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XI. Annie Maria, b. July 16, 1856; m. Ist -- Godwin, 2d -- Davis; s. in N. H.
XII. James B., b. Jan. 28, 1859 ; m. -; s. in Monmouth.
XIII. Achilles Hanno, b. Oct. 23, 1861 ; m. Ella Bean ; s. in Bethel.
XIV. Ida L., b. Ang. 29, 1864; d. 1892.
JESSE PACKARD, youngest son of Daniel, b Feb. II, 1798, m. Joanna Monk. He died Jan. 22, 1877. She died Ang., 1879. Children :
Benjamin, b. Aug. 21, 1822: d. Aug. 24, 1822.
Daniel, b. July 21, 1823; d. Nov. 3, 1850.
Betsey, b. July 12, 1825; d. Nov., 1830.
Jesse, Jr., b. Mar., 1827: m. Lizzie Smith.
Elvira, b. Nov. 12, 1828; d. June 3, 1866.
Benjamin, b. Feb. 6, 1831 ; m. Sarah Ann Cooper; s. in Berwick.
Jolin, b. Aug. 25, 1834; m. Adelaide Bryant.
Betsey, b. July 25, 1837: m. Abel C. T. Whitman.
James F .. b. July 25, 1839: m. Susan M. Bassett.
Joanna, b. May 10, 1840; 11. Ist Wm. Pratt, 2d Geo. H. Twitchell. Jennette, b. 1842; m. Verrin DeCoster.
Elsic E., b. 1844; m. Abel C. T. Whitman.
Florence I., b. 1848; m. - Hogenswoll.
Carlton G., b. 1850; d. in 1852.
JESSE, JR., son of the preceding. b. Mar., 1827, m. Lizzie Smith. Children :
Lissic P., b. July 3, 1862 : m. - Bryant.
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Carlton G., b. June 4, 186.4.
George H., b. July 12, 1866; m. - Clark. Albion E .. b. May 6, 1868.
Jesse II., b. Dec. 6, 1870.
Lillian I., b. Sept. 20, 1876; d. young.
Infant, b. Nov. 28, 1877, d. Nov. 30, 1877.
JAMES F. PACKARD, son of Jesse, sen., b. July 25, 1838, m. Susan M. Bassett. He was a soldier in the Civil War. Children :
Alvira J., b. Sept. 30, 1863, m. Charles F. Scammon ; Leonora, b. Aug. 30, 1867; James E., b. Nov. 2, 1871.
DEA. JOB PACKARD, son of Joseph+, served in the Continental Army, settled in Bucktown in 1788 or before. He witnessed the signature to a deed made that year. He married Eunice Babb or Bray of Turner and settled in the south part of the town. He purchased land adjoining Daniel Packard's and Jacob Whitman's and afterward bought the settling lot of his brother. He appears to have been a thrifty farmer. Was deacon of the church for many years. In after life he disposed of the most of his estate to his children, whom he liberally pro- vided for. His son, Moses, had the homestead. He died in 1848. His wife died Apr. 6, 1833. Children :
Job, b. July 20, 1787; died with measles at Burlington, Vt., in War of 1812.
Moses, b. Buckfield Mar. 11, 1789; m. Betsey Robinson.
John, b. Buckfield May 29, 1791; m. Susannah Davie ; s. in Monson. Jonathan, b. Buckfield April 3, 1793; m. Susan Pote.
Samuel, b. Buckfield Oct. 1, 1795; m. Deborah Davie; s. in Hebron. Eunice, b. Buckfield Dec. 1, 1797; m. Thomas Bray of Minot.
Peggy, b. Buckfield May 18, 1800; m. Capt. Joseph Buckman.
Betsey, b. Buckfield July 12, 1802. Susannah, b. Nov. 18, 1804.
Thomas, b. Buckfield Jan. 14, 1807; m. Ist, Mrs. Susan Packard; 2d, Almeda Whitman.
MOSES PACKARD, son of Dea. Job, b. Mar. 11, 1789, m. Betsey Robinson. He died She died Jan. 19, 1858. Children :
Margaret, b. Nov. 23, 1814; m. Richard Young; s. in Hebron.
Elisa, b. Jan. 23, 1816; m. Sewell Austin; s. in Ill. Job, b. Apr. 26, 1817; m. Hadassah Austin; s. in Ill. Sally, b. Jan. 12, 1819; d. unmarried.
Jeremiah, b. Aug. 6, 1821; m. Rebecca B. Fuller; s. in Hebron. William, b. Jan. 14, 1823; m. Eveline Fuller.
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Angeline, b. June 3, 1824; m. Wm. W. Boardman of Lowell.
Harriet Ann, b. May 30, 1827; m. Lewis F. Sherburne of Oxford.
Addison Gerry, b. May 30, 1827; m. Martha J. Folsom.
Betsey Jane, b. Feb. 7, 1829; m. Jacob M. Ellis; s. in Mass. Albina A., b. Dec. 20, 1832; d. July 22, 1837.
ADDISON G. PACKARD, son of the preceding, b. May 30, 1827, m. Martha J. Folsom. Children :
Warren L., b. Aug. 7, 1851; d. Jan. 1867.
Margaret E., b. Feb. 17, 1854; m. Geo. B. Record.
JOHN PACKARD, son of Dea. Job, b. May 29, 1791, m. Susan- nah Davie. They settled in Monson. Children recorded here :
Emerline, b. Aug. 10, 1820.
Belinda, b. April 1, 1822.
JONATHAN PACKARD, son of Dea. Job, b. Apr. 3, 1793. 11. Susan Pote. He died May 12, 1829. She m. 2d Thomas Pack- ard. Children :
William F., b. July 31, 1823; s. in Ill.
Albion K., b. May 28, 1825; s. in Falmouth.
Joseph, b. July 7, 1827; s. in Mass.
Margaret E., b. May 26, 1829; m. and s. in Falmouth.
THOMAS PACKARD, youngest son of Dea. Job, b. Jan. 14, 1807, m. Ist Mrs. Susan Packard. She died before 1832 and he m. 2d Almeda Whitman in 1836. Child by first wife :
Thomas, b. -; s. in Oxford.
Children by second wife :
Almeda Ann, b. Aug. 20, 1837; m. Sylvester Packard, s. in Monson. Catharine, b. Mar. 16, 1839; m. Adrian Packard, s. in Monson.
He died before 1842 and she m. 2d Thomas DeCoster of Hebron. She died in Buckfield Nov. 15, 1894.
GEN. ELIPHALET PACKARD, second son of Matthew Packard, was born in North Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 1, 1791. He was a descendant of Samuel1, the emigrant. The line of descent is as follows: Zacheus2 m. Sarah Howard. David3 b. 1687, m. Hannah Ames. Ebenezer* b. 1724, m. Sarah Perkins and Mat- thew" b. in North Bridgewater in 1756 m. Keziah Perkins. Matthew died in 1795.
Eliphalet Packard m. Abigail Snell of West Bridgewater. June 26, 1814 and moved to Minot, Me. About 1818 he settled in Buckfield. He appears to have built or purchased a house
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and shop on the Hartford road, on the north side of the river. In the autumn of that year he purchased of James Jewett, the land on which these buildings were situated. For many years, he carried on the business of a hatter in this shop. He lived in Buckfield about a dozen years and during that period he was chosen to various offices and for a number of years was trustee of the ministerial and school fund and served as clerk. His name was put into the jury box every time it was revised while he lived in Buckfield. One year he received a respectable vote for Representative to the Legislature and was chosen as a mem- ber of the committee to protest against the setting off of the Thayers into the town of Paris. He took great interest in mili- ary matters and rose from one position to another, till he was commissioned Brigadier General. He moved away from Buck- field in 1829 to West Auburn. Oct. 18, 1875 he died at Med- ford, Mass. Children recorded on Buckfield records, the three youngest being born in Buckfield :
Betsey H., b. Minot, Apr. 4, 1815. Charles, b. Oct. 14, 1818. Laura Ann, b. Apr. 7, 1822. Eliphalet Franklin, b. Jan. 5, 1824.
PARRIS.
CAPT. JOSIAH PARRIS (see biographical sketch), the first of the name to settle in Buckfield was a direct descendant in the male line from Thomas Parris of London, England, a merchant residing there carly in the 17th century. This Thomas had a brother John, also a merchant and a planter of great wealth who deceased in Barbadoes in 1660 and who may have been the "Mr. Parish" mentioned in Winthrop's Journal Anno 1642.
Rev. John Parris, son of Thomas, perhaps named for his uncle, John, was a dissenting clergyman of Ugborough near Ply- mouth, England. Thomas, son of Rev. John, came to America in 1683 from London and was at Newbury, Mass., in 1685 and removed to Pembroke in 1697, where he died in 1752. His wife was Abigail Rogers, a descendant of Rev. John Rogers, the martyr who was burned at the stake in Smithfield on account of his religious convictions during the reign of Bloody Mary. Their son, Thomas, born at Pembroke, May 8, 1701, married in
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1724, Mary, daughter of Matthew Gannett of Scituate, born Nov. 28, 1702. He died Sept. 2, 1786. She died Aug. 4, 1770. Of their children, Benjamin, born Aug. 27, 1731, married July 4, 1753, Milliscent, daughter of Josiah J. and Ruth ( Manly) Keith, born Feb. 7, 1731 at Easton, Mass.
The grandfather of Josiah Keith was Rev. James Keith of Bridgewater, a Scotchman, who was educated at Aberdeen, Scot- land, and came to Mass. in 1662 when nearly 19 years old. He was ordained as the first minister in Bridgewater in 1664. It is said that his first sermon was delivered from a rock. His pas- torate lasted through life. He died in 1719, aged 76. His first wife was Susanna, daughter of Dea. Samuel Edson. By her he had nine children. She died about 1705 and he married 2d Mrs. Mary Williams of Taunton. Josiah, the 6th son and child by Ist wife, married in 1703, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Downer) Lothrop born 1683. The father of Samuel was Mark Lothrop, a brother of Rev. John Lothrop, who was pastor of the First Independent Church Society in London. He brought over the greater part of his flock and re-established his church at Scituate and later another at Barnstable. The Downer family coat of arms contained three peacocks with tails spread on the shield, and was one of the prettiest of devices in heraldry. Sarah Downer, the wife of Samuel Lothrop, who was a man of note and prominence was descended in the female line from Hannah Vincent, a beautiful French Huguenot who with her brother, a clergyman, fled to London from Paris to escape the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
Of the large family of Benjamin and Milliscent (Keith) Par- ris, Samuel b. in 1755, m. Sarah Pratt, a descendant of Matthew of Weymouth and settled in Hebron and was a Judge of the first Common Pleas Court in Oxford County. His son, Albion Keith Parris was the 2d Governor of Maine, Congressman, U. S. Senator and Judge of the Maine Supreme Court.
Capt. Josiah Parris, a younger brother of Judge Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1760, m. Experience Lowden of Bridgewater. Their children, all born at Buckfield, were Delphina Keith, b. Nov. 24, 1801, d. Sept. 10, 1826. She was called the belle of the town ; Virgil D., b. Feb. 18, 1807, m. Miss Columbia Rawson of Paris Hill, b. Feb. 27, 1814. He d. June 13, 1874. His widow is still living in the 102d year of her age. (Her mother b. Sept. 17,
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1778, d. Aug. 29, 1875. Mother and daughter now span a period of 137 years.) Upon calling at her home, June 15, 1915, she gave the writer some information as to dates and events and mentioned Miss Columbia Gardner with whose family she and her husband were intimately acquainted. She spoke of Miss Gardner's remarkable literary accomplishments and expressed a wish to read her poems and alluded to her untimely death while residing in the South. She had noted she said every step from boyhood in the careers of Gov. John D. Long and Capt. Thos. S. Bridgham and thought they were the only two persons now alive who were living in Buckfield village when she resided there. The name of Miss Ardelia H. Prince was suggested and she quickly replied: "She was living then on her father's farm and not in the village."
Mrs. Parris read the daily papers and kept well informed on the general topics of the day. We don't believe her equal can be found. They had four children :
I. Hon. Edward Lowden, b. Buckfield Sept. 3, 1837; m. Mary Ida DuBois, res. New York City.
II. Virgil Kimball, b. Paris May 10, 1840; m. Mrs. Martha M. Arnold, res. Paris Hill.
III. Helen Delphina, b. Paris April 20, 1844.
IV. Percival Josiah, b. Portland Jan. 5, 1849.
Percival J. Parris, the youngest son and child, attended Bowdoin College for three years and graduated at Union College, N. Y., the alma mater of his father, in 1871. Taught in Little Blue School, Farmington, 1871-2, principal of John- son H. S., N. Andover, Mass., 1872-5; editor Oxford Reg- ister, 1876; read law in office of Alvah Black, Esq., Paris Hill ; graduated at Hamilton, N. Y., Law School and admitted to the Oxford County Bar in 1879; was in the practice of law in New York City from 1879 to 1890; a part of this time was editor of the New York Press, an evening paper. In 1890 went to What- com, now Bellingham, Washington, and was there three years. Since 1892 has been located in Philadelphia, Penn., in the insur- ance business. He has never married.
PARSONS.
The American ancestor of the large number of families which bear the name of Parsons was Jeffrey1, who was b. in England, about 1631. He went to Barbadoes in the West Indies and after
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some years' residence there came to Gloucester, Mass., in 1655. His wife was Sarah Vinson, whom he first saw, it is said, while stopping to get a drink of water from a fountain called Vinson's Spring, near her father's house. They have left a very numer- ous posterity.
HENRY PARSONS, probably 4th in descent from Jeffrey1, m. Anna Young. Among his children were Joseph and probably Davis, Henry, Philemon, Patty and Rebekah.
Joseph was born June 18, 1796. The others were older. Day's m. Sylvina Hall. Patty m. Benjamin Cilley. Philemon 11. Polly Cole. Rebekah m. Henry P. Cox.
Philemon was a Revolutionary soldier. He m. Polly Cole in 1793. We have no record of their children, or the date of their deaths.
HENRY PARSONS, prob. son of Henry ante, m. Olive ----. They settled in the southeastern part of Buckfield. He died July 27, 1804. She died Aug. 25, 1804. Children :
Charles, b. June 2, 1799.
Isaac b. Feb. 2, 1801 ; m. Phebe Aldrich of Falmouth.
Anna, b. May 2, 1802.
Henry b. July 25, 1804.
ELEAZER PARSONS, prob. a bro. of Henry, sen .. m. Judith
He served in the war of the Revolution. He died May 22, 1844, aged 8212 years. She diel June 8, 1857. aged 95. Children :
Hannah, b. Aug. 30, 1784; m. Thomas Dyer.
Lucy, b. Apr. 10, 1786.
Col. Aaron, b. June 1, 1788; m. Eunice Warren.
Sarah b. Feb. 12, 1794; m. Robinson Gammon.
COL. AARON PARSONS, son of the preceding, b. in Backfield. June 1, 1788, m. Eunice Warren. He carried on business as a machinist in the village for many years. Was prominent in the militia andl rose to the rank of colonel. He represented the town and district one term in the Legislature. She d. Feb. 24, 1886. Children :
Jane Warren, b. Dec. 25, 1816.
William Warren, b. Dec. 16, 1819; d. Dec. 1I, 1833.
Clarinda, b. Dec. 15, 1821 ; m. Dastine Spaulding.
Charles, b. Jan. 18, 1824; s. in Mass.
Eunice WI'., b. May 14, 1826; m. Lysander Bartlett of Hartford.
Maria Judith, b. July 29, 1829; m. Dr. Crosby.
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Octavia, b. Jan. 26, 1832; d. Feb. 10, 1832.
Frances Ellen, b. Mar. 22, 1839; m. Benjamin Spaulding.
COL. DANIEL PARSONS, a son of Davis before mentioned was born in East Butterfield, now Hartford, Apr. 30, 1795. He mar- ried Ist - Tucker, 2d Lydia Tobin, 3d Harriet (Emery) Ward. He was prominent in town affairs and served many years in the militia rising to the rank of colonel. He d. in Hart- ford, May 20, 1876. Children by Ist wife :
Cyrus, b. about 1816; s. in the West.
Almeda, b. about 1818; m. Ephraim Bryant.
Betsey, b. about 1820; m. Isaac Pulsifer.
Merritt, b. about 1822; m. Letitia Carr; 2d, Hannah Moore.
Daniel, b. about 1824; drowned while young.
William, b. about 1826; died young.
Addison, b. about 1828; m. Mary Webber.
Child by Lydia Tobin :
Lydia, b. about 1830; m. Henry Young.
Children by Harriet Ward :
Emery, b. about 1837; m. Victoria Allen ; 2d, Abbie Mitchell. Martha J., b. about 1839; m. Sylvester Bisbee.
Harriet, b. about 1841 ; m. Silas Ryerson; 2d, George H. Fuller. Henry, b. Oct. 22, 1843; m. Celia A. Russell.
Sylvina, b. about 1845; died young at age of 18.
Julia A., b. about 1847; died in infancy.
MERRITT PARSONS, Eso., born in Hartford, in 1822, m. Letitia Carr. He settled first in Hartford but came to Buckfield about 1885 where he has since resided. He has been prominent in town affairs for many years and in 1903 was chosen chairman of the selectmen. He was commissioned as Trial Justice, served as selectmen, town treasurer and school committee for many years in Hartford. His wife d. about 1870 and he married 2d Hannah Moore. Children all by Ist wife:
Ellen, b. about 1853; never married.
Viola, b. -; m. - Tyler. Olive J.
HENRY PARSONS, brother of the preceding, b. in Hartford, Oct. 22, 1843, m. Celia A. Russell. In 1892 he came to Buck- field and purchased the Nathan Morrill farm where he has since resided. He has served as road commissioner and as a member of the board of selectmen. He is one of Buckfield's most sub- stantial farmers and citizens. Children :
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Adella, b. July 24, 1867; died in 1872.
Adelbert, b. Nov. 9, 1873; m. Emmie Moore. Children :
Mildred Idella, b. Sept. II, 1898, and Clifford Adelbert, b. Sept. 5, 1900.
WILLIAM PEARSON of another branch of this family who have spelled the name as above. m. Susannah Walker and settled in the western part of the town. Children :
William Oliver, b. Sept. 24, 1815.
Susan II'., b. June 28, 1818; m. John Dunham.
Benj. F., b. Nov. 19, 1827; m. Susan J. -.
Augustus G., b. Feb. 5, 1834; m. Elizabeth W. Bonney.
BENJAMIN F. PEARSON, son of the preceding, b. Nov. 19, 1827, m. Susan J. --. Child :
Howard C., b. June 4, 1851. His wife died Jan. 16, 1855.
AUGUSTUS G. PEARSON, son of William, ante, b. Feb. 5, 1834, m. Elizabeth W. Bonney. She d. Aug. 6, 1868. He d. Apr. 8, 1900. Children :
James Victor, b. Mar. 3, 1856.
Emily A., b. Sept. 10, 1858. Mary E., b. Apr. 18, 1861. Lissie E., b. Dec. 18, 1863.
PHILBRICK.
JONATHAN PHIL.BRICK, a soldier in the French and Indian War settled in Bucktown before Jan. 1, 1784. He m. Anna He d. shortly after 1800. The date of his wife's death is not recorded on the town records. Children recorded here :
Elisabeth, b. May 24, 1764; m. James Thurlo.
Dolly, b. July 6, 1767 ; m. Abial Drake.
Dorcas, b. Nov. 6, 1770. Sarah, b. Oct. 13, 1773; m. John Bisbee.
Enoch, b. May II, 1775; m. Sarah Buck.
CAPT. ENOCH PHILBRICK, son of the preceding, b. May 11, 1775, m. Sarah Buck. He was town clerk and prominent in the affairs of the town for many years. He d. about 1830. His wife died after 1850. Children :
John, b. Oct. 1I, 1798.
Abigail, b. Feb. 24, 1800; m. Thomas Record. Betsey, b. July 14, 1801 ; m. Robert P. Thompson, Boston. Offa, b. March 1, 1803; d. Jan. 13, 1844. Sarah b. Oct. 24, 1804; m. Samuel B. Perry. Annis, b. Aug. 18, 1806.
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Ximenes, b. May 25, 1808; m. Rachel Bartlett.
Albinus, b. Feb. 15, 1810; d. May 11, 1810.
Levi, b. Jan. 9, 1813.
Lucian, b. Oct. 11, 1814; m. Miriam Chase.
Marshall, b. Nov. 24, 1816.
Dorcas, b. about 1818; m. Freeman Hathaway.
XIMENES PHILBRICK, son of the preceding, b. May 25, 1808, m. Rachel Bartlett. He was a prominent man in town affairs and served one term in the State Legislature. They s. in Aroos- took County, where he was killed by a falling tree. Children recorded on our records :
Preston, b. Sept. 23, 1833. Andrew J., b. Mar. 14, 1835. Enoch, b. Feb. 14, 1837. Saralı Viola, b. Feb. 16, 1839. Annis T., b. Apr. 28, 1843.
LUCIAN PHILBRICK, brother of the preceding, b. Oct. II, 1814, m. Miriam Chase. Children :
Elmira J., b. Sept. 3, 1842.
Joseph Fairfield, b. Aug. 3, 1844. Marville Marks, b. Jan. 4, 1847 ; d. Oct. 13, 1849. Zenas Shaw, b. Apr. 8, 1848. Ximenes, b. Oct. 31, 1849.
Charles Pompilly, b. Mar., 1852.
RAWSON.
The Rawsons of America are nearly all descended from Ed- ward Rawson, born in England, Apr. 16, 1615, who came about 1637 to Newbury in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, where he soon became prominent in official life and public affairs and was a representative to the General Court and secretary of the Colony for many years. He was son of David and Margaret ( Wilson) Rawson and grandson of Edward Rawson, b. in England, 1604, and his wife, Bridget Ward. He was also grandson of Rev. WVm. Wilson of Merton College, Oxford, afterwards canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase and ex-Pres. Wm. II. Taft are descendants.
EDWARD RAWSON, the emigrant ancestor, m. Rachel Perne. She d. before Apr. II, 1677. He d. Aug. 27, 1693. The line of descent to Capt. Samuel Rawson of Paris Hill is as follows. William m. Ann Glover ; Jared m. Mary Gulliver; Ebenezer m.
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Sarah Chase and Capt. Samuel m. Polla Freeland. Their (laughter, Columbia, m. Hon. Virgil D. Parris. Mrs. Polla ( Freeland ) Rawson lived to be 97.
Jennet A. Rawson of the seventh generation from Edward and son of Horace W. Rawson, was born in Paris, Dec. 18, 1846. Ile was educated in the district school and the Maine State Sem- inary, taught school several terms and learned the druggist busi- ness in Marlboro, Mass. He came to Buckfield in 1875 and pur- chased the stock of Albion D. Wilson in the Bennett store, where he has since remained in the apothecary business. He married, Nov. 15, 1876. Carrie J. Folsom of Stratford, N. H., born in that town Sept. 2, 1855. Has been successful in business for many years and is a substantial citizen. (He d. in 1915.) Child :
Harly Fiske, b. Feb. 6, 1879; m. Lila S., dau. of Cyrus C. Spaulding. Is employed in his father's drug store, is prominent as a baseball coach, having had seasons with Bowdoin, Colby and other institutions.
RECORD.
The Records of Buckfield are descended from an ancient Ply- mouth county, Mass. family. The name is variously spelled. Those settling here were of Bridgewater and Easton. Three of the four brothers saw service in the war for American Inde- pendence and they all came here in time to acquire 100 acres of land free from the Commonwealth of Mass.
DOMINICUS RECORD (see sketch), the oldest of the four brothers, who settled here, b. in Bridgewater about 1745, was the son of Ebenezer and Joanna ( Bowles) Record. He was m. before coming here and had three children. She d. or was divorced and after coming here he m. 2d Jane Warren. Chil- dren by Ist wife :
Orin, m. Susa -; settled in Sangerville.
Martha, m. William Campbell; settled in Sangerville.
Clarissa, m. Daniel Morrill and d. before 1810.
Children by 2d wife :
Dominicus, Jr., b. June 26, 1788; m. Prudence S. Swallow.
Jane, b. March 8, 1790; m. Samuel F. Brown.
Samuel, b. Jan. 2, 1792; d. young.
The father d. Feb. 4, 1810, aged 65. The mother d. June, 1842, aged 84.
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ORIN RECORD, son of the preceding, b. about 1774, m. Susa The family moved to Sangerville, Me. Children :
Clarissa, b. March 24, 1799; m. Pelham Bryant.
Emily, b. May 23, 1800. De Albra, b. Jan. 5, 1802.
Harriet, b. May 26, 1803.
Celia, b. May 16, 1807.
Susan J., b. May 14, 1810. Everline, b. Feb. 26, 1812.
Mary Ann, b. Mar. 29, 1814.
Samuel C., b. Dec. 20, 1815.
DOMINICUS RECORD, JR., half bro. of the preceding, b. June 26, 1788, m. Prudence S. Swallow. He d. in 1862. She d. Dec. 1887 at Turner in her 91st year. Children :
Olivia, b. Feb. 21, 1820; d. Jan. 10, 1852. Ann Maria, b. Dec. 29, 1821; m. Lewis Briggs.
Hannah, b. Mar. 24, 1823; d. July 6, 1838. Lydia, b. Apr. 30, 1825; 111. Josiah W. Whitten.
Martha C., b. Sept. 15, 1827; m. Clark C. Gregg, Bridgewater. Susan Jones, b. July 12, 1830. Emily, b. June 9, 1835.
JONATHAN RECORD, son of Ebenezer of Bridgewater. b. about 1749, m. Remember Briggs of Bridgewater. She d. before 1817 and he m. 2d Abigail Cobb. He d. Jan. 17, 1855 in his 105th year. She d. Jan. 26, 1857, aged 91. Children all by Ist wife : Jonathan, Jr., b. April 12, 1782; m. Phebe Irish.
Timothy S., b. June 17, 1783; m. Abigail Lothrop.
Sarah, b. Sept. 7, 1788; m. Calvin Whitman.
JONATHAN RECORD, JR., son of the preceding, b. Apr. 12, 1782, in. Phebe Irish. Children :
David Briggs, b. July 3, 1805; m. Phebe S. Morton.
Remember b. Oct. 9, 1806; m. Dominicus R. Warren.
Margery, b. Jan. 8, 1809; m. Nehemiah Leavitt; s. in Penobscot Co. Selina, b. Dec. 28, 1810. Phebe, b. Mar. 29, 1813.
Il'illiam, b. May 24, 1815; m. Mary J. Spaulding.
Mary Ann, b. July 10, 1817. Jonathan G., b. March 1, 1819.
Dexter, b. Feb. 9, 1821. Orpheus, b. Mar. II, 1823.
Dorcas Jane, b. Aug. 15, 1825; d. May 25, 185 --.
Thomas Florian, b. Dec. 2, 1827; m. Vesta A. Pettingill.
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HISTORY OF BUCKFIELD
TIMOTHY S. RECORD, son of Jonathan. sen., b. June 17, 1783, m. Abigail Lothrop. He d. May 18, 1873. Children :
Lavina, b. June 28, 1808; m. Asa Taylor.
Albert H., b. Jan. 20, 1810; d. past middle life, unm. Arvilla, b. Mar. 7, 1812; m. William Jordan.
Drusilla, b. Mar. 7, 1812; m. William L. Taylor.
Patty, b. Feb. 16, 1814; d. Feb. 16, 1816.
Martha, b. Feb. 16,. 1814; m. Rotheus B. Waite.
Patty, b. Mar. 1, 1817.
Stephen L., b. July 6, 1819; d. Jan. 14, 1877.
Abigail, b. Nov. 22, 1821 ; m. John Mayhew.
Emery T., b. Sept. 8, 1828; m. Comfort C. Smith; s. in Paris.
DAVID RECORD, son of Ebenezer of Bridgewater, b. about 1749, m. Abigail Damon of Pembroke. He d. Mar. 20, 1832, aged 83. She d. Feb. 15, 1845, aged 86. Children :
Abigail, b. July 20, 1782; m. Daniel Chase.
David, Jr., b. Mar. 31, 1784; m. Fanny Richardson.
Ezekiel, b. Feb. 22, 1786, m. Almira Milliken.
Lewis, b. Mar. 28, 1788; m. Sally T. Pompilly.
Thomas, b. Apr. 14, 1791 ; m. Abigail Philbrick.
Mercy, b. June 5, 1793.
Deborah, b. Sept. 17, 1796; m. Seth Sampson, Esq.
DAVID RECORD, JR., son of the preceding, b. Mar. 31, 1784, m. Fanny Richardson. He d. in 1859. She d. Feb. 22, 1856. Children :
Mercy Richardson, b. Mar. 24, 1810; d. in 1867. Vesta C., b. Feb. 18, 1812; d. in 1895.
Abigail, b. Feb. 2, 1814; m. Nathaniel Foster, Jr.
Jennette, b. May 28, 1816; d. Aug. 1, 1816. Thomas Loring, b. Nov. 19, 1818; d. June 14, 1845.
Almon, b. Jan. 6, 1822; m. Eliza J. Washburn.
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