Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 68

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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suing these branches far beyond the usual college course in vogue at that time, and he not only published an almanac in 1718-19, but calculated with perfect accuracy an eclipse of the sun to occur in 1806. He also acquired unusual proficiency in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and. French. Having studied theology with Rev. Theophilus Barbard, of Andover, he was called to the pastorship of the church in Wey- mouth, Massachusetts, to succeed the Rev. Peter Thatcher, and was ordained August 19, 1719. Owing to a division of the parish, and more particularly to impaired health, this pas- torate was terminated in 1734, and he turned his attention to mercantile and industrial pur- suits, engaging quite extensively in foreign and domestic trade in Boston, and establishing iron factories at Abington and Bridgewater. These enterprises enabled him to accumulate considerable wealth, which was subsequently swept away by the contingencies of war and fluctuations of currency. Mr. Paine died in that part of Quincy which was known as Ger- mantown, May 30, 1757, and was buried in the old North Cemetery at Weymouth. His intellectual attainments were equal if not su- perior to those of his predecessors in the Wey- mouth pulpit, and had the parish been able to support him financially he would in all prob- ability have retained the pastorate for the re- mainder of his life. He was a devout chris- tian teacher, whose kindly disposition and gen- tle manner endeared him to all. He married, April 21, 1721, Eunice, daughter of Rev. Sam- uel and Abigail (Willard) Treat, of Eastham, granddaughter of Colonel Robert Treat, for thirty years governor of Connecticut, and a descendant of Simon Willard, who came from England in 1634. Rev. Thomas and Eunice (Treat) Paine had children : 1. Abigail, born March 6, 1725; married Joseph Greenleaf ; died January 15, 1809. 2. Robert Treat, born October 9, 1727, died October 21, 1727. 3. Thomas, born July 3. 1729, died August I9. 1730. 4. Robert Treat, mentioned below. 5. Eunice, born May II, 1733, died unmarried February 2, 1803.

(V) Robert Treat Paine, son of Rev. Thomas (3) Paine, was born in Boston, March 11, 1731. died there May 11, 1814. Entering college at the age of fourteen years, he was graduated in 1749, and shortly afterward visited Europe on mercantile business. Upon his return he studied theology, and in 1755 went to Lan- caster and commenced reading law with his relative, Judge Willard, and while pursuing his studies preached at Shirley. Mr. Willard

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being appointed colonel of a regiment raised for the great expedition of that year to Crown Point, Mr. Paine was appointed chaplain of the regiment. Relinquishing the ministery, he was admitted to the bar in 1757, and after practicing for a time in Boston removed to Taunton. In 1768 he was chosen a delegate to the convention assembled in Boston to take action following the dissolution of the Massa- chusetts general court by Governor Sir Fran- cis Bernard for refusing to recall a circular letter to the other colonial governments re- questing them to take concentrated action for the public welfare. In 1770 he acquired both professional and political prominence for his able and ingenious persecution in the absence of the attorney general of Captain Thomas Preston and his men for having been re- sponsible for the famous Boston Massacre on March 6 of that year. As a delegate from Boston to the general assembly of Massachu- setts in 1773-74 he was one of a committee appointed by that body to conduct impeach- ment proceedings against Peter Oliver, chief justice of the province, for accepting his stipend from the king instead of receiving it from the colony. He was a member of the provincial congress, 1774-75; of continental congress 1774-78, signing the Declaration of Independence, and served on several important committees, being chairman of the committee to make contracts for muskets and bayonets and to encourage the manufacture of firearms. In 1775 he was appointed upon a committee of three to visit General Philip Schuyler's army on the northern frontier. In 1777 he was speaker of the Massachusetts house of repre- sentatives, and also attorney general, and in 1778 served upon a committee from Massa- chusetts sent to New Haven to confer with similar bodies from other northern states for the purpose of regulating the prices of labor, provisions and manufactures. In 1779 he was a member of the executive council and a dele- gate to the state constitutional convention ; was attorney general of Massachusetts from 1780- 90; and a justice of the supreme court from the latter year until 1804, when he resigned. His last public office was that of state coun- cillor, which he held for the second time in 1804. He was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. in 1790. In 1805 he received the degree of Doc- tor of Laws from Harvard College. He mar- ried Sarah,, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Leonard) Cobb, granddaughter of Morgan Cobb. great-granddaughter of Austin or Augus-

tine Cobb, who was in Taunton in 1670. She bore him four sons and four daughters. Among the former were Thomas and Charles. Thomas, born in Taunton in 1773, died in Boston in 18II, was a graduate of Harvard, a gifted poet, and the author of the once famous pa- triotic song "Adams and Liberty." Owing to the similarity of his name to that of the dis- tinguished atheist, he had it legally changed to Robert Treat Paine, because, as he ex- pressed it, "He wished to have a christian name."

(VI) Charles Paine, son of Robert Treat Paine, was born in Taunton, August 30, 1775, died in Boston, February 15, 1810. He was grad- uated from Harvard in 1793, became a promi- nent lawyer in Boston and was one of the most talented members of the Suffolk bar in his day. He married, May 21, 1799, Sarah Sumner Cushing, born in Pownalboro, November 21, 1777, died in Boston, June 15, 1859, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Sumner) Cushing, and a descendant in the fifth generation of Matthew Cushing, the immigrant, who came from England in 1638 and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Children: I. Helen Maria born April 9, 1800; married George B. Cary , died March 28, 1881. 2. Sarah, married Will- iam C. Alwyn; died July 28, 1848. 3. Har- niet. 4. Charles Cushing, mentioned below.

(VII) Charles Cushing Paine, son of Charles J'aine, was born in Boston, July 11, 1808, died January 4, 1874. Graduating from Harvard in 1827, he was admitted to the bar at the con- clusion of his legal studies in 1831, and prac- ticed law in Boston with marked ability. He married, October 29, 1832, Fanny Cabot Jack- son, born March 8, 1812, died December 9. 1878, daughter of Judge Charles and Fanny ( Cabot ) Jackson. Children : 1. Charles Jack- son, mentioned below. 2. William Cushing, mentioned below. 3. Robert Treat, mentioned below. 4. Frances Jackson, born September 19, 1837, died March 2, 1901. 5. Sarah Cush- ing. born December 15, 1838. 6. Marianne. born November 5, 1843. 7. Sumner, men- tioned below. 8. Helen, born February 6, 1851. 9. Cary, born April 20, 1853, died March 15, 1854.

(VIII) General Charles Jackson Paine, son of Charles Cushing (7) and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, was born in Boston, August 26, 1833. He is a graduate of the Boston Latin School, and also of Harvard University. taking his Bachelor's degree in 1853. with Justin Winsor. Robert S. Rantoul. Charles W. Eliot (who recently retired from the presi-

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dency of Harvard), and several others who have acquired distinction. Having studied law in the office of the famous Rufus Choate he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1856, but his devotion to the legal profession gave way to his patriotism at the commencement of the civil war, and after the conclusion of his bril- liant military service his efforts became di- rected to other directions. October 8, 1861, he was mustered into the Union army as captain of Company I, Twenty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; was commissioned major of the Thirtieth Massachusetts Regi- ment, January 14, 1862; was made colonel of the Second Louisiana (white) Regiment, Oc- tober 2, 1862, and at the siege of Port Hud- son, in the summer of 1863, commanded a brigade. Resigning the latter commission, March 4, 1864, he joined General Butler in Virginia the following month, participating in the battle of Drury's Bluff, and on July 4, 1864, was appointed brigadier-general of vol- unteers. September 29 of that year he com- manded a division of colored troops at the successful attack on the defenses of the New Market road, Virginia ; participated in the cap- ture of Fort Fisher in January, 1865, and for a short time served under General Sherman in North Carolina; was subsequently brevetted major-general of volunteers, and commanded the district of Newbern until November, 1865, and was finally mustered out as such January 15, 1866.

Instead of resuming the practice of law, General Paine was attracted to other fields of usefulness. He became actively interested in the development of several important western railway enterprises, and in due time realized large financial returns from these investments. Among the companies with which he became closely allied were the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and the Mexican Central, and at different times he has served for many years upon their boards of directors. In 1897 General Paine was one of a special envoy (his colleagues being Senator Wolcott and ex-Vice President Stevenson) accredited by the United States government, that visited Great Britain, France and Germany to study the subject of interna- tional bimetalism.

Honored as a valiant soldier and highly re- spected as a citizen and a capitalist, he is at the present time more widely known as one of the most prominent and successful yachtsmen. His interest in this sport, which began in his boyhood, has ever since continued unabated,

and long before the construction of the fast sailing crafts which won renown in defend- ing "the America's Cup," he had become a past master in the designing and sailing of yachts. The "Halcyon," purchased by him in 1877, became through his improvements one of the speedy yachts of her day. The "Puri- tan" (designed by the late Edward Burgess), which outsailed the British yacht "Genesta" in the international contest of 1885, was built by a syndicate promoted by General Paine, and he was chairman of the committee which managed her during the race. The "May- flower," which conquered the "Galatea" in 1886, and the "Volunteer," which defeated the "Thistle" in 1887, were both constructed by him from designs by Burgess, and his efforts in behalf of the coveted trophy on this side of the ocean have equalled if not surpassed those of any other American yachtsman. In recognition of his triple success in defending the cup, the New York Yacht Club, of which he was a member, presented him with a silver cup. General Paine is a member of the East- ern Yacht Club and the Somerset, Union and Country clubs, Boston. In addition to his town house, which is a substantial colonial mansion located on Beacon Hill, Boston, Gen- eral Paine has a fine country place in Weston, a midsummer home at Nahant, and one at Catawmet.

General Paine married, March 26, 1867, Julia Bryant, daughter of John Jr. and Mary Anna (Lee) Bryant. Children : 1. Sumner, born May 13, 1868, died April 18, 1904; mar- ried, October 26, 1892, Salome Brigham. 2. John Bryant, born April 19, 1870; married, October 30, 1900, Louise Frazer; children : Jolın Bryant Jr., born November 19, 1901; Helen Sumner, August 21, 1904 ; Louise Caro- lyn, September 3, 1906; Julia Lee, August I, 1909. 3. Mary Anna Lee, born July 23, 1873 ; married, June 18, 1894, Frederick Winsor ; children : Charles Paine, born June 19, 1895 ; Dorothy, August 27, 1896; Frederick Jr., Oc- tober 15, 1900; John Bryant, April 28, 1903; Theresa, June 9, 1904. 4. Charles Jackson Jr., born June 17, 1876; married, June 5, 1902, Edith Maude Jolinson ; children : Julia Bryant, born April 9, 1903; Charles Jackson, Septem- ber 3, 1908. 5. Helen, born June 25, 1881 ; married Rev. Thatcher R. Kimball. 6. Georgina, born December 23, 1888. 7. Frank Cabot, born July 9, 1890.

(VIII) William Cushing Paine, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, was born August 26, 1834, died Septem-

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ber 14, 1889. He was a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1854. He was cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point from July 1, 1854, to July 1, 1858, when he was graduated and promoted in the army to brevet second lieutenant, Corps of Engi- neers. He served at the Military Academy as assistant instructor of practical engineering, and attached to the company of engineer troops at West Point, New York, January 22, 1859, to March 12, 1860; as assistant engineer in the construction of fort (second lieuten- ant, Corps of Engineers, October 20, 1859) at Clark's Point, New Bedford harbor, Massa- chusetts, 1860-61, and in the preservation (first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, August 6, 1861) and repairs of Fort Schuyler, New York harbor, 1861. He served during the war of the seceding states, 1861-63; as assistant to chief engineer, Department of Pennsylva- nia : September 3 to October 23, 1861, of the defenses of Washington, D. C., October 23 to November 23, 1861, and of the Department of the Ohio, November 23 to December 29, 1861 ; as chief engineer of the Department of the Ohio. December 29, 1861, to April 29, 1862 ; as assistant engineer in the construction of the defenses of Portland, Maine; May 3, 1862, to February 28, 1863, as superintending engineer of the defenses of Portsmouth (cap- tain, Corps of Engineers, March 3, 1863), New Hampshire, February 28 to June 20, 1863; and absent on surgeon's certificate of disability, July 6 to November 6, 1863. He resigned November 6, 1863. (From "Bio- graphical Register of the Officers and Gradu- ates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York," by Bvt. Major-Gen- eral George W. L. Cullum, Col. Corps of En- gineers, U. S. A., vol. ii, 1841-1867.) He married, September 20, 1860, Hannah Hatha- way Perry ; child : Robert Treat, born Decem- ber 3, 1861, married, May 28, 1890, Ruth Cabot ; children: Walter Cabot, born Febru- ary 17, 1891 ; Richard Cushing, December 26, 1893; Elizabeth Mason, January 9, 1896: Ruth, August 26, 1898; Anne Hathaway, July 17, 1901, died February 12, 1902.

(VII) Robert Treat (2) Paine, son of Charles Cushing Paine, was born in Boston, October 28, 1835. At the age of ten years he entered the Boston Latin school, from which he was graduated at fifteen, and he values highly the training of those five years. At Harvard he had as classmates Rev. Phillips Brooks, Alex- ander Agassiz, Francis C. Barlow, Theodore Lyman and Frank B. Sanborn, and was grad-

uated with honor in 1855. After spending a year at the Harvard Law School he went abroad, visiting Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France, resuming his legal studies upon his return in 1858 under the supervision of Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1859. Endowed with the same energy and ambition which characterized his predecessors. Mr. Paine began the practice of law in Boston, and although the succeeding eleven years proved exceedingly laborious, they were nev- ertheless productive of much substantial suc- cess financially as to make possible his per- manent withdrawal from the legal profession in 1870. Having mastered the principal prob- lem in life, that of conquering the necessity of continually drudging for subsistence, he was enabled to gratify a cherished ambition to devote his energies in part, if not wholly, to religious, benevolent and philanthropic pur- poses, and he has ever since labored diligently along these lines. Being chosen one of a sub- committee of three to superintend the erection of the present Trinity Church edifice in Copley Square, much of his time from 1872 to 1876 was devoted to that work, and from that time forward he has been actively engaged in pro- moting the welfare of the various bodies con- nected with the Protestant Episcopal church. In addition to being a warden of Trinity Church he has served as a member of the executive committee of the Episcopal City Mission, as a trustee of all funds donated for church purposes, and as president of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. He was the first president of the Associated Charities, organized in 1878 : was chosen president of the American Peace Society in 1891 ; is a member of the Watch and Ward Society and the Society for the Sup- pression of Vice, and vice-president of the Children's Aid Society, of which his mother was one of the founders. In 1879 Mr. Paine organized the Wells Memorial Institute, the largest working men's club in the United States, and he became its president, directing its affairs with superior judgment and raising by subscription nearly ninety thousand dollars for its building and maintenance. This insti- tution, which was named in memory of the late Rev. E. M. P. Wells, for many years an earnest laborer in behalf of the Episcopal City Mission, embraced a co-operative bank, loan and building associations and a spa- cious hall for public meetings. For many years his time. ability and a goodly portion of

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his wealth have been devoted to the interest of the unfortunate, the improvement of the homes of the laboring classes and the uplifting of their moral as well as their physical con- dition. He has built and sold to workingmen at moderate prices more than two hundred dwelling houses, and has published twenty-five pamphlets and addresses, all in the interest of the public weal. In 1890 he established under the name of the Robert Treat Paine Associa- tion a trust fund of two hundred thousand dollars, "the object of which is to found a charitable charity to promote the spiritual, moral and physical welfare of the working classes by caring for persons in distress, by cultivating kindlier relations between rich and poor, by building or maintaining working men's institutions, working girls' clubs, tem- perance restaurants, homes for the aged, read- ing rooms, libraries, schools for manual train- ing, or model homes for the people, by foster- ing church services, schools, charities or mis- sions, or by whatever other means may con- tribute to the well-being of the working classes. In 1887 he endowed with the sum of ten thousand dollars a fellowship at Harvard University for the study of the ethical prob- lems of society, the effect of legislation, gov- ernmental administration and private philan- thropy to ameliorate the lot of the masses of mankind. Upon attaining his majority Mr. Paine allied himself with the Free Soil party and subsequently became a Republican. In 1884 he represented Waltham in the Massa- chusetts house of representatives, and the same year was the Mugwump candidate for congress from the fifth district, having with- drawn from the Republican party.

On April 27, 1862, Mr. Paine married Lydia Williams Lyman, daughter of George Will- · iams and Anne ( Pratt) Lyman, and a grand- daughter of Theodore Lyman, a prominent merchant of Boston during the early part of the last century. Mrs. Paine died in 1897. Children. 1. Edith, born April 6, 1863: mar- ried, November 18, 1885. John Humphreys Storer: children: Emily Lyman, born Sep- tember 4, 1886; John Humphreys Jr., May 21. 1888: Edith, July 23, 1890; Robert Treat Paine, April 17, 1893: Theodore Lyman, Au- gust 30. 1896; Lydia Lyman, May 9, 1899. 2. Fanny, born January 13, 1865, died Decem- ber 31, 1881. 3. Robert Treat Jr., born Au- gust 8. 1866: married, December 7. 1898. Marie Louise Mattingly : children : Dorothy. born September 5. 1899: Robert Treat (3). December 15, 1900. 4. Florence, born Sep-

tember 30, 1868, died July 17, 1872. 5. Ethel Lyman, born March 24, 1872. 6. George Ly- man, born July 29, 1874; married, June 29, 1899, Clara Adelaide May ; children : George Lyman Jr., born November 16, 1901 ; Alfred White, June 9, 1903. 7. Lydia Lyman, Sep- tember 6, 1876; married, May 18, 1898, Charles Kimball Cummings : children : Francis Hathaway, born April 22, 1899; Charles Kim- ball Jr., November 27, 1901 ; Ethel, December 16, 1903; Evelyn, March 14, 1907.

(VIII) Sumner Paine, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot ( Jackson) Paine. was born May 10, 1845. He left Harvard College in April, 1863, and served as second lieutenant, Twentieth Massachusetts Volun- teers, joining his regiment at Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 23, 1863. He engaged in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, and was killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3. 1863.

Most of the Lewis families were LEWIS of Welsh origin, though many of the early immigrants came from England to the colonies. The name is par- ticularly difficult to trace, both on account of the great number of immigrants of this sur- name and of a marked tendency to frequent changes of places of residence. From the first they appear to have been exceptionally venturesome and enterprising. In the Maine families the difficulty is greatly increased by a lack of records.

(I) John Lewis, immigrant ancestor, set- tled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1640, and probably died November 16, 1647. Little is known of him. He had twin sons, Peter and Andrew, born September II, 1644, and perhaps John, who was at Great Island, Maine, in 1662. John Jr. had a daughter Hannah, who married, May 1, 1702, Joseph Simpson, and died June 26, 1712, according to records of Newcastle, New Hampshire. (See "Old Kittery Families.")

(II) Peter, son of John Lewis, was born.in Roxbury. September 11, 1644. He was doubt- less the Peter who was at Smuttynose Island, Maine, in 1668, and sold out there in 1683. He bought, about 1670, land of John Phoenix at Spruce Creek. Kittery. Maine. He mar- ried Grace, daughter of John Diamond. His will, made in 1712 and proved in 1716, men- tions the following children: 1. Peter, born 1660: married Lucy, daughter of Humphrey and Lucy ( Treworgy ) Chadbourne ; (second) Elizabeth to whom he bequeathed

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in his will dated May 17, 1739, and proved June 21, 1739; children: i. Lucy, married Samuel Briard and Sylvanus Tripe Jr .; ii. Peter. married Elizabeth Haley and lived in Kittery; iii. Mary; iv. Catherine, bap- tized July 1, 1722, married John Phoenix ; v. Sarah, baptized July 1, 1722; vi. Abigail, baptized July 1, 1722, married, 1738, Thad- deus Trafton: vii. Eunice, baptized July 16, 1727, married Thomas Fernald. 2. Andrew, mentioned below. 3. William, married Mary ; -: (second) December 17, 1719, Sarah Low. of Portsmouth. 5. Grace, married, October 28. 1718, John Bly, of Ports- mouth. 6. Morgan, married. about 1705, Abigail Lewis, and died before Febru- ary 3. 1712-13: his son Nathaniel set- tled in York, Maine, married Sarah Gray, daughter of Robert, and had eight children, of whom the seventh was Major Morgan, born March 9. 1742-43. moved from the north par- ish of York to Alfred, Maine, in 1772, lieu- tenant of a company when the revolution broke out, promoted captain, then major, a prom- inent citizen in civil as well as military life. 7. Mary, married David Hutchins. 8. Ann, married John Tapley. 9. Rebecca, married Pike. 10. Sarah, probably married. September 10, 1717, at Portsmouth, Peter Mow, of Rochelle, France. II. Elizabeth.

(III) Andrew. son of Peter Lewis, was born about 1675, and married, at Kittery, Maine. Mary, daughter of Enoch and Mary (Stevenson ) Hutchins. His will was dated Julv 27. 1758, and proved March 31, 1760. Children, born at Kittery: I. Andrew, men- tioned below. 2. Rachel, born July 3, 1704. 3. Mary, January 29, 1705; married Elias Weare. 4. Grace. married, November 21. 1733. Samuel Haley. 5. Dorothy, baptized June I. 1718; married John Main. of York. 6. Thomas, baptized June 5, 1720; married Susanna Hutchins, 1741 ; had children : Simon, Elizabeth, and probably others.

(IV) Andrew (2), eldest child of Andrew (I) and Mary (Hutchins) Lewis, was born April 2. 1703, in Kittery, and probably lived and died in that town. He married, in 1724. Mary Low, and had children : William, Jo- anna. Joseph, mentioned below.

(V) Joseph, son of Andrew (2) and Mary (Low) Lewis, born about 1745-46, baptized July 12, 1747, was the immigrant ancestor ac- cording to family tradition, but the evidence seems to place him in the Kittery family, though no record of his birth has been found. He married a native of York, and lived in San-

ford and York, in the same locality as Major Morgan Lewis, who evidently was closely re- lated. A search of more than twenty-five years by the late Alonzo F. Lewis, of Frye- burg, who gathered a vast amount of family records (which the writer has examined ), shows that it is hardly to be doubted that he was son of Andrew (2), and grandson of An- drew (I). Nathaniel Lewis, of York, quit- claimed to Andrew Lewis Jr., cordwainer, and Peter Lewis Jr., of Kittery, rights in sixteen acres adjoining land of William Lewis, Janu- ary 26, 1726. Joseph married Olive Thomp- son, born in York, Maine, March 17, 1747-48, removed with the family to Sanford, and died at Fryeburg. Maine, October II, 1831 (age appears to be over-stated in the records, being there given as eighty-seven). (See Thomp- son, IV.) He went from York or Kittery, Maine, to Sanford, and thence about 1774 to Fryeburg, where he resided on the shore of Lovewell's Pond. He deeded this land to his son Joseph, and went to live in his later years with his son Jesse on the Guptill place, as it is still called. Joseph and Olive deeded land at Lovewell's Pond to son John April 9, 1817. The only public record of Joseph at Sanford is as witness to a document dated January 30, 1771. He was a chairmaker by trade and bought land of Samuel Emerson Cross, of Fryeburg. Joseph Lewis enlisted July 10, 1775, in Captain John Shapleigh's company, and was stationed at Kittery defending the coast. He was also in the service in the same com- pany from November I to December 31, 1775, at Kittery Point, under Colonel Edward Cutts. Part of this service seems to have been per- formed by John Haynes. There was another Joseph Lewis, of Arundel, in Captain Cook's company, Third artillery, in 1778, when his age was given as forty-five years, height five feet five inches, complexion fair. Among the bap- tisms in Kittery was Joseph Lewis, July 12, 1747, son of an abbreviated name that has been read "Axia jun." The name was probably Andrew Jr., ("And."), who had children born about this time and, if this reading is correct, the line to the immigrant is estab- lished. Joseph may have been two or three years old at the time of his baptism on the shore of Lovewell's pond. He died in Frye- burg, November 3, 1823, aged seventy-nine years. His death was the result of a shock and he was buried in the family burial ground of his son, Jesse. Children: 1. Abby W. 2. Alexander, died at sea, left a daughter Cyn- thia. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. John,

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 68

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886