B65g
1151704 I
EN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRAB
3 1833 01083 7521 ^
it^o 'jS
^
Francis. B. Greene.
HISTORY
OF
BOOTHBAY, SOUTHPORT
BooTHBAY Harbor,
Maine.
1623 - 190^.
Family Genealogies
FRANCIS B. GREENE,
Member of the Maine Historical Society, the Maine Genealogical Society
and the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS, CUTS AND PORTRAITS.
' 'A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote
ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride
by remote descendants." — Macaulay.
PORTLAND :
LoRiNG, Short & Harmon.
1906.
PREFACE.
From tinie immemorial it has been the custom of authors,
when the volume was completed, to write an apology for its
infliction upon the public and place it at the beginning of the
book, calling it the preface. I submit to the custom to a cer-
tain extent, but not in an apologetic sense. If such a work as
this is correct and trustworthy no apology is needed for its
presence. It simply collects, compiles and preserves in print
the essence of a town's past records and the relationship of its
families. It is a plodding task for any one to undertake, par-
ticularly the genealogical work. It is compiling rather than
composing. It does not require a high order of ability to
perform the kind of work necessary, but it does require labor,
patience and system. In unraveling some of the knotty prob-
lems the keen scent of a detective and the accuracy of an ac-
countant, combined, would be desirable qualifications. Some
experience in the every-day affairs of a municipality and a
knowledge of how town records are produced are matters of
inestimable value.
When I settled in Boothbay, in 1886, I had collected a
small library on local Maine history. My traveling occupation
had given, and continued to do so, some opportunities in this
direction. My interest as well as my library on this subject
has increased from year to year. In 1887 and 1888 I contrib-
uted several articles to the Lewiston Journal upon the ea.v\j
history of Lincoln County. At that time I first learned some-
thing of how important a part was played upon these shores in
the early history of the District of Maine. At the same time
1 noted how fast the sources of information were fading and
fleeting from us by the loss or defacement of both public and
private records and the decease of aged persons in the com-
munity.
The first year and a half in town I lived at Boothbay
Center, in a part of the residence of William Kenniston. He
was a man of rare conversational powers and had a very reten-
tive memory. Scarcely a day passed, when associated with him,
but he would recall some of the early occurences of his life, or
repeat some of the traditions of the locality. The humorous or
ridiculous side of an occurrence always appealed to him strong-
est, but, like all bright men, he had a serious and pathetic side
to his nature. I became at once interested in the story of the
town and began the collection of data.
In the fall of 1888 it fell to my lot to do considerable
work on the town records, as a member of the petitioner's
committee on the town division case. I then noted the fact
that, though in worn and tattered condition, they contained
the basis for a history of the town and a genealogy of many of
its old families.
The collection of material has continued since, as time
could be spared from business matters, until, in 1902, I an-
nounced through the columns of the Boothbay Register that I
had concluded to prepare a history of the three towns which
originally constituted the old one of Boothbay, as incorporated
in 1764. At the same time a general invitation was extended
to interested persons for assistance in the matter of old private
records and documents, or any other information, to supple-
ment what I then possessed. This announcement was gener-
ously responded to by citizens as well as those descended from
our older families but now living elsewhere. Another source
of assistance, springing from a general interest in the subject,
as well as a fraternal feeling, came from the members of the
Maine Historical Society.
Following this, at my request, each town voted to permit
its clerk, at has discretion, to allow me the use of such records
as I might want in the prosecution of the work, to be taken to
my own home. This has been of great value and convenience
to me. In 1904, at the annual meetings, each town voted to
contract with me for a certain number of copies of the work ;
Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor taking 400 copies each and
Southport 100 copies. These votes were nearly unanimous in
each town.
As one might reasonably expect among any population,
on any subject presented for consideration, there has been some
indifference, but I have noted no real hostility. The object of
the work simply has not appealed to some people as it has
to others. When this view of humanics is taken it can easily
be explained. Tastes differ and human inclinations are unlike.
Authors of other town histories have complained that the
adverse criticisms upon their work came almost entirely from
persons who had assumed an indifferent attitude and rendered
no assistance while it was progressing. I trust I may be saved
these unpleasant experiences by requesting those who have not
responded to repeated invitations to lend a helping hand in this
work to be as inactive in criticism as they have been in assist-
PREFACE. V
The sources of information from which I have drawn most
largely, outside of local public and private records, are the col-
lections of the Maine Historical Societ}', the York Deeds, the
Massachusetts Archives, the Lincoln County Records, William-
son's Historj' of Maine, Johnson's Historj' of Bristol, Cush-
man's History of Sheepscot, Scwall's Ancient Dominions of
Maine and other kindred works throughout Maine and Mass-
achusetts.
I feel that public acknowledgments are due, for assist-
ance rendered, to the following persons : Hon. William M.
Olin, Secretary of State, Massachusetts ; the late Hon. Leonard
D. Carver, State Librarian, Augusta ; Fred V. Matthews,
Esq., Portland, for the result of his research relating to North
Boothbay families: Mr. Euierson Rice, Hyde Park, Mass., for
Boothbay references collected and indexed from the State
Archives ; to the clerks of the towns, Alpheus Dodge, Booth-
bay, Everett E. Pinkham, Southport, and Willard T. Marr,
Boothbay Harbor, for aid and courtesies extended in the use
of records over which they are custodians ; for general infor-
mation, covering family, church and military matters, to
Messrs. John E. Kelley, John K. Corey and Albert R.
Matthews, North Boothbay; Granville J. Seavey, John R.
McDougall and W. Irving Adams, East Boothbay ; Warren
L. Dolloff, George B. Kenniston and William M. Smith,
Boothbay Harbor.
On the subject of the fishery interest, which has been so
long an important and leading industry in our town, I have
been generously furnished many facts by Hon. Luther Mad-
docks, whose business connection with it has extended over a
long and eventful period. In the town of Southport I have
been ably assisted by two lifelong residents of that island,
Messrs. Freeman Grover and William T. Maddocks, their in-
formation being general upon past events and present interests,
as well as upon family history. Charles J. Marr, Boothbay
Harbor, has also rendered valuable aid on Southport matters.
A most valuable aid has been received from an element in
our population, relating to former customs in living and con-
ducting Inisiness, as well as bearing upon the early families,
who from their years and residence among us make them be-
long to the community in general rather than within the limits
of either town, and a group of persons who arc still enjoying
to an unusual degree, health, strength and a clear, undimmed
remembrance to a time when the entire locality was held fast
to primitive conditions. These, with date of birth, are :
Messrs. Paul Giles (1814), Thomas Orne (1814), Joseph
McKown (1820), John Farnham (1824), Eliphalet Holbrook
(1824), John M. Ilodgdon (1824) and Mrs. Cordelia Welch
(1829). It may bo said in this connection that from the lirst
the columns of the Boollibay Register have been generously
opened to vl\j use by its proprietor, Mr. Charles E. Kendrick.
Valuable information bearing upon the early Scotch families
was furnished by Mrs. Catherine Graupner Stone, Berkeley,
California.
That errors have crept in is practicallj^ certain. A work
of so much detail and containing so manj' dates makes this
well-nigh impossiljle to avoid. These are more likely to occur
in the genealogical department than elsewhere. Many errors
occur in the town records, and many of the ones I have detected
have been corrected by suljstituting private ones. This I have
done when the private ones presented a regular appearance.
It has also been done when inscriptions in cemeteries differed
from the town record. To the reader who knows how little
was enforced in former times by statute upon the medical
profession as to the return to town clei'ks of vital occurences
this course must appear proper.
A valuable feature of this volume is the presentation of the
four maps which are redrafted from a publication of 1857,
from a survey of the previous year. This affords a retrospect
of just half a century. The work of redrafting was performed
by Mr. Carl E. Holton, Boothbay Harbor, and presented to
the author.
Now that the labor and effort in producing this volume
have closed and it goes forth in printed form, if it meets the
api)robation of those for whom it was written — those who live
in or feel an interest in this old territorj' — I shall feel satisfied.
Francis B. Gkeene.
Boothbay Harbor, Me., Dec, 1905.
CONTENTS.
I.
II.
m.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
Physical and Descriptive History,
Aboriginal Inhabitants,
Early Voyages and Explorations,
Early Settlements,
Page
9
35
44
57
Growth and Government of the First Settlement, 67
The Indian Wars, 84
The Interim: 1689— 1729, 98
The Dunbar Settlement, 109
1733 to 1764, 125
Municipal History of Boothbay, 132
Land Claims and Claimants, 164
Ecclesiastical History, 175
Boothbay in the Eevolution, 213
Boothbay in the War of 1812, 247
Boothbay Publishments of Intentions of Mar-
riage, 1766—1820, 262
Official Lists and Tables, 279
Municipal Historj^ of Southport, 310
Division of Boothbay, 316
Mills, Shipbuilding, Stores and Hotels, 332
Fraternal Societies and Associations, 353
The Fisheries, 358
Casualties, 378
Schools, 395
Summer Eesorts and Carrying Companies, 411
The Civil War, " 424
Monographs and Incidents, 439
Genealogical,
462
CUTS, MAPS AND PORTRAITS.
Francis B. Greene,
Boothbay in 1856,
Cape Newagen,
Boothbay Harbor in 1866,
The Oak Grove House,
Hodgdon's Mills in 1856,
Boothbay Harbor from Pisgah
Boothbay Harbor from McKown's Hill,
Southport in 1856,
Edward E. Race,
Rev. John Murray,
Boothbay Center,
George B. Kenniston,
Charles B. Fisher,
Capt. George Reed,
The McKown Fishing Stand,
A Southport Flake Yard,
Charles J. Marr,
Joseph Ross Kenniston,
Squirrel Inn,
Alonzo R. Nickerson,
Luther Maddocks,
William Kenniston,
Freeman Grover,
Bayville Plan,
McCobb and Leishman Houses,
Benjamin Blair,
East Boothbay,
Mrs. Mary A. Auld,
Nathan S. Baker,
James T. Beath,
Capt. John Auld,
Capt. William Carlisle,
Joseph Maddocks,
Marshal Smith,
Townsend Block,
The U. S. Fish Hatchery,
Steamboat Route Map,
Frontispiece
Face p. 24
' 40
' 72
' 105
' 120
' 136
' 153
' 168
' 175
' 184
' 216
' 232
■ 248
' 264
' 296
312
' 329
' 345
" 408
" 418
" 424
' 440
' 456
' 478
' 494
' 497
' 510
' 526
' 568
• 575
' 591
' 607
Finis
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY,
SOUTHPORT AND BOOTHBAY HAEBOR.
CHAPTER I.
Physical and Descriptive History.
THIS history is specially devoted to that territory which
constituted the original town of Boothbay, from which
Southport and Boothbay Harbor have since been sepa-
rated. Though municipall}^ divided into three towns, its
geographical formation is such that it must always continue
closely related in business and social intercourse. Boothbay
and Boothbay Harbor, together, include the greater part of
that peninsula formed by the Sheepscot and Damariscotta
Rivers, and take to themselves all the water front and coast
harbors which are therewith connected. Sheepscot River,
which rises about sixty-five miles back from the coast, broad-
ens into a beautiful bay and harbor at Wiscasset. From that
point to the sea is about fifteen miles. The excellence and
unusual advantages of the Sheepscot waters, to the point
where Wiscasset Village is located, have always been recog-
nized, and brought that town into prominent consideration in
the earljr twenties as a location for the State capital. At the
very point of reaching Boothbay territory, namely. Cross
River, the Sheepscot more than doubles its width, and gradu-
ally broadens until that point on Southport, known as Hen-
drick's Head, is reached, when it opens to the sea. On the
west and southwest of the main this bay is studded with many
islands, the largest of which is Southport, now an incorporated
town, bridged to Boothbay Harbor. The other principal
islands on that side of the main, included in Sheepscot waters,
are Barter's, Sawyer's, Isle of Springs, Indiantown and Hodg-
don's Islands.
10 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Draining a territoiy of similar extent and parallel, easterly,
with the Sheepscot River is Jefferson Lake and its principal
inlets. This lake is about ten miles in length, though com-
paratively narrow, with its outlet the " Damariscotta Fresh
Falls," which is the water power at Damariscotta Mills, but
always thus designated in earlj- history. Southerly, two
miles, the " Damariscotta Salt Falls," also an early designation,
is reached. From this point, that of Damariscotta Village, the
river is navigable for shipping. When the Boothbaj' line is
reached, as is the case opposite in the Sheepscot, the Damaris-
cotta fully doubles its width by means of Wadsworth, Burn-
ham and Pleasant Coves. Farther to the south are narrows on
either side of Fort Island. Opposite East Boothbay Village
the width becomes that of a capacious harbor, and well pro-
tected from the sea. Just southerly from this point the river
opens to the ocean. The harborage of the entire locality
shows a wondei-ful provision of Nature. Four large harbors,
of acknowledged excellence, either of which situated at a dis-
tance from the others would be highly appreciated, indent the
shores, and are known as Boothbay Harbor, Linekin Bay,
East Boothbay and Ebenecook. All possess suitable depth,
have good holding grounds and are practically free from shoals
and ledges. The boundaries of this territorj' are natural,
excepting the line between Boothbay and Edgecoml). By the
trend of the bay at Oven's Mouth to the eastward and the
similar opposite formation of the Damariscotta to the west-
ward, the line runs across almost the narrowest part of the
town from west to east. This distance is about two and
three-eighths miles.
An abstract from the charter, covering this feature, follows :
"Beginning at the most Northerly part of a Bay called the
Oven's Mouth, and from thence to run an East South East
Course to Damariscotta Eiver ; thence Southerly down said
River to the Sea or Western Ocean, then to run Westerly on
the Sea Coast as the Coast lies to the Mouth of Sheepscot
River, then to run Northerly up Sheepscot River between
Jeremy Squam Island and Barter's Island to the Cross River
at the head of said Barter's Island and from thence over the
Water to the most Northerly part of the Oven's Mouth afore-
said with all the islands in Damariscotta River below or to the
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 11
Southward of the first described line, and also All the Islands
lying within Six Miles from the Main Land to the South,
between the aforementioned Rivers of Sheepscot and Damaris-
cotta, be and hereby is erected into a town by name of Booth-
bay and the Inhabitants thereof shall have and enjoy all such
Immunities and Privileges as other Towns in the Province
have and do by law enjoy."
The greatest width on the mainland of the original town
was attained by measuring due east and west from Farnham's
Head, just south from East Boothbay Village, to the western-
most point near the summer residence of Dr. Edgar D. Moffatt.
This distance is four and five-eighths miles. A width taken
through Boothbay Center is but three and three-fourths miles ;
while a measurement taken from a point opposite Tibbetts
Island, in Back River, to the Damariscotta lacks but one-fourth
mile from the widest point given. From where the stage road
crosses the Edgecomb line to Spruce Point is eight miles ;
from the same place to Ocean Point is nine miles. From
McFarland's old stand, now Sawyer's, to Carlisle's Point on
the Damariscotta is six miles ; while from McFarland's to the
Edgecomb line is six and five-eighths miles.
The latitude, taken at Boothbay Center, is 43° 52' 33"
north, and the longitude west of Greenwich is 69° 38' 22".
From the United States Coast Survey Charts the following
distances are found in statute miles :
Boothbay Harbor to Bath, via Five Islands and Squirrel, 20X
" " " " " 17
" most direct route, i3>^
" " •' " usual route, 15 J|
" Wiscasset, I5ji
" Squirrel Island, 2^
" Ocean Point, 3X
Squirrel Island to Ocean Point, 2
■• Murray Hill, 4>^
" " " Ram Island Light, 2j^
" " " Damariscove Harbor, 5
" " " East Boothbay, 7
" " Cape Newagen, 3
" " " Fort Popham, loX
" " " Seguin Light, 10
" " " Monhegan, 17
" " " Damariscotta, 20^
" " Bath, i6J^
12
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Mouse Island
Southport
Isle of Springs
Sawyer's Island
Goose Rock
Riggsville
Westport Junction
Westport
Upper Hell Gate
Arrowsic Bridge
H'A
iiH'
7
5
The coast of this territory is included in the First District
of the United States Lighthouse Establishment on the Atlantic
and Gulf Coasts. The Post Roads Survey, made by the Gov-
ernment in 1812, from Washington, D. C, to various parts
of the country, gives the following distances in miles and
hundredths :
Boston to Washington,
" " New York,
" " Philadelphia,
" " Providence,
Eastern Eoute to Eastport.
Boston, Old State House, to Salem,
" " " Ipswich,
" " " Newburyport,
" " " Portsmouth,
" York,
" Portland,
" " " Brunswick,
" Bath,
" " " Wiscasset,
" " " Thomaston,
Belfast,
" Ellsworth,
" " " Eastport,
14-37
28.18
39-07
64.26
73-32
11S.05
145-36
152-68
167.19
203.45
232.86
282.59
397-36
Other points upon the old post line may be calculated from
the ones given. A ti-aveler by land could not shorten the
distance as above siven.
Names of Local and General Application.
1. Adams Pond. — Situated wholly in Boothbay : about
three-fourths of a mile in length by one-fourth in breadth ; has
a good depth of water ; is fed by springs ; furnishes a good
mill privilege at its outlet, now owned and occupied by Dodge
PHYSICAL AND DESCKIPTIVE. 13
& Giles with a sawmill. This stream empties into the easterly
body of water known as Back River, near the sites of the old
shipyards and the Pinkham mill. From this pond is taken
the supply for the Boothbay Harbor water system. Samuel
Adams and his sons originally owned the mill privilege and
most of the land about this pond, — hence the name. High-
ways extend entirely around it. Before the settlement of
Samuel ii.dams it was called Long Pond.
2. Back Narrows. — A name originally given to the
narrow, back passage of the Damariscotta, between Webber
or Fort Island (sometimes called Narrows Island) and the main-
land ; now also applied to the neighborhood in that locality.
3. Back River. — A name given to the water on the
westerly side of the mainland of Boothbay, northerly from
Hodgdon's Island, as early as 1666, in a deed from Robin
Hood to Henry Curtice. It also applies to the water lying
above the old Pinkham mill site and Oven's Mouth. The
neighborhood bordering on the above first-mentioned water is
also known by this appellation, and this name was given the
post office when established there.
4. Barter's Island. — A part of Boothbay; bridged to
Hodgdon's Island and from thence to the mainland ; is about
three and three-fourths miles long and varies from three-
eighths to about one mile in width ; has one small fresh pond
near its southern extremity ; takes mail from Trevett post
office ; received its name from the early families of Barter,
who were the first settlers.
5. Bayville. — A village of summer cottages at the head
of Linekiu Bay, formerly owned by the late Thomas Boyd,
and started by him as a summer resort soon after 1880. Is
three miles by highway from the Harbor steamboat landings ;
has a summer postal service ; is a part of Boothbay Harbor.
Its name was suggested by its location on Linekin Bay.
6. Boston Island. — A part of Southport, formerly
known as Ebenecook Island, owned by Boston parties and
used by them as a summer residence ; name probably derived
from residence of its owners ; contains about twelve acres ;
situated on the northwesterly side of Ebenecook Harbor.
14 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
7. BooTHBAY Center. — The most central part of the
original town, before divisions were made, in all respects :
geographically, as the roads run, and, in earlj^ times, about
the center of population. The first and second churches were
built there and it has always been the place for holding the
Boothbay town meetings. The post office there was known as
North Boothbay until the division of the town in 1889, since
which time, or soon after, it has taken the name of Boothbay.
It contains two churches, a graded school, two stores, two
smithing establishments and several residences. -Eight roads,
branching to all parts of both towns, center there within one-
half mile of the post office.
8. Boothbay Harbor. — Before the division in 1889 this
name was accurately applied to the water harbor in front of
the town, and locally to the village at the head of the harbor.
Since division it is the legal name of the town and its principal
post office. The town, as set off, attains its greatest width at
a point near its northern line, where it is about three and one-
fourth miles wide. Its easterly line strikes near the center,
from east to west, of the northern end of Linekin Bay ; run-
ning from thence northerly about three-fourths of a mile, and
then westerly to the middle abutment of Sawyer Island Bridge ;
thence around southerly, easterly and northerly by the water
to the point of starting. It contains (1905) three churches,
five school buildings, in which are thirteen schoolrooms where
schools are regularly in session ; opera house, including the
several lodge rooms ; steamboat landings, custom house, two
post offices, stores representing nearly all kinds of merchan-
dise, restaurants and bakeries ; six hotels, besides man}'
boarding houses open in summer ; all of the sardine canning
establishments within the territory included in this work, the
cold storage plant, two marine railways, six livery stables
and a part of the boat-building and ice-storing establishments
of the locality. Other fishing concerns of various kinds are
divided between the three towns.
9. Buckland's Neck. — A name given to that part of
Linekin Neck which is situated south of a line drawn from the
head of Little River westerly to Linekin Bay, in deeds and
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 15
other documents made during the latter half of the seventeenth
century. In 1674 George and Richard Bucknell (sometimes
appearing as Buckland) were living there and from them it is
supposed to have taken the name. The southern part of this
neck is now known as Ocean Point. It is a part of Boothbay.
10. BuKNHAM Cove. — A westerly projection of the
Damariscotta waters into the main, just north of Pleasant
Cove, where the Burnham families settled at an early date.
Situated in Boothbay.
11. Cabbage Island. — An island containing about four
acres, situated about one-half mile southerly from Wallace's
Point, in Linekin Bay. Derivation of name unknown. A
part of Boothbay. Name changed by the Legislature, on
petition of owners, to Independence Island, in 1905.
12. Cape Harbor. — A small but excellent harbor at
Cape Newagen, formed by Cape or Jerry's Island lying just
outside and furnishing a breakwater to that harbor. Entrance
from easterly and westerly sides.
13. Cape Island. — Sometimes called Jerry's Island,
situated just outside Cape Harbor, above named ; contains
about seven acres ; a part of Southport. Formerly owned by
Jerry Nelson.
14. Cape Newagen. — This is the first and oldest name
attached to this locality. In the earliest times this name was
applied to the entire region covered by this volume. After
the Dunbar settlement, and prior to its incorporation as a
town, Southport was usually referred to as Cape Newagen
Island. Levett's reference to it in 1623, which is the first
given in history, seems only to apply to the point or cape.
To this first impression common usage has practically returned,
and Newagen now means distinctively the cape, and the post
ofiice which is located there, and has no broader signification.
Like most early names it is found in several different forms.
Newaggon, Nekrangan, Bona-waggon and other slight varia-
tions from the present form may be seen in old documents.
Included in Southport.
15. Cape Cod. — A local name given to McKown's Point
after the Nickersons opened business there. The geographical
16 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AY.
formation and likeness, and the fact that this firm came from
Harwich, Mass., a Cape Cod town, are suggestive of the
origin of the name. Included in Boothbay Harbor.
16. Campbell's Brook. — The outlet stream from Camp-
bell's Ponds into Campbell's Cove. This brook furnished a
mill power in early times and appearances indicate that mills
were located at two places on it. The derivation of the name
is unknown, for it is found used in John Reed's will more
than thirty years before the ancestors of the present family of
Campbell located in Boothbay. Situated mostly in Boothbay.
17. Campbell's Cove. — A narrow arm of the sea extend-
ing from West Harbor about one and one-half miles northerly
into the main, receiving Campbell's Brook at its head. It was
dammed and bridged with stone where it empties into the
Harbor in 1879, thus making one of the finest ice ponds in
Maine, producing an excellent quality of the product and
affording opportunities for winter shipping. It was a hiding
place for local shipping during the Revolutionary War as well
as that of 1812, being in those times surrounded by a heavy,
old growth of wood. Situated entirely in Boothbay Harbor.
18. Campbell's Ponds. — The head waters of the brook
of that name, filling considerable of the space between the
Back River road and the Sheepscot waters. For many years
they have been owned by the Km'ckerbocker Ice Company and
utilized as the ice ponds for that concern. Situated in Boothbay.
19. Card Cove. — A cove opening to the southwest,
formed by Ocean Point and Negro Island.
20. Capital Island. — Originally known as Pig Cove
Island, it being situated in Pig Cove. Name was changed by
those who purchased it for a summer resort to Capital. Its
purchasers were mostly residents on the Kennebec River. It
surveyed twenty-four acres. It has a hotel, numerous private
cottages, a steamboat landing and summer postal service. A
part of Southport.
21. Carlisle Point. — The northeastern extremity of
the neck of land formed between the Damariscotta and Pleas-
ant Cove, and selected as a settlement by Josephus Carlisle,
PHYSICAL AND DESCEIPTIVE. 17
ancestor of the family of that name in these towns. Situated
in Boothbay.
22. Cedarbush Island. — Located just off West South-
port, and furnishing the breakwater which makes Marr's
Harbor. A part of Southport.
23. Christmas Cove. — A cove about one-half mile in
length, situated on the southwestern side of Southport, open-
ing into Sheepscot Bay.
24. Corbin's Sound. — The name of the ancient settle-
ment where that of Ocean Point now stands, which was
destroyed when the surrounding country was laid waste in the
second Indian war. Known by this name in records bearing
date as early as 1674. Probably the name is that of a princi-
pal resident applied to the water passage between the mainland
and Eam and Fisherman's Islands. Included in Boothbay.
25. Cross River. — The connection between the main
Sheepscot and Back River, just north of Barter's Island.
26. Cuckolds. — Two dangerous ledges about three-
fourths mile southerly from Cape Newagen.
27. Damariscotta. — This name has applied since the
earliest records to the river separating Boothbay, Edgecomb
and Newcastle, on the west, from Bristol, Damariscotta and
Nobleboro, on the east. The Damariscotta "fresh falls" and
"salt falls" were earlj'^ terms used in this region. Frequently
the name was applied to the settlements on either side of the
river ; for, in the absence of well-defined towns, settlements
in early times took the name, all the way along, of the river
on which they were situated. It was the same on the Sheep-
scot River. For this reason considerable that is of historic
interest, that rightfully belongs to Boothbay, was termed in
early days either Damariscotta or Sheepscot matter. In later
days, as these names have become restricted to narrower limits,
the impressions of these events have retreated with the names.
Therefore a misconception is produced, because Boothbay had
no distinctive early name, as a whole ; but her history is
merged in that of the two rivers which flow on either side.
28. Damariscove. — This island, in the matter of settle-
ment by the English, is practically contemporary with Cape
18 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Newagen, Corbin's Sound, Pemaquid and Monhegan. If a
difference in age of settlement of any consequence exists it is
probable that Damariscove and Monhegan are older than the
other places. This island is about two miles long, with an
average width of about one-fourth of a mile. At high tide it is
divided into two distinct islands. The northern part was
formerly called Wood Island, on account of its heavy growth
of wood.
The earliest records show the name in two words, varied
somewhat in spelling, but usually in the following form,
"Damarill's Cove." Capt. John Smith in 1614 mentions the
group of islands in that vicinity as "Damaril's Isles." This
grouping of those islands alwaj^s occurred in early times.
Williamson speaks of the "Damariscove Islands," and others
of the "Damariscove Group." The reason for this is probably
explained in the fact that in early times they were owned as a
group by one party, and that partj^ was probably Humphrey
Damarill, seaman, who died in Boston about 1650, and claimed
to own part or all of the main island. It is thought he did
business there before 1614, that he owned the group of islands,
hence the name, " Damarill's Isles " ; and that he chose the one
with the cove or harbor on which to do business and which
was made a headquarters, hence "Damarill's Cove," later
becoming Damariscove, and the other islands taking on indi-
vidual names.
An excellent harbor opens to the ocean about south, south-
west from the settlement, which is about one-half mile from
the entrance. On the western side, about halfway from the
entrance to the settlement, is a stone wharf, built several years
ago by parties who thought the granite valuable which the
island indicates in some quantities. The harbor has about
twenty feet of water, toward the settlement from the wharf,
being free from shoals, so that vessels may lay close in shore.
Estimates place the area of this island at about three hundred
acres. It is part of Boothbay.
29. Decker's Cove. — A cove extending into the north-
easterly part of Southport from Townsend Gut. It takes its
name from the Decker family who owned land about it in
early times. It has been utilized for many winters as a safe
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 19
and suitable place for laying up yachts, tugs and steamers
temporarily out of service.
30. Dogfish Head. — The northwestern projection of
Southport, forming the western weather barrier to Ebenecook
Harbor. It is high, bold land, and is being opened as a sum-
mer resort.
31. Dover. — A local name given to that body of land
lying southerly from Oven's Mouth and between the two bodies
of water constituting Back Kiver. The name originated from
the fact that its earliest settlers came from Dover, N. H., and
some of their ancestors had come from Dover, Eng. Included
in Boothbay.
32. East Boothbay. — The second largest aggregation
of trade and business establishments, together with residences,
within the territory considered. All the shipyards, a large
part of the boat-building shops, seven stores, restaurants and
smithing establishments are there. A church, graded school
building and public hall are centrally located. Mails are
received and go out by way of Boothbay Harbor stage. The
larger part of the passenger travel connects with the Bath
steamers at the Harbor. The Portland steamer touches there
as its terminal point. The early local name of the village was
Hodgdon's Mills, as was the post office from its establishment
in 1831 to 1876, when the name was changed to East Booth-
bay. This village is the principal business center in Boothbay.
33. Ebenecook Harbor. — A commodious and well-shel-
tered harbor, affording good water and anchorage, situated at
the northwesterly part of Southport. The name is of Indian
derivation.
34. Echo Lake. — A small pond situated easterly from
Pisgah, which has for some years been used as an ice pond.
It drains a considerable territory and empties into Lobster
Cove. The acoustical peculiarities of the region suggested
the name. Included in Boothbay Harbor.
35. Epituse. — A name mentioned in 1685 in a deed of
Damariscove, by which it is inferred that the mainland of
Boothbay may have once borne this name. It is used in a
sense to indicate that land northerly from Damariscove is
20 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
meant, and, at that date, all the important islands in the vicinity
had distinctive names, vrhile the mainland is not known to
have possessed one.
36. Farnham Head. — A bold projection of land running
from the northeastly part of Linekin Neck into the Damaris-
cotta, just below East Boothbay Village. Settled by the
Farnham family.
37. Fisherman's Island. — Formerly known as Hippo-
eras. The Hypocrites, in the immediate vicinity, probably
derived their name from this ; and the larger island took on
its present name at some subsequent time. It contains about
165 acres. It is a part of Boothbaj'.
38. Fort Island. — Also sometimes called Webber's or
Narrows Island. Situated at a commanding point in the nar-
rows of the Damariscotta River, about two miles northerly
from East Boothbay Village. The old blockhouse and fortifi-
cations of earth and stone were constructed there in the War
of 1812, the remains of which are now visible. It contains
from forty to fifty acres and is a part of Boothbay.
39. Fort Point. — The point on the above island where
the fortifications were built.
40. Green Islands. — Two small islands in nearly direct
line between Dogfish Head and Boston Island. The smaller
contains one and the larger three acres in area. They are
part of Southport.
41. Green Landing. — A point just southerly from East
Boothbay Village, purchased several years ago for the purpose of
summer resort development by Mr. Frank L. Weston, Boston.
42. Haley. — The former name of the post ofiice now
known as West Boothbay Harbor. It was established October
24, 1882 ; name changed March 26, 1902. Received its name
from Eben D. Haley, South Gardiner, who was an owner and
manager of the Maine Ice Company's works.
43. Harbor Island. — A small island a short distance
from McFarland's Point, in Boothbay Harbor.
44. Hendrick's Harbor. — The early name, and still
used on charts, for Marr's Harbor at West Southport.
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 21
45. Hendkick's Head. — The extreme westerly point of
Southport where the Government light is located. The origin
of the name is unknown.
46. Hypocrites. — Name probably derived from Hippo-
eras. Two dangerous ledges a short distance east from Fish-
erman's Island.
47. Hodgdon's Cove. — A cove opposite Southport land-
ing making up into the mainland of Boothbay Harbor.
48. Hodgdon's Island. — Situated between the mainland
of Boothbay and Barter's Island. The channel on either side
is bridged, and another bridge leads on to Sawyer's Island
from its southern extremity. It contains about seventy-five
acres. It received its name from the Hodgdon family. A
general store has been kept for many years there by S. G.
Hodgdon & Son. The post office of Trevett was established
there in 1882. It is part of Boothbay.
49. Hodgdon's Mills. — See East Boothbay.
50. Indiantown. — An island in the Sheepscot, west of
the mainland of Boothbay Harbor, one point of which is only
275 feet distant from the main shore; surveys eighty-four
acres ; is about three-fourths of a mile in length, and is part
of Boothbay Harbor.
51. Ingleside. — The name given the residence and
grounds of Joseph McKown at the Boothbay Harbor end of
the bridge uniting that town with Southport.
52. Isle of Springs. — Formerly Swett's Island, and
earlier still, at the date of its purchase by John Swett, was
called Thirty Acre Island. Name changed to Isle of Springs
after its sale in 1887 to the association which has developed it
as a summer resort and who now own it. It surveys eighty-
seven acres ; has a hotel, known as the Nekrangan House, and
about twenty summer cottages ; is a regular steamboat landing
of the Eastern Steamship Company. Is a part of Boothbay
Harbor and has a summer postal service.
53. Joe's Island. — Situated in Sheepscot Bay, at West
Southport, southerly from Marr's Harbor. Contains about
fifty acres. It is part of Southport.
22 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
54. Keiwiston HrLL. — The hill easterly from Boothbay
Center, situated on the farm originally settled upon by David
Kenniston soon after 1785, and retained by the family until
1888. It has an altitude of 180 feet.
55. Knickerbocker. — The ice-storing establishment at
West Boothbay, formerly Owned by the Knickerbocker Ice
Company.
56. Labrador Meadow. — A meadow tract, containing a
wooded growth, in the interior of Southport, about one mile
in length by one-fouilh mile in breadth.
57. Lewis Cove. — A small cove on Linekin Bay making
into the mainland of Boothbay Harbor, on what was formerly
known as the Allen Lewis place, where that party had a wharf
and fishing stand.
58. Linekin Bay. — That body of water between Linekin
Neck and Spruce Point, the harborage qualities of which are
only second to Boothbay Harbor proper. It has a length of
about three miles by a breadth of one to one and one-half
miles. The charts show the line between Boothbay and Booth-
bay Harbor as nearly dividing this bay lengthwise. It received
its name from the Linekin families who lived upon the neck
of the same name.
59. Linekin Neck. — A bodj' of land about three and
three-fourths miles from its northern extremity, at East
Boothbay Village, to Ocean Point, its terminus. Its width
will average nearly one mile. In early times the part south-
erly from the head of Little Eiver was known as Buckland's
Neck. It was nearly all owned at one time by the Linekins,
from whom it took its name. The Linekin post office was
established in 1880. It contains several stores ; has a contin-
uous settlement its entire length ; once contained nearly all
the menhaden oil factories of the locality ; of late years has
made steady and rapid development as a summer resort. Is
included in Boothbay.
60. Little River. — A narrow cove extending from
Damariscotta Bay, northwesterly, into Linekin Neck about
one mile, nearly cutting it in two parts. Whoever will care-
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 23
fully note the chart of this locality will obsei've that Linekin
Neck came near being two islands.
61. Lobster Cove. — Extending above Lewis Cove to a
point east from Pisgah.
62. Lower Mark Island. — A small island belonging to
Southport, about one-half mile off shore, at the southwestern
extremity of that town. Contains about four acres.
63. Mark's Harbor. — The name in general use for what
was formerly known as Hendrick's Harbor.
64. Meadow Cove. — A cove of the Damariscotta just
north from East Boothbay Village.
65. McCobb's Hill. — A bold elevation at the north-
westerly extremity of Campbell's Cove, on the farm of the
late Samuel McCobb. It reaches an altitude of about 175
feet and its ledges next the cove are very precipitous. In
early daj^s the waters of the cove came to these ledges, but in
the thirties a road was graded at their foot with stone and
earth. Situated in Boothbay Harbor.
66. McFarlaxd's Point. — The southern extremity of
Boothbay Harbor Village, extending westerl}\ It was for-
merly owned by the Pipers and Reeds, but took its present
name the first years of the nineteenth century from John ]\Iur-
ray McFarland, who established there the largest business in
town in the way of fishery and general trade.
67. Mill Cove. — A cove between the main harbor and
West Harbor. It receives a brook at its head which drains
the basin extending noi-therly and easterly from that place.
This brook affords a small mill privilege, and a mill was once
located there, hence the name.
68. McKown's Point. — Originally called Oliver's Point,
and so refeiTed to in 1842 in the Townsend charter. Some-
times called Cape Cod, which is on account of its shape and
the fact that members of the Nickerson family, who came to
Boothbay from Cape Cod, first did business on this point
before going to the Harbor village. The lobster hatcheiy,
erected by the United States Government in 1903, is located
there. It takes its name from William McKown, who settled
there about 1800 and owned the entire point for many years.
24 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
69. Molly's Head. — A bold ledge projection into the
ocean from the southwestern side of Southport, forming
Christmas Cove.
70. Montgomery's Point. — The land just north from
East Boothbay Village projecting into the Damariscotta.
71. Moore's Rock. — A huge granite mass of regular
formation just northerly from West Street, Boothbay Harbor.
A place affording excellent views in all seaward directions.
It was formerly on the premises of William Moore, an original
settler under Dunbar.
72. Mouse Island. — An island situated in Boothbay
Harbor, containing about twenty acres. It has the Samoset
House and stone cottage located there. It is a regular landing
of the Eastern Steamship Company, and that company has,
for several years, made this the regular transfer and distrib-
uting center to all the other summer locations touched by their
boats. It is part of Southport and has a summer postal service.
73. Murray Hill. — Situated southwesterly from the
village of East Boothbay. It has an altitude of about 200
feet descending gradually to the head of Linekin Bay. It has
several summer cottages and is well calculated for such a pur-
pose. It is a regular lauding of the Eastern Steamship Com-
pany during the season, and receives mail at East Boothbay.
It is included in Boothbay.
74. Negro Island. — Situated a short distance from the
mainland westerly from Ocean Point. Contains about sixteen
acres. It is part of Boothbaj-.
75. North Boothbay. — Before division of the town it
was a name definitely applied to the post office at Boothbay
Center, now known as Boothbay. Since the division it brings
that part of the town near its southern extremity, therefore
the old term of North Boothbay is much less used than for-
merly, and no post office exists with that name.
76. Oak Point. — A point well wooded with oaks, jut-
ting sharply out from the Boothbay Harbor mainland, nearly
opposite the Southport landing.
..^^3-5.'
-^^i.:
i
24 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
69. Molly's Head. — A bold ledge projection into the
ocean from the southwestern side of Southport, forming
Christmas Cove.
70. Montgomery's Point. — The land just north from
East Boothbay Village projecting into the Damariscotta.
71. Moore's Rock. — A huge granite mass of regular
formation just northerly from West Street, Boothbay Harbor.
A place affording excellent views in all seaward directions.
It was formerly on the premises of William Moore, an original
settler under Dunbar.
72. Mouse Island. — An island situated in Boothbay
Harbor, containing about twenty acres. It has the Samoset
House and stone cottage located there. It is a regular landing
of the Eastern Steamship Company, and that company has,
for several years, made this the regular transfer and distrib-
uting center to all the other summer locations touched by their
boats. It is part of Southport and has a summer postal service.
73. Murray Hill. — Situated southwesterly from the
village of East Boothbay. It has an altitude of about 200
feet descending gradually to the head of Linekin Bay. It has
several summer cottages and is well calculated for such a pur-
pose. It is a regular landing of the Eastern Steamship Com-
pany during the season, and receives mail at East Boothbay.
It is included in Boothbay.
74. Negro Island. — Situated a short distance from the
mainland westerly from Ocean Point. Contains about sixteen
acres. It is part of Boothbay.
75. North Boothbay. — Before division of the town it
was a name definitely applied to the post office at Boothbay
Center, now known as Boothbay. Since the division it brings
that part of the town near its southern extremity, therefore
the old term of North Boothbay is much less used than for-
merly, and no post office exists with that name.
76. Oak Point. — A point well wooded with oaks, jut-
ting sharply out from the Boothbay Harbor mainland, nearly
opposite the Southport landing.
SsSsSsSiSStsSSSgggBSSgiigaagsSilSisgSSsssSciiialgsissg
28SgagSSaS:iggS5iSaESS28SSS8SaaS2iSSSSS«;j:SSiS8SgS8gS8SSSi^BSa88£BliS83S555SEKSS.^„
■iiip
t J ■ ■ s '• I f
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 25
77. Oak Grove. — The name applied to the location and
grounds of W. H. Eeed, West Boothbay Harbor, on which
the Oak Grove House stands, together with the store and post
office. It faces West Harbor, southerly, while Campbell's
Cove borders on the west. One and one-half miles from the
Harbor steamboat landings.
78. Ocean Point. — The southern extremity of Linekin's
Neck. Evidently the very spot of the ancient settlement of
Corbin's Sound. It has two hotels, a general store, restau-
rants and a summer colony of cottages. It is a regular land-
ing of the Eastern Steamship Company ; has a summer postal
service and is included in Boothbay.
79. Outer Heron Island. — Sometimes called Southern
Heron. Contains about 150 acres. About six miles at sea
from the Harbor landings. Obtained the name from the great
number of herons observed there by the early visitors to it.
A part of Boothbay.
80. Oven's Mouth. — This name is taken from a double
projection to the southward from the water passage connecting
the two parts of Back River, in the form of coves, extending
into the Dover district, so-called. The formation evidently
suggested the name, which was well established by records as
earlj' as 1719. It forms a boundary on the north of Boothbay.
81. Paradise Point. — A small cape or point extending
into Linekin Bay, at its' northeastern extremity, near East
Boothbay Village, at which place its mail is received. This
point is wholly devoted to summer residences. Included in
Boothbay.
82. Parish Lot. — The lot on the hill easterly from
Boothbay Center, originally appropriated to the early Presby-
terian chui'ch of the town. Situated in Boothbay.
83. Pig Cove. — The cove extending westerly from Capi-
tal Island into Southport.
84. Pirates Cove. — Another name for Lobster Cove.
85. Pleasant Cove. — A cove extending nearly two
miles from the current of the Damariscotta River into the
mainland of Boothbay, in a southwesterly course. One of the
principal earh^ settlements of the town was about this cove.
26 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
86. PiSGAH. — The name given the hill easterly from the
village of Boothba}' Harbor bj^ the Rev. John Murray, when
his parsonage was completed and he settled in it. It was as a
name given to a country seat, and in line with the customs of
the country from which he came. In his record book of mar-
riages the place where the ceremony was performed is inva-
riably given, and, if at the parsonage, is always "Pisgah" —
never Mount Pisgah. He sometimes headed his correspond-
ence in the same manner. The prefix has been attached to the
name since Mr. Murray's time. This hill is a natural feature
of great value to the village, affording a location for the
standpipe to the water system as well as for the United States
Weather Signal Station. It has an altitude of 184 feet.
87. PowDEKHORN IsLAND. — Contains about three acres ;
lies southwest from the Isle of Springs, and was sold by Mr.
Swett with that island to the association.
88. Pumpkin Rock. — An irregularly shaped island of
ledge, seven and one-half miles from the village of Boothbay
Harbor, southeasterly. A part of Boothbay.
89. Ram Island. — Noi-therly from Fisherman's Island,
with a narrow channel of water between, lies Ram Island, five
acres area, on which is located the Government light. North-
westerly from the Isle of Springs are the two Ram Islands,
one of four and the other of three acres. All are included in
Boothbay.
90. Reed's Island. — Situated easterly from Linekin
Neck, where Little River opens from the ocean. Contains
three acres. A part of Boothbay. Took its name from Ben-
jamin Reed, who formerly owned it.
91. SA^^^:ER's Island. — An island in the Sheepscot con-
nected with Hodgdon's Island by bridge : also bridged to the
mainland of Boothbay Harbor, the center abutment of which
bridge is the town line. It contains about 175 acres. There
are several good farms, a hotel, general store, chapel, school-
house and several residences. A regular landing of the
Eastern Steamship Company. Takes mail from Trevett. It
is part of Boothbay.
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 27
92. Shbepscot. — A name contemporary in age with
Pemaquid, Newagen, Damariscove or any of the other ancient
localities in this region. Like Damariscotta it is a name that,
to some extent, has usurped Boothbay's place in history.
Sheepscot deeds extended even to the northern part of Cape
Newagen Island at a very early day. Later the name, though
continuing to apply to the river and bay, related to no settle-
ment except that near the bridge in the western part of the
town of Newcastle ; but the connection of a fact and a name
jBxed in the mind, where the-conditions have changed, is often
misinterpreted by later generations. Some of the ancientry
belonging to Boothbay is ascribed to Sheepscot, because it is
regarded as enacted at Sheepscot, but the point of its enact-
ment was from twelve to eighteen miles farther south than the
Sheepscot settlement of to-day.
93. SouTHPORT. — The incorporated town which includes
Cape Newagen Island, formerly so-called, and other islands
set off from Boothbay and incorporated as Townsend, February
12, 1842, the name being changed to Southport in 1850. It
has a boat landing where all boats to and from Bath touch.
It is bridged to the mainland of Boothbay Harbor, across
Townsend Gut, about two miles west from the village. It
contains three post offices, known as Southport, "West South-
port and Newagen, and a summer postal service at three of its
island resorts. It has nine summer boarding houses and five
hotels, thi'ee general stores, boat-building and ice works.
94. Spectacle Islands. — They lie at a point in the
Sheepscot about equally distant from Indiantown, Isle of
Springs and Boston Island, and contain about one acre each.
Their formation suggested the name which has been applied to
them for many years. They are part of Boothbay.
95. Spruce Point. — A point of land consisting of about
three hundred acres, which divides the waters of Boothbay
Harbor from Linekin Bay. The land rises gradually from all
sides toward the center, with bold shores and good water all
about.
96. Squirrel Island. — This island surveys one hundred
and thirty acres. It is owned by an association and is excla-
28 ' HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
sively devoted to summer homes. It has hotel, store, restau-
rant, church, casino, post and telegraph offices and library.
Connected with Boothbay Harbor by submarine telegraph
cable ; takes water from the Boothbay Harbor system, I>y
submarine pipe laid from the end of Spruce Point to the
island. At its steamboat landing all steamers on the Portland
and Boothbajr Harbor line touch each way, and all steamers of
the Eastern Steamship Company to and from Bath during the
season. It is part of Southport, but has a charter conferring
special privileges. A petition to Governor Andros in 1687
shows the name to have then existed.
97. Thorpe Island. — Situated in the Sheepscot, north-
easterly from Trevett, between Barter's Island and the Booth-
bay mainland. Contains about twenty acres. It is a part of
Boothbay.
98. TiBBETTS Island. — Situated in Back Eiver, about
two and one-half miles north of Thorpe Island. Contains
about sixteen acres. Owned by George Adams, and now
called Adams Island. A part of Boothbay.
99. TowNSEND. — The name given by Colonel Dunbar to
an indefinite territory situated between the Sheepscot and Dam-
ariscotta Rivers, where he settled a colony in 1730. It was
named in honor of Lord Charles Townshend, second viscount,
of England, and father to Charles Townshend, who later was
the chief figure in imposing the stamp and tea taxes upon the
Colonies. When the name was dropped by the incorporation
of Boothbay in 1764, it still clung to the harbor, and to this
day the older element all alongshore refer to us as Townsend.
In 1842, what is now Southport chose it for the new town
name, but it was changed as heretofore noticed in 1850, and the
principal reason assigned was the confliction which was caused
by the sticking of the name of Townsend to Boothbay Harbor
))y the seagoing public. The letter " h " has seldom appeared
in the spelling of the name in America.
100. Townsend Gut. — The passage by water between the
mainland of Boothbay Harbor and Southport. It alone retains
the name, in part, once applied to the entire region.
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 29
101. Tumbler Island. — A small island at the entrance
to the inner harbor.
102. Wadsworth's Cove. — The most northerly cove
extending from the Damariscotta into Boothbay territory. It
takes its name from Deacon Wadsworth, who formerly lived
there.
103. Wall's Point. — Named for Andrew Wall, who
first settled there, and owned the entire point. It has grown
by degrees to be known as Wallace's Point, which is clearly
wrong. The proper name should I)e restored.
104. West Boothbay Harbor. — That part of the town
which the name indicates. Formerly called Haley.
105. White Islands. — Mere rocks having the appearance
of islands, southeasterly from the Hypocrites.
106. WiDGiNS. — This, in a sense, is the neai'est a mystical
name we have to deal with. It is mentioned in Hubbard's
Indian Wars as being a settlement in flames, seen by looking
shoreward from Damariscove, whence the settlers had fled for
safety in 1676, from an Indian outbreak. It is enumerated in
connection with Corbin's Sound and Cape Newagen, and is
thought to have been a settlement on either Spruce or
McKown's Point.
107. Wood Island. — The northern end of Damariscove,
which formerlj^ was heavily wooded, and makes at high water
the appearance of a separate island.
Sailing Directions to Boothbay Harbor.
Coast and Geodetic Survey Charts 313, 314, and 105.
From the Eastward. — "Passing Ram Island Light-House,
1-8 mile off and heading W. 3-4 N., continue until Burnt
Island Light-House bears N. W. 1-2 N., when, if at night,
you will be in the white rays ; by keeping inside of the white
rays, and heading N. W. 1-2 N., you will be clear of all
dangers ; continue until the light-house is distant 900 feet,
when N. by E. 3-4 E. carries into the harbor. On this course
give Tumbler Island a berth of 600 feet. Boothbay affords
excellent anchorage, with good holding ground, and is much
frequented. Mean rise and fall of tide, 8 3-4 feet."
30 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Fkom the Westward. — "Bring Seguin Light-House to
bear N. W., 1 1-2 miles, and Earn Island Light-House N. E.
3-4 E., and run N. E. 3-4 E. for Ram Island Light-House
until the Cuckolds Bell Buoj- bears N. N. W. 1-4 W., 1-2
mile. This course at night keeps within the white rays of
Kam Island Light until past the red rays of Burnt Island
Light, and when the latter light, showing white, bears N. by E.
1-4 E. change course to N. bj^ E. 1-4 E. for Burnt Island
Light ; keep within the white rays until Ram Island Light
opens out beyond Squirrel Island and bears S. E. 1-2 E., then
run N. E. by N. until you have crossed the red and white
rays of Burnt Island Light, giving it a berth of 900 feet, and
enter the red rays ; then haul up immediately to N. by E. 1-2
E. for the harbor, giving Tumbler Island a berth of 600 feet."
That the reader may make a comparison between the
accurate directions, which are given our seamen now (1904),
and the more general ones, before our coast was defined by
lights, whistles, bells and other signals, an extract is here
introduced from Blunt's American Coasting Pilot, edition of
1804, thus giving the improvement of just a century.
"Directions for Townsend Harbor.
"If you come from the westward and make Seguine Island,
you must leave it on your larboard hand, give it a birth of
about half a mile, and steer N. E. about 2 leagues, which
course will carry you to Squirrel Island ; if it is day time
you will see two large rocks (called the Cuckolds) on your
larboard hand, to which you give a small birth, and when you
pass them you will make Squirrel Island, which you leave on
your starboard hand, directing your course N. 1-2 W. about
4 or 5 miles. The entrance of Townsend is narrow, and there
is a small rocky island that is very low which you leave on
your starboard hand ; then you maj'- haul to the N. E. or N. E.
by E. but in a dark night and thick weather I would recom-
mend to anchor under the lee of Squii-rel Island."
Lights and Fog Signals.
Ram Island. — Established in 1883 ; tower of granite 20
feet high, from base of structure to center of lantern, 39 1-4
feet, white above ; connected with shore by an open bridge.
White dwelling on shore near the end of bridge. Bell on the
northwesterly side of tower ; red-brick oil house nOO feet S. E.
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 61
from light tower. It is 35 1-2 feet above mean high water
and visible 11 1-4 nautical miles. This light is located on the
northerly side of Eam Island, thus bringing it on the southerly-
side of Fisherman's Island passage into Boothbay Harbor
from the eastward. The light is fixed red with two fixed
white sectors ; and the fog signal is a bell struck by machinery
every twenty seconds, a double and single blow alternately.
Burnt Island. — Established in 1821 ; white conical tower
and white dwelling, connected by a covered way and porch.
White pyramidal bell tower, 60 feet S. E. 1-4 S., and red-brick
oil house 168 feet from light tower. The light is 61 feet above
mean high water and is visible 13 1-4 nautical miles. This
light is located on the southeasterly part of Burnt Island. It
is a red light flashing every five seconds, with two ficsed white
sectors ; and the fog signal is a bell struck by machinery a
double blow every minute.
Cuckolds. — Established in 1892 ; white half-round stone
pier, surmounted by half-round, white, brick fog-signal build-
ing with high conical roof, shingled, natural color. White
one-and-one-half story wooden dwelling attached to pier and
fog-signal building on northwesterly side, protected on easterly
side, to half height of first story windows, by a bulkhead
extending from stone pier to outbuildings in rear of dwelling.
This is a fog-signal station only. It is fitted with a Daboll
trumpet, the signal being blasts of three seconds, silent inter-
vals of seventeen seconds. If the trumpet should be disabled
a bell is to be struck by hand.
Hendrick's Head. — Established in 1829 ; rebuilt in 1875 ;
white square tower and dwelling ; pyramidal white bell tower,
near water's edge to westward ; all connected by covered ways ;
red-brick oil house 247 feet N. E. 7-8 N. from light tower.
The light is 42 1-2 feet above mean high water, and is visible
11 3-4 nautical miles. It has a flashing white light every thirty
seconds ; its fog signal is a bell struck by machinery every
twenty seconds.
Water Powers.
In Wells' Water Power of Maine, published in 1869, by
a return of the board of selectmen of Boothbay, the town is
32 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
accorded three water powers : first, the outlet of Adams Pond ;
second, the outlet of Campbell's Ponds ; third, the Mill Cove
stream. All these have had mills in the past, and, at Adams
Pond, one still is in operation. Additional to these there was,
in the early days, a mill on the stream which emptied into
Pleasant Cove, owned by Benjamin Kelley.
In recent years a mill has been run at some seasons on the
N. C. Reed place, a small power being furnished by damming
the brook on his land. The stream from Echo Lake, which
empties into Lobster Cove, also would furnish considerable
power at some seasons ; and this was probably one of the con-
siderations wliich caused several to settle at that particular place
at the time of the Dunbar colonization. Situated as Boothbay
was, being the southern end of a peninsula, which attained
less than five miles at its greatest width, and less than seven
miles to the north this width was narrowed about one-half, it
seems little less than wonderful that provisions of nature were
such that water powers existed, evenly distributed over the
territory, to serve the colonists in their primitive wants, — to
saw their lumber, grind their grain and work their wool and
flax, thus covering the three great necessities of man, food,
raiment and shelter.
Geology.
Three separate appropriations were made by Maine in the
years 1836-7-9, for a geological examination of the State, to
be conducted by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, Geologist to the State
of Maine. Dr. Jackson held membership in several foreign
mineralogical societies and stood eminent in his profession.
The principal points of Maine were visited by him, and three
annual reports were made. This work was published and is
now very rare and much sought for by libraries and others.
In the second report is found the following :
"The surf preventing us from exploring the islands around,
we ran into Townsend Harbor at Boothbay. This place is one
of the most frequented harbors on the eastern coast of the
State, and is a favorite resort for invalids during the summer
season on account of the purity of the air and the facilities for
bathing in clear sea-water. This harbor is well protected from
the swell of the sea, and has an excellent light-house placed at
its entrance, upon Burnt Island.
PHYSICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 33
"The rocks of Boothbay are not very interesting, being
mostly coarse varieties of mica slate, gneiss and granite, the
latter rock being found in veins traversing the gneiss. We
next ran to Cape Newagen, which we found to be composed of
gneiss rocks, the strata running northeast and southwest, and
dipping to the northwest. There are also veins of granite of
a light color intersecting the strata."
The report upon Boothbay and Cape Newagen is much the
same as it appears relating to other parts of Lincoln County,
as the county is now constituted. Edgecomb and Broad Cove,
in Bristol, showed a more valuable granite than other points.
Charts, Plans and Publications.
But one plan of Boothbay is known to have been made,
which is supposed to have embraced the entire town, including
the islands. This was the work of Dr. Daniel Rose, and bore
his name, though the appropriation designated John McClin-
tock as the contracting party with the town, and references
show that it bore date of December 15, 1815. A reference to
it in John Swett's deed of Thirty Acre Island, in 1816, from
the State, shows that section to have been included. Another
reference to it in a deed of the farm lately owned by W. C.
Clisby, near O. M. Delano's, being the property owned by
members of the Alley family in early times, shows that place
to have been marked on the plan "Lot No. 52." Inquiry has
failed to unearth this plan, or even to find any person who
remembers having seen it. The numbering of the lots com-
menced at Cape Newagen and went north.
The United States Geological Survey charts issued in 1893
are very accurate in the matter of mapping the locality, cover-
ing in a comprehensive manner the general contour of the
territory, including the ponds, streams and roads. The Coast
and Geodetic Surveys made by the Government are very full
and complete.
No work special]}" treating of the Boothbay region has ever
been published. There are disconnected articles and references,
widely scattered, which relate more or less fully to certain
features, which may properly be termed incidents in history,
but nothing general or connected has ever appeared. It was
in recognition of this fact that the present work was prompted.
34 history of boothbay.
Soil and Trees.
The soil on the elevations throughout the region is shallow
and of gravelly composition ; in lower lands it is also gravel
mixed with clay, tending, on the Damariscotta side, to a clay
suitable for brickmaking. The uplands are early lands, as a
rule, and the valleys when properly cultivated are productive.
Nearly all the various trees of the State are found within the
limits of this territory, but soft woods largely predominate.
^151704
CHAPTEE II.
Aboriginal Inhabitants.
THE purpose of this chapter is to give some of the leading
characteristics of the native inhabitants who occupied these
lands before the advent of the Europeans. Something in
the way of description of that race, their modes of living, num-
bers, divisions into tribes, and where, in our immediate vicinity,
are the plainest designated points of their occupancy. The con-
test between savage and civilized life for supremacy in this ter-
ritory will not be presented, for that more naturally belongs to
the story of the struggles, the victories and defeats of the colo-
nists, extending over a period of nearly a century and a half.
The Indian inhabitants of Maine were divided into two
great confederacies ; the Abenaques and the Etechemins ; and
the Penobscot River was the line of demarcation.^ The Abena-
ques dwelt westerly and the Etechemins along the banks and
east of this river. The former were divided into four large
tribes ; the latter into three." The Sokokis, the smallest
tribe among the Abenaques, were settled upon the Saco River ;
and their principal abode was Indian Island, just above the
Lower Falls, also a settlement in the present town of Frye-
burg and another on the Great Ossipee. The Anasagunticooks
dwelt along the Androscoggin River, on the west side, from
its sources to Merrymeeting Bay ; their principal resort being
at Pejepscot, now Brunswick. The Canibas lived on the
Kennebec River, from Norridgewock to the sea, and Kennebis,
the paramount lord of the tribe, lived on Swan Island ; but
there were several other points along the river where settle-
ments of some size were indicated, notably at Norridgewock
and Teconnet, now Winslow. The Wawenocks occupied the
remaining space between the two great rivers, Kennebec and
Penobscot, their principal settlements being on the Sheepscot
and Damariscotta, of which more particular mention will be
made.
1. Will. Me. 1, 463 ; 1 Kendall's Travels, p. 61 ; Heckewelder, p. 109.
2. Parkman's Jesuits, p. 321 ; Will. Me. 1. 46B.
3(i HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Among the Etechemins the TaiTatines were the most power-
ful and we shall have more occasion to notice them hereafter
than the others ; they lived along the Penobscot, one settlement
being at the mouth of the Kenduskeag, where Bangor now
stands, another three miles above, on the west side of the
river, nearly opposite the present village of Eddington Bend ;
their principal resort, however, was on the peninsula of Major-
biguyduce, now Castine ; and if Capt. John Smith did not err,
probablj^ they had one settlement on the west of the Penobscot,
between that river and the mountains, in the vicinity of where
Camden stands to-day. The smallest tribe of the Etechemins
was known at an early date and often referred to as the Open-
angos, but later as the Passamaquoddys or 'Quoddy tribe ; they
have lived around the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay and the
Schoodic River. The last and most eastern tribe was known
as the Marechites. They bordered upon the Micmac territory
of Nova Scotia, and were the least intelligent as well as the
least known of the Maine tribes. Thej' lived along the St.
John River and had two leading resorts, one at the mouth of
the Madawaska and the other some eighty miles farther down,
at Meductic Point.
While these were the main divisions of the two gi'eat con-
federacies, in several instances these tribes were to some extent
sub-divided. For instance we have record of the minor tribes,
like the Pejepscots and the Machias Indians and others.
About 1614 and 1615, when the Europeans made their
first estimates of the Indian population of Maine, based largely
on the calculations of Capt. John Smith, it was placed as fol-
lows : The total number of Abenaque warriors, 5,000, allowing
to the Sokokis 900, to the Anasagunticooks 1,500, the Canibas
1,500 and the Wawenocks 1,100. The Etechemins were esti-
mated at 6,000 warriors, divided thus: Tarratines 2,400,
Openangos 1,400, and Marechites 2,200. The total Indian
population of the territory now constituting Maine being then
placed at from 35,000 to 40,000. The sources of information
at that time were such that great confidence has been placed in
the estimates by all writers upon this subject.
The Abenaque tribes were all subject to the Bashaba, his
rule extending from the Penobscot to Cape Cod. He dwelt
ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. 37
with the Wawenocks, at some point within their territory, and
they were his immediate subjects. Imagination has been very
fertile with some writers on this matter, and Norumbegua,
Arambec and Arumpeag, as each author has fancied to tenn it,
has figured as the mythical city of this ancient race — sought,
but never found. The fact doubtless is that it never existed.
The Indian had his resorts and temporary abiding places.
These places he went from, and came back to, and lived in
often, but not continuously.
In the early part of 1615 a war broke out between the
Tarratines and western Indians. It raged with great violence
for two years and was the beginning of the end of the Abena-
ques of Maine. In 1617 a plague or pestilence, the exact
nature of which has never been known, broke out among the
Indians to the westward of the Penobscot and continued into
the next year. By this they were cut down by hundreds at all
points along the coast and up the rivers, wherever their settle-
ments extended ; the disease seeming to hover over the van-
quished and claim them alone for its victims.^ One great
peculiarity of the disease that afflicted them was that where it
raged the worst English fishermen mingled with them, even
sleeping in their wigwams, and were unaffected. It has been
thought that the two years' war that just preceded it, during
which time the western Indians were driven from their hunting,
fishing and planting grounds, forced them to that precarious
kind of diet that their systems became impoverished to that
extent that they fell an easy prey to the malady that followed.
It is certain that the eastern Indians were not much, if any,
affected by it.- Years after the early explorers found many
places where several had died together, perhaps all of a family,
and had been unburied.
This wholesale scourge was referred to by the English Eng
in one of his patents, at the time, as a visitation of God, and
a providential interference with the race favoring European
colonization.^ In the war the Bashaba was slain and the title
1. As late as October, 1763, a pestilence of an unknown nature broke out among
the Indians of Martha's Vineyard and the following .January there were left but 85
persons from a tribe that numbered 320 at the beginning of the scourge. Hutch. Hist.
Mass, I, 38.
2. Annals of Warren, p. 17; Johnson's Femaqnid, p. 43.
3. Yoimg's Chronicles of Plymouth, p. 183.
38 HISTORY OF BOOTH15AY.
never reappeared among the tribes. As may well be supposed
from the location of the Wawenocks they were more nearly
exterminated than either of the other tribes ; but it was nearh-
the middle of the following century before the remnant broke up
and left their native countrj'', merging themselves in the tribes
of Canada. During all this period they acted generall}^ under
the influence of either the Massachusetts Indians or the Tarra-
tines, their former foes, in their hostility to the colonists. The
Anasagunticooks first went to Canada and joined the St. Fran-
cois Indians early in 1747, followed soon after by the Sokokis.
The Canibas withdrew the remnant of their tribe to Norridge-
wock, where after many j'ears with dwindling numbers they,
too, went to Canada. Soon after 1747 the Wawenocks, having
but few families left, went to Canada and joined their brethren
at Becancourt.'
The Etechemins withstood the war and the ravages of the
plague, but were much cut down in numbers. The remnant of
the Tarratines, now known as the Penobscots, are at Indian
Island, Old Town. The 'Quoddy tribe are on the shore of their
old bay at Pleasant Point in the town of Perry, both wards of
the State of Maine. The remainder of the Marechites are near
Frederickton, N. B.
The principal dwelling places of the Wawenocks must have
been those spots here and there alongshore which have shown
the greatest amount of offal deposit. They had no fortifications
or earthworks, no buildings with durable foundations, nothing
that marked the surface of the earth in other than a temporary
fashion, except where had accumulated huge piles of shells
from clams or oysters, mingled with the bones of birds and
game, various implements and cooking utensils, lost or cast
away, with sometimes the skeletons of their own dead.
Ordinarily in the vicinity of one of these places, which
shows to have been an Indian resort, has been found an Indian
burying gi'ound. Search where one may for these localities
and they invariably will be found on a southern slope, with
high, well-wooded land, as a weather shield, lying to the north
and west, with a pond, spring or stream of good pure water
near, and, at a convenient distance, productive clam flats, which
1. Wm. Me. 1, 469.
ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. 39
to the present day are famed for both quantity and quality of
this bivalve.
There is ever}^ reason to believe that the Indian has always
been a migratory being. He is that now. He was probably
the same before ever a European set foot on American soil.
In winter when the interior was closed down under ice and
snow he came to the seashore, where he had all that that locality
produced for sustenance, clams, oysters, fish and birds ; and in
these regions, before civilization had placed its mark upon the
territory, all the game worked seaward, too, in winter, on
account of the great depth of snow back from the ocean.' In
spring the Indian followed the salmon and shad up the rivers,
and hunted the forest game, which also at that season worked
back along the rivers and streams.
The two great centers of Wawenock settlement were where
the Damariscotta oyster shell deposit exists and about the
lower Sheepscot waters, though there were many minor ones.
Indications point to this Damariscotta locality as the Norum-
begua or Arambec of the ancients, and also as being the resi-
dence of the Bashaba, more strongly than any other place.
These beds form a cliff varying from six to twenty-five feet
above high water mark ; they are from eighty to one hundred
rods in width, and extend one hundred and eight rods in
length, and were estimated by Dr. Jackson as containing
4.5,000,000 cubic feet.^ There are several reasons why this
place is indicated as the chief point in old Mavooshen.^ It shows
to have been the center and abode of a mighty horde of eaters,
much greater in extent than any other in America, and one of
the largest in the world ;* it was as nearly central in their
territory as any place that could be selected ; the quality of the
food was better than any other section has shown, being oysters
instead of clams, and the ruling element usually takes the best
in either civilized or bai-barian life ; lastly, when the Popham
and Gilbert colony was visited by a delegation from the Bashaba,
1. As an indication that this is correct it may be said that this fact still exists in
Washington County, the only county in Maine having unsettled territory to any extent
near the sea ; and deer are always more numerous on the borders of civilization, where
there are some cleared spots, than they are in the depths of a dense forest,
2. Geological Report III, 57.
3. The aboriginal name for the Wawenock territory.
4. Fiske's Discovery of America I, 4; Second Annual Report of the Peabody
Museum of American Archasology, p. 18.
40 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
consisting of his brother Skidwares and Nahanada, extending
an invitation to visit him, a locality northerly from Pemaquid
was indicated b}' them/ and not the lower Sheepscot, where
the next greatest aggregation of offal deposit exists.
A similar, though smaller, deposit is to be found on the
Hawthorne or Barton farm in the town of Cushing.'- Another
is found in Bremen, on the farm formerly owned by Jacob
Keene ; again on the Benjamin Palmer place at Broad Cove :
and also on the northerly end of Loud's Island, formerly known
as Muscongus. Westerly from the Sheepscot, in Robin Hood's
Cove, Georgetown, may be found a similar deposit. All these
places have the I'equisites previously mentioned : a Mgh, wood-
sheltered background, a southern slope to the sun, with good
fresh water and productive clam flats near at hand.
In our own locality each reader is somewhat familiar with
the physical features of the country. On ancient Cape
Newagen, now Southport, there are several minor spots about
Ebenecook Harbor, but the one most in evidence is the southern
slope from Dogtish Head, where the entire soil in some places,
particularly where the old Maddocks tish stand was built, and
all about where the old flake yard was, is composed of pulver-
ized shell deposit to the depth of several feet. This was in
mounds in Palgrave Maddocks' time, but was leveled to a
smooth and regular field bj* his sons and grandsons. Across
the cove from the Maddocks stand, near the Cameron landing,
is another of the old resorts ; but the most famous in our
vicinity are the indications about Sawyer's Island and Indian-
town.'
At the head of the cove which penetrates Sawyer's Island
from the north, more than half the distance across it, were in
early times quite well-defined cooking pots, cut in the rocks,
which in later years have crumbled and sloughed off. It is
supposed that they were used for cooking maize and vegetables
by immersing hot stones in the pot holes when filled with water
and the articles to be cooked. On Swett's Island Indian remains
1. Me. Hist. Coll. Ill, 307.
2. It may be said that all these other deposits are principally of clam shells and
other offal. Few if any oyster shells are found. Cnshman's Sheepscot, pp. 310-318.
3. Indiantown is thought by many to have applied as a name to the entire lower
Sheepscot locality in and about Ebenecook Harbor; but this name for many years has
been narrowed in its significance to the single island now bearing that name.
ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. 41
were exhumed, where the skeleton showed that the buried was
in a sitting posture, facing the rising sun, an almost universal
custom, indicated by nearly every exhumation that has been
made, and which has been interpreted as symbolic of their
belief in a resurrection.*
On Indiantown during the fifties, while plowing in a field
where the soil was largely composed of this deposit, a piece of
a two-edged knife or sword was unearthed, imbedded in a
human skeleton, while near by were uncovered six other skele-
tons, the blade of a long-bitted iron axe, a stone axe with a
grooved neck instead of an eye, a piece of old-time saw plate,
a short piece of iron chain, and a table knife of ancient pat-
tern.^ This shell deposit at the south end of Indiantown
Island is about ten feet in depth in places. It is unmistakably
an artificial rather than a natural deposit, for, like that at
Damariscotta, the earth beneath it is of the same composition
as that about it, and the bottom of the deposit is above high
water mark. All along the lower Sheepscot are vestiges of
this ancient race, but much plainer when they were young, so
the old men tell us. "Time's effacing fingers" have nearly
swept the lines.
The Wawenocks, as might be supposed, being the tribe
which were the immediate subjects of the Bashaba, had many
superior traits of character. They and the Canibas showed less
hostility to the colonists than the two western tribes ; but the
Abenaques as a whole, regardless of the many black crimes
recorded against them, lacked much of the natural savagery of
the Tarratines. Maine's leading historian says of the Wawenock
race :^ "They were a brave, active, personable people, — faith-
ful in amity ; and when uninfluenced they disinclined to make
war upon the English. They defended their prince with much
valor until overcome."
The signification of the name Wawenock is " very brave —
fearing nothing." So numerous were they about the Sheepscot
in early times that Douglas, an old writer, terms them in his
1. The religion, church service, marriage ceremony and manner of burial among
the Indians have all changed in the last two centuries or thereabout, and for many
years have taken on the Catholic forms. This has been the case ever since the French
Jesuits gained an ascendancy over the Indians In matters of religious belief.
2. Ancient Dominions of Maine, p. 27.
3. Will. Me. 1, 469,
42 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AY.
description "the Shcepscot Indians."' They were well formed
men and women, not so lai-ge as the Tarratines but better fea-
tured. They subsisted entirely on cooked food and would eat
nothing raw. Like all others of their race they loved gewgaws
and finer J', high colors and ornamental articles of dress. In
war they painted their faces with red pigment into terrifying
appearances, wearing glittering medals of copper or silver cm
their breasts, and pendant jewels in their ears and sometimes
in their noses, with feathered turbans for a head gear. The}'
lived in many cases to great ages, and deformit}- or idiocy was
unknown among them. Their best wigwams ranged from
twenty to fortj' feet in length by about fifteen in width. The
ridgepole and plates were supported by crotched sticks driven
in the ground. They were covered with bark and battened,
but without doors or windows. The entrance was covered by
a curtain, frequently being either a bear or deer skin. Each
wigwam had a smoke hole near the center and the fire was built
on the ground beneath it. Beds of evergreen boughs and twigs
were ranged in a sort of windrow form along the sides, upon
which they slept at night and sat upon while doing their work
on garments or snowshoes during the day. They had but one
regular meal and that was at evening. At other times they ate
according to the demands of appetite. Xo bird, fish or animal
which thej' were able to capture was ever thrown away if they
needed food. All were eaten. The}- did not know how to
make bread until they learned from the French and English.
They formerly' pounded their corn in stone mortars, and boiled
their water in wooden troughs and trays by inseiliug red-hot
stones. They usually smoked or broiled meats and fish, boiled
or stewed vegetables, and roasted nuts in the hot ashes.
The Indians of Maine all believed in a Great Spirit, called
by the Abenaques, Tanto ; and by the Etechemins, Sazoos.
Their paradise was always in the direction of the setting sun.
The principal Indian names of individuals of rank belonging
to the Wawenock and Canibas tribes, which were best known
to our English colonists along these shores from 1605 to the
end of that century, and which may be found by searching
the early York Deeds and local history, were Moxas, Wegun-
1. Will. Me. 1, 468.
ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. 43
gavet, Robin Hood, Menawormet, Nichodehant, Samoset,
Quesemenecke, Sebenoa, Obias, Damarine, Sasanoa, Wiwurna,
Skidwares, Nahanada, Amenquin, Dick Swash, Jack Pudding,
Josle, Agilike, Wittinose, Erie Dugles, Matahando, Sheepscot
John and Hopehood. The last named was son of Robin Hood,
and the most desperate, cruel and relentless leader from these
parts. He was killed while leading a raiding band through
New Hampshire, in 1690, by some Canadian Indians who
mistook him for a Mohawk, with whom they were at war.*
1. It is probable that the Wawenock territory would be more exactly described
if its eastern limits were set at and upon Georges or St, George River, than as extending
to the Penobscot waters. It is likely that the Tarratines occupied the Penobscot and
had some settlement along its western banks.
CHAPTEK III.
Early Voyages and Explorations.
PAKKIMAN brieflj' covers the Spanish case when he says :
" Toward the close of the fifteenth century Spain achieved
her final triumph over the infidels of Granada, and made
her name famous through all generations by the discovery of
America. Every ship from the New World came freighted
with marvels which put the fictions of chivalr}' to shame ; and
to the Spaniard of that day America was a region of wonder
and mystery, of vague and magnificent promise. Thither
adventurers hastened, thirsting for glory and for gold, and
often mingling the enthusiasm of the crusader and the valor of
the knight-errant with the bigotry of inquisitors and the rapac-
ity of pirates. The extravagance of hope and the fever of
adventure knew no bounds." '
Spain confined herself, principally, to that part of America
near the equator, notably to Central America, Peru, Mexico,
the "West India Islands and Florida. The only official Spanish
expedition to the noi'thern Atlantic coast of America was
undertaken by Gomez, sailing from Corunna, soon after Feb-
ruary 10, 1525, with the intention of making the intermediate
coast his objective point. De Leon and Ayllon, of his own
country, had discovered and explored Floi'ida in 1512 and
1520, as far as 33° north. John Cabot, in 1497, and Sebastian
Cabot, who was a friend and correspondent, in 1498, had vis-
ited Newfoundland and Labrador ; therefore, Gomez sought
an unworked field. ^ He was absent from Spain about ten
months, in which time he sailed along the coast from Florida
to Newfoundland. Ribero's map, which followed this vo3'age,
depicts our coast in a general way, so it would be recognizable.
The triangular form of Penobscot Bay is clearlj' given, studded
with islands, and the shores of Maine were called the land of
Gomez. This name, and others that he gave to prominent
1. Pioneers of France, p. 9.
2. Me. Hist. Coll. Doc. Ser., \o\. I, p. 274.
EARLY VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS. 45
points on that voyage, lasted, in some cases, many years.
Portuguese and Spanish fishermen were about Newfoundland,
and perhaps as far west as the Maine coast, as eai'ly as that
date, probably early as 1,504, and continued to come to these
shores well up to 1600.
The interests and efforts of France were centered farther
north. As a matter of private enterprise, Denis, of Honfleur,
explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1506 ; Aubert, of Dieppe,
followed in 1508. In 1524 Verrazzano, a Florentine in the
service of France, explored the coast from near the site of
Wilmington, N. C, to Newfoundland. He skirted the coast
along, touching near the site of Portsmouth, and then made
his cruise along the shores of the Gulf of Maine. He stated
that while at the South he found the natives agreeable and gen-
tle, here, on the Maine coast, they were in an irritable state,
rude and ill-mannered. No navigator of his time knew better
than Verrazzano just what localities had been visited up to that
date by voyagers and fishermen, and he interpreted it at once
as an indication that the Indian race, in these parts, was dis-
affected from treatment they had received from European
visitors. He noted another peculiarity of the Indians on this
coast, which strengthened his suspicions ; while at the South
the natives were pleased with any trinket or ornament, here
they wanted nothing but fishhooks, knives, or some iron or
steel instrument that would cut, and appeared as though they
had learned the use of such articles. He concluded that Euro-
pean barter with the natives had commenced before his visit. ^
Francis I, of France, directed two vessels to be fitted for
western exploration, and placed them in command of Jaques
Cartier, who sailed from St. Malo April 20, 1534. His land
fall was near Cape Buonavista, Newfoundland, near where
Cortereal reached in 1500. He passed through the Straits of
Belle Isle and entered Bay Chaleur, ascending the St. Law-
rence as far as Anticosti. In 1535 Cartier made a second
voyage, this time going up the St. Lawrence to Stadacone,
now Quebec, and after a little tarry proceeded still further to
Hochelaga, now Montreal. Again Cartier sailed with Kober-
val. It is said that in 1545, during January and February,
1. Me. Hist, Coll. Doc. Ser., Vol. I, p. 266.
46 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
an average of about two vessels a day sailed from French ports
for Newfoundland. La Roche, in 1598, under a commission
from Henry IV, sailed west to Sable Island. In 1556 Andre
Thevet sailed from Florida along the North Atlantic coast to
Newfoundland. He mentions "Norumbegue," which, he
states, the natives called "Agoncy." He speaks of the region
in detail, clearly indicating Fox Islands, Camden Hills and
Islesboro, which, he saj^s, the natives called "Aiayascon," and
that it was inhabited only by birds and fishermen. From this
trip he sailed to Labrador, and home to France by way of the
Azores. He describes no other part of his voyage with the
interest that he does in the case of Penobscot Bay. De Monts,
the French explorer, accompanied by Champlain, reached the
present Liverpool, in Nova Scotia, in 1604 ; he rounded Cape
Sable into the Bay of Fundy, later anchoring in the attractive
harbor, which he granted to Poutrincourt, and he, in turn,
settled it the following year as Port Royal, now the city of
Annapolis, N. S. De Monts' charter from Henry IV, of
France, embraced the territory between the 40th and 46th
parallels of latitude (from the Delaware Bay to the Gulf of
St. Lawrence). He cruised about the bay for a time, visited
and named the St. John River, became somewhat acquainted
with the Openango and Marechite tribes, which we have had
previous occasion to notice, and then settled down for the
winter of 1604-05 on Neutral Island, which is situated in the
St. Croix River, and had been selected by' Champlain for the
purpose. Of the seventy-nine who commenced the winter,
thirty-five died by the opening of spring from exposure and
the scurvy. In the previous September, in a little bark of
fifteen tons, he sailed west to Mount Desert, which he visited
and named, and entered the Penobscot River, by him called
the Pentagoet, and again, in these old records, the mystical
name of Norumbegua is sounded. June 18, 1605, almost
the exact time that Weymouth was about Pentecost Harbor,
De Monts sailed west, past the mouth of the Penobscot, where
he had been the previous autumn, erected a cross at the Ken-
nebec, taking possession of that country by the act, and so
proceeded westward to Cape Cod, returning to St. Croix
August 3d.
EABLY VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS. 47
Thus far only French and Spanish voyages have been noted ;
but England, though apparently lagging in the enterprise of
discovery and colonization, was destined to show a lasting
though a latent energy. In 1497 John Cabot, accompanied by
his son Sebastian, under a grant from Henry VII, made a voy-
age of three months, touching Labrador only, and returned to
England. The next year Sebastian again crossed the ocean,
his first land fall being near Davis Strait. He then sailed
southward along the coast, stopping at Newfoundland awhile,
and probably sailed along the Gulf of Maine to Cape Cod.
The Cabots were seeking both territory and a northwest pas-
sage to Cathay, and their knowledge of geography and naviga-
tion, and the principle of what is termed "great circle sailing,"
led them to make those far north land falls. In the Privy
Purse account of Henry VII occurs an item each year, for
1503-4-5, where cash gifts were made to parties who had
brought him relics and wild animals and birds from Newfound-
land, yet not a word in identification of the person or the voy-
age. It simply shows the communication to have been greater
than has been commonly supposed between the old world and
the new at that period. Similar entries of making like gifts
also occur between the date of Cabot's voyage and 1503. But
for half a century after Cabot voyaged for his King, little, on
the part of England, was done in following up the fisheries, in
comparison to what was being done in the same line by the
French, Spanish and Portuguese. This is surprising, inas-
much as Cabot reported the cod in such schools off Newfound-
land as to impede his progress ; but at that time, England con-
trolled the Icelandic fisheries and this may account for not
persevering to a greater extent, about the Newfoundland waters,
early in the sixteenth century.
Tlie Portuguese brought both cattle and swine to Sable
Island and they are reported to have multiplied greatly in a
native condition.^ An English navigator, John Rut, June 10,
1527, sailed from Plymouth, with two vessels, the Mary of
Guilford and the Samson. The Mary reached Newfoundland
August 3d, and reported finding " eleven Norman vessels, one
from Brittany, and two Portugal barks, all a-fishing." Rut
1. Hakluyt.p. 691.
48 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
sailed along the coast and mentions Norumbegua. As this name
actually applied to the Maine coast, and sometimes in a broader
sense to all New England, this is the first recorded instance
where Englishmen put their feet on Maine soil. Nowhere else
on either continent has the fishing business been carried on so
extensively and successfully, over a long term of years, as along
the northern Atlantic coast, from Maine to Newfoundland.
In 1577 there were reported one hundred fishing vessels about
the Newfoundland waters. By 1600 England was sending
annually about one hundred vessels there.' It was but a few
years after this before the English fleet of fishermen was num-
erous along the Maine coast.
Bartholomew Gosnold sailed from Falmouth, England,
March 26, 1602, with thirty-two men, and made land May 4th,
somewhere north of the Isle of Shoals. He skirted the coast
along to Cape Cod, where, on June 18th, he re-embarked for
England. The next year merchants from Bristol, England,
fitted up a ship of fifty tons, giving the command to Martin
Pring. They sailed from Milford Haven, April 10, 1603,
shortly after the death of Queen Elizabeth. They sighted the
Azores and fell in with the American coast at Fox Islands, in
Penobscot Bay, on June 7th. The cod and haddock which they
took were esteemed better than those taken farther north.
Pring examined our coast line more caref ull}' than any one who
had preceded him, and carried back a careful draft and an
account of it. They sailed for England in August.
No other English navigator is mentioned until the voj'age of
George Weymouth, in 1605. He sailed from the Downs, March
31st, and on May 11th came in sight of the American coast
near Cape Cod. He ran northwardly three daj^s, from the 14th
to the 17th of the month, and anchored about noon of the lat-
ter day on the north side of a prominent island, which he named
St. George, but which is now known bj' its aboriginal name,
Monhegan. On the 19th he sailed northward two or three
leagues, among the islands, toward the mountains he viewed
in the distance, and anchored in an excellent harbor, which he
named Pentecost Harbor. It has been a broadly discussed
question, and much lias been written upon it, where this Pen-
1. Sabine's Rep. on Fisheries, pp. 209-216.
EARLY VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS. 49
tecost Harbor was, and what river Weymouth ascended after
he left his anchorage. There seemed to be a settled impression
that it was St. George's Harbor for many years, but the river
he ascended was thought to have been the Penobscot. To this
view Belknap, Williams, Eaton and Williamson inclined. The
writings of these authors being among the earliest published,
and practically on the ground, other historical works, that only
mentioned the matter incidentally, accepted their views, with-
out a knowledge of the locality. The report of Captain Wil-
liams and the publications of Belknap are principally respon-
sible for this view, however.
At a later date McKeen, Sewall and others, seeing that this
was untenable as a theory, when compared with Eosier's narra-
tive, the chronicler of the voyage, launched the Kennebec
River theory, with Boothbay Harbor as the Pentecost of
Weymouth. The historians, Bancroft, Abbott and Palfrey,
accepted the Kennebec and Boothbay idea, and for some years
tliis voyage became the largest subject for discussion in all
IMaine's early history. When carefully examined the Kenne-
bec view was more inconsistent with Hosier's chronicle than the
Penobscot had been. In 1859 Captain George Pi'ince, of
Bath, drew public attention to the matter in a careful and
exhaustive paper before the Maine Historical Society, in which
he set forth that all inconsistencies might be eliminated if the
earliest view of the harbor, St. George's, be taken, and the St.
George River substituted for the Kennebec or the Penobscot,
in either case. The direction of the mountains, being those of
Camden ; the description of the islands forming the harbor ;
and the coves along the St. George, on either side ; the river,
" trending westward into the main " ; all tallied with Rosier.
It is probable that the matter would have been settled at a
much earlier date had not Rosier described the river as a
"large river." With that impression uppermost. Captain Wil-
liams, who looked the ground over in the interest of Belknap,
reported the Penobscot was the only " large river " that could
be considered. Had he only thought that in the country from
which Weymouth and Rosier came the Thames and the Severn
arc considered large rivers ; and had he critically examined
that part of the narrative where the author estimates this
50 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
"large river" as extending onl_y forty miles into the main, then
Captain Williams, as well as Captain Prince, might have recon-
ciled the St. George as fitting the description. Members of
the Maine Historical Society, it is believed, as a unit, accept
the Prince theory, as do students of the subject everywhere.'
One act of Weymouth's voyage, which will always cause it
to stand out prominent in history, was the capture of five
Wawenock Indians, by treachery, and taking them to England.
The names of the captured were Nahanada, Skidwares, Asse-
comet, Dehamida and Tisquantum. For this act Weymouth
is to the present day held up to the execration of mankind ;
while Lord Popham and Sir Ferdinaudo Gorges are viewed as
Christian gentlemen of unblemished character. The exten-
uating facts that may be urged in behalf of Wej^mouth's mem-
ory are, that he caused the kidnapping of these natives for no
monetary gain. They were not sold into slavery or ill-treated,
further than such punishment as would naturally be incidental
to capture and transportation away from home and friends.
He was on a voyage in the interest of Gorges and Popham, and
when he returned to England these stolen Indians were divided
between his employers. Gorges taking three into his house-
hold, and Popham the other two. Gorges says, in his brief
narration :
"They were all of one nation, but of several parts and sev-
eral families. This accident must be acknowledged the means
under God of putting on foot and giving life to all our planta-
tions."
The real use to which the Indians were put in England was
to teach them English, and then to obtain from them a descrip-
tion of their country and its natural resources. They were all
returned later and, unquestionabl3', were well cared for while
in England. Captain Weymouth has been held before the
public by many writers with all the odium of a slave-stealer,
and his memory is blotted by this act ; but he was only the
agent of principals on the other side of the Atlantic. The
agent's purpose was secondary to that of the principals, but the
nature of the act forced the first move on him. That accom-
plished, the principals accepted the result of his work for the
1. Me. Hist. Coll., Vol. V, pp. 307-388; Vol. IX, p. 302; Vol. VI, pp. 291-307. Same,
2d Series, Vol. II, p. 225.
KARLT VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS. 51
carrying out of their object ; and Gorges, Christian gentleman
that he was, only termed it an "accident."
When the treatment of the captured, and the fact that they
were sent back to be landed on the shores of their nativity, is
all considered, the act does not take so dark a hue as it has
many times been given. The intent was the essence of the
crime then, as always ; and the intent was not bad. It worked,
however, to the disadvantage of the English. The forcible,
treacherous act of kidnapping was started in the minds of the
natives, and, while nearly three-quarters of a century was to
intervene before they should wage a disastrous war upon the
white population, there was ever after a feeling of suspicion
and distrust of the English on the part of the Indians.
By act of King James I, who was now the English ruler,
two patents were granted on April 10, 1606, with a view to
colonization. This was the most vita! action in this direction
thus far taken by the English Government. They were known
as the First and Second Colonies of Virginia.^ The first con-
sisted of London gentlemen. Gates, Somers, Hakluyt, Wing-
field and their associates ; and the other was composed of
Gorges, Hanham, Gilbert, Popham, Parker and their associ-
ates, from Pljonouth and elsewhere. The country granted
was from 34° to 45° north latitude, or from about the point of
Cape Fear to the central part of Maine. The First Colony
was permitted to begin a settlement anywhere below 41° north,
and the Second Colonj' could commence anywhere above 38°
north ; but one having commenced, the other should not begin
a settlement within one hundred miles of the first planting. It
will be only with the Second Colony of Virginia, sometimes
called the Plymouth Company, that we shall have to do as we
proceed.
In August, 1606, the Second Colony sent out to their terri-
tory, for the purposes of colonization, Capt. Henry Chalons.
He had thii-ty-one men, and took along Dehamida and Assc-
comet, intending to return them to their native shores. This
is strongl}' presumptive that the locality that Weymouth had
visited, and Rosier had described, was the intended destination.
A little later one of the patentees, Capt. Thomas Hanham,
1. Wm. Me.. Vol. I, p. 196.
52 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
with more men and supplies, and the Indian Nahanada, fol-
lowed Chalons. The latter, however, was not to be found by
Hanham, so after some search he returned to England, accom-
plishing nothing further than giving the countiy and the oppor-
tunities for colonization a favorable word painting. Chalons,
meantime, on November 10th, had been captured by the Span-
iards, taken to Spain and his vessel condemned.
While disappointment came to the North Virginia Com-
pany, the Southern Companj^ was making some progress. In
April, 1607, with three ships and one hundred men, the settle-
ment of Jamestown was effected, which was never entirely
broken up. The spirit of rivalry at about this time is in evi-
dence between the two companies in the matter of colonization.
On May 31, 1607, George Popham, brother to the Chief Jus-
tice, and Kaleigh Gilbert, nephew of Sir Walter Raleigh, sailed
from Plymouth with two ships, the Gift of God and the Mary
and John, with one hundred and twenty men, and provisions,
utensils and other necessities adapted to planting in a wilder-
ness. With them was Skidwares, another of Weymouth's
captives, returned to his home and friends. Early in August
they made land, evidently in the vicinity of Mount Desert,
and sailed westerly to an anchorage under Monhegan. They
were among the islands in that vicinity for a few da3's, one of
Strachey's descriptions being as follows : *
"From twelve of the clock noon they kept their course
due west and came neere unto three islands, lying low and flat
by the water, shewing white to the water as if it were sand ;
but yt is white rock, making shew afar off almost like Dover
Cliff es. There lyeth so-west from the easter-most of the three
islands a white rocky island, and those other three islands lye
one of the other east and west."
It is generally accepted that in the above the islands Dam-
ariscove, Outer Heron and Fisherman's are described, and the
white rocky one is Pumpkin Rock. The text preceding and
following the above supports this view. On August 9th, it
being Sunday, they went ashore at some island, presumably
1. William Strachey was not connected with this expedition. He was not even
on this coast ; but he was Secretary of the South Virginia Company from 1609 to 1612,
at about whicli time he returned to England. About 1618 he prepared his " Historie
of Travaile into Virginia," some chapters of which were devoted to the Northern Col-
ony. The data was probably from interviews with or journals of some of the members
of that voyage,
EARLY VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS. 53
Monhegan, perhaps another, and held divine worship. At
whatever island it may have been, it was evidently the first
Protestant church service ever held north of Jamestown, Va.
While in the vicinity of the three islands referred to they were
becalmed, but during the night a furious southern storm broke
upon them. This they rode out till daybreak when Strachey
tells us further :
" Soe soone as the day gave light, they perceaved that they
were hard abourd the shore, in the bay that they were in the
daie before, which made them look out for some place to
thrust in the shipp to save their lives ; for towing the long
boat, yt laye suncke at the stern two howers and more, yett
would they not cutt her off, lyving in hope to save her ; So
bearing up helme, they stood in right with the shoare, when
anon they perceaved two little islands, to which they made,
and there they found (God be thancked) good anchoring,
where they road untill the storme broak, which was the next
daie after. Here they freed their boat, and had ashore to
repaire her, being much torn and spoiled. These are two
leagues to the westward of Sagadehoc. Upon one of them
they went ashoare, and found four salvadges and one woman.
The islands all rockye and full of pine trees."
They selected the point of the peninsula, known by the
Indians as Sabino, on the western side of the Kennebec River,
then called the Sagadahoc. This point is now well known to
all as Popham Beach. It is well for the reader to consider
for a moment the early distinction which that place received.
The two great companies, chartered under James I, had each
made its selection of a locality, in the same year, 1607, upon
which to build a city, which should in future times be the cen-
ter or nucleus of a New World's population. Popham went
down early, and is now, for its natural beauty, used as one of
the many summer homes along the Maine coast, with but few
inhabitants ; while of Jamestown Fiske justly says : " Of
that sacred spot, the first abiding place of Englishmen in
America, nothing now is left but the ivy-mantled ruins of the
church tower and a few cracked and crumbling tombstones."
While Popham superintended the building of the fort and
houses, Captain Gilbert explored, with a few of his men, as
far west as Cape Elizabeth and about Casco Bay, also up the
Kennebec to a point thought to be betAveen Augusta and
54 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Waterville, and during the month of September went to Pem-
aquid, by arrangement with Nahanada and Skidwares, to go
with them and visit the Bashaba ; but on arriving there, being
belated, those Indians had gone before them, and they returned
to the settlement. While the others were getting readj' for
winter, Capt. Robert Davies was dispatched back to England
in the Mary and John for supplies, expecting to return in the
spring. After his departure they finished the fort, built fifty
houses, a church and storehouse, and " a pretty Pynnace of
about some thirty tonne, which they called the Virginia."
Captain Davies arrived the following season, "with a shipp
laden full of vitualls, armes, instruments and tooles," but he
found President Popham dead, besides many others. It had
])een a rigorous winter in both America and Europe, far
beyond the average in severity, still a good quantity of sassa-
fras had been gathered, a large stock of furs had been obtained
in trade with the Indians, and matters were not necessarily in
the discouraging state that they have been depicted, had it not
been that their leadership was gone. The ship brought over
letters to Gilbert announcing the death of his brother, to a
part of whose property he was heir. This influenced Gilbert
to return to England, and the result of this western effort may
be summed up in Strachey's closing :
" Therefore they all ymbarqued in this new arrived ship,
and in the new pinnace, the Virginia, and sett saile for Eng-
land. And this was the end of that northerne colony uppon
the river Sachadehoc."
No ofiicial voyages to this locality are recorded until 1614,
when Capt. John Smith, of South Virginia fame, appears giv-
ing some attention to the Virginia of the north. He set sail
from England, March 3, 1614, with a ship and a bark and for-
ty-five men, and reached j\Ionhegan, where he anchored in its
harbor, the last of April. He built several boats at Monhegan
to range the coast with, leaving his vessel in that harbor. He
took eight men with him on his excursions, and with his usual
energy explored and surveyed the coast, which he mapped two
years later, producing the best map of this coast that had
appeared up to that date.' Again the two faithful Indians,
1. Captain Smitli's map included the coast from the mouth of the Penobscot to
Cape Cod.
EARLY VOYAGES AND EXPLOKATIONS. 55
Nahanada and Skidwares, appear to advantage as friends to the
English. Captain Smith says :
"The main assistance, next God, I had to this small num-
ber, was my acquaintance among the Salvadges, especially with
Nahanada, one of their greatest lords, who had lived long in
England. By the means of this proud Salvadge, I did not
doubt but quickly to have got that credit with the rest of his
friends and alliants, to have had as many of them as I desired
iu any design."
While Smith lay at Monhegan he reports "right against
him in the main was a ship of Sir Francis Popham," also to the
westward, some leagues away, were two Fl-ench vessels well
laden with furs and ready for a homeward voyage. On July
18th Smith sailed for England in his bark, leaving Captain
Hunt in his ship to finish the fare of fish. No sooner had Smith
departed than Hunt sailed westward to the Massachusetts shore,
kidnapped twenty-seven Indians, and sailed to Spain, where a
part of them were sold for about one hundred dollars apiece.
This act of Hunt's was one of the most injurious to the English,
who were trying to colonize the country, that ever occurred.
Captain Smith dedicated his map and " Description of New
England" to Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I, requesting
him to change the barbarous names of the locality for such
English that posterity would pronounce him their godfather.'
New England first appears as a name at this point, as also
does Charles River, Cape Ann and Cape Elizabeth. Pemaquid
was named St. John's town, and Monhegan called Barty Island.
The last two names did not stick, though the others have.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in 1616, sent Eichard Vines to this
coast with the express stipulation that he should winter here.
This he did during the winter of 1616-17 with the Indians at
the mouth of the Saco River.- Next we learn of Captain
Rocroft in 1618, who came to these shores in the interest of the
Plymouth Company. In a quarrel with some of his crew he
put three of them ashore near where Vines had wintered. They
worked east along the coast and reached Monhegan, where they
spent the winter of 1618-19, in a suffering condition. Rocroft,
1. Mass. Hist. Coll., 3J. Vol. VI, p. 96.
2. From Vines, more than any one else, has been learned the severity of the
epidemic among the Indians. That winter, while they were djing in hundreds all
about him, not one of his crew was affected by the scourge.
56 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
without orders, sailed for Virginia, where in a quarrel he
was killed by one of his own countrymen. Captain Dermer
was sent out in the spring of 1619 to meet Rocroft, and largely
for the purpose of conciliating the natives, who had, under the
bad treatment they had received from the English, been growing
very hostile. He failed to find Rocroft but touched at Monhe-
gan and took off the three men who had passed the winter
there. Dermer made jMonhegan his headquarters, loaded with
furs and sent his vessel back to England to market them, while
he, in an open boat of five tons, with six or seven men, started
for Virginia, going b}^ way of Long Island Sound, the East
River, New York Harbor and Sandy Hook. This was prob-
ably the first time this route had been taken.
At this point we have reached about the date when it is
believed that several settlements were formed along the coast
in our vicinity. The principal voyages on the North Atlantic
coast have been mentioned ; but, like Capt. John Smith in his
"Historic," we have no doubt we have failed to mention
" divers others that have ranged these parts whose true descrip-
tions were concealed or died with their authors." We believe
that enough has been presented, however, to convince the
reader that the earliest movement along our immediate coast
was not from that country to the south and west of us, along
the Atlantic coast, which has become more populous than we
have ; but that the early visitation of these waters commenced
far to the eastward of us, as far in fact as Newfoundland,
and worked this way. The fact that Monhegan, in several
instances, was made a headquarters for prominent action, nota-
bly so in the case of Capt. John Smith, leads us to believe that
that island, in the earliest days, Avas viewed in Europe, among
navigators, as one of the principal landmarks on the Ameri-
can coast. We shall not again meet with Nahanada or Skid-
wares. Those noble and faithful natives, who have so often
appeared, and with such prominence, were last mentioned by
Captain Smith. When we think that just after his voyage, came
first, to the Indians of our coast, a destructive war, followed
by a blighting pestilence, we are licensed in the presumption
that these two were amons the fallen.
CHAPTER IV.
Eakly Settlements.
THE exact date at which the first settlements were made,
either in our immediate vicinity or in neighboring locali-
ties, is unfixed. What may justly be termed a settlement
certainly did not exist before 1620. Between that date and 1623
there were several commenced, including Monhegan, Damaris-
cove, Pemaquid and Cape Newagen. These four places varied
but little in their dates of birth as colonies. By ingenious inter-
pretations of the recorded return to England of the Popham
colonists, in the spring of 1608, many have come to believe that
a part of these recolonized at Pemaquid, or elsewhere east of
the Kennebec. Both documents and reason disprove this.
"They all returned," is told us by the documents of the times.
Eeason adds that these leaderless, homesick men went back to
England, and the passage was none too quick to please them.
Popham, the head and life of the colony, was dead. Gilbert
had learned by the vessel just arrived from England that he
was heir to an estate, and, lacking positive characteristics,
preferred the ease that goes with an inheritance to the honor
that attaches to a successful pioneer. It must be remembered
that the previous summer these colonists had ranged these
parts for a feasible location, and decided in favor of the
advantages of the place which they selected. They had built
houses, fort and storehouse, besides making other improve-
ments. They had passed the first winter, always the most
severe ; a vessel laden with provisions, clothing, implements
and all the necessaiy supplies for their support had come to
them in the spring. They had already commenced a lucrative
trade with the natives. Their sufferings were mostly behind
them, not ahead. But they returned and defeated, bj' lack
of resolution, all the efforts made by themselves and all that
had been made by the company that sent them. Can it be
supposed that men in this frame of mind left what was estab-
58 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
lished and commenced anew on Damariscove or Monhegan,
or at Pemaquid ?
During the summer of 1(314, when Captain Smith made
Monhegan and its little harbor his headquarters, while he
boated alongshore from Penobscot Bay to Cape Cod, entering
every river of consequence, sounding some twenty-five harbors
and visiting about foily Indian villages, had he not a perfect
opportunity to ascertain as to settlements? But he tells us:
"When I first went there the Northern Colony was dissolved
and there was not one Christian in all the land." This should
be final up to 1614. After this, for some j-ears, Smith and
others made vain attempts to raise a colonizing company in
England to settle in America. It had been reported that the
severity of the winters in this country made wintering here
a practical impossibility. It was to test this very point that
caused Gorges and Popham to send Richard Vines, with a
crew, as we have seen, in 1617, with the express stipulation
that they should jmss the winter here. If a settlement had
existed anywhere along the New England coast would this effort
have been made? Again we noted where Rocroft put three
of his seamen ashore, near the mouth of the Saco River, and
that they wandered back, easterly, along the coast, and passed
the winter alone at Monhegan, being taken off in the spring of
1619 by Captain Dermer, who was looking for Roci'oft. These
men were on the very place that had been made for years the
most prominent landmark on the coast, and where, if anywhere,
a settlement would naturally have been found. In coming
from the westward they had passed Damariscove and Cape
Newagen, and they were within sight of the smokes that would
have arisen from the settlers' cabins at Pemaquid, had there
been such there. But there was evidently nothing in the way
of habitations of settlers along the shore, and, therefore, they
betook themselves to the safest place in their knowledge, and
where, at the opening of the ensuing spring, they would be
most likely to be visited by the fishermen, who annually came
across, and by that means get back to England.
The southern branch of the corporation of 1606 obtained
new patents, which were more definite in scope of territory
and authority over it, at two different dates, 1609 and 1621.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS. 59
Believing such action a necessity at the north, the Plymouth
Company, through Gorges, petitioned the crown for a new
patent, which was granted November 3, 1620. This last com-
pany consisted of forty noblemen and gentlemen, who, in their
associate capacity, were termed : "The Council established at
PljTiiouth in the County of Devon, for planting, ruling and
governing New England in America." The name, New Eng-
land, here appears for the first time in high official form.
North Virginia had been discarded as a name, and Captain
Smith's appellation of six years before adopted. With this
change the prefix was dropped from the Southern Colony, and
it became simply New England and Virginia thence forward.
The bounds of the new company were set in the patent between
the 40th and 48th degrees of northern latitude, which on the
coast line commences at the parallel of Philadelphia and extends
along the mainland to the head of Bay Chaleur.^ East to west
this patent extended "throughout the mainland from sea to sea."
The powers delegated to this company were very full and
complete in the matter of succession, filling of vacancies,
appointing of governors and the administration of justice. It
included also the exclusive trade and fishery interests ; the
privilege of importation free of duty from England for seven
years ; and the expulsion of intruders. The Council held
exclusive powers in granting any of its territory as it saw fit.
Its first grant was to John Mason, who subsequently became a
patentee of the tract between the Naumkeag and the Merrimac
Kivers, under the name of Mariana. This grant was dated
March 2, 1621. Encroachments were already made on the
New England temtory, as defined in the patent, that portended
conflict and bloodshed. The Dutch had settled, in 1614, within
its southern bounds at Amsterdam (New York) and New
Jersey ; while the French, tenacious of the claims of their
country, through the efforts of De Monts and Champlain, had
rebuilt Port Royal after its destruction by Argall in 1613, and
were also settled at Mount Desert. Gorges was much concerned
about this northern interference, and was instrumental in pro-
curing from the Council a grant of a large part of the northern
country, with the St. Croix River as a western bound, to Sir
1. This did not include Newfoundland or Cape Breton.
60 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
William Alexander, Secretary of State from Scotland. The
object was to enlist a Scotch interest, and thus crowd out the
French. This grant was named New Scotland, but as the
patent was in Latin it took the form it has ever held, Nova
Scotia.
Both Mason and Gorges were men of broad ideas, and about
this time they had extensive plans. They obtained of the
Council on August 10, 1622, a grant of all the land lying on
the seacoast and extending sixty miles inland, between the
Merrimac and Sagadahoc (Kennebec) Rivers, with the adjacent
islands. This was named the Province of Laconia.^ On
November 7, 1629, Mason alone was granted all of the above-
mentioned tract that lay between the Merrimac and Piscataqua
Rivers. This he named New Hampshire. This was by agree-
ment with Gorges, who took from the Piscataqua to the
Sagadahoc for his share, and this became the Province of Maine.
The Mayflower, with her distinguished colony, landed at
Plymouth Rock, December 16, 1620. They had with them a
charter for territory, but it was from the Virginia Company,
and the point reached was out of the jurisdiction of the Virgin-
ians, therefore, on the return of the Mayflower, they made
application to the Council of New England for a charter. This
was granted June 1, 1621, in the name of John Pierce, "citizen
and cloth worker of London," - and reached Plj-mouth in
November, 1621, in the ship Fortune. This patent always had
an element of mystery about it. It is not known that the
colonists of New Plj^mouth ever accepted it. It applied to any
place within the entire territory, providing it did not interfere
with some other settlement that had been commenced. Pierce
and the colony at Plymouth had a falling out regarding it, but
compromised by the payment of £500 to Pierce, and he
assigned his interests in it to them. It then disappeared, and
was not found until 1741, then in the hands of his heirs, who
1. Will. Me. I, 226. Sanborn's New Hampshire, p. 3, reverses the order in which
the names Laconia and Maine were applied ; stating that the name Maine was ?iven
in 1622 to the earlier grant. Williamson is clearly correct.
2. John Pierce never came to America, so Johnson states, Some have thought he
lived once at Pemaquid, but this is probably an error. His son and descendants lived
at Marblehead, and their residence there, the similarity of family names, with other
reasons, makes it strongly presumptive that he was the ancestor of the Pierce family
so numerous in Boothbay and South port. The four brothers, Joseph, Samuel, Sylvester
and David Pierce, came to Cape Newagen from Marblehead before the Revolution.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS. 61
pressed their claims under it against the inhabitants of Bristol.
Richard, son of John Pierce, came to Pemaquid about 1623,
in company with John Brown, whose daughter he had married,
and who became a prominent historical personage on account
of his early purchase of lands at Pemaquid, of Samoset, in
1625.1
The beauties of Laconia ; its wooded highlands and fertile
valleys ; its numerous harbors, swarming with fish of the
largest size and finest quality ; its prospective mineral resources,
were all flatteringly portrayed in England to induce settlers to
the New England shores. All that these portrayals fell short
of those of a western real estate agent, of modern times, was
the extent to which the science of advertising and the typo-
graphical art were inferior. It is clearly evident that a strong
and effective effort was made at that time. Settlements were
started in 1622 at Piscataqua, now Saco, and Cocheco, now
Dover, N. H. From St. George to the Saco, at intervals along
the shore, were the rude beginnings of fishermen's huts and
trading stages.^ There is a probability that Monhegan had a
slight lead over the other places, and that priority' belongs to her.
Hubbard tells us that no colonj^ was ever settled in any of
these places "till the year 1620 " ; and it was the eastern coast,
not New Plymouth, of which he was writing. In the autumn
of 1620 five of Gorges' men had an affray with the Indians
near Cape Cod ; three were killed, and it is said " the other
two barely escaped to Monhegan." ^ Why should men at such
a distance as that between Cape Cod and Monhegan, in a
desperate plight as these survivors were in, try to escape there,
unless the object was the safety that a settlement would afford.
Prince calls Monhegan a plantation of Sir F. Gorges in Feb-
ruary, 1621 ; and the April following mentions it as "a settle-
ment of some beginnings." From 1622 to the first Indian
war Monhegan was continuously settled with an English
speaking population.'*
Indications strongly point to John Brown, who purchased
1. An extended explanation of these complications appears in Johnson's Hist, of
Pemaquid, pp. 48-69.
2. A landing with conveniences for curing fish and collecting furs of the natives,
where the tratJic of those days was carried on, was called a trading stage.
3. Prince's Annals, 99.
4. Will. Me. 1, 226.
b2 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
land of Samoset, July 15, 1625, together with his son-in-law,
Richard Pierce, and some others less known, as being the first
English settlers at Pemaquid. If this is so they probably
reached that place in the earlier part of 1623, for very early
that year the second ineffectual attempt of John Pierce, to send
a colony across was made when his ship, the Paragon,
returned to England after having reached the mid-Atlantic.
They were probably at Pemaquid when Captain Levett was at
Cape Newagen later that year.
Robert Gorges, son of Sir Ferdinando, was appointed
Governor of New England in 1623. Among his councilors
was Capt. Christopher Levett, a man of advanced knowledge
in nautical and mathematical matters. He had been Woodward
of Somersetshire to James I. His judgment, therefore, was
deemed of practical value in selecting localities for planting
settlements, as well as judging the value of timber for the
King's navy. An entry on the Council's records reads : "May
5, 1623. Christopher Levett to be a principal patentee, and to
have a grant of 6,000 acres of land." Again : "June 26, 1623.
The King judges well of the undertaking in New England, and
more particularly of a design of Christopher Levett, one of
the Council for settling that plantation, to build a city and call
it York."' Levett made his voyage that year, probably in the
autumn. He reached the American shore at Isle of Shoals and
found six fishing vessels there from England ; he then sailed to
Panaway, which was David Thompson's plantation at the
mouth of the Piscataqua. At that place he met Governor
Gorges, with whom he was to be associated, and together they
went along the coast to the eastward, examining it carefully
for a suitable place for a settlement. His next stop was at
Cape Porpoise and then at Saco, where he remained five days
on account of violent storms. The next point eastward where
he touched was Quack, ^ and from there he sailed to Sagadahoc.
Of this place he writes : ^ " For Sagadahoc I need say nothing
1. Sainsbury's State Papers, 1, 46.
2. Quack was the name for the locality where Portland and adjoining towns now
stand. It is supposed the name was taken from the Indian Macquack, meaning red.
The ledges there during winter thaws discolor the snow beneath, on account of
mineral deposit which they contain.
3. Captain Levett published in book form a report of his trip in 1628. One copy
only of the original edition is known to be owned in America. That belongs to the N.
Y. Hist. Society, but the Me. Hist. Society had a reprint in 1847.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS. bO
of it, there hath heretofore been enough said by others, and I
fear me too much. But the place is good ; there fished this
year two ships." After leaving Sagadahoc Levett came to our
own locality. He writes thus :
"The next place I came to was Capmanwagan, a place where
nine ships fished this year. But I like it not for a plantation,
for I could see little good timber and less good ground ; there
I staid four nights, in which time there came many savages
with their wives and children, and some of good account
amongst them, as Menawormet, a sagamore, Cogawesco, a
sagamore from Casco and Quack, now called York, Somerset,
a sagamore, one that hath been found very faithful to the
English, and hath saved the lives of many of our nation, some
from killing, others from starving. They intended to have
gone presently, but hearing of my being there, they desired
to see me, which I understood by one of the masters of the
ships, who likewise told me that they had some store of beaver
coats and skins, and was going to Pemaquid to truck with one
Mr. Witheridge, a master of a ship of Bastable, and desired
me to use means that they should not carry them out of the
harbor. I wished them to bring all their truck to one Mr.
Coke's stage, and I would do the best I could to put it away ;
some of them did accordingly, and I then sent for the saga-
mores, who came, and after some compliments they told me I
must be their cousin, and that Captain Gorges was so (which
you may imaginge I was not a little proud of, to be adopted
cousin to so many great kings at one instant, but did willingly
accept it) , and so passing away a little time very pleasantly,
they desired to be gone, whereupon I told them I understood
they had some coats and beaver skins which I desired to truck
for ; but they were unwilling, and I seemed careless of it (as
men must do if they require anything of them). But at last
Samoset swore there should be none carried out of the harbor,
but his cousin, Levett, should have all ; and they began to
offer me some by way of gift, but I would take none but one
pair of sleeves of Cogawesco, but told them it was not the
fashion of English captains always to be taking, but sometimes
to take and give, and continually to truck was very good. But
in fine we had all except one coat and two skins, which they
reserved to pay an old debt with ; but they staying all that night
had them stolen from them. In the morning the sagamores came
to me with a grievous complaint. I used the best language I
could to give them content, and went with them to some stages
which they most suspected, and searched both cabins and
chests, but found none. They seeing my willingness to find
64 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
the thief out, gave me thanks, and wished me to forbear, say-
ing the rogues had carried them into the woods where I could
not find them.
" When they were ready to depart they asked me where I
intended to settle my plantation? I told them I had seen many
places to the west, and intended to go farther to the east before
I could resolve ; they said there was no good place, and I had
heard that Pemaquid and Capmanwagan and Monhiggon were
granted to others."
The next day Levett returned to Quack or York,' as he
tells us, "with the king, queen and prince, bow and arrows,
dog and kettle in my boat, his noble attendants rowing by us
in their canoes."
There is a vast lesson on the early conditions to be learned
from the foregoing copious extract. It tells us that Cape
Newagen had been granted to others, and mentions particulars
of the settlement there, not only giving us the name of Coke,
as the proprietor of one of the trading stages, perhaps the
principal one, but mentions that there were several, together
with cabins, where the stolen furs were searched for. Levett
had previouslj^ spoken of snowstorms on the way down, so
we may judge it was late in the season, but the settlement had
accommodations so that he stopped four nights, and evidently
stayed ashore. These conditions indicate more than a tempor-
ary headquarters for an English fishing ileet. That it had been
established long enough to become an impoi'tant business point
is confirmed by two facts, the one, that nine vessels fished
from there, and the other, that the Indians, from several
directions, were there to truck their furs at the stages. It
also confirms the impression, which many have held, that the
lower Sheepscot was a real center of Indian population.
Further than this the evidence of Levett is added to that
of Prince and Hubbard and others relating to the settlement
on Monliegan ; and, being late as it was in the year. Brown
and Pierce had had ample time to arrive and be planted at
Pemaquid, and these were the parties which we have previously
mentioned as, in all probability, commencing there that year.
But what a scene is this first one we are permitted to look
1. Some confusion mayoocurin the matter of proper names. Levett had designed
to found a city and name it York, as we have seen. Quack was the place he selected,
and this he named York. But the name did not stick. It was later transferred to
ancient Agameuticus, the present town of York.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS. (35
upon in the eventual Boothbay territory. The Governor,
Gorges, son of one of the closest advisers of James I, and
the man of all others considered authority on New World
subjects ; Captain Levett, his councilor, and one of the
ablest English navigators ; Samoset, the fii'st to grant a deed
to the English in American history, and a figure that never has
appeared in history in other than a noble light ; Cogawesco
and his wife, king and queen of the Sokoki tribe ; with numer-
ous fishermen, sailors, fur traders, adventurers, all together for
four days at Cape Newagen in November or December of
1623. This little point bordering on Cape Harbor was then
one of the few and one of the principal places in America ;
but, alas for the ravages of time, it has since lost both
distinctions.
Damariscove, like Pemaquid, lacks in the definiteness of
early references more than either Monhegan or Cape Newagen ;
but that it was contempoi'ary with them in settlement is certain
from the many general references one may meet in consulting
old authors and records. Thirty fishing vessels are said to
have made that island their headquarters during the season of
1622, more than three times the number found about Cape
Newagen the following year. There is reason to suppose that
a seaman by name of Humphrey Damerill, who lived until
about 1650, dying in Boston, owned the group of islands
made up of Fisherman's Island, the Hypocrites, Damariscove
proper, in early times sometimes divided and a part called
Wood Island, White Island, Heron Island and Pumpkin Kock.
As early as 1614, when Captain Smith mapped this coast these
were called Damerill's Isles. ^ This idea of grouping them
was followed at the time Williamson prepared his history,^
but they were then called the Damariscove Islands. The fish-
ermen's headquarters were on the main island, they employing
that harbor for the purpose. The harbor or cove first gave
the name to the island proper, Damerill's Cove, and in that
form the name is met with in the earliest records. In later
years it underwent a change of both form and spelling.
The Sheepscot settlement is more indefinite as to date than
1. Humphrey Damerill claimed to own part or all the main island at the time
of his death. He probably had originally owned them all, hence the reason of group-
ing them in old writings.
2. 1832.
bb HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
any of the other places mentioned. It was certainly settled on
Mason's Neck, just south of the present Sheepscot Village, as
early as 1630, perhaps a few years before. The name of
Sheepscot is one of the earliest recorded in our vicinity, and
formerly applied to all settlements on the river of that name,
as well as to the river itself. Therefore it included settlements
on the western side of the present towns of Edgecomb, Booth-
bay and Boothbay Harbor, as well as on Jeremisquam, now
Westport. The name gradually narrowed in significance to
its present neighborhood ; but the reader of old-time matter is
often misled by supposing that some recorded happening,
which belongs to this immediate locality, refers to the present
Sheepscot.
Sometime between 1630 and 1650 six families settled in
the vicinity of the present village of Damariscotta. Among
these were John Brown, Jr., son of John Brown of New
Harbor, and Walter Phillips, the first recorder of deeds and
documents in this region, and withal a prominent character in
history.
John Parker settled on the southern end of Reskeagan
Island, now Georgetown, in 1629 ; about 1650 the north part
was occupied by Thomas Webber, and together they sold to
Clark and Lake some territory there. These latter parties
held title from the natives to the island of Arrowsic, and in
1658 laid out a town on the southern part, with ten-acre lots
and regular streets. In 1639 Edward Buterman and John
Brown, who had been living at New Harbor, bought for "a
hogshead of corn and thirty sound pumpkins," a tract of land
known by the natives as Neguasset, now Woolwich, of Robin
Hood. Brown however sold out in 1646 and moved back to
Pemaquid.
On October 27, 1661, Robert Gutch bought the site of the
present city of Bath of Robin Hood. It is said on what is now
known as Arrowsic and Georgetown there were, in 1670, thirty
families, and twenty more on the west side of the river below
the chops. 1 No other point near enough to be termed a
neighboring colony, on the eastern coast, was settled as early
as the above-mentioned places, except about the St. George
River, which was probably contemporary.
1. Me. Hist. Coll. H, 193.
CHARTER V.
Growth and Government of the First Settlement.
THE first attempt at government in New England was in
1623, when Robert Gorges was appointed Governor
over the Colonies. West, one of his ablest councilors,
was commissioned admiral and instructed to restrain all unli-
censed vessels from fishing in New England waters. He made
a vain effort to carry out his orders, but was unable to do so
on account of the stubborn spii'it shown by the fishermen and
gave up further effort. The English Ecclesiastical Court sent
over an Episcopal minister with a commission to super-intend
the New England churches as fast as formed, but he met with
such a reception as caused him to return to England disgusted.
Charges against Gorges were preferred in the House of Com-
mons, to which he answered, but not in a satisfactory manner.
Disappointed and to some extent disheartened, he got an indi-
vidual grant of 24,000 acres at Agamenticus, and, through the
agency of his grandson and Colonel Norton, settled it in 1624.
After this, while still continuing to hold first place in interest
and authority regarding the New England settlements, his
chief individual interests centered in the new town, which
received the first English city charter of any place in America,
on April 10, 1641, under the name of Gorgeana.^ The east-
ern limits to Gorges' patent, known as the Province of Maine,
had been the Sagadahoc River ; and while the jurisdiction of
the Plymouth Council extended to Bay Chaleur, but one spe-
cific grant northerly and easterly of that of Gorges had been
made, which was the one to Sir William Alexander. The
country lying between the Sagadahoc and the St. Croix was
really an open territory at this period. It was simply within
the Plymouth Council's jurisdiction, but not specifically granted
like many places to the westward.
1. Qorgeaua was organized iu 1G52 iuto a town, the second in Maine, under the
name of York.
bo HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
At this time occurred the accession of Charles I to the
English throne and his marriage to a French princess of the
Catholic faith. This wox-ked ill to all western interests, those
of the New England Colonies in general, and to Gorges and
Alexander in particular. By the marriage treaty, or, as one
writer puts it, "a bonus to a ma;-riage intrigue," Acadia was
resigned to France. Gorges, however, went before the King
and his Council when the French ambassador urged his coun-
try's claims. Sir Ferdinando based the English claim entirely
on the early voyages mentioned in a preceding chapter, par-
ticularly on the great charter of 1606 and the Popham settle-
ment immediately following, and claimed continuous occupa-
tion thereafter, if not by actual settlement, by continuous
effort toward that end, and annual use as headquarters, without
interruption, by the English fishermen. The New Plj^mouth
Colony was not used to base the claim upon in any sense ;
simply those places along the coast of Maine, and particularly
those points farthest east, like Pemaquid, Monhegan, Damaris-
cove. Cape Newageu-and Sagadahoc.
His efforts availed a postponement of this concession to
France, but, in 1626, France and England went to war, peace
followed three j'ears later, but another three years passed
before a treaty, that of St. Germain, was drawn, when
Charles I resigned to the French King " all the places occupied
bjr British subjects in New France, Acadia, Canada — espe-
cially the command of Port Royal, Fort Quebec and Cape
Breton."
There had been up to this point ( 1632 ) at least twelve,
probably more, grants made by the Plymouth Council along
the shores of Maine ; but three only of these will be presented,
and to do so of these is necessary on account of frequent
future reference to them.
1. January 13, 1630. A grant to William Bradford and
his associates of fifteen miles on each side of the Kennebec
River, extending from its mouth to the Cobbossee River, at
the present site of Gardiner. This was afterward transferred
to Plymouth parties and became known as the Kennebec
Purchase.
2. March 2, 1630. A grant to John Beauchamp and
GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT. 69
Thomas Leverett, of England, known as the Muscongus Patent
or grant. It extended on the seaboard line from the Penobscot
to the Muscongus River, and northerly to an unsurveyed line
running east and west far enough, without intei-fering with
any other grant, to be equivalent to a tract thirty miles square.
It contained no powers of civil goveiuiment. Eighty-nine
years later it became known as the Waldo Patent, and eventu-
ally came into the possession of Gen. Henry Knox. It con-
tained about 1,000,000 acres, and when adjusted it was found
that the north line came in the south line of the towns of
Hampden, Newburgh and Dixmont.
3. February 29, 1631. The Pemaquid Patent was made
to two merchants from Bristol, England, Robert Aldsworth
and Gyles Elbridge. It extended on the coast line from the
Muscongus to the Damariscotta River, far north enough to
include 12,000 acres, exclusive of settlers' lots, which were to
be one hundred acres each for all settlers transported hither
by the proprietors within seven years, and who would reside
three years thereafter. This grant was made on two consid-
erations, for past public services and the present in building a
a town. It included Monhegan, Damariscove group and other
islands within three leagues of shore.
At about this date (1630) it has been stated there were
eighty-four families, besides fishermen, about Merrymeeting
Bay, Sheepscot, Pemaquid and St. Georges. Damariscove
and Monhegan were probably included in Pemaquid, and Cape
Newagen in the Sheepscot settlement.' Williamson presents
a table of the total population in 1683 as viz. : ^
Piscataqua Settlement,
Agamenticus,
Saco and Black Point,
200
150
175
Casco, or Lygonia Patent, and Pejepscot,
Kennebec Patent,
75
100
Sagadahoc, Sheepscot, Pemaquid, St. Georges
and the Islands,
500
Isle of Shoals and other places,
200
1,400
1. Gov. Sullivan's Hist. o£ Me., pp. 167 and 191. His information
1 was from the
\^ouncii Hies.
2. Will. Hist. Me. 1, 267.
70 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
At this point in our narrative it may be well to draw
attention to the grant made Endicott and his associates, which
culminated in March, 1629, in the grant of a royal charter,
creating a corporation destined to be the most far-reaching
and powerful yet formed in the New World, and known as the
" Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New Eng-
land." Their territorial limits were from three miles north of
the Merrimac to three miles south of the Charles River, and
westerly to the Pacific Ocean. It may be well to note that but
a few years had passed since a northwest passage to Asia had
been sought by navigators of all nations crossing the Atlantic,
and even now, in these grants on the Atlantic seaboard of New
England, which took their width westward to the Pacific, that
coast was not thought to he much west from Hudson's River.
The affairs of this corporation were to be managed by a gov-
ernor, deputy governor, and a council of eighteen assistants,
to be elected annually' by the company. Very full powers of
government were obtained from the crown, the most important
of all being that the government need not reside in England.
Very soon after this grant was completed six ships fitted out
for Massachusetts Bay with 300 men, 80 women and 26 chil-
dren, bringing also 140 head of cattle, 40 goats, with arms,
ammunition and tools.
To return to the treaty of St. Germain : by the artful
drafting of the third article, there was indefiniteness enough in
the western limits of the territory ceded to France to produce
on our eastern frontier a continual menace. M. de Razilla was
sent by France to take command of the country', which he did.
The following year a French vessel, early in June, put into
Penobscot River, claiming to be in distress. They arrived at
the Penobscot trading-house, which the New Plymouth Colony
had established there. In an unguarded moment they fell upon
the guard, rifled the place of all its valuables, amounting to
about £500, and made their escape. In 1634 the Massachu-
setts Bay colonists established a trading-house at Machias.
Almost immediately it was attacked bj^ La Tour and two of the
defendants killed and the others made prisoners, the stock of
furs made prize of, and a return made to Port Royal. Mr.
Allerton, of New Plymouth, was sent in a vessel to claim and
GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT. 71
bring home the prisoners. Upon his arrival at Port Royal he
asked La Tour if he had any authority for his course, when
that party promptly replied :
" I have taken them as lawful prize ; — my authority is from
the King of France, who claims the coast from Cape Sable to
Cape Cod ; I wish the English to understand, if they trade to
the eastward of Pemaquid, I shall seize them ; my sword is all
the commission I shall show ; when I want help I will produce
my authority. Take your men and begone."
The first fort at Pemaquid was built in 1630 or 1631, more
as a protection against renegades and pirates, then infesting the
coast, than against the Indians, who at that time seemed well
disposed toward the settlers. In 1634 this fort, which was
simply a stockade and located about where the others have been,
was captured by the pirate. Dixy Bull, who cirried on for a
time a reign of terror along the New England coast, particu-
larly in the vicinity about Pemaquid. Governor Winthrop
sent four vessels into Pemaquid waters to try and capture Bull,
but he eluded them. He operated some on the Kennebec
River, but was later captured, taken to England, and said to
have been executed.^
At about that date all the bread eaten by the settlers along
the Maine shores was brought from England as meal, or from
Virginia as grain. If as grain, it was sent to Boston for
grinding, as a windmill, which had been first erected at New-
town, Mass., was removed to Copp's Hill, Boston, in August,
1632. No water mill was erected in Massachusetts until 1633,
then it was at Roxbury.^ It is thought that very soon after
this a mill was built at Pemaquid, for many years ago two
small millstones were found at the head of New Harbor, made
of granite, and could only be accounted for in this way.^
The great storm of 1635 was, probably, the most severe
ever experienced on our coast. It occurred on August 15th
and was attended with peculiar circumstances. It was a north-
easter and blew with unabated fury for some six hours. The
tide rose to about twenty feet and high water was at the proper
time ; it then partially ebbed, when it was succeeded by a
1. Winthrop 1, 116.
2. Balknap's Hist. N. H. I, 2B; Drake's Hist. Boston, 141-44. Holmes Annals.
3. Johnson's Pemaquid, p. 67.
72 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
tidal wave higher than before, doing great injury everywhere.
Crops and the forests suffered severely from the gale. At this
time took place the first wreck of consequence in New England
history. The Anyel Gabriel, 240 tons and carrying sixteen
guns, and the James, 220 tons, sailed from Milford Haven for
New England. The Mather familj^ so prominent in our early
historj^ was on the James. They parted company on the
voyage, and at the date of this storm the James was at Isle of
Shoals, while the Gabriel was at Pemaquid. A part of the
crew and passengers of the Gabriel were lost, while the live
stock and cargo were a total loss. The James lost all her
anchors and put to sea again, but the next day, in a battered
condition, reached Boston Harbor.
That year (1635) the Plymouth Council's charter was
revoked. Clamor on the part of the public had been from the
first against it, because it was suspicioned that it carried with
it a monopoly of trade. This would have been true, perhaps,
had the outlay in settling been less, and had the settlement
been made up of a more stable class of people ; but, as it was,
many of the settlers were unstable and indolent, shifting from
place to place, and hardly able to sustain themselves, say noth-
ing of being able to be fed upon. In fact, many were hired to
come and assisted to stay in the new country. But facts were
of no avail. The annulment of the charter was called for to
appease public clamor and petty jealousies. The Council
decided as a preliminary step to divide the whole patent into
twelve grand divisions, and, in the presence of His Majesty,
draw lots for them, trusting that these individual grants might
be confirmed after the charter was annulled. The drawing
occurred February 3d, and on April 1st they informed the
King that they were ready for action. Their last meeting was
the twenty-fifth of that month. The King then appointed
Gorges Governor General over New England.
During the summer of 1635 Razilla sent D'Aulney to
Biguyduce (Castine) to rifle the trading-house and take pos-
session of the country as far south as the fortieth degree of
latitude. The New Plymouth Colony sent Captain Girling
with a large vessel to retake their Penobscot property, but
though he expended his ammunition he was unable to accom-
store— Allen Lewis
Fish House— Allen Lewis
Allen Lewis
Fish House— J. C. Auld
Joseph C. Auld
Schoolhouse
Rufus Campbell
James Campbell
Sail Loft — Arber Marson
Widow Linekin
John Auld
Charles Sargent
Blacksmith Shop
Jason Fuller
Daniel W. Sawyer
William Harris
Harris Store
Paul Harris
Sewall S. Wylie
Samuel Wylie
John Andrews
John Adams
Cemetery
Isaac C. Sherman
Elbridge G. Love
Gun House on Old Muster
Field
William Montgomery
Store— W. Montgomery
Willard Holtou
Widow Greenwood
Mrs. Sarah A. F.merson
Benjamin Blair
Post Office
•Id Cong. Church
Dr. Alden Blossom
Dr. Jackson
Jacob Orne
Cong. Parsonage
Nathaniel Greenleaf
Marshal Smith
Leonard McCobb
Schoolliouse
Lydia P. Heath
Stephen Sargent
Hodgkin's Blacksmith Shop
Brick House
Store — Leonard McCobb
Weymouth House
David Newbegin
BoOTHIiAY HaKBOR IX 1856.
->6 Isaac W. Reed
."i7 Custom House
."is Boothbay House
.")9 Store — D. Newbegin
r CO Andrew McFarland
55 Shoe Shop— P. Wilson 111 Nathaniel C. McFarland
50 George Newbegin
51 Parker Wilson
52 Store— P. Wilson
53 Samuel Alley
54 Store— W. H. i- C
GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT. 73
plish his object, and he returned home. D'Aulney and La
Tour both informed the Massachusetts authorities that, without
further orders, they would in the future claim no lands west of
Pemaquid. Governor Gorges on March 28, 1636, opened
court at Saco. Civil and criminal cases were tried, and certain
orders, of the nature of a legislative statute, passed. The
jurisdiction extended from the Piscataqua to the Sagadahoc.
This is the first instance of organized government in the Prov-
ince of Maine, though three years earlier Thomas Elbridge, son
of the proprietor, tried some cases at the Pemaquid fort.
On April 3, 1639, Sir Ferdinando Gorges obtained from
King Charles a provincial charter, the limits of which in ter-
ritory were from the mouth of the Piscataqua River, up that
river and Salmon Falls River northwestward 120 miles; from
Piscataqua Harbor northeastward along the seacoast to Saga-
dahoc, thence through that river and the Kennebec northwest-
ward 120 miles, and thence overland to the northerly end of
the first-mentioned line. This was to be called the Province
or County of Maine. It possessed large powers and privileges
and provided carefully in matters of government. It seems to
have been the custom at that time, when a scheme of govern-
ment had become evolved in the mind of some one with sufii-
cient influence, to make a new grant regardless of previous
ones. At this time patents and grants were everywhere
conflicting with others. This one just recited as made to
Gorges included the whole of the Lygonia Patent of a few
years earlier. The grant to Massachusetts Bay overlapped
that of Mason, while the last one to Sir William Alexander
included the whole of that of Muscongus. Thus one might
pursue this matter at length. Historians have been confused
and contradicted each other in the matter of the Laconia
Grant, and some have claimed, extensive as it was, that it
could not be determined upon by the grantees or their agents,
who vainly searched for it three years, and returned the
report : " Non est invenla Provincia."^
About 1641 there seems to have been a strong return tide
to England among the colonists. It is said that beginning
with that date, for the ensuing twenty years, there were as
1. Chamberlain's, " Maine : her Place in History," p. 44.
74 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
many lost to the colonies by return as there were gained by
recruits.^ The cause for this was largely due to the threatened
civil war in England, which broke out in 1642, culminating in
the execution of King Charles I, in 1649. This affected prices
of all commodities. Cows that sold in 1640 for £20 could
be bought for one-fourth that amount in the next two years,
and many other things in like proportion.
A peculiar situation seems to have been almost continuous
in our immediate locality. None of Gorges patents or grants
had extended east of the Kennebec River. The Kennebec
grant itself had taken fifteen miles each side of that river, but
this hardly reached the Damariscotta, while the Pemaquid
grant came only to that river as a western bound. Even
though the Kennebec grant in range might include the territory
on the Sheepscot, and between the Sheepscot and the Damaris-
cotta, this particular territory always seemed to be an appendage
to Pemaquid — adopted on account of its waif-like condition.
Pemaquid had become the hub of the region about it, and while
there seems to have been as many as formerly at Cape New-
agen and Damariscove, and not far from this time a settlement
had been commenced at Corbin's Sound (Ocean Point) and
Hippocras (Fisherman's Island), still Monhegan, in 1635, was
depopulated. The Pemaquid proprietors had their agent,
Abraham Shurte, remove the inhabitants to the mainland.
Capt. Sylvanus Davis, covering the period about 1640,
in a statement made in 1701, said there were at "Hippocras
Island, two families ; Damariscove, fifteen families ; Cape
Newagen, many families and ten boats ; between Sheepscot
and Damariscotta Rivers, ten families."^
For the first half century after settlement Pemaquid and
the neighboring territory were without civil government.
Abraham Shurte, who for many years acted as proprietors'
agent, performed some magisterial duties, and, to a less extent,
Thomas Elbridge did the same. The fort served as court-
house for these slight attempts at administering justice. Full
governmental powers were not contained in their charter and
patent as had been delegated to Massachusetts Bay, to Mason
in New Hampshire or to Gorges in the Province of Maine.
GROWTH AND GOVEKNME^rT. 75
By general acceptance some powers, however, were thought to
belong to and devolve upon the proprietors as owners.^
These conditions greatly retarded the growth of these parts.
Under the conditions Pemaquid was the frontier of New
England. The French claimed to that place and occupied the
country to the Penobscot. By the artful wording of the third
article of the treaty of St. Germain, the cession of Acadia,
always of indefinite limits, had been inserted, instead of Nova
Scotia, which was well defined. Therefore the particular
region in which we now reside was continually menaced by the
French, and later was to feel the earliest and severest effect
from the aroused natives, urged on and assisted by the French.
A tendency to consolidate the English Colonies for offen-
sive, defensive and prudential reasons commenced in 1643.
The menace of the French at the north and east, that of the
Dutch to the south and west, and that of the Indians all about,
made this necessary. The first to act were the Colonies of
Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven, on
May 19th. The Province of Maine could not be admitted to
this confederacy for ecclesiastical reasons. Its rulers were
of Episcopal tenets, and its territory had afforded an asylum to
excommunicants from the other Colonies.
Serious difficulties broke out in Gorges' Province at about
this time, and the two parties at issue called in commissioners
from Massachusetts to arbitrate. At about the same time of
this internal trouble in his Province, Gorges was thrown into
prison in England by the Parliamentary forces, after the cap-
ture of Bristol, at the end of a long siege. He had always
been a staunch adherent of the King. At length, in his sev-
enty-fourth year, when his perplexities seemed thick on every
hand, his master's cause upon the wane, his interests abroad
in a state of trouble and turmoil, his estates at home plundered
and confiscated by the Parliamentary army, death came as a
sweet relief to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He was a man of
great energy and tenacity of purpose, but all have united in
ascribing to him an intensely selfish character. He probably
brought more censure upon himself by assailing the Massachu-
setts charter, which stood in the way of his favorite scheme,
1. Johnson's Femaquid, p. 96.
76 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
to divide New England into twelve provinces of a royal char-
acter, with himself the Governor General, than in any other
act of his life. But, regardless of this, his memory is entitled
to much reverence from the population of Maine, where he
bent his principal energies, spent his money, and devoted the
best years of his life.
In 1651 Massachusetts Bay laid claim to the Province of
Maine and New Hampshire, grounding its claim on this item
in its charter, which embraced all lands " within the space of
three English miles to the northward of the river Merrimac,
and to the northward of any and every part thereof." This
claim was both new and ingenious. Under it, however, a sur-
vey was made with the result that a line from three miles north
of the head of Merrimac Eiver, in latitude 43° 43' 12", touched
the coast at " Clapboard Island, about three miles eastward of
the Casco Peninsula." ' Jurisdiction over New Hampshire, and
so much of Maine as above mentioned, on the grounds of their
colonial charter, was now proclaimed, and court was convened
at Kitter}^ November 15, 1652, and five days later forty-one
citizens of Kittery signed submission to this concession, fol-
lowed almost immediately by Agamenticus. Kittery, which
had been incorporated in 1647, was recognized as a town by
the new government, and Agamenticus was constituted one at
once, under the name of York. The County of Yorkshire was
organized and a county court established.
In 1652 the English captured Acadia and took possession
of that entire country and so westward to the Penobscot, but
this held only until 1668, when, by the treaty of Breda, it was
receded to France. During these years it became a common
matter to purchase by deed of the Indians at all points on these
grants, particularly on the Kennebec Patent. Several deeds are
recorded in this localit}' at about that time, but none within the
limits of what became Boothba3\ The Massachusetts colonists
had long had trading-houses along the Kennebec, extending as
far up as Teconnet ( Winslow) . They were not in a flourishing
condition. Like the region east of the Kennebec they were
without government. They, like us, had been the frontier
barrier against many troubles and obstacles, which had beset
1. Will. Hist. Me. 1, 342.
GROWTH AND GOVEKNMENT. 77
them and prevented growth, while the Massachusetts Colony-
was prospering and increasing in population. England, the
parent country, was too far away to enforce rule, and the local
attempts at it were but little more than a farce.
The Duke of York, in 1663, made a purchase of the Earl of
Stirling of his American possessions, and the following year
Charles II, then on the English throne, and brother to the
Duke, gave him a royal charter of all the territory westward
from Nova Scotia to the Kennebec, including Pemaquid and
the islands. This charter extended northward to the St.
Lawrence.^
In due time, to confirm the treaty of Breda, he easily let
go that part of his grant east of the Penobscot. He then sent
a commission of four to America to inquire into the state of
his dukedom, with almost absolute powers to adjust disputes
and settle civil and criminal matters by holding court. The
commissioners first come to Boston, then proceeded east to
York, where thej^ held court June 23, 1665. They issued a
proclamation annulling the authority of both the Gorges
Government and that of its successor, Massachusetts Bay.
They journeyed eastward, annulling, as they termed it, the
municipal government of each settlement they came to. They
reached Sheepscot September 5th, and "opened court" at the
house of John Mason, calling upon the inhabitants of this
region to come forward and swear allegiance to their royal
master, the King of England.
Twcntj'-nine persons took the oath, but one, however, that
of George Buckland, who lived at Corbin's Sound, which I
recognize from our vicinity. Damariscove and Cape Newagen,
as also Monhegan, were unrepresented. Their action was to
erect the Sagadahoc territory into a county called Cornwall.
They changed the name of Sheepscot to New Dartmouth.
Walter Phillips, of Damariscotta, was appointed clerk and
recorder, Nicholas Raynall, of Sagadahoc, Thomas Gardiner,
of Pemaquid, and William Dyer, of Dartmouth, justices of the
peace, and Richard Lemons (no residence given), constable.
These scions of royalty did their work, then went home to
England and reported. They were well received and kindly
1. Pemaquid Papers on file at Albany, N. Y.
78 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
treated, and made more welcome in our " eastern parts " than
any other place they visited, which was probably due to the
fact that this locality had no government and gladly welcomed
some form of law. It is evident that there were about three
hundred families in this territory when they visited it, but
they reported :
"The places beyond Sagadahoc were given to His Royal
Highness by His Ma*ie, yet as Col. Nichalls desired, who could
not attend to go himself, we have appointed some to govern
them for the present, as there was great need. Upon 3 rivers
east of the Kennebec, the Shipscot, Damariscotta and Pema-
quid, there are three plantations ; the greater hath not more
than 20 houses, and they are inhabited by the worst of men.
They have had hitherto noe government, and are made up of
such as to avoid paying their debts and being punished have
fled hither ; for the most part they are fishermen, and share in
their wives as they do in their boats." ^
By 1668 all they established had died out. The commission
was made up of impractical men, knowing nothing of the wants
of the colonists, in either these parts or elsewhere. There is
little doubt but that the general condition of this first settle-
ment was, at the date of these transactions, wretched in the
extreme. Without school or church privileges, no govern-
ment, no market, no improvement, lMty years of this kind of
life had told upon these people, who were simply the worn-out
result of vanished schemes. Still they knew there was a hope
for something better in government. The}^ in accordance
with this impulse, made the following humble request :
" To the Honoured Governour, Deputy Governour, Magis-
trates & Deputies Assembled in the General Court now sitting
in Boston this 18th day of May, 1672.
"The petition of * » * * several of the inhabitants of
the Eastern parts of New England viz * Kennebec, Caj^e Bona-
wagon, Damares Cove, Shipscoatc, Pemaquid & Monhcgan. —
"Humbly sheweth that whereas the Providence of God hath
stated our habitations into those parts wherein sometimes past
we have had some kind of Government Settled amonst us ; but
for these Several years have not had any at all which is greatly
to our Prejudice & damage having no way to Right ourselves
upon any account whatsoever & have little hopes of obtaining
any to be help full to us for the good of our Soles unless
1. Doc. Cal. Hist. N. Y. HI, 101.
GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT. 79
we have Government settled amonst us ; The Humble Request
therefoi-e of your Petitioners is that you will please so farr to
favor us as to take us under your Government and protection
that we may all have the benefit of all those Laws settled among
yourselves granted unto us which if this Honourable Court
shall accept of & granted to us we have desired our loving
friend Mr. Eichard Callacott to advise with this honoured
Court or committee w^ they shall appoint for that purpose, & so
to act in our behalf what shall be judged meet or convenient for
us whereby j'our Petitioners shall be ever engaged to pray &c."
This petition had the signatures of twenty-five residents of
"Kennebeck," sixteen of "Cape Bonawagen," eleven each of
" Shipscoate " and " Pemaquid," fifteen of " Damaris Cove," and
eighteen of " Monhegan." Those falling within the Boothbay
limits follow :
Cape Bonawagon. Damaris Cove.
Robert Gamon, Richard Honywell,
John Pride, Jon^ Allen,
Edw<l Barton, Roger Seaward,
Henry Walderne, Jn° Wrieford,
Steph. Woolfe, Elias Trick,
Mathew Dyer, Jn** Bed well.
Rich"! Seeth, Rob* Parker,
Nicholas Bond, Emanuel Whitehouce,
Benj* Barton, Leonard Alber,
Jn° Anthers, William Lee,
Aron Beard, Sym° Lewsombe,
Thos Salton, Nich" Oyand,
W™ Dane, Rich^ Friend,
Thos Haalf, Th^ Alger,
Gab' Skiner, Edm^ Robins.
Rob* Baker.
The petition was passed upon favorably by the deputies,
four days after its date, but not consented to by the magistrates,
consisting of the Governor and Assistants ;^ but was taken up
by the General Court again in October, 1673, resulting favor-
ably the following May. Massachusetts certainly, by the light
of these records, worked no usurpation in extending her gov-
ernment over the Sagadahoc territory, even though she be open
to the charge of making a very ingenious interpretation of her
Merrimac bounds, to get possession of Western Maine. Here
1. Me. Hist. Coll. v. 240.
80 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
she came only upon appeal. Four commissioners were
appointed to repair to the places of the petitioners, or some
one of them to the eastward, and there keep a court, in the
form of a county court, to give power to constables, perform
marriages, punish criminal offenses, organize the militia and
have civil jurisdiction.^ The board of commissioners consisted
of Major Thomas Clark, Mr. Humphrey Davy, Mr. Richard
Collicutt, Lieut. Thomas Gardiner.
At the Ma}'^ tei-m of the General Court at Boston an order
declared the name of the new county to be Devon, and Lieut.
Thomas Gardiner was appointed Treasurer of the county. The
following orders were issued :
"Richard Olliver, of Monheghen, is nominated and ap-
pointed to be, recorder and clerke of the courts of this county,
who took the oath accordingly."
"Thomas Humphries, cunstable at Saggerdehock and Ken-
nebec; Robert Gammon, of Capenawaghen, William Walters
of Dameralls cove John Dolling of Monheghen, took theire
oaths as cunstables allsoe Th° Cox of Pemmaquid : took his
oath allsoe."
"The Grandjurimen tooke their oathes allsoe, according to
law for their severall places as followeth, —
"Robbert Edmunds, Ambrosse Hanewell, John Verrine of
Saggerdehoke.
"" John Wriford, Elias trick, John Pride of Dammeralls cove.
"George Bickford : Reynold Kelley of Monheghen.
"John Cole of Pemaquid."
"The Cunstables & Grand Jury men aboves"! tooke the oath
of fidelity (only John Pride tooke his oath at Salem) as alsoe
these psons following present Inhabitants.
" Capt. Edmund PattisJiall, Ichabod Wisswall,
Richard Oliver, William Bickford,
Edward Barton, Richard Hill,
Henry Curtis,^ Francis Brown,
Richard Warren, henry Stoakes,
W™ Denbo, Edward Dorr,
Jno Dare, George Burnett,
Nic° Osbourne, Thos Parker,
David Oliver, Emanvel WtfcJiaUs,
Jno Cock, Tho Phillips,
1. Johnson's Pemaquid, p. Ill ; Rec. Mass. V, pp. 6-17 ; Will. Hist. Me. I, 443.
2. Henry Curtis is the party who bought the west side ot Boothbay in 1666 o£
Menawormet. Italics indicate those who lived at either Cape Newagen, DamariscoTe
or Corbin's Sound.
GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT.
Tho Helman,
Jno Parlcer,
Edward Cole,
Tho Parnell,
Gregory Lansberry,
Tho Coxe Jun^ ,
Shadrick Cox,
Rich*! Pearce Jun,
Tho Adger,
Rich'^ Bucknell,
Tho Cox,
W™ Welcone,
Peter Collins,
Tho Phillips,
Jn° Palmer Jun' ,
^Y^ Phillips,
Jno Palmer senr ,
James Widger,
Jn° Gingden,
Jn" Selman,
Nic" Heale,
W°> Cox,
Nic° Carary,
Nic° Denning,
Jno Wildgoose,
Aaron Beard,
Abra Clark,
Henry Curtis Jun''
Richard Cox,
Robert Cawley,
Rich<i Brad way,
W"" Edwards,
W"^ Waters,
Jno Bessell,
Richd Glass,
Hen. Palmer,
Phillip Brye,
Jn" Stover,
Rob* Edmunds,
Tho Haels,
Nico Vallack,
William Trout,
Geo Bucknell,
Tho Cox."
"The Constables of each place in this County were ordered
to call the inhabitants togth'' and to Read or cause to be read
the Laws of this Jurisdiction unto y™ in Convenient time."
"These psons ffollowing are Nominated and approved as
Sargeants & Corporalls to Exercise Millitary Discipline to ye
Inhabitants in the severall places according to law ffor Saga-
dehoc and Kennebec Tho : Humphrys Sargeant and James
Middleton Corporall."
"ffor Damarells Cove and Hippocrass, Jn" Bessell Sargeant
& William Trout Corporall. ffor Monheghen John Dolling
Sargeant & he to choose his Corporall there."
"ffor Cape bone Waggon Robt Gamon Sargeant & to
choose his Corporall there."
" These persons ffollowing are chosen to be Clarkes of the
Writs in severall places viz*
" In Sagadchock & Kennebeck Tho : Humphryes
" In Monheghan Richard Oliver
"In Darner el Is Cove William Walters
"In Capebonewaggon Robbert Gamon."
"The persons following are appointed & have liberty to
keepe houses of publique intertaynemente & are to be provided
with permits &c accordingly and to retayle beere wyne &
liquors in ye Severall places for the yeere Ensueing according
to Law
82 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
"ffor Monheghen Jn^ Dolling
" ffor Saggadehock & Kennebeck William Cock
"ffor Damarells Cove John Wriford
" ffor Capebonewagon Edward Barton
"ffor Pemequid Jn°. Cole alsoe Lief* Gardiner to his fish-
ermen & Jn° Earthy
"ffor (!!orliin Sound George Bucknell."
" It is Ordered That warrants be issued out for y® levying
of twenty pounds uppon the Inhabitants of this county for
Court charges, Law bookes, Constables Staves &c viz* upon
Saggadehock & Kennebec four pounds upon Monheghen five
pounds xs upon Cape bone Waggon three pounds x^ uppon
Dammerell's Cove & hippocras five pounds, and on Pemyquid
40^ and that the Commission'^ where any is with the grand
Jury men and constable in each place shall equally Levy the
same on y" psons & estates of y" Severall inhabitants to be col-
lected by ye Constables & delivered to Lieften* Tho : Gardiner
treasurer of the County.
"Humphry Davie p Order."*
Of the above twenty pounds levied on the entire county it
will be noted that Damariscove and Hippocras paid exactly
one-fourth of the amount, the Kennebec settlement paid less
than these islands, while Cape Newagen ranked above Pema-
quid. Monhegan alone was as much as Damariscove. This,
doubtless, is an accurate kej' to estimating the proportion of
population at that period. There are, however, several other
indications corroborative of the above assessment. This does
away with an impression, long believed by some to be errone-
ous, that Pemaquid, besides being the central point and having
the fort, the court, and otherwise being the point of chief
importance east of the Kennebec, also held the greater part of
the population and taxable propert}-. It is plainly evident
that such an idea is incorrect. When the locality petitioned
Massachusetts to extend her government over Ihem the num-
ber of petitioners was less in Pemaquid and Sheepscot than in
any of the other places, and there are several other indications
in the same line.
Commissioners, in a sense corresponding to the present
trial justice, were appointed to hear cases with jurisdiction not
exceeding £10. This was to save the expense and effort of
1. The matter above produced is largely from Me. His. Col., Doc. Ser. rv, 344-48;
Also do. First Ser. V, 239-243; Jolinson's Pemaquid, pp. 110-112.
GROWTH AND GOVERNMENT. 83
holding court in this then distant region. The court was to
convene annually, but there is no record of any session in
1675, and while a record exists for convening a court at Pem-
aquid on the "third second day of July," which meant the
third Monday, no record of such a session has been found.
There was a well-grounded reason for these omissions, as we
shall see in the following chapter.
CHAPTER VI.
The Indian Wars.
IN JUNE, 1675, there were thirteen settlements, or planta-
tions, in Maine, as follows: 1, Kittery, including the
settlements about the mouth of the Piscataqua ; 2, York ;
3, "Wells; 4, Cape Porpoise; 5, Saco, on both sides of the
river; 6, Scarborough; 7, Falmouth, including the peninsula,
Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Westbrook ; 8, Pejepscot,
including the lower Androscoggin settlements and Maquoit
on Casco Baj' ; 9, the plantations of Kennebec and Sagadahoc,
including Cushnoc and Arrowsic ; 10, Sheepscot and Cape
Newagen ; 11, Damariscotta River, or New Dartmouth, since
New Castle, the Damariscove group of islands and Corbin's
Sound; 12, Pemaquid ; 13, Monhegan, George's Islands and
the opposite settlements on the mainland. The other settle-
ments were east of the Penobscot, at Biguyduce (Castine),
Eggemoggin Reach (Sedgwick), IMount Desert, Machias and
Schoodic, composed entirely of French, probably not exceed-
ing seventy-five persons.^
To be more minute in relation to our immediate settlements,
it may be said that there were at this time four settlements in
the territory that became Boothbay nearly a century later.
The one at Damariscove was the largest, being about one-fourth
of Cornwall County, as we have seen by the assessment. Cape
Newagen, by this assessment, shows to have been about three-
fifths that of Damariscove. There were a few families at Cor-
bin's Sound, probably two on Ilippocras, and Henry Curtis
somewhere on the west side, bordering on the Sheepscot. He
also had a son, Henry, Junior, appearing on various docu-
ments. A small settlement, called Widgin's, or Widgor's, was
1. Tha general story of the Indian Wars in more or less detail, the particular facts
presented varying with each author according to the field covered hy him, appears in
several Maine publications. To obtain about all the information to be had upon the
subject the following references may be cited : Will. Hist. Me., Vol. I ; Eaton's Annals
of Warren ; Johnson's Pemaquid ; Wheeler's Hist, of Brunswick, Topsham and Harps-
well, and the Maine Hist. Society's Collection.
THE INDIAN WARS. 85
located somewhere on the shore, probably either Spruce Point
or McKown's Point, presumably the former. The settler for
whom this place was named was, probably, James Widgor.
The application of the Sagadahoc petitioners, which has
appeared in the preceding chapter, was undoubtedly brought
about by an existing fear of French domination, on one hand,
and an impression, on the other, that the government of James'
ducal province of Cornwall, which was only an appendage of
his New York grant, would amount to nothing in the matter
of either system or strength. These people, as well as those
of the Province of Maine, and both the Massachusetts and
Plymouth Colonies, were all composed of nearly pure-bred
English stock. One old writer says that the New England
coast at the close of the seventeenth century was peopled with
as pure-bred English stock as England herself. Therefore,
while a loose and irregular life might be the one led in the main,
where neither clergy nor legal restraints were in evidence, still
there was an underlying tendency toward Protestantism and
an equally deep-seated prejudice against Romanism. Hence
the fear of French encroachments and a desire to rush under
the wing of Massachusetts, which was steadily growing strong
and populous.
At the bi'eaking out of King Philip's War, June 24, 1675,
at Swanzea, Massachusetts, the English population of Maine
and Sagadahoc exceeded 6,000, while the native population,
both Abenaques and Etechemins, was from 15,000 to 18,000.
The reason for the outbreak at this particular time is only
explainable in a general way. It was the breaking out of a
long smouldering tire, the culmination of troubles long fer-
mented, and in Philip the leader came, as is usually the case,
fitted in all ways to head the movement. The actual colonists,
realizing the dangers constantly about them, had been careful
and discreet, in the main, in their intercourse with the natives.
Some avaricious ones engaged in trade had overshot the mark
in driving hard bargains ; but the greatest irritant was the
course pursued by vessels' crews, fishing and otherwise engaged,
which were only occasionally on the coast. By some of these
the Indians were first made drunk, or by some deceit enticed
aboard, then kidnapped and sold into slavery, at either the
86 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AY.
West Indies or in Spain. Another serious provocation was
the treatment of the native women. Further than this, the
Indians looked on with suspicion to the clearing of land by-
axe and fire, the erection of fortifications and the advance of
civilization generally.
Within twenty days of the attack on Swanzca the Indians
of Maine and Sagadahoc, at places 250 miles distant, were
growing turbulent. It is evident that the Maine Indians were
reinforced from the westward, for Xarragansetts were captured
in Maine during the war. The war in Massachusetts lasted
until August 12, 1676, when it was broken by the death of
Philip. He was shot at his old home. Mount Hope, to which
he had just returned, by a friendly Indian fighting in the
English ranks under Captain Church. Two bullets brought
him to the earth, where he fell upon his face in some mud and
water he was running through to elude his pursuers. His
hands were cut off and carried in triumph to Boston as a trophy
to the Bay colonists ; while his head was severed and raised
upon a pole and borne to Plymouth for that Colony to view,
the day being devoted to a public thanksgiving. The leading
men under Philip, who surrendered, for the most part fared
badly. Watascompanun and Captain Tom were hung in
Boston. Matoonas was sentenced to hang, but his friends,
looking upon hanging as an ignoble death for a chief, begged
the privilege to shoot him themselves, which was accorded.
Three leading Nipmucks were later hung in Boston, and a
Narragansett chief shot in Ehode Island. Tispaquin and Anna-
won, two of Philip's principal men, were taken to Plymouth
and there beheaded. Four out of seven identified as being
parties who set fire to Plymouth were hung. Of 200 prisoners
captured by Major Waldron, at Dover, and sent to Boston for
trial, seven ringleaders were hung and the remainder sold into
slavery at Bermuda ; among them was Philip's son. Massa-
chusetts lost during the war 600 men, 1,200 houses, 8,000
cattle, and the cost otherwise was £150,000. The Indians
lost 3,000 lives.
But while Massachusetts cleared herself in about fourteen
months the Indian spii'it was unsubdued. Marauding parties
came into Maine, where the population was less and where they
THE INDIAN WARS. 87
could obtain arms and ammunition from the French. Soon
after the death of Philip the war was waged in Maine and
Sagadahoc fiercer than ever. It lasted until the treat}' of peace
at Casco, April 12, 1678.
The war in Maine broke out by an attack on Thomas Pur-
chas, a trader, living about six miles below where Brunswick
now stands, on September 5, 1675. Settlers in Falmouth were
attacked the 12th, where a family, Wakefield by name, was
murdered, some being burned with their house and the rest
horribly tortured and their remains nmtilated. Soon after this
a battle at New Meadows River occurred, where two Indians
were shot ; but the latter came off victorious, putting to flight
some twenty-five whites and capturing two boat loads of corn.
Scarborough was burned on the 20th. Attacks on Saco and
Wells immediately followed. The Sagadahoc territory was
the last to be attacked, though the weakest places existed there.
This was largely due to the efforts of Abraham Shurte, then at
the age of eighty-three or more, who, by pacific policies, held
off the impending catastrophe.
That portion of the State now composing York County was
harassed in nearly every neighborhood repeatedly. No one
knew when it was safe to move in any direction, for behind
any bunch of bushes or cliff of ledge the murderous savage
might be lurking in his war paint. The Indians were at a great
advantage. They had no houses or homes to lose. What
would undo the white settler would not affect them in the least.
The forest, lake or stream was equally their home. They could
endure any privation and travel across country at surprising
speed, appearing in a locality one day and striking an unex-
pected blow many miles from there the next. Every white
habitation was known to them and none were overlooked in
this war of destruction.
The day following Philip's fall Woolwich was destroyed
and Arrowsic burned. The attack at Woolwich was made at
Stinson's Point, upon the house of Richard Hammond, a trader.
A young girl escaped and, following footpaths, reached the
neighborhood of Sheepscot Farms, about twelve miles distant,
and alarmed the inhabitants. She told the settlers as she was
fleeing from the house, unseen by the savages, she heard loud
88 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
blows within. This was true, for Hammond, Samuel Smith
and Joshua Grant were killed, and sixteen others taken cap-
tives. After finishing their depredations at Woolwich they
divided themselves into two bands ; one ascended the Kennebec
to where Francis Card lived and took captives him and his
family, while the others went in their canoes by night to
Arrowsic. They made a silent landing on the southeasterly
pari; of that island, near where the settlement and fort were
situated. A few crawled along beneath the walls of the garri-
son and the others ambushed behind a large cliff, all, however,
being able to note the movements of the sentinel. He retired
from his post that night earlier than usual and was not relieved.
Unknown to him, he was followed through the gate inside the
fortress. All rushed in with a wild war whoop, closing the
portholes and engaging in a hand-to-hand conflict as fast as
the surprised inmates appeared. A bloody fight ensued, sev-
eral falling on each side, but the odds were too great and the
remnant of the English fled through a back exit toward the
shore. Just as the boats were reached Captain Lake was
killed ; Captain Davis was also shot down, but not fatally.
He secreted himself in a crevice in the ledge, from which, in a
weak condition, he escaped two days later.
Clark and Lake had at Arrowsic one of the largest and
most expensive establishments along the coast. It consisted
of a mansion house, built af er an English model, many out-
buildings, a mill and the fortifications. The whole had cost
several thousand pounds and a long term of years of enter-
prising industry. Thirty-five persons were either killed or
captured at this attack ; about a dozen escaped. After the
Woolwich girl reached and alarmed the upper Sheepscot settle-
ment, that communit}^ with all possible haste, left homes,
live stock, crops — all they possessed in the world — and fled
down the river, arousing any by-settler to his danger, reaching
Cape Newagen in a few hours and there taking refuge in the
fort. The people on the Damariscotta likewise fled down their
river and across to Pemaquid, joined by the Corbin's Sound
neighborhood. From Pemaquid all tried to make Monhegan,
but adverse winds prevented and they landed on Damariscove.
Upon reaching that island a few persons were found there who
THE INDIAN M'AKS. 89
had fled from Arrowsic and along Casco Ba3^ Those wlio had
reached Newagen, feeling insecure, after a short taiTy, also
went to Damariscove. About 300 were then gathered there,
in flight from all the surrounding country, and this has been
thought to be a fairly correct key to the amount of population
in the locality at that time. In about two hours after the last
had reached the island, Hubbard tells us that they "saw all
the other islands, Widgin's, Corbin's Sound, New Harbor and
Pemaquid, all on fire."
Being informed they could expect no help from Boston,
and feeling insecure on Damariscove, they quit that place and
went in different vessels to various places at the westward,
mostly, however, to Boston, Salem or Piscataqua. Before
sailing some of them visited another island in the vicinity and
there found two dead bodies, the ashes of the buildings just
burned and the carcasses of the cattle which the destroyers
had slaughtered. Exactly what island this may have been is
uncertain, but, presumably, Hippocras; for two families had
been living there by the records just previous to the war, and
no other island, except Damariscove, where they were then in
exile, is mentioned as being inhabited. There are other rea-
sons for this presumption ; persons living on that island might
not have received the alarm, and, if they did, might have fan-
cied themselves secure in their location. Further than this, it
was near Damariscove, for parties had time to go there when
preparing in haste to depart for the west.
Jewell's Island was attacked September 2d, but several of
the Indians were killed and forced to beat a retreat. Man}^
who had escaped from the eastern settlements to Boston and
other points to the M-estward obtained arms and ammunition
there and immediately started on a march back into Maine.
One hundred and thirtj^ English and forty friendly Xatick
Indians reached Cocheco (Dover, N. H.), where thej- met
Major Waldron with more men. Just then they met a force
of 400 Indians. Though secretty hostile, they showed no
belligerent spirit and seemed disposed to parley with Waldron.
He proposed a sham fight, with the understanding that each
side should fire over the heads of the opposing force. The
Indians fired as understood, but the English held their fire and
yU HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
then ordered the Indians to ground their arms and took them
into custody. A culling process was instituted and about half
the number were at once released ; but 200 were sent by a
vessel to Boston for trial, and it was of these that it has been
before mentioned that seven were hung and the remainder sold
to Bermuda. Cape Neddock settlement was destroyed Sep-
tember 25th and about forty whites killed. Black Point was
attacked and surrendered. By the middle of February, 1677,
Waldron had reached Mere Point, Brunswick, and a little later
came to Arrowsic, where part of his force was left to fortify,
and he with the rest kept on to Pemaquid in two vessels.
Several sachems were found there and with them Waldron
went ashore and held a truce. Hostilities were suspended and
both sides were supposed to meet without arms ; but Waldron
espied the point of a lance protruding from under a board and
at once charged them with treachery. A tumult ensued. One
squaw caught up a bundle of guns and ran for the woods.
A hand-to-hand fight followed, while from signaling a well-
equipped reinforcement came to the aid of the English from
the vessels. A canoe was overturned and five or six Indians
were drowned ; as many more were killed ashore in the fight
besides the chief, Mallatawando.
In this battle Waldron preserved all of his own goods,
captured 1,000 pounds of beef and other articles, besides a
number of prisoners. Among these was a sister of the Chief
Madockawando, an Indian woman of great beauty and influence
in her tribe. Also Megunnaway, an old chief and one of the
most desperate, long-time offenders among the race. He had
been concerned in the murder of Thomas Bracket and his
neighbors, and several other of the most atrocious murders in
the war. When it was learned whom they had captured, with-
out trial, he was taken out and shot on Pemaquid ground.
Waldron, on his return to Boston, stopped and built a gar-
rison on the Woolwich side, opposite Arrowsic, and left Cap-
tain Davis with forty men to guard it. They found Captain
Lake's body perfectly preserved by cold and took it to Boston
for burial. A little later a part of the garrison went over to
Arrowsic to bury the dead who were killed some seven months
before. They anticipated no danger, for no Indians had been
THE INDIAN WARS. 91
seen for some time in the vicinity, but no sooner had the place
been reached than they were fired upon from ambush, their
retreat to the boats cut off and nine of them shot down on the
spot. About the same date seven were killed in the town of
York from an ambush. Battles at York, Wells and Black
Point occurred that spring, and then there seemed a lull in
hostilities, but not peace until the treaty at Casco, April 12,
1678. Altogether 260 settlers were known to have been killed
or carried away into captivity, over 150 captured and afterward
released, the settlements of Cape Neddock, Casco, Arrowsic,
Pemaquid, Scarborough and other places burned. The cost of
the war was about £8,000 besides all losses.
A letter from Francis Lovelace, Governor of New York,
under the Duke of York, was sent the inhabitants of Pema-
quid, bearing date February 16, 1672. In it he asked them
as to the nature of government they desired, and the general
tone of the letter indicated a spirit desirous of consultation on
Eastern affairs. While Lovelace was the second Governor of
New York, which was the Duke's principal grant, no attention
had been given Sagadahoc, which his commissioners had vis-
ited in 1665, bestowing upon it the name of Cornwall, and
then reporting as to the insignificance of the territory and the
vicious tendency of its inhabitants. It had been absolutely
ignored until the receipt of this letter, if it ever was received,
for the only record the public has of it is that to be found
in the Albany archives. If received it may not have been
answered, but a suspicious circumstance exists in the fact that
Lovelace sent this epistle in February, and in May, following,
the Pemaquid Colony petitioned the Massachusetts Government
to extend itself over them. The letter may have stimulated
this action. Sir Edmund Andros succeeded Lovelace as Gov-
ernor of the Duke's dominions in 1674. No aid was extended
the settlement in its perilous position by Andros, but after its
destruction, September 8, 1676, the following resolution was
recorded :
"Resolved, To send a sloop to Piscataway, Salem and Bos-
ton to invite and bring as many of the Inhabitants paiticularly
ffishermen, as will come driven from the Duke's Terrytoryes
and parts Eastward, and to supply them with land in any part
of Government they shall chuse."
92 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
The sloop came on from New York, but returned without
passengers. General Court convened at Boston the October
following, and the second day of the session passed a resolution
denouncing the action of the Duke's New York Government
as a mean attempt to gain population at the expense of the
east, which that countr}^ could not afford to lose ; and made
provision to send 150 men to Sagadahoc to protect that coun-
try against the French and Indians. On June 9, 1G77, it was
decided by Governor Andros to take possession at once of the
Sagadahoc territorj^ and on the 13th four vessels sailed with
lumber and other material to build a redoubt at Pemaquid.
Before leaving New York their instructions were, if for any
reason they could not land at Pemaquid, then to make a tem-
porary lodgment "upon Cape Anowagon, Damerell's Cove,
Monhigan or other adjacent islands."
The fort was completed early in the season and the com-
mand intrusted to Capt. Anthony Brockhals and Ensign Ciesar
Knapton, being christened Fort Charles in honor of the King,
and the locality named Jamestown, in honor of the Duke. A
most stringent set of rules and regulations were now pro-
claimed. Pemaquid alone must be the trading place of the
entire region ; Indians were not allowed to go to the islands ;
neither should the natives be trusted ; questions of disagree-
ment between inhabitants and fishermen should be settled in
New York ; no fisherman should keep more than one dog ; no
rum should be drank on the side the fort stood ; no " straggling
farmes to be erected, nor no houses built anywhere under the
number of twenty"; all vessels from any other Government
coming there to fish must first enter at Pemaquid, and, except
in stress of weather, should go into no othei" harbor.
It was with the building of Fort Charles, and this second
attempt at government on the part of the Duke of York, that
business of all kinds in the Sagadahoc territorj^ centered at
Pemaquid. The reason was that it was forced there by the
controlling powers. The cause is here found why no other
section, save Pemaquid proper, filled up after the dispersal bj^
the Indians in 1()7(). The entii-e Government was abhorrent
to the fishermen living under it. In every sense it aimed at
monopoly in trade. ]Massachusetts Bay, which had established
THE INDIAN WARS. 93
a brief rule just preceding tlie Indian outbreak, could not now
follow it up without coming into conflict with the brother of
the King, and it was then clear that both the King and Duke
looked jealouslj^ upon Massachusetts.
Col. Thomas Dongan was appointed Governor of New York
and Sagadahoc in 1682, and arrived in this country in August,
1(58.3, as successor to Andros. He found the people every-
where dissatisfied with their Government. A few reforms
were instituted by him, among which was an election by the
freeholders. Writs for election reached the county of Corn-
wall, and Gyles Goddard, Esquire, of Sheepscot, was unani-
mously elected to the New York Assembly to represent the
county. Petitions to Governor Dongan, at this time, bore a
set of signatures almost entirely different from those which
had a few years before appeared, petitioning Massachusetts to
spread a protecting arm over Devonshire. This showed the
population after the war to be composed of a new element.
The King, Charles II, and his advisers, having all along
been jealous of Massachusetts, vacated its charter June 18,
1684, and thereupon the liberties that colony had enjoyed
were seized by the Crown. Colonel Kirke, one of the blackest
names in English history, was appointed Governor over Massa^
chusetts, Plymouth, New Hampshire and Maine ; but before he
embarked for America to take his oflice, on Februarj^ 16, 1685,
Charles 11 died, thus saving the Colonies that humiliation.
James, who had been Duke of York, now became King James
II of England. Sir Edmund Andros, who had been the Duke's
Governor of New York and Sagadahoc from 1674 to 1682,
now became Governor of New England. He reached Boston
December 20, 1685.
The next year Governor Dongan sent Palmer and West as
commissioners into Cornwall County to survey and conve}' to
settlers tracts of land, understood to be one hundred acres,
but in many cases they only conveyed three or four acres.
Excessive fees were charged in all instances, and then the set-
tler only received a leasehold, the fee remaining in the propri-
etor. They placed and displaced at pleasure, preying upon
the poor, ignorant and war-worn population, as many a
political parasite has done 1)efore and since. After Andros'
94 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
appointment there appeared for a time some confliction in
authority between himself and Dongan, when Andros' commis-
sion was enlarged in March, 1688, making him Captain Gen-
eral and Vice Admiral over New England, New York and the
Jerseys. Almost immediately he sailed with an expedition to
Penobscot, where he attacked Biguyduce, pillaged Castine's
headquarters and came back to Pemaquid. Castine resented
this outrage, and, as he was supreme among the Indians,
uneasiness and acts of hostility at once commenced. Every
English fortress from Penobscot to Piscataqua was at once
repaired. Soldiers were enlisted and detached for an eastern
expedition. Andros returned to Boston and, evidently fearing
a war he had himself aggravated, tried pacific policies. He
issued proclamations to the Indians, and broadly advertised
that Indian prisoners would be freed, commanding, at the same
time, that the savages should release their English prisoners.
The Indians gave no heed to him or his efforts, and released
no prisoners in their custody, but in some cases put them to
death by torture. Andros, meantime, had let the Indians go
which he had been holding.
The war broke out in earnest August 13th, by an attack on
North Yarmouth, followed soon after by a descent on Jewell's
Island and Saco. At Merrymeeting Bay, after capturing the
inhabitants, they fell into a drunken carousal and killed their
victims. This marauding party next appeared at Sheepscot,
where they made prisoners of two families. The remainder of
the settlers defended themselves in the garrison. One of the
party went out with a truce to try and treat with the assailants.
They captured him and after terrible tortures dispatched him.
Every building in the place was burned. Seeing war was now
inevitable, Andros called out an army of from 800 to 1,000
men, and late in November led them on an eastern expedition,
broadly making threats of his purposes. Soldiers suffered
severely from lack of food and exposure to the inclement
weather. Many died from these causes and he returned with-
out killing or capturing a single Indian. With no wisdom in
any of his actions, he made as great a display of his power as
possible.
The greatest catastrophe of the year was the capture of
THE INDIAN WAKS. 95
Dover, New Hampshire. One evening two squaws came along
and begged the privilege of shelter for the night, which was
granted them. In the night they opened the fortress gate,
letting in a large party who were on the war path. A bloody
hand-to-hand encounter followed, but with defeat to the English
and capture of the garrison by sheer force of numbers. Major
Waldron, whom we followed in the previous war, was there
that night, an old man of eighty. Twelve years before he had
deceived them on the soil of that very town by a sham fight,
and later, at Pemaquid, punished them severely, executing
Megunnaway after the battle. "Waldron was stripped and
seated on a table, when each savage, passing him in procession,
slashed his breast with a knife, saying at each stroke : "Thus
I cross out my account." At last they cut off his nose and
ears, and as he was pitching from the table from loss of blood
one Indian placed the Major's sword so that it ran him through
as he fell. So died one of the greatest Indian fighters the
Colonies ever knew.
At Pemaquid a special effort was made to capture the new
Fort Charles, recently built by Andros. A large body of Indi-
ans appeared from the direction of Kound Pond on August 2,
1689. Dividing into two parties, one part went to the Falls,
where Judge Gyles and fourteen men were at work on the
farm, obtaining a secreted position between the men and the
garrison. The other part ranged themselves between the fort
and the houses before their presence was known. The attack
began by the party attacking the fort, and as soon as the report
of the firearms was heard the party above made an attack on
the workmen. Several, including Judge Gyles, were there
killed and the rest made prisoners. Lieutenant Weems at the
fort, seeing that he could not possibly hold out, thought that
if terms could be made an early surrender might obtain safety
for the garrison. A promise was made that they might go
aboard schooners for Boston if they would make no resistance.
This was done, but no sooner were the doors opened than faith
was broken and a slaughter ensued. All were either killed or
made prisoners. Two captains of vessels in the harbor. Skin-
ner and Farnham, were shot, and Captain Pateshall, who lived
so many years at Damariscovc, being there with his vessel,
96 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
was captured and killed. At this point of time eveiy English
inhabitant eastward of Falmouth withdrew to that place.
At the end of 1690 only four Maine settlements remained,
Wells, York, Kittery and Isle of Shoals, and of these York
was destroyed in 1692. While the worst was over, the Indians
still continued in a belligerent condition until the treaty at
Mere Point, Brunswick, January 7, 1699. The date, however,
of August 2, 1689, may be set as that of the vacation of the
county of Cornwall. The fort at Pemaquid was again rebuilt
in 1692, of stone, by Governor Phipps, and named Fort
William Henry ; but the territory lying between the Sheepscot
and Damaviscotta Rivers, with the islands about, was abso-
lutely without other than the native population until 1729.
From near 1620 until its destruction a second time, in 1689,
there had been some English population, and they met with no
serious disturbance until 1676. After that war a few came
back, but the names were largely new ones, and these, under
the restricted conditions imposed bj^ Andros, mostly settled at
Pemaquid proper. But with the second war these old names
disappear forever. When settled forty years later by Colonel
Dunbar it was by not only people of other families, but those
of another race.
The tja-anny of Governor Andros overreached itself, and
on April 18, 1689, he and thirty of his most thoroughly hated
followers were thrown into prison by an enraged Boston popu-
lace. Palmer and West, who had plundered the people of the
countrj' we now live in, were among the number. No bail
that could be offered was accepted and for some weeks they
were confined. This has come down to us as the first Ameri-
can revolution. In England James II had abdicated his throne
on December 12th, previous, and taken up his abode in France.
His son-in-law, William, Prince of Orange, and Mary, «'ife of
William and daughter of James II, were proclaimed on Feb-
ruary 16th King and Queen of England.
During these months the Jesuit priests and Castine had
thoroughly inflamed the Indian mind. France, the asylum of
James II, sympathizing with him on account of his religion,
espoused his cause, and on May 1st war was declared by
England against France. It was another war of Popery
EAKLY SETTLEMENTS. 97
against Protestantism, and in New England the first onslaught
was upon the weakest places, the frontiers of Maine and New
Hampshire. Early in 1690 Sir William Phipps, a native of
Woolwich in the Sagadahoc territory, was sent with 700 men
to make a conquest of Canada. Port Royal fell before his
fleet, but being late in the year and receiving no aid from
England he was unsuccessful before Quebec. This second
Indian war has been sometimes called ffing AVilliam's War.
While the Boothbay territory laj' uninhabited two other
Indian wars took place. The first of these is known as Queen
Anne's War, which lasted from August, 1703, to the treaty at
Portsmouth, July 11, 1713 ; and the second, called Lovewell's
War, from June 13, 1722, to Dummer's celebrated treaty,
made December 15, 172.5. The interim which occurred by
absence of population from our locality must, of necessity, be
reflected in these pages. Space forbids me in carrying along
even the most important general matters, when we had no
people to be affected by them. To this point the brief, cur-
sory treatment given to general affairs has been necessary on
account of such matters, as have been selected for presentation,
having an intimate relation with what was transpiring here.
Our next chapter, while not strictly in sequence, will be
inserted for the reason that some matters appearing in it will
be thereafter a matter of common reference. Following it the
Dunbar immigration and settlement will be taken up, after
which point of time our story is continuous to the present.
CHAPTER VII.
The Interim: 1689-1729.
IN THIS chapter the reader will be given various matters,
presented in monographic form, with the hope that that
which is of most interest, and most necessary for refer-
ence, will have been presented before commencing the story
of the Dunbar immigration.
There is no record that Squirrel Island was ever among
the number composing the Damariscove group. Neither was
it inhabited until after the Dunbar settlement. At what time
the present name was applied, or for what reason, is uncertain.
It was a lone island, uninhabited, and an appendage to Corn-
wall County in 1687 ; then known by its present name, as
evinced by the appended record. William Sturt about 1684
was town clerk of Pemaquid, as shown by various documents.
The date of this petition is July 28, 1687, and he states that
he is building a house on Hippocras "in order to a settlement."
It has already been noticed that a rule existed in the Pemaquid
Government, then recently promulgated, that outside of Pem-
aquid single houses should not be built, and the building,
away from that neighborhood, of houses to a number less than
twenty was forbidden. From William Sturt's position he
must have been a leading citizen of Pemaquid, and a colony,
to the number of twenty houses, ma}' have been intended on
Hippocras at this time. If such was the case, a considerable
colony must have existed there at the date of abandonment in
1689.
THE INTERIM. 99
To his Excellency S^ Edmond Andros Kn* Cap* Gener^" &
Governo'' in Chiefe of his Ma^i^s Territoiy & Dominion in
New England in America
The humble Petticon of William Start humbly Sheweth.
Whereas yC Petticon^ being Possest of a Small Island
Commonly caled hypocrist where yo^ Petticon^ is building an
house, in ord^ to a Settlement But the sd Island being voyd of
Wood Either for fBre or other vse : And there being A small
Rocky Island w* Woods Cloase by Caled Squirrill Island
which is Noe waj^es Comodious for the fishery, & Never have
been taken vp, or Disposed of to Any as Yett the Which Yo'
Petticon^ humbly Prays yo"^ Excellency to Confirme to him
And Grant that he may have A Pattent for the Said Island &
he As in Duty bound Shall Ever Pray for Yo"" Excell^ Pros-
perity &c.
(3Ie. Hist. Coll. Doc. Series, VI, 361.)
Somewhere in the present town of Boothbay or Boothbay
Harbor lived, as early as 166(5, up to the outbreak of the first
Indian War in the east, in 1675, a settler by the name of
Henry Curtis (or Curtice).
He had a son, Henry, Jr., old enough to be signing peti-
tions about 1674. It is likely that they lived on the west side,
on Sheepscot waters. The conveyance to Curtis by the well-
known chief, Robin Hood, is one of the earliest in the entire
region. From this deed came much trouble to the inhabitants
in later times, claimants under it commencing to annoy the
settlers, in their holdings, as early as 1737 and continuing
until the adjustment in 1811.
"A deed of Henry Curtice, senior, recorded the 16th. of
June, in the year of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the
Second Anno Domine 1666, Jan'y 20th. day 1666.
"Know all men by these presents, that I Robin Hood,
sagamore, doth sell unto Henry Curtice, his heirs and assigns
forever, a parcel of land Ij'ing on the northwest side of the
northwest passage, and the pond joining into the head of the
northwest passage unto the Gutt of the Back river, with all
the islands and inlets and marches containing unto the same.
And likewise I the said Robin Hood doth prhibit and doth
disown that any of my heirs and assigns shall lay any clam or
privlidges unto the abovementioned land, and have given unto
100 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
the abovementioned Hemy Curtice, his heirs and assigns, full
power and possession to sett down there without any let or
molestation. Whereunto I have set mj^ hand and seal, the
day and date alcove mentioned. the
Robin J Hood
Witness, mark
Daniel Benether
William Cliffe
Rascoba his office )
Examined 5
"This deed was acknowledged by Robin Hood, Sagamore,
this 29th. May, 1666, before me
Henry Joslin, Justice in coram.
"In the year '66, Walter Phillips, Recorder, Essex, ss.
Aug. 23, 1785."
John Palmer, who was associated with West in confirming
lands in Cornwall County to settlers, confirmed to Elihu Gun-
nison, then living in Cornwall, on September 17, 1686, that
part of Linekin Neck southerly from where it is partially
divided by the indentation of Little River. When driven out,
in 168y, by the Indians, Gunnison took refuge at Kittery and
there followed his trade of shipwright. On November 1, 1693,
he sold this tract of land to William Pcpperell, of Kittery,
who was a native of Cornwall, England, and the father of Sir
William Pepperell, one of Maine's most famous productions.
Pepperell evidently bought it as a speculation, for he con-
tinued to reside at Kittery. The description follows :
" That Tract or parcell of Land within the bounds of James-
town in the aforesii County (Cornwall) containing five hun-
dred Acres Lying and being at y^ place or neck of Land called
Bucklands Neck, beginning at a certain place known by y®
name of Corbitts Sound to y^ Southwest of ye s<i Neck, from
thence along y^ upland by the River called by the name of
Damaris Cotty river, Soe North : north east of y" Narrows of
s^ Neck known by ye name of Winagance or carrying place,
from thence East south east over the said Winnegans to ye
cove in ye back River, from thence along ye upland l>y the s^
River South : south west to yee s<i Corbitts Sound to ye place
where begun."
( York Deeds, Book VI, Fol. 58.)
THE INTERIM. 101
By the following abstract it may he seen that practically
all of what now constitutes the town of Boothbay Harbor,
together with that part of Boothbay where East Boothbay Vil-
lage now stands, and Linekin Neck, with the islands southerly
of the entire tract, were sold by John Bland, of Georgetown,
on March 15, 1717, to AVilliam Robinson, of Arrowsic Island,
then a part of Georgetown ; and moi'tgaged by Robinson on
April 11, 1717, to John Cookson, of Boston, a gunsmith, a
one-fourth interest.
" I ye s'^ W™ Robinson have and hereby do give grant bar-
gaine Sell Convey And Confirm unto y" s<i John Cookson One
quarter part of a Certain Tract of Land lying Ijetween Shep-
scoat Bay & Damaris Scotty river Called by y« Indians the
Winneganse which is a Carrying place between y^ sd bay and
ye gd x-iver bounded as follows. Two miles up y^ river afores^
i5t two Miles up Shepscoat Baj^ Side both upon one and y^
Same point of y^ Compass with y^ others & So a Straight line
to be run there from ye river to y^ s<i Bay with y^ point of
Land from y^ Winneganse or Carrying place down Toward ye
Sea & ye Island Called Agguahega or Damaris Scott}- Island
with a Quarter part of all ye Islands with all ye Island Adjoyn-
ing & Lying Southerly from ye 8<i Xeck of Land with all Such
rights Libertys Profits priviledges Comodityes & Appurte-
nances as belong thereunto which s'^ granted premises I bought
of John Bland of Georgetown afores Yeoman as by his deed
dated ye fifteenth day of March last will Appear."
( York Deeds, Booh VIII, Fol. 229. )
"William Robinson, above-named mortgager, died before
satisfying this mortgage, and his widow, Sarah, while still
administratrix of his estate, married INIajor Samuel Denny, of
Georgetown, for many j-ears the leading citizen there, and
who, in 1764, was empowered by the General Court to issue
his wan-ant for the call of the meeting of organization in
Boothba3\ On September 4, 1722, Major Dennj^ purchased,
for £120, Cookson's claim and took a confirmation of the title
himself. Later, Gen. Samuel McCobb, of Georgetown, son
of James McCobb, one of the original settlers of Townsend,
married Rachel, daughter of ]Major Denny. The intimate rela-
tions back and forth between Georgetown and Townsend in
the early days are matter of frequent record in many ways.
102 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
An abstract of a deed given by Agomogus (also known as
Moxes) and Egeremett, August 3, 1(585, to Richard Pateshall
is as follows :
"A Cei'taine Tract or parcell of land Commonly Called by
y<' Name of Damerel Cove lying & being an Island in y" Sea
Bounded with Seguin on y^ West Wood Island & Pumkin
Island to y« East Cape bonawagon & Epituse on ys North the
Sea on yo South with all and Every y® privilege Libcrtye &
Immunitys thereunto belonging as hunting hawking ffowling
ffishing or in any wise Appurtaining."
John Manning, of Boston, on August 24, 1725, deeded to
Job Lewis, also of Boston, for £120, fifteen hundred acres of
land, in several tracts, situated within the present limits of
the southern towns of Lincoln Countj\ An abstract follows :
" Part of several certain Tracts or Parcells of Land situate
lying and being within the County of Cornwall within his
Majesty's Dominions at the Eastward Parts of New England
butted & bounded as followeth viz Two Islands lying Eastward
of the Bay of the River & running up to New Dartmouth in
Sheeps Coat River from Cape Newagon Westerly with the s<i
River ; Easterly with the Back River on Albonegon ; Southerly
with three small Islands that are in the Passage to two bacon
gut. Northerly with the Branch of the s"^ Main River, which
runneth into the Back River at the Southerly End of the great
Narrows Also two Necks or Tracts of Land beginning at
Sheepcot Falls running right over a Cove to a Parcell of Pine
Trees from thence right over one of the s'^ Necks to the Head
of another Cove on the Easterly Side of the s<i Neck ; And a
Parcell of Marsh Ground lying on the Side of the River South-
erly w<=*' Bounds are from the burnt Islands which is the North-
ern End of it, from thence to a freshett called by the English
the Ovens Mouth, & all the s<i Marsh is on the South Side of
the River with the Upland joining to it as will more at large
appear by the Records of the Indian Titles within the s<i County
Reference thereto being had. Which were lately lodged in the
Hands of Samuel Phiphs of Charlestown Esq"^ late Clerk to
the Proprietors of the Eastward Lands (since deceased) vf<^^ s^
two Islands were granted & confirmed unto the s"! Nicholas
Manning by Patent from John Palmer Esq"^."
The two islands deeded by Manning were probably Barter's
and Sawyer's, but may have been others. Westport had been
THE INTERIM. 103
deeded in 1666, as Jeremisquam ; and the bound at the north,
evidently being Cross River, would indicate Barter's Island.
The three small islands at the south were probably Indiantown,
Isle of Springs and Boston Island. The names Back River,
Oven's Mouth and Sheepscot were then applied to the same
localities as at present ; and Albonegon was doubtless the
Indian name for the mainland of Boothbay, and thus referred
to in the clause "easterly with the Back River on Albonegon."
Almost every old deed following 1686, recorded from the
Sagadahoc territory, makes reference to a confirmation of title
by John Palmer, Esquire, the Duke's commissioner under
Governor Dongan. The method of obtaining a confirmation
of title was to present a humble petition, setting forth that the
petitioner was an inhabitant, and then describing in a rather
loose, indefinite way the tract desired, using such terms as
"ranging easterly," or " southerly," as the case might be, to a
hill, or a cove, or a "parcell of trees." This being presented
was indorsed on the back by Palmer, "Granted." Then a sur-
veyor followed, and his survey was but a little more definite
than the limits mentioned in the petition. On the back of the
survey would appear the word "ffact," meaning performed.
Then came Palmer's deed to the petitioner, whose tract was
governed by the amount of cash he could raise. Petition, sur-
vey and deed must all be paid for, and in the end all that the
ignorant settler obtained was a leasehold, which in after years
was brushed aside as worthless whenever contested by a claim
with any foundation. The fees paid Palmer and West simply
amounted to a tax, nothing more or less ; and the whole affair
sei-ves as an object lesson of the point of ingenuity reached at
that period in the science of what is modernly termed "graft."
The irregularity of spelling proper names in the early days
must be obvious from what has already been presented in these
chapters. As a matter of fact, the person who could read and
write, and having proficiency enough to perform clerical or
magisterial duties, did not always, even in the same document,
104 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
spell his own or another's name in the same manner twice.
This may be noted, not only of those first peopling our coast,
but of many later inhabitants down to a period somewhat later
than the American Revolution. A case in point : On February
8, 1665, an Indian deed was made to Sylvanus Davis, of a tract
of land adjoining the Damariscotta River, by one Gosle, saga-
more. Throughout the body of the deed the name is spelled
"Gosle." The signature, which is by mark, appears "Gosil";
while the acknowledgment, before George Munjoy, is written
"Gossery."
These instances are confirmative of the fact that no real
form of name existed, in many instances, but simplj^ a sound,
which each person spelled as he understood or heard it, or
judged might be correct. This same Gosle, Gosil or Gossery
is likely to have been the chief who lived in that vicinity and
deeded, joined by his wife and son, a tract to Walter Phillips
over the signature "Josle." If so, four forms of the same
name occur. Something over twenty forms of spelling Pema-
quid has been i-ef erred to by one author, and it is likely that
either Cape Newagen or Damariscove appears in as many ways.
The names of the five Indians captured by Wej-mouth vary so
much in form, as presented by different old writers on the
subject, as to make them hardly distinguishable.
The reign in England of William and jNIary, which com-
menced in 1689, just as the Sagadahoc Colonj' were fleeing
westward for their lives, lasted until 1702 ; Anne, the second
daughter of James II, succeeding them and reigning until
1714. The Stuart dynasty ended with Anne and, in 1714, was
followed by George I, of the House of Hanover or Brunswick,
who reigned until 1727, when George II, his son, came to the
English throne. It was from the government of George 11
that Col. David Dunbar received his American commission,
and his reign continued until 1760, only four years before the
settlement founded by Dunbar l>ecame the incorporated town
of Boothba3^
1 Methodist Chun
2 William Seavey
S David Lang
4 Red Store
5 Store
7 Andrew Adams
Bradford Y. Baker
Miles Hagan
Frederick Montgomery
Robert Montgomery
Leonard Montgomery
Harvey Oliver
Abigail Sawyer
IIodgdon's Mills in I85»>
17 Woodbxiry M. Davis
is Caleb Hodgdon
r.i Lincoln House — A. Goudy
■^i» Store — A. Goudy
■J I Hodgdon Shipyard
'J'J Hodgdon Shops
■_';5 Store — Benjamin Reed
'^4 James McDougall
•J.-. B. Fowles
'Ji; Schoolhouse
•J7 William Seavey
■JS Temperance Hall
j;» Capt. James L. Race
;mi Peter McGimigle
'M Reuben Jones
'.VJ. James Seavey
:W Jeremiah P. Baker
■M William Adams
'Xi Isaac Murray
■M William Murray
;i8 Rufus Murray
;il> Samuel Murray
-Kl G. W. Whitehouse
41 Capt. Andrew Montgomery
4'_' Ralph Whitehouse
4:1 Lumber Yard
THE LNTKKIM. 105
The vicissitudes of the Province of Maine were many in
both general conditions and forms of government, but not
greater than those of the Sagadahoc territoiy, with which these
chapters are more directly concerned. It was first embraced
by the New England patent of 1620, and so continued until
after the treaty of St. Germain, in 1632, when the French
claimed it as a part of Nova Scotia. In 1654, under Crom-
well's government, it again came into the possession of the
English by the efforts of Major Sedgwick, and the government
was given to Colonel Temple. Under the treaty of Breda,
concluded in 1667, it was again claimed by France, as a part
of Nova Scotia. By petition in 1672 to the Massachusetts
Government the county of Devonshire was erected and a local
government formed in 1674. The Indian War soon broke up
the Colony, and the territorial government of New York was
extended over it, and in 1688 was fully taken possession of
by the English Crown. The charter of William and Mary, in
1691, included it, and again, in 1697, by the treaty of Eyswick,
the French made claim. Possession of Nova Scotia by the
English forces under Nicholson, in 1710, was gained, and the
charter of William and Mary ever after held the St. Croix
River as the New England boundary.
The fort at Pemaquid, built by Governor Phipps in 1692,
was of stone, built in a quadrangular figure, and was about
737 feet in compass about the outer walls and 108 feet square
within the inner ones. It had twenty-eight ports and, at
least, fourteen guns mounted. Six of the guns were eighteen-
pounders. The wall fronting the sea was twenty-two feet high
and exceeded six feet in thickness at the ports. The great
flanker or round tower at the western end of this line was
twenty-nine feet high. The eastern wall was twelve feet high,
the north ten, and the west eighteen. It took about 2,000
cart loads of stones in its construction. Sixty men were con-
sidered a suitable garrison, and Mather, in his "Magnalia,"
quaintly says : "Which, if they were men, might easily have
maintained it against twice six hundred assailants."
106 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Captain March held command of the fort until 1695, when
he was succeeded by Pascho Chubb, a man without a single
qualification for his position. Several altercations occurred at
intervals between the building of the fort and its capture under
Chubb, in which there was some loss of life on the side of
each, the English garrison and the Indians. Castine, with a
land force of French and Indians, numbering about 200,
reached Pemaquid on August 13, 1696 ; D'Iberville came with
the French fleet about twenty-four hours later, standing off a
league from the fort. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the
14th a summons was sent to the fort to surrender ; but Captain
Chubb, with a great amount of bravado, sent back the answer
that he would not " even if the sea were covered with French
vessels and the laud with Indians."
The French commenced the attack with some fieldpieces,
and the fort replied. Nothing was accomplished in the pre-
liminary action, but during the night some heav}- mortars were
landed and the next day bombs were thrown into the fort.
Castine, at this time, sent in a letter that if surrender was
immediately made no massacre would follow, but if, after
much resistance, the fort was captured he could not restrain
the Indians. The attack had proceeded far enough at this
point to produce a change of opinion on the part of Chubb
and he capitulated at once, with the terms that the English be
transported safely, but as prisoners, to Boston, and there
exchanged for a like number of French and Indian prisoners
in English custody. Chubb was thrown into prison by the
Boston authorities for his cowardice and disgraceful surrender,
where he lay for some months, but was finally released and
allowed to join his family in Andover. There on February 22,
1698, the Indians, about thirt}^ in number, sought him out and
killed both him and his wife. On the part of the Indians it
was wholly a matter of revenge for the treacherous treatment
they had received at his hands when he was commandant of
the fort at Pemaquid.
With the destruction of Fort William Henry all English
influence was at an end east of the Kennebec River. Every
THE INTERIM. 107
English settlement was for a second time broken up and aban-
doned. Patrick Eogers, a well-known pioneer, testified in
1773 that he lived in Georgetown in 1720-21, and at that date
there was not a house, with the single exception of a fish house
on Damariscove, between Georgetown and Annapolis Royal in
Nova Scotia.
In 1713 the General Court, recognizing the desire of many
to return and settle in the abandoned country, took action by
selecting a committee of nine to receive applications, investi-
gate and sanction titles where they appeared sound, for many
of the titles and other records had been burned when the
inhabitants were driven out. In considering the best methods
of settlement, it was deemed advisable to locate in groups of
twenty or thirty families by the seaside, with lots of three or
four acres each, and outlj'ing lands according to individual
needs and desires. After due investigation the Court ordered
the settlement of five towns, as follows : Saco, Scarborough,
Falmouth, North Yarmouth and Arrowsic. Without license
people were not allowed to settle elsewhere than these five
towns and the places which had survived the war.
B}^ 1717 Saco, now changed to Biddeford, had a settled
minister; Scarborough had thirty families in 1719 ; in 1715-
16 there had twenty families settled at Falmouth ; in North
Yarmouth a delay of about six years occurred ; while on June
13, 1716, twenty-six men having settled on Parker's and
Arrowsic Islands, the territory now included in Arrowsic,
Georgetown, Woolwich, Bath and Phippsburg was incorpor-
ated as the town of Georgetown. A sergeant's guard of twenty
soldiers was sent by the Court as a guard to the inhabitants
for the first six months. This town was now the frontier of
New England. Another order of the Court was that the
county of Yorkshire should extend over the Sagadahoc country
and to the eastern bound at the St. Croix, and that York
should be the shire town for holding court and keeping the
registry of deeds.
108 HISTOBY OF BOOTHBAY.
The Lords of Trade, in response to an order from the King,
made a report upon the forts and defenses of His Majesty's
Plantations on January 10, 1700, from which the following
extract is quoted :
" Towards the mouth of the Kennebec River (seven leagues
from Pemaquid) are many little Islands. On that of Damaras
Cove there was before the war a Pallisadoed Fort for the
defense of ye fishermen, and another on Cape Newagen where
they used to cure their fish. But to Guard the Entrance of
the Kiver a Redoubt ought to be raised on the Island Sagada-
hoc, and a little Fort at New Town in Rowsck Island two
leagues up the Eiver where there was formerly a small square
one Pallisadoed."
(See Mass. Archives, Vol. LXX, pp. 486-493: Doc.
Coll. Hist. N'. T., IV, 831.}
CHAPTER Vm.
The Dunbak Settlement.
COLONEL DAVID DUNBAR i arrived in America
sometime during the year 1729, and probably went to
Pemaqnid that year. His commission was that of
Governor of the Sagadahoc territory, with authority to rebuild
Fort William Henry. In addition to this he had another com-
mission as Surveyor General of the King's woods. The last-
mentioned one, however, was the lirst one he obtained. He
was of Irish birth and had been a colonel in the English army,
but for cause had been reduced in rank. Some surprise, in
contemplation of this fact, has been manifested that he should
have received so much authority and so important a position.
But he was proud and ambitious, though poor. He was highly
endowed in that which goes to make up the successful intriguer
in politics, — a good presence, broad ideas and ready promises.
In England he had an inflential friend in a certain Colonel
Bladen. Through Bladen's influence with the association known
as the Lords of Trade, of which he was a member, Dunbar
received recommendations for this appointment, and the Crown
conferred it upon him, removing one Bridger to make room
for him. His commissions made his sway well-nigh absolute,
about the only reservation imposed upon him being that
300,000 acres, within his territory, must be kept intact for use
in the King's navy.
Nearly ever since its destruction, in 1696, there had been
a controversy going on between Massachusetts and the English
Government as to which should bear the expense of rebuilding
the Pemaquid fort. The Puritanism of Massachusetts would
not yield, so England, at this date, decided to stand the bur-
den. There existed in England at this time an element that
wanted to detach Sagadahoc from Massachusetts and append it
to Nova Scotia. Their arguments were based on the ground
that when the French reduced Pemaquid, in 1696, it amounted
1. Will. Hist. Me., II, 166.
110 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
to a conquest of the Province of which that place was the
capital; that again, in 1710, when the English recovered that
Province and Nova Scotia from France it was also a matter of
conquest, and, therefore, the ownership vested in the Crown.
Then, by the treaty of Utrecht, this claim was confirmed by
the formal retrocession by France to Great Britain of both
Provinces. Colonel Dunbar was simplj^ an adventurer, and a
fit instrument to lend his influences to the politicians who
favored this scheme. His prominence in history is far bej'ond
his just due ; but it happened in his case, as it sometimes has
in others, that he was attached to a movement that ultimately
became successful, and that by becoming a matter of frequent
historical reference, he, as a matter of course, has always been
coupled with it. He was the instrument, at the opportune
time, by which a colonization of these parts was effected that
succeeded and, in the end, became permanent ; but the colo-
nists who came under him came on account of the misrepre-
sentation and deceit which he practiced upon them, and they
endured privation and suffering, while establishing a home
here, that their descendants can hardly imagine.
At that date, 1729, it has been estimated that there were
along the coast, from the mouth of the Kennebec to the Mus-
congus, 150 families ; most of these, however, were living
near the Kennebec, at Georgetown. A large part of this pop-
ulation was composed of a strictly new element on the coast.
But comparatively few of those who had been driven out of
the country from 1676 to 1696 were alive, or situated, if alive,
to go back on the old territory, and but few of their descend-
ants went back. The new element was the Scotch-Irish Pres-
byterians, of whom it was estimated that they constituted from
one-fourth to one-third of the total population of the united
Colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War. They were a
people of pure Scotch blood, bred on Irish soil. There had
never been anything in common, after their advent in Ireland,
between them and the native population. Thej^ were oppo-
nents in religion, which at that lime was the strongest senti-
ment swaying the minds of the inhabitants of Western Europe.
During the Irish rebellions in the reign of Elizabeth, the
northern counties of Ireland, constituting the Province of
THE DUNBAR SETTLEMENT. Ill
Ulster, were nearly depopulated. James I made it a special
object to induce Scotch Presbyterians to emigrate there and fill
the vacant counties. The highlands of Scotland were less pro-
ductive than formerly and were over-populated. James viewed
the matter in the light that the Scotch, in both religion and
industry, would be a desirable element. Largely by his efforts
the counties of Antrim, Londonderry, Tyrone and Down, in
Ireland, were settled by this new element, and they at once
became a thrifty and prosperous population. It was but twenty
miles across the channel from the Scottish coast to the Antrim
shores, and at Ballycally, in that county, the first Presbyterian
church was established in Ireland, in 1613. A great exodus
from Scotland to Ireland followed, so that, in 1684, on account
of over-crowded territory, the first small colony of these people
embarked for America, settling in New Jersey ; and by 1690
other colonies, all small, had gone across to Marj'land, Penn-
syh'ania and the Carolinas. The summer of 1718 saw the first
concerted movement on the part of this people going to Amer-
ica. On August 4th five vessels, with 120 families, arrived in
Boston and scattered to different places, principally in Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire, a few crossing into Maine.'
Thereafter the immigration was continuous, influenced not only
by the promise held out by the Colonies, but more largely by
persecution and famine at home.
The first work Dunbar did on reaching Pemaquid was to
rebuild the fort with all possible speed. It is said that the
walls were found in excellent condition. Earlj^ in the spring
of 1730 the Governor of Nova Scotia sent a military guard to
garrison the fort, and on April 27th he took formal possession
of the Sagadahoc territory. This was simplj' a formal move,
on the pai't of the Crown, to absolve whatever relations might
be thought to exist between Massachusetts and the Province ;
and the militia company was to be a support to Dunbar in case
of a possible encroachment from the westward. A surveyor
by name of Mitchell came from Annapolis to assist in laying
out the projected towns. Meanwhile Dunbar issued a procla^
mation, sending it broadcast over the settlements to the west-
ward, inductive to settlement under his commission. Before
1. Me. Hist. Coll., VI, 12.
112 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
leaving England he had stated that the dissatisfaction of the
Scotch-Irish and their tendency to emigration was one of his
chief sources of dependence in peopling the new territor)^
To these people, knowing their thrift and fortitude, was
his proclamation principally aimed. It is not probable that,
as some have thought, he came across the water with his colony
ready for settlement upon reaching here. It is very evident
he did nothing of the kind. He may have induced some to
come here directly from Ireland after he established himself,
but his first work was as has been above stated, with the
further effort of obtaining the good will of Colonel Phillips,
Governor of Nova Scotia. INIost of Dunbar's settlers who
came to Townsend were in this country, and had been for
varying short, periods of time, when he came ; and the induce-
ment to settlement which he offered was wha^ brought them
from other places to that over which he was in control.
The fort's name was changed to Fort Frederick, in honor
of the Prince of Wales. His plan included the laying out of
four towns, two on each side the Damariscotta. The tract
situated between the Damariscotta and Muscongus Eivers he
divided into Harrington and Walpole ; the former included
the southern and greater part of the present town of Bristol,
and in it at Pemaquid Point was projected a city, which during
his administration was known as Fort Frederick ; while Wal-
pole comprised the northern part of Bristol, all of Damariscotta
and the westei'u and southern parts of Nobleboro. Between
the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers, in a territory similar
in extent, both in width between the rivers and in depth back
from the sea, two other towns were projected, Townsend ' and
Newcastle.- These four towns cornered at a certain conspicu-
1. Lord Townshend's name always appears in English history spelled in the way
here given. After the name was applied to our locality the " h " was dropped, and
even in public documents it has seldom appeared.
2. It may appear like presumption to state that Dunbar laid out four towns
instead of three, for all the histories I have consulted only mention three, with the
exception of Johnson's Pemaquid, in which, by a note, he mentions Newcastle. I am
satisfied from several sources of information that Newcastle was laid out by Dunbar
as much as Walpole or the others, but it was farther removed from his seat of author-
ity than either of the other towns, and therefore less convenient to attend to its
interests. Besides the Newcastle settlers were more independent of Dunbar than the
other places, and refused to submit to his dictation. The deposition of William
Moore, a Townsend settler under Dunbar, now on file at both the Lincoln County
registry and the State House at Boston, should satisfy any one upon this point. It
appears in full elsewhere in this volume.
THE DUNBAR SETTLEMENT. 113
ous and well-known ledge in the Damariscotta. A city was
laid out at Townsend on the same general plan as that at Fort
Frederick in Harrington. These places were named by Dunbar
for Sir Robert Walpole, who at that date was England's Prime
Minister ; Lord Charles Townshend, who had been England's
Secretary of State, and was father of Lord Charles, who, in
1767, championed the taxation of imports into the Colonies,
doing moi'e than any other one person to precipitate the Amer-
ican Revolution ; the Duke of Newcastle, who at that date was
England's Secretary of State ; and, probably, James Harring-
ton, an English author and politician of prominence in the
preceding century.
The idea of Dunbar was similar to that perA^ading the Gen-
eral Court in 1713, when it took action in settling five towns
along the Maine coast. He favored the grouping of settlers,
with small lots apportioned to each, so that they need not be
widely scattered in case of troubles with the natives, and the
greater part of the lands a])portioned to each lying back from
the settlements. At Townsend he laid out lots twelve rods
wide with sufficient depth to make two acres. These were laid
out about the Harlior and were intended for the settlement, —
the projected city. The settlers cast lots for choice, and they
were guaranteed a title if a house eighteen feet long was built
and the two acres cleared within three years, and at that time
a further tract, of forty acres in one lot and one hundred in
another, as nearly situated to the first two acres as possible,
should be given them in fee simple forever. Additional to
this, any number of acres less than 1,000, according to the
request of the party, was to be given in some part further
back in the country. Besides these land inducements, he
promised to support the settlers and their families for a time.^
These were, indeed, magnificent proposals to make to a people
who had been tenants on small tracts, in most instances, and
had never held the fee in land. Williamson states that "the
assurances of title he gave the settlers were leasehold inden-
tures, with the antiquated reservation of a 'pepper corn' rent
1. Johnson is indefinite in his statement as to the length of time this support was
to last, while Cushman states it was one year. His proclamation has never been
found, and the substance of it depends on statements of the settlers. There were then
but two newspapers in New England, and they were published in a locality that waa
hostile to Dunbar.
114 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
if demanded." The same author fui-ther states that on account
of differences between the settlers and Dunbar, on the lands
noi-th of Townsend and between the rivers Sheepscot and Dam-
ariscotta, he threatened to expel them from their possessions.
This means no other than the Newcastle settlement, which
at that time reached to Townsend, Edgecomb not existing.
Immediatelj'' about Fort Frederick the plan was the same as
about Townsend, but the river lots in Harrington and Walpole
were of twelve acres each, but back of these they were 100-acre
lots. The lots not immediately taken were granted to Mont-
gomery and Campbell, two speculators, but with that action
the record ends. It seems that Montgomerj^ died and Camp-
bell disposed of his interests to William Vaughn, who built a
house, two double sawmills and a gristmill, about 1740, at
Damariscotta Mills, also clearing a farm there. None of the
deeds or leases given by Dunbar have survived to afford a
copy to the present generation. It was supposed they were in
the custody of William Vaughn, and as his house was con-
sumed by fire, shortly after building, it is likely these docu-
ments were then all destroyed together. ^
A grant was made of Townsend to Samuel McCobb and
Patrick Kogers, and through their efforts the place was settled
by about forty persons during the fall of 1730. Rogers is the
same person, formerly referred to, who was living in George-
town in 1722. He was, in 1730, living at Fort Frederick, and
thei-e is nothing to indicate that he ever came to this place to
live. There is no existing record to show who constituted the
total number that settled under Dunbar. Depositions show us
there were about sixty persons here in 1731, and the record of
Dunbar soon after would indicate that, from lack of title, the
hardships endured by the inhabitants and the general perplexi-
ties of their situation, but few were added to this latter number
by new families moving into town, and that whatever increase
of numbers appears can be largely accounted for by the natural
increase in the families then here. Corroborative of this is
the fact that added to this population, which is lielieved to have
been, without exception, of Scotch-Irish descent, were several
families of English descent coming from New Hampshire, in the
I. Johnson's Pemaqnid, p. 271.
THE DUNBAR SETTLEMENT. 115
neighborhood of Dover, and others from about York and Kit-
tery, in Maine, soon after the close of the French and Indian
War, in 1759. Even with this addition and the natural increase
of the first population, there were, in 1764, but about seventy-
five polls in town, and of these several were young men,
unmarried, who had just attained majority and were living in
their fathers' families. Statements have also been left by some
of the Dunbar settlers to the effect that to them and their cliil-
dren but few were added in their neighborhood until after 1759.
The names of the heads of the families settling in 1730 or
soon thereafter are believed to be as follows : Samuel McCobb,
James McCobb, McKechnie, AVilliam McCulloch, Thomas
Tulljs Edmund Brown, David Bryant, Walter Beath, John
Beath, William Fullerton, William Fullerton, Jr., William
Moore, John McFarland, James McFai'land, Daniel McGurda,
Patrick McGuire, Abner Ford and, perhaps, Robert Mont-
gomery. Here we have seventeen men, possibly eighteen,
nearly all, perhaps all, married. So far as I have been able to
gain accurate information, by records, the number of children
at tlie date of coming to Boothbay was very few ; and l.)ut few
need be added to make the total number settled here in 1731
reach about sixty, which will accord with John Beath's deposi-
tion. There is a reasonable likelihood that some names have
never come to light and are omitted, for our records were not
commenced until we had assumed town organization in 1765.
While doubtless this little colony was added to, in a small
way, from time to time, by a new famil}- coming among them,
there are but three instances, prior to the close of the French
and Indian War, where families are thought to have settled here
that have been influential or numerous. These three are the
families of Alley, Reed and AVylie, all of whom probably set-
tled in Townscnd between 1740 and 1750.
The settlement, so far as individual instances of location
are concerned, will be taken up in another chapter ; in a gen-
eral way it may l)e said that indications point to Boothbay
Harbor, from a point a short distance easterly from Mill Cove,
across to Pisgah, and again easterly from Pisgah, at the head
of Lobster Cove, on both sides of the Echo Lake Brook, as
being the selected places by the Dunbar colonists.
116 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
There exist among the Lincoln County records, and also in
the State House at Boston, several depositions, taken in 1770
or soon after, and filed for future reference by settlers at this
period. Probably the principal object for this extraordinary
act was that, in view of the harassing of land claimants living
elsewhere, keeping the inhabitants in an unsettled and insecure
state of mind, and the consideration that the settlers of 1730
and 1731 were advanced in years and few in number, it was
done in a protective sense for the good of their descendants.
No more opportune place to introduce these depositions appears
than the present, for they embody, practically, the greater
part which is obtainable relating to the history of this colony
until about the time it assumes town organization.
Deposition of William Mooke.
July 6, 1770.
William Moore of more than seventy years testifieth and
saith sometime in the fall of the year 1730 he with several
others were settled in a place called Townsend by Col. Dunbar
their agent of the Crown at Pemaquid. That David Bryant
was one of his neighbors then settled by the said Dunbar on
the same footing with the other settlers, which were as follows :
that forty feet upon the shore was to be common to all fisher-
men unless the settlers adjoining should consent to make fish
for any fisherman at two shillings and sixpence per quintal, in
which case said forty feet were to be included in his lot ; that
the lotts on the shore were to contain two acres ; that the set-
tlers were to build an house eighteen feet in length upon them
and settle there ; that upon that condition each was to have
forty acres backward from thence added to the lotts of this
settlement, and further l)ackward still one hundred acres more ;
that the said David Bryant M'as then settled on the lot now in
possession of Rev. John Murray in Boothbay, then Townsend ;
that he built an house according to the above articles upon it ;
that some years afterward he had the said lott run out by one
Willis a surveyor at his expense so as to contain fifty acres
and inhabited and improved the same for some years until he
sold his Right to Edmund Brown another of Said settlers
under the Said Dunbar, from which time the Said Dunbar relin-
quished the possession and the Said Brown entered upon it
and continued to occupy the premises in company with this
deponent mowed the meadow belonging to said lott, which
THE DUNBAR SETTLEMENT. 117
formerly had been mowed by the Said Bryant. Said Meadow
and all others in the Neck up to the rocks in the Damariscotty
River having been granted to said settlers in conmion by the
Said Dunbar, and by the Said settlers divided into lotts for
their convenience ; that Said Brown continued in possession
of Said premises until August 1739 when he gave the inhabit-
ants a deed of it in trust for the first settled minister there :
that the same inhabitants entered upon and kept possession
thereof until the settlement of the Rev. John Murray in the
ministry among them ; the first minister of Said Townsend ;
when it was given up to him, in whose hands it remains until
now & further saith not.
William Moore.
Deposition of Samuel McCobb.
October 23, 1772.
Samuel McCobb, aged 64 years, testitieth and saith, that
in the year 1729, Col. Dunbar came with a commission from
his most excellent Majesty George the Second, with instruc-
tions to take possession and settle with the inhabitants, in
behalf of the Crown, the lands lying to the Eastward of the
Kennebec River in said Province, that with a number of men
and necessaries he arrived at Pemaquid in the same year, and
forthwith proceeded to survey and settle several towns around,
publicly inviting His Majesty's liege subjects to come and set-
tle thereon, promising them ample encouragement in the name
of the King, his master. In consequence of which encourage-
ment the Deponent with more than 40 others, applied to the
said Dunbar and by him were brought to and settled on a cer-
tain neck of land bounded on the sea, and lying between the
Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers, the which lands the said
Dunbar had laid out in parallel lotts, twelve rods broad, con-
taining two acres apiece, and ordered the settlers to cast lots
for their respective places, which being done, the said Dunbar
did, in the King's name and behalf, put them in possession of
lotts they had respectively drawn, and promised that on condi-
tion of their building one house eighteen feet long and clearing
two acres within the space of three years he could give them
an addition of forty acres in one, and one hundred in another
division, as contiguous to the first two acres as possible, in fee
simple forever, and likewise to add thereto another division
devising to each settler any number of acres besides, less than
1,000, which they should request. A number having complied
with these terms, and said Dunbar offered to give them deeds
118 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
of said lands, but the Executiou thereof was delayed, and in
the year 1733 he was removed to New Hampshire. The lands
being naturally broken and poor, and more especially then, in
their wild uncultivated state, and the settlers coming there
generally in low circumstances, and most of them (as being
from Britain and Ireland) utterly unacquainted with the mode
of managing lands in that state, little of the necessaries of life
was raised from the soil, their whole living depended on cutting
fii-ewood and carrying it to Boston and other towns more than
one hundred and" fifty miles from them ; hence the settlers
lived, from the first, exposed to the utmost Extremities of
Indigence and Distress, and at the same time in almost contin-
ual alarms from the Savages all around, till the year 1745,
when the murders and depredations in their borders forced
them from their Habitations to seek shelter in the westward,
where the}' were scattered in a strange country, at nearly 200
miles distance from their homes, for five years. In October,
1749, as soon as the news of Peace reached them, this depo-
nent with many of his former neighbors ventured back to their
Said Settlements where they had scarce finished the repairs of
their wasted cottages and improvements, when in a year or
thereabouts, the Indians tho' in a time of Peace fell on their
neighborhood, burnt barns, killed many cattle, attacked the
little garrison kept by the people, and carried away a number
of men, women and children into Captivity. By this the
deponent and his neighbors were Obliged to flee to the little
fortress they had raised for themselves where they lived and
defended themselves as they might, not daring to look after
their plantations, by which means the little provisions then
growing for their support the next winter were chiefly destroyed
whereby, when they returned to their places, little better than
the Horrors of famine were in prospect ; many were obliged
to live by clams only, which they dug out of the mud when
the tides were down ; thus they subsisted in general till the
late war with France broke out, when tho' their cries were sent
up to the Government for some Protection on this settlement,
which they still held in the King's behalf, and from which
should they again be driven they knew not where to seek a
place of abode, yet no defence or assistance went to or a
morsel of bread was allowed them, but such as they found for
themselves, by garrisons and guards of their own where their
families lived in continual Terror and Alarm from the Savages
who ranged the Wilderness all around, till the late Peace was
concluded, when their Settlement was increased much by new
comers from the Western Parts. Thus happily rid of the
French and Indians they were not long suffered to rest for
THE DUjVBAK SETTLEIIENT. 119
three or four opposite setts of claimers, part claiming by
Indian deeds Never approved according to Law, and part by
pretended ancient occupation and other Pretexts never justified
in Law, at divers times came among them demanding the pos-
session of these said lands, or requiring a purchase of them.
These imposing upon the Credulous Simplicity of some of the
Inhabitants by fair promises, and terrifying others with Threats
of Lawsuits for which the poor Settlers were ill provided, so
far prevailed that the generality were fain to contract with and
buy their lands from one or another of them, and some of them
all successively, and such as have not done so are still harassed
bj' the said Claimers and threatened by each in his turn, with
Law Suits, Ejectments, if not Imprisonments and Ruin, whilst
those of whom they bought have never done anything to
defend them from competing claimers, and all have left them
to become a prey to who comes next. However, by the help
of God, they continued on their said possession till the year
1764, when desii'ous of obtaining the Benefit of order and the
enjoyment of the Gospel, they applied to the General Court of
the Province and were legally incorporated into a town by the
name of Boothbay and tho' the generality of them are in very
low circumstances, many in extreme Indigence, and very few
able to raise on their farms provisions to supply their families
for nine months in the year, yet in the year 1765, without any
help from the Publick (from abroad) , they at their own cost
and charge erected a church, settled a Gospel minister and still
endeavor to support the Gospel amongst them, and likewise to
contribute their required part towards defraying the charges of
government, and in all other respects to demean themselves as
peaceful and loyal subjects of King George the Third.
These things the deponent testifyeth to facts within his
own proper knowledge to be personally present, and intimately
interested therein and he declareth that the deposition is not
given with any injurious intent towards any person whatsoever.
Samuel McCobb.
Deposition of John Beath.
October 23, 1772.
John Beath aged sixty-two years testifieth that he lived
with his Father who dwelt at Lunenburg, in the Western part
of Said Province, when the news was published over New
England that his most excellent majesty King George the sec-
ond had commissioned and sent to Pemaquid, in the Eastern
Part of Said Province, a certain Col. Dunbar, as his agent to
120 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
take possession and begin the settlement of the lands to the
Eastward of the Kennebec River in his majesty's name and
behalf, and said Col. Dunbar was amved, and had published
larwe encouragement to any of his majesty's Protestant liege
subjects who should settle on Said lands. In pursuance of
which the deponent together with his Father and family, in
June A. D. 1731 left their Plantation, and at no small expense
transported themselves, their stock and effects to Pemaquid,
when after treating with the said Dunljar, this deponent with
his father, and as he supposes above sixty others, were, by the
said Dunbar, settled on a neck of Land bounded by the sea
lying between the Sheepscott & Damariscotty Rivers, then
called the "VVinnegance contiguous to a fine Harbor, where
Dunbar said be proposed to found a City, and which place he
then called Townsend. Said Dunbar employed one Mitchell
said to be the King's surveyor to lay out our Said lands in
parcels twelve rods wide, containing two acres each of which
were determined to the several Settlers by Lott.
Then the said Dunbar contracted with the said Deponent
and others to give them forty acres in one division and one
hundred in another, as near as might l)e to the two acres on
which they severally settled and that on condition of each set-
tler's building an house eighteen feet long and clearing two
acres of land the Said Dunbar engaged to give each a deed
under the King's Seal of said one hundred and forty-two acres,
as also, to any Settlers that required it any number of acres
next adjoining his own less than one thousand. That this
deponent with many other of the Settlers fulfilled the Said con-
ditions, and in consequence thereof Said Dunbar offered them
deeds, hut as they had to be sent to a gentleman at a distance
to be sealed, he advised them to defer it until he should have
the seal committed to his own hands, which he expected very
soon would be the case and thus the matter stood until Said
Dunbar was removed. Yet that, being placed on the Said
Lands in the King's Name and Behalf, the Settlers resolved to
keep their possessions till his majesty should see fit by the
same authority to remove them, the which they have hitherto
done under hardships scarcely tolerable to human nature,
partly from want of Sustenance, being nearly 200 miles from
the place where all their provisions must be procured whence
in the Winter of several years the inhabitants must inevitably
perished by famine had they not been supplied from the clam
bank with their only food for several months together, and
partly by the enemy that continually harassed them and for
the most part pent them up close in their little garrisons and
once forced them from their settlement for several years, no
"* -■<■ ,» 5
B"V
■f'
ii
%l
■ 4^
J^
■M
.^
%
#
^£* ''^MVi!9^n
■}
-f
^ ■ . '^>
ft
'\ '
\ ., • ■';'
J
THE DUNBAR SETTLEMENT. 121
support 01' defence being afforded them by the Government,
but on the contrary a number of their men were carried off to
defend places elsewhere. That on the 19th of August 1749
this deponent and 17 others was taken captive with the
Indians, but they were detained till November, that the Said
Indians took from him a sloop of sixty tons burthen, with her
cargo, and tho' this deponent had bargained with them for the
Ransom thereof, she was sold to the French at St. Peters,
whereby he was returned to his family after many hardships
having now lost his all, and having yet a large share of the
vessel to pay for, bj^ which means his young and numerous
family who depended on his labors for subsistence were
reduced to manA'^ and great extremities. John Beath.
Deposition of William Fullerton.
October 23, 1772.
William Fullerton aged 67 years testifieth & saith that he
was one of the first settlers on the lands in Townsend now
Boothbay, where he still dwells. That he hath examined a
deposition by Samuel McCobb of the same date and caption
with this relating to the settlement of Said lands and he declares
the facts therein related to be true and further adds that the
chief garrison made by the Said settlement against the enemy
was a Small Stone House which they jointly fortified with a
Flanker and Watch Box rearward & a Picquet hold in front
and in which they kept a constant guard during all the War.
That instead of getting any support from the Government a
number of men belonging to said Settlement were carried off
into the war and several of them lost their lives in it. And
from the first to the present day the Inhabitants of this Settle-
ment have studied to approve themselves to be loyal subjects
and friends to Government have never cut down, to the depo-
nents knowledge, or destroyed any tree fit for any service as a
mast in his majesty's navy, nor ever joined in any of the late
unhappy disputes between this Government and the Mother
Country. William Fullerton.
Deposition of William Moore.
October 23, 1772.
William Moore aged 74 years testifieth and saith that he
hath perused the above deposition of Samuel McCobb of the
same date and with this, concerning the Settlement of
122 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Boothbay in said County, and that he was intimately acquainted
with all the facts therein stated, as having been one of the first
settlers and on the premises at the time referred to, and from
his own knowledge he declares the above relation to be true,
and further adds that the names of the Several Towns begun
by the Said Col. Dunbar were Frederick's Fort, Harrington,
Walpole, New Castle and Townsend. The four last were to
meet at a noted Ledge of Rocks in the Damariscottj^ Eiver.
That on Townsend the said Col. Dunbar said he meant to
found a city, that the two acre lotts were laid out by his order
by one Mitchell the King's Surveyor sent from Annapolis in
Nova Scotia, for that purpose and after him Ijy one Newman
sent by said Dunbar from Pemaquid. That the reason why
this deponent and the other Settlers who had fulfilled the con-
ditions required did not receive deeds from Dunbar, was by
him discovered to be because they must needs be sent to a
certain Governor Armstrong in Said Annapolis to be sealed,
which being a hardship on Settlers and disagreeable to Said
Dunbar, he advised them to defer the execution of the deeds,
till he should have an answer from the Court of Great Britain
to an application he had made requesting the Seal should be
committed to himself. That the Poverty of the Inhabitants
joined to their distance to any market, to the brokeness of the
soil, to their continual alarms from the enemy rendered pro-
visions so scarce among them that the only subsistance the
deponent could find for himself and his family was clams and
water for weeks together and he knows not of any of the Set-
tlers that were not then in the same state. That when the first
child was born in the Settlement not more than three quarts of
Meal could be found among them all. That in the time of the
late French war the said settlers petitioned the General Court
for some assistance or defence, that said petition was sent to
Boston by Robert Wylie late of Boothbay deceased, that this
deponent treated with several members of the General Court
about it but no relief was ever offered the Government, & fur-
ther saith not.
William Moore.
Whatever may be said or thought of Dunbar's course of
procedure, which certainly was arbitrary and irregular, it still
must be said of him that he was a man of energy and action,
and while in power matters went along successfully. His chief
characteristic seems to have been to let the future take care of
itself if only his present purposes might be accomplished. It
has been suggested that perhaps his arbitrary methods were
THE DUNBAR SETTLEMENT. 123
due to his instructions, but these he refused to show. By him
all former claims were disregarded. Royal grants, proprietors'
claims and Indian deeds all fared alike. This was in accord-
ance with the theory that the title was in the Crown ; but, for
whatever reason, it bred strong opposition on every side.
The tables of the General Court in Boston were crowded
by petitions for Dunbar's removal, though it was powerless to
act except by appeal to the Crown ; but this was done by a
committee of investigation, appointed for the purpose, which
denounced his action. Samuel Waldo, agent for the claimants
under the Muscougus patent, went to England for this purpose
only. Shem Drowne, proprietor of the Drowne claim, peti-
tioned the Crown ; and Governor Belcher, of Massachusetts,
used every influence possible in the same direction. In
England the matter was referred to the Attornej^ and Solicitor
General. Both sides were represented by counsel. The law
officers of the Crown allowed the matter to hinge on the ques-
tion whether England had, by the new charter to Massachusetts
in 1692, in which jurisdiction over both Sagadahoc and Nova
Scotia ^ had been given that Government, lost this jurisdiction
in the conquest by France in 1696, or in the retaking, in 1710,
by England, and the retrocession by France, revived it. It
was decided that these changes had no effect to annul the
rights of Massachusetts, that they only suspended her rights.
The report was made in August, 1731, and adopted by the
Government, but his dismissal did not occur until August 10,
1732. The same order that dismissed Dunbar withdrew the
soldiers from Pemaquid and revoked whatever authority Gov-
ernor Phillips, of Nova Scotia, had received over Sagadahoc
territory. Dunbar remained as long as excuses would permit
him to do so at Pemaquid, when he removed to New Hamp-
shire, of which Province he was Lieutenant Governor. He
still held his commission of Surveyor General. Becoming verj^
unpopular in New Hampshire, he returned to pi'operty he still
held at Belvidera Point, situated across the pond from Dama-
riscotta Mills, in a westerly direction from the County Fair
Grounds. There he built a fine house and lived until 1737,
1. Ma3sachusetts had voluntarily relinciuishecl Nova Scotia to the Crown, though
having received in its charter jurisdiction over it, but had never relinquished Saga-
dahoc or any territory west of the St. Croix.
124 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
when he went to England. Reaching there old creditors caused
his arrest and he was thrown into prison, but was soon released
through the influence of friends. In England he still held the
Surveyor's commission, but in consideration of £2,000 sterling
was persuaded to resign, when, in 1743, he was appointed
Governor of the Island of St. Helena, destined later to become
world-famous as the exile home of the great Napoleon. Where
or when he died is not known. He probably never revisited
America ; but after his death his widow came to Maine and
married a man by name of Henderson, living in Gushing as
late as 1776. The lai'ger part of the families who came into
the towns settled by Dunbar located in Townsend. But few
settled in Newcastle. The names to be found in Bristol rec-
ords, coming there under him, are Young, Kent, Sproul, Reed,
Burns, Bailey and Henderson, previously mentioned, who
married Colonel Dunbar's widow and removed to Gushing.
CHAPTER IX.
1733 TO 1764.
FOUR of the six Indian wars which devastated the coast
of Maine have been previously mentioned. The last of
these had closed in 1725, four years before the advent
of Dunbar at Pemaquid. The settlements, therefore, enjoyed
a respite from general warfare, offensive and defensive, for a
longer period at about this time than for many years before.
No general alarm, all along the line, occurred again until 1745.
There happened, during this so-called period of peace, many
minor depredations, carried on in a predatory manner, and the
Townsend settlers have stated that to some extent they suffered
in this way, but they have not left us the story of the specific
instances of injury.
For some months before the outbreak which occurred on
Julj^ 19, 1745, a hostile attitude had been discerned on the
part of the natives by the colonists. Their attitude just before
a war had been studied so that now it was recognized as a cer-
tain precursor. This was known as the Spanish or Five Years'
War and lasted until the treaty at Falmouth, October 16, 1749.
Nearly all the native tribes west of the Penobscot River had
been reduced to mere remnants and these had gone to Canada,
where they became merged with those of the St. Francois or
other tribes. But they inherited the traditions of their ances-
tors, a leading feature of which was an eternal hatred of the
English settlers. They now returned to the coast of Maine,
reinforced by the tribes from Cape Sable and St. John. Many
of the younger warriors had been born since a general war had
been on between the two races and were eager for the conflict.
The method in this, as in previous wars, evidently aimed at
extermination of what they tei'med intruders on the grounds
which they considered naturally theirs.
The first blows were struck, almost simultaneously, at St.
George, Newcastle and Pemaquid. There was not a great loss
126 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
of life in this war, which has been accounted for by the fact
that the whites better understood the methods of Indian war-
fare than formerly. There were, however, some casualties in
nearly every town along the coast. Several were killed at
Sheepscot, Newcastle, St. George, Wiscasset, New Meadows,
North Yarmouth and other places farther west. The colonists
at Townsend, realizing their weakness both from point of num-
bers and lack of foilifications, sought safety in Massachusetts,
where many of them had first arrived on coming to America.
There they stayed from the outbreak to the close of the war,
and again was this peninsula barren of population ; but this
time it was four instead of forty years. Early in 1749 several
families came back to their homes, and from the deposition of
John Beath we learn that he and seventeen others were cap-
tured and carried away into captivity, being held from August
19th until the following November. But Samuel McCobb
tells us that he and others did not return until after peace
was declared in October.
Beginning anew, in 1749, the Townsend settlers had a
respite from Indian hostilities until April, 1755. Then the
French and Indian War came upon the entire country, involv-
ing every part of the English and French possessions in
America. It was destined to eclipse all former wars as to
magnitude and far-reaching effects. At the commencement
both a New England and a New France existed — at its close
New England stood alone ; New France had gone down, never
again to gain an ascendancy. Those times present great food
for reflection. Just then England and the colonists were
driving France from the Atlantic shores of the New World ; a
generation later France, with no expectation of territorial gain,
was assisting the colonists to drive England from the more
promising part of the same seaboard. Thus l>y this European
duel, on American shores, were both forms of royalty and
foreign influence relegated back to their proper limits and the
better part of America was left as a free home for those who
had here cast their lots.
A synopsis of the principal events of this war will, perhaps,
suffice in a work of this kind. The early part of the war was dis-
tinguished by a triumph of French arms. Braddock, the Eng-
1733 TO 1764. 127
lish general, met disastrous defeat, and lost his own life at Fort
Duquesne, George Washington, then a youth of twenty-three,
conducted the retreat and saved the army from annihilation ;
the Acadians were transported from Grand Pre, arriving the
following year, 1756, at New Orleans, in French territory;
during that year Montcalm, one of the most brilliant military
men in France, arrived at Quebec, taking charge of the mili-
tary affairs of his country; in 1758 Louisburg surrendered to
the English General, Amherst, Fort Frontenac to the English
Colonel, Bradstreet, and Fort Duquesne was abandoned by the
French. In 1759, on September 18th, the last hope of France
as to her possessions in this region went down with the defeat
of Montcalm and the fall of Quebec.
During this war England furnished vessels and munitions
of war ; the Colonies were depended on for the commissariat.
The English and Colonial Army during the last year of the
war was composed as follows : England, 22,000 ; Massachu-
setts, 7,000 ; Connecticut, 5,000 ; New Hampshire and Ehode
Island, 1,000; New York, 2,680; New Jersey, 1,000; Penn-
sylvania, 2,700; Virginia, 2,000; South Carolina, 1,250;
Maine, 600.
The actual loss of life along the coast of Maine was proba-
bly less than in any of the preceding wars. Marauding parties
of Indians visited the region about here, and even kept the
people in continual suspense and alarm by their hostile depre-
dations, but it is doubtful if they were in the vicinity in much
force. The main body of Indians was held in Canada, assist-
ing the French on the defensive, for in that war the English
and Colonial forces were the invading ones. Persons were
killed, however, during this war in the settlements of Frank-
fort (now Dresden), Harrington, Georges, Broad Bay, New
Meadows and others.
The depositions in the preceding chapter inform us that
during these wars the Townsend settlement not only received
no assistance from the Government, but that some of their own
men needed at home for defense were forced into the service
elsewhere. About one-half of Maine's quota of troops was
held within its own limits for garrison duty. The principal
defenses between the Penobscot and Kennebec were Fort Fred-
128 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
erick, Fort Georges, Meduncook and Broad Bay. It maj' be
inferred, as there exists no record on the matter, that Towns-
end obtained no outside aid. The record being silent on the
subject reinforces the statement of William Fullerton, wherein
he says :
" The only garrison of the Townsend settlers was a small
stone house, which they jointly defended with a flanker and
watch box rearward and a piquet hold in front, and in which
thej' kept a constant guard during the war. That instead of
getting any support from the Government a number of men
belonging to said settlement were carried into the war and
several of them lost their lives in it."
To illustrate this point with an instance from old Townsend
itself, and one brimming with adventure to such an extent that
the old adage, that "truth is stranger than fiction," is verified,
the following narrative, in an abridged form, is given, and its
perusal will show the reader how several things were done in
those old times.
Michael Smnett was born a.bout 1730 in an inland town in
Ireland. As a boy, nearly grown up, he sought work at
Dublin in company with two other boys about his own age and
from the same neighborhood. A few days after reaching
there, while loitering about the wharves, they wei'e accosted by
a well-dressed, genial-appearing man, who asked them if the}'
had ever been aboard a large vessel, and if they would enjoy
taking a sail down the harbor, in one then lying at the wharf,
and return with the pilot. They gladly accepted. The mouth
of the harbor was reached and Dublin was fairly left behind.
The boys grew anxious and made some inquiry of the captain.
He told them they were on their way to America and there
was no way to avoid it. They were dazed, but there was no
help for them. When they landed in Boston they were taken
before officials and the captain made oath to the statement that
they came on board of their own free will and accord, but
without passage money. They were accordingl}' sold to pay
their passage money, and Joseph Orr, who with his brother
had rccentl}"^ purchased Orr's Island, bought Sinnett and took
him to Maine. The others were sold elsewhere and no more
is known of them. Sinnett worked out the amount of his pur-
chase price, meantime becoming much attached to Orr and his
1733 TO 1764. 129
family, and they likewise to him. It was now somewhat later
than 1750. He remained awhile longer with Orr and finally
married a woman who had relatives in Hingham, Mass.
At Orr's advice he and his wife came to Townsend, took
up 100 acres of land, built a log house and a hovel for their
live stock, and commenced clearing a farm. An opportunity
being afforded, his wife took passage to Boston in a schooner
going there, to visit her relatives for a few weeks. Shortly
after she left a British man-of-war came into Townsend Har-
bor, a pressgang came ashore and Sinnett and several others
were seized and carried aboard. They were then taken to
New York and enrolled in the Provincial Armj', and made the
march through the forests to Canada, fought through the cam-
paign against the French, and, after the fall of Quebec, made
a return march to New York, were mustered out and made
their way back to the shores of Maine. Sinnett went first to
Orr's Island, and there, in the family of his old friend, Joseph
Orr, found his wife. She had, in due time, returned to Towns-
end, where the sad news of the kidnapping of her husband
awaited her. In despair she picked her way back to the home
of their old benefactor, Orr, who at once went to Townsend in
his coaster and loaded upon it the belongings to this ruined
home, taking them back to his own.
The man of these adventures was the founder of the numer-
ous famil}' of Sinnett now iiving in Harpswell. They never
returned to Townsend. Part of these facts may be gleaned
from Wheeler's History of Brunswick and Harpswell ; some
of the particulars I have received from his descendants and
from an old plan made from a survey by Jonas Jones, sur-
veyor, in 1757, of 700 acres at Back River, now in possession
of Albert R. Matthews, of that place. I find that Michael
Sinuett's 100 acres were situated next north of John Matthews'
lot, both of whom had houses l)uilt at the time of this survey.
The Sinnett place afterward became the home of James
Tibbetts. The date of this survey cannot vary much from the
time Sinnett was impressed into the service of the Crown.
This same survey shows that Abijah Woods lived where Albert
R. Matthews now does in 1757, but Boothbay's records are
silent as to such a person. As others were captured and
130 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
impressed in the service with Sinnett, this man was probably
of the number, and he is likely to have been one in William
Fullerton's deposition referred to as losing their lives in the
service, evidenced by his non-return.
The fall of Quebec, which occurred September 18, 1759,
became known in Falmouth (now Portland) on October 14th.
A celebration of joy and thanksgiving ensued. Some days
after this an eastern bound schooner, from Falmouth, for some
reason was obliged to go into Round Pond. By that means
the news reached there. Soon after that the news was carried
down to Fort Frederick, but not fully confirmed. Thomas
Johnson volunteered to go to Eound Pond for a verification.
Fearing to go through the woods he crossed to Xew Harbor
and there took the shore to Round Pond. Arriving there he
found the schooner, obtained the facts and returned as he had
come. These particulars are given that the reader may ponder
upon the conditions of the then contrasted with the noiv.
There is reason to suppose that soon after the Townsend
inhabitants returned to their homes, in 1749, an effort was
made hy them, together with the inhabitants of that part of
Bristol formei'ly known as Hamngton, to obtain incorporation
as a town. The petition has not been found, but the protest
presented by the inhabitants to the west of Sheepscot indicates
the settlers in these two localities. Alexander Nickels, who
evidently headed the petition, was a lieutenant and the com-
mander at Fort Frederick, a native of Londonderry, Ireland,
who had come to America in 1721, living in Boston before
going to Pemaquid. The protest follows :
Protest.
To the Honourable Spencer Phipps Esq Lieut Govinor and
Commander In Chief In and over His Magestys Province
of Massachusetts Bay. The Honourable his Majestys
Council and House of Representatives In General Court
Assembled at Boston the Fifth day of October 1750.
Samuel Whitmore of Cambridge In said Province Gentle-
man and Israel Averill of Sheepscot In said Province Yeoman
for and in behalf of themselves and others, the Proprietors and
Inhabitants of the West side of Sheepscut River In the County
of York Humbly Sheweth.
That they have just now been Informed that there is filed
1733 TO 1764. 131
in your Honourable Court a Petition or Memorial of one Alex'r
Nickels and other Inhabitants of the East side of Sheepscut
River afore said praying for certain Reasons therein mentioned
that they may be Incorporated Into Town order. The grant-
ing of which Petition j^our memorialists conceive will be very
prejudicial and therefore humbly pray your Honour and Hon-
ours that before any proceedings are had thereon they may be
admitted to shew cause in your honourable Court why the
prayer thereof should not be granted and as In duty bound
will ever pray
Sam'l Whittemore
Israel Averell.
Immediately upon the close of the war the coast between
the Penobscot and Kennebec Rivers, which had been the fron-
tier for 140 j^ears, passing through every conceivable form in
government and general conditions, rapidlj^ increased in settle-
ment. The inhabitants of Townsend up to about that date
remained as they had started under Dunbar, almost purely
Scotch-Irish. At the latter date (1759) but little of that blood
came as accessions to the place, but, instead, the nearlj^ pure-
bred English from the older settlements to the westward.
CHAPTER X.
Municipal Histouy of Boothbay.
THE town plan of local self-government is original with
the New England Colonies. Nothing precisel}- like the
town, which the colonists established here, had existed
in the countries they came from. In England they had Tith-
ings and Hundreds, which, in a modified condition, seiwed as
the model from which the town was patterned. But these
were not laid out with exact territorial dimensions, as corpor-
ate bodies, with exactions and requirements to, and powers
conferred b\% the superior government. Some writers have
thought the town form of local government at first must
have arisen as much by accident as any wa}^ but there would
appear, l^y a little research, a fairly good reason for the birth
of this form of municipalitj'. In the early Colonies themselves
various forms of government existed. Maiyland, Carolina,
Georgia, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania (includ-
ing Delaware) and New Jersc}' were proprietary. In most
instances the proprietors became tired of their grants and sur-
rendered them to the Crown, in which cases they became royal
provinces, over which the King appointed governors with
absolute power of veto on legislation. Only three Colonies
remained proprietary down to the Revolution, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, then become a separate Colony, and New Jersey.
The only Colonies organized under a charter government were
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. These charters
gave the colonists the right of choosing their own officers and
otherwise governing themselves as they thought best. There-
fore, is it anj' wonder that the New England town and, partic-
ularly, the New England town meeting should have had their
births in the exact localitj' where the largest degree of liberty
had been exacted and obtained? In 1G84 the Massachusetts
charter was annulled, Imt a new one was granted seven years
later in which former powers exercised by the colonists were
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 133
somewhat abridged, and she became partly a royal province.
Connecticut and Ehode Island were the only Colonies which
through all vicissitudes held their charters.
Imperfect government has always been in evidence, but
the colonial efforts are entitled to much respect, when the
highest authority states that England herself never had a
stable constitution until after the revolution of 1688. It mat-
tered little where the American colonist hailed from, his teach-
ing had always been that of an almost inseparable blending of
Church and State. Thus the New England town, an innova-
tion of wonderful governmental value upon the past, embodied
both town and parish of the present day. Boothbay had been
a town many years before a strict division occurred between
town and parish affairs. Therefore, in the present chapter,
covering the municipal action of the town in a partial manner,
if the reader finds business matters and ecclesiastical affairs
intermixed, it will be because the author finds the same condi-
tions in the earlj^ records.
The early petitions to the General Court for the incorpora-
tion of towns usually contained several reasons why the settlers
wished for corporate powers. In the Boothbay petition one
reason only is given : " We have a desire of settling the Gos-
pel among us." No business disadvantage is recited except
that one which may be inferred in the matter of inability to
legally raise the funds for the support of a minister. Had our
plantation records, meager as they probably were, been saved
for later reference, some indications of other reasons might
appear. This, however, we must accept as the one reason
most important in the minds of the petitioners. This view of
the case is supplemented liy a clause in Samuel McCobb's dep-
osition, made eight years after incorporation, wherein he says :
" When desirous of obtaining the benefit of order and the
enjoyment of the gospel, they applied to the Gen'l Court of
the Province and were legally incorporated into a town by the
name of Boothbay."
If we read the history of the organization of the early
Presbjrterian Church in Boothbay, which was prepared by
John Beath and read before the parish in 1767, ' being approved
1. See first book of parish records of the early church in Boothhay.
134 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
by it as essentially correct, we again are given the reason for
incorporation as expressed in the petition. To the average
reader of the present day, when all legal documents are couched
in the terms that best convey the idea of the business reasons
that prompt them, the action of this little community may
appear almost puerile. To those, however, who are conversant
with the religious fortitude of those people in Ireland, men-
aced by the native Catholic on one side and by the oppressive
hand of the Church of England on the other, adhering to the
doctrines of AYyclifte, Knox and Calvin with a tenacitj' that
excites admiration ; then planted here in the wilds of America
amid another set of foes, — the warlike savage, a severe climate,
almost starvation from a hard, unyielding soil, — we lose our
surprise and no longer wonder that in their adversity their
uppermost thought was to obtain relief from the conditions
which surrounded them, and that, in their extremity, they
should see that relief in the Church where for generations they
had placed their faith.
On January 31, 1764, the following petition was completed
and sent by a commissioner to Boston, to the Eoyal Governor,
Francis Bernard, asking at the hands of himself and the
Council incorporation of the plantation of Townsend. On the
third of the following November the act of incorporation was
granted. Four days previous to the passage the record shows
that the petition was read, and it was ordered that the peti-
tioners have leave to bring in a bill for the purpose mentioned,
with the following careful reseiwation attached: "But that
the incorporating them as a Town is not to be understood to
give countenance to any Persons claiming property in these
lands." It may be seen hy this clause that incorporation did
not close the door on the many evils complained of by jNIcCobb
and others in their depositions. The way was still open to
the claimants to harass the settlers as much in the new town
form as in the old one of a plantation. Nothing was settled in
respect to ownership of the land, and those who had hitherto
claimed under Drowne, Brown, Tappan, Ludgate, Hathorne
and Vaughn still continued to ply their vocation until the
adjustment by a commission in 1811, of which a more com-
plete statement is made elsewhere.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
Petition for Incorporation of Toavnsend.
Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, p. 22.
To His Excellency Francis Barnard Esq"^ Cap' General and
Commander in Chief in and Over his Majesties Provence of
the Massachusetts Bay in New England together with his
Majesties Council &c
The Petetion of us the Inhabitants of Townsend So Called
Humbly Sheweth —
That Whereas we have for a Number of Years Livd in this
Place till we have Increased to about the Number of Seaventy
five Ratable Poles and as we have a Desire of Settleing the
Gospel among us Labour under a Great deal of Difficultie on
account of Not Being Incorporated into town Order we would
Humbly Beg your Honnours would be pleased to take our
Case into Consideration and for that End Set Off as a town the
Land Ljdng on the East Sid of Sheepscut River Extending as
farr to the Northerd as a Place Called the Cross River — and
from thence about E. S. E. across the Neck to Damariscotty
River to the Northly Part of the Land in Possession of Samuel
Kelly and So Running Southerly down Damariscotty River to
the Sea with all the Islands Ajacient Your Compliance in this
will Greatly Oblig Your Very Humble Serv* and we in Duty
Bound Shall Ever Pray
Nat«i Tebbets
Thomas Kenney
Joseph Crosby
Joseph hosden
Ichabod pinkham
James Crommett
Samll Adams
Joseph Farnum
Abner foord
John Young
Cornelius Cook
Will°i Fullerton
Ephraim "^farland
Joseph Beath
James fullerton
Given at Townsend
this 31't Day of
January - 1764
William Mor[?]
Roley Vin[?]
Samuel M^Cobb
Samuel Barter
John Beath
his
Will™ O Kenedy
mark
Andrew Reed
Israel Davis
Paul Reed
James Montgomrey
Robert montgumery
Joseph Reed
Samuel Kenney
To his Excellcy Fra^ Barnard Esq"" Gov^ of the Province of the
mass* Bay, to the hon : his Majesty's Council & the hon^e
House of Representatives
The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late
136 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Colony of new Plj^mouth humbly join in the Praj'er of the
foregoing Petition.
Silv. Gardiner 1
James Pitts | For themselves
Benj. Hallowell V& Partners of the
W°^ Taylor j Kennebeck Purchase
Gershom FlaggJ
In the House of Rep"es Qctr 31 1764
Read and Ordered that the Pef^ have liberty to bring in a Bill
for the purpose mentioned.
But that the incorporating them as a Town is not to be under-
stood to give countenance to any Persons claiming property in
said lands.
Sent up for concurrence
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ^
Office of the Secretary. V
Boston, Sept. 10, 1902. )
A true copy.
^ ,■^^-^ ^ Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth.
} SEAL V Wm. M. OlIN,
( >^v^w/ ) Secretary.
Act of Incorporation of Boothbay.
Chapter 15, Acts of 1764.
Anno Regm \ '^''^ / Regis Georgi
Tertii Quarto f \ ^* Quinto
[An*] Act for Erecting a Town in the County of Lincoln, by
the Name of Boothbay.
Whereas the Inhabitants of Land lying between- Sheepscot
and Damariscotta River within [the count*] y of Lincoln,
known by the Name of Townsend have Petitioned this Court
that for the reasons mentioned th[ey may be*] Incorpoi-ated
into a Town, and Vested with the Powers and Authorities
belonging to other Towns
For the Encouragement of said Settlement
Be it enacted b}' the Governor, Council and House of Rep-
resentatives, Th[at the*] said Tract of Land described and
bounded as follows viz*. Beginning at the most Northerly
part of a Bay [called*] the Oven's Mouth, and from thence to
run an East South East Coui-se to Damariscotta River ; thence
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 137
Souther [ly*] down said Eiver to the Sea or Western Ocean,
then to run Westerly on the Sea Coast as the Coast lies to the
Mou[th of*] Sheepscot Eiver, then to run Northerly up
Sheepscot River between Jeremy Squam Island and Barter's
Island to the Cross river at the head of said Barter's Island
and from thence over the Water to the most Northerly [part*]
of the Oven's Mouth aforesaid with all the Islands in Damaris-
cotta River below or to the Southward of the fi[rst*] described
line, and also All the Islands lying within Six Miles from the
Main Land to the South, between the [afore*] mentioned
Rivers of Sheepscot and Damariscotta, be and hereby is erected
into a Town by the Name of Boo[thbay*] and the Inhabitants
thereof shall have and enjoj'^ all such Immunities and Privi-
ledges as other Towns in this Pro[vince*] have and do by
Law enjoy.
And be it further enacted That Samuel Denny Esq'' be and
hereby is Impowered to Iss[ue*] his Warrant to some Princi-
pal Inhabitant of the said Town of Boothbay requiring him in
his Majesty's n[ame*] to warn and Notify the said Inhabitants
Qualified to Vote in Town Affairs to meet together at such
Time and Place in said Town as shall be appointed in said
Warrant to chuse such officers as the Law directs, and may be
necessary to Manage the Affairs of said Town and the Inhab-
itants so met shall be and are hereby Impowered to chuse such
Officers accordingly.
November 5'^ 1764 This Bill having been read three several
times in the House of Representatives
Passed to be Enacted
S. White Spkr
November 3<i 1764 This Bill having been read three several
times in Council.
Passed to be Enacted
A Oliver. Sec
November 3 1764 By the Governor
I Consent to the Enacting this Bill
Fra Bernard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Office of the Secretary.
Boston, Sept. 10, 1902.
A true copy.
r /^A^ ^ Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth.
} SEAL i Wm. M. OlIN,
( v--v^ ) Secretary.
* Parchment mutDated.
10
138 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
The early records of Boothbaj' would present, if no expla-
nation existed, a very mixed and unusual form to an investi-
gator of them. No warrant for a town meeting is found until
the one for a special meeting, called June 24, 1776, is reached.
Some random proceedings are recorded from the very first, but
they are such as would naturally be best remembered, and form,
at most, a sort of incomplete digest of town action. No one
can peruse the old first book of records of proceedings without
detecting a lack of what must really have occurred. Prior to
the date of this first recorded warrant very important action
had been taken, including the several meetings of 1775, when
the town was put in a state of defense against the British.
This first book contains all we have, except some family rec-
ords and publications of intentions of marriage, relating to
municipal action and other affairs in town between the years
1765 and 1807. This book, on its first page, gives a list of
moderators and clerks from 1765 to 1774, inclusive. On the
third page are recorded the selectmen and assessors for the
first four j^ears. Thus are the affairs of the town irregularly
scattered along. The principal officers for several years are
recorded on pages by themselves ; then pages of petty officers.
Next, recorded sales of pews in the new church, perhaps a bill
of sale, marriage intentions, registered marks of cattle owned
by the various citizens which were running at large, road sur-
veyors' minutes, records of deaths, children's ages and other
family records, diagram drafts of land bounds and plans of
buildings, — all in mixed and random condition, recorded with-
out order or natural sequence.
The explanation is that several years of our early records
were, doubtless, written from memory. Andrew McFarland
was town clerk from 1765 to 1773, inclusive. Then John
Beath held the place for two j-ears, and again McFarland was
clerk in 1776. He died in 1780. At some date during his
clerkship his house, which was located at the Harbor, where
the late Isaac C. Sherman had his home, was burned and nearl}'
all the town records with it. While no evidence exists, that is
known, as to the date of this loss, there are indications in the
records themselves that would lead one, who knew such an
event did occur, to believe it to have been at about the end of
his first term of clerkship, or 1773.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 139
Out of this mixed mass of matter has been extracted, by a
great deal of painstaking labor, such facts as are here presented
to make up our early municipal I'ecords. The first town meet-
ing in Boothbay was held February 27, 1765, which may be
termed the meeting of organization. Four months had nearly
elapsed between the date of the charter and that meeting. No
proceedings are found of that meeting, but there is a record of
the officers elected. The next action was the meeting of April
12, 1765, and only two votes from that meeting are given:
one appropi'iating five dollars to purchase a town book ; and
-the other, "That the lott of land left by Edmond Brown,
deceased, to the first Settled Minister is to remain to that pur-
pose in Boothbay."^ It is evident, however, at the earlier
meeting, that of February 27th, there were appropriations
made for building a church on the lot where the First Congre-
gational Church now stands at Boothbaj'^ Center, as well as
others to cover the necessary town expenses. Inexperienced
in town affairs, they supposed this meeting of February 27,
1765, the early part of the year following incorporation, would
stand in its action until the spring of 1766. But in this they
erred. Under the laws of Massachusetts Bay they should
have held another meeting in March, 1765, elected officers and
enacted the necessaiy legislation for the year ensuing, or,
what would have been better, as they had delayed organization
some four months, to have waited a little longer and brought
the meeting of organization at such a date as would have suf-
ficed for the regular annual meeting. But they tripped over
the technicality of the law, and the petition sent to the General
Court on September 3, 1765, which is inserted and explains
itself, shows that they had become cognizant of their error.
Petition to Legalize Town Proceedings.
Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, p. 154.
Province of the ^ To His Excellency Francis Barnard
Massachusetts > Esq"^ Governer in Cheif, the Hon^'e
Bay in New England ) the Councill & House of Eepresenta-
tives in Generall Court Assembled,
The petition of the Select Men of the Town of Boothbay in
the County of Lincoln Humbly Sheweth,
140 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
That the Inhabitants of said Town soon after Tiieir Incor-
poration by Virtue of a Special Order of this Court Assembled,
& chose Town Officers In February last, that they Imagined
the Officers so Chosen might serve a Year Insuring & so neg-
lected to Chuse Officers in March following. That the Officers
so Chosen have Acted in their several Capacities. Rates have
been made a meeting House is Contracted for, & in Building,
and all this before Your Petetioners & the Other Inhabitants
were sensible of their mistake & that they Had not compleyed
with the Letter of the Law. so that without the Aid of Your
Excellency & Honours the Town must be Greatly Distressed
thereby & all Publick Business Cease.
Your Petetioners Therefore Humbly pray that the Town
Officers so Chosen in the Month of February may be Declared
to be the Officers of said Town untill new ones shall be Chose
in March 1766 & that all the Doings of the Officers so chosen
in February shall be as Valid and Effectual as if they had
been Chosen in March, or that Your Petitioners may be Other
wise Releaved as you in your Wisdom shall seem Meet. & as
in Duty bound shall ever pray &c
Ephraim m<=farland ^
Boothbay 3* September 1765 John Beath i Select Men
Jno Alley )
We the Subscribers being Inhabitants of the Said Town of
Boothbay, do Acquise in the Petition of the AVithin Mentioned
Select men of Said Town
Dauid Reed Thomas Boyd John Willey
Paul Reed Thomas Reed Ebenezer Smeth
Joseph Beath Willem mcCoob Joseph Sloos
Joseph Reed Joseph Crosby Samuel Berto
Andrew Reed Samuel ™<=Coob James Montgomry
Samuel Adams Willem Mour John Reed
In the house of Representatives Ocf 24 A. D. 1765
Resolved that the Prayer of the foregoing Petition be So far
Granted that the Several Town officers Chosen in February
last as mentioned in Said Petition, and their Proceedings in
Consequence of their Respective offices for the time Past be
held good and vallid to all Intents & Purposes as much as tho
they had been Chosen in the month of march last & that Said
officers retain their respective offices and excersice the same in
Said Town untill others shall be Chosen in their room to ye
respective town offices in y^ month of march next any thing in
yo Law to y^ Contray notwithstanding
Sent up for concurrence
S. White Spkr
MUNICIPAL HISTORT. 141
In Council Oct' 25. 1765—
Read and Concurred. A Oliver Sec
Consented to
Fra Bernard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ^
Office of the Secretary. >
Boston, Sept. 10, 1902. )
A true copy.
C /^-^^ ^ Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth.
} SEAL V Wm. M. Olin,
^ v^v^.^ ) Secretary.
The annual meeting of 1766, which was their second, con-
sumed two daj's, March 6th and 7th, yet, outside of election
of officers, little of importance is recorded. One hundred and
twenty pounds lawful money was voted the Rev. John Murray
as a yearly salary ; and John Beath, Israel Davis and Thomas
Kennej- were chosen a committee to run the town line from
Oven's Mouth to the Damariscotta River. The following year
one hundi'ed pounds was raised to pay for outlays on the new
church and other town expenses. One hundred acres of land
was voted as a school lot. The selectmen were directed to
employ a schoolmaster for that year. Wild animals were
extremely troublesome and injurious to live stock and crops,
as well as dangerous to the safetj' of children or lone persons
traveling from point to point through the forests, then practi-
cally unbi-oken in the interior of the town. Six shillings was
voted as a bounty for the heads of wolves, and three shillings
each for bears and "wild-cattes." The committee for building
the church, having completed its duties, was discharged. A
pound was built for strays and located at Boothbay Center.
The selectmen, as a school committee, employed a teacher,
and, as it was the second year after organization and the first
provision for a school mentioned in the records, it is believed
that the school of 1767 was the first ever taught in this locality.
The teacher's name was Faithful Singer, a resident of the town,
who married Susanna Knight the following year. He received
for his year's teaching, which was fifty-two full weeks of work,
£18 13s. 4d. and board. The conditions were such that the
town was divided into four districts : the Harbor ; the west
side of the town, in the locality of where district No. 8 has in
142 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
more recent times been located ; at Oven's Mouth, and the
fourth at Pleasant Cove. In each instance the school was
taught in a private house as there were no school buildings yet
provided for. The exact house at which the school was kept
is given in only one instance, that at the Harbor. There it
was held in the old house of William Fullerton, on the gi'ound
where the house of the late Benjamin Blair now stands, on
Oak Street. > The terms were of equal length, commencing at
the Fullerton house and running seven weeks, then seven more
at each of the other three places ; at the end of these twenty-
eight weeks another start was made at Fullerton's, this time
six weeks, and again the rounds were made, filling out in good
measui'e the year. It might not be amiss in comprehending
the situation at that time to think of the scarcity of holidays.
Teachers' conventions were not existing, for lack of material ;
Washington's birthday was an important event to no one but
himself ; Thanksgiving was not a regularly established annual
festival , though in some years a day was thus observed ; the
foui'th of July had acquired no special significance ; and many
years were destined to elapse before there would be Ivj",
Arbor, Labor and Memorial days. The districting of the
town in the manner recorded is suggestive of where the prin-
cipal settlements existed.
In 1768 a committee was chosen which had as duties the
selection of a school lot, also a burying j-ard and a " menestarel
lott," the latter probably meaning a location for a parsonage,
for up to that date the Rev. John Murray had been boarding
with his cousin, Andrew Reed. The selection of the yard
known as the Old Congregational Cemetery followed. The
"menestarel lott" was the selection of Pisgah, where the par-
sonage was built and Mr. Murray continued to live during his
pastorate in Bootbbay. This was the lot left by Edmond
Brown for the purpose on that August morning in 1739 when
he disposed of his property, while calmly awaiting the coming
of the officers to remove him forever from the scenes of his
home and his crime. The bounty on wolves was doubled that
year. A committee was selected that brought in a report
1. It is a tradition in the Reed family that the first school in West Boothbay and
for some years thereafter was kept in the house of David Keed, which of late years
has been the home of his lineal descendant, Albert N. Reed. This is probable.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 143
which was largely a recital of the wrongs the colonists were
subjected to by the unjust taxation of the Mother Country.
It closed with a declaration and enumeration of what articles
should not be purchased by the citizens of the town, except
they be manufactured at home or in some of the American
Colonies. This was unanimously adopted and the prohibitive
list follows :
"Gold, silver or thread lace of any sort, wrought plate,
diamond stone or plate ware, clocks, watches or anj' silver-
smith's or jeweler's ware, sole-leather, sheathing or deck nails,
snuff, mustard, broadcloths that cost above ten shillings per
yard, muffs, furrs or tippets or any sort of millinery goods,
starch, women's or children's stays, fire-engines, china-ware,
silk or cotton velvets, gauze, pewterer's ware, linseed oil, glue,
lawns, cambrics, silks, malt-liquors, spices or teas."
An appropriation of fifty-five pounds was voted "to pay
up the behindments of last year and other abeatments if any
appear." Fifty pounds was appropriated for a schoolmaster
in 1769, and it was voted to petition the General Court to
establish an acadenij^ here. A vote was also passed
" That the road leading from the meeting-house to Samuel
Adams shall go round the head of the meadow along the ledg so
far as the committee thinks proper toward the Oven's Mouth."
Another road was voted from near Samuel Adams' house
running southerly along the westerly side of "Adams' fresh
meadow to a tree on Joseph Erwin's lot," on the road leading
from the church to the house of Samuel Adams.
Only thirty pounds was appropriated for the total expenses
for 1770. A vote was passed establishing a width of two rods
for all highwaj'S that might be built in town,^ that they should
be repaired by rate,^ and that the surveyor's warrant should be
sufficient notice to the inhabitants to labor on the highways.
The galleries of the church were voted to be "pewed all round
the front." In 1771 only thirty pounds was appropriated for
public charges, and schools were reduced to three months'
teaching by one teacher. The first record of any town debt
occurred that year in a vote to keep one hundred pounds at
interest for another year. The gallery pews, provided for the
1. No repeal of this vote appears, and continuous compliance ■with it furnishes a
strong precedent for all road building in the three towns.
2. A term formerly used to mean tax.
144 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
previous year, were voted to be sold at " publick Vendue or at
privet sail as they shall think most beneficial to the town."
But little was transacted in 1772, only ten pounds being raised
for all public charges.
The appropriation at each annual meeting in those days
was made in a lump or gross sum. There were no special
appropriations, nor specified amounts for the several regular
annual outlays. Everything points to poverty general in the
community at about these years. The ten pounds raised
would do nothing of consequence. Roads could not have been
improved, and it would appear as though schools may have
been for the time discontinued.^ The only outlay that year,
specified by vote, was that two horse blocks should be erected
front of the church. Twopence was offered for each crow's
head. Several town histories make mention of the alarming
prevalence of this pest at about the same period.
In considering the cause for the extreme general poverty
existing at that time, the reader will bear in mind that it was
little more than two years previous to the breaking out of
the Revolution, the very time when England was pinching the
Colonies to the last extremity. There was also another reason,
which sentiment might almost forbid one to mention, but it
doubtless had its effect. This little handful of people, distant
from markets, with practically no salable productions, living
as best they could in an isolated locality, with soil, climate,
aborigines, distance, everything against them, had built an
expensive church and taken upon themselves to support by far
the ablest minister at that time in Maine.
In 1773 a vote was taken that "the sexton lift a contribu-
tion each Saboth day accepting on saccrement Sunday for the
present year and any of the inhabitants that Contributes to
the value of £1 old tenor & mark his money shal be alowed
for it in their rate and the remandcr after told by two of the
Deacons to be delvd to the Treas of sd Town for the use of sd
Town."
Paul Twomblj' was voted five pounds for "being at the
Truble of Collecting the whole of the Town and County rates" ;
1. Mr. Murray's seryices were going on at this time. Later, by record, the town
appears considerably indebted to him. which debt he failed to collect during his life-
time, and the town settled with the administrator of his estate by a committee chosen
for the purpose. This debt was probably contracted during these years that the
appropriation fails to appear.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 145
and this has the appearance of being the remuneration for sev-
eral and not for a single year's service. A sample vote as to
the disposition of a poor child in those days appears in that
year's proceedings :
"That Mary Whiting is to be bound by the Selectmen to
William McCobb till she is eighteen years of age, said McCobb
is to find hir meet and Drink washing and loging and Cloathe
for such a printice."
The meeting of 1774 simply elected the regular town officers
and engaged Joseph Beath to teach three months at ten dollars
per month. It seems a veritable calm before the storm which
broke with such terrible force over the Colonies the succeeding
year. The meetings of 1775, some six in all, are in many
respects the most remarkable ever held in town. The occasion
demanded of the inhabitants the best there was in them, and
well did they respond. The action taken in both 1775 and
1776 finds a more appropriate place in the chapter on the
Eevolution.
Regular business affairs claimed part of the town's attention
in 1777. One hundred pounds was raised for roads and, for
the first time, ihej voted that the roads should be freed from
the obstructions of bars and gates. Forty-three pounds and
four shillings was raised for teaching. Thirtj'-six dollars of
this was to be applied for a master for three months' service,
and the balance to be used to employ "school dames," who
might be distributed to the several parts of the town as the
selectmen might see fit and direct. Highway rates were first
made at this meeting and were fixed at four shillings per day
for a man, two shillings and sixpence for a "yoak of oxen and
chain," one shilling and sixpence for a plow or cart. A
thoughtful vote was taken at that meeting, and if it was ever
carried out it is a lamentable fact that care was not taken of
the result. It follows :
" Voted the depositions of the old Inhabitants of this town
respecting the first settlement be taken in perpetum."
This was nearly five years after McCobb, Fullerton, Beath
and Moore had spread their depositions on the Lincoln County
records, papers which, by their plain, unvarnished recitals of
what occuiTed in the early days, give us facts in the history of
146 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AY.
the Colony that have never been obtained elsewhere. The
school lot of one hundred acres was directed to be sold to John
Holton, and a committee was authorized to execute a deed to
him. A road from Oven's Mouth to the meeting house, on
the east side of Adams Pond, was voted. The committees of
inspection and correspondence met and established a scale of
prices for labor and town productions, as well as all articles
carried in town places of trade, either sale or exchange. The
list is long and the articles are rated in English sterling.
In 1778 a bounty of twelve pounds was offered an}' man
who would enlist and "turn out against George and emesaries."'
The Rev. John Murray M-as to have his salary increased "if
the value of money does not increase." Collectors and treas-
urers were to be indemnified in case counterfeit monej' was
passed upon them. A log fence, the first of any kind, was
voted for the cemetery at the Center. In 1779 the two com-
mittees were called together and very materially raised the
schedule of prices for labor and all merchandise previously
rated on account of a further depreciation in the currency.
This, however, followed a meeting of delegates from Massa-
chusetts towns held at Concord July 10th. The continued
depreciation of the currency made it necessary in 1780 to raise
six hundred pounds lawful money for the gross expenses. A
schoolmaster was hired for a year and the town was divided
into five districts.
On May 3, 1781, a meeting was held, when the first ballots,
other than for town officers, were thrown. The war was not
finished, nor was the end in sight. The surrender of Corn-
wallis did not occur until October 19th following. But it had
been seven years since the first Continental Congress had
assembled, the seat of hostilities was removed largely* to the
southern part of the Colonics, and the northern part was expe-
riencing a partial relief at that time from British aggression.
The extremities of the country were now voting for State
officers. The record appears as follows :
"Voted John Hancock Esqr. to be Governor and Com-
mander in Chefe of the State of Massachusetts Bay, Votes,
Twelve for Governor."
No opposition appears. Major William Lithgow received
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 147
thirteen, all that were thrown, for senator. It was voted to
waive the right and send no representative to the General
Court. Joseph Langdon, one of the board of selectmen, was
directed by vote to take a valuation of the town, real and per-
sonal, and an enumeration of the inhabitants. This is the first
I'ecord of a regular valuation being taken. Enumerations of a
different character, as a military measure, were taken in 1775.
The demoralization of the currency and almost universal pov-
erty brought people to a keener realization of their expendi-
tures, and necessity drove them to a business-like method of
applying their burdens equitably. The appropriation for the
year was one thousand "hard dollars," or paper money "a
quiflent to 75 for one hard dollar."
Ichabod Pinkham, John Daws and William Eced were a
committee in 1782 to look after Ibe quantity of ammunition
furnished by the General Court, also to inspect the condition
of the cannon and small arms. It was voted not to send a
representative to the General Court. John Hancock again
received the total vote for Governor. It had been an occur-
rence in nearly every meeting since 1777 to ask permission of
the town to erect either bars or gates across the highways at
places to convene the inhabitants. By this date nearly every
road must have been again obstructed, if they had been cleared
b}' enforcement of the earlier vote to that effect, which is doubt-
ful.* One prominent citizen living not far from the church,
on one of the principal roads, had an article in the annual town
warrant to grant him the privilege to " erect a hansum Swingin
gate" across the highway. This was the best proposition ever
made the town according to the record.
In 1783 it was voted that the board of selectmen should
thereafter constitute the committees of correspondence and
inspection and safety. A road was accepted from southwest
to the northeast of Barter's Island, in the manner that would
best convene the inhabitants. Joseph Barter and Samuel
Kenney were chosen a committee to lay out the road. For the
first time since the assurance of self-government, the town sent
a representative to the General Court in the person of Captain
1. It was told the author a few years ago that when action was taken hy the town
officers imder the vote of 1777, a citizen living at Back River, helonging to one of our
oldest and most numerous families, prepared to defend his gate with his trusty old
flintlock.
148 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Paul Reed. He held the distinction of being the town's first
representative, though the Rev. John Murray and Capt. Andrew
McFarland had performed similar dirties before the attainment
of independence. For Governor the town cast twenty-nine
votes for General Lincoln to four for John Hancock. The
public thanksgiving for peace occurred December 11th. The
town contracted with Samuel Adams for a set of stocks to be
built and set up at the church, for which he received two dol-
lars, "he finding the stuff himself." The iron work was done
by Benjamin Sawyer for one dollar. A stringent vote was
passed as follows :
" That no absentees or refugees shall have any liberty to
return to this town, neither shall they have any lot or portion
with us."
For the better enforcement of this act there were now added
to the board of selectmen Capt. Paul Reed, Thomas Boyd, Jr.,
John Murray and Leighton Colbath, to make up the old
committee of inspection and safet}^ with special instructions.
Now that independence was attained, the honest, patriotic res-
idents, who had endured every privation, had an opportunity
for a retrospective view. It can hardly be supposed that kindty
feelings existed toward that class denominated " absentees and
refugees," and it does not take a great stretch of the imagina-
tion to discover a relation between the expression of the meet-
ing against them and the addition of a set of stocks to the
town furniture.
The year of 1784 saw but little of importance transacted.
The stocks were removed from the church to the residence of
William McCobb. Capt. Paul Reed was again chosen repre-
sentative to the General Court, and also delegated with a com-
missioner's authority to inquire into disputed titles of land in
town. William McCobb and John ilurray were a committee to
procure preaching for the summer, and the town raised "thirty
pounds for the youse of the Gospel." The following year a
road was built from Jeremiah Beath"s to intersect the road
" leading from Boyd's to the meeting house." Two hundred
pounds was appropriated for roads, half to be assessed on the
polls and the other half on the real estate. Six shillings was
fixed as road wages for a man and three shillings for a pair of
oxen. In 1786 a road was laid out from Capt. John Borland's
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 149
to the Back River road ; also another from Captain Harris' to
Nelson Mills' residence on Cape Newagen. A pound for strays
was authorized near Col. Edward Emerson's, he to be the
keeper. A town workhouse was voted to be built and a task-
master appointed to oversee those who should be put into it.
A committee of three was appointed to emploj^ a grammar
school teacher, the first time in the record that this term appears.
In 1788 the town tripped again in the proceedings of their
annual meeting, as they had done twenty-three years before,
and were obliged to petition the General Court for a legalizing
act. This was accorded June 9th, and the regular annual
meeting was held July 14th, at which meeting it was voted to
build a road from the northern end of Cape Newagen Island to
Chaples' Harbor. The balance of salaiy account due the Rev.
John Muri-ay was voted to be put in the general assessment.
Thirty pounds for summer preaching and one hundred pounds
for highways was raised. A road from Pleasant Cove to
James Kennedy's residence was accepted. The church common
and cemetery lot, which at that time were not divided by
streets, were ordered to be surveyed by Robert Randall and
staked out. A plan was drawn by the surveyor and appears
on page 230, first book of records.
The first prohibitive fish law ever passed in town, and the
author has been unable to find one of so early a date at any
other place in Maine, was passed in 1789. John Murray and
William Reed were a committee
" To see that the fish called alewives and shad may have a
free passage up Campbell's brook, so called, and not to suffer
any fish to be taken or interrupted in going up said stream on
Saturdaj^s, Sundays and Mondays."
The town was that year divided into two collection districts
and a collector chosen for each one. William McCobb was
directed to draft a petition for the removal of the court from
Frankfort' to Wiscasset. A road was laid out on Linekin
Neck, from Samuel Montgomery's to John Rackliff's ; and
another from Pleasant Cove to Capt. John Borland's. A spe-
cial provision of the Linekin road was that the inhabitants be
permitted to hang gates along for their convenience.
1. This was the plantation name of Pownalboro, now Dresden,
150 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
In 1790 William McCobb was chosen town agent, tlie tirst
appearance of this position in the records. Dr. Edward
Creamer was mentioned in the records that j^ear. Xo phj'si-
cian had previously appeared in them. The custom in vogue
in town affairs at this period was to elect town officers at the
annual March meeting for the year ensuing, and in addition to
them choose a committee of three to investigate the town's
finances, review tlie work of the retiring board of officers, per-
form an auditor's duties, adjust any unsettled business hanging
over from the previous year, investigate the needs of the ensu-
ing year, and, at an adjourned meeting, make a report. Then,
having only attended to the election of officers at the earlier
meeting, at the adjourned one the appropriations were made
and other business attended to.
A vote was passed in 1791 as follows :
" That all the monej^ raised be appropriated for the very
uses they are allowed for and no other use, and assessed in
separate bills."
For the first time, a single school committee-man was
selected, in the person of Samuel Bryer, and exclusive man-
agement of the schools was given him. Better methods of
business were beginning to be practiced in all town affairs.
The s_ystem of special appropriations naturally followed the
above vote, and in 1792 we find a designated sum for the first
time raised for the several usual expenditures. A vote was
taken that j-ear to see if Maine desired statehood, by being set
off from Massachusetts, and resulted twelve in favor and thir-
teen against separation. The General Sessions of the Court
met at Hallowell in 1793 and fined the town of Boothbay nine-
teen pounds for failure to send a representative to the General
Court in 1788.^ By 1794 there was such an increase of schol-
ars as to require i-e-districting the town, which was done as
follows : No. 1 was composed of Cape Newagcn Island ; No.
2, from Capt. Andrew Reed, Jr.'s, to the house of Euggles
Cunningham, with Barter's and Sawyer's Islands; No. 3, from
Oven's Mouth, on both sides, to the meeting house ; No. 4,
from the Widow Wheeler's to Deacon Auld's ; No. 5, from the
1. The small vote thrown on several occasions can only be explained on the
ground of indifference to public affairs. There were in 1791 resident taxpayers to the
number of 182, nearly every one of whom was a legal voter.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 151
Widow ISIontgomeiy's to John Rackliff's ; No. 6, from Capt.
John Helton's to the house of David Reed, 3d, inchiding the
families at the head of Campbell's Cove. The school money
was to be divided into six equal parts, and each district was to
have one part for the maintenance of schools. Each district
was to have a school committee of three, and this committee
possessed what might be termed exclusive powers, as those
powers embraced all that formerly vested in the district agent
with those of superintendenc}' added. It is likely that the
wishes of the district were consulted as to the composition of
those committees, but it is certain that they were elected in
open town meeting, and it does not appear that district meet-
ings were held. In 1795 no school money was raised, and a
vote was taken that any unexpended money might be used as
an}^ ten freeholders in any district might designate. Fifty
pounds was borrowed to buy a town stock of ammunition,
with a direction that it should be stored in the church garret.
Three hundred dollars was raised for schools in 1797. By a
vote in 1798 a glimpse may be had of the appearance of the
town common and Boothbay Center :
" To give Samuel Rackliff and Samuel Adams thirty dollars
to clear the town land on the front of the meeting house on
westerly side of the road so far as is now fell and burnt, and
also to fence the whole of said land on the westerly side of
said road to Mr. Fullerton's line, and also to clear the town
land on the easterly side joining on said Fullerton's and David
Kenniston's."
At the meeting of 1799 a new school district was added,
and names instead of numbers were given the districts. They
were known as Cape Newagen, Back River, Oven's Mouth,
Pinkham, Pleasant Cove, Linekin Neck and Harbor. The
highway districts were also re-formed and numbered.
With the advent of 1800 came the clearest expression in
the matter of town appropriation, freed from English sterling
terms, which had appeared since organization. That year was
raised for highways, $700 ; for miscellaneous town charges,
$200 ; for schools, $200 ; for standard weights and measures,
$30. The eighth school district was formed on the west side
of the town and the name given to it was Number Eight, which
through all changes still adheres. Population was evidently
152 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
increasing considerably in these years, for two more school
districts were formed in 1801, and still another in 1802. In
the latter year the district committees were reduced to one in
each district, and that one had all the powers foi-merly held by
the three. No supei'intending school committee for the town
appeared until 1818.
In 1803 two suits were brought against the town, one for
damage at Wildcat Bridge, which was not railed, and the other
was a pauper case with Newburyport. No lawyer residing in
town, Jeremiah Bailey, Esq., of Wiscasset, was chosen town
agent, with full power of attorney. In 1804 Cape Newagen
asked for a ferry, but the article was dismissed. In 1806
some of the school districts were divided, and it was voted to
procure a trunk or chest in which to keep the town's books and
papers, — this was the first town "safe." Crows had become
so troublesome that a bountj^ of ten cents per head was offered.
An instance may at this point be given of the compensation of
town officers in those days. Whoever has examined the first
book of Boothbay records can hardly fail to admire the fine
penmanship of Jonathan Sawyer, clerk. Many of the pages
were artistically bordered with narrow scroll by his pen.
With the possible exception of Doctor Rose, who took the
clerkship in 1807, no records from organization to the present
show the time and care that these do. As Mr. Sawyer was
retiring from the clerkship, which he had held for thirteen
years, during which time he had received no compensation for
his services, it was now voted him in a lump sum, for the
entire term, the amount of thirty-six dollars. There appears
of record simply routine work during the years 1808, 1809
and 1810.'
In 1811 the town appropriations exceeded anj' previous
year. One thousand dollars was raised for roads, six hundred
for schools and one thousand for town charges of a miscella-
neous character. The road from Church Square, now so-
called, at Boothbay Harbor, to where East Boothbay Village
now stands, was built, about as it now exists except that it
went over the hill. The April and May meetings for 1812
1. Some ecclesiastical action was taken in these years, which will appear under
its proper head ; and some extraordinary action in the way of petitioning the Execu-
tive to remove the existing embargo will also appear elsewhere.
152 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
increasing considerably in these years, for two more school
districts were formed in 1801, and still another in 1802. In
the latter year the district committees were reduced to one in
each district, and that one had all the powers formerly held by
the three. No supei'intending school committee for the town
appeared until 1818.
In 1803 two suits were brought against the town, one for
damage at Wildcat Bridge, which was not railed, and the other
was a pauper case with Newburyport. No lawyer residing in
town, Jeremiah Bailey, Esq., of Wiscasset, was chosen town
agent, with full power of attorney. In 1804 Cape Newagen
asked for a ferry, but the article was dismissed. In 1806
some of the school districts were divided, and it was voted to
procure a trunk or chest in which to keep the town's books and
papers, — this was the first town "safe." Crows had become
so troublesome that a bountj^ of ten cents per head was offered.
An instance may at this point be given of the compensation of
town officers in those days. Whoever has examined the first
book of Boothbay records can hardly fail to admire the fine
penmanship of Jonathan Sawj^er, clerk. Many of the pages
were artistically bordered with narrow scroll by his pen.
With the possible exception of Doctor Rose, who took the
clerkship in 1807, no records from organization to the present
show the time and care that these do. As Mr. Sawyer was
retiring from the clerkship, which he had held for thirteen
years, during which time he had received no compensation for
his sei'vices, it was now voted him in a lump sum, for the
entire term, the amount of thirty-six dollars. There appears
of record simply routine work during the years 1808, 1809
and 1810.1
In 1811 the town appropriations exceeded any previous
year. One thousand dollars was raised for roads, six hundred
for schools and one thousand for town charges of a miscella-
neous character. The road from Church Square, now so-
called, at Boothbay Harbor, to where East Boothbay Village
now stands, was built, about as it now exists except that it
went over the hill. The April and May meetings for 1812
1. Some ecclesiastical action was taken in these years, which will appear under
its proper head ; and some extraordinary action in the way of petitioning the Execu-
tive to remove the existing embargo will also appear elsewhere.
liobeit Hull,'}
■Jl
Hiram ,1Iari
4:; Robert Cameron
i;:i
Store-Cyrns McKovvn
,SI1
Henry Gray
Ricliaid Poor
John P.anJ
44 George W. Pierce. Jr.
i;4
Store-Miss McKown
»7
Christopher Decker
Stephen Pierce
Henry Rand
4.-, George W. Pierce
11.)
G Cyrus McKown and Sisters
.■iS
David Pierce
■M
Alexander Tibbetts
4« Parsonage
Ill
89
Joseph Pierce
Warren Poor
■J.->
Samuel Kand
47 Methodist Church
i;8
Jonathan P. Thompson
911
Miles Fierce
Peter Westman
■Jil-
-George Webber
4.S Schoolbouse
110
Dyerk Rose
91
Franklin Jones
Levi Spofford
l's
Thomas Pierce
W Daniel Pierce
70-1-2 William Thompson
9J
William Gray
.losepli Spofford
■JO
iO Amherst Spofford
.-.II William Pierce
7H
William Nickerson
9:1
William Harris
Samuel Pierce— rout
:u
Hendricks Head Light
.-.1 Charles Pierce
74
Willard Lewis
9-1
..
:;-j
William Orne
.-.J James Orne
Robert McKown
9.-.
Ebenezer Lundy
Beujamii. Pinliliain
:i.)
James Orne
:•■■; George Love
711
Robert G. Decker
911
Albion Alley
Tl.oiuas Coolen
:n
Mark Rand
.-4 Tliomas Williams
77
Alden Moore
97
Schoolhouse
Kst. of Warren Pier, e
s.-.
WiUtam Pier,e
.V. Gilbert Love
7.S
Freeman Grover
9,,<
Jolin Alley
Samuel Pierce
.»;
Silas Pierce
.-.i; Samuel Harris
Store and P. O.-F. Grover
99
David Preble
Loriug Pierce
)17
Moses Pierce
.-.7 lsaa,c Brewer
Mil
Elbridge Horn
inn
Joshua D. Cnshman
Store-T. & N. Marr
:is
Joseph Maddocks
.-.S Alfred Brewer
.■41
George Love. Jr.
nil
William Brown
Tliomaa Marr, Jr.
:;;i
Robert Maddocks
r,:< Cameron Building
Xl>
Eben F. Decker
lllj
Miles Orne
Hannah Pierce
4,
John Maddocks
iln Daniel Cameron
«i
William Decker
in:i
Jacob Orne
Nahum B. Marr
41
Widow Webster
C.l John Cameron
«4
George Pierce
1114
William Cameron
.lariiel Man-
4--
Mo.e, Jewett
i;j Camer.ni Building
.s.-,
Eli Nelson
III.-.
Jerry Nelson
3 5 I 2 S II i
;- c ■: S S a S 1
ilLil
H
lllllliaillssa-?
|S ^ O S^ 5
» » o S V
mm
S I 1 I I = S 1 S S .1 ^. I -^
gills .s^^^^-Sfr-^
e s ? s i ■• -I i - 1 g 1 1
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 153
show only routine matters, but one on July Tth presented this
article :
" To take into consideration the alarming and defenseless
condition of the town's inhabitants against the enemy or any
plundering parties which may invade the town upon the sea-
coast harbors, or any other part thereof, or take such measures
thereon that the town may think proper."
Under this article a committee was chosen, a petition for
aid drawn and forwarded to the President, and other matters
acted upon which will more properly appear in another place.
In 1813 nothing appears of record, outside the war measures
and routine affairs, except the action taken in regard to the
poor. They were bound out to service by vote of the town in
the disci'etion of the selectmen. In 1815 the selectmen were
directed to petition the General Court to relinquish the claim
of the State to land in this town. John McClintock was em-
ployed to suryey the entire town, including the lots or tracts
claimed by each settler, and make plans of the same, in con-
formity with a resolve of the General Court, passed February
11, 1811, entitled "An act for quieting settlers on lands in
Bristol, Edgecomb," etc. For this service Mr. McClintock
was voted six hundred dollars.^
School districts underwent a revision of lines in 1816,
reaching the number of sixteen. In the annual meeting of that
year occurred a discussion and strife over the question whether
or not swine should be permitted to run at large, resulting in
the full, unhampered liberty of that animal. On May 20th
the question of statehood again came up in this form :
" Shall the Legislature be requested to give its consent to
the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts
proper, and to the erecting of said District into a separate State."
The vote was ten in favor to fifty-two against the proposi-
tion. On September 2d the same question came up in similar
form, resulting in sixty-four to twelve against separation. A
school committee first appears in 1818, with the following
duties : to examine candidates for teaching, to visit and exam-
1. Though the town records show the contract was made with Mr. McClintock,
snch old deeds as make reference to a plan cite a certain one and a survey made in
181B hy Dr. Daniel Rose. Both parties lived in the same part of the town, in fact
were neighbors, and both were surveyors. The fact can be reconciled only by assum-
ing that for some reason Mr. McClintock employed Dr. Rose to do the work, and that
the plan was allowed to bear the Doctor's name.
11
154 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AY.
ine as to the progress of the several schools, with the provision
that no teacher should receive pay from the selectmen until
their bill for services was approved by the committee. A road
leading from Jeremiah Beath's to and intersecting the road
from the Harbor to Murray's mill was accepted and ordered
built. In 1819 a meeting was called for July 26th to act on
the following article :
"Is it expedient that the District of Maine shall become a
separate and independent State, on the terms and conditions
provided in an act entitled ' an act relating to the separation of
Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the same into
a separate and independent State.'"
To this article a vote of ten in favor of statehood and thir-
ty-six against it was cast. The adoption of the resolution
favoring statehood resulted in the District, showing Boothbay
to be somewhat out of line with the popular feeling elsewhere.
Another meeting was called for September 1st
"To choose one or more delegates, to meet delegates from
other towns within the District of Maine, in Convention at
Portland, on the second Monday of October next, for the
purpose of framing a constitution, or form of government for
the said District."
Dr. Daniel Rose and Major John McKown were chosen
delegates from Boothbay. On December 6th another meeting
was called to act on the constitution which had been framed
by the convention, and a total of thirty-eight votes were all
thrown in approval of it.
With the year 1820 came statehood to the District of
Maine. Indications may be observed that it had its effect on
the town action by stimulating it in efforts to improve in
municipal methods. Individual appropriations were continued ;
the collection of taxes was tixed on a percentage, varying with
the year and the conditions of collecting ; the town treasurer
was the only officer who labored for a fixed compensation ;
the number and limits of the school districts remained as they
had been in recent years ; the highwaj'^ districts were revised
in form and a new schedule of prices for labor was fixed in
town meeting. In 1823 a committee was chosen to prepare a
remonstrance against the division of Lincoln County. Cattle
at large had become so injurious to all crops that a town meet-
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 155
ing was held resulting in a vote forbidding the practice. A
special meeting that year was called on November 10th and
one hundred dollars appropriated to the relief of the sufferers
from the fire at Wiscasset and Alna. In 1824 a stone bi'idge
was voted for Sawyer's Island, and Nicholas T. Knight chosen
to superintend the work. That year the record shows the first
vote of the town directing the highway surveyors to keep the
roads clear in winter. In 1827 an indictment was found
against the town for a defective road along the east side of the
Harbor leading to Spruce Point. That year was the first to
adopt a regular auditing system of town accounts, but instead
of a single auditor a committee of three was chosen. The road
from John Love's house to the middle bridge, near Edmund
Wilson's, was built in 1828.
In 1829 a law permitting license for retail liquor selling
had just passed the Maine Legislature. A strong contest at
the annual meeting was had, for the law was one of local
option. It resulted in favor of license. That year a road was
built from Major John McKown's to the Cape, on the east side
of Cape Newagen Island. In 1831 the road about the head
of Campbell's Cove was built with stone, William Kenniston
doing the work by contract. That year the town petitioned
the Legislature for the privilege to purchase the lots known as
town lot and Common, providing the title was found to be in
either Maine or Massachusetts, or jointly in them ; and the
following year Marshal Smith was chosen agent to perfect the
title in these pieces of property. At about this time many
roads were being accepted on the condition that they should
be no expense to the town. It is quite evident that some of
these were never built.
The first individual auditor of town accounts was chosen in
1833, in the person of Willard Thorpe. In 1834 a road was
accepted from Reed's meadow bridge, running southerly, to a
point near the line between the Fullerton and McFarland
farms, and another from Sawyer's Island bridge, through land
of Ichabod Pinkham, to Benjamin Hodgdon's. In 1835 it
appears that the poor were sold to the lowest bidder, to be
clothed, fed and provided with medical attendance to the sat-
isfaction of the selectmen. On these conditions they were
156 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
struck off to John Hodgdon, 2d, at forty-nine cents per week
for each one. An action at that date was that the school com-
mittee should decide on what text-books were to be used in the
schools and post a notice of their decision in each church.
An event occurred in 1837 which a few persons still
remember. At that time it had no precedent and probablj^ it
will never have a repetition. The distribution of the surplus
revenue in the United States treasury is referred to. Under
the act entitled by the Federal Government " to regulate the
deposit of the public money," a distribution took place from
the Federal treasury to each State treasury. It being a per
capita distribution, based on the preceding census, each town
received its proportion from the State. A vote to elect an
agent for this town to demand and receive of the State its
share resulted in the choice of William Carlisle. At a later
meeting John Leishman was chosen treasurer of the fund, giv-
ing bonds in the sum of eight thousand dollars. The town
action, after deducting three per cent, for expenses, was to
allow the treasurer of the fund to
" Loan to each master or mistress or head of a family in
the town of Boothbay, without interest, in equal proportion
according to the number of persons in their several families,
by giving safe and ample surety to the treasurer of said town,
to pay the same sum to the treasurer of said town, whenever
called for by the treasurer of Maine, according to said act."
The agent was directed to call on Judge Weston and ascei--
tain if the town method of proceeding was regular. On
February 26, 1838, a meeting was called to fix a plan for dis-
tribution of the surplus revenue, it not having been distributed
under the directions of the year before. John Leishman was
continued as treasurer and distributor, and it was directed that
he should be governed by the census taken by William Green-
leaf, but if any person was not properly enumerated, then Mr.
Leishman was empowered sole judge as to whether or not the
person was entitled to a share. He commenced the Monday
following this meeting, at the schoolhouse at Hodgdou's Mills,
to pay two dollars to each person, or to parents or guardians
in the case of minors, to the inhabitants of school districts
Nos. 3, 5, 6 and 12. On Wednesday at the schoolhouse at
the western side of the Harbor to districts 7, 20 and 9. On
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 157
Friday to the inhabitants on Cape Newagen Island, at Major
John McKown's. Monday at Willard Thorpe's for districts
8, 2, 18, 13 and 19. Thursday at Capt. Nathaniel Pinkham's
for districts 4 and 10. The agent was instructed when he
went after the money to change one thousand dollars for bills
under the denomination of five dollars, and to get Wiscasset
money.
In 1839 Capt. William McCobb bid off the poor at eighty-
five cents each per week, with usual conditions, except that he
was permitted to let out individuals as he saw fit. In 1840
appropriations were $1,200 for highways, $1,800 for poor and
other town charges, and the legal limit on schools. The town
that year was divided into four collection districts, each one to
be composed of five school districts and furnishing its own
collector.
On February 12, 1842, the first dismemberment of Booth-
bay occurred. Cape Newagen Island was incorporated as the
town of Townsend. No direct allusion is made to the separa-
tion in the Boothbay records, which indicates there could have
been no contest or complicated settlement of affairs between
the two towns. In November it was voted to petition the
Legislature for separate representation. A vote in 1844 was
passed " that two of the selectmen go together to every house
and take the valuation on the spot." The unique wording of
this vote, and the fact that the records disclose no other so
direct, convinces the author that this was the first actual, busi-
ness-like valuation ever taken in Boothbay. An article to see
if the town would purchase the Congregational church was dis-
missed in 1845. That year, the first since 1777, it was voted
to direct the highway surveyors to remove the gates and bars
then across the highways throughout the town. It was voted
to establish a liquor agency with some person, not a trader,
and licenses were refused retailers that year.
In 1847 seven hundred dollars was appropriated to build a
townhouse. Robert Spinney, Marshal Smith, Ammi Pierce,
Daniel Knight and Thomas Hodgdon were chosen a committee
to draft a plan, receive proposals, contract for building,
arrange terms of payment and select the location, the town
having voted that it should be upon the Common. It was
158 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
specified that it should be completed for the September meet-
ing. The meeting of September 13, 1847, for the election of
State and county ofScers, was the first held in the house. In
1848 it was voted to allow the balance of the surplus revenue
to remain to the credit of the town. A road from the house
of Benjamin Giles to intersect the road leading past the house
of Charles Giles was built that year. In 1851 the road
running along the shore on the east side of the Harbor was
discontinued.
In 1853 a road was laid out from Mill Cove to the land of
Andrew Berry ; one hundred and fifty dollars was voted in
assistance of a bridge between Barter's Island and Thomas
Hodgdon's Island ; the sale of liquors was licensed ; but an
article to raise one thousand dollars for the support of high
schools was dismissed. In 1854 it was voted to permit the
Free Will Baptist Society to build a church on the Common.
A road on Sawj'er's Island to the bridge and another across
Hodgdon's Island were accepted. It was also voted to discon-
tinue the old road from Joseph Lewis' place, at the head of
Adams' Pond, to Jonathan Morrison's as soon as the county
road should be completed. In 1855 roads as follows were
accepted : from the west end of Barter's Island bridge to
Samuel Lewis' barn ; from near the old red schoolhouse to the
top of the hill near Beniah Dolloff's house ; from A\'"illiam
Hodgdon's north line to S. G. Hodgdon's house ; from Parker
Wilson's store to intersect the old road near David Newbe-
gin's store ; from Elbridge Love's to John McClintock's south
dwelling house. A road from McClintock's to Samuel Brewer's
was refused by the town, but granted by the county commis-
sioners on appeal.
In 1857 a committee of four was added to the board of
selectmen, empowered to purchase and stock a town farm,
move the poor upon it and employ necessary help to carry it
on. The meeting refused a motion to have the annual town
report printed. In 1858 a road was accepted from Southpoit
Bridge to Benjamin Hodgdon's east line,' to intersect the road
leading to the schoolhouse. That year sixty-two votes, the
1. The first bridge between Southport and Boothbay crossed Townsend Gut from
the mainland at Oak Point, now so-called, to the business establishment of Major
John McKown, which in recent years has been the Southport steamboat landing.
MXIMCIPAL HISTORY. 159
total thrown, were in favor of the adoption of the prohibitory
law just passed by the Legislature, the license provision in the
law receiving no support. In 1859 the town refused to receive
as a gift the bridge from John Keed, 2d's, leading to Hodg-
don's Island, but appropriated two hundred dollars toward
making Campbell's Cove bridge free. A road from Samuel
Murray's to intersect the road leading to Hodgdon's Mills was
accepted. In 1860 the town refused to accept either the
Campbell's Cove bridge or the one leading from Hodgdon's to
Barter's Island. The road, however, from the west end of the
Cove bridge, to intersect the road leading to the Center, was
accepted. The townhouse was moved from the east side of
the Common to its present location. In 1862 nearly every
special request was refused, the regular annual expenditures
only being voted. War expenses were beginning to be severely
felt. In 1863 a road from John N. Seavey's to the town road
was accepted. In 1864 appeared the first printed town report.
In 1865 the road on McKown's Point was accepted, also
McKown Street at the Harbor. Three hundred dollars was
voted in aid of repairs on bridge from John Eeed, 2d's, to
Hodgdon's Island. In 1867, in suppoi't of a petition by Allen
Lewis and others, in an effort to have Boothbay made a port
of entry and a custom house established, an appropriation of
five hundred dollars was made, and a committee chosen, con-
sisting of Robert Montgomery, M. E. Pierce, S. K. Hilton,
William E. Reed and John McClintock.
In 1868 it was voted that petitioners for new roads should
pay all expenses incurred when the roads asked for were not
approved by the town. The county commissioners having
been appealed to by the residents of Barter's Island, and upon
a hearing having granted a ferry, the town, at a special meet-
ing in November, voted to build a bridge on to that island in
lieu of the ferry decreed by the commissioners. This action,
however, in the spring of 1869, was reconsidered, whereby the
town had voted to build a bridge from Barter's Island to the
mainland, north of Hodgdon's Island, and it now voted to
build a bridge from Barter's to Hodgdon's Island.
Boothbay having been made a port of delivery, resolutions
were passed in 1871 and spread upon the records, extending
160 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
thanks to Senators Blaine and Hamlin and Col. Orin McFadden
for their efforts. In 1872 the road easterly from the marine
railway was built. Five hundred dollars was appropriated to
procure a survey for a railroad to intersect the Knox and Lin-
coln Eailroad, and Luther Haddocks, George B. Kenniston
and Alden Blossom were chosen a committee for the purpose.
In 1873 fifteen hundred dollars was raised for rebuilding
Hodgdon's Island bridge. An effort to get a high school
building at the Harbor was defeated. In 1874 roads were
accepted on the north and west sides of Barter's Island. School
districts 1 and 7 united for the purpose of maintaining a sj'S-
tem of free graded schools,' and the next year districts 3 and
12, at East Boothbay, united for the same purpose. As an
outcome of the union of districts 3 and 12, a town meeting
was called which erected a district midway between the two
villages, known as No. 12, with the old red schoolhouse as their
building, which continued until after the division of the town.
In 1875 it was voted to sell the town's bonds to an amount
not exceeding $25,000 for the purpose of paying the town
debt, $2,000 of this amount to fall due in five years, and ten
per cent, of the remainder to be paid annually thereafter. In
1877 Boothbay appropriated one hundred and seventy-five dol-
lars to assist in grading and purchasing cable to meet one-half
the expense of a ferry to Southport. George B. Kenniston,
Chapman N. Reed and John Montgomery were chosen a com-
mittee to investigate the expense of and obtain designs for a
soldiers' monument. A road from John Grimes' house to
Ocean Point was accepted, five hundred dollars appropriated
for its building, and the contract awarded to William Kennis-
ton. A road was built from Allen Lewis' old place to the
lobster factory, and a road across the land of Isaac Pinkham.
In 1878 an appropriation of two thousand dollars was
made for a soldiers' monument and the former committee, with
the board of selectmen, was authorized to purchase, locate and
set the same. The road from the stoi-e of Miles Pierce to the
house of T. J. Emerson was built. By a vote of eighty-three
1. School district No. 1 appeared at the Harbor alter the island of Cape Newagen
became incorporated at Townsend. Previously it had existed there. The Boothbay
districts were then revised and Nos. l and 7 were at this time the districts on either
side of the Harbor.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 161
to sixty-three, at a special meeting in May, the town refused
to buy fire apparatus for Boothbay Harbor. In 1879 the town
contracted with the Maine Ice Company to pay them two hun-
dred dollars annually for the term of ten years for the exclu-
sive use of a road across the company's dam at Campbell's
Cove, the company to keep the road and dam in good order,
and the town to have a further free use for twenty years. The
first free high school appropriation was made in 1880 of two
hundred and fifty dollars. The streets at the Harbor were
straightened, from the old schoolhouse to the store of D. W.
Hodgdon, and from Joseph Chambers' house to the Wilson
store. A road was accepted from the schoolhouse in No. 5 to
the house of William Bennett. The lockup lot, so-called, was
given to the Engine Company and one hundred dollars to assist
in building an engine house. In 1881 abatements of tax were
generally made on property formerly engaged in the porgy oil
business, now rendered nearly worthless from scarcity of fish.
Permission was granted the Boothbay Telegraph and Telephone
"Company to run lines from the Harbor to East Boothbay and
to the Knickerbocker Works. It was voted to forever reserve
for a public park the land at Boothbay Center, south of Maho-
ney's and Welch's lots, and bounded on the east and south by
the town road and on the west by the county road. In 1882
the Mahonej'^ lot was purchased and an exchange made for the
Welch lot, and both were added to the north end of the Com-
mon. Cross Street at the Harbor was built. In 1883 and
1884 town action was simply routine. In 1885 the vault was
added to the townhouse at a cost of five hundred dollars, and
the Jason Pinkham lot at the Center was repurchased. In
1886 the following roads were built : from Townsend Marine
Eailway to house of Frank Albee ; from Martin Brewer's
house to house of George Brewer, 2d, near Echo Lake ; and
straightening the street from the Wilson store to the store of
K. H. Richards ; the street was broadened from the Second
Congregational Church to the residence of I. C. Sherman.
In 1887 the town had printed a special report containing
the inventory and valuation of polls and estates as of record,
April, that year. It included a summary statement of the
town's financial standing, a schedule of vessel property owned
162 HISTORY or BOOTHBAY.
in town, and was a work of much value, bringing to the atten-
tion of the citizens many omissions and irregularities of valua-
tion. After being four times refused by town action, the
county commissioners, on appeal, ordered McClintock Street,
at the Harbor, built that year. The same season roads were
built from the town way to Paradise Point ; from Horace
Pinkham's to John H. Welsh's, ending at the town way near
the house of Charles Kush ; from the steamboat landing at
Ocean Point to the road leading to John Gi'imes' house. At
the last annual meeting before division, in 1888, roads were
accepted from West Street to the house of Levi Burns ; from
near the house of Allen Lewis, on Atlantic Street, to the fac-
tory of the Winslow Packing Company ; from the house of
Payson Tibbetts, Back River, to the Isaac Hutchings' place,
Dover ; from the house of Granville J. Seavey, East Booth-
bay ; and widening and straightening the road at West Harbor
from Mill Cove to Campbell's Cove.
While the author trusts his readers may appreciate this
chapter for what it contains, he is well aware that many impor-
tant acts of the town have either been treated in a cursory
manner or omitted altogether. While imperfect work should
bear its share for all shortcomings, it must be remembered that
this chapter is made up from the records as they exist, and
much that makes the clearest imprint on the memory as it is
passing in a deliberative assembly, like a town meeting, shows
but slightly in the record ; and much that causes a great amount
of preliminary discussion scarcely appears thereon. Perhaps
no more fitting place will appear to draw attention to town
action in the construction of roads than the present. The road
system in any locality, from the date of colonization to the
present, is controlled by the same variety of conditions that
influence its citizens. The longer the sti-etch of time between
the one point and the other the more complex become the
duties of the investigator. A century and a quarter practically
intervenes between 1764 and 1888. Boothbay had during that
time belonged to two States and assisted in fighting through
thi'ee wars, in two of which she became an object of attack by
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 163
the enemy. Her colonists settled along the shore, at favorable
spots, knowing but little about, and deriving but little from,
the interior of the town. Her citizens for a long term of years
obtained their support from the sea. To roads they were to
some extent indifferent. One citizen, born in 1814, has related
to the author that, when of suitable age to possess a general
acquaintance over town, there were but four residents who
owned a riding wagon. The only highway ratings in the
matter of wages for team labor, showing in the records up to
1860, were for oxen. Roads, from the most primitive condi-
tions until they reach perfection, present simply an example of
evolution, governed by the wants and requirements of the pop-
ulation. The leading industries of a people have a controlling
influence over them. With these thoughts, founded upon the
facts, there seems little wonder that roads were so totally neg-
lected in early times and have become so great an expense in
later years.
There was much road action in Boothbay's early meetings,
but roads which were accepted, in most cases, were mere bridle
paths, cut off by gates and bars, and entirely impassable for a
modern carriage. The author has noted many instances, in
the earlier records, where a road was laid out, reported and
regularly accepted, and the presumption would be natural that
building followed, when to his surprise the same road, a few
years later, is again before a meeting for acceptance. This
occurs several times in some instances, until it becomes bewil-
dering as to what the eventual action of the town was. It is in
cases of this kind, where the subject is befogged by irregular
town action, where most omissions occur.
In this chapter municipal action has been almost entirely
omitted at four material periods : during the Revolutionary
"War, again in the War of 1812, the part relating to military
action from 1861 to 1865, and the particular votes upon which
the petitioners based their action in 1888. In each of the fore-
going instances town proceedings have been withheld from the
mass presented, to make in each case a separate chapter. The
municipal record, therefore, closes with 1888, the year of the
water contest and the last of united municipal action of the
mainland of Boothbay.
CHAPTER XI.
Land Claims and Claimants.
THE foundation of the claims' and the manner of their
descent will first be given that the reader may proceed
with a clearer understanding of the difficulties experi-
enced by the settlers in Lincoln County, and particularly those
of Boothbay.
1. — The Brown claim is founded on the purchase by John
Brown, of New Harbor, July 15, 1625, from the two Wawe-
noc sagamores, Capt. John Somerset and Unnongoit, of the
tract described as follows :
"Beginning at Pemaquid Falls and so running a direct
course to the head of New Harbor, and thence to the south
end of Muscongus Island, and so running five and twenty
miles into the country north and by east, and thence eight
miles northwest and by west, and then turning and running
south and by west to Pemaquid where first begun."
The consideration for this purchase was fifty beaver skins.
These limits would include, as now constituted, all of Noble-
boro, Damariscotta, Bremen and Jefferson, and the greater
part of Bristol and Newcastle. John Brown died about 1670,
in either a place very near where Damariscotta Village stands,
or in Boston, at the home of his son. He left three children,
John Brown, Jr., Elizabeth, who married Richard Pierce, of
Marblehead, and Margaret, who married Sander Gould. In
1660 Brown deeded to Gould and his wife a tract eight miles
square, nearly in the center of his purchase. The Goulds had
1. Reference to the land troubles experienced by the settlers may be made to
Will. Hist. Me. II, 623; Cushman's Sheepscot, Chapters I, II, V, VII, XVI, XVII, XIX,
XX, XXI ; Johnson'.s Pemaquid, Chapters XXXV, XXXVI ; but more largely than
from any of the foregoing may the leading facts, as well as the general conditions,
be obtained from the printed report of the commission appointed to adjust the dif-
ficulties in 1811 ; this report is, however, very rare, there being but few in existence.
LAND CLAIMS AND CLAIMANTS. 165
three daughters, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. Margaret
married William Stilson, who was killed by the Indians, but
left two children, James and Margaret, who the next century
made claim of the lands. The daughter, Margaret Stilson,
married William Hilton, who was killed by the Indians, but to
whom the larger part of those bearing the name of Hilton in
this part of the State trace their descent. The old Indian deed
of Brown's was recorded at Charlestown, Mass., December 26,
1720, and at the York registry, in Maine, August 3, 1739.
It is supposed the deed was burned in the Boston courthouse
in 1748.
2. — The Drowne claim descended from the Pemaquid pat-
ent to Aldsworth and Elbridge, February 20, 1631. Elbridge
received it entire by survivorship. In time it was inherited
by his son John, and he devised it to his brother Thomas, who
lived at Pemaquid and held early courts there. In 1650
Thomas mortgaged Damariscove and Monhegan to Eichard
Kussell, selling one-half of the patent to Paul White for £200.
They, jointly, in 1653, conveyed their interests to Eichard
Eussell and Nicholas Davidson. Eussell then sold Davidson
his share, and Shem Drowne, marrying an heir of Davidson
and obtaining power of attorney from the other heirs, came
into possession of the claim and worked it for a revenue many
years. The Drowne claim embraced all of the present towns
of Bristol, Bremen and Damariscotta, with a part of Newcastle
and Nobleboro.
3. — The Tappan claim covered nearly all of the present
towns of Newcastle and Damariscotta, extended to Edgecomb
and included a part of Nobleboro, also in the vicinity of Mount
Sweague (now Montsweag in Woolwich), and, perhaps, more
on the west of Sheepscot Eiver. This claim rested upon three
deeds from Indian sagamores to Walter Phillips, in 1661,
1662 and 1674. Phillips conveyed all his right and title in
the property, in 1702, to Eev. Christopher Tappan, of New-
bury, Mass. Tappan had one son and three daughters. On
September 11, 1746, he deeded one-fourth of his property to
his son, and September 16th, shortly before his death, con-
veyed the remainder jointly to his daughters. Besides his
purchase of Phillips, Tappan bought out the heirs of Mason
166 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
and Gent and some others on the Sheepscot. He sent pai-ties
to take possession and live upon his lands in 1718. He made
efforts to purchase claims of heirs of other settlers, who had
been driven out by the Indians the previous century, but failed
to do so.
4. — The Noble ^ claim, which was a source of great annoy-
ance to the early inhabitants of Boothbay, rested upon the fol-
lowing : Mary, daughter of Sander and Margaret (Brown)
Gould, married John Coats ; they had one child, a son, Prin-
sent Coats. He sold his claim, whatever it might amount to,
to William Noble, mentioning, in particular, the eight-mile-
square tract. He, doubtless, had retained his interest in this
as the others of the family, and his mother's share was a one-
third interest. This descended by will from Noble to his
heirs, and they were very active in pressing their claims, in
many instances where there was no semblance of likelihood
that they ever extended, even if they had an equity anywhere.
5. — The Vaughn claim originated with William Vaughn,
who established himself at Damariscotta Mills in Dunbar's
time. His connection there has been previously referred to.
It has also been mentioned that the century before there lived
at Damariscotta and Newcastle, as now known, four families :
Walter Phillips and John Taylor on the Newcastle side, and
John Brown, Jr., and Robert Scott on the east side. It has
also been noted that Phillips conveyed his intei'ests to Tappan.
Now Vaughn sought out all the heirs he could find of Taylor,
Brown and Scott and purchased their interests. John Brown,
Jr., sold on October 30, 1734, a large tract east and south of
the present village of Damariscotta, and the following year, on
December 8th, made a further deed of all he had conveyed the
previous year and, in addition, the whole of the old John
Brown tract, regardless of the rights of any of the other heirs
of his grandfather. In 1741 Tappan brought an action of
ejectment against Vaughn, but judgment was given for the
defendant, and on appeal judgment was confirmed by the
Superior Court of York County.
1. James Noble was the heir ot William, who purchased the claim of Prinsent
Coats. In 176S James Noble married the widow of William Vaughn, with whom the
Vaughn claim originated. The town of Nobleboro, much against the wishes of its
inhabitants, took its name when incorporated, NoTember20, 1788, from Arthur Noble,
heir of James.
LAND CLAIMS AND CLAIMANTS. 167
6. — The Hathorne claim depended upon the deed of Robin
Hood to Henry Curtiss, in 1666, of the west side of the penin-
sula between the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers, which
became Boothbay ninety-eight years later. Curtiss conveyed
his interests to one Hathorne, whose heirs kept the claim alive
and annoyed the settlers greatly with it. Hathorne's heirs
•evidently laid claim to the whole of Boothbay, but on account
of rival claimants withdrew to the west side of the town.
7. — The Plymouth Company's' interests on the Kennebec
became vested in a body or company of men known as the
Kennebec Purchasers. Silvester Gardiner got sev^eral of the
Townsend settlers to take deeds of him, also he and others of
his company leased lands on Linekin Neck. By observing the
petition for incorporation by the Townsend settlers, it maj^ be
noted that it is endorsed by " the proprietors of the Kennebec
Purchase from the late colony of New Plymouth, Silv. Gardi-
ner, James Pitts, Benjamin Hallowell, William Taylor, Ger-
shom Flagg."
Reading between the lines of this petition, it is apparent
that this group of wealthy landholders on the Kennebec held
a whip suspended over the heads of the Townsend inhabitants.
8. — The Ludgate claim was confined entirely to the Booth-
bay lauds. It conflicted with that of Hathorne and that of
derivation through the Plymouth Companj' as well. It waa
represented by John Ludgate, of Boston, and had descended
to him by the will of one Champnoi, who was probably a
descendant of Henry Curtis. In September, 1737, he laid out
lots about the water front of fifty acres each, reserved ten acres
for a church, training field and burying ground, and ordered
that the first settled minister should share equally in the
meadows with the first settlers. One hundred acres was to be
wiven the first minister, and an additional one hundred acres
for the use and support of the ministry. The fifty-acre lots
were offered on terms of credit to the settlers, with the condi-
tions that, from the second payment, one hundred pounds
might be appropriated toward building a church, and thirty
pounds thereafter, annually, from the payments to aid in sup-
1. An excellent idea may be obtained of all facts relating to the Kennebec
Purchase, in an article by Robert HalloweU Gardiner, in Me. Hist. Coll., Vol. II, pp.
269-2M.
168 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
porting a minister. William McCobb's deposition reinforces
the facts here presented, but throws no further light on them.
The plan he saw in 1770, or later, was probably the old one
made in 1737. It is doubtful if Ludgate ever effected many,
if any, sales.
By examining the bounds of the various claims it will be
seen that in the afflicted towns, at the north and east of our
own, the Brown, Drowne, Tappan, Vaughn and Noble claims
conflicted, either by overlapping one another or covering
entire the same tract ; while in the towns of Boothbay alone,
the claims of Noble, Hathorne, Ludgate and the Kennebec
Proprietors, practically, all claimed the same territory. It
appears that Hathorne and Ludgate settled their differences by
Hathorne confining himself to the western part while Ludgate
took the eastern. No compromise between claimants, other
than this, appeared. Noble seems to be coupled with the
Hathorne interests at times, and from his activity and inclina-
tion for that kind of work, it may be that additional to his
own claims, which were stretched into this locality without the
semblance of a reason for doing so, he may have purchased an
interest in Hathorne's or it may have been given him upon a
plan of percentage, the Hathorne claimants recognizing his
ability and success in blackmailing the destitute inhabitants.
The reader may find particular references to these hard-
ships in the depositions which have appeared in a former
chapter. Previous to incorporation the oppression existed, but
of that we have no record except in the depositions mentioned.
As the country became settled and improved these claims were
pressed with increased energy for the reason that there was a
larger field to work and more revenue to be harvested. Town
action in Boothbay occurred at three periods as follows :
" Voted that the town will stand by one another to stand a
law-sute with the proprietors if any of them is sued by
Hathorne's clamers impowering James Noble to sue the inhab-
itants within the lines mentioned excepting those persons that
has taken under above sd clamers meaning all the inhabitants
to the Eastward of Cambels Cove so called and Cambels pond
so called and from thence to the Oven's mouth so called all
inhabitants that has not tied them Selves to sd Nobel by
LAND CLAIMS AND CLAIMANTS. 169
writing or any other way is to be in due proportion in sute
against him the sd hathorne and nobel. " ^
The above vote, besides showing the oppression of the land
claimants, also shows a peculiar method of doing town busi-
ness. No appropriation is here made to be assessed for a
purpose ; but a vote is taken, evidently understood by those
voting, to make a certain element legally liable to a contri-
bution. In 1777 all the town voted to defend any person
against the prosecutions threatened by the land claimants
against certain individual inhabitants; and again, in 1787, the
Hathorne claimants pressed so many of the people with threats
of suits of ejectment, that the town, at its annual meeting,
chose William McCobb, Capt. John Borland and Capt. John
Reed to defend individuals at the expense of the town.
As time wore on the land troubles steadily increased. The
heirs, in each successive generation, were becoming more
numerous, and even pretenders appeared, looking upon the
rural population of this little cluster of towns as an easy prey
for their peculations. The greater number of claimants lived
in Massachusetts. It was a rare thing that any of their suits
were pressed to trial. They were mostly brought in the nature
of a bluff, knowing the natural fear and dread in which the
inhabitants stood of the law and legal action. There is but
little doubt that the proprietors themselves realized their
own weakness, inasmuch as they seldom clashed with each
other, though their claims were everywhere overlapping or
covering the identical tracts of land. Many instances are
recorded where some proprietor induced some one to take a
deed under him, when the party thus purchasing would be
almost immediately sued by another claimant.
A survey of the property was necessary upon which to
sustain an action, and at last the. people, goaded to despera-
tion, took the matter into their own hands and decided to
allow no more surveys to be made. Bands of citizens collected
wherever it was proposed to run a line, and surveyors, fearing
to come into collision with the people in their existing state of
mind, desisted from the purpose. The claimants were con-
veniently located and subtle enough in their plans to make a
1. Town records, 1769.
12
170 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
favorable impression upon the General Court. At that dis-
tance from the scene of trouble it was plausibly presented that
these heirs of just claims were being wronged of their rightful
inheritances by a set of squatters, who, as a last resort, by
riotous action, with force and arms, were even obstructing
land surveyors in the duties to which they were appointed by
the Court.
Through this influence, on March 6, 1810, a law was
passed, entitled " An Act for the more speedy and effectual sup-
pression of tumults in the Commonwealth. " This law author-
ized any judge of the Supreme Court, in certain circumstances,
when the regular administration of the law was obstructed, to
call out, in his discretion, a sufficient force of militia to sup-
press the riot or tumult and restore order.
Two test cases were brought that year, probably by collusion
between the plaintiffs. One was James Noble vs. John Hall,
of Nobleboro, founded on the Brown claim, thi'ough the
Goulds, to the eight-mile-square lot : and the other was Eliot
G. Vaughn vs. Nathaniel Thompson, of Nobleboro, based on
the Brown claim, through the original deed of 1625. If the
latter should be held valid the other certainly would l)c, and
if it was not held valid the other might be. James Malcomb,
of Cushing, was appointed surveyor by the Court and duly
sworn on August 25th. On the 27th he went to Hall's to
commence the survey, accompanied by Noble's agent. While
searching for a corner bound at which to commence they were
confronted by a band of some fifty or sixty inhabitants,
headed by that old Revolutionary hero. Com. Samuel Tucker,
who was then sixty-three years old and spokesman for the party.
He demanded their authority, whereupon the Court order was
produced. Tucker denounced it as a forger^', told them that
no court would order a survey without giving notice to all
parties whose lands were affected ; that if Hall's farm was
taken from him, pei-haps his (Tucker's) would be taken next,
and that would never occur until it had been enriched by the
last drop of blood in his veins. He then issued his ultimatum,
that the town of Bristol had decided to have no lines run, and
if they persisted their instruments would he taken away from
them. Giving up the effort they turned to leave town, and
LAND CLAIMS AND CLAIMANTS. 171
were escorted out of it by Com. Tucker, William and Thomas
Burns, ^ and others. On the way toward Damariscotta Mills a
party was met, who stated that about 100 men near that place
were congregated and that they stated that they were on the
lookout for land proprietors.
Statements were made to the Court at once and it ordered
a draft, principally from Boothbay and vicinity, of 500 men,
under their proper oiBcers, to be held in readiness to march at
short notice. It is said that representatives from Bristol at
once came to Boothbay and interviewed the drafted men as to
their views. The agents of Bristol were assured by the Booth-
bay contingent that if they had to fight they should choose
which side to fight on.
About this time the entire District of Maine was highly
excited over an occurrence at Malta, now "Windsor. There the
Kennebec Proprietors were pressing their claims against a poor
and needy community. While making a survey in that place
on September 8, 1809, Paul Chadwick was shot and killed.
Seven of the party who did the shooting were at once arrested
and lodged in the Augusta jail. Their sympathizers, from all
the locality about Malta, disguised as Indians, besieged the
jail and tried to rescue the prisoners. The militia were called
out to guard the jail. The judges ordered an extra session of
the court to try the prisoners for murder at an early date.
The trial lasted a fortnight ; the evidence was direct as well
as circumstantial, and of the strongest character, including
that of one of the prisoners, who, evidently frightened and
advised, turned State's evidence. Notwithstanding this, all
were acquitted. The fact of this acquittal against evidence and
the fear to depend upon the Boothbay militia against their
brethren in distress, residing in the neighboring towns of
Nobleboro and Bristol, went far toward precipitating the issue,
1. The report made by Vaughn and Malcomb to the Court stated that Tucker told
them regardless of his years he could still wield a sword or pull a trigger ; and that
hoth William and Thomas Burns declared they would shoot the first person who at-
tempted to run a line on their land, no matter what court they might have an order
from. This William Burns, for his last marriage, married Margaret, widow of
William McClintock and daughter of William Fullerton, of Boothbay. The McClin-
tock children, one of whom was John, who founded the Boothbay family were reared
by Bums.
172 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
out of which an adjustment came and the existing troubles
subsided.^
The following wintei- the General Court repealed the
obnoxious law permitting a single judge to call out the militia,
and passed a resolution directing the Governor to appoint a
commission of three members, whose duties should be to take
into consideration his message to the two branches of the Leg-
islature, in relation to the disturbances in Lincoln County,
also to consider the memorials of the inhabitants of the towns
of Bristol, Edgecomb, Nobleboro, Newcastle and Boothbay,
then pending before the General Court. The commissioners
were directed to go to the county of Lincoln empowered to
send for such persons and papers as they deemed necessary,
and to give notice of the time and place of their meetings to
the selectmen of the towns mentioned.
The Governor appointed on this commission Hon. Perez
Morton, a prominent lawyer in Boston, Jonathan Smith, Jr.,
and Thomas B. Adams. They met at the house of Dr. Josiah
Myrick, Newcastle, on April 29th. John M. McFarland, then
one of the Boothbay board of selectmen, with William McCobb
and Dr. Daniel Rose, represented Boothbay. William McCobb
was chosen chairman of the assemblage of town committees.
A sub-committeee to represent and conduct the case for the
inhabitants was chosen, of which Doctor Rose was selected
chairman. Just three weeks were spent upon the case. Many
depositions were taken, by which means much of the early his-
torj' of this locality has been rescued from oblivion. Nearly
every part of the disputed territory was visited and a report
with recommendations followed to the General Court. In
place of a miserable set of squatters, preferring mob rule to
law and order, the commission reported that churches, well-
supported, existed in each of the towns ; that schools were
numerous and well-supported, and that the country had been
settled nearly a century ; that the people were thrifty, well-
ordered, industrious, and had, by industry, made comfortable
1, The defendants in this case were David Lynn, Jabez Meigs, Elijah Barton,
Prince Cain, Nathaniel Lynn, Ansel Meigs and Adam Pitts. The trial was commenced
November IC, 1809, before Judges Sedgwick, Sewall, Thatcher and Parker. Jury-
men were entirely chosen from Somerset and Kennebec Counties, This trial excited
great interest everywhere in Maine and Massachusetts. It appeared in book form
January, ISIO, from the press of Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell.
LAND CLAIMS AND CLAIMANTS. 173
for themselves. They recommended that, from the facts
obtained by them, another commission should be appointed to
determine what, if any, ownership existed in the claimants,
and that if any was found to exist that they be awarded wild
land in the District to satisfy the amount determined, and that
the settlers on the lands in dispute be unmolested.
Accordingly, June 11, 1811, the Governor alluded favor-
ably to the report in his message and the new commissioners
selected were Hon. Jeremiah Smith, Exeter, N. H., William
H. Woodward, Hanover, N. H., and Hon. David Howell,
Providence, E. I. By this decision a full township of land
was given the Kennebec Proprietors, and half a township to
claimants under the Drowne claim. The Brown, Tappan,
Noble and Vaughn claims were extinguished as never having
had any foundation in either law or equity, while the Hathorne
and Ludgate claims were declared obsolete.
I add to this hasty sketch of long and weighty troubles,
which bore upon our early inhabitants, a valuable deposition,
taken of the venerable William McCobb, before the commis-
sion in 1811 and but four j'ears before his decease.
William McCobb's Deposition.
William McCobb, of Boothbay, testified : That he is sixty-
nine years of age. That the first claimants of Boothbay since
his remembrance, about the j^ear 1775, was the Plymouth
Company. A Major Goodwin, as their agent, came about
that time and brought a surveyor with him. He said he was
willing to quiet the old settlers under Dunbar with an hundred
acres each. He brought with him Indian deeds, grants and
plans to show that the Company's claim extended to the sea.
After Goodwin went away another agent of the Plymouth
Company, Doctor McKecknie, settled in town. Many people
took deeds under Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, who claimed under
the Plymouth Company — among others there were Andrew
and Ephraim McFarland, and four or five more. The witness
further testified that the next claimant was Major James Noble,
who claimed under one Hathorne, by virtue of a deed from
Robin Hood to Henry Curtis, and from Curtis to Hathorne.
Noble offered to quiet all old settlers in their possessions, in
case they would give up the rest of their land. About the
3'ear 1766 or 1767 in one part of Boothbay Noble convened
the inhabitants, made proposals, but they refused to do any-
174 HISTOKY OF BOOTHBAY.
thing ; afterward, as witness was informed, he went into the
other part of the town, and asserted that the inhabitants gen-
erally had agreed to settle and had taken deeds. Under this
impression a number were persuaded to compromise with
Noble, and they gave their notes. Noble gave them each a
stipulation, that on paying £13 6s 8d, the amount of the
notes, he would give a deed. The witness believes that none
of the notes were ever paid, or deeds given, and never knew
of any person being called on for his note.
About thirty to forty years ago, witness testified that he
saw a survey of a part of Boothbay, under a claim denominated
the Ludgate claim, who derived his title from one Champnoi,
under a will. Hathorne and Ludgate came down and made a
division, and Hathorne took one side of the town and Ludgate
the other. Ludgate made great professions, if people would
buy of him, that he would build a meeting house and give
every settler fifty acres, but he never did either. The claims
of Hathorne and Ludgate did not extend to Edgecomb, but
there was another Tappan claim which did extend to Edge-
comb. The witness further testified that the Plymouth Com-
pany gave leases to people on Linekin's Neck in Boothba}^
Rp:v. John Murray.
1742-1793-
CHAPTER Xn.
Ecclesiastical History.
TO JUSTLY comprehend any historical situation it is nec-
essary to understand the existing predominating beliefs
of the people and the conditions surrounding them at
the particular period. Nearly one and one-half centuries have
elapsed since the occurrences enumerated in the early part of
this chapter. Religious belief was then more direct and simple
than at present. There was less diversity of opinion then than
now, but the opinions of that epoch were tenaciously held.
Church attendance was then believed to be a necessity, if pos-
sible, and the efforts to attend, in some cases of which we
have record, seem well-nigh incredible. Ministers assiduously
attended to their duties, against many adverse conditions, for
a very small pecuniary compensation ; and yet, to raise those
slight salaries, at the time, was a greater burden than to con-
tribute to the larger expenses of the present. But regardless
of the strain upon the parish it was usually accomplished, as
matters always are that carry with them the sense of duty.
The efficacy of prayer, — the intercession and response, direct
and immediate, — the foreordination of events, the special
providences were all tenets of faith which are largely modified
at the present day.
There were in Maine about the middle of the eighteenth
century but few in religious beliefs outside of the Congrega-
tionalists, Presbyterians and Episcopalians. The latter, how-
ever, were not as numerous nor as diversified in settlement
over the State as either of the former. Those localities where
the inhabitants were principally of Scotch descent were gen-
erally Presbyterian in their earliest history.
The first Presbytery in New England was established at
Londonderry, N. H., April 16, 174.5, called the Boston Pres-
bytery. The first Presbyterian Church in New England had
176 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
been gathered in the same town, in 1719, bj'- the Eev. James
McGregor, both pastor and people being of Scotch-Irish blood,
and immigrants then recently from Ireland. In 1775 this
Boston Presbj-tery was divided into three, known as the
eastern or Salem, the middle or Londonderry^ the western or
Palmer. These were organized at Londonderry, September 4,
1776, into a paramount body known as the Synod of New
England. But this body declined until 1782, when it became
again a single one, known as the Salem Presbj^ery, and its
last meeting was held at Graj^ Maine, September 14, 1791.
The principal churches of this denomination in Maine were
gathered in the towns of Boothbay, Bristol, Brunswick, Cam-
den, Georgetown, Gray, Newcastle, Scarborough, Topsham,
Turner, Warren and AVindham. At the date last given they
had lost their sectarian character and, within a few years,
became Congregational, the two denominations differing but
little in either faith or customs.
The earliest mentioned minister about the Kennebec, or
east of it, was the Rev. Joseph Baxter, a Congregationalist,
who accompanied Governor Shufe to Arrowsic in 1717 for the
purpose of holding a conference with the Canibas Indians.
He preached there, at intervals, until 1721. No other is
recorded until 1734, when, at the same place, the Rev. William
McClanethan, a Presbyterian, commenced his labors and con-
tinued, irregularly, for ten years. Congregationalists and
Presbyterians were about evenly balanced in numbers in
Georgetown, and, not being able to support two churches, nor
to agree on one, they were without religious worship much of
the time. At last the right man came in Rev. Ezekiel Emer-
son, who was ordained July 1, 1765, and a successful pastor-
ate was conducted for fourteen years.
Rev. Robert Rutherford, who came into the country under
Dunbar, preached at the fort at Pemaquid and in the houses
and barns about Harrington, Walpole, Townsend and New-
castle until 1735, when he settled at Brunswick. The Rev.
Robert Dunlap, born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, in
1715, receiving his degree and license to preach at the age of
nineteen, embarked for America in 1736. The vessel he came
in was wrecked on Isle of Sable, but he and a few others
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 177
reached the Isle of Canso. He then went to Cape Ann and
Boston. From there he came to Nobleboro, Maine. Next he
came to Townsend, where he lived awhile and preached, like
Rutherford, in the houses and barns of the plantation. He
next went to Sheepscot and finally, in 1746, was ordained as
the first pastor at Brunswick, where he preached for thirteen
years, afterward living out his days in that town.
Rev. Alexander Boyd came to New England in 1748, and
preached for a time in Georgetown, but the two denominations
could not harmonize on him, so he went to Newcastle, where
he was ordained at the Sheepscot church, but under great
objection from part of the people, and a condition that it was
not to be understood that his pastorate extended to the Dam-
ariscotta side of the town. He, like the others mentioned,
preached occasionally at Townsend. Mr. Boyd was an elo-
quent, ready speaker and attracted congregations wherever he
appeared ; but he was unsuccessful in his calling, as he bred
dissensions in all his charges. He labored under the further
disadvantage of a blemished reputation, brought about by an
irregular marriage before he left Scotland, and desertion of
his wife when he came to America. There may have been
others who occasionally preached to the inhabitants of old
Townsend, but no records of such instances that are trust-
worthy. Tradition was general at the beginning of the nine-
teenth century that George Whitefield, that renowned and
shining light of Methodism, preached to the early Townsend
settlers, which is not improbable.
As mentioned in an earlier chapter, the population of
Townsend received many accessions from the westward, — from
about York, Kittery, Kennebunkport, Portsmouth and Dover
during and immediately after the close of the French and
Indian War. These families were of English descent, for the
most part, and included the names of Kelley, Brj^er, Carlisle,
Giles, Tibbetts, Hutchings, Storer, Barter, Matthews, Lewis,
Kenney, Morrison, Pinkham, Crommett, Lamson, Decker,
Avery, Clark and others. Previous to this the inhabitants
had been nearly all of Scotch descent, through the Scotch-
Irish immigration in Dunbar's time. This Scotch element
were all of the Presbyterian faith, but the newcomers were a
178 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
devout and religiously inclined people, divided, however, into
several sects.
If the Townsend settlers had other objects in obtaining
incorporation they were not expressed. The paramount rea-
son given was that the gospel might be settled among them.
They were stirred to action in this matter early in 1764, by
an occurrence late in the preceding year. The venerable
Andrew Reed, whose wife was Jean Murray, had kept in-
formed of their nephew in Antrim, Ireland, left behind them
in their native town when they came to America. This
nephew was John Murray, who was born May 22, 1742, and
was now twenty-one years of age. He had been duly inducted
into the sacerdotal office according to the usages of the church
to which he belonged. No formal installation was necessary
as a prerequisite to his administration of Christian ordinances.
Thus being a probationer his position was such that a connec-
tion with any church might be made by a union in covenant,
and with a parish by contract.
Upon the urgent solicitation of his American relatives he
landed in New York late in the fall of 1763 and came to
Townsend at once. Here he preached several times in differ-
ent parts of the plantation at the houses. His fame as a devout
and eloquent preacher went before him and people flocked to
hear him. The desire became immediately unanimous that
he should settle with them as pastor. A meeting was held at
the Harbor, December 22, 17G3, at the house of John Beath,
and five leading citizens pledged him a salary of ninety pounds
a year sterling. But he declined to accept on the ground
that by being without town form or government the place
was an undesirable one in which to settle. He admitted their
apparent necessities, and appeared pleased at his acquaintance
with the people, but was inflexible in his determination. He
concluded while among them, and so stated, that it was his
intention to return to Ireland at once. He took leave of his
eastern friends in Februarj-, promising them if he ever returned
to America he would settle with them.
"While making a tarry in New York he made some public
appearance and his genius and ability were at once recognized.
Influences were brought to bear upon him of such strength
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 179
that he changed his intentions and was received under the care
of the New York Presbytery. In May, 1765, he was settled
as the successor of the Rev. Gilbert Tennent, in the Second
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia.
Boothbay, having been incorporated the fall previous, was
organizing in her new capacity about the time of Mr. Murray's
Philadelphia settlement, and about this time the inhabitants,
who had so much admired him when among them, learned of
his location. During the preceding year (1764) it seems that
they had written to him and he to them, but it was thought
the correspondence in both cases had been intercepted by inter-
ested parties. At any rate the letters never reached their des-
tination. Communication at length being established, the set-
tlers set forth the fact of their new condition, and insisted
upon the fulfillment of the promise he had made them. The
old church records contain in full the long and complex story
of the petitioners to the western Presbytery for the release of
Mr. Murray, for he was now willing to take up the Boothbay
charge if a release from Philadelphia could be obtained. They
tell of the reluctance of his Philadelphia parish to part with
him, and the aid they obtained from New York in trying to
influence his continued settlement with them. Capt. Andrew
McFarland, John Beath and Mr. Murray's cousins, Capts.
Andrew and Paul Reed, made several trips to Boston, and at
last interested the Rev. John Morehead, of that city, to aid
them. After every technicality had been exhausted he was
released and came to Boothbay immediately, much to the
regret of the parish from which he had severed his connection.
In the few months of his pastorate there more had united with
that church than during the entire settlement of his predeces-
sor, Tennent.
The new church at Boothbay was practically completed when
he arrived in 1766. Its raising had occurred September 27,
1765, and its dedication took place July 28, 1766, when he
assumed pastoral charge of the parish. The organization was
not entirely completed and the church officers ordained until
September 20, 1767. On Sunday, April 13, 1767, they cele-
brated for the first time the service of the Lord's Supper. The
first church officers were as follows : William Moore, Robert
Murray, John Beath and Nehemiah Harrenden were ruling
180
mSTOBT OF BOOTHBAY.
elders ; Israel Davis, Samuel Adams, Ephraim McFarland were
deacons ; Mr. Murray was moderator and John Beath, scribe.
The date, July 28, 1766, is the one recognized as the ecclesias-
itcal beginning in Boothbay, and is the proper anniversary day.
The old, worn book of records tells us of the membership
at organization as follows: "The names of the persons thus
incorporated, some of whom were absent at the time, but
afterward fully acceded to all that was done," were
Men. Women.
Kobert Murray, Sarah Davis,
William Moore, Elizabeth Pierce,
John Beath, Jane Reed,
William Fullerton, Jane Moore,
Samuel McCobbe, Margaret Beath,
William McCuUoch, Janet Fullerton,
Samuel Adams, Mary McCobb,
John Murray, Janet McCulloch,
Samuel Pierce, Sarah Reed,
John Wheeler, Mary McCulloch,
John Reed. Margaret Fullerton,
Margery Reed,
Elizabeth Beath,
Mar}' Beath,
MsiVj Reed,
Elizabeth Boyd,
Mary McKown,
Hannah Marshall,
Rhoda Davis,
Martha Wiley.
The foregoing names were received bj' letter soon after the
following persons were received by profession.
Men.
Andrew Reed,
Ephraim McFarland,
Israel Davis,
William Davis,
William McCobl>,
Benjamin Thomas,
* James Blanchard,
Andrew McFarland,
Women .
Elizabeth McFarland,
Sarah Adams,
Mary Reed,
Anne Murray,
Rachel McCobb,
Martha Reed,
]\Iary Reed,
Margaret McFarland,
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOKY.
181
Elizabeth Merry,
Alice Wiley,
Margaret McGuire,
Elizabeth Gilmore,
*Mary Winslow,
Sarah Boyd,
*Mary Allen,
Margaret Boyd,
*Hannah Burns,
Marianne Fullerton,
Mary Boyd,
Lydia Rawlins,
Martha Day,
*Mary McCurdy,
Martha Harrenden,
Sarah Tibbetts,
Margaret Decker,
Mary Caldwell,
Jane Reed,
*Mary Kincaid,
Sarah Reed,
*Anne McMullan,
*Mary Stetson,
Ruth Maddocks,
*Mary Carter,
*Hannah Fling,
*Margaret McFadden,
Jane Montgomery.
In the winter or early spring of 17fi7 occurred the great
revival, an account of which finds a descriptive place in the
works of all who have written upon the early ecclesiastical his-
tory of Maine. Mr. Murray was the sole inspiration of the
movement. We have no record of assistance being given him
either in its origin or continuance. Extracts from his diary
show the vital, energetic character of the man and his deep
solicitude for others. His powers did not end in his oratory,
but he was an active, faithful pastor in every sense. William-
* Members thus designated are not thought to have been reBidents of Boothbay,
and are nearly all recognized as names in Bristol.
David Reed,
Thomas Boyd,
George Boyd,
John McCobb,
Thomas Tully,
*WilIiam Burns,
* James Hilton,
Nathaniel Rawlins,
Nehemiah Harrenden, Jr.
David Decker,
Enoch Avery,
John Ingraham,
William Reed,
Patrick McKown,
John Leishman,
*Robert Given,
*Hezekiah Eggleson,
*Patrick Kincaid,
Joseph Irwine,
Simeon Rush,
*Henry Hunter,
*Thomas Clark.
182 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
son well says : "A minister whose piety was an incense both
at the tireside and the altar." The desire for his ministrations
spread from Boothbay to the suri-ounding towns, and, after
the work of revival had been well advanced at home, he went
in March, 1767, to the surrounding towns as a tield of con-
quest. The old record tells us :
"Beginning at Squam and free town, he visited Pownal-
borough and Sheepscut, the head of the tide, Walpole, Har-
rington, &c., and during the space of two weeks, which this
tour took up, he preached every day, and the work of God
was gloi'ious."
The list of baptisms which followed in the summer months,
and which stands recorded in this old recoi'd book in his hand-
writing, included Pleasant Cove, Sheepscot, Hopkins, Walpole,
Pemaquid, Harrington, Muscongus, Broad Cove, Damariscove
and Geoi'getown. Day and evening, for several months, his
lodgings as well as his church were tilled with anxious souls,
we are told, until past midnight, sometimes until two and three
o'clock in the morning, and this condition existed in the towns
he visited as well as at home. If we may believe contemporary
writers, or Greenleaf, Williamson and others who wrote of
it from tifty to seventy-five years later, we must conclude that
the Lincoln County revival of 1767, led by the Rev. John
Murray, surpassed anything else of the kind that had occurred
in the history of Maine.
But Mr. Murray's powers were not all in his magnetic
oratory. He was a scholar and an earnest student, and his
powers and influence extended into other fields of usefulness
besides the church. He will appear again to our readers in
the chapter on the Revolutionary War. At an unusually early
age he entered the University of Edinburgh, from which he
graduated with high honors. His familiarity with the book
from which he preached was to many a wonder ; but it was no
miracle, — it simply showed his great mental power for reten-
tion of facts, and to that were added the qualities of an attentive
student. This power, though uncommon, is often exemplified
by individuals in all the professions. Mr. Murray, however,
had all the requisites of a great man. His mind being stored
with all that was best, he possessed the faculties necessary to
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 183
handle and display his knowledge to advantage : a faultless
elocution, a complete command of language, an earnest pur-
pose, ready thoughts, and the capacity to combine and mar-
shal to advantage all that was within him.
A case in point occurred once at Brunswick. Mr. Jlurray
was well under way in his sermon, when some remark dis-
pleased Judge Hinkley, one of his hearers, a descendant of the
Ptymouth Pilgrims, and said to be a disputatious, overbearing
man, who generally opposed the Scotch-Irish of that town and
church. The Judge stepped boldly into the broad, center
aisle and asked the preacher if he " knew in whose presence he
stood." "Yes," replied Mr. Murray, "in the presence of a
Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas." "Then," said
the Judge, " I will say to you, as the Lord said unto Elijah,
' What doest thou here,' John Murray ? " Instantly Mr. Murray
repeated Elijah's answer (1 Kings xix. 10), dropped the thread
of his regular discourse, and, making this impromptu passage
his text, spoke for an hour with an eloquence that captivated
his hearers.
When he first went to Newburyport, one who opposed his
settlement passed him a text, as he entered the church one
Sabbath morning, to test his qualities. Mr. Murray, when in
the pulpit, unfolded it, laid his own notes aside, and gave his
congregation such a sermon as disarmed all prejudice, and
caused the Rev. Mr. Parsons to say that Murray had not been
surpassed since the days of the apostles. Many clergymen
were jealous of his ability. The Rev. Mr. Smith, of Portland,
wrote in his diary, in 1772, that he had raised a "sad toss"
among his people by not inviting him to preach, and at another
of Mr. Murray's visits, in 1787, again writes : "A great uproar
about Murray's not preaching." An old writer mentions the
fact that once in Bmnswick he noticed the church "blocked
up," in addition to its foundation, in several places. He asked
the reason, and was told that it was done as a safeguard against
occasions when Mr. Mun-ay came along and preached there.
But of all his opponents in the ministry none were so bitter
and unyielding as Dr. Samuel Spring, of Newburyport, who
was a man of ability and also of strong prejudices. He made
a place for himself in history by being chaplain to Arnold's
184 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
forces on that memorable campaign against Quebec. He once
left the room, on an occasion when they were together, just as
Mr. Murray engaged in prayer. A rhymester composed the
following :
" Parson Spring began to fling,
And seemed to be in a hurry,
He couldn't stay to hear him pray.
Because 'twas Parson Murray."
Later Doctor Spring published a book of his own writings,
and Mr. Murray, in witt}^ retaliation, wrote upon the fly leaf
of a copy :
"What mortal power, from things unclean,
Can pure productions bring ?
Who can command a vital stream
From an infected spri?ig? "
Insinuations have sometimes been made against Mr. Mur-
ray, as though something dark or hidden or irregular existed
in his character, and during his lifetime he was wideh'
charged with having forged his license to preach, and his name
is recorded in the printed " Extracts of Minutes " of the Presby-
tery of Philadelphia as a deposed minister. The facts, how-
ever, are capable of explanation, and since the decease of Mr.
Murray and those who opposed him, perhaps from jealous
motives, later writers have simply made brief mention and
explanation of the charges and passed them by as both techni-
cal and trivial. It appears that when prepared for his license
he took issue with certain ministers of the Presbytery of
Ballymena in Ireland, and with some warmth charged them
with defection in doctrine. For this reason he went to Eng-
land for his license, which he obtained from the class of Wool-
lers, at Alnwick, Northumberland. On his return his creden-
tials were questioned and he sent his papers to Edinburgh to
be attested. Two young ministers, friends of his, attested a
certificate as " moderator " and " clerk " of a Presbytery. This
was untrue on their part, and later, when the matter was
brought up, they besought him not to expose them as it would
ruin their position and prospects in the church. Rather than
ruin them he made an attempt to support the paper as genu-
ine, and for this he was accused of forging his credentials. In
mature years he always lamented the indiscretion of his youth.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 185
The Philadelphia Presbytery deposed him, after having given
him certificates of the highest character, when he was and had
been for several months preaching in Boothbay. This they
did in a very irregular way, without giving him notice or fol-
lowing regular procedure in such cases. The proceedings were
published in the Massachusetts Gazette of May 12, 1768,
together with a manifesto from eleven ministers who publicly
withdrew all fellowship with him. He prepared his "Appeal
to the Impartial Public," and the "Presbytery of the East-
ward" took up the case and in 1771 annulled the censure and
always sustained him in good and regular standing. He never,
however, outlived the prejudices of some of his fellow clergy-
men, which, perhaps, he never would have encountered had
he been a man of mediocre ability, even though other condi-
tions had been as they were.
During his entire pastorate at Boothbay Mr. Murray was
persistently sought by other and larger places to come and
settle with them as pastor. In 1774 the congregation of the
late Eev. John Morehead in Boston expressed a desire to set-
tle him as successor. The previous year he had declined a
large salary and settlement at Portsmouth, N. H. For some
reason he loved the people and the place of Boothbay beyond
any others. Society nor salary could not tempt him to
remove from his eastern isolation, where he enjoyed the dis-
tinction of being pastor of the most easterly situated Protes-
tant Church in America. "There," he wrote to a friend, "I
find my comfort, and, I hope, my God ; and there I see less
danger of being a stumbling block in Zion, the very idea of
which to me is worse than death."
The pastorate commenced in Boothbay in 1766, practically
ended in 1779, at which time Mr. Mun-ay went to Newbury-
port and commenced his labors in the Presbyterian Church
there, becoming its settled pastor in 1781, in which capacity
he continued until his death, March 13, 1793.
At the dedication service in the Boothbay church in 1766,
he had preached from the text : " Come over into Macedonia
and help us." The first years of his settlement in Boothbay
he made his home with his cousin, Col. Andrew Reed. On
December 15, 1772, he married Susanna, daughter of Gen.
13
186 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
William Lithgow, of Georgetown. They had three children,
all born in Boothbay : John Wentworth, born in 1774 ; Kath-
erine, born in 1776 ; Robert L., born in 1778.
After marriage he lived while he remained in Boothbay at
the parsonage on Pisgah, built upon the land left for that
purpose by the unfortunate Edmund Brown. John Leishman
was builder, and it was considered in those days of rude
abodes an imposing structure.
The first Congregational Church at the Center stood where
the present one does. It was about forty by sixty feet in size
and two stories in height. There were two vestibules and three
entrances, at the east, west and south. From a large hallway
stairs went to the gallery. The pews were seven by nine feet
in size and the backs came just about to the shoulders of a
person of medium height ; they had seats on three sides with
a door opening to the aisle. There were gallery pews on both
sides and a singing gallery at the south. The pulpit was at
the north. The finish throughout was of pine moulding, in the
panel style of architecture so prevalent in those days. When
the new church was built the old one was taken down and
moved to East Boothbay, where it maj^ now be seen in Adams'
shipyard, used as a workshop and model room. The first par-
sonage was built where the present one stands. It was voted
at the annual meeting in March, 1796 :
"To build a ministeral house on the Commons. That said
house be 36 feet long, 26 feet wide and eight foot post. Said
house to be finished in a good workmanlike manner, nearly in
the form of Mr. Jno. Sawyer's house at the Harbour ; voted
three acres of the south part of the Commons be appropriated
for the use of said house. "
The first church was built by Samuel Adams, as leading-
carpenter, and the parsonage was under the direction of a
building committee, composed of William McCobb, Samuel
Montgomery and Ichabod Pinkham, and for the latter a build-
ing fund of £200 was appropriated. The parsonage was
removed to the street east of the Common, when the pres-
ent one was built, and is now owned and occupied by John S.
Spinney.
Before passing from Mr. Murray's pastorate to the subse-
quent history of the church, his fixed method of visitation
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 187
among his people may be mentioned. It is given as noted by
himself.
" 1st. Salute the house. 2d. Compare the lists with the
family — mark them who can read into — Catechisables — Cov-
enanters— Church members. 3d. Address, first, the children
to engage in early religion ; second, j^oung ones to reading,
secret praj'er, the Sabbath, public worship, ordinances, good
company, good houses, good tongues, love and concord, fidel-
ity, conversion. 4th. Address parents, first, about their
spiritual state ; second, secret devotion ; third, family wor-
ship, government, catechising ; fourth. Sabbath, public wor-
ship, sacraments ; if church members, see what profit — if not,
remove objections ; if in error or vice, convince, reclaim ; if
in divisions, heal ; if poor, help ; lastly, exhortations to all —
pray."
Mr. Murray's popularity never waned while in the Booth-
bay parish, and the only reason for changing his field of labor
to Newburyport was the solicitation of his family and friends
to have him go to a place of greater personal safety, as the
war was then raging and British aggression along the coast,
particularly in our harbor, was frequent, and he had, from his
well-known ability and influence among the people, always
preaching a gospel of staunch patriotism in addition to his
other teachings, become a special target for the enemy. Soon
after the close of the war he published two political pamphlets,
one entitled "Tyranny's Grove Destroyed," and the other,
"The Altar of Liberty Finished," both of which enjoyed a
broad circulation."
We now find the people of Boothbay impoverished by war,
taxed heavily for its support, its able-bodied men in the field,
cropping, fishing, lumbering, every visible means of support
cut off, and the men themselves paid in a depreciated, almost
worthless, currency, that we have seen in our municipal chap-
ter once voted as an alternative of " seventy-five for one hard
dollar." On top of this they had lost their central power of
inspiration when Mr. Murray went to Newburyport. That
church never again reached in interest and influence what it
had been under him. A few bright spots reappear in its his-
tory, notably in the pastorates of Rev. Isaac Weston and Rev.
David Q. Cushman.
188 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
It is evident that only occasional preaching was had for
some time after 1780. In 1783 the sessions of the church was
declared a committee to employ a minister, during the summer
only, "as far as £100 will go, or serve, or extend." Under
this vote a Mr. Merrill may have been emploj'ed, for we find
a vote in the annual meeting for 1785 "not to employ the Rev.
Mr. Merrill any longer than the committee had agreed." In
1785 William McCobb and John Murray were a committee to
procure preaching, for summer only, and thirty pounds was
raised for support. The next year a committee was chosen to
emplo}'^ a minister, for trial only, with a view to settlement.
Sixty pounds was raised and the Rev. Mr. Williams was
employed for six months. In 1788 John Murray was chosen
agent to " go to the westward and procure a minister who may
be settled for life." In 1789 Rev. Jonathan Gould, who,
evidently, had been preaching here at times, was engaged for
"one year from date of his first coming here." Seventy-eight
pounds was voted him, he to find his own board. At a meet-
ing March 14, 1791, it was voted not to settle Mr. Gould, or
to employ him longer, but a vote of thanks was given him
and a disclaimer that his dismissal was for any moral fault.
The objection was doctrinal.
The record shows no regular preaching until November 15,
1795, when the Rev. Pelatiah Chapin was engaged for one
year, at four dollars per week and board for himself and horse.
On November 21, 1797, a call was given Rev. John Sawyer,
of Oxford, N. H., which was accepted, and with his family he
came to Boothbay the following March. The parsonage then
being completed received them as its first occupants. He
received $333.33 per year and house rent, with an additional
one hundred dollars for the first j'ear for moving expenses.
The church was in a declining state. No I'eligious revival
had occurred since that of Mr. Murray, thirty years before.
The Lord's Supper had not been administered for twent}' years.
It was still Presbj'terian, but there was no Presbj'terj- in Maine
w'ith which it could unite. In Mr. Murray's time they had
belonged to what was known as the Presbytery of the East-
ward, but they were now in the position of an independent
church. William McCobb and seven others, in 1798, applied
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 189
to the Lincoln Association, representing the disordered state
of religious affairs, and requested the aid of the Association in
organizing a Congregational Church.
On September 20th of that j-ear a Congregational Church
was organized out of the remains of the ancient Presbyterian
Church and Eev. John Sawyer was installed as pastor. On
that day eighl, members of the earlier church were examined
and subscribed the articles of faith and covenant. They were
John Beath, John Leishman, Samuel Montgomery, William
McCobb, John McCobb, Kachel McCobb, Mary Knights and
Mary McCobb.
Mr. Sawj-er was settled with the express provision that he
could cancel his engagement at any time, by accompanying his
resignation with his reasons for requesting it. This he did,
and his reasons, at length, appear in the early book of town
records. They were concisely and ably written, the principal
among them being the extent of the liquor traffic in town and
the lack of sympathy in his church with his efforts for a better
state of affairs. Mr. Sawyer's pastorate was about seven years
in length, he preaching his farewell sermon in October, 1805.
He was a man of great strength of character and would have
performed valuable moral and religious work had he been
properly supported by his church. He went into Penobscot
County, then new, as a missionary ; was one of the founders
of the Theological Seminary at Bangor, dying in the town of
Garland somewhat past his one hundred and third year.
In 1807 Doctor Eose was directed by vote of the town to
engage Rev. Jabez Pond Fisher to preach one year. He
remained with the church until October, 1816, when, upon his
request, the town granted him dismission. A call was then
extended Rev. Jonathan Adams, a native of Boothbay, then
settled at Woolwich, which he declined.
It is uncertain as regards the disposition of the old Murray
parsonage on Pisgah. It may have been disposed of when the
new one was built, in 1796, near the church, but probably still
remained church property, for a reference indicates that Mr.
Fisher lived on Pisgah, at least a part of the time. His suc-
cessor, Rev. Isaac Weston, lived at the Center, but the strength
of the Congregational Society was at that date and continued
190 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
to be at the Harl)or. The separation of the Baptist Society, a
little before the opening of the century, had drawn away nearly
all of the Back River support and a greater part of that north
of the Center. This impression is reinforced by the record,
showing many midweek services being held at the house of
Deacon Ebenezer FuUerton, at the Harbor.
Mr. Weston first came among the people of Boothbay as a
missionary at the beginning of the second half-century of the
church. Between sixty and seventy converts were made and
added to the membership. His work was only secondary to
that of Mr. Murray. He was a man of pleasing address, good
abilities, and popular with all the people, in and out of the
church. From Boothbay he went to Cumberland, where, in
addition to his pastoral cares, he did considerable literary work
of note. Bibliographies credit him with five publications of
importance. His first sermon in Boothbay was on September
25, 1817, and his last was at the centennial observances of the
church, September 23, 1866. His pastorate ended in 1830 ;
being, practically, the same length of time covered by Mr.
Murray, and ranking below that pastorate only in popularity
and results.
Rev. Charles L. Cook was called August 10, 1830, ordained
October 6th, and for irregularities dismissed and deposed
November 5, 1832.
Between the dismissal of Mr. Cook and the installation of
Rev. David Q. Cushman, February 7, 1838, Rev. Thomas
Bellowes, Rev. Joseph W. Sessions and Rev. Nathaniel Chap-
man supplied until May, 1835, when Rev. Henry A. Merrill
occupied the position for one year, followed by supplies
through 1837.
Mr. Cushman's pastorate lasted until May 15, 1843, at
which time it ceased for lack of proper support and failure on
the part of the parish to fulfill the obligations into which it
had entered. The early part of his ministry in town was
accompanied by a great revival of interest and accessions to
his own and sister churches. His work was harmonious, and
recommendations followed him from the parish and district
council to new fields of labor ; but at the last of his ministra-
tion, by no fault of his, one of those waves of laxity and
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 191
depression, which had been at times upon the church in earlier
days, swept over it. Mr. Cushman was a practical man and a
devout Christian. He did great service to the educational
interests of the town, and, in after years, completed a history
of the Sheepscot settlement, a valuable and authentic work.
Rev. William Tobey followed, in 1844, continuing until
the early part of 1848. He is said to have been one of the
ablest pastors ever connected with that church. Rev. Samuel
L. Gould, a nephew of the Rev. Jonathan Gould, who was
pastor in 1789, next came, in June, 1848, and remained three
years.
Mr. Gould was followed by Rev. Jonathan Adams, on
October 18, 1852, remaining until 1858 ; several months at the
last of his engagement the services of his son, Rev. Jonathan
E. Adams, then recently graduated at Bangor and pastor of
the Harbor Society, were substituted. October 31, 1861, Rev.
Horace Toothacher commenced his work and continued until
1864. Mr. Toothacher was the last pastor to receive his entire
support from the old society. At the end of his term it had
reached its ninety-eighth year. Rev. Leander S. Coan was the
first pastor whose ministrations covered both parishes. It fell
to his lot, while thus engaged, to furnish the centennial sermon
upon the observances of the day, at the church, September
23, 1866. This sermon was largely historical and was pre-
served in pamphlet form. From the beginning of this dual
work by Mr. Coan until the close of the pastorate of the late
Rev. R. W. Jenkins, December, 1883, the plan was regularly
followed. Since that only occasional services have been held
there. For this divided pastoral care the record of the Second
Society will afford the list of clergymen.
Early in 1848 occurred an exodus of considerable magni-
tude. Forty-eight members took their dismissal in a body for
the purpose of organizing a church at the Harbor, and from
that time until 1875 dismissals frequently occurred for the
same reason. The present church was built in 1848, two
years after that of the new society. A spirit of rivalry may
be suspected in this action, though records are silent, and, if
in a sense competitive, it was evidently good-natured. The
parish organization is still maintained, and the income from
lyz HISTORY or BOOTHBAT.
rental of the parsonage is judieiallj- used in preserving in good
repair the society's property.
The Baptist Society.
The prefix " Freewill " to a branch of the Baptist denomina-
tion became attached about 1780. At that date Elder Benja-
min Eandel, of New Durham, N. H., is said to have first
preached the doctrines that led to this distinction. Elder
Eandel had two great qualifications as a leader : an industri-
ous, energetic worker and a great organizer. At first he
gathered a church in his own town, and then, with the aid of
two or three associates, extended his work rapidlj-. In 1781
churches of this denomination were collected in New Glouces-
ter, Parsonsfield, Hollis, Woolwich, Georgetown and Edge-
comb.
The practice of Elder Eandel as he traveled through the
country was, as fast as people embraced his doctrines, to
gather a company of them within reasonable limits under the
general name of a monthly meeting. A certain number of
these monthly meetings assembled once in three months and
held a quarterly meeting. When enough of these branches
became established the quarterly meetings combined became a
yearly meeting. The whole body was considered one church,
but the term "church" was not accepted until 1809, when
it was substituted for that of " monthly meeting. " Eegular
quarterly meetings were first established in 1783, at New Dur-
ham, New Gloucester, Hollis and Woolwich. Many of the
society had originally been Calvinistic Baptists, and conse-
quently close communionists, but at a quarterly meeting in
Gorham, December, 1785, thej' voted to open their commu-
nion to other denominations. By 1820 four j'early meetings
had been established ; one in New Hampshire, one in Vermont
and two in Maine, one of the latter being called the Gorham
and the other the Edgecomb. This last held its meeting one
year at either Woolwich or Edgecomb and the next at Farm-
ington.
It is, therefore, a matter easily to be understood why the
Freewill Baptists showed so much early strength in Booth-
bay, when it is seen to what extent their doctrines had taken
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 193
root in the adjoining town of Edgecomb. Elder Randel on
his earliest circuits came often to that town.
Public and family records show that he preached and
baptized converts in Boothbay as earty as 1790, perhaps ear-
lier. In June, 1798, thirty-five taxpayers in Boothbay peti-
tioned the General Court for incorporation of the Baptist
Societj', but it failed of enactment, which is not surprising
from the fact that the entire society in Maine, numbering some
2,000, were refused incorporation in 1804. Soon after that
date they began to incorporate as distinct societies. In the
first book of town records may be found the earliest request of
members of this society in Boothbay to be relieved of their
ministerial tax, which went to the support of the Congrega-
tional Church, and to be allowed to use it themselves.
" Gentlemen Selectmen of Boothbay your Petitioners find-
ing it their duty to request your Honours to discharge us the
subscribers from paying the Ministers Eates, that is to say the
Revd. Mr. Sawyer his salary as we have joined in the Society
called the free will Baptists and are desirous to pay our Minis-
ter Rate into that society to which we think it our duty to
attend, and if you do not see fit to set us off into a society,
we request j^ou to deposit our proportion of Ministers rates to
our committee who we trust to lay it out to pay or defray the
expenses of our Elders who we think is the ambassadors of
Jesus Christ. Being in duty bound to God shall ever Pray.
Joseph Stover *Timothy Dunton
*Eph°i Alley Joseph Giles
Aai-on Sherman Giles Tibbetts
*Roger Sherman Benj^i Hutchings
*Eleazer Sherman, Jr. Solomon Pinkham
*John Alley, Jr. * Stephen Lewis
*Eleazer Sherman *"VVilliam Lewis
*Elisha Sherman Joseph Pinkham
Samuel Perkins * James Tibbetts
John Giles *Lemuel Lewis
Solomon Pinkham, Jr. *Isaac Lewis
*Benj'' Kenney Ichabod Tibets
Calvin Pinkham, Jr. *John Southard
*Joseph Matthews Ruggles Cunningham
John Barter, John Webber
John Barter, Jr. Timothy Stover
John Lewis Nathaniel Tibbets.
194 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
"This may certify that the names above writen consisting-
of professors of a Baptist Societ}^ are members of the Baptist
Society has and do steadily and do Consciencioiisly attend
public worship in the Town of Boothbay both Ijefore and since
the first of December 1799.
Boothbay March 14th, 1800.
Giles Tibbets Clerk of Said Society.
"The above recorded by the request of Mr. Timothy Dun-
ton & others."
The foregoing list of names is the same as that of ITOS'
which petitioned for incorporation. An act of incorporation
was obtained by the Baptist Society of Boothbay February 23,
1809. The incorporators were the names in the foi'egoing list
marked by an asterisk (*) , together with the following : Isi'ael
Dunton, Benjamin Kelley, Samuel Smith, Timothj' Dunton,
Jr., Stephen Lewis, Jr., Joseph Lewis, John Matthews, Ben-
jamin Lewis, John Brown, Jr., John Farnham and Asa Hutch-
ings, "together with such others as may associate with them
and their successors, with their families and estates."
The first meeting of the new society was called by a
warrant issued by William McCobb, justice of the peace, to
Stephen Lewis, Jr., a member, to meet at the schoolhouse OQ
Back River, near the house of John Southard, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon, Thursday, February 1, 1810. Samuel Ti1>
betts was moderator and Samuel Loomis, clerk. The date of
the annual meeting was fixed on the first Monday of March.
Xo regular organization as a church occiirred until November
18, 1826. This was done by a committee appointed by the
Edgecomb quarterly meeting and consisted of the following
persons :
3fales. Females.
Stephen Lewis, Jane Dunton,
William Lewis, Martha Tibbetts,
John Lewis, Mary Lewis,
Lemuel Lewis, Sarah Lewis,
William Dunton, Isabella Lewis,
Ephraim Lewis, Lois Stover,
Samuel Tibl:.etts. Sarah Southard.
The town first exempted the Baptist Society from their
ministerial tax in 180(5. After that date, as long as the con-
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOEY. 195
nection between church parish and municipality existed, the
ministerial tax was not assessed against those of the Baptist
Society. In 1830 the Freewill Baptist Society secured per-
mission at the annual meeting to build a church on the Com-
mon. A lot was given them upon the corner now occupied
by the house of John E. Spinney for the purpose, and also a
permit to cut the necessary timber for building a church from
the town lands. Up to that date there had been but few in
town, outside of Cape Newagen Island, who accepted the Meth-
odist teachings. On that island it was the only doctrine
preached, and this had been the condition since 1808. But on
the mainland of the town there were several Methodist fami-
lies, and an effort was now made to gather them into a church,
combine with the Baptists and build a house of worship on
the union plan, dividing its occupancy between the two socie-
ties. This was accomplished and the Union Church was built
in 1831. It was a building forty by fifty feet with sixteen-
foot posts. It was regularly occupied until 1856, when the
present Baptist Church was built. It was then sold to the
late Robert Montgomery, who tore it down and rebuilt it at
East Boothbay, where it was used as a store by him for many
years. J. H. Blair purchased it and moved it to the Harbor,
where it was occupied by F. H. Harris. It was in this store
that the great fire in October, 1886, originated.
Previous to the erection of the Union Church the Baptists
had held their meetings at the Back River schoolhouse, with
occasional gathei-ings at other places. On September 19,
1832, they were assembled at the new meeting house and with
due ceremonies formally set in order a church to be known as
the Freewill Baptist Church of Boothbay.
In 1856, when the present church was built, the building
committee, in setting this house upon the Common was thol^ght
by those of the Congregational Society to be encroaching upon
the rights of the other parish and an unhappy conflict ensued,
in which legal process was resorted to ; but the differences
were healed and nine years later ready permission was granted
the Baptists to erect a parsonage at the side of their church
upon the Common.
The recorded ministers in the Baptist Society follow.
196 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
They were termed Elders until 1856, after which date Eev.
appears regularly as title prefix to the name.
1. Elder John Leman, 1826 to 1830.
2. Elder William Emerson, 1830 to 1832.
3. Elder Dexter Waterman, 1832 to 1838.
4. Elder Smith, 1838 to 1839.
5. Elder E. G. Page, 1839 to 1841.
6. Elder J. Stevens, 1841 to 1842.
7. Elder Nathan J. Eobinson, 1842 to 1844.
8. Elder S. P. Morrill, 1844 to 1848.
9. Elder E. G. Page, January 13, 1849, to spring of 1852.
10. Elder A. Libby, April, 1852, to August, 1855.
11. Kev. J. D. West, June, 1856, to April, 1857.
12. Rev. H. Whitcher, May 1, 1857, to January, 1860.
13. Rev. E. G. Page, January, 1860, to January 17, 1863.
14. Rev. James Boyd, January, 1863, to December, 1866.
15. Eev. L. Given, December 13, 1866, to March 14, 1870.
16. Rev. C. F. Russell, October 1, 1871, to June, 1873.
17. Rev. W. C. Hulse, June 18, 1873, to July, 1874.
18. Rev. H. Atwood, 1874, to August, 1880.
19. Rev. F. A. Palmer, August 8, 1880, to June 13, 1886.
20. Eev. F. H. Peckham, October 1, 1886, to October 1, 1888.
21. Eev. E. Owen, September 8, 1888, to September 4, 1892.
22. Eev. C. A. Buker, November 1,1892, to November 2,1895.
23. Rev. B. S. Fifield, December 1, 1895, to October 15, 1899.
24. Rev. G. G. Haynes, January 7, 1900, to May 19, 1901.
25. Rev. I. V. Maj'o, July 1, 1901.
Methodism in Southpoet.
While Colonel Dunbar was laying out Harrington, Wal-
pole and Townsend for settlement, in 1729, John Wesley was
commencing his first Methodist Church at Oxford, England.
Just a century later, in 1829, Rev. Elliot B. Fletcher, an able
exponent of Methodism in New England, appeared for the
first time on Cape Newagen Island, riding a small, peculiarly
marked horse of dun and white. He was not the originator of
that doctrine there, nor their earliest preacher, but he was to
that island what Rev. John Murray sixty years before had been
to the entire town. In fact, five regular and several itinerant
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 197
preachers had preceded him, but their accomplishments were
slight in comparison to his.
In 1807, following the precedent established in the case of
the Baptists the previous year, the town allowed the inhabit-
ants of this island their ministerial tax, with the proviso that
it should be expended for the support of preaching, one-half
at the schoolhouse at the north end of the island and the other
half at the schoolhouse near where the post office now stands
at "West Southport. It is presumable that some previous
movement in this direction had existed, but the earliest record
probably covers the first effort of much importance toward
establishing a church. In the year 1808, following immedi-
ately upon the action of the town, meetings were held quite
regularly by a local minister by the name of Eogers. The
New England Conference sent Eev. Caleb Fogg there in 1809.
Regular preaching continued until 1813. Then came a period
of inactivity. For this we are left to guess the reason. Per-
haps the troubles along the coast from the war then in progress,
perhaps a season of backsliding after a good start had been
made in faithful, active work ; but more reasonable to suppose
that interest was arrested by the war, and, once arrested, did
not for a season return.
That season appears a long one, for the church records tell
us that from 1813 to 1829 there was only occasional preaching,
by ministers from Georgetown and Bristol. A great revival
in interest commenced immediately upon Mr. Fletcher begin-
ning his work. He saw that the great lack of his people was
that of possessing no church, and he made efforts at once to
interest them in that direction. The following year (1830)
saw a new church completed, and accepted by the trustees on
December 7th. Mr. Fletcher worked hard himself upon the
construction of this church, for he was a man who could work,
or pray, or preach, as he saw necessity demanded. When the
bills were in it was found the cost had been $774.58. At the
dedication Mr. Fletcher's first remarks were to congratulate
his congregation upon the possession of a church, and adding :
"And j'ou have just as much fish and potatoes as ever."
Mr. Fletcher remained on the Boothbay circuit three years,
commencing with 1829. In 1832 he went to Livermore, but
198 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
in 1833-34 he was back again on this circuit. His energ}' iu
everything connected with the good of his people, material and
spiritual, must always be largely credited with the important
start and growth of Methodism in this locality. Besides the
Cape Newagen Island church, for which he obtained the sub-
scription and upon which he labored with his hands like any
other carpenter, he organized the few Methodist families upon
the mainland of Boothbay, and is largelj^ to be credited for
bringing about a union between the Baptists and Methodists
at the Center, where a new church home, at a cost of about
$1,200, was provided in 1831 for both societies. Not only did
he inspire the building of these churches, but he filled them on
the Sabbath. The work he did in town largelj- influenced the
gathering of the Methodist Society at East Boothbay and the
building of their first church, though it was not erected until
two years after his second pastorate here was closed.
Soon after arriving at Cape Newagen he realized the incon-
veniences they labored under by having no ferry. He inter-
ceded with Moses Riggs, of Georgetown, then a considerable
property holder about Newagen, and received a gift of lumber
sufficient for the purpose. With his own hands he set about
the work and soon completed a good ferryboat, the first that
island had. Mr. Thomas Orne, now (1905) ninety-one years
of age, and himself a native of the island and a devout IMetho-
dist since boyhood, thus describes Mr. Fletcher to the author :
"He was a short man, well-formed, of medium size, black
eyes and hair, of nervous appearance, a very ready talker, but
a much better sermonizer than exhorter. He craved joint
debates, and particularly with the Second Adventists, whom
he met several times, and so undid them that they never gained
any foothold here, though they made a great effort to do so."
Mr. Fletcher was twelve years a superannuate. He was
born in 1799 and died May 12, 1882, at Georgetown, where he
was buried, his tombstone bearing the inscription : " I am set
for the defense of the Gospel." He lived a single life, and,
while never hesitating to talk religion to any one, he showed
no inclination for married life, with home and family. Near
the end of his days he wrote a friend : " For fifty-eight years
I have been a gospel minister and a man of one work."
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 199
In 1864, on January 25th, certain persons in interest asso-
ciated themselves together for tlie purpose of " building a meet-
ing house that shall be more convenient and upon more modern
plans," at the same time mentioning that "the meetinghouse
in the town of Southport is much impaired by time, and the
pews uncomfortable to sit upon, and the house quite ancient
in its structure." The first meeting was held February 4,
1864. The organization was perfected and a building commit-
tee selected. On February 18th by-laws were adopted and a
vote was taken to complete the house by the last of the follow-
ing October. No further action or mention occurs for three
years. On March 27, 1867, a meeting was held at which a
new building committee was chosen, and they were "authorized
to build such a house as to size and finish as they may deter-
mine, provided that it shall contain sixty pews." The work
commenced soon after this meeting, but the church was not
completed until 1869. The old church was located just west-
erly from the second one.
In 1845 Townsend (for that was then the island name)
had become a separate charge. This was effected while Rev.
D. P. Thompson was pastor, he having at the time been
there one year and he remained one j^ear afterward. This
church was destroyed by fire October 22, 1903. The lot
was then sold to the town for a school lot, and was built
upon in 1904.
A new lot for building was purchased in 1904 of Ozias
and Mary Orne, and earnest work at once commenced to
raise another church. Very material aid is being furnished by
the two ladies' societies : the Union Club, on the east side,
and the Ladies' Aid, at West Southport. The principal funds
are, however, being raised by subscription. During 1904 the
foundation was put in and a considerable start made upon the
building. It will probably be completed in 1905. The size
is sixty-nine by thirty-one feet with an eleven-foot post. The
ceiling is to be arched, occupying a part of the space above
the plates. Entrance beneath the spire ; a small vestry open-
ing into the auditorium, on the ground floor ; over the vestry
a room of similar size, for use as a church parlor or ladies'
circle, opening also to the auditorium.
200
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1808.
1809.
1810.
1811.
1812.
1813-28.
1829-31.
1832.
1833-34.
1835.
1836-37.
1838-39.
1840-41.
1842-43.
1844-46.
1846-47.
1848-49.
1850-51.
1852.
1853.
1854-55.
1856-57.
1858-59.
1860.
1861-62.
1863.
1864-65.
1866-67.
1868.
1869-70.
1871-72.
1873-74.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878-79.
1880-81.
1882.
List of Ilinisters.
Rev. Rogers.
Rev. Caleb Fogg.
Rev. John Williamson.
Rev. Daniel Wentworth.
Rev. John At well.
Supplies.
Rev. Elliot B. Fletcher.
Rev. John Perrin.
Rev. Elliot B. Fletcher.
Rev. Ariel Ward.
Rev. Nathaniel Xorris.
Rev. James Harrington.
Rev. John Cumuer.
Rev. Nathan Webb.
Rev. D. B. Thompson.
Rev. John G. Pingree.
Rev. B. F. Sprague.
Rev. Nathan Webb.
Rev. William J. Jewell.
Rev. Elliot B. Fletcher.
Rev. Jesse Harriman.
Rev. S. F. Strout.
Rev. R. S. Dixon.
Rev. M. W. Newhert.
Rev. C. A. Pliimer.
Rev. G. G. Winslow.
Rev. P. Rowell.
Rev. I. P. Roberts.
Rev. T. Cookson.
Rev. M. E. King.
Rev. C. A. Plumer.
Rev. Daniel Smith.
Rev. D. B. Thompson.
Rev. E. Bryant.
Rev. W. Lerniond.
Rev. Daniel Smith.
Rev. W. B. Eldridge.
Rev. J. R. Baker.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 201
1883. Rev. J. C. Lamb.
1884-86. Eev. J. D. Payson.
1887-88. Rev. S. M. Dunton.
1889. Rev. T. R. Hogue.
1890. Rev. W. H. Washburn.
1891-93. Rev. C. W. Lowell.
1894-95. Rev. J. W. Price.
1896-97. Rev. M. T. Anderson.
1898-1903. Rev. C. F. Butterfield.
1904. Rev. Warren A. Hanscom.
The Methodist Church at East Boothbay.
With the story of the old Presbyterian Church at the Cen-
ter, together with that of the earlier organization of the Bap-
tists, and of the Methodists on Cape Newagen Island, that
which is most truly colonial has been presented ; but there
still remains at East Boothbay and the Harbor the story of
small, feeble congregations, both as to numbers and financial
strength, with plain and rigidly economical beginnings,
inspired by a sincerity of faith that might well serve as a model
for later days.
People in earlier times had traveled from all parts of the
town to attend the meetings under Mr. Murray at the Center.
Cape Newagen, Linekin Neck, Pleasant Cove, Barter's Island,
with some from Edgecomb and Newcastle, met on the Sabbath
at the old church, and many of them walked the distance, for
walking or horseback riding was the only method of reaching
it, there being no carriages or carriage roads. In places where
there were Methodist families they were favored with occa-
sional preaching from a very early date. In 1796 a circuit
was formed about the mouth of the Kennebec, and the minis-
ters went both sides of it in their tours. To the eastward.
Union was the limit. It is probable that Boothbay then may
have had its first real attention from this society. At the
close of 1804 the Methodists in Maine numbered 2,399, with
seventeen ministers besides the presiding elder, who then was
the Rev. Joshua Soule. In 1803 Bristol, Newcastle and Booth-
bay formed a circuit. The traveling minister was Rev. Samuel
Baker, and the local ones, Rev. Enos Baxter, Jpsiah Loudon
202 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
and Amos Gray. Such was the growth that in 1809 Boothbaj^
was constituted a circuit, but, though scattered families existed
about over the town, the strength of that society was on
Newagen.
We have seen the start, the laxity and the revival of inter-
est there. Mr. Fletcher inspired people to work and remove
obstacles rather than sit down and gaze at them in dread and
horror. He commenced his work where material was most
abundant, which was on the island, and after getting them a
church, in 1830, and his people, together with the Baptists, a
union home at the Center, in 1831, he held meetings in kitch-
ens, shops and barns about East Bootbhay and Linekin until
enough existed to require a church. Two years after he fin-
ished his second pastorate, in 1836, a new Methodist church
was built on the hill north of the bridge at the mill in East
Boothbay Village. In this undertaking Caleb Hodgdon, the
principal business man then in the place, was the leading
spirit. The building was thirty-eight by fort}^ feet. It was
at first only finished on the outside, and plank benches, with-
out backs, were put in for seats. It had the old style, short
belfry without steeple. In 1839 the inside was finished in
good shape and the pews were sold to pay the bills. There
were forty pews and they averaged about thirty dollars each, but
many among the people were poor and unable to pui-chase, so
that only about thirty pews were sold ; "Father" Hodgdon, as
he was termed, held the rest. The church was dedicated under
the form of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Charles
Baker was presiding elder and Rev. James Harrington, the
local minister. The trustees were Caleb Hodgdon, William
Seavey, Levi Reed, Nathaniel Montgomery, John Race and
James Linekin, of East Boothbay and Linekin ; John Fuller,
Center ; Marshal Smith, Harbor. Eleazer Sherman and James
Preble were builders. Rex. Ariel Ward was the first minister.
Some of the earliest members were :
Me7i. Women.
Caleb Hodgdon, Eliza Hodgdon,
William Seavey, Catherine Davis Seavej',
Levi Reed, Abigail Peny Reed,
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 203
Henry Parsons, Mrs. Henry Parsons,
John Race, Abigail L. Race,
Daniel Bennett, Jane L. Bennett,
Henry Hatchard. Mrs. Henry Hatchard.
Quite a number of families at that time in the vicinity
belonged to either the Congregational! sts or Baptists at the
Center, who later united with the home church.
In 1863 the old church was torn down and moved to the
south side of the bridge, on the hill. It was enlarged and
rebuilt with modern architecture, belfry and steeple, at a cost
of §4,500. The building committee was composed of James
Seavey, Peter McGunnigle and Simon McDougall. The arch-
itect and builder was Deacon Paul Giles. The committee on
apprizal was Robert Montgomery, Benjamin Reed and Miles
Hagan. The trustees of the new church were William Seavey,
Simon McDougall, Peter McGunnigle, Granville J. Seavey
and Ezekiel Holbrook.
A bell was bought in New York, but the steamer that
brought it east was captured by a Southern privateer, and on
the coast of Nova Scotia it was taken ashore and sold to a
church which put it into service. It was traced, and after the
war, at the request of the United States Government, was
restored to the East Boothbay church, where it was used for
sevei'al years ; but, being of a harsh tone, was sold and another
purchased.
In 1888-89 the church was refurnished inside with modern
oak pews, newlj' carpeted, and about five hundred dollars
expended in improvements. In 1897 memorial windows were
put in, bearing the names of members of the Adams, Hodgdon,
Montgomery, Race and Seavey families, who had been promi-
nent early workers in, or benefactors of, the society. A par-
sonage, eastei'ly on the street from the church, was built in
1878.
Now, about seventy years from the rearing of the first rude
house of worship, the descendants of those who erected it
enjoy the blessings and conveniences of a modern church,
attractive both inside and out, overlooking a prosperous and
thriving community, which is now united in one religious
society.
204
HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
The list of ministers follows :
1837-38. Rev. Ariel Ward.
1839—40. Rev. James Harrington.
1841. Rev. John Cumner.
1842-43. Rev. D. P. Thompson.
1844-45. Rev. Charles Andrews.
1846-47. Rev. Nathan Webb.
1848—49. Rev. Jesse Harriman.
1850. Rev. John C. Prince.
1851. Rev. Charles Tupper.
1852. Rev. Nathan Webb.
1853-54. Rev. J. P. Adams.
1855-56. Rev. Rufus Day.
1857. Rev. O. F. Jenkins.
1858-59. Rev. S. F. Strout.
1860-61. Rev. D. P. Thompson.
1862. Rev. E. Cheney.
1863. D. W. Sawyer.
1864. Rev. Joseph Baker.
1865-66. Rev. C. L. Haskell.
1867-68. Rev. L. H. Bean.
1869. Rev. D. P. Thompson.
1870. Rev. P. Higgins.
1871-72. Rev. P. E. Brown.
1873-74. Rev. D. M. True.
1875-76. Rev. C. E. Knowlton.
1877-78. Rev. C. L. Haskell.
1879. Rev. B. C. Wentworth.
1880-81. Rev. A. J. Clifford.
1882-84. Rev. W. E. Brown.
1885. Rev. Frank D. Handy.
1886. Rev. David Merrill.
1887-89. Rev. James Byram.
1890-91. Rev. Nathan H. Campbell.
1892-93. Rev. W. I. Johnson.
1894-95. Rev. Virgil D. Wardwell.
1896-99. Rev. A. E. Russell.
1900. Rev. W. A. McGraw.
1901-02. Rev. E. S. Gahan.
1903. Rev. T. W. Hunter.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOKT. 205
Ministers to the close of 1849 were sent by the Maine Con-
ference, after that by the East Maine Conference. Beginning
with Rev. S. F. Strout, in 1858, and closing with Eev. B. C.
Wentworth, in 1879, when the circuit was divided, the same
ministers filled both the East Boothbay and Harbor pastorates.
In 1863, while the church was being rebuilt, the ministrations
by Daniel W. Sawyer were local ; Mr. Sawyer being an active
member of the Harbor church did this work, and no minister
was sent by the conference that year.
Second Congregational Society.
For many years, in fact ever after the Baptists drew away
their support, the old Congregational Church showed plainly a
weakening condition. When the Methodists at Cape Newagen
withdrew, another support was gone. The popularity and abil-
ity of Mr. Weston for a time rallied the waning interest, but
his pastorate ended just as the new churches were being erected
at Newagen and the Center. A few years later, as we have
noted, the organization of the East Boothbay church must have
had a similar effect. The greater part of the membership had
come to be at the Harbor, and in 1845 a movement was started
to build a church and organize a parish there. The following
subscription paper tells its own story :
"We, the subscribers, inhabitants of Boothbay, believing
it to be for our interest to build a Congregational Meeting
House for the public worship of Almighty God, at or near the
Eastern Harbor, so called, in the town of Boothbaj^ do hereby
promise and agree, and do hereby bind ourselves, our heirs,
executors and administrators, firmly, by these presents, to pay
the sum or sums set against our several names, to be appropri-
ated for the purpose aforesaid, and to be paid at such time or
times, and in such sums, and to such person or persons, as
shall be agreed upon by said subscribers, or a majority of
them, at any legal meeting holden by them, the said subscribers.
Boothbay, Me., June 4, 1845."
Benjamin Blair,
$ 50.00
Ferdinand Brewer,
$25.00
Willard Holton,
50.00
Edwin Auld,
25.00
Samuel McClintock,
25.00
James T. Beath,
30.00
Leonard McCobb,
25.00
John Auld,
30.00
John W. Weymouth,
175.00
Daniel Auld,
25.00
L. P. Beath,
30.00
William McCobb,
25.00
206
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
P. and I. Harris,
§100.00
N. C. McFarland,
$75.00
Charles Sargent,
50.00
Nathaniel Pinkham,
60.00
Joseph C. Auld,
25.00
Joseph E. Corlew,
30.00
D. Newljegin,
30.00
Jacob Auld,
35.00
Allen Lewis,
50.00
Isaac W. Reed,
25.00
George Reed,
.50.00
Luther Weld,
25.00
Paul McCobb,
30.00
Isaac W. Brewer,
25.00
Samuel M. Reed,
40.00
John Andrews, Jr.,
25.00
William M. McFarland,
, 50.00
James Auld,
25.00
Andrew McFarland,
25.00
Samuel Farmer,
12.00
Stephen Sargent,
30.00
William Farmer,
25.00
Parker Wilson,
50.00
Andrew Anderson,
30.00
William Maxwell Reed,
25.00
Nathaniel Greenleai,
, 25.00
William Greenleaf,
25.00
The church was built the following year by John W. Wey-
mouth. Preaching commenced in 1847, but the church was
not organized until August 1, 1848. A council was convened
of pastors and delegates from the First Congregational Church
of Boothbay, Winter Street Church in Bath and Wiscasset
Church. A call was extended the Rev. George Gannett, who
accepted. Just previous to organization forty-eight members
of the First Society were dismissed by request, in a bod}-, for
the purpose of uniting with the Second Society upon organi-
zation. They follow :
Men.
Parker Wilson,
David Newbegin,
Nathaniel Pinkham, Jr.,
Benjamin Blair,
John W. Wej' mouth,
George Reed,
Paul McCobb,
John Andrews,
Charles F. Sargent,
John Love, Jr.,
Jacob Auld,
James Auld,
Andrew Anderson,
Willard Holton,
Stephen Sargent,
Women.
Mary Y. Wilson,
Lydia P. Beath,
Mary Newbegin,
INIargaret F. Blair,
Elizabeth F. Weymouth,
Martha Reed,
Sarah M. Reed,
Jane McCobb,
Margaret McFarland,
Martha Andrews,
Caroline F. Sargent,
Sarah Sargent,
Susan Love,
]\Iarj' Dockendoi-f ,
Mary J. Pinkham,
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 207
James T. Beath, Mary Campbell,
Edwin Auld, Eunice F. Auld,
Charles Knight, Eliza G. Auld,
John Auld, Susan S. Andrews,
Samuel M. Reed. Martha J. Harris,
Mary Holton,
Elizabeth Weymouth,
Eliza Sargent,
Mary Beath,
Frances M. Auld,
Mary Ann Knight,
Mary Ann Auld.
The last survivor of this body of men and women, who in
1848 were the strength and support of the new church, died,
in the person of Miss Elizabeth Weymouth, January 9, 1905,
at the age of seventy-eight. She was daughter of the architect
and builder, John W. Weymouth.
This church was remodeled in 1881. The changes were a
new roof of steeper pitch, a vestibule, twelve by fourteen
feet, built at the front, extending to the height of the build-
ing. The tower was moved forward upon the addition. The
entry and singing gallery were removed, while at the rear a
recess, fourteen by eighteen feet, was built for the pulpit and
choir, thus giving the entire floor of the auditorium for pews.
The size of the main house is forty by sixty feet. At the
south corner a chapel, twenty-five by twenty-five feet, was
built, with entrance from the south side of the main building.
A memorial window, with the names of Margaret F. Blair,
Elizabeth F. Weymouth, John W. Weymouth and Willard
Holton, was inserted to the north of the pulpit. Ventilators
were added and a furnace put in. New carpets and pulpit, with
painting inside and out, were among other improvements. A
valuation of $1,400 was put upon the old pews and $4,000 on
the betterments. At the sale of pews the first choice was
awarded Capt. John B. Emerson, for thirty-four dollars pre-
mium. The next eight ranged from twenty-five dollars to
thirty dollars ; the second eight from fifteen dollars to seven-
teen dollars. Sixteen more were sold before the choice fell
below eight dollars. In all a little more than six hundred
25UO HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
dollars was received as premium monej\ All pews were sold
immediately.
In October, 1890, a pipe organ was purchased, and in 1901
the Ladies' Sewing Circle, from work and sales, entertain-
ments and suppers, furnished sufficient funds for a steel ceiling,
tinting the walls and a new carpet. Acetylene gas lighting
was introduced in December, 1904. This church has had con-
tinuous service and loyal support, and is now, as a society, in
thrifty condition. The list of ministers follows :
1. Kev. George Gannett, January 14, 1847 to May, 1850.
2. Rev. Joseph Smith, October, 1850, to , 1852.
3. Rev. J. K. Deering, , 1852, to , 1854.
4. Rev. E. Burt, May 7, 1854, to November, 1855.
5. Rev. John Furbush, April 6, 1856, to November, 1857.
6. Rev. Jonathan E. Adams, April, 1858, to April, 1859.
7. Rev. John T. Bulfinch, September, 1859, to May, 1862.
8. Rev. William Leavitt, , 1862, to , 1864.
9. Rev. L. S. Coan, July, 1865, to July, 1867.
10. Rev. A. J. Smith, August, 1868, to May, 1872.
11. Rev. E. B. Pike, June, 1873, to , 1877.
12. Rev. R. W. Jenkins, May, 1878, to January, 1884.
13. Rev. Lewis D. Evans, April, 1884, to June, 1889.
14. Rev. John H. Matthews, July, 1890, to May 29, 1892.
15. Rev. Arthur G. Pettingill, June 5, 1892, to Aug. 28, 1892.
16. Rev. M. O. Patton, June, 1893, to February 1, 1895.
17. Rev. Donald McComick, May 5, 1895, to Nov. 27, 1902.
18. Rev. Frank B. Hyde, July 26, 1903.
The average term of service of the eighteen pastors has
been about three and one-fourth }'ears. But four pastorates
have exceeded four years, those of Mr. McCormick, j\Ir. Jen-
kins, Mr. Evans and Mr. Pike, and all these were both profit-
able and popular. Mr. McCormick, of Scotch birth, was for
a time in England and Canada before coming to Maine. He
had entered several months upon his eighth year when he was
suddenly stricken down while in active service. His life was a
continual benediction. He loved his church, the town and its
people, and his death was the cause of universal mourning in
the community. Mr. Jenkins went to Gardiner from Booth-
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 209
bay, where he enjoyed the fullest confidence of his church,
but was cut down in middle age. Mr. Evans went from
Boothbay to the Congregational Church in Camden, where he
is still pastor, and now, after sixteen years with his church,
pastor and people are inseparable. Mr. Pike went to New
Hampshire, where he is still living in the town of Brentwood,
able to cast a retrospective view over much well-done work.
The Methodist Church at Boothbay Harbor.
When the union of Baptists and Methodists at Boothbay
Center was dissolved by the building of a new Baptist church,
in 1856, there was not, in that locality, enough strength left
for the Methodist Society to continue the support of a church.
As we have seen, a single society existed and was well supported
both at Southport and at East Boothbay. The Baptists had
the strength of numbers about the Center, and the only Meth-
odists not provided with church quarters were largely located
at the Harbor. An old quarterly meeting record informs us
that in 1850 the arrangement for preaching had been : "At
Townsend, three Sabbaths in four ; at Hodgdon's Mills, three
Sabbaths in four ; at the Union Meeting House, two Sabbaths
in four. " In 1846 we note that there were sixty Sabbath-
school scholars at the Mills, and fifty at the Union Church.
October 17, 1858, a record is made by Daniel W. Sawj'er
that no records of quarterly conference meetings existed on
that date, and he, thereupon, from 1846 to 1858, made a
partial one from consultation of the Southport and East
Boothbajr books. Up to that date no regular preaching ser-
vice had been held by the Methodists at the Harbor. In 1858
Kev. S. F. Strout was assigned to the Boothbay charge. No
place presented itself suitable for the purpose at the Harbor,
where it was intended that preaching should occur one-half the
time, the other half to be at East Boothbay. A request for the use
of the Congregational church was made, but not granted. The
late Arbei' Marson had a vacant loft or chamber in a building sit-
uated where Pierce and Hartung's coal yard is now, and this was
fitted up with settees and used for a short time. A little later
Paul Harris tendered the society the use of his store chamber,
now known as the W. G. Lewis store, rent free for the first
210 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
year, after one year to be fifty dollars per annum. The con-
gregations increased to that extent that, in 1860, Mr. Hands
declined longer to rent the hall, as he deemed his building not
suffcient in strength.
Silas Orne at once became the active party to circulate a
subscription paper, and subscriptions were obtained from one
dollar to twenty-five dollars. Isaac Kich, Esq., Boston, gave
one hundred dollars, and Marshal Smith gave the society a lot
on which to build a chapel. This was completed in 1860, and
now, remodeled as a residence, is owned by Miss Isabel BeaL
The rebuilding was done by the late John A. Carter, M. D.^
about 1880. The chapel was occupied until 1879, in which
year the present church on Townsend Avenue was built.
The first move toward building a church occurred one Tues-
day evening after the praj'er meeting. Members remained in
consultation. A committee was chosen to select a lot, which
is the present one, purchased of the late Silas Smith. The
church was built as it now appears. It has been kept in an
excellent state of repair. A pipe organ was purchased during
the pastorate of the Rev. J. F. Haley. The parsonage was
completed early in 1882, at a cost of about $1,.500. Eecords
show the deaths of twenty-two members and probationers dur-
ing the period in which the chapel was occupied. At the open-
ing of the new church the Sabbath school consisted of twelve
classes with an average attendance of eighty-five. The Sab-
bath congregation averaged in attendance that year one hun-
dred and thirty-six.
The List of Ministers.
1858 to 1860. Rev. S. F. Strout.
1860 to 1862. Rev. D. P. Thompson.
1862 to 1864. Rev. E. Cheney.
1864 to 1865. Rev. Joseph Baker.
1865 to 1867. Rev. C. L. Haskell.
1867 to 1869. Rev. L. H. Bean.
1869 to 1870. Rev. D. P. Thompson.
1870 to 1871. Rev. P. Higgins.
1871 to 1873. Rev.' P. E. Brown.
1873 to 1875. Rev. D. M. True.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 211
1875 to 1877. Eev. C. E. Knowlton.
1877 to 1879. Rev. C. L. Haskell.
1879 to 1882. Rev. B. C. Wentworth.
1882 to 1883. Rev. S. L. Hanscom.
1883 to 1884. Rev. J. L. Thompson.
1884 to 1887. Rev. W. F. Chase.
1887 to 1889. Rev. M. F. Bridgham.
1889 to 1892. Rev. S. L. Hanscom.
1892 to 1895. Rev. J. F. Hale3^
1895 to 1895 (December). Rev. F. H. Osgood.
1895 (December) to 1897. Rev. A. W. Pottle.
1897 to 1900. Rev. William Wood.
1900 to 1901. Rev. H. L. Williams.
1901 to 1903. Rev. A. E. Luce.
1903 to 1906. Rev. J. H. Gray.
This circuit was divided in 1879 and Boothbay Harbor has
since constituted a separate charge. The term of service in
the table presented above is computed from spring to spring,
upon usual dates of appointment.
The West Boothbay Harbor Chapel Aid.
This society, though not incorporated, has independently
erected a chapel for public worship and maintains regular Sab-
bath service. It presents a fine illustration of what persistent
work by a few persons in a small community may accomplish,
as well as the aggregate of small savings over a term of years.
It organized in October, 1897, with the definite object of
laboring to secure funds to purchase a lot and erect a chapel to
accommodate the people of the immediate locality. Sixteen
ladies composed it, all members of the Methodist Church at
the Harbor. By entertainments, suppers and the sale of their
products as a sewing circle, they found themselves, in 1904,
with a fund a little in excess of $1,000. A chapel was erected
with this fund and dedicated on February 9, 1905. The ded-
icatory sermon was delivered bj^ Rev. J. P. Jones, assisted by
Revs. William Wood, W. A. Hanscom and J. H. Gray. The
society is not incorporated and its most active workers are at
present members of the Harbor church, but the origin and
results of the work are entirely to be credited to those inter-
212 HISTOKT or BOOTHBAr.
ested in the immediate vicinity. Technically it is at present
included in the Harbor charge and the pastor of the church
officiates in the afternoon services at the chapel, but his labors
are supported locally. A Sabbath school numbering about
fifty pupils has been organized. The costs of building were
about $1,100 and with other incidental expenses a small indebt-
exists.
CHAPTER Xm.
BOOTHBAY IN ThE REVOLUTION.
THE sixteen years between the close of the French and
Indian War and the beginning of that of the American
Revolution witnessed considerable growth in all the
towns from Kittery to St. George. That part of Lincoln
County from the mouth of the Kennebec to Broad Bay, and
running back along the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers,
made a good degree of advancement in both increase of popu-
lation and improvement in general conditions. The additions
to Boothbay's population largely came from about Kittery,
York, Kennebunkport and Dover, N. H. A few families
came in from the eastern towns of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire situated between Portsmouth and Boston. The
natural increase in population already here, before this rein-
forcement from the westward, was considerable, for nearly
every family was a large one, eight to twelve children consti-
tuting an ordinary family. At incorporation we have noted
the statement that there were about "seventy-five ratable
polls"; now, in 1775, there were males of suitable age for
military service to the number of nearly two hundred.
The old men who were settlers under Dunbar and their
descendants still constituted the majority of the inhabitants,
and were the real town fathers in advice and influence. Doubt-
less the memory of wrongs suffered under English oppression
in their old homes in Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone still
rankled in their minds ; but, though indications exist that the
burdens of English taxation were felt and viewed as an unrea-
sonable imposition, still the sentiment was conservative. They
had experienced, since planting in America, so much of war,
famine, poverty and general hardship that peace, even with its
unholy burdens, was earnestly sought. Many public utter-
ances, which became matter of record, clearly indicate that
they viewed their Boston brethren as too hasty in their revolt
214 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
against the parent country, and determined that they would
become belligerent only in the emergency of defense. But
such a spirit once roused becomes thoroughly reliable and pro-
duces soldiers that rank among the best.
In 1768, as appears in the municipal chapter, a vote restrict-
ing the articles of merchandise which the inhabitants might be
permitted to purchase was passed b}' the town and a list of
prohibited articles issued. No questions of constitutional law
came up to bother them at such times. The surrounding towns
generally passed similar votes and there is abundant reason to
believe that these local laws were generally lived up to. That
Boothbay's inhabitants, notwithstanding their isolated situa-
tion, foresaw the coming storm is evidenced by the calling of a
special town meeting on February 4, 1775, at which Benjamin
Sawyer, William McCobb and Ichabod Pinkham were chosen
a Committee of Correspondence, with instructions to carry out
the recommendations to such committees by the Continental
Congress, until such time as successors might be elected or
appointed. At the same meeting a Committee of Inspection
and Safety was chosen, consisting of Andrew Reed, David
Reed, Patrick McKown, Samuel Bryer, William McClintock,
Samuel jNIontgomery, Solomon Burnham and Paul Eeed. The
same committees were continued in 177(5, after which date the
duties of the two committees were merged in one, and its
composition for the remaining years of the war follows :
1777. Andrew Eeed, William McClintock, Edward Emer-
son, Andrew McFarland and Nathaniel Tibbetts.
1778. Edward Emerson, John McCobb, John Daws,
William Reed, Ichabod Pinkham, Paul Reed.
1779-1780. The militia officers living in town.
1781. Benjamin Sawyer, John Daws, Samuel Bryer,
Thomas Boyd, John Matthews, John Montgomery and John
Borland.
1782. Thomas Boyd, Thomas Kennedy and Samuel Bryer.
Beginning with 1783 and for a few years subsequently,
until further use of such a committee became unnecessary and
the practice was discontinued, the selectmen of the town
served in that capacity.
The value and aid of these committees throughout the Col-
BOOTHBAT IN THE REVOLUTION. 215
onies cannot be overestimated. The first known suggestion of
such a movement occurs in a letter from the renowned preacher,
Jonathan Mayhew, to James Otis, in 1766, but it was first
carried into effect at the Boston town meeting in October,
1772, when, on motion of Samuel Adams, a committee of
twenty-one persons was chosen. Before the end of the year
eighty Massachusetts towns had followed the example of Bos-
ton. In the spring of 1773 the movement was commenced in
Virginia and some of the other Colonies, and by 1775 the plan
became well-nigh universal. The ingenuity of the system
probably surpassed the imagination of its founders. Here was
an intangible body, working in accord throughout the Colonies,
unknown to the law, but its creation involving no violation of
the law, and more unified and powerful than any legislative
body. By the constitution of the National Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, descendants of members of these
committees stand equal in eligibility with those of military
service.
At the annual meeting, March 21st, little action was taken
except in routine affairs. The Rev. John Murray was chosen
to attend the Provincial Congress at Concord, and a vote was
passed asking Congress to send one hundred small arms. On
May 9th a special meeting was held, at which the Committee of
Inspection was directed to prepare and have in readiness suit-
able quarters for caring for any who might come to the town's
assistance in case of sudden alai-m. Ichabod Pinkham was
instructed " to arrange for the newspapers and take the best
measures he can to have them conveyed to this town." Meet-
ing was adjourned to May 23d.
At the adjourned meeting the first important action passed
was a vote to paj^ the outstanding rates to Henry Gardner,
Esq., of Stow, appointed receiver general by the Provincial
Congress, the commission of Harrison Gray, the Province
treasurer, having expired, and no General Court having been
permitted to sit to elect a successor. Gardner's receipt was
declared a sufficient discharge of obligation. The selectmen
were directed to establish a courier route "to run from such a
place in this town and to such a place as may appear most
convenient to meet the post established between the westward
216 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
and Falmouth on every day of his return during the present
trouble." The selectmen were empowered to hire money for
the use of the town according to the necessities. This vote
was followed by a preamble and resolutions that deserve pres-
ervation, therefore a part will be presented verbatim.
" Whereas the late astonishing Steps of tyranny in the brit-
tish Parliament in declaring this people rebels, which was not
in their power to tell anj' acts done by them for which the laws
of the land had assigned them that name, in laying the punish-
ment of an universal Blockade on all the new english Colonies
for a fault existing only in the one ; have cut off all this peo-
ple from their wonted resources of the necessai-ies of life, by a
total suppression of trade and fishing and thereby it is become
impossible for the poor to subsist unless some extraordinary
means be devised for them. Therefore
"Eesolved yt ye several members of the Comtys of Inspec-
tion and Correspondence be required to take an account of the
mouths and provisions in town and report to these Comtys at
their next meeting.
" That then sd Comtys draw up an estimate of what Provis-
ions Must be found for the ensuing Season.
"That a Subscription be forthwith opened into which each
Inhabitant Shall have lil)erty of entring what quantity of nec-
essary stores for himself and family he shall think propper, as
also what Lumber, Money or other goods he resolves to raise
for payment for the same, and if said Money and Goods by
him subscribed shall not Suffice for ye purchase of his sd sup-
plies, then he shall give his estate in security for the remainder,
and should that also fail of supplying him during the public
troubles, the deficet must be made up at the public expense ;
he and all his to be employed in some suitable labour in behalf
of the Town in the mean time and as long as shall be necessar}'.
That if any Inhabitant refuse to accede to sd Subscription he
and his family shall l)e deemed to have forfeited all share of
supplies that shall l)e provided, or any of the benefits to which
the poor of the town as such may be entitled.
" When the Subscription is full ye sd Comtys with ye Select
Men are hereb}' directed Immediately to Charter as Many ves-
sels as they shall think propper to carry sd Lumber &c to the
best market and bring the proceeds in such necessar}' provis-
ions as they shall specify in order to be by them drawn up for
that purpose ; and in case such proceeds fall short of the esti-
mate afforded, then the Select Men are hereby ordered to hire
on the credit of the town such a sum of money as may be suf-
ficent to supply sd deficet.
f^sf
George B. Kenni
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 217
"These Charterers are hereby impowered in the name of
the Town to ensure such Vessels and Cargo from the danger
of the enemy, they taking no steps contrary to former laws of
Trade.
" The sd Comty and Select Men are hereby impowered to
build in some retired place in the woods a Sufficient Store for
keeping the provisions of this town, and whatever provisions
shall be procured they are directed safely to deposit there.
"That a Guard of 4 Men be placed at the Store Continually
whilst in use they to be appointed and dismissed by sd Comtys
and Select Men at their discretion.
"That on every Monday between 8 of the Clock in the
Morning and 6 in the afternoon, the Select Men shall attend at
sd Store to distriljute to Each Subscriber a weeks provision for
himself and family according to the estimate aforesd and enter
on the Book what each receives : and when his purchase is
spent then to execute ye sd article of that.
" That when this is done they Carry the Keys with them
but the Guard is not to suffer them or any other person to
enter sd Store or even come within the picketts thereof at any
other time except in case of alarm, when the Select Men or
their order may be admitted but no other."
Further conditions of this act were that no one could
deposit more than was necessary for himself and family and
use the excess for speculative purposes ; if prices were affixed
above those established by the town, to such goods as were
subscribed for exchange, it worked a forfeiture of all such
articles to the town for the use of the poor inhabitants. The
live stock on the islands was ordered to be removed to the
mainland and there grouped in herds, being placed under com-
petent herdsmen and pastured in rotation on the various farms,
with directions that upon any alarm it was to be driven north
into the woods of the interior. It was further ordered that no
stock, fish or provisions within the town's bounds should be
disposed of to any one but the inhabitants of the town, and it
was expressly commanded that no lamb should be killed in
town before the last day of September. The inhabitants were
urged to use the utmost industry, under the conditions, in hus-
bandry and fishing, and forbidden to purchase any "foreign
superfluity."
The foregoing plan for provisioning the town was the first
outlook of this famous May meeting ; the second was for the
15
218 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
defense of the town. The substance of the plan of defense
was, first, for the militia officers to take a strict survey of the
arms in town, and such as were unfit for service to seize and
transmit, without delay, at the expense of the owners, to a
gunsmith for necessary repairs. It was decreed that every
man, on the alarm, should be provided with "a good effective
fire arm and bayonet." The Committees were directed to pro-
ceed on a subscription plan, as in the case of obtaining provis-
ions, and that a vessel be dispatched to the West Indies for
the necessary munitions of war, and that upon their arrival
they should be stored at the emergency store, in the woods, as
were the provisions of sustenance, and there be under the care
of the selectmen for distribution.
A military guard of ten men "from sun-setting to sun-
rising" was ordered, and an officer was appointed to give the
people at "sun-setting" the parole, "which every person not
l)eing an inhabitant must return or be stopt till morning."
Upon the appearance of an enemj' the alarm was to be given
by him who discovered them, under a penalty of thirty-nine
stripes for negligence or disobedience. The signal was the
firing of three guns, one minute apart, which was followed by
the man on the next alarm post, " until it went round the town."
These alarm posts were fixed at the houses of Samuel
Thompson, Jonathan Sawyer, Edward Emerson, Joseph Car-
lisle, Samuel Brj^er, John Montgomery' and Samuel McCobb.
Five parade grounds were established, and these were on the
premises of Edward Emerson, Thomas Boyd, Joseph Lewis,
Andrew McFarland and Patrick McKown. The orders, upon
hearing an alarm, were that " every man repair with all speed
to the parade next him with arms, ammunition and 2 days
provisions and there wait the orders of his officers." The
Committees were declared a council of war with powers of
court-martial ; and in case of the appearance of the enemy "to
demand a categorical answer as to their errand and intention ;
and assure them that the inhabitants are determined to act only
upon the defensive, and, unless thej' land, or anoj- us they
shall receve no anoyance from us."
In case a man refused to stand guard in his turn it was
voted that " he shall pay 4 shillings, 1-2 to treat the Company
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 219
and the rest to the man who stands, or receive 10 stripes upon
his naked back."
There is ample reason to suppose these provisions were
carried out. The hiding place for local shipping was invari-
ably in Campbell's Cove. Let any reader stand upon that dam
and bridge and imagine it back in the state of nature, as it was
in those days, and, however familiar he may be with the ins
and outs of the Atlantic coast, he would be placed at his wits'
end to find another reti'cat possessing equal advantages for the
purpose to which this cove was at that time used. Becoming
conversant with this fact, both by record and tradition, the
author's curiosity was aroused as to where the " store in the
woods" was located. It was most reasonable to suppose it
might have been somewhere about Campbell's Cove. At last,
in an inteiwiew with John M. Hodgdon, now (1905) living
where he was born, in 1824, he tells of some old, tumble-
down stone walls, laid up in mortar from field stone, partially
squared, nearly three feet in thickness, which in his earliest
remembrance he played about. They stood on the exact spot
now occupied by the house of the late George B. Reed, nearly
opposite the No. 8 schoolhouse, so-called. As he remembers
the old ruins, enough of the walls was standing to indicate
where the doors and windows had been, while he and his play-
fellows found iron balls in and about the place, which were
evidently six-pounders. When yet but a boy, most of the
stones in the old walls were removed to l)e used for other pur-
poses, but the impression, then received, that it was some kind
of military garrison has never been eradicated. The reader
will readily see that this was as near the center of population,
as the settlement then existed, as could well be selected, and
was located on high, dry soil, but a short distance from the
shore of the cove, surrounded by a dense forest of old growth.
There can be little question but that this was the location of
the public store during the Revolution.
In Bristol a meeting was held on May 2d, at which it was
voted to pull down the old fort, which action immediately fol-
lowed, the inhabitants believing it was a menace to them,
inasmuch as it invited an attack from the British men-of-war
then ranging the coast, and might, in case of capture, serve as
220 HISTORY or BOOTHBAY.
a supply station for the enemy. The towns in this vicinitj',
then but a few years from incorporation, commenced that year
(1775), though the Declaration of Independence had not been
written, to drop the custom of calling their town meetings in
the name of His Majesty, and, instead, issued their warrants
"to the legal voters of the town," in the name of the Conti-
nental Congress.
This meeting of May 23d was closely followed by the battle
of Bunker Hill, on June 17th, after which time hostilities were
constant until the close of the war. The coast of Maine was
settled at nearly all places of good harborage from St. George
to Kittery. The spoils it afforded, coupled with its peculiarly
defenseless position, continually invited attack. A specimen
of the vigilance of the Boothbay soldiery is afforded in case of
the capture of Crooker and Phillips during the early summer
of 1775. Edward Emerson, with an aid, took the prisoners
overland, on horseback, to Watertown, delivered them for
trial to the authorities of the Provincial Congress and returned
to Boothbay, making a distance of 400 miles in ten days.
The following documents will show that Congress voted
Colonel Emerson about thirty dollars for the trip.
To ' Honored Great and General Court assembled at Water-
town on the 19th of July, A. D. 1775, the Petition of Edward
Emerson humbly sheweth.
That whereas your memorialists was appointed by Col.
James Cargill and the other officers of his Regiment of the
County of Lincoln to convoy to this Honorbl Court Peleg
Crooker and Nathan Phillips supposing being guilty of violat-
ing the law of Congress to which they had been. Yr Peti-
tioners Humbly Prays that Honl Congress would allow yr
Petitioners for himself one man and two horses Time and
Expenses from Boothbay to Watertown, and from Watertown
to Boothbay, which is about 400 miles out and home, and have
been on the Journey ten days, that yr Honbell Court would
take the same into j'our wise Considerations as soon as your
wisdom will admit as in Duty
Bound Shall Ever Pray
Edw^ Emerson.
Watertown, August 16, 1775.
1. Revolutionary Resolves, 1776, Vol. 195, p. 2S7.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 221
In the House of Representativea
August 18/75
Resolved that Major Edw Emerson be allowed and paid
out of the Public Treasury Seven Pounds Four Shillings in
full discharge for services within Specified.
Sent up for concurrence.
Saml Freeman,
Speaker.
At about the same time the foregoing petition was pre-
sented to the General Court the following one was also
presented and granted.
To ^ the Honorable the Council and House of Representatives
of the colony of Mass. now in general court assembled, July
19, 1775.
Humbly showeth your petitioner, that he with the Eastern
regiment in the county of Lincoln, on hearing that a man of
war with sundry other vessels were come to the eastern shore
of said county, in order to supply the regiment with Wood
and Provisions, went down in order to * * * this design, and
had the good fortune to take five vessels in that employ, which
have since been disposed of by your Honors; — one of which
vessels your honors have thot fit to put into my care a schooner
of about 70 Tons, is all firm and might easily be fitted & ren-
dered very suitable to defend the Sea Coast. Your petitioner
would further inform your Honors, that said Regiment before
they destroyed Fort Downal, took into their possession Quan-
tity' of cannon Ball & langrage, the Property of this Colony,
& is now on board said schooner. Your Petioner therefore
praj^s your Honors, that as the eastern shore of this colony is
exposed to the ravages of the Enemy, he may be allowed to
fit out sed schooner for a Privateer, make use of the Balls &
Langrage taken from Fort Downal, and enlist Thirty men to
sen^e on board said vessel, and use & improve said vessel for
the Defense of the Sea Coast in the Eastern part of this Col-
onj', and your Petitioner as in Dutj' Bound shall ever pray &c.
Your Petitioner for this humbly prays he may be allowed 100
lbs. Powder to l)e used on board said vessel for the pur-
poses aforesaid.
Edw. Emerson.
Another petition, signed by Edward Emerson, at the request
of the under officers of Colonel Cargill's regiment, bearing date
at the very time that Arnold was ascending the Kennebec, on
1. Mass. Archives, Vol, 180, p. 103.
222 HISTORY OF BOOTllBAY.
his march through the forests of Maine to attack Quel)ec, is
here presented.
To ' the Hon^'i the Great and General Court of the Colony of
Massachusetts bay now setting at Watertown.
The Officers of the Eastern Reg. of militia in the County
of Lincoln, in a council at Boothbay in said County met Octo-
ber IG*-^ 1775. Most humbly show that at the beginning of
the present war the town stocks of ammunition within their
bounds were very insignificant ; and many able and spirited men
in the regiment were destitute of effective fire arms. That
every means possible in their circumstances have been tried to
remedy these defects and tried in vain. That the frequent
alarms and consequent general muster of this regiment, arising
from the restless attempts of our unnatural enemies, to which
the easy and extensive sea-coast within our bounds peculiarly
exposes the inhabitants of this county, especially the eastern
part of it, occasions a greater waste of ammunition here than
in most places distant from the coast ; and unavoidably pro-
duces a constant demand for it.
That the appearance of a fleet in this harbor (which after
three days stay and various amusing movements, has magnified
its valor by the burning of one dwelling house & carrying off
about 100 sheep and this morning disappeared) has called out
to use all the ammunition which had not gone off with Col.
Cargill to Long Island.
That the expedition under Col. Cargill is like to spend all
the ammunition he has taken ; and if so this Regiment is like
to be left destitute of an article without which this much
endangered coast can never be defended ; and with which, tho'
chearfully ready to lay down the price, they see no way to
supply themselves. That the schooner Brittannia of and for
Newburj'port, W™ Prince Johnson, master, arrived here yes-
terday, with a quantity of powder and arms from the West
Indies; on account of the late Com. of supplies of this col-
ony. That the con'vej'ance of said stores will ])e very hazard-
ous while this coast continues to be harrassed as at present by
the foe. That the inhabitants l)eing ready cheerfully to pay
for what arms and ammunition may be supplied them, & be as
ready to use both in the defence of American Liberty, tho'
their lives be expended Avith them.
Your petitioners pray that such part of the said cargo as
to your Honors may seem meet may be ordered to be delivered
to Col. Cargill for the use of the militia of his regiment they
1. Maes. Archives, Vol. 180, p. 168.
BOOTHBAY TS THE REVOLUTION. 223
paying him for the same, & your petitioner as in duty bound
shall ever pray.
Signed in the absence of Col. Cargill in behalf & desire of
the officers of the said Eastern regiment of the County of
Lincoln
by
Edw*i Emerson,
Major.
This petition was granted by the General Court in 1775.
Early in 177.5 the owners of Damariscove, Daniel Knight
and John Wheeler, with their families came to the mainland
for safetj^ and the Committees attended to getting their live
stock, consisting principally of a large flock of sheep. The
next year, Joseph, the son of John Wheeler, secretly removed
a part of the flock back upon the island. A day or two
later Captain Mowatt, who had burned Falmouth, now
Portland, October 18, 1775, appeared and cast anchor inside
Damariscove. Wheeler went aboard Mowatt's ship and then
with some of the crew went to the island, caught the sheep,
and they were taken on board. It was ascertained that Cap-
tain Mowatt paid Wheeler two dollars apiece for them, some-
what above the price on shore. The act was fully reported to
the General Court, but action by the Court does not appear
recorded.
Col. James Cargill, of Newcastle, referred to in the fore-
going petitions, lived near Sheepscot Bridge, and the house
built by him, on the old Cargill homestead, is still pointed out
as one of the historic landmarks of that ancient locality. He
was a good fighter, a natural fighter, and did excellent ser-
vice, but he had an imperious and unreasoning temper
which detracted much from an otherwise strong character. A
statement found on file in the Massachusetts Archives, by Col.
Andrew Reed, of Boothbay, illustrates Cargill's weakness.
To ' the Honorable, the Great and General Court, at Water-
town.
I beg leave to inform your Honors that Jas. Cargill, whom
the Honorable court last year appointed a Colonel in the
County of Lincoln, on the 23"^ day of March past, came to
this town of Boothbay and in my presence and hearing began
1. Mass. AxchiTee, Vol. 194, p. 323.
224 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
to rail at ye Rev. John Murray, calling said Mr. Murray a
Iyer and maker of mischief. Then found fault with the Regu-
lating Bill calling it a Tory bill. Then proceeded to damn the
general court in the next place, said Cargill, as far as his
words could, Damned all ofBcers who had taken commissions
under said Honoj'able General Court, in Particular Sir W™
Jones and myself, for reasons to me unknown, nor were his
speeches in private, but in public company, therefore pray
your Honours, to give some directions concerning said Car-
gill, as his language may lead many weak minded out of the
Path of Duty.
These are. Gentlemen, from your most obedient
Humble Servt.
Andrew Reed,
Colonel.
Boothbay, Apr. 3, 1776.
By the early part of 177i) the blockade was very effective.
Trade had been cut off for nearly a year and there was little
or no income in the community. Taxes had been increased
for purposes of defense and the able-bodied men and boys, of
all ages, were largely in the service. Poverty was pinching
everywhere in the Colonies, but nowhere in so extreme a form
as in the eastern settlements. Added to their other troubles
several land claimants were pressing them. The Rev. John
Murray, who had just represented them at the General Court,
now memorialized that body in behalf of his people, as follows :
To^ the Honorable the Great and General Court of Massa-
chusetts Bay :
The Memorial and petition of John Murray in behalf of
the inhabitants of the town of Boothbay.
Humljly sheweth :
That in the year 1729 many of the present inhabitants and
the ancestors of many more of them began the first plantation
there under Col. Dunbar, agent for the King, on promises of
a Royal grant and many encouragements. That though disap-
pointed in all these promises they have continued on their
settlements ever since ; excepting such intervals in which the
ravages of the French and Indians drove them off to garrisons
of their own erecting. That while they wei'e struggling with
all the hardships incident to a state of abject poverty and war,
their titles to their possessions were never scrupled, — and
from the idea of defending them as their own property they
1. Rev. Petitions, 1775-I77G, Vol. 180, p. 370.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 225
resolutely through all their difficulties, without receiv-
ing any sort of assistance from the public, but since the late
peace they have been attacked by several persons claiming the
property of their lands under various pretexts, of which, till
then, they never had heard. By these claimants the settlers
have been constantly harassed, and many so terrified as to
purchase their own farms at different times and from three or
four different and opposite claimants. Others still continue to
disturb them in like manner. ****** The Hon. Court
will see sufficient cause to support the Inhabitants in the rights
they have so dearly acquired and, therefore, pray your wise
consideration of the case, and that an act may pass the Hon.
Court for quieting the Inhabitants in the possession of their
lands.
2d. Your Memorialists would humbly represent that the
Inhabitants of this town have in general lived altogether by
their trade at sea, this being now, and for many months past,
entirely cut off, all these vessels are hauled up, useless and
decaying. Several of them 'tis presumed would be very fit
for public service and by a return herewith transmitted are
offerred for the use of the Colony. The owners are not able
to furnish said vessels with arms, ammunitions and other neces-
saries as private adventurers ; and whilst no trade to the West
Indies, or elsewhere, is indulged thus they will be reduced to
great distresses on account of their vessels being left unem-
ployed.
Your Memorialists therefore beseech the Hom'ble Court,
either to permit the use of the vessels in this town in some
way of trade, or to take them into the service of the Colony,
either by purchase or hire, and dispose of them as to your
Wisdom may seem meet.
This petition, to a greater length, states in a general way
the hardships and grievances of the settlers. It was read
March 28, 177(), and the Council acted on the first part for
quieting the settlers in possession of their lands, appointing
the second Wednesday of the session in May as an opportunity
for all persons having adverse claims, to show cause why the
prayers of these petitioners should not be granted.
The Rev. John Murray's ability as a minister has been
mentioned in an earlier chapter, but it is reserved for the
present to tell of his tireless labors and beneficent influence
for the unfortunate and poverty-stricken people under his
charge during the Revolutionary period, in other ways. His
fame as the leader of his people had gone l)efore him to that
226 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
extent that iu 1777, when Commodore Collier, of the British
Navy, visited Boothbay Harbor with his men-of-war, Rainbow
and Hope, and having some grievance against the inhabitants,
addressed a polite note to Mr. Murray, inviting him to come
aboard his ship and adjust the matter. Collier's ships had
burned some small vessels at Damariscotta, and captured a
French vessel in the Sheepscot, being active in the blockade
of the coast. Mv. ]\Iurray without hesitation was set aboard
at once, where he was received with every mark of respect and
carefully listened to by those in authority. Suffice it to say
that his negotiations in behalf of the inhabitants were entirely
successful, but a writer on board the ship, who observed his
methods as a diplomat, left the following as his estimate of
the man : '
"A cunning, sensible man, who had acquired a wonderful
ascendency over, and had the entire guidance of all the people
in the country around Townshend. His house was on an
eminence not far from the water side, and appeared to be a
very handsome edifice, with gardens and shrubbery happily
disposed around it. Sir George Collier offered him some
trifling presents, which he refused for fear of giving jealousy
to his fellow rebels."
Earlier than this in the hostilities several British men-of-
war, using the harbor as a haven of safety, as the seafaring
public generally have, were very annoying to the settlers
about its shores. The people appealed without effect. They
then asked Mr. Murraj' to interpose in their behalf. Donning
his canonicals, — the white wig and gown and bands, — he
was taken to the ships and went aboard, where he talked with
so much eloquence and earnestness in behalf of his people that
sj'mpathy was created and the annoj'ances ceased. -
Capt. Paul Reed, who was present, afterward wrote :
"The dignity of his appearance was such, that all the min-
isters in Maine put together would not equal him ; that he was
superior in personal knowledge to any other man that ever
walked God's footstool ; that if he had not said a word, such
was the grandeur of his looks that he would have carried his
1. See Town's Details, published 1836.
2. Me. Hist. Coll., Vol. VI, p. 1G3.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. -^H
point ; and that the ofEcers were greatly surprised to sec such
a specimen of dignity coming from the coast of Maine. "
The nature of the war along the j\Iaine coast, from its
opening until 1779, was that of continual annoyance, petty
attacks, burning houses here and there, stealing stock, block-
ading the coast to prevent trade, destroying shipping, and
work of a similar nature. At the very outset terror had been
struck deep in the minds of all by the wanton destruction of
Falmouth. Coast defense was the principal service of the
Maine soldiers, though many were in the Continental Army
and many more in privateers. Fort Pownal, the principal
defense on the Penobscot, was dismantled by Captain Mowatt
early in 1775. Colonel Cargill, of Newcastle, burned it in
July of that year lest it might become of use to the British.
Colonel Emerson refers to the act in his petition, which has
been presented. Thus the Penobscot remained until General
jNIcLanc landed at Major Bagaduce, now Castine, on June 12th,
with 900 men and seven or eight sail, from Halifax, and took
possession of it, as a strategic point, for the English Govern-
ment. At this time, one of the darkest in the Revolution, the
Tories were largely taking refuge in Lincoln County and along
the eastern coast, having been driven out from places farther
to the westward. With this traitorous element thick about
and the Penobscot in the possession of real enemies, money
depreciated to an almost worthless medium, and Congress
unable to pay its soldiers, stout hearts alone stood up and pre-
sented an unyielding attitude.
June 24, 1779, twelve days after McLane took possession
of INIajor Bagaduce, a convention was held at Wiscasset of
delegates from the Lincoln County towns. They petitioned
the General Court to act at once in the matter. By unanimous
consent of the convention it was signed by James JlcCobb, of
Georgetown, then an old man but a stalwart patriot, who at
first, with his brother Samuel, had been a Townsend settler
under Dunbar, and father of Col., later Brig. Gen., Samuel
McCol>b, of Georgetown. William McCobb, Boothbay's lead-
ing citizen in civil affairs, was selected to bear the petition to
the Court and present it. These facts and others to be pre-
sented will show how prominent a part our immediate locality
Z26 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
played in the historic expedition that soon followed. The
petition is here presented : '
Humbly sheweth, that a number of armed vessels belonging
to and in the service of the King of Britain, have for some
time past infested the seacoasts of said county, that a fleet of
transports having 900 troops on board, with all their Necessa-
ries and Materials for building a number of forts have arrived
at Penoljscot under convoy of the following vessels of war,
viz. — the Blonde of 36 guns, Milford 28, a ship of 20, the
Hope 18, a brig 16, schooner 12, sloop 10. That the troops
of the said King have at last taken possession of a place in
said county called Major Bagaduce on the Eastern side of that
River and are fortifying the same. That from the latest
reports received the Enemy are Determined to take possession
of the ground where the old fort stood, and to fortif}- that also,
and possess themselves of the whole county of Lincoln ; and
that where it is necessary to keep Garrisons they would further
represent that a number of persons, at the aforesaid places,
have taken the oath of allegiance to said King, and it is feared
that if the Enem}' should extend further west numbers of
others would be compelled to do the same. That Iw reason of
a severe di'ought last Summer and the scarcity usual in a new
country, there is not sufficient provisions in the County of
either bread or meat to Support the Militia two Days in the
field, nor arms or ammunition sufficient to equip one-fourth of
the Inhabitants ; that the seacoasts of the County extend more
than 300 miles ; and supplies the western Seaports of the State
with the greatest part of the lumber and wood that is there
consumed ; and should the Enemy take possession of it they
would acquire a Large Quantity of masts &c. which is much
wanted by them & it would be severely felt by the other parts
of this State. They would further declare, that although they
are unwilling to say anything that may sound harsh in the ears
of their Rulers yet they must observe that they think they are
hardly dealt with when, notwithstanding the County has sup-
plied many more than their quota of men for the war ; and
have paid full their proportion of taxes, it has been so little
regarded that they could not have Companies to guard their
most valuable parts, and when the Militia have been called
Necessarily to defend them, and have made up their mustcr-
Rolls and presented them for payment to the Court, they have
been Refused ; that by reason of the Militia having been often
called upon and obliged to maintain themselves at their own
cost, they are almost wearied out, and unless some assistance
1. Rev. Petitions, Vol. 185, p, 231 ; Will. Hist, of Maine. Vol. H, p. «9.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 229
can be given them by the Court the whole County must fall a
prey to the Enemy.
The said Convention Therefore humbly and earnestly pray
the Honourable Court that they would as soon as may be, send
such a supply of provisions, as also of Arms and Ammunitions
into the County, to be under the care of the Brigadier, as shall
enable him to muster the Militia and repel the said Enemy ;
that this be accompanied M'ith an armed force Especially of
some companies of Artillery and above all that a Squadron
of vessels of War may be immediately ordered, sufficient to
destroy or at least block up the Enemys fleet where they now
lay ; as without this it appears to your petitioners that no
number of Troops, that might be assembled on the Shore would
be of any avail for the Deliverance of this County ; and finally
that the Honourable Court would be pleased to Eepeal so much
of the Kesolve for levying a new Draught of men to reinforce
the Continental Army as respects the County of Lincoln.
The Convention therefore have Dispatched their represen-
tation by William McCobb, Esq., one of its members to whom
full credence is to be given on the subject matter it contains,
anxiously waiting his Return in order to this Peoples being
able to Determine what is their Duty in their present crisis.
Your petitioners beg leave to add that from various Cir-
cumstances there is reason to believe that the Enemy and their
Emisaries are tampering with the Indians in this County, and
this Convention are apprehensive that the tribes of Penobscot
and Norridgewock may be tempted to Join them, your peti-
tioners therefore humbly request that such measures may be
taken by the Honourable Court as may be adapted to secure
their friendship at this juncture.
James McCobb,
Signed in the Presence Chairman,
and by Order of the
Convention.
The Rev. John Murray on June 18, 1779, prepared a
lengthy letter setting forth the arrival of the British fleet at
Major Bagaduce, the landing of troops and the commencement
of fortifications there. He made extended statements as to the
poverty of the inhabitants and the dangers of their weakening
if not supported by the Court. He closed with these words :
"These things dictated by unfeigned zeal for the preserva-
tion of this defenceless country, as well as for the support of
230 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
the common, glorious cause, and written by request of such of
the respectable inhabitants as I have had opportunity to see
since the alarm, are now hastened off to your Honors in the
greatest hurry, but without any design of foreclosing the
accounts which j'ou may receive from the proper authority."
To both letter and petition is affixed the following :
In the House of Representatives,
June 30, 1779.
Read and thereupon resolved that the President of the
Council be and hereby is requested to write to the Rev. Mr.
Murray and inform him of the measures the Court have taken
to Dislodge the Enemy from Penobscot.
Sent up for concurrence.
In Council June 30, 1779,
Read and Concurred,
John Avery,
D. Sec.
On the same date of the Wiscassct convention. General
Cushing, of Pownalboro, addressed the General Court in a
similar manner to the foregoing. But the Court was apprised
previous to this of the investment of the Penol)scot by
McLane's troops and had couunenced preparations for raising
a sufficient force and Heet to dislodge them. Directions were
given the Board of War, on the 25th, to engage such vessels.
State or National, as could be made ready to sail in six days,
and to employ or impress in the harbors of Boston, Salem,
Beverly and Newburyport such vessels as were fit for service,
promising their owners compensation for all damages or losses
they might sustain. General Cushing, of Lincoln, and Gen-
eral Thompson, of Cumberland, were to each detach (300 men,
and General Frost, of York, to detach 300 more from the
militia of that county. Com. Dudley Saltonstall, of New
Haven, was given command of the ileet. Gen. Solomon
Lovell, Weymouth, Mass., was commander-in-chief of the
land forces; Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, Duxbury, Mass., grand-
father to the poet Longfellow and builder of the first brick
house in Portland, in 1785, now known as the Longfellow
home, was second in command; the famous Col. Paul Revere
was Commander of Artillery. Col. Samuel McCobb was a
prominent officer, commanding the Lincoln regiment. £50,000
was raised to defray the expenses of the expedition. The
BOOTIIBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 231
supplies consisted of nine tons of flour and bread, ten of rice,
ten of salt beef, 600 gallons molasses, 600 gallons rum, 500
stands of arms, 50,000 musket cartridges with balls, two 18-
pounders with 200 rounds of cartridges, three 9-pounder3
with 300 rounds, four fieldpieces, six barrels of gunpowder
and a large quantity of axes, spades and tools, besides tents
and camp utensils.'
The fleet consisted of nineteen armed vessels and twenty-
four transports. It carried 344 guns, the largest being the
Warren, the Commodore's flagship, thirty-two guns. But one,
the Rover, carried as few as ten. The Tyrannicide, General
Wadsioorth and Nancy are recognized as names of some of the
old Boothbay vessels. The point of rendezvous was Boothbay
Harbor, and on July 19th the last of the fleet from the west-
ward set sail from Falmouth. On that day all had arrived in
the harbor. General Lovell made his headquarters at the house
of the Eev. John Murray, where, on the 21st, the returns of
the regiments were examined. On the 22d the troops were
reviewed on the Boothbay parade ground, which, as has
heretofore been mentioned, was on the premises of Andrew
McFarland. This was the only instance of anything like a
drill engaged in before actual battle by this hastily-raised,
ill-disciplined force. Unfavorable weather delayed them until
the 24th, when they sailed out from the harbor, an imposing
spectacle for the times, in full confidence of victory, but really
to their doom. They stood into the Penobscot on the morning
of the 25th. No sooner were they within range of the earth-
works of INIcLane than the British opened fire, which was
returned by several broadsides from the ships. An effort to
land that night and again the next day was repulsed. About
half an hour before sunrise, on the 28th, between 400 and 500
soldiers and marines landed at "Trask's Rock," on the western
side of the point, suffering severely from a galling fire from
an ambush ashore. With no discipline, but each man on his
courage, in three parties, the ascent was made to the bluff,
nearly 200 feet above. A destructive fire was poured upon
them all the way, but in twenty minutes the British ground
was cari'ied and occupied by the Colonial troops. Military
1. Will. Hist, of Maine. Vol. II, p. 470.
232 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
experts of the time stated that no such landing had been made
anywhere since the days of "Wolfe. In many places the sol-
diers pulled themselves up onl}- by means of bushes which
hung above them. Nearly 100 were lost by the Colonists.
They threw up intrenchments, intending to hold the captured
ground, and were in favor of demanding an immediate surren-
der, but Commodore Saltonstall refused to send any more
marines ashore and threatened to recall those already there.
It was afterward learned that McLane was prepared to capitu-
late had it been demanded ; but the opportune time passed
through the obstinacy and self-will of Saltonstall in refusing
proper support to the land forces.
It was decided that reinforcements were needed, and on
August 2d Rev. John Murray, who had accompanied the expe-
dition as chaplain to McCobb's regiment, volunteered to go as
messenger to the Government at Boston. On August loth,
while conditions were practically unchanged since the action of
the 28th, Commodore Collier, whom we have before referred
to, reached the Penobscot, from Halifax, with seven vessels,
carrying 204 guns and 1,530 men. An instant retreat was
made to the transports. Saltonstall drew up his fleet in the
form of a crescent, as though to hold his position, but a heavy
broadside from the British fleet threw the Americans into con-
fusion and a disastrous flight ensued. Most of the transports
retreated up the river ; some were beached, a part of the pro-
visions taken off and then fired. A few were made prize of,
and several ran up as far as the mouth of the Kenduskeag and
there blown up. The casualties in life were about 150 on the
part of the Americans to 85 on the side of the British. But
the loss of reputation, the destruction of most of the best ves-
sels in the North Atlantic waters, besides arms, ammunition,
provisions and cash, was a blow that staggered the whole
country in its weak condition.
A Court of Enquiry reported that "the principal reason of
the failure was the want of proper spirit and energy on the
part of the Commodore." The public, however, charged him
with cowardice and disloyalty. The troops took up their line
of flight back to the settlements on the Kennebec and the coast,
through the trackless woods, led by Indian guides. Some died
Charkes Baker Fisher.
1812-18S7.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 233
of starvation and exhaustion on the way. General Lovell and
General Wadsworth met at Boothbay about a fortnight after the
battle, which was the first seen of each other since the disaster.
So active had been the Rev. John Murray in his assistance,
and so influential was he known to be, that the English offered
a reward of £500 for his arrest. Boothbaj^ was so poorly pro-
tected and its harbor so continuously frequented by the British
vessels that it was deemed unsafe and unwise for him longer
to remain here, so he went at once to Newburyport, where he
lived out the rest of his days. But he carried his patriotism
wherever he went. Soon after reaching Newburyport that
town was called upon to furnish an entire company, officers
and men. For four days they labored with ill-attended suc-
cess, when some one suggested that Mr. Murray should be
invited to address the regiment then under arms. He was
escorted to the Presbyterian Church, where he pronounced an
address so spirited and animating that during the wave of
enthusiasm a member of his church stepped forward to take
command and in two hours the company was filled.^
As early in the war as December 7, 1776, the brigantine
Warren was purchased in Boston and placed in command of
Capt. Paul Reed.^ He sailed in it to Boothbay, loaded it with
lumber, and on February 7, 1777, set sail for St. Francois,
Grand Terre Island, French "VYest Indies. He was instructed
to purchase arms and ammunition as follows : " Four brass
fieldpieces, three or four pounders ; ten tons of lead ; 50,000
French flints." Several Boothbay men accompanied him, who
appear in the subjoined list. They were captured March 12,
1777, but by escape or exchange Captain Reed was soon afloat
again in the brig Repriml, and in this vessel captured the
British brig Xancy, Captain Forsythe. The Xancy carried
sixteen guns, and it is thought Captain Reed was in her under
Commodore Saltonstall in 1779. In that disaster she was cap-
tured instead of being destroyed as most of the American fleet
was. Captain Reed's last recorded Revolutionary service was
as captain of the privateer General Wadsivorth, in 1781, in
which he probably continued to the close of the war. He
captured several other prizes.
1. Me. Hist. Coll., Vol. VI, p. 163.
2. Revolntionary Board o£ War Letters, Vol. 151, p, 391.
234 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Capt. Joseph Reed, while in his own sloop and near Booth-
bay, was captured May 22, 1780, by Capt. James R. Mowatt,
a relative of Capt. Henry Mowatt, previousl}' mentioned.
With him were nine Boothbaj' men. The following day, while
enjoj'ing a little liberty, they suddenly fell upon the British
crew and a hand-to-hand struggle ensued, resulting this time
in the vanquishment of the victors of the day before. Captain
Mowatt was deeply chagrined at the performance, and, provis-
ions being scarce ashore. Reed hardly cared to have the pris-
oners on his hands, so an agreement was struck. Captain and
crew were liberated, but Captain Reed came in with two ves-
sels where he had gone forth shortly before with one.
On June 16, 1780, Col. Edward Emerson was chosen agent
for Boothljay to attend a convention at Wiscasset and assist in
apportioning an abatement of tax allowed by the General Court
to Lincoln County, of £30,000. This magnificent sounding
sum was not, however, all that it might appear to be. That
year a pair of coarse shoes cost £2 8s ; a pair of stockings,
£1 16s ; a shirt, £2 7s ; beef was five dollars a pound. A
vote in the town of Bristol on November 4, 1780, reads:
" Voted to give five dollars per pound for beef ; and what the
inhabitants turn in must be delivered to Wm. Burns by Thurs-
day next." Between September 25th and December 4th the
towns of Lincoln County were called upon to furnish 195,242
pounds of beef. It will be remembered that an alternative
vote in Boothbay had placed the ratio of currency at " seventy-
five of paper for one hard dollar."
Man}' traditions have come down from that war, from those
times which "tried men's souls," and doubtless many of them
have a foundation in fact, but the author has thought best to
only mention that which is well authenticated by record, and,
in reality, but little of that, for the Massachusetts Archives
are replete with references to matters which occurred on the
Lincoln County shores, and much of it occurred in old Booth-
bay. A volume might be filled of such material, but I have
thought best to let suflice in this line what is here presented.
Boothbay was unusually free from the Tory element. Her
record for genuine patriotism is unsurpassed, and besides a
soldiery that was brave and faithful she had leaders whose
BOOTHHAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 235
influence and reputations extended beyond her geographical
limits. Such were the Rev. John Murray, Colonels Edward
Emerson and Andrew Reed, Captains Andrew McFarland,
Israel Davis, Ichabod Pinkham, and Paul, Joseph and David
Reed. Any tribute to the men of those times would be incom-
plete that did not specially mention John Beath and William
McCobb ; though not in the field, their courage shone as
brightly and their responsibility was as great in the burdens
willingly taken upon themselves.
Service List.
The following list was obtained at a great amount of labor
on the part of the author besides the employment of expert
assistance in the Archives department at the Massachusetts
State House. A list of every possible male, of service age, of
persons who by tax lists, municipal, family and other records
are shown to have been residents of Boothbay during the
period, was first made. About 200 names were thus secured.
Some were minors and others advanced past middle life, but
in that war many such served creditably. This list, name by
name, under every possible form of spelling, has been searched
for in the Archives, with the following result. Though
abridged and abbreviated into a plain tabular statement, it
stands forth as a record of patriotism, unexcelled by any New
England town, and is the most eloquent part of this volume.
In its perusal the readers may safely assume that in many
individual cases the entire service record is incomplete. To
illustrate : quite often it will be noted that a soldier's first
record is where he is raised to the Continental Army from his
existing place in a regiment, where he has been serving for an
unknown period. It often occurs in search that a person
known to have served in that war is altogether omitted from
the rolls, through the incompleteness and errors of the records
in those daj^s. We are, probably, as fortunate in complete-
ness of record in this matter as any town well can be.
Christian names of officers, who are frequently referred to,
will be omitted, to avoid unnecessary repetitions. The family
names differing, as they do, no confusion can result. The
omissions will occur in the cases of Capt. Timothy Langdon,
236 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Capt. David Reed, Capt. Ichabod Pinkham, Capt. Israel Davis,
Capt. Andrew McFarland, Col. Samuel McCobb, Col. William
Jones, Col. Joseph Frye, Capt. Archibald McAllister and a
few others. The abbreviations used will be as follows : co.,
company; reg., regiment; enl., enlist or enlisted; Cont.,
Continental; mo. or mos., month or months. The dating of
service indicates the first date in the record where an enlist-
ment is not mentioned.
Adams, Samuel. — Enl. July 6, 1779; private, Capt.
Benj. Plumer's co., Col. Jones' reg. ; served at Majorbaga-
duce under Col. McCobb.
Alley, Ephraim. — Enl. from Capt. McFarland's co.
into the Cont. Army, Jan. 1, 1780, for 3 yrs. Early service
dates Apr. 2, 1776; private, Capt. Davis' co., Col. Frye's
reg. ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Alley, Joshua. — Enl. July 12, 1775; private, Capt.
Langdon's co. ; also Corporal, Capt. Davis' co., Col. Frye's
reg. ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Barter, John. — Private, Capt. McAllister's co.. Col.
McCobb's reg. ; enl. July 11, 1779 ; on Majorbagaduce expe-
dition.
Barter, Joseph. — Enl. June 1, 1776, during war; mus-
ter roll dated Camp at Ticonderoga, Nov. 27, 1776; served
by record to Aug. 27, 1780; age at enl., 20; was at Valley
Forge and Peekskill ; service mostly in New York.
Barter, Nicholas. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co. ;
enl. July 13, 1775; service in seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Beath, John. — Appointed Naval Officer for port of Town-
send, first, Nov. 23, 1776 ; second, Feb. 4, 1779 : official rec-
ord of ballot in House of Eeps.
Beath, Joseph. — Engaged mate of Brigantine Warren,
commanded by Capt. Paul Reed, Jan. 6, 1777 ; enl. Sept. 1,
1781, and was clerk of Col. McCobb's reg.. Eastern Depart-
ment.
Booker, Christopher. — Private; enl. July 11, 1779;
Capt. McAllister's co., Col. McCobb's reg. ; served on Major-
bagaduce expedition.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 237
Booker, Eliphalet. — Private, Capt. Davis co., Col.
Frye's reg. ; marched Apr. 2, 1776 ; also in Capt. McAllis-
ter's CO., Col. McCobb's reg. ; service at Penobscot, 1779.
Booker, Jacob. — Private, Capt. Davis' co., Col. Frye's
reg. ; marched Apr. 2, 1776 ; seacoast defense.
Booker, Joseph. — Private; enl. July 26, 1775; Capt.
Langdon's co. ; service at Boothbay ; also seaman on brig-
antine Warren; engaged Jan. 20, 1777; service to Mar. 12,
1777, when captured.
Booker, William. — Seaman on brigantine Warren, as
above.
Brown, Samuel. — Captain; letter dated Aug. 6, 1782,
at Hallowell, by Joseph North to Gov. Hancock, asking his
approval of appointment of Brown as Deputy Coll. of Excise
under him. Brown's residence given Boothbay.
Bryer, Samuel. — Private, Capt. Benj. Plumer's co..
Col. Jones' reg. ; service dates July 6, 1779 ; detailed for
expedition against Majorbagaduce, under Col. MoCobb.
BuRNHAM, Solomon. — Private, Capt. Pinkham's co. ;
service dates Mar. 24, 1780 ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
CoLBATH, Leighton. — Private; enl. July 13, 1775;
Capt. Langdon's co. ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Colbath, Lemuel. — Private; service dates Mar. 24,
1780 ; Capt. Pinkham's co. ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Crommett, Jeremiah. — Sergeant; enl. Jan. 3, 1777;
Capt. Christopher Woodridge's co.. Col. Wigglesworth's reg. ;
service in Cont. Army, at Providence, Valley Forge and
Greenwich.
Crommett, John. — Drafted from Capt. McFarland's co.,
by oi'der of Council, Nov. 7, 1775, for Cont. Army ; private.
Davis, Israel. — Commissioned Captain, Jan. 16, 1776,
Col. Frye's reg. ; later in Col. Jones' reg. ; stationed at Sheep-
scot River ; also in service at Greenwich and Providence.
Davis, Israel, Jr. — Private, Capt. David Reed's co..
Col. Jones' reg. ; in Capt. Langdon's co., Nov. 10, 1775.
Davis, William. — Private; service dates June 1, 1776;
Capt. Israel Davis' co. ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
238 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Daws, John. — Seaman on brigantine Warren; portage
bill mafle up for voyage to Cape Francois ; sailed from Booth-
bay, Feb. 4, 1777 ; captm-ed Mar. 12, 1777.
Decker, John. — Private, Capt. McAllister's co., Col.
McCobb's rcg. ; enl. July 11, 1779; in expedition against
Majorbagaduce.
Decker, Thomas. — Raised from Col. Jones' reg. for ser-
vice at Fislikill ; also served under Col. Rufus Putnam; ser-
vice dates June 19, 1778 ; age 22 then ; private.
Decker, William. — Private, Capt. Davis' co. ; seacoast
defense at Boothbay ; service dates Apr. 2, 177(5.
Emerson, Edward. — Lieut. Col. in Col. Jones' reg., in a
list of officers chosen by House of Reps., Jan. 30, 1776.
Farnham, Hansel. — Private; raised Nov. 7, 1777, from
3d. Lincoln Co. reg. to Cont. Army, where he served in Capt.
Bailey's co.. Col. Jackson's reg.
Farnham, Jonathan. — Private ; Duxbury ; Col. Theophi-
lus Colton's reg. ; service dates Oct. 7, 1775 ; also Sergeant 7th
CO., Col. Bailey's reg., in Cont. Armj' ; reported at Valley
Forge, Jan. 24, 1778; also 2d. Lieut, in Capt. Campney's
CO., under Maj. Gen. Gates and Maj. Gen. Heath; service
about Boston ; May 10, 1780, Farnham and other officers re-
signed their commissions: June 7, 1780, commissioned Cap-
tain in a Boston rcg.
Ford, Abner. — Private, Capt. Mecres Carr's co.. Col.
Joseph North's reg. ; service dates Sept. 15, 1777 ; assisted in
retaking the mast-ship Gruel.
Fullerton, Ebenezer. — Private, Capt. Laugdon's co. ;
enl. July 12, 1775 ; service seacoast defense at Boothbay ; also
under Maj. Dummer Sewall.
Giles, Paul. — Private; service dates Nov. 10, 1775;
Capt. Langdon's co. ; service at Boothbay ; also Capt. Davis'
CO., Col. Frye's reg. ; seacoast defense, Apr. 2, 1776.
Herrin, Daniel. — Enl: July 12, 1775; Capt. Langdon's
CO. ; seacoast defense.
Herrin, Patrick. — Enl. July 12, 1775; Capt. Lang-
don's CO. ; seacoast defense.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 239
Herrinden, Nehemiah. — Enl. July 13, 1775 ; Capt.
Langdon's co. ; seacoast defense.
HoDGDON, Joseph. — Private, Capt. Jordan Parker's co..
Col. McCobb's reg. ; enl. Aug. 10, 1781 ; service to the
eastward.
HoLTON, John. — Enl. July 12, 1775; Capt. Langdon's
CO. ; was also in brigantine Warren when captured ; Corporal.
HuTCHiNGS, Benjamin. — Private, Capt. Davis' co., Col.
Frye's reg. ; marched Mar. 7, 1776 ; seacoast defense.
Kelley, Aaron. — Enl. July 12, 1775; Capt. Langdon's
CO. ; seacoast defense.
Kelley, Joseph. — Kaised out of Col. Jones' reg. for
Cont. Army ; list dated June 3, 1778.
Kelley, William. — Raised from Col. North's reg. for
Cont. Army, June 3, 1778.
Kennedy, James. — Private, Capt. Pinkham's co. ; service
dates Mar. 24, 1780 ; at Boothbay in seacoast defense.
KJENNEDY, William. — Private; service dates Nov. 10,
1775; shows continuous to Apr. 24,1780; at Boothbay in
seacoast defense ; also from a list of Lincoln County men
raised to march to Providence to reinforce regts. of Cols.
Wade and Jacobs.
Kenney, Abijah. — In a list of men raised from Capt.
David Reed's co. to serve in Cont. Army, Nov. 7, 1777 ; was
in Col. Pillsbury's 13th Mass. reg.
Kenney, Ben.jamin. — Private; enl. May 25, 1776 ; Capt.
Josiah Smith's co.. Col. Josiah Whitney's reg. ; defense of
Boston ; also in 1780 in Capt. Pinkham's co. ; seacoast defense
at Boothbaj'.
Kenney, Samuel. — Private and Corporal in Capt. Lang-
don's CO. ; service dates July 12, 1775 ; at Boothbay in sea-
coast defense.
Kenney, Thomas. — Service dates Nov. 10, 1775; Capt.
Langdon's co. ; seacoast defense.
Kenniston, David. — Private, Capt. Moses Dunstan's co.,
2d New Hampshire reg. ; enl. July 1, 1780 ; under a different
spelling of name he is thought to appear in Capt. Daniel Liv-
240 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
ermore's co., 3d. N. H. reg. ; under Col. Alexander Scammel,
Cont. Army; enl. June 30, 1779 ; last appeai-ance of name in
each case occurs on roll of co. dated Nov. 2, 1780.
Kent, Benjamin. — Service dates Mar. 24, 1780; Capt.
Pinkham's co. ; seacoast defense ; private.
Kent, John. — List of men raised from Col. Jones' reg.
for Cont. Army ; service mentioned at Reading and Valley
Forge in 1777-78.
Knight, Daniel. — Private; service dates Nov. 10, 1775;
Capt. Langdon's co. ; seacoast defense.
Knight, Pateshall. — Raised from Col. Jones' reg. for
Cont. Army, Nov. 7, 1777; returned by Capt. McFarland ;
also private in Capt. Davis co. ; also private in Capt. Pink-
ham's CO. ; seacoast defense.
Lamson, James. — Private, Capt. James Bancroft's co..
Col. Michael Jackson's reg. ; service dates May 1, 1777, in
Cont. Army.
Lamson, Samuel. — Private ; service same as James Lam-
son above; died in service Jan. 11, 1788.
Lamson, William. — Service dates Nov. 10, 1775; Capt.
Langdon's co. ; at Boothbay in seacoast defense.
Lewis, George. — Private, Capt. McAllister's co.. Col.
McCobb's reg. ; enl. July 11, 1779 ; on Majorbagaduce expe-
dition.
Lewis, William. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co., July
12, 1775 ; also Capt. Davis' co., Col. Frye's reg. ; also in 177(5
in Lieut. Winslow's detachment ; sen-ice entirely in seacoast
defense.
LiNEKiN, John. — Raised from Capt. McFarland's co..
Col. Jones' reg., for service in Cont. Army, Nov. 7, 1777;
private.
McCoBB, Samuel. — Seaman, brigantine Warren; shipped
Jan. 2fi, 1777.
McCoBB, William. — Elected by House of Reps, as Naval
Officer, port of Townsend, for 1780.
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 241
McClintock, Samuel. — Enl. July 13, 1775 ; at Boothbay
in seacoast defense; Capt. Langdon's co.
McFarland, Andrew. — Private, Capt. Pinkham's co. ;
enl. Mar. 24, 1780; detached service in seacoast defense;
commissioned Captain, May 8, 1776, of 4th co. (2d Boothbay),
Col. Jones' reg.
McFarland, Benjamin. — Seaman, brigantine Warren,
Capt. Paul Reed.
McFarland, Thomas. — Enl. July 12, 1775; Capt. Lang-
don's CO. ; was in sloop Townsend on Penobscot expedition.
Montgomery, John. — Enl. July 12, 1775 ; private, Capt.
Langdon's co. ; seacoast defense.
Montgomery, Samuel. — Enl. July 12, 1775; private,
Capt. Langdon's co. ; also 2d Lieut, in Capt. McFarland's co. ;
commissioned May 6, 1776.
Murray, John. — Enl. July 12, 1775; private in Capt.
Langdon's co. ; seacoast defense.
Palmer, Nathaniel. — Private, Capt. Caleb Turner's co. ;
enl. July 13, 1775 ; service in defense of seacoast.
Perkins, Samuel. — Private, Capt. Caleb Turner's co. ;
sei-vice dates July 13, 1775 ; also enl. July 11, 1779, Capt.
McAllister's co. ; service record in both cases seacoast defense ;
was under Col. McCobb on Majorbagaduce expedition.
Pinkham, Ichabod. — Commissioned 1st Lieut., Capt.
McFarland's co.. Col. Jones' reg., May 8, 1776 ; also as Cap-
tain of detachment stationed at Boothbay in seacoast defense
one month from Mar. 24, 1780.
Pinkham, James. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co. ; at
Boothbay in seacoast defense ; enl. July 12, 1775 ; also in
Capt. McAllister's co., Col. McCobb's reg., on Majorbagaduce
expedition; enl. July 11, 1779.
Pinkham, Nathaniel. — Private, Capt. Davis' co. ; marched
Apr. 2, 1776 ; service in seacoast defense ; Col. Joseph Frye's
reg.
Race, George. — Private, Capt. Pinkham's detachment;
service dates March 24, 1780 ; seacoast defense.
242 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Reed, Andrew. — Commissioned Lieut. Col. in Col. Jones'
reg., Feb. 12, 177(5.
Reed, Andrew, Jr. — Commissioned 2d Lieut., Capt.
David Reed's 3d co. (1st Boothbay), Col. Jones' reg.. May
8, 1776 ; also enl. July 11, 1779, and served as 2d Lieut, on
Majorbagaduce expedition, Capt. McAllister's co.. Col.
McCobb's reg.
Reed, Andrew, 2d. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co. ; ser-
vice dates July 12, 1775 : stationed at Boothbay in seacoast
defense.
Reed, David. — Commissioned Captain 3d (1st Boothbay)
CO., Col. Jones' reg., May 8, 177G ; also appears as Commis-
sary on Council Warrant, dated Feb. 13, 1777, drawn for
£100, in favor said Reed, to enable him to supply with neces-
saries the seacoast men stationed at Boothbaj- ; also appears
(year not given) as Captain 1st co., 5th Lincoln Co. reg. of
Mass. militia in a list of officers. He appeal's as private in
Capt. Pinkham's detachment, service for 1 mo. from Mar. 24,
1780, seacoast defense, stationed at Boothbay ; also private in
Capt. Benjamin Lemont's co.. Col. McCobb's reg., enl. July
1, 1781, service at Penobscot; also private, Capt. John
Reed's co.. Col. James Hunter's corps, raised for defense of
eastern Mass. ; discharged Nov. 20, 1782.
Reed, John. — Private, Capt. Benjamin Plumer's co. ; ser-
vice dates Mar. 5, 1776 ; service (5 mos. at St. George's in
seacoast defense; also private, Capt. Benjamin Lemont's co..
Col. McCobb's reg. ; engaged July, 1781.
Reed, John, Jr. — Private, Capt. Pinkham's detachment :
service dates Mar. 24, 1780 ; seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Reed, Joseph. — Commissioned 1st Lieut., Capt. David
Reed's co.. Col. Jones' reg.. May 8, 1776; also as Lieut, in
Capt. Pinkham's detachment for 1 mo. from Mar. 24, 1780,
seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Reed, Paul. — Master brigantine Warren, shipped Dec. 7,
1776 ; service 2 mos. 26 days on a voyage to Cape Francois ;
reported to have sailed from Boothbay Feb. 4, 1777, and to
have been captured iNIar. 12, 1777; also commander of the
brig lieprisal, which captured the brig Nancy, as appears by
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 243
a petition from Capt. Forsythe, late master of the JV^anci/, ask-
ing to be exchanged, dated Dec. 22, 1777 ; also commissioned
commander of the sloop Gen. Wadsworth (privateer), Feb. 5,
1781.
Eeed, Robert. — Fifer, Capt. Langdoivsco. ; enl. July 12,
1775 ; company stationed at Boothbay for seacoast defense.
Reed, "William. — Lieut., Capt. Langdon's co. ; enl. July
12, 1775, at Boothbay, in seacoast defense ; also commissioned
Captain, July 23, 177(5, 1st co.. Col. Jonathan Buck's (5th
Lincoln) reg. ; company called on duty for service at Machias.
Rollings, Benjamin. — Private, Capt. Davis' co.. Col.
Frye's reg. ; marched from home Feb. 3, 177<5 ; service in
seacoast defense.
Rollings, James. — Private, Capt. Benjamin Plumer's co. ;
detached from Col. William Jones' reg., in expedition against
Majorbagaduce under Col. McCobb ; enl. July (>, 1779.
Rollings, Nathaniel. — Private, Capt. McAllister's co..
Col. McCobb's reg. ; enl. July 11, 1779 ; service in expedition
against Majorbagaduce.
Rollings, Samuel. — Seaman, brigantine WaiTen, on
voyage to Cape Francois; also Lieut, in Capt. Benjamin
Plumer's co. ; detached from Col. Jones' reg., under Col.
McCobb, in Majorbagaduce expedition; enl. July (>, 1779.
Rollings, Stephen. — Private ; service dates Mar. 24,
1780; seacoast defense in Capt. Pinkham's detachment.
Sally, Thomas. — Private; enl. July 12, 1775; seacoast
defense in Capt. Langdon's co. (This is same person some-
times recorded as Thomas Tully in church records, and should
beTully.)
Sawyer, Aaron. — Appears on a return of men raised
from Col. Jones' reg. for guards over Convention, magazines
and public stores, under Gen. Heath; dated at Pownalboro,
Aug. 20, 1778; residence given as Boothbay.
Sawyer, Ebenezer. — Private, Capt. Lemont's co.. Col.
McCobb's reg. ; enl. July 1, 1781 ; service near Penobscot.
Sawyer, Jacob. — Sergeant in Capt. Benjamin Brown's co.,
Lieut. Col. William Bond's (late Col. Thomas Gardner's) 37th
244 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
reg. ; appears in the 8 mos. army stationed around Boston in
1775 ; also Sergeant in Capt. Langdon's co., seacoast defense ;
was on Majorbagaduce expedition.
Serote, John. — Corporal, Capt. McAllister's co., Col.
McCobb's reg.; enl. July 11, 1779; service on Majorbaga-
duce expedition.
Stover, Dependence. — Enl. from Capt. Reed's co. for 9
mos. from date of arrival at Fishkill, June 20, 1778 ; also pri-
vate, Capt. Pinkham's detachment, service in seacoast defense,
Mar. 24, 1780, at Boothbay ; also private, Capt. McAllister's
CO., Lieut. Col. Joseph Prime's reg., under Brig. Gen. Wads-
worth, at the eastward, service dates Apr. 26, 1780.
Thompson, Joseph. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co. ; enl.
July 12, 1775; also Corporal, Lieut. Nathaniel Tibbett's co.,
Col. Lithgow's reg. ; on Majorbagaduce expedition.
Thompson, Samuel. — Private, Capt. Davis' co., Col. Frye's
reg. ; at Boothbay in seacoast defense ; also same service in
Lieut. Nathaniel Winslow's co.
Tibbetts, Giles. — Private; enl. July 12, 1775, Capt.
Langdon's co., seacoast defense at Boothbay; also private,
Capt. Christopher Woodbridge's co., Col. Smith's reg., from
Apr. 17, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779 ; enl. from Capt. Reed's co.,
Col. Jones' reg., for 3 yrs.
Tibbetts, Ichabod. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co., enl.
July 13, 1775, seacoast defense at Boothbay; also Sergeant,
Capt. Davis' co., enl. Apr. 2, 1776; also on Majorbagaduce
expedition, Capt. McAllister's co., Col. McCobb's reg. ; also
appears as Ichabod Abbitt as Sergeant in Capt. Pinkham's co.
in 1780, seacoast defense.
Tibbetts, James. —Raised from Capt. McFarland's co., to
serve in Cont. Army, by Council order, Nov. 7, 1777 ; joined
Capt. Woodbridge's co.. Col. Calvin Smith's (late Wiggles-
worth's) reg. and served from Apr. 15, 1777, to Nov. 15,
1777, when his death was reported.
Tibbetts, John. — Corporal, Capt. Langdon's co. ; enl.
July 12, 1775 ; service in seacoast defense at Boothbay.
Tibbetts, Nathaniel. — Private, Capt. Davis' co.. Col.
Frye's reg., enl. Apr. 2, 1776, service at Boothbay; also
BOOTHBAY IN THE REVOLUTION. 245
commissioned 1st Lieut., Capt. Elijah Grant's co. (5th co.),
Col. McCobb's reg. : also served as Lieut, in command of a
CO. detached to serve with guards on the seacoast of Lincoln
County under Major William Lithgow.
TiBBETTS, Nathaniel, Jr. — Private ; enl. July 13, 1775,
Capt. Liingdon's co., in defense of seacoast of Boothbay.
TwoMBLY, Paul. — Private, Capt. Henry Hunters co.. Col.
Jones' reg. ; roll dated Sept. 15, 1777 ; service at Sheepscot
River.
Wall, Andrew. — Private, Capt. McAllister's co.. Col.
Prime's reg.; enl. Apr. 23, 1780; service under Brig. Gen.
Wads worth.
Wheeler, Abraham. — Private ; raised from Capt. McFar-
land's CO., Col. Jones' reg. ; service mentioned under Col. Cal-
vin Smith ; enl. Dec. 13, 1779, for during war.
Wheeler, John. — Private, Capt. Heald's co.. Col.
McCobb's reg. ; enl. June 30, 1779 ; service on Majorbaga-
duce expedition.
Wheeler, Joseph. — Private; raised from Capt. McFar-
land's CO., Col. Jones' reg., to serve in Cont. Army, pursuant
to Council order, Nov. 7, 1777 : also private, Capt. Davis' co.,
Col. Wigglesworth's reg.
Wheeler, William. — Private ; raised from Capt. McFar-
land's CO. for service in Cont. Army, pursuant to Council
order, Nov. 7, 1777.
Willey, William. — Private, Capt. Benjamin Lemont's
CO., Col. McCobb's reg. ; enl. July 1, 1781 ; service near
Penobscot River.
Williams, Job. — Private, Capt. McFarland's co., Col.
Jones' reg., agreeable to Council order, Nov. 7, 1777, to serve
3 yrs. in Cont. Army ; also as private in Capt. Woodbridge's
CO., Col. Smith's reg., service recorded from June 22, 1777,
to Aug. 10, 1778, at which date his death was reported.
Williams, John. — Private, Capt. Davis' co.. Col. Frye's
reg., enl. Apr. 2, 1776, service at Boothbay; also raised
from Capt. McFai-land's co. to serve in Cont. Army ; served
in Capt. Woodbridge's co., Col. Smith's reg., from June 23,
1777, to Oct. 18, 1777, at which date his death was reported.
246 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAV.
Wylib, Alexander. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co., enl.
July 12, 1775, service at Boothbay in seacoast defense ; also
private, Capt. McAllister's co.. Col. McCobb's reg., enl. July
11, 1779, in Majorbagaduce expedition.
Wylie, John. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co. ; enl. July
12, 1775 ; sei-vice at Boothbay in seacoast defense.
Wylie, Robert. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co., enl. July
12, 1775, for defense of seacoast at Boothbay : also private,
Capt. Davis' co., service at Boothbay; also private, Lieut.
Nathaniel Winslow's co. A Robert Wylie, roll dated at Bris-
tol, shows service at Boothbay under Capt. Caleb Turner, enl.
Mar. 2(i, 1776 ; thought to be same person.
Wylie, Samuel. — Private, Capt. Langdon's co. ; enl.
July 12, 1775 ; service at Boothbay in seacoast defense.
Young, John. — Drummer, Capt. Benjamin Plumer's co.,
enl. Mar. 5, 1776, service at St. George's; also private, Capt.
Benjamin Lemont's co., Col. McCobb's reg., service near
Penobscot River.
CHAPTER XIV.
BOOTHBAY IN THE AVaR OF 1812.
MANY matters of consequence occurred in Boothbay
between the close of the Eevolutionary War and the
commencement of that of 1812, but the municipal and
ecclesiastial chapters cover the salient features of town and
parish proceedings, while those on commercial and fishing
interests largely include the remainder of that which is of rec-
ord value. For this reason that which has been collected relat-
ing to Boothbay's part in the second struggle with England is
pi'esented at this point in our narrative. Twenty-nine years
had intervened since America's first contention with the mother
country for independence, and this was, in fact, the second
one for the same purpose. America emerged from that con-
flict onl}^ a third-rate power, and England was never fully sat-
isfied until after the battle of New Orleans. She continually
seemed ready to accept the first provocation for trouble, and
if none was found to furnish it herself. France and England
at about that period, were at war the greater part of the time.
In Jefferson's second administration Napoleon sent forth an
edict that neutral ships must not enter British ports. England,
by her orders in Council, forbade any neutral ships to enter
French poi'ts, or the ports of any nation allied to France or
subordinate to Napoleon. These two nations had navies supe-
rior to any other counti-ies. The United States was rapidly
gaining in population and wealth, and at that time had a large
merchant marine, but, without a navy, was like an unarmed
traveler between two highwaymen. Both countries did us as
much damage as possible, but England's course in impressing
our seamen produced more feelings of wrath and resentment
than France did in the course she pursued. Upon exposure of
such outrages France could not rely upon a false explanation
that an Amei'ican seaman had been mistaken for a Frenchman,
while England could and did make such excuses and disclaim-
ers of wrong intent.
248 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
It was thought by the Administration that a general embargo
on American shipping might bring these countries to terms.
Therefore, in 1807, the Embargo Act was passed, which for-
bade anj- vessel to set out from the United States for any for-
eign port. How much damage this inflicted on England and
France is uncertain, but no uncertainty exists as to the fact
that American shipping, already crippled by the outrageous
course of these two nations, was now nearly ruined by a self-
inflicted act. Of course the act did not apply to the coastwise
trade or to the fisheries, therefore many evaded it, at great risk
to themselves, by largely provisioning for a coasting or fishing
trip to Eastport or New Orleans, bringing up at Halifax, the
West Indies or some other foreign port. It was a blunder,
still it was condoned on the ground that the Administration
used it as an experiment, hoping for the best, not knowing
what course to pursue. New England, being the most exten-
sively engaged in shipping, Avas hardest hit, and secession from
the Union was openly talked. John Quincy Adams, New
England's foremost representative at the time and a suppoi'ter
of the embargo, fearing the possible action of his part of the
country, earnestly labored for its repeal. In 1809, the first
year of Madison's administration, the embargo was repealed
and the Non-Intercourse Act substituted for it, this last act
applying only to England and France.
Nearly every seaport town in the United States sent up
repeated protests and petitions to the Government for the
repeal of the embargo, for they were all distressed bj^ its work-
ings. A special town meeting in Boothbaj- was called for
August 22, 1807, to "consider the expediency of petitioning
the President to suspend the civil embargo then resting upon
vessels and ships in ports and harbors throughout the United
States." A committee was chosen, consisting of William
McCobb, Edmund Wilson, Capt. William Maxwell Reed,
Amasa Piper and Nicholas T. Knight, to draft a petition, and
recess was taken until five o'clock in the afternoon, at which time
they reconvened and the petition was accepted and directed to
be forwarded by the town clerk. It is needless to say that it
went the way of all similar documents of which there was a
multitude.
Captain George Reed.
1797-1876.
The Reed Arms.
BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 249
At a meeting February 14, 1809, a set of resolutions with
preamble was adopted. A Committee of Safety and Corre-
spondence, similar in scope of duties and powers to the one in
Revolutionary times, was chosen, consisting of David G. Bowles,
William Maxwell Reed, Amasa Piper, Nicholas T. Knight and
John M. McFarland. A copy of their resolutions was trans-
mitted for publication to both the Portland Gazette and Port-
land Argus.
The war came near breaking out in 1807, when the British
50-gun frigate, Leo])ard, attacked the American 38-gun frigate,
Chesapeake, on the coast of Vii'ginia. Some twenty of the
American crew were killed or wounded, and four of that crew
taken on pretense that they were deserters from the British
Navy. England, however, disavowed this act. Again, in May,
1811, the English frigate. Little Belt, attacked the American
frigate. President, but in this the English vessel made a sad
error, for in the ensuing fight, she was badly cut up and was
obliged to surrender. In about six months six sea fights
occurred between English and American men-of-war, resulting
each time in the capture or sinking of the English vessel. In
twenty years of nearly continuous warfare between France and
England, the latter country had captured hundreds of vessels
belonging to the former and lost only five. This showing, on
the part of the Americans, was the more remarkable from the
fact that the Administration, for the purpose of saving what
little navy we possessed, thought seriously, at the first of the
war, of hiding it, and this would, probably, have been the
policy had it not been for Commodore Bainbridge's advice.
American navj^men, however, have had the reputation of
shooting straight from the humiliation of Tripoli down to
Manilla and Santiago.
The first real action of Boothbay, after the declaration of
war, June 18, 1812, was on July 7th, following. At a special
meeting on that date, the warrant contained only one business
article, which follows :
"To take into consideration the alarming and defenceless
situation of the town's inhabitants against the enemy, or any
plundering parties which may invade the town upon the sea-
coast harbors, or any other part thereof, or take such meas-
ures thereon that the town may think proper."
■ 17
250 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Under this article the lirst vote was to petition the Presi-
dent for protection against the enemy, and that Joshua Lor-
ing, Edmund Wilson, Jacob Auld, John McClintock and
Nicholas T. Knight be a committee to draft petitions. The
petition follows :
To the President of the United States :
The inhabitants of the town of Boothbay in the County of
Lincoln, District of Maine, by the Committee duly appointed
and authorized, beg leave respectfullj^ to represent, that the
Harbour of said town, formerly known by the name of Town-
send Harbor, is one of the best on the whole coast of the
United States of America ; one of the most easy of access, so
much so as to render the assistance of established pilots
entire]}- unnecessary, and from the circumstance of there being
but little if any current of tide. That in time of peace it
affords a shelter for numerous coasters against tempestuous
weather, and would, if fortified, in time of war not only afford
a shelter to the coasting trade but to merchant and other
vessels that might be pursued by the enemy on this part of the
coast. The}' beg leave to observe it is generally supposed this
Harbour could be well fortified at a comparatively small
expense, as its native advantages are great ; that at present
there is not a gun belonging to this town larger than a musket ;
and that the Harbour is in the most defenceless situation ;
exposed to the descent and attacks of the enemy; and (which
is most expected and dreaded) to the ravages and depredations
of marauding parties that may invade and molest us from the
adjacent British coasts ; and as former experiences in times of
war obliges them to expect, from unprincipled individuals
inimical to the Government of the United States and to their
fellow citizens.
They, therefore, respectfully petition the President of the
United States to grant them speedily the aid of a naval or land
force as he may in his judgment think most proper and suita-
ble to the situation, which will not only affoi'd them that pro-
tection from the enemy which their present defenceless and
unprotected state requires, but will also afford to the merchant
and coasting vessels a most desirable place of security.
And as in duty bound will ever pray.
Joshua Loring "|
Edmund Wilson Committee
Nicholas T. Knight I of Said
John McClintock Town.
Jacob Auld
BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 251
The above was at once adopted and the committee directed
to transmit it to the President. It was voted that Samuel
Thompson, Henry Kimball, Nathaniel Montgomery and
Joseph Grimes be added to the above committee, and that the
whole number be considered a standing Committee of Safety
and to continue in the said capacity until discharged by the
town.
The treasurer was directed to procure for the use of the
town a sufficient quantity of bullet moulds from sixteen to
twenty-four to the pound. A ten days' recess was taken and,
on reconvening, the proceedings of the Committee of Safety
having been made matter of record were read. It was voted
to accept the guns and ammunition obtained of General Dear-
born, commander of the northern department of the United
States Army, through the efforts of William Maxwell Reed,
and to extend a vote of thanks to both of them.
It is probable that such fortifications as the town possessed
during that war were immediately raised. They were simply
earthworks with such defense guns as General Dearborn had
furnished them. Campbell's Cove again was used as a hiding
place for Boothbay's shipping, and the principal points of
defense were chosen to best command the approach to that
place. The first and largest defense is still visible on McFar-
land's Point, at the extreme southern part, just westerly from
the cove where the marine railway is located. This served to
protect the whole harbor as well as the approach to Campbell's
Cove. The other principal defense was at West Harbor, on
the lot where the old stone house was situated, the lot and res-
idence now being owned by Capt. Eben T. Lewis. A smaller
defense was located between these, on the point where the
late Neal Wylie resided. The barracks were on what has ever
since been known as Barracks' Hill, just westerly, across the
road from the residence of Gardner D. Reed, and a short dis-
tance southerly from where the old "store in the woods"
stood in Revolutionary days. In fact, this old building prob-
ably did a second service during the War of 1812. A gun
house was built near where the Elbridge Love house, so-called,
stands, and about it was the training field. It was from the
original McFarland estate, and evidently where General Lovell
252 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
drilled his forces in 1779. This building is still in existence,
used as a shed by W. R. Holton.
The principal defense on Boothbay soil was that at Fort
Island, but that protected only a small part of the town, and
was equally valuable to Bristol, and more so to Damariscotta
and Newcastle than to either of the lower towns. The remains
there are now in that condition that the entire plan of the
defense is plainly indicated. At the southern point of the island,
in semi-circular form, was a bulkhead about eight feet high
and two hundred feet long. The wall inside was perpendicu-
lar, laid up of field stone and cement, and graded with earth on
the outside toward the south. About 100 feet to the north
of the bulkhead was the fort, which was a blockhouse of simi-
lar size and plan to that on Davis Island near Wiscasset. There
was a brick magazine, arched over, about eight feet squai'c,
just south of the fort, with a crooked underground walk, some
twenty feet long, leading to it.
On January 24, 1813, Edmund Wilson, Daniel Rose and
John McFarland were chosen at a special meeting to draw up
a petition to the Secretary of War for improved fortifications
at the Harbor ; and in 1814, on September 8, conditions wei'e so
alarming in the immediate vicinity, as expressed by the meet-
ing, that John M. McFarland, Charles Fisher, David G.
Bowles, David Kenniston and Edmund Wilson were chosen to
act in concert with the militia oflicers of the town, and inde-
pendently of them in their absence.
The story of the naval engagement between the Boxer and
the Enterprise, though it has been told many times, should
not here be omitted. The British brig, Boxer, for several
weeks during the summer of 1813, had been the particular
terror of the Lincoln County coast. She was built at the Isle
of Wight in 1812 and was 182 tons, carrying sixteen 18-
pounders, two long nines and 104 men. The Enterprise was
165 tons, carried fourteen 18-pounders, two long nines and
102 men. She had a history before the engagement with the
Boxer, having been commanded by Stephen Decatur, in Com-
modore Preble's fleet at Tripoli, in 1803, capturing the JSIastico,
bound for Constantinople with female slaves for the Sultan. The
Boxer was commanded by Capt. Samuel Blythe, then twenty-
BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 253
nine years of age ; the Enterprise by Lieut. William Burrows,
twenty-eight years of age. The Enterprise sailed from Ports-
mouth, N. H., September 1st, chasing a suspected schooner
until the 3d, when she arrived at Portland Harbor. Learning
there that some British privateers were in the vicinity of Mon-
hegan, she set sail for that island the morning of the 4th, where
she arrived at night. There she lay over night, while the Boxer
was riding at anchor the same night at John's Island. The
Enterprise discovered the Boxer at her anchorage about five
o'clock on the morning of the 5th, which was Sunday. At half-
past seven she got under sail. Her plan was to get the Boxer
into clear water, where ample sea room for a battle might be
had. The Boxer, meantime, interpreted the action to be of the
runaway kind, and so did the crew of the Enterprise. They
besought the under officers to try and prevail upon Lieutenant
Burrows to give battle. At half-past eight the Boxer fired
a challenge gun. From that time until half-past two they
maneuvered for position. Then the Enterprise fired one gun
and raised three American flags. An hour later, when within
half a pistol shot of each other, the Boxer fired a broadside,
but with little effect. The Enteiprise instantly replied with
her port broadside, and with such deliberation that it was the
most telling shot of the entire battle, which lasted half an
hour. Both commanders fell in the engagement ; Blythe was
nearly cut in two by a shot at the first of the contest, Bur-
rows lived eight hours. The Boxer was literally shot to
pieces, while the Enterprise was fit to go into another engage-
ment. Forty-six of the Boxer's crew were either killed or
wounded to four killed and ten wounded on the Enterprise.
When the news reached England the description of the battle
was something of a repetition of what had happened several
times before, in other naval contests. A London newspaper
commenting on it said :
" The fact seems to be but too clearly established that the
Americans have some superior mode of firing and we cannot
be too anxiously employed in discovering to what circum-
stances that superiority is owing."
Both vessels, flying the stars and stripes, reached Portland
Monday, September 6th, at five o'clock in the afternoon. The
254 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
city was wild with excitement and exultation, but still grief
mingled with their joy on account of the fall of the gallant
Burrows. Both commanders were buried in the Eastern Cem-
tery and suitable monuments were erected to their memories.
The occasion produced that impression upon a little boy of six,
who, probably, mingled unnoticed in the throng, who in after
years, as the foremost American poet, gave beautiful expres-
sion to his thought in these lines :
' ' I remember the sea fight far away,
How it thundered o'er the tide !
And the dead captains as they lay
In their graves o'erlooking the tranquil bay,
Where they in battle died."
The late William Kenniston, though but a child of six
years when this battle occuiTed, vividly remembered it, and
gave the author the following particulars. He was with his
father's family at church, attending the afternoon service. The
booming of guns at sea was distinctlj^ heard, and all were well
aware that some American vessel had engaged the Boxer, which
had for several weeks been so troublesome along the shore.
Kev. Jabez Pond Fisher was the clergyman. He caught the
sound, hesitated in his discourse, listened an instant and then,
with a brief word or two as to what he suspected it might be,
dismissed his congregation. A rush was made for Kenniston's
Hill, which when reached presented a good view of the combat.
In maneuvering for position the vessels had worked some dis-
tance westerly from Monhegan, and stood out from the mouth
of John's Bay some four or five miles. A part of the time
both vessels were enveloped in smoke, then a breeze would
clear it away for a moment. Mr. Kenniston remembered the
anxiety as to how the fight might be turning ; and that before
the firing lulled the crowd had decided that they would be able
to tell by the course taken after the battle by the vessels. If
the American vessel should win thej^ would go toward Portland ;
if the British, toward Halifax. When firing ceased then beat
anxious hearts ashore, but it was not a long wait ; they soon
got under waj' to the westward, breathing became easier and
that night sleep was untroubled.
Ballads and songs in those days were composed to apply to
nearly every prominent subject. A song composed on this
BOOTHBAT IN THE WAR OF 1812. 255
occasion was well remembered and often sung or quoted for
many years. One verse of it ran as follows :
"At length you sent your Boxer
To Box us all about,
But we had an Enterprising brig
That beat your Boxer out.
We Boxed her up to Portland
And moored her off the town,
To show the Sons of Liberty
The Boxer of renown."
An event took place in 1814 which is the only known
instance resulting in loss of life within the town limits during
the war. A British war vessel came into the harbor and
exchanged several shots with the defenses on McFarland's
Point. The soldiers ashore had but one fieldpiece. This they
fired rapidly and burst it, but just at this critical time the
vessel ceased firing, tacked and went out of the harbor and
around Spruce Point into Linekin Bay. The garrison was
impressed that they intended landing on the easterly side of
Spruce Point or at Lobster Cove. They were ordered around
the head of the harbor at double-quick and crossed over toward
the bay by what in more recent years has been known as the
"old Allen Lewis place," then owned and occupied by John
Grover. As the vessel came in toward the shore in the
bay, a son of Grover, who was standing front of the house,
discharged his musket at it ; they replied, the shot striking
him in the head. The harbor troops had almost reached the
spot when the shot was fired, and, arriving a moment after,
found the boy lying dead, so near the house that his brains
and blood bespattered its walls. Capt. George Reed, then a
boy of seventeen, was in the garrison service, and this relation
is as he gave it.
Early in the spring of 1813 two British cruisers, the Rattler
with sixteen guns and the Bream with eight, hovered along the
coast from the mouth of the Kennebec to St. George, paying
special attention to Bristol and Boothbay. On March 31st,
just off Pemaquid Point, they captured five schooners on their
way to Boston loaded with lumber. Prize crews wei'e put
aboard, but on April 2d, while becalmed just outside Boothbay
Harbor, three boats with twenty men put off and recaptured
256 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
one of the schooners. The record of the act exists, but who
the actors were is now unknown. Two days later than this,
on April 4th, a Liverpool packet captured three sloops and a
schooner in sight of the harbor.
After the recapture of the lumber-laden schooner had been
made, and it with its cargo securely hidden in Campbell's Gove,
the Rattler came along and anchored inside Squirrel Island.
Capt. William Maxwell Reed, who commanded the militia in
shore defense, ordered an "all out" alarm fired. This brought
Capt. Daniel Eose, who had command of the Damariscotta
fort, with a company of soldiers to the assistance of the har-
bor. During the night the Rattler landed one boat load of
marines on Spruce Point, but they were discovered, fired upon
by the town militia, beat a retreat to their boat and made their
way back to their vessel.
It was thought liest to try and raise a home force between
Bristol and Boothbay and capture the Bream. The sloop
Increase, 100 tons, was engaged, but who should command?
Commodore Tucker, then sixty-six years of age, the old Rev-
olutionary hero, offered to do so and his services were gladly
accepted. With forty-five men they left Bristol and sailed
into Boothbay Harbor. Here the commodore met them and
took command, thirty Boothbay men joining the expedition.
While laying in the harbor they had sent to Wiscasset for some
fieldpieces and more ammunition. They cruised about outside
steadily for two days, when, running short of provisions, the)'-
came back into the harbor, returned the fieldpieces and ammu-
nition, and the Boothbay contingent went to their homes. The
commodore then sailed for Bristol with no other arms than
their muskets. Just as they made Pemaquid Point thej'^ spied
a sail to the east of them. Tucker kept his course as though
for the St. George River, while the strange sail ahead tacked
as if to intercept them. Tucker ordered all his men below
except a few hands as sailors, and appeared to be trying to
escape. He realized his onlj- chance was a fight at close quar-
ters, so, at an opportune time, he suddenly tacked ship, bear-
ing down upon them, hoisted the American flag and ordered
his men on deck. The British fired the first shot, which was
instantly answered by Tucker's men. The surprise met with
BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 257
probably largely influenced the enemy's action, for they rushed
beneath decks and the old commodore added another prize to
his list. It proved to be the Croion, a privateer from Halifax,
thirty-five tons, carrying twenty men. They had been out
eight days, captured one American brig and had the prisoners
aboard. The British prisoners were taken into Round Pond
and from there sent to the jail at Wiscasset.
On June 20, 1814, the Bulwarh, a 74-gun ship, entered
the Sheepscot, landing six barges of her marines somewhere
on the west side of Boothbay, though opposed by about forty
of the militia. Thej^ marched between seven and eight miles,
when meeting a larger force of militia they were beaten back,
retreating to their boats and thence to their vessel. June 27th
and 28th other barges came into Boothbay Harbor, but were
fired upon from various points on the shore, so that they
retired. During the early fall Moose Island, where Eastport
is now situated, Castine, Bangor and Belfast fell into English
possession. Lieut. Gen. Sir John Sherbroke issued a procla-
mation that all territory lying east of the Penobscot River was
subject to the British Crown by right of conquest. A descent
was then expected about the Sheepscot, as the next natural
step westward. Gen. William King, Maine's first Governor,
ordered out his entire division of militia, making his head-
quarters at Wiscasset, but stationing most of his troops in
Edgecomb ; meantime nearly every man and boy, irrespective
of age, who could handle a musket, went into the local militia
in Boothbay, Bristol and other neighboring towns.
Though the darkest hour of the war along this part of the
coast was in the latter part of 1814, at that very time the
British cause was waning. A treaty was concluded December
24th that year, the news of which reached Maine sometime in
February, almost simultaneously with the tidings from the
battle of New Orleans, which had occurred January 8th. No
such demonstrations of joy had ever been witnessed as now
took place in nearly every town. Jollification meetings were
the order of the day. The war had never been a popular one
as had the struggle for independence through which the pre-
ceding generation fought ; but there was no lack of loyalty or
patriotism in its support. But this feeling existing had the
258 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
effect to emphasize the rejoicings of the inhabitants when the
end was announced.
The local militia had been kept up throughout Maine
towns from the close of the Revolution to the breaking out of
the "War of 1812. After the close of the latter more attention
than ever was given to the regular "training days," or musters.
They originated in a fancied necessity and developed into a
sort of holiday, — in fact, almost the only one which the peo-
ple in country places obtained. There were no libraries, no
halls of entertainment, no traveling theatrical companies, no
ball games, no fairs or horse trots, — for Boston Blue, the
first horse to trot a mile in three minutes, did not accomplish
that feat until 1818, — no magazines, few books, no daily
newspapers and few weekly ones, no lodges, no regular com-
munication with other places. It can hardly be a matter of
surprise, then, that the inhabitants, with natural social instincts,
hailed the " training days " of their local militia companies with
unfeigned anticipations of pleasure. The music of the fife and
drum, the drill maneuvers of the company, the sham fights,
the refreshment tents with taffy and gingerbread for sale, —
each possessed its entertaining features.
A muster equipment consisted of a musket with bayonet,
a cartridge box, an iron gun rod, one scabbard and belt, a
cleaning wire and brush, three flints, twenty-four balls and
one-half pound of powder. It was the author's fortune to find
an old account, dating 1819, charged up to Capt. Ephraim
McCobb, for cash paid out for the use of the company by
David Merry, which here follows :
May 4, 1819. Payed at Kennistons 2.00
Sept. 4, " Payed at John Tullys ' 1.50
" 11, " Payed John Elder, for playing the fife 1.00
" " " Payed Francis Smith Do. for drumming 1.00
" " " Payed for rum 1.50
Oct. 12, " Payed for refreshments 2.69
May 2, 1820. To pay for refreshments 1.53
Sept. 29, " To rum for the use of the Company 1.34
" " " To repairing Drum for the Company 1.50
Oct. 6, " To rum Do. for the Company .87
" 20, " To rum for use of the Company 1.42
Many of the interior towns had cavalry companies, and
BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 259
some had a company of artillery, but there is no record that
Boothbay had anything but infantry or companies of foot.
The military system and regular muster days came to an end
about 1843, though some towns had volunteer organizations
some years subsequent to that date.
It is unfortunate that the 1812 rolls are not accessible, like
those of the Revolution, in the Massachusetts Archives. By
information from the Massachusetts State Department it was
learned that when the Federal Government reimbursed that
State for war expenses incurred from 1812 to 1815, the rolls
were surrendered to the general Government at Washington.
By inquiry of the War Department it was ascertained that the
rolls were very incomplete, and the Boothbay companies were
not to be found. At last an old record book was found by
William O. McCobb, which had belonged to his grandfather,
Joseph McCobb. It contained the muster roll of Capt. Wil-
liam Maxwell Reed's company in 1812, and Capt. David
R. Adams' company for the same year. Captain Reed's com-
pany is given in full, for they were all Boothbay men
and served through the war in scacoast defense, while that
of Captain Adams, though numbering seventy-five privates,
only thirteen of them resided in Boothbay, the remainder
being made up from Edgecomb, Newcastle and Wiscasset, and
it was about Wiscasset that Captain Adams was stationed for
the most part of the war. Capt. Daniel Rose, who was stationed
at Fort Island, had a company made up largely from the north
part of the town and Pleasant Cove, but the roll of his com-
pany has failed to appear, though diligently searched for.
Muster Roll, 1812.
Capt. William Maxwell Reed's Company of Foot.
Joseph McCobb, Lieut. ; Jacob Auld, Ensign.
Sergeants : George Gilbert, Samuel Giles, Alfred Wads-
worth, Ephraim McCobb.
Musicians : William Bragg, fifer ; Paul M. Reed, drummer.
Clerk : Samuel Giles.
privates.
Benjamin Wheeler, Abraham Springer,
Elisha Sherman, Francis Crooker,
260
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
George Eace, Jr.,
Elihu Bryer, Jr.,
James Auld,
John Leishman,
Samuel Bryer, 3d,
John Wylie, Jr.,
Jeremiah Holton,
John McFarland,
Samuel Murray,
John Bennett,
Nathaniel Montgomerj^
James Montgomery,
John Bryer,
Joseph Bryer,
John Allej^ Jr.,
Samuel Bryer,
George W. Boyd,
Joseph Farnham,
Jacob Perkins,
AVilliam Matthews,
Peter Savors,
Andrew Boj'd,
Andrew McCobb,
Alexander Boyd,
Andrew Wall,
John M. Morrison,
Ephraim McFarland,
Samuel Knight,
Thomas Boyd, 2d,
Joel Thompson,
Joseph Booker, Jr.,
William McCobb,
John Farnham, Jr.,
George Farnham,
Eichard Adams,
George Kelloch,
Ezekiel Holbrook,
William Auld,
James Brewer,
Eobert Wylie, 3d,
Jonathan Hutchings,
Nathaniel Pinkham, Jr.
James Murray,
Joseph Grimes,
Eobert Montgomery,
William Montgomery,
Jeremiah Beath,
Eobert Bryer,
William Trask,
John Pinkham,
John Lewis, 2d,
William Alley,
Thomas Sargent,
Joseph Gillette,
Michael Eobinson,
James Fullerton,
John Burnham,
John B. Booker,
John Grover,
Eobert Sherman,
Elcazer Sherman,
John Knight,
John Fullerton,
Joseph Morse,
Ephraim Brown,
Henry Pierce,
William Bragg,
Isaac Kelley,
Samuel Bryer, 4th,
William Eobinson.
Muster Eoll, 1812.
Capt. David E. Adams' Company of Foot.
Sergeants : William Thompson, Samuel Thompson.
BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 261
Musicians : Nathaniel Tibbetts, fifer ; John Lewis, drum-
George W. Merrill, Benjamin Barter,
Benjamin Hodgdon, Joseph Horn,
Samuel Barter, 3d, Francis Gray,
John Barter, 4th, Palgrave Maddocks,
Henry Gray, John Webber,
John Floyd, Samuel G. Smith.
Nathaniel Pinkham,
George Kelloch and Thomas Boyd, 2d, appearing in Cap-
tain Reed's company, were killed in January, 1814, at Platts-
burgh Bay, under Commodoi-e McDonough. Marshal Smith,
long a prominent resident, enlisted in Portland from the town
of Bridgton. Timothy Hodgdon, then a resident of Westport,
served there, stationed at Fowle Point. John, son of Benja-
min and Anne Kelley, Benjamin Bennett, Jr., Isaac, son of
Nathaniel and Martha Pinkham, Robert, son of James and
Sarah Reed, are four pei'sons who are known to have served at
Fort Island under Captain Rose.
At the close of the war there were 323 polls in town. The
total commitment of tax (not including ministerial tax) was
$1,386.02. The ten largest taxpayers, in order of amount,
follow : Benjamin Pinkham, $20.93 ; Samuel Thompson,
$16.17; Nathaniel Pinkham, $1,5.53; Nicholas T. Knight,
$14.17; John M. McFarland, $14.06; Andrew McFarland,
$13.56; Nathaniel Pinkham, Jr., $13.56; William M. Reed,
$13.28; Jonathan Pierce, $12.85; Joseph Carlile, $12.14.
CHAPTER XV.
Booths AY Publishments of Intentions or Marriage.
1766-1820.
THE following list of publishments of intentions of mar-
riage is as complete as the records will permit. I have
found a few instances where 1 was positive that the par-
ties were married since the organization of the town, and have
been unable to find anj^ publishment of the intentions of the
contracting parties. These instances, however, are very rare.
It was the early custom to write out the publishment, wherever
space might be found, in the old first book of records. I care-
fully went over this book and copied those publishments which
it contained, and then arranged them chronologically. I have
verified my copied list with the original and believe the work
to be practically correct. It is not in verbatim form, for that
varied according to the caprice of the various clerks. I have
dropped all unnecessary words, simply giving date and names
of the contracting parties, and the town, where either party
lived in some other than Boothbay. Where no town is given,
Boothbay is to be understood. It may be well to caution the
reader who expects exact correspondence in names with those
to be found in the genealogical department, that variations in
form often occurred in the record. To illustrate : Ichabod
Pinkham recorded his five daughters in the town records as
Mercy, Sarah, Mary, Martha and Betsey. His will, on tile in
the Lincoln registry, makes bequests to Mary, Sally, Polly,
Patty and Betsey. In other families Elizabeth appears in one
place and Betsey in another, while in the very early records,
among those of Scotch descent, Jane and Jean are interchange-
able ; so, also, are Abigail and Nabby, and several other names.
The middle initial letter of a name is observed in some records
and omitted in others. In men's names less confusion exists,
but in these there are instances where the suffix, Jr., is used
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 263
for a nephew, or some other relative, of the oldest member of
a family, while the son may have the suffix of 2d, 3d or some
other number for designation.
1766.
Mar. 3, Ichabod Pinkham and Mercy Catlin.
Dec. 21, John Murray and Anne Montgomery.
1767.
Jan. 31, Solomon Pinkham and Mary Perry.
May 15, Eleazer Sherman and Lj'dia Kelley.
July 27, Samuel Pierce and Elizabeth Thompson, Monhegan.
Aug. 24, Joseph Floyd and Mary Dizer, Charlestown.
Oct. 31, Benjamin Thomas and Mary Jordan, Cape Elizabeth.
Nov. 16, Patrick McKown and Margery Fullerton.
Nov. 21, Nathaniel Brewer and Elizabeth Sampson, Arundel.
1768.
Mar. 26, Faithful Singer and Susanna Knight.
Oct. 7, Daniel Knight and Mary Winslow, Bristol.
Oct. 22, Moses Cross, Freetown, and Mary Kelley.
Nov. 19, Samuel Perkins and Abigail Stevens.
Nov. 26, James Kennedy and Phebe Alley.
Nov. 26, John Leishman and Sarah Eeed.
Nov. 26, John Daws and Mary McKown.
Dec. 1, Jonathan Daws and Elizabeth Barter.
Dec. 10, Hezekiah Herinton and Elizabeth Linekin.
1769.
Jan. 13, Nathaniel Brewer and Elizabeth Salloway.
Mar. 25, John Fullerton and Jean McCobb.
May 27, Samuel Montgomery and Jean Wyer.
Benjamin Kelley and Sarah Kennedy.
Nov. 20, John Montgomery and Lydia Winslow, Bristol.
Dec. 4, Eobert Wylie and Mary Kennedy.
Dec. 29, Thomas Boyd, Bristol, and Katherine Wylie.
1770.
Jan. 9, John Auld and Mary McCobb.
Feb. 3, Zebedee Linekin and Susanna Linekin.
Apr. 12, Jemuel Ripley and Margaret Nail.
Apr. 17, Andrew Wall and Hannah McFarland.
May 7, Thomas Slowman, Woolwich, and Lydia Daws.
John Call, Pownalboro, and Sarah Lewis.
Francis Cunamings and Mary Kelley.
264 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1771.
Jan. 5, David Colbath and Elizabeth Hutchings.
Feb. 2, William Decker and Molly Decker, Jeremisquam.
Mar. 2, Benjamin Pinkham and Ella Catland, Bristol.
Aug. 28, Timothy Young, Monhegan, and Susanna Pierce.
Nov. 21, Thomas Ilines, Jeremisquam, and Elizabeth Crummett.
Nov. 30, Arad Powers and Mary Colley.
1772.
Jan. 1, John Brewer and Susanna Day.
Jan. 2, William Booker and Hannah Booker.
Jan. 4, Joseph Decker, Freetown, and Sarah Davis.
Apr. 17, Samuel Wylie and Margaret Beath.
Apr. 17, James Auld and Frances McCobb.
Oct. 17, Cornelius Horn and Masse Chaples.
Oct. 24, John W. Brown, Ipswich, and Susanna Pierce.
Nov. 20, Rev. John Murray and Susanna Lithgow, Georgetown.
Nov. 20, John Barter and Frances Lewis.
1773.
Mar. 23, George Lewis and Dorcas Lemcord, Pownalboro.
8, Andrew Reed and Hannah Davis.
May 29, Ichabod Tibbetts and Deliverance Cook.
July 31, William McClintock, Bristol, and Margaret Fullerton.
Dec. 25, John Holton and Priscilla Beath.
1774.
Jan. 17, Samuel Alley and Sarah Linekin.
Neal Wylie and Esther Crawford.
Mar. 19, Thomas Kennedy and Sarah Dodge, Freetown.
Mar. 19, Benjamin Pinkham and Rhoda Hutchings, Freetown.
Mar. 19, Nuoles Booker and Mary Davis.
Mar. 31, John Booker and Mary Rackliff.
June 18, Nathaniel Pinkham and Martha Catland.
Abner Dunton, Egham, and Hannah Barter.
Aug. 4, Cliristopher Stevens, Edgecomb, and Hannah Hofsom.
Oct. 15, Thomas Kenney and Jemima Foster.
Nov. 12, Ichabod Tibbetts and Betty Hutchings.
Dec. 4, David Gilmore, Woolwich and Janet Fullerton.
1775.
Jan. 15, Nathaniel Tibbetts and Elizabeth Alley.
Mar. — , Jeremiah Barter and Mary Bachelder.
Apr. 5, John McCobb and Mary Beath.
Apr. 22, Henry Bond and Marian Fullerton.
June 23, Samuel Herren and Elizabeth Ingraham.
Dec. 2, William Poor and Marj^ Leach, Haverhill.
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE.
1776.
Mar. 29, John Parker, Georgetown, and Elizabeth Beath.
Aug. 10, Israel Davis and Hannah Bai'ter.
31, Samuel Kenney and Abigail Barter.
Dec. 14, William AVheeler and Phebe Linekin.
1777.
Feb. 1, Abraham Serote and Jean Lambert, Pownalboro.
Feb. 1, Joseph Pierce and Sarah Thompson.
Mar. 1, Jeremiah Crommett and Sarah Floyd.
Mar. 10, Benjamin Rollins and Rhoda Pinkham.
May 26, Joseph Lewis and Jean Wylie.
July 26, James McCobb and Sarah Allen, Georgetown.
Sept. 17, Samuel Sanders and Jean Reed.
1778.
Jan. 1, James Pinkham and Polly Rollins.
Mar. 7, Andrew Reed, Jr., and Phebe Sawyer.
Apr. 26, Nicholas Barter and Molly Coll.
June — , James Rollins and Mary Floyd.
Aug. 6, William Reed and Jean McFarland.
Aug. 8, John Irskine and Sarah Reed.
John Borland and Sarah Campbell, Newcastle.
Nov. 26, John Tibbetts and LydiaLamson.
1779.
Jan. 4, Benjamin McFarland and Margaret Murray.
Jan. 22, Andrew Reed, 3d, and Mary McFarland.
Feb. 7, Joseph Booker and Anna Booker.
Mar. 20, Benjamin Hutchings and Abigail Tibbetts.
June 6, John Murraj^ and Elizabeth Chapman, Ipswich.
June 7, James Rollins and Mary Floyd.
Dec. 4, John Barter and Jemima Kenney.
1780.
Mar. 27, Allen Sawyer and Sally Hodgdon, Edgecomb.
Apr. 12, Jacob Sawyer and Elizabeth Herrington. '
June 22, Nicholas AVebber and Rachel Love.
Aug. 30, William Lewis and Sarah Pinkham.
Aug. — , John Parrish and Susanna Serote.
Nov. 29, Jeremiah Crommett and Jude Knight.
Dec. 4, James Brewer and Mary Barter.
1781.
Jan. 1, Thomas Decker and Catherine Fullerton.
Mar. 10, Calvin Pinkham and Elizabeth Barter.
18
266 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
May 14, Joseph Humphreys, Newcastle, and Catherine Mc-
Clintock.
Oct. 7, Chestain Messing and Mary Brewer.
Nov. 1, Samuel Thompson and Mary Reed. ,
Nov. 6, James Rollins and Mary Alle}^
Dec. 27, Alexander Wylie and Hannah Kennedy.
1782.
Jan. 21, Joseph Carlile and Elizabeth Merry.
Feb. 8, Patishell Knight and Susanna Brown.
May 4, Aljijah Kenney and Esther Wylie.
Dec. 21, Samuel Adams, Jr., and Mary Bryer.
Dec. 21, Stephen Lewis and Abigail Barter.
1783.
July 24, Giles Tibbetts and Hannah Alley.
Sept. 4, Ephraim Alley and Susanna Day, Edgecomb.
Nov. 1, Solomon Burnham and Anna Wheeler.
1784.
Feb. 18, David Reed, Jr., and Jenny Reed.
Apr. 3, Ebenezer Fullerton and Eunice Beath.
June 26, Benjamin Kenney and Susanna Lewis.
Aug. 26, Obadiah Trask, Edgecomb, and Martha Kelley.
Sept. 16, David Atkins, Saco, and Sarah Serote.
Dec. 1, Samuel McCobb, Jr., and Sarah McFarland.
Dec. 2, Samuel Clifford, Edgecomb, and Mary Adams.
July 10, Edward Bird and Elizabeth Wooten.
July 23, Ebenezer Sawyer and Martha Giles.
Mar. 29, John Emerson and Rebecca Hodgdon.
Dec. 3, Joseph Beath and ]\lary Pelham.
1786.
Sept. 16, Stephen Rollins and Martha Crommett.
Sept. 19, William Burns, Bristol, and Margaret McClintock.
Nov. 17, David Reed, 2d, and Jane Reed.
1787.
Jan. 30, Elias Skidmore, Newtown, Conn., and Mar}' Reed.
Apr. 2, David Linekin and Elinor Farnham.
May 30, Jonathan Greenough and Catherine Reed.
Oct. 16, David Give (Gove?) and Lydia Alley.
Nov. 24, William Trask, Edgecomb, and Abigail Carlile.
INTENTIONS OF MAERIAGE. 267
1788.
Jan. 4, Patrick Herren and Jane Taylor.
May 27, Joseph Linekin, Jr., and Jane Brewer.
June 6, Ruggles Cunningham, Edgecomb, and Mary Giles.
Sept. 2, James Reed and Sarah Kenney.
Sept. 8, Joseph Carlile and Phebe Alley.
Sept. 16, Frederick S. Arnold and Elizabeth Matthews.
Sept. 26, John Kent and Susanna Thompson.
Nov. 1, Levi Ball and Judy Crommett.
Nov. 29, Samuel Stimson, Georgetown, and Mary Fullerton.
1789.
Mar. 20, David Kenniston and Sarah Beath.
Mar. 25, Nathan Maness and Jane Brewer.
Mar. 26, Joseph Pinkham and Mrs. Alice Cunningham, Edge-
comb.
Apr. 20, William Reed and Martha Reed.
June 6, Ephraim Burnham and Jane Brown.
July 15, Andrew McFarland and Betsey McKown, Bristol.
Aug. 8, Robert Mitchell, Belfast, and Martha Wylie.
Aug. 8, Henry Kenney, and Elizabeth Emerson, Edgecomb.
Sept. 4, Edward Tierney, Nobleboro, and Susanna Wylie.
Sept. 25, John Lewis and Rebecca Tibbetts.
Oct. 17, Adam Boyd and Martha Boyd.
Oct. 30, Anselm Farnham and Betsey Plummer, Bristol.
Dec. 26, Joseph Giles and Sarah Reed.
1790.
Jan. 2, John Stover and Mary Barter.
Jan. 23, James Tibbetts and Nabby Lewis.
Mar. 1, William Durong and Ruth Burnham.
Apr. 11, David Emery, Pownalboro, and Jean Pierce.
May 22, Joshua Crommett and Sarah Adams.
June 7, David Nelson and Deborah Clenningbowl.
June 9, Timothy Carroll and Susanna Webber.
Oct. 3, Thomas Boyd, 3d, and Eleanor McGlathery, Bristol.
Oct. 4, William Adams and Betsey Sawyer.
Oct. 8, Eleazer Sherman and Susanna Wylie.
Nov. 6, John Maddocks and Elizabeth Kennedy.
Dec. 21, Thomas Bracket, Bi'istol, and Polly Yeaton.
1791.
Jan. 13, Samuel Barter and Judith Abbott.
Mar. 30, Lemuel Lewis and Sarah Tibbetts.
Apr. 25, Samuel Day and Betsey Reed.
May 10, Thomas Reed and Sarah Reed.
260 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
May 20, Benjamin Pinkham and Nabby Giles.
Sept. 1, Joseph Thompson and Lucy Sally.
Sept. 5, Dependence Stover and Mary Bell, Edgecomb.
Sept. 15, Edmund Leason and Mary Pierce.
Nov. 7, Js^^icholas T. Knight and Rachel Auld.
Dec. 14, Joseph Campbell, Newcastle, and Jenny Reed.
Dec. 14, Ebenezer Lundy and Joanna Thompson.
1792.
May 5, Nathaniel Whitaker, Jr., and Sally Swanton, Bath.
May 14, John Brown, Jr., and Betsey Perkins.
May 24, Oliver Jack, Bristol, and Elizabeth Arnold.
June 29, Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, Georgetown, and Mrs. Mar-
gery McKown.
Sept. 25, Benjamin Kent, Jr., and Celia Smith.
Oct. 10, Joshua Hodgdon, Edgecomb, and Phebe Sawyer.
Oct. 13, Ichabod Pinkham, Jr., and Betty Cunningham, Edge-
comb.
Oct. 24, Ichabod Willey and Sally Horn.
Nov. 5, Faithful Singer and Mary Fullcrton.
Dec. 11, Reuben Alle}^ and Lucy Dunton, Edgecomb.
Dec. 11, Edward Cooper, Kennebec, and Elizabeth Arnold.
1793.
Jan. 12, William Knight and Martha Buruham.
Mar. 8, Benjamin Kelley, Jr., and Anne Auld.
Apr. 10, John M. McFarland and Margaret Reed.
Apr. 10, Pelatiah Maddocks and Mrs. Clarecy Bird.
Apr. 20, John Perkins and Mary Goudy.
Apr. 25, John Norwood and Anne Smith.
June 8, John Farnham and Abigail Plummer, Bristol.
July 2, Calvin Pinkham, Jr., and Julia Kenney.
July 19, Ebenezer Chase, Edgecomb, and Jane Adams.
Sept. 6, James Moore, Edgecomb, and Phebe Kennedy.
Sept. 10, Benjamin Dunton, Edgecomb, and Patty Alley.
Samuel Bryer, Jr., and Bethrige McCobb.
Oct. 23, Eleazer Sherman, Jr., and Elizabeth Reed.
Oct. 25, Thomas Cleaves, Bristol, and Hannah Wheeler.
Nov. 22, Nathan Dole, Pownalboro, and Mary Matthews.
Dec. 20, John Love and Lj^dia Sti-aw.
1794.
Jan. 4, John Daws, Jr., and Elizabeth Barter.
Jan. 10, Ichabod Pinkham, Jr., and Lucy Hunt, Bristol.
Jan. 15, John Giles and Marj^ Tibbetts.
Feb. 9, John Wall and Susanna Brewer.
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 5Jb9
Feb. 28, Robert Reed, 3d, and Ellice Wylie.
Mar. 19, James Plummer, Bristol, and Martha Farnham.
May 5, Edward Emerson, Edgecomb, and Anne Sawyer.
June 10, William Maxwell Reed and Rosanna McFarland.
June 15, James Brewer and Margaret Wall.
July 7, Nathaniel Merchant and Sarah Kent.
July 24, Joseph Barter, Jr., and Sarah Pinkham.
July 31, Adam Boyd, Jr., and Mary Kellah, Warren.
July 31, Fenly Kellah, Warren, and Mary Boyd.
Aug. 2, Thomas Ball and Sarah Holbrook.
Sept. 13, Capt. Ephraim McFarland and Elizabeth Mitchell,
Belfast.
Oct. 31, William Fullerton and Sally Montgomery.
Nov. 13, Ephraim Linekin, Gushing, and Betsey Daws.
Nov. 15, John Andrews, Ipswich, and Patty Knight.
Nov. 26, John A. Kennedy and Judith Dunton, Newcastle.
Nov. 30, William Bryer and Margaret Smith.
Dec. 6, Thomas Gove, Edgecomb, and Elizabeth Reed.
1795.
Jan. 6, Zenas Ilutchins, Edgecomb, and Mary Auld.
Jan. 15, Solomon Pinkham, Jr., and Sally Ball.
Jan. 24, Thomas Ball and Betsey Horn.
Apr. 30, Aaron Sawyer and Sarah Kent.
May 15, John Poor and Mary Elenwood.
May 18, George Kellah and Jean Boyd.
June 10, John Norwood and Janet Trask, Edgecomb.
Aug. 24, William Horn and Rebecca Morton, Meduncook.
Sept. 15, John Huskins and Betsey Daws.
Oct. 24, Stephen Lewis and Mary Williamson.
Nov. 6, John Barter, Jr., and Lucy McKenney, Georgetown,
Nov. 20, Jonathan Pierce and Lydia Rand.
Nov. 30, Francis Crooker, Jr., Barrettstown, and Martha
Kennedy.
Nov. 30, Edward B. Sargent and Sally Parsons.
Dec. 1, David Boyd and Katy Young, Gushing.
1796.
Feb. 1, Michael Gampbell, Newcastle, and Jane Boyd.
Feb. 4, John Bryer and Martha Wylie.
Feb. 21, David Ackley and Elizabeth Warr Boston.
Apr. 9, Aaron Sherman and Polly T.arblet.
May 26, Samuel McCuIloch and Polly Wall.
June 17, Gapt. Joseph Reed and Sarah Askins.
Sept. 24, Jeremiah Beath, Jr., and Sally Stewart, Bristol.
Oct. 27, Ebenezer Farnham and Polly Herrin.
270 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Nov. 4, David Reed, 4th, and Susanna McFai'land.
Nov. 5, William Mathews and Lydia Wall.
Nov. 5, John Rand, Jr., and Sally Hambleton.
Nov. 12, John Murray Reed and Esther Reed.
Nov. 19, Robert Montgomery and Jane McCobb.
Nov. 19, Sylvester Pierce, Jr., and Rebecca White.
Nov. 25, Thomas Steven and Mary Stover.
Nov. 25, Thomas Ball and Jane Wallace.
Nov. 26, Samuel Nelson and Sarah Row, New Milford.
Dec. 5, Andrew Dunton, Edgecomb, and Nancy Dunton.
1797.
May 13, John Ingraham and Nancy McKown.
May 16, Samuel Giles and Elizabeth Sherman.
July 19, William Lewis and ilary Larapson.
Oct. 2, Benjamin Wheeler and Martha McFarland, Bristol.
Oct. 28, David Kenniston and Mrs. Elizabeth Day.
Nov. 5, Robert Wylie, Jr., and Hannah Taylor, Newcastle.
Nov. 16, Elisha Sherman and Katy Tarblet.
Nov. 16, Oliver Jack and Rebecca Perkins.
Dec. 4, Samuel Perkins, Jr., and Margaret Smith, Harrington.
1798.
Mar. 13, William Emerson and Rhoda Brown.
Oct. 27, Andrew McFarland and Mary Sale, Chelsea.
Oct. 27, George Race, Jr., and Sally Bennett.
Nov. 15, John Wooten and Margaret Floyd.
Nov. 25, Nathaniel Knight and Elizabeth Barber, Edgecomb.
Dec. 4, Nathaniel Tibbetts, New Sharon, and Abigail Tibbetts.
1799.
Jan. 7, Alfred Wadsworth, Bristol, and Lydia Knight.
Mar. 4, Daniel Tilton, Edgecomb, and Huldah Bryer.
Mar. 6, Joseph Barter and Esther Barter.
Mar. 6, David Day and Hannah Pinkham.
Apr. 6, Abner Horn and Sarah Decker.
July 13, John McKown and Sally Harris.
July 13, David Adams and Mercy Pinkham.
Sept. 20, Benjamin Pinkham and Sally Kenney.
Sept. 24, Sanmel Barter, 3d, and Sally Abbott.
Oct. 24, Simeon Brown, Bristol, and Sally Pierce.
Oct. 24, Capt. Nathaniel Pinkham and Betsey McFarland.
Dec. 6, Roger Sherman and Betsey Dunton, Newcastle.
Dec. 12, Abijah Wheeler and Jennie McGlathery, Bristol.
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 271
1800.
Apr. 7, Nathaniel Montgomery and Betsey Knight.
May 28, Elihu Bryer, Jr., and Betsey Bryer.
June 7, John Tibbetts and Lydia Giles.
July 2, John Leyton and Mehitabel Claringbole.
Aug. 23, William Bryer, Jr., and Betsey Wilson, Battery.
Aug. 29, William McKown and Polly Thompson.
Sept. 7, Samuel Rackliff and Betsey Trask.
Oct. 31, Joseph Pierce, Jr., and Nabby Rand.
Nov. 11, William Lewis, Jr., and Nabby Spence, Durham.
Nov. 23, James Murray and Esther Boyd.
1801.
Oct. 3, Phineas Sargent and Sally Brewer.
Oct. 17, Walter Powers, New Milford, and Mrs. Mehitable
Claringbole.
Nov. 9, William Courier and Patience Smith.
Nov. 14, Abraham Springer and Priscilla Sargent.
Nov. 21, Samuel Pinkham and Eunice Kenney.
Dec. 21, Abraham Decker, Jr., and Betsey Horn.
1802.
Jan. 16, William Kennedy and Pegge Prusset, Bristol.
Jan. 20, John Perkins and Patty Gove, Edgecomb.
Feb. G, Samuel G. Smith and Sally iSIatthews.
Feb. 11, Samuel Oakman, Jr., Pittstown, and Mary Reed.
Apr. 28, Ebenezer Clifford, Jr., Edgecomb, and Lydia Perkins.
Apr. 28, Stephen Perkins and Mary Albee, Pownalboro.
May 15, Ezekiel Holbrook and Lucy Linekin.
June 2(3, William Montgomery, Warren, and Polly Rackliff.
July 3, William Reed and Martha Lewis.
Oct. 2, Robert Bryer and Abigail Pierce.
Oct. 18, George Gilbert, Wiscasset, and Susanna Knight.
Oct. 30, Benjamin'Barter and Polly Barker.
Nov. 13, George W. Merrill and Betsey Sawyer.
Nov. 14, Joseph Catland and Betsey Adams.
Nov. 28, James Auld and Sally Knight.
Dec. 4, John MeCobb, Jr., and Mary Huff, Edgecomb.
1803.
Jan. 1, Stephen Lewis, Jr., and Fannie Southard.
Jan. 1, David Pinkham and Sarah Bryer, Kittery.
Jan. 8, Andrew Reed, 4th, and Jane Reed.
Jan. 29, John Decker and Joanna Lundy.
Feb. 24, Joseph Hayes, North Yarmouth and Mary Knight.
Mar. 2, Joseph Gyor, Bristol, and Sally Pierce.
272 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Mar. 7, Joseph Horn and Sally Decker.
Mar. 26, Joseph Sherman and Sarah Dunton.
Apr. 8, John Fuller and Rachel Auld.
May 27, Alexander Reed and Catherine Boyd.
June 2, Lemuel Lewis, Jr., and Hannah More, Edgecomb.
July 6, Samuel Perkins, Jr., and Patty Alley.
Aug. 3, Amasa Piper and Margery Reed.
Aug. 6, Jonathan Plutchings and Widow Martha Boyd.
Aug. 10, William Sherman and Rebecca Dunton.
Aug. 19, Thomas Stewart and Elizabeth Holton.
Sept. 17, Jonathan Sawyer, Jr., and Martha Reed.
Oct. 22, John Brown, Bristol, and Sally McCobb.
Nov. 29, Benjamin Webster and Katie Harris.
Dec. 6, Robert Brycr and Mary Haggett, Edgecomb.
1804.
Jan. 13, John Leishman, Jr., and Lydia Clark, Newcastle.
Jan. 21, John Matthews, Jr., and Rebecca Southard.
Feb. 18, David Reed, 3d, and Sally Pinkham.
Mar. 13, Samuel Hutchings and Dorcas Alley.
June 30, Andrew Reed, .5th, and Patience Catland, Newcastle.
July 7, Joseph Matthews and Sally Lanipson.
Aug. 18, Palgrave Maddocks, Jr., and Rhuhama Pierce.
Sept. 10, Nathan , Noblcboro, and Sarah Rust.
Sept. 24, William Plarris and Eliza Pierce.
Oct. 3, Peter Dunton and Sally Pierce.
Oct. 10, Nathaniel Chapman, Jr., Nobleboi-o, and Peggy
Knight.
Oct. 31, John Alley, Jr., and Sally Hibbard.
Nov. 16, Timothy Dunton and Marsaret Pinkham.
Dec. 12, Edmund Wilson and Elizabeth McCobb.
1805.
Jan. 12, Joseph Grimes and Sarah Rackliff.
Feb. 9, Joseph Dunton and Lydia Sherman.
Mar. 2, William Trask and Elizabeth Boyd.
Mar. 16, George W. Merrill and Sibel Holtou.
Apr. 27, Aaron Sawyer and Nabby Kenney.
1, Robert Dow and Sally Rand.
Oct. 9, Samuel Murray and Sally Bo^'d.
Nov. 14, John Winslow, Edgecomb, and Betsey Butler.
Nov. 23, Israel Dunton and Polly Hutchings.
1806.
Jan. 3, Andrew Pinkham and Mary Bickford.
Feb. 6, William Bryer and Polly Booker.
Mar. 6, AbishaPray and Anna Wylie.
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 273
Mar. 22, Jacob Auld and Sarah Reed.
Apr. 21, Thomas Sargent and Sally Farnum.
May 10, Joseph Linn and Sarah Kennedy.
June 7, Elihu Bryer and Mrs. A. Sawyer.
Oct. 15, Stephen Webster and Mary Dow.
Oct. 15, Joseph Emerson and Betsey Boyd.
Nov. 2, John Lewis and Eunice Colton, Newcastle.
Nov. 5, Solomon Trask, Edgecomb, and Mary Bennett.
Nov. 8, Henry Kimball and Sarah Kenney.
Nov. 15, Ebenezer Lewis and Sally Clifford, Edgecomb.
Dec. 9, Ezekiel Holbrook and Dorcas Farnum.
Dec. 13, Ebenezer Decker and Sally Ball.
1807.
Jan. 17, Artemus Piper and Mary Hammond.
Jan. 17, John Webber and Jude Pinkham.
Jan. 17, Joseph Bryer and Jane Kiff (Kieff).
May 19, Joseph Tibbetts and Sally Crummett.
Aug. 8, Benjamin Crooker and Catherine Webster.
Aug. 20, Lieut. John Cameron and Mrs. Eliab H. Poor.
Sept. 5, Robert Wylie, 4th, and Jane Webber, Edgecomb.
Sept. 19, John Thompson, Bristol, and Sarah Perkins.
Oct. 9, John Wylie, Jr., and Martha Thompson.
Oct. 28, Paul Reed and Ruth Wylie.
Oct. 29, Daniel Rose and Olive Peaslcy.
Nov. 13, Ephraim Burnham and Huldah Crooker, Edgecomb.
Dec. 30, Joseph McCobb and Margaret Auld.
1808.
Jan. 16, Samuel Brewer and Nabby Bennett.
Feb. 18, Matthew Reed and Sally Reed.
Mar. 2, Walter Linekin and Rhoda Grover.
Aug. 6, John Twombly and Eunice Jackson, Durham.
Aug. 6, John Davis and Catherine Williams.
Aug. 20, David Reed, 4th, and Esther Lewis.
Sept. 2, Joseph Perkins, Nobleboro, and Charlotte Rust.
Sept. 8, Aris Preble and Abigail Gray.
Sept. 24, William Montgomery and Charlotte Boyd.
Oct. 6, Nathaniel Montgomery and Elizabeth Emerson.
Oct. 8, Isaac Conaiy and Mina Barter.
Oct. 14, Eleazer Sherman and Martha Reed.
Nov. 26, Thomas Decker, Jr., and Betsey Lampson.
Dec. 12, Jonathan Rol)inson and Lucy Dunton.
Dec. 17, James Adams and Mehitable Tibbetts.
Dec. 30, Capt. Samuel Alley and Betsey Gove, Edgecomb.
Dec. 31, Capt. Israel Holton and Jane Robinson, Bristol.
Dec. 31, Samuel Bryer, 3d, and Olive P. Bryer.
274 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1809.
Jan. 7, Stephen Greene and Vronne Serote.
Feb. 25, James Brewer, Jr., and Jane Herrin.
Mar. 10, Benjamin Tibbetts and Sally Crummett, Edgecomb.
Apr. 1, Samuel Wilson and Margaret McFarland.
Apr. 15, Andrew McCobb and Eliza Brj^er.
Apr. 20, William Reed, 2d, and Hannah Hutchings.
Apr. 27, Samuel Ballard, Newcastle, and Martha Rust.
May 29, John Stover and Rhoda Stover.
June 30, Samuel Harris, Jr., and Mary Pierce.
Aug. 9, George W. Boyd and Mary Huff, Edgecomb.
Sept. 1, Mark Tibbetts and Ann Giles.
Sept. 1, Samuel Clifford, Jr., Edgecomb, and Susan McCobb.
Sept. 1, Giles Tibbetts, Jr., and Jane Crummett.
Sept. 1, Edward Dodge and Rhoda Tibbetts.
Sept. 27, Joseph Barter, 4th, and iSIary Stone.
Oct. 2, Rev. Jabez Pond Fisher and Fanny Auld.
Nov. 22, Thomas Harper and Fanny Lewis.
Nov. 29, William Robinson and Betsej' Brewer.
Dec. 13, Paul Reed, 2d, and Mary Reed.
Dec. 15, William Clark and Betsey Thompson.
1810.
May 7, John Carlisle and Susanna Alley.
Aug. 18, Samuel Smith, U. S. Gar., Damariscotta, and Sally
Adams.
Aug. 19, Francis Hodkins, Nobleboro, and Sally Boyd.
Sept. 21, Tobias Pillsbury, U. S. Gar., Damariscotta, and
Betsey Adams.
Sept. 22, Jacob Bacon and Betsey Sawyer.
Oct. 27, Samuel Thompson, Jr., and Martha Pinkham.
Nov. 17, James Stover and Lucy Barker.
Nov. 17, John Cameron and Sally Dow.
Nov. 24, Alexander Boyd and Susanna Walker, Woolwich.
1811.
Jan. 5, Jeremiah Wooten and Mary Clifford, Edgecomb.
Jan. 5, Isaac Pinkham and Sally Crooker.
Jan. 28, Timothy Dunton, Jr., and Sally Southard.
June 12, William Lewis, Jr., Palermo, and Hannah Tibbetts.
June 23, Jonas Wheeler and Huldah Booker.
June 29, John Lewis, 3d, and Fanny Pinkham.
July 6, Abraham Decker and Susannah Wooten.
July 22, George W. Pierce and Maria Barns.
Sept. 13, William Kennedy and Jane Boyd.
Sept. 19, William Maxwell Reed and Martha Rust.
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 275
Sept. 21, Levi Sawyer, Woolwich, and Jennie Decker.
Sept. 26, Loren Ingwort Bork and Mary Landerkin.
Sept. 27, Winthrop Andrews, Ipswich, and Rhoda Grover.
Nov. 11, Thomas Rowell and Betsy Pinkham.
Nov. 12, Thomas Williams and Lydia Pinkham.
Nov. 17, Dr. Charles Fisher and Jane FuUerton.
1812.
Jan. 25, William Johnson, Pittston, and Sai'ah Dunton.
May 27, Jacob Perkins and Jane Blinu, Bristol.
June 26, Stephen Rand and Nancy Adams, Woolwich.
July 7, John Barter, 3d, and Susan Kenney.
July 25, William McCobb Auld and Rosanna Reed.
Aug. 15, Paul McCobb and Jane Auld.
Aug. 22, William Bragg and Mary McCobb.
Oct. 5, James Montgomery and Jane Reed.
Nov. 1, Amos Carlisle and Clarissa Sawyer.
Nov. 11, Jonathan Morrison and Emma Thompson, Bristol.
Nov. 29, Samuel Tibbctts and Martha Maddocks.
Dec. 11, William Cunningham and Rebecca Dodge, Edgecomb.
1813.
Mar. 23, Nathaniel Knight and Lucy Webster, Edgecomb.
May 24, John Decker and Jennet Decker.
June 15, John Gove, Edgecomb, and Susan Kenney,
Aug. 19, Ezekiel Webber, Hallowell, and Judith Kennedy.
Aug. 28, Samuel Lewis and Sarah Barter.
Sept. 16, Daniel Matthews and Mary Matthews.
Sept. 18, Eben Long, Harwich, Mass., and Susannah Barter.
Oct. 19, Isaac Foss and Fanny Lewis.
Oct. 23, William Farmer and Katherine Reed.
Nov. 4, William Tihbetts and Susin W. Brier.
Nov. 27, Nicholas T. Knight and Sally Auld.
Nov. 27, Robert Wylie, 2'd, and Mrs. Elizabeth AVylie.
Nov. 27, Thomas Boyd, 2d, and Abigail Webber, Edgecomb.
Dec. 11, Robert Sherman and Esther Reed.
1814.
Jan. 1, Henry Abbott and Lydia Flanders, Woolwich.
Jan. 22, John Brown, Jr., and Mary McCulloch.
Jan. 27, Joel Thompson and Martha Pinkham.
Jan. 29, David Merry and Ghana Alley.
Feb. 12, John Emerson and Mrs. Elizabeth Catland.
Feb. 25, John Southard, Jr., and Elizabeth Catland, Newcastle.
Mar. 19, Edmund Wilson, Esq., and Martha Pinkham.
Mar. 19, Andrew A. Langard and Abigail Pinkham.
276 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Apr. 2, Capt. John Reed and Sarah Reed.
Apr. 4, Samuel Brier and Hannah Booker.
Apr. 13, Stephen Lewis, Jr., and Lois Tibbetts.
May 28, Edward B. Pierce and Dorcas McMahan, Georgetown.
June 8, Rev. John Wilkinson and Harriet T. Pierce.
June 18, Michael Campbell and Nancy Simpson, Newcastle.
June 25, Stephen Mason, Dresden, and Lydia Alley.
July 22, Joseph Tibbetts and Mrs. Elizabeth Dockendorf,
Bristol.
July 22, Isaac Tibbetts and Sally Hutchings.
Aug. 12, Samuel Williams, Edgecomb, and Susan Sherman.
Aug. 12, Ephraim Lampson and Phebe Tibbetts.
Aug. 27, John Sherman and Eunice Besse.
Sept. 15, John Knight and Mary Blinn, Bristol.
Sept. 17, James Pray and Abigail Lewis.
Sept. 24, David Thompson and Mary Paine.
Oct. 14, William Campbell and Nancy Barter.
Nov. 5, John Pinkham and Charlotte Thompson.
Nov. 5, Ephraim McCobb and Elizabeth Adams.
Nov. 12, Henry Reed and Miriam Carlisle.
Nov. 23, Enoch Dodge, Edgecomb, and Mary Pinkham.
Nov. 23, Nathan Pinkham and Charlotte Young, Alna.
Dec. 23, Stephen Horn and Lydia Grover.
1815.
Jan. 10, Abiel Gove, Edgecomb, and liydia Sherman.
Feb. 4, John Elder and Mary Ann Dodge.
May 6, Henry Williams, Edgecomb, and Achsah Besse.
July 22, John Clark, 2d, Bristol, and Margaret McCobb.
Jul3r 24, Thomas Horn and Betsy Blair.
July 29, Robert Wylie, 3d, and Nancy Webber, Edgecomb.
Aug. 7, Moses P. Whitaker and Lydia Tibbetts.
Aug. 28, Dana Rackliff and Susan Colby, Edgecomb.
Sept. 8, Joshua Loring and Prudence Dunton.
Sept. 27, George Love and Martha Reed.
Oct. 8, Ebenezer Clifford, Edgecomb, and Sarah Andrews.
Oct. 19, Francis Low, Ipswich, and Elizabeth Colby.
Nov. 15, Jacob Emmons, Georgetown, and Margaret Prebble.
Nov. 15, James Blen, Bristol, and Martha Alley.
Dec. 2, John Page and Hannah Farnham.
1816.
Feb. 20, Willard Spalding and Mary Gray.
Fe . 26, Jacob Sawyer and Martha Linekin.
Mar. 12, Ephraim Francis and Phebe G. Riggs, Edgecomb.
July 14, William Decker and Anna Bragg.
INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 277
Sept. 28, John Burnham and Isabella Malcomb, Newcastle.
Sept. 28, William Cameron and Mary Clarenbold.
Oct. 12, Isaac Kelley and Martha Kennedy.
Oct. 12, John Barter, 4th, and Susannah Fanley.
Oct. 16, Ebenezer Kent and Lois Barter.
Nov. 2, Josiah Gray and Mary Bragg.
Dec. 6, Walter Linekin and Abigail Hankerson.
Dec. 17, Charles Rackliff and Lois Drew.
Dec. 21 James Reed and Mary Cunningham, Edgecomb.
Dec. 28, Francis Gray and Lydia Abbott.
1817.
Mar. 8, Jacob Auld, Esq., and Elizabeth C. Fullerton.
Mar. 15, John Alley, 3d, and Mary Gray.
Apr. 9, Benjamin Pinkham, 3d, and Abigail Lewis.
May 10, William Thompson and Lydia Pierce.
Aug. 9, Henry Gray and Mary Reed.
Aug. 9, John Reed, 2d, and Eunice Tibbetts.
Oct. 22, Benjamin Harris and Emily Dunton, Edgecomb.
Oct. 22, William Durant and Hannah Reed.
Oct. 25, Samuel Boj'd and Sarah Brier.
Oct. 27, Ebenzer Lundy and Eady Dow.
Nov. 1, Amos Carlisle and Anna Brier.
Nov. 29, Samuel Lewis and Martha Thompson, Bristol.
1818.
Jan. 17, Asa G. Baker, Edgecomb, and Mary Pinkham.
Feb. 3, Moses Greenough, Wiscasset, and Elizabeth Norwood.
Feb. 7, John Baker, Edgecomb, and Elizabeth Sherman.
Mar. 20, Jeremiah Meacham, Portland, and Prudence Loring.
Apr. 13, Benjamin Hodgdon and Lydia Emerson.
June 19, John Giles, Jr., and Margaret Landerkin.
July 4, Richard Adams and Elizabeth Grover.
Aug. 8, Samuel Knight and Sarah Campbell.
Aug. 15, John Pinkham, 2d, and Julia Thompson.
Aug. 23, Frederick Lewis, Jr., Whitefield, and Mary Sales
McFarland.
Sept. 4, John B. Booker and Elizabeth Ilutchings, Bristol.
Sept. 19, Daniel Sanborn, Wiscasset, and Betsy Barter.
Sept. 22, William Carlisle and Mercy Pinkham.
Oct. 23, JohnDeering, Edgecomb, and Jane Matthews.
Nov. 7, Nathaniel Tibbetts and Clarissa Southard.
1819.
Jan. 2, Samuel Crowell and Hepsibah Kenney.
Jan. 6, John Landerkin and Sarah Dole.
'ZI6 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Jan. 23, Samuel Gray and Elizabeth Alley.
Jan. 29, George W. Merrill and Martha Catland, Newcastle.
Mar. 27, Edmund Wilson, Esq., and Betsey Young, Bristol.
Apr. 17, "William Alley and Martha Bennett, Edgecomb.
May 3, William Lewis and Hannah Brooks.
June 26, John Love, Jr., and Susan Brewer.
Aug. 11, William Brier and Susan M. Reed.
Aug. 21, Benjamin Alley and Lydia Gra)'.
Sept. 18, Abiel Sherman and Loring Gove, Edgecomb.
Sept. 18, David Deering, Edgecomb, and Catherine Sherman.
Sept. 20, John Sloman, Wiscasset, and Elizabeth Clarenbold.
Oct. 22, John Kelley and Marj' Sherman.
Nov. 5, William Handley, Nobleboro, and Mary McCulloch.
Nov. 5, Samuel Stover and Catherine Merrill.
Nov. 10, James Campbell and Mary Brewer.
Nov. 12, William Stone and Rebecca Lewis.
Nov. 12, Giles Lewis and ISIina Pinkham.
Nov. 20, Benjamin Bennett and jNIary Matthews.
Nov. 25, John Hutchliigs and Nancy Bugnor, Dresden.
Dec. 7, Ebenezer Lewis and Isabella Fickett.
1820.
Jan. 2, John Fullerton and Mary Cargill, Newcastle.
Feb. 7, John Kellock and Eunice Priest.
Feb. 11, Joseph Farnham and Nancy Farnham.
Feb. 12, John Matthews and Mary Barter.
Feb. 19, William Dunton and Sarah Knight, Edgecomb.
Feb. 24, David Dunton, Edgecomb, and Sally Tibbetts.
Mar. 3, Joseph Booker, Jr., and Nancy Hutchings, Bristol.
Apr. 12, Frederick Hutchings and Abigail Loomis.
May 6, David Brown and Jane Kclloch.
May 6, Robert Reed, 4th, and Alice Reed.
May 13, Samuel Donnell and Henrietta Hyde, Bath.
June 3, Major Alexander Drummond, Phippsburg, and Mar-
garet ilcFarland.
June 28, Timothy Hodgdon and Fanny Tibbetts.
Aug. 30, David Austin and Judith Pinkham.
Sept. 2, Daniel J. Averill and Maria Reed.
Sept. 19, Samuel Barter, 2d, and Margaret Day.
Oct. 25, John Poor, Jr., and Anna Giles.
Oct. 28, Benjamin Linekin, St. George, and Harriet Farnham.
Dec. 2, William Orne, Jr., and Elizabeth Hall, Georgetown.
CHAPTER XVI.
Official Lists and Tables.
IN THIS chapter I have grouped, with as systematic an
arrangement as possible, that which ordinarily is arranged
as appendix matter. The lists of town officers of Booth-
bay appear first, followed by those of Southport and Boothbay
Harbor. No attempt has been made to show the composition
of legislative class districts ; and representatives, elected from
either town, appear from that one without mention of the other
towns composing the district or class. The towns of the Dis-
trict of Maine were permitted to send one representative each
year to the General Coui't. A change of law, while it lasted,
caused dual representation from Boothbay in 1812—13. After
admission to ihe Union, in 1820, Boothbay constituted a rep-
resentative district and sent a representative to the Legislature
each year until the division in 1842. After that Boothbay and
Southport were classed together, and Westport generally with
them, for about a score of years. Westport sent a represent-
ative in 1848, 1854 and 1858 ; with those exceptions the
representative went each year, to and including 1860, from
Boothbay or Southport. But twice since Maine became a State
has the original Boothbay territory had more than one repre-
sentative at the same time. During the decade following 1890
Boothbay was classed with northern towns, and at that elec-
tion and that of 1900 both Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor
were represented. To save many repetitions in the department
of family history, these tables are numbered, and citations are
made to the table or tables embracing the official service of the
person mentioned.
280
HISTOKY OF BOOTHBAY.
Table I.
Selectmen of Boothbay.
1765.
Johh Beath,
Ephraim McFarland,
John Alley.
1766.
John Beath,
Thomas Kenney,
Israel Davis.
1767.
John Beath,
Paul Twombly,
Israel Davis.
1768.
Samuel Adams,
Paul Twombly,
Edward Emerson.
1769.
Thomas Boyd,
Edward Emerson,
Samuel Adams.
1770-72.
Israel Davis,
John Beath,
Edward Emerson.
1773.
William jNIcCobl),
Solomon Burnham,
Samuel Brown.
1774.
William McCobb,
Patrick McKown,
John Beath (res.),
Paul Twombly.
1775-76.
William McCobb,
John Beath,
Edward Emerson.
1777.
William McCobb,
Edward Emerson,
Patrick McKown.
1778-79.
Edward Emerson,
William McCobb,
David Reed.
1780.
Benjamin Sawyer,
John Alley,
Joseph Lewis.
1781.
John Alley,
Samuel Adams,
Joseph Langdon.
1782-83.
Edward Emerson,
William McCobb,
Ichabod Pinkham.
1784-86.
John Leishman,
William McCobb,
Thomas Boyd, Jr.
1787.
Joseph Reed,
Thomas Boyd, Jr.
John Leishman.
1788.
George Boyd,
John Murray,
Thomas Boyd, Jr.
1789.
Jonathan Sawyer,
Joseph Langdon,
Thomas Boyd, Jr.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
281
1790.
Joseph Langdon (res.),
John Borland,
Jonathan Sawyer,
Thomas Boyd, Jr.
1791.
Thomas Boyd, Jr.,
John Murray,
Stephen Carleton.
1792.
Jonathan Sawyer,
John Wylie,
Ichabod Pinkham.
1793.
Paul Reed,
Ichabod Pinkham,
John M. McFarland.
1794.
Paul Reed,
Ichabod Pinkham,
John Leishman.
1795.
John Murray,
Stephen Carleton,
Thomas Boyd.
1796-97.
Ichabod Pinkham,
John Leishman,
John M. McFarland.
1798.
William McCobb,
Ichabod Pinkham,
Benjamin Kelley, Jr.
1799.
Stephen Carleton,
Nathaniel Curtis,
John Leishman.
1800.
Stephen Carleton,
John Leishman,
Samuel Montgomery.
1801.
John Leishman,
Stephen Carleton,
James Murray.
1802.
Stephen Carleton,
John Leishman, Jr.,
John McKown.
1803.
Jonathan Sawyer,
William Maxwell Reed,
Benjamin Kelley, Jr.
1804.
William McCobb,
John McKown,
Nathaniel Pinkham, Jr.
1805-06.
William McCobb,
John McKown,
Stephen Carleton.
1807-08.
Nathaniel Pinkham, Jr.
Amasa Piper,
John McClintock.
1809.
William McCobb,
Amasa Piper,
John McClintock.
1810-11.
John M. McFarland,
John McKown,
Benjamin Pinkham.
1812.
William McCobb,
John McKown,
David R. Adams.
1813.
John McKown,
John Matthews,
David R. Adams.
19
282
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1814.
John McKown,
Nathaniel Pinkham,
Charles Fisher.
1815.
Daniel Rose,
Nathaniel Pinkham,
Samuel Giles.
1816.
Daniel Rose,
Edmund Wilson,
Samuel Giles.
1817.
Edmund "Wilson,
Samuel Giles,
Charles Fisher.
1818.
Daniel Rose,
Charles Fisher (res.),
Jacob Auld,
Samuel Giles.
1819.
Daniel Rose,
Jacob Auld,
Samuel Giles.
1820.
Daniel Rose,
Samuel Giles (res.),
John McClintock,
Jacob Auld.
1821-22.
Daniel Rose,
John McClintock,
Jacob Auld.
1823.
Daniel Rose (res.),
Edmund AVilson,
John Leishman,
Paul McCobb.
1824-26.
John M. McFarland,
John McClintock,
David R. Adams.
1827.
Caleb Hodgdon,
John McClintock,
Benjamin Reed.
1828-30.
John M. McFarland,
David R. Adams,
Benjamin Reed.
1831.
Benjamin Reed,
John Fuller,
Marshal Smith.
1832.
Benjamin Reed,
John McClintock,
Nathaniel C. McFarland.
1833.
Benjamin Reed,
Caleb Hodgdon,
John Fuller.
1834.
Benjamin Reed,
Timothy Hodgdon,
Daniel Sherman.
1835.
Benjamin Reed,
Timothy Hodgdon,
John Leishman.
1836.
Edmund Wilson,
John Leishman,
Allen Lewis.
1837.
John Leishman,
William Carlisle,
Jason Fuller.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
283
1838.
William Carlisle,
Jason Fuller,
Timothy Hodgdon.
1839.
William Carlisle,
Jason Fuller,
Luther Weld.
1840.
W^illiam Carlisle,
John Leishman,
Luther Weld.
1841.
Jason Fuller,
John Leishman,
Marshal Smith.
1842.
Jason Fuller,
Luther Weld,
Levi Willey.
1843.
Jason Fuller,
Luther Weld,
Levi Willey.
1844.
Jason Fuller,
Luther Weld,
Kufus Holton.
1845.
William Carlisle,
Luther Weld,
Henry A. Barter.
1846-47.
William Carlisle,
Robert Spinney,
John McClintock, Jr.
1848.
Luther Weld,
Lemuel Lewis,
Charles Giles.
William Carlisle,
Paul Giles,
John Gould.
1850.
Luther Weld,
Paul Giles,
John Gould.
1851.
Luther Weld,
John Gould,
James T. Beath.
1852.
Jason Fuller,
John Gould,
James T. Beath.
1853.
William Carlisle,
Jason Fuller,
James T. Beath.
1854.
Robei-t Spinney,
Frederick Reed,
Ebenezer Clisby.
1855.
Allen Lewis,
Samuel Fuller,
Alden Goudy.
1856.
William Carlisle,
John Gould,
William Hodgdon.
1857.
James T. Beath,
Eleazer S. Giles,
Caleb Hodgdon, Jr.
1858.
Robert Spinney,
Charles Carlisle,
Jacob G. Fuller.
284
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1859.
Kobert Spinney,
William Adams,
Benjamin McKown.
1860.
Robert Spinney,
John Gould,
Charles Carlisle.
1861.
Marshal Smith,
Robert Spinney,
Jason Pinkham.
1862.
William Carlisle,
Roljert Montgomery,
Charles B. Fisher.
1863-64.
W. G. Lewis,
Albion P. Hodgdon,
Ezekiel Holbrook.
1865.
James T. Beath,
Zina H. Hodgdon,
Jason Carlisle.
1866.
Zina H. Hodgdon,
William E. Reed,
Jason Pinkham.
1867.
W. G. Lewis,
Jason Pinkham,
Charles F. Hilton.
1868.
Robert Montgomery,
Jason Pinkham,
John E. Kelley.
1869.
Jason Pinkham,
John E. Kelley,
Rufus Holton.
1870.
Charles B. Fisher,
Charles Carlisle,
W. W. Palmer.
1871-72.
Jason Pinkham,
William I. Adams,
H. S. Spofford.
1873.
Jason Pinkham,
Francis M. Hodgdon,
Charles F. Seavey.
1874.
John E. Kelley,
Gilman P. Hodgdon,
Daniel Pinkham.
1875.
John E. Kelley,
Gilman P. Hodgdon,
Alonzo R. Nickerson.
1876.
John E. Kelley,
Alonzo R. Nickerson,
Joseph Maddocks.
1877-78.
William E. Reed,
John E. Kelley,
Joseph Maddocks.
1879.
William I. Adams,
N. S. Baker,
T. J. Emerson.
1880.
William I. Adams,
T. J. Emerson,
J. A. Reed.
1881-83.
William E. Reed,
John E. Kelley,
Joseph Maddocks.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
285
1884.
1898.
William E. Reed,
T. J. Emerson,
Wilmot Lewis, 2d.
James E. Beath,
Wesley Pinkham,
Charles Chapman.
1885.
1899.
T. J. Emerson,
Wilmot Lewis, 2d,
Edward E. Race.
James A. Reed,
Charles Chapman,
John P. Kelley.
1886.
1900.
Edward E. Race,
Moses R. White,
Wilmot Lewis, 2d.
James E. Beath,
Charles Chapman,
John P. Kelley.
1887-88.
1901-03.
Edward E. Race,
John E. Kelley,
John H. Lake.
James E. Beath,
Charles Chapman,
Silas Barter.
1889.
1904.
Edward E. Race,
John E. Kelley,
Wesley Pinkham.
Charles Chapman,
James A. Reed,
Silas M. Barter.
1890-92.
1905.
John E. Kelley,
James E. Beath,
Wesley Pinkham.
1893-97.
Charles Chapman,
James A. Reed,
Albion P. Giles (res.)
Elton H. Lewis.
James E. Beath,
Albion Giles,
James A. Reed.
Table IL
Moderators of Annual Meetings in Boothbat.
1765-67 Israel Davis.
1768 John Alley.
1769 John Beath.
1770-73 Israel Davis.
1774 John Beath.
1775 Paul Reed.
1776 Israel Davis.
1777 Edward Emerson.
1778-83 William McCobb.
1784-85 John Murray.
1786 John Leishman.
1787 William Reed.
1788 Paul Reed.
1789-90 Joseph Langdon.
1791 William McCobb.
1792 Jonathan Sawyer.
1793-94 William McCobb.
1795 John Leishman.
1796-99 William McCobb.
1800 John Leishman,
286
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1801
1802
1803-12
1813
1814
1815-17
1818
1819-23
1824
1825-32
1833-37
1838
1839-42
1843-45
1846-49
1850-52
1853-55
1856
1857
1858-60
18^1
1862
1863-64
1865-69
Thomas Boyd.
John Leishman.
William McCobb.
John Leishman.
William McCobb.
William M. Reed.
John Leishman.
William M. Reed.
Edmund Wilson.
William M. Reed.
Marshal Smith.
Willard Thorpe.
Marshal Smith.
Jason Fuller.
William Carlisle.
Jason Fuller.
Marshal Smith.
William Carlisle.
Marshal Smith.
Robert Spinney.
Isaac W. Reed.
William Carlisle.
Marshal Smith.
Robert Montgomery.
1870
1871
1872
1873-75
1876
1877-78
1879
1880
1881
1882-83
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891-97
1898
1899
1900
1901-05
E. H. Boynton.
Robert Montgomery.
A. C. Otis.
Rol)ert Montgomery.
William I. Adams.
Robert Montgomery.
William I. Adams.
Robert Montgomery.
William I. Adams.
George B. Kenniston.
William I. Adams.
George B. Kenniston.
William I. Adams.
John R. McDougall.
George B. Kenniston.
John^R. McDougall.
James A. Reed.
John Montgomery.
John R. McDougall.
John Montgomery.
John R. McDougall.
Victor K. Montgom-
ery.
Table HI.
Clerks of Boothbay.
1765-
1774-
1776
1777-
1780-
1785-
1790-
1794-
1807
1808
1809-
1825-
1836-
■73 Andrew McFarland.
■75 John Beath.
Andrew McFarland.
■79 John Beath.
■84 Edward Emerson.
■89 Thomas Boyd, Jr.
■93 William Reed.
•1806 Jonathan Sawyer.
Daniel Rose.
Edmund Wilson.
■24 Joseph McCobb.
■35 Jacob Auld.
■46 James Auld.
1847-
1849
1850-
1853-
1856
1857
1858-
1861-
1865-
1868-
1892-
1902-
48 Luther Weld.
Robert Spinney.
52 Luther Weld.
■55 Jason Fuller.
Benjamin Blair.
Jason Fuller.
60 Benjamin Blair.
64 Eliphalet Thorpe.
67 D. W. Sawyer.
91 Rufus Holton.
1901 Byron Giles.
05 Alpheus Dodge.
Table IV.
Treasurers of Boothbay.
1765 Andrew McFarland.
1766 David Reed.
1767-74 Andrew McFarland.
1775-79 William McCobb.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
287
1780 Benjamin Sawj^er.
1781 Edward Emerson.
1782-87 William McCobb.
1788-89 Samuel Montgomery.
1790-92 William McCobb.
1793 John Borland.
1794-98 William McCobb.
1799-1831 John M. McFar-
land.
1832 Paul McCobb.
1833-54 John Leishman.
1855 Parker Wilson.
1856 John McClintock.
1857 Parker Wilson.
1858 Ephraim Pinkham.
1859-60 Charles Carlisle.
1861 Paul Harris.
1862-69 Parker Wilson.
1870 Silas Smith.
1871-72 Eufus Holton.
1873-76 K. G. Hodgdon.
1877-80 Henry A. Kennedy.
1880-86 D.W.Sawyer (res.).
1886-88 C.E.Kendrick(res.).
1888-94 John E. McDougall.
1895-1902 John E. Kelley.
1903 Lyman R.McDougall.
1904-05 John E. Kelley.
Table V.
Selectmen of Southport.
1842.
William Greenleaf ,
Baker Pierce,
Edward Rand.
1843-44.
Thomas Pierce,
William Pierce,
William Orne, Jr.
1845.
Thomas Pierce,
William Greenleaf,
Thomas Marr, Jr.
1846.
Freeman Grover,
William Harris,
William Pierce.
1847.
Freeman Grover,
William Pierce,
William Greenleaf.
1848.
Freeman Grover,
Thomas Pierce,
Thomas Marr, Jr.
Cyrus McKown,
Daniel Cameron,
Thomas Pierce.
1850.
Freeman Grover,
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
William Pierce.
1851.
Cyrus McKown,
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
William Pierce.
1852-53.
Freeman Grover,
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
William Pierce.
1854.
Freeman Grover,
John Cameron, 2d,
William Pierce.
1855.
Freeman Grover,
William Pierce,
James Orne.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1856.
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
William Pierce,
John Cameron, 2d.
1857-58.
Freeman Grover,
James Orne,
Isaac Brewer.
1859.
A. r. Snowman,
William Pierce,
Moses E. Pierce.
1860.
Freeman Grover,
Daniel R. Matthews,
Moses E. Pierce.
1861.
Freeman Grover,
Daniel R. Matthews,
Cyrus Pierce.
1862.
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
Cyrus Pierce,
John Cameron.
1863.
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
Frederick Reed,
Daniel Cameron.
1864.
Frederick Reed,
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
William Decker.
1865.
Frederick Reed,
Cyrus Pierce,
Nahum B. Marr.
1866.
Freeman Grover,
John Cameron, 2d,
E. L. Marr.
1867.
Freeman Grover,
Isaac Brewer,
Joseph Maddocks.
1868.
Daniel R. Matthews,
William T. Maddocks,
Ephraim Punkham.
1869-71.
Daniel R. Matthews,
William T. Maddocks,
Cyrus Pierce.
1872.
Freeman Grover,
Isaac Brewer,
Martin E. Beal.
1873.
Daniel R. Matthews,
William T. Maddocks,
George L. Witham.
1874.
Freeman Grover,
Silas Pierce, 2d,
Daniel Cameron, 3d.
1875-76.
William T. Maddocks,
Daniel R. Matthews,
Sumner Orne.
1877-78.
Sumner Orne,
Cyrus Pierce,
Wilbur N. Grover.
1879.
Sumner Orne,
Cyrus Pierce,
Charles V. Martin.
1880.
Freeman Grover, Jr.,
George L. Witham,
Charles V. Martin.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
1881.
Everett E. Pinkham,
Wilbur N. Grover,
Sumner Orne.
Cyrus Pierce,
1894.
Charles J. Marr.
Sumner Orne,
1882.
E. L. Decker,
Martin E. Beal,
William Cameron.
Charles J. Marr,
1895.
W. H. Decker.
Wilbur N. Grover,
1883-84.
E. L. Decker,
Sumner Orne,
C. E. McKown.
Charles V. Martin,
1896.
Thomas Cameron.
Wilbur N. Grover,
1885.
A. W. Gray,
Martin E. Beal,
C. E. McKown.
W. S. Pierce,
1897-98.
E. L. Becker.
Wilbur N. Grover,
1886.
W. Scott Pierce,
Charles V. Martin,
A. N. Gray.
Zina Orne,
1899.
Luther H. Bearce.
W. N. Grover,
1887.
C. E. McKown,
Zina Orne,
A. N. Gray.
Charles V. Martin,
1900.
Sumner Pierce.
Sumner Orne,
1888-89.
C. E. McKown,
Zina Orne,
Alphonzo Dyer.
Wilbur N. Grover,
1901.
Everett E. Pinkham.
Sumner Orne,
1890-92.
J. D. Payson,
Wilbur N. Grover,
M. H. Thompson.
Everett E. Pinkhara,
1902-05.
Snow B. Orne.
Sumner Orne,
1893.-
J. D. Payson,
Wilbur N. Grover,
H. C. McKown.
Table VI.
Moderators of Annual Meetings in Southport.
1842 John McKown.
1843 Franklin Jones.
1844 William Greenleaf.
1845 Thomas Pierce.
1846-49 Jason Fuller.
1850 Cyrus McKown.
290
HISTORY or BOOTHBAY.
1851-55
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861-62
1863
1864
1865-66
1867-69
1870-73
1874
1875-77
Freeman Grover.
Cyrus McKown.
"William Decker.
Freeman Grover.
Frederick Reed.
Freeman Grover.
Frederick Reed.
William Decker.
Freeman Grover.
Frederick Reed.
Freeman Grover.
Daniel R. Matthews.
Freeman Grover.
Daniel R. Matthews.
1878
1879-80
1881
1882-84
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891-93
1894-96
1897-99
1900-05
Sumner Orne.
Daniel R. Matthews.
George L. Witham.
Freeman Grover, Jr.
Wilbur N. Grover.
Freeman Grover, Jr.
E. C. Pool.
Freeman Grover, Jr.
Wilbur N. Grover.
Sumner Orne.
Wilbur N. Grover.
Sumner Orne.
Freeman Grover.
J. D. Payson.
Table VH.
Clerks of Southport.
1842-64 Daniel Cameron.
1865-70 Thomas Marr, Jr.
(dec).
1870-72 Edward L. Marr
(dec).
1872-73 Cyrus Pierce.
1874-76 Sumner Orne.
877-78 C3TUS Pierce.
879 Thomas Cameron.
880 Charles J. Marr.
881 Charles J. Martin.
882 W. S. Pierce.
883-86 Zina Orne.
887-1905 Everett E.Pinkham.
Table VIH.
1842
1843-50
1851-59
1860-64
1865
1866-67
1868-74
1875
1876-77
Treasurers
John McKown.
John Cameron.
William Pierce.
Daniel Cameron.
Ephraim Pinkham.
Daniel R. Matthews.
Joseph Maddocks.
Everett E. Piukham.
Freeman Grover.
of Southport.
Geo. W. Rush (dec.)
1878
1879
1880-2
1883
Willird T. Marr.
Mark Rand.
Daniel McKown (dec. )
Martin E. Beal.
Everett E. Pinkham.
1884-93 Albert McKown.
1894 Daniel Cameron.
1895 A. W. Gray.
1896-1905 William Cameron.
Table IX.
Selectmen of Boothbay Harbor.
1889. 1890.
Joseph Maddocks, Joseph Maddocks (res.),
Nathan S. Baker,
Eben T. Lewis.
Alonzo P. Wylie,
Nathan S. Baker,
Eben T. Lewis.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
291
1891-92.
Thomas J. Emerson,
Charles J. Marr,
W. H. Reed.
1893-95.
Charles J. Marr,
W. H. Reed,
T. J. Emerson.
1896.
Charles J. Marr,
W. H. Reed,
Frank A. Baker.
1897.
Chai'les J. Marr,
Gilman P. Hodgdon,
W. O. Seavey.
1898.
Charles J. Marr,
W. H. Reed,
W. O. Seavey.
1899.
Oilman P. Hodgdon,
W. O. Seavey,
M. F. Dunton.
1900.
Gilman P. Hodgdon,
Freeman Boynton,
D. W. Hodgdon.
1901.
Gilman P. Hodgdon,
J. Edw. Knight,
G. W. Greenleaf.
1902.
Gilman P. Hodgdon,
G. W. Greenleaf,
Newbert Pierce.
1903.
C. R. Tapper,
G. W. Greenleaf,
Freeman Boynton.
1904.
Jason C. McKown,
Freeman Boynton,
T. L. Montgomery,
1905.
Jason C. McKown,
T. L. Montgomery,
C. E. Sherman.
Table X.
Moderators of A^tnual Meetings in Boothbay Harbor.
1889-90 W. J. Winslow.
1891-93 G. B. Kenniston.
1894 W. J. Winslow.
1895-97 C. R. Tujiper.
1898 Freeman Boynton.
1899-1900 T. W. Baldwin.
1901 C. R. Tapper.
1902-03 Freeman Boynton.
1904-05 J. W. Bracket.
Table XI.
Clerk of Boothbay Harbor.
1889-1905 Willard T. Marr.
Table XH.
Treasurers of Boothbay Harbor.
1889 Charles E. Kendrick. 1903 Gilman P. Hodgdon.
1890-02 Charles F. Kenniston. 1904-05 Frank H. McDouffall.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Table XIII.
Representatives to the General Court of Massachu-
setts FROM BoOTHBAY.
1783-84 Paul Reed.
1785-87 William McCobb.
1788 Neglected to elect.
1789 John Murray.
1790-91 John Borland.
1792-98 William McCobb.
1799-1800 Voted not to send.
1801 Jonathan Sawyer.
1802-03 Voted not to send.
1804 William McCobb.
1805-07 Voted not to send.
1808 Daniel Rose.
1809
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
1815
1816-
1818
1819
William McCobb.
Took no action.
William McCobb.
5 Joseph McCobb,
I Wm. Maxwell Reed.
5 John McKown,
I Jacob Auld.
John M. McFarland.
Daniel Rose.
17 Voted not to send.
John M. McFarland.
No record of action.
Table XIV.
Representatives to the Maine Legislature.
Abbreviations, after 1842, following the name, will indi-
cate the town of residence: B., Boothbay ; S., Southport ;
B. H., Boothbay Harbor; T., Townsend.
EphraimPinkham, B.
Freeman Grover, S.
No election.
James T. Beath, B.
Thomas Marr, Jr. , S.
Silas Lewis, B.
Charles B. Fisher, B.
Paul G. Pinkham, B.
Willard Holton,B.
William E. Reed, B.
Moses E. Pierce, S.
John Montgomery, B.
William Kenniston.B.
Nahum B. Marr, S.
Daniel W. Sawyer, B.
Cyrus McKown, B.
Geo. B.Kenniston, B.
Chapman N. Reed, B.
Wm. T. Maddocks, S.
Leonard McCobb, B.
William E. Reed, B.
1820
John McKown.
1849
1821
Edmund Wilson.
1850
1822-27 John McKown.
1851
1828
William Emerson.
1852-53
1829
John McKown.
1855
1830
Marshal Smith.
1856
1831
John McKown.
1857
1832
Benjamin Reed.
1859
1833
William Emerson.
1860
1834
Benjamin Reed.
1862
1835
John Leishman.
1863
1836
William Carlisle.
1864
1837-38
Jason Fuller.
1865-66
1839
William Carlisle.
1867
1840-41
Jason Fuller.
1868
1842
William Carlisle, B.
1869
1843
Charles Reed, B.
1871-72
1844
Joseph Hodsdon, B.
1874-75
1845
Edward Rand, T.
1876
1846
Robert Spinney, B.
1877
1847
Daniel Knight, B.
1878
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
293
Charles H. Fisher, B. 1896 AustinP.Greenleaf.S.
1882
Alden Blossom, B.
1900
Luther Maddocks,
1884
Clark L. Nelson, S.
B. H.
1886
James C. Poole, B.
1900
JohnR.McDouiErall,B.
1888
Edward E. Race, B.
1904
Thomas W. Baldwin,
1890-92
John E. Kelley, B.
B. H.
1890
Luther Maddocks,
B. H.
Table XV.
School Committees or Superintendents of Boothbay.
A school committee was elected for the first time in 1818.
Previous to that date each district had exclusive management
of its own affairs, by either an agent or a board of thi-ee mem-
bers. In either case the duties devolving were practically the
same as those of the school agent of later times, with those of
superintendency added.
1818.
Edmund Wilson,
Joseph McCobb,
John Leishman.
1819-20.
Dr. Daniel Rose,
Jacob Auld,
Samuel Giles.
1821-24.
Rev. Isaac Weston,
Edmund Wilson,
Joseph McCobb.
1825.
Rev. Isaac Weston,
Edmund Wilson,
Dr. Ebenezer Wells.
1826.
Rev. Isaac Weston,
Edmund Wilson,
John Beath.
1827-28.
Rev. Isaac Weston,
Edmund Wilson,
Dr. D. K. Kennedy.
1829.
Edmund Wilson,
Dr. D. K. Kennedy,
Charles Giles.
1830.
Edmund Wilson,
Charles Giles,
Luther Weld.
1831.
Charles Giles,
Allen Lewis,
James Rush.
1832.
Rev. Charles L. Cook,
Edmund Wilson,
Dr. D. K. Kennedy.
1833.
Dr. D. K. Kennedy,
Allen Lewis,
Edmund Wilson.
1834.
Caleb Hodgdon,
Charles Giles,
Allen Lewis.
HISTORY or BOOTHBAY.
1835.
1849.
Eld. Dexter Watterman,
Rev. Samuel L. Gould,
Luther Weld,
Luther Weld,
Dr. D. K. Kennedy.
W. G. Lewis.
1836.
1850-51.
Edmund WiLson,
Rev. Samuel L. Gould,
Luther Weld,
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Charles Giles.
W. G. Lewis.
1837.
1852.
Luther Weld,
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Dr. Sidney B. Cashman,
Eld. Almon Libby,
Allen Lewis.
John Hutchings.
1838-40.
1853.
Eev. David Cushman,
Rev. Jonathan Adams.
Dr. Sidney B. Cushman,
1854.
Luther Weld.
Dr. Alden Blossom.
1841-42.
Allen Lewis,
1855.
Charles Giles,
Allen Lewis.
Isaac W. Leishman.
1856.
1843.
Dr. George F. Jackson,
Rev. David Cushman,
Rev. Jonathan Adams.
Eev. Nathan Webb,
1857.
Eld. N. J. Robinson.
Dr. Alden Blossom.
1844.
Luther Weld,
1858.
Rufus Holton,
Dr. Joseph A. Crowell,
Charles Giles.
Rev. Jonathan Adams.
1845.
1859.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Rev. Jonathan Adams,
Luther Weld,
George B. Kenniston.
Rufus Holton,
1860.
1846.
George B. Kenniston.
Luther AVeld,
Dr. Joseph E. Corlew,
1861.
W. G. Lewis.
Frank E. Peasley,
1847-48.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
John W. Thorpe.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Luther Weld,
1862.
W. G. Lewis.
Frank E. Peasley.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
295
1863.
Rev. William Leavitt,
Horace Toothacher.
1864.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Eev. Horace Toothacher
(res.),
Rev. Wm. Leavitt (res.).
1865.
William I. Adams,
E. H. Boynton.
1866.
G. W. McAllister,
Rev. L. S. Coan.
1867.
Dr. Alden Blossom.
1868.
Eufus Holton.
1869.
Rev. Lincoln Given.
1870.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Rev. Lincoln Given (res.),
Rev. Andrew J. Smith.
1871.
George B. Kenniston,
A. C. Otis.
1872.
George B. Kenniston.
1873.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Rufus Holton.
1874.
George B. Kenniston.
1875.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Dr. J. A. Carter,
Rev. H. Atwood.
1876-77.
Dr. Alden Blossom.
1878-79.
Rev. H. Atwood.
1880.
Dr. Alden Blossom.
1881.
Dr. Alden Blossom,
Rev. F. A. Palmer,
C. H. Weston.
1882.
H. Atwood (res.),
S. L. Hanscom,
Rufus Holton.
1883.
R. W. Jenkins.
1884.
Freeman Boynton.
1885.
George B. Kenniston.
1886.
Benjamin M. Giles.
1887.
Rev. F. H. Peckham.
1888.
Freeman Boynton.
1889.
Silas M. Barter.
1890.
Janus P. Jones.
1891-93.
B. M. Giles.
1894.
B. M. Giles.
Chosen by a school board in pursu-
ance to an act of the last Legislature.
1895-96.
A. F. Sidelinger.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1897-98. 1902-03.
Janus P. Jones. Samuel W. Clark.
1 ono 1 onn Chosen by a union of Boothbay and
i»yj-19UU. Boothbay Harbor in 1902, and by all
J. Alvah Tuttle. three towns in 1903.
Chosen by a union of Boothbay, 1904.
Southport and Boothbay Harbor under . -p o:j„i:„„„
the law for providing expert superin- -»■• -^ • oiuciiiij,oi .
tendency. Elected by town board ; union dis-
continued.
1905.
Janus P. Jones (res.),
Benjamin M. Giles.
1901.
Alvah Tuttle.
Chosen by a union of Boothbay and
Boothbay Harbor.
Table XVI.
School Committeks or Superintendents or Southport.
1842-43.
William Greenleaf,
Thomas Pierce,
Warren Pierce.
1844.
Thomas Pierce,
Daniel Cameron,
William Pierce.
1845-47.
The Selectmen.
1848.
Freeman Grover,
Rev. John G. Pingre
Thomas Pierce.
1849.
The Selectmen,
1850.
Freeman Grover,
William Greenleaf,
Moses E. Pierce.
1851.
Moses E. Pierce.
Rev. Nathan Webb,
Cyrus McKown.
1852.
Freeman Grover,
William Pierce.
1853.
Moses E. Pierce.
1854.
Freeman Grover.
1855.
Freeman Grover,
William Pierce,
Daniel Cameron.
1856.
The Selectmen.
1857.
Rev. S. F. Strout.
1858.
Moses E. Pierce.
1859.
A. F. Snowman.
1860.
Moses E. Pierce.
1861.
The Selectmen.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
297
1862.
Thomas Marr, Jr.,
John Cameron.
1863.
Cyrus Thompson.
1864.
Cyrus Pierce.
1865.
Daniel R. Matthews.
1866.
E. L. Marr,
Benjamin Grover.
1867.
Cyrus Pierce,
Luther Maddocks.
1868.
Luther Maddocks.
1869.
E. L. Marr.
1870.
Everett E. Pinkham,
E. L. Marr.
1871.
Simeon Pool,
Cyrus Pierce.
1872.
The Selectmen.
1873.
Sumner Orne.
1874.
Rev. David Smith.
1875.
Cyrus A. Thompson.
1876.
John W. Cameron,
Willard T. Marr.
1877.
John W. Cameron.
20
1878.
Cyrus Pierce.
1879.
John W. Cameron,
Cyrus Pierce,
Rev. David Smith.
1880.
Cyrus Pierce,
W. S. Pierce,
Willard T. Marr.
1881.
Cyrus A. Thompson,
Cyrus Pierce.
1882.
W. S. Pierce.
1883.
Rev. Jesse R. Baker,
James F. Rand.
1884.
Zina Orne.
1885-86.
J. Dana Payson.
1887-88.
Miss Isabelle Beal.
1889.
S. M. Dunton.
1890-91.
Cyrus A. Thompson.
1892.
Rev. C. W. Lowell.
1893.
Rev. C. W. Lowell.
1894.
Dr. F. L. Adams.
1895.
Miss Flora B. Gray.
1896.
Henry Pierce.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1897.
Kev. M. T. Anderson.
1898.
A. Dyer,
Freeman Grover,
Stephen Pierce.
1899-1900.
J. Alvah Tuttle.
Elected by union with Boothbay
and Boothbay Harbor.
1901-02.
J. Dana Pay son.
1903.
Samuel W. Clark.
Elected by union with Boothbay
and Boothbay Harbor.
1904.
Sumner W. Rand.
1905.
Stephen Pierce.
Table XVII.
Superintendents of Schools in Boothbay Harbor.
1901 J. Alvah Tuttle.
1889-91 Dr. F. H. Crocker.
Resigned in 1891 ; vacancy filled
by Rev. S. L. Hanscom.
1892 C. E. Tupper.
1893 F. B. Greene.
1894-95 F. B. Greene.
Elected by school board pursuant
to act of the last Legislature.
1896-98 C. R. Tupper.
1898-1900 J. Alvah Tuttle.
Elected by union of the three towns
Elected by union of Boothbay and
Boothbay Harbor.
1902-03 Samuel W. Clark.
Elected by a union of Boothbay and
Boothbay Harbor in 1902, and the
three towns in 1903.
1904 Harry I. Smith.
Elected by school board; union dis-
continued.
1905 Harry I. Smith.
Table XVIII.
Votes of Boothbay for Governor.
1825.
Albion K. Parris, Rep., 45
182(5.
Enoch Lincoln, Rep., 58
Benjamin Hutchings, Fed. , 1
1827.
Enoch Lincoln, Rep., 49
1828.
Enoch Lincoln, Rep., 88
1829.
Jonathan G. Hunton,
Nat. Rep., 84
Samuel E. Smith,
Dem. Rep., 65
1820.
William King, Rep.,
Jeremiah Bailey, Fed.,
77
1
1821.
Albion K. Parris, Rep.,
Ezekiel Whitman, Fed.,
Joshiia Wingate, Rep.,
38
14
1
1822.
Albion K. Parris, Rep.,
Ezekiel Whitman, Fed.,
33
33
1823.
Albion K. Parris, Rep.,
66
1824.
Albion K. Parris, Rep.,
42
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
299
1830.
Jonathan G. Hunton,
Nat. Kep.,
140
Samuel E. Smith,
Dem. Rep.,
139
Marshal Smith,
1
1831.
Samuel E. Smith,
Dem. Rep.,
125
Daniel Goodenow,
Nat. Rep.,
112
1832.
Samuel E. Smith,
Dem. Rep.,
119
Daniel Goodenow,
Nat. Rep.,
116
Moses Carleton,
1
1833.
Robert P. Dunlap, Dem.
, 99
Daniel Goodenow,Whig
, 55
Thomas H. Hill,
Anti Mason,
23
Samuel E. Smith,
Dis. Dem.,
4
Pelefj Sprajrue, Whip, 168
Robert P. Dunlap, Dem., 121
1835.
Robert P. Dunlap, Dem. , 84
William King, Whig, 69
1836.
Robert P. Dunlap, Dem. , 88
Edward Kent, Whig, 73
1837.
Gorham Parks, Dem., 100
Edward Kent, Whic
94
1838.
John Fairfield, Dem . , 176
Edward Kent, Whig, 132
1839.
John Fairfield, Dem., 126
Edward Kent, Whig, 90
1840.
Edward Kent, Whig, 200
John Fairfield, Dem., 193
1841.
John Fairfield, Dem., 190
Edward Kent, Whig, 128
1842.
John Fairfield, Dem., 138
Edward Robinson,Whig, 107
1843.
Hugh J. Anderson, Dem., 86
Edward Robinson, Whig 66
James Appleton, Liberty, 14
1844.
Hugh J. Anderson, Dem., 143
Edward Robinson,Whig, 113
1845.
Freeman H.Morse, Whig, 78
Hugh J. Anderson, Dem., 75
Samuel Fessenden, Lib., 34
1846.
John W. Dana, Dem., 123
David Bronson, Whig, 116
Samuel Fessenden, Lib., 26
1847.
John W. Dana, Dem., 92
David Bronson, Whig, 77
Samuel Fessenden, Lib., 10
1848.
ElijahL. Hamlin, Whig, 129
John W. Dana, Dem., 102
Samuel Fessenden, Lib., 10
1849.
John Hubbard, Dem., Ill
Elijah L. Hamlin, Whig, 85
George F. Talbot,
Free Soil, 4
300
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1850.
John Hubbard, Dem., 135
Wm. G. Crosby, Whig, 121
George F. Talbot,
Free Soil, 1
1851.
No Election.
The original date of commence-
ment of the political year was the first
Wednesday of Januarj-. In 1844, by
an amendment to the constitution, this
was changed to the second Wednes-
day in May. By another amendment,
in 1851, the oria;inal date was restored
and all state officers held over.
1852.
Wm. G. Crosby, Whig, 127
John Hubbard, Dem., 123
Anson G. Chandler,
Anti Maine Law, 10
Ezekiel Holmes,
Free Soil, 1
1853.
Albert Pillsbury, Dem., 87
Wm. G. Crosby, Whig, 87
Anson P. Morrill,
Maine Law, 34
Ezekiel Holmes,
Free Soil, 5
1854.
Anson P. Morrill , Me . La w
and Know Nothing, 119
Albion K. Parris, Dem., 72
Isaac Reed, Whig, 68
1855.
Anson P. Morrill, Rep., 184
Samuel Wells, Dem., 134
Isaac Reed, Whig, 40
1856.
Hannibal Hamlin, Rep., 198
Samuel Wells, Dem., 165
George F. Patten, Whig, 53
1857.
Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 173
Manasseh H. Smith,
Dem., 115
1858.
Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 176
Manasseh H. Smith,
Dem., 165
1859.
Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 161
Manasseh H. Smith,
Dem., 137
1860.
Israel Washburn, Jr.,
Rep., 194
EphraimK. Smart, Dem., 185
Phineas Barnes^ Whig, 1
1861.
Israel Washburn, Jr.,
Rep., 141
Charles D. Jameson,
War Dem., 59
John W. Dana, Dem., 29
1862.
Abner Coburn, Rep.
Bion Bradburj^ Dem.
1865.
Samuel Cony, Rep.
159
Bion Bradbury, Dem., 113
Charles D. Jameson,
War Dem., 29
1863.
Samuel Cony, Rep.
232
1864.
Samuel Con}-, Rep., 203
Joseph Howard, Dem., 147
206
Joseph Howard, Dem. , 83
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
301
1866.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 216
Eben F. Pillsbiuy, Dem. , 97
1867.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 185
Eben F.Pillsbury, Dem., 118
1868.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 252
EbenF. Pillsbury, Dem., 181
1869.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 124
Franklin Smith, Dem., 115
Nathan G. Hichborn,
Prohib., 46
1870.
Sidney Perham, Rep., 175
Chas. W. Roberts, Dem., 150
1871.
Sidney Perham, Rep., 234
Chas. P. Kimball, Dem., 157
1872.
Sidney Perham, Rep., 278
Chas. P. Kimball, Dem., 199
1873.
Nelson Dingley, Jr.,
Rep., 137
Joseph Titcomb, Dem., 100
Joseph H. Williams,
Lib. Rep., 1
1874.
Nelson Dingley, Jr.,
Rep., 222
Joseph Titcomb, Dem., 138
1875.
Selden Connor, Rep., 213
Chas. W. Roberts, Dem., 171
1876.
Selden Connor, Rep., 292
John C. Talbot, Dem., 231
1877.
Selden Connor, Rep., 221
Jos. H. Williams, Dem., 174
1878.
Selden Connor, Rep., 252
Alonzo Garcelon, Dem., 230
Joseph L. Smith,
Nat. G. B., 16
1879.
Daniel F. Davis, Rep., 315
Alonzo Garcelon, Dem., 138
Joseph L. Smith,
Nat. G. B., 93
Bion Bradbury, Dem., 5
1880.
Daniel F. Davis, Rep., 335
Harris M. Plaisted,
Fusion, 300
1882.
Frederick Robie, Rep., 388
Harris M. Plaisted,
Fusion, 210
Wm. T. Eustis, Prohib. , 8
1884.
Frederick Robie, Rep., 430
John B. Redman, Dem., 200
Wm.T. Eustis, Prohib., 3
1886.
Jos. R. Bodwell, Rep., 365
Clark S. Edwards, Dem., 185
Aaron Clark, Prohib., 19
Edwin C. Burleigh, Rep. , 403
Wm. L. Putnam, Dem., 215
Volney B. Cushing,
Prohib., 17
302
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1890.
Edwin C. Burleigh, Rep. , 152
Wm. P.Thompson, Dem., 58
Aaron Clark, Prohib., 14
1892.
Henry B. Cleaves, Rep., 154
Chas. F. Johnson, Dem., 85
Timothy B. Hussey,
Prohib., 12
Luther C. Bateman,
Peoples, 11
1894.
Henry B. Cleaves, Rep., 184
Chas. F. Johnson, Dem., 45
Luther C. Bateman,
Peoples, 14
Ira G. Hersey, Prohib., 7
1896.
Llewellyn Powers, Rep., 200
Melvin P. Frank, Dem., 38
Ammi S. Ladd, Prohib., 8
Luther S. Bateman,
Peoples, 2
1898.
Llewellyn Powers, Rep., 126
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 38
Ammi S. Ladd, Prohib., 6
1900.
John F. Hill, Rep., 200
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 50
Grant Rogers, Prohib., 7
1902.
John F. Hill, Rep., 155
S. W. Gould, Dem., 53
James Perrigo, Prohib., 5
Charles L. Fox, Soc, 1
1904.
William T. Cobb, Rep., 183
Cyrus W. Davis, Dem., 103
Nathan F. Woodbury,
Prohib., 7
Wilbur G.Hapgood, Soc., 1
Table XIX.
Votes of Southport for Governor.
1842.
John Fairfield, Dem., 39
Edward Robinson, Whig, 29
1843.
Edward Robinson, Whig, 30
Hugh J. Anderson, Dem., 20
1844.
Hugh J . Anderson , Dem. , 4 7
Edward Robinson, AVhig, 32
James Appleton, Lib., 2
1845.
HughJ. Anderson, Dem., 35
Freeman H. Morse,
Whig, 22
Samuel Fessenden, Lib., 1
1846.
John W. Dana, Dem. , 30
David Bronson, Whig, 30
1847.
David Bronson, Whig, 29
John W. Dana, Dem., 28
1848.
Elijah L. Hamlin, Whig, 27
John W. Dana, Dem., 21
Samuel Fessenden, Lib., 16
1849.
Elijah L. Hamlin, Whig, 2 1
John Hubbard, Dem., 13
Geo. F. Talbot, Free Soil, 1
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
303
1850.
1861.
Wm. G. Crosby, Whig,
23
Israel Washburn, Jr.,
John Hubbard, Dem.,
13
Rep.,
44
1851.
Charles D. Jameson,
War Dem.,
14
No Election.
1852.
1862.
John Hubbard, Dem.,
Wm. G. Crosby, Whig,
44
22
Abner Coburn, Rep.,
Bion Bradbury, Dem.,
Charles D. Jameson,
48
18
1853.
War Dem.,
3
Albert Pillsbury, Dem., 16
Wm. G. Crosby, Whig, 6
Anson P. Morrill,
Me. Law, 5
1854.
Albion K. Parris, Dem., 19
Isaac Reed, Whig, 10
Anson P. Morrill, Me. Law
and Know Nothing, 7
1855.
Anson P. Morrill, Rep., 28
Samuel Wells, Dem., 26
Isaac Reed, Whig, 2
1856.
Hannibal Hamlin, Rep., 36
Samuel Wells, Dem., 18
George F. Patten, Whig, 6
1857.
Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 26
ManassehH.Smith,Dem., 18
1858.
Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 31
Manasseh H.Smith, Dem., 19
1859.
Lot M. Morrill, Rep., 35
Manasseh H.Smith, Dem., 28
1860.
Israel Washburn, Jr.,
Rep., 45
EphraimK. Smart, Dem., 26
1863.
Samuel Cony, Rep., 56
Bion Bradbury, Dem., 27
1864.
No Record.
1865.
Samuel Cony, Rep., 51
Joseph Howard, Dem., 9
1866.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 55
EbenF. Pillsbury, Dem., 10
1867.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 38
Eben F. Pillsbury, Dem., 19
1868.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 55
EbenF. Pillsbury, Dem., 10
1869.
Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Rep., 26
Franklin Smith, Dem., 5
Nathan G. Hichborn,
Prohib., 2
1870.
Sidney Perham, Rep., 19
Chas. W. Roberts, Dem., 5
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
47
1871.
Sidney Perham, Rep.,
Chas.'P. Kimball, Dem.
1872.
Sidney Perham, Eep.,
Chas. P. Kimball, Dem.
1873.
Nelson Dingley, Rep., 19
No opposition recorded.
1874.
Joseph Titcomb, Dem., 18
Nelson Dingley, Rep., 13
1875.
Selden Connor, Rep., 27
Chas. W. Roberts, Dem., 23
1876.
Selden Connor, Rep., 32
John C. Talbot, Dem., 24
1877.
Selden Connor, Rep., 26
Jos. H. Williams, Dem., 24
1878.
Selden Connor, Rep., 24
Alonzo Garcelon, Dem., 17
Jos. L. Smith, Nat. G. B., 15
1879.
Daniel F. Davis, Rep.. 78
Jos. L. Smith, Nat. G. B., 20
Alonzo Garcelon, Dem., 13
1880.
Daniel F. Davis, Rep., 72
Harris M.Plaisted,Fusion, 29
1882.
Frederick Robie, Rep., 45
Harris M.PIaisted, Fusion, 13
Warren H. Vinton,
Ind. Rep., 11
1884.
Frederick Robie, Rep., 58
John B. Redman, Dem., 29
Wm. T. Eustis, Temp., 2
1886.
Joseph R. Bodwell, Rep., 44
Clark S. Edwards, Dem., 13
Aaron Clark, Prohib., 2
1888.
Edwin C. Burleigh, Rep., 66
Wm. L. Putnam, Dem., 22
Volney B. Cushing,
Prohib., 2
1890.
Edwin C.Burleigh, Rep., 18
Wm. L. Putnam, Dem., 7
Aaron Clark, Prohib., 1
1892.
Henry B. Cleaves, Rep., 50
Timothy B. Hussey,
Prohib., 7
Chas. F. Johnson, Dem., 6
1894.
Henry B. Cleaves, Rep., 38
Chas. F. Johnson, Dem., 5
Ira G. Horsey, Prohib., 1
1896.
Llewellyn Powers, Rep., 80
Melvin P. Frank, Dem., 8
Ammi S. Ladd, Prohib., 2
1898.
Llewellyn Powers, Rep., 16
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 8
Ammi S. Ladd, Prohib., 2
1900.
John F. Hill, Rep., 41
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 6
Grant Rogers, Prohib., 4
1902.
John F. Hill, Rep.. 52
Samuel W. Gould, Dem., 6
James Perrigo, Prohib., 1
1904.
William T. Cobb. , Rep. , 48
Cyi-us W. Davis, Dem., 13
Nathan F. Woodbury,
Prohib., 3
OmCIAL LISTS AND TABLES.
305
Table XX.
Votes of Boothbay Harbor for Governor.
1890.
Edwin C.Burleigh, Rep., 143
Wm.P.Thompson,Dem., 56
1892.
Henry B. Cleaves, Rep., 195
Chas. F. Johnson, Dem., 72
TimothyB.Hussey,Proh., 1
Luther C. Bateman, Peo., 1
1894.
Henry B. Cleaves, Rep., 213
Chas. F. Johnson, Dem., 47
Ira G. Hersey, Prohib., 2
1896.
Llewellyn Powers, Rep., 234
Melvin P. Frank, Dem. , 44
1898.
Llewellyn Powers, Rep., 174
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 54
Ammi S. Ladd, Prohib., 2
ErastusLermond,N.Dem., 1
1900.
John F. Hill, Rep., 274
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 48
Grant Rogers, Prohib., 1
1902.
John F. Hill, Rep., 279
Samuel L. Lord, Dem., 66
James Perrigo, Prohib., 5
Charles L. Fox, Soc., 1
1904.
William T. Cobb,
Rep., 235
Cyrus W. Davis,
Dem., 131
Nathan F. Woodbury,
Prohib., 1
Wilbur G. Hapgood,
Soc, 2
Table XXL
Boothbay Post Office.
Jan.
Oct.
Jan.
Jan.
Appoiutment.
Jan. 1, 1805
1, 1811
1, 1811
30, 1830
31, 1850
Apr. 28, 1853
June 5, 1861
Oct. 30, 1876
Sept. 24, 1885
Name changed
Mar. 27, 1889
June 4, 1890
Apr. 15, 1893
May 12, 1897
Postmaster.
John M. McFarland.
Daniel Rose.
Edmund Wilson.
Marshal Smith,
Leonai'd McCobb.
Benjamin Blair.
Lydia P. Bcath.
Byron C. Matthews.
Frank A. Baker.
to Boothbay Harbor, March 27,
Frank A. Baker.
Woodbury Marson.
Eben A. Poole.
Woodbury Marson.
306 HISTORY or BOOTHS AT.
Table XXII.
Haley Post Office.
Appointment.
Postmaster.
Oct. 24, 1882
William H. Reed.
Feb. 18, 1890
Asbury M. Powers.
July 22, 1891
Watson M. Simpson.
July 21, 1893
William H. Reed.
Name changed
to West Boothbay Harbor, March 26,
1902.
Mar. 26, 1902
William H. Reed.
Table XXIII.
North Boothbay Post Office.
Appointment,
Postmaster.
Mar. 5, 1829.
William Emerson.
Mar. 6, 1838
Edward Emerson.
Feb. 20, 1841
Levi Willey.
May 10, 1842
William Carlisle.
Dec. 22, 1842
Robert Spinney.
Jan. 10, 1852
Frederick Reed.
Apr. 11, 1853
Robert Spinney.
June 19, 1854
Ephraim Pinkham.
May 15, 1856
William P. McCobb.
Nov. 11, 1857
Isaac Pinkham.
July 12, 1861
Manson G. Fuller.
Dec. 6, 1862
Samuel A. Fuller.
June 27, 1864
Reuel W. Lawson.
Nov. 22, 1866
Robert Spinney.
Jan. 18, 1867
Reuel W. Lawson.
Feb. 7, 1870
Lincoln Given.
Mar. 27, 1871
Jason Pinkham.
Jan. 27, 1875
Rufiis Holton.
Name changed
to Boothbay, February 16, iSgi.
Feb. 16, 1891
Rufus Holton.
Mar. 7, 1891
John G. Spinney.
Jan. 13, 1892
John H. Welsh.
Feb. 8, 1894
John S. Spinney.
Feb. 11, 1898
John H. Welsh.
Table XXIV.
Hodgdon's Mills Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
June 15, 1831 Henry Wright.
Feb. 27, 1833 Daniel Knight.
May 13, 1835 Henry Wright.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES. 3
Oct. 15, 1840 Caleb Hodsdon.
Oct. 1, 1849 Alden Goudy.
Apr. 11, 1853 John Gould.
July 12, 1861 Isaac N. Chapman.
Feb. 6, 1862 Peter McGunnigle.
Dec. 16, 1873 Charles F. Seavey.
Apr. 29, 1875 Edward E. Eace.
Name changed to East Boothbay, March 22, 1876.
Mar. 22, 1876 Edward E. Race.
Jan. 4, 1889 Alice M. Hodgdon.
Oct. 26, 1889 John R. McDougall.
Apr. 3, 1893 Caleb Hodgdon.
May 28, 1897 William I. Adams.
Table XXV.
LiNEKiN Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
Oct. 14, 1880 Ephraim S. Linekin.
June 24, 1897 William F. Reed.
Nov. 11, 1903 Frank Alley.
Table XXVI.
Teevett Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
Oct. 11, 1882 Stephen G. Hodgdon.
Feb. 3, 1902 Charles S. Hodgdon.
Table XXVII.
Back River Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
Jan. 1, 1898 Wilmot Lewis, 2d.
Mar. 13, 1901 A. F. Sidelinger (acting).
Apr. 18, 1901 A. F. Sidelinger (commissioned).
Table XXVIII.
Southport Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
Jan. 17, 1851 Cyrus McKown.
Discontinued August 30, 1852; re-established March 9, 1855.
Mar. 9, 1855 Freeman Grovcr.
Feb. 28, 1862 Martin E. Beal.
Sept. 23, 1885 Zina Orne.
d08 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Aug. 17, 1889 Martin E. Beal.
Nov. 25, 1890 Isabel Beal.
Nov. 3, 1892 Sumner Orne.
Oct. 22, 1897 Howard C. McKown.
Table XXIX.
West Southport Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
Apr. 8, 1878 Cyrus Pierce.
July 27, 1883 Alice A. Pierce.
Aug. 14, 1883 Simeon Pool.
Aug. 20, 1886 Everett E. Pinkham.
Table XXX.
Newagen Post Office.
Appointment. Postmaster.
Apr. 24, 1900 E. Gray.
Table XXXI.
Summer Post Offices.
Place. Postmaster.
Bayville, Jeanette McDonald.
Isle of Springs, H. S. Hussey.
Squirrel Island, John Reed.
Mouse Island, Lizzie M. DurrcU.
Capital Island, Wilbur N. Grovcr.
Ocean Point,
Table XXXII.
Customs Officials.
By letter from the acting secretary of the treasury, Wash-
ington, D. C, the following list of customs officials for Booth-
bay and Boothbay Harbor was furnished me. The information
was also given that no records prior to those are obtainable at
that department, and, further, that the records in that depart-
ment are incomplete. No records exist at the Wiscasset Cus-
tom House to aid in obtaining names of earlier officers. That
John M. McFarland, William Maxwell Reed, Major John
McKown, William Kenniston and Joseph Maddocks, Sr., held
deputy commissions, besides some others, previous to 18.53,
is believed to bo correct ; but their exact duties, or dates of
terms of office, are uncertain.
OFFICIAL LISTS AND TABLES. 309
Isaac W. Reed, Deputy Collector and Inspector, May 5, 1853.
Sam'l K. Hilton, Deputy Collector and Inspector, May 16, 1861.
Willard Holton, Deputy Collector and Inspector, Oct. 17, 1865.
Dan'l W. Sawyer, Deputy Collector and Inspector, June 2, 1869.
Byron C. Matthews, Inspector, Nov. 16, 1871.
George B. Kenniston, Inspector, April 19, 1873.
George B. Kenniston, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher,
Ganger and Measurer, June 30, 1881.
Charles H. Fisher, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher,
Ganger and Measurer, June 30, 1881.
Sewall T. Maddocks, Storekeeper, Aug. 15, 1881.
(Office abolished Oct. 6, iSSi. )
Edgar C. McClintock, Storekeeper, Aug. 15, 1881.
(Office abolished Oct. 6, iSSi. )
William E. Reed, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher,
Ganger and Measurer, July 25, 1885.
Jason Carlisle, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher, Ganger,
Measurer and Storekeeper, July 28, 1885.
Joseph Maddocks, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher,
Ganger and Measurer, June 30, 1890.
William Reed, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher, Ganger,
Measurer and Storekeeper, Oct. 10, 1890.
Cyrus R. Tupper, Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher,
Ganger and Measurer, June 6, 1895.
John Edward Knight, Deputy Collector and Inspector, June
6, 1895.
Charles Jones Marr, Deputy Collector and Inspector, Nov. 12,
1898.
Charles Jones Marr is the only officer now (1905) stationed
at Boothbay.
CHAPTER XVII.
Municipal Histort of Southport,
WHEN that part of Boothbay that had always been
referred to as Cape Newagen Island made application
for separate township incorporation it is quite evident
that a general desire for such action prevailed over the island
and no remonstrance appeared from their brethren on the
mainland. The charter was granted February 12, 1842. The
name of the new town was Townsend, — a most fitting selection,
reviving the old plantation name, and that which would have
been given instead of Boothba}% in 17G4, had it not been for
the fact that a town by that name already at that date existed
in Massachusetts. Jason Fuller was the Boothbay representa-
tive at the Legislature and the charter bore the signature of
John Fairfield, Governor. The bounds given in the charter
are as follows :
"Commencing at the mouth of Sheepscot River, thence
north by the channel to the channel between Boston Island and
Spectacle Island, thence easterly through Townsend Gut, so-
called, thence through the channel between Mouse Island and
Oliver's Point, and thence easterly around Squirrel Island to
the mouth of Sheepscot River, to the place begun at."
Some of the provisions were : that unpaid taxes were to be
deemed an asset of the town they fell in after division, and
other debts due the town of Boothbay, upon collection, should
be divided in proportion to the valuation of the respective
towns ; that town property situated in Boothbay was to be
appi-aised at its last valuation and the proportional part thereof
in value paid to Townsend ; that persons already objects of
town aid, or those that might become such, fell within the town
for support on whose territory they became charges.
William Greenleaf, as justice of the peace, on February 17,
1842, issued his warrant to Cyrus McKown to warn and notify
MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF SOUTHPORT. 311
the legal voting inhabitants to assemble for the meeting of
organization on March 1st following. The appropriations at
that meeting were: Highways, $140; schools, $190; poor
and to defray town charges, $300. The limits and bounds of
all school districts remained as they had been. The "one John
McKown lives in to be No. 1 ; that which Daniel Cameron
lives in to be No. 2 ; that which David Preble lives in to be
No. 3 and Squirrel Island to be No. 4."
A vote fixed the first Tuesday of March as the date for
holding annual meetings and the Methodist Church the place
for holding them. It was voted not to issue licenses for liquor
selling and the selectmen were instructed to prosecute illegal
sales. In 1846 the number of school districts was increased
to six.
On March 4, 1850, the town voted to petition the Legisla-
ture to change the town name from Townsend to Southport.
The reason for this change was that the harbor of Boothbay, in
particular, and even the village itself, had become, from long
and persistent usage on the part of the seafaring public, known
as Townsend ; and now that the name had an actual, legal
existence, Townsend matter, both mail and freight, came to
Boothbay and vice versa.
At the expiration of ten years there had been little other
than routine business. Appropriations, road, school, poor and
miscellaneous, remained at almost the same figures as at the
meeting of organization. Squirrel Island, as a school district,
was discontinued in 1854. In 1857 a new district was formed,
called No. 7, constituted of the several Maddocks families and
a few others in that neighborhood. June 7, 1858, at a special
meeting, twenty-five votes, the total number present and vot-
ing, were cast for the prohibitory law of that year. In 1859 it
was voted to remove all bars, gates and other obstructions from
the highways. In 1860 an appropriation of $225 was made
for bridging Nelson's mill pond.
In 1862 the appropriations show some increase. Miscella-
neous were $500; schools, $375. Taxes were collected for
one and one-fourth per cent, where three bad been previously
paid. The usual custom was to elect school district agents in
open town meeting or to vote to permit the district to choose
312 HISTORY OF BOOTIIBAY.
its own. In 1866 the amount of $2,000 was raised to liquidate
outstanding indebtedness, and the following year $1,500 more
was raised for the same purpose, and the same sum in 1868.
This indebtedness was the result of war expenditures. In
1872, thirty years from incorporation, appropriations were :
Schools, $708 ; poor and miscellaneous, $700 ; roads and
bridges, $200. In 1883 an appropriation of $350 was made to
build a bridge from George Witham's to William T. Maddocks'.
Previous to 1885 the custom in annual meetings had been
to make special appropriations for schools and roads and
bridges. Usually the thiixi article of the town warrant was
comprehensive enough to cover and include all other necessary
town expenditures. Xow, in 1885, a new plan of appropriat-
ing was adopted and, for the first time, each proposed outlay
became the subject of a special article in the annual warrant.
In 1887 it was voted that one-fourth of the tax assessed
against islands, owned either by individuals or associations,
and used as summer resorts, be returned to the owners. Two
hundred and fifty dollars was raised in 1888 to build and equip
a town office. In 1889 it was voted to allow a discouut of four
per cent, for voluntary payment of taxes before October 1st,
and two per cent, if paid by January 1st, following. This plan
for collection of taxes had been several times before the annual
meetings, but always had suffered rejection.
The principal road action since incorporation is believed to
be the following. In 1855 a road commencing at the termina-
tion of the town way on the north line of the Jei-emiah Nelson
place, running southerly and easterly to the schoolhouse in
district No. 3, was built. In 1857 a road was built from the
east side, commencing near the house of George Love, running
westerljr to the town way near the house of James Orne. In
1860 a road was built from the south side of Decker's Cove,
running westerly by the cove, to the town way. In 1861 a
road from the house of Wilkinson Pierce to Nelson's mill pond
was straightened and extended to the north shore of the pond.
In 1862 a road was built for Alfred Brewer from his house
to that of Isaac Brewer. In 1863 a road was built from the
house of George Webber to the fish house of William Orne ;
in 1864 one from near Charles Pierce's north line, ending at
Charles J. Marr.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF SOUTHPORT, 313
the town way near George Jeffries' house. Private ways were
laid out in 1866 for Amherst Spofford and George W. Rush ;
in 1875 from the store of Martin E. Beal to low-water mark
on Townsend Gut. In 1877 a road from the house of Charles
C. Thompson to the ferry way on Townsend Gut was built.
In 1884 two roads were built : one from northeast bound of
land of Loring Pierce to the house of Nancy Coolen ; the other
from terminus of town way, near E. L. Decker's, to Edward
R. Cameron's. In 1894 a road from near the Southport post
ofEce, across the land of M. A. Beal, to near the residence of
Robert Westman. In 1898 the Maddocks Bridge was rebuilt.
In 1900 Union Hall was purchased by the town. This hall
was started in 1866 by a sewing circle, but it was taken off
their hands by a stock company, of which Luther Maddocks
owned a controlling interest, which later went into the hands
of William T. Maddocks. Town meetings were at first held
in the Methodist Church ; a few years after incorporation they
were changed to the schoolhouse in District 2, and there held
until the September election, in 1868, when meetings were
changed to Union Hall, where they have been held regularly
since. In 1886 a soldiers' monument was erected at West
Southpoi-t by the town.
A brief review of the bridge question will be made, as the
mention of municipal action on the subject has thus far been
excepted that it might be presented connectedly. A bridge
was built hj a stock company late in the sixties from the pres-
ent steamboat landing to Oak Point. The principal stockhold-
ers were McKown & Reed, J. & J. Maddocks, T. & N. Marr
and E. & W. Decker. This bridge went down in the spring
of 1871, by an ice field which made up about Indiantown
Island, and was driven down upon it in a northwest gale.
From 1871 to 1876 Martin E. Beal put on a private ferry
which plied between the points where the bridge had ci'ossed.
An effort to have the town build a bridge was made in 1873
and again in 1876, but both times defeated. In 1876 the ferry
location was changed to cross at Charles C. Thompson's. He
agreed, if the town would build and equip a ferry, to conduct
it satisfactorily for the term of five years for the income. The
old ferry had been there, but it had been discontinued when
21
314 HI8TORT OF BOOTHBAY.
the bridge was built and also the road from Thompson's to
Townsend Gut. Now the old road was laid out anew and built
from his house to the new ferry. Boothbay assisted in the
expense by appropriating $100.
In 1883 the bridge question again came up and a vote to
aid in building a bridge to the extent of $800 was passed, but
nothing ever came of it. In 1895 a spirited effort was again
made, but was defeated by a vote of 61 to 54. A real agitation
of the subject ensued, and in 1896 a vote of 68 to 47 in favor
of building a bridge was obtained, if it could be done for
$6,000, and authority to issue bonds from one to ten years
accompanied it. A committee to have charge was chosen, and
A. P. Greenleaf, C. A. Thompson, W. N. Grover, Sumner
Orne and E. L. Decker constituted it. Seven hundred dollars
of the amount was used to build a tollhouse. In 1897 the
ferry was discontinued, occurring soon after opening the new
bridge. Toll rates were reduced one-third in 1902. Boothbay
Harbor appropriated $100 per annum for a term of ten years
to assist Southport in this much-needed improvement. In
1904 the old road from Thompson's to the ferry landing was a
second time discontinued. In this meeting $1,000 was appro-
priated for a schoolhouse at Newagen and $2,000 for a high
and grammar school building at West Southport. These were
both completed during the year.
The municipal record of Southport is confined almost exclu-
sively to routine matters. There has been no manufacturing
within the town and but little merchandise kept for sale outside
of common necessities ; on other lines the population has pur-
chased elsewhere. The business of the town, therefore, pre-
sents careful, conservative management, simply providing for
every-day necessities and in compliance with statute law. In
recent j'ears more has been done by erecting good schoolhouses
and connecting with the main by a bridge than had been
accomplished in a quarter of a century preceding. Formerly
the business was almost entirely fishing, and in the height of
the town's prosperitj', from this source, it was said that the
per capita earnings of the men of Southport exceeded any other
like population in Maine. The average prosperity of this
island town, through good times and hard times, through the
MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF SOUTHPOKT. ol5
changing conditions of business, the dying out of one and the
birth of another, has been remarkably even. Besides main-
taining a general thriftiness at home this town has contributed
largely to the success of other localities by her sons sent forth
into the business world.
CHAPTEE XVni.
Division of Boothbay.
THERE has been no sub-division of my subject that I have
approached with so much trepidation as this one. The
reasons for this feeling must be as manifest to many of
my readers as to myself. The struggle occurred less than a
score of years ago, and the principal actors, who were then
among the most influential men of Boothbay and those possess-
ing the largest pecuniary interests, are nearly all living, and to
a marked degree holding the same rank and influence in their
respective towns that they held in the old one. That there
was bitterness of feeling engendered at the time of the contest
and in the preliminary skirmishing which led up to it, and that
those animosities, once aroused, required time to sooth them,
goes without saying. But Boothbay, like every other town,
had had earlier dissensions and forgotten them. Each of the
towns constituted anew by that act of division has since been
sectionally divided at times, and these differences, too, are
destined to be healed by the mollifying effect of time. This
contest, however, in magnitude, dwarfed those which had pre-
ceded and have followed it ; and, culminating as it did in the
dismemberment of the mainland of Boothbay, which had stood
as a unit for one hundred and twenty-five years, produced a
strong impression upon the minds of its inhabitants and one
not easily eradicated. But, notwithstanding this tenacity of
memory, passion has given way to reason, and the two towns,
running their separate municipalities side by side, have pros-
pered since division in a measure not equaled in any other like
period of time since colonization ; and this they have accom-
plished without in any sense succeeding at the expense of the
other.
It has been the author's effort to arrange this volume in as
nearly a correct chronological sequence as possible. To the
reader, then, who has followed the stoiy of the town, it must
DIVISION OF BOOTHBAY. 317
be evident that our wants were thrust upon us in a more rapid
manner than in most towns. To the citizen who has lived
through the period of rapid development from a little fishing
hamlet, with more lots vacant than built upon, to a thriving
village, where parts of the business section are as congested
with buildings as the average city, it needs no explanation.
The wants of Boothbay Harbor Village came upon it in a very
few years. As buildings multiplied the dangers from fire
became more apparent, and not only to the citizens, but to the
insurance companies carrying the risks. The more business
demanded in the way of increased building room in which to
conduct it, the more rates advanced, and the greater became
the hazard to both the companies insuring and the business
capital. The action became simply automatic : every business
opportunity that presented itself with a show of profit pro-
duced, when put in operation, a burden of insurance taxation
large enough to crush it. Besides lacking in what may be
termed a commercial supplj-^ of water, the domestic supply was
sadly deficient. Wells, as a rule, were poor and water hard to
obtain in that way. Cisterns were almost universally depended
upon, and it was often remarked that had a fire started on the
westerly side of the village, during a dry season, with the kind
of wind necessary to drive it, the village must have been swept
to the water front.
Though realizing the needs of the place, the one chief
requirement — a water system — the subject was approached
carefully and by degrees. Several years intervened between
the efforts which resulted in the procurement of a hand tub for
fire fighting and the struggle for a water system. The munici-
pal chapter will afford the reader knowledge of the town's
action in that matter. It was finally obtained by subscription.
In October, 1886, a fire occurred which came near sweeping
the business section of the village, and was not subdued until
several blocks had been destroyed and serious damage inflicted.
That fire advertised to the world, plainer than anything which
had preceded it, the helplessness in which the locality stood.
Insurance rates immediately bounded up about threefold, on
an average, above where they had formerly stood. Some com-
panies, in fact many of the principal ones, after an accurate
318 ' HISTORY or BOOTHBAT.
examination of conditions, withdrew from taking risks in the
village. Ordinarj' commercial establishments were rated at
from four to five per cent, per annum, extra hazardous risks
were held at proportional rates. It was the severest blow to
business the village had ever experienced. It not only placed
a handicap upon all established undertakings, but was practi-
cally prohibitive to any growth or accessions to what was in
existence.
During the next few months following the fire of 1886
much information was sought and obtained by the citizens of
the town interested in a water suppl3% A charter was granted
to the Boothbay Water Company, by the Legislature, Feb-
ruary 23, 1887. At the annual town meeting the following
was offered :
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to appoint a
committee of throe and authorize them to contract with the
Boothbay Water Company for the use of twenty hydrants at
Boothbay Center and Boothbay, for fire purposes, at a yearly
rental not to exceed $1,200 and exemption from taxation.
The meeting voted to dismiss this article by a considerable
majority. Several citizens at the Harbor then commenced
trying to make converts and the other parts of the town were
generally visited and the inhabitants interviewed. Later, upon
a petition of ten citizens, all residents of Boothbay Center, a
meeting was called for May 28, 1887. At that meeting was
offered :
Article 3. To see if the town will appoint a committee
of three to contract with the Boothbay Water Company for a
supply of water for fire and municipal purposes, not less than
twenty hydrants and two drinking fountains, for a term of
twenty-five years, at an annual charge not exceeding $1,200
and exemption from taxation.
Under this article the following motion was made by
Thomas Boyd :
"That we appoint a committee of three, and we hereby
authorize them to contract for the use of not less than twenty
hydrants for fire purposes, and water for two drinking foun-
tains, for the term of twenty-five years, at a yearly rental not
to exceed $1,200 and a further sum equal to the amount of
taxes assessed on said company's propertj' by the town."
DIVISION OF BOOTHBAV. 319
The check list was used and this motion was adopted by a
vote of 224 to 162. On a further motion by K. H. Richards
the committee was composed of A. E. Nickerson, D. H. Moody
and Thomas Boyd. The charter of the Boothbaj^ Water Com-
panjr having been assigned, a contract' was executed by the
committee of the town with the company, Henry A. Hancox,
president, on December 12, 1887. The selectmen made sev-
eral criticisms in relation to the provisions of the contract, and
claimed that the committee had exceeded its authority. The
chief object of attack was the following provision :
"At the expiration of this contract it is mutually agreed
that the same shall continue in force upon the terms, conditions
and stipulations herein provided (except the annual rental) for
a second term of twenty-five years, to begin at the expiration
of this contract."
A lengthy provision followed this item in the contract,
relating to arbitration methods of adjustment of rental, in the
event of failure on the part of the town and the company to
agree for the second term. While there were those in the
town who opposed the introduction of water, on the ground of
expense, in a stronger manner than the board of selectmen,
and, on the other hand, there were more zealous advocates for
its introduction, regardless of the equities, than the committee,
yet the battle was on between the selectmen and the water
committee, from the fact that they were figureheads. The
committee contended that, even though they had exceeded their
authority in the provision of the contract which was objected
to, still it was an advantageous provision for the town, and was
inserted because they deemed it so. They, however, offered to
have the entire article stricken from the contract, if the select-
men would make a written request to that effect and a further
statement that, otherwise than this clause, they felt no reason
for objection. This the selectmen refused to do. In an agree-
ment reached April 16, 1888, the committee and the president
of the water company proposed to except this part of the con-
tract, and let it be brought before the town for independent
action, as to acceptance or rejection, when the report of the
1. The contract with Hancox contemplated taking the water supply from
Lewis Pond.
dZU HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
committee would be laid before the town. This was not satis-
factory, and though counsel advised that the contract, otherwise
than this clause, was within the scope of the authority confen-ed
by the town upon its committee, and that this clause was easily
separated from the remainder of the contract, it had no effect
to bring the opposing factions together. On April 23, 1888,
sixteen petitioners, ten of them living at East Boothbay and
six at North Boothbay, petitioned for a meeting, setting forth
the following cause for this action :
"To see if the town will vote to instruct the selectmen to
protect the interest of the town against the illegal contract that
has been made by the committee that was elected by the town
at a special meeting May 28, 1887, to contract with the Booth-
bay Water Company, and authorize them to have an injunction
served upon any company that may undertake to put in a
water plant where the town may be liable."
Just previous to this petition being presented to the select-
men they had taken counsel, as to action, of Hon. J. W.
Symonds, Portland. The warrant proceeding carried embodied
in it the language of the petitioners, as above quoted, verbatim.
At the meeting, on motion of Thomas Boyd that the petitioners
be requested to present the authorit}' for the alleged illegality
of the water contract, it was moved and carried that Thomas
Boyd and John E. Kelley be a committee to take all the evi-
dence and papers relating to the contract made with the Booth-
bay Water Company and lay it before a justice of the Supreme
Court, and that his decision should be final for the town as to
the legality of the said contract. By motion, John E. McDou-
gall, Edward E. Race and Alonzo R. Nickerson were added to
this committee. The matter, in its entirety, was laid before
Judge Danforth. In his opinion he stated that the committee
transcended their authority in respect to the clause already
referred to, but intimated that that was separable from the
main contract. While matters were thus standing the con-
tractor, Hancox, through some financial reason, announced that
he could proceed no farther with his work. Judge Danforth
informed the committee that they still had power to contract,
if a satisfactory party could be found to take the charter, under
the former vote. It had, by this time, become evident that no
DIVISION OF BOOTHBAT. 321
company could be obtained to put in a water plant for an annual
rental of $1,200, and a town meeting was called for July 14,
1888, the principal article in the warrant being to see if the
town would vote to raise an additional sum for hydrant rental
over and above the $1,200 which had been previously appro-
priated. The article was dismissed. The report of the com-
mittee was heard and they were dismissed from further service,
and an additional vote was passed
"That it is inexpedient at present to construct a system of
water works."
No further action was had for several months. Through
fear of defeat, the interested element for a water system in
town had been too modest to ask for an appropriation for rental
which was sufficiently large to attract parties of a desirable
nature, commanding the necessary capital. The only party
who would attempt it was incapable, financially, to carry it
out, and thus embarrassed, at a time when public feeling had
become excited, there was but one course to take and that was
to obtain a larger appropriation. This was a useless effort,
and the action of the meeting showed a considerable majority
favoring the opposition. Later in the season a company was
found, a contract drawn by the committee, and a proposition
was in readiness to be laid before the citizens of the town.
The selectmen were petitioned by twenty legal voters to call a
meeting, but refused. A petition with thirty signatures was
presented to G. B. Kenniston, a justice of the peace, and he
called a meeting, to be held November 13, 1888, the business
article of the warrant being : ^
" To determine whether the town will ratify the contract
with the Boothbay Water Company, dated October 9, 1888,
and executed on the part of the town by A. R. Nickerson, D.
H. Moody and Thomas Boyd, Committee."
At the meeting the selectmen entered a protest against the
legality of the meeting which was attempted to be held at that
time, under the call of G. B. Kenniston, as justice of the
]. The school district system was at that date in operation, and school district
No. 1, constituted by the Harbor village, had passed a vote before the date of this
meeting to contribute annually $200 to the support of a water system. The contract
now offered the town was at a rental of $1,400 annually, and this amount of t200 was
voted that the town might not be asked for a sum greater than that for which they
had once voted in the affirmative.
322 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
stating that no legal notice had been given, and that there had
been no unreasonable refusal on the part of the selectmen. A
motion was then offered as follows, and carried by fully a
two-thirds vote :
" That the instrument purporting to be a contract with the
Boothbay Water Company, dated October 9, 1888, and signed
by A. E. Nickerson, D. H. Moody and Thomas Boyd, as the
committee of the town, be rejected for the reason that said
committee had no authority to act for the town, and that the
town does not deem it expedient to make any contract for the
supply of v/ater, as contemplated in said contract, at this time.
That said pretended committee had no authority to act for said
town, and that any authority conferred on said committee has
long since terminated."
This was the last act in the last town meeting held in
Boothbay before division.
Town division was openly and almost universally talked bj^
the Harbor element immediate!}- upon adjournment. About
the streets of the Harbor and in the stores and other places for
congregating, no other topic was discussed that evening. The
feeling appeared well-nigh universal. It was not a spirit of
bravado, or spite, or prejudice, though feelings of resentment
ran high at what they termed unjust treatment ; it was a feel-
ing that a thing which no one of choice would do must be done
as an act of self-preservation. By eight o'clock on the morn-
ing of November 14th, which followed that meeting, Capt.
Gilman P. Hodgdon, residing at the Harbor, who was born on
Hodgdon's Island and had always, until then recentljs lived at
North Boothbay, and whose family relations were principally^
in that part of the town, appeared with a carefully drawn
paper for subscriptions to aid in supporting a movement for the
division of the town before the coming session of the Legisla-
ture. Long before nightfall the Captain had practically com-
pleted his work. He did not have to solicit in many cases.
Such was the feeling that he was solicited, instead, by the
anxious citizens desiring their names as nearly at the head of
the list as possible. An amount of about $1,400 was then
obtained, and later, by the long trial before the Legislature
making it necessary, this sum was augmented to a little more
than $2,000. Only about six weeks were then left before the
DIVISION OF BOOTHBAY. 323
assembling of the body before which the contest was to come.
An immense amount of essential work must be done to prepare
the case. On the evening of November 14th the interested
citizens of the Harbor met at the Skating Eink and discussed
the situation. The outcome of the meeting was that a com-
mittee of seven was selected from among the largest taxpayers
and most influential citizens of the town to consider the situa-
tion and report the following evening to another meeting at
the same place. This committee was composed of Moses R.
White, Daniel W. Sawyer, Joseph Nickerson, Isaiah Lewis,
Nathan S. Baker, Frank H. Crocker and Thomas Boyd.
A full meeting was assemi)Ied the next evening and the
committee reported that they deemed it necessary to divide the
work and let certain labors fall upon special committees, whose
duties should consist of having absolute control of that which
might be designated and placed with them to look after. They
mentioned the committees and the duties that should devolve
upon each in their report as follows : An Executive Commit-
tee, whose duties should be to employ counsel, prepare evi-
dence, statistics and otherwise have charge of the entire legal
and legislative management, and attend personally at Augusta
during all the time the matter was pending before the Legisla-
ture ; a Line Committee, whose duty it should be to forthwith
employ surveyors and, after consulting the interests of the
town and its citizens in the petitioning district, to forthwith
run the line and have a chart of the town, indicating the pro-
posed line, prepared for the use of the Executive Committee ;
a Financial Committee, whose duty it should be to take charge
of all the funds raised and pay such bills as were approved by
the Executive Committee ; and a fourth Committee on Peti-
tions, whose duties were to circulate forthwith petitions to the
Lsgislature, asking for a division of the town. The citizens
unanimously adopted the report of their committee, and then
attentively listened to further recommendations as to the con-
stitution of those committees upon whose shoulders was to
come the labor. The list presented was unanimously' adopted
as follows : Luther Haddocks, Alonzo R. Nickerson and
Francis B. Greene for the Executive ; Moses E. White, Joseph
Nickerson and Thomas Boyd for the Line ; Joseph E. Ken-
324 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Diston, Keyes H. Richards and Sewall T. Haddocks for the
Financial ; Charles J. Marr, Frank A. Baker and Joseph Mad-
docks for the Petitions.
On November 21st Mr. White reported to a citizens' meet-
ing, called for the purpose, the line which his committee had
just finished and which, without deviation, is the line on which
the fight was made and won. The Executive Committee had
almost continuous labors. They employed Baker & Cornish,
Augusta, as counsel for the petitioners, and public notice
appeared in the Boothbay Register Saturday, November 24th,
of intentions to present petitions to the next Legislature, ask-
ing for a division of the town of Boothba}^ signed by counsel.
One performance of that memorable November deserves record-
ing. Like all other j'ears, it was a period of alternate frozen
ground, mud and snow. The Executive Committee became sat-
isfied that the remonstrants intended to make a point against the
petitioners, if possible, on the excess of road which would fall
upon the old town in case of division. It was decided to have
every road and street in the entire town measured. Mr. Newell
K. Merry, then residing at the Harbor, but previously and at
present living in the northern part of the town, was employed.
He did a laborious and accurate job, at an inclement season, by
taking the circumference of one of his carriage wheels, adding
an attachment that struck each revolution, then counting and
recording the revolutions of that wheel on each street and road,
from corner to corner, wherever intersected by another street
or road, or by the proposed line of division. Evenings he
devoted to figuring up his day's work, and in a surprisingly
short time had his figures ready. There were shown to be
about fifty miles of highway in the remonstrants' district and
twenty-two in that of the petitioners. The excess, however,
was more apparent than real, for the streets of the petitioning
district had, upon an average, much more travel upon them
than the other parts of the town, therefore requiring more
expense to keep them in proper condition.
In addition to the other labor, town records were carefully
searched, statistical tables were prepared and presented, some
of the facts being that in 1887, when the water fight com-
menced, the petitionei's' district bore 55 1-2 per cent, of the
DIVISION OF BOOTHBAY. 325
town valuation and the remonstrants' 44 1-2 per cent. ; that
in the vahiation of 1888 an advance was made of $43,987, and
that of this increase the petitioners' district bore 91 per cent.
The Harbor village alone represented 46 per cent, of the total
valuation of the town. The Committee on Petitions obtained
305 names. By the proposed line all of the town property,
including townhouse and town farm, fell on the old town side.
The expense of the poor had run for several years so that it was
demonstrated that it was nearly equal in both parts of the town.
On December 19th the remonstrants held a mass meeting
at the townhouse to take into consideration the legal action
toward a division then in progress with the petitioners. Sev-
eral citizens addressed the meeting and a universal opposition
to any division appeared. One prominent business man from
East Boothbay and a lifelong resident of that locality, expressed
himself in candor that, while he was opposed to a division of
the town, yet, if the Harbor must have water, he preferred a
division to helping them pay for it. He no doubt voiced the
inner sentiment of many on his side, and, when analyzed, was
not very far from the Harbor view. They did not want
division, but they wanted water, and when it came to choosing
chose water rather than union, and took the ground that if the
town, as a whole, was unwilling to incur the expense of putting
in a system, then they were perfectly willing to incur that
expense themselves, if they could be erected into a municipality
by themselves. A remonstrance was drafted, and the meeting
decided to choose a committee to circulate copies of it for sig-
natures throughout all parts of the town. The committee con-
sisted of David Reed, North Boothbay ; Byron Giles, Center ;
A. S. Meserve, East Boothbay; James E. Beath, No. 12;
Edson Giles, Barter's Island ; Freeman Boynton, Harbor. An
Executive Committee was chosen, with duties of a similar
scope and nature as those of the petitioners' committee, and
consisted of John E. Kelley, John E. McDougall and Freeman
Boynton. The remonstrants obtained 567 signatures, 137 of
which came from the petitioners' district. A fund was raised
for the defense and True P. Pierce, Esq., Rockland, was
engaged as counsel. Mr. Race, who was chairman of the
board of selectmen that year, and led the opposition in the
326 HISTOKY OF BOOTHBAY.
contest against the introduction of water, was the Republican
candidate for representative to the Legislature. Party lines
were mostly obliterated in the case of this candidate, and he
ran somewhat ahead of his ticket. It had been suspected by
the opposition that division of the town might be attempted as
a final resort, and, therefore, it became an issue over this can-
didate, the vote being largely governed by the locality of the
voter, and politics cutting a slight figure. Mr. Race was a
Republican and from his stand on this issue went easily into
the place.
The petition for division was presented by Mr. Race among
the earliest matters offered, the remonstrance immediately fol-
lowing, and both, by motion, were referred to the Committee
on Towns. Several public hearings were given the matter by
the committee, and, as it was the most interesting subject
before that session of the Legislature, the attendance was
so great that Representatives' Hall was used instead of the
committee room. The evening in which the final arguments
were made even standing room was not obtainable and many
were turned away through inability to obtain a chance to hear
them. The first witness called to the stand was F. B. Greene,
whose testimony was devoted to statistics and facts gathered
from the records, and to the existing valuation in all its details,
this part of the preliminary work having been performed by
him, showing that while the petitioning district had nearly
two-thirds of the entire valuation of the town, it had not more
than forty per cent, of the voters to depend upon when any
matters of sectional interest appeared. One point in this tes-
timony covered the financial importance of the 137 persons
who resided in the petitioning district whose names appeared
on the remonstrance. Many of them had no real estate, fifty-
eight paying only a poll tax ; ninety-five owned no personal
property, and the total real estate, according to the existing
valuation, of these remonstrants amounted to only $15,529.
Luther Maddocks was next called, and his testimony covered
the growth of the village, a sketch of its industrial history,
the increase of insurance rates in general and in individual
instances, the diversity of business interests in various parts
of the town and the amount of labor emploj^ed, and other
DIVISION OF BOOTHBAY. 327
industrial facts. A. K. Nickerson followed, the burden of his
testimony being the struggle for a water system, the confer-
ences with the selectmen, and all that related to that part of
the subject. In this he was corroborated by Thomas Boyd
and D. H. Moody. Other important witnesses were Moses E.
White, George B. Kenniston, Charles E. Kendrick, Norris H.
Hussey, James C. Poole, Nathan S. Baker, John K. Corey,
Isaiah Lewis, Joseph R. Kenniston, Keyes H. Richards, J.
Edward Knight and William E. Reed. Messrs. Corey and
Reed were residents of the remonstrants' district, who refused
to sign either petition or remonstrance, on the ground that
they could not, from sentiment, petition for division, and
would not remonstrate against it, as they believed in the neces-
sity of the improvements asked for, and deemed it an impossi-
bility for the Harbor to obtain them as the town was then
constituted.
The effort of the remonstrants was to controvert the
grounds of the petitioners' action successfully. To this end
they introduced as their principal witnesses Edward E. Race,
John E. Kelley, John R. McDougall, Freeman Boynton, W.
C. Clisby, W. G. Lewis, Hermon Hartung, Byron Giles and
Dr. L. J. Crooker, the last named being an Augusta physician.
Mr. Pierce, attorney for the remonstrants, conducted his
case in an unreal and erratic manner, showing himself deficient
in his knowledge of human nature and lacking a proper appre-
ciation of the impression his defense would produce upon the
minds of the legislators. From first to last he tried to produce
the impression that the remonstrants were as favorable to the
introduction of water as the petitioners, but that thej^ were
not satisfied with the conditions. By innuendo he continually
sought to impress the committee that some fraud or irregularity
had been attempted by some one, but never established a point
in this direction, nor did he try to do so ; he seemed perfectly
satisfied to have his vaporings end in a simple blank abstrac-
tion. Several prominent remonstrants were not called to the
stand, and expressed themselves as dissatisfied with the unreal
presentation of their case.
The Legislative committee reported evenly, five for and
five against division. The case was then carried into the
328 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
House, and after due debate the bill was passed by a vote of
106 to 35. In the Senate the remonstrants had a great advan-
tage to commence with. Influential residents of the city of
Portland owned property in Boothbay and at once took strong
issue against division, and, besides, Hon. Chax'les F. Libby,
one of the Cumberland senators, was member of the legal firm
of Symonds & Libby, who had been counsel for the selectmen
through all the long preliminary struggle. It was evident,
from the outset, that the petitioners must look elsewhere than
Cumberland for support in either House or Senate. However,
the Senate voted 15 to 12 for the bill. Governor Burleigh
signed the act of incorporation Februaiy 16, 1889, and the
new town of Boothbay Harbor was ushered into existence.
From observation based on participating action in many
stages of that contest, at this distance of time, it is the author's
unprejudiced impression that, as feeling throughout town pre-
vailed in 1888, a vote of support for the introduction of water
at the village of Boothbay Harbor could never have been
obtained. It may be urged that one was obtained. In that
one the Harbor was fully represented despite the inclement
weather which prevailed, while many voters, living several
miles from the townhouse, did not venture to attend. Senti-
ment outside of the particular section to be beneficially affected
was very largely in opposition to the movement. The grounds
of opposition taken were the natural ones of taxation and
expense. Jealousy of growth and improvement at the Harbor,
on the part of the outlying districts, though in the heat of
feeling sometimes appearing as an accusation in those days,
had not, in the author's opinion, any foundation in fact.
The only proposition presented to the town was one of
contracting with a water company and paying a stipulated sum
for the hydrant rental, or public service. This public service
only extended to directly benefit a small area, though it repre-
sented a considerable part of the total valuation. The indirect
advantages, that the other sections would have participated in
to some extent and which actually existed, were hard and intri-
cate of explanation, as they always are, and were as well left
unmentioned. Private water takers, regardless of amount of
income, could never reduce the annual rental during the life
Joseph Ross Kknniston.
DIVISION or BOOTHBAY. 329
of the contract. The proposition was simply one of tax. A
mere handful of Harbor citizens felt this and, consulting among
themselves, often expressed the opinion that the proper course
was for the town to put in its own sj^stem, selling such an
amount of bonds as might be necessary, and against the costs
of running the system and interest on the bonds put the
income, which these men believed would, in a few years, cover
all expenses and afford free public use. But debt is shunned
like a leper by many, and often justly so, therefore this plan,
meeting slight favor when quietly suggested, was never openly
advocated until after the incorporation of the new town. At
the present this has been accomplished. If, in 1888, the citi-
zens of Boothbay could have been convinced that this result
was a possibility a vote for the introduction of water would
have been easy.
The most strenuous opposition came from East Boothbay,
which was the second largest aggregation of buildings, busi-
ness and valuation within the town. It might be said with
candor that there was no improvement which the Harbor could
ask for that East Boothbay might not ask for with equal reason.
Their insurance rates were high and their condition equally as
hazardous as that of the Harbor. They were unwilling to be
subjected to taxation to lift the Harbor from a slough they
were themselves in and unable of extrication. They, naturally,
could not become reconciled to a taxation which would give
the Harbor exactly such improvements as they desired for
themselves-and were unable to obtain.
With the ameliorating effect of time friends, now, who
were partisans then, can look back on those stormy days and,
imagining their positions transposed, easily find justification
for the action then taken on either side. The division of the
old Boothbay territory into three towns, practically, is only
municipal — that local requirements may find local prescription ;
the unitj^ in all business, social and family relations is as strong
as ever, and, in a sense, stronger; for now a local want, in
whichever town it may occur, at most can only engender a dif-
ference of opinion over a part of the old territory, while then
it bred dissension over the whole, because of opposition in all
parts not directly affected beneficialh^
22
330 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
The act of division and incorporation divided the net liabil-
ities of Boothbay between the two towns in proportion to the
valuation of 1888. Taxes due were paid to Boothbay and all
money in the treasury was to be applied to the purpose for
which it was raised. All public property except Lewis Park,
which became the property of Boothbay Harbor, went to
Boothbay. It included townhouse and lot, town farm, hearse
house and lot, soldiers' monument, town common, hearse, road
machine and other property.
Under the provisions of the act the meeting of organization
in Boothbay Hai'bor was called by George B. Kenniston, as
justice of the peace, issuing his warrant to A'^ewell K. Merry, a
legal voter of the town. It was called on February 22, 1889,
for March 4th following, and, therefore, fell on the date of the
inauguration of President Harrison. The adjustment of mat-
ters of settlement between the two towns was by the board
of selectmen representing Boothbay, consisting of Edward E.
Race, John E. Kelley and Wesley Pinkham, and a special
committee chosen by the Harbor, consisting of Alonzo R.
Nickerson and Sewall T. Maddocks. Estates divided by the
line were adjusted in valuation. The joint committee pre-
sented the following summary :
Real Estate in Boothbay Harbor, $461,803.00
Personal Estate in Boothbay Harbor, 167,678.00
$629,481.00
Real Estate in Boothbay, $392,042.00
Personal Estate in Boothbav, 76,867.00
468,909.00
Total valuation of both towns, $1,098,390.00
The total net liabilities of Boothbay had been $9,175.00,
and of this Boothbay Harbor assumed $5,258.19 and Boothbay
$3,916.81.
The appropriation of Boothbaj^ Harbor for 1889, its first
year of existence, amounted to $8,135.00, of which S2,000.00
was for town schools, $250.00 for free high schools, $700.00
for town officers, $1,000.00 for roads, bridges and walks,
$1,000.00 for support of poor, $370.00 for night watchman.
DmSION OF BOOTHBAY. 331
and several special appropriations including a railroad sur-
vey, hearse and road machine. The total commitment was
$10,192.80; the April valuation footed $638,057.00 and the
rate of taxation was .014 on a dollar.^
1. General references may consistently be given relative to this chapter : Town
records of Boothbay, 1888-89 ; town records of Boothhay Harbor, I8S9 ; the Journals of
the Maine House and Senate, session of 1889 ; the Dailv Kennebec Journal for Legis-
lative session of 1889, and the files of the Boothbay Register for 1888-89.
CHAPTER XIX.
Mills, Shipbuilding, Stores and Hotels.
WHEN the present dam was built at the outlet of Echo
Lake an old one was discovered. An interview with
the late Mrs. Mary Sproul elicited the fact that she
had heard in her early days, in her father's family, that the
Dunbar immigrants built a mill there. It was understood by
her to have been a mill for the grinding of grain and not for
the sawing of lumber. Probably one for the latter purpose
never stood there. Unquestionably this was the first attempt
at milling in the locality. It is also probable that the second
mill was erected at Mill Cove by Andrew Reed and his sons.
It is unlikely that this occurred earlier than 1749, and may
not have been until a few years later. The settlement of
Andrew Reed dates from 1743, but the Indian War soon fol-
lowing drove the Townsend settlers from their homes quite a
part of the time from 174.5 to 1749. Upon the return of the
settlers from the westwai-d in the latter year, though often
harassed afterward by the Indians, a permanency of settlement
endured. Frame houses almost immediately followed, and
Andrew Reed built the first one in the plantation near where
the barn stands on the premises of the late James F. Hodgdon.
The Reed mill was operated, at times, by both Capt. Joseph
Reed, who later became owner, and his brother, Capt. David,
probably as lessee, who traded at West Harbor.
Nearly, perhaps quite, as soon as the Reed mill was erected,
another was built on the brook at the head of Campbell's Cove
by John Beath. The privilege and the land in the vicinity,
including McCobb's Hill, belonged to him. His mill was for
lumber onl3\ It stood where the road runs now, and the road,
which was a mere bridle path, ran then over the hill near where
the McCobb house stands. Then the waters of the cove washed
the ledges at the base of the hill. A house for the mill hands
stood near where the present one does b}' the side of the brook.
None of the Beath familj^ ever lived there. They employed
MinLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 333
some one to run the mill and that party usually lived in the
house. The last man to live there was one Harris, who mys-
teriously disappeared and no solution of the mystery was ever
made. A landing was built at the head of the cove, southeast-
erly from the mill, and about halfway from the old house to
the landing was a brickyard, operated many years by the Bryer
family. Small schooners were loaded there with both brick
and lumber.
Where the mill of Dodge & Giles now stands, at the outlet
of Adams Pond, was a saw and gristmill, built by Samuel
Adams. It was in ruins in 1824, and at that time his sons,
James and David, built a new one and in 1839 put in carding
machinery. There had been previous to this a small mill for
carding farther up the stream, nearly at the place where the
Pinkbam mill was built.
Nathaniel Pinkham married and purchased the mill privi-
lege property in 1774. Subsequent to this, probably after the
close of the Revolution, but sometime previous to the year
1800, he built a saw and gristmill at the mouth of the stream
where Adams Pond empties into Back River. This became
only a gristmill under his son, Isaac, who owned it for many
years. Samuel Woodward was the last to own and operate it.
Soon after the Revolution a tide mill was built on Cape
Newagen Island, at the dam on Nelson's mill pond, adjoining
the Palgrave Maddocks property. Another tide mill was built
at an early date on Sawyer's Island, but the owners are not
known. It was north from the residence of Alonzo K. Hodg-
don, and where it was located is still called the mill pond.
Benjamin Kelley, Sr., had a sawmill and near by it a brick-
yard on what has always been known as the Kelley farm, on
the brook that empties into Pleasant Cove. This was built
somewhere between 1780 and 1790. The first mill at East
Boothbay was known as the Murray mill and stood on the
brook that empties into Linekin Bay near Paradise Point. It
was built by James and Samuel Murray. Caleb Hodgdon set-
tled at East Boothbay in 1826 and bought the mill privilege
and the land northerly from it fronting on the Damariscotta.
He at once built a mill and there has been one at the same
place continuously since.
334 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Of all the mills established at these early dates to accommo-
date the primitive wants of the settlers, a few ruins, remnants
of old dams, decaying piling or, perhaps, half sunken in the
mud an old millstone is all that now greets the eye of the curi-
ous, except on the two privileges at present utilized : Hodg-
don's at East Boothbay and the one at the outlet of Adams Pond.
Shipbuilding.
For about three-quarters of a century shipbuilding has been
a leading industry in Boothbay. At the earlier part of this
period it was carried on to quite an extent about the Harbor ;
some building was done at two places on Southport ; for many
years one yard was in operation at North Boothbay, near the
Pinkham mill ; but all these have given place to other under-
takings, while at East Boothbay the business has steadily
increased until it is the principal employment of the commu-
nity. Several j'ards and boat shops there are continually busy,
and among them nearly every kind of sailing craft is built.
The principal work of the yards, however, is that of building
coasters, fishing vessels and porgy steamers, while that of the
shops is the production of pleasure craft, yachts and power
launches.
The indications are that no attempt at building vessels was
made until sometime after the year 1800. Previous to that
time mention is often made of purchasing vessels in Boston,
Salem, Newburyport and other places. Interviews with the
oldest fishermen in the community disclose the fact that within
their remembrance a larger part of the fishing vessels were
built in Essex. The first firm to engage in the business of
building and to conduct a regular shipyard was that composed
of David R. and James Adams, brothers, and sons of Samuel
Adams. They commenced business soon aiter 1800 and con-
tinued until 1842. Their principal yard was east of the Pink-
ham mill, on Back Eiver waters, and in this one most of their
work was done ; but they commenced in a yard farther to the
north, nearly due west from the residence of David Reed, then
the home of the heirs of Ichabod Pinkham.
John McDougall succeeded to the business in the Adams
yard and continued in it until 1853, when he changed his loca-
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 335
tion to East Boothbay, and business ended in the old yard.
That this particular place should have been chosen for the work
may at this time appear surprising ; but, doubtless, the condi-
tions of the times influenced it. Two wars with England and
threatened ruptures with other countries Isept the inhabitants
in continual alarm and produced extreme caution. No other
point about this original town afforded both a suitable location
for such work and absolute security from naval aggression.
No regular shipj'ard ever existed on Southport. Capt.
Jonathan Pierce built several small fishing vessels at his fishing
stand, now known as Marr's Harbor. J. & J. Haddocks built
one, the Alaska, and this is Ijelieved to comprise all building
done on that island. Stephen Sargent was the first builder at
the Harbor. His 3'ard was where the residence of the late
Hermon Carlisle stands. He commenced in 1832, his first
vessel being the Volante, square-sterned, of about forty tons.
Stephen Sargent, Jr., built where M. D. McKown lives. He
built from 1850 to 1860, his work including both fishermen
and square-rigged vessels. He built two barks, one of which
was named the Windward, also the George W. Reed, the ill-
fated C. G. Matthews and several others. He removed to
Portland and continued in the business.
John W. Weymouth had a shipyard where the Eastern
Steamship Company's landing is from 1850 to about 1860. It
had formerly been the property of Col. Jacob Auld and after-
ward became the property of Isaiah Lewis. Weymouth's fibrst
vessel was the brig Hesj)erus, built for Captain Chase, Edge-
comb ; Captain Chase also had the brig Ada ; the ship John
G. Richardson was built for Capt. Benjamin Lewis, Portland,
formerly of Boothbay ; schooner Silver Lake for Capt. Warren
Reed, which was lost in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; schooner
Nevada, built for Capt. William Harris, lost in the same
place ; a bark, unnamed, was built for the Pattens of Bath.
Cyrus McKown had a j^ard covering the sites of the stores
of J. R. Kenniston and K. H. Richards & Co. from 1864 to
1870. There he built the E. K. Dresser for Capt. Leonard S.
McClintock, the Old Chad, Annie Freeman, Annie Sargent
and possibly others. Allen Lewis sometime between 1850-60
built the brig Ganeden. The last vessel built at the Harbor
336 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
was the Fred A. Emerson, a coasting schooner of 124 tons, in
1890, by M. D. McKown. Charles Sargent between 1840-50
had a yard on the next lot north of where William M. Bennett
lives, where he built several vessels.
About 1829 or 1830 Caleb Hodgdon commenced building
vessels at Hodgdon's Mills. His first vessel was a banker,
named The Union, for Joseph Farnham. Andrew Adams, at
the age of twenty-one, in 1826, went to Hodgdon's Mills and
engaged in the employment of Caleb Hodgdon. Three years
later his brother William, then twenty-one, went there also,
into the same employ. About 1833 to 1835, as copartners
under the name of A. & W. Adams, they leased the Hodgdon
yard and commenced building. Benjamin Eeed went to East
Boothbay in 1832. He built for some j'ears in what is now
known as the Adams yard, but previous to that Samuel jMurray
had built at the same place. To this j'ard John McDougall
moved after closing business in 1853 at North Boothbay. He
built one ship in 1854 and had another timbered when the
financial panic crippled his work. He was succeeded by his
brother James, who built at Race's Point and who later asso-
ciated himself with William Seavey, the firm being Seavey &
McDougall ; the work being afterward conducted at the Seavey
yard, where some ten or twelve vessels were built.
During the Civil War and for some time after the sons of
Caleb Hodgdon, under the style of C. & J. P. Hodgdon & Co.,
conducted a general shipbuilding business in the old shipyard.
After about ten years John Hodgdon withdrew from the firm
and Caleb, Jr., and George divided the business, the former
taking the mill and the latter the yard. This same arrange-
ment continues, except that the sons of George Hodgdon carry
on the building business under the firm name of C. E. & W. A.
Hodgdon, while the mill is conducted by C. Hodgdon & Sons.
Charles Murray built vessels at one time on Race's Point.
Jacob G. Fuller built at his yard, at the head of Linekin Bay,
for many years and until shortly before his decease, which
occurred in 1899.
After John McDougall went out of business in the Reed
yard, in 1854, Andrew and William Adams soon engaged in
business there, succeeded, after the decease of the senior mem-
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 337
ber, by William Adams & Son, the latter being W. Irving
Adams, who now, with his son, Frank C. Adams, conducts
the business as W. I. Adams & Son. This firm, in extent of
building, has exceeded all others in the locality, having, on
July 24, 1904, celebrated the launching of their one hundredth
vessel, and now (March, 1905,) have launched the 105th, with
the 106th contract completed ; the largest vessel ever built by
the tirm being the four master, Eleanor F. Bartram, for Capt.
Benjamin E. Pinkham, Boothbay Harbor.
The firm of Eice Brothers commenced building yachts at
East Boothbay in December, 1894, the individual members
being Frank L., William E. and Henry W., sons of George
M. and Elizabeth Rice. The business was incorporated in
November, 1903, as Rice Brothers Company. At first only
two or three workmen were employed, but now an average of
about twelve, though as many as thirty at some seasons have
constituted the working force. The business has been largely
confined to building a high-grade class of pleasure boats, the
largest of which was the Constance, for W. A. Gardner, Groton,
Mass., an auxiliary schooner and the largest sailing yacht built
in Maine up to the present time. C. E. & W. A. Hodgdon,
also D. & E. A. Race and Freeman Murray are building, in
part, a line of pleasure craft.
The distance to which the popularity of East Boothbay-
built sea craft extends is of itself a business capital. From
the first good vessels were built and with them good reputa-
tions established. While it is a lamentable fact that shipbuild-
ing has been in a decadent condition for several years, and
many busj^ business points of the past are now presenting but
a waste of ruins, — sad reminders of past thrift and industry, —
this village has grown gradually in the business, until at the
present more capital and labor are employed than at any pre-
vious period.
Several boat shops have been started in the past few years,
including Reed & Adams, the McKown Coal Company and
Eliphalet Tibbetts, Boothbay Harbor, and Charles S. Gray, E.
L. Decker and Everett Clifford on Southport, where row, sail
and power boats are built to order.
338 history of boothbay.
Stokes.
The earliest stores in Boothbaj' would hardly be entitled to
the name at the present day either as to stock carried or inter-
nal fixtures. The former consisted almost entirely of dry
goods in the web or groceries and other articles in bulk ; the
latter of a set of measures, a yardstick and steelyards. No
package goods were to be obtained and few manufactured or
ready-made articles were kept for sale. The line of stock
appearing in old ledger accounts is probably a fair indication
of what was kept in the average store of the times. In Chapter
Xni the reader has noted a list of prohibited articles which it
is safe to assume were not kept between 1775 and 1783, at
least, and it is unlikely that they were in much demand for
many years after.
The list obtained from old accounts comprises pilot bread,
flour, meal, brown and loaf sugar, tea, coffee, chocolate, rum,
molasses, tobacco, salt, vinegar, crackers, dried fish, allspice,
pepper, beef, pork, lard, veal, tallow candles, lamp oil, brooms,
sole and upper leather (sold generally by the side), raven's-
duck, cambric, calico, linen and homespun cloth, handkerchiefs,
leather breeches, shoes, scissors, nails, knitting needles, wool
cards, files, cordage, axes, earthenware, powder, shot, lead,
flints, brick, boards, shingles and other lumber. The articles
taken in exchange and marketed at Boston, Salem or some
other point in New England, or the West Indies, were masts,
hemlock bark, cord wood, hides, skins, furs, dried fish, wool,
woolen stockings and lumber of all kinds.
The earliest names that can be connected with trade are
those found in the first volume of Lincoln County Commission-
ers' Eecords, in 1761, being those parties recorded as paj-ing
the British tea and coffee tax. The parties doing this from
Townsend were David Eeed, who lived where Albert N. Reed
does, at West Boothbay Harbor ; John McCobb, living where
his great-grandson, Willard H. McCobb, now lives ; Andrew
Reed, Jr. (afterwai-d Colonel), who lived on his fathers home-
stead at Mill Cove ; Andrew McFarland, whose house sat a
little to the eastward of that now owned by S. S. Lewis, on
Church Square ; Ephraim McFarland, who lived where Dennis
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STOKES AND HOTELS. 339
S. Wylie does, but had his store about opposite to the entrance
to the Leishman place, near the house of George W. Dolloff.
This last store was thus located on account of the way the road
then ran and for the reason that a considerable settlement
existed along the easterly side of Echo Lake, and northerly by
Leishman's, Daws', Beath's, Holton's and others. This store
probably ceased to exist before 1780, for a reference in Andrew
McFarland's will, made that year, would indicate that his
brother Ephraim had died previously. Benjamin, son of
Ephraim, succeeded to the homestead, but it is not certain that
he did to the store.
The next clue to early traders is obtained from David Reed's
ledger, 1773 to 1789, which at once disposes of John McCobb's
and Col. Andrew Reed's stores, for they are found trading at
Captain David's. During this entire period no item of account
appears against the McFarlauds, which is strongly presumptive
that they had a store of their own. Capt. David Reed did the
largest business of any one for many miles along the coast.
His ledger shows numerous accounts running from £50 to £150
to the side at settlement, and included such persons and places
within his patronage as the Thompsons and Pierces from Cape
Newagen Island ; the Burnhams, Kennedys and Kelleys from
Pleasant Cove ; the Gileses, Pinkhams, Stovers, Lamsons and
Hutchingses from Dover and North Boothbay ; the Matthewses
and Lewises from Back River ; the Linekins from the Neck ;
the Knightses and Wheelers from Damariscove, and the Bar-
ters from their island, besides all the old familiar names about
the Harbor and Center. The names of many from Georgetown,
Westport and Bristol, besides several captains of coasters, far
to both eastward and westward, are found among his patrons.
His store was the only one that contained so large a list of
articles as appears in the foregoing enumeration. He ran his
own coasters to Boston, Salem, Newburyport and the West
Indies, and operated the saw and gristmill at Mill Cove. To
indicate the extent of business he did in cord wood, one of the
leading commodities of shipment from here in those times, one
page of his ledger shows a running account for wharfage with
one Thomas Moore, Boston, from 1784 to 1788, amounting to
£944 7s. 3d. His ledger presents at this date (1905) a well-
340 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
preserved appearance, having been kept in fine penmanship.
It is in the hand of Thomas Boyd, who as a young man came
from Pemaquid to clerk in the store and remained several years.
He married Catherine Wylie, a sister to David Reed's wife,
which influenced his desire to settle in Boothbay, which he did
soon after marriage. The store and landing of this establish-
ment were easterly from the house of Albert N. Reed, where
the ruins of an old landing appear.
To return to the McFarlands. Capt. Andrew died in 1780.
Andrew, Jr., his oldest son, was then twenty-three years of
age, while John Murray, his youngest, was but thirteen. Some
years before attaining his majority the latter took the store.
It had been at the residence of his father, but John M. now
purchased the stoi-e in which his Uncle Ephraim had traded,
and in a part of which Daniel Rose, afterward the prominent
Boothbaj'^ physician, had taught school, and moved it to about
the spot now occupied by John F. Mosher's cooper shop.
There he traded from about 1787 to 1796, when he purchased
the land since known as McFarland's Point ; the eastern part
from Amasa and Artemas Piper and the western part from his
brother-in-law, William Maxwell Reed. He erected a fishing
stand where William M. Sawyer's place of business is and a
store at the shore, easterly from T. L. Montgomery's store.
In this store the post office was first kept, from 1805 to 1811.
For some years the only stores of consequence in town
were those of Capt. David Reed and John M. McFarland.
Reed's business ceased with his death, in 1803, while McFar-
land's continued many years after his death, which occurred in
1831, conducted by his sons.
We will now take up another thread in the narrative. John
McCobb, who was a trader in 1761, had a son, Joseph, who was
seventeen years of age in 1797. For this son he purchased the
old McFarland store at the head of the Harbor, then vacant,
and moved it a second time, locating it on the shore just north
of the western end of the footbridge, and in it Joseph started
in trade. There he continued until his death, in 1825, a greater
part of the time as the firm of AlcCobb & Auld ; the latter being
Col. Jacob Auld, who commenced trade about 1800 in the
building now the stable of James B. Kenney and on its present
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 341
site. After this partnership was formed and the lower store
vacated it was used as a storehouse, finally coming into pos-
sessioH of John W. Weymouth and by him turned into a black-
smith shop. Colonel Auld continued at the firm stand until
about the time of his death, in 1835. It would appear at this
distance of time that there could have been but little differ-
ence in amount of business transacted between the two firms,
McCobb & Auld and John M. McFarland, during the period
from 1800 to 1835. Both did an extensive business all this
time, supplying nearly the entire home trade and having a
large patronage by water, enjoying an acquaintance with all
coasters and fishermen between Boston and the Provinces.
At West Harbor Dr. Edward Creamer, the first physician
in Boothbay, had a store in 1773, just easterly from the pres-
ent one of Charles S. Orne. He continued until about 1800,
when he sold to one Loring, who continued in trade until about
1820, when he committed suicide by drowning just off the
point from his store. In 1822 Seba Smith came to West Har-
bor from Portland, settling just easterly from the ice works.
He opened a store in the basement of his house and continued
in trade until his death, in 1831. His son. Marshal, continued
the business until 1835, when, influenced by public demand,
being postmaster, he moved the business to the Harbor. Thomas
Orne, now (1905) ninety-one years old, commenced trade in
1845, retiring in 1899. Other merchants at West Harbor have
been J. Nickerson & Co., who commenced business in 1870,
were burned out in 1874, after which Alonzo R. Nickerson, of
the firm, rebuilt and continued the business until 1877, when
he sold and moved to the Harbor. Lewis & Fassett, a firm
from Bristol, engaged in trade for a few years following 1880.
Since then, with the exception of a short period in the early
nineties when Simpson & Perkins occupied it, the Nickerson
store has been used by its owner, William H. Reed, for post
office and wholesale confectionery business. After the retire-
ment of Thomas Orne that one has been occupied by Charles
S. Orne in general retail trade.
The earliest stores on Cape Newagen Island were at the
north, west and south. The earliest merchants we have record
of at these points were Major John McKown, Capt. Jonathan
342 HISTORV OF BOOTHBAY.
Pierce and Eli Nelson, respectively. No exact date has been
obtained when either went into business, but in each case it is
said that the party engaged in trade about as soon as of majority
age. If this is correct, and, practically, we believe it to be
so, then the Pierce store, where J. D. Payson now lives, was
started about 1790, that of Major McKown, near the Eastern
Steamship landing, a little before 1800, and that of Nelson, at
Cape Newagen, soon after 1815. About 1847 the Pierce busi-
ness was succeeded by T. & N. Marr ; that of McKown by his
son Cyrus, and later by McKown & Reed, composed of Cyrus
McKown and Frederick Reed, who had been in trade at the
Center. June, 1864, Freeman Orne purchased the business
and Cyrus McKown moved to Boothbay Harbor. By Mr.
Orne, first alone and then with his sons in copartnership, the
business was carried on until about 1889. Joseph and John,
sons of Palgrave Maddocks, under the style of J. & J. Mad-
docks, commenced business in 1857, in which a general store
was combined with their fishing stand and fleet. This they
conducted until succeeded by William T. , son of Joseph Mad-
docks, in 1875, and by him it was carried on until 1898, when
that branch of the business was discontinued. About 1830
Capt. Samuel Pierce engaged in trade at Marr's Harbor, con-
tinuing until his death, in 1861. Later merchants have been
William C. Bahr, at Newagen, in the early eighties ; Wilbur
N. Grover, near Capital Island, and Everett E. Pinkham,
West Southport ; the two latter being now (1905) so engaged.
Clarence E. McKown ran a general store at Decker's Cove in
the nineties.
The first store at Boothbay Center was built in 1824, by
Benjamin Reed, on the next lot easterly from where the Union
Church was built. He traded until 1832, when he sold to
Robert Spinney and moved to East Boothbay. Robert Spin-
ney remained there in trade until about 1870, when his store
was burned. In 1837 William Kenniston built a store where
the shop of Woodbui'y Dodge stands. He traded there until
1849, when he sold out and became a "forty-niner," going to
California, where he remained several years. William P.
McCobb followed, trading until 1857, when he was succeeded
by Isaac Pinkham. The latter was burned out in 1863. In
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 343
1842 John Keed, 2d, built a store for his son, Frederick, nearly
opposite the Kenniston store, on the lot adjoining the Congre-
gational parish lot. Reed traded a few years, then sold to Dr.
R. W. Lawson and moved to Southport, where he became a
partner of Cyrus McKown. Doctor Lawson sold to Eli Colsoa
in 1865. Chase Fuller followed Colson, then John Patterson,
and he in turn was succeeded by Rev. L. Given in 1866. Mr.
Given sold to S. E. Welch and while owned by him that store
was burned, in 1872 or 1873.
The year after Doctor Lawson sold to Colson he, with
Edward Weeks, built a two-story store just south of the sol-
diers' monument and opposite the schoolhouse. It had a tene-
ment above. They soon sold to Mahoney & Otis, and they
sold the stock to Dexter W. Hodgdon in 1872. In 1874 Capt.
Gilman P. Hodgdon purchased the stock and leased the store,
conducting it until 1879, when he sold his stock to James A.
Reed. William Mahoney, who owned the building, lived above,
and a few months after Captain Hodgdon sold this store was
destroyed by fire. In 1876 Ozro Pinkham built a store oppo-
site and facing the Congregational parsonage. After trading a
short time the business was sold to James A. Reed. John G.
Spinney succeeded Mr. Reed in 1883, having been for the three
previous years in trade in a small wa}' in the post office. He
moved the store to where it now stands and continued in trade
until 1892, when J. H. Welsh & Sons, the present merchants,
succeeded him.
To return to the Harbor we find that Capt. John Norwood
soon after 1788 built a store and hotel combined, where the
late James F. Dunton traded, on Atlantic Street. He followed
the sea and his wife conducted the hotel and store. Their stock
more nearly approached a dry goods line than any other of the
early stores. William Montgomery, born in 1780, dying in
1858, ran a general store through his business career to the
time of his decease where Dexter W. Hodgdon lives. After
the decease of Col. Jacob Auld the old red store remained in
the McCobb family and for several years Arthur McCobb traded
in it. In 1850 Leonard McCobb returned to Boothbay from
Jefferson, where he married and had been living for a few
years, and opened a shoe shop and some other lines in the old
344 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
store and had the post office there, but soon built on the corner
of the Avenue and Oak Street, where he continued until nearly
the time of his decease, in 1889. In 1866 the old store was
taken down and underwent its third removal, being re-erected
where it now stands, on Commercial Street, as the store of
William O. McCobb.
Just before the Civil War the present Register Building,
which had been built for a wood shop by John W. Weymouth,
northerly from the express office, was moved to the present site
of Lewis Block by Capt. Benjamin Lewis and by him leased to
Eliphalet Thorpe, who traded in it until his decease, in 1871.
R. G. Hodgdon followed in this store the same year, where he
continued until 1884, when Lewis Block was completed. He
then and William H. Fisher, with whom he had recentlj^ formed
a partnership, took the northerly store in this block, but soon
divided the stock, Mr. Fisher taking a lease of the southerly
store in the same block and taking in partnership Charles J.
Marr. The stocks of both stores ran in similar lines : clothing,
boots, shoes and furnishing goods.
The old Thorpe store was soon occupied by A. H. Ken-
niston after the removal of Hodgdon & Fisher, who opened a
new line of furniture and carpets. Later, when Kenniston had
moved to his present location, the building was occupied by
Mclntire & Miller, Charles F. Dodge and H. W. McDougall,
successively, in the grocery and provision trade. In 1866,
when the old McCobb store was last moved, there were but
four stores on the water side of the Avenue and Commercial
Street : McFarland's, jNIcCobb's, Thorpe's and Parker Wilson's.
Stevens Smith moved from West Harbor in 1841 and joined
his brother Marshal in partnership. Thej^ leased a store stand-
ing where J. Ross Kcnniston's residence does of William Max-
well Reed. There they continued until 1850, when they closed
out their stock and went out of business. Charles and William
Fisher leased the store and put in a new stock, where they
continued in trade until 1864, when the store was moved to
make room for the shipyard of Cyrus McKown. The Fisher
brothers then built the store front of the Boothbay House.
Isaac W. Reed, who owned the old store, sold it to John
Albion Knight, who ran a boot and shoe business there until
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 345
his decease, in 1872. A. P. Wylie followed Knight in the
same business.
Charles Luce, who had been conducting a drug business in
the Tibbetts store, now followed Wylie in the north half of
the building, but soon sold to Dr. Alden Blossom. The drug
business was conducted by him until 1884, when he sold to one
Varney. The latter party remained a few months and disposed
of the business to A. B. Toward. The southerly half of the
store had been occupied in 1883 by Allen & Moody, who came
to Boothbay that year. D. H. Moody succeeded to the busi-
ness. In 1886 he purchased the Toward stock and merged it
in his own. He continued until 1902, when he sold to the
present occupants, Harris & McClearn.
Parker Wilson commenced trade about 1840 in the building
now occupied by W. J. Winslow. It stood where the drinking
fountain is. He continued trade until his death, which occurred
in 1871. He was the first merchant to carry a regular line of
boots and shoes, though the ledgers of both Reed and McFar-
land show that a few ready-made shoes were sold by them
before 1800. Paul Harris built the store at the head of the
Harbor and commenced trade about 1840. In this he was fol-
lowed by the late Westbrook G. Lewis in 1857. Joseph C.
Auld began trade where the Menawarmet stands, in 1836, and
ran it in connection with the fishing business until the sixties.
Capt. Allen Lewis commenced trade soon after 1830. His
store is still in existence and is now used by the Greenlaws as
a smokehouse. Captain Lewis kept principally fishermen's
supplies and his custom was to stock new each spring, reducing
it in the fall and carrying but little during the winter months.
Col. John McClintock traded where the Baldwin Fish Company
is now located. His business career covered the period from
about 1830 to the time of his decease, in 1874. His store, like
that of Captain Lewis, was stocked principally during the busy
months, but for many years he held the largest vessel trade of
any store in town. At first his location was, practically, an
alder swamp, but by draining and grading it soon assumed a
different aspect. His first building was very small and the
second one is now the house of his son, J. Howard McClintock,
the first being now used as a shed on the same premises.
23
346 HISTOEY OF BOOTHBAY.
David Newbegin came to Boothbay between 1824 and 1827.
He commenced in a bakery near where J. H. Blair's residence
stands. A few years later he removed to where H. L. Ingra-
ham lives and for many years conducted a stoi'e and bakery
there. "Newbegin's biscuit" were a famous production in
their time. They were not much used in home consumption,
but were " bagged up " and taken to sea. Many of our older
men, formerly engaged in the fisheries, distinctly and vividly
remember them. Newbegin's store was the only one in town
that approached a confectionery department in those days. His
line consisted of homemade molasses candy and hard ginger-
bread, such as was so largely sold on the old-time training
fields. His old home has been removed and the site is now
occupied by the residence of D. H. Moody.
The author recalls many instances in the past when, upon
his travels along the county coasts of Washington and Han-
cock, his residence became known to some of the older seafar-
ing element, who had retired from that occupation, being plied
with inquiries if McClintock and Newbegin were still living and
in business. These two men were best remembered with that
element along the Maine coast of any of the Boothbay inhabit-
ants for at least a quarter of a century after their labors were
closed. They had enjoyed an extensive acquaintance similar
to that of McFarland, McCobb and Auld with a previous gen-
eration of sea-goers.
In the early seventies John H. Blair built a store on the
Avenue and engaged in the hardware business. He was fol-
lowed by Henry A. Kennedy, who in 1878 enlarged the store,
but sold soon after and removed to Minneapolis. Isaac C.
Sherman succeeded him and took into copartnership Charles E.
Carlisle. After Mr. Sherman's decease, in 1890, Mr. Carlisle
continued in the business for a time, but went back into that
of contractor and builder, which he had pi'eviously followed.
Miller Block was built by Miller & Smithwick, Damaris-
cotta, in 1878. The northern half has been continuously
occupied by Norris H. Hussej' as a dry goods store since its
completion. The southern half, first by E. D. Winchenbaugh
as a grocery store. A year or two later Charles E. Kendrick
opened with crockerj^ glassware, lamps, etc., continuing until
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 347
1889. F. B. Greene followed with a similar retail line com-
bined with his road business until 1897. W. S. Mildon, East-
port, as a branch store continued the same line for about
two years, since which time W. F. Dudley has been located
there.
Addison W. Lewis, soon after the close of the Civil War,
built the Simpson & Perkins store, on McFarland's Point, and
traded there until 1869, when he sold it and built the store
now occupied by K. H. Richards & Co. Associated with him
was J. P. Baker, as Lewis & Baker, in trade until 1871, when
the building and business was sold to Hodgdon & Clisby, com-
posed of D. W. Hodgdon and "W. C. Clisby. This partnership
lasted until 1876, when Hodgdon succeeded to the business,
continuing it until 1882.
Kej'es H. Richards came to Boothbay from Round Pond in
1870. He bought out the meat market of John Wakefield
and added a grocery stock. His location was where the First
National Bank commenced business. Later he purchased the
stock of Sherburne Young and moved to the Young store.
From there, requiring more room, he went to the store now
occupied by Simpson & Perkins, and in 1882 purchased the
store now occupied by him, succeeding D. W. Hodgdon.
James D. Richards came from Round Pond in 1870. He
engaged in the hardware business where W. H. Hodgdon trades,
which was known formerly as the Young store, from 1886 unti^
his decease, in 1893. Frank Albee was in trade in the Wjdie
store, at the head of the Harbor, about 1880 ; later he moved
his business to the Lewis store, between the Register Building
and McCobb's, where he continued until about 1888. Joseph
Taggart, Jr., followed in the same store, commencing trade in
1889, conducting a successful business until 1892, when he
was cut down at the age of thirty years, his father closing out
the business.
In 1881 James C. Poole disposed of his sailmaking business
to his brother, Eben A. Poole. This he had conducted since
coming to Boothbay in 1869. He then bought the Fisher
property, where the cold storage plant is situated, and erected
a store in which he carried a stock of ship chandlery, hardware,
paints, oils and groceries. This store was burned in 1886 and
348 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Mr. Poole, while continuing in his fishing interests, did not
re-engage in trade.
The other stores burned in 1886 were the following : R.
G. Ingraham's, ship chandlery, hardware, etc. ; John H. Lake,
stoves and tinware ; F. H. Harris, confectioner}' and lunch
room ; Tibbetts Brothers, hair dressing and bathrooms. Fred
P. Huff built a store and engaged in the stove and tinwai'c trade
in 1882. He was succeeded by his brother and father, who in
turn sold to W. T. Holton in 1894.
Isaac W. Reed, earlier than 1850, built a store where that
of Miss Isabella M. Reed now stands, on the corner of Oak and
McKown Streets. In it his wife engaged in the millinery trade
and continued several years. She was succeeded by Miss Lucy
Hodges, Bath ; then Mrs. Miller, Waldoboro ; followed by
Miss Nancy Lermond, who became Mrs. William Fisher ; and
in 1864 jNIiss Ellen Reed took the business, her sister Isabella
soon joining as partner. In 1879 the new store was built, the
old one being removed and rebuilt into the house of the late
Joseph Nickerson. Miss I. M. Reed retired from trade in 1902.
Kenniston Block was built in 1888. A. H. Kenniston has
occupied the southern part continuously since it was built. S.
McDougall & Son, as a branch store, first occupied the northern
part. They were succeeded by Mrs. M. A. Baker, who sold
to Miss O. Z. Fifield in 1896.
The earliest store at East Boothbay was started about 1826
by one Hiscock. It was in the liasement of the Knight house,
now owned by Emery Hardinger. He traded five or six years.
Caleb Hodgdon built what has been known as the "old red
store" on the corner soon after going to that place in 1826.
The spot where it stood is on the grounds of the residence of
Capt. Andrew Adams. Rev. Ariel Ward was the first occu-
pant. He was followed by Joseph Grimes and Henry Wright,
who were in copartnership. Grimes & Wright also ran a
bakery and manufactured hats.
Benjamin Reed went to East Boothbay in 1832 and followed
Grimes & Wright in the red store until he built on the south
side by the bridge, where he continued many years in trade.
About 1850 Alden Goudy built the store now occupied by A.
O. McDougall. There he traded until 1863, when he sold to
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 349
Leander Fuller, who was succeeded by his brother, Jacob G.
Fuller, and he by Edward E. Race about 1880. Charles F.
Seavey followed, trading until 1893, when Mrs. Mary E. Bar-
low conducted a business there for two years. The present
proprietor, Albra O. McDougall, followed Mrs. Barlow.
Under him both store and stock have been greatly enlarged.
Capt. Robert Montgomery, for a few years previous to his
decease, which occurred in 1882, ran a general store at East
Boothbay in what had been the old Union Church at the Center.
After his death John H. Blair purchased and moved this store
to the Harbor, where it was occupied by Fred H. Harris in
1886, and in it originated the great fire of that year.
Simon McDougall commenced in the red store in 1857. In
18(33, in copartnership with James L. Race, they built where
the block now stands which is owned by John R. McDougall.
This store burned September 27, 1884, after which the present
block was built, which is a double store, conducted by John R.
McDougall and his son, Lyman M., under the firm style of
J. R. McDougall Co. The easterly part of this store is princi-
pall}' devoted to groceries, meats and provisions, while the
westerljr part contains the dry and fancy goods. The store
now occupied by Mrs. M. E. Barlow was first built by Leander
Fuller, where he for a time engaged in trade. In this store A.
O. McDougall commenced business in 1876. Simon McDou-
gall, now (1905) in his forty-eighth year of trade, is closing
out business and has removed the remainder of his stock to
smaller quarters.
On Linekin the earliest store was that of E. & E. Holbrook,
established in 1845, still conducted by Eliphalet Holbrook, one
of the original partners. Other traders on the Neck in recent
years have been Ephraim Linekin, William H. Rowe and
William Reed.
Scattering stoi'es in other parts of Boothbay territory have
been in part as follows : One kept by Harry Barter on the
east side of Barter's Island, started soon after 1840 and closing
with his decease in 1852. During or soon after the Civil War
Albert Kimball, at the south end of Barter's Island, opened a
store which was run by him or his sons until succeeded by
Macaulay Brothers in 1902. Zina H. Hodgdon, on Sawyer's
350 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Island, first ran a shoemaking shop, but for perhaps a score of
years before his decease, which occurred in 1893, carried a gen-
eral assorted stock in trade. William Hodgdon, who owned
half of Hodgdon's Island and was living there in 1836, traded
there for about a decade following 1850 and irregularly at
other times. Thomas Hodgdon, with his son, Stephen G.,
came from Westport to Hodgdon's Island, of which he owned
the other half, in 1842. Here they at once commenced in the
fishing business and incidentally, at first, kept some goods for
sale. They soon went considerably into trade and did a large
general business, which still continues in the hands of the third
generation. Small stocks, consisting principally of groceries
and provisions, have been kept at Back Narrows by William
M. Bennett and Joseph Huff.
While errors may appear in the foregoing sketch and omis-
sions undoubtedly occur, an effort has been made to collect as
much as possible and present it accurately. Indefiniteness in
certain instances, where records do not exist and memory alone
has had to be depended on, is the most unsatisfactory feature.
The chapter containing the Directory of the three towns will
supplement what may appear to be omissions here. In that
the date of establishment in business and the lines of merchan-
dise carried will appear, while in this sketch merchants now
engaged in business are for the most part omitted, that unnec-
essary repetitions need not occur. Exceptions to this plan
only appear where a train of changes in the same business stand
makes it incumbent to present them all.
Hotels.
In this chapter sub-division will be considered, the old-
time inn and the public houses of later years which have been
open to patronage throughout the year. The summer hotel,
being a thing of more recent origin, may properly be consid-
ered apart, and especially so in a locality like ours, where this
particular business has grown to be one of the recognized
industries and affords one of the leading sources of income to
the community.
How soon after the settlements which commenced in this
vicinity about 1620, or soon after, inns for the accommodation
MILLS, SHIPBUILDING, STORES AND HOTELS. 351
of the public were opened will probably never be known. The
record of May 27, 1674, of the order of the General Court is
all that has come down to us from the commencement of the
disruption of the first settlement relating to the internal affairs
of that community. It is in part as follows :
"The persons following are appointed & have liberty to
keepe houses of publique intei'taynmente & are to be provided
with permits &c accordingly and to retaj'le beere wyne and
liquors in ye severall places for the yeare Ensueing according
to Law.
ffor Dameralls Cove John Wriford.
ffor Capebonewaggon Edward Barton,
ffor Corbin Sound George Bucknell."
The Dunbar settlement in its earliest years, so far as either
record or tradition affords us, had but one inn for public
accommodation. That was kept by David Bryant, situated a
little to the north and east of the bridge that crosses the outlet
of Echo Lake. The old foundation stones still mark the spot.
With the murder of Bryant, in 1739, came the end of the place
in a public sense. No further records exist until Lincoln
County was organized, where may be found, in the county
commissioners' books, records of the innholders' licenses.
Those taken out for Townsend and Boothbay between 1761
and 1773 were to Andrew McFarland, Andrew Reed, Ephraim
McFarland, Thomas Kenney, Robert Wylie, and later to his
widow, Martha Wylie, John Murray, Ichabod Pinkham,
Edward Creamer and Edward Emerson. It is unknown as to
the date of beginning or discontinuance of these old-time inns.
Several of the licensees mentioned above lived into the early
years of the succeeding century and may have continued until
their later years in the business. Probably the next hotel, and
perhaps the most pretentious up to its time, was the one built
by John Norwood soon after 1788, which has been mentioned
in enumerating the old stores.
It is likely that the Boothbay House, in its original form
and on its present site, next followed. It was built by Joseph
Campbell after his marriage, in 1793, to Jane, the daughter of
Paul Reed, who at that time owned the land in that vicinity ;
and by Campbell it was exchanged with William Maxwell Reed
352 HiSTOET or boothbay.
for property on the east side of the Harbor a few years before
his (Campbell's) death, which occurred in 1822. Reed lived
until 1850, owning this property most of the time. During
this period he rebuilt and enlarged the house and it was con-
tinuously run as a hotel. As Captain Reed followed the sea
the greater part of the time, it is probable that others served
as landlords, either in the employ of Reed or as lessees under
him, through most of the term of his ownership. Charles B.
and William H. Fisher purchased the house after the death of
Captain Reed and personally conducted it for several years.
Proprietors since have been Joseph L. McCobb, William H.
Fisher, Jr., J. Ed. Knight, the present owner, and Fred H.
Harris, who as lessee has had the house for several years.
The Weymouth House was built in 1848 by John W. Wey-
mouth, and opened to the public August 15th of that year.
By him it was conducted until his decease, in 1880, since which
time, with the exception of one or two brief leases, it has been
carried on by his two unmarried daughters, Elizabeth and
Mary L.
Samuel Montgomery, who was born in 1784 and lived at
East Boothbay, at the Carrying Place, ran a hotel there after
his marriage for many years. He had no children, but adopted
James and Samuel Murray and to them left his property.
Alden Goudy, during a part of the time he was in trade at
East Boothbay, ran a hotel where Charles C. Smithwick now
lives. This period fell between 1855 and 1860. Other houses
than those enumerated above are thought to have been exclu-
sively conducted for the summer business and will appear in
that chapter.
CHAPTER XX.
Fraternal Societies and Associations.
Seaside Lodge, No. 144, F. and A. M.
THE earliest association in town in the form of a lodge, or
secret fraternal society, was that of the Masons. Sev-
eral among the more influential citizens had for some
years been members of the lodge at Wiscasset, and after due
deliberation decided to apply for a charter, which they did in
1867, receiving it under date of October 7, 1867. The char-
ter was to "Seaside Lodge, No. 144, F. and A. M., Boothbay."
The charter members were :
Otis P. Rice,
Caleb Hodgdon,
Westbrook G. Lewis,
M. E. Pierce,
Silas Smith,
Dennis Hagan,
Isaac Pinkham,
William Carlisle,
Freeman Boynton,
William Wilson,
John F. Sargent,
Henry Cameron,
The Masters of Seaside Lodge have been :
1869 Otis P. Rice. 1878
1870 W. G. Lewis. 1879
1871-73 W. F. McClintock
1874 Charles H. Fisher.
1875 Caleb Hodgdon.
1876-77 W. I. Adams.
Daniel W. Sawyer,
Robert Montgomery,
Ezekiel W. Hodgkins,
George M. Hodgdon,
James L. Race,
George Snow,
Sewall S. Wylie,
George B. Dunton,
Alden Blossom,
Elbridge Love,
Charles Cameron,
George Hamilton,
been:
Caleb Hodgdon.
E. D. Winchenbaugh.
880-81 E. C. McClintock.
882 W. I. Adams.
883-84 George W. Reed.
885-86 George E. Vanhorn.
354 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
1887 ^ W. I. Adams. 1895-96 John K. McDougall.
1888-89 George H. Snow. 1897 George H. Snow.
1890 James D. Eichards. 1898-99 Lewis A. Dunton.
1891 Willard T. Marr. 1900-01 Dennis S. Wylie.
1892-93 W. F. Buker. 1902-03 T. L. Montgomery.
1894 William E. Reed. 1904-05 Merrill A. Perkins.
The quarters first occupied by Seaside Lodge was the hall
of Otis P. Rice, located on the east side of the street just
northerly from the residence of G. B. Kenniston. This hall
was burned and with it the early records of the lodge. They
next opened at the hall over the store of Westbrook G. Lewis,
at the head of the Harbor ; from there they took quarters in
the hall of N. K. Merry, on the east side of the Harbor, but
soon came to the west side and for several years occupied the
hall in the third story of K. H. Richards' store on Commercial
Street. They remained there until 1894, when the present
hall and anterooms were prepared for their use. A present
membership of 203 exists in good standing.
Bay View Lodge, No. 196, F. and A. M.
This lodge received its charter of date July 24, 1890. It
was composed of twenty-six charter members, all, or nearly
all, being former members of Seaside Lodge, and being prin-
cipally composed of the members who lived at East Boothbay
Village and Linekin. Their quarters were fitted over the new
public hall, which was completed in 1890, where they have a
commodious, well-furnished hall and convenient anterooms.
The list of Worshipful Masters follows :
1 W. Irving Adams. 4 C. Tyler Hodgdon.
2 Dennis M. Hagan, 5 Frank Seavey.
3 Edward Whitehouse. 6 Victor Montgomery.
7 Harvey R. Barlow.
The total membership now (1905) is seventy-five.
Pentecost Chapter, No. 55.
Pentecost Chapter was chartered June 20, 1894, with thir-
ty-nine charter members; now (1905) the membership has
reached ninety. The High Priests of this chapter have been
as follows :
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. rfO»
1894-97 Willard T. Marr.
1898-99 John E. McDougall.
1900 Harry G. Stevens.
1901-03 Thaddeus L. Montgomery.
1904 W. F. Buker.
1905 Thaddeus L. Montgomery.
BooTHBAY Lodge, No. 32, I^jstights of Pythias.
This lodge was organized November 22, 1882, with ninety-
three charter members. The total number of members made
has been 510, while the number now (1905) in good standing
is 401. From organization until August, 1894, the hall over
the store of the late Isaac C. Sherman was occupied ; but at
that time the present one was dedicated and has since been in
use. The Chancellor Commanders have been as follows :
Charles W. Price, M. D., Nov. 22, 1882, to Jan. 1, 1883.
George E. Vanhorn, Jan. 1, 1883, to Jan. 1, 1884.
Freeman Boynton, Jan. 1, 1884, to Jan. 1, 1885.
John E. McDougall, Jan. 1, 1885, to Jan. 1, 1887.
Hiram W. McDougall, Jan. 1, 1887, to Jan. 1, 1888.
"William J. Winslow, Jan. 1, 1888, to July 1, 1888.
Allen W. Murray, July 1, 1888, to Jan. 1, 1889.
Charles E. Kendrick, Jan. 1, 1889, to Jan. 1, 1890.
Allen W. Murray, Jan. 1, 1890, to July 1, 1890.
Fred P. Huff, July 1, 1890, to July 1, 1891.
W. O. Seavey, July 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Gardner D. Eeed, Jan. 1, 1892, to July 1, 1892.
Hiram W. McDougall, July 1, 1892, to Jan. 1, 1893.
Frank H. McDougall, Jan. 1, 1893, to July 1, 1893.
F. H. Albee, July 1, 1893, to Jan. 1, 1895.
Frank N. Adams, Jan. 1, 1895, to Jan. 1, 1896.
Cyrus E. Tupper, Jan. 1, 1896, to Jan. 1, 1897.
Harry G. Stevens, Jan. 1, 1897, to Jan. 1, 1898.
Thaddeus Orne, Jan. 1, 1898, to Jan. 1, 1899.
Lyman McDougall, Jan. 1, 1899, to Jan. 1, 1900.
M. Fred Dunton, Jan. 1, 1900, to Jan. 1, 1901.
■ Byron Giles, Jan. 1, 1901, to Jan. 1, 1902.
Alonzo P. Wylie, Jan. 1, 1902, to Jan. 1, 1903.
Seth E. Eowe, Jan. 1, 1903, to Jan. 1, 1904.
356 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
John A. Haddocks, Jan. 1, 1904, to Jan. 1, 1905.
George W. Greenleaf, Jan. 1, 1905.
The members of the Boothbay Lodge who have held Grand
Lodge offices follow :
Deputy Grand Chancellors have been
J. P. Cash, 13th District, 1884-85.
Freeman Boynton, 13th District, 1885-89.
Hiram W. McDougall, 13th District, 1889-90.
Lyman M. McDougall, 17th District, 1900-01.
Lyman M. McDougall, 11th District, 1901-02.
Byron Giles, 11th District, 1903-05.
Freeman Boynton, Grand Inner Guard, 1888-89.
Charles J. Marr, Grand Master at Arms, 1896.
Charles J. Marr, Grand Prelate, 1897.
Lyman M. McDougall, Grand Chancellor, 1903.
Crescent Chapter, No. 54, Order Eastern Star.
Organized January 27, 1899, with a charter membership of
thirty-five ; now (1905) having a total membership of ninety-
five. Their chief officers have been as follows :
1899-1900
Lulu Farnham, W. M.
1901-03
Josie Seavey, "
1904
Lena Murray, "
1905
Idella Murray, "
1899-1900
Edward Whitehouse, W. P.
1901
William Keed,
1902-03
W. Irving Adams,
1904
Elmer Fernald,
1905
Frank Seavey, "
Mt. Pisgah Chapter, No. 57, Order Eastern Star.
This chapter was chartered February 20, 1899, with fifty
members. A membership now (1905) of 170 exists in good
standing. The chief officers have been as follows :
1899-1900 Lizzie Montgomery, W. M.
1901-02 Neva Gregory, " ,
1903 Mary Williams, "
1904-05 Mabel Dunton, •'
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 357
1899 Charles E. Kendrick, W. P.
1900 Eoyal Giles,
1901-02 Oscar Yates,
1903 Charles E. Kendrick,
1904-05 Woodbury Marson, "
Rathbone Sisters.
Mizpah Temple, of Boothbay Harbor, was organized Jan-
uary 6, 1904. The office of Most Excellent Chief has been
filled as follows :
Mrs. Clara Giles, Jan. 6, 1904, to July 6, 1904.
Mrs. Nellie Tupper, July 6, 1904, to Jan. 6, 1905.
Miss Mary A. Kenniston, Jan. 6, 1905.
Membership reached in 1905 the number of 175. Mrs.
Clara Giles was elected Grand Chief of the Grand Temple,
Rathbone Sisters of Maine, in 1904.
Royal Arcanum.
Aldebaran Council, 399, Boothbay Harbor, was chartered
March 10, 1903. It has now (1905) a membership of thirty-
three. The Regents have been Willard T. Marr, March, 1903,
to March, 1905 ; Lewis A. Dunton, present.
CHAPTER XXI.
The Fisheries.
OUR third chapter covers a greater part of the early
voyages which were undertaken for the purposes of
exploration. It is plainly evident that the voyages to
America during the sixteenth century, the records of which
have been preserved, were largely of this kind, and the pur-
pose in several instances was to discover a westerly and shorter
passage to the Indies than the one then traversed. At that
time the four great maritime nations of Europe M'ere England,
France, Spain and Portugal. Each vied with the other for
commercial ascendency then as they and others do .at present.
The fisheries, the riches of the sea, were one of the leading
products sought. Each of the four nations mentioned was
represented by a fishing fleet about Newfoundland in a com-
paratively few years after Columbus and Cabot touched their
respective points of discovery. The Biscayan fishermen, in
fact, claimed to have preceded the voyage of Columbus by
several j'ears in their trips to the Newfoundland coast ; but
evidence is satisfactory on the point that both Biscayan and
Norman fishermen were there in 1504. It was from informa-
tion obtained from returned fishermen that Chabot, Admiral of
France, influenced Francis I to fit out the exploring expedition
of Cartier in 1534. Instances multiply with research which
show that much of what has been preserved and printed in our
histories regarding the voyages of the sixteenth century to
America was first prompted by information from similar
sources. The waters of what came to be Nova Scotia and New
England were visited for more than a century by vessels from
all these European nations in the fishery interest before settle-
ment was attempted. It is recorded that Scavelet, an old
fisherman in France, had, in 1609, made forty trips to the
American coast. Spain, which had a fishing fleet about New-
THE FISHERIES. 359
ioundland as early as 1517, and at times in that century had
reached one hundred sail, had by 1593 nearly retired from the
business. Portugal's effort in the matter of time was similar,
but it never reached the number that Spain did. Up to 1713
French fisheries had been more successful here than those of
England. Statistics give the number of vessels engaged in
the French codfishery in 1744 as 564, carrying 27,500 men
and the catch amounting to 1,441,000 quintals.
Capt. John Smith, when he made his voyage to New
England in 1614, making Monhegan his headquarters, dried
40,000 large cod and pickled 7,000 more ; these with the furs
he purchased of the Indians netted him a profit of $7,000 for
his voyage. Before the Pilgrims touched at Plymouth Monhe-
gan was a fishing headquarters on the New England coast,
frequented by numerous vessels each season, but, as we have
noted in an earlier chapter, it is not probable that any actual
settlement existed there earlier than about 1620. During the
seventeenth century Spain and the Canary Islands afforded the
best fish market of any European country, for they had aban-
doned the business for mining interests, which yielded larger
profits. When Gosnold, in 1602, made his voyage along our
shores he persistently tested the fishing. His first luck was
poor and he named that famous Massachusetts projection
"Shoal Hope" ; but luck changed and he filled with the finest
fish in size and quality, whereupon he changed this appellation
to Cape Cod.
For knowledge of this great industry we largely have to
depend on the records of those vessels which were fitted as
public enterprises, for exploring purposes, and in nearly all
such instances scores of fishing vessels are recorded in the
American waters ; while there is internal evidence in these
same reports that information obtained from returned fisher-
men was what stimulated the enterprise.
According to Captain Levett, whose visit at Cape Newagen
has been noted, an English fishing vessel at that time (1623)
was of about 200 tons and usuallj^ carried about fifty men.
The crew put in twenty shillings each toward provisions, but
otherwise were not assessed. They went on shares, as the
custom has usually been. The vessel had one-third, the men
360 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
one-third, and one-third was allowed for " victuals, salt, nets,
hooks, lines and other implements for taking and making fish."
The cost of obtaining this latter "third" was about £800.
Full fares were the rule, and one-third of a full fare was 1,340
quintals. Fish at that time brought from thirty-six to forty-
four rials per quintal, an average of forty rials, or one pound
sterling. Thus the one-third amounted to £1,340, or £26 16s.
per head for the crew ; while the vessel, additional to its one-
third, received a bonus of £540 for overestimating the costs of
fitting.
John Josselyn, in 1663, writing of the Maine coast, says :
"About eight or nine miles to the eastward of Cape Por-
poise is Winter Harbor, a noted place for fishers ; here they
have many stages. At Richmond's Island are likewise stages
for fishermen. Nine miles eastward of Black Point lyeth scat-
teringly the town of Casco [Portland], upon a large bay,
stored with cattle, sheep, swine, abundance of marsh and
arable land, a corn mill or two, with stages for fishermen.
Farther yet eastward is Sagadahock, where are many houses,
scattering, and all along stages' for fishermen. From Sagada-
hock to Nova Scotia is called the Duke of York's Province ;
here Pemaquid, Martinicus, Mohegan, Capeanawhagen, where
Capt. Smith fished for whales, Muscataquid, all filled with
dwelling houses and stages for fishermen."
After speaking of the quantities of fish and the market for
them which was made to the fishing vessels, he further states :
" To every shallop belong four fishermen ; a master or steers-
man, a midshipman and a foremast man, and a shoreman, who
washes it out of the salt, and dries it upon hurdles pitched
breast-high, and tends the cookerj'. These often get in one
voyage eight or nine pounds a man for their shares."
He then states that the fishermen usually attended well to
business unless a "walking tavern" came along, meaning a
vessel with liquors aboard, when, he says, thej' would abandon
their work and drink until wearied of it, sometimes a week at
a time, going ashore and holding high carnival. He also tells
of being on our coast in 1638, in company with Capt. Thomas
Wannerton, who drank to him at parting "a pint of kill-devil,
alias rhum, at a draught," and further commenting on the
Captain's characteristics says he was a " grave and discreet man."
NiCKERSON.
THE FISHERIES. 6bl
After colonization commenced, while the abundance afforded
by the sea was a large means of sustenance to the settlers, it
afforded for a long period but slight revenue to them. The
market was controlled by English merchants and the colonists
were not equipped in any sense to cope with them. They
lacked capital and prestige to obtain a foothold in the export
trade, and there were no great centers of population in America
to give them a trade at home. Massachusetts, of all the Colo-
nies, had the greatest population, and she was also foremost in
the fishery interest. The English and French still came each
year and fished from Labrador to Cape Cod as they had for-
merly done.
"When Dunbar was settling Pemaquid and Townsend, in
1729—30, the fishery interest was of enough consequence to
cause him to introduce into his instruments of conveyance of
lands to the settlers about Townsend Harbor in substance the
following :
" Forty feet upon the shore was to be common to all fisher-
men unless the settlers adjoining should consent to make fish
for any fisherman at two shillings and sixpence per quintal, in
such case said forty feet was to be included in his lot."
In this reservation, when closely scanned, there is more to
indicate that the fishing grounds were exceptionally good in
this locality and this common, held for "all" unless the inhab-
itants for a fixed rate would cure for "any" was more for the
advantage of English fishermen than the Townsend settlers.
That this conjecture is correct we may refer to the famous
depositions of 1772, where Samuel McCobb tells us that "their
whole living depended on cutting firewood and carrying it to
Boston and other towns more than 1§0 miles from them."
Further than this it would appear that, at least at times, enough
fish for consumption was not obtained by them, else why were
they forced upon a diet of " clams and water for several weeks
together," as both Moore and McCobb tell us. In the deposi-
tion of the latter it appears that these conditions were upon the
people until the breaking out of the war with France. Condi-
tions certainlj^ did not improve during that war. It is proba-
ble, however, with the increase of population between the close
of that war, in 1759, and the commencement of the Revolution,
24
362 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
sixteen years later, there was very marked improvement in
every line in the settlement. Farms were cleared ; agricultural
interests, both cropping and the raising of live stock, increased ;
stores were established and the iisheries were worked. This
latter branch of business, however, slower than the others to
establish, was in an infantile condition when, from 1775 to
1783, it was completely crushed out by the patrol of the coast
by British war vessels.
It may be mentioned in this connection that as early as
1730, the year Townsend was settled, three or four vessels
with codfish were marketed direct from Isles of Shoals to Bil-
boa, Spain, and as many or more continued to do so for many
years annually thereafter. Many fish were also sent to Ports-
mouth for shipment to the West Indies. Just previous to the
breaking out of the Revolution some of the Boothbay vessels
carried fish to the West Indies, and there are reasons for
believing that some also carried cargoes to Spain. After the
year 1783 the fisheries rapidly increased, and ten years later
allowances on the bounty principal were made to fishing vessels
actually engaged in the industry ; but this was not the bounty
our older fishermen remember.
Improvement in the business continued until the embargo
was placed on shipping previous to the War of 1812. That
stopped all export trade and for a time ruined the industry.
Fish, in 1808, both dried and pickled, spoiled all along the
New England coast ; nor was there time enough after the
embargo was lifted, before the war actually broke out, to
revive the drooping business. At its close the privilege of
fishing in the English Provincial waters was the first stumbling-
block and the last obstacle to the conclusion of the treaty.
The year 1818 arrived before it was adjusted; then to the
advantage of the United States. The following year, 1819,
saw the bounty enacted which lasted until 18(J(j, allowing $3.50
per ton annually to vessels under thirty tons, and $4.00 per ton
above thirty and up to ninetj'-six tons, which was maximum.
It was the I'esponse to this act and the reopening of the
foreign markets at the same period that fixes the date when
the fishing interests of real consequence to Boothbay began.
The earliest men in town to engage largely in fishing were
THE FISHERIES. ob'd
John M. McFarland, Capt. John Hodgdon, Capt. Tyler Hodg-
don, John Andrews, Allen Lewis and John McClintock, on
the mainland ; and on Cape Newagen Island, now Southport,
Daniel Cameron, John Chaples, Capt. John Pierce, Major John
McKown, John Cameron and Eli Nelson. Most of these men
were born before the year 1800, while Daniel Cameron, the
first to operate the fisheries to much extent in this vicinity,
was born in 1750.
Those of our locality who did the largest business cod-
fishing, while that industry was at its height, were nearly all
natives of Boothbay, and, for the most part, born in the first
quarter of the last century. Those similarly engaged in South-
port were nearly all natives of that island and reached the
height of their business after it was an incorporated town;
therefore in the enumeration which follows, regardless of the
dates at which they were engaged, those on the mainland and
islands belonging to Boothbaj^ will be classed under the head
of that town, while the others will appear under Southport.
This list, in each case, includes what I have been able to rescue
relating to the fishing establishments, once nearly the all in
these towns. At this point it may not be out of place to state
that while our neighboring localities were to some extent
engaged as we were, in the magnitude and soleness of this
industry Boothbay and Southport eclipsed all their neighbors.
An old Bristol fisherman was the first to repeat to the author
an old couplet which in codfish days had current circulation :
' ' Damariscotta for beauty, and Bristol for pride ;
Had it not been for codfish Boothbay would have died."
Boothbay List.
John M. McFarland began about 1790 ; mostly shore fish-
ing until 1820 ; succeeded by his sons, Nathaniel and Andrew ;
two shore boats ; two bankers, the Albatross and another ;
yard and stand where W. M. Sawyer's store is.
Capt. John Hodgdon commenced soon after 1820. He
lived where his son, John M., does. He had four bankers.
Legislator, Ocean, Only Son and Atlantic, besides some shore
boats. His flake yard was westerly from his house and would
spread 650 quintals.
db4 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Tyler Hodgdon lived where his son, the late Albion P.
Hodgdon, did. He had two bankers, the Regalia and another.
He commenced business soon after 1820 and was succeeded by
his son, above-named.
Thomas Hodgdon commenced the fishing business about the
same time that his relatives, previously mentioned, did, but it
was at his old home on Westport-. Being owner of one-half
the island now known as Hodgdon's Island he moved his- busi-
ness to that place in 1842. He had three or more bankers,
among which were the Tasso and S. G. Hodgdon. He was
succeeded by his son, Stephen G. Hodgdon.
Capt. William Barter, on the east side of Barter's Island,
had one schooner.
Isaac Barter, on Barter's Island, had two schooners, the
Young Sultah and Liberator.
Edward Barter, Barter's Island, had three bankers, George
Washington, Arizona and Mary Edwards.
Warren and George Reed had their stand on Campbell's
Cove. They had two bankers, one of which was the G. W.
Reed.
The Smith brothers. Marshal and Stevens, had their stand
at West Harbor. They were in business there before 1830 and
continued until removing to the Harbor or a little later. The
Rising States was one of their vessels.
Paul and Joseph Harris began business about 1838. Their
yard was where R. A. Lewis lives, at the Harbor, extending
westerly over the property now owned b}^ C. F. Dodge. They
had four bankers, Columbus, Annie Sargent, P. G. Maddochs
and C. G. Ilatthews.
Capt. Sewall Wylie had two bankers, doing business at the
head of the Harbor, where he succeeded John Andrews.
Allen Lewis commenced business earlier than 1830. He
lived on the southern slope of Pisgah and his yard was where
the Barrett cottage stands. He had four bankers, Allen Lewis,
Forrester, S. H. Rov:e and another ; also several shore boats.
Joseph Auld had his stand and yard where the Menawarmet
landing and grounds are. He had one banker, the Caravan;
was in business as early as 1845.
THE FISHERIES. rfbO
John McClintock commenced where the Baldwin Fish Com-
pany is now located. He began fishing in 1833, although he
had a store there somewhat earlier. It is probable that he did,
for a time, the largest business in town. His bankers, in the
order of purchase, were as follows : Orion, Two BrotJiers,
Belts and Sail, Susan, Superior, Liberator, Gold Hunter, S.
M. Libhy, Foaming Billow, JVbrthern Chief, Montebello, Only
Son, Kate S. McClintoch and King Fisher. He continued
business until about the date of his decease, 1874, and was
succeeded by his sons.
Ezekiel and Eliphalet Holbrook, on Linekin, commenced
business in 1843 with one boat, which they increased to three
bankers. They were engaged in partnerships with the Farn-
hams and Nathaniel Foster. The Grampus was one of their
bankers.
McDougall & Kace (Simon McDougall and James L. Race)
had a yard at Race's Point, East Boothbay, in 1862. They
had five bankers ; dissolved partnership in 1876, Captain Race
continuins the business. The Nellie Short was among; their
Robert and Leonard Montgomery had three bankers. Their
yard and stand were at Meadow Cove, East Boothbay.
William Blake, East Boothbay, had one shore fisherman.
He was captured by rebel privateers during the Civil War.
Levi Reed, East Boothbay, had one banker.
John Swett, who settled in Boothbay in 1795 on Thirty
Acre Island, later known as Swett's Island and now Isle of
Springs, with his sons Harvey and Hiram, who lived and
reared families on the island, conducted a fishing business from
there. They engaged almost wholly in catching and smoking
herring, but caught some mackerel. They had several well-
known vessels, among which were the Van Buren, Chainjrion,
Banner and Meridian.
SouTHPORT List.
Daniel Cameron, one of the early settlei's on the island,
commenced shore fishing soon after the close of the Revolu-
tionary War. His stand was where his descendants now live,
366 HISTOKT OF BOOTHBAY.
on Ebenecook Harbor. His son John commenced bank fishing
about 1830. In those days he had the S. II. Cameron, Water-
fall and Burnham. He was succeeded by his son Daniel and
Freeman Orne, as Cameron & Orne ; later still by Daniel
Cameron. Cameron & Orne had six large bankers or more,
among which were the Majeppa, Jenny Lind, Island Queen,
Telegraph, Martha A. Breioer and Stephen C. Phillips.
Capt. Jonathan Pierce commenced business at Marr's Har-
bor before 1800. He was succeeded early in the forties by
T. & N. Marr, and they by Edward L. Marr. With his death,
in 1872, the business closed. They had several bankers, Mar-
tha A. Breioer, Queen of the Fleet, Prima Donna, Mercy A.
Hoioe and, for a time, the Silver Moon.
George W. Pierce, on the west side of Pierce's Cove, suc-
ceeded by George W. Pierce, Jr., had two bankers, the Grey-
hound and Renu.
James Orne, succeeded by his sons, Silas and Osias, had
three or four bankers at Pierce's Cove, among them the Emily
F. Sivift and Jenny Lind.
Freeman Grover, at Pig Cove, had one banker, the Ceylon ;
no successor.
Samuel Pierce, succeeded by his son, Moses E. Pierce, at
Marr's Harbor, had three bankers, one being the William F.
Tarbox.
William Gray, at Cape Newagen, as early as 1845, after-
ward in partnership with Miles Pierce, had one large schooner.
Morning Light. They were among the earliest mackerel
catchers.
Robert Cameron, on Ebenecook, had two bankers, the
Eldorado and another.
William Pierce, at Pierce"s Cove, succeeded by Porter
Piei'ce, had two large bankers, the Atlantic and Sagasso.
Major John McKown, near the Southport boat landing,
succeeded by his son Cyrus ; later with Frederick Reed, as
McKown & Reed ; still later as Freeman Orne & Sons, who
conducted business until 1888. Major JIcKown's vessels in-
cluded the Jasper, America?! Eagle, Siberia and Saratoga;
THE FISHERIES. 367
while among those of the last firm were the White Foam, Jose-
phine Sioanton and Fannie S. Orne. The firms at this stand
did little, if any, shore fishing, but confined themselves to
bank fishing altogether.
Ebenezer and William Decker, at Decker's Cove, did an
extensive business during the Civil War period and for a time
following it. They had five bankers, the Silver Moon, Willie
G., Tiger, Grapeshot and the Archer, which was captured by
rebel privateers.
Willard Lewis, where Camp Skowhegan stands, had a
yard and some shore boats.
Robert Decker, near the Sawj'er ice pond, had one shore boat.
Joseph and John Haddocks, at Maddocks' Point on Ebene-
cook, did the largest fishing business in either town during
the years engaged. They were succeeded by William T.
Maddocks, son of Joseph. Their fleet consisted of thirteen
bankers, which included the P. G. Maddocks, Alice Parker,
Astoria, Laut, Australia, E. S. Pendleton, Collector, Advance,
Speedicell, Storm King, Home and Sunbeam. The Home was
their largest, 165 tons ; the Speedivell, smallest, 40 tons.
In 1860 there were fifty-nine bankers and mackerel vessels
owned in Southport, giving employment to every able-bodied
man and boy on the island besides employing many others. It
was said during the height of their prosperity that no town in
Maine made its own business and earned so many dollars per
capita as Southport.
Up to 1850 codfishing was almost the sole industry in both
towns. It was the custom to start about the last week of April
or the first one in May, making a trip to the Cape Shore, and
the latter part of June another one to the Bay of St. Lawrence.
Four hundred quintals was considered a good trip. There were
no trawls used hy our people before 1850, but they had been
in use by the French fishermen then for many years. Our
method was to fish over the rail of the vessel, a line in each
hand, two hooks to each line. The use of dories superseded
this method about 1862. The average price of cod from 1830
to 1860 was from $2.25 to $2.50 per quintal. By 1860 trawls
were in nearly universal use. Clams were invariably used for
dW HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
bait in early spring, but after about May 10th small herring
were used if they could be obtained.
A great many changes have occurred in the kind of vessel
which has been employed in the fisheries. Probably the most
primitive was used about shore only and consisted of the dug-
out and the bateau. A half-decked fishing vessel, called a
wherry, followed. Later, boats with two masts, called from
their peculiar model "stubnoses," were used for a time. The
pinkey, a famous craft in its time, next came into use. These
boats were from ten to twenty tons with standing room for
berths. They had a narrow waist, about eight inches high, but
no rail or bulwark for protection. They carried foresail and
mainsail only and were esteemed good sailers. A cuddy for-
ward contained two berths. Just abaft the foremast a brick
fireplace was built. The chimney was built of boards or plank
and either lined with sheet iron or plastered to prevent catch-
ing fire. Capt. Joseph McKown distinctly remembers the old
Boothbay fleet of 1834. They were all pinkeys at that date.
The Ocean, sixty tons, owned by Capt. John Hodgdon, and
the Albatross, seventy-two tons, owned by John M. McFar-
land, were the largest of the fleet. They averaged at that
time about thirty-five to forty tons. The pinkey had the run
from about 1810 to 1840. "With some changes of model jiggers
and half-clippers appeared for a few years, when the square-
sterners came into almost universal use. They ran from forty
to eighty tons. These last were succeeded by the present
schooner. After 1851 the fishing vessels increased rapidly in
size. About that time a model appeared called the sharpshooter.
The first one in these waters was the Astoria, built at Essex
for Capt. Benjamin Maddocks and brothers. It proved a good
sailer and a seaworthy vessel, but at first many dire prophecies
were made regarding her.
Provisioning for a trip was, like everything else in those
days, vastly different from the modern way. Fish and pota-
toes were expected to be the basis of the food supply ; there-
fore only the latter had to be provided before starting. " It
was fish and potatoes three times a day and a lunch of it before
turning in," as one old captain expressed himself. Plenty of
salt pork was taken. Tea and coffee with molasses, for it was
THE FISHERIES. 369
before the days of sugar and condensed milk, constituted the
table beverages. A liberal supply of rum was always taken, a
few sacks of Newbegin's biscuits, some beans and peas and
a quantity of corn meal. A firkin of flour would suffice for a
trip, for it was only used to thicken gravies, no bread being
baked aboard. The water that was taken in casks grew ropy
and when drawn from them was often unfit to drink, but a
large tub was used into which one cask was emptied at a time,
and after two or three daj^s' exposure to the atmosphere it
became more palatable. No butter was used until 1855 or later.
Another essential in fitting was the homemade matches dipped
in brimstone, together with flints, a steel and box of tinder ;
the tinder first being ignited by use of the flint and steel and
then the matches lighted from it.
The old-time method of measuring a vessel for tonnage
was to multiply the length in feet by three-fourths its greatest
width and that by the depth, dividing the product by ninety-
five. By this method a vessel measuring fifty tons would not
at the present exceed thirty-five tons.
The catclaing of mackerel had become a profitable business
along the Massachusetts coast by 1850. Soon after that date
it was engaged in as a partial business by nearly all in our
vicinity who conducted fishing establishments. The early
spring trip to the Cape Shore for cod was made as formerly,
but instead of all making a second trip, going to the Bay of St.
Lawrence, a part of the returned vessels fitted for mackereling
the remainder of the season, for at that time of the year mack-
erel were fat and profitable. The average price of mackerel
from 1850 to 1860 was $2.25 to $2.50 per barrel.
These fish at first were caught with hook and line, or "jig-
ging," as the term went in coast parlance. Capt. Joseph
McKown, who was born in 1820, now (1905) residing at the
Harbor, commenced fishing at the age of fourteen and followed
the business until his eightieth year. He is authority for the
statement that he has seen the waters filled with mackerel from
Burnt Island to Fisherman's Island and remembers parties
hooking seventy-five tubs of them in a day about White Islands.
Seining was not commenced until about 1865, and it is thought
that 1866 was the first year that Boothbay or Southport fisher-
370 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
men adopted that method. Capt. Freeman Grover relates that
in that year he purchased a one-fourth interest in a seine, which
cost $2,400, and that it did not contain more than one-fourth
as much twine as a modern one. The adoption of seines at
once increased the expense and outlay in conducting the fishing
business. It came at an inopportune time, just at the close of
the Civil War, when everything was on an inflated basis, par-
ticularly the cost of material for seines. The bounty which
had been allowed fishing vessels was taken away that year by
the repeal of the act, which produced another hardship to the
industr3^ The mackerel catch decreased rapidly soon after
the introduction of seines and many fishermen have ascribed
the reason, in their opinions, to be on account of the destruc-
tion of small fish and spawn. It is a fact, however, that the
diminished quantity of fish in the waters, be it due to whatever
cause, the repeal of the bounty act and the enlarged expense
of conducting the business soon had the effect to reduce and
drive out the industry in small places and among firms of lim-
ited capital.
Since the close of the Civil A^'ar the fishing business has
been, perhaps, not less the support of the people of our region
than formerly, but conditions have changed and it has become
a more diversified industry than in the years preceding that
date. Then it was the catches of cod and mackerel only ; since
then those branches of the business have been annually prose-
cuted, but added to them have been the other branches : the
seining of the porgy or menhaden at sea and the production
of oil in the factory ashore, the digging of clams and canning
them, the trapping and canning of lobsters, the sardine indus-
try, the manufacturing of fertilizer which largely depended on
the factory chum, the selling of bait and ice, the shipping of
live lobsters and fresh fish iced, the treatment and handling of
both bait and food fish by the cold storage process, besides
many other kindred undertakings.
While one effect of the war was to take away the tonnage
bounty to fishing vessels, which had really been the backbone
of the business, thus dealing that industry a crushing blow —
one from which it never recovered — another had been to
advance the value of fish oils from 1863-65 to the hitherto
THE FISHERIES. 371
unknown price of $1.25 per gallon, and a substitute for Peru-
vian guano for fertilizing purposes was much sought for. As
early as 1855 there were five establishments for the manufac-
ture of porgy oil, all located on Blue Hill Bay. From that
time until 1863 straggling concerns sprang up along the coast
in this business, but, for the most part, they caught their fish
in gill nets, cooked them in kettles and pressed them in a crude
hand press. The price of oil advancing as it did, the plenti-
fulness of menhaden or porgies appearing at the same time,
while other fishing interests were depressed, had the effect to
at once enlist capital to enter upon the business on an elaborate^
scale.
The first steam menhaden oil factory in Maine was erected
at South Bristol, in 1864, by W. A. Wells & Co. This firm,
also, was first to make the attempt to catch the fish in purse
seines. The first purse seine was one hundred fathoms long
and ten fathoms deep. It was used by Capt. E. T. Dubois,
of Portsmouth, E. I. The boats they used were one-sail, cat-
rigged and open, too large to be controlled with oars. In
fishing these boats were brought together to the windward of a
school of fish, with sails down and boom traced up, they were
then opened, the seine divided, and they went to leeward to
encircle the school of fish. Such methods now look impractical,
but in 1864—65 the Wells establishment with one seine and two
boats, which were forty-five feet long, thirteen wide and six
deep, obtained in John's Ba}-^ all the fish they needed and made
a large sum of money.
In February, 1865, Luther Maddocks, then twenty years
of age, started a factory at Dogfish Head, which he operated
for three years and in 1869 leased it to Judson Tarr & Co.,
Pemaquid, who had lost their factory by fire.
In 1866 Peck & Glover, Greenport, L. I., erected a factory
on Linekin Neck at a cost of about $40,000 and expended
$50,000 more in fishing gear. This factory was later sold to
Joshua G. Nickerson, who, with his associates, added many
improvements and operated it until the supply of fish gave out.
The factory has been torn down and the machiner^'^ removed,
while the propert}^ was sold to the late Prof. Nathaniel G.
Allen for a summer home.
372 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AY.
Next below, on Linekin Neck, was a large and valuable
plant built by Fred Gallup, John Morgan and Solomon Gar-
diner. About $50,000 was invested to commence with and
many improvements afterward added. They continued in
business sixteen years.
Southerly from the above establishment, built the same
j'ear (18(36) was a plant of about the same cost as that of the
Gallup-Morgan Company, built by Gallup & Holmes, Mystic,
Conn. When the menhaden supply failed both these concerns
made desperate efforts to handle dogfish, which thej^ did for
two years, when they were unable to obtain enough of these,
and the factories were both sold at about ten per cent, of their
original cost.
Southerly from these, at the elbow on the bay, Kenniston,
Cobb & Co. commenced the same year and successfully oper-
ated their factory for a time. When the change from sail-
gangs to steamers came they sold their plant rather than make
the great outlay required in the purchase of steamers.
Where the Ocean Point House stands the White Wine
Brook Company erected a plant and conducted it for several
years with fair success. When the business failed the buildings
were removed.
A plant was erected by Phillips & Co., of Greenport, L. I.,
on Southport, near the old bridge. It had no steam power
and only remained in business a few years.
In 1870 Luther Maddocks built afactorj' on Spruce Point,
which, with machinery, cost about $80,000 ; about $100,000
more was put into fishing steamers and gear. At one time he
had a fleet of six, namely : Grace Darling, Phoebe, S. L.
GoodaU, Mollie L. Fish, Mabel Bird and Helen M. Pierce.
This establishment alone gave lucrative employment, on land
and water, to about 200 men. The Cumberland Bone Com-
pany erected its factor}^ in 1874 near Mr. Maddocks' factory,
the leading inducement for so doing being the convenient loca-
tion for using the oil factory chum, which largely entered into
their fertilizer as a constituent. This business continued until
1878, when it went the way of the rest of its kind.
To summarize the magnitude of this business while it lasted,
that the record may be retained, it may be said that at one
THE FISHERIES. 373
time sixteen steamers were engaged to supply the four leading
factories on Boothbay soil. These factories were the Atlantic
Oil Co., Luther Maddocks, manager; Gallup & Holmes Co.,
B. F. Gallup, manager; Gallup & Morgan Co., Fred Gallup,
manager; Suffolk Oil Co., J. C. Nickerson, manager. These
four concerns had an investment of about $.500,000 and did an
annual business aggregating about $1,000,000, employing
about 1,000 men. No town in Maine of equal population and
valuation enjoyed a greater degree of prosperity than Boothbay
during the period from 1866 to 1878. Boothbay Harbor, East
Boothbay and Linekin Neck had many good and permanent
homes built from the factory disbursements, and general im-
provement was noted in all the other parts of the town and in
Southport. When the business fell, as it did with an appalling-
suddenness, these homes that had been built remained and their
owners shifted to other undertakings, while those who suffered
most were the operators. They had played for great stakes
and lost through circumstances over which thej'^ had no control.
For ten j^ears following 1878 no menhaden appeared along
the Maine coast, then for three years they were fairly plentiful
and several of the old factories were refitted and put in opera-
tion ; but no sooner fairly at work than the fish again disap-
peared to make now and then a visit to our shores. Why this
action no one can explain, and until the habits of migratory
fish are solved this particular case will remain one of the most
notable mysteries in the list. The end of all the costly outlay
for the conduct of this business, on both land and water, netted
the operators not far from ten per cent, of the original cost.
Daring these years the old codfishing establishments had
either largely reduced the volume of their business or gone
entirely out of it. After the decline commenced but one firm,
which has extensively carried it on, has been organized and
begun business. This one commenced at the old Rockweed
Factory on Atlantic Street, in 1877, giving that locality the
distinction of having the largest transactions of business on
its shores, of the kind, over a term of nearly three-quarters of
a century. This firm, known as S. Nickerson & Sons, was at
first composed of Alonzo R. and Stephen E. Nickerson, to
which another brother, Arthur E. Nickerson, was admitted in
374 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
1880. They, from the first, conducted cod and mackerel fish-
ing and dealt largely in salt, running in connection a general
store from March until December of each year. The alewife
privileges at Damariscotta Mills, Woolwich and Warren were
soon after leased and carried on during the season in connec-
tion with the rest. Their fleet has lieen made up of the follow-
ing vessels : MoUie Porter, JIagnolia, Cora Louise, James
Poole, Louis and Rosie, Dorado, General Grant, Ci/nosure,
Bertha D. JVickerson, Carleton Bell, Edith Mclntyre, Harry
A. Nicleerson, Flora L. Nickerson, Natalie B. Niclcerson,
Clyter, Robert Rhodes, Mary J. Elliott, Australia, John Nye
and Perine. The volume of business annually, for many years,
ran between $200,000 and $250,000. In January, 1903, this
firm disposed of seven-eighths interest in their business to the
Baldwin Fish Companj-, which was then organized and still
conducts the business at the McClintock stand. During the
twenty-six years they were engaged in the fisheries not a
vessel was lost and but one man while prosecuting the busi-
ness ; the first four vessels above-named were lost, with casu-
alties, during winter coasting.
James C. Poole, who had l)een engaged at sailmaking from
1869, when he moved from Bristol to Boothbay, sold that
business in 1881 and at once engaged in the cod and mackerel
fishery from his establishment on Commercial Street. He built
two vessels at a cost of $12,000 each and purchased others. In
1884 he packed 7,000 barrels of mackerel besides sending part
of his fleet to the l)anks for cod. He conducted his fishing
business after the disastrous fire of 188*3, which burned his
gtore, until 1898, when he sold his vessels.
In 1893 Mr. Poole, as chief promoter, organized the Booth-
bay Harbor Cold Storage Company for freezing and storing
food and bait fish. The building of this company was placed
on the lot where the store had been burned. It was erected
and equipped at a cost of $15,000 and has proved a profitable
investment. Mr. Poole has retained the management of this
company since its start.
The sardine business in Maine commenced in 1880 at East-
port and with varying success has been carried on at different
points along the Maine coast since. The towns principally
THK FISHERIES. 375
engaged in this industry are Eastport, Lubec, Cutler, Machias-
port, Pembroke, Jonesport, Brooklin and Boothbay Harbor.
It commenced in 1895 in the latter town, Luther Maddocks,
together with F. C. Littlefield & Co., beginning at the factory
of that firm, while C. E. Capen, of Eastport, built a factory
on the Campbell lot known as the Boothbay Canning Company.
At the beginning the former concern put up 14,000 cases,
while the Capen factory put out from 10,000 to 15,000 cases,
per annum. The Capen companj' did business three seasons,
when their factory was burned.
In 1897 the factory of F. C. Littlefield & Co. was leased
to the L. Pickert Fish Co., who have conducted business there
since, with an annual capacity for about 25,000 cases.
In 1898 Luther Maddocks organized the Maddocks Pack-
ing Company and reopened his old factory, though in the other
one he had for the pi'evious fifteen years been engaged in can-
ning mackerel and lobsters. This factory has an annual capacity
for 40,000 to 50,000 cases and is at present in operation.
In 1898 Pal G. Pierce and Newbert Pierce built a small
factory near the store of James F. Dunton. Later this plant
became the Boothbay Packing Companj^ W. F. Bishop, super-
intendent, and has been enlarged to a capacity of about 10,000
cases annually.
In 1898 James C. and Eben A. Poole built a factory on
the wharf of the former, in the rear of the cold storage build-
ing. It has been run by them or by lessees most of the time
since. It has about a 10,000 case capacity annually.
About the same time Keene M. Barter built a small factory
with a capacity for about 5,000 cases near Mill Cove, which
has been run a part of the time.
M. J. Powers & Co. built a factory in 1900, at West Har-
bor, with a capacity of about 25,000 cases annually. It was
burned near the end of the second season.
An outgrowth of the sardine industry has been the bait
business, which commenced in 1885 and since its start has
grown rapid!}'. Capt. Moses R. Rowe was the first man to rig
a herring seine and catch herring for bait and other purposes.
In the eighties herring could be caught almost entirely around
the island of Damariscove, but since about 1895 they have
been principally obtained up the rivers and in Casco Bay.
376 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Since the difficulty in procuring bait in Nova Scotia and New-
foundland that business has settled largely here, and is becom-
ing a greater income to our people each successive year. It
has been estimated that about $100,000 is annually received
for bait and ice in this vicinity ; three ice establishments hav-
ing sprung up meantime, so that Boothbay Harbor offers the
most complete facilities for this purpose of any place on the
coast. Its perfect harborage, opportunity for the purchase of
other vessel supplies, the chance to take ice in connection with
bait supply, and the ability to obtain the latter any day in the
year, either from the traps or cold storage, affords all the
facilities required.
The extent of the lobster industry about our waters in
recent years has been of much importance. Man 3^ have dropped
all other branches of fishing and devoted themselves entirely
to this one. The increasing demand, however, has produced a
consequent falling off in supply and an enhancement in price.
Since the tide of summer travel has set in so strongly to the
Maine coast a great consumption of this desirable crustacean
at that season has followed ; in fact, the lobster has been one
of the drawing cards. Then, again, live shipments to hotels
and restaurants tlu-oughout the country, in all our leading
cities, has been carried on to a large extent for several years.
Two concerns in our o%vn locality, Fred B. Higgins, Boothbay
Harbor, and Austin P. Greenleaf, Southport, have been
engaged extensively in live shipping.
When such conditions exist in relation to any commodity,
if a manufactured one, the capacity is increased ; if a natural
one, men of scientific attainments set themselves at work to
discover some artificial method to assist Nature. It was so in
this case. Successful experimentation was followed by the
United States Government building hatcheries at Wood's Hole,
Mass., and Wickford, R. I. These were no sooner found to be
practical, as had been anticipated, than United States Commis-
sioner Bowers, ably assisted by our own citizen, Hon. Alonzo
R. Nickerson, who was the Maine Commissioner of Sea and
Shore Fisheries, and Hon. Charles E. Littlefield, member of
Congress from Maine, set about to obtain a hatcherj'^ for Maine.
By their united efforts an appropriation was secured in 1902
and an additional one the next year. The entire coast line of
Luther Haddocks.
THE FISHERIES. 377
Maine was examined and tested by experts for the location of
the hatchery and Boothbay Harbor decided upon for several
reasons, the most prominent being the accessibility and excel-
lence of the harbor and the purity and clearness of its waters.
Land was secured on McKown's Point at its northeastern
extremity and work commenced in 1903. The contract for
building the main hatchery was awarded to Charles E. Caiiisle,
Boothbay Harbor, while the pumping station and auxiliar}-
buildings were erected under the supervision of Government
officials. • The work was completed in 1904 and placed under
the supervision of Capt. Everett E. Hahu. Cod as well as
lobsters are hatched here. At the close of the season for 1905,
which period since getting the plant under way represents but
preliminary work, nearly 150,000,000 eggs have been obtained
from seed lobsters and ninety-three per cent, of them have
been hatched ; while about 80,000,000 cod eggs have been
obtained, of which seventy per cent, were hatched. During
the season for hatching employment is given to about twenty
men. The steam yacht Carita has been chartered by the
Government to run in connection with the hatchery in obtain-
ing eggs and distributing fry at suitable places along shore.
While omissions maj^ occur it has been the author's desire
to present as fully as possible, within a limited space, the stor^-
of the Boothbay fisheries. To that end those who are now
most active in the various branches of that business and have
the largest present interests, as well as the old men, who, in
some instances, were on the stage of action more than fifty
years ago, have all been interviewed and the substance of what
has been obtained from them incorporated in these pages. It
may be safely stated that of the varied interests upon which
the people of this locality have depended, since 1819, that of
the fisheries, taken as a whole, has been far the most important.
It has been a hazardous business as affecting both life and
property. From the foregoing the reader may be able to form
some conclusion as to its financial ups and downs. In the fol-
lowing chapter is presented, in an abridged form, only a part
of the disasters that have occurred in our history. Many have
failed to come to the notice of the author, but enough appears
to illustrate the dangers of the deep and to indicate the many
broken homes consequent upon a seagoing life.
25
CHAPTER XXII.
Casualties.
1624. The earliest loss of life by accident or disaster in
this locality, of which record is found, was the wreck of a fish-
ing vessel from Plymouth Colony at Damariscove. The cap-
tain and one man were lost ; the vessel was raised by the use
of casks, floated and repaired.
1739. The tirst murder in town (except such as may have
occurred by Indians) was that of the killing of David Bryant
by Edmond Brown in August. They were both settlers under
Dunbar. Brown married Bryant's daughter. Bryant took up
the land on the easterly slope of Pisgah, erecting his house
about halfway from the top to the outlet of Echo Lake, north
of the present road, nearly opposite to the house of Merritt
Grover. Brown took up and built upon the land just east of
the outlet and the old road leading toward the Leishman place.
He kept the place as an inn. Being a blacksmith by trade he
exchanged places with Bryant and after exchanging built a
shop near his house. It is evident that liquor was kept at the
inn and the supply was obtained from Pemaquid. Together
they went there the daj' before the tragedy and brought home
a quantity. The day of the murder Brown went down to
Bryant's to get a iirebrand to start a fire in his forge. As the
story has come down, they were both under the influence of
liquor and a quarrel commenced over some real or fancied
grievance of one or the other in relation to the exchange of
property then recently made. Brown struck Bryant with an
ax, splitting his head open. The murder occurred in the main
room of the house. Bryant was buried on what became the
Allen Lewis place, near the Albion Foster house. Brown
made no attempt to escape. The ofiicers to the westward were
sent for and while he, at his home, awaited their coming he
sent for John Beath, John McFarland and others of his neigh-
bors to come and see him. When all were aiTived he gave
them in trust a part of his real estate to be held for the use of
the "first settled minister." It was so held and, by depositions
recorded in the Lincoln County Registry, founded the title to
the land where the first parsonage was built for JNIr. Murray.
John Beath's deposition tells us that Brown never returned
but died in "gaol." It is thought he left a wife and children
in Townsend.
I
CASUALTIES. 379
1764. Kobert, Jr., and James Montgomery, sons of Rob-
ert and Sarah Montgomery, lost at sea during the year. They
left wives, but it is thought no children ; their estates were
probated in September.
1777. Samuel, son of Robert and Martha Wylie, lost
April 2, from the armed brig Tyranniside, homeward bound
from the West Indies.
1784. Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel and Sarah Adams,
drowned in Adams Pond, aged 17.
1789. Andrew, son of Samuel and Sarah Adams, lost at
sea, aged 22.
1798. Capt. William Reed, drowned in early part of year
by capsizing of his boat just off McKown's Point, aged 48.
1801. William, son of Samuel and Sarah Adams, lost at
sea, aged 32.
1804. February 11, Jotham, son of John Grimes, drowned
near Ocean Point.
1810. June 4, Thomas, son of Adam and Martha Boyd,
lost at sea, aged 18.
1811. Samuel, son of Alexander Wylie, killed by light-
ning June 6, aged 20. — At Damariscotta, June 11, Samuel
Smith, of the United States Garrison there, and his wife, who
was Salty Adams, of Boothbay, both drowned in the river
near the village.
1812-14. Joseph Grover, killed by British ; see Chapter
XIV.— July 14, 1812, Mary, daughter of Edmund Wilson,
drowned in the harbor, aged 18 mouths.
1814. Late in January or early in February, George
Kalloch and Thomas Boyd, killed at Plattsburgh Bay, under
Commodore McDonough ; see Chapter XIV. — On August 14,
Esther, daughter of Michael Campbell, aged 13, drowned at
Damariscotta Mills.
1815. Benjamin, son of Nicholas Barter, drowned June
13, aged 16.
1816. May, John, son of Major John McKown, drowned,
aged 11.
1820. May 22, John, son of Samuel and Sarah McCobb,
lost at sea, aged 20. — August 23, Amos, son of Joseph and
Susanna Carlisle, lost at sea, aged 28.
1821. John, aged 26, and William, aged 23, sons of
Nicholas T. Knight," lost at sea. — July 7, Thomas L. Nelson,
drowned. — October 15, Samuel Loomis, drowned.
380 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1823. March 27, John Horn, drowned.
1825. February 12, Paul, son of Robert Reed, 3d, lost
at sea, aged 22.
1829. October, Jonathan Preble, aged 31, lost at sea.
1830. Alfred, son of Nicholas T. and Rachel Knight, lost
at sea, aged 30.
1831. January, David, son of Robert Wylie, 4th, lost at
sea, aged 22. — February 25, Benjamin P., son of David and
Sarah Reed, drowned, aged 17.
1833. August 12, in Bay St. Lawrence, the lishing schooner
Rising States, fitted and owned l)y Smith Brothers, West Har-
bor, was lost with all on board. They were : Patrick, son of
William McKown, aged 27, who married Elizabeth Wylie the
previous year; Jacob, son of Paul Reed, 2d, aged 11 ; Isaiah,
son of John M. Reed, aged 15 ; Joseph McCobb (perhaps the
son of James and Sarah) ; Lovcl! Hodgdon, who left a widow
and three children ; John, son of Major John McKown, aged 18.
183(). Sewall, son of Benjamin Wheeler, aged 25, lost at
sea. — Andrew, aged 25, son of Jonathan Hutchings, lost at
sea. — Jul}^ 21, William, son of Alexander Wylie, thought to
have been unmarried, aged 52, together with Joseph A., son of
Samuel and Betsey Davis, drowned near home.
1838. January 15, Warren, son of John Swett, aged 25,
together with Phincas Kimball and another by name of Cas-
well, ail residents of Boothbay, drowned at the mouth of the
Damariscotta by capsizing of the herring schooner Florida. —
July 1, John K., son of Isaac and Martha Kelley, drowned,
aged 19.
1839. Near the last of September the fishing schooner
Atlantic disappeared. At the time a severe storm passed over
Bay Chaleur, while one of moderate intensity prevailed here.
Capt. Merrill, son of John and Sarah Hodgdon, was master :
while the crow were : John, son of Nicholas T. and Sarah
Knight ; Jonathan, son of Capt. John Reed, of Indiantown ;
James, Jr., son of James Adams; Ephraim, son of William
Durant ; Harvey, son of Israel Holton ; Samuel M., son of
Joseph and Frances Thompson, and Nathan H. Nason. A
strange instance is related by Mrs. Rosanna Campbell, a daugh-
ter of William Durant, who, as a child, distinctly remembers
the incident. Breakfast was about ready at the Durant home
when their neighbor, Nicholas T. Knight, called in. Tears
were trickling down his face and he was nearlj' overcome with
emotion. His first words were: "William, we have lost our
CASUALTIES. o81
bo3's ; they went down iu last night's storm. I am sure of it.
I saw it in a dream as plain as I could have seen it in reality."
The storm here had been so slight that no one anticipated any
danger to the fleet in Chaleur. But it was generally supposed
after their disappearance that this storm, which was learned to
have been severe to the eastward, was the fatal one. Nearly
twenty years after, while John M., brother to Capt. Merrill
Hodgdon, was on a fishing trip and while at Wolf Head, one
of the North Madeleine Islands, he became acquainted with a
resident, who told him of a wreck, twenty years before, which
occun-ed thei'c. He mentioned the names of some of the crew
and Capt. John at once recognized them as his long-lost rela-
tives and friends. They had gone ashore on the suspected
night, beneath an overhanging cliff with two treacherous arms,
one on either side. One hundred feet either way would have
saved them. When this party saw the wreck, the day follow-
ing its occurrence, no vestige of the crew, except a few articles
of clothing, was to be seen, and a number of French and Indian
natives were taking out the fish still remaining in the hull of
the wreck.
1840. November 30, Charles H., aged 18, and John, aged
15, sons of Henry and Mary Gray, lost at sea. — December,
John, son of John and Susan Gove, lost at sea, aged 22. —
Thomas Williams lost at sea within the year.
1841. October 4, Joel T., son of Jeremiah, Jr., and Sarah
S. Beath, aged 30, lost at sea. His widow, Mary Sales, daugh-
ter of James Adams, afterward married Augustus Whittaker.
— October, William Preble, lost at sea. — October, Richard,
son of Samuel, Jr., and Mary Adams, lost at sea, aged 49,
leaving a widow, who was Elizabeth Grover, and nine children.
1842. April IJ), John, son of Paul and Jane McCobb,
washed overboard and drowned. — October 4, William Clark,
living north of Adams Pond, lost at sea, aged 57, leaving
widow and children. — November 8, Thomas M., son of David
and Sarah Reed, aged 19, and Reuben P., son of John and
Mary Alley, aged 13, lost at sea. — November 14, Benjamin, son
of William and Mercy Carlisle, aged 24, drowned at Maryland.
1844. July 7, Samuel Barter, 2d, lost at sea. — October,
Benjamin P., son of David and Sintha Adams, aged 21. —
December 11, Willard, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Mont-
gomerj^ lost at sea, aged 24. — December, Artemas, aged 35,
and Ichabod, aged 32, sons of John and Lydia Tibbetts.
Artemas left a widow and eight children ; two sons among the
number were lost at sea seven years later. — In that year Joseph,
382 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
son of James Campbell, aged 24, was drowned on the coast of
Sumatra, and John Q. A., son of William and Peggy Kennedy,
was drowned in the harbor, off Spruce Point.
1845. Martin V., son of David and Sarah Lewis, lost at
sea, aged 11.
1846. July 10, Elihu Bryer, Jr., drowned near the shore
at Carlisle's Point, aged 46. — November 23, Amos, son of
Henry and Miriam Reed, lost at sea, aged 22.
1848. March 31, Rufus Sargent, lost at sea, aged 12. —
July 2, John Tibbetts, Linekin, aged 73, thrown from a car-
riage on way to attend court at Wiscasset and neck broken. —
July 4, Marston, son of John and Sarah Ilodgdon, aged 22 ;
Samuel M., son of Joseph and Frances Thompson, aged 24,
and John Harrington, washed overboard by a heavy sea, from
a fishing schooner, near Cape North. — November 19, Marshall
S., son of Matthew and Sally Reed, lost off Hatteras.
1849. March 26. Capt. Abraham Mussenden, a Creole
from the West Indies, settled in Boothbcy about 1845. He was
a thrifty person and owned half of the schooner Pearl. On
Friday, March 25, he and his crew, consisting of Thomas, son
of Jonathan and Mary Hutchings ; George, aged 25, and Will-
iam F., aged 15, sons of William and Mary McCobb ; Rufus,
son of Samuel and Polly Brewer, aged 13 ; William F. Brewer,
brother to Rufus, and James Adams, a passenger, sailed to
Portland to fit for a trip to the Western Banks. Early Sat-
urday evening they started home. When off Seguin they
encountered ice cakes from the mouth of the Kennebec, driven
before a stiff northwest breeze. Some they avoided, but at
last struck one which broke in the wood ends, though at first
they were not aware of the extent of the damage. They started
the pumps and as the water was making upon them rapidly
others commenced to bail with tubs. Some wanted to beach
the schooner on Popham, which might have been done, but the
captain would not listen to the plan, as it would have been cer-
tain loss of vessel and cargo. They soon saw they must aban-
don her, however, and launched a skiff. All got into it, but
when the last one did it began to take water, so all but William
F. Brewer and Adams went back aboard the schooner. The
two had just pushed clear when the schooner went down with
all the rest. There were no rowlocks on the skiff, but Adams
cut two holes through the laps, put in a bccket and rowed to
keep head to the sea. They hoped to make Damariscove, but
were twelve miles to leeward when morning broke. The wind
blew a gale from the northwest and they were continually in
danger of filling, but before noon were picked up by schooner
CASUALTIES. 383
Metallic, Lubec for Boston, landed at the latter place and
Tuesday, following, reached home. — During the year Thomas,
son of John and Abigail Eoberts, was lost at sea.
18-i-. During the forties Nathaniel Knight, born 1808,
was drowned at Eastport ; left a family. Also Samuel, Jr., son
of Samuel and Elizabeth Giles, who settled on the Mississippi,
was lost on a West India voyage ; he also left a family.
1850. Jackson, son of Capt. John Keed, Indiantown, lost
at sea. — September 26, Edward H., son of Thomas and Emma
Pinkham, lost at sea, aged 16.
1851. For fatalities to our town that year has eclipsed all
others, and its disasters were severely felt by Gloucester and
all other towns engaged in a similar business. February 10,
James, son of Jason and Jane Fuller, lost at sea, aged 18. —
April, the fishing schooner Grampxis, owned by E. & E. Hol-
brook, lost with all on board. They were Capt. William, son
of Ezekiel Holbrook, aged 27 ; Augustus, son of James Auld,
aged 48, and his son, Elup Faxon, aged 17 ; William G., aged
22, and Ambrose C, aged 19, sons of Ansel and Mina Farn-
ham. The storm in which they were supposed to have been
lost occurred a few days after they started for the Banks. —
Also in April, and probably in the same storm, was the loss of
the Forrester, with all on board, owned by Capt. Allen Lewis.
The lost were : Parker Wylie, master, aged 31 ; Alvin Sar-
gent ; Thomas B., son of William and Catherine Farmer, aged
28 ; William F., son of John, 2d, and Eunice Lewis, aged 27 ;
James O., son of James and Abigail Linekin, aged 18 ; John
Lyon ; Daniel, aged 13, and John, aged 17, sons of Artemas
and Sarah Tibbetts. — In October, at Prince Edward's Island,
the C. G. Mattheivs with all on board, numbering thirteen, all
Boothbay residents : James, son of John Love, aged 26 ; John
EUenwood, son of John Lewis, 2d, aged 29 ; Charles A., son
of Alfred Hodgdon, aged 20 ; Marshall, son of Allen Lewis,
aged 19 ; Albion L., son of Andrew Farmer, aged 16 ; Charles
E., son of Luther Weld, aged 22; James R., son of John
Weymouth, aged 21 ; Henry, son of Arber Marson, aged 21 :
Andrew Farmer; Edward, son of Alfred Matthews, aged 21 ;
James, son of Jason Fuller, aged 18 : Charles, son of Richard
Adams, aged 26 ; Capt. Joseph P. Harris, master, aged 33.
The Matt/ieics was owned and fitted by Paul and Joseph P.
Harris. Captain Harris left a widow and three children. This
crew, for the most part, had engaged to go that year in the C.
G. Reed, but she capsized at the "rolling" when launched,
which frightened them from shipping in her and they went in
the Matthews instead. The Reed was afterward fitted and was
384 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
in the vicinity of the Maltheivs through the same great storm,
but rode it out with safety. A monument to this captain and
crew was erected, properly inscribed, in the Wylie cemetery,
by Samuel Donnell. — June 2, Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel and
Lydia Sawyer, lost at sea, aged 23. — In the summer, the
schooner Stephen C. Phillips, Freeman Orne, master, was lost
on the way home from the banks, but no loss of life. — In
October, schooner Buniham, owned by John Cameron, his son
Daniel, master, lost in Baj' Chaleur, crew saved.
1852. July 27, Stephen, son of Jeremiah and EUice
Blake, lost at sea, aged 24. — August 5, Michael C. Webber,
aged 21, lost at sea. — October, Charles Adams, lost at sea. —
November, Harry Barter, his son and William Beaton, West-
port, were capsized and drowned between Ilockomock and
Westport Upper Landing. The accident was seen by Timothy
Hodgdon, who was in the locality. He made rapidly for them
and picked up Barter and Beaton, dead, but still afloat, bent
over an oar. The body of the boy was not recovered.
1853. jMarch 7, William Lewis, lost at sea. — December
24, Robert Osborne, lost at sea from brig Eainbow. — Decem-
ber 29, Stillman B. Matthews, aged 29, and his wife, Arabella,
aged 27, drowned at Wellfleet Bar, Mass., in the great gale
that then occurred.
1854. January 12, Alexander, son of John and Nancy
Linekin, lost at sea, aged 28. — July, Daniel Rose, lost at sea,
leaving widow and two children.
1855. April 14, Stephen Webster, lost at sea, aged 48;
left widow and children. — George M., son of Joseph C. Auld,
lost at sea, aged 14.
1856. March 14, Merrill, son of Nathan and Hannah
Day, killed b}"^ accidental discharge of gun, aged 16. — Decem-
ber, Allen, aged 36, and Granville, aged 24, sons of Tyler and
Jerusha Hodgdon, lost at sea. — December, Samuel Ti))betts,
lost at sea.
1857. September 15, the schooner W. F. Tarbox, Capt.
Ebenezer Lundy, was lost in Bay St. Lawrence with all on
board. Captain Lundy was 31, left family; Paul, aged 28,
and Charles C, aged 18, sons of Franklin and Elizabeth C.
Jones, Southport ; Joseph Preble and Westman, both of
Cape Newagen. They were thought to have been run down
and sunk as there had been no storm ; vessel was owned by
Samuel Pierce.
1858. March 22, Westbrook P., son of William and Olive
Hodgdon, lost at sea, aged 21. — May 31, William H., son of
CASUALTIES. 385
Willard and Mary Holton, aged 16, drowned just off McFar-
land's Point. In company with his brother, W. R., and
Charles Emerson they were coming in with a load of mackerel
on a punt, which they had gathered at Harbor Island. It
foundered from overloading. His companions reached shore
in an exhausted condition. — October 1, James D., son of
William and Olive Hodgdon, lost at sea, aged 16.
1859. January, John Rackliff, lost at sea. — April 5, Isaac
Furbush, drowned near home. — Eobert, son of Joseph Mad-
docks, in schooner^. S. Pendleton, 120 tons, loaded with
oats, dressed hogs and geese, left Georgetown, P. E. I., for
home in November. No tidings were ever had of them after
sailing. His mate was William Brown, Southport. Crew :
Simon Bushee, Bath; Stephen Kehail, Westport ; Crossman
Timmons, Bowdoinham.
1860. During the year Benjamin, son of Waterman
McCliutock, lost in fishing schooner Foaming BiUoic, aged
21. — Franklin L., son of James and Hepsibeth Pinkham, fell
from aloft in New York Harbor and was killed, aged 20.
1861. July, David L., son of John and Adeline Wylie,
lost at sea, aged 19.
1862. February, AVilliam, son of John and Elizabeth
Weymouth, lost at sea, aged 26 ; left widow and children. —
March 7, Daniel, Jr., son of Daniel Bennett, bound from Port-
land to Havana, wrecked by a waterspout, aged 26. — August,
Charles Brown, Southport, sou of the Brown who was lost with
Robert Maddocks, drowned near Green Island by capsizing of
boat, aged 22. — December 29, William B. Tibbetts, from
wounds received at battle of Fredericksburg. — August, Albert
B., son of Samuel McClintock, was killed by the blowing up
of a gunboat in the United States Navy, aged 22.
1863. Samuel Miller Reed, lost in a bark built in Calais,
of which he was master ; was never heard from after sailing. —
Jul}' 2, George P. Foglcr, killed in battle. — July 3, James A.
Knight, aged 19, killed at Ijattle of Gettysburg. — July 4, Lieut.
Charles S. McCobb, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, aged
26. — October 17, John Hilton, died from starvation at Ander-
sonville. — November 3, Benton, son of David and Sarah Lewis,
lost at sea, aged 22. — November, Jason, son of Waterman
McClintock, aged 18, lost overboard from schooner American
Eagle, tishing for Cj'rus McKown.
1864. March 14, on Geoi-ge's, the Gloucester tishing
schooner John G. Dennis, with ten men, four of whom were
from Southport: Capt. Andrew D. Bartlett, his brother, Joel
386 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
W. Bartlett, William F. Dunton and Franklin Towlo. — May
14, Thomas Z. Tibbetts, killed at the battle of Drury'8 Bluff.—
June 6, Weld, son of Stephen Sargent, died from wounds
received in battle. — October 27, Levi Wylie, killed at battle
of Pleasant Hill, aged 21. — Robert, Jr., son of Robert Mont-
gomery, lost at sea, aged 50.
1865. January, John M. Sawyer, lost at sea; left widow
and children. — George G., son of Capt. William S. Emerson,
lost at sea, aged 20. — October, John Martin, drowned while
on a trading trip on the Kennebec. His remains were not
found until the following spring.
1867. April 29, John, son of Rufus Tibbetts, lost at sea,
aged 21. — May 20, Julius Kinchelow, a native of Virginia,
drowned with his boat's crew, engaged in the United States
Coast Survey, at Tillemook Bar, Ore. He married Nancy J.,
daughter of Benjamin Reed. His age was 36. — August 30,
Reuben P. Jones, East Boothbay, with his daughters, Laura E.,
aged 16, and Martha E., aged 14, was drowned just below the
Narrows near that village, by capsizing of a sailboat.
1868. March 6, Capt. John Wylie, killed at sea by the
falling of a mast ; left widow, son and daughter.
1869. January, Randall McLcllan, in schooner Forrest
Belle, on the Grand Banks, fishing from Gloucester with twelve
men. - It was her first voyage ; all lost. He left a widow and
children. — February 26, Hiram Marr, Southport, aged 55,
drowned by dory capsizing between Five Islands and his home.
— February 28, William Gardner, Southport, fishing from
Gloucester in schooner Sophronia. — May, the schooner jVe?/('e
Short, on a trip to the Banks, lost with all on board : Samuel,
son of James and Rachel McDougall, aged 29 ; Cyrus B. Hagan,
aged 26 ; Abiah Vanhorn, aged 30 ; his brother, Roland Van-
horn, aged 33 ; Albert and Nelson Vanhorn, brothers, and
cousins of the preceding. — July 4, Fynette, daughter of William
and Martha Greenleaf, aged 15, drowned near home. — July 5,
Fred, son of Rufus Caswell, drowned, aged 11.
1870. January 3, William J., son of John Lyon, aged 29 ;
Romanzo F., aged 26, son of Benjamin Orchard, and Jeremiah
Quimby, drowned at Small Point. Their schooner went ashoi-e
and they took to their dorj^ which capsized and they were all
found on the beach in the mo; ^ng. Capt. Moses Rowe brought
the remains of all three to ^uthbay and their funerals were
held together at the Baptist CI urch at the Ce er. — April, John
Bryer,"jr., lost at sea. — D ring the year Moses Pierce, aged
about 50, was drowned at San Francisco. — Albert S. Dyer,
CASUALTIES. 387
Southport, fell from aloft on the Constellation in the harbor of
Naples and was instantly killed.
1872. February 18, Lester, son of John M. and Caroline
Hodgdon, lost on a voyage from New York to Demerara, with
Captain Greenleaf and crew from Wiscasset. The vessel dis-
appeared during a severe storm on that date, all being lost.
He left a widow and son, Lester E. Hodgdon.
1875. July 14, Alvah L., son of George F. Hodgdon, lost
at sea, aged 17.
1878. July 25, Laura Linscott, aged IG, daughter of Mrs.
Willard H. Adims by a former marriage, and Addie, daughter
of Stephen E. Welch, aged 16, were drowned in Adams Pond.
Together with Albert Spring, Bradford and Celia Reed, all
younger than themselves, they took a float and went out to
gather pond lilies. An oar was dropped and Miss Welch
reaching for it caused the boat to take water ; suddenly leaning
to the other side it capsized. All but Miss Linscott obtained
a hold upon the boat. After being in the water about half an
hour they were rescued by George Dunton, Edward Page and
Llewell3'n Wylie, returning from their work at the Knicker-
bocker Ico AVorks. Miss Welch was taken from the water
alive but insensible and lived but a short time. Miss Linscott's
body was found in about twent}^ feet of water. The others,
though in a state of exhaustion, recovered. — August 18, Frank
Decker, Southport, was drowned near Squirrel Island by cap-
sizing his boat in a squall. — On September 27, schooner Annie
Freeman, Capt. Charles W. Reed ; Harry Apps, mate ; D. C.
Tibbetts and Frank Scott, all of Boothbay, with J. C. Ewing,
Charleston, S. C, and George N. Smith, Wiscasst, from
Baracoa to Charleston with fruit, and were never heard from
after sailing. — December 21, the St. John schooner Charlie
Bell, Capt. William Kuox, New York to St. John, went ashore
on Thunibcap Ledge. Capt. Knox, David Knox, mate, James
Whitten and another sailor were drowned. Charles Kimball
was washed ashore and sustained himself until the next after-
noon, when he was rescured by Capt. Harvey Oliver.
1879. February 1, while returning from their lobster traps
near Fisherman's Island, Isaac T. Sargent and Albert Murray
were capsized by a squall. Sa/ .'ent was drowned, aged 31 ;
he left three children. Murray 1 -is picked up in an exhausted
condition. — April, Frank, son-., ' William and Nancy Giles,
lost at Wood's Ho;' ■, Mass., fron),; schooner Lawrence Haynes.
— June, Arthur, son of Jeremian^.nd Ellice Blake, lost at sea,
aged 55. — August 15, Hattie, w, -e of Nathaniel Westman,
rfOO UrSTOKY OF BOOTHBAY.
with her brother-in-law, AVilliam Field, and hiri daughter Ilat-
tie, drowned above the upper gate on the way to Bath in their
boat. They were caught between the wake of two steamers
which met at the place. — October, Edward Malony was killed
by a piece of rigging falling on him from a stranded vessel. —
December, Capt. John Loring, master of schooner RJioda B.
Taylor, died at Pensacola from exposure on the wreck of his
vessel.
1880. January 15, Eljen Bennett was drowned and his
body washed ashore on Linekin Neck. He had started a few
hours before to go to Bristol in a dory. — March 28, Stanford
J., son of Eobert and Mary Montgomery, lost at sea, aged
27. — August 11, Eunice L., daughter of Morrill and Martha
Mclntire, drowned near Sawyer's Island, aged 8. — August 14,
William Lawton, with his two sons and one other man, was
run down just off White Islands by the Rockland schooner, D.
H. Int/raha/n, and all drowned. They were residents of Bris-
tol, but fishing in the chartered schooner Treaty, owned at
East Boothbay. — October 1(3, Benaiah P. Dolloff was injured
by being thrown from a wagon. The accident occurred by
jumping into the rear end of a wagon, the horse having started,
and the seat not being fastened he fell backward, producing a
paralysis by the fall, from the effects of which he died Decem-
ber 28. He was 38 years of age and left a widow, two sons
and one daughter.
1882. January, at Boston, a son of William P. McCobb
was killed on an elevator ; interment at Boothbay. — February
21, Benjamin Cunningham, washed overboard from schooner
H. S. limit, Carthegena to New York. — Capt. Sanford Green-
leaf, son of John and Loama, residing at Cape Elizabeth after
1876, drowned on Jeffries, while away from his schooner,
Maggie Willard, setting trawls, aged 39. — March 18, Martin
Stover was killed while trying to cross the elevator at the
Knickerbocker Ice AVorks. He was caught in the machinery,
dragged through a narrow opening, one of the lugs coming
across his neck, severing his head from his body ; aged 17.
1883. March 11, Capt. Llewellyn Baker, lost at sea, aged
47. He left one daughter, Annie, who married R. G. Dewolfe.
— Neal McPhea, residing on Barter's Island, killed b}'^ being
.struck with a hawser on schooner Solitaire. They were being
towed into Boston, when running upon flats it caused such a
shock to the vessel that the hawser was thrown out of place. —
November 9, Almond L., son of Charles H. and Emmeline
Lewis, mate of the schooner Annie E. Palmer, was killed at
Ward's Island, N. Y., by the explosion of the tug boat James
CASUALTIES. 389
y. Thompson. The schooner was lashed to the starboard side
of the tug when the explosion occurred.
1884. On May 24 a double drowning accident occurred in
Boothbay Harbor by capsizing a boat. Edwin G., son of
Daniel H. and Hattie B. Moody, aged 10 years, 9 months, and
Harry A., son of J. O. and Lizzie Farnham, aged 12 years, 9
months, were drowned ; Fred, son of Eliphalet Tibbetts, about
the same age, being the other occupant, was rescued. — May
30, Emery D. Winchenliaugh was Jciilcd in Portland b}^ the
falling of a derrick. He had been a merchant in Boothbay and
Master of Seaside Lodge. — December 18, George Pierce,
Southport, drowned in the cove opposite the Maddocks fish
stand. He fell overboard while mooring his vessel.
1885. January 28, Capt. John W. Lewis, lost in the
wreck of the schooner ^-lM.sV;-o/«y. — April 15, Abial, son of
Samuel and Clarissa Wylie, drowned in the dock east of Cen-
tral Wharf, Portland, aged 33 ; unmarried. — May, Melville
Reed, East Boothbay, was struck by the main boom in the
wreck of the schooner C'yws MaKoion. He was brought
ashore but died soon after. — July 27, Benjamin Odium was
drowned in Adams Pond while in swimming, aged 18 years,
10 months. — October 23, Emerson P. Tibbetts, aged 21, and
Joseph M. Tibbetts, aged 16, brothers, living at Christmas
Cove, Southport, drowned in Eastern River, Dresden. They
with another brother, Aitemas, were there with fish on a trad-
ing trip. Their boat grounded and in trying to move it they
took an anchor into a dory and rowed out into the river to
throw it, intending to draw into water that way. In throwing
it the dory was capsized. Emerson was a good swimmer, but
in trying to save Joseph, who was not, both were drowned. —
December 5, Capt. Alonzo, son of David and Sarah Lewis,
was lost at sea from the schooner Emma 8. Brtggs, on a pas-
sage from Jacksonville to New York, aged 48 years, 3 months.
He left a widow and children. They lived at Back River.
1886. Januarj' 18, Edward H., son of William and Nancy
Giles, lost at sea, aged 27. — July 12, Albert, aged 15, and
Justin, aged 11, sons of Matthews, who had died a few
years before at Boothbay Harbor, drowned at Highland Lake,
Bridgton; interment at Boothbay. — October 5, Henr3% son of
Clifford B. Lewis, drowned in Campbell's Cove, aged 9. —
Willard, son of William and Esther McKown, thrown fi'om an
express team in Boston that year and killed, aged 35.
1887. September 15, Frank, son of John Knight, drowned
in the Damariscotta River, near Pleasant Cove, aged 34.
390 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1888. May 9, Williaib Kenniston, aged 81 years, 6 months,
was murdered in his house at Boothbay Center by Llewellyn
Quimby. This was the second known homicide within the
original Boothbay limits and the only one in the memory of
persons living. The murderer was about 19 years of age. His
father, Harvey Quimb}', was born in Boothbay and bore a good
reputation, as did his father's family. Harvej^ died under sus-
picious circumstances in Swanville, passing for a suicide, but
always doubted. The mother continued living in Swanville for
a time, but finally married Nelson Harding, of Boothbay, and
sett ed here with her children. Llewellyn lived with his grand-
parents, but for larceny was sent to the State Reform School
at about 14 years of age. Having a typhoid fever in 1886,
when he was 17, he was released on probation. That fall he
came to William Kenniston's to do chores for his board. In
the spring of 1887 he was engaged for the j-ear at wages and
Mr. Kenniston purchased him an outfit of clothing in advance.
Almost immediatel}^ after obtaining the clothing he ran awa}'
in the nighttime and when next seen by any one in town it was
a year later, when brought here a prisoner for the murder of
his benefactor. It seems after running away in May, 1887, he
became, practicall}^ a tramp, spending the following winter
about the Boston wharves. Early in May, 1888, he took pas-
sage to Rockland on the steamer, beating his fare ; from there
came across to Boothbay, passing through the northern part of
the town the night of the 8th to Barter's Island. There he
took a boat and rowed to Bath. During the day he bought a
butcher's knife and a quantity of whiskey. He already had a
revolver. Late in the afternoon he returned with his boat to
where he took it and traveled across to Boothbay Center, reach-
ing there when, as he afterward confessed, but two lights were
to be seen. When these had been extinguished for the night
he left his hiding place, which had been a grape trellis in the
garden south of the house, obtained a piece of timber about
twelve feet long and raised one end of it to the sill of the low
porch window, opening into a low, unfinished chamber used to
store grain. He carried with him besides his knife and revol-
ver an iron cart pin about eighteen inches long. After gaining
the grain chamber he went about the upper rooms, leaving
charred matches in nearly every one. These chambei-s had
been occupied by F. B. Greene and wife (the latter being the
daughter of Mrs. Kenniston) all the time Quimby was at the
house in '86-87, and had been vacated by them about a month
before the murder. Fi-om there he descended to the cook
room, which adjoined the sleeping room of Mr. and Mrs. Ken-
niston. Mrs. Kenniston just then awoke and realising some
CASUALTIES. 391
one was in the next room aroused her husband. Quimby hear-
ing this burst open the sleeping room door, which was fastened
by a wooden button, and rushed to the front side of the bed,
with the location of which he was familiar, and struck Mr.
Kenniston over the head with the iron pin. The victim fell
forward to the floor. He then reached over and struck Mrs.
Kenniston a blow with the same instrument, inflicting a bad
scalp wound. He then went back to the kitchen door and
lighted a match. While burning, Mrs. Kenniston saw the fig-
ure of a man plainly, but stated he had over his face a white
cloth with holes cut out at the e.yes. The brave old man, who
evidently was only stunned by the blow he had received, came
to his feet and rushed upon his assailant, grappling him and
forcing him into the kitchen. The iron pin was found in the
bedroom, where he knocked it from Quimby's grasp. But
the butcher's knife, purchased that daj' in Bath, came next into
use. Several wounds were inflicted with this before breaking
it, which he did by wildly striking in the dark against the
cooking stove. The blade was broken within two inches of
the bolster, and with this ragged stub one more blow was made
upon the forehead. In his confession he said that up to this
point he felt himself being overpowered and, throwing away
his knife, drew his revolver and fired two shots, the second of
which he imagined struck his victim, for at that point he fell
in the floor. But the deadly knife had done its work earlier
in the struggle. A cut from that, before it was broker, from
the top of the shoulder through to the armpit, severing the
vein, caused death. The two bullets were found lodged in
the walls of the room, neither striking Mr. Kenniston, but
from loss of blood he fell just as the second was fired. Mrs.
Kenniston, from a side door, was escaping from the house just
as the two shots M'ere fired. She reached the house of Truman
E. Giles and gave the alarm. It was then 11.30 p. m. Mr.
Giles aroused the neighborhood, and several together proceed-
ing to the house found Mr. Kenniston lying dead in a pool of
blood in the kitchen where he fell. Dr. F. H. Crocker was
called to attend the injured woman, while George B. Kennis-
ton, Albert H. Kenniston, sons, and F. B. Greene, son-in-law,
living at the Harbor, were aroused at their respective houses
and were at the scene of the tragedy shortly after midnight.
There was no clue at first ; a tramp who had been in the neigh-
borhood was suspected. Quimby was not thought of until
Greene, examining the surroundings of the house with a lan-
tern, discovered the timber slanting from the porch window to
the ground. Instantly he was impressed with this, for a year
before, when he was living there, he remembered that the night
392 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Quimby ran away he had left the house from that very window
on a joist arranged in the same manner, which was placed in
its position before retiring for the night. AVith this impres-
sion he went at once into the house, where were congregated
the men of the neighborhood, and said : " Gentlemen, if Llew-
ellyn Quimby is where he could do this he is the one for us to
look for." It did not require long for the suggestion to gain
ground to that extent that everj^ one present felt that the
whereabouts of Quimby should first be settled. Teams were
started in various directions ; every vessel in the harbor was
boarded to ascertain if any had left or come on board during
the night ; the coroner at Wiscasset was sent for ; the select-
men were got together at the house and a legal reward on the
part of the town was offered ; and the entire coast line of the
town was visited as soon as day broke to ascertain if any boat
had been taken during the night. About four o'clock in the
morning it was discovered that the horse had been taken from
his stall and was missing. Nothing else save a bridle belong-
ing to the team was gone. It was evident that the murderer
had escaped on the horse, riding bareback. It was also found,
by tracking, that he had taken the road leading toward Rufus
Holton's and thence toward Damariscotta. With this knowl-
edge A. H. Kenniston and Truman E. Giles started for that
town. Reaching there they changed horses, Samuel D. Wj'uian
continuing with Mr. Kenniston. A clue was at once gained,
for about daybreak a man ridiiig a black horse, bareback, had
gone through toward Damariscotta Mills. Passing through
the latter place a few miles more were traveled when, from the
crest of a small hill they saw ahead, reined in a yard by the
roadside, a man sitting on a dark horse. Mr. Kenniston told
Wyman to drive up rapidly and check the horse quicklj' when
opposite. This was done, but when within a few rods Quimby,
recognizing them, slid from his horse and ran for the woods,
much to the amazement of the family he was talking with.
Kenniston at the same moment sprang from his wagon, in
close haul, after him. Tliey ran several rods when Kenniston
pulled a revolver from his pocket, firing as they ran. The
second shot struck Quimb^' nearly on top of the head, above
the ear, intlicting a scalp wound and dazing him so that he ran
into a wire fence a few feet further on and, stumbling, became
an eas}' prey to his pursuer. He was taken between them,
bound, the horse he had been riding in tow, back to Damaris-
cotta and thence to Boothbay. So rapid was the work of his
capture that the reward offer had but been telegraphed from
Boothbay and placed on the bulletin boards in the various cen-
ters when dispatches from Damariscotta announced the taking
William Kenniston.
1 806- 1 888.
CASUALTIES. 393
of the murderer more than twenty miles from the scene of the
tragedy. He was bound over and placed in the Wiscasset jail
to await the action of the Grand Jury the following October.
The next day at the jail he was visited by G. B. Kenniston and
F. B. Greene, to whom he made a full confession of his crime,
alleging his motive to have been robbery. At his trial he was
convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to State's
Prison for life. There he died some three years later of con-
sumption. The funeral of his victim was held at the First
Congregational Church at Boothbay Center, attended by friends
and neighbors for miles about, for no man in the town enjoyed
a wider acquaintance, or was more pleasant to meet, than
"William Kenniston. The services were conducted by Rev. L.
D. Evans, the funeral discourse appearing in full in the next
issue of the Boothhay Register, extracts from which appeared
in several other State papers. Mrs. Kenniston after the trag-
edy made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Greene, where she
died January 24, 1890. The shock she received completely
shattered her nervous system, unquestionably shortening her life.
August 11, Fred E. Upham, Dorchester, Mass., a summer
boarder at Squirrel Island, was drowned near Pumpkin Rock
by his sailboat capsizing in a squall. — September, Capt. Wood-
bury D. Lewis lost at sea. — November 19, Capt. Gardner G.
Tibbetts was drowned at Cambridge, Md., by the anchor cable
catching and carrying down the boat he was in. His body was
recovered and interment was made at Boothbay with Masonic
honors.
1889. January 21, Howard M., son of "William and Cath-
erine Alley, Southport, lost at Pensacola from schooner Geor-
gia Wither, Portland, aged 23. — January 28, Charles P., son
of Isaiah and Mary A. Reed, killed by a coasting accident,
aged 10 years, 11 months. — Capt. Freeman K., son of Free-
man and Martha F. Reed, lost off Jersey City, aged 48. He
left a family of two daughters and one son.
1890. December 24, Laura, daughter of Isaiah and Ellen
M. Dewolfe, killed instantly in the vicinity of Boston by being
thrown from a carriage, aged 25 years, 3 months.
1891. August 15, Hattie E., wife of Convers O. Hodgdon,
killed by a runaway accident, being thrown from her carriage
near the house of "Wesley Pinkham. — December 26, Quincy
A. Dunton, killed at sea, aged 52.
1893. March 17, Freeman G. Thompson, Southport,
drowned while drawing lobster traps near Isle of Springs ; left
widow and one son, Richard; aged 31. — August 26, William
Nickerson, Parker Smith, Eleazar Penney and William Friz-
26
394 HiSTOKT or boothbay.
zell, on schooner Cora Louise, owned by S. Nickerson & Sons,
loaded with iron, on passage from New York to Boston.
1895. February 8, Truman H. Odium, lost at sea, aged
31. — August 10, Frank, aged 32, and Richard, aged 27, sons
of Doctor Robinson, a cottager at Ocean Point, drowned near
Mouse Island while returning from the Harbor, by their boat
capsizing in a squall. — August 24, Edward C. Heselton,
Skowhegan, aged 29, proprietor of the Samoset House, Mouse
Island, and Edward F. Sanders, a summer boarder, aged 8,
drowned near Mouse Island by their boat capsizing in a squall.
Captain Reed, who was sailing the party, by great effort saved
Mrs. Sanders, mother of the boy, and Miss Powers, a boarder
from Skowhegan. — December 22, G. Jack, drowned.
1896. May 24, Frank, son of Albert Wheeler, killed in
Boston by falling from a team, aged 30 years, 8 months. —
September 30, William, son of Alexander Adams, drowned
near the vessel of which he was one of the crew at Newport,
R. I., aged 35. — December 6, John L., son of Frank W. and
Emma Woodward, drowned while skating on Adams Pond,
aged 12 years, 6 months.
1898. Millard F., Jr., son of Millard F. and Agnes I.
Harris, killed in the destruction of the Maine in Havana Har-
bor.— February 15, Capt. Herbert D., son of Morrill B. Lewis,
lost at sea. — November 28, George B., Jr., son of George B.
and Antoinette E. Kenniston, a student in Bowdoin College,
lost on the steamer Portland in the great gale of that date. —
Capt. Bert Dunbar, a native of Castine, who had recently set-
tled at Boothbay Harbor, also lost on steamer Portland.
1899. Richard M., son of J. Edward and Jennie Knight,
disappeared in the woods of Bemis, easterlj' from the railroad
and southerly from the lake, on a hunting trip one afternoon
in October. He entered the forest to the east of the railroad,
and a friend who accompanied him to the west of it, arranging
to meet at their hotel at the close of the day. He did not
return and no trace was ever found of him, though hundreds
of men familiar with the country joined in the search until the
snows fell later in the season. It has remained an unsolved
mystery. He was 20 years of age.
1904. May 4, Mrs. Mary E. Blatchford, burned to death
by clothing catching fire, aged 62. — July 11, Howard B., son
of George and Betsey Reed, died of injuries inflicted the pre-
ceding 4th by explosives, aged 8. — September 5, Mrs. Clem
Barter, Barter's Island, burned to death by clothing catching fire.
CHAPTER XXm.
Schools.
IT HAS been noted in our chapter on municipal affairs (see
pages 141-42) that the school system in Boothbay had its
birth in 1767. Faithful Singer was the first teacher, and
he not only "boarded 'round," as the custom was and continued
to be for many years, but he taught 'round also. The records
are not clear in the case of his immediate successors, whether
or not they also taught upon a circuit, but it is thought that
the plan was continued until 1777, when the first mention is
made of employing "school dames." In 1774 Joseph Beath
was mentioned as the only teacher in town employ, and there
can be little doubt that a single male teacher did the work in
town until the above action was taken in employing a plurality
of female teachers.
At that period the interior of Boothbay was, for the most
part, a dense forest. A straggling settlement existed in some
parts of it and roads of the most primitive nature were being
cut through from one part to another. The principal habita-
tions, however, were along the shore, on the coves and harbors,
and communication was mostly by boat. There were, at the
date of incorporation, four widely separated neighborhoods
within the town limits, which might be termed centers of pop-
ulation, and it is evident that nearly as many families were
situated in one as another of these. The scattering outskirts
of one neighborhood reached those of another, and it is likely
that some families were so isolated that it was impossible to
take advantage of any school opportunity.
The Fullerton house at the Harbor would accommodate the
children of such families as lived between Wall's Point and
Campbell's Cove. David Reed's house, though not central,
was commodious, and made the most suitable place for the
western part of the town and those living just across Townsend
Gut, on Cape Newagen Island, where most of the population
396 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
on that island was then located. Somewhere about Oven's
Mouth, in the Dover settlement, was central for the Back River
families as well as those living in North Boothbay. Pleasant
Cove was the nucleus of a settlement that extended from north
of the present Edgecomb line to where East Boothbay Village
stands. These were the four points where schools were kept
until 1794, when six districts were established (see page 150).
Illiteracy was common, in fact preponderated for many
years and shows forth plainly in the early records of the town.
Some of these records, however, were well kept. The spelling
was ordinarily correct, some attention was given to punctua-
tion, a fairly accurate use was made of capital letters, and a
remarkably uniform, almost elegant, display of penmanship
often appeared. Those town officers who had been born and
bred on Boothbay (or Townsend) soil averaged as well as those
who were bred elsewhere and came here in mature years. How
or where such men as William McCobb, Joseph Beath and a
few others obtained the degree of education that their work
evinced is not known. They may have had privileges, for a
time, to the westward and they may have pursued diligently a
course of self-instruction.
All through the early history of Boothbay, down to com-
paratively recent years, boys were sent on fishing trips to the
cod banks as regularly as men and only attended school in
winter. Interviews with old fishermen disclose the facts that
manj' of them commenced going to the banks at ages ranging
from nine to twelve years. One captain in Southport informs
the author that at twelve years he commenced to cook for a
vessel's crew on bank trips and followed it continuously for
some years. This was in 1846, and his first three years' cook-
ing was before a fireplace ; after that he had a cooking stove.
Another party told of commencing at the age of nine years to
stand, a line in each hand, and fish over the vessel's rail, day
by day, throughout a long trip. These were not rare cases.
They are samples of the child life at the period when it occurred.
Our casualty chapter is filled with losses at sea of those who
should have been schoolboys, but they were playing the parts
of men and were swept away at tender ages.
There is little to indicate that much real advancement was
SCHOOLS. 397
made in the school system for many years. The population
increased and new districts were added until there were twenty
school districts when Cape Newagen Island was incorporated
as the town of Townsend in 1842. This increase to accommo-
date numbers was all the improvement visible. Each individ-
ual school ran along in the same old channel, which might well
be called a rut. Two terms each year were taught of about
ten weeks each. The first Mondays of June and December
were the usual dates of commencing. No grade existed.
Teachers were changed in a majority of cases each term, so
that each new teacher was a stranger to the qualifications of
the pupils. Examinations and record books of I'ank were,
practically, unheard of. Having no record from their prede-
cessors to guide them, each new teacher arranged the pupils
into classes according to age and size. If a pupil became tired
he quit school, as it was not thought to be a verj' essential
thing to attend. If a male teacher was not popular, and the
aggregate muscle of the boys was deemed equal to its accom-
plishment, he was carried out and deposited in a snowdrift.
The last two or three weeks of a term almost invariably saw a
falling off in attendance.
The agency system was in vogue and nearly every school
agent had a daughter, niece, cousin, maiden aunt or particular
friend who would like a school, so the favored one was em-
ployed. If there was a shortage in attainments so that a fear
existed that the applicant might fail of certification before the
superintendent, that official was generally " seen " by the agent
and an "understanding" had. The superintendent was gener-
ally the village lawyer, doctor, minister or merchant and the
agent was likely to be a client, patient, parishioner or cus-
tomer. He did not want to offend patronage and rarely did
so, much to the disadvantage of many schools.
Teachers "boarded 'round" among the families in the dis-
trict, dividing the time equitably. Male teachers often built
the winter fires and cared for the schoolroom ; in other cases
there was a "fire list" and a "sweeping list," the large boys
composing the former and the older girls the latter. Each list
took their turns in rotation. Cedar brooms were generally
used, although birch twigs sometimes were substituted. Pre-
d90 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
tIous to about the year 1800 female wages for teaching through-
out Maine were seventy-five cents per week and male teachers
earned from ten to fifteen dollars a month. Not much advance
was made until later than 1820. The author has record of a
female teacher in Maine, as late as 1827, who taught for one
and one-half bushels of wheat weekly, which was contributed
by the neighborhood.
Previous to 1788-89 there were but few instances where
the branches taught extended farther than the three R's : read-
in', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic. Spelling constituted the only general
exception. Grammar and geography had not then been intro-
duced, and were not generally taught until some time between
1800 and 1820, when, it is found, at the latter date they were
both almost universally taught. The schoolbooks used for a
few years following the Revolutionary War were Dilworth and
Perry's Spelling Book, Perry's Dictionary and Pike's Arith-
metic. In the early years of the last century these books were
superseded by Webster's Spelling Book, Kinne and Robinson's
Arithmetic, while the reading books were the American Pre-
ceptor, American First Class Book and the Columbian Orator.
While these reading books were in use Alexander's Grammar
was more used than any other, but about 1820 Lindley Murray
with his English Reader and Grammar swept the field. Early
in the same century Jedediah Morse issued a Geography which
went into nearly universal use. This book had an appendix
with " an improved chronological table of Remarkable Events,
from the creation to the present time." It was first published
in 1784 and in 1819 reached its twentieth edition. It may be
of interest to state that geography was not made a required
study in Massachusetts until 1827. Maps were put into the
Boothbay schools in 1802 and John Leishman was employed
to frame and care for them in vacation season. I\Ir. Leish-
man brought with him from Scotland a book entitled : " The
Instructor or Young Men's Best Companion, containing Spell-
ing, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, Edinburgh, 1762."
From this book he taught his children.
The early seventies saw the first encouraging signs of real
advancement in the school system of Boothbay. Those who
have carefully followed the preceding chapters will have noted
SCHOOLS. 399
that just at that particular time the oil factories over town were
in a very prosperous condition and had for some years been
affording lucrative employment to the people already here and
attracting many new ones to locate. School accommodations
were outgrown and more room with a graded system was
demanded at the Harbor, East Boothbay and the Center.
By a union of two districts at the Harbor in 1874 a grade
was arranged and the next year the high school building on
School Street was erected. There were three rooms and the
grades were primary, intermediate and grammar. The building
was first used for the winter terms after being dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies. The Grammar School was taught by
L. F. Coburn, Brunswick, the Intermediate by Miss P. H.
Burr, Mercer, and the Primary by Miss Georgia E. Hodgdon,
Boothbay, now Mrs. W. R. Holton.
In 1875 East Boothbay formed a union of two districts and
established a grade. In 1876 the present school building was
erected and the classification there was primary and grammar.
The winter terms were the first taught in the building, M. L.
Marr, Alna, teaching the Grammar School, and Miss Hattie B.
Hodgdon, Boothbay, now Mrs. Edward P. Corey, the Pi'imary.
The graded school building at Boothbay Center was built
in 1877, the grades being grammar and primary. As in the
other cases the first schools were taught in the winter following
erection. The Grammar School was taught by Miss Annie
Adams, Boothbay, now Mrs. Woodbridge Reed, and the Pri-
mary by Miss M. Ella Baker, Boothbay, now Mrs. Charles E.
Sherman.
Up to 1880 Boothbay had furnished but few of its own
teachers. The superintendent that year drew attention to the
fact in his report that of forty-nine terms of school taught in
town that year twenty-seven had been by teachers from other
towns, and that nearly $1,500 annually was paid to outside
teachers. There were in 1880 pupils in town distributed as
follows :
District 1. Boothbay Harbor, 295
" 2. Back River, 49
3. East Boothbay, 156
" 4. Pleasant Cove, 40
400 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
District 5. Back Narrows, 51
" 6. Linekin, 80
" 7. Merged with Harbor, 1874
" 8. West Boothbaj^ known by number, 68
9. Boothbay Center, 83
" 10. North Boothbay, 9
" 11. Barter's Island, north, 61
" 12. Between Harbor and East Boothbay, 48
" 13. Barter's Island, south 106
" 15. Dover, 51
" 16. Sawyer's Island, 48
" 17. West Harbor, 35
Total number scholars in town, 1180
Total number attending school, 672
Two terms of school with an average length of ten weeks
were taught. Average wages per week in summer, $4.70;
average wages per month in winter, $36.70. Total town school
fund, 1880, $4,959.73.
The foregoing exhibit is made at the end of the last decade
before the division of Boothbay occurred.
Free high schools were commenced in Boothbay in 1875,
but the work they did, while an assistance, was far from satis-
factory. The town was large in area and each part naturally,
on the basis of taxation, desired its proportionate number of
weeks of high school. Had the money been concentrated at
one point the pupils thus favored would have largely profited
by it ; divided as it was, but slight results were shown. In
1875 but two terms were had in the year, one at East Boothbay
and the other at the Center. In 1876 four terms were taught :
at the Harbor and Sawyer's Island in the spring and at East
Boothbay and the Center in the fall. This arrangement was
carried on until 1880, when the spring term was held at the
Harbor and fall terms at East Boothbay and the Center. The
latter arrangement, so far as to the distribution of the high
school appropriation, continued while the town remained united,
but District No. 1, at the Harbor, practically turned the fall
and winter terms of the grammar grade into a district high
school, so that pupils located there were able to do most of the
SCHOOLS. 401
work in preparing for college at home. After the division of
the town the High School at the Hai-bor at once established a
school year of three terms, aggregating thirty-three weeks per
year, which has since continued, and college preparatory work
has been regularly carried on. In Boothbay the High School
fund has been expended, since division, between East Booth-
bay, the Center and Barter's Island, but, as in the case at the
Harbor a few years preceding division, the same work is car-
ried along at other seasons in the Grammar rooms.
The free text-book act took effect in 1891. The town sys-
tem, which at the first was optional, was adopted in 1890 by
Boothbay Harbor, but not by Boothbay or Southport until it
became generally compulsory, which was in 1895.
The town of Southport has labored under disadvantages in
the matter of ability to support a high-school system, largely
on account of its three principal settlements being located at
considerable distance from each other, neither being large
enough to maintain the entire support, or convenient for
attendance at the other parts. A very progressive movement
was taken, however, in 1904, as noticed in Chapter XVII, in
the erection of new buildings and making preparations to
establish a grade.
Some of Boothbay's teachers in the past may well be men-
tioned. Hon. Evans S. Pillsbury, a Bowdoin student, taught
in No. 8 in the sixties. He is now counsel for the Southern
Pacific Railroad, at San Francisco, with an annual salary of
$25,000. William G. Waitt, a prominent lawyer now in Bos-
ton, taught at Boothbay Center in 1876-77 ; he then lived in
•Gardiner. William S. Thompson, M. D., Augusta, taught at
"the Harbor at the same time, also the following year. Hon.
John F. Hill, Governor of Maine, 1901-05, taught at the
Harbor in 1878. William J. Long, the author of a series of
"Nature Books," consisting at present of eight or nine volumes,
and which have acquired a reputation throughout the country,
taught at the Harbor in 1886.
The first public graduating exercises held in either town
were in 1893, by the graduating class from the Boothbay Har-
bor High School. They were arranged by F. B. Greene, in
Ihe first year of his term as superintendent, and Edgar L.
402 HI8TOBY OF BOOTHBAT.
Simpson, then principal of the school. That j^ear the grade in
the village schools was systematically established, allotting to
each room the work for two years in schools below the High,
and in that introducing a regular college preparatory course.
The course of study was printed, framed and hung in each
room throughout the grade. Since that date (1893) public
graduations have regularly occurred and the course, from pri-
mary up, has been maintained with but few variations from
the form then established. East Boothbay and Boothbay Cen-
ter soon after the above date commenced and have maintained
public graduations. The courses of study pursued in those
schools thus far have been of the nature of higher English, col-
lege prepai'atorj' work not yet having been established. The
list of High School graduates, as far as possible to obtain, in
both towns, follow.
List of High School Graduates.
1891. — Frank Weeks Blair took the Bowdoin examination
and entered college from Boothbay Harbor.
1892. — Fred Carlisle took examinations and received
diploma at Boothbay Harbor.
1893. — Boothbay Harbor, Mary E. Carlisle, C. Dora Nick-
erson, Anna B. Kendrick, Annie Albee, George K. Blair.
1894.— Boothbay Harbor, Gertrude A. Carlisle, Edith C.
Kenniston, Grace R. McKown, Frank Wells Blair, Wendell
P. McKown.
1895. — Boothbay Harbor, Carrie Carlisle; East Boothbay,
Frank G. Linekin, George W. Linekin, Annie A. Hagan,
Mary A. Rice, Mary R. Hodgdon, Nellie F. Adams, Annie W.
Hodgdon, Emily G. McDougall, Bessie C. Seavey, Nellie K.
Murray ; Boothbay Center, Grace E. Emerson, Orissa B. Kim-
ball, Actor T. Abbott.
189G. — Boothbay Harbor, Gertrude Dodge, Mertie E. Dol-
loff, Maude Spurling, Grace Thorpe, Annie Reed, Hattie Reed,
Ethel Pinkham, Hattie Dellimere, Rose Sherman, Islay F.
McCormick, Mary S. McKown ; East Boothbay, Lottie Chap-
man, Bertha Chapman, Mary B. Hardinger, Lizzie E. Rice;
Boothbay Center, Lillian B. Emerson.
SCHOOLS. 403
1897. — Boothbay Harbor, Josie Carlisle, Ida Clisby, Ella
Farmer, Gussie Farmer, Edith Harris, Winifred Hussey, Vin-
nie Kenniston, Mabel MuUins, Cora Orne, Grace Tibbetts,
Everett Winslow ; Boothbay Center, Grace Corey, Bessie
Chamberlain, Alfred Lynch.
1898. — Boothbay Harbor, Justin Brewer, Millard Fickett,
Marcia Hodgdon, Fannie Latter, Millicent Haddocks, Ada N.
Marr, Fannie Orne, Bertha Reed ; East Boothbay, Clarence
Rice, Mamie Murray, Hattie Hodgdon, Lillian Gilbert, Bertha
Murray.
1899. — Boothbay Harbor, Donald McCormick, Mabel
Weston ; East Boothbay, George I. Hodgdon, Lawrence L.
Baker, George M. Adams, Isabel M. Seavey, Carolyn L. Mur-
ray, Gertrude E. Smithwick, Bessie E. Blake, Mahala S.
Hodgdon, Jennie M. Hagan, Laura C. Adams.
1900.— Boothbay Harbor, Stella Hodgdon, Winifred Lewis,
Maude Marson, Marion Pinkham, Florence Spofford, Roland
L. Turner; Boothbay Center, Jennie Emerson, Frank Tib-
betts, Gladys Tibbetts.
1901.— Boothbay Harbor, Waldo S. Boyd, J. Pierce
McKown, Arthur L. McCobb ; East Boothbay, Mabel E.
Reed, Florence H. Seavey.
1902. — Boothbay Harbor, Mary A. Larrabee, Ethelyn
Trask, Bessie C. Reed, Nellie W. Reed, Carlton B. Nicker-
son, Margie Turner, Ella Spofford.
1903. — Boothljay Harbor, Harold Bishop, Dora Greenlaw,
Vesta Hodgdon, Florence McCobb, Sidney Orne, Addie Poole,
Frances Spurling ; Boothbay Center, Walter O. Dunton, John
F. Corey, Effie B. Tibbetts, Emily M. Sidelinger.
1904. — Boothbay Harbor, Carl R. Holton, Louis Carlisle,
Leon Marson, Delia Dodge, Mildrith McKown, Leone Reed,
Elmira Powers, Florence Wheeler, Kate Reed ; East Boothbay,
Dorothy B. Murray, Bernice Race, Ruth Blake, Richard Mur-
ray ; Boothbay Center, Alma L. Pinkham, William H. Nelson,
Helen L. Pinkham, Joseph B. Giles, Nellie L. Giles, George
F. Boston, Millard S. Giles, Maude J. Giles.
1905. — Boothbay Harbor, Chesley W. Nelson, Carrie J.
Reed, Carrie N. Holton, A. Grace Carlisle, Clara J. Pierce ;
404 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
East Boothbay, Florence Burnham, Eliphalet Martin, Lillian
Farnham, Mattie Tibbetts, Everett Vannah ; Boothbay Center,
Beatrice A. Welsh, Thurman H. Sidelinger, Vinettie L. Side-
linger, Mary E. Orchard, James G. Sherman, Ethel L. Sher-
man, Doris E. Knight.
Sketches of College Graduates.
Arranged Chronologically.
Rev. Jonathan Adams, son of Samuel and Sarah (Reed)
Adams, born in North Boothbay, July 5, 1782 ; graduated from
Middlebury College, 1812. He married Hannah Antoinette
Clough, Westport, June, 1821. Graduating from Andover
Theological Seminary, 1815, he commenced his first pastorate
at Woolwich in 1817, where he remained until 1832. From
1832 to 1855 he was at Deer Isle ; then for three years in
Boothbay and from 1858 until his death, in 1861, at New
Sharon. He was of the Congregational faith and influential in
his denomination. His son, the Rev. Jonathan E. Adams,
though not born in town, was in the ancestral town of his
family, as pastor and visitor, well known to all and a son who
followed in his father's footsteps. He also graduated fi'om
Bowdoin, 1853 ; Bangor Theological Seminary, 1858. Took
a church for some years, but became Secretary of the Maine
Missionary Society, which position he held for many years.
For family, see Adams genealogy.
Edward Payson Weston was born at Boothbay Center,
January 19, 1819, son of Rev. Isaac and Mary Weston (see
Chapter XII) ; graduaded from Bowdoin College, 1839. He
was principal of the Maine Female College, Gorham ; editor
of the Portland Eclectic; associate editor of the Portland
Transcript; State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine,
1860-65 ; author of the " Bowdoin Poets " and several other
volumes. He established a female seminary at Highland Park,
111., where he died, in 1879.
Charles Sullh^an McCobb, born in Boothbay, February'
20, 1837, the son of Arthur and Elizabeth A. (Fisher) McCobb ;
graduated at Bowdoin College, 1860. He took a medical
course, but enlisted into the service at the breaking out of the
Rebellion. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 4,
1863, while acting as hospital steward.
John Warren Thorpe, born April 20, 1839, son of Will-
ard and Mary (Kenniston) Thorpe ; graduated from Bowdoin
College, 1861. He studied medicine and settled in practice at
Oxford, N. Y., where he is now located. He married Char-
<
SCHOOLS. 405
lotte Brown, of Oxford. They have three children, Willard
B., Charles N. and Mary Kenniston.
George Beaman Kejtniston, born at Boothbay Center,
December 17, 1836, son of William and Mary (Huff) Kennis-
ton; graduated from Bo wdoin College, 1861. He enlisted in
the Fifth Maine Regiment, May, 1861 ; mustered into service
June 24 as first lieutenant ; was taken prisoner at Bull Run^
Sunday, July 21; taken to Libby Prison and held until
November 22 ; then, in charge of Captain Wirz, who was exe-
cuted after the close of the war for his inhumanity to prison-
ers, taken to Tuscaloosa, Ala. On February 27, 1862, he was
paroled for exchange and started for Norfolk. At Weldon,
N. C, news of the battle between the Monitor and the Merri-
mac was received. The paroles were canceled and the prison-
ers returned to Salisbury, N. C, where they were detained
until August 10, when they were again paroled and on August
20 exchanged. He rejoined his regiment in September, was at
the battle of Fredericksburg, and on May 25, 1863, honorably
discharged. In 1864 he was lieutenant colonel of a District of
Columbia regiment. After this he was for two years a clerk
in the Treasury Department. Chapter XVI contains town,
legislative and customs services. He was admitted to the bar
in 1875 ; was Judge of Probate for Lincoln County, 1892 to
1900 ; has always acted with the Republican party and has been
an active member of the Congregational society. His principal
business for several years has been in handling real estate.
For family, see Kenniston genealogy.
John Edgar Holton, born at Boothbay Center, May 8,
1855, the son of John and Mary (Foy) Holton; graduated
from Bates College, 1881. He was principal of the normal
department in Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, 1891 to 1894 ;
taught Latin and German at Burton Seminary, Vt., and in
Essex, Mass. ; was principal for a time of the High School at
Eastport. He was a natural linguist. Aside from his favorite
languages, which he taught, he had an excellent knowledge of
Swedish, Spanish, Italian and Welsh. Never enjoying good
health, his work overcame him while yet in early life and he
died June 6, 1896.
Emerson Rice, born in Bath, December 3, 1862, the son
of Dr. Otis P. and Sarah A. (Emerson) Rice ; graduated from
Dartmouth College, 1887, with degree of A. B. ; in 1892 A. M.
was conferred. He married Mabel, daughter of George B. and
Antoinette E. (Adams) Kenniston, December 25, 1889. They
have one son, Roger Courtland, born January 22, 1891. From
1887 to the present Mr. Rice has been instructor in science in
406 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
the High School, Hyde Park, Mass. He was president of the
Boothbay Society in Massachusetts in 1903 and 1904. In his
labors among the Massachusetts Archives, while assisting in
the preparation of the Emerson genealogy, he obtained many
references to Boothbay's early history, which were magnani-
mously furnished the author of this volume at its inception.
With his family he regularly spends each vacation season at
the Emerson homestead.
William Beaman Kenniston, born in Boothbay, Novem-
ber 20, 1870, son of George Beaman and Antoinette E. (Adams)
Kenniston. He prepared for college at the Phillips Exeter
Academy ; gi'aduated from Bowdoin College, with A. B., 1892 ;
from Bowdoin Medical School, with M. D., 1895. He served
as house doctor at the Maine General Hospital, 1895-96 ; set-
tled in the practice of medicine in Yarmouth in 1897, where he
remained until 1901. He then took a post graduate course at
Harvard and later that year located in Exeter, N. H., where he
is now engaged in the practice of medicine. He married Inez
M., daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah L. Whitcomb, Yar-
mouth, April 2, 1902. They have one daughter. Faith Eliza-
beth, born July 5, 1905.
Clarence Egbert Hodgdon, son of Gilman P. and Caro-
line M. (Spinney) Hodgdon, born March 18, 1868, at Booth-
bay Center; graduated from Amherst College, 1893. After
graduation he engaged in teaching at Black Hall, Conn., for
four years ; Brookline, Mass., one VQav ; pi'incipal of the Gard-
ner, Mass., High School for three years and of Spencer, Mass.,
High School for two j'ears. He then engaged with the Amer-
ican Real Estate Companj', New York, selling their gold bonds,
which he is at present doing. He married Cynthia Dora,
daughter of Capt. Stephen E. and Imogene (Smalle}') Nicker-
son^ August 17, 1898.
Frank Weeks Blair, son of Capt. Benjamin F. and Mary
L. (Dickinson) Blair, born at Boothbay Harbor, February 13,
1874 ; fitted in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated
from Bowdoin College, 1895, with degree of A. B. ; from
Bowdoin Medical School, M. D., 1899. He was principal of
Blue Hill Academy in 1895-96 ; of the Boothbay Harbor High
School in 1897. He commenced the practice of his profession
in Farmington, N. H., in 1900. In June, 1905, he was mar-
ried to Mary Eveleth Weeks, of Bath. After a lirief illness he
died November 19, 1905. Doctor Blair had at the time of his
death reached a large and lucrative practice and was fast rising
in his profession. Interment at Bath.
George K. Blair, son of Capt. Benjamin F. and Mary
SCHOOLS. 407
L. (Dickinson) Blair, born at Boothbay Harbor, April 20,
1875 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School ;
took a special course at Bowdoin College in 1895-96 ; gradu-
ated from Bowdoin Medical School in 1900, with degree of
M. D. ; was house doctor in Salem, Mass., Hospital, 1900-01 ;
commenced practice of medicine in Salem, Mass., 1901, where
he is now located.
Wendell Phillips McKown, son of Flarence M. and
Sarah F. (Kimball) McKown, born May 4, 1877, on Barter's
Island ; fitted in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated
from Bowdoin College, 1898, winning the Smyth mathematical
prize in 1896 ; from Harvard Law School, 1903 ; was princi-
pal of the Boothbay Harbor High School, 1899-1900; was
engaged with Anderson & Anderson, attorneys, 35 Wall Street,
New York, from July, 1903, to May, 1905, when he opened
an oflSce for himself in that city at 43 Cedar Street. He mar-
ried Alice, daughter of George B. and Antoinette E. (Adams)
Kenniston, April 5, 1904. They have one daughter, Mabel
Kenniston, born May 12, 1905.
John Arthur Maddocks, son of Sewall T. and Nettie E.
(Blake) Maddocks, born October 7, 1877. He fitted for col-
lege at Dean Academy and graduated from Tufts College in
1898 ; became cashier of the First National Bank, Boothbay
Harbor, at its organization, November, 1900, which position
he retains. He married Edith Chase, daughter of Albert H.
and Ida A. (Chase) Kenniston, February 24, 1904. They
have one daughter, Dolores.
KoYDEN Maddocks, son of Joseph and Emma (French)
Maddocks, born at Boothbay Harbor, August 20, 1878. He
nearly completed his fitting course in the Boothbay Harbor
High School when his father's family moved to Carrollton, Ky.,
1894. The next year he entered the State College at Lexing-
ton, where he graduated in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor
of Civil Engineering. He soon after engaged with the Lack-
awanna Coal Company, and was holding a position with them
when stricken down, July 27, 1904, at Boulder, Colo. Inter-
ment was in the Wylie Cemetery, Boothbay. In his death a
useful and particularly promising life was cut short.
Percy Clieford Giles, son of Byron and Clara (Adams)
Giles, born June 21, 1875 ; fitted in the Boothbay schools and
at Lincoln Academy ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1900.
He was principal of the Denmark High School in 1901, when,
in July of that year, he was appointed Government teacher in
the Philippine Islands and postmaster at Piat during 1901-02.
Returning on a leave of absence to the United States, he mar-
408 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
ried Ruby Louise Metcalf, of Damariscotta, June 30, 1903.
"With his bride he at once returned to his work at the Philip-
pines, and was then stationed at Ilagan, Luzon. In 1904 he
took charge of the Provincial Normal School, 370 pupils,
Tuguegarav. On May 22, 1904, a son, Cedric Byron, was
born at Bagino, Benquit Province.
IsLAY Francis McCormick, son of Rev. Donald and Jane
(Green) McCormick, born December 21, 1879, at Castleford,
Yorkshire, England. He came to Boothbay Harbor with his
father's family in 1895 ; completed his preparatory course in
the Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated A. B. from
Bowdoin, 1900 ; A. B., Harvard, 1902, where he did one year's
work in mathematics. He was principal of the Boothbay Har-
bor High School, 1900-01 ; assistant at Bridgton Academy,
1902-03 ; principal Bridgton Academj^ 1903-05 ; took charge
of the mathematical department in the Roxbury (Mass.) Latin
School, 1905.
Benjamin Edward Kelley, son of John Edward and Cor-
delia (McDougall) Kelley, born at North Boothbay, June 20,
1879 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay schools and Lincoln
Academy; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1902. He was
sub-master of the Brunswick School, Greenwich, Conn., fol-
lowing graduation, in addition to which he reported for the
Greenwich Graphic. At commencement, 1905, he became
principal of the Boothbay Center High School.
Donald Edward McCormick, sou of Rev. Donald and
Jane (Green) McCormick, born December 28, 1882, at Castle-
ford, Yorkshire, England : came with his father's family to
Boothbay Harbor in 1895 : fitted for college in the Boothbay
Harbor High School ; graduated from Bowdoin College, A. B.,
1903. He was sub-master of the Warren ( Mass. ) High School,
1903-04 ; became head of the mathematical department of the
Framingham (Mass.) High School, 1904, where he is now
engaged.
John Pierce McKown, son of Alvah C. and Olevia
McKown, born December 10, 1883, at Boothbay Harbor ; fitted
for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School : graduated
from the New York College of Pharmacy, branch of Columbia
College, with degree of Ph. G., 1903 : in the employ of Clar-
ence O. Bigelow, wholesale manufacturing chemist. New York
City.
Waldo Samuel Boyd, son of Samuel and Joanna (Phil-
brick) Boyd, born at Boothbay Harbor, March fi, 1882 ; fitted
for college in Boothbay Harbor High School ; graduated from
Freeman Grover.
1807-1897.
SCHOOLS. 409
New York College of Phai-macy, with degree of Ph. G., 1903 ;
in employ of H. H. Hay & Co., wholesale druggists, Portland.
Harrt Hodgdon Holton, son of Willard Russell and
Georgia E. (Hodgdon) Holton, born at Boothbay Harbor, June
9, 1881; fitted for college in Boothbay Harbor High School;
gi'aduated from the New York College of Pharmacy, 1904
took post graduate work of one year in chemistry, with
of Ph. D. ; in the employ of Clarence O. Bigelow,
manufacturing chemist. New York City.
Roland Lee Turner, son of Capt. William A. and Susie
H. (Marks) Turner, born in Orland ; came to West Boothbay
Harbor, 1895 ; fitted in Boothbay Harbor High School ; grad-
uated from the University of Maine, 1904, with degree of C. E.
He is now engaged as civil engineer for the American Bridge
Company, East Berlin, Conn.
Stephen Hodgdon Pinkham, son of Fernando and Jose-
phine (Decker) Pinkham, born on Barter's Island, August 1,
1878 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay schools and Lincoln
Academy ; graduated at Bowdoin College, A. B., 1905 : in the
employ of the Western Electric Company, New York City.
Frank Day, son of Warren P. and Clara J. (Decker) Day,
born Julj^ 17, 1876, on Barter's Island; fitted for college in
the Boothbay schools and Lincoln Academy ; graduated at Bow-
doin College, A. B., 1905. He is now a teacher in Connecticut.
Arthur Lewis McCobb, son of Willard H. and Bertha
(Miller) McCobb, born at Boothlmy Harbor, September 23,
1883 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School ;
graduated from Bowdoin College, A. B., 1905 ; now teaching
in Elizabeth, N. J.
Students now in College Courses.
Carlton Bell Nickerson, son of Capt. Stephen E. and
Imogene (Snialley) Nickerson, born in Boothbay Harbor, Jan-
uary 15, 1885 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High
School ; now in Clark College, Worcester, Mass., class of 1906.
Sidney Baxter Orne, son of Zina and Lizzie (Thompson)
Orne, born in Southport, March 24, 1886 ; now in University
of Maine, class of 1907, specializing in marine engineering.
Percy Glenham Bishop, son of Willard F. Bishop, born
in Eastport, residence in Boothbay Harbor ; fitted for college
in the Boothbay Harbor High School and Coburn Classical
Institute; entered Bowdoin College, 1905, special course.
Chesley Wilbur Nelson, son of Clark L. and Laura B.
(Grover) Nelson, born in Southport, December 1, 1885 ; fitted
27
410 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
for college in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; now in Bates ,
College, class of 1909.
Arthur Lewis Pinkham, son of Capt. Benjamin E. and
Abbie (Lewis) Pinkham, born in Boothbay Harbor ; fitted in
part in the Boothbay Harbor High School ; now in Bates Col-
lege, class of 1908.
Carl Russell Holton, son of Willard Russell and Geor-
gia E. (Hodgdon) Holton, born at Boothbay Harbor, Septem-
ber 12, 1884 ; fitted for college in the Boothbay Harbor High
School ; now in the Rhode Island State College of Agriculture
and Mechanics' Arts, class of 1909. The redrafting of the
maps in this volume, of date 1857, is work of his execution.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Summer Resorts and Carrting Companies.
BEFORE wealth and fashion had made pleasure resorts of
the favored places along the coast of Maine they were
to some extent looked upon and visited as health resorts.
In the report of the State geologist, Doctor Jackson, 1837, he
says, speaking of Boothbay : "This place is one of the most
frequented harbors on the eastern coast of the State, and is a
favorite resort for invalids during the summer season, on
account of the purity of the air and the facilities for bathing
in clear sea- water." John Hay ward, of Boston, published a
gazetteer of New England in 1839. In his mention of our
locality he says: "Boothbay is a fine watering place, and
many visit it, in summer months, for health or pleasure. Here
may be found all the enjoyments of sea air and bathing, fishing
and fowling, ocean and island scenery, for which Nahant, in
Massachusetts Bay, is justly celebrated."
This was nearly three-quarters of a century ago. Summer
vacations had not become a part of the system or plan of con-
ducting affairs. Separate establishments, supported as summer
homes, were almost unknown. The country was in its infancy,
in a comparatively crude and undeveloped condition. With
development have come great fortunes, and moderate ones as
well, and a convenience of transportation from one part of the
country to another, and with it all an alluring influence to shift
the scenes at different seasons, with a consequent opportunity
to use and expend a part of the income. An annual outing
combines health and pleasure and is in fashion— a combination
that can hardly fail to make it permanent.
The great resorts of the country came along in the train of
development and wealth. Wealth depended upon development,
and that only set in, in real earnest, in the United States, at
412 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
the close of the Civil War. About 1870 there was a marked
movement along the coast of Maine in the matter of establish-
ing summer homes. That movement has progressed without
let or hindrance to the present day, now more than a third of
a century. All that started, however, have not succeeded.
Some have gone down a sore disappointment to their founders ;
others have succeeded beyond expectation. But the aggregate
growth of the Maine resorts has been a monumental success,
and never was the perspective brighter than no^^^
Prior to about 1870 such as came among our people were
those who came on so economical a plan that it afforded slight
patronage. They either boarded in private families or camped
on the shores, and any expenditures made by them were so
small as not to be noticeable in the business affairs of the
community. With this in general I will proceed to mention
the start, growth and accomplishments of each separate resort
in our locality ; for here, unlike most other places of a similar
nature, the entire ^region abounds in summer colonies.
Squirrel Island. — The earliest owner from whom a trace
of succession to the present can be made was Samuel Ball. He
had two sons, Levi and Thomas, and a daughter who married
Amos Gray. Ball's children were marrying in town as early
as 1788, therefore it is probable that he settled on the island
at about the close of the Revolution, though he may have done
so earlier. He let his son-in-law, Amos Gray, have it, and
Gray exchanged it with William Greenleaf, in 1825, for a farm
in Starks. Squire Greenleaf died in 1868, and early in 1870
his heirs sold the island to Hon. J. B. Ham, Lewiston, for
$2,200, the purchaser acting for a proposed association. An
act of incorporation was approved February 3d, and in June the
organization was completed and the following officers elected :
President, J. B. Ham ; Treasurer, Nelson Dingley, Jr. ; Direct-
ors, J. B. Ham, O. B. Cheney, M. V. B. Chase, G. S. Preble,
W. H. Stevens, H. B. Furbush. Fourteen cottages were built
the first year ; the next saw a new landing, sidewalks, bowling
alley and other small improvements. The chapel was added in
1881 and the Squirrel Island House in 1882. The summer
post office and reading room dates from 1877. Hotel Eastern,
with a capacity for 200 guests, was built in 1894-95, and
SUMMER RESORTS. 413
opened the latter year, June 20th, by Keyes H. Richards,
proprietor. He had been proprietor of the old Chase House,
which was burned in 1893. The name of Hotel Eastern was
changed to Squirrel Inn at the close of the season of 1895.
Mr. Richards is still proprietor and the house has had crowded
seasons ever since its erection.
A summer sheet, called the Squid, was established and ran
seven or eight weeks each season from some time in the early
seventies until about 1888, when it was changed to the Squirrel
Island Buoy. The former was conducted by the late Parke
G. Dingley, the latter usually by Bowdoin College students as
lessees of the old plant. It was discontinued about 1900, since
which time a special effort has been made by the Boothhay
Register to chronicle the Squirrel news. A casino was built
in 1890. In 1904 a new library was opened, which was the
gift of A. H. Davenport, who has been president of the asso-
ciation for several years and a leading real estate owner there.
"Water from the Boothbay Harbor plant was conducted across
by laying a submarine pipe from the end of Spruce Point and
a sewer system partially constructed in 1904. A telegraph,
by submarine cable, has existed several years. The island sur-
veys 131 acres. From the first a liberal policy has been pur-
sued toward the island by the town of Southport, of which it
is a part. Carefully drawn articles of association and wise
administration of the affairs of the colony have kept out all
objectionable features. Since 1903 they have received extra
powers through a special charter granted them by the Legisla-
ture. The first store on Squirrel was kept by a man named
Ring. He was followed by one named Barker, afterward
becoming the firm of Barker, Ham & Mitchell. Then fol-
lowed Charles E. Kendrick, the present proprietor of the
Bootlibay Register, who was succeeded by Keyes H. Richards,
who still conducts it.
At present Squirrel Island possesses a hotel, chapel, casino,
post and telegraph offices, library, store. Spa, water and sewer
systems. There are 115 cottages, and among these are many
modern and expensive structures, much in contrast with the
humble beginnings in the seventies. A census in the season
of 1905 showed the visitors upon the island to number 910
414 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
persons, representing 114 cities and towns, twenty-two States
and four foreign countries.
Mouse Island. — As early an owner as can be found for
this island, and probably the first person to build and live upon
it, was John Andrews, Jr. After selling his property at the
head of the Harbor he built upon Mouse Island, which evidently
had belonged to the estate of his father. This may go back to
1794, when John Andrews, Sr., first came from Ipswich to
Boothbay. The house was built in 1858 and lived in until
1864, when Andrews sold to Alexander Johnson, Wiscasset.
Johnson built the stone house in 1870 and about three years
later sold the property to John and Charles Cameron, of South-
port. They, in 1875, sold to a company of twelve persons
from Skowhegan. The next year a move toward corporate
organization, with the building of an extensive summer hotel a
part of the program, was made, but never fully carried out.
The Samoset House was built in 1877 and since that date has
annually been opened in summer, under several lessees. The
leading parties in interest have been L. L. Mori'ison, E. W.
Haines, S. J. Walton and George X. Page, all of Skowhegan.
It is still owned by an association.
Capital Island. — Robert Eeed, who lived at Pig Cove and
was a son of Col. Andrew, of Boothbaj^ settled at that point
about 1785. It was then and iov many years after called Pig
Cove Island. Eeed sold the island to Moses Riggs, of George-
town, and he, in 1844, to Freeman Grover, who that year set-
tled at Pig Cove. Grover sold to Charles A. White, Gardiner,
who acted for a company which was organized in 1878 and
built the Capital Island House, or by some termed the Sidney
House, for John Sidney was first proprietor. The early story
of our summer business can hardly be written and leave John
Sidney out. He was born at Kalma, Sweden, but came to
America with his parents at the age of twelve. They soon
died and at thirteen he was left an orphan. He chose the sea
and sailed in nearly every quarter of the globe, under nearly
every flag. He was shipwrecked several times, passed through
scores of adventures of which any one told at length would
make an interesting story, fought through the Civil War with
more than one full share of hardships and then engaged in sein-
SUJniER RESORTS. 415
ing. This brought him into our locality, and upon the pur-
chase of Squirrel Island he took up his abode there as keeper.
He was termed the third king of Squirrel — Samoset being first,
King William (Squire Greenleaf), second, and Sidney became
KJng John. In this position he remained until the house was
built at Capital, when he went there to complete his career.
He had seen and experienced that side of life by which all law
was turned to license. A newspaper article upon him once
said that he " had all the charms of the wild Indian and all the
vices of tame civilization." He was generous and kind, but
what he wanted he took if within reach. He was, in fact, a
whole-souled, kind-hearted old sinner and will long be remem-
bered. Capital has about thirty cottages owned by individuals,
other pi-operty being still in association ownership.
SouTHPORT. — The advantages of mainland and island are
afforded this town since the bridge was built. Beautiful spots,
where Nature has been lavish in her attractions, abound about
its shores, and summer homes are springing up at all points.
Crossing from Boothbay Harbor one of the first places in view
is that of Mrs. Ehoda Thompson. It is the old homestead,
remodeled and fitted as a summer hotel, with a capacity for
about forty guests. A little farther westward, at the junction
of the roads, is Cove Cottage, Capt. Alphonzo Dyer, proprie-
tor, with a capacity of from forty to fifty guests. It was first
opened in 1889. Its patrons are mostly from New York and
New Jersey. In 1897 M. H. & H. L. Thompson built the
Lawnmere. It was erected for the purpose and is located so
as to command a view of Samoset Eiver and the entire travel
between Bath and Boothbay. It is a well-finished structure
inside and out. Its capacity is for about sixty guests, with
extensive additions already arranged to be added for 1906.
Where " Skipper " John Pierce conducted a thrifty bank
cod establishment, enlarged and increased by his sons-in-law,
Thomas and Nahum Marr, from whom the harbor at West
Southport took its name, J. Dana Paj'son now runs the Cozy
Harbor House. It is the old home of Thomas Marr, remod-
eled with additions. Its capacity is for forty to fifty guests.
Three miles more to the southward and the Newagen House,
Courtland Wilson, proprietor, is reached. It is the old Wilson
416 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
home, with all former semblance gone. The house was first
built by Ebenezer Preble in 1816. On the grounds of this
place is the renowned "Chaple's Chair," a description of which
has found its way into print by nearly every space writer and
searcher after the curious who has visited Cape Newagen.
This house has dining capacity for fifty persons, with rooming
for thirty- five.
The largest and one of the oldest summer establishments on
the island is that of Abial Gray, a little more than a mile north
of Cape Newagen, situated on Boothbay Harbor, nearly oppo-
site Squirrel. It has no name, it is simply " Gray's " — that
said and it is known. The capacity is about seventy-five.
Northerly from this establishment is that of Charles S. Gray.
It is known as the Point of View House, and accommodates
about twenty-five guests. It was opened in 1895. On high
land overlooking Capital Island Cove is Bay View House,
Daniel B. Strout, proprietor. This house was opened to the
public in 1876, since which time it has been rebuilt with addi-
tions. It accommodates about forty guests. Besides the
houses mentioned are several others which are able to accom-
modate fifteen to twenty guests each season. A hall was built
a few years ago on the shore at the end of the bi-idge, and in
summer a store with the specialties of the season is run in
connection. A short distance northerly from " Gray's," near
Devon Rocks, a chapel was erected by subscription among the
guests during 1905. it is twenty-five by fiftj'-two feet, con-
tains twenty-two pews, and was built by Charles S. Gray.
The architecture is modern and it is a very attractive building.
It is known as "All Saints Chapel by the Sea," and is Episcopal.
Boating facilities are unsurpassed wherever one goes about
Southport, and, in the past few years, a great improvement is
noticeable on all the roads. This is directly traceable to the erec-
tion of a bridge, as was predicted by its supporters at the time.
BooTHBAY Harbor Village has the Menawarmet, built
and equipped specially for the summer trade, by the Boothbay
Land Company, in 1889. It was later sold to Capt. Oscar S.
Yates, Round Pond, who has since become a resident. It has
been run annually, by either Captain Yates or a lessee, during
each season since building. Excepting SquiiTcl Inn and the
StnvUIER RESORTS.
Oak Grove House it is the largest summer hostelry in the entire
region, accommodating more than 100 persons. Previous to
building the above the Boston and Boothbay Land Company
erected a small hotel at the southerly projection of Spruce
Point, where the telegraph cable and water pipe leave the
mainland for Squirrel Island service. This house has a capacity
for thirty guests. The all-the-year-open houses are the Booth-
bay House and Weymouth House, the former accommodating
about 100 guests, the latter fifty. Additional to these are some
private residences open only to regular boarders during summer.
On the road leading to Southport, on the shore of Camp-
bell's Cove, is situated the Oak Grove House. This house was
opened in 1896, under the management of its present proprie-
tor, W. H. Reed. It is modern in every respect and has
enjoyed a patronage up to its capacity each season. It accom-
modates from 100 to 125.
Isle of Springs, originally known as Thirty Acre Island,
and then, during the occupancy of the Swett family, as Swett's
Island, was purchased during 1887 of Harvey Swett by an
association of Kennebec and Androscoggin parties and rechris-
tened. In 1888 nine cottages and the Ne Krangen House were
built. This house took its name from a local one in the Indian
language. Townsend Gut, just below this island, which sepa-
rates Southport from the main, was by the natives known as
Ne Krangen, variously translated as "gateway," "in the open,"
etc. An association was duly organized immediately after pur-
chase, similar to that existing at Squirrel. Four members of
the association purchased the hotel in 1902 and enlarged it
from twenty-four guests' rooms to fifty. One of the valuable
as well as extraordinary features of this island is that twelve
distinct springs of pure water appear upon it, distributed at
different points. There are now about twenty-five cottages.
The casino was built in 1892. The only other public resort on
the Sheepscot side is the Sawyer Island House, which for the
past few seasons has been under the proprietorship of Elton H.
Lewis, who also conducts a store in connection. This is the
old home of Zina H. Hodgdon, and summer boarders were
taken for several years before it went into Mr. Lewis' hands.
Bayville is one of the largest and most important summer
418 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
colonies in the locality. The neighborhood where stands the
Boyd residence and others, at the junction of the road to Bay-
ville and that running between East Boothbay and the Harbor,
was formerly called Hardscrabble. It is often so referred to
in the town records of fifty to sixty years ago. The Booker
family, shown by old records to have been a numerous one,
lived there. Samuel Murray owned the land nearer the shore,
where the Bayville colony now inhabits and easterly along
shore, including Murray Hill. In 1840 Samuel Boyd purchased
what is now the estate of the late Thomas Boyd and all of Bay-
ville, of Murray, making his home there afterward. At that
date an old cellar was plainly visible just east of the present
settlement, but it is not known who the early settler was.
Thomas Boyd, who had lived for several years in Dorchester,
Mass., came back and took the homestead, and soon after 1870,
when, as we have seen, the tide of summer travel commenced
to set in toward Boothbay, he was quick to grasp the situation
and to recognize the value of what he possessed. A private
way was opened to the shore from his residence and a single
cottage built, which Isaac Reed took. Another was soon built,
known as the Greenleaf cottage. But little, however, was done
before 1884. Prof. G. M. Harmon, of Tufts College, came
there first in 1886. Mr. Capen had been there the previous
year. At that time there were the Reed, Boyd, Marsh, McDon-
ald, Tufts, Dorchester, Blaxton and Boyd and Capen cottages.
Prof. W. R. Shipman, of Tufts, came in 1887. Since that
time the leading promoters of the colony have been the firm
composed of Professors Harmon and Shipman. In 1890 Grif-
fin & Bourne purchased land of Mrs. Marj^ Sproule, from the
original Leishman farm, abutting on the west, and built four
cottages and also sold two lots where cottages were built. In
the early nineties three cottages were built there by the late
Charles Chick, of Augusta. The Gables has been owned by
Harmon & Shipman since 1892 and run as a public house.
There are now thirty-six cottages ; eight are owned by Harmon
& Shipman, five by Grifiin & Bourne, six by the Boyd estate
and the rest individuall3^ A casino was built in 1904 at a cost
of $1,500, owned jointly between the Bayville and Murray
Hill colonics. This is used through the week for various pub-
f»j*?' J: "^ *? ^
tw"_fa lift ffa iM af
SUMMER RESORTS. 419
lie amusements and Sundays for religious services. Near the
casino is the floating stage, seventeen by seventy feet, with a
boathouse. The steamboat has no landing here, but makes
one at Murray Hill, one-fourth mile distant.
Murray Hill was purchased by Charles Capen, Stoughton,
Mass., in 1886, and while in a sense connected with Bayville
is still a separate summer colony. There are several attractive
summer homes there in an unsurpassed location. The two
Capens, Cochrane and Brown purchased about seventy acres
easterly from Murray Hill in 1886 and erected four cottages
upon their purchase, christening the place Paradise Point. Bay-
ville has a summer postal service, while the two latter neigh-
borhoods take mail and are tributary in trade to East Boothbay.
East Boothbay, throughout the region covered by this
volume, is only second to Boothbay Harbor as a trading center
and supply station for the summer colonies as well as the resi-
dent population ; and, like the Harbor in another respect,
while not of itself a leading summer location still has its
admirers and accommodates them. Several private houses are
opened in summer. Among the principal places of this class
are the following : Seavey House, Mrs. Granville J. Seavey ;
McDougall House, James McDougall ; Forest House, Walter
McDougall ; Heed House, Mrs. E. Ella Reed.
At points along the way leading over the ridge road to
Ocean Point, by which one traverses the entire length of Line-
kin Neck, development is often discernible in the form of new
summer homes and hotels which have sprung up. The Mount
Pleasant House, at that place, has its location near a regular
steamboat landing. A little farther to the south is the Ledge
Lawn House, built by E. S. Linekin, 1890, situated on a
beautiful spot on the shore of the bay.
Ocean Point, on the identical spot where stood the ancient
settlement of Corbin's Sound, dates its birth as a summer col-
ony among the first along our coast. It took its start early in
the seventies. Perhaps no two persons among the many who
have taken a strong interest in the welfare and growth of this
place have done so much as Dr. L. J. Crocker and the late
Hon. P. O. Vickery, both of Augusta. They were among its
earliest admirers and have been among its most loyal and con-
420 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
stant supporters. In 1895 there were twenty-nine cottages.
That year John R. McDougall, of East Boothbay, who for fif-
teen years had sent a team there daily in summer from his
home store, built one at the Point with a forty-four foot front-
age on the street and a twenty-two foot depth, with public hall
above. About that date the town made an appropriation of
$1,025 for building a street about the shore of the Point, and
since then a healthy growth has been noticeable annually in
both numbers and improvements of buildings. The Ocean
Point House, near the steamboat landing, was one of the earli-
est houses built there for summer use. There are now about
seventy cottages and two hotels, C. E. Hoxie and J. W. Har-
low being proprietors.
Among summer boarding houses in Boothbay, not already
mentioned, are those of James A. Reed, Charles Dodge and
Andrew E. Perkins, Pleasant Cove, and Chester C. Knight,
Boothbay Center. While the number and amount of non-resi-
dent taxpayers is not an exact criterion by which to judge of
the extent and value of the summer interests about our shores,
it still is strongly indicative. In 1905 there were 218 non-
resident property owners in Boothbay, 279 in Southport and
177 in Boothbay Harbor.
Carrying Companies.
Just previous to the Civil War a side wheel steamer, the
T. F. Seeker, ran for two seasons between Portland and Booth-
bay Harbor. Her landings were at the wharves of C. & W.
Fisher, west side, and Capt. Allen Lewis, east side. Part of
the stock in this boat was owned here, but more largely in
Portland. Her measurement was about 200 tons. Previous
to 1865, with this exception, all water travel in and out of
Boothbay Harbor, or other places about Boothbay shores, was
by sailing vessels or dories. The latter were used principally
for reaching Bath by water. Many of our citizens, and not by
any means the oldest among them, have made the trip to Bath
in that way frequently in their earlier years. Samuel Donnell
followed dory transportation of passengers between Bath and
Boothbay for many years before the advent of steam over the
route. Capt. Gilman A. Low, now of Boothbay Harbor, but
CARRYING COMPANIES. 421
a former resident of Georgetown, is entitled to credit as the
first mover in the direction of putting on steam transportation.
Shortly before 1865 he, as a young man, formulated the plan
and enlisted the efforts and capital of William H. McClellan, a
merchant of Bath, in the enterprise. The steamer Spray was
the result, a boat sixty feet long with a capacity for seventy -
five passengers. She went on the route in 1865, making daily
trips between Boothbay and Bath.
The Eastern Steamboat Company was chartered in 1868
and organized in 1869 with Samuel D. Bailey, of Bath, as its
first president. In the opening of 1870 the steamer Sasanoa,
a boat eighty-six feet in length, was built, and that year two
trips daily were run during summer. The inauguration of
Boothbay Harbor, with the islands and country about, as a
summer resort takes its date that year. In the fall and winter
of 1871-72 daily winter service between Boothbay and Wis-
casset was commenced and has continued to the present. The
mail route over this line was established in 1873, which has
been continuous since. Early in 1873 the steamer Samoset
was built, a boat seventy-one feet long. That and the Sasanoa
then for a time did the business over the route, for in February,
that year, the old Spray was sold to T. W. Allen & Son, Den-
nysville, Me. The steamer Sebenoa was built in 1880 and sold
to the Maine Central Railroad in January, 1884 ; she was a
boat 100 feet in length. The year of that sale the Wiwurna
was built to take the place of the Sebenoa. This latest addi-
tion to the line was 110 feet long, 98 tons, and is still in ser-
vice. In September, 1887, the Sasanoa was sold to New York
parties and taken to Staten Island. The following spring the
steamer JVahanada, 100 feet long, 91 tons, was built and put
upon the route. In 1890 the Winter Harbor was purchased
and the summer trips of the company were extended to Line-
kin's Bay, South Bristol and Pemaquid Harbor. Early in
1894 the steamer Samoset was rebuilt and enlarged, the name
being changed to Damarin, 55 tons. Since that the steamer
Island Belle, 153 tons, has been purchased and put upon the
line.
On October 8, 1901, the Eastern Steamship Company was
incorporated and comprised what had been the Boston and
422 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Bangor Steamship Company, Portland Steamship Company,
International Steamship Company, Kennebec Steamboat Com-
pany and Eastern Steamboat Company. In March, 1905, they
took over the Rockland, Blue Hill and Ellsworth Steamboat
Company. These former lines are now known as divisions of
the present company and are constituted as follows :
Bangor Division, 234 miles, two boats, 3,700 tons aggre-
gate.
Portland Division, 110 miles, two boats, 6,065 tons.
Mount Desert Division, 111 miles, four boats, 1,078 tons.
International Division, 330 miles, three boats, 7,265 tons.
Kennebec Division, 150 miles, two boats, 3,650 tons.
Boothbay Division, 33 miles, four boats, Wiwin-na, Nahan-
ada, Island BeJle, Damarin, 397 tons.
This gives the company, as at present equipped, seventeen
boats, with an aggregate tonnage of 22,355 and aggregate mile-
age of 968. Connection at Bath with the Kennebec Division is
made. The service at present includes three or four round
trips between Boothbay Harbor and Bath daily in summer, two
in spring and fall, and from about December 20th, average, to
March 20th all are discontinued and one round trip daily to
Wiscasset is made.
Previous to 1887 the larger part of the general freight to
Boothbay Harbor from Portland was brought by the schooner
Mary Elizabeih, Capt. George Dunton. Other schooners plied
between Portland and East Boothbay and the other trading
points about the shore. That year Capt. Alfred Race, East
Boothbay, organized the Portland and Boothbay Steamboat
Company and purchased the steamer Enterprise, 18-1 tons
measurement, 150 tons freight capacity, carrying 300 passen-
gers. In 1895 general repairs were made adding much to its
value and convenience for public service. This boat makes its
terminal points Portland and East Boothbay, touching at Booth-
bay Harbor and South Bristol, and during the season at Squir-
rel and Heron Islands. The service is tri-weekly and since its
first appearance on the line it has received the greater part of
the general freights for the entire locality. Captain Race has
been master since establishment.
In 1895 the Maine Coast Navigation Company was incor-
CARRYING COMPANIES. 423
porated and commenced business by putting on a newly-built
steamer, the Salacia. Capt. O. C. Oliver was the moving
spirit in this undertaking and was master of the boat and pres-
ident of the companj'. A more extended business and other
boats were at first contemplated, but after some two or three
seasons' trial, including several changes of service, the steamer
was sold and went to Florida and the company closed its affairs.
About or soon after 1880 the steamer Islander, Capt.
Charles C. Thompson, Southport, went on the route summers
between Gardiner and Boothbay Harbor, touching at all the
resort landings between. This boat plied over its route about
twenty years when it was sold to Florida parties.
The City of Gardiner commenced before 1895, over the
same line of travel, at first tri-weekly, but for several recent
years daily, during the season, and is still on the route.
A new line commenced April 15, 1896, known as the Port-
land and Rockland Steamboat Company, Capt. I. E. Archibald.
The above cities are its terminal points. Its regular stations
between are Boothbay Harbor, New Harbor, Round Pond,
Friendship, Port Clyde and Tenant's Harbor, with a few
additional landings in summer. The service of this line com-
menced with the steamer Silver Star, followed by the Merry-
coneag, a larger boat, and in 1902 by a new steamer, the
Mineola, and now by the Monhegan. This line has been
extended to points in Hancock County and apparently enjoys
a profitable carrying trade. It certainly fills a long-felt want
in both freight and travel.
That portion of Boothbay bordering on the Damariscotta
has been greatly convened for three or four years last past by
the Damariscotta Steamboat Company, E. P. Gamage, mana-
ger, which begins about June 1st each year, running until late
in autumn, between Christmas Cove and Damariscotta, touch-
ing at Heron Island, South Bristol, East Boothbay, Clark's
Cove and Poole's Landing, making two round trips daily dur-
ing the busy season.
CHAPTER XXV.
The Civil War.
THE news of the surrender of Fort Sumter reached our
towns on the morning of April 15, 1861. Six States
had already seceded and on February 18th, preceding,
Jefferson Davis had been inaugurated President of the Confed-
ersLcy. These preliminary acts had inflamed the public mind ;
the last act fired it. The next news flashed over the countrj^
was the call of President Lincoln that day for 75,000 troops.
Four days later the Sixth Mass. Regiment was attacked in
Baltimore by a mob with rebel tendencies as it was hurrying
through that city for the defense of the National Capital.
The wildest enthusiasm prevailed throughout the North,
and nowhere was it more intense and true than in the State of
Maine ; but it is onl}^ our province to present what can be
gathered of the part that was played by Boothbay and South-
port, that future generations descending from this population
may know what their ancestors contributed to that mighty
conflict. Men and women, boys and girls, almost universally
wore the national colors. Bits of red, white and blue appeared
everywhere and on all occasions. Public meetings were almost
universally held. The first in Boothbay was at the East Booth-
bay schoolhouse, where many young men stepped forward and
signed a pledge to go to the front and defend the Government.
This was immediately followed by another meeting, in the old
Union Church at Boothbay Center, of similar purpose and
result. The ladies of the town were not less patriotic than the
men, and they actively participated on nearly every public
occasion. But these gatherings, which occurred throughout
the North, were simply the expressions of National feeling.
The crisis first produced this spontaneous outburst of indigna-
tion and patriotism combined, and then settled down to a legal,
formal, systematic effort to stamp out treason in the land.
Town action follows.
The McCobb and Auld House.
built about 1807.
The Leishman House,
buUt in J 775,
THE CIVIL WAR. 425
At a special meeting called on May 6, 1861, Charles Car-
lisle, moderator, the following article was presented :
" To see what sum of money the town will raise to pay those
volunteers in their country's service and provide for the fami-
lies of those who may need assistance."
The action of the town follows :
"Voted to pay volunteers $25 per month if it can legally be
done.
"Voted to raise $2,000 for the support of the families of
those who volunteer in their country's service if needed.
" Voted to choose a committee of five to wait on the fami-
lies of those who volunteer and see what assistance is needed."
Allen Lewis, Robert Montgomery, Benjamin Reed, William
Carlisle and Samuel K. Hilton were chosen a committee.
This committee was continued in 1862.
At a special meeting July 26, 1862 :
"Voted to pay each volunteer $100 when mustered into the
United States sei-vice, providing the town's quota is made up
of volunteers, and the selectmen be authorized to borrow
$3,000 to paj' the volunteers if necessary.
" Voted that the town appoint a committee to procure the
names of residents of Boothbay who are, or have been, or shall
be in the army or navy during the war. The same to be called
the roll of honor and to be recorded as such in the town records.'
The committee chosen were Charles S. F. Hilton, William
Carlisle, Leonard Montgomery, Leonard McCobb and William
Kenniston.
A special meeting September 1, 1862 :
" To see what method the town will take to raise the num-
ber of men required of the town under the late call of the
Governor."
The action of the town :
"Voted to pay volunteers $125 and authorize the selectmen
to borrow $3,250 to pay volunteers when required."
At this meeting Alden Blossom was chosen to obtain names
of all those already gone into the army and navy, and to wait
upon the Governor and see if the town might not be enabled
to get its quota reduced or its filling postponed for a time. At
the same meeting Leonard McCobb, Leonard Montgomery,
426 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
John McClintock and William Kenniston were chosen as a,
committee to procure volunteers.
September 5, 1863, it was voted to pay drafted men, who
serve under the Conscription Act, $125 each.
November 16, 1863, it was voted to pay $300 each to those
who are accepted by the Governor to fill the town's qiiota under
the President's call of October 17th, and the selectmen were
authorized to raise the necessary amount on the credit of the
town.
January 4, 1864, a committee consisting of Westbrook G.
Lewis, Sewall S. Wylie and Isaac W. Reed was chosen to
procure the town's quota at the best possible advantage. The
selectmen were authorized to make a loan of $13,200, at the
lowest possible rate, limited not to pay in excess of eight per
cent, interest, and to deposit the funds in Augusta, that the men
might be paid as soon as mustered into United States service.
February 17, 1864, at a special meeting:
" Voted that the selectmen be authorized to recruit the town's
quota assigned them under the President's last call, at the best
advantage they can for the town, agreeable to instructions."
August 12, 1864, at a special meeting :
"Voted to raise $250 for every man who serves in the
United States service, or furnishes a substitute to till the town's
quota for one year, and that the selectmen be authorized to
raise the required sum on the credit of the town. Also to pro-
cure any necessary assistance in procuring the men."
The above vote was unanimous in a full meeting.
At the September election it was voted 227 to 4 to ratify
the Legislative resolve to allow the soldiers in the field the
privilege to vote.
A special meeting, October 5, 1864, to complete the work
of the meeting of August 12th preceding, voted exclusive power
to the selectmen in filling the town's quota under the President's
last call for 500,000 men, at the town's expense. The neces-
sary number not having been obtained, another meeting was
called for December 3, 1864, when it was voted to raise $10,000
on the credit of the town, and that such a part as was necessary
should be used in procuring twenty-five volunteers.
The last war measure before its close was that on February
THE CIVIL WAB. 427
22, 1865, when it was voted to raise $15,000 and to choose
two agents to procure the necessary men. Thomas Boyd and
Sewall S. Wylie were chosen.
In 1870 a vote was passed that each man who enlisted and
had received no bounty from any source should be then paid a
bounty of $100.
The Boothbay Civil War List.
The following list, while falling short in number of the
aggregate quota during the Civil War period, has been revised
with care from town records, inscriptions from gravestones,
family records, G. A. R. Post records, and then reviewed by
several veterans who have been lifelong residents of the town.
Additional to this, comparison with the Adjutant General's
reports has been made. The aggregate quota of Boothbay was
about 250, but many of these were commuters or substitutes,
the names of some of whom were not ever known, being pro-
cured through agency ; but if known do not require a place in
a list of this nature. If omissions occur, as some are likely to,
they are more likely to be instances of some who were Booth-
bay born and bred, but went into the service while temporarily
residing in some other State. Usual abbreviations are used.
Alexander Adams, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; also sea-
man U. S. S. Octorara; res. Boothbay Harbor.
George Adams, priv. co. K, 8th Me. reg. ; b. in England ;
res. in Boothbay.
John Adams, serg. co. B, 5th Mass. reg. ; also serg. 28th
Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Daniel Adams, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in service at
New Orleans.
David C. Adams, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
James R. Auld, priv. co. A, 5th Me. reg. ; d. at Boothbay
Harbor, July 2, 1903.
John G. Auld, capt. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; wounded at
Fredericksburg; d. at Washington, D. C, Dec. 4, 1902.
Rufus Auld, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; also priv. co. K,
19th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Chandler Ayer, priv. co. D, 3d Me. reg. ; dec.
Elwell H. Barter, priv. co. K, 8th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
James E. Beath, corp. and serg. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; res.
Boothbay.
428 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Thomas P. Beath, capt. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; livino' in
the West.
Benjamin F. Blair, acting ensign U. S. Navj', ship Mohi-
can; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Clark Blake, corp. co. B, 9th Me. reg. ; d. May 23, 1864.
Franklin H. Blake, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. June 5,
1891.
Isaac N. Blish, musician co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; dec.
Alden Blossom, M. D., surgeon 6th Me. reg. ; b. in Tur-
ner; d. in Boothbay Harbor, Aug. 17, 1897.
Abijah Boyd, priv. co. K, 19th Me. res. ; d. in Boothbay,
Mar. 28, 1892.
Alexander Boyd, priv. 7th Me. Bat. ; d. in Boothbay, Apr.
29, 1894.
Charles H. Boyd, priv. co. A, 5th Me. reg. ; d. in 1863.
William Boyd, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. Jan., 1904,
in Maiden, Mass.
Martin Brewer, priv. 8th Me. reg. ; also seaman on U. S.
S. Pautuxet; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Mitchell Brewer, seaman on U. S. S. Alabama ; d. in
Boothbay Harbor, Dec. 25, 1895.
George W. Brown, priv. co. L, 1st Me. Heavy Art.
Albert W. Bryer, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; d. from wounds
received at James River at Alexandria, Va., July 2, 1864.
Cushman Bryer, seaman U. S. S. Brooklyn; d. Aug. 28,
1874.
George R. Bryer, priv. 7th Me. reg. : dec.
Alva Carlisle," priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. Feb. 25, 1863.
Frank Carlisle, corp. co. G, 1st Mass. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
Jason Carlisle, capt. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay
Harbor.
John W. Chambers, priv. co. A, 32d Me. reg. ; d. Apr.
21, 1864.
Alonzo Chapman, priv. co. H, 21st Me. reg. ; b. in Dam-
ariscotta ; res. in Boothbay.
Wilmot H. Chapman, priv. co. K, 16th Me. reg. ; dec.
George Chase, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; b. in Water-
ville ; dec.
William M. Clapp, priv. co. F, 30th Wis. reg. ; h. in
Damariscotta : dec.
John Clifford, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. May 31, 1863.
Charles A. Corey, priv. co. B, 17th U. S. Inf. ; d. at Alex-
andria, Va., Oct. 10, 1862.
John K. Corey, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
Benjamin H. Crossman, priv. co. F, 2d Me. Cav. ; b. in
Wiscasset ; dec.
THE CIVIL WAR. 429
Daniel Curran, priv. co. F, 10th U. S. Inf. ; also priv. co.
E, 1st U. S. Inf. ; b. in Thomaston ; dec.
Alberts. Decker, priv. co.G, TthMe. reg. ; d. Sept. 10,1863.
Giles W. Decker, priv. co. C, 14thMe. reg. ; d. Nov. 7, 1863.
Benaiah P. Dolloff, lieut. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Dec.
28, 1880.
Warren L. Dolloff, adjt. 14th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay
Harbor.
David H. Elwell, priv. co. G, 14 Me. reg. ; d. Sept. 8, 1869.
Daniel K. Emerson, priv. co. G, 20th Me. reg. ; res.
Boothbay.
Luther Emerson, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; wounded at
Fredericksburg; d. Apr. 30, 1897.
Thomas J. Emerson, corp. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; b. in
Pittston ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Charles T. Farmer, priv. co. G, 14th Me. reg, ; d. Aug. 9,
1865.
William P. Farmer, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; also sea-
man U. S. S. Monongahela; d. May 5, 1887.
Daniel L. Farnham, priv. co. C, 5th Me. reg. ; d. Apr. 13,
1876.
George P. Fogler, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; killed in
battle July 2, 1863.
Charles W. Fuller, priv. 17th Me. reg. ; d. in Portland.
Charles E. Giles, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; res. Provi-
dence, R. I.
Frederick M. Giles, priv. co. G, 1st Me. Cav. ; res. Booth-
bay.
Harvey H. Giles, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; killed at
Fredericksburg.
Henry K. Giles, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. in service,
June 1, 1863.
John M. Giles, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. in service,
Aug. 6, 1863.
John Gilpatrick, priv. co. I, 1st Me. Heavy Art. ; b. in
Washington ; res. Boothbay.
Joseph Gray, priv. co. F, 1st Conn. Cav. ; dec.
Livingston Gray, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in service,
July 2, 1862, at New Orleans.
George Wm. Gray, priv. co. E, 14th Me. reg. ; d. from
wounds received at Fort Donelson, 1862.
Ebenezer Greenleaf , seaman ship Huron ; b. in Westport ;
res. Edgecomb.
Cyrus B. Hagan, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; d. 1869.
Dennis M. Hagan, serg. co. B, 9th Me. reg. ; res. East
Boothbay.
430 HISTORY or BOOTHBAT.
Joseph F. Hallowell, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. Dec.
2, 1862, in service.
John Hanson, U. S. Navy; d. Oct. 4, 1877.
John Hilton, seaman U. S. S. Tahoma: d. in Anderson-
ville, Oct. 20, 186.S.
Jeremiah C. Holton, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; res.
Boothbay Harbor.
Benjamin Keller, seaman U. S. Navy ; res. Boothbay.
John E. Kellejs lieut. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
"William K. Kelley, priv. co. K, 7th Me. reg. ; d. from
wounds, July 9, 1864.
William Kennedj', priv. 2d Me. Cav. ; d. in service.
George B. Kenniston, lieut. co. D, 5th Me. reg. ; also
lieut. col. of a D. C. reg., 1864; res. Boothbay Harbor.
James A. Knight, priv. co. G, 20th Me. reg. ; killed at
Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
John H. Lake, priv. co. C, 21st Me. reg. ; b. in Rangeley ;
res. Boothbay Harbor.
Addison W. Lewis, lieut. co. A, 20th Me. reg. ; also 19thMe.
reg. ; b. in Waterville ; d. in Boothbaj' Harbor, Dec. 31, 1894.
Austin Lewis, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in service,
Dec. 29, 1861.
George B. Lewis, corp. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
Roswell C. Lewis, seaman on U. S. S. Sagamore; res.
Boothbay.
Thomas Lewis, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in service,
Nov. 13, 1862.
Warren Lewis, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in service,
Dec. 10, 1862.
John Lang, seaman on board brig H. O. Berry, 1861.
Armitage G. McCobb, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; d. June
17, 1863, from sunstroke on march to Gettysburg.
Charles H. McCobb, priv. co. F, 31st Iowa reg. ; d. in
service, Apr. 19, 1863.
Charles S. McCobb, lieut. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; killed at
Gettysburg, July 4, 1863.
Jason McClintock, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in ser-
vice, 1862.
Albert B. McClintock, priv. co. A, 5th Me. reg. ; killed
by blowing up of a gunboat in 1862.
John M. INIcFarTand, priv. co. A, 8th Me. reg. ; also sea-
man on U. S. S. Dictator; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Nathaniel C. McFarland, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. in
Andersonville, Feb. 14, 1864.
Cyrus McKown, priv. co. C, 24th Mass. reg.
THE CIVIL WAR. 431
William Marson, priv. co. H, 45th Penn. reg. ; b. in Bath ;
d. in Boothbay Harbor.
George P. Matthews, priv. co. L, 3d N. Y. Cav.
John N. Matthews, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. in ser-
vice, Sept. 4, 1863.
Paul H. Matthews, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. in ser-
vice at New Orleans, Aug. 18, 1862.
Theodore Matthews, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; missing
at the battle of Cedar Creek, 1864.
Charles F. Merry, priv. 5th Me. Bat. ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Newell K. Merry, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; res. Deering.
John Montgomery, capt. co. F, 12th Me. reg. ; also lieut.
2d Me. Bat. ; wounded at Cedar Mountain and Fredericksburg ;
d. at East Boothbay, Sept. 19, 1901.
William Montgomery, lieut. 1st Me. Cav. ; res. at Maiden,
Mass.
Isaac L. Murray, priv. 2d Me. Bat. ; wounded at Freder-
icksburg; res. East Boothbay.
Freedom Nason, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg.
Charles S. Orne, seaman ship Keystone State; d. Mar. 7,
1865.
John J. Patterson, musician co. K, 17th Mass. reg. ; b. in
Londonderry, N. H. ; res. Edgecomb.
John P. Perkins, acting ensign U. S. Navy ; b. in Kenne-
bunk ; d. Sept. 14, 1885.
Benjamin E. Pinkham, priv. 5th Me. Bat. ; res. Boothbay
Harbor.
Francis C. Pinkham, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; d. May 4,
1873.
Horace W. Pinkham, priv. co. E, 39th Mass. reg. ; res.
Boothbay.
Osborne Pinkham, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; d. Aug. 2,
1874.
Osgood Pinkham, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; d. Feb. 20,
1862, in service.
Sanford L. Pinkham, priv. co. F, 24th Me. reg. ; res. in
Butte, Mont.
Stephen Pinkham, priv. 19th Me. reg., unassigned ; d. Dec.
23, 1870.
Frederick Preble, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; dec.
George W. Preble, priv. co. G, 20th Me. reg. ; dec.
Granville A. Preble, priv. co. B, 9th Me. reg. ; d. May 21,
1902, in Boothbay Harbor.
Austin Reed, lieut. 2d Me. Bat. ; res. Boothbay.
Benjamin S. Eeed, seaman U. S. S. Cumberland, also priv.
CO. K, 16th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
432 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Bradford D. Reed, ensign U. S. S. Wyandotte : d. Aug. 6,
1868.
Chapman N. Eeed, lieut. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; res. Booth-
bay Harbor.
Isaac W. Reed, lieut. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; dec.
William Reed, priv. co. G, 5th Me. reg. ; seaman U. S. S.
Judge Torrence; res. Linekin.
Edward Sargent, priv. 7th Me. reg. ; res. Deering.
Edwin L. Sargent, priv. co. K, 38th Mass. reg. ; d. May
27, 1863.
Oscar W. Sargent, priv. co. A, 45th Mass. reg. ; d. Oct.
9, 1876.
Weld F. Sargent, serg. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; killed in
battle, June 6, 1864.
Charles A. Seavey, serg. co. B, 45th Mass. reg. ; also sea-
man on monitor Monadnoclc.
Charles F. Seavey, landsman U. S. S. Sabine; d. Feb. 20,
1896.
James A. Seavey, serg. maj. 14th Me. reg. ; d. Nov. 2, 1862.
James O. Seavey, serg. co. H, 19 Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
Orin Seavey ; d. in service in a Western reg.
Franklin Sawyer, priv. co. G, 5th Me. reg. ; d. Mar. 19,
1862.
Samuel Shaw, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; dec.
A. D. Sherman, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg.
Isaac G. Sherman, seaman U. S. S. Relief; b. in Augusta;
res. Boothbay Harbor.
George K. Sherman, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. July
26, 1878.
Nathaniel C. Sherman, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. July
9, 1863.
Silas Smith, priv. 1st Cal. reg. ; d. at Boothbay Harbor,
Dec. 17, 1883.
William M. Smith, serg. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; res. Booth-
bay Harbor.
John G. Spinne}% priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
Joseph Spofford, priv. co. H, 2d Mass. Cav.
Gardner Stewart, priv. co. F, 1st Me. Cav. ; res. Linekin,
Thomas Z. Tibbetts, priv. co. C, 24th Me. reg. ; killed at
Drury's Bluff, May 14, 1864.
William B. Tibbetts, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; killed at
Fredericksburg, Dec. 29, 1862.
Charles Webber, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. Aug. 23,
1863.
Richard M. Webber, priv. co. F, 5th N. H. reg. ; b. in
Belfast; d. Nov. 12, 1893.
THE CIVIL WAR. 433
Leonard "Webster, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Dec. 1,
1866.
Lorenzo R. Webster, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Jan.
18, 1878.
John H. Welch, cook ship Jacob Bell; b. in Newfoundland ;
d. in Boothbay Harbor, 1905.
Robert Welch, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. Aug. 29, 1863.
Charles S.Weston, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; b. in Augusta.
Albert Wheeler, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay.
A. R. Wheeler, priv. co. C, 102d N. Y. reg.
Jerome Wheeler, priv. co. G, 17th Mass. reg. ; d. in ser-
vice, Nov. 19, 1862.
John C. Willey, priv. co. G, 1st, 10th and 29th Me. reg. ;
res. Wakefield, Mass.
Alden Winslow, priv. co. E, 13th Mass. reg. ; also serg.
1st Me. Sharpshooters ; wounded at Petersburg ; b. in Noble-
boro ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Alexander Wvlie, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. Aug. 23,
1863. " *
Charles Wylie, priv. — Mass. reg. ; res. Chelsea, Mass.
James A. Wylie, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Dec. 25,
1862.
Levi Wylie, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; killed at the bat-
tle of Pleasant Hill, Oct. 27, 1864.
Samuel Wylie, 2d, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Dec. 26,
1862.
Veteran associations have been organized in both towns.
Weld Sargent Post, No. 92, was first, at Boothbay Harbor,
and this included the G. A. R. of the three towns for a time.
Their by-laws were approved in January, 1884. Soon after
the division of Boothbay, Haiwey Giles Post, No. 157, was
organized with quarters at East Boothbay.
SOUTHPORT.
The first special town meeting in Southport relating to war
measures was held April 29, 1862. The action of that was to
raise the amount authorized by the State for aid in support of
dependent relatives of soldiers, sailors and marines actually
engaged in military or naval service. The selectmen were
authorized to hire the money. A meeting held August 6, 1862,
voted to raise $200 for each volunteer to fill the town's quota,
and those from Southport were to be received first. Four
days' time was given the resident population to volunteer and
434 HISTORY or boothbay.
then, according to the vote, it was given to other towns. Of
the $200 offered volunteers, one-half was to be paid when mus-
tered into service and the other half to be in town scrip, in one
and two years. On September (3, 1862, another meeting was
held, when $100 was voted to be paid each nine months' vol-
unteer, twenty dollars to be paid at mustering in and eighty
dollars when honorably discharged.
At the annual meeting of 18*33 a bounty of $150 was voted
to each man who should volunteer before March 18th following,
and to the families of such volunteers seventy-five cents per
week to the wife and fifty cents to each dependent child during
the term of service. Two hundred dollars was voted volun-
teers at a special meeting, November 24, 1863. At the annual
meeting, 1864, a bounty was voted to those who had been
drafted on July 18, 1863, and passed to the credit of the town.
A meeting held on August 20, 1864, in response to the Presi-
dent's call for 500,000 men, instructed the selectmen to fill the
town's quota as best they could : and at another special, held
January 19, 1865, responding to the President's call for 300,000
men, it was voted to raise $5,000 to fill the town's quota.
The Southport Civil War List.
Similar sources for information were pursued as in the case
of Boothbay. It is thought that the list on Southport, how-
ever, is likely to be free from omissions, from the fact that
William T. Haddocks, who was a town officer soon after the
close of the war, made and retained private records which were
kindly furnished the author. Further than this, it is an easier
matter to obtain a thorough familiarity with affairs of this kind
over an area like that of Southport than over one as extended
as Boothbay.
William H. Alley, priv. co. E, 1st Vet. Inf. ; d. July 21,
1898.
Manley S. Brewer, priv. co. C, 32d Mass. reg. ; res. South
Bristol.
George W. Brown, priv. co. D, 7th Me. reg.
Samuel F. Car}', seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto.
James Coolen, priv. co. D, 7th Me. reg. ; d. Jan. 4, 1904.
Henry O. Davis, priv. co. D, 4th Me. reg.
Albert Dyer, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Constitution; d.
186- ; see Casualties.
THE CIVIL WAR. 435
John Gray, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto.
Samuel N. Gray, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Morning Light.
Charles B. Gilman, priv. co. B, 1st Me. Cav.
George Huskins, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Mound City.
James M. Jones, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg.
Hiram Marr, priv. co. J, 20 Me. reg. ; d. Feb. 26, 1869.
Jeruel Marr, priv. co. D, 7th Me. reg. ; res. Bath.
William F. Marr, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto;
res. Southport.
John T. Marshall, priv. co. G, 3d Me. reg.
Alden B. Moore, priv. 14th Me. reg. ; res. Southport.
Thomas J. Neal, priv. co. C, 1st Me. Cav.
Edward Nelson, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Constitution.
Plummer Nelson, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Powhatan; d.
Sept. 3, 1882.
Benjamin Orne, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Gen. Putnam.
Elbridge Orne, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg.
James E. Orne, seaman U. S. Navy ; res. Southport.
Charles B. Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto.
Edward Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Katahdin.
Jesse Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard
and ship San Jacinto; d. in Southport, 1905.
Jonathan Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard,
ships North Carolina and San Jacinto; d. Sept. 24, 1903.
Mark Rand, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto; res.
Southport.
Amherst Spofford, priv. co.G, 3d Me. reg. ; res. Skowhegan.
Sidney Spofford, priv. co. G, 3d Me. reg. ; d. in service.
Andrew Westman, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Wabash.
John H. Wilson, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Com. Jones.
George L. Witham, priv. co. I, 20th Me. reg. ; b. in Wash-
ington ; res. Southport.
Southern privateersmen to some extent infested Northern
waters during the war and in sevei'al instances came along the
coast of Maine. There were two or three cases where our peo-
ple lost schooners by being captured by some Southern priva-
teer, but no case quite the equal to that of the Archer. This
little fishing schooner, about ninety tons, was principally owned
by William Decker, Southport. She was in the Bay of Fundy
on a fishing trip in command of Capt. Robert Snowman, now
living at Cape Newagen.
Lieut. C. W. Read, of the Confederate Navy, had been
under the noted Mofiitt on the cruiser Florida up to May, 1863.
436 mSTOKY OF boothbay.
Read was a mere boy, a graduate of Annapolis and twenty-three
years of age — a Missippian by birth. Moffitt captured the brig
Clarence and placed Read in command, with one howitzer, a
crew of twenty men and a roving commission to burn and
destroy Northern propertj', exposed towns on the seaport and
unarmed vessels. MofEtt wrote him on May Gth :
" This is the time when our best exertions should be made
to harm the common enemy and confuse them with attacks
from all unexpected quarters. Act for the best and God speed
you. If success attends the effort you will deserve the fullest
consideration of the department."
The first acts were against shipping in Baltimore, but, with
the daring of a Mosby, Read concluded to go along the New
England coast. His report to the department states that from
June 12th to June 24th he captured and burned or bonded
nineteen vessels. On June 12th, just east of Mount Desert
Rock, he captured the Tacony and burned the Clarence. On
the 24th, in the Bay of Fundy, to use their words :
" We ran alongside a smart-looking little fishing schooner,
called the Archer, which we captured. Her crew were just
about sitting down to a nice fish supper. Their captain asked
us to join them, and as they had a first-class chowder, besides
some nice tongues and sounds, cooked as they knew how to
cook them, we accepted the invitation. After dark we trans-
ferred one six-pounder and such other articles as we needed
from the Tacony to the Archer. We then set fire to the Tacony
and stayed by her till she burned to the waters edge."
The day before this capture they were hailed by a Yankee
gunboat with : "Bark, ahoy, what and where bound?" Read
replied : " Bark Mary Jane, from Sagua La Grande bound to
Portland." The captain of the gunboat then informed them
that there was a rebel privateer cruising along the coast, burn-
ing and destroying shipping, and to keep a sharp lookout.
Read thanked them as they steamed away to the south in search
of the privateer. All were speechless for a moment at their
escape, when Read broke the silence, saying : "Boys, we have
had a close call, but we are still on deck."
They ran the Archer after her capture at once for Portland,
with intention of "cutting out" the Caleb Cushing, revenue
cutter, then laying there, and destroying the unfinished gun-
THE CIVIL WAR. 437
boats Pontoon and Agaivam, moored at Franklin Wharf, and
any other shipping as opportunity might offer. All of the
crew not necessary to be above on the run to Portland were
busily employed below making oakum balls and saturating them
with turpentine, to be used in firing the shipping. A little to
the east of Damariscove two fishermen. Bibber and Titcomb
by name, were captured and ordered to serve as pilots. They
refused and were put below in irons.
At sunset on the 26th they anchored near Pomeroy's Rock,
off Fish Point. At two in the morning of the 27th, with muf-
fled oars, they ran a boat's crew alongside the Gushing, which
they boarded, gagged and bound the watch and then the officers
and men as fast as they appeared, having disguised their char-
acter by assuming the fishing garb of the Archer's crew, who
were prisoners below. They then towed the cutter via Hussey's
Sound, to avoid the forts, out of the harbor, followed by the
Archer. At ten a. m. they were fifteen miles at sea, when
the wind died away and left them becalmed.
As the news spread over Portland in the morning that city
was wild with excitement over the dare-devil act, and steamers
in the harbor were impressed into the chase. Capt. John Lis-
comb in the Forest Oity, a Boston steamer, and the Chesapeake,
a New York boat, made the chase. When nearly overhauled
boats were lowered from the cutter and she was fired. A truce
was hung out and the fishermen captured the day before, the
Archer's and the cutter's crews, prisoners but shortly before,
and the privateersmen, now prisoners themselves, were taken
aboard the Chesapeake. But while this was going on, almost
immediately after the last boat left the cutter, the flames reached
the magazine and a terrific explosion followed, hurling splinters
from her timbers hundreds of feet in the air and, for the time,
fairly darkening all about, then with a lurch sank from sight.
Bibber, the captured fisherman, informed them where the
Archer was in hiding, and the Forest City found her that after-
noon and took her into the harbor, where she discharged the
effects of her captors and was turned over to her owners.
She had been left in the charge of a single Confederate, Bob
Mullins, of New Orleans. Captain Read stayed with the navy
while the Confederacy lasted, then engaged in business at
438 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Meridian, Miss., dying there in 1891. During his imprison-
ment in Portland he wrote to his family asking for money to
buy clothing, stating in his letter that the Portland people had
nearly all of his for souvenirs.
"With the foregoing imperfect record of the part our com-
munity took in that great conflict — the greatest in modern
times — we pass to other matters ; but for a moment thought
reverts to those patriotic meetings at East Boothbay and the
Center in April, 1861. The men who were old then have been
of the past for many years. Of those who were then in mid-
dle age three or four isolated instances may still be cited where
they are yet with us. But of the young men present those
evenings — the life and hope of the communitj^ in which they
lived — eager to go forth and battle for the land of their birth,
some fell before a Southern foe, some went down victims of
camp and climatic diseases, some famished in prison pens, some
have been dropping along the highwaj^ of time in the years
since that struggle closed, and the remainder — few only — with
whitened locks are bearing the burdens of threescore and ten.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Monographs and Incidents.
I.
DR. J. H. WEBBER, Boston, in the Register of Septem-
ber 22, 1883, described West Boothbay Harbor in 1822
as follows : In August of that year his father, in com-
pany with Seba Smith, came from Portland and settled there.
Only five houses then stood in the vicinity. Mr. Webber built
his house just south of where the ice house stands. Squire
Smith lived a little farther to the east. There was a large stone
house occupied by Abijah Kenney, it having been occupied by
the soldiers as a barracks in the War of 1812. Besides Kenney,
Benjamin Wylie lived in a part of it and Robert Wylie lived
in the hall. A few years later it burned down. Seba Smith
owned fishing vessels and kept a store. Mr. Webber built a
foundry near the shore which soon was lost by fire and was
replaced by a blacksmith shop. A few years later the shop
was burned and rebuilt.
II.
A letter from Benjamin Blair, Esq., which appeared in the
Boothbay Register, March 21, 1883 :
Me. Editor.
Dear Sir: — As time changes everything around us and we
are boasting of the growth and prosperity of our village, I
thought it might be interesting to the present inhabitants to
know how it looked fifty years ago, the number of dwelling
houses, their location and by whom occupied at that time, on
both sides of the Harbor, from the end of Spruce Point, on the
east side, around to McFarland's Point on the west side.
1. — Beginning at Mr. McFarland's old house, which stood
near the head of W. M. Sawyer's wharf and occupied by David
Newbegin as a dwelling and bakery, he being a baker by trade.
This house has long been removed.
440 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
2. — Next coming north is John McFarland's, looks about
the same as then, when occupied by himself, now by his heirs.
3. — North and easterly was the Boothbay House, owned
and kept by William Maxwell Reed as a public house. It has
since been remodeled and greatly improved.
4. — The Dole house, so-called, occupied by John McClin-
tock, who carried on the shoemaking business. It was after-
ward known as the Parker Wilson house.
5. — Next north is the brick house, which looks about the
same as then, owned and occupied by Col. Jacob Auld and
Joseph McCobb, Esq. ; Mr. Auld in the northerly part and
McCobb's widow and family in the south part.
6. — The old Esquire McCobb house stood where the Wey-
mouth House now stands and was hauled up town, on the east
side of Adams Pond, for Capt. Matthew Reed, whose house
was burned not long before.
7. — The Avery house, so-called, occupied by John Parsh-
ley, afterward became the propert}' of Marshal Smith, Esq., and
has since been remodeled and greatly improved by his son Silas.
8. — Next was John W. Weymouth's, recently built, since
owned by Jacob Orne and now by his daughter, Mrs. Foster.
It has been remodeled within a few years.
9. — The Fullerton house, occupied by Henry Reed and
Newbury Morse, now by your humble servant, who is the only
one now living who occupied either of the houses fifty years
ago around this harbor.
10. — Next the Doctor Merrill house, occupied by Doctor
Kennedy, afterward by Capt. William S. Emerson, who remod-
eled and greatly improved it, and now by his widow and heirs.
11. — The old Captain Mac, or yellow, house, so-called on
account of its yellow paint and brass knockers on the front
door. It was considered the most aristocratic in town in those
days, occupied by Alfred Hodgdon, and stood about southeast
from the Second Congregational Church. It has been moved
out to the street and greatly improved by I. C. Sherman, Esq.
12. — William Montgomery's house stood where Russell
Holton's new house, now D. W. Hodgdon's, now is, and was
taken down to make room for this new one.
13. — Coming south was Edmund Wilson's, a little to the
westward of Capt. S. S. Wylie's, which stood near the street
and was removed by fire some forty years ago ; no trace of it
now remains.
14. — Edward B. Sargent, near the street as it then led
along the shore, just to the north of what was recently Mr.
Benjamin Blair.
1 806- 1 895.
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 441
Sawyer's, on east side, now J. W. Dow's. It was taken down
some years ago.
15. — The Russ house stood on the hill, east side of the new
schoolhouse, then occupied by David Booker Adams, and was
destroyed by fire some twenty- five years ago.
16. — The Parson Fisher house stood on Mount Pisgah,
where James Harris' widow now lives, and was burned about
twenty-five years ago. It was then occupied by a Springer
family and others.
17. — Coming down near the water again we find the Nor-
wood house, owned and occupied by John Norwood and his son
William, more recentlj' by M. E. Pierce as a store and dwelling.
18. — James Campbell's house, now occupied by one of his
grandsons, looks about the same as then.
19. — John Love lived where Luther Haddocks' buildings
now are and the house was removed to make room for better
buildings.
20. — Following down Spruce Point along the shore, in a
footpath, we come to Samuel Brewer's, near Brewer's Cove,
which was destroyed by fire some twenty-five years ago.
21. — Still following the shore toward the end of the Point,
we find John Tibbetts. The house was destroyed by fire some
thirty years ago.
22. — To the east of the Cumberland Bone Company stUl
stands James Brewer's house.
Thus it may be seen that five of the twenty-two dwellings
of fifty years ago have been burned and some removed to make
room for better ones, leaving about twelve of the original num-
ber. Now I ask where are the former occupants ? Yes, where
are they ? It is a subject for us all to think of.
Benjamin Blair.
BooTHBAY, March 19, 1883.
III.
Deposition of John Beath.
January 1, 1771.
John Beath of more than fifty years of age testifieth and
saith on or about the 22d. of August 1739, he, this deponent
being an inhabitant of a place called Townsend now within the
town of Boothbay County of Lincoln Province of Massachusetts
Bay, was called to the house of Edmund Brown another of the
inhabitants of Said Townsend : that he found Said Edmund
sitting in his house in company with a number of his neighbors
442 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
expecting the arrival of an officer to apprehend hira, no officer
being yet come : That said Edmund Brown declared to this
deponent that he had resolved to give to the first ordained min-
ister that should settle in said Townsend a lot of land then in
his possession, which he had bought of David Bryant of Said
Townsend deceased. That the Said Edmund Brown requested
this deponent to write a deed of gift agreeable to that intention ;
that this deponent in compliance therewith, did forthwith write
a deed of gift, convej'ing to said first minister in fee simple
forever a lot of land the bounds of which begin at John McFar-
land's line, at a poplar tree, running fifty-five rods S. W. along
the side of Lobster Cove to Samuel McCobb's line, then run-
ning N. W. eighty-eight rods to an heap of Stones, then run-
ning N. to the head of the lots to a Spruce Tree marked, then
E. to a certain Ash Tree at John JNIcFarland's line then S. to
an oak in Said line : then S. E. sixty rods to where it begins.
That Said deed also conveyed a lot in Reed's meadow to the
Said Minister in the same manner : that this deponent presented
the Said deed to the Said Edmund Brown. That the Said
Edmund Brown signed and sealed the same in the presence of
John McFarland and James McFarland who subscribed as wit-
nesses to the same deed ; that the Said deed was delivered to
this deponent in trust for the above use and has been in his
care ever since till the Eev. John Murray was called i)c settled
as pastor in Said Town, when it was given up by order of the
inhabitants to him : That the deed of the aforesaid tenor and
purport now in the hands of the Rev. John Murray is the very
same paper letter and syllables which this deponent then wrote
with his own hand : That he knows the hand writing of the
said Edmund Brown particularly and that the words Edmund
Brown signed to the Said deed are written by the hand of the
Said Edmund Brown.
That the inhabitants of the Said Townsend further took
possession of the premises for the above use ; that he this
deponent helped with them to build an house on the same, and
that they have kept possession till the Rev. John INIurray was
by them put in possession of the same. This deponent further
saith that the next day after the Said Edmund Brown had exe-
cuted the Said deed he was made prisoner and in consequence
thereof committed to gaol where he remained till his death : that
no magistrate was at that time convenient to the inhabitants
of Said Townsend ; that this deponent not lieing acquainted
with the forms of law, and not suspecting that any doubt would
ever ensue as to the validity of Said deed, added to the fore-
going circumstances were the reasons why this deponent took
no care to have the Said deed acknowledged & that he believes
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 443
the Same were the reasons why none of the other inhabitants
concerned took any Pains therein, and further saith not.
John Beath.
IV.
A Town-Meeting Incident.
Mr. John K. Corey relates that sometime in the fifties, he
thinks it was during Pierce's administration, political feeling
ran rather high and was carried into local affairs to quite an
extent. At that time the road from the Center to the Harbor
ran almost directly south from the store of J. H. Welsh &
Sons, along the foot of the Kenniston Hill, so-called. The
townhouse stood end to that street, as it now does to the pres-
ent one. By being brought to the street level at its easterly
end, the western end was at an elevation from the rear windows
to the ground of some ten or twelve feet. Mr. Corey, as a
boy, was in his father's dooryard and, hearing some commotion
in the direction of the townhouse, looked up and saw an old
man springing from the rear window into a snowdrift beneath.
He scrambled up and ran as fast as he could to the westward,
past the Corey house, without once looking around. Boy-like,
Corey hurried to the townhouse to see what was the trouble,
for in those days town-meeting scraps were not always wordy
affairs. When he reached the door some were outside the
building and the rest presented a varied view. Some were
clinging around the inside at the edge of the room, some were
trying to get the old men out of the building, and some of the
more vigorous of the younger element were down in a sort of
pit, near the center of the room, trying to get the stove out so
as to prevent a conflagration. The fact was the floor htd given
away near the center of the room, caused by too great a num-
ber collecting at that point during a little excitement, and
precipitated people, stove and all to the ground, several feet
below. The worst of the excitement over, the moderator
adjourned the meeting until the next day. The remainder of
that day and all night following citizens worked in getting the
floor back in place with a suitable foundation, so that the meet-
ing was carried to a finality the next day. The old gentleman
who went through the window and ran so precipitately home
444 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
turned out to be Samuel Bryer, who lived where John S.
Knight now does.
V.
The Fate of a Slave Catcher.
Records show that Boothbay's first physician was a Dr.
Edward Creamer, who was in town somewhat earlier than
1790. He lived at West Harbor, just easterly from the resi-
dence of Thomas Orne, close to the shore. There he had a
landing, and old ledgers show him to have been engaged at
building vessels and keeping store as well as healing the sick.
He was evidently a man of energetic qualities, but lacking in
some of the moralities of life. He began to make extended
trips at sea and some mystery seemed connected with their
nature. Finally it became quite generally suspected that he
was engaged in catching negroes on the African coast and
bringing them across to the Southern or slave States and sell-
ing them there into slaver5\ He evidently made several suc-
cessful trips when, for his own welfare, he made one too many.
While in his nefarious undertaking he was ambushed and cap-
tured, together with his son, by the objects of his plunder.
Like all savages, they employed torturous methods upon their
victim. He was hung up by his feet for several hours, when,
finding life not extinct, he was cut down and hanged by the
neck until dead. The son was either liberated or escaped ; but
he and the others engaged under his father came back empty
and reported the catastrophy.
VI.
A "Rolling."
It was a former custom after launching a new vessel to " roll "
her, for the purpose of clearing the bottom of any chance tim-
bers from the ways that might be sticking or clinging to her.
In 1851, when the schooner O. W. Reed was launched from
Stephen Sargent's yard, which, by the way, was w^here M. D.
McKown's yard has been in more recent years, some two hun-
dred or more were launched in her. No sooner was she fairly in
the water than the "rolling" was commenced, which was done
by the entire company aboard running in concert from one side
of the vessel to the other. The weight of the green spars and
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 445
the unusual number aboard produced too great a motion and she
capsized, spilling the greater number of those aboard into the
water. A few were so situated that they caught hold of some-
thing about the vessel and clung on until rescued ; but for a
few moments the work of the rescuers was directed to those in
the water. The late John Durant barely escaped drowning by
getting entangled in some way in the vessel. Several others
were in long enough to impress them that they were in a haz-
ardous position. The vessel itself was practically condemned
for a fisherman, and the entire crew that intended to go to the
Banks in her changed and went in the C. G. Matthews, that
ill-fated schooner that went down in Bay St. Lawrence the fol-
lowing October with all on board, being this same crew that
feared the little schooner's seaworthiness ; while the G. W.
Reed, with another crew, rode out the same storm in the same
locality with no loss and little injury.
VII.
Story of the Waterwitch.
On Friday, May 17, 1878, Capt. Freeman H. McKown left
his schooner, the Waterwitch, about six tons, with the jib to
windward, foresheet halfway off, mainsheet one point off, tiller
lashed halfway down, to set his trawls. It was a dead calm
and he did not expect to be away more than fifteen minutes.
No thought of risk or danger in his act dawned upon him. A
northwest breeze suddenly sprang up, and, when ready to go
on board, the little schooner could not be overhauled. For six
miles they chased her in a dory, rowing with might and main,
once getting within a few rods of her ; then, fatigued. Captain
McKown and his men gave up the chase themselves and got
Captain Hodgdon to take up the pursuit in his caraway boat.
She was pursued fifteen miles outside of Monhegan, when,
darkness coming on and the lead having been increased to
about six miles, by estimate. Captain Hodgdon also gave up the
chase. On May 20th, at about four o'clock p. m., this freaky
little Waterwitch was picked up by a Cape Cod fisherman some
thirty miles E. S. E. of Boone Island.
This occurrence furnished the material for the poem by
Elizabeth Akers which appeared in the holiday number of
446 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Scrihner's, December, 1887, entitled "The Waterwitch." The
author has thought fit to here insert this poem in full, for sev-
eral reasons, among which may be mentioned the classic beauty
of the poem based upon this incident, the well-known admira-
tion of the authoress for the Boothbay region as a summer
resort, and, not least, the exhibition of what poetic license may
do that its product may have the necessary qualities of finish
and romance. It might be mentioned that this occurrence
antedated by several years the time when Captain McKown
became a benedict.
The "Waterwitch.
By Elizabeth Akers.
From the dingy wharves of old Boothbay
A lounging sailor roared —
"Ho, Captain McKown ! hooray! hooray!
The Waterwitch has sailed away
With never a soul on board ! "
Sure enough ! he had truly said.
Else never a truth spake he ;
With her anchor weighed and her sails all spread.
With all things shipshape and orderly.
And her pennant fluttering straight ahead.
She was standing out to sea !
Scudding into the boundless blue,
With never a captain, or mate, or crew !
The breeze had whispered a wooing word
To the crank impatient craft ;
She felt her wings like a new-fledged bird —
Her slow roll changed to a sudden pitch.
And, stretching her canvas every stitch.
Away went the tricksy Waterwitch
With the warlock wind abaft !
Where was her captain, all this time?
The skipper, proud of his grizzled prime —
Ready and rugged Captain McKown —
Sturdiest tar in the salt old town.
With hands like leather, and face burned brown
Bj' sea-fog, and wind, and sun?
With his rolling gait and his sinewj' form
And voice like a distant thunder-storm
Ere the tempest has begun?
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS.
Wherever he was, how sank his heart,
How leaped his pulse with a sickening start.
When the startled sailor roared —
And every wharf-rat joined the shout,
And every loiterer round about —
" The Waterwitch has started out
With never a soul aboard ! "
Alas, for trusting the treacherous deep !
All day the ocean had seemed asleep ;
No gentlest breath of a zephyr stirred —
Not even the wing of a passing bird
Had dimpled the level main.
And the confident captain, quite at ease.
Seeing no sign of the wished-for breeze,
And little guessing what Furies fell
Fate was sending along his track.
Stepped serenely on shore again.
And tarried a moment to say farewell —
Alack-a-day ! alack !
Into his dory like light he flew.
Taking two of his trusty crew.
" Come ! " bawled desperate Captain McKown,
In a voice that shook the sleepy town —
" Stand to your oars with might and main !
Row, if you never row again !
If you can capture the Waterwitch —
One of you fellows, I don't care which —
Though he be as poor as a meadow-crane,
(And I've always sworn she should marry rich) —
Shall have my daughter Jane ! "
Roused by the unexpected spur —
For each had secretly sighed for her —
They never questioned nor made demur.
Nor paused for a jealous thrill —
No time for rivals to fume and frown —
And the two bluff sailors, brave and brown,
Possible husbands of Jane McKown,
Bent to the oars with a will ;
But every moment the wide, bright reach
Between their boat and the Waterwitch
Grew broader, broader still !
Vainly thej' pulled, and puffed, and swore ;
Vainly did streams of sweat down pour
448 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
From straining shoulder and bending back —
Limbs might labor and sinews crack,
But, pausing neither to veer or tack.
The wild Witch mocked at their white-oak breeze,
As, dancing and dipping with graceful ease.
She scudded along her foamy track.
And gained on the dory more and more —
Alack-a-day ! alack !
Merrily bowled the truant craft ;
Free as a soul that has never sinned,
She sped straight on ahead of the wind —
Her taut sails never a wrinkle stirred ;
The breeze and billows sang and laughed,
And her wroth pursuers heard,
As she flew along like a frigate-bird
And left them far abaft.
Without a shudder of straining sail
Did the runaway vessel ride,
Urged by the freshening of the gale.
And helped by the treacherous tide.
Afar from Boothbay's rocks and sand,
Out of sight of the gazing land.
Straight southeast did the vessel fly.
Into the mist 'twixt wave and sky ;
And long ere baffled Captain McKown,
Drenched and weary pulled back to town —
Too tired for rage and too wroth for speech —
His vessel was out of human reach.
With only her topsails, faint and dim.
Above the horizon's rim.
Gone forever I and who shall tell
Where she wandered and what befell,
Sooner or later the runawa}^
Restless rover from far Boothbay?
Did the ghosts of sailors long ago
Drowned in the salty depths below
Gather again their wave-bleached bones
From the greedy locker of Davy Jones,
And, climbing her side at dead of night,
Pallid and awful, a grewsome sight.
Spring to their places and shout, "Ay ! ay ! '
To a spectral captain's trumpet-cry.
And pull at the ropes, a ghastly row,
With a mocking chorus of, "Yo ! heave, ho ! "
Till the wild waves howled in fright?
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 449
And when, dismantled by storm and shock,
And the lightning's bolt and the whirlwind's force,
She plunged and drove toward a fatal rock,
Staggering blindly along her course,
Did the petrel, wraith of the raging deep,
Perch on the taffrail and weep, and weep.
While the winds wailed wild and hoarse ?
Or did some gracious and kindly breeze,
Sporting over the sunny seas.
Waft her lovingly — waft her far
From cruel lee-shore and treacherous bar
Which never a vessel unwrecked could pass —
To a realm of Neptune, far apart
From track of vessel or sweep of glass.
Whose lovely isles of enchanted ground
No rude discoverer ever found.
Or mariner noted upon his chart ?
Some wonderful archipelago,
Where crystal currents forever flow
Round meadows of fadeless green.
Where marvelous fruits and flowers grow,
Of richer flavor and brighter glow
Than any by mortal ever seen ;
Some Eden-garden of unspoiled bliss.
Where never the guileful serpent's hiss
Or forked tongue's persuasiveness
Has led the way to sin —
Since never a human footstep trod
The tender bloom of the virgin sod —
Or sorrow or strife has been ;
Where never the greed of man has made
The innocent birds and beasts afraid.
Or wronged their trust by the base intent
Of fell destruction, or bondage sore
Under the dread of his cruel ire ;
Or vexed the waters with keel or oar,
Or spoiled the forests with ax and fire,
Or made fair Nature his slave, and bent
Her strength to serve him, or scarred and rent
Her bosom for precious ore.
There, becalmed in some azure bay.
Does she softly drift and drift all day.
While round her the darting dolphins play,
And the nautilus spreads its sail.
450 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
While her idle canvas flaps alway
As the laDguorous breezes fail ;
And the gurgle about her lazy prow
Is sweet as the ripple in Cashmei'e's vale,
Or the jug-jug-jug, in a myrtle-bough,
Of the Persian nightingale ?
Or, safely moored, does she swing and swing,
While sirens sit in her shrouds and sing —
The same fair sirens which, oft and oft.
Since poets' and travelers' tales began.
Have lured to ruin the credulous, soft.
Susceptible heart of the sailor-man ?
While mermaids sporting about her keel.
Chase each other at hide and seek.
Or climb her side in a merr}^ freak,
And take their turns at the useless wheel ;
Or pelt each other with bells of foam.
Now in the wave and now in the air ;
Or lean on the bulwarks, and comb and comb
Their beautiful sea-green hair?
If these things chanced to the runaway,
In the far-off regions she wandered through.
After she vanished, that summer day.
From the eager eyes of all Boothbay
Which watched her as she flew ;
Or if, once hidden from human view.
She earned her name of the Waterwitch
By shipping at midnight a demon crew
Who howled and gibbered as up the shrouds
They swarmed and clambered in grislj^ crowds,
When sky and ocean were black as pitch.
While their evil eyes burned blue
With a blaze of the cold, uncanny light
Seen in a haunted crj^pt at night
Where spooks do walk — eheu ! —
And cruises yet under baleful stars,
A flying terror to voyaging tars —
No sailor or landsman, young or old,
Has ever in song or story told,
Because — he never knew.
The waves which bellow their fierce refrain
Against the storm-worn coast of Maine,
Beating themselves till they roar with pain,
No other clew afford
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 451
Than over and over again to say-
That once, on a sunny summer day,
Watched by the eyes of all Boothbay,
The eerie Waterwitch sailed away
With never a soul on board ;
And since, though over the broad blue bay-
Blows often and often a favoring breeze
And many a vessel, long away.
Has found and followed the homeward track,
That lonely i"Over of unknown seas
From the realm of ocean mysteries
Has never more come back —
Alack-a-day ! alack !
vni.
East Boothbay in 1838.
When Simeon McDougall came to East Boothbay with his
father there were but six houses north of the bridge : Caleb
Hodgdon and a rent near him, William Seavey in the Fishburn
place, John Gould, Benjamin Eeed where the late Silas Lee
Hodgdon lived, Eleazer Sherman in the Baker house, with a
small undertaking shop opposite, and Stephen Sawyer where J.
0. Seavey lives. James Montgomery lived near Murray Hill.
There were three houses on the south side of the bridge within
the present village limits. The trader, Hiscock, lived where
Michael Knight did later, Samuel Murray where Allen Murray-
does, and James Murray in the old square house. There was
no other house until the point is reached where George E.
Dodge lives ; Captain Smalley then lived there ; next southerly
Eben Farnham where Simon Farnham lives ; Capt. John Race
on the Whitehouse place ; Ezekiel Holbrook where his son
Eliphalet lives ; John Bennett where the late William Rowe
lived ; James Linekin opposite the house of Ephraim Linekin ;
Ephraim Linekin lived on the west side, property now owned
by the Eeed heirs ; John Poor next ; John Tibbetts where his
descendants do ; William Alley next, no house there now ;
then the Page house, now William Tibbetts' ; the Grimes fam-
ily, now summer propertj"^ ; John Bennett where Ocean Point
colony is now ; Benjamin Rackliff, at the elbow, where the
American Fisheries Company is now located.
452 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
IX.
The Haunted Hill.
David Colbath, who married Elizabeth Hutchings, 1771,
lived on top of the short, steep hill near the old Pinkham mill,
on the road to Dover. He was a blacksmith and after the
death of his wife lived alone. He was found dead some dis-
tance from his house, one morning, with wounds that indicated
murder, though no suspicion could ever be placed on any one
for the deed. But it was always believed that a crime was
committed, his condition when found could not otherwise be
accounted for. The old house went to ruins where he lived ;
the old cellar still marks the spot. The superstitious of the
time pointed it out, as they did "Alloway's auld haunted kirk,"
as a place where bogies dwelt. In passing by the place of
evenings for many years after men would quicken their pace
and cast quick, furtive glances to the right and left ; women
would scud like a boat before a gale ; lovers would suppress
even that low, soft tone and quicken step, while children would
not go by at all.
X.
Some Old Road Records.
Nov. 10, 1775, Town Meeting :
Voted that the road from the old Saw mill at the head of
Campbell's Cove to the Gut at Mr. Sawyer's Island laid out by
the selectmen be established.
March ye 18, 1777.
This day laid out a Road from freetown line to Samuel
Browns from thence to Joseph Perkinses from thence up the
hill as the road runs io Benjamin Rollinses by us.
Edward Emerson ) ^ r t> j
William Reed l^'"'^- °^ ^''^^'^
March ye 12, 1778.
This Day Laid out the Road beginning at the old Sawmill
from thence to the north side of the widow Sarah Reeds house
from thence to the South Side of Andrew Reeds ye 2d from
thence as the road goes past William Reeds into the main
Road from ye Harbour.
William McClintock >^„ j:x>„j„
fXT-tf T. J > Com. of Roads.
William Reed \
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 453
June 16, 1778.
This day laid out the Road beginning at the South Side of
Rock about 15 rods thence running about southwest over
green hill so called to John Montgombrys road at the easterly
end of John Dawses land and marked trees.
, Edward Emerson ) Com.
^ Joseph Lewis j of Roads.
July 18, 1778.
Laid out a Road beginning at Deacon Sawyer's Bridge run-
ning Northerly about 50 poles thence running East thro the
wood to Campbells meadow or in other words to Davice Bridge
so called and marked the trees &c.
Edward Emerson > Com. of
Joseph Lewis ^ Roads.
XL
Physicians.
Edward Creamer, who is often mentioned as a physician
about 1790, was trading at West Harbor in 1773 and was
probably at that date practicing medicine. He was plainly the
first physician in Boothbay. He lived easterly from where
Thomas Orne does. Dr. William Elliott, whose estate was
probated June 16, 1785, was a physician practicing in Booth-
bay. Dr. Frederick S. Arnold, who married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of John Matthews, 1788, was a practicing physician here.
Dr. Daniel Rose, who for education and general ability over-
shadowed all our earlier physicians, practiced in town from
about 1795 to 1823. He lived where John E. Kelley does
and went on horseback entirely, although several were riding
in two- wheeled vehicles before he left town.
Dr. Samuel Bush is mentioned in the records of 1798. Dr.
John Beardsley lived in a rented house of Nicholas T. Knight,
Boothbay Center, for several years following 1802. A copper
mortar which he used for compounding drugs is now among
other old curiosities in the possession of Mrs. Maria Marson.
During those years Dr. John Stockbridge was also located in
town. Dr. Charles Fisher, who married Jennet Fullerton,
died in 1818 at the age of foi-ty-six years. They were married
in 1811 and his settlement here only shortly preceded that
event. The town records show the employment of a Doctor
Mann in 1816.
454 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Dr. Ebenezer Wells settled at the Harbor before 1823 and
soon after commenced the house at Church Square known as
the Emerson homestead, but while that was in an unfinished
condition he sold to Dr. Thomas H. Merrill. Doctor Merrill
completed the house and resided there while in town. He was
twice married, first in 1823, which marks about the time he
located here, and second in 1827, to a Portland ladj'^, where he
removed to soon after. He sold to Dr. D. K. Kennedy, who
remained in town some ten or twelve years and then moved to
Wiscasset.
Dr. Sidney B. Cushman, son of Rev. David Q. Cushman,
was in Boothbay from 1837 to 1840. Dr. David Folsom is
first noted in private accounts in 1842 ; he remained a few
years in town after that date and may have been here earlier.
Dr. Alden Blossom located at Boothbay Harbor August 1, 1843,
continuing practice until nearly the time of his death (see fam-
ily sketch). Dr. Reuel W. Lawson settled that year where
the late James Wesley Reed lived and continued until after
1865, when he moved elsewhere, dying November 29, 1874, in
Somerville, Mass. Dr. Joseph E. Corlew was in practice in
town as early as 1844 and as late as 1847. A Doctor Proctor
was here in the early fifties. Dr. George F. Jackson located
here and built the house on the Avenue now owned by Fred
C. Blake just prior to 1856 ; he removed soon after and was
succeeded by Dr. Joseph A. Ci-owell.
Several physicians located for a short time at Boothbay
Harbor in the seventies and eighties. Among these may be
mentioned Dr. Charles A. Price, of Richmond, before 1880 ;
Dr. J. A. Beecher, homeopathist, 1881 ; a Doctor Curtis, who
came from Houlton in Julj^ 1880, returning there a few months
later; a Doctor Barton, who was here in 1885, living in the
Newbegin house ; Doctor Nute, in 1882. Dr. W. R. Johnson,
dentist, came here from Portland in 1882, but selling his busi-
ness to Dr. O. W. Baker, in 1884, he returned to Portland.
Dr. John F. Hill, after teaching in Boothbay Harbor, located
here in practice in 1879 ; but business prospects led him to
give up his profession and locate in Augusta, where he became
a member of the extensive publishing house of Vickery & Hill,
becoming Governor of Maine from 1901 to 1905.
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 455
Dr. John A. Carter came to Boothbay Harbor in 1862.
For a time he had quarters at the Weymouth House, but about
1880 he purchased the Methodist Chapel on West Street and
remodeled it with additions, making a double tenement house,
where he afterward lived. He came here from Sabattus. His
wife, Ellen M., died January 10, 1881, aged forty-five years.
He died September 28, 1893, aged seventy-three years. He
was a man of public spirit with good attainments, but of frail
health.
Dr. Frank H. Crocker, a graduate of Bowdoin College and
its medical school, a native of Machias, settled in Boothbay
Harbor in 1882. He built the house now owned by Dr. O. W.
Baker, where he lived until 1891, when for business reasons he
returned to Machias. A few years later he located in Gardiner,
where he died, June 12, 1903. He held a good and increasing
practice through his nine years here.
XH.
Eden by the Sea.
When Nature carved those ragged rocks that form
Our rugged coast, and scooped those devious
Paths by which the sea comes up to view the
Land, and see her country cousins, with taste
Artistic, and with skill made perfect by
Trials many, and in divers places.
In plan original, she undertook
To make a Harbor where fishing craft might
Feel at home and merchant ships stay over
Night, or till the storm was past. When finished
Men came to see it from afar, and fell
In love with what they saw, and would not go
Away to stay, but only to bring their
Loved ones back, build them houses, and tax
Both sea and land to find them nourishment.
Houses were built, and people multiplied.
Until the stranger thought that while men slept
There was a shower, not of meteors,
But of homes, each replete with life, and filled
With comfort. They built them schools and churches,
Opened stores. A reverent. God-fearing, sober.
Honest race. No wonder that they
Prospered. More came to see and more to stay,
Till now the place is one vast hive. Workers
456 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
And those in search of pleasure or of health
Combined to lend it charms, and spread its fame.
This Eden by the Sea, what do men call it?
Why ! Boothbay Harbor ! one of the fairest
Pearls round Ocean's neck, one of the rarest
Gems in fair Atlantic's crown.
Donald McCormick.
XIII.
Newspapers.
The first newspaper established in town was by B. T. Cox,
who issued the first number of the Boothbay Register December
9, 1876. It was a sheet of four pages, size 7 1-4 by 10 1-2.
It carried twelve columns, three to each page. The local
advertisers in that number, in order, were as follows : R. J.
Cushing, watches and jewelry ; M. E. Beal, Southport, general
store ; W. C. Clisby, livery stable ; S. Averill, Wiscasset and
Boothbay Stage Line; S. Howard, fish; S. Boyd, real estate;
W. G. Lewis, general store ; J. C. Poole, sailmaking and ship
chandlery ; Levi Burns, blacksmith ; "Ward Adams, tailor ;
Boothbay Savings Bank, D. W. Sawj^er, treasurer; R. G.
Hodgdon, clothing and furnishing goods ; A. P. Wylie, boots
and shoes ; D. W. Hodgdon, groceries and grain ; Miss S. J.
Emerson, variety store ; K. H. Richards, groceries ; M. D.
McKown, boat builder ; E. L. Giles, stationery and confec-
tionery ; N. H. Hussey, dry goods ; H. A. Kennedy, hard-
ware and stoves.
It contained one obituary notice, that of Lydia P. Beath,
who had been postmaster at the Harbor for over sixteen years.
It mentions that the Boothbay Savings Bank has total deposits
of $18,000. The lease of Campbell's Ponds for ice cutting by
the Knickerbocker Ice Company had just been effected and
buildings were going up. The Mouse Island Company was
erecting a hotel on that island. East Boothbay Village had
just completed their new school building. The work going on
in the East Boothbay shipyards of William Adams & Son and
McDougall & Seavey was recorded, and a list of taxpayers
paying over $100 was given which will be reproduced :
CumberlandBoneCo., $593.50 Suffolk Oil Co., $253.32
L. Maddocks, 462.94 Cyrus McKown, 235.11
MONOSEAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 457
Atlantic Oil Co., $187.00 Heirs of Benj. Reed, $163.03
Gallup & Holmes, 185.00 Allen Lewis, 156.34
S. G. Hodffdon, 184.10 Heirs JohnMcClintock,138. 97
Moses R. White, 175.96 Gallup, Morgan & Co., 113.45
Kenniston,Cobb&Co., 168.30 A. P. Hodgdon, 106.31
The Begisier was published weekly at fifty cents per year.
The office was in R. G. Hodgdon's clothing store. It was
increased January 5, 1878, to a size 10 by 13 1-2, sixteen col-
umns. It then carried five columns of advertising. In Janu-
ary, 1880, it was enlarged to 13 1-2 by 19 1-2, at which size
it remained while published by Mr. Cox, a part of the time,
however, six pages, and sometimes eight pages.
In the spring of 1888 eight persons, six of whom were res-
idents of Boothbay Harbor, associated under the name of the
Boothbay Publishing Company and purchased the name and
subscription list of the former publisher. He took his material
and removed to Tennessee, where he died a few years later.
The new company purchased a cylinder press, two job presses,
new type and other material, issuing the first number of the
Begisier, in its present form and size, Saturday, May 25, 1888.
F. B. Greene, one of the associates, acted as editor and man-
ager through forty-seven issues, when he felt obliged to give
his whole attention to his own affairs and the plant was leased
to Joseph Burgess, Waterbury, Conn. A few months later a
sale of the plant was made to Charles E. Kendrick, a former
merchant of the town, who had then recently disposed of his
business. Mr. Kendrick has continued owner and editor to
the present.
John O'Brien started a paper called the Boothbay Becorder
in 1881. The presswork and composition were both done in
Bath. Not receiving sufficient encouragement publication was
soon discontinued. It reached l)ut few numbers.
A paper called the Boothbay Advance appeared Wednesday,
June 24, 1885. Its editor and publisher was Arthur Fultz.
A struggling effort was kept up in publication until the spring
of 1888, when it was discontinued. At that time the commu-
nitj^ was somewhat divided in support of the Begister and the
Advance and neither prospered. A clear field was open to the
Boothbay Publishing Company when they started, and that
establishment has enjoyed a growing patronage.
30
458 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
XIV.
Banks.
The Boothbay Savings Bank was incorporated February 5,
1872 ; on the 29th of that month they organized, and elected
Allen Lewis, President ; D. W. Sawyer, Vice President, and
W. F. McClintock, Secretary and Treasurer. The trustees
were Allen Lewis, D. W. Sawyer, Luther Maddocks, Robert
Montgomery and W. F. McClintock. It was opened for busi-
ness April 10, 1872. Its first report, as it existed September
30, 1872, showed:
*823.75
$823.75
On January 22, 1873, M. E. Pierce was elected secretary
and treasurer, and he was succeeded by D. W. Sawyer Janu-
ary 22, 1876. On January 15, 1877, the trustees voted the
treasurer $66.33 for the last year's services. Moses R. "White
was elected president January 17, 1883. R. G. Hodgdon suc-
ceeded at the decease of Mr. White, his election dating January
17, 1893. D. W. Sawyer sent in his resignation as ti'easurer
October 10, 1886, and on January 18, 1887, Byron C. Mat-
thews was chosen his successor. Others who have served as
trustees have been Moses R. White, Cyrus McKown, M. E.
Pierce, R. G. Hodgdon, Joseph Nickerson, John H. Blair,
George B. Kenniston, Alonzo R. Nickerson, Isaiah Lewis,
Samuel Boyd, Keyes H. Richards, AVillard T. Marr.
A fair impression of the growth, benefit and conservative
management of this l)ank may be gathered from the following
exhibit :
Deposits October 14, 1905, $329,573.68
Reserve fund, 18,678.59
Undivided profits, 5,817.25
Liabilities.
Deposits,
Profits,
S813.25
10.50
Besources.
Notes secured by collaterals,
Cash on hand and deposit,
Expenses,
$350.00
403.12
70.63
$354,069.52
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 459
Dividends paid and credited depositors, first year, $ 50.98
1905, 10,068.64
Total State tax paid since organization, I 34,589.67
Total dividends paid depositors since organization, 163,015.98
The first location of the bank was on Atlantic Street, in
the counting room of M. E. Pierce's store. Soon after the
election of Mr. Sawyer as treasurer it was moved to a wooden
building standing where Gregory's Block now stands. From
there to its present situation it was moved in 1886.
The First National Bank of Boothbay Harbor was organized
and opened for business October 15, 1900, with the following
officers, who continue to the present : K. H. Richards, Presi-
dent; O. S. Yates, Vice President; John A. Haddocks,
Cashier ; Sewall T. Maddocks, Assistant Cashier, with C. E.
Tupper, C. J. Marr, K. H. Richards, Fred H. Harris, C. M.
Cook, O. S. Yates, A. H. Davenport, Thomas W. Baldwin,
John A. Maddocks, Directors. The first statement, issued
December 13, 1900, showed deposits of $24,192.72. The
statement of date September 25, 1905, showed :
Capital stock, $25,000.00
Surplus and profits, 9,551.04
Circulation, 25,000.00
Deposits, 124,704.00
$184,255.04
The number of deposit accounts at the close of 1905 were 423.
A savings department was opened in March, 1903.
XV.
Postal Affairs.
On April 23, 1793, the Portland postmaster gave public
notice that after that date mails would leave that office at six
o'clock A. M., Mondays, arriving at Wiscasset at one p. m.,
Tuesdays; returning, leave Wiscasset Thursdays at six a. m.,
arriving in Portland at one p. m., Fridays. In 1794 the post
route was extended to Camden and post offices were established
there and in Thomaston and Warren. There was no post office
nearer than that at Wiscasset until one was established in
Boothbay in 1805. A complete list of postmasters for each
office, together with dates of establishment and terms of ser-
460 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AT.
vice, is given on pages 305-308. By consultation of family
records and maps, where the ofBces have been kept may be
easily determined.
Postage stamps were not authorized until 1847 and prepay-
ment of postage was not compulsory until June 1, 1856. A
uniform rate of postage was first established in 1863. Previ-
ous to that date postal rates were governed by the distance.
There was one rate for Boston, another for New York, still
others for places at greater distances. At one time the rate
was two shillings from Boothbay to New Orleans. It may
often be observed in ledgers from our old business concerns
that postage was charged like anything which might have been
purchased at the store. One trip a week constituted the service
from Wiscasset to Boothbay from 1805 to 1840, when that
service was succeeded by two trips per week, Tuesdaj'^s and
Fridays. These sufficed until 1860, when the service became
tri- weekly. In 1871, by representations of our representative
in the Legislature, George B. Kenniston, of the wants of the
community, without petition, to Hon. James G. Blaine, daily
service was established through his influence at the department.
Since that time service has gradually increased until the
present. During the summer season ten separate mails arrive
and the same number leave the office daily, as follows : two
from and to Bath by boat ; two from and to Wiscasset by
stage ; two from and to East Boothbay and Linekin by stage ;
one each way between here and Monhegau, West Boothbay
Harbor, Squirrel Island and Bayville. In winter the last two
are discontinued and Monhegan reduced to tri-weekly ; also
one Bath and one East Boothbay trip is canceled. The a. m.
boat trip down from Bath, returning in p. m., formerly com-
menced after July 4th, continuing until September 1st : now
it commences May 1st, running until September 20th. The
first rural delivery, with Fred Robie Kelley as carrier, was
established June 1, 1905, from the Boothbay office, covei'ing
twenty-two and one-half miles, running out in each direction
from the Center. When but one office existed in town, in
1826, the total postal receipts of Boothbay were $56.28. In
1895 the gross receipts of the Boothbay Harbor office were
$1,711.30; nine years later, for 1904, they reached at the
same office $3, 890^51.
MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS. 461
XVI.
The Ice Business.
This business was first commenced on a large scale when
the Knickerbocker Ice Company leased the Campbell's Ponds
and erected their houses at the shore, opposite Hodgdon's
Island, in 1876. That plant has exceeded all others up to the
present, having buildings of greater capacity and more capital
invested. It is now merged in the Metropolitan Ice Company.
Following this the Maine Ice Company, C. B. Church, Wash-
ington, D. C, president, was established at West Harbor,
where by damming Campbell's Cove that sheet of water was
transformed into an ioe pond. The superintendents were Eben
Haley and A. M. Powers. This concern was sold to Luther
Maddocks, C. R. Tupper, G. P. Hodgdon and George W.
Greenleaf in 1904, and is now operated by Luther Maddocks,
lessee of the others' interests. It has valuable features, like the
Metropolitan Company, for winter shipping as well as storage.
Other ice establishments now doing business are the Booth-
bay Harbor Ice Company, Mill Cove ; Meri'ill Lewis, Lewis
Pond ; William E. Sawyer, Southport ; F. C. Littlefield & Co.,
Atlantic Street ; Frank Blake, East Boothbay : Samuel Boyd,
Bayville. Luther Maddocks has in the past operated at Mill
Cove, Echo Lake and other ponds ; and, for a time, D. W.
Hodgdon cut at Echo Lake. Besides an unusual home con-
sumption, by means of the summer resorts, a great market for
ice has been made in recent years on account of so much of the
coast bait trade centering here.
FAMILY HISTORY.
FAMILY HISTORY.
A CAREFUL study of the early population of Townsend
will cause one to arrive at two leading conclusions :
first, that the early settlers about the Harbor, who
were, practically, all Scotch from the north of Ireland, were
made up of a colony, for the most part, the members of which
were acquainted in Scotland before emigrating, and in several
instances related by intermarriage in that country ; second,
that the settlement next in importance, occurring some twenty
to thirty years later about Dover, Back River and North Booth-
bay, was made by families from about Dover, Durham and Mad-
bury, in New Hampshire, and York, Kittery, Berwick, Wells and
Kennebunk, in Maine, and that these families, like the others,
were acquainted and in many instances related before coming
here. A comparatively small area from the three counties,
Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone, Ireland, sent the one clan,
while the territorj' the principal part of which was composed
by the eight towns named sent the other. The Scotch element
came for the most part in the fall of 1730, but others of the
same blood and fatherland, already in Massachusetts or New
Hampshire, were added soon after, like the Beaths who came
in 1731. Now and then a family came later from Ireland to
join them, like the Reeds, in 1743, the McKowns, in 1763, or
Leishman, in 1764.
The coming of those settling in the northern part of the
town was not so concerted, for the distance was not so great
nor the effort so much. It was more irregular, but bearing
evidences of the influence that acquaintance and relationship
exert in such cases.
To produce some instances in support of my conclusions in
this matter : William Fullerton, oldest of the name in Towns-
end, married Jennet Beath, sister to Walter Beath, oldest of
his family here, some years before coming to America. A
466 HI8TOEY OF BOOTHS AY.
genealogist in the Beath family, who has made much research
in her lineage, finds an Affa McFauland married by one of the
Beath ancestry and a Jennet Montgomery by another, genera-
tions before American soil was reached. The wife of Andrew
Reed was Jean Murray, who was an aunt to the Rev. John
Murray and thought to be related to the other John Murray
who founded the family of that name in these towns. The Rev.
John Murray was a cousin to Patrick McKown, the founder of
that family. The mother of Patrick McKown was Nancy Ford,
related to Abner Ford, a Dunbar immigrant. The Reed and
McCulloch families were related by marriage before coming to
America. Several other similar instances exist. The Boyds
and Montgomerys were from the same locality in Ireland as
those who came in here under Dunbar, and there are abundant
indications that they came into the neighboring settlement of
Pemaquid at the time the others settled in Townsend. Later
both families came across the Damariscotta, but settled by its
banks and thus were midway between their kin and friends on
either side.
Now let us view the northern neighborhood. Joseph Giles,
first of his name in town, married Martha, sister to Benjamin
Pinkham, who founded that family here. Back in Dover, N.
H., we find the marriage of Mark Giles, grandfather of Joseph,
the Townsend pioneer, to Lydia Tibbetts, a collateral line to
the ancestors of the present Tibbetts family in Boothbay.
Then Nathaniel Tibbetts, who founded the Boothbay family,
married Elizabeth Giles, sister to Joseph. At the start, proba-
bly before settling in Townsend, the two pioneers of the Barter
and Matthews families intermarried. John Matthews married
Jennet Barter and Joseph Barter married Lydia Matthews.
These relationships may be shown in many other instances,
but I feel impressed that the reader, with the suggestions I
have prefatorily presented, together with the consideration of
the several family records, will arrive at a similar conclusion.
I have made the greater part of my effort to rescue the oldest
first. No structure is of much consequence if the base is
defective. Therefore I have tried to reach each family when
its founder came upon Townsend or Boothbay soil and give a
careful trace to the present. The earliest members of each
FAMILY HISTORY. 467
family have received the most careful attention, for if those
old matters are not now put in print it will become more diffi-
cult to do so as time progresses, records become lost or worn
out, and the aged people, those links between the past and
present, are no more.
The limits of this volume enforce a method of condensation
in form, but it is believed that the form affords a clear and
perfect understanding of the descent and relationship. "While
a similarity exists, there are several new features in the form
in which the family records are presented, varying considerably
from the usual plan. I have divided the extinct names from
the existing ones in the towns, and from the importance of the
former in their time, and their connection to the present through
intermarriages and descent through female lines, present them,
but in briefer form. Many names appear upon the early rec-
ords that I failed to connect with present families, which I
dropped.
Some difficulty has been experienced in case of the Hodg-
don and Dunton families, the early members in each case being
partly in Boothbay and partly in Westport. A similar diffi-
culty has occurred to mar satisfactory work on the families of
Burnham, Dodge and Sherman, living partly in Boothbay and
partly in Edgecomb. Omissions and errors must be expected
among so many dates, and the considerate reader, who realizes
that town, probate and family records often fail to agree, will,
I trust, be lenient in such cases. A visit to any of our ceme-
teries is all that is needed to indicate the percentage who have
had no stone erected to their memories. The Southport rec-
ords, as is well known, were burned a few years ago, so that
very little relating to the families in that town is to be had
except that existing on the old Boothbay books prior to 1842.
I will here make the suggestion that it would be an easy matter
in a town of that size to obtain from each family its own rec-
ord and properly transcribe it. A continuation from what is
presented in these pages could at this time be easilj' made by
each family, thus preserving for descendants an unbroken rec-
ord of ancestry. The following abbreviations will be used to
save useless repetitions.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
a., aged.
ae., in the year of.
abt., about.
b., born.
bap., baptized.
bet., between.
Cas., Casualty Chapter.
chil., children.
coll., college.
com., commission.
d., died or death.
dau., daughter.
fam., family.
grad., graduated.
inf., infancy.
inv., inventory.
m., married or marriage.
n. d., no date.
pub., published.
prob., probated.
q. v., which see.
rec, record.
res., resides or resided.
rem., removed.
set., settled.
8. p., sine prole, no children.
unk., unknown.
unm., unmarried.
w., wife.
wid., widow.
B., Boothbay.
B. Ctr., Boothbay Center.
B. H., Boothbay Harbor.
Bre., Bremen.
Bris., Bristol.
Dam., Damariscotta.
Dres., Dresden.
E. B., East Boothbay.
Edge., Edgecomb.
Is., Island.
Jeff., Jefferson.
Mon., Monhegan.
New., Newcastle.
Noble., Nobleboro.
No. B., North Boothbay.
South., Southport.
Wal., Waldoboro.
West., Westport.
Wis., Wiscasset.
White., Whitefield.
PAET I.
Extinct Names.
Andrews.
John Andrews was b. in Ipswich, Mass. He m. Patty, dau. of Daniel
and Mary Knight, 1794, and set. in No. Yarmouth, from where he moved to
Bris. in 1808. He then bought Fisherman's Island and one-half of Damaris-
cove of his wife's father and engaged in sheep-raising. In 1812 he bought
part of the McFarland property at the head of the Harbor and a few years
later commenced bank fishing, running one vessel, the Six Brothers. Their
chil. were : I, Jeremiah, m. Elizabeth Bumham, Essex, Mass. II, Sarah,
m. Ebenezer Clifford. Ill, Mary, m. William Robinson, White. IV, Ehza-
beth, m. Winthrop Andrews. V, Sophia, m. Baker Elliott, Boston. VI,
John, Jr., m. Susan, dau. of Edward B. Sargent. Jeremiah and John, Jr.,
succeeded to the business and later sold to Paul and Benjamin Harris. Jere-
miah then moved to Ipswich, where he d. at middle age. John built where
the late Sewall S. Wylie lived and engaged in brickmaking, his yard being
at the head of the Harbor. He sold to Wylie in 1858 and moved to Mouse
Is., where he built and lived until 1864. He then moved to Falmouth and
d. in Portland in 1891. His wife d. in 1886. Their chil. : Angelia, Emma
A., Euphesena E., Martha S., Elliott B., Sarah P., Rosaline.
Ball.
Samuel and Mary Ball lived at Pig Cove. He d. in 1800. The known
chil. were: I, Levi, m. Judy Crommett, 1788. II, Thomas, m. (1) Sarah
Holbrook, 1794 ; (2) Betsey Horn, 1795. Ill, Sally, m. Solomon Pinkham,
Jr., 1796. IV, a dau. who m. Amos Gray, an early owner of Squirrel Is.,
where they lived. Levi Ball had a dau., Sally, whom. Ebenezer Decker,
1806. The family set. at Pig Cove abt. the close of the Rev. War.
Thomas and Caroline Babb lived on South. They had six chil., b. bet.
1830-41 : Mary Eliza, Alexander Bennett, Nancy J., Zebulon G., Caroline,
Angelia.
Booker.
This fam. lived at what was known as Hardscrabble, on road bet. B. H.
and E. B. Five of them were in the Rev. War. Joseph Booker, at advanced
age, d. Nov. 8, 1830. He had two sons, Joseph, Jr., and John, both of whom
had fams. Chil. in these fams. were b. bet. 1815-30. They were intermar-
ried with the fams. of Bryer, Wheeler, Rackliff, Hutchings, Lewis and others.
Borland.
Capt. John Borland was b. in Ireland, Apr. 1, 1752; was living in B. in
470 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
1778, when he m. Mrs. Sarah Campbell. See tables for official positions.
He rem. to Dam. Mills abt. 1796, dying there Oct. 11, 1814 ; his wife d. Jan.
7, 1827. A son kept the hotel there for many years. His chil. were b. in B.
except the youngest, and bet. 1779-96. They were : Sally, John, Jr., Sam-
uel, James, Polly, Betsey C. He lived in No. B. He was a prominent ship-
builder in his later years at Dam.
Carlton.
Stephen and Hannah Carlton lived in B., opposite where Dennis S.
Wylie does. He was an influential man in town affairs and appears in the
official tables. They are thought to have moved into the interior of Maine
soon after 1800. Their chil., b. bet. 1787-1801, were: Joshua, Sarah G.,
Charlotte O., Payson.
Caswell.
Several of this name appear irregularly in early records, but one fam. is
fully recorded, that of Samuel and Hepsibah. They lived at the southern
end of Barter's Is. Eight chil. were b. bet. 1818-37, viz. : Samuel, Jr., Sally,
Eunice, Rufus, Jason, Thomas, Alfred, Phineas. The father d. Dec. 5, 1837.
Catland (Catlin).
The early records show several publishments of members of this fam.
They were numerous in New. and Bris. Only one fam. lived in B., Joseph,
who m. Betsey Adams, 1802. They had three sons, b. bet. 1803-08, Ira,
Joshua and Joseph, Jr. The father d. May 18, 1808.
Chaples.
Nothing in B. history has a more romantic touch than the traditions that
have come down to us about John Chaples. He set. alone at Cape Nevvagen
probably as early as 1760. It has been said that his correct name was Chap-
pelle, but anything as to antecedents is entirely wanting. The early settlers
about the island, who found him there when they came, always regarded
him mysteriously. He was said to have been a fugitive from crime. Some
thought him to have been a buccaneer, in fact various were the stories
attached to him and his career. He built his cabin abt. six rods northerly
from the shore, opposite the rocky island just west from Jerry's Is. About
ten rods southwesterly from his old abode is the famous Chaples Chair, in
the rocks and crags at the shore, where he was wont to sit, watching for sea
birds, upon which he largely lived. He brought a wife there and they had
chil., how many is not known. He had a son, John, Jr., who in turn had a
son of the same name. The last John was last of the name in town. He lived
until 1865. His wife, Cordelia, d. May, 1863. They had two daus., Filinda,
b. 1856, and Elida, b. 1858. The original settler had a dau. who m. Corne-
lius Horn, 1772. Her name is recorded Masse, and it is said of her that she
was little short of a giantess. Her sons were men of great size and strength.
Her husband was a runaway sailor from a vessel lying at Damariscove Har-
bor. He constructed a raft and reached Cape Newagen, taking refuge with
Chaples' fam. His name was Cornelius Conrad, which he at once changed
to Horn. From this m. sprang the Horn fam., now extinct, that by clerical
errors has been sometimes confounded with Ome. John Chaples in his later
years, and his sons afterward, conducted a fishing business at the Cape.
FAMILY HISTORY. 471
Crommett (Crummett).
John Crommett lived at the Harbor and was a constable in 1767. His
antecedents are unk. His w.'s name is unk. They had five chil. ; I, Eliza-
beth, m. Thomas Rives, Jeremisquam, 1771. II, Judith, b. 1763, m Levi
Ball, 1788. Ill, Martha, m. Stephen Rollings, 1786. IV, Jeremiah, m. (1)
Sarah Floyd, 1777; (2) Judith Knights, 1780. V, Joshua, m. Sarah Adams,
1790. Both sons were prominent in town affairs. Jeremiah's chil. were b.
bet. 1783-90: Rebecca, Abigail, Martha, Elizabeth. Joshua's chil. were;
Sally, Jane, Patty, John, Rebecca, Polly, Nancy, Joshua. He moved with
his fam. to China, where he d. Oct. 24, 1852 ; his w. d. Mar. 25, 1830.
Currier.
William Currier m. Patience Smith, 1801. They lived on South., north-
erly from Gray's, on the east shore, but do not appear in the records after
1835. They had ten chil.: Eleanor, 1802; Sarah, 1804; William, 1805;
Jacob, 1807; Almira, 1809; Benjamin S., 1811; Marj', 1812; Elijah, 1815;
John S., 1817; Joseph S., 1819. The father and son Elijah d. 1819. leaving
the mother with nine chil. Benjamin became master of a fishing schooner
before reaching his fifteenth birthday. He had a successful and eventful
career at sea and set. in San Francisco, where he published an autobiogra-
phy, covering his career, in 1880. His descendants live in California. The
other members of this fam. are not traced.
Davis.
Israel Davis came to B. before 1750. He m. Sarah, dau. of John and
Lydia McFarland. He lived near the head of Campbell's Cove, was mod-
erator of the first town meeting in B. and captain during the Rev. War. He
was a leading citizen. He sold Thomas Hodgdon, Jeremisquam, 200 acres
of land, Sept. 21, 1767, situated bet. the Campbell's Ponds and Cove and the
Sheepscot. They had eight chil.: Charles, 1750; Sarah, 1751; Hannah,
1755; Israel, Jr., 1757; Betty, 1763; John Dresser, 1766; Prudence, 1768;
Mary, 1772. Of the above, Hannah m. Andrew Reed, son of Henry, 1773.
The mother d. Sept. 20, 1772. At the close of the Rev. War the fam. moved
to Pownalboro.
Daws (Dawes, Dawse).
Ebenezer Daws set. among the rest of the early ones at Back River,
coming from the westward. His w.'s name is unk., but tradition says she
was sister to John Matthews. They are known to have had two sons, John
and Jonathan. The Back River home was where Albion Lewis lives. John
m. Mary, sister to Patrick McKown, coming with her brother to America,
1763. They were m. in 1768. Their home was where the Dolloff homestead
was, on road from E. B. to B. Ctr. They first built a log house, but later
the frame one now on the place, which was the first building contract taken
by John, Jr., and Thomas Leishman. They had no chil. In Patrick Mc-
Kown's will, 1779, occurs the clause that his sister should ' ' take my youngest
son, John, and my daughter, Nancy, as her own." This son became the
well-known Major John McKown and the dau. m. John Ingraham. John
Daws was a sea captain, in the foreign trade; he d. Nov. 4, 1811. She lived
many years in Major McKown's fam., but boarded with the Handleys in her
last years at her old home. She d. Dec. 10, 1825, a. 83. Jonathan Daws m.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
chil., b. bet. 1770-88: John, Lydia, Mary, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Lois, Abi-
gail, Patty, Jenny, Sally. The father was a sea captain and d. Mar. 27, 1812.
The chil. set. elsewhere.
Dixon.
John and Dianna Dixon lived on McKown's Point and reared a fam. of
eleven chil. Though nine of these were sons not one appears on the tax list
of either town now. They follow: John, Jr., 1847; George William, 1849;
Eden S., 1851; Eugene, 1853; Josiah F., 1865; Amanda O., 1857; Franklin,
1859; Albion J., 1861; Jacob E., 1802; Ulysses S. G., 1867; Lillian, 1870.
The father d. June 8, 1883; the mother d. Apr. 12, 1885. Nearly all of the
sons followed the sea.
Dole.
Nathan Dole, a native of Pownalboro, m. Mary, dau. of John and Jennet
Matthews, after the d. of his first w. He set. in 1793, date of second m., on
the farm now owned by Paul Conkling, building a house near the creek.
Three sons by first m. are untraced; by the second were three daus., b. bet.
1794-1806, Anna, Sarah, Phebe. The father d. June 28, 1830.
DURANT.
William Durant was b. in France and came to America under Lafayette
to take part in the Rev. War. In our early records his name is spelled to
follow the pronunciation (Durong). He set. in B. before 1790, for that year
he m. Ruth Burnham. Later he rem. to Edge, and then returned to B., set-
tling near B. Ctr. They had four chil.: I, William, Jr., b. 1792. IL David,
unm. Ill, Hannah, m. Pearson Burnham. IV, Martha, m. Martin;
set. in Portland.
William Durant, Jr., m. (1) Hannah, dau. of Andrew and Hannah Reed,
1817; (2) Mrs. Jane Kennedy, 1839. They lived on the homestead near the
Ctr. Their chil. were: I, Mary A., b. Oct. 8, 1818; m. Edwin Auld, q. v.
II, Sarah G., b. Dec. 9, 1820; m. (1) David Harvey; (2) James G. Pierce. Ill,
Jane L., b. Jan. 30, 1823; m. Elbridge Love, q. v. IV, Ephraim Reed, b.
Aug. 31, 1825; d. 1839, see Cas. V, John, bom Aug. 2, 1829, q. v. VI,
Margaret M. VII, Rosanna Auld, m. Rufus Campbell, q. v. The father d.
Feb. 16, 1865; the mother d. Aug. 29, 1838.
John Durant m. Sarah Dunton, West. ; lived on homestead. He sold to
H. M. Miller and rem. to Waterville; now dec.
FULLERTON.
1 William Fullerton came to America from the county of Tyrone, Ire-
land, in 1728. The immigrants making up the company of which he and his fam.
were members intended going to Philadelphia, but for some unknown reason
they came into the Kennebec River and part or all landed on Arrowsic, oppo-
site Phippsburg Ctr. There they remained until Dunbar settled at Pemaquid
and then, on account of the inducements, which they called "large encour.
agements," that he held out to settlers in the three towns he was trying to
establish, they went first to Pemaquid, and finally to Townsend in the fall of
1730.
There is strong reason to believe that the vessel that brought the Fuller-
tons to Arrowsic also brought the McCobbs, McKecknies, McFarlands,
FAMILY HISTORY. 473
McCullochs, Bryants, Browns, Maguires, TuUys, Fords and others. The
strongest reason for this belief is that most of these families were related by
intermarriage in Scotland; all had come from practically the same locality in
that country; we have no record of these families anywhere else previous to
1730, and in that year they had gathered, responsive to Dunbar's efforts, and
came into Townsend from Pemaquid at one time. A slighter reason, but still
one of some force, is the fact that James McCobb, brother to Samuel, who
has been called the leader of the immigration here, made a very brief stay in
Townsend and located at Georgetown, where he became a leading resident.
He would hardly have taken this course, leaving relatives and friends here,
if he had possessed no previous acquaintance there.
William Fullerton was b. abt. 16S0 and m. Jennett, sister to Walter Beath.
They had four chil. Two sons had preceded them to Philadelphia, of whom
we have no further trace. He located just north of the Smith house on Oak
St., and if a log house was first built it was early succeeded by a stone one,
which became the garrison of the colony during the French and Indian War.
There is no positive knowledge as to the time of his death or that of his wife.
He made a deed Oct. 15, 1754, to his son, William, Jr., of his dwelling house
and land in "Townsend, County of York," consisting of 106 acres, bounded:
"South-east by the cove, south-west by land of William Moore, north-west
by undivided land, north-east by land of William Fullerton, Jr." His wife's
signature does not appear, and the reasonable presumption is that she was
then deceased. This deed was not recorded until Mar. 6, 1762, and then was
entered in Lincoln Couijty. This deed to his son was probably in lieu of a
will and was placed on record soon after his decease. The property con-
veyed reached the Harbor near Miller Block, running up to its head, or, per-
haps, slightly farther, and constituted a tract lying between Moore's Rock
and the house of the late Benjamin Blair, including Fisher's Hill and north-
erly far enough to make 106 acres. Their chil. were:
*2 William, Jr., b. 1705, q. v.
3 Margaret, b. 1714; m. John Beath, q. v.; d. Oct. 13, 1813. The sons
who located at Philadelphia were probably b. bet. these chil.
Second Generation.
(*2) William- Fullerton, Jr. ( iVil/iam^). The name of his wife is unk.
It is not known whether or not he was m. upon his coming to America, but
it is thought that he m. after settling in Townsend, abt. 1731-32. His home
through his life was where the late Benjamin Blair lived, on Oak St. On
Dec. 26, 1763, he took a deed of Silvester Gardiner of land abutting, west-
erly, on the McFarland property and running northerly 374 rods toward the
Center. This purchase by him, together with what he already possessed,
made the Fullerton family nearly as large land owners as the McFarlands.
His family is unrecorded, neither are there gravestones found to his parents,
himself or his wife, and our record is made from several detached sources.
Children:
4 James, b. 1733; m. Martha Hutchinson, Woolwich; set. there, where
he was living in 1798.
5 Elizabeth, b. 1735; m. William Gilmore, Woolwich, 1761.
6 Margery, b. 1737; m. Patrick McKown, q. v.
*7 John, b. 1739, q. v.
8 Margaret, b. 1741; m. William McClintock, q. v.
9 Jennett, b. 1743; m. David Gilmore, Woolwich.
474 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
10 Marian, b. 1745; m. Henry Bond, Jeff.
11 Catherine, b. 1747; m. Thomas Decker, q. v.
12 Mary, b. 1749; m. Samuel Stinson, Georgetown, 1788.
*13 Ebenezer, b. 1750, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*7) JoHN^ FuLLERTON {William, Jr. !^ JVilliam^) m. Jean, dau. of Sam-
uel McCobb, 1769. They set. in St. George. He d. in 1785. His wid. m.
James Carven and they rem. to Burnham. Previous to set. in St. George
they lived for a time on McFarland's Point. Children:
14 Mar>-, m. Faithful Singer, q. v.
*15 William, q. v.
(*13) EbenezerS Fullerton (William, Jr.," IVilliam^) m. Eunice, dau.
of Jeremiah Beath. They lived on his father's homestead. He was a prom-
inent member of the Cong. Church and an influential citizen. He d. July 2,
1819; she d. Sept. 5, 1823. Children:
16 Jennet G., b. Sept. 3, 1784; m. (1) Dr. Charles Fisher, 1811; (2) Sullivan
Hardv, 1823.
17 James, b. Mav 22, 1791; d. Sept. 19, 1831. ,
18 John, b. June'22, 1793; m. Mary Cargill, 1820; s. p.; he d. July 10, 1827.
19 Elizabeth Cowden, b. June 22, 1797; m. (1) Col. Jacob Auld; (2) John
W. Weymouth, 1838; d. Sept. 4, 1863.
20 Margaret, b. July 6, 1804; m. Benjamin Blair, 1832, q. v.
Fourth Generation.
(*15) William Fullerton* (John,^ William, Jr. ;^ William^) m. Sally,
dau. of John Montgomerj', 1794. This family set. elsewhere and the name
became extinct. Their chil. were: Lydia, b. 1797; Jane, b. 1798; John, b.
1802; Mary, b. 1805.
Grimes.
John Grimes came from Salem, Mass., in 1781, in company with Benja-
min Bennett and set. at Ocean Point. He m. Abigail, sister to Benjamin
Bennett. He d. Dec, 20, 1836; she d. May 13, 1830. They had two sons,
perhaps other chil. I, Jotham, m. Nabby Bennett; they had one son, Jotham,
Jr., b. 1804, in which year the father was drowned. II, Joseph, m. Sarah
Rackliff, 1804; set. on his father's homestead; their chil. were: Joseph, Jr.,
b. 1805; John, b. 1808; Asenath, b. ISll; Yashti, b. 1815. Joseph the father
d. June 19, 1834; his wife d. Feb. 9, 1877. Joseph, Jr., m. Lucy Holbrook,
1830; res. on the homestead, where they d. a few years ago, ending the
name in town. The old place is fast being cut up into summer cottage lots.
Gould.
John Gould, b. in Kennebunkport, June 20, 1809, was the first of the
family in B. He m. Ann McMurchie, dau. of Archibald, who came over
with the British army in 1779 and deserted at Bagaduce. He traced his lin-
eage as follows:
1 Jarvice and Marj' Gold, Hingham, Mass.
2 John and Mary Gold, Taunton, Mass.
3 Benjamin and Rebecca Goold, Eliot, Me.
4 James and Hannah Goold, Kennebunkport, Me.
5 Thomas F. and Synthia Goold, Kennebunkport, Me.
Jarvice came to America from Lydd, England, in 1635, in the ship Eliz-
abeth. John, son of Thomas F. and Synthia, came as a young man to B. and
FAMILY HISTORY. 475
engaged in blacksmithing at E. B., part of the time as member of the firm of
Gould & Murray. He substituted " u " fqr " o " in speUing the name. See
tables of town officers. He d. Dec. 10, 1876; Ann, wife, d. Feb. 28, 1883.
Their chil. were:
1 Robert, b. Apr. 3, 1835; m. Martha W., dau. of Jason and Jane Fuller,
1856; rem. to Pordand, where for 45 years he was in the employ of the
Portland Company, as foreman of the blacksmith shop. He was two
years alderman. He d. June 27, 1902, leaving wid. and one dau., Mary.
2 Thomas, b. May 5, 1838; m. Emily Lang; was a successful sea captain;
res. at E. B., where he d. Mar. 28, 1900; s. p.
3 John, b. Feb. 25, 1840; m. Nancy, dau. of John and Mary Race. He was
also a sea captain; res. at E. B. and d. there July 12, 1896; s. p.
4 Ann Mary, b. Feb. 5, 1845; m. Capt. John A. Morgan, Groton, Conn.;
they have three chil.
Handlev.
William and Nancy Handley lived for many years on what is known as
the Dolloff homestead. They purchased the place after the death of John
Daws, and his wid., Elizabeth, made her home with them at the last of her
life. They had two chil.: Susan, b. July 26, 1821, and Sarah B., b. July 10,
1824. Benaiah Dolloff purchased the place of them. William d. Nov. 2,
1843; Nancy, wife, d. July 14, 1853.
Herren (Herrin).
Patrick and Samuel Herren lived in B. before the Rev. War. Patrick
m. (1) Sarah ; they had one dau., Mary, b. 1772; (2) Jane Taylor, 1778;
they had si.x chil.: Rachel, Peggy, Rebecca, Jenny, Daniel, Edward. He set.
and cleared the farm where the late Israel Helton lived, north of B. Ctr. He
was constable, pound-keeper and for many years se.xton of the first church.
He was the wit of the neighborhood and his quaint sayings lived long after
he' passed away. Samuel Herren m. Elizabeth, dau. of John and Catherine
Ingraham. Their fam. is unrecorded, but publishments of the name other
than the chil. of Patrick occur. They moved to the interior about 1800.
Horn.
Cornelius Conrad, who changed his name to Horn when he m. Masse
Chaples, was first of this fam. in town. They were m. 1772. No rec. of the
d. of either. One son, Joseph, m. Sally Decker, 1803, and they had chil. bet.
1803-25, as viz.: Rachel, William, Ruth, Henry, Sarah, Elizabeth, Susanna,
Dorothy, Isaac. Another son of Cornelius, Stephen, m. Lydia Grover, 1814,
and had chil. bet. 1816-39, as viz. : Margaret, Charlotte, Nancy, Ebenezer,
Elbridge, Freeman, Harriet, Eleanor, Lydia A.
Ingraham.
John and Catherine Ingraham lived where the late Benjamin McKown
did, northerly from the Southport Bridge on the B. H. side. They were first
to live there. His est. was prob. June 16, 1874. Joseph Harford and Jonas
Fitch were sureties; inv. was by Thomas Stevens, Arad Powers and Samuel
Harris, all of B. They had two chil. : I, John, who succeeded his father on
the place, m. Nancy, dau. of Patrick McKown, 1797. II, Elizabeth, m. Sam-
uel Herren, 1775. John and Nancy Ingraham had eight chil., b. bet. 1798-
1816: Margery M., John, Jr., Nancy, Jennet, Catherine, Mary Ann, Joseph,
Robert. Bet. 1816-24 this fam. moved to Levant, an eastern township then
476 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
opening to settlexnent, for in the latter year John, Jr., then of Levant, m.
Eliza Emerson, of B.
Kelloch.
George Kelloch m. Jane, dau. of George and Margaret Boyd, 1794.
They had six chil. bet. 1795-1811: Betsey, John, Jr., Thomas, William,
Amos, Washington. He was killed at Plattsburgh Bay, 1814, under Com.
McDonough. He was b. in St. George, July 10, 1770. John, Jr., m. Eunice
Priest, 1820. They had three sons : Thomas, William, Robert. Eunice,
wife, d. Dec. 20, 1876.
Kennedy.
1 William Kennedy set. in Townsend, 1751. He then had a wife and
probably eight chil. He evidently set. first at Sheepscot. His brother Sam-
uel set. there in 1731, and another brother, James, was there before 1735. It
is likely they all came there in 1731, and then William rem. to Townsend.
He was a petitioner for inc. of B. No further data appears. Their chil. were:
1 Sarah, b. 1736; m. Benjamin Kelley, q. v.
2 Thomas, m. Sarah Dodge, Freetown, 1774.
3 Hannah, m. Benjamin Wylie, q. v.
*4 James, b. 1745, q. v.
5 Mary, b. 1749; m. Robert Wylie, q. \
6 William, will prob. Sept., 1796; unm.
Ruth and Ann. Benjamin Kellev, Jr
7 Ruth.
8 Ann.
The order of birth in this family is uncertain.
Second Generation.
{*4) James'^ Kennedy {IViWam^} m. Phebe Alley, 1768; res. on home-
stead. He d. Nov. SO, 1813; Phebe, wife, d. Nov. 25, 1820. Their chil. were:
*9 John Alley, b. Apr. 23, 1769, q. v.
10 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 25, 1770; m. John Maddocks, 1790.
*11 William, b. John 10, 1774, q. v.
12 Phebe, b. June 25, 1777; m. James Moore, Edge., 1793.
13 Martha, b. Nov. 15, 1778; m. Francis Crooker, Jr., Barretts Town, 1795.
14 James, b. Oct. 2, 1780; d. Norfolk, Va., 1801.
15 Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1782; m. Joseph Linn, 1807.
16 Ephraim, b. Nov. 11, 1784; d. 1805.
17 Mary, b. Oct. 4, 1789; d. 1804.
Third Generation.
(*9) John A.^ Kennedy (James,- IVi/Hatn}) m. Judith Dunton, New.,
1794. He is thought to have moved to Edge, or New. ; d. Aug. 27, 1808.
They had six chil.: William, 1796; Martha, 1798; John, 1799; Phebe, 1802!
Joseph, 1803; Ephraim, 1805.
(*11) William* Kennedy (James,- IVilliam^) m. (1) Peggy Prusset,
Bris., 1802; (2) Jane, dau. of Adam and Martha Boyd, ISll. He lived on
the homestead; d. Apr. 11, 18:38; Jane, wife, d. Apr. 13, 1858. Before his
death they moved to the place where George W. Dolloff lives. Their chil.
were: I, George, b. Feb. 12, 1803. II, Thomas Boyd, b. Jan. 26, 1814. Ill,
Phebe, m. Charles E. Page, Boston. IV, Martha, b. Mar. 10, 1821; m. Free-
man Reed, q. v. V, Catherine Boyd, b. July 3, 1828. VI, Elizabeth J., b.
July 4, 1824. VII, John Q. A., b. July 21, 1827; d. 1844, see Gas. VIII,
FAMILY HISTORY. 477
Sarah M., b. Aug. 24, 1829; d. 1849. IX, Esther Ann, b. July 15, 1832; d.
Nov. 22, 190.5. Mrs. Jane Kennedy m. (2) William Durant, 1839.
Dr. Daniel K. Kennedy, collaterally related to the above family, came
to B. about 1825. He purchased the practice and the partially completed
house on Church Square, now the Emerson homestead, of Dr. Ebenezer
Wells and remained here about ten years in practice. In 1828 he m. Eliza-
beth A., dau. of William Max. Reed. Their chil. were Mary E., Alonzo K.,
Amanda, Emily A. and Henry A., possibly others. Henry A. Kennedy
came back to B. in 1873 and engaged in the hardware trade, selling to I. C.
Sherman in 1882 and rem. to Minneapolis, where he now res. engaged in the
manufacture of furniture. To his efforts the first fire company was organized
and the purchase by subscription of fire engine and apparatus was largely
due to his labors. He m. Annie T., dau. of Allen and Emeline Lewis, 1877.
Their son, Arthur H., is now disbursing officer in the Philippines.
Kent.
I, Benjamin and Mary Kent lived in B. early as 1772. It is thought that
Ebenezer and John, who lived here at the time, were his brothers. They set.
on the west side of the town, coming here abt. the time of the exodus here
from abt. Dover, N. H. They probably descended from Richard Kent, who
came to Newbury, Mass., 1635. Children: Benjamin, Jr., John, Jonathan,
Sally, Betsey, Samuel, Ebenezer, Joseph.
II, Ebenezer Kent m. (1) Hepsibeth ; she d. 1814; (2) Lois Barter.
Chil.: Hepsibeth, Ebenezer, Henry, Mary, John, Samuel, Cyrus. The late
John Kent, who lived near Sawyer Is. Bridge, was of this fam., b. Apr. 15,
1810. He m. (1) Martha Tarbo.x, West. ; (2) Matilda, dau. of Thomas Pink-
ham. They had two chil.: John H., lost at sea; Martha J., m. Cephas Reed.
Lamson (Lampson).
James Lamson came from the vicinity of Dover, N. H., a contemporary
with the Giles, Matthews, Tibbetts and other families. His wife's name was
Mary, probably m. before coming here. They set. upon and cleared the
farm known as the Giles Tibbetts farm at Dover. He. d. Mar. IS, 1795.
Their chil. were: Mary, b. 1776; Lydia, b. 1783; James, Jr., b. 1784; Sally,
b. 1786; Nathaniel, b. 1788; Betsey, b. 1790; William, b. 1792; John, b. 1795.
The chil. intermarried mostly with the Matthews, Lewis and Tibbetts fams.
Landerkin.
This name is often noted in the early records. The publishments show
several persons not under family heads, indicating that there were unrecorded
families. Daniel and Mehitable Landerkin lived ne.xt to the Dole place,
which is where the Conkling estate now is. They had three daus., Mary,
Margaret and Sally, b. bet. 1792-1800. Richard and Elizabeth Landerkin
lived in the same locality and had one dau., Elizabeth, b. in 1814.
Lang.
David and Rachel Lang lived at E. B. He was b. in Brooks; d. Oct. 2,
1863; she d. Mar. 2J, 1904. Their chil. were: I, Mary P., b. Oct. 27, 1834;
m. Joseph H. Auld, 1864. II, John, b. Sept. 5, 1838; d. 1861; unm. Ill,
Emily, b. Jan. 27, 1841; m. Thomas Gould. IV, Sarah, b. Oct. 12, 1842; m.
William Knight. V, Harriet, b. July 16, 1846; d. 1889. VI, Charles A., b.
478 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Apr. 27, 1848; m. Mrs. Laura Ridley, Harpswell. VII, Augusta L., b. Apr.
10, 1853; d. in youth. VIII, Lizzie G., b. Mar. 18, 1«56; m. C. P. Boutelle,
Amherst, N. H.
Langard.
Andrew Andesen Langard lived in the long, low house on the road from
the Harbor to Mill Cove, supposed to have been built by William Moore,
and on the spot where Moore lived. He was a Norwegian by birth and,
following the custom of that country in the matter of names, the family
dropped Langard and have since been Andersons. He d. Nov. 17, 1851;
Abigail, his w., d. Oct. 23, 1859. Their chil. were: Catherine, b. 1815;
Mary, b. 1817; Andrew, b. 1822; Margaret, b. 1825; Edwin, b. 1828; Eme-
line, b. 1830.
Langdon.
Joseph and Lydia Langdon lived in B. before 1780, but are supposed to
have rem., elsewhere after their family were partly grown. See tables of pub-
lic service. They had five chil. b. bet. 1783-89: Joseph, Jr., John, Edward,
Nathaniel, Mary.
Lawson.
Dr. Reuel W. Lawson and wife, Arabella, lived near B. Ctr., where the
late James Wesley Reed did, during the Civil War period. He practiced his
profession, was postmaster for a time and also in trade for a few years.
They had five chil.: Sarah, b. 1826; William H., b. 1829; Charles E., b.
1831; Edward P., b. 1834; George W., b. 1841. Dr. Lawson d. in Somer-
ville, Mass., Nov. 29, 1874.
Leishman.
1 Deacon John Leishman was b. in Falkirk, Scotland, Sept. 9, 1739.
In May, 1764, he, in company with three other carpenters, came to America,
landing at Boston. His diary mentions his companions as John Drummond,
John Kincaid and Robert Hogg. He came at once to B. and purchased the
land ever since known as the "Leishman place," of the McFarlands. He
built a log house on the ledge bluff easterly from the present one and lived
in it until the frame one was built, in 1775, which still stands as the oldest
landmark in our towns. In 1768 he m. Sarah Reed, wid. of Henry Reed,
that son of Andrew who remained in Ireland. She was Sarah McCuUoch
before marrying Reed. As a wid. with three chil. she set out for America,
after the death of her husband, to make her home with the Reed family.
She came in 1765. The children were William, Andrew and Jennett. The
dau. d. on the passage. After the mother's second m. the sons were brought
up in the Leishman family.
John Leishman was the leading mechanic and builder in town in his
time. He built his own house in 1775, above referred to; the one for Joseph
Campbell, which has become the Boothbay House; the one for William
McCobb, built for his son Samuel, where Charles Larrabee now lives; the
residence of S. S. Lewis, on Church Square, formerly the Andrew McFarland
house, the most aristocratic in town in its time, and many others which have
been removed, remodeled, torn down or burned. When Mrs. Leishman d.,
in 1780, the McFarland yard was the place of interment. Her husband
selected a field stone on his farm, chiseled an inscription and erected it to
her memory. It may now be seen (1905) in a good state of preservation.
Mrs. Mary A. Auld.
(Wife of Capt. John Auld.)
i8 1 2- 1904.
FAMILY HISTORY. 479
Dea. Leishman was a most methodical man. His diary contains many valu-
able facts. A sample may be given which occurred when he began to build
the Murray parsonage on Pisgah: "Entered to work at the Rev. John Mur-
ray's house June 13, 1768, assisted by Robert Hogg." His sons Thomas and
John, Jr., were ambitious to build a house without an overseer. He held
them off for a time, at last telling them if they would finish the parlor in their
own house to his acceptance they might take a contract. This they did,
which may now be seen as a model of colonial architecture, and then they
took a contract of John Daws, building the house now occupied by John and
Cordelia Welch. The road from B. H. to E. B. ran directly by the Leish-
man house when it was built, but through the influence of William McCobb
was changed to run nearly as it now does. This change occurred about
1805, which was the time at which the Larrabee house was built. John
Leishman' s name frequently appears in the Lincoln probate records in the
settlement of estates. He was one of the pillars of strength in Mr. Murray's
church. See tables of town officers. He d. Nov. 27, 1814; Sarah, wife, d.
Sept. 28, 1780. Their chil. were:
1 Thomas, b. 1769; d. in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 31, 1800; unm. ; carpenter.
*2 John, Jr., b. May 1, 1772, q. v.
3 Jennett, b. 1774; d. Oct. 30, 1852; unm.
Second Generation.
(*2) JoHN^ Leishman, Jr. (John^) m. Lydia Clark, New., Feb., 1804;
she was b. Apr., 1777. He was a carpenter, building houses in all parts of
the town. Like his father he was an earnest churchman and influential citi-
zen. See tables. In 1855, when, on account of age, he declined the town
treasurer's office, after twenty-one years' service, a resolution was unani-
mously passed and spread upon the records:
' 'Resolved, That we recognize in our retiring town treasurer, the venerable
John Leishman, the character of an honest man and faithful officer; and that
in retiring from office he carries with him our highest regard and best wishes."
He d. Mar. 4, 1861; Lydia, wife, d. Oct. 17, 1855. Their chil. were: I,
Thomas, b. Dec. 18, 1805; a teacher; read law and was admitted to practice;
was ready to open an office in Waterville when he suddenly d.. May 8, 1838;
unm. II, Samuel C, b. May 5, 1807; a teacher in Providence, R. I.; d. at
Porto Rico, Aug., 1839. Ill, Sarah, b. Nov. 25, 1808; d. Feb. 2, 1864; unm.
IV, Abigail C, b. Dec. 12, 1810; d. May 2, 1895; unm. V, Isaac W., b.
Feb. 17, 1816; a teacher; d. May 16, 1844; unm. VI, Mary W., b. Mar. 4,
1821 ; m. Robert Sproul, q. v.
Maguirk (McGuire).
Patrick and Margaret (Tully) Maguire were probably settlers under Dun-
bar. They set. upon and cleared the farm where the late Moses Hersey
lived, exchanging it later with Thomas Boyd for a farm in Bris. , where they
moved, the place being now known on maps as Maguires Point. She heads
the list of female members of the first church. They had two sons: Thomas,
b. 1758; James, b. 1768. Mrs. Maguire was the dau. of Thomas Tully, a
Dunbar settler in Townsend.
Merrill.
George W. Merrill, b. 1781, m. (1) Betsey Sawyer, 1802; (2) Sibel, dau.
of John and Priscilla Holton, 1805; (3) Martha Catland, Newcastle, 1819. He
480 HISTOKY OF BOOTHBAY.
was father of chil. as follows: John Holton, 1806; Eliza, 1808; Horatio N.,
1810; George W., Jr., 1813; Susan, 1816; Kiah B., 1822; Samuel J., 1826.
He d. Mar 14, 1844; Betsey, wife, d. Feb. 2, 1804; Sibel, wife, d. Dec. 20,
1817; Martha, wife, d. June 6, 1846. Kiah B. Merrill m. Mary Richards, 1849;
res. on his father's homestead on the Back River road, near B. Ctr.; s. p.
He d. 1900; Mary, wife, d. 1899, a. 69.
Moore.
William and Jane Moore lived at the head of Mill Cove, bet. Andrew
Reed's and the Fullerton property. Moore's Rock takes its name from him.
He was one of the Dunbar settlers and his depositions appear on pages 116
and 121. No fam. has been found belonging to this couple. They are
buried in the old yard at the Ctr. He d. Jan. 18, 1794, a. 94; she d. July 24,
1774, a. 75.
Morrison.
Jonathan Morrison m. Amy Thompson, Bris. , 1812. They lived on the
hill, east from Adams Pond. They had eight chil.: Joshua, 1813; Martha
Ann, 1815; Susan Day, 1818; Isaac Thompson, 1820; Ambrose J., 1824;
John, 1827; Mary J., 1831; Ira, 1833. He d. Nov. 27, 1864, a. 78; Amy, wife,
d. July 9, 1847, a. 60.
Newbegin.
David and Mary Newbegin came from Portland to B. abt. 1824. He
lived where D. H. Moody does and had a bakery and store mentioned in
Chap. XIX. In his time he kept that kind of a store which became a loafing
place for sailors ashore to while away odd bits of time, and consequently
was as vividly remembered by old retired salts along the Maine coast as any
one who has ever lived here. He d. several years before his wife did. Her
death occurred Mar. 21, 1884. They had eight chil., most of whom d. in
youth; the others were unm. or rem. from town.
Norwood.
John and Lucy Norwood were in B. before 1788. They had two chil.:
John, Jr., b. 1788, and Lucy, b. 1792. The mother d. May 13, 1792. Hem.
(2) Anna Smith, 1793; she d. Oct. 20, 1794; (3) Janet Trask, Edge., 1795.
They had three chil.: Anna, b. 1801; Clarissa, b. 1803; Osborne, b. 1804.
He built the store occupied by the late James F. Dunton, formerly by M. E.
Pierce, where the Boothbay Savings Bank first had quarters, and now
remodeled as a dwelling on McFarland's Point. For many years his wife
conducted this as a dry goods store below and a hotel above, while he fol-
lowed the sea as a captain in the West Indies trade. They rem. from town.
Piper.
Amasa and Artemas Piper came to B. bet. 1790-1800. They owned
together the eastern part of McFarland's Point. This property they sold to
John M. McFarland when he began business there. They conducted a fish
stand there previously. Amasa m. Margery, dau. of Capt. Paul Reed, 1803;
they had si.x chil. bet. 1804-12: Benjamin F., Joseph A., Louisa M., Horace
M., Mary O., Sarah S. Their home was what has been known as the El well
place of late years, and the house was probably built by him. Artemas Piper
m. Mar>' Hammond in 1806 and they had two chil.: Julia A., b. 1807, and
FAMILY mSTOEY. 481
Artemas, Jr., b. 1810. Their home was near where Z. F. Swett now lives.
Both families after selling moved to Ohio.
Pool.
Simeon and Mary Pool lived on South., had chil., but no rec. is obtain-
able except that from gravestones. They were not known to be related to
the fam. living at B. H. He d. Sept. 20, 1890, a. 81-4; Mary, wife, d. Feb.
14, 1892, a. 79-6.
Rackliff.
This was a numerous family on Linekin Neck during the early part of
the last century. The first family to be recorded entire in town was at least
of the third generation of those who had lived here. Benjamin Rackliff was
father of Alexander, Charles, Dana and others. Benjamin's father's family
lived on the Neck, and a dau., Mary, m. John Booker in 1774. Dana m.
Susanna Colby, Edge., 1815. Charles m. Lois Drew, 1816; they had chil.
bet. 1817-28 as follows: James, Edward, Olive, Harriet, Abigail, John.
Charles d. July 11, 1829. Alexander d. July 19, 1826.
Rollings (Rolings, Rollins).
Benjamin, James, Samuel, Stephen and Nathaniel Rollings served in the
Revolution either from or in B. It is thought that they came here from New-
bury, Mass. Benjamin m. Rhoda, dau. of Benjamin and Judith Pinkham,
1777, but has no recorded family. James m. (1) Mary Floyd, 1778; (2) Mary
Alley, 1781 ; no chil. are recorded to either marriage. Stephen m. Martha
Crommett, 1786, and they had three chil.: Joshua, b. 1786; John, b. 1788;
Rebecca, 1791. These families lived on Back River on what is now known
as the Murphy place. Some of the name, supposed to be members of Steph-
en's family, were buried on the farm; most of the name, however, moved to
the Sandy River settlements soon after 1790, then fast filling with a population.
Rose.
Dr. Daniel Rose was b. in Thomaston, 1771. Before he was 20 years of
age he came to B. and taught school in the chamber of Ephraim McFarland's
store, then standing near where George W. DoUoff lives, now the store of
W. O. McCobb. He m. (1) a Miss Hammond, who d. without issue; (2)
Olive Peaslee, of B., 1807. His first m., which occurred before 1800, was at
about the time he was ready to settle in practice. At that time he came to
B. and bought or built where John E. Kelley now lives. That place was his
home until 1823, when he rem. to Thomaston, where he d., Oct. 25, 1833.
Their chil. were: I, Belinda, 1808; d. 1811. II, Edwin, 1809; m. Caroline
S. Fuller; was Lincoln County Clerk of Courts for several years. Ill, Olive,
1811. IV, Daniel, 1813; grad. Bowdoin Coll., 1837; physician, Thomaston.
V, Thomas, 1816; civil engineer, Thomaston. VI, Elizabeth, 1817. VII,
Wilmot, 1821 ; res. Thomaston. Dr. Rose held more and higher public posi-
tions than any one else who has lived in town. He was town clerk in 1807;
made a plan of B. in 1815; chairman of board of selectmen, 1815-22; mem-
ber of the school board; rep. to the Gen. Court in 1808 and 1815; was mag-
istrate and did much of the legal work of the locality during his res. in town;
was delegate to the convention for framing State Constitution in 1819; sena-
tor from Lincoln Co. 1820-1-2 and president of the Senate the last term; was
482 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AT.
acting Governor Jan. 2-5, 1822. Under the act of Dec. 22, 1822, he was one
of a Com. of six to make a division of the pubHc lands bet. Me. and Mass.
Dr. Rose and Silas Holman made all drafts and plans that accompanied the
report, which were filed at each State capitol and accepted by each Legisla-
ture. Under the resolve of Feb. 9, 1822, on the location of the seat of gov-
ernment, Dr. Rose and Judge Benjamin Greene, Berwick, were selected as
the Com. Portland, Brunswick, Hallowell, Augusta, Waterx'ille, Belfast and
Wiscasset were considered. In this report Wiscasset was favored, if a coast
town might be selected, for advantageous location as regards approach by
both land and water, and its strategic situation as regarded ease of fortifying
in case of invasion; Augusta was recommended if an inland town might be
decided upon. On their report the latter town was chosen. In 1832 Dr.
Rose, for Me., and George W. CofRn, for Mass., were selected to formulate
a plan and agree upon a system for the sale, disposition and management of
public lands held jointly by the two States. Their recommendations were
accepted. With another he was chosen to select the most available place
for a State prison. Thomaston was recommended and accepted. He was
its first warden and held the position for several years. He was land agent
in 1828 and again in 1831. During his practice in B. he used a saddle horse
entirely for conveyance. Dea. Paul Giles remembers Dr. Rose plainly and
has given the author a brief description of him (1905) as he has carried the
impression since 1823, when he was a boy of nine years. "He was a man
about six feet tall and would w^eigh, in my opinion, more than 200 pounds.
He was finely formed, erect, black hair and black eyes, always clean shaven,
and he had a face that would recommend him anywhere."
Sawyer.
Daniel \V. Sawyer was b. in Westbrook, Aug. 24, 1819, the son of
Thomas and Mary Sawyer. He came to B. in 1854, settling at the Harbor
and engaging in sailmaking. He was an active, public-spirited citizen, being
closely identified with the interests of the Boothbay Savings Bank, of which
he was cashier for several years. He was the leading light in the Methodist
society at the Harbor for many years, often supplying in the absence of the
settled minister in his own church, and frequently in neighboring ones. He
was four times m.: (1) Sarah R. McKenney, Jan. 13, 1842; she d. in No. Yar-
mouth, July 1, 1848, a. 34; (2) Hannah C. Locke, Jan. 28, 1850; she d. in B.,
July, 1868, a. 49; (3) Caroline E. Smith, Aug. 11, 1869; she d. in B., June 8,
1886, a. 66; (4) Fannie M., dau. of Morrill Mclntire, 1888. He d. Jan. 13,
1889. Their chil. were: I, Sarah M., b. June 17, 1848; m. Byron C. Mat-
thews. II, Ella M., b. Jan. 5, 1853; d. Nov. 30, 1855. Ill, Florence M., b.
Feb. 16, 1858; d. Aug. 16, 1883; unm.
Singer.
Faithful Singer was an early resident of B. He m. (1) Susanna Knight,
1768; (2) Mary Fullerton, 1792. Their chil. were: Jane, b. 1794; William
and John, twins, b. 1797; Susanna, b. 1799. He was the first school teacher
employed in B.
Southard.
John Southard lived where Lafeyette Tibbetts now lives at Back River.
It is said that he came from the vicinity of Dover or York. He came as a
FAMtLT HISTOEr. 483
single man and m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph and Sarah Lewis, abt. 17S2. They
had a family of twelve chil., four of whom d. early. They were b. bet. 1783-
1808. The names in order of birth were: Frances, Rebecca, Sally, Betsey,
John, Jr., Ebenezer, Clarissa and Jefferson. Dates of death are unknown,
for wherever may be their graves they are unmarked. John, Jr., m. (1) Eliz-
abeth Catland, New., 1814; (2) Jane Harden, 1823; one son. Freeman, b.
1814, is the only child recorded. Ebenezer m. Martha Stone, 1821, and set.
on Barter's Island. They had seven chil.: Sewall, 1822; William, 1826;
Martha A., 1828; Louisa, 1831; Henry D. O., 1832; Sarah J., 1833; Victoria,
1839. The Southard family intermarried to some extent in B., principally in
that part of the town where they lived. Their descendants are to be found
also in Wiscasset and Richmond.
Springer.
Abraham Springer was b. in Georgetown. He m. Priscilla, dau. of
Benjamin Sargent, 1801, and set. in B. They had a fam. of six chil. : Mary,
b. 1805; Susanna, b. 1808; Betsey, b. 1811; Hannah, b. 1812; Nancy, b. 1816;
James, b. 1820. He d. July 21, 1834.
Sproul.
Capt. Robert Sproul was a native of Bris., descended from a fam. which
first set. on that territory early in the 17th century and returned after the
Indian wars. He came to B. in 1842, marrying Mary W., dau. of John, Jr.,
and Lydia Leishman. They had a fam. of three chil.: I, John L., b. June
28, 1843; d. Sept. 25, 1865; unm. II, Isabella R., b. Mar. 20, 1854; d. June
29, 1894; unm. Ill, Maria A., b. Dec. 16, 1862; m. Granville C. Marson,
Dec. 4, 1889; they had four chil. Robert Sproul was b. June 28, 1808; d.
July 19, 1886. He followed the sea, in the foreign carrying trade. His first
vessel was the Andrew Adams; his second one the Espolata, built at E. B.
by the Adams Bros., 1842. Mrs. Mary VV. Sproul d. Jan. 18, 1903. She was
a bright type of Scotch descent, possessed of a remarkable memory, viva-
cious in conversation, ever ready and pleased to refer to the memories and
traditions of her family and the land from which they came. In the death of
this venerable woman two families were virtually ended in town: that of
Sproul in name, and that of Leishman in fact, for she had been the last sur-
viving person to bear that name. They lived on the old Leishman place and
were succeeded on it by her daughter's family.
Taggart.
Joseph W. Taggart was b. in Middletown, R. I., Aug. 81, 1822. He m.
Mary J. Partridge, Orland, b. Dec. 9, 1829. He set. in Wis., following the
trade of sailmaker until 1861, when he was appointed postmaster, which
position he held four years. He was county treasurer in 1877. Came to B.
H. in 1879, where he again followed his trade until 1892, when he took charge
of the grocery store left by the death of his son, following that business until
1902. He d. Aug. 22, 1904; his wife d. Dec. 14, 1897. Two chil. d. in youth.
Joseph W., Jr., b. Dec. 7, 1862; d. Jan. 11, 1892; unm.; conducted for sev-
eral years a successful trade in groceries and provisions. The dau., Lizzie
T., m. Ernest A. Grady, 1898, and res. on her father's homestead.
Trevett.
Capt. Joshua R. Trevett was b. in Wiscasset, Sept. 25, 1828; m. Amelia
484 mSTOBT OF boothbay.
Thomas, West., b. May 27, 1834. He was in the employ of Stephen G.
Hodgdon for many years, managing the store, and for him the post office of
Trevett takes its name. He d. Apr. 23, 1886. They had six chil. : Robert,
b. 1859, d. 1866; John H., b. 1864, dec; Wilmot G., b. 1866; Emma C, b.
1869; Mary S., b. 1872; Abby L., b. 1875.
Van Tassel.
William Van Tassel was b. in Digby, N. S., Oct. 27, 1806; his wife, Eliz-
abeth, was b. there Nov. 3, 1808. They had a fam. of ten chil., reared in B
several of whom intermarried with town families. The chil. were: Helen,
1829; Isabella, 1832; John, 1834; Anna, 1836; Richardson, 1839; Elizabeth,
1841; Susan M., 1844; Sophronia M., 1846; Cordelia M., 1848; William H
1851. William the father d. Nov. 18, 1869; his wife, Elizabeth, d. Feb. 6,
1870. They lived in a house on the lot where B. C. Matthews lives.
Wall.
Andrew Wall set. early in B. He m. Hannah, dau. of Ephraim McFar-
land, 1770, and purchased of McFarland the point of land now wrongly calle
Wallace's Point. He lived at the southeastern part of the point, the founda-
tion of his house now being plain. About his house were cultivated nearly
all the old-time herbs, so prized by our ancestors for their medicinal value.
In fact, he had a perfect medicinal garden there, which was famed through-
out the locality. His chil. intermarried with several of the leading families
in town. They were b. as follows: John, 1770; Benjamin, 1773; Mary, 1775;
Margaret, 1777; Lydia, 1780; James, 1782; Nancy, 1784. Hannah, wife, d.
Mar. 24, 1826.
Webster.
Stephen Webster m. Mary Dow, 1806. Chil.: Robert, 1807; Stephen,
1809; John, 1811; Sarah A., 1814; Hiram, 1816; Mar>', 1820. He d. Apr. 14,
1855. Robert succeeded his father on the homestead and reared a fam. He
m. Julia Montgomery, 1833. He d. Mar. 2, 1888. Chil., b. bet. 1836-50:
Albert G., Leonard S., Mary E., Lorenzo B., Julia A., John, Albert L.,
Luther W.
Weld.
Luther Weld came to B. from Guilford in 1829. He m. Frances, dau. of
Edward B. and Sally Sargent, that year. He lived on Atlantic Street at the
Harbor, where Benjamin S. Reed lives. He served ten years as school com-
mitteeman, nine years as selectman, five years as clerk, besides other posi-
tions of trust. Their chil. were: Charles E., 1829; Frances E., 1831; John
H., 1833; Albert H., 1835; Elmira, 1837; Emily H., 1839; Laura E., 1841.
Wevmouth.
John W. Weymouth was b. in Readfield in 1804, the son of John and
Mary Weymouth. He and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to B. from Vassalboro
in the early thirties. He built the house on Oak Street known as the Foster
house, now owned by Orne Bros., and had a blacksmith shop there. His
family was by his first marriage, but he was three times married after the
death of his first wife. By his second marriage he came into possession of
much of the property of Col. Jacob Auld, and he quit blacksmithing and
engaged in vessel building, having his shipyard where the E. S. S. landing
FASIILY HISTORY. 485
now is. He built the Weymouth House in 1848 and also built the 2d Cong.
Church. Their chil. were: I, Elizabeth, b. July 29, 1826; d. Jan. 9, 1905;
unm. II, James R., b. Oct. 30, 1830; d. Oct., 1851, see Cas. Ill, Abigail,
b. Mar. 3, 1832; m. <1) George P. Fogler; (2) William B. Merrill; res. in
Auburn. IV, Mary L., b. Nov. 29, 1833; res. B. H.; unm. V, William, b.
Sept. 30, 1836; d. Feb., 1862, see Cas. He m. Mary F. Lewis; they had two
chil.: Clara E., m. H. W. McDougall; William P., m. and set. elsewhere.
John W. Weymouth m. (2) Elizabeth, wid. of Col. Jacob Auld, 1838; (3) Sarah
Gilmore, Woolwich, 1864; (4) Sarah Colder, Boston. He d. Sept. 29, 1880.
White.
Moses R. White was b. in Arrowsic, 1818. His mother was a dau. of
Benjamin and Ruth Riggs. He taught school in early life and also studied
surveying and for many years was the principal land surveyor in B. Upon
coming to B. he took charge of Thomas Hodgdon's vessels, being a ship
carpenter, and at that time first became interested in navigation. Later he
engaged with Stephen Sargent at the Harbor, where he made his home
afterward. He was a careful, conservative business man, possessed of good
judgment as to values, and was successful to that degree that for several
years he was the largest individual taxpayer in town. He was president of
the Boothbay Savings Bank for several years. He m. (1) Harriet R. Palmer,
Camden, 1863; she d. Apr. 21, 1865; (2) Aurilla Clark, Mar. 20, 1873. One
dau. by first m., Carrie P., m. Ernest A. Johnson, Bath, 1888. Mr. White d.
Dec. 20, 1892.
WiLLEY.
Levi Willey was b. in Londonderry, N. H. He m. Catherine Fales,
Thomaston, and came to B. from Bris. in 1840. He lived at the head of
Adams Pond, where Millard F. Dodge does, and carried on the carding mill.
Catherine, wife, d. Aug. 22, 1860; he then went to N. H. to live with his dau.
Clementine, where he d. abt. 1870. Their chil. were: I, Levi, m. Ro.xanna
Spinney, set. in Mass. II, Joseph B., b. Oct. 5, 1827, m. Mary A. Pierce,
South.; lived awhile on the homestead; was appointed to Honolulu by the
Hawaiian Government in 1857; ret. to Portland; had one dau. and three
sons, one of whom, Joseph A., m. Annie, dau. of John K. and Mary Corey.
Ill, Catherine, unm.; lived in N. H. IV, John C, b. 1833; m. Rachel Corey;
res. in Wakefield, Mass. V, Clementine, m. Ira Towle, Penacook, N. H.
VI, Ann P., m. Abial Smith, Portland. VII, Sarah V., b. May 20, 1843; m.
Albert Gage, Haverhill, Mass.
Wilson.
Edmund Wilson was living in B. at the head of the Harbor in 1804. He
was three times m.: (1) Elizabeth McCobb, 1804; (2) Martha Pinkham, 1814;
(3) Betsey Young, Bris., 1819. By first m. were b. Ira, Parker, Samuel,
Martha, Mary, Edmund, Jr.; by 2d m., Horace A.; by 3d m., Helen, Joseph
Y., Antoinette, Albion K., Otis D., Alonzo, Maria L. He was a man much
in official position and his clerical work was of the best in both penmanship
and correctness. The records show two of his sons marrying and rearing
families in town, Ira and Parker. Ira m. Mary Young, China, 1830. They
had chil. : Gowen, Emeline, Edwin P., Almira J. Probably all set. elsewhere.
Parker m. Mary Y. Gove, Wis., 1831. He d. Aug. 27, 1871, a. 65; Mary,
486 HiSTOEr OF booths at.
wife, d. Dec. 14, 1878, a. 75. He was a merchant all his life at the Harbor.
Their chil. were: I, Mary Parker, m. John P. Perkins; they had three chil.:
Edmund Wilson, b. Aug. 14, 1863, d. Apr. 29, 1881; Arthur ]., b. Mar. 4,
1866, set. in Mass.; Henry S., m. Gertrude, dau. of Oilman P. and Caroline
Hodgdon. II, Harriet S., m. Samuel K. Hilton; set. in Mass.
PART n.
Existing Names.
ABBOTT.
1 Henry Abbott, whose wife's name was Keziah, was evidently the first
of this name in town. They set. about midway on the western side of Bar-
ter's Is. not far from 1785. She d. Aug. 28, 1800; he m. (2) Lydia , who
d. Sept. 19, 1861. Children:
2 George, b. May 14, 1786; d. Feb. 13, 1856; unm.
3 Aaron, b. June 27, 1787; unm.
4 Thankful, b, Oct. 4, 1789; unm.
5 Lydia, b. Aug. 6, 1791; m. Francis Gray, Georgetown.
6 Emma, b. Sept. 6, 1796; m. Thomas Pinkham, q. v.; this lady lived to
the age of 103-9-24.
*7 Daniel T., b. Mar. 8, 1815, q. v.
*S William H., b. Mar. 4, 1820, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*7) Daniel T.'^ Abbott {Henry'-) m. Sophia . They lived on Bar-
ter's Is. She d. Aug. 10, 1884. Children:
9 Eliza A., b. June 20, 1839; set. in Wis.; d. Feb. 18, 1863.
10 Mary E., b. June 18, 1843; m. Rounds; set. in Wis.; d. 1878.
*11 James F., b. Mar. 24, 1848, q. v.
*12 Millard Scott, b. Feb. 2, 1849, q. v.
13 Alpheus C, b. Apr. 12, 1852; m. Gove; dec.
(*8) William H.^ Abbott (Heury^) m. Belinda Pinkham; lived on
Barter's Is. Children:
14 Isaac, b. Oct. 26, 1841; m. • Dickinson; rem. to Bris. ; d. Aug. 4, 1878.
15 Lucy A., b. June 24, 1844; d. 1853.
16 Orrington, b. Sept. 12, 1848; m. Lucy C. Alley, Edge.
17 Antoinette, b. July 17, 1857; m. Edgar W. Lewis; res. Barter's Is.
Third Generation.
(*11) James F.^ Abbott {Darnel T.,"^ Henry^) m. Mary E. Adams; lives
on Barter's Is. Chil.: Eflfie A., Morrill, Wallace, Victor, Millard S., Mary.
(*12) Millard Scott^ Abbott (Daniel T.,^ Henry') m. Arvilla Jewett,
West. They live on Barter's Is. Children: I, Abbie B.; m. John S. Spin-
ney; res. B. Ctr. II, Maggie T., m. John P. Kelley, B. Ctr. Ill, Fremont,
unm. IV, Charles, unm.
FAMILY HISTORY. 487
ADAMS.
1 Samuel Adams founded the family of that name in Boothbay. He was
bom in Derry (formerly Londonderry), N. H., Apr. 3, 1733. His father,
William, and an uncle, James, came to America in 1721. They settled at
Londonderry, a prominent point at that time, with other Scotch-Irish immi-
grants and d. there. It is said that they were bom in Argyleshire, Scotland.
James, the older, married in Ireland, but William is thought to have married
in America. His wife's name was Mary and their oldest child was bom in
1726. Samuel, who settled in Townsend, was the third in a family of five
sons, his brothers' names being, respectively, James, Jonathan, William and
David, names which have often appeared among the Boothbay descendants.
William, the father, died Nov. 1, 1761, aged 72 yrs.; Mary, the mother, died
Oct. 5, 1755, aged 61 yrs. Samuel settled at Townsend at some time prior
to Dec. 30, 1762, for on that date he married Sarah, the only daughter and
youngest child of Andrew and Jean Reed, founders of the Reed family in
Boothbay. She was born on shipboard. Mar. 19, 1743, on the passage from
Ireland to America. Their home was a house built southerly from the build-
ings of Dea, Paul Giles. There they lived, reared their family and died.
He owned 320 acres of land on the westerly side of Adams Pond, then called
Long Pond, extending southerly to the Center, northerly to the Wylie land
and westerly to Leighton Colbath's and John Serote's, which he bought of
his brother-in-law, David Reed, Apr. 14, 1768, for ^50. He was a carpenter,
building the first church in Boothbay and several of the early frame houses.
Records plainly indicate him a man of prominence and influence in town.
He d. May 15, 1818; Sarah, his wife, d. Dec. 10, 1828. Children:
2 Mary, b. Oct. 2, 1763; m Samuel Clifford, Edge., Feb. 3, 1785.
3 Andrew, b. Aug, 27, 1765; see Cas.
4 .Samuel, b. Apr. 22, 1767; see Cas.
5 William, b. Jan. 22, 1769; m. Betsey Sawyer, Nov. 18, 1790; res. Thom-
aston; see Cas.
6 Jean, b. Mar. 19, 1771; m. Capt. Eben Chase, Edge., Aug. 20, 1793; d.
July 14, 1852.
7 Sarah, b. Feb. 2, 1773; m. Joshua Crommett, q. v.
*8 David R., b. May 16, 1775, q. v.
*9 James, b. Mar. 17, 1777, q. v.
*10 Samuel, Jr., b. Mar. 11, 1779, q. v.
*11 Jonathan, b. July 5, 1782, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*8) David R." Adams (Samuel''-) lived where his grandson, David C,
does. He was partner with his brother James in the mill at outlet of Adams
Pond, and they were the first vessel builders in town. He m. Mercy, dau.
of Ichabod Pinkham, Aug. 20, 1799. He d. May 18, 1851; she d. Apr. IB,
1855. Children:
12 Nathaniel, b. Nov. 18, 1799; d. May 7, 1814.
*13 David, b. Feb. 11, 1802, q. v.
14 John, b. Feb. 16, 1804; m. Olive Pinkham; two chil.
*15 James, b. Nov. 7, 1807, q. v.
16 Martha, b. Jan. 2, 1811; m. Paul G. Pinkham, q. v.
17 Jonathan, b. Sept. 8, 1813; d. Feb. 8, 1828.
18 Mary, b. Sept. 9, 1816; m. John McDougall, q. v.
19 Margaret, b. Sept. 16, 1820; m. Rufus Holton, q. v.
488 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
(*9) James'' Adams (Samuel^) m. Mehitable, dau. of Giles Tibbetts, Jan.
19, 1809; he lived where his son, the late Willard H., did. He was a farmer
and business partner with his brother, David R. He d. Oct. 9, 1868; she d.
Dec. 13, 1868. Children:
20 Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1809; m. David McKown, q. v.
21 Elizabeth, b. Dec. 22, 1810; m. Payson Tibbetts, q. v.
22 Catherine, b. Mar. 10, 18l;3; m. N. C. Reed, q. v.
23 Mary Sales, b. Mar. 16, 181.5; m. (1) Joel Beath; (2) Augustus Whitta-
ker, q. v.
24 James, Jr., b. Feb. 24, 1817; see Cas.
25 George M., b. Apr. 9, 1819; m. (1) Sarah Chadbourne; (2) Melvina E.
Golder; two chil. d. young. He was a prosperous shipbuilder in Bath;
d. Mar. 11, 1893.
26 Jane Chase, b. Nov. 2, 1821; m. John Holton, q. v.
27 Lydia Ann, b. Dec. 1, 1823; d. Jan. 30, 1840.
28 Charles Fisher, b. Jan. 19, 1826; d. Nov. 11, 1839.
*29 John Sewall, b. Nov , 1829, q. v.
*30 Willard H., b. Apr. 14, 1832, q. v.
31 Emily Louisa, b. Sept. 17, 1834; m David C. Adams, q v.
Two sons following No. 29 d. in infancy.
(*10) Samuel^ Adams, Jr., [Samuel^) m. (1) Sarah, dau. of Samuel
McCobb, Feb. 23, 1804; she d. Jan. 20, 1842, a. 42; (2) Mrs Eleanor Rand,
Townsend; he d. June 28, 1852; his home was where the late John Sewall
Adams lived, at Back River. Children:
*32 Andrew, b. Sept. 7, 180.5, q v.
*33 William, b. Mar. 6, 1808, q. v.
34 Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1810; m. James Russ, Nov. 25, 1830; d. July 6, 1891.
35 Samuel, b. July 4, 1813; m. Lucetta Boutelle, Sept. 1, 1853; they had 3
chil.: I, George B., b. June 6, 1854; II, Lucy C, b. July 12, 1855; III,
Eva May, b. Aug. 19, 1857. Samuel d. Dec. 1, 1896.
*36 Rufus, b. Oct. 16, 1816, q. v.
37 Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1822; d. Mar. 24, 1841; unm.
38 Margery, b. Aug. 10, 1825; m. (1) John Pmkham; (2) David McCobb, q. v.
(*11) Rev. Jonathan^ Adams (Samuel'^) m. Hannah Antoinette Clough,
West., June, 1821. She was b. Jan. 19, 1798; d. in Edge., Aug. 24, 1864.
He grad. from Middlebury Coll , 1812; Andover Theol. Seminary, 1815; set.
in Woolwich, 1817-32; Deer Isle, 1832-55; Boothbay until 1858; d. in New
Sharon, Apr. 9, 1861. Children:
39 Rev. Jonathan E , b. Apr. 29, 1822; m. (1) Louisa A. Harding, Aug. 12,
1855, d. Aug. 27, 1859; (2) Lucy C, dau. of Samuel G. Adams, Kings-
ton, Mass. Grad from Bowdoin Coll., 18.53; Bangor Theol. Seminary,
1858; Sec. Me. Missionary Soc after Aug., 1876; res. in Bangor. Five
chil.: Samuel G., Edward C, Frederick W., Maurice T. and William C.
40 David Ellenwood, b. Mav 16, 1823; res. in Searsmont.
41 Sarah Clough, b. Nov. 29, 1824; m. Capt. Enoch Chase. Edge., June
17, 1853.
42 William McLellan, b. Feb. 28, 1827; d. at sea, Nov. 23, 1846.
43 Samuel Sewall, b. Aug. 21, 1828; d. in La Crosse, Wis., Mar. 11, 1862.
44 Charles Dummer, b Mar. 5, 1830; d. at sea, 1856.
45 Chariotte Buck, b. Mar. 29, 1832; m. John Sewall Adams, q. v.
46 Antoinette Eliza, b. Deer Isle, Sept. 2, 1836; m. Geo. B. Kenniston, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*13) David' Adams {David R.,"^ Samuel^) m. Cynthia, dau. of Benjamin
Pinkham, Dec. 4, 1822. He lived on his father's homestead; d. June 11,
1886; she d. Apr. 25, 1880. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 489
47 Benjamin P., b. June 30, 1823; see Cas.
48 Sarah A., b. Sept. 28, 1824.
49 Mary Ann, b. Nov. 7, 1826; m. Charles E. Page; d. Apr. 22, 1861.
50 Martha, b. Sept. 22, 1828; m. Hazen Bradbury; d. June 16, 1890.
*51 David C, b. Mar. 19, 1834, q. v.
*52 John, b. Jan. 15, 1830, q. v.
53 Mary Weston, b. Nov. 13, 1838; unm.
54 George V. (adopted), b. Aug. 9, 1S49; m. Elizabeth Spinney; s. p.
(*15) James^ Adams {David R.,"^ Samuel'^) m. Mary C, dau. of Benjamin
and Abigail Pinkham, 1829. He d. June 29, 1840; she d. July 8, 1884, a. 75.
Children: I, Paul P., b. June 10, 1830; II, Zina H., b. 1832; III, Olive F.,
1834; IV, James E., 1835; V, Lucius B., 1837; VI, Levi W., 1839. Of the
foregoing, Paul P. only res. in town, at E. B. He m. Mary E. ; they
have three chil.: Walter S., Elmer L., Chri.stie B.
(*29) John Sewall^ Adams (James;^ Samuel^) m. Charlotte Buck, dau.
of Rev. Jonathan Adams, 1858. They lived on Back River, where Samuel
Adams, Jr., settled. He was a farmer and ship carpenter. He d. Mar. 9,
1890; his wife d June 22, 1870. Children: I, Antoinette E., m. Frank Ful-
ler, res. in B ; 11, James S., m. Hattie, dau. of J. Wesley Reed; III, Sarah
C, m. Sullivan P. Dodge, New.; IV, Sumner C; V, Charles B.
(*80) Willard H.3 Adams (James,- Samuel^) m. Mrs. Mary E. Lin-
scott, New., 1866. He lived on his father's homestead and followed farming.
He d. Sept. 21, 1904. Children: I, Frank W., m. Anna B. Lawson, West.;
II, Mary Estelle, m. Charles E. Gilpatrick; III, Georgia A., m. Orville C.
Blake; IV, Lucretia, m. Hiram D. Roberts, d. Nov. 13, 1902.
(*32) Andrew^ Adams (Samuel, Jr.,''- Samuel^) m. Mary A., dau. of
Capt. John Hodgdon, 1837; set. E. B. ; member of shipbuilding firm of A. &
W. Adams. He d. Mar. 16, 1882; she d. Aug. 3, 1884. Children: I, Capt.
Merrill, b. May 20, 1840; m. Celina Jack, Richmond, 1864; res. E. B. He
was a successful sea captain, engaged in the foreign trade; d. at Rosario, S.
A., Feb. 24, 1889; two daus., Mary E. and Cora E. II, Capt. John, b. July
2, 1843; m. Ellen F. Jack, Richmond, Dec. 21, 1869 He follows the sea, is
master of a large vessel, engaged in the foreign trade. They have three
chil.: Nellie F , George M., Katie C. Ill, Laura, m. Alonzo Chapman, q. v.
IV, Mary Ellen, m. Eliphalet Tibbetts, q. v. V, Eliza, m. Samuel F. Mc-
Kown, q v. VI, Capt. Andrew, b. Apr 29, 1857; m. Lizzie E. Otis, So.
Bristol, 1880; res. in Portland, but retains the E. B. homestead. Like his
brothers he is master mariner and largely interested in vessel property.
They have three chil.: Laura C, Lena B. and Andrew, Jr.
(*33) William^ Adams (Samuel, Jr.;' Samuel'^) m. Martha M., dau. of
Samuel Davis, Kennebunkport, who set. later at E. B. She was b. Apr. 17,
1818; they were m. Oct. 29, 1837. He was member of the shipbuilding firm
of A. & W. Adams. He d. Sept. 15, 1891; she d. Apr. 17, 1905. Children:
I, William Irving, b. June 8, 1839; m. Lydia A., dau. of Paul and Mary A.
Giles, Feb. 17, 1867. He became partner with his father upon the dissolu-
tion of A. & W. Adams in 1857, continuing the business to the present. See
Chaps. XVI and XIX for business and official career. She d. Dec. 2, 1905.
One son, Frank, now partner with his father. He m. Sarah M. Seavey in
1897. II, Sarah J., m. Rufus P. Glass; one son, Ernest. Ill, Henrietta, m.
George M. Hodgdon, q. v. IV, Ella Frances, d. Aug. 18, 1868, a. 17.
(*36) RuFUs^ Adams (Samuel, Jr," Satnuel^) m. Jane, dau. of Jeremiah
Holton, Dec. 25, 1843; lived at Back River, northerly from his father's home-
stead. He was a farmer and ship carpenter. He d. Mar. 2, 1894; she d.
Mar. 20, 1904. Children: I, Mary Antoinette, m. (1) Isaiah M. Reed, (2)
Woodbridge Reed, q. v. II, Josephine, m. Alexander Clark, q. v. Ill,
Jennie, m. Benjamin S. Emerson, q. v. IV, Clara, m. Byron Giles, q. v. V,
Hattie Beecher, m. George E. Lewis, Boston, 1900. VI, Charles Clifford,
m. Mabel I. Rusk, Woodstock, 1889; he is a sea captain, res. at Bryants Pond.
490 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Fourth Generation.
(*51) Da\'id C.« Adams (David? David R.,"^ SamueP) m. Emily L., dau.
of James Adams, 1866 He is a farmer; res. on the homestead of his father
and grandfather. Children: I, Marcia L., m. Aaron V. Rowe; II, Edith M.,
m. Charles S. Hodgdon; III, Percy D.; IV, Walter G., d. Sept. 25, 1901, a.
28; V, Lizzie B.
(*52) John* Adams {David? David R.,^ Samuel''-') m. Alma J. Gray,
1866. He is a carpenter; res. B. H. She d. Dec. 4, 1905. Children: I,
Maud L., m. Miles Farmer; II, Hazen B.; Ill, Earl W.
SUPPLEMENTARY.
Samuel Adams, sometimes designated as Jr. and sometimes 3d, lived
in Boothbay early as 1786; not known to have been related to the foregoing
family. His wife's name was Mary. Thev had 6 chil.: I, Samuel, 1786;
II, Sallv, 1787; III, Elizabeth, 1789, m. Ephraim McCobb; IV, Richard, 1792;
V, David, 1797; VI, Mar>-, 1800. He d. May 25, 1814. Of this family Rich-
ard is the only member of record in town. He m Elizabeth Grover, 1818;
they had 9 chil. He d. in 1841, see Cas. Their chil. were: I, James, 1820;
II, William M., 1822; III, Charles, 1823; IV, John Caleb, 1825; V, Maria,
1827; VI, Mary E., 1829; VII, Alexander, 1833; VIII, Daniel, 1836; IX,
Sarah E., 1838. Of this family, Ale.xander has a family and res. at B. H. He
m. Mrs. Mary Adams, 1853; chil.: Carrie A., Lizzie F., William T., Frank N.
ALBEE.
Frank Albee, b. in Wis., 1832, m. Abby Dow, b. in Noble., 1845. They
came to B. H. in 1880. He engaged in the grocery trade for about ten years,
since which time he has handled farm produce. Their chil. are: Frank H.,
manager in the clothing store of C. J. Marr & Co., m. Lizzie, dau. of John P.
Reed; Hattie E., Anna M., Charles W., James N.
ALLEY.
1 John and Martha Alley settled where Orson M. Delano lives earlier
than 1743. The family is of English descent and came to Townsend from
Portsmouth, N. H. They are thought to have been the first permanent
addition to the Scotch settlers who had come in under Dunbar. They were
the first family to come from that section destined to furnish so large a quota
of Boothbay's early population. The dates of their births and deaths or the
places of their burial are unknown. Children:
2 Sarah, b. July 26, 1743.
3 Phebe, b. Dec. 16, 1745; m. James Kennedy, 1768, q. v.
*4 John, b. Jan. 19, 1747, q. v.
5 Thomas, b. Dec. 2, 1748.
6 Abigail, b. Apr. 5, 1750.
*7 Samuel, b. Nov. 19, 1752, q. v.
8 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 10, 1754; m. Nathaniel Tibbetts, Jr., 1775.
*9 Joshua, b. Apr. 4, 1756, q. v.
10 Martha, b. Feb. 7, 1758.
*11 Ephraim, q. v.
12 Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1763.
13 Hannah, b. July 31, 1765; m. Giles Tibbetts, 1783, q. v.
14 Lydia, b. July 31, 1765; m. David Gove, 1787.
Second Generation.
(*4) John2 Alley, Jr., {John)-) m Ghana Ripley, 1767. He lived on his
father's homestead and d. Jan. 31, 182-; she d. 1842. a. abt. 100 >ts. Chil.:
FAMILY HISTORY. 491
15 Phebe, b. Aug. 27, 1769; m. Joseph Carlisle, q. v.
16 Reuben, b. Nov. 22, 1772; m. Lucy Dunton, Edge., 1792; set. in Edge.
17 Martha, b. June 17, 1775; m. Benjamin Dunton, Edge., 1793.
18 Dorcas, b. Jan. 4, 1783; m. Samuel Hutchings, 1804.
19 Ghana, b. Aug. 7, 1790; m. David Merry, 1814, q. v.
(*7) Samuel^ Alley {John^) m. Sarah, dau. of Benjamin Linekin, 1774;
set. on Linekin Neck. Children:
20 Samuel, b. Aug. 7, 1774; m. Betsey Gove, Edge., 1808.
21 John, Jr., b. Mar. 28, 1777; m. Sally Hibbard, 1804.
22 Patty, b. Mar. 15, 1784; m. Samuel Perkins, Jr., 1803.
*23 William, b. Aug. 12, 1789, q. v.
Note. — Births, but no further records, are found of chil. Mary, James,
Ephraim, Sally, Bettj' and Isaac in this family.
(*9) Joshua^ Alley {Johti>) m. Hannah , probably living in vicinity
of Cape Porpoise, for their first child was born there. Children:
24 Lydia, b. July 14, 1778.
25 Elizabeth, b. July 12, 1780; m. Samuel Gray, 1819, q. v.
*26 John, b. Jan. 22, 1782, q. v.
27 Andrew, b. May 10, 1785.
28 Lucy, b. Sept. 18, 1787; m. William Currier, 1826.
29 Joshua, Jr., b. June 22, 1790.
(*11) Ephraim^ Alley (John^) m. Susanna Day; lived on place now
owned by Paul Conkling. A son, John, set. on the Eben Clisby place, but
the rest of the family located elsewhere. Susanna, wife, d. June 7, 1839.
Children: I, Abijah, 1784; II, Samuel, 1786, m. Eleanor Boyd, 1821; III,
Lydia, 1787, m. Stephen Mason, Dresden, 1814; IV, Susanna, 1789. m.
John Carlisle, 1810; V, Ephraim, 1792, m. Margaret Pearson, Wis., 1840;
VI, Martha, 1794, m. James Blen, Dres., 1815; VII, Joshua, 1796; VIII,
Salinda, 1799, m. Peter M. Bailey, Dres., 1821; IX, Washington, 1794; X,
John, 1802, m. Elizabeth Dockendorff, 1824.
Third Generation.
(*23) William" Alley (Samuel,'^ John)) m. Martha Bennett, 1819.
They lived on Linekin Neck. He d. Nov. 13, 1847. Children: I, Angelina,
1820, m. George Brewer, 1838; II, Sarah, 1822, m. Hiram Tibbetts, 184J;
III, Edwin W., 1827, d. 1845; IV, Simon, 1830, m. Elizabeth Bennett, 1858;
V, Albion, 1832; VI, Martha J., 1834, m. Washington Hodgdon, d. Nov. 11,
1904; VII, Nathaniel, 1837; VIII, Elbridge, 1840, d. 1896; IX, Eliza, 1843.
(*26) John" Alley {Joshua,- Joh^O-) m. Mary, dau. of Amos Gray, 1817.
He set. on Cape Newagen Island; d. June IS, 1858. Children: I, Reuben,
b. 1818, d. 1842, see Cas.; II, Samuel, b. Dec. 4, 1819, q. v.; IH, Orin; IV,
Albion; V, William, res. So. Bristol; VI, Rebecca, m. Capt. Eben Lewis;
VII, Mary, m. John Downey, Alna. John, the father, d. June IS, 1858. The
son, Samuel, m. Sarah Willey, Bremen, 1841; lived at B. H. They had
eight chil., six dying in infancy. Eugene S. d. Mar. 3, 1872, aged 21; Helen
W. m. George F. Corey, q. v.
ANDREWS.
WiNTHROP Andrews came from Ipswich, Mass., and m. (1) Rhoda
Grover, 1811; (2) Elizabeth Andrews, 1846. He d. Dec. 23, 1862, a. 74.
Rhoda, wife, d. July 26, 1844, a. 52. Elizabeth, wife, d. Mar. 22, 1874, a. 67.
Their chil. were by first m. except Azor, who was b. in 1846. They follow:
Ephraim, 1815; Luke, 1818; Mary A., 1820; Thomas S., 1822; Adaline, 1823;
Elizabeth, 1825; William, 1827; Rhoda, 1829; Rilla D., 1882; Azor, 1846.
492 HISTOKY OF BOOTHBAY.
Of this family Thomas S. m. Elizabeth Bennett, 1845, and their chil., b. bet.
1845-76, follow: Cedelia, Nancy J., Pamelia E., Daniel C, Milton E.,
George T., Etta J., Jesse T., Edith H., Laura E., Maggie W., Nola C.
AULD.
Not far from the date of the incorporation of Boothbay, though their
names do not appear upon the petition, John and James Auld, brothers, and
their mother, Ann Auld, came from Medford, Mass., and settled on the
Damariscotta, just above where the village of East Boothbay stands. John
married Mary, daughter of Samuel McCobb, in Jan., 1770, and James mar-
ried her sister Frances in 1772. John died July 4, 1771, aged 27, his estate
inventorying /770 16s. 9d., an unusually large amount for those times and
for one so young. Mary, his wife, died Jan. 1, 1773, aged 20. They left one
daughter, Rachel, who became the first wife of Nicholas T. Knight. Ann
Auld, mother of John and James, died Feb. 22, 1771, aged 62.
1 James Auld settled on what has since been known as the "Auld place,"
only recently going out of the family name into the possession of Edward H.
Mitchell. His business was farming and brickmaking. He died about July
27, 1798, a. 51. Frances, wife, d. June 29, 1808, a. 58. Children:
2 Anne, b. Feb. 17, 1773; m. Benjamin Kelley, Jr., 1793, q. v.
3 John, b. Oct. 19, 1775; d. young.
4 Mary, b. July 20, 1777; m. Zenas Hutchings, Edge., 1795.
*5 James, Jr., b. Apr. 9, 1778, q. v.
6 Fanny, b. Mar. 20, 1780; m. Rev. Jabez Pond Fisher.
*7 Jacob, b. Jan. 15, 1781, q. v.
8 Samuel, b. Nov. 16, 1783; d. Feb. 18, 1863; unm.
9 Rachel, b. Dec. 3, 1786; m. John Fuller, 1803, q. v.
10 Sarah, b. Dec. 3, 1786.
*11 William McCobb, b. Oct. 16, 1787, q. v.
12 Margaret, b. Aug. 19, 1789.
13 Jane, b. Mar. 11, 1793; m. Paul McCobb, 1812, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*5) James'' Auld, Jr. (James^) m. Sarah, dau. of Daniel Knight, Jr.,
1802. They lived on the homestead and he followed in his father's business.
He died Nov. 7, 1837; she died Feb. 27, 1857. Children:
*14 Augustus, b. Nov. 5, 1803, q. v.
15 Mary, b. Jan. 28, 1805; d. Sept. 10, 1823.
*16 John, b. Sept. 13, 1806, q. v.
17 Daniel, b. Mar. 18, 1808; m. (1) Margaret Nelson, West.; (2) Mary
McCobb, 1842.
*18 Jacob, b. Dec. 27, 1809, q. v.
19 Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1812; m. Joshua Haywood, Cambridge, Mass.; set.
there.
20 James, b. Dec. 27, 1813; m. (1) Abigail Nelson, 1838; (2) Tarbox;
set. in Bath; d. on a foreign voyage.
21 Sarah A., b. Nov. 2, 1815; m. Benjamin Wheeler, of N. H.
22 Jane, b. Nov. 30, 1818; unm.
*23 Joseph H., b. Nov. 17, 1820, q. v.
24 Lucy, b. Feb. 1, 1822; unm.
25 Margaret, b. Dec. 8, 1824; m. Benjamin Kenney, q. v.
26 Isaac, b. May 30, 1826; d. July 20, 1847.
(*7) Jacob'-' Auld (James^) m. (1) Sarah, dau. of Paul and Margery
Reed, 1808; she d. Nov. 25, 1812; (2) Elizabeth Fullerton, 1817. Col. Auld
FAMILY HISTORT. 4»3
was one of the principal men of his town throughout his career; was mem-
ber of firm of McCobb & Auld; see Chap. XIX. He d. June 2, 1835. His
widow m. John W. Weymouth in 1838. Children:
27 James, b. May 29, 1807; m. Eliza G. Thompson, 1838; lived where
William M. Bennett does and was an active business man while living
in town. While still young he rem. to Chelsea, Mass., and later to Calif.
28 Caroline, b. May 9, 1808; m. Samuel McClintock, q. v.
29 William F., b. Jan. 7, 1811; d. May 4, 1833, in New Orleans.
30 Joseph C, b. Nov. 20, 1812; m. (1) Susan Merrill, 1836; (2) Caroline M.
Shaw, 1849. He owned the property where the Menawarmet stands,
conducting a fishing business and a general store. He died Feb. 24,
1869. They had six children, nearly all of whom died young.
(*11) William M.^ Auld (Jatnes^) m. (1) Rosanna, dau. of Andrew and
Hannah Reed, 1812; she d. in 1836; (2) Mary Bryer. They lived just west
of his father, but later moved his house to near the town farm buildings.
Late in life he moved to Jeff., where he d. July 21, 1852. Children:
31 Edwin, b. July 3, 1813; m. Fanny A. McCobb, 1844; lived where
Charles Matthews does; his chil. set. in Mass.
32 William McCobb, b. July 11, 1815; m., had one son; d. Apr. 1, 1839.
33 Samuel Newell, b. July 15, 1817; d. 1843.
34 Mary Ann, b. Sept. 27, 1819.
35 Ephraim R., b. Jan. 29, 1821; d. 1838.
36 Joseph M., b. Dec. 30, 1823; see Cas., 1839.
Third Generation.
(*14) Augustus'' Auld ( James, ^ James^) m. Nancy Pray; followed the
fishing business and was lost on the Grampus together with his oldest
See Cas., 1851. Nancy, wife, d. Apr. 26, 1885. Children: I, Elup Faxon,
b. Dec. 18, 1834; see Cas., 1861. II, Martha, b. June 3, 1839; m. Cun
ningham; d. in Denver, Col., abt. 1870. Ill, James Russell, b. Apr. 19, 1840
m. AUie, dau. of John and Ann Montgomery, 1887; they res. at B. H.; he d.
July 2, 1903; one dau., Mabel. IV, Levi B., b. Jan. 7, 1845; unm. V,
Augustus, b. Sept. 3, 1847; d. June 6, 1874; unm.
(*16) JoHN^ Auld (Ja7nes,^James^)m. Mary A., dau. of Jeremiah and
Mary Houlton. He lived on what has since been the Boothbay town farm,
building that house in 1830. He d. Oct. 23, 1872; she d. June 19, 1904.
Chil.: I, Frances Caroline, b. July 17, 1832; m. J. C. Shepardson, Everett,
Mass.; d. Mar. 30, 1905. II, Rufus, b. Mar. 20, 1834; m. Mary T. Milliken,
Lexington, Mass.; res. B. H., carpenter; chil.: 1, Carrie L., m. W. O. Sea-
vey; 2, Fannie E., dec; 3, Nettie M., m. George A. Carlisle; 4, Charles L.;
5, Mary C, dec. Ill, John Goodrich, b. May 27, 1836; m. Alice Jackson,
Washington, D. C; set. there; engaged in grocery trade; d. Dec. 14, 1902.
IV, Delia J., b. Sept. 20, 1838; m. C. P. Gilbert, Greenfield, Iowa, 1864. V,
Lewis Thorpe, b. Dec. 29, 1840; dec. VI, Sarah F., b. Jan. 7, 1843; m. Capt.
Freeman Hodgdon, q. v. VII, Mary Elizabeth, b. Mar. 1, 1845; m. Arthur
L. Hayden, Melrose, Mass. VIII, Isaac N., b. May 27, 1847; d. 1853. IX,
Antoinette, b. Apr. 18, 1850; dec. X, Hattie W., b. Mar. 5, 1854; m. James
B. Austin, Fitchburg, Mass. XI, Joseph Clifford, b. Sept. 16, 1856; set. in
Helena, Mont. He has held the positions of county treasurer, representative
to the legislature, senator and commissioner of U. S. mineral lands succes-
sively, and is now cashier of the Forsyth State Bank, of which he was one of
the organizers. In 1902 he was selected chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee.
(*18) Jacob^ Auld (James,'^ James^) m. Eunice F., dau. of Joseph and
Mary Beath, 1836. He was a sea captain, engaged in the foreign trade, dy-
ing on one of the voyages. He set. in Bath, but rem. to E. Boston. Chil. :
I, Lydia Pelham Beath, b. Oct. 4, 1839; m. Rev. C. L. Woodworth, 1893;
res. in Stoneham, Mass. II, Algernon Sidney, b. Aug. 3, 1841; m. Marcia
A. Wentworth, 1873; res. in E. Boston. Ill, Lucy J., b. Mar. 10, 1843; m
494 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Benjamin F. Johnson, 1893; res. in Stoneham. IV, Mary E., b. Aug. 11,
1850; d. 1869.
(*23) Joseph H.« Auld { James, "^ James^) m. Mary F. Lang, 1S64. He
res. on the old homestead. They had one son, John, res. in B. H.
BAKER.
Snow Baker was b. in N. H., Jan. 22, 1803; the son of Prince Balcer,
who was b. July 18, 1742, and d. Mar. 24, 1829, and Experience (Goold)
Baker, b. Nov. 13, 1752, and d. Apr. 19, 1803. Prince Baker was twice mar-
ried, his second wife being Thankful Mayhew, b. 1770, and d. 1827. He
was the father of fifteen chil., twelve of whom were by the first marriage.
Snow was the seventh child. He m. Nancy Plummer and settled in Alna,
where he lived until abt. 1847, when he came to E. B. village, where he
remained abt. three years, then buying and moving to the mill property at
No. B. known as the Pinkham Mill. This was carried on by him and his
son, Nathan S., until abt. 1873, when the house was burned and the mill
property sold to Samuel Woodward. He d. Aug. 2, 1864; she d. June 1,
1867, a. 77-6. Their chil. were: I, Susan, res. No. New. II, Elbridge, res.
New. Ill, Daniel, res. Augusta. IV, John, res. Alna. V, Nancy, res. Alna.
VI, Jeremiah P., res. B. H. VII, Charles W., res. Calif. VIII, Nathan
Snow, res. B. H. IX, Mary Atwood, unm., res. at No. Newcastle.
Jeremiah P. Baker, son of Snow and Nancy, b. June, 1820, m. (1) Cathe-
rine S. Seavey, 1848; (2) Mrs. Elizabeth A. Wylie, dau. of Charles Giles,
1877. He was a carpenter, was at one time in trade at B. H. ; built the hou.se
where K. H. Richards lives, afterward moving to Portland, where he d. Feb.
14,1896. Catherine, wife, d. Mar. 17, 1876. Their chil. were: Harriet Jud-
son, Mary Atwood, Josephine P. (dec), Lizzie M. (dec).
Nathan S. Baker, son of Snow and Nancy, b. Oct. 20, 1827, m. Abigail,
dau. of William and Mercy Carlisle, 1853. They lived on the mill property
until abt. 1873; soon after he bought and built the property now owned by
his heirs on the road from B. H. to B. Ctr., which was his home through life.
Mr. Baker was a contracting carpenter and an energetic man in his business,
always keeping busily employed; he also had much to do with town affairs,
and, at the time of division of the town, though not a resident in the village,
took strong ground in advocacy of the separation, firmly believing such a
course to be best for all parts of the town. He d. June 5, 1897. Their chil. :
I, Frank Atwood, m. Minnie A. Moore; he was proprietor of the Riverside
House, Livermore Falls, for several years, selling that property in 1905 and
purchasing the Rathskellar Restaurant, Hartford, Conn. II, Mary Ella, m.
Charles E. Sherman, B. H., q. v. Ill, Jennie A., m. Fred McKown, q. v.
IV, Addie B., m. Thaddeus W. Ome, q. v.
Bradford Y. Baker, res. at E. B., not related to foregoing fam., m.
(1) Jane Montgomery, 1846; (2) Caroline Montgomery, 1851. Jane, wife, d.
May 5, 1848; Caroline, wife, d. Feb. 9, 1875. Chil.: Benjamin R., b. July 4,
1862; Daniel W., b. Feb. 13, 1855; Emma J., b. Oct. 29, 1856, d. Sept. 28,
1883; Bradford, b. Feb. 22, 1865.
Capt. Llewellyn Baker, not known to be related to either above
families, m. Georgianna, dau. of Alfred and Charlotte (Dunton) Matthews;
she d. Apr. 24, 1866; he was lost at sea Mar. 11, 1883, a. 47. They had one
dau., Annie M., the wife of Robert G. Dewolfe, B. H.
Nathan S. Baker.
1827-1897.
FAMILY HISTORY. 495
BARTER.
I Samuel Barter, Jr., was the elder of two brothers who took up the
island in Townsend, about 1755-56, that still bears the family name. This
name sometimes appears in old records as Barto and it is not unlikely that
the family is of French descent. At the date of their coming there were at
least four of this family: Samuel, Jr., Joseph, Jennet and Elizabeth. There
may have been parents with them, but no known record of this e-xists. The
wives of these brothers each bore the name of Lydia, and for this reason an
error occurs in the early records by which the same family of children is
recorded under Samuel and Lydia that correctly belongs to Joseph and
Lydia, as presented below. Samuel probably had children born soon after
17.50, while Joseph's eldest child was born in 1760. Jennet married John
Matthews, 1764, and Elizabeth married Jonathan Daws, 1768. They settled
nearly midway of the island, on the east side, about opposite to where John
Matthews settled on Back River. They probably came from Dover, N. H.
No known record exists of their ages or deaths. Their children, as far as
known, follow, but the record is made up from several sources.
*2 John, m. Frances Lewis, 1772, q. v.
3 Hannah, m. Abner Dunton, 1774.
4 Jeremiah, m. Mary Batchelder, 1775.
6 Abigail, m. Samuel Kenney, 1776.
*6 Nicholas, m. Molly Coll, 1778, q. v.
7 Mary, m. James Brewer, 1780, q. v.
*8 Samuel, Jr., m. Judith Abbott, 1791, q. v.
9 Joseph Barter, brother to above, m. Lydia, sister to John Matthews,
Nov. 15, 1759. Nothing is known of age or death of either. Children:
10 Elizabeth, b. Dec. 20, 1760; m. Calvin Pinkham, q. v.
11 Abigail, b. May 4, 1763; m. Stephen Lewis, q. v.
12 Jerusha, b. Apr. 7, 1766.
13 Mar>', b. Oct. 27, 1768; m. John Stover, q. v.
*14 Joseph, Jr., b. July 18, 1771, q. v.
15 Lydia, b. Mar. 2, 1774.
*16 Samuel, b. Feb. 25, 1777, q. v.
17 Esther, b. May 31, 1779; m. Joseph Barter, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) JOHN^ Barter [Samuel^) m. (1) Frances Lewis, 1772; (2) Jemima
or Mina Kenney, 1779. Children:
*1S John, b. Dec. 3, 1774, q. v.
*19 Joseph, b. Mar. 23, 1777, q. v.
20 Fanny, b. July 29, 1779.
*21 Benjamin, b. May 31, 1783, q. v.
22 Mina, b. Sept. 19, 1791.
(*6) Nicholas- Barter (Samuel'^) m. Mary Coll, 1778. He died Dec.
27, 1814; she died Apr. 20, 1837, a. 74. Children:
23 Andrew, b. Dec. 1, 1794.
24 Olive, b. Apr. 10, 1798.
25 Benjamin, b. June 11, 1799.
26 Jerusha, b. May 15, 1801.
27 Esther, b. Jan. 16, 1803; m. Andrew Rackleff.
28 Abigail, b. May 14, 1804.
29 Hepsibeth, b. Dec. 23, 1807.
*30 Eliphalet, b. May 15, 1811.
»
496 HISTOBT OF BOOTHBAY.
(*8) Samuel^ Barter, Jr., (Samuel^) m. Judith Abbott. He died Dec.
19, 1819. Children:
31 Lois B., b. Mar. 10, 1793; m. Ebenezer Kent.
*32 John, b. Oct. 31, 1794, q. v.
33 Westley, b. July 2, 1796.
34 James, b. Aug. 7, 1797.
35 Nancy, b. Dec. 5, 1799; m. William Campbell.
36 Apphia, b. Dec. 13, 1803.
(*14) Joseph^ Barter, Jr., (Joseph^) m. Sarah Pinkham, 1794. He died
Oct., 1840; she died Feb. 7, 1848. Children:
37 John, b. Oct. 5, 1795.
38 Hannah, b. Apr. 1, 1798; m. David Adams.
39 Judith, b. Mar. 10, 1800.
40 William, b. Apr. 4, 1804.
41 Eunice, b. Jan. 5, 1808.
42 Bradford, b. Nov. 15, 1810.
43 Fanny, b. Oct. 3, 1813.
44 Mercy, b. Aug. 10, 1817.
(*16) Samuel^ Barter, 3d, (Joseph^) m. (1) Sally Abbott, 1799; (2)
Margaret Day, 1820. Children:
45 Keziah, b. July 16, 1802.
46 Henry, b. May 23, 1805.
*47 Isaac, b. Oct. 7, 1807, q. v.
48 Loama, b. Apr. 10, 1814.
*49 Daniel, b. May 18, 1816, q. v.
BO William D., b. Sept. 30, 1822.
51 Harriet E., b. July 21, 1824.
52 Martin, b. Oct. 30, 1826.
53 Esther J., b. Aug. 23, 1830.
54 John H., b. Sept. 10, 1832.
55 Thomas, b. Sept. 26, 1835.
56 Washington, b. July 25, 1838.
57 Alsada, b. Nov. 26, 1842.
58 Sarah E., b. Sept. 25, 1845.
Third Generation.
(*18) Johns Barter (John,^ Samuel^) m. Lucy McKenney, 1795. Chil.:
L Samuel, 2d, b. Apr. 5, 1796; II, John, b. Feb. 14, 1798; III, Sally, b. July
14, 1804; IV, Rebecca, b. Mar. 12, 1807; V, Henry, b. Aug. 5, 1810.
(*19) Joseph^ Barter, 4th, [John,^ Samuel^) m. Mary Stone, 1809.
Their chil., b. bet. 1811-26, were: Mary A., Sophia, Eliza, Julia, Abial W.
(*21) Benjamin^* Barter {John? Samuel'^) m. Polly Barker, 1802. He
died Jan. 7, 1850. Their chil., b. bet. 1804-21, were: Fanny, Henry, Cath-
erine, Ann Maria, Richard M., William, Elizabeth.
(*30) Eliphalet^ Barter {Nicholas? Samuel) m. Permelia . He
d. July 22, 1886; she d. Mar. 17, 1905, a. 93-6. Their chil., b. bet. 1838-B2,
were: Melissa, Lydia A., Amos F., Ruth M.
(*32) John* Barter, 4th, {Samuel? Samuel^) m. Susanna Fanley, 1816.
Their chil., b. bet. 1817-38, were: Nathaniel, William, James, John, Ann,
Louisa, Daniel W., Henry.
James Thompson Beath.
1810-1883.
FAMILY HISTORY. 497
(*47) Isaacs Barter {Samuel,'^ Joseph}) m. Catherine Barter, 1828. He
d. Jan. 18, 1883. Their chil., b. bet. 1829-49, were: Merrill, Vesta, Amanda,
Helen, Casilda, Marston, Elwell, Orris M.
(*49) Daniel W.^ Barter [Samuel,"^ Joseph^) m. Harriet Campbell,
1845. He d. Sept. 1.5, 1894; she d. Apr. 28, 1900. Their chil, b. bet. 1846-
63, were: James Owen, Mary L., Thomas R., Henry A., Silas M., Reuel
M., Daniel A., Ida.
This family has been one of the most difficult to trace and correct. The
work is imperfect from two reasons: the errors, plainly apparent in the early
records, and the fact that for nearly three-quarters of a century after coming-
here inscribed stones mark but few of their graves. There is evidently
another family, the children of which would be of similar age to those of
"(*2) John." Joseph, who was in the Rev. War, was born in 1756, and,
though we find no further record of him, he probably married and settled on
the island, perhaps brought home a wife at the close of the war, hence no
record, and if so, and a family of children followed, many of those in the
early publishments might be accounted for and corrected. He also might
have been a son of Samuel, i
BEATH.
1 Walter Beath was born in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, in either
Derry or Tyrone County, 1681. As a boy of eight he was in the city of Lon-
donderry during that historic siege. His parents, a little more provident
than some others, kept some meal which they mixed with cold water and
used for food, but their extremity was such that the boy, Walter, watched
the mouths of rat holes with a stick, day by day, in order to obtain them as
a further food supply. The Beath ancestry was Scotch Presbyterian, the
earliest members being Covenanters. The fever of emigration to America
possessed Walter Beath, as it did so many thousands of others in the region
he came from, and about 1718 he came to Mass. At that time he had a wife
and one son, John, who was born in 1710. He settled in Lunenburg, as
shown by proprietors' records. May 11, 1720. There they remained, another
son, Jeremiah, being bom in 1722, until June, 1731, when by reason of the
inducement held out by Col. Dunbar they came to Pemaquid and later in
the year settled at Townsend, where their relatives, the FuUertons, had pre-
ceded them the year before; Jennet, the wife of William Fullerton, Senior,
being a sister to Walter Beath. At Townsend they found the McCobbs,
Moores, McFarlands, FuUertons and others had settled about the eastern
harbor, on its westerly side, while others were about Lobster Cove. They
settled on the western slope of Fisgah, the old house standing within the
memories of many persons now living, its site being northerly from the resi-
dence of Rufus Auld. There Walter Beath died, June 11, 1759, interment
being in the yard at the head of the harbor. His wife's name is unknown as
is the date of her death. Their children were:
*2 John, b. 1710, in Ireland, q. v.
*3 Jeremiah, b. June, 1722, in Lunenburg, Mass., q. v.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Second Generation.
(*2) JoHN^ Beath (Walter^) m. Margaret, dau. of William and Jennet
Fullerton, 1739. They went from Townsend to Boston to have the marriage
service performed, as there was no Presbyterian clergyman more conven-
iently situated. The deposition on page 119; his record in establishing the
first church of Boothbay, in which he was a ruling elder, found in Chap. XII;
the frequent references to him in town afTairs in Chap. X; his Revolutionary
record in Chap. XIII, besides many other references, make up a life story
that descendants may well take pride in. He lived where his father setded,
and at one period had a good property for the times, but adverse circum-
stances reduced his means late in life. He died Dec. 9, 1798; she died Oct.
13, 1813. Children:
4 Margery, b. Oct. 9, 1734; m. Paul Reed, q. v.
*5 Joseph, Dec. 29, 1740, q. v.
6 Elizabeth, b. June 12, 1742; m. John Parker, Georgetown; s. p.
7 Mary, b. Oct. 28, 1743; m, John McCobh, q. v.
8 Margaret, b. Apr. 3, 1745; m. Samuel Wylie, q. v.
Of a dau., Sarah, b. 1747, there is no trace, and four sons, b. 1749-54, d.
young from scarlet fever.
(*3) Jeremiah- Heath (IValfci'^) m. Mary Cowden, North Worcester,
Mass. He probably went back to Mass. during the Indian troubles, in the
fordes, and, being a j'oung man at the time, evidently married and settled
there. He was there as late as 1760 by record, but soon after that date came
to Townsend and settled on the farm ever since known as the Beath home-
stead. He d. Feb. 17, 1803; she d. Dec. 7, 1814, a. 84. Their chil. were:
9 Priscilla, m. John Holton, q. v.
10 Eunice, b. 1784; m. Ebenezer Fullerton, q. v.
11 Mary, m. Thompson, Mass.
12 Sarah, b. June 20, 1767; m. David Kenniston, q. v.
13 Margaret, m. Thompson, Mass.
*14 Jeremiah, Jr., b. Jan. 1, 1770, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*5) Joseph^ Beath (John,'^ ll^a/ier^) m. Mary- Pelham, Boston, v.ho was
born Nov. 17, 1760. He was teacher, land surveyor, clerk of Col. McCobb's
reg. in Revoludonary service and for several years master of a vessel in the
West India trade. He probably lived in his father's homestead for a time,
but in his later years lived in the "long house," which had been William
McCobb's, where the Weymouth House now stands. This he probably
purchased after McCobb's death, in 1815. He died Aug. 1, 1828; she died
July 22, 1841. Children:
16 Margaret, b. June 16, 1786; m. Jotham Crosby, Milford, N. H.; d. 1852.
16 Hannah, b. June 16, 1786; m. Robert Larrabee, No. Yarmouth.
17 Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1788; d. abt 1824; unm.
18 Margery, b. Sept. 15, 1790; m. David Potter, Georgetown.
19 Penelope P., b. Aug. 10, 1792; m. Loring Mitchell, No. Yarmouth; d.l862.
20 Mary M., b. Jan. 29, 1795; m. Samuel Harwick, Boston; d. Mar., 1871.
21 Jennet G., b. Nov. 25, 1796; m. John Potter, Woolwich; d. 1867.
22 John, b. Jan. 26, 1799; m. Rinda, dau. of Seba Smith, 1826; d. 1868.
23 Lvdia P., b. Feb. 16, 1801 ; d. Nov. 5, 1876; was postmaster at B. 1861-76.
24 Sarah A., b. Aug. 9, 1803; m. Samuel Grant, Freeport.
25 Rachel M., b. Dec. 8, 1806; m. Granville C. Waterman. Litchfield, 1835.
26 Eunice, b. Dec. 24, 1808; m. Capt. Jacob Auld, 1836, q. v.
FAMILY HISTORY. 499
(*14) Jeremiah^ Beath, Jr., (Jeremiah,^ Walter^) m. Sarah, dau. of
Thomas and Martha (Winslow) Stewart, Bris., Nov. 3, 1796. She was born
Nov. 11, 1779. They lived on the homestead of his father. He d. Nov. 15,
1835; she d. Feb. 4, 1839. Children:
27 Sarah, b. Sept. 6, 1797; m. William Smith, No. Prospect.
28 Thomas Stewart, b. Feb. 11, 1799; m. Nancy, dau. of John and Nancy
Ingraham; he d. June 24, 1882; she d. Sept. 8, 1892. They had eleven
chil.: Sarah E., Thomas F., Alice T., Mary A., Nancy I., Martha O.,
Lucilla C, Abbie J., Antoinette, James F., William H.
29 Elizabeth C, b. Feb. 13, 1801; d. Jan. 29, 1827; unm.
30 Martha E., b. Oct. 11, 1802; m. Josiah S. Staniels, N. H.
31 Nathaniel S., b. May 10, 1804; m. Mary Tibbetts; d. Jan. 5, 1833; s. p.
32 Mary M., b. Dec. 11, 1805; m. William B. Woodward.
33 Anna Matilda, b. Aug. 13, 1807; m. Wales Morton.
*34 James Thompson, b. Dec. 4, 1809, q. v.
35 Joel T., b. Oct. 21, ISU; m. Mary Sales Adams, 1834; d. Oct. 4, 1841,
see Cas. ; one son, George Albion; wid. m. (2) Augustus Whittaker.
36 Margaret J., b. July 17, 1814; m. June 11, 1837, John H. H. Graupner,
Boston; d. May 12, 1851. They had four chil., one of whom, Catherine
C, m. George W. Stone, now living in California. Mrs. Stone has
made much research in historical and genealogical lines, particularly
directing her labors upon her own and others of the old Scotch pioneers
who settled Townsend. The Maine Historical Society has pubHshed
some valuable productions from her pen.
37 Eunice, b. Mar. 14, 1816; m. George R. French, Brattleboro, Vt., 1835;
d. 1836.
38 Nancy C, b. Oct. 19, 1818; m. George R. French, 1837.
39 Jonas T., b. Apr. 20, 1820; d. July 19, 1843; unm.
40 Sophia L., b. June 11, 1824; d. Jan. 6, 1843; unm.
Fourth Generation.
(*34) James Thompson* Beath {Jeremiah, Jr., ^ Jeremiah,- Walter^)
m. Mary, dau. of Robert and Jane (Webber) Wylie. He d. Oct. 10, 1883;
she d. Feb. 25, 1892. They lived on the old homestead. He was a leader
in the Congregational societies of the town, being one of the most influential
founders of the 2d society. He also took a responsible place in town affairs
and through life was esteemed by all for a reliable, conservative, Christian
character. Children:
41 Sarah E., b. June 15, 1835; m. Suel Smith, 1857, q. v.; d. June 16, 1871.
42 James E., b. Feb. 9, 1838; m. (1) Frances E. Bolton; (2) Bertha E.,
dau. of Charles and Mar>' Reed, 1884; one son by 2d m. For public
service, see Chap. XVI; res. on the old homestead as the fourth in
succession.
43 Mary A., b. Apr. 9, 1840; m. William M. Smith, q. v.
44 Thomas P., b. Mar. 22, 1842; m. Flora Baker, 1872.
45 Helen A., b. Sept. 21, 1844; m. Warren L. Dolloff, q. v.
46 Abbie J., b. Nov. 26, 1847; m. Alonzo R. Nickerson, q. v.
BENNETT.
1 Benjamin Bennett, first of that family in Boothbay, came from Salem,
Mass., in 1781, and located at the southwesterly extremity of Linekin Neck,
building his house nearly opposite Negro Island. He lived there until his
decease, Feb. 11, 1804. No publishment is found and it is thought he was
married when he came to Boothbay. His wife's name is unknown and the
exact birth of his children apparently unobtainable. He followed fishing and
500 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
farming. It is thought that there were some children who failed to live to
maturity between John and Benjamin. Five chil. are recorded as marrying.
*2 John, b. 178-, q. v.
*3 Benjamin, b. 1795, q. v.
*4 Daniel, b. 1796, q. v.
5 Abigail, b. 1798; m. Samuel Brewer, q. v.
6 Martha, b. 1800; m. William Alley, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) JoHN^ Bennett {Benjamin)-) m. Hannah Holbrook, thought to
have been a sister to Ezekiel Holbrook, founder of that family in Boothbay.
He lived on the homestead and his business was the same as his father's had
been. He d. Dec. 31, 1831; date of death of wife unknown. Eleven chil.:
7 Sarah, b. Nov. 19, 1806; m. Artemas Tibbetts, q. v.
8 John, Jr., b. June 16, 1808; m. Frances Holbrook.
9 Alexander, b. Jan. 29, 1810; m. Babb.
10 Nathaniel, b. June 11, 1811; m. Vashti Grimes.
11 Daniel, b. Nov. 5, 1813; d. 1836; unm.
12 Abigail, b. Nov. 25, 1817; m. Washington Keller.
13 Benjamin, b. Dec. 4, 1819; m. Elizabeth Boyd.
14 Luther, b. Jan. 4, 1825; m. Lucinda Clifford; he d. Mar. 18, 1878; she
d. Mar. 8, 1876.
15 Jotham, b. Jan. 29, 1826; d. 1832.
16 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 25, 1828; m. Thomas Andrews.
17 Eliza A., b. May 6, 1830; m. Charles Clifford.
(*3) Benjamin^ Bennett {Benjamin^) m. Mary, dau. of William and
Lydia Matthews. They lived on Spnice Point. He was a calker by trade,
but followed the sea, both as mate and captain, a part of the time. He d. in
1869; she d. in 1888. They had five children:
18 Lydia, b. July 25, 1820; m. Sylvanus Low; set. on Loud's Island.
19 Emily D., b. Aug. 20, 1823; m. Thomas Burnham.
*20 William Matthews, b. Mar 31, 1826, q. v.
21 Charles H., b. June 1, 1828; d. 1833.
22 Elizabeth J., b. Sept. 10, 1831; m. Albert P. Bibber, Harpswell.
(*4) Daniel^ Bennett (Benjamin^) m. Jane, dau. of Ephraim and
Nancy Linekin; set. at E. B. ; followed fishing and coasting. He d. May 22,
1849; she d. Oct. 6, 1876. Children:
*23 Alfred R., b. Dec. 8, 1828, q. v.
24 Rachel Jane, b. June 9, 1831; m. Francis M. Howes, New Sharon.
25 Nancy A., b. Aug. 22, 1833; m. John E. Race, q. v.
26 Daniel, Jr., b. Aug. 20, 1836; d. Mar. 7, 1S62, see Cas.
27 Laurinda, b. Nov. 18, 1842; m. John N. Seavey.
Third Generation.
(*20) Willi All M.^ Bennett (Benjamin;^ Benjamin^) m. Mary J., dau.
of Samuel and Abigail Brewer. For a few years they lived in the vicinity of
their birth. For 42 years he followed the sea, coasting and on W. I. voy-
ages. About half of this time he had a business in Portland fitting fishermen.
Later in life he engaged in trade, farming and the alewife business at Back
Narrows. He then sold and purchased property on Atlantic St., at the Har-
bor, and opened a retail wood and lumber yard, which he sold in 1903 to
Capt. J. C. McKown. They have had a fam. of nine chil.: I, Sidney A., b.
Nov., 1844; m. Louisa Williams. II, Lectina, b. Aug. 21, 1846; unm. Ill,
Mary A., b. Apr. 19, 1850; d. 1853. IV, William A., b. Dec. 23, 1853; m.
FAMILY HISTORY. 501
Emma Merry; dec. V, Matilda J., b. Apr. 28, 1856; m. William B. Merry.
VI, Julia E., b. Mar. 23, 1859. VII, Herbert D., b. May 7, 1863; m. Annie
Hutchings. VIII, Mary Ella, b. Apr. 28, 1865; m. Warren Holton. IX,
Laura, b. Apr. 12, 1868; m. John Auld.
(*23) Capt. Alfred R.^ Bennett (Daniel,'^ Benjamin^) m. Abigail L.,
dau. of John, 2d, and Sarah Hodgdon. Lives at E. B. ; was master mariner
from 1851 to 1893; was twice wrecked, losing heavily each time. On Mar.
2, 1862, Portland to Havana, his vessel was wrecked by a waterspout; his
brother, Daniel, Jr., was drowned, while he and the remainder of the crew
were on the wreck eight days with but little food and no water, when they
were picked up and carried into San Juan, Porto Rico. Their chil. follow:
I, Luella, b. Apr. 18, 1853; m. Allen W. Murray; they had one dau., Maud,
who m. Capt. J. C. McKown. II, Cora B., b. May 28, 1858; m. James H.
Howes, New Sharon. Ill, Nellie C, b. Mar. 17, 1861; m. Frank Smalley,
Chelsea, Mass. IV, Alfred R., Jr., b. Nov. 5, 1875; m. Sarah L. Taft,
Charlestown, Mass.; res. there; one son, Weston Taft.
BLAIR.
Benjamin Blair was b. Aug. 19, 1806. As a young man he came to B.
He was b. in Falmouth, his father being a school-teacher and a Quaker.
Benjamin was a cooper by trade. For a time he worked for Col. Auld. He
m. Margaret, dau. of Ebenezer FuUerton, 1832; she d. Jan. 10, 1881; (2) Mrs.
Abigail T., wid. of James Linekin, 1883. He came into possession of the
Fullerton homestead, where he lived. He was postmaster several years and
an active member of the 2d Cong. Society. A valuable letter to the local
paper from his pen appears in Chap. XXVI. He d. Dec. 22, 1895. Their
chil. were:
I, James Fullerton, b. Nov. 9, 1833; m. Elizabeth Irving, N. Y. He d. in
1897; she d. in 1896; s. p. ; for several years they conducted a restaurant.
II, Benjamin F., b. Mar. 16, 1836; m. Mary L., dau. of Bradford and Lucy
Dickinson, Woolwich, Aug. 23, 1871. They had two sons, Frank W.,
b. Feb. 17, 1874, and George K., b. Apr. 20, 187.^, both of whom appear
in Chap. XXIII. Capt. Blair has had an active career, covering 42 years,
at sea. Commencing under Capt. John Love, in the Ekinent, 18.50, bank
fishing; the next year with Capt. David Webber in the Albatross; in
1855 with Capt. Benjamin Lewis, in the /. G. Richardson, a ship built
by John W. Weymouth, and in 1859 with Capt. Isaac L. Hammond in
the sch. Golden Gate from Boston. On Oct. 5, 1859, while on a voyage
from Philadelphia to Pernambuco, they were struck by a hurricane.
The vessel went on her beam ends and all were lost but Capt. Blair and
two sailors, who clung to the wreck, undergoing incredible hardships for
16 days from hunger and thirst, when they were picked up and carried
into Halifax. In 1864, while on board the bark Zelinda, they were cap-
tured by the Confederate steamer Florida. The bark was burned and
they were held prisoners for a time. The first vessel commanded by
Capt. Blair was the War Eagle, principally owned by Capt. Freeman
Hodgdon, in 1862. The last one was the May V. Nevile, Bath, 1892.
III, Ann Janet, b. Mar. i2, 1838; m. George B. Kenniston, q. v.
IV, Elizabeth Fisher, b. Apr. 19, 1840; m. Capt. Freeman K. Reed, q. v.;
d. Dec. 27, 1874.
502 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
V, John Howard, b. July 25, 1842; m. Ellen A. M., dau. of Benjamin and
Isabella Reed, 1877; res. at B. H. Was formerly engaged in building
and hardware trade, but for the past twenty years has followed land sur-
veying, plotting and drafting. They have one son, Frank Wells, who
pursued a course in technology and for some years has been engaged
elsewhere.
BLAKE.
1 Samuel Blake was b. in Harpswell, Jan. 7, 1769; m. Abigail Clark,
1795. He d. Jan. 13, 1842; she d. Dec. 31, 1827. He was son of John Blake,
who came from a town in Eastern Mass. to Harpswell and m. Jenny, dau. of
Waitstill and Meribah (Hutchings) Webber. Samuel and Abigail Blake had
a large fam., four of their sons settling in B. bet. 1825-27. These sons were:
*2 William, b. Sept. 13, 1799, q. v.
*3 Jeremiah, b. Sept. 19, 1801, q. v.
4 Clark, b. Oct. 2, 1806; m. Martha Jewett, West.; he d. July 24, 1888;
she d. Dec. 30, 1893. He lived a few years in B., then a few in West,
finally set. in Portland.
*5 Samuel, b. Jan. 11, 1809, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) William'^ Blake (Samuel''-) m. Rosanna, dau. of Capt. David
Perry, b. on Bailey's Island, Oct., 1805. He d. June 5, 1878; she d. Feb. 7,
1883, a. 78. He set. near Meadow Cove bet. 1825-27. Their chil. were:
6 Hannah S., b. Jan. 11, 1823; m. Sinnett.
*7 David P., b. May 10, 1824, q. v.
8 Elizabeth A., b. Oct. 21, 1825; m. Thomas B. Wylie, 1846.
9 Charlotte, b. Nov. 1, 1827; m. Eliphalet Holbrook, 1862, q. v.
10 Jane P., b. Nov. 23, 1829; d. Jan. 23, 1896; unm.
11 Levi, b. Oct. 11, 1831; m. Sarah J. Reed, 1863; res. E. B.
12 William T., b. July 4, 1833.
13 Rufus M., b. Dec. 23, 1835; m. Aldana Linekin; dec.
14 Charles C, b. Oct. 11, 1837; m. Ruth A. Montgomery; set. in the West.
15 Mar5' Frances, b. Feb. 18, 1845; m. (1) Benaiah P. Dolloff, 1866; (2)
Alonzo P. Wylie, 1887.
(*3) Jeremiah^ Blake {Samuel'') m. Alice (Ellice) Hodgdon, West.,
abt. 1823. He d. Nov. 30, 1865; she d. Dec. 20, 1890. They set. at Back
Narrows soon after 1825. Their chil. were:
*16 Arthur, b. Oct. 28, 1824, q. v.
*17 Thomas, b. Sept. 25, 1826, q. v.
18 Stephen, b. Sept. 27, 1828; d. Julv 27, 1852, see Cas.
19 Jeremiah, Jr., b. Feb. 23, 1830; d. Jan., 1845.
20 Sarah, b. Dec. 12, 1832; m. John E. Burke; d. Mar. 4, 1869.
21 Betsey, b. Dec. 7, 1834; m. Jackson Hodgdon, 1852.
22 Martha Susan, b. July 1, 1836; m. David A. Pinkham, q. v.
*23 Franklin H., b. Apr. 4, 1838, q. v.
24 William C, b. Nov. 16, 1840; ni. Jerusha Gilpatrick.
25 John, b. June 16, 1840; set. in So. Gardiner.
26 Albert, b. June 11, 1845; d. at sea; unm.
(*5) Samuel^ Blake, 2d, (Samuel'') m. Martha, dau. of Jonathan Hutch-
ings, 1831. They set. northerly from the old Giles homestead on the road
from E. B. to Dam. He d. Nov. 25, 1886; she d. July 1, 1886. Their chil. were:
FAMILY HISTORY. 503
27 Abigail, b. Feb. 7, 1832.
28 Julia E., b. July 27, 1833; m. John P. Reed, 1857.
29 Leonard, b. Dec. 25, 1835.
*30 Franklin, b. Apr. 10, 1837, q. v.
31 Jane, b. Aug. 28, 1839; d. 1857.
32 Samuel C, b. July 28, 1841; d. 1864.
33 Joan, b. Jan. 28, 1843.
34 Martha B., b. Sept. 12, 1845; d. 1865.
35 Priscilla, b. Nov. IG, 1846; m. Ansel Farnham, 1865.
36 Mary C, b. May 25, 1848; m. Benjamin Keller, 1868.
Third Generation.
(*7) David P.^ Bi-AKK (Mlliam,^ Samuefl) m. Ann Barter, 1849. He d.
Apr. 4, 1870; she d. Dec. 30, 1887. Their chil. were: Susan F., Louisa J.,
Abbie C, Maggie A.
(*16) Arthur^ Blake (Jeremiah,- Samuel'^) m. Lydia M., dau. of
David and Ghana Merry. He set. at B. H. abt. 1856, living earlier at B. Ctr.
He d. in 1878, see Cas.; she d. in 1887. Children:
37 David Marston, b. Nov. 5, 1848; m. Mrs. Helen F. Young, 1885; she d.
Dec. 23, 1885; he is a master mariner; res. at B. H.
38 Ella J., b. Feb. 27, 1851; m. Heno' Fish, Portsmouth, R. L; two chil.
39 Nettie E., b. Apr. 26, 1856; m. Sewall T. Maddocks, 1876, q. v.
40 Charles C, b. Mar. 24, 1861; m. Addie Brewer; res. B. H.
41 Frederick C, b. July 31, 1866; m. (1) Mary A. Fisher, 1885; (2) Cora E.
Adams, 1889; res. B. H.; four sons bv last m.
42 Guy J., b. June 5, 1872; dec.
(*17) Thomas'" Blake {Jeremiah,- Samuel^) m. Emily P., dau. of John,
2d, and Julia Pinkham; res. in B. H. Children: Nellie Atwood, Benjamin
A., Millard F., Margaret E., Emma A., Gertrude.
(•23) Franklin H.s Blake (Jeremiah,- Samuel'^) m. Mary Tibbetts.
He d. June 5, 1891. Their children: John E., William A. (dec), Orville C,
Joseph T., Frank O.
(*30) Franklin^ Blake (Samuel,'^ Sajnuel'^) m. Mary A, Light, 1861.
Children: Melissa O., Abbie O., Addison C, Lettie M., Clara B.
BLOSSOM.
Alden Blossom, M. D., was born in Turner, Feb. 24, 1820, the son of
Gen. Alden and Lydia (Stevens) Blossom. His father was one of the leading
citizens of Turner. Dr. Blossom came to B. Ctr. Aug. 7, 1843, and located
in practice at the house of William Kenniston, where he boarded. Later he
moved to the Harbor, living at the Boothbay House. He married Weltha
L. Willey, Bremen, Oct. 23, 1850, and about that time settled on Oak St., at
the home where he afterward lived. Dr. Blossom had the largest and long-
est practice of any physician who has lived in town. He was a man of strong
will and much energy, practicing his profession up to within a few months of
his death. His public service was principally in connection with the town
schools, but his name appears elsewhere in Chap. XVL to which reference
is made; also to Chap. XXV. He d. Aug. 17, 1897; she d. Oct. 16, 1877, a.
47-5. Their children: I, Thomas J., b. Apr. 19, 1852; m. Annie J., dau. of
Hiram Spoflord, 1887; one son, Waldo; res. B. H. II, William H., b. Aug
504 mSTOKT OF BOOTHBAY.
21, 1855; d. in inf. Ill, William Emerson, b. Apr. 2, 1857; m. Mary Eveline,
dau. of William and Eveline Seavey, 1880; res. B. H. on his father's home-
stead; employed in State Dept. Sea and Shore Fisheries; three chil.: Alden,
Gertrude, Donald. IV, Nellie N., b. June, 11, 1859; m. Dr. W. S. Thomp-
son, Augusta.
BOYD.
This Boothbay family is evidently from the same ancestrj', but upon its
appearance in town was represented by collateral lines. None came to
Townsend under the Dunbar settlement, nor were the founders of the family
old enough to come to Pemaquid then, but both branches of it were at Pem-
aquid first. Antrim, Ireland, was where they emigrated from and doubtless
they had acquaintances, perhaps relatives, here who influenced their coming.
The first member of whom we have a record is Thomas, who was bom in
1732. I copied from his old family Bible, now in possession of the heirs of
William Clark, Bristol, the following:
' ' Thomas Boyd it is my name and I was Bom in the Kingdom of Ireland
and County of antrim and Parish of Dunl — and the town of Bu — foot and I
left my Native Country in the 18 year of my age and came to this Country
and I have lived in New England 35 years which is 53 years witness my hand.
Thos Boyd."
Just under this is the entry of his birth, which was Dec. 28, 1732, and his
marriage, in 1758, and on another page his death, Aug. 27, 1792. The fore-
going record was, therefore, made in 1785. He had been living in Boothbay
for some years at the date of his death. He had an older brother, Samuel,
who lived and died in Bristol, who, undoubtedly, was the father of Thomas
Boyd who married Catherine Wylie and came later than the others of the
family to Boothbay. He was designated "Thomas Boyd of Bristol" and
" Thomas Boyd the surveyor," apart from his uncle and cousin of the same
name. Thomas, Senior, and Samuel had another brother, George, who
came to Boothbay from Bristol about 1765; George had a son, Thomas, 3d.
Members of this family have been prominent in town affairs in each generation.
1 Thomas Bovd, b. in Ireland, Dec. 28, 1732; m. 1758; d. Aug. 27, 1792.
Mrs. Molly Boyd, who d. Feb. 6, 1823, a. 84, thought to have been his wife.
They had one child; set. at Back Narrows.
*2 Adam, b. Jan. 19, 1768, q. v.
3 George Bovd, brother to Thomas (1), m. Margaret , Nov. 29, 1765;
came from Bristol and set. at Back Narrows. Children:
*4 Thomas, 3d, b. Nov. 16, 1766, q. v.
*5 George W. , no date.
Second Generation.
6 Thomas^ Boyd {Samuel of Bristol'^), called the surveyor, or junior, by
way of designation from his uncle and cousin, was b. in Ireland, Jan. 28, 1748,
and came to America with his parents and uncles in 1750. He m. Catherine,
dau. of Robert Wylie, Mar. 8, 1770; d. June 9, 1803; she d. 1826. Thomas
Boyd came to Boothbay before 1770 and engaged as clerk and bookkeeper
for David Reed. He then became acquainted with Catherine Wylie, whom
he married, and soon after he exchanged his farm in Bristol with Patrick
FAMILY HISTORY. 505
Maguire at Back Narrows, where he set. and became a neighbor to his
uncles, Thomas and George. This farm, which in recent years has been
known as the Moses Hersey place, he lived and died on. He was a good
penman, an accurate accountant and the principal land surveyor in the local-
ity. He was often in town office and his name occurs frequently in the pro-
bate records. From him the present family is largely descended. Children:
7 Martha, b. May 27, 1771; m. Adam Boyd, q. v.
8 Jane, b. Feb. 7, 1774; m. Michael Campbell, 1798, q. v.
9 Esther, b. Jan. 31, 1777; m. James Murray, 1800, q. v.
10 Katherine, b. Aug. 16, 1779; m. Ale.xander Reed, q. v.
*11 Alexander, b. Aug. 16, 1781, q. v.
12 Sarah, b. Oct. 9, 1783; m. Samuel Murray, 1805, q. v.
13 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 1785; m. Joseph Emerson, 1806, q. v.
14 Charlotte, b. Jan. 13, 1788; m. William Montgomery, 1808, q. v.
15 Andrew, b. Jan. 1, 1791.
16 Thomas, b. Feb. 1, 1793; m. Abigail Webber, Edge.
*17 Samuel, b. Aug. 19, 1794, q. v.
(*2) Adam^ Boyd ( Thomas^) m. Martha, dau. of Thomas and Catherine
Boyd, 1789. He lived at Back Narrows; was farmer and teacher; he d. Feb.
19, 1798, upon the ice at a Ixook near his home, where he was drinking from
a hole which had been cut through. Martha, wid., m. (2) Jonathan Hutch-
ings, 1803, q. v.; d. Feb. 4, 1840. Children:
18 Geney (Jane), b. June 16, 1790; m. (1) William Kennedy; (2) William
Durant.
19 Thomas S., b. Mar. 18, 1792; d. June 4, 1810, see Cas.
20 Sally, b. Apr. 30, 1794; m. Samuel Clark, Bris.
21 Catherine, b. Feb. 8, 1797; m. Miller, Bris.
(*4) Thomas'^ Boyd, 3d, [George^) m. Eleanor McGlathery, Bris., 1790.
They lived at Back Narrows. He was killed at the battle of Plattsburgh
Bay, under Com. McDonough, 1814. Chil.: I, Sally, 1792; II, Alexander,
1794, d. 1810; III, Adam, 1798, d. 1816; IV, Robert, 1800; V, William, 1803.
(*5) George W.- Boyd {George^) m. (1) Mary Huff, Edge., 1809; (2)
Ruth Priest, 1824. He d. May 10, 1864; Mary, wife, d. June 9, 1824. Chil.:
I, Joseph Huff, 1811; II, Mary, 1813; III, Eliza, 1815; IV, George W., 1818;
V, Thomas, 1821; VI, Charles M., 1823; VII, Betsey K., 1825; VIII, Eunice,
1826; IX, Martha S., 1827; X, Amos K., 1830, lived at E. B.; XI, Maria,
1832, m. Martin Priest; XII, Abijah, 1835, lived at E. B.; XIII, Angelina,
1840, m. Gardner Stewart, E. B.; XIV, Charles H., 1843, d. 1861; XV, John
A., 1845, d. 1862.
Third Generation.
(*11) Alexander^ Boyd ( Thomas,- Samuel of Bristol^) m. Susan
Walker. They lived on the homestead. He d. June 11, 1863; she d. Dec.
24, 1852. Children:
22 Lucy M., b. June 29, 1818; m. Moses Hersey; res. on homestead; both
dec.
23 Andrew, b. May 16, 1820; m. (1) Rachel M., dau. of George and Rachel
Sproule, Bris.; (2) Bethia C. Richards, Bris., 1862. For many years he
was in the West India trade. Chil.: I, George A., m. Sarah Elliott,
Pictou, N. S. ; she d. 1898; two sons, Robert A. and William R. II,
Mary A., m. Orin Dodge. Ill, Charles M., m. Edith E. Dodge; res.
homestead. IV, Eldora A., m. Frederick H. Harris. V, Susie E., m.
Leon Blake. VI, Lottie F. VII, Hattie H.
24 William Maxwell, b. Aug. 6, 1822; unm.
25 Susan, b. Mar. 8, 1828; m. Martin Brewer.
26 Jackson, b. Oct. 24, 1830; set. in Nova Scotia.
506 EQSTORT OF BOOTHBAT.
(*17) Samuel^ Boyd ( Thomas,- Samuel of Bristol^) m. Sarah, dau. of
William and Margaret Bryer, 1817. He lived at Back Narrows until 1840,
when he purchased and set. on the place owned by the late Thomas Boyd,
which included Bayville. He d. Apr. 7, 1878; she d. Feb. 1, 1879. Chil.:
27 Martha, b. June 9, 1819; m. Dr. A. H. Goodenough; set. in Vermont.
28 Thomas, b. Mar. 5, 1821; m. Nancy Rice, who was b. in Germany, Apr.
5, 1828. They were m. Apr. 8, 1847, and lived in Wobum, Mass., until
1850, when they set. in Boothbay on the farm of his father. He d. Apr.
9, 1893; she d. Nov. 17, 1904. Mr. Boyd was an active business man
and was sheriff, or deputy, for several years. He established the sum-
mer colony at Bayville, which place he owned. He was a leader in the
Republican party in Lincoln County during and for several years fol-
lowing the Rebellion. Chil.: I, George T., m. (1) Vesta Montgomery,
(2) Julia Rowe, res. Dorchester, Mass.; II, Sarah F., m. Frederick
Gale, Boston; III, Emma L., m. Augustus Nason, Bradford, Mass.;
IV, Ada F., m. J. F. Prescott, Boston; V, Ida D., m. Dean, Bridge-
water, Mass.; VI, Addie D., m. Ulysses Knowles, Haverhill, Mass.;
VII, Samuel W., m. Ella Matthews, res. B. H.
29 Charlotte M., b. Dec. 10, 1822; m. George M. Bragdon, Farmington.
30 Sarah J., b. May 20, 1825; d. Mar. 28, 1854; unm.
31 Nancy, b. Sept. 21, 1827; m. (1) Hurlburt, Boston; (2) P. S. Davis,
Winchendon, Mass.
32 Alexander, b. Feb. 28, 1830; m. Gabrilla, dau. of Ephraim and Rosanna
Lewis, 18.56. He. d. Apr. 29, 1894. Chil.: I, Leonard P., m. Lottie E.
Wood, New., res. Dam.; II, Fred B., m. Augusta Sidelinger, Edge.;
Ill, Rose E.; IV, Clarence A., m. Lettie R. Dodge.
33 Catherine, b. Feb. 26, 1832; unm.; dec.
34 Samuel, b. Mav 26, 1834; m. Joanna Williams, Edge.; res. B. H. He
followed the trade of carpenter for several years in early life in Mass.,
but later returned to B. H., where he opened a lumber yard and store
in connection, carrying to the present the largest general line of build-
ers' materials in town. He has also carried on contract work and
dealt in real estate and shipping property. Chil.: I, Grace A., m. Dr.
C. Edward Britto, Rockland; II, Forest P., dec; III, Waldo S., see
Chap. XXIII; IV, Wendell D.
35 Silas R., b. Oct. 21, 1836; d. Oct. 9, 1855.
36 William S., b. June 2, 1840; lived for a time in Portland, but set. in
Maiden, Mass.; was carpenter and blacksmith; d. Jan., 1904, leaving
wid., Lottie A., and chil., Ralph W., Harold C, Ernest L., Alton R.
Freeman Boynton was b. in Liberty, Oct. 27, 1837, son of Bradford and
Lucinda (Dunton) Boynton. Bradford was b. in Liberty, the son of Asa and
Mariam (Smith) Boynton. Asa was of English descent, the third generation
of his family in America, b. in Alna, son of John and grandson of John D.,
the immigrant. Lucinda Dunton was b. in B., dau. of Timothy and Nancy
Dunton, q. v. Freeman Boynton came to B in 1858. For twelve years he
taught school winters and followed bank fishing summers. He then engaged
in the oyster trade bet. Va. and N. Y. for four years, winters, and the fruit
trade bet. N. Y. and the West Indies, summers; then for one year was with
the Bay Island Fruit Co., New Orleans. In 1876 he became manager of the
seagoing outfit for the Atlantic Oil Co., which he followed till 1880, when he
engaged in the retail coal business with John O'Brien, the latter soon selling
his interest to Newell Boynton. In 1886 Capt. Boynton became master of
the yacht of Prof. Rothrock, Philadelphia, cruising along the Atlantic coast
and West Indies with students for pleasure and scientific research, special
FAMILY HISTORY. 507
attention being given to geological examinations, which he followed four
years. Since 1890 Capt. Boynton has devoted most of his time to cultivating
his farm. See Chap. XVI for public service. In his seagoing life he was
hand for the first three years, afterward master. He m. Vandalia, dau. of
Miles Lewis, 1863. They have two daus.: I, Addie L., res. in Augusta,
unm. II, Carrie M., m. Frank H. Locke, July 1, 1891. They lived hi Au-
gusta. He enlisted in the Spanish War and contracted typhoid, from which
he died. They had tv.^o chil., Boynton and Beatrice A. They now live in
Capt. Boynton's fam. at B. H.
BREWER.
1 JAJIES Brewer, the first of that name to settle in Boothbay, is said to
have come from Salem, Mass., but the date is uncertain. His minor son,
John, chose Israel Davis guardian, June 4, 1771. His wife's name is unknown
as is the date of her death. His death evidently occurred in 1771. It is
thought that the Brewer and Bennett families were related before leaving
Salem. They located on Spruce Point.
2 Nathaniel, b. abt. 1749; m. (1) Elizabeth Sampson, Arundel, 1767; (2)
Elizabeth Salloway, 1769; probably rem. from town.
*3 John, b. 1752, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*3) JoHN^ Brewer (James^) m. Susanna Day, 1772. They lived on
Spruce Point. He. d. Aug. 3, 1818. Children:
*4 James, b. 1772, q. v.
5 Jane, m. Joseph Linekin, Jr., 1788.
6 Susanna, m. John Wall, 1794.
*7 Samuel, b. 1783, q. v.
8 Sally, m. Phineas Sargent, 1801.
9 John, m. and set. in Hancock County.
10 Betsey, m. William Robinson, 1809.
Third Generation.
(*4) James' Brewer (John,'^ James^) m. Margaret, dau. of Andrew Wall,
1794. Lived on Spruce Point. He d. Apr. 27, 18.56; she d. Jan. 18, 1856.
Children:
11 Lydia, b. Sept. 17, 1796; set. in Boston.
12 Susanna, b. July 16, 1797; m. John Love, Jr., q. v.
13 Mary, b. Mar. 3, 1799; m. James Campbell, q. v.
14 David, b. Sept. 29, 1800.
15 Nancy, b. Sept. 5, 1802; m. in Boston.
16 James, Jr., b. July 25, 1804; d. 1824.
*17 Charles, b. Sept. 7, 1806, q. v.
*18 Alfred, b. June 22, 1808, q. v.
19 Silas, b. July 16, 1812; d. Aug. 18, 1847.
20 IMitchell, b. Sept. 1, 1815; m. Abigail Gardner, Boston; he d. Dec. 25,
1895; she d. Oct. 16, 1897, a. 77. Their chil. were: Joseph C, Rozilla,
Pembroke, Elizabeth, Adelia, Florence J., Isaac.
21 Amasa, b. June 7, 1818; d. Feb. 23, 1807.
22 Isaac, b. Sept. 13, 1820; m. Martha A. Cameron; lived on South.; he
d. July 19, 1897; she d. Feb. 27, 1884.
508 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
(*7) Samuel^ Brewer (John,^ James^) m. Abigail, dau. of Benjamin
Bennett, 1808. They lived on Spruce Point. He d. July 20, 1858; she d. Jan.
5, 1865. Children:
*23 Samuel, Jr., b. Dec. 4, 1808, q. v.
24 George, b. June 14, 1811; m. Angeline Alley.
*25 Ferdinand, b. Jan. 10, 1814, q. v.
26 Harriet F., b. Aug. 4, 1816; m. Freeman Reed, q. v.
27 Lucy A., b. Mar. 7, 1819.
28 Leonard, b. Aug. 27, 1821; d. 1832.
29 Mary J., b. June 7, 1826; m. William M. Bennett, q. v.
Fourth Generation.
(*17) Charles* Brewer ( James, ^ John, "^ Jafhes^) m. (1) Isabella Dow;
she d. July 3, 1849; (2) Catherine . He d. Feb. 23, 1889. Chil.: Ora
Ann, Lydia E., William, Julia F., Sally, Apphia, Silas, Gillis, Julia, Flora B.,
Charles W. The last four are chil. of 2d m.
(*1S) Alfred* Brewer (James,^ John,''- James^) m. Harriet, dau. of
George W. Pierce. They lived on South. He d. Apr. 31, 1893; she d. July
17, 1900. Children: I, Alden H., b. Sept. 11, 1831; d. Jan. 15, 1864. II,
Salana U., b. Feb. 10, 1834; m. Capt. Elbridge G. Love. Ill, Maud S., b.
July 25, 1840.
(•23) Samuel* Brewer, Jr., (Samuel,^ John," James^) m. Polly Tibbetts.
Chil.: I, George, 2d, b. July 25, 1829; m. Nancy J. Farnham. II, Martin, b.
July 4, 1831; m. Susan W. Boyd. Ill, Ferdinand, b. Oct. 17, 1833; m. Sarah
E. Adams. IV, Mary E., b. Oct. 16, 1834. V, Rufus, b. Sept. 9, 1836; see
Cas. VI, Margery, b. Sept. 27, 1838; m. George Giles. VII, Apphia, b.
Dec. 10, 1840; m. in N. Y. VIII, John, b. Oct. 4, 1843; m. Sarah E. Davis.
IX, Cyrus, b. Dec. 3, 1845; m. Thorpe. X, Horace G., b. Dec. 11,
1850; unm. XI, Flora E., b. July 31, 1863; m. Franklin Reed.
(*25) Ferdinand* Brewer (Samuel,^ John,'^ James^) m. Margaret Love.
Live at B. H. Children: Rodney, Bainbridge, Helen A., Elbridge, Ade-
laide, Augusta, Seth L., Roland, Susan A., Henry.
BROWN.
Two brothers, Samuel and Jonathan Brown, appear in the records
among the earliest settlers. As young men already residing in town they
were married before our records commence. They may have been sons of
Edmund Brown, who set. under Dunbar; if not so, their ancestry is unknown.
They lived in the vicinity of his settlement, easterly from Pisgah. If these
were not his sons the trace is lost of the children he left in 1739.
1 Samuel Brown and wife, Margaret, had children:
2 Susanna, b. Dec. 1, 1766; m. Patishel Knight, 1782, q. v.
3 Jean, b. Dec. 30, 1768; m. Ephraim Burnham, 1789, q. v.
*4 John, b. July 16, 1771, q. v.
5 Margaret, b. May 9, 1773.
6 Rhoda, b. Feb., 1776; m. William Emerson, 1798, q. v.
7 Elizabeth, b. May 10; 1778.
8 Mar>-, b. Oct. 16, 1780.
9 Samuel, b. Nov. 5, 1782.
10 Fanny, b. May 15, 1785.
11 Jonathan Brown, brother to Samuel, ^ and wife, Sarah, had children:
12 Martha, b. Jan. 22, 1768.
*13 John, Jr., no date.
FAMILY HISTORY. 509
Second Generation.
(*4) JoHN^ Brown (Samuel^) m. Rachel . Their children were:
Ephraim, 1793; William, 1797, d. 1820. John, the father, d. July 10, 1818.
(*13) John2 Brown, Jr., (John^) m. (1) Betsey ; (2) Mary McCul-
loch, 1813. He d. Jan. 24, 1832; Betsey, wife, d. Aug. 20, 1813. Children:
*14 Daniel, b. Mar. 29, 1793, q. v.
15 William McCobb, b. May 30, 1794.
16 John, b. Jan. 26, 1796.
17 Nabby, b. Feb. 26, 1801.
*18 James Auld, b. Feb. 25, 1803, q. v.
19 Samuel, b. Nov. 4, 1804.
20 Auld McCobb, b. Nov. 11, 1808.
Third Generation.
(*14) Daniel^ Brown (Johfi,- Jokn^) m. Elizabeth H. Reed, 1835. He
d. Nov. 12, 1850. Children: I, Thomas L., b. 1836; d. 1853. II, Elizabeth
S., b. 1840. Ill, Daniel Marshall, b. Mar. 22, 1842; m. Ruth A. Tarbo.x,
West.; d. June 29, 1884; chil.: Ralph A., Sophronia L., Marshall A.,;Laura
A. IV, Charles R., b. 1844; d. 1871. V, Caroline.
(*18) J.\MES A.3 Brown [JohnP- John^) m. Mary Ann Reed, 1829. He
d. May 2, 1853; she d. Mar. 27, 1871. Their chil. were: Martha J., 1830;
Charles C, 1832; Mary E., 1835; Julia A., 18.36; Benjamin W., 18.38; Louisa,
1840; Aldina, 1842; Statira P., 1845.
BRYER.
1 Samuel Brver settled in Boothbay between 1767 and 1770. He came
from Kittery and was married at the time, and a part of their children were
born in Kittery. William Bryer, grandfather of Samuel, married the dau. of
Robert and Mary Cutts, who were English stock and among the most aris-
tocratic of early New England families. They were the grandparents of
William Whipple, one of the New Hampshire signers of the Declaration
of Independene. On arriving at Boothbay settlement was made near Back
Narrows, next north from the home of Thomas Boyd. He m. (1) Huldah
— , b. 1739, d. June 15, 1813; (2) Hannah Booker, 1814; she d. June 2, 1846,
a. 97. Samuel d. Jan. 24, 1824, a. 81. Children:
*2 Samuel, Jr., b. July 10, 1765, q. v.
*3 William, b. Apr. 17, 1767, q. v.
4 John, b. Mar. 23, 1769.
5 Elizabeth, b. Mar. 31, 1771.
6 Jeremiah, b. Feb. 27, 1773.
*7 Elihu, b. Feb. 23, 1775, q. v.
8 Huldah, b. May 13, 1777; m. Joseph Tilton, Edge., 1799; set. in Mass.
*9 Robert, b. Feb. 19, 1780, q. v.
*10 Joseph, b. Oct. 8, 1781, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Samuel^ Brver, Jr., {Samuel^) m. Betsey, dau. of William McCobb,
1793 (Bethrige in publishments ). They set. northwesterly from his father.
He d. Aug. 5, 1854; she d. Aug. 5, 1849. Children:
11 Samuel, b. Apr. 1, 1794; m. Huldah Bryer, 1822. He lived where the
late John S. Knight did, and made brick at the head of Campbell's
Cove; s. p. He d. Sept. 7, 1874; she d. May 3, 1882, a. 79.
12 Mary, b. May 13, 1796.
510 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
13 Betsey, b. Jan 5, 1798; m. Thomas Orne, 1815.
14 Rachel, b. Sept. 23, 179!).
15 John, b. Aug. 13, 1803; m. Elizabeth Giles, 1828.
(*3) William^ Bryer (Samnen) m. (1) Margaret Smith, 1794; shed.
Mar. 6, 1804; (2) Mary Booker, 1806; she d. Feb. 18, 1853. He d. Feb. 18,
1824. They lived about one mile north of the old red schoolhouse in No. 12.
He and Samuel, Jr., heired a tract of land from their father's property at the
head of Campbell's Cove, which they divided between their sons. One was
the Knight place, given to Samuel, and the other part became the William
S. Bryer place. Children;
16 Sarah, b. 1797; m. Samuel Boyd, q. v.
17 Anne, m. Isaac Reed, 1824.
*18 William S., b. 1799, q. v.
19 Jeremy.
20 Huldah T., b. 1803; m. Samuel Bryer, q. v.
21 Mahala, b. June 16, 1806; d. Apr. 10, 1837; unm.
22 Margaret, b. May 1, 1808.
23 John F., b. Sept. 16, 1812; m. Sarah J. Gray; d. June 3, 1876.
24 Susanna, b. Oct. 16, 1814; m. Ralph Whitehouse.
25 Mary Ann, b. June 21, 1817; m. Thomas Lydston.
26 Catherine, b. Mar. 8, 1819; m. Hall, Dam.
(*7) Elihu'-' Bryer (Samuel^) m. (1) Betsev Bryer, 1799; (2) Mrs. A.
Sawyer, 1800; she d. in 1832. He d. Mar. 11, 1856. He lived at Pleasant
Cove. Children: Nancy, 1800; Elihu, 1803; Edith, 1804; Elizabeth, 1809;
Martha, 1812. None of this family married.
(*9) Robert^ Bryer (Samuel'^) m. Mary Haggett, Edge., 1803; lived
for a time at Pleasant Cove, then moved to Edge., where his descendants
now live. Children: Elmira, Mary A., Paul, Robert, Jr., Sarah, Samuel,
Martha, Weston, born bet. 1803-19.
(*10) Joseph- Brver (Samuel'^) m. (1) Jane Kiff (Kieff), 1806; shed.
1853; (2) Mary Anderson. He d. June 7, 1864; res. on homestead. Chil.:
Sarah, 1807; Eliza, 1808; Joseph, Jr., 1811; Alexander, 1813. Alexander
was a successful sea captain; set. in Roxbury, Mass.; d. Feb. 1, 1901.
Third Generation.
(*18) WiLLiAJi S.' Brver ( Williain,- Samuel'^) m. Susan M., dau. of
David Reed, od, 1819. He followed farming, coasting and brickmaking.
Lived near the head of Campbell's Cove. He d. Apr. 3, 1860; she d. Aug.
26, 1880. Children:
27 Ann Maria, b. Nov. 3, 1819; m. (1) Leonard Holman; (2) Charles
Holmes; s. p.; res. Plymouth, Mass.; she made several bequests to
institutions in her native town.
28 Martha Emily, b. Dec. 17, 1821; m. John G. Hutchinson, Reading, Mass.
29 Margery McFarland, b. Feb. 28, 1824; m. Samuel McCobb, q. v.
30 Sarah McKown, b. Jan. 7, 1826; m. (1) Luke Blodgett; (2) Edgar
Arlington; res. on homestead.
31 Hulda Jane, b. Mar. 3, 1828; m. Joseph Cormack, San Francisco; s. p.
32 Bellona A., b. June 30, 1831; m. William Jordan, Boston; s. p.
33 Isabella McKown, b. Sept. 28, 1833; d. Jan. 14, 1883; unm.
U Susan Smith, b. Jan, 21, 1836; unm.
35 Mao' Curtis, d. 1858; unm.
36 Albert William, b. Sept. 19, 1841; d. July 20, 1864, see Civil War list.
Capt. John Auli
1805-1S72.
FAMILY HISTORY.
BURNHAM.
1 Solomon Burnham, thought to have come from Newburyport or vicin-
ity, set. at Pleasant Cove, where Charles Dodge now lives, before the Revo-
lution. The name of his wife is unknown, as also are the dates of their
deaths. The families of two sons, Solomon, Jr., and Ephraim, were recorded.
There were probably other children, but if so they are thought to have lived
in Edge, or New., and this distribution of the early members of the family
makes it a difficult task to properly present them. Children:
*2 Solomon, Jr., q. v.
*3 Ephraim, b. Jan. 1, 1768, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Solomon^ Burnham, Jr., (Solomon^) m. Anna Wheeler, 1783.
Their chil. were: David, 1784; Solomon, 1786; John, 1788; Roxanna, 1791.
None of this fam. are thought to have set. in B.
(*3) Ephraim- Burnham ( Solomon'-) m. Jane Brown, 1789. They lived
on his father's homestead. He d. Aug. 5, 1813. Children:
4 Jeremiah, b. Apr. 11, 1793.
5 John, b. May 20, 1795; m. Isabella Malcomb, New., 1816; lived on
homestead. Chil.: Jane B., b. Mar. 16, 1818; Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1820;
Isabella, b. May 10, 1823; Ephraim, b. June 16, 1826; Allen, b. Dec.
17, 1828; Amos, b. Sept. 1, 1832; Permelia, b. May 8, 1835.
6 Rhoda, b. Apr. 1, 1797.
7 Ephraim, Jr., b. Aug. 31, 1794.
8 Samuel, b. Apr. 10, 1804; lived where his son, Edward S., now does.
He d. Sept. 8, 1890; Betsey, wife, d. Feb. 17, 1882, a. 67.
CAMERON.
1 Daniel and Eleanor Cameron were among the earliest settlers of Cape
Newagen Island. They came from Scotland. He was b. in 1750 and she in
1758. They located at Cameron's Cove, which has ever since been owned
and occupied by their descendants. He was engaged in fisheries to quite an
e.\tent in his later years. They evidently had three sons, but there appears
nothing to indicate other children. In their last years they lived with their
son John. He d. Oct. 11, 1819; she d. Apr. 3, 1834. Children:
*2 John, b. 1788, q. v.
*3 William, q. v.
*4 Daniel, b. 1798, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) JOHN^ Cameron (Daniel') m. Sally Dow, 1810. He was one of the
most extensive fishermen of his time. He d. Sept. 14, 1857; she d. Apr. 13,
1865, a. 77. Children:
5 Eleanor, b. Apr. 8, 1811.
6 William R., b. Mar. 24, 1813; d. Aug. 28, 1840.
7 Charles, b. Sept. 18, 1815; d. Aug., 1836.
*8 Daniel, b. Dec. 16, 1818, q. v.
9 Lydia, b. June 19, 1822; d. 1834.
10 Merrill, b. June 19, 1822; d. 1838.
11 Mary J., b. Mar. 27, 1824; d. 1828.
34
512 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
(*3) William^ Cameron [Daniel^] m. Mar>- Claringbowl, 1816. He d.
Sept. 4, 1877. Chil.: I, Robert, b. Apr. 11, 1817; II, William, Jr., b. Mar.
27, 1819; III, Clarissa, b. May 18, 1821; IV, Eliza J.; V, Artemas, b. Jan. 21,
1827; VI, Luther, b. Aug. 29, 1832; VII, Eliza J., b. Oct. 29, 1834; VIII,
Mary A., b. Mar. 7, 1835; IX, Laurinda, b. Aug. 22, 1837.
(*4) Daniel^ Cameron, Jr., (Daniel'^) m. Sarah H. Rand, 1824 He d.
May 11, 1867. Chil.: I, Martha A., b. Jan. 2, 1825; II, Henry, b. Aug. 26,
1826; III, Elizabeth F., b. Dec. 29, 1831; IV, Edward R., b. Nov. 12, 1833;
V, Charles, b. Dec. 23, 1837, d. May 4, 1871; \'I, John, m. Martha, dau. of
John Andrews; VII, Charles; VIII, Sarah.
Third Generation.
(*8) Daniel^ Cameron Uohn;^ Daniel) m. Mahala Thurston, Bristol,
1841. His business career is referred to in Chap. XXI. He followed the
fisheries through his life, either in company with his father, alone, or in com-
pany with Freeman Ome. He d. Nov. 19, 1898. They had a family of ten
chil., two only of them now living: Mahala, who m. Emerson McKown,
and William, residing on the old homestead, who m. Mary E. Todd. The
tax list of South, shows other members of the Cameron family, but records
have not been obtainable to show their descent.
CAMPBELL.
The Campbell name, as the reading world well knows, is Scotch wher-
ever found. This family, while not coming to Townsend with the Dunbar
immigration, was of the same general descent with that band, and came
from a similar locality, for similar reasons, with similar hopes and expecta-
tions for a new and untried home in the wilderness of Maine. We evidently
fail to reach the original Campbell immigrant to Sheepscot. The first one
traced is James, who was bom there, May 22, 1725. In 1763 he married
Sarah Malcomb, who was born Apr. 16, 1733. They had eleven children,
the fifth and sixth of whom, Joseph and Michael, settled in Boothbay, due,
probably, to marrying here. Therefore we will consider James of Sheepscot
the head of the family, drop nine of the children, who have no real relation
to us, and consider only the two who settled here. The reader is referred to
Cushman's Hist, of Sheepscot, pp. 360-62.
1 James and Sarah (Malcomb) Campbell of Sheepscot. Their sons who
set. in Boothbay were:
*2 Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1762, q. v.
*3 Michael, b. May 12, 1765, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Joseph^ Campbell [James^) m. Jane, dau. of Paul and Margery
Reed, 1791. He set. at B. H., building what has become the Boothbay
House. He built a large private residence which during his ownership was
not opened to the public. His land included McFarland's Point, McKown's
Hill and all, in fact, below the lands of McFariand, FuUerton, McCobb and
Moore. If a line should be drawn from the E. S. B. Co.'s landing, westeriy,
to a point on Mill Cove near Blind Comer, the land lying southerly would
FAMILY HISTORY. 513
about indicate the Campbell purchase. This was bought of Capt. Paul Reed.
Later in life, while his sons, James and John, were at sea, he was influenced
to exchange this property with his brother-in-law, William Maxwell Reed,
for a tract, with buildings, on the east side, which included the late Rufus
Campbell's estate, extending south far enough to include the land where
the Maddocks and McClintock establishments are. The sons felt that an
undue advantage had been taken of their father, whom they deemed not
competent to transact such a deal, and were never reconciled to the exchange.
John named the east side the " English Side," and for years it was referred
to as such. Joseph d. Apr. 12, 1822; Jane, wife, d. Mar. 12, 1814. Children:
4 Betsey, b. Mar. 29, 1794; d. Dec. 15, 1873; unm.
*5 James, b. Oct. 29, 1798, q. v.
6 John, b. May 28, 1800; set. in Salem, Mass.
7 Matilda, b. Oct. 26, 1803; m. Alfred Hodgdon.
8 Joseph, b. Mar. 3, 1814; d. young.
(*3) Michael'' Campbell (James^) m. Jane, dau. of Thomas and Cath-
erine Boyd, 1796. He set. on Pleasant Cove, where H. D. Runey lives, fol-
lowing the sea for business. Jane, wife, d. June 8, 1813, and he m. (2) Mrs.
Nancy Simpson. He d. Mar. 16, 1844. They had 12 chil., 5 by last marriage:
I, Sarah, 1799; m. Samuel Knight, 1818. II, Esther, 1801; see Cas. 1814.
Ill, Catherine, 1803; m. Benjamin Kelley, 1821; d. 1856. IV, Jane, 1805; m.
Jsaac Webber, Edge., 1826. V, Charlotte, 1807. VI, Thomas B., 1809.
VII, Elizabeth, 1812. VIII, Benjamin, 1814; m. (1) Margaret Williams, (2)
Amelia Pinkham. IX, Louisa, 1817. X, Mary J., 1819. XI, Elizabeth,
1821. XII, Harriet, 1824; m. Wilmot Barter, 1842.
Third Generation.
(*5) James' Campbell {Joseph,''- James^) m. Mary, dau. of James and
Margaret Brewer, 1819. Followed the sea in early life and farming later.
Lived on homestead. He d. Jan. 7, 1884; she d. Apr. 8, 1875. Children:
9 Joseph, b. Oct. 29, 1820; d. on coast of Sumatra, 1844.
*10 Rufus, b. Apr. 7, 1823, q. v.
Fourth Generation.
(*10) Rufus* Campbell (James,* Joseph,'^ James^) m. Rosanna, dau. of
William and Hannah Durant. Res. on the homestead through life. It was
during his occupancy that many lots were sold from the old estate and built
upon. He d. Apr. 5, 1878. Children: I, Frederick, m. Ada E., dau. of
Thomas Orne; painter; chil.: Myrtie M., William R., Ralph A., Blanch M.,
Florence M. II, John D., dec; unm. Ill, Mary E., m. Charles H. McCobb.
CARLISLE.
1 JosEPHUS Carlisle came to Boothbay from Kittery at about the time
Samuel Bryer did. He settled on what has since been known as Carlisle's
Point in the Damariscotta. No known record of his death exists; Elizabeth,
his wife, d. June 11, 1824, a. 94 years. Children:
*2 Joseph, b. 1761, q. v.
3 James, m. Sarah Goudy, Bris.; set. there; had 6 chil.: Isaac, Hiram,
Ephraim, Miriam, Sarah.
514 mSTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
4 Miriam, m. Solomon Baker, Edge.
5 Sarah, m. William Trask, Edge.
6 Eunice, m. Enoch Trask, Edge.
Second Generation.
(•2) Joseph- Carlisle (Josephus^) m. (1) Elizabeth Merry; (2) Phebe
Alley, 1788; (3) Sarah Wylie, 1827. Phebe, wife, d. Nov. 5, 1820; Sarah,
wife, d. Oct. 7, 1840; Joseph d. Oct. 15, 184:3. Children:
7 Joseph, Jr., b. Aug. 26, 1782; m. Sarah Holmes; set. Edge.
8 John, b. Apr. '2h, 1789; m. Susanna Alley; set. Dres.
9 Amos, b. Jan. 2, 1791; m. Anne Bryer; see Cas., 1820.
10 Miriam, b. Oct. 7, 1792; m. Henry Reed, q. v.
*11 William, b. Nov. 26, 1797, q. v.
12 Martha, b. Mar. 17, 1801; d. 1819; unm.
1:5 Phebe, b. Sept. 10, 1804; m. Nathaniel Dunton; set. Concord, N. H.
14 Elizabeth, b. Dec. 26, 1808; m. Isaac Carlisle, Bris.
15 Mary, b. Aug. 26, 1810; m. George Rowe, Boston; d. Dec. 22, 1846.
Third Generation.
(*11) WiLLiAM^ Carlisle (Joseph,"^ Josephus^) m. Mercy, dau. of Benja-
min and Abigail Pinkham, 1818. He first lived in the Dover district, but
later purchased a part of the Emerson estate, where he afterward lived, in
his last years with his son Franklin. He was an influential citizen with a
long e.xperience in town affairs; see Chap. XVI. He also took great inter-
est in Masonry and was a prominent member of the order. He reached the
age of 95 years, dying Apr. 4, 1893; his wife d. July 6, 1871. Children:
16 Benjamin, b. Nov. 14, 1818; see Cas., 1842.
17 Phebe, b. Nov. 27, 1820; m. Ephraim Pinkham, q. v.
*18 Charles, b. Sept. 7, 1822, q. v.
19 Martha J., b. Oct. 10, 1824; m. Young; set. Calif.
20 Abigail, b. Dec. 24, 1826; m. Nathan S. Baker, q. v.
21 Willis, b. Dec. 24, 1829; d. Sept. 11, 1853; unm.
22 Albion, b. Apr. 14, 1882; d. Apr. 13, 1853.
23 Franklin, b. May 24, 18:>4; lived on homestead, carpenter; m. (1) Louisa
Seleg, d. Sept. 1, 1874; (2) Mrs. Mary A. Wylie, d. Oct. 16, 1885; (3)
Mrs. Martha L. Pinkham, d. Mar. 22, 1896; 2 sons: Frank, Jr., b. June
23, 1867; Walter, b. Dec. 18, 1870, who res. on homestead.
24 Jason, b. Oct. 30, 1836; m. Arvilla T., dau. of James and Mahala Orne,
South., 1864. She d. Oct. 10, 1900. They lived at B. H. He is a car-
penter; see Chap. XVI for town and customs ser\-ice; also Civil War
list. Children: I, Nellie Pauline, unm. II, Florence E., m. W. H.
Peckham, Lewiston, pres. of the George B. Haskell Co. Ill, Annie G.,
m. Charles L. Macurda, Wis., lawyer and ex-clerk of courts for Lincoln
Co. IV, Mary E., unm., a teacher in Auburn schools. V, Gertrude
A., unm. VI, Winfield S.
26 Alva, b. Jan. 29, 1841; d. Feb. 25, 1863.
Fourth Generation.
(*18) Charles* Carlisle {William,^ Joseph,- Josephus^) m. Eliza, dau.
of Silas and Abigail Lewis, 1847. They lived at B. H. He d. Mar. 4, 1872;
she d. July 31, 1895. Children: I, Hermon, m. Addie E. Dunton, 1873; d.
Sept. 16, 1899, a. 50. II, Lewis A., dec. Ill, Odessa, dec. IV, Charles E.,
contracting carpenter, m. Sammie S. McKown, 1885. V, Isaac E., dec.
VI, George A., m. Nettie Auld. VII, Frank R., dec. VIII, Nettie M., m.
Rev. Frank Baker.
FAMILY HISTORY. 515
CAVENOR.
Samuel J. Cavenor was b. in Halifax, 1851. He m. May Z. Youngery.
He took the Ram Island Light at its establishment, in 1883, and still contin-
ues its keeper. They commenced in 1904 to serve shore dinners during the
summer months. They have a fam. of five daus. : Margaret E., Estelle M.,
Florence I., Grace I., Wilhelmina D.
CHAPMAN.
Alonzo Chapman was born in Damariscotta, Aug. 10, 1837, the son of
George Chapman of that town. The ancestry of the family reaches to the
original immigrant, landing in 1644 at Ipswich, Mass. See Civil War list.
He m. Laura A., dau. of Andrew Adams, in 1867. Children: I, Ida, m.
Charles Thorpe; 11, Charles, m. Helen S. Marshall, dau. of Caleb Hodgdon;
III, Augusta, m. Alvah M. Orne; IV, Bertha E., unm.; V, Lottie M., uiun.
CLARK.
Samuel Clark came to Wis. from York soon after 1780. He m.
Forrester. A son, William, b. 1784, set. in B. at the head of Adams Pond.
He m. (1) Betsey, dau. of Samuel and Mary Thompson, 1809; (2) Lydia,
dau. of John Reed, 1821. He was lost at sea in the fall of 1841; Betsey, w.,
d. Jan. 7, 1820; Lydia, w., d. Sept. 17, 1882. Of the first m. there were
Harriet and Mary T., who set. elsewhere, and Sarah and William, who d. in
youth. Of the second m. the chil. were; I, Elizabeth, b. Nov. 25, 1821; m.
Parker Wylie; set. in Portland. II, Lydia A., b. Nov. 26, 1822; m. Jacob
Dodge; set. in Edge. Ill, James, b. Sept. 18, 1825; d. in Calif.; unm. IV,
George, b. Aug. 16, 1827; m. Affa Thomas, Bath; res. in San Francisco,
engaged in shipbuilding; one dau. V, Eleanor, b. Apr. 10, 18?/1; m. Eben
Haggett, New. VI, A!e.xander, b. Aug. 29, 1834; m. Josephine, dau. of
Rufus Adams; she d. Mar. 28, 1885; s. p.; he res. at B. H. VII, Aurilla, b.
Mar. 10, 1836; m. Moses R. White; res. B. H. VIII, Sarah, b. Dec. 16,
1841; d. 1852.
CLISBY.
1 Tilly Clisby came to Wiscasset from New Hampshire in 1812. There
he enlisted and entered service on garrison duty at the blockhouse on Davis
Island. While there he became acquainted with and married Sarah Clifford,
Edge. They settled just north of the house of David A. Reed, No. B., on
the easterly side of the road. He d. Mar, 24, 1871, a. 87; she d. Mar. 31,
1874, a. 81. Children: Eben, Arthur, William, Samuel, Oscar, Frank,
Maria, Marj' J.
Second Generation.
2 Eben Clisbv, b. July 26, 1814, m. Charlotte, dau. of Robert Sherman;
set. on what is now the well-known Clisby homestead. He was a farmer; d.
Mar. 13, 1892; she d. Apr. 15, 1864, a. 49-10. Children:
516 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
3 Silvia, b. Feb. 14, 1838; m. Edward Adams, Dam.; d. Feb. 23, 1861.
4 Robert S., b. July 9, 1841; m. (1) Mar>- VVithington, E. Dedham, Mass.;
(2) Dora Withington, sister to first wife.
5 Joanna S., b. Nov. 25, 1843; m. John J. Patterson, 1893.
6 Woodbridge C, b. Jan. 29, 1846; m. Elva P. Kellev, 1872; res. B. H.;
chil.: Lottie E. (dec), William K., Ida L., Arthur VV., Grace J.
7 Alphonso E , b. Oct. 27, 1848; m. Lizzie P. Cockings; res. B. H.; chil.:
Charles E., m. Blanch Thomas; Alton.
8 Margery M., b. June 12, 1852; m. Howard Cunningham.
9 Eva J., b. May 9, 1857; m. Oliver Sherman, Dam.
COREY.
Charles Corey was first of the name to settle in Boothbay, though his
father had married here. The father, Walter Corey, lived in Boston and m.
Mary, dau. of Robert and Mary Wylie, who was b. July 30, 1780, d. July 17,
1809. The son, Charles, was b. in Boston, July, 1804. He m. Sarah, dau.
of Nicholas T. Knight, 1832, and their home was at the Center, on the Knight
homestead through life. He d. Feb. 28, 1858; she d. Oct. 7, 1896. Children:
1 Mary E., b. Jan. 21, 1834; m. James Pagan; lives in Portland.
2 Sarah F., b. Aug. 20, 1835; m. William P. McCobb; live in New Dor-
chester, Mass.
3 Rachel E., b. July 12, 1837; m. John C. Willey; lived in Wakefield,
Mass.; d. Nov. 17, 1905.
4 John K., b. Apr. 7, 1840; m. Mary A., dau. of Augustus Whittaker,
1870; one dau., Annie M., m. Joseph A. Willey, Portland, 1902. John
K. lives on the homestead at the Center and follows farming.
6 Charles A., b. May 11, 1842; d. Sept. 7, 1862, see Civil War list.
6 Margaret, b. July 7, 1845; d. Aug. 10, 18.52.
7 George F., b. July-26, 1847; m. Helen, dau. of Samuel Alley; res. at
B. H.; is a contracting carpenter; chil.: Rachel and Wilbur C.
8 Edward P., b. Sept. 21, 1856; m. Hattie, dau. of James P. Hodgdon;
chil. : Grace E. and John F. He follows farming and road building.
DAVIS.
Oliver and Sarah Davis came to B. from Nova Scotia abt. 1830. He
d. Feb. 16, 1844; she d. Jan. 27, 1834. Their son Oliver m. Margaret ;
their chil. were: William T., b. 1844; Sarah E., b. 1847; David O., b. 1849;
Charles M., b. 1861; George P., b. 1855; Mary F., b. 1859.
DAY.
1 Samuel and David Day appear in the B. records shortly before 1800.
They were brothers and thought to have been the first of the name in town.
Samuel m. Betsey, dau. of David Reed, 1791; they had two chil.: Samuel,
Jr., 1794, and Susanna, 1795. He d. Mar. 23, 1796, a. 32, and the wid. m. (2)
David Kenniston, q. v.
2 Da\id Day, from whom the present fam. descends, m. Hannah, dau. of
Solomon Pinkham, 1799. Deaths of the parents are unrecorded and their
graves are unmarked. Their children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 517
3 Margaret, b. Dec. 2, 1801 ; m. Samuel Barter, 2d.
4 William, b. Feb. 2, 1804.
.5 Susanna, b. Aug. 26, 1806.
*6 Charles, b. Apr. 6, 1S09, q. v.
*1 Nathan, b. July 24, 1811, q. v.
8 Permelia, b. Aug. 24, 1813.
(*6) Charles^ Day [David'^) m. Esther Pinkham. She d. Sept. 8,
1890. Children: I, Andrew, b. Dec. 2, 1831. II, Elizabeth, b. Aug. 29,
1834. Ill, Stinson, b. Oct. 29, 1837; m. Olivia Jackson; d. Mar. 24, 1891.
IV, Hiram W., b. Nov. 16, 1841; m. Harriet E. Barter; d. Sept. 8, 1884. V,
William H., b. June 4, 1843; m. Arvilla Pinkham. VI, Josie A., b. Dec. 27,
1846; m. Morrill B. Lewis. VII, Aurilla M., b. Dec. 4, 1857; m. Elwell S.
Greenleaf.
(*7) Nathan^ Day (David'^) m. Hannah Lewis. Children: I, Lucy J.,
b. June 4, 1837; m. Alfred K. Caswell. II, Warren P., b. July 28, 1838; m.
Clara J. Decker; chil.: Giles W., Merrill, Josephine, Frank. Ill, Merrill, b.
May 28, 1840; d. Mar. 14, 18.56. IV, Susan W., b. Oct. 6, 1842; m. Stephen
Campbell. V, Alden, b. July 28, 1845; m. Mary E. Decker. VI, Eliza A.,
b. Aug. 26, 1847; m. Elwell S. Barter.
DECKER.
1 David and Eunice Decker were very early settlers on Cape Newagen
Island, locating at what has always since been known as Decker's Cove.
Where they came from is uncertain. The date of his death is unk. She d.
in 1810, a. 93. They had three sons, John, Thomas and William, all of whom
served in the Rev. War, and another, Abraham, from whom a part of the
fam. on South, descends. The name also appears on Jeremisquam in 1771,
when William and Molly Decker of that island appear published in the Booth-
bay records; and in 1772 a Joseph Decker, Freetown, m. Sarah Davis of B.
Children:
*2 Abraham, q. v.
*3 Thomas, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Abraham- Decker (David'^). Dates of birth, marriage and death
and name of wife unk. He had at least three sons who m. and had fams. :
4 Abraham, Jr., m. (1) Betsey Horn, 1800; (2) Susanna Wooten, 1811.
Chil.: Polly, 1801; Thomas, 1803, m. Sally Wooten; Hannah, 1804;
Charles, 1805; Abigail, 1811, m. David Pierce, 2d.
5 John, m. (1) Joanna Lundy; (2) Jennet Decker. Chil.: John, Jr., 1803;
George W., 1804; Hugh, 1807; Levina, 1809.
6 Thomas, 2d, m. Nancy . Chil.: Rachel, 1813; Lydia, 1815; Susan-
na, 1819.
(*3) Thomas^ Decker (David^) m. Catherine, dau. of William Fuller-
ton. Children:
7 Eunice, b. Jan. 8, 1781.
*8 Ebenezer, b. Sept. 20, 1783, q. v.
*9 Thomas, Jr., b. Nov. 8, 1785, q. v.
10 David, b. Nov. 6, 1788.
11 Jennet, b. Nov. 17, 1700; m. John Decker.
12 Elizabeth, b. June 9, 1794; m. James Lowell, Alna.
*13 William, b. May 11, 1796, q. v.
518 HISTORY or BOOTHBAT.
Third Generation.
(*8) Ebenezer'' Decker ( Thomas,- David'^) m. Sally Ball, 1806. He
was a sea captain and a man of considerable business interests. He d. Nov.
11, 1822; she d. May 9, 18.51, a. 63. Children:
14 Abigail, b. Sept. 9, 1807; m. Harry Horn.
16 Levi Ball, b. Jan. 25, 1809.
16 George G., b. Dec. 7, 1810; m. Sarah Dyer, 1833.
17 Mary A., b. Mar. 30, 1813; m. George Pierce, 1832.
18 Clarissa P., b. Mar. 30, 1815; m. Stephen Dyer, 1836.
19 Judith, b. May 8, 1817; m. Silas Ome, 1837.
20 Ebenezer F., b. July 2, 1819; m. Mary A. ; they were parents to
E. L. Decker, now res. in South. He d. Sept. 28, 1884; she d. Apr. 9,
1870, a. 51-3.
*21 Wilham, b. Dec. 20, 1821, q. v.
(*9) Thomas^ Decker, Jr., [Thomas,- David^) m. Betsey Lamson,
1808. He d. July 25, 1834. Children: I, Mary J., b. May 17, 1812; m.
Thomas Berry, 1832; d. 1835. 11, Eliza A., b. Sept. 4, 1813; m. Jacob Cour-
ier. Ill, Catherine F., b. June 24, 1815; m. John Decker, Jr. IV, Sarah, b.
Oct. 14, 1817; m. Capt. Warren Reed. V, Robert Gilmore, b. Dec. 29, 1819;
m. Martha ; he d. Sept. 30, 1892; she d. July 6, 1898, a. 75; chil.: Mar-
tha M., James T., Nathaniel Curtis. VI, William C, b. Oct. 12, 1823. VII,
Nathaniel C, b. July 18, 1828. VIII, Martha L., b. Nov. 5, 1830; m. Benja-
min F. Tibbetts. IX, Samuel E., b. Mar. 18, 1832.
(*13) William^ Decker ( Thomas,'^ David'^) m. Anna Bragg. He d.
Apr. 13, 1821; his wid. m. Samuel Wooten, Jr., 1823. Chil.: Polly, 1816;
Priscilla, 1819; Elizabeth, 1821, m. Giles Tibbetts, 1840.
Fourth Generation.
(*21) William* Decker {Ebenezer,^ Thomas,- David^) m. Harriet ;
she d. Apr. 21, 1865, a. 39-7. He was one of the most prominent bank fish-
ermen of his time, and together with his brother Ebenezer carried on an
extensive business; see Chap. XXI. Chil.: William H., Lettie H., Flora
Ellen, Clarence Cushman.
DELANO.
Orson M. Delano was b. in Vassalboro, Nov. 11, 1850, the son of Calvin
W. Delano, who was descended from Bath and Woolwich ancestry, marry-
ing a dau. of Isaac and Sarah (Hutchings) Tibbetts, who were b. in B. , but
set. in White. Mr. Delano m. Betsey G. Trask, Edge., b. Oct. 4, 1852.
They have three sons: Arthur E., b. Mar. 22, 1873; Coburn W., b. Feb. 19,
1880; Walter E., b. June 26, 1888. He lives on the farm, one of the best
cultivated in town, where John and Martha Alley set. abt. 1742. He follows
dairy, fruit and market farming, and deals in agricultural implements.
Isaiah and Ellen M. Dewolfe lived at B. Ctr., rearing their fain, in town,
when the parents and part of their children set. in Boston. She d. Sept. 28,
1899, a. 63. Chil: I, Abby J., m. William H. Fisher, res. in Los Angeles,
FAMILY HISTORY. 519
Calif. II, Robert G., m. Annie, dau. of Capt. Llewellyn Baker; res. in B. H.
Ill, Eunice, unm., res. in Boston. IV, Laura F., d. in B., Dec. 84, 1890, a.
25-3, see Cas. V, Lizzie B., unm., res. in Boston. VI, Willie W., unm., in
traveling employment. VII, Grace May, m. Morton T. Holton, res. Wyo-
ming, Mass.
DODGE.
Throughout the southern and central part of Lincoln County this family
is numerous. In the town of Newcastle at least three branches of it exist,
the founders being contemporary, but their relationship, if any existed, being
now unknown. It is thought that nearly all those living in this locality are
descended from Winthrop Dodge, who came from Marblehead, Mass. , before
the Rev. War and settled in New. He had a son, Samuel, b. in 1779, who
set. in Edge. He m. a cousin, Abigail Dodge. He d. abt. 1870. Children:
»1 Edward, b. Nov., 1809.
2 Samuel, Jr., lived in Edge.
3 Martha, m. William McClintock, q. v.
4 Nancy, m. Ezra Brown; res. in Edge.
5 Lot, m. Jane Page; res. in Dam.
6 Seth W., lived in Dam.
Second Generation.
(*1 ) Edward^ Dodge (Samue/,'^ IVini/irop^) m. Julia, dau. of John Wy-
lie. He d. Mar. 9, 1842. They had two chil.: I, George E., b. 1838; m.
Martha Seavey; they live on Linekin and have had a fam. of seven chil., first
three dec. : George A., Alice M., Franks.; James M., lives in Bris.; Julia
P., m. Simeon Vanhom; Alfred S., m. Ida Vanhorn; Abby W. II, Martha
A., b. 1840; d. 1857. Mrs. Julia Dodge m. (2) John Hodgdon, 2d, q. v.
Deacon Daniel Dodge, who lived at Pleasant Cove, b. Mar. 16, 1822, d.
Nov. 3, 1901, for many years a well-known figure in B. and a prominent
member of the 1st Cong. Society, was son of Daniel, who was son of Win-
throp Dodge. Charles Dodge, now living at Pleasant Cove, is son of
Charles, who was son of Enoch, and he a son of Winthrop Dodge. The
tracing of this fam., however, is more general than particular, from the fact
that for several generations they have been recorded in part in each of the
three towns: New., Edge, and B.
Charles F. Dodge was bom in Woolwich, July 19, 1856, son of Alpheus
and Margaret Dodge. He m. Abbie Adams, Bowdoinham, soon after coming
to B. H. in 1877; one dau., Gertrude D. Not related to the foregoing fam.
DOLLOFF.
Christian Dolloff, who recorded a birth in his family at Exeter, N.
H., in 1667, is said by their genealogist to have founded this family in Amer-
ica. Wherever the name appears it is said to trace to him as ancestor. It
is accepted by the family, from investigations made, that he was of Russian
blood, and was a man of means, owning considerable real estate in his vicin-
ity. He was twice married and left six children, three of whom were sons.
For several generations the greater part of this family continued to reside in
520 mSTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
N. H. John Dolloff, Sr., who was born at New Hampton, N. H., Sept. 19,
1761, and died Nov. 7, 1833, married Elizabeth Preston, who was born Sept.
18, 1762, and died Dec. 2o, 1846. They had ten children, seven of whom
were sons. The youngest child was Beniah. He founded the Boothbay
family and was the sixth generation in America, the line being: Christian,^
Samuel,'^ Samuel,^ Samuel,'' John,* Beniah.*'
Beniah married Clarissa Veasey, Boston, in 1827. It fell to him to care
for his parents in their declining years. In 1842 he sold the old New Hamp-
shire homestead and lived in New Boston till 1846, when he moved to Booth-
bay. Here he purchased of the Handley family the old Daws homestead.
This continued to be his residence until his death, July 7, 1869. His wife, b.
Oct. 9, 1810, d. Jan. 7, 1869. Children:
1 Eliza Paine, b. Aug. 9, 1829; d. May 1, 1837.
2 Frances Tuman, b. Nov. 20, 1831; m. Addison W. Lewis, 1859; s. p.
3 George W., b. Feb. 1, 1833; m. (1) Ellen McCobb, 1871; she d. Jan. 8,
1879; (2) Julia A. Webster, 1882; one son, Raymond W.
4 Charles H., b. July 11, 1834; m. Feb. 5, 1875, Emma E., dau. of Jason
and Abigail Pinkham. He res. at B. H. and is a mason by trade; two
chil.. Myrtle E. and Charles B.
5 Adeline Murray, b. Dec. 4, 1838; d. Julv 21, 1860; unm.
e Warren Lovell, b. Feb. 1, 1840; m. Helen A., dau. of James T. and
Mary Beath, 1865. Has lived at B. H., following the business of a con-
tracting carpenter. They had one son, Frank Hobbs, b. Oct. 25, 1867;
in business for a time at Portland; d. July 24, 1901; unm.
7 Beniah Preston, b. Aug. 26, 1842; m. Mary F. Blake, 1866. After re-
turning from ser\'ice in the Civil War he engaged in the liverj' business.
He d. Dec. 28, 1880, see Cas. They had three chil.: I, Grace A., m.
George B. McClellan, 1887; II, Sherburn R., m. Lillian Walker, of
Mass., 1903; III, Moses P., m. Mary R., dau. of Silas L. and Caroline
Hodgdon.
8 Clara Elizabeth, b. Jan. 4, 1847; m. July 14, 1867, James McDougall, q. v.
9 Julia Maria, b. July 31, 1848; m. Charles E. Giles, q. v.
DUNTON.
Timothy Dunton came from Westport in 1795 and bought the farm at
Back River where the late Miles Lewis lived. He was son of Timothy Dun-
ton who is thought to have been the founder of the Dunton family so numer-
ous in West. Several of this family settled in Lincolnville abt. the time that
Timothy came to B. He was twice married: (1) Nancy Smith, Sept. 5, 1776;
she d. June 4, 1804; (2) Margaret Pinkham. Children: I, Jenny, 1777; unm.
II, Nancy, 1779; m. Andrew Dunton; set. in White. Ill, Israel, 1783; set.
in White. IV, Timothy, Jr., 1786; set. in Liberty. V, Lucy, 1790; m. Jon-
athan Robinson; set. in White. VI, Sally, 1792; set. in White. VII, Prudy,
1794; m. Joshua Loring; set. in White. VIII, William, 1797; m. Sally
Knight, West.; set. in Liberty. IX, Abigail, 1798; m. Aaron Bradstreet,
Liberty. X, Charlotte, b. Sept. 22, 1805; m. Alfred Matthews, q. v. XI,
Maria, b. Nov. 22, 1817; m. Edmund Matthews, 1836, q. v. Lucinda, b.
Mar. 30, 1819; m. Bradford Boynton, Liberty; see Boynton.
Giles Dunton was b. in West., Apr., 1822, the son of David and Sally
Dunton. David is thought to have been cousin to Timothy, father of the
preceding fam. As a young man Giles came to B. in 1846, marrying Esther,
dau. of Joseph Lewis, that year. They lived on the west side of Adams
FAMILY HISTORY. 521
Pond on a part of the original Adams purchase. He d. Oct. 1, 1892; she d.
Mar. 16, 1895. Children: I, Emma, m. Frank W. Woodward; res. No. B.
II, Ella, m. Charles Matthews; res. E. B. Ill, Almon, unm., follows the
sea. IV, Mary E., m. Horace D. Runey; res. at Pleasant Cove. V, Her-
bert G., m. Blanch, dau. of Rufus Reed; carpenter; res. at Dover. VI,
George, m. Celia F. Reed; carpenter; res. B. H. VII, Annie M., m. Eben
A. Poole, q. v. VIII, Lewis A., m. Mabel E., dau. of John Montgomery;
sailmaker; res. at B. H. IX, Orin L., m. Elvira Kilcup, Boston; carpenter;
res. at No. B. X, Laura, m. James A. Hunter, VValtham, Mass.
Three brothers, James F., George B. and Quincy Dunton came to B. H.
from West. abt. 1870. Quincy moved to Rockland soon after and there d.
James F. and George B. engaged in fishing a few years and then changed, in
1876, to freighting, running first the schooner Oregon and then the schooner
Mary Elizabeth bet. Portland and Boothbay. In 1887 James F. engaged in
trade on Atlantic St. in the M. E. Pierce store, where he continued until a
short time before his death, which occurred Aug. 13, 1904, at the age of 58.
Capt. George B. d. in 1900, a. 54. Ruemma, w. of James F., d. May 24,
1887, a. 37. Their fam. consisted of M. Fred, now engaged in trade on
Atlantic St., Imogene, Antoinette, Edward S. By a second marriage are
three other children.
DYER.
Capt. Alphonso Dyer was b. in Portland, Feb. 26, 1844, son of Stephen
Dyer, Cape Elizabeth, who m. Clarissa Payson, dau. of Ebenezer and Sally
Decker, Southport (then B.), 1836. Stephen Dyer was drowned in 1854 from
the railroad bridge bet. Portland and Cape Elizabeth. Capt. Dyer first came
to Southport in 1857. In 1859 his mother, Clara A., a sister, and two broth-
ers, Albert and Cyrus Cushman, came. Albert was killed in the harbor of
Naples, aboard the Constellation, and was buried in Naples, see Civil War
list. Clara d. March, 1868. Cyrus C. m. Clarinda A., dau. of Jaruel Marr.
He lives in Yuma, Ariz., where he went in 1887. Capt. Alphonso m. Mary
Emma, dau. of Daniel R. and Almira Matthews, of B. Their chil. are: I,
Addie E., m. W. E. Dyer, So. Portland. II, Weston A., m. May Foy, dau.
of Alfred and Althea Pierce; res. in So. Portland. Ill, Angle Thompson.
Capt. Dyer commenced mackerel fishing at the age of 13 with his uncle,
William Decker, in the schooner Oasis. He followed the business until
1895, being master of his vessel the last 18 years. They commenced taking
summer boarders in 1889, see Chap. XXIV.
EMERSON.
1 Col. Edward Emerson, the founder of the Emerson family in Booth-
bay and Edgecomb, came from Danvers, Mass., in 1765 and landed where
the old Pinkham mill stood, building his house just west of the buildings
now owned by Frank W. Woodward, No. Boothbay. He was b. in Tops-
field, Mass., July 13, 1738, o. s., and d. in Edgecomb, Mar. 17, 1794. He m.
Elizabeth, dau. of William Shillaber, Danvers, Mass., Apr. 2, 1760. His
ancestry in America follows:
522 HI8TOBY OF BOOTHS AT.
I, Thomas Emerson, who came from England to Ipswich, Mass., 1735-7.
II, Joseph Emerson, Ipswich.
III, Edward Emerson, Chelmsford, Mass.
IV, Rev. John Emerson, Topsfield, Mass., had a family of sixteen chil-
dren, of which Col. Edward was one. He was pastor of the Topsfield
church 46 years.
Col. Emerson was one of the sturdiest figures in Lincoln County history
through the Revolutionary struggle, which may be found at length in Chap.
XIII. His town official service was almost continuous through his residence
in Boothbay and may be found in Chap. XVI. Prior to the Revolution he
had seen service in the Cape Breton expedition, in 1758, where he held a
lieutenant's commission. He was buried in the old yard at Boothbay Ctr.,
the slate stone being now in a good state of preservation. Children:
2 Jane, d. Oct. 27, 1780; unm.
*3 John, b. Danvers, Mass., June 14, 1762, q. v.
4 Elizabeth, m. Henry Kenney, 1789, q. v.
*5 Edward, b. June 21, 1771, q. v.
*6 William, b. Salem, Mass., Jan. 1, 1777.
7 Rhoda, d. in infancy.
8 Joseph, b. June 11,' 1780; m. Betsey Boyd, 1806; set. in Edge.; d. May
10, 1868; she d. May 12, 1859, a. 74-9.
9 Rebecca, b. 1782; d. 1791.
10 Pratt, b. 1783.
11 Samuel, b. 1784.
Note,— It may be seen in Elizabeth Emerson's will of July 26, 1797,
prob. following Sept., rec. Lincoln Prob. Reg., pp. 147-150, that chil. Nos.
2, 7, 9, 10 and 11 were not at that time living.
Second Generation.
(*3) JoHN^ Emerson (Ed-ward'^) m. (1) Rebecca Hodgdon, 1785; she
d. Sept. 20, 1813; (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Cadand, 1814. He d. July, 29, 1842.
He lived upon the homestead until 1839, when he sold to William Carlisle.
The old house was moved to the head of Adams Pond, where it was known
as the Willey house until torn down about 1880. Children:
12 Rebecca, b. Mar. 1, 1786; m. Alexander Rogers, Georgetown; d. 1880,
one of the last pensioners of the War of 1812.
13 Elizabeth, b. May 7, 1787; m. Nathaniel Montgomery, q. v.
14 Abigail, b. Feb. 21, 17S9.
15 Dorothy, b. Dec. 28, 1791.
16 Lydia, b. Jan. 12, 1794; m. Benjamin Hodgdon, 1818, q. v.; d. Dec.
29, 1831.
17 Pratt, b. Mar. 2, 1797; d. Nov. 4, 1822.
18 Prudence, b. Sept. 4, 1798; m. Isaac Fly.
19 John, Jr., b. Oct. 3, 1801; m. Miranda Trask; one dau., Elizabeth, b.
Oct. 30, 1828.
20 Edward, b. Jan. 22, 1815.
*21 Luther, b. Mar. 11, 1816, q. v.
(*5) Edward^ Emerson (Ed-ward'^) m. Anne Sawyer, 1794; set. in
Pittston soon after 1813. He was a farmer, and most of his fam. set. in that
vicinity. Children: I, Susanna, b. 1795; d. 1806. II, Clarissa, 1797; d. inf.
Ill, Abigail, 1813. IV, Edward S., b. in Pittston. Edward S. Emerson,
last named, lived in Pittston, d. Oct. 25, 1874. Two of his sons set. in B.; I,
Daniel K., m. Sarah Stover. II, Thomas J., b. Jan. 2, 1842; m. Eliza J.,
FAMILY HISTORY. 523
dau. of Washington Reed, 1862. They have one dau., Flora B., m. Seth E.
Rowe. Mr. Emerson res. at B. H. For many years he has been a con-
tracting carpenter. For town service see Chap. XVI.
(*6) Elder William^ Emerson {Edward'^) m. Rhoda Brown, 1798.
They lived for a time in Boothbay, but the greater part of their lives in Edge.
He was a prominent figure in the early Free Will Baptist Church in Maine;
was a man of much influence in his community, at one time representing his
district in the Legislature. He died June 17, 1850. Children:
22 Samuel, b. May 20, 1799.
23 Joseph, b. Jan. 5, ISOl.
24 Nancy, b. Mar. 6, 1803.
*26 William Shillaber, b. Mar. 19, 1804, q. v.
26 John, b. Aug. 4, 1805. He achieved much fame as an inventor. He
was granted letters patent Mar. 8, 1834, on the first screw propeller.
It is a matter of both interest and distinction that his model was first
attached to a small boat and worked by hand, successfully, in the
waters of Boothbay Harbor. By the burning of the patent office records
he was, for a time, deprived of the fruits of his invention. John Erick-
son, coming to America at an opportune date, introduced his screw
propeller. Emerson brought action against Erickson for infringement
in the U. S. Supreme Court and obtained a decision. Later Congress
reimbursed him to the amount of f30,000 for the use of his patent.
27 Jane, b. Aug. 21, 1807.
28 Rhoda, b. Oct. 25, 1809; m. Daniel Knight, 1837, q. v.
29 Margaretta, b. Jan. 10, 1813.
30 Thomas, b. Feb. 20, 1815; was living in Racine, Wis., in 1904.
31 Elizabeth, b. Apr. 2, 1817.
Third Generation.
(*21) Luther' Emerson {John;- Edward'^) m. Fidelia Cooper, 1843.
He set. at the forks of the Wis. and Dam. roads at No. B. and followed
farming. It was where his uncle, William Emerson, had lived in 1829 and
kept the first post office in No. B. He died Apr. 30, 1897. Children:
32 Elizabeth, b. June 10, 1844; m. Silas Brookings, Wis. ; four chil.
33 Mary J., b. Aug. 24, 1846; m. Ira Davis, Manchester, N. H.
34 Benjamin S., b. May 6, 1848; m. Jennie, dau. of Rufus and Jane C.
Adams, 1875. They live on the farm formerly owned by William Clark
at the head of Adams Pond, following dairy and market farming. Chil-
dren: Grace E., Hattie L., Fred L., Jennie A., Josie L., Charles W.
85 Luther E., b. Nov. 4, 18.52; d. Jan. 21, 1875.
36 William E., b. Feb. 4, 1861; d. at the homestead, where he had lived.
Mar. 13, 1905; unm.
(*25) Capt. William Shillaber'* Emerson ( William,'^ Edward'^) m.
Sarah Ann, dau. of Alexander Reed, 1834. He was the only one of his
father's family to permanently settle in Boothbay. He was a prominent citi-
zen and a successful sea captain in the foreign trade. He died July 9, 1854,
on a passage from Turk's Island to Boston, brig Rainbow. She died Oct.
24, 1889. Children:
37 John Brown, b. May 12, 1835; m. Sarah Watts, Thomaston, 1867. He
engaged in the American merchant marine in its palmy days and led a
successful life on the sea, being one of the most prominent among the
many that Boothbay has furnished to that calling. He commenced at
the age of 19, in 1854, taking charge of the brig RaiiiboiL', on which his
father had just died. Some of his other vessels were the brig Tempest,
barks Windzcard and Dresden, ships H. B. Gilchrist, Uncle Joe, Val-
ley Forge, John T. Berry and Kendrick Fish. By his marriage he
524 HISTOBT OF BOOTHS AY.
allied himself to one of the oldest, wealthiest and most influential fams.
ever engaged in the shipping interests of Maine. His home was on
Church Square, where his father's family had preceded him and in the
house originallv built by Dr. Ebenezer Wells and completed by Dr. D.
K. Kennedy. He died Feb. 25, 1887.
38 Mary Catherine, b. Oct. 9, 1837; res. at homestead; unm.
39 William Ale.xander, b. Aug. 1, 1840; d. Aug. 15, 1856, at sea.
40 Sarah Ann Greenwood, b. Dec. 21, 1842; m. Dr. Otis P. Rice, Wis.,
June 14, 1860; d. Feb. 25, 1897. They had 3 chil. : Emerson (see Chap.
XXIII), George Wharton, Winfield Lawrence.
41 George Gilman, b. May 5, 1845; see Cas., 1865.
42 Charles Henry Greenwood, b. Aug. 3, 1847; m. Mary E. Sweetland;
res. in Winthrop, Mass. ; two chil. : Frederick A. and Emma Hortense.
43 Ralph Waldo, b. Apr. 23, 1853; d. Sept. 4, 1889.
FARMER.
1 William Farmer was first of this fam. in B. He m. Catherine, dau. of
Capt. Joseph Reed, 1813. He was a seafaring man, being mostly engaged
in coasting and fishing. He built his home, which still stands, on the high
land overlooking West Harbor, a little to the west of Mill Cove. He died
Apr. 5, 1871; she died June 7, 1870. Children:
*2 William, Jr., b. June 8, 1814, q. v.
*3 Samuel, b. June 29, 1817, q. v.
4 Naomi, b. Apr. 22, 1820.
5 Thomas B., b. Oct. 23, 1832; m. Nancy J. Wylie; d. 1851, see Cas.
Second Generation.
(*2) William^ Farmer, Jr., (William:^) m. Alice Wylie, 1839. He lived
where his father did. He d. Dec. 24, 1864; she d. Aug. 4, 1861. Children:
6 William Parker, b. Mar. 14, 1840; m. Mar^• E. ; chil.: Alberta J.,
Carrie L., William H.; he d. May 4, 1887. '
7 Isaac Wylie, b. Aug. 9, 1842; m. Harriet S. McKay.
8 Sarah A., b. July 2, 1844; m. Benjamin Williams.
9 Lyman, b. Jan. 27, 1852; m. Clara A. Wylie, 1874; she d. 1905; chil.:
Eliphalet W. and Clara Ella.
Four chil. in this fam. d. in inf.
(*3) Samuel^ Farmer (William'^) m. Louisa Williams. He d. May 14,
1883; she d. Mar. 24, 1866. Children: Naomi, 1845; Samuel M., 1848;
Nathaniel D., 1850; John M., 1862; Miles A., 1854; Atwell, 1858; Alice P.,
1861. Samuel M., of the foregoing chil., m. Maria Caswell; they had two
chil., Thomas B. and Weltha.
FARNHAM.
1 Jonathan Farnham set. on what has since been known as Farnham's
Head, E. B., just previous to the Rev. War. With him came his wife, at
least one dau., and three sons, Ebenezer, John and Hansel. They came
from Plymouth, Mass. Jonathan, Jr., remained behind and is credited to
Duxbury in his war service. Daniel set. in Newburyport. Jonathan after-
ward came to B. The dates of the parents' deaths are unrecorded and the
name of the mother unk. An old cemetery, inclosed within a stone wall,
lies to the eastward of the wood road which crosses the forest at Farnham's
FAMILY HISTORY. 525
Head. There, in the center of that body of woods, are from twenty to thirty
graves, mostly of the Famham family, marked chiefly by flat, oblong field
stones, only a few having inscriptions, and several rods to the south are
the foundation stones to their early dwellings. Children:
*2 Jonathan, Jr., b. Dec. 7, 1753, q. v.
*B John, b. abt. 17.55.
4 Daniel, set. in Newburyport, Mass.
*5 Ebenezer, b. 1765, q. v.
*6 Hansel, q. v.
7 Martha, m. James Plummer, Bris., 1794.
Second Generation.
(*2) Jonathan^ Farnham (Joyiathati^) m. Dorcas Barnes, Plymouth.
Came to B. and set. near his father, 1788. He d. May 29, 1823; Dorcas, w.,
was b. Feb. IS, 1756; date of d. unk. Tradition tells us that he was one of
Washington's body guard. But few years ago were those living who had
the story from his own lips, and so correctly has it always been told that the
author is inclined to place credence in the statement. His service at Valley
Forge makes this entirely possible and other circumstances make it proba-
ble. See Chap. XIII. Children:
8 Sarah, b. Mar. 4, 1785; m. Thomas Sargent.
9 Dorcas, b. Dec. 18, 1786; m. Ezekiel Holbrook, q. v.
*10 Joseph, b. Oct. 8, 1789, q. v.
11 Hannah B., b. Sept. 9, 1792; unm.; d. Feb. 26, 1856.
12 George, b. Mar. 12, 1794; unm.
13 Jonathan, Jr., b. Nov. 12, 1798.
("3) JoHN^ Farnham {Jo7iafkan'^) m. Abigail Plummer, Bris. He died
Mar. 25, 1849; she died abt. 1858. Children:
14 John, b. Aug. 24, 1793; unm.; d. abt. 1885.
15 Nancy, b. Apr. 8, 1795; m. Joseph Farnham, q. v.
16 Sarah, b. Jan. 28, 1797; unm.
17 James, b. Aug. 24, 1800; d. 1809.
18 Betsey, b. Nov. 18, 1801; m. David Poor.
19 James, b. Jan. 10, 1811; m. Abigail Taylor, New.
20 Chapin, b. Jan. 21, 1813; unm.
21 Micah, b. Jan. 21, 1813; m. Hannah Smalley.
22 Joseph, b. June 22, 1S16; m. Dorcas Holbrook.
23 Mary, b. Feb. 16, 1819; m. Isaac W. Smalley.
(*5) Ebenezer^ Farnham {Jonathan^) m. Mary Herrin, Edge. He died
May 26, 1823; she died Dec. 10, 1835. Children:
24 Harriet, b. Oct. 24, 1797; m. Benjamin Linekin, St. George.
25 Martha, b. Aug. 11, 1799; m. I.saac Smalley.
26 Ebenezer, Jr., b. May 8, 1802; d. 1809.
27 Alexander, b. May 7, 1804; m. Martha Taylor, New.
28 Joseph, b. Apr. 7, 1806; m. Dorcas Sargent.
29 Sarah, b. July 4, 1808; m. in St. George.
30 Ebenezer, Jr., b. Oct. 1, 1810; m. Hart, St. George.
31 Rachel, b. Jan. 19, 1813; m. David Lang.
(*6) Hansel'^ Farnham ( Jonathan^') m. Abigail Plummer, Bris. Rec-
ords are unobtainable in this fam. Children:
*32 Hansel (also Ansel), b. 1794, q. v.
33 Chapin, m. Maria Mann; three chil.
34 Mary.
526 HI8TOKT OF BOOTHBAY.
Third Generation.
(*10) Joseph^ Farnham {Jonathan,'^ Jonathan^) m. Nancy, dau. of John
Famham. He died May 1, 1867; she died Mar. 5, 1868. Children:
*35 John, b. Sept. 24, 1824, q. v.
36 George, b. Sept. 19, 1826; m. Elsie Tebbetts.
37 Andrew, b. Dec. 23, 1828; m. Olive Rackliff.
38 Israel Harvey, b. Mar. 23, 1831; m. Martha Fuller.
39 Isaac, b. Aug. 3, 1833; m. Cordelia Adams.
40 Nancy J., b. Feb. 8, 1836; m. George Brewer.
41 Eliza A., b. May 24, 18:38; m. Simon Farnham.
(*32) Ansel' Farnham (Hansel,''' Jonathan^) m. Mina Gamage, Bristol.
He died June 28, 1873; she died Sept. 17, 1877. Children:
42 Frederic F., b. June 5, 1825; m. Orra Brewer; chil. : William E., Alden B.
43 Mary J., b. Aug. 23, 1827; m. George Martin.
44 William G., b. Oct. 5, 1820; d. Apr., 18.51, see Cas.
45 Ambrose C, b. Feb. 11, 18:52; d. Apr., 18.51, see Cas.
46 Simon H., b. Sept. 21, 1834; m. Eliza A. Farnham.
47 Albion, b. Oct. 30, 1836.
48 Ansel, Jr., b. May 9, 1839; m. Priscilla Blake.
49 Lucinda, b. Sept. 23, 1841; m. Jackson Tarr, Gloucester.
50 George M., b. Aug. 12, 1845; m. Abigail Hodgdon.
Fourth Generation.
(*35) John* Farnham, 2d, (Joseph,^ Jonathan," Jonat/iafi^) m. M^ry ].
Pinkham. Children: I, Mary A., b. Sept. 29, 1851; m. (1) Edward Hutch-
inson, Lynn; (2) William Wood; d. May 24, 1889. II, John F., b. Dec. 21,
1853; m. Emma Foster, Bris. Ill, Emma J., b. May 3, 1856; m. Marshall
Ames, Lynn; d. Sept. 9, 1894. IV, Sarah M., b. June 10, 1859; m. George
Ayer; d. Sept. 24, 1874. V, Harriet A., b. Oct. 7, 1861; m. Samuel Smith.
VI, Martha E., b. Oct. 17, 1865; m. Willis Munsey, Beverly, Mass. VII,
Alfred M., b. Sept. 3, 1867; d. June 24, 1895.
FICKETT.
Lewis S. Fickett was b. in Danville, Me., Oct., 1855. He came to B. H.
in Mar., 1880; m. Flora I., dau. of Jesiel and Sarah A. Harris, June, 1880.
He opened a restaurant at Squirrel Island in 1884, which he conducted, sea-
sons, until 1899. During this period he had a trucking business at B. H. In
June, 1900, he closed both and opened a bakery and restaurant at B. H.,
selling the same to Scott Warren in 1905. They have two chil.: Millard F.,
a jeweler in Damariscotta, and Sarah Ruth.
FISHER.
1 Rev. Jabez Pond Fisher was pastor of the First Cong. Church, 1807-
1816. He came as a young man from Franklin, Mass., and m. Fanny, dau.
of James and Frances Auld, in 1809. They had three chil.: David, 1812;
William, 1813; Frances, 1815. Their settlement after leaving B. is unk.
2 Dr. Charles Fisher, brother to Rev. Jabez, probably through his
influence, came to B. H. in 1810 and set. in the practice of medicine. They
Capt. William Carlisle.
1 798- 1 893
FAMILY HISTORY. 527
were sons of David Fisher, Franklin, Mass. Charles was bom in 1772 and
commenced practice in Mass. in 1798. He m. Jennet, oldest dau. of Eben-
ezer Fullerton, in 1811. They lived on Pisgah. He died June 9, 1818. His
wid. m. Sullivan Hardy, Bris., 1823, and lived in that part of the town that
became Bremen in 1828 The chil. were reared there. Children:
*3 Charles Baker, b. Nov. 29, 1812, q. v.
*4 William Henry, b. Dec. 16, 1814, q. v.
5 Elizabedi Ann, b. Nov. 25, 1816; m. Arthur McCobb, q. v.
6 James Fullerton, b. Nov. 14, 1818; d. 1822.
Second Generation.
(•3) Charles B.^ Fisher (Charles^) m. Maria A. Adams, Union. He
came to B. H. in 1848, buying the Boothbay House and the wharf now
known as Poole's. In 1850 they commenced general trade in the William
Ma.x. Reed store vacated by the Smith Bros. ; see Chap. XIX. By this date
William H., his brother, had moved to B. H. and joined him in partnership,
which lasted during their business careers. He died Aug. 6, 1887; she died
May 31, 1888. Children:
7 Charles Hartwell, b. June 29, 1847; m. Julia M., dau. of Capt. Sewall
S. Wylie. She d. in Ro.xbury, Mass., Aug. 14, 1904, where they had
rem. a few years before. Since then Mr. Fisher has resumed the prac-
tice of law at B. H. Their chil. are: George H., Eugenie L., Sarah
F., Lottie M., Blanch J., Charles R.
8 Frank Fullerton, b. Nov. 28, 1853; lives in La Grange, III. He is vice
president of the Massillon Iron and Steel Co. He m. Lena Gofi Wil-
sgn, St. Louis, Oct. 15, 1890. They have three chil. ~"
Three chil, George A., John C. and Jennet, d. in childhood, Nov., 1864.
(*4) William H.^ Fisher (Charles^) m. Mary A. Weston, Bremen.
He came to B. H. in 1850. He gave his attention to the hotel, principally,
while Charles B. conducted the store. Their wharf, the only one of conse-
quence on the west side of the harbor, was the center of traffic in town. He
died Nov. 2, 1867; she died Nov. 16, 1864. Children:
9 William H., Jr., b. June 2, 1852; m. Jennie A. Dewolfe. For a time he
was proprietor of the Boothbay House, and later a partner with each,
R. G. Hodgdon and C. J. Marr. They now live in San Diego, Calif.
FOSTER.
Capt. Nathaniel Foster lived on Linekin and was a well-known bank
fisherman in his time. He was usually connected in business with the Fam-
hams, Holbrooks or Linekins. He died Mar. 28, 1882, a. 76-10-26; Nancy,
wife, died Mar. 9, 1892, a. 77-10-23. Children: I, Lucy O., b. Sept. 16, 1848;
m. William Reed. II, George, b. Nov. 24, 1852; d. Dec. 20, 1901; Celia P.,
his wife, d. Dec. 13, 1901, a. 37-7.
1 John Fuller was b. in New Hampton, N. H., July 25, 1782. He came
to B. as a young man and m. Rachel, dau. of James and Frances Auld, May
16, 1802. They set. where the late Augustus Whittaker lived, north of B.
528 HI8TOET or BOOTHBAT.
Ctr. They had fifteen chil. He was a shoemaker and it is said that each of
his eight sons learned the trade. In 1828 he sold and moved to where Frank
Fuller now lives. There he d., Apr. 20, 1868; she d. Sept. 20, 1849. Chil.:
*2 Jason, b. Oct. 2, 1803, q. v.
3 James, b. Dec. 19, 1804; set. in Holland, N. Y.; m. Eliza Hopper; d.
in Kan.
4 Sarah Auld, b. Sept. 24, 1806; m. William Adams, 1825; set. in Thom-
aston; dec.
5 Fanny, b. Dec. 6, 1807; m. Charles Spear, Ly-nn, Mass.
6 Adeline, b. Oct. 30, 1810; set. in Sumner.
7 John, b. Sept. 8, 1813; m. Martha Cromwell, Rockland; d. in Smith-
field, Oct. 8, 1903.
8 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 17, 1815; unm.; d. in Portland, Feb. 7, 1897.
9 Mary A., b. Dec. 15, 1816; m. Capt. David Robinson, Thomaston, 1836;
now lives there.
*10 Samuel, b. Feb. 6, 1819, q. v.
11 Jane, b. Apr. 20, 1821; m. William G. Chase, Portland; there d., 1891.
12 Franklin H., b. Nov. 19, 1828; unm.; d. Apr. 8, 1851, see Cas.
13 Harriet, b. Jan. 4, 1826; unm.; lives in Pordand.
14 Manson Chase, b. Feb. 11, 1827; m. Sarah W. Lawson, Richmond,
1867; set. in B. ; now living in Somerville, Mass. Their children are:
Henr>^ M., Arabella J., Anna M., Rachel, Alice M., Harriet D.
15 Thomas S., b. Apr. 24, 1830; unm.; set. in Gloucester, Mass.
16 Charles W., b. Mar. 30, 1834; m. Lucina S. Davis; set. in Portland.
Second Generation.
(*2) Jason- Fuller {John^) m. Jane McClintock, May 16, 1826. They
first lived in B., but later lived in Portland. See Chap. XVI for public ser-
vice. Children: I, Susan C, b. Nov. 23, 1826; m. Charles F. Sargent. II,
Mary Frances, b. Oct. 7, 1827; m. Nathaniel B. Greenleaf, 1849. Ill, Rachel
A., b. Sept. 29, 1828; d. inf. IV, Rachel J., b. June 20, 18.30; m. William H.
Johnson, 1854; d. Feb. 23, 1855. V, Sarah E., b. Oct. 5, 1831. VI, James,
b. Feb. 10, 1833; d. at sea, Oct., 1851. VII, Martha W.. b. Nov. 21, 1834;
m. Robert Gould, 1856; res. in Portland. VIII, Waterman, b. Jan. 12, 1838;
d. 1841.
(*10) Samuel^ Fuller {John^) m. Arietta, dau. of Samuel, 2d, and
Martha Lewis, Nov. 16, 1848. They lived on his father's homestead. In the
fifties he and Manson C. ran a shoemaking shop at B. Ctr. He died Jan. 24,
1901. Their chil.: I, Emma J., b. July 11, 1849; m. Horace W. Pinkham,
1875. II, Frank, b. Sept. 14, 1853; m. Nettie E., dau. of Sewall and Char-
lotte B. Adams, Dec. 4, 1883; live on homestead. Ill, Martha, b. Dec. 25,
1860; d. 1861. IV, Abby F., b. Dec. 30, 1861; d. 1863. V, Ralph H., b.
Sept. 1, 1864; m. Eva Gove; res. at B. H.; machinist. VI, John E., b. Jan.
16, 1867; m. Mary Hilton; res. B. H.
Jacob and Mercy Fuller, who lived at E. B. , are not known to have been
related to the foregoing family. He d. Nov. 10, 1874; she d. Dec. 6, 1890.
Their chil. were: I, Abigail, b. Feb. 18, 1819. II, Jacob G., b. Apr. 14,
1829. Ill, Leander W., b. Oct. 28, 1831. IV, Nancy J., b. Nov. 12, 1833;
dec. V, Martha J., b. Oct. 18, 1835; m. Israel H. Farnham, 1864. VI, Eliz-
abeth, b. Apr. 26, 1841. Of the foregoing, Jacob G. m. Nettie C, dau. of
Silas Lewis; he was a shipbuilder at E. B., see Chap. XIX; two daus. : Net-
tie A., m. Capt. Manley K. Hodgdon, and Lizzie A., m. Alva Webber; one
son, Norman S., res. in E. B. Leander Fuller m. Lucinda A. Tibbetts; was
in trade at E. B.; two sons, Atwood and Arnold.
FAMILY HISTORY.
GILES.
1 Joseph Giles, who was first of the fam. to set. in B., was b. in Dover,
N. H., Oct. 6, 1735. He was the son of Paul Giles, b. Dec. 1, 1708. Paul
was son of Mark and Sarah Giles. They also had a son Mark, who m. Lydia
Tibbetts, and they had sons: Mark, 1739; Paul, 1743; Joseph, 1746. These
names are very common in the Dover records. Joseph Giles m. Martha,
sister to Benjamin Pinkham, who was founder of that fam. in B. She was b.
Apr. 7, 1737; they were m. in 1757. The e.xact settlement in Townsend is
unk., but it occurred from 1757 to 1759. Their home was the farm owned in
recent years by Capt. John H. Welsh, at Dover, with some adjoining terri-
tory. There they built their home, cleared their farm, reared their family
and died. Coming as they did from Dover, N. H., with the added tradition
that their ancestry came from Dover, Eng., the locality received that name,
which still applies. Martha Giles died Dec. IS, 1818. Joseph went to live
with his son Samuel, who died in 1820, after which he lived with his dau.,
Abigail Pinkham, where he died, Sept. 6, 1822. The Giles fam. differs from
most other large fams. of the town. Individuals among them have followed
the sea successfully, but, for the most part, the men of this fam. have been
mechanics and farmers. Road and bridge builders, stone workers and car-
penters predominate among them. Another emphatic trait, running through
nearly every member of the fam., is the love for a good horse and live stock
generally. Several of the younger members have been teachers. The chil.
of Joseph and Martha Giles were:
2 Paul, b. Jan. 13, 1758; trace lost.
3 Martha, b. July 22, 1759; m. Ebenezer Sawyer, q. v.
4 Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1762; m. Ruggles Cunningham, Edge., 1788.
5 Abigail, b. Aug. 3, 1765; m. Capt. Benjamin Pinkham, q. v.
6 Joseph, b. Mar. 24, 1768; m. Sarah Reed, 1789.
7 Sarah, b. Apr. 1, 1770; trace lost.
*S John, b. May 22, 1772, q. v.
9 Hannah, b. May 17, 1774; m. Isaac Lewis, q. v.
*10 Samuel, b. Sept. 16, 1776, q. v.
11 Lydia, b. Feb. 14, 1779; m. John Tibbetts, q. v.
12 Ann, b. Oct. 28, 1783; m. Mark Tibbetts, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*S) JOHN^ Giles (Joseph''-) m. Mary (sometimes recorded Polly), dau.
of Nathaniel Tibbetts, 1794. They lived near the watering place by the
roadside, a short distance from his father's. No trace of the old home now
appears. He followed the sea; d. Dec. 27, 1828; she d. Dec. 16, 1855. Chil.:
13 John, Jr., b. Sept. 1, 1794; m. Margaret Landerkin, 1818; set. on the
> ,■ Kennebec.
14 Joseph, b. Aug. 29, 1796; m. Sarah Herrington, Windsor, 1822; two
daus., Olive and Amanda; rem. from B., no trace.
*1B Ruglas, b. Mar. 10, 1799, q. v.
16 Catherine, b. Sept. 5, 1801; m. Thomas E. Nelson, 1821.
17 Anna, b. Sept. 2, 1804; m. John Poor, Jr., 1820.
18 Rebecca, b. Apr. 8, 1807; m.' Enoch Stover, 1830.
19 Nathaniel, b. Sept. 26, 1810; m.; lived a few years on his father's place;
rem. ; no trace.
20 Mar)', b. May 8, 1812; m. Lewis Pushard, Dresden, 1835.
21 Sarah, b. May 21, 1816; m. William Bryer, 1835.
(*10) Samuel- Giles (Joseph}) m. Elizabeth, dau. of Eleazer and Eliza-
beth Sherman, 1797. They settled where the late Charles Giles lived, now
530 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
the home of Alonzo Matthews. He was a stone mason, a good workman,
and an industrious man. He worked in all parts of the town, stoning wells,
building cellar walls, house foundations and bridge abutments. See Chap.
XVI for town service. He d. Oct. 3, 1820; she d. Mar. 21, 1867. Children:
22 Lydia, b. Oct. 1, 1798; m. Jacob Toothacher, 1826; res. in B.; 3 chil.:
Andrew, Samuel G. and Sarah E.; d. Feb. 16, 1884.
*23 Charles, b. Nov. 12, 1801, q. v.
24 Martha, b. Mar. 11, 1804; m. Nathan Greenleaf, West., 1833.
25 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 15, 1807; m. John Bryer, 1828; res. B.
26 Samuel, b. Feb. 2, 1809; m. in New Orleans; set. there, following the
sea; see Cas.; left wid. and chil.
*27 Benjamin P., b. July 15, 1812, q. v.
*28 Paul, b. Mar. 10, 1814, q. v.
*29 Eleazer, b. Apr. 1, 1818, q. v.
30 Abigail S., b. Apr. 19, 1821; m. Jonas Knights, West., 1842.
Third Generation.
(*15) RuGLAS^ Giles {John;- Joseph^) m. Rebecca Smith, 1824; settled
in Richmond, where he died, July 16, 1840. Children: I, Charles S., 1826;
II, Caroline M., 1827; III, George N., 1829; IV, Margery, 1832; V, James
T., 1835, m. Agnes D. Lewis, 1858.
(*23) Charles* Giles {Samuel,'^ Joseph^) m. (1) Martha McFarland,
Bris., 1825; she d. Aug. 29, 1851; (2) Mrs. Sarah N. Trask, Wis., 1854.
Lived on his father's homestead; see Chap. XVI; v/as a farmer. He died
Jan. 20, 1898; she died Mar. 10, 1899, a. 84-3. Children:
31 Mary J., b. Aug. 21, 1826; m. Charles Sherman, Edge., 1850.
32 William, b. May 6, 1831; unm.; went to Boston and mysteriously dis-
appeared.
33 Elizabeth Abigail, b. Mar. 21, 1833; m. (1) John Wylie; (2) Jeremiah
Baker, q. v.
34 Charlotte, b. Jan. 5, 1835; m. (1) John Albion Knight; (2) William E.
Mahoney.
35 Charles Rufus, b. Feb. 4, 1837; d. July 31, 1860; unm.
36 Martha Lurena, b. Dec. 4, 1838; m. (1) Isaac Pinkham; (2) Frank Car-
lisle.
37 Harvey H., b. Aug. 24, 1840; d. May 13, 1864; for him the G. A. R.
Post at B. was named; unm.
38 Emarilla, b. Oct. 9, 1843; m. George Walker; res. B.; d. Nov. 22, 1878.
39 Mary Parker, m. Alonzo F. Matthews, q. v.
40 Fanny S., b. 1856; d. July 3, 1881; unm.
(*27) Benjamin P.* Giles {Samue/;- Joseph^) m. Mary, dau. of David
and Ghana Merry, 1833. Lived on farm next northerly from his father's;
was a farmer and carpenter. He d. Dec. 23, 1883; she d. 1896. Children:
41 George Elliott, b. Aug. 14, 1835; m. Margery, dau. of Samuel, Jr., and
Polly Brewer, 1854. He res. in No. B. and is a farmer and carpenter.
Their children follow: I, Cleveland, dec; II, William F., m. Annie B.
Taylor; III, Abbie F., m. Alden P. Reed; IV, Imogene, m. Mell Sar-
gent; V, Susan, m. Milton Andrews; VI, George Oilman, m. Welthy
Farmer; VII, Henry L., m. Cora Bryer; VIII, Eva May, m. Edward
Dyer, Portland; IX, Rufus, m. Lydia Howard; X, Cora B., m. John E.
Andrews; XI, Lizzie E., m. Herman Poole, Bris.
42 Christiana, b. May 13, 1837; m. William Pinkham; d. Apr. 4, 1900.
43 Cleveland, b. Mar. 14, 1838; d. Aug. 8, 1863; unm.
44 John Merry, b. Oct. 1, 1841; d. Aug. 8, 1863; unm.
45 Frederick M., b. May 25, 1843; m. Eliza Alley, 1865. Res. No. B., on
the old Parker Wylie place. His business has been stone work, wharf,
road and bridge building. For several years he had the mail route to
FAMILY HISTORY. 531
Wis. Children: I, Viola M., m. Alpheus Dodge; II, Truman B.; Ill,
Elbridge A., m. Grace E. Miller; IV, Frederick A., m. Jennie A. Scott;
V, Milton A.; VI, Benjamin M.; VII, Snow B. Three chil. d. young.
46 Henry H., b. Feb. 4, 1846; d. June 10, 1863; unm.
47 Truman E., b. July 23, 1848; m. Emma, dau. of James and Abigail Lin-
ekin, 1871. They res. at B. Ctr. He is a contracting carpenter, having
worked several years at his trade in Boston. He held the superintend-
ency of the Bristol Ice Co. for a time. Children: I, Royal R., grad.
Gorham Normal School, engaged in teaching; is principal and supt. of
schools at West Stewartstown, N. H. II, Lizzie M., dec. Ill, Horace
H., m. Hattie Williams, Edge. IV, Abbie L., m. Albert D. Frost. V,
Nellie L. VI, Linda F., m. Fred Robie Kelley.
48 Byron, b. May 22, 1850; m. Clara, dau. of Rufus and Jane Adams, 1873.
They res. at B. Ctr. See Chaps. XVI and XX for public and official
positions held. He has followed farming and stock raising, performed
a large amount of contract work on roads, bridges and building foun-
dations, been road commissioner for several years and served two
terms as deputy sheriff. Their chil. are: I, Percy C, see Chap. XXIII;
II, Jennie C, m. Edward E. Richardson, Maiden, Mass.
49 James F., b. Jan. 3, 1852; m. Ursula Pinkham, 1874. Chil.: Maggie M.,
Christy, Lottie, Frank, Walter T., Bessie, Millard S., Hattie, Henry C.
They res. at B. Ctr. He is a carpenter, engaged at his trade in Boston.
50 Benjamin M., b. May 4, 1854; m. (1) Ada J. Blake, 1877; (2) Mary A.
Whittaker, 1884. His home is on the Kennedy place in No. B., which
he conducts as a dairy farm, his route being at E. B. He has followed
teaching since an early age. See Chap. XVI for town service. Their
family consists of Jennie M. and Joseph B.
51 Mary C, b. Mar. 27, 1856; m. William E. Daniels; res. in Chelsea, Mass.
52 Edson C, b. Jan. 3, 1858; m. Clara E. Pinkham, 1880. He is a farmer
and carpenter; res. in B. They have five chil.: Cleveland E., Mattie,
Arthur B., Westley, Ralph P.
(*28) Pauls Giles {Samuel,'^ Joseph^) m. Mary Ann, dau. of John, 2d,
and Julia Pinkham, 1839. His home is the place Samuel Adams settled
upon and cleared. Deacon Paul Giles has been, throughout a long and
useful career, a man of sincere religious convictions as well as one actively
engaged in business, and one always taking a keen and active interest in the
welfare of his town. His home has been well kept, his farm well tilled, and,
as a contracting carpenter, he has erected more buildings than any other
who has lived in this locality. Now (1905), in his ninety-second year, he
enjoys exceptional health and his mind and memory are clear to that extent
that he accurately fixes upon the date of happenings in the twenties and thir-
ties of the last century. The author is more deeply indebted to this "grand
old man" for particulars, from 1822 to the present, than to any other person.
Mrs. Mary A. Giles, wife, died Nov. 21, 1892. Children:
53 Mary Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1840; m. James F. Matthews, q. v.
54 John Pinkham, b. July 31, 1841; lives with his father; unm.
55 Charles E., b. Oct. 14, 1843; m. Julia M., dau. of Beniah and Clarissa
Dolloff, 1868. They res. in Providence, R. I. For several years he
held the responsible position of engineer of the Corliss Steam Engine
Co. Chil.: I, Harry M., m. Clara D. Yeans; res. in Cambridgeport,
Mass. II, Charles F., m. Mary E. McCarty; res. in Providence. Ill,
Sue Cousens. IV, George Corliss. V, Maria Julia.
56 Lydia Ann, b. Nov. 16, 1845; m. W. Irving Adams, q. v.
57 Julia E., b. Apr. 14, 1848; m. Augustus Chamberlain, Boston.
68 Albion P., b. Aug. 17, 1851; m. (1) Belle, dau. of Isaac Lewis, 1874;
(2) Mary E., sister to first, 1879. She d. Aug. 22, 1904. He has long
held a responsible position with the ice companies, and in 1905 was
transferred by the American Ice Co. to a position in N. Y.
59 Franklin L., b. Nov. 21, 1857; d. Feb. 21, 1873.
532 HI8TORT OF BOOTHBAT.
60 Nellie C, b. Feb. 22, 1860; m. William Baker; d. Feb. 20, 1882; one
son, Perley E., in U. S. Navy.
(*29) Eleazar^ Giles (Samuel,^ Joseph^) m. Cyrena, dau. of Joseph
and Elizabeth Tibbetts, 1841. He was a sea captain, building the house and
living where Andrew Perkins does, at Pleasant Cove. He d. in N. Y., Mar.
11, 1865; she d. Oct. 23, 1879. Chil.: I, Sarah E., dec; II, Joseph R.; Ill,
Helen I., dec; IV, Norman P., dec; V, Samuel F., dec; VI, James W.;
VII, Annie A.; VIII, Eleazer S., dec.
William Giles, not related to the foregoing family, was bom in New
London, Conn., Aug. 18, 1820. As a boy of nine years he ran away to sea,
going as cabin boy on a ship plying between Boston and Liverpool, where
he continued until he was sixteen. He then shipped on a sealer, going
around Cape Horn, the trip lasting until he was twenty. Later he came to
Wiscasset, engaging as a rigger. There he married Nancy G., dau. of John
and Nancy Hutchings, Boothbay. They settled on the road leading from
Back River to Dover. He d. Dec. 30, 1875; she d. June 28, 1900. Children:
I, Edwin L., m. (1) Nancy M. Morelen, Auburn, 1876; she d. May 25, 1885;
(2) Mrs. Susan F. Williams, 1888; res. at B. H., engaged in trucking and
paper hanging; one child by first m. living, William E. II, George W., m.
Frances M. Runey, 1877; res. Back River; farmer, carpenter and millman;
s. p. Ill, William T., m. Elizabeth J., dau. of Payson and Elizabeth Tib-
betts; s. p. IV, Mary J., m. Alden B. Barter. V, John L., m. (1) Nellie
Moore, 1884; (2) Lucy L. Crooker, 1890; s. p. VI, Lilla A., m. Charles
Metcalf, 1876; d. 1890. VII, Edward H., see Cas., 1886. VIII, Alsbury L.,
m. Nettie Tibbetts, 1886; 8 chil. IX, Frank E., dec. X, Lester, m. Lizzie
E. Jenkins, Bingham; res. Portland. XI, Alden Joshua, m. Lilla Dodge;
res. Dam. XII, Winfred. XIII, Elizabeth, m. O. A. Stover; 6 chil.
GILPATRICK.
John Gilpatrick settled in Boothbay about the close of the Civil War, in
which he served. He m. Statia F. Anderson; occupation, farming. He
came from Somerville, in which town the Gilpatrick fam. is one of the oldest
and most numerous, and in its plantation form, prior to incorporation in
1858, was known as Patricktown. Children: Ulysses G., m. L'na. M. Lewis;
Charles E., m. Estelle M. Adams; Lillian S., m. Christopher G. Dickinson;
Nellie P., m. George McKown; Amy A., Martha E., John M., Fred E.,
Susan V.
GRADY.
William and Charlotte Grady set. at West B. H. He died July 3, 1866;
she died Nov. 17, 1864. Children: I, William S., b. Feb. 21, 1868; m.
Martha Lewis, 1886. II, Ernest A., b. Aug. 20, 1859; m. Lizzie T. Taggart;
res. at B. H.
GRAY.
1 Amos Gray m. a dau. of Samuel and Mary Ball, who lived at Pig Cove,
abt. 1792-3. He bought Squirrel Island of his wife's fam. and kept it until
FAMILY fflSTORT. 533
1825, when he sold to William Greenleaf; there are but two sons traced; if
he had other chil. the trace is lost. The dates of his death and that of his
wife are unknown. Children:
*2 Henry, b. 1794, q. v.
*3 Samuel, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Henry^ Gray (Anws^) m. Mary, dau. of John M. and Esther Reed.
They lived on the eastern shore of Southport. He died Apr. 20, 1879; she
died July 2, 1871. Children:
4 William, b. Jan. 10, 1818; lived at the Cape; d. June 22, 1886. Chil.:
I, John H., b. July 24, 1844; chil.: Cushman L., Emma P., Mabel F.,
Mary J. II, George W., b. May 30, 1847. Ill, Ellsworth, b. Jan. 23, 1859.
5 Mary A., b. Jan. 27, 1820.
6 Charles H., b. Nov. 12, 1822; d. Nov. 30, 1840, see Cas.
7 John, b. Sept. 25, 1826; d. Nov. 30, 1840, see Cas.
8 Martha A., b. July 25, 1828.
9 Abial W., b. Nov. 2, 1831; m. Mary Bumham, Essex, Mass. He is
proprietor of the well-known summer resort on South., opposite Squir-
rel Island, known as "Grays." See Chap. XXIV. Their chil. are.:
I, Charles S., m. Susan E. Plummer, prop, of Point of View House;
II, Ina M., m. H. N. Packard, E. Winthrop; III, Cora B., unm.; IV,
Albert H., unm.; V, Annie A., m. Everett Clifford, South.
10 Isaiah, b. Apr. 2, 1834.
11 Samuel N., b. July 12, 1838.
(*3) Samuel^ Gray (Amos^) m. Elizabeth Alley; set. in Edge., later in
No. B. She died Oct. 9, 1826. Children:
12 John, b. Edge., Aug. 14, 1819.
13 Christiana, b. Edge., Aug. 14, 1819.
14 Amos, b. Edge., Nov. 6, 1820.
15 Benjamin, b. Feb. 9, 1822.
16 Loring, b. Oct. 9, 1824; m. Philena, wid. of WiUiam Famsworth Lewis;
lived at No. B.; she d. Mar. 6, 1881. Chil,: I, George J., m. Abbie E.
Merry; II, Loring, Jr., m. and set. in Dorchester, Mass.; Ill, Alden, d.
1877, a. 19; IV, Nettie P., m. George W. McGuiness, Edge., res. in
Mass.; V, Mary E., m. Sumner Lewis, res. in Mass.
GREENE.
Though not of Boothbay descent I wish to place a record of our ancestry
1 this volume for my family.
I, Thomas Greene, founder, b. in Leicestershire, Eng., abt. 1606; m.
Elizabeth , 1627; came to Ipswich, Mass., 1636; set. in No. Maiden,
now Melrose Highlands, abt. 1649, where he owned 300 acres of land,
Green St. in that city now marking a boundary of the original tract.
II, Thomas Greene, Jr., b. in England, abt. 1630; m. Rebecca Hills, Mai-
den, 1653.
Ill, Capt. Samuel Greene, b. in Maiden, Oct. 5, 1670; m. Elizabeth Up-
ham, 1692; he was a pioneer settler in Leicester, Mass., in 1717, the
name being taken from the home of his ancestry, and the south vil-
lage, where he lived, has always been known as Greenville.
534 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
IV, Dr. Thomas Greene, b: in Maiden, 1699; m. Martha Lynde, Maiden,
1726; lived in Leicester. He was a prominent physician and made
several bequests to his town for public purposes.
V, Thomas Greene, b. in Leicester, 1733; m. (1) Hannah Fox; (2) Anna
Hovey. He and his three brothers and four of his sons served in the
Revolution.
VI, Abiathar, b. in Leicester, Mar. 4, 1760; set. in Augusta, Me., 1789;
rem. to Farmington in 1790; m. Zilpah Jones, Fairfield, 1792; farmer
and potash manufacturer.
VII, Ephraim Jones, b. in Farmington, Aug. 13, 1801; m. Abigail C. Ells-
worth, Strong, 1828. He was an ax manufacturer.
VIII, Abiathar G., b. in Farmington, Apr. 27, 1829; m. Almira H., dau. of
Rev. Henry S. Winans, Milton, Ohio, July 3, 1856; he set. in Augusta
that year; was an ax manufacturer, later carriage builder. He died in
Lynn, Mass., Jan. 26, 1906; she died in Lynn, Mass., Jan. 22, 1906.
I was bom in Augusta, June 16, 1857; my parents moved to Newport
that year, where they lived until 1880. I attended the town schools and
Maine Central Institute. Commenced teaching at the age of 17 and followed
it until 23. Was for a time associate teacher in the Dirigo Business College,
Augusta. Read law and was admitted to the Kennebec Bar, before Judge
Danforth, at the March term of the S. J. Court, Augusta, 1880. I felt no
taste for the practice of law and made no attempt in that direction, but
engaged that year in the watch and jewelry trade, in Augusta, which I have
followed to the present, first at retail, but since 1891 at wholesale. I set. at
B. Ctr. Oct. 2, 1886; came to B. H. in Apr., 1888. I married (1) Cora E.,
dau. of John and Elizabeth Murray, Windsor, June 26, 1880; she d. Sept. 5,
1883; (2) Nettie F., dau. of Samuel and Octavia W. Woodward, Boothbay,
Feb. 25, 1885. Children: I, Maud Winans, b. Nov. 9, 1881; II, Grace Mas-
ters, b. Oct. 18, 1887; III, Francis B., Jr., b. Jan. 12, 1890.
GREENLEAF.
The founder of this family in America was Edmund, who settled in
Newbury, Mass., in 1635. He was baptized Jan. 2, 1574, son of John and
Margaret, according to the records of St. Mary's La Tour in Ipswich, Eng.
The family trace their descent from French Huguenots, who fled to England
from French persecution — hence the translation of the family name. It is
derived from feuillc, leaf, and vert, green, and is a translation of the French
Feuillevert. Among the descendants of Edmund Greenleaf are many prom-
inent professional and literary names, an unusual number for any family to
include. Of these may be mentioned Simon Greenleaf, author of the "Law
of Evidence," a standard authority among American lawyers; Benjamin
Greenleaf, author of a mathematical series of wide use; Jeremiah Greenleaf,
author of Greenleaf's Grammar; Rebecca Greenleaf, wife of Noah Webster,
the lexicographer; John Greenleaf Whittier and other notable names.
Among Whittier's poems may be found this allusion to his maternal ancestry:
The name the Gallic exile bore,
St. Male! from thy ancient mart.
Became upon our Western shore
Greenleaf for Feuillevert.
FAMILY HISTORY. 535
Several branches of this family settled in Maine. One of them was a
pioneer settler in Industry. Edmund lived and died in Newbury, as did his
son Stephen, his grandson Stephen, and a great-grandson, Stephen, fourth
in direct line, was bom there, then two of his children, but the third is
recorded born at Squam or Jeremisquam (Westport) Island, in 1720. This
fixes a date in our vicinity ten years before the Dunbar settlement of Town-
send. This Stephen, however, moved from Squam to York, where he died,
as did his son Joseph also. Joseph had a son John, sixth generation from
Edmund, who was an early settler in the town of Starks. He was the father
of William, who bought Squirrel Island in 1825. John, of Starks, was a
maternal ancestor of our townsman, Cyrus R. Tupper.
The other branch of the Boothbay family descend from Stephen, of
York (fourth generation). He had a son, Samuel, who settled at Westport,
where his father had once lived for a short time. Samuel had a family of
seven children. He died there in 1792. A son, Enoch, came to Boothbay
and followed blacksmithing as a business. From the fact that the family in
these towns are collateral lines, tracing to the same ancestor, they will be
presented separately, and as Enoch, the first of his line, was older than
William of Squirrel and of the sixth generation, while William was of the
seventh, from Edmund of Newbury, the older will be presented first. He
settled where William Greenleaf now lives on Barter's Island.
1 Enoch, b. 1751; name of wife unknown; they had two children.
*2 Henry, date of birth unknown.
3 Abigail, m. Harding.
Second Generation.
(*2) Hknrv^ Greenleaf (Enoch^) m. Paulina Dunton about 1810; res.
on Barter's Island; d. 1836. Children:
4 Harriet, b. Sept. 10, 1811; m. Charles Duret.
*5 John Dunton, b. July 29, 1812, q. v.
6 Enoch, b. Nov. 4, 1814; d. Dec. 21, 1839; unm.
7 Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1816; m. Harvey Swett, q. v.
8 Henry, b. Oct. 9, 1818; d. July 2, 1838.
*9 Silas Payson, b. May 12, 1820, q. v.
10 Rufus, b. Aug. 29, 1822; m. Rebecca Stover, Sullivan; res. West.
11 Abigail, b. Jan. 17, 1825; d. Jan. 20, 1837.
12 Paulina, b. Feb. 22, 1827; m. Gustavus Lewis.
*13 William, b. May 10, 1829, q. v.
14 May Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1831; m. Isaac Hutchings, q. v.
15 Adaline, b. June 22, 1834; m. Henry S. Albee, Alna.
Third Generation.
(*5) John D.^ Greenleaf {Henry?' Enocli^) m. Naomi B. Abbott, Nov.
30, 1837; he d. Jan., 1881. Children:
16 Angeline, b. Oct. 16, 1838; m. Alpheus Campbell, 1858; d. 1883.
17 Naomi, b. Dec. 30, 1839; m. Alden Pinkham, 1868.
18 Orenthall, b. Aug. 21, 1841; m. Emma, dau. of David and Sarah A.
Lewis, I860; res. at Back River; they have fourchil.: Celia, Howard
A., Raymond O. and David L.
19 Sarah E., b. July 15, 1843; m. Theodore Roberts, 1867.
20 Sanford, b. Mar. 9, 1847; m. Ella, dau. of Joseph McKown, 1873; he d.
in 1882; two chil.: Alton and Herbert.
21 Alice B., b. Mar. 23, 1857; m. Edgar J. Morris, 1880.
(*9) Silas Payson-^ Greenleaf (Henry,'^ Enoch^) m. Mary J. Pinkham.
Children:
536 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AT.
22 Enoch, b. Jan. 6, 1842; m. Margaret Campbell; she d. June 3, 1878; 2 chil.
23 George F., b. Jan. 8, 1844; m. Mary J. Garey; 10 chil.
24 Elwell, b. Oct. 29, 1846; m. Aurelia Day; 6 chil.
25 Payson S., b. Aug. 7, 1854; m. Susan A. Harding; 2 chil.
26 Susan, b. Jan. 12, 1862.
27 Flora E., b. Nov. 27, 1865.
(*13) William' Greenleaf {Henry ^^ Enoch^) m. Martha J. Pinkham,
1852. Children: I, Mengies, b. Sept. 25, 18.52; m. Lizzie Stuart, 1877. II,
Fynette, b. Nov. 2, 1853; see Cas., 1869. Ill, Irving, b. July 29, 1855; m.
Annie Stuart, 1883; she d. June 20, 1892; two chil. IV, Georgiana, b. Dec.
30, 1856; m. Isambert Stuart, 1877; res. Milton Mills, N. H. V, Emma R.,
b. July 20, 1859. VI, Lizzie M., b. Aug. 31, 1863; m. Allen Gove, 1888.
VII, Abbie J., b. Nov. 28, 1865; m. Giles Day, 1888. VIII, Hayden R., b.
June 27, 1870. IX, Henry B., b. July 17, 1874.
Family of William Greenleaf.
1 William Greenleaf, son of John and Anna Pierce (Roberts) Green-
leaf, was born in Starks, Mar. 17, 1792. He married Rosalinda Bryant Mer-
rill, Damariscotta, about 1820. She was a lady of excellent education. In
1825 he exchanged his farm in Starks with Amos Gray for Squirrel Island,
and at once moved there. Squire Greenleaf, or King William of Squirrel,
as he was often called, was a well-known figure and distinguished personage
in his day. He was a man of good abilities, but filled with eccentricities.
For the times he possessed a good education, had a fair knowledge of Latin
and devoted some time to translating all through life. He was a great
reader, was endowed with a faultless memory, possessed strong convictions,
proud, extremely particular as to personal appearance, seldom appearing in
public without his beaver tile and broadcloth coat with brass buttons. He
took strong ground in politics, his ideal being Henry Clay; and, though not
a prohibitionist, used liquor moderately for his time. His favorite liquor
was the same as that of his political ideal — brandy.
He was superstitious, and this grew upon him as he advanced in years;
particularly so as to the portent of dreams. He once dreamed that he should
die soon and that it would be at the Harbor instead of at his beloved island
home. This so impressed him that he went directly to the Harbor and called
upon a friend, telUng him his dream and consequent impressions, asking the
friend, who is spoken of as Captain Mac, for permission to die at his house.
The Captain tried to rally him, but to no avail. He went to the undertaker
and ordered a casket and to the superintendent of the cemetery? to engage
his serv'ices. He lived, however, long after this, and died, at last, upon his
island, at the old farmhouse, May 4, 1868. His funeral occurred at the Har-
bor Congregational Church and his remains were laid in the Wylie Ceme-
tery at the Center.
He always took a keen interest in town affairs, particularly educational
matters. It was largely due to his suggestion that Cape Newagen Island
was incorporated under the name of Townsend. About two years after his
decease Squirrel was sold to the association which has made it into the sum-
mer resort that it now is; and for years no better stories were told among its
new owners at each annual summer gathering, as old things were removed
and changes made, than the reminiscences of William Greenleaf. His wife
died May 21, 1861, a. 73 years. Children:
2 Betsey, b. Mar. 3, 1822; res. Lowell, Mass.; d. Nov. 17, 1900; unm.
FAMILY HISTORY. 537
3 Nathaniel Bryant, b. June 24, 1824; m. Mary F., dau. of Jason and Jane
Fuller, 1849; res. Lowell, Mass.; d. July, 1895; 7 chil.: Emma J., Carrie
F., Charles M., William F., Jason F., Nellie M., George H.
4 Rosalind, b. Feb. 11, 1826; res. Lowell, Mass.; d. Dec. 22, 1888; unm.
5 William Boyd, b. Feb. 1, 1828; d. at Woodinville, Wash., Apr. 19, 1885.
*6 Edward Kent, b. June 2, 1831, q. v.
Second Generation.
( *6 ) Edward Kent^ Greenleaf ( WilHani^ ) m. Mary Anna, dau. of
John and Anna Wyatt, Bath, England, May 24, 1854; d. Feb. 14, 1901; res.
at West B. H. Children: I, Mary Anna, m. John M. McFarland, 1878; six
chil. II, Edward Melville; res. Victoria, B. C; unm. Ill, William Frank-
lin, m. Mary McPartland; res. Lowell, Mass.; inspector of the Massachusetts
Mill; s. p. IV, Lizzie Josephine, m. Frank H. Skillen, Portland; one child.
V, George Wyatt, m. Maggie W. Alley, South. ; res. West B. H. ; formerly
superintendent of the Maine Ice Co.'s Works, see Chap. XVI; four chil. :
Gladys W., dec, Lewis S., Arthur R., Vern J. VI, Charles F., m. Laura E.
Nickerson, Southport, where they res. VII, Carrie E., m. Charles Burke.
Austin P. Greenleaf, Southport, was born in Edge., May 16, 1859, son
of Austin Greenleaf. He married, Jan. 25, 1889, Minnie E. Stone, Edge.
They res. in South, and have one child, Marion E. He is largely engaged
in the lobster and bait trade. He is of the ninth generation of his family in
America, being descended from Edmund of Newbury. For five generations
the descent is like that of the Boothbay family, both tracing to Samuel, who
died in Westport in 1792, Austin P. descending from a son, Stephen, who
remained in Westport, while his brother Enoch founded the Boothbay branch.
GROVER.
1 Freeman Grover was born in Jefferson, Oct. 4, 1807; in 1828 he came
to Cape Newagen Island and bought the place of Willard Lewis which is
now known as Camp Skowhegan. On Feb. 23, 1830, he m. Sophia B., dau.
of Palgrave Maddocks. He sold and moved to Flagstaff in 1837 and ret. to
South, in 1844. Over a long career he was a respected and prominent figure
in the towns where he lived. The prime of his life was spent in South., and
Chap. XVI shows the confidence and esteem of his townsmen. On ret. to
South., in 1844, he bought at Pig Cove, where the fam. has since lived. He
also purchased Capital Island. He is said to have used particularly good
judgment in getting his bank fishing equipment into cash and then investing
that in government bonds, just prior to the decline of that business, thereby
avoiding a loss that most of his townsmen suffered. His wife died Sept. 26,
1881; he m. (2) Mary M. Hooper, 1883. The late years of his life were spent
in Brunswick, where he died, July 3, 1897. Children:
2 Woodbury S., b. Dec. 3, 1830; m. Angeline Potter; set. in the West.
3 Octavia, b. Nov. 18, 1882; m. Gilbert Love; res. in South.
4 Freeman, Jr., b. June 22, 1834; m. Delia, dau. of Samuel Pierce.
5 Rebecca M., b. Nov. 20, 1836; m. James H. Rand; res. in South.
6 Benjamin M., b. Apr. 8, 1830; m. Ella Orne; res. in Gloucester, Mass.,
where he was first an accountant for Benjamin Maddocks and later in
business as a commission merchant.
7 Susan S., b. Mar. 16, 1841; m. Joseph R. McKown.
8 Wilbur N. , b. Jan. 12, 1848 ; m. Ida Pierce ; res. on homestead of his father;
has been in trade for several years. For public ser\'ice see Chap. XVI.
9 Nathan B., b. Nov. 20, 1850; d. Jan. 11, 1870.
Three sons, Stephen, b. 1843, Humphrey A., b. 1844, Rodney, b. 1847,
died in youth.
538 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
HAGAN.
Miles Hagan settled at E. B. He married Jarie, dau. of James and Esther
(Boyd) Murray. He died in 1880, a. 66; she died in 1895. Children:
1 Andrew A., b. Aug. 9, 1836; d. 1878.
2 Dennis M., b. Aug. 13, 1839; m. Lydia A. Davis, 1865; chil.: Fred S.
and Florence C.
3 Cyrus B., b. May 6, 1843; d. May, 1869, see Cas.
4 Rinda, b. Oct. 4, 1845; m. James O. Seavey, q. v.
HARRIS.
1 Samuel and Catherine Harris were living on Cape Newagen Island
in 1774. They are said to have come from the vicinity of Exeter, N. H.,
where the name was numerous. They lived on the shore south of Came-
ron's, at the point on the northerly side of the cove that makes up toward
the buildings of the late Gilbert Love. He died Mar. 7, 1836; she died May
19, 1837. Children:
2 John, b. Feb. 21, 1773.
8 Kitty, b. Sept. 8, 1775; m. Benjamin Webster.
4 Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1777; m. Major John McKown, q. v.
*5 William, b. Dec. 6, 1780, q. v.
*6 Samuel, Jr., b. Aug. 26, 1783, q. v.
7 Paul, b. Apr. 6, 1785; d. Nov. 19, 1813.
*8 Benjamin, b. Mar. 6, 1787, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*5) William^ Harris [Samuel'^) m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Pierce.
They lived at the head of the cove, but he moved to Pisgah abt. 1832. His
wife died Dec. 26, 1824, and he m. (2) Jane Matthews, who died Jan. 7, 1835.
He died Sept. 21, 1860. Children:
9 Obed, b. Oct. 28, 1805; d. Sept. 18, 1854; wid., Lydia, d. Nov. 7, 1891.
10 Weltha, b. Jan. 13, 1807; m. EH Nelson.
11 Catherine, b. Jan. 4, 1808; m. James Matthews.
12 Sarah T., b. Sept. 24, 1810; m. Albert Cressey.
•*13 William, Jr., b. Apr. 27, 1813, q. v.
*14 Paul, b. Aug. 26, 1815, q. v.
15 Samuel, b. Jan. 5, 1818; d. 1831.
*16 Joseph Pierce, b. Mar. 15, 1820, q. v.
17 Benjamin, b. Sept. 27, 1821; d. 1831.
IS Josiah S., b. Aug. 24, 1823; d. 1831.
19 James M., b. Oct. 20, 1826.
20 Mary J., b. Dec. 28, 1828; d. 1844.
*21 Jesiel, b. Apr. 1, 1831, q. v.
(•6) Samuel'- Harris, Jr., (Samuel) m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Pierce.
He lived on the homestead of his father. He d. Aug. 15, 1859; she d. Mar.
3, 1881. He, only, of the sons remained in South, and none of the name are
now on the tax list of that town. Children:
22 Almira, b. May 4, 1811.
23 Nancy, b. Dec. 9, 1812.
24 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 3, 1815; m. Michael McManus.
25 Catherine, b. Feb. 2, 1818; m. George Love, 2d.
26 Sarah and Isabella, twins, b. Oct. 15, 1821.
27 Emily, b. Apr. 27, 1824.
28 John McKown, b. Apr. 6, 1828.
•29 Benjamin, b. Feb. 17, 1832.
30 Charles, b. July 22, 1835.
FAMILY HISTORY. 539
{*8) Benjamin'' Harris (Samuei'^) m. Emily Dunton, Edge., 1817. He
bought the Grover place, since known as the old Allen Lewis place, about
that date. In the thirties he sold and moved to New. Children: Benjamin,
1819; Margery, 1820; Luther D., 1822; Elizabeth A., 1824; Edward O., 1827;
Olive C, 1830.
Third Generation.
(*13) William" Harris, Jr., (WilHam,-^ Samuel) m. Lydia Lundy.
Children: Laura A., 1838; Edward, 1840; Delia A., 1843; Joseph, 1844;
Albina, 1846; Thomas, 1848; Lydia, 1850; John, 1852; Abby, 1854; Alice,
1856. Of this family, Thomas m. Rose M., dau. of Washington Reed. He
lived at B. H. Chil.: Raymond O., Edith M., Chester D. Capt. Thomas
died in 1892.
(*14) Paul" Harris ( mi/tam,^ Samuel'^) m. (1) Judith Andrews, Essex,
Mass., 1843; (2) Mary A. Linekin, 1845. Together with his brother Joseph
they conducted for some years an extensive business in general trade and
bank codfishing, see Chaps. XIX and XXI. After the death of his brother
he gradually reduced business and rem. from town during the Civil War.
Children: Dexter C, 1846; Oressa, 1849; Ada L., 1852; Wilbur M., 1855;
Mary E., 1856.
(*16) Joseph P." (William,'^ Samuel'^) m. Martha J. Reed. He was
partner with his brother Paul. He conducted the business on the water and
Paul on shore. As master of the ill-fated C. G. Mattheivs he was lost in
■ 1851. Children:
31 Charles P., b. June 2, 1842; m. Orissa E. Preble, 1865; chil.: Ambrose
M., Blanch E., Mabel, m. D. P. B. Conkling, N. Y., 1901, Mattie E.,
Sadie A.
32 Sarah C, b. Oct. 12, 1843; m. Thomas J. Tibbetts, 1867.
33 Millard F., b. May 2, 1848; m. Agnes I. Cummings, Gloucester, Mass.;
chil.: Millard P., Jr., killed at Havana at the destruction of the Maine,
and John, who has served a cadetship in the U. S. Navy.
(*21) Jesiel" Harris (William,'^ Samuel^) m. Sarah A. Scott, Jordan
River, N. S., 1859. They lived at B. H. He d. Aug. 13, 1870; the wid. m.
(2) Lemuel Cheney. Four chil. by first m.: I, Flora A., m. Lewis S. Pick-
ett, q. v. II, Allen M., res. with his mother, unm. Ill, Augusta, m. Robert
Mudge; chil.: Drusilla, Florence and Sidney. IV, Sunie, m. Sidney E. Jun-
kins, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
(*29) Benjamin" Harris {Samuel, Jr.,''' Samuel^) m. Fannie, dau. of
Arber Marson. They lived on South., on the old homestead of his grand-
father. He was a sea captain. He died Feb. 1, 1867. Mrs. Fannie Harris
m. (2) Hiram L. Ingraham; res. at B. H. Children: I, Lincoln M., b. Feb.
9, 1862; unm. II, Fred H., b. Aug. 21, 1865; m. Eldora A., dau. of Andrew
Boyd. He has for several years been proprietor of the Boothbay House.
He was presidential elector for the second district of Maine in 1904.
Christian Hartung was born in the city of Rothenburg, Germany, Feb.
1, 1828. With his parents and a sister he came to N. Y. in 1845. In 1847
they set. at Manchester, Me. He m. Marguerite Kerber, who was bom in
540 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Baten, Gennany, Aug. 10, 1835, in 1851. Herman was born Mar. 13, 1852.
He came to B. H. Oct. 13, 1872, engaging with Cumberland Superphosphate
Co. In this company he rose to the position of superintendent in a few years
and still has charge of the property. On Apr. 1, 1901, he formed a copart-
nership with Pal G. Pierce, as Pierce & Hartung, in the wood and coal trade
at the old M. E. Pierce stand on Atlantic St. Since the decease of Mr. Pierce
he has been sole manager and owner of the larger interest. He has made
many improvements by purchase and building, until it presents the modern
ideas in our larger city concerns of the kind. Wood is manufactured by
machinery to suit all wants, and recently a lumber stock of all kinds has
been added. He m. Amelia Torrence, Manchester. Children: I, Mattie
E., m. Victor Gott; II, Ernest C, m. Ina, dau. of Manson Greenleaf; III,
Nora B., m. Charles C. Matthews.
HILTON.
Rufus Hilton came from Wis. to B. in 1842; set. on Barter's I.; m. (1)
Esther, dau. of Samuel Kenney; (2) Rejoice Kenney, sister to first wife.
They had two sons who reared families in town.
I, Charles S. F. Hilton, son of above, b. 1824, m. Alfrida H. Albee, Wis.,
1852. They res. on Barter's I. on the Samuel Kenney homestead. Six chil.
have d. young; three are living: Charles, Lora and Sula S.
II, Samuel K. Hilton, son of Rufus, m. Harriet S., dau. of Parker Wil-
son, 1863. Chil., b. bet. 1864-71: Annie F., Louisa Y., Vinnie D., Hattie
P. They rem. to Mass. He was for a time customs officer at B.
HODGDON.
This family has been one of the most perplexing by record with which I
have had to deal. That there were in Townsend and Jeremy Squam, about
1760, three men with families by the name of Hodgdon is plainly evident.
There is reason to suppose that they were brothers and from investigation I
incline to that opinion, but absolute proof is not at hand, and perhaps may
never be obtained. It has been said that they were brothers and sons of one
Timothy Hodgdon, who lived to the westward. In 1764 "Joseph hosden"
appears on the petition for the incorporation of Townsend. In 1781 a Joseph
Hodgdon, probably the same person, enlisted in Col. McCobb's regiment
from Boothbay, see p. 239. In 1785 John Emerson married Rebecca Hodg-
don, and the appearance of the record indicates her to have been at that date
a resident of Boothbay. She was the daughter, however, of Thomas Hodg-
don, who is known to have lived in Westport and it is not thought he ever
lived in Boothbay. This may be explained on the ground that she may have
been stopping with Joseph, who was undoubtedly her uncle, and by the best
of evidence was living here only four years before her marriage. In 1791 by
the tax list of the town no one by name of Hodgdon was living here. In
1777 Benjamin Hodgdon was living in Edgecomb and in 1792 Joshua Hodg-
don, Edgecomb, married Phebe Sawyer, Boothbay. In 1800 Benjamin, Jr.,
was living at Oak Point in Boothbay, where he continued. Within a com-
paratively few years after that we find Tyler and Timothy Hodgdon at Saw-
FAMILY HISTORY. 541
yer's Island, Thomas and William at Hodgdon's Island, Caleb at E. Booth-
bay, practically founding that village and giving it the name of Hodgdon's
Mills, and John located on the shore of Townsend Gut. All these had fami-
lies and the name rapidly multiplied. These men were in some instances
brothers and in others cousins in different degree, but all were related and
all came here from Westport. The family records of that town are of little
value in the quest and no member of the family in this town was found to
have more than a partial account of their own branch. However, from
town, family and probate records, and from correspondents in Dover, N. H.,
Kittery and other places, I have arrived at the following:
Nicholas Hodsdon, the mid letter then being 5 instead of g, was in Hing-
ham, Mass., in 1635. He moved to Watertown, Mass., and was there in
1650. He soon came to Kittery and was there in 1655. This man became
the founder of a numerous family, members of it settling in Dover, Durham
and Madbury, N. H., and York, Kittery, Wells and Berwick, Me. In the
genealogies of some of those families appear names of sons whose destina-
tion or settlement was unknown to the compilers, and who might have been
the original settlers of the name in Westport and Boothbay. The trend of
settlement then being eastward instead of westward, what is of the strongest
kind of presumptive evidence is the fact that the Christian names which pre-
dominated among the sons in these families were not only the common ones
of John, William, Joseph and Thomas, but the unusual ones of Benjamin,
Stephen, Timothy and Caleb. The early York deeds abound with these.
In the genealogj' I shall present, "Joseph hosden," who was here in 1764 as
a petitioner, and in 1781 as a soldier, will be dropped, for none of the family
in town descend from him. He evidently d. or moved elsewhere before 1791.
1 Caleb Hodgdon, b. abt. 1730, set. on Jeremy Squam Island (Westport)
before the Revolution, probably as early as 1758 or 1760. This is arrived at
by a statement of the late Ira Hodgdon, of B., who was b. Feb. 6, 1812. He
stated that when he was eight years old there was an old man, Caleb Hodg-
don, on Westport, then said to be 90 years old, and that children of this man
were cousins to his father, John, and that Caleb and Thomas were brothers.
He had a large family of children, but I have to do with only one:
*2 Benjamin, dates of birth and death unk., q. v.
3 Thomas Hodgdon, brother to Caleb, younger by a few years, set. on
Jeremy Squam at the same time. He was captain of a co. in Col. William
Jones' reg.; com. dated May 8, 1776; also on Majorbagaduce Expedition in
1779; family dates wanting in most part. His chil. were Thomas, Jr., Benja-
min, John, Joseph, Caleb, Prudence, Rebecca, who m. John Emerson of B.,
Abigail, Mercy. None of his family e.xcept Rebecca set. in B. For the pur-
pose of building our record we select from them:
*4 John, b. Feb. 10, 1769, q. v.
*5 Joseph, ne.xt younger child, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Benjamin^ Hodgdon {Caleb^) m. Betsey Tyler. He was living in
Edge, in 1777, but before 1779 had set. in West., where he lived afterward.
Children:
6 Joseph, b. Aug. 24, 1777.
*7 Benjamin, Jr., b. Mar. 20, 1779, q. v.
542 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
*8 Thomas, b. Oct. 13, 17S1, q. v.
9 Betsey, b. Apr. 4, 1784.
*10 Caleb, b. June 30, 1786, q. v.
*11 Tyler, b. Apr. 6, 1788, q. v.
*12 John, b. Aug. 6, 1790, q. v.
13 Polly, b. Apr. fl, 1793.
14 Phebe, b. Mar. 16, 1796.
15 Lucy, b. Apr. 1, 1799; m. James Dunton, West.
(*4) JOHN^ HODGDON ( Thomas^) m. (1) Deborah, dau. of John Dunton,
West.; she was b. June 10, 1774; d. Feb. 6, 1812; (2) Lucy, dau. of Zebediah
Farnham. He lived in West, and his chil. were all b. there; he d. Jan, 25,
1849. Children:
16 Emerson, b. June 7, 1795; d. Aug., 1885.
*17 John, b. Sept. 3, 1796, q. v.
*18 Timothy, b. Mar. 18, 1798, q. v.
*19 Lovell, b. June 11, 1800, q. v.
20 Abigail, b. Sept. 11, 1801; d. 1898 in Auburn.
*21 Alfred, b. Aug. 2, 1803, q. v.
22 Rebecca, b. Aug. 14, 1805.
23 Elvira, b. Apr. 16, 1807.
*24 Edwin, b. Dec. 16, 1809, q. v.
25 Ira, b. Feb. 0, 1812. As may be noted by dates, his mother dieti at his
birth. From him the records of his father's family were obtained. He
m. Esther Reed, 1836; lived in B.
26 Samuel, b. Apr. 7, 1814; d. Jan. 21, 1884.
27 Warren, b. June 1, 1816; d. Sept. 2, 1852.
28 Rufus, b. Feb. 5, 1817; d. Nov. 8, 1890.
29 Cyrus, b. Mar. 4, ; living in West., 1898.
30 Lucy A., b. May 11, ; living in Bath, 1898.
31 Mary, b. July 31, ; d. Feb. 12, 1857.
(*5) Joseph^ Hodgdon ( Thomas^), known on West., where he always
lived, as Deacon Joseph; dates are lacking. He had chil.: William, Joseph,
Nathan, Benjamin, Betsey, Emily. We have to do with only the oldest:
••32 William, b. unk., q. v.
Third Generation.
(*7) Benjamin' Hodgdon, Jr., {Benjamin,'^ Caleb'^) m. (1) Lucy Thomas,
West.; she d. Aug. 31, 1816; (2) Lydia Emerson, who d. Dec. 29, 1831; he
d. July 7, 1857. Children:
33 Prudy, b. July 14, 1809; m. S. Hobart; 2 chil., John L. and Albert W.;
d. Charlestown, Mass.
*34 Elbridge B., b. Feb. 20, 1812, q. v.
35 Wadsworth, b. June 26, 1814; m. Eliza A. Hodgdon; 2 chil., Thomas
G. and Melville; d. in Calif.
36 Lucinda, b. Aug. 24, 1818; unm.; d. in Charlestown, Mass.
37 Caroline, b. Sept. 28, 1821; m. Michael Hapenny; 3 chil., Lydia, Albert
G. and Mamie; he d. on the S. A. coast; she d. in Charlestown, Mass.
38 Albert, b. Nov. 20, 1823; d. in youth.
39 Arabella, b. Feb. 7, 1826; unm.; res. in Charlestown, Mass.
40 Francis M., b. June 14, 1828; m. Esther Binham, Nova Scotia; res. on
homestead of his father; chil.: Emma, dec; Benjamin F., res.
in Woolwich.
(*8) Thomas" Hodgdon {Benjamin,''' Calcb^) m. Thankful Greenleaf, b.
Oct., 1788. He d. May 8, 1871; she d. Feb. 14, 1870, a. 81-4. At middle
age he came to Hodgdon' s Island from West, and moved a business already
established, which was largely increased in the new location. See Chaps.
FAMILY mSTOBT. 543
XIX and XXI. Dea. Joseph Hodgdon had owned the island and his son
WilHam had been living on it several years when Thomas purchased half of
the property. Children:
41 Olive, m. Samuel Tarbox, West.
42 Emmeline, m. Allen Lewis, q. v.
*43 Stephen G., b. 1820, q. v.
44 EHza, m. Capt. Joseph Sherlock.
(*10) Caleb' Hodgdon (Benjamin,''' Caleb^) m. Eliza Parsons, West.,
1834. He set. in E. B. in 1823, building mills and establishing shipbuilding
soon after. See Chap. XIX. He died Apr. 22, 1874; she died Sept. 6, 1900,
a. 86. Children:
*45 Caleb, Jr., b. Apr. 6, 1835, q. v.
46 Eliza, b. Sept. 13, 1836; d. Dec. 13, 1841.
47 John P., b. Sept. 16, 1838; unm.
48 Mary, b. Apr. 5, 1841; m. Charles Smithwick, q. v.
*49 George Meecher, b. Apr. 18, 1843, q. v.
60 Harriet, b. Apr. 8, 1845; d. May 3, 1849.
(*11) Tyler^ Hodgdon (Benjamin,'' Caleb^) m. Jerusha Parsons; set. in
1809 on Sawyer's Island, where he conducted a fishing business in which he
was succeeded by his son, Albion P. See Chap. XXI. He died May 24,
1862; she died Jan. 22, 1860, a. 61-3. Children: I, Eliza, b. Mar. 19, 1819;
m. Wadsworth Hodgdon. II, Allen, b. Nov. 7, 1820; d. Dec, 1856, see Cas.
Ill, Albion P., b. Aug. 9, 1822; m. Mary H. Foster, Phillips, 1853; he d.
Dec. 15, 1900; two daus.: Eliza M., m. Fred L. Bardwell, Roxbury, Mass.,
and Edith F., m. George M. Atwood, M. D., Bradford, Mass. IV, Sophia
P., b. June 12, 1824; m. Levi Murray. V, Adaline, b. Apr. 9, 1826; d. Apr.
7, 1859. VI, Phebe R., b. Jan. 29, 1828; m. Wilmot Lewis. VII, Lucy J.,
b. Jan. 16, 1830; d. 1835. VIII, Granville, b. Jan. 29, 1832; d. 1856, see Cas.
IX, Carlista F., b. Feb. 8, 1834. X, Melville P., b. Mar. 6, 1836; m. Laura
E. Reed; he d. Jan. 1, 1899; she d. May 6, 1874; one dau., Laura J., m.
Lewis P., son of George F. Hodgdon. XI, Lenora, b. Dec. 25, 1838; m.
Alfred H. Pinkham. XII, Dennis, b. Feb. 14, 1841; d. Jan. 22, 1860.
(*12) John' Hodgdon (Benjamin,'' Caleb^) m. Sarah A. Dunton. He
came from West, before 1816, which was soon after his marriage, and pur-
chased of James Tyler what was then known as the David Emery place, now
known as the residence of his son, John M. Hodgdon. There he had one of
the largest bank fishing establishments in town. See Chap. XXI. He died
July 2, 1871; she d. Sept. 24, 1867, a. 74. Children:
61 Merrill, b. June 13, 1816; d. Sept. 13, 1839, see Cas.
52 Mary A., b. Aug. 9, 1818; m. Andrew Adams, q. v.
*53 Freeman, b. Oct. 29, 1820, q. v.
«54 John M., b. Aug. 12, 1824, q. v.
55 Marston, b. Aug. 16, 1826; d. July 4, 1848.
56 Jackson, b. Nov. 19, 1829; m. Elizabeth Blake.
*57 Silas Lee, b. Dec. 6, 1831, q. v.
(*17) John' Hodgdon, 2d, (John,'' Thomas^) m. (1) Sarah ; she d.
Apr. 18, 1837; (2) Mrs. Julia A. Dodge. He d. Mar. 15, 1851; she d. Aug.
17, 1858. The first five chil. were b. in West. He set. bet. B. H. and E. B.
before 1827. Children:
58 Washington, m. Martha Alley.
59 Frances, m. James Murray.
544 HI8TOKT OF BOOTHBAY.
60 Jackson, unm.
61 John, m. (1) Sarah A. McDonald; (2) Margaret Hagerty.
62 Alfred, m. Sarah A. Tibbetts.
63 Albert Caleb, b. Oct. 31, 1827; unm.
64 Benjamin F., b. Aug. 20, 1831; d. Sept. 20, 1836.
65 Abigail L., b. Apr. 14, 1834; m. Alfred Bennett.
66 Sarah L., b. Apr. 14, 1834; m. Charles M. Seavey.
67 Rebecca, b. Feb. 2, 1837; m. Raban Clifford.
*6S Dexter W., b. June 20, 1847, q. v.
69 Julia, b. May 1, 1850; m. Osborne Pinkham.
(*18) Timothy' Hodgdon (John? Thomas^) m. Frances Tibbetts. He
set. on Sawyer's Island before his marriage, in 1820, where his son, Alonzo
K., now lives. He died Oct. 18, 1881; she died Jan. 28, 1875. Children:
70 Zina H., b. Aug. 3, 1823; m. Rinda S. Reed; lived on Hodgdon's Is.,
where he conducted a general store and acted as steamboat agent for
many years; he d. May 14, 1893; Rinda, w., b. Oct. 4, 1825, d. June 6,
1898; chil. : I, Francena C, m. Wesley Pinkham; II, Eveline E., m. A.
H. Goudy; III, Laura B., m. Dr. R. G. Blanchard, Dover, N. H.; IV,
Ada F., m. Irving Pinkham; V, Florence D., m. Elbridge Matthews,
Deering.
71 Mary E., b. Feb. 12, 1827; m. Russell Lewis.
72 George F., b. May 21, 1829; m. Angelia, dau. of Samuel Lewis; lives
at Sawyer's Island; chil.: George B., Alvah L., Cora E., Frank R.,
Edward B., Lewis P.
73 James P., b. Apr. 11, 1831; m. Mary E., dau. of William McKown; he
d. Sept. 20, 1881; she d. Oct. 24, 1877; chil.: Granville W., Hattie P.,
Leonard, Byron S., Ella L., Fannie E., Annie M., Alice E.
74 Angelia F., b. Oct. 21, 1833; m. Ebenezer Reed.
75 Ro.xana S., b. Feb. 16, 1836; m. Wadsworth H. Lewis.
76 Alonzo K., b. Nov. 17, 1839; m. (1) Alvia Swett; (2) NelHe Hodgdon;
(3) Mary I. Baker.
77 Lovesta, b. Nov. 17, 1839; m. Elbridge Matthews; d. Mar. 9, 1883.
78 Roscoe G., b. July 28, 1842; m. Eliza, dau. of James Tibbetts; mer-
chant since 1871 at B. H.; pres. of the Boothbay Savings Bank; chil.:
Archer W., Mildred L. (dec), Stella, Vesta.
(*19) LovELL^ Hodgdon (Johi,^ Thomas^) came from West. ; m. Ruth
Reed; he d. Jan., 1833. His family is thought to have set. in Bath. Chil.:
I, Elbridge M., b. Mar. 15, 1826. II, Emily E., b. Sept. 8, 1827; m. George
P. Kimball, Bath. Ill, Juliette, b. Sept. 26, 1829.
(*21) Alfred' Hodgdon {John,^ Thomas^) m. Matilda Campbell; lived
at Mill Cove. Children:
79 Matilda, b. Nov. 23, 1827; m. Samuel Miller Reed, 1845.
80 Frances A., b. Feb. 14, 1829.
*81 James F., b. Jan. 11, 1831, q. v.
82 Charles A., b. Jan. 11, 1831; lost at sea, Oct., 1851.
(*24) Edwin' Hodgdon (John,"^ Thomas^) m. Julia, dau. of William
Reed. He lived opposite Indiantown, where his son, Convers O., did after-
ward. He d. May 29, 1891; she d. June 13, 1899. Chil.: I, Martha D., b.
Sept. 16, 1832; d. Aug. 29, 1851. II, Emily E., b. July 23, 1834. Ill, Elvira,
b. Sept. 16, 1836; m. James Grady. IV, Angelet, b. Dec. 11, 1839; m. James
F. Hodgdon, q. v. V, Mary A., b. Feb. 6, 1841. VI, Convers O., b. Aug.
14, 1843; m. (1) Hattie E. Swett, 1865; (2) Mrs. Celina Adams. VII, Lyman,
b. Feb. 23, 1846; d. Mar. 6, 1875. VIII, Manly K., b. Dec. 16, 1848; m.
Nettie A. Fuller. IX, Julia A., b. Nov. 13, 1851; m. Byron Swett.
FAMILY HISTORY. 545
(*32) William^ Hodgdon (Joseph,''' Thomas^)m. Olive Parsons, Edge.,
1836. He had already been in B. for some years. His father owned Hodg-
don's Island, but had lived in West. William purchased half of it and
Stephen G., a few years later, the other half. He kept a store and dealt in
fish to some extent. He d. July 26, 1887; she d. Oct. 31, 1865. Children:
83 Westbrook P., b. July 31, 1837; d. Mar., 1858, see Cas.
84 Martin V. B., b. Oct. 10, 1838; d. Feb. 26, 1859.
85 Oilman Page, b. Mar. 11, 1841; m. Caroline M., dau. of Robert Spin-
ney; lived at B. Ctr. until abt. 1885, when they rem. to B. H. Was
engaged in the fruit trade between Charleston, S. C, and the West
Indies for several years. For public service see Chap. XVI. Chil.: I,
Clarence R., see Chap. XXIII; II, Gertrude L., m. Henry S. Perkins;
III, Maud, res. in Mass.; IV, Louise N., teacher in B. H. schools.
86 James D., b. May 8, 1842; d. Oct. 1, 1858, see Cas.
87 Mary K., b. Nov. 6, 1844.
88 Theresa, b. Sept. 20, 1846; d. 1864.
89 Albert, b. May 20. 1849; d. 1853.
90 Eva, b. May 19, 1852.
91 Harriet, b. July 25, 1854; d. 1859.
92 Ida and Elizabeth, d. in inf.
Fourth Generation.
(*34) Elbridgk B.^ Hodgdon (Benjamin,^ Benjamin,'^ Caieb^) m. Mar-
garet McCobb, 1838. He d. Dec. 24, 1860; built the house and lived where
Nelson Harding lives, at West B. H. Children: I, Ellen M., b. Mar. 15,
1841; II, Lucy T., b. Mar. 2, 1845, unm.; Ill, Adeliza, b. July 17, 1848; IV,
Lizzie L., m. H. Leslie Deming, Boston.
(*43) Stephen G.^ Hodgdon {Thomas,^ Benjamin," Caleb^) m. (1)
Ruth S. Thomas; she d. July 24, 1861, a. 38-8; (2) Emeline P. Jewett, West.,
1863. He came with his father from West, when business was commenced
on the island and helped largely in building it, afterward succeeding to it.
In early years he was master of a banker, but later in life gave his entire
attention to directing matters on shore. He d. Dec. 15, 1901. Children: Ij
Martha E., b. Aug. 17, 1842. II, Christopher G., b. Dec. 5, 18.50; d. Mar.
16, 1860. Ill, Ruth H. Heal, adopted, b. Jan. 1, 1846. IV, Charles S., b.
Oct. 17, 1864; m. Edith M., dau. of David C. Adams. He has succeeded to
the business of his father, which he now conducts.
(*45) Caleb^ Hodgdon, Jr., (Caleb, ^ Benjamin,'^ Caleb^) m. Mahala H.
Plummer, Wis., 1867. He res. at E. B.; succeeded to the mill and lumber
business of his father, in which his sons are engaged with him as partners.
Children; I, Alice M., m. Bishop; II, Caleb Tyler, m. Minnie Murray;
III, Helen Standish m. (1) John A. Marshall, (2) Charles Chapman; IV, Clar-
ence W.; V, Mary E., m. Norman Fuller; VI, Mahala S., m. Percy Ome.
(*^49) George M.* Hodgdon (Caleb,^ Benjamin,'^ Ca/eb^) m. Henrietta,
dau. of William Adams. In company with his brother, John P., they suc-
ceeded to the shipyard business of their father; now, in turn, followed by
the sons of George M. Children; Fred F., William A., Charles E., Ammi
W., George I.
(*53) Freeman-" Hodgdon (John,^ Benjamin;^ Ca/eb^) m. (1) Mary J.,
dau. of Elisha A. and Keziah Whitmore (adopted dau. of David Newbegin),
b. in Gorham, Nov. 6, 1826; d. 1868; (2) Sarah, dau. of John and Mary Auld.
546 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
He followed the sea throughout his business career, going master at a very
early age. He was one of the most successful in his class. He lived at B.
H. and d. Nov. 18, 1885. Children: I, Winfield S., b. July 20, 1846; d. Dec.
29, 1865. IT, Merrill E., b. July 20, 1846; m. Carrie Norton, Martha's Vine-
yard; res. at Orient Heights, E. Boston; sea captain. Ill, Mary Freeman,
b. Mar. 20, 1850; m. Charles S. Weston; res. Los. Angeles, Cal. IV, Abba,
b. Oct. 29, 1852; d. 1854. V, Georgia E., b. Dec. 2, 1854; m. Russell Hol-
ton. VI, Abbie D., b. Feb. 19, 1868; m. John Fletcher, Lowell, Mass. VII,
Mariquita, b. June 22, 1862; m. Jetson Wade, Scituate, Mass. VIII, Leroy
W., b. May 8, 1872. IX, Norman H., b. Jan. 20, 1874. X, Marian.
(*54) John M.* Hodgdon (John,^ Benjamin,'^ Caleb^) m. Caroline C.
Dunton, West. He followed the sea from an early age until well advanced
in years, most of the time engaged in the fisheries. He has the farm and
homestead of his father. Children: I, Lester, b. Oct. 9, 1850; m. Emma
Jennet, dau. of Merrill Barter; he d. Feb., 1872, see Cas.; she d. Jan. 20,
1875; they left one child, Lester E., who is m., res. with his grandparents
and is a commercial traveler. II, Mary N., b. May 14, 1853; m. Alonzo K.
Hodgdon. Ill, Marston, b. Oct. 8, 1855; d. at Buenos Ayres, May 2, 1878.
IV, Allen, b. Nov. 14, 1857; m. Belle Welch; res. Boston; chief engineer on
Str. Kennebec. V, Carrie, b. May 24, 1860; d. in youth.
(*57) Silas Lee^ Hodgdon [John,^ Benjamin,'^ Caleb^) m. Caroline
Wheaton, Guysboro, N. S.; lived at E. B.; he d. Oct. 4, 1894. Children:
Aphia A., Ida May, Lucy A„ Fred S., Winfield S., Kate, Mary R.
(*68) Dexter W.* Hodgdon {John, 2d,* John," Thomas^) m. Clara E.,
dau. of Charles Sherman, Edge.; res. B. H.; has been engaged in general
trade and ice. Children: Walter I., Nellie S., Marcia V., m. Irving C.
Kenniston, Clara D., George T., Hattie C, Dexter, Jr.
(*81) James F.* Hodgdon {Alfred,^ John,^ Thovias'^) m. Angelet
•Hodgdon. Lived at Mill Cove, where Andrew Reed, founder of that family
in town, settled and lived. He died Oct. 22, 1896. Children: Herbert C,
James F., Charles A., William H., Clarence G., Edwin L., John B., Carrie
E., AnnaM., Morris P.
John Hodgdon, a tailor from Gloucester, Mass., of no known relation to
the foregoing fam., m. Eunice, dau. of John and Rebecca Lewis, abt. 1817.
They had two daus.: I, Mary, b. Aug. 5, 1818; m. Willard Holton. II,
Permelia, b. abt. 1820; d. unm. The father was lost at sea and his wid. m.
(2) William Montgomerj', 1825; she d. Jan. 29, 1883, a. 89-9.
HOLBROOK.
1 EzEKiEL HoLBROOK was b. in WellHeet, Mass., 1775. At the age o{
four years, his father having died, he was taken by his mother to Penobscot
River. Being disappointed there in a chance for a livelihood, they came to
Damariscotta, where Ezekiel was bound out to service. The abuse he was
subjected to was such that at the age of 14 he ran away, following down the
river, and hired with Benjamin Linekin. Here he remained until 1802, when
he m. Lucy, dau. of his employer. She d. in 1805, and a year later he m.
FAMILY HISTORY. 547
Dorcas, dau. of Jonathan Farnham. He d. Mar. 5, 1863; Lucy, 1st w., d.
Oct. 28, 1805; Dorcas, 2d w., d. May 18, 1884, a. 96-5-27. Children:
2 Lucy, b. Oct. 8, 1807; m. Joseph Grimes.
3 Daniel, b. July 5, 1809; m. Eliza Hart, St. George.
4 Fanny, b. Jan. 6, 1812; m. (1) John Bennett; (2) Daniel Rowe.
5 Nancy, b. Apr. 16, 1814; m. Nathaniel Foster.
6 Sally, b. July 7, 1816; d. 1829.
7 Dorcas, b. Aug. 30, 1818; m. Joseph Farnham.
8 Ezekiel, Jr., b. May 3, 1822; unm. ; was long associated with his
brother Eliphalet in trade and fishing.
*0 Eliphalet, b. Sept. 17, 1824, q. v.
10 William C, b. May 17, 1827; d. Apr. 11, 1851, see Cas.
11 Sarah, b. July 1, 1830; unm.
Second Generation.
(*9) Eliphalet- Holbrook {Ezekiel) m. Charlotte P. Blake. To this
man belongs the distinction of being the merchant over the longest term of
service of any ever in town. He commenced trade in 1845, the year in
which Thomas Orne commenced. The latter retired in 1899, while Mr. Hol-
brook still (1905) retains an interest and gives the business some attention.
Their children are: I, Alden G., m. Abbie E. Martin, 1878; II, Dorcas
Ellen, m. James P. Jones; III, Orra A., m. George W. Martin.
HOLTON.
1 John Holton was first of this family in town. He came from Medford,
Mass., previous to 1773, having been born in Leicester, Dec. 2, 1747. A rec-
ord shows his father's family to have settled in Brookfield in May, 1762, they
having then come from Spencer. The family descent in Mass. of John, the
Boothbay settler, follows:
I, Joseph Houlton,' original immigrant, b. in County of Bedford, Eng.,
1621; set. in Salem, Mass., abt. 1635; m. Sarah, dau. of Richard and
Ann Ingersoll; d. May 30, 1705.
11, Benjamin Houlton,^ b. Dec. 14, 1657; m. Sarah ; d. 1689; res. in
Salem.
III, Benjamin Houlton, Jr.,^ b. Jan. 14, 1689-90; m. (1) Lydia Leech, July
13, 1708; (8) Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth (Porter) Putnam,
a sister to Gen. Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame; res. in Salem.
IV, Israel Houlton,* bap. Mar. 19, 1720-21; m. Sibel or Sibella ; wife
thought to have been of Conn, birth and residence.
John was third in a fam. of eight chil. On arriving at B. he set. on the
place now owned by Warren A. Holton, where he built his home and mar-
ried the daughter of one of his nearest neighbors. He m. Priscilla, dau. of
Jeremiah Heath, early in 1774. See Rev. list. He d. Oct. 2, 1822. Children:
2 Elizabeth, b. Nov. 10, 1775; m. Thomas Stewart, 1803.
3 Sibel, b. May 10, 1779; m. George W. Merrill, 1802, q. v.
*4 Israel, b. June 23, 1781, q. v.
*5 Jeremiah, b. Jan. 26, 1784, q. v.
6 Priscilla, b. Apr. 21, 1786.
7 Sarah, b. Sept. 3, 1788.
8 Mehitable, b. Apr. 23, 1791.
548 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
9 Susanna, b. Aug. 11, 1793; m. Abner Lewis, 1822.
10 Margaret, b. Aug. 11, 1795; d. in Boston, Feb. 9, 1814.
11 Phebe, b. Sept. 19, 1798.
12 John, b. Aug. 5, 1801; d. 1802.
Second Generation.
(*4) Israel^ Holton (John') m. Jane Robinson, Bris., 1808. He set.
south of the house where his son, the late John Holton, lived, near B. Ctr,,
purchasing the place of Patrick Herrin or his heirs. He was a sea captain
and is said to have held a captain's commission in the War of 1812. He died
Mar. 12, 1857; she died Feb. 5, 1856, a. 68. Children:
*13 Willard, b. Aug. 29, 1812, q. v.
*14 John, b. Oct. 27, 1815, q. v.
15 Thomas, b. Nov. 14, 1817; d. 1818.
16 Israel H., b. Aug. 28, 1819; d. Sept., 1839, see Cas.
17 William R., b. Jan. 28, 1822; m. Apphia Foye, Wis.; s. p.; he d. Feb.
21, 1872; she d. June 1, 1886, a. 61.
18 Martha J., b. Nov. 18, 1823; m. James McCobb, q. v.
19 Eliza A., b. 1825; m. Hamilton J. Barrows, Putney, Vt., 1855.
(*B) Jeremiah^ Holton Uohn>) m. Mary Clifford, Edge., 1811. He
built at the corner northerly from his father's and the old house has of late
been rebuilt, with additions, and is used as a public hall, called the Ida
Pavilion. He died Oct. 11, 1860; she died Dec. 2, 1864, a. 74-6. Children:
20 Mary A., b. Oct. 14, 1812; m. Capt. John Auld, 1832; d. June 19, 1904.
21 Margaret, b. June 20, 181B; unm.; d. Apr. 20, 1883.
•22 Rufus, b. June 3, 1817, q. v.
23 Cordelia, b. Feb. 27, 1819; unm.; d. in Boston, 1890.
24 Jane C, b. Feb. 17, 1821; m. Rufus Adams, q. v.
25 Sarah, b. Apr. 17, 1823; m. Samuel Murray.
26 Antoinette, b. Feb. 17, 1826; m. Solomon Wellington, Mass.
27 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1829; m. Charles Bowker, Mass.
*28 Jeremiah C, b. Jan. 23, 1831, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*13) Willard" Holton (Israe/,^ John^) m. Mary Hodgdon, 1837. He
lived at B. H. He was a carpenter and farmer and was a prominent mem-
ber of the 2d Cong. Church and one of the four to whom its memorial win-
dow is inscribed. He d. July 16, 1880; she d. Apr. 17, 1893, a. 74-8-12. Chil.:
29 Mary A., b. July 9, 1838; m. Moses R. Powers, Dorchester, Mass.
30 William H., b. Sept. 1, 1841; d. May 31, 18.58, see Cas.
31 Willard Russell, b. Nov. 2, 1845; m. Georgia E., dau. of Freeman
Hodgdon, 1877; he is a contracting carpenter; res. B. H.; chil : Harry
W., see Chap. XXIII; Carl R., see Chap. XXIII; Carrie N., Chester.
32 John Frederick, b. Oct. 6, 1848; set. in Mass.
33 Walter T., b. June 1, 1853; m. Lula, dau. of W. G. Lewis; chil.: Mary
and Lewis.
34 Henry C, b. June 11, 1858; m. Addie Small, South.; chil.: Arthur,
Lloyd, Alton, Eunice.
(*14) John' Holton (Israel,'^ Johti^) m. (1) Jane C, dau. of James
Adams, 1843; (2) Eliza, dau. of Paul McCobb, 1846; (3) Mary G. Foye, Wis.,
1850. He built northerly from his father's home, where his wid. still resides.
He was a ship carpenter. He d. June 24, 1895; Eliza, wife, d. Apr. 15, 1849.
Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 549
35 Charles, b. May 8, 1848; m. Burnette ; she d. Oct. 7, 1883; he set.
in Mass. and is an engineer.
36 Eliza A , b. Jan. 16, 1852; d. Apr. 9, 1881; unm.
37 John E., b. May 8, 1855; d. June 6, 1896; unm.
38 Hattie May, b. Sept., 1856; m. A. R. Hallowell, Salem, Mass.
39 Horace W., b. Nov. 18, 1861; m. Jennie Wylie; res. Maiden, Mass.
40 Albert H., b. Apr. 4, 1864; lives in Dorchester, Mass.
41 Jennie Foy, b. Jan. 3, 1867; d. Apr. 21, 1889; unm.
(*22) RuFus^ HoLTON (Jeremiah? John>) m. Margaret, dau. of David
R. Adams, 1840. He lived where John, his grandfather, settled. See Chap.
XVI for public service. He d. Mar. 1, 1892; she d. July 11, 1896. Children:
42 Mary E., b. Sept. 12, 1842.
43 Edward P., b. Aug. 13, 1847.
44 James G., b. Jan. 3, 1852; set. in Maiden, Mass.
45 Warren A., b. June 11, 1859; m. Mary E., dau. of VV. M. Bennett; s. p.
(*2S) Jeremiah Clifford' Holton (Jeremiah? JohnS) m. (1) Laura
A. Reed, 1869; she d. Jan. 11, 1882, a. 36-7; (2) Mrs. Helen O. Taylor, Wis.;
res. B. H.; is a ship carpenter. Children: I, Morton T., b. May 19, 1871;
m. Grace M., dau. of Isaiah and Ellen M. Dewolfe; res. in Mass. II, Norris
J., b. Feb. 7, 1876.
HOWARD.
Silas Howard was born in Castine, 1820; m. Annie Seavey, St. George,
1840; set. in B. H., 1866. He followed the sea from a boy until a few years
after marriage set. in B. Mrs. Howard died in 1891. Two only of six chil. are
living: George, who is m. and has afam. in town; Addie, res. with her father.
HUFF.
This is principally an Edge. name. Joseph and Phebe Huff came from
that town and set. at Back Narrows abt. 1820. They had one dau., Harriet.
The mother died Sept. 2, 1822. In 1823 he m. Hannah Stoddard. She died
Nov. 28, 1856. Children: I, Joseph, Jr., b. Nov. 6, 1823. II, Samuel, b.
May 4, 1833; set. in Hallowell. Ill, Nancy, b. Dec. 10, 1834; m. Carl-
ton; set. in Belfast. IV, Caroline E., b. Dec. 18, 1837. V, Betsey, b. Oct.
20, 1841. VI, Charles W., b. Mar. 20, 1843. VII, Ellen A., b. July 19, 1847.
Of this fam. Joseph, Jr., lived at Back Narrows; engaged in farming, fishing
and a general store. Their chil. were: Martha A., b. Aug. 8, 1849; Joseph
F., b. Feb. 28, 1853; Silas F. E., b. June 8, 1856; Ella E., b. July 2, 1857.
HUTCHINGS.
1 Jonathan Hutchings, of York, whose family settled here after his
death, was born about 1700, and died, probably, about 1760. Mary, his wife,
was born in 1708, and died at the age of 93, Oct. 9, 1801. She lived with her
son, Jonathan, Jr. They settled at the extreme northerly point at Oven's
Mouth, in the Dover district. Children:
2 Elizabeth, m. David Colbath, 1771.
3 Betty, b. 1763; m. Ichabod Tibbetts, 1774.
*4 Benjamin, q. v.
*6 Jonathan, q. v.
550 HISTOEr OF BOOTHBAT.
Second Generation.
(*4) Benjamin^ Hutchings {Jonathan^) m. Abigail, dau. of Nathaniel
Tibbetts, 1779. They lived where the family settled, and he was drowned,
Sept 4, 1828, at Oven's Mouth, while "warping in" a vessel; she died Oct.
2, 1822. Children:
6 Benjamin, Jr., b. Dec. 19, 1780; d. 1802.
7 Samuel, b. Nov. 20, 1782; set. in Whitefield.
8 Andrew, b. Dec. 22, 1784; m. Dorcas Alley; set. in Gardiner.
9 Polly, b. Sept. 14, 1787.
10 Hannah, b. Apr. 22, 1792.
*11 Jonathan, b. Mar. 6, 1794, q. v.
12 Sally, b. May 3, 1796; m. Isaac Tibbetts, q. v.
13 Catherine, b. Apr. 8, 1797.
14 Frederick, b. Apr. 19, 1801; m. Abigail Loomis.
(*5) Jonathan^ Hutchings (Jo7iathan^) m. (1) Mary , who d. Sept.
15, 1801; (2) Martha, widow of Adam Boyd. He. d. Jan. 5, 1838; Martha d.
Feb. 5, 1846. Some of his sons set. in Edge, near the New. line, and but
little can be found where they are represented in descent in town at present.
Children: I, John, b. 1796; II, James, b. 1798; III, Alfred, b. 1800; IV, Asa,
b. 1804; V, Jonathan, Jr., b. 1805, d. 1882; VI, Alexander, b. 1805; VII, Mar-
tha, b. 1808, m. Samuel Blake; VIII, Andrew, b. 1811; IX, Thomas, b. 1818.
Third Generation.
(*11) Jonathan^ Hutchings {Benjamin,''' Jonathan^) m. Nancy Bugnor.
He lived where Owen Stover now does. He died Jan. 16, 1876; she died
Apr. 27, 1876, a. 78-9. Children:
15 George, b. Sept. 8, 1821; m. Emeline Stover; chil.: Susan E., Antoi-
nette and George, Jr.
*16 Isaac, b. July 6, 1823, q. v.
17 Margaret, b. Nov. 11, 1824; m. James True.
18 Sarah, b. Sept. 27, 1826; m. Cornelius Murphy.
19 Nancy, b. Dec. 11, 1828; m. William Giles, q. v.
20 ■ Sophronia, b. Sept. 29, 1830; m. Wilmot Stover.
21 Lucy Ann, b. Dec. 1, 1832; m. Thomas C. Kelley.
*22 John, b. Oct. 21, 1834, q. v.
23 Waterman, b. Jan. 12, 1837; dec; unm.
24 Leonard, b. Apr. 15, 1843; d. Nov. 19, 1861.
Two chil. bet. 23 and 24 d. in inf.
Fourth Generation.
(*16) Isaac' Hutchings (Jonathan,^ Benjamin? Jonathan^) m. Julia A.
Lewis; lived at Dover. He d. Oct. 17, 1886; she d. May 18, 1883. Children:
Annie L., dec; Elizabeth J., dec; Roswell L.
(*22) John* Hutchings {Jonathan,^ Benjamin,^ Jo?iathan^) m. Eliza-
beth Lewis; he died Feb. 29, 1884. Children: Granville, Orin L., Eliza E.,
Vinettie.
1 Benjamin Kelley, who purchased a tract of land on Pleasant Cove, in
1770, of Thomas Kelley, stands in the records as founder of the Boothbay
family. Thomas may have been a brother to Benjamin, and they were prob-
ably sons of Samuel Kelley, mentioned in the petition for the incorporation
FAMILY HISTORY. 551
of the town (see p. 135). Besides these names, who were holders of real
estate at those early dates, there were in the Revolutionary service from
Boothbay Aaron, Joseph and William Kelley, of whom we have no further
record. In 1768 Mary Kelley married Moses Cross, of Freetown. There is
reason to suppose that Samuel Kelley was the original settler and the others
named were his children. Benjamin Kelley always stated that his family
came from Kennebunk to Townsend. The family ancestry is probably thus:
I, John Kelley' came from Newbury, Eng., to Newbury, Mass., in 1635;
d. Dec. 28, 1644; left a son John.
II, John Kelley,^ b. 1642, m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Knight, 1663; d. 1718;
they had nine children, one named John.
Ill, John Kelley,8 b. 1681, m. Hester Morse, 1702. They moved to Atkin-
son, N. H., about thirty miles from Kennebunk; had four chil.: Ruth,
b. 1704, John, Samuel and Benjamin. Birth dates of last three children
are unobtainable. Samuel was probably b. about 1708 and like others
of his time "worked easterly." He probably went to Kennebunk, mar-
ried and lived there until his children were old enough to want a larger
prospect, and then located in Townsend, where he is found in 1764 with
his family. The names are all regular family names, as may be noted
by consulting Coffin's History of Newbury.
Benjamin Kelley was bom in 1737; m. Sarah, dau. of William Kennedy,
1769, and settled on the farm bought of Thomas, which has ever since been
known as the "Kelley farm," now owned by his great-grandson, John E.
Kelley. He died Dec. 24, 1818, a. 81 yrs.; she died May 30, 1816, a. 80 yrs.
They left one child:
*2 Benjamin, Jr., b. 1769, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Benjamin^ Kelley, Jr., {Benjamin^) m. Anne, dau. of James and
Frances Auld, 1793. They lived on the homestead. The ta.x list of 1791
shows only Benjamin, Jr., and his father in town. They had a sawmill and
brickyard on the place. See Chap. XVI for public service. He died Oct.
28, 1811; she died July 8, 1830. Children:
*3 Isaac, b. Nov. 6, 1793, q. v.
*4 John, b. Aug. 19, 1795, q. v.
5 Sally, b. Apr. 20, 1797; unm.
6 Benjamin, b. Feb. 6, 1799; m. Catherine Campbell, at which time he
was res. in Union. Later he moved to Belfast, reared a family and
founded the well-known edge tool manufactory of B. Kelley & Co.
7 Fanny, b. June 15, 1801; unm.
8 James Auld, b. Apr. 22, 1805; unm.
9 Ezra, b. Apr. 25, 1807; d. Nov 22. 1857; unm.
10 Anna, b. Aug. 26, 1809; m. Josiah Staples, Swanville.
Third Generation.
(*3) Isaac' Kelley {Benjamin? Benjamin^) m. Martha, dau. of John
and Judy Kennedy. They had twelve children, but the record is slight in
their case, most of the family having settled elsewhere. Their children (per-
haps not in order of birth) were: John K., Phebe A., William K., Mary A.,
James H., Martha C, Rosilla, Jesse, John K., Joseph, Arietta. Of these
William K. alone left a family in town. He m. Nancy J., wid. of Thomas B.
Farmer and dau. of Robert and Jane Wylie, 1853. They had four daus. : I,
552 HISTOKT OF BOOTHBAT.
Elva, m. W. C. Clisby; II, Annie J., m. Charles H. Beal; III, Mary I., m.
W. F. Bearse, Bris.; IV, Arietta, m. Charles E. Spofford.
(*4) JOHN^ Kelley (Benjamm,'^ Benjamiti^) m. Mary, dau. of Elisha
and Catherine Sherman, 1819. They lived on the homstead, following farm-
ing. He died Dec. 12, 1863; she died Feb. 22, 1887. Children:
11 Mary A., b. Apr. 8, 1820; m. Nathaniel G. Light, Edge.
12 Catherine, b. Mar. 7, 1822; m. Charles Cargill, New., 1842; d. Apr. 4, 1854.
13 Benjamin, b. Apr. 18, 1824; m. Cordelia, dau. of Henry and Miriam
Reed, 1849; he d. Jan. 18, 1854; one dau., Abby J., m. Charles H.
Mason, Bath; she d. Apr. 14, 1886.
14 Elizabeth G., b. Apr. 23, 1826; m. Willard Cunningham, New.; d. Dec.
29, 1854.
15 Lydia J . b. May 6, 1828; m. Wilmot Averill, Alna, 1848; d. Nov. 3, 1873.
16 Elisha, b. Sept. 2, 1830; d. Feb. 15, 1853; unm.
17 Dexter, b. Apr. 1, 1833; m. Roxana Given, Topsham, 1855; d. May 15,
1856.
18 Sarah F., b. Nov. 6, 1835; m. Benjamin P. Reed; d. Jan. 28, 1863.
•19 John Edward, b. Aug. 5, 1838, q. v.
20 Charles P., b. Feb. 14, 1841; d. July 28, 1843.
Fourth Generation.
(*19) John Edward* Kelley (John,^ Benjamui,- BenjamiiO-) m. Cor-
delia, dau. of John and Mary (Adams) McDougall, 1864. They live at No.
B. on the place formerly owned by Dr. Daniel Rose and afterward by Dr.
Wright. For town and legislative service see Chap. XVI. He was deputy
sherifT, 1873-77; sheriff of Lincoln County, 1883-91; deputy again, 1891-97;
fish warden three years under Com. Whitten, 1888-91; and again appointed
under Com. Nickerson and now holds that position. Mr. Kelley has ser\'ed
upon the Boothbay Republican Town Com. since 1873, and upon the Repub-
lican Co. Com. for Lincoln about fifteen years. They have four children:
Fannie May, John P., Benjamin E., Fred Robie.
KENDRICK.
Charles E. Kendrick was b. in Bangor, Apr. 3, 1846, the son of William
and Laura A. (Hamilton) Kendrick. His father was the son of Joseph and
Mary (Knight) Kendrick, also of Bangor. The mother died in 1848 and the
father died from wounds early in the Civil War. Charles made his home
with his grandparents in Belgrade until 14 years old, when on his own account
he commenced in the news and periodical line, at a stand in the rotunda of
the State House. This he followed till he was 18, when he established Ken-
drick's Express on the Boston and Kennebec steamer. This he sold at 21
and commenced jobbing notions over a route in Maine, which he followed
six years, when he set. in B. H. Here he engaged in trade in Miller's Block,
a few years running a branch during the season at Squirrel Island, until 1888,
when he sold his business and the next year bought the Boothbay Register,
which he still owns and publishes. He m. Isabel D., dau. of Benjamin and
Margaret Kenney, in 1873. Children: Annie B., a teacher in the B. H.
schools; Ralph W., m. Caroline, dau. of Samuel and Delia Murray, foreman
in the Register office. Two sons, James B. and Charles B., died in youth.
FAMILY HISTORY. 553
KENNEY.
This family was numerous in our early records, but at a date earlier than
1800, in some instances, entire families of the name moved into the interior
towns of the State, which were then rapidly filling with population. For a
possible value that it may have I will present the early records briefly, though
not all are necessary to show the line of descent to those now living in town.
The family is of Scotch descent and in early records is often found spelled
Canney. Five men with fams. were in town during the Rev. War, and four
of them served in it, of this name. So far as can be ascertained they all
came from Bradford, Mass., and they are all thought to have been brothers.
1 Samuel Kenney m. Abigail Barter; set. on the southern end of Barter's
Is., where C. S. F. Hilton now lives. He was b. abt. 1756; served through
the Rev. and again in 1812-14 cleaned up the same old flintlock or Queen's-
arm to help defend the Sheepscot shores, which were annoyed by the British.
He died at advanced age, Feb. 23, 1848; she died Nov. 15, 1815. Children:
Samuel, Jr., 1777; Sarah, 1779; Thomas, 1781; Abigail, 1783; John, 1785;
Lydia, 1787; Esther, 1790; Rejoice, 1792; Susanna, 1794; Hepsibeth, 1798;
Eunice, 1800. Esther and Rejoice were the first and second wives, respect-
ively, of Rufus Hilton, who succeeded upon the homestead.
2 Thomas Kenney m. Jemima Foster; lived on west side of B. He d. Nov.
19, 1815, a. 86; she d. Aug. 17, 1813. Children: Thomas, 1777; Josiah, 1779.
3 Abijah Kenney m. Esther Wylie, 1782; he lived in the old stone house
at West B. H. He d. Oct. 14, 1848, a. 88; she d. Sept. 5, 1840, a. 87. He
was a cobbler. Not thought to have had children.
4 Henry Kenney m. Elizabeth, dau. of Col. Edward Emerson, 1789.
Thought to have lived in No. B. near the Edge. hne. He d. Oct. 15, 1821.
Children: Edward, 1790; Thomas, Jr., 1792; Betsey, 1794; John, 1796; Har-
riet, 1799; Sophia, 1800; Lydia, 1802; Emerson, 1803; Hester and Synthia,
1807; Charlotte, 1809; Susanna, 1812.
5 Benjamin and Susanna Kenney are thought to have lived near the Edge,
line. Herfam. name is unk., as are the dates of their deaths. Children:
John, 1789; Benjamin, Jr., 1791; Ann, 1793; Joshua, 1796; Sally, 1799; Israel,
1801; Thomas, 1804; Jane, 1806; Daniel, 1810. Soon after 1810, before mar-
riage of any of the children, this fam. moved to Jefl.
6 John Kenney, son of Benjamin and Susanna, after the family moved to
Jeff., shipped on a whaling voyage and was wrecked on the coast of Scot-
land. There he remained and m. Nellie Cheavous and continued to live
until they had a fam. of seven chil. He then returned to America and set.
in Jeff., later rem. to Edge., where he d. soon after. Of these seven chil.
John, Jr., and Benjamin set. in this locality. John, Jr., in Edge., where he
reared a fam., of whom Wilder F. m. Abby M. Haggett, Edge., and lives in
B. H., one dau., Alice; George lives in New. and Leroy in Bath.
7 Benjamin, son of John and Nellie Kenney, set. as a young man in B. H.
He m. Margaret, dau. of James and Sarah Auld. For many years he fol-
lowed the sea and accumulated a good property. He was long an active
member in the 2d Cong. Society. He d. May 3, 1903, a. 77-9; she d. Feb. 4,
1894. Children: I, Isabella, b. Jan. 17, 1854; m. Charles E. Kendrick, q. v.
554 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
II, James B., b. July 12, 1856; m. Hattie J. Pask, Bath. Ill, Benjamin, Jr.,
d. in youth. IV, George A., b. Aug. 1, 1860; m. Genettio N., dau. of
Osgood Reed; they had two daus., Effie M. and Grace A. He. d. May 31,
1898. This fam. have all lived at B. H.
KENNISTON.
1 David Kenniston came to Boothbay a few years after the Revolution
closed and purchased what for almost a century was known as the Kenniston
homestead at B. Ctr. His father was a Scotch refugee after the battle of
CuUoden Muir, 1746, coming at once to America in a French cruiser, landing
at Norfolk, Va. He was John Kenniston, or as the name has variously been
spelled, Kenaston, Kenerson or Canaston. He married in America and set.
in N. H., in the vicinity of Nottingham, where the fam. was once, during the
colonizing period, attacked by Indians and their house burned. They had
six sons, in order, David, Joseph, Isaac, Joshua, Samuel, Thomas. The two
former served in the Rev. War and located in Maine after it closed. David
was b. in 1759. He m. (1) Sarah, dau. of Jeremiah Beath, 1789; (2) Betsey,
wid. of Samuel Day and dau. of David Reed, 1797. He died May 9, 1843;
Sarah, vv., d. Dec. 12, 1796; Betsey, w., d. Mar. 10, 1844. David Kenniston
was a leading member in the first church, particularly during the pastorate
of Rev. Isaac Weston, for whom he had strong admiration and warm friend-
ship. He has been described to the author as a tall, erect man of dark
complexion, hair and eyes, with prominent features and stern, energetic
manner. Children:
2 John, b. July 5, 1790; set. in Eastern Maine.
3 Asa, b. Aug. 27, 1792; lived in E.xeter and Newport; d. past 80; unm.
4 Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1793; went to Mass.; trace lost.
5 Thomas Beath, b. Dec. 2, 1796; m. Margery W. Ingraham, 1823; set.
together with his wife's fam. in Levant.
6 Polly, b. Oct. 2, 1798; m. Willard Thorpe, q. v.
7 Stephen, b. June 10. 1800; m. Mrs. Mary S., wid. of Frederick Lewis
and dau. of Capt. Andrew McFarland, 1822; set. in Machias and later
rem. to Chelsea, Mass. He had a fam. of several chil.
8 Margaret, b. Apr. 3, 1804; m. Robert Spinney, q. v.
*9 William, b. Nov. 9, 1806, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*9) William^ Kenniston [David'^) m. (1) Emily, dau. of Washington
and Nancy Dodge, Edge., 1833; (2) Mary, dau. of Moses Huff, Edge., 1836;
(3) Mrs. Octavia, wid. of Samuel Woodward, 1883. He was a man of great
energy of character, active in business, being in his earlier years engaged in
contract work upon roads and bridges and in general trade. In 1849 he was
among the first to start for California, when with a few men from this vicinity
they rounded Cape Horn in a small schooner and landed at their destination
soon after the fire that destroyed the Sutter Settlement, now San Francisco.
His business career in town is referred to in Chaps. XIX and XXI. Added
to his natural activity he was of a strong social turn and these qualities gave
him a broad and agreeable acquaintance. Possessed of a remarkable mem-
ory and a strong tendency to see the humorous and ridiculous side of things,
he was filled with anecdotes and reminiscences, and being a ready conver-
sationalist these were imparted in his old age to his younger friends and
FAMILY HISTORY. 555
acquaintances. Marrj'ing the daughter of his last wife, I lived in the same
house with them from October, 1886, to April, 1888, and during this time it
may fairly be said the work on this History of Boothbay took its inception.
His death, which occurred by murder, on the day he was 81 yrs. 6 mos. of
age, was in the house in which he was born. At that time he was enjoying
good health and his family physician stated that he was apparently in sound
physical condition (see p. 390). He d. May 9, 1888; Emily, w., d. Jan. 24,
1835, a. 24; Mary, w., d. Apr. 26, 1881, a. 65; Octavia, w., d. Jan. 24, 1890,
a. 55-9-27. Children:
10 George Beaman, b. Dec. 17, 1836; m. (1) Antoinette E., dau. of Rev.
Jonathan Adams, 1864; (2) Annie Janet, dau. of Benjamin Blair, 1883.
They res. at B. H. He is a lawyer and real estate dealer. See sketch,
Chap. XXIII. Children: I, Mabel, m. Emerson Rice; res. at Hyde
Park, Mass.; see Emerson Genealogy. II, Walter, d. Sept. 20, 1887, a.
19-7-19. Ill, Irving Chase, m. Marcia V., dau. of Dexter W. Hodgdon.
Since 1890 he has been in either Arizona or the Klondike. At Sulphur
Creek, in the latter place, he is now engaged in mining on his own
account. IV, William Beaman, see sketch, p. 406. V, Alice, m. Wen-
dall P. McKown, see p. 407. VI, George B., Jr., d. Nov. 28, 1898, a.
20-10-3, see Cas.
11 Albert Henry, b. Jan. 31, 1839; m. Ida A. Chase, Edge., 1875. For-
merly of the firm of Kenniston, Cobb & Co., operating on Linekin
Neck; now and for several years engaged in the furniture trade and
undertaking at B. H. Children: I, Edith Chase, m. John A. Mad-
docks, see p. 407; 11, Mary Avis, unm.
12 Mary Emily, b. July 18, 1845; m. Luther Maddocks, q. v.
Capt. Joseph Ross Kenniston, b. in Jeff., Sept. 10, 1836; son of David
and Mary A. (Ross) Kenniston. His father, David, understood to be de-
scended from Joseph, brother of David, founder of the foregoing fam. He
was b. in Liberty in 1811, lived in Jeff, through his business years, dying in
Washington, 1857; Mary, his w., d. in Aug., 1888, a. 76. Joseph left school
at 13, going as sailor under Capt. George Witcher, sch. John Stull. At 27
he took his first command, sch. Bfount Hope, coasting, and continued until
1872. He then came to B. H., invested his capital in real estate, to which
he has added by purchase, building and rebuilding, until at the present he
has the largest number of rents owned by a single individual in town. These
are situated on McKown and Commercial Streets and Townsend Avenue.
He m. Henrietta, dau. of Rufus Reed, Orono, 1867. Children: I, Charles
F., variety store and news stand at B. H. II, Vinnie E., m. Harold Bibber,
M. D., Bath. Ill, Ethel May, unm.
KIMBALL.
Henry and Sally Kimball came from Bradford, Mass., and set. on Bar-
ter's Island abt. 1810. He d. May 19, 1828. Children: I, Nabby, b. Mar.
12, 1811. II, Mary, b. Aug. 13, 1813. Ill, Phineas, b. Jan. 24, 1816; d. 1838,
see Cas. IV, Lydia, b. Feb. 19, 1821. V, Albert, b. Sept. 1, 1824, q. v.
Second Generation.
Albert Kimball m. Arietta, dau. of Luther and Anne Pinkham, 1848.
They lived where his father settled. He was engaged in fishing, coasting
and general trade. They reared a fam. of twelve chil., nine of whom were
sons, nearly all of whom followed the sea. He d. Sept. 20, 1887. Children:
556 HISTOUY OF BOOTHBAY.
I, Mary Ann, b. Aug. 4, 1840; ni. Manson D. McKown, q. v. II, Albert
Leroy, b. Nov. 2, 1850. Ill, Hermon, b. Sept. 28, 1852; d. Nov. 5, 1866.
IV, Phineas, b. Apr. 1, 1854; m. Gabrielle Gove; d. July 20, 189.3. V, Sarah
Frances, b. Jan. 6, 1856; m. Florence McKown, q. v. VI, Fremont, b. Dec.
14, 1857; m. Ida E. Macaulay; res. in Bath. VII, Burton, b. May 30, 1860;
m. Annie T. Gove. VIII, Samuel S., b. Dec. 14, 1862; m. (1) Effie S. Pink-
ham; (2) Carrie A. Nichols, Batli. IX, Louville, b. Mar. 6, 1865; m. Edith
Conley, West. X, Ardelle, b. Mar. 29, 1867; m. Harry B. Stewart. XI,
Elbridge H., b. June 7, 1869; m. Alice G. Conley, West.; res. in Monson.
XII, Wendall, b. May 10, 1872; m. Lillian M. Bourgette.
KNIGHT.
1 Daniel Knight was founder of this family in B. He evidently came
from Mass., from about Newburj-port or Salem. The evidence is not clear,
but I think he descended from John Knight, who, with his brother Richard,
came to Newbury, Mass., from Romsey, Eng., in June, 1635. If this is cor-
rect the ancestral line of Daniel was as follows: I, John, b. in England, 159-;
d. 1670. II, John, Jr., b. in England, 1622; d. 1678. Ill, Benjamin, b. 1668.
IV, Benjamin, Jr., b. 1693. The Boothbay settler was probably son of the
last named. He lived on Damariscove, after coming into these parts, until
the breaking out of the Rev. War, when he vacated the island and went to
Pleasant Cove, on the farm owned by the late Daniel Dodge. His will was
made Jan. 10, 1780; prob. Apr. 5, 1780. Nominally, he was the wealthiest
man in his locality, but some allowance must be made for the fact that at the
date of prob., 1780, the Continental currency was at a low point in value; but
he was, undoubtedly, a man of considerable property for the times. Chil. :
2 Susanna, m. Faithful Singer, 1768.
3 Judith, m. Jeremiah Crommett, 17S0.
*4 Daniel, Jr., b. 1744, q. v.
5 Elizabeth, m. John Wheeler; he d. in 1777.
6 Mary, m. Bumham.
7 Martha, m. Day.
*8 Patishall, q. v. .,
Second Generation.
(*4) Daniel^ Knight, Jr., [Daniel^) m. Mary Winslow, Bris., 1768.
After the war he set. on Damariscove, one-half of which was devised him by
his father. He d. Jan. 8, 1798; she d. I\Iar. 17, 1820, a. 84. Living as they did
upon an island their chil. are not regularly recorded, but the order is thought
to be as given below. His estate at inv. was |5,275. Children:
*9 William, b. 1769, q. v.
*10 Nicholas T., b. 1771, q. v.
11 Patty, m. John Andrews, Ipswich, 1794, q. v.
12 Betsey, b. 1774; m. Nathaniel Montgomery, q. v.
*18 Nathaniel, b. Jan. 12, 1776, q. v.
14 Daniel, Jr.
15 Lydia, m. Alfred Wadsworth, Bris., 1799.
16 Sally, b. 1784, m. James Auld, 1802, q. v.
17 Mary, m. Joseph Hayes, No. Yarmouth, 1803.
(*8) Patishall- Knight (Daniel'^) m. Susanna Brown, 1782. He was
named for Capt. Richard Patishall, who in earlier times had owned Dama-
FAMILY HISTORY. 557
riscove Island, and who was killed, Aug. 2, 1689, by the Indians in a battle
at Pemaquid. He owned the place at Pleasant Cove and lived there. He
d. in Oct., 1797; his wid. m. George Gilbert, Wis., 1802. Children:
18 Daniel, b. Feb. 8, 1782; d. Sept. 7, 1801.
19 Margaret, b. Sept. 23, 1784; m. Nathaniel Chapman, Jr., Noble., 1804.
20 Patty, b. Jan, 13, 1786.
21 Samuel, b. Apr. 8, 1790; m. Sarah Campbell, 1818; one, son, Alexan-
der, b, June 11, 1819.
22 John, b. June 7, 1792; m. Mary Blinn, Bris., 1814.
23 Alexander, b. Dec. 7, 1794; d. 1806.
24 Alfred, b. Nov. 19, 1796; d. 1819.
25 Patishall, Jr., b. Feb. 7, 1798.
Third Generation.
(*9) William" Knight {Daniel, Jr.? Daniel'^) m. Martha Bumham,
1793. He d. June 25, 1821; she d. June 14, 1837, a. 60. Their fam. is not
recorded. They had at least three sons, probably other children.
*26 Michael, b. 1801, q. v.
*27 Nathaniel, q. v.
28 William, Jr., b. 1808; d. Jan. 1, 1834.
(*10) Nicholas T." Knight (Daniel, Jr.,"- Da?iiel'^) m. (1) Rachel Auld,
1791; (2) Sarah Auld, 1813. He d. Feb. 12, 1848; Rachel, w., d. June 17,
1813, a. 43; Sarah, w., d. Oct. 26, 1872, a. 87-11. He first set. on Sawyer's
Island, but sold to Tyler Hodgdon. He then purchased of the Murray heirs
the place at B. Ctr. where John Murray settled, now owned by John K.
Corey. The house now standing there was built by Knight. He owned
some places in town that he rented and was a man of property and influ-
ence. Children:
29 Polly, b. July 8, 1792; d. 1800.
30 Daniel, b. Dec. 17, 1793; unm.; d. 1823.
31 John, b. Aug. 27, 1795; unm.; d. 1821, see Cas.
32 Anna, b. June 14, 1797; d. 1809.
33 William, b, Dec. 26, 1798; unm.; d. 1821, see Cas.
34 Alfred, b. Sept. 3, 1800; unm.; d. 1830, see Cas.
*35 Charles, b. Aug. 3, 1802, q. v.
36 Mary, b. Apr. 14, 1804; m. John B. Knight, q. v.
37 Nathaniel, b. Mar. 9, 1806; m. Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Knight; two
chil., Catherine J. and Nicholas H.
. 38 Joseph, b. Feb. 5, 1809; d. 1810.
39 Rachel, b. Nov. 30, 1810; m. Samuel Larrabee, Portland, 1837.
40 Sarah A., b. Oct. 24, 1814; m. Charles Corey, q. v.
41 Harriet N., b. Aug. 4, 1817; m. Stephen, son of Seba Smith.
42 Frances, b. Mar. 4, 1820; m. Miles Orne, 1840.
43 John, b. Dec. 9, 1821; d. 1839, see Cas.
44 Margaret, b. Jan. 9, 1824; m. John C. Poole, Eastport, 1844.
45 Martha S., b. Jan. 9, 1824; m. John Hanley, Boston.
46 Lucy D., b. Jan. 25, 1826; d. in youth.
47 Levi, b. 1827; m. Mrs. Hamilton, Boston.
48 Charlotte W., b. Mar. 1, 1829; m. John Hanley, Boston.
(*13) Nathaniel' Knight (Daniel, Jr.,^ Da7iiel^) m. (1) Elizabeth
Barber, Edge., 1798; (2) Lucy Webster, Edge., 1813. Lived on the old
homestead at Pleasant Cove. Children:
49 Mary, b. Apr. 18, 1799; m. Nathaniel, son of N. T. Knight.
50 John B., b. Dec. 29, 1804; m. Mary, dau. of N. T. Knight; set. in East-
port; rem. to Portland.
558 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
61 Betsey, b. Nov. 22, 1806; m. Samuel Burnham.
52 Nathaniel, b. July 19, 1808; set. in Eastport; m. Mary Knight, Edge.,
1830; drowned at Eastport.
53 Sarah A., b. Mar. 21, 1812.
54 Daniel, b. Feb. 18, 1816; m. Rhoda Emerson, 1837; lived on home-
stead and sold to Daniel Dodge.
55 Lucy A., b. Jan. 3, 1818.
56 Ira, b. Mar. 5, 1819.
Three chil. d. in early youth.
Fourth Generation.
(*26) Michael* Knight (IVilliant,^ Daniel, Jr.,^ Daniel'^) m. Martha A.
Hutchings. They lived at E. B. He d. Dec. 16, 1858; she d. in 1902, a. 88.
Children: I, William M., b. Oct. 19, 1841; m. Sarah Lang; one. dau., Mary
Emma; he d. Aug. 1, 1899. II, Perez, b. Sept. 17, 1846. Ill, John Edward,
b. Dec. 16, 1852; m. Jennie, dau. of Charles M. and Sarah Seavey; res. at
B. H., owner of the Boothbay House; conducts an insurance agency, see
Chap. XVI. IV, Martha L., b. Sept. 30, 1856; m. Emery R. Hardinger;
res. in E. B.
(*27) Nathaniel* Knight (William,^ Daniel, Jr. ,^ Daniel'^) m. Nancy
. They had two chil. : I, John Albion, who m. Lottie, dau. of Charles
Giles; he d. Mar. 19, 1872. II, Sarah A., b. Feb. 15, 1838.
(*35) Charles* Knight (Nicholas T.,^ Daniel, Jr., '^ Daniel^) m. Mary
A., dau. of Matthew and Sally Reed, q. v. They lived near Bayville, where
the late Granville Preble did. He died Apr. 15, 1876; she died Jan. 29, 1876.
Children:
57 Eleanor, b. June 11, 1831; m. Joseph Paine, Roxbury, 1855.
58 Ann Eliza, b. Mar. 26, 1834; m. John Montgomery, 1857.
59 CaroUne R., b. Sept. 24, 1836; m. Sanborn.
60 Mary Elizabeth, b. Jan. 20, 1840; m. McOuestin.
61 Harriet S., b. Apr. 22, 1842; m. O. N. Gammon, Wakefield, Mass.
62 Sarah R., b. Nov. 6, 1844; m. Granville Preble; they lived on her
father's homestead.
63 Rachel L., b. July 10, 1848; m. George H. Parker, Reading, Mass.
64 Charles S., b. Feb. 24, 1852; unm.; d. in Providence, Dec. 4, 1872.
John S. Knight, Westport, not known to be related to the foregoing
family, m. Martha C. Bryer, 1851. He set. in B. abt. that date. Children:
I, Frank L., b. Dec. 5, 1852; m. Lizzie C. Toothacher; d. Sept. 15, 1887, see
Cas. II, Olive C, b. July 18, 1854. Ill, Flora E., b. Aug. 13, 1856; m.
Robert Spofford; d. Dec. 28, 1889. IV, Lelia W., b. Oct. 11, 1859; unm.;
res. in Mass. V, John E., b. Jan. 2, 1861; res. on homestead. VI, Charles
W., b. Dec. 22, 1864; m. Emeline, dau. of Joseph McKown; res. at B. Ctr.
VII, Chester C, b. Dec. 17, 1868; lives on farm formerly owned by Kiah B.
Merrill.
LARRABEE.
Charles H. Larrabee set. in B. in 1876, on the homestead of his grand-
father, William McCobb. He was son of William C. and Abigail (McCobb)
Larrabee, b. in Bath, Oct. 20, 1847. He m. Harriet E. Edgecomb, Bath.
He follows farming and contract work and was for several years road com-
missioner in B. H. .Children:
Joseph Mauuocks.
Chairman of first board of Selectmen in Boothbay Harbor,
FAMILY HISTORY. 559
1 Charles W., b. Oct. 12, 1870; m. Carrie Botsford, 1893.
2 Lena A., b. Jan. 28, 1874; m. Henry O. Wylie.
3 Alice J., b. Nov. 4, 1875; m. Harry Stevens, foreman Damariscotta
Herald o?az^.
4 Harry S., b July 15, 1878; m. Mar>' McGrath, 1903.
6 Arthur F., b. Feb. 6, 1881; m. Grace C. Maxwell, Bath, 1905.
6 Mary A., b. Mar 11, 1883; m. Zina Merry.
7 Clara E., b. Jan. 23, 1886.
8 Albert M., b. Sept. 10, 1890.
LATTER.
Richard Latter was born in London, England, July 15, 1859. He came
to Quebec in 1882, afterward coming to Portland and later to Boothbay Har-
bor. He m. Idella, dau. of Capt. Mitchell Brewer, that year. They have
four sons, Charles, William, Richard, Jr., and George A. Mr. Latter became
superintendent of the Boothbay Harbor water system in March, 1900, a
position which he still retains.
1 Joseph Lewis, bom at Rumery Marsh (Chelsea), Mass., Jan. 11, 172|^,
founded the family in this locality. His ancestry for three generations had
been as follows:
I, John and Mary (Brown) Lewis, Charlestown and Maiden, Mass.
II, Isaac and Mary (Davis) Lewis.
Ill, Isaac and Hannah (Hallett) Lewis, Rumery Marsh and Yorlc, Me.
Joseph married Sarah Dexter about 1753, and it is thought that they
were married before moving to Townsend. If so they came soon afterward.
They first settled on the Dover road and then moved to Back River, locating
where Isaac Sudds now lives, on the branch road leading from Hodgdon's
Island bridge to Back River. From his farm the cemetery was taken, the
entrance to which leads from where he had his house. He was engaged in
coasting during nearly all his life in town. A large percentage of his
descendants have been seamen, and, while the family is one of the most
numerous in the locality, many have found homes elsewhere. His sons
were among the earliest persons in town to espouse the Free Will Baptist
religion and were influential in organizing that society. A few early publish-
ments have been somewhat disconcerting in compiling this family, but who-
ever they may have been who bore the Lewis name it is certain they left no
descendants here. He died Dec. 5, 1807; she died Dec. 15, 1807. Children:
2 Sarah, b. abt. 1752; m. John Southard, q. v.
*3 William, b. Oct. 14, 1754, q. v.
*4 Joseph, Jr., b. abt. 1756, q. v.
*5 Stephen, b. July, 1758, q. v.
6 Frances, b. abt. 1760; m. John Barter, q. v.
7 Susanna, b. abt. 1763; m. Benjamin Kenney, q. v.
*8 Lemuel, b. Oct., 1767, q. v.
*9 John, b. Nov., 1768, q. v.
10 Abigail, b. June 30, 1772; m. James Tibbetts, q. v.
*11 Isaac, b. June, 1775, q. v.
37
560 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Second Generation.
^ (*3) William^ Lewis (Joseph^) m. (1) Sarah, dau. of Benjamin and
Judith Pinkham, 1780; she d. June 5, 1796; (2) Mary Lamson, 1797; she d.
May 8, 1816; (3) Hannah Brooks, 1819; she d. Feb. 13, 1861, a. 82. He d.
Mar. 6, 1834. Their home was where his father's had been. Children:
*12 Stephen, Jr., b. Jan. 5, 1781, q. v.
13 Nathaniel, b. Nov. 30, 1782; d. June 14, 1804.
14 Benjamin, b. Jan. 3, 1785.
16 Thomas, b. May 8, 1787; d. June 16, 1807.
..16 William, b. Sept. 20, 1789; set. in Palermo; m. Hannah Tibbetts, 1811.
" 17 James, b. Sept. 22, 1792; d. Mar. 13, 1804.
18 Sarah, b. Aug. 26, 1794; d. Mar. 22, 1800.
19 Nathan, b. July 11, 1798; d. 1803.
*20 Ebenezer, b. Aug. 10, 1800, q. v.
(*4) Joseph" Lewis, Jr., (Joseph^) m. Jenny, dau. of Robert Wylie. He
set. at head of Adams Pond, where his granddaughter, Caroline Lewis, now
lives. He died Dec. 24, 1809; she died June 2, 1847. Children:
21 Ebenezer, b. Oct. 23, 1780; m. Sally ClifTord, Edge., 1806.
22 Martha, b. Oct. 21, 1782; m. William Reed, q. v.
*23 John, b. Feb. 3, 1784, q. v.
24 Esther, b. July 8, 1787; m. David Reed, 4th.
25 Sarah, b. Oct. 23, 1789; d. 1805.
*2« Samuel, b. May 8, 1792, q. v.
*27 Joseph, b. Oct. 20, 1794, q. v.
28 Jenny, b. Dec. 1, 1797; d. 1804.
(•5) Stephen" Lewis (Joseph^) m. (1) Abigail, dau. of Joseph Barter,
1782; she d. May 18, 1794; (2) Mary Williamson, 1795; she d. Aug. 18, 1839,
a. 76. He d. Nov. 5, 1839. His home was on Back River where Clarence
Boyd now lives. Children:
29 William, b. Mav 16, 1783; d. May 1, 1796.
30 Lydia, b. Dec. 19, 1784; d. Feb. 8, 1796.
31 Joseph, b. May 21, 1786.
32 Anne, b. Apr. 14, 1788; d. Nov., 1793.
*33 Stephen, Jr., b. Dec. 19, 1789, q. v.
34 Fanny, b. Dec. 7, 1791; m. Thomas Harper.
35 Abigail, b. May 18, 1794; m. James Pray, 1814.
*36 Silas, b. Nov. 6, 1796, q. v.
•37 Ephraim, b. Mar. 29, 1801, q. v.
38 Mary, b. May 5, 1803.
*39 Allen, b. Feb. 17, 1805, q. v.
40 Hartley, b. June 16, 1807; m. Lavinia Bryer, 1834.
(*8) Lemuel" Lewis {.Joseph^) m. Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Tibbetts.
He lived where the late Miles Lewis did; d. Aug. 13, 1842; she d. Sept. 29,
1869. Children:
41 Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1793.
*42 Lemuel, Jr., b. Jan. 30, 1796, q. v.
*43 Giles, b. Dec. 30, 1796, q. v.
44 Jacob, b. June 10, 1799.
45 Rebecca, b. Jan. 29, 1801; m. William Stone, 1819.
46 Nathan, b. July 20, 1803; m. Harriet G. Macomber, Bath, 1826.
47 Catherine, b. June 19, 1806; m. Clark Linekin, 1825, q. v.
48 Sally, b. Oct. 28, 1808.
*49 Willard, b. Nov. 10, 1810, q. v.
*50 Miles, b. Nov. 11, 1812, q. v.
FAMILY HISTORY. 561
(*9) JoHN^ Lewis (Joseph'^) m. Rebecca, dau. of Nathaniel Tibbetts,
1789. He lived on a farm adjoining his father's. He d. Nov. 14, 1858; she
d. Mar. 16, 1849. Children:
*51 John, b. Mar. 15, 1790, q. v.
*.52 Samuel, b. Aug. 27, 1791, q. v.
53 Eunice, b. Apr. 29, 1793; m. (1) John Hodgdon; (2) William Mont-
gomery.
54 Betsey, b. May 4, 1705.
55 Abigail, b. Jan. 19, 1799; m. Benjamin Pinkham, 2d, q. v.
*56 Israel, b. Nov. 12, 1801.
57 Permelia, b. Nov. IS, 1803.
68 Hannah, b. Mar. 30, 1806.
59 Andrew, b. July 13, 1808; m. Elizabeth McCobb, 1834.
60 Belinda, b. Apr. 18, 1811; m. Willard Lewis, 1834.
61 Almira, b. Dec. 27, 1813; m. Daniel Matthews, 1835, q. v.
(*11) ls.\Ac2 Lewis {Joseph^) m. Hannah, dau. of Joseph Giles. They
lived on his father's homestead and cared for the old couple in their last
years. He died Dec. 21, 1837; she died Nov. 3, 1865. Children:
62 Samuel, b. Nov. 4, 1800; m. Clarissa Reed.
63 Nancy, b. May 25, 1802; m. Freeman Bickford, 1826.
64 Phebe, b. Feb. 28, 1804; m. Frederick Pinkham, 1825.
*65 David, b. Mar. 7, 1808.
66 Pruda, b. July 10, 1810.
67 Sophronia, b. July 7, 1811.
68 William, b. Feb. 22, 1814.
Third Generation.
(*12) Stephen^ Lewis, Jr., [William,'^ Joseph^) m. Fanny Southard,
1803. Children: Fanny, b. Apr. 9, 1805; Sarah, b. May 17, 1807.
(*20) Ebenezer3 Lewis (William? Joseph^) m. Isabella Fickett, 1819.
They lived on homestead of his father and grandfather. He died June 20,
1874; she died Aug. 31, 1864, a. 68-6. Children: I, William M., b. Oct. 3,
1823; m. Catherine Albee; lived on the home place. II, Mary E., b. Apr.
25, 1832; m. Robert Welch. Two chil., Eldredge and Benjamin, d. young.
(*23) JoHN^ Lewis, 2d, {Joseph, Jj:,"^ Joseph^) m. (1) Eunice Colton,
New., 1806; (2) Margaret Barter, 1848. He d. Mar. 31, 1855; Eunice, vv., d.
Feb. 13, 1846, a. 60; Margaret, w., d. Aug. 29, 1873. They lived at West
B. H. Children:
69 Martha, b. Nov. 26, 1808; m. Andrew Farmer, 1832, q. v.
70 Adeline, b. June 15, 1811; m. John Wylie, 2d, 1831, q. v.
*71 Ebenezer, b. Sept. 20, 1813, q. v.
72 David R., b. May 24, 1816.
73 Sarah J., b. Apr. 6, 1819; m. Joseph Pierce, Jr., 1839.
74 John Ellingwood, b. Jan. 17, 1822; d. 1851, see Cas.
*75 William Farnsworth, b. Nov. 11, 1824, q. v.
(*26) Samuel^ Lewis [Joseph, Jr., '^ Joseph^) m. Martha Thompson,
Bris., 1817. Lived where his son, Arthur M., afterward did. He died July
13, 1839; she died Oct. 23, 1865, a. 72. Children:
76 Martha, b. Oct. 7, 1824; m. Joshua McKown, q. v.
77 Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 1827; m. (1) Bailey Reed; (2) Silas Orne, q. v.
78 Arietta, b. Mar. 27, 1830; m. Samuel A. Fuller, q. v.
*79 Arthur M., b. June 1, 1832, q. v.
80 Samuel Wesley, b. June 4, 1834.
562 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
(*27) Joseph^ Lewis (Joseph, Jr., ^ Joseph^) m. Fanny Reed, 1822; lived
where his father did. He d. Mar. 20, 1876; she d. Apr. 28, 1862. Children:
I, Wilmot, b. Mar. 20, 1823; m. Mrs. Phebe (Pinkham) Sawyer. II, Esther,
b. Sept. 12, 1824; m. Giles Dunton. Ill, Mary ]., b. Nov. 3, 1826; m. Alex-
ander Adams; dec. IV, Thomas, b. Dec. 4, 1828; d. Nov. 12, 1862. V,
Margery, b. Feb. 19, 1830; m. Joseph Dodge. VI, Frances S., b. May 13,
1832; m. William Miller. VII, Nancy Adeline, m. Neal Wylie. VIII, War-
ren, b. Oct. 19, 1835; d. Dec. 10, 1861. IX, Caroline, b. May 13, 1840; unm.;
res. on homestead. X, Austin, b. Feb. 11, 1844; d. Dec. 29, 1861. XI, John
Orrett, b. Dec. 29, 1846; d. at sea, June, 1884, under suspicious circumstances,
a mutiny having occurred aboard the fruiting vessel of which he was master.
(*33) Stephen^ Lewis, Jr., [Stephe?i,^ Joseph^) m. Lois Tibbetts, 1814;
set. in Whitefield. Children: Alpheus, 1816; Jason, 1818; Frances, 1823.
(*36) Silas' Lewis (Stephen,- Joseph'^) m. Abigail Greenleaf, Edge.,
1819. He lived first on the Daniel Murphy farm, Back River, and then at
Dover on farm of the late Capt. J. H. Welsh, where he died, June 8, 1863;
she died Dec. 25, 1862, a. 62. Children:
81 Westbrook G., b. Aug. 29, 1822; m. (1) Eliza J., dau. of Daniel Sher-
man; (2) Mrs. Salama Love, 1883. He lived first where the late
Wesley Reed did and then moved to the Harbor, where he engaged in
trade, which he followed the rest of his life. In his earlier years he
was a sea captain. He d. Apr. 17, 1896; Eliza J., w., d. Dec. 21, 1880.
Chil.: I, Abby J., m. Capt. Benjamin E. Pinkham; II and III, Roscoe
and Nettie, d. in youth; IV, Lula, m. Walter T. Holton; V, Etta A.,
d. Sept. 9, 1898; VI, Eugene, merchant at B. H., unm.
82 Eliza A., b. July 7, 1826; m. Charles Carlisle, q. v.
83 Abigail, b. Jan 12, 1829; m. Isaac C. Sherman.
84 Mary E., b. Nov. 11, 1831; m. Robert W. Page, Bris., 1854.
85 Antoinette C, b. Sept. 7, 1837; m. Jacob G. Fuller, q. v.
86 Silas Stinson, b. Dec. 23, 1844; m. Carrie B. Dunton; she d. Dec. 10,
1894, a. 36-6.
(*37) Ephr.'VIm' Lewis (Stephen,'^ Joseph^) m. Rosanna Booker, 1822.
Lived on Back River. Children:
87 Leonard, b. Nov. 29, 1823; m. Mary L. Tibbetts.
88 Charles Henry, b. Mar. 9, 1826; m. Emmeline ; lived on Back
River. Children: I, Almond L., dec, see Cas.; II, Minnie M.; Ill,
Elton H., m. Eloise Swett, merchant. Sawyer's Island.
89 Catherine A., b. Aug. 29, 1828; m. John E. Gove, Edge., 1855.
90 Emilv J , b. Sept. 19, 1831; m. Charles Hufif, 1850.
91 Gabr'iella, b. Feb. 1, 1836; m. Ale.xander Boyd.
(*39) Allen' Lewis (Stephen,'^ Joseph^) m. (1) Lucy H. Bryer, 1831; she
d. May 24, 1840; (2) Emmeline, dau. of Thomas Hodgdon, 1841. He was
extensively engaged in the fisheries for many years. The "old Allen Lewis
place" was a well-known landmark for many years on the southern slope of
Pisgah, which was burned a few years ago. Southerly from his residence,
where now stands the Barrett cottage, he had his flake yard. Later he
moved to Atlantic St., where his heirs still live. He died Dec. 13, 1879.
Children: I, Josephine, b. July 24, 1843; d. 1848. II, George Allen, b. Sept.
28 1845- keeper of the Cuckolds light station. Ill, Emma P., b. July 28,
1849; d. Apr. 26, 1865. IV, Thomas H., b. Oct. 12, 1850; d. Apr. 28, 1850.
V, Ann Marv, b. July 16, 18.54; m. Henry A. Kennedy; dec. \T, Jennie S.,
b.'july 28, 1858; res. on homestead, unm. VII, Edward Scott, b. Oct. 8,
1860; set. at Livermore Falls; d. Dec. 11, 1895, leaving wife and ten chil.
(*42) Lemuel' Lewis, Jr., [Lemuel,^ Joseph^) m. Sarah P. Gray, New.,
1825 Lived on Back River. He d. Mar. 26, 1857; she d. Dec. 17, 1864, a.
25-8 Children: I, Wilmot, b. Sept. 26, 1826; m. (1) Mary Nelson; (2)
FAMILY HISTORT. 563
Mary McLain; see Chap. XVI. II, Clark L., b. Nov. 13, 182S; m. Mary
Baker; d. 1865; wid. m. (2) Samuel Wylie, 2d. Ill, Melissa A., b. June 22
1832; m. William Fish, Jeff.; d. 1861. IV, Agnes D., b. Oct. 11, 1834; m.'
Thomas Giles. V, Lucinda, b. June 2, 1839; m. Alonzo Pinkham. VI
Franklin, b. Dec. 12, 1841; set. in Gloucester, Mass.; d. Mar. 21, 1864. VIl'
Lorinda, b. Aug. 31, 1844; m. John Tibbetts.
(*43) GiLES^ Lewis (Lemuel,"^ Joseph^) m. Mina Pinkham, 1819; lived
for a few years on Barter's Island, then moved to Bristol, where they after-
ward lived. Their chil. were: Urial, Margery, Isaiah, Aurinda, Narcissa,
Jefferson F., Everett, Woodbury, Constant, Ambrose. Of this family Isaiah
came to B. H. abt. 1876, where he purchased the real estate from the W. O.
McCobb store to where the footbridge has since been built, including the
E. S. S. Co.'s landing. He engaged in the coal business, and a few years
later built Lewis Block and other buildings, which became among the most
valuable pieces of property in town. He m. Susan L. Wells; they had no
children; he d. Sept. 25, 1894. Jefferson F., another son of Giles, set. at B.
H. in 1883. He was a carpenter; m. Nancy J. Geyer, Bris. Their chil. were:
Ralph A., m. Nettie Pierce, agent of the E. S. S. Co. and dealer in coal;
Claude, unm., carpenter; Arthur G., express agent, m. Grace D., dau. of
Luther and Mai-y Maddocks.
(*49) WiLLARD^ Lewis (Lenmeir Joseph^) m. Belinda, dau. of John
Lewis, 1834. He followed the sea in early years and for a time engaged in
the fisheries, living where Camp Skowhegan stands, on Southport. Later
he rem. to B. H., conducting a retail ice business, which his sons have con-
tinued. He d. Aug. 7, 1898; she d. Apr. 13, 1900. Children: Frances Ellen
(dec), Eliza C, Harriet L. (dec), Calista, Wilfred, Merrill, Henrietta (dec),
Fred R., Bertha.
(*50) Miles-' Lewis {Lemuel;- Joseph^) m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Lewis,
1837. Lived on his father's homestead. He d. Apr. 20, 1894; she d. July
28, 1898. Children: I, George Beaman, m. Carrie Robin.son, of La.; res.
B. Ctr. II, Vandalia, m. Freeman Boynton; res. B. H. Ill, Mary A., m.
Frank Wadsworth; res. Back River. IV, Sidney G., m. (1) Fanny Foster,
(2) Nettie Huff, both dec; res. Back River. V, Miles S., set. on the Ken-
nebec VI, Manly R., dec. VII, Flora E., m. Alden Winslow; res. B. H.
VIII, Gardner N., m. Flora Pinkham; res. B. Ctr.
(*51) JoHN^ Lewis [John,"^ Joseph^) m. Fanny Pinkham, 1811. Lived on
Barter's Island. Children: Mina, Betsey, Thomas, Jacob, Rebecca, Esther,
Frederick, Seth, Bradford, Warren, Dexter W., Emily, Convers O., b. bet.
1811-36; most of this fam. have set. out of town.
(*52) Samuel^ Lewis (John,'^ Joseph^) m. Sarah Barter, 1813. Lived
where Oilman Lewis now lives on Barter's Is. He d. Sept. 30, 1882; she d.
Dec. 4, 1881. Children: Eleanor, Sarah, Emetine, Christopher, Mary E.,
George W., Au.stin, Sophy A., Oilman S., b. bet. 1814-35.
('56) Israel" Lewis (Joltn,^ Joseph'^) m. Elizabeth Matthews, 1825.
Lived on what is known as the Mudge place on Back River. He d. Apr. 27,
1855; shed. Dec 17. 1882. Children: I, Loring, b. Mar. 20, 1830; m. (1)
Sarah Stover; (2) Clara Murphv. II, Julia A., b. Mar. 21, 1832; m. Isaac
Hutchings. III. Marilla, b. June 26, 1834; m. Abner Hutchings. IV, Chris-
tiana, b.^May 23, 1836; m. James Hutchings. V, Elizabeth, b. Mar. 26, 1838;
m. John Hutchings. VI, Roswell C, b. Apr. 3, 1841; m. Abigail Matthews.
VII, Charles M., b. Jan. 23, 1851; m. Eliza J. Murphy.
(*65) D.wid' Lewis (Isaac,'^ Joseph^) m. Sarah A. McCobb, Jeff., 1833.
He lived on Back River, where John Matthews settled. He died Mar. 30,
1889; she died Dec. 11, 1895. Children: I, Martin V., b. May 28, 1834; d.
564 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
1847, see Cas. II, Ursula, b. Nov 20, 1835; m. Albert Nelson; res. South.;
d. Aug. 3, 1864. Ill, Alonzo, b. Sept. 10, 1837; m. Angeline Matthews; d.
1885, see Cas. IV, Benton, b. Aug. 5, 1840; d. 1863, see Cas. V, Albion,
b. Nov. 10, 1842; m. Eliza J. Tibbetts. VI, Olive E., b. Apr. 22, 1845; m.
Oremhall Greenleaf. VII, Casilda, b. Apr. 30, 1847; m. Hartley Tibbetts.
VIII, George Elvin, b. Oct. 4, 1849; m. (1) Addie Reed, (2) Hattie A. Lang.
IX. Laura M., b. Oct. 18, 1852; m. (1) Cushman Br>-er, (2) Augustus Rand,
South. X, Angelette N., b. Sept. 12, 1855; m. James E. Lewis. XI, Men-
zies B., b. Oct. 14, 1858; m. Cora Fenno, Boston.
Fourth Generation.
(*71) Ebenezkr* Lewis {John, 2d,^ Joseph, Jr."- Joseph^) m. Mary A.,
dau. of Benjamin R. and Charlotte Wylie. They lived at West B. H. He
d. Mar. 1, 1878; she d. June 14, 1903. Children: I, George F. II, Capt.
Eben T. Lewis; m. Cora R. McKown. 1885; res. at B. H. Ill, Charlotte A.
IV, Frederick L. V, Mabel. VI, Ella E.
(*75) VViLLi.wi Farnswouth'* Lewis {John, 2d,^ Joseph, Jr.,- Joseph^)
m. Philena Gray, South., 1847. Lived easterly from the head of Adams
Pond, near the old road to Wis. He was lost at sea in 1851. His wid. m.
(2) Loring Gray, Bris., who set. in B. They had three sons: I, Andrew
Parker, b. May 16, 1848; m. Myra F. Whitmore, Deer Isle, 1875; lived for
nearly 25 yrs. in the Provinces; now res. in Winthrop, prop, of the Winthrop
House and manager of the Portland Packing Co. !I, William Famsworth,
b. Aug. 10, 1850; res. in Mass. Ill, James E., b. Dec. 24, 1861; m. Ange-
lette N., dau. of David Lewis; res. in vicinity of Boston, engaged in wood
and coal trade.
(*79) Arthur M.^ Lewis (Samuel.^ Joseph, Jr..- Joseph^) m. Mary A.
Merry, 1858. Lived easterly from head of Adams Fond, near the old road.
Their chil., b. bet. 1859-79, are: Lincoln A., Hattie E., Lettie J., Edmund
N., Abbie, Clara, May.
LINEKIN.
1 Benjamin Linekin took up the neck of land southerly from E. B.,
which has ever since borne his name, before 1743. His wife's name was
Mary. He died Mar. 12, 1796; she died Mar. 4, 1807. His will appears in
Lincoln Prob. Rec, Vol. VII, 184-86. He was the first owner of the Neck
after the Dunbar settlement. It is thought that the Linekin fam. were from
Plymouth, or that vicinity, and were related to the Farnham fam. before
coming here. He probably set. where the Bicknell cottage stands, for his
son David, who succeeded him, lived on that spot. Joseph and Clark Line-
kin, supposed to be younger brothers to Benjamin, came to the Neck later,
lived for a time and then moved elsewhere. It is said that Clark went to
Green's Landing, Deer Isle, and Joseph probably went to Cushing, founding
the fam. of that name in that locality. Children;
2 Abigail, b. Mar. 9, 1743; m. Johnson.
3 Elizabeth, b. Dec. 5. 1745; m. Sawyer.
4 Susanna, b. Jan. 2, 1749; m. Zebedee Linekin.
5 Sally, b. Oct. 4, 1752; m. Samuel Alley, 1774.
6 Benjamin, Jr., b. Dec. 22, 1754.
7 John, b. Jan. 18, 1755.
8 Phebe, b. Sept. 1, 1758; m. William Wheeler, 1776.
9 Lvdia, b. Aug. 1, 1761; m. Joseph Langdon.
10 David, b. Apr. 22, 1703; m. Elinor Farnham, 1787.
*11 Ephraim, b. Mar. 27, 1760, q. v.
FAMILY HISTORY. 565
12 Patty, b. Feb. 25, 1768; m. Jacob Sawyer.
13 James, b. June 24, 1769.
14 Lucy, b. Mar. 9, 1771; m. Ezekiel Holbrook, q. v.
15 John H., b. Apr. 4, 1772
Joseph and Elizabeth Linekin reared their fam. here and then rem. to
Gushing. Children: I, Joseph, Jr., b. May 5, 1760; m. Jane Brewer, 1788.
II, Jenny, b. June 16, 1763. Ill, Elizabeth, b. July 10, 1705. IV, Walter, b.
Mar. 13, 1767; m. Rhoda Grover, 1808; lived where Edward Vanhom does.
V, Rachel, b. Nov. 1, 1768. VI, Patty, b. May 1, 1770; m. Ebenezer Sawyer.
Clark and Sarah Linekin lived for several years on Linekin Neck and
he was a prominent citizen during the period. They had but one child rec.
in town, Clark, Jr., b. May 9, 1764. It was probably several years later than
this before they moved to Deer Isle.
Second Generation.
(*11) Ephraim- Linekin {Benjamin^) m. Nancy . They owned the
land below the north line of the Holbrook est., including where the present
Ephraim Linekin lives. He d. Feb. 18, 1847; she d. Feb. 11, 1832. Chil.:
*16 John, b. June 9, 1798, q. v.
17 Clarissa, b. July 6, 1799.
*18 James, b. May 29, 1801, q. v.
19 Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1803; m. John Race, q. v.
20 Jane, b. June 9, 1806.
21 Alexander, b. Oct. 20, 1811; d. Jan. 12, 1854.
22 Caroline, b. Feb. 27, 1814; m. Thomas Babb.
23 Martha, b. Nov. 12, 1815; m. James A. Pratt.
Third Generation.
(*16) JoHN^ Linekin (Ephraim;^ Benjamin^) ni. Nancy Hall, St. George,
1825. He died May 11, 1843. Children: Ale.xander, 1826; Eliza H., 1827;
Lenora, 1829; Archibald, 1831; Jefferson, 1833; Orrington, 1834; Everett,
183G; Orlando, 18:39; Allen, 1841. He died Sept. 19, 1881. Of this fam.
Everett m. Mary E. Swett and set. on Sawyer's Island. Their chil. were:
Annie L., Josephine, Herbert A , Bervere, John H., Vesta M., Freeman O.,
Edward E., Archibald.
(*18) James' Linekin {Ephraim;^ Benjamin^) m. (1) Ruth Robinson,
1825; (2) Abigail Pratt, Llnion, 1832. He was a sea captain and lived where
his son Ephraim does. He died Apr. 23, 1874. Children:
24 James O., b. July 15, 1833; d. 1851, see Cas.
26 Eveline P., b. May 2, 1835; m. William W. Seavey.
26 Ketura, b. Feb. 9, 1837; m. James McDougall, q. v.
27 Ephraim, b. Feb. 4, 1839; m. Emma Litchfield, Bath, 1871; res. on the
old homestead; owner of the Ledge Lawn House; has been engaged
in general trade; chil.; James, William, Frank, Goldwin, George Win-
fiefd, Lucy \i.
28 Aldana, b. Jan. 3, 1841; m. (1) Rufus Blake, (2) William M. Sawyer.
29 Melinda A., b. July 3, 1846.
30 Mary Emma, b. Jan. 27, 1853; m. Truman Giles, q. v.
LOVE.
1 John Love, thought to have come from England, was the original
566 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
member of this fam. in America. He set. at Cape Newagen, where he m.
Lydia Straw in 1793. She died Feb. 13, 1836. Children:
*2 George, b. Jan. 16, 1794, q. v.
*3 John, Jr., b. July 19, 1796, q. v.
4 Samuel, b. May 10, 1800.
5 Lydia, b. Mar. 5, 1803; m. Obed Harris.
6 Mary, b. July 19, 1806; m. William Farnham.
7 Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1816; m. Baker Pierce.
8 Susanna, b. Nov. 6, 1819.
Second Generation.
(*2) George- Love (John^) m. Martha Reed. He lived on South, and
followed the fishery business. Children:
*9 George, Jr., b. Sept. 10, 1818, q. v.
10 Martha J., b. Aug. 13, 1820; m. William Gray, q. v.
11 Harriet.
12 Isabella.
*13 Gilbert.
(*3) John'' Love, Jr., (John^) m. Susanna, dau. of James and Margaret
Brewer, 1819. They lived at B. H., where Luther Maddocks now lives. He
was engaged in the fisheries. He d. Jan. 17, 1865; shed. July 29, 1863. Chil.:
14 Charles F., b. Dec 9, 1819.
15 Elbridge, b. Aug. 29, 1821; m. (1) Jane Durant, 1845; (2) Salina Brewer,
1852. He was a sea captain; lived at B. H., his house standing upon a
part of the field which was used as a training field as early as the Rev.
period. Hed. Jan. 12, 1882; Jane, w.,d. July 29, 1851. Chil.: Charles
G., b. Aug. 20, 1847, d. Aug. 29, 1867; William G., b. Aug. 30, 1849.
16 Margaret, b. Sept. 1, 1823; m. Ferdinand Brewer.
17 James, b. Dec. 9, 1825; m. Mary A. Poor.
18 Augustus, b. Oct. 11, 1831; m. Lydia A. Brewer.
19 Martha S., b. Mar. 30, 1836.
20 Angelet, b. Oct. 31, 1838; m. John F. Sargent.
Third Generation.
(*9) George^ Love, Jr., (George,'^ John^) m. Catherine Harris, 1838.
She died May 5, 1898, a. 80. They lived on South. Children: I, Almira
Harris, b. Apr. 14, 1843; II, Mary Ellen, b. Oct. 30, 1844; III, Martha, b.
Mar. 14, 1848; IV, James Coolen, b. July 24, 1859.
(*13) Gilbert^ Love {George,^ John^) m. Octavia, dau. of Freeman
Grover. They lived at West South. He followed the sea, is now dec;
wid. res. on homestead. Children: I, Millard Gilbert, b. Oct. 17, 1858; II,
Ansilla, b. Oct. 15, 1860; III, Merton Wilbur, b. Sept. 21, 1863; IV, Wood-
bury Grover, b. May 15, 1868; V, Tavia Don, b. May 28, 1870; VI, Wesley
Charles, b. Nov. 28, 1874.
LOW.
Capt. Oilman A. Low was b. Aug. 8, 1839, at Low's Point, near Riggs-
ville, in Georgetown. He was the youngest of ten children of Francis Low,
who was b. in Esse-x, Mass., Mar. 4, 1787, and Elizabeth, his wife, who was
Elizabeth Burnham, Edge., b. Apr. 18, 1795. He commenced sailboat trans-
portation of passengers between Bath and Boothbay Harbor in 1863-64, the
FAMILY HISTORY. 567
latter year purchasing and sailing one of the best boats in the waters he nav-
igated. The patronage received then gave promise of the future possibilities
and through his influence a company was formed and a steamer built as told
on pp. 420-21. He m. (1) Margery, dau. of Nahum Baker and wid. of his
brother, Francis Low, all of Georgetown; (2) Clara E., dau. of Samuel T.
Wylie. Their home is on Oak St., B. H., in the house built and formerly
owned by Capt. Samuel Miller Reed. Capt. Low, with scarcely an intermis-
sion from duty, took charge of the principal boat on the line for about 35
years, during which time no accident of consequence occurred. Since about
1900 he has retired from the service.
LUNDY.
Ebenezer and Eady Lundy, who lived at Cape Newagen, had the oldest
fam. of that name recorded in B., though there are indications of older mem-
bers in the earlier records, but not connected. He d. Jan., 1834. Children:
Thomas, 1819; Lydia, 1820; Ann, 1822; Esther, 1824; Ebenezer, Jr., 1826;
Willard, 1827.
MACAULAY.
Joseph Macaulay came to Boothbay from Prince Edward's Island in
1851. He married Octavia, dau. of Benjamin Pinkham, and settled on Bar-
ter's Island, where they now live. He has followed a seafaring life. Chil. :
I, Ida E., m. Fremont Kimball; II, Millard F., m. Alvoney, dau. of Leroy
Kimball; III, John, m. Ellera, dau. of Theodore Roberts, is now living in
Rangeley; IV, EUery D., unm.; V, Fred M., m. Fannie Hall, of B. H.
McCLINTOCK.
1 William McClintock, b. 1730, m. Margaret, dau. of William Fuller-
ton, 1773, who was b. in 1741. He lived in Bris. when married. There are
two traditions regarding his ancestry: one, that he was the son of Samuel
McClintock and came to America with his parents when a mere infant; the
other, that he was son of William McClintock, who came to Medford, Mass.,
from Ireland in 1718. In both cases the ancestry is said to be Scotch-Irish
from the north of Ireland. William and Samuel have both been family
names in our records, and undoubtedly he was as a child, with his parents,
in Bris. It is not unlikely that the immigrant, William, had a son Samuel,
who was father of William of Bris., and coming there at an early age from
Mass. gave rise to that part of the story. There would be no inconsistency
as to dates in this view. He died June 3, 1779. His wid. m. (2) Deacon
William Burns. She died Apr. 17, 1822. Children:
2 Samuel, b. 1774; set. in Boothbay and then rem. elsewhere; trace lost.
*3 John, b. Apr. 20, 1776, q. v.
4 William, b. Oct., 1778; m. (1) Fanny Young, 1800; (2) Betsey Plummer,
1829. He was a land surveyor, lived in Bris. and held many public
positions in town, among which was that of delegate to the Portland
Convention of 1819 for framing a State Constitution. They had a fam.
of seven chil. His son, William, Jr., succeeded on the homestead,
dying there in 1899, a. 80. The homestead is now owned by Robert
A. Sproul, who married an adopted daughter.
568 HISTORY OF BOO'fHBAT.
Second Generation.
(*3) JoHN^ McCi.iNTocK ( William^) m. Catherine Burns, Bris. He set.
at Dover, where Charles H. Rush has hved in recent years. They had a
fam. of sixteen chil., eight of each sex. Of these, four daus. were blondes
and four brunettes; and the sons were likewise divided, four light and four
dark. He was a surveyor and held several town offices, see Chap. XVI.
His wife died May 26, 1822, a. 43. He married (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Bowles.
He died June 20, 1861. Children:
5 Elizabeth, b. Mar. 11, 1797; m. John Carlton, Woolwich.
6 Margaret, b. Sept. 8, 179S; m. John Carlton, Woolwich; his 2d marriage.
7 Jane, b. Nov. 30, 1799; m. Jason Fuller, q. v.
8 William, b. Nov. 1, 1801; m. Martha J. Dodge; d. Sept. 23, 1847; chil.:
I, Melissa, b. Aug. 17, 18:58; d. in inf. II, Jane P., b. Aug. 9, 1841;
m. Hartley Averill, Alna. Ill, Catherine, b. Apr. 5, 1836; m. Walter
Hall, Wis.
9 Frances, b. Jan. 30, 1803; m. Spencer Greenleaf.
10 Mary, b. Oct. 16, 1804; m. Robert Reed, Woolwich.
*11 Samuel, b. June 24. 1806, q. v.
*12 John, b. June 24, 180G, q. v.
*13 Waterman T., b. July 2, 1808, q. v.
14 Martha, b. Oct. 10, 1809; m. Elbridge Webber, New.
15 Leonard, b. Oct. 21. 1810; unm. ; d. at Natchez, Sept. 20, 1840.
16 Jason, b Feb. 21, 1812; he was killed by a shark at Mobile; unm.
17 Catherine, b. Aug 22, 1813; m. Samuel Fullerton.
18 Franklin, b. Sept. 27, 1814; m. Sarah Webber; set. in New.
19 Ruth W., b. Apr. 12, 1817; m. William B. Foster, New York.
20 Joseph, b. July 17, 1821; m. in Oakland, Calif.; set. there.
Third Generation.
(*n) Samuel' McClintock (John,'^ William^) m. Caroline Auld, Jan.,
1831. He built the house on Atlantic St. where the late Allen Lewis lived;
he was a " fortj'-niner " to the gold fields of Calif., but ret. to B., where he
died, Jan. 28, 1864; she died July 1, 1875. Children:
21 Sarah E., b. May 26, 1832; m. Thaddeus Perkins, Boston.
22 Ora Caroline, b. Jan. 14, 1836; m. George Newbegin.
23 Josephine, b Nov 3, 1837; m. Edward Stacy, Wis.
24 Leonard S., b. Jan. 31, 1840; m. (1) Mary Bennett; she d. Oct. 14, 1872,
a. 28; (2) Helen Joy, Windsor; (3) EllaS., dau. of Joseph and Cather-
ine McKown and wid. of Sandford Greenleaf, 1883. George L. McClin-
tock is son of the last marriage. Capt. Len McClintock, as he was
familiarly called, was an expert and successful seaman, and noted for
his daring qualities wherever he was known, and his acquaintance was
large in many of the Atlantic ports. His adventures were many, but
perhaps the most sensational, the one which drew comment from many
of our leading newspapers, occurred at Ponce, Porto Riro, Nov. 27,
1876 Capt. McClintock had entered that port a few days before with
a general cargo. His manifest contained an error in weigln but not in
number of pieces, so that it was immaterial, though technical He was
hurried before a magistrate by the Spanish authorities, ravenous for
their plunder, for they received one-half of the fines imposed. The
vessel was fined $4,000, but was left in charge of the Captain and his
crew. A gimboat, v.-ith fires banked, lay at the mouth of the harbor
on guard Capt. McClintock begged time before confiscation to confer
with the American owners, though he was, unknown to his persecutors,
a principal owner. Meantime he sounded out a passage through a
dangerous reef that bounded one side of the harbor, always deemed
impassable. He did this, unobserved, from a dory. Much of the time
he was lying there he spent on shore, playing billiards and otherwise
FAMILY HISTORY. 569
sporting with the officials, entirely indifferent in appearance to his con-
dition He became very popular with them. Every night his crew
threw up the anchor one pawl of the capstan, heaving the anchor short
without suspicion. Finally a suitable breeze sprang up. The Captain
was ashore with the officials, calm as a rock, while they were e.xcited
over tlie betting at the game. He had earlier in the day obtained per-
mission to spread his .sails to dry them. Suddenly, at 11.30 A. M , he
left his companions ashore, went aboard, weighed anchor, spread every
yard of canvas and sailed straight for the reef. The officials, both
ashore and on the gunboat, were dumb with surprise, for they saw only
a wreck ahead for him; but he went through where he had sounded
without a scratch and it gave him four miles lead of the war vessel, for
they had to round the reef, besides it took time to get their fires going.
He passed directly under the guns of the fort, but on account of other
shipping lying in range not a shot was fired. Before nightfall he was
out of their sight. They guarded the Mona passage for some time
without result, for he sailed to the south of San Domingo, exactly oppo-
site to the calculations of his pursuers. In due time he reached N. Y,,
took out new papers, and changed the name of his schooner, the Bara-
coa, to that of Eunice I\fcKozcm, named for the daughter of one of the
owners. Capt Cyrus McKown. The two men in his crew upon whom
he mostly relied in this dangerous exploit were Benjamin Kenney and
John P. Perkins, both of Boothbav Harbor. His home was corner of
Townsend Ave. and McClintock St. He died Jan 27, 1890.
Albert B.. b. Mar. 7, 1842: d 1862.
Edmund Wilson, b. Mar. 4, 1847; lives in Wakefield, Mass.
(*12') John" McClintock (John,'^ WiUiam^) m. Sarah D. B. Clark, Bos-
ton, 1839. He commenced where the Baldwin Fish Co. is located in a
small shoe shop The land immediately about him was a veritable alder
swamp. Later he added some merchandise and soon engaged in bank fish-
ing, see Chap. XXI. His rise in business was rapid. He acquired a good
property and made many improvements upon his holdings. He was one of
the most broadly known men who has lived in the town and is still vividly
remembered by the old fishermen along the Maine coast. Col. John McClin-
tock, for by that title he was known, having been commissioned by Gov.
Dunlap, Sept. 3, 1836, after an active and extensive business life, died Feb.
21, 1874; his wife died May 80, 1880, a. 69-11. Children:
27 Capt. Edgar, b. Oct. 14, 1840; d. June 12, 1897.
28 Catherine S., b. Feb 24, 1842; unm ; res. on the old homestead.
29 John Howard, b. lune 30, 1S43; m. Sarah E. Murray; lived at B. H.;
coasting captain; d Aug 31, 1906.
30 Isabel, b. Mav 13, 184.5; d. Apr. 9, 1848.
31 Zerada R., b. Sept. 8, 1846; d. Sept 26, 1848.
32 Charles Henry, b. Mav 7, 1849; d. Nov. 13, 1901.
33 William Grace, b. Mar. 7, 18.il; res. on his father's homestead.
34 George Porter, b. Apr. 2, 1853; d. Jan. 17, 1882.
(*13) Waterman T.^ McClintock (Jokn,^ William'^) m. Hannah N.
Peasley, Whitefield. Lived at Dover. She died July 27, 1888. Children: I,
Benjamin, b. Aug. 4, 1839; d. 1860, see Cas. II, Elizabeth P., b. May 4,
1842; d. 1869. HI, Nancy J., b. Mar. 31, 1844; d. 1868. IV, Jason, b. Dec.
24, 1845; d. 1863, see Cas. V, Phebe P., b. Jan. 15, 1848; d. Dec. 8, 1862.
VI, Abby A., b. Nov. 9, 1849; d. Jan. 27, 1852. VII, Margaret C, b. Nov.
9, 1851; d. Dec. 20, 1869.
570 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
McCOBB.
1 Samuel McCobb founded the family of that name in B. He was the
leader of the Scotch-Irish settlers to Townsend, under Col. Dunbar. All old
records refer to him as such, yet he held no sub-grant of territory, but in this
respect fared as the others did. His deposition is, in its concise wording, a
history in itself of the settlement here and has been quoted from oftener than
any other document extant relating to this locality. His family in both male
and female descent has been one of sterling worth to the community, many
of whom have lived long and valuable lives on Boothbay soil. Bom in Ire-
land in 1707, he came as a young man of 23 years, the trusted lieutenant of
Col. Dunbar in managing the planting of the Townsend colony. He m. abt.
1738-39 and the Christian name of his wife was Mary. Farther we are unin-
formed, but she was probably of some of the Townsend or Pemaquid fami-
lies. They set. where the Weymouth House stands and their house, which
first was a log one, was followed by a framed structure, called the "long
house," and ran abt. parallel with the southerly end of that building. A
slight depression in the soil still shows the spot. He died Feb. 8, 1791; she
died Dec. 25, 1801, a. 81. Children;
*2 William, b. 1740, q. v.
*3 John, b. 1744, q. v.
*4 James, b. abt. 1746, q. v.
5 Jean, b. abt 1748; m. (1) John FuUerton, 1769; lived at St. George;
(2) James Carven, set. in Buniham.
6 Frances, b. 1750; m. James Auld, q. v.
7 Mary, b. 1753; m John Auld, q. v.
*8 Samuel, Jr., b. May 23, 1755, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) William' McCobb (Samuel^). He left no family record upon the
town books and search has failed to find a private one. No publishment
appears, but he probably married before town incorporation. His wife's
name was Rachel and her gravestone shows her to have been born in 1732,
or eight years his senior. Whoever reads the history of our locality from
1760 to 1816 will learn how prominent a citizen he was, and Chap. XVI will
show the positions of trust bestowed upon him by his townsmen. No man
has lived in B. who has held so many and varied positions as he. He died
Nov. 29, 1815; she died Jan. 11, 1816. They lived where his father set.
They had but one child, Betsey, b. 1764, m. Samuel Bryer, Jr., q. v.
(*3) JoHN= McCoBB (Samuel'^) m. Mary, dau. of John and Margaret
Beath, 1775. He settled where Willard H. McCobb lives, on property pur-
chased of William Moore. He was an early merchant in town. He died
June 12, 1831; she died Nov. 29, 1832. Children:
9 Mar)-, b. Mar. 17, 1776; m. Sproul, Bris.
10 Jane, b. Feb. 24, 1777; m. Robert Montgomery, q. v.
*11 John, Jr., b. Jan. 3, 1778, q. v.
12 William, b. Sept. 11, 1779; m. Clark, Bris.; s. p.
*13 Joseph, b. Dec. 28, 1780, q. v.
14 Elizabeth, b. Mar. 20, 1783; m. Edmund Wilson, q. v.
15 Samuel, b. Sept. 20, 1784; d. Aug 27, 1805; unm.
16 Parker, b. Dec 25, 1785; d. Feb. 14, 1796.
*17 Paul, b. Jan. 31, 1790, q. v.
(*4) James- McCobb (Sanme/^) m. Sarah Allen, Georgetown, 1777.
FAMILY HISTORY. 571
This fam. was not regularly recorded. He built the old Allen Lewis house
and is thought to have sold to Grover, who lived there during the War of
1812. He was living on "Harbour Island " in 1818, which is the island south
of McFarland's Pt. With the loss of his son that year the male line in this
branch became e.xtinct. Dates of death of the parents have not been found.
Children: I, William, d. Apr. 4, 1818, unm.; II, Susan, m. Samuel Clifford,
Edge.; Ill, Mary, m. William Bragg, 1812; IV, Margaret, m. John Clark,
Bris., 1815.
(*8) Samuel^ McCobb, Jr., [Samuel'^) m. Sarah, dau. of Andrew and
Elizabeth McFarland, 1784. They took up the place and built where Charles
Larrabee now lives. A log house preceded the present one, which, in part,
is said to have been built in 1805, and for some years it was run as a hotel.
He died May 6, 1832; she died Aug. 26, 1837. Children:
18 Sally, b. June 3, 1785; m. Samuel Adams, Jr., q. v.
19 Andrew, b. Dec 28, 1786; set. in Jeff.; m. Elizabeth Bryer; two chil.;
d. Feb. 1, 1855.
20 Samuel, Jr., b. Apr. 4, 1789; drowned off Tobago from brig Nancy,
Aug. 12, 1810.
*21 William, b. Mar. 20, 1791, q. v.
*22 Ephraim, b. Jan. 4, 1793, q. v.
23 John, b. July 11, 1797; d. abt. May 22, 1820, see Cas.
Third Generation.
(*11) JOHN^ McCoBB, Jr., (John," Samuel'^) rn. Mary Huff, Edge., 1802.
His grandfather Beath gave him a farm including the hill on the west of
Campbell's Cove, where he set. He followed farming, going to sea but little.
He died June 21, 1862; she died Apr. 4, 1850, a. 65. They had ten chil., of
whom Irene, b. 1805; Nancy, b. 1807; Mar>', b. 1809; Elizabeth, b. 1813;
Miles H., b. 1826, either d. young or have no record besides birth. The
others were:
*24 Samuel, b. May 12, 1811, q. v.
25 Jane, b. Mar. 2, 1816; m. Jonathan Hutchings, q. v.
26 Margaret, b. Mar. 10, 1818; m. Elbridge Hodgdon, q. v.
27 Daniel H., b. 1820; m. Elizabeth Matthews, 1847.
28 Aurinda, b. 1822; m. Arthur Matthews.
(*13) Joseph" McCobb (Joliti,'^ Samuel^) m. Margaret, dau. of James
and Frances Auld, 1807. He was a leading business man, being associated
with Col. Jacob Auld, as McCobb & Auld, most of his life. Together they
built and lived in the brick house on the Avenue, so long and still a famous
landmark in the town. He died Jan. 17, 1825; she died in Millersburg, Iowa,
Dec. 9, 1857. Children:
*29 Joseph, b. Oct. 3, 1808, q. v.
30 William, b. May 6, 1810; d. in New Orleans, 1831.
31 Margaret, b. Jan, 22, 1812; m. Otis Kennedy.
*32 Arthur, b. Sept. 28, 1813, q. v.
*33 Leonard, b. Jan. 12, 1817, q. v.
34 Isaac Weston, b. July 2, 1818; d. 1821.
35 Cyrus, b Sept. 30, 1820; d. 1823.
36 Martha E., b. Nov. 4, 1822; m. and set. in Iowa.
37 Charles H., b. Feb. 2, 1825; d. in Memphis, Tenn., Apr. 19, 1863.
{*17) Paul" McCobb {John,"^ Samuel^) m. Jane, dau. of James and
Frances Auld, 1812. They lived on the homestead of his father. He died
July 31, 1852; she died June 6, 1864. Children:
572 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
38 Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1S13; m Daniel Auld, q. v.
39 John, b. Apr. 9, 1S16; d. Apr. 10, 1842, see Cas.
40 Fanny, b. Oct. 27, 1815; m. Edwin Auld, q. v.
*41 James A., b. July 19, 1817, q. v.
42 Sarah, b. Mar. 20, 1824; m. Thomas Matthews, 1844.
43 Eliza, b. Feb. 25, 1826; m. John Helton, q. v.
44 Armitage G., b. Oct. 24, 1831; d. June 17, 1863, on the march to Get-
tysburg.
45 William P., b. July 31, 1833: m. Fanny, dau. of Charles and Sarah
Corey; set. in Dorche.ster, Mass.
Two chil., Rachel and Nancy, d. in infancy.
(»21) William^ McCobb {Samuel, Jr.;^ Samuel'^) m. Mary Michael.
He was a blacksmith, living on his father's homestead. He died Apr. 18,
1879; she died Aug. 2, 1878, a. 87-6. Children:
46 Susan M., b. Oct. 20, 1812; m. Simon Dodge, Edge.
47 John W., b. 1S20; d. 1824.
48 George, b. Dec. 2. 1824; d. Apr. 1, 1849, see Cas.
49 Abigail, b. Apr. 6, 1827; m. William C. Larrabee, Bath, q. v.
50 Amanda E., b. July 19, 1829; m. George W. Dolloff, q. v.
51 William F., b. Nov. 3, 1881; d. Apr. 1, 1849, see Cas.
(*22) Ephraim^ McCobb (Samue/, Jr.,- Samuel'^) m. (1) Elizabeth, dau.
of Samuel, Jr., and Mary Adams, 1814; (2) Sarah Thompson, 1823; (3) Eliz-
abeth M. McFarland, 1828. Children: I, Sarah J., b. Oct. 1, 1815. II,
Elizabeth, b. July 18, 1817; m. Andrew Lewis, 1834. Ill, Samuel, b. Apr.
25, 1819; d. 1825. IV, William, b. Nov. 2, 1821. V, Thompson, b. Jan. 25,
1824. VI, John, b. Aug. 2, 1827. VII, Ephraim C, b. Nov. 17, 1831.
Fourth Generation.
(*24) Samuel* McCobb (John, Jr., ^ John,''- Samuel'^) m. Margerj-, dau.
of William S. and Susan Bryer, 1843. They lived on the father's homestead,
on the hill west from Campbell's Cove. He died Dec. 17, 1886. Children:
I, Azula E., b. July 12, 1845; d. Apr. 1, 1870. II, Anna G., b. Sept. 19, 1847;
m. Miles H. Trask, 1879. Ill, Clement, b. July 30, 1849; m. and res. at B.
Ctr. ; follows farming, stone work and moving buildings. IV, Clara E. G.,
b. June 27, 1852; d. 1870; unm. V, Maria H., b. Sept. 2, 1856; d. 1873; unm.
VI, Isabel C, b. May 27, 1862; m. Charles E. Enine, Dam., now Bath, 1892.
(*29) Joseph* McCobb (Joseph,^ John;^ Samuel'^) m. Martha Wilson,
Portland; set. in Boston. Children: I, William C, b. Dec. 24, 1831. II,
Charlotte, b. Nov. 7, 1833. Ill, Alexander R., b. May 25, 1836. IV, Joseph
L., b. Feb. 7, 1839.
(*32) Arthur* McCobb (Joseph,^ John,- Samuel'^) m. Elizabeth, dau. of
Dr. Charles Fisher. He traded in the old red store where McCobb & Auld
did. She died Feb. 14, 1840, a. 23. He died abt. that time, e.xact date not
found. They had two sons: I, Charles Sullivan, b. Feb. 20, 1837; d. at
Gettysburg, July 4, 1863, see p. 404. II, Abial Henry, b. Mar. 10, 1839; d.
in \'allejo, Calif., Nov. 10, 1883. He was a benefactor to the Second Cong.
Church, in which a memorial slab was erected to him.
(*33) Leonard* McCobb [Joseph,^ John,^ Samuel^) m. Serena Ken-
nedy, Jeff., where they lived until abt. 1845, when they ret. to B. H., living
here afterward. He was engaged in trade, first in the old red store, where
FAMILY HISTORY. 573
his father traded, and then built, abt. 1850, cor. of Oak St. and Townsend
Ave., where the building was superseded by the Townsend Block, com-
menced in 1905. He died Feb. 20, 1889; she died Jan. 21, 1891. Children:
62 Orra E., b. Jan. 4, 1838; m. Samuel M. Dodge, Edge., 1857; d. Mar. 9,
1889; s. p.
63 William Otis, b. Mar. 27, 1840; m. (1) Lovisa Baldwin, New Bedford,
Mass., 1875; (2) Ellen Baldwin, sister to first, 1878. He is a merchant at
B. H., occupying the old store of his ancestors in another location; s. p.
54 Joseph L., b. Dec 6, 1843; m. Mattie E. Stetson, 1881. He is a dry
goods merchant at B. H.; two chil., Annie and Lombard.
55 Charles H., b. Feb. 6, 1852; m. Mary E. Campbell, 1877; formerly a
merchant at B. H., succeeding his father; s. p.
Twin sons of Leonard and Serena d. in infancy.
(*41) James A.* McCobb {Paul, ^ John,"^ Samuel'^) m. Martha J., dau. of
Israel and Jane Holton, 1843. They lived on his father's homestead. He
d. Mar. 3, 1895; she d. Mar. 22, 1877. Children: L Eliza J., b. July 11, 1846;
unm. II, Clara F., b. May 8, 1850; m. Herbert Decker. Ill, Willard H.,
b. Sept. 8, 1852; m. Bertha Miller, 1882; res. on homestead of his father and
conducts a dairy farm; chil.: Arthur (see Chap. XXIII), Florence and
Beatrice. IV, Laura E., b. Oct. 4, 1854; m. Charles Pierce, South.; res. at
B. H.; chil.: Clara and Edith.
Mc DOUG ALL.
1 James McDougall came to E. B. from Pictou, N. S., in 1832. He was
a widower with ten children. He m. Rachel, dau. of Samuel, Jr., and Bet-
sey Bryer, in 1835. He lived easterly from the residence of the late William
E. Reed. He died Sept. 17, 1865; she died Mar. 26, 1891, a. 92. Children:
2 Grace, b. 1805; m. Joseph Beck.
3 Catherine, unm.
4 Margaret, b. 1810; unm.
5 Charles, b. May, 1813; m. Mary Sherman, 1842; lived in E. B.; he d.
Jan. 8, 1873; she d. Jan. 19, 1849; chil.: Charles S., Eleazer and Mary
A., none of whom live in Maine.
6 John, b. Oct., 1816; m. Mary Adams, 1838. They lived where John E.
Kelley does. He was a prominent business man in his day, succeeding
the Adams Bros, at No. B. in shipbuilding, afterward moving his busi-
ness to E. B , see Chap. XIX. He d. Feb. 7, 1863; she d. Nov. 21, 1894.
Theyhadonedau.,Cordelia, b. Jan. 5, 1840, m. John E. Kelley, 1864, q. v.
7 William, b. Oct. 11, 1820; m. Amora , New Orleans. He was a
ship carpenter and res. at West B. H. He d. Sept. 3, 1898. Children:
Margaretta A., m. Capt. John H. Pinkham, d. July 9, 1885, a. 35;
William Henry, Julia, Delia, John E. ; two chil.. May E. and James, d.
in youth.
*8 Simon, b. Mar. 15, 1824, q. v.
*9 James, q. v.
10 Nancy, b. June, 1828; m. James Race, 1847; d. Apr. 25, 1852.
11 Christy Belle, unm.
12 Mary Elizabeth, b. Oct. 16, 1836; m. Paul P. Adams, q. v.
13 Rachel, b. Feb. 3, 1838; unm.
14 Samuel, b. Feb. 10, 1840; d. May, 1869, see Cas.
Second Generation.
(*8) SiMON^ McDougall (James^) m. Sarah, dau. of John and Mary
Race, 1844; she died June 9, 1903. They first lived at Linekin, but at E. B.
574 HI6TORT OF BOOTHBAY.
after 1863. He was engaged in the fishing business until that date, when he
went into trade, in which he still continues. His son, Hiram W., was part-
ner for some years after 1881, see Chap. XIX. He has been an active man
in town affairs and a leading member of the Methodist Church in his village.
Always a Republican with strong prohibition tendencies. Children:
15 James, b. Feb. 4, 1845; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Benaiah and Clarissa
DoUoff; res. in Dorchester, Mass.; two chil.
16 Mary O., b. Nov. 14, 1847; unm.; res. at E. B. with her father.
17 John R., b. Nov. 4, 1849; m. Nancy J., dau. of Rufus and Margaret
Murray, Dec. 25, 1871; she d. Apr. 27, 1903. He commenced going to
the Banks at 14, fishing from a dory, which he followed for six years.
At 20 he opened a store at E. B. and has since continued in trade.
Lyman M., his son, was taken into partnership in 1896, the firm being
styled the J. R. McDougall Co. Since the early daj-s of the Ocean
Point summer colony Mr. McDougall had ran a team there daily in the
season. In 1896 a store was built there by the firm, which each season
since has carried a full line of groceries, provisions and sundries. See
Chapters XVI, XIX and XX for official and society positions held and
business data. Additional to facts there shown, he has been President
of the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. since 1898, and for two years Dist. Dep.
Grand Master of Tenth Masonic Dist. of Me. ; also member of the Re-
publican Town Com. of B. since 1886, and of the Rep. Co. Com. for
Lincoln since 1900. Children; I, Lyman M., m. Mary B. Hatch, 1901;
partner with his father at E. B. II, Edith B., m. James T. Stormont,
Chelsea, Mass.; three chil.; Grace, Robert and Donald. Ill, Emily
G., m. Dean Emery, New Rochelle, N. Y., an attorney at law, I\Iay 19,
1904. IV, Blanch S.
18 Frank H., b. Oct. 9, 1851; m. Mrs. Martha A. Reed, Gloucester, Mass.,
1886; res. at B. H.; photographer; one dau., Susie.
19 Hiram W., b. Sept. 21, 1858; m. Clara E. Weymouth; res. at B. H.;
engaged in clothing trade; three sons, Simon, Lawrence and Richard.
20 Sadie G., b. July 8, 1866; m. Osgood N. X'annah, Linekin.
(*9) James- McDougall (James^) m. Ketura, dau. of James Linekin.
He was formerly engaged in trade and shipbuilding, see Chap. XIX. They
now conduct a summer boarding house at E. B. Children: I, Albra O.,
b. Sept. 30, 1854; m. Alwild Palmer, Bris., 1883; one child, Audrey A.;
merchant at E. B. since 1876, see Chap. XIX. II, Walter, b. May 12, 1861;
m. Sophia, dau. of Simon Farnham; res. at Murray Hill, prop, of the Forest
House, in, Grace A., b. Apr. 30, 1869. IV, Howard, b. Mar. 31, 1871;
stenographer in War Dept., Washington, D. C.
McFARLAND.
1 John McFarland and his wife, Lydia, were immigrants under Dunbar
in the fall of 1730. Aside from the fact that he and the Fullertons settled
side by side in Townsend and were on intimate terms, and that the families
had intermarried in Scotland, there are several strong indications that John
McFarland and his family, like the Fullertons, first came to Arrowsic and
Georgetown before settling at Townsend. If this be correct, then 1728 is
the date of their coming to America. He built easterly from the house now
owned and occupied by Silas Stinson Lewis, near Church Square. Like all
others he probably built a log house which was used until mills were estab-
lished, when he built a frame one. This frame house was occupied by his
son Andrew, and was burned about 1773, when the "yellow house" was
Marshal Smith.
1798-1867.
FAMILY HISTORY. 575
built, which, in a remodeled form and moved westerly to the avenue, is the
present Lewis residence. His wife's family name is unknown. They had
four children, but the date of birth is only obtainable in the case of Andrew,
who was bom in 1725. It is certain that Ephraim was older than Andrew,
and that the others were younger, how much is uncertain. Perhaps all were
bom before Townsend was located in, but more likely that one or two of
the younger ones were born here. McFarland owned from the head of the
Harbor to the Center, while the Fullerton property abutted his on the west.
Townsend Avenue and the road leading to the Center nearly mark the line
between these two old estates, a part of the distance being exactly on the
line of division. The date of his wife's death is not known; he died in 1773.
Children:
*2 Ephraim, q. v.
*3 Andrew, b. 1725, q. v.
4 Thomas, m. Lydia ; by probate record he was a mariner and d. in
1789; his wid. had rem. to Woolwich in Oct. of that year. There is no
town record relating to him or his family. If he had chil. they probably
grew up in Woolwich, where it is thought his wife formerly had lived.
5 Sarah, m. Israel Davis; d. Sept. 20, 1772, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Ephraim^ McFarland (Johti^). The town records are practically
silent in his case. He appears as a member of the first church and it is
known that he lived where Dennis S. Wylie does and had one of the first
stores in town, paying the tea and coffee tax to the Lincoln County Commis-
sioners immediately upon the organization of the county in 1760. His store
was near the present residence of George W. Dolloff. The name of his wife
and the dates of births and deaths in his family are totally wanting. Chil. :
6 Hannah, m. Andrew Wall, q. v.
♦7 Benjamin, q. v.
(*3) Andrew^ McFarland {John^) m. Elizabeth abt. 1754. They
lived on the father's homestead, and the "yellow house," previously referred
to, was of his building, at about the time of his father's death. Andrew fol-
lowed the sea, engaged in the foreign and West India trade a greater part of
the time. He had a store and became the owner of considerable real estate
in town. During the Revolution he engaged in active service, holding a
captain's commission. His house was a landmark for many years, and dur-
ing his life it was the aristocratic feature of the town. From a society point
of view it is plainly evident that he and his family were foremost, and many
indications exist to show they were ambitious for the lead in that direction.
His will shows the possession of tracts of land about the Harbor, on Barter's
Is., on the Damariscotta, the greater part of Spruce Point and Green Is. in
Penobscot Bay. He d. Dec. 26, 1780; she d. Oct. 15, 1820, a. 92. Children;
8 Jane, b. Dec. 26, 1755; m. William Reed, q. v.
*9 Andrew, b. Sept. 24, 1757, q. v.
10 Mary, b. Jan. 9, 1760; m. Andrew Reed, 3d, q. v.
11 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4. 1761.
12 Sarah, b. May 89, 1763; m. Samuel McCobb, Jr., q. v.
13 Ephraim, b. Feb. 16, 1765; m. Elizabeth Mitchell, Belfast, 1794.
*14 John Murray, b. Sept. 26, 1767, q. v.
15 Rosanna, b. Nov. 25, 1768; d. Feb. 21, 1770.
16 Rosanna, b. Oct. 27, 1770; m. William Maxwell Reed, q. v.
17 Margaret, b. May 11, 1772; d. July 28, 1799; unm.
18 Susanna, b. Feb. 12, 1774; m. David Reed, 4th, q. v.
38
HISTORY or BOOTHBAY.
Third Generation.
(*7) Benjamin^ McFarland {Ephraim,- John^) m. Maigaret Murray,
1799. She may have been an unrecorded daughter of John and Ann Murray;
otherwise she cannot be connected with the main Boothbay family of that
name. He lived for a time on his father's homestead, but removed from
town and settled in the vicinity of Belfast. He followed the sea and none of
his descendants in name live in this locality at present. Children: I, Eliza-
beth, b. July 9, 1780; m. Nathaniel Pinkham, 1799. II, John, b. Apr., 1785.
Ill, Margaret, b. July 8, 1788; m. Samuel Wilson. IV, Ephraim, b. Oct. 13,
1791. V, Lydia, b. Mar. 2, 1794. VI, Polly, b. July 6, 1796; m. Thomas
Cunningham, Belfast, 1821. VII. Sally, b. Apr. 8, 1799. VIII, Jane, b. Aug.
27, 1802; m. Ezra Cunningham, 1825. IX, Benjamin, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1805.
(*9) Andrew^ McFarland (Andrew,^ JohnS) m. (1) Betsey, dau. of
Capt. Robert and Margaret McKown, Bristol, 1789; she d. Oct. 25, 1790; (2)
Mary Sales, Chelsea, Mass., 1798; she d. Jan. 19, 1800, a. 37. He d. Sept.
27, 1832. They had one dau., Mary Sales, b. Jan. 13, 1800. She m. (1) Fred-
erick Lewis, Jr., Whitefield, 1818; (2) Stephen, son of David Kenniston,
1822. Capt. Andrew McFarland was a prosperous master mariner, engaged
in the foreign trade. His second wife evidently endeared herself much to
the Boothbay people in her two years of life among them, for we find in
these genealogies at least half a score of namesakes of Mary Sales.
(*14) John Murray' JIcFarland (Andrew,"^ John'-) m. Margaret, dau.
of Paul and Margery (Beath) Reed. He was the first postmaster in Booth-
bay and throughout his career one of the principal men of affairs in town.
He has been described to the author by those who remember him as a man
of slight frame, weighing not more than 130 pounds; of a careful, conser\-a-
tive turn, free from impulsiveness and thoroughly calculating in all under-
takings. He was town treasurer for 32 years. His townsmen implicitly
relied upon him as to both judgment and integrity. See Chaps. XVI, XIX
and XXI. He died July 13, 1831; she died Feb. 9, 1857. Children:
19 Elizabeth, b. June 23, 1795; d. 1805.
20 Margaret, b. Feb. 27, 1797; m. Major Alexander Drummond, Phipps-
burg.
21 Margery, b. Dec. 25, 1798; m. Rufus K. Reed.
22 Rosanna, b. Apr. 7, 1800; unm.
23 Nathaniel C, b. Mar. 21, 1803; unm.; one of the firm of McFarland
Bros. ; d. Dec. 28, 1882.
24 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 15, 1805; d. Oct. 4, 1822.
25 John, b. Nov. 14, 1807; set. in the vicinity of Belfast.
■*26 Andrew, b. Apr. 8, 1810, q. v.
27 William Maxwell, b. July 27, 1812; unm.; d. Apr. 26, 1870; he was one
of the firm of McFarland Bros.
Fourth Generation.
(*26) Andrew^ McFarland {John M.,^ Andrew? John^)m.. Margery,
dau. of Major John McKown. He with his brothers Williamtand Nathaniel
constituted the firm of McFarland Bros., who, together with their father,
whom they succeeded, made McFarland's Point so prominent a place of
business over a long period in Boothbay's history. He died Apr. 21, 1887;
she died Feb. 11, 1875. Children: I, John Murray, b. Jan. 7, 1838; m. Mary
A., dau. of Edward K. Greenleaf; fourchil.: Nathaniel C, John W., Richard
M., Margery. II, Isabel Louise, b. Dec. 5, 1838; unm. Ill, Nathaniel C,
b. July 5, 1842; d. Feb. 12, 1865.
FAMILY HISTORY. 577
Note.— There are references in early probate records, also in deposi-
tions, to a James McFarland, a contemporary, apparently, of John. No
descendants have appeared in town of this man, but it is thought that they
were brothers, that both settled here for a time and that James went back to
Pemaquid, where he founded the Bristol family of this name.
McGUNIGLE.
Peter McGunigle was bom in Pictou, N. S., Dec. 29, 1814. As a young
man he came to Maine and engaged first at Camden, then at Thomaston
and later at East Boothbay as a ship blacksmith. He m. Clementina Young,
Thomaston, 18.52. He followed his trade up to within a year or two before
his death, which occurred Jan. 31, 1906. He was a man of strong convic-
tions, influential in his church, the Methodist at E. B., and an ardent advo-
cate of prohibition. Children: I, George A., b. Mar. 29, 1856; m. Clara M.
Seavey; res. in Somerville, Mass. II, Carrie E., b. May 24, 1859; m. Arthur
W. Shaw, Portland; dec. Ill, Ida A., b. Jan. 26, 1861; d. 1865. IV, Ulysses
G., b. July 10, 1863; d. 1865. V, Archibald R., b. Jan. 31, 1867; res. Meri-
den. Conn. VI, Robert H., b. Apr. 23, 1857; d. 1858. VII, Henry H., b.
Sept. 22, 1872; res. in Augusta.
McINTIRE.
Capt. Josiah Mclntire was b. at Small Point, in the town of Phippsburg,
in 1834. He came to B. at the age of 18. He m. Thankful, dau. of John
and Abigail (Dunton) Roberts. His business was at sea. He d. Aug. 18,
1871. Children: I, Herbert K., b. Sept. 2, 1861; d. Sept. 1, 1879. II, Ernest
L., b. Oct. 20, 1865; unm.; follows a seafaring life. Ill, Liston M., b. July
13, 1867; m. Maud Miller; live at B. H. IV, Addie T., b. Apr. 3, 1870; d.
1872. Mrs. Thankful Mclntire has for several years conducted a summer
boarding house at her residence on Townsend Ave.
McKAY.
William and Mary McKay came to B. from Nova Scotia in 1851 and set,
at West B. H. She was Mary Grady before marriage. He followed the sea,
dying in a foreign port from yellow fever, Dec, 31, 1864, a. 48; she d. in 1880,
a. 60. Children: I, Harriet S., b. Dec. 20, 1846; m. Isaac Farmer. II,
Mary A., b. Apr. 8, 1S4S; unm.; dec. Ill, Priscilla J., b. Feb. 25, 1850;
unm.; dec. IV, Aquilla E., b. Dec. 5, 1852; unm.; dec. V, Ida S., b. Apr.
17, 1854; m. John H. Lake. VI, James H., b. July 26, 1856; d. in youth.
VII, Estelle, b. Mar. 19, 1858; d. in youth. VIII, Edith E., b. 1860; m.
Hardy McKown.
1 Patrick McKown came from Glenarm, County of Antrim, Ireland, to
Townsend late in the fall of 1763. He was accompanied by his sister Mary,
who afterward married John Daws, and his cousin, the Rev. John Murray.
578 HISTOKT OF BOOTHBAT.
They landed at New York and proceeded at once to Townsend. He settled
on what has since been known as McKovvn's Point, where his son William
afterward lived. He was born in Antrim, in 1739, the son of Robert and
Nancy (Ford) McKown. He married Margery, the daughter of William
Fullerton, Jr., in the fall of 1767. It is thought that Robert McKown, Bristol,
who died in 1777, was his brother. Patrick McKown died Jan. 24, 1779.
His widow afterward married Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, Georgetown, one of
the leading Presbyterian ministers of his time. She died Feb. 21, 1824.
The eleventh clause in his will was: "My estate or house and garden in
Taberw>-ne street in Glenarm in the County of Antrim, Ireland, adjoining to
the house formerly possessed by George Eaton I give and bequeath to my
eldest son Robert if he shall go there for it, if not then to my second son
William if he shall go there for it, and in his default to my youngest son John
on the same terms." His will was drawn eleven days before his death. Chil. :
2 Jennet, b. Nov. 19, 1768; m. Capt. Ebenezer Smith, Woolwich.
3 Robert, b. Oct. 6, 1770; he went back to Ireland to sell the Glenarm
property left him by his father and there m. Ann Grace, came back to
America and set. in Woolwich, where they reared a family.
*4 William, b. July 81, 1772, q. v.
6 Nancy, b. Nov. 6, 1774; m. John Ingraham, q. v.
*6 John, b. Nov. 23, 1776, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*4) William' McKown (Patrick^) m. Polly, dau. of Samuel and Mary
Thompson. He first set. where John M. Hodgdon lives, but later went to
McKown's Point, where he afterward lived. He was a sea captain, engaged
in the West India trade and followed the business many years. From him
has descended one of the largest and most widely known families of seamen
in Maine. When he was a young man, mate of his vessel, they were lying
in the harbor of a West Indian city, the captain and one of the crew ashore,
when an insurrection started. To rescue them was a desperate undertaking,
for the firing was general all about the wharves and throughout the city, but,
undaunted, he took a boat, rowed ashore, searched out his companions and
together they reached the vessel in safety. He died Apr. 7, 1846; she died
May 19, 1860. Children:
7 Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1802; m. John Parshley; set. in Bath; fam. of 7 chil.
8 Samuel, b. June 2, 1804; unm.; he was of an adventurous disposition.
Followed whaling for several years; was with Samuel Smith and John
Love in U. S. frigate Brandywine on a cruise to the West Indies to
e,\terminate pirates; then for some years on a British man-of-war; and
was making ready to ship on U. S. frigate Constitution when he disap-
peared and was never afterward heard from.
9 Patrick, b, July 10, 1806; m. Elizabeth Wylie; s. p.; d. 1883, see Cas.
*10 William, b. June 19, 1808, q. v.
*11 David, b. Aug. 30, 1810, q. v.
»12 Joshua L., b. Apr. 30, 1813, q. v.
13 John, b. Sept. 19, 1815; d. 1833, see Cas.
*14 Joseph T., b. Feb. 8, 1820, q. v.
15 Robert, b. Sept. 23, 1823; d. 1828.
(*6) John' McKown {Patrick) m. Sally, dau. of Samuel and Ketty
Harris. This man was best known to his contemporaries, as well as to pos-
terity, as Major John McKown. He was a notable figure in his 'time and
probably transacted the largest business and possessed the broadest acquaint-
ance of any man in Boothbay. He lived and conducted his fishing establish-
FAMILY HISTORY. 579
ment and store near the present landing of the E. S. B. Co. at Southport.
For public service see Chap. XVI. In the fifth clause of his father's will he
and his sister Nancy were given to Mary (McKown) Daws to rear, and his
descendants inform me this occurred. He died Feb. 17, 1852; she died Mar
26, 1834. Children:
16 Emerson, b. Aug. 25, 1800; d. 1829, see Cas.
*17 Robert, b. Mar. 23, 1802, q. v.
18 Sarah, b. Oct. 22, 1803; m. Capt. George Reed, q. v.
19 John, b. Jan. 4, 1805; d. 1816, see Cas.
20 Isabella, b. Oct. 30, 1806; m. David Stinson, Woolwich.
*21 Harris, b. Mar. 10, 1808, q. v.
22 Margery J., b. May 27, 1810; m. Andrew McFarland, q. v.
23 Horatio S., b. Jan. 7, 1812; dec; unm.
*24 Benjamin, b. Feb. 19, 1814, q. v.
*25 Cyrus, b. Apr. 1, 1820, q. v.
26 Mary A., b. Aug. 17, 1821; m. Martin E. Beal; he d. Apr. 11, 1890, a.
58-10; shed. Feb. 16, 1899. Children: Mart A. Beal, Rockford, III.;
Isabel Beal, d. Oct., 1005; Henry H., d. Feb. 26, 1878, a. 17. Martin
E. Beal lived at the old McKown homestead at South, and conducted
business where Major McKown did.
Third Generation.
(*10) William' McKown (William,'^ Patrick^) m. Esther, dau. of Joseph
and Jane Reed, 1832. They set. at Oak Point, where their son, Freeman
H., now lives. He d. Jan. 1, 1887; she d. June 4, 1896, a. 82-10. Children:
27 John, 3d, b. Dec. 18, 1833; m. Lizzie Cameron, 1860; res. at Oak Point.
Their chil. were: I, Cora E., m. Eben T. Lewis; II, Annie, dec; III,
Arthur, set. in Salem, Mass.
28 Joseph Reed, b. Nov. 15, 1836; m. Susan Grover, 1857; res. near the
eastern end of the Southport bridge. Children: I, Olevia S., m. Alvah
C. McKown; II, Lillian W., m. Frank Moore, res. in Mass.; Ill, George
L., m. Annie Whitehouse; IV, Emma F., m. W. E. Lewis; V, Sophia
G.; VI, Grace R., m. Thomas Earl Babb, Jr., Worcester. Mass.
29 Eliza E., b. Dec. 22, 1837; m. James P. Hodgdon; d. 1877.
30 Leonard, b. June 16, 1840; m. Emma Fitch, 1866; d. 1897; res. Bath.
31 Emerson, b. Jan. 2, 1842; m. Mahala Cameron, 1869; d. 1896; res.
South. Children: Howard, Wardie, Hattie M., Daniel C, WiUiam L.,
Alonzo N.
32 Willard, b. Aug. 5, 1845; d. 1853.
33 Sophia J., b. Apr. 21, 1848; d. 1855.
34 Willard L., b. Jan. 13, 1851; m. Ella S., dau. of Benjamin McKown; d.
1886, see Cas.
35 Ida M., b. Apr. 4, 1855; m. Samuel D. Hodgdon, 1876; res. at West B. H.
86 Freeman H., b. June 22, 1858; m. Laura E., dau. of Rufus and Marga-
ret Murray, 1893. He res. on homestead of his father and has achieved
a wide reputation and acquaintance among summer visitors by the
many and excellent clambakes he has furnished them; he has also been
engaged sailing parties during the season for many years and is the
hero of Elizabeth Akers' poem, "The Waterwitch."
(*11) David' McKown {William,'^ Patrick^) m. Sarah, dau. of James
Adams. Settled near the Adams homestead. He died Jan. 18, 1896; she
died Nov. 10, 1890. Children:
37 James A., b. June 27, 1836; d. Mar. 25, 1856.
38 William H., b. Sept. 18, 1840; d. Dec. 5, 1896; res. in Mass.
39 Charles, b. Sept. 11, 1845; d. Nov. 7, 1866. Two other chil. d. in youth.
(*12) Joshua L.' McKown {William p- Patrick^) m. Martha J., dau. of
580 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Samuel and Martha Lewis. They hved on the homestead at McKown's
Point. He died May 27, 1885. Children:
40 Harriet E., b. Aug. 24, 1844; m. Richard Thomas, q. v.
41 Isora, b. June 20, 1846; m. Enoch Perkins, q. v.
42 Dennis, b. May 14, 1848; m. Mary E., dau. of David A. Pinkham; res.
West B. H.; si.x chil.
43 Samuel F., m. Eliza, dau. of Andrew Adams; res. in Portland; two
chil., Arthur and Leda.
44 Hardy W., b. May 4, 1864; m. Edith E. McKay; s. p.
45 Laura M., b. Mar. 10, 1864; m. Watson M. Simpson.
(*14) Joseph T.^ McKown ( William," Patrick^) m. Catherine Dunton,
Westport, 1843. He lived on McKown's Point for awhile after marriage,
then for many years at Barter's Island, and later on die main, near Hodg-
don's Island bridge. He commenced going to the Banks in 1834, at the age
of 14; followed that business 35 successive years and then alternated between
cod and mackerel fishing until his 80th year. Catherine, his wife, d. May 27,
1902, a. 75. He now (1905) lives with his son, George W., at B. H. Chil.:
46 Manson D., m. Mar^' A. Kimball; she d. Apr. 15, 1900; res. B. H.
Children: Jason C, Leroy K., Josephine S., Julia A., John V., Eugene
S., Nellie C. He and his four sons are sea captains.
47 Mary C, m. Edward H. Barter, Chelsea, Mass.
48 Henry M., m. Susan, dau. of Hiram Pinkham, dec; he res. in Port-
land; two sons, Charles and Ralph.
49 Susan E., m. (1) Sanford Greeenleaf,(2) Leonard S. McClintock; res.B.H.
50 Florence M., m. (1) Sarah F. Kimball; d. June 24, 1898; (2) Grace Ben-
son, Gloucester, Mass.; res. B. H. Three chil.: I, Wendell P. (see
Chap. XXIII); II, Mary, m. James H. Hudson, lawyer, Guilford; III,
Florence.
51 Fred, m. Jennie A., dau. of Nathan S. Baker; sea captain; res. B. H.;
one dau., Linnella.
52 George W., m. Nellie, dau. of John Gilpatrick; res. B. H.; two chil.,
Veda M. and Vernon.
53 Eveline, m. Charles W. Knight; res. B. Ctr.
(*17) Robert^ McKown (John,'^ Patrick^) m. Sarah Crocker; res. on
South. He d. Aug. 29, 1880; she d. May 20, 1887, a. 77. Children: I, Ann
Grace; II, Albert; III, Albina; IV, Scott; V, Daniel. This family are all
dec. Albert m. Lettie Pierce; three chil.: I, Clarence E., res. B. H., m.
Eunice, dau. of Capt. Cyrus A. Thompson; II, Florence G.; Ill, Scott, dec.
(*21) Harris^ McKown {John? Patrick^) m. Henrietta ; res. on
South.; three chil., Sarah, Mary I., Cyrus. Harris d. May 4, 1863; wife d.
July 1, 1884.
(*24) Benjamin' McKown (John,- Patrick^) m. Anna P. Chandler.
They lived at West B. on the Ingraham place. He d. Oct. 15, 1875; she d.
Mar. 5, 1890. Children: I, Rosanna, m. William E. Given; res. Brunswick.
II, Rachel M., m. Charles Reed; res. West B. H. Ill, Frederick, d. 1862, a.
15. IV, Emily T., unm.; res. Boston. V, Alvah C, m. Olevia, dau. of
Joseph McKown; res. B. H.; two chil., J. Pierce (see Chap. XXIII) and
Mildrith L. VI, Mary J., m. William H. Reed, q. v. VII, Lucilla, m.
Joseph Atkinson; res. Everett, Mass. VIII, Ella S., m. Willard McKown;
res. Everett, Mass. IX, Frank B., m. Addie B. Stover; res. Somerville, lMass_
(*25) Cyrus^ McKown [John,"^ Patrick^) m. Mary E., dau. of John
Reed, 2d. He succeeded to his father's business on Southport, but moved
to the Harbor in 1864, where, for a time, he was engaged in shipbuilding.
He was an influential citizen throughout his life in each town. He d. Dec.
3, 1888. Children: I, Eunice. II, Abby M., m. Charles C. Luce; d. 1903.
III, Sammie, m. Charles E. Carlisle, q. v. IV, Orlando, res. B. H. V, Hie
B., d. July 14, 1892, a. 19 years.
FAMILY HISTORY. 581
McCLELLAN.
Randall McClellan came to B. as a boy from Cape Bretton. He lived in
thefani. of Capt. Robert Reed for some years; m. Sarah E., dau. of John
and Adeline Wylie. They lived at West B. H. He was in the Gloucester
vessel, Forest Belle, built at E. B., which went down with all on board abt.
Dec. 12, 1868. He was the only one from B. Children: I, Eva IM., m.
William Metcalf, Dam. II, George B., m. Grace, dau. of Benaiah DoUoff;
res. at B. H.; two chil., Frances and Richard. Ill, Ada M. IV, Morris
Randall, carpenter, res. West B. H. ; m. Mary G. Lewis.
MADDOCKS.
1 Palgrave Maddocks was b. in Kennebunkport in ITSl. He was son
of Pelsgrave Maddo.x (as the names appear in Bradbury's Hist, of Kenne-
bunkport), who m. Mary Huff, and grandson of Henry Maddo.x, who came
to Kennebunkport from Berwick, and was killed by an accident, Oct. 8,
1750. Palgrave came to Cape Newagen Island as a young man and married
Rhuhama, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Thompson) Pierce, in 1804. He
bought of Samuel Pierce the property which has always since been in the
family name, now being owned by his grandson, William T. Maddocks.
Upon this place his sons, Joseph and John, conducted one of the earliest
bank-fishing establishments, and for a time the largest in either town. The
property included Dogfish Head. The portion where the buildings and fish-
ing stand were erected shows unmistakable signs of having been one of the
favorite haunts of the Indians, see p. 40. The probate records of Lincoln
County show no family of this name prior to 1800; but there was a Maddocks
family in Boothbay early as 1790, for in that year John Maddocks and Eliza-
beth Kennedy, both of B., were married. Some other references could be
made, but the disappearance from record later indicates a removal from
town. Palgrave d. July 25, 1848; Rhuhama, wife, d. Mar. 25, 1868. Chil.:
2 Luther, b. May 13, 1805; was a sea captain; d. July 30, 1829.
3 Sophia Barnard, b. Apr. 16, 1807; m. Freeman Grover, q. v.
4 Mary, b. Nov. 25, ISOS; m. Joseph Huskins, 1830; d. July IS, 1894.
6 Eleanor, b. Dec. 7, 1810; m. Samuel Pierce, q. v.
6 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 25, 1812; m. Mark Rand, 1834, q. v.
7 Rebecca, b. Aug. 9, 1814; m. Rev. Nathan Webb; d. Feb., 1861.
8 Benjamin, b. Nov. 3, 1816; m. Abby Eveleth, Essex, Mass.; set. first
in Calif, and then in Gloucester, Mass., where he d., Aug., 1882.
*9 Joseph, b. Dec. 8, 1818, q. v.
*10 John, b. Dec. 29, 1820, q. v.
11 Thomas, b. Aug. 18, 1822; d. in youth.
12 Robert, b. July 11, 1824; m. Ann Maria, dau. of George W. and Maria
Pierce; he was lost at sea, 1859, see Cas. His wid. m. Oliver Berry,
New Sharon.
13 Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1826; d. 1827.
Second Generation.
(*9) Joseph^ Maddocks {Palgrave^) m. Harriet E., dau. of William
and Lydia T. Thompson. He was senior member of the fishing firm of J.
& J. Maddocks, and by them the business first assumed an extensive form,
though their father had carried on a similar business in the same place, see
Chap. XXI. He died July 14, 1874; she died Mar. 9, 1898. Children:
582 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
*14 Luther, b. Mar. 14, 1846, q. v.
»15 William Thompson, b. Nov. 30, 1846, q. v.
16 Olive E., b. Sept. 16, 1848; m. Willard Jackson, who was b. in Jeff.,
Feb. 23, 1846; came to B. H. in 1871, first as Supt. of the Rockweed
Factor)' and later of the firm of Maddocks & Jackson, liverv' and truck-
ing. He d. Nov. 10, 1904. They had one son, Joseph Maddocks, b.
July 24, 1871; m. Mary Rogers, of Boston, where they reside.
*17 Joseph, Jr., b. Aug. 19, 1850, q. v.
18 Abby E., b. Mar. 1, 1853; m. Sumner Orne, Oct. 19, 1879, q. v.
19 Lizzie R., b. Oct. 20, 1857; m. Thomas Cameron, 1880.
20 Annie, b. Apr. 13, 1865; m. John Gardner; he was killed by an electric
accident in Worcester, Mass.
21 Hattie M., b. Jan. 7, 1870; m. Ernest Glidden, Wal.
(*10) JoHN^ Maddocks {Palgrave^) m. (1) Charlotte, dau. of William
and Elizabeth Pierce; (2) Lydia A., dau. of William and Lydia T. Thomp-
son. His business life was blended with that of his brother Joseph in a part-
nership, to which reference has been made. He d. Feb. 25, 1863; Charlotte,
wife, d. Jan. 17, 1851; Lydia A., wife, d. Jan. 19, 1861. Children:
*22 Sewall T., b. June 17, 1854, q. v.
23 Arietta T., m. Arthur Brewer; live in Hoboken, N. J.
Third Generation.
(*14) Luther' Maddocks {Joseph,'^ Palgrave^). He attended school
at the Bucksport Seminary and the Lewiston Falls Academy, graduating at
the age of eighteen from Eastman's National Business College, N. Y. After
graduation he took charge of the books of J. & J. Maddocks until he was
twenty years of age, when he engaged in business for himself. His first
venture was the building of a fish oil and guano factory at Dogfish Head,
which he operated for three years. In 1869 he moved to Boothbay Harbor,
where he has since lived and been actively engaged in many of the branches
of the fishing industry, but more particularly in those of oil production and
canning. Chap. 21 includes these matters. Aside from his personal inter-
ests Mr. Maddocks has been active in the kindred trade and manufacturing
associations, and over a long period has been a familiar figure about the
State Capitol, twice as a representative, once as a senator and many times
as a member of the "third house." He has been a consistent opponent to
nearly all restrictive legislation governing the fisheries. For sixteen years he
was secretary of the Maine Oil and Guano Association. In 1888 he became
secretary of the National Fishery Association, an organization formed for the
purpose of preventing adverse legislation to the fishery interests, by tariff
enactment or otherwise. At that time he published several pamphlets which
were given broad circulation, much of the data for which was obtained by
extensively canvassing the fishery interests of the U. S., along the water
front of the country, under the direction of Marshall McDonald, U. S. Fish
Commissioner. Additional to his connection with the fishing interests he
has also operated several winters in ice. He has been an active supporter
of all improvements in town of a public character and was the moving spirit
in the building of the Pythian Opera House, the footbridge across the harbor
and in the organization of the company for electrical lighting in town. Since
1869 Mr. Maddocks has been the leading individual employer of labor in
town, paying a part of the time the largest town tax.
On Sept. 26, 1870, he m. Mary Emily, dau. of William and Mary Kennis-
FAMILY HISTOEY. 583
ton. They have two daus.: I, Grace D., tn. Arthur G. Lewis; II, Millicent.
Their home is on Atlantic St., where John Love formerly lived.
(*15) William T.« Haddocks {Joseph,'^ Palgrave^) m. Betsey P., dau.
of Thomas and Jane (Webber) Pierce. He succeeded the firm of J. & J.
Maddocks in 1875, continuing the business until 1898. Since 1890 he has
been engaged in the fish commission trade in Portland, where he has spent
each winter, summering on the old homestead, which he retains. The orig-
inal tract purchased by his grandfather now bears three residences and seven
summer cottages besides the buildings of the old fish stand, which are used
for several purposes. Mr. Maddocks held commission for inspector of fish
for 26 years and one as justice of the peace for 30 years. For other public
positions see Chap. XVI. Children: I, Benjamin T., b. July 15, 1872; m.
(1) Hattie Hodges, Portland, who d. Nov. 21, 1901; (2) Mary Foster, Port-
land, May, 1903; one son, Milton H., by first m. II, Joseph, b. June 10,
1875; m. Estelle Hill, Portland.
(*17) Joseph^ Maddocks, Jr., {Joseph,- Palgrave^) m. Emma French,
1874. They lived at B. H. until 1895. He was member of the firm of Mad-
docks & Jackson, was chairman of the first board of selectmen for Boothbay
Harbor and was Dep. Coll. of Customs from 1890 to 1895, see Chap. XVI.
He then resigned to accept an offer in a tobacco establishment in Ky., later
going to Murfreesboro, Tenn., in the same business, where he now resides.
Children: I, Warren E, b. Apr. 30, 1876; m. Alice Hodgdon; res. at
Wehrum, Pa. II, Royden K., b. Apr. 30, 1876; d. July 27, 1904, see Chap.
XXIII. Ill, Florence. IV, Frank.
(*22) Sewall T.8 Maddocks (John,'^ Palgrave^) m. Nettie E., dau. of
Arthur and Lydia (Merry) Blake, 1876. They res. at B. H. In his earlier
years he was bookkeeper for the Atlantic Oil Co., later accountant and
business manager for S. Nickerson & Sons. He is now engaged in marine
insurance and real estate. Children: I, John A., m. Edith C. Kenniston;
two daughters; see Chap. XXIII. II. Ella Agnes, dec. Ill, H. Frances.
IV, Roscoe Harmon.
MARR.
This family has reached but the third generation in our towns, but its
ancestry is of several generations in Georgetown and Kittery. From data in
the possession of Jeruel Marr, Esq., Bath, together with Stackpole's History
of Old Kittery and Her Families, the following facts are obtained.
I, John Erskine,^ a son of Hon. Edward Erskine, of Gateshead-on-Tyne,
came to America in 1717. On July 16, 1719, he m. Catherine, dau. of
John and Elizabeth (Roberts) Surplus. They lived in that part of Kit-
tery which is now Eliot. On the maternal line in his ancestry he was
descended from the house of Marr, which was one of nobility. He
assumed the name of John Marr in Kittery and engaged in a seafaring
life. In 1750 he was wrecked on Cape Cod and died from exposure.
His wife died in 1770.
584 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
II, William Marr,'' third son of John, m. Ruth Spinney. Members of her
fam. afterward set. in Georgetown. They then lived on Eliot Neck.
William and Ruth had twochil., John and Olive. When John was 13
years old the fam. moved to the Kennebec and set. on Yew Island, now
Marr's Island, just off the Georgetown neighborhood known as Marrstown.
III, John l\IarrS when a young man made the acquaintance of a Miss Cornish
while on a trip to Cathance with a boat load of fish. They were m. and
set. on Marr's Island, where they reared a fam. of eight sons, all of whom
had good-sized families of their own. It was at this juncture in the fam.
history that the increase of the name is so apparent. John was a Rev.
soldier, serving under Gen. Putnam. His wife lived to be 100 years old.
IV, Thomas Marr^ was b. on Marr's Island, Apr. 1, 1T84. He set. on George-
town at the present point of Marrstown, living to be abt. 90 yrs. old. He
was a soldier in the 1812 War, being stationed at Cox's Head. He was
three times married: (1) Eunice Spinney, (2) Lydia Trafton, (3) Nancy
Taylor. Chil. by first m., Eunice and John; by second m., Izetta, Lydia,
Mary J., Thomas, Jr., Nahum, Jotham, Jeruel, Lemuel, Miranda A.; by
third m., Mark, William, Ansel and Nancy.
1 Thomas Marr, Jr., came to Southport in 1841 as manager for Capt.
Jonathan Pierce. Previously he had been in trade at Bath. He m. Mary A.,
dau. of Capt. Pierce, in 1842. Two years previous to this Warren, a son of
Capt. Pierce, had m. Mary J., sister to Thomas Marr, Jr. A litde after 1842
a brother, Nahum, came to Southport and the firm of T. & N. Marr was
started, which succeeded at West Southport the business formerly carried
on by Capt. Pierce, see Chap. XXI. He d. Sept. 29, 1870, a. 52-3-20; she d.
Aug. 19, 1895. Children:
2 Edward L., b. Oct., 1843; m. Mahala Russell, Bris. He succeeded the
firrn of T. & N. Marr, but was cut down in early life, Oct. 28, 1872, after
which the business was closed. His wid. m. Nelson Gamage, So. Bris.
3 Harriet A., b. Jan. 19, 1847; m. Everett E. Pinkham, q. v.
4 Eliphalet T., b. Dec. 22, 1850; m. Frances E., dau. of George W.
Pierce; res. in Maiden, Mass.; supt. for the E. Pitman Building Co.
5 Thomas Warren, b. Nov. 26, 1852; m. Addie Haskell, Portland; he is
commercial traveler for Carter, Rice & Co., Boston; one son.
6 Charles Jones, b. Oct. 8, 1857; m. Mary E. Witham, Oct. 19, 1884. He
came to B. H. in 1880 as bookkeeper for D. W. Hodgdon, then as
assistant for one year in a N. Y. commission house. In Feb., 1884, in
company with W. H. Fisher, as Fisher & Marr, was in business till
1887; then with G. B. Kenniston as partner, as C. J., Marr & Co., until
1890; since that date he has been alone in business under the last firm
name. Located in Gregory Block Oct. 1, 1902. He was selectman of
B. H. from 1891-98 and chairman of the board the last five years of his
service. The water system was built during his administration. He
has been Dep. Coll. and Inspector of Customs since 1898. For other
town ser\ace, in South, and B. H., see Chap. XVI. Children: Marian
E., Russell W., Leslie C.
7 Laura E., b. July 6, 1800; m. J. Dana Payson; res. on the homestead
of her father, which in rebuilt form is open to the summer travel under
the name of the Cozy Harbor House. They have three chil., Levoughn,
Lewis, Warren.
8 Nahum B. Marr came to South, a few years after his brother Thomas
and became partner of the firm of T. & N. Marr. He m. Julia, dau. of Capt.
John Pierce. He was a contractor and builder before entering the firm and
FAMILY HISTORY. 585
re-engaged at the same business after it ceased. He died Jan. 23, 1905, a.
80-5-19; she died May 11, 1886. Children:
9 Preston, b. Apr. 27, 1849; d. Sept. 17, 1870.
10 Willard T., b. Apr. 12, 1853; came to B. H. in 1880 as bookkeeper for
J. C. Poole & Co. In 1887 commenced business for himself, in which
he still continues. Has been clerk of B. H. since the organization of
the town and local agent for both lines of steamers from Portland for
several years. He m. Delia, dau. of Joseph Rowe, Georgetown, in
1879; they have two chil.: Ada N., a teacher in the B. H. schools, and
Royal P.
11 Ann Delia, b. Feb. 18, 1859; m. Royal Luther; res. in Maiden, Mass.
12 Nettie A., b. Feb. 26, 1866; m. Luther Bearce; d. July 26, 1900.
13 Jeruel Marr went to South, in 1850 and that year m. Catherine, dau. of
Peter Westman. He was keeper of the Hendricks Headlight for 29 years;
afterward rem. to Bath, where they now live. Children: I, Clarence E., b.
May 12, 1852; m. Clara E., dau. of Ephraim Pinkham; keeps light at Pema-
quid Pt. II, Verona, b. Dec. 5, 1853; m. James Coolen; res. in South. Ill,
Clarinda A., b. July 20, 1855; m. Cyrus C. Dyer; res. in Arizona. IV, Wol-
cot H., b. Dec. 15, 1868; m. Hattie Hatch, Portland; keeper of the Hen-
dricks Headlight. V, Preston L., b. Mar. 1, 1871; m. Angelette Burroughs;
assistant light keeper at the Cuckolds.
MARSON.
1 Arber Marson was b. in Dresden, Nov. 10, 1800. He was twice married.
By his first marriage were five children; by his second, eight. The first wife
died abt. 1835, and in 1837 he m. Hannah P. Huff, Edge., a sister to Mary,
who m. William Kenniston. As a young man he went to Bath and from there
came to B. H. in 1842. He was a calker by trade, an industrious, prudent
man, accumulating a competence. His home was where Dr. E. C. Blake
lives, formerly owned by the Sargents. In him the early Methodist Church
at the Harbor had a strong and earnest supporter. He died May 23, 1889;
she died Jan. 24, 1899, a. 88. Children:
2 Mary J., b. Mar. 25, 1829; m. John L. Adams; d. Mar. 14, 1899.
3 Henry P., b. Sept. 27, 1830; d. 1851, see Cas.
4 Charles E.. b. Apr. 6, 1832; m. Sarah Preble; lived at B. H.; chil.:
William H., Granville C, Melville L., Mary E., Charles C.
5 William D., b. Dec. 17, 1833; unm.; d. Jan. 13, 1901.
6 Abigail, b. July 25, 1835; m. Willard Walker; d. Feb. 22, 1874.
7 George A., b. May 11, 1838; m. Sarah W. Martin; res. at B. H., a
calker by trade; one son, Fred.
8 Anginette, b. Oct. 14, 1839; unm.; res. at B. H.
9 Fanny L., b. Feb. 5, 1842; m. (1) Benj. Harris, (2) Hiram L. Ingraham.
10 Emma E., b. Sept. 6, 1844; m. David Mayo.
11 Allah A., b. Sept. 4, 1846; m. James C. Poole, q. v.
12 James S., b. May 17, 1848; d. July 5, 1863.
13 John S., b. July 7, 1850; m. Ella Vanhom; carries on bakery and res-
taurant at B. H.; twodaus.: Maud, who d. Nov. 1, 1904, a. 23, and
Louise.
14 Woodbury, b. June 5, 1852; m. Clara Moore; formerly engaged at sail-
making; postmaster at B. H. 1890-93, and again since 1897 to the pres-
ent; two sons, Leon and Lucas.
586 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAY.
MARTIN.
George A. Martin married Mary J. Famham in 1847. They lived on
Linekin. He d. Dec. 2, 1899, a. 75; she d. Oct. 6, 1899, a. 72. Children:
I, Frederick F., b. Aug. 29, 1848; m. Julia L. Farrar, So. Bristol. II, Sarah
W., b. May 10, 1851; m. George A. Marson. Ill, Uda V., b. Apr. 24, 1854.
IV, Abbie E., b. Nov. 4, 1856; m. Alden Holbrook. V, George W., b. Mar.
21, 1865; m. Orra Holbrook. This fam. res. at Linekin.
MATTHEWS.
1 John Matthews stands by record first of that name in Townsend. He
settled at the extreme point in Back River before 1757, where now James E.
Lewis has his boat house. Albert R. Matthews, his descendant, has a plan
of several places on Back River made that year. From John Matthews the
place went to Isaac Lewis, then to his son David, and later to James E.
Lewis, son-in-law of David. The place of building was abt. opposite where
the Barter brothers built on the island and, probably, the date of settlement
of the Barters and John Matthews was concurrent, for Joseph Barter married
Lydia Matthews and John Matthews married Jennet Barter. They were
published before Boothbay records existed, but the publishment may be
found in Vol. I, Lincoln Co. Com. Records, reading thus: "Aug. 29, 1764,
John Mathes and Jane Barto of Townsend." The dates of their deaths are
unknown and their graves are unmarked. It is practically certain that John
Matthews and his wife both came from Dover, N. H., and that he descended
from Francis Matthews, who settled at Portsmouth, N. H., under Mason, in
1631. He was of a south of England family. Children:
2 Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1766; m. Nathan Dole, Pownalboro, 1793.
3 Elizabeth, b. Nov. 6, 1768; m. Frederick S. Arnold, 1788, a doctor then
practicing in Boothbay and probably the second in town; they had one
son, David, b. 1789. She m. (2) Edward Cooper, Kennebec, 1792.
*4 William, b. Aug. 20, 1773, q. v.
*5 Joseph, b. May 11, 1776, q. v.
*6 John, Jr., b. May 20, 1779, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*4) William^ Matthews (John'^) m. Lydia, dau. of Andrew Wall, 1796.
They lived in South. Lydia d. Sept. 20, 1824; date of his death unknown.
Children: I, Jennet, b. Mar. 27, 1797; m. John Deering, Edge. II, Mary, b.
Sept. 3, 1798; m. Benjamin Bennett. Ill, John, b. Aug. 5, 1801; m. Mary
Barter. IV, Andrew, b. Feb. 8, 1803; m. Nancy Decker. V, James, b. Mar.
23, 1804; m. Catherine Harris. VI, Person, b. Mar. 30, 1807. VII, Hannah,
b. Aug. 21, 1810; d. 1824. VIII, Stinson, b. Sept. 23, 1813. IX, Adeline, b.
Feb. 8, 1815; m. Nathaniel Race. X, Willard, b. May 7, 1818. XI, Marga-
ret, b. July 16, 1821.
(*5) Joseph- Matthews {Johyi^) m. Sally Lamson, 1804. Lived on
what is known as the Charies M. Lewis place. Back River. He died May 15,
1857; she died Jan. 26, 1859, a. 72. Children:
7 William, b. Jan. 29, 1805; d. Oct. 11, 1870, a bachelor living alone near
where the road crosses to Dover.
8 Elizabeth, b. June 1, 1806; m. Israel Lewis, q. v.
*9 Ebenezer, b. May 18, 1809, q. v.
10 Stephen C, b. May 9, 1811; m. Emily, dau. of Giles Tibbetts.
FAMILY HISTORY. 687
11 Esther, b. Feb. 2, 1813; m. William Nute, Wis.
*12 Charles, b. Feb. 8, 1817, q. v.
13 Thomas, b. Oct. 3, 1819; m. Sarah McCobb.
14 Emily, b. June 6, 1825; m. John Haley; d. Jan. 26, 1902.
16 George, b. July 21, 1827; m. Clementine Baker.
16 Eliza A., b. June 27, 1829; m. Daniel McCobb.
(*8) John2 Matthews, Jr., {JohrO) m. Rebecca Southard, b. Mar. 17,
1786; she d. Oct. 31, 1817. He m. (2) Mary Barter, 1820. They lived north
from his father's home. In early life he went on foreign voyages, but later
engaged in fishing. He was lost in Bay Chaleur, July 19, 1848, see Cas.
His widow m. James Tibbetts. Children:
*17 Alfred, b. Aug. 3, 1806, q. v.
*18 Edmund, b. Apr. 27, 1808, q. v.
19 Elbridge, b. Nov. 24, 1809; set. in Mass. He was a successful inventor
of several agricultural implements.
20 Daniel, b. Sept. 10, 1811; m. Almira Lewis; set. in South.; record not
obtained.
21 Caroline, b. Mar. 3, 1813; d. 1826.
22 Julia, b. Jan. 8, 1815; d. Feb. 26, 1852; unm.
*23 Arthur, b. Apr. 27, 1817, q. v.
24 Frances L., b. Dec. 31, 1820; m. Jason Tibbetts.
25 Stillman B., b. Sept. 12, 1824; m. Arabell N. Tibbetts; both lost at sea,
see Cas., 18.53.
26 Mary C, b. Sept. 19, 1826; m. Allen Pinkham, 1847.
Third Generation.
(*9) Ebenezkr' Matthews (Joseph,"^ John^) m. Sarah A., dau. of James
and Abigail Tibbetts, 1834. He lived where his son, Albert R., now lives.
The place was taken up by Abijah Woods abt. 1755-56, at the time Michael
Sinnett, John Matthews, the Barter brothers and others set. in the vicinity.
Woods was probably one of the number taken by the press gang when
Sinnett was captured and impressed in the British service. Later the place
went into the hands of John Webber, who sold it to James Tibbetts, who
sold it to Ebenezer Matthews. He died June 7, 1877; Sarah A., wife, died
Oct. 10, 1897. Children:
27 James Franklin, b. Oct. 3, 1885; m. Mary E., dau. of Paul Giles; res.
at B. Ctr. ; two chil.: George F., res. Mass.; Annie L., m. Wilfred L.
Matthews, res. B. H.; James F., d. June 11, 1901.
28 Angeline, b. Dec. 1, 1837; m. Alonzo Lewis, q. v.
29 Minerva, b. Jan. 15, 1841; m. George W. Stover.
30 Abigail, b. Aug. 30, 1844; m. Roswell C. Lewis, q. v.
31 Albert Russell, b. Mar. 26, 1855; m. Lillian, dau. of Eli Nelson; res.
on homestead of his father. He possesses very general and accurate
information regarding his own and other Back River families.
(*12) Charles^ Matthews {Joseph,'^ John?) m. Martha, dau. of William
Reed. He lived between the Beath farm and town farm. He d. Sept. 25,
1890. Children: I, Charles, m. Ella Dunton; H, James E., m. Brown;
III, Albion, unm.; IV, Granville P., m. the wid. of his brother, James E.
(*17) Alfred' Matthews (John, Jr.,^ John^) m. (1) Charlotte Dunton,
who was b. Sept. 22, 1805, and d. Apr. 11, 1845; (2) Martha L. Wentworth,
1850. He lived where the late Miles Lewis hved on Back River. He died
Jan. 26, 1879; she died May 28, 1890, a. 89-6. Children:
32 Edward, b. Nov. 16, 1830; d. 1861, see Cas.
33 Rebecca, b. Dec. 26, 1832; m. Capt. Sewall Wylie, q. v.
588 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
34 Georgiana, b. Sept. 1, 1837; m. Capt. Llewellyn Baker; one dau.,
Annie, m. Robert G. Dewolfe.
35 Elbridge, b. Oct. 24, 1840; m. (1) Lovesta, dau. of Timothy Hodgdon;
(2) Florence D., dau. of Zina H. Hodgdon. He followed the sea sev-
eral years between Portland and S. A., living in Deering; later retired
from sea-going and opened grain stores in Portland, Deering and Cape
Elizabeth, in which business he is now engaged. Four chil. by first m. :
Fred V., a lawyer in Portland, m. Annie Harmon; Chester, Genevieve
and Florence, unm.
36 Byron C, b. Mar. 31, 1845; m. Sarah, dau. of Daniel W. Sawyer, 1868.
Children: Ella, m. Rev. Albert Hanscom; Carrie M., m. Everett
Maguire, Gloucester, Mass. , dec. Mr. Matthews has been postmaster
of Boothbay, see Chap. XVI, and has been treasurer of the Boothbay
Savings Bank since Oct. 10, 1886.
(•^18) Edmumd^ Matthews {John, Jr.? Jolni^) m. Marie ; res. at B.
H. Children: Ambrose and Elizabeth, who m. Isaac Coombs, res. at B. H.
(*28) Arthur^ Matthews {John, Jr.,'^ John'^) m. Aurinda, dau. of John
McCobb, Jr. He d. Dec. 3, 1861; she d. July 19, 1887. Children: I, Theo-
dore, b. Feb. 10, 1845; d. 1864. II, Alonzo F., b. Sept. 14, 1847; m. Mary
P., dau. of Charles Giles; res. on Giles homestead. Ill, Charles G., b. Feb.
2, 1850. IV, George M., b. Feb. 22, 1853; d. 1869. V, John, b. Aug. 14,
1854. VI, Mary E., b. Feb. 20, 1857.
Daniel Matthews, thought to have come to Boothbay from George-
town, and to have been a nephew of John Matthews, m. Mary Matthews,
1813. His wife's family is not recorded and she, evidently, was not a de-
scendant, though may have been a relative, of John. Children: I, Mahala,
1814, m. Sawyer Pinkham; II, Hugh, 1819; III, Mary J., 1825; IV, Elizabeth
A., twin sister to Hugh, m. Daniel McCobb, 1847.
Owen Y. Matthews, res. at B. H., treas. and supt. of the Townsend
Marine Railway, is a son of Stephen C. and Emily (Tibbetts) Matthews (see
No. 10). Children: Grace W., John C, Virginia W., Lewis.
1 Jonathan Merry came from England to America and settled in Edge-
comb. His wife's name is unk. They had six sons and one dau. The sons,
Hiram, Samuel, Dependence and William set. in Edge. , David and John in B.
Second Generation.
2 David- Merry {Jonathan^) m. (1) Chana Alley, (2) Jane McAllister.
He lived where O. M. Delano does. Chana, w., d. Mar. 29, 1852. Children:
3 Mary E., b. Nov. 21, 1814; m. Benjamin P. Giles, q. v.
4 Susan, b. July 5, 1816; m. Ward; set. in Brooklyn, N. Y.
*6 Willard, b. Aug. 27, 1820, q. v.
6 Caroline, b. July 5, 1822; m. Huil, Edge.
*7 John A., b. Mar. 8, 1825, q. v.
8 Lydia M., b. Sept. 27, 1827; m. Arthur Blake, q. v.
9 David A., b. Feb., 1830; d. at Togus Military Asylum.
10 Martha E., b. Mar. 13, 1834; m. Jeremiah Blake.
11 John2 Merry (Jonatliati^) m. (1) Malcomb, (2) Slater, (3) Bet-
sey Thompson. He lived where George Wardwell does, at No. B. He d.
Feb. 9, 1870, a. 73; Betsey, w., d. Nov. 19, 1888, a. S3-9. Children:
12 Antoinette, b. Mar. 21, 1835; d. 1842.
FAMILY HISTORY. 589
13 Thomas T., b. Mar. 21, 1837; m. (1) Bliss, Dresden; (2)
Church, Naples; (3) Watts, Machias; lived in Lewiston; d. in 1S91.
14 Newell K., b. Mar. 18, 1839; m. Margaret S. Linekin; lived B. H. until
abt. 1903; now lives in Deering; chil.: I, Ada N., b. Nov. 11, 1862; d.
June 5, 1872. II, Emma, b. Dec. 17, 1864. Ill, Orrington L., b. Aug.
23, 1869; m. dau. of Manson C. Fuller; formerly in livery business at B.
H. ; purchased the town farm of B. a few years ago, where they now live.
15 Mary A., b. Apr. 5, 1841; m. Arthur M. Lewis, q. v.
16 Emeline, b. Apr. 24, 1843; m. George Wardwell; res. No. B. on her
father's homestead.
Third Generation.
(*5) WiLLARD^ Merry (David? Jonathan^) m. Elizabeth J. Trask; set.
at Back Narrows. Children: John S., 1843; Margaret S., 1845; Asenith F.,
1848; Alden B., 1850; Elizabeth S., 18.54; George A., 1857; William A.,
1859; Flora A., 1862.
(*7) John A.^ Merry (David? Jonathan^) m. Mary J. Reed. She died
Apr. 9, 1875; he died Aug. 4, 1904. They lived at Back Narrows. Children:
I, Charles P., b. June 24, 1845; m. Charlotte O. Bryer; chil.: Nancy E.,
Horace C, Ezekiel H. He d. Aug. 4, 1903; she d. Mar. 2, 1884. II, Jose-
phine, b. June 27, 1848. Ill, William B., b. Nov. 29, 1850; m. Jennie Ben-
nett, Edge.; formerly lived at Back Narrows, now at B. H.; chil.: Julia E.,
Edward C, Addie J., Lyman H., Zina P., Eva J., Jennie M.
1 William Miller m. Sarah F. Lewis, 18.54. They lived at West B. H. He
d. Aug. 15, 1900, a. 81-3. Children: James E., Bertha F., John C, Genette,
Gertrude, Joseph L.
2 James T. Miller, brother to above, m. Esther ; lived at West B. H.
Children: Edward J., dec; Lizzie, dec; Horace M., m. Leonora Tripp,
dealer in horses at B. Ctr.; Maud M., m. Liston Mclntire, lives at B. H.;
Claude, m., lives at West B. H. on homestead.
MONTGOMERY.
1 Robert Montgomery is first, by the record, of this name in Townsend.
He was descended from Scotch-Irish stock, but the names of his ancestors
are uncertain. The Montgomery who was a partner with Campbell in Pem-
aquid during Dunbar's administration may have been his father. The dates
would make this consistent, and the close relation of the two settlements
would make it probable, as in the case of several other families who were
divided between the two neighborhoods,— instance the McFarlands, Boyds
and McKowns. He may have been a brother to John Montgomery, who
emigrated from Ireland to Londonderrj', N. H., in 1747, and was there a
linen weaver, receiving as a premium for fine linen, woven for Washington
and his officers, from Congress, /40 and a diamond ring, the ring now being
in possession of a great-granddaughter in New York. The dates would make
this consistent. The real facts do not appear obtainable. We find Robert
and Sarah Montgomery living in Townsend Mar. 25, 1758, the date of his
590 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
will, with a family of five children, two of whom were married. They prob-
ably lived about where East Boothbay village is situated. The will was pro-
bated Sept. 27, 1763 (Lincoln Prob. Records, Vol. I, 48-9). As a sample of
the form of wills in those times this extract from his is given:
" Knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and
ordain this my last Will and testament, that is to say, first of all I give and
Recommend my soul into the hands of God, that gave it; and my body I
recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the dis-
cretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I
shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God."
In this will he bequeathed his wife, Sarah, one-third of both personal
and real estate after his debts were paid. To his sons James and Robert,
who were married, he gave five shillings each. To his daughter Anna, one-
half of the remainder of his estate; and to his unmarried sons, John and
Samuel, the remainder, to be divided between them. The name Montgom-
ery was numerous and prominent in Londonderry and Antrim Counties, Ire-
land, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. April 27, 1772, Sarah
Montgomery, widow, made her will, which was probated June 17, 1772. It
may, therefore, be fixed that Robert died in 1763 and his wife in 1772. The
fact that this family settled on the east side of the town, the Damariscotta
only dividing them from Bristol, and that John North, Alexander Nickels,
William Miller, Nathaniel Winslow and his wife, Martha, appear as witnesses
in these wills, all residents of Bristol, inclines the writer's opinion to the
Bristol family being ancestors, and that Montgomery who died while in
partnership with Campbell, in Dunbar's time, was the original immigrant
and father of Robert, of Townsend, and of John, who remained in Bristol
and was living there at the time of Robert's death. Children:
2 James, whose wife's name was Sarah; no mention of children; estate
prob. Sept. 5, 1764; probably lost at sea.
3 Robert, wife's name unknown; no mention of chil. ; est. prob. Sept. 5,
1764; probably lost at sea with his brother.
*4 John, b. abt. 1740, q. v.
6 Samuel, b. 1742; m. Jean Wyer, Bristol, 1769; d. June 3, 1808; s. p.;
adopted James and Samuel Murray after their mother's death.
6 Anna, b. 1747; m. John Murray, 1766, q. v. ; d. May 31, 1777.
Second Generation.
(*4) John'' Montgomery {Roberf^) m. Lydia Winslow, Bristol, 1769
(thought to have been dau. of Nathaniel and Martha Winslow). He died
June 23, 1786; she died Nov. 25, 1835. Children:
7 Sally, b. Nov. 10, 1770; m. William Fullerton, 1794, q. v.
*8 Robert, b. Mar. 1, 1772, q. v.
*9 Nathaniel, b. Dec. 27, 1773, q. v.
10 John, Jr., b. Nov. 8, 1775.
*11 William, b. Aug. 30, 1780, q. v.
*12 James, b. Mar. 31, 1782, q. v.
13 Samuel, b. Apr. 2, 1784.
14 Nicholas, b. Feb. 8, 1788; d. July 26, 1803.
Third Generation.
(*8) Robert' Montgomery (John,'^ Roberf^) m. Jane, dau. of John and
Margaret McCobb, 1796. He died Jan. 12, 1816. Their chil. were:
15 Mary, b. Apr. 28, 1797; m. Nathaniel Morse, Skowhegan.
16 Lydia, b. June 24, 1798; m. Isaac Sproule, Bris.
c -
z -
FAMILY HISTORY. 591
17 Nancy, b. May 16, 1800; m. Marshal Smith, q. v.
18 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1804; m. Isaac Fountain, Bris., 1822.
19 Rachel, b. Aug. 7, 1807; m. Isaac Rowell, Madison.
20 Jane VV., b. July 28, 1809; m. Jacob Orne, 1832.
21 Robert, b. June 5, 1814; see Cas., 186-; unm.
(*9) Nathaniel^ Montgomery (John,'^ Roberf^) m. (1) Betsey, dau. of
Daniel Knight, Jr., 1800; she died Sept. 10, 1807; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of John
Emerson, 1808; she died Mar. 31, 1867. He died July 8, 1858. Their home
was what is known as the Barlow place. Children:
22 Daniel, b. June 8, 1801 ; m. Lucinda Totman, 1830.
23 Levina, b. June 11, 1802; m. Mark Hitchcock.
24 Eliza, b. July 12, 1804; m. Luther Webb, Jr., New., 1823.
25 Synthia, b. Dec. 4, 1806.
26 Betsey, b. Sept. 10, 1807.
27 Julia, b. Apr. 13, 1809; m. Robert Webster, 1833.
28 John, b. Dec. 2, 1810; d. Sept. 20, 1831; unm.
29 Rebecca, b. Sept. 13, 1812; m. Charles Park; d. July 7, 1885.
30 Lydia, b. Aug. 12, 1814; d. June 17, 1822.
*31 Robert, b. June 2, 1816, q. v.
32 Dorothy, b. Mar. 13, 1818; m. Harvey Gaul, Bris., 1841; res. Maiden,
Mass.
33 Willard, b. Dec. 10, 1820; see Cas., 1844.
34 Caroline, b. Jan. 10, 1822; res. Boston; unm.
35 Prudence, b. Apr. 10, 1824; m. Arthur Libby, Chicago; their dau.,
Sarah E., m. Prof. Reinert A. Jernberg, professor in the Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary, May 5, 1887.
36 Abigail, b. Apr. 22, 1826; d. July 13, 1845; unm.
»37 Leonard, b. Aug. 12, 1829, q. v.
38 Emily, b. May 22, 1831; m. Simon Gaul; d. Nov. 20, 1857; one dau.,
Emily, who m. Frank Macy.
(*11) William" Montgomery {/ohn,^ Roberf^) m. (1) Charlotte, dau.
of Thomas and Catherine Boyd, 1808; she d. July 24, 1824; (2) Mrs. Eunice
Hodgdon, 1825. He was in trade for many years at B. H., where D. W.
Hodgdon lives; he d. Jan. 29, 1881.
(*12) James' Montgomery {John? Robert^) m. Jane, dau. of Andrew
Reed, Jr., 1812. Lived at E. B. He d. Aug. 9, 1837; she d. Nov. 9, 1877.
Children:
*39 Andrew Reed, b. June 26, 1813, q. v.
40 Mary Sales, b. Jan. 12, 1815.
41 James, b. Dec. 7, 1816.
42 Benjamin, b. Sept. 29, 1818.
43 Jane, b. June 23, 1820; m. Bradford Y. Baker, 1846.
44 Samuel, b. Apr. 16, 1822.
45 Frederick, b. Apr. 1, 1824; m. Cynthia A. Reed, 1862; he d. 1869; she
d. 1887.
46 Caleb, b. June 1, 1826.
47 Caroline, b. Feb. 12, 1828.
*48 William, b. Jan. 1, 1830, q. v.
*49 John, b. Nov. 29, 1831, q. v.
Fourth Generation.
(*31) Robert* Montgomery {Nathaniel,^ John,^ Roberf^) m. Mary
Clark. She d. Apr. 9, 1901, a. 79; he d. Mar. 12, 1882. He was a sea cap-
tain for many years. They had three chil.: I, Stanford J., see Cas., 1880;
II, Luria J.; Ill, Dora A., m. Millard F. Blake.
39
592 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
(*37) Leonard'' Montgomery {Nathaniel,^ John,''- Robert^) m. Sarah J.
Webber, Deering, 1861; res. on homestead. Children: I, Adalbert, m. (1)
Isabel Montgomery, (2) Mary Thorpe; II, EHza J., m. Alfred Race; III,
Ellen E., m. Edward H. Greene; IV, Charlotte W., res. Roxbury, Mass.;
V, Augusta G., m. Frank G. Brown; VI, Sarah E. L., m. W. H. Rice.
(*39) Andrew R.^ Montgomery (James,^ John,'^ Robert^) m. Ruth
Seavey, 1839. He d. Nov. 12, 1895; she d. Dec. 31, 1900. Children: Mary
Julia; Ruth A., m. Charles Blake; Lydia J.; Eliza P.; Isabella, m. Adelbert
Montgomery, dec; Caleb, Charles A., James A. S.
(*48) William* Montgomery {James,^ Joh?i,'^ Roberf^) m. Sarah E.
Seavey. They res. in Maiden, Mass. Children: Mary, Carrie M., Norris
B., Ruby K., William Low.
(*49) John* Montgomery ( James, ^ John, ^ Robert^) m. Ann, dau. o'
Charles Knight, 1857. Res. at E. B.; painter. He d. Sept. 19, 1901; she d
Apr. 24, 1905. Children: I, Thaddeus L., m. Lizzie Murray; II, Addie L.,
m. (1) James R. Auld, (2) Fred Orne, 1905; III, Mabel E., m. L. A. Dun-
ton; all res. at B. H.; IV, Victor K., m. Isabel Seavey, res. E. B.
MOODY.
Daniel H. Moody was b. in Pittston, east village. May 26, 1840, the son
of Daniel and Hannah (Kincaid) Moody. Daniel Moody, Senior, was b. in
Whitefield, the son of Jeremiah Moody, an early settler there and a Rev.
soldier. The subject of this sketch went to Calif, in 1860, returning in 1864.
He taught 42 terms of school about his locality, was six years on the board
of selectmen and represented his district in the Legislature while living at
E. Pittston. He m. Hattie B., dau. of Dr. Horatio G. Allen, Dresden, Nov.
26, 1871. In 1883 he came to B. H., in company with Dr. Allen, and estab-
lished a drug business, see Chap. XIX. Dr. Allen and his wife both died a
few years later at their home. Mr. Moody has served several years on the
school board and was appointed Coll. of Customs for the Wiscasset Dist. in
the McKinley administration, which office he still holds. They had three
children: Edwin G., d. 1884, see Cas.; Blanch S., a teacher in the B. H.
schools, and Gladys K., dec.
MULLINS.
Robert T. Mullins m. Naomi Farmer, 1837. They lived at W. B. H.
He d. Aug. 23, 1864, a. 52-5; she d. July 7, 1898. Children: I, Samuel J.,
b. June 22, 1838; d. 1875. II, John W., b. Aug. 20, 1841; m. Melissa J.
Westman, 1865. Ill, Eliza C, b. Aug. 29, 1844; m. George S. Wylie. IV,
Robert G., b. Aug. 14, 1846. V, Thomas E., b. Sept. 14, 1848; d. in youth.
MURRAY.
1 John Murray, who m. Anne Montgomery, was a prominent early resi-
dent at B. Ctr. She was the only dau. of Robert and Sarah Montgomery.
It is thought that he was of the Murray family in Antrim and that he, per-
haps, came directly here from Ireland, as a young man, settling among rela-
tives and marrying soon after, though it is not unlikely that his parents may
FAMILY HISTOEY. ■ 593
have come to America about the time of the Dunbar settlement, settling, as
many did, to the westward and the son came later to Boothbay. His home
was where John K. Corey lives and for several years after marriage he held
an innkeeper's license. While not a matter of public record, there are ref-
erences to show that the old plantation proceedings were carried on in his
house, and that prior to the incorporation of the town, which was before his
marriage, he lived there and his house served the purpose of a townhouse.
Meetings were held there by the Cong. Society previous to the erection of
their church. A Robert Murray, supposed to have been a brother to John,
appears frequently in early town and probate records, but after a few refer-
ences his name disappeared and the trace is lost. It has been thought that
they were related to the Rev. John Murray, to which opinion the author is
inclined, but no known proof exists of the fact. Anne, wife, d. May 31, 1777,
in her 30th year. He m. (2) Elizabeth Chapman, Ipswich, 1779, but the
dates of their deaths are not known. No children are found recorded under
the second marriage. Children:
2 Robert Montgomery, b. Oct. 27, 1767.
3 John, b. Sept. 15, 1769.
*4 James, b. June 27, 1772, q. v.
*5 Samuel, b. Apr. 10, 1774, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*4) James'' Murray (/o/m^) m. Esther, dau. of Thomas and Catherine
Boyd. He was adopted by Samuel ]\Iontgomery, his uncle, after the death
of his mother. They lived where Samuel Montgomery had, and the place is
now in the possession of his grandson, Isaac Murray. With his younger
brother, Samuel, who also was adopted by his uncle, they built and carried
on the Murray Mill previously referred to. From this couple descend most
of the members of the Murray family now living in this locality. He died
Nov. 14, 1852; she died Mar. 7, 1861. Children:
6 John, b. Dec. 8, 1801; m. Abigail Pinkham; lived near Pleasant Cove;
he d. Apr. 25, 1893; she d. Aug. 10, 1881.
7 Nancy, b. June 25, 1803; d. 1806.
8 Susanna, b. Mar. 30, 1805.
9 Alice, b. Apr. 21, 1807; m. Brooks, Boston.
*10 Samuel, b. Nov. 24, 1808, q. v.
11 Caroline, b. June 23, 1810; d. 1828.
*12 Rufus, b. May 14, 1812, q. v.
13 Jane, b. June 19, 1814; m. Miles Hagan.
14 James, Jr., b. Jan. 26, 1816; m. Fanny Hodgdon.
15 Charles, b. Feb. 21, 1818; m. Mary E. F. Linekin, Belfast.
16 Freeman, b. Jan. 30, 1820; set. in Boston.
(*5) Samuel^ Murray (JohrO) m. Sarah, dau. of Thomas and Catherine
Boyd. He was connected in business through life with his brother James.
They lived at E. B. He d. Mar. 6, 1847; she d. Aug. 10, 1849. Children:
17 Robert, b. Apr. 17, 1807; d. Aug. 5, 1834.
18 Sarah, b. Feb. 27, 1809; m. James Seavey, q. v.
19 Thomas, b. Feb. 3, 1811; d. May 12, 1893; unm.
20 William, b. 1813; d. Aug. 27, 1888; unm.
*21 Levi, b. 1826, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*10) Samuel^ Murray (James,'^ John^) m. Sarah, dau. of Jeremiah
Holton. They lived at E. B. where Isaac, their son, now lives. He rebuilt
594 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
the house in its present form and for business followed farming. He died
Apr. 15, 1870; she died Nov. 8, 1866. Children:
*22 Isaac, b. Sept. 3, 1841, q. v.
23 Caroline, b. May 5, 1843; m. Austin Reed.
24 Mary E., b. May 9, 1846; unm.
*25 Albert, b. Jan. 14, 1850, q. v.
26 Samuel D., b. June 12, 1853; m. Delia F. Clifford, Dam.
27 John Thorpe, b. Sept. 9, 1856; m. Nancy Poor.
28 Lizzie B., b. Jan. 26, 1861; m. Thaddeus L. Montgomery, q. v.
(*12) RuFUS^ Murray {James," JohnS) m. Margaret S. Tibbetts, Bris.;
she was b. Oct. 11, 1826. They lived at E. B. He was a ship carpenter.
He died Apr. 7, 1874. Children:
29 Freeman, b. Mar. 17, 1848; m. Ada Whitehead, 1888. They live at E.
B. He carries on boat building.
30 Lyman S., b. June 12, 1849; m. Laura E. Marr, 1S90; d. Jan. 30, 1896.
31 Nancy J., b. Aug. 12, 1850; m. John R. McDougall, q. v.
32 Abby O., b. Sept. 4, 1854; m. Clarence M. Jones, 1875; lives in Noble.
33 George T., b. Aug. 22, 1857; m. Nellie A. Sargent, 1882; sea captain;
res. at B. H.
34 Celia P., b. Apr. 18, 1863; m. George Foster, 1883; d. Dec. 13, 1901.
35 Rufus P., b. Junes, 1865; m. Sarah Goodwin, 1893; lives in Bristol, R. L
36 Laura E., b. May 12, 1868; m, Freeman H. McKown, 1893, q. v.
(*21) Levis Murray (5a>«af/,V<''^«M m. Sophia P. Hodgdon, 1848.
They lived at E. B. He was a ship carpenter. He died Nov. 16, 1865; she
died 1892. Children: I, Allen W., b. Feb. 22, 1850; m. Ella Bennett; one
dau., Maud, m. Capt. J. C. McKown. II, William, b. Mar. 12, 1854; d. Mar.
15, 1871. Ill, James R. B., b. Apr. 1, 1856.
Fourth Generation.
(*22) Isaac L.* Murray (Samuel ,^ James? John^) m. Mary E., dau. of
Francis Sargent, 1866. They live at E. B. in the homestead of his father,
where Samuel Montgomery originally settled. Children:
37 Philip H., b. Jan. 25, 1868; m. Lena Seavey; res. at E. B., pilot.
38 Minnie M., b. Oct. 11, 1871; m. Tyler Hodgdon, q. v.
39 Cordelia H., b. June 11, 1875; d. Mar. 6, 1904.
40 Nellie K., b. Feb. 13, 1877; m. William E. Rice.
41 Mary E., b. Apr. 13, 1881.
42 Lewis N., b. Feb. 13, 1884.
43 Richard H., b. Dec. 13, 1888.
(*25) Albert* Murray (Samuel,^ James,^ John^) m. Abbie G., dau. of
Francis Sargent. They live on Wall's Pt. He and his sons have followed
the fishing business, principally as masters of porgy steamers, in which they
have been very successful. Children: I, William B., b. Apr. 6, 1871; II,
Sarah C, b. June 25, 1873; III, Eugene, b. Feb. 16, 1875; IV, Albert, Jr., b.
July 24, 1877; V, Leon E., b. May 24, 1880; VI, Edward F., b. Sept. 28, 1884.
NELSON.
1 Eli Nelson, b. in 1796, m. Weltha Harris. They lived at Cape Newa-
gen, where he commenced trade abt. 1815 and afterward engaged in the
fisheries. She d. Nov. 9, 1834, a. 27; he m. (2) Sarah F. Harris, who d.
May 11, 1891, a. 81. He d. Feb. 18, 1868. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 595
*2 Albert, b. Oct. 14, 1828, q. v.
3 Eli H., b. Jan. 5, 1830; m. Sarah R. Cameron, 1856; he d. Oct. 7, 1866-
she d. Aug. 18, 1868.
4 Mary Jones, b. Oct. 80, 1831; m. Wilmot Lewis, 2d.
6 Sterling, b. May 12, 1833.
6 Weltha A., b. Mar. 21, 1836.
7 Angelette, b. Oct. 11, 1837; d. Oct. 22, 1859.
8 Plummer T., b. May 23, 1839.
9 Flora, b. Mar. 24, 1850.
*10 Clark L., b. May 21, 1852, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Albert^ Nelson (EH^) m. Ellen . He d. Sept. 11, 1903; she
d. July 11, 1903. Children: I, Addie S., b. July 12, 1867; II, John Edwin, b.
Aug. 12, 1869; III, Dexter J., b. Sept. 5, 1875; IV, Geneva M., b. Mar. 20,
1878.
(*10) Clark L.^ Nelson {Eli^) m. Laura B., dau. of Freeman Grover.
He d. Mar. 25, 1887; she d. Jan. 20, 1889. Children: Ernest G., Arthur C,
Chesley W., see Chap. XXIII.
NICKERSON.
1 Capt. Joseph Nickerson was born in Brewster, Mass., Nov. 4, 1818, the
son of Seth and Patia (Eldredge) Nickerson. He went early to sea and rap-
idly rose to master mariner. He followed the sea for several years and also
did contract work; his principal contract being that of building Minot's Head
Light Station. In 1865 he came to West B. H., locating a fishing business,
as the firm of Nickerson, Perry & Thatcher, on McKown's Pt., and lived
where George Greenleaf does. Later, with his nephew, Alonzo R. Nicker-
son, as the firm of J. Nickerson & Co., the business of ship building and
repairing was commenced in 1870, in connection with a general store. He
sold his interest in 1874. In 1885 he came to B. H., where he afterward
lived. He was always a Democrat, and, though that party was in the minor-
ity in Lincoln Co., he served nine years on the Board of County Commis-
sioners. For many years before his death he was a member of the BoarS of
Trustees of the Boothbay Savings Bank. He d. Jan. 7, 1897. He m. Mary
S., dau. of Samuel and Ruth Mayo, Chatham, Mass., who was b. in 1823, in
1843. She res. at B. H.
2 Capt. Stephen Nickerson, son of Seth and Patia (Eldredge) Nickerson,
was bom in Brewster, Mass., Mar. 28, 1814. He m. Charity, dau. of Nathan
and Bethia Nickerson, Nov. 29, 1839. His ancestry ran to William Nicker-
son, who came from England to America in 1630. He commenced a seafar-
ing life at the age of sixteen, going for sixteen years deep-sea fishing, then
for ten years he commanded vessels in the coasting trade bet. Salem and
New York. In 1856 he commenced in the South American trade, and dur-
ing the Civil War, as master and owner of the sch. Henry P. Russell, trans-
ported troops. At its close, for the American Colonization Co., he took to
Liberia 285 ex-slaves, a movement which has found its way into general his-
tory. In 1877 he came to B., where his brother Joseph and his son Alonzo
had been living for several years, the result being the establishment of the
firm of S. Nickerson & Sons, in the general fish and salt business, at B. H.
596 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AT.
that year, see p. 373. He d. at South Harwich, Mass., Oct. 11, 1905. Mrs.
Nickerson d. at B. H., June 30, 1889. Three of their sons located at B. H.
South Harwich was the home of the fam. before coming to Maine.
3 Capt. Stephen E. Nickerson was b. in So. Harwich, Mass., in 1840. He
m. Imogene Smalley of that town. They came to B. H. in 1877, where he
became a member of the firm of S. Nickerson & Sons. He commenced
early at sea, following that life for about twenty years, principally on foreign
voyages and much of the time master of his vessel. Their chil. were five in
number, three of whom are living: Rose H., engaged in trade in B. H.;
Cynthia Dora, who m. Clarence R. Hodgdon, see Chap. XXIII, and Carl-
ton B., see Chap. XXIII. Capt. Nickerson died June 10, 1903.
4 Alonzo R. Nickerson was b. in So. Harwich, Apr. 16, 1848. He came
to B. as bookkeeper for Nickerson, Perry & Thatcher, May 1, 1867. He m.
(1) Abbie J., dau. of James T. Beath, Jan. 8, 1871; she d. Sept. 11, 1883; (2)
Natalie B. Noyes, Castine, Jan. 20, 1885. Their family consists of one son,
Louis Stephen, by the former marriage, and Parker Toward, Hazel Lowe
and Natalie Noyes. In 1870 he became partner in the firm of J. Nickerson
& Co., succeeding to the entire business in 1874, becoming member of S.
Nickerson & Sons in 1877. For official positions in town see Chap. XVI;
besides these he has been a trustee of the Boothbay Savings Bank since 1884;
in 1888 he was appointed on the Staff of Gov. Marble; was senator from
Lincoln Co., 1895-99; presidential elector in 1896; has been a member of
the Lincoln Co. Rep. Com. from 1898 to 1904; member of the Rep. State
Com. since 1900; State Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries since 1897.
5 Arthur E. Nickerson, b. in So. Harwich, Mass. He came to Boothbay
in 1880 and became a member of the firm of S. Nickerson & Sons at that
time. He m. Flora L. Duley, Starks. Since the dec. of Capt. Stephen E.
Nickerson, and the sale of the business of S. Nickerson & Sons, except cer-
tain reservations, to the Baldwin Fish Co., a new firm, composed of A. R.
and A. E. Nickerson, styled Nickerson Bros. , has been formed for conduct-
ing the alewive business at Nobleboro and Warren, besides mackereling,
etc The headquarters are at B. H. This fam. have one son, Harry.
ORCHARD.
Benjamin Orchard m. Susan Reed in 1842. They lived on road from
B. Ctr. to Hodgdon's Is. He died July, 1887. Children: I, Romanzo, b.
Sept. 12, 1844; d. Jan. 3, 1870, see Cas. II, Olive F., b. Sept. 28, 1846; unm.
Ill, Warren B., b. Nov. 2, 1853; m. Gertie L. Pinkham, 1886; res. on home-
stead.
ORNE.
1 William Orne came to Cape Newagen Island a short time before his
marriage in 1795 to Rebecca Morton, of Friendship. He set. on the east side
of Ebenecook Cove and followed farming and fishing. His name appears in
some of the early records as William Horn, which is a clerical error. The
name, as it now appears in spelling, is the same as it appeared about Ports-
FAMILY HISTORY. 597
moutJi and Isle of Shoals several generations ago. The error is explainable
from the fact that, as mentioned elsewhere, a runaway sailor by the name of
Cornelius Conrad located at Cape Newagen about 1772, marrying a dau.
of John Chaples and at once changed his name to Cornelius Horn. A fam.
of this name followed, which is now extinct, but no fam. actually by the
name of Horn, other than by this descent, has ever lived in this locality.
The similarity of sound led some of the early town clerks into this error.
William died July 31, 1846, a. 72-6. Children:
*2 William, Jr., b. Dec. 11, 1797, q. v.
*3 James, b. May 28, 1800, q. v.
4 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1803; m. William Pierce; d. 189-4.
5 Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1805; m. Charles Thorpe, q. v.
*6 Jacob, b. Nov. 15, 1807, q. v.
7 Charlotte, b. Apr. 8, 1810; m. Charles Thorpe, his second m.
*8 Silas, b. Aug. 28, 1812, q. v.
*9 Thomas, b. May 8, 1814, q. v.
10 Miles, b. Sept. 14, 1817; m. Frances Knight.
Second Generation.
(*2)William2 Orne, Jr., ( fKz7/Mw;i) m. Elizabeth Hall, Georgetown.
He set. at the beach near Hendricks Head and for a time was light keeper
there. He d. Oct. 3, 1886; she d. Mar. 24. 1863, a. 61-11-14. Children:
11 James, b. 1823; sea captain; d. May 29, 1895.
*12 Freeman, b. Jan. 4, 1825, q. v.
13 Thomas, unm.
14 William, m. Louisa Pinkham.
15 Eliza J., b. 1827; m. George Webber; d. July 7, 1806.
16 Benjamin, b. 1830; m. Lydia C. Pierce; d. Sept. 3, 1882; she d. Oct. 9,
1890.
17 Margery, m. Stephen S. Thompson.
(*3) James'^ Orne ( WilHatn}-) m. Mahala Pierce, 1827. He was master
of a vessel at times and was also engaged in the bank cod fishery, see Chap.
XXI. He d. May 29, 1895; she d. Sept. 30, 1892. Children:
18 Silas B., b. Oct. 11, 1828; m. Euphesena, dau. of John Andrews; res.
in Portland.
19 Baker P., b. Dec. 19, 1829; m. Emma A., dau. of John Andrews; res.
in Portland.
20 Mary Elizabeth, b. Feb. 12, 1830; unm.; d. June 28, 1904. For many
years she was governess in the fam. of Hon. Anson Burlingame, and
with them was in most of the capitals of Europe during his diplomatic
career.
21 Osias, b. Dec. 7, 1832; unm.; res. South.
22 Sarah A., b. Jan. 27, 1834; m. Chapman N. Reed, q. v.
23 Elbridge, b. Aug. 27, 1837.
24 Arvilla T., b. Sept. 27, 1839; m. Capt. Jason Carlisle, q. v.
25 Zina Burton, b. Oct. 13, 1843; unm.; res. in South.
26 Charlotte Pierce, b. Feb. 20, 1846; m. John A. Reed, q. v.
27 Eliza Ellen, b. Nov. 24, 1847; m. Benjamin Grover, q. v.
28 Emma J., b. Feb. 27, 1851; m. William A. King, Gloucester, Mass.
29 Bertha J., m. Horace M. Wylie, q. v.
(*6) Jacob^ Orne (IVilliaiii') m. Jane Montgomery; lived at B. H. and
carried on a fishing business. He purchased the place on Oak St. first built
by John W. Weymouth and now owned by Orne Bros. He d. Sept. 26, 1877;
she d. Apr. 5, 1874. Children: I, Nancy J., b. Jan. 25, 1834; m. William
Foster. II, Miles A., b. July 2.3, 1837. Twochil., Orinand Lydia A., d. in inf.
598 mSTOKY OF boothbay.
(*8) SiLAS^ Ornk {Williani') m. (1) Judith Decker, 1837; (2) Mary Eliz-
abeth, dau. of Samuel Lewis and wid. of Bailey Reed, 1849. He set. at West
B. H. in 1837, where he afterward lived. From that date until 1861 he was
partner with his brother Thomas, engaged in trade and fishing. They run
boats and also purchased fish. He d. Jan. 15, 1876; Judith, w., d. ftiay 25,
1849. Children:
30 Silas Cushman, b. Dec. 14, 1838; unm. ; lives in Lynn, Mass.
31 Augusta, b. June 21, 1842; m. Capt. John Truman.
32 Clara A., b. Dec. 21, 1847; d. May 18, 1867.
33 Abby Jane, b. July 16, 1850; m. William Crocker; lives in Lynn, Mass.
34 Rosila, b. Apr. 21, 1852; m. (1) Charles H. Crooker, Bath, (2) George
H. Snow; lives in B. H.
35 Alvah M., b. June 13, 1854; m. Augusta, dau. of Alonzo Chapman.
36 Mary Emma, b. Sept. 17, 1856; d. June 27, 1869.
37 Fred, b. June 17, 1859; m. Allie L. Auld.
38 Jennie H., b. Oct. 31, 1861; m. Sumner Reed.
39 Martha R., b. Apr. 7, 1864; m. W. F. Dudley.
40 Thaddeus W., b. Feb. 7, 1870.
(*9) Thomas^ Orne {William^) m. Margaret Campbell, 1837; set. at
West B. H., 1837. Was partner with his brother Silas from 1837 to 1861, in
fishing and trade. The store was opened in 1845 and conducted by Thomas
until 1899. He has been an active member of the Methodist Society, an
earnest prohibitionist, and now (1906), at the age of nearly 92, he has a clear
memory of the events of his lifetime and by his reminiscences has afforded
valuable aid in the preparation of this volume. Children:
41 Charles S., b. May 18, 1840; m. Sophronia Vantassel; merchant at
West B. H.
42 Elizabeth, b. June 30, 1842; m. W. C. Wilson; res. B. H.
43 Woodbury D., b. Jan. 6, 1845; m. Emeline Reed.
44 Thomas P., b. June 3, 1847; d. in youth.
45 Caroline R., b. Jan. 14, 1850; d. in youth.
46 Parker M., b. Sept. 11, 1851; m. (1) Georgia Blake, (2) Hattie Lewis.
47 Ada E., b. Oct. 13, 1853; m. Fred Campbell, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*12) Freeman^ Orne ( William, Jr.,''' William^) m. Apphia J. Cameron.
In his earlier life, as partner with Daniel Cameron, as Cameron & Orne, and
later with his sons, as Freeman Orne & Sons, he conducted an extensive
business over a long period at bank fishing, see Chap. XXL He died Aug.
25, 1901; she died Oct. 27, 1886. Children:
48 Sumner, b. Oct. 22, 1851; m. Abby E., dau. of Joseph Maddocks; res.
in South.; has had a long experience in town affairs, see Chap. XVL
49 Zina, b. Sept. 2, 1854; m. Elizabeth H., dau. of Jonathan P. Thompson;
formerly lived at South., now in B. H.; three chil.: Fannie S., Sidney
B., see Chap. XXIII, and Percy Freeman.
50 Sarah E., b. Aug. 23, 1857; m. Asbury Decker; d. Oct. 3, 1888.
51 Snow B., b. Feb. 28, 1860; unm.; res. in South.
Enoch Perkins came to B. when about twelve years old from Dam.,
where his father's family lived. From that time on he went to sea, marrying
Isora, dau. of Joshua McKown, 1868. They lived at West B. H. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 599
I, Frederick D., m. Carrie E. Hodgdon; res. at B. H., with Simpson &
Perkins. II, Merrill A., m. Bessie Simpson; res. B. H., member of firm of
Simpson & Perkins. Ill, Bert, m. Rosa Scully, South. IV, Nettie IVI., dec.
V, Addie T., m. Joseph Miller; res. at B. H. VI, Jennie M., dec. VII,
Bessie L., m. John Rjan, Bath.
PIERCE.
This is the most numerous family on Southport and has been such for
more than a centurj-; it is also one of the oldest. Four brothers and a
sister, in order of age as follows, came from Marblehead, Mass., to Cape
Newagen Island between 1764 and 1769: Samuel, Susanna, Silvester (some-
times rec. Silvenus), Joseph and David. There is reason to suppose that
this family descended from John Pierce, "citizen and cloth worker of Lon-
don," as described in an ancient charter to him (see pp. 60-61). He proba-
bly never came to America, but his son Richard married the daughter of
John Brown, of Pemaquid, and they later settled in Marblehead. The fam.
names and other circumstances are strongly presumptive of this descent.
They will be taken up in order of age.
1 Samuel Pierce, date of birth unknown, m. Elizabeth Thompson, Mon-
hegan, 1767. This is said to have been the first marriage on that island of
which any record exists. She was the dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth (An-
drews) Thompson, who first settled at Monhegan, but became the founders
of the Thompson family in Southport. He settled on what has since been
known as the Maddocks e.state, building a home and rearing his fam. there.
Late in life he sold to his son-in-law, Palgrave Maddocks, and moved to Bel-
fast, where he died, but the date is unknown. Elizabeth, his wife, is buried
in the old cemetery at W. Southport, and from her gravestone we find she
died Nov. 4, 1834, a. 84. Children:
2 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 16, 1769.
*3 Jonathan, b. June 7, 1771, q. v.
4 Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1773; m. Edmund Leason, 1791.
5 Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1775; m. Peter Dunton, 1804.
6 Abigail, b, Nov. 16, 1776; m. Robert Bryer, 1802.
7 Susanna, b. Sept. 13, 1778.
8 Rhuhama, b. July 15, 1780; m. Palgrave Maddocks, q. v.
9 Joanna, b. Apr. 15, 1782.
10 Samuel, Jr., b. Mar. 8, 1784.
*11 George W., b. Feb. 7, 1788, q. v.
12 Harriet T., b. Sept. 22, 1789; m. Rev. John Wilkinson, 1814.
13 Edward B., b. May 18, 1792; m. Dorcas McMahan, Georgetown, 1814.
14 Thomas H., b. Jan. 23, 1795; m. Hannah Hathorne, Woolwich, 1823.
15 Susanna, sister to the four brothers settling in South., m. John W.
Brown, Ipswich, 1772.
16 Silvester Pierce m. Elizabeth ; dates of births, deaths and mar-
riage and family name of wife are wanting. Some doubt has been cast on
this man being brother to Samuel, Joseph and David, but the oldest mem-
bers of the family now in Southport, for the most part, think that he was.
His family is much less represented in the town at present in descent than
the others. Children :
600 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
17 Silvester, Jr., b. Jan. 30, 1773; m. Rebecca White, 1796. Chil.: I, Re-
becca, b. Oct. 26, 1797. 11, Margaret, b. Apr. 2, 1813. Ill, Samuel, b.
Oct. 12, 181-4; m. Charlotte Ham, 1837; he d. Feb. 11, 1901; she d.
July 13, 1897. IV, Moses, b. Dec. 1, 1817; drowned in San Francisco
abt. 1870.
18 Samuel, b. May 10, 1776.
19 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 10, 1778.
20 Sally, b. Mar. 18, 1780; m. Simon Brown, Bris.
21 Polly, b. Nov. 8, 1783.
22 Moses, b. Mar. 15, 1788.
23 Jenny, b. Dec. 20, 1790.
24 Joseph Fierce m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Thompson,
1777. At that date they had moved from Monhegan to Cape Newagen Is.
Dates of his birth and death unknown. She died July 11, 1834. He settled
at West South, and Joe's Island took its name from him. When advanced
in age he moved to the Cape. Children:
*25 Joseph, Jr., b. May 25, 1777, q. v.
*26 David, b. Mar. 29, 1779, q. v.
27 Sarah, b. Mar. 12, 1781; m. Joseph Gyor, Bris., 1803.
28 Elizabeth, b. June 15, 1783; m. William Harris, 1804, q. v.
29 Lydia, b. Aug. 12, 1787.
30 Polly, b. July 29, 1789; m. Samuel Harris, Jr., 1809, q. v.
31 Margaret, b. June 29, 1791.
*32 William, b. 1800, q. v.
33 David Pierce, b. 1757, m. Jenny . He was youngest of the four
brothers, and located at W. Southport, on what is now Marr's Harbor. He
d. Oct. 16, 1788. Family name of his wife or date of her death unk. Chil. :
34 Jenny, b. Mar. 17, 1783.
*35 David, Jr., b. Mar. 23, 1786, q. v.
36 Ebenezer, b. Mar. 13, 1788.
Second Generation.
(*3) Jonathan- Pierce (Saiimel'^) m. Lydia, dau. of John and Mary
Rand. He established an extensive business in general trade and bank fish-
ing at Marr's Harbor, which he continued successfully for about half a cen-
tury and was then succeeded by his two sons-in-law, Thomas and Nahum
Marr, see Chaps. XIX and XXI. He d. INIay 26, 1847; she d. Jan. 1, 1845,
a. 68-6. Children:
37 Maria B., b. Mar. 7, 1795; d. young.
38 Lydia, b. Aug. 5, 1'799; m. William Thompson, q. v.
39 Samuel, b. Sept. 5, 1801; m. Eleanor, dau. of Palgrave Maddocks; he
d. Mar. 5, 1861; she d. Jan. 18, 1894.
40 John,, b. Apr. 4, 1804; m. Mary Webber.
41 Harriet, b. July 1, 1807; m. John Thorpe, 1829.
42 Elizabeth, b. June 8, 1809; m. Eliphalet Thorpe, 1829.
43 Jerome L., b, July 23, 1811; d. young.
44 Warren, b. Dec. 28, 1813; m. Mary J. Marr, 1840; d. Dec. 15, 1851.
45 Thomas, b. Oct. 8, 1816; m. Jane Webber; he d. July 9, 1852; she d.
June 14, 1889.
46 Mary Ann, b. Apr. 14, 1819; m. Thomas Marr, Jr., Georgetown, 1842, q. v.
47 Julia, b. Oct. 23, 1823; m. Nahum B. Marr, q. v.
(*11) George W.'^ Pierce {Samuel'^) m. Maria Barnes, 1811. He died
Aug. 27, 1866; she died June 12, 1883, a. 88-3. Children:
48 Mary B., b. Dec. 24, 1811; m. Stephen Pierce, 1832.
FAMILY HISTORY. 601
49 Harriet, b. Apr. 12, 1813; m. Alfred Brewer, q. v.
50 Lydia, b. June 5, 1815; m. Gumey, Chelsea, Mass.
51 Susanna, b. May 2, 1817; m. Moses Jewett, Westport.
52 Sarah, b. July 18, 1819; m. Charles Prince.
53 Ann Maria, b. Nov. 20, 1828; m. Robert Maddocks.
54 George W., Jr., b. Nov. 28, 1830; m. Julia Thompson.
55 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 16, 1832; m. Silas Pierce.
(*25) Joseph^ Pierce, Jr., (Joseph^) m. Abigail, dau. of John and Mary
Rand, 1800. They lived at the Cape and are buried in a small yard there.
He died Oct. 25, 1860; she died Jan. 21, 1870, a. 90. Children:
56 David, 2d, b. Dec. 15, 1803; m. (1) Martha Thompson, 1825, (2) Abigail
Decker, 1841; he d. Sept. 9, 1884; Abigail, w., d. May 3, 1870, a. 63"
57 Jonathan, twin brother to David; no rec.
58 Stephen, b. Mar. 13, 1805; m. Mary B. Pierce, 1832; he d. Jan. 28, 18f
she d. Mar. 3, 1884, a. 73.
69 George, b. Oct. 4, 1807; m. Mary A. Decker, 1832; he d. Dec. 13, 1S(
she d. July 13, 1868, a. 55-3.
60 Jesse, b. Nov. 2, 1809; set. in Portland.
61 Ebenezer, b. Nov. 2, 1812; set. in Portland.
62 Joseph, Jr., b. Jan. 3, 1814; m. Sarah Lewis, 1832; lived at Cape.
63 Elizabeth, b. July 9, 1816; m. Frank Jones, 1834.
64 Sally, b. Oct. 9, 1818; m. Charles Jewett, West.
*65 Miles, b. July 29, 1823, q. v.
(*26) David2 Pierce [Joseph^) m. Sarah Ozier. He died Oct. 11, 1864;
she died Sept. 29, 1864, a. 79. Children:
66 Baker, b. July 24, 1806; set. in Rockland.
67 Mahala, b. Sept. 4, 1807; m. James Orne, q. v.
68 Nancy, b. Nov. 3, 1811; m. Yates, Round Pond.
69 Hannah, b. June 14, 1817; m. and set. in Round Pond.
70 Charles, b. May 3, 1819; m. Sarah Pierce; d. Oct. 20, 1876.
71 Eliza, b. Mar. 27, 1824; m. and set. in Round Pond.
72 Silas, b. June 17, 1828; m. Elizabeth T. Pierce; he d. June 22, 1892;
she d. Jan. 1, 1902.
(*32) William^ Pierce (JosephP) m. Elizabeth Orne, 1825. He died
Apr. 24, 1859; she died July 15, 1894. Children:
73 Willard Thorpe, b. Oct. 30, 1826; d. young.
*74 David Porter, twin brother to above, q. v.
75 Charlotte, b. Sept. 8, 1828; m. John Maddocks, q. v.
76 Alfred, b. Oct. 17, 1830; m. Althea Miller; d. Jan. 21, 1892.
77 Cyrus William, b. Dec. 6, 1832; m. Margaret J. Pierce; he d. June 11,
1883; she d. Mar. 31, 1891.
78 Mary Alice, b. Nov. 2, 1834; m. Joseph R. Willey.
79 Lydia C, b. July 11, 1839; m. Benjamin Orne.
80 Hattie B., m. James Coolen.
81 Thomas O., m. Olivia Rose.
82 Otis W., m. Lulu Pierce.
(*35) David'^ Pierce, Jr., [David'^) m. Martha Thompson, 1825; she
died Aug. 27, 1830. Children: I, Samuel, b. Oct. 11, 1826. II, Albion K.
P., b. Aug. 17, 1828. This family removed to Gloucester, Mass.
Third Generation.
(*65) MiLES^ Pierce [Joseph, Jr.,^ Jostph^) m. Sarah A., dau. of
Andrew Farmer. Lived at B. H. and had a grocery store on Atlantic St.
He died June 3, 1895; she died Nov. 7, 1884. Children: I, Ervin, b. Sept.
11, 1856; res. B. H. II, Addie, b. Jan. 30, 1859; d. Mar. 11,. 1882. Ill,
602 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Elmer, b. Apr. 11, 1861; d. Oct. 26, 1884. IV, Nettie M., b. Jan. 24, 1863;
m. R. A. Lewis; res. at B. H. V, Selden A., b. Oct. 13, 1868; d. Mar. 8,
1882. VI, Abbie, b. July 20, 1873; d. in inf.
(*14) David Porter^ Pierce {William,'^ Joseph^) m. (1) Mary ;
she d. June 27, 1862, a. 19; (2) Mrs. Loud, Round Pond. He d. Nov.
30, 1903. Children: I, 'William, m. Flora Barter; res. South. II, Betsey
G., m. Irving McKown; res. South. Ill, Edward, m. in Pensacola, Fla.;
res. South. IV, Walter, m. Ethel Moore; res. South. V, Hardy, dec. V'l,
Joynell, res. in Gardiner.
(39) Samuel and Eleanor Pierce were the parents of Emerson Pierce,
who did business several years where the firm of Pierce & Hartung are now
established at B. H, Another son. Pall G., was partner in the above firm.
He died Dec. 24, 1903. Samuel is mentioned in Chap. XXI, doing business
at Marr's Harbor.
PINKHAM.
1 Benjamin and Judith Pinkham came to Townsend in 1759 and settled
where the late Eben Clisby lived at No. B. They were from Dover, N. H.,
but it is claimed by some of the descendants that they came from Merryco-
neag (Harpswell) to Townsend, and by the Dover family that they went from
Dover to Merryconeag instead of Townsend. It is likely that both may be
correct. Benjamin was one of seven brothers and several sisters, all born in
Dover, N. H. One of the brothers, Ebenezer, settled in Merryconeag and
is ancestor of the family there. Benjamin may have settled for a short time
where his brother was and then come on to Townsend. Another brother,
Solomon, came to Townsend at the time, but it is not thought that he
remained here as there is no record evidence of such a family. It is thought
that Benjamin's family consisted of five sons and two daus. The fam. name
of Judith Pinkham is not known. The ancestry of Benjamin Pinkham follows:
I, Richard Pinkham,i who set. in Dover, N. H., about 1642.
II, Richard, Jr.,^ who lived in Dover, N. H.
Ill, John^and Rose (Otis) Pinkham, who lived and died in Dover, N. H.;
had seven sons and a number of daughters. Among this family were
Ebenezer, who set. in Merryconeag; Benjamin and Solomon, who came
to Townsend in 1759.
Benjamin d. Mar. 2, 1792, a. 75; Judith d. Oct. 23, 1797, a. 76. Children:
*2 Ichabod, b. Oct. 23, 1741, q. v.
*3 Solomon, q. v.
4 Benjamin, Jr., m. (1) Ella Catland, Bris., 1771; (2) Rhoda Hutchings,
Freetown, 1774. No further rec. found.
*5 Nathaniel, b. Dec. 7, 1751, q. v.
6 Rhoda, m. Benjamin Rollings, 1777, q. v.
7 Sarah, m. William Lewis, 1780; d. 1796.
*8 Calvin, q. v.
Second Generation.
( *2) Ichabod'-^ Pinkham (Benjamin^) m. Mercy Catlin, 1766. He lived
where David A. Reed does and was a leading character in town in his time.
He was active in the Revolutionary contest, holding a captain's commission,
FAMILY HISTORY. 603
and was much connected with town affairs, as may be noted in our earlier
chapters. His estate inventoried J5,260.55. By his will he gave a farm of
47 acres, where Benjamin then lived, to him. This was just south of the B. M.
Giles house, east side of road, on top of the hill. The house was burned
many years ago. To Ichabod, Jr., he gave the homestead of his father (the
Clisby place) and to Nathaniel the place where the late Jason Pinkham lived.
He died Oct. 21, 1800; she died July 10, 1821. Children:
9 James, b. May 28, 1767; drowned at Montsweag, 178-.
*10 Benjamin, b. Oct. 17, 1769, q. v.
*11 Ichabod, Jr., b. Feb. 10, 1772, q. v.
*12 Nathaniel, b. Mar. 15, 1774, q. v.
13 Mercy, b. June 19, 1777; m. David R. Adams, q. v.
14 Sarah, b. Jan. 25, 1780; m. David Reed, 3d, q. v.
15 Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1784; m. Asa G. Baker.
16 Martha, b. Mar. 20, 1786; m. Samuel Thompson, Jr., 1810, q. v.
17 Betsey, b. June 13, 1788; unm.; d. 1828.
(*3) Solomon^ Pinkham (Benjamin^) m. Mary Perry, 1767. They lived
at No. B, The dates of death of both are unknown. Children:
*18 Joseph, b. Nov. 26, 1767, q. v.
*19 Calvin, Jr., b. Feb. 10, 1769, q, v.
20 Solomon, Jr., b. June 7, 1772; m. Sally Ball, 1795. They lived at West
B. H. and after their children were grown up and some m. in town they
rem. to Starks. Their daus. m. as follows: Sarah m. Amherst Spof-
ford, Charlotte m. Benjamin Wylie, Mary m. Ebenezer Lewis. He d.
in Starks about 1830,
21 Sarah, b. Oct. 7, 1774; m. Joseph Barter, Jr., 1794.
22 Hannah, b, Oct. 13, 1776; m. David Day, 1799.
*23 David, b. Mar. 29, 1779, q. v.
24 Margaret, b. Mar. 30, 1781; m. Timothy Dunton, 1804, q. v.
25 Judith, b. Oct. 28, 1784; m. John Webber, 1807.
26 Mary, b. Oct. 1, 1787.
27 Abigail, b. Oct. 31, 1791; m. James Moon, 1827.
(*5) Nathaniel" Pinkham {Benjamin^) m. Martha Catland, 1774. He
lived at No. B. where Horace W. Pinkham now does. He built the first
mill where the Adams stream empties into Back River waters, and was suc-
ceeded by his son Isaac in his homestead and the mill. He died Sept. 3,
1803; she died Nov. 14, 1825. Children:
28 Joseph, b. June 9, 1778.
29 Nathaniel, Jr., b. Aug. 15, 1784; d. Sept. 3, 1803.
*30 Isaac, b, Aug. 25, 1787, q. v.
*31 John, b. Mar. 7, 1791, q, v.
32 Patty, b. July 8, 1793; m. Edmund Wilson, 1814, q. v.
(*8) Calvin" Pinkham (Benjamin^) m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Barter,
1781. He set. on Barter's Is. No rec. of their deaths has been found. Chil.:
♦33 Samuel, b. Apr. 18, 1782, q. v.
34 Abigail, b. Apr. 16, 1784.
*35 Andrew, b. Aug. 21, 1788, q. v.
36 Elizabeth, b. June 14, 1790.
37 Lydia, b. Sept. 30, 1792; m. Thomas Williams.
38 Nathan, b. Apr. 30, 1794; m. Charlotte Young, Alna,
39 Judith, b. Sept. 7, 1796; m. David Austin, 1820.
40 John, b. Mar. 25, 1801.
604 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Third Generation.
(*10) Benjamin^ Pinkham ( Ichabod,"^ Benjamin^) m. Abigail, dau. of
Joseph Giles, 1791. He was a sea captain and a man who accumulated a
large property for the times. He had interests in the Damariscotta ship-
yards and for some years was the largest ta.xpayer in town. He gave each
of his children a farm and home, as follows: To John, 2d, the homestead;
to Martha, the cash to buy a place in Dresden; to Mercy Carlisle, the Welsh
farm at Dover; to Abigail Murray, the farm where the late John Murray
lived; to Paul G., the B. M. Giles farm; to Sarah Reed, the farm where
James A. Reed lives; to Mary C. Adams, the David A. Reed farm; to Cyn-
thia Adams, the Paul Giles farm. He died Feb. 3, 1834; she died Dec. 18,
1848. Children:
*41 John, 2d, b. Sept. 7, 179.3, q. v.
42 Martha, b. Feb. 8, 1795; m. Joel Thompson, 1814; set. in Dres.
43 Benjamin, b. Jan. 11, 1797; sea captain; unm.; d. in West Indies, 1821.
44 Mercy, b. Oct. 28, 1798; m. William Carlisle, q. v.
45 Abigail, b. Nov. 19, 1800; m. John Murray, q. v.
46 Cynthia, b. June 9, 1803; m. David Adams, 2d, 1822.
*47 Paul G., b. Aug. 31, 1805, q. v.
48 Sarah, twin sister to Paul G., m. John Reed, 3d.
49 Mary C, b. Aug. 24, 1809; m. James Adams, 2d, 1829.
(*11) IcHABOD^ Pinkham, Jr., {^Ichabodp- Benjaviin^) m. (1) Betty Cun-
ningham, Edge., 1792; (2) Lucy Hunt, Bris., 1794. He lived where he set.;
died Jan. 23, 1851. Lucy, wife, nearly reached her 100th year. Children:
.50 Sally, b. Feb. 8, 1795; d. about 1825; unm.
*51 James, b. Nov. 7, 1796, q. v.
52 Lucy, b. Jan. 4, 1798; m. Alonzo Foster, White.
53 Maria, b. Jan. 29, 1801; m. John Jenness, Lynn.
54 Ichabod, b. Aug, 29, 1803; m. Betsey Lewis, 1833; lived opposite
Indiantown.
55 William M., b. Feb. 10, 1808; d. Sept, 22, 1826.
56 Martha, b. Aug. 16, 1810; m. Daniel Hutchings, Bris.
57 Sawyer, b. Feb. 5, 1813; m. Eliza A. Perkins, Georgetown, 1843.
58 Charles Fisher, b. Feb. 4, 1817; m. in Lynn; set. there.
(*12) Nathaniel^ Pinkham {Ichabod,"^ Benjamin^) m. Betsey McFar-
land, 1799. Lived on place left him by his father. He died Oct. 3, 1857;
she died Nov. 17, 1864. Children:
59 Thyrza, b. Apr. 25, 1801; m. Nathaniel Palmer, Camden, 1821.
60 Eliza, b. Oct. 16, 1803; m. Stephen Sargent, q. v.
61 Nathaniel, b. Feb. 17, 1806; m. (1) Lucy Kennedy, 1826, (2) Mary
Dockendorff, 1834.
62 Margaret, b. Feb. 17, 1808; m. John S. Wright, Edge., 1829.
*63 Jason, b. May 24, 1810, q. v.
*64 Ephraim, b. Dec. 8, 1815, q. v.
65 Lydia A., b. Nov. 23, 1818; set. elsewhere.
66 Mary J., b. Dec. 24, 1822; m. Silas P. Greenleaf, 1841.
67 Benjamin F., b. June 1, 1825; unm.; d. Mar. 22, 1897; was an officer in
the Seaman's Home, New York.
68 Nancy Weld, b. Feb. 7, 1828.
(*18) Joseph^ Pinkham (Solommt,- Benjamin^) m. Ellice Cunningham,
Edge., 1789; he set. in Edge, and m. a second time; d. in town of Washing-
ton. He was a sea captain. Children: Sarah, 1790; John, 1792; Eunice,
1794; Thomas, 1796; Samuel, 1799; David, 1802; William, 1805.
FAMILY HISTOKY. 605
(*19) Calvin^ Pinkham, Jr., (Solomon,'^ Benjamin'^) m. ]\\\\a. Kenney,
1793. He lived in the western part of town. She d. Nov. 2, 1863. Children:
*69 Thomas, b. June 6, 1794, q. v.
70 Fanny, b. July 18, 1796; m. John Lewis, 3d, q. v.
*71 Benjamin, b. Dec. 20, 1798, q. v.
72 Mina, b. May 15, 1801 ; m. Giles Lewis, q. v.
*73 Frederic, b. Dec. 24, 1802, q, v.
*74 Luther, b. Nov. 20, 1805, q. v.
75 Jonathan, b. Aug. 24, 1808; m. Sarah Hodgdon, 1832; set. in Bath.
76 Esther, b, Aug. 9, 1812; m. Charles Day, West., 1831.
(*23) David^ Pinkham {Solomon?' Bettjamiii^) m. Sarah Bryer, Kittery,
1803. Was probably first owner of the farm of the late Payson Tibbetts,
Back River. Tibbetts bought the place of his heirs. Children: I, Olive, b.
Apr. 20, 1805; m. Capt. John Adams. II, Warren, b. May 23, 1807; m.
Hannah Chase, Edge., 1829. Ill, George W., b. Jan. 3, 1809; lived for a
time at Back River, then moved to Newcastle, where, about 1848, during a
fit of insanity, he killed his wife, four children and himself. IV, Charles, b.
June 19, 1811; set. in Wis. V, Edwin, b. Sept. 29, 1813; lived where H. D.
Runey does; m. Dodge.
(*30) Isaac^ Pinkham (Nathaniel,^ Benjamin^) m. Sally Crooker, 1811.
He lived where his father did and carried on the mill on the premises. He
was in trade at B. Ctr. for a few years. He d. Sept. 23, 1866; she d. Apr. 26,
1874, a. 79. Children: I, Olive, b. June 4, 1815; m. Hunnewell, Cam-
bridge, Mass. II, Martha Wilson, b. Dec. 29, 1817; d. Dec. 22, 1842. Ill,
Isaac, Jr., b. Mar. 6, 1820; m. Lurena, dau. of Charles Giles; one son, Charles
G. IV, Sarah, b. Mar. 6, 1823; m. Joseph Dodge, 4th. V, Nancv, b. Nov.
20, 1887. VI, Francis C, b. Sept. 7, 1831; d. Feb. 14, 1873. Vl'l, Horace
Wilson, b. Oct. 24, 1837; m. Emma J. Fuller, 1874; res. on homestead of his
father. VIII, Lyman W., b. Aug. 14, 1839; res. on South.
(*31) JoHN^ Pinkham (Nathaniel,'^ Benjamiii^) m. Charlotte Thompson,
1814. Lived where James A. Reed does. He d. Jan. 27, 1836; she d. Dec.
26, 1856. Childre:n I, Joseph, b. 1815; d. 1822. II, Martha, b. 1818. Ill,
Charlotte, b. Apr. 10, 1821; m. Ebenezer Famham, Linekin, 1837. IV, John
W., b. 1823; d. 1829. V, Joseph, b. 1827.
(*33) Samuel^ Pinkham ( Calvin," BeiijamhO-) m. Eunice Kenney, 1801.
Lived on Barter's Island. Children: Catherine, 1802; Elvira, 1S04; Apphia,
1807; Alfred, 1809; Margaret, 1811; Thomas, 1814; William, 1817.
(*35) Andrew' Pinkham (Calvin,''' Bejijamin^) m. Mary Bickford, 1806.
Lived on Barter's Is. He d. Jan. 2, 1825. Children: Julian, 1808; Louisa,
1812; Betsey, 1814; Patty, 1817; Willard, 1819; Harriet, 1823.
Fourth Generation.
(*41) John* Pinkham, 2d, {Benjaitiin,^ Ichabod,^ Benjamin^) m.]\x\ia.
Thompson, 1818. He lived on the homestead of his father; was a master
mariner and owner of shipping property. He died May 16, 1866; she died
Sept. 21, 1871. Children:
77 Mary A., b. Dec. 17, 1818; m. Paul Giles, q. v.
78 John, b. Sept. 25, 1820; m. Margery, dau. of Samuel Adams; d. Feb.
15 1846 Chil.: I, John Henry, b. Feb. 3, 1843; m. Margaret, dau. of
William McDougall, 1866; she d. July 9, 1885, a. 35. II, Sarah E., b.
May 22, 1845; unm.; dec.
79 Julia, b. July 17, 1822; m. Bainbridge Reed.
80 Abigail, b. Nov. 15, 1825; m. Osgood Reed, q. v.
81 Benjamin P., b. Mar. 22, 1830; d. 1845.
82 Martha Ellen, b. Oct. 16, 1832; m. Cunningham; set. in the West.
83 Emily P., b. May 12, 1835; m. Thomas Blake, q. v.
84 Margaret E., b. Dec. 13, 1837; m. John L. Demuth.
606 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
85 Osborn, b. Feb. 4, 1843; m. Julia E. Hodgdon, 1869; d. Aug. 21, 1874.
86 Benjamin E., b. June 11, 1845; m. Abbie J., dau. of W. G. Lewis; res.
B. H.; sea captain; chil. : Ethel M., Marion L., Arthur E., Ella, Grace.
(*47) Paul G.^ Pinkham {Benjamin,^ Ichabod,^ Benjamhi^) m. (1)
Martha, dau. of David Adams, 1830, (2) Mrs. Cordelia R. Kelley, 1858. He
followed the sea in his earlier years as captain, engaged in foreign trade;
later he became master rigger, having charge of that work in yards at Wis.,
Dam. and E. B. He d. Aug. 23, 1870; Martha, wife, d. Oct. 1, 1856. Chil.:
I, David A., b. June 12, 1832; m. Martha S., dau. of Jeremiah Blake, 1857;
res. West B. H. 11, William C, b. Dec. 1, 1834; m. Christiana, dau. of
Benjamin Giles, 1861; res. Back Narrows. Ill, Paul G., Jr., b. May 14,
1838; d. Oct. 6, 1853. IV, Mercy A., b. July 29, 1842; m. William Larrabee,
Bath. V, Osgood R., b. Mar. 25, 1845; d. Mar. 4,1862, on passage to Ship Is.
VI, Mary F,, b. Oct. 29, 1847; m. Augustus Larrabee, Chelsea, Mass. VII,
Margaret H., b. July 20, 1860; m. Eugene Huff. VIII, Martha A., b. Oct. 2,
1852; m. Raymond Clifford, Westminster, Mass. IX, Marcelia M., b. July
17, 1868; res. Worcester, Mass.; unm. X, Paulelia G., unm.; res. B. H.
Three chil. d. in infancy or early youth.
(*51) James* Pinkham {Ichabod, Jr., '^ Ichabod,"^ Benjamin^) m. Hepsi-
beth Sawyer. He d. May 11, 1861. Children: I, Mary J., b. Mar. 13, 1827;
m. John Farnham. II, Ann M., b. May 24, 1828; set. in Lynn. Ill, George
W., b. 1829; set. in Lynn. IV, James M., b. 1833; res, in Portland. V,
Samuel M., b. 1835; res. at Cape Elizabeth. VI, Weltha G., b. 1838. VII,
Franklin L., b. 1840; killed in New York Harbor.
(*63) Jason* Pinkham {Nathaniel,^ Ichabodp' Benjamin^) m. Abigail
Tibbetts, 1837; lived on homestead of his father. He d. Sept. 30, 1898; she
d. Aug. 16, 1893. Children: I, William, b. May 4, 1839. II, Gardner G.,
b. Feb. 3, 1841; d. Oct. 17, 1855. Ill, Eliza E., b. Nov. 27, 1842; m. Charles
H. Dolloff, 1878, q. v. IV, Sanford, b. Feb. 11, 1846; m. and set. in the
West. V, Ozro, b. June 30, 1850; d. May 22, 1889; unm.
(♦64) Ephraim* Pinkham (Nathamel,^ Ichabod,'^ Benjamin^) m. Phebe
Carlisle in 1841. Lived first at B. Ctr., then moved to Southport in 1849,
where he afterward lived. He d. Jan. 19, 1892; she d. Dec. 29, 1872. Chil.:
I, Everett, b. July 3, 1843; m. Harriet, dau. of Thomas Marr, Jr. He is
merchant and postmaster at W. South, and has long been connected with
the affairs of his town; chil.: Charles E. and Laura E II, Sidney, b. Feb.
9, 1845; was for some years keeper of Seguin light. Ill, Mary L., b. Jan. 6,
1848. IV, Willis, b. May 5, 1853.
(*69) Thomas* Pinkham (Calvin, Jr.,^ Solomon,'^ Benjamin^) m. Emma
Abbott, 1821. He lived where his son Wesley does. He died Mar. 1, 1869;
she died June 28, 1898, a. 103-9-24. Children:
87 Wadsworth, b. Sept. 7, 1822; m. Phebe A. Fitch, Feb., 1849. He d.
Feb. 3, 1873; she d. Feb. 9, 1906. They lived in West B. near Sawyer's
Is. Children: I, Clarence Irving; II, Esther F. ; III, Marietta, res.
Haverhill, Mass.; IV, Edward H., Haverhill, Mass.; V, Luella T., m.
Capt. Ernest Johnson; VI, Thaddeus W., Brooklyn, N. Y.
88 Harriet E., b. Jan. 2, 1824; dec; unm.
89 Caroline, b. Jan. 20, 1825; m. William Barter, 1844.
90 Augusta, b. Oct. 14, 1826; m. Sanford C. Baker.
91 Matilda, twin sister to Augusta; m. John Kent, 1869.
92 Josie A., b. Jan. 17, 1829; m. George Kimball.
93 Margaret J., b. Aug. 18, 18.30; m. (1) Albion K. Hall, Rockland, 1851;
(2) William E. Warren, Lynn.
94 Thomas, Jr., b. Dec. 7, 1832; m. Mary Fitch, 1861.
95 Edward H., b. May 25, 1834; d. Sept. 26, 1850, see Cas.
96 Albion, b. June 10, 1836; m. Luella Thoits, 1860.
97 Wesley, b. Sept. 3, 1842; m. Francena Hodgdon, 1867. Lives on
homestead; see Chap. XVI for town service.
FAMILY HISTORY. 607
(*71) Benjamin* Pinkham, 2d, {Calvin, Jr.,^ Solomon,'^ Benjamin^) m.
Abigail Lewis, 1817. Lived on Barter's Is. He d. June 1, 1884; she d. Feb.
4, 1873. Children: I, Freeman, b. Sept. 1, 1817. II, Hiram, b. Jan. 18,
1820; m. Mahala Hodgdon, West., 1841. Ill, Belinda, b. July 30, 1822; m.
William H. Abbott. IV, Levinia, b. Jan. 4, 1827. V, Alden, b. July 12,
1829. VI, Lenora, b. Dec. 6, 1831; m. Henry Gove, 1848. VII, Martha, b.
Mar. 24, 1834. VIII, Marshall, b. Aug. 8, 1836; m. Sarah J. Pinkham, 1858.
IX, Octavia, b. July 26, 1839; m. Joseph Macaulay. X, Susan C, b. Aug.
9, 1841.
(*73) Frederick* Pinkham (Calvin, Jr.,^ Solomon,'^ BenjaminS) m,
Phebe Lewis, 1825. Lived on Barter's Island. He d. Sept., 1888; she d.
Aug. 8, 1884. Children: I, Allen, b. Mar. 13, 1827; m. Caroline Matthews,
1847. II, Osias, b. Sept. 30, 1829; m. Mary Lewis, 1852; d. Sept. 19, 1894
III, Franklin, b. Oct. 6, 1832; d. 1850. IV, William, b. Mar. 7, 1835; m
Alzida Barter. V, Randall, b. Mar. 17, 1837. VI, George, b. Jan. 21, 1839
m. Elizabeth Crew, 1864. VII, Eliza, b. Oct. 11, 1840; d. Aug. 27, 1851
VIII, Sarah J., b. Oct. 11, 1840; m. Marshall Pinkham, 1858. IX, Eliza-
beth A., b. Sept. 4, 1843; m. William F. Barter, 1863. X, Mary, b. Jan. 18,
1847; m. Stephen G. Dunton, West., 1865.
(*74) Luther* Pinkham (Calvin, Ji:,^ Solomon,'^ Benjamin^) m. Ann
Daws, 1827. They lived on Barter's Is. She d. Mar. 5, 1875. Children: I,
Arietta, b. Sept. 29, 1829; m. Albert Kimball, 1848, q. v. II, Sarah, b. Aug.
13, 1831; m. Bradford Lewis, 1848. Ill, Jonathan, b. Jan. 22, 1833; d. Oct.
22, 1852. IV, Manson, b. Feb. 18, 1835; m. Mary E. Pinkham, 1858. V,
Charles, b. Apr. 16, 1839. VI, Alfred H., b. July 5, 1841; m. Louisa A.
Rines, Wis., 1863; d. July 9, 1885. VIII, Clement P., b. July 19, 1843; m.
Ella Pinkham, 1863. VIII, Elizabeth A., b. Aug. 13, 1845. IX, Loring A.,
b. July 26, 1848. X, Luther D., b. June 16, 1851; d. Aug. 9, 1870. XI,
Elzada, b. Nov. 2, 1860.
POOLE.
James C. Poole was bom in Bris., Mar. 25, 1845. From the age of 16
until he was 24 he was engaged at Damariscotta, Gloucester and Boston at
sailmaking. In 1869 he bought out D. W. Sawyer's sailmaking establish-
ment and followed that business for twelve years, during which period he
became interested in some shipping property. In 1871 he sold the business
to his brother, Eben A. Poole, and engaged in general trade and the fish-
eries, see Chaps. XIX and XXI. He m. Alah Marson, 1870; they have two
daughters, Lillian and Nellie, both m. and res. in Mass.
Eben A. Poole, brother to above, succeeded him in 1871; m. Annie
M., dau. of Giles Dunton, 1879; res. B. H. Children: Carlton C, Addie
L. and Russell.
PREBLE.
I, Abraham Preble.i immigrant, set. at Scituate, Mass., before 1637; was
at York, 1C42; m. Judith Tilden; d. before 1663.
II, Abraham, Jr., ^ son, York; m. Hannah Kelley.
III, Jonathan,^ b. 1695, York; set. in Arrowsic, 1716; m. Rebecca Harvey;
built at north of the island, 1735; d. 1768.
IV, Joseph,* b. Arrowsic, 1729; m. Mary Hodgkins; d. 1808. Eleven chil.,
one of whom was Ebenezer, q. v.
40
bUO HISTOBT OF BOOTHBAY.
1 Ebenezer Preble was bom at Arrowsic, Oct. 20, 1758; m. Lydia
Smith, Woolwich, b. Mar. 28, 1761. They set. at Cape Newagen, where the
Newagen House stands, in 1785. He d. Aug., 1837; she d. Apr. 13, 1837.
Children:
*2 Aris, b. Apr. 30, 1786, q. v.
3 Joseph, b. Jan. 29, 1789.
4 David, b. Aug. 6, 1792; d. 1869.
*5 John, b. May 26, 1794, q. v.
6 Margarite, b. July 25, 1796.
7 Jonathan, b. Nov. 22, 1798; d. 1831, see Cas.
8 William, b. Aug. 10, 1802.
Second Generation.
(*2) Aris- Preble (Ebenezer^) m. Abigail, dau. of Amos Gray, 1808.
He lived on the homestead. Children: I, Ebenezer, b. Feb. 10, 1809; m.
Cynthia, dau. of Roger Sherman, 1830; their chil. were Frances A., Statira,
Granville A., Lysander W. Capt. Ebenezer d. Sept. 19, 1875. II, John W.,
b. May 2, 1811. Ill, Francis, b. Aug. 31, 1814.
(*5) JOHN^ Preble {Ebenezer^) m. Margaret Lancaster, 1822. Chil. : I,
Martha E., 1823; II, Henry M., 1826; III, Caroline, 1828; IV, Margaret, 1832.
RACE.
1 George Race, Jr., was of Scotch descent. He came to America as
mate of a ship in which his brother was captain, and landed at York. From
there he came east, leaving the ship, and set. at the head of Linekin Bay, abt.
halfway bet. Bayville and Murray Hill. The cellar spoken of on p. 418 was
probably his. It is quite evident that his father and mother came later to B.
and lived with him, otherwise their deaths would not be recorded in the
books of the town. George Race, Senior, d. Oct. 17, 1821; his wife, name
unk., d. Feb. 7, 1819. George Race, Jr., m. Sarah Bennett, 1798. Their
deaths are not found recorded. Children:
2 Patty, b. Dec. 1, 1799; m. William Racklefl.
•3 John, b. May 31, 1802, q. v.
4 William, b. Jan. 28, 1807.
5 Sarah, b. Apr. 23, 1810.
6 Hiram, b. June 10, 1813.
7 George, b. Sept. 4, 1817.
8 Mary, b. July 20, 1881.
Second Generation.
(*3) JoHN^ Race {George, Jr., '^) m. Mary Linekin, 1824. He lived on
Linekin Neck and followed the sea. He died Jan. 17, 1857. Children:
*9 James Linekin, b. Mar. 15, 1825, q. v.
10 Sarah Famham, b. Oct. 9, 1826; m. Simon McDougall, q. v.
*11 John Edward, b. Nov. 23, 1831, q. v.
12 Henry Wright, b. Jan. 20, 1834.
13 Hiram, b. May 9, 1836; m. Matilda S. Adams, Wal.
14 Mary Abigail, b. May 9, 1841; m. George Reed.
15 Nancy J., b. Mar. 6, 1843.
Third Generation.
(*9) James L.s Race (John,'^ George, Jr.,^) m. (1) Nancy McDougall,1847;
(2) Mrs. Mary A. D. Adams, 1855. He was for many years a sea captain;
FAMILY HISTORY. 609
also engaged in bank fishing as partner in the firm of Race & McDougall, he
later succeeding to the business, see Chap. XXI. In later years he has had
a lumber yard at E. B., where he lives. Nancy, w., d. Apr. 25, 1852. Chil.
16 Edward E., b. Sept. 26, 1849; m. (1) Mary L., dau. of James Seavey
she d. Mar. 2, 1878; (2) Susan A. Nash, Waldoboro. Children: I, Eva
A., b. July 11, 1875; 11, James L., b. Nov. 9, 1882, diuggist at E,
III, Nellie M., b. July 4, 1885. Mr. Race was in trade at E. B. for a
few years in the early eighties, also engaged in bank fishing. For pub-
lic service see Chap. XVI. He was nominated and elected represent-
ative to the Legislature in 1888, on the issue of a division of the town
and the water question combined, taking ground with the remonstrants.
In the session following, where the matter was fought out, the petition-
ers received every courtesy from their representative, though in oppo-
sition, that could be e.xpected, and no enmities existed after its close.
In 1889 he received the appointment of statistical agent, Department of
Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Fisheries, in which he continued until
1895, when the Green Lake station was placed under his supervision,
at which place he still remains.
17 Alfred, b. Nov. 3, 1851; m. Lizzie Montgomery; res. at E. B. He had
followed the sea as master mariner some years when, in 1887, through
his efforts, the Portland and Boothbay Steamboat Co. was organized,
see p. 422. Children: I, Nellie M., d. at the age of 4 yrs. II, Arthur
L., m. Minnie E. Dodge, Portland; steamboat agent in Portland. Ill,
Clarence A., m. Laura E. Adams; dentist, res. in Portland. IV, Ber-
nice A. V, A. Leroy. VI, Shirley K.
(*11) John E.^ Race {John,^ George, Jr.}) m. Nancy A. Bennett.
They lived at E. B. He followed the sea as master in coasting and foreign
trade. He d. Dec. 27, 1887; she d. in 1901, a. 67. Children: I, Mary Ella,
b. Nov. 27, 1854; II, Daniel B., b. Dec. 20, 1856; III, Tilda A., b. July 28,
1859; IV, John W., b. July 2, 1862; V, Alfred, b. June 30, 1866; VI, Elverton
A., b. June 1, 1869.
RAND.
1 John and Mary Rand had set. at Cape Newagen Island before 1776,
perhaps several years before. It is said that they came from the westerly
part of Maine, but I have failed to find clues to the family ancestry in any of
the works published in that locality, though I have been successful in many
other cases. Mary, the mother of the fam., lived with her son, John, Jr., in
her last days and died Feb. 13, 1826. They had four children, perhaps more:
2 Lydia, b. 1776; m. Jonathan Fierce, q. v.
3 Nabby, b. 1780; m. Joseph Pierce, Jr., q. v.
*4 John, Jr., q. v.
*5 Stephen, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*4) John'' Rand, Jr., [Joliri^) m. Sally Hambleton, 1796. He died
Nov. 28, 1826. Children:
6 John, b. Aug. 17, 1797.
7 Henry, b. Oct. 4, 1799; m. Keziah B. Bowles; chil.: I, Elizabeth, b.
Oct 18, 1827; II, Sarah J., b. Oct. 22, 1829; III, John, b. July 12, 1834;
IV, Mary D., b. Sept. 4, 1836; V, Lydia, b. Nov. 16, 1838.
8 Sarah H., b. Aug. 5, 1802; m. Daniel Cameron, q. v.
9 Samuel, b. Oct. 20, 1804; m. Jane Hall, Georgetown, 1829. He d.
Jan. 2, 1876; she d. June 30, 1901, a. 81.
610 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
10 James H., b. Oct. 10, 1806; m. Eleanor Emerson, 1830. He d. Apr.
21, 1841; she m. (2) Samuel Adams; she d. June 30, 1886, a. 75.
11 Mark, b. Apr. 8, 1809; m. EHzabeth Haddocks, 1834. He d. May 13,
1880; she d. Feb. 13, 1848; one son, Mark, Jr., b. July 16, 1842.
12 William, b. Dec. 16, 1811; d. Feb. 1, 1831.
18 Edward, b. Dec. 16, 1811.
(*5) Stephen^ Rand (John'^) m. Nancy Adams, Woolwich, 1812. Chil.:
I, Lucy, b. Dec, 1812. II, Reuben, b. Aug. 18, 1814. Ill, Benjamin, b.
Aug. 22, 1816.
REED.
1 Andrew Reed founded the largest family which has lived in Boothbay.
He was a man of sterling character, as all that can be learned of him attests.
Four, at least, of his sons were prominent in the Revolution, Andrew, David,
Paul and Joseph; two, John and Henry, died before that struggle began,
while William was a private. Thomas, only, of those living at the time
shows no service record. Several grandsons were also active in that war.
He has many times been mentioned as a settler under Dunbar, but there
were strong indications that this was an error, though apparently not suscep-
tible of proof. At last in the records of the Adams family, whose founder,
Samuel, married the only daughter and youngest child of Andrew Reed, it
is found that she, Sarah ( Reed) Adams, was bom on shipboard when her
father's family came to America. This fixes the year of coming as 1743, and
makes consistent all that appeared otherwise. Andrew Reed was born in
Antrim, Ireland, in 1693; and his wife, Jean Murray, aunt of the Rev. John
Murray, was born in Antrim, in 1698. She was of Scotch-Irish descent, but
it is said that he was of English descent. The title of Col. has often been
applied to him, and, if correctly so, the title must have been obtained in Ire-
land, for he was too old to engage in the French and Indian War and died
thirteen years before the Revolutionary outbreak; but at his age of coming
to America, fifty years, there is reason to suppose the title may have been
gained on the other side of the Atlantic. He was chiefly influential in induc-
ing Mr. Murray to come to Townsend. At the time of his settlement here
the records show that the land from William Moore's to Echo Lake was set-
tled upon, but no settlement at that date is indicated from Mill Cove west-
erly, unless in case of the Wylie family. Andrew Reed selected the spot to
build his first log house a little to the east of the Mill Cove dam. and south-
easterly from the house of the late Capt. George Reed, now owned by his
daughter, Isabella M. Reed. From this home he was driven out about 1745
by the Indians, returning in 1749, after which no serious disturbance is again
recorded. Traditions tell us that one winter during this period, while his
family was at the westward for safety, he alone, of all the settlers, remained
in Townsend. He died July 22, 1762; his wife, Jean, died Feb. 8, 1780. He,
with his sons, built a mill at the cove soon after 1749, and a few years before
his death he built a frame house, by some said to have been the first of the
kind in Townsend, about the spot where stands the stable to the residence
of the late James F. Hodgdon, and there died, his estate inventorying /149
9s. 4d. Children:
*2 Andrew, b. about 1725, q. v.
*3 Henry, b. about 1727, q. v.
FAMILY HISTORY. 611
*4 David, b. 1729, q. v.
*5 John, b. about 1731, q. v.
6 William, b. about 1733; m. Jane ; was a member of the first church
and remained in B. until during or after the Revolution; is said to have
settled in Topsham, which appears to be correct.
*7 Paul, b. 1735, q. v.
*8 Joseph, b. 173S, q. v.
*9 Thomas, b. about 1740, q. v.
10 Sarah, b. Mar. 19, 1743; m. Samuel Adams, q. v., Dec. 30, 1762; d.
Dec. 10, 1828.
Note. — It may be mentioned that Elizabeth, dau. of James and Mehita-
ble Adams, born Dec. 22, 1810, who married Payson Tibbetts, is now living
at Back River. She was, therefore, about 18 years of age at the death of
her grandmother, Sarah (Reed) Adams. Capt. William Reed, Oakland,
Cal., b. Oct. 11, 1811, and d. Apr. 10, 1905, was, when this genealogy was
compiled, the oldest descendant bearing the family name.
Second Generation.
(*2) Col. Andrew^ Reed (Andrew^) m. Mary ; lived on his father's
homestead, west of Mill Cove dam, where the late James F. Hodgdon did;
was in trade as early as 1761; received a colonel's commission during the
Revolution. Rev. John Murray made a home with him until he married and
settled in the Pisgah parsonage. He d. Mar. 4, 1807; she d. July 24, 1816,
a. 90. Children:
ni Andrew, Jr., b. Dec. 12, 1755, q. v.
*12 Robert, b. Aug. 22, 1757, q. v.
13 John, b. Apr. 18, 1760; no rec.
*U David, Jr., b. Feb. 11, 1762, q. v.
15 Mary, b. Apr. 5, 1764; m. Elias Skidmore, 1787.
16 Sarah, b. Feb. 9, 1770; m. Joseph Giles, q. v.
17 Jane, b. May 4, 1773; m. Andrew Reed, 3d, q. v.
*18 William, b. Dec. 16, 1776, q. v.
(*3) Henrv^ Reed {Andrew^) never came to America, but remained in
Ireland and married Sarah McCulloch. They had three children; he died
and Andrew sent for his wid. and children to come to Townsend and make
a home with him. They did so and in 1768 Sarah Reed, wid., m. John
Leishman, q. v. Children:
*19 William, b. in Ireland, Aug. 1, 1850, q. v.
*20 Andrew, b. in Ireland, 185-, q. v.
21 Jennett, b. in Ireland, 185-; d. on passage to America.
(*4) Capt. David^ Reed {Andrew^) m. Martha, dau. of Robert Wylie;
set. where Albert N. Reed lives, West B. H.; was sea captain, merchant
and mill owner, see Chap. XIX. He d. Feb. 28, 1803; she d. June 24, 1816.
Children:
22 Martha, b. Oct. 27, 1758; m. William Reed, q. v.
23 Jenny, b. Feb. 4, 1761; m. David Reed, 3d, q. v.
24 Mary, b. Mar. 14, 1763; m. Samuel Thompson, q. v.
25 Betsey, b. Mar. 16, 1765; m. (1) Samuel Day, (2) David Kenniston, q. v.
26 David, b. Mar. 16, 1767.
*27 Andrew, b. Mar. 19, 1769, q. v.
*28 Robert, b. July 22, 1771, q. v.
*29 John M., b. Oct. 25, 1773, q. v.
♦30 Paul, b. Mar. 11, 1779, q. v.
31 Sally, b. May 12, 1782; m. Matthew Reed, q. v.
612 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
(*6) JoHN^ Reed {Andrew^) m. Sarah ; lived, as indicated by his
will, made Mar. 31, 1767, and prob. June 14, 1769, near but southerly from
the Campbell Ponds. He devised land south of them and bordering on
Sheepscot waters, evidently intended as a farm for each, to his four sons and
then to each of his daughters, but did not name the latter. For this reason
and the fact that they do not appear on town records this family is less defi-
nite than the others. Children:
*32 Andrew, q. v.
33 David, m. Jennv, dau. of David Reed, 1786; lived where Samuel
Hodgdon does. West B. H.
34 Jean, m. Samuel Sanders.
35 Katherine, m. Jonathan Greenough, 1787; had 3 daus.; set. elsewhere.
Two sons mentioned in will appear nowhere in record. They followed
No. 32. He may have had a dau., Elizabeth, who m. Eleazer Sherman, Jr.
(*7) Capt. Paul^ Reed (Andrew^) m. Margery, dau. of John Beath,
1759. He set. where the Boothbay House now stands and owned the land
westerly and southerly, including McKown's Hill and McFarland's Point.
He was a prominent townsman, followed the sea successfully and appears
often in Chap. XIII. The three children, Andrew, Elizabeth and Rosanna,
were adopted by Capt. John and Elizabeth (Beath) Parker, Phippsburg; Mrs.
Parker being a sister to their mother, and they having no children of their
own. Capt. Paul d. in Salem, Mass., Jan. 6, 1799; she d. 1822. Children:
36 Paul, b. Sept. 7, 1760; sea captain; d. at New Orleans; unm.
37 Andrew, b. July 5, 1765; m. Beatrice, dau. of Gen. Samuel McCobb;
set. in Bath; was father of Thomas B. and Parker McCobb Reed; d.
Jan. 2, 1848. A numerous and prominent family descends from him.
*38 William Maxwell, b. Mar. 5, 1767, q. v.
39 Jane, b. Feb. 25, 1769; m. Joseph Campbell, q. v.
40 Margaret, b. Feb. 7, 1771; m. John M. McFarland, q. v.
41 Betsey, b. Mar. 9, 1773; m. John Agry, Hallowell.
42 Rosanna, b. May 23, 1776; m. Capt. Nathaniel Curtis, Jamaica Plains,
Mass.
43 Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1777; m. Samuel Oakman, Pittston, 1802.
44 Margery, b. Feb. 11, 1782; m. Amasa Piper; settled in Ohio.
45 Sarah, b. Apr. 10, 1785; m. Col. Jacob Auld, q. v.
Two children following 36 d. young; omitted.
(*8) Capt. Joseph'' Reed {Andrew^) m. Sarah, dau. of Robert Wylie.
He set. on what has in recent years been known as the Freeman Reed place,
northerly from Mill Cove, adjoining his father's homestead. He followed
the sea, principally on foreign voyages, and amassed for the times a large
property. At his decease he was, evidently, the largest property owner in
town, leaving bequests to all his children and to most of his grandchildren.
He d. Mar. 6, 1809; she d. May 18, 1789. Children:
46 Jenny, b. Dec. 18, 1766; m. David Reed, Jr., q. v.
47 Sarah, b. Oct. 26, 1768; m. Thomas Reed, q. v.
48 Martha, b. Oct. 26, 1770; m. Jonathan Sawyer, q. v.
*49 David, Sd, b. Oct. 16, 1772, q. v.
50 Betsey, b. Sept. 16, 1774; m. — Trask.
61 Joseph, b. Sept. 18, 1776; d. Nov. 4, 1798; unm.
*52 Alexander, b. Dec. 17, 1778, q. v.
*63 Paul, 2d, b. Nov. 29, 1780, q. v.
54 Katherine, b. Mar. 20, 1786; m. William Farmer, q. v.
Two sons, John and Andrew, d. in childhood.
FAMILY HISTORY. 613
(*9) Thomas^ Reed (Andrew'^) m. Mary, dau. of Robert Wylie. Fol-
lowed farming and coasting; no rec. of his death; she d. July 12, 1804. Chil.:
*65 James, b. Jan. 6, 1764, q. v.
56 Robert, b. Oct. 15, 1766; d. July 18, 1842; unm.
57 Thomas, b. July 16, 1769; m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Reed, 1791; set. in
Belfast.
58 Esther, b. Feb. 15, 1772; m. John M. Reed, q. v.
59 Polly, b. Dec. 11, 1774; d. Aug. 8, 1803; unm.
*60 Matthew, b. Jan. 11, 1778, q. v.
Third Generation.
(*11) Capt. Andrew' Reed, Jr., {Andrew,^ Andrew^) m. Phebe, dau.
of Jonathan Sawyer, 1778; set. near Hodgdon's Island bridge, where John
A. Reed lives. He was captain of a privateer at the age of 20, in the Revo-
lutionary service; d. June 29, 1842; she d. Nov. 18, 1829. Children:
*61 Andrew, b. Mar. 29, 1779, q. v.
62 Mary, b. May 23, 1788; m. Paul Reed, 2d, q. v.
63 Jane, b. Mar. 11, 1792; m. James Montgomery, q. v.
*64 John, 2d, b. Apr. 23, 1794, q. v.
*65 Benjamin, b. July 29, 1798, q. v.
Children, Robert, Joshua, Phebe, Benjamin (first) and Frederick C,
either d. young or no trace; omitted.
(*12) Robert^ Reed {Andrew,'' Andrew^) m. Sarah Stevens, Salisbury,
Mass. Settled at Pig Cove, Cape Newagen Island; was captain of a U. S.
revenue cutter, in connection with the custom house at Wiscasset after the
Revolution, in which he served as a fifer. Children:
*66 William, b. Jan. 8, 1786, q. v.
*67 John, q. v.
*68 Robert, q. v.
Two chil., Sally and Joseph, d. young; omitted.
(*14) David^ Reed, Jr., [Andrew,'^ Andrew^) m. Jenny, dau. of Joseph
Reed, 1784. This family evidently set. elsewhere after the children were
grown up and a part of the daughters had married and settled here. Date
of death of parents unknown. It is thought no sons set. in town. Children:
I, David, b. 1784. II, Joseph, b. 1785; d. Apr. 2, 1850; unm. Ill, Sally, b.
1787; m. Capt. John Reed (*67). IV, Jenny, b. 1789. V, Andrew, b. 1791.
VI, Patty, b. 1794. VII, Samuel, b. July 2, 1796. VIII, Elizabeth, b. 1798.
IX, Fanny, b. 1801; m. Joseph Lewis, 1822. X, Clarissa, b. 1803; m. Sam-
uel Lewis, 1822. XI, Nancy, b. 1807; m. Capt. John Reed, 1829. XII,
Jacob, b. 1809; d. Jan. 26, 1850.
(*18) Willi AM^ Reed {Andrew,^ Andrew^) m. Martha, dau. of Joseph
Lewis, Jr., 1802; lived at Back River where his grandson, Fred C, now
does. In his time he was called "Sexton" Reed, as he performed those
duties many years. He d. Feb. 4, 1838; she d. Mar. 16, 1868. Children:
69 Mary, b. Apr. 28, 1803; d. Oct. 22, 1821.
70 Jane, b. May 19, 1806; m. John Lyon.
71 Julia A., b. Oct. 1, 1807; m. Edwin Hodgdon.
»72 Rufus, b. Feb. 2, 1812, q. v.
73 Esther, b. Aug. 14, 1814; m. Ira Hodgdon.
74 Martha, b. Jan. 19, 1818; m. Charles Matthews.
75 Harriet, b. May 6, 1820; d. Jan. 11, 1885; unm.
76 Olive, b. Jan. 6, 1824; m. Henry Elden; d. Mar. 2, 1905.
(*19) William' Reed (Henry,- Andreid^) m. (1) Jean, dau. of Andrew
McFarland, 1778; (2) Martha, dau. of David Reed. He lived where Albert
614 HI8T0ET OF BOOTHS AT.
N. Reed does, with his father-in-law, and was drowned by capsizing of his
boat just off that point. He taught the first singing school in Boothbay.
He died 1798; Jean, wife, died July 20, 1780. Children:
77 Jane. b. Feb. 22, 1779, d. May 7, 1805.
*78 Henry, b. Feb. 3, 1792, q. v.
79 Esther, b. Mar. 24, 1794; m. Roger Sherman, Edge.
(*20) Andrew" Reed {Henry -^ Andrew^) m. Hannah, dau. of Israel
Davis; lived for a time in B., then moved to Pownalboro, where they died.
They had six chil., the three youngest dying in youth. I, Rosanna, b. 1789;
m. William M. Auld. II, Hannah, b. 1792; m. William Durant. Ill, Sarah,
m. Daniel Gilbert.
(*27) Andrew^ Reed, 3d, {David,- Atidrew^) m. Jane, dau. of Col.
Andrew Reed. He lived where Wilmot Reed does, on McKown's Point.
He d. June 3, 1847; she d. Nov. 5, 1861. Have been unable to complete the
record of this family. Children: I, Pollv, b. Apr. 17, 1804. II, Phebe, b.
Sept. 1, 1806. Ill, Andrew, b. Sept. 7, 1807. IV, Elizabeth, b. Sept. 6,
1809. V, Ann, b. Apr. 6, 1812, three times m.; (1) Robert Tool (2) Sebe
Reed, (3) Jeremiah Beal. VI, Mary, b. Apr. 5, 1815. Wilmot Reed inher-
ited the est. of his grandfather through his father, Andrew, third child above
mentioned.
(*28) Robert" Reed, 3d, {David,^ Andrew'^) m. EUice, dau. of William
Wylie, 1794. He was a farmer and followed the sea; lived where the late
Isaiah Reed did, west of Campbell's Cove. He d. Oct. 7, 1832; she d. Oct.
29, 1858. Children:
*80 Robert, b. Apr. 21, 1796, q. v.
81 Alice, b. Jan. 26, 1798; m. Robert Reed, q. v.
82 Paul, b. July 16, 1803; see Cas.
83 Sarah, b. Oct. 14, 1805.
84 Patton, b. Aug. 16, 1807; d. Nov. 15, 1859; unm.
Two chil. d. in youth; omitted.
(*29) John M." Reed {David,"^ Andrew'^) m. Esther, dau. of Thomas
Reed. It is thought this family moved elsewhere after their children were
grown up. No son appears with family on the records. Children: I, Mary,
b. May 6, 1797; m. Henry Gray, 1817. II, John, b. July 25, 1799; d. July 13,
1823. Ill, Matthew, b. Sept. 16, 1803. IV, Esther, b. Jan. 26, 1805. V,
Isaiah, b. Jan. 13, 1808; d. at sea, 1833, see Cas. VI, Martha, b. Oct. 5,
1810. VII, Elizabeth, b. Dec. 2, 1813; d. May 19, 1876; unm.
(*30) Paul Reed {David,"^ Andrew^) m. Ruth, dau. of Robert Wylie,
1807; lived on his father's homestead and followed farming. He d. Sept. 4,
1844; she d. Sept. 15, 1872. Children:
85 Francis, b. Oct. 30, 1808; m. Lucy Ann Snow, Woolwich. He built
the house and lived at West B. H. where James A. Harding does. He
d. May 30, 1886. Children: I, Angeline, b. Dec. 1, 1834; m. Nelson
Harding. II, Merrill H., b. May 1, 1835. Ill, Orin, b. Oct. 1, 1844;
m. Helen M. Berry; d. 1905; three chil. : Dora D., m. Asbury Powers,
Albion B. and Leone. IV, Adelaide T., m. Charles Cotton, Green-
port, N. Y.
*86 George B., b. June 15, 1811, q. v.
87 Warren, b. Aug. 83, 1815; m. Sarah Decker, Southport; lived east side
of Campbell's Cove, just northerly from ice works. He d. Dec. 12, 1899;
she d. July 12, 1886.
88 Willard, b. Aug. 23, 1817; d. 1822.
89 Mary A., b. Sept. 1, 1820; d. Apr. 10, 1887; unm.
90 Caroline E., b. Mar. 24, 1823; m. Francis Walker, Bath.
*91 Charles, b. May 30, 1826, q. v.
92 Albert N., b. Sept. 14, 1831; unm.; res. on his father's homestead.
FAMILY HISTORY. 615
(*32) Andrew' Reed, 3d, {John? Andrew^) m. Mary, dau. of Andrew
McFarland, 1779; thought to have settled on Indiantown Island, it being
near where his father lived. They had twelve chil., five of whom d. in inf.
or youth. Their births occurred bet. 1780 and 1802. The seven whose rec-
ords go no farther than birth were: Sarah, b. 1780; Jane, b. 1785; Rosanna,
b. 17SS; Hannah, b. 1792; William, b. 1794; John, b. Nov. 8, 1799; Ephraim,
b. Sept. 6, 1802. It is thought this familv moved to VVhitefield, Windsor or
into that locality. Andrew d. Nov. 12, 1821; she d. 1810.
(•38) William Maxwell^ Reed {Paul,'^ Andrew^) m. (1) Rosanna, dau.
of Andrew McFarland, 1794; (2) Martha Rust, 1811. He, at an early age,
owned all the land bordering upon the Harbor on the east side from a point
northerly of the Menawermet to the south line of the original McClintock
property. This he exchanged with Joseph Campbell, who married his sister,
for the land where the Boothbay House stands and nearly the entire business
part of the town below Custom House Square, including McKown's Hill
and McFarland' s Point. This same property had originally belonged to his
father, Paul Reed. William M. followed the sea most of the time, princi-
pally in the foreign or West India trade. He commanded the town militia
in the War of 1812-14 and through a long life was an active and influential
citizen. He died Aug. 13, 1850; Rosanna died Nov. 14, 1810. Children:
93 Paul Maxwell, b. Nov. 27, 1796.
94 Charles, b. June 23, 1800; m. Sarah Reed, 1829.
95 Maria, b. Sept. 7, 1802; m. Daniel J. Averill.
96 Rufus King, b. Sept. 20, 1805; m. Margery McFarland, 1830; he d.
June 9, 18G0; she d. Mar. 16, 1844.
97 Elizabeth Ann, m. Dr. D. K. Kennedy, 1828.
98 Rosanna M., b. Jan. 21, 1814.
99 Mary E., b. Jan. 28, 1816; m. Hiram Haskell, Clinton, 1839.
100 Isaac Weston, b. Oct. 18, 1821 ; m. Mary Russ; set. in Cal., d. there; s. p.
101 Susan Caroline, b. Nov. 11, 1826.
(*49) David' Reed, 3d, (Joseph,''' Andrett^) m. (1) Susanna, dau. of
Andrew McFarland, 1796. He built and settled just back of where his
grandfather built his log house in 1743. It became the home of his son,
Capt. George Reed. At his father's death, in 1809, a bequest in the will
gave him the farm where the late Washington Reed lived, and he afterward
made that his home. In some records he is designated as "3d" and in oth-
ers as "4th." He m. (2) Sarah, dau. of Ichabod Pinkham. He d. Apr. 24,
1825; Susanna, wife, d. June 7, 1801; Sarah, wife, d. Mar. 2, 1863. Children:
*102 George, b. Sept. 2, 1797, q. v.
103 Susanna, b. Aug. 14, 1799; m. William S. Bryer, q, v.
*104 Washington, b. Aug. 8, 1811, q. v.
106 Benjamin Tyler, b. June 2, 1813; d. 1831.
*106 Nathaniel Curtis, b. Oct. 23, 1816, q. v.
107 Martha Jane, b. Nov. 1, 1819; m. (1) Joseph Harris; (2) Webber.
108 David Adams, b. Oct. 28, 1821; d. Dec. 17, 1843; unm.
109 Thomas, b. 1823; d. 1842.
(*52) Alexander' Reed {Joseph,'' Ajtdrew^) m. Catherine, dau. of
Thomas Boyd. They settled on the hill on road leading from Mill Cove to
the Center, where the late Caleb S. Reed lived. He was a sea captain. He
died July 16, 1850; she died Jan. 9, 1852. Children:
110 Joseph, b. Aug. 24, 1803.
111 CalebStrong, b. Dec. 22,1805; m. HarrietPoor, 1852; set. on his father's
homestead. Followed a .seafaring life; d. Feb. 12, 1876. Chil.: Alden
P., Silas S., William S., Augustus W., Bertha G., Lizzie, Albert B.
616 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
112 Silas Lee, b. Mar. 1, 1808.
113 Bellone, b. Sept. 18, 1810; m. Alexander Reed.
114 Sarah Ann, b. Apr. 26, 1813; m. William Emerson, q. v.
115 Samuel Miller, b. Mar. 11, 1816; m. Matilda ]., dau. of Alfred Hodg-
don, 1845; built and settled where Capt. G. A. Low lives; had a fam.
as follows: I, Emma J., b. 1847, d. 1864; II, Caroline Lewis, b. 1849;
III, James Bliss, b. 1853; IV, Florence M., b. 1855; V, Charles Wes-
ton, b. 1858; VI, Mary E., b. 1860, d. 1874. He was lost at sea in
1862-3, see Cas. Matilda J., wife, d. Aug. 9, 1863. Their family
moved elsewhere.
116 Charity P., b. Jan. 28, 1819; m. Parker, Boston.
117 Alexander Wylie, b. Sept. 3, 1821.
(*53) Paul^ Reed, 2d, (Joseph,^ Andrew'^) m. Mary McCobb; lived on
his father's homestead; was a sea captain. He d. Mar. 20, 1857; she d. Sept.
2, 1839. Children:
118 Henry, b. Apr. 17, 1808; m. Brewer.
119 Jason, b. Mar. 2, 1810.
120 Pauline, b. Apr. 12, 1812; m. John Wheeler.
*121 Freeman, b. Jan. 12, 1815, q. v.
122 Joseph, b. Mar. 12, 1818; d. at New Orleans, Dec. 13, 1840.
123 Mary J., b. Apr. 13, 1825; m. John Merry.
(*55) James^ Reed {Thomas,'^ Andyeit/^) m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Ken-
ney. He followed farming and coasting; d. Mar. 2, 1810; she d. Sept. 8,
1823. Children:
124 Thomas, b. Jan. 17, 1789; d. 1809.
125 James, b. Mar. 23, 1791; d. 1819.
126 Lydia, b. Sept. 2, 1797; d. Sept. 17, 1882; unm.
*127 Robert, b. May 17, 1800, q. v.
128 George, b. Dec. 25, 1802; d. July 1, 1826.
*129 Jonathan, b. Aug. 19, 1805, q. v.
130 Alexander, b. Oct. 19, 1808; m. Bellone Reed.
(*60) Matthew^ Reed [Thomas,^ Andrew^) m. Sally, dau. of David
Reed. He was a sea captain; none of his sons set. in town. He d. Feb. 19,
1857; she d. Aug. 24, 1852. Children: I, Charles, b. 1805; set. elsewhere.
II, Mary A., b. Mar. 17, 1809; m. Charles Knight, q. v. Ill, Thomas, b.
1811; unm. IV, Elizabeth K., b. 1816; m. Daniel Brown, 1835. V, Sarah,
b. 1819; unm.; d. 1845. VI, IMarshal S., lost off Hatteras, Nov. 19,1848.
VII, Oliver M., b. 1827; d. 1849; unm.
Fourth Generation.
(*61) Andrew* Reed, 4th, (Andrew, Jr.,^ Andrew,^ Andrew^) m.
Patience Catland, Newcastle; d. Feb. 5, 1837; she d. Apr. 23, 1839. Chil.:
I, Lydia C, b. 1805; II, Joshua C, b. 1807; III, Phebe S., b. 1809; IV, Wil-
lard, b. 1812; V, Nancy.
(*64) John* Reed, 2d, {Andrew, Jr., ^ Andrew,'^ Andreu^) m. Eunice,
dau. of James Tibbetts, 1817; lived near Hodgdon's Island bridge, where
his son, John A., lives. He d. Apr. 14, 1873; she d. Mar. 1, 1878. Children:
131 Bainbridge, b. Mar. 9, 1819; m. Julia, dau. of John Pinkham, 2d.; set.
at E. B.
132 Osgood, b. Apr. 17, 1821; m. Abigail, dau. of John Pmkham, 2d;
farmer, lived at Back River; d. Jan. 22, 1891; shed. Jan. 24, 1888.
Chil.: I, Izora E., m. Albert Wheeler; II, Franklin M., res. on home-
stead; III, Ada E.; IV, Wilmot O., dec; V, Russell, dec; VI, Jen-
nette, m. George Kenney.
FAMILY HISTOKY. 617
133 Wilmot, b. Aug. 26, 1823; m. (1) Lucy E. Parkhurst, Gloucester, Mass.,
Dec. 31, 1848; she d. June 28, 1859, a. 28; (2) Esther A. Gove, Edge.;
he d. Nov. 21, 1866. Children: I, Izette B., m. Harvey C. Smith, res.
Gloucester; two children. II, Wilmot A., m. Jennie P. Griffin, res.
Gloucester.
134 Frederic, b. Dec. 6, 1825; m. Elizabeth Spinney; he d. May 22, 1871;
she d. Nov. 15, 1871.
135 Franklin, b. Feb. 13, 1828; m.; set. in Cal.; d. there.
136 Mary E., b. Aug. 22, 1830; m. Cyrus McKown, q. v.
137 Manley, b. Sept. 7, 1832.
138 Chapman N., b. Sept. 20, 1834; m. Sarah A., dau. of James Orne; res.
B. H. Children: I, Melville, m., res. Boston; II, Howard, m., em-
ployed in U. S. Geol. Survey; III, James Burton, m., res. B. H.; IV,
E. Wilder, in U. S. employ in Central America.
139 Edward Payson, b. Aug. 30, 1836; d. June 2, 1884; unm.
140 Albaline, b. Mar. 16, 1839.
141 Laura E., b. Mar. 29, 1842; m. Merrill Hodgdon.
142 John Albion, b. Nov. 4, 1844; m. Lottie P., dau. of James Orne; res.
on homestead of his father; two daughters, Marion and Eunice E.
(*65) Benjamin* Reed (Andrew, Jr., '^ Andrew,^ Andrew^) m. Isabella
Crie, 1827. He was in early life a merchant at B. Ctr. He rem. to E. B. in
1832, where he remained through life. There he was a merchant and ship-
builder, and became a large owner of real estate, much of which, undivided,
is now owned by his heirs. He died Sept. 14, 1875; she died May 25, 1889,
a. 86. Children:
143 Isabella, b. Feb. 18, 1828; m. P. F. Wells, Boston; chil., Mary I. and
Benjamin W. ; she d. Feb. 24, 1887.
144 Benjamin B., b. Jan. 20, 1831; d. in Calif., Oct. 19, 1849.
145 Frederick, b. Sept. 15, 1833; m. Emma E. Hixon, Boston; engaged
in the furniture trade; two daus., Nellie H. and Emma I.
146 Jennie R., b. Dec. 17, 1835; m. Julius Kincheloe, 1866; he d. May 20,
1867, see Cas. She res. at B. H. with Mrs. J. H. Blair.
147 William E., b. Oct. 27, 1839; m. E. Ella Howes, New Sharon, 1878;
s. p. He d. Apr. 21, 1896. He was a man who held the esteem and
confidence of those who knew him to a remarkable degree. See
Chap. XVI for public service.
148 Bradford D., b. Jan. 15, 1842; d. Aug. 5, 1868.
149 Ellen A. M., b. May 4, 1846; m. John H. Blair, q. v.
(*66) William* Reed, 2d, {Robert,^ Andrew,^ Andrew^) m. Hannah
Plummer, dau. of Benjamin Hutchings, 1809. Their home was at Pig Cove,
but moved to Vassalboro, 1835. She died Jan. 24, 1852. Children:
150 Sally Stevens, b. Apr. 25, 1810; m. in New.
151 William, b. Oct. 11, 1811; m. Hannah C. Hall, Vassalboro, Dec. 30,
1839; rem. to Oakland, Cal., Nov., 1856; he d. Apr. 20, 1905. Chil.:
I, Elizabeth M., m. David P. Barstow. II, Emily F., dec. Ill, Charles
Goffe, m. Flora A. Moore, Bridgton, Me.; four chil., Olive A., Elmer,
Aimee E., Eva M. IV, George William, m. (1) Mary E. Monroe, (2)
Georgia A. Brown; five chil., Mabel L., Clarence M., Russell C, Lyle
M., Elva J. V, Nellie C, m. Thomas C. Mayor.
162 Abigail, b. May 30, 1813; m. in Vassalboro.
153 Joseph, b. June 10, 1815; set. in Vassalboro.
154 Benjamin H., b. July 13, 1816; set. in Vassalboro.
155 Elbridge G., b. Jan. 11, 1819; m. Susan Randall, Augusta, who was b.
1823, d. 1878, at Red Bluff, Cal., where the fam. now res. Children:
Susan R., Elvira B., Annie F., Elbridge G.
156 Newell B., b. Nov. 10, 1820; res. in Boston; owner of Boston Island.
167 Bradford Y., b. Mar. 21, 1827; set. in Vassalboro.
618 HI8TOBT OF BOOTHBAY.
(*67) Capt. John* Reed {Robert,^ Andrew,''' Andrew^) m. Sarah, dau.
of David Reed, Jr. He followed the sea; date of death unk.; wife d. Jan. 8,
1829. Children: I, Jonathan Stevens, b. Aug. 22, 1814; d. Sept. 4, 1839, see
Cas. II, Hannah, b. Sept. 15, 1820; and two chil. dying in youth. Capt.
John lived on Indiantown Island.
(*68) Robert* Reed, 4th, {Robert,^ Andrew,'^ Andreiv^) m. Alice Reed.
Date of death of either unk. One son only is recorded, Bailey B., b. June
19, 1821; m. Elizabeth Lewis; lived at West B. H. and had a fishing stand
northerly from the Oak Grove House, on the cove. He died Dec. 31, 1847.
His wid. m. Silas Ome. They had two daus.: I, Laura A., b. July 21, 1845;
m. J. Clifford Holton, q. v. II, Elizabeth Bailey, b. Oct. 17, 1847.
(*72) RuFus* Reed {William,^ Andrezv,''' Andrevi^) m. Eleanor ;
lived at Back River on his father's homestead; dec. Children: I, Ervin W.,
m.; res. B. H. II, George M., m. Bessie Blackburn; res. B. H. Ill, Blanch
E., m. Herbert G. Dunton; res. No. B. IV, Fred C, lives on his father's
homestead. V, Eva M., m. Melvin D. Sawyer; res. B. H. VI, Myrtle E.,
m. Edward Hutchinson; res. B. H. VII, Laura B.; m. Merrit Wylie.
(*78) Henry* Reed {William,^ Henry,'^ Attdrezv'^) m. Miriam, dau. of
Joseph Carlisle. Followed the sea; res. on the family homestead at Carlisle
Pt. He d. Apr. 10, 1873; she d. Sept. 23, 1883. Children: I, William, b.
Sept. 17, 1815; d. July 23, 1837; unm. II, Joseph C, b. Apr. 5, 1817; d.
Dec. 22, 1832; unm. Ill, Llewellyn, b. Nov. 12, 1819; m.; res. Gloucester;
d. Sept. 9, 1880. IV, Charles H., b. Nov. 8, 1822; m.; set. in Wash.; d.
1871. V, Amos C, b. July 2, 1824; d. Nov. 23, 1846, see Cas. VI, Arietta
J., b. 1826; d. 1834. VII, Cordelia R., b. June 13, 1829; m. (1) Benjamin
Kelley, q. v., (2) Paul G. Pinkham, q. v., (3) John Welch. VIII, Alonzo P.,
b. Aug. 3, 1831; d. Jan. 8, 1853. IX, Martha J., b. Dec. 17, 1835; m. Elisha
Conley.
(*S0) Robert* Reed, 4th {Robert,^ David,'' Andretv'^) m. Lydia C.
Reed; lived on his father's homestead, where the late Isaiah M. Reed lived;
followed the sea and farming. He d. Nov. 16, 1864; she d. July 3, 1887, a.
81. Children: I, Lucretia, b. 1828; d. May 23, 1850. II, Rocksena, b. Nov.
5, 1832. Ill, Isaiah M., m. Mary A., dau. of Rufus Adams; d. Feb. 16, 1889;
chil.: Charles P., dec, see Cas. 1889, Anna A., Hattie B., Betsey C, Nellie
W. IV, Capt. Mitchell, b. Dec. 28, 1837; m. Lucy J. Vanhorn; chil.: Mary,
Cyrus M., Douglass, Kate, Carrie. V, Charles W., b. Mar. 14, 1843; d.
1878, see Cas.
(*86) George B.* Reed (Paul,^ David,'' Andrew^) m. Mahala Stone,
1842; lived opposite the No. 8 schoolhouse on the site of the town store dur-
ing the Revolution. Followed the sea. He d. Feb. 27, 1882; she d. July 30,
1897, a. 76-10. Children: Elvira V., Eliza E., Woodbridge, Amanda A.,
Abaline R., Gardner D.
(*91) Charles* Reed {Paul,^ David,'' Andrew'^) m. (1) Mary J. Thorpe,
1852; (2) Rachel M., dau. of Benjamin McKown. He d. Aug. 23, 1904;
Mary J., wife, d. Mar. 29, 1867. Children: I, William Herbert, b. July 16,
1854; m. Mary J., dau. of Benjamin McKown, 1885; one son, Herbert Chan-
dler. He is proprietor of the Oak Grove House; for public service see
FAMILY HISTORY. 619
Chap. XVI. II, Charles S., b. Nov. 29, 1856; m. Jennie H., dau. of Silas
Orne. Ill, Bertha E., b. Oct. 24, 1860; m. James E. Beath, q. v.
(*102) Capt. George* Reed {David, 3d,^ Joseph,"^ Andrew^) m. Sarah,
dau. of Major John McKown, 1828; he lived at Mill Cove and had a long
and prosperous career at sea. He d. Aug. 1, 1876; she d. Feb. 28, 1865.
Children: I, Susanna Caroline, b. Feb. 25, 1829; m. Capt. Benjamin H.
Lewis; d. Feb. 1, 1849. II, John McKown, b. Apr. 5, 1830; d. Sept. 26,
1854. Ill, George William, b. Nov. 30, 1831. IV, Benjamin Sewall, b. Mar.
15, 1834; m. Mary E. Sawyer, 1863; chil.: Mary, Benjamin, Simeon, Lillian,
Sarah E., Bertha and Iva G. V, Ann Olivia, b. Jan. 7, 1836; d. May 24,
1878; unm. VI, Sarah Ellen, b. July 1, 1837; d. Apr. 16, 1892; unm. VII,
Mary Alice, b. July 2, 1839; d. Mar. 17, 1862. VIII, Isabella McKown, b.
Dec. 22, 1840; res. B. H.; unm. IX, Theodore, b. Dec. 11, 1843.
(*104) Washington* Reed (David, 3d,^ Joseph,'^ Andrezti^) m. Eliza J.
Ross; res. on his father's homestead at No. B. ; d. 1897; she d. in 1900, a. 84.
Children: I, George W., b. July 19, 1835; dec. II, Eliza J., b. Dec. 16,
1844; m. Thomas J. Emerson, q. v. Ill, David A., b. Sept. 3, 1847; m. Mrs.
Orissa E. Harris, 1878; res. No. B. IV, William A., b. Apr. 10, 1850. V,
Joseph O., b. Aug. 16, 1853. VI, Rose M., b. Feb. 14, 1866; m. Thomas
Harris. Four chil., d. in infancy, omitted.
(*106) Nathaniel C* Reed {David, 3d,^ Joseph,^ Andrew^) m. Cather-
ine, dau. of James Adams; res. B. H., one mile north of village, farmer; d.
Feb. 29, 1904; she d. June 9, 1893. Children: I, James Wesley, b. July 19,
1840; dec; fam. res. B. H. II, Charles H., b. Oct. 24, 1855; dec; fam. res.
B. H. on homestead. Ill, Norman C, b. Mar. 12, 1858; res. Mass. Three
chil., Sarah J., Lectina and Fredson, d. in youth.
(*121) Freeman* Reed {Paul, 2d,^ Joseph,- Andreiu^) m. (1) Martha,
dau. of William Kennedy, 1839; (2) Harriet F., dau. of Samuel Brewer. He
lived on the homestead of his father and grandfather; followed the sea; d.
Mar. 9, 1887; Martha, wife, d. Oct. 9, 1845; Harriet, wife, d. Sept. 2, 1881.
Children: I, Capt. Freeman Kennedy, b. Mar. 24, 1841; m. Elizabeth F.,
dau. of Benjamin Blair; three chil.: Fullerton Paul, Kate Leslie and Eliza-
beth Freeman; he d. Sept. 10, 1889, see Cas.; she d. Dec. 27, 1874. II,
Elizabeth J., b. Feb. 18, 1843. Ill, William, b. Oct. 3, 1845; m. Lucy O.,
dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Foster; res. Linekin; one son, Foster. IV, Mary
Frances, b. May 20, 1851. V, Abby E., b. Nov. 24, 1852; m. Charles H.
Caswell.
(*127) Robert* Reed, 5th, {James,^ Thomas,'^ Andrew^) m. Esther,
dau. of John Reed (*29); first lived on the Orchard farm and later where
George Nelson does. He d. Oct. 17, 1877; she d. Apr. 29, 1890. Children:
1, Sarah F., b. June 27, 1821; d. Dec. 1, 1868; unm. II, Mary E. K., b. Nov.
2, 1829; d. Mar. 28, 1874; unm. Ill, George Matthew, b. May 12, 1833; m.;
set. in Gloucester, Mass. IV, Martha H., b. Aug. 30, 1836. V, James A., b.
May 1, 1844; m. Henrietta J. Shaw, Woolwich, 1881; res. at No. B., farmer;
see Chap. XVI for public service. VI, Oliver G., b. Nov. 30, 1850; sea cap-
tain; res. B. Ctr.
620 HISTORT OF BOOTHBAT.
(*129) John'' Reed, 3d, {James,^ Thomas,'^ Andrezv^) m. Sarah, dau.
of Benjamin Pinkham. Lived where James A. Reed does at Pleasant Cove;
he was a sea captain; d. Feb., 1879; she d. Dec. 24, 1878. Children: I,
Cynthia, b. Nov. 28, 1828; m. Frederick Montgomery. II, James, b. Dec. 5,
1830; m. Lucy A. Brown; set. in Dam. Ill, Benjamin P., b. Apr. 3, 1833;
m. Frances Kelley; he d. 1869; she d. Jan. 28, 1863; one dau., Celia, m.
George Dunton. IV, John E., b. June 19, 1835; m. Hattie Sherman; set. in
Washington. V, Sarah A., b. May 16, 1837; m. Isaac Webber. VI, Lydia
A., b. Nov. 25, 1839; m. Stephen Morrill. VII, Julia A., b. Feb. 16, 1842;
m. George A. Morrill. VIII, Marietta, b. June 12, 1844; unm. IX, Jose-
phine, b. June 8, 1847; m. Claude H. Sherman. X, Eugene A., b. Jan. 29,
1850; m. Nellie Henley.
Levi Reed, who came from Woolwich and set. in E. B. in 1833, is not
thought to have been related to the foregoing fam. He m. Abigail Perry in
1830. He d. July 13, 1885; she d. Aug. 4, 1883. Children:
1 John P., b. Dec. 10, 1832; m. Julia E. Blake; live at E. B.; chil.: I,
Julia F., m. Zina Webber; II, Lizzie A., m. Frank H. Albee, res. at B.
H.; Ill, Gilbert, m. Annie Sargent, res. at B. H.
2 George, b. July 26, 1834; m. Mary A. Race.
3 Sarah J., b. May 23, 1836; m. Levi Blake.
4 Margaret P., b. Aug. 19, 1838; m. Charles Wylie.
5 Levi S., b. Aug. 17, 1841; m. Marcia Farnham. ; s. p.
6 Mary Alice, b. 1844; m. Joseph Davis.
RICE.
George M. Rice m. Elizabeth Fuller in 1862. They live at E. B. Chil.:
I, Hattie Ellen, dec; II, George W., m. Edith T. Lane, Bris.; Ill, Frank
L., m. Annie O. Spear; IV, William E., m. Nellie K. Murray; V, Henry
W., m. Sarah E. L. Montgomery; VI, Mary A.; VII, Lizzie E.; VIII, Addie
K. The sons Frank L., William E. and Henry W. constitute the well-
known firm of Rice Brothers Co., boat builders, who are mentioned in
Chap. XIX.
RICHARDS.
1 Keyes Harriman Richards was b. near Round Pond, Nov. 8, 1838, the
son of James and Hannah (Harriman) Richards. He m. Roseltha, dau. of
Edmund and Elsie (Bryant) Yates, Feb. 22, 1863. He commenced a sea-
faring life at 17, between N. Y. and the West Indies. On Nov. 18, 1870, he
came to B. H. He commenced trade in Apr., 1872, see p. 347. His son-in-
law, Frederick Dodge, was taken into partnership in 1891. He opened a
branch store at Squirrel Is. in 1887; bought the Chase House in 1890, which
was burned in 1893. He opened Squirrel Inn in 1895, first as lessee of the
building, furnishing it himself, and later purchased it of the Association.
The organization of the First Nat. Bank, in Nov., 1900, was more largely
due to his efforts than any other individual, and he was made its president,
which position he now holds. They have one dau., Florence, the wife of
Frederick Dodge. Mr. Richards has always been a Democrat and has
received his party's nominations on several occasions.
FAMILY HISTORY. 621
2 James D. Richards was b. at Round Pond in 1833, son of James and
Hannah H. Richards. In early life he followed the sea. He m. (1) Mary
Smith, 1858; (2) Sarah D. Bowdoin, 1869. He came to B. H. in 1870, first
carrying on a painting establishment and as supt. of the marine railway for
three years. In 1886 he opened a hardware store, which business he fol-
lowed until his death, in April, 1893. By his first m. were two sons: I,
Warren S., res. at B. H., a painter; 11, Orlando M., living, but set. elsewhere.
1 Benjamin Sargent, not recorded on the town books, was living in B.,
at or near the Harbor, in 1788, probably for several years previous to that
date. The name of his wife is unk. Children:
*2 Edward B., b. 1764, q. v.
3 Phineas, m. Sally Brewer, 1801.
4 Priscilla, m. Abraham Springer, 1801.
*5 Thomas, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Edward B.^ Sargent (Benjamin^) m. Sally Parsons, 1796. They
lived at the Harbor where his son-in-law, Luther Weld, did later, now the
home of Benjamin S. Reed, Atlantic St. He built a few small vessels from
a yard where the residence of the late Herman Carlisle stands. He d. Aug.
3, 1846; she d. Aug. 19, 1847, a. 72. Children:
6 Frances, b. Jan. 23, 1797; m. Luther Weld, q. v.
7 Sally, b. Nov. 22, 1800.
8 Susanna, b. Sept. 13, 1803; m. John Andrews, q. v.
*9 Stephen, b. Feb. 22, 1806, q. v.
*10 Charles F., b. June 1, 1812, q. v.
(*6) Thomas^ Sargent (Benjamiii^) m. Sarah Farnham, 1806. He d.
Jan. 31, 1860; his home was at Lobster Cove. Children:
11 Isaac, b. Oct. 8, 1806.
*12 Francis, b. April 19, 1808, q. v.
13 Sarah, b. June 24, 1810.
14 Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1813.
15 Dorcas, b. June 18, 1815; m. Joseph Farnham, 2d, 1838.
16 Elizabeth, b. June 17, 1818; m. Ichabod Tibbetts, 1838.
17 Mary, b. Nov. 26, 1820.
18 Thomas, Jr., b. Jan. 16, 1825.
Third Generation.
(•9) Stephen^ Sargent (Edward B.'^ Benjamin^) m. Eliza, dau. of
Nathaniel, Jr., and Elizabeth Pinkham. He built and lived where Dr. E. C.
Blake does and his shipyard, then the largest in town, was where M. D.
McKown has lived in recent years. See Chap. XIX. He rem. to Portland
during the sixties. Children:
19 Weld, b. June 27, 1832; d. June 6, 1864; for him the G. A. R. Post was
named.
20 Oscar, b. Sept. 5, 1833.
21 Edwin Lyman, b. Oct. 27, 1837; d. May 27, 1863.
22 Edward B., b. May 13, 1839; m. Maria Allen, Brunswick, 1860; res. in
Portland.
23 Ann E., b. Apr. 29, 1845.
622 HISTORr OF BOOTHBAY.
(*10) Charles F.^ Sargent {Edward B.,"^ Benjamin^) m. Susan C.
Fuller, 1843. He d. Apr. 30, 1854; she d. June IT, 1858. He was engaged
in building vessels for several years where William M. Bennett lives. He
lived at the head of the Harbor. Children: I, Ellen, b. Sept. 13, 1844. II,
Edward P., b. Jan. 4, 1846. Ill, William A., b. Sept. 28, 1847. IV, Jason
F., b. Jan. 28, 1850; d. 1853. V, Fanny W., b. Nov. 26, 1853.
(*12) Francis^ Sargent ( Thomas,'^ Benjamin^) m. Lucinda Tibbetts.
He lived where his father did at Lobster Cove and followed the sea and
fishing. Children:
24 John Francis, b. Sept. 17, 1834; m. Angelet Love, 1856.
25 Sarah E., b. Aug. 16, 1836; m. George E. Thurston, Bris., 1863.
26 Hiram, b. July 24, 1838; m. Eliza A. Tibbetts, 1862; d. Jan. 27, 1865.
27 Lydia A., b. Aug. 1, 1840; m. George C. Dunton, 1865.
28 Mary E., b. Feb. 12, 1843; m. Isaac L. Murray, 1866.
29 Cordelia, b. Jan. 20, 1846; d. 1848.
30 Isaac T., b. Feb. 2, 1848; m. Permelia E. Andrews, 1869.
31 William L., b. June 23, 1850; m. Naomi Tibbetts, 1872.
32 Eleanor H., b. Feb. 23, 1853.
33 Josephine, b. Oct. 17, 1854.
34 Abby G., b. Apr. 6, 1856; m. Albert Murray, 1871.
SAWYER.
The name of Sawyer was numerous in B. abt. 1790 to 1810. Several
large families of chil. were raised in town of that name at abt. that period.
It is impossible from any data which has come into my hands to determine
the relationship of the early members in B. They may have been brothers,
but from the number of heads of families, marrying within a few years of
each other, I would be inclined to the opinion that they were more likely
the sons of two families, coming here at nearly the same time and settling.
They were evidendy all related and came from Newburyport and that vicinity.
1 Jonathan, b. Mar. 6, 1749, with his wife, Sarah, b. Nov. 4, 1752, set. in
B., at the Harbor, before 1768. He died Oct. 21, 1809. He was clerk of B.
from 1794 to 1806, and the most artistic penman that has ever filled the office.
Their chil. were: Sarah, 1768; Phebe, 1770; Jonathan, Jr., 1772; Anne,
1775, m. Edward Emerson; Betsey, 1780, m. George W. Merrill; Clarissa,
1791, m. Amos Carlisle; Alfred, 1794.
2 Jacob Sawyer, who d. Mar. 9, 1821, and Elizabeth, wife, d. Nov. 7, 1813,
lived at Sawyer's Is. He was brother to Jonathan. She was Elizabeth
Herrington.
3 Allen Sawyer, who m. Sally Hodgdon, Edge., 1780, also thought to
have been a brother to the two former.
4 Samuel Sawyer, nothing recorded of his fam. if he had one, built the
first tannery in town, on the main, opposite Hodgdon's Is., and afterward
sold to Thorpe Bros.
5 Aaron Sawyer, whose wife was Sarah, was brother to Samuel, but their
relationship to the others unk. Chil.: Aaron, Jr., 1781, m. Nabby Kenney;
Benjamin, 1783; Joshua, 1785; Sally, 1787; Jonathan, 1789; Jacob, 1791, m.
Martha Linekin.
FAMILY HISTORY. 623
6 Ebenezer Sawyer, m. Martha Giles. They lived on Sawyer's Is., and
from him that island takes its name. He was probably a brother to Jona-
than. Children: Betsey, 1781; Stephen, 1785; Mary, 1787; Paul, 1790.
7 Jonathan^ Sawyer, Jr., {Jojiathan^) m. Martha Linekin. She d. July 3,
1812. Children: Betsey, 1804; Sarah, 1806; Mary H., 1807; Joseph R., 1809.
Not known to have been related to the foregoing were three brothers
who came to B., at a later date, from Mt. Desert with their wives. Capt.
Samuel Sawyer lived where John Gilpatrick does; Capt. Simeon Sawyer
lived where Joseph Blake does, while Capt. Stephen Sawyer lived at E. B.,
north of the residence of Charles Southwick. He d. July 17, 1849, a. 54;
Abigail, his wife, d. Dec. 13, 1870, a. 71. Children: I, Loisa, b. Sept. 19,
1822. II, Simeon, b. Sept. 19, 1826. Ill, Abigail, b. Oct. 7, 1828. IV,
Stephen, b. Oct. 2, 1831. V, Sarah E., b. Dec. 15, 1833. VI, Henry C, b.
Feb. 27, 1836. VII, William M., b. June 29, 1838; m. (1) Angeline Jack,
Richmond, (2) Mrs. Aldana Blake, dau. of James Linekin; chil.: William, b.
June 15, 1863; Melvin, b. Aug. 14, 1865. VIII, Mar>' E., b. June 30, 1841.
SEAVEY.
The Seavey fam. commenced in town by three brothers, William, James
and Charles M. , settling at East Boothbay Village in the thirties. They came
from Kennebunkport, which had been known as Arundel previous to 1821.
They were the sons of Stephen and Keziah ( Huff) Seavey, and were of the
seventh generation of their family in America. Their ancestry follows:
I, William Seavey,^ immigrant, came to Portsmouth, N. H., in 1631, a
member of the historic party under Mason.
II, William Seavey,^ settled and lived in Kittery.
III, William Seavey,^ born in Kittery, settled in Arundel, 1720, where he
afterward lived.
IV, Nicholas Seavey* m. Hannah Leach; lived in Arundel; she d. in 1820,
aged 102.
V, Stephen Seavey^ m. Elizabeth Wilde; lived in Arundel.
VI, Stephen Seavey^ m. Keziah Huff; had six chil.: William, James and
Charles M., who set. in E. B.; also three daus., Julia and Lydia, who
m. and set. in Boston, and Ruth, who m. Andrew R. Montgomery.
Stephen and his wife came to E. B. in 1835, where he d. that year, a. 58;
she d. Aug., 1854, a. 75.
1 William Seavey, b. June 29, 1802; m. Catherine, dau. of Samuel and
Betsey Davis. He was first of his family to set. in B. With his wife and
three children he came to E. B. in 1831. He was a spar maker, and later
carried on shipbuilding and a lumber yard. He was an incorporator of the
M. E. church in his village and a trustee for more than fifty years. He died
June 2, 1892; she died Apr. 14, 1881, a. 76. Children:
2 Catherine, b. Sept. 23, 1827; m. Jeremiah P. Baker, q. v.
*3 William W., b. May 7, 1829, q. v.
*4 Granville]., b. Nov. 1, 1S31, q. V.
5 Sarah E., b. Aug. 15, 1833; m. Capt. William Montgomery, q. v.
*6 James C, b. Apr. 15, 1835, q. v.
41
624 HISTORY or boothbay.
7 John.N., b. July 30, 1837; m. Laura Bennett.
8 Eliza P., b. Feb. 27, 1839; m. Henry Treadway, Conn.; dec.
9 Abby F., b. Jan. 7, 1841; m. Leonard Webster.
10 James Seavey, second son of Stephen, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel and
Sarah Murray; came to E. B. in 1835. He was a block and spar maker.
He died July 18, 1888; she died Jan. 2, 1856. Children:
11 Charles A., b. Aug. 17, 1838; m. Lectina Wylie.
12 James A., b. Apr. 7, 1840; d. 1852.
13 Elizabeth A., b. Mar. 26, 1842; m. Rev. J. D. Pickels, D. D.
14 Samuel M., b. June 12, 1847; m. Izette Wylie.
15 Mary D., b. Apr. 20, 1850; m. Edward E. Race, q. v.
16 Charles M. Seavey, third son of Stephen, m. Martha Cott, N. H. They
came to E. B. in 1845. He was a house and ship carpenter. She d. Feb. 22,
1852; he m. (2) Sarah, dau. of John Hodgdon, Linekin. He d. Mar. 10.
1889. Children:
17 James M., b. July 6, 1836; set. in N. H.
18 John O., b. Mar. 7, 1838; unm.
19 Charles F., b. Aug. 31, 1841; m. Eveline Holton.
20 Mary A., b. July 13, 1843; m. and set. in Worcester, Mass.
21 Martha A., b. July 11, 1845; m. George E. Dodge, Linekin.
22 Harriet, b. Aug. 13, 1846; m. Cutts, Boston.
23 Franklin, b. Mar. 18, 1850; m. Josie Hall, Worcester, Mass. He is a
merchant at E. B.; one dau., Isabella, m. Victor K. Montgomery.
24 Morris, b. Aug. 15, 1854; lives at E. B.
25 Jennie J., b. Dec. 4, 1858; m. J. Ed. Knight.
26 Clara M., b. Nov. 24, 1862; m. George A. McGunigle, q. v.
27 John, b. Nov. 28, 1864; m. Lizzie Dodge, Edge.
28 Stephen, b. Sept. 18, 1871; m. and set. in Boston.
Second Generation.
(*3) William W.^ Seavey ( William'^) m. Eveline, dau. of James Line-
kin. He lives at E. B. and is a ship carpenter. Children: I, Ammi P., b.
Nov. 15, 1853; d. 1863. II, William O., b. Jan. 11, 1858; m. Carrie L., dau.
of Rufus Auld; is a sailmaker; lives at B. H. Ill, Mary Eveline, b. Jan. 11,
1858; m. William E. Blossom, q. v. IV, Philip H., b. Nov. 15, 1865; m.
Elida L. Hysom, Bris. V, Gertrude M., b. Feb. 25, 1873; unm.; teacher.
(*4) Granville J.^ Seavey ( William^) m. Harriet E. Kitchen, Vassal-
boro. He lives at E. B. and carries on sailmaking; they also, in summer,
have opened their house for several years to the public. Children: I, Her-
bert Judson, b. Sept. 15, 1876; unm.; is master of a four-masted schooner.
II, Bessie Colton, b. Sept. 26, 1879; music teacher; res. in Boston.
(*6) James O.^ Seavey {WUHatn^) m. Durinda J. P., dau. of Miles
Hagan. They live at E. B. He is a spar maker. Mrs. Seavey has for many
years been a teacher of music in all parts of the town and is now pianist in
Schatzer's Orchestra, B. H. Children: I, Annie L., b. Oct. 4, 1867; m.
Philip Murray. II, Miles Hagan, b. Aug. 29, 1870; unm.
SHERMAN.
1 Eleazer Sherman is said to have come from Mansfield, Mass., to
Boothbay. Here he m. Lydia Kelley, 1767, and set. near the Edge, line in
No. B. Many of his descendants have lived in Edge., New. and other towns
FAMILY HISTORY. 625
farther north, Washington, Whitefield, Liberty, etc., are instances, which
part of the State was largely peopled from the coast of Lincoln Co. in early
times. He descended as follows:
I, William Sherman^ m. Prudence Hill, 1658.
II, William Sherman, Jr.,2m. Desire, dau. of Edward and Faith (Clark)
Doten, the latter of Mayflower descent.
Ill, Eleazer Sherman^ m. Elizabeth Lapham and one of their sons was Elea-
zer, the subject of this sketch.
By his first marriage were eight children, properly recorded in the B. rec-
ords. Between 1785, the birth of the last one, and 1790 his wife d. and he
m., in the latter year, Susanna Wylie. By the last marriage were si.x chil.,
but dates of birth have not been obtained of them all; they are not recorded
in B. The fam., made up from both town and fam. records, follows. He
m. (3) Martha Reed, 1808; they had no children. He d. Mar. 24, 1826. Chil.:
*2 Eleazer, Jr., b. Feb. 10, 1770, q. v.
3 Aaron, b. July 10, 1772; m. Polly Tarbell (appears also as Tarblet),
1796; set. in New.
*4 Elisha, b. Sept. 13, 1774, q. v.
*5 Roger, b. Sept. 13, 1776, q. v.
6 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 18, 1778; m. Samuel Giles, 1797, q. v.
7 Joseph, b. Nov. 20, 1780; m. Sarah Dunton; set. in Edge.
8 William, b. Feb. 29, 1783; m. Rebecca Dunton; set. in Edge.
9 Lydia, b. Apr. 29, 1785; m. Joseph Dunton; set. in New.
10 Robert, b. Sept. 1, 1791; m. Esther Reed; set. in Edge.
11 John, m. Eunice Besse, 1814; set. in Washington.
12 Abiel, m. Lovina Gove, Edge.; set in Liberty.
*13 Daniel, q. v.
*14 George, q. v.
15 Susan, m. Samuel Williams, Edge.
Second Generation.
(*2) Eleazer^ Sherman, Jr., {Eleazer^) m. (1) Elizabeth Reed, 1793;
(2) Hannah S. Wylie, 1830. He was an undertaker and lived where the late
Bradford Y. Baker did, at E. B. He died Jan. 27, 1854; Betsey, wife, died
Dec, 1829. Children:
16 Lydia, b. Sept. 22, 1794; m. Abial Gove.
17 Betsey, b. Aug. 31, 1796; m. John Baker, Edge.
18 Harriet, b. Apr. 3, 1800.
19 Mary, b. Dec. 23, 1808; m. Charles McDougall, q. v.
20 Eleazer, b. Dec. 1, 1813; m. Susan Barter, 1842.
(*4) Elisha^ Sherman {Eleazer^) m. Catherine Tarbell, 1797. They
lived where Capt. Freeman Greenleaf now does, north of Wildcat Bridge.
Children:
21 Susanna, b. Apr. 28, 1798; d. 1813.
22 Mary, b. May 27, 1800; m. John Kelley, q. v.
23 Catherine, b. Nov. 2, 1802; m. David Deering, Bath, 1819.
24 Lydia, b. Apr. 10, 1805; m. Benjamin Hutchings, Edge., 1834.
26 John, b. July 25, 1807; m. Ruth ; set. in Vassalboro.
26 Zachariah, b. May 5, 1810; m. Sophia Waterman, Litchfield, 1839; lived
on the homestead.
27 Robert, b. July 11, 1812; m. Bathsheba Morey.
*28 Charles E., b. Oct. 1, 1820, q. v.
(*5) Rogers Sherman {Eleazer^) m. Elizabeth Dunton, New., 1799.
They lived in E. B. Children: I, Martha, b. Nov. 11, 1800. II. Nancy, b.
626 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
May 26, 1802; m. Benjamin Alley, 1822. Ill, Joseph, b. Mar. 23, 1804. IV,
Samuel, b. Dec. 17, 1806. V, Stinson S., b. Mar. 21, 1810; m. Susan C. Blen,
Dresden, 1843. VI, Hartley, b. Apr. 24, 1812. VII, Joshua, b. Aug. 20,
1814; m. Catherine Webber. VIII, Elizabeth, b. June 11, 1816; m. John
Hutchings.
(*13) Daniel^ Sherman (Ekazer^) m. Jane . They lived in No. B.
and had three children: I, Isaac C, b. May 29, 1827; m. Abigail, dau. of
Silas Lewis; he was a merchant for many years at B.; d. Jan. 22, 1890. II,
Betsey, b. Feb. 1, 1830; d. 1851. Ill, Eliza J., b. Apr. 1, 1832; m. West-
brook G. Lewis, q. v. Daniel Sherman died and his wid. m. Capt. George
Sherman, 1839, q. v.
(*14) Capt. George^ Sherman (Eleazer^) m. Mrs. Jane Sherman, wid.
of Daniel. Children: I, Bradford B., b. July 16, 1840. II, George Kilburn,
b. Dec. 13, 1842; m. Laura C. Brown, 1866; he d. July 26, 1878; she d. Dec.
18,^885, a. 38; chil.: Marshall S., Raymond O., Thomas F., Walter K. Ill,
Lyman O., b. Oct. 23, 1845.
Third Generation.
(*28) Charles E.^ Sherman {Elisha,^ Eleazer^) m. (1) Mary J., dau.
of Charles Giles; she d. Apr. 24, 1855; (2) Mary C. Dodge. They set. in
Edge., but their chil., in part, now live at B. H. Children: I, Clara E., m.
Dexter W. Hodgdon, B. H., q. v. II, Rufus I., unm. Ill, Nellie F., m.
Albert R. Baker, Edge. IV, M. Viola, m. George L. Baxter, Mechanics-
ville, N. Y. V, Charles E., Jr., m. M. Ella, dau. of Nathan S. Baker. They
live in B. H. He is engaged in the livery business; has been deputy sheriff,
State fish warden, and is member of the present board of selectmen. They
have one son, Charles E., Jr.
SMITH.
1 Seba Smith' came to B. in August, 1822. He set. at West B. H., see
p. 439. He was the son of Jasiel and Anna (Grossman) Smith. Jasiel was
b. in Raynham, now Taunton, Mass., Mar. 25, 1734. He m. Anna Cross-
man, Apr. 14, 1757. They had a fam. of ten chil., of whom Seba was the
sixth. With this fam., in 1787, they moved to Turner. Seba was bom June
13, 1767. He m. Aphia Stevens, Oct. 9, 1788. For a time they lived in
Buckfield, and later in Portland, before settlement in B. They had a fam. of
twelve chil. Three only ol the sons lived in B.: Seba, Jr., for a short time,
Stevens for a longer period and Marshal during life. Rinda, a dau., m. John
Beath, q. v. Seba Smith, Jr., was a man of recognized genius in his time.
He had inherited the literary talent from his grandmother, Anna Grossman,
who at the age of 84 wrote a poem upon the occasion of her birthday that
finds a place in the " History of Turner" on account of its merit. He wrote
under the nom de plume of Major Jack Downing; his principal published
works being " My Thirty Years out of the Senate," "'Way Down East,"
" New Elements of Geometry" and " Letters of Major Jack Downing." As
a poet his ability was also recognized, and many fragments of his verse
appear collected in the volume of Bowdoin Poets. He grad. from Bowdoin
in 1818. In 1829 he established the Portland Courier, the first daily paper
in Maine, after having been editor of the Argus. He m. Elizabeth Oakes
FAMILY HISTORY. 627
Prince, Yarmouth, 1823, who was counted among the first women of her
day from a literary standpoint. He died at Patchogue, L. I., July 29, 1868.
Stevens Smith, who was partner for a time with his brother Marshal, was b.
in 1810 and d. in 1864, in Portland. He m. Harriet, dau. of Nicholas T.
Knight. They had a fam. of seven chil., b. bet. 1833-47: Harriet S., Rinda
A., Abial M., Elizabeth L., Rolvin H., Sarah K., Nicholas H.
Seba Smith, Sr., engaged in trade and bank fishing at once upon coming
to B., which he followed until his death. Mar. 16, 1831, after which time the
business was continued, as told in Chapters XIX and XXI, by his sons
Marshal and Stevens.
2 Marshal Smith- was b. in Buckfield, June 20, 1798. He m. Nancy
Montgomery, Oct. 30, 1823. During his entire business career in B. he was
one of its most prominent and influential men. His public service is shown
in Chap. XVI and his business career in Chaps. XIX and XXI. Upon com-
ing to the Harbor, in 1835, he purchased the Daniel Avery place on Oak St.,
which he rebuilt and which is now owned by his heirs. He d. Sept. 25, 1867;
she d. Dec. 28, 1875. Children:
3 Silas, b. May 1, 1825; m. Rebecca E., dau. of Charles and Charlotte
Thorpe, Mar. 24, 1867. He followed the sea, fishing and coasting,
went to Calif, in the early days, and was a teacher in the Boothbay
schools a part of many years. He had the care of his parents and lived
on the homestead. He was a genial, witty man and had many friends.
He d. Dec. IS, 1883; she d. Oct. 17, 1893; s. p.
4 Albert, b. Apr. 6, 1827; m. (1) Louisa Kruger, 1855; she d. Sept. 21,
1878; (2) Mary S. Beers, 1879; she d. June 24, 1887. He d. in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., Mar. 15, 1903. He was a lawyer, practicing in N. Y. City.
He had five chil. by first marriage.
5 Suel, b. Jan. 20, 1829; m. (1) Sarah E., dau. of James T. Beath, Oct.
22, 1857; she d. June 16, 1871; (2) Mrs. Alice T. Doten, dau. of Dea.
Thomas S. Beath, 1873; she d. in 1888. He was an expert telegrapher,
living in Bangor, Phila. and Boston, where he died. Mar. 13, 1896, at
which time he was holding the position of Gen. Agt. of the Western
Union Co. Four chil. by first m., all dec.
6 Lucy Ellen, b. Feb. 1, 1831; d. Oct. 7, 1852; unm.
7 Aphia J., b. Dec. 30, 1832; lives on homestead; unm.
8 Mary E., b. Nov. 13, 1834; m. John H. Mallard, Boston, 1859; d. Aug.
10, 1860.
9 Ruel, b. Oct. 19, 1836; m. Maria H. Dow, Bangor, Dec. 8, 1863. They
have had three chil., two of whom are living. For many years he was
in the practice of law at Bangor, and then became court stenographer
and invariably accompanied Chief Justice Peters as he held court. He
is now stenographer for the Spanish Treaty Claims Com., Wash., D. C.
10 William M., b. Oct. 5, 1838; m. Marv A., dau. of James T. Beadi, Nov.
26, 1865. Since a time soon after the close of the Civil War, in which
he served, he has held responsible positions in the telegraph and express
business in Bangor, Buftalo and N. Y. City. From these he retired m
1904, returning to the old homestead at B. H., where they now live.
They have had six children, three of whom are living: Frank M., m
Helena, Mont, and Montgomery B., in Great Falls, Mont., both of
whom hold positions of superintendency in prominent mining compa-
nies; Mabel A., unm., lives with her parents.
11 Emily Ann, b. Aug. 14, 1841; m. Rev. William Leavitt, Chicago, now
dec They have had four chil., three of whom are living.
12 Cinderilla (adopted), b. Sept. 6, 1839; unm.; d. Dec. 24, 1858.
SMITHWICK.
Charles C. Smithwick came to E. B. from New. He m. Mar>', dau. of
628 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Caleb and Eliza Hodgdon, 1874. Soon after he engaged in the livery and
trucking business, which he still continues. Their home was the former
homestead of her father. She d. Oct. S, 1891. Children: Annie L., Mary
E., Charles F., Emma G.
SPINNEY.
1 Robert Spinney was born in Georgetown in 1811. He descended from
Thomas Spinney, a weaver, who came to America in 1659 and received a
grant of 200 acres of land on the end of Eliot Neck. The fam. is numerous
from him abt. Kittery and other towns in that vicinity. A grandson, Jere-
miah, set. in Georgetown, who was b. in 1742. From him descended the
fam. in that town. Robert m. Margaret, dau. of David Kenniston, 1832, and
soon after moved to B. Ctr., where he afterward lived. His house stood in
the corner, east side of the County road, northerly from the Kenniston house.
His store, where he traded throughout his entire business career, was across
the road from his house, westerly, see Chaps. XVI and XIX. He died Jan.
27, 1873; she died Aug. 2, 1870. Children:
2 Margaret J., b. INIar. IS, 1833; m. Arad Day, Dam. ; set. in Chelsea, Mass.
3 Elizabeth S., b. Sept. 10, 1834; m. Frederick Reed, q. v.
4 Robert Curtis, b. Oct. 13, 1835; unm.; d. Jan., 1905.
5 Roxana J., b, Feb. 17, 1837; m. Levi Willey, q. v.
6 William Quinam, b. Oct. 13, 1838; m. Clara Berry; res. in Belfast.
7 Mary A., b. May 17, 1840; m. Richard M. Webber; lived in E. B.; rem.
to Bath late in the nineties, where they both d. a few years later.
8 Caroline M., b. Oct. 13, 1841; m. Oilman P. Hodgdon, q. v.
9 John Oilman, b. Feb. 2, 1845; m. Julia E. Berry; farmer, lives at B. Ctr.,
formerly in trade, see Chap. XIX. Chil: I, John S., b. May 3, 1869;
m. Abby Abbott; res. B. Ctr. II, C. H. Raymond, b. Sept. 11, 1874;
m. Nellie Harris, Lynn; engaged in insurance; res. in Chelsea, Mass.
Ill, Clara P., b. Nov. 11, 1876; m. Ray Sherman; res. at B. H.
10 Martha M., b. Oct. 30, 1847; d. Aug. 6, 1877; unm.
Two chil. d. in early youth.
Enos Spinney came to B. H. in 1901 from Argyle, Yarmouth Co., N. S.
Two years later he purchased of Charles E. Smith the old Kenniston home-
stead at B. Ctr., which he conducts as a dairy farm.
SPOFFORD.
This family is of Scotch descent, its founder locating in Georgetown,
Mass. The ancestors of the Boothbay branch came to Solon in 1805, with
an ox team, from Claremont, N. H. They were John and Hannah (Emer-
son) Spofford and had a family of nine children. A son, Amherst, born in
1795, was stationed at Boothbay during the War of 1812, where he became
acquainted with Sally, dau. of Solomon Pinkham, whom he married in 1816.
In 1820 they settled on Indiantown, removing a few years later to Cape
Newagen Island, a little north of Abial Gray's. There they lived until after
the mother's death, in 1850, when he and the younger children removed to
Bingham. Two children died in infancy, the others were:
I, Levi B., b. 1819; m. Esther Oilman; d. 1863. II, Amherst, b. 1821,
m. Sarah Oilman; moved to Bingham, 1867, and to Skowhegan, 1889, where
he now lives. Ill, Joseph, b. 1827; lived in Southport; dec. IV, Augustus,
FAMILY HISTORY. 629
b. 1829; m. Mary A. Churchill, Solon; lives in Jonesboro. V, Hiram G., b.
1832, q. V. VI, Julia A., b. 1837; lives in Gloucester, Mass. VII, Granville
G., b. 1839; m. and set. in Gloucester. VIII, Serena, lives in Gloucester.
IX, Belle, lives in Boston. Other chil. were b. from subsequent marriages.
Second Generation.
Hiram G. Spofford m. Elizabeth Hipson, Digby, Nova Scotia. They
set. in Boothbay and novi' live at the Harbor. He has been master of a fish-
ing schooner for many years. Their chil. are Robert E., Hiram A., Alphonzo
P., Edward W., William E,, Lizzie E., Annie J., Minnie G., Gertie M.
Hiram H. SpofTord, who lived in W. Boothbay, was son of Hiram, who
was son of John and Hannah Spofford, Solon. He m. Adelia M. Lewis,
1859. They had three children: I, Etta M., m. Charles H. Spofford, Bing-
ham; set. in B. II, Charles L., m. Arietta Kelley. Ill, Benjamin L. This
family removed to Mass. a few years ago.
SPURLING.
Capt. Benjamin Spurling was b. July 22, 18-19, at Great Cranberry Isle,
son of George N. and Abigail Spurling. He m. Frances A., dau. of William
P» and Abigail C. Preble, who was bom and reared on the same island. He
commenced going to sea at the age of ten; took his first command at 21,
sch. Maggie JV. Willard. In 1871 he moved to Portland and in 1888 to B.
H. He holds a first-class pilot's license for the Atlantic Coast for steamers
not exceeding 700 tons. He has built five vessels for E. Sanders & Co.,
Pensacola, Fla., and purchased and sold them several others. His principal
sea-going has been in the mackerel fishery, and he has one high-line year to
his credit. Their children are: Maud A., m. Forest Ware, Whitefield;
Harold B. and Frances M.
STONE.
William Stone, b. Mar. 25, 1798, m. Rebecca Lewis, 1819, and set. on
Barter's Is. at the northern end. He d. Nov. 26, 1878; she d. Mar. 29, 1891,
a. 90. Children: I, Mahala, b. Sept. 7, 1820; m. George B. Reed, 1840, q. v.
II, Catherine, b. Feb. 11, 1823. Ill, Eldridge, b. Jan. 12, 1825, q. v. IV,
Mary A., b. Sept. 16, 1827; m. Charles M. Dodge, 1850. V, Miles F., b. Jan.
29, 1834. Eldridge, of above chil., m. Ursula P. Sherman, Edge., 1853. He
d. Aug. 9, 1892. They lived on his father's homestead. Children: William
H., b. Aug. 11, 1854; Joseph C, b. May 3, 1856.
STOVER.
Two brothers, Joseph and Dependence Stover, came to B. and set. on
Barter's Is. before 1780. It is said that they came from Dover, N. H. It is
a fam. name that has been in B. continuously since, but many omissions in
recording have occurred.
1 Joseph Stover, whose wife's name is recorded Marsey (Mercy?), d. Oct.
4, 1824, a. 86. Their children were: Betsey, 1780; Lydia, 1782; Lois, 1784;
Polly, 1786; James, 1791.
630 mSTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
2 Dependence Stover, whose wife's name is recorded Mary, has no per-
sonal rec. She d. Apr. 24, 1852. Their chil. were: James, 1783; Samuel,
1785; Sarah, 1787;' Abigail, 1800; Deborah, 1803; Dolly, 1806, Ebenezer,
1807.
Second Generation.
3 John Stover, b. 1778, thought to have been an unrecorded son of Joseph,
m. (1) Rhoda Stover, also unrecorded, 1809; (2) Fanny Barter, 1835. He
lived on Barter's Is. Children: Mary, 1811; Margaret, 1813; Sarah, 1817;
Lois, 1819, d. 1885; Betsey, 1822; Rufus, 1829, d. 1895; Rhoda M., 1836;
George W., 1840, d. 1891; John F., 1843; Dennis B., 1847. John, the father,
d. May 1, 1862; Fanny, the mother, d. Sept. 23, 1864.
SWETT.
1 John Swett, first of this family in town, was bom at Castine, Dec. 22,
1765. He was second son of Stephen Swett who owned, or claimed, quite a
tract of land on Castine Neck prior to the Revolution, Castine, then Major-
bagaduce, was so badly harassed during the war that Stephen Swett took
his family to the westward, to a place called Great Bend, for safety. It con-
sisted of a wife and two sons, Stephen, Jr., and John. Both boys went into
the war before its close, John being only 15 years old at enlistment. In 1795
John settled on Thirty Acre Island, Boothbay, building a log house in which
he lived until 1808. He then married and built a frame house, where he lived
through life, and the same house was the home of Harvey Swett during life.
John Swett married Abigail Witham, West., who was b. May 22, 1783. He
was a cooper by trade, but followed farming and fishing. He took a deed
of the western half of the island in 1810 of Benjamin Hodgdon and in 1816 of
the other half from the State. Though called Thirty Acre Island, the Hodg-
don deed calls the western half 47 acres, more or less. Recent sun-eys show
its area to be 87 acres. John Swett d. Jan. 20, 1853; she d. Aug. 1, 1869. Chil. :
*2 Harvey, b. Jan. 27, 1810, q. v.
3 Warren, b. Feb. 2, 1813; m. Lavina Gove; two chil., dec; he d. 1838,
see Cas.
4 Joseph, b. June 19, 1815; m. Sophia White, Georgetown; set. there;
two chil. ; he d. May 16, 1868.
*5 Hiram, b. Oct. 29, 1819, q. v.
6 Elliot, b. Apr. 15, 1823; m. (1) Burnett Reed, (2) Sarah J. Hagan, Bath;
set. in Georgetown; eight chil.
Second Generation.
(*2) Harvey 2 Swett (John^) m. Sarah J., dau. of Henry and Paulina
Greenleaf, 1838. Lived on the homestead with his parents, and by caring
for them became owner of the island. Under his ownership it became known
as Swett's Island, but it was sold to an association for the purpose of a sum-
mer resort in 1887, when it was rechristened Isle of Springs. Many years
ago there were two other houses on the island besides those of Harvey and
Hiram Swett. In one lived a family by name of Neal and in the other a
Matthews family; the head of the latter was frozen to death in his boat while
fishing. Harvey Swett was an old-time skipper of fishermen and also did
something in the mackerel business, but through the greater part of his career
FAMILY HISTORY. 631
his specialty in the fish business was smoking herring, for which the island
was well fitted with smoke houses and other equipment (see Chap. XXI).
He died Mar. 14, 1891; she died Feb. 1.5, 1894. Children:
7 Julia A., b. 1839; m. Rev. James W. Sawyer, Portland, 1866; two chil.,
Lizzie and Clara.
8 Byron W., b. 1843; m. Julia A. Hodgdon, 1870; lives in West B. H.,
engaged in the herring and bait fishery. Chil.: Cleveland B., Fred H.,
Ella L., Victor E., Ralph W.; Victor d. in Brunswick, Ga., 1902.
9 Harriet Eliza, b. 1847; m. Con vers O. Hodgdon, 1867. Chil.: Clara,
James, Lyman, Sarah, Hattie, Winfield.
10 Sumner P., b. 18.52; m. Ophelia W. Pinkham, 1873; res. at West B. H.,
engaged in bait and herring business. Chil. : Leon, Raymond, John,
Lillian, Alden, Richard, Chester.
11 Ida E., b. 1S57; m. Samuel B. Down, 1894; s. p.
(*5) Hiram2 Swett iJohn^) m. Lucretia R. Dunton, 1841, who was b.
Feb. 6, 1825. He was partner with his brother Harvey in business through
life. He died Jan. 28, 1882; she died Jan. 4, 1885. Children:
12 Mary E., b. Jan. 25, 1842; m. Everett Linekin; d. Sept. 19, 1881.
13 Sophia A., b. May 29, 1844; m. Ezekiel Hodgkins; d. Dec. 11, 1877.
14 Euretta, b. July 27, 1846; d. Sept. 22, 1851.
15 Olive H., b. Dec. 2, 1849; unm.; d. May 7, 1874.
16 Alevia, b. Sept. 25, 1852; m. Alonzo Hodgdon; d. Apr. 3, 1872.
17 Lectina L., b. Nov. 5, 1855; m. Levi Burns.
18 Albina L., b, Nov. 5, 1855; m. (1) Niles J. Jewett, (2) Dennis S. Wylie.
19 Addie E., b. Feb. 14, 1860; m. James F. Dunton.
20 Carrie E., b. Sept. 29, 1862; m. George L. Margeson, Mattapan, Mass.
21 Flora, b. Aug. 12, 1864; m. Gardner Tibbetts; d. Mar. 7, 1SS9.
Zebediah F. Swett was b. Nov. 11, 1827, at Arrowsic, the son of Benja-
min, Jr., and Louisa (Whitmore) Swett, and grandson of Benjamin Swett.
Both ancestors were bom and lived on Arrowsic. He m. Louisa, dau. of
Andrew and Jane (Stinson) McFadden. This fam. is not related to descend-
ants of John Swett of the foregoing fam. Mr. Swett came to B. H. June 18,
1870, and has since been engaged at his trade, that of ship calker. They
have three chil.: I, Martha W., unm., lives with her parents. II, Ella J., m.
Dr. Charles W. McClearn, Maiden, Mass. Ill, Walter P., unm., machinist,
employed in Beverly, Mass.
THOMAS.
Richard Thomas was b. in Halifax, Jan. 28, 1839. He came to B. in
1856 and m. Harriet, dau. of Joshua McKown, in 1864. They lived until
recently on McKown's Pt., but now at West B. H. He has followed the sea
as a cook from boyhood to the present. Children: I, Anna E., dec. II,
Charles R., m. Nellie Albee, Wis.; she is dec. Ill, Emma, dec. IV, Scott
W., m. Lizzie Pillman. V, Blanch T., m. Charles E. Clisby. VI, Lizzie
H., m. Ralph Thompson. VII, Benjamin W., commenced trade in 1905 at
South., Casino Building. VIII, Harry, m. Viva Macaulay. IX, Hardy,
dec. X, Samuel H. XI, John.
1 Joseph Thompson was bom in Ipswich, Mass., Mar. 6, 1722-3; he m.
Elizabeth Andrews, Ipswich, in 1748; she was b. May 3, 1732. After mar-
632 mSTORY OF boothbat.
riage, which occurred at Salem, they moved to Pemaquid, where they
remained a few years, when their home was destroyed by fire. They then
went to Monhegan for a time, where they were Hving when their oldest dau.,
Elizabeth, m. Samuel Pierce, in 1767. Between that and 1777, when Joseph
Pierce m. Sarah, another dau., they had settled upon Cape Newagen Island
at Cameron's Cove. Their graves are unmarked and no known record
exists of their deaths. Children:
2 Elizabeth, b. Mar. 3, 1750; m. Samuel Pierce, q. v.
3 Mar)', b. Nov. 29, 1752; d. Dec. 4, 1832; unm.
*4 Samuel, b. June 30, 1754, q. v.
5 Joseph, b. Jan. 2, 1756; m. Lucy Sally (perhaps Tully).
6 Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1757; m. Joseph Pierce, q. v.
7 Susanna, b. Jan. 24, 1761; m. John Kent.
8 Ruhama, b. Nov. 11, 1762.
9 Joanna, b. July 29, 1764; m. Ebenezer Lundy.
10 Jeremiah, b. Dec. 9, 1765.
11 Lydia, b. Apr. 29, 1767; d. Feb. 2, 1851.
12 Jane, b. Aug. 29, 1769; d. young.
13 William, b. Oct. 1, 1770.
14 Stephen, b. Nov. 9, 1771; d. Nov. 2, 1832.
15 Jane, b. June 5, 1774.
16 David, b. Oct. 29, 1775.
17 John, b. Sept. 7, 1777.
Two chil. d. in youth.
Second Generation.
(*4) Samuel^ Thompson (Josepli^) m. Mary, dau. of David Reed, 1781.
They lived at Cameron's Cove. He d. Dec. 13, 1833. He was a sea captain
and both he and his brother Joseph were in the Revolutionary service. Chil. :
18 Polly, b. Mar. 4, 1782; m. William McKown, q. v.
19 Patty, b. May 22, 1784; m. John Wylie, Jr., q. v.
20 Samuel, Jr., b. June 2, 1786; m. Martha Pinkham.
21 Betsey, b. Aug. 25, 1788; m. William Clark, 1809.
22 David T., b. Sept. 10, 1790; m. Mary Barnes; d. Jan. 25, 1815.
*23 William, b. Mar. 19, 1793, q. v.
24 Sally, b. Apr. 23, 1795; m. Ephraim McCobb, 1823.
25 Charlotte, b. June 4, 1797; m. John Pinkham.
26 Julia, b. July 23, 1799; m. John Pinkham, 2d, 1818.
*27 Joseph, b. Aug. 1, 1801, q. v.
*28 John, b. June 11, 1803, q. v.
29 Henrietta, b. May 22, 1806; m. Neal Wylie, 1824.
Third Generation.
(*23) William^ Thompson (Samuel,- Joseph^) m. Lydia T., dau. of
Jonathan Pierce. They lived where Mrs. Rhoda Thompson lives. His life
was mostly at sea from an early age. He d. Feb. 20, 1877; she d. Sept. 27,
1881. Children:
30 David, b. Jan. 8, 1819; m. Caroline Pierce. Children: Annie, William,
Harriet and Lafayette, who m. Flora Pierce.
*31 Jonathan P., b. June 19, 1820, q. v.
.32 William, Jr., b. July 9, 1822; m. Eliza A. Decker; they had two chil.,
George and Helen.
33 Harriet E., b. Dec. 16, 1824; m. Joseph Maddocks, q. v.
*34 John, b. Oct. 15, 1827, q. v.
35 Stephen S., b. Sept. 7, 1829; m. Margery Ome. Chil.: I, Roseltha, m.
Walter Bigelow; II, Lucy M., b. Oct. 22, 1855, m. Quinn; III,
Madison, unm., dec; IV, Ambrose, m. Maria Mayberry; V, Edward,
unm., dec; VI, Luther, unm., dec; VII, Bessie, unm., dec.
FAMILY HISTORY. 633
36 Lydia A., b. Apr. 4, 1836; m. John Haddocks, q. v.
*37 Charles C, b. July 27, 1837, q, V.
*38 Cyrus M., b. Aug. 15, 1839, q. v.
(*27) Joseph^ Thompson (Samuel,'^ Joseph^) m. Frances Sloman, Wool-
wich; he removed to Richmond with his family in the sixties. Children:
39 Samuel M., b. Sept. 24, 1824; d. 1839, see Cas.
40 Mary A., b. Jan. 31, 1826; m. Mark Rand.
41 Julia, b. Nov. 25, 1829; m. George W. Pierce, q. v.
42 Joseph A., b. Apr. 30, 1831; m. Rachel Hathome, Woolwich; set. in
Bath.
43 Lucy J., b. Jan. 19, 1833; m. Samuel Lancaster, Richmond.
44 George, b. Dec. 7, 1834; m. (1) Emma Auld, (2) Florence Hathome;
set. in Fairfield.
45 Willard, b. July 6, 1837; m. Etta Harland, Wilmington, Del. ; set. in Del.
46 Josiah W., b. July 19, 1839; m. Carrie Owen, Bath; set. in San Francisco.
47 Silas, m. Melvina Pierce; lives in Richmond.
Eliza and Emeline, bet. 46 and 47, d. young.
(*28) JoHN^ Thompson {Samuel,^ Joseph^) m. Abigail Sloman, Wool-
wich; settled in Rockport, Mass. Children:
48 Sarah E., b. May 30, 1828; m. (1) Doucett, (2) David Elwell.
49 Abigail, b. June 2, 1830; m. Elwell.
50 John E., b. July 8, 1832; set. in New York.
Fourth Generation.
(*31) Jonathan P.* Thompson (William,^ Samuel," Joseph^) m. Eliza-
beth Rand. He had his father's homestead, where he lived through life.
Upon a part of the premises the summer hotel, the Lawnmere, has been
built and is owned and conducted by his sons. A silver goblet is in the pos-
session of this family which has come down regularly through the several
generations from Joseph of Monhegan, and which was reputed old in his
day, having descended from English ancestry. He d. Oct. 11, 1902. Chil. :
51 Marston Hodgdon, b. Apr. 12, 1851; unm. ; has followed the sea as
master mariner until abt. 1897; now associated with his brother, Her-
bert L., in the summer hotel built that year known as the Lawnmere.
52 Marietta, b. Jan. 2, 1853; m. Frederick P. Ba.xter, Boston.
53 Angle M., b. Sept. 27, 1855; d. July, 1882.
54 Lizzie Hayden, b. Oct. 27, 1857; m. Zina Orne, q. v.
55 Lydia Pierce, b. Apr. 4, 1860; m. Ebenezer L. Decker, South.
66 Herbert Lvford, b. Dec. 31, 1865; 1 " • -
67 Olive Maddocks, b. Dec. 11, 1867;
(*34) JOHN^ Thompson ( William,'^ Samuel,"^ Joseph^) m. Catherine Sigs-
worth. He followed the sea, either fishing or coasting; lived in Southport.
Children: I, Fannie Parsons, m. Redford Rand. II, Freeman G., m. Ger-
trude Miller. Ill, John, m. Clara Alley; res. in South. IV, Winfield M.,
m., set. in the vicinity of Boston; has been on the Boston Globe staff in
various departments for several years. V, Fred Ba.xter, unm. VI, Grace
B., m. Frank Drown.
(*37) Charles C* Thompson ( William,^ Samuel? Joseph"^) m. Rhoda
Rand. For many years he was ferryman bet. South, and B. H.; then for a
time he was captain of the str. Islander, running in summer bet. Gardiner
and B. H. He died Oct. 13, 1891. His wid. has rebuilt the homestead and
opens it annually to the summer travel. Children: I, Henry, d. abt. 1878,
634 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
a. 16. II, Harriet, m. Cross, Augusta. Ill, William L., m. Vivian
Cross, Augusta. IV, Howard, m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Mitchell Reed; res.
at South. V, Henrietta, unm.
(*38) Cyrus M.^ Thompson (William,^ Samuel,- Joseph^) m. Mary Love.
He has followed the sea both as master mariner and captain of tugs abt. the
Kennebec waters. For town service see Chap. XVI. They live near the
bridge on South. Children: I, Isaac R., dec. II, Delia H., m. Capt. John
Seavey, B. H. Ill, Eunice, m. Clarence McKnown; now living in B. H.
IV, Maud M., m. Charies Baxter, Boston. V, Ralph, m. Lizzie Thomas.
VI, Georgia, m. George Burnham. VII, Emery, unm. VIII, Lena, m.
Wilson, Boston.
THORPE.
James Thorpe came from England to Mass. in 1632; he married Hannah
Newcomb, 1659. A son, Samuel, was bom 1674, who married Elizabeth
White, 1699. Their son, Samuel, Jr., was bom Aug. 20, 1716. He had a
son Eliphalet, b. June 20, 1738, who married Hannah Lewis, Dec. 17, 1762.
These were the parents of Dea. Lewis Thorpe, the first of the name in Booth-
bay. Dedham, Mass., was the home of all, or nearly all, of the above-men-
tioned persons.
1 Lewis Thorpe was born in Dedham, Mass., Jan. 10, 1767. As a young
man came to Georgetown and m. Hannah Dmmmond, who d. Oct. 16, 1822,
a. 54; they had five sons. He m. (2) Susanna McFadden, who died Jan. 3,
1851, a. 75. He set. in Boothbay, opposite Hodgdon's Island, soon after his
first marriage. He died Feb. 24, 1840. Children:
*2 Willard, b. 1796, q, v.
*3 Charies, b. 1798, q. v.
*4 Lewis, Jr., b. ISOO, q. v.
5 John, m. Harriet Pierce, 1829; set. in Bris.
6 Eliphalet, m. Elizabeth L. Pierce, 1829; set. in Bris.
Second Generation.
("^2) Willard- Thorpe (Leuns^) m. Mary, dau. of David Kenniston,
1822. They lived on the homestead of his father. He commenced tanning,
building his tannery on the home place, early in life and conducted the busi-
ness many years successfully. He died Mar. 9, 1868; she died Oct. 2, 1854.
Children: I, Hannah D., dec; II, Cyrus, dec; III, Ann Mary Hall, unm.,
res. B. H.; IV, Frances, unm., dec; V, Emily Dodge, unm., res. B. H.; VI,
Caroline, unm., res. B. H.; VII, Elizabeth, m. William J. Thorpe, q. v.;
VIII, John Warren, see Chap. XXIII.
(.*3) Charles^ Thorpe (Lewis^) m. (1) Mary, dau. of William and
Rebecca Ome, 1827; (2) Charlotte, sister to first wife, 1833. They lived west
of Campbell's Cove bridge, where William J. Thorpe did later. Children:
7 William J., b. 1828; m. Sarah E., dau. of Willard Thorpe. He d. Apr.
2, 1900; she d. Jan. 19, 1893. Their chil. were: Charles W., res. E. B.,
Lewis D. and Grace.
8 Mary J., m. Charies Reed, 1852, q. v.
9 Rebecca Ellen, b. 1834; m. Silas Smith, q. v.
FAMILY HISTORY. 635
(*4) Lewis^ Thorpe (Lewis^) m. Mary Parker, 1829. Was partner with
his brother Willard in tannery at West Boothbay. He d. Sept. 4, 1880; she
d. Aug. 31, 1891, a. 84. Children: I, Harriet, m. Benjamin Lewis. II, Ann
Maria, m. Sumner Tibbetts. Ill, EHphalet, m. Augusta, dau. of Silas Orne;
they had two daus., Mary A. and Annie C. He was a merchant at B. H. ; d.'
Mar. 5, 1871. IV, Franklin, m. Hurlburt. V, Clara E., unm., d. 1870.
VI, Charles D., unm., d. 1865.
TIBBETTS.
1 Nathaniel Tibbetts settled in Townsend in all probability at the time
that Joseph Giles did, about 1759. He was born Aug. 30, 1727. He married
Elizabeth, dau. of Mark and Lydia (Tibbetts) Giles, all of Dover, N. H. She
was bom in 1729 and died Apr. 1, 1822. They built first a log house on
what is known as the McClintock place in Dover, but later moved north and
built where his son, Giles Tibbetts, afterward lived, the place still later going
to Frank, son of Giles, Jr. The ancestry of Nathaniel Tibbetts is clear from
the start on American soil.
I, Henryi and Elizabeth Tibbetts, both born in 1596, in England, sailed at
the age of 39, on July 13, 1635, with two children, Jeremiah, four years
old, and Samuel, two, in the sHp James, from London for New England.
They are found in Dover, N. H., almost as soon as they reached Amer-
ica. Four more children were born to them.
II, Jeremiah,^ b. 1631, son of Henry and Elizabeth, m. Mary Canney (an
ancient form of spelling Kenney), of Dover. He was a farmer and d. in
1677. They had twelve children.
III, Samuel,^ sixth child of Jeremiah and Mary, b. 1666, m. Dorothy Tuttle,
Dover. He was a tanner and farmer, and a captain in the Colonial
army. He d. in 1738. They had nine children.
IV, Ichabod,* b. 1690, fifth child of Samuel and Dorothy, m. his cousin, Abi-
gail Tibbetts. He d. Feb. 25, 1746. He was a farmer and tanner, also a
captain in the Colonial army and saw service in the early wars. He was
father of eight chil., the fourth of which was Nathaniel, b. Aug. 30,
1727, the founder of the Boothbay branch of this numerous family.
It has been repeatedly stated that Nathaniel Tibbetts married Abigail
Alley, but there is a misconception as to the parties. John Alley, founder of
that family in town, was but little older than Nathaniel Tibbetts, Sr. His
daughter Abigail was born in 1749, the same year that Nathaniel and Eliza-
beth Tibbetts' oldest child, Ichabod, was born. Two of the sons, however,
of the Tibbetts family married two of John Alley's daughters, which is con-
sistent as to age and shown by record. Children:
*2 Ichabod, b. Dec. 17, 1749, q. v.
*3 Nathaniel, b. Apr. 9, 1752, q. v.
4 John, b. Feb. 1, 1756; m. Lydia Lamson, 1778.
*5 Giles, b. June 9, 1757, q. v.
6 Abigail, b. June 24, 1759; m. Benjamin Hutchings, 1779, q. v.
7 Mark, b. May 12, 1761.
8 Judith, b. May 12, 1764; m. Nathaniel Gove, Edge.
9 Rebecca, b. Jan. 9, 1767; m. John Lewis, q. v.
*10 James, b. Dec. 9, 1768, q. v.
11 Sarah, b. Oct. 7, 1771; m. Lemuel Lewis, q. v.
12 Polly, b. Oct. 21, 1773; m. John Giles, q. v.
636 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Second Generation.
(•2) ICHABOD^ TiBBETTS {Nathaniel'^) m. Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan
Hutchings, York, 1774. His publishment to Deliverance Cook, 1773,
appears in records. Elizabeth, wife, died July 25, 1828, a. 75. Children:
*13 John, b. Dec. 17, 1775, q. v.
14 Abigail, b. Mar. 13, 1777; m. Nathaniel Tibbetts.
15 Ichabod, b. Jan. 6, 1779; d. 1797 in West Indies.
16 Betsey, b. June 11, 1780; m. Paul Hartford, Liberty.
*17 Mark, b. Nov. 27, 1783, q. v.
18 Benjamin, b. Nov. 20, 1785; m. Sally Crommett.
19 Samuel, b. Dec. 28, 1788; m. Martha Matthews; he d. Sept. 22, 1877;
she d. Dec. 30, 1866; s. p.
20 Rhoda, b. July 4, 1791; m. John Dodge.
21 Timothy, b. May 5, 1795; set. in Rockland.
(*3) Nathaniel^ Tibbetts, Jr., {Nathaniel'^) m. Elizabeth, dau. of John
Alley. He was a minister and settled in New Sharon. Chil.: I, Nathaniel,
Jr., b. Oct. 16, 1775; m. Abigail, dau. of Ichabod Tibbetts. He with a son,
Nathaniel, was drowned in the "Chops" in the Kennebec River. II, Mar-
tha, b. Sept. 24, 1777. Ill, Elizabeth, b. Aug. 8, 1779. IV, Eunice, b. May
2, 1782. V, Phebe, b. Apr., 1784. VI, Abigail, b. Aug. 9, 1786. VII, John,
b. Nov. 2, 1788. VIII, Mary, b. July 24, 1791. IX, Sarah, b. July 4, 1793.
X, Jesse, b. Mar. 6, 1796.
(*5) GiLES^ Tibbetts {Nathaniel) m. Hannah, dau. of John Alley,
1784. He succeeded to his father's homestead. He d. July 13, 1832; she d.
Oct. 22, 1824. Children:
»22 Joseph, b. July 4, 1785, q. v.
»23 Giles, Jr., b. May 1, 1787, q. v.
24 Mehitable, b. July 18, 1789; m. James Adams, q. v.
25 Lydia, b. Nov. 5, 1791; m. Moses P. Whittaker, 1815.
■ 26 Hannah, b. Mar. 12, 1794; m. William Lewis, Jr., Palermo.
27 Phebe, b. May 25, 1797; m. Ephrairti Lamson, 1814.
28 Sally, b. Oct. 1, 1799; m. David Dunton, Edge., 1820.
29 Louisa, b. Nov. 7, 1802; m. Caleb Whittaker, 1824.
{*10) James^ Tibbetts {Nathaniel'^) m. Abigail, dau. of Joseph Lewis,
1790. He lived on the place taken up by Michael Sinnett, who was captured
by the press-gang, elsewhere mentioned, next south from where Albert R.
Matthews now lives. He d. Dec. 15, 1858; she d. May 25, 1855. Children:
30 William, b. July 27, 1791; m. Susan Bryer; set. in Jeff.
31 Isaac, b. Jan. 13, 1793; m. Sarah Hutchings; set. in White.
32 Lois, b. Apr. 5, 1795; m. Stephen Lewis, q. v.
33 Nathaniel, b. Feb. 27, 1797; m. Clarissa Southard, Richmond.
84 Eunice, b. Mar. 15, 1799; m. John Reed, 2d, q. v.
35 Frances, b. Dec. 2, 1801; m. Timothy Hodgdon, q. v.
*36 James, b. July 10, 1803, q. v.
37 Mary Carleton, b. Sept. 3, 1805; m. Clement Huff, Cape Porpoise.
*38 Payson, b. Sept. 8, 1808, q. v.
39 Sarah A., b. May 1, 1811; m. Ebenezer Matthews, q. v.
40 Eliza A., b. Mar. 14, 1816; m. Austin Greenleaf.
41 Abigail, b. Dec. 13, 1818; m. Jason Pinkham, q. v.
Note. — James Tibbetts, after the death of his first wife, m. the wid. of
Capt. John Matthews; he was 87 yrs. old at the time; she d. Mar. 4, 1861, a. 73.
Third Generation.
(*13) JoHN^ Tibbetts (Ichabod,^ Nathaniel^) m. Lydia, dau. of Joseph
and Martha Giles, 1800. They lived at Linekin. He d. June 30, 1848; she
d. Jan. 6, 1858. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 637
42 Charlotte, b. July 26, 1801.
43 John, Jr., b. Sept. 11, 1803; m. Maria Wooten, 1828
44 Betsey, b. Aug. 27, 1805; m. William Preble, 1827.
*45 Mark, b. July 6, 1807, q. v.
*46 Artemas, b. Feb. 10, 1809, q. v.
47 Polly, b. Nov. 19, 1810; m. Samuel Brewer, q. v.
48 Ichabod, b. Oct. 9, 1812; m. Elizabeth Sargent, 1838; d. 1844, see Cas
49 Lucinda, b. Oct. 3, 1814; m. Francis Sargent, 1834.
50 Rufus, b. Feb. 20, 1817; m. Asenath Grimes, 1841; he d. Mav 28 1894-
she d. Nov. 20, 1877. y , o^t,
51 Lydia, b. June 16, 1819; m. William Thompson, 1838.
*52 Hiram, b. Jan. 4, 1822, q. v.
(*17) Marks Tibbetts (Ichabod? Nathaniel'^) m. Ann, dau. of Joseph
and Martha Giles, 1809. Children: Rhoda, b. July 6, 1810; Andrews, b.
Mar. 24, 1812.
(*22) Joseph^ Tibbetts ( Giles? Nathaniel^) m. (1) Sally Crommett,
1807; (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Dockendorff, 1814. He d. Feb. 11, 1860; Sally (1st
w.) d. Nov. 7, 1813; Elizabeth (2d w.) d. Sept. 23, 1865, a. 82-3. Children:
53 John, b. Mar. 22, 1808.
54 Mary Ann, b. Oct. 30, 1811.
55 Joseph, Jr., b. May 15, 1815.
56 Ephraim, b. Nov. 23, 1817; m. Sarah Tibbetts, Liberty, 1842
57 William, b. Dec. 17, 1819.
58 Syrena, b. Jan. 7, 1821; m. Eleazer Giles, q. v.
69 Helen M., b. Aug. 8, 1826; m. Willis W. Palmer, 1864.
(*23) Giles' Tibbetts, Jr., (Giles? Nathaniel'^) m. Jane Crommett,
1809. Lived on his father's place. Children:
60 Jane Louisa, b. June 1, 1810.
61 Sophronia, b. Dec. 8, 1811.
62 Emily, b. Oct. 23, 1813; m. Stephen Matthews.
•63 Benjamin F., b. Jan. 14, 1815.
64 Giles, b. June 17, 1822; d. 1839.
(*36) James' Tibbetts {James? Nathaniel'^) m. Eunice Brookings,
Woolwich, 1826. He d. Oct. 26, 1874; she d. Aug. 29, 1876. He lived on
Back River. Children:
65 Arabella N., b. June 26, 1827; m. Stillman Matthews.
66 Albert S., b. Mar. 26, 1830; m. Angelet Sherman, Edge.
67 Sumner R., b. May 18, 1832; m. Ann Maria Thorpe, 1853.
68 Lincoln W., b. Sept. 18, 1834; m. Elizabeth Merrill.
69 Mary L., b. Sept. 13, 1838; m. Leonard Lewis, 1854.
70 Harriet T., b. Dec. 19, 1840; m. John W. Dow; set. Los Angeles, Cal.
71 Frances E., b. Mar. 10, 1843; unm.
72 Eliza H., b. Aug. 9, 1845; m. R. G. Hodgdon, q. v.
73 Abby J., b. Apr. 27, 1850; m. Wadsworth H. Lewis; res. in Portland.
(*38) Pavson' Tibbetts [James? Nathaniel^) m. Elizabeth, dau. of
James Adams, 1835. They lived at Back River, and the wid. , at the age of 96,
is now (1905) living on the homestead with her daughter's family. He died
Sept. 10, 1892. Chil.: I, Thomas J., b. Oct. 9, 1836; m. Sarah E. Harris;
res. Back River. II, Lydia A., b. Mar. 1, 1840; m. George Adams. Ill,
Mary E., b. July 11, 1843; d. 1867. IV, Charles C, twin brother to preced-
ing. V, Elizabeth J., b. Dec. 23, 1850; m. William T. Giles, 1876; res. on
her father's homestead.
Fourth Generation.
(•45) Mark* Tibbetts (John? Ichabod? Nathaniel^) m. Pauline Reed,
1832. He d. Feb. 9, 1888. Children: I, Capt. Gardner G., b. Dec. 22, 1833;
638 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
m. (1) Julia S. Brown, 1855; (2) Aldana Brown, 1865; chil. by 1st m., Eldora
E., Mary J., Lizzie D., dec; by 2d m., Gertrude G., dec, Elijah H. He d.
Nov. 19, 1888, see Cas. ; Julia, w., d. Dec. 24, 1863; Aldana, w., d. Jan. 23,
1874. II, Lucinda A., b. June 22, 1836; m. Leander Fuller. Ill, Emily J.,
b. Mar. 12, 1837.
(*46) Artemas* Tibbetts {John,^ Ichabod? Nathaniel'^) m. Sarah Ben-
nett; lived at Linekin. He d. 1844, see Cas. Children: Sarah A., b. 1830;
Elsie J., b. 1832; Arietta, b. 1833; John, b. 1835; Daniel, b. 1838; Artemas,
Jr., b. 1840; Milton, b. 1842; Eliza, b. 1845.
(*52) Hiram* Tibbetts (Johi,^ Ichabod,'^ Nathaniel'^) m. Sarah Alley,
1842. They lived at Linekin. He died July 20, 1899; she died July 20, 1884.
Children: I, Lydia, b. June 5, 1842; d. Feb. 5, 1854. II, Mark, b. Nov. 22,
1843; m. Lois Vanhorn. Ill, Eliphalet, b. Mar. 12, 1847; m. Mary E., dau.
of Andrew Adams. IV, Alfred, b. Feb. 24, 1855; m. Phebe A. Poor. V,
Gardner, b. Sept. 4, 1857; m. Flora Swett.
(*63) Benjamin F.* Tibbetts (Giles, Jr.,'' Giles,^ Nathaniel'^) m. Mar-
tha L. Decker, 1843. He represented the fourth generation of his family on
the old homestead at Dover. He d. Nov. 19, 1881. Children: I, Hartley,
m. Casilda G. Lewis; II, Eliza, m. Albion Lewis; III, Giles T., m. and res.
in Mass.; IV, Lafayette, m. Amanda O. Di.xon; V, Abbie A., m. William
Davis, No. Collins, N. Y., dec; VI, Irving J., m. Flora, dau. of Stephen
Matthews; VII, Laburton, unm., res. on homestead; VIII, Nellie C, m.
Orville E. Page, Dam.; IX, Ida B., m. William Davis, No. CoUins, N. Y.;
X, Alma H., m. John H. Welsh, Jr.
SUPPLEMENTARY.
Eli Tibbetts, b. in B., Jan. 11, 1813, set. in Camden; m. Ruth Spauld-
ing, Lincolnville, 1836. He d. Mar. 22, 1897; she d. Dec, 1848. He m. (2)
Emily Smith, Searsmont. By the 1st m. they had four chil. : Emily H., 1838;
Amanda, 1840; Harriet, 1842; Eli, 1848. Bv 2d m. they had chil.: Ruth,
1849; Roseltha, 1850; Eli, 1852; Samuel, 1855; Harriet, 1857; Mabel, 1861;
George, 1863. Eli's descent is as follows: Eli,* Nathaniel,^ Nathaniel, *
Nathaniel. 1
Timothy Tibbetts, standing No. 21 under "(*2) Ichabod," settled in
Rockland and is ancestor of a numerous and prominent family, members of
which live in Rockland and Camden, principally.
TUPPER.
Cyrus R. Tupper was b. in Starks, June 17, 1860, the son of Simon and
Diana (Rogers) Tupper. The father was a native of Waterville, but settled
as a young man in Starks. The subject of this sketch came to B. H. in Oct.,
1890, after his admission to the practice of law at the Somerset bar, Sept. 20,
1890. He m. Nellie C, dau. of Asa S. and Rose E. Duley, Starks, on July
20, 1891. Additional to his law practice he is engaged in real estate transac-
tions, is a director of the First Nat. Bank, and in 1904 was elected senator
from Lincoln County on the Democratic ticket. For town service see Chap.
XVI. They have one child, Asa D.
Alexander and Hannah Vanhorn came to B. from Yarmouth, N. S.,
in 1866. They set. on Linekin Neck. They had seven sons and four daus.
The sons were: I, Alexander, m. and lives in N. S. II, Edward, q. v. Ill,
FAMILY HISTORY. 639
Roland, m., d. in 1869, see Cas. IV, Abial, m., d. in 1869, see Cas. V,
Amos, m., two chil., Nellie M. and Gilbert A. ; his wife d. Mar. 8, 1877. VI,
George, m., lives at Linekin. VII, Cornelius. VIII, Louisa, m. and set. in
Bris. IX, Etta, m. and set. in Bris. X, Lucy, m. Capt. Mitchell Reed, q. v.
XI, Lois, m. Mark Tibbetts, q. v. The six sons who had wives were all m.
in N. S. before coming to Me. The mother d. Oct. 9, 1879; the father d. in
Dec, 1904.
Second Generation.
Edward^ Vanhorn (A/ex-andet-'^) m. Sarah E. Pinkeimy. She was b.
Aug. 28, 1842; d. Dec. 10, 1903. Children: I, David A.; II, William A.;
Ill, Edward; IV, Charles M., m. Bessie L. Amiro; V, Simeon B., m. Julia
P. Dodge; VI, Norman N., m. Lizzie Amiro; VII, Ida M., m. Alfred S.
Dodge; VIII, Freeman O.
George E. Vanhorn, collaterally related to the foregoing fam., and
his wife, Mary L., had two chil.: I, Ella M., b. Aug. 2, 1860; m. John S.
Marson, q. v. II, George A., b. Jan. 23, 1871; d. in 1874. With his son-in-
law, as Vanhorn & Marson, a bakery and restaurant was opened in 1885,
succeeding M. Gunnell. He continued in the business until a few months
before his death, which occurred Jan. 9, 1891, at the age of 53-10.
1 James and Margaret (Ellison) Webber came from Liverpool, Eng.,
a few years after marriage and set. in Harpswell, from where they rem. to
Bris. Three of their chil. set. in B. and South., namely:
*2 James, Jr., q. v.
*3 George, b. 1823, q. v.
4 Jane, m. Thomas Pierce, South.
Second Generation.
(*2) James^ Webber, Jr., (James^) m. Julia A. Perkins. They lived at
E. B. She d. June 24, 1886; he d. Sept. 30, 1903. Children:
5 Martha, b. Nov. 9, 1839; d. Sept. 27, 1864.
6 William, G., b. Mar. 27, 1841; d. Sept. 8, 1864.
7 Harvey H., b. Nov. 23, 1643; m. Sarah F. Denham.
8 John P., b. Feb. 13, 1847; m. (1) Ella Sproul, (2) Winchenbach.
9 Mary E., b. Aug. 27, 1850; m. Luther Barlow, now dec. She is in
trade at E. B.
10 Zina H., b. Oct. 5, 1854; m. Fannie Reed.
11 Clara E., b. Aug. 20, 1856; d. 1866.
12 Susie (adopted), b. Dec. 3, 1868; m. John W. Race.
(*3) George^ Webber [James^) m. Eliza, dau. of William Orne. He
was a farmer, living at West South. She d. July 7, 1896; he d. July 1, 1904.
Children:
13 Albert C, b. Feb. 28, 1847; d. Oct. 23, 1902. He m. Anginette Rush.
14 Warren W., b. Apr. 11, 1857; m. Mary Rose; chil.: Fred M. and
George R.
15 Thomas, m. Lizzie Gardner; chil.: George W., John G., Annie M.
16 Annie G., m. James E. Orne.
42
640 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
WELCH.
Stephen E. Welch was bom in Sandford, 1836. He set. at B. Ctr. in the
sixties and was for a time in trade. After the loss of his store by fire, abt.
1873, he engaged at blacksmithing, which he followed till nearly the time of
his death, Feb. 19, 1891. His wid., Octavia E., now lives at B. Ctr. Chil.,
b. bet. 1861-80; Addie E., see Cas., Winfield S., Edith M., Violetta O.,
Minnie B., E. Lewis.
WELSH.
John and Margaret Welsh came from the north of Ireland and set. at B.
Ctr., living for a time in a house of Nicholas T. Knight, but afterward had
their home in a house that stood some distance easterly from the road, oppo-
site the home of the late Eben Clisby. They were Protestants and descended
from a similar ancestry to those who settled about the Harbor in 1730. He
d. June 19, 1875, a. 88; she d. Sept. 9, 1843, a. 49. They had two chil.: 1,
Margaret, who m. Christopher Lewis and lived on Baiter's Island. II, Capt.
John H., who went early to sea and, as a young man, became master
mariner. He set. in Gloucester, marrying Sarah Elizabeth EUery, a great-
granddaughter of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. With his first earnings, as a boy of eighteen, Capt. Welsh had bought
the farm at Dover, of Capt. Silas Lewis, where Joseph Giles settled. This
he retained during his long residence in Gloucester. Soon after the breaking
out of the Civil War he sold his vessel, in which he had been engaged in the
West India trade, to the U. S. Government and she was turned into a priva-
teer, he continuing her master. In 1886 he came back to B. and made his
home on the Dover estate. In 1892, with his sons, John H., Jr., and Fred,
the firm of J. H. Welsh & Sons was started in general trade at B. Ctr. He
d. July 14, 190.5, a. 76. Children: I, Mary, grad. of Wellesley, teacher. II,
Margaret, lives with her mother and brother Fred at B. Ctr., the present
home, where she has carried on millinery and fancy goods trade in connec-
tion with the store. Ill, John H., Jr., m. Alma H. Tibbetts; lives on the
Dover farm; they have five chil.; he is a partner in the store. IV, Fred,
unm., res. at B. Ctr.; conducts the store. V, Annie, grad. of Wellesley,
teacher. VI, Mabel, grad. of Farmington Normal School, teacher. VII,
Gertrude, grad. of Hayden Hall, teacher. Two daus., Jennie and Daisy, d.
in youth.
WESTMAN.
1 Peter Westman was bom in Sweden, in 1785. Before 1805 he was
impressed in the British Navy and that year fought under Nelson at Trafalgar
in the flagship. Preferring the American service he ran away and joined a
man-of-war about to sail for Boston. There he left the ship, married Susan
Brock and settled. He lived for a time in Bath and Georgetown, but in
1828 Capt. Jonathan Pierce built a house on Joe's Island and sold the prop-
erty to Westman. There he lived the rest of his life and reared his family,
dying May 1, 1869. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 641
2 Andrew, in U. S. Navy 21 years; killed at Hilton's Head; unm.
*3 Peter, Jr., b. 1822, q. v.
4 Susan, twin sister to above; m. Walcot Hamlin, Amherst, Mass.
5 Joan, m. (1) Robert Fountain, (2) William Collins.
6 John, b. 1830; m. Nancy J., dau. of Hiram Marr; their chil. set. else-
where; he d. Nov. 11, 1863, and his wid. m. Davis Elsmore, 1865.
7 Catherine, m. Jeruel Marr, q. v.
8 Abigail, m. (1) Charles Lundburg, (2) George Sorenson, Gloucester,
Mass.
9 Hannah, m. David McCabe, Bath.
Second Generation.
(*3) Peter2 Westman, Jr., {Peter^) m. Martha A. Moore, Westport.
They lived at Marr's Harbor. He followed the sea, coasting and fishing, as
his father had done. He d. Mar. 24, 1871; shed. June 3, 1900. Children:
I, Melissa, m. John Mullin; res. West B. H. II, Nathaniel, m. (1) Hattie
Pierce, (2) Edith Pierce, (3) Annie — — ; two sons, Frederick and Herbert.
Ill, Peter, m. Sarah Brewer. IV, Robert, m. Addie, dau. of Porter Pierce;
res. Gardiner. V, Sarah, m. Samuel Farmer. VI, Georgiana, m. (1)
Brewer, (2) Merritt Grover.
WHEELER.
1 John Wheeler m. Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel Knight. They lived at
Pleasant Cove. They had sons, John, Jr., Abraham, William and Joseph,
all of whom served in the Rev. War. He d. before Nov. 7, 1777, at which
date his estate was prob. He was half owner of Damariscove with Knight,
and evidently lived there before 1775, but came to the mainland when the
war broke out. They also had a dau., Hannah, who m. and set. in Bris.,
and two younger sons, Benjamin and Abijah. It is thought that ail this fam.
set. elsewhere e.\cept Benjamin.
Second Generation.
2 Benjamin^ Wheeler {Johii^) m. Martha McFarland, Bris., 1797. They
lived at Pleasant Cove. He d. Nov. 15, 1864; she d. Feb. 7, 1859. Children:
3 John, b. Oct. 19, 1798; m. (1) Jane McClintock, Bris., 1831; (2) Paulina
Tibbetts, 1840.
4 Daniel, b. Aug. 8, 1800.
5 Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1803.
*6 Andrew M., b. Jan. 2, 1805, q. v.
7 Arthur, b. Apr. 10, 1806; d. May 14, 1824.
8 Simeon, b. Mar. 14, 1809; m. Mary A. Bailey.
9 Sewall. b. May 2, 1811; d. 1836.
10 Nancy, b. Mar. 23, 1813.
11 Martha, b. June 2, 1816; m. Amos Anderson, Trenton.
12 Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1818.
13 Willard, b. July 29, 1821.
Third Generation.
(*6) Andrew M.^ Wheeler (Benjamin^^ JohiO) m. Elizabeth McKown,
1835. She d. June 27, 1881. Children: I, Jerome, b. Apr. 21, 1838; d. Nov.
19, 1862. II, Albert M., b. Dec. 4, 1840; m. Izora, dau. of Osgood Reed;
lived in B. H. until recently rem. to Mass. Ill, Alonzo R., b. May 4, 1844.
642 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
WHITEHOUSE.
1 George Whitehouse, who was b. in 1797, was a Baptist minister and
lived in Jefferson. The following sons set. in E. B.
*2 Ralph C, b. Apr. 25, 1820, q. v.
*3 George W., b. Dec. 2, 1825, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*2) Ralph C.^ Whitehouse (George'^) m. (1) Susan Burgess, 1845;
she died July 25, 1865; (2) Agnes A. Radcliff, Nov., 1865. He was a ship
calker. He is dec. His wid. now lives in Mass. with a dau. of her first m.
Children: I, Helen I., b. Sept. 13, 1846. II, Mary O., b. Apr. 11, 1850.
Both live elsewhere, but residence is unk.
(*3) George W.^ Whitehouse (George^) m. Martha S. Tibbetts, Nov.
26, 1848. She was b. in B., Apr. 11, 1831. They live at E. B.; he is a ship
calker. Children:
4 Laura A., b. Aug. 29, 1850; m. Melville A. Bennett.
6 Edward, b. July 23, 1853; m. Sarah Denham, Bath.
6 Frederick, b. Nov. 14, 1855; d. Sept. 13, 1885.
7 Nellie, b. Apr. 1, 1S58; m. George W. Gatchell.
8 Melinda, b. Sept. 20, 1860; d. May 5, 1870.
9 Arietta, b. Nov. 3, 1863.
10 Annie, b. Sept. 28, 1867; m. George L. McKown.
11 Catherine, b. Aug. 1, 1874; m. Sedgwick Laverty, Medfield, Mass.
WILSON.
Samuel G. Wilson, Jr., Edgecomb, son of Samuel G. and Margaret
McFarland Wilson, b. 1817, m. Laura A. Preble, b. 1827. He set. on her
father's place at Cape Newagen. He d. 1866; she d. 1892. Their chil. were:
I, Courtland, owner of the Newagen House; unm. II, Fred A., lives at
Newagen with his brother; unm.
WINSLOW.
William J. Winslow was b. in Pittston, Aug. 21, 1839, the son of William
B. Winslow, Nobleboro, who was b. Mar. 8, 1815. He was the son of John
and Charlotte Winslow, b. in 1780 and 1788, respectively. William B. Wins-
low m. Abigail Linscott, Jeff., who was b. Dec. 27, 1813. The subject of
this sketch m. Fannie Hall, Noble., b. June 23, 1841, the dau. of Frederick
and Fannie (Ross) Hall. They came to B. H. in 1878. He has carried on
shoemaking, keeping a stock of the same goods together with harnesses and
stable supplies. Children: I, Nellie A., m. Charles F. Kenniston. II, Har-
riet E., m. Jesse Butler, Rumford Falls. Ill, William F., m. Alice I. Dutton,
Waterville; engaged in shoe trade, B. H. IV, James H., m. Rena Gillette,
Leominster, Mass. V, Herbert A., m. Margaret Rowe; he is a painter, res.
in B. H. VI, Everett L., m. Ethel, dau. of Charles Reed; res. at Rumford
Falls. VII, Hermon L., m. Elizabeth Todd, Dorchester, Mass., where they
reside.
FAMILT HISTORY. 643
WITHAM.
George L. Witham was born in Washington, Me., Dec. 10, 1832. He
came to Southport Mar., 1850, and engaged at work for T. & N. Marr; m.
Emma, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Maddocks) Huskins, 1858. Set. at his
present home in 1865. Has followed his trade as carpenter and builder or
coopering since that time. See Civil War list. Children: I, Charles S.,
m. Lena Hulseman; set. in Maiden, Mass.; dec. II, Mary, m. Charles J.
Marr, q. v. Ill, Vesta M., m. Ralph Hulseman; res. in E. Boston. IV,
George L., Jr , dec; unm. V, Fred E., m. Grace A. Greenleaf, South.;
res. in Somerville, Mass.
WOODWARD.
Samuel Woodward was b. in Brunswick, May 10, 1824, the son of Wash-
ington and Susan Woodward. He m. Octavia, dau. of William and Octavia
Masters, Brunswick, 1853. She was b. Mar. 27, 1884. He went in 1849 to
Calif., later kept store in Brunswick for several years. Late in the fifties he
purchased Ragged Island, off Harpsvi'ell, where he lived until 1866, then at
Orr's Island in trade until 1871, when he set. in B , purchasing the farm where
Col. Edward Emerson formerly lived; also purchasing the Pinkham Mill of
the Baker estate and engaging in the feed and grain business, which he con-
tinued until his death, Nov. 29, 1875. Mrs. Woodward m. (2) William Ken-
niston, 1883. Children:
1 Frank W., b. Nov. 27, 1854; m. Emma, dau. of Giles Dunton; res. on
his father's homestead. Children: Herbert D., Samuel G., Eugene
F., John L., dec, Nettie F., Octavia M., George M., Lurena C.
2 Nettie Florence, b. Feb. 21, 1861; m. Francis B. Greene, Feb. 25, 1885.
WYLIE.
1 Robert and M.\rtha Wvlie were probably the first settlers at West
Harbor. They evidently preceded the Reeds by a few years. It is thought
that all their children were b. in Townsend, and if so they were here before
1740. Three of the daus. m. three of the sons of Andrew Reed, one m.
Joseph Lewis and one Thomas Boyd, which, together with their own descent
in name, places them as one of the very largest inter-related families in the
three towns. Several of their children had families before our town records
began, so that the family of Robert and Martha can only be made up from
miscellaneous sources. They had at least twelve chil. His est. was prob.
Sept. 26, 1770; Martha, his wid., was admix. It amounted to ^307 8s. 9d.
A division of the est. did not occur until Oct. 21, 1794, and the heirs then
named were: " Robert, son of Neal Wylie; Easter, wife of Abijah Kenney;
Jane, wife of Joseph Lewis; Robert Wylie, the heirs of Samuel Wylie, Mary
Reed, the children of Joseph Reed; Martha, wife of David Reed; the heirs
of William Wylie, Ale.xander Wylie, John Wylie; Catherine, wife of Thomas
Boyd." The place of settlement was undoubtedly where the old stone
house stood. He d. Feb. 2, 1770, a. 67; she d. June 15, 1799, a. 92. Chil.:
2 John, b. 1740; d. Jan. 20, 1826; unm.
3 Martha, m. David Reed abt. 1757, q. v.
644 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
*4 William, q. v.
5 Mary, m. Thomas Reed abt. 1762, q. v.
6 Sarah, m. Joseph Reed abt. 1765, q. v.
*7 Robert, Jr., b. 1747, q. v.
*8 Samuel, q. v.
9 Catherine, b. Jan. 8, 1753; m. Thomas Boyd, q. v.
10 Easter, b. 1754; m. Abijah Kenney, q. v.
*11 Neal, q. v.
12 Jean, m. Joseph Lewis, Jr., 1777, q. v.
*13 Alexander, q. v.
Second Generation.
(*4) William^ Wylik (Robert^). Name of w. unk. No fam. rec. has
been found. They are thought to have had three daus. and one son. It is
thought that William was in the Rev. service and appears as William Willey,
see p. 245. Children:
14 Susanna, m. Eleazer Sherman, 1790, q. v.
15 Ellice, m. Robert Reed, 3d, 1794, q. v.
16 Martha, m. John Bryer, 1796.
*17 Robert, 3d, q. v.
(*7) Robert^ Wvlie, Jr., (Roberf^) m. Mary Kennedy, 1769; they lived
on the father's homestead and the bachelor brother, John, lived with them.
Robert d. June 7, 1815; his w. d. Sept. 14, 1833. Children:
18 Martha, b. Nov. 14, 1770; m. Robert Mitchell, Belfast, 1789.
19 Anna, b. May 16, 1773; m. Abisha Pray, 1806.
20 Elizabeth, b. Nov. 1, 1776.
*21 Robert, 2d, b. Oct. 21, 1778, q. v.
22 Mary, b. July 30, 1780; m. Walter Corey; d. July 17, 1809, q. v.
»23 John, Jr., b. Oct. 19, 1782, q. v.
24 Ruth, b. Oct. 20, 1784; m. Paul Reed, q. v.
25 Sarah, b. May 25, 1787; m. Joseph Carlisle, Jr., 1827.
(*8) Samuel^ Wylie (Roberf^) m. Margaret Heath, 1772. He was lost
at sea, Apr. 2, 1777. Their three chil. were Martha, Alexander and Samuel,
Jr. The sons were lost at sea. The wid. m. Hugh Rogers, Georgetown,
and the dau. m. Samuel H. Rogers, son of her stepfather.
(*11) Neal^ Wvlie (Roberf^) m. Esther Crawford, 1774. They had one
son. No fam. record has been found.
*26 Robert, 3d, b. June 5, 1774, q. v.
(*13) Alexander^ Wvlie [Roberf^) m. Hannah Kennedy, 1781. She
d. Jan. 18, 1803. They set. at No. B., in the Dover district, where Forest
Wylie lives. Children:
*27 Alexander, Jr., b. Dec. 22, 1782, q. v.
28 William, b. Oct. 12, 1784; drowned July 21, 1836, see Cas.
29 Hannah, b. Apr. 10, 1786; m. Eleazer Sherman, 1830, q. v.
*30 Robert, 4th, b. Feb. 2, 1788, q. v.
31 Anna, b. Aug. 15, 1789; d. 1800.
32 Samuel, b. May 7, 1793; d. 1811.
Third Generation.
(*17) Robert^ Wylie, 3d, ( WiHiam,^ Roberf^) m. (1) Nancy Webber,
Edge., 1815; (2) Jane Reed, 1828. They lived at No. B., where his Uncle
Alexander had. He d. Mar. 23, 1835; Nancy, w., d. Mar. 7, 1827; Jane, w.,
d. Dec. 21, 1854. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 645
33 Lucv, b. May 26, 1816; d. 1833.
34 Susan J., b. Nov. 2, 1818.
35 Elizabeth, b. Nov. 8, 1820; m. George VV. Winslow, Brunswick, 1834.
*36 Thomas B., b. Apr. 7, 1825, q. v.
*37 Samuel, 2d, b. Oct. 17, 1828, q. v.
(*21) Roberts Wylie, 2d, (Robert, Jr., ■^ Robert) m. Elizabeth, vi-id. of
Robert Wylie, 3d, 1818. They lived at West B. H. He d. Apr. 12, 1830;
she d. Oct. 3, 1852, a. 79. Children:
38 Alice H., b. June 10, 1814.
39 Mary E., b. Mar. 11, 1816; m. Patrick McKown, 1832, q. v.
40 Frances Ann, b. Mar. 7, 1818; m. Samuel Murray, 3d, 1842.
(*23) John' Wylie, Jr., (Robert, Jr.,'^ Roberf^) m. (1) Martha Thomp-
son, 1807; (2) Mary Babcock, New.; (3) Sarah Dunton. They lived east of
Adams Pond, where Alfred Sherman does. He d. Oct. 21, 1853; Martha,
wife, d. Feb. 8, 1833. Children:
41 Joseph, b. Jan. 4, ISll; lost at sea.
42 George, b. Jan. 4, 1811; lost at sea.
*43 Samuel T., b. June .30, 1813, q. v.
44 Julia, b. June 20, 1816; m. (1) John Hodgdon, 2d, (2) Edward Dodge.
45 Elizabeth, b. Apr. 18, 1819; m. Jacob Bryer, 1840; they lived where
Dennis S. Wylie does; both d., leaving two daus., who also d. young.
*46 Sewall S., b. June 11, 1823, q. v.
*47 John, b. Feb. 12, 1827, q. v.
By the m. with Sarah Dunton, who was a wid. and mother of Giles Dun-
ton, q. v., were two chil.: I, Asumalah, who m. Abijah Boyd; II, James,
who d. in the Civil War.
(*26) Robert" Wylie, 3d, (Neal,"^ Roberf^) m. Elizabeth . They
lived at West B. H. He died July 21, 1811, and his wid. m. (*21) Robert
Wylie, 2d, 1813. Children:
*48 Benjamin R., b. Oct. 21, 1796, q. v.
49 Fanny N., b. Apr. 19, 1799; d. 1804.
BO David R., b. May 1, 1802; set. in W. Bath; had a fam. of five chil., all
dec. The late David R. \\'y!ie, W. Bath, for some years a Sagadahoc
County Commissioner, was his son.
*51 Neal, b. Feb. 12, 1803, q. v.
52 Eliphalet R., b. Apr. 26, 1804.
*53 John, 2d, b. Mar. 20, 1806, q. v.
64 Amasa P., b. Mar. 21, 1808; d. 1836, see Cas.
65 Robert T., b. May 11, 1811.
(*27) Alexander' Wylie, Jr., (Alexander,'^ Roberf^) m. Elizabeth
Lewis. He died Mar. 14, 1861; she died Jan. 27, 1874, a. 76. Children: I,
Almira, b. Dec. 25, 1827. II, Alexander, b. Nov. 24, 1832; d. Aug. 23, 1863.
Ill, Harriet, h'. Apr. 1, 1834; d. Nov. 13, 1896.
(*30) Robert' Wylie, 4th, (Alexander,'^ Robert''-) m. Jane Webber,
1807. They lived north of John Wylie, Jr., on the east side of Adams Pond.
He d. Apr. 7, 1854; she d. Jan. 4, 1847, a. 56-6. Children:
56 David, b. Jan. 1, 1809; d. 1831, see Cas.
57 Mary, b. Mar. 1, 1811; m. James T. Beath, 1834, q. v.
68 Alice, b. Feb. 26, 1815; m. William Farmer, 1839, q. v.
59 Charlotte, b. Nov. 8, 1818.
60 Parker, b. Nov. 28, 1819; m. Elizabeth Clark, 1844. He d. Apr., 1851,
see Cas.; seed. May 6, 1892. Chil.: I, Elizabeth E., b. Aug. 7, 1845;
II, Lydia J., b. Feb. 21, 1848.
646 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
61 Isaac, b. Oct. 2, 1822; m. Rosilla E. Kelley, 1854.
62 Nancy ]., b. Nov. 6, 1826; m. (1) Thomas B. Farmer, (2) William K.
Kelley.
63 Charles, b. Sept. 1, 1829; m. (1^ Sarah E. Toothacher, 1854, (2) Mar-
garet P. Reed; res. in Chelsea, Mass.
Fourth Generation.
(*36) Thomas B.« Wylie {Robert, 3d? William,'^ Robert^) m. Elizabeth
A. Blake. They lived at E. B. He d. June 3, 1S76; she d. Sept. 27, 1894, a.
69. Children: I, Harriet E., b. Oct. 2, 1848; II, Izetta, b. June 8, 1850; III,
Almona L., b. Aug. 9, 1852; IV, Nancy J., b. Aug. 10, 1855; V, Lectina, b.
Aug. 27, 1858; VI, Annie M., b. Oct. 22, 1861; VII, Edward, b. Mar. 21,
1864; VIII, Evart, b. July 3, 1868.
(*37) Samuel* Wylie, 2d, (Robert, 3d,^ William,'^ Roberf^) m. Mary
A. Lewis. They lived where their son Forest now lives, at Dover. He d.
Dec. 26, 1862. Children: I, Ida J.; II, Forest, m. Annie Boucher; III,
Clarence, m. and lives in Mass.
(*48) Samuel T.* Wylie (John Jr., ^ Robert, Jr., '^ Roberf^) m. Clarissa,
dau. of Israel Lewis. They lived first opposite the John Andrews place at
the head of the Harbor, which he exchanged with his brother Sewall for the
farm, afterward the fam. home, where his son, Dennis S., now lives. He
was a sea captain over a long period. He d. Jan. 26, 1894; she d. June 5,
1898. Children:
64 Joseph, b. Jan. 3, 1841; m. Laura A. Dodge; d. Jan. 1, 1866.
65 Levi, b. June 9, 1843; d. Oct. 27, 1864.
66 Dennis S., b. June 22, 1845; m. Albina L., dau. of Hiram Swett; res.
on homestead, which is the place where Ephraim McFarland settled.
67 Clara E., b. May 14, 1848; m. Capt. Oilman A. Low.
68 Oakes, b. July 4, 1850; d. Jan. 4, 1869.
69 Abial E., b. Aug. 2, 1852; d. Apr. 13, 1885.
70 Horace M., b. Sept. 9, 1855; m. Bertha J. Orne; res. at B. H.
71 Henry O., b. Oct. 21, 1862; m. Lena A. Larrabee; res. at B. H.
(*46) Sewall S.* Wylie (John Jr., ^ Robert, Jr.,- Roberf^) m. Rebecca
Matthews. He was a prominent sea captain, purchasing the John Andrews
property at the head of the Harbor and building there. The Wylie Ceme-
tery at the Center takes its name from him as owner. They had a fam. of six
chil.; all are now dec. Julia M., who m. Charles H. Fisher, was the only
one to marry. Three d. in inf. Rebecca S. and Edmond P. lived to be abt.
30 yrs. old, each. Capt. Sewall d. Feb. 28, 1879.
(*47) John* Wylie (John Jr., ^ Robert, Jr., "^ Robert"^) m. Abigail, dau.
of Charles Giles, 1855. They lived on his father's homestead. He d. Mar.
6, 1868, see Cas. Like his brothers, he was a master mariner. His wid. m.
Jeremiah P. Baker; she d. July 22, 1885. Chil.: I, Rufus, b. July 26, 1857;
d. Dec. 80, 1872. II, Jennie, b. July 14, 1866; m. Horace W. Holton, q. v.
(•48) Benjamin R.* Wylie (Robert, 3d,^ Neal,'^ Roberf^) m. (1) Char-
lotte, dau. of Solomon Pinkham; (2) Phebe Barter, 1850. They lived at
West B. H. He d. Dec. 3, 1869; Chariotte, w., d. May 7, 1848. He was a
great violinist in his day, playing for home dances when in town, and always
taking his violin with him on his trips to the Banks to entertain the crew, or
to afford music for a hop on shore when they touched along the Provincial
coasts. Children:
FAMILY HISTORY. 647
72 Margaret A., b. May 31, 1824; m. Andrew Reed, 4th.
73 Fanny, b. Feb. 11, 1827.
74 Mary A., b. Sept. 23, 1828; m. Eben Lewis, q. v.
75 Sarah Elizabeth, b. Dec. 25, 1830; m. Ebenezer Philbrick, White., 1855.
76 Charlotte, b. Dec. 21, 1832.
77 Benjamin F., b. Dec. 8, 1835.
78 Florence A., b. Dec. 8, 1837.
79 Caroline L., b. June 9, 1S40.
80 Lovena L., b. June 22, 1843.
(*51) Neal* Wylie {Robert, Sd,^ Neal,'^ Roberf^) m. Henrietta Thomp-
son, 1824. Lived at West B. H. He d. Dec, 1832; she d. July 1, 1884. A
son, Eliphalet Neal, b. July 3, 1832, m. Viola Lewis. He d. May 12, 1889;
he also lived at West B. H. Children: I, Clarissa A., m. Lyman S. Farmer;
II, Warren E.; Ill, Viola, m. Millard F. Dodge; IV, Fannie E.; V, Albert
Merritt.
(*53) JoHN^ Wylie, 2d, (Robert, 3d,^ Neal? Roberf^) m. Adeline Lewis.
They lived at West B. H. He d. in 1871; she d. in 1887. Chil.: I, George
S., m. Eliza C. Mulhns. II, Beaman C, b. Dec. 25, 1837. Ill, Sarah E., b.
Apr. 2, 1840;- m. Randall McLellan, 1857, q. v. IV, David L., b. Mar. 1,
1842; d. July, 1861, see Cas. V, Alonzo P., b. June 25, 1843; m. (1) Mary-
Baker, (2) Mrs. Mary F. Dolloff; one dau., Alice. VI, Melissa, b. June 25,
1845.
YATES.
Adelbert B. Yates was born at Round Pond, Feb. 11, 1849, the son of
Edmund and Elsie Yates. He m. Emma, dau. of Joseph and Emeline Bond
Taylor, who was b. in Jefferson, Mar. 21, 1850. They came to B. H. in May
1877. He was salesman for K. H. Richards for several years and then
became engineer for the Boothbay Harbor Cold Storage Co. Children:
George R., b. July 26, 1873; Joseph T., b. Aug. 13, 1875; Louis B., b. Feb.
3, 1884.
SUMMARY AND DIEEOTOM
1905.
As a fitting close to my labors on this volume, and
that some future chronicler of events within our borders may
have a satisfactory starting point, I present below a summary
of conditions and affairs, in the three towns, for the year
1905.
BOOTHBAY.
Value of Real Estate, resident, $326,485.00
" " " " non-resident 176,810.00
" " Personal Estate, resident, 61,761.00
" " " " non-resident, 832.00
Total,
Amount of Eeal Estate tax,
" " Personal Estate tax,
450 polls at $3.00,
$565,888.00
$10,065.90
1,251.86
1,350.00
Total commitment, $12,667.76
Appropriations :
For support of the poor, $ 850,00
" common schools, 2,200.00
" free high schools 300.00
" town officers, 900.00
" contingent expenses, 450.00
" abatements and discounts, 450.00
" repairing highways, 1,700.00
" sidewalks and bridges, 700.00
" free text-books, 250.00
" repairs on school buildings, 340.00
" appai-atus and appliances, 100.00
650 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
For interest, $ 60.00
" observance of Memorial Day, 50.00
" electric lights, 240.00
" State Eoad, 200.00
The above with other special appropriations making a
total of $10,348.00.
Eate of taxation $20.00 on $1000.00
Standing of Town :
Eeal Estate, taxes unpaid and extended, dues unpaid
from sundry sources, $883.41
Dr.
Bonds outstanding, $600.00
Net assets exceeding liabilities, 283.41
883.41
In the above summary only available property is sched-
uled; town house, schoolhouses, etc., are omitted.
For municipal officers, postmasters, etc., see Chap. XVI.
Associations and Lodges : See Chap. XX.
Barber : Leonard Webster, E. B.
Blacksmithing and Carriage Work :
Lester McFarland, E. B. ; W. D. Dodge, W. D. Boston,
Henry Elden, B. Ctr.
Brick : E. C. Dodge, Pleasant Cove.
Clergymen :
Eev. A. L. Mayo, Free Bapt., B. Ctr. and Trevett ;
Cong, at B. Ctr. vacant ; Eev. A. Lockhart, INIeth., E. B.
Constables :
Edward P. Corey, John E. Kelley, B. Ctr. ; C. Tyler
Hodgdon, E. B. ; Elton H. Lewis, Trevett.
Contractors and Carpenters :
Paul Giles, Forest Wjdie, Orin L. Dunton, Horace W.
Pinkham, Charles G. Pinkham, George W. Giles,
William T. Giles, Sumner M. Giles, B. Ctr. and No. B. ;
Eobert S. Hyson, W. W. Seavey, John Seavey, J. N.
Seavey, Dennis M. Hagan, E. B.
summary and directory. 651
Dairy Farms :
Enos Spinney, B. Ctr. ; Benjamin M. Giles, Benj. S.
Emerson, Walter S. Carlisle, No. B.
Dressmaking :
Miss M&vj O. McDougall, Miss Florence Hagan, E. B. ;
Mrs E. B. Corey, B. Ctr. ; Miss Delia Lewis, Trevett.
Halls :
Town, B. Ctr., John S. Spinney, Agt. ; Citizens' Union,
E. B., Allen Murray, Agt.
Hotels :
E. B. — Seavey House (s.), Mrs. Granville J. Seavey;
3IcDougall House, James McDougall ; Forest House (s.),
Walter S. McDougall; Reed House (s.), Mrs. E. Ella
Eeed.
Ocean Point.— C. E. Hoxie (s.), F. W. Harlow (s.).
Mt. Pleasant. — Bay Vieio House (s.)
Sawyer's Island. — Saivyer Island House (s.), Elton H.
Lewis.
Linekin. — Ledge Laum House (s.), E. H. Linekin.
Ice :
Metropolitan Ice Co. (wholesale), Trevett, Alpheus
Dodge, Agt.; Frank Blake, E. B., and Samuel Boyd,
Bayville (retail).
Insurance :
Boothbay Mutual Fii-e Ins. Co., John R. McDougall,
Pres., James A. Reed, Secy. Assets $6,166.80.
Justices of the Peace :
Royal R. Giles, Alpheus Dodge, B. Ctr. ; John R.
McDougall, E. B. ; James A. Reed, No. B. ; Alfred M.
Sidelinger, Back River.
Lumber :
C. Hodgdon & Sons, James L. Race, E. B. ; Dodge &
Giles, No. B.
Masons : Alfred D. Sherman, Granville P. Matthews.
652 history of boothbay.
Merchants :
Adams, Frank C. — Stationery, E. B.
Barlow, Mrs. M. E. — Dry and Fancy Goods and Millinery.
Chapman, Charles — General, E. B.
Giles, Bj^ron — Groceries and Grain, B. Ctr.
Hodgdon, S. G. & Son— General, Trevett.
Hoi brook, E. & E. — General, Linekin.
Lewis, Elton H. — Groceries and Meats, Sawyer's Island.
Macaulay Bros. — General, Barter's Island.
McDougall, A. O.— General, E. B.
McDougall, J. K. Co. — General, E. B. and Ocean Point.
McDougall, Simon — Boots, Shoes, Clothing, etc., E. B.
Montgomery, Victor K. — Paints and Oils, E. B.
Olsen, Oscar — General, Barter's Island.
Kace & Co. — Drugs, Medicines and Toilet Articles, E. B.
Eeed, Levi S. & Co. — Furniture and Undertaking, E. B.
Seavey, Frank — General, E. B.
J. H. & Sons— General, B. Ctr.
Mineral Spring : Race & Co., E. B.
Oil and Scrap : Maine Fishery Co., Linekin.
Notary : W. Irving Adams, E. B.
Painters :
Coburn P. Oilman, Back River ; V. K. Montgomery, E. B.
Physicians : H. E. Fernald, M. D., E. B.
Riggers :
Herbert G. Dunton, No. B. ; Elisha Conley, E. B.
Ship and Yacht Builders :
W. I. Adams & Son, Hodgdon Bros., Rice Bros. Co.,
Freeman Murray, E. B.
Ship Calker : Edward Whitehouse, E. B.
Shoemaker : E. Farnham, E. B.
Spar Makers : Farnham & Seavey, E. B.
Stable (Livery) :
Charles C. Smithwick, Fred Hodgdon, E. B.
Stable (Sale) : Horace M. Miller, B. Ctr.
SUMJIARY AND DIRECTORY. 653
Steamboat Agency : James L. Race, E. B.
Trial Justice : Lyman M. McDougall, E. B.
Trucking :
Charles Smithwick, Franklin Blake, Millard F. Blake,
E. B.
SOUTHPORT.
Value of Real Estate, resident, $ 90,231.00
" " " " non-resident, 221,489.00
" " Personal Estate, resident, 61,765.00
" " " " non-resident, 2,647.00
Total, $376,132.00
Total property tax, $6,018.11
126 Polls at $3.00, 378.00
Total commitment, $6,396.11
Appropriations :
For support of poor, $200.00
" common schools, 700.00
" free high schools, 500.00
" town officers, 350.00
" contingent expenses, 125.00
" abatements, interest and discounts, 300.00
" repairing roads and bridges, 600.00
" free text-books, 100.00
" repairs on school buildings, 100.00
" apparatus and appliances, 75.00
" State Road, 100.00
" improvements on islands, 1,000.00
The above with other special appropriations making a
total of $4,855.00.
Rate of taxation $16.00 on $1,000.00.
Standing of Town :
Real Estate, taxes unpaid and extended, deposits, cash
on hand, dues unpaid from several sources, $8,613.29
654 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Dr.
Bonds and notes outstanding, unpaid
dues, etc., $5,232.90
Net assets exceeding liabilities, 3,380.39
$8,613.29
In the above summary both available and non-available
property is scheduled ; schoolhouses, however, are omitted.
For municipal officers, postmasters, etc., see Chap. XVI.
Bait : Austin P. Greenleaf .
Boat Builders :
Everett Clifford, E. L. Decker, Charles S. Gray.
Clergymen: Rev. A. P. Thompson, Meth., West.
Constables : J. F. Rand, William Cameron, J. T. Decker.
Contractor and Carpenter : George L. Witham.
Halls : Casino, Benjamin W. Thomas.
Hotels (Summer only) :
Mouse Island, Samoset House, J. C. Durrell.
Capital Island, Capital Island House.
Squirrel Island, Squirrel Inn, K. H. Richards.
Southport (including summer boarding houses),
Mrs. Rhoda M. Thompson ; Cove Cottage, Alphonzo
Dyer ; The Lawnmere, JI. H. & H. L. Thompson ;
Gray's, Abial W. Gray; Point of View House,
Charles S. Gray ; Cozy Harbor House, J. Dana Pay-
son ; Newagen House, Courtland Wilson ; Bay View
House, Daniel B. Strout ; Mrs. W. S. Pierce ; Mrs.
Robbins.
Ice : W. M. Sawyer.
Insurance : Sumner Orne.
Lobster Pound : Austin P. Greenleaf.
Merchants :
Gray, Ellsworth — Groceries, Newagen.
Grover, W. N. — Groceries, Capital.
Pinkham, Everett E. — General, West.
Richards, K. H. & Co. — Groceries and Meats (summer),
Squirrel Island.
Thomas, Benjamin W. — Groceries, Fruit, etc. (summer).
SUMMARY AND DIRECTORY. 655
BOOTHBAY HARBOR.
Value of Real Estate, resident, $661,320.00
" " " " non-resident, 174,056.00
" " Personal Estate, resident, 147,939.00
" " " " non-resident, 20,212.00
Total,
$1,003,527.00
Amount of Real Estate tax,
$17,542.89
" " Personal Estate tax,
3,531.17
593 Polls at $3.00,
1,779.00
Total commitment.
$22,821.53
Appropriations :
For support of poor,
$1,100.00
" common schools.
4,200.00
" free high schools,
1,350.00
" town officers.
800.00
" contingent expenses.
900.00
" abatements and discounts,
950.00
" repairing highways, bridges and walks, 2,500.00
" free text-books,
400.00
" repairs on school buildings.
250.00
" apparatus and appliances,
200.00
" interest on bonds.
500.00
" electric lights.
1,557.50
" State Road,
200.00
" Night Watchman,
500.00
" observance of Memorial Day,
40.00
The above with other special appropriations making
total of $18,511.88.
Rate of taxation $21.00 on
$1,000.00.
Standing of Town :
Real estate, taxes unpaid and extended, dues unpaid
from sundry sources, $87,427.73
Dr.
Total indebtedness, $52,102.41
Net assets exceeding liabilities, 35,325.32
$87,427.73
43
656 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
In the above summary, both available and non-available
property is scheduled, including school houses and water
system.
For municipal oflScers, postmasters, etc., see Chap. XVI.
Associations and Lodges : See Chap. XX.
American Express Co. : Arthur G. Lewis, Agt.
Bait:
F. C. Littlefield & Co., M. D. Sawyer, Boothbay Har-
bor Cold Storage Co., B. H. ; Asbury M. Powers, Sum-
ner Swett, Byron Swett, West B. H.
Bakers : J. S. Marson, L. S. Fickett.
Banks :
First Nat. Bank, K. H. Richards, Pres., John A. Mad-
docks, Cashier ; Boothbay Savings Bank, E. G. Hodgdon,
Pres., B. C. Matthews, Cashier.
A. P. Wylie, F. C. Blake, R. A. Schatzer, E. Tibbetts,
S. L. Buker.
Bn-LiARD and Pool Rooms : F. C. Blake, S. B. Dolloff .
Blacksmiths :
Ingraham & Harris (ship), Charles A. Davis, G. C.
Reed, Alden Winslow (ship).
Boarding Houses :
Mrs. Thankful Mclntire, Mrs. Sarah Knight, Mrs. James
McCaulay, Mrs. Charles Brewer, B. H. ; Mrs. A. McDon-
ald, Bayville.
Boat Letting :
Alvah C. McKown, E. Tibbetts, S. B. Dolloff.
Boat and Yacht Building :
Reed & Adams, McKown Coal Co., E. Tibbetts.
Boothbay Harbor Cold Storage Co. :
James C. Poole, Mgr., general cold storage of fish.
Boothbay Harbor Elec. L. and P. Co. :
L. Maddocks, Mgr.; est. Aug. 1, 1900: 40 miles of
wire, 140 street lights, 145 services, 3,000 lights of 16
candle power, capacity 150 H. P.
SUMMARY AND DIRECTORY. 657
BooTHBAY Harbor Light, Heat and Power Co. :
K. H. Eichards, Mgr. ; three miles of pipe, 1,000 light
capacity, 50 services, 600 lights of 24 candle power.
Civil Engineers : T. W. Baldwin, J. H. Blair.
Clergymen :
Rev. F. B. Hyde, Cong. ; Rev. J. H. Gray, Meth., B. H.
and West B. H.
Constable : Hiram A. Spofford.
Contractors and Carpenters :
Samuel Boyd, T. J. Emerson, W. R. Holton, C. E. Car-
lisle, C. N. Reed, W. L. Dolloff, George Corey, E. E.
Dodge, John E. Knight, Randall McLellan, George Dun-
ton, George M. Reed, John Adams, Rufus Auld, Henry
Holton, David A. Pinkham.
Cooperage : John F. Mosher.
Dairy Farms : Willard H. McCobb, Mrs. L. Chaney.
Dentists : O. W. Baker, E. A. Sprague.
Dressmakers :
Mrs. Clara Low, Mrs. Mary J. Williams, Miss Martha
Swett, Mrs. T. L. Montgomery, Mrs. F. H. Albee, Mrs.
A. C. White, Mrs. Maud Davis, Mrs. Cyrus Pinkham,
B. H. ; Mrs. Sarah Farmer, Mrs. C. E. Orne, West B. H.
Fertilizer :
Cumberland Superphosphate Works, Spruce Point, B. H.,
Herman Hartung, Supt.
Fish Curers : D. A. Greenlaw & Co., smoked fish.
Fish Markets (Retail) :
A. C. McKown, D. W. Hodgdon, M. D. Sawyer.
Fish (Wholesale) :
Nickerson Bros., Baldwin Fish Co., George Nelson &
Co., D. A. Greenlaw & Co.
Gasoline and Po^ver Boat Supplies:
R. H. Fuller & Co., H. T. Thurston.
Granite and Marble Cutters : Pierce & Watts.
658 history of boothbay.
Halls :
Pji^hian Opera House, C. J. Marr, Agt. ; Gymnasium,
H. F. Pinkham, Mgr. ; Kenniston's Hall, G. A. E. Post,
Hotels :
Boothbay House, Fred H. Harris ; Weymouth House, H.
W. McDougall ; Menawarmet (s.), 0. S. Yates; Spruce
Point House (s.), Boston & Boothbay Land Co., B. H. ;
Oak Grove House (s.), W. H. Reed, West B. H.
Ice :
W. M. Sawyer, F. C. Littlelield & Co. (wholesale), Clar-
ence G. Hodgdon, Merrill Lewis, B. H. ; "West Harbor
Ice Co., Luther Maddocks, Mgr. (wholesale), West B. H.
Insueance :
J. Ed. Knight, George B. Kenniston, Thaddeus W. Orne,
W. T. Marr, B. C. Matthews, John A. Maddocks, Sewall
T. Maddocks (marine).
Junk : W. M. Sawyer, T. L. Montgomery.
Justice (Dedimusj : George B. Kenniston.
Justices (Peace) :
William O. McCobb, John H. Lake, J. Ed. Knight,
Byron C. Matthews.
Justices (Trial) :
Cyrus K. Tupper, George B. Kenniston, Thomas B.
Farmer, Charles H. Fisher.
Land Companies :
Boothbay Land Co., James F. Bliss, Boston, Pres.,
George B. Kenniston, Treas. ; Boston & Boothbay Land
Co., C. A. Marston, Skowhegan, Pres., S. C. Chase,
Skowhegan, Treas.
Lawyers :
George B. Kenniston, Charles H. Fisher, Cyrus R.
Tupper, John W. Brackett, Weston M. Hilton.
Library :
Public, Henry McClearn, Librarian, 800 vols. ; High
School Library.
summary and directory. 659
Livery Stables :
Charles E. Sherman, W. C. Clisby, A. E. Clisby, Robert
G. Dewolfe, James B. Kenney, Orlando M. McKown,
W. L. Cleaves.
Lobsters (Wholesale) : Fred R. Higgins.
Lumber :
William E. Brown & Co., Samuel Boyd, Pierce & Hartung.
Machinists : H. T. Thurston, R. H. Fuller & Co.
Masons : Charles Dodge, Henry Dolloff , W. F. Baker.
Marine Railway :
Townsend — A. H. Davenport, Boston, Pres., O. Y. Mat-
thews, Mgr., B. H. ; Boothhay — W. H. Reed, Prop.,
West B. H.
Marine Reporters : W. O. McCobb, N. C. McFarland.
Merchants :
Baldwin Fish Co. — Fishermen's Outfitters, Groceries.
Boyd, Samuel — Builders' Supplies.
David, Solomon — Clothing, Furnishings, Harnesses and
Team Supplies.
Dearborn, John — Musical Supplies.
Dodge, Charles — Lime, Sand, Brick and Cement.
Dudlc}', AY. F. — Watches, Jewelry, Crockery, Tableware
and Fancy Goods.
Dunton, M. F. — Groceries, Meats and Fruit.
Globe Supply Co. — Diy and Fancy Goods and Millinery.
Greene, F. B. (wholesale) — Watches, Clocks, Silverwai-e,
Optical Goods and Cutlery.
Harris & McClearn — Drugs, Medicines and Toilet Articles.
Hodgdon, R. G. — Clothing, Furnishings, Boots, Shoes,
Paper Hangings and Notions.
Hodgdon, Samuel — Groceries, Meats and Provisions,
West B. H.
Hodgdon, W. H. — Groceries, Meats, Provisions and Fruit.
Holton, W. T. — Stoves,Tinware, Kitchen Furnishings, etc.
Howard, Silas — Confectionery, Fruit, Tobacco and Cigars.
Hussey, N. H. — Dry and Fancy Goods, Sewing Machines.
660 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Ingraham & Harris — Marine Hardware, Cordage and Ship
Supplies.
Kenniston, A. H. — Furniture, Carpets and Toys.
Kenniston, Charles F. — Stationery and Fancy Goods,
News Stand.
Lake, J. H. — Stoves, Tinware and Kitchen Furnishings.
Lewis, E. W. — Groceries, Provisions and Grain.
Lewis, R. A. — Coal.
Ljmch, M. J. — Dry and Fancy Goods, Millinery.
McCobb, J. L. — Dry and Fancy Goods.
McCobb, W. O. — Groceries and Provisions, Paints and
Oils.
McDougall, H. W. — Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Caps,
Boots and Shoes.
McFarland, N. C. — Groceries, Provisions, Confectionery,
etc.
McKown Coal Co. — Coal and Wood.
Marr, C. J. & Co. — Clothing, Furnishings, Boots and
Shoes, Hats and Caps.
Marr, W. T. — Hardware, Crockery, Paints, Oils and
General Variety.
Nickerson, E. H. — Dry and Fancy Goods.
Pierce & Brewer — Furniture, Carpets, Hardware and
Paper Hangings.
Pierce & Hartung — Coal and Wood.
Pinkham, H. F. — Confectionery, Fruit, etc.
Porter, E. L. & Co. — Drugs, Medicines, Stationery and
Toilet Articles.
Orne, Charles T.— General Store, West B. H.
Orne, T. W. — Confectionery and Periodicals.
Reed, W. H. (wholesale) — Confectionery.
Rich, Joseph F. (two stores) — Groceries and Provisions,
Fancy Goods and Millinerj\
Richards, K. H. ct Co. — Groceries, Provisions, Meats
and Fruit.
Sawyer, W. M. — Ship Chandlery.
Simpson & Perkins — Groceries, Meats, Provisions and
Fruit.
Trask, Mrs. M. H. — Variety and Dry Goods.
SCTIMARY AND DIKECTORY. 661
Winslow, W. F.— Boots and Shoes.
Winslow, W. J. — Harnesses and Stable Supplies.
Notaries :
C. R. Tupper, George B. Kenniston, John A. Haddocks,
J. W. Brackett, Weston M. Hilton.
Opticians : W. F. Dudley, Lester E. Hodgdon.
Painters :
Charles E. Clisby, Fred Campbell, Ray Sherman, T. L.
Montgomery, "W". S. Richards, W. A. Williams.
Photographer : Frank H. McDougall.
Physicians :
George A. Gregory, M. D., Ernest C. Blake, M. D., O.
E. Haney, M. D.
Plumbing and Heating : W. T. Holton, H. T. Thurston.
Printing and Publishing :
Charles E. Kendrick, Job Printing, Publisher of the
Boothbay Register.
Real Estate :
George B. Kenniston, Cyrus R. Tupper, Samuel Boyd,
Merrill A. Perkins.
Restaurants :
T. W. Orne, J. S. Marson, H. F. Pinkham, W. E. Spof-
ford, L. S. Fickett.
Rigger : Robert Olson.
Sailmakers : Lewis A. Dunton, Eben A. Poole.
Sardine Factories :
Haddocks Packing Co., L. Haddocks, Mgr. ; L. Pickert
Fish Co. ; Boothbay Packing Co., W. F. Bishop, Hgr. ;
HcNichol Bros.
Ship Brokers : Simpson & Perkins, W. H. Sawyer.
Ship Calkers : George Harson, Z. F. Swett.
Shoemakers : W. J. Winslow, Solomon David.
Steamboat Agents :
R. A. Lewis, E. S. B. Co. ; W. T. Marr, P. & B. S. B.
Co., P. &R. S. B. Co.
662 history of boothbay.
Telegraph :
Misses Effie S. Pierce and Winifred Hussey, Operators.
Telephone : Miss Annie Dunton, Agt.
Trucking :
E. L. Giles, A. C. White, A. H. Cutts, W. C. Clisby,
Samuel Cronk, J. N. Albee, Eufus Giles, E. F. Brewer.
Undertakers : A. H. Kenniston, T. L. Montgomery.
Wreck Commissioners : J. H. McClintock, W. E. Sawyer.
Yacht Storing :
T. L. Montgomery, B. H. ; Joseph R. McKown,West B. H.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Official Positions, Federal, State and County, Held
BY Citizens of These Towns.
For Post Offices see pp. 305-308.
Collector of Customs, District of Wiscasset :
Daniel H. Moody, B. H.
Commissioner of Maine Sea and Shore Fisheries :
Alonzo E. Nickerson, B. H.
Coroner : Daniel H. Moody, B. H.
County Attorney for Lincoln : Weston M. Hilton, B. H.
Deputy Sheriff of Lincoln County: John S. Spinnej^B.
Fish Wardens :
Charles E. Sherman, B. H. ; John E. Kelley, B.
Representatite to the Legislature :
Thomas W. Baldwin, B. H.
Senator for Lincoln County : Cyrus E. Tapper, B. H.
U. S. Fish Hatchery, completed in 1904, situated on Mc-
Kown's Point, West B. H., Capt. Everet E. Hahn, Supt.
U. S. Life Saving Station.
U. S. Storm and Danger Signal was established in 1878.
The station is on Pisgah ; the signal officer is Charles H.
McCobb.
SUMMARY AND DIRECTORY. 663
THE BOOTHBAY HARBOR WATER PLANT.
At the annual town meeting, Mar. 5, 1894, the selectmen
were authorized to construct a system of water works, with
sufficient pumping station, standpipe, at least 12,500 feet of
water mains and 25 hydrants, providing the same could be
done at an expense not exceeding §25,000. The board con-
sisted of Charles J. Marr, W. H. Reed and T. J. Emerson.
All nearer points of possible supply were examined by compe-
tent engineers and pronounced inadequate. Adams Pond was
settled upon for the supply. Proposals were advertised for,
covering the trenching, furnishing and laying the pipe. Six
bids were received and the contract was awarded to Moore &
Co., Boston. The works were not completed that year, but
twelve service pipes being laid and sixteen hydants set within
the 3'ear. The pipe laid in 1894 reached 19,527 feet, about
seven-tenths being eight-inch pipe and the greater part of the
rest ten-inch. In the work of that year 2,557.82 cubic yards
of rock were taken out. Early in 1895 the plant was com-
pleted at a cost of $37,853.99. Labor and material were at
such rates at the time the plant was constructed that, at least,
$10,000 was saved from what the expense would have been
three or four years later. Pipe was purchased at §21.84 per
ton (2,240 lbs.). John H. Blair was the first superintendent,
followed by George H. Snow. Richard Latter, occupying the
position now, commenced his duties in March, 1900.
Since 1895 some permanent additions have been made each
year. Improved pumping facilities have been added and a
large amount of summer service has been constructed. There
are now about five and one-fourth miles of main pipe laid,
properly trenched. The summer service follows :
To West Boothbay Harbor, 6,500 feet
" Spruce Point, 6,000 "
" Bayville, 7,000 "
" Lobster Cove, 2,000 "
" Squirrel Island, 5,000 "
On Squirrel Island, 20,000 «'
To Southport, 8,500 "
The last item by vote of the town is to be constructed
664 HISTORY OF BOOTHS AT.
early in 1906. Nearly all this pipe is two inch, except what
crosses, submarine, to Squirrel Island, which is three. There
are now 37 hydrants. The estimated value of the system now
is S60,000.
INDEX OE PLACES AM) EVENTS.
Abenaques, the, 35
Aboriginal Inhabitants, 35, 43
Act to Incorporate Boothbay, 136
Adams Pond, 12
Anasagunticooks, the, 35
Appropriations in Early Meetings, 144, 151, 152
Archer, Capture of the, 435
Arrowsic, 87, 88, 90
Back Narrows, 13
Back River, 13, 129
Bagaduce Expedition, 230
Bait and Ice Trade, 375
Banks, 458
Baptist Church built, 195
" Ministers, list of, 196
" Society, the, 193
Barter's Island, 13
Bashaba, the, 36, 37
Battle at Penobscot, 231
Bay View Lodge, 354
Bayville, 13, 417
Biguyduce, '^^
Boothbay Center, 14
" Harbor, 14, 439, 416
House, 351, 417
Lodge, K. of P., 355
Boston Island,
13
Bounty offered in 1778, 146
Boxer and Enterprise, battle of the, 252
Bridge at Barter's Island, 158
Bridge at Campbell's Cove, 159, 161
Bridge at Sawyer's Island, 156
Bridge at Southport, 313
British Annoyances in 1812, 255, 258
Buckland's Neck, 14, 22, 100
Burnham Cove, 1°
Burnt Island, 31
Cabbage Island, 15
Campbell's Brook, 16
Cove, 16, 219
Ponds, 16
666
HISTORY or BOOTHBAY.
Canibas, the,
35
Cape Cod,
15
Cape Harbor,
15
Cape Island,
15
Cape Newagen,
15,
63, 79, 88, 167
Capital Island,
16, 414
Capture of Paul Reed,
233
Card Cove,
16
Carlisle Point,
16
Casualties,
378-394
Cedarbush Island,
17
Changes of Government,
105
Charts and Plans,
33
Christmas Cove,
17
Church, the first.
179, 186
Church history.
175-212
Church members, Early lists of.
180, 181
Civil War : Boothbay proceedings, 425;
Boothbay service list
427-433
Southport proceedings, 433; Southport service list.
434, 435
Collection districts.
149
College graduates.
404-410
Commission of 1811,
172
Committees of Correspondence,
214, 249
" " Inspection and Safety,
214, 249
Common at the Center,
161
Congregationalism Established,
188
Congregational ministers at the Harbor,
208
Congregational Society, Second,
205
Corbin's Sound,
17,88
Cornwall County,
77
Crescent Chapter, O. E. S.,
356
Cross River,
17
Cuckolds,
17, 31
Damariscotta,
17, 66, 88
Damariscotta River,
10
Damariscove,
17, 65, 79, 88
Decker's Cove,
IS
Deeds, Early,
100-103
Defense of the Town,
218, 249
Depositions: John Beath, 119, 441; Samuel McCobb, 117;
William
McCobb, 173; William Moore, 116, 121; William Fullerton, 121
Description of locality, 9
Destruction of the settlements, 89
Devon County established, 80
Distance Tables, 11, 12
Division of Boothbay, 316
Dogfish Head, 19
Dover, 19
Duke of York's Charter of Sagadahoc, 77
East Boothbay, 19, 419, 451
Eastern Steamboat Co. , 421
INDEX OF PLACES AND EVENTS. 667
Ebenecook Harbor, jg
Echo Lake, ■^^g
Embargo, the, 248
English explorations, 4Y
English patents, gj
Epituse, J9
Etechemins, 35
Farnham's Head, 20
Fisherman's Island, 20
Fish Hatchery established, 375
Fisheries, early, 353
Fishing : Early customs, 360; varied interests, 370; list of bank stands,
363-367; vessels, 368
Fish law, first prohibitive, I49
Fort Charles built, 92; captured, 95
Fort William Henry built, 96; description, 105; captured, 106; rebuilt. 111
changed to Fort Frederick, 112
Fort Island, 20
Fort Point, 20
Free High School, 400
French and Indian War, 126
French explorations, 45
Geological formations, 32
Gorgeana chartered, 67
Graduating exercises commenced, 401
Green Islands, 20
Green Landing, 20
Haley, 20
Harbor Island, 20
Haunted Hill, the, 452
Hendrick's Harbor, 20
Hendrick's Head, 21, 31
High School gradaates, 402-404
High School houses built at Harbor, East Boothbay and Center, 399
Hippocras, 20
Hodgdon's Island, 21
Hodgdon's Mills, 21
Hostility to land claimants, 170
Hotels, 350
Hypocrites, 20
Ice business, 461
Incorporation of Townsend, 167
Indians: Population, 36, 85; wars, 37, 85, 97, 125; migration to Can-
ada, 38; names of early prominence, 42; relics found, 40; distri-
bution of tribes, 35; kidnapped, 50
Independence Island, 16
Indiantown, 21, 41
Ingleside, 21
Isle of Springs, 21, 417
Jefferson Lake, 10
Jerry's Island, 15
bbO HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Joe's Island, 21
Kennebec purchase, 68
Kenniston Hill, 22
King Philips War, 85
Knickerbocker, 22
Labrador Meadow, 22
Land claims, 164, 167
Latitude and longitude, 11
License contest,
Lights and signals,
Linekin Bay, 22
Linekin Neck, 22
Little River, 22
Lewis Cove, 22
Lobster Cove, 23
Lobster Hatchery, 23
Lobster interests, 376
Long Pond, 13
Lower Mark Island, 23
McCobb's Hill, 23
McFarland's Point, 23
Mackerel fishing, 369
McKown's Point, 23
Maine, Province of, chartered, 73
Marechites, the, 36
Marr's Harbor, 23
Massachusetts Bay Co., chartered, 70; charter vacated, 93
Meadow Cove, 23
Methodist : Church at Southport, 196; ministers at Southport, 200;
church at East Boothbay, 201; ministers at East Boothbay, 204;
church at the Harbor, 209; ministers at the Harbor, 210
Mill Cove, 23
Mills, 332
Ministers, early, 176, 188, 191
Molly's Head, 24
Moore's Rock, 24
Monhegan, 48, 52, 65, 61
Montgomery's Point, 24
Mount Pisgah Chapter, O. E. S., 356
Mouse Island, 24, 414
Municipal sketch of Boothbay, 132
Municipal sketch of Southport, 310
Murder of Paul Chadwick, 171
Murray Hill, 24, 419
Muscongus patent, 69
Muster Equipments, 258
Muster Rolls, 1812, 259-261
Names of Settlers in 1672, 79
Negro Island, 24
New England named, 55
Newspapers, 456
INDEX OF PLACES AND EVENTS. 669
Norumbegua, 37
North Boothbay, 24
Oak Grove, 25
Oak Grove House, 417
Oak Point, 24
Ocean Point, 25, 419
Officials and residents of the first settlement, 80, 82
Official lists and tables, 279, 309
Oil factories, 370-373
Openangoes, the, 36
Outer Heron Island, 25
Oven's Mouth, 25
Oyster shell deposits, 39
Paradise Point, 25
Parish lot, 25
Parsonages built : On Pisgah, 186 ; at the Center, 186 ; Baptist at the Center, 195
Passamaquoddy's, the, 36
Patents under James I, 51
Pemaquid, 69, 71, 88, 92
patent, 69
Penobscot Indians, 38
Pentecost Chapter, 354
Petitions : To Governor, 78; to incorporate Townsend, 135; to legal-
ize town proceedings, 139, 149; to Secretary of War, 252
Physicians, 453
Pig Cove, 25
Pirates' Cove, 25
Pisgah, 26
Plague among the Indians, 37
Pleasant Cove, 25
Poor persons, care of, 145, 153
Popham's and Gilbert's voyage, 52
Popham's settlement, 54
Population in 1633, 69
Port of delivery established, 159
Portland and Boothbay Steamboat Co. , 422
Portland and Rockland Steamboat Co. , 423
Postal affairs, 459
Post Roads survey, the, 12
Powderhom Island, 26
Presbyterianism established, 175
Price of commodities in 1780, 234
Prohibited articles of purchase, 143
Publishments of intentions of marriage, 262-278
Pumpkin Rock, 26
Ram Island, 26, 30
Rathbone Sisters, 357
Reasons for incorporation, 133
Reed's Island, 26
Reskeagan, 66
Revival in Lincoln County, 182
670 HISTOEY OF BOOTHBAY.
Revolutionary documents, 220, 230; measures, 216; service list, 236, 246
Roads, 143, 146, 148, 149, 154, 155, 158, 161, 162, 163, 312
Road records, early, 452
Rolling the G. W. Reed, 444
Royal Arcanum, 357
Sailing directions, 29, 30
Sardine industry, the, 374
Sawyer's Island, 26
Sawyer's Island House, 417
Seaside Lodge, 353
Schools, 142, 150, 395
School Agency System, 397
School districts in Boothbay, 150, 153, 399
School districts in Southport, 311
Scotch-Irish, the, 110
Settlements : In 1675, 84; in 1690, 96; in 1713, 107; in 1729, 110; com-
menced, 57; of Col. David Dunbar, 109
Sheepscot, 27, 65, 87, 94
Sheepscot River, 9
Shipbuilding, 334
Soil, 34
Sokokis, the, 35
Soldiers' monument purchased 160
Southport, 27, 310 416
Spanish explorations.
44
Spectacle Islands,
27
Spelling in early records,
103
Spruce Point,
27
Squirrel Island,
27, 98, 412
Stores and trade.
338
Stocks built.
148
Suits vs. town,
152
Summer resorts,
411
Surplus distributed.
156
Surveys in town.
33, 153
Swett's Island,
21,40
Tarratines, the.
36
Taxpayers in 1814,
261
Tax, first levied.
82
Text-books, early.
898
Thirty Acre Island,
21,33
Thorpe Island,
28
Tibbetts' Island,
28
Town agent, first.
160
Town debt bonded.
160
Town fortifications in 1812,
261
Town farm purchased.
158
Townhouse, built, 157; moved,
159
Town meeting, first, 141; incident, 443; first in Southport, 310
Townsend, 28; laid out,
113
Townsend Gut,
28
INDEX OF PLACES AND EVENTS. 671
Town store in 1775, 219
Trees, 34
Trevett, 13, 21
Tumbler Island, 29
Union Church built, 196
Union Hall, Southport, 313
Valuation first taken, 147
Votes, for first Governor, 146; on State separation, 1B3, 154
Voyages, early, 44, 56; of Capt. John Smith, 369
Wadsworth's Cove, 29
Wall's Point, 29
War of 1812, the, 247, 255; service list, 269
Water powers, 31
Watenvitch, the story of the, 445
Wawenocks, 35; their settlements, 38, 41
West Boothbay Harbor, 29
West Harbor in 1822, 439
West Harbor Methodist Society, 211
Weymouth House, 362, 417
Weymouth's voyage, 48, 51
White Islands, 29
Widgin's, 29, 84
Wood Island, 29
Woolwich, 87
Yorkshire County established, 76
PEESOML INDEX.
This index contains all names of persons appearing in the
volume except in Chapters XV and XVI, which chapters are
simply bodies of names and indexing was found to be imprac-
tical. A similar exception occurs in the list of High School
Graduates appearing on pp. 402-404. The Family History is
arranged alphabetically and, therefore, not indexed.
Allen, Mary, 181.
Prof. Nathaniel G., 371.
T. W. & Son, 421.
Alley, Ephraim, 193, 236.
Howard M., 393.
John, Jr., 193, 260.
Joshua, 236.
Reuben, 881.
William, 260, 451.
William H., 434.
Anderson, Andrew, 206.
Rev. M. T., 201.
Andrews, John, 206, 363, 414.
Martha, 206.
Rev. Charles, 204.
Susan F., 207.
Andros, Sir Edward, 28, 94.
Apps, Harry, 387.
Archibald, Capt. I. E., 423.
Arnold, Dr. Frederick S., 453.
Atlantic Oil Co., 457.
Atwell, John, 200.
Atwood, Rev. H., 196.
Auld, Augustus, 383.
Daniel, 205.
Edwin, 205, 207.
Eliza G., 207.
Elup Faxon, 383.
Eunice F., 207.
Francis M., 207.
George M., 384.
Jacob, 205, 250, 259, 335, 340,
343, 440.
Adams, A. & W., 336.
Andrew, 336, 348, 379.
Alexander, 427.
Benjamin P., 381.
Charles, 383.
Daniel, 427.
David B., 441.
David C, 427.
David R., 259, 334.
Frank N., 355.
George, 28, 427.
James, 334, 382.
James, Jr., .380.
John, 427.
Miss Annie, 399.
Rev. Jonathan, 191, 208, 404.
Rev. Jonathan E., 191, 208.
Rev. J. P., 204.
Richard, 260, 381.
Samuel, 13, 143, 148, 151, 18i
214, 236, 333, 334.
Samuel, Jr., 379.
Sarah, 180.
Thomas B., 172.
Ward, 466.
W. I. & Son, 337.
William, 336, 379, 394.
William & Son, 337, 456.
W. Irving, 337, 353, 364, 356.
Albee, Frank, 161, 347.
F. H., 355.
Aldsworth & Elbridge, 69, 165.
Allen & Moody, 345.
674
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
Auld, James, 150, 206, 260.
John, 205, 207.
John G., 427.
Joseph C, 206, 345, 364.
Mary A., 207.
Rufus, 427.
William, 260.
Averill, Isaac, 131.
S., 456.
Avery, Enoch, 181.
Ayer, Chandler, 427.
Bailey, Samuel D., 421.
Bahr, William C, 342.
Baker, Capt. Llewellyn, 388.
Dr. O. W., 454, 455.
Frank A., .324.
Jeremiah P., 347.
Miss M. Ella, 399.
Mrs. M. A., 348.
Nathan S., 323, 327.
Rev. Charles, 202.
Rev. J. R., 200, 204, 210.
Rev. Samuel, 201.
Baldwin, Thomas W., 459.
Baldwin Fish Co., 345.
Ball, Levi, 412.
Samuel, 412.
Thomas, 412.
Barker, Ham & Mitchell, 413.
Barlow, Harvey R., 354.
Mrs. Mary E., 349.
Barter, Benjamin, 261, 379.
Edward, 364.
Elwell H., 427.
Harry, 349, 384.
Isaac, 364.
John, 193, 236.
John, 4th, 261.
John, Jr., 193.
Joseph, 147, 236.
KeeneM., 375.
Mrs. Clem, 394.
Nicholas, 236.
Samuel, 381.
Samuel, 3d, 261.
William, 364.
Bartlett, Andrew D., 385.
Joel W., 385.
Barton, Dr., 454.
Edward, 351.
Baxter, Enos, 201.
Baxter, Rev. Joseph, 176.
Beal, Isabel, 210.
Martin E., 313, 456.
Bean, Rev. L. H., 204, 210.
Beardsley, Dr. John, 453.
Beath, Elizabeth, 180.
James E., 325, 427.
James T., 205, 207.
Jeremiah, 148, 154, 260.
Joel T., 381.
John, 115, 119, 133, 138, 178,
179, 180, 189, 235, 236, 332,
378, 441.
Joseph, 236, 395, 396.
Lydia P., 205, 456.
Margaret, 180.
Mary, 180, 207.
Thomas P., 428.
Walter, 115.
Beaton, William, 384.
Beecher, Dr: J. A., 454.
Bellowes, Rev. Thomas, 190.
Bennett, Daniel, 203.
Daniel, Jr., 386.
Eben, 388.
Jane L., 203.
John, 260, 451.
William M., 161, .336, 350.
Berry, Andrew, 158.
Bibber and Titcomb, 437.
Bishop, Percy G., 409.
W. P., 375.
Blaine, Hon. James G., 460.
Blair, Benjamin, 142, 205, 438.
Benjamin F., 428.
Frank W., 406.
George K., 406.
John H., 195, 346, 349, 458.
Margaret, 206, 207.
Blake, Arthur, 387.
Clark, 428.
Frank, 401.
Franklin H., 428.
Fred C, 454.
Stephen, 384.
William, 365.
Blanchard, James, 180.
Blatchford, Mrs. Mary E., 394.
Blish, Isaac N., 428.
Blossom, Dr. Alden, 160, 345, 353,
428, 454.
PERSONAL INDEX.
675
Blythe, Capt. Samuel, 253.
Booker, Christopher, 236.
Eliphalet, 237.
Jacob, 237.
John B., 260.
Joseph, 237.
Joseph, Jr., 260.
William, 237.
Boothbay Publishing Co., 457.
Borland, John, 148, 169, 214.
Bowles, David G., 249, 252.
Boyd, Abijah, 428.
Alexander, 260, 428.
Andrew, 260.
Charles H., 428.
Elizabeth, 180.
George, 181, 260.
Margaret, 181.
Mary, 181.
Rev. Alexander, 177.
Rev. James, 196.
Samuel, 418, 456, 458, 461.
Sarah, 181.
Thomas, 13, 148, 181, 214, 218,
319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 327,
340, 379, 418, 427.
Thomas, 2d, 260, 261.
Waldo, 408.
William, 428.
Boynton, Freeman, 325, 327, 35.3,
356, 356.
Bragg, William, 259, 260.
Brewer, Alfred, 312.
Ferdinand, 205.
George, 2d, 161.
Isaac, 312.
James, 260, 441.
ManleyS., 434.
Martin, 161, 428.
Mitchell, 428.
Rufus, 382.
Samuel, 1.58, 441.
William F., 382.
Bridgham, Rev. M. F., 211.
Brown, Charles, 385.
Edmund, 115, 139, 142, 186,
378, 441, 442.
Ephraim, 260.
George W., 428, 434.
John, 61, 66, 164.
John, Jr., 164, 166, 194.
Brown, Rev. P. E., 204, 210.
Rev. W. E., 204.
Samuel, 237, 452.
William, 385.
Bryant, David, 115, 351, 378, 442.
Rev. E., 200.
Bryer, Albert W., 428.
Cushman, 428.
Elihu, 382.
Elihu, Jr., 260.
George R., 428.
John, 260, 386.
Joseph, 260.
Robert, 260.
Samuel, 150, 214, 218, 237, 26^
444.
Samuel, 2d, 260.
Bucknell, George, 15, 77, 351.
Richard, 1», 77.
Buker, Rev. C. A., 196.
W. F., 354, 355.
Bulfinch, Rev. J., 208.
Burgess, Joseph, 457.
Burleigh, Governor, 328.
Burnham, John, 260.
Solomon, 214, 237.
Burns, Hannah, 181.
Levi, 162, 456.
Thomas, 171.
William, 171, 181, 236.
Burr, Miss P. H., S99.
Burrows, Lieut. William, 253.
Burt, Rev. E., 208.
Bush, Dr. Samuel, 453.
Bushee, Simon, 385.
Byram, Rev. James, 204.
Caldwell, Mary, 181.
Cameron, Charles, 353, 414.
Daniel, 311, 363, 365.
Edward, 313.
Henry, 353.
John, 363.
Robert, 366.
Campbell, Esther, 379.
James, 441.
Joseph, 351, 382.
Mary, 207.
Mrs. Rosanna, 380.
Rev. Nathan H., 204.
Capen, Charles, 419.
C. E., 376.
676
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Card, Francis, 88.
Cargill, Col. James, 220, 223, 227.
Carlisle, Amos, 379.
Alva, 428.
Benjamin, 381.
Charles E., 346, 377, 425.
Frank, 428.
Hermon, 335.
Jason, 428.
Joseph, 218, 261.
Josephus, 16.
William, 156, 353, 425.
Carter, Dr. John A., 210, 454, 455.
Mary, 181.
Carey, Samuel F., 434.
Cash, J. P., 356.
Castine, Baron, 94.
Caswell, Rufus, 386.
Chadwick, Paul, 171.
Chambers, John W., 428.
Chaples, John, .363.
Chapin, Rev. Pelatiah, 188.
Chapman, Alonzo, 428.
Rev. Nathaniel, 190.
Wilmot H., 428.
Chase, George, 428.
M. V. B., 412.
Rev. W. F., 211.
Cheney, O. B., 412.
Rev. E., 204, 210.
Chick, Charles B., 418.
Church, C. B., 461.
Clapp, William M., 428.
Clark, Thomas, 181.
William, 381.
& Lake, 88.
Clifford, A. J., 204.
Everett, 337.
Clisby, W. C, 33, 327, 347, 456.
Coan, Rev. L. S., 191, 208.
Coats, John, 166.
Prinsent, 166.
Coburn, L. F., 399.
Colbath, David, 452.
Leighton, 148, 237.
Lemuel, 237.
Colson, Eli, 343.
Cook, L. M., 459.
Rev. Charles L., 190.
Coolen, James, 434.
Nancy, 313.
Corey, Charles A., 428.
John K., 327, 428, 443.
Corlew, Dr. Joseph E., 206, 454.
Cox, B. T., 456.
Creamer, Dr. Edward, 1.50, 341,
351, 444, 453.
Crocker, Dr. Frank H., 328, 391,
455.
Crommett, Jeremiah, 237.
John, 237.
Crooker, Francis, 259.
Dr. L. J., 327, 419.
Grossman, Benjamin H., 428.
Crowell, Dr. Joseph A., 454.
Cumberland Bone Co., 456.
Cumner, Rev. John, 200, 204.
Cunningham, Ruggles, 193.
William, 388.
Curran, Daniel, 429.
Curtis, Dr., 454.
Henry, 1.3, 99, 167, 173.
Cushing, General, 230.
Cushman, Dr. Sidney B., 454.
Rev. David Q., 187, 191, 454.
Damarill, Humphrey, 18, 65.
Danforth, Judge, 320.
Davenport, A. H., 413, 459.
Davidson, Nicholas, 165.
Davis, Henry O. , 434.
Israel, ISO, 235, 236, 237.
Israel, Jr., 237.
Joseph, 380.
Rhoda, 180.
Sarah, 180.
William, 180, 237.
Daws, John, 147, 214, 238, 453.
Day, Frank, 409.
Martha, 181.
Merrill, 384.
Rev. Rufus, 204.
D'AuIney, 72.
Decker, Alberts., 429.
David, 181.
Ebenezer, 367.
E. & W., 313.
E. L., 313, 314. 337.
Frank, 387.
Giles, 429.
John, 238.
Margaret, 181.
Robert, 367.
PERSONAL INDEX.
677
Decker, Thomas, 238.
William, 367, 435.
Deering, Rev. J. K., 208.
Delano, O. M., 33.
Denny, Samuel, 101.
Dewolfe, Laura, 393.
Dingley, Nelson, Jr., 412.
Parke G., 413.
Dixon, Rev. R. S., 200.
Dockendorff, Mary, 206.
Dodge & Giles, 333.
Charles, 420.
Charles F., 344.
George E., 451.
Woodbury, 342.
Dolloff, Benaiah, 158.
Benaiah P., 388, 429.
George W., 339.
Warren L., 429.
Donnell, Samuel, 384, 420.
Dongan, Col. Thomas, 93.
Dow, J. W., 441.
Drowne, Shem, 123, 165.
Dubois, Capt. E. T., 371.
Dudley, W. F., 347.
Dunbar, Bert, 394.
Col. David, 109, 112, 113, 116,
122, 123, 124.
Dunlap, Rev. Robert, 176.
Dunton, George B., 353, 422.
Israel, 194.
James F., 343.
Jane, 194.
Lewis A., 354, 357.
Mabel, 356.
M. Fred, 355.
Quincy A., 393.
Timothy, 193, 194.
William F., 386.
Durant, Ephraim, 380.
John, 445.
William, 380.
Dyer, Alberts., 386.
Alphonzo, 415.
Eggleson, Hezekiah, 181.
Elder, John, 258.
Eldridge, Rev. W. B., 200.
Elliott, Dr. William, 453.
Elwell, David H., 429.
Emerson, Capt. William S., 440.
Col. Edward, 149, 214, 218, 220,
221, 227, 234, 236, 238, 351,
452, 453.
Emerson, Daniel K., 429.
Elder William, 196.
George G., 386.
John B., 207.
Luther, 429.
MissS. J., 456.
Rev. Ezekiel, 176.
Thomas J,, 160,429.
Erwin, Joseph, 143.
Evans, Rev. Lewis D., 208, 391.
Ewing, J. C, 387.
Farmer, Albion, 383.
Andrew, 383.
Charles T., 429.
Samuel, 206.
Thomas B., 383.
William, 206.
William P., 429.
Farnham, Ambrose G., 383.
Daniel L., 429.
Ebenezer, 451.
George, 260.
Hansel, 238.
Harry A., 389.
John, 194, 238.
John, Jr., 260.
Joseph, 260, 3.36.
Lulu, 356.
Simon, 451.
William G., 383.
Fernald, Elmer, 356.
Field, Hattie, 388.
William, 388.
Fifield, Miss O. Z., 348.
Rev. B. S., 196.
Fisher, C. & W., 344, 352, 420.
Charles H., 353,
Dr. Charles, 252, 463.
Rev. Jabez P., 189, 254, 441.
William, 348.
William H., 344, 352.
Flagg, Gershom, 167.
Fletcher, Rev. Elliot B., 196, 200.
Fling, Hannah, 181.
Floyd, John, 261.
Fogg, Rev. Caleb, 196, 200.
Fogler, George P., 385, 429.
Folsom, Dr. David, 454.
Ford, Abner, 115, 238.
678
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Frizzell, William, 393.
Frost, General, 230.
Frye, Col. Joseph, 236.
Fuller, Charles W., 429.
Chase, 343.
Jacob G., 336, 348.
James, .383.
Jason, 310.
John, 202.
Leander, 349.
Fullerton, Ebenezer, 190, 238.
James, 260.
Jennet, 180, 453.
John, 260.
Margaret, 180.
Marianne, 181.
William, 115, 121, 142, 151, 171,
180.
Fultz, Arthur, 457.
Furbush, H. B., 412.
Isaac, 384.
Rev. John, 208.
Gahan, Rev. E. S., 204.
Gallup & Holmes, 372, 373, 457.
B. F., 373.
Fred, 372, 373.
-Morgan Co., 372, 373, 457.
Gamage, E. P., 423.
Gardiner, Silvester, 167, 173.
Solomon, 372.
Gardner, Henry, 215.
W. A., 337.
William, 386.
Garnett, Rev. George, 208.
Gilbert, George, 259.
Giles, Benjamin, 158.
Byron, 325, 327, 355, 356.
Charles, 158.
Charles E., 429.
Edson, 325.
Edward H., 389.
Edwin L., 456.
Frank, 387.
Frederick M., 429.
Harvey H., 429.
Henry K., 429.
John, 193.
John M., 429.
Joseph, 193.
Mrs. Clara, 367.
Paul, 203, 238.
Giles, Percy C, 407.
Royal, 357.
Samuel, 259, 383.
Truman E., 391.
Gillette, Joseph, 260.
Gilman, Charles B., 436.
Gilmore, Elizabeth, 181.
Gilpatrick, John, 429.
Given, Rev. L., 196, 343.
Goodwin, Major, 173.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 55, 73, 75.
Robert, 62.
Goudy, Alden, 348, 352.
Gould, John, 451.
Rev. Jonathan, 188, 191.
Rev. Samuel L., 191.
Sander, 164, 166.
Gove, John, 381.
Grant, Joshua, 88.
Gray, Abial, 416.
Amos, 202, 412.
Charles H., 381.
Charles S. , 337, 416.
George William, 429.
Francis, 261.
Harrison, 215.
Henry, 261.
John, 381, 435.
Joseph, 429.
Livingston, 429.
Rev. J. H., 211.
Samuel N., 435.
William, 366.
Greene, Francis B., 323, 326, 347,
390, 393, 401, 457.
Greenleaf, Austin P., 314, 376.
Capt. Sandford, 388.
Ebenezer, 429.
Fynette, 386.
George W., 356, 461.
Nathaniel, 206.
William, 156, 206, 310, 412, 415.
Gregory, Neva, 356.
Griffin & Bourne, 418.
Grimes & Wright, 348.
John, 160, 162.
Joseph, 251, 260, 348.
Jotham, 379.
Grover, Freeman, 366, 370, 414.
John, 260.
Joseph, 379.
PEKSONAIi INDEX.
679
Grover, Wilbur N., 314, 342.
Hilton, William, 165.
Gutch, Robert, 66.
Hiscock, , 348.
Hagan, Cyrus B., 386,429.
Hodgdon & Clisby, 347.
Dennis M., 353, 354, 429.
& Fisher, 344.
Hahn, Capt. Everett E., 377.
Albion P., 457.
Haley, Eben D., 20, 461.
Alfred, 440.
Rev. J. P., 210, 211.
Allen, 384.
Hall, John, 170.
AlonzoK., .333.
Hallowell, Benjamin, 167.
Alvah L., 387.
Joseph F., 430.
Benjamin, 155, 261.
Ham, J. B., 412.
Caleb, 202, 333, 336, 337, 348,
Hamilton, George, 353.
353, 451.
Hammond, Richard, 87.
Caleb, Jr., 336.
Hancox, H. A., 319.
C. &J. P., 3.36.
Handy, Rev. Frank D., 204.
C. & Sons, 3.36.
Hanscom, Rev. S. L., 211.
C. E. & W. A., 336, 337.
Rev. Warren A., 201, 211.
Capt. John, 363, 364, 367.
Hanson, John, 430.
C. Tyler, 354.
Harding, Nelson, 390.
Capt. Tyler, 363.
Hardinger, Emery, 348.
Charles A., 383.
Harlow, J. W., 420.
Clarence R., 406.
Harmon & Shipman, 418.
Dexter W., 343, 347, 440, 456,
Prof. George M., 418.
461.
Harrenden, Martha, 181.
Eliza, 202.
Nehemiah, 179, 181, 239.
George, 336, 353.
Harriman, Rev. James, 200, 204.
Gilman P., 322, 343, 461.
Harrington, Rev. Jesse, 200, 204.
Granville, 384.
Harris & McClearn, 345.
James D., 385.
Bros., 206.
James F., 332.
Fred H., 195, 348, 349, 352.
John, 336.
James, 441.
John, 2d, 156.
Joseph, 364, 383.
John M., 219, 381.
Martha S., 207.
Joseph, 239.
Millard F., 394.
Lester, 387.
Paul, 209, 345, 364.
Lovell, 380.
William, 335.
Marston, 382.
Hartung, Hermon, 327.
Merrill, 380.
Haskell, Rev. C. L., 204, 210, 211.
Miss Georgia E., 399.
Hatchard, Henry, 203.
Miss Hattie B., 399.
Haynes, Rev. G. G., 196.
Roscoe G., .344, 356, 458.
R. W., 414.
Silas Lee, 451.
Herron, Daniel, 238.
Stephen G., 21, 158, 457.
Patrick, 238.
Thomas, 157, 350, 364.
Hesselton, Edward C, 394.
Timothy, 261.
Higgins, Fred B., 376.
Westbrook, 384.
Rev. P., 204, 210.
W. H., 348.
Hill, Hon. John F., 401, 454.
William, 158, 350.
Hilton, Charles S. F., 425.
ZinaH.,349, 417.
James, 181.
Hodges, Miss Lucy, 348.
John, 385, 4.30.
Hodgkins, Ezekiel W., 353.
Samuel K., 159, 425.
Hogue, Rev. T. R., 201.
680
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Holbrook, Capt. William, 383.
E. & E., 349, 365.
Eliphalet, 349.
Ezekiel, 260, 451.
Holton, Carl R., 410.
Harry H., 409.
Harvey, 380.
Jeremiah, 260.
Jeremiah C, 430.
John, 151, 239.
John E., 405.
Mary, 207.
Walter T., 348.
Willard, 205, 207.
Willard R., 252.
William H., 384.
Hood, Robin, 13, 66, 99, 173.
Horn, John, 261, 380.
Howard, Silas, 456.
Howell, David, 173.
Hoxie, C. W., 420.
Huff, Fred P., 348, 355.
Joseph, 350.
Hulse, Rev. W. C, 196.
Hunter, Henry, 181.
Rev. T. W., 204.
Huskins, George, 435.
Hussey, Norris H., 327, 346, 456.
Hutchings, Asa, 194.
Benjamin, 193.
Isaac, 162.
Jonathan, 260.
Thomas, 382.
Ingraham, Hiram L., 346.
John, 181.
Roscoe G., 348.
Irwine, Joseph, 181.
Jack, G., 394.
Jackson, Dr. Charles T. , 32.
Dr. George F., 454.
Jeffries, George, 313.
Jenkins, Rev. O. F., 204.
Rev. R. W., 191, 208.
Jewell, Rev. William J., 200.
Johnson, Alexander, 414.
Dr. W. R., 454.
Rev. W. I., 204.
Thomas, 130.
Jones, Charles C, 384.
Col. William, 224, 236.
James M., 435.
Jones, Laura E., 386.
Martha E., 386.
Paul, 384
Reuben, 386.
Rev. J. P., 211.
Kehail, Stephen, 386.
Keller, Benjamin, 430.
Kelley, Aaron, 239.
Benjamin, 32, 194, 333.
FredR., 460.
Isaac, 260.
John, 261.
John E., 320, 325, 327, 330, 430,
453.
John K., 380.
Joseph, 239.
William K., 239, 436.
Kelloch, George, 260, 261, 379.
Kendrick, Charles E., 327, 346,
355, .357, 413, 457.
Kennedy, Dr. D. K., 440, 454.
Henry A,. 346, 456.
James, 149, 239.
John, 2d, 382.
Thomas, 214, 351.
William, 239, 430.
Kenney, Abijah, 239, 439.
Benjamin, 193, 239.
James B., 340.
Samuel, 147, 239.
Thomas, 239.
Kenniston, Albert H., 344, 348, 391.
David, 21, 151, 239, 252.
Cobb & Co., 372, 457.
George B., 160, 321, 327, 330,
354, 390, 393, 405, 430, 458,
460.
George B., Jr., 394.
Joseph R., 324, 327, 335, 344.
Miss Mary, 357.
William, 155, 160, 254, 342, 390,
423, 426.
William B., 405.
Kent, Benjamin, 239.
John, 239.
Kimball, Albert, 349.
Charles, 387.
Henry, 251.
Phineas, 380.
Kincaid, Mary, 181.
Patrick, 181.
PERSONAL INDEX.
Kinchelow, Julius, 386.
King, Gen. William, 257.
Rev. M. E., 200.
Knight, Alfred, 380.
Charles, 207.
Chester C, 420.
Daniel, 157, 223, 240.
Frank, 389.
James A., 385, 436.
John, 260, 379, 380.
John A., 344.
John Edward, 327, 352.
John S., 444.
Mary, 189.
Michael, 451.
Nathaniel, 383.
Nicholas T., 155, 248, 249, 250,
261, 380, 453.
Patishell, 239.
Richard M., .394.
Samuel, 260.
William, 379.
Knowlton, Rev. C. E., 204, 210.
Knox, David, 387.
William, 387.
Lake, John H., 348, 430.
Lamb, Rev. J. C, 201.
Lamson, James, 240.
Samuel, 240.
William, 240.
Lang, John, 430.
Langdon, Capt. Timothy, 235.
Joseph, 147.
La Tour, 70.
Lawson, Dr. R. W., 343, 454.
Lawton, William, 388.
Leavitt, Rev. William, 208.
Leishman, John, 156, 181, 186, 189,
260, 398.
Leman, Elder John, 196.
Lermond, Miss Nancy, 348.
Rev. W., 200.
Levett, Capt. Christopher, 16, 62, 64.
Lewis, Addison W., 430, 447.
Allen, 22, 159, 206, 335, 345,
363, 364, 420, 425, 457, 458.
Almond, 388.
& Baker, 347.
& Fossett, 341.
Austin, 430.
Benjamin, 194, 335, .344.
Lewis, Benton, 385.
Capt. Alonzo, 389.
Capt. EbenT., 251.
Elton H., 417.
Ephraim, 194.
George, 240.
George B., 430.
Henry, 389.
Herbert D., 394.
Isaac, 193.
Isabella, 194.
Isaiah, 323, 327, 335, 458.
Job, 102.
John, 193, 194, 261.
John E. , 383.
John, 2d, 260.
John W., 389.
Joseph, 158, 194, 218, 452.
Lemuel, 193, 194.
Marshall, 383.
Martin v., 382.
Mary, 194.
Merrill, 461.
Roswell C, 430.
Samuel, 158.
Sarah, 194.
Silas S., 338.
Stephen, 194.
Stephen, Jr., 194.
Thomas, 430.
Warren, 430.
Westbrook G., 209, 327, 34
353, 354, 426, 456.
Willard, 367.
William, 193, 194, 240, 384.
William F., 383.
Woodbury D., 393.
Libby, Elder A., 196.
Hon. Charles F., 328.
Linekin, Alexander, 384.
Ephraim S., 349, 419, 451.
James, 202, 451.
James O., 383.
John, 240.
Linscott, Laura, 387.
Liscomb, Capt. John, 437.
Lithgow, Gen. William, 186.
Littlefield, F. C. & Co., 375, 461.
Hon. Charles E., 376.
Long, William J., 401.
Loomis, Samuel, 194, 379.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAr.
Loring, Capt. John, 388.
Joshua, 250.
Loudon, Rev. Josiah, 201.
Love, Elbridge, 158, 251, 353.
George, 312.
James, 383.
John, 155, 206, 441.
Susan, 206.
Lovell, General, 230, 231.
Low, Capt. Gilman A., 420.
Lowell, Rev. C. W., 201.
Luce, Charles, 345.
Rev. A. E., 211.
Ludgate, John, 167.
Lundy, Ebenezer, 384.
Lyon, John, 383.
William J., 386.
McAllister, Col. Archibald, 236.
McClanethan, Rev. William, 176.
McClellan, Randall, 389.
William H., 421.
McClintock, Albert B., 385, 430.
Benjamin, 385.
Edgar C, 353.
Jason, 385, 430.
J. Howard, 345.
John, 33, 153, 158, 159, 250, 345,
346, 363, 364, 426, 440.
Leonard S., .335.
Samuel, 205, 240.
W. P., 353, 458.
William, 214.
McCobb, Andrew, 260.
Armitage G., 430.
& Auld, 340, 341.
Arthur, 343.
Arthur L. , 409.
Charles S., 385, 404, 430.
Ephraim, 358, 359.
Gen. Samuel, 101, 236.
George, 382.
James, 101, 115, 227, 229.
Jane, 206.
John, 181, 189, 214, 338, 339,
340, 379, 381.
Joseph, 259, 350, 322, 380, 440.
Leonard, 205, 343, 425.
Mary, 180, 189.
Paul, 206.
Rachel, 180, 189.
Samuel, 23, 114, 115, 117, 126,
133, 180, 218, 227, 240, 361.
McCobb, Willard H., 338.
William, 145, 150, 157, 168, 169,
172, 173, 180, 186, 188, 189,
194, 205, 214, 227, 229, 235,
240, 248, 260, 396, 440.
William F., 382.
William O., 259, 344.
William P., 342, 388.
McCormick, Donald E., 408.
Islay P., 408.
Rev. Donald, 208.
McCulloch, Jane, 180.
Mary, 180.
William, 115, 180.
McCurdy, Daniel, 115.
Mary, 181.
McDougall & Race, 365.
& Seavey, 336.
A. O., 348, 349.
Frank H., 355.
Hiram W., 344, 355, 356.
Lyman M., 349, 355, 356.
James, 3.36, 419.
John, 334, 336.
John R., 320, 325, 327, 349, 353,
355, 420.
J. R. Co., 349.
Samuel, 386.
S. & Son, 348.
Simon, 203, 349.
Walter, 419.
McPadden, Margaret, 181.
Orin, 160.
McFarland, Andrew, 173, 179, 180,
206, 214, 218, 231, 235, 236,
240, 261, 338, 340, 351, 440.
Andrew, Jr., 340.
Benjamin, 241, 339.
Elizabeth, 180.
Ephraim, 173, 180, 260, 338, 351.
James, 115, 442.
John, 115, 378.
John M., 23, 172, 249, 252, 260,
261, 340, 341, 363, 367, 430,
439.
Margaret, 180, 206.
Nathaniel C, 206, 430.
Thomas, 241.
William M., 206.
McGraw, Rev. W. A., 204.
PERSONAL INDEX.
683
McGregor, Rev. James, 176.
McGuire, Margaret, 181.
Patrick, 115.
McGunigle, Peter, 203.
Mclntire & Miller, 344.
Eunice L., 388.
McKechnie, Dr., 173.
, 115.
McKown & Reed, 842.
Clarence E., 342.
Coal Co., .337.
Cyrus, 310, 335, 342, 343, 344,
430, 456, 458.
Freeman H., 445.
John, 379, 380, 442.
John P., 408.
Joseph, 21, 368, 369.
Major John, 154, 155, 157, 310,
341, 342, 366.
Manson D., 335, 336, 456.
Mary, 180.
Patrick, 181, 214, 218, 380.
Wendell P., 407.
Willard, 389.
William, 23.
McLane, Gen., 227, 230, 281, 232.
McMullin, Annie, 181.
McPhea, Neal, 388.
Macaulay Bros., 349.
Maddocks, Benjamin, 368.
J. &J., 313, 336, 342, 367.
John, 342.
John A., 366, 407, 469.
Joseph, 324, 342.
Luther, 160, 323, 326, 371, 372,
373, 375, 441, 456, 458, 461.
Packing Co., 375.
Palgrave, 40, 261, 333, 342.
Robert, 385.
Royden, 407.
Ruth, 181.
Sewall T., 324, 330, 459.
William T., 312, 313, 342.
Mahoney & Otis, 343.
William, 343.
Malcomb, James, 170.
Maloney, Edward, 388.
Mann, Dr., 453.
Manning, John, 102.
Marr, Charles J., 324, 344, 356, 459.
Hiram, 386, 436.
Marr, Jeruel, 485.
M. L., 399.
Thomas, 414.
T. & N., 313, 342, 415.
Willard T., 354, 366, 367, 458.
Marshall, John T., 435.
Mrs. Hannah, 180.
Marson, Arber, 208.
Henry, 383.
Mrs. Maria, 463.
William, 431.
Woodbury, 367.
Martin, John, 386.
Mason, John, 69.
Matthews, Albert, 389.
Albert R., 129.
Arabella, 384.
Byron C, 468.
Edward, 383.
George P., 431.
John, 129, 194, 214, 431, 453.
Joseph, 193.
Justin, 389.
Paul H., 431.
Rev. John H., 208.
Stillman, 384.
William, 260.
Mayhew, Jonathan, 215.
Mayo, Rev. I. V., 196.
Merrill, Dr. Thomas W., 440, 454.
George W., 261, 344, 430, 466,
458.
Rev. David, 204.
Rev. Henry A., 190.
Merry, Charles F., 431.
David, 458.
Elizabeth, 181.
Newell, K., 324, 330, 354, 431.
Meserve, A. S., 325.
Mildon, W. S., 347.
Miller & Smithwick, 346.
Mrs., 348.
Moody, Daniel H., 319, 321, 322,
327, 345, 346.
Edwin G., 389.
Moore, Alden B., 435.
Jane, 180.
Joseph, 260.
Thomas, 339.
William, 24, 115, 116, 121, 179,
684
HISTORY OF BOOTHS AT.
Montgoinety & Campbell, 114.
James, 260, 379, 451, 457.
Jane, 181.
John, 160, 214, 218, 241, 431, 453.
Leonard, 865, 425.
Lizzie, 356.
Nathaniel, 202, 251, 260.
Robert, 115, 159, 195, 203, 260,
349, 353, 365, 386, 425, 4.58.
Robert, Jr., 379.
Samuel, 149, 186, 189, 241, 352.
Stanford J., 388.
Thaddeus L., 340, 354, 355.
Victor K., 354.
Willard, 381.
William, 260, 343, 431, 440.
Morehead, Rev. John, 179, 185.
Morrill, Rev. David, 204.
Morrison, L. L., 414.
John M., 260.
Jonathan, 158.
Morse, Newbury, 440.
Morton, Perez, 172.
Mosher, John F., 340.
Mowatt, Captain, 223, 227.
Mullins, Bob, 437.
Murray, Albert, 387.
Allen W., 355,4.51.
Anne, 180.
Charles, 336.
Idella, 356.
Isaac L., 431.
James, 260, 333, 352, 451.
Jean, 178.
John, 180, 188, 351.
Lena, 356.
Rev. John, 26, 141, 148, 178,
180, 196, 214, 224, 225, 231,
233, 235, 241, 442.
Robert, 179, 180.
Samuel, 159, 260, 333, 336, 352,
418, 451.
Mussenden, Abraham, 382.
Myrick, Dr. Josiah, 172.
Nahanada, 50, .52, 55, 56.
Nason, Freedom, 431.
Nathan H., 380.
Nelson, Chesley W., 409.
Edward, 435.
Eli, 342, 363.
Jerry, 15, 312.
Nelson, Plummer, 435.
Thomas L., 379.
Newbegin, David, 158, 206, 346,
.367, 439.
Mary, 206.
Newbert, "Rev. M. W., 200.
Nickels, Alexander, 130.
Nickerson, Alonzo R., 319, 320, 321,
322, 323, 327, 330, 341, 373,
376, 456.
Arthur E., 373.
Carlton B., 409.
J. & Co., 341.
Joseph, 323, 348, 458.
Joshua G., 371, 373.
S. & Sons, 373.
Stephen E., 373.
William, 393.
Noble, James, 166, 168, 170, 173.
William, 166.
Norris, Rev. Nathaniel, 200.
Norwood, Capt. John, .343, 351, 441.
Nute, Doctor, 454.
O'Brien, John, 457.
Odium, Benjamin, 389.
Truman H., 394.
Oliver, Capt. O. C, 423.
Orchard, Romanzo, 386.
Ome, Benjamin, 435.
Charles S., 341, 431.
Elbridge, 435.
Freeman, 342.
Jacob, 440.
James, 312, 366.
James E., 435.
Mary, 199.
Ozias, 199.
Sidney B., 409.
Silas, 210.
Sumner, 314.
Thaddeus, 355.
Thomas, 198, 341, 344, 453.
William, 312.
Osborne, Robert, 384.
Osgood, Rev. F. H., 211.
Otis, James, 215.
Owen, Rev. E., 196.
Page, Elder E. C, 196.
George N,, 414.
Palmer & West, 93, 100, 103.
Rev. F. A., 196.
PERSONAL INDEX.
685
Palmer, Nathaniel, 241.
Parker, John, 66.
Parshley, John, 440.
Parsons, Henr>', 203.
Mrs. Henry, 203.
Patterson, John J., 343, 431.
Patton, Rev. Myron O., 208.
Payson, Rev. J. D., 201, 342, 415.
Peck & Glover, 371.
Peckham, Rev. F. H., 196.
Penney, Eleazer, 393.
Perkins, Andrew E., 420.
Jacob, 260.
John P., 431.
Joseph, 452.
Merrill A., 354.
Perrin, Rev. John, 200.
Pettengill, Rev. Arthur G. , 208.
Phillips & Co., 372.
Walter, 66, 77, 165, 166.
Pickert Fish Co., 375.
Pierce, Ammi, 157.
Charies, 312.
Charles B., 435.
Edward, 435.
Elizabeth, 180.
George, 389.
George W., 365.
Henry, 260.
Jesse, 435.
Jonathan, 261, 335, 341, 363,
365, 415, 435.
J. W., 201.
Loring, 313.
Miles, 160.
Moses E., 159, 353, 386, 441,
458, 459.
Newbert, 375.
PalG., 375.
Richard, 164.
Samuel, ISO, 342, 366.
True P., 325, 327.
Wilkinson, 312.
William, 365.
Pike, Rev. E. B., 208.
Pillsbury, Evans S., 401.
Pingree, Rev. G., 200.
Pinkham, Arthur L., 410.
Benjamin, 261.
Benjamin E., 337, 431.
Calvin, Jr., 193.
Pinkham, Edward H., 382.
Everett E., 342.
Francis C, 431.
Franklin L., 385.
Horace W., 162, 431.
Ichabod, 147, 155, 186, 214, 215,
235, 236, 241, 334, 351.
Isaac, 160, 261, 333, 342, 353.
James, 241.
Jason, 161.
John, 260.
Joseph, 193.
Mary J., 204.
Nathaniel, 157, 206, 241, 260,
261, 333.
Nathaniel, Jr., 260, 261.
Osborne, 431.
Osgood, 431.
Ozro, 343.
Samuel, 193, 241.
Sandford L., 431.
Solomon, 193.
Solomon, Jr., 193.
Stephen, 431.
Stephen H., 409.
Wesley, 330.
Piper, Amasa, 248, 249, 340.
Artemas, 340.
Pitts, James, 167.
Plumer, Rev. C. A., 200.
Poole, Eben A., 347, 375.
James C, 327, 347, 374, 375, 456.
Poor, John, 451.
Potter, Rev. A. W., 211.
Powers, Asbury M., 461.
M. J., 375.
Preble, David, 311.
Ebenezer, 416.
Frederick, 431.
George, 431.
Granville A., 431.
G. S., 412.
James, 202.
Jonathan, 380.
Joseph, 384.
William, .381.
Price, Dr. Charles W., 355, 464.
Rev. J. W., 201.
Prince, Capt. George, 49.
Rev. JohnC, 204.
Proctor, Dr., 454.
HISTOKT OF BOOTHBAY.
Quimby, Jeremiah, 386.
Llewellyn, 390.
Race, Capt. Alfred, 422.
D. & E. A., 337.
Edward E., 320, 326, 327, 330,
848.
George, 241, 260.
James L., 353.
John, 202, 203, 461.
Mrs. John, 203.
Rackliff, Benjamin, 451.
John, 149, 385.
Samuel, 151.
Rand, Mark, 435.
Randall, Elder Benjamin, 192.
Rawlins, Lydia, 181.
Nathaniel, 181.
Read, Lieut. C. W., 435.
Reed, Abigail P., 202.
Albert N., 338, 340.
Amos, 382.
& Adams, 337.
Andrew, 142, 150, 178, 179, 180,
185, 214, 223, 235, 332, 338,
339, 851, 362.
Andrew, Jr., 242.
Andrew, 2d, 242.
Austin, 431.
Benjamin, 203, 336, 342, 348,
425, 451, 457.
Benjamin P., 380.
Benjamin S., 431.
Bradford D., 432.
Capt. Freeman K., 393.
Capt. Matthew, 440.
Capt. Joseph, 234, 236, 242, 332.
Capt. Paul, 148, 179, 214, 226,
233, 235, 242, 351.
Chapman N., 160, 432.
Charles P., 393.
Charles VV., 387.
David, 151, 181, 214, 235, 236,
242, 325, 332, 334, 338, 839,
395.
Ellen, 348.
Frederick, 342, 343.
Gardner D., 351, 355.
George, 206, 256.
George B., 219, 364
George W., 363.
Henry, 440.
Reed, Isaac W., 344, 348, 418, 426,
432.
Isabella M., 348.
Isaiah, 380.
Jackson, 383.
Jacob, 380.
James A., 343, 420.
James VV., 454.
Jane, 180, 181.
John, 16, 169, 180, 242.
John, Jr., 242.
John, 2d, 159, 343.
Jonathan, 380.
Levi, 202, 365.
Margery, 180.
Marshall S., 382.
Martha, 180, 206.
Mar>', 180.
Melville, 389.
Mrs. E. Ella, 419.
Nathaniel C, 32.
Paul, 380.
Paul M., 259.
Robert, 24.3, 261, 414.
Samuel M., 385.
Sarah, 181, 452.
Sarah M., 206.
Thomas M., 381.
Warren, 335, 364.
William, 147, 149, 181, 214, 243,
349, 356, 379, 432, 452.
William E., 159, 327, 354.
William H., 25, 341, 417.
William Maxwell, 206, 207, 248,
249, 256, 259, 261, 340, 344,
351, 440.
Rice Bros. Co. , 337.
Elizabeth, 337.
Emerson, 405.
Frank L., 337.
George, 337.
Henry W., 337.
Otis P., 353.
William E., 337.
Rich, Isaac, 210.
Richards, James D., 347, 353.
Keyes H., 161, 319, 324, 327,
335, 347, 354, 413, 457, 468,
459.
K. H. & Co., 347.
Riggs, Moses, 198, 414.
PERSONAL INDEX.
687
Roberts, Rev. J. P., 200.
Thomas, 383.
Robinson, Elder Nathan J., 196.
Frank, 394.
Michael, 260.
Richard, 394.
WilHam, 260.
Rogers, Patrick, 114.
Rev. , 200.
Rolhns, Benjamin, 452.
Rollings, Benjamin, 243.
James, 243.
Nathaniel, 243.
Samuel, 243.
Stephen, 243.
Rose, Daniel, 384.
Dr. Daniel, 33, 152, 153, 154,
179, 189, 250, 252, 259, 261,
340, 453.
Rowe, Capt. Moses, 375, 386.
Seth E., 355.
William H., 349, 451.
Rowell, Rev. P., 200.
Rush, Charies, 162.
George W., 313.
Simeon, 181.
Russell, Rev. A. E., 204.
Rev. C. F., 196.
Richard, 165.
Rutherford, Rev. Robert, 176.
Sally, Thomas, 243.
Saltonstall, Commodore, 230, 232.
Sanders, Edward F., 394.
Sargent, Alvin, 383.
Caroline F., 206.
Charies F., 206, .336.
Edward, 432.
Edward B., 440.
Edwin L., 432.
Eliza, 207.
Isaac T., 387.
JohnF., 353.
Oscar W., 432.
Rufus, 382.
Sarah, 206.
Stephen, 206, 335, 444.
Thomas, 260.
Weld F., 432, 386.
Savors, Peter, 260.
Sawyer, Aaron, 243.
Benjamin, 214.
46
Sawyer, Daniel W., 204, 205, 328,
353, 440, 456, 459.
Ebenezer, 243.
Franklin, 432.
Jacob, 243.
John M., 386.
Jonathan, 152, 218.
Rev. John, 188, 189.
Samuel J., 383.
William M., 340, 439, 461.
Scott, Frank, 387.
Robert, 166.
Seavey, Catherine D., 202.
Charles A., 432.
Charles F., 349, 432.
Frank, 354, 356.
Granville J., 162, 203.
James, 203.
James A., 432.
James O., 432, 451.
John N., 159.
Josie, 356.
Mrs. Granville J., 419.
Orin, 432.
William, 202, 336, 451.
W. O., 355.
Serote, John, 244.
Sessions, Rev. Joseph W., 190.
Shaw, Samuel, 432.
Sherbrook, Sir John, 257.
Sherman, Aaron, 193.
A. D., 432.
Eleazer, 198, 202, 260.
Eleazer, Jr., 193, 451.
Elisha, 193, 259.
George K., 432.
Isaac C, 138, 161, 346, 355, 440.
Isaac G., 432.
Nathaniel C, 432.
Robert, 260.
Roger, 193.
Shipman, Prof. W. R., 418.
Shurte, Abraham, 74, 87.
Sidney, John, 414.
Simpson & Perkins. 341, 347.
Edgar L., 402.
Singer, Faithful, 141, 395.
Sinnett, Michael, 128.
Skidwares, 40.
Smalley, Capt, 451.
Smith, A. J., 208.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Smith, Capt. John, 18, 36, 54, 56, 58.
George N., 387.
Jeremiah, 173.
Jonathan, Jr., 172.
Marshal, 155, 157, 202, 210, 341,
344, 364, 440.
Parker, 393.
Rev. Daniel, 200.
Rev. Joseph, 208.
Samuel, 88, 194, 261, 379.
Seba, 341, 439.
Silas, 210, 353, 431.
Stevens, 344, 364.
William M., 432.
Smithwick, Charles C, 852.
Snow, George H., 353, 354.
Snowman, Capt. Robert, 485.
Somerset, Capt. John, 164.
Soule, Rev. Joshua, 201.
Southard, John, 194.
Sarah, 193, 194.
Spinney, John G., 195, 343, 432.
Johns., 186.
Robert, 157, 342.
Spofford, Amherst, 313, 435.
Joseph, 435.
Sidney, 432.
Sprague, Rev. B. F., 200.
Spring, Dr. Samuel, 183.
Springer, Abraham, 259.
Sproul, Mrs. Mary, 332, 418.
Stetson, Mary, 181.
Stevens, Elder J., 196.
Harry G., 355.
N. H., 412.
Stewart, Gardner, 482.
Stilson, William, 165.
Stockbridge, Dr. John, 453.
Stover, Dependence, 244.
Lois, 194.
Joseph, 103.
Martin, 888.
Timothy, 193.
Strout, Daniel B., 416.
Rev. S. F., 200, 204, 205, 209,
210.
Sturt, Wilham, 98.
Suffolk Oil Co., 456.
Swett, Harvey, 417.
John, 21, 33, 365.
Warren, 380.
401.
415.
Symonds & Libby, 328.
J. W., 320.
Taggart, Joseph, Jr., 347.
Tappan, Rev. Christopher, 165.
Taylor, John, 166.
William, 167.
Tennent, Rev. Gilbert, 179.
Thomas, Benjamin, 180.
Thompson, Charles C, 313, 423.
Cyrus A., 314.
Dr. William S.,
Freeman G., 3£
General, 230.
Joel, 260.
Joseph, 245.
M. H. & H. L.
Mrs. Rhoda, 415.
Nathaniel, 170.
Rev. D. P., 199, 200, 204, 210,
211.
Samuel, 218, 244, 251, 261.
Samuel M., 382.
Thorpe, Eliphalet, 344.
John, 404.
Willard, 155, 157.
Tibbetts, Artemas, 381.
Bros., 348.
Capt. Gardner G., 393.
Daniel, 883.
Eliphalet, 337.
Emerson P., 389.
Giles, 193, 194, 244.
Ichabold, 193, 244, 381.
James, 129, 193, 244.
John, 244, 382, 386, 441, 451.
Joseph M., 389.
Martha, 194.
Nathaniel, 193, 214, 244, 261.
Nathaniel, Jr., 245.
Payson, 162.
Thomas Z., 386, 432.
Samuel, 194, 384.
Sarah, 181.
William, 451.
William B., 385, 432.
Timmons, Grossman, 385.
Tobey, Rev. William P., 191.
Toothacher, Rev. Horace, 191.
Toward, A. B., 345.
Towle, Franklin, 386.
Townshend, Lord Charles, 28.
PEB80NAL INDEX.
689
Trask, William, 260.
True, Rev. D. M., 204, 210.
Tucker, Commodore, 170, 256.
Tully, John, 258.
Thomas, 115, 181.
Tupper, Cyrus R., 355, 469, 461.
Mrs. Nellie, 357.
Rev. Charles, 204.
Turner, Roland L., 409.
Twombly, Paul, 144, 245.
Unnongoit, 164.
Upham, Fred E., 393.
Vanhorn, Abial, 386.
Albert, 380.
George E., 353, 356.
Nelson, 386.
Roland, 386.
Vaughn, Eliot G., 170.
William, 114, 166.
Vickery, Hon. P. O., 419, 454.
Wadsworth, Alfred, 29, 259.
Waitt, William G., 401.
Wakefield, John, 347.
Waldo, Gen. Samuel, 123.
Waldron, Major, 86, 89, 95.
Wall, Andrew, 29, 245, 260.
Walton, S. J., 414.
Wannerton, Capt. Thomas, 360.
Ward, Rev. Ariel, 200, 202, 204, 348.
Wardwell, Rev. Virgil D., 204.
Washburn, Rev. W. H., 201.
Waterman, Elder Dexter, 196.
Webb, Rev. Nathan, 200, 204.
Webber, Charles, 432.
Dr. J. H., 439.
George, 312.
John, 193, 261.
Michael C, 384.
Richard M., 432.
Webster, Leonard, 433.
Lorenzo, 433.
Stephen, 384.
Weeks, Edward, 343.
Welch, Addie, 387.
John H., 433.
Robert, 433.
Stephen E., 343.
Weld, Charles, 383.
Wells, Dr. Ebenezer, 454.
W. A. & Co., 371.
Welsh, John H., 162.
Welsh, J. H. & Sons, 343.
Wentworth, Rev. B.C., 204, 205,210.
Rev. Daniel, 200.
West, Rev. J. D., 196.
Westman, Andrew, 485.
Hattie, 387.
Robert, 313.
Weston, Charles S., 433.
Edward P., 404.
Frank L., 20.
Rev. Isaac, 186, 189.
Weymouth, Capt. George, 48, 51.
Elizabeth F., 206, 207, 352.
James R., 383.
John W., 205, 207, 335, 341, 344,
352, 440.
Mary L., 352.
William, 385.
Wheeler, Albert, 433.
A. R., 433.
Benjamin, 269.
Frank, 394.
Jerome, 433.
John, 180, 223, 245.
Joseph, 260.
Sewall, 380.
William, 245.
Whitcher, Rev. H., 196.
White, Charles A., 414.
Moses R., 323, 327 467, 458.
Paul, 165.
Whitefield, George, 177.
Whitehouse, Edward, 354, 356.
Whittemore, Samuel, 131.
Whittier, James, 387.
Widger, James, 85.
Willey, JohnC, 433.
William, 245.
Williams, Job, 245.
John, 245.
Mary, 356.
Rev. H. L., 211.
Williamson, Rev. John, 200.
Wilson, Courtland, 416.
Edmund, 155, 248, 260, 262, 440.
John H., 435.
Mary Y.. 206.
Parker, 158, 208, 345, 440.
William, 353.
Winchenbaugh, E. D., 346, 353, 389.
Winslow, Alden, 423.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Winslow, Mary, 181.
Rev. G. G., 200.
William J., 346, 355.
Witham, George L., 312, 435.
Wood, Rev. William,
Woodward, John L., 394.
Samuel, 333.
William H., 173.
Wriford John, 351.
Wright, Henry, 348.
Wylie, Abial, 389.
Alexander, 246, 433.
Alice, 181.
Alonzo P., 345, 355, 356.
Catherine, 340.
Charles, 433.
David, 380.
David. 3d, 385.
Wylie, Dennis S., 339, 354.
James A., 433.
John, 246, 260, 386.
Levi, 386, 433.
Martha, 180, 351.
Neal, 251.
Parker, 388.
Robert, 246, 351, 439.
Robert, 3d, 260.
Samuel, 246, 379.
Samuel D. , 390.
Samuel, 2d, 433.
Sewall S., 353, 364, 426, 427,
440.
Wyman, Samuel D., 390.
Yates, Oscar S., 357, 416, 459.
Young, John, 246.
Sherburne, 347.
/
690
Winslow, Mary, 181.
Rev. G. G., 200.
William J., 346, 355.
Witham, George L., 312, 43!
Wood, Rev. William,
Woodward, John L., 394.
Samuel, 333.
William H., 173.
Wriford John, 351.
Wright, Henry, 348.
Wylie, Abial, 389.
Alexander, 246, 433.
Alice, 181.
Alonzo P., 345, 355, 356,
Catherine, 340.
Charles, 433.
David, 380.
David, 3d, 385.
HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
Wylie, Dennis S., 339, 354.
James A., 433.
John, 246, 260, 386.
Levi, 386, 433.
Martha, 180, 351.
Neal, 251.
Parker, 383.
Robert, 246, .851, 439.
Robert, 3d, 260.
Samuel, 246, 379.
Samuel D., 390.
Samuel, 2d, 433.
Sewall S., 353, 364, 426, 427,
440.
Wyman, Samuel D., 390.
Yates, Oscar S., 357, 416, 459.
Young, John, 246.
Sherburne, 347.
BATM
-f^ ' A' n
E>ooTH BAY Division
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
I.
1. Origin of the Town Name — .The consideration of this has been
purposely omitted with the hope that before the volume was completed
some information might be obtained that would satisfactorily dispose of the
uncertainty surrounding it. It has been said and repeated many times that
Boothbay took its name from "Old Boothbay" in England. This was
undoubtedly guesswork, suggested by the fact that many early towns took
secondhand names. It has been many times copied, for copying is easier
than investigating. I have e.xamined all the modern gazetteers and several
that were a century or more in age. Two well-known librarians, who pos-
sess capacity for such work, have rendered assistance. We are all of the
opinion that there is not now, and never has been, a place in England or
elsewhere by the name of Boothbay or Old Boothbay, other than that name
applied to this locality. The name is undoubtedly original, and facts to sup-
port this assumption are consistent.
On January 31, 1764, our petition to the General Court bears date, ask-
ing that a place called Townsend be incorporated as a town. This was read
in the House October 31, 1T64, and on November 3d, following, the town of
Boothbay was incorporated. A town already existed in Massachusetts by
the name of Townsend, which forced our petitioners, or their representatives
before the Court, to select a new name. The four days between reading and
incorporation afforded no time to consult the inhabitants.
In the early part of the last century were old residents who stated that
an agent was sent to Boston to look after the petition, and that when he
appeared before the legislative committee he was confronted with the fact
that Townsend could not be given as a name. Immediate action must be
taken. A member of the committee asked the agent if there was any pecul-
iarity in geographical formation about the place. The agent replied: "We
have a harbor as snug as a booth." "Have you a bay?" was the next
query. "Yes, a fine bay." "Well, then," said the committeeman, "why
not name it Boothbay ? "
The Rev. A. G. Vermilye, Newburyport, Mass., in writing of our locality
in 1859, and in relation to his work carried on a correspondence with several
of our oldest and most representative citizens, gives the substance of this
matter in the Maine Hist. Coll., Vol. VI, p. 156. The late R. K. Sewall
stated that he heard this version of the origin of our name at an early age
from old inhabitants. The late Dr. Alden Blossom, who commenced prac-
tice here in 1843, told the author that he had heard it many times in the early
years of his practice from the oldest persons in the community. From all
the investigations I have made I believe Boothbay to have been an original
name and likely to have been attached as an expedient in some such way as
these traditions tell us.
692 HISTORY OF BOOTHBAT.
2. The Townsend Real Estate Co.— This company was organized
August 9, 1905, with a capital of J20,000. It is composed of O. S. Yates,
Pres., S. T. Haddocks, Treas. and Manager, K. H. Richards, W. M. Simp-
son, C. J. Marr, F. H. Harris, C. R. Tupper. Their first purchase was the
buildings and lot which included the stores of J. L. McCobb and the late
Leonard McCobb, corner of Oak St. and Townsend Ave. The ne.xt pur-
chase was the lot on Oak St. opposite the Weymouth House. In the fall of
1905 the buildings on the former lot were removed and put in position on
the latter one in the form of two stores and a tenement. A large amount of
ledge was removed on the corner lot preparatory to building on it, and dur-
ing the fall of 1905 a three-story wooden structure was erected on Oak St.,
with fifty foot frontage and thirty-nine depth. It was divided into two stores
and two tenements and during the winter was occupied; the easterly store
by J. L. McCobb, the other by Mrs. E. Marcus. During the fall season a
brick block of four stories with a fifty-one foot frontage on the Avenue and
forty feet on Oak St. was commenced and completed in 1906. The street
floor was occupied on September 20th by the two banks, the First National
locating in the corner rooms and the Savings Bank in those on the northerly
side. The second and third floors are devoted to offices, and they, having
been engaged some months previous to completion, were fitted specially for
their occupants. Luther Maddocks took quarters in the room over the First
National Bank and Cyrus R. Tupper the office on that floor looking upon
Oak St. The third floor is divided by the corridor into two office suites, the
one occupied by E. C. Blake, M. D., and the other by O. E. Haney, M. D.
The fourth floor is at present leased by K. H. Richards and being used as a
hall. The first and second floors have plate glass. The banking and office
rooms together with the corridors are finished in hard wood, cherry being
used in the First National rooms and oak in the Savings Bank. The corri-
dors are laid in mosaic with marble bases, bearing at the entrance to each
bank its name inlaid. The vault is in the rear of the National rooms, being
nine by eleven feet and eight and one-half feet in height. It has fifty deposit
boxes. It is on the plan of Mosler's safe construction, with time lock on the
outer door. The iron and steel work aggregates seventeen tons. All doors
are glazed with Ondoyant ripple glass. A steam heating system reaches all
parts of the block, while the plumbing system is thorough and complete
throughout. The lighting is from combination fixtures attached to both gas
and electric public plants. The organization of the Townsend Real Estate
Co. originated with S. T. Maddocks, who is its manager. A part of the real
estate he purchased with the present end in view several months prior to
organization.
3. The Oak Grove House.— In the early part of 1906 a double annex
was made to this summer hostelry, the larger of which was four stories,
thirty-three by fifty feet, affording thirty-four guests' rooms besides extensive
additions to the parlors and other public rooms.
4. The Lawnmere. — This well-known summer hotel underwent very
general changes and enlargements in the early part of 1906 by its proprietors,
M. H. & H. L. Thompson. A double annex was made; the one to the north
being twenty-six feet, affording fourteen guests' room, and one on the south
of eighteen feet, giving increased dining capacity.
5. Shore Lodge.— This is a new summer hotel on Decker's Cove,
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 693
Southport, completed ready for occupancy for the season of 1906. It stands
on the site of the old homestead of William Decker, and the house he built
in 1858 served as a nucleus for this one. It is surrounded by broad verandas,
has thirty guests' rooms, with commodious and convenient public ones.
Capt. John A. Thompson did the rebuilding and conducts the house, he
having purchased the property in 1889.
6. Family of Jeremiah Beath. — This family, for one so broadly
connected in our town, appears in a very unsatisfactory manner on p. 498.
When that sketch was prepared no further facts were at hand. Through
Mrs. G. W. Stone, Berkeley, Cal., I have obtained the Worcester, Mass.,
records which cover his marriage and first five children. This enables me
now to give them all in their proper order, with dates of birth. Nearly all
of the Beath descent in town to-day, as well as the Fullerton, comes from
this family, while daughters married the founders of both the Holton and
Kenniston families. The family probably came to Boothbay soon after the
birth of the daughter Eunice, who is the last recorded in Worcester. The
record follows:
"Jeremiah Beath, of Sutton, Mass., married Elizabeth Cowden, Septem-
ber 10, 1747, in Holden. Their children born in Worcester were:
Mary, born Dec. 30, 1753.
Priscilla, born Feb. 29, 1756.
Molly, born April 2, 1758.
Experience, bom July 27, 1760.
Eunice, born Mar. 20, 1763."
The other children, born in Boothbay, were:
Margaret, birth unknown.
Sarah, born June 20, 1767.
Jeremiah, Jr., born Jan. 1, 1770.
The marriages are as given on p. 498.
n.
Pages 48-50. The modern form of the family name, Wej'mouth, differs
from that of the English navigator, Capt. George, who spelled the first sylla-
ble of his name with an a instead of an e. Most authors, writing of him,
have followed the old spelling.
Page 150, lines second to fourth from top. This is correct as to town
records, but if Dr. McKecknie, referred to in William McCobb's deposition,
p. 173, practiced medicine while living here, he probably preceded Creamer.
Page 195, sixth line from top. John E. Spinney should read John G.
Spinney.
Page 274. The first publishment under 1811 should read Holton instead
of Wooten.
Page 333, fifth line from bottom. Caleb Hodgdon purchased real estate
at East Boothbay in 1823 and probably settled there before 1826.
Page 385, third line from top. Should read "load of rockweed."
Page 419, third line from bottom. Read Crooker instead of Crocker.
Page 335, second paragraph. Substitute Edward B. for Stephen in the
Sargent name, and farther in the same paragraph omit "Jr." after Stephen
Sargent. This appears correctly in the genealogies.
Page 461, under Monograph VIII. Simeon should read Simon.
#309
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11