Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 1

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY

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STATE OF MAINE

COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

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

Librarian of Bowdoin College Vice-President Maine Genealogical Society

Member Maine Historical Society Honorary Member Minnesota Historical Society

Member American Historical Association Member of Council, American Library Association Author "Little Genealogy "

AND INCLUDING AMONG OTHER LOCAL CONTRIBUTORS

REV. HENRY S. BURRAGE, D.D.

State Historian Chaplain of National Home, Togus AND ALBERT ROSCOE STUBBS Librarian Maine Genealogical Society

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The records of Essex county, Mas- AYER sachusetts, have this name under many forms, such as: Aars, Aers, Aier, Aiere, Aiers, Air, Aires, Ares, Ayeres, Ayer, Eayer, Eayre, Eyer, Eyers, Eyre.

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

(II) Cornet Peter, fourth son of John and Hannah Ayer, was born about 1633, perhaps in England, and was a freeman in Haverhill in May, 1666. He was a farmer, member of general court 1683-85-89-90, and active in town affairs and in the Indian wars. He mar- ried, November 1, 1659, Hannah, born June, 1642, in Salisbury, daughter of William and Hannah (Goodale) Allen. She died De- cember 22, 1729. He died in Boston in Jan- uary, 1689. Children, born in Haverhill : Ruth, Hannah, Abigail, Mary, Martha, Sam- uel, William, Rachel, Ebenezer.

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

(IV) Lieutenant Ebenezer, fourth son of Captain Samuel and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Ayer, was born in Haverhill, February 18, 1705, and settled in Methuen, Massachusetts. Upon the establishment of the province line in 174I his homestead became a part of Sa- lem, New Hampshire, and the following

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

born 1715, died January 2, 1786; children : William, Elizabeth, Samuel, Philip and John. (V) Peter (2), second son of Lieutenant Ebenezer and Susanna (Kimball) Ayer, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, May 12, 1737. He lived in that part of Methuen set aside as Salem, New Hampshire, in 1741, re- moving to Buxton, Maine, about 1776. He was a soldier of the revolution. He married (first) Rebecca - , who died October 28, 1795; children: Benjamin, Jonathan, Benja- min, Sarah, Ebenezer, Elizabeth and Philip. He married ( second) January 19, 1796, Widow Sarah Jenkins, of Pepperellboro (Saco).

(VI) Benjamin, third son of Peter (2) and Rebecca Ayer, was born in Salem, New Hampshire, November 23, 1763, and died in Unity, Maine, July 29, 1844. Besides culti- vating a farm, he was an itinerant Methodist preacher and resided in Falmouth, now Port- land, and Freedom, Maine. He enlisted in the war of the revolution at the age of sixteen, and served with bravery. He married, April 2, 1785, Rachel, daughter of Abner and Rachel (Shaw) Sanborn, a direct descendant of Rev. Stephen Bacheler, one of the founders of Hampton, New Hampshire. She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, July 19, 1762, and died at the home of her son Peter, in Freedom, Maine. Children : Annis M., Lydia S., Peter, Benjamin, Rachel, John, San- born, Rachel and Thomas Burnham.

(VII) Thomas Burnham, youngest child of Rev. Benjamin and Rachel ( Sanborn) Ayer, was born in Portland, Maine, June 1, 1800, and died in West Waterville, April, 1864. Owing to the frequent change of residence of the family, rendered necessary by the preach-

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

(VIII) John, second son and child of Thom- as Burnham and Sybil (Chase) Ayer, was born in Freedom, Maine, November 1, 1825. His preparatory education was obtained in the district school of Unity and at the Maine Wes- leyan Seminary at Kents Hill, following which he matriculated at Bowdoin College. He did not complete the classical course, preferring to take up mathematics and civil engineering, and subsequently made the latter his profession for many years. He was the civil engineer and superintendent in charge of the construction of the Portland & Kennebec and the Penobscot & Kennebec railroads, 1851-56; was employed in railroad surveys in Wisconsin and Minnesota, 1857-59 ; in the employ of the Dunn Edge Tool Company, manufacturers of scythes, Oakland, Maine, first as traveling salesman, then as treasurer and general manager of the corpora- tion, since 1860; director of the Somerset Rail- road Company since 1858, and president since 1872 ; trustee of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary since 1869; trustee and first president of the Cascade Savings Bank from 1869; built the Cascade Woolen Mills in 1883, was made di- rector of the corporation at the time of its organization and became treasurer in 1889. He continued in the offices of treasurer and manager of the Dunn Edge Tool Company and president of the Somerset Railroad Company until the time of his death. His most marked characteristics were strong individuality, incor- ruptible integrity and tenacity of opinion ; he was reserved and reticent in manner, forbear-

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

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

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

(For early generations see John Ayer I.)

(V) Major Ebenezer (2), eldest AYER son of Lieutenant Ebenezer (1) and Susanna (Kimball) Ayer, was born March 22, 1727, in that part of Methuen which is now Salem. He settled in Pepperell- borough, now Saco, Maine. In early life he was one of Captain John Lovewell's men in the memorable Indian fight at Pequaket, and was engaged in other expeditions. He was in the ill-fated excursion of Benedict Arnold, through the wilds of Maine, in the winter of 1775-76. After the revolution he did not re- turn to Saco. He was married July 4, 1754. to Hannah (Plaisted) Scammon, widow of James Scammon. They were undoubtedly the parents of the next mentioned.

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

dustrious and enterprising, and is said to have built the first saw and grist mill in the town of Hiram, which was located on his property "on the thirteen mile brook, so-called, just above the 'red mill.'" He and Captain Charles Wadsworth built the first bridge across the Saco river in Hiram, about 1805. The names of his twelve children were: Timothy ; Hum- phrey, mentioned below; John Pike; Betsey, married Joseph Chadbourne; Sally, married Thomas Barker; Nancy, married David Mor- rill ; Susan, married Thaddeus Morrill, of Ber- wick, Maine; Lydia, married a Jackson; Jacob and Mary, died in youth; Hannah, married Nathan Hilton, of Bridgton, Maine. They conveyed all of their property in Hiram to their son Humphrey, in June, 1797. It would appear that they remained in Hiram for a time thereafter and then removed to Cornish, Maine, in 1798 or 1799, for the name of John Ayer appears on the Cornish tax list for the years 1801-1802-1810-18II, and the name of Humphrey Ayer appears on said list from 1799 to 1813, inclusive, subsequent records having been burned. The date of the deaths of John Ayer and his wife is unknown. They were buried in the old burial lot in what is now the pasture of W. W. & F. B. Pike, on Towle's Hill, so-called, in Cornish, nearly op- posite the Wedgewood place, so-called, but there is nothing left to mark their resting place.

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

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

(IX) James Curtis Ayer, born in Cornish, Maine, December 4, 1846, was educated in the public schools of his native town, where he has always resided. He worked on his father's farm in his youth and has followed the occu- pation of farming all his life. He is one of the leading citizens of his town. In politics he is a Republican and has been a deputy sheriff of York county since 1886, excepting the year 1893-94, when he was a member of the Maine legislature. He was for many years town clerk, and is now chairman of the board of selectmen, which position he has held twelve years, and has held many other offices of pub- lic confidence too numerous to mention. He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Greenleaf Lodge, No. 117, a member of Aurora Chapter, No. 22; of Aurora Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, all of Cornish ; of Maine Council, Royal and Select Masters of Saco; of Bradford Commandery, Knights Templar, of Biddeford; and of Kora Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewis- ton. He is a past district deputy grand mas- ter of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Maine, a past junior grand warden of said Masonic Grand Lodge, and grand representative of the Grand Lodge of Quebec, near the Grand Lodge of Maine. Being greatly interested in all that pertains to farming, he is on the roll of Cornish Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. His wife, Mary Armine ( Bennett) Ayer, was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, April 22, 1845, and was the daughter of John P. and Armine Bennett. Their family consists of Harry B., mentioned below. Fred J., born December 25, 1875, merchant at Cornish. Frank Percy, Nov mber 2, 1878, an attorney at law. Leon

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

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

(For early generations see John Ayer I.)

(VIII) Jacob Ayer, son of Hum-

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

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

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

(X) William Edwin, son of Edwin W. Aver, was born in Westbrook, December 2, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town and the State Normal school at Gorham, Maine, where he was graduated in 1883. During the next four years he taught school in Westbrook. He then became the purchasing agent of the S. D. Warren Paper Company at Cumberland Mills and continued in that position for a period of twelve years. He embarked in business on his own account in 1900 as a manufacturer of basswood veneer for electrical work, and for carriages and sleighs. at Foxcroft, in the firm of Ranger & Ayer. He bought out his partner's interest in 1905 and incorporated the business under the name of the Ranger & Ayer Manufacturing Company, of which he is the principal stock- holder, treasurer and manager. In a few years the business has increased from a plant using eighteen hundred feet of lumber a day to its present capacity of ten thousand feet made into veneer daily. In politics Mr. Ayer is a Republican and he has been a member of the school committees of Westbrook and of Fox- croft. He was at one time his party's candi- date for mayor of the city of Westbrook. He is a member of Warren Phillips Lodge of Free Masons, Westbrook; Eagle Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Westbrook; St. John Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Bangor. In re- ligion he is a Congregationalist. He married, January 25, 1889, Louise, daughter of Free- man Brown. of Raymond, Maine. Children : I. Florence Erminie, born in Westbrook, May 14, 1891. 2. Doris N., April 11, 1896.

This old Scotch name was very BLACK early represented by immigrants from northern Ireland, who set- tled at various points in New England, soon after the opening of the eighteenth century. It was planted in southwestern Maine, at Kit- tery and other points in York county, but the exact time of coming seems impossible of dis- covery. There were settlers bearing the name in York before 1700.

(I) William Black's will was proved in York county, January 1, 1727-28. It names : Wife Sarah. and sons William and Joshua. William Black, at the time of making his fa- ther's will, had children, William and Eliza- beth. and soon after he and his family re- moved to Bailey's Island, Harpswell, Maine.

(II) Joshua, son of William and Sarah

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

(III) Jonathan, son of Joshua and Mary Black, was born February 15, 1720, and Hen- ry, December 1, 1726. There can be little doubt that one or the other of these was the father of Josiah next mentioned.

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

(V) John, eldest son of Josiah and Martha (Cookson) Black, was born August 31, 1777, in Limington, where he passed his life and was probably engaged in agriculture. No public record appears of his death or of his children. His wife, Abigail (Small) Black, was probably a granddaughter of Joshua and Susannah (Kennard) Small, of Limington, a descendant of Francis Small, an immigrant from England, who purchased from the In- dians lands lying between Big and Little Os- sipee rivers, included in the present towns of Cornish, Limerick and Parsonsfield, and who settled in Kittery, Maine, whence he went in 1700 to Truro, Massachusetts, and there died 1714-15.

(VI) Jacob, son of John and Abigail (Small) Black, was born in Limington, Maine, September 16, 1812, died in Limerick, August 2, 1881. He attended the district schools of his native town, and while still very young showed signs of the energy and activity which later were prominent features in his character. He learned shoemaking at the age of eighteen years and followed this occupation for twelve years in Alfred. Maine. Upon his return to Limington he purchased a farm of sixty acres adjoining the farm of his father, and resided upon it for many years. He re- moved to Lebanon in 1869, where he bought a fruit farm which he cultivated for two years,

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

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 1

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 818

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818