of  the  agitation  of  the 
anti-slavery  question,  a  large  troupe  made  up 
entirely  frnni  members  of  the  Hutchinson  fam- 
ily accompanied  such  gifted  advocates  of  abo- 
lition as  Wendell  Phillips  and  Joshua  R.  Gid- 
dings  throughout  the  northern  states  singing 
anti-slave  songs.  The  moral  sentiment  they 
created  had  a  potent  effect  on  the  people  and 
doubtless  hastened  tlie  day  of  emancipation. 
Many  people  of  the  last  generation  and  some 
of  the  present  have  been  thrilled  by  hearing 
them  sing  one  of  the  songs  of  their  own  com- 
position, "The  Old  Granite  State,"  the  echoes 
of  which  have  been  sounded  in  every  state  in 
the  Union. 

(I)  The  New  England  branch  of  the 
Hutchinson  family  had  for  their  common  an- 
cestor Barnard  Hutchinson,  of  Cowlam,  Eng- 
land, who  lived  in  the  twelfth  century,  during 
the  reign  of  King  Edward  I.  He  married  a 
daughter  of  John  Boyville.  of  England,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  three  children  :  John, 
Robert  and  Mary. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Barnard  Hutchinson  and 
wife,  married  Edith  W'ouldbie,  by  whom  four 
children  were  born  as  follows :  James,  Bar- 
bara, Julia  and   Margaret. 

(III)  James,     son     of    John     and     Edith 


(Wouldbie)  Hutchinson,  married  Ursula 
Gregory  and  they  reared  to  maturity  W^illiam, 
John,  Barbara  and  Eleanor. 

(IV)  William,  eldest  child  of  James  and 
Ursula  (Gregory)  Hutchinson,  married  Anna, 
daughter  of  William  Bennett,  of  Theckley, 
and  their  children  were :  Anthony,  Oliver, 
Mary  and  Alice. 

(V)  Anthony,  eldest  child  of  W^illiam  and 
Anna  (Bennett)  Hutchinson,  married  (first) 
Judith  Crosland;  (second)  a  daughter  of 
Robert  Harvie  and  wife.  By  this  union  the 
following  children  were  born :  W^illiam,  Thom- 
as, John,  Richard,  Leonard,  Edward,  Francis 
and  Andrew. 

(\T)  Thomas,  second  son  of  Anthony 
Flutchinson  and  his  second  wife,  married  and 
became  the  father  of  three  children :  William, 
John  and  Lawrence. 

(\TI)  Lawrence,  youngest  child  of  Thom- 
as Hutchinson  and  wife,  of  Owlthorpe,  was 
living  in  15 17,  when  his  will  was  dated.  He 
left  five  children :  Root,  Thomas,  Agnes, 
Richard  and  William. 

(\TII)  Thomas  (2),  second  son  of  Law- 
rence Hutchinson  and  wife,  resided  at  New- 
ark, England,  and  died  1598,  leaving  children: 
William,  Thomas  and  Joan. 

(IX)  Thomas  (3),  second  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  Hutchinson  and  wife,  was  buried  at  Ar- 
nold, England,  August  17,  1648.  The  chris- 
tian name  of  his  wife  was  Alice,  who  bore 
him  seven  children  :  John,  Isabell,  Humphret, 
Edith,  Robert,  Richard  and  Thomas.  This 
brings  the  genealogical  line  down  to  the  set- 
tlement of  the  family  in  New  England. 

(X)  Richard,  sixth  child  of  Thomas  (3^ 
and  Alice  Hutchinson,  of  Arnold,  England, 
was  born  in  England,  1602,  as  is  shown  by  a 
deposition  on  file  in  Essex  county,  Massachu- 
setts, at  Salem,  wherein  he  stated  his  age  to 
be  at  that  date  fifty-eight  years.  He  emi- 
grated to  America  in  1634,  with  his  wife  Alice 
and  four  children,  settling  in  the  village  of 
Salem  (Danvers)  near  Hawthorne  Hill.  It 
is  believed  that  he  had  for  a  time  resided  in 
Salem  proper.  A  record  shows  that  "July  25, 
1639,  one  Dickerson  was  granted  four  poles 
of  land  neere  Richard  Hutchinson's  house,  to 
make  tan  pitts  and  dress  goat  skinnes  and 
hides."  In  1636  Mr.  Hutchinson  received  a 
grant  of  land  containing  sixty  acres  from  the 
town  and  soon  afterwards  twenty  acres  addi- 
tional. He  was  appointed  a  committee  to  sur- 
vey what  is  now  Alauchester.  April  17,  1637, 
it  was  voted  that,  "if  Rich  Hucheson  shall 
sett  up  ploughing  within  two  years,  he  may 
have   twenty   acres   more   land.*'     This   grew 


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out  of  the  fact  that  the  colony  needed  more 
plow  land,  and  as  there  were  but  thirty-seven 
plows  in  the  settlement,  and  Hutchinson  pos- 
sessed another,  this  gift  was  thought  wise. 
He  was  a  thorough  agriculturist,  and  in  time 
amassed  a  large  landed  estate.  He  was  a 
strict  church  disciplinarian,  and  a  man  of  great 
physical  endurance.  After  the  death  of. his 
first  wife  he  married,  October,  1668,  Susannah, 
widow  of  Samuel  Archard,  who  died  Novem- 
ber, 1674,  after  which  he  married  Sarah,  widow 
of  James  Standish.  His  third  marriage  oc- 
curred when  he  was  about  seventy-nine  years 
of  age.  His  will  was  signed  January  19,  1679, 
and  proved  September  28,  1682.  His  widow 
survived  him  several  years  and  married  for 
her  third  husband  Thomas  Root,  of  Manches- 
ter, and  was  living  in  1683.  Richard  Hutchin- 
son, the  American  progenitor,  was  the  father 
of  six  children :  Elizabeth,  Reuben,  Joseph, 
Abigail,  Hannah  and  John. 

(XI)  Joseph,  third  child  of  Richard  and 
Alice  Hutchinson,  was  born  1633,  at  North 
Muskham,  England,  and  lived  on  the  old 
homestead,  acquiring  most  of  the  property  by 
gift-deed  from  his  father.  May  10,  1666.  This 
included  meadow  lands,  house  and  barns  on 
the  Ipswich  river,  and  three  hundred  acres  at 
another  place  which  contained  a  large  apple 
orchard.  His  homestead,  however,  was  situ- 
ated adjoining  the  Salem  village  meeting- 
house, which  site  the  Hutchinsons  gave  to  the 
church.  The  old  church  was  taken  down  and 
moved  about  1700,  when  the  land  reverted  to 
the  family  again.  This  member  of  the  family 
lived  through  the  memorable  witchcraft  days 
at  Salem,  the  climax  of  which  was  reached  in 
1692.  Like  many  another  strong-minded  man 
of  his  times,  Mr.  Hutchinson  was  among  those 
who  entered  complaint  against  Titnba,  an  In- 
dian woman  living  in  the  family  of  Rev.  Sam- 
uel Parris ;  Sarah,  wife  of  William  Good,  and 
Sarah,  wife  of  Alexander  Osborne.  In  1658 
Mr.  Hutchinson  was  chosen  constable  and  tax- 
collector,  and  his  name  appears  on  the  jury 
list  in  1679.  He  was  frequently  chosen  over- 
seer, administrator,  deed  witness,  and  had 
business  connected  with  the  making  of  wills. 
He  married  (first)  a  daughter  of  John  Ged- 
ney;  (second),  February  28,  1677,  Lydia, 
daughter  of  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  Buxton. 
She  was  baptized  April  27,  i68g.  Mr.  Hutch- 
inson was  the  father  of  eleven  children,  as 
follows:  By  the  first  marriage:  Abigail, 
Berthia  (died  single).  Joseph,  Benjamin.  By 
the  second  marriage :  Lydia  B.,  Abigail,  Rich- 
ard, Samuel,  Ambrose,  Lydia  and  Robert. 


(XII)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Joseph  and 
Lydia  (Buxton)  Hutchinson,  was  born  at 
Salem  village.  May  10,  1681.  His  name  does 
not  appear  on  the  tax  list  after  1738,  when  it 
is  supposed  he  moved  to  Maine.  December  8, 
1707,  his  father  deeded  to  him  thirty  acres 
joining  the  old  homestead.  Between  1707  and 
1737  he  had  accumulated  a  large  estate,  some 
of  which  was  situated  in  the  town  of  Middle- 
town,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  meeting-house. 
He  married,  February  16,  1713,  Rachel  Bance, 
by  whom  six  children  were  born :  Stephen, 
Lydia.  Rachel,  Elizabeth,  Daniel  and  Joseph. 

(XIII)  Stephen,  eldest  child  of  Richard 
(2)  and  Rachel  (Bance)  Hutchinson,  was 
baptized  .August  14,  1715.  In  1737  he  moved 
to  Penobscot,  Maine,  where  he  resided  until 
the  Indian  outbreak  in  1780,  when  he  went 
to  Windham,  where  he  died  October,  1788. 
He  was  a  man  of  strong,  self-reliant  char- 
acter, and  by  occupation  was  a  farmer.  He 
married  (first),  February  22,  1737,  Abigail 
Haskins,  who  died  1777;  (second)  Hannah, 
whose  surname  is  not  recorded;  (third)  Ann, 
widow  of  Joseph  Legro.  of  Marblehead,  born 
about  1728,  died  August,  1805.  He  was  the 
father  of  seven  children,  all  by  his  first  wife : 
Stephen,  Daniel,  Richard,  Lydia,  Abigail, 
Samuel  and  Joseph. 

(XIV)  Rev.  Joseph  (2),  youngest  child  of 
Stephen  and  Abigail  (Haskins)  Hutchinson, 
was  born  1775;  removed  to  Windham  and 
from  there  to  Hebron,  about  1794,  and  died 
there  in  February,  1800.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  revolutionary  war  and  was  present  at  the 
defeat  of  Burgoyne.  He  was  an  ordained 
minister  and  known  far  and  wide  as  "the 
traveling  minister."  He  preached  in  the  wil- 
derness and  solitary  places,  where  the  small 
settlements  had  not  a  stated  pnstor.  It  is  said 
that  his  zeal,  overwork  and  exposure  short- 
ened his  days.  In  1778  he  married  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann  Legro,  born  at 
Marblehead.  November,  1759,  died  at  Buck- 
field,  Maine,  July,  1843 ;  she  was  of  Dutch  de- 
scent. The  children  by  this  marriage  were : 
Joseph,  Samuel,  Abigail,  Lydia,  Stephen, 
Henry  H..  Daniel,  Rebecca,  Betsey,  John  and 
Benjamin  R. 

(XV)  John  (2),  tenth  child  of  Rev.  Joseph 
and  Rebecca  (Legro)  Hutchinson,  was  born 
at  Hebron,  Maine,  November  15,  1797,  died  at 
Buckfield,  April  6,  1846.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  moved  with  the  family  from  Marblehead 
to  Windham  ;  later  settled  at  Buckfield,  Maine. 
He  married,  .\pril  21,  1823,  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Edmund  and  Hannah  (Sebra)  Lander, 


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STATE  OF  iMAIXE. 


by  which  union  were  born :  John  Colby,  Jo- 
siah,  James  (who  died  in  infancy),  all  born 
in  Buck-field,  Maine. 

(X\T)  John  Colby,  eldest  child  of  John 
(2)  and  Hannah  (Lander)  Hutchinson,  was 
born  in  Hebron,  ]\Iaine,  December  30,  1824, 
died  in  1894.  He  always  resided  near  his 
birthplace.  He  married,  about  1846,  Emeline 
E.  Doe,  of  Hebron,  Maine,  daughter  of  Ste- 
phen Doe.  Children:  i.  James  Preston,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  John  Osgood,  born  June  23, 
1849,  married  Claribel  Merrill,  September  16, 
1884;  one  child,  Helen  M.  Mrs.  Hutchinson 
is  an  M.  D.  in  Waltham,  Massachusetts ;  she 
graduated  from  Wellesley  College,  1883,  and 
from  the  Woman's  Medical  College  of  the  New 
York  Infirmary,  1887.  3.  Laura  Ellen,  born 
1853,  married  Frank  W.  Bradford,  who  died 
in  1900;  children;  Ada.  died  May  30.  1886; 
John  C,  died  September  10,  1886;  Nellie,  died 
May  12,  1886. 

(XVH)  James  Preston,  eldest  child  of 
John  Colby  and  Emeline  E.  (Doe)  Hutchin- 
son, was  bom  at  Buckfield,  Maine,  January  6, 
1848.  He  attended  the  public  schools  in 
Hebron  and  the  academy.  When  but  sixteen 
years  of  age  he  commenced  teaching  school, 
and  when  he  cast  his  first  vote,  at  his  majority, 
he  was  elected  member  of  the  school  commit- 
tee and  one  year  later  was  made  superinten- 
dent of  the  schools.  He  was  fitted  for  this 
place  of  educational  trust  and  responsibility 
and  was  re-elected.  In  1872  he  left  Hebron 
and  went  to  Auburn,  remaining  four  years, 
then  went  to  Portland,  Maine,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  milk  business  in  April,  1876.  In 
this  new  role  he  succeeded  remarkably  well 
and  accumulated  considerable  property  as  a 
direct  result  of  his  painstaking  care.  In  1887 
he  sold  his  milk  business  and  went  west, 
spending  the  following  winter  in ,  California. 
He  returned  from  the  Pacific  coast  in  the 
spring  of  1888,  and  in  the  following  June 
purchased  a  part  interest  in  the  real  estate 
business  of  Louis  O'Brien,  who,  after  five 
years,  sold  his  share  to  D.  W.  Verrill,  since 
which  date  the  management  of  the  business 
has  fallen  on  Mr.  Hutchinson.  He  began  an 
aggressive  policy  which  resulted  in  a  steady 
growth  and  expansion  of  the  interests  of  the 
well-known  firm.  Eight  years  later,  1901,  at 
the  death  of  Mr.  Verrill,  his  heir's  interests 
were  transferred  to  his  nephew,  Leon  D.  Ver- 
rill, who  remained  in  the  firm  until  1905,  when 
his  interests  were  sold  to  Murray  B.  Watson, 
who  is  still  a  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  P. 
Hutchinson    &    Company.      Air.    Hutchinson 


has   always  been   interested   in  and   identified 
with  any  movement  tending  to  the  enhance- 
ment of  the  public  good.     In   1887  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Portland  city  government.    In 
1892  he  was  one  of  the  board  of  aldermen  in 
Auburn,  and  in  1895  was  elected  to  a  seat  in 
the   Maine  legislature  from  Auburn  and  re- 
elected in   1897.     Among  his  varied   business 
inte^ests  may  be  mentioned  that  he  is  president 
of  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank ;  director  of 
the  National  Shoe  &  Leather  Bank,  and  direc- 
tor of  other  corporations.     He  was  a  member 
of  the  public  works  commission  a  full  term  of 
four  years  and  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trade ;  a  director  of  the  Central  Maine  Gen- 
eral   Hospital    Association,    and   president    of 
the   Androscoggin   County   Board   of   Under- 
writers.     He   has   interests    in    the     Auburn 
Building  and  Loan  Association,  of  which  he 
is  the  present  secretary.     Notwithstanding  his 
manifold  business  cares,  he  finds  time  to  en- 
joy the  benefits  of  several  fraternal  organiza- 
tions.     He    is    the   past    master   of   Tranquil 
Blue    Lodge,    A.    F.    and   A.    M. ;   past    com- 
mander of  Lewiston  Commandery  of  Knights 
Templar ;  military   inspector  of  Grand   Com- 
mandery ;  trustee  of  Kora  Temple,  A.  A.  O. 
N.  M.  S.,  and  was  a  Kora  Teinple  representa- 
tive to  the  Imperial  Council  in   1907  at  Los 
Angeles,     California.      These,    with    various 
other   official    positions    within    the    scope    of 
Masonry,  show  him  to  have  taken  much  in- 
terest in   this  great   civic   order.     He  is  also 
prominent    in    the    Auburn    Commandery    of 
Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle,  having  served 
"nine    years,    nine    months,    nine    hours    and 
nine  minutes"  as  captain,  resigning  to  accept 
the  higher  ofifice  of  colonel  in  the  same  order. 
He   is   also   a   worthy   patron  of   Pine   Cone 
Chapter,  No.  26,  O.  E.  S.,  of  Auburn,  Maine. 
Aside  from  the   societies  and  orders  already 
named,  I\[r.  Hutchinson  is  identified  with  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.     Politically  he  is  a  firm 
supporter   and   advocate  of  the   principles   of 
the  Republican  party.    He  was  married,  March 
4,  1873,  to  Maria,  daughter  of  Seth  and  Nancy 
(Hutchinson)   Loring.     Their  children  were: 
I.  Lucy  Augusta,  born  April  30,   1874,  mar- 
ried Rev.  Fenwick  L.  Leavitt,  April  12,  1887, 
of  Auburn,  Maine,  who  is  now  pastor  of  the 
Universalist    church    in    Bellows    Falls,    Ver- 
mont ;    their    children    are :      James    Preston 
Hutchinson,    born    May    8.    1899,    and    Mina 
Lucy,   October  6.    1902.     2.  Ruth,   born   De- 
cember 15,  1879,  died  June  8,  1880.    3.  Mina 
Emeline,  December  25,  1883.  resides  at  home. 
Mrs.  Maria  Hutchinson  died  March  19,  1905. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1529 


The  surname  has  an  interesting 
TUPPER  history.  A  Thuringan  magis- 
trate, Conrad  Treffwith,  in 
1260  was  hailed  Von  Toppherr  or  chief  lord, 
as  he  was  head  of  several  septs  of  nearly  the 
same  name — Topfer,  Toepfern,  Tapfer,  Top- 
hern  ;  and  they  had  a  castle  at  Gros  Toopfer 
and  Klein  Topfer,  near  Weimar,  and  possibly 
several  landed  estates  besides.  Being  a  Protes- 
tant, and  hostile  to  Charles  V.  and  Philip  as 
well  as  to  Pope  Innocent  and  others,  they 
were  marked  for  persecution  and  finally  lost 
all  their  property  for  conscience  sake.  The 
family  was  at  Hesse  Cassel  about  1520, 
whence  three  brothers  of  this  Tupper  family 
(as  the  name  had  come  to  be  spelled)  went 
to  Sandwich,  in  England,  to  Guernsey  and  to 
Chichester,  Enoland.  Their  names  were  Rob- 
•ert,  Henry  and  William.  Henry,  second  son 
•of  the  immigrant  Peter,  who  went  from  Ger- 
many to  England,  had  a  son  who  was  a  clergy- 
man in  the  Piarbadoes  in  America,  and  from 
him  it  is  thought  by  some  that  the  American 
family  given  in  this  sketch  is  descended. 

The  coat-of-arms  of  the  family  at  Guern- 
sey :  Azure  on  a  fesse  engrailed  three  wild 
toars  passant  or  as  many  escallops  on  a  canton 
ermine  a  medal  suspended  by  a  chain  bearing 
the  efifigy  of  William  and  Mary  or.  Crest: 
On  a  mound  vert  a  greyhound  resting  its  dex- 
ter forepaw  on  an  escutcheon  azure,  therein 
the  medal  of  William  and  Mary.  The  reverse 
of  the  medal  bears  the  device  of  a  sea-fight 
and  the  legend :  "Nox  nulla  Sacuta  est."  The 
first  John  Tupper  in  1692  conveyed  to  Ad- 
miral Russell  at  St.  Helen's  the  information 
that  the  French  fleet  under  Tourville  was  in 
the  British  channel.  The  celebrated  battle  of 
La  Hogue  was  fought,  and  for  his  service 
Tupper  received  a  massive  gold  medal  and 
chain  which  his  descendants  were  permitted 
to  wear  as  honorable  augmentation  to  their 
arms. 

( I )  Thomas  Tupper  was  born  in  Sandwich, 
England,  in  1578,  and  is  believed  by  some 
investigators  to  be  a  grandson  of  Robert  Tup- 
per, who  came  from  Hesse  Cassel,  Upper  Sax- 
ony. He  was  one  of  the  ten  founders  of  the 
town  of  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  in  1637, 
coming  thither  from  Lynn,  where  he  lived  a 
short  time.  He  was  conspicuous  in  town 
aflfairs  and  as  a  religous  teacher.  He  was 
greatly  interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  In- 
dians. The  fact  that  he  was  a  sort  of  teacher 
and  preacher  tends  to  confirm  the  belief  that 
he  was  the  minister  from  the  Barbadoes,  or 
a  son.  He  established  the  Indian  church  at 
Herring    Pond.    Sandwich,    and    spent    much 


time  "Gospelizing  the  Indians."  He  died 
March  28,  1676,  aged  ninety-seven  years  two 
months.  He  was  selectman  many  years,  mem- 
ber of  the  colonial  council  of  war,  deputy  to 
the  general  court  nineteen  years,  and  held 
various  other  offices  of  trust  and  honor.  His 
original  house  was  still  standing  at  last  ac- 
counts. His  wife  Anne  died  June  4,  1686, 
aged  ninety-seven  years. 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  Tup- 
per, was  born  at  Sandwich,  January  16,  1638, 
and  died  May,  1706.  He  was  also  prominent 
in  missionarv  work  among  the  Indians,  and 
was  a  man  of  influence  and  usefulness.  He  was 
selectman,  town  clerk  and  for  eight  years 
deputy  to  the  general  court.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 22,  1661.  Martha  Mayhew,  daughter  of 
Governor  Thomas  Mayhew,  governor  of 
Martha's  Mneyard.  Governor  Mayhew.  a 
prominent  man,  ancestor  of  many  distin- 
guished men,  had  a  grant  of  land  from  Lord 
Stirling  in  1641.  In  i66fi  he  conveyed  to  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Tupper,  much  valuable  real 
estate  at  Chapaquiddock,  half  the  island  of 
Nunnemisset.  bought  of  the  Sachem  of  Mano- 
met,  Isaac ;  also  a  share  of  Cuttyhunck,  given 
him  by  the  same  sachem.  At  the  age  of  sev- 
enty years  Governor  Mayhew  also  began  to 
teach  the  Indians.  Mrs.  Tupper,  his  widow, 
died  November  15,  1717,  at  Sandwich.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Sandwich :  I.  Martha,  1662.  2. 
Thomas,    August     11,     1664.    married    r^Iary 

,  and  had  Jane,  born  1688,  and  Thomas, 

July  25,  1693.  3-  Israel,  September  22,  1666, 
see  forward.  4.  Elisha,  March  17,  1668,  was 
in  the  expedition  of  1690  to  Canada.  5.  Jane, 
1670.  6.  Ichabod,  .August  i.  1673.  7-  Eldad, 
May  31,  1674.  8.  Medad.  September  22,  1677. 
9.  Anne,  1679.  10.  Eliakim.  December  29, 
1681,  died  1760.     II.   Bertha,  born  1683. 

(HI)  Israel,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Tupper, 
was  born  in  Sandwich,  September  22,  1666. 
He  married  there  Elizabeth  Bacon.  Children, 
born  at  Sandwich:  i.  Samuel,  May  4,  1692 
(name  originally  Elisha,  changed  to  Samuel 
according  to  the  records),  mentionerl  below. 
2.  Thankful.  1696,  married.  October  30,  1718, 
Josiah  Clark,  of  Plymouth.  3.  Meribah,  1699. 
4.  Elizabeth,  torn  and  died  1701.  3.  Israel 
Jr.,  June  18.  1705,  died  youns:.  6.  Sarah, 
May  6,  1707.  7.  Israel  Jr..  .\pril  28,  1710.  8. 
Nathaniel,  December  7.  17 14.  9.  Rowland, 
February  15,  171 7. 

(R')  Samuel,  son  of  Israel  Tupper.  was 
born  May  4,  1692:  married,  at  Sandwich,  Au- 
gust 15,  1717,  Rebecca  Ellis;  married  (sec- 
ond), October  14,  1726,  Hannah  Fish.  (Thild, 
Peleg,  and  probably  others. 


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STATE  OF  .MAINE. 


(V)  Pele;;,  son  of  Samuel  Tupper,  was 
born  in  Sandwich,  April  i,  1731.  He  married, 
January  24,  1765,  Deborah  Fish.  They  had  a 
large  family  born  at  Sandwich,  and  several 
children  after  removing  to  Maine.  He  bought 
the  first  settler's  lot  at  Waterville,  above  the 
fort  on  the  Fairfield  road.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution,  from  Sandwich,  in  Captain 
Jesse  Sturtevant's  company.  Colonel  John  Ja- 
cob's regiment,  in  1780. 

(VI)  Peleg  (2),  son  of  Peleg  (i)  Tupper, 
was  born  at  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  or 
Waterville,  jNlaine,  1790.  He  lived  in  Water- 
ville until  1850,  when  he  removed  to  Stark, 
Maine,  and  died  there  March  24,  1871,  at  an 
advanced  age.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  served 
as  a  private  in  the  war  of  1812,  was  wounded 
at  the  battle  of  Plattsburg  and  was  left  on  the 
field,  supposed  to  be  dead,  but  the  next  day 
was  found  and  taken  care  of.  He  married 
Lydia  Hersom.  a  daughter  of  Philip  Hersom, 
of  Belgrade.  Maine.  The  Hersom  family 
came  from  Shapleigh.  Philip  Hersom's  father 
and  six  older  brothers  fought  in  the  revolu- 
tionary war.  Children:  i.  Orrin,  born  July 
16,  1826.  2.  Philip.  March  29,  1828.  3. 
Charlotte,  January  16,  1830.  4.  Simon,  De- 
cember 10,  1831.  4.  Joshua,  October  9,  1833. 
5.  Peleg  Jr.     Several  others  died  in  infancy. 

(VII)  Simon,  son  of  Peleg  {2)  Tupper, 
was  born  in  Waterville,  December  10,  1831, 
and  is  now  living  at  Stark,  Maine.  He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  in  Water- 
ville Academy.  He  then  began  to  teach  school 
in  the  winter,  continuing  to  work  on  farms  in 
the  summer  until  his  later  years,  which  have 
been  devoted  exclusively  to  his  farm.  He 
taught  more  than  fifty  terms  of  school,  how- 
ever, before  he  gave  up  teaching.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
school  committee  for  twentv-one  years  in 
Stark,  and  for  six  years  was  chairman  of  the 
board  of  selectmen  of  Stark.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Alethodist  Episcopal  church.  He  mar- 
ried Diana  T.  Rogers,  born  in  Stark,  Maine, 
August  25,  1838,  died  November  19,  1893, 
daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Julia  Rogers,  of  Stark, 
a  descendant  of  the  Rogers  who  came  over  in 
the  "Mayflower."  Children,  born  at  Stark:  i. 
Joshua  Addison,  October  14,  1858.  2.  Cyrus 
Rogers,  June  17,  i860,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Newell  P..  June  14,  1861.  4.  Fred  B.,  No- 
vember 13,  1863.  5.  Levi  S.,  June  8,  1868, 
resides  in  Waterville.  6.  Ernest  L.,  December 
II,  1870,  an  attorney-at-law.  7.  Edwin  A., 
July  18,  1876.  8.  Julia  R.,  September  8,  1881. 
9.  Child,  unnamed,  died  when  three  weeks  old. 

(VIII)  Cyrus  Rogers,  son  of  Simon  Tup- 


per, was  born  in  Stark,  June  17,  1860.  He 
was  educated  in  the  Eaton  family  school  at 
Norridgewock,  Elaine,  and  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town.  He  worked  on 
the  farm  of  his  father  from  early  youth,  and 
after  he  left  school  continued  on  the  farm  in 
summer,  teaching  school  winters.  He  read 
law  in  the  offices  of  Walton  &  Walton,  Skow- 
hegan,  Maine,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
September  2.  1890.  In  the  same  year  he 
opened  an  office  and  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Boothbay  Harbor,  Maine,  where 
he  has  been  located  since.  In  connection  with 
his  law  business  he  has  a  real  estate  business. 
He  has  been  prominent  in  public  life,  and  has 
been  elected  to  many  offices  of  trust  and  honor. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  was  member 
of  the  school  committee  nine  years,  superinten- 
dent of  schools  for  five  years,  collector  of  taxes 
one  year,  and  chairman  of  the  board  of  select- 
men one  year.  He  was  state  senator  from 
Lincoln  county  m  1904,  and  served  his  dis- 
trict with  signal  ability.  He  was  on  the  com- 
mittee of  education,  on  sea  and  shore  fishing, 
and  on  roads  and  bridges.  In  1906  he  was 
elected  county  attorney  of  Lincoln  county, 
Maine,  an  office  he  now  fills  with  conspicuous 
ability,  having  been  re-elected  in  1908.  Mr. 
Tupper  is  a  citizen  of  strong  character,  great 
influence  and  vigorous  public  spirit.  He  is  a 
member  of  Seaside  Lodge  of  Free  INIasons,  of 
Boothbay  Harbor ;  of  Boothbay  Lodge,  No. 
32,  Knights  of  Pythias;  of  Mizpali  Council, 
Rathbone  Sisters ;  and  of  Harbor  Lodge,  An- 
cient Order  of  L^nited  Workmen.  He  is  an 
active  member  and  liberal  supporter  of  the 
Methodist  church.  He  married,  July  20,  1891, 
Nellie  C.  Duley,  of  Stark,  Elaine,  daughter  of 
Asa  S.  and  Rose  E.  Duley.  Their  only  child 
is  Asa  D.,  born  in  Boothbay  Harbor,  Febru- 
ary 26,   1898. 


Elder  Edmund  Frost,  son  of  John 
FROST  Frost,  of  Ipswich,  Suffolk,  Eng- 
land, was  born  about  1610,  came 
to  the  ]\Iassachusetts  Bay  Colony  in  the  ship 
"Great  Hope"  in  1635  and  settled  in  the  Newe 
Towne.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  by  taking 
the  oath  prescribed  by  the  general  court, 
^March  3,  1635,  and  he  was  made  a  ruling  el- 
der in  the  church.  Upon  the  establishment  of 
the  new  town.  September  8,  1636,  he  w-as  one 
of  the  original  proprietors.  The  name  of  the 
new  town  was  changed  to  Cambridge,  May  2, 
1638.  He  brought  with  him  from  England 
his  wife  Thomasine  and  his  first  born  son 
John.  He  became  the  owner  of  land  which 
he    purchased    from    Thomas   Blodgett   about 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1531 


1639,  situated  on  what  is  now  the  westerly 
side  of  Dunston  street,  Cambridge,  between 
Harvard  square  and  Mount  Auburn  street. 
This  estate  he  sold  to  Widow  Catherine  Had- 
don,  and  purchased  about  1642  a  house  situ- 
ated on  what  is  now  the  westerly  side  of  Gor- 
don street,  near  Mason.  This  he  sold  in  1646 
to  Richard  Eecles.  He  then  became  the  owner 
of  an  estate  situated  probably  on  the  east  side 
of  the  present  Kirkland  street,  and  extending 
from  Divinity  Hall  avenue  to  beyond  Francis 
street,  and  this  property  remained  in  the  Frost 
family  for  over  two  hundred  years.  This  fre- 
quent transfer  of  property  did  not  result  in 
accumulated  wealth,  but  rather  the  reverse. 
It  has  been  said  of  him,  "He  was  rich  in  faith 
and  enjoved  the  confidence  of  Shepherd  and 
his  church  yet  in  hard  trial  of  earthly  poverty 
and  owned  litde  beyond  his  homestead  and 
his  pressing  wants  were  released  by  the  church 
as  indicated  bv  the  following  record  of  the 
Church  of  Cambridge" :  "Elder  Frost  living 
a  longe  time  weake  with  others  of  his  family 
alsoe  having  the  ague  at  the  same  time,  the 
Church  see  meete  to  make  a  contribution  for 
his  relief e  upon  Tune  16,  1672.  The  sum  gath- 
ered was  in  cash  7.  4.  9  and  in  other  pay  2. 

5.  8."  In  July,  1660,  the  regicides  Whalley 
and  Gofife  arrived  in  Boston  and  after  a  short 
stay  in  Cambridge  they  went  for  greater  safety 
to  New  Haven.  General  Goffe,  in  his  journal, 
records  an  accident  of  their  stay  in  Cambridge 
as  follows:  "23  d.  6  m. — In  ye  evening  wee 
vissited  Elder  Frost  who  received  us  with 
great  kindness  &  love,  esteeming  it  a  favor  yt 
we  would  come  into  yr  mean  habitation ;  as- 
sured us  of  his  fervent  prayers  to  ye  Lord  for 
us : — A  glorious  saint  makes  a  mean  cottage  a 
stately  palace :  were  I  to  make  my  choice,  I 
would  rather  abide  with  ye  sainte  in  his  poor 
cottage  than  with  any  one  of  ye  princes  yt  I 
know  of  at  ys  day  in  ye  world."  Elder  Fro.st 
by  his  wife  Thomasine  had  children  as  fol- 
lows: I.  John,  born  in  England  about  1634, 
married  Rebecca  Andrews  and  lived  in  .Salem  : 
he  was  a  Mason.  2.  Thomas,  born  in  Newe 
Towne,  April,   1637,  "^'^d  young.     3.  Samuel, 

born  in  February,  1638,  married  Mary 

and  as  his  second  wife  Elizabeth  Miller,  and 
lived  in  Billerica.  4.  Josepli,  Januarv  13, 
1638-39,  married  Hannah  Miller,  and  lived  in 
Charlestown.     5.  James  (q.  v.),  April  9,  1640. 

6.  Stephen,  married  Elizabeth  Woodward  and 
lived  in  Charlestown.    7.  Mary,  July  24,  1645. 

8.  Ephraim,    1646,   married   Hepzibah 

and  lived  in  Cambridge,  on  the  homestead, 
1717-18.  9.  Thomas,  April,  1647,  married 
Mary  Goodridge  and  lived  in  Sudburv.     10. 


Sarah,  1653.  Elder  Frost  lost  his  wife  Thom- 
asine by  death,  and  in  i66g  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Reana,  widow  successively  of  James, 
William,  Andrew  and  Robert  Daniel.  Elder 
Edmund  Frost  died  at  the  homestead  in  Cam- 
bridge, July  12,  1672,  and  his  widow  Reana 
and  eight  childrenJiy  his  first  wife  Thomasine 
survived  him.  He  gave  of  his  property,  which 
was  very  limited,  a  small  gift  to  Harvard 
College. 

(II)  James,  fifth  son  of  Elder  Edmund  and 
Thomasine  Frost,  was  born  in  Cambridge, 
April  9,  1640.  He  married,  December  7,  1664, 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  William  Hamlet,  the  im- 
migrant. She  died  July  20,  1666,  leaving  one 
child,  James,  born  July  7,  1666,  who  married 

(first)    Hannah  and    (second)    Mary, 

widow  of  Andrew  Beard.  James  Frost  mar- 
ried (second),  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thom- 
as Foster,  the  immigrant,  and  by  her  he 
had  eleven  children,  all  born  in  Billerica,  as 
follows:  I.  Thomas.  October  18,  1667,  mar- 
ried (first)  Rebecca  Farley,  (second)  Han- 
nah Richardson  and  (third)  Deborah  . 

2.  John,  November  14,  1668,  died  March  3, 
1668-69.     3-  Samuel,    February   28,    1669-70, 

married  Hannah  and  lived  in  Tewks- 

bury.  4.  Elizabeth,  November  6.  1672,  mar- 
ried Peter  Corneal.  5.  Edmund,  May  14,  1675, 
died  r\Iay  18,  1675.  6.  Mary,  May  6,  1676, 
married  John  Walker.  7.  Sarah,  July  15, 
1678.  married  Nathaniel  Howard.  8.  Hannah, 
January  31,  1680-81.  9.  Joseph  (q.  v.), 
March  21,  1682-83.  10.  Abigail,  August  23, 
1685,  married  Ephraim  Kidder.  11.  Benja- 
min, March  8.  1687-88.  married  (first)  Mary 
Stearns,  (second)  Hannah,  widow  of  Jona- 
than Richardson.  James  Frost,  the  father  of 
these  children,  died  in  Billerica,  Massachu- 
setts, August  12,  171 1,  and  his  widow  Eliza- 
beth (Foster)  Frost,  in  1726. 

(III)  Joseph,  fifth  son  and  ninth  child  of 
James  and  Elizabeth  (Foster)  Frost,  was  born 
in  Billerica,  JMassachusetts,  March  21,  1682-83. 
He  married,  .-Xpril  5.  1710,  Sarah  (French) 
Flint,  of  Charlestown,  daughter  of  John 
French.  They  lived  in  Tewksbury,  Massachu- 
setts, and  had  four  children,  as  follows :  i. 
Joseph  (q.  v.),  January  22,  1711-12.  2.  Sarah, 
May  31,  1716.  3.  Benjamin,  March  6,  1717- 
18.    4.  Ephraim,  June  9.  1721. 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  child  of  Joseph 
(i)  and  Sarah  (French)  (Flint)  Frost,  was 
born  in  Tewksbury,  Alassachusetts,  January 
22.  1711-12.  He  married,  October  25,  1731, 
.A.bi?ail.  daughter  of  Daniel  Kittridge.  They 
lived  in  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts,  where 
eleven  children  were  born  to  them,  and  after 


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his  death,  January  29,  1751,  his  widow  mar- 
ried, March  21,  1755,  Ebenezer  Fisk.  The 
children  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Kittridge) 
Frost  were:  i.  Ephraim  (q.  v.).  May  13, 
1732.  2.  Abigail,  March  6,  1733-34,  died 
April  30,  1749.  3-  Mehitable,  September  4, 
1736.  4.  Joshua,  April  3,  1737,  married  Ra- 
chel Saunders,  January  3,  1764.  5.  Joseph, 
February  20,  1738,  married  Austice  Dunning, 
September  11,  1759,  and  resided  in  Marble- 
head,  1791.  6.  Jonathan,  February  20,  1740, 
married  Hannah  Saunders,  and  died  Septem- 
ber 16,  181 1.  7.  Benjamin,  February  10, 
1742,  married  Sarah  Baldwin,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 5,  1806.  8.  Sarah,  February  10,  1742.  9. 
Mehitable,  June  4,  1745.  10.  Elizabeth,  Au- 
gust 14,  1747.  II.  Daniel,  Aun;ust  14,  1747. 
Daniel  died  before  1761  and  Elizabeth,  Mehit- 
able and  Sarah  were  living  at  that  time. 

(V)  Ephraim,  eldest  child  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Abigail  (Kittridge)  Frost,  was  born  in 
Tewksbury,  IMassachuselts,  May  13,  1732.  He 
married,  December  5,  1754,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Kendall  and  Sarah  (Kittridge)  Patten. 
Mary  Patten  was  born  February  11,  1732,  died 
October  7,  1791.  Her  husband,  Ephraim 
Frost,  died  in  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 10.  1800.  The  ten  children  in  the  or- 
der of  their  birth  were:  i.  Joseph,  June  25, 
1756.  2.  Molly,  July  25,  1757,  died  January 
3,  1808.  3.  Joshua,  June  24,  1759.  4.  Dorcas, 
June  23,  1 761,  died  young.  5.  Dorcas,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1763,  married  Amos  Saunders, 
April  21,  1789.  6.  Rebecca,  April  16,  1766. 
7.  Ephraim  (q.  v.),  September  25,  1768.  8. 
Rhoda,  March  23,  1771,  married  Samuel 
Saunders,  December  22,  1796.  9.  Abial,  Mav 
12,  1773,  married  Mary  Foster,  November  28, 
1799.     10.  Nancy,  April  16,  1776. 

{\T)  Ephraim  (2),  third  son  and  seventh 
child  of  Ephraim  (i)  and  Mary  (Patten) 
Frost,  was  born  in  Tewksbury,  ^Massachusetts, 
September  25,  1768.  He  married,  before  1805, 
Ruth,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ruth  (  French ) 
Phelps,  who  was  born  August  30,  1771.  By 
this  marriage  five  children  were  born,  as  fol- 
lows:  I.  Ephraim  (q.  v.).  July  11,  180S.  2. 
Herman,   February  22,    1807,  married   Sarah 

.     3.  Jacob,   September   19,    1808.     4. 

Abner,  ]\Iay"  21,  1810,  married  Eliza  Jane 
Saunders  and  resided  in  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1844.  5.  Isaac,  March  12,  1812. 
Ephraim  Frost,  the  father  of  these  children, 
died  in  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts._  August  15, 
1826,  and  his  widow  was  still  living  there  in 
1843. 

(VII)  Ephraim  (i,).  eldest  child  of  Eph- 
riam  (2)  and  Ruth  (Phelps)  Froi^t,  was  born 


in  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts,  July  11,  1805. 
He  married  Rebecca  Symms,  born  in  Wobum, 
and  died  in  Tewksbury,  November  10,  1859, 
aged  fifty-four  years.  The  children  of  Eph- 
raim and  Rebecca  (Symms)  Frost,  born  in 
Tewksbury.  ^Middlesex  county,  Massachusetts, 
were  as  follows:  i.  Mary  Elizabeth,  April 
27,  1827,  died  September  8,  1847.  2.  Ann 
IMaria,  September  6,  1828,  nnrried  H.  A. 
Marshall  and  died  in  Clinton,  IVIassachusetts, 
in  1866.  3.  Jacob  Augustus,  November  15, 
1831,  died  in  Boston.  4.  Ephraim  Albert  (q. 
v.).  April  22,  1833.  5.  Sarah,  about  1835.  6. 
Abby  Rebecca,  May  25,  1837,  was  living  in 
Lancaster,  Massachusetts,  igo6.  Ephraim 
Frost,  the  father  of  these  children,  died  in 
Tewksbury,  ^lassachuselts,  July  11,  1842. 

(VIII)  Ephraim  Albert,  second  son  and 
fourth  child  of  Ephraim  (3)  and  Rebecca 
(Symms)  Frost,  was  born  in  Tewksbury, 
Massachusetts.  April  22,  1833.  He  married, 
about  1855,  Eunice  M.,  daughter  of  Orrin  and 
Thirza  (Adams)  Jones,  of  Newport,  Vermont. 
She  was  born  February  7,  1831,  and  died  in 
Lewiston,  Maine,  July  17,  1902.  They  re- 
moved to  Lewiston,  Elaine,  immediately  after 
their  marriage,  and  their  five  children  were 
born  there,  as  follows:  i.  Charles  Sumner 
(q.  v.).  May  31,  1856.  2.  Frank  Lester,  July 
31,  1858,  married  (first),  September  26,  1888, 
Helen  M.  Young,  and  had  child  Marion  born 
1890;  (second)  April  4,  1900,  Carrie  Z.  Lang, 
home  Lewiston,  Maine.  3.  Walter  Albert,  De- 
cember ig,  1861,  married,  December  31,  1890, 
Julia,  daughter  of  Chauncey  Seaton,  of  Chi- 
cago, which  city  they  made  their  home.  4. 
Woodbury  Oilman,  January  28,  1868,  married, 
October  2,  1905,  Edith  Lillian  de  Grafif,  of 
Athens,  Pennsylvania,  where  they  reside.  5. 
Wilfred  Percy,  February  12,  1875,  made  his 
home  in  Chicago,  Illinois.  Ephraim  Frost,  the 
father,  died  in  Lewiston,  March  7,  1897. 

(IX)  Charles  Sumner,  eldest  child  of  Eph- 
raim Albert  and  Eunice  M.  (Jones)  Frost, 
w^as  born  in  Lewiston,  Maine,  May  31,  1856. 
He  was  graduated  at  the  Lewiston  high 
school;  was  a  student  at  an  architect's  office 
in  Lewiston  for  three  years  and  took  a  special 
course  of  study  in  architecture  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology,  Boston,  Mas- 
sachusetts, followed  by  three  years'  practical 
application  of  the  profession  in  the  office  of  a 
Boston  architect.  He  removed  to  Chicago, 
Illinois,  in  1881,  and  January  i,  1882,  he,  with 
a  partner,  commenced  the  practice  of  archi- 
tecture in  that  city.  In  1889  the  partnership 
was  dissolved  by  mutual  consent  and  Mr. 
Frost  continued  to  practice  alone  up  to  Jan- 


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1533 


nary  I,  1898,  when  he  formed  a  bvisiness  con- 
nection with  Alfred  H.  Granger  and  the  firm 
of  Frost  &  Granger  came  into  existence  with 
offices  at  806  Temple  La  Salle  and  Monroe 
streets,  Chicago,  which  firm  is  still  in  active 
business  in  1909.  His  skill  as  an  architect  is 
seen  in  the  Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless; 
George  Smith  Alemorial  for  St.  Luke's  Hos- 
pital ;  Union  Club  House ;  Calumet  Club 
House ;  Northern  Trust  Company,  bank  build- 
ing;  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway  Com- 
pany, general  office  building ;  Terminal  Station 
building  for  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern 
Railway  Company  and  Terminal  Station  build- 
ing for  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway 
Company.  Mr.  Frost  was  elected  a  fellow  of 
the  American  Institute  of  Architects,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Union  League  Club  and  of  the  Cliff 
Dwellers'  Club  and  an  elder  in  the  Presby- 
terian church.  He  married,  January  7,  1885, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Marvin  and  Belle  (Bar- 
rett) Huehitt,  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  they 
made  their  home  in  Chicago  up  to  May  31, 
1897,  when  they  established  a  suburban  home 
at  Lake  Forest,  Illinois.  Children  of  Charles 
Sumner  and  Mary  (Hughitt)  Frost  were  born 
in  Chicago  and  Lake  Forest,  as  follows:  i. 
Margaret,  November  22,  1890.  2.  Marvin 
Hughitt,  January  12,  1893.  3.  Virginia,  Lake 
Forest,  May  14,  1901. 


The  origin  of  the 
FORBES— FOBES     name      Forbes,     like 

that  of  most  family 
names,  is  surrounded  in  mystery.  It  is  of 
Scotch  origin  and  has  been  spelled  in  the  pub- 
lic records  of  New  England  Ffarrabas.  Fere- 
bas,  Farrowbush,  Fforbus,  Forbes,  Forbus, 
Forbush,  Furbush,  Fforbes,  Farabas,  Fobes, 
Farebush,  and  Fawbush.  It  is  stated  in 
Burke's  Heraldry  that  the  surname  Forbes 
was  assumed  from  the  lands  of  Forbes  in  the 
county  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  granted  by  Alex- 
ander II  (x\.  D.  1249)  to  the  progenitor  of 
this  noble  family.  John  De  Forbes,  the  first 
upon  record,  was  a  man  of  rank  and  impor- 
tance in  the  reign  of  King  William  the  Lion 
(A.  D.  1214).  Following  him  was  a  long  line 
of  descendants  of  whom  William  Forbes,  of 
Tullickerne,  Scotland,  wrote  in  A.  D.  1580: 
"In  all  ages  since  our  first  aryse,  we  might 
compair  with  neighbors,  for  greater  loyalty 
and  valor  for  pietie  (which  we  think  truly 
ennobles  all  families)  ;  Witness  the  many 
bishops  and  doctors  att  home  and  renowned 
divines  abroad.  Like  as  the  root  has  ever 
done,  so  the  several  branches  of  the  house 
thought  it  their  greatest  honour  to  honour  God 


in  their  generations.     As  to  their  loyaltie,  it 
was  never  stained." 

(I)  John  Forbes,  immigrant,  whose  name 
is  often  spelled  Fobes  and  Vobes,  a  native  of 
Scotland,  was  according  to  tradition  a  son  of 
Rev.  John  Forbes,  who  was  moderator  in 
1605  at  Aberdeen  of  the  general  assembly  of 
the  Church  of  Scotland.  He  came  to  Ply- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  in  1636,  and  early  in 
the  same  year  was  a  resident  of  Duxbury,  and 
had  land  at  Powder  Point  in  1637.  He  was 
one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Bridgewater 
where  he  settled,  and  there  he  died  in  1661. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Duxbury  Military 
Company  under  Captain  Myles  Standish, 
1643.  He  made  a  nuncupative  will  before 
William  Brett  and  Arthur  Harris.  He  mar- 
ried Constant,  sister  of  Experience  Mitchell, 
who  survived  him,  and  married  (second), 
1662,  John  Briggs,  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island.  The  children  of  John  and  Constant 
were:  John,  Edward,  Mary,  Caleb,  William, 
Joshua  and  Elizabeth. 

(II)  Deacon  Edward,  second  son  of  John 
and  Constant  (Mitchell)  Forbes,  was  born  in 
Bridgewater,  1651,  where  he  died  about  1732. 
He  was  a  leader  among  the  people  of  the 
town,  a  deacon  in  the  church,  a  magistrate, 
representative  to  the  general  court  in  1702-08- 
11-15-22,  and  owner  of  large  landed  interests. 
He  married,  probably  in  1676,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  John  and  ]\Iartha 
(Hay ward)  Howard,  of  Bridgewater.  Lieu- 
tenant Howard  was  a  prominent  colonist, 
commander  of  military  forces,  and  many  years 
deputy  to  the  general  court.  The  children  of 
Edward  and  Elizabeth  were :  Elizabeth,  John, 
Mary,  Bethiah,  Hannah,  Ephraim,  Joshua, 
Benjamin  and  William. 

(III)  Joshua,  third  son  of  Deacon  Edward 
and  Elizabeth  (Howard)  'Fobes,  was  born  in 
Bridgewater,  in  1689,  and  died  in  1767.  He 
was  a  lifelong  and  respected  resident  of 
Bridgewater.  He  served  in  Captain  Jonathan 
Howard's  military  company.  He  -married, 
171 1,  Abigail  Dunbar,  daughter  of  Peter  Dun- 
bar, and  they  had  Bethiah,  Hannah,  Joshua, 
Mary,  Leah,  Betty  and  Abigail.  It  may  be 
that  Joshua  married  (second),  1754,  Mercy 
Churchill. 

(RO  Joshua  (2),  third  son  of  Joshua  (i) 
and  Abigail  (Dunbar)  Fobes,  was  born  in 
1715.  He  married,  March  29,  1740,  Esther 
Porter,  born  June  20,  1716,  at  Abington,  Mas- 
sachusetts, daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Bath- 
sheba  (Reed)  Porter,  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
William  and  Esther  (Thompson)"  Reed, 
granddaughter  of  Lieutenant  John  and  Mary 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


(Cooke)  Tliompson,  and  great-granddaurjliter 
of  Francis  Cooke  of  the  "Mayflower,"  1620. 
The  children  of  Joshua  and  Esther  (Porter) 
Fobes  were:  Azariah,  Daniel,  Ruth,  Joshua, 
Caleb,  Robert  and  Solomon. 

(V)  Deacon  Daniel,  second  son  of  Joshua 
(2)  and  Estlier  (Porter)  Fobes.  was  born  in 
Bridgewater,  Massachusetts,  February  12, 
1742,  and  died  in  Paris,  Maine,  in  1814.  He 
moved  to  Maine  with  his  family,  most  of 
whom  were  grown  up,  in  company  with  the 
family  of  Lazarus  Hathaway,  and  reached 
Paris,  where  he  settled  November  2,  1802.  He 
bought  a  large  farm  adjoining  Elder  Hoop- 
er's. In  1806  he  was  elected  a  deacon  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church.  "He  died  leaving  a 
good  name  and  the  example  of  a  good  and 
faithful  life."  He  married,  1769,  Hannah 
Standish,  who  was  born  at  Captain's  Hill,  Dux- 
bury.  Massachusetts,  April  27,  1746,  and  died 
in  Paris,  Maine,  January  10,  1839,  daughter 
of  Mvles  and  ]\teliitable  (Robbins)  Standish, 
granrldaughter  of  Myles  and  Experience 
(Sherman)  Standish,  great-granddaughter  of 
Alexander  and  Sarah  (Alden)  Standish,  and 
great-great-granddaughter  of  the  famous  Cap- 
tain Myles  Standish  and  of  Deputy-Governor 
John  Alden,  both  of  "Mayflower"  fame.  The 
children  of  Deacon  Daniel  and  Hannah  were : 
Azariah.  Daniel,  Sarah.  Amasa.  Seth.  Hannah, 
Luin,  Beza,  Mehitable  and  Billings. 

(VI)  Amasa,  third  son  of  Deacon  Daniel 
and  Hannah  (Standish)  Fobes.  was  born  in 
Bridgewater,  Massachusetts,  September  21, 
1777,  and  died  in  Portland,  Maine,  February 
17,  1858.  He  came  with  his  father's  family  to 
Paris,  Maine,  in  1802,  bringing  with  him  his 
bride  of  a  year,  and  took  an  active  and  leading 
part  in  the  town's  aft'airs.  \\'ith  his  father  he 
moved  all  their  goods  in  an  ox  team  from 
Bridgewater  to  Paris.  He  was  a  blacksmith 
and  had  a  shop  at  Paris  Cape,  now  South 
Paris,  where  he  continued  until  he  moved  to 
Allen's  Corner,  where  he  continued  the  same 
business  and  where  he  made  a  specialty  of 
shoeing  oxen.  His  substantial  mansion  at 
Allen's  Corner,  Deering  district,  is  still  stand- 
ing. He  was  a  man  of  superior  mentality, 
very  active  physically  and  an  ardent  politician. 
Many  incidents  are  recalled  of  his  activity 
and  energy;  and  his  advanced  thought  along 
religious  lines  is  particularly  well  remembered. 
He  married,  in  1801,  Anne  Fames,  born  in 
Framingham,  Massachusetts,  in  1772.  and  died 
in  Portland,  September  5,  1862,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Katherine  (Rice)  Eames.  of 
Framingham,  and  granddaughter  of  Nathan- 
iel Eames  Sr.,  and  of  Jonathan  Rice,  both  of 


whom  served  in  the  revolutionary  war.  For 
years  after  the  death  of  her  husband  she  was 
a  beloved  member  of  the  family  of  her  son 
Charles.  The  children  of  Amasa  and  Anne, 
all  born  in  Paris  were:  i.  Charles,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Horace,  born  February  18,  1804, 
was  a  master  painter  for  the  old  Portland, 
Saco  &  Portsmouth  railroad  at  Portland, 
when  his  health  failed  him  and  he  moved  to 
Boston  about  1855.  3.  Nancy,  August  10, 
1806.  married  Josiah  Field,  of  Portland.  4. 
Albert  Gallatin.  January  16.  1809,  was  cashier 
of  the  \\'estbrook  Bank  and  later  private  sec- 
retary to  Hon.  Asa  \V.  H.  Clapp,  who  repre- 
sented the  Portland  district  in  congress.  He 
died  in  early  manhood. 

(\TI)  Charles,  eldest  child  of  Amasa  and 
Anne  (Eames)  Fobes,  was  born  in  Paris,  No- 
vember 26,  1802.  and  died  in  Portland,  July  4, 
1889.  He  went  to  Allen's  Corner,  Westbrook, 
with  his  parents  at  ten  years  of  age,  and  when 
seventeen  years  of  age  removed  to  Portland. 
In  business,  social  and  religious  circles  he 
became  one  of  the  best-known  and  most  in- 
fluential citizens  in  the  municipality.  In  early 
manhood  he  served  his  time  as  an  apprentice 
to  Marcus  Quincy,  who  was  engaged  in  the 
business  of  painter  and  dealer  in  paints,  and 
soon  became  his  employer's  partner,  and  later 
sole  proprietor  of  a  flourishing  business  which 
he  conducted  with  great  success  and  profit  till 
the  holocaust  of  1866,  when  his  place  of  busi- 
ness was  destroyed.  Having  acquired  a  hand- 
some competency  lie  made  no  attempt  to  con- 
tinue in  trade,  but  gave  his  attention  to  vari- 
ous other  business  projects.  He  was  largely 
interested  in  the  Portland  Steam  Packet  Com- 
pany, and  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  the 
last  of  the  original  proprietors.  He  was  a  di- 
rector of  this  coinpany  from  1834  to  1889; 
president  from  1850  to  1868:  and  treasurer 
from  1868  to  1874,  when  he  resigned.  For 
more  than  twenty  years  he  was  a  director  of 
the  Merchants'  National  Bank  and  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Maine  Savings  Bank.  He  was  a 
director  of  the  Portland  Railroad  Company,  a 
trustee  and  treasurer  of  Westbrook  Seminary, 
and  a  trustee  of  the  Mechanics'  Associa- 
tion. He  was  also  president  of  the  Franklin 
Wharf  Company  for  many  years  and  a  mem- 
ber of  its  board  of  directors  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  having  resigned  the  presidency  on  ac- 
count of  advancing  years.  (Tharles  Fobes  was 
thoroughly  identified  with  Free  Masonrv  and 
was  alive  to  all  that  pertained  to  its  welfare. 
For  more  than  fifty  years  he  was  treasurer  of 
Ancient  Landmark  Lodge;  he  was  also  treas- 
urer of  Alt.  \'ernon  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  Port- 


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1535 


land  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  Port- 
land Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  the 
Grand  Commandery  and  the  Grand  Council. 
He  was  a  Universalist  from  childhood,  and 
was  a  valued  and  prominent  member  of  the 
Congress  Square  Church  and  did  much  for 
the  society  during  his  long  and  faithful  con- 
nection with  it.  A  beautiful  window  in  the 
church,  the  gift  of  his  sons  to  the  memory  of 
an  honored  father,  speaks  lovingly  of  him. 
Mr.  Fobes'  home  was  at  No.  55  Chapel  street, 
and  is  to-day  a  fine  specimen  of  the  dignified 
and  substantial  residences  of  over  half  a  cen- 
tury ago,  though  the  once  attractive  and  well- 
kept  grounds  have  been  sacrificed  to  the  de- 
mands of  a  growing  commercial  metropolis. 
Mr.  Fobes  was  an  old-school  Democrat  and 
was  often  urged  to  become  a  candidate  for 
office,  but  he  had  no  taste  for  political  office- 
holding  and  refused  absolutely.  He  was  a 
most  kindly  gentleman,  and  possessing  a  hu- 
morous vein  which  made  his  society  most 
charming.  In  his  death  Portland  lost  one  of 
its  most  prominent  and  substantial  citizens 
and  an  honest  and  chivalrous  gentleman  of 
the  old  school.  Charles  Fobes  married  (first), 
1832,  Louisa  Keating,  daughter  of  Walter  and 
Sally  Keating,  of  Portland,  by  whom  he  had 
one  daughter,  Louisa,  who  nnrried  Jacob 
Flagg.  He  married  (second)  December  25, 
1838,  Hannah  Webster,  who  was  born  in  1810, 
and  died  March  28,  1880.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Benjamin  and  Lydia  (Soule) 
Webster,  of  Yarmouth.  Captain  Benjamin 
Webster,  the  father  of  the  late  Captain  Ben- 
jamin Webster,  of  Portland,  was  the  son  of 
John  Webster,  who  was  liorn  in  Cold  Kirby, 
England,  September  15,  1749,  and  came  to  this 
country  earlv  in  life,  marrying,  in  Yarmouth, 
Patience  Winslow,  daughter  of  Dr.  Gilbert 
and  Patience  (Seabury)  Winslow,  and  a  di- 
rect descendant  of  Kenelen  Winslow  and  of 
Richard  Warren  of  the  "Mayflower."  Cap- 
tain W^ebster's  wife,  Lydia  (Sonle)  Webster, 
was  born  in  Yarmouth,  Maine,  September  24, 
1783;  married,  April  9,  1803.  and  died  April 
26,  181 1.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Eunice  (Davis)  Soule,  and  granddaughter 
of  Barnabas  and  Jane  (Bradbury)  Soule.  The 
children  of  Charles  and  Hannah  who  grew  to 
maturity  are :  Charles  Scott,  George  Clinton, 
Leander  Webster  and  Lamirtine  Julian. 

The  Bradbury  ancestry  appears  on  another 
page.  (IX)  William,  youngest  child  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  and  Mary  (Perkins)  Bradbury, 
was  born  in  Salisbury.  Massachusetts,  July  15, 
1649,  3"'^!  fl'^d  December  4,  1678.  He  mar- 
ried, March  12,  1671,  Mrs.  Rebecca   (Wheel- 


wright) Maverick,  widow  of  Samuel  Maver- 
ick, daughter  of  the  famous  founder  of  Ex- 
eter, the  Rev.  John  Wheelwright,  A.  M.,  and 
Marv  Hutchinson  Wheelwright,  who  was  the 
daughter  of  Edward  Hutchinson  and  grand- 
daughter of  Hon.  John  Hutchinson,  mayor  of 
Lincoln,  England.  (X)  Jacob,  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Reljecca  (Wheelwright)  (Maverick) 
Bradbury,  was  born  at  Salisbury,  Massachu- 
setts, September  i,  1677,  and  died  May  4, 
1718.  He  married,  July  26,  1698,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Stockman  and 
Sarah  his  wife,  daughter  of  the  Worshipful 
Major  Robert  Pike.  (XI)  Jane,  the  young- 
est child  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Stockman) 
Bradbury,  was  born  in  17 18.  after  the  death 
of  her  father,  and  married,  1737,  Barnabas 
Soule,  of  N^orth  Yarmouth,  ]\Iaine,  born  1705, 
and  died  1780.     (See  Fobes  VII.) 

(VIII)  Leander  Webster,  third  son  of 
Charles  and  Hannah  (Webster)  Fobes,  was 
born  in  Portland,  August  16,  1843,  and  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  and  at  West- 
brook  Seminary.  In  1863  he  went  to  Shang- 
hai, China,  where  for  three  years  he  was  a 
"Compradore."  or  commission  merchant, 
where  he  dealt  in  exports  from  the  United 
States.  In  1866  he  returned  to  Portland  and 
soon  after  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Burgess,  Fobes  &  Company,  with  which  he 
has  ever  since  been  identified.  As  a  mer- 
chant he  has  been  very  successful,  and  on  ac- 
count of  this  success  he  has  been  ofifered  very 
advantageous  connections  with  leading  enter- 
prises in  Portland,  some  of  which  he  has  ac- 
cepted. He  is  president  of  the  National 
Traders'  Bank,  vice-president  of  the  Maine 
Savings  Bank,  a  director  of  the  Fidelity  Trust 
Company,  and  president  of  the  Consolidated 
Electric  Light  Company.  In  all  of  these  his 
keen  foresightedness  and  excellent  business 
ability  have  helped  in  a  marked  degree  to  in- 
sure success  and  large  profits.  Mr.  Fobes  is 
a  man  of  high  character  and  his  name  is  never 
connected  with  anything  but  square  dealing. 
He  is  charitable,  but  his  giving  is  never  os- 
tentatious, and  he  assures  himself  of  the 
worthiness  of  the  object  before  making  dona- 
tions. In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and  in- 
fluential in  the  councils  of  the  party.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years  he  was  made  a  Mason 
in  Ancient  Landmark  Lodge,  of  Shanghai, 
China,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  has 
since  become  a  member  of  Mt.  \''ernon  Royal 
Arch  Chapter.  No.  4;  Council,  No.  i.  Royal 
and  Select  Masters ;  Portland  Commandery, 
No.  2,  Knights  Templar;  and  Maine  Consis- 
tory. Sublime  Princes  of  the  Royal  Secret,  and 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


of  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  United  States, 
thirty-third  degree. 

Leander  W.  Fobes  married,  in  Freeport, 
October  23,  1867,  E.  Adelaide  Melcher,  who 
was  born  in  Freeport,  March  21,  1846,  second 
daughter  of  Edward  Harding  Melcher,  a 
much  respected  and  well-known  ship  builder 
of  Freeport,  and  granddaughter  of  the  Hon. 
Rufus  Soule,  of  Freeport,  one  of  the  most 
eminent  shipping  merchants  and  ship  builders 
of  Maine  in  his  day,  who  built  during  his 
career  eighty-five  vessels.  He  was  a  gentle- 
man of  wealth,  and  influence,  often  a  repre- 
sentative in  the  Maine  legislature,  and  a  state 
senator  in  1837-38.  The  Melcher  family  in 
Maine  were  early  residents  of  Brunswick,  and 
for  generations  were  ship  builders.  The  fam- 
ilv  name,  the  true  spelling  of  which  is  claimed 
to  be  Melchoir,  meaning  "the  kinc;ly  one,"  or 
"royal  one,"  is  of  remote  Hebrew  origin  and 
indicates  a  long  ancestral  line.  Through  her 
mother,  Harriet  Ellen  (Soule)  Melcher, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Rufus  Soule,  Mrs.  Fobes  is 
descended  from  George  Soule  of  the  "May- 
flower" (see  Soule),  General  Constant  South- 
worth,  Deputy-Governor  John  Alden,  Hon. 
William  Collier  of  Plymouth,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Jordan  of  Maine  (see  Jordan),  and  other  dis- 
tinguished colonial  worthies.  The  children  of 
Leander  W.  and  E.  Adelaide  (Melcher)  Fobes 
are  Leon  M.  and  H.  Marion.  Leon  M.,  born 
March  29,  1869,  graduated  from  Bowdoin  in 
the  class  of  1892,  and  is  now  connected  with 
the  firm  of  Burgess,  Fobes  &  Company.  He 
married,  August  15,  1894,  Anne  Prince, 
daughter  of  the  late  Henry  H.  Burgess,  of 
Portland.  They  have  had  two  children  :  Theo- 
dore Burgess,  and  Richard  Standish,  deceased. 


This  family  is  of  Scotch- 
GETCHELL     Irish  descent.    Two  brothers, 

John  and  Dennis  Getchell, 
came  from  England  to  Cape  Cod,  Massachu- 
setts, and  subsequently  settled  at  Vassalbor- 
ough,  Maine.  One  of  these  brothers  is  the 
ancestor  of  the  family  here  described.  His 
descendants  have  been  progressive  and  enter- 
prising citizens.  The  name  is  sometimes 
spelled  "Gatchell." 

(I)  George  Getchell,  of  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts,  married  Mercy,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Phebe  (Taber)  Howland.  (See 
Howland.  VI.) 

(II)  Henry  Franklin,  son  of  George  and 
Mercy  (Howland)  Getchell,  was  born  in 
April,  1813,  at  Vassalborough,  Maine.  He 
married  Fannie  A.  Burr,  of  Mercer,  Maine, 
who  was  born   in    1817.     In    1858  he  moved 


west  with  his  family,  going  first  to  Alissouri. 
(Ill)  Edwin  Franklin,  son  of  Henry 
Franklin  and  Fannie  A.  (Burr)  Getchell,  was 
born  February  14,  1850,  at  North  Anson, 
Somerset  county,  Maine.  He  came  with  his 
parents  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in  1858,  and 
later  thev  settled  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  He 
was  educated  at  Iowa  College,  Grinnell,  Iowa. 
In  1872  he  moved  to  Chicago,  and  he  spent 
the  year  of  1873  in  a  tour  of  observation  and 
pleasure  through  Europe.  In  1874  he  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  H.  F.  Getchell  and 
Sons,  lumber  dealers,  with  headquarters  in 
Chicago.  This  firm  conducted  an  extensive 
system  of  lumber  yards  in  Iowa,  chiefly  along 
the  line  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  and  Pa- 
cific railway.  In  1877  the  entire  management 
of  the  Chicago  branch  was  placed  upon  his 
shoulders  by  the  death  of  his  father.  In  1880 
he  organized  the  firm  of  Getchell,  Armour  & 
Company,  wholesale  lumber  dealers,  the  firm 
comprising  himself,  his  brother  Charles  H. 
Getchell,  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  the  late 
William  Armour,  of  Chicago.  In  addition  to 
their  Chicago  yard,  they  established  a  branch 
yard  at  Fargo,  Dakota,  during  the  booming 
period  of  the  great  New  Northwest.  Upon 
the  expiration  of  the  co-partnership  of  Getch- 
ell, Armour  &  Company.  INIav  i,  1883,  Mr. 
Getchell  embarked  in  the  real  estate  business, 
and  has  since  been  very  successful  in  that 
line.  He  has  negotiated  many  transactions 
which  have  been  historic  because  of  their  mag- 
nitude, and  his  clients  include  the  most  prom- 
inent capitalists  of  his  city.  Mr.  Getchell  has 
filled  many  offices  and  served  on  many  com- 
mittees of  the  Chicago  real  estate  board,  and 
is  now  its  president.  He  is  ex-president  of 
the  Sons  and  Daughters  of  Maine,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  New  England  Society  of  Chicago, 
of  which  he  is  a  charter  member.  He  served 
three  years  on  the  political  action  committee 
of  the  Union  League  Club.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago, 
and  during  the  pastorate  of  John  Henry  Bur- 
rows served  as  elder  of  the  church.  Mr. 
Getchell  is  a  member  of  the  Real  Estate  Com- 
mission of  The  Sanitary  District  of  Chicago. 
He  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  merger  of 
the  Abstract  Companies  in  Chicago,  is  also 
one  of  the  promoters  of  the  Chicago  Subway, 
Arcade  &  Traction  Company,  which  company 
now  has  an  ordinance  before  the  city  council 
to  construct  a  system  of  underground  railways 
for  the  city,  and  is  one  of  the  chief  promoters 
for  the  building  of  a  railroad  in  Alberta,  Can- 
ada, from  the  interboundary  line  of  Montana,- 
through    Medicine    Hat   and    Edmonton,   into 


STATE  OF  IMAINE. 


1537 


the  Peace  River  valley ;  a  charter  for  this 
road  has  already  been  secured,  and  plans  for 
financing  and  constructing  same  are  in  pro- 
cess of  negotiation.  At  the  time  Mr.  L.  Z. 
Leiter  negotiated  loans  on  his  Chicago  real 
estate  for  the  settlement  of  his  son  Joseph's 
losses  in  the  famous  wheat  corner,  Mr.  Getch- 
ell  and  Colonel  Luther  H.  Pierce,  of  Chicago, 
were  employed  by  him  as  his  exclusive  bro- 
kers in  the  mntter ;  they  appraised  the  various 
real  estate  holdings  of  Mr.  Leiter  in  the  busi- 
ness center,  and  negotiated  the  sale  of  the  fee 
to  Marshall  Field,  of  the  southeast  corner  of 
State  and  Madison  streets,  which  was  one  of 
the  largest  transactions  ever  made  in  Chicago 
by  an  individual  owner  to  an  individual  buyer 
of  one  piece  of  property,  the  consideration 
being  $2,135,000.  Mr.  Getchell  married  Metta 
May  Barney,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  September  8, 
1880,  which  union  has  been  blessed  with  the 
birth  of  three  children,  two  daughters  and 
one  son,  the  latter  being  deceased  at  the  age 
of  four  years.  The  surviving  children  are 
Lucille  Getchell  Green,  born  January  18,  1883, 
Metta  Mona  Getchell,  born  June  7,  li 


Among  the  early  members 
ROWLAND  of  Plymouth  Colony  were 
John,  Arthur  and  Henry 
Rowland,  and  it  is  supposed  they  were 
brothers.  John  came  in  the  "Mayflower,"  and 
the  others  appeared  in  the  colony  soon  after, 
although  it  has  not  been  ascertained  from 
what  place.  The  name  Rowland  is  a  very  old 
one  in  England. 

(I)  Arthur  Rowland,  progenitor  of  the 
family  here  described,  lived  a  few  years  in  the 
Plymouth  Colony,  then  became  a  settler  and 
landholder  at  Marshfield,  Massachusetts.  In 
1647  he  purchased  three  hundred  acres  of  the 
land  formerly  belonging  to  John  Alden  and 
Myles  Standish,  for  which  he  paid  twenty-one 
pounds  sterling,  thirteen  pounds  in  money  and 
the  remainder  in  "Corne  and  Cattle,"  the  or- 
dinary pay  of  the  colony  at  that  time.  This 
land  lay  on  the  north  side  of  South  river, 
bounded  on  the  east  by  Beaver  pond,  and  on 
the  west  by  a  brook.  Arthur  lived  and  died 
on  his  Marshfield  estate,  and  five  generations 
after  him  lived  and  were  buried  there.  Re 
was  greatly  respected  and  loved  for  his  good 
qualities  and  sterling  worth.  Ris  house  was 
the  headquarters  of  the  persecuted  Friends, 
of  which  society  he  was  an  earnest  member. 
Re  married  Margaret  Reed,  a  widow,  and 
their  children  were  :  Arthur,  Deborah,  ]\Iary, 
Martha  and  Elizabeth. 

(H)   Arthur  (2),  eldest  son  of  Arthur  (i) 


and  Margaret  (Reed)  Rowland,  was  born  at 
Marshfield,  September  12,  1667.  Re  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  and 
Mary  Prence.  Their  children  were  :  A  daugh- 
ter born  1668,  Ebenezer,  Thomas,  Arthur  and 
Prince. 

(RL)  Thomas,  second  son  of  Arthur  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  (Prence)  Rowland,  was  born 
at  Marshfield.  The  christian  name  of  his  first 
wife  was  Mary,  and  they  had  children  as  fol- 
lows :  Mercy,  Rebecca,  Ebenezer,  John,  Re- 
becca,   Thomas,    William   and    Samuel.      Ris 

second  wife  was  Deborah ,  and  they  had 

children  :     Rannah  and  Prince. 

(IV)  William,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Rowland,  was  born  February  2,  1708. 
Ris  wife's  christian  name  was  Mercy,  and 
their  children  were :     Rebecca  and  William. 

(V)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i)  and 
Mercy  Rowland,  was  born  February  11,  1742. 
Re  married  Dorothy  Wing,  and  they  had  ten 
children :  Thomas,  Joseph,  Mercy,  Daniel, 
Elizabeth,  Phebe,  Ebenezer,  Mary,  Anna  and 
Becca. 

(\T)  Joseph,  second  son  of  William  (2) 
and  Dorothy  (Wing)  Rowland,  was  born 
September  5,  1765.  It  is  related  of  him  that 
when  a  young  man  he  sold  his  silver  knee- 
buckles  and  with  the  proceeds  made  his  way 
to  Kennebec  county,  Maine.  Re  was  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  the  town  of  Vassalbor- 
ough,  and  it  appears  from  the  Pembroke  fam- 
ily record  that  his  sister  Phebe,  also  another 
sister,  went  to  live  with  or  near  him.  Re  was 
an  honored  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
Re  married  (first)  Phebe  Taber,  by  whom  he 
had  children  as  follows :  Phebe,  Rebecca  and 
Mercy.  The  last-named  married  George 
Getchell.  (See  Getchell,  I.)  Re  married 
(second)  Sarah  Purrington,  and  thev  had  four 
children :     Mary,  Ann,  William  and  David. 


This  is  probably  one  of  the  earli- 
HINDS     est  names  used  in  England  as  a 

surname,  and  comes,  according  to 
some  authorities,  from  the  old  English  and 
Scotch  words  hyne  or  hine,  meaning  a  tiller 
of  the  ground,  or  a  farmer,  and  later  this  came 
to  mean  the  yeomanry.  Or,  according  to 
others,  it  may  be  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  hind, 
the  female  of  the  red  deer,  as  the  first  sur- 
names of  England  were  often  taken  from 
some  animal,  plant,  or  the  like,  and  the  term 
hynd  early  came  to  have  the  meaning  cour- 
teous or  gentle.  In  the  Colonial  records  this 
name  is  spelled  in  at  least  nine  different  ways, 
as  Hinds,  Rindes,  Rynds,  Rynes,  Rines, 
Reines,  Rains,  Raynes,  Reynes. 


1538 


STATK  Ol'    MAIXE. 


(I)  James  Hindes  (also  spelled  in  the  rec- 
ords Heynes  and  ITaynes),  the  emigrant,  came 
to  this  country,  probably  from  England,  landed 
in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  vvlicre  he  was  made 
freeman  in  1637,  married  the  next  year,  and 
early  removed  to  Southold,  Long  Island, 
where  he  died  March,  1652-53.  His  widow 
married,  June,  1656,  Ralph  Dayton,  of  South- 
old.  James  Hindes  was  a  cooper  by  profes- 
sion, was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  of  Salem.  Massachusetts,  as  early  as 
1637,  and  the  baptism  of  his  eight  children  is 
recorded  there.  His  wife's  name  was  Mary, 
and  their  children  were:  John,  born  August 
28,  1639;  James,  baptized  August  2,  1641 ; 
Benjamin,  August  26,  1643;  Mary,  February 
19,  1646;  James,  December  2^.  1647-48;  Jon- 
athan, April  II,  1648;  Sarah,  April  11,  1649; 
and  Thomas,  IMarch  4,  165 1. 

(H)  John,  who  may  have  been  the  eldest 
son  of  James  and  Mary  Hindes,  and  if  so  was 
born  August  28,  1639,  probably  in  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  died  in  Lancaster,  Massachu- 
setts, March,  1720.  He  settled  in  Lancaster 
May  25,  1710,  in  that  part  which  later  became 
Bolton,  having  spent  a  short  time  there  in 
1676,  removed  to  Brookfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  in  1710  made  his  permanent  residence  in 
Lancaster.  By  his  first  marriage,  of  which 
no  record  can  be  found,  he  had  a  son  and 
probably  other  children,  and  on  February  9, 
1681-82,  he  married  (second),  in  Lancaster. 
Mary,  widow  of  James  Butler.  By  his  second 
wife  he  had  cbildren  as  follows :  John,  born 
January  19,  1683:  Jacob,  i68s;  Hannah,  De- 
borah, Enoch,  Hopestill  and  Experience.  -■ 

(HI)  Jacob,  second  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Butler)  Hinds,  was  born  in  1685,  probably 
in  Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  and  died  at  West 
Boylston,  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  farmer  of 
Marlboro.  Massachusetts,  where  his  name  on 
the  public  records  is  spelled  Hins,  and  in  1717 
he  was  one  of  the  Marlboro  citizens  who  set- 
tled Shrewsbury.  In  1720  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  West  Boylston,  being  probably 
the  first  white  settler  in  that  section.  In  1729 
he  lived  on  house  lot  number  thirtv-tliree.  and 
was  on  the  muster  roll  of  Captain  .Asa  Whit- 
comb,  in  whose  company  he  was  a  corporal ; 
his  will  is  daterl  September  24.  1764.  He  mar- 
ried, December  6.  1716,  at  Marlboro,  Grace, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hester  (Pierce) 
Morse,  born  June  7,  1694,  at  Watertown,  Mas- 
sachusetts. Joseph  Morse,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-four,  embarked  in  Ipswich.  England, 
in  April,  1634,  '"  the  ship  "Elizabeth,"  with 
William  Andrews  master,  and  settled  in  Water- 
town,   where   he   was  one  of  the  proprietors 


and  admitted  freeman  May  6.  1635;  he  was 
the  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Deborah  Morse, 
who  came  to  America,  probably  a  year  or  two 
later  than  he,  and  he  married  Hester,  daughter 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  Pierce.  Jacob  and 
Grace  (Morse)  Hinds  had  eleven  children,  as 
follows:  Tabitha,  born  1718,  died  an  infant; 
Sarah,  1719,  died  before  1771  ;  Abigail,  1720, 
died  before  1771  ;  Daniel,  June  21,  1722,  died 
June  2,  17.^0;  Joseph,  January  20,  1724;  Ben- 
jamin, July  7.  1725:  Mary,  August  18,  1726, 
died  before  1771 ;  Tabitha,  November  14, 
1727,  died  before  1771  ;  Jason,  December  8, 
1728;  Elizabeth,  January  22,  1730;  Jacob, 
January  22,  1731. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Jacob  and 
Grace  (Morse)  Hinds,  was  born  July  7,  1725, 
in  Shrewsbury,  and  died  October  29,  1794. 
He  was  a  farmer  of  Shrewsbury,  but  in  1746 
he  settled  in  West  Boylston.  He  showed  his 
patriotism  by  loaning  to  the  Continental  con- 
gress sixty  thousand  dollars,  part  of  which 
was  returned  in  colonial  money.  He  married 
(first).  1747,  in  Shrewsbury.  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Temple,  of  Boylston,  by  whom  he 
had  ten  children,  and  she  died  in  middle  life. 
He  married  (second)  Tabitha,  daughter  of 
Ephraim  Holland,  born  Alay  j..  17'?.  d'cd 
June  4,  1826,  and  by  her  had  seven  children; 
his  wives  were  cousins.  Children  by  first 
wife,  born  in  West  Boylston,  were  as  follows: 
Elizabeth,  March  9,  1748;  Daniel,  April  27, 
1749:  Jason.  February  14,  1750;  Abigail,  July 
14,  1752;  Benjamin,  August  29.  1754;  Abner, 
October  25,  1756:  Nimrod,  January  12,  1758; 
.Asher;  Martha,  Septembet  29,  1760;  Tabitha, 
March  2.  1762.  By  his  second  wife  he  had, 
born  in  West  Boylston:  Jacob.  July  21,  1767; 
Justin,  March  28,  1770;  Joseph,  July  4,  1773; 
Tabitha.  April  14.  1776:  Abraham,  August  23, 
1778;  Ephriam.  November  7,  1780;  Elisha, 
February  7,  1784. 

(V)  Asher,  sixth  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Elizabeth  (Temple)  Hinds,  was  born  Septem- 
ber II,  1759,  at  West  Boylston.  Massachu- 
setts, and  died  April  ig,  1814,  in  that  part  of 
Clinton.  Maine,  now  Benton.  He  removed  to 
Clinton  about  1780.  where  he  was  engaged  in 
farming ;  he  represented  the  town  of  Winslow, 
Maine,  at  the  general  court  of  Alassachusetts, 
about  181 2.  and  two  of  his  sons  were  members 
of  the  Maine  legislature.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 6,  1788,  in  Winslow.  now  Benton, 
Maine,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Joel  and  Hannah 
(Stevens)  Crosby,  born  ]\Iay  18.  1772,  died 
November  10.  1843,  at  Benton.  Their  first 
four  children  were  born  in  Albion,  the  others 
in  Clinton,  Maine,  and  were :     Betsey,  Octo- 


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ber  27,  1789;  Asher;  Benjamin,  January  19, 
1794;  r^Iartha,  January  12,  1796;  Ruby,  July 
5,  1798;  Thirza,  July  24,  1800;  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson. August  8,  1805:  Ulmer,  March  15, 
1807;  Temple.  May  6,  1809;  Crosby,  Decem- 
ber 19.  181 1  ;  Elvira,  September  19,  1813. 

(VI)  Asher  (2),  the  eldest  son  of  Asher 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Crosby)  Hinds,  was  born 
May  2,  1792,  at  Albion,  Maine,  and  died  April 
2,  i860.  He  served  in  the  war' of  1812,  and 
later  became  a  prosperous  farmer  and  mer- 
chant of  Benton ;  he  was  twice  elected  to  the 
state  senate  from  the  Kennebec  district,  and 
served  in  1829-30.  During  the  administration 
of  Governor  Kent,  in  1838,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  executive  council,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors of  the  Androscoggin  &  Kennebec  rail- 
road, having  been  elected  to  that  body  nearly 
every  year  since  its  organization.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  in  Wrentham,  Massachusetts, 
Susan  Slocum  Nelson,  who  had  no  children, 
and  died  November  2.  1825,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-seven  years;  he  married  (second), 
January  25,  1833,  at  Bath,  Maine.  Mrs.  Lucy 
Harding  (Turner)  Lunt,  born  February  12, 
1801,  at  Bath,  and  died  July  22,  1883.  By  his 
second  marriage  Mr.  Hinds  had  five  children : 
Amos  Lunt,  born  November  12.  1833;  Albert 
Dwelley;  Susan  Ann,  November  15,  1837; 
Asher  Crosby,  January  7,  1840;  Roswell  Sis- 
son,  April  27,   1844. 

(VH)  Albert  Dwelley,  second  son  of  Asher 
(2)  and  Lucy  H.  (Turner)  (Lunt)  Hinds, 
was  born  November  3,  1835.  ^t  Clinton, 
Maine,  and  died  June  20.  1873,  '^t  Benton, 
Maine.  After  receiving  his  education  at  the 
Waterville  College,  he  became  a  successful 
farmer,  residing  at  Benton,  and  during  the 
civil  war  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Maine  legislature.  He  married,  December  26, 
1 861,  at  Waterville.  Maine,  Charlotte,  daugh- 
ter of  Eliphalet  and  Elizabeth  (Piper)  Flagg, 
born  August  5,  1839,  at  Benton,  and  died 
there  November  3.  1874 ;  they  became  the 
parents  of  two  children  :  Asher  Crosby,  given 
further  mention  below,  and  Elizabeth  Char- 
lotte, born  I\Iarch  9,  1865,  married  John  Reed, 
a  civil  engineer. 

(\''HI)  Asher  Crosby,  only  son  of  Albert 
Dwelley  and  Charlotte  (Flagg)  Hinds,  was 
born  February  6.  1863,  at  Benton.  Maine,  and 
after  attending  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  he  entered  Coburn  Classical  Institute  at 
Waterville,  Maine,  graduating  in  1879,  after 
which  he  entered  Colby  College,  graduated 
with  degree  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1883.  and  in 
1905  received  from  that  institution  the  degree 


of  Doctor  of  Laws.  After  his  graduation 
from  college  he  became  engaged  on  the  news- 
paper staff  of  the  Daily  Portland  (Maine)  Ad- 
vertiser, after  two  years  changing  to  the  Daily 
Portland  Press,  for  which  paper  he  continued 
to  work  until  1903.  In  1S90  he  became  clerk 
to  the  speaker  (Reed)  in  the  fifty-first  con- 
gress, and  remained  in  that  position  till  1901, 
when  he  spent  four  years  in  newspaper  work 
at  Portland,  Maine.  In  1905  he  became  clerk 
at  the  speaker's  table  in  the  house  of  repre- 
sentatives, and  with  the  last  three  speakers  of 
the  house  has  continued  as  parliamentary 
clerk.  For  the  last  twelve  years  Mr.  Hinds 
has  been  the  parliamentarian  of  the  Republi- 
can national  conventions,  and  is  considered 
an  authority  on  parliamentary  law.  He  is  au- 
thor, editor  and  compiler  of  a  work  entitled 
"Constitutional  Digest  and  Alanual  of  the 
United  States  House  of  Representatives," 
published  annually  by  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment, and  has  recently  completed  Hind's 
"Precedents  of  the  House  of  Representatives," 
in  eight  volumes.  For  the  past  five  years  he 
has  been  a  trustee  of  Colby  College;  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  and 
of  the  American  Political  Science  Association. 
In  his  editorial  and  literary  work  Mr.  Hinds 
has  made  his  productions  finished  and  authen- 
tic. September  3,  1891,  he  married  Harriett 
Louise,  daughter  of  Rev.  Aaron  Estey,  a  Bap- 
tist clergyman,  and  his  wife  Louise  (Watson) 
Estey.  They  have  had  two  children :  Albert 
Estey,  born  June  12,  1892,  died  April  13,  1893, 
and  Asher  Estey,  born  May  17.  1894.  'Sir. 
Hinds  is  a  resident  of  Portland. 


The  name  of  Knight  is  very 
KNIGHT  early  found  in  the  New  Eng- 
land records,  has  been  conspicu- 
ously identified  with  the  early  settlements  in 
Massachusetts  and  Maine,  and  its  representa- 
tives are  still  contributing  a  share  toward  the 
worthy  development  of  the  last  named  com- 
monwealth. 

(I)  John  (2),  son  of  John  Knight,  a  cooper 
bv  trade,  was  at  Charlestown,  Massachusttts. 
in  1653.  He  was  probably  born  in  England. 
He  was  married  April  25,  1634,  in  Charles- 
town,  to  Ruhamah  Johnson,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  Ruhamah  (died  young),  Eliza- 
beth. John,  Ruhamah  and  .Abigail.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  church  in  Charlestown  in  1667. 
In  a  record  appearing  in  1677  the  name  of  his 
wife  was  given  as  Mary.  He  was  married 
(third)  June  22,  1668,  to  Mary  Bridge,  who 
died  October,  1678,  and  he  was  married 
(fourth)  December  19  of  that  year  to  Widow 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Mary  Clenience,  who  died  July  12,  1682.     He 
died  in  1714. 

(II)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Ruhamah  (Johnson)  Knight,  was  born  No- 
vember 4,  1657,  in  Charlestown,  and  resided 
in  Beverly,  Massachusetts,  where  the  births  of 
several  of  his  children  are  recorded,  the 
mother's  name  being  given  as  Elizabeth.  They 
included  John  and  Joseph. 

(III)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  and  Eliza- 
beth Knight,  was  born  June  11,  1682,  in  Bev- 
erly, and  died  August  8,  1744,  in  that  town. 
In  the  records  of  his  children's  births  the  name 
of  the  mother  is  given  as  "Liddeah"  and  the 
children  recorded  in  Beverly  are  Benjamin, 
John  Lidiah  and  Joseph. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  John  (4)  and  Liddeah 
Knight,  was  born  December  10,  171 1,  in  Bev- 
erly, Massachusetts,  and  was  baptized  as  an 
adult  in  Manchester,  September  22,  1734. 
Soon  after  this  he  removed  to  Windham, 
Maine,  and  was  there  captured  by  Indians  in 
1747,  but  was  subsequently  released.  He  was 
again  captured  the  following  year  but  escaped 
from  his  captors  and  warned  the  residents  of 
North  Yarmouth  in  time  to  enable  them  to  es- 
cape from  the  savage  raiders.  He  died  in 
1797.  He  married  Phoebe  Libby,  who  was 
probably  a  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Miller 
Libby,  natives  respectively  of  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  and  Scarborough,  Maine. 
Children :  Lydia,  Phoebe,  Nathaniel,  Daniel, 
Joseph  (died  young),  Nabby,  Joseph,  Samuel, 
Morris,  Winthrop  and  Benjamin. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Phoebe  (Libby)  Knight,  was  born  1765  in 
Gorham,  Maine,  resided  for  a  time  in  West- 
brook,  where  he  was  a  merchant,  and  settled 
in  Lincolnville,  Maine. 

(\T)  Nathan,  son  of  Nathaniel  Kni'::ht. 
was  born  in  1790,  in  Lincolnville,  and  died  at 
Hallowell,  Maine,  in  1871.  He  had  a  common 
school  education,  and  when  a  young  man  was 
a  teamster.  He  established  a  general  store  in 
Lincolnville  and  became  a  successful  and  sub- 
stantial citizen.  He  was  prominent  in  public 
affairs,  a  selectman  for  twenty-two  years  and 
for  two  years  representative  to  the  legislature. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Hallowell  Baptist 
Church.  He  married  Lucy,  born  in  Lincoln- 
ville, 1796,  daughter  of  Samuel  Dean.  They 
had  a  son  and  a  daughter :  Austin  Dean  and 
Mary  F.  The  latter  married  Captain  E.  Perry 
and  resides  in  Hallowell,  Maine. 

(VII)  Austin  Dean,  only  son  of  Nathan  and 
Lucy  (Dean)  Knight,  was  born  March  21, 
1823,  in  Lincolnville.  He  began  his  education 
in   the    district    school     of     Lincolnville,     and 


graduated  from  the  high  school  of  that  town, 
but  subsequently  attended  a  private  school, 
after  which  he  took  a  two  years'  course  of 
private  instruction,  being  one  of  a  class  of 
thirteen  boys  placed  under  the  tutorship  of 
Rev.  Edward  Freeman,  of  Camden.  These 
pupils  were  taken  through  a  course  of  study  so 
thorough  that  they  were  fitted  to  enter  Water- 
ville  College  two  years  in  advance.  Instead 
of  entering  college,  however,  young  Knight 
began  the  reading  of  law  and  prepared  for  a 
professional  career.  About  this  time  the  ac- 
tivities of  the  trade  made  the  mercantile  out- 
look more  promising  than  that  of  the  legal 
profession,  and  feeling  that  his  general  and 
special  education  were  good  business  capital, 
he  abandoned  the  law  and  became  a  merchant. 
Ship  supplies  were  his  specialty  and  to  mer- 
cantile occupation  he  added  that  of  shipbuild- 
ing. Quick  lime  was  then  shipped  in  vessels 
to  many  southern  states  and  Mr.  Knight  be- 
came a  large  jobber  in  this  article  of  com- 
merce. His  first  vessel  sailed  in  1849  ^or  New 
Orleans,  and  after  discharging  her  cargo  was 
chartered  to  carry  passengers  to  -San  Fran- 
cisco, but  the  passengers  proved  to  be  Cuban 
revolutionists  and  the  vessel  was  captured 
by  a  Spanish  man-of-war  and  was  converted 
into  a  man-of-war.  The  claim  of  the  owners 
for  $19,000  was  never  collected  from  Spain. 
For  more  than  fifteen  years  he  was  profitably 
and  honorably  employed  in  this  way  and  then 
disposed  of  his  enterprise  in  Lincolnville  and 
removed  to  Hallowell,  in  1858.  There  he 
purchased  a  small  farm  and  settled  down  to  a 
period  of  rest  from  mercantile  risks  and  ac- 
tivities, but  his  active  organization  and  habits 
of  work  demanded  occupation  and  he  discov- 
ered that  the  conditions  were  favorable  for  a 
National  bank  at  Hallowell.  Among  his 
friends  who  entertained  the  same  view  was 
John  Graves,  and  their  movements  forthwith 
resulted  in  the  organization  of  the  .American 
National  Bank.  Mr.  Knight  was  elected  its 
first  president  and  served  from  1864  to  1871 ; 
from  the  last  year  until  1888  he  was  cashier, 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  months,  and  he 
became  well  known  as  an  expert  judge  of 
money.  Although  nominally  retired,  he  still 
retains  his  positions  as  president  and  director 
of  the  bank,  whose  interests  have  always  been 
the  subject  of  his  special  care  and  whose  suc- 
cess and  prosperity  are  largely  results  of  his 
wise  counsels.  In  1876  he  was  elected  judge 
of  the  municipal  court  of  Hallowell,  and  his 
re-election,  covering  a  period  of  twelve  years, 
attests  the  public  approval  of  the  impartial 
manner   in    which   he  held   the   scales   of  jus- 


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1541 


tice  and  administered  the  duties  of  tliis  diffi- 
cult,  often  thankless,  but  always  important, 
judicial  position.  Judge  Knight  also  served 
the  city  eleven  years  in  its  legislation  councils, 
generally  as  alderman.  For  over  sixty  years 
he  has  been  active  and  zealous  in  the  ranks 
of  Free  Masonry,  with  an  extended  reputatKjn 
for  knowledge  and  experience  in  its  work  and 
devotion  to  its  beneficent  teachings  and  pro- 
fessions. He  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in 
Camden  Lodge  in  1848  and  since  that  time, 
by  repeated  and  regular  promotion,  he  has 
ascended  the  fascinating  scale  of  ancient  and 
mystic  rites  to  the  thirty-second  degree,  the 
highest  honor  but  one.  He  is  a  past  master  of 
King  David's  Lodge  of  Lincolnville,  and  is 
now  affiliated  with  Hallowell  Lodge.  He  is 
past  high  priest  of  Jerusalem  Chapter,  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  and  has  conferred  the  Royal 
Arch  degree  on  more  candidates  than  any 
other  man  in  the  state.  He  is  a  member  of 
Hallow-ell  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masons, 
of  which  he  was  treasurer  for  many  years. 
For  a  period  of  forty-seven  years  he  has  been 
a  member  of  Trinity  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  four  years  commander,  a  longer 
term  than  any  other,  and  is  affiliated  with 
Maine  Consistory,  thirty-second  degree.  He 
has  been  a  representative  in  the  Grand  Lodge 
since  1874.  He  belongs  to  the  numerous  and 
honorable  order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  temperance  movement  al- 
most from  boyhood,  joining  the  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance in  1846.  His  influence  along  this  line 
has  been  extended  in  a  quiet  way  for  a  very 
long  period  and  with  good  effect  upon  the 
morals  of  his  home  state.  Judge  Knight  has 
been  an  extensive  traveler;  with  characteristic 
good  sense,  he  first  became  familiar  with  his 
own  country,  visiting  every  state  but  two, 
making  prolonged  stops  in  Colorado,  Cali- 
fornia and  New  Mexico.  Besides  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  Canadas  he  has  traveled 
leisurely  through  England,  Ireland  and  Scot- 
land and  extensively  through  seven  nations  of 
the  European  continent,  Austria  being  the 
most  easterly  of  these.  Politically  he  was  a 
Democrat  until  the  formation  of  the  Republi- 
can party,  to  whose  interests  he  has  since  been 
devoted.  His  successful  and  honorable  career 
has  been  marked  by  high  aims,  intelligent  mind 
and  strict  integrity.  He  was  married  Novem- 
ber 20,  1851,  by  Rev.  John  G.  Adams,  to 
Julia  Augusta,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Susan 
Crehore,  of  Maiden,  Massachusetts,  who  was 
born  November  9,  182S,  in  Maiden,  and  died 
December — ,  1904,  in  Hallowell. 


The  name  of  Lewis,  sometimes 
LEWIS  spelled  Lewes,  has  had  many  dis- 
tinguished representatives  in  this 
country.  The  family  is  numerous  and  ancient, 
both  north  and  south.  Robert  Lewis,  of  Brad- 
mockshire,  Wales,  emigrated  to  Gloucester 
county,  Virginia,  in  1640.  He  had  a  large 
grant  of  land  from  the  crown,  and  from  him 
have  sprung  different  families  of  Lewises  all 
over  the  country.  Samuel  Gilford  Lewis  was 
a  major  on  General  Washington's  staff,  and 
distinguished  himself  at  the  battle  of  German- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  His  descendants  lived 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  at  St.  Louis,  where 
they  were  known  as  editors,  judges  and  sur- 
geons. George  Lewis,  of  Plymouth,  after- 
wards at  Scituate,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
joined  the  church  September  20,  1635,  came 
from  East  Greenwich  in  Kent  before  1633. 
Edmund  Lewis,  of  Lynn.  ^Massachusetts,  was 
first  at  Watertown,  and  came  over  from  Eng- 
land in  1634.  John  Lewis  settled  at  Westerly, 
Rhode  Island,  as  early  as  1660.  Dr.  William 
Jerauld  Lewis,  president  of  the  American  So- 
ciety of  Microscopists,  is  descended  from  the 
Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island  families.  In 
1834  thirteen  of  the  Lewis  name  had  been 
graduated  from  Harvard,  and  thirty-four  from 
other  New  England  colleges. 

(I)  John  Lewis  was  an  inhabitant  of 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  in  1634,  when  he 
is  first  found  of  record.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  church  there  July  10,  1644,  and  soon  after 
removed  to  Maiden  where  he  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  in  1635-36.  He  had  four  acres 
of  planting  land  and  a  ten  acre  lot  on  the 
Mystic  side  in  1637.  I"  ^^  he  was  the  owner 
of  six  parcels  of  land.  He  must  have  been  a 
man  of  some  means.  The  name  of  his  first 
wife  was  Marguerite,  who  was  admitted  to 
the  church  in  Charlestown,  July  7,  1638.  She 
died  April  10,  1649.  He  married  (second), 
April  10,  1650,  at  Maiden,  yiary  Browne, 
daughter  of  Abraham  Browne,  of  Watertown. 
Children :  John,  Joseph  and  ]\Iary,  twins, 
Samuel,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Abraham,  Jonathan, 
Mary,  Hannah.  Isaac  and  Trial.  He  died  Sep- 
tember 16,  1657,  ^t  ]\Ialden. 

(II)  Isaac,  son  (probably  the  only  one)  of 
John  and  Mary  (Browne)  Lewis,  was  born 
at  Maiden,  Massachusetts,  about  1655.  He 
married  Mary  Davis,  and  their  children  were : 
Mary,  Isaac  (2),  mentioned  below.  Joseph, 
John  and  Abraham. 

(III)  Isaac  (2),  eldest  son  of  Isaac  (i)  and 
Mary  (Davis)  Lewis,  was  born  about  1680, 
probably  at  Maiden,  Massachusetts.    He  lived 


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at  Rumney  Marsh,  now  Chelsea.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  Hallctt ;  children  :  Isaac,  John, 
Hannah,  William,  Abijali,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows, Mary,  Nathan,  of  Boston,  and  Joseph. 
Nathan  Lewis,  who  married  Mary  Newhall, 
was  the  grandfather  of  Alonzo  Lewis,  the 
historian  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts. 

(I\')  Abijah,  the  fourth  son  of  Isaac  (2) 
and  Hannah  (Hallett)  Lewis,  was  born  prob- 
ably at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  about  1725,  and 
died  at  seventy-two  years  of  age  in  the  town 
of  Buxton,  Maine.  Early  during  his  married 
life  he  moved  from  Lynn  to  the  Saco  valley 
township  called  Narragansett  Number  i,  and 
settled  near  the  Gorham  line.  His  wife's  name 
was  Rebecca ;  she  died  at  seventy-four  years 
of  age:  children,  the  first  three  of  whom  were 
probably  born  before  they  moved  to  Maine : 
I.  Abijah.  born  in  1756,  married  Betsey  El- 
dridge,  of  Buxton.  2.  Thomas,  married  Sally 
Boston,  of  York.  3.  Elizabeth,  married,  No- 
vember  30,    1780,    Henry   Flood,   of   Buxton. 

4.  Ebenezer,  baptized  in  Buxton,  April  10, 
1777.  married  Lydia  Thompson,  of  that  town. 

5.  Samuel,  whose  sketch  follows.  6.  Sarah, 
1776,  married  Benjamin  Newcomb,  of  Buxton. 
7.  Rebecca,  August  29,  1779,  married  Elisha 
Newcomb,  of  Buxton.  8.  Miriam,  married 
Adam  Cochran,  of  Newcastle,  ?\Iaine,  April 
9,  1781.  9.  Ann,  married  Winthrop  Eldridge, 
May  7,  1789.  10.  Jane,  married  Aaron  El- 
drids'e,  May  6,  1794.  Of  the  four  sons  of 
this  family,  Abijah,  the  eldest,  served  in  the 
revolution  in  the  company  of  Captain  Hart 
Lewis,  of  Gorham,  who  was  probably  a  rela- 
tive. The  other  three  sons,  Thomas,  Ebenezer 
and  Samuel,  all  became  preachers  of  the  Free 
Will  Baptist  denomination.  Thomas  Lewis 
lived  at  Bonny  Eagle  village  in  Hollis,  and 
later  moved  to  Clinton,  Maine.  Ridlon,  in  his 
"Saco  Valley  Settlements  and  Families,"  thus 
speaks  of  Ebenezer  Lewis :  "He  was  a  primi- 
tive preacher  who  rode  horseback  to  many  of 
the  early  plantations  in  York  county  to  sow 
gospel  seed.  He  possessed  a  charming  voice, 
and  could  sing  the  old  'pennyroyal'  hvmns 
with  great  j^owcr.  His  advantages  for  educa- 
tion were  limited,  but  his  natural  ability  as 
a  public  speaker  was  good  and  his  memory 
something  phenomenal.  He  lived  to  the  great 
age  of  ninety-eight.  During  his  last  days  his 
mind  became  weak.  He  never  forgot  to  pray, 
but  sometimes  prayed  in  his  family  a  second 
time  in  consequence  of  having  forgotten  that 
he  had  prayed.  His  failings  certainly  'leaned 
to  virtue's  side.'  " 

(V)  Samuel,  fourth  son  of  Abijah  and  Re- 
becca Lewis,  was  baptized  at  Buxton,  Maine, 


April  10,  1777,  and  probably  died  at  Spring- 
field, that  state,  September  4,  1850.  He  moved 
from  his  native  town  to  Harrison,  and  settled 
in  the  south  part  of  that  town  on  the  Pond 
road,  where  six  children  were  born.  He  be- 
came a  Free  Will  Baptist  preacher,  and  after- 
wards moved  to  Springfield,  Maine.  On  De- 
cember 4,  1800,  Samuel  Lewis  married  Phebe, 
daughter  of  General  Irish,  of  Gorham,  Maine. 
She  (lied  March  23,  1865,  at  eighty-one  years 
of  age.  Children:  i.  William,  born  July  7, 
1801,  married  Abigail  Newcomb.  2.  Almon, 
June  6,  1803,  married  Lucy  Harmon.  3. 
Hannah  P.,  October  30,  1804,  married  Levi 
Watson.  4.  IMary,  October  11,  1806,  married 
Abial  Scribner.  5.  Ebenezer.  May  7,  1808. 
6.  Melchcr,  November  26,  1810.  7.  Susan 
N.,  born  1812.  8.  Samuel,  born  1815.  9. 
Francis  Dana,  whose  sketch  follows.  10.  Cle- 
ment P.,  born  1820.  II.  Sybil  A.,  born  1824. 
12.  Tohn  D..  born  1828.  All  deceased  except 
Sybi'l  A.. 

(VI)  Francis  Dana,  son  of  Rev.  Samuel 
and  Phebe  (Irish)  Lewis,  was  born  at  Harri- 
son, Alaine,  in  1818.  and  died  at  Springfield, 
that  state.  In  early  life  he  moved  with  his 
people  to  Springfield,  which  became  his  per- 
manent home.  He  was  a  farmer  and  lumber- 
man by  occupation.  About  1838  Francis  Dana 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Rebecca 
(Johnson)  Hanscom,  of  Springfield.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Andrew  Jackson,  born  March  12, 
1840,  now  living  at  Caribou,  IMaine.  2.  Henry 
B.,  August  13,  1843,  of  Springfield.  3.  Ada- 
line,  May  28,  1847,  married  Henry  Clark ;  she 
is  now  deceased.  4.  Nora,  November  29, 
1831.  married  James  P.  Coffin,  of  Springfield. 
5.  Nina,  born  1854,  died  in  childhood.  6.  C. 
L,  whose  sketch  follows.  7.  Susie,  born  1861, 
married  W.  S.  Pillsbury,  of  Waterville,  Maitie. 

(\TI)  C.  J.,  son  of  Francis  Dana  and  Mary 
(Hanscom)  Lewis,  was  born  at  Springfield, 
Maine,  April  16,  1858.  He  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  farmed 
there  till  iSSt,.  when  he  moved  to  Caribou,  and 
contimicd  in  farming  till  1905.  In  the  latter 
vear  he  helped  to  organize  the  corporation  of 
Hines  and  Smith,  dealers  in  farm  implements 
and  hardware,  of  which  firm  he  is  now  the  sec- 
retary. Mr.  Lewis  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 
and  has  served  as  selectman  on  several  oc- 
casions, and  once  as  chairman  =of  the  board. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  school  com- 
mittee, and  also  superintendent  of  schools. 
He  is  a  Mason,  belonging  to  Ciribou  Lodge, 
No.  170.  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons; 
and  he  is  also  a  member  of  Caribou  Lodge, 
No.    138,    Patrons   of   Husbandry.     On    Sep- 


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tember  4,  1880,  C.  J.  Lewis  married  Alice  M.. 
daughter  of  E.  M.  and  Martha  Flanders,  of 
Carroll,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Susie  E.,  born 
October  24,  1881,  married  D.  S.  Teague,  of 
Caribou.  2.  Lillian,  May  28,  1883,  married 
Charles  F.  Roberts,  of  Caribou.  3.  Silas  E.. 
October  19,  1884,  died  September  27,  1899. 
4.  Jennie  A.,  May  21.  1886,  married  Grover 
M.  Hardison,  of  Caribou.  5.  Nina  E.,  De- 
cember 10,  1894. 


The  surnames  Doggett  and 
DAGGETT  Daggett  are  apparently  inter- 
changeable, and  may  all  be 
traced  to  the  Doggett  family  of  England.  The 
patronymic  is  very  ancient,  and  as  no  de  has 
been  found  prefixed  to  it,  it  is  probably  not 
derived  from  the  name  of  a  place.  There  are 
many  theories  in  regard  to  its  origin,  however 
many  theories  in  regard  to  its  origin.  Lower, 
in  his  "Dictionarv  of  Names,''  London,  i860, 
says :  "Doggett  is  an  old  London  name  prob- 
ably corrupted  from  Dowgate,  one  of  the  Ro- 
man gateways  of  the  city."  Robert  Ferguson 
in  his  "Teutonic  Name  System,"  London,  1864, 
says:  "I  think  it  belongs  to  the  roots  of 
.^nglo-Saxon  diigan,  to  be  of  use  or  value." 
Various  other  origins  have  been  suggested. 
but  perhaps  none  is  more  credible  than  the  ob- 
vious one,  that  Doggett  is  derived  from  man's 
most  faithful  friend  in  the  brute  creation. 
This  supposition  is  strengthened  by  a  glance 
at  the  coats-of-arms.  Of  the  eleven  heraldic 
devices  borne  by  different  branches  of  the 
Doggett  and  Daggett  families,  all  but  three 
have  dogs  prominently  displayed.  Four  of 
these  emblems  have  two  greyhounds  combat- 
ant ;  another  has  two  greyhounds  in  full 
course.  Two  of  them  have  three  talbots'  heads 
on  a  bend  sable ;  and  another  has  for  a  crest 
a  demi-talbot,  sable-collared.  A  talbot  is  a 
large  hunting-dog,  a  kind  of  hound  with  thick, 
hanging  ears. 

( I )  John  Doggett,  also  spelled  Doget  and 
Doged,  was  born  in  England,  and  died  at  Ply- 
mouth, IMassachusetts,  between  May  17  and 
26,  1673.  Of  his  early  life  we  have  no  posi- 
tive knowledge,  though  it  is  possible  he  may 
have  been  John  Doggett,  of  Boxford,  baptized 
November  4,  1602,  of  whom  the  parish  records 
give  no  further  information.  The  first  we 
reallv  know  of  the  .American  pioneer  is  that  h? 
joined  the  "Great  Emigration,"  and  came  to 
New  England  with  Governor  Winthrop  in 
1630.  Seventeen  emigrant  ships  left  England 
in  that  year,  of  which  fourteen  sailed  before 
the  first  of  June.  Four  of  these  ships,  the 
"Arbella,"  the  "Jewell,"  the   "Ambrose"  and 


the  "Talbot,"  sailed  from  the  Isle  of  Wight  on 
April  8,  bringing  the  governor  and  others  who 
afterwards  held  prominent  places  in  the  early 
history  of  the  Colony.  .Antiquarians  agree 
that  John  Doggett  came  in  the  same  fleet  with 
Winthrop,  arriving  in  Salem  sometime  be- 
tween June  12  and  July  2,  1630,  according 
to  which  of  the  four  vessels  brought  him  to^ 
New  England.  Many  of  the  newcomers  were 
not  pleased  with  the  location  at  Salem  and 
removed  to  Cbarlestown.  .Soon  afterward,  a 
large  number  of  them  with  Sir  Richard  Sal- 
tonstall  as  their  leader,  moved  four  miles  up 
the  Charles  river  and  began  a  settlement  after- 
wards known  as  Watertown.  John  Doggett 
was  one  of  these,  and  he  had  a  lot  next  to  the 
"homestall"  of  Sir  Richard,  which  was  in  that 
strip  of  territory  annexed  to  Cambridge  in 
1754.  On  May  18,  1631,  John  Doggett  took 
the  freeman's  oath,  which  shows  that  he  must 
have  been  a  member  of  Rev.  George  Phillips'' 
church.  This,  tjie  first  church  of  Watertown, 
was  organized  July  28,  1630,  and  ranks  in  age 
next  to  that  of  .S'alem,  the  oldest  in  Massa- 
chusetts bay.  John  Doggett  gradually  in- 
creased his  landed  possessions  in  \^'at■:rto^\n, 
but  he  did  not  remain  a  resident  of  that  place 
more  than  thirteen  or  fourteen  years.  Soon 
after  1643  we  find  him  among'  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  which 
then  included  Seekonk,  Pawtucket  and  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  adjoining  country  in 
Rhode  Island.  It  is  possible  that  John  Dog- 
gett was  drawn  here  by  the  fishing,  but  he 
had  another  motive  for  seeking  the  neighbor- 
hood. On  Alarch  16,  1641,  John  Doggett  and 
several  others  received  from  "the  Thomas  Mav- 
hews,  father  and  son,  a  grant  of  land  on  Mar- 
tha's Vineyard,  which  afterwards  became  the 
site  of  Edgarton.  Doggett  moved  to  the  latter 
place  about  1650.  .Although  in  Rehoboth  but 
a  short  time  Doggett's  name  appears  frequent- 
ly upon  the  records.  He  was  made  a  fence 
viewer  in  1646,  and  with  several  others  was 
given  leave  to  set  up  a  "weier"  upon  the  cove 
before  William  Devill's  house  and  also  one 
upon  Pawtucket  river.  The  latter  agreement 
specified  that  the  men  should  sell  their  ale- 
wives  at  two  shillings  a  thousind,  and  their 
other  fish  at  reasonable  rates.  In  1648  John 
Doggett  was  chosen  one  of  the  two  deputies 
for  the  town  of  Rehoboth ;  and  that  same  year 
he  was  appointed  surveyor  of  the  highvvays. 
and  also  exciseman.  On  March  29,  165 1,  Tohn 
Doggett  was  chosen  corporal  at  Edgarton  on 
Martha's_  Vineyard,  which  indicates  that  he 
had  previously  moved  there.  In  1652,  in  com- 
pany with  the  elder  Mr.  Mayhew,  "he  was  di- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


reeled  to  lay  out  all  the  highways  belonging 
to  the  town.  After  John  Doggett's  second 
marriage  to  a  widow  in  Plymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, which  occurred  six  years  before  his 
death,  it  is  probable  that  he  spent  most  of  his 
time  there,  because  he  is  mentioned  on  the  list 
of  freemen,  and  his  will  is  dated  in  that  town. 
May  17,  1673. 

John  Doggett's  first  wife  lived  in  England, 
but  her  maiden  name  is  unknown.  It  is  prob- 
able that  she  and  their  eldest  child  came  with 
him  to  Kew  England.  The  children  of  whom 
we  have  record  are:  i.  John,  born  in  Eng- 
land, about  1626.  2.  Thomas,  whose  sketch 
follows.  3.  Joseph,  born  in  Watertown, 
Massachusetts,  about  1634.  4.  Elizabeth, 
Watertown,  about  1638,  married  Jeremiah 
Whitton.  5.  Hepzibah,  Watertown,  about 
1643.  John  Doggett's  second  wife  was  Mrs.. 
Bathsheba  Pratt,  of  Plymouth,  Massachusetts, 
to  whom  he  was  married  August  29,  1667. 
There  were  no  children  by.  this  marriage. 
John  Doggett's  will  disposes  of  considerable 
real  estate,  and  says  that  the  farm  has  already 
been  divided  betwixt  his  three  sons.  The 
first  paragraph  of  the  document  is  worth  quot- 
ing for  its  quaint  details :  "I,  John  Doggett, 
finding  the  symptoms  of  Death  upon  me  do 
make  this  my  last  will  and  testament  hereby 
Revoking  all  former  wills.  I  give  to  my  Be- 
loved wife  all  my  household  goods  and  all  my 
wearing  clothes  and  all  my  debts  in  any  part 
of  Plymouth  Colonies :  also  I  give  her  one  ox 
at  Sacconesit  in  the  hands  of  William  Week 
Jr :  also  I  give  my  said  wife  that  five  pounds 
in  goods  which  I  was  to  receive  of  John  Edv 
as  part  of  pay  for  the  two  oxen  of  mine  he 
sold  for  10  pounds :  also  I  give  her  the  hide 
and  Tallow  of  an  ox  that  is  at  the  Vineyard 
to  be  sent  to  Boston,  and  the  four  quarters  of 
the  ox  I  give  equally  to  my  sons  and  daugh- 
ters at  the  \'ineyard." 

(II)  Thomas,  second  son  of  John  Doggett. 
was  born  at  Watertown,  Alassachusetts,  about 
1630,  and  died,  probably  at  Edgarton,  Massa- 
chusetts, between  March  18  and  September  15, 
1691.  In  later  years  he  spelled  his  name  Dag- 
gett. Thomas  Doggett  probably  moved  to 
Edgartown  on  the  Island  of  Martha's  Vine- 
yard about  the  time  that  his  father  took  pos- 
session of  his  property  there,  which  was  in 
the  neighborhood  of  1650.  On  November  11, 
1652,  Thomas  Dogeett  and  William  \\^eeks 
are  voted  whale  cutters  for  the  year.  The 
Plymouth  Records,  under  dite  of  August  3, 
1670,  say :  "Thomas  Doged  was  clarke  to  the 
court  at  the  Vineyard."  At  one  time  he  is 
said   to   have   been   magistrate   of  the    island, 


which  is  quite  probable,  as  he  married  the 
eldest  daughter  of  Governor  Mayhew,  who 
was  the  most  influential  man  in  that  region. 
The  Mayhew  family  held  themselves  in  con- 
siderable estimation,  and  on  June  20,  1679, 
John  Daggett  promises  whatever  Thomas 
Mayhew  shall  give  to  his  daughter  Hannah 
(his  wife),  she  shall  be  at  liberty  to  dispose 
of  as  she  likes.  The  Dukes  and  Bristol  county 
deeds  contain  many  transfers  of  land  made 
both  by  Thomas  and  Hannah  Daggett.  There 
are  no  records  to  show  the  exact  date  of 
Thomas  Daggett's  death,  and  he  left  no  will. 
About  1657  Thomas  Doggett  or  Dag3;ett  mar- 
ried Hannah,  eldest  daughter  of  Governor 
Thomas  and  Jane  ]\Iayhew,  of  Edgar; own, 
Massachusetts.  She  was  born  at  Watertown, 
Massachusetts,  April  15,  1635,  and  died  at 
Edgartown,  Martha's  Vineyard,  in  1722.  Six 
children  are  recorded:  i.  Thomas  (2),  whose 
sketch  follows.  2.  Samuel,  born  about  1660. 
3.  John,  about  1662.  4.  Joshua,  about  1664. 
5.  Israel,  about  1672.  6.  Alercy.  All  of  these 
children  were  born  at  Edgartown,  Alassachu- 
setts. Between  September  12,  1695,  and  1705, 
Mrs.  Daggett  married  Captain  Samuel  Smith, 
of  Edgartown,  for  her  second  husband. 

(Ill)  Captain  Thomas  (2),  eldest  child  of 
Thomas  (i)  and  Hannah  (Mayhew)  Daggett, 
was  born  at  Edgartown,  Alassachusetts,  about 
1658,  and  died  there  August  23,  1726.  He 
moved  to  Bristol  about  1685,  and  among  the 
list  of  families  recorded  as  belonging  to  the 
"Church  of  Christ  in  Bristol,"  February  11, 
1688-89,  is  Thomas  Daggett,  his  wife,  two 
children  and  two  servants.  Among  the  many 
transfers  of  land  to  which  he  was  one  of  the 
parties,  he  is  mentioned  as  Lieutenant  Daggett 
until  1697,  and  then  as  Captain  Daggett,  be- 
ginning with  a  deed  in  1705.  The  following 
item  from  the  diary  of  Rev.  William  Homes, 
of  Chilmark,  is  of  interest:  "Aug  28,  1726, 
On  Thursday  night  last  Capt.  Thomas  Dag- 
gett of  oldtown  (Edgartown)  departed  this 
life.  He  has  been  ill  several  weeks.  He  was 
a  peaceable  man  and  well  inclined,  and  of  good 
understanding."  The  will  of  Captain  Dag- 
gett is  dated  July  8,  1726,  only  a  few  weeks 
before  his  death.  The  inventory  is  recorded 
May  12,  1727,  and  shows  real  estate  valued  at 
thirteen  hundred  and  ninetx-three  pounds,  a 
handsome  property  for  those  times.  About 
1685  Captain  Thomas  (2)  Daggett  married 
Elizabeth  Hawes,  who  died  at  Edgartown, 
Massachusetts,  between  December  25,  1735, 
and  February  15,  1733.  Children:  i.  Sam- 
uel, whose  sketch  follows.  2.  Hannah,  bap- 
tized Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  July  22,  1688.     3. 


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Timothy,  born  Edgartown,  jNIassachusetts, 
about  i6go.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  Edgartown, 
about  1690,  married  John  Butler  (2).  5. 
Benjamin,  about  1691.  6.  Thomas,  about 
1692.  7.  Thankful.  8.  Mary,  August  8, 
1698.    9.  Jemima.    10.  Desire. 

(IV)  Samuel,  eldest  child  of  Captain 
Thomas  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Hawes)  Daggett, 
was  baptized  at  Bristol,  now  in  Rhode  Island, 
July  22,  1688,  and  died  before  1726.  He  mar- 
ried when  scarcely  seventeen,  and  probably 
made  his  home  in  Tisbury.  His  wife  was 
Mary  (Pease)  Daggett,  daughter  of  Sergeant 
Thomas  and  Bathsheba  Pease,  of  Edgartown, 
and  the  marriage  took  place  July  11,  1705. 
Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  at  Edgartown' 
about  1706.  2.  Seth,  whose  sketch  follows. 
3.  Solomon.  4.  Sylvanus.  5.  Love,  married 
Rev.  John  Lischer.    6.  Elizabeth. 

(V)  Seth,  second  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Mary  (Pease)  Daggett,  was  born  February 
5,  1713,  and  died  at  Tisbury,  Massachusetts, 
April  14,  1779.  He  is  said  to  have  lived  at 
Tashmoo  Lake.  Ten  transfers  of  land  were 
made  in  his  name,  and  in  these  documents  he 
is  called  "carpenter"  and  "housewright"  of 
Tisbury.  On  December  23,  1734,  Seth  Dag- 
gett was  united  in  marriage  to  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Abner  and  Jean  (Cottle)  West, 
who  was  born  July  18,  1720,  and  died  on  her 
eighty-seventh  birthday.  Abner  West.  Mrs. 
Daggett's  father,  was  the  son  of  Thomas 
W'est,  and  grandson  of  Francis  West,  who 
settled  in  Mrginia  in  1607.  The  latter  was 
rear  admiral  in  the  British  navy  under  the 
title  of  Sir  Francis.  His  son  Thomas  came 
from  Plymouth  to  ^lartha's  \'ineyard  in  1675, 
and  settled  in  Chilmark.  To  Seth  and  Eliza- 
beth (West)  Daggett  were  born  ten  children: 
I.  William.  2  and  3.  Peter  and  Samuel  P. 
(twins),  }vlay  4,  1738.  4.  Samuel,  whose 
sketch  follows.  5.  Nathan.  6.  Seth,  born  in 
1755,  died  in  1761.  7.  Silas,  May  14,  1757. 
8.  Mary,  baptized  in  1760.  9.  West,  bap- 
tized in  1764,  died  "from  a  fall  at  sea,"  1779. 
10.  Jane,  baptized  in  1765. 

(VI)  Captain  Samuel  (2),  fourth  son  of 
Seth  and  Elizabeth  (West)  Daggett,  was  born 
at  Tisbury,  ^Massachusetts,  ]\Iay  9.  1745,  and 
died  at  New  Vineyard,  Maine,  May  30.  18^5. 
In  1794  Captain  Daggett,  accompanied  by  his 
only  child,  Samuel  (3),  move  I  from  Martha's 
Mneyard  to  the  district  of  ]\Iaine.  then  a  part 
of  Massachusetts,  and  settled  in  what  was  af- 
terwards New  \'ineyard.  now  a  part  of  Indus- 
trv.  He  is  spoken  of  as  a  man  of  some 
property,  careful  and  methodical  in  business 
transactions,  precise  in   his  use  of  lan;::;uage. 


and  a  moral,  upright  man.  In  1781  he  was  in 
command  of  the  ship  "Mars,"  six  guns,  twenty 
men.  About  1763  Captain  Samuel  (2)  Dag- 
gett married  at  Tisbury,  Massachusetts,  Sarah 
Butler,  born  August  23,  1744.  She  was  buried 
in  the  old  Granary  burying-ground  at  Boston, 
and  the  inscription  on  her  stone  reads :  "In 
memory  of  RIrs  Sarah  Daggett  the  amiable 
consort  of  Capt  Samuel  Daggett  died  March 
27,  1789  aged  44  years  7  mos  &  4  days.  A 
kind  companion  &  tender  parent. 

In    life   the   ways   of  truth   she    trod 
And  now  we  trust  she  lives  With  God." 

Captain  Samuel  (2)  and  Sarah  (Butler)  Dag- 
gett had  one  child,  Samuel  (3),  ment'oned  in 
the  next  paragraph.  Captain  Daggett  married 
for  his  second  wife,  at  Holmes  Hole,  Massa- 
chusetts, Abigail,  daughter  of  Elijah  and  Jedi- 
dah  (Chase)  Daggett,  who  was  born  in  1766, 
and  died  at  Farmington,  Maine,  September 
30,  1846. 

(^TI)  Captain  Samuel  (3),  only  child  of 
Captain  Samuel  (2)  and  Sarah  (Butler)  Dag- 
gett, was  born  at  Tisbury,  Massachusetts,  July 
II,  1764,  and  died  in  that  place,  September  23, 
i860.  At  the  age  of  thirty.  Captain  Samuel 
(3)  Daggett  went  to  New  Vineyard,  now  a 
part  of  Industry.  Maine,  and  settled  there  in 
company  with  his  father.  Fourteen  vears  af- 
terward he  returned  to  Martha's  Vineyard, 
and  resumed  his  former  occupation  of  pilot  at 
Holmes  Hole.  He  saw  some  revolutionary 
service,  and  was  chairman  of  the  board  of 
selectmen  in  New  \'ineyard  in  1803.  In  his 
ninety-sixth  year  Captain  Daggett  composed 
the  following : 

"Universalist    Creed. 
Upright    in   heart,    in    all   our   dealings   just. 
In   God's   free   grare   we   put    our  only   trust  : 
And    in    his    boundless,    universal    love. 
We    place    our    hope    of   Heaven    and    blijs    above ; 
And  when   life's  scene  is  drawing   to  a  close, 
Calmly    we    sink    into   our    lav  I    repose; 
/  nd  as   in   Adam  dapth  o'er   all    doth   reign 
Even    so    in    Christ   shall    all    Ire   raised    again." 

On  October  3,  1790,  Captain  Samuel  (3) 
Daggett  married  Rebecci,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Rebecca  (Tobey)  Dagrelt,  who  was  born 
at  Tisbury,  ^Massachusetts,  June  16,  1773,  and 
died  at  Holmes  Hole,  Massachusetts,  September 
23,  1832.  Nine  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage,  seven  of  them  at  New  Vineyard, 
Maine,  and  the  eldest  and  youngest  at  Vine- 
yard Haven,  ^Massachusetts.  Children :  i. 
Sarah,  December  29,  1791.  2.  Isaac,  August 
;,  179J.  3.  Rebecca,  November  25,  1796.  4. 
Samuel  (4).  whose  sketch  follows.  5.  Abi- 
gail. November  16,  1802,  died  October  27, 
1827.  6.  Mary  Merry,  May  7,  1805,  died 
January  28,  1821.    7.  John  Tobey,  September 


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29,  1807.  8.  IJradford  Brush,  April  15,  1812, 
lost  on  a  whaling  vessel.  9.  Amanda  Malvina, 
August  4,  181 5. 

(VIII)  Samuel  (4),  second  son  of  Captain 
Samuel  (3)  and  Rebecca  (Daggett)  Daggett, 
was  born  at  New  Vineyard,  Maine,  December 
24,  1798,  and  died  at  Farmington.  Maine. 
June  10,  1859.  He  carried  on  a  large  farm, 
was  high  sheriff  of  Franklin  county  from  1842 
to  1846,  and  was  also  a  colonel  in  the  militia. 
In  his  later  years  he  moved  to  Farmington 
Falls.  Colonel  Samuel  (4)  Daggett  married 
at  New  Vineyard,  Maine,  Julia,  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  and  Mary  (Le  Pallister)  Jones,  who 
was  born  at  Farmington,  Maine,  June  i,  1807, 
and  died  at  Evansville,  Illinois,  July  17,  1887. 
Children:  i.  Bradford,  born  August  9,  1825, 
died  July  15,  1841.  2.  John  Barnard,  May  17, 
1827.  3.  Mary  Jones,  December  26,  1830, 
died  February  9,  1841.  4.  Emily  Jones,  Janu- 
ary 10,  1837.  5.  Charles  Boardman,  August 
31,  1842,  served  in  the  civil  war,  and  was  first 
sergeant  of  Compau}-  L,  Second  Maine  Cav- 
alry; he  died  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  November 
6,  1875.  6.  (3rrin,  whose  sketch  follows. 
After  the  death  of  Colonel  Samuel  (4)  Dag- 
gett his  widow  subsequently  mirried  Rev. 
George  Webber. 

(IX)  Orrin,  son  of  Colonel  Samuel  (4)  and 
Julia  (Jones)  Daggett,  was  born  at  New  Vine- 
yard, Maine,  died  at  Presque  Isle,  jNlaine,  in 
1901.  In  early  life  he  was  a  farmer  at  New 
Vineyard  and  Industry ;  later  he  moved  to 
Farmington,  and  subsequently  to  New  Sharon. 
In  1864  he  went  to  Kent's  Hill,  where  he 
held  the  position  of  steward  in  the  Maine 
Wesleyan  Seminary  and  Female  College.  In 
1871  he  went  to  Wilbraham,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  steward  of  Wesleyan  Academy. 
In  1889  he  moved  to  Presque  Isle  where  he 
lived  till  his  death.  During  his  residence  in 
Maine  he  was  selectman  and  assessor,  sheriff 
of  the  county  for  four  years,  and  member  of 
the  state  legislature.  Mr.  Daggett  was  a  man 
of  upright  character,  and  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church.  On  February  23,  1839, 
Orrin  Daggett  was  united  in  marriage,  at 
New  Vineyard,  Maine,  to  Mary  Perkins, 
daughter  of  Levi  H.  and  Bethia  (Dunbar) 
Perkins,  who  was  born  at  North  Anson, 
Maine,  January  11,  1820.  Levi  Perkins  was  a 
prominent  attorney  of  New  Vineyard,  Maine. 
Children  :  i.  Levi  Hooper,  born  at  Industry, 
Maine,  February  21,  1840,  now  living  at  Som- 
erville,  Massachusetts.  2.  Fidelia  W.,  New 
Vineyard.  Maine,  September  8.  1843,  died  at 
East  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island,  October  18, 
1872.     3.  .Sanniel,  Industry,   Maine,  May  29, 


1846,  now  living  at  Oakland,  that  state.  4. 
Emma  A.,  New  Sharon,  Maine,  April  23, 
1854,  died  at  Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  May 
4,  1877.  5.  Charles  F.,  whose  sketch  follows. 
(X)  Charles  Fremont,  third  and  youngest 
son  of  Orrin  and  Mary  (Perkins)  Daggett, 
was  born  at  New  Sharon.  Maine,  September 
9,  1856.  He  was  educated  in  the  local  schools 
at  Kent's  Hill,  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary 
and  the  Wesleyan  Academy  at  Wilbraham, 
graduating  from  the  latter  institution  in  1878. 
He  then  went  to  New  York,  and  studied  law 
in  the  offices  of  Nelson  &  Nelson,  and  after- 
wards in  the  offices  of  Powers  &  Powers,  of 
Houlton,  Maine.  Mr.  Daggett  was  admitted 
"to  the  bar  in  1878,  and  for  two  years  practiced 
his  profession  at  Fort  Fairfield,  .Maine,  re- 
moving in  1880  to  Presque  Isle,  which  he  has 
made  his  permanent  home.  He  is  a  Republi- 
can in  politics,  and  held  the  position  of  county 
attorney  from  1890  to  1895.  Mr.  Daggett 
served  as  a  member  of  Governor  Henry  B. 
Cleave's  executive  council  for  one  term,  1895- 
96;  also  as  a  member  of  Governor  W.  T. 
Cobb's  council  for  one  term,  1907-08,  and  is  at 
present  ( 1909)  a  member  of  Governor  B.  M. 
Fernald's  executive  council.  For  the  la^t  fif- 
teen years  Mr.  Daggett  has  been  president  of 
the  Presque  Isle  National  Bank,  a  position  he 
still  holds :  and  he  is  trustee  and  treasurer  of 
the  Unitarian  church.  On  February  10,  1881, 
Charles  Fremont  Daggett  married  Alifair 
Dyer,  daughter  of  John  F.  and  Augusta 
(Stowers)  Dyer,  of  Presque  Isle,  Maine. 
They  have  one  child,  Helen  A.,  born  at 
Presque  Isle,  November  13,  1883. 


The  Hurds  of  New  England  are 

FIURD     quite    numerous,    and    trace    their 

lineage    in    America    to    an    early 

date   in  the  Colonial  period.     Bearers  of  the 

name  were  pioneer  settlers  in  Massachusetts, 

Connecticut.  New  Hampshire  and  Maine. 

(I)  John  Hurd,  immigrant  ancestor,  located 
at  what  is  now  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  in 
1636.  Four  years  later  the  people  of  Dover 
met  to  establish  a  formal  government,  and  the 
document  known  as  the  "Combination  for 
Government''  was  signed  b}'  forty-two  men, 
among  whom  was  John  Hurd.  In  the  same 
year  there  was  a  grant  of  six  acres  of  land  in 
Cocheco  to  John  Hurd;  February  26.  1656, 
there  was  a  grant  of  forty  acres  to  John  Hurd ; 
in  1661  he  with  two  others  was  chosen  sur- 
veyors at  a  town  meeting;  the  year  following 
he  was  chosen  constable  for  Cocheco,  and  in 
1665  he  was  chosen  as  a  grand  juror.  He 
was  evidently  a  man  of  nnich  importance  and 


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1547 


possessed  of  soiind  judgment,  as  he  was  fre- 
quently chosen  to  settle  disputes,  his  counsel 
being  ahvavs  relied  upon.  Traditional  his- 
tory says  that  he  built  a  block  house  at  Dover 
as  a  matter  of  protection  against  the  hostile 
Indians.  He  married,  about  1642,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hull,  of  York, 
Maine,  and  among-  their  children  was  a  son 
Benjamin,  see  forward,  and  possibly  a  son 
John,  as  the  father  was  often  mentioned  as 
John  Hurd,  .'^r.,  indicating  that  he  had  a  son 
by  that  name. 

(II)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Hull)  Hurd,  was  a  native  of  Dover,  New 
Hampshire.  He  was  an  early  settler  in  North 
Berwick,  York  county,  Maine.  He  married  a 
Miss  Andrews,  and  among  their  children  was 
a  son  Benjamin. 

(III)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
Hurd,  born  in  North  Berwick.  Maine,  No- 
vember 4.  1777,  died  there  June  8,  1858.  He 
married  Joanna  Chadbourne,  a  native  of 
North  Berwick,  born  August  15,  1782,  died 
October  15,  1842.  They  were  the  parents  of 
eight  children :  Rufus,  Alary.  Olive,  Sarah, 
Isaiah,  see  forward;  Frances,  Phebe,  Fienja- 
min. 

(IV)  Isaiah,  fifth  child  of  Benjamin  (2) 
and  Joanna  (Chadbourne)  Hurd,  was  born  in 
North  Berwick,  Maine,  in  1810.  Adopting 
agriculture  as  a  means  of  livelihood,  he  con- 
ducted general  farming  upon  practical  lines, 
thus  reilizing  prosperous  results,  and  he  also 
dealt  in  livestock.  In  his  earlier  years  he  was 
a  Whig,  and  later  acted  with  the  Free  Soil 
party.  He  married  Mary  Smith,  born  in 
North  Berwick,  181 1.  daughter  of  Moses  and 
Susanna  (Brackett)  Smith.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  three  of  whom,  Mir- 
anda E.,  Mrs.  Olivia  S.  Abbott  and  Belle  M., 
are  no  longer  living.  The  survivors  are : 
Moses  S..  Mrs.  Olive  M.  Hutchings.  Daniel 
A.,  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Johnson  and  Mrs.  Rowena 
F.  Wentworth.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurd  were 
members  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 
j\Ir.  Hurd  was  accidentally  drowned  Decem- 
ber 13,  1849,  while  still  young  and  vigorous, 
being  but  thirty-nine  years  old.  thus  depriving 
his  family  of  a  loving  husband  and  father, 
and  the  comnmnity  of  one  of  its  most  useful 
and  progressive  members.  !Mrs.  Hurd  sur- 
vived her  husband  many  years,  passing  away 
September  11,  1888. 

(V)  Hon.  Daniel  Almon.  second  son  and 
fifth  child  of  Isaiah  and  ]\Iary  (Smith)  Hurd, 
was  born  in  North  Berwick,  Maine.  November 
4,  1840.  Having  pursued  the  primarv 
branches  of  study  in  the  district  schools,  he 


advanced  his  education  at  the  academy  of 
Lebanon,  Maine.  Since  early  manhood  Mr. 
Hurd  has  given  his  attention  to  farming, 
which  line  of  work  he  has  continued  in  con- 
nection with  his  other  business  pursuits,  and 
for  several  years  has  taken  a  special  interest  in 
raising  fine  stock,  at  the  present  time  (1908) 
having  on  his  farm  about  forty  head  of  fine 
bred  cattle.  By  adopting  scientific  methods, 
and  living  his  personal  supervision  to  the  de- 
tails, he  has  made  farming  a  most  pronounced 
success.  In  1894  he  became  interested  in  the 
North  Berwick  Bank  as  stockholder  and  di- 
rector ;  the  following  year  he  was  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  bank  and  served  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  January  i,  1908.  when  he  was 
elected  president  to  succeed  ]\Ir.  F.  O.  Snow, 
and  the  duties  of  these  varied  positions  has 
been  performed  by  him  in  a  highly  creditable 
manner.  He  hns  also  been  a  stockholder  and 
director  of  the  North  Berwick  Building  As- 
sociation since  its  organization,  has  served 
as  director,  vice-president  and  president  of 
the  North  Berwick  Agricultural  Societv,  and 
is  now  servintr  the  second  term  as  president 
of  the  John  Hurd  Association.  His  brother, 
Moses  S.  Hurd,  was  the  first  president  of  the 
association. 

Mr.  Hurd  has  always  taken  ^n  active  inter- 
est in  politics.  Becoming  a  Republican  in 
early  life,  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  Abraham 
Lincoln,  and  has  voted  for  every  Republican 
president  and  every  Republican  governor  .of 
the  state  of  ]\Iaine  since,  never  missing  a  Na- 
tional or  State  election.  He  has  served  as 
member  of  the  Republican  town  committee  for 
more  than  twenty-five  years,  and  as  chairman 
of  the  committee  for  a  number  of  vears.  He 
has  served  on  the  board  of  selectmen ;  as  town 
treasurer  and  collector ;  as  deputv-sherifif  for 
fifteen  years :  as  postmaster,  having  been  ap- 
pointed by  President  Harrison,  holding  office 
from  1890  to  1894:  represented  his  district  in 
the  lower  branch  of  the  state  legislature  from 
1890  to  189:1,  during  which  time  he  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  on  banks  and  bank- 
ing, also  member  of  the  committee  on  manu- 
factures :  a  member  of  the  state  senate  for  the 
years  1897-98-90-7900,  serving  as  chairman 
of  committee  on  banks  and  banking,  also  com- 
inittee  on  reformed  schools  and  federal  rela- 
tions. He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican 
National  convention  at  Philadelphia.  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1900,  that  nominated  ^^^illiam  Mc- 
Kinley  and  Theodore  Roosevelt.  He  attends 
the  Free  Will  Baptist  church,  contributing  of 
his  substance  to  the  support  of  the  same.  He 
afiiliates  with  Yorkshire  Lodge,  Ancient  Free 


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and  Accepted  Masons,  of  North  Berwick; 
Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  I\Iasons,  of  South 
Berwick ;  Bradford  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  of  Saco ;  also  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  (lodge  and  encampment  at 
North  Berwick). 

Mr.  Hurd  married,  September  13,  1893, 
Mrs.  Mary  Rogers  Hobbs,  nee  Hill,  born  in 
North  Berwick,  March  27,  icS^Q,  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  (Buffum)  Hill  (a 
sketch  of  whom  follows  this  in  the  work). 
She  was  the  widow  of  William  Hobbs,  for- 
merly agent  and  treasurer  of  the  North  Ber- 
wick Company. 


There  are  several  distinct   families 

HILL     of  this  name  in  New  England,  the 

progeny    of    different    immigrants, 

and  the  American  progenitor  of  the  Hills  of 

York  county  was  one  of  the  latest  of  the  name 

to  arrive  from  the  mother  country. 

(I)  John  Hill,  one  of  the  early  settlers  in 
Eliot,  was  a  native  of  England  and  a  man  of 
unusual  energy  and  perseverance.  He  was 
accompanied  to  New  England  by  a  brother, 
and  while  the  latter  located  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, John  cast  his  lot  with  the  sturdy  pio- 
neers of  York  county,  Maine,  acquiring  pos- 
session of  a  tract  of  wild  land  in  Eliot,  which 
he  cleared  and  improved  into  a  good  farm. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was.  in  common 
with  his  neio-hbors,  obliged  to  keep  a  constant 
vigil  against  a  sudden  attack  by  the  hostile 
savages,  but  in  spite  of  the  dangers  and  hard- 
ships which  beset -our  forefathers  in  their  ef- 
forts in  behalf  of  civilization,  he  succeeded  in 
establishing  a  comfortable  home. 

fll)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Hill,  the 
immia:rant.  was  a  lifelong  resident  of  Eliot, 
and  having  learned  the  tanner's  trade  he  fol- 
lowed it  in  connection  with  farming.  He  mar- 
ried Eunice  Libby  and  had  a  family  of  seven 
children  :  Daniel,  Oliver,  Alvin,  John,  William, 
Eliza  and  Martha. 

(Ill)  William,  fourth  child  of  lohn  (  2)  ^nl 
Eunice  (Libby)  Hill,  was  born  in  Eliot.  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1799.  Having  pursued  the  regular 
course  of  instruction  afforded  by  the  public 
school  system  of  his  day.  he  proceeded  to  de- 
velop a  capacity  for  mechanics,  acquiring  a 
good  knowledge  of  wood-workina;  at  North 
Berwick,  and  going  to  Great  Falls,  New 
Hampshire,  he  constructed  the  first  power- 
looms  to  be  operated  in  that  locality.  Return- 
ing to  North  Berwick  in  18^2.  he  turned  his 
attention  to  the  woolen  manufacturing  indus- 
try of  that  town,  which  he  proceeded  to  de- 
velop, taking  the  initial  step  in  that  direction 


by  purchasing  an  interest  in  the  old  Lang  fac- 
tory, which  up  to  that  time  had  been  devoted 
principally  to  custom  carding.  Lender  the 
firm  name  of  Lang  &  Hill  the  business  was 
continued  until  1837  or  1838,  when  a  stock 
company  was  organized  and  incorporated  as 
the  North  Berwick  Company  with  Mr.  Hill  as 
its  president.  For  over  forty  years  he  man- 
aged the  affairs  of  this  concern,  enlarging  its 
facilities,  thereby  supplying  the  means  for  a 
substantial  increase  in  its  output,  and  the  en- 
terprise became  useful  as  well  as  profitable, 
furnishing  employment  to  a  large  number  of 
operatives.  The  present  commodious  four-story 
structure  was  erected  in  1866,  and  its  ma- 
chinery and  other  equipments  have  been 
changed  at  different  times  in  order  to  keep 
pace  with  the  march  of  modern  improvements. 
In  i860  J\lr.  Hill  obtained  the  charter  for  the 
North  Berwick  Bank,  which  shortly  after- 
ward became  the  North  Berwick  National 
Bank,  and  being  chosen  as  its  first  president 
he  retained  that  position  for  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  ^  In  politics  Mr.  Hill  was  originally 
a  Whig,  but  joined  the  present  Republican 
party  at  its  formation  and  from  that  time  for- 
ward was  a  staunch  supporter  of  its  principles. 
His  death  occurred  at  his  home  in  North  Ber- 
wick, May  12,  1881,  and  that  sad  event  was 
regarded  by  the  entire  community  as  an  irre- 
trievable loss.  He  was  a  member  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends,  and  was  married  at  the 
Friends'  Meeting-house  in  North  Berwick, 
January  25,  1823,  to  Elizabeth  Buffum,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Buffum,  and  she  died  Sep- 
tember 26,  1859.  He  was  again  married. 
May  2.  1 86 1,  to  Sarah  M.  Wilbur,  of  North 
Dartmouth,  IMassachusetts,  and  her  death  oc- 
curred November  27,  1872.  He  was  the  father 
of  thirteen  children,  all  of  whom  were  of  his 
first  union,  and  eight  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy. Those  who  lived  to  maturitv  are : 
Charles  E.,  born  February  27.  1827,  died  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1894.  William  H.,  born  June  6,  1832, 
died  February  5.  1848.  Elizabeth  A.,  born 
April  21,  1838,  died  April  13.  1887.  Mary 
Rogers,  who  will  be  again  referred  to.  Ed- 
ward, born  Mav  13,  1840  (see  separate  ar- 
ticle). 

( IV)  Mary  Rogers,  fourth  child  and 
youngest  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Buft'um)  Hill,  was  bom  in  North  Berwick, 
Maine,  INIarch  2y,  1839.  She  was  educated  in 
her  native  town,  and  has  always  resided  there. 
Early  in  life  she  displayed  a  capacity  for  self- 
reliance  and  progressive  ideas.  Her  strongly 
defined  character,  however,  was  not  fully  man- 
ifested until  later  in  life,  when  she  was  chosen 


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to  fill  a  position  of  responsibility  and  trust. 
In  1 88 1,  on  the  death  of  her  father,  she  was 
elected  president  of  the  North  Berwick  Com- 
pany as  his  successor,  he  having  served  in  that 
capacity  over  forty  years.  At  the  present 
time  (1908)  Mrs.  Hurd  has  been  president  of 
the  company  for  twenty-seven  years,  and  dur- 
ing this  long  period  of  time  she  has  proven  the 
wisdom  of  the  board  of  directors  in  their  se- 
lection of  president,  and  has  conducted  the  af- 
fairs of  the  company  with  a  sagacity  which 
rivals  her  contemporaries.  ]\Iary  Rogers  Hill 
married,  January  12,  -1870,  William  Hobbs,  of 
North  Berwick,  son  of  Isaac  M.  Hobbs,  and 
a  descendant  of  Henry  Hobbs,  an  immigrant 
from  England,  who  settled  in  Dover,  New 
Hampshire  (see  Hobbs,  I).  William  Hobbs 
was  for  many  years  agent  and  treasurer  of 
the  North  Berwick  Company ;  he  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  residents  of  that  town  in 
his  day,  and  represented  his  district  in  the 
state  legislature.  He  had  two  daughters  by  a 
former  marriage :  Ellen  H..  wife  of  Charles 
H.  Prescott.  publisher  of  the  Bridgeport  Jour- 
nal, and  Margaret  Hobbs.  \\'illiam  Hobbs 
died  September  5,  1884.  Mrs.  Hobbs  mar- 
ried for  her  second  husband,  September  13, 
1893,  Hon.  Daniel  .\.  Hurd,  of  Norlh  Ber- 
wick (see  Hurd  sketch). 


This      old     Colonial      family, 

CRESSEY     though   not    a   large    one,     is 

scattered  over  the  most  of  the 

states  of  the  Union,  and  has  furnished  manv 

men  of  energy,  activity  and  courage. 

(I)  Mighill  Cressey  landed  in  Salem  with 
his  brother  \\'illiam,  probably  in  the  year  1649. 
He  was  thirty  years  old  in  1658.  He  lived  for 
a  time  in  the  family  of  Lieutenant  Thomas 
Lathrop,  afterwards  Captain  Lathrop,  who 
with  sixty  of  his  soldiers  fell  in  the  battle  of 
Bloody  Brook,  in  Deerfield,  September  18, 
1675.  From  June,  1652,  to  May,  1663,  he 
lived  in  the  family  of  Joshua  Ray  at  "Royal 
Side,"    Salem,    now    Beverly.       He    married, 

1658,  Mary  Bachelder,  born  in  Salem  in  1640. 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Rachel  ler,  of 
"Royal  Side."  She  was  baptized  at  Salem, 
April  19,  1640.  and  died  in  childbed,  August, 

1659.  He  then  moved  to  Ipswich  and  mar- 
ried, April  6,  1660.  ]\Iary  Quiller,  born  in  Ips- 
wich, May  2.  1641,  daughter  of  Mark  Quilter. 
He  had  by  his  first  wife  one  child,  John ;  and 
by  the  second  three  children :  Mighill,  Will- 
iam and  Mary.  Mary,  his  widow,  with  her 
three  children,  moved  to  Rowley,  Massachu- 
setts, .^pril.  1671.  and  died  in  that  town.  May 
7,    1707.      This   christian   name   is   sometimes 


spelled  "Michael"  on  old  records,  but  Mighill 
Cressey,  the  immigrant,  spelled  his  own  name 
"Mighel  Cresse."  On  various  records  the 
surname  (Cressey)  is  spelled  twenty-three 
dififerent  ways. 

(II)  John,  only  child  of  Mighill  and  Mary 
(Bachelder)  Cressey,  was  born  at  "Royal 
Side,"  in  Salem,  August,  1659,  and  after  the 
death  of  his  father  lived  with  his  grandfather 
Bachelder.  In  1675  he  chose  in  court  his 
uncle,  Joseph  Bachelder,  to  be  his  guardian. 
He  was  a  tailor  and  resided  in  Salem  on  land 
at  "Royal  Side"  formerly  belonging  to  his 
grandfather  Bachelder.  He  was  a  deacon  of 
the  Second  Church  of  Beverly.  His  grave  is 
marked  by  a  slatestone,  inscribed  as  follows : 
"Here  lyeth  the  Body  of  Deacon  John  Cresy 
who  died  July  ye  22d  1735  in  ye  76th  year  of 
his  age."  His  will  was  dated  June  12,  1734, 
and  proved  August  18,  1735.  He  married 
Sarah  Gaines,  born  in  Ipswich,  November  23, 
1665,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Tredwell) 
Gaines,  of  Ipswich.  She  died  at  "Royal  Side," 
April  4,  1 75 1.  They  had  eleven  children: 
Mary,  John,  died  young:  Sarah,  John,  Joseph, 
Daniel,  Job,  Benjamin,  Hannah,  Abigail, 
Noah. 

(Ill)  Daniel,  sixth  child  and  third  son  of 
John  and  Sarah  (Gaines)  Cressey,  was  born 
in  Salem,  July  11,  1698,  and  was  a  yeoman. 
He  married,  October  20,  1720,  Sarah  Ingle- 
son  (probably  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  In- 
gleson),  of  Salem.  About  1740  he  moved  to 
Connecticut,  and  nothing  further  is  as  vet 
known  of  him.  Their  eleven  children  were: 
John,  Ruth,  died  young;  Mary,  Ruth,  Sarah, 
Daniel,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Richard,  Ebenezer 
and  Anna. 

(I\^)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  Daniel  and 
Sarah  (Ingleson)  Cressey,  was  born  July  31, 
1721,  and  settled  in  Gorham,  then  Narragan- 
sett.  No.  7,  in  the  Province  of  ]\Iaine,  when 
his  son  John  was  an  infant.  He  married,  about 
1747,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Captain  Amos 
Wadley,  of  Boston.  His  first  location  was  on 
the  one  hundred  acre  lot,  69  or  70,  west  of 
Little  river,  which  he  afterward  exchanged 
with  Charles  McDonald  for  the  thirty-acre  lot, 
53,  upon  which  he  moved  and  lived  a  part  of 
the  time  during  the  Indian  war.  This  thirty- 
acre  lot  is  still  occupied  by  his  descendants. 
.'\t  the  time  John  Cressey  went  to  Gorham, 
1749  or  1750,  the  Indians,  in  consequence  of 
their  many  defeats,  had  become  less  trouble- 
some, though  they  were  often  seen,  singly  or 
in  small  parties,  but  cominitted  but  few  dep- 
redations, as  the  settlers  were  by  that  time 
better   armed   and   better   able   to   avenge   in- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


juries.  Nevcrtlielcss.  many  of  the  settlers  who 
were  near  enough  made  the  fort  their  house 
during  the  night.  This  was  the  case  with  Mr. 
Cressey.  Although  his  name  does  not  appear 
with  those  who  made  their  residence  within 
the  fort  during  the  Indian  war,  the  fact  is 
that  he  did  so  most  of  the  time,  working  on 
his  farm  during  the  day  and  taking  his  fam- 
ily to  the  fort  for  protection  each  night.  He 
had  a  road  across  lots  direct  to  the  fort,  which 
was  a  short  half-mile  from  his  clearing.  The 
first  land  he  cleared  was  in  front  of  his  log 
house,  on  the  thirty-acre  lot,  53.  There  he 
worked,  while  his  wife  and  son  John  sat  on  a 
stump  or  fallen  tree  with  a  loaded  gun  by  her 
side  to  watch  and  give  the  alarm,  should  the 
Indians  appear.  At  one  time,  while  the  hus- 
band and  wife  were  thus  situated,  an  Indian 
came  upon  them.  Discovering  Mr.  Cressey 
at  work,  and  not  seeing  his  wife,  he  crept 
stealthily  toward  Mr.  Cressey,  with  his  toma- 
hawk raised  and  knife  ready,  not  being  armed 
with  a  gun.  Mrs.  Cressey  sat  with  her  gun 
in  her  hand,  fearing  and  trembling.  When  the 
enemy  got  quite  near  her  husband  she  could 
bear  the  suspense  no  longer,  his  danger  over- 
came her  fear.  She  arose  and  called  to  him, 
at  the  same  time  pointing  her  gun  toward  the 
Indian,  who  thought  it  prudent  to  beat  a 
hasty  retreat,  for  the  savages  had  had  sev- 
eral lessons  which  had  taught  them  that  the 
"white  squaws"  were  not  bad  shots.  Here 
the  couple  lived  and  toiled.  Mrs.  Cressey.  al- 
though reared  in  the  city  of  Boston,  and 
never  having  known  what  hard  work  was. 
took  hold  resolutely  with  her  husband,  taking 
care  of  the  house  and  aiding  in  the  field,  help- 
ing her  husband  in  the  toilsome  work  of  cut- 
ting and  piling  up  the  partially  burned  logs  in 
order  to  clear  the  land  for  crops,  often  not 
knowing  whence  victuals  for  the  next  meal 
would  come.  Sometimes  there  was  no  food  in 
the  house,  nor  did  they  know  where  they  could 
obtain  any.  This  was  the  case  one  day  when 
they  were  at  work  on  their  land.  The  season 
was  advancing;  their  crops  must  be  planted,  if 
they  were  to  raise  anything:  they  had  no  time 
to  spare:  they  must  work,  and  then  hunt  for 
food.  While  at  their  labor,  nearly  exhausted 
for  want  of  food.  Mrs.  Cressey  found  a  par- 
tridge's ne.st  with  thirteen  eggs  in  it.  This 
was  good  fortune,  and  when  their  day's  work 
was  done  they  had  a  good  supper  of  partridge 
eggs  to  appease  the  cravings  of  hunger.  Bread 
was  hard  to  get.  When  they  first  settled  in 
Gorham  they  occasionally  took  game  when 
their  work  would  allow  them  time  for  hunting, 
and  when  there  was  little  or  no  fear  of  prowl- 


ing- Indians.  ^Ir.  Cressey  died  in  1785,  and 
his  wife  in  ijqb.  Their  children  were:  John, 
Joseph,  lietsey,  Mary,  and  Noah  and  Job 
( twins ). 

(  \' )  James,  a  descendant  of  John  and  De- 
borah (\\'adley)  Cressey,  was  born  in  Bux- 
ton, November  27,  1790,  and  died  in  Port- 
land. June  18,  1877.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
lived  on  his  own  farm  in  Gorham,  Maine.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  religious 
affiliations  an  Adventist.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 27,.  1820,  Hannah  Hasty,  who  was  born  in 
Scarboro,  August  11.  1796.  and  died  in  Port- 
land, December  iq,  1870.  Their  children 
were:  I.  Susan  N.,  born  November  29,  1820, 
died  November  24,  1902;  she  married  William 
P.  Sturgis,  January  17,  1843,  and  had  two 
children :  Helen,  who  married  Asa  Legrow ; 
and  Samuel.  2.  Harriet,  died  young.  3.  Har- 
riet L.,  May  16,  1825,  died  September  30, 
1895:  she  married  Mark  R.  Came.  4.  Cyrus, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Eliza  A.,  May  21,  1831, 
married  Leonard  W.  Twombley,  of  Portland 
(see  Twombley,  II). 

(VI)  Cyrus,  only  son  of  James  and  Hannah 
(Hasty)  Cressey,  was  born  in  Gorham,  May 
29,  1827,  and  died  in  Portland,  August  22, 
1897.  He  was  born  on  a  farm  and  educated 
in  the  district  schools.  After  his  marriage  he 
was  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  Bonny 
Eagle  three  years,  and  then  in  Gorham  until 
1863,  when  he  removed  to  Portland  and  en- 
gaged in  erecting  residences  which  he  rented. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  He  married, 
in  Biddeford,  February  27,  1855.  Olive  Fran- 
ces Gove,  of  Saco,  then  a  resident  of  Bidde- 
ford. She  was  born  December  25,  1837, 
daughter  of  Chesley  D.  and  Tryphena  S. 
(Jackson)  Gove,  the  latter  the  daughter  of 
Zebediah  Farnum  and  JMargaret  (Clark)  Jack- 
son:  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gove:  Albert 
Franklin,  died  at  seventeen  years,  Olive  F.  and 
Ellen  yi.  Chesley  D.  Gove  died  in  California 
in  the  sixties :  he  went  there  with  his  brother 
.^Ivin  C.  in  18=; I,  crossing  the  Isthmus.  His 
wife  was  born  in  1813.  died  in  Portland,  Sep- 
tember 30.  1899.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cressey  had 
no  children. 

Olive  Frances  (Gove)  Cressey  traces  her 
ancestry  to  John  Gove,  who  came  from  Lon- 
don, England,  to  America  about  1647,  accom- 
panied by  his  wife  Sarah,  daughter  Mary  and 
sons  John  and  Edward.  It  is  claimed  that  he 
was  a  brass  founder.  The  family  settled  in 
Charlestown.  IMassachusetts,  and  one  history 
savs  the  father  died  the  following  year,  an- 
other that  he  lived  several  years.  However 
that  mav  be,  his  home  and  lots  mentioned  in 


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1551 


the  "Genealogy  of  Estates  of  Charlestown" 
would  indicate  that  he  survived  long  enough 
to  become  a  citizen  of  that  early  town. 

John,  the  eldest  son,  settled  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  married  into  the  As- 
pinwall  family,  which  has  since  become  some- 
what famous  from  its  wealth  and  success. 
John  is  spoken  of  in  the  histories  of  Cam- 
bridge as  holding  some  of  the  town  offices,  and 
he  was  undoubtedly  a  citizen  of  some  impor- 
tance. Many  of  his  descendants  resided  in 
Massachusetts,  and  the  streets  in  Melrose  and 
East  Boston  bearing  the  name  of  Gove  un- 
doubtedly inherited  the  name  from  this  early 
settler  and  his  descendants. 

Edward,  the  younger  son.  from  whom  the 
New  Hampshire  and  JXIaine  families  take  their 
descent,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  William 
Titcomb,  who  came  from  Newbury,  England, 
to  Boston  in  the  ship  "Hercules"  in  1634  and 
settled  in  what  is  now  Newbury  and  Newbury- 
port,  ]\lassachusetts,  and  probably  founded 
and  gave  the  name  to  that  old  town.  Edward 
Gove  and  wife  first  settled  in  Salisbury,  where 
the  births  of  their  three  elder  children  are 
recorded  upon  the  old  records.  They  removed 
to  Hampton.  Their  daughters  married  into 
prominent  families  and  became  the  mothers  of 
many  whose  names  are  still  familiar  in  New 
England,  individual  descendants  having  be- 
come distinguished  in  many  departments  and 
vocations  of  life,  among  whom  may  be  men- 
tioned the  Prescotts,  Sanborns,  Daltons,  Cof- 
fins and  Conners. 

This  Edward  Gove,  Dow's  History  says, 
was  a  man  of  means,  somewhat  popular  and 
represented  his  town  in  the  assembly  when 
Governor  Cranfield's  tyranny  was  such  a  har- 
assment to  the  settlers.  Cranfield  was  sent 
over  to  establish  the  Mason  claims,  and  boasted 
that  he  would  make  money  out  of  the  colonists 
even  if  he  could  not  force  them  to  recognize 
IMason's  proprietorship.  Mason,  a  London 
merchant,  and  Gorges,  the  military  man,  had 
spent  much  of  their  substance  and  used  what 
influence  they  could  command  in  colonizing 
Maine  and  New  Hampshire,  and  as  a  reward 
had  been  granted  large  tracts  of  land  from  the 
council  established  for  that  purpose.  Gorges, 
seeming  satisfied,  gave  no  particular  trouble, 
but  some  of  the  Mason  claims,  being  for  lands 
already  settled  upon,  and  those  lands  having 
teen  in  most  cases  purchased  directly  from 
the  original  Indian  proprietors,  were  a  con- 
tinual source  -of  trouble,  the  culmination  of 
which  came  during  Cranfield's  administration. 
Being  unsuccessful  in  collecting  rents,  hoping 
thereby   to    establish    Mason's   proprietorship. 


the  governor  inaugurated  a  course  of  abuse 
which  threw  several  of  the  most  influential 
citizens  into  prison.  It  was  then  that  Edward 
Gove,  with  perhaps  more  courage  than  discre- 
tion, came  boldly  forward,  criticizing  and  at- 
tacking the  governor's  actions.  Going  from 
town  to  town  and  calling  the  people  together 
with  blast  of  trumpet,  he  with  stirring  speech 
summoned  one  and  all  to  take  up  arms  to 
defend  the  rights  they  had  enjoyed  for  fifty 
years  which  were  being  wrested  from  them. 
The  ever  alert  governor,  being  fully  informed 
of  these  disloyal  acts  and  fearing  the  wrath  of 
the  citizens  when  once  aroused,  arrested  Gove 
with  a  few  of  his  followers,  threw  him  into 
prison,  from  whence  he  was  brou2;ht  forth  to 
be  sentenced  by  a  manipulated  court  to  death, 
and  that  death  to  be  in  the  usual  manner  with 
traitors,  of  being  "drawn  and  quartered,"  as  a 
warning  to  all  traitors  to  the  king.  Gove  was 
returned  to  prison  upon  Great  Island  (now 
Newcastle.  Portsmouth  harbor)  and  there  re- 
mained for  months,  the  governor  hardlv  dar- 
ing to  carry  out  the  sentence  and  yet  by  word 
and  letter  professing  his  fearfulness  "for  his 
own  life  as  long  as  Gove  was  living.  The  case 
being  taken  to  the  mother  country,  Gove's 
transportation  was  ordered,  and  upon  arrival 
in  1683  he  soon  found  himself  behind  the 
great  gates  of  "London  Tower."  where  he  re- 
mained a  prisoner  three  years.  His  estates 
were  confiscated  and  he  received  the  punish- 
ment meted  out  to  a  great  enemy  to  the  king. 
The  repeated  efiforts  for  Gove's  pardon  and 
his  own  petition  were  finally  listened  to  and 
with  influence  brought  to  bear  upon  the  Earl 
of  Clarendon,  then  Lord  Chamberlain,  his 
pardon  was  obtained,  the  document  being,  it 
is  said,  an  interesting  old  paper  with  the 
King's  great  seal  attached.  Upon  his  return 
home  in  1686  his  estates  were  restored  to  him, 
and  history  says  that  he  was  once  more  prom- 
inent in  affairs  and  held  ofiice  within  the  gift 
of  the  people. 

Notwithstanding  that  the  Quaker  creed  of 
peace  seems  to  have  been  the  universal  faith 
of  this  early  family,  yet  the  revolutionary  war 
brought  forward  a  fair  quota  of  patriots,  all 
descending  from  Edward  Gove,  among  them 
being  Captain  Winthrop  Gove,  Dr.  Jonathan 
Gove,  Eleazer  Gove,  who  was  instantly  killed 
while  beating  his  drum  September  19,  1777,  at 

the  defeat  of  Burgoyne,  and Gove,  who 

served  as  a  fifer  until  the  close  of  the  war, 
having  enlisted  while  in  his  "teens."  It  would 
therefore  seem  that  love  of  liberty  has  been  a 
conspicuous  trait  of  the  family.  At  the  close 
of  the   revolution  the   sons   of  Eleazer   Gove 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


scattered  to  different  sections,  Jacob  settling 
in  Lubec,  Maine ;  Moses,  who  also  served  in 
the  revolutionary  war,  locating  in  Otfego 
county,  New  York,  and  John  in  what  is  now 
York  county,  Maine,  where  he  married  Lois, 
daughter  of  Robert  Bradeen. 


This  name  is  found  in  various 
FREES  records  with  not  less  than  thir- 
teen different  spellings,  and  that 
most  used  by  the  early  generations  of  this 
country  is  Freese.  It  is  believed  that  most 
of  those  bearing  the  name  are  descendants 
from  a  native  of  Friesia  or  Friesland.  The 
Frisians  (Latin  Frisii)  came  of  a  Teutonic 
race  and  occupied  the  country  about  the  Zuy- 
derzee.  In  the  fifth  century  a  band  of  the 
Frisii  joined  the  Saxons  and  Angles  in  their 
invasion  of  England.  Persons  of  the  name  of 
Frees  were  in  New  England  soon  after  the 
arrival  of  Endicott  and  Winthrop,  and  scat- 
tered references  are  found  in  the  early  towns 
along  the  coast  in  what  is  now  Massachusetts, 
New  Hampshire  and  Maine.  A  James  Frees, 
with  coat-of-arms,  was  a  merchant  in  London, 
England,  in  1633,  and  probably  the  first  found 
in  this  country  was  a  descendant  from  or  in 
some  way  related  to  him. 

(I)  James  Freese  (or  Frieze)  was  born 
about  1641-42  and  resided  in  Amesbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, with  wife  Elizabeth.  He  was  as- 
signed a  seat  in  the  meeting  house  in  Ames- 
bury  in  1667  and  a  possessor  of  common 
rights  in  that  town  two  years  later.  He  sub- 
scribed to  the  oath  of  allegiance  December, 
1677,  and  was  a  builder  of  vessels  at  "Jamaco" 
about  1678.  He  was  probably  the  James 
Freese  killed  by  Indians  in  i6g8  at  Casco, 
Maine.  His  children  on  record  in  Salisbury, 
Amesbury,  Salem  and  old  Norfolk  records 
were :  James,  John,  Catherine  and  Francis. 
There  were  probably  several  others  who  are 
not  on  the  records. 

(II)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  Freese.  was  born  March  16,  1667 
(recorded  in  Salisbury),  and  married,  June  2, 
1697,  in  Newbury,  Mary,  daughter  of  Nathan- 
iel (2)  and  Joanna  (Kinney)  Merrill,  and 
granddaughter  of  Nathaniel  (i)  and  Susan 
(Jordan)  Merrill,  pioneers  of  Newbury.  She 
was  born  September  18,  1675.  ^o  record  of 
their  children  appears.  This  Tames  Freese  is 
probably  the  James  Freese  of  Newbury  who 
was  a  witness  at  a  trial  in  1692.  He  was  prob- 
ably the  father  of  John  and  Jacob  Freese,  the 
latter  of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  The  lat- 
ter was  called  junior  to  distinguish  h'm  from 
others  of  the  same  name  in  that  town. 


(III)  John  and  Jacob  Frees  were  settlers 
in  the  vicinity  of  Deer  Isle,  Maine.  They  came 
from  Hampton  to  that  place.  The  former 
settled  on  what  is  still  known  as  Freese  Island, 
and  had  children  :  George,  John,  Abraham, 
Isaac,  Jacob  and  Return  and  Retire   (twins). 

(IV)  Abraham,  third  son  of  John  Frees, 
was  born  1749,  probably  in  Hampton,  and 
died  in  1800  in  Orono,  Maine,  whiflier  he 
went  from  Bangor  in  1790.  The  farm  in 
Orono  was  on  the  right  bank  of  the  river,  op- 
posite the  present  site  of  the  University  of 
Maine,  said  to  be  one  of  the  best  farms  in 
Penobscot  county,  and  on  this  he  built  the  first 
frame  liouse  in  the  town.  He  married,  June 
25,  1777,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Edward  White- 
more,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  John,  Abner,  Isaac,  Retire  W., 
Abraham,  Hannah  and  Jonathan. 

(V)  Retire  Whitemore,  fourth  son  of 
Abraham  and  Hannah  (Whitemore)  Frees, 
was  born  January  19,  1783,  in  Bangor,  and 
died  October  23,  i860.  He  lived  on  the 
Freese  Homestead  for  fifty  years,  having  pur- 
chased it,  and  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of 
Orono,  Maine.  He  was  elected  as  representa- 
tive to  the  state  legislature  in  1849.    December 

23,  1810,  he  married  Fanny,  sister  of  Daniel 
White,  of  Orono,  Maine.  She  was  born  Jan- 
uary 28,  1793.  died  July  14,  1870.  Their  chil- 
dren were  all  gifted  in  music,  and  were  as 
follows:  I.  Samuel  W.,  born  October  12, 
1811,  died  June  15,  1861.  2.  Jonathan,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1812,  was  killed  by  accident  at 
Eureka,    California.      3.  Fanny    W.,    August 

24,  1814,  died  July  14,  1876.  4.  Benjamin, 
January  18,  1816.  5.  Hannah  W..  February 
14,  1818,  died  February  7,  1865.  6.  Abigail 
W.,  July  15,  1823,  died  November  29,  1897; 
married  Benjamin  Stewart,  June  7,  1847.  7- 
Daniel  W.,  June  23,  1824,  died  August  22, 
1825.  8.  Daniel  W.,  December  16,  1826,  died 
in  1904.  9.  Betsey  W.,  August  5.  1828,  died 
August  30,  1867,  at  Rockland,  Maine.  10. 
Retire  W.,  August  26,  1830.  11.  John  W., 
July  6,  1833,  died  September  18,  1892,  at  St. 
Helena,  California.  12.  Rebecca  R.,  June  10, 
1837,  died  January  30,  1902,  at  Orono,  Maine. 
She  became  the  second  wife  of  Richard  Lord. 

(VT)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Retire  W.  and 
Fanny  (White)  Frees,  was  born  January  18, 
1816,  at  Orono,  Maine,  where  he  became  a 
successful  teacher,  and  died  in  the  prime  of 
life,  December  17,  1846.  He  married  ^laria 
Foy,  daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel  Buffum,  of 
Orono,  Maine :  she  was  born  July  3,  1819.  died 
Tune  2S,  1888,  at  Whitewater.  Wisconsin. 
They  had  only  one  child,  Benjamin  Marsh. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1553 


(\TI)  Benjamin  ;\Jarsh,  only  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  RIaria  F.  (Buffum)  Erees,  was 
born  August  3,  1846,  at  Orono,  Maine.  Until 
he  was  ten  years  of  age  he  attended  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  then  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Monroe,  Wisconsin,  where  he 
then  attended  school.  In  1863  he  completed 
a  course  at  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  Col- 
lege, of  Chicago,  Illinois.  On  his  eighteenth 
birthday,  August  3,  1864,  he  enlisted  from 
Monroe,  Green  county,  Wisconsin,  as  a  private 
in  Company  H,  Thirty-eighth  Wisconsin  In- 
fantry ;  he  was  elected  first  Heutenant  by  the 
company,  and  before  Petersburg,  Virginia, 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  of  Com- 
pany H.  He  spent  six  months  at  the  siege 
of  Petersburg,  and  was  there  at  the  time  of  its 
surrender.  When  his  company  was  mustered 
out,  at  Washington,  the  regiment  in  which  he 
served  was  the  first  to  pass  President  John- 
son and  General  Grant  at  the  Grand  Review. 
At  the  close  of  the  war  he  removed  to  White- 
water, Wisconsin,  where  he  (in  company  with 
his  step-father,  N.  H.  Allen,  also  born  in 
Maine )  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  The 
next  year  he  went  to  California,  but  returned 
to  Whitewater  and  engaged  in  business  with 
the  same  firm,  N.  H.  Allen  &  Company,  until 
1872,  when  he  came  to  Chicago,  Illinois.  He 
was  first  employed  in  that  city  by  Kirby-Car- 
penter  Company,  which  was  one  of  the  largest 
lumber  firms  of  the  country.  Mr.  Frees  con- 
tinued in  their  employ  twelve  years,  and  in  his 
travels  through  the  states  where  they  did  busi- 
ness he  established  lumber  yards,  taking  in  as 
partners  young  men  with  whom  he  had  been 
associated.  He  is  vice-president  of  a  number 
of  lumber  firms,  and  his  firm  established  three 
national  banks,  also  two  state  banks.  He  is 
connected  with  the  First  National  banks  of 
McCook,  Nebraska,  and  Lisbon.  North  Da- 
kota. Mr.  Frees  is  also  largely  interested  in 
growing  oranges  in  the  state  of  California, 
his  annual  production  being  twenty  thousand 
boxes.  He  is  a  Republican,  and  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  Society.  He  is  a  member 
of  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  57.  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Whitewater,  Wis- 
consin, the  Loyal  Legion  at  ChicTgo.  also  U. 
S.  Grant  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
Chicago.  April  10,  1877,  he  married  Ellie 
Rosine,  daughter  of  Dr.  Henry  O.  Adams; 
they  have  no  children. 


Joseph  P.  Bass  is  a  lineal  descen- 

BASS     dant  of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Anne 

Bass  and  John  and  Priscilla  (Mul- 

lins)    Alden.     Deacon   Samuel   Bass  came  to 


New  England  with  his  wife,  Anne  Bass,  in 
1630,  and  settled  in  Roxbury,  ^Massachusetts, 
where  he  lived  until  1640,  when  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Braintree  (now  Quincy). 
Deacon  Bass,  according  to  Thayer's  Gene- 
alogy, was  a  man  of  strong  and  vigorous  mind, 
and  was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  town 
for  many  years.  He  represented  the  town  in 
the  general  court  twelve  years. 

Hon.  John  Alden  was  one  of  the  Pilgrims 
of  Leyden  who  came  in  the  "Mayflower"  to 
Plymouth,  in   1620. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Anne 
Bass,  was  born  in  Roxbury,  in  1632,  and  was 
married  to  Ruth  Alden,  daughter  of  John 
and  Priscilla    (iMullins)    .Alden,   December  3, 

1657- 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Pris- 
cilla Alden  Bass,  married  Abigail  Adams, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  Adams.  Jo- 
seph Adams  was  a  brother  of  the  father  of 
John  Adams,  president  of  the  L^nited  States. 

(IV)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Abigail  Adams  Bass,  married  Sarah  Savil, 
August  15,  1723,  by  whoin  he  had  one  son, 
Samuel,  born  September  29.  1724. 

(V)  Samuel  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and 
Sarah  Savil  Bass,  married  Anna  Rawson,  Oc- 
tober 30,    1746. 

(VI)  Samuel  (4),  son  of  Samuel  (3)  and 
Anna  Rawson  Bass,  was  bom  August  22, 
1747,  died  February,  1840.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Brackett.  September  29,  1772. 

(VII)  Samuel  (5),  son  of  Samuel  (4)  and 
Elizabeth  Brackett  Bass,  was  born  in  Brain- 
tree,  Massachusetts,  in  1777,  and  died  in  Ran- 
dolph, Vermont,  November  24,  1850.  He  was 
married  to  Polly  Belcher,  who  was  born  in 
Randolph,  ^Massachusetts,  in  1786,  and  died 
in  Randolph,  Vermont,  January  2,  1864. 

(\''III)  Samuel  (6),  son  of  Samuel  (5)  and 
Polly  (Belcher)  Bass,  was  born  in  Braintree, 
November  15,  1805,  and  died  in  Randolph, 
Vermont,  October  17,  1862.  He  married 
Margaret  Parker,  daughter  of  Joseph  Parker, 
of  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  by  whom  he 
had  two  children — Samuel,  born  October  11, 
1833;   and  Joseph   Parker    (q.  v.). 

(IX)  Joseph  Parker  Bass,  son  of  Samuel 
(6)  and  Margaret  Parker  Bass,  was  born  in 
Randolph,  \'ermont.  September  24,  1835.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  common  schools 
and  academy  at  Randolph.  In  1854  he  com- 
menced work  as  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts.  He  engaged  in  the 
same  business  for  himself  in  i860,  removing 
to  Bangor  in  1863,  where  he  continued  in  the 
dry  goods  business  until   1870.     He  then  en- 


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gaged  quite  extensively  in  buying  and  selling 
tiniberlands  and  city  real  estate,  and  has  in- 
vested in  both. 

In  1866  Mr.  Bass  was  married  to  Mary  L. 
March,  of  15an3:or,  who  died  in  1899.  Kirs. 
Bass  was  the  daughter  of  Leonard  and  Mar- 
tha Laighton  March,  both  of  whom  were 
members  of  prominent  families  in  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  where  they  were  born.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  March  removed  to  Bangor  in  1833. 
Mr.  March  was  one  of  the  prominent  business 
men  of  eastern  Maine,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Jewett  &  March,  who  carried  on 
a  large  lumber  business  en  the  Penobscot  and 
St.  John  rivers. 

Mr.  Bass  was  a  member  of  the  Republican 
party  until  1873,  in  which  year  he  was  elected 
mavor  of  Bangor  by  the  Democrats.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  the  city  governmen:  of 
Bangor,  and  represented  the  city  in  the  legis- 
lature in  1876.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  World's  Fair  Commissioners  of 
Maine  to  the  Chicago  Exposition  in  1893.  and 
was  also  chairman  of  the  executive  committee 
of  that  board.  He  was  president  of  the  East- 
ern Maine  State  Fair  Association  for  twelve 
years,  and  was  a  director  of  the  Bangor  Gas 
Light  Com]?any  for  several  years.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Ban- 
gor. 

Since  1879  Mr.  Bass  has  given  his  principal 
attention  to  publishing  the  Baneor  Daily  and 
Weekly  Commercial,  and  has  been  president 
and  treasurer  of  the  J.  P.  Bass  Publishing 
Company  since  its  incorporation  in  1904,  when 
it  succeeded  J.  P-  Bass  &  Company.  The 
Commercial,  in  line  with  a  great  many  other 
newspapers  thirty  years  ago.  was  for  some 
time  published  as  a  Democratic  p'per,  but  for 
the  last  few  years  both  the  Daily  and  ^^"eekly 
Commercial  have  been  conducted  as  Indepen- 
dent Democratic  newspapers. 

Mr.  Bass  was  very  much  interested  in  the 
building  of  a  railroad  into  Arco:=took  courty. 
and  through  the  Commercial  an  1  persoiially 
was  active  in  impressing  the  public  with  the 
importance  of  having  a  road  into  this  county 
built  wholly  in  Maine.  He  was  the  first  sub- 
scriber to  tl-e  stock  of  the  Bangor  &  Aroos- 
took railroad,  subscribing  for  $52,500  worth 
of  the  stock.  He  was  a  director  in  this  com- 
panv  and  in  the  Bangor  &  Aroostook  Con- 
struction Company  for  four  vears,  when  he 
disposed  of  his  stock  to  the  other  members  of 
the  syndicate.  IMr.  Bass  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alaine  Lumbermen  &  Land  Owners' 
Association,  and  has  also  been  chairman  of 
the  executive  committee  and  of  the  committee 


on  legislation  of  this  association  since  its  or- 
ganization. 

Mr.  Bass  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Mayflower  Descendants  of  Massachusetts,  an.l 
of  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants  of 
Maine.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Tarratine 
Club  of  Bangor.  He  resides  on  High  street, 
Bangor,  passing  the  summer  seasons  at  his 
cottage  in  Bar  Harbor. 


General  Russell  Benjaaiin 
SHEPHERD  Shepherd  was  born  at  Fair- 
field, Maine,  September  14, 
1829,  and  for  a  periotl  of  something  like  Vntx 
years  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  u'en  in 
Maine  history,  civil,  military  and  indus  rial. 
His  young  life  was  spent  oa  his  father's  farm. 
\\here  he  was  brought  up  to  work,  and  where 
he  attended  the  district  school  of  the  town  and 
there  laid  the  foundation  of  his  later  splendid 
classical  education.  His  father  was  Job  Shep- 
herd, a  thorough-going  and  prosperous  farmer 
of  Fairfiel'.  a  man  of  considerable  ])rom'nence 
in  local  afifairs  and  at  one  time  a  member  of 
the  lower  house  of  the  state  legislature.  He 
married  Betsey,  daughter  of  Captain  Abi'thar 
Richmond,  of  revolutionary  fame ;  a  fighting 
Quaker,  who  unlike  the  great  majority  of 
those  of  his  religious  faith  had  no  conscien- 
tious scrucles  against  bearing  arms,  and  he 
fought  with  true  patriotic  zeal  and  earned  the 
rank  and  commission  of  captain.  But  after 
the  return  of  peace  he  held  fast  to  the  teach- 
ings of  his  sect  and  even  declined  the  pension 
which  was  offered  him  in  consideration  of  his 
services  as  a  soldier  of  the  revolution.  Job 
Shepherd,  too,  was  a  Friend  and  an  honest 
follower  of  the  teachings  of  that  faith. 

Besides  attending  district  school  Genera! 
Shepherd  was  a  student  at  Bloomfield  Acad- 
emy, and  graduated  from  there,  then  taught 
school  several  terms  and  at  the  same  time  kept 
up  his  own  studies  in  private  in  order  to  pre- 
pare himself  for  college.  He  matriculated  at 
Waterville  (now  Colby)  College  for  the  reg- 
ular corrse,  and  was  graduated  in  1857.  eitni 
laude.  During  his  course  he  identified  himself 
with  student  Hfe  in  its  best  and  true  spirit, 
took  an  active  part  in  all  of  the  pastimes  with 
which  the  student  bodv  then  indulged  itself, 
was  prominent  in  social  and  literarv  circles 
and  appears  to  have  enjoyed  an  especial  popu- 
larity with  students  and  faculty  alike.  After 
leaving  college  he  again  took  up  the  work  of 
teaching,  not.  however,  with  the  intention  of 
making  a  profession  of  pedagogy,  but  rather 
as  a  means  of  maintaining  himself  while  pre- 
paring to  enter  the  profession  of  law,  upon 


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which  he  then  was  determined  and  already 
was  n-aking  preparations  lo  do  by  sys  ematic 
study  under  competent  direction.  In  1858  he 
became  a  student  in  the  office  of  a  Bangor 
hwyer  of  repute,  and  in  i860  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Penobscot  bar.  This  was  just 
in-evious  to  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  and 
soon  after  passing  the  examina  ion  for  ad- 
mission to  the  bar  he  gave  up  the  idea  of  en- 
tering practice  immediately  and  devoted  his 
ntttnticn  to  recruiling  and  organizing  the 
Eighteenth  Regiment  of  M^iiie  Volu'iteer  In- 
fanlrv,  of  which  he  was  elected  adjutant  w-ith 
the  rank  of  lieutenant.  When  organized  and 
equipped  for  service  the  regiment  v\as  ordered 
to  the  front  and  attached  to  the  second  corps 
under  General  Hancock,  afterward  under  Gen- 
eral Humphries.  In  1862  he  was  promoted 
major  for  gallantry  in  action  and  in  1864  was 
commissioned  lieutenant-colonel  and  afterward 
colonel  of  First  Maine  Regiment  of  Heavy 
Artillerv.  As  colonel  he  coniinued  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  when  he  was  made  brigadier- 
general  by  brevet. 

During  his  army  service  General  Shepherd 
participated  in  many  hnrd-f  ought  battles, 
among  the  many  of  which  mav  be  mentioned 
Spottsylvania  Court  House,  Cold  Harbor,  To- 
topotomv  Creek.  Welden  Railroad,  Hatcher's 
Run,  Sailor's  Creek  and  Petersburg.  After 
the  general  muster  out  following  the  fall  of 
Richmond  and  Lee's  surrender  at  Appomat- 
tox, Virginia,  Colonel  Shepherd's  regiment 
was  retained  in  service  for  some  time  on  ac- 
count of  troubles  on  the  Mexican  border,  and 
it  was  not  until  September,  1863,  that  his  com- 
mand was  finally  discharged  and  the  men  re- 
turned to  their  homes.  However,  in  1866  he 
again  went  south,  but  on  this  occasion  with  a 
more  peaceful  mission  in  hand.  He  then  pur- 
chased a  cotton  plantation  in  Georgia,  lived 
there  until  187,^,  then  came  b.nck  to  Maine  and 
settled  permanenllv  in  Skowhegan,  where  he 
afterward  becnme  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  influential  fi-^ures  in  the  induslrial  and  po- 
litical history  of  the  town.  The  plantation  in 
the  south  he  retained  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  and  always  found  that  region  a  favorite 
resort,  especially  during  the  winter  months. 
Soon  after  settling  at  Skowhegan,  in  company 
with  Lewis  Anderson,  he  built  the  afterward 
famous  Coburn  W^oolen  Mills,  one  of  the  most 
completely  appointed  establishments  of  its 
kind  in  the  state  of  iMaine.  This  business  en- 
terprise proved  highly  successful  to  its  foun- 
ders from  a  financial  standpoint,  and  their 
partnership  relation  was  continued  until  1899, 
when  General   Shepherd  retired  from  all  ac- 


tive pursuits.  But  this  is  not  the  only  large 
industrial  or  business  undertaking  with  which 
he  was  identified  and  which  ma  le  for  the  sub- 
stantial growth  and  permanent  welfare  of  the 
locality  in  which  he  lived,  for  in  1896  he  was 
one  of  the  prime  movers  of  the  enterprise 
which  led  to  the  organization  and  operation  of 
the  Somerset  Traction  Company,  of  which  he 
was  the  first  president,  a  large  stcckholde-r 
from  the  beginning  and  afterward  owr.er  of 
almost  the  entire  stock  of  the  corporation.  For 
twenty-five  years  he  was  president  of  the  Sec- 
ond National  Bank  of  Skowhegan,  and  also 
was  president  of  the  Skowhegan  Pu'p  Com- 
pany, the  Skowhegan  Water  Company,  and 
otherwise  was  lareely  interested  in  a  financial 
way  in  other  institutions  and  in'erests  of  the 
town  and  county.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  Colby  L'niversity,  the 
University  of  Maine,  the  Maine  State  Insane 
Hospital  at  Augusta  and  Bangor,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Maine 
State  Agricultural  Society.  He  served  two 
years  as  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the 
state  legislature,  two  years  in  the  state  sen- 
ate, and  in  1878  was  a  member  of  the  gov- 
ernor's counc'l.  In  political  preference  Gen- 
eral Shepherd  was  a  strong  Republican  and 
w^s  counted  among  the  most  influential  men 
of  his  party  in  the  state.  In  1876  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  conven- 
tion that  nominated  Mr.  Hayes  for  the  presi- 
dency. Not  less  prominent  was  his  connec- 
tion with  the  Masonic  order,  holding  mem- 
bership in  the  various  subordinate  bodies  of 
the  craft  and  frequently  serving  in  an  official 
capacity  in  each  of  them.  He  was  a  member 
of  Somerset  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  i\I..  Somerset 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  Mt.  Moriah  Council,  R. 
and  S.  M.,  and  of  DeMolay  Commandery, 
K.  T.  He  also  was  a  member  of  the  Union 
\'eter3rs'  Union,  and  alwavs  took  a  deep  inter- 
est in  the  work  of  the  Grand  .A.rmy  of  the 
Republic. 

General  Sh.epherd  married  (first),  June  23, 
1865,  Helen  M.,  born  Bina:hnm,  iMaine,  ( )ctoher 
29,  1834,  daughter  of  William  and  Lucinda 
Rowell.  She  died  in  January,  1891,  and  he 
married  (second),  January  11,  1892,  Mrs. 
Edith  S.  Goodwin,  daughter  of  Nathan  D.  and 
Emilv  (Barrell)  Stanwood.  She  was  born  in 
San  Francisco,  California,  but  her  father  was 
a  native  of  Ipswich,  iMassachusetts.  By  her 
first  marriage  iMrs.  Shepherd  had  one  daugh- 
ter, Margaret  Stanwood  Goodwin,  now  wife 
of  Francis  Wayland  Briggs.  General  Shep- 
herd died  without  issue,  but  his  memory  is  en- 
shrined in  manv  hearts. 


1556 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


There  are  various  immigrants 
BAXTER  of  the  Baxter  name  in  New 
England,  which  in  England  in 
remote  times  probably  had  a  common  ancestor, 
but  a  connection  between  them  has  not  yet  been 
established.  The  paternal  ancestor  of  the 
Maine  family  appeared  in  Lebanon,  Connecti- 
cut, just  outside  of  New  London,  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century. 

(I)  Simon  Baxter,  in  1721,  was  a  young 
man  in  the  employ  of  Joseph  Bradford,  a 
leading  man  of  New  London,  Connecticut, 
who  had  large  holdings  in  the  near  towns. 
The  tradition  is  that  Simon  Baxter  was  a 
kinsman  of  Rev.  Richard  Baxter,  of  "Saint's 
Rest"  fame.  Simon  Baxter  married,  in  Leba- 
non, April  6,  1721,  Abigail,  a  daughter  of 
Richard  Mann.  To  them  were  born  seven 
children.  She  died  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) 1 74 1,  Rebecca  Burge,  to  whom  were 
born  four  children,  two  of  whom  grew  to 
maturity.  In  1729  Joseph  Bradford  gave 
Simon  Ba.xter  a  homestead  of  thirtx-six  acres 
in  Hebron,  a  town  adjoining  Lebanon,  to 
which  place  he  removed,  and  where  he  died, 
December  26,  1778,  aged  eighty-one  years. 
Just  when  or  where  Simon  Baxter  was  bom 
has  not  been  determined,  but  the  name  is  fre- 
quent in  old  London.  He  doubtless  came  to 
New  London  seeking  a  fortune  of  his  own. 
No  connection  has  been  made  between  him 
and  Gregory  Baxter,  of  Braintree,  Thomas 
Baxter,  of  Cape  Cod,  nor  Thomas  Baxter,  of 
Westchester,  New  York.  He  added  to  his 
homestead  many  other  acres,  and  in  spite  of 
the  hard  times  of  the  wilderness  and  the  In- 
dian wars  accumulated  and  maintained  a 
competency. 

Children  of  Simon  Baxter:  i.  Abigail, 
born  1 72 1,  married,  1743,  Thomas  Powse.  2. 
Richard,  born  1723,  married,  1751,  Dorcas 
Tillotson ;  had  several  children  in  Hebron,  and 
finally  removed  to  Thetford,  Vermont,  where 
the  family  name  continued.  3.  William,  born 
August  15,  1725,  see  forward.  4.  David,  born 
1727,  was  living  in  1749;  probably  died  un- 
married. 5.  Simon,  born  1730,  married,  1749, 
Prudence  Fox ;  resided  in  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut, Alstead,  New  Llampshire,  and  finally  in 
Norton,  Nova  Scotia.  His  sympathies  were 
with  the  King  during  the  revolutionary  war. 
He  left  a  numerous  family  of  like  able  men 
and  women,  who  occupy  positions  of  eminence 
in  Canada  and  the  States.  6.  Margaret,  born 
1732,  married,  1770,  John  Nicholas  Willireck, 
in  Bolton,  Connecticut,  and  soon  removed  to 
"Susquehanna" — probably  Wyoming  \'alley, 
Pennsylvania.    7.  Elizabeth,  twin  of  Margaret, 


died  in  infancy.  8.  Aaron,  a  soldier  in  the  rev- 
olutionary war.  9.  Nathan,  a  soldier  in  the 
revolutionary  war.  Also  two  children  died  in 
infancy. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Simon  Ba.xter,  was 
born  August  15,  1725.  He  was  "captivated" 
in  the  illfated  expedition  against  Havana, 
Cuba,  in  the  summer  of  1762.  He  was  a  sol- 
died  in  Captain  (afterward  Major)  Hierley's 
company,  of  Middletown,  Connecticut.  The 
roll  of  this  company  is  published  by  the  Con- 
necticut Historical  Society :  "French  and  In- 
dian War  Rolls,"  Vol.  X,  p.  308.  The  regi- 
ment of  General  Lyman  sailed  from  New  York 
about  the  middle  of  May,  and  William  Baxter 
was  reported  with  four  weeks'  service,  so  we 
may  conclude  that  he  was  "captivated"  soon 
after  the  arrival  of  the  forces  in  Cuba.  Had 
it  not  been  for  the  destruction  by  fire  of  the 
Andover  (Cnnecticut)  church  records,  more 
information  could  have  been  obtained  of  him 
and  his  family.  He  married  and  had  five  chil- 
dren, who  grew  to  maturity  in  the  vicinity  of 
Andover,  Connecticut:  i.  Elihu,  born  Decem- 
ber 18,  1749,  see  forward.  2.  William,  mar- 
ried. May,  1786,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Peter 
Buell,  of  Coventry,  Connecticut,  and  left  a 
family;  he  died  August  25,  1832,  a  pensioner 
of  the  American  revolution.  3.  John,  married, 
November  2,  1778,  Llannah  Petty,  of  Alstead 
(Surrey),  New  Hampshire.  4.  Hiram,  a  sol- 
dier in  the  revolutionary  war,  and  died  soon 
after.  5.  Damaris,  married,  1785,  Jason  Her- 
rick,  of  Pittsfield,  and  died  1838,  aged  seventy- 
six  years. 

(III)  Elihu,  son  of  William  Baxter,  was 
born  December  18,  1749.  After  a  brief  resi- 
dence in  Lebanon,  New  Hampshire,  he  re- 
moved across  the  Connecticut  river  to  Nor- 
wich, Vermont,  where  he  spent  his  remaining 
days.  He  married,  December  19,  1776,  in 
Hanover,  New  Hampshire,  Triphena,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  William  Taylor,  formerly  of 
Coventry  and  Mansfield,  Connecticut.  Chil- 
dren: I.  William,  born  1778,  married  Lydia 
Ashley.  2.  Ira,  born  1779,  married  Arsena 
Sprague.     3.   Elihu,  born    1781,   see  forward. 

4.  Triphena,  born  1783,  married  Josiah  Root. 

5.  Chester,  born  1785,  married  Hannah  Root. 

6.  Lavina,  died  young.  7.  Erastus,  born  1787, 
married  Lucy  Freeman.  8.  and  9.  Lavina  and 
Climena,  twins,  died  in  youth.  10.  James, 
married  Caroline  Baxter,  a  cousin.  11.  John, 
born  1792.  married  Harriet  Lothrop.  12. 
Zilpha,  born  1797,  married  Dr.  William  Sweat. 
13.  Harry,  born  1799,  married  Sophronia 
Steel.  14.  Statira,  born  1803,  married  Horace 
Shepherd.     15.  Hiram  B.,  born  1807. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1557 


(IV)  Dr.  Elihu  (2),  son  of  Elihu  (i)  Bax- 
ter, born  Norwich,  Vermont,  April  10,  1781, 
died  Portland,  Maine,  January  3,  1863.  He 
became  an  eminent  physician,  settling  in  Gor- 
ham,  Maine.  He  married  (first)  Clarissa 
Simms,  February.  1806,  who  was  drowned 
while  crossing  the  Connecticut  river,  on  horse- 
back, on  April  first  following.  He  married 
(second)  August  17,  1807,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Jared  Cone,  of  Bolton,  Connecticut,  and  Co- 
lumbia, New  Hampshire ;  she  died  in  Portland, 
Maine,  June  27,  1873,  aged  eighty-five  years. 
Children:  i.  Hiram,  born  1808,  a  physician  in 
Kenduskeag,  Maine,  where  he  died,  1894; 
married  Maria  J.  Jones ;  four  children.  2. 
Hartley  W.,  born  181 1,  married,  1837,  Jane 
Felch ;  he  was  lost  at  sea,  1840,  leaving  a  son, 
James  Hartley,  who  married  Emma  Nash.  3. 
Elizabeth  W.,  born  1813,  married  Henry  Good- 
ing; she  died  1842;  four  children.  4.  William 
H.,  born  1817,  married,  1859,  Mary  A.  Jack- 
son; two  children.  5.  Sarah  Adams,  born 
1820,  married,  1842,  Joseph  M.  Barry;  two 
children;  married  (  second)  Thomas  Radden ; 
three  children.  6.  James  Phinney,  born  March 
23.  1831,  see  forward. 

(V)  James  Phinney,  son  of  Dr.  Elihu  (2) 
Baxter,  was  born  in  Gorham,  Maine,  March 
23,  183 1.  His  school  advantages  were  excel- 
lent, and,  reared  in  a  home  where  education 
and  piety  were  regarded,  a  culture  day  by 
day  came  into  his  growing  mind  and  charac- 
ter. These  advantages  were  abundantly  im- 
proved. His  education  was  obtained  in  the 
public  schools  of  Portland  and  the  academy  of 
Lynn,  Massachusetts,  then  a  famous  school  of 
learning,  followed  by  a  special  course  of  study 
in  languages  and  literature.  The  law  was  first 
selected  as  a  profession,  but  there  was  a  fas- 
cination about  a  business  career  which  he  was 
unable  to  resist  and  he  became  one  of  Alaine's 
"Captains  of  Industry,"  adding  much  to  the 
prosperity  of  his  native  state.  In  spite  of  the 
engagements  of  a  business  career,  he  has  ever 
been  busy  as  a  writer.  In  young  manhood  he 
was  a  contributor  of  both  prose  and  poetry 
to  the  Home  Journal,  Shillaber's  (Mrs.  Part- 
ington) Carpet  Bag,  Godey's  Lady's  Book, 
and  the  Portland  Transcript ;  and,  while  never 
giving  up  writings  of  the  lighter  vein,  he  has 
acquired  an  international  reputation  as  an  his- 
torical investigator  and  writer.  His  bibliogra- 
phy is  extended.  The  most  notable  work 
among  several  published  in  the  Maine  His- 
torical Society  Collections  is  The  Trelazvn\< 
Papers.  These  "Papers"  refer  to  early  settle- 
ments and  aflfairs  on  the  Maine  coast.  They 
were   found    in   an    English   homestead   many 


years  ago,  and  after  many  vicissitudes  found 
their  way  to  the  Maine  Historical  Society. 
These  "Papers,"  with  notes  by  Mr.  Baxter, 
are  most  valuable  to  the  student  of  New  Eng- 
land history;  other  works  are  "The  British  In- 
vasion from  the  North,"  based  upon  the 
"Journal  of  Lieut.  William  Digby,  1776-1777," 
treating  the  campaigns  of  Generals  Carleton 
and  Burgoyne;  "The  Pioneers  of  New  France 
in  New-  England" ;  "Sir  Ferdinand  Gorges  and 
his  Province  of  Maine" ;  and  "A  Memoir  and 
Voyages  of  Jacques  Cartier."  Mr.  Baxter, 
several  years  ago,  in  a  European  library,  dis- 
covered in  manuscript  the  narrations  of  the 
several  voyages  of  Cartier  to  the  St.  Law- 
rence. These  narratives  were  written  in  1534. 
Mr.  Baxter  caused  each  individual  page  of  the 
manuscript  to  be  photographed  and  then  trans- 
lated the  same,  and  by  his  exhaustive  study  of 
the  manuscript  and  the  times  of  Cartier,  has 
produced  a  noteworthy  volume.  The  bibliogra- 
phy of  the  subject  shows  no  stone  unturned. 
The  volume  takes  its  place  among  the  stand- 
ard works  on  early  American  history.  In 
1885-86  he  spent  more  than  a  year  in  English 
and  French  archives,  searching  for  docu- 
ments relating  mostly  to  Maine  history  of 
which  he  had  transcripts  made  by  copyists  in 
his  employ.  At  the  same  time  he  was  making 
with  his  own  hand  a  large  collection  of  ex- 
tracts from  documents  partially  relating  to  the 
same  subject.  The  late  Eben  Pulsifer,  of  Bos- 
ton, was  also  for  several  years  exclusively  in 
his  employ,  making  transcripts  from  the 
Massachusetts  archives  of  documeirts  relating 
to  Maine.  He  had  besides  in  his  employ  a 
copyist  in  the  Provincial  archives  for  addi- 
tional material.  He  has  also  had  the  old  court 
records  of  York,  now  so  dilapidated,  copied 
and  indexed.  Flis  collection  of  transcripts 
now  number  nearly  forty  large  volumes,  con- 
taining about  twenty  thousand  pages  of  man- 
uscript. Of  these  seven  volumes  have  been 
already  published  in  the  Maine  Historical  So- 
ciety's Documentary  History  of  JMaine,  and 
when  completed  the  work  will  be  a  monu- 
mental one.  Mr.  Baxter  is  also  an  adminis- 
trator of  historical  institutions.  He  has  been 
many  years  president  of  the  Maine  Historical 
Society,  Portland  ;  also,  of  the  New  England 
Historic-Genealogic  Society ;  and  an  active 
councilman  and  contributor  to  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society,  and  American  Historical 
Association,  besides  being  an  honorary  mem- 
ber of  many  American  and  European  literary 
and  historical  bodies.  Mr.  Baxter  enjoys  his- 
torical occasions,  and  is  often  invited  to  ad- 
dress them. 


1558 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Mr.  Baxter  has  known  of  honor  in  his  own 
city,  having  been  six  times  elected  mayor  of 
Portland.  He  bestows  much  attention  upon 
beautifying  the  already  beautiful  city  of  Port- 
land, and  especially  in  developing  its  park 
system.  He  is  a  man  of  affairs.  His  per- 
sonal interests  are  many,  and  he  is  associated 
with  others  in  great  corporations  either  as 
president  or  director.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  overseers  of  Bowdoin  College,  and  is 
actively  interested  in  other  educational  and 
benevolent  institutions.  He  has  been  honored 
by  Bowdoin  College  with  the  degree  of  M.  A. 
and  Litt.  D.  A  few  years  since  Mr.  Baxter 
presented  to  the  city  of  Portland  a  public 
library  building;  and  also  has  purchased  his 
father's  homestead  in  Gorham,  where  he  him- 
self was  born,  which  he  has  converted  into  a 
museum,  and  has  erected  adjacent  thereto  a 
library  building  for  its  citizens.  These  bene- 
factions evidence  his  abiding  interest  in  the 
betterment  of  the  people.  Mr.  Baxter  is  a 
man  of  many  interests,  to  which  he  devotes 
himself  with  untiring  zeal. 

Through  Sarah  Cone,  the  mother  of  James 
Phinney  Baxter,  his  ancestral  lines  run  into 
some  of  the  most  notable  families  of  Connecti- 
cut. The  Cone  ancestry  itself  makes  him  kin 
of  the  Loomis,  Wright,  Plungerford,  Spencer, 
Chauncy,  Rose  and  Goodrich  families:  and 
through  the  mother  of  Sarah  Cone,  in  kinship 
with  the  Wells,  Butler,  Standish,  Blackleach, 
Curtice  and  Edwards  families.  Among  his 
notable  ancestors  was  Governor  Thomas 
Welles,  whose  fame  was  wide  and  deep  in  the 
hearts  of  his  Puritan  subjects. 

Mr.  Baxter  married  (first)  September  i8, 
1854,  Sarah  K.  Lewis,  daughter  of  Ansel  and 
lane  M.  (Campbell)  Lewis,  of  Portland, 
Maine.  She  died  January  12,  1872.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  April  2,  1873,  Mehetable  Cum- 
mings  Proctor,  daughter  of  Abel  and  Lydia 
P.  (Emerson)  Proctor,  of  Peabody.  Massa- 
chusetts. There  were  eight  children  by  the 
first  wife,  and  three  by  the  second.  Children : 
I.  Florence  Lewis,  born  July  20,  1855,  died 
September  10,  1857.  2.  Hartley  Cone,  born 
July  19.  1857,  married,  September  29,  18S6, 
Mary  Lincoln.  Children  :  Sarah  Lewis,  born 
February  9,  1890,  Ellen  Lincoln,  August  22, 
1891  ;  John  Lincoln,  May  28,  1896;  Emily 
West,  May  7,  1898.  3.  Clinton  Lewis,  born 
Tune  29,  1859,  married,  February  8,  1882, 
Caroline  Paulina  Dana.  She  died  April  21, 
1888.  Married  (second)  October  14,  1891, 
Ethel  Fox.  Children  :  Cara  Dana,  born  April 
21,  1888;  .'\nna  Fox,  November  8,  1892,  died 
August    12,    1894;   Ellen   Fessenden,   May   7. 


1894.  4.  Eugene  Raddin,  born  January  12, 
1862,  married,  June  25.  1890,  Anna  E.  Pike, 
San  Francisco,  California.  5.  Mabel,  born 
May  17,  1865,  died  October  22,  1865.  6. 
James  Phinney,  born  February  27,  1867,  mar- 
ried, October  8,  i8go,  Nelly  Furbish  Carpen- 
ter; children:  James  Phinney,  born  February 
15,  1893;  Nelly  Furbish,  born  May  19,  1906. 
7.  Alba,  born  May  9,  1869,  died  February  12, 
1873.  8.  Rupert  H.,  born  July  26,  1871,  mar- 
ried, June  3,  1896,  Kate  Depuy  Mussenden, 
Bath,  Maine;  children:  Mary  Lincoln,  born 
April  II,  1891  ;  Lydia  McLellan,  February  7, 
1907.  9.  Emily  Poole,  born  July  15,  1874.  10. 
Percival  Proctor,  born  November  22,  1876. 
II.  Madeleine  Cummings,  born  January  26, 
1879,  married,  October  9,  1907,  Fenton  Tom- 
linson  ;  child:  James  Baxter,  born  September 
2,  igo8. 


Authorities  on  nomer.cla'ure 
GILSON  state  that  the  name  Gillson  or 
Gilson  is  derived  from  Gil  or 
Giles.  In  his  book  on  words  Archbishop 
Trench  states  concerning  the  mme  Gilson  that 
some  pronounced  the  G  hard  and  others  soft ; 
and  he  accounts  for  it  by  saying  that  those 
who  pronounce  their  name  with  the  G  hard 
are  the  descendants  of  Gilbert,  and  the  other 
class  of  Giles.  The  explanation  is  ingenious 
if  not  ingeneous.  In  the  records  of  the  towns 
where  the  Gilsons  early  settled,  Attleboro  and 
Dedham  Gove,  Massachusetts,  through  the  ig- 
norance of  the  clerks  the  name  Gilson  came 
to  be  spelled  Jelson  and  Jillson,  and  the  latter 
form  was  permanently  adopted  by  many  in 
fhe  later  generations.  William  Gillson  was 
the  first  of  the  name  who  settled  in  New  Eng- 
land, later  came  Joseph  and  James  Gihon. 
There  is  nothing  to  show  that  these  men  were 
in  anv  way  related.  All  the  descendants  of 
Joseph  write  their  name  Gilson. 

(I)  Joseph  Gilson  is  not  mentioned  in  any 
known  county  or  town  record  previous  to  his 
marriafje,  1660.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
proprietors  of  Groton,  whither  he  removed 
from  Chelmsford  previous  to  March  5,  1666. 
He  located  on  what  is  now  a  part  of  Dun- 
stable, set  off  from  Groton  in  1793.  At  a  town 
meeting  held  in  Groton,  ]\Iarch  5,  1666,  the 
town  contracted  for  the  erection  of  a  common 
pound  with  three  of  its  citizens :  Joseph  Gil- 
son, Joseph  Page  and  Daniel  Pierce.  In  the 
time  of  King  Philip's  war,  1675-76,  some  of 
the  inhabitants  of  Groton  took  their  families 
into  garrisons  or  block  houses  and  others 
moved  from  the  town  to  safer  places.  The 
name  of  Joseph  Gilson  is  not  found  on  the  list 


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of  those  of  the  former  class  ;  hence  it  is  probable 
that  he  had  removed  in  the  fall  of  1674  or  the 
spring  of  1675  to  Concord,  where  he  died  in 
April  or  May,  1676.  In  the  latter  year  an 
inventory  of  his  estate  returned  from  Concord 
was  recorded  in  the  Middlesex  probate  rec- 
ords at  Cambridge.  His  widow  and  children 
probably  resided  for  some  time  in  Concord, 
or  in  that  part  of  the  town  which  was  incor- 
porated as  Stow  in  1683.  Joseph  Gilson  and 
Mary  Caper  were  married  in  Chelmsford  by 
Captain  Johnson,  of  Woburn,  November  18, 
1660.  The  date  of  her  birth  and  death  are 
unknown.  Their  children  were  :  Mary,  Tim- 
othy, Joseph,  Sarah  and  John. 

(II)  Joseph  (2).  third  child  and  second  son 
of  Joseph  (i)  and  Mary  (Caper)  Gilson,  was 
born  in  Groton,  January  8,  1667.  and  resided 
on  a  part  of  his  father's  estate  in  Groton.  He 
was  a  good  manager,  thrifty,  and  left  a  good 
estate  for  those  times.  His  will,  dated  August 
20,  1735,  shows  he  had  children  whose  births 
were  not  recorded.  To  his  wife,  Elizabeth, 
who  was  executor  of  his  will,  he  left  sixty 
pounds  out  of  his  estate,  also  the  use  and  im- 
provement of  all  his  estate,  both  real  and  per- 
sonal, so  long  as  she  remains  a  widow;  to 
his  children,  various  sums  of  money  besides 
property  he  had  helped  them  to  before  the 
execution  of  his  will.  To  his  son,  Isaac,  he 
left  all  his  real  estate  and  rights  in  common 
lands  after  the  death  of  his  wife — Isaac  to  pay 
the  bequests  to  the  other  heirs.  He  married 
(first)  Hepsibah  ,  and  (second)  Eliza- 
beth   .     There   is   no   record   of   either 

marriage  extant,  no  marriage  record  being 
kept  between  1686  and  1706.  His  children  by 
the  first  wife  were :  Anne,  Joseph,  Eleazer, 
Jeremiah,  Sarah ;  and  those  by  the  second  wife 
were:  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Isaac,  Jonas  and 
Eunice. 

(III)  Isaac,  third  child  and  eldest  son  of 
Joseph  (2)  and  Elizabeth  Gilson.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  as  already  stated  succeeded  to  the 
homestead  of  his  father  and  paid  off  the  be- 
quests to  the  other  heirs.  His  residence  was 
probably  in  the  east  part  of  Groton  in  that 
part  set  off  to  Dunstable  in  1793.  He  was 
more  interested  in  making  a  good  living  and 
enjoying  his  possessions  than  in  holding  offices 
or  filling  public  stations  of  any  kind :  conse- 
quently his  name  is  not  among  those  who  took 
part  in  public  life.  On  account  of  faulty  rec- 
ords or  the  absence  of  any  record  at  all  noth- 
ing is  known  of  the  date  oi  his  birth  or  death. 
He  was'  married,  January  15,  1730,  to  Dor- 
othy Kemp.  They  had  Isaac,  Dorothy,  Nehe- 
miah  and  Joseph,  all  born  in  Groton. 


(IV)  Nehemiah.  second  son  and  third  child 
of  Isaac  and  Dorothy  (Kemp)  Gilson,  was 
born  in  Groton,  and  resided  there.  He  mar- 
ried Abigail,  born  June  21,  1739,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Dorothy  (Chamberlain)  Law- 
rence, of  Groton.  Their  children  were;  Ne- 
hemiah, Nathaniel,  Sybil,  Jacob  B.,  Oliver, 
Nabby,  Ashabel,  Isaac. 

(Y)  Nehemiah  (2),  eldest  child  of  Nehe- 
miah (i)  and  Abigail  (Lawrence)  Gilson,  was 
born  July  10,  1766.  He  married  Esther  Keyes. 
They  had  seven  children  :  Joel,  Sally,  Nathan- 
iel, Luther,  Calvin,  Charles  and  Kendall. 

(YI)  Calvin,  fifth  child  and  fourth  son  of 
Nehemiah  (2)  and  Esther  (Keyes)  Gilson, 
was  born  March  4,  1799,  and  died  in  Portland, 
September  29,  1833.  He  was  a  farmer  in 
Buckfield  until  well  along  in  life,  and  then  sold 
his  farm  and  removed  to  Portland,  where  he 
is  supposed  to  have  established  the  livery  busi- 
ness in  which  he  w^as  succeeded  by  his  son. 
]\'Ir.  Gilson  was  not  ambitious  and  held  no 
public  office.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig.  He 
married  Hannah  C.  Austin,  born  November 
14,  1800,  died  in  Portland,  June  9,  1874.  They 
had  Louisa  A.,  Lydia  I.,  Josephine  S.,  Charles 
A.,  Caroline  A.,  Luther  C.  and  Charlotte  E. 

(YII)  Charles  Augustus,  fourth  child  and 
eldest  son  of  Calvin  and  Hannah  C.  (Austin) 
Gilson,  was  born  in  Buckfield,  June  25,  1826, 
died  in  Portland,  July  7,  1880.  He  spent  his 
youth  on  his  father's  farm  and  attended  the 
common  schools.  He  learned  the  drug  busi- 
ness and  was  employed  in  that  line  until  after 
his  father  removed  to  Portland,  and  then  he 
engaged  in  the  livery  business.  He  was  in 
this  line  until  his  death.  He  was  like  his 
father  in  many  ways ;  belonged  to  no  secret 
orders  or  clubs,  and  took  no  prominent  part 
in  public  affairs.  He  was  a  Republican,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  of 
Portland  one  year.  He  married,  in  Winthrop, 
Maine,  March  11.  1852,  Angie  L.,  born  in 
Turner.  Maine,  March  26,  1832,  daughter  of 
Thomas  L.  and  Mary  J.  (Cole)  Megquier,  of 
Winthrop,  Maine.  Six  children  were  born  to 
them :  Jennie  Lewis,  Arthur  Scott,  Henry 
Clinton,  Anne  May,  Charles  Philip  and  Mar- 
gery Lawrence. 

(YIII)  Arthur  Scott,  second  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  Charles  A.  and  Angie  L.  (Meg- 
quier) Gilson,  was  born  in  Portland,  March 
17,  1853.  He  obtained  his  literary  education 
in  the  Portland  public  schools,  and  graduated 
from  the  high  school  in  1873.  In  the  year 
1891  he  matriculated  at  the  Maine  Medical 
School  at  Brunswick,  where  he  completed  the 
course  and  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Medicine  in  18(54.  After  a  year',?  post-grad- 
uate work  in  the  Maine  General  Hospital  he 
opened  an  office  in  Portland  (1895)  and  be- 
gan what  has  proved  to  be  a  very  successful 
practice,  and  to-day  he  is  one  of  the  leading 
surgeons  of  the  state.  He  is  senior  surgeon 
of  the  Maine  General  Hospital,  and  for  ten 
years  has  been  the  surgeon  of  the  Portland 
police  department.  He  is  a  pleasant  schol- 
arly gentleman,  S}mpathetic  in  his  work  and 
inspiring  in  his  manner,  a  physician  whose 
presence  infuses  hope  and  courage  in  the 
hearts  of  his  patients.  He  is  a  memlDer  of  the 
American  ]\Iedical  Society,  the  Cumberland 
County  Medical  Society,  the  Maine  State 
Medical  Society  and  the  Portland  Medical  So- 
ciety. He  has  no  affiliation  with  secret  organ- 
izations or  clubs.  In  religious  faith  he  is  a 
Unitarian.  He  is  an  unflinching  supporter  of 
the  political  doctrines  of  Hannibal  Hamlin, 
James  G.  Blaine,  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt.  He  married,  in  Winthrop, 
Maine.  August  21,  1895,  Mabel  Whittemore, 
born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  March  30,  1870, 
daughter  of  George  O.  and  Ada  Florer  Pack- 
ard, of  Winthrop,  Maine.  They  have  two 
children :  Arthur  Scott,  Jr.,  born  June  30, 
1896,  and  Charles  Packard,  September  3,  1899. 

This  is  an  Irish  name,  derived 
TEAGUE     from  taiag,  meaning  a  peasant. 

Uncle  Remus  has  immortalized 
it  in  literature  by  one  of  his  wonderful  crea- 
tions, "At  Teague  Potts." 

"With  Shinkin  ap  Morgan  with  blew  cap  or  Teague^ 
We    into    no    covenants   enter   nor   league." 

— Ballads   of    John    Bagtord. 

(I)  Daniel  Teague  lived  in  Hingham,  Mas- 
sachusetts, September  17,  1719,  for  in  that 
year  he  married  Sarah  Pray,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 14,  1768'.  aged  seventy,  Mr.  Teague 
dying  two  years  before,  aged  eighty.  He  was 
a  setwork  cooper.  His  wife  bore  him:  Daniel, 
Sarah,  Elizabeth,  Ruth,  Grace,  John,  Jesse  and 
Obed. 

(II)  Daniel  (2),  eldest  son  and  child  of 
Daniel  (i)  and  Sarah  (Pray)  Teague,  was 
born  in  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  February 
22,  1 7 19,  and  married,  February  26,  1741, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Hannah 
(Lincoln)  Lane,  who  was  born  also  in  Hing- 
ham, November  21,  1717.  They  had:  Bani, 
Elizabeth,  Elkanah,  Sarah  and  Daniel. 

(III)  Bani,  eldest  son  and  child  of  Daniel 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Lane)  Teague,  was  born 
February  27.  1742,  and  married  Lucy,  daugh- 
ter of  Ebenezer  Lincoln.  Several  of  her 
brothers   removed   to   Maine,   and   with   them 


probably  went  Bani,  who  settled  in  Turner, 
Androscoggin  county,  Maine.  The  town  of 
Turner  (then  called  Sylvestertown)  w^s  large- 
ly peopled  with  citizens  from  Plymouth 
county,   Massachusetts. 

(IV)  Bani  (2),  son  of  Bani  (i)  and  Lucy 
(Lincoln)  Teague,  was  born  in  Turner, 
Maine,  and  died  in  1809,  his  death  being 
caused  by  a  carriage  accident.  He  owned  and 
operated  a  sawmill  about  1800  at  Chase's  mills, 
and  married,  in  1796,  Sarah  Tuttle,  of  Buck- 
field,  Maine.    He  had  a  son  Bani. 

(V)  Bani  (3),  son  of  Bani  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Tuttle)  Teague,  was  born  in  Turner,  Maine, 
January  2,  1805,  and  died  in  1894.  After  a  com- 
mon school  education  he  learned  the  trade  of 
wood  turner,  and  that  and  the  carpenter's  trade 
was  his  lifework.  He  married  Salh'.  daughter  of 
John  White,  who  died  in  1864.  Their  children 
were :  Henry,  Horace,  who  went  south  and 
was  supposed  to  have  been  drafted  into  the 
Confederate  service,  Greenleaf,  Ellen,  Sarah 
Jane,  Emily,  Laura,  Calista  and  George. 

(YD  Greenleaf,  third  child  and  son  of 
Bani  (3)  and  Sally  (White)  Teague,  was  born 
in  Atkinson,  November  19,  1835,  and  died 
January  i,  1892.  Receiving  a  common  school 
education,  he  came  to  Lewiston,  Maine,  when 
nineteen  years  old,  and  learned  the  barber's 
trade,  later  becoming  a  carpenter.  He  was  the 
first  man  to  bring  western  horses  into  Lewis- 
ton,  was  for  many  years  a  successful  horse 
dealer.  He  was  a  strong  temperance  worker 
in  both  the  Good  Temphrs  and  the  Golden 
Cross,  and  was  a  Republican,  devoting  much 
of  his  time  to  the  interests  of  the  party.  He 
married  Rebecca  Jane,  daughter  of  Philip  and 
Mahala  (Smiley)  Seymour.  Her  father  was 
born  in  Rottery,  Devonshire,  England,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1802,  and  came  to  this  country  when 
nineteen  years  old.  Children  of  the  above 
union  were :  Howard  A.,  Elmer  C.  and 
Grace  L. 

(VII)  Howard  Abbott,  eldest  child  and  son 
of  Greenleaf  and  Rebecca  Jane  (Seymour) 
Teague,  was  born  December  4,  1866.  in  Lewis- 
ton,  Maine,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  learned  the  car- 
riage-making business.  In  1894  he  estab- 
lished an  undertaking  business,  in  which  he  is 
now  engaged.  Although  not  an  active  poli- 
tician, he  served  in  the  city  councils  in  1895- 
96;  he  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  an 
Odd  Fellow,  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  a  member 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  same  and  of  the 
uniformed  rank,  holding  the  commission  of 
captain.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Malta,  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Alen, 


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Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle,  Sons  of  St. 
George,  Order  of  American  Mechanics,  the 
Grange,  B.  P.  O.  E.  and  M.  W.  A.  He  mar- 
ried, August  25,  1897,  Carrie,  daughter  of 
William  and  Frances  (Wadleigh)  Cole,  of 
Old  Town,  where  she  was  born  in  1873. 


There  is  an  old  tradition 
BICKFORD  which  runs  to  the  effect  that 
the  New  England  Bickfords 
are  descended  from  three  brothers,  who  came 
to  this  country  probably  from  England  in  the 
ship  supposed  to  have  been  the  "Mayflower," 
tut  not  on  the  historic  voyage  of  that  vessel 
which  brought  over  the  Pilgrims ;  and  accord- 
ing to  the  tradition  one  of  these  brothers  set- 
tled in  one  of  the  plantations  in  the  colony 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  another  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  the  third  brother  down  in  the  colony 
of  Maine.  The  genealogical  references  give 
a  brief  account  of  one  John  Beckford,  or  Bick- 
ford  (the  surname  in  earlier  generations  from 
the  time  of  the  immigrant  was  written  both 
ways),  who  was  born  in  1612  and  was  settled 
in  the  locality  called  Darby  Field  in  the  an- 
cient town  of  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  as 
early  as  the  year  1645.  ^^  '^'^  "Genealogical 
Dictionary"  Savage  mentions  the  same  John 
Bickford,  and  all  authorities  incline  to  the 
opinion  that  he  was  the  immigrant  ancestor 
of  the  Bickford  and  Beckford  families  of  New 
England. 

The  earliest  mention  of  the  Maine  Bickfords 
in  any  of  the  published  accounts  appears  to  be 
that  found  in  Bradbury's  "History  of  Kenne- 
bunk  Port."  1837,  where  it  is  stated  that  Jeth- 
ro  Bickford  had  a  grant  of  land  from  the  town 
in  1729,  and  that  he  probably  lived  in  the 
town  and  may  have  removed  thence  to  Bidde- 
ford.  In  the  same  work  mention  also  is  made 
of  Eliakim  Bickford,  ship  master,  who  came 
from  Salem  about  1740  and  was  licensed  to 
keep  tavern  in  Arundel  in  1744;  and  it  is 
stated  that  this  Eliakim  probably  was  a  de- 
scendant of  John  Beckford,  who  lived  in  Dur- 
ham in  1659.  Eliakim  Bickford  died  suddenly 
March  22,  1748,  and  left  at  least  two  children, 
Abigail,  who  married  John  Cleaves,  and  Jo- 
seph, who  married  Mary  Averill  and  by  her 
had  Eliakim,  James,  Thomas,  Lucy,  Abigail, 
Joseph,  Hannah,  Mary,  John,  George,  William 
and  Gideon.  How  many  generations  removed 
from  John  the  ancestor  Jethro  and  Eliakim 
may  have  been  appears  somewhat  difficult  to 
determine  by  records  extant,  and  it  is  equally 
uncertain  what  may  have  been  the  relation  of 
either  of  them  to  the  familv  whose  record  here 
must  begin  with  Anson  Wavne  Bickford. 


(I)  Anson  Wayne  Bickford  is  supposed  to 
have  been  born  in  Pittsfield,  Maine,  and  it  is 
known  that  he  became  well  educated  and 
taught  several  terms  of  winter  school  before 
reaching  the  age  of  twenty-three  years.  He 
then  determined  to  go  to  the  gold  fields  of 
California  in  pursuit  of  a  fortune,  and  whi'e 
he  did  succeed  in  gaining  a  fair  competency 
in  that  region  it  was  in  other  pursuits  than 
gold  mining.  For  ten  or  twelve  years  he 
was  owner  of  an  express  business  and  made  a 
success  of  it;  but  about  1880  he  returned  east, 
purchased  a  tannery  in  Readfield,  and  con- 
ducted it  with  good  success  for  a  few  years, 
but  had  the  serious  misfortune  to  lose  his  en- 
tire investment  in  the  property  by  a  disastrous 
fire  which  burned  the  building  to  the  ground. 
Mr.  Bickford  had  toiled  hard  and  patiently  to 
establish  himself  in  comfortable  circumstances 
in  his  declining  years,  and  the  loss  of  so  much 
of  his  propertv  told  heavily  against  him.  While 
living  in  San  Francisco  he  married  twice,  his 
first  wife  dying  without  issue.  His  second 
wife  was  Jennie  (McGowan)  Bickford,  by 
whom  he  had  eight  children,  all  of  whom  ex- 
cept the  last  two  were  born  in  California.  His 
children:  I.  Nettie  F.,  born  January  30,  1868. 
2.  Ralph  Watson,  May  8,  1870.  3.  Edwin 
Wayne,  June  17,  1872.  4.  Matilda  Louise, 
September  9,  1875.  5.  Everett  x^nson,  Octo- 
ber 31,  1876.  6.  Estelle  Adelaide,  August  15, 
1880.  7.  Maude  Barbara,  February  10,  1883. 
8.  Erna  Eliza,  September,  1886. 

(II)  Edwin  Wayne,  second  son  of  Anson 
Wayne  and  Jennie  (McGowan)  Bickford,  his 
second  wife,  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  June 
17,  1872.  He  received  his  education  in  Kent's 
Hill  Academy,  but  on  account  of  his  father's 
loss  of  his  tannery  building  by  fire  it  became 
necessary  that  young  Bickford  find  some  em- 
ployment for  his  own  support  while  complet- 
ing his  course  in  the  academy.  This  he  did 
by  canvassing  and  doing  whatever  work  a  boy 
of  twelve  years  could  find  to  do  outside  of 
school  hours.  After  graduating  from  the 
academy  he  went  to  Auburn  and  found  work 
in  a  shoe  factory  in  that  city,  and  during  the 
next  six  vears  he  had  saved  money  enough  to 
maintain  himself  and  pay  the  tuition  charges 
of  a  course  in  the  Baltimore  College  of  Dental 
Surgery,  where  he  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  D.  D.  S.  in  1893.  On  returning  from  Balti- 
more with  his  diploma  and  degree,  Dr.  Bick- 
ford opened  an  office  in  Lewiston  and  soon 
found  himself  engaged  in  successful  and  con- 
stantly increasing  practice.  The  success  he 
has  since  achieved  has  been  fairly  earned  and 
fullv  deserved,  for  since  he  was  a  boy  he  has 


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virtually  mai'e  his  own  way  in  life.  He  is 
a  member  of  various  professional  organiza- 
tions, an  Odd  Fellow  in  excellent  standing  and 
making  his  way  through  the  chairs,  and  a 
member  of  the  Clan  Campbell  of  the  Society 
of  Scotchmen  of  America.  On  November  14, 
1904,  Dr.  Bickford  married  Luella,  daughter 
of  Edgar  Smith,  of  Belfast,  Maine. 


The  surname  Wedgwood, 
WEDGWOOD  which  in  church  and  town 
records  is  spelled  some- 
what inconsistently  both  with  and  without  the 
vowel  e  after  the  g,  is  of  obvious  origin. 
\Miile  not  a  common  surname,  it  has  held  its 
own  in  America  better  than  its  fellow  Wedge, 
which  a  hundred  years  ago  was  met  with  more 
frequently.  Though  of  Anglo-Saxon  descent, 
the  connection  between  the  American  family 
and  the  famous  English  fimily  settled  in  Staf- 
fordshire has  not  yet  been  clearly  traced. 

(I)  The  WedgAvoods  of  Maine  are  de- 
scended from  John  Wedgwood,  planter  and 
husbandman,  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in 
1637.  He  displayed  the  martial  spirit  observed 
in  succeeding  generations,  serving  and  being 
wounded  in  the  Pequot  war.  As  early  as  1644 
he  removed  to  Hampton,.  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  became  a  landowner,  and  in  1650 
bought  "the  Elder's  Lot"  of  Rev.  John  Wheel- 
wright, so  prominent  in  the  early  history  of 
Maine  and  New  Hampshire.  Here  he  died 
December  9,  1654,  leaving  a  wife  Mary,  who 
died  August  24,  1670,  and  iive  children,  John, 
the  eldest,  who  lived  in  Exeter,  New  Hamp- 
shire, Jonathan,  Mary,  Abigail  and  David. 

(II)  David, youngest  child  of  John  and  Alary 
Wedgwood,  was  born  December  12,  1652,  and 
married,  January  4,  1683,  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Morris  and  Sarah  (Eastow)  Hobbs,  who 
was  his  junior  by  several  vears.  He  served 
as  a  soldier  in  King  William's  war.  Their 
children,  born  in  Hampton,  were  John,  and 
Mary,  who  married,  January  31,  1712,  Ezekiel 
Knowles. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  David  and  Hannah 
(Hobbs)  Wedgwood,  was  born  Au:::ust  8, 
1688,  married,  January  31.  1712,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Esther  (Richard- 
son) Shaw,  who  was  born  July  23,  1690.  and 
died  August  9,  1755.  His  name  occurs  among 
those  who  did  garrison  duty  at  Fort  William 
and  jNIary  in  1708.  They  lived  at  North 
Hampton,  where  he  died  July  31,  1755.  Their 
children  were  David  and  Jonathan. 

(IV)  Jonathan,  second  son  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Shaw-)  M'edgwood,  was  born  No- 
vember 9.    1 7 16.  married,  January   25,    1737, 


Mary,  daughter  of  Ensign  Samuel  and  Cath- 
erine (Carr)  Marston,  who  was  born  March 
5,  1719,  died  June  29,  1790.  He  was  for 
several  years  town  clerk  of  North  Hampton, 
residing  upon  the  homestead.  The  later  por- 
tion of  his  life  was  spent  with  his  son  James 
on  Birch  Plain.  He  died  in  his  ninetieth  year, 
June  II,  1806.  Of  their  children,  three  named 
for  their  father  died  in  their  infancy ;  the 
others  were  Hannah,  David,  Samuel,  Hepzi- 
bah,  James,  Mary,  Catherine,  Josiah,  John. 

{V)  Samuel,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Marston)  Wedgwood,  was  born  at  North 
Hampton,  February  8,  1752.  He  enlisted  at 
eighteen  in  Captain  George  March's  company 
in  the  expedition  against  Canada,  and  was 
taken  ill  at  Crown  Point.  In  the  revolution 
he  served  under  Captain  William  Pre>cott, 
and  was  a  sergeant-major  in  Colonel  Drake's 
regiment  in  the  campaign  against  Burgoyne 
in  1777.  Three  of  his  brothers  were  fellow 
soldiers  and  of  these  James  was  an  officer  and 
led  a  regiment  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill, 
-whose  name  repeatedly  occurs  in  the  New 
Hampshire  archives.  His  children  by  his  wife 
Deborah  were  Lydia,  Mary,  Sarah,  Chase. 

(VI)  Chase,  son  of  Samuel  and  Deborah 
Wedgwood,  married  Martha  Mitchell.  He 
was  an  early  settler  in  Lewiston,  Maine,  but 
removed  to  Tamworth  in  1812.  His  children 
were  Dana,  Samuel,  Curtis,  Josiah,  Martha, 
George  and  ^Melissa. 

(VII)  Curtis,  son  of  Ch-se  and  Martha 
(Mitchell)  Wedgwood,  was  born  March  29, 
1806,  at  Lewiston.  He  received  an  academic 
education  at  Fryeburg  Academy  and  was  en- 
gaged in  teaching  over  half  a  century.  He 
settled  in  1837  ^^  Litchfield,  Maine,  where  he 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Litchfield  Lib- 
eral Institute,  and  where  he  served  as  mod- 
erator of  town  meetings  for  thirty  years,  and 
died  in  1893.  All  of  his  sons  served  in  the 
war  of  the  rebellion.  His  wife,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  David  and  Flannah  (Smith) 
Springer,  was  born  February  12,  1807,  and 
died  in  1877.  Their  children  were  Milton 
Curtis,  Thomas  S.,  John  G..  Martha  H., 
Georre  S.,  Newton  J.  and  Luella  P. 

(A'TII)  Milton  Curtis,  eldest  son  of  Curtis 
and  Hannah  (Springer)  Wedsiwood,  was  born 
December  27,  18^2,  at  Bowdoin,  Maine.  He 
was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Litchfield  Liberal 
Institute  and  taught  several  years  before  he 
graduated  from  the  Medical  School  of  Maine 
in  1859.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion at  Durham,  Maine,  and  three  years  later 
entered  the  armv  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Eleventh    Maine   \'olunteers.     On  his   return 


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1563 


from  the  south  in  1864  he  settled  in  Lewiston, 
where  he  met  with  marked  success  in  his  pro- 
fessional work,  and  which  continued  to  be  his 
home  till  his  death.  For  the  last  twenty  years 
of  his  life  he  was  consulting  physician  at  Po- 
land Springs  Hotel,  and  became  an  expert  in 
diseases  of  the  kidneys.  He  died  April  9, 
1906,  from  a  lesion  in  the  blood-vessels  of  the 
brain.  Dr.  Wedgwood  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  served  as 
president  of  the  Androscoggin  Medical  So- 
ciety, of  the  Maine  Medical  Association  in 
1879,  and  of  the  Maine  Academy  of  Medicine 
and  Science  for  three  years.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  governor's  council  under  both  Gov- 
ernor Burleigh  and  Governor  Hill,  and  of  the 
state  board  of  'health  from  1894  till  his  de- 
cease. He  was  prominent  in  the  Masonic  or- 
der, being  a  member  of  the  Maine  Consistory 
of  the  thirty-second  degree.  A  member  and 
friend  of  the  Pine  Street  Congregational 
Church,  he  was  a  man  of  old-fashioned  hon- 
esty and  straightforwardness,  sympathetic 
with  his  patients  and  loved  by  a  wide  circle  of 
friends. 

Dr.  Wedgwood  married,  December  2,  1861, 
Elizabeth  J.,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Lucinda 
(Williams)  Webster,  of  Durham,  Maine,  who 
survives  him.  Mrs.  Wedgwood,  through  her 
mother,  is  descended  from  Thomas  Williams, 
a  physician  and  teacher,  who  came  to  Boston 
in  1 71 7,  and  in  1729  became  the  first  perma- 
nent settler  in  what  is  now  Bath,  Maine.  His 
son,  Samuel  Williams,  married  Mercy,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  Coombs,  of  Brunswick,  settled 
in  Harpswell  and  served  in  the  revolutionary 
war.  His  grandson,  George  Williams,  born 
August  3,  1777,  at  Harpswell,  married  Mabel, 
daughter  of  Noah  and  Mabel  (Wade)  Litch- 
field, of  Lewiston,  and  settled  in  Durham, 
Maine,  where  he  died  February  8,  1867.  Mrs. 
Lucinda  (Williams)  Webster  was  the  seventh 
of  his  thirteen  children,  all  save  two  of  whom 
had  families  of  their  own. 

On  her  father's  side,  Mrs.  Wedgwood  is 
the  great-great-granddaughter  of  James  and 
Isabel  Webster,  of  Cape  Elizabeth.  Their  son 
William  married,  December  24,  1769,  Mrs. 
Jane  (Little)  Yeaton,  and  moved  to  Gray, 
where  he  was  a  captain  in  the  militia  and  one 
of  the  first  board  of  selectmen.  He  died  De- 
cember 19,  1808,  aged  sixty-eight.  His  son, 
William  Webster,  born  April  30,  1774,  at 
Cape  Elizabeth,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Dunning)  Stackpole,  and 
was  one  of  the  original  settlers  in  Durham. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  a  maker  of  plows  and 
farming  utensils.    During  the  war  of  1812  he 


was  a  captain  in  the  militia.  His  seventh 
child  was  Joseph  Webster,  who  lived  the  most 
of  his  life  upon  the  old  homestead  in  Durham, 
and  is  remembered  as  an  honest,  industrious 
and  successful  farmer.  He  was  largely  en- 
gaged in  the  purchase  and  sale  of  lumber  and 
timber  lands.  An  earnest  and  active  Chris- 
tian, he  gave  generously  for  the  support  of 
the  church  in  his  native  town.  He  died  in 
Lewiston,  August  24,  1877. 

By  her  paternal  grandmother  Mrs.  Wedg- 
wood is  descended  through  John  4,  James  3, 
Philip  2,  from  James  Stackpole,  the  emigrant, 
who  was  born  in  1652  in  Ireland.  "He  was  a 
branch  of  the  Pembrokeshire  family,  Wales; 
having  the  same  coat-of-arms  as  the  other 
family,  and  going  from  'Stackpole  Court'  to 
Ireland,  where  a  house  and  home  were  found- 
ed called  'Edenvale'  at  Ennis,  county  Clare." 
He  came  to  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  before 
1680,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  James 
and  Margaret  Warren,  of  South  Berwick, 
Maine,  and  died  in  what  is  now  Rollinsford, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1736.  It  is  quite  certain 
that  he  was  connected  with  the  Stackpole  fam- 
ily of  Limerick,  Ireland.  Between  1450  and 
1650  A.  D.  twenty-six  persons  named  Stack- 
pole,  or  Stacpole  as  the  surname  was  then 
written,  appears  as  mayors,  aldermen,  and  re- 
corders of  Limerick.  They  were  descended 
from  the  Stackpoles  of  Pembrokeshire,  Wales, 
whose  Norman  ancestor  built  a  castle,  early  in 
the  twelfth  century,  on  the  site  now  occupied 
by  Stackpole  Court,  the  seat  of  the  Earl  of 
Cawdor.  From  this  place  Sir  Elidyr  Stack- 
pole,  who  was  founder  of  the  family,  went  on 
the  crusade  with  Richard  the  Lion-hearted. 


This  family  traces  descent 
KNIGHT  from  Walter  Knight,  who  with 
Thomas  Gray  and  John  Gray 
settled  at  Nantasket,  Massachusetts,  in  1622. 
These  names  appear  in  original  papers  of 
Salem,  among  those  who  comprised  the  settle- 
ment when  Endicott  arrived.  In  1629  Walter 
Knight's  name  appears  on  a  patent  obtained 
from  Charles  I,  the  patent  reciting  the  grant 
of  the  Council  of  Plymouth.  It  is  supposed 
that  Walter  Knight  was  a  son  of  Isaac  Knight, 
referred  to  by  Annie  Venn,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain John  Venn,  in  a  book  written  in  London 
in  1658,  in  which  she  mentions  Isaac  Knight 
as  a  prominent  divine. 

(I)  Captain  George  Knight  was  born  in 
Portland,  Maine,  December  3,  1796.  For 
many  years  he  was  commander  of  vessels  of 
the  Portland  Steam  Packet  Company.  He 
married  (first)  Pamelia  Dyer,  born  March  21, 


1564 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1800;  (second)  Judith,  daughter  of  The- 
ophilus  Dyer.  Children:  i.  Judith  S.,  born 
July  21,  1822.  2.  George  H.,  see  forward.  3. 
Child,  August  25,  1827. 

(II)  George  Henry,  son  of  Captain  George 
Knight,  was  born  on  Franklin  street,  Port- 
land, near  where  Lincoln  Park  now  is,  May 
22,  1826,  and  died  September  18,  1899.  He 
had  such  educational  advantages  as  were  avail- 
able in  Portland  at  that  time.  He  became  a 
clerk  in  the  wholesale  dry  goods  store  of  John 
and  Jeremiah  Dow,  and  continued  with  them 
for  some  time.  Later  he  was  in  the  woolen 
business  for  himself.  He  then  engaged  in 
the  dry  goods  business,  being  located  on 
Middle  street,  where  the  Standard  Clothing 
Company's  store  now  stands.  After  several 
years  Mr.  Knight  started  the  manufacture  of 
bungs,  in  which  he  continued  until  about  six 
years  before  his  death,  when  he  retired  from 
business.  He  was  a  well  known  citizen  of 
Portland,  and  died  after  a  lingering  illness, 
at  his  home  on  State  street.  He  married 
(first).  May  14,  1856,  Helen  Burnside,  of 
Lancaster,  New  Hampshire,  who  died  about 
i860,  leaving  one  daughter  Helen,  who  mar- 
ried Herbert  Winslow,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
had  a  son  Burnside,  who  married  Helen  Car- 
rington.  He  married  (second)  October  11, 
1866,  Harriet  S.  Moses,  of  Bath,  who  was 
born  February  5,  1838,  daughter  of  Oliver  and 
Lydia  Clapp  Moses.  Five  children  were  born 
of  this  marriage:  i.  George  M.,  born  Octo- 
ber 13,  1867,  died,  unmarried,  November  28, 
1962.  2.  Marcia  Bowman,  bom  October  11, 
1869,  married  Dr.  William  H.  Bradford.  (See 
Bradford.)  3-4,  Lydia  Clapp  and  Pamelia 
Dyer  (twins),  born  July  31,  1871.  Lydia 
Clapp  died  March,  1872.  Pamelia  Dyer  mar- 
ried, October  6,  1897,  Philip  J.  Deering,  and 
had  two  children ;  Margaret  Knight,  born  Au- 
gust 22,  1898;  and  Philip  Chilton,  July  16, 
1902.  5.  Annie  Louise,  born  1873,  died  1874. 
6.  Anna  Putnam,  born  May  12,  1875 ;  mar- 
ried, December  20,  1905,  Lucius  H.  Bingham, 
of  New  York.  7.  Dorothea  Clapp,  December 
10,  1883,  married,  September  8,  1906.  Hay- 
ward  Wilson.     (See  Wilson.) 


The  Puritans  of  New  England 
WILSON  find  in  the  name  of  John  Wil- 
son (1588-1667)  first  minister 
of  the  First  Church  of  Boston,  a  name  that 
marks  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  Puri- 
tan Congregationalism  in  America.  Bom  in 
Windsor,  England,  graduated  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Cambridge  in  1606,  a  fellow  and  stu- 


dent at  law  in  that  famous  institution  1606-09, 
ordained  a  priest  in  the  Church  of  England, 
chaplain  to  Lady  Scadamore,  rector  at  Moot- 
lake,  Kenley,  Bumsted  Stoke  and  Candish  rec- 
tor of  the  parish  of  Sudbury,  Essex,  suspended 
and  finally  dismissed  by  the  Bishop's  court  by 
reason  of  his  Puritan  sympathies,  he  was 
passed  through  the  fires  of  persecution  and 
came  out  a  full-fledged  Puritan.  He  there- 
upon joined  Governor  John  Winthrop  in  the 
project  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony.  The 
two  great  minds  having  freed  themselves  from 
the  tramals  of  the  Established  Church  about 
the  same  time,  and  being  of  the  same  age, 
their  sympathizers  were  coexistent  and  their 
partnership  in  the  enterprise  mutual.  The 
London  proprietors  having  determined  to 
transfer  the  seat  of  government  to  the  New 
World,  the  great  lawyer  and  the  great  divine 
became  leaders  in  the  aflfairs  of  state  and 
church  as  modified  by  the  Puritan  system  of 
government  decided  upon.  On  October  30, 
1629,  John  Winthrop  was  elected  governor  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  in  America,  and 
by  June  22,  1635,  his  fleet  of  eleven  ships  had 
reached  Salem,  then  the  favored  New  England 
port.  They  had  fitted  out  at  the  Isle  of  Wight 
and  had  a  propitious  voyage,  but  not  finding 
suitable  conditions  at  Salem  they  proceeded 
to  Charlestown,  where  on  August  23,  1630, 
John  Wilson  organized  a  church  and  thence 
they  proceeded  to  Tri-mountain  in  September 
and  then  on  September  30,  1630,  he  estab- 
lished the  church  and  town  of  Boston,  of 
which  church  John  Wilson  became  the  first 
minister,  and  the  church  the  first  church  of 
Boston.  His  ordination  as  teacher  of  this 
church  was  performed  by  the  members  them- 
selves, who  laid  their  hands  on  the  chosen 
leader  and  proclaimed  him  their  pastor.  This 
ceremony,  however,  was  not  performed  until 
1632.  In  1634  he  visited  England,  returning 
in  1635  with  his  wife,  and  bringing  as  his 
assistant  Hugh  Peters,  who  had  been  com- 
pelled to  leave  England  for  non-conformity. 
Wilson,  like  Winthrop,  opposed  the  doctrine 
taught  by  the  Antinomians  through  their 
leader,  Ann  Hutchinson,  and  her  brother-in- 
law,  John  Wheelwright.  He  went  out  as 
chaplain  of  the  New  England  troop  set  against 
the  Pequot  Indians  of  Connecticut  in  1636,  and 
subsequently  became  associated  with  John 
Eliot  in  his  missionary  labors  among  the  In- 
dians. He  wrote  a  Latin  poem  to  the  memory 
of  John  Harrad  in  1647,  twenty  years  before 
his  death,  an  account  of  his  experience  in 
teaching  the  Indians,  under  the  title  "The  Day 


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1565 


Breaking  if  Not  the  Sun  Rising  of  the  Gos- 
pel." which  was  republished  in  New  York  in 
1865. 

The  Pilgrims,  the  early  martyrs  who  found 
refuge  from  the  intolerance  of  the  Church  of 
England  as  early  as  1608  on  the  farther  shore 
of  the  North  Sea  at  Leyden,  Holland,  so 
beautifully  situated  on  the  Old  Rhine  river, 
had  their  hero  in  another  Wilson  bearing  the 
surname  of  Roger,  who  had  much  to  do  with 
the  establishment  of  the  Pilgrim  band,  im- 
mortalized by  having  been  the  first  to  land 
from  the  "Mayflower"  on  New  England  terri- 
tory, December  21,  1620.  If  he  was  not  a  pas- 
senger on  that  historic  ship,  he  was  the  chief 
instigator  and  supporter  of  the  movement 
that  led  to  the  undertaking  of  that  eventful 
adventure  and  stood  as  bondsman  for  William 
Bradford,  Isaac  Allerton,  and  Digerie  Priest. 
Thirty-one  years  after  he  was  represented  in 
the  New  England  Colony,  of  which  he  was  a 
founder  and  liberal  promoter,  but  to  whose 
shores  he  never  came,  in  the  person  of  his 
son  John  Rogers  (1631-91)  the  immigrant  of 
Woburn,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  1651.  It 
is  of  this  son  of  the  bondsman  of  Governor 
Bradford  that  the  line  of  Wilsons  now  make 
this  John  Wilson  their  first  American  an- 
cestor. 

(I)  Roger  Wilson,  the  promoter  of  the  en- 
terprise that  laid  the  foundation  of  the  Ply- 
mouth Colony,  the  cornerstone  of  the  Ameri- 
can Republic,  was  bom  in  Scrooby,  Notting- 
hamshire, England,  about  1588.  He  was  a 
member  of  Rev.  John  RolDinson's  church, 
whose  minister  was  suspended  for  non-con- 
formity in  1603  and  became  the  pastoral  care 
of  his  flock,  driven  from  their  church  and  their 
country,  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1608,  and 
at  Leyden,  to  which  place  they  regathered  in 
May,  1609.  Roger  Wilson  was  one  of  the 
three  friends  who  provided  a  house  for  the 
comfort  and  convenience  of  the  growing  Sep- 
aratist congregation  and  co-operated  with 
Cushman,  Bradford,  Brember  and  others  in 
organizing  the  movement  that  led  to  the  re- 
moval of  the  majority  of  the  able-bodied  mem- 
bers of  his  congregation  to  America  in  1620. 
He  was  among  the  wealthier  of  the  congrega- 
tion, was  a  prosperous  woolen  and  silk  draper 
in  Leyden,  and  a  member  of  the  first  stock 
company  that  fitted  out  the  '"Mayflower."  He 
remained  in  Leyden  with  tlie  pastor,  probably 
intending  to  join  the  colony  at  a  later  day, 
but  in  1625,  when  John  Robinson  died,  the 
congregation  remaining  at  Leyden,  including 
Roger  Wilson,  met  a  loss  that  it  could  not 
withstand,  and  persecution  of  the  Separatists 


having  subsided  in  England,  the  remainder  re- 
turned home  or  became  abandoned  in  the 
Dutch  population.  Roger  Wilson's  death  is 
not  recorded  in  Leyden.  and  he  evidentlv  re- 
turned to  England  and  continued  there  his 
worship  of  God  according  to  the  faith  of  the 
Brownests,  also  known  as  Separatists,  or  Con- 
gregationalists,  as  they  came  to  be  called.  His 
wife  Mary  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel 
Fuller,  the  physician  and  surgeon  of  the 
"Mayflower,"  1620,  who  was  a  deacon  of  Mas- 
ter Robinson's  church,  and  died  in  the  Ply- 
mouth Colony,  Massachusetts,  in  1633,  and 
John,  their  youngest  child,  was  the  only  one 
to  remove  from  England,  or  possibly  from 
Leyden,  Holland,  to  America. 

(II)  John,  youngest  son  of  Roger  and 
Mary  (Fuller)  Wilson,  was  born  in  Leyden, 
Holland,  or  in  Scrooby,  Nottingham,  England 
(if  his  father  returned  to  his  old  home  after 
the  death  of  the  Rev.  John  Robinson  in  Ley- 
den in  1625,  which  is  highly  probable),  in 
1 63 1,  and  he  died  in  Woburn,  Alassachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  July  2,  1687.  Inheriting  the 
spirit  of  liberty  that  cost  his  father  banish- 
ment and  great  loss  of  property,  he  was  true 
to  his  heritage,  and  when  he  arrived  at  the 
age  of  manhood  he  sought  greater  freedom 
in  the  New  England  colonies,  the  unreached 
Mecca  of  his  father.  He  appears  in  Woburn, 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  after  1655,  with 
his  wife  and  two  children — John  Jr.  and  Dor- 
cas. The  name  of  his  wife  (or  possibly  wives, 
if  John  Jr.  and  Dorcas  were  his  children  by 
a  first  wife)  does  not  appear  in  any  record  of 
the  early  history  of  Woburn,  and  the  only  in- 
timation of  a  wife  on  the  official  records  of 
the  town  give  the  birth  of  a  son  to  John  Wil- 
son and  wife — Samuel,  December  29,  1658. 
On  the  tax  lists  of  Woburn,  in  the  rate  for  the 
county  of  Middlesex,  assessed  August  26, 
1666,  John  Wilson  Sr.  is  mentioned  as  among 
those  who  had  right  in  the  common  lands  of 
the  town.  He  probably  was  one  of  the  immi- 
grants in  1 65 1.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Indian  war.  His  children  were  bom  in  the 
order  following:  i.  John,  1653.  -■  Dorcas, 
1655 ;  married  Adam  Cleveland,  September 
26,  1775,  then  in  Woburn.  3.  Samuel,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1658.  4.  Abigail,  August  8,  1666.  5. 
Elizabeth,  August  6,  1668.  6.  Benjamin  (q. 
v.),  October  15,  1670.  7.  Hannah,  May  31, 
1672;  married  Jonathan  Pierce,  1689. 

(III)  Benjamin,  youngest  son  and  sixth 
child  of  Lieutenant  John  Wilson,  was  born  in 
Woburn,  Massachusetts,  October  15,  1670.  He 
removed  to  Rehoboth  after  his  father's  death 
in  1687,  and  was  a  resident  of  the  neighbor- 


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hood  of  Palmer's  river,  where  a  meeting-house 
was  built  in  1718  and  seated  December  23  of 
that  year,  when  first  dignity,  second,  age, 
third,  public  charge  in  building  the  house  and 
in  town  affairs,  was  observed.  Benjamin  Wil- 
son's name  appears  as  sixth  on  the  list  of 
persons  who  bound  themselves  to  an  agree- 
ment that  if  the  town  and  community  voted 
£50  towards  the  expense  of  the  building,  the 
subscribers  would  clear  the  town  of  all  further 
expense  in  relation  to  their  house.  He  had 
eighteen  children  by  his  two  wives  Elizabeth, 
but  we  find  no  record  of  their  family  names. 
His  children:  i.  Jonathan,  December  8,  1698. 
2.  Rebeckah,  January  20,  1701.  3.  Hannah, 
October  7,  1702.  4.  Frances,  September  7, 
1704.  5.  Elizabeth,  July  8,  1706.  6.  Samuel, 
January  5,  1707.  7.  Ruth,  April  7,  1710.  8. 
Bethiah,  December  4,  171 1.  9.  Abijah,  Au- 
gust 30,  1 713.  10.  Mary,  October  17,  17 14. 
By  a  second  wife  Elizabeth:  11.  Sarah,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1729-30.  12.  John  (q.  v.),  October 
19.  1733-  13-  Lucas,  August  10,  1735.  14. 
Annie,  April  26,  1737.  15.  Benjamin,  April 
II,  1739.  16.  Jonathan,  April  7,  1741.  17. 
Ezekiel,  May  11,  1744.  18.  Chloe,  June  23, 
1746. 

(IV)  John  (2),  twelfth  child  and  eldest 
son  of  Benjamin  Wilson  by  the  second  wife, 
was  born  in  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  October 
29,  1733.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war.  and  sergeant  in  the  Rehoboth 
company.  Captain  Hix,  enlisted  for  three 
years'  service  in  the  American  revolution.  He 
was  a  man  of  remarkable  size  and  strength, 
and  in  local  tests  of  these  gifts  and  of  athletic 
skill  he  is  said  never  to  have  met  his  equal. 

He  married  jibigail ,  and  their  children 

were  born  in  Kehoboth:  i.  Molly,  December 
2,  1764.  2.  Sarah,  September  15,  1766,  died 
young.  3.  Joseph  (q.  v.);  June  25,  1768.  4. 
Sarah,  October  15,  1770.  5.  John,  January 
27,  1775.  6.  Miles  Shorey,  January  27,  1775. 
7.  Abigail,  April  13,  1777.  8.  Betsey,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1779.  9.  Benjamin,  March  23, 
1783.    10.  Lucretia,  April  24,  1785. 

(V)  Joseph,  eldest  son  and  third  child  of 
Sergeant  John  (2)  and  Abigail  Wilson,  was 
born  in  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  January  25, 
1768.  He  removed  from  Rehoboth  to  Tliom- 
aston,  Maine,  and  about  1795  married  Lydia 
Major,  and  later  in  life  removed  to  Bradford, 
Maine,  where  he  was  a  farmer  during  his 
later  days,  and  where  he  died.  Joseph  and 
Lydia  (Major)  Wilson  had  nine  children,  bom 
as  follows:  i.  Mary,  born  1796.  2.  Miles  S., 
born  March  4.  1800.  3.  John  Hines  (q.  v.), 
born  June  9,  1804.    4.  Harvey  S.     5.  Joseph. 


6.  Jemima,  whose  husband's  name  was  Fletch- 
er. 7.  Eliza,  whose  husband's  name  was 
Garey.     8.  Daniel. 

(VI)  John  Hines,  second  son  of  Joseph  and 
Lydia  (Major)  Wilson,  was  born  in  Thomas- 
ton,  Maine,  June  9,  1804.  He  was  brought  up 
on  his  father's  farm  in  Bradford,  Penobscot 
county,  Maine,  and  attended  school  during  the 
winter  season.  He  was  a  Democrat,  like  a 
large  majority  of  the  voters  of  Maine  at  the 
time  he  reached  his  majority,  and  he  remained 
an  active  worker  in  that  party  up  to  the  for- 
mation of  the  Republican  party  in  1856,  when 
he  joined  that  party  as  expressing  his  views 
upon  the  question  of  slavery.  He  served  un- 
der the  Democratic  rule  as  deputy  sheriff  of 
Penobscot  county,  and  the  Republican  party 
elected  him  sheriff,  and  his  term  in  the  sher- 
iff's office  in  Penobscot  county  covered  a  pe- 
riod of  forty  years.  His  affiliations  were 
with  the  Methodist  church,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  was 
married,  at  Bradford,  Maine,  December,  1831, 
to  Rachel  Rider  Kingsbury,  a  native  of 
Brewer,  Maine,  where  she  was  born  April  26, 
1807.  Her  husband  died  January  30,  1893, 
and  she  died  on  August  5,  1893,  six  months 
only  intervening  between  their  deaths.  Chil- 
dren of  John  Hines  and  Rachel  Rider  (Kings- 
bury) Wilson:  i.  Franklin  A.  (q.  v.),  No- 
vember 6,  1832.  2.  Walter  Kingsbury,  born 
in  Orono,  Maine,  December  22,  1836,  died 
March  16,  1837.  3.  Lucinda  B.,  born  in 
Orono,  October  15,  1838.  4.  Amanda  M., 
born  in  Orono,  September  26.  1842.  5.  Henry 
E.,  born  in  Bangor,  December  18,  1849,  died 
August  15,  1859. 

(VII)  Franklin  Augustus,  eldest  child  of 
John  Hines  and  Rachel  Rider  (Kingsbury) 
Wilson,  was  born  in  Bradford,  Maine,  No- 
vember 6,  1832.  When  he  was  four  years  of 
age  his  father  moved  to  Orono,  and  when  he 
was  eleven  the  family  moved  to  Bangor.  He 
received  his  preparatory  educational  training 
in  the  public  schools  of  Bangor.  He  was 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  A.  B.,  1854; 
A.  M.,  1857;  studied  law  in  the  office  of  John 
A.  Peters  in  Bangor,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Penobscot  bar  in  1857,  and  soon  after 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of 
Maine  and  in  the  United  States  circuit  court. 
He  became  the  law  partner  of  his  law  precep- 
tor, John  A.  Peters,  in  1867,  and  the  law 
partnership  of  Peters  &  Wilson  continued  up 
to  1882,  when  Mr.  Peters  withdrew  to  accept 
the  position  of  judge  of  the  supreme  judicial 
court  of  Maine,  when  Charles  F.  Woodward 
was  admitted  and  the  firm  became  Wilson  & 


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Woodward,  and  so  continued  up  to  1900, 
when  Mr.  Wilson  retired  from  active  practice 
after  a  period  of  forty-three  years.  He  con- 
tinued to  manage  the  various  trust  interests 
committed  to  his  charge,  and  served  as  a 
director  of  the  Maine  Central  railroad  from 
December,  1892,  and  was  elected  president  of 
the  corporation  in  May,  1894,  which  position 
he  resigned  in  1899,  but  continued  his  direc- 
torship of  the  road.  He  was  also  chosen 
president  of  the  Penobscot  Savings  Bank  of 
Bangor  in  1888,  which  position  he  still  holds, 
and  president  of  the  European  &  North 
American  Railroad  from  1900.  His  director- 
ship in  other  corporations  include :  The  Frank- 
lin Company  of  Waterville  and  Boston,  deal- 
ing in  real  estate  and  water  rights ;  the  Lock- 
wood  Company,  manufacturers  of  cotton 
goods,  and  the  First  National  Bank  of  Bangor. 
He  was  also  made  a  trustee  of  the  Bangor 
Public  Library,  and  overseer  of  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, which  institution  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  of  LL.  D.  in  1900.  His 
church  affiliation  is  with  the  Unitarian  denom- 
ination, and  his  club  membership  includes  the 
University  of  Boston ;  the  Cumberland,  of 
Portland ;  the  Tarratine  of  Bangor,  and  the 
Mount  Desert  Reading  Room  of  Bar  Harbor. 
His  political  affiliation  was  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party  up  to  1861  and  has  been  with  the 
Republican  party  from  that  time.  He  served 
his  state  as  a  representative  from  Bangor  in 
the  Maine  legislature  in  1875  and  1876. 

He  was  married,  September  21,  1859,  ^o 
Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Joshua  Wingate  and 
Hannah  (Pearson)  Carr,  of  Bangor,  and  two 
children  were  born  of  the  marriage:  i.  Mary 
Franklin,  January  12,  1861  ;  married,  June  17, 
1886,  to  George  C.  Cutler ;  five  sons :  John 
Cutler,  May  12,  1887;  Elliot  Carr  Cutler,  July 
30,  1888 ;  Roger  Wilson  Cutler,  November  3, 
1889;  George  Chalmers  Cutler  Jr.,  May  8, 
1891,  and  Robert  Cutler,  June  12,  1895.  2. 
Elliot  Carr  Wilson,  twin  of  Mary  Franklin, 
died  November  9,  1864,  when  three  years  old. 
The  mother  of  these  two  children  died  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1867,  and  Mr.  Wilson  married  (sec- 
ond), October  12,  1871,  Caroline,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Jane  (Pierce)  Stetson,  of  Ban- 
gor, Maine.  Caroline  Stetson  was  born  May 
30,  1842,  and  by  her  marriage  with  Mr.  Wil- 
son had  three  children:  Charles  Stetson  (q. 
v.),  John  (q.  v.),  and  Hayward  (q.  v.).  Mr. 
Wilson  found  his  recreation  from  his  law 
practice  and  the  care  of  his  business  interests 
as  a  director  of  corporations  in  travel,  and  he 
has  visited  and  studied  the  historic  countries 


of  the  Old  World,  including  Egypt  and  the 
upper  Nile,  Greece,  Rome,  and  the  modern 
cities  of  the  continent  of  Europe. 

(Vni)  Charles  Stetson,  eldest  son  of 
Franklin  Augustus  and  Caroline  Pierce  (Stet- 
son) Wilson,  was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine, 
June  10,  1873.  He  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Roxbury  Latin  School,  and  was  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  A.  B.,  1897.  He  was  clerk 
in  a  banking  house  in  Boston  for  three  years 
(1897-1900);  was  secretary  of  the  United 
States  legation  at  Athens,  Greece,  four  years 
(1900-04)  ;  secretary  of  the  United  States  le- 
gation at  Havana,  Cuba,  one  year  (1904-05), 
and  has  held  a  similar  position  at  Buenos 
Ayres,  Argentine,  S.  A.,  since  1905.  He  is 
unmarried. 

(VHT)  John  (3),  second  son  of  Franklin 
Augustus  and  Caroline  Pierce  (Stetson)  Wil- 
son, was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine,  September 
26,  1878.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Hotchkiss  School  at  Lakeville,  Connecticut, 
and  the  Roxbury  Latin  School,  and  was  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  A.  B.,  1900,  and  at  the 
Harvard  University  Law  School  LL.  B.,  1903. 
He  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Bangor, 
Maine. 

Mr.  Wilson  married.  December  4,  1903, 
Emma,  daughter  of  John  P.  and  Isabell 
(Stratton)  Otis,  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
and  their  first  child,  Caroline,  was  born  July 
26,  1905,  their  second,  John  Otis,  December  4, 
1907.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Tarratine,  Ken- 
duskeag  Canoe  and  Country,  ^Meadow  Brook 
Golf  Clubs,  and  secretary  of  the  Haward  Club 
of  Bangor.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Indepen- 
dent Congregational  (Unitarian)  Society. 

(VIII)  Hayward  Wilson,  third  son  and 
youngest  child  of  Franklin  Augustus  and  Car- 
oline Pierce  (Stetson)  Wilson,  was  born  in 
Bangor,  Maine,  April  9,  1884.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  Ex- 
eter, New  Hampshire,  and  was  graduated  at 
Harvard  A.  B.,  1905.  He  then  engaged  as 
a  clerk  in  the  banking  house  of  Lee,  Higgin- 
son  &  Company,  of  Boston,  and  was  given  a 
position  in  the  Portland  office  of  that  firm. 
He  attends  the  First  Parish  (Unitarian) 
Church  of  Portland ;  is  a  member  of  the  Cum- 
berland Club  and  the  Country  Club  of  that 
city  and  of  the  Harvard  Union  of  Cambridge. 
He  was  married,  September  8,  1906,  to  Dor- 
othea Clapp,  daughter  of  George  Henry  and 
Harriet  (Moses)  Knight,  of  Portland,  Maine. 
Dorothea  Clapp  was  born  December  10,  1883, 
and  they  have  one  son,  born  June  4,  1907, 
Franklin  Augustus  Wilson  (2nd). 


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The  surname  Wilson  is  one  of 
WILSON  the  most  common  and  wide- 
spread in  England,  Scotland 
and  Ireland.  It  is  derived,  of  course,  from 
Will  and  son,  in  the  same  way  as  Johnson, 
Jackson,  Davidson,  etc.,  and  like  those  sur- 
names there  were  doubtless  hundreds  of  pro- 
genitors of  unrelated  families  that  assumed  the 
surname  when  the  custom  became  general  in  the 
twelfth  century  or  earlier.  Many  of  this  name 
have  won  distinction.  There  are  numerous 
coats-of-arms  borne  by  Wilsons  of  the  higher 
classes. 

In  Scotland  the  Wilsons  were  numerous  in 
Renfrewshire,  Elginshire,  Fifeshire,  Lanark- 
shire, and  were  found  in  other  counties  also 
at  an  early  date.  Durina:  the  frightful  perse- 
cution of  the  Scotch  Presbyterians,  one  of 
their  familv  suffered  martyrdom.  In  1685 
James  II,  an  avowed  Roman  Catholic,  became 
King  of  England,  sworn  to  maintain  the  es- 
tablished church  (Episcopal),  but  his  acces- 
sion brought  no  relief  to  the  persecuted  Cov- 
enanters in  Scotland  and  Ireland.  An  Episco- 
pal farmer  named  Gilbert  Wilson  had  two 
daughters — Alargaret,  aged  eighteen,  and  Ag- 
nes, aged  thirteen.  These  girls  attended  con- 
venticles and  had  become  Presbyterians.  Ar- 
rested and  condemned  to  death,  their  father 
succeeded  in  procuring  the  pardon  of  the 
younger  bv  paving  one  hundred  pounds  ster- 
ling, iaut  the  eider  and  an  old  woman  named 
Margaret  MacLaughlin  were  bound  to  stakes 
on  the  seashore  that  they  might  be  drowned 
by  the  rising  tide.  After  the  old  woman  was 
dead  and  the  water  had  passed  over  Mar- 
garet's head,  she  was  brought  out,  restored  to 
consciousness  and  offered  life  if  she  would 
take  the  abjuration  oath.  But  she  said:  "I 
am  one  of  Christ's  children,  let  me  go."  She 
was  then  once  more  placed  in  the  sea  and  her 
sufferings  ended  by  death. 

In  the  north  of  Ireland  the  Crown  granted 
to  William  \\'illson.  of  Suffolk,  England,  two 
thousand  acres  of  land  in  the  precinct  of  Lif- 
fer  (Barony  of  Raphoe),  county  Donegal, 
about  1610.  In  161 1  Willson  bought  two 
thousand  acres  granted  to  Sir  Henry  Knight. 
His  residence  is  given  as  Clarye,  in  Suffolk, 
and  his  Irish  asent  was  Christopher  Parmen- 
ter.  He  brought  over  some  English  settlers, 
but  may  never  have  lived  there  himself.  In 
1689  one  of  the  Scotch  Wilsons  living  in  En- 
niskillen  became  famous.  July  i.  Lieutenant 
MacCarmick.  in  whose  company  James  Wil- 
son was  a  soldier,  made  a  stand  against  the 
Duke  of  Berwick,  an  illegitimate  son  of  King 
James,  at  the  head  of  a  detachment  of  Irish, 


six  hundred  dragoons  on  foot  and  two  troops 
of  horse.  Governor  Hamilton,  his  superior 
officer,  failed  to  keep  his  promise  to  support 
MacCarmick,  and  his  little  company  was  fairly 
cut  to  pieces ;  his  son  slain  at  his  side  and 
he  was  taken  prisoner.  But  thirty  escaped. 
"Among  them  was  a  brave  soldier  named 
James  Wilson.  Surrounded  by  a  number  of 
dragoons,  he  was  assailed  by  all  at  once. 
Some  of  them  he  stabbed,  others  he  struck 
down  with  his  musket,  and  several  he  threw 
under  the  feet  of  their  own  horses.  At  last, 
wounded  in  twelve  places,  his  cheeks  hanging 
over  his  chin,  he  fell  into  a  bush.  There  a 
sergeant  struck  him  through  the  thigh  with  a 
halbert ;  but  Wilson,  exerting  all  his  strength, 
pulled  it  out  and  ran  it  through  the  sergeant's 
heart.  By  the  aid  of  this  halbert  he  walked 
to  Enniskillen.  He  was  afterwards  cured  of 
his  wounds  and  survived  for  thirty  years." 
Whether  descended  from  him  or  not,  the  Wil- 
son family,  mentioned  below,  may  well  take 
pride  in  this  exploit. 

(I)  William  Wilson,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  to  this  country  from  Tyrone,  Ireland,  in 
1737,  with  his  wife,  a  daughter,  and  his  son 
Robert,  mentioned  below.  They  spent  the 
first  winter  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and 
then  removed  to  Townsend,  where  many 
Scotch-Irish  families  settled. 

(II)  Major  Robert,  son  of  William  Wil- 
son, was  born  about  17,34  in  Tyrone,  Ireland, 
and  came  to  New  England  with  his  parents. 
He  enlisted  in  the  French  war  in  1755  and 
was  among  the  company  that  was  with  Gen- 
eral Wolfe,  September  12.  1759,  at  the  Heights 
of  Abraham,  when  Wolfe  was  killed.  He  re- 
turned to  Massachusetts  and  settled  in  Peter- 
borough, New  Hampshire,  and  resided  on  the 
farm  now  or  lately  occupied  in  part  by  his 
grandson,  James  Wilson,  on  what  used  to  be 
called  Main  Street  Road.  He  was  a  farmer, 
and  kept  a  tavern.  The  house  stood  on  the 
west  side  of  the  road,  about  seventy-five  or 
eighty  rods  southwest  of  the  house  now  occu- 
pied by  James  Wilson,  and  some  forty  rods 
north  of  the  brick  school  house.  The  old 
cellar  hole  marks  the  spot.  He  was  in  the 
revolution.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  militia 
in  1771,  a  captain  in  1775,  when  he  answered 
the  Lexington  alarm,  and  a  major  in  1777. 
He  was  under  General  Stark  and  was  present 
at  the  various  engagements  at  Bennington, 
Saratoga,  etc.,  and  was  appointed  by  General 
Stark  to  command  a  guard  detailed  to  escort 
six  hundred  Hessian  prisoners  of  war  from 
Bennington  to  Boston.  He  was  selectman  in 
1765-71;  treasurer  in  1786-87-88,  and  one  of 


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the  committee  of  safety  in  1776.  He  was  a 
man  of  fine  physique,  six  feet  in  height,  and 
was  industrious  and  prudent  in  his  affairs.  By 
his  own  hard  work  he  was  able  to  accumulate 
quite  a  fortune  for  those  days.  He  died  De- 
cember 25,  1790,  suddenly,  of  strangulated 
hernia.  He  married,  in  1761  or  1762,  Mary 
Hodge,  of  West  Cambridge.  She  married 
(second)  September  16,  1803,  Enos  Knight, 
of  New  Ipswich,  and  died  December  22,  1825, 
aged  ninety  years.  Children:  I.  Anne,  born 
March  28,  1764;  died  August  16,  1771,  killed 
by  a  log  falling  ofT  a  fence  upon  her.  2. 
James,  August  16,  1766;  married  (first)  Eliz- 
abeth Steele;  (second)  Elizabeth  Little.  3. 
Anne,  born  May  3,  1768,  married  Jeremiah 
Swan.  4.  William,  February  8,  1770,  married 
Dotia  Smith.  5.  John,  January  10,  1772,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Mary,  May  21,  1775,  mar- 
ried General  John  Steele.  7.  Sarah,  1777, 
married,  November  6,  1803,  Joseph  Haynes 
Johnson.    8.  Joseph,  1780,  died  April  24,  1794. 

(III)  Hon.  John,  son  of  Robert  Wilson,  was 
born  January  10,  1772,  in  Peterborough,  New 
Hampshire.  He  settled  in  Belfast,  Maine, 
studied  law  and  became  one  of  the  leaders  of 
the  bar  in  his  time.  He  was  prominent  in  pub- 
lic life  and  represented  his  district  in  congress 
in  1813-14,  when  Maine  was  still  part  of  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  died  at  Belfast  in  1848.  He 
married  Hannah  Leach.  Children,  born  at 
Belfast:  i.  Sarah,  married  Daniel  Jewett,  at- 
torney at  law,  Bangor ;  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  became  a  prominent  citizen,  and  was 
mayor  of  that  city.  2.  John,  born  May  7, 
1810,  mentioned  below.  3.  Hannah,  married 
A.  G.  Jewett,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Belfast, 
active  in  public  affairs  and  at  one  time  minis- 
ter to  Peru.  4.  Mary,  married  William  C. 
Crosby,  a  lawyer  of  Bangor.     5.  Jane. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  Hon.  John  (i)  Wil- 
son, was  born  in  Belfast,  May  7,  1810,  died 
there  February  10,  1874.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town.  He  fol- 
lowed farming  for  his  occupation  all  his  life. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  after  the 
party  was  organized,  and  at  one  time  was  a 
member  of  the  common  council  of  the  city  of 
Belfast.  He  married,  June  23,  1830.  Eliza  A. 
Townsend,  born  at  Taunton,  Massachusetts, 
December  29,  1809,  died  August  i,  1879. 
Children,  born  at  Belfast:  i.  Sarah  E.,  June 
19.  1831,  died  January  24,  1862;  married 
David  L.  Hatch  :  one  child :  Charles  L.  2. 
James  A.,  April  14,  1833,  clied  January  30, 
1898:  served  in  the  civil  war.  3.  John  O., 
May  9,  1835.  died  June  12,  1859.  4.  Joseph 
B.,  April  19.  1837,  served  in  the  civil  war.     5. 


Jefferson  F.,  July  26,  1839,  mentioned  below. 
6.  Julius  A.,  August  20,  1841,  served  in  the 
civil  war.  7.  Jesse  A.,  April  2,  1843,  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  July  3,  1863.  8. 
Justus  M.,  October  10,  1844.  9.  Jones  E.,  De- 
cember 5.  1846,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Port 
Hudson,  June  14,  1863.  10.  Annie  A.,  April 
22,,  1848,  married,  January  31,  1875,  Alfred 
Ginn  Ellis.  Five  of  the  sons  were  in  the 
Union  service  in  the  army  and  navy  at  the 
same  time  and  two  were  killed. 

(V)  Jefferson  Franklin,  son  of  John  (2) 
Wilson, "was  born  in  Belfast.  July  26,  1839. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  there 
and  worked  on  his  father's  farm  until  he  was 
nineteen  years  old,  when  he  went  to  Aroos- 
took county,  three  miles  from  the  nearest 
clearing,  and  settled.  He  cleared  his  farm, 
built  a  log  house  and  barn,  and  conducted  his 
farm  there  for  seven  years.  Then  he  returned 
to  Belfast  and  established  a  general  trucking 
business  which  prospered  and  grew  to  large 
proportions.  He  was  in  this  business  for  a 
period  of  thirty  years.  In  1896  he  sold  out, 
and  since  then  has  devoted  his  attention  to  con- 
tracting and  the  care  of  his  real  estate.  Mr. 
Wilson  is  a  Democrat  in  politics ;  he  has  been 
street  commissioner  and  member  of  the  board 
of  aldermen  of  the  city  of  Belfast;  in  1888-89 
he  represented  his  district  in  the  state  legis- 
lature, serving  on  the  important  fish  and  game 
committee,  was  coroner  of  Waldo  county  four 
years ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  district  convention 
to  choose  delegates  to  the  Democratic  National 
convenion  in  1908.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
Waldo  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  Belfast;  of 
the  New  England  Order  of  Protection,  and  of 
Seaside  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of  Bel- 
fast. He  married.  December,  i860,  Rosanna 
Blanchard,  who  died  in  1863,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Blanchard.  of  Unity.  He  married  (sec- 
ond), April  18,  1868.  Lizzie  F.  Davis,  bom 
July  6,  1847,  daughter  of  Leander  and  Eliza 
(Cunningham)  Davis,  of  Freedom,  Maine. 
Child  of  first  wife:  Etta  E.,  born  in  Mars  Hill, 
Maine,  1862,  married  Ferd  McKean,  of  Bel- 
fast. Children  of  second  wife:  Jesse  E.,  see 
forward ;  Frank  P.,  see  forward.  Leander 
Davis,  father  of  Mrs.  Jefferson  F.  Wilson,  was 
born  August  23,  1818,  in  Sangerville,  Maine, 
died  at  Belfast,  July  15.  1870.  He  married, 
May  27,  1841,  Eliza  Cunningham,  born  at  Bel- 
fast, July  18,  1821,  died  March  9,  1894,  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  and  Betsey  (Stephenson) 
Cunningham,  and  granddaughter  of  Major 
William  Cunningham,  a  native  of  Scotland,  a 
noted  ship-builder  of  his  day,  who  built  "The 
Fox,"  the  first  ship  ever  built  at  Belfast.    Ben- 


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jamiii  Cunningham  was  born  in  Edgecombe, 
Maine,  married,  September  29,  181 2,  Betsey 
Stephenson,  of  Belfast. 

(VI)  Jesse  E.,  son  of  Jefferson  Franklin 
Wilson,  was  born  in  Belfast,  January  24,  1870. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  city,  and  after  working  with  his  father 
a  short  time  in  the  teaming  business,  took  a 
course  at  Gray's  Commercial  College,  Port- 
land. For  a  time  he  was  a  bookkeeper  for  F. 
O.  Bailey  &  Company,  of  Portland,  and  then 
returned  to  Belfast  and  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  furniture  and  undertaking  business  of 
the  late  Aubrey  G.  Spencer,  at  No.  81  Main 
street.  Mr.  Wilson  was  then  but  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  being  the  youngest  man  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  in  the  city.  Two  years  later 
the  firm  had  outgrown  its  quarters  and  was 
obliged  to  move  to  a  larger  store  in  the  Coli- 
seum building,  a  few  doors  down  the  street. 
After  ten  years,  during  which  time  the  business 
constantly  increased,  Mr.  Wilson  sold  his  in- 
terest to  his  partner  and  went  west.  He  vis- 
ited many  places  in  the  middle  west  and  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  finally  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  business  of  J.  B.  Beals,  of  Fort  Collins, 
Colorado,  who  had  built  up  a  good  business  as 
a  men's  outfitter.  In  the  fall  of  1904  Mr.  Wil- 
son purchased  his  partner's  interest  in  the 
business,  and  has  since  carried  it  on  in  his  own 
name,  advertising  as  "Wilson,  My  Clothier." 
He  is  a  firm  believer  in  newspaper  advertising. 
He  recently  was  obliged  to  lease  additional 
floor  space  to  accommodate  his  growing  trade, 
and  now  has  the  largest  business  in  his  line  in 
Colorado  outside  of  Denver.  Fort  Collins  is 
one  of  the  most  progressive  cities  in  the  west, 
and  is  rapidly  growing  in  population  and  busi- 
ness importance.  Mr.  Wilson  is  taking  the 
same  interest  in  the  material  welfare  of  his 
adopted  city  that  he  did  in  the  place  of  his 
nativity,  being  active  in  forwarding  everything 
that  looks  to  the  benefit  of  the  business  of  the 
community.  Although  one  of  the  youngest 
men  in  business  in  Belfast,  he  was  ever  to  be 
found  among  those  who  were  striving  for  her 
best  business  interests.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  city  council,  and  when  there  was  work  for 
the  board  of  trade  he  was  always  at  his  post 
and  was  an  efficient  worker  on  the  most  active 
committees.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active 
of  the  citizens  of  Belfast  in  readjusting  the 
shoe  factory  difficulties,  and  in  bringing  to 
Belfast  the  firm  of  Leonard  &  Barrows.  He 
was  also  largely  instrumental  in  the  settling  of 
the  Duplex  Roller  Bushing  Company  in  Bel- 
fast, and  several  smaller  concerns  were  ma- 
terially assisted  in  locating  in  Belfast  by  Mr. 


Wilson  and  his  associates.  He  is  a  past  chan- 
cellor of  Silver  Cross  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias, and  an  Odd  Fellow,  and  was  for  many 
years  librarian  of  the  Universalist  Sunday- 
school. 

(VI)  Frank  P.  Wilson,  second  son  of  Jef- 
ferson Franklin  Wilson,  was  born  in  Belfast, 
October  3,  1878.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  city,  graduating  from  the 
high  school ;  then  entered  Comer's  Commercial 
College,  Boston,  after  which  he  matriculated 
in  the  University  of  Maine,  graduating  with 
the  class  of  1902.  He  read  law  in  the  office 
of  Judge  Johnson,  of  Belfast,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  Massachusetts,  August  26, 
1902,  and  to  the  bar  in  Maine,  April  21,  1903. 
He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  L'nited 
States  district  courts  of  Maine  and  New  York, 
February  17,  1904.  For  one  year  he  had  an 
office  in  Belfast,  Maine,  but  at  the  present 
time  (1908)  is  associated  with  the  law  firm  of 
Rich,  Woodford,  Bovee  &  Butcher,  No.  18 
Wall  street,  ^^ew  York. 


The  Wilsons  are  found  in  many 
WILSON     branches    of    one    family,    and 

there  are  also  many  distinct 
families  throughout  this  country.  The  one  to 
which  this  article  will  refer  was  a  Portland 
(Maine)  sub-division  of  an  old  colonial  line 
whose  descendants  may  be  found  in  all  parts 
of  the  country  now. 

(I)  Isaac  Wilson  was  born  July  14,  1786, 
died  April  24,  1861.  He  married,  November 
II,  1811,  Mehitable,  daughter  of  Samuel  Ho- 
vey ;  her  first  husband  was  Jonathan  Fair- 
banks. She  was  born  September  8,  1786,  died 
July  27,  1873.  Children:  i.  Samuel  Hovey 
mentioned  below.  2.  Willard,  March  29,  1814 
3.  Isaac  Jr.,  born  in  Saco,  June  6,  1816.  4 
Henry,  in  Portland,  September  18,  1818.  5 
Ruth   H.,  in  Westbrook,  December   17,   1820. 

6.  Sarah  A.,  in  Falmouth,  February  26,  1824 

7.  Eunice  M.,  in  Danville,  July  17,  1826. 

(II)  Samuel  Hovey,  eldest  child  of  Isaac 
and  Mehitable  (Hovey)  (Fairbanks)  Wilson, 
was  born  in  the  city  of  Portland,  Maine,  Au- 
gust 12,  181 2,  and  after  obtaining  a  good  com- 
mon school  education  began  at  the  age  of  six- 
teen years  to  learn  the  carpenter's  trade.  Later 
he  went  to  Boston,  remained  several  years, 
then  returned  to  Lewiston,  Maine,  where  he 
was  a  well  known  contractor  and  builder.  He 
married  (first),  November  5,  1837,  Deborah 
Jewel  Gould,  born  August  6,  1813.  Child, 
Adolphus  P.,  born  in  Lewiston,  November  15, 
1842.  Married  (second),  September  7,  1856, 
Caroline  Frye,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Ju- 


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dith  (Barker)  Ham.  Children:  i.  Edward 
Alton,  born  April  13,  1859.  2.  John  Stock- 
bridge  Patten  Ham,  August  g,  i860.  3.  Mar- 
garet Lenora,  January  i,  1862. 

(Ill)  John  Stockbridge  Patten  Ham,  son 
of  Samuel  H.  and  Caroline  Frye  (Ham)  Wil- 
son, was  born  August  9,  i860.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  the  public  schools  of  Auburn  and  Tur- 
ner, Maine.  He  taught  school  twelve  years,  then 
entered  the  employ  of  J.  B.  Ham  &  Company, 
with  whom  he  remained  until  1900,  when  he 
purchased  the  business  from  his  employers. 
This  is  an  old  and  well  established  grain  busi- 
ness, in  which  Mr.  Wilson  is  still  engaged. 
He  is  trustee  of  the  Auburn  Savings  Bank. 
He  is  public-spirited,  and  has  held  numerous 
local  offices  including  that  of  member  of  the 
school  committee,  while  residing  at  Turner. 
Politically  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  by  that  party 
elected  as  mayor  of  Auburn  in  1901-02.  Being 
possessed  of  the  fraternal  spirit  of  the  times, 
'he  is  found  numbered  among  the  active  mem- 
bership of  the  Masonic  order,  having  advanced 
to  the  thirty-second  degree  in  Masonry.  He 
is  also  identified  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  The  family  are  attendants 
of  the  Universalist  church. 


The    Wilson    family,    which    is 
WILSON      the    subject   of   this    narrative, 
was  long  time  resident  in  Cor- 
nish,   Maine,   and   not   improbably    descended 
from   Gowen   Wilson,   whose   progeny   is   nu- 
merous in  the  state. 

(I)  John  Wilson  lived  in  Cornish  so  long 
ago  that  record  and  tradition  have  preserved 
little  of  him  but  his  name. 

(II)  David,  son  of  John  Wilson,  was  a 
farmer  in  Cornish,  where  he  resided  many 
years,  and  died  about  the  year  1854.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Emery,  who  died  in  1871  at  the 
age  of  eighty-five  years,  in  Thomaston. 

(III)  Hon.  Edmund,  son  of  David  and 
Mary  (Emery)  Wilson,  was  born  in  Cornish, 
York  county,  Maine,  March  4,  181 2,  died  in 
Thomaston,  April  25,  1886.  He  studied  law 
in  the  office  of  Judge  Joseph  Howard,  then  of 
Limerick,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the 
York  county  bar  in  October,  1837.  Soon  after 
admission  he  removed  to  Thomaston  and  en- 
tered upon  the  active  practice  of  his  profession. 
On  first  going  to  Thomaston  he  entered  the 
law  office  of  Jonathan  Cilley,  taking  charge  of 
it  while  Mr.  Cilley  was  a  member  of  the  na- 
tional house  of  representatives,  and  up  to  the 
time  of  Mr.  Cilley 's  memorable  duel  with 
Graves,  of  Kentucky,  in  which  the  high- 
spirited  representative  of  Maine  lost  his  life. 


Mr.  Wilson  was  county  attorney  for  Lincoln 
county  (before  the  formation  of  Knox  county) 
from  1842  to  1847.  In  1846  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Polk  to  the  customs  collectorship 
of  the  Wakloboro  district,  serving  until  1849. 
He  was  again  appointed  by  President  Pierce 
in  1853  and  served  until  1857.  In  1868  he 
was  appointed  special  agent  of  the  United 
States  treasury  under  the  administration  of 
President  Johnson,  serving  two  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Maine  house  of  repre- 
sentatives in  1865-66-70-71-72-79.  From  1876 
to  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  the  member 
from  Maine  of  the  Democratic  national  com- 
mittee. He  took  great  interest  in  the  promo- 
tion of  the  Knox  &  Lincoln  railroad,  and  for 
many  years  was  one  of  its  directors.  Mr.  Wil- 
son was  one  whose  wide  acquaintance  with 
public  men  and  -national  politics  brought  him 
into  close  contact  with  public  affairs.  The 
breadth  of  his  information  and  the  geniality 
of  his  disposition  made  him  hosts  of  friends 
even  among  his  political  opponents.  For  a 
long  time  he  was  a  conspicuous  figure  in  Maine 
politics.  A  Democrat  by  training  and  convic- 
tion, he  was  always  loyal  to  the  party  of  his 
first  and  only  love,  giving  on  every  occasion  a 
hearty  support  to  its  nominees.  Perhaps  one 
of  the  happiest  moments  of  his  life  was  when 
he  received  the  news  of  the  election  of  Grover 
Cleveland. 

Apparently  strong  and  well,  Mr.  Wilson 
died  from  an  attack  of  apoplexy.  He  was 
taken  ill  while  at  dinner,  late  Sunday  after- 
noon, soon  became  unconscious,  and  so  re- 
mained until  death,  which  occurred  about 
eleven  o'clock.  He  died  in  the  midst  of  his 
third  term  as  a  member  of  the  National  Dem- 
ocratic committee,  and  the  following  is  an  ex- 
tract from  the  tribute  paid  to  his  memory  by 
his  successor,  Hon.  William  Henry  Clifford : 
"Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen :  It  has  be- 
come my  duty  to  announce  to  this  committee 
the  death,  since  their  last  session,  of  Hon.  Ed- 
mund Wilson,  former  member  from  the  state 
of  Maine,  and  it  is  my  apology  for  occupying 
a  few  moments  of  the  present  session,  that  the 
mere  announcement  would  come  short  of  the 
proprieties  of  the  occasion,  when  that  is  made 
concerning  so  venerable  a  member  and  so 
marked  and  prominent  a  person,  in  the  business 
affairs,  at  the  bar,  and  in  the  political  contests  of 
the  state  of  which  he  was  a  citizen.  For  many 
years  Mr.  Wilson  had  filled  no  inconsiderable 
place  at  the  bar  and  in  the  party  of  which  he 
was  always  an  honored  member.  *  *  *  As  a 
member  of  the  Democratic  party  of  Maine  he 
performed  an  important  function  in  its  coun- 


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sels,  and  was  among  the  foremost  in  its  con- 
tests with  a  strong  and  victorious  foe.  He  had 
served  as  a  young  man  in  the  ranks  of  the 
Democracy  in  the  old  days  of  its  glory  and 
predominance  in  Maine.  He  went  down  with 
it  into  the  valley.  But  his  devotion  to  its 
destinies  was  more  especially  exemplified  dur- 
ing that  long  period  during  which  it  met  only 
with  reverses  and  defeats.  I  refer  to  the  two 
decades  subsequent  to  1861,  and  during  and 
following  the  outbreak  and  continuance  of  the 
civil  war.  Throughout  this  era  of  almost  un- 
varied disaster,  cheered  by  no  victory,  and 
illuminated  by  no  hope,  few,  if  any,  in  Maine 
contributed  more  than  he  towards  maintain- 
ing some  organization  and  coherency  among 
the  faithful  few  that,  unfaltering,  still  mus- 
tered beneath  the  Democratic  standard  and 
maintained  the  Democratic  faith.  This  is  no 
small  praise.  In  those  days  it  required  the 
firmness  of  an  almost  heroic  spirit  to  profess 
the  Democratic  creed,  and  openly  act  in  op- 
position to  the  haughty,  domineering,  uncom- 
promising, nay,  almost  persecuting  spirit  that 
inspired  the  forces  of  the  overruling  Republi- 
can power.  To  his  honor,  and  in  behalf  of  his 
memory,  be  it  spoken  that  the  subject  of  these 
remarks  was  by  no  means  inconspicuous 
among  the  strong  and  steady  men  that  calmly 
faced  the  noisy,  exultant,  contemptuous  out- 
cries of  triumphant  Republicanism,  without 
any  approach  toward  faltering,  and  an  impa- 
tient expectation  of  the  coming  of  a  brighter 
day.  *  *  *  Mr.  Wilson  was  a  type  of  the 
plain,  unaflfected,  self-reliant  New  England 
man.  He  was  a  product  of  her  institutions, 
educated  under  her  systems,  with  a  character 
moulded  and  colored  by  the  social  and  moral 
influences  which  New  England  life  exerts. 
*  *  *  A  singularly  kind  and  human  nature 
was  not  at  all  concealed  or  distorted  under  a 
manner  which,  to  the  stranger,  but  little 
courted  intimacy  or  advance.  Indeed,  I  think, 
like  many  strong  and  rugged  men  averse  to 
any  exhibition  of  emotion,  he  assimied  by 
habit  a  certain  kind  of  bluntness  as  a  mask ; 
but  this  was  only  the  rough  external  rind  of  a 
ripe  fruit,  sweet,  savory  and  pleasant  to  the 
taste — a  heart  soft  and  tender  and  open  to 
every  just  appeal.  He  was  a  man  of  deep  con- 
victions and  followed  without  faltering  wher- 
ever a  sense  of  duty  led.  He  derived  his 
courage  from  the  sincerity  of  his  belief.  Of 
thick-set,  sturdy  frame,  of  resolute  counten- 
ance and  mien,  he  exhibited  what  he  really 
was — a  man  of  energy  and  vigor  and  strength. 
He  was  a  Democrat  from  conviction,  and  from 
real  comprehension  of  the  spirit  and  aim  of 


our  institutions."  At  the  close  of  these  re- 
marks Mr.  Clifford  introduced  the  following 
resolution,  which  was  adopted :  "'Resolved, 
That  the  members  of  the  Democratic  national 
committee  learn  with  sorrow  of  the  death  of 
the  late  representative  of  the  state  of  Maine, 
in  this  body,  the  Hon.  Edmund  Wilson.  By 
the  death  of  Mr.  Wilson  this  committee  has 
lost  the  counsel  and  co-operation  of  an  experi- 
enced and  judicious  member,  who  by  his  cor- 
rect appreciation  of  the  duties  of  his  position, 
his  earnestness  in  the  cause  of  Democracy,  his 
intelligent  appreciation  of  its  spirit  and  aims, 
his  capacity,  his  manly  and  considerate  bear- 
ing, had  established  himself  in  the  respect 
and  regard  of  his  colleagues,  who  will  continue 
to  maintain  of  their  late  esteemed  and  honored 
associate,  the  most  agreeable  recollections." 
At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Kno.x  county  bar 
the  following  resolutions  were  passed ;  and 
ordered  placed  on  the  records  of  the  court: 
"Resolved,  That  we  have  with  regret  heard  of 
the  decease  of  the  Hon.  Edmund  Wilson,  a  dis- 
tinguished member  of  this  bar,  who  has 
adorned  the  profession  by  an  upright  and  hon- 
orable life ;  and  we  desire  to  mark  the  occasion 
by  attempting  to  record  our  estimate  of  his 
manly  life,  his  abilities  and  high  character. 
Resolved — that  the  character  and  abilities  of 
the  Hon.  Edmund  Wilson,  demand  esteem ; 
that  though  he  was  not  for  several  years  en- 
gaged in  the  active  practice  of  his  profession, 
he  has  kept  a  constant  social  intercourse  with 
the  members  of  the  bar,  and  attending  nearly 
every  term  of  our  court — by  them  he  will  be 
seriously  missed.  Throughout  his  whole  life 
he  maintained  a  wide  and  varied  intercourse 
with  the  public  men  of  our  state  and  nation, 
and  took  deep  interest  and  a  prominent  part 
in  public  affairs ;  he  was  by  nature  social,  and 
had  a  large  fund  of  information,  and  large  ac- 
quaintance with  the  men  and  aft'airs  of  the 
day.  Resolved — That  the  bar  deeply  sympa- 
thize with  the  family  and  friends  of  our  de- 
ceased brother,  and  that  a  copy  of  these  resolu- 
tions be  forwarded  to  his  widow  and  son.  and 
if  the  presiding  justice  permits,  be  entered  on 
the  records  of  the  court."  .-Vfter  the  passage 
of  these  resolutions  Chief  Justice  Peters  spoke 
substantially  as  follows :  "I  am  happy  to  con- 
cur with  the  body  in  the  sentiments  of  the  res- 
olutions offered  and  in  the  remarks.  Mr.  Wil- 
son was  a  conspicuous  member  of  the  bar, 
although  for  a  good  many  years  he  could 
hardly  be  called  a  practitioner,  certainly  not 
an  active  one.  I  miss  him  here  exceedingly. 
He  was  always  in  attendance  more  or  less  dur- 
ing the  terms,  and  he  took  a  personal  interest 


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in  the  disposition  of  cases.  He  had  a  very 
high  respect  for  the  profession  and  a  very  high 
respect  for  the  court.  He  was  a  man  of  strong 
friendships ;  this  was  a  marked  trait  of  his 
character.  He  was  a  prominent  man,  a  man 
known  throughout  the  country.  I  regarded 
him  as  a  man  of  integrity  and  character,  and 
I  think  it  very  fitting  that  this  tribute  should 
be  paid  to  his  memory,  and  the  request  that 
the  resolutions  be  entered  on  record  is  heartily 
granted." 

Edmund  Wilson  married,  December  i,  1842, 
Mary  Sprague,  born  in  Thomaston,  November 
16,  1813,  died  in  Portland,  May  i,  1902, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  D.  (Sampson) 
Haskell,  of  Thomaston.  Of  this  union  was 
born  an  only  child,  Bion. 

(IV)  Bion,  only  child  of  Edmund  and  Mary 
Sprague  (Haskell)  Wilson,  was  born  in 
Thomaston,  April  21,  1855.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Thomaston,  fitted  for 
college  by  a  private  tutor,  and  entered  Bow- 
doin  College,  July  12,  1872,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  July  13,  1876.  Subsequent  to 
his  graduation  he  read  law  in  his  father's  of- 
fice at  Thomaston,  and  for  a  short  time  in  the 
office  of  Hon.  Eben  F.  Pillsbury,  of  Augusta, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kennebec 
county  at  the  March  term  of  court,  1878.  He 
immediately  entered  upon  practice,  and  from 
May  10,  1878,  till  March  i,  1879,  was  associ- 
ated with  Hon.  James  W.  Bradbury,  ex-United 
States  senator,  a  prominent  attorney,  and  a 
graduate  of  the  famous  Bowdoin  College,  class 
of  1825.  During  the  three  years  beginning 
March  i,  1879,  he  was  a  law  partner  of  Hon. 
Herbert  M.  Heath,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin, 
class  of  1872.  January  i,  1887,  he  removed  to 
Portland  and  was  appointed  deputy  surveyor 
of  customs  by  the  Hon.  Bion  Bradbury,  sur- 
veyor of  the  port  of  Portland  and  Falmouth, 
and  held  that  position  until  November,  1890, 
when  he  resigned.  He  was  then  engaged  in 
business  affairs  until  May  15,  1893,  when  he 
was  appointed  national  bank  examiner  for 
Maine.  He  held  that  office  until  January  17, 
1898,  when  he  was  elected  to  his  present  po- 
sition of  cashier  of  the  Cumberland  National 
Bank  of  Portland.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  directorate  of  this  bank  since  January, 
1905,  and  for  twelve  years  he  was  a  director 
of  the  Union  Safe  Deposit  &  Trust  Company 
of  Portland.  Since  January,  1907,  he  has 
been  secretary  of  the  Portland  Clearing  House 
Association.  Mr.  Wilson  is  a  Democrat  in 
politics,  and  was  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
county  attorney  of  Kennebec  county  in  1882, 
and  an  alternate  delegate  to  the  Democratic 


national  convention  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in 
1880,  which  nominated  Hancock  and  English. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Portland  Country  Qub. 
Mr.  Wilson  married,  in  Brunswick,  June  4, 
1879,  Jennie  Morse,  born  August  28,  1854, 
daughter  of  Woodbury  and  Lydia  (Owen) 
Sweat,  granddaughter  of  John  and  Nancy 
(Parker)  Sweat,  great-granddaughter  of  Ja- 
cob Parker,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of 
James  McCobb.  James  McCobb  was  born  in 
England  in  17 10,  and  died  in  Phippsburg, 
Maine,  in  1788.  He  commanded  a  company 
in  the  Colonial  wars,  and  afterward  held  office 
under  the  King  as  special  justice  of  the  su- 
perior court  of  common  pleas  for  the  county 
of  Lincoln.  Two  children  have  been  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  :  Elise,  born  September 
30,  1886;  and  Edmund,  born  September  12, 
1890,  a  graduate  of  the  Portland  high  school, 
and  now  a  student  at  Bowdoin  College. 


From  Norman-French  stock 
HASKELL     and  a  companion  of  William 

the  Conqueror,  the  Haskells 
of  this  line  claim  descent ;  and  in  evidence  of 
their  claim  adduce  their  coat-of-arms,  which 
goes  far  to  substantiate  their  claims.  The  es- 
cutcheon itself  is  Norman.  Its  field  is  (sais) 
or  fur — Sais  is  derived  from  the  fur  with 
which  the  robes  of  only  nobles  or  knights  were 
lined.  The  colors,  argent  and  sable,  are  those 
such  as  rendered  the  bearers  noteworthy,  the 
combination  indicating  unblemished  reputa- 
tion. Argent  compounded  with  sable  means 
the  yielding  up  of  pleasure.  Sable,  the  most 
ancient  armory  colors,  compounded  with  ar- 
gent means  famous.  It  is  without  device.  An- 
ciently it  was  the  opinion  that  such  were  of 
the  highest  honor.  It  bears  the  tesse  or  waist 
belt  of  honor,  one  of  the  insignia  of  knight- 
hood, it  being  of  gold  would  imply  that  the 
bearer  was  a  knight  of  no  mean  power  or 
wealth.  The  legend  of  the  crest  is  given 
thusly :  At  the  battle  of  Hastings,  William 
the  Conqueror,  being  faint  from  lack  of  food, 
saw  in  the  distance,  near  the  lines  of  Harold, 
an  apple  tree  in  fruit :  expressing  his  belief  that 
one  or  two  of  the  apples  would  revive  him 
until  the  fortunes  of  the  day  should  be  decided, 
one  of  his  attendants  (a  knight),  Roget  de 
Haskell  by  name,  dashed  forward  amid  a 
shower  of  the  enemy's  arrows,  secured  and 
brought  to  his  sovereign  a  scarf  filled  with  the 
fruit,  whereupon  the  Conqueror  bade  him  bear 
as  his  crest  the  fruit  bearing  apple  tree  pierced 
by  a  flying  arrow.  The  impression  is  that  the 
knight  was  mortally  wounded.  At  the  head  of 
the  coat-of-arms  is  the  apple  tree  pierced  by 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


the  arrow.  The  motto,  "Craygnez  honte 
Aymez  loyante." 

(I)  Roger  Haskell,  brother  of  the  immi- 
grant William,  was  born  about  1613,  died  in 
1667.  He  was  a  resident  of  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1637,  and  was  of  Beverly  after  the 
incorporation  of  that  town.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  Hardy,  and  had  John, 
William,  Mark  and  Elizabeth. 

(H)  Mark,  son  of  Roger  and  EHzabeth 
(Hardy)  Haskell,  died  May  17,  1699.  He 
married  Mary  Smith. 

(HI)  Roger  (2),  son  of  Mark  and  Mary 
(Smith)  Haskell,  was  born  October  17,  1680, 
and  married,  January  25,  1708,  Joanna  Swift. 

(IV)  Ephraim,  son  of  Roger  (2)  and  Jo- 
anna (Swift)  Haskell,  was  born  February  9, 
171 1,  died  February  25,  1774.  His  wife's  bap- 
tismal name  was  Alehitable. 

(  \' )  Elias,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Mehitable 
Haskell,  was  born  July  14,  1751,  died  October 
10,  1824.  The  revolutionary  records  of  Mas- 
sachusetts state  that  Elias  Haskel  (probably), 
of  Rochester,  was  a  corporal  in  Captain  Earl 
Clap's  company  of  minute-men,  Colonel  The- 
ophilus  Cotton's  regiment,  which  marched  in 
response  to  the  alarm  of  April  ig,  1775:  serv- 
ice seven  da}'s ;  also  Captain  Joseph  Parker's 
company.  Colonel  John  Cushing's  regiment ; 
entered  service  September  20,  1776;  service 
two  months,  at  Rhode  Island.  Elias  Haskell, 
Rochester,  corporal.  Captain  Joseph  Parker's 
company,  Colonel  Ebenezer  Sprout's  regiment ; 
service,  fifteen  days :  mileage  out  home  ( sev- 
enty miles )  allowed ;  company  marched  to 
"foglon  ferry.  "  Rhode  Island,  under  command 
of  Second  Lieutenant  John  Doty  on  the  alarm 
of  December  8,  1776.  Elias  Haskell  married 
Mary  Tillson.  born  January  14,  1757,  died  De- 
cember 18,  1822.  Children  :  Elias,  John,  Will- 
iam, Mercy.  Perez  and  Ira. 

(VI)  John,  second  son  of  Elias  and  Alary 
(Tillson)  Haskell,  resided  in  Thomaston, 
Maine,  and  married  Sarah  D.  Sampson  and 
had :  Charles,  Susan,  ]\Iartha,  John,  Mary  S., 
Sarah  and  Elias. 

(VH)  Mary  S.,  fifth  child  of  John  and 
Sarah  D.  (Sampson)  Haskell,  married  Ed- 
mund Wilson   (see  Wilson,  III). 


Anthony  Bennett,  immigrant 
BENNETT     ancestor,  was  the  nephew  of 

Richard  Bennett,  of  Salem. 
There  is  a  tradition  that  the  family  was  or- 
iginally Welsh.  Richard  Bennett  was  in  Salem 
as  early  as  1635  ;  removed  to  Boston,  where 
his  wife  Sybil  died  September  13,  1653,  and 
he    married    (second)     Margaret    Gurgefield, 


widow.  His  will,  dated  June  21  and  July  6, 
was  proved  September  8,  1677,  bequeathing  to 
wife  IMargaret,  son  Jonas  Clark  and  Susanna 
his  wife ;  grandchildren  Susanna,  daughter  of 
his  son  Peter;  cousin  (i.  e.  nephew)  Anthony 
Bennett  "of  Bass  River" ;  frees  his  negro  man 
Jethro  and  gives  him  a  house  lot.  His  son 
Peter  was  a  legatee  in  the  will  of  his  mother's 
brother,  Major  Ralph  Hooker,  of  Barbadoes, 
March  14,  1663,  proved  April  15,  1664.  An- 
thony Bennett  settled  in  Goose  cove,  Glou- 
cester, and  as  early  as  1679  owned  six  acres  of 
land.  He  also  owned  land  on  the  east  side  of 
Mill  river,  Gloucester.  He  owned  a  sawmill 
near  the  outlet  of  Cape  Pond  brook,  where 
his  son  John  succeeded  him  in  the  mill  busi- 
ness, the  site  at  Cape  Pond  brook  being  still 
known  as  Bennett's  Mills.  He  died  by  acci- 
dent in  1 714  and  his  inventory  amounted  to 
one  hundred  and  three  pounds. 

The  will  of  Richard  Windowe  (Dindoe, 
Winder  or  Winde),  of  Gloucester,  indicates 
that  the  father  of  Anthony  was  dead  and  his 
mother  was  the  second  wife  of  Windowe. 
Richard  Window,  or  Windowe,  was  in  Glou- 
cester in  1647  or  earlier;  was  charged  with 
living  apart  from  his  wife,  but  he  showed  that 
he  sent  for  her  and  she  would  not  come.  He 
was  a  town  officer  in  1654.  He  married, 
March  30,  1659,  Bridget  Travis,  widow  of 
Henry  Travis.  Window's  will  was  dated  May 
2,  1665,  proved  June  7,  1665,  bequeathed  to 
his  wife  Bridget  and  her  son  James  Travis; 
daughter  Ann ;  son-in-law  ( used  for  step-son 
always)  Anthony,  committing  him  to  the  care 
of  his  uncle  Bennett  (his  Uncle  Richard  prob- 
ably) ;  to  "daughter-in-law  Elizabeth  Bennett 
a  Bible  that  was  her  father's."  (She  was 
evidently  a  sister  of  Anthony  Bennett  and 
step-daughter  of  Window ;  her  mother  dy- 
ing before  the  third  marriage  to  Widow 
Travis)  ;  also  to  Richard  Coding.  At  the 
date  of  the  will  Anthony  was  probably  a 
minor.  It  is  conjectured  that  the  name  Win- 
throp  is  a  modification  of  the  name  Window 
and  perhaps  the  correct  spelling  of  the  sur- 
name. Winthrop  is  used  as  a  christian  name 
in  several  generations  of  the  family.  Anthony 
Bennett  married  Abigail ,  who  died  Oc- 
tober 26,  1733.  Children:  i.  Anthony,  born 
at  Gloucester,  November  12,  1679,  nientioned 
below.  2.  John,  April  11,  1686,  married  Eliza- 
beth   ,  and  had  sons  Anthony  and  Jon- 
athan, born  February  14,  1714,  who  removed 
to  New  Gloucester,  Maine.  3.  Abigail,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1688.  4.  Peter,  married,  February, 
1704,  Hannah  Eveluth.  3.  Andrew,  had  a 
grant   of   land    in    1706    adjoining   Anthony's 


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farm ;  married  Rebecca  Townsend,  of  Charles- 
town,  and  had  JonaUian,  Bethia  and  Lydia; 
died  January  15,  1718. 

(II)  Anthony  (2),  son  of  Anthony  (i) 
Bennett,  was  born  in  Gloucester,  November 
12,  1679.    He  married,  July  13,  1704,  Rebecca 

.     Late  in  life  his  son  John  became  his 

guardian,  appointed  February  9,  1735.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  David, 
died  aged  nineteen.  3.  JNIoses.  4.  Peter.  5. 
Stephen.  6.  Nathaniel.  7.  Jonatha,n,  died 
aged  six.     8.  Job.    9.  James. 

(III)  John,  son  of  Anthony  (2)  Bennett, 
was  born  at  Gloucester  about  1705,  and  mar- 
ried there,  February  11,  1732.  Children,  born 
at  Gloucester  :  John,  mentioned  below  ;  David, 
Jonathan,  Patience,  Experience,  Elizabeth, 
Job. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Bennett, 
was  born  in  Gloucester  about  1735.  He  seems 
to  have  settled  in  Portsmouth  and  Gilmanton, 

New  Hampshire.    He  married  Betsey . 

The  census  of  1790  shows  that  John  Bennett 
Sr.  and  John  Jr.  and  family  were  living  in 
Gilmanton.  Some  of  his  children:  i.  John, 
had  son  John,  probably  born  in  New  Durham 
in  1787,  died  at  Portsmouth,  August  10,  1872; 
son  of  John  and  Lydia  (William  P.  Bennett, 
born  1820,  died  at  Portsmouth,  son  of  John 
and  Jane  Bennett).  2.  Winthrop,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Andrew,  married  and  had  a  family 
at  Gilmanton. 

(V)  Winthrop,  son  of  John  (2)  Bennett, 
was  born  about  1760,  died  March  25,  1840. 
He  was  living  in  Portsmouth  in  1790  and  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  — ■ — — ,  who  died  March  12, 
1819.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion, a  private  in  the  field  artillery  under  Cap- 
tain George  Turner  and  in  the  same  company 
later  under  Captain  Hall  Jackson,  of  Ports- 
mouth, in  1776.  Fie  probably  moved  to  Gil- 
manton later.  Children:  i.  Andrew  (Will- 
iam J.  Bennett,  son  of  Andrew,  died  at  Lon- 
donderry, New  Hampshire,  December  8,  1893, 
aged  sixt3'-seven  years,  seven  months;  mother 
was  Mary  (Hall)  Bennett).  2.  John.  3.  Jo- 
seph. 4.  William,  mentioned  below.  5.  Jere- 
miah. 6.  Deborah.  7.  Nancy.  8.  Mary.  9. 
Richard.  10.  Gilman.  11.  Polly.  (Winthrop 
Bennett,  related  to  this  family,  died  March  31, 
1875,  at  Moultonborough,  New  Hampshire, 
aged  eighty-two,  and  another  Winthrop  died 
there  December  12,  1876,  aged  forty-eight, 
probably  his  son.) 

(VI)  William,  son  of  Winthrop  Bennett, 
was  born  in  Gilmanton,  New  Hampshire,  and 
settled  in  Bridgton,  Maine,  where  he  cleared  a 


farm  in  the  wilderness  and  lived  upon  it  the 
remainder  of  his  days.  He  married  Lois  Flint 
at  Sweden,  Maine.  Children :  Lois,  Gilman, 
Nathaniel,  William,  Joseph,  John,  Reuben. 

(VII)  Joseph,  son  of  William  Bennett,  was 
born  in  Bridgton,  Maine,  in  1810  and  died  in 
1890.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  and  during  his  youth  helped  his  father 
on  the  farm.  He  learned  the  trade  of  cooper, 
and  in  connection  with  farming  split  staves  and 
made  shook.  It  was  the  custom  in  New  Eng- 
lang  for  farmers  to  follow  some  trade  in  win- 
ter. Many  were  shoemakers,  others  were  coop- 
ers, hatters,  etc.  He  bought  part  of  the  home- 
stead and  had  a  milk  route  in  Bridgton,  in 
connection  with  his  farm,  and  until  shortly 
before  his  death  continued  active  in  his  busi- 
ness. At  the  age  of  seventy-eight  he  drove 
his  own  milk-cart  on  the  delivery  route.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  American  (Know  Noth- 
ing) party  when  a  young  man,  later  a  Repub- 
lican. He  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Bap- 
tist church.  He  married,  in  1833,  Dolly  Chap- 
lin, born  in  Waterford  in  1804,  died  1882. 
Children:  i.  William  Marshall,  lives  on  the 
homestead,  formerly  his  father's.  2.  Joseph 
Louville,  mentioned  below.  3.  Daniel  C.,  died 
in  infancy. 

(VIII)  Joseph  Louville,  son  of  Joseph  Ben- 
nett, was  born  in  Bridgton,  August  6,  1842. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  entered  Bovvdoin  College  in  1861. 
He  left  his  studies  to  fight  for  his  country  in 
the  civil  war,  enlisting,  September  10,  1862,  in 
Company  B,  Twenty-third  Maine  Regiment 
from  Bridgton  under  Colonel  William  W. 
Virgin  and  served  most  of  the  time  of  his  nine 
months'  enlistment  in  the  vicinity  of  Washing- 
ton and  along  the  Potomac  river.  Discharged 
on  account  of  disability,  March  23,  1863,  at 
Edwards  Ferry,  Maryland,  with  rank  of  cor- 
poral. At  the  end  of  his  term  of  enlistment  he 
returned  to  college,  but  in  1864  he  again  en- 
tered the  service,  enlisting  in  the  Seventh 
Maine  Battery  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of 
Petersburg  and  in  the  final  engagement  of  the 
war  in  front  of  Richmond.  He  did  not  return 
to  college,  but  was  honored  with  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  by  Bowdoin  College,  in  1904.  He  studied 
medicine  at  the  Medical  School  of  Maine,  and 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
1869.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  Fryeburg,  Maine,  directly  after  gradu- 
ating, and  continued  for  a  period  of  five  years. 
After  practiciiig  a  year  in  Massachusetts  he 
located  at  Hiram,  Maine,  remaining  nine 
years.  In  1887-88  he  was  located  at  Peabody, 
Massachusetts,    and    since    1889  in  Bridgton, 


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Maine.  He  has  been  in  general  practice  and 
is  an  honored  and  successful  member  of  his 
profession,  and  is  member  of  Maine  Medical, 
also  the  American  Medical  associations.  Dr. 
Bennett  is  a  Repul^lican  in  politics  and  has 
been  especially  useful  in  the  towns  in  which  he 
has  lived  on  account  of  his  interest  in  public 
education  and  his  service  on  the  school  com- 
mittees and  as  superintendent  of  schools.  He  is 
a  member  of  Oriental  Lodge,  Free  Masons,  of 
Bridgton ;  Oriental  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons, of  Bridgton;  Oriental  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  of  Bridgton ;  Norway  Coun- 
cil, Royal  and  Select  Masters,  of  Norway, 
Maine;  charter  member  of  Hiram  Lodge,  No. 
39,  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Hiram,  Maine.  He 
belongs  to  Farragut  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  of  Bridgton,  and  is  an  attendant  of 
the  Congregational  church.  He  married,  No- 
vember 20,  1886,  Rosalia  Larrabee,  born  at 
South  Columbia,  New  Hampshire,  daughter  of 
Joshua  and  Grace  Ann  (Stevens)  Larrabee, 
of  South  Columbia,  New  Hampshire.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Dolly  Chaplin,  born  in  Alfred,  Maine, 
October  31,  1887,  graduate  of  Bridgton  high 
school,  now  a  member  of  the  class  of  1910, 
Smith  College.  2.  Emma  Louville,  born  in 
Bridgton,  September  9,  1896. 


(For    first   generation   see  Anthony  Bennett  I.) 

(H)  Peter,  son  of  Anthony 
BENNETT  Bennett,  was  born  in  Glou- 
cester about  1680;  married, 
February,  1704,  Hannah  Eveluth.  He  re- 
moved to  York  county,  Maine.  He  sold  by 
deed  dated  June  26,  1728,  rights  as  a  proprietor 
in  Falmouth  (now  Portland),  Maine.  He  lived 
in  Falmouth  and  York.  He  sold  a  lot  in 
Georgetown,  April  13,  1717,  to  John  Cookson. 
His  brother  John  .sold  land  east  of  Spruce 
creek  to  Benjamin  Weeks,  April  17,  1732.  His 
brother  Anthony  and  his  wife  sold  land  they 
bought  of  Sarah  Jamison  in  Falmouth  to  John 
Smith,  March  7,  1721-22;  Sarah  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Jamison.  Anthony  Ben- 
nett (2)  married  Rebecca . 

(Ill)  Dr.  David,  son  or  nephew  of  Peter 
Bennett,  was  born  about  1705,  died  in  1745. 
He  lived  in  York,  and  though  one  of  the 
original  and  first  four  grantees  of  the  town  of 
Sanford,  Maine,  did  not  remove  thither.  On 
one  of  his  four  house-lots  he  built  the  first 
"proper"  (frame)  house  built  in  Sanford, 
Maine,  and  in  company  with  others  was  owner 
of  the  first  mill  erected  in  the  town.  In  1743 
his  house  was  occupied  by  Samuel  Staples. 
He  fenced  lots  26,  127,  28  in  1742,  about  the 
same  time  that  he  built  the  house.     The  fact 


that  one  Staples,  one  Howard  and  others  lived 
in  it  is  proved  by  three  depositions  of  persons 
whose  memory  extended  back  to  a  time  earlier 
than  1743.  His  widow  Alice  married  Joseph 
Simpson.  She  gave  her  lands  to  William  and 
Nathaniel  Bennett,  her  sons,  by  deed  and  will. 
Children :  i  William,  sold  half  of  lot  27  to 
his  son  William  Jr.  in  1790.  2.  Hannah.  3. 
David.  4.  Lieutenant  Nathaniel,  mentioned 
below.     5.  John. 

(IV)  Lieutenant  Nathaniel,  son  of  Dr. 
David  Bennett,  born  in  1741  at  York,  died  at 
Sanford,  Maine,  January  23,  1804,  in  his  sixty- 
third  year.  He  came  to  Sanford  about  1770 
and  settled  in  South  Sanford  and  became  one 
of  the  leading  citizens  of  that  village.  He  was 
a  lieutenant  in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Dan- 
iel Butterfield's  company.  Colonel  John  Frost's 
regiment,  in  the  Rhode  Island  campaign  in 
1776.  He  was  ensign  in  Captain  Morgan 
Lewis's  company  on  the  Lexington  alarm, 
April  19,  i775.  These  were  the  minute-men 
of  Sanford  and  New  Gloucester.  He  was  ser- 
geant later  in  1775  in  Captain  Moses  Merrill's 
company.  Colonel  Edmund  Phinney's  regi- 
ment (First),  and  later  commissioned  lieuten- 
ant in  Captain  Edward  Harmon's  company 
(Ninth  of  Sanford),  Colonel  Ebenezer  Saw- 
yer's regiment  (First  York).  He  was  in  Cap- 
tain Samuel  Nasson's  company  at  one  time 
also.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  at  Sanford ;  was  selectman 
in  1780-81.  All  the  Bennett  families  of  South 
Sanford  are  descended  from  him.  Among  his 
children  were :  i.  Rufus,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Joseph,  born  February  11,  1786,  died  August, 
1846;  married  Abigail  Batchelder,  born  April 
4,  1792,  died  1875;  removed  to  Hiram,  March 
18,  1824,  and  thence  to  Denmark  in  December, 
1825. 

(V)  Rufus,  son  of  Lieutenant  Nathaniel 
Bennett,  was  born  about  1780  at  South  San- 
ford, Maine.  He  was  a  farmer  at  South  San- 
ford. He  married  Annie  Batchelder.  Chil- 
dren, born  there:  i.  Horace,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Mary.  3.  Nahum,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Nathaniel.  5.  Son  lost  at  sea  when  a  young 
man,  unmarried. 

(VI)  Horace,  son  of  Rufus  Bennett,  born 
in  South  Sanford,  1806,  died  in  1880.  He  mar- 
ried Sally  C.  Haslem,  born  in  Waltham,  Mas- 
sachusetts, 181 4,  died  in  1900.  Children  born 
at  South  Sanford :  Nelson  A.,  Walter  E., 
Horace  S.,  Ellen  M.,  Mercy  A.,  Bradford, 
mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Bradford,  son  of  Horace  Bennett, 
bom  in  South  Sanford,  1844,  died  there  in 
1880.     He  married,  in  Sanford,   1868,  Flor- 


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ence  M.  Emory,  born  at  South  Sanford  in 
1852.  Bradford  Bennett  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Sanford.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  shoemaking,  which  he  followed  all  his 
active  life.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  a 
well  known  and  useful  citizen  of  his  native 
town.  Their  only  child,  Elmer  Dana,  men- 
tioned below. 

(Vni)  Elmer  Dana,  son  of  Bradford  Ben- 
nett, was  born  in  South  Sanford.  February  12, 
1869,  and  was  educated  there  in  the  common 
schools.  He  began  to  work  in  the  mills  of 
the  Sanford  Manufacturing  Company  as  a 
loom  fixer,  and  afterward  learned  the  trade  of 
block-printer.  In  1891  he  left  the  mills  to  en- 
gage in  the  plumbing  business,  and  for  six- 
teen years  has  had  charge  of  this  line  of  work 
for  the  Sanford  Water  Company.  In  politics 
Mr.  Bennett  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to 
Company  F,  First  Regiment,  Maine  Volun- 
teer Militia,  enlisting  May  23,  1903.  He  is  a 
member  of  Riverside  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias, of  Sanford.  He  married  f first),  in  1889, 
Mary  A.,  daughter  of  F.  J.  Cousins,  of  Old 
Orchard,  Maine.  He  married  (second),  No- 
vember, 1902,  Georgie  E..  daughter  of  George 
H.  Clififord,  of  North  Conway,  New  Hamp- 
shire. Child  of  first  wife :  Lena,  born  in , 
May,  1890.  Child  of  second  wife:  Elmer, 
born  August  12,  1906. 

(VI)  Nahum.  son  of  Rufus  Bennett,  born 
in  South  Sanford,  May  4,  181 1,  died  February 
7,  1879.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town,  and  learned  the  trade  of 
blacksmith.  At  one  time  he  worked  at  Quincy, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  granite  quarries,  and  ac- 
quired the  trade  of  stone-cutter.  He  worked 
at  blacksmithing  for  a  time  at  Springvale, 
Maine.  He  conducted  a  farm  during  much  of 
his  active  life.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat, 
a  man  highly  esteemed  and  enjoying  the  fullest 
confidence  of  all  men.  He  married  Nancy 
Hanson,  born  in  Waterborough,  Maine,  1814, 
died  in  1889.  Children:  Mary  A.,  Benjamin, 
Frances,  Justus  B.,  Harriet  N.,  Sarah  W., 
Julia  A.,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Julia  A.,  daughter  of  Nahum  Ben- 
nett, was  born  in  South  Sanford,  January  28, 
1855.  She  married  Frederick  Amos  Garnsey, 
born  in  Richmond,  New  Hampshire,  January 
14,  1857,  died  May  29,  1899,  son  of  Amos 
Garnsey.      (See  Garnsey  family  herewith). 


The  surname  Garnsey,  Garn- 
GARNSEY    sy,    or   Guernsey,   as    it   was 

spelled  interchangeably  in  the 
early  records,  is  taken  from  the  name  of  the 
isle,  and  the  family  undoubtedly  originated  in 


the  Isle  of  Guernsey.  Henry  Garnsey  settled 
at  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1655, 
and  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1690.  John 
and  Joseph  Garnsey  settled  in  Milford,  Con- 
necticut, about  1639.  Both  seem  to  have  had 
sons  Joseph.  Joseph  Garnsey  removed  to  New 
Haven,  where  he  was  living  in  1647,  ^"^ 
finally  to  Stamford,  where  he  and  his  descend- 
ants lived  for  many  years.  He  or  his  son 
Joseph  married.  May  11,  1659,  at  Stamford, 
Rose  Waterbury,  and  had  Joseph,  born  June 
30,  1662,  settled  at  Stamford.  John,  born 
May  23,   1697,  resided  in  Waterbury. 

(I)  John  Garnsey,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  from  the  Isle  of  Guernsey  and  settled  at 
Milford,  Connecticut,  where  he  probably  died 
soon  after   1639. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  John  Garnsey,  was 
born  about  1640-49;  married,  at  Milford,  Han- 
nah Cooley,  daughter  of  Samuel  Cooley  Sr., 
April  ID,  1673.  Children  born  at  Milford:  i. 
Joseph,  born  January  13,  1674,  married  Eliza- 
beth Disbrow,  of  Horseneck;  and  (second) 
Eleanor  — ;  removed  to  Woodbury,  Con- 
necticut, where  his  wife  died,  September  15, 
I753>  aged  seventy-seven,  and  he  died  Sep- 
tember 15,  1764,  aged  eighty;  children:  i. 
Joseph,  born  1700;  ii.  Ebenezer,  born  1703; 
iii.  Jonathan,  had  grandsons,  Amos,  Jonathan, 
et  al. ;  iv.  Peter,  born  April  6,  1709;  v.  John 
(twin),  born  April  6,  1709;  vi.  Betsey,  mar- 
ried Joshua  Baldwin.  2.  Hannah  (also  given 
Sarah),  born  March  4,  1678. 

(II)  John  (2),  probably  the  son  of  John 
(i)  Garnsey,  and  certainly  of  this  family,  born 
about  1660,  died  at  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts, 
March  31,  1722.  His  wife  Elizabeth  died 
April  II,  1714,  at  Rehoboth.  He  settled  in 
Rehoboth,  where  he  married  (second),  August 
16,  1716,  Sarah  Titus.  Among  his  children 
were:  i.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Eben- 
ezer, married,  at  Rehoboth,  January  19,  1709- 
10,  Mehitable  West.  3.  Elizabeth,  married, 
May  6,  1703,  James  Bowen,  at  Rehoboth.  4. 
Mary,  married,  September  13,  1713,  Samuel 
Hicks,  at  Rehoboth. 

(III)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Garnsey 
(or  Garnzey,  as  spelled  in  Rehoboth  records), 
was  born  about  1690.  He  married  (first),  Oc- 
tober 14,  1714,  at  Rehoboth,  Judith  Ormsbee, 
who  died  August  27,  171 5.  He  married  (sec- 
ond), at  Rehoboth,  June  6,  1717,  Elizabeth 
Titus,  who  died  April  11,  1771.  Child  born  at 
Rehoboth,  of  first  wife :  i.  Beriah,  born  Sep- 
tember, 1715.  Children  of  second  wife:  2. 
John,  February  7,  1718-19,  died  February, 
1718-19.  3.  John,  January  4,  1719-20,  men- 
tioned below.    4.  Oliver,  September  27,  1722. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


5.  Elizabeth,  April  23,  1725.  6.  Solomon, 
1727.  7.  Mary,  February  22,  1731.  8.  Sarah, 
May  15,  1735. 

(IV)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  Garnsey, 
born  at  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  January  4, 
1719-20,  married,  May  13,  1742,  Lydia  Healey. 
Children  born  at  Rehoboth:  i.  Amos,  March 
31,  1743,  mentioned  below.  2.  Lydia,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1745,  died  young.  3.  Oliver,  July  5, 
1746,  removed  to  Westminster,  Vermont.  4. 
Lydia,  January  12,  1747-48.  5.  William,  Jan- 
nuary  11,  1749-50.  6.  Hannah,  December  30, 
1752.  7.  Ruth,  June  18,  1754.  8.  Esther, 
May  22,  1756.  9.  Lois,  July  5,  1758.  10. 
John,  May  7,  1760.  11.  Samuel,  October  3, 
1762.  12.  David,  March  30,  1764.  13.  Jesse, 
April  9,  1766.     14.  Mary,  January  8,  1768. 

(V)  Deacon  Amos,  son  of  John  (4)  Garn- 
sey, born  in  Rehoboth,  March  31,  1743,  died 
February  12,  1813,  at  Richmond,  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  and  his  brothers  removed  to  Rich- 
mond when  young  men.  Although  his  son 
Amos  was  born  in  Rehoboth  in  1768,  Deacon 
Garnsey  was  located  in  Richmond  in  1766, 
probably  bringing  his  family  to  settle  after 
1768.    His  lot  was  described  as  No.  113,  range 

11.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  from 
Richmond,  a  private  in  Captain  William 
Humphrey's  company  in  the  continental  army 
in  1776,  with  brothers  John  and  Oliver.  The 
name  was  spelled  Guernsey  in  many  cases. 
(New  Hampshire  Revolutionary  Rolls,  vol.  i, 
p.  356.)  He  married,  at  Rehoboth,  November 
15,   1763,  Miriam  Pike,  who  died  December 

12,  1814.  Children  born  in  Rehoboth:  i. 
Cyrel,  April  30,  1764.  2.  Amos,  April  9,  1768, 
mentioned  below.  Children  born  at  Richmond  : 
3.  Cyrus,  February  20,  1773.  4.  Lucy,  No- 
vember 29,  1774,  married  Nehemiah  Bennett. 
5.  Moses,  March  25,  1781.  6.  Darius,  De- 
cember 20,  1784. 

(VI)  Amos  (2),  son  of  Amos  (i)  Garnsey, 
was  bom  in  Rehoboth,  April  9,  1768.  His 
uncle,  Oliver  Garnsey,  a  veteran  of  the  revolu- 
tion, settled  in  Westminster,  Vermont,  and 
died  there  January  30,  1737,  aged  eighty-five. 
Amos,  John  Jr.  and  Oliver  were  all  in  the 
same  company  in  the  revolution.  Child  born 
at  Richmond  :    Amos,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Amos  (3),  son  of  Amos  (2)  Garnsey, 
born  at  Richmond,  New  Hampshire,  Septem- 
ber 6,  1803,  died  March  g,  1886.  He  settled 
in  his  native  town  on  the  Benjamin  Hewes's 
place,  and  removed  to  his  late  home  in  1845. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  well-known  citizen.  He 
married  Clarissa  Randall,  born  in  Swanzey, 
New  Hampshire,  December  7,  1806,  died  April 
15,   1875.     Children  born  at  Richmond:     i. 


Amos,  born  December  26,  1731,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  William,  September  27,  1739.  3. 
Watrous,  September  6,  1742. 

(VIII)  Amos  (4),  son  of  Amos  (3)  Garn- 
sey, born  in  Richmond,  December  26,  1831, 
died  in  Sanford,  Maine,  March  9,  1898.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
until  he  was  seventeen  years  old,  working  be- 
tween terms  on  the  farm.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  wood-worker  and  blacksmith,  and  in 
1866  went  to  Sanford,  Maine,  to  become  mas- 
ter mechanic  in  the  Sanford  Mills.  He  held 
a  position  of  responsibility  in  these  mills  for 
thirty  years,  excepting  about  ten  years  in  the 
Mousam  River  Mills,  of  which  he  was  a  stock- 
holder. He  was  active  in  public  affairs  and 
a  citizen  of  prominence.  He  also  worked  for 
a  few  years  at  Troy,  New  Hampshire.  He 
married,  June  15,  1854,  Mary  Jane,  born  at 
Rochester,  New  York,  September  2,  1835, 
daughter  of  Ezra  and  Irena  (Damals)  Martin. 
Her  father  was  born  in  Richmond,  New 
Hampshire.  Children:  i.  Frederick  Amos, 
born  January  14,  1857,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Alman  Ezra,  married  (first)  Minnie  Stack- 
pole,  had  daughter  Alice  E.,  born  March  9, 
1890.     Married  (second)  Esther  Lunt. 

(IX)  Frederick  Amos,  son  of  Amos  (4) 
Garnsey,  born  in  Richmond,  New  Hampshire, 
January  14,  1857,  died  in  Sanford,  Maine, 
May  29,  1899.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Troy,  New  Hampshire,  the  high 
school  of  Sanford,  Maine,  and  Gray's  Business 
College,  Portland.  He  learned  the  trade  of 
weaver  in  the  Sanford  Mills  and  rose  to  the 
position  of  boss  weaver.  He  was  taken  into 
the  counting-room  and  was  connected  with 
the  management  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
engaged  in  business  as  superintendent  for  his 
father,  and  for  Mr.  Charles  Frost,  of  the 
mills  at  Moultonville  and  later  at  Cordaville, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  manufacture  of  blankets. 
He  knew  the  business  thoroughly  and  was  a 
successful  manager.  Of  upright  character  and 
gifted  with  great  ability  in  some  directions, 
his  early  death  was  a  loss  to  the  manufacturing 
world  and  to  a  large  circle  of  friends.  He  had 
the  esteem  of  employees  as  well  as  his  associ- 
ates in  business.  In  politics  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican. He  married,  December  9,  1876,  Julia 
A.,  daughter  of  Nahum  and  Nancy  (Hanson) 
Bennett.  (See  Bennett  family  herewith.) 
Their  only  child,  Frederick  Amos,  was  born 
in  Cordaville,  in  the  town  of  Southborough, 
Massachusetts,  March  14,  1892,  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  of 
Sanford,  Maine,  and  now  a  student  in  the 
Sanford  high  school. 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1579 


The  name  of  Gibbs  was  well  known 
GIBBS  in  England  before  the  emigration 
of  the  Puritans  to  America.  Will- 
iam Gibbs,  of  Lenharn.  Yorkshire,  England, 
for  signal  service  received  a  grant  from  the 
King  of  England,  embracing  a  tract  of  land, 
four  miles  square,  in  the  center  of  the  town. 
Tradition  says  that  he  had  three  sons,  the 
eldest  of  whom  inherited  the  paternal  estate 
and  remained  thereon ;  the  younger  sons 
learned  the  ship  carpenter's  trade  and  on  ar- 
riving at  majority  received  funds  from  their 
elder  brother  with  which  they  came  to  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  to  establish  themselves  in  life. 
One  of  these  was  undoubtedly  Matthew  Gibbs, 
whose  descendants  are  treated  in  this  article. 
The  tradition  says  that  one  settled  on  the 
Cape  and  the  other  in  Newport,  Rhode  Island. 

(I)  Matthew  Gibbs  was  a  resident  of 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  in  1650,  and  for 
four  years  thereafter.  In  1654  he  sold  his 
house  and  lands  and  removed  to  Sudbury, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  received  a  grant  of 
land  in  1659.  In  1670  he  purchased  from 
Thomas  Reid  a  farm  upon  which  he  probably 
resided  thereafter.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter oT  Robert  Bradish,  of  Sudbury,  and  their 
children  were  as  follows:  i.  Mary,  born  1652, 
married  (first)  John  Goodridge,  (second) 
Thomas  Frost.  2.  Hannah,  1654,  married 
Samuel  Winch.  3.  Matthew,  married  (first) 
Mary  Moore,  (second)  Elizabeth  Moore, 
daughter  of  John  Moore,  of  Sudbury.  4.  John, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Samuel,  lived  in  Fram- 
ingham,  Massachusetts.  6.  Joseph.  7.  Eliza- 
beth. 8.  Jonathan.  9.  Josiah,  of  Framing- 
ham. 

(II)  John,  second  son  of  Matthew  and 
Mary  (Bradish)  Gibbs,  was  born  about  1657, 
died  in  Sudbury,  April  2,  1718.  He  married 
(first),  in  Sudbury,  April  27,  1688,  Anna, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Gleason,  who  survived 
but  a  short  time;  he  married  (second),  May 
31,  1694,  Sarah  Cutler.  She  survived  him  and 
died  August  31,  1725.  His  children  were:  i. 
Thomas,  who  settled  in  Brookfield.  2.  Mercy. 
3.  John,  of  Framingham.  4.  Nathaniel,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  Isaac,  who  lived  in  Sudbury. 
6.  Sarah.     7.  Jacob.     8.  Israel.     9.  Ephraim. 

(III)  Nathaniel,  third  son  of  John  Gibbs 
and  child  of  his  second  wife,  Sarah  Cutler,  was 
born  1695,  in  Sudbury,  and  lived  in  that  town. 
He  married.  May  26,  1726,  Bathsheba,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Gibbs)  Parmenter. 
She  was  born  January  28,  1705,  in  Sudbury, 
and  died  there  October  25,  1746.  So  far  as 
record  is  found,  their  children  were:  i.  Eu- 
nice,  married    Abijah    Moore.      2.  Sybel.      3. 


Bathsheba,  died  young.  4.  William,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Jesse,  married  Ruth  Hoyt  and  lived 
in  Sudbury  and  in  Greenwich,  Massachusetts. 

(IV)  William,  eldest  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Bathsheba  (Parmenter)  Gibbs,  was  bom 
March  18,  1740,  in  Sudbury,  and  resided  in 
Princeton,  Massachusetts,  where  he  died 
April  25,  1770.  He  married,  April  14,  1762, 
Joanna,  daughter  of  Phineas  and  Elizabeth 
Gleason.  She  was  born  July  13,  1740,  in 
Framingham,  and  died  June  28,  1830.  After 
the  death  of  William  Gibbs  she  married  (sec- 
ond), in  Princeton,  April  27,  1783,  Uriah 
Newton,  and  he  died  there  April  25,  1805,  and 
she  survived  him  more  than  twenty-five  years. 
The  children  of  William  Gibbs  were:  i.  Ezra, 
born  October  17,  1762,  lived  in  Bridgton, 
Maine.  2.  William,  August  22,  1764,  married, 
November  30,  1788,  Martha  Cobb.  3.  Al- 
pheus,  see  forward.  4.  Theodore,  August  i, 
1768,  married,  1791,  Lucy  Kendall.  5.  Jo- 
anna, June  27,  1770. 

(V)  Alpheus,  third  son  of  William  and 
Joanna  (Gleason)  Gibbs,  was  born  June  20, 
1766,  in  Princeton,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a 
pioneer  settler  in  the  town  of  Bridgton,  Cum- 
berland county,  Maine,  removing  there  in  the 
spring  of  1814.  He  was  married  in  Princeton, 
January  25,  1790,  to  Abigail  Wheeler,  who 
survived  him  and  died  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  town  of  Bridgton. 

(VI)  Rufus,  son  of  Alpheus  and  Abigail 
(Wheeler)  Gibbs,  was  born  August  26,  1800, 
in  Bridgton,  now  Harrison,  and  attended  the 
district  schools  during  his  boyhood.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  the  death  of  his  father  com- 
pelled him  to  embark  in  active  pursuits  for 
his  own  maintenance,  but  though  he  was  thus 
deprived  largely  of  the  benefit  of  schools,  he 
attained  to  be  a  student,  and  by  observation 
and  reading  became  a  well-informed  man.  For 
seven  years  he  was  employed  by  John  Perley, 
being  engaged  chiefly  in  tanning,  and  the  re- 
mainder of  the  time  was  employed  upon  the 
farm.  On  attaining  his  majority  Mr.  Gibbs 
established  himself  in  business  in  the  village 
of  Bridgton  as  a  tanner  and  leather  merchant, 
and  in  this  was  quite  successful.  His  profits 
were  invested  largely  in  land  and  he  con- 
tinued in  this  business  until  about  1840.  For 
the  next  fifteen  years  his  entire  attention  was 
given  to  lumbering.  In  1855  he  commenced 
the  construction  of  a  large  blanket,  or  woolen 
mill,  which  was  completed  and  in  operation  in 
the  spring  of  1856.  In  the  operation  of  this 
establishment  he  was  aided  by  his  sons,  and 
continued  in  business  successfully  until  1877, 
when  he  retired.     He  died  in  1892  at  an  ad- 


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vanced  age.  From  the  time  of  its  organization, 
Mr.  Gibbs  was  a  supporter  of  the  RepubHcan 
party,  and  never  failed  to  vote  on  state  and 
presidential  elections,  but  never  sought  politi- 
cal honors  for  himself.  He  was  frequently 
urged  to  serve  in  various  ofificial  capacities,  but 
preferred  to  give  his  attention  to  his  private 
business.  In  1878,  having  retired  from  busi- 
ness, he  accepted  the  nomination  for  repre- 
sentative and  was  elected  by  a  large  majority. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  and  contributed  largely  to  its 
benevolent  and  missionary  undertakings.  He 
was  married,  in  1825,  to  Adeline,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Sears,  of  Bridgton.     She  was  born  in 

1803  and  died  in  1874.    Children:     i.  , 

died  in  early  childhood.  2.  Horace  I.,  de- 
ceased. 3.  Edward  A.,  see  forward.  4.  Ma- 
jor John  S.,  resides  in  Baltimore,  Maryland. 
5.  Ann  Mariah,  widow  of  William  F.  Perry, 
of  Brookline,  Massachusetts.  6.  Charles  E., 
see  forward. 

(VII)  Edward  A.,  son  of  Rufus  and  Ade- 
line (Sears)  Gibbs,  was  born  October  29,  1830, 
in  Harrison,  and  now  resides  in  Bridgton, 
Maine,  where  he  is  interested  in  the  insurance 
business.  He  married,  in  1853,  Augusta  In- 
galls,  of  Bridgton,  and  they  were  the  parents 
of  three  children:  i.  Annette,  deceased.  2. 
Mary  B.,  wife  of  George  Chapman,  of  Brook- 
line,  Massachusetts.  3.  Edward  Everett,  re- 
sided in   Baltimore,   Maryland. 

(VII)  Charles  Edwin,  son  of  Rufus  and 
Adeline  (Sears)  Gibbs,  was  born  August  7, 
1835,  in  Harrison,  died  in  1899.  He  was  in- 
terested with  his  father  in  the  operation  of  a 
woolen  mill.  He  was  the  owner  of  the  Sebago 
Steamboat  line  from  1870  to  1892,  when  he 
sold  out  to  the  S.  D.  Waren  Company,  of 
Westbrook.  In  1882-83  he  built  the  pleasant 
Mountain  House,  of  which  he  was  owner  until 
his  death.  He  was  an  active  Republican  in 
politics,  was  postmaster  of  Bridgton  from  1871 
to  1885.  He  was  a  representative  in  the  legis- 
lature in  1867  and  a  member  of  the  state  senate 
in  1869.  He  married,  1855,  Augusta  Bangs, 
of  Bridgton,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  a 
son  and  a  daughter.  The  latter,  Nellie,  is  the 
wife  of  J.  Williams  Dickens,  residing  in  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  Rudolph  Rufus,  only  son  of  Charles 
E.  and  Augusta  (Bangs)  Gibbs,  was  born  Au- 
gust 10,  1857,  in  Bridgton,  and  attended  the 
public  schools  of  his  home  town,  Bridgeton 
Academy,  and  the  Little  Blue  school.  He  was 
employed  by  his  father  in  the  steamboat  opera- 
tion, after  leaving  school,  and  was  assistant 
postmaster  at  Floral  Park,  Long  Island,  New 


York,  whence  he  removed  to  Washington,  D. 

C,  in  1890.  There  he  was  first  employed  in 
the  National  capitol  building,  and  in  1892  was 
appointed  telegrapher  in  the  United  States 
treasury  department,  a  position  he  still  holds. 
Like  his  father  and  grandfather,  he  adheres 
to  the  Republican  party.  He  has  attained  emi- 
nence in  the  Masonic  order,  being  a  member  of 
Oriental  Lodge,  No.  13,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  of 
Bridgton,  and  of  Oriental  Chapter,  No.  30, 
R.  A.  M.,  of  Bridgton.  He  is  a  sir  knight  of 
Columbia  Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Washing- 
ton, and  is  a  member  of  Kora  Temple,  Nobles 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Lewiston,  Maine.  Mr. 
Gibbs  is  also  a  member  of  Columbia  Lodge, 
No.  30,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Bridgton.  He  is  a 
liberal  in  religion  and  is  not  affiliated  with  any 
church  organization.  He  married  Alice, 
daughter  of  Everett  Marean,  of  Washington, 

D.  C. 


The  tradition  is  that  the  now  nu- 
HALL  merous  families  of  the  Hall  sur- 
name in  New  England  are  de- 
scended from  three  Hall  brothers — John, 
Ralph  and  Richard — who  came  to  this  country 
from  England  and  settled ;  John  in  Dover  and 
Ralph  in  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  and  Rich- 
ard in  the  vicinity  of  Boston.  But  there  were 
still  other  Halls  in  New  England  during  the 
early  colonial  period,  and  among  them  in  the 
first  two  or  three  generations  were  no  less  than 
twenty  who  bore  the  baptismal  name  of  John. 
The  progenitor  of  the  family  purposed  to  be 
considered  in  this  place  was  John  Hall,  first 
of  Charlestown.  Massachusetts,  and  afterward 
of  Dover,  and  he  has  been  confused  by  vari- 
ous chroniclers  with  the  John  Hall,  of  Charles- 
town,  who  in  1640  removed  to  the  plantation 
at  Barnstable,  Massachusetts. 

(I)  John  Hall,  immigrant  ancestor,  was  ac- 
cording to  his  own  deposition  born  in  1617. 
He  first  appears  in  New  England  in  Charles- 
town,  where  he  was  made  a  freeman  May  6, 
1635.  He  removed  to  Dover,  New  Hampshire, 
where  his  name  appears  on  the  tax  list  from 
1648-49  until  1677,  and  often  in  land  records. 
In  1652  he  lived  at  Dover  Neck,  next  to  the 
meeting-house,  the  lot  on  the  southwesterly 
side  which  reached  to  the  river  and  embraced  a 
spring,  which  is  still  flowing  and  is  called 
Hall's  spring.  He  was  first  deacon  of  the 
first  church  of  Dover  as  early  as  1655.  He 
was  lot  layer  as  early  as  1657  and  as  late  as 
1674.  In  1658-39  he  was  one  of  three  to  lay 
out  the  town  bounds  between  Lamprey  and 
Newichawannock  rivers,  and  to  run  the  north 
boundary.     In  1663  he  was  on  a  committee  to 


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lay  out  the  highway  from  Lamprey  river  to 
the  waterside.  He  was  selectman  in  1660  and 
was  occasionally  commissioner  to  end  small 
causes;  grand  juror  in  1663-66  and  '68;  "clerk 
of  ye  writs"  for  the  court  in  1663-68-69;  town 
clerk  in  1670-75-79  and  other  years.  In  1677 
Deacon  Hall  received  a  lot  of  twenty  acres  on 
the  west  side  of  Back  river,  which  had  been 
laid  out  to  George  Webb  in  1642.  He  gave 
to  his  son  Ralph  by  deed,  February  i,  1685-86, 
one-half  the  house  and  land,  and  the  other  half 
at  his  death ;  this  deed  was  proved  as  his  will 
May  4,  1692,  and  recorded  in  February,  1694- 

95.    He  married  Elizabeth .    Children  : 

I.  Sheba,    baptized    January    9,    1639-40.      2. 
John,    born    in    Charlestown,    September  21, 
1645,    representative   to   the   New   Hampshire 
legislature  in  1694-95-96;  died  1697.    3.  Eliza- 
beth, born  September  4,  1647,  died  young.    4. 
Elizabeth,  born  November  2,  1648,  died  young. 
5.  Nathaniel,  taxed  in  1680.     6.  Ralph,  men- 
tioned below.   7.  Grace,  born  May  16,  1663-64. 
(II)   Ralph,  son  of  John  Hall,  was  heir  to 
his   father's   homestead  at  Dover  Neck.     He 
lost  twenty  acres   of   land  July    11,    1694,  at 
Fresh  creek  in  a  law  suit  with  Richard  Wal- 
dron.     Richard  and  Elizabeth  Pinkham  gave 
him  a  quit  claim  deed  to  land  in  consideration 
of  the  sum  of  ten  pounds.     He  was  auditor 
in  1702  and  constable  in  1705.     He  died  No- 
vember 13,  1706.     He  married  (second),  May 
26,   1 701,  Mary,  daughter  of  Philip  Chesley. 
In   1713  she,  with  her  sister  Esther,  wife  of 
John  Hall,  quit-claimed  their  father's  planta- 
tion at  Oyster  River.     She  married  (second), 
February   25,    1717-18,   John   Fox,   and   quit- 
claimed her  share  in  the  estate  of  her  first  hus- 
band to  John   Hall,    son    of    the   first  wife. 
Ralph,  John  and  James  Hall  were  administra- 
tors of  the  estate  of  their  father  Ralph,  March 
4,  1706-07.     The  estate  was  divided  between 
seven  sons,  the  eldest  receiving  a  double  por- 
tion, and  fifteen  pounds  to  Jonathan,  who  was 
"weak  and  sick."     Children  of  first  wife:     i. 
John,  born  about  1685,  settled  in  Somersworth, 
New   Hampshire;   married,   August   9,    1705, 
Esther  Chesley,  sister  of  his  step-mother.     2. 
James,    died    before    1735.     3.  Jonathan.     4. 
Isaac,  removed  to  Massachusetts.    Children  of 
second  wife:     5.  Benjamin,  born  June,   1702. 
6.  Ralph,  mentioned  below.     7.  Joseph,  born 
March  26,  1706,  married,  December  19,  1734, 
Peniel  Bean;  died  November  14,  1782. 

(Ill)  Ralph  (2),  son  of  Ralph  (i)  Hall, 
was  born  in  Dover  about  1704.  He  lived  in 
Madbury  until  about  1753,  when  he  removed 
to  Barrington.  He  was  one  of  the  petitioners 
for  the  incorporation  of  Madbury  in  1743.    In 


the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  went  to  live  with 
his  son  Joseph.  He  married  Elizabeth  Willey, 
of  Lee.  He  died  in  Strafford,  New  Hampshire, 
and  he  and  his  wife  are  buried  in  the  old  or- 
chard on  the  farm.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth, 
married  Joseph  Daniels,  of  Barrington.  2. 
Frances,  married  Samuel  Foss,  of  Barrington. 
3.  Solomon,     married     Joanna     Morrill.       4. 

Ralph,  married  Davis  and  settled   in 

Jackson,  New  Hampshire.  5.  Lois,  died 
young.  6.  Joseph,  born  December  11,  1741, 
mentioned  below.  7.  Deborah,  born  May  i, 
1744,  married  John,  son  of  Benjamin  Hall.  8. 
Abigail,  married  Samuel  Berry,  of  Barrington. 
9.  Sobriety,  married,  June  19,  1777,  Nicholas 
Brock,  of  Barrington. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  Ralph  (2)  Hall,  born 
December,  11,  1741,  died  in  December,  1826. 
He  resided  in  Strafford,  New  Hampshire,  on  a 
farm  on  Crown  Point  road,  just  below  the 
Blue  hill.  The  farm  is  or  was  lately  owned  by 
his  great-great-grandson,  John  Hall.  He  was 
a  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  and 
is  remembered  for  his  estimable  qualities.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Jo- 
seph Parsons'  company,  October  12,  1775  ;  also 
one  year  in  the  continental  army  from  August 
19,  1779  (p.  570,  vol.  3,  N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls) ; 
in  Colonel  Stephen  Evans's  regiment  also  (p. 
628,  vol.  XV).  He  married,  April  4,  1764, 
Mary  Foss,  born  March  25,  1745,  died  in  May, 
1822,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Dowse) 
Foss,  of  Barrington.  Children:  i.  Mary, 
born  February  17,  1765,  married,  February  6, 
1783,  Ephraim  Holmes.  2.  Joseph,  born  July 
8,  1767.  3.  Solomon,  born  June  25,  1769,  died 
October  24,  1852;  married  Lydia  — ■ — — .  4. 
Betsey,  born  March  25,  1772,  died  September 
4,  1845  >  married  Samuel  York.  5.  Samuel, 
born  August  8,  1774,  mentioned  below.  6. 
Abigail,  born  January  31,  1777,  died  unmar- 
ried. 7.  Lois,  born  March  18,  1778,  married 
William  Sanders.  8.  Sally,  born  December 
13,  1782,  married  William  Berry;  died  Sep- 
tember 8,  1815.  9.  Israel,  born  March  17, 
1785,  married  (first)  Hannah  Sanders;  (sec- 
ond)  Mary  Sanders. 

(V)  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph  Hall,  was  born 
August  8,  1774.  Children:  i.  Polly,  married 
Dow.  2.  Mary,  married  — Han- 
son. 3.  Ralph,  born  September  26,  1799.  4. 
Joseph,  mentioned  below.  5.  Israel.  6.  Sam- 
uel.    7.  Tamsin,  married  Pierce.     8. 


Sally,  married 


Pierce. 


(VI)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Samuel  Hall,  was 
born  in  Strafford,  New  Hampshire,  about 
1800.  He  was  educated  there  in  the  public 
schools  and  worked  on  the  homestead  during 


1582 


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his  youth.  He  succeeded  his  father  on  the 
farm  at  Strafiford  and  followed  farming  all  his 
life.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  In  re- 
ligion he  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Baptist 
church,  of  which  for  many  years  he  was  dea- 
con. He  died  aged  seventy-two  years.  He 
married  Betsey  Brock,  born  in  Barrington, 
New  Hampshire.  Children:  Mary  Dyer, 
Horace  S.,  mentioned  below ;  Samuel  D.,  Jo- 
seph, John. 

(\'II)  Horace  Stevens,  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
Hall,  was  born  in  Strafford,  New  Hampshire, 
January  15,  1833.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  in  his 
youth  worked  at  farming  and  shoemaking  un- 
til nineteen  years  old.  He  went  to  Saco, 
Maine,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  to  work  for  the 
York  Manufacturing  Company  and  is  still  em- 
ployed by  the  same  concern.  He  has  worked 
for  this  company  for  fifty-six  years,  beginning 
in  the  spinning  room,  rising  in  three  years  to 
the  rank  of  overseer.  In  1870  he  was  made 
superintendent  of  the  corporation  and  has 
filled  that  office  with  ability  and  to  the  utmost 
satisfaction  of  all  concerned  to  the  present 
time.  It  is  doubtful  if  any  mill  superintendent 
has  a  longer  or  more  honorable  and  faithful 
record.  He  is  well  known  in  the  textile  indus- 
tries of  the  whole  country.  Mr.  Hall  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Saco.  He  is  a 
prominent  Alason,  a  member  of  Dunlap 
Lodge  of  Biddeford,  of  York  Royal  Arch 
Chapter,  and  also  of  Unity  Lodge,  Knights  of 
Pythias.  He  married,  November  21,  i860, 
Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Jacob  Huff,  of  Kenne- 
bunkport.  They  have  one  son,  Frank,  men- 
tioned below. 

(\TII)  Frank,  son  of  Horace  Stevens  Hall, 
was  born  March  29.  1862,  in  Saco,  and  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  that  town.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  machinist  in  the  York 
Manufacturing  Company  mills,  where  he 
worked  about  three  years.  He  is  now  his 
father's  assistant  in  the  duties  of  his  personal 
business.  He  married  Harriet  Rattell.  His 
only  child,  Horace  Herbert,  lives  with  his 
erandfather. 


(For    first    generation   see   preceding    sketch.) 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i) 
HALL  and  Elizabeth  Hall,  was  baptized 
in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  in 
1645,  and  was  three  years  old  when  his  father 
removed  with  his  family  to  Dover.  The  rec- 
ords show  that  in  1683  he  received  a  bounty 
with  his  father  and  thirteen  other  settlers  for 
killing  a   wolf.     In    1675  '^^  bought   lands  of 


the  town  committee  and  his  name  was  still  orr 
the  tax  lists  in  1680,  but  in  December,  1693, 
he  lived  on  Dover  Neck  and  in  that  year  gave 
bonds  as  tavern  keeper.  He  probably  had 
lands  from  his  father,  received  grants  of  other 
lands  from  the  town,  and  also  came  into  pos- 
session of  still  other  tracts  through  his  wife's 
father.  He  represented  Dover  in  the  legis- 
lature in  1694-95-96,  and  died  while  he  was 
still  incumbent  of  that  office.  Under  date  of 
April  28,  1697,  Pike's  Journal  says  "John 
Hall,  Sen.,  was  drowned  coming  up  the  river 
in  a  little  float,  near  Green-point."  The  in- 
ventory of  his  property  was  made  by  Ralph 
Hall  and  John  Tuttle,  and  the  estate  was  ap- 
praised at  one  hundred  and  four  pounds  eight- 
een shillings.  His  widow  declined  administra- 
tion of  the  estate  and  the  letters  therefore  was 
granted  to  her  sons,  Thomas  and  Joseph.  On 
November  8,  1671,  John  Hall  married  Abigail, 
daughter  of  John  and  Abigail  (Nutter)  Rob- 
erts. John  Roberts  was  a  son  of  Thomas 
Roberts,  immigrant,  and  his  wife  Abigail  was 
a  daughter  of  Hatevil  Nutter.  Abigail,  widow 
of  John  Hall,  married  for  her  second  hus- 
band, October  24,  1698,  Thomas  Down,  of 
Cocheco,  who  was  killed  by  Indians  in  171 1. 
The  children  of  John  and  Abigail  (Roberts) 
Hall  were  John,  Thomas,  Joseph,  Hatevil, 
Sarah  and  Mary. 

(III)  Hatevil,  fourth  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Abigail  (Roberts)  Hall,  was  born  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  and  lived  on  the  west  side  of 
Back  river.  The  tradition  among  his  de- 
scendants is  that  he  was  drowned  in  early 
manhood.  He  married,  March  14,  1707, 
Mercy  Cromwell,  and  left  an  only  child,  Hate- 
vil, whose  Christian  name,  like  that  of  his 
father,  is  written  Hate  Evil  in  some  records, 
Hatevil  being,  it  is  supposed,  a  contraction  of 
the  original  name. 

(IV)  Hatevil  (2),  only  son  and  child  of 
Hatevil  (i)  and  Mercy  (Cromwell)  Hall, 
was  born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  Febru- 
ary 15,  1708  (one  account  says  1707)  and 
died  November  28,  1797.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  commonly  called 
Quakers,  a  man  of  upright  character  and  or- 
derly in  his  walk.  On  November  17,  1733,  he 
sold  to  John  Ham  all  the  right  and  interest  his 
father  had  in  and  to  a  tract  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  of  land  which  was  formerly 
owned  by  his  grandfather,  John  Hall ;  and  on 
April  20,  1734,  Daniel  Field,  with  the  con- 
sent of  his  wife  Sarah,  sold  and  conveyed  to 
Hatevil  Hall,  chairmaker,  ten  acres  of  land 
west  of  Back  river  "on  the  southward  side  of 
the   country   road    from    Dover   to    Durham." 


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On  May  6,  1738,  he  sold  to  William  Hus- 
sey,  of  Dover,  for  the  consideration  of  twenty 
pounds  ten  acres  of  common  lands,  and  March 
20,  1752,  John  Twombley  conveyed  to  Hatevil 
Hall  twenty-three  and  one-half  acres  on  the 
east  side  of  Salmon  Falls  River.  About  the 
time  of  this  last  conveyance  Hatevil  Hall  re- 
moved from  Dover  to  Falls  River,  and  from 
thence,  about  1753-54,  to  Falmouth,  Maine, 
where  he  settled  on  a  farm  at  the  north  end  of 
the  road  called  Shady  Lane,  which  winds 
around  the  eastern  base  of  Blackstrap  hill. 
There  he  built  his  house  and  there  he  reared 
to  maturity  a  goodly  family  of  children,  bring- 
ing them  up  in  the  way  in  which  they  should 
go,  the  way  in  which  he  himself  had  been 
taught  to  walk.  He  is  remembered  as  a  man 
of  great  physical  and  moral  strength,  and  his 
influence  in  the  community  always  was  for 
good.  He  married,  April  i,  1733,  Sarah  Fur- 
bish, of  Kittery,  Maine,  and  by  her  had  thir- 
teen children.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  left 
four  hundred  and  ninety-five  descendants, 
who  in  turn  became  progenitors  of  some  of 
the  most  thrifty,  respectable  and  influential 
citizens  of  western  Maine.  His  children:  i. 
Dorothy,  married  George  Leighton,  and  had 
eight  children :  Pelatiah,  Jedediah,  Sarah, 
Hate  Evil  (Hatevil),  Abigail,  David,  Paul 
and  Silas  Leighton.  2.  Daniel,  married  Lo- 
rana  Winslow,  and  had  eight  children :  Win- 
slow,  Mercy,  William,  Stephen,  Rachel,  Anna, 
Betsey  and  Simeon.  3.  Hatevil  (Hate  Evil), 
married  (first)  Ruth  Winslow,  (second)  Ann 
Jenkins,  and  had  thirteen  children :  Job, 
Ruth,  Sarah,  Hezekiah,  Enoch,  Submit,  John, 
Hate  Evil,  Abigail,  Nathan,  Dorcas,  Margaret 
and  Shadrack.  4.  Mercy,  born  October  6, 
1738,  married  Joseph  Leighton,  of  Dover, 
New  Hampshire  (see  Leighton),  and  had 
eleven  children  :  Susannah,  Hannah,  Andrew, 
Stephen,  Mary,  Ezekiel,  Lydia,  Daniel,  Bet- 
sey, Robert  and  Sarah  Leighton.  5.  Eben- 
ezer,  married  Hannah  Anderson,  and  had 
seven  children :  Abraham,  Isaac,  Dorothy, 
Israel,  Bethshua,  Ebenezer  and  Daniel.  6. 
Abigail,  bom  February  12,  1740,  died  Febru- 
ary 12,  1825;  she  was  a  woman  of  much 
strength  of  character  and  was  highly  respected 
by  all  to  whom  she  was  known ;  she  married 
Isaac  Allen  and  had  seven  children :  Cathar- 
ine, Sarah,  Robert,  Davis,  Mary,  Dorcas  and 
Isaac  Allen.  7.  William,  married  (first)  Bet- 
sey Cox,  (second)  Elizabeth  Wilson,  and  had 
nine  children :  Elijah,  Timothy,  Trial,  Rob- 
ert, Isaiah.  Jeremiah,  Betsey,  Sarah  and  Mary. 
8.  John,  married  Grace  Sprague,  and  had  fif- 


teen children :  Sarah,  Love,  Abigail,  Sylvina, 
Hate  Evil,  Lucy,  Charity,  John,  Dorothy, 
Anna,  William,  Daniel,  Grace,  Simeon  and 
Joel.  9.  Jedediah,  born  January  21,  1748.  10. 
Andrew,  married  Jane  Alerrill,  and  had  eight 
children :  Jane,  Edmund,  Polly,  Amos, 
George,  Eunice,  Josiah  and  Henry.  11.  Nich- 
olas, married  (first)  Experience  Stone,  (sec- 
ond) Emma  Sawyer,  and  had  ten  children: 
Esther,  Miriam,  Noah,  Lot,  Greenfield,  Ex- 
perience, Comfort,  Solomon,  Ephraim  and  Os- 
ney.  12.  Paul,  married  (first)  Sarah  Neal, 
(second)  Keziah  Hanson,  and  had  ten  chil- 
dren :  Johnson,  Olive,  Daniel,  Neal,  William, 
Sarah,  Hannah,  Patience,  Betsey  and  James. 
13.  Silas,  married  (first)  Mary  Gould,  (sec- 
ond) Hannah  Neal,  and  had  fifteen  children : 
Samuel,  Mary,  Dorothy,  James,  Francis, 
Peace,  Sarah,  Andrew,  John,  Paul,  Olive, 
Silas,  Miltmore,  Augusta  and  Hannah. 

(V)  Jedediah,  son  of  Hatevil  (2)  and 
Sarah  (Furbish)  Hall,  was  born  January  21, 
1748,  and  moved  down  east.  He  married 
(first)  March  i,  1773,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (  Hussey)  Tibbetts,  and 
married  (second)  Elizabeth  Clough.  He  had 
eleven  children :  Peter,  Joel,  Elizabeth,  Aaron, 
Mercy,  Moses,  Abigail,  David,  Jonathan,  Ann 
and  Dorcas. 

(VI)  Peter,  son  of  Jedediah  and  Hannah 
(Tibbetts)  Hall,  was  born  in  1774,  and  died 
in  Portland,  Maine,  in  1853.  He  married 
Anna  Hunnewell,  who  was  born  in  Windham 
in  1784  and  died  in  Portland  in  1856.  They 
had  eleven  children:  i.  Louisa  Ann,  born 
Portland,  December  14,  1809,  died  November 
9,  1878;  married  Captain  George  B.  Sturges, 
of  Maryland,  and  had  three  children :  i. 
George  B.,  died  single;  ii.  Henry  B.,  married 
Emily  Court,  of  New  York,  and  had  Emily 
L.,  Nellie  D.,  Sidonie  S.,  Ethel,  Harry  Louis 
and  Martin  V.  H. ;  iii.  Ellen  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Alvin  H.  JacolDS,  of  Portland.  2.  Aaron, 
1809,  died  at  sea.  3.  Stillman  I.,  1815,  died 
young.  4.  Harriet,  1815,  died  1901 ;  married 
Henry  P.  Drew,  of  Brunswick,  Maine,  and 
had  George  and  Horace.  5.  Joel,  1819,  died 
at  sea  in  1837.  6.  Stillman,  1821,  died  1824. 
7.  Sumner  C,  1825,  died  1826.  8.  Elizabeth 
Wood,  married  Daniel  H.  Stone,  of  Bruns- 
wick, and  had  a  daughter  Annie  W.,  who  be- 
came wife  of  Thomas  William  Stanwood.  9. 
Mary  Porter,  married  John  Swett,  of  Wind- 
ham, Maine,  and  had  three  children :  i.  Mary 
Louisa,  died  single ;  ii.  Frank,  married  Eliza- 
beth Child;  iii.  Ellen  M.,  married  Rufus  Stan- 
ley, of  Portland,  Maine,  and  Lawrence,  Mas- 


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sachusetts,  and  had  three  children :  Grace, 
Harry  and  Helen.  10.  George  W.,  went  to 
sea  and  died  in  California.     11.  Charles  H. 

(VH)  Charles  H.,  youngest  of  the  eleven 
children  of  Peter  and  Anna  (Hunnewell)  Hall, 
was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  and  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade  and  principal  occupation.  His 
first  wife  was  Rachel  Chase,  who  died  in  1839, 
and  he  afterward  married  Caroline  Page,  who 
was  born  in  Fryeburg,  Maine,  daughter  of 
Philip  Page,  who  moved  from  Conway,  New 
Hampshire,  to  Burlington,  Maine,  and  was 
one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  the  latter  town. 
Charles  H.  and  Caroline  (Page)  Hall  had 
three  children:  Charles  B.,  Edward  Irving 
and  Albert  B. 

(VIII)  Major  General  Charles  B.  Hall,  U. 
S.  A.,  eldest  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Caroline 
(Page)  Hall,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine, 
April  29,  1844,  and  in  1862  was  in  the  senior 
class  in  Portland  high  school.  Master  Han- 
son then  was  at  the  head  of  that  school,  and 
his  first  assistant  was  Thomas  Benton  Reed, 
who  taught  English,  French,  Latin  and  Greek, 
"and  incidentally  drummed  into  the  boys  a  lot 
of  practical  truths  that  were  not  written  in  the 
text  books."  The  following  account  of  Gen- 
eral Hall's  military  career,  for  he  is  a  soldier 
by  profession,  is  taken  from  the  August  num- 
ber (1906)  of  "Pine  Tree  Magazine." 

"Young  Hall  had  from  early  boyhood  de- 
lighted in  playing  soldier.  He  was  a  natural 
leader  among  his  fellows,  and  when  he  en- 
tered the  high  school  he  enlisted  in  the  cadets. 
From  private  he  passed  through  the  grades 
until  he  was  captain  of  one  of  the  companies 
in  the  school  battalion.  It  was  no  surprise  to 
his  schoolmates  or  to  his  parents  when  he  an- 
nounced in  1862  his  intention  to  enlist  in  the 
army  and  go  to  the  front.  Many  a  chum  of 
his  shared  his  patriotic  zeal.  The  Twenty- 
fifth  Maine  regiment  was  being  mustered  for 
nine  months'  service.  His  knowledge  of  the 
tactics  gained  during  his  career  in  the  high 
school  made  him  eligible  to  election  as  an  offi- 
cer in  Company  A,  to  which  he  was  assigned, 
and  he  was  chosen  its  second  lieutenant. 
Company  A  was  composed  largely  of  Port- 
land young  men  of  high  social  standing,  mem- 
bers of  the  boat  club  and  athletic  organiza- 
tions. The  regiment  was  under  command  of 
Colonel  Francis  Fessenden  of  Portland,  son 
of  William  Pitt  Fessenden.  It  was  assigned 
to  service  around  Washington  'and  didn't  get 
a  smell  of  burnt  powder,'  but  when  its  sol- 
diers returned  home  at  the  expiration  of  their 
nine  months'  enlistment,  and  were  veteranized 
as  the  Thirtieth  Maine  Infantry,  it  was  a  dif- 


ferent story  ahead  of  them.  The  regiment 
with  Colonel  Fessenden  in  command,  and 
Thomas  H.  Hubbard  as  lieutenant  colonel, 
headed  for  Louisiana  and  was  presently  in  the 
thick  of  the  Red  river  fighting,  a  hard  and 
disastrous  campaign.  The  Maine  boys  were 
assigned  to  what  was  known  as  the  Metropoli- 
tan Brigade  of  New  York,  in  the  four  regi- 
ments of  which  were  enlisted  many  New  York 
city  policemen  and  a  pick  of  other  fighting 
men  of  that  state.  In  the  battle  of  Sabine 
Cross  Roads,  the  first  in  that  expedition, 
Lieutenant  Hall  displayed  such  gallantry  that 
he  received  a  brevet  rank  of  first  lieutenant. 
In  the  battle  of  Pleasant  Hill  he  again  dis- 
tinguished himself  and  was  brevetted  captain. 
In  the  latter  engagement  the  brigade  com- 
mander. Colonel  Benedict  of  New  York,  was 
killed  and  General  Fessenden  assumed  com- 
mand ;  and  to  Fessenden's  staff  as  aide  Cap- 
tain Hall  was  assigned.  In  the  engagement  at 
Cane  River  Crossing  Fessenden's  brigade  was 
selected  to  cross  and  take  the  confederate  en- 
trenchments on  the  other  side  of  the  river. 
While  charging  across  a  field  Colonel  Fessen- 
den was  wounded,  a  minie  ball  shattering  a 
bone  in  his  right  leg,  necessitating  amputa- 
tion. To  Captain  Hall,  the  only  staff  officer 
near  him  at  the  moment,  Colonel  Fessenden 
gave  an  order  to  turn  over  the  brigade  to 
Colonel  Peck,  the  next  officer  in  command. 
In  the  face  of  a  melting  cross-fire  from  be- 
hind the  confederate  trenches  there  was  not 
time  to  locate  Colonel  Peck  for  a  delivery  of 
this  order  and  Captain  Hall  commanded  the 
brigade,  in  his  gallant  leader's  name,  until 
the  close  of  the  engagement.  From  Louisiana 
the  brigade  moved  up  to  Cold  Harbor,  Vir- 
ginia, and  thence  into  the  Shenandoah  valley. 
There  General  James  D.  Fessenden,  a  brother 
of  the  wounded  colonel,  was  assigned  to  the 
command  and  Captain  Hall  served  on  his  staff. 
The  day  before  the  battle  of  Cedar  Creek  Gen- 
eral Fessenden  and  staff  met  at  Martinsburg 
General  Phil  Sheridan  and  staff,  jiist  returned 
from  Washington,  where  that  gallant  fighter 
had  been  called  for  consultation  with  the  presi- 
dent and  secretary  of  war.  The  two  generals 
and  their  staff's  rode  together  to  Winchester 
and  stopped  there  over  night.  Early  the  next 
morning  the  sound  of  battle  at  Cedar  Creek 
was  heard  and  immediately  all  mounted  and 
pulled  out,  Sheridan  on  his  coal  black  charger, 
'Rienzi,'  famed  in  war  song  and  story.  Sev- 
eral miles  down  the  road  they  began  to  meet 
stragglers  and  wounded  men,  and  from  them 
learned  how  the  federal  troops  were  being 
driven  back.     Sheridan's  horse,  speedier  than 


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all  the  others  galloping  toward  the  front,  an- 
swered to  the  spurs  and  soon  distanced  the 
field.  Thus  did  Captain  Hall,  as  a  staff  offi- 
cer of  the  brigade  commander,  have  the  honor 
of  being  a  participant  for  a  part  of  the  way 
in  'Sheridan's  Ride.'  Fessenden's  brigade  re- 
mained in  the  Shenandoah  valley  until  imme- 
diately after  the  assassination  of  President 
Lincoln,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Washington, 
and  remained  there  for  a  time.  Captain  Hall 
next  accompanied  General  J.  D.  Fessenden,  as 
adjutant  general,  to  the  western  district  of 
South  Carolina,  and  was  there  when  the  war 
ended.  Not  once  during  the  war  was  he  hit 
by  confederate  ammunition,  although  at  Cane 
River  Crossing  his  hat  was  shot  off  and  in 
that  and  also  in  several  other  engagements  he 
had  very  narrow  escapes. 

"After  the  war  he  returned  home  and  was 
appointed  to  a  clerkship  in  the  warehouse  de- 
partment of  the  Portland  custom  house,  but 
the  3'earning  for  military  service  got  posses- 
sion of  him  and  after  a  few  months,  on  the 
recommendation  of  the  two  Fessendens,  he 
received,  much  to  his  own  surprise  and  pleas- 
ure, the  appointment  of  second  lieutenant  in 
the  regular  army.  As  he  never  had  requested 
the  appointment  nor  been  consulted  in  regard 
to  it  he  considered  it  then,  as  he  does  now,  a 
great  compliment  paid  him  by  these  distin- 
guished officers.  After  passing  the  required 
examinations  he  was  assigned  to  the  Twenty- 
eighth  Infantry  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  (jn 
his  way  out  he  reported  at  Governor's  Island, 
New  York  harbor,  and  was  temporarily  as- 
signed to  his  first  command.  Castle  William. 
On  arrival  at  Little  Rock  he  reported  for  duty 
to  the  colonel  of  the  regiment,  Charles  H. 
Smith,  who  also  was  a  native  of  Maine.  In 
the  next  twenty-five  years  the  Portland  soldier 
worked  his  way  steadily  through  the  various 
grades,  skipping  none,  and  at  times  being  de- 
tailed to  government  duty  outside  the  active 
post  and  field  work.  In  1895  he  was  selected 
on  account  of  his  recognized  ability  as  a  tac- 
tician to  assist  Major  General  Thomas  H. 
Ruger,  United  States  army,  in  the  revision  of 
the  infantry  drill  regulations.  Colonel  Hall 
was  the  only  officer  of  the  army  selected  for 
this  duty  and  was  so  employed  for  two  years ; 
the  manual  of  arms  now  in  use  in  the  army 
was  written  by  Colonel  Hall  and  was  recom- 
mended by  this  board,  and  adopted  by  the  war 
department.  Within  the  above  stated  period 
he  served  largely  in  Louisiana,  Texas,  Ar- 
kansas and  Kansas.  During  the  early  days  in 
Arkansas  he  was  engaged  in  the  reconstruc- 
tion of  that  state,  acting  as  inspector  general 


of  the  bureau  of  refugees.  In  1869  he  was 
temporarily  attached  to  the  First  Infantry  and 
remained  on  duty  with  that  regiment  at  De- 
troit for  about  ten  months',  and  afterward  was 
assigned  to  the  Nineteenth  Infantry,  into 
which  the  Twenty-eighth  had  been  merged. 
He  remained  in  the  Nineteenth  Infantry  until 
1899  and  then  became  major  of  the  Second 
Infantry.  At  the  time  of  the  outbreak  of  the 
Spanish-American  war  his  regiment  was  at 
Sault  St.  Marie,  but  was  ordered  to  Mobile, 
Alabama,  and  remained  there  until' the  close 
of  hostilities  and  then  was  sent  to  Porto  Rico. 
While  waiting  at  Mobile  Major  Hall  was  or- 
dered by  the  secretary  of  war  to  be  assigned  to 
duty  as  treasurer  of  the  United  States  Military 
Academy,  and  quartermaster  and  commissary 
of  cadets  at  West  Point.  In  that  capacity  he 
was  continued  until  January,  1902,  when  hav- 
ing been  promoted  to  lieutenant  colonel  he 
was  assigned  to  the  Thirtieth  Regulars,  then 
on  duty  in  the  Philippines.  General  Jesse  M. 
Lee  had  recently  been  assigned  to  duty  as 
colonel  of  that  regiment.  Arriving  at  Manila, 
Colonel  Hall  was  placed  in  command  of  the 
Thirtieth  Infantry  and  also  was  given  com- 
mand of  the  island  of  Mindoro,  south  of  Lu- 
zon, a  locality  which  on  account  of  losses  from 
malaria  there  had  been  given  the  name  of 
'White  Man's  Graveyard' ;  but  Colonel  Hall 
kept  his  men  moving  up  and  down  the  coast 
and  engaged  in  regular  drills,  and  hence  lost 
only  one  or  two  men  through  that  dreaded 
disease.  Later  on,  however,  he  had  a  hard 
struggle  with  his  men  and  the  natives  on  ac- 
count of  both  malaria  and  cholera,  but  by 
strict  measures  and  their  enforcement  regard- 
ing fumigation,  cleanliness  and  care  among 
the  natives  and  insisting  on  strict  observance 
of  regulations  the  epidemic  was  finally  con- 
quered. He  next  was  ordered  to  Manila  and 
placed  in  command  of  the  post  which  com- 
prised all  the  forces  in  and  about  the  city,  a 
number  sufficient  to  form  a  brigade. 

"In  1903  Colonel  Hall  was  promoted  colonel 
of  the  Eighteenth  Infantry,  with  headquarters 
and  one  battalion  of  the  regiment  at  Taclo- 
ban,  on  the  island  of  Leyte.  Another  bat- 
talion was  at  Ormoc  and  a  third  at  Cebu,  on 
the  island  of  the  same  name.  His  duties  on 
the  island  were  to  suppress  ladronism,  main- 
tain order  and  protect  telegraph  lines.  His 
regiment  had  considerable  fighting  around  the 
southern  islands  and  took  part  in  the  capture 
of  Iloilo,  Panay.  In  January,  1905,  his  regi- 
ment was  ordered  to  return  to  America,  and 
sailed  from  Cebu  on  the  transport  'Logan,' 
via  Manila,  Nagasaki  and  Honolulu,  arriving 


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at  San  Francisco  about  the  middle  of  Febru- 
ary. Colonel  Hall  continued  in  command  of 
his  famous  regiment  until  April  ii,  1907,  and 
on  that  day  received" his  promotion  to  the  rank 
and  commission  of  brigadier  general,  United 
States  army,  having  been  in  active  and  almost 
continuous  service  for  almost  forty-five  years, 
from  September  29,  1862,  to  April  11,  1907. 
Retirement,  however,  did  not  immediately  fol- 
low this  promotion,  for  he  was  continued  in 
service  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  as  com- 
mandant of  the  Infantry  and  Cavalry  School 
and  Staff  College.  In  March,  1908,  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  general.  United 
States  army,  and  was  retired  April  29,  1908, 
having  reached  the  age  limit."  In  1865  Gen- 
eral Hall  married  Lucretia  F.  Plummer,  and 
had  three  children:  Marion  Clark,  Gertrude 
Plummer  and  Annie  Conley  Hall,  the  latter  of 
whom  died  young. 

(VIII)  Edward  Irving,  second  son  and 
child  of  Charles  H.  and  Caroline  (Page) 
Hall,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  April, 
1847,  and  died  in  that  city  in  June,  1906.  He 
married  Georgianna  Martin,  and  by  her  had 
six  children:  Edward  Albert,  Philip  (dead), 
WilHam  (dead),  Ethel  Page,  Charles  Ring 
and  Sallie.  Mr.  Hall  always  lived  in  Portland 
and  for  many  years  was  a  leading  clothing 
merchant  in  that  city. 

(VIII)  Albert  Bradish,  youngest  son  and 
child  of  Charles  H.  and  Caroline  (Page) 
Hall,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  January  6, 
1857,  and  acquired  his  education  in  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  that  city,  graduating  from 
the  high  school  in  1874.  He  began  his  busi- 
ness career  in  the  capacity  of  clerk  for  the 
ship  brokerage  firm  of  Chase  Leavitt  &  Com- 
pany, with  whom  he  remained  from  1870  until 
1885,  and  then  became  partner  with  C.  O. 
Haskell,  under  the  firm  style  of  Hall  &  Has- 
kell, and  carried  on  a  ship  brokerage  busi- 
ness until  1887,  when  he  became  attorney  for 
the  Portland,  Maine,  Underwriters,  with  which 
he  is  now  connected.  He  also  is  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Norton,  Hall  &  Webster,  general 
fire  insurance  agents,  Portland.  Mr.  Hall  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  but  not  particularly 
active  in  that  field,  although  for  six  years  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  city  board  of  educa- 
tion. For  more  than  thirty  years  he  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Baptist  church ;  and  he  also 
is  a  member  of  Unity  Lodge,  No.  3,  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Portland,  and  of 
the  Portland  Athletic  Club.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 20,  1880,  Clarissa  Carruthers  Webster, 
born  Portland,  February  15,  1858,  daughter  of 
Joseph   H.   and  Harriet    (Stevenson-Staples) 


Webster,  of  Portland.  Children :  \^ernon 
Webster,  May  14,  1882,  and  Alfred  Edgar 
Burton,  November  13,  1892. 


There  are  several  distinct  families 
HALL     of  this  name  in  New  England,  the 

posterity  of  different  immigrants, 
and  the  family  to  which  this  article  is  devoted 
is  descended  from  Richard  Hall,  of  Bradford, 
Massachusetts.  It  has  not  as  yet  been  ac- 
curately determined  whether  he  was  an  immi- 
grant or  not,  but  there  is  some  reason  for  sup- 
posing that  he  was  a  son  or  a  nephew  of  Rich- 
ard Hall,  who  came  from  England  and  settled 
in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts. 

(I)  Richard  Hall,  who  was  born  in  1649, 
first  appears  in  the  records  as  a  resident  of 
Bradford  in  1673,  and  was  admitted  a  free- 
man there  in  1676.  He  died  March  9,  1730. 
He  was  one  of  the  deacons  of  the  first  church 
in  Bradford.  The  christian  name  of  his  wife 
was  Martha,  and  his  children  were :  Joanna, 
Sarah,  John,  Richard,  Joseph,  Mary  and  Mar- 
tha. 

(II)  Joseph,  fifth  child  and  youngest  son 
of  Richard  and  Martha  Hall,  was  born  in 
Bradford,  February  19,  1680,  died  October  7, 
1750.  He  served  as  deacon  of  the  church  at 
West  Bradford.  October  24,  1706,  he  married 
Sarah  Kimball,  daughter  of  Henry  Kimball, 
and  his  children  were :  Joseph,  Benjamin, 
Jonathan,  Nathaniel,  Ebenezer,  Hannah,  Ju- 
dith and  Ephraim  Famum. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  fifth  child  of  Deacon  Jo- 
seph and  Sarah  (Kimball)  Hall,  was  born  in 
Bradford  in  1721.  He  was  an  early  settler  in 
Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  resided  there 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  which  terminated 
April  24,  1801.  The  christian  name  of  his 
first  wife,  who  died  August  23,  1744,  was 
Hepzibah,  and  of  this  union  there  was  one 
son,  Ebenezer.  June  17,  1746,  he  married 
(second)  Dorcas  Abbott,  born  February  15, 
1723,  died  September  28,  1797.  She  became 
the  mother  of  twelve  children :  Hepzibah, 
Obediah,  Dorcas,  Sarah,  David,  Timothy, 
Stephen,  Abiel,  Hannah,  Lydia,  Deborah  and 
Moses. 

(IV)  Dr.  Abiel,  fifth  son  and  eighth  child 
of  Ebenezer  and  Dorcas  (Abbott)  Hall,  was 
born  in  Concord,  March  i  or  31,  1761.  Prior 
to  his  majority  he  entered  the  struggle  for 
national  independence,  marching  from  Con- 
cord, July  5,  1777,  with  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Gerrish's  company  to  Ticonderoga,  where  he 
joined  Captain  Ebenezer  Webster's  companj. 
He  also  participated  in  the  battle  of  Benning- 
ton under  General  Stark,  and  in  the  defeat  of 


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General  Burgoyne  at  Saratoga  the  same  year. 
He  subsequently  studied  medicine,  and  locat- 
ing in  Alfred,  Maine,  practised  his  profession 
there  until  his  death,  which  occurred  October 
13,  1829.  Married  (first)  Mary  Farnum,  born 
August  26,  1764,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Far- 
num, of  Concord,  and  she  died  November  22, 
1816.  Married  (second)  Mrs.  Grant  (nee 
Francis),  a  sister  of  Ebenezer  Francis,  of  Bos- 
ton. His  children  were :  Julia,  Mary,  Ivory, 
Porter,  John,  David  and  Abiel.  The  latter 
succeeded  to  his  father's  practice  in  Alfred, 
and  Dr.  Jeremiah  G.  Hall,  son  of  the  second 
Dr.  Abiel  Hall,  is  now  a  well-known  physician 
in  Wells. 

(V)  Porter,  second  son  and  fourth  child  of 
Dr.  Abiel  and  Mary  (Farnum)  Hall,  was  born 
in  Alfred,  ]\Iarch  21,  1807,  died  June  18,  1853. 
He  was  reared  and  educated  in  his  native 
town,  and  when  a  young  man  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuits,  establishing  a  general  store 
in  Kennebunk,  which  he  carried  on  success- 
fully for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  an 
upright,  conscientious  man  whose  integrity 
was  unimpeachable,  and  as  an  active  member 
of  the  Congregational  church  he  labored  dili- 
gently in  behalf  of  the  moral  and  religious 
welfare  of  the  community.  Politically  he 
afifiliated  with  the  Whig  party.  July  2,  1834, 
he  married  (first)  Mary  Dane,  born  in  Kenne- 
bunk, Maine,  November  14,  1810,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Mary  (Clark)  Dane,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Judge  Clark  of  York  county.  Jo- 
seph Dane  was  a  descendant  of  John  Dane,  of 
Berkhamsted  and  Bishop's  Stortford,  England, 
who  came  to  New  England,  settling  first  at 
Ipswich  and  later  at  Roxbury,  where  he  died 
in  1658.  Joseph  was  a  nephew  of  Hon.  Na- 
than Dane,  United  States  senator  from  Mas- 
sachusetts and  founder  of  the  Dane  Law 
School  of  Harvard  University.  Mrs.  Mary 
Hall  died  April  17,  1843,  leaving  one  son, 
Frederick  Porter.  Mr.  Hall  married  (sec- 
ond), March  26,  1844,  Maria  Perkins;  chil- 
dren :  Elizabeth  Maria,  born  January  24, 
1849,  died  in  Augusta,  1890.  Porter,  born 
August  2,  1853. 

(VI)  Frederick  Porter,  only  son  of  Porter 
and  Mary  (Dane)  Hall,  was  born  in  Kenne- 
bunk, August  23,  1835.  His  preliminary 
studies  in  the  Kennebunk  public  schools  were 
augmented  by  advanced  courses  at  the  Lim- 
erick and  South  Berwick  academies,  and  after 
completing  his  education  he  became  a  mariner, 
following  the  sea  for  a  number  of  years.  In 
1858  he  engaged  in  general  mercantile  busi- 
ness at  Kennebunk,  and  selling  his  establish- 
ment in  1865  he  was  for  the  succeeding  four 


years  a  wholesale  flour  merchant  in  Portland. 
Returning  to  Kennebunk  he  established  him- 
self in  the  grocery  and  coal  business  and  con- 
ducted it  without  interruption  for  a  period  of 
thirty-five  years,  or  until  his  retirement  in 
1904.  From  1886  to  the  present  time  Mr. 
Hall  has  served  upon  the  board  of  directors 
of  the  Ocean  National  Bank.  For  the  past 
thirty  years  he  has  labored  assiduously  and 
with  beneficial  results  in  behalf  of  the  Kenne- 
bunk Public  Library,  has  acted  as  clerk  and 
treasurer  of  the  Cemetery  Association  for 
twenty  years  and  as  treasurer  of  the  Unitarian 
church  for  fifteen  years.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Republican.  He  married,  January  26,  1866, 
Louise  Augusta  Smith,  born  in  Groton,  Mas- 
sachusetts, January  i,  or  June  9,  1844,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Joseph  C.  and  Augusta  (Lord) 
Smith,  and  granddaughter  of  Ivory  and  Lou- 
isa (McCulloch)  Lord.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall 
have  no  children. 


Not  in  broad  and  massive  states- 
HALL  manship  nor  in  daring  and  intrepid 
soldiery,  nor  in  profound  scholar- 
ship, nor  in  choice  and  abiding  letters  does  the 
old  Pine  Tree  State  rest  her  glory  alone,  but 
in  music,  Nordica  and  Annie  Louise  Gary 
were  Maine  girls,  and  in  art  as  well  she  is  at 
the  top  of  the  list.  The  parent  stem  of  this 
family,  Lemuel  Hall,  came  from  Scotland  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century  and 
became  a  farmer  at  Bowdoinham,  Sagadahoc 
county,  Maine. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Lemuel  Hall,  was  born 
in  Bowdoinham,  Maine,  August  8,  1797.  Af- 
ter receiving  a  common  school  education  he 
became  a  sailor.  He  enlisted  in  the  war  of 
1812  in  the  regiment  of  his  brother,  Colonel 
John  Hall.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
enlistment  he  returned  to  Bowdoinham  and 
engaged  in  farming  and  mercantile  pursuits. 
He  was  postmaster  of  East  Bowdoinham  for 
thirty-one  years,  captain  of  a  local  military 
company,  and  belonged  to  the  Methodist  per- 
suasion. Mr.  Hall  married,  April  6,  1818, 
Mary  M.  Toothaker,  bom  June  i,  1798.  Chil- 
dren, Mary  Jane,  John,  James  Monroe,  Re- 
becca A.,  Joseph  Nelson,  Martin  P.,  Jeremiah 
M.,  Eliza  M.,  George  J.,  Sarah  R.,  William 
T.  and  Lemuel  F.  Mr.  Hall  died  November 
26,  1886,  and  his  wife,  May  14,  1865. 

(III)  Judge  William  T.,  seventh  son  of  Jo- 
seph and  Mary  M.  (Toothaker)  Hall,  was 
born  in  Bowdoinham,  August  22,  1841.  The 
schools  of  Bowdoinham  and  Richmond  Acad- 
emy furnished  his  education.  He  studied  law 
with  Judge   Cleaves  in   Bowdoinham,  and  in 


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the  offices  of  Nathaniel  Whitmore  in  Gardiner 
and  James  M.  Hagar  in  Richmond.  Mr.  Hall 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  August  i8,  1863,  and 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Rich- 
mond. In  1874  he  was  elected  county  attor- 
ney, serving  six  years,  followed  by  his  eleva- 
tion to  the  probate  judgeship  of  Sagadahoc 
county,  holding  this  office  for  twenty-five 
years.  He  brought  to  the  discharge  of  the 
varied  duties  of  the  bench  the  character  and 
attainments  necessary  for  sustaining  its  rigid 
requirements,  all  his  decrees  having  been  fully 
sustained.  Since  leaving  the  bench  Judge 
Hall  has  practiced  law.  He  has  served  in  the 
capacity  of  chairman  of  the  board  of  select- 
men of  his  town.  He  is  a  member  and  past 
master  of  Richmond  Lodge,  No.  63,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  He  married  Elvira  Coburn,  daugh- 
ter of  Levi  Parker,  of  Skowhegan.  Children : 
William  Toothaker,  Elvira  Carrie,  Mary, 
Rachel  Ann  and  Jennie  Isabel. 

(IV)  William  Toothaker,  only  son  of  Hon. 
William  T.  and  Elvira  Coburn  (Parker)  Hall, 
was  born  in  Richmond,  Maine,  July  4,  1866. 
His  preparatory  studies  were  pursued  in  the 
Richmond  schools,  and  he  matriculated  at 
Bowdoin  in  1888,  graduating  with  honor  four 
years  later.  He  delved  into  the  tomes  of  Coke 
and  Blackstone  with  Hon.  E.  F.  Webb,  of 
Waterville,  and  Judge  Hall,  and  from  being 
associated  with  two  lawyers  of  such  rank  and 
standing  in  the  profession  as  his  father  and 
Mr.  Webb,  he  was  well  grounded  in  the  fun- 
damentals. Being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Sa- 
gadahoc county,  August  17,  1897,  he  began 
the  practice  of  law  in  Bath,  Maine,  now  makes  " 
a  specialty  of  probate  law  and  has  been  ref- 
eree in  bankruptcy  for  ten  years.  Mr.  Hall  is 
a  Republican,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Bath  school  board  for  six  years.  He  belongs 
to  Theta  Delta  Chi  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Greek 
letter  societies,  and  the  Brunswick  Club. 

(IV)  Elvira  Carrie,  eldest  daughter  of  Hon. 
William  T.  and  Elvira  Coburn  (Parker)  Hall, 
was  born  in  Richmond,  Maine,  and  educated 
in  Waterville,  at  Colby  College.  To  this 
daughter  Judge  Hall  gives  the  credit  for  the 
success  which  his  other  three  daughters  have 
attained,  for  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  their 
mother,  in  1891,  she  assumed  charge  of  his 
home  and  of  her  three  young  sisters. 

(IV)  Mary,  second  daughter  of  Hon.  Wil- 
liam T.  and  Elvira  Coburn  (Parker)  Hall, 
whose  painting  of  the  beautiful  Countess 
Vinci  gained  her  much  praise  from  the  mem- 
bers of  the  nobility  and  of  foreign  artists, 
studied  in  Boston  and  New  York  for  several 


years  prior  to  her  course  in  the  foreign  gal- 
leries. Boston  painters  of  reputation  who  are 
acquainted  with  her  work  predict  for  her  a 
brilliant  future.  Shortly  after  her  graduation 
from  Richmond  high  school,  she  went  to  Bos- 
ton and  began  work.  She  at  first  began  to 
devote  herself  to  miniature  under  the  direction 
of  Eric  Pape,  and  in  this  school  received  sev- 
eral prizes  for  her  excellent  work.  Following 
a  course  in  New  York  under  the  best  instruc- 
tors in  that  city  she  went  abroad,  touring  Eng- 
land, France,  Switzerland  and  Italy,  visiting 
many  famous  art  galleries,  and  finally  settling 
in  Florence,  where  she  studied  under  the 
noted  artist,  Signor  Calistri.  Her  canvases  in 
the  Italian  city  won  her  great  praise,  and  the 
news  of  her  fame  reaching  Count  Vinci  he 
requested  her  to  paint  a  portrait  of  his  wife, 
who  was  a  rich  English  girl  before  her  mar- 
riage, and  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  women 
in  southern  Italy.  So  pleased  were  the  family 
with  the  portrait  that  several  other  commis- 
sions were  given  this  Maine  girl  from  rich  and 
noble  Florentians. 

(IV)  Rachel  Ann,  third  daughter  of  Hon. 
William  T.  and  Elvira  Coburn  (Parker)  Hall, 
is  a  teacher  of  physical  culture,  and  has  de- 
voted much  time  to  perfecting  herself  in  this 
art. 

(IV)  Jennie  Isabel,  fourth  daughter  of 
Hon.  William  T.  and  Elvira  Coburn  (Parker) 
Hall,  after  graduating  from  the  Richmond 
high  school,  made  a  special  study  of  music, 
perfecting  herself,  and  at  the  present  time 
(1908)  is  one  of  the  most  talented  pianists 
and  teachers  in  the  state. 


This  name  was  not  very 
BRIDGHAM  common  in  the  first  records 
of  New  England,  but  has 
been  well  known  since  1641  in  Massachusetts, 
and  the  family  were  from  the  first  prominent 
in  the  business  and  political  life  of  the  colony. 
The  name  frequently  appears  in  the  History  of 
Boston,  where  the  Bridgham  family  were  held 
in  high  esteem  as  merchants,  and  were  men  of 
comparative  wealth  for  those  times.  Some  of 
them  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
many  of  them  had  fine  educations  and  asso- 
ciated with  people  of  the  highest  culture. 

(I)  Henry  Bridgham,  son  of  Henry  Bridg- 
ham, of  Flotham,  England,  was  born  in  1613, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Harding, 
of  Boreham,  Essex  county,  and  in  1641  came 
to  America,  settling  first  in  Dorchester,  in  two 
years  removing  to  Boston,  where  his  descend- 
ants became  many.  He  owned  a  tan  yard  on 
the  east  side  of  Milk  street,  Boston,  on  the 


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soutn  aide  of  what  is  now  Post  Office  Square. 
He  was  a  constable  in  1653,  and  was  a  cap- 
tain of  artillery.  His  residence  was  also  on 
Milk  street  on  land  now  occupied  by  the  west 
end  of  the  present  post  office,  where  he  was 
building  a  new  house  when  he  died,  in  1670; 
this  house  was  subsequently  sold  to  a  French- 
man called  Julien,  who  conducted  a  restaurant, 
the  same  who  invented  the  famous  "Julien 
Soups,"  and  this  building  became  a  landmark. 
Henry  Bridgham's  wife  survived  him  two 
years,  and  when  his  will  was  probated  in  Suf- 
folk county  1670,  the  tan  yard  was  divided  by 
an  agreement  among  his  sons,  Jonathan,  John 
and  Joseph,  date  being  July  2,  1680.  His 
children  were:  i.  John,  born  July,  1645; 
graduated  Harvard  College,  1669;  'i  physician; 
never  married;  died  in  Ipswich,  May  22,  1721. 
2.  Joseph,  died  October  14,  1646,  eight 
days  old.  •  3.  Jonathan,  born  October,  1648 
married  Elizabeth  Pounding;  he  died  1690 
4.  Joseph.  5.  Benjamin,  born  May  3,  1654 
6.  Hopestill,  July  29,  1658,  died  young.  7 
Nathaniel,  December  8,  1659,  died  June  i 
1660.  8.  Samuel,  January  17,  1661,  died  1677 
9.  Nathaniel,  April  2,  1662,  died  young.  10 
James,  May  12,  1664,  died  1679. 

(II)  Joseph,  the  fourth  son  of  Henry  and 
Elizabeth  (Harding)  Bridgham,  was  born 
January  17,  165 1,  and  died  January  5,  1709. 
In  1674  was  a  member  of  the  artillery  com- 
pany, in  1678  was  made  freeman,  was  repre- 
sentative in  1697,  also  for  Northampton  in 
1690.  He  was  deacon  and  ruling  elder  in  the 
First  Church  of  Christ,  was  often  moderator 
of  the  Boston  town  meetings,  and  often  on 
various  town  committees.  His  will,  dated 
January  3,  1708-09,  was  probated  in  Sufifolk 
county,  and  provided  a  sum  of  twenty  pounds 
to  be  spent  by  the  deacons  of  the  church  for 
plate  for  the  communion  table.  He  was  a 
tanner,  probably  carrying  on  his  business  in 
the  same  location  as  his  father  before  him.  His 
first  wife  was  Sarah,  and  he  married  (second) 
April  17,  1700,  Mercy  Wensley,  who  survived 
him  and  married  Thomas  Cushman,  between 
whom  and  the  heirs  of  Joseph  Bridgham  there 
arose  a  dispute  as  to  the  settlement  of  the  es- 
tate.- She  died  October  3,  1740.  His  children, 
mentioned  in  his  will  and  the  Boston  town  rec- 
ords, were  :  By  first  wife  :  Henry,  born  De- 
cember 16,  1676,  married  Abigail  Walker, 
February  6,  1700,  died  April  14,  1720,  and  his 
widow  married  John  Dixwell.  By  second 
wife  :  Joseph ;  Elizabeth,  born  September  27. 
1702,  baptized  October,  1702,  married  Samuel 
Holyoke;  Mercy,  born  November  11,  1704, 
married  John  Smith,  December  5,  1728:  John, 


born  February  28,  1705,  died  young;  James, 
June  II,  1706,  died  young. 

(III)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
Mercy  (Wensley)  Bridgham,  was  born  April 
16,  1701,  and  died  in  1754,  at  Plympton,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  graduated  from  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1 719,  and  became  a  physician  and 
apothecary  in  Boston,  but  about  1737  moved 
to  Plympton,  where  he  was  selectman  in  1743 
and  1746.  He  married  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Simeon  and  Elizabeth  (Alden)  Willard,  a  de- 
scendant of  John  Alden.  Captain  John,  son 
of  John  and  Priscilla  (Mullins)  Alden,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Wil- 
liam Phillips,  and  widow  of  Abiel  Everill ; 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Phillips-Everill)  x\lden 
had  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  married  Sam- 
uel Willard,  who  officiated  as  vice-president  of 
Harvard  College  from  September  6,  1701,  to 
his  death,  September  12,  1707.  Alden  has 
been  used  as  a  christian  name  by  some  of  the 
Bridgham  family.  The  children  of  Joseph 
and  Abigail  (Willard)  Bridgham  were:  Jo- 
seph, born  November  22,  1723 ;  Abigail,  No- 
vember 21,  1724;  Mercy,  December  27,  1725; 
John,  August  27,  1729;  Hannah,  August  2, 
1730,  married,  February  28,  1754,  Mr.  Plymp- 
ton. 

(IV)  John,  second  son  of  Joseph  (2)  and 
Abigail  (Willard)  Bridgham,  was  born  Au- 
gust 27,  1729,  and  died  at  West  Minot,  Maine, 
July  31,  1840.  He  was  a  man  of  some  promi- 
nence at  Plympton,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  sent  to  Boston  be- 
fore the  war,  to  consider  the  position  of  the 
colonists ;  he  was  captain  in  the  revolutionary 
war,  his  son  John  being  corporal  and  his  son 
Samuel  fifer  in  the  same  company.  He  was  a 
selectman,  and  in  1777  was  representative  to 
the  general  court.  About  1781  he  removed 
with  his  wife  and  children  from  Plympton  to 
Shepardsfield,  now  Hebron,  Maine,  now  in 
Oxford  county,  and  became  progenitor  of  a 
large  number  of  descendants  in  that  state.  In 
1788  he  and  his  associates  were  granted  by 
the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  eighteen  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  in  Poland,  Maine;  Poland 
then  included  the  present  town  of  Minot,  the 
city  of  Auburn,  and  part  of  Mechanic  Falls. 
He  married,  February  28,  1754,  at  Plympton, 
Joanna  Comer;  children:  i.  John,  born  May 
16,  1754;  married  Sibella  Shaw.  2.  Joseph. 
3.  Willard,  married  Jemima  Packard.  4.  Dr. 
William;  see  forward.  5.  Samuel,  married 
Lucy  Hammond.  6.  Tom.  7.  Alden,  married 
Sarah  Lane,  in  1791.    8.  Joanna.    9.  Cyrus. 

(V)  Joseph  (3),  second  son  of  John  and 
Joanna  (Comer)  Bridgham,  was  born  April  8, 


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1761,  at  Plympton,  Massachusetts,  and  died 
January  24,  1851.  September  i,  1789,  he  mar- 
ried Betsey,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Lane,  born 
May  20,  1770,  died  1840;  children:  i.  Jo- 
seph. 2.  Alvin,  born  April  15,  1792;  married 
April  29,  1817,  Jane  Downs.  3.  Alden,  born 
April  9,  1795;  married  Margaret  Downs.  4. 
Betsey.  5.  Andrew,  born  January  5,  1798.  6. 
Sally,  married  Lewis  Wilder.  7.  Ellsworth, 
born  April  25,  1803;  married,  March  17,  1831, 
Joan  C.  Pierce,  and  died  in  Charleston,  Maine. 
8.  Sullivan,  born  July  5,  1806;  married  Janu- 
ary 25,  1835,  Eliza  Willey,  and  died  June  18, 
1888,  at  Charleston,  Maine ;  children :  i. 
Vienna  A.,  born  December  i,  1835,  married, 
November  11,  1855,  Ansell  Dunning,  who 
died  January  26,  1867 ;  ii.  Daniel,  born  July 
22,  1838,  was  for  over  twenty  years  sergeant 
of  police  in  Boston;  married,  August  9,  1868, 
Mary  Lolie  Cary,  and  had  daughter  Addie, 
who  died  young ;  iii.  Leland  T.,  born  February 
4,  1843,  married  Addie  F.  Mcintosh,  resides 
at  Arlington  Heights,  Massachusetts,  and  has 
seven  children ;  iv.  Eliza,  born  January  28, 
1844;  died  January,  1845.  9-  Olive,  born  Oc- 
tober 12,  1809;  married  C.  Dunning.  10. 
Vienna,  born  January  30,  1813,  married 
Charles  B.  Willey  and  lived  in  Cherryfield, 
Maine.  11.  Levi,  born  July  4,  1814;  was  a 
farmer  and  apothecary;  married  Lucinda 
Libby ;  lived  and  died  in  Dexter,  Maine ;  five 
children.  12.  Willard.  13.  Rhoda,  married 
Isaac  Dunning. 

(VI)  Joseph  (4),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  (3) 
and  Betsey  (Lane)  Bridgham,  was  born  De- 
cember 25,  1789,  at  Minot,  Maine,  and  died 
May  17,  1857,  at  Charleston,  Maine.  He  was 
captain  in  the  war  of-*  1812,  and  as  all  his 
friends  and  neighbors  called  him  colonel,  it  is 
probable  he  had  that  rank  in  the  Maine  Militia ; 
in  1834  he  was  a  member  of  the  state  legisla- 
ture, and  was  for  many  years  postmaster  at 
West  Charleston,  ]\Iaine.  He  was  prominent 
in  all  the  affairs  of  his  town,  and  when  he  died 
his  funeral  was  attended  by  nearly  all  its  resi- 
dents, many  in  carriages,  but  the  majority  of 
the  men  walking  by  twos,  and  the  procession 
reached  nearly  half  a  mile.  February  19,  1817, 
he  was  married,  by  Rev.  Henry  Hale,  to  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Levi  and  Mary  Bradley,  of 
Bangor,  born  March  2,  1793,  at  Brewer, 
Maine,  died  at  Bangor,  March  19,  1883.  Levi 
Bradley  was  for  several  years  sheriff  of  Pe- 
nobscot county,  Maine.  Children  of  Joseph 
and  Margaret  (Bradley)  Bridgham:  i.  Wil- 
mot,  born  November  12,  1817;  had  wife  Han- 
nah, and  lived  in  Beddington,  Maine ;  he  died 
April  17,  1882.     2.  Albert.     3.  Margaret,  born 


January  25,  1823,  died  August  21,  1870,  at 
Bangor;  never  married.  4.  Joseph,  bom  July 
18,  1827,  married  Mary  J.  Scribner,  and  died 
in  Y'assar,  Michigan.  5.  Zebulon,  born  Au- 
gust 2,  183 1 ;  married  Hannah  E.  Walker; 
lived  and  died  in  Ashland.  6.  Mary,  born  De- 
cember I,  1834,  died  June  8,  1863,  at  Brewer, 
Maine ;  never  married.  7.  Hannah  Maria, 
born  March  5,  1837;  never  married,  and  died 
in  Bangor. 

(VII)  Albert,  second  son  of  Joseph  (4)  and 
Margaret  (Bradley)  Bridgham,  was  born  No- 
vember 3,  1819,  at  Charleston,  Alaine,  and 
died  March  2,  1886,  at  East  Eddington, 
Maine,  greatly  lamented  and  universally  re- 
spected. For  several  years  he  served  as  post- 
master of  West  Charleston;  he  was  a  farmer 
and  mechanic,  making  a  specialty  of  oars.  In 
November,  1859,  he  removed  to  Bangor, 
Maine,  where  he  carried  on  a  small  farm  and 
worked  at  his  trade.  In  his  views  he  was  a 
Democrat,  but  as  he  could  not  conscientiously 
indorse  his  party  during  the  civil  war  and 
would  not  go  over  to  the  Republican  party,  at 
this  time  he  took  no  part  in  political  affairs. 
The  last  of  his  life  he  spent  with  his  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Charles  H.  Ford,  who  lived  at  East 
Eddington.  July  28,  1849,  '""^  married  Martha 
Campbell,  daughter  of  Asa  D.  and  Mary 
(Penny)  Maddocks,  of  East  Eddington,  born 
Jaiuiary  12,  1829,  died  at  Bangor,  Maine,  May 
14,  1868;  children:  i.  Percy  Albert.  2.  Mar- 
tha Annette,  born  May  14,  1857,  at  Charles- 
ton, Maine,  married,  December  25,  1877, 
Charles  H.  Ford;  lives  in  East  Eddington; 
children :  i.  Leonard  Harris  Ford,  born  July 
28,  1878,  graduated  in  class  of  1900  from  Uni- 
versity of  Maine,  studied  medicine  at  Bowdoin 
Medical  School,  now  practicing  his  profession 
at  East  Eddington;  ii.  Bernice,  died  young.  3. 
Frances  Mabel,  bom  May  14,  1859,  is  unmar- 
ried and  lives  at  Bangor,  Maine. 

(VIII)  Percy  Albert,  only  son  of  Albert 
and  Martha  Campbell  (Maddocks)  Bridgham, 
was  born  November  5,  1850,  at  East  Edding- 
ton, Maine ;  he  attended  the  common  schools 
of  Charleston  and  high  school  of  Bangor, 
Maine,  and  prepared  for  Bowdoin  College, 
though  on  account  of  the  death  of  his  mother 
he  did  not  enter  that  institution.  From  April, 
1869,  to  April,  1872,  he  was  assistant  to  the 
register  of  deeds  of  Penobscot  county;  in 
1871-72  was  clerk  of  the  common  council  of 
Bangor.  In  July,  1872,  he  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  entered  the  office  of  Alphonso  J. 
Robinson,  for  the  purpose  of  studying  law, 
and  by  diligent  work  he  progressed  so  well 
that  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Boston,  in 


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November,  1875,  after  which  he  was  in  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Robinson  till  1880.  Since 
June  8,  1887,  he  has  been  legal  editor  of  the 
Boston  Daily  Globe,  writing  under  the  name 
of  "People's  Lawyer."  Has  published  a  book 
called  "One  Thousand  Legal  Questions  An- 
swered by  the  People's  Lawyer."  In  March, 
1893,  he  joined  Prospect  Hill  Congregational 
Church,  at  Somerville,  Massachusetts,  and  be- 
came interested  in  the  work  of  the  Boys'  Bri- 
gade, a  Sunday  school  military  organization, 
with  the  result  that  he  became  commander  of 
the  division  of  Massachusetts  and  Maine,  with 
rank  of  major-general,  and  later  commander 
of  the  department  of  New  England.  He  takes 
great  interest  in  all  public  affairs,  and  is  well 
informed  on  subjects  outside  his  profession. 
In  1879  he  was  member  of  the  common  coun- 
cil of  Somerville.  He  is  an  enthusiastic  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  order,  being  affiliated 
with  Mount  Olivet  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Cambridgeport,  Cam- 
bridge Royal  Arch  Chapter ;  Boston  Council, 
Royal  and  Select  Masters,  and  Cambridge 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  September 
12,  1870,  he  married  (first)  Lydia  M.  Went- 
worth ;  children:  i.  Albert  Alphonso,  born 
June  29,  1874,  at  East  Boston,-  Massachusetts. 
2.  Gladys  Ruth,  born  in  December,  1882,  at 
Somerville,  Massachusetts,  died  March  5, 
1883.  3.  Gladys  Ruth,  born  March  5,  1884,  at 
Somerville.  He  married  (second),  October  9. 
1901,  Lillian  Foster,  daughter  of  John  Paul 
and  Charlotte  Elizabeth  Clisby,  born  at  Ips- 
wich, Massachusetts,  August  18,  1872,  and 
they  had  one  child,  Alden  Clisby,  born  March 
10,  1903,  at  Somerville,  died  March  28,  1903. 
They  have  one  adopted  child,  Kenneth  Camp- 
bell, bom  March  28,  1904. 
^  (V)  Dr.  William,  fourth  son  of  John  and 
Joanna  (Comer)  Bridgham,  was  born  1756. 
He  removed  to  Shepardsville,  Maine,  with  his 
father,  and  afterward  went  to  New  Glouces- 
ter, where  he  resided  until  his  death,  August 
4,  1837.  He  married  (first)  Anna,  daughter 
of  Roland  Hammond,  of  Plympton,  Massa- 
chusetts; (second)  Lydia  Smith,  March,  1801. 
He  had  children:  i.  Dr.  William  Jr.  2. 
George,  married  Anna  Nicholas,  of  Carlisle, 
Massachusetts.  3.  Dr.  Thomas  W.  4.  Lucy, 
became  Mrs.  Bennett.  5.  Caroline,  became 
Mrs.  Buck.  6.  Nancy,  became  Mrs.  Clark.  7. 
Lydia.    8.  Michael. 

(VI)  George,  second  son  of  Doctor  William 
and  Anna  (Hammond)  Bridgham,  married 
Anna  Nicholas,  of  Carlisle,  Massachusetts; 
children:  i.  Arville,  married  Ransom  R.  Bon- 
ney.      2.    George,   married    Myrtilla    Cole,    of 


Falmouth,  Maine.  3.  Anna,  married  Miles 
Long,  of  Buckfield,  Maine.  4.  Eveline,  mar- 
ried Caleb  Gushing.  5.  Elbridge,  married 
Apphia  Bonney,  of  South  Paris,  Maine.  6. 
Lucretia,  married  James  Curtis,  of  South 
Paris.  7.  Prescott,  born  January  31,  1823, 
married,  June  20,  1850,  Lucy  A.  Foster,  and 
died  August  31,  1903,  at  Newtonville,  Massa- 
chusetts.   8.  Rosctta. 

(\T)  Dr.  William  (2),  son  of  Dr.  William 
(i)  and  Anna  (Hammond)  Bridgham,  was 
born  in  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  and  married 
Hannah  Bradbury.  His  children  were : 
Thomas  Sydenham,  William  P.,  Orville, 
Caroline,  Hannah,  Aurelia,  and  Mary  Ann. 

(VII)  Thomas  Sydenham,  son  of  Dr.  Wil- 
Ham  (2)  and  Hannah  (Bradbury)  Bridgham, 
was  born  at  Buckfield,  Maine,  where  he  was  a 
farmer,  and  for  a  time  kept  a  tavern.  He  mar- 
ried Lucretia  Bell  Sheppard,  of  Skowhegan, 
and  had  children:  i.  Thomas  S.,  married 
Martha  Farnham ;  children:  Ada,  died  young; 
Harry ;  Belle,  married  Henry  Nulty ;  Alice, 
died  young.  2.  Thomas.  3.  Dr.  Charles  Burr; 
see  forward.  4.  Sarah,  deceased.  5.  Henry, 
deceased.     6.  William  Henry;  see  forward. 

(VIII)  Dr.  Charles  Burr,  son  of  Thomas 
Sydenham  and  Lucretia  (Sheppard)  Bridg- 
ham, was  born  in  Buckfield,  Maine,  May  i, 
1841.  He  studied  for  his  profession  under  the 
instruction  of  his  uncle.  Dr.  W.  P.  Bridgham, 
and  in  the  Harvard  Medical  School.  Before 
he  could  complete  his  course  in  the  latter  in- 
stitution he  entered  the  army  for  civil  war  ser- 
vice, and  was  appointed  hospital  steward  in 
Second  Regiment  Berdan  Sharpshooters,  be- 
came acting  assistant  surgeon,  and  while  serv- 
ing in  that  capacity  was  taken  prisoner  at  the 
second  battle  of  Bull  Run.  He  was  paroled, 
and  returning  home  completed  his  studies  in 
the  Bowdoin  Medical  School,  and  graduated 
in  1863.  Haying  been  released  from  parole 
under  an  exchange  of  prisoners,  he  re-entered 
the  army  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Fifty- 
fourth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  and  served 
until  July,  1864,  when  he  resigned  on  account 
of  disability,  and  resumed  practice  in  his  na- 
tive town.  In  1868  he  removed  to  Livermore, 
where  he  practiced  ten  years;  in  1878  returned 
to  Buckfield,  and  resumed  practice  there,  and 
in  1887  located  at  Cohasset,  Massachusetts, 
his  present  home.  He  married,  March  22, 
1864,  Addie  M.  Williams,  of  Buckfield,  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  and  Lydia  (Withington)  Wil- 
liams; children:  i.  Mary  Frances,  married 
Henry  Bates,  and  is  now  deceased.  2.  Addie 
Ellen,  married  Herbert  Withington.  3  and  4. 
Charles  and  Hattie  Belle,  twins,  died  1880.    5. 


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Henry  Sydenham,  died  1880.  6.  Dr.  Paul 
Chester,  married  Gertrude  Murray,  and  has 
daughter  Pauline.  All  residing  in  Cohasset, 
Maine. 

(VIII)  William  Henry,  son  of  Thomas  Sy- 
denham and  Lucretia  (Sheppard)  Bridgham, 
was  born  December  29,  1847,  at  Buckfield. 
He  was  reared  in  his  native  town,  and  there  at- 
tended the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  four- 
teen he  enlisted  in  the  army,  serving  as  a 
fifer.  He  afterward  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Company,  and 
later  became  connected  with  the  Poland  Spring 
Company,  and  is  now  engaged  in  the  sale  of 
spring  water,  with  his  residence  at  Lewiston. 
Maine.  He  married  Georgietta  Radcliffe ; 
children:  i.  Robert  E.,  married  Cassie  Slat- 
tery  ;  four  children  :  Ruth,  Margaret,  Angus 
and  Myra.  2.  Alice  Maud.  3.  Dexter  Wil- 
liam :  see  forward.  4.  Rebecca  Lucretia,  mar- 
ried Fred  W.  Record.  5.  Grover  Cleveland. 
6.  Frances  Margaret.     7.  Radcliffe  Sydney. 

(IX)  Dexter  William,  second  son  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  and  Georgietta  (Radcliffe)  Bridg- 
ham,  was  born  in  Buckfield,  Maine,  June  30, 
1879.  He  was  reared  in  his  native  town,  and 
was  educated  there  and  in  Auburn,  Maine.  He 
was  of  an  industrious  disposition,  and  at  an 
early  age  became  associated  with  his  father 
in  business.  In  1900  he  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  has  built  up  a  successful  business, 
being  now  manager  and  treasurer  of  the 
Windsor  Mineral  Spring  Water  Company. 
He  married,  April  19,  1906,  Elizabeth  Fitz- 
gerald, and  they  have  one  child,  William  Til- 
den,  born  January  19,  1907,  at  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts,  where  they  reside.  Mrs. 
Bridgham  was  born  in  Boston,  December  12, 
1883,  daughter  of  James  and  Rose  (Doherty) 
Fitzgerald.  Her  father  was  born  in  New 
York,  son  of  Edward  Fitzgerald,  who  was 
born  in  England,  and  came  to  New  York, 
where  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
James,  only  son  of  Edward  Fitzgerald,  resided 
in  New  York,  where  he  was  engaged  in  a 
mercantile  business ;  he  died  when  Mrs. 
Bridgham  was  only  three  months  old.  Mrs. 
Bridgham's  mother  was  born  in  Boston, 
daughter  of  Charles  Doherty,  who  was  of  Irisli 
descent,  and  a  Mason  in  Boston.  Mrs.  Bridg- 
ham was  the  only  child  of  her  mother. 


Several    members  of   the   Hobbs 
HOBBS     family     came     to     Maine     from 
Dover,  New  Hampshire,  and  pio- 
neers of  this  name  have  been  identified  with 
the  settlement  of  several  towns  in  York  and 
other    counties.      Some    of    them    were    mill- 


wrights and  as  such  became  instrumental  in 
establishing  the  lumber  manufacturing  indus- 
try. 

(I)  Henry  Hobbs,  an  energetic  young  Eng- 
lishman, arrived  in  New  England  about  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  and  settled 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  received 
a  grant  of  land  in  1657  and  another  in  1658. 
He  was  married  in  Dover  prior  to  1661  to 
Hannah  Canney,  daughter  of  Thomas  Canney, 
one  of  the  prominent  men  of  the  town.  Henry 
Hobbs  inherited  a  large  part  of  his  father-in- 
law's  estate  and  resided  in  that  part  of  Dover 
known  as  Sligo.  He  died  before  July  4,  1698, 
leaving  but  one  son. 

(II)  Henry  (2),  only  surviving  son  of 
Henry  (i)  and  Hannah  (Canney)  Hobbs,  in- 
herited his  parent's  estate  and  was  an  e.xten- 
sive  farmer.  He  was  a  lifelong  resident  of 
Dover  and  attained  a  ripe  old  age.  The  chris- 
tian name  of  his  wife,  whom  he  married  prior 
to  1704,  was  Mary,  but  neither  her  maiden 
surname  nor  a  list  of  their  children  appears  in 
the  records  consulted. 

(III)  Thomas,  son  of  Henry  (2)  and  Mary 
Hobbs,  was  born  in  Dover,  and  learned  the 
millwright's  trade.  In  1735  he  went  to  Ber- 
wick, now  North  Berwick,  accompanied  by 
his  brother-in-law,  Benjamin  Weymouth,  and 
together  they  purchased  of  Thomas  Spinney 
of  Kittery  a  tract  of  eighteen  acres  of  land 
containing  the  water  power  privilege  which  is 
now  occupied  by  the  Hussey  Plough  Works. 
The  title  deed  of  this  property,  which  was 
written  by  Sir  William  Pepperell  and  ac- 
knowledged by  him  as  a  justice  of  the  peace, 
is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  Hobbs  family. 
Having  erected  a  sawmill  Thomas  Hobbs 
manufactured  lumber,  engaged  in  general 
mercantile  business  and  in  farming.  He  lived 
to  be  over  ninety  years  old.  December  12, 
1721,  while  still  residing  in  Dover,  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Morrell,  born  March  18,  1698, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Morrell,  of  Kittery,  and 
a  granddaughter  of  John  ^lorrell.  who  was 
born  in  1640.  John  Morrell,  who  was  a 
mason  by  trade,  was  granted  land  in  Kittery 
in  1668,  and  in  1676  removed  to  Cold  Harbor 
(now  Eliot),  where  in  1686  he  was  licensed 
to  keep  a  ferry  and  a  house  of  public  entertain- 
ment. He  was  still  living  in  1720.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Eliza- 
beth Hodson.  and  was  the  father  of  Nicholas, 
Sarah,  John.  Edah,  Hannah,  Abraham,  and 
Elizabeth.  Nicholas  Morrell,  who  was  born 
in  1667,  was  a  blacksmith.  His  children 
were:  Sarah  (who  married  Benjamin  Wey- 
mouth,     previously      mentioned),      Elizabeth 


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(married  Thomas  Hobbs),  John,  Robert  and 
Anne.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hobbs  became  the 
mother  of  three  sons,  Thomas,  Joseph  and 
Henry. 

(IV)  Captain  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas 
(i)  and  EHzabeth  (Morrell)  Hobbs,  was 
born  in  Dover  in  1726.  He  was  a  merchant 
and  a  farmer,  and  one  of  the  most  influential 
residents  of  North  Berwick  in  his  day,  serving 
as  a  selectman  in  1771-72-76-77.  He  served  in 
the  French  and  Indian  war,  and  as  a  member 
of  Captain  Ichabod  Goodwin's  Berwick  com- 
pany participated  in  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga 
in  July,  1759.  His  death  occurred  October 
18,  1818,  at  the  age  of  ninety-two  years.  He 
married  Mary  Abbott,  daughter  of  Joseph  Ab- 
bott, of  Berwick,  and  she  died  March  18,  1818, 
aged  seventy-nine.  Their  children  were : 
Sheldon,  born  in  1760;  Stephen,  1761 ;  Wil- 
liam, 1767;  Nathaniel,  see  next  paragraph; 
Theodore,  1771 ;  Frances,  1776;  and  Mary, 
1779.  Sheldon  Hobbs  entered  the  Continental 
army  for  service  in  the  revolutionary  war  in 
1775,  when  fifteen  years  old,  and  in  1776 
marched  with  a  company  from  Maine  to  the 
Hudson  river,  leaving  Kittery  December  17, 
and  arriving  at  Peekskill,  New  York,  January 

7.  1777- 

(V)  Colonel  Nathaniel,  fourth  child  of 
Captain  Thomas  (2)  and  Mary  (Abbott) 
Hobbs,  was  born  in  Berwick,  September  22, 
1768.  As  a  young  man  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, lumbering  and  trading,  and  he  eventually 
succeeded  to  the  possession  of  the  homestead. 
Erecting  the  noted  N.  Hobbs  Inn  he  opened  it 
to  the  public  in  1804,  and  for  many  years  this 
commodious  antl  comfortable  hostelry  was  a 
desirable  resting-place  for  travellers.  Colonel 
Hobbs  was  a  man  of  untiring  energy  and  he 
continued  in  business  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  November  12,  1850.  For  a  number 
of  years  he  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  state  militia  and  held  a  colonel's  commis- 
sion. He  and  his  brother  William  were  dele- 
gates to  the  convention  which  framed  the  state 
constitution.  In  his  religious  belief  he  was  a 
Universalist.  He  married  Patience  Nowell, 
of  North  Berwick,  daughter  of  Major  Jona- 
than Nowell,  a  revolutionary  soldier  who 
served  under  General  Washington.  Patience 
died  November  12,  1828,  aged  fifty-eight 
years.  She  was  the  mother  of  four  children : 
Hiram  H.,  Wilson.  George  and  Sally,  all  of 
whom  grew  to  maturity. 

(VI)  George,  third  child  and  yoimgest  son 
of  Colonel  Nathaniel  and  Patience  (Nowell) 
Hobbs,  was  born  in  North  Berwick,  May, 
1800.     In  his  youth  he  assisted  his  father  in 


farming,  but  haviftg  developed  an  aptitude  for 
trade  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  and 
became  well  established  as  a  general  store- 
keeper in  his  native  town.  His  business  ca- 
reer, however,  was  of  short  duration,  as  he 
died  in  the  prime  of  life.  May  28,  1828.  As  a 
supporter  of  the  Whig  party  he  took  a  lively 
interest  in  political  affairs,  and  he  was  active 
in  the  state  militia,  attaining  the  rank  of  lieu- 
tenant-colonel. In  1823  he  married  Nancy 
Kent,  born  in  Rochester,  New  Hampshire, 
August  I,  1798,  daughter  of  John  and  Tem- 
perance (Lapish)  Kent.  Her  grandfather, 
also  named  John  Kent,  who  was  of  the  New- 
buryport  or  Gloucester  Kents,  went  from 
Massachusetts  to  Durham,  New  Hampshire, 
and  resided  there  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  left  two  children  :  Nancy,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Major  William  Cutts,  of  Kittery,  and 
John.  (N.  B.  The  "Kent  Genealogy,"  by 
Vernon  Briggs,  states  that  the  ancestry  of 
these  Kents  has  not  as  yet  been  identified.) 
John  Kent,  son  of  John,  was  a  native  of  Dur- 
ham. He  went  from  Rochester  to  South  Ber- 
wick, and  thence  to  Somersworth,  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  was  drowned  in  the  Piscataqua 
river,  April  16,  1816,  at  the  age  of  forty-five. 
Temperance,  his  wife,  was  a  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Robert  Lapish,  a  shipbuilder  of  Durham, 
going  there  from  Newcastle,  New  Hamp- 
shire. She  bore  him  five  children :  Mehita- 
ble.  Temperance,  Nancy,  John  and  Kinsman. 
Nancy  Kent,  third  child  of  John  and  Temper- 
ance (Lapish)  Kent,  married  Colonel  George 
Hobbs,  of  North  Berwick,  as  previously 
stated,  and  became  the  mother  of  two  chil- 
dren :  Nathaniel,  see  next  paragraph,  and 
Georgiana,  who  was  accidentally  burned  to 
death  at  the  age  of  four  years.  Mrs.  Nancy 
Kent  married  for  her  second  husband  Daniel 
Hodsdon,  M.  D.,  and  her  death  occurred  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1 89 1. 

(VII)  Judge  Nathaniel  (2),  only  son  of 
Colonel  George  and  Nancy  (Kent)  Hobbs, 
was  born  in  North  Berwick,  September  10, 
1824.  His  preliminary  studies  in  the  com- 
mon schools  were  followed  by  a  course  of  ad- 
vanced instruction  at  a  private  school.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  went  to  reside  with  his 
grandparents,  whom  he  assisted  in  farming  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  about  1850  he  engaged 
in  the  leather  business  at  Danvers,  Massachu- 
setts, in  company  with  Gilleon  and  Stackpole. 
He  was  also  in  business  in  Boston  for  some 
time.  Returning  to  North  Berwick  in  1857  he 
spent  the  succeeding  two  years  as  a  law  stu- 
dent in  the  office  of  Abner  Oakes,  of  South 
Berwick,    and    having   completed    his   profes- 


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sional  studies  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  i860.  He  immediately 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his  na- 
tive town,  where  he  rapidly  obtained  recogni- 
tion as  an  able  attorney  and  a  wise  counsellor, 
and  he  has  ever  since  transacted  a  profitable 
general  law  business  in  North  Berwick,  a 
period  of  nearly  fifty  years.  For  the  past 
thirty-six  years  he  has  served  continuously  as 
judge  of  probate  for  York  county,  having  been 
originally  elected  in  1873  and  retaining  office 
through  subsequent  re-elections  and  re-elected 
in  November,  1908,  for  four  more  years. 
Aside  from  his  public  and  private  professional 
duties  Judge  Hobbs  has  found  time  to  interest 
himself  in  other  spheres  of  usefulness — po- 
litical, charitable,  benevolent,  etc.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican  and  for  the  years  1866-67 
was  a  state  senator.  He  is  a  Master  Mason, 
affiliating  with  Yorkshire  (Blue)  Lodge  of 
North  Berwick,  and  he  attends  the  Free  Bap- 
tist church.  Some  years  ago  he  became  espe- 
cially interested  in  the  welfare  and  develop- 
ment of  Good  Will  Farm  at  Fairfield,  Maine, 
an  institution  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
providing  a  comfortable  home,  practical  edu- 
cation and  a  healthy  moral  atmosphere  for  im- 
perilled boys  and  girls,  who  through  force  of 
circumstances  are  in  need  of  industrial  en- 
couragement and  christian  example.  In  1897 
he  was  chosen  a  member  of  its  board  of  direc- 
tors and  in  1903  was  elected  president  to  suc- 
ceed Moses  Giddings,  Esq.,  of  Bangor.  Good 
Will  Farm  has  been  in  operation  some  twenty 
years,  and  the  results  already  obtained  cannot 
be  too  highly  estimated.  On  September  29, 
1853,  Judge  Hobbs  married  Sarah  Ann  Pen- 
hallow  Paine,  daughter  of  John  J.  and  Mary 
Paine,  of  Melrose,  Massachusetts ;  she  died 
February  6,  1854.  His  second  wife,  whom  he 
married  February  5,  i860,  was  Ellen  Frances 
Eastman,  daughter  of  Dr.  Caleb  Eastman,  of 
York.     Her  death  occurred  May  3,  1901. 


Among  the  early  families  of 
HOBBS     New  England  were  three  of  the 

surname  Hobbs,  whose  immigra- 
tion dated  to  the  time  of  the  Puritans  of  the 
first  half  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Tradi- 
tion says  they  were  brothers,  and  that  one  re- 
turned to  his  mother  country,  while  the  other 
two — Maurice  (or  Morris)  and  Henry  re- 
mained. Henry  settled  in  Dover  and  his  de- 
scendants removed  to  what  is  now  North 
Berwick,  where  some  of  them  still  reside. 
Some  of  the  descendants  have  adopted  the 
spelling  Hubbs,  but  this  is  not  general  and  is 


found  only  in  a  few  recent  generations  in  iso- 
lated branches. 

(I)  Maurice  (or  Morris)  Hobbs  was  the 
progenitor  of  the  New  Hampshire  and  Maine 
families  of  that  surname.  He  was  born  about 
161 5  and  settled  in  the  town  of  Hampton, 
New  Hampshire,  sometime  between  the  years 
1640  and  1645,  removing  from  thence  in  the 
latter  named  year  to  Rollinsford,  where  he 
settled  on  the  Jjank  of  the  river.  He  took  the 
oath  of  allegiance  to  Massachusetts  in  the  fall 
of  1648.  There  is  an  interesting  tradition  re- 
garding the  immigration  of  Maurice  Hobbs 
and  the  circumstances  which  impelled  his  ac- 
tion. The  story  is  told  by  Dow  in  his  valuable 
"History  of  Hampton"  (New  Hampshire) 
and  can  be  best  retold  here  in  the  words  of 
that  versatile  writer:  "He  (Hobbs)  has  been 
paying  his  addresses  to  a  young  lady  who  for 
some  cause  not  mentioned,  turned  him  off,  and 
thereupon  he  determined  to  emigrate  to 
America.  When  the  lady  knew  of  it  she  re- 
lented, and  knowing  he  would  pass  her  resi- 
dence as  he  proceeded  to  embark,  placed  her- 
self in  his  view,  hoping  to  bring  about  a 
reconciliation.  To  her  grief,  she  found  him 
inexorable ;  and  although  she  accosted  him 
with  the  affectionate  inquiry,  'Whither  goest 
thou,  Maurice?'  yet  he  deigned  not  to  turn 
his  head  or  look  back  upon  her ;  and  they 
never  saw  each  other  more."  Maurice  Hobbs 
married  (first)  Sarah  Estaw,  who  died  May 
5,  1686,  and  she  bore  him  the  following  chil- 
dren:  William,  John,  Sarah,  Nehemiah,  Mor- 
ris, James.  Mary,  Bethia,  Hannah  and  Abi- 
gail. William  Estaw,  father  of  Sarah  (Es- 
taw) Hobbs,  was  one  of  the  grantees  of 
Hampton  and  one  of  its  first  settlers.  He  was 
made  freeman  in  1638,  and  is  said  to  have  been 
a  widower  when  he  came  to  the  town.  He 
represented  Hampton  at  the  general  assem- 
bly three  years.  His  children  were  Sarah  and 
Mary  Estaw,  the  latter  of  whom  married 
Thomas  Marston.  Maurice  Hobbs  married 
(second)  Sarah  Swett,  June  13,  1678.  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Benjamin  and  Esther  (Weare) 
Swett.  She  was  born  November  7,  1650,  and 
died  December  8,  1717.  Captain  Benjamin 
Swett  was  a  noted  character  in  early  Hampton 
history  and  was  killed  by  Indians,  June  29, 
1677.  One  son  was  born  of  the  second  mar- 
riage of  Maurice  Hobbs,  also  Maurice  by 
name. 

(II)  Maurice  (2),  son  of  Maurice  (  i)  and 
Sarah  (Swett)  Hobbs,  was  born  in  Rollins- 
ford,  New  Hampshire,  September  13,  1680, 
and  died  May  7,  1739.    He  married  Theodate, 


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daughter  of  Nathaniel  (2)  Batchelder,  about 
the  3'ear  1700,  and  their  children  were:  James, 
Mary,  Sarah,  Josiah,  Theodate,  Morris,  Han- 
nah, Jonathan,  Esther  and  Elizabeth. 

(III)  James,  elder  son  of  Maurice  (2)  and 
Theodate  (Batchelder)  Hobbs,  was  born 
March  20,  1701,  married  Rebecca  Hobbs, 
about  the  year  1719,  and  had  a  son  James. 
(It  is  possible  that  the  next  mentioned  was 
also  their  son.) 

(IV)  A  very  rigid  search  has  failed  to  dis- 
cover the  birthplace  of  Obe  (probably  Oba- 
diah)  Hobbs,  who  was  born  August  7,  1736. 
None  of  his  descendants  have  been  found  who 
could  tell  anything  about  his  native  place  or 
his  residence  or  any  particulars  concerning 
him. 

(V)  Obe  (2),  son  of  Obe  (i)  Hobbs,  was 
born  June  3,  1780,  died  December  18,  1836. 
Nothing  can  be  found  showing  where  he  lived 
or  died,  and  in  fact  the  birthplace  of  his  son, 
the  next  in  the  line,  is  unknown.  He  married, 
January  i,  1807,  Sally  Huey,  born  June  5, 
1782,  died  June  22,  181 1,  and  they  had  one 
child,  Charles  Huey  (q.  v.),  born  July  11, 
1807,  and  a  girl  baby  that  died  with  its  mother 
on  the  eve  of  its  birth,  June  22.  181 1.  He 
married  (second)  Hannah  Littlefield,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1815,  and  they  had  children  as 
follows:     I.  Samuel  Littlefield,  born  June  8, 

1816,  died  May  i,  1817.     2.  Suel,  August  18, 

1817,  died  November  21,  1818.  3.  Samuel 
B.,  April  16,  1819.  4.  George  Littlefield, 
March  21,  1822.  5.  Sally  Huey,  September 
23,  1824.  Hannah  Littlefield's  sister,  Rhodia 
Littlefield,  born  March  29,  1801,  was  drowned 
from  falling  in  a  well  September  11,  1819. 

(VI)  Charles  Huey,  son  of  Obe  (2)  and 
Sally  (Huey)  Hobbs,  was  born  July  11, 
1807.  He  learned  the  trade  of  cabinet- 
maker, and  carried  it  on  in  Sabattus,  Lisbon 
township,  Androscoggin  county,  Maine.  He 
married  Jemima,  daughter  of  Mesach  Pres- 
cott.  They  had  only  one  child,  born  January 
10,  1830.  The  father  died  in  Sabattas,  Maine; 
November  19,  1830,  after  six  weeks'  illness, 
the  result  of  typhoid  fever.  The  only  child  of 
Charles  Huey  and  Jemima  (Prescott)  Hobbs 
was  James  Bartlett  (q.  v.).  The  widowed 
mother,  Hannah  Hobbs,  died  September  23, 
1876,  aged  eighty-nine  years  and  upwards. 

(VII)  James  Bartlett,  son  of  Charles  H. 
and  Jemima  (Prescott)  Hobbs,  was  born  in 
Sabattus,  Lisbon  township,  Androscoggin 
county,  Maine,  January  10,  1830.  He  re- 
ceived a  liberal  school  training  in  the  local 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  at  the  Litch- 
field Institute,  Litchfield  Corners,  and  was  ap- 


prenticed  and   learned    the    mason's   trade    at 
Portland,  Maine.     In  1853  became  proprietor 
of    a    general    merchandise    store    in    Wales, 
Maine.     He  removed  to  Chicago,   Illinois,  in 
1856,  and  engaged  in  the  produce  commission 
business  in  1857  and  continued  that  business 
successfully  for  thirty  years,  retiring  in  1887. 
During  this  time  he  was  president  of  the  Chi- 
cago board  of  trade  for  one  year  and  an  im- 
portant factor  in   building  up  the  grain  and 
produce  market  of  Chicago.     He  was  presi- 
dent   of   the    North    Waukegan    Harbor    and 
Dock  Association,  of  the  National  Church  In- 
surance   Company,   of   the   Commercial    Loan 
&  Trust  Company  and  of  the  National  Amer- 
ican  Fire  Insurance  Company.     His  political 
affiliation  was  with  the  Prohibition  party,  as 
he  consented  to  allow  his  name  used  as  the 
candidate  of  the  party  for  governor  of   Illi- 
nois in    1884,   for  the  good  of  the  cause  of 
which  he  was  a  champion.    His  church  affilia- 
tion was  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
after  he  located  in  Chicago.     He  is  a  member 
of    Grace    Alethodist    Episcopal    Church    and 
president   of   its   board   of   trustees.     He   has 
served  the  denomination  in  all  ways  open  to  a 
layman.     He  has  been  class  leader  for  many 
years;  has  been  elected  twice  to  attend  the 
general  conference  of  the  church  and  once  to 
attend    the    ecumenical    conference.      He    is 
president  of  the  Methodist  Deaconess'  Asso- 
ciation and  of  the  Deaconess'  Orphanage  and 
Epworth  Children's  Home,  at  Lake  Bluff,  Illi- 
nois,   president    of   the    City    Missionary   and 
Church   Extension   Society;   a   trustee  of  the 
Northwestern    University,    which    institute    is 
under  Methodist  control.    His  native  state  has 
always  received  the  devotion  and  attention  of 
a  loyal  son  and  he  joined  the  Maine  Society 
of  Chicago  and  the  New  England  Society  of 
Chicago  and  gave  both   liberal  support.     He 
married,  March  20,  1853,  at  Litchfield,  Maine, 
Mary  Marrill,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Con- 
stant Quinnam,  a  clergyman  of  the  Free  Bap- 
tist church,  and  by  her  he  had  one  son,  Frank 
Wallace,  who  was  born  in  Chicago,  where  he 
was  brought  up  and  educated ;  he  died  in  New 
Mexico  when  thirty  years  of  age;  he  married 
Margaret  Blaisdell.  of  Chicago,  and  they  had 
one   child,   James   Blaisdell   Hobbs,   who  en- 
gaged in  the  insurance  business  in  Los  An- 
geles, California.     The  wife  of  James  Bart- 
lett Hobbs  was  brought  up  in  the  communion 
of  the  Free  Baptist  church  and  when  she  came 
to  Chicago  joined  the  Indiana  Street  Metho- 
dist   Episcopal    Church,    which    church    was 
merged  later  into  the  Grace  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church,  where  she  entered  into  all  the  ac- 


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tivities  of  the  society  and  later  in  life  she  be- 
came actively  interested  in  the  various  char- 
itable and  benevolent  institutions  of  the  city, 
and  when  her  husband  became  interested  in 
the  work  of  the  jMethodist  Episcopal  church 
she  ably  seconded  him  in  the  special  work  in 
which  he  was  interested  as  an  executive  offi- 
cer. They  were  both  persons  of  broad  views, 
high  ideals  and  determined  industry,  and  bore 
a  large  part  in  quickening  the  march  of  spir- 
itual and  humanitarian  progress  in  the  city 
of  Chicago. 

(For    first   generation  see   Roger  Eastman  I.) 

(II)  Philip,  third  son  of 
EASTMAN  Roger  and  Sarah  (Smith) 
Eastman,  was  born  in  Salis- 
bury, Massachusetts,  October  20,  1644.  The 
name  of  his  first  wife  is  unknown;  by  her  he 
had  one  daughter.  He  married  (second)  Au- 
gust 22,  1678,  Mary  Morse,  born  September  22, 
1645,  widow  of  Anthony  Morse,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Eleanor  Barnard,  of  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts.     He  married  (third) 

Margaret    .      His    children    were:      i. 

Susannah,  born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts, 
1673,  died  in  the  one  hundredth  year  of  her 
age.  She  was  twice  married,  and  twice  cap- 
tured by  Indians.  2.  Hannah,  Haverhill.  No- 
vember 5,  1679.  3.  Abigail,  1680.  4.  Eben- 
ezer,  see  forward.  5.  Philip,  August  18,  1684. 
Philip  Eastman  first  lived  in  Haverhill,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  his  house  was  burned  by 
Indians,  March  15,  1697,  some  of  the  family 
being  captured  and  others  dispersed.  He  also 
was  captured  at  the  same  time,  but  finally  es- 
caped. Later  he  settled  in  Connecticut,  where 
his  son  had  preceded  him.  A  full  record  of 
the  family  has  never  been  found.  It  is  known, 
however,  that  he  served  in  King  Philip's  war. 
On  the  town  record  of  Woodstock,  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  settled,  mention  is  made  of 
Philip  Eastman  as  being  represented  by  his 
heirs  in  the  distribution  of  lands  as  laid  out 
among  the  proprietors  in  1715;  mention  is 
also  made  of  his  buying  a  piece  of  land  in 
Ashford,  a  town  adjoining  Woodstock.  He 
died  prior  to  the  year  1714. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Philip  Eastman,  was 
born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  February 
17,  1681.  He  married,  March  4,  1710,  Sarah 
Peaslee  or  Peasley,  daughter  of  Colonel  Na- 
thaniel and  Judith  (Kimball)  Peaslee  or  Peas- 
ley.  Captain  Eastman  was  the  first  settler  in 
Concord,  New  Hampshire.  There  are  many 
interesting  facts  concerning  the  part  Mr.  East- 
man took  in  the  settlement  of  the  town  that 
was  to  become  the  future  capitol  of  the  com- 


monwealth. The  services  he  rendered,  and 
the  affairs  of  trust  and  honor  committed  to  his 
charge  were  many,  and  always  faithfully  and 
honorably  administered.  Having  considerable 
property,  and  coming  as  he  did  at  the  earliest 
period  of  settlement,  with  six  sons,  the  eldest 
of  whom  was  fifteen  years  of  age  and  able  to 
perform  the  work  of  a  man,  Captain  Eastman 
became  in  a  few  years  the  strong  man  of  the 
town.  In  1 73 1  his  house  and  home  lot  were  in 
better  order  and  he  had  more  land  under  cul- 
tivation than  any  other  person  in  the  settle- 
ment. At  the  age  of  nine  years  his  father's 
house  was  destroyed  by  Indians,  and  at  nine- 
teen years  of  age  he  joined  the  regiment  of 
Colonel  Wainwright  in  the  expedition  against 
Port  Royal,  Nova  Scotia.  In  171 1,  when 
about  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  had  com- 
mand of  a  company  of  infantry  which  em- 
barked on  a  transport  forming  a  part  of  the 
fleet  under  Sir  Howenden  Walker  in  the  expe- 
dition against  Canada.  In  the  ascent  of  the 
St.  Lawrence  river,  tradition  says,  the  weather 
was  very  rough  and  the  fleet  had  orders  to 
follow  at  night  the  great  light  at  the  admiral's 
masthead.  To  do  so  in  doubling  a  certain 
rocky  and  dangerous  cape  would  bring  sure 
destruction  to  any  ship  so  doing,  but  Captain 
Eastman,  having  previous  knowledge  of  the 
state  of  things  and  supported  by  his  men,  by 
force,  compelled  the  captain  of  the  ship  to 
deviate  from  the  admiral's  instructions  and 
thus  saved  the  ship  and  all  on  board,  while 
eight  or  nine  other  vessels  and  about  a  thou- 
sand men  perished  by  following  the  orders  of 
the  admiral. 

Captain  Eastman  went  to  Cape  Breton 
twice,  the  first  time,  March  1,  1745,  in  com- 
mand of  a  company,  and  was  present  at  the 
reduction  of  Louisburg,  June  16,  1745.  He 
returned  November  10,  1745.  Early  in  the 
next  year  he  went  again,  and  returned  home 
July  9,  1746.  He  was  also  a  captain  in 
Colonel  Sylvester  Richmond's  regiment  of 
Massachusetts,  February  6,  1744.  On  settling 
in  Pennacook  (Concord)  his  "house  lot"  was 
number  9,  second  range,  on  Main  street.  In 
the  second  survey,  in  1727,  he  had  lot  No.  16, 
containing  four  and  a  half  acres,  on  "Mill 
Brook  Range,"  east  side  of  the  river,  where 
he  finally  settled  and  had  a  garrison  around 
his  house.  At  the  time  of  the  massacre  in 
Pennacook,  August  11,  1746,  Captain  East- 
man and  family  were  in  a  garrison  on  the  east 
side  of  the  river.  Subsequently  he  erected  on 
or  near  the  spot  a  large  two-story  house,  but 
before  it  was  finished  he  died.  "This  house  is 
still  standing  and  is  occupied  by  Colonel  T.  E. 


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Pecker  as  a  residence.  Captain  Eastman  was 
an  extensive  farmer,  and  in  1729  took  a  lease 
of  the  farm  land  of  Judge  Sewall,  containing 
five  hundred  acres,  with  the  island,  for  a 
period  of  thirty  years,  for  which  he  was  to  pay 
rent  as  well  as  to  greatly  improve  the  prop- 
erty. He  died  July  28,  1748,  and  the  inventory 
of  property  he  then  left  amounted  to  seven 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  twelve  pounds,  ten 
shillings  and  six  pence.  Children:  Ebenezer, 
Philip,  Joseph,  Nathaniel,  Jeremiah,  Obadiah, 
Ruth  and  Moses. 

(IV)  Philip  (2),  second  son  of  Ebenezer 
and  Sarah  (Peaslee  or  Peasley)  Eastman,  was 
born  November  15,  1713,  died  in  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  September  i,  1804.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  useful  citizens  of  his  genera- 
tion in  the  community  where  he  lived,  took  a 
leading  part  in  town  affairs,  and  was  known 
as  a  man  of  sterling  integrity,  great  resolu- 
tion, moral  strength  and  sound  judgment.  He 
married,  in  Concord,  May  29,  1739,  Abiah, 
daughter  of  Abraham  and  Abigail  (Philbrick) 
Bradley.  She  was  probably  born  in  Haver- 
hill, Massachusetts.  Children :  Robert,  Jona- 
than and  Ruth. 

(V)  Jonathan,  second  son  of  Philip  (2)  and 
Abiah  (Bradley)  Eastman,  was  born  in  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire,  June  10,  1746,  died 
there  October  19,  1834.  He  is  described  as  a 
man  of  robust  frame,  distinguished,  daring, 
active  and  enterprising.  He  was  an  ardent 
patriot  in  the  revolution ;  was  in  Captain  Jo- 
seph Abbott's  company  of  volunteers  which 
marched  to  reinforce  the  Northern  Army, 
September,  1777,  and  was  ready  to  fight  for 
his  country  at  any  time  afterwards.  Squire 
Eastman,  as  he  was  usually  called,  lived  on 
the  east  side  of  the  Merrimack  river  in  Con- 
cord, on  the  spot  near  where  the  old  garrison 
house  stood  in  which  his  grandfather  had 
lived,  and  where  all  his  children  were  born. 
He  had  but  very  little  education,  but  learned 
to  write  on  birch  bark  in  the  absence  of  pa- 
per, and  in  his  mature  years  was  well  in- 
formed on  political  and  local  public  affairs. 
As  illustrative  of  his  enterprise  and  force  of 
character  it  is  related  that  when  a  boy  of  fif- 
teen years  he  was  sent  by  his  father  on  foot 
to  Conway,  New  Hampshire,  driving  two  cows 
and  two  shoats  the  whole  distance,  and  going 
by  way  of  Saco,  Maine.  Near  a  solitary  cabin 
in  the  woods  about  half  way  to  the  place 
where  he  was  to  stop,  he  met  a  bear  in  his 
path,  which  he  faced,  till  old  bruin,  put  out  of 
countenance,  fled.  He  lodged  in  the  cabin 
alone  at  night,  and  reached  Conway  in  safety 
the  next  day.    He  married  (first),  January  5, 


1769,  Molly  Chandler;  and  (second)  July  12, 
1776,  Esther  Johnson,  who  died  September  17, 
1834.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Francis  John- 
son, son  of  Uriah,  grandson  of  Major  Wil- 
liam, and  great-grandson  of  Captain  Edward. 
The  latter,  the  immigrant,  came  from  Hern 
Hill,  county  of  Kent,  England,  in  1630,  and 
settled  in  Woburn,  Massachusetts.  He  repre- 
sented Woburn  in  the  general  court  twenty- 
eight  years,  and  was  speaker  of  the  house.  He 
published  a  history  of  New  England  in  1652 
and  died  at  an  advanced  age,  April  23,  1672. 
The  children  of  Jonathan  Eastman  by  his  first 
wife  were  :•  Asa  and  Philip.  He  had  by  the 
second  wife:  Molly  (died  young),  Seth,  Jon- 
athan, Robert,  John  Langdon,  Molly  and 
Susannah. 

(VI)  Asa,  eldest  child  of  Jonathan  and 
Molly  (Chandler)  Eastman,  was  born  in 
Concord,  December  5,  1770,  died  August  16, 
1818.  About  1796  he  removed  to  Chatham, 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  died.  At  the  time 
of  his  going  to  Chatham,  it  was  a  wild  place 
on  the  borders  of  civilization.  There  were  no 
roads  and  the  settlers  traveled  along  paths  on 
horseback,  and  in  winter  drew  their  supplies 
through  the  woods  on  sleds.  He  married,  De- 
cember 31,  1795,  Molly,  born  in  Concord, 
May  15,  1775,  died  in  Chatham,  daughter  of 
Phineas  and  Lucy  (Pearl)  Kimball.  Children: 
Jonathan  K.,  Philip,  Susan,  Eliza,  Molly 
Chandler,  Robert  Kimball,  Asa  Parker,  Lucy 
Eliza  and  Esther  Johnson. 

(VII)  Philip  (3),  second  son  of  Asa  and 
Molly  (Kimball)  Eastman,  was  born  in  Chat- 
ham, New  Hampshire,  February  5,  1799,  died 
in  Saco,  Maine,  August  7,  1869.  He  was 
graduated  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  Bowdoin 
College  in  1820,  and  also  received  the  degree 
of  M.  A.  In  1823  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  and  commenced  practice  at  North  Yar- 
mouth, Maine,  where  he  remained  till  1836, 
when  he  removed  to  Harrison,  and  in  1847  to 
Saco.  Here  he  formed  a  law  partnership  with 
his  old  classmate,  Mr.  Bradbury,  and  remained 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  until  his  death. 
He  was  actively  interested  in  town,  county  and 
state  afifairs,  and  was  often  called  to  stations 
of  honor  and  responsibility.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Democrat.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
county  commissioners  for  Cumberland  county 
from  1 83 1  to  1837,  and  was  elected  to  the 
state  senate  in  1840-42,  and  in  1840  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  the  revision  of  the 
statutes,  and  superintended  their  publication. 
In  1842  he  was  appointed  chairman  of  the 
commission  on  the  port  of  iMaine  to  locate 
grants  in  the  territory  which  had  been  claimed 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


by  Great  Britain  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
second  wife:  Molly  (died  young),  Seth,  Jon- 
state.  In  1849  he  published  a  digest  of  the 
first  twenty-six  volumes  of  the  Maine  reports. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  I\Iaine  Historical 
Society,  and  for  several  years  a  trustee  of 
Bowdoin  College.  For  six  years  prior  to  his 
death  he  was  president  of  the  old  bank,  now 
the  Saco  National.  He  was  closely  identified 
with  the  social  and  business  interests  of  the 
city  of  his  residence.  He  married,  July  23, 
1827,  Mary,  born  in  Concord,  New  Hamp- 
shire, July  23,  1802,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Hannah  (Eastman)  Ambrose.  Children: 
Ellen  J.,  Ambrose,  Edward  and  Mary  Searle. 

(VIII)  Edward,  second  son  of  Philip  (3) 
and  Mary  (Ambrose)  Eastman,  was  born 
April  3,  1837,  died  in  Saco,  July  5,  1882.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  at 
Bowdoin  College,  from  which  latter  he  was 
graduated  in  1857.  In  1876  he  was  elected 
to  the  state  legislature  as  a  Democrat;  was 
trustee  of  the  Saco  Savings  Bank,  direc- 
tor of  the  Saco  National  Bank,  and  trus- 
tee of  the  Saco  Academy.  He  married,  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  June  18,  1868,  Frances 
Ellen,  born  in  Saco,  August  23,  1843,  daugh- 
ter of  Amos  and  Mary  Frances  (Akerman) 
Chase.  (See  Chase,  XI.)  Children:  Philip, 
born  April  23,  1869,  died  August,  1869. 
Chase. 

(IX)  Chase,  second  son  of  Edward  and 
Frances  Ellen  (Chase)  Eastman,  born  in  Saco, 
September  12,  1874,  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools,  at  Coburn  Classical  Institute,  and 
at  Bowdoin  College,  graduating  from  Bow- 
doin in  1896,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts.  Subsequently  he  attended  Harvard  Law 
School,  where  he  took  the  degree  of  L.  C.  B. 
in  1899.  Two  years  later  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Portland,  Maine, 
where  he  has  since  continued  in  practice.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  Theta  Nu  Epsilon  college 
fraternities,  and  the  Cumberland  and  Country 
clubs  of  Portland.  He  married,  June  18,  1903, 
Mary,  born  in  Portland,  September  30,  1871, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  H.  and  Mary  J.  (West) 
Fletcher,  of  Portland.  (See  Fletcher,  VII.) 
Mary,  their  only  child,  was  born  March  19, 
1904. 

(For   first  generaUon  see  Roger  Eastman  I.) 

(VI)    Colonel    Benjamin 

EASTMAN     Franklin,  ninth  child  and  fifth 

son    of    Benjamin    and    Ann 

Carr  (Barker)  Eastman,  born  in  Mt.  Vernon, 

November  15,  1800,  died  in  Portland,  Febru- 


ary 10,  1894,  in  the  ninety-fourth  year  of  his 
age.  He  removed  with  his  parents  to  Avon  and 
afterwards  lived  in  several  other  towns  before 
he  was  twenty  years  old.     He  then  became  a 
clerk  for  his  brother  Samuel,  who  had  a  store 
at  Strong,  where  he  worked  five  months  for 
five  dollars  a  month  and  his  board.     In  1821 
he  went  to  school  at  Farmington  Academy  for 
about  ten  months.     Soon  after  he  successfully 
taught  the  Freeman  Ridge  school  of  fifty  or 
sixty   pupils,   and    in   the   year   that    followed 
taught  various  other  schools  to  the   satisfac- 
tion of  his  constituency.     For  pay  for  his  first 
term's  work  as  a  teacher  he  received  eleven 
dollars   a  month   for  three  months,   and   was 
paid  in  wheat  at  one  dollar  a  bushel.    In  1822 
he  attended  school  at  the  academy  at  Bloom- 
field,  now  Showhegan,  a  short  time.    That  fall 
he  went  to  Ohio  by  wagon,  being  four  or  five 
weeks  making  the  trip.     He  taught  school  in 
Liberty  township  in  Butler  county,  and  other 
places,  and  in  1825  returned  to  Strong,  Maine. 
The  return  trip  occupied  thirty-seven  days.    In 
the   year    following   he   taught   and    attended 
school,  bought  and  conducted  a  fulling  mill, 
and  worked  on  a  farm.     In  1828  he  and  his 
brother-in-law,  James  Dyar,  formed  a  partner- 
ship and  engaged  in  merchandising  and  carry- 
ing on  a  "potash"  business  in  Strong.     This 
partnership  continued  three  years.     Mr.  East- 
man then  bought  Mr.  Dyar's  interest  and  car- 
ried on  the  business  alone  until  1836.    In  1837 
he  settled  on  the  farm  which  for  many  years 
had  been  the  homestead  of  his  father-in-law, 
and  there   spent   the    following    twenty-three 
years.    In  1859  he  sold  this  farm  and  in  i860, 
forming  a  partnership  with  his  son  Briceno  M., 
engaged   in  trade  in   Strong,  under  the   firm 
name  of  B.  F.  Eastman  &  Company.     They 
were  in  business  together  five  years,  and  then 
B.  F.   Eastman   retired  from  active  business. 
In  1874  he  removed  to  Portland,  where  he  re- 
sided the  remainder  of  his  life.    In  politics  Mr. 
Eastman  was  active,  and  a  fellow  laborer  in 
the    Republican    party    with    Hamlin,    Dow, 
Blaine  and  other  noted  leaders.     He  was  a 
member  of  the  celebrated  Strong  convention 
of  1855  or  1856,  at  which  by  a  coaHtion  of  the 
Morrill  Democrats,  the  Whigs  and  the  Free- 
soil   Democrats,   the    Republican    party    was 
formed.      He   was    town    clerk    in    Strong   in 
1833-34,    two    years,    selectman    in    1834-35. 
While  on  the  farm  in  Strong  he  served  the 
town  four  or  five  years  as  selectman,  most  of 
the  time  as  chairman.    He  was  twice  elected 
councilor  to  the  governor,  first  in   1840,  and 
second    in    1857.      He    represented    Franklin 
county  in  the  senate  when  Hannibal  Hamlin 


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was  a  member  of  that  body,  and  thereafter 
a  lifelong  friendship  existed  between  the  two 
men.  In  military  affairs  he  was  also  prom- 
inent and  held  offices  as  follows  :  July  3,  1827, 
elected  ensign  of  the  Strong  Light  Infantry ; 
March  29,  1828,  promoted  to  lieutenant ;  April 
2,  1829,  elected  major  of  the  regiment;  July 
31,  1832,  elected  colonel  of  the  First  Regiment, 
Second  Brigade  Eighth  Division  of  the  Mi- 
litia of  Maine;  January,  1833,  he  resigned  his 
office  as  colonel.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  1826,  and  was 
baptized  in  Sandy  river  in  Strong,  by  Elder 
Elisha  Streeter,  in  the  summer  of  that  year. 
He  was  steward  or  class  leader  of  the  church 
the  greater  part  of  the  time  of  his  church  mem- 
bership, until  incapacitated  by  age.  His  in- 
fluence was  strong,  in  all  church  matters  he 
was  a  leader,  and  in  his  contributions  for  the 
support  of  the  church  he  was  prompt  and  lib- 
eral. He  was  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  tem- 
perance cause,  and  was  the  first  merchant  to 
refuse  to  sell  rum  in  Strong.  It  hurt  his  trade 
to  give  up  the  traffic,  but  he  would  not  handle 
what  he  knew  to  be  a  curse  to  the  community. 
In  183 1  he  built  a  house  in  Strong  and  the 
frame  of  that  house  was  the  first  house  frame 
in  the  village  and  perhaps  in  the  town  raised 
without  rum.  Colonel  Eastman  possessed 
many  fine  traits  of  character  which  won  him 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens. Some  time  before  his  death  he  wrote  an 
extended  account  of  his  ancestry  and  of  him- 
self which  is  highly  prized  by  the  members  of 
his  family,  giving  as  it  does  many  facts  of 
interest  which  would  otherwise  have  been  lost. 

He  married,  March  4,  1826,  Eliza  Dyar, 
born  in  Maiden,  Massachusetts,  February  14, 
1806,  died  January  5,  1874.  Their  children 
were :  Eliza  Velzora,  Briceno  Mendez,  James 
Fred,  Imogene  and  Ermon  Dwight.  Eliza 
Dyar  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sally 
(Klerritt)  Dyar,  of  Strong.  Joseph  Dyar  was 
tlie  son  of  Joseph  Dyar,  of  Boston,  a  sea  cap- 
tain, who  was  a  member  of  the  celebrated 
party  which  threw  the  tea  into  Boston  harbor 
in  revolutionary  times. 

(VII)  Briceno  Mendez,  second  child  and 
eldest  son  of  Benjamin  F.  and  Eliza  (Dyar) 
Eastman,  was  born  in  Strong,  February  17, 
1 83 1,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Strong  and  Phillips.  He  remained  with  his 
father  until  1865,  and  then  came  to  Portland 
and  with  his  brother,  in  1865,  started  the  firm 
of  Eastman  Brothers,  dealers  in  dry  goods, 
now  one  of  the  leading  houses  of  its  kind  in 
the  city  of  Portland.  In  1866  the  "Great  Fire" 
swept  away  their  entire  stock ;  but  they  were 


not  discouraged,  and  started  again,  continuing 
under  the  firm  name  of  Eastman  Brothers 
until  1880,  when  Walter  P.  Bancroft  was  ad- 
mitted as  a  partner  and  the  style  of  the  firm 
was  changed  to  Eastman  Brothers  &  Bancroft, 
which  it  has  ever  since  remained.  Mr.  East- 
man is  a  conservative  Republican.  In  religious 
faith  he  is  a  Methodist,  is  a  trustee  and 
steward  of  his  church  and  has  been  superin- 
tendent of  its  Sunday-school.  He  married,  in 
Strong,  August  4,  1864,  Martha  Russ,  born  in 
Strong,  November  6,  1840,  died  June  16,  1904, 
daughter  of  Adam  and  INIary  (Johnson)  Clark. 
Their  children  are :  Fred  Ermon,  Caroline 
Imogene  Alice  Clark,  Lucina  Theresa  and  Har- 
old Benjamin.  Fred  E.  is  mentioned  below. 
Caroline  Imogene,  born  in  Portland,  May  7, 
1868.  married  Herbert  A.  Richardson,  mer- 
chant, of  Portland.  Alice  Clark,  Portland, 
October  30,  1871,  is  single.  Lucina  Theresa, 
Portland,  January  8,  1873,  died  February  17, 
1893.  Harold  Benjamin,  Portland,  June  24, 
1878,  married  Elizabeth  Clifford,  and  has  one 
child,  ]\Iartha. 

(VTII)  Fred  Ermon,  eldest  child  of  Briceno 
M.  and  ]\Iartha  R.  (Clark)  Eastman,  was  born 
in  Strong,  July  17,  1865.  At  the  age  of  one 
year  he  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Port- 
land, where  he  has  since  resided.  He  went  to 
school  until  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  then 
became  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  the  firm  of 
Eastman  Brothers  &  Bancroft.  From  that  po- 
sition he  advanced  through  dift'erent  depart- 
ments in  the  store  until  1902,  when,  upon  the 
incorporation  of  the  concern,  he  was  made  gen- 
eral manager,  a  position  he  has  since  held. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Fidelity  Trust  Com- 
pany, vice-president  of  the  Portland  Board  of 
Trade,  director  Associated  Charities,  director 
of  Portland  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, president  of  the  Eastman  Association  of 
America,  member  of  the  Maine  Genealogical 
Society,  of  the  Civic  Federation,  the  Portland 
Athletic  and  the  Portland  Country  clubs.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  Portland  Lodge,  No.  i. 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Portland,  mem- 
ber and  steward  of  Chestnut  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  He  married,  at  Portland, 
September  10,  1890,  Lilian  Thomas,  bom  in 
New  Bedford,  August  3,  1869,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  Josephine  (Pierce)  Ed- 
wards. Her  father,  a  son  of  John  Crabtree 
Edwards,  was  born  in  Bethlehem,  Pennsyl- 
vania. Her  mother  was  born  in  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts.  The  children  of  Fred  E.  and 
Lilian  T.  (Edwards)  Eastman  are:  Thomas 
Edwards,  born  March  7,  1892.  Laurence  Ed- 
wards, born  October  4,  1894. 


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(For    first    generation      see   Roger  Eastman  I.) 

(II)  Thomas,  fourth  son  and 
EASTMAN  child  of  Roger  Eastman,  was 
born  in  Salisbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  ii,  1646,  married,  Janu- 
ary 20,  1679,  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  De- 
borah, daughter  of  George  and  Joannah 
(Davis)  Corlis.  He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
in  1675.  Thomas  was  a  soldier  in  King 
Philip's  war,  and  was  killed  by  the  Indians. 
The  issue  of  this  marriage  was  Jonathan, 
Sarah,  Joanna  (twins),  and  Joannah,  2d. 

(III)  Jonathan,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  East- 
man, was  born  on  the  shores  of  the  musical 
Merrimack,  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  and 
took  to  wife  Hannah  Green,  April  8,  1701. 
Having  spent  some  years  of  married  life  in 
Haverhill,  Jonathan  is  reported  to  have  re- 
moved to  Andover,  Massachusetts,  and  thence 
to  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  then  Rumford, 
and  purchased  the  land  whereon  St.  Paul's 
school  now  stands.  Jonathan  executed  a  will 
March  2,  1747,  and  appointed  his  son  Amos 
executor,  and  the  will  was  admitted  to  probate 
at  Exeter,  May  30,  1758.  He  was  a  man  of 
powerful  frame  and  stood  six  feet  and  four 
inches.  In  1759  Amos  removed  with  his 
mother  to  Hollis,  New  Hampshire.  The  dates 
of  the  deaths  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  are  not 
given  in  the  records.  Hannah  was  taken  in 
captivity  by  the  Indians  during  Queen  Anne's 
war.  Haverhill  was  then  a  small  town  of 
thirty  houses,  and  it  was  imperfectly  protected 
from  the  ferocious  assaults  of  the  hidden,  sav- 
age foe.  The  men  went  armed  everywhere. 
At  church  the  settlers  carried  their  guns  in 
one  hand  and  the  Bible  in  the  other.  The 
musket  lay  beside  them  when  they  worked  in 
the  field,  and  they  slept  within  reach  of  it  at 
night.  During  the  absence  of  Jonathan  the 
Indians  appeared,  dashed  out  the  brains  of 
his  infant  child,  and  carried  Hannah  a  captive 
to  Canada.  She  suffered  immensely  and  en- 
dured incredible  hardship.  Weary  from  long 
marches,  chilled  from  exposure,  emaciated 
from  fasting,  grieved  at  being  separated  from 
her  husband  and  the  loss  of  her  child,  expect- 
ing everv  moment  to  be  tomahawked,  she  at 
length  reached  the  end  of  the  perilous  journey 
through  the  wilderness.  After  three  years  of 
imprisonment,  Jonathan,  who  had  followed  in 
search  of  her,  luckily  one  day  passed  the  house 
of  a  friendly  French  woman,  in  whose  home 
she  had  sought  shelter  from  the  Indians.  Thus 
were  husband  and  wife  again  reunited.  The 
story  reads  more  like  a  romance  than  of  actual 
reality. 

(IV)  Richard,  fifth  child  and  third  son  of 


Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Green)  Eastman,  was^ 
born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  August  9,. 
1 712,  died  in  Lovell,  Maine,  December,  1807. 
Married,  in  Andover,  Massachusetts,  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Philips,  November  15,  1737,  Molly  Love- 
joy,  born  December  17,  171 8,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 24,  1718,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Sarah 
(Farnum)  Lovejoy.  She  died  in  Pembroke, 
New  Hampshire,  June  14,  1764.  He  married 
(second)  Sarah  Abbott,  daughter  of  James 
and  Abigail  (Farnum)  Abbott,  of  West  Par- 
ish, Concord,  New  Hampshire,  born  August 
17,  1730.  Sarah  was  the  widow  of  Job  Ab- 
bott. Richard  set  up  his  lares  and  penates  in 
Pembroke,  New  Hampshire.  Like  the  custom 
of  the  day,  he  followed  the  river  in  seeking  a 
new  home.  In  1768  he  is  recorded  as  living 
in  Conway,  New  Hampshire.  He  took  title 
to  the  mill  property  of  Thomas  Chadbourne 
there.  He  next  removed  to  Lovell,  Maine, 
and  ran  a  ferry  across  the  Saco  river,  and  later 
was  toll  gatherer  at  the  bridge  thrown  across 
the  stream.  He  was  the  first  man  to  hold  the 
office  of  selectman  in  Fryeburg,  and  was  a  pil- 
lar in  the  church.  His  descendants  abound 
very  numerously  in  the  Saco  valley.  The 
children  of  Richard  and  Molly  (Lovejoy) 
Eastman,  all  born  in  Pembroke,  New  Hamp- 
shire, were  Caleb,  Jonathan  (2),  Mary,  Ab- 
iathar,  Richard  (2),  Sarah,  Job,  Noah,  Han- 
nah, Martha,  Abiah,  Esther.  Children  by  the 
second  wife  were  Daniel,  Cyrus,  Susannah, 
Jeremy  and  Jonas. 

(V)  Daniel,  child  of  Richard  and  Sarah 
(Abbott)  Eastman,  was  born  in  Pembroke, 
New  Hampshire,  April  21,  1766,  died  in  Lov- 
ell, Maine,  January  16,  1844.  Married  Sarah 
Whiting;  she  died  January  19,  1806.  He  was 
town  clerk  of  Lovell,  and  a  very  fine  penman. 
He  served  in  the  revolutionary  war  under 
Lieutenant  Farrington,  of  Fryeburg.  ;\Iaine. 
The  last  years  of  his  eminently  useful  life 
were  clouded  with  the  misfortune  of  blindness. 
He  had  issue  born  to  him  as  follows :  Phineas, 
James,  Sally,  Solomon,  Cyrus,  Asa,  Daniel 
(2),  Jonas  and  Isaac. 

(VI)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Whiting)  Eastman,  was  born  in  Lov- 
ell, Maine.  1799,  died  1878.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  was  a  farmer,  speculated 
in  timber  and  timber  lots,  was  justice  of  the 
peace  and  trial  justice.  A  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  a  member  of  the  Congegational 
church.  He  married  (first)  Lucy  Walker. 
Their  children  were  James  W.,  Hall  C,  Ho- 
race, Abigail  and  Mary  Ann.  He  married 
(second)  Rebecca  Smart,  of  Prospect.  Maine, 
born    1808,  died    1884.     Their  diildren   were 


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Andrew  J.,  Seth  S.,  Lucy  W.,  Tobias  Lord, 
Susan  L  and  Emma  J. 

(VII)  Tobias  Lord,  fourth  child  of  Daniel 
(2)  and  Rebecca  (Smart)  Eastman,  was  born 
in  Stowe,  Maine,  December  30,  1844.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  Lovell.  When  thir- 
teen years  old  he  clerked  in  store  and  attended 
school  until  seventeen  years  of  age.  He  joined 
the  army  when  seventeen  years  old,  but  on 
account  of  youth  was  not  permitted  to  enlist. 
He  followed  the  company  to  New  Orleans  and 
was  enlisted  there  Rlay  i,  1862,  in  Company 
E,  Twelfth  Maine  Regiment,  and  was  there 
mustered  out  August  20,  1865.  He  served 
under  Generals  Butler,  Banks,  and  Phil  Sheri- 
dan, was  orderly  and  did  clerical  work  when 
not  in  the  field.  He  saw  a  great  deal  of  active 
service,  was  one  of  the  volunteers  to  go  into 
the  action  of  Ponchatula,  Mississippi,  July, 
1862,  was  at  Port  Hudson,  and  at  the  stubborn 
siege  at  Petersburg,  was  in  Washington  in 
1864,  and  was  in  the  engagements  at  Cedar 
Creek  and  Fisher's  Hill.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  returned  to  Lovell,  Maine,  and  worked 
in  the  store  of  A.  H.  Price  as  clerk,  remained 
one  year,  went  to  East  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  was  employed  in  the  store  of 
J.  M.  Price,  brother  of  A.  H.  Price,  of  Lovell, 
remained  there  one  year,  went  then  to  Steep 
Falls,  Maine,  and  was  engaged  as  clerk  in  a 
country  store,  remained  there  four  years,  went 
into  the  railway  mail  service  in  1874,  running 
from  Portland,  Maine,  to  Swanton,  Vermont, 
continuing  in  the  service  for  six  years,  health 
failed  him  and  he  laid  off  duty  for  six  months ; 
was  appointed  postmaster  of  Fryeburg,  Maine, 
by  President  Garfield,  which  position  he  held 
four  years.  He  then  embarked  in  the  corn 
packing  business  in  Fryeburg  in  1886,  and 
continued  in  the  same  until  1902.  He  did  a 
sixty-thousand-dollar-a-year  business.  In  1902 
a  corporation  was  formed  of  the  business,  and 
it  is  now  known  as  The  Eastman  Canning 
Company,  of  which  Mr.  Eastman  is  president. 
In  igo2  the  Eastman  and  Warren  Company, 
general  store,  of  Fryeburg,  was  incorporated, 
in  which  Mr.  Eastman  is  a  stockholder,  and 
is  manager  and  assistant  treasurer.  Mr.  East- 
man is  interested  in  the  lumber  business,  and 
is  a  director  in  the  United  States  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Portland,  Maine,  with  a  branch  office 
in  Fryeburg.  He  is  also  a  trustee  of  Frye- 
burg Academy,  and  a  member  of  the  Eastman 
Association  of  New  Hampshire.  He  is  a  lead- 
ing Republican,  and  represented  his  town  in 
the  legislature  in  1891-02.  While  in  the  house 
he  served  on  the  agricultural,  military,  and 
other  committees,  on  which  he  acted  as  secre- 


tary. He  is  a  member  of  the  Pythagorean 
Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Fryeburg;  Aurora 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  Cornish;  Portland  Council, 
of  Portland ;  Portland  Commandery,  Kora 
Temple,  of  Lewiston ;  the  Consistory  of  Port- 
land, and  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason. 
He  is  a  member  of  Pequawket  Lodge,  K.  of 
P.,  of  Fryeburg ;  of  Pequawket  Lodge,  I.  O. 
O.  F.,  of  Brownfield,  Maine ;  Kezar  Valley 
Encampment,  of  Lovell,  Maine ;  of  Grover 
Post,  No.  126,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Fryeburg,  Maine; 
and  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers.  He  is  active  in 
the  Congregational  church,  moderator  and 
chairman   of  the   prudential   committee. 

He  married  (first),  in  1876,  Mary  M., 
daughter  of  Rev.  P.  M.  Hobson,  of  Standish, 
Maine.  Their  children  were:  i.  James  W., 
born  April  11,  1878,  educated  at  Fryeburg 
Academy,  and  is  now  treasurer  of  the  East- 
man and  Warren  Company,  general  store, 
Fryeburg.  Since  the  formation  of  the  com- 
pany, in  1902,  Mr.  Warren  has  retired,  and 
the  store  is  now  owned  by  Tobias,  Lord,  and 
James  W.  Eastman.  James  W.  married  Ina 
W.  Sawtelle,  and  has  three  children :  Tobias 
Clifford,  Harold  and  Robert.  2.  Reba,  born 
1880,  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Standish, 
New  Gloucester,  Maine,  and  the  Conservatory 
of  Music,  Boston,  also  in  a  private  school  in 
Portland.  She  was  stenographer  to  Mr.  Brad- 
ley, of  Portland,  and  subsequently  to  Mr. 
Hastings,  attorney,  in  Fryeburg.  She  married 
Dr.  Joseph  RL  Thompson,  of  New  Gloucester, 
Maine,  now  located  in  Walpole,  New  Hamp- 
shire. Tobias  L.  Eastman's  wife  died  Febru- 
ary 28,  1880.  He  married  (second).  May  20, 
1884,  Adelia  S.,  daughter  of  Henry  Walker, 
of  Fryeburg.  They  have  one  daughter  Edna, 
born  1888;  she  graduated  from  Fryeburg 
Academy  in  1906,  and  is  now  a  student  at 
Simmons  College. 


Edmund  Bridges,  the  im- 
BRIDGES     migrant  ancestor,  was  born  in 

England  in  1612.  He  came  in 
the  ship  "James,"  in  July,  1635,  giving  his  age 
as  twenty-three.  He  settled  at  Lynn  and  fol- 
lowed his  trade  as  blacksmith.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  September  7,  1639,  and  was 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town.  He  re- 
moved to  Rowley,  and  was  living  there  in 
1641,  when  he  had  a  suit  at  law  at  Ipswich. 
He  was  a  proprietor  of  Rowley.  The  general 
court.  May  26,  1647,  ordered  him  "to  answer 
at  Essex  Court  for  neglect  to  further  public 
service  by  delaying  to  shoe  Mr.  Symond's 
horse  when  he  was  about  to  come  to  the  Gen- 
eral   Court."     That   was   before   the   days   of 


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labor  unions  and  strikes  in  America.  He  de- 
posed in  1658  that  he  was  aged  about  forty- 
six  years.  He  removed  to  Ipswich,  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  a  subscriber  to  the  Denison 
fund  in  1648;  was  a  commoner  of  Ipswich  as 
early  as  1664,  and  a  voter  in  1679.  He  ad- 
ministered the  estate  of  his  third  wife's  son, 
John  Littlehale,  November  25,  1675.  He  re- 
moved finally  to  Topsfield.  He  died  January 
13,  1684.  His  will  is  dated  January  6,  1694, 
and  proved  March  31,  1695.  The  inventory 
amounts  to  235  pounds.     He  married   (first) 

Alice ;  (second)  Elizabeth ,  who 

died  December,  1664,  and  (third)  April  6, 
1665,  Mary  Littlehale,  who  died  October  21, 
1691,  widow  of  Richard  Littlehale.  Children: 
I.  Edmund  Jr.,  born  1637;  died  1682;  lived  at 
Topsfield  and  Salem;  married,  January  11, 
1659-60,  Sarah  Towne,  daughter  of  William ; 
she  married  (second)  Peter  Clayes.  2. 
Hachaliah,  lost  at  sea,  1671-2.  3.  Obadiah, 
born  about  1646;  died  about  1677;  married, 
October  25,  1671,  Mary  Smith;  (second) 
Elizabeth  ,  who  married  (second)  Jo- 
seph Parker.  4.  John,  married  Sarah  How, 
daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth;  (second) 
Mary  Post,  widow,  March  i,  1677-8.  5. 
Josiah,  mentioned  below.  6.  Mehitable,  born 
at  Rowley,  March  26,  1641-2.  7.  Faith,  mar- 
ried Daniel  Black,  who  settled  at  York,  Maine. 
8.  Bethia,  married,  October  26,  1663,  Joseph 
Peabody.     9.  Mary. 

(II)  Josiah,  fifth  son  of  Edmund  (i) 
Bridges,  was  born  about  1650.  He  lived  at 
Ipswich,  Boxford  and  Topsfield,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married  (first),  November  13,  1676, 
Elizabeth  Norton,  and  (second),  September 
19,  1677,  Ruth  Greenslip.  Children,  born  at 
Topsfield:  i.  Josiah  Jr.,  born  May  29,  1680; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Daughter  born  May, 
1695-6.     Perhaps  others. 

(III)  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i)  Bridges, 
was  born  at  Topsfield,  May  29,  1680.  He  re- 
moved to  York,  Maine,  where  his  father's 
sister  settled  (Mrs.  Daniel  Black),  and  prob- 
ably other  neighbors  and  relatives  from  Box- 
ford  and  Topsfield.  He  was  in  York  before 
1719.  He  bought  a  quarter-interest  in  the 
lands  of  John  Hoy  (Hoyt?),  of  York,  eighty- 
four  acres,  in  the  section  called  Brickson,  or 
Bricksum,  September  6,  1719.  He  bought  an- 
other quarter  of  the  same  land  August  14, 
1723.  He  bought  of  John  and  Tabitha  Lins- 
cott,  in  exchange  for  some  of  his  York  prop- 
erty, a  small  house  and  land,  March  23,  1719, 
showing  that  he  had  land  at  York  by  grant 
or  inheritance  not  mentioned  in  York  Deeds. 
Bridges   sold   land   to   Linscott   December    15, 


1719,  located  at  Bricksum,  York;  also  to 
Peter  Nowell,  on  the  highway  to  York  Bridge, 
March  3,  1721,  and  to  Joseph  Moulton  thir- 
teen acres  on  the  highway  at  the  southeast 
end  of  York  Bridge,  January  10,  1721.  He 
bought  land  also  of  David  Robertson,  mariner, 
of  Boston,  and  September  18,  1732,  sixty 
acres  in  Kittery,  Maine,  of  Charles  Frost.  He 
sold  land  near  the  bridge  in  York,  September 
19,  1732,  to  Charles  Mclntire.  The  will  of 
Josiah  Bridges  was  dated  January  10,  1753, 
and  proved  January  6,  1755.  He  died,  there- 
fore, in  1754.  He  bequeathed  all  his  movables, 
except  money  at  interest,  to  his  widow  Eliza- 
beth ;  to  his  granddaughter,  Ruth  Hamilton 
(Hambelton),  to  his  four  sons — Josiah,  John, 
Edmund  and  Daniel — two-thirds  of  his  money 
at  interest,  the  remainder  to  be  divided  after 
his  wife's  death.  He  seems  to  have  divided 
his  property  by  deed.  His  son  John  was 
executor.  Children:  i.  Edmund,  baptized  at 
Boxford,  June,  1703;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Hepzibah.  3.  Mercy.  4.  Josiah.  5.  John.  6. 
Daniel. 

(IV)  Edmund  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (2) 
Bridges,  was  born  at  Boxford,  and  baptized 
there  June  17,  1703.  He  married  Sarah 
Beede,  daughter  of  Henry  Beede,  of  York, 
Maine.  He  settled  in  York,  Maine,  probably 
on  the  homestead.  Children,  born  at  York.  i. 
Daniel,  born  November  24,  1735.  2.  Ruth, 
born  November  17,  1737.  3.  Edmund,  born 
November  17,  1739.  4.  Sarah,  born  May  17, 
1744-5.  5.  Martha,  born  January  17,  1744-5. 
6.  Thomas,  born  October  19,  1747.  7.  Joshua, 
born  March  7,  1749-50,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Joshua,  son  of  Edmund  (2)  Bridges, 
was  born  March  7,  1749-50,  at  York,  and 
died  there  August  25,  1826.  He  settled  in 
York,  and  married  there,  in  1777,  Elizabeth 
Grant,  who  died  January  17,  1831.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  revolution,  a  private  in  Captain 
Johnson  Moulton's  company  of  minute-men  on 
"the  Lexington  call,  April  19,  1775;  also  in 
Captain  Samuel  Darby's  company.  Colonel 
James  Scammon's  regiment,  in  August,  1775, 
at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts ;  also  in  Captain 
Philip  Hubbard's  company  at  Kittery  Point 
and  York  in  1776.  Children,  bom  at  York: 
I.  Stephen,  born  January  i,  1778;  died  Au- 
gust, 1778.  2.  Lucy,  born  August  i,  1779, 
died  February,  1825 ;  married  Samuel  Par- 
sons. 3.  Stephen,  born  October  20,  1781,  mar- 
"ried   Mary  Donnell.     4.  John,  born   May  25, 

1783,  mentioned  below.  5.  Daniel,  born  June 
3,  1787,  married  Hannah  Seavey;  children: 
i.  Mary  Jane,  born  August  5,  1814,  married, 
June  3,  1839,  William  Preble;  ii.  Eliakim,  born 


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May  5,  1816;  iii.  Abigail,  born  July  23,  1818, 
married,  February  10,  1741,  Theodore  Don- 
rtell,  and  she  died  April  2,  1845  J  iv.  William, 
born  March  22,  1841,  married  Theda  Jellison ; 
V.  Lucy  Ann,  born  August  12,  1827,  married. 
February  2,  1846,  Theodore  Donnell;  vi. 
George,  born  November  27,  1832,  married, 
January  28,  1855,  Martha  Jellison. 

(VI)  John,  son  of  Joshua  Bridges,  was 
born  in  York,  IMay  25,  1783.  He  settled  in 
York,  and  married  Betsey  Winn,  of  Wells, 
Maine.  Children:  i.  Aurilla.  2.  x\nn.  3. 
Benjamin,  mentioned  below.  4.  John.  5.  Sally. 
6.   Edmund.     7.   Jeremiah. 

(VII)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  Bridges,  was 
born  in  York,  October  19,  181 1,  and  died 
there  July  6,  1864.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  York,  and  for  many  years 
was  head  light-keeper  for  the  government  at 
the  Boon  Island  lighthouse,  York.  He  mar- 
ried, December  i,  1836,  Clarissa  Philbrook, 
born  August  22,  1816,  died  April  2,  1877, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Todd)  Phil- 
brook,  of  Rye,  New  Hampshire.  (See  Phil- 
brook  below.)  Children,  born  at  York:  i. 
George,  born  March  16,  1838,  died  March  13, 
1839.  2.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  February  3, 
1841,  married,  December  21,  1862,  John 
Glenn;  children:  i.  Abbie  E.  Glenn,  born  Jan- 
uary 15,  1866;  ii.  Elsie  M.  Glenn,  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1867.  3.  George  E.,  born  May  16, 
1844;  died  September  26,  1870.  4.  Mary  C, 
born  October  30,  1846,  died  June  4,  1850.  5. 
Benjamin  F.,  born  June  5,  1850,  married,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1867;  children:  i.  Rosealtha,  born 
September  24,  1867;  ii.  Bernice  C,  born  May 
12,  1870;  iii.  George  E.,  born  February  5, 
1872.  6.  Joseph  Coburn,  born  October  15, 
1852,  mentioned  below.  7.  Mary  S.,  born 
May  18.  1856,  married,  December  31.  1885, 
George  N.  Thompson ;  no  children. 

(VIII)  Joseph  Coburn,  son  of  Benjamin 
Bridges,  was  born  in  York,  October  15,  1852. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
York,  and  learned  the  mason's  trade.  He 
worked  for  some  years  as  journeyman  in  Bos- 
ton, Providence  and  elsewhere.  He  then  en- 
gaged in  business  as  a  contractor  and  house- 
painter  for  a  number  of  years.  For  the  past 
twenty-five  years  he  has  been  in  the  real  estate 
business  in  York.  Mr.  Bridges  is  a  Republican 
in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  Riverside 
Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Kittery,  Maine ;  of 
St.  Aspinquid  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  of 
York;  of  Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
of  South  Berwick:  of  Bradford  Command- 
ery.  Knights  Templar,  Biddeford ;  of  Maine 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  of  Saco; 


of  Kora  Temple,  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine, 
Lewiston,  Maine ;  of  the  Consistory,  Scottish 
Rite  iMasonry,  Portland.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Knights  of  Constantine.  He  mar- 
ried, January  26,  1897,  Lillian  Armine  Moul- 
ton,  born  January  8,  1866,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Theodosia  "jenette  (Langton)  Moulton, 
granddaughter  of  John  Moulton  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  John  Moulton. 

Clarissa  (Philbrook)  Bridges,  wife  of  Ben- 
jamin Bridges  (\TI),  was  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Philbrick  (I),  through  James  (II), 
and  Joseph  (HI),  which  see  elsewhere  in  this 
work. 

(IV)  Joses,  son  of  Joseph  Philbrook  (Phil- 
brick),  was  born  at  Hampton,  New  Hampshire, 
November  5,  1703,  and  died  at  Rye,  New 
Hampshire,  March  24,  1757.  He  moved  to 
Rye  with  his  parents  when  a  child.  He  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  an  active  and  useful  citizen 
and  large  land  owner.  He  married,  January  4, 
1727,  Abigail,  daughter  of  William  Locke. 
Children,  born  in  Rye:  i.  Hannah,  November 
27,  1727;  married  Reuben  Moulton.  2.  Tri- 
phena,  April  24,  1729;  married,  1760,  John 
Sanders;  (second)  Jonathan  Berry.  3.  Abi- 
gail, November  11,  1730.  4.  Sarah,  November 
9,  1732;  married  Robert  Aloulton.  5.  Joseph, 
August  10,  1735;  lived  at  Hampton  and  Rye; 
married,  December  2,  1760,  Ann  Towle.  6. 
Deacon  Reuben,  February  27,  1737 ;  married 
Hannah  Locke;  (second)  Mary  Wedgwood, 
widow;  (third)  Mary  Dalton ;  (fourth)  Mary 
Bell.  7.  Daniel,  February  2,  1740;  married 
Abigail  Marden.     8.  Jonathan   (see  forward). 

9.  Alary,  born  April  12,  1749;  died  November 

15.  1834- 

(y)  Jonathan,  son  of  Joses  Philbrook,  was 
born  in  Rye,  New  Hampshire,  November  26, 
1745;  died  April  2,  1822.  He  was  a  black- 
smith by  trade.  There  was  a  Jonathan  Phil- 
brook in  the  revolution,  but  the  writer  lacks 
positive  proof  that  he  was  this  Jonathan.  He 
married,  December  8,  1768,  Mary,  born  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1749,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Marden. 
Children,  born  in  Rye:  i.  Daniel,  July,  1769; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Jonathan,  September  29, 
1772;  married  June  i,  1797,  Sarah  Wells.  3. 
Abigail,  October  30,  1776;  married  December 

10,  1801,  James  Chapman.  4.  Elder  Ephraim, 
September  9,  1780;  married  Sally  Webster. 
5.  Elizabeth,  November  2,  1783  ;  married  Lieu- 
tenant Joseph  Jenness.  6.  Joseph,  May  27, 
1788;  married  Betsey  Page. 

(VI)  Daniel  Philbrook,  son  of  Jonathan 
Philbrook,  born  in  Rye,  1769;  died  in  York, 
May  14,  1840.  He  married  (first)  Betsey 
Wells;  (second)   IMary  Todd,  of  Kitterv,  De- 


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cember  25,  1795.  She  was  born  November  28, 
1776;  died  August  30,  1867.  Children:  i. 
John,  born  1797  (no  record  of  death).  2. 
Mary,  born  1799;  died  November,  1870;  mar- 
ried William  Taylor,  of  Gloucester,  Massa- 
chusetts. 3.  George,  born  1801 ;  died  1857.  4. 
Daniel,  born  1805;  died  January  14,  1852; 
married  Almira  Leach,  of  York.  5.  Sally, 
born  1807;  died  1838.  6.  William,  born  1810; 
died  July  30,  1879;  married  Olivia  Varrell,  of 
York.  7.  James,  born  1812;  died  November 
23,  1891 ;  married  Eliza  Ayers,  of  York.  8. 
Clarissa,  born  August  22,  1816;  died  April  2, 
1877;  married  Benjamin  Bridges,  of  York.  9. 
Samuel,  born  February  8,  1822;  died  August 
27,  1874 ;  married  Rosalthea  Peters,  of  Alton, 
Illinois. 


(For   first    generation   see  preceding   sketch.) 

(II)  John,  son  of  Edmund  ( i ) 
BRIDGES  Bridges,  resided  in  Andover, 
Massachusetts.  He  married 
(first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  James  and  Eliza- 
beth How,  December  6,  1666.  He  married 
(second),  March  i,  1677-78,  Mary  Post, 
widowf.  Children  of  first  wife  :  i.  James,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Sarah,  married  (first), 
April  2,  1694,  Samuel  Preston;  (second) 
William  Price,  of  Ashford,  Connecticut.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  3.  Mary,  born  January 
27,  1678-79.  4.  Samuel,  July  19,  1861.  5. 
Elizabeth,  June  5,  1683.  6.  Mehitable,  April 
29,  1688. 

(III)  James  (i),  son  of  John  Bridges,  was 
born  in  1671  and  died  April  24,  1739.  He 
married.  May  24,  1692,  Sarah,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 18,  1736,  daughter  of  John  and  Martha 
Marston.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born  February 
25,  1693-94,  married  Nathan  Frye.  2.  James, 
February  16,  1695-96,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Bertha,  August  9,  1696,  married,  July  15, 
1720,  Philemon  Dalton ;  married  (second) 
Samuel  Morse.  4.  Hannah,  married,  April, 
1728,   Samuel   Preston. 

(IV)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Bridges, 
was  born  February  16,  1695-96,  died  July  17, 
1747.  He  married  (first),  December  28,  1721, 
Eleanor,  born  October  17,  1700,  died  May  5, 
1736,  daughter  of  Caleb  Moody.  He  married 
(second)  Mary  Abbot,  born  March  24,  1700, 
died  1774.  Children,  born  at  Andover:  i. 
Moody,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary,  born  Oc- 
tober 29,  1724.  3.  James,  June  2,  1729,  mar- 
ried, September  4,  1755,  Mary  Twitchell.  4. 
Sarah,  March  4,  1733,  died  October  i,  1738. 
5.  Abigail.  6.  Eleanor.  7.  Sarah,  December 
21,  1739.  8.  John,  September  5,  1741.  9. 
Chloe,  December  28,  1743. 


(V)  Moody,  son  of  James  (2)  Bridges,  was 
a  grantee  of  Bridgeton,  Maine,  which  is  said 
to  have  been  named  for  him.  He  married, 
November  5,  1747,  Naomi,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Frye,  of  Andover.  Children,  born  at  An- 
dover: I.  Naomi,  September  7,  1748,  married 
Jedediah  Sweet,  of  Pittston.  2.  Sarah,  June 
14,  1750,  died  February  16,  1754.  3.  James, 
November  4,   1751,  died  November  22,  1789. 

4.  Isaac,  February  3,  1753,  mentioned  below. 

5.  Sarah,  1754,  died  at  Readfield,  Maine, 
March  6,  1809;  married  John  Dean,  of  Exe- 
ter, New  Hampshire.  6.  Abigail,  September 
25.  1756.  7.  Eleanor,  October  8,  175 — ,  died 
February  22,  1801 ;  married  James  \'arnum. 
8.  Susanna,  May  3,  1760.  9.  Enoch,  August 
23,  1762,  died  June  7,  1764.  10.  Hannah, 
September  17,  1764,  died  1843.  11.  Martha, 
April  30,  1767,  died  young.  12.  Dorcas,  May 
23,  1769,  died  August  26,  1839;  married 
James  Tyler.  13.  Ruby,  April  30,  1771,  mar- 
ried James  Jewett. 

(\'I)  Isaac,  son  of  Moody  Bridges,  was 
born  February  3,  1753,  and  is  thought  to  be 
the  Isaac  Bridges  who  settled  at  Penobscot, 
Maine.  Children,  born  at  Penobscot:  Bizer, 
February  5,  1786,  mentioned  below;  Molly, 
Isaac,  Aaron,  Jesse,  Hannah,  John. 

(VII)  Bizer,  son  of  Isaac  Bridges,  was 
born  in  Penobscot,  Maine,  February  5,  1786, 
died  in  1869.  He  married  Deborah  Stover.  ' 
Children :  Otis,  Robert,  Jeremiah,  mentioned 
below ;  Phebe,  Willis,  Lucy,  George,  William, 
Eliza,  Infant,  died  young. 

(VIII)  Jeremiah,  son  of  Bizer  Bridges,  was 
born  in  Penobscot,  Maine,  about  1815,  died  in 
Newport,  Maine.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by 
trade.  He  was  fond  of  music,  and  had  a  fine 
voice.  He  had  a  singing-school  in  Stetson, 
Maine,  and  also  made  carriages  there.  He 
married  Lucinda  Snow.  Children  :  Humphrey 
Atkins,  Otis,  Willis,  Robert  Adams,  mentioned 
below ;  Charles. 

(IX)  Robert  Adams,  son  of  Jeremiah 
Bridges,  was  born  in  Stetson,  Maine,  October 
18,  1854,  died  May  10,  1901.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools  of  his  native  town. 
At  the  age  of  about  sixteen  he  went  to  Bangor, 
Maine,  and  began  his  business  career  as  clerk 
in  the  hardware  store  of  Rice  &  Skinner.  He 
became  the  junior  partner  of  the  firm  which 
succeeded  his  employers,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Fogg  &  Bridges.  The  business  was  sold 
several  years  later  to  the  firm  of  Rice  &  Mil- 
ler, and  from  that  time  to  his  death  he  was 
associated  with  the  firm  of  Haynes  &  Chalm- 
ers, hardware  dealers.  He  was  a  member  of 
the   Odd   Fellows.       He    married     Mary    E., 


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1605 


daughter  of  William  Holden.  Children:  i. 
Harry,  living  in  St.  John,  New  Brunswick. 
2.  Grace  S.,  living  at  Bangor,  Maine.  3. 
Ralph  Emerson,  mentioned  below.  4.  Mabel 
L.,  married  Jones  and  lives  at  Portland,  Maine. 
(X)  Ralph  Emerson,  son  of  Robert  Adams 
Bridges,  was  born  in  Bangor,  May  29,  1879. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Bangor,  and  graduated  from  the  high  school 
in  that  city.  He  began  February  i,  1898,  as 
clerk  for  the  Eastern  Trust  and  Banking 
Company,  and  continued  until  March  i,  1905, 
when  he  became  treasurer  of  the  Merchants 
Trust  and  Banking  Company,  a  position  he 
filled  with  ability  and  credit  until  June  i.  1907, 
when  he  became  the  treasurer  of  the  Carter- 
Corey  Company,  wholesale  dealers  in  potatoes 
and  fertilizers,  his  present  position.  He  and 
his  wife  attend  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church.  He  married,  June  5,  1905,  Edith 
Gordon,  daughter  of  Edward  B.  and  Willa 
(Gordon)  Cummings.  They  have  no  chil- 
dren. 


CHASE 


The  annals  of  North  America  are 

frequently    embellished    by    this 

name,  which  has  been  borne  by 

statesmen,    jurists,    soldiers,    clergymen    and 

others  honored  in  the  various  walks  of  life. 

For  many  years  the  earliest  known  ancestor 
of  the  American  family  of  this  name  was 
Aquila  Chase,  who  was  among  the  founders 
of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  and  said  to  be 
from  Cornwall,  England,  by  several  antiquar- 
ians on  the  authority  of  tradition.  A  long 
search  has  established,  beyond  a  reasonable 
doubt,  that  he  was  from  Chesham  in  Bucking- 
hamshire, some  thirty  miles  northwest  of  Lon- 
don. The  family  is  said  to  have  been  of  Nor- 
man origin,  and  it  has  been  suggested  that 
the  name  was  formerly  La  Chasse.  In  the  old 
English  records  it  is  spelled  Chaace  and 
Chaase,  and  in  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  cen- 
turies it  was  modified  to  the  form  now  most  in 
use — Chase. 

(I)  Matthew  Chase,  of  Hundritche,  parish 
of  Chesham,  gives  his  father's  name  as  John, 
and  the  father  of  the  latter  as  Thomas.  As 
the  name  of  Matthew's  wife  is  the  first  female 
found  in  the  line,  this  article  will  number  Mat- 
thew as  the  first.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Richard  Bould. 

(II)  Richard,  son  of  Matthew  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bould)  Chase,  married  Mary  Roberts, 
of  Welsden,  in  Middlesex.  He  had  brothers, 
Francis,  John,  Matthew,  Thornas,  Ralph  and 
William,  and  a  sister  Bridget. 

(III)  Richard     (2),    son    of  Richard   and 


Mary  (Roberts)  Chase,  was  baptized  August 
23,  1542,  and  was  married  September  16,  1564, 
to  Joan  (or  Anne)  Bishop.  Their  children 
were :  Robert,  Henry,  Lydia,  Ezekiel,  Dorcas, 
Aquila,  Jason,  Thomas,  Abigail  and  Mordecai. 

(IV)  Aquila,  son  of  Richard  (2)  and  Joan 
or  Anne  (Bishop)  Chase,  was  baptized  Au- 
gust 14,  1580,  and  died  December  24,  1670. 
The  unique  name  of  Aquila  is  found  nowhere 
in  England,  before  or  since,  coupled  with  the 
name  of  Chase,  which  makes  it  reasonably  cer- 
tain that  this  Aquila  was  the  ancestor  of  the 
American  family.  One  tradition  gives  the 
name  of  his  wife  as  Sarah,  and  another  as 
Martha  Jellison.  Record  is  found  of  two  sons, 
Thomas  and  Aquila,  the  latter  born  in  1618. 
It  is  generally  believed  that  William  Chase, 
the  first  of  the  name  in  America,  was  an  elder 
son,  and  that  the  others  came  with  him  or  fol- 
lowed later.  The  fact  of  their  being  minors 
would  lead  to  their  absence  from  the  records 
of  the  earliest  days  of  William  in  this  country. 
Some  authorities  intimate  that  Thomas  and 
Aquila  were  employed  by  their  uncle,  Thomas 
Chase,  who  was  part  owner  of  the  ship  "John 
and  Francis,"  and  thus  became  navigators  and 
so  found  their  way  to  America.  This  theory 
is  borne  out  by  the  fact  that  Aquila  was 
granted  a  house  lot  and  six  acres  of  marsh  by 
the  inhabitants  of  Newbury,  Massachusetts, 
"on  condition  that  he  do  go  to  sea  and  do 
service  in  the  Towne  with  a  boat  for  foure 
years." 

(V)  Aquila  (2),  son  of  Aquila  (i)  Chase, 
settled  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts  (that  part 
now  Newburyport),  about  1646.  He  was  for- 
merly in  Hampton  (now  part  of  New  Hamp- 
shire), where  he  and  his  brother  Thomas  re- 
ceived grants  of  land  in  June,  1640,  along 
with  fifty-five  others.  There,  as  owner  of  a 
house  lot,  he  was  listed  among  those  entitled 
to  a  share  in  the  common  lands,  December  2},, 
1645.  This  he  subsequently  sold  to  his  brother, 
as  shown  by  town  records  after  his  removal 
to  Newbury.  His  eldest  child  is  said  to  have 
been  born  in  •  Hampton.  His  wife,  Anne 
(Wheeler)  Chase,  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Wheeler,  who  came  from  Salisbury,  England. 
In  September,  1646,  according  to  the  county 
records,  Aquila  Chase  and  his  wife,  with  her 
brother,  David  Wheeler,  were  presented  and 
fined  "for  gathering  pease  on  the  Sabbath." 
They  were  admonished  by  the  court,  after 
which  their  fines  were  remitted.  Mr.  Chase 
died  December  27,  1670,  aged  fifty-two  years. 
His  widow  married  again,  and  died  April  21, 
1687.  Aquila  Chase's  children  were  named: 
Sarah    and    Anne    (twins),    Priscilla,    Mary, 


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Aquila,  Thomas,  John,  Elizabeth,  Ruth,  Dan- 
iel and  Moses. 

(VI)  Moses,  eleventh  and  youngest  child  of 
Aquila  (2)  and  Anne  (Wheeler)  Chase,  was 
born  December  24,  1663,  in  Newbury.  He  was 
married  November  10,  1682  or  1684,  to  Anna 
FoUansbee,  and  settled  in  West  Newbury,  on 
the  main  road,  about  one  hundred  rods  above 
Bridge  street  (present).  A  large  majority  of 
the  Chases  in  the  United  States  are  said  to 
be  his  descendants.  He  died  September  6, 
1743.  His  children  were:  Moses  (died 
young)  and  Daniel  (twins),  Moses,  Samuel, 
Elizabeth,  Stephen,  Hannah,  Joseph  and  Ben- 
oni. 

(VII)  Samuel,  fourth  son  and  child  of 
Moses  and  Anna  (FoUansbee)  Chase,  was 
born  May  13,  1690,  and  married,  December  8, 
1713,  Hannah  Emery.  Their  children  were: 
Francis,  Amos,  Hannah,  Mary  (died  young), 
Anne,  Samuel,  Mary,  Betsey,  Benjamin,  John. 

(VIII)  Deacon  Amos,  second  son  and  child 
of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Emery)  Chase,  was 
born  in  Newbury,  January  15,  1718.  He  emi- 
grated to  Saco,  Maine,  then  called  Pepperell- 
borough,  in  honor  of  Sir  William  Pepperell, 
Baronet,  who  owned  a  large  tract  of  land,  a 
portion  of  which  was  granted  for  a  "towne 
settlement"  about  1740.  "Mr.  Chase  was  with- 
out doubt  one  of  the  fruits  of  the  great  re- 
ligious revival  beginning  in  1735  in  Newbury, 
Massachusetts,  under  Jonathan  Edwards,  con- 
tinued by  Whitefield,  Tennant,  and  others,  the 
account  of  which  would  fill  a  volume."  Mr. 
Chase  attempted  a  settlement  in  Buxton,  on  a 
right  belonging  to  his  father.  Tradition  says 
"he  was  the  first  person  to  drive  a  team  into 
the  town;  and  that  his  daughter  Rebecca  was 
the  first  white  child  born  m  Buxton."  The 
war  of  1^4  caused  him  to  return  to  Newbury, 
from  which  place  he  returned  to  Saco,  and 
settled  at  "the  Ferry"  at  the  mouth  of  the  Saco 
river.  In  1760  he  removed  to  the  estate  two 
miles  above,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  long  and  active  life.  "The  stately  elms 
which  overshadowed  the  residence  of  the  good 
deacon"  he  carried  to  the  spot  and  set  out  with 
his  own  hands  about  the  time  of  his  removal. 
No  one  knows  their  size  or  age  at  the  time 
they  were  transplanted,  but  they  have  already 
stood  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  in  their  pres- 
ent environment.  The  first  meeting  held  in 
Pepperellborough  was  in  July,  1762,  when 
Amos  Chase,  Tristam  Jordan,  and  Robert  Pat- 
terson were  chosen  selectmen.  October  13, 
1762  (a  day  set  apart  for  fasting  and  prayer), 
a  church  was  organized  consisting  of  eleven 
members.     Rev.  John  Fairfield  was  chosen  for 


first  pastor,  and  Amos  Chase  for  first  deacon. 
Mr.  Chase  was  ordained  April  21,  1763.  The 
first  committee  of  correspondence  selected  to 
prepare  the  way  for  the  Revolution,  was  chosen 
in  Pepperellborough,  November  9,  1774,  and 
was  composed  of  Deacon  Amos  Chase,  Tris- 
tram Jordan,  James  Scammon,  and  James 
Foss.  A  separate  committee  of  inspection  was 
chosen  consisting  of  the  same  persons  with 
two  others,  to  see  thaf  the  several  "Resolves 
of  the  County  Congresses  be  complied  with." 
Deacon  Amos  Chase  was  "Stately  and  com- 
manding in  figure,  six  feet  in  height,  vigorous 
and  erect  even  in  old  age,  eloquent  in  conver- 
sation and  pre-eminently  so  in  prayer."  On 
July  17,  1817,  the  deacon,  then  ninety-nine 
years  old,  rode  three  miles  on  horseback  to 
the  rural  seat  of  George  Thatcher,  where  he 
met  President  Monroe  and  suite  returning 
from  Portland  to  Biddeford,  and  extended  to 
him  an  eloquent  welcome,  concluding  with  the 
invocation  of  a  blessing  on  the  illustrious  chief 
magistrate'.  Deacon  Chase  died  I\Iarch  2,  18 18, 
having  overlapped  his  century  one  month  and 
eighteen  days.  The  record  of  that  time  states 
that  "He  had  been  hopefully  converted  to 
Christianity  85  years,  has  had  14  children,  81 
grandchildren,  188  great-grandchildren,  and 
19  great-great-grandchildren,  195  of  whom 
are  now  living."  He  married,  November, 
1741,  soon  after  settling  in  Saco,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  Cole.  Their 
children  were :  Samuel,  Rebecca,  Hannah, 
Betsey,  IMoses,  Sarah,  Amos,  Joseph,  Anna, 
John,  Olive,  Daniel,  Mary  and  Abner. 

(IX)  Daniel,  twelfth  child  and  sixth  son  of 
Deacon  Amos  and  Sarah  (Cole)  Chase,  was 
born  August  28,  1762,  and  inherited  his 
father's  homestead,  then  and  since  known  as 
'the  Elms."  There  he  spent  his  life  and  died 
September  i,  1827,  surviving  his  father,  on 
whose  estate  he  administered,  nine  years.  He 
is  described  as  "a  man  of  sterling  integrity,  an 
honored  citizen,  modest  and  unassuming  in 
manner,  kind  and  generous,  beloved  by  all  his 
neighbors  and  acquaintances."  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Tap- 
pan,  of  Huguenot  descent,  who  spent  the  en- 
tire period  of  his  sacerdotal  life  as  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  church  in  Manchester, 
Massachusetts.  One  of  her  descendants  thus 
speaks  of  her:  "My  grandmother,  Elizabeth 
Tappan  Chase,  spent  her  married  life  at  'The  ' 
Elms.'  She  was  a  woman  of  great  strength  of 
character,  strong  religious  convictions  inher- 
ited froin  her  Huguenot  ancestry,  which  were 
impressed  on  her  children.  She  outlived  her 
husband  seven  years,  and  died  June  26,,  1834, 


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after  an  illness  of  a  few  hours  only."  The 
children  of  this  union  were :  Benjamin  Tap- 
pan,  Sarah,  Daniel,  Amos,  David,  Eliza  and 
Mary. 

(X)   Amos  (2),  fourth  child  and  third  son 
of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Tappan)  Chase,  was 
born  in  Saco,  January  14,  1799,  and  succeeded 
his  father  in   the  possession  of  the  ancestral 
seat,  '.'The  Elms."     One  who  knew  him  well 
in  the  varied  relations  of  life  wrote  of  him : 
"Mr.  Chase  was  the  grandson  of  the  remark- 
able  centenarian    whose    name   he    bore,   and 
with  him  died  the  name  so  long  identified  with 
the  interests  of  Saco.     Born  at  the  old  home- 
stead on  the  'Ferry  Road,'  occupied  by  the 
family  more  than  one  hundred  years,  he  spent 
almost  his  entire  life  in  Saco.    At  an  early  age 
he  ernbarked  in  mercantile  business  which  he 
pursued  for  some  time,  then  engaged  in  lum- 
bering in  which  for  years  he  was  the  leading 
operator  in  this  market.     Subsequently  he  was 
extensively  engaged  in  navigation,  but  for  sev- 
eral years  has  retired    from    active'   business. 
Mr.  Chase  was  a  fine  illustration  of  New  Eng- 
land energy  and  capacity.    With  but  a  limited 
early  education  he  achieved  success  by  careful 
use  of  his  opportunities,  strict  integrity,  shrewd 
foresight,  and  prompt    attention    to    business. 
Beginning  without  other  capital  than  his  own 
ability  he  raised  himself  to  be  a  power  in  the 
business  community.     In  his  domestic  and  so- 
cial  relations  he  was  beloved   for  his   gentle 
courtesy  and  thought  fulness  for  others.     Nat- 
urally reserved,  he  seldom  gave  expression  in 
words  to  his  feelings,  but  generous  and  con- 
siderate deeds  showed  the  spirit  which  actu- 
ated him."     His  daughter  thus  writes  of  him : 
"My  father,  Amos  Chase,  was  one  of  the  most 
lovable  men  I  ever  knew.     He  was  respected 
as  a  citizen,  valued  as  a  friend,  honored  as  a 
man  of  integrity,  and  endeared  in  all  the  re- 
lations of  family  and  kindred.     'Uncle  Amos' 
was  a  household  name  in  the  homes  of  two 
generations."      He    possessed    a    commanding 
figure,  very  erect,  and  in  countenance,  it  was 
said,  he  strongly  resembled  Hon.  Edward  Ev- 
erett, for  whom  he  was  often  taken.    He  died 
in  Saco,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,   Mrs. 
Eastman,  August  12,  1873,  aged  seventy-four. 
He  married,  about  1833,  Mary  Frances  Aker- 
man,   of   Portsmouth,   New    Hampshire,   who 
was  born  October  15,  1817,  and  died  August 
10,  1887.     She  was  considered  very  beautiful 
in  her  youth  both  in  face  and  figure,  and  re- 
tained  her  beauty  through   life.     She  was  a 
woman   of   superior   endowments    and    good 
judgment,  was  a  consistent  Christian,  with  all 
the  essential  qualities  of  a  good  wife,  mother 


and  grandmother.  She  died  during  a  visit  to 
the  summer  home  of  her  daughter,  Elizabeth 
Chase  Palmer,  in  Kennebunkport,  August  10, 
1887,  having  survived  her  husband  fourteen 
years.  Two  children  were  born  to  Amos  and 
Mary  F.  (Akerman)  Chase:  Mary  Elizabeth 
and  Frances  Ellen. 

(XI)  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Amos 
and  Mary  Frances  (Akerman)  Chase,  was 
born  in  Saco,  June  22,  1834,  and  married,  De- 
cember 12,  1855,  Bartlett  Palmer,  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  by  whom  she  had  six  children : 
Chase,  Bartlett,  Nelson,  Lillian,  CHnton  and 
Francis. 

(XI)  Frances  Ellen,  second  daughter  of 
Amos  and  Mary  Frances  (Akerman)  Chase, 
was  born  in  Saco,  August  23,  1843;  married, 
in  BaUimore,  ]\Iaryland,  June  18,  1868,  Ed- 
ward Eastman,  of  Saco.  (See  Eastman, 
VIII.) 


This  name  is  exceedingly  numer- 
WOOD     ous,  both  in  England  and  Amer- 
ica.   Add  to  those  born  Wood  or 
Woods  the  foreigners  who  have  acquired  the 
patronymic  by  translating  their  original  names, 
the  French  DuBois  and  the  German  Wald,  to 
their  English  equivalent,  and  it  will  be  readily 
seen  how  the  tribe  increases.    Happily  the  fam- 
ily are  noted  for  their  respectability  as  well  as 
their  multiplicity ;  so  there  can  hardly  be  too 
many  of  them.    In  England,  Wood  is  the  fam- 
ily name  of  the  Viscount  Halifax.   A  historical 
magazine,  published  at  Newbury,  New  York, 
would  associate  the  patronymic  with  another 
noble  family,  for  it  says  that  Israel  Wood,  only 
son  of  Israel  Wood,  Earl  of  Warwick,  came 
to  New  Amsterdam  with  the  Duke  of  York 
and  purchased  a  tract  six  miles  square  in  the 
township  of  Brookhaven,  Long  Island.     He 
married  his  wife  in  this  country,  and  left  three 
son,  Israel,  Cornelius  and  Alexander.     There 
is  evidently  some  mistake  here,  for  the  family 
name  of   the   present   Earl    of    Warwick    is 
Brooke.    But  American  Woods  have  no  need 
to  search  for  distinguished  relatives  bearing 
foreign  titles.    There  are  plenty  of  the  Ameri- 
can branch  who  have  won  distinction  on  their 
own  merits.     Among  them  may  be  mentioned 
Dr.    Alphonso   Wood,   the    eminent   botanist, 
born  in  Chesterfield,  New  Hampshire,  whose 
first  manual  was  put   forth  in    1845.     Com- 
mander Edward  Barker  Wood,  of  Ohio,  won 
distinction  at  the  battle  of  Manilla  by  silenc- 
ing the  Spanish  forts  from  the  little  gunboat 
"Petrel."     Miss  Frances  A.  Wood,  the  hon- 
ored librarian  of  Vassar  College,  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  institution  from  its  foundation 


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in  1865.  Of  the  fame  of  General  Leonard 
Wood,  the  original  colonel  of  the  Rough 
Riders,  it  is  not  necessary  to  speak  in  detail. 

It  is  difficult  to  say  who  was  the  first  Ameri- 
can immigrant  bearing  the  name  of  Wood,  be- 
cause so  many  came  here  in  the  early  days ; 
among  them,  no  less  than  nine  under  the  given 
name  of  William.  William  Wood,  a  husband- 
man, came  over  in  the  "Hopewell"  in  1635. 
There  was  a  William  Wood  at  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  who  married  Martha  Earle. 
We  find  a  William  Wood  at  Marblehead  in 
1668;  one  at  Ipswich  who  took  the  oath  of 
fidelity  in  1678;  one  at  Newton,  Long  Island, 
in  1640,  who  may  have  come  from  Stamford, 
Connecticut ;  one  who  was  a  freeman  at  Salem 
in  1670;  and  one  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
in  1677.  This  leaves  out  of  account  the  Will- 
iam Wood,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  the 
ancestor  of  the  following  line ;  and  the  Williani 
Wood  who  wrote  "New  England's  Prospects." 
This  book  was  published  in  England  in  1634, 
and  there  is  some  doubt  as  to  which  William 
wrote  it.  The  volume  has  been  erroneously 
attributed  to  the  founder  of  the  clan  whose 
history  is  traced  below ;  but  the  probabilities 
are  that  the  William  who  wrote  the  book  did 
not  become  a  permanent  settler.  He  came  to 
this  country  in  1629,  going  first  to  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  and  the  next  year  to  Lynn, 
and  remaining  there  till  his  return  to  England, 
August  15,  1633.  ^     ,      ,  . 

(I)  William  Wood  was  born  m  England  m 
1582  and  died  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  May 
14,  1671.  He  emigrated  from  Matlock,  Derby- 
shire, with  his  wife  and  family  in  1638,  being 
fifty-six  years  old  at  the  time.  His  ancestry  is 
unknown,  though  there  has  been  an  effort  to 
trace  him  to  James  Wood,  a  cornet  of  dra- 
goons under  Cromwell,  who  was  a  Yorkshire 
man  and  finally  settled  in  the  county  of  Sligo, 
Ireland.  All  that  we  surely  know  is  that  Will- 
iam Wood  and  his  wife  Rlargaret  with  their 
two  children,  Michael,  who  had  a  wife  Mary, 
and  Ruth,  an  unmarried  daughter,  came  to  this 
country  in  1638.  They  were  accompanied  by 
William  Wood's  nephew,  Thomas  Flint,  who 
was  probably  married  at  the  time.  Ruth  Wood 
afterwards  married  Captain  Thomas  Wheeler, 
noted  in  Indian  warfare.  William  Wood 
seems  to  have  stood  well  with  his  fellow  set- 
tlers in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  and  held 
many  town  offices.  His  will  was  made  Sep- 
tember 15,  1670,  and  an  inventory  of  the  es- 
tate was  returned  the  following  June,  about  a 
month  after  his  decease.  Among  the  other 
items  one    notes    "putre,"    sixteen    shillings; 


^'napkins  and  pillow  coates,"  ten  shillings.  The 
total  inventory  amounted  to  seventy-seven 
pounds,  six  shillings  and  two  pence ;  but  the 
testator  explains  that  he  has  already  given 
half  of  his  movable  estate  to  his  daughter, 
Ruth  Wheeler,  at  the  time  of  her  marriage. 
In  addition  he  bequeaths  her  "two  brown 
cowes,  also  a  great  Brass  kettle  and  a  brass 
pot,  and  Mr.  Bulklyes  Books  upon  the  Cove- 
nant and  all  the  Augors  that  my  son  Wheeler 
hath  in  his  hands,  except  the  bigest."  The 
rest  of  the  property,  except  a  brindled  cow 
given  to  his  grandchild,  Abigail  Hosmer,  is 
bequeathed  unreservedly  to  his  son  Michael, 
as  his  wife  Margaret's  death  had  taken  place 
eleven  years  before,  on  September  i,  1659. 

(II)  Michael,  only  son  of  William  and 
Margaret  Wood,  was  born  in  England,  prob- 
ably at  Matlock  in  Derbyshire,  and  died  at 
Concord,  Massachusetts,  May  13,  1674,  only 
three  years  after  his  father.  He  migrated  to 
this  country  with  his  father  in  1638,  and  on 
the  first  settlement  of  Concord  had  a  house 
and  lot  near  the  common.  Later  he  moved  to 
a  farm  farther  away ;  and  it  is  said  that  he 
was  also  heavily  interested  in  the  iron-works 
in  that  township.  It  is  thought  that  his  death 
must  have  been  sudden,  as  he  left  no  will. 
Michael  Wood  had  a  wife  Mary,  whom  he 
married  in  England,  but  no  further  facts  are 
known  about  her.  There  were  eight  children, 
all  born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts :  Abigail, 
April  10,  1642;  John,  whose  sketch  follows; 
Nathaniel;  Mary;  Thomson;  Abraham;  Isaac; 
and  Jacob,  March  3,  1662.  The  order  of  the 
children  is  conjectural,  as  the  births  of  two 
only,  probably  the  eldest  and  youngest,  are 
recorded.  Two  of  the  children  died  before 
their  father,  Nathaniel  Wood  on  March  7, 
1662,  and  Mary  Wood  on  April  24,  1663. 

(III)  John,  son  of  jNIichael  and  iVIary  Wood, 
was  born  at  Concord,  Massachusetts,  some- 
where about  1650,  and  died  there  January  3, 
1728.  On  November  13,  1677,  he  married 
Elizabeth  Vinton,  of  Concord,  and  they  had 
five  children:  Elizabeth,  born  July  15,  1678; 
John  (2),  whose  sketch  follows;  Abraham, 
August  17,  1682;  William,  March  4,  1687; 
and  Ruth,  February  11,  1692.  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
(Vinton)  Wood  died  April  8,  1728,  three 
months  and  five  days  after  her  husband.  Their 
youngest  child,  Ruth,  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three  years. 

(IV)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  John  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (Vinton)  Wood,  was  bom  at  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  November  13,  1680,  died 
July  12,  1746.    On  May  22,  1707,  he  married 


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Mary  Lee,  daughter  of  Joseph  Lee,  and  they 
had  eight  children :  Mary,  born  February  16, 
1708,  died  September  26,  1728;  Millicent,  Oc- 
tober 23,  1710;  Eunice,  March  8,  1712;  EHza- 
beth,  February  22,  1714;  John  (3),  whose 
sketch  follows:  Martha,  March  23,  1718; 
Michael,  August  28,  1721,  died  September 
18,  1721  ;  and  Zepheniah,  January  12,  1725, 
died  November  6,  1794,  leaving  a  wife  Abigail, 
but  no  children.  Out  of  this  large  family  John 
(3),  mentioned  in  the  next  paragraph,  was  the 
only  one  to  continue  the  name. 

(V)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Mary  (Lee)  Wood,  was  born  at  Concord, 
Massachusetts,  March  i,  1716,  and  died  at 
Mason,  New  Hampshire,  November  9,  1785. 
In  1778,  only  seven  years  before  his  death,  he 
left  his  native  town  and  moved  to  Mason,  be- 
ing the  first  of  his  line  to  migrate  from  their 
original  dwelling-place  in  Concord.  About 
1744  he  married  Elizabeth  Boutelle,  born  in 
1719,  died  November  13,  1794.  Children: 
John,  born  February  27,  1745;  James,  born 
and  died  April  18,  175 1 ;  James,  November  4, 
1755;  Nathan,  whose  sketch  follows;  and  Bet- 
sey, who  died  young. 

(VI)  Nathan,  fourth  and  youngest  son  of 
John  (3)  and  Elizabeth  (Boutelle)  Wood, 
was  born  August  16,  1758,  at  Concord,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  died  March  26,  1830,  at  Starke, 
Maine.  He  married  Susannah  Dunton,  born 
January  5,  1761,  at  New  Ipswich,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  died  June  25,  1844,  at  New  Sharon, 
Maine.  Among  their  children  was  Nathan 
(2),  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Nathan  (2),  son  of  Nathan  (i)  and 
Susannah  (Dunton)  Wood,  was  born  July  4, 
1788,  at  Starke,  and  died  July  4,  1887,  at 
Mercer,  Maine,  having  just  passed  his  ninety- 
ninth  birthday.  He  was  instructed  to  mow 
with  a  scythe  when  he  was  ten  years  old,  and 
as  it  is  the  custom  in  Maine  to  commence  har- 
vesting about  the  Fourth  of  July,  he  followed 
this  each  and  every  year  until  his  death.  The 
last  he  mowed  was  a  strip  about  one  hundred 
feet  long,  when  he  was  ninety-nine  years  old. 
The  feat  was  always  performed  on  his  birth- 
day. Married  (first)  Rebecca  Gault.  Chil- 
dren :  Nancy,  Sabrina,  Ann,  Olive,  John  N., 
whose  sketch  follows,  William,  Susan,  Betsey. 
Nathan  (2)  Wood  married  (second)  Annie 
Hallway,  and  they  had  one  son,  Charles. 

(VIII)  John  Nathan,  son  of  Nathan  (2) 
and  Rebecca  (Gault)  Wood,  was  bom  Sep- 
tember 29,  1825,  at  Norridgewock,  Maine,  and 
attended  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
town  till  the  age  of  fourteen.  Being  one  of  a 
large  family  he  was  obliged  to  go  to  work, 


and  he  went  to  Augusta,  where  he  found  em- 
ployment in  a  hotel.  At  the  age  of  eighteen 
he  went  to  Waterville,  and  for  four  years  he 
drove  the  stage  between  that  place  and  Skow- 
hegan.  About  that  time  came  rumors  of  the 
wealth  to  be  had  in  California  merely  by  wash- 
ing the  sands,  and  Mr.  Wood,  like  so  many 
others  of  the  Argonauts,  was  attracted  by  these 
alluring  dreams  of  gold.  Being  a  sober  and 
thrifty  young  man,  he  had  saved  enough  of 
his  earnings  to  pay  his  passage  by  way  of 
the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  which  cost  three  hun- 
dred and  seventy-five  dollars.  The  voyage 
took  thirty-one  days,  and  when  he  landed  at 
San  Francisco,  California,  he  had  only  one 
ten-dollar  gold  piece  left,  and  it  was  a  walk  of 
sixty  miles  to  get  to  the  "placer  diggings." 
With  several  others,  all  from  the  same  locality 
in  Maine,  he  began  the  long  tramp  to  the  long- 
sought  El  Dorado.  When  they  started,  each 
was  carrying  a  heavy  valise,  but  they  had 
gone  but  little  way  when  they  began  to  find 
many  valises  by  the  roadside,  which  had  been 
emptied  of  the  absolutely  necessary  articles, 
and  abandoned  with  the  rest  of  their  contents. 
A  short  distance  farther  on,  the  valises  of  the 
newcomers  were  added  to  those  already  left. 
During  Mr.  Wood's  stay  of  four  years  in  the 
placer  fields,  he,  with  nine  other  Yankees,  all 
from  Maine,  who  in  fact  were  the  only  other 
New  Englanders  or  Yankees  in  that  district, 
walked  nine  miles  to  cast  their  presidential  vote 
for  Fremont.  After  his  return  from  California, 
where  he  was  very  successful,  Mr.  Wood  came 
to  Lewiston,  Maine,  and  purchased  a  quarter 
interest  in  a  stave  mill,  later  known  as  the 
Wood  mill,  and  had  charge  of  this  for  several 
years.  In  1865  he  founded  what  is  now  one 
of  the  largest  coal  and  wood  yards  in  central 
Maine.  Mr.  Wood  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  served  in  the  common  council  of  the  city 
government  in  1865  3"^  again  in  1869.  Mr. 
Wood  has  been  a  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Lewiston  for  over  thirty  years, 
and  was  vice-president  of  the  bank  for  five 
years.  He  is  a  member  of  Lewiston  Board  of 
Trade,  also  a  member  of  Ashler  Lodge,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  King  Hiram  Chapter, 
R.  A.  M.,  Lewiston  Commandery,  No.  6,  K. 
T.,  and  Portland  Consistory,  thirty-second  de- 
gree, and  Kora  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of 
Lewiston,  Maine,  of  which  he  was  treasurer 
for  four  years  and  one  of  the  sixteen  charter 
members.  In  religious  preferences  he  is  a 
Universalist. 

On  September  4,  1849,  John  Nathan  Wood 
married  Mary  J.  Pratt,  daughter  of  Collins 
and  Nancy   (Coffin)    Pratt,  of  Damariscotta, 


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Maine.  Children  :  Helen  Aug^usta,  born  Jan- 
uary 21,  1852,  married  Frank  N.  Kincaid,  July 
5,  1882;  they  had  one  child.  John  Everett, 
born  September  21,  1883.  Mary  Ella,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1861,  died  April  6,  1865.  George,  De- 
cember 21,  1862,  died  April  7,  1865.  George 
Everett,  August  31,  1866,  married  Mary  Ma- 
rion Straw,  daughter  of  J.  B.  Straw,  October 
20,  1887;  he  died  June  29,  1888. 


The   history   of  this    Mat- 
MATTHEWS     thews     family,    of    which 

some  account  follows,  be- 
gins, so  far  as  definitely  proven,  in  Boothbay, 
although  it  is  almost  certainly  established  that 
the  next  preceding   four  generations  were  of 
Dover,  New  Hampshire,  and  the  surrounding 
towns,  where  the  name  is  often  spelled  Mathes. 
The  earliest  ancestor  at   Boothbay  was  John 
Matthews,  whose  origin  is  somewhat  conjec- 
tural, though  probably  derived  from  one  of 
the  four  sources.    First,  but  not  most  probable : 
A  Scotchman  named  Thomas  Matthews  was 
among   the    early    settlers   of   Pemaquid    who 
were  killed  or  driven  away  by  the  Indians  in 
the  last  quarter  of  the  seventeenth  century  to 
Massachusetts  and  other  sections  further  west. 
One,  William  Matthews,  appears  in   1743  as 
one  of  some  twenty-five  petitioners  to  Governor 
Shirley,   they  being  settlers   on   the  shore  of 
the   Damariscotta   river,   where   they   had    re- 
sided twelve  years.     This  William  may  have 
been  a  son  or  grandson  of  Thomas  Matthews, 
of  Pemaquid,  and  had  probably  settled  there 
with  Dunbar  settlers,  1729-31.     William  Mat- 
thews was  of  the  right  age  to  have  been  the 
father  of  John  Matthews,  of  Boothbay,  who 
could  not  have  been  born  later  than  1735,  and 
the  location  is  near  by.     Second :     A  John 
Matthews    came    from    Massachusetts    with 
those  who  settled   Merryconeag,  then   a   part 
of  North  Yarmouth,  now  Harpswell,  and  was 
there  as  early  as  1740,  when  he  appears  among 
the  thirty  petitioners.     He  appears  again  in 
1743  and  1748,  and  is  there  as  late  as  1768. 
It  is  possible  that  John  Matthews,  of  Booth- 
bay,  was  one  of  his  sons  by  his  first  marriage, 
born  before  he  went  to   Harpswell.     Third : 
A  John  Matthews,  said  to  have  come  from 
York,  Maine,  was  a  petitioner  among  those 
living  on  the  Kennebec  in  1752  and  again  in 
1755.    Fourth:    The  last  and  altogether  most 
probable  supposition  leads  to  the  same  immi- 
grant ancestor  as  the  third ;  that  is :  that  John 
Matthews  of  Boothbay  came  from  Dover,  New 
Hampshire,  or  one  of  the  surrounding  towns, 


along  with  some  forty  families  from  that  sec- 
tion, who  settled  what  is  known  as  the  "Dover 
District,"  at  North  Boothbay,  close  to  where 
he  lived,  and  in  that  immeditae  vicinity-,  some 
time  between  1749  and  1760.  (For  further 
facts  see  Greene's  "History  of  Boothbay," 
page  465  and  following.) 

(I)  Francis  Matthews,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  sent  over  by  Mason.  He  was  of  Ports- 
mouth in  1631,  of  Oyster  River  in  1633,  and 
at  Exeter,  1639-46.  He  removed  to  Dover, 
probably  in  1647,  having  purchased  the  estate 
of  William  Beard  in  1640  (see  Savage  Gen. 
Index).  He  bought  the  William  Hilton  prem- 
ises at  Oyster  River,  July  7,  1645,  and  died 
in  1648.    He  married,  as  early  as  1630,  Thom- 

asine  ,  who  died  on  the  homestead  at 

Durham  Point,  in  1662.  Their  children  were: 
Benjamin,  Walter,  see  forward;  and  Martha, 

who  married    (first)   Snell,    (second) 

■ — •  Browne. 

(II)  Walter,  son  of  Francis  and  Thomasine 
Matthews,  lived  on  the  Isle  of  Shoals,  "Smut- 
ty Nose,"  in  1661.  Pie  was  constable  of  the 
Isle  of  Shoals  in  1658,  and  died  in  1678.  His 
will  was  dated  April  15,  1678,  and  probated 
June  25,  1678,  as  shown  by  the  Exeter  county 
records.  New  Hampshire.  He  married  Mary 
■ — ,  who  outlived  him,  and  they  had  chil- 
dren :  Samuel,  see  forward ;  Susanna,  mar- 
ried   Young ;  Mary,who  married 


Senter ;  and  there  is  a  Johanna  mentioned  as 
a  sister  by  Samuel  in  his  will,  but  it  is  fair  to 
presume  that  this  refers  to  his  sister-in-law, 
Johanna  Raynes. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  son  of  Walter  and  Mary 
Matthews,  was  of  the  Isle  of  Shoals  in  1683, 
and  died  in  1720.  He  was  fined  forty  shillings 
for  abusing  a  constable,  as  the  records  show. 
He  was  also  known  as  Samuel  of  Newcastle, 

New  Hampshire.    He  married Raynes, 

daughter  of  Francis  Raynes  who,  in  his  will 
dated  1693,  recorded  in  1706,  bequeathed  to 
"Sam'l  Matthews'  wife"  and  "Sam'l  Matthews' 
children,"  without  mentioning  names.  The 
will  of  Samuel  Matthews,  dated  1719,  probated 
1720,  mentions  the  following  children:  Walter, 
settled  in  York,  Maine,  deeded  land  in  "Smut- 
ty Nose"  to  Stephen  and  John  Minott,  of 
Marblehead,  in  1727;  Francis,  possibly  the 
ancestor  of  John  Matthews  of  Boothbay; 
Samuel,  see  forward. 

(IV)   Samuel  Jr.,  son  of  Samuel  and 

(Raynes)  Matthews,  was  married,  by  Rev. 
Hugh  Adams,  November  21,  1728,  to  Mary 
Bodge,  of   Oyster   River.     They  had   a  son 


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Samuel,  who  was  baptized  February  15,  1729- 
30,  and  other  children,  among  them  probably 
being  John  Matthews,  of  Boothbay. 

(V)  John,    probably    son    of    Samuel  and 

(Raynes)   Matthews,  but  possibly  son 

of  Walter  or  Francis  Matthews,  was  born 
about  1730  or  1735,  and  is  known  by  a  plan 
made  in  1757  and  recorded  in  Lincoln  county 
registry  of  deeds,  to  have  been  the  owner  of 
a  farm  of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the 
shore  of  Back  river,  opposite  Barter's  island, 
in  Townsend,  now  Boothbay.  He  married, 
probably  at  Georgetown,  as  the  record  is  in 
that  town,  August  29,  1764,  Janette  Barter, 
who,  with  her  two  brothers,  Samuel  and  Jo- 
seph, and  a  sister,  Elizabeth,  children  of  Sam- 
uel Barter,  of  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  later 
of  Boothbay  or  Townsend,  had  settled  Barter's 
Island,  Boothbay,  about  1755.  These  Barters 
were  descendants  of  Henry  Barter,  of  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  the  original  immigrant  of 
that  name,  who  came  from  England  with  Will- 
iam Pepperell  in  1675  and  settled  at  Crockett's 
Neck  in  Kittery,  Maine.  The  children  of  John 
and  Janette  (Barter)  Matthews  were:  Mary, 
married  Nathan  Dole,  of  Pownalborough ; 
Elizabeth,  married  (first)  Frederick  S.  Arnold, 
(second)  Edward  Cooper,  of  Kennebec;  Will- 
iam, had  eleven  children;  Joseph,  married 
Sarah  Lamson ;  John  Jr.,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Captain  John  (2),  youngest  child  of 
John  (i)  and  Janette  (Barter)  Matthews,  was 
born  in  Boothbay,  May  20,  1779,  and  was  lost 
at  sea,  July  iq,  1848.  He  was  a  seafaring 
man,  master  of  a  vessel  during  the  early  part 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  visited  every 
quarter  of  the  globe ;  some  of  his  voyages  e.x- 
tended  over  several  years.  He  married  (first), 
April  15,  1804.  Rebecca  Southard,  of  Booth- 
bay,  bom  March  17,  1786,  died  October  31, 
181 7,  the  second  of  the  twelve  children  of 
John  and  Sarah  (Lewis)  Southard,  of  Booth- 
bay,  and  a  granddaughter  of  John  Serrotte, 
whose  children  changed  the  name  to  Southard. 
John  Serrotte,  pioneer,  lived  on  the  place  ne.xt 
adjoining  John  Matthews',  where  he  died.  He 
went  to  Boothbay  prior  to  1757,  from  the  set- 
tlement of  French  Huguenots  who  had  come 
from  the  vicinity  of  Marseilles,  France,  and 
had  settled  at  Dresden  on  the  Kennebec  in 
1752.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in  Boothbay, 
a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  church, 
and  served  in  the  coast  defence  militia  during 
the  revolution.  John  Southard  married  Sarah, 
born  1752,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
(Dexter)  Lewis,  of  York,  Maine,  who  moved 
to  the  Dover  district,  Boothbay,  and  soon 
afterward,  but  prior  10,1757,  to  Back  river. 


Joseph  Lewis,  of  Boothbay,  born  at  Chelsea 
(Rumery  Marsh),  Massachusetts,  January  11, 
1723-24,  was  a  great-grandson  of  John  and 
Mary  (Brown)  Lewis,  of  Charlestown  and 
Maiden,  Massachusetts,  grandson  of  Isaac  and 
Mary  (Davis)  Lewis,  and  son  of  Isaac  and 
Hannah  (Hallett)  Lewis,  of  Chelsea  (Rumery 
Marsh),  later  of  York,  Maine.  John  Lewis 
was  in  Charlestown  as  early  as  1634,  joined 
the  church  there  in  1644,  but  soon  moved  to 
Maiden.  He  married  (first)  Marguerite,  who 
died  April  10,  1649;  married  (second)  Mary 
Brown,  and  died,  September  16,  1657.  The 
children  of  Captain  John  and  Rebecca  (South- 
ard) Matthews  were  :  Alfred,  see  forward  ; 
Edmund ;  Elbridge,  settled  in  Massachusetts, 
and  became  well  known  as  an  inventor  of 
agricultural  implements ;  Daniel,  settled  in 
Southport.  Maine;  Caroline;  Julia;  and  Ar- 
thur. Captain  John  married  (second),  about 
1820,  Mary  Barter,  bom  in  1788,  and  died  in 
1861.  They  had  children:  Frances  L.,  mar- 
ried Jason  Tibbetts ;  Stillman  B.,  married  An- 
nabelle  N.  Tibbetts,  and  was  lost  at  sea  with 
his  wife  in  1853;  Mary  C,  married  Allen 
Pinkham. 

(VII)  Alfred,  eldest  child  of  Captain  John 
and  Rebecca  (Southard)  Matthews,  was  born 
in  Boothbay,  August  3,  1806,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 26,  1879.  He  was  a  carpenter,  much  re- 
spected in  business,  and  always  lived  at  Booth- 
bay,  although  he  made  occasional  sea  voyages 
and  was  well  acquainted  with  the  New  Eng- 
land coast.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church.  He  married  (first)  Charlotte 
Dunton,  who  was  born  September  22,  1805, 
and  died  April  11,  1845.  She  was  grand- 
daughter of  Timothy  Dunton,  Jr.,  an  English- 
man, who  with  his  brother  and  sister  settled 
in  wdiat  is  now  Westport,  Maine,  prior  to 
1749.  and  there  he  died.  His  wife,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  lived  to  a  great  age,  tradition  says 
one  hundred  and  eight  years,  and  died  in 
Westport  in  1819.  Their  children  were:  Jo- 
seph, John,  Samuel,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Abner, 
Timothy  and  Daniel.  Timothy,  son  of  Timo- 
thy and  Mary  Elizabeth  Dunton,  and  father 
of  Mrs.  IMatthews,  was  born  in  1752.  and  died 
at  an  advanced  age  in  Boothbay.  He  bought 
a  farm  in  Westport,  October  31,  1777,  which 
he  later  sold.  He  then  settled  in  Boothbay 
in  1795.  and  purchased  another  farm  at  the 
head  of  Campbell's  pond,  on  which  his  son-in- 
law,  Alfred  Matthews,  subsequently  lived. 
Timothy  Dunton  died  and  is  buried  on  his 
homestead  farm  at  Boothbay.  He  married 
(first).  September  5.  1776.  Nancy  Smith,  of 
Westport,  who  died  at  Boothbay,  June  4,  1804. 


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Their  children  were:  Timothy,  Nancy,  Wil- 
liam and  Israel.  He  married  (second),  Jan- 
uary 15,  1805,  Margaret  Pinkham,  born  at 
Boothbay,  March  30,  1781,  and  had  children: 
Charlotte,  married  Mr.  Matthews;  Maria, 
married  his  brother,  Edmund  Matthews ;  and 

Lucinda,  married  ■ —  Boynton.     Margaret 

(Pinkham)  Dunlon's  line  of  descent  is  as 
follows:  (I)  Richard  Pinkham,  immigrant, 
settled  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  prior  to 
1642.  (II)  Richard  Pinkham,  Jr.,  son  of  pre- 
ceding, married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Jr.,  and  Elizabeth  (Nutter)  Leigh- 
ton,  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Elder  Hatevil 
and  Ann  Nutter.  Elizabeth  (Leighton)  Pink- 
ham was  a  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Leigh- 
ton,  immigrant,  who  was  a  selectman  of  Dover 
in  1647-48,  having  been  one  of  the  forty-two 
petitioners  in  1640  for  the  establishment  of  a 
town.  (Ill)  John,  son  of  Richard,  Jr.,  and 
Elizabeth  (Leighton)  Pinkham.  (IV)  Ben- 
jamin, son  of  John  Pinkham,  born  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  1717.  He,  with  two  of  his 
brothers,  Ebcnezer  and  Solomon,  removed  to 
Merryconeag  (now  Harpswell),  Maine,  and 
in  1759  Benjamin  moved  to  Townsend,  now 
Boothbay,  where  he  died,  3ilarch  2,  1792.     He 

married   Judith   .      (V)    Solomon,   son 

of  Benjamin  and  Judith  Pinkham,  married, 
in  1767,  Mary  Perry,  and  lived  in  Boothbay. 
They  had  a  number  of  children,  among  them 
being  Margaret,  mentioned  above.  Alfred  and 
Charlotte  (Dunton)  Matthews  had  children: 
Edward,  born  November  16,  1830,  was  lost  at 
sea  in  1851 ;  Rebecca,  born  December  26,  1832, 
married  Sewall  Wylie ;  Georgianna,  born  Sep- 
tember I,  1837,  married  Llewellyn  Baker;  El- 
bridge,  see  forw-ard :  Byron  C,  born  March 
31,  1845.  Alfred  Matthews  married  (second), 
1850,  Martha  L.  Wentworth.  By  this  mar- 
riage there  were  no  children. 

(VIII)  Captain  Elbridge,  fourth  child  and 
second  son  of  Alfred  and  Charlotte  (Dunton) 
IVIatthews,  was  born  in  Boothbay,  Maine,  Oc- 
tober 24,  1840.  He  inherited  from  his  grand- 
father, Captain  John  jMatthews,  a  love  for  the 
sea,  which  was  fostered  in  his  earlier  years 
by  the  old  man's  tales  of  adventure  and  per- 
sonal experience,  and  so,  when  a  mere  lad,  he 
went  as  cabin  boy  on  a  brig,  after  which  he 
rapidly  worked  his  way  upward  until  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two  years  he  took  charge  of  a 
vessel.  He  sailed  as  a  master  mariner  con- 
tinuously for  twenty-four  years,  never  having 
the  misfortune  to  be  wrecked,  although  pass- 
ing through  many  trying  experiences,  includ- 
ing fire  and  steamship  collision,  until  he  re- 
tired from  seafaring  in   1886  to  enter  upon  a 


business  career  on  shore.  He  at  once  estab- 
lished himself  in  the  grain  and  food  business 
at  Knightville,  South  Portland,  where  he  re- 
built his  place  of  business  after  it  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire  in  the  spring  of  1894.  He 
opened  a  second  store  on  Kennebec  street, 
Portland,  in  1892,  and  a  third  at  Woodfords 
about  the  same  year.  In  1899  he  retired  per- 
manently from  business,  having  built  a  resi- 
dence on  Pleasant  avenue,  Portland,  the  pre- 
ceding year.  He  served  two  years  as  alder- 
man of  his  ward  in  Deering.  His  fraternal 
affiliations  are  with:  Fraternity  Lodge  of 
Deering,  and  Machigonne  Encampment,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  Lincoln 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Wis- 
casset ;  and  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  i\Ien. 
He  married  (first)  at  Boothbay,  Lovesta 
Hodgdon,  born  November-  19,  1839,  died 
March  g,  1883,  and  is  buried  in  Evergreen 
Cemetery.  She  was  the  twelfth  child  of  Tim- 
othy and  Frances  (Tibbetts)  Hodgdon.  (See 
Hodgdon.)  Their  children  were:  Fred 
Vivian,  see  forward;  Chester,  born  Novem- 
ber 8,  1866;  Genevieve,  born  August  4,  1870; 
Leslie  Mitchell,  died  in  infancy  ;  Florence  Lo- 
vesta, born  February  27,  1883,  was  adopted  in 
infancy  by  her  cousins,  Dr.  Roscoe  G.  and 
Laura  (Hodgdon)  Blanchard,  of  Dover,  New 
Hampshire.  Captain  Elbridge  Matthews  mar- 
ried (second),  October  20,  1884,  Florence  D., 
niece  of  his  first  wife,  and  daughter  of  Zina 
H.  and  Rhinda  (Reed)  Hodgdon,  of  Booth- 
bay.  They  have  had  one  child :  Marion 
Laura,  born  June  11,  1886;  married,  October 
4,  1907,  Lester  M.  Hart,  of  Portland. 

(IX)  Fred  Vivian,  eldest  child  of  Captain 
Elbridge  and  Lovesta  (Hodgdon)  Matthews, 
was  born  in  Boothbay,  September  2,  1865.  He 
went  to  Deering  with  his  parents,  January  i, 
1874,  and  has  since  that  time  resided  there. 
He  was  graduated  from  the  Deering  high 
school  in  1883,  from  Hebron  Academy  the 
following  year,  and  after  spending  a  season 
in  South  America  he  became  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1889  of  Colby  University,  where  he 
was  at  once  elected  president  of  his  class, 
taking  the  first  prize  for  declamation  in  the 
sophomore  year,  and  being  a  member  of  Xi 
Chapter  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fratern- 
ity. Leaving  college  at  the  end  of  the  sopho- 
more year,  he  read  law  with  Drummond  & 
Drummond.  of  Portland,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Cumberland  bar  in  October,  1889.  He  at 
once  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion and  has  met  with  markerl  success.  While 
strictly  devoted  to  his  legal  profession,  he  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  public  and  political 


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matters,  being  several  years  secretary  of  the 
Republican   city  committee,  and   frequently   a 
delegate  to  the  conventions  of  his  party.     For 
four  years,  1888-91,  he  was  collector  of  Deer- 
ing ;  for  two  years,  at  the  time  of  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  city  of  Deering,  when  the  change 
from  the  town  to  the  city  form  of  government 
was  made  in   1892,  he   served  as  Republican 
member  of  the  board  of  registration,  and  for 
the  following  two  years  as  city  solicitor,  hold- 
ing several  minor  offices  in  addition  to  those 
responsibilities.     In  1897  and  i8g8  he  was  the 
prime  mover  in  the  campaign  for  the  annexa- 
tion of  Deering  to  Portland ;  he  was  the  chair- 
man of  the  annexation  committee  in  Deering, 
and  successfully  conducted  an  active  campaign 
to  that  end,  presenting  the  matter  before  the 
legislative  committee  at  the   session  of   1899, 
when   the  measure    received  its  final  passage 
and  the  annexation   was  consummated.     Mr. 
Matthews  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar 
Association.     Socially  and  fraternally  he  is  as- 
sociated with  :    Deering  Lodge,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  Fraternity  Lodge  and 
Una  Encampment,  of  Portland,   Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows;  Portland  Club:  Con- 
gregational  Club,  of  which  he  was  secretary 
for   several   years ;    Maine   Historical    Society 
and  Maine  Genealogical  Society.     In  1883  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Woodfords  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Portland,  with   which  he 
still  affiliates. 

He  married,  June  25,  1890,  Annie  B., 
daughter  of  Trueman  and  Harriet  (Files) 
Harmon.  (See  Harmon,  Files,  Phinney.)  Mrs. 
Matthews  is  a  member  of  the  Woodfords 
Congregational  Church,  of  the  Elizabeth 
Wadsworth  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  and  is  prominent  in  lit- 
erary, musical  and  social  circles.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  IMatthews  have  one  child  :  Vivian  Har- 
mon, born  August  14,  1895. 


The   Files    family   now   numerous 
FILES     in    Southwestern    ^Nlaine,   was    es- 
tablished in  this  state  by  the  Eng- 
lish   immigrant    ancestor    who,    after    seeing 
arduous  service  in  the  wars,  removed  hither  to 
spend  his  declining  j'ears. 

(I)  William  Files  was  born  in  England  in 
1728.  When  nine  years  of  age  his  dislike  for 
his  stepfather  led  him  to  run  away  from  home 
and  go  on  board  a  vessel  bound  for  America, 
where  he  hid  himself  until  the  vessel  was  well 
out  to  sea ;  was  brought  to  Massachusetts  and 
sold  to  pay  his  passage.  He  was  in  the  Eng- 
lish army  at  the  capture  of  Fort  William 
Henry  on  Lake  George :  was  taken  prisoner 


by  the  Indians  along  with  Zephaniah  Harding, 
of  Gorham,  but  by  superior  strength,  he  over- 
powered his  captors,  and  hiding  in  a  hollow 
log,  he  escaped.  After  his  marriage  he  lived 
several  years  in  York,  Maine,  where  his  first 
two  children  were  born.  About  1760  he 
moved  to  Gorham,  where  he  died  March  21, 
1823,  aged  ninety-five  years.  He  first  built  a 
log  cabin,  and  later  a  two-story  house  which 
was  afterward  occupied  by  his  great-grandson, 
the  late  David  F.  Files.  The  log  cabin  was 
just  south  of  this  house  on  the  opposite  side  of 
the  road.  He  married  Joanna  Gordon,  of 
Cape  Cod,  Massachusetts,  who  died  January, 
1816,  aged  seventy-five  years.  Their  children 
were :  Ebenezer,  Samuel.  William,  Robert, 
George,  Joseph.  Polly,  Joanna  and  Betsey. 

(II)  Samuel,  second  son  of  William  and 
Joanna  (Gordon)  Files,  was  born  at  York, 
Maine,  August  4,  1759,  but  soon  went  with  his 
father  to  Gorham.  He  entered  the  revolu- 
tionary army  at  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  is 
one  of  the  four  mentioned  in  the  Massachu- 
setts Revolutionary  Rolls  under  the  name  of 
Files,  or  File.  His  record  is  as  follows :  "Pri- 
vate, Captain  Hart  Williams'  company. 
Colonel  Edmund  Phimiey's  regiment ;  muster 
roll  dated  Garrison  at  Fort  George,  December 
8,  1776;  enlisted  December  11,  1775;  also 
corporal,  Captain  Alexander  McClellan's  com- 
pany. Colonel  Jonathan  Mitchel's  regiment; 
entered  service  July  7,  1779,  discharged  Sep- 
tember 25,  1779;  service  two  months  eighteen 
days,  on  Penobscot  expedition :  roll  dated 
"Gorham."  He  lived  on  his  father's  place  be- 
tween West  Gorham  and  Fort  Hill,  where  he 
died  April  7,  1835,  aged  seventy-five  years. 
He  married  September  28,  1780,  Esther 
Thomes,  who  died  at  Gorham,  JMarch  i,  1844, 
aged  eighty-one  years.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Joseph  (2)  and  Sarah  (Pickering)  Thomes, 
of  Gorham,  a  granddaughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  Thomes,  first  of  Falmouth  and  later  of 
Gorham,  and  a  great-granddaughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Thomes.  who  lived  at 
Clay  Cove,  Falmouth  (now  Portland)  in  1718 
and  united  with  Parson  Smith's  church.  Chil- 
dren of  Samuel  and  Esther  Files :  Samuel, 
Thomas,  Joseph,  Robert,  Abigail,  Eunice, 
George,  Ebenezer  Scott  Thomes,  Stephen,  and 
Sarah. 

(Ill)  Ebenezer  Scott  Thomes,  sixth  son  of 
Samuel  and  Esther  (Thomes)  Files,  was  born 
in  1795.  After  marriage  he  removed  from 
Gorham  to  Thorndike,  where  he  and  his  wife 
died.  He  married,  May  14,  1818,  Patience, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susanna  (Crockett) 
Phinney,    of    Gorham.      Their    children    who 


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married  were :  Albert  H.,  Mary  Ann,  Ade- 
line, Harriett,  Robert,  Joseph,  Esther  and 
Ebenezer.  Harriett  married  Trueman  Har- 
mon (see  Harmon,  VH.)  The  Phinneys,  a 
prominent  family  in  the  settlement  of  Maine, 
from  whom  Patience  descended  were  of  the 
race  of  John  Phinney. 

(I)  John  Phinney  was  of  Plymouth,  Mas- 
sachusetts and  later  of  Barnstable.  His  first 
wife,  Christian,  died  September  9,  1649.  He 
married  (second)  June  10,  1650,  Abigail,  wife 
of  Henry  Coggin,  who  died  May  6,  1653 ;  and 
(third)  June  26,  1654,  Elizabeth  Bayley.  By 
the  first  wife.  Christian,  he  had  a  son  John, 
and  perhaps  others,  by  third  wife,  Elizabeth, 
he  had  Jonathan,  Robert,  Hannah,  Elizabeth, 
Josiah,  Jeremiah  and  Joshua. 

(H)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Chris- 
tian Phinney,  was  born  December  24,  1638, 
and  baptized  at  Barnstable,  July  31,  1653.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  swamp  fight  in  King 
Philip's  war  in  1675.  He  married,  August  10, 
1664,  Mary  Rogers,  whose  father.  Lieutenant 
Joseph  Rogers,  and  his  father,  Thomas 
Rogers,  had  come  to  Plymouth  in  the  "May- 
flower," 1620.  John  and  Mary  (Rogers) 
Phinney  had  children :  John,  Meletiah,  Jo- 
seph, Thomas,  Ebenezer,  Samuel,  Mary, 
Mercy,  Reliance,  Benjamin,  Jonathan,  Han- 
nah and  Elizabeth. 

(HI)  Deacon  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Mary  Rogers,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
May  5,  1665,  and  died  November  27,  1746. 
He  married  Sarah  Lombard,  May  30,  1689. 

(IV)  Captain  John  (4),  son  of  Deacon 
John  (3)  and  Sarah  (Lombard)  Phinney, 
was  born  in  Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  April 
8,  1693,  ^"d  died  in  Gorham,  Maine,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1780.  aged  eighty-seven.  He  settled 
in  that  part  of  Old  Falmouth  then  called  Pre- 
sumpscot  on  the  river  of  that  name.  In  May, 
1736,  he  and  his  son  Edmund  pushed  up  river 
several  miles  and  up  Little  River  and  made  a 
clearing  and  built  a  camp  on  what  is  now 
called  Fort  Hill.  There  he  brought  his  fam- 
ily, and  they  were  the  first  settlers  of  the  Gor- 
ham of  to-day.  He  worked  much  in  the  ship 
yards  at  Presumpscot  and  Stroudwater.  He 
was  the  leading  citizen  in  his  neighborhood,  a 
brave,  energetic,  sagacious  man,  and  looked 
after  the  interests  of  the  little  colony  which 
soon  grew  up  around  him,  with  the  afifection 
and  discretion  of  a  father.  Beloved  and  re- 
spected, he  lived  to  see  the  forest  give  way 
and  a  flourishing  little  hamlet  stand  in  its 
place.  He  married,  September  25,  1718,  Mar- 
tha, daughter  of  James  and  Patience  Coleman, 


of  Barnstable.  She  died  at  Gorham,  Decem- 
ber 16,  1784,  aged  eighty-seven.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  Elizabeth,  Edmund,  Stephen, 
Martha,  Patience,  John,  Sarah,  Mary  G.,  Cole- 
man and  James. 

(V)  Colonel  Edmund,  eldest  son  of  Cap- 
tain John  (4)  and  Martha  (Coleman)  Phin- 
ney, was  born  in  Barnstable,  Massachusetts, 
July  27,  1723,  and  died  in  Gorham,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1808.  He  came  with  his  father  to 
Narragansett  No.  7  (Gorham)  and  felled  the 
first  tree  cut  in  the  town  for  purposes  of  set- 
tlement. He  was  a  man  of  great  activity  and 
energy,  and  all  his  life  held  a  prominent  place 
in  the  business  affairs  of  the  town,  serving  in 
many  public  capacities.  He  was  selectman, 
one  of  the  committee  of  safety,  member  of  the 
provincial  congress,  and  representative  to  the 
general  court  of  Massachusetts.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  French  and  Indian  wars,  serv- 
ing as  a  sergeant  in  both  Captain  Berry's  and 
Captain  Hill's  companies ;  was  a  captain  in  the 
regiment  of  Captain  Samuel  Waldo  Jr.  about 
1764.  and  in  1772  held  a  captain's  commis- 
sion in  the  militia.  His  love  for  his  country 
and  his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  liberty  were 
intense.  In  1775  he  received  a  colonel's  com- 
mission, and  was  placed  in  command  of  the 
Thirty-first  Massachusetts  Regiment,  which 
was  composed  entirely  of  citizens  of  Gorham 
and  adjoining  towns.  This  regiment  he 
marched  to  Cambridge  in  July,  1775,  and 
when  the  British  evacuated  Boston,  in  March, 
1776,  it  entered  the  city  and  was  stationed 
near  Fort  Hill.  January  i,  1776,  he  was  com- 
missioned colonel  of  the  Eighteenth  regiment, 
in  which  his  former  command  was  merged. 
In  the  autumn  of  1776  he  marched  his  regi- 
ment to  Ticonderoga,  and  during  the  follow- 
ing year  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  move- 
ments of  the  northern  army  until  the  surren- 
der of  Bnrgoyne,  when  being  out  of  health, 
he  returned  to  his  home  to  live  again  in  re- 
tirement with  his  family.  In  1781  he  was 
colonel  of  the  Third  regiment  of  militia  of 
Cumberland  county.  He  joined  the  church  in 
Windham,  February  14.  1748,  but  was  dis- 
missed December  23.  1750,  to  unite  with  the 
Gorham  church,  and  became  one  of  its  first 
three  ruling  elders.  He  married  (first)  Betty, 
daughter  of  Clement  and  Sarah  (Decker) 
Meserve,  who  lived  at  Portsmouth,  Gor- 
ham and  Bristol.  She  was  born  at  Scar- 
borough, September  2,  1730,  and  died  August 
6.  1795,  aged  sixty-five.  Colonel  Phinney 
married  (second)  November  21,  1796,  Sarah 
Stevens,    widow    of    Benjamin    Stevens.    The 


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children  by  the  first  marriage  were :  Patience, 
Decker,  Sarah,  Joseph,  Betty,  Edmund, 
Stephen,  James  and  Nathaniel. 

(VI)  Joseph,  second  son  of  Colonel  Ed- 
mund and  Betty  (Meserve)  Phinney,  was 
born  March  14,  1757,  and  died  September  10, 
1825.  He  was  a  farmer  and  plow-maker.  He 
married,  June  18,  1780,  Susanna  Crockett, 
daughter  of  Peletiah  and  Mary.  She  was  born 
in  Stratham,  New  Hampshire,  May  14,  1761, 
and  died  January  15,  1838,  aged  seventy- 
seven.  Their  children  were :  Mary,  Eunice, 
Hannah,  Stephen,  Nathaniel,  Rebecca,  Phebe 
and  Patience,  who  married  Ebenezer  Scott 
Thomes  Files  (see  Files  HI). 


Nathaniel  and  John  Harmon, 
HARMON  brothers,  were  in  Massachu- 
setts in  the  second  decade  of 
its  colonization.  From  the  former  have  sprung 
the  principal  subjects  of  this  sketch,  while 
John  settled  at  Springfield,  and  from  him  have 
come  the  Harmons  of  Vermont,  Connecticut 
and  New  York. 

(I)  Nathaniel  Harmon  settled  at  Mount 
Wollaston  (Braintree),  Massachusetts,  in 
1640,  and  was  made  a  freeman  May  10,  1643. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Bliss, 
of  Rehoboth,  and  had  children :  Nathaniel, 
Mary,  John,  Sarah,  Jonathan  and  Ephraim. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary 
(Bliss)  Harmon,  removed  from  Mount  Wol- 
laston, Massachusetts,  to  Wells,  Maine,  in 
1677.  He  had  been  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's 
war,  1675-76,  and  fought  in  the  decisive  con- 
test of  that  struggle.  He  had  land  in  a  grant 
to  the  soldiers  who  took  part  in  that  war, 
made  by  the  Massachusetts  Bay  and  Plymouth 
colonies,  and  in  1677  took  up  that  portion  of 
the  grant  to  which  he  was  entitled,  on  the 
river  in  Wells.  His  wife,  whom  he  married 
about  1679,  was  named  Sarah.  They  had 
children :  John,  Sarah,  Samuel,  Mary,  Wil- 
liam and  Nathaniel. 

(III)  Samuel,  second  son  and  third  child  of 
John  and  Sarah  Harmon,  was  born  in  Wells, 
Maine,  June  15,  1686.  He  purchased  several 
large  tracts  of  land  at  Scottaway  Hill,  after- 
ward known  as  Harmon's  Hill,  in  Scarbor- 
ough, Maine,  built  a  mill  on  the  river  there, 
known  as  Harmon's  mill,  and  settled  at  the 
place  in  1728.  He  became  a  comfortable  land 
owner  and  a  representative  man  of  the  sec- 
tion, and  resided  there  until  his  death.  He 
married,  March  19,  1707,  Mercy  Stinson; 
children:  Mercy,  Sarah,  Samuel,  Jr.,  John, 
William,  James  and  George. 

(IV)  John    (2),    second    son    and    fourth 


child  of  Samuel  and  Mercy  (Stinson)  Har- 
mon, was  born  in  Wells,  Maine,  about  1718, 
and  died  in  Standish,  where  he  had  lived  for 
some  years  prior  to  his  death.  After  the  close 
of  the  Indian  wars  he  removed  with  his  pa- 
rents to  Scarborough  about  1728.  He  was 
married  (first)  December  2,  1742,  to  Mary 
Hasty,  who  died  December  10,  1753.  Their 
children  were:  Abigail,  Mary,  died  young; 
Daniel,  John  and  Mary.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Widow  Abigail  (Hoyt)  Foss  and  had 
children :  William,  Josiah,  Elliot,  Rufus, 
Benjamin  and  Anna. 

(V)  Josiah,  second  son  and  child  of  John 
(2)  and  Abigail  (Hoyt)  (Foss)  Harmon, 
was  born  in  Scarborough,  November  5,  1759, 
and  died  in  Corinna,  about  1845.  He  pur- 
chased from  Thomas  Morton,  July  3,  1805,  a 
farm  in  Standish,  to  which  he  removed  and 
on  which  he  lived  until  May  4,  1827,  when  he 
sold  it  to  his  son  Josiah,  of  Thorndike.  He 
then  removed  to  Thorndike  and  later  to 
Corinna,  where  he  ended  his  days.  He  was  a 
veteran  of  the  revolutionary  war,  having 
served  as  a  fifer,  with  his  brother  William  as  a 
drummer,  while  both  were  still  lads.  He  mar- 
ried Anna,  born  March  16,  1764,  second  child 
of  Peter  and  Joanna  (Shaw)  Moulton,  and 
great-great-granddaughter  of  Henry  Moulton, 
one  of  the  grantees  of  Hampton,  New  Hamp- 
shire. They  had  children :  Peter,  Luther,  Jo- 
siah and  Elias. 

(VI)  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i)  and 
Anna  (Moulton)  Harmon,  was  born  in  Scar- 
borough, Maine.  He  established  himself  as  a 
general  trader  in  business  at  Thorndike  about 
1820,  and  was  later  succeeded  by  his  son,  True- 
man.  He  married  Betsey,  daughter  of  John 
and  Betsey  (Knowles)  Gordon,  first  of  Mount 
Vernon  and  later  of  Thorndike,  Maine.  Their 
children  were :  Abigail,  died  young ;  Trueman, 
see  forward ;  Frank ;  Daniel ;  Lydia,  married 

Tabor;  Ralph;  Elizabeth,  married  Dr. 

Albert  Lincoln,  of  Gorham,  Maine;  Josiah 
Wesley,  of  Old  Town,  Maine,  recently  de- 
ceased. 

(VII)  Trueman,  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  Josiah-  (2)  and  Betsey  (Gordon) 
Harmon,  was  born  in  Thorndike,  Maine,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1825,  and  died  in  Deering,  Maine, 
May  15,  1886.  Upon  the  completion  of  his 
education  in  the  common  schools  and  the 
academy,  he  entered  upon  a  career  as  a  trader 
in  Thorndike,  and  proved  very  successful  in 
his  business  ventures.  He  took  an  active  part 
in  politics  and  became  well  known  throughout 
that  section  of  the  state  of  Maine.  He  was 
appointed  collector  of  the  port  of  Belfast  by 


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President  Lincoln,  in  1861,  holding  the  office 
for  ten  years,  when  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  Deering,  Maine,  now  a  part  of  Port- 
land. He  was  married  at  Thorndike,  Maine, 
December  15,  1850,  by  Rev.  Gould  F.  Elliott, 
to  Harriett,  born  December  5,  1825,  died  No- 
vember 8,  1903,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Scott 
Thomes  and  Patience  (Phinney)  Files  (see 
Files).  They  had  children:  Charles  S.,  born 
August  18,  1854;  Annie  B.,  born  June  22, 
1865,  married  Fred  Vivian  Matthews  (see 
Matthews)  ;  Harry  True,  born  May  17,  1869, 
now  all  residents  of  Portland  (1909). 


This     second     line     of     the 
HODGDON     Hodgdon   family   were   resi- 
dents of  Maine,  living  in  or 
about  Boothbay,  and  descended  from  progeni- 
tors already  mentioned. 

(V)  Captain  Thomas  Hodgdon,  tradition 
says,  was  a  son,  but  dates  of  record  indicate 
that  it  is  more  probable  that  he  was  a  grand- 
son of  Alexander  and  Jane  (Shackford) 
Hodgdon,  a  great-grandson  of  Jeremiah  and 
Ann  (Thwaits)  Hodgdon,  of  Kittery,  Maine, 
and  a  great-great-grandson  of  Nicholas  and 
Esther  (Wines)  Hodgdon.  He  was  born 
about  1735,  in  Boston  or  Kittery,  and  about 
1757,  with  an  elder  brother,  Calelj,  went  from 
there  and  settled  on  Jeremy  Squam  Island, 
now  Westport,  Maine.  Joseph,  undoubtedly 
another  brother,  settled  for  a  time  in  Town- 
send,  the  adjoining  town,  at  about  this  time, 
and  was  there  in  1764,  a  petitioner  for  the  in- 
corporation of  the  town  of  Boothbay ;  and 
Benjamin,  probably  another  brother,  was  in 
Edgecomb,  another  adjoining  town,  in  1777. 
Thomas  Hodgdon  was  a  prominent  man,  cap- 
tain of  a  company  in  Colonel  William  Jones's 
regiment  in  the  revolution,  under  a  commis- 
sion dated  May  8,  1776.  His  son  John's  fath- 
er-in-law, John  Dunton,  a  man  of  great  stat- 
ure, strength  and  endurance,  was  lieutenant  in 
Captain  Hodgdon's  company.  They  also  par- 
ticipated in  the  expedition  against  Majorbaga- 
duce  (Castine,  Maine),  in  1779,  and  in  other 
important  service  during  .  the  revolution. 
Thomas  Hodgdon  was  the  progenitor  of  a  nu- 
merous race.  His  children  were :  Thomas, 
Jr.,  Benjamin,  John,  see  forward,  Joseph,  Ca- 
leb, Prudence,  Rebecca,  Abigail  and  Mercy. 

(VI)  John,  third  son  of  Captain  Thomas 
Hodgdon,  was  born  at  Jeremy  Squam  Island, 
February  10,  1769.  He  married  (first)  De- 
borah Dunton,  born  June  10,  1774,  died  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1812,  sixth  child  of  Lieutenant  John 
and  Abigail  (Walker)  Dunton,  and  grand- 
daughter   of    Andrew    and    Mary     (Grant) 


Walker,  of  Woolwich,  Maine.  Mr.  Hodgdon 
married  (second)  Lucy,  daughter  of  Zebe- 
diah  Farnham,  of  Westport,  and  she  was  the 
mother  of  six  children.  The  seventeen  chil- 
dren of  John  Hodgdon  were  :  Emerson,  John, 
Timothy,  see  forward,  Lowell,  Abigail,  Alfred, 
Rebecca,  Elvira,  Edwin,  Ira,  Samuel,  Warren, 
Rufus,  Cyrus,  Lucy,  Ann  and  Mary. 

(VII)  Timothy,  third  son  of  John  and  De- 
borah (Dunton)  Hodgdon,  was  born  at  West- 
port,  near  Boothbay,  March  13,  1798,  and  died 
at  Boothbay,  October  19,  1881.  Prior  to  his 
marriage  he  settled  on  a  large  farm  on  Saw- 
yer's Island,  Boothbay,  where  the  remainder 
of  his  life  was  spent.  In  the  war  of  1812  he 
served  as  a  boy  in  the  militia  for  coast  guard 
at  j\Viscasset,  Maine.  He  married,  July  20, 
1820,  Frances  Tibbetts,  of  Boothbay,  born  De- 
cember 2,  1801,  died  January  28,  1875,  ^nd 
whose  ancestry  will  be  found  below.  Of  their 
children,  four  died  in  infancy,  nine  married 
and  had  children.  Those  who  lived  to  marry 
were:  Zina  H.,  Mary  E.,  George  F.,  James 
Payson,  Angelia  F.,  Roxanna  S.,  Alonzo  K., 
Lovesta,  who  married  Captain  Elbridge 
Matthews  (see  Matthews  VIII),  and  Roscoe 
G. 

Henry  Tibbetts  (I)'  and  Jeremiah  Tibbetts 
(II)  are  written  of  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

(HI)  Samuel,  sixth  child  of  Jeremiah  and 
Mary  (Canny)  Tibbetts,  was  born  in  1666, 
and  died  in  1738.  He  was  a  tanner  and  far- 
mer by  occupation,  and  a  captain  in  the  colon- 
ial army.  He  was  married,  by  Rev.  John  Pike, 
September  2,  1686,  to  Dorothy  Tuttle,  of 
Dover,  and  they  had  nine  children. 

(IV)  Ichabod,  fifth  son  of  Samuel  and 
Dorothy  (Tuttle)  Tibbetts,  was  born  in  1690, 
and  died  February  25,  1746.  He  was  a  far- 
mer and  tanner,  also  a  captain  in  the  colonial 
army,  and  saw  active  service  during  the  early 
wars.  He  married  his  cousin,  Abigail  Tib- 
betts, by  whom  he  had  eight  children. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  fourth  child  of  Ichabod  and 
Abigail  (Tibbetts)  Tibbetts,  was  born  at 
Dover,  August  30,  1727.  He  settled  at  Booth- 
bay,  Maine,  about  1759,  with  the  members  of 
his  wife's  family,  lauilt  a  log  house  in  the 
Dover  district,  but  shortly  afterward  built  far- 
ther north  in  the  same  district.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Giles,  born  in  Dover  in  1729,  died 
in  Boothbay,  June  i,  1822,  daughter  of  IMark 
and  Lydia  Elizabeth  (Tibbetts)  Giles,  of 
Dover.  Their  children  were :  Ichabod,  Na- 
thaniel, John,  Giles,  Abigail,  Mark,  Judith, 
Rebecca,  James,  Sarah  and  Polly. 

(VI)  James,  ninth  child  and  youngest  son 
of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Giles)  Tibbetts. 


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was  born  at  Boothbay,  December  g,  1768,  and 
died  December  15,  1858.  He  married  (pub- 
lished January  23,  1790)  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Sarah  (Dexter)  Lewis,  and  they 
had  children  :  William,  Isaac,  Lois,  Nathaniel, 
Eunice,  Frances,  who  married  Timothy  Hodg- 
don,  as  mentioned  above,  James,  Mary  Carl- 
ton, Payson,  Sarah  A.,  Eliza  A.,  and  Abigail. 


John  Coggan,  the  first  of  the 
COGGAN  name  in  New  England,  ap- 
pears first  in  Dorchester  in 
1632,  and  took  the  freeman's  oath  November 
5,  1633.  The  surname  in  the  various  parish 
and  town  records  is  written  Cogan,  Coggen, 
Coggin  and  Coggan.  John  Coggan  was  a 
merchant  in  Boston,  became  possessed  of  con- 
siderable wealth  and  appears,  according  to 
Washburn's  "Judicial  History  of  Massachu- 
setts," to  have  acted  as  one  of  the  attorneys 
under  the  old  charter  of  the  colony  of  Mas- 
sachusetts Bay.  His  first  wife  Ann  joined  the 
church  in  Boston,  and  had  her  daughter  Ann 
recorded  to  have  been  born  November  9,  1636, 
baptized  November,  1636,  and  another  daugh- 
ter, Lydia,  born  and  baptized  July   14,   1639. 

John  Coggan's  second  wife  was  Mary , 

who  died  January  14,  1652;  and  his  third 
wife,  whom  he  married  March  16,  1652,  was 
Martha,  daughter  of  Captain  William  Rain- 
borow,  and  wadow  first  of  Thomas  Coytemore, 
and  second  of  Governor  John  Winthrop.  By 
his  third  wife  he  had  one  child,  Caleb,  born 
December  15,  1652,  baptized  December  26, 
1652.  He  had  also  as  members  of  his  house- 
hold three  children  of  his  brother  Humphrey, 
who  did  not  come  to  New  England.  These 
children  were  :  Mary,  born  in  England ;  Eliz- 
abeth, probably  was  born  in  Dorchester,  as 
the  mother  doubtless  came  with  either  one  or 
both  children  in  company  with  her  brother-in- 
law,  John  Coggan.  The  third  child  of  John 
Coggan  was  John  Jr.,  so  called  to  distinguish 
him  from  his  uncle  of  the  same  baptismal 
name.  The  younger  John  Coggan  was  admit- 
ted freeman  of  Boston,  May  18,  1642,  mar- 
ried and  had  a  daughter  Sarah,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1637,  died  1674.  Mary  Coggan  mar- 
ried (first)  John  Moody,  of  Roxbury,  and 
(second)  Thomas  Robinson,  of  Scituat'e,  and 
had  three  children.  Her  sister  Elizabeth  mar- 
ried Joseph  Rock.  John  Coggan,  the  immi- 
grant, died  in  Boston  in  April,  1658,  and  in 
1660  his  widow  Martha  administered  his  will, 
made  December  16,  1657,  and  in  it  he  mentions 
his  wife  Martha,  son  Caleb,  Mary  Robinson, 
Elizabeth  Rock,  and  John,  son  of  his  brother 


Humphrey,  to  whom  he  bequeathed  a  gold 
ring,  and  twenty  pounds  to  the  children  of 
Windsor.  A  letter  from  Rev.  John  Daven- 
port, printed  in  "Massachusetts  Historical 
Collections,"  (v.  45),  contains  a  story  of  un- 
usual interest  of  the  widow  of  John  Coggan. 
The  property  of  John  Coggan,  immigrant, 
mentioned  in  his  will,  included  besides  houses 
and  a  shop  in  the  town  of  Boston,  a  farm  at 
Rumney  Marsh,  a  corn  mill  at  Mystic  Side 
(Maiden),  and  five  hundred  acres  of  land 
in  the  town  of  Woburn. 

(I)  Henry  Coggan,  another  immigrant,  was 
of  Boston  in  1634,  removed  thence  to  Scituate, 
and  in  1639  to  Barnstable,  Massachusetts,  and 
died  in  England  while  on  a  visit  there,  in 
June,  1649.  The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife 
was  Abigail;  children:  i.  Abigail,  born  prob- 
ably before  her  father  settled  in  Boston.  2. 
Thomas,  baptized  March  i,  1640,  died  Jan- 
uary 26,  1659.  3-  John,  born  February  12, 
1643.  4-  Mary,  born  April  20,  1645,  died 
soon.  5.  Henry,  born  October  11,  1646.  Af- 
ter the  death  of  her  husband  Abigail  Coggan 
married  June  10,  1650,  John  Phinney,  and 
died  May  6,  1653.  Her  daughter  Abigail 
married  June  21,  1659,  .loh"  French,  of  Bil- 
lerica,  and  died  soon  afterward.  We  have 
here  three  brothers,  John,  of  Boston,  who  set- 
tled in  Dorchester,  1632;  Humphrey,  of  Eng- 
land, whose  son  John  was  brought  up  in  the 
family  of  John,  of  Boston;  and  Henry,  of 
Barnstable,  1639,  who  had  a  son  John  bap- 
tized February  12,  1643. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Humphrey  Coggan,  of 
England,  and  nephew  of  John  Coggan,  of 
Dorchester,  and  probably  a  nephew  of  Henry 
Coggan,  of  Dunstable,  immigrants,  was  made 
freeman  in  Boston,  May  18,  1642.  He  mar- 
ried and  had  a  daughter  Sarah,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,'  1657,  died  1674. 

(II)  John  Coggan,  son  of  Henry  and  Abi- 
gail Coggan,  was  born  February  12,  1643, 
and  was  of  Charlestown,  Massachusetts.  He 
married  December  22,  1664,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Michael  Long,  and  died  in  Charlestown 
May  7,  1681.  John  and  Mary  (Long)  Cog- 
gan had  three  children :  i.  John,  born  August 
27,  1666.  2.  Henry,  April  13,  1669.  3-  Abi- 
gail, 1671,  married  1702,  John  Teal,  school- 
master. 

(III)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Mary 
(Long)  Coggan,  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
August  2j,  1666,  and  removed  to  Bristol, 
Maine. 

(IV)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Coggan. 
was  a  farmer  and  lived  in  Bristol,  Maine. 


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(V)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  Coggan, 
of  Bristol,  Maine,  was  born  in  Bristol,  in 
May,  1790. 

(VI)  Taber,  son  of  John  (4)  Coggan,  was 
born  in  Bristol,  Maine,  and  married  March  19, 

1812,  Betsey,  daughter  of  Kingsbury, 

stepdaughter  of Leach,  and  widow  of 

Lemuel  Bryant.     Taber  Coggan  died  in  Bris- 
tol, Lincoln  county,  Maine,  June  2,  1863. 

(VII)  Leonard  Chamberlain,  son  of  Taber 
and  Betsey  (Kingsbury-Bryant)  Coggan,  was 
born  in  Bristol,  Maine,  September  24,  1898. 
He  was  reared  in  Bristol,  on  a  farm,  and  was 
a  farmer  all  his  life.  He  married  Betsey  Mar- 
tin Webber,  born  1825,  died  February  24, 
1894,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret 
(Farrar)  Webber,  of  Bremen,  Lincoln  county, 
Maine  (see  Webber).  His  children:  i.  Al- 
den,  was  a  merchant  in  Boston,  where  he  mar- 
ried Anna  Dow,  of  Quincy,  now  deceased; 
they  had  daughter  Lizzie  F.,  who  married 
Frank  Webber;  resides  in  Bremen,  Maine. 
2.  Marcellus,  see  forward.  3.  James  W.,  a 
brick  manufacturer,  in  Kansas.  4.  Annie, 
married  James  McGuire,  of  Webster,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  they  reside.  5.  Lizzie  F.,  died 
young. 

(VIII)  Marcellus,  son  of  Leonard  Cham- 
berlain  and   Betsey   Martin    (Webber)    Cog- 
gan, was  born  in  Bristol,  Maine,  September  6, 
1847,   and    prepared    for    college    at    Lincoln 
Academy,  New  Castle,  Maine.    He  graduated 
from  Bowdoin  College,  A.  B.,  with  the  class 
of  '72,  and  was  principal  of  Nichols  Academy, 
Dudley,  Massachusetts,  from  1872  until  1879, 
during  which  time  also  he  was  chairman  of 
the  school  board  of  the  town.     He  then  re- 
moved  to   Maiden,   Massachusetts,   and   took 
up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Child  & 
Powers,  Boston,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Suf- 
folk bar  in  1881.     Having  come  to  the  bar  he 
practiced  in  Maiden  and  Boston,  and  in  1886 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  William  Scho- 
field,  under  the  style  of  Coggan  &  Schofield,  a 
relation  which  was  continued  until  1896,  after 
which  Mr.  Coggan  practiced  without  a  part- 
ner until  1904,  when  his  son,  Marcellus  Sum- 
ner Coggan,  who  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1900,    became    his    law  partner.      Marcellus 
Coggan  married,  November  28,   1872,  Luella 
Blanche,    daughter    of    Calvin    Chandler    and 
Lucinda      Boothby      (Butterfield)      Robbins. 
Three  children  were  born  of  this  marriage: 
I.   Marcellus    Sumner,  born   Dudley,    Massa- 
chusetts,   November    14,    1873 ;   prepared    for 
college    in    Boston    Latin    School;   graduated 


from  Bowdoin  College,  A.  B.,  1897,  and  from 
Boston  University  Law  School,  LL.  B.,  1900. 
In  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  courts  of  Massachusetts,  and  at  once 
became  a  member  of  the  Suffolk  bar.  In  1904 
he  became  partner  in  law  practice  with  his 
father,  with  principal  offices  in  Boston.  He 
married,  January  4,  1899,  Mattie  M.  Hanson, 
daughter  of  Luther  L.  and  Alice  (Rogers) 
Hanson,  of  Maiden.  Their  son,  Marcellus 
Sumner  Coggan,  Jr.,  was  born  December  22, 
1905.  2.  Linus  Child,  born  ^Maiden,  June 
10,  1884;  graduated  from  Maiden  high  school, 
1903,  and  from  Tufts  College,  A.  B.,  1907. 
3.  Florence  Betsey,  born  April  26,  1886 ;  grad- 
uated from  Winchester  high  school,  1906. 

In  Maiden,  Marcellus  Coggan  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  committee,  one  year  acting 
as  chairman,  and  always  took  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  welfare  of  the  city  in  every  re- 
spect. He  is  a  strong  Republican,  and  as 
the  candidate  of  that  party  was  mayor  of 
Maiden  in  1886-87.  Both  he  and  the  several 
members  of  his  family  are  members  of  the 
Universalist  church.  He  is  a  member  also  of 
Converse  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Maiden, 
and  of  Maiden  Lodge  No.  201,  I.  O.  O.  F. 
During  his  residence  in  that  city  he  also  was 
associated  with  various  other  organizations, 
including  those  of  social  and  professional  char- 
acter. 


The  earliest  Webber  (or  Web- 
WEBBER  er)  ancestors  came  to  America 
from  Holland  in  the  early  part 
of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  nearly  all 
who  bear  that  surname  in  New  York  and 
New  England  claim  descent  from  one  Wolfert 
Webber,  who  was  born  in  Amsterdam,  Hol- 
land, about  1600,  and  came  to  New  Amster- 
dam, now  New  York  City,  about  1633,  in 
company  with  the  Dutch  Governor  Van  Twil- 
ler.  Wolfert  Webber  had  a  grant  of  land 
in  New  Amsterdam  of  about  sLxty-two  acres, 
lying  between  Broadway  and  the  Hudson 
river  and  between  Duane  and  Chambers 
streets.  Something  like  a  generation  ago  an 
attempt  was  made  by  some  of  the  heirs  of 
Wolfert  Webber  to  claim  this  property,  on  the 
ground  that  the  lease  under  which  it  was  .held 
had  expired,  and  also  to  enforce  a  claim  to  a 
share  in  the  estate  of  Wolfert's  parents  in 
Holland,  which  was  said  to  have  been  placed 
in  trust  in  1645  for  the  heirs  of  the  third  gen- 
eration, and  that  distribution  never  had  been 
made  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  trust. 
Of  course  the  claimants  failed  of  success,  for 


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their  contention,  which  was  stimulated  by 
scheming  parties,  was  groundless  from  the  be- 
ginning. 

(I)  Thomas  Webber,  with  whom  this  nar- 
rative begins,  lived  at  the  mouth  of  the  river 
Kennebec,  Maine,  as  early  as  the  year  1649. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Parker, 
Sr.,  and  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Parker)  Webber,  lived  for  a  time  at  Glouces- 
ter, Massachusetts,  and  died  in  York,  Maine, 


m   1716. 


(III)  Waitt,  son  of  Samuel  Webber,  re- 
moved   from    York   to   Harpswell,   Maine,    in 

1738. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  son  of  Waitt  Webber,  and 
great-grandfather  of  Betsey   Martin  Webber, 

married  Polly ,  and  lived  in  Harpswell, 

Maine. 

(V)  Joshua,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Polly 
Webber,  was  born  in  1761,  and  died  March  3, 
1819;  married  January  26,  1791,  Elizabeth, 
born  1776,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Martin,  of  Marblehead,  Massachusetts.  She 
died  November  12,  1841. 

(VI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Joshua  and  Eliza- 
beth (Martin)  Webber,  was  born  in  Bristol, 
Maine,  November  4,  1792,  and  died  in  Brem- 
en, Maine,  September  27,  1851.  He  married, 
December  27,  1818,  Margaret  Farrar,  born 
Bristol,  Maine,  April  18,  1792,  daughter  of 
John  (1756-1847)  and  Hannah  (Burns)  Far- 
rar, and  great-granddaughter  of  John  and 
Hannah  Farrar.  John  Farrar  died  in  1809. 
His  wife  Hannah  was  a  daughter  of  Deacon 
William  and  Jane  (McClintock)  Burns. 
Deacon  Burns,  born  1733,  died  1827,  was  a 
native  of  Cornwall,  England,  and  is  said  to 
have  been  of  noble  blood.  John  Farrar,  born 
171 1,  died  1809,  had  seven  sons,  all  of  whom 
served  in  the  American  army  during  the  revo- 
lution, and  their  mother  fitted  out  these  sons 
with  all  the  clothing  they  wore  and  carried, 
except  shoes.  She  spun,  wove,  cut  out  and 
made  all  these  garments  with  her  own  hands, 
and  sent  out  her  boys  as  well  equipped  as  any 
other  soldiers  in  the  ranks.  They  all  returned 
to  her  except  Thomas,  who  died  in  the  service. 
The  children  of  Benjamin  and  Margaret  (Far- 
rar) Webber  were:  Betsey  M.,  Hannah  H., 
John  F.,  Betsey  M.  (2d),  Margaret  M.,  James 
F.  and  Samuel  (twins),  Charles  M.,  Cynthia 
and  Benjamin. 

(VII)  Betsey  Martin  Webber,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Margaret  (Farrar)  Webber, 
married  Leonard  Chamberlain  Coggan,  farm- 
er of  Bristol,  Lincoln  county,  Maine  (see  Cog- 
gan). 


Like  many  other  York  county 
TITCOMB  families  the  Titcombs  are  de- 
scended from  an  immigrant 
from  England  who  located  on  the  eastern 
shore  of  Massachusetts,  and  one  of  his  de- 
scendants followed  the  coast  line  north,  es- 
tablishing himself  in  Kennebunk. 

(I)  William  Titcomb,  of  Newbury,  Berk- 
shire, England,  came  in  the  ship  "Hercules" 
to  Massachusetts  Bay  in  1634,  and  settled  at 
Quascacumquen,  which,  in  the  following  year, 
was  renamed  Newbury  in  remembrance  of  the 
old  English  town.  He  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nal proprietors,  and  during  the  early  years  of 
the  town's  history  was  a  prominent  man  in  its 
political  and  religious  affairs.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  in  1642;  was  a  selectman 
for  the  first  time  in  1646;  was  representative 
to  the  general  court  in  1655  and  was  assigned 
by  both  the  colonial  and  town  governments  to 
several  important  committees.  In  the  long 
controversy  between  the  Rev.  Thomas  Parker 
and  a  portion  of  the  church  he  was  in  oppo- 
sition to  the  pastor,  and  when  the  matter  was 
at  length  submitted  to  the  court  at  Ipswich 
for  a  decision  he,  with  his  associates,  were 
declared  by  that  body  to  be  guilty  of  grave 
misdemeanors.  (N.  B.  As  lack  of  space  pre- 
vents the  giving  a  detailed  account  of  this 
controversy,  it  is  here  stated  for  the  benefit  of 
the  readers  of  this  work  who  are  unfamiliar 
with  its  origin  that  the  trouble  was  not  of 
an  ecclesiastical  or  doctrinal  nature,  but  re- 
lated wholly  to  the  question  of  church  govern- 
ment.) William  Titcomb  died  September  24, 
1676,  of  a  severe  attack  of  fever  and  ague. 
He  married  (first)  Joanna  Bartlett,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Bartlett  Sr.,  of  Newbury,  and 
she  died  June  28,  1653,  immediately  after 
childbirth.  On  March  3,  1654,  he  married 
(second)  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Stevens,  presumably 
the  widow  of  William  Stevens,  and  she  sur- 
vived him.  The  children  of  first  union  were : 
Sarah,  Hannah,  Mary,  Mellicent,  William 
(died  young)  Penuel  and  Benaiah.  Those  of 
second  marriage  were :  Elizabeth,  Rebecca, 
Tirzah,  William,  Thomas,  Lydia  and  Ann. 

(II)  Penuel,  second  son  and  sixth  child  of 
William  and  Joanna  (Bartlett)  Titcomb,  was 
born  in  Newbury,  December  16,  1650.  He  re- 
sided in  that  part  of  the  town  which  is  now 
Newburyport  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
a  new  church  in  that  locality.  Residing  a  con- 
siderable distance  from  the  mother  church  in 
Newbury,  more  than  three  hundred  people 
desired  permission  to  establish  a  church  of 
their  own  to  be  located  on  Pipe-stave  hill,  and 
the  town  having  refused  to  accede  to  their 


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request  they  proceeded  to  erect  a  meeting- 
house and  called  a  pastor  upon  their  own  re- 
sponsibility. This  act  on  their  part  led  to 
serious  consequences,  as  they  were  prosecuted 
and  some  of  the  seceders  sought  and  obtained 
protection  from  the  established  Church  of 
England.  The  trouble  was  ultimately  adjusted 
to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  Among 
the  leaders  of  the  new  church  people  was 
Penuel  Titcomb,  and  he  was  one  of  the  six 
who  were  served  with  a  process  forbidding  the 
building  of  their  meeting-house.  He  did  not, 
however,  become  an  Episcopalian.  January  8, 
1684,  he  married  Lydia  Poore,  daughter  of 
John  Poore,  of  Newbury.  Their  children 
were:  Sarah  (died  young),  Sarah,  William, 
John  and  Joseph. 

(III)  Joseph,  youngest  child  of  Penuel  and 
Lydia  (Poore)  Titcomb,  born  in  Newbury, 
July  27,  1700,  died  in  1722.  He  married 
Sarah  Batchelder,  daughter  of  John  Batchel- 
der,  of  Reading,  Massachusetts,  and  was  the 
father  of  but  two  children,  Abigail  and 
Stephen.  His  widow  married  (second)  Sam- 
uel Sewall,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Fes- 
senden)  Sewall,  and  went  to  reside  in  York, 
Maine. 

(IV)  Captain  Stephen,  only  son  of  Joseph 
and  Sarah  (Batchelder)  Titcomb,  was  born 
in  Newbury,  December  27,  1721.  When  a 
young  man  he  developed  a  capacity  for  busi- 
ness which  he  found  impossible  to  exercise  in 
his  native  town,  and  coming  to  Kennebunk 
about  1740  he  displayed  a  spirit  of  enterprise 
which  was  quite  unknown  in  the  locality  at 
that  time.  Having  erected  a  garrison  house 
as  a  means  of  protection  from  the  Indians,  who 
were  still  troublesome,  he  engaged  extensively 
in  trade,  also  in  shipbuilding,  owning  several 
vessels  employed  in  the  coastwise  trade,  and 
built  a  sawmill  on  Middle  river  in  Arundel, 
where  he  manufactured  lumber.  During  the 
agitation  which  preceded  the  American  revo- 
lution he  strongly  supported  the  cause  of 
national  independence,  and  upon  receiving 
news  of  the  battle  of  Lexington  he  immediately 
set  out  at  the  head  of  twenty-two  patriots  for 
the  scene  of  hostilities.  Arriving  at  Ports- 
mouth he  was  informed  that  his  little  company 
would  not  then  be  needed  and  they  accord- 
ingly returned.  He  acted  as  agent  for  the 
town  in  the  prosecution  of  all  persons  inimical 
to  the  state  or  federal  governments;  served 
as  selectman  and  as  captain  of  the  local  militia 
company;  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Second  Congregational  Church  at  Kennebunk 
and  officially  connected  with  it  for  many 
years.     After  the   close  of    Indian  hostilities 


he  remodelled  his  old  garrison  house  into  a 
more  pretentious  and  comfortable  residence,  in 
which  he  passed  the  sunset  of  his  life  enjoy- 
ing the  fruits  of  his  business  enterprises.  He 
died  May  23,  181 5,  after  witnessing  the  tri- 
umph of  the  United  States  in  the  second  con- 
flict with  Great  Britain.  He  married  Abigail 
Stone  and  had  a  family  of  seven  children : 
Joseph,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-one; 
Benjamin,  who  will  be  again  referred  to; 
Stephen,  Sarah,  who  married  Daniel  Mitchell ; 
Abigail,  Samuel  and  John. 

(V)  Benjamin,  second  child  of  Captain 
Stephen  and  Abigail  (Stone)  Titcomb,  was 
born  in  Kennebunk,  j\Iay  21,  1751.  He  settled 
upon  a  large  farm  in  Alewife,  where  he  be- 
came a  prosperous  tiller  of  the  soil,  and  for 
a  period  of  thirty  years  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  selectmen.  He  lived  to  be  seventy- 
six  years  old  and  went  to  his  final  rest  De- 
cember 26,  1827.  He  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  Christian  church.  He  married  (first) 
Mary  Burnham,  and  they  were  the  parents 
of  five  children-:  Benjamin,  who  married  Mary 
Waterhouse  ;  Hannah,  who  died  young  ;  James, 
Joseph,  and  a  second  Hannah,  who  married 
John  Perkins.  He  married  (second)  Hannah 
Bragdon,  who  bore  him  four  children :  Sam- 
uel, David,  Abigail  and  Lydia.  He  married 
(third)  Mrs.  Nancy  Gates  (nee  Hemingway), 
daughter  of  Rev.  Moses  Hemingway,  D.  D., 
of  Wells,  and  widow  of  Dr.  Gates. 

(VI)  James,  second  son  and  third  child 
of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Burnham)  Titcomb, 
was  born  in  Kennebunk,  March  14,  1783.  He 
resided  in  his  native  town  and  died  there  Oc- 
tober 14,  1844.  He  married  Abigail  Durrell 
and  she  became  the  mother  of  seven  children : 
Joseph,  Lucy  Wildes,  who  died  in  infancy ; 
George  Payson,  William,  Lucy  Wildes,  who 
became  the  wife  of  James  M.  Stone;  James 
W.  and  Abby. 

(VII)  Hon.  Joseph,  eldest  child  of  James 
and  Abigail  (Durrell)  Titcomb,  was  born  in 
Kennebunk,  January  8,  1822.  He  began  his 
education  in  the  public  schools,  continued  it 
at  Dumner  Academy,  Byfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  completed  it  at  Bowdoin  College.  He 
became  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of 
York  county  and  a  famous  shipbuilder  of  his 
day,  devoting  much  time  and  capital  to  the 
construction  of  merchantmen,  and  among  the 
notable  ships  which  he  gave  to  the  merchant 
service  were  the  "St.  John  Smith,"  and  the  "J. 
B.  Brown,"  of  Portland.  During  the  civil 
war  he  built  vessels  for  the  government,  and 
from  1870  to  1880  was  in  partnership  with 
William  Thompson,  under  the  firm  name  of 


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TitCOmb   &  Thompson.       In  his  latter  3"ears  he  (For   preceding  generations  see  William   Titcomb   I.) 


was  engaged  in  the  fire  and  life  insurance 
business.  He  was  instrumental  in  organizing 
the  Kennebunk  Savings  Bank,  also  the  Ocean 
National  Bank,  and  was  president  of  the  latter 
for  some  years.  In  addition  to  serving  as  a 
selectman  and  as  a  member  of  the  school  board 
for  many  years,  he  served  with  such  marked 
ability  in  both  branches  of  the  Maine  legis- 
lature as  to  place  him  among  the  leading 
Democrats  of  the  state,  and  he  was  twice 
nominated  by  his  party  for  the  governorship. 
His  sterling  integrity,  knowledge  of  finance 
and  the  principles  of  banking  caused  Gov- 
ernor Garcelon  to  appoint  him  bank  examiner 
in  1879,  and  he  held  other  positions  of  honor 
and  trust.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Con- 
gregational church.  Hon.  Joseph  Titcomb 
died  December  25,  1891.  During  his  leisure 
moments  he  collected  much  valuable  genea- 
logical matter  relative  to  the  Titcomb  family 
from  the  time  of  the  immigrant  ancestors. 

December  23,  1852,  he  married  Mary 
Anna  Wise,  who  was  born  in  Kennebunk, 
October  17,  1824,  daughter  of  William  W. 
Wise.  Her  death  occurred  November  25, 
1883.  She  was  the  mother  of  four  children : 
I.  Agnes,  born  August  19,  i860,  married 
Charles  H.  Cole,  who  succeeded  her  father 
in  the  insurance  business.  2.  Alice,  died  in 
infancy.  3.  William,  see  succeeding  para- 
graph.    4.  Frederick,  died  in  infancy. 

(VIII)  William,  third  child  and  eldest  son 
of  Hon.  Joseph  and  Mary  A.  (Wise)  Tit- 
comb, was  born  in  Kennebunk,  July  21,  1862. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Kennebunk  public 
schools,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  en- 
tered the  service  of  the  Boston  and  Maine 
railway  as  a  baggage  master.  He  has  ever 
since  remained  in  the  employ  of  that  corpora- 
tion, and  for  the  past  sixteen  years  has  acted 
as  a  passenger  conductor.  He  is  a  Master 
Mason,  affiliating  with  York  Lodge,  and  is 
also  a  member  of  Myrtle  Lodge,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  of  Kennebunk.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  church.  At  the  present 
time  he  is  serving  upon  the  financial  committee 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Kennebunk 
Public  Library.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 
On  January  i,  1889,  Mr.  Titcomb  married 
Maria  Stone,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Olive 
B.  (Kilham)  Stone,  of  Kennebunk.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Titcomb  have  three  children :  Edward 
S.,  born  January  21,  1890,  is  now  attending 
Thornton  Academy,  Saco.  William  Sewall, 
October  16,  1895.  Agnes  Elizabeth,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1901. 


(V)  Stephen,  third  child  of 
TITCOMB     Captain   Stephen   and   Abigail 

(Stone)  Titcomb,  was  born  in 
Kennebunk,  Maine,  October  3,  1752.  When  a 
young  man  he  removed  to  Topsham,  Maine, 
where  he  married,  in  1776,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Hannah  Henry.  She  was 
born  in  Johnston,  Rhode  Island,  August  19, 
1749  (O.  S.).  The  same  year  he  began  ex- 
ploring the  valley  of  the  Sandy  river  in  search 
of  desirable  land,  and  there  found  a  small 
tribe  of  Indians  at  Messee  Contee  (herring 
place),  which  became  Farmington  Falls.  At 
the  time  he  came  there  the  tribe  consisted  of 
two  familes,  that  of  Pierpole  and  that  of 
Phillips,  sole  representatives  of  their  power- 
ful forefathers.  Phillips  left  soon  after  the 
settlers  came  in  1781,  but  Pierpole  remained 
for  years  and  became  the  helper  and  friend 
of  the  white  settlers.  Stephen  Titcomb  led  a 
party  from  Topsham  including  Robert  Gower, 
Thomas  Wilson,  James  Henry,  Robert  Alex- 
ander, and  James  M'Donnell  in  1776,  with 
a  view  of  making  a  settlement.  They  came  up 
the  Kennebec  river  in  canoes  as  far  as  Hallo- 
well,  and  from  there  proceeded  on  foot  to  the 
house  of  Rumford  Smith,  who  had  settled  a 
little  east  of  what  is  now  Readfield  Corner, 
then  Winthrop.  They  then  took  a  west- 
northwest  course  by  compass,  but  lost  the  trail 
they  had  hoped  to  strike,  and  continued  along 
the  northern  bank  of  the  river  to  the  boundary 
of  the  Tufts  farm,  where  they  built  a  camp 
and  with  a  strip  of  basswood  bark  as  a  chain 
laid  out  six  lots  of  one  hundred  rods  in  width 
each.  After  dividing  the  land  so  surveyed  by 
lot,  they  returned  to  Topsham  and  prepared 
for  actual  settlement.  Their  example  was 
soon  followed  by  the  eager  land  hunters  of 
the  times,  and  the  wild  country  was  rapidly 
populated.  Between  1776  and  1780  Mr.  Tit- 
comb journeyed  every  season  to  the  settle- 
ment, cleared  and  prepared  six  acres  for  corn 
and  potatoes,  and  built  the  first  log  house  on 
the  river.  In  1780  he  made  a  rude  sled  road 
to  Winthrop  with  the  assistance  of  the  other 
pioneers,  and  about  December  20,  1780,  be- 
gan the  journey  of  seventy  miles  with  a  yoke 
of  oxen  and  a  sled  heavily  laden  with  pro- 
visions for  the  winter.  He  was  accompanied 
by  his  wife's  brother,  who  drove  a  horse  sled 
laden  with  furniture  and  bedding,  and  with 
comfortable  seats  for  Mrs.  Titcomb  and  two 
children,  the  youngest  five  weeks  old.  A 
snowstorm  came  up  and  they  found  refuge  for 
four  months  for  the  mother  and  children  at 


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Readfield  Corner  in  a  small  log  cabin,  while 
Mr.  Titcomb  proceeded  to  Sandy  River  and 
spent  the  winter  and  early  spring  there  alone, 
making  a  few  journeys  on  snowshoes  with  such 
provisions  as  he  could  convey  on  a  hand  sled, 
thus  keeping  the  poor  wife  and  little  children 
as  comfortable  as  possible.  When  the  snow 
allowed,  they  continued  the  journey  and  took 
possession  of  the  log  house  at  Sandy  River, 
and  despite  this  perilous  journey  and  its  at- 
tendant hardships,  Mrs.  Titcomb  lived  to  be 
ninety-two  years  old  and  the  five  weeks  old 
infant  lived'  to  the  age  of  seventy-nine  and 
was  the  mother  of  a  large  family.  He  built 
a  framed  barn  in  1785,  and  a  framed  house 
in  1788,  which  is  still  standing,  and  which 
was  at  the  time  the  finest  house  in  the  sec- 
tion. There  was  no  church  in  the  place,  but 
Mr.  Titcomb  was  a  Methodist,  and  the  first 
preaching  service  in  the  township  was  held  in 
his  log  house  by  Rev.  Ezekiah  Emerson,  a 
Congregational  minister,  who  came  at  Mrs. 
Titcomb's  request  to  baptize  the  first  child  born 
in  this  wilderness,  her  fourth  child  'Stephen, 
born  in  Farmington,  November  14,  1782.  In 
1799  the  settlers  built  the  first  meeting-house, 
and  Mr.  Titcomb  was  foremost  in  the  labor 
and  bore  a  large  share  in  the  expenses.  He 
represented  his  town  in  the  general  court  in 
1800;  was  a  selectman  1815  and  1816,  and  a 
candidate  for  lieutenant-governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  1795,  receiving  twenty  three  votes 
for  the  nomination.  Mrs.  Titcomb  died  No- 
vember 6,  1839,  and  in  1840  Mr.  Titcomb  sold 
his  farm,  removed  to  the  village  then  and 
now  known  as  Farmington,  and  lived  with  his 
two  daughters  Lydia  and  Nancy.  He  died  on 
Christmas  Day,  1847,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-five  years.  The  children  of  Stephen 
and  Elizabeth  (Henry)  Titcomb  were:  i.  Jo- 
seph (q.  v.),  born  December  18,  1776.  2. 
Henry,  December  20,  1778,  married  Ann 
Buckminster,  daughter  of  Rev.  Timothy  and 
Sarah  (Williams)  Fuller,  and  died  August 
19,  1864.  3.  Hannah,  November  15,  1780,  re- 
moved from  Topsham,  Maine,  in  December, 
1780,  with  her  mother  and  two  brothers  to 
Sandy  River  after  a  journey  that  consumed 
three  months ;  married  William  Allen  and  died 
March  26,  1859.  4-  Stephen,  November  14, 
1782,  the  first  white  child  born  at  Sanciy 
River,  afterward  Farmington,  Maine..  5.  Ly- 
dia, May  26,  1785,  died  March  31,  1881,  un- 
married. 6.  Nancy,  May  24,  1787,  died  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1857,  unmarried.  7.  Betsey,  April 
25,  1789,  married  Samuel  Belcher;  died  July 
31,  1813.  8.  John,  February  24,  1794,  died 
October  i,  1861. 


(VI)  Joseph,  eldest  son  of  Stephen  and 
Elizabeth  (Henry)  Titcomb,  was  .  born  in 
Topsham,  Maine,  December  18,  1776.  He  was 
a  pupil  at  Hallowell  Academy,  where  he  was 
graduated,  and  he  began  life  as  a  merchant  in 
Farmington,  then  known  as  Centre  Village,  in 
1803,  and  continued  in  trade  up  to  1820, 
when  his  youngest  brother  John  purchased 
his  store  and  stock  and  he  returned  to  his  farm, 
afterwards  occupied  by  his  son  John.  He  con- 
nected himself  with  the  Congregational  church 
not  long  after  its  formation  and  was  one  of  its 
most  constant  supporters  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  He  was  town  treasurer  for  seven 
years,  1822-28,  and  was  a  man  of  strict  in- 
tegrity, trained  to  habits  of  thrift  and  industry, 
and  successful  in  all  his  undertakings.  He 
married,  December  13,  1808,  I\Iehitable,  daugh- 
ter of  Supply  Belcher,  and  they  had  children : 

1.  Stephen,  born  September  16,  1809.  2. 
Henry  Belcher,  August  6,  181 1.    3.  John,  July 

2,  1813.  4.  Joseph,  May  25,  1816  (q.  v.).  5. 
Benjamin  More,  October  16,  1818.  6.  Hiram 
B.,  August  27,  1822.  The  mother  died  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1838,  and  the  father  March  21, 
1858. 

(VII)  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mehitable  (Belcher)  Titcomb,  was  born  in 
Farmington,  Maine,  May  25,  1816.  He  was 
educated  in  his  native  town,  and  settled  as  a 
farmer  on  a  part  of  the  old  homestead,  and 
was  greatly  esteemed  as  a  citizen.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church.  He  married,  November  26, 
1844,  Elisabeth  Eaton,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Jr.  and  Susan  (Lyon)  Wendell,  and  a  direct 
descendant  of  Evert  Jansen  Wendell,  born  in 
Embden,  Hanover,  in  161 5,  came  to  New 
Amsterdam  (New  York)  in  1640,  went  up 
the  Hudson  river  and  settled  in  Albany.  By 
this  marriage  Joseph  and  Elisabeth  Eaton 
(Wendell)  Titcomb  had  children  as  follows: 
Hiram  (q.  v.),  August  2,  1846,  and  an  infant 
son.  His  wife  died  March  15,  1849,  and  he 
married  (second)  September  20,  1854,  Lois 
Nelson,  daughter  of  Moses  Craig,  and  by  this 
marriage  had  three  children :  William;  Eliza- 
beth Wendell  and  Henry  Augustus. 

(VIII)  Hiram,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Elisabeth  Eaton  (Wendell)  Titcomb,  was  born 
in  Farmington,  Maine,  August  2,  1846.  He 
began  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  pursued  advanced  branches  in 
the  Farmington  Academy.  For  a  time  he 
taught  school,  acquitting  himself  most  credit- 
ably. Meanwhile  he  had  purchased  and  was 
successfully  carrying  on  a  farm.  He  aban- 
doned   teaching    to    learn    cheesemaking    and 


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became  the  manager  of  a  cheese  factory  a  few 
miles  from  his  home.  Later  he  established 
near  his  farm  a  factory  for  the  canning  of 
sweet  corn,  which  he  operated  for  a  consider- 
able number  of  years.  In  1889  he  removed 
to  the  village,  to  give  his  children  better  edu- 
cational advantages,  and  engaged  in  a  general 
grocery,  grain  and  coal  business,  selling  a  por- 
tion of  his  farm  and  gradually  abandoning  the 
canning  industry,  except  for  occasional  ven- 
tures. The  general  store  was  disposed  of  in 
1899,  but  the  coal  business  Mr.  Titcomb  re- 
tained until  his  death.  Mr.  Titcomb  never  lost 
his  interest  in  farming,  and  at  no  time  did 
he  fail  to  have  fields  and  orchards  under  cul- 
tivation. He  was  a  wise  and  thrifty  farmer, 
keeping  his  land  in  good  condition  and  early 
giving  intelligent  and  farsighted  attention  to 
the  propagation  and  care  of  apple  orchards. 
He  was  highly  regarded  for  his  industry,  busi- 
ness capability  and  integrity,  and  was  active 
and  efficient  in  promoting  the  educational  and 
material  interests  of  the  community.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  school  committee  for  thirteen 
years,  and  for  several  years  served  as  a  select- 
man of  Farmington.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
he  became  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  and  throughout  his  life  was  a  constant 
attendant  at  its  services.  He  served  it  as 
Sunday  school  superintendant  and  teacher,  and 
was  for  years  an  efficient  member  of  its  busi- 
ness committee.  He  married,  April  5,  1875, 
Hannah  Jane,  daughter  of  Andrew  W.  and 
Hannah  (Emery)  Gould,  and  granddaughter 
of  Samuel  and  Lydia  (Walker)  Gould,  whose 
family  consisted  of  ten  children,  as  follows : 
I.  Damaris,  born  February  25,  1797.  2.  Elias, 
February  12,  1799.  3.  Lydia,  July  5,  1801. 
4.  Samuel,  July  6,  1803.  5.  Mary,  January  5, 
1806.  6.  Lucy,  March  12,  1808.  7.  Elbridge, 
May  2,  1810.  8.  Maria,  January  11,  1813. 
9.  Andrew  W.,  April  10,  1815.  10.  Lydia, 
February  25,  1819.  Mrs.  Titcomb  was  born 
in  New  Portland,  Maine,  May  30,  1853.  To 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Titcomb  were  born:  i.  Grace, 
born  December  23,  1877,  graduated  at  Tufts 
College,  1904.  2.  Olive  Emery,  September  8, 
1881.  3.  Frank  Elmer  (q.  v.),  March  17, 
1884.  4.  Flora  Stevens,  August  5,  1886.  5. 
Harold,  March  7,  1894.  Hiram  Titcomb  died 
December  16,  1906.  Mrs.  Titcomb  died  April 
24,  1908. 

(VIII)  Frank  Elmer,  son  of  Hiram  and 
Hannah  Jane  (Gould)  Titcomb,  was  born  in 
Farmington,  Maine,  March  17,  1884.  He  at- 
tended the  public  grammar  and  high  school  of 
Farmington,  and  was  a  student  at  Dartmouth 
College,  but  had  to  leave  college  before  gradu- 


ating, on  account  of  the  death  of  his  father, 
which  occurred  December  16,  1906.  This 
event  made  him,  as  the  oldest  son,  the  business 
head  of  the  family,  and  proprietor  of  the  coal 
business.  He  carried  it  on  successfully  until 
his  death,  July  21,  1908,  which  resulted  from 
an  operation  for  appendicitis.  He  was  uni- 
versally loved  and  respected,  had  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  the  business  and  social  life  of  his 
town,  and  was  rapidly  coming  to  occupy  a 
trusted  and  important  place  in  the  conduct  of 
its  affairs. 


This  name  is  found  in  New  Eng- 
SNOW     land  almost  from  the  time  of  the 

landing  of  the  "Mayflower"  Pil- 
grims. Among  the  pioneer  Snows,  that  is, 
those  who  came  over  before  1650,  are  An- 
thony, who  was  at  Plymouth,  1638;  Nicho- 
las, 1623;  Richard,  of  Woburn,  1645;  Thom- 
as, Boston,  1636;  and  William,  of  Plymouth, 
1643,  who  probably  came  over  1635.  An- 
thony had  no  male  descendants  in  the  third 
generation. 

(I)  Nicholas  Snow,  who  came  in  the 
"Ann"  in  1623,  had  a  share  in  the  land  in 
Plymouth,  1624,  settled  at  Eastham  in  1644, 
and  was  a  man  of  much  note.  He  was  a  free- 
man in  1633.  He  with  six  others,  seven  fami- 
lies of  forty-nine  persons,  began  the  settlement 
of  Eastham,  first  called  Nauset,  in  April,  1644. 
See  Freeman's  Cape  Cod,  vol.  2,  p.  356.  He 
was  elected  town  clerk  in  1646  and  held  the 
office  sixteen  years ;  was  deputy  from  1648, 
three  years;  was  selectman  from  1663,  seven 
years.  He  and  his  son  Mark  signed  the  call 
to  Rev.  John  Mayo  to  settle  as  their  minister 
in  1655.  He  was  one  of  Governor  Prence's 
associates.  He  died  at  Eastham,  November  5, 
1676.  His  will  was  executed  November  14, 
1676  (O.  S.).  He  married,  in  Plymouth,  Con- 
stance Hopkins,  daughter  of  Stephen  Hopkins, 
the  "Mayflower"  Pilgrim,  by  a  former  wife. 
She  died  in  October,  1677.  The  twelve  chil- 
dren of  this  union  were :  Mark,  Alary,  Sarah, 
Joseph,  Stephen,  John,  Elizabeth,  Jabez,  Ruth, 
Hannah,  Rebecca,  and  one  other. 

(II)  John,  sixth  child  and  fourth  son  ot 
Nicholas  and  Constance  (Hopkins)  Snow, 
born  about  1638,  died  Eastham,  1692.  There 
is  one  record  of  a  will  of  John  Snow.  He  left 
lands  and  housing,  which  at  the  settlement  of 
his  estate,  April  19,  1692,  went  to  his  sons 
"according  to  law."  He  married,  September 
19,  1667,  in  Eastham,  Mary  Smalley,  born 
Barnstable,  December  11,  1647,  daughter  of 
John  and  Ann  (Walden)  Smalley.  She  was 
baptized   in   Barnstable   church,   February  22, 


1624 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1648,  died  Eastham,  1703.  She  married  (sec- 
ond) Ephraim  Doane.  The  children  of  John 
and  Mary  were :  Hannah,  Mary,  Abigail,  Re- 
becca, John,  Isaac,  Lydia,  Elisha  and  Phebc. 

(III)  John  (2),  fifth  child  and  eldest  son 
of  John  (i)  and  Mary  (Smalley)  Snow,  was 
born  in  Eastham,  May  3,  1678.  John  Snow, 
father  of  John  (2),  was  one  of  the  oldest  pro- 
prietors of  Truro  in  1639.  In  the  division  of 
land  John  Snow  had  the  eighth  lot,  bounded 
on  the  northerly  side  by  Lieutenant  Joseph 
Snow,  deceased,  and  on  the  south  by  the  lot 
of  Thomas  Paine.  In  1703  he  was  one  to 
decide  boundaries,  and  from  1709  for  eleven 
years  was  town  clerk.  In  the  act  of  propri- 
etors in  1730  his  name  does  not  appear.  He 
had  pew  No.  2,  £5,  on  the  left  hand  in  the 
church.  He  was  one  of  four  to  call  Rev. 
John  Avery  in  171 1.  He  married,  February 
25,  1701,  Elizabeth  Ridley,  born  May  13, 
1678.  They  had  eleven  children :  Joshua, 
1701  ;  Anna,  1703;  Elizabeth,  1705;  John, 
1706;  Anthony,  1709;  Elisha,  1711;  Isaac, 
1713-14;  Alary,  1716;  Ambrose,  1718-19; 
Amasa,  1720-21  ;  David,  1722-23.  Truro  was 
incorporated  July  16,  1709.  All  these  children 
born  before  that  date  are  found  upon  the 
Eastham  record. 

(IV)  Anthony,  fifth  child  and  third  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Ridley)  Snow,  born 
in  Truro,  July  28,  1709,  died  July  14,  1796. 
He  married,  March  2,  1732,  Sarah  Paine,  born 
Truro,  June  17,  1714,  died  June  4,  1769, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah  (Mayo) 
Paine.  Their  children  were :  David,  born 
1732;  Daniel,  1733-34;  Elisha,  1736;  John, 
1738;  Jonathan,  1740;  Sylvanus,  1741-42;  An- 
thony, 1744-45;  Sarah,  1746;  Elizabeth,  1748- 
49;  Anna,  1750-51;  Mary,  1753;  Jesse,  1759. 

(V)  Jonathan,  fifth  son  of  Anthony  and 
Sarah  (Paine)  Snow,  born  Truro,  June  6, 
1740,  died  Truro,  November  13,  1801.  He 
married,  in  Truro,  November  27,  1766,  De- 
liverance Atkins,  born  Truro,  July  20,  1747, 
died  there  February  19,  1817,  daughter  of 
Isaiah  and  Ruth  (Hinckley)  Atkins.  They 
had:  Isaiah,  born  1767;  Jonathan,  1770;  John, 
1772;  Shubael,   1775;  Daniel,   1779. 

(VI)  Shubael,  fourth  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Deliverance  (Atkins)  Snow,  born  Truro,  July 
io>  1775.  died  there  July  3,  1844.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Truro,  January  6,  1801,  Betsey 
(Snow)  Lombard,  daughter  of  Anthony,  Jr., 
and  Tamsin  (Harding)  Snow.  Their  children 
were :  Anthony,  Jonathan,  Shubael,  Isaac, 
Isaiah,  Reuben,  Edwin,  Ephraim  and  Paulina. 

(VII)  Ephraim,  eighth  son  of  Shubael  and 
Betsey     (Snow)      (Lombard)     Snow,     born 


Truro,  October  19,  1810,  died  Truro,  Septem- 
ber 22,  1895.  He  married,  in  Truro,  Novem- 
ber 28,  1833,  Jemima  Knowles,  born  Truro, 
May  7,  1814,  died  Quincy,  April  14,  1897, 
daughter  of  Zaccheus  and  Sarah  (Lombard) 
Knowles.  They  had :  Orlando  Partridge, 
Ephraim  Anthony,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  Isaiah, 
Reuben,  John  Collins,  Rebecca  Jane,  George 
Washington,  Charles  William  Grey. 

(VIII)  Ephraim  Anthony,  second  son  of 
Ephraim  and  Jemima  (Knowles)  Snow,  born 
Truro,  September  i,  1837,  died 'Quincy,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  2,  1908.  He  married,  in 
Truro,  February  21,  i860,  Amelia  Johnson 
Rich,  born  Truro,  September  11,  1840,  daugh- 
ter of  Ephraim  and  Reliance  (Snow)  Rich. 
Reliance  (Snow)  Rich  was  born  in  Brewster, 
October  22,  1806,  died  Truro,  August  13, 
1874.  Her  line  of  descent  on  the  paternal 
side  is  as  follows  :  (I)  Nicholas  and  Constance 
(Hopkins)  Snow.  (II)  Jabez  Snow.  (HI) 
Edward  Snow.  (IV)  Nathaniel  Snow.  (V') 
Reuben,  born  May  20,  1748,  died  November 
16,  1769,  and  his  wife  Reliance  (Wing)  Snow. 
(VI)  John,  born  in  Harwich,  March  22,  1778, 
died  in  Brewster,  February  4,  1856;  and  his 
wife  Abial  (Pepper)  Snow.  (VII)  Reliance, 
mentioned  above.  The  children  of  Ephraim  A. 
and  Amelia  J.  Snow  are  Eva  May  and  Herbert 
A.  Eva  May  was  born  August  2;^,  1861,  mar- 
ried Arthur  E.  Linnell,  of  Wollaston,  Massa- 
chusetts. They  have  three  children :  Harry 
Leslie,  Amelia  Adeline  and  Lisabelle.  Her- 
bert A.  is  the  subject  of  the  next  paragraph. 

(IX)  Herbert  Austin,  only  son  of  Ephraim 
A.  and  Amelia  Johnson  (Rich)  Snow,  was 
born  in  Truro,  Massachusetts,  April  8,  1870. 
At  an  early  age  he  was  taken  to  Boston  by 
his  parents  on  their  removal  to  that  place,  and 
there  he  took  the  usual  courses  in  the  Dudley 
street  grammar  and  English  high  schools.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  high  school  in  1886. 
He  was  then  for  a  short  time  in  the  employ 
of  R.  S.  Tubman,  of  Roxbury,  merchant,  and 
in  1886  was  employed  a  year  in  the  auditing 
department  of  the  old  Boston  &  Lowell  rail- 
road. The  following  year  he  went  into  the 
auditing  department  of  the  Fitchburg  railroad, 
where  he  was  employed  until  1894,  and  then 
became  an  accountant  of  the  Boston  &  Alaine 
railroad  at  its  ticket  office  in  the  Union  Sta- 
tion, Boston.  His  employment  at  that  place 
continued  until  June  12,  1903,  when  he  was 
transferred  to  Portland,  Maine,  and  made 
general  ticket  agent  of  the  Boston  &  Maine 
and  Maine  Central  railroads  at  that  place,  and 
has  since  filled  that  position.  Mr.  Snow  has 
been    a    successful    railroad    man    because    he 


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first  prepared  for  the  duties  he  would  have  to 
perform  as  a  business  man,  and  has  attended 
strictly  to  business  all  these  years,  performing 
his  duties  with  dispatch  and  precision  thai 
have  won  the  approbation  of  his  superiors.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  political  sentiinent,  and  a 
Congregationalist  in  religious  faith.  He  is  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  220,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Cambridgeport,  Massa- 
chusetts, of  which  he  is  a  past  grand.  Her- 
bert A.  Snow  married,  in  Walertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  23,  1895,  Emma  Belle  Strat- 
ton,  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  May  9, 
1868,  daughter  of  Homer  R.,  of  Hancock, 
Maine,  and  Esther  (Macomber)  Stratton,  of 
Augusta,  maine.  They  have  two  children : 
Marjorie  Lillian  and  Lucile. 


(For  first  generation  see  Nicholas  Snow    I.) 

(II)  Jabez,  son  of  Nicholas  Snow, 
SXOW  was  born  in  1642,  and  died  at 
Eastham,  Mas.Nachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 20,  1690.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  Captain 
John  Gorham's  company  in  the  expedition  to 
Canada  under  Phipps  in  1690,  and  was  a 
prominent  citizen  of  Eastham.     He  married, 

about  1670,  Elizabeth .     Children,  born 

at  Eastham:  i.  Jabez,  September  6,  1670; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Edward,  March  26, 
1672.  3.  Sarah,  February  26,  1673.  4.  Grace, 
February  I,  1674-75.  5.  Thomas,  April  2, 
1677;  died  same  day.  6.  Elizabeth,  born 
before  i6go.  7.  Deborah,  born  before  i6go.  8. 
Rachel,  born  1685,  probably. 

(III)  Jabez  (2),  son  of  Jabez  (i)  Snow, 
was  born  September  6,  1670,  in  Eastham,  and 
died  there  October  14,  1750;  his  will,  dated 
October  7  or  12,  1743,  proved  January  23, 
1750,  mentions  sons  Jabez,  Sylvanus  and  Sam- 
uel; daughters  Elizabeth  Knowles,  Tabitha 
Mayo  and  Phebe  Smith.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Treati  born  July  24,  1675,  died  March  3, 
1765,  daughter  of  Rev.  Sainuel  and  Elizabeth 
(Mayo)  Treat.  Her  gravestone  is  in  the 
Eastham  burying  ground,  near  the  railroad 
station.  Children,  born  in  Eastham:  i.  Jabez, 
July  22,  1696.  2.  Joshua,  March  12,  1700; 
died  young.  3.  Elizabeth,  October  8,  1703; 
married  Thomas  Knowles.  4.  Sylvanus,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1704-5;  mentioned  below.  5.  Ta- 
bitha, March  11,  1707;  married  John  Mayo. 
6.  Samuel,  January  22,  1708-9.  7.  Edward, 
May  18,  171 1  ;  died  young.  8.  Phebe,  married 
David  Smith. 

(IV)  Sylvanus,  son  of  Jabez  (2)  Snow, 
was  born  February  16,  1704-5,  in  Eastham, 
Massachusetts.      He    married    Flannah    Cole. 


Among  his  children   was  Edward,  mentioned 
below. 

(V)  Edward,  son  of  Sylvanus  Snow,  was 
born  in  Eastham,  and  married  Betsey  Myrick. 
In  1785,  with  his  wife  and  six  children,  he' 
removed  to  Orrington,  Maine,  where  he  set- 
tled. He  died  about  1790,  and  his  estate, 
which  was  settled  in  1794,  amounted  to  123 
pounds  9  shillings  11  pence.  Children:  i. 
Edward,  born  October  6,  1770;  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Daniel,  born  March  21,  1773;  mar- 
ried October  13,  1793,  Betsey  Brooks.  3.  Me- 
hitable,  born  April,  1775.  4.  Betsey  (twin), 
born  April,  1775.  5.  Mary,  born  September 
6,  1777.  6.  Statira,  born  October  29,  1779.  7. 
Sylvanus,  born  May  21,  1782.  8.  William, 
born  August  21,  1784;  married  Lydia  Doane, 
1809.  9.  Sarah,  born  March  26,  1786;  mar- 
ried, June  16,  1806,  Manning  Wood.  10. 
Jabez,  born  Mai'ch  15,  1788;  died  March  18, 
1861  ;  married  Laura  Goodale.  11.  Colier, 
born  JMarch  11,  1791 ;  died  August  21,  1875; 
married  Polly  or  iVIercy  Swett. 

(VI)  Edward  (2),  son  of  Edward  (i) 
Snow,  was  born  probably  in  Eastham,  Massa- 
chusetts, October  6,  1770,  and  removed  to 
Orrington,  Maine,  with  liis  father.  He  mar- 
ried, September  6,  1795,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
William  Doane.  He  had  a  son  Edward,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VII)  Edward  (3),  son  of  Edward  (2) 
Snow,  was  born  about  1797,  in  Penobscot, 
Maine.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
and  settled  in  Frankfort,  Maine,  where  he 
followed  farming  during  his  active  life.  He 
married  Mary  Twining,  born  October  29, 
1794,  died  September  23,  1864,  daughter  of 
Abner  Twining,  and  a  descendant  of  Nich- 
olas Twining.  Children:  i.  Williamson 
Twining,  born  June  i,  1820,  died  June  29, 
1886.  2.  George  Weston,  born  August  5, 
1822,  mentioned  below.  3.  Elvira  W.,  born 
June  14,  1824.  4.  Henry  Otis,  boi-n  January, 
1830.  5.  James,  born  January  24,  1834,  died 
October  23,  1900.     6.  Albert,  died  yoimg. 

(VIII)  George  Weston,  son  of  Edward 
(3)  Snow,  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Maine,  Au- 
gust 5,  1822,  and  died  August  7,  1876.  He 
had  a  common  school  education,  and  early  in 
life  went  to  sea,  rising  to  the  rank  of  master 
mariner.  He  married,  in  1847,  Elizabeth  Dut- 
ton  Savage,  born  1822,  died  1879,  daughter  of 
George  and  ]\Iary  (Holt)  Savage,  of  Bangor, 
Maine.  Mary  Holt's  father,  William  Holt,  of 
Fryeburg,  later  Hermon,  Maine,  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution.  He  married  Lucy  Hutch- 
ings,  of  Montville,  Maine.   Children  of  George 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


Weston  Snow,  born  at  Banjjor :  i.  Albert 
Francis,  August  17,  1850.  2.  George  Freder- 
ick, May  I,  1852.  3.  Charles  La  Forest,  Sep- 
tember 24.  1855;  married  Minnie  I.  Bolton; 
daughter  Elizatieth  May.  4.  Mary  Sophia, 
mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Mary  Sophia,  daughter  of  George 
Weston  Snow,  was  born  in  Bangor,  Maine, 
April  15,  1857.  She  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  her  native  city,  and  entered  upon 
the  profession  of  teaching.  From  1879  to 
1889  she  was  principal  of  the  Union  Square 
grammar  school  of  Bangor.  During:  the  next 
ten  years  she  was  principal  of  the  City  Train- 
ing School  for  Teachers  at  Bangor,  and  at 
the  same  time  superintendent  of  schools  of 
that  city.  Since  1900  she  has  been  supervisor 
of  practice  teaching  in  the  Pratt  Institute  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  She  was  president  of 
the  New  England  Association  of  School  Su- 
perintendents in  1898-9,  and  has  been  vice- 
president  of  the  American  Institute  of  In- 
struction. She  received  the  honorarv  degree 
of  Ph.  M.  from  the  University  of  Maine. 
Miss  Snow  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Science  Association ;  the  Eastern  Manual 
Training  Association ;  the  Maine  Audubon  So- 
ciety ;  the  Society  of  New  England  Women  of 
Brooklyn ;  the  Maine  Women's  Club  of  New 
York ;  the  New  England  Association  of 
School  Superintendents.  She  is  on  the  board 
of  management  of  the  American  Home  Eco- 
nomics Association,  and  secretary-treasurer  of 
the  Home  Economics  Association  of  Greater 
New  York. 


(For  preceding   generations  see   Nicholas   Snow   I.) 

(IV)    Deacon   Isaac,  fifth   son  of 
SNOW     John  (2)   and  Elizabeth  (Ridley) 

Snow,  was  born  March  21,  1714, 
in  Truro,  and  was  a  pioneer  settler  in  Harps- 
well,  whence  he  removed  to  Brunswick, 
Maine ;  in  his  old  age  he  removed  to  Thomas- 
ton,  in  that  state,  where  most  of  his  children 
lived,  and  died  in  1799,  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter,  Hannah  Hall,  in  St.  George,  Maine. 
The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  is  given  in 
the  Thomaston  records  as  "Affier"  (Aphia), 
and  their  children  were :  John,  Isaac,  Rev. 
Elisha,  Joseph,  Ambrose,  Elizabeth,  Polly, 
Samuel,  Mercy  and  Hannah. 

(V)  Rev.  Elisha,  third  son  of  Deacon  Isaac 
and  Aphia  Snow,  was  born  March  26,  1740,  in 
Brunswick,  and  was  educated  for  the  ministry, 
becoming  a  clergyman  of  the  Baptist  church. 
In  1767  he  settled  at  South  Thomaston,  Maine, 
where  he  died  January  31,  1832,  near  the  close 
of  his  ninety-second  year.    Few  or  no  attempts 


had  been  made  to  settle  at  Wessaweskeag  (the 
Indian  name  for  South  Thomaston),  prior  to 
1767.  In  that  year  elder  Snow  visited  the 
place  and  was  impressed  with  its  water  privi- 
leges and  fine  growth  of  timber.  He  induced 
John  Matthews,  of  Plainfield,  Connecticut,  to 
join  him,  and  they  purchased  the  claim  of  a 
lieutenant  in  the  British  army,  then  in  Boston, 
to  three  hundred  acres  of  land,  on  which  they 
erected  a  sawmill  and  began  cutting  up  the 
timber  to  secure  means  to  pay  for  the  land. 
They  were  quickly  successful  in  this,  and  Mr. 
Snow  went  to  Boston  to  procure  a  deed.  By 
a  very  favorable  ofifer,  he  was  there  induced  to 
purchase  the  entire  tract,  covering  one  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  and  he 
immediately  returned  to  Thomaston  and  went 
to  work  with  his  associate  to  complete  the  pay- 
ment for  the  entire  property.  The  holder  of 
the  notes  and  mortgage  soon  after  sailed  for 
England  in  a  ship  that  was  never  afterward 
heard  from,  and  so  the  holders  of  the  land 
were  never  called  upon  for  the  final  payment. 
However,  on  November  18,  1773,  they  pur- 
chased the  right  to  the  soil  for  the  sum  of 
six  hundred  and  sixty-four  pounds,  ten  shil- 
lings. Other  settlers  were  soon  attracted  to 
the  region  and  the  dwelling  house  of  elder 
Snow,  the  first  in  the  settlement,  was  soon 
surrounded  by  the  habitations  of  other  pion- 
eers. He  removed  his  family  to  South  Thom- 
aston after  1771,  and  subsequently  built  a 
grist  mill  which  was  successfully  operated  for 
many  years  and  was  ultimately  consumed  by 
fire.  He  also  engaged  at  an  early  date  in 
building  ships.  His  land  was  located  on  the 
north  or  northeast  side  of  the  Wessaweskeag 
river,  and  most  of  this  passed  into  the  hands 
of  his  seven  sons,  all  of  whom  became  active 
and  enterprising  business  men,  and  most  of 
them  masters  of  vessels.  ]\Ir.  Snow  was  mar- 
ried at  Cape  Elizabeth,  December  .6,  1759,  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert  Jordan  of  that 
place.  She  died  in  August,  1835.  They  were 
the  parents  of:  Ephraim,  Robert,  Ambrose, 
Joanna,  Elisha,  Israel,  Isaac,  Polly  and  Larkin. 
All  of  the  sons  except  Elisha  bore  the  title 
of  "Captain"  and  he  was  also  a  master  mariner. 
He  was  called  Elisha  "Esquire." 

(VI)  Captain  Ambrose,  third  son  of  Rev. 
Elisha  and  Elizabeth  (Jordan)  Snow,  was 
born  March  2,  1765,  in  Harpswell,  and  settled 
at  South  Thomaston.  He  followed  the  sea 
throughout  most  of  his  active  life  and  died 
at  sea  April  11,  1802.  He  was  married  about 
1787  to  Fanny  (Campbell)  Archibald,  who 
was  probably  a  widow.  She  was  born  in  1759 
and  died  December  24,  1842.     Their  children 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1627 


were:  Robert,  Jenny,  Campbell  (died  young), 
William,  Mary,  Ambrose  and  Thomas  A.  Sev- 
eral of  them  were  also  sea  captains. 

(VII)  Captain  Robert,  eldest  child  of  Cap- 
tain Ambrose  and  Fanny  (Campbell)  (Archi- 
bald) Snow,  was  born  in  1788,  in  Thomaston, 
where  he  lived  and  where  he  died,  August  28, 
1848.  He  married  (first)  about  1810  Han- 
nah Thorndike,  of  South  Thomaston,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Thorndike,  who  died  before  1828, 
and  he  married  (second)  August  12,  of  the 
last-named  year,  Sarah  P.  Washburn.  There 
were  three  children  of  the  first  wife  and  three 
of  the  second,  namely :  Captain  Ambrose, 
Mary  Jane,  who  became  the  wife  of  John 
Bailey ;  Bethia  C,  wife  of  William  Oliver 
Fuller;  Captain  Robert  R.,  Henry  A.  and 
William  R.  The  last  died  in  infancy  and  the 
one  preceeding  in  his  twenty-sixth  year.  The 
other  two  sons  were  master  mariners. 

'^Vni)   Captain  Ambrose   (2),  eldest  child 
of  Robert   and   Hannah    (Thorndike)    Snow, 
'vas  born  January  28,  1813,  in  Thomaston,  and 
received  a  common   school  education  in  that 
town.     At  an  early  age  he  went  to  sea  with 
his  father  and  rose  to  the  command  of  ships, 
most  of  them  sailing  from  Thomaston.    Dur- 
ing the  busy  days  of  the  American  merchant 
marine,  he  commanded  in  succession  the  ships 
"John      Holland,"      "Leopard,"      "Leonidas," 
"John    Hancock,"   "Carack,"    "Telamon"    and 
"Southampton."    The  last-named  sailed  from 
New  York,  and  Captain   Snow   was  quarter- 
owner  of  the  vessel,  his  partner  in  the  owner- 
ship being  James  O.  Ward,  of  New  York.    In 
1852   he   retired  from  the  sea  and  the  next 
year  established  a  shipping  firm  in  New  York, 
under  the  title  of  Snow  &  Burgess.     He  was 
a  very  active  and  well-known  citizen  of  the 
metropolis,  and  was  elected  president  of  the 
marine    society     in     1869,    being    repeatedly 
elected  to  the  same  position.    For  many  terms 
he  was  president  of  the  board  of  pilot  com- 
missioners   and    upon    his    twelfth    successive 
election  to  the  presidency  of  the  New  York 
Board  of  Trade  and  Transportation  in  1890, 
he  was  presented   with   a  magnificent   chro- 
nometer and  diamond  compass.   For  seventeen 
years  he  was  president  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor.    Upon  the  fail- 
ure of  Grant  and  Ward  in  1884,  the  marine 
bank,  of  which  Captain  Snow  was  vice-presi- 
dent,  was   also   drawn   into   failure,   and   his 
testimony  was  a  potent  factor  in  uncovering 
the     illegitimate    transactions    of    Ferdinand 
Ward.     After  this   Mr.    Snow   retired   from 
active  business.    He  was  coxswain  of  a  barge 
manned  by  a  crew  of  ship-masters  from  the 


Marine  Society,  which  rowed  President  Har- 
rison   ashore    at   the    Washington    Centennial 
Celebration  in  New  York.     Considerable  his- 
torical   significance   attaches   to   this   incident, 
from  the  fact  that  a  crew  from  the  same  so- 
ciety rowed  General  Washington  from  Eliza- 
bethport  to  New  York  at  the  time  of  his  in- 
auguration as  first  president.     Captain  Snow 
passed  away  at  the  home  of  his  son  in  Brook- 
lyn, June  27,    1895,   at  the  good  old  age  of 
eighty-two    years    and    six    months,    and    his 
body  was  conveyed  to  Thomaston  for  burial. 
He  had  enjoyed  excellent  health  up  till  a  day 
previous   to   his   demise.     The   cause   of   his 
death  was  a  paralytic  stroke.     His  funeral  at 
Thomaston  was  attended  by  a  large  number  of 
citizens.    On  July  8,  1905,  the  Marine  Society 
of  New  York  adopted  a  fitting  memorial  which 
was  beautifully  engrossed  and  presented  to  his 
family.     On  the  occasion  of  his  twelfth  elec- 
tion as  president  of  the  New  York  Board  of 
Trade  and  Transportation  he  was  presented 
with  a  finely  engrossed  testimonial.     The  sig- 
natures on  these  documents  constitute  a  direc- 
tory of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  city 
at  that  time.     He  married,   March   16,   1836, 
Mary  Robinson,  of  Thomaston,  who  was  born 
January    28,    1813.      Their    children    were: 
Adelia,    Alfred,    Dunstan,    Louis    Thorndike, 
Richard  and  William.     The  daughter  died  at 
the  age  of  three  years.    The  last  two  are  de- 
ceased.    Louis  T.   resides  in   Alameda,  Cali- 
fornia. 

(IX)  Alfred  Dunstan,  eldest  son  of  Cap- 
tain Ambrose  and  Mary  (Robinson)  Snow, 
was  born  September  26,  1840,  in  Thomaston 
and  has  been  a  resident  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  since  1851.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  two  places  and 
since  May,  1857,  has  been  identified  with  the 
shipping  interests  of  the  port  of  New  York. 
He  is  now  associated  with  W.  R.  Grace  & 
Company,  located  at  Hanover  Square,  in  that 
city.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Twenty-second 
Regiment,  National  Guard,  State  of  New 
York,  from  January,  1862,  to  January,  1869, 
and  with  that  regiment  performed  service  in 
Virginia  and  Maryland  in  the  first-named 
year,  and  in  Pennsylvania  in  the  following 
year.  Mr.  Snow  is  a  supporter  of  the  political 
principles  of  the  Democratic  party,  but  has 
never  participated  in  the  official  conduct  of 
affairs.  He  married,  in  Rockland,  Maine,  Oc- 
tober 16,  1866,  Lucy  B.  Berry,  daughter  of 
Major  Hiram  G.  Berry,  who  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Chanccllorsville,  while  in  command 
of  the  second  division,  third  corps,  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  in  the  civil  war. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


"  (For  precdlng   generation,   see   Nlchol.s   Snow    1.) 

(V)     David,     son     of     Anthony 
SNOW     Snow,  was  born  in  Truro,  in  1732, 

and  died  there  May  25,  179-^.  "^ 
his  sixtieth  year.  He  married  Sarah— —,who 
died  October  13,  1758,  in  her  twentieth  yea 

He  married  second,    •      He    hved     n 

Truro.     Children,  born  there:    i.  Sarah,  bap- 
tized March  27,  1703-    2.  John,  mentioned  be- 

low 

(VI)    John    (3),  son  of  David  Snow,  was 
baptized  it  Truro,  July  28,  1765-    He  married 
Mary  Atwood,  sister  of  Bangs  Atvvood   ot  an 
Old   Plymouth   family.     He   was    caUed     the 
first,"  to  distinguish  him  froin  John  ^""^  J^^ 
son  of  his  uncle,  Jonathaii  Snow.     Children 
of  John  and  Mary  Snow,  born  in  T-Juro:    1. 
Enoch,  bom  September  19,  I79i.  baptized  No- 
vembe'r  27,  1791 ;  ^-^.^hde  at  ^^a jJec^-^e 
14    1810,  in  his  twentieth  year,  while  on  Ins 
home  voyage  from  Goltenburg,  Sweden.     2. 
Sy.  bo'r/ December  3,  179^.  died  Septern- 
ber  10,  1817;  married  beorge  Lewis.    Z-D^n- 
felbom  Apr'il  25,  I795-    4- John,  born  March 
10    I70Q.     5-  Infant  died  October  21,   1800. 
6    Azubah,  married  Nathaniel  Lewis,   father 
of  Bangs  A.  Lewis,  now  living  at  Province- 
town,    Massachusetts.      7-    Melinda,    married 
Ebenezer   Lombard.     8.    Sophronia,    married 
Isaac   Baker.     9-   Sally,  married  Job   Seavy. 
10.  Enoch,  the  youngest  son,  born  November 
I    18m;  mentioned  below. 
'  (VII     Enoch,  son  of  John  (3)   Snow,  was 
born  in   Truro,    Massachusetts,   November    i 
i8m  He  lived  in  Provincetown,  Massachusetts, 
removed  to  Scarborough  Maine,  and  a^ter  sev- 
eral years  returned  to  Cape  Cod  and  built  a 
house  in  Provincetown.     After  his  wife  died 
he  returned  to  Scarborough,  where  he  died. 
He  married   at   Provinctown,   May   9,    i«37. 
Eliza  Ann  Swift,  of  Provincetown   (by  Rev. 
Frederick    Upham-Town    records).      Chil- 
dren of  Enoch  and  Eliza  A.  Snow,  as  recorded 
at  Provincetown  (certified  copy)  :    i.  John  b., 
born  August  8,   1838;  inentioned  below      2. 
Enoch  F,  born  January  8,  1841.     3-  Ehza  A., 
leptembe'r   5.    1842.     4-   B-  A     Noven.ber 
1     1843.     And  also:    5-  Josiah  S.     6.  Free- 
man A      7.  Lydia  S.     8.  Laura  Evelyn.     9. 
Susan.     10.  Rebecca. 

(VIII)  John  Swift,  son  of  Enoch  Snow, 
was  born  in  Provincetown,  August  8,  1838 
and  died  May  23,  1881^  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Provmcetown.  He  re- 
moved with  his  parents  and  the  fami  y  to 
Scarborough,  Maine,  and  there  was  employed 
in  the  canning  business,  which  in  various  ca- 
pacities he  followed  during  most  of  his  active 


life.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a 
citizen  of  influence  and  prominence.  He  was 
for  several  years  the  United  States  collector 
of  customs  at  Scarborough.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Saco  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  and  of 
Old  Orchard  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  was 
an  active  and  consistent  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian church.  He  married  Anna  Abigail  Leav- 
itt,  born  in  Scarborough,  daughter  of  Mark 
and  Hannah  Leavitt.  Children:  i.  Rebecca 
A.,  born  December  20,  1868.  2.  John  Al- 
bert, mentioned  below. 

(IX)  John  Albert,  son  of  John  Swift  Snow, 
was  born  in  Scarborough,  Maine,  September 
16,   1871.     He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  town,  the  Biddeford  high  school  one 
year,   and   the   Portland    Latin    school    three 
years,  entering  Williams  College  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  years.     After  one  year  he  changed  to 
Bates  College,  teaching  school  between  terms. 
He  had  to  abandon  his  course  at  college  before 
graduating,  on  account  of  typhoid  fever.     He 
began  the  study  of  law  in  tlie  office  of  Ben- 
jamin F.  Hamilton,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  October,  1895.     He  became  associated 
with  John  M.  Goodwin,  of  Biddeford,  Maine, 
in  the  practice  of  law,  and  continued  until  Mr. 
Goodwin's  death.    Since  then  he  has  occupied 
the  office  alone,  having  enjoyed  a  flourishing 
business.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and 
has  been   a   superintendent   of   schools   of  his 
native  town,  Scarborough,  two  years.    He  was 
the  candidate  of  his  party  for  representative 
to  the  legislature,  but  was  defeated,  the  dis- 
trict being  Democratic.     He  married,  August 
4,   1896,  Ella  Kelsey  Litchfield,  of  Portland, 
Maine,    born    June    28,     1870,     daughter     of 
Charles  L.  and  Mary  W.  Litchfield,  of  Free- 
port,  Maine.     Children :     i.  Kathleen  Swift, 
born  June  12,  1897.     2.  Octavia  Leavitt,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1899.     3.  John  Albert  Jr.,  August 
10,   1902.     4.  Annabelle   Kelsey,  August  31, 
1904.      5.   Clarence   Lewis,   March    10,    igo6. 
6.  Clara  Ella,  March  18,  1907. 


(For  preceding  generaUons  see   Edmund   Greenleaf   I.) 

(IV)  Stephen  (3),  second 
GREENLEAF     son  and  seventh  child  of 

Captain  Stephen  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Gerrish)  Greenleaf,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 21,  1690,  at  Newbury,  Massachusetts. 
He  removed  from  Newbury  to  York  about 
1720-21,  then  to  Falmouth  about  1731.  He 
married,  October  7,  1712,  Mary  Mackres,  born 
1691,  died  1771,  in  Woolwich.  His  children: 
I.  Enoch,  born  June  23,  1713.  2.  Richard,  bom 
November  2,  1715  (see  post).  3.  Samuel, 
born   June    12,     1718,     died     1792;    married 


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Hepzibah  Peeble.  4.  Ebenezer,  born  April 
23,  1720,  married  February  16,  1767,  Mary 
Peeble.  5.  Lydia,  born  May  3,  1722.  6. 
Stephen,  born  February  27,  1724-5,  died  1772; 
married  about  1752  Dorcas  Gray.  7.  Mary, 
born  February  17,  1730-1. 

(V)  Richard,  second  son  and  child  of 
Stephen  (3)  and  Mary  (Mackres)  Greenleaf, 
was  born  November  2,  1715.  He  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  revolutionary  war.  He  married. 
May  19,  1747,  Mary  Boucher;  children:  i. 
Joseph,  born  about  1748  (see  post).  2.  Eliza- 
beth, born  1756,  died  1835;  married  Sampson 
Sherff.     3.  Child,  date  of  birth  unknown.     4. 

Child,  date  of  birth  unknown,  married  

Groves. 

(VI)  Joseph,  oldest  son  and  child  of  Rich- 
ard and  Mary  (  Boucher)  Greenleaf,  was  born 
about  1748.  He  married  Margaret  Nason 
(marriage  intention  filed  November  5,  1782), 
of  Pownalboro,  Maine.  He  served  in  the  war 
of  the  revolution.  His  children:  i.  Abigail, 
born  April  12,  1783 ;  married  Jonathan  Lovell. 
2.  Mercy,  born  August  15,  1784.  3.  Sarah, 
born  January  12,  1786;  married  James  Daly. 
4.-  Abraham,   born    September   2,    1787,   died 

January  15,  1818;  married  Emma  .     5. 

Lydia,  born  September  17,  1792.  6.  Thomas, 
born  February  5,  1794  (see  post).  7.  Betsey, 
born  February  23,  1796,  married  Rev.  Stephen 
Williamson.  8.  Joseph,  born  October  i,  1797, 
died  unmarried.  9.  Anna,  born  May  3,  1799; 
married  John  Bean.  10.  Nason,  born  Septem- 
ber 5,  1802.  II.  Margaret,  born  May  3,  1804. 
12.  Patience,  born  June  16,  1806.  13.  Eme- 
line,  married Crawford. 

(VII)  Captain  Thomas,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Margaret  (Nason)  Greenleaf,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1794,  and  died  April  30,  1874.  He 
lived  in  Norridgewock,  Maine.  He  was  cap- 
tain of  a  company  in  the  war  of  1812,  sta- 
tioned at  Castine,  Maine.  He  married.  May 
14,  1818,  Mary  Young,  born  September  11, 
1793,  died  November  17,  1874,  a  few  months 
after  her  husband.  Children:  i.  Harriet  K., 
born  February  25,  1819;  married,  October  3, 
1847,  Robert  D.  Ela.  2.  Abraham,  born  Sep- 
tember 22,  1820,  died  1903.  3.  Joseph  War- 
ren, April  16,  1822;  see  forward.  4.  Cyrus 
Stetson,  September  28,  1825,  died  September, 

5.  Lydia  Works,  August  9,  1826;  died 


Mary  E.,  born  July  30,  1857;  married  E.  T. 
Hescock;  two  sons:  Fred  M.  and  Roy  M.,  a 
druggist,  at  Monson,  Maine,  where  the  family 
reside.  2.  Charlotte  M.,  born  March  19,  1854, 
died  1865.  3.  James  Batchelder,  born  Septem- 
ber 6,  1856 ;  is  a  merchant,  living  at  Abbot, 
Maine;  married,  August  17,  1877,  Sarah 
Ladd ;  children :  Adelbert  F.,  born  October  2, 
1878,  a  printer  and  publisher  in  Fairfield, 
Maine,  married ;  and  Archie  W.,  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  1891.  4.  Ernest  Warren,  born  June  8, 
1858,  died  1865.  5.  John  Cyrus,  born  July 
19,  1862;  married  Annie  Bassett;  children: 
Ralph,  Stanley,  Emmett,  and  another  son ;  re- 
sides in  Arkansas  City,  Kansas.  6.  Luther 
Carroll,  born  December  27,  1866;  see  forward. 
7.  Charles  Thomas,  born  January  3,  1869. 

(IX)  Luther  Carroll,  sixth  child  of  Joseph 
Warren  and  Melissa  E.  (Morton)  Greenleaf, 
was  born  December  27,  1866.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  and  high  school 
of  Abbot,  and  Dirigo  Commercial  College  at 
Augusta.  He  then  became  apprenticed  to  a 
builder,  and  followed  that  business  as  journey- 
man, foreman  and  superintendent,  having  a 
thorough  practical  knowledge  of  every  de- 
partment of  building  construction.  During 
these  years  he  devoted  his  spare  time  to  the 
study  of  architecture,  finally  entering  the  Bos- 
ton Architectural  School,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1893,  and  at  once  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Boston,  where  he 
has  since  continued,  designing  many  buildings 
in  that  city  and  throughout  the  New  England 
states.  He  is  a  member  of  Farmington  Lodge, 
No.  20,  of  Farmington,  Maine ;  Dorchester 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M. ;  the  Colonade  Club  of 
Dorchester,  the  Boston  Architectural  Club,  the 
Appalachian  Mountain  Club  and  the  Republi- 
can Club  of  JMassachusetts.  In  November, 
1908,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  legis- 
lature, and  is  serving  on  the  committees  on 
public  charitable  institutions,  and  constitu- 
tional amendments.  He  married  (first)  July 
12,  1893,  Alice  H.  MacCabe,  born  October  27, 
1865,  died  January  21,  1905,  leaving  one  child, 
Dorothy  Augusta,  born  November  23,  1894. 
He  married  (second)  Lena  Frances  Morrill, 
of  Dorchester,  born  in  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, July  10,  1872. 


unmarried.  6.  William  Allen,  June  9,  1832, 
died  1907.  7.  Thomas,  May  8,  1839,  died 
young. 

(VIII)  Joseph  Warren,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  (Young)  Greenleaf,  was  born  April  16, 
1822,  and  died  in  1880.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 15,  1850,  Melissa  E.  Morton;  children:    i. 


The  name,  variously  written 
KILBORN     Kilbom,  Kilbon,  Kilburn,  Kil- 

bourn  and  Kilbourne,  appears 
in  American  records  from  earliest  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  It  has  been  the  patronymic  of  art- 
ists, soldiers,  divines  and  leaders,  as  well  as 
workers,  in  every  line  of  endeavor.     Many  of 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


its  representatives  have  been  content  to  pursue 
quietly  their  several  avocations  and  have  not 
sought  any  part  in  public  notice.  Most  of 
them  have  shown  evidence  of  ability  and  cul- 
ture, though  living  in  comparative  obscurity. 

(I)  The  progenitor  of  this  family  in  Amer- 
ica was  Thomas  Kilbourn,  who  was  baptized 
May  8,  1578,  and  was  warden  of  the  church 
at  Wood  Ditton,  Cambridgeshire,  England,  in 
1632.  His  wife's  name  was  Frances  and  they 
had  a  large  family  of  children  born  in  the  par- 
ish of  Wood  Ditton,  eight  of  the  children  set- 
tling in  New  England.  Their  second  son  and 
third  child,  George,  probably  proceeded  to 
America  and  settled  first  in  Roxbury  and  about 
1640  in  Rowley,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony. 
He  came  with  his  wife  and  younger  children 
to  New  England  in  the  ship  "Increase,"  in 
1635,  having  embarked  at  London,  England, 
April  15,  1635.  He  settled  in  VVethersfield, 
New  Haven  Colony,  and  died  in  that  town 
before  1639,  and  his  widows  in  1650.  The 
ship's  register  describes  the  immigrant  pas- 
sengers of  the  "Increase"  as :  "Thomas,  aged 
fifty-five;  Frances,  fifty;  Margaret,  twenty- 
three;  Lydia,  twenty-two;  Maria,  sixteen; 
Frances,  twelve."  Of  these  children,  Mar- 
garet was  baptized  in  the  church  at  Wood  Dit- 
ton, September  23,  1707;  was  married  to  Rich- 
ard Law,  of  Wethersfield,  who  served  the  New 
Haven  Colony  as  representative  in  the  general 
court,  as  magistrate,  and  as  commissioner,  and 
after  the  union  of  the  Hartford  and  New 
Haven  Colonies  as  the  Connecticut  Colony,  he 
held  the  same  offices  for  many  years.  He  was 
the  pioneer  settler  of  Stamford,  Connecticut. 
The  other  children  were :  Thomas,  George, 
Elizabeth,  Lydia,  Mary,  Frances,  and  John, 
who  is  known  in  the  history  of  Connecticut  as 
Sergeant  John  Kilbourn. 

(II)  George,  second  son  of  Thomas  and 
Frances  Kilbourn,  was  baptized  in  Wood  Dit- 
ton, England,  February  12,  1612.  He  came 
to  New  England  before  1638  and  settled  in 
Roxbury,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  where 
he  was  a  member  of  the  church  founded  by 
John  Eliot  in  Roxbury.  In  1640  he  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  of  the  town  of  Rowley, 
Essex  county,  where  he  lived  with  his  wife 
Elizabeth  and  their  six  children:  Mary,  Jo- 
seph, Jacob,  Samuel,  Isaac  and  Elizabeth. 
They  had  sons :   Isaac,  Joseph  and  Jacob. 

(III)  Samuel,  fourth  child  and  third  son  of 
George  and  Elizabeth  Kilborn,  was  born  in 
Rowley,  Massachusetts,  9  mo.  11,  1656.  He 
married  November  12,  1682,  Mary  Foster,  and 
they  had  six  children,  all  born  in  Rowley : 
Samuel,  David,  Maria,  Jedediah  and  Eliphalet. 


He  died  in  Rowley,  April  22,  1722,  and  his 
will  is  on  record  in  the  probate  office  in  Ips- 
wich. 

(IV)  Jedediah,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
(Foster)  Kilborn,  was  born  April  20,  1699,  in 
Rowley.  He  was  married,  March  22,  1724,  to 
Susannah  Fiske,  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  known  as  Cornet  Kilbourne  by  reason 
of  his  rank  in  the  militia,  and  the  records  state 
as  follows :  "Cornet  Jedediah  Kilbourne  died 
February  4,  1759,  aged  sixty."  His  widow, 
Susannah  Kilbourne,  died  September  27,  1764. 
Their  children,  all  born  in  Rowley,  were:  i. 
Jedediah,  married  Hannah  Platts,  of  Rowley, 
November  4,  1749,  removed  to  Boscawen, 
New  Hampshire,  then  to  Henniker,  where  he 
died  in  1820.  His  children  were :  Nathan, 
Eliphalet,  Lucy,  JMercy,  Hannah,  Jedediah, 
Nathaniel  and  Susan.  2.  Sampson  (q.  v.)  3. 
Abigail,  married  Jonathan  Smith,  Esq.,  of 
Danvers,  Massachusetts,  and  her  son,  Jedediah 
Kilbourne  Smith,  was  a  senator  and  councillor 
in  the  New  Hampshire  legislature  for  many 
years,  and  served  from  1807  to  1809  ^*  ^ 
representative  from  New  Hampshire  in  the 
United  States  congress.  4.  Hannah,  born 
1734,  died  1737. 

(V)  Sampson,  son  of  Jedediah  and  Susan- 
nah (Fiske)  Kilbourne,  was  born  about  1723, 
in  Rowley,  and  was  married,  April  15,  1749, 
to  Rebecca  Pickard.  He  settled  in  Rowley, 
where  their  four  children  were  born :  Paul, 
John,  Rebecca  and  Huldah.  He  died  May  28, 
1 75 1,  aged  thirty-three. 

(VI)  Captain  John,  second  son  of  Sampson 
and  Rebecca  (Pickard)  Kilbourne,  was  born 
June  28,  1750,  in  Rowley. '  He  was  twenty 
years  of  age  when  the  Lexington  alarm 
sounded  through  the  countryside  and  called 
to  arms  the  patriot  yeomen  of  Middlesex  and 
Essex  counties,  and  he  responded  and  is  said 
to  have  been  among  those  who  marched  to- 
ward Concord  and  Lexington  on  that  event- 
ful April  day,  1775.  As  there  were  three  or 
four  of  the  name  credited  with  this  honor,  it 
is  likely  that  some  doubt  has  been  the  result  of 
a  confusion  of  names.  The  "Official  Records 
of  the  Massachusetts  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of 
the  Revolution,"  however,  name  him  as  sec- 
ond sergeant  in  Captain  Enos  Parker's  com- 
pany. Colonel  Benjamin  Simonds'  regiment, 
engaged  August  14,  1777,  discharged  August 
19,  1777,  service  six  days.  Regiment  de- 
tached from  the  Berkshire  county  militia  to 
reinforce  the  Continental  army  at  Bennington ; 
also  lieutenant  in  command  of  a  company. 
Colonel  Simonds'  (Berkshire  county)  regi- 
ment, engaged  October  13,  1780,  discharged 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1631 


October  18,  1780,  service  seven  days,  includ- 
ing two  days'  (forty  miles)  travel  home.  Com- 
pany marched  to  Vermont  by  order  of  Gen- 
eral Fellows,  on  an  alarm.  He  is  semi-offi- 
cially  credited  with  having  been  present  at 
the  storming  of  Stony  Point,  on  the  Hudson 
river,  at  Ticonderoga,  receiving  promotion  to 
sergeant  December,  1777,  and  captain  1780. 
That  he  was  a  gallant  soldier  and  after  the 
war  was  a  pensioner  as  late  as  1840,  is  a  mat- 
ter of  history  in  the  local  annals  of  Bridgton, 
Maine,  to  which  place  he  removed  in  1794,  and 
where  he  died  September  8,  1842.  He  was 
married  in  January,  1780,  to  Mary  Howe,  of 
Ipswich,  New  Hampshire,  and  lirst  settled  at 
Northwood  in  that  state,  remaining  a  few 
years,  then  settling  in  Bridgton,  Maine.  The 
children  of  Captain  John  and  Mary  (Howe) 
Kilborn  were:  i.  Rebecca,  born  in  Northwood, 
New  Hampshire,  February  25,  1781 ;  married, 
July  21,  1801,  Stephen  Ingalls,  of  Harrison, 
Maine,  by  whom  she  had  six  children.  2. 
John,  born  in  Northwood,  New  Hampshire, 
November  16,  1785;  settled  in  Bridgton, 
Maine,  where  he  is  called  Colonel  John  Kil- 
born. He  received  his  title  of  colonel  for 
service  in  the  militia  in  the  state  of  Maine. 
3.  Mary,  died  young.  4.  Enos,  January  i, 
1785 ;  was  a  seaman,  and  last  heard  from  in 
1809.  5.  William,  mentioned  below.  6.  Ja- 
cob, born  April  5,  1789,  died  July  2,  1820.  7. 
Lieutenant  Ebenezer,  born  December  20,  1791, 
married  Lydia  G.  Ingalls,  in  1818,  and  had 
six  children.  8.  Huldah,  born  1794,  married 
Alfred  Ingalls,  in  1818,  and  had  five  children. 
9.  Paul,  April  5,  1797,  died  the  next  year. 

(VII)  Captain  William,  son  of  Captain 
John  Kilborn,  was  born  January  16,  1787,  in 
Northwood,  New  Hampshire,  and  died  in 
Bridgton,  in  1873.  His  homestead  was  on  a  lot 
between  the  residence  of  Albert  C.  Buck  and 
the  home  of  the  late  Thomas  Leighton,  of 
Harrison.  The  site  of  the  homestead  has 
long  been  obliterated  by  time.  He  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Senter,  born  in  Rowley,  Jan- 
uary 19,  1786,  died  in  Bridgton,  January, 
1840;  (second)  February  10,  1848,  Hannah 
Martin,  of  Bridgton,  died  1875.  Children  by 
first  wife,  all  born  in  Harrison : 

1.  Helena,  born  April  8,  1805;  died  unmar- 
ried. 

2.  Enos  L.  W.,  born  June  30,  1808,  died 
October  18,  1846;  married  Rhoda  Shaw,  of 
Standish ;  children :  i.  Harriette  Favoretta, 
born  June  5,  1834;  she  was  a  successful 
teacher  in  the  public  schools  and  a  contributor 
to  the  periodical  press;  is  also  author  and 
compiler  of  a  notable  work  published  in  1904, 


entitled  "Shaw  Records,"  a  genealogical  mem- 
orial of  Roger  Shaw,  the  pioneer  of  Hampton, 
New  Hampshire  (1638)  and  of  his  numerous 
descendants.  Her  poetical  productions  have 
been  widely  known  through  the  columns  of  the 
Boston  Cultivator,  Zlon's  Herald,  Bridgton 
Ncivs,  Bethel  Neui\s,  Oxford  Democrat,  Word 
and  Work,  and  other  leading  publications.  She 
wrote  the  "Centennial  Ode"  sung  at  the  cele- 
bration of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of 
the  incorporation  of  Harrison,  on  August  3, 
1905.  She  is  a  resident  of  West  Bethel,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  She  married, 
January  6,  1855,  Charles  W.  Farwell,  of  West 
Bethel,  where  they  resided  several  years,  finally 
settling  on  a  farm  in  North  Bridgton,  thence 
removing  in  1896  to  Bethel,  where  Mr.  Far- 
well  died,  on  the  last  day  of  the  year.  ii.  Helen 
Ann,  born  June  17,  1835,  died  April  15,  1843. 
iii.  William  Henry,  born  May  25,  1838;  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  Jane  Bryant,  of  Boland.  He 
removed  to  Putnam,  Connecticut,  and  is  the 
father  of  a  large  family.  His  wife  died  in 
1882,  and  he  married  (second)  Agnes  Hen- 
nesey.  He  lives  in  East  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut; is  a  carpenter  in  railroad  employ,  and 
noted  for  his  mechanical  skill.  iv.  Mary 
Elizabeth,  born  September  15,  1842,  died  Sep- 
tember 20,  1848.  V.  Eben  Shaw,  born  July  i, 
1846;  married,  February  10,  1904,  Joan, 
daughter  of  S.  Porter  Stearns,  of  South  Paris. 
Mr.  Kilborn  is  a  resident  of  Bethel,  extensively 
engaged  in  milling,  lumbering  and  real  estate 
operations.  He  served  five  consecutive  years 
in  the  board  of  selectmen,  and  sat  in  the  legis- 
lature in  1898.  He  is  a  trustee  of  Gould's 
Academy,  a  director  of  the  Bethel  Savings 
Bank,  is  far  advanced  in  Masonry  and  promi- 
nent in  Odd  Fellowship,  and  is  a  liberal  bene- 
factor of  churches  and  other  institutions.  He 
has  traveled  much  in  his  own  country  and  in 
Europe.  Mrs.  Rhoda  Kilborn  married  (sec- 
ond) Jonathan  Peabody,  of  Gilead,  who  died 
in  November,  1853.  She  married  (third)  Mel- 
vin  Farwell,  of  West  Bethel,  who  died  Au- 
gust 20,  1866.  She  removed  to  Harrison, 
where  she  lived  nearly  twenty  years.  Her  last 
days  were  spent  with  her  daughter  at  North 
Bridgton,  where  she  died,  August  20,  1886, 
twenty  years  to  a  day  after  the  death  of  Mr. 
Farwell,  and  at  the  same  hour,  aged  eighty- 
one  years. 

3.  Thomas  D.,  born  June  18,  1810;  mar- 
ried   Richardson,  and  settled  in  Swe- 
den. 

4.  Jacob  V.  R.,  born  August  4,  1812,  died 
in  Oakland,  California,  July  i,  1907;  mar- 
ried November  13,  1845,  Esther  H.,  daughter 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


of  Rev.  Joseph  H.  Phinney,  of  Harrison ;  she 
was  born  July  16,  1813,  and  died  in  Harri- 
son, April  28,  1862.  Children:  i.  Sarah  E., 
born  March  5,  1836,  died  February  9,  1902; 
married  Charles  Glines ;  two  children,  ii. 
Frances  E.,  born  April  17,  1838;  married 
Isaac  Burkett ;  lives  in  Thomaston ;  five  chil- 
dren, iii.  Emily  P.,  born  January  23,  1843, 
died  September  12,  1858.  iv.  Eliza  A.,  born 
May  31,  1846,  died  January  15,  1891.  v. 
Rensselaer  C.,  born  January  24,  1853;  mar- 
ried a  Libby,  of  Windham ;  resides  at  Morrill's 
Corner,  Portland. 

5.  William  T.,  born  December  20,  1814,  died 
November  22,  1818. 

6.  Jesse  G.,  born  May  8,  1817;  no  further 
record. 

7.  William  Thomes,  born  May  17,  1819;  see 
forward. 

8.  Samuel  Farnsworth,  born  June  2,  182 1 ; 
see  forward. 

9.  Eliza  A.,  born  February  25,  1824 ;  mar- 
ried Theophilus  Towne;  resided  in  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts. 

10.  Deborah  S.,  born  April  21,  1826,  died 
March  25,   182Q. 

11.  Benjamin  F.,  born  April  20,  1828,  died 
August  15,  1828. 

12.  Deborah  S.,  born  July  25,  1829,  died 
August  20,  1829. 

(\'III)  William  Thomes,  son  of  Captain 
William  and  Elizabeth  (Senter)  Kilborn,  was 
born  in  Harrison,  May  17,  1819,  and  was 
twelve  years  old  when  his  parents  removed 
to  Bridgton.  At  an  early  age  he  apprenticed 
himself  to  Deacon  Nathaniel  Potter,  to  learn 
the  trade  of  carpenter,  with  the  understanding 
that  he  might  attend  Bridgton  Academy.  He 
is  now,  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine,  one  of  the 
oldest  alumni  of  that  school.  After  completing 
his  trade  he  was  for  many  vears  a  leading 
builder  in  Bridgton.  He  was  also  proprietor 
of  a  furniture  store  and  had  a  well-equipped 
mill  for  manufacturing  the  wares  for  his  own 
trade..  About  i84(j  be  built  a  handsome  resi- 
dence opposite  the  Cumberland  House,  but 
sold  out  subsec|uently  and  removed  to  Port- 
land, corner  Brackett  and  Pine  street.  There 
he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  and  in 
1858  had  a  flourishing  trade  in  flour  on  Com- 
mercial street.  This  he  sold  out  in  i860  and 
purchased  the  Bergen  Carpet  business  on  Free 
street.  Six  years  later,  in  the  great  fire,  he 
was  burned  out  and  removed  to  the  store  built 
by  W.  T.  Kilburn,  now  occupied  by  his  busi- 
ness at  No.  24,  same  street.  His  is  the  only 
strictly  carpet  store  in  Maine,  in  which  is  car- 
ried on  a  very  large  trade,  requiring  the  ser- 


vice of  sixteen  people  as  salesmen  and  clerks. 
Despite  his  advanced  age,  Mr.  Kilborn  is  still 
active  in  promoting  and  managing  his  busi- 
ness interests,  which  have  built  up  by  steady 
application  and  sound  business  intelligence. 

Mr.  Kilborn  married,  December  4,  1846, 
Mary  Foster  Walker,  born  in  Westbrook, 
March  17,  1823,  died  in  Portland,  September 

30,  1863,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah 
Walker,  of  Bridgton.  He  married  (second) 
October  4,  1864,  Lucietta  Svveetser,  born  July 
26,  1842,  daughter  of  Alvah  and  Eunice  Burn- 
ham  (Stuart)  Libby;  her  father  was  born  in 
Parsonfield,  Maine,  November  6,  1805,  and 
her  mother  was  born  in  Scarboro,  Maine, 
March  5,  1806.  Children  of  William  T.  and 
Mary  (Foster)  Kilborn: 

1.  Ann    Walker,    born    in    Bridgton,    May 

31,  1849;  married  June  21,  1868,  William 
Henry  Jewett,  born  in  Sweden,  Maine,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1845,  died  in  Portland,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1903.  Children:  i.  William 
Walker  Jewett,  born  in  Bridgton,  March  30, 
1869;  married,  January  30,  1891,  Mary  Jane 
McGowen,  born  June  27,  i86g,  in  St.  Johns, 
Newfoundland ;  children  born  in  Portland : 
Annie  Mat,  February  15,  1892;  Caroline 
Walker,  February  8,  1895 ;  William  Kilborn, 
June  8,  1900;  ii.  Frederick  Joseph  Jewett, 
born  in  Bridgton,  September  9,  1893,  married 
Etta  Breitten,  born  March  12,  1868;  child 
born  in  Portland;  Fred  Lewis,  July  5,  1894; 
Alice  K.,  March  31,  1899.  Philip  Henry  Jew- 
ett, born  in  Portland,  November  27,  1882; 
married  January  25,  1906,  Florence  Mation 
Leith,  born  in  England,  December  12,  1886; 
children,  born  in  Portland :  Annie  Frances, 
May  31,  1907;  Gladys  Shootall,  February  i, 
1908. 

2.  Lilla  May,  born  in  Bridgton,  September  3, 
1856;  married,  June  30,  1878,  Walter  Weston 
Sabin,  born  in  Putnam,  \'ermont,  November 
28,  1853,  son  of  George  P.  and  Harriet 
(Shaw)  Sabin,  the  father  born  in  Putnam, 
Vermont,  1 82 1,  the  mother  born  in  Lyons, 
New  York,  March,  1819.  Child,  born  in 
Portlanil :  George  Shaw  Sabin.  born  Octo- 
ber 9,  1881 ;  married,  January  8,  1907,  Tulla 
Ellis  Bowman,  born  in  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, October  30,  1879,  daughter  of  Henry 
Hubbard  and  Gertrude  (Ellis)  Bowman,  the 
father  born  in  Sunderland,  Massachusetts, 
1849,  s"*^!  the  mother  in  South  Hadley  Falls, 
1853;  child:  Henry  Bowman,  born  in  Port- 
land, January  28,  1908. 

Children  of  William  T.  and  Lucietta  Sweet- 
ser  (Libby)  Kilborn: 

I.  Carrie  Harward  Kilborn,  born  in  Port- 


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land,  August  21,  1865;  married,  in  Portland, 
February  23,  1888,  Augustus  Champlin,  born  in 
Waterville,  Maine,  March  8,  1842,  died  in 
Portland,  September  12,  1897,  son  of  Dr. 
James  Tuft  and  Mary  Ann  (Pierce)  Champ- 
lin ;  child :  Mary,  born  in  Portland,  April 
23,  1889. 

2-3.  William  Senter  and  Alvah  Stuart, 
twins,  born  September  i,  1867.  The  first 
named  died  September  19,  1868.  Alvah  Stuart 
married,  April  5,  1901,  May  Seavey,  born  in 
Bangor,  March  17,  1877. 

4.  Philip  Carlisle,  born  April  7,  1869;  mar- 
ried, June  5,  1898,  Alice  Dillingham  Clark, 
born  in  Bangor,  January  22,  1877,  daughter  of 
Charles  Davis  and  Catherine  (Dillingham) 
Clark,  the  former  born  in  Bangor,  February 
25,  1842,  and  the  latter  in  Freeport,  July  5, 
1848;  children,  born  in  Portland:  i.  John 
Barstow  Kilborn,  June  3,  1899;  ii.  Edna 
Webb  Kilborn,  December  31,  1900,  died 
May  8,  1901  ;  iii.  Helen  Kilborn,  February  19, 
1902;  iv.  Ruth  Kilborn,  September  27,  1906. 

5.  James  Edward  Kilborn,  born  in  Portland, 
August  13,  1871 ;  married,  October  4,  1893, 
Carrie  May  Goss,  born  in  Marblehead,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  I,  1872,  daughter  of  William 
Pierrepont  and  Annie  Augusta  (Bartlett) 
Goss,  both  born  in  Marblehead,  the  fonner 
July  7,  1850,  and  the  latter  October  26,  1853; 
children:  William  Themes  Kilborn  (2d), 
born  in  Portland,  September  23,  1897. 

6.  Gertrude  Libby  Kilborn,  born  in  Port- 
land, September  21,  1873;  married,  September 
10,  1895,  Harry  Badger  Coe,  born  March  11, 
1866,  son  of  Henry  Hersey  and  Frances  Ellen 
(Todd)  Coe,  the  former  born  December  15, 
1835,  the  latter  April  9,  1839  '<  children,  born 
in  Portland :  i.  Philip  Kilborn  Coe.  September 
3,  1896;  ii.  Kilborn  Bray  Coe,  March  25,  1898. 

7.  Joseph  Walker  Kilborn,  born  in  Port- 
land, November  26,  1875;  married,  December 
19,  1900,  Mary  Liscomb,  born  in  Boston, 
October  10,  1876,  daughter  of  John  F.  and 
Plenrietta  (Ingram)  Liscomb,  both  born  in 
Portland,  the  former  December  10,  1841,  the 
latter  August  same  year;  children,  born  in 
Portland :  i.  Henrietta  Kilborn,  November 
29, '1901  ;  ii.  Mary  Kilborn,  April  10,  1904. 

8.  William  Thomes  Kilborn  Jr.,  born  in 
Portland,  September  19,  1879;  married.  May 
29,  1907,  Carlotta  MacKinnon,  born  in  Port- 
land, September  24,  1882,  daughter  of  Roder- 
ick and  Rosella  (Stiles)  iMacKinnon,  the  for- 
mer born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  February  2, 
1845,  the  latter  in  Elgin,  New  Brunswick, 
October  31,  1847. 

9.  Karl    Bray    Kilborn,   born    in    Portland, 


April  16,  1886;  graduated  from  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, June,  1908;  entered  Boston  School  of 
Technology,  October,  1908. 

(VIII)  Samuel  Farnsworth,  seventh  son  of 
Captain  William  and  Elizabeth  (Senter)  Kil- 
born, was  born  in  Harrison,  Maine,  June  2, 
1821.  He  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  and 
also  carried  on  a  farm.  He  married  Mary 
Thompson,  and  after  her  death  Mary  Strout, 
of  Casco,  Maine.  His  son  George  F.  is  a  far- 
mer in  Mount  Vernon,  New  Hampshire;  his 
daughter  Helen  M.  married  Mr.  Allen  Glenn, 
of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts;  son  Silas  V.  is 
in  the  express  business  in  Winthrop,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  son,  Charles  H.,  a  sales  agent 
in  New  York.  Samuel  Farnsworth  Kilborn 
now  resides  in  Bridgton,  Maine.  Children  of 
Samuel  Kilborn,  all  born  in  Bridgton,  Maine : 
Jane  Elizabeth,  Franklin  and  Andrew  W.,  in 
service  in  the  civil  war;  Helen,  Silas  V., 
George  F.,  and  Charles  H. 

(IX)  Charles  Henry,  son  of  Samuel  Farns- 
worth and  Mary  (Strout)  Kilborn,  was  born 
in  Bridgton,  JMaine,  January  i,  1864.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  and  high  school  of 
Bridgton,  and  from  1880  to  1901  engaged  in 
the  publishing  business  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts. In  1901  he  removed  to  New  York 
City.  He  was  married,  February  17,  1886,  in 
Boston,  to  Rebecca  (Cobb),  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  and  Joanna  (Staples)  Jordan,  of 
Cape  Elizabeth,  ]\Iaine,  and  their  son,  Robert 
Charles,  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
February  13,  1894. 

This  is  one  of  the  early  £am- 
ROBERTS     ilies  of  New  Hampshire  and 

Maine,  having  been  located 
from  the  earliest  pioneer  period  within  the 
present  limits  of  the  former  state.  The  de- 
scendants bearing  the  name  are  very  numer- 
ous throughout  the  commonwealth,  and  have 
spread  to  many  other  states.  It  was  con- 
spicuously identified  with  the  revolution,  and 
has  borne  its  part  in  developing  the  arts  of 
peace. 

(I)  Thomas  Roberts  was  a  settler  on  Dover 
Neck  at  a  very  early  period,  but  there  is  now 
no  positive  information  as  to  the  exact  date. 
The  uniform  tradition  of  the  family  states  that 
he  settled  at  the  point,  in  company  with  Ed- 
ward and  William  Hilton,  in  1623.  Land 
which  he  occupied  was  retained  in  the  Rob- 
erts family  in  uninterrupted  succession  for 
more  than  two  centuries.  In  1638  the  people 
of  Dover  chose  "Mr.  Roberts"  "president  of 
the  court"  in  place  of  Captain  John  Under- 
bill, whom  they  had  expelled  for  his  various 


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crimes.  Mr.  Roberts  was  elected  to  various 
minor  offices  in  the  town  and  received  several 
grants  of  land  at  diflferent  times,  although  his 
possessions  are  said  to  have  been  compara- 
tively small.  He  owned  land  on  the  east  side 
of  Dover  Neck,  and  also  on  the  west  side  of 
Buck  river.  Sewell's  "History  of  the 
Quakers"  speaks  of  him  rebuking  his  sons, 
Thomas  and  John,  who  were  constables,  for 
the  excessive  virulence  with  which  they  en- 
forced the  laws  against  the  Quakers  in  1662. 
This  shows  that  Mr.  Roberts,  whose  title 
proves  him  to  have  been  a  much  respected  man 
in  his  time,  exercised  greater  tolerance  than 
did  many  of  his  contemporaries.  He  had  been 
at  the  date  above  named  more  than  twenty 
years  a  member  of  the  church.  He  died  be- 
tween September  27,  1673,  and  June  30,  1674, 
the  respective  dates  of  making  and  proving  his 
will.  The  bulk  of  his  property  was  bequeathed 
to  Richard  Rich,  husband  of  his  daughter, 
Sarah,  but  legacies  were  given  the  three  of 
the  children  mentioned  below.  He  was  buried 
in  the  northeast  corner  of  the  old  burying 
ground  on  Dover  Neck,  where  many  of  his 
descendants  were  also  interred.  His  children 
included  John,  Thomas,  Hester,  wife  of  John 
Martin. 

(H)  John,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Roberts, 
was  born  in  1629  in  Dover,  and  died  January 
21,  1695,  in  that  town.  He  is  described  in 
old  records  as  a  "planter,"  and  is  found  re- 
ferred to  as  "Sargent  John."  He  owned  land 
near  his  father  and  was  a  man  of  importance 
in  the  community.  He  served  several  years  as 
constable,  then  an  important  office,  was  select- 
man in  1664-65-68-74-76-77,  and  was  ap- 
pointed marshal  of  the  province  in  1679,  when 
New  Hampshire  became  separated  as  a  prov- 
ince from  Massachusetts.  In  1689  he  was  one 
of  the  commissioners  from  Dover  to  the  con- 
vention which  met  at  Portsmouth  to  confer 
about  methods  of  government.  He  resided  at 
Dover  Neck  and  also  owned  land  west  of  the 
Buck  river  as  well  as  marsh  adjoining  the 
Great  Bay.  He  married  .\bigail,  flaughter  of 
Elder  Hatevil  Nutter,  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
Dover.  She  was  living  in  1674,  when  she  was 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  her  father.  Their 
children  were:  Joseph,  Hatevil,  Thomas,  Abi- 
gail, John,  Mary  and  Sarah. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Abi- 
gail (Nutter)  Roberts,  was  born  about  1660 
and  died  before  1742.  The  house  in  which  he 
lived  was  situated  sixty  rods  north-easterly 
from  the  homestead  of  his  great-grandson, 
Hanson  Roberts,  subsequently  occupied  by  the 
sons  of  the  latter,  John  and  Howard  Roberts. 


He  was  surveyor  in  1705-06-07,  assessor  in 
1708  and  fence  viewer  in  1709,  and  selectman 
in  1711-12-13-14.  He  was  called  "Ensign" 
in  1712  and  "Lieutenant"  in  1713.  He  dealt 
much  in  lands  and  gave  a  site  for  a  Quaker 
meeting  house  and  burial  place.  This  lot  was 
six  rods  long  on  the  road  from  Hilton  Point 
to  Cocheco.  The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife 
was  Elizabeth,  but  no  record  appears  to  show 
her  family  cognomen.  Their  children  were : 
Joseph,  John,  Elizabeth,  Abigail,  Stephen, 
Ebenezer,  Benjamin,  Samuel  and  Lydia 
(twins),  Mary. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  fourth  son  of  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  Roberts,  was  born  February  24, 
1705,  on  Dover  Neck,  and  died  in  1754  in 
Somersworth,  where  he  lived  thirty-seven 
years  from  171 7.  He  went  to  Somersworth  as 
a  lad  of  twelve  years  and  found  employment 
as  a  farmer's  boy  in  due  time,  but  took  up 
land  in  Somersworth  about  one  and  one-half 
miles  from  the  present  village  of  South  Ber- 
wick, Maine.  He  lived  in  a  log  cabin  until 
1 73 1,  when  he  built  a  house  of  solid  oak 
frame  which  is  still  standing.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1733  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Jeremiah 
and  Elizabeth  (Ham)  Rollins,  granddaughter 
of  Ichabod,  who  was  a  son  of  James  Rollins, 
the  pioneer  ancestor  of  the  family  in  America. 
She  was  born  January  23,  1714,  in  Somers- 
worth, and  survived  her  husband,  being  ap- 
pointed executrix  of  his  will,  June  25,  1755. 
Their  children  were :  Moses,  James,  Aaron, 
John,  Ebenezer,  Ichabod,  Samuel,  Jeremiah 
and  a  daughter,  who  died  unnamed.  After  the 
death  of  the  father  his  estate  was  divided 
among  the  eight  sons,  who  became  scattered 
through  New  Hampshire  and  Maine.  The 
second  and  fourth  remained  on  the  homestead. 
The  eldest  was  killed  by  exposure  in  war. 
With  this  exception,  they  all  lived  until  Jere- 
miah, the  youngest,  was  more  than  sixty  years 
of  age.  He  was  the  last  survivor  and  lived  to 
be  ninety-four  years  old. 

(V)  Ichabod,  sixth  son  of  Ebenezer  and 
Mary  (Rollins)  Roberts,  was  born  September 
17,  1748,  in  Somersworth,  died  December  15, 
1833,  in  Waterboro,  Maine,  where  he  settled 
and  cleared  up  a  farm.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1722,  Susannah  Roberts  born  May  27, 
1750,  died  July  20,  1843,  having  attained  the 
great  age  of  ninety-three  years.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susannah  (Goodwin) 
Roberts,  whose  ancestry  does  not  seem  to  be 
discoverable  at  this  time.  They  had  the  fol- 
lowing children :  Job,  Jeremiah,  Molly,  An- 
drew, Susanna,  Joanna  and  Rachel. 

(VI)  Jeremiah,  second  son  of  Ichabod  and 


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Susannah  (Roberts)  Roberts,  was  born  May 
17,  1775,  in  Waterboro,  died  January  2,  1854, 
in  that  town,  where  he  passed  his  life.  He 
married,  January  18,  1799,  Elizabeth  Lord, 
born  Tune  25,  1780,  in  Kennebunkport,  Maine, 
died  May  i,  1850,  in  Waterboro,  daughter  of 
John  and  Charity  (Curtis)  Lord,  of  Kenne- 
bunkport. Their  children  were:  Eliza,  Icha- 
bod,  Phoebe,  Mary,  John,  Charity  and  Jere- 
miah. 

(VII)  Jeremiah  (2),  youngest  child  of 
Jeremiah  (i)  and  Elizabeth  (Lord)  Roberts, 
was  born  April  22,  1817,  in  Waterboro,  died 
May  8,  1890,  in  Buffalo,  New  York.  He  mar- 
ried, October  28,  1838,  Alma  Roberts,  of  Ly- 
man, Maine,  daughter  of  James  H.  Roberts, 
who  receives  further  mention  in  this  article. 
Three  of  their  children  died  in  infancy.  The 
survivors  are :  Franklin  Kimball  and  James 
Arthur.  The  former  resides  at  Buffalo,  New 
York.  Jeremiah  Roberts  and  his  wife  lived 
for  forty  years  on  the  farm  where  he  was 
born,  and  he  served  the  town  as  selectman  in 
1842-43  and  1861,  and  was  town  clerk  in  1844. 
About  1882  they  removed  to  Buffalo,  New 
York,  where  they  resided  with  their  youngest 
son.  The  wife  died  there  November  22,  1897, 
having  survived  her  husband  more  than  seven 
years. 

(VIII)  James  Arthur,  second  son  of  Jere- 
miah (2)  and  Alma  (Roberts)  Roberts,  was 
born  March  8,  1847,  in  Waterborough,  York 
county,  Maine,  and  spent  his  boyhood  in  that 
town  where  he  attended  the  public  schools, 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Edward  Little  Insti- 
tute in  Auburn,  Maine,  and  entered  Bowdoin 
College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1870.  Three 
years  later  he  received  from  his  alma  mater 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  and  in  1897  was 
further  honored  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Laws.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  en- 
gaged in  teaching  and  continued  in  this  occu- 
pation for  one  year  in  the  Academy  at  Cherry- 
field,  Maine.  For  four  years  succeeding  he 
was  principal  of  one  of  the  public  schools  of 
Buffalo,  New  York.  In  the  meantime  he  pur- 
sued a  course  in  the  study  of  law,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1875,  in  Rochester, 
New  York.  He  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  from  1876  to  1893,  at  Buffalo,  and 
during  this  time  served  two  terms  as  assem- 
blyman from  his  district  in  that  city,  and  was 
four  years  a  member  of  the  Buffalo  park 
board.  As  was  natural  with  a  man  of  his  tal- 
ents and  energy,  Mr.  Roberts  took  an  active 
part  in  political  movements,  acting  with  the 
Republican    party.      In    1893    he    was    elected 


comptroller  of  the  state  of  New  York  and  was 
re-elected  in  1895,  holding  the  office  from  1899 
to  1902.  He  engaged  in  business  in  Buffalo, 
being  a  director,  president  and  treasurer  of 
many  different  corporations,  giving  his  entire 
time  to  their  management.  At  the  present 
time  he  is  active  in  the  management  of  an  ex- 
tensive real  estate  business  with  headquarters 
on  Broadway  in  New  York  City.  During  the 
years  1864-65  Mr.  Roberts  was  a  soldier  of 
the  civil  war,  serving,  in  the  Seventh  Maine 
Battery  of  Light  Artillery.  In  the  winter  of 
these  years  his  battery  lay  before  Petersburg, 
and  in  the  spring  he  saw  very  active  service 
until  the  final  surrender  of  the  confederacy. 
He  is  president  of  the  New  York  State  Histor- 
ical Association,  and  is  actively  identified  with 
the  Alumni  Association  of  Bowdoin  College  in 
New  York.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Maine 
Society  of  New  York  and  of  the  L^nion 
League  Club  of  that  city.  He  married,  in 
Tune,  1871.  Minnie  Pineo,  of  Calais,  Maine, 
and  after  her  death,  which  took  place  October 
I,  1883.  he  married,  December  11.  1884,  Mar- 
tha Dresser,  of  Auburn.  Maine,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Mary  A.  Dresser,  of  that  town. 
Two  children  were  born  of  the  first  union : 
Joseph  Banks  and  Amelia.  The  latter  is  now 
the  wife  of  Frank  St.  John  Sidway,  of  Buffalo, 
New  York.  The  former  is  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law  in  New  York  City  and  is  also 
interested  in  real  estate  matters.  He  married 
Mary  Ferris,  of  New  York,  and  their  children 
are:'  Dorothy  Douw,  Morris  Ferris  and  Mary 
Livingston  Dresser. 

(V)  James,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Mary 
(Rollins)  Roberts,  married  Ehzabeth  Roberts, 
whose  parentage  does  not  seem  to  have  been 
discovered. 

(VI)  Joseph,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Roberts)   Roberts,  married  Mercy  Hobbs. 

(VII)  James  H.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mercy 
(Hobbs)  Roberts,  was  born  August  22,  1789, 
in  Lyman,  Maine,  died  November  3,  1858,  in 
Lyman.  He  married,  October  3,  181 5,  Olive 
Banks,  born  July  30,  1793,  in  Buxton,  Maine, 
died  April  18,  1865,  in  Lyman,  Maine,  a 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Olive   (Cole)   Banks. 

(VIII)  Alma,  daughter  of  James  H.  and 
Olive  (Banks)  Roberts,  became  the  wife  of 
Jeremiah  (2)  Roberts,  who  is  mentioned 
above. 


(For   preceding   generations  sea   Thomas  Roberts   I.) 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  child 

ROBERTS     of  Joseph    (i)    and  Elizabeth 

Roberts,  was  born  October  27, 

1692,  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  and  resided 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


in  that  town.  His  wife's  baptismal  name  was 
the  same  as  that  of  his  mother,  but  the  only 
record  afforded  by  the  archives  of  the  state, 
gives  this  as  her  name  in  announcing  the 
births  of  his  children.  These  were:  Ephraim, 
Joseph,  Betty,  Mary,  Abigail  and  Lydia. 

(V)  Joseph  (3),  second  son  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  Roberts,  was  born  February  7, 
1729,  in  Dover,  and  passed  his  early  life  in  that 
town.  He  is  probably  the  Joseph  Roberts,  of 
Brentwood,  who  removed  from  that  town  to 
Windham,  Maine,  as  related  hereinafter.  Jo- 
seph Roberts  was  of  Brentwood,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1756,  and  subsequently  removed  to 
Windham,  Maine,  where  his  brother  Jonathan 
was  also  an  early  settler.  Joseph  Roberts  was 
residing  in  Windham  at  the  breaking  out  of 
the  revolutionary  war,  and  when  his  son  Jo- 
seph, who  while  a  minor  ran  away  from  home 
to  enter  the  army,  he  went  to  Cape  Elizabeth 
for  the  purpose  of  bringing  him  home.  His 
own  patriotism  got  the  better  of  him,  however, 
and  instead  of  asserting  his  parental  authority, 
he,  too,  enlisted  and  both  served  at  Bunker 
Hill.  He  owned  and  occupied  a  farm  of  one 
hundred  acres  located  on  Standish  Neck,  ac- 
cording to  the  Windham  town  records,  and  his 
death  occurred  in  Buckfield  at  about  the  be- 
ginning of  the  last  century.  He  married 
(probably  in  Brentwood)  Hannah  Young,  and 
she  died  in  Buckfield  at  the  home  of  her 
daughter  Elizabeth  in  1815.  They  were  the 
parents  of  seven  children  :  i.  Joseph.  2.  Han- 
nah, married,  in  1780,  James  Jordan,  a  son 
of  James  and  Phebe  (Philbrick)  Jordan,  of 
Standish.  3.  Sarah,  born  in  Windham,  1764, 
married  Jotham  Shaw,  a  native  of  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts.  4.  Jonathan,  married,  in 
Windham,  January,   1781,   Prudence   Wil'lard. 

5.  Elizabeth,  born  in  Windham  in  1769,  be- 
came the  wife  of  Thomas  Irish  of  that  town. 

6.  Mary,  born  in  Windham  in  1773,  and  be- 
came the  wife  of  Richard  Taylor.  7.  John, 
born  in  Windham  in  1777,  and  married 
Miriam  Irish.  All  settled  in  Buckfield  and 
reared  families.  Joseph,  Jonathan  and  John 
afterward  removed  to  Brooks,  Maine,  "and 
Hannah  settled  in  Monroe,  this  state.  (N.  B. 
Mrs.  Grant  mentions  a  family  tradition,  as- 
serting that  Joseph  Roberts  came  from  VVales 
to  New  Hampshire.  This  is  probably  errone- 
ous.) 

(VI)  Joseph  (4),  eldest  child  of  Joseph  (3) 
and  Hannah  (Young)  Roberts,  was  born  in 
Brentwood,  February  6,  1756,  and  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Windham  in  early  boy- 
hood. As  has  already  been  stated  he  partici- 
pated in  the  struggle  for  national  independ- 


ence, enlisting  prior  to  his  majority,  and 
the  Massachusetts  revolutionary  rolls  contain 
the  following  record  relative  to  his  services : 

"i.  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  mus- 
ter roll  of  Captain  Samuel  Dunn's  company, 
Colonel  Edmund  Phinney's  Thirty-first  Regi- 
ment of  Foot,  dated  July  11,  1775.  He  en- 
listed May  15,  177s,  from  Cape  Elizabeth, 
Maine,  for  one  month  and  twenty-seven  days. 
2.  Appears  on  return  of  Captain  Dunn's  com- 
pany (October  returns)  1775.  3.  Appears  in 
an  order  for  bounty  coat,  or  its  equivalent  in 
money,  dated  Cambridge,  November,  1775. 
For  service  in  Captain  Dunn's  company.  4. 
Appears  on  muster  roll  of  Captain  Jonathan 
Sawyer's  company,  Colonel  Phinney's  regi- 
ment, dated  at  Garrison  Fort  George,  Decem- 
ber 8,  1776.  He  enlisted  January  i,  1776.  5. 
Service  at  Dorchester  Heights,  August  31, 
1776.  Residence,  Windham,  Maine.  6.  Travel 
from  home,  Windham  to  Bennington,  January 
6,  1777-  7-  Travel  from  Fort  Edward  to 
Windham,  January  15,  1777.  8.  Appears  on 
muster  and  pay  roll  of  Captain  Robert  Per- 
kins' company  of  Light  Horse,  raised  by  re- 
solve of  September  22,  1777,  for  guarding 
Burgoyne's  troops  to  Prospect  Hill.  He  en- 
listed September  27,  discharged  November  7, 
'^777-  9-  Appears  on  muster  and  pay  roll 
Samuel  Waterhouse's  company,  Colonel  Jacob 
Gerrish's  regiment  of  guards  at  Winter  Hill. 
He  enlisted  April  3,  1778.  10.  Appears  on 
muster  and  pay  roll  of  Captain  John  Dodge's 
company,  Colonel  Jacob  Gerrish's  regiment  of 
guards.  He  enlisted  July  19,  1778,  discharged 
December  16,  1778.  11.  Appears  on  muster 
and  pay  roll  of  Captain  Nathan  Merrill's  com- 
pany, Colonel  Jonathan  Mitchell's  regiment. 
He  was  detached  for  Penobscot  Expedition, 
and  allowed  pay  for  mileage.  He  enlisted 
July  8,  1779,  discharged  September  25,  1779. 
12.  Appears  among  a  list  of  men  moved  from 
Cape  Elizabeth  since  1776,  dated  Cape  Eliza- 
beth, January  17,  1782.  A  pension  was 
granted  of  $8  a  month,  from  April  9,  1818. 
This  was  dropped  under  Act  of  May  i,  1820, 
but  restored  by  Act  of  June  7,  1832,  at  $76.66 
per  year.  It  was  allowed  April  10,  1834.  The 
second  pension  commenced  from  March  4, 
1831." 

After  residing  in  Standish  for  a  time  Jo- 
seph Roberts  removed  to  Buckfield,  and  about 
the  year  1799  became  the  first  settler  in 
Brooks,  Waldo  county,  Maine,  residing  there 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  which  termi- 
nated January  10,  1843.  In  addition  to  clear- 
ing two  farms,  in  which  he  was  aided  by  his 
sons,  he  built  the  first  saw-mill  in  Brooks,  also 


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the  first  gristmill,  and  being  a  natural  me- 
chanic engaged  quite  extensively  in  the  manu- 
facture of  wooden  ware,  chiefly  household 
utensils.  He  was  patriotic,  industrious  and 
frugal,  morally  sound  and  fervent  in  his  re- 
ligious duties.  November  28,  1777,  he  mar- 
ried (first)  Esther  Hamlin,  born  in  Gorham, 
Maine,  June  30,  1758,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Hamlin.  H.  T.  Andrews,  in  his  "History  of 
the  Hamlin  Family,"  states  that  the  Hamlins 
are  of  remote  German  ancestry,  and  that  the 
founder  of  the  family  in  England  was  a  fol- 
lower of  William  the  Conqueror.  The  emi- 
grant ancestor  of  whom  Esther  was  of  the 
fifth  generation  in  descent,  was  James  Hamlin, 
who  came  over  in  1639  and  settled  in  Barn- 
stable, Massachusetts.  He  was  also  the  an- 
cestor of  the  late  Hon.  Hannibal  Hamlin,  vice- 
president  of  the  United  States  during  the  civil 
war,  and  several  others  of  his  posterity  ac- 
quired national  distinction.  Israel  Hamlin, 
son  of  James,  resided  in  Barnstable,  and  the 
latter's  son  Jacob,  who  was  born  there  in  1702, 
went  to  Gorham  about  1743  and  died  there  in 
1774.  In  1 73 1  he  married  his  cousin.  Con- 
tent Hamlin,  who  died  about  the  year  1800, 
and  their  only  surviving  child,  Joseph,  born 
prior  to  1740,  died  June  17,  1763,  shortly  after 
his  return  from  the  French  war.  April  15, 
1755,  he  married  Hannah  Whitney,  whose 
parents  were  of  YoTk,  Maine,  and  she  died  in 
1797.  Their  children  were:  Jacob,  Esther, 
Joseph  and  Sarah.  Esther  Hamlin,  who  be- 
came the  first  wife  of  Joseph  Roberts,  died  in 
Buckfield  in  1800.  Joseph  Roberts'  second 
wife,  whom  he  married  in  1801,  was  Margaret 
Hall,  who  was  born  in  Buckfield  in  1777, 
daughter  of  Hatevil  and  Ruth  (Winslow) 
Hall.  She  was  a  descendant  in  the  sixth  gen- 
eration of  Deacon  John  Hall,  who  was  born 
in  England  in  1617,  and  settled  in  Dover,  New 
Hampshire,  about  the  year  1650.  Hatevil 
(3)  Hall,  a  grandson  of  the  emigrant,  settled 
in  Falmouth,  Maine,  in  1750,  and  the  latter's 
son,  also  named  Hatevil,  who  was  born  in 
Dover  in  1736,  married  Ruth  Winslow  and 
went  from  Falmouth  to  Windham,  thence  to 
Buckfield  and  finally  to  Brooks.  Hatevil  Hall 
died  in  Brooks  in  1804  and  Ruth,  his  wife, 
died  there  in  1808.  They  were  survived  by 
thirteen  children,  the  twelfth  of  whom  was 
Margaret,  who  became  the  second  wife  of 
Joseph  Roberts.  Through  her  mother,  Ruth 
(Winslow)  Hall,  she  was  of  the  fifth  genera- 
tion in  descent  from  Kenelm  Winslow,  a 
brother  of  Edward  Winslow,  who  came  in 
the  "Mayflower"  in  1620  and  was  twice  chosen 
governor  of  the  Plymouth  colony   (1633  and 


1636).  Kenelm  Winslow,  who  was  born  in 
England  in  1599  and  emigrated  to  Plymouth 
in  1629,  married  the  widow  of  John  Adams  in 
1634  and  settled  in  Marshfield,  Massachu- 
setts. From  Kenelm  the  line  of  descent  is 
through  Job  (2)  Winslow,  and  the  latter's  son 
James  (3),  who  was  born  in  1687,  settled  in 
Falmouth,  Maine,  in  1728,  and  was  the  first 
Quaker  in  that  town.  Job  (4)  Winslow,  son 
of  James,  was  born  in  1715,  and  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Falmouth.  Ifis  daughter  Ruth 
married  Hatevil  Hall,  as  previously  stated. 

Joseph  Roberts  had  twenty-four  children 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty-seven  grandchil- 
dren. The  children  of  his  union  with  Esther 
Hamlin,  his  first  wife,  were :  i.  Hannah,  born 
February  20,  1778,  married  John  Young  in 
1799,  died  in  1844;  had  thirteen  children.  2. 
Tabitha,  born  January  11,  1780,  married 
James  Roberts,  a  distant  relative,  in  1799;  died 
November  26,  1868;  had  four  children.  3. 
Sarah,  born  May  6,  1782,  died  in  November, 
1859.  She  married  Shadrach  Hall,  a  younger 
brother  of  her  father's  second  wife,  and  had 
ten  children.  4.  Isaac,  born  May  10.  1784, 
married  (first)  Abigail  Merrill,  1810;  (sec- 
ond) Sarah  Cobb,  1836;  died  1862,  had  nine 
children.  5.  Jacob,  who  will  be  again  re- 
ferred to.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  February  2, 
1786,  married  John  Gates,  1804,  died  June, 
1832;  had  nine  children.  7.  Gilman,  born  Oc- 
tober 28,  1788,  married  (first)  Ann  Leathers; 
(second)  Susan  Batchelder,  1830;  died  May 
4,  1877;  had  twelve  children.  8.  Enoch,  born 
March  27,  1791,  married  (first)  Eleanor 
Leathers;  (second)  Eliza  Aborn ;  died  July 
25,  1858;  had  eleven  children.  9.  An  infant, 
born  1793,  died  1793.  10.  Esther,  born  March 
20,  1795,  married  Daniel  Hamilton,  1813; 
died  1877;  had  thirteen  children.  11.  Lovina, 
born  August,  1797,  married  Levi  Bowen, 
1818;  died  October,  1856;  had  twelve  chil- 
dren. 12.  Joseph,  born  November  2,  1799, 
married  Lydia  Knight,  1823 ;  died  October  26, 
1885 ;  had  three  children.  The  children  of  Jo- 
seph and  Margaret  (Hall)  Roberts  were:  13. 
Nathan,  born  February  5,  1802,  died  young. 
14.  Benjamin,  born  February,  1804,  married 
Nancy  Cilley,  1843;  died  November  23,  1864; 
had  five  children.  15.  John,  born  January, 
1806,  married  Harriet  Jackson,  1834;  died 
May,  1886;  had  eight  children.  16.  Alfred, 
born  October  21,  1807,  married  (first)  Caro- 
line Davis,  1831;  (second)  Sarah  Roberts, 
i860;  died  October  15,  1868;  had  fourteen 
children.  17.  Ruth,  born  1809,  died  young. 
18.  Mary,  born  181 1,  died  young.  19.  Timo- 
thy, born  July  31,  1812,  married  Nancy  Gard- 


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ner,  1835;  died  March  19,  1868;  had  four 
children.  20.  Charles,  born  January,  1814, 
married  Clarinda  Havener;  died  January  6, 
1840.  21.  Nathan,  born  June  9,  1815,  mar- 
ried (first)  Elvira  Irish;  (second)  Mary 
Langham ;  died  September  9,  1892 ;  had  five 
children.  22.  Mary,  born  1818,  married  Cal- 
vin Fogg;  died  December,  1893;  had  four 
children.  23.  Winslow,  born  March  8,  1821, 
married  (first)  Amelia  Putnam;  (second) 
Cornelia  Rand;  (third)  Maria  Bangs;  died 
June  17,  1879;  had  seven  children.  24.  Rufus, 
born  April  14,  1823,  married  Adeline  Files, 
1844;  died  May,  1900;  had  si.x  children. 

(VII)  Dr.  Jacob,  one  of  the  twins  who  were 
the  eldest  sons  of  Joseph  and  Esther  (Ham- 
lin) Roberts,  was  born  in  Buckfield,  May  10, 
1784.  Although  having  no  educational  ad- 
vantages prior  to  his  fifteenth  year,  he  subse- 
quently sought  and  obtained  through  his  own 
efforts  opportunities  for  study  and  profes- 
sional training,  of  which  he  availed  himself  to 
the  fullest  extent,  ultimately  becoming  one  of 
the  most  skillful  physicians  and  surgeons  east 
of  Portland.  He  received  his  medical  diploma 
at  the  age  of  twenty-five,  having  defrayed  the 
expenses  of  his  professional  preparations  by 
working  upon  his  father's  farm  and  by  teach- 
ing district  schools,  and  in  1810  he  located  in 
Brooks.  His  practice,  which  became  very  ex- 
tensive, necessarily  covered  a  wide  area,  and 
for  years  he  travelled  on  horseback,  carrying 
his  medicines  and  surgical  instruments  in  sad- 
dlebags and  exposing  himself  to  the  severity 
of  the  climate  in  the  pursuit  of  his  useful  call- 
ing. Possessing  a  broad  and  liberal  mind,  and 
alwavs  a  student,  instead  of  opposing  the  in- 
troduction of  the  Hahnemann  system  of  medi- 
cine he  studied  it  carefully,  and  having, 
through  close  observation,  been  fully  con- 
vinced of  its  soundness  and  efficacy  he  eventu- 
ally adopted  it,  becoming  the  pioneer  homoeo- 
pathic practitioner  in  his  section  of  the  state. 
He  afterward  succeeded  in  converting  several 
other  old  school  physicians  to  the  Hahnemann 
theory.  In  addition  to  his  practice  he  culti- 
vated a  farm  and  speculated  quite  extensively 
in  timber  lands.  His  benevolence  caused  a 
considerable  portion  of  his  practice  to  be  un- 
remunerative,  indeed,  it  is  said  that  his  charity 
patients  far  outnumbered  those  who  con- 
tributed to  his  financial  support,  but  he  never- 
theless accumulated  a  good  fortune.  The  last 
years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  North  Vassal- 
boro,  Maine,  where  he  died  March  15,  1856, 
and  he  was  succeeded  in  practice  by  his  son- 
in-law,  Dr.  Barrows,  and  later  by  his  grand- 
son,   Dr.    Francis    Alton    Roberts.     He   early 


adopted  the  Quaker  faith,  also  the  broad- 
brimmed  hat  and  plain  garb  of  that  sect.  In 
politics  he  was  originally  a  Whig,  and  later  an 
Abolitionist.  In  1810  Dr.  Roberts  married 
Huldah  Moulton  Myrick,  of  Hebron,  Maine, 
born  in  North  Yarmouth,  this  state,  in  1793, 
daughter  of  Bezaleel  and  Huldah  (Moulton) 
Myrick.  She  died  April  6,  1845,  and  in 
March,  1852,  he  married  (second)  Abby  Jen- 
kins, of  Vassalboro,  who  died  in  August  of 
the  same  year.  His  first  wife  bore  him  eleven 
children:  i.  Hamlin  Myrick,  who  is  referred 
hereinafter  to.  2.  Jacob  Wellington,  born  No- 
vember 21,  1813,  concluded  his  education  at 
the  Friends  School  in  Providence,  Rhode  Is- 
land, and  became  a  noted  educator  in  Waldo 
and  Knox  counties;  died  December  18,  1849. 
Married  (first)  May  22,  1836,  Phebe  Susan, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Chloe  Abbott,  of  Jack- 
son, Maine,  who  was  born  May  24,  1818,  died 
in  Brooks,  December  26,  1844.  Married 
(second)  in  June,  1849,  Jane  Lippencott,  of 
South  China,  Maine.  His  children,  all  of  first 
union,  are :  i.  Edward  Junius,  who  died  in 
infancy ;  ii.  Edward  Junius,  a  prominent 
dentist  of  Augusta ;  iii.  Freeman  Myrick,  a 
resident  of  Newport,  Maine,  and  a  veteran  of 
the  civil  war;  iv.  Amorena,  widow  of  Lemuel 
C.  Grant.  Mrs.  Grant,  who  is  residing  in 
Boston,  is  the  author  of  "The  Roberts  Fam- 
ily," from  which  much  di  the  data  for  this 
article  was  obtained.  3.  Amorena  Deborah 
Theresa,  born  September  2,  181 5,  married  Dr. 
Ezra  Manter;  died  June  20,  1852.  4.  Barna- 
bas Myrick,  born  October  17,  1818,  died  in 
Stockton,  Maine,  December  20,  1896.  Was  a 
successful  merchant  and  a  member  of  the 
Maine  senate  during  the  civil  war,  and  at  one 
time  collector  of  customs  at  Belfast.  He  mar- 
ried Emeline  Rich,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  a 
sister  of  Mary  Ann  Rich,  who  will  be  again 
referred  to.  5.  Charles  Linneus,  born  April 
14,  182 1,  became  a  prominent  resident  of  Yates 
City,  Illinois,  where  he  served  as  postmaster 
for  twelve  years,  and  died  there  May  20,  1896. 
In  1855  he  married  Caroline  P.  Metcalf,  of 
North  Vassalboro,  and  she  died  in  1877.  6. 
Forteus  Bezaleel,  born  July  27,  1823,  taught 
school  in  New  York  and  later  in  Illinois, 
where  he  subsequently  engaged  in  railway  con- 
struction ;  became  a  real  estate  owner  and  cap- 
italist in  Chicago;  died  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  March  4,  1888.  June  17,  1848,  he  was 
married  in  New  York  to  Mary  Ann  Preckett, 
of  Lansingburg,  New  York,  who  was  born  in 
Feresham,  Kent,  England,  April  22,  1833.  7. 
Emily  Esther,  born  in  1825,  died  in  1834.  8. 
Phebe  Young,  born  April  5,  1828,  became  the 


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wife  of  William  Payson  Miller  in  1847  ^"^ 
died  in  September,  1849.  9-  Huldah  Jane, 
born  December  19,  1830,  married,  March  25, 
1852,  Dr.  Joseph  Henry  Barrows,  a  skillful 
homoeopathic  physician  who  was  born  in  Ox- 
ford, Maine,  April  26,  1828,  and  died  June  20, 
1870,  in  Gardiner,  Maine.  She  is  now  resid- 
ing in  Boston.  10.  Ellen  Celilia,  born  May 
27,  1833,  was  married  in  December,  1852,  to 
Dr.  Ezra  Manter ;  was  subsequently  matron 
of  the  Home  for  Boys  at  Newton,  Massachu- 
setts, and  still  later  of  the  Girls'  Industrial 
School  at  Hallowell,  Maine ;  died  August  10, 
1901,  in  Augusta.  11.  William  Pinkney,  born 
January  25,  1836,  graduated  from  the  Hahne- 
mann Medical  College,  Chicago,  and  became  a 
successful  homoeopathic  physician.  His  oppo- 
sition to  Dr.  Koch's  theories  regarding  tuber- 
culosis has  given  him  a  national  reputation 
and  he  is  still  engaged  in  philanthropic  medi- 
cal work.  He  originated  the  American  In- 
valid Aid  Society  organized  in  Boston.  In 
1859  he  married  (first)  Susan  A.  Weeks,  of 
Vassalboro,  and  on  April  14,  1888,  married 
(second)  Cora  B.  Ferris,  of  Janesville,  Wis- 
consin, where  he  now  resides. 

(VIII)    Hamlin  Myrick,  son  of  Dr.  Jacob 
Roberts,  was  born  in  Buckfield  in  181 1.    After 
concluding    his    attendance    at    the    common 
schools  he  turned  his  attention  to  agriculture, 
and  became  an  industrious  tiller  of  the  soil, 
owning  a  good  farm  in  South  Jackson.     He 
was  a  Quaker  and  therefore  an  Abolitionist, 
but  steadfastly  refused  to  accept  nominations 
to  town  offices,  which  were  frequently  offered 
him  by  his  fellow-townsmen.     He  finally  sold 
his  South  Jackson  property  and  returning  to 
the  homestead  of  his  father  in  Brooks,  he  died 
there  in  June,  1856.    He  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber  of    the    Waldo    County   Agricultural    So- 
ciety, and  took  an  active  interest  in  its  annual 
fair  and  cattle  show,  which  was  held  at  Bel- 
fast,  the   county   seat.      In    1835    he   married 
Mary  Ann  Rich,  daughter  of  Joseph  Rich.  She 
survived  him,  marrying  for  her  second  hus- 
band, in  1859,  Rev.  Dexter  Waterman,  and  she 
died  in  East  Dixfield  in  1877.    Hamlin  M.  and 
Mary  A.  (Rich)  Roberts  were  the  parents  of 
five  children,  all  of  whom  were  born  in  Jack- 
son.     I.    Allen    Hamlin,    born    February    22, 
1836,  taught  school  in  Maine,  Massachusetts 
and   Rhode   Island;   went   to   Elmwood,  Illi- 
nois,  in   1857,  becoming  local  agent  for  the 
Peoria  and  Oquawka  railroad,  now  a  part  of 
the  Burlington  system ;  later  became  a  live- 
stock dealer  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  and  Chi- 
cago, and  is  now  residing  in  the  last-named 
city.    In  1863  he  married  Kate  Weatherhead, 


of  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  and  their  only 
child,  Katie,  died  in  Chicago  at  the  age  of 
nine  years.  2.  Francis  Alton,  M.  D.,  born  Au- 
gust 9,  1838,  graduated  from  the  Hahnemann 
Homoeopathic  College  in  Philadelphia,  in 
1861  ;  practiced  medicine  in  China,  Maine, 
Taunton,  Massachusetts,  Gardiner,  North  Vas- 
salboro and  Waterville,  Maine ;  died  in  the 
last-named  place  May  26,  1892.  In  December, 
1861,  he  was  married  in  China,  Maine,  to 
Alary  F.  Huzzy,  and  had  one  daughter,  Emily, 
who  died  in  1873,  at  the  age  of  three  years.  3. 
Emily,  born  in  1840,  died  in  1848.  4.  Nelson, 
born  in  1842,  died  in  1848.  5.  Cassius  Clay, 
mentioned  below. 

(IX)     Cassius     Clay,     youngest    child    of 
Hamlin  Myrick  and  Mary  Ann   (Rich)   Rob- 
erts, was  born   March   5,    1845,   '"  Jackson, 
Maine,  and  passed  his  early  life  in  that  town. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  in  August,  1861, 
he  enlisted  as  a  soldier  in  the  Tenth  Maine  In- 
fantry, and  served  two  years  as  a  private,  par- 
ticipating in  the  campaigns  of  General  N.  P. 
Banks  in   Shenandoah   Valley,   Virginia,  with 
General  Pope  and  General  McClellan  at  An- 
tietam.     In  1863  he  was  commissioned  as  first 
lieutenant  of  United  States  troops  and  served 
six   months    in    General    Ulman's    brigade    in 
Louisiana,  and  the  siege  of  Port  Hudson.    He 
then  returned  to  Maine  and  enlisted  as  a  pri- 
vate in  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery  and 
was  promoted  successively  to  sergeant,  second 
lieutenant,    first   lieutenant    and    captain,    and 
served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being  mus- 
tered out  September  11,  1865.    He  was  pres- 
ent   at    the    surrender    at    Appomatto.x.      His 
entire  service  covered  a  period  of  four  years 
and  one  month.    At  the  battle  of  Cedar  Moun- 
tain, August  9,  1862,  he  received  a  wound  in 
the  leg,  and  was  again  shot  (in  the  left  side) 
at  the  battle  of  Spottsylvania  Court  House, 
May  19,  1864.     On  account  of  these  injuries 
and  his  faithful  and  brave  service,  he  is  now 
the  recipient  of  a  pension  from  a  grateful  na- 
tion.    After  peace  returned.  Captain  Roberts 
entered  Eastman's  Business  College  at  Pough- 
keepsie.  New  York,  from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated and  subsequently  was  for  two  years  a 
student  at   Bethany   College,   West   Virginia. 
Returning  to  Maine  he  engaged  in  shipbuild- 
ing at   Stockton,  in  partnership  with  others 
under  the   firm   name   of   Colcord,   Berry   & 
Company.     This   partnership    continued    two 
years.     For  several  years  thereafter  he  con- 
ducted a  general  store  at  Stockton,  and  was 
chairman  of  the  board  of  selectmen  of  the  town 
for  three  years,  and  in  1878  was  elected  to  the 
state  senate  from  Waldo  county.     For  some 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


time  subsequent  to  this  he  was  engaged  in  the 
commission  business  at  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
and  was  three  years  of  that  time,  1880-1883, 
poHtical  reporter  for  the  Boston  Globe  from 
state  of  Maine.  In  1884  Captain  Roberts  re- 
moved to  Chicago  and  for  two  years  was  en- 
gaged in  the  grocery  business  there.  During 
a  period  of  fourteen  years  he  was  publisher 
and  editor  of  the  Chicago  Opinion,  was  two 
years  city  press  reporter,  and  is  at  present  and 
has  been  for  six  years  superintendent  of  sev- 
eral branch  postoffice  stations  in  that  city.  He 
is  an  active  member  of  George  H.  Thomas 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Chicago,  and  the  Illinois 
Loyal  Legion  and  of  the  Christian  Science 
church  in  that  city.  He  is  affiliated  with  Riv- 
erside Lodge,  No.  12,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and 
with  Corinthian  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  of  Belfast, 
Maine.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Royal 
League,  a  beneiicent  fraternal  organization, 
and  of  Central  Gi^duate  Association  of  Chi- 
cago National  College,  Theta  Delta  Chi  As- 
sociation. Captain  Roberts  married  (first) 
Paulina  E.  Colcord,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Jane  (Berry)  Colcord,  of  Stockton,  and  she 
was  the  mother  of  two  daughters,  Parepa  Col- 
cord, born  August  7,  1869,  now  the  wife  of 
William  I.  Bennett,  of  Chicago,  and  Paulina 
E.,  wife  of  James  J.  Lawler,  of  Chicago. 
Paulina  E.  Roberts  died  November  30,  1875, 
and  Captain  Roberts  married  (second)  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  James  J.  Bennett,  of  Clyde, 
Illinois.  She  died  in  July,  1900,  and  Mr.  Rob- 
erts married  (third)  January  5,  1904,  at  Lou- 
isville, Kentucky,  Katherine  T.  Harlan,  of  that 
place,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  a  son  Cas- 
sius  Harlan,  born  March  13,  1905. 

It  is  impossible  to  speak  of 
ROBERTS  Bar  Harbor,  and  of  its  phe- 
nomenal rise  from  a  small 
fishing  village  in  the  sixties  to  the  queen  of 
American  summer  resorts  and  not  to  mention 
the  name  of  Tobias  Roberts.  Giles  Roberts 
was  about  Scarboro,  Maine,  as  far  back  as 
1675.  He  made  his  will  January  25,  1666,  and 
left  five  children.  He  is  the  beginning  of  the 
strong  and  capable  Roberts  family  in  Maine, 
though  the  connection  has  never  been  worked 
out. 

(I)  Tobias  Roberts  was  born  in  Lyman, 
Maine,  came  to  Bar  Harbor  in  1839,  and  was 
a  school  teacher,  postmaster,  a  justice  of  the 
peace,  town  clerk  and  enrolled  in  the  Maine 
state  militia,  surveyor  of  lumber  and  conducted 
a  general  store.  He  wrought  at  many  things 
and  won  out  in  them  all.  He  was  the  first  to 
cater  to  summer  travel,  and  built  the  first  land- 


ing at  the  Harbor  at  which  the  steamer  "Lew- 
iston"  touched.  His  first  guests  were  artists 
and  explorers.  In  1855  ^^  built  the  "Aga- 
mont,"  the  first  hotel  opened  for  the  reception 
of  summer  people,  and  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  the  erection  of  L'nion  Chapel,  Bar 
Harbor's  initiative  movement  in  ecclesiastical 
history.  Mr.  Roberts  married  ^lary  Whit- 
tington,  who  was  born  in  Cohasset,  Massachu- 
setts. He  died  in  1879;  she  in  1887.  Chil- 
dren :  Tobias  L.,  Irene  O.,  married  Fred  J. 
Alley;  Iqua  S..  John  L.,  and  William  Mar- 
tin, see  forward. 

(II)  William  M.,  youngest  son  of  Tobias 
and  Mary  ( Whittington)  Roberts,  was  born 
in  Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  February  27,  1848,  and 
sought  his  rudimentary  learning  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  village.  Before  he  was 
out  of  his  teens  he  embarked  in  the  hotel  busi- 
ness, following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father, 
and  built  the  "Newport  House,"  to  which  he 
has  made  several  annexes.  He  is  a  director 
and  vice-president  of  the  Bar  Harbor  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
most  public-spirited  men  among  the  perma- 
nent residents  of  the  famed  resort.  Mr.  Rob- 
erts is  a  Democrat  in  political  faith ;  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Bar  Harbor  board  of  trade. 
Mr.  Roberts  married  Miriam  H.  Ash,  a  na- 
tive of  Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  and  had  one  son, 
John  W.,  born  August  22,  1870,  died  in  No- 
vember, 1904.  He  was  educated  at  Water- 
ville  and  at  a  Portland  business  college  and 
was  of  great  help  to  his  father  and  a  likely  and 
promising  young  man,  whose  early  taking  off 
is  to  be  deplored. 


This  name  is  of  French  extrac- 
PINEO  tion  and  is  among  the  many  who 
joined  the  Puritans  in  New  Eng- 
land because  of  the  religious  liberty  here  en- 
joyed. The  number  of  people  of  this  class  is 
much  greater  than  is  generally  supposed.  One 
of  the  first  of  these  was  Philip  de  la  Noye, 
who  came  over  in  1621  in  the  ship  "Fortune" 
and  settled  at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts.  The 
prosecution  and  execution  of  Protestants  in 
France  drove  many  people  out  of  that  un- 
happy country,  about  the  close  of  the  seven- 
teenth century. 

(I)  The  first  record  of  this  family  now 
known  gives  an  account  of  a  young  Hugue- 
not named  Jacques  Pineo,  probably  of  a  Wal- 
densian  family  and  was  naturalized  in  London 
in  1690.  It  appears  from  this  record  that  he 
had  moved  from  France  to  England  about 
1688.  He  had  escaped  from  Lyons,  France, 
when  the  King's  troops  were  hanging  many  of 


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his  contemporaries.  Leaving  England,  he  ar- 
rived at  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  and  very 
shortly  afterward  settled  in  Lebanon,  Con- 
necticut. He  was  there  married,  in  1706,  to 
Dorothy  Babcock,  and  undoubtedly  passed  the 
remainder  of  his  life  there,  where  nine  chil- 
dren are  recorded  as  follows:  James  (died 
young),  James,  Sarah,  Submit,  Elizabeth, 
Daniel,  Joseph,  Peter  and  Dorothy. 

(II)  Peter,  fifth  son  of  Jacques  and  Doro- 
thy (Babcock)  Pineo,  was  reared  in  Lebanon, 
and  removed  in  1763  to  Cornwallis,  Nova  Sco- 
tia, where  the  English  government  was  mak- 
ing liberal  grants  of  land  to  settlers.  He  had 
previously  lived  for  a  time  in  New  Hampshire, 
where  two  of  the  six  sons  who  accompanied 
him  to  Nova  Scotia  were  born.  His  wife, 
Elizabeth  (Sampson)  Pineo,  was  a  great- 
granddaughter  of  Henry  Sampson,  one  of  the 
Pilgrims,  who  settled  at  Plymouth,  Massachu- 
setts. They  had  seven  children,  the  second 
and  third  being  twins,  namely :  Peter,  David, 
Jonathan,  John,  Betsy,  Daniel  and  William. 

(III)  Jonathan,  third  son  of  Peter  and 
Elizabeth  (Sampson)  Pineo,  twin  of  David, 
was  born  September  8,  1747,  in  the  north 
parish  of  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  and  died  at 
Cooper,  Maine,  at  the  home  of  his  son,  Otis, 
June  10,  1 82 1.  One  authority  says  that  he  re- 
sided for  a  short  time  in  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, whither  he  removed  to  Alachias, 
Maine ;  another  authority  says  that  he  went  to 
Nova  Scotia,  with  his  father,  and  removed 
from  there  to  Machias.  At  any  rate  he  set- 
tled in  the  last-named  place  about  1770.  In 
1774  he  was  among  the  subscribers  to  a  fund 
for  the  construction  of  the  first  meeting- 
house in  Machias,  and  four  years  later  was 
among  the  subscribers  in  support  of  the  min- 
ister. Rev.  James  Lyon.  A  record  made  July 
19,  1784,  shows  him  to  have  been  at  that 
time  chairman  of  the  board  of  assessors.  He 
was  a  prominent  citizen  in  Machias,  as  were 
his  sons  after  him.  He  joined  the  church 
there  on  profession  of  faith  in  April,  1796,  at 
the  age  of  forty-nine  years.  It  is  probable 
that  this  occurred  about  the  time  of  the  death 
of  bis  first  wife,  Esther  (Libby)  Pineo, 
daughter  of  Timothy  and  Sarah  (Stone) 
Libby,  of  Machias,  born  in  that  place  in  May, 
1750,  and  died  there  January  10,  1796.  She 
was  the  mother  of  eight  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters. In  1787  they  resided  in  Cooper,  Maine, 
where  he  was  for  some  time  confined  to  the 
house  with  a  broken  leg.  During  this  en- 
forced idleness  he  made  a  powder-horn,  upon 
which  he  carved  moose,  ducks,  Indians  with 
pipes  in  their  mouths,  a  canoe,  paddles,  fish. 


birds  and  snakes,  with  his  name  and  the  date, 
April  24,  1787.  This  horn  is  still  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  family,  and  highly  prized  as  a 
relic  of  his  time.  His  second  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Bridget  Byron,  was  born  in 
the  city  of  Dublin,  Ireland,  daughter  of  an 
admiral  in  the  English  navy  and  lived  in  New 
York  City  at  the  close  of  the  revolutionary 
war.  Her  first  husband  was  a  sea  captain, 
named  Doty,  of  St.  Andrews,  New  Bruns- 
wick. One  of  his  ships  was  captured  by  the 
French  in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  and  he 
died  at  sea  while  on  a  voyage.  His  wife 
safely  navigated  the  vessel  after  his  death  to 
the  United  States.  She  was  a  woman  of  great 
intelligence,  highly  educated  and  possessing  a 
remarkable  memory.  She  had  a  wide  knowl- 
edge of  the  world  derived  from  her  voyages 
with  her  first  husband.  She  had  a  genial  na- 
ture, her  society  was  much  sought  after,  and 
she  was  always  a  welcome  visitor  at  the  homes 
of  rich  and  poor  alike.  Her  daughter,  Mary 
Ann,  became  the  wife  of  Otis  Pineo,  son  of 
her  second  husband,  who  was  the  first 
child  born  in  St.  Andrews,  New  Bruns- 
wick, in  September,  1783.  The  British 
crown  granted  a  large  tract  of  land  to  her  first 
male  child,  where  the  village  of  St.  Andrews 
now  stands.  By  his  second  marriage,  Jona- 
than Pineo  had  five  children.  After  his  death 
his  widow  lived  among  them.  She  visited  her 
granddaughters  at  Sag  Harbor,  New  York,  in 
1844,  and  died  at  Cherryfield,  Maine,  at  the 
age  of  ninety-nine  years.  Jonathan  Pineo's 
children  were :  Jonathan,  Otis,  David,  George, 
Elizabeth,  Timothy,  Esther,  Peter,  Daniel, 
Gamaliel,  Mary,  James  Doty,  John  R.,  Ruby 
VV.,  Charles  Byron  and  Rufus  Patten. 

(IV)  David,  third  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Esther  (Libby)  Pineo,  was  born  February  17, 
1774,  in  Machias,  Maine,  and  died  January  24, 
1863,  in  Calais,  Maine.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
lived  between  Machias  and  East  Machias  and 
subsequently  resided  for  a  time  in  St.  Steph- 
ens, New  Brunswick,  where  his  wife  died. 
He  married,  December  13,  1796,  Pricilla  Hill, 
of  Machias,  who  was  born  there  July  28, 
1780,  died  September  13,  1850,  in  St.  Steph- 
ens. Their  children  were :  Eliza  C,  Mary 
Ann,  Jane,  David,  Hannah  Hill,  Amelia, 
Stephen  Hill  and  John  Smith. 

(V)  David  (2),  second  son  of  David  (i) 
and  Pricilla  (Hill)  Pineo,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 25,  1803,  in  Machias,  died  October  5, 
1862.  He  was  a  lumberman,  a  manufacturer 
and  trader  in  lumber,  and  lived  in  that  part 
of  Calais  known  as  Milltown.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  St.  Stephens  by  Rev.  Dr.  Thompson, 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


to  Mrs.  Amelia  Sedgley,  daughter  of  John 
Hall,  and  widow  of  Stephen  Sedgley.  She 
was  born  March  9,  1807,  at  St.  Stephens,  and 
survived  her  husband  nearly  twenty-eight 
years,  dying  May  2,  1890,  at  Milltown.  They 
had  eight  children :  Julia  Ann,  Josiah  Hill, 
George  Washington,  Eben  Libby,  Minnie, 
Amelia,  David  and  Stephen  Sedgley. 

(VI)  Minnie,  second  daughter  of  David  (2) 
and  Amelia  (Hall)  (Sedgley)  Pineo,  was 
born  November  27,  1843,  in  Calais,  Maine, 
and  died  October  i,  1883,  in  Bufifalo,  New 
York.  She  was  married  to  James  Arthur 
Roberts.      (See  Roberts  VIII.) 

Through  Elizabeth  Sampson,  wife  of  Peter 
Pineo,  this  family  takes  in  something  of  the 
Alden  and  Standish  blood.  (See  Alden  and 
Standish.)  The  name  was  originally  spelled 
Samson,  and  it  is  found  thus  written  in  the 
early  Colonial  records.  The  Sampsons  of 
New  England  are  mostly  if  not  all  descend- 
ants of  two  English  immigrants,  Henry  and 
Abraham,  who  were  probably  brothers,  but 
this  fact  has  never  been  fully  verified.  De- 
scendants of  both  participated  in  the  various 
wars  under  the  colonial  and  federal  govern- 
ments, distinguishing  themselves  on  land  and 
sea,  and  the  famous  Deborah  Sampson,  who, 
disguised  as  a  man,  served  in  the  revolution- 
ary war,  was  descended  from  Abraham.  She 
drew  a  pension  for  this  service,  and  after  her 
death  it  was  continued  to  her  husband,  to 
whom  she  was  married  after  leaving  the  army. 
(I)  Henry  Sampson,  the  American  pro- 
genitor of  the  Maine  family,  a  brief  outline 
of  whose  history  is  now  in  hand,  was  among 
the  company  of  Pilgrims  who  came  in  the 
"Mayflower"  in  1620,  and  was  included  in  the 
family  of  his  uncle,  Edward  Tilley.  Being  a 
minor  he  did  not  sign  the  famous  compact, 
formulated  November  11  of  that  year,  while 
the  vessel  was  at  anchor  in  Princeton  harbor, 
but  he  shared  in  the  allotment  of  land  at 
Plymouth  in  1623,  and  in  the  division  of  cattle 
in  1627,  and  in  1637  was  made  a  freeman  of 
the  colony.  With  Captain  Myles  Standish, 
John  Alden,  and  others  he  settled  in  Dux- 
bury,  and  although  his  name  appears  among 
the  original  grantees  of  the  town  of  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts,  in  1645,  he  did  not  go 
there  to  reside.  In  1661  he  served  as  con- 
stable at  Duxbury  and  his  death  occurred 
there  December  24,  1684.  He  was  married,  in 
1635-36,  to  Ann  Plummer,  and  those  of  his 
children  who  survived  him  were :  Elizabeth, 
Hannah,  a  daughter  who  became  the  wife  of 
John  Hammond,  John,  Mary,  wife  of  John 
Summers ;  Dorcas,  James,  Stephen  and  Caleb. 


(II)  Caleb,  son  of  Henry  and  Ann  (Plum- 
mer) Sampson,  married  Mercy  (or  Mary) 
Standish,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Sarah 
(Alden)  Standish. 

(III)  David,  son  of  Caleb  and  Mercy 
(Standish)  Sampson,  married  Mary  Chaffin 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  Elizabeth  Samp- 
son, wife  of  Peter  Pineo. 


The  history  of  this 
FAIRBROTHER  Maine  family  begins 
with  the  closing  years 
of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  probably  does 
not  antedate  the  period  of  the  revolution ;  and 
while  that  particular  family  here  under  con- 
sideration has  not  at  any  time  been  a  prolific 
one,  its  several  generations  from  the  time  of 
the  ancestor  have  produced  men  of  character, 
education  and  sterling  worth. 

(I)  Isaac  Fairbrother,  with  whom  our  pres- 
ent narrative  begins,  was  born  in  Wales,  and 
according  to  genealogical  calculation  the  date 
of  his  birth  was  about  1765-70.  The  year  in 
which  he  came  to  this  country  is  not  definitely 
known,  and  little  else  concerning  him,  except 
that  he  is  remembered  as  having  been  a  man 
of  superior  educational  attainments,  himself 
a  school  teacher,  as  also  was  his  wife  in  her 
earlier  years.  Her  name  before  marriage  was 
Margaret  Wippond,  and  they  married  pre- 
vious to  the  time  of  their  immigration  to 
America.  So  near  as  can  be  determined,  they 
settled  at  Getchel's  Corners,  in  the  town  of 
Vassalboro,  Maine,  and  at  some  time  after- 
ward removed  to  China,  Maine. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Isaac  and  Margaret 
(Wippond)  Fairbrother,  was  born  in  China, 
Maine,  in  1802,  and  married  Susanna  Gifford, 
who  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Maine,  in  1805. 

(III)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Joseph  and  Susanna 
(Gifford)  Fairbrother,  was  born  in  St.  Al- 
bans, Maine,  November  4,  1840,  and  acquired 
his  early  education  in  public  schools  in  his 
native  town  and  his  secondary  education  at 
Oak  Grove  Seminary,  at  Hartford,  Maine, 
where  he  fitted  for  college,  but  did  not  make 
the  collegiate  course.  After  leaving  the  semi- 
nary he  turned  his  attention  to  pedagogical 
work  and  taught  in  academic  and  high  schools 
at  St.  Albans,  Cambridge,  Ripley,  China  and 
other  towns  in  Maine,  and  at  St.  Albans  he 
was  supervisor  of  town  schools  for  a  period 
of  four  years.  In  1870  he  went  to  Washing- 
ton, District  of  Columbia,  and  in  1876  was 
appointed  principal  of  the  Jefferson  school, 
in  which  capacity  he  proved  himself  an  en- 
tirely capable  and  acceptable  teacher  and 
executive  officer,  hence  in  October,  1884,  he 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


1643 


was  advanced  to  the  more  responsible  office 
of  supervising  principal,  the  duties  of  which 
gave  him  supervision  of  eight  pubhc  schools 
of  the  city  and  the  direction  of  about  ninety 
regular  and  a  less  number  of  special  teachers. 
Since  it  was  organized  Mr.  Fairbrother  has 
been  president  of  the  Supervising  Principals' 
Association  of  Washington.  He  holds  mem- 
berships in  the  several  subordinate  Masonic 
bodies  of  the  city,  Federal  Lodge,  No.  i,  F. 
and  A.  M.,  Eureka  Chapter,  No.  4,  R.  A.  M., 
Washington  Commandery,  No.  i,  R.  and  S. 
M.,  and  also  has  taken  fifteen  of  the  degrees 
of  the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite.  March 
4,  1867,  Isaac  Fairbrother  married  Drucilla, 
daughter  of  William  Oakes,  of  Orland,  Han- 
cock countv,  Maine. 


This  Boyd  family  is  from  New 
BOYD  Brunswick,  Dominion  of  Canada, 
and  was  first  represented  by  Rich- 
ard Boyd,  of  whom  but  little  is  known.  The 
name  indicates  that  he  was  of  Scotch  descent, 
and  his  family  has  preserved  the  virtues  pe- 
culiar to  the  "land  of  the  heather." 

(II)  Dr.  Robert,  son  of  Richard  Boyd,  was 
born  June  i,  1837,  in  Richmond,  New  Bruns- 
wick, received  a  good  education  and  taught 
school  during  his  earlier  years,  in  the  vicinity 
of  his  birthplace,  for  twelve  years.  At  the 
end  of  that  period  he  entered  Harvard  College 
(medical  department),  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1868.  He  settled  at  Linneus,  Maine, 
where  he  has  enjoyed  a  lucrative  practice  for 
almost  forty  years.  He  married  Eliza  Jane 
Savage,  born  1836,  in  Williamstown,  New 
Brunswick.  The  children  by  this  union  were : 
Linette  I.,  married  Dr.  W.  N.  Hand,  of 
Woodstock,  New  Brunswick;  Wendell  C.  and 
Byron. 

(HI)  Byron,  son  of  Robert  and  Eliza  Jane 
(Savage)  Boyd,  was  born  August  31,  1864, 
at  Victoria  Corner,  Carlton  county.  New 
Brunswick.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  Linneus  and  Houlton  Academy, 
and  graduated  from  Colby  University  in  1886. 
After  his  leaving  college,  he  taught  the  high 
school  of  Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  one  year,  and 
later  became  interested  in  the  grain  business 
with  Ralph  Hamer,  in  Bar  Harbor.  Subse- 
quently he  was  employed  as  a  clerk  for  the 
Green  Mountain  Railroad  Company  at  Bar 
Harbor,  where  he  remained  one  and  a  half 
years.  In  1889  he  went  to  Augusta,  Maine, 
and  entered  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state, 
where  he  was  a  clerk  for  six  years ;  later  was 
deputy  secretary  of  state  for  two  years.  Hav- 
ing made  an  almost  enviable  public  record  as 


an  officer  and  clerk  in  state  affairs,  he  was 
elected  secretary  of  the  state  of  Maine,  taking 
his  office  January,  1897,  continuing  in  that  im- 
portant position  for  ten  years.  Since  1906  he 
has  been  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Boyd  &  Harvey.  Politically 
Mr.  Boyd  is  a  supporter  of  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party.  He  is  an  ex-member 
of  the  Augusta  city  council ;  and  has  been  a 
member  of  the  state  Republican  committee  for 
the  past  eight  years  and  served  as  the  com- 
mittee's secretary.  Like  so  many  of  the  ad- 
vanced business  men  of  his  times,  he  is  iden- 
tified with  fraternities  as  follows:  Bethlehem 
Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.;  Cushnoc  Chapter, 
R.  A.  M.;  Trinity  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar;  is  noble  of  Cora  Temple  of  Mystic 
Shriners,  Lewiston,  Maine.  He  is  also  affili- 
ated with  the  Knights  of  Pythias /and  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Augusta.  He 
is  a  charter  member  of  Augusta  Lodge, 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  member 
of  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  and  is  connected 
with  several  clubs.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Au- 
gusta Trust  Company,  and  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  board  since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  company.  He  was  married  Janu- 
ary 9,  1895,  to  Lucy  E.  Burleigh,  born  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1874.  Their  children  are:  i.  Doro- 
thy, born  November  12,  1895,  in  Augusta.  2. 
Robert,  June  25,  1902.  3.  Mary,  December 
10,  1903.  4.  Richard,  December  12,  1904.  5. 
Burleigh,  December  11,  1905. 

This  name  is  derived  from 
DEVEREUX  the  town  of  Evereux,  Nor- 
mandy, and  several  came 
over  with  William  the  Conqueror,  in  1066, 
from  the  town  of  Dives.  The  earldom  of  Es- 
sex was  held  by  the  Devereux  family,  and 
Robert  Devereux,  the  second  Earl  of  Essex, 
was  a  great  favorite  with  Queen  Elizabeth. 
There  was  a  John  Devereux  came  to  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  with  Winthrop's  fleet  in  1620, 
a  youth  of  sixteen.  He  was  living  in  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  in  1694.    He  had  a  son  John. 

(I)  Richard  Devereux,  either  a  direct  emi- 
grant from  England  or  a  descendant  of  the 
Salem  line,  was  taxed  in  Parsonsfield,  Maine, 
in  1796. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Richard  Devereux, 
was  born  in  Parsonsfield,  Maine,  August  4, 
1790,  married,  July  31,  1818,  Phoebe  True- 
worthy,  and  departed  this  life  February  i, 
1865.  His  wife  died  December  25,  1880. 
Their  children  were  John,  Jonathan,  Mary, 
Thomas,  Phoebe. 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


(III)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Phoebe 
(Tnieworthy)  Dcvereux,  was  born  in  Parsons- 
field,  Maine,  February  6,  1820,  and  died  at 
Kezar  Falls,  Maine,  July  9,  1906.  His  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  Parsons- 
field,  and  he  went  when  a  young  man  to  Ban- 
gor, Maine,  entering  the  employment  of  John 
Goddard  of  that  place,  for  whom  he  worked 
seven  years,  in  the  lumber  business.  He  was 
the  first  man  in  the  state  to  operate  gang 
saws.  He  went  to  Boston  and  engaged  in 
the  teaming  business,  where  he  remained  fif- 
teen years.  In  1870  he  returned  to  Kezar 
Falls,  Maine,  and  built  a  grist  mill,  which  he 
conducted  successfully  until  his  death.  He 
owned  the  water  power  at  Kezar  Falls,  and 
gave  the  site  where  the  Kezar  Falls  woolen 
mill  now  stands.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to 
start  the  mills,  and  invested  money  in  the  en- 
terprise. He  also  has  large  farming  interests, 
and  was  active  up  to  the  last  of  his  life.  He 
was  a  Republican,  and  was  honored  by  his 
party  associates  with  the  nomination  of  rep- 
resentative to  the  legislature.  He  was  en- 
rolled as  a  member  of  Greenlief  Lodge,  A. 
F.  A.  M.,  of  Cornish,  for  over  fifty  years.  He 
gave  liberally  to  the  church.  Eliza  M.  Patten, 
of  China,  Maine,  became  his  wife.  She  was 
born  October  22,  1830,  and  died  February  23, 
1899.    They  had  one  child,  Frank  Guy. 

(IV)  Frank  Guy,  son  of  John  and  Eliza 
M.  (Patten)  Devereux,  dates  his  career  from 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  November  10,  1858. 
The  Brimmer  School  in  Boston  and  West- 
brook  Seminary  was  the  book  route  he  fol- 
lowed. He  entered  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  College,  New  York, 
graduating  in  1880,  though  he  had  previously 
studied  at  Bowdoin  College,  and  with  Dr.  M. 
E.  Sweat.  He  had  also  been  connected  with 
Bellevue  Hospital  in  New  York.  At  Kezar 
Falls  he  located  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession, and  has  a  very  large  and  lucrative 
practice.  He  is  a  Republican,  belongs  to 
Greenlief  Lodge,  A.  F.  A.  M.,  Cornish, 
Maine;  Aurora  Chapter,  R.  A.  M. ;  Bridgeton 
Commandery,  Kora  Temple,  Lewiston ;  Cos- 
tello  Tribe  of  Red  Men,  Kezar  Falls.  He  is 
a  director  in  the  Kezar  Falls  woolen  mill.  He 
was  united  in  marriage  to  S.  Evelyn,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Ruth  (Taylor)  Ridlon,  of 
Porter,  Maine. 


of  age  he  established  himself  in  business  as  a 
carpenter  in  Hallowell.  He  had  a  shop  for 
manufacturing  builders'  finish  and  conducted 
this  business  all  his  active  life.  He  was  a  Re- 
I^ublican  in  politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  Orcler  of  United  Workmen.  He  mar- 
ried Harriet .  Children :  Bertha,  Will- 
iam G.,  Fitz  Morris,  mentioned  below ; 
George  A. 

(11)  Fitz  Morris,  son  of  William  George 
Fish,  was  born  April  17,  1873,  in  Hallowell, 
Maine.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  at  the  Capen  Business 
College.  Lie  entered  the  employ  of  C.  .\.  Cole, 
retail  grocer  in  Hallowell,  and  continued  for 
twelve  years.  He  was  appointed  deputy  sher- 
iff of  Kennebec  county  in  1901  and  city  mar- 
shal of  Hallowell.  He  has  been  postmaster 
of  Hallowell  since  May  ig,  1904.  He  is  a 
prominent  Free  Mason,  a  member  of  Kennebec 
Lodge ;  of  Jerusalem  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  of  Alpha  Council,  Royal  and  Select 
Masters ;  of  Trinity  Commandery.  He  is  past 
master  of  the  lodge  and  has  filled  all  the  chairs 
in  the  chapter  and  of  Kora  Temple,  Mystic 
Shrine,  Lewiston,  except  that  of  high  priest. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Augusta  Lodge, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  No. 
964;  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  of  Hallowell 
and  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men. 


WilHam  George  Fish,  son  of 

FISH     Fish,    was    born     1836    and    died 

1887,    in    Hallowell,    Maine.      He 

was    educated    in    the    public    schools,    and 

learned  the  trade  of  carpenter.    When  he  came 


This  name,  which  may  be  found 
ALLEN  in  the  early  annals  of  New  Eng- 
land, was  evidently  brought  from 

England,  and   its  bearers   are  now   scattered 

throughout  the  LInited  States. 

(I)  Jotham  Allen  was  a  pioneer  in  the  town 
of  Alfred,  Maine,  settling  there  at  a  very  early 
period  of  its  history  and  taking  up  his  resi- 
dence in  a  rude  log  cabin. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Jotham  Allen,  born  in 
Alfred,  Maine,  i8i7,-died  in  September,  1895. 
He  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  farming 
and  lumbering.  He  was  a  stanch  supporter 
of  the  Democratic  party,  and  an  attendant  at 
the  Congregational  church.  He  married  Caro- 
line P.  Hill,  and  among  their  children  were : 
Fred  John,  see  forward  ;  Lizzie  M.,  married 
Tristrim  Russell,  a  resident  of  Alfred ;  Charles 
H.,  who  resides  in  Gorham,  Maine. 

(III)  Fred  Jolin,  son  of  John  and  Caroline 
P.  (Flill)  Allen,  was  born  in  Alfred,  York 
county,  Maine,  July  27,  1865.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Alfred,  the  Alfred  high 
school,  was  graduated  from  the  Nichols  Latin 
school  of  Lewiston,  Maine,  in  1886,  and  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  1890.     He  then  engaged 


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1645 


in  teaching  for  some  years,  at  the  same  time 
taking  up  the  study  of  law.  Under  the  pre- 
ceptorship  of  Samuel  M.  Crane,  of  Alfred,  he 
made  rapid  progress,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  York  county  in  May,  1893.  He  imme- 
diately engaged  in  the  active  practice  of  his 
profession  and  has  been  devoted  to  it  since 
that  time.  His  political  affiliations  are  with 
the  Republican  party,  and  he  has  served  it  in 
various  offices.  He  was  superintendent  of 
schools  in  1897;  elected  representative  to  the 
legislature  in  1900  and  1903;  chairman  of  the 
judiciary  committee  in  1903-05;  elected  state 
senator  1905-07;  president  of  the  senate  in 
1907.  He  attends  the  Congregational  church. 
He  is  a  member  of  Friendship  Lodge,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Alfred ;  White  Rose 
Royal  Arch  Chapter,  of  Sanford;  St.  Amord 
Commandcry,  of  Kennebunk;  and  Kora 
Temple,  of  Lewiston.  He  married,  June  8, 
1892,  Ida  S.,  daughter  of  Alonzo  Leavitt,  of 
Sanford,  and  they  have  children:  Frederick 
A.,  born  July  9,  1897;  Lawrence  C,  August  5, 
1899. 

The  name  "Bunker"  came 
BUNKER     from  Bon  Coeur,  a  good  heart. 

They  were  originally  Hugue- 
nots, and  as  such  bore  that  name.  They  came 
over  with  William  the  Conqueror  into  Eng- 
land from  Normandy.  It  is  glory  enough  for 
one  family  to  bear  the  name  of  the  once  owner 
of  Bunker  Hill. 

(I)  George,  of  Ipswich  and  Topsfield,  was 
the  son  of  William  Bunker,  of  England,  and 
settled  first  in  Ipswich,  and  subsequently  in 
Topsfield,  Massachusetts.  He  married  Jane 
Godfrey.  He  was  drowned  ]\Iay  26,  1658. 
His  wife  died  in  1662.  They  had  Elizabeth, 
William,  Mary,  Ann  and  Martha. 

(II)  William,  eldest  son  and  second  child 
of  George  and  Jane  (Godfrey)  Bunker,  was 
born  in  Topsfield,  Massachusetts,  1648,  re- 
moved to  Nantucket,  Massachusetts,  with  his 
mother  in  1712.  He  married,  April  11,  1669, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Hop- 
cot)  Macy.  He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
on  the  island.  Children :  Daniel,  George, 
John,  Jonathan,  Peleg,  Jabez,  Thomas,  Ben- 
jamin, Ann,  Abigail,  Mary  Ann  and  Jane. 

(HI)  Jabez,  sixth  child  and  son  of  William 
and  Mary  (Macy)  Bunker,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 7,  1678.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Abigail  (Coffin)  Gardner. 
Children:  Naomi,  Samuel,  Paul,  Silas,  Lydia, 
Abner,  Benjamin,  Hannah,  Peter  and  Peleg. 
He  died  in  1712. 

(V)  Peter,  son  of  one  of  the  above  sons  of 
Jabez  and  Hannah  (Gardner)  Bunker,  served 


in  the  revolutionary  war;  was  taken  prisoner 
by  the  British  and  confined  in  English  pris- 
ons. After  his  release  he  returned  to  his 
native  state,  and  later  removed  to  South  West 
Harbor,  Hancock  county,  Maine.  He  married 
and  had  a  son,  Dudley  Peter. 

(VI)  Dudley  Peter,  son  of  Peter  Bunker, 
was  born  in  South  West  Harbor,  Maine.  He 
married  Arabella  Grow,  and  moved  to  West 
Trenton,  Maine,  where  his  son  John  E.  was 
born. 

(VII)  John  Edward,  son  of  Dudley  Peter 
and  Arabella  (Grow)  Bunker,  was  born  in 
1820  in  West  Trenton,  Maine.  That  burgh 
he  called  home  all  his  life.  He  married  Mary 
Ann  Alley,  of  West  Trenton.  Children: 
David  W.,  Arabella  G.,  Margery  H.,  Hannah 
Alice,  Georgia  A.,  Angle,  John  E.  Jr.  and 
Luther  Grow.  He  was  a  farmer  and  lumber- 
man. The  old  homestead  farm  is  still  owned 
by  the  Bunker  family.  He  was  a  Democrat, 
and  that  party  elected  him  to  the  office  of  se- 
lectman and  road  commissioner  for  several 
years.  He  followed  the  tenets  of  Hosea  Bal- 
lou,  the  apostle  of  Universalism.  He  died  in 
West  Trenton,  Maine,  April,  1906,  Mrs. 
Bunker  having  died  in  1883. 

(VIII)  The  Hon.  Luther  Grow,  youngest 
child  and  son  of  John  Edward  and  Mary  A. 
(Alley)  Bunker,  was  born  March  19,  1868, 
in  West  Trenton,  Maine.  He  attended  Blue 
Hill  Academy,  and  graduated  with  the  de- 
gree of  M.  D.  from  the  Bowdoin  Medical 
School  in  1892.  Dr.  Bunker  immediately  took 
up  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Sanford, 
Maine,  thence  at  North  Berwick,  Maine,  mov- 
ing to  Waterville  in  1895.  He  was  city  physi- 
cian of  Waterville  from  1898  to  1901,  and  was 
secretary  of  the  board  of  health  from  1896  to 
1902,  and  chairman  of  the  Republican  city 
committee  of  Waterville,  1906-07-08.  Dr. 
Bunker  is  a  member  of  Maine  Medical  Society, 
American  Medical  Society,  York  County  Med- 
ical Society,  Kemiebec  County  Medical  So- 
ciety, which  he  has  served  as  president, 
Waterville  Clinical  Society,  which  he  has 
also  served  as  president.  He  was  elected 
mayor  of  his  adopted  city  in  March,  1907 
and  1908,  as  a  Republican.  Mayor  Bunker  is 
a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A. 
M.;  Teconnet  Chapter,  No.  50,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  holding  therein  the  office  of  surgeon 
of  Third  Regiment  of  the  uniformed  rank ; 
of  Modern  Woodmen,  and  a  charter  member 
of  Waterville  Lodge,  No.  905,  B.  P.  O.  E., 
and  is  an  Odd  Fellow.  Mayor  Bunker  married 
Emilv  R.,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Emily 
(Heath)  Plaisted. 


1646 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


The  Halfords  developed  in 
HALFORD     the     EngHsh     midlands, 

Worcestershire.  It  is  a 
county  noted  for  its  salt  works,  its  needle 
manufactories,  its  carpet  industries,  and  glass 
making.  It  is  not  known  to  which  trade  the 
Halfords  belonged  only  that  they  were  ar- 
tisans. 

(I)  John  Halford  lived  and  died  in  Worces- 
tershire. 

(II)  "John   (2)    Halford  married  and   was 
the  father  of  a  son  John. 

(III)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Halford, 
was  born  in  the  parish  of  Lynton  Ross, 
Worcestershire,  in  1819,  and  died  October  6, 
1899.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  and  enlisted  in  the  English  army  Au- 
gust 24,  1837,  serving  eighteen  years  and 
forty-one  days.  He  was  through  the  whole  of 
the  Skye  war  in  India,  was  in  four  general 
actions,  and  was  wounded  twice.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  sergeant  of  his  company,  and  won 
three  good  conduct  badges  for  meritorious 
service.  He  was  discharged  on  account  of 
disability,  and  was  eligible  to  the  Chelsea  Pen- 
sions, a  special  home  for  soldiers.  After  the 
war  he  opened  a  training  school  for  young 
ladies,  where  physical  training  and  military 
drills  were  taught.  He  spent  his  later  years 
in  retirement.  In  politics  he  was  a  Liberal, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church. 
He  married  Harriet  Mitchell,  of  Oxford, 
England,  born  1820,  and  died  in  Yorkshire  in 
1875.  Their  children  were :  Robert,  Jane  H. 
(deceased),  and  John,  who  is  a  foreman  for 
an  excavating  contractor  in  Scotland. 

(IV)  Robert,  son  of  John  (3)  and  Harriet 
(Mitchell)  Halford,  was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Chances  Pitch,  Hereford  Beacon,  Hereford- 
shire, England,  October  21,  1862.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  in  the  village  of  Shelf, 
Yorkshire,  England.  When  eight  years  of 
age  he  was  employed  in  a  worsted  factory, 
going  to  school  half  of  each  day.  In  1879  he 
came  to  America  and  went  into  the  Providence 
Worsted  Mills,  Rhode  Island,  as  a  journey- 
man. He  also  worked  in  the  coal  fields  of 
Kansas  for  a  time,  and  then  returned  to  Eng- 
land, to  a  suburb  of  Bradford,  and  was  em- 
ployed in  the  worsted  mills  there  for  four 
years.  Returning  to  Providence,  Rhode  Is- 
land, he  was  there  employed  in  the  Providence 
worsted  mills,  went  to  Oswego  Falls,  New 
York,  worsted  niilb,  as  overseer,  coming  to 
Providence  again  for  a  short  stay.  We  next 
find  him  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  working  for 
the  United  States  Bunting  Company,'as  over- 
seer of  spinning  and  twisting.  He  came  to  San- 


ford,  Maine,  from  Lowell,  and  was  the  first 
person  employed  by  the  Goodall  Worsted 
Company,  remaining  with  them  for  seventeen 
years  in  the  charge  of  the  yarn  finishing  de- 
partment. In  1905  he  moved  to  Limerick, 
Maine,  as  agent  and  superintendent  in  the 
Limerick  mills,  and  is  financially  interested 
in  the  corporation.  A  Republican  in  politics, 
he  takes  a  deep  interest  in  political  affairs.  He 
is  affiliated  with  Friendship  Lodge,  I.  O.  O. 
F.,  No.  67,  of  Springvale,  Sagamore  Tribe  of 
Red  Men  of  Sanford,  Thomas  Goodall  Lodge, 
No.  51,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  of  Sanford,  Freedom 
Lodge,  F.  A.  and  A.  M.  of  Limerick.  He  was 
an  active  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  when  in  Sanford.  He  was  married, 
in  1 88 1,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Moses  and 
Mary  Hillowill,  of  Buttershaw,  Yorkshire, 
England.  Their  children  are:  i.  John  H., 
born  in  Great  Horton,  a  suburb  of  Bradford, 
England,  September  25,  1885,  attended 
Hebron  Academy  and  Bowdoin  College.  He 
is  now  assistant  superintendent  under  his 
father  in  Limerick  mills.  Pie  is  a  member  of 
the  Zeta  Psi,  a  college  fraternity;  of  Lim- 
erick Grange;  of  Highland  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
No.  48,  of  Limerick;  of  Fairview  Rebekah 
Lodge,  of  Limerick ;  of  Freedom  Lodge,  A. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Limerick;  of  Aurora  R.  A. 
C,  of  Cornish ;  of  Maine  Council,  Saco ;  of 
Portland  Commandery ;  of  Kora  Temple,  Lew- 
iston ;  of  the  Sokokis  Chapter,  Eastern  Star ; 
of  Sokokis  Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  of  Limerick.  2. 
Minnie  M.,  born  July  22,  1887,  in  Great  Hor- 
ton, a  suburb  of  Bradford,  England,  married, 
July  3,  1907,  Professor  Burton  W.  Sander- 
son, of  Waterford,  Maine,  now  of  Mendon, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  is  principal  of  the 
high  school. 


The  narrative  here  written 
OVEREND  relates  to  a  Maine  family 
whose  part  in  the  history  of 
this  state  is  to  be  included  among  the  events 
of  the  last  score  and  a  half  years,  yet  is  en- 
titled to  a  place  in  these  annals  by  reason  of 
the  thrift,  progressive  spirit  and  known  in- 
tegrity of  its  members.  The  family  name 
Overend  has  been  known  in  various  parts  of 
England  for  many  years  and  for  several  gen- 
erations previous  to  the  immigration  of  its 
first  representative  in  New  England  it  had 
produced  men  skillful  in  trades  and  mechani- 
cal arts,  many  of  them  having  qualified  them- 
selves for  higher  positions  in  the  guild  schools 
of  the  mother  country. 

(I)  Jonas  Overend  was  a  native  of  Brad- 
ford, England,  a  city  famous  for  its  manu- 


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1647 


factures  and  the  quality  of  the  workmen  em- 
ployed in  its  diversified  mill  products.  He 
married  his  wife  in  the  equally  noted  industrial 
city  of  Leeds,  and  they  had  children. 

(II)  Benjamin,  son  of  Jonas  Overend,  was 
born  in  Bradford  in  1845,  was  educated  there, 
served  out  his  apprenticeship  at  his  trade,  and 
came  over  to  this  country  in  187 1  to  take  the 
responsible  position  of  overseer  or  superin- 
tendent in  a  woolen  mill  in  iVIystic,  Connecti- 
cut. At  the  end  of  one  year  he  came  to  this 
state  and  was  appointed  to  a  position  as  clerk 
in  the  office  of  his  father-in-law,  William  Tay- 
lor, who  was  proprietor  of  the  mills  at  Harri- 
son. Not  long  afterward  the  mills  were  de- 
stroyed by  fire,  and  Mr.  Overend  then  went 
to  Bridgton  and  had  charge  of  the  dressing 
department  of  a  mill  there  for  the  next  four 
years.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  went  to 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  became  overseer 
of  dressing  in  the  Merrimac  woolen  mills  in 
that  city,  remained  there  about  four  years  and 
afterward  did  similar  work  in  the  Maynard 
mills  in  Maynard,  Massachusetts,  returning 
thence  to  Lowell  and  worked  two  years  more 
in  that  city.  In  1880  Mr.  Overend  returned 
to  this  state  and  lived  about  nine  years  in 
Bridgton,  then  removed  to  Lawrence,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  was  dresser  tender  in  the  Wash- 
ington mills  until  his  retirement  from  active 
pursuits.  His  life  has  been  one  of  constant 
and  useful  employment,  not  perhaps  without 
its  vicissitudes  and  embarrassments,  but  taken 
as  a  whole  it  has  been  one  of  gratifying  suc- 
cess. While  living  in  Connecticut  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge  in  Broadbrook,  • 
and  so  far  as  he  has  taken  an  interest  in  politi- 
cal affairs  his  preference  has  been  for  the  Re- 
publican party.  His  wife,  Sarah  (Taylor) 
Overend,  was  born  in  England  in  1855,  a 
daughter  of  William  Taylor,  who  was  his  em- 
ployer when  he  first  came  to  Maine.  Six 
children  were  born  of  this  marriage :  George 
William,  Lizzie,  Annie,  Martha,  Josephine, 
James,  who  died  in  infancy. 

(III)  George  William,  eldest  child- of  Ben- 
jamin and  Sarah  (Taylor)  Overend,  was  born 
in  Mystic,  Connecticut,  February  23,  1872,  and 
was  educated  in  public  schools  in  Lowell  and 
Maynard  in  Massachusetts,  and  Bridgton, 
Maine.  After  leaving  school  he  began  work 
in  the  mills  where  his  father  was  employed, 
starting  when  he  was  only  fifteen  years  old, 
and  in  the  course  of  a  few  years  became  him- 
self a  practical  workman,  capable  of  doing  any 
kind  of  work  in  his  special  line  and  competent 
to  take  charge  and  direct  the  work  of  other 
men.     His  first  responsible  position  was  that 


of  assistant  superintendent  and  designer  in  a 
mill  at  Goffs  Falls,  New  Hampshire,  and  from 
there  he  went  to  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts, 
and  was  designer  in  a  mill  in  that  city.  In 
1897  he  went  to  Vassalborough,  Maine,  to 
take  charge  of  the "  Vassalborough  mills, 
worked  there  about  three  years  and  then  be- 
came equal  partner  with  Thomas  Sampson, 
an  Englishman  by  birth  and  a  skillful  woolen 
worker  by  trade,  in  starting  a  worsted  goods 
mill  in  Waterville,  Maine.  This  was  in  1900, 
and  he  engaged  in  business  in  that  city  until 
1904,  then  removed  to  Bridgton  to  take  the  su- 
perintendency  of  the  Pondcherry  and  Forest 
mills,  which  position  he  still  retains.  In  every 
capacity  in  which  he  has  been  employed  Mr. 
Overend  has  proved  himself  a  thoroughly 
competent  workman  and  efficient  superintend- 
ent, and  as  such  he  is  well  known  among 
woolen  mill  proprietors  in  this  state.  He  is 
well  known,  top,  in  social  and  fraternal  cir- 
cles, being  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  No. 
25,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Taconic  Chapter,  R.  A.  M., 
St.  Omar  Commandery,  K.  T.,  Kora  Temple, 
A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of  Lewiston,  Maine,  and 
of  Waterville  Lodge,  No.  915,  B.  P.  O.  E.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican.  Mr.  Overend 
married,  March  14,  1894,  Emma  C,  daughter 
of  Theophilus  Coupe,  of  Lawrence,  Massachu- 
setts, by  whom  he  has  two  children:  i.  Ber- 
nice,  born  February  29,  1896.  2.  Doris,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1901. 


The  ancient  Anglo-Saxon  name 
TODD  Todd  denotes  fox ;  and  may  have 
been  put  upon  some  Briton  in  the 
early  times  of  name  taking  on  account  of  his 
sly  and  shrewd  ways  or  he  may  have  used  the 
emblem  of  the  fox  as  a  sign  over  his  place 
of  business  and  been  known  as  "of  the  Todd," 
that  is,  the  man  who  does  business  under  the 
sign  of  the  Todd,  and  finally  have  taken  Todd 
for  his  surname. 

Percy  R.  Todd  was  born  in  Toronto,  On- 
tario, December  4,  1859,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  Collegiate  Institute  at  Ottawa, 
Ontario.  In  1872  he  entered  the  railway  ser- 
vice as  a  clerk  and  telegraph  operator  in  the 
general  office  of  the  St.  Lawrence  and  Ottawa 
railway,  now  a  part  of  the  Canadian  Pacific 
railway,  at  Ottawa,  and  held  those  positions 
until  1875.  Subsequently  he  was  Canadian 
agent  of  the  Ogdensburg  &  Lake  Champlain 
road  to  1882;  from  that  date  to  1885  general 
traveling  agent  of  the  National  Despatch  line 
at  Chicago,  Illinois;  July  to  December,  1885, 
commercial  agent  of  the  New  York,  West 
Shore  &  Buffalo  railroad,  at  Albany ;  Decem- 


1648 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


ber,  1885,  to  October,  1886,  chief  clerk  of  the 
general  freight  department  of  that  road  at 
New  York  City;  October,  1886,  to  December, 
1889,  general  freight  and  passenger  agent  of 
the  Canada  Atlantic  road  at  Ottawa,  Ontario ; 
December,  1889,  to  December,  1892,  general 
freight  agent  of  the  West  Shore  road ;  De- 
cember, 1892,  to  February  i,  1901,  traffic  man- 
ager of  the  same  road;  February  i,  1901,  to 
November  i,  1903,  second  vice-president  of 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  rail- 
road;  November  i,  1903,  to  January  i,  1907, 
first  vice-president  of  the  same  road.  About 
the  latter  date  he  was  offered  and  accepted 
the  office  of  vice-president  of  the  Bangor  & 
Aroostook  railroad,  which  he  accepted  and  has 
since  filled.  Mr.  Todd  is  a  genial  gentleman 
of  unimpeachable  character  as  a  citizen,  and 
an  energetic  and  successful  railroad  man  and 
officer.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
and  the  Transportation  clubs  of  New  York, 
and  of  the  Tarratine  and  Golf  clubs  of  Ban- 
gor. 

He  married  (first)  Estelie  Du  Charme,  who 
died  in  1886.  One  child,  Erminie,  born  in 
1886.  He  married  (second)  in  December, 
1897,  Frances,  daughter  of  D.  M.  and  Susan 
Fackler,  of  New  York.  One  child,  Stella,  born 
in  1899. 


In  the  north  of  Ireland  this  an- 
BYRNES     cient  cognomen  is  one  of  the 

best  known,  and  many  of  this 
prolific  family  of  Byrnes  are  men  of  substance 
and  excellent  business  ability. 

(I)  Roger  Byrnes  was  born  in  Western 
Kerry,  Ireland.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived 
to  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years. 

(II)  Joseph  R.,  son  of  Roger  Byrnes,  was 
born  in  Ireland,  in  1834,  and  died  there  in 
January,  1898.  He  carried  on  contracting  on 
an  extensive  scale,  and  built  hundreds  of 
houses  for  the  non-resident  landlords  who 
borrowed  money  from  the  crown  to  erect 
dwellings  for  their  tenantry  on  their  estates. 
He  married  Ann  O'Shea;  children:  i.  Dan- 
iel, who  cultivates  the  Irish  homestead.  2. 
John,  shoe  merchant  of  Lewiston,  Maine.  3. 
Patrick  J.,  see  forward.  4.  Joseph,  engaged 
on  the  police  force  in  Somerville,  Massachu- 
setts. 5.  Michael,  member  of  Royal  Irish  con- 
stabulary stationed  at  Cork,  Ireland.  6.  Tim- 
othy, member  of  Royal  Irish  constabulary 
stationed  at  Dublin,  Ireland.  7.  Mary  (Mrs. 
O'Connor),  lives  in  Ireland.  8.  Bridget,  lives 
in  Lewiston,  Maine,  g.  Ellen  (Mrs.  Harkins), 
lives  in  Lewiston,  Maine.    10.  Abigail,  lives  in 


Boston,  Massachusetts,    ii.  Ann  (Mrs.  O'Sul- 
livan),  lives  in  Ireland. 

(Ill)  Patrick  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph  R. 
Byrnes,  was  born  in  Ireland,  June  18,  1870. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and 
at  the  ]\Ionks'  school,  at  the  head  of  which 
was  General  Griffin.  When  about  to  come  of 
age,  in  1890,  he  came  to  the  United  States, 
first  locating  in  Boston,  Massachusetts.  He 
subsequently  went  to  Lewiston,  Maine,  and 
worked  in  the  cotton  mills  for  a  time,  after- 
ward taking  up  the  insurance  business  in  that 
city.  In  1896  he  settled  in  Bangor,  Maine, 
where  he  has  since  resided.  He  conducts  an 
extensive  and  prosperous  general  insurance 
business,  representing  various  companies,  be- 
sides acting  in  the  capacity  of  manager  for  the 
New  England  Real  Estate  Company,  a  cor- 
poration which  transacts  a  large  business, 
having  all  New  England  for  its  field.  He 
takes  an  active  interest  in  community  affairs, 
and  takes  a  real  enjoyment  in  an  exciting 
political  campaign.  He  is  of  affable  and  com- 
panionable disposition,  and  has  drawn  to  him- 
self many  friends,  who  thoroughly  appreciate 
his  admirable  qualities  of  head  and  heart.  He 
is  an  active  member  of  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus, of  which  body  he  is  financial  secretary. 
Mr.  Byrnes  married,  in  1905,  Julia,  daughter 
of  Robert  and  Julia  Hickson ;  children :  Anna 
Beatrice  and  Eleanor. 


Sweet  is  descriptive  of  the  dis- 
SWEET     position  of  a  person.  There  were 

a  good  many  Sweets  came  over 
in  the  infancy  of  the  old  Bay  Colony,  and  John 
Sweet  was  in  Boston  in  1645.  I"  ^'^^  Book 
of  Possessions  his  name  appears  as  an  owner 
of  land,  and  in  1648  he  owned  a  wharf  at 
which  Governor  Bellingham  had  the  privilege 
of  mooring.  His  wife's  name  was  Temper- 
ance, and  she  joined  the  church  in  1648.  John 
Sweet,  son  of  the  above,  was  born  in  1647, 
and  had  for  wife  Susannah.  He  left  no  male 
issue,  but  the  original  John  undoubtedly  had 
other  sons,  and  from  some  of  them  our  Sweet 
has  come  down. 

(I)  Charles  Sweet  was  born  in  Boston  about 
1800.  He  was  a  jeweler  and  optician  in  Ban- 
gor, Maine,  coming  there  in  1852,  and  mar- 
ried Mary  Ann  Whitten,  of  Newburyport, 
Massachusetts.  They  had  four  children,  of 
whom  Charles  F.  is  the  only  survivor. 

(II)  Charles  F.,  son  of  Charles  and  Mary 
Ann  (Whitten)  Sweet,  was  born  in  Bangor, 
January  30,  1855,  and  educated  in  the  Bangor 
public  schools.     During  early  life  he  worked 


STATE  OF  MAINE. 


with  his  father  as  a  jeweler,  and  also  in  Bos- 
ton   in  the  same  occupation.     In  1874  he  was 
employed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  court  of 
Penobscot  county,  and  on  the  first  of  Septem- 
ber, 1882,  was  elected  to  that  office,  which  he 
now  holds.     He  is  an  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Reason  of  St.  Andrew's  Lodee   No  8^ 
Mount   Moriah   Royal  Arch   Chapter"    No    6 
Bangor    Council,   Royal   and    Select    Masters' 
St     John's    Commandery,    Knights    Templar' 
and   the  Ancient  and  Accepted   Scottish  Rite 
ot  Bangor,  thirty-second  degree,  and  the  Mys- 
tic Shrine  of  Lewiston.     In  Odd  Fellowship 
he  is  identified  with  Penobscot  Lod<^e    No    7 
as  trustee  for  twenty  years,  is  also  a  member 
of  Bangor  Lodge,  No.  244,  B    P   O    E     He 
IS  a  Republican.     Mr.  Sweet  is  very  popular 
among  the  members  of  the  bar,  and  those  who 
have  to  do  with  the  courts.     He  is  courteous 
accommodating,    and    perfectly    familiar    with 
the  details  of  his  office.     He  married  Flora  E 
Haynes,  January  i,  1879. 

r-ATiTT  r  ^^"^  ^^*^"'  ^  member  of  a  re- 
LAIELL  spected  family  of  Italy,  who 
was  born  at  Lucca,  that  coun- 
try m  1820,  and  died  in  1893,  was  a  brick 
and  stone  mason  by  occupation.  He  married 
Teresa  Satolli;  four  children,  of  whom  two 
are  now  living,  Francois  in  Italy,  and  Charles 
K. 

.  ir^^'!  ,f'  '°\°^  P^"'  ^"d  Teresa   (Sa- 
tolli) Catell,  was  born  in  Lucca,  Italy    Octo- 
ber 14,   1852,  and  came  to  America  'in   1872 
His  opportunities  for  obtaining  a  good  educa- 
tion were  limited,  and  for  two  years  he  worked 
as  a  laborer  on  the  Boston  &  Albany  railroad 
He  saw  there  was  very  little  prospect  of  ad- 
vancement in   this  direction,  and  accordingly 
decided  to  adopt  some  other  line  of  business 
in    which    he    could   be    independent   and    ad- 
vance more  rapidly.     He  went  to  New  Hamp- 
shire, there  purchased  a  horse  and  wagon  and 
engaged  in  the  peddling  of  fruit  in  Rochester 
Manchester  and  other  places  for  about  ei-h- 
een  months;  he  then  went  to  Maine,  where 
he  carried  on  the  same  business,  and  in  1870 
in  Bangor,  opened  a  store  where  he  sold  fruits' 
and  nuts.     His   industry  and  good  manage- 
ment were  not  without  results,  as  his  business 
increased    rapidly   and    he    now   employs    five 
clerks.     He  has  also  taken  an  interest  in  real 
estate  matters,  having  built  seventeen  houses 
owning  eight  at  the  present  time,  in  addition 
to  a  large  tenement  flat,  the  first  to  be  built 
in    Bangor,    and   other    real    property       Mr 


1649 


Catell  IS  a  fine  example  of  a  self-made  man 
in  the  true  sense  of  the  word,  coming  to  this 
coumr)-  vy.thout  means,  and  owing  everything 
to  his  individual  efforts.     He  is  I  thirty-sec 
ond  degree  Mason  and  connected  with  The  fol- 
bwing  organizations:     Rising  Virtue  £dg, 
Mr:-?'nu^^  ^""^  Accepted   Masons;   Moun 
Moriah  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons    BanZ 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  S     John^s 
Commandery,    No.    3,    Scottish    Rite    bodies 
Perfection    Lodge,    Eastern    Star;    Pales  ine 
Council,  Princes  of  Jerusalem;  Bangor  Sap! 
er    Rose  Croix;   Maine  Consistory^ of  Por^ 
land;    Kora    Temple,    Nobles    of   tU  My°   c 

^■o?akV7eS^"'^^'^^^"^^^^^^ 

Hn^f'nr'""'^;  '^'  '^^^'  ^^"i^'  daughter  of 
Holt  Davis,  of  Bangor;  children:  i  Robert 
Charles,  who  was  educated  in  the  local  schools 
of  r.a„gor,  and  then  took  a  course  of  sevSl 
3  ears  m  a  Boston  conservatory  of  music 
La  er  he  expressed  a  desire  to  study  dentistry' 
and  became  a  student  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania;  after  the  completion  of  his 
studies  at  this  institution  he  returned  to  his 
home,  and  died  there  shortly  after,  October 
^AU^^h^^u''^-  ^^"^  °^  twenty-four  years.     2. 

Tud  hth  •'  ^^""C^  ^,^1'^"^  ^''™"&'^  the  common 
and  high  schools  of  Bangor,  is  now  preparing 
for  Harvard  College  at  Dean  Academy,  Frank^ 
hn,  Massachusetts.  3.  Sadie,  married  H. 
Kenn^^on,  of  Portland.  4.  Charles.   5.  Doris 


SPELLMAN 


This     family    is     variously 
called     O'Spealin,     Spellan, 
,„  ,  c   .„  Splaine,    Spollen,    Spellman 

and  Spillman,  and  is  descended  from  Mahon 
son     of     Kennedy,     the     brother     of     Brian 
Boroimhe,  who  is   No.    105  on  the  "O'Brien 
Kings  of  Thomas"  Stem.     The  O'Hanrahan 
family  IS  also  descended  from  this  Mahon  or 
Mahoun.     The   tribe-name  of  the   O'Spellan 
Sept  was  Hy-Leughaidh,  a  name  subsequently 
given  to  the  lands  of  which   they  were  pos- 
sessed in  the  baroncy  of  Eliogarty,  county  of 
lipperary;  and  a  name  derived  from  Leug- 
haidh,    a    remote    ancestor    of    the     family 
O  Heerin  says:    "The  chief  of  Hy-Leughaidli 
of  swords,  IS  O'Spellan  of  the  bright  spurs  ■ 
Majestic  is  the  march  of  the  Warrior''     A 
branch  of  the  house  of  Hy-Leughaidh  in  early 
times  settled  in  the  baroncy  of  Galmoy  in  the 
county  of  Kilkenny,  and  gave  name  to  "Ballv- 
spellane,      celebrated    for   its   mineral    waters 
Another  branch  settled  in  the  baroncy  of  Bar- 


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STATE  OF  MAINE. 


rvmore,  county  of  Cork,  and  gave  name  to 
'STvspillane;-  a  parish  in  that  barony. 
(I)  Daniel  Spellman,  a  native  of  LorK,  ire- 

npterl  in  Baneor  about  i84»'  ana  uicu  i 
catea  111  ij'>;'&    ^^_    , ^,    uiaA-fimithins:   in 


1888?'    He  learned   blacksmithini 


SiSaiS  ^'^'^wa^alt^^^^^d  "fdiowcd  thal^  oc 

P,ucklev,    si>^    children.      He   marrieu 

7;;^dr in  Ban,or,  Bridget  Kelley,  born  in 

STwh^  i^  slill  living  at  the  age  of  seventy- 

w?;-ears     Children-     I.  Daniel  J    who  lives 

rpCdence,  Rhode  I«}and.     .^  James  F.. 

next  mentioned.    3-  Fannie  J.,  of  Bangor. 

(II)    Tames  Francis,  second  son  of  Daniel 
and  Briiget  (Kelley)   SpeHman    was  bo-  - 
Rancor   November  12,  1862.    He  recened  n  s 
TdSon  in  the  P-ochial  and  public  schcg^^s 
of   Bangor,  and  then  started  m    ^^^  driving 
locrs  on  the  Penobscot  river.     In  1880  he  en 
e?ed  "he  employ   of   Matthew   Savage    con- 
ractor    whose  specialty  was  wharf  building 
In  1800  Mr.  Spellman  started  in  business  for 
hLse?f  as  a  contractor,  constructing  house 
docks   and  so  forth;  and  has  done  work  in  all 
nar  s  of  the  state.     One  of  his  largest  con- 
fracts  was  the  construction  of  the  docks  a 
Stockto",  Waldo  county,  near  the  mouth  of 

*^^  ^0?  *e  S  toSr  r^'  a^d^Seaport 
^aZad^  Th  re  he  completed  in  1907  for  tl^ 
railroad  company  the  largest  docks  men- 
tioned.  .  , 

There  are  four  of  them  having  the 
foUowiig  dimensions:  One  forty  feet  by 
w  nTy-one  hundred  feet;  one  t^^■o  hundred  by 
one  thousand  feet;  one  one  h"nd':ed  and  fi  y 
bv  eieht  hundred  feet;  and  one  eighty  by  six 
hiiSS  feet.  He  also  erected  -nous  budd- 
ings for  the  company  a^d^has  ^-•".e  o^^^^^^^ 

two  sons  have  been  his  partners  and  the  fi. 

name  is  James  F.  Spellman  &  Sons.  Mn  SpeU 

,  ;c  c  crpnial    whole-souled  man  wno  nas 

'ris  n  from  Ae  rU<s  to  a  leading  place  m  his 

neo    business  by  reason  of  his  energy,  Me^ 

tv   industry  and  pleasing  personality.     He  is 


Catholic    church,   and    acts    independently    in 

^° Tames  F.  Spellman  and  Mary  Kavanaugh 
were  married  in  Bangor,  October  23,  1882,  by 
Rev  Edward  McSweeney.  She  vvas  born 
January  12,  1861,  daughter  of  Michael  and 
Mary  Kavanaugh,  natives  of  Ireland.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Child,  died  young.  2.  James  Frank, 
born  May  II,  1884.  3-  Michael  James,  born 
June  II,  1886. 


One  of  the  noblest  and  most 
HOWARD  ancient  families  in  England  is 
that  of  the  Howards,  many  of 
whose  members  are  titled  persons  and  have 
filled  various  exalted  offices.  The  various 
lines  of  Howard  in  America  have  produced 
numerous  prominent  citizens. 

(I)  Jeremiah  Howard  was  born  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  1801,  died  in  Bangor,  Maine 
1867  He  left  Dover  when  a  youth  and  went 
to  Exeter,  Maine,  where  he  later  earned  on 
a  farm  for  several  years.  In  1859  he  removed 
to  Bangor  and  engaged  m  the  business  of 
tnickini  which  he  carried  on  till  a  short  time 
before  his  death.  He  married  Sarah  Brown, 
born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  i^X^S,]?^' 
died  April  25.  1898,  in  her  one  hundredth 
yS  Children  :'^  Adeline,  David,  Joseph, 
Alvi's  Jane,  Maria,  Edwin  and  Emma,  twms, 
Sophronia,  Sarah  and  Charles  H. 

(ID     Charles    Henry,    youngest    son    and 
tenth  child  of  Jeremiah  and  Sarah   (Brown) 
Howard,  was  born  in  Bangor,  March  6,  1842, 
fnd  educated  in  the  public  sc.iools  of  Bangon 
At  twelve  years  of  age  he  began  work  with  his 
father   and   assisted   him   m   the   business   o 
trucking.     He  continued  in  that  employment 
until   1868,  when  he  became  foreman  of  the 
switchyard  of  the  European  and  North  Amer- 
can  railroad.     In   1883  he  left  that  occupa- 
t  on  to  become  night  watchman  for  the  nine 
banks  of  Bangor  and   followed  that  business 
until  1^3,  a  period  of  twenty  years,  and  then 
reUreH?om  the  employ  of  others  to  attend 
o  his   own  affairs.     Mr.   Howard  mher  ted 
some  property  and  by  careful  management  o 
Sr and  prudently  saving  from  his  earnings 
and  propedy  investing  he  has  acquired  a  com- 
petency    He  is  an  attendant  of  the  Freewill 
Baptist  church,  and  has  always  been  a  siip- 
porter  of  the  Republican  party     He  married 
Fn  Bangor,  October  i.  1886,  E  la   daughter  of 
Tames  and  Barbara  Smith,  of  Brewer.     She 
laT  L?n  in  1854.  died  March  5>  1905.     No 
children. 


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