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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01088 2691
ErnestE. Walker
EMBDEN TOWN OF YORE Olden Times and Families There and in Adjacent Towns
Emboden, Maine
By F
ERNEST GEORGE WALKER
Member of the Maine Historical Society and of the Columbia Historical Society
INDEPENDENT-REPORTER COMPANY Publishers and Printers SKOWHEGAN, MAINE 1929
Copyrighted 1929 by Ernest G. Walker
Foreword 1127442
Like that boyhood snowball, gathering as it rolled, is the tale of how Embden Town of Yore came to be. It probably started at Wool- wich, Me., the way-station on the pioneer's line of march to the Upper Kennebec. Several years ago while looking into the old town books there, the prevalence of familiar names was noted. Inquiries a few days later, after a motor trip up the river, disclosed that older people at North Anson and Embden knew dimly, if at all, of Woolwich kin and Barrington, N. H., kin.
This whetted the interest in a further pursuit. It led on and on --- again to Woolwich, to the Maine Historical Society and the Geneva Albee Hilton manuscripts there, to Berwick, Boston, Providence and to the census and pension offices and to other libraries at Washington, D. C. There developed an unexpected fund of information about old- time Embden faces and places that present day people were not aware of. This suggested helping them to share in that information.
So the book was begun as a supposed task of weeks in writing a few score of pages. But the field widened. Correspondence that grew into hundreds of letters yielded much material. Embden rec- ords, resurrected from a rough-board box in a neglected corner of the town house and taken to Washington by permission of the March meeting of 1926, proved to be a mine of ancient lore. The making of the book rapidly became a task of years and the required pages mul- tiplied several fold.
Friends of yore and many others cooperated in numerous ways, sharing enthusiasm to unfold the story of an old rural community's doings. Treasured records out of Bibles, albums and reticules that Embden emigrants had carried westward long ago were forwarded from .such distant points as Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Montana, Oregon and California. Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made for these contributions as well as for many others from nearer home. Adequate thanks to all who have assisted is im- possible. Some of them are Mrs. Ella Purington Lowell of Pendleton, Oregon; Mrs. Sarah J. Hilton of Chicago, Mrs. Winifred W. Bodfish of Palmer, Mass .; Mrs. Carrie McFadden Hutchins of Waterville, Mrs. Helen A. Prince of Sanford, Mrs. Fred Magoon of Solon, Mrs. Grant Witham of Embden, Mrs. Evie Gray Robinson of North Anson, Mr. George C. Eames of Bangor, Mr. Walter C. McKenney of North Anson and Mr. Roland T. Patten of Skowhegan.
Manuscript and proofs have been checked and rechecked in the ef- fort for accuracy, but in some cases it has been impossible to recon- cile inconsistent records as to names and dates. What decision can be made when the same woman wrote herself both Abihail and Abigail with some wavering also on the second vowel; or when one Embden maiden approached the altar as Melissa and another as Malissa; or
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between equally good authorities for Deidamia and Diedamia? There were an old way and a new way of spelling several Embden family names. Indecipherable writing occasionally increased the perplexity. Corrective data and belated letters were ever coming to hand even after parts of the book had gone to press. Hence several entries under "Lines Revised" (pages xiii and xiv).
Quotation marks have been generously applied to words, proper names and to passages. Quaint spelling and phrasing, even if not entirely grammatical, add charm to historic narrative.
At least the name of practically every Embden family up to 1900 and of a large percentage of individual residents of the town are men- tioned in following pages. As to some of them probably more should have been written but the expanding status of the book made some stopping place imperative. No hard and fast limitations have been observed but lists of taxpayers, marriage licenses and like data have been brought up to about the present century. The chronicle extends considerably to adjacent places. In some degree Embden Town of Yore is also a history of Woolwich, Anson, Solon, Concord, Caratunk, Lexington and New Portland.
The volume concludes with an index in which there are over 6,000 entries. While it discloses some inconsistencies in the spelling of names - largely because town books and other records were often at variance - this index makes every item of information between the two covers accessible. The grouping of family names there also supplies much genealogical data and in this regard supplements the main text.
Prolonged and exacting as the writing of the book has been, it has added greatly to the writer's local education. It has been a pleasant and a fascinating effort. May it be alike instructive and helpful to men and women from the vicinity of Embden wherever they may roam.
ERNEST G. WALKER.
Washington, D. C. February 28, 1929.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGES
I-The Frontiersmen Come 1 to 15 Scenic charm of the Kennebec and Seven Mile Brook -Pioneers along the banks of those waterways - Carritunk Settlement, Titcomb Town and Seven Mile Brook Settlement - Maps of the early surveys - Area of Embden and of its several ponds - Grant of the town- ship to Bristol Academy - Five Dollar Lots and Twenty Dollar Lots.
II - Paying the Proprietors 15 to 36
Colonial personages at Providence and their fleet of privateers - John Innis Clark, Joseph C. Nightengale, Cornelius Soule and Brown & Ives in Embden lands- Division of interests and Dr. Bezar Bryant and Joseph N. Greene as agents - Sales to settlers along the Canada Trail - Family life of the Greenes and Bryants on the farm high over Embden Pond.
III - Let's Get That Wolf Asamuel ! 36 to 51
Olive Hutchins and her brood pioneering by canoe with a cow and an Indian - Capt. Samuel Hutchins at Bunker Hill - Who was the first settler - Smashing a wolf in the . cow shed - Rev. Edward Locke as an aged wooer and as a tombstone poet -Capt. Asahel Hutchins' sons and daughters-A school boy's tart rejoinder - Lydia Ring Hutchins and two famous painter sons -Hutchins preachers and a college president.
IV - House Like That Back Home 51 to 64
Simeon, John and Ephraim Cragin and their families on Seven Mile Brook - Site of their colonial house and the procession of olden travelers - Pioneer visits to New Hampshire kin -Children of Simeon's two marriages and their migration far westward -Res- ervation of the cooper shop and contentions in settling the estate - Isaac Albee, as a returned gold miner, and another interesting family group.
V -- Almost a Clevelandville 64 to 82
Cleveland neighborhoods in Embden - Joseph and Dorothy (Cragin) Cleveland and the four sons with a wilderness farm one mile long - Jonathan and his eight daughters and Jackson nephews - Tim- othy's family, with a son who ventured to Ohio and a sea captain son by the Pacific - A Philadelphia teacher's pathetic career - James Y. Cleveland's speculations in a mill and his public service - Abel and Benjamin Cleveland - Up rose a big bear.
VI- Saw Land for His Sons 82 to 98 Ebenezer Hilton's combat with Indians on Montsweag stream - Son William's discovery of rich intervales while a captive on the way to Canada - His brother and one of his sons in Embden - Theo- philus, the ferryman - When the backlog glowed at Joshua Hilton's on Seven Mile Brook - William of the Revolution at Solon - Amos Hilton and his Embden homestead.
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VII - Preachers and Warriors, Too 98 to 111
Savage sons from Nequasset Creek of old -Dr. Edward's career as Freewill Baptist preacher and mill owner and his numerous progeny - Rev. Minot J. Savage his kinsman - Elbridge as a militia briga- dier and his march through Baltimore - Asher's fast trotting mare - Savage families by the Canada Trail - On horseback to Concord and generations that followed - The Savage heritage to Dublin millions.
VIII - Four Corners and in Between 111 to 130 Williams' firesides in every Embden direction -Lieut. Elemuel from Woolwich with 18 children and 97 grandchildren - Moses at the fork of New Portland Roads - A morning prayer -. Uncle Lem, the legislator - Jacob's roster that helped his widow to a Revolu- tionary pension - Record of his sons in northeast Embden - Pro- fessor Guy F. Williams, educator - Dr. James Leon Williams' strik- ing achievements - A letter from old Jacob's grandson.
IX - Good Cheer at the Inn 130 to 148 Moses Thompson's residence citadel - Tavern keeper and land baron of the early days- A tap room loafer's boast - Sons and . daughters and homes ready for all-Col. Christopher's 98 honor- able years - Nathan to the westward, Reuben the tanner and the Crymble and Durrell neighbors - Whiskers of varied hue designate cousins - "Wise cracks" from Moses M. - When Solon ferry was Moses Thompson's landing.
X- Why Called Queenstown 148 to 166 Persistence of a Tory in naming Embden for King George's queen - When Town Clerk Colby first used the letter "b" -Land holders of the neighborhood about 1800 - Abraham Rowe with Embden and Concord kindred - Rev. John Rowe, teacher and preacher in Ohio - Saving a library from the Confederates - The Stevens family and fifteen children - Sons who traded briskly in farms - Aunt Nancy always thankful-Owner of the Thompson tavern -Often held town offices.
XI- Glad Hand for Gray's Girls 166 to 186 When half of Embden got its mail from Stickney Gray - Capt. John Gray, sons George, Joshua and John, Jr., and eight marriageable maidens-His big mill lot northward -Gray family holders of frontage farms on the Kennebec - Alliances with the Daggett clan - Business career of Joel Gray, son of Joseph, in Boston - The house with a mansard roof - Randall Ellis, a prominent townsman -Rev. George Gray's offspring.
XII - This Ox Sled Well Laden 186 to 198
Thomas McFadden 'on a February journey out of Georgetown - Visits with Hilton and Savage kindred along the way -Marriages of nine attractive daughters- Chief Nicholas and Andrew's power in relieving pain - Activity of other sons in local affairs - Andrew J. Libby as proprietor of the ancestral McFadden acres - Helped re-finance the town's obligations - A life size statue at Oakland.
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XIII - Scepter of a Smithy's Son 198 to 214 Veterans of the Revolution and their families in southeast Embden - Sergeant Benjamin Colby, blacksmith, who served the guns at taking of mastship from the British - Preemptor of a fertile island, now submerged - Benjamin, Jr., town clerk and leader - Many farms and a two story mansion where town meetings assembled - In Widow Rebecca's barn -Capt. Hartley, his brother, a white water boatman - The Youngs and Spauldings.
XIV - From Wild Lands to Wild Lands 214 to 230 A Fahi neighborhod that rose and waned and families that entered there when pioneers yielded -Civic center many years - Assess- ment figures of 1835 - John Wilson "at the sixth district schoolhouse" and his children - Elijah's rise as a land magnate - Benjamin Thompson, poet, and his sons, Capt. Benjamin, Capt. William, Jede- diah and Fletcher - Thompson daughters and their marriages - Story of a plucky teacher.
XV - Up and Away in the Dawn 230 to' 247 Frontier families that moved away before the town was incorporated - Nimrod Hinds' two terms of service in the Revolution - Jeremiah Chamberlain proprietor of Embden's earliest saw mill - Marion L., a California educator and Francis A., banker in Minneapolis - Nathaniel Martin at Valley Forge - Samuel Fling and his father, Morris - The Salley pioneers - Inhabitants of the town in 1804.
XVI - Nailed Them on Three Doors 247 to 258 Cutting the pie into three pieces and contentions over distribution of town offices - Where early warrants were posted - Verbatim minutes of the first town meetings - Acceptance of three north and south highways - Campaign by Benjamin Pierce to divide the town and the settler group that defeated him - Second division scheme and its failure - A town financially sound.
XVII - Voted to Set Down a Stake 258 to 274
Embden led by strategy after years of wrangling to erect a town house - Annual meetings in the highway on Ford Hill - Purchase of the site from Daniel Goodwin - Tactics of an opposition fight to the last ditch - Final payments to Elisha Walker - Hall where temperance advocates assembled-A reminiscence regarding the Ladies' Aid - Intellectual glories of Ford Hill.
XVIII - God's Barn of After Years 274 to 295 Log house church and fort erected by a "Raising Bee" - Early days of the Brook Meeting house - Rev. Edward Locke's stormy min- istry - Labors of Elder William Paine, Elder Isaac Albee and other staunch preachers - Price of pews in the new house -Great re- vivals - Quarterly meetings when neighbors fed assembled hosts - Freewill Baptist tribunal for local quarrels - Hauling the meeting house away when its usefulness had ended.
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XIX - Embden's Rural Elders 295 to 311
Embden elders of persuasive faith who were farmers, carpenters and teachers - Circuit Rider Job S. Hodgdon and his descendants - Elders Jesse Lee Wilson, Benjamin Gould, Jr., and Samuel Savage as marrying parsons- Col. Edmond Gould - Anecdote of Hosea Washburn - The Methodist Class at Holbrook schoolhouse - The Lexington-Embden church - Disorderly walk -Fly Round, Fly Round, Ye Wheels of Time!
XX - Walkers a Four Town Clan 311 to 335 "Aunt Betty," survivor of a pioneer couple near the Embden line - Capt. Solomon's sons from Woolwich into Anson, Madison and New Portland - The Gould, Williams, Dawes and Parker families in frontier marriages with Walkers - Later generations in Embden - A schoolhouse chimney destroyed - Alexander Fassett's tragic death at Madison Bridge -New Portland Walkers and duplication of Johns, Ebens and Solomons - Mrs. Augusta Stanley - Colonel of a World War Regiment.
XXI - Embden's Sweet Auburn 335 to 364 Through the Soule purchase and on the high road to Lake Embden - Early settlers there - When the way to Concord was by Nahum Eames' and over Foss Hill - The mills at Embden Pond and "Emb- den Pond River" - Summer cottages by a pleasant shore - How a cross road inched through the wilderness - Sam Brown's destina- tion - Barron, Gould, Copp, Quint, McKenney and Holbrook fam- ilies.
XXII - Helmsman of the French Fleet 364 to 372 Capt. Nathan Daggett, noted mariner of the Revolution - A Dag- gett maiden who halted short of the altar - Annals of a sea going family from Martha's Vineyard - French naval officer's stern lan- guage - Tristram's advent into New Vineyard with a pack upon his back -His Embden descendants - Tragedy of the Matthew Daggett fire of 1859 - Deacon Isaac of kindly memory - Sorrowful end of a son and grandson.
XXIII - Four Daughters of Dawes 372 to 385 Ambrose Dawes, cousin to rider with Paul Revere - From Nan- tucket and Duxbury and away to the upper Kennebec - Fair Ris- pah's flight from an Indian pursuer - Wife of a pioneer preacher - Descendants of Rhoda and Nathaniel Getchell - Nancy a bride of the Revolution - The old Burns ferry near Madison - Sally and Francis Burns the parents of a large Embden quota - Kin to a Vice President.
XXIV - A Great Captain Appears 385 to 402 Accessions of settlers into 1820 - Lieut. John Pierce and sons, John, Jr., and Benjamin -Marriages with the Cragin sisters -John Bartlett Pierce, the radiator king and his enormous fortune - A romance and the historic stone house - Capt. Ephraim Sawyer and Capt. Joseph Knowlton - Builder of covered bridges and a Vermont cavalryman - The Wentworth brothers and Jackson neighbors - How Black Hill got its name.
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XXV - Argonauts and Lumbermen 402 to 414 Where transcontinental locomotives touched fenders and cham- pagne flowed - George L. Eames as Nevada ranchman and owner of Embden's finest farm - Phineas Eames, lumber operator, his brothers, sons and grandsons - Robbed for gold on a far western trail - Hamden Williams' disastrous venture on the Mississippi - Shoemaker lad who turned a trick at Melbourne - Clutching a roll won in Australia.
XXVI - Hear Carriontonka Roar ! 414 to 435 Landscape of gentle hills, rippling streams and glowering river - Indian pictures on a jutting ledge - Millsites of bygone utility on Martin stream - Carratunk Falls of mighty power bridged and harnessed by Elijah Grover - The pulp mill enterprise - Capt. John Walker - Lydia, mother of Nathan Weston Spaulding, the Cali- fornia millionaire - Col. Lemuel Witham's descendants - Mrs. Ruth B. Cross, Embden's first woman town clerk.
XXVII - Where the Big Orchard Grew 435 to 461 Settlers from New Hampshire in a land of the sky and their estab- lishment of a "nation" - Jonathan Fifield Moulton's orchard, one of the largest in Maine - A son who led the militia and entrenched himself with posterity - A physician and an educator of note - Rev. Oliver Moulton - Dr. G. Alston Tripp, a specialist of reputation - The Strickland family - An old letter from Providence on farming.
XXVIII - From under a Traitor's Heel 461 to 476 Grandsire Benjamin Berry's narrative of service in a company of Arnold's command - Recognition of his record by an act of Con- gress - Generations of capable men and women who came after him - Marriages with the Moulton, Burns and Williams families - A temperance reformer - Samuel Berry's womanly daughters - The Felker kin in Embden and Concord.
XXIX - Doorways along the Trail 476 to 494 The town's most ancient highway where trappers, scouts and Red Men passed - Cyrus Boothby and wife on horseback - Long career and helpful service of Thaddeus - Star of the East Good Templars - Visitation meeting upset by a miscreant - Deputy Sheriff Wells and his kinsmen - The Morins, Dunbars and Samuel Clarks - A dutiful Redmond in from Canada - The Carls and Caswells.
XXX - Brought Home a Jaunting Car 494 to 506 Nancy Dunlap's heritage of a clipper ship - Recaptured by an in- trepid youth - Archa Dunlap's mission across the ocean -Could he have become Minister to England - To distant states where the John McF. Dunlaps tell about the Scottish clan - Lines by a Univer- salist minister and an Embden teacher in Kentucky - On the high hills with Ichabod and Ephraim.
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XXXI - Onward to Fine Careers 506 to 521
Atkinson Hill, seat of a Free Soiler from Virginia - William's cham- pionship of the Quebec-Wiscasset railroad - Joseph as operator, politician and temperance orator - Generations from Moses Ayer - Seth's six sons - Marcellus and his Spiritualist Temple at Boston - George A. and blue ribbon trotters - Two ancient cross roads long abandoned - Early records of the Barron cross road.
XXXII - Seven Mile Brook Teachers 521 to 557 The West Ward and its first frame schoolhouse in town - A levy on non-resident owners - Sheltered several town meetings - "Marms" and masters from the Albee, Collins, Cragin, Hinkley, Paine, Pierce and Purington households - Rise of the Barron, Hol- brook, and 8th district schools - Nelson Walker and Edward Millay - Annals of the Moulton and Strickland districts -Hay to feed the oxen.
XXXIII - Six School Seats Eastward 557 to 587 Three schools up and down the Kennebec and three along the Trail - Scholars and funds by five year periods - A schoolhouse build- ing boom - Front door with iron hinges - The town's official home of two chimneys - Payments in wheat, corn and rye - Families of pedagogues from Embden, Concord and Solon -Rosters of inter- esting names and reminiscences by survivors - Topical songs and piano solos.
XXXIV - Rallying Round the Flag 587 to 615 Embden valor through wars of a century - Good old militia days and the officers of local companies - Three colonels and a briga- dier - Data of Civil War service with lists of commissioned and non-commissioned officers and all enlisted men and terms of en- listment - Town appropriations for bounties - Veterans of the War of 1812 and of the Revolution.
XXXV - Old Susup and Sundry Themes 615 to 643 The March meeting of '68 when Embden plunged into a bond issue - Tribulations of years with the Somerset Railway venture - A law suit carried to the highest court in the land and heavy obliga- tions honorably met-Gates athwart the highways - Selectmen out perambulating -Local battles with ballots-License for a tippling shop - Shared in cutting a melon - Exploits of a Daniel Boone.
XXXVI- Lived There Long, Long Ago 644 to 663 Lists of Embden Taxpayers for 1810 (compiled from the U. S. Cen- sus), 1817, 1820, 1825, 1831, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1890 with table of resident and non-resident ownership totals for later dec- ades - Town, county and state tax expenses from 1840 to 1890.
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XXXVII - When Every Nose Was Counted 663 to 674 Assistant Marshal Walter Spaulding's enumeration of Embden for the Census of 1850 - Peregrinations of him and his gig up and down and across the town -Daily progress to family doorways for a three weeks' period - Names and ages from every Embden house- hold.
XXXVIII - Set to Rule over Us 674 to 693 Annual town meetings from 1804 to 1900, with dates and places of meeting, names of moderators and other officers chosen -Emb- den men elected to the state legislature.
XXXIX - Till Death Us Do Part 693 to 731 Bridal couples of the town from 1800 to 1892 with lists from Nor- ridgewock and Anson before Embden was incorporated - Licenses and marriages grouped by years - A partial notation of ceremonies performed elsewhere.
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LINES REVISED
After the Text Affected Had Gone to Press.
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9 George (not John) Corlis Nightengale.
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4 Fox (not Cox) sisters.
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36 Chandler (not Charles) Williams.
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24 Joshua (not Joseph) Gage of Augusta, Ex-Congressman.
Same correction on page 105, line 31 and on page 215, line 5.
35 9 Rev. William Small (not Sewell). Dan Dinsmore, brother of Alice and Elizabeth, married Helen Ross and their daughter, Lucy a teacher, resides at North Anson.
13 Sally Hutchins Hill died Sept. 15, 1836 (not 1856) and is buried at East New Portland.
8 Pshaw, Adaline.
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2 into a teeming Woolwich neighborhood.
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33 the southwest (not southeast) Embden farm.
30 southwest (not southeast) corner; same correction page 241, line 3, and page 547, line 20.
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12 Charlotte and same correction page 203, line 33.
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11 Weatogue, Conn., for Neatogue.
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22 Lot 19 (not 18).
34 The company.
200 211 218
37 This Hannah's.
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31 1622 instead of 1822.
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14 Barnard instead of Bernard.
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1 Radcliffe.
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23 drover instead of grower.
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3 Joe Salley, who resided at North Anson, was another and younger son of Cyrus Salley.
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17 Ray L. instead of Roy L. Lisherness.
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32 Read -G. R. R. Hertzberg, M. D. Also in line 20, page 449 and in line 3, page 460.
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16 One of William Barron's daughters was Jane E. (1849) who married Dwight Woodward and lived in Massachu- setts.
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35 Brown & Hilton were owners there as early as 1877.
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33 David G. McKenney's children.
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2 Reuel was a brother (not a son) of Amos Copp; line 31 should read that Walter Copp is at North Anson. Everett Creamer lives on Lot 111.
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10 Rubah Young (not Towne); line 14 Sarah T. (1846) was the youngest daughter of Joseph Chick and married Charles Graffam of Lewiston.
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29 Denico instead of Denicon.
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20 Second word is "used" (not was).
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4 1834 instead of 1835.
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33 Lester C. Witham is deceased and Bert Williams is owner of the Flint farm.
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18 Jesse, instead of Jessie, Smith.
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9 Deborah, daughter of Francis Burns.
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13 Name appears to have been Joseph Knowlton, without the middle initial.
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22 Mrs. Edwin J. Clark.
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20 Buswell Atwood is deceased.
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19 Eliza (not Elixa).
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27 brigs Encomium, Comet, etc.
32 A second son of Irwin L. Sweet.
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6 straight eastward (not westward).
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widow of Robert (not George) Gray.
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30 Sarah J. Marshall married Alvah Nichols, was called Mrs. Jennie Nichols and afterward became Mrs. Wasson.
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35 Should read: with town meetings there also on April 22, 1843, and March 4, 1844 -
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3 Another and younger Alice Moore, Embden teacher, is Mrs. S. H. McAlpin. Similarly in line 35 this was an older Sophia Chase, Embden teacher, than Mrs. Everett Quint of North New Portland, now deceased.
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and afterward the business magnate of Boston.
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25 Faustina and Cyrena F. Healey were kinswomen but may not have been sisters.
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25 Everett is a grandson (not son) of Rev. Jesse Lee Wilson.
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15 Elbridge Gerry Savage.
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13 Lieut. Reuben (not Reul) Wilson.
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1 Barbara A. and in line 6 Joseph Durrell.
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· 13 Barbour instead of Barber.
In lines under the map read: roads instead of road.
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