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I. Ezra Fluent, b. N. June 17, 1797; m., Mar. 1820, Mary A. Ben- nett, b. Oct. 5, 1795. One of the principal citizens of Nor- way in his day. He d. Dec. 19, 1871. His wid. d. Jan. 9, 1874. 5 ch .:
1 Elizabeth Bennett, b. Dec. 31, 1820; d Feb 24, 1883.
2 Wm. Fluent, b July 15, 1823; d Oct 14, 1824.
3 George Lafayette, b May 21, 1825; m. Belinda Thompson. He d. Dec. 11, 1896; she d. Feb. 25, 1898. 2 ch .: Elizabeth B., b. Dec. 7, 1851 (unm.); Agnes Jeanette, b. Nov. 13, 1859 (unm.).
4 Mary Ann, b Oct 17, 1828; m. Edwin W. Howe; she d. Sept. 22, 1904.
II. John, b. 1799; m. Almira Coy of Minot, b. 1799. They both d. after 1852. 4 ch .:
1 John D., b Dec 11, 1824; m Ellen Pottle.
2 Henrietta Mary, b Jan. 29, 1827.
3 Jerusha A. F., b Sept 19, 1829.
4 Jerome Thomas Pollard, b Aug 17, 1833.
III. Polly M., b. 1801; d. 1865, unm.
IV. Wm. Jr., b. Nov. 19, 1803; m. Susan, dau. of Nath'l Millett. She d. May 28, 1897. 6 ch .:
Martha Jane, b Aug 19, 1829; m Sullivan Gilkey; d. Oct. 1 16, 1900.
2 Thos. Francis, b Aug 23, 1831; m Eliza J. Hill. 3 Elizabeth Caroline, b Sept 8, 1833; m. Gordon of Waltham, Mass.
4 William Henry, b July 24, 1836; d Aug. 18, 1839.
5 Henry Orlando, b Mar 12, 1840.
6 Harriet Mary, b Aug 4, 1843; m Capt. Uriah Briggs.
V. Maria, b. Oct. 18, 1808; m. Hiram Thayer of Oxford; settled in Portland.
VI. Rufus Fluent, b. abt. 1811; m. 1, Adaline Smith; 2, Lucy Tufts. Samuel Treat, b. abt. 1814; m. Clarissa Pike; settled at Mechanic Falls; 4 ch .:
VII.
1 Francis A., b Apr 25, 1831; m Louisa Edwards.
2 Sarah, b July 1, 1835; m Horace Pratt.
3 James M., b Aug 27, 1837; m Sarah Welch.
4 Ezra Fluent, b Feb 9, 1841; m Jane Dean; d Nov 22, 1883.
DANIEL WEBSTER BEAL, born Portland, Me., May 11, 1834; died in Bangor, Feb. 18, 1899. Married Helen A. Palmer, Nov. 30, 1856. D. Webster Beal attended the Norway Liberal Institute for several years, afterwards conducting his father's farm (which ex-
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tended from the 'homestead-now the Beal's Inn-down Cottage street to the Paris line) ; giving this up after several years, he en- tered into partnership with Edwin W. Howe in the grocery and dry goods business, the firm being Howe & Beal. Later he went into the merchant tailoring and ready-made clothing business, the latter part of which he conducted many years. The family afterwards moved to Lewiston, and later to Bangor. Helen A. Palmer, the wife of D. Webster Beal, was born in Waterville, July 28, 1838, the young- est child of Alden Palmer, a mill-wright by trade, who came to Nor- way to operate the mill at the head of the village, owned by Ezra F. Beal and others, Helen being then sixteen years old. She died in Bangor, April 3, 1917.
Children of D. Webster and Helen A. Beal: Mary E., born May 15, 1858; Annie Palmer, b. April 4, 1860. Mary learned the printer's trade in the office of the Norway Advertiser, after graduating from the Norway Liberal Institute; in 1881, went to the Lewiston Journal office as compositor; in 1887-8 studied shorthand and typewriting in Boston, and was teacher of these branches in the Bangor Business College from October, 1891, to July, 1903; then became owner of a school under her own name; first, The Beal School of Shorthand and afterwards The Beal Business College. She sold the latter July 6, 1922, making nearly thirty-one years of continuous teaching in Ban- gor. She is now conducting an office for public stenography in Bangor.
Annie Palmer, who lives in Bangor with her youngest son, mar- ried Theodore L. Webb, Nov. 23, 1881. He was born in Bridgton, Dec. 1, 1858; died in Bangor, Feb. 10, 1908. He was in the ready- made clothing business in Norway for a few years, the firm being Webb & Wakefield-they being the originators of the "Blue Store." He afterwards traveled in Aroostook county for a wholesale beef con- cern, making his home in Bangor.
Their children: Maurice Beal, b. Lewiston, Aug. 18, 1884; Harold Savage, b. Norway, June 30, 1891. Maurice married Nellie Wood, in Bangor, June 30, 1908; she died June 11, 1911; he married again, in Salem, Mass., Oct. 21, 1914, Mrs. Laura McQuarrie, a trained nurse; employed by the N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co .; no children. Harold Savage married, in Everett, Mass., Annie May Cushman, of Milo, Maine, June 29, 1912. Their children: Elizabeth Cushman, b. Ban- gor, Oct. 16, 1914; Theodore Albert, b. Bangor, Aug. 23, 1918; Geor- gia Beal, b. Belfast, June 2, 1921. They reside in Bangor. Mr. Webb has been employed in a Bangor bank and with a prominent accounting firm in Boston, but for the larger part of his life has taught commercial branches in private and public schools; is now teaching these branches in the Ellsworth High School.
BENNETT.
CAPT. ANTHONY BENNETT, who came from New Gloucester to Rustfield in 1791, and settled on the east side of the great pond, was the son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Babson) Bennett, of Gloucester, later of New Gloucester, where Anthony was born Dec. 11, 1770. His wife was Mary Blake, b. G., May 10, 1771. His father was a ser-
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geant in the Rev. War, from New Gloucester. Anthony was a car- penter, builder and millwright. He was prominent in the militia and held a commission as Captain of the Norway Company at the time of his death, Oct. 28, 1807. He had also served on the board of selectmen. His death was the result of an injury received while at work on a mill at Cragie's Mills, now Oxford villge, by the fall of a staging, when he was thrown upon his broadaxe, cutting his thigh in a horrible manner. His widow survived him over 40 years, dying July 21, 1849. 8 ch.
I. Isaac, b. N. G., June 24, 1792; m., 1819, Sally Martin, b. Apr. 26, 1794; d. Mar. 30, 1869. He d. Oct. 19, 1868; bur. in Pine Grove. 4 ch .:
1. Stidman, b. Dec. 13, 1820; m. Sophia Stevens of Woburn, Mass. He was a soldier in the Civil War from Mass., and d. in the service, Aug. 5, 1863; buried in Pine Grove. His wid. d. May 10, 1867.
3. Dr. Servilla, b. Sept. 27, 1829; m. Susan H. Willis of Hebron. He practiced medicine in New Portland for many years. Returned to Norway late in life and d. here Sept. 19, 1906, bur. in Pine Grove. Wid. removed to Mass. to live with her son Willis-an only child, who had m. and was employed on a railroad; no issue. She d. Feb. 27, 1912, "aged 85."
4. Cordelia, b. Dec. 27, 1831; m. John P. Adams, set. in Mass.
II. Betsey, b. Rustfield, Oct. 13, 1793; m. Lewis Crockett; set. in Andover; d. at Bryant Pond, July 14, 1868.
III. Mary Ann, b. Oct. 5, 1795; m. Ezra F. Beal; d. Jan. 1875.
IV. Deborah, b May 30, 1797; d. July 24, 1874; m. Lee Mixer, b. 1808.
V. Anthony Jr., b. July 7, 1801; m. Jane Millett, b. Mar. 3, 1810. He d. Aug. 13, 1888, at his only child's home, Mrs. Wm. A. Field, in Bath. His w. had d. before Jan. 30, 1856.
VI. Joseph, b. Oct. 16, 1803; m. Lydia B. Wolcott; d. in Cal. Nov. 8, 1852.
VII. James, b. Aug. 13, 1805; m. Eleanor E. Bolster. They lived on the old homestead where he d. June 18, 1889; she d. Apr. 14, 1895, aged 75; 2 ch .: George I., b. Feb. 15, 1860; d. young; Jennie E., b. Jan. 23, 1849; m. Charles H. Sargent; she d. Sept. 15, 1865.
VIII. Esther, b July 29, 1808; m. Lee Mixer; d. Oct 28, 1842.
NATHANIEL, JR., a twin brother of Anthony, m. Elizabeth Blake, a sister of Anthony's wife. His farm joined Anthony's on the north-the Sol. I. Millett place. No children. He d. Mar. 15, 1855 Wid. d. May 15, 1856, "aged 87."
JAMES C. BENNETT, b. Greenwood, Nov. 20, 1820; m. Polly Patch Upton, b. Sept. 13, 1815. He conducted a meat and provision store for many years in Norway. He d. Dec. 26, 1891; wid. d. Feb. 21, 1901. 6 ch .:
I. Fitzroy, b. Nov. 25, 1845; m. Flora E. Chapman; set. in Cum- berland county; d. Jan. 28, 1904.
II. Albert T., b. Oct. 10, 1847; m. Annie M. Moore of Lovell. He d. Jan. 24, 1921. 2 ch .: Guy G., b. Aug. 25, 1878; m. Ave- lena Harriman; she d. May 19, 1906 and he remarried; 1 ch.,
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Uldana, b. Dec. 3, 1903. Ray, b. Oct. 28, 1881; m. Grace B. Pratt; 2 ch .: John Albert, b. Sept. 16, 1914, and Leroy For- rest, b. Sept. 29, 1922.
III. Llewellyn E., b. Nov. 3, 1849; m. Annie H. Crockett.
IV. Anna M., b. Jan. 2, 1852; d. unm., Aug. 22, 1913.
V. Abbie M., b. May 27, 1854; m. Frank H. Lovering, set. in Mass.
VI. Ella A., b. May 16, 1856; m. Frank H. Noyes; she d. June 12, 1912.
MILAN BENNETT, son of Abraham and Bethiah (Mason) Bennett of Gilead, a soldier in the Civil War, came here fom Gilead and set- tled on the Joseph Stevens place. He died May 13, 1892; wid. d. July 9, 1912. Ch. :
1. Edith L., b. Apr. 26, 1866; m. Charles F. Boober, b. Matta- contis, July 5, 1861.
2. Etta Jane, b. 1869; d. in infancy.
GEO. OSCAR BENNETT, son of William, b. Aug. 19, 1850; m. Alber- tine G. Waterhouse, b. Dec. 13, 1856; she d. Nov. 30, 1922. He lives on a farm in the vicinity of the village. Shoemaker, and thrifty farmer. 2 ch., Maudie and Gertie, both died in infancy.
WILLIAM, DANIEL P. and JAMES C. were sons of Francis Bennett, a grandson of Nathaniel Bennett, senior, of New Gloucester, the Rev. Sol.
EUGENE L. BENNETT, son of David F. and Sarah (Fifield) Ben- nett of Riley Pl., b. there Dec. 17, 1846, m. 1870, Mary J. Richardson, b. Aug. 19, 1848. They set. on a farm near Noble's Corner, where he d. Aug. 5, 1889. After his death wid. removed to the village. 3 ch .:
I. Gertie M., b. July 6, 1872; ; m. 1890, Llewellyn H. Cushman.
II. Harry E., b. Dec. 16, 1880; d. Oct. 21, 1881.
III. Grace L., b. Dec. 16, 1880; d. Apr. 8, 1918.
GEORGE H. BENNETT, a carriage painter, son of Daniel P. and Narcissa (Cushman) Bennett of Greenwood, b. there Dec. 19, 1853; m. Agnes C. Russell; she d. Oct. 24, 1916; m. 2, 1918, Lillian Lucas. 3 ch .:
1 Maud, b Jan. 28, 1884, d. in infancy.
2 Winifred R., b Jan. 20, 1885; m Fred M. Davis, a painter;
4 ch .: Evelyn Winona, b. Aug. 28, 1909; Merle Frederick, b. Feb. 27, 1913; Amy W., b. Nov. 30, 1914; Norton Lee, b. July 1, 1917.
3 Hazel A., b Feb. 1, 1892; m. Horace L. Cleveland; 3 ch .: Sherwood, George and Edwina, who d. in infancy.
BICKFORD.
MAJ. WM. KENDALL BICKFORD, son of William Bickford, b. at Dresden, Nov. 8, 1836; m. Emma J., dau. of Seth and Octavia (Love- joy) Henderson, b. Dec. 2, 1844. He went into the War of the Re- bellion from Thomaston as Ord. Sergt. of Co. I, 20th Me., and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Antietam, Little Round Top at Gettysburg, Spottsylvania, Five Forks, Weldon R. R., and other engagements, being seriously wounded at Spottsylvania. He was promoted to Capt. of Co. E, and brevet Major for gallantry
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under fire. For many years after the war, he was landlord of hotels in Thomaston, Norway and Rumford Falls, dying at the latter place Sept. 28, 1900. 9 ch.
I. Wm. Seth, b. Mar. 26, 1866; m. Della Louise Stevens; ch. re- corded on Norway records: son b. Feb. 19, 1910; dau. (Arline), b. Nov. 5, 1919.
II. Ella Libby, b. Jan. 27, 1863; d. young.
III. Inez Maude, b. Dec. 13, 1871; d. young.
IV. Robert Ford, b. June 14, 1873; m. 1, Jan. 1906, Alma Edith Holt of Augusta; d. Aug. 8, 1915; 2, Jan. 1920, Helen R., dau. of Joseph B. Cole of Paris. He is an Episcopalian, local food adm'r in World War, engineer on construction of Oxford Paper Mills, 1898-1900, connected with Canadian Pacific R. R. construction dept .; ret'd to N. in 1910; one of pioneer gem cutters of Maine; town treasurer 1921-lapidary and jeweler. 2 ch .- one by each wife:
Sylvia Faye, b Aug. 3, 1907.
Robert Archibald, b. May 1, 1921.
V. Ross Lewis, b. Aug. 21, 1875; m. Callie C. Barron.
VI. Octavia Henderson, b. Aug. 12, 1877; m. Rev. Marcus H. Car- roll, an Episcopalian clergyman; res. Hanover, Mass.
VII. May Maude, b. Sept. 30, 1879; grad. Farmington Normal School, teacher; res. Boston, Mass.
VIII. Grace, b Feb. 25, 1883, unm .- res. Bridgewater, Mass.
IX. Henry Knox, b. Apr. 27, 1889; m. June, 1918, Winifred . McKeen of Stoneham.
HENRY A. BICKFORD, a Civil War sol., son of George W. and Mary B. (Stuart) Bickford, and grandson of Stephen and Sarah (Thomas) Bickford of Parsonsfield, b. May 8, 1847; m. Josephine L. Allen of Stoneham, b. Dec. 19, 1852. 4 ch .:
1. Lilla F., b. Parsonsfield, Mar. 31, 1871; m. Wm. E. Rice; res. Norway.
2. Eva May, b. Stoneham, Jan. 2, 1873, m. Fred W. Woodbury of Cambridge, Mass .; she d Dec. 29, 1914; 2 ch., Fred W. and Gordon.
3. Curtis D., b. Stoneham, Feb. 2, 1875; m. Grace Adams of Stoneham; no ch.
4. Faye Stanley, b. Norway, Nov. 1, 1884; m. Walter A. Lord of Waterford; she d. Nov. 25, 1914; 7 ch .: Myron, Gwendolyn, Josephine L., Kathleen, Walter E., Stanley and Faye Bickford.
BICKNELL.
The Bicknells of America are of an ancient English race, whose principal seat about 1300 was at the manor of Bykenhulle, near Taunton in the County of Somerset, from which the name is derived. It is from two Saxon words, byan, beacon and hulle, hill, meaning a beacon hill.
Among the twenty-one families of Rev. Joseph Hull's colony which came to Massachusetts in May, 1635, and were granted the privilege to locate at Wessagussett-changed to Weymouth in September of that year from the place in England from which the colony of 106
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persons had sailed the 20th of March before. One of these families was that of Zachary Bicknell, aged 45, his wife Agnes (Lovell) aged 37, and John their son, aged 11. They had a servant, John Kitchin, aged 23. It is supposed that the descendants of this John Kitchin are living today in several of the southern states, particularly in North Carolina, where one has been Governor of the State and an- other a Member of Congress.
Zachary was given 20 acres of land in what is now North Wey- mouth village, where his house was built in the autumn of that year (1635).
Zachary Bicknell died the next year and his widow in 1648, aged 45, at Braintree. She had married Richard Rockett. By him she had one son, John, b. 1647.
In the North Weymouth cemetery is a monument on which is this inscription: "Zachary Bicknell and his wife, Agnes, their son John and servant, John Kitchin, left Weymouth, England, in Rev. Joseph Hull's company, settling near this spot, July, 1635. Founders of the family in America."
John 2 Bicknell became a prominent and leading citizen of Weymouth. He served on the board of selectmen for many years, and was a Deputy to the General Court in 1678. He was a carpen- ter by occupation, and married about 1652, Mary, dau. of Abraham and Bridget (Best) Shaw. She was b. June 18, 1626, and d. March 25, 1658. They had three children, of whom the the oldest was John, b. 1654. She d. and he m., Jan. 1659, Mary, dau. of Richard and Ruth Porter. They had nine children. He d. in 1678, aged 54.
JOHN 3 BICKNELL, b. 1654, m. Sarah They had seven children of whom the oldest was John, b. Nov. 24, 1688. The father was a farmer and cooper and owned before he died in 1737, aged 83, land on the wharf in Boston harbor. His wife d. in 1730.
Jonn 4 m. July, 1714, Hannah Humphrey, dau. of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Humphrey, b. July, 1692. They removed to Abington, where he died, April 2, 1779, aged 90. She d. after Feb. 6, 1764. They had three children of whom the oldest was John 5, b. Aug. 30, 1715. He m. in 1739, Experience, dau. of John and Susan Ran- dall, b. Weymouth, Jan. 24, 1719. He became the possessor of the old family Bible which was brought from England in 1635 by the immigrant ancestor, Zachary Bicknell, and handed down from father to son. It is now in existence at West Paris, having been in the posseession of a John Bicknell from the death of Zachary.
He died May 23, 1790. His widow survived him. They had four children. The second child was John 6, b. Abington, May 14, 1744. Up to this time in the line of descent, the first child had been a son and named John. The first child in this family was a dau. named Hannah, b. in 1740. John 6, m. 1, in 1767, Prudence White of Abington. She d. three years after and he m. 2, in 1771, Rebecca Nash of the same town. She d. in 1802 and he m. 3, in 1804 in Hebron, Susanna Sturtevant. This John Bicknell was a sol. of the Rev. He lived in Bridgewater, where three of his five chil- dren were born. He served several enlistments, one being in Capt. David Packard's Co. of Col. Cary's Regt. to Rhode Island in
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1780. He was Sec. Lieut. in same Company of Col. Mitchell's Regt., 1778. He was a corporal and Minute Man in Capt. Josiah Hayden's Co., Col. Bailey's Regt. that marched on the Alarm of April 19, 1775 (attack on Lexington and Concord). After the war he settled in Hebron where two of his children were born. He d. there Nov. 25, 1825, aged 81. Ch. all by 2nd wife:
I. John 7, b. May 3, 1772; m. Shua Small of Deering.
II. Noah, b. 1773; m. Rebecca Carman.
III. Simeon, b. 1775; m. Rebekah Irish.
IV. David, b. Apr. 22, 1781; m. Abigail Irish.
V. Deborah, b .--- 1783; d. Oct. 7, 1785.
VI. Deborah, b .-- 1785; m. George Bryant; set. in Ohio.
John 7, had 11 ch., 6 of the younger ones being born in Buck- field. John 8, the 2d child b. Hebron, April 6, 1796; m. Marcena Churchill, dau. of the Rev. Sol., Jabez, b. June 22, 1800. They had four children; John 9, the oldest ch., b. Apr. 15, 1821, m. Eveline B. Cushman of Buckfield. They had four ch. the 3d being John 10, b. June 14, 1868. He has the old Bicknell Bible.
The 6th ch. of John 7, was James 8, b. Hebron, May 9, 1802. He m., 1824, Judith Chase Bowker, b. B., May 18, 1802. They had 10 ch. of whom James Francis 9, b. May 7, 1828, was the 2d ch. He m. 1852, Rebecca Spaulding Fletcher, b. Sept. 16, 1833. They had two children: Everett F., b. Apr. 4, 1854; m., 1878, Lizzie A. Bennett.
Grace B., b. Aug. 10, 1880; m. Prof. Eisenwinter.
Isabel, b. June 7, 1859; d. Jan. 7, 1884. He d. Jan. 8, 1920. Widow removed to Conn.
NOAH 7 BICKNELL, son of John 6, b. 1773; m. 1794, Rebecca Carman. They had 10 children:
I Cyrus, b. May 28, 1796; m. Rebecca Bicknell, a cousin, dau. of David. They lived near the Sodom schoolhouse, Hebron. They had 6 ch., the most prominent being Columbus, b. Mar. 11, 1821. He was a land surveyor, clerk in store, etc.
II. Hannah, b. Jan. 4, 1798; d. Sept. 28, 1829.
III. Otis, b. Oct. 4, 1799; m. Martha Dudley
IV. Azor, b. Sept. 19, 1801; d. Aug. 10, 1816.
V. Hosea, b. May 8, 1803; m. Zilpah Bicknell, dau. of David.
VI. Sally, b. Feb. 24, 1805; d. Mar. 16, 1839.
VII. Luke, b. Dec. 17, 1806; m. Orris Decoster.
VIII. Timothy P., b. Feb. 13, 1809; d. unm.
IX. Tristram G., b. June 24, 1811; m. Polly Jordan; d. Feb. 15, 1890.
X. Mary D., b. Oct. 23, 1813; d. unm.
LUKE 8, son of Noah 7, b. Dec. 17, 1806; m. 1830, Orris De- coster. He d. Dec. 13, 1837. His widow survived him many years. They had four children :
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I. Noah, b. May 18, 1831; a school teacher of note.
II. Eliza, b. Feb. 16, 1832; m Russell S. Whitman.
III. Albinus, b. 1834; m. Mary De Grenier.
IV. Justin, b. 1836; d. unm.
Albinus m. Mary DeGrenier. He d. Apr. 1908. She d. Dec., 1905. 2 ch. 1, William A., b April 7, 1868; m. Sarah E., dau. of Adelbert D. and Elmira (Doughty) Bicknell, b. Aug. 14, 1874. Ch .: Ronello C., b. 189 -; m. 1914, Mary F. Wentworth of Auburn; ch., Gwendolyn, b. July 9, 1914; Thelma E., b. Jan. 29, 1917; d. Feb. 17, 1922; Hazel Evelyn, b. July 7, 1893; Ula K., b. May 24, 1895; m. Dec. 1921, John W. Wood; Zilpha May, b. Sept. 16, 1906.
2, Benj. Butler, b. Sept. 4, 1880. Part owner for a period of the Rumford Falls Times. For several years past in automobile business in Norway.
BIRD.
JOHN BIRD, son of Samuel and Mary (Carr) Bird of English birth, b. in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2, 1774, came to Paris where he m. Mary Churchill-later removed to Norway, into the section where the family of Eugene D. Millett lives. One of the farms is called the Bird farm to this day. He d. Apr. 23, 1863, aged 88. His wife d. July 11, 1852, aged 76. Of their 10 ch., Polly, b. Nov. 20, 1796, m. Wm. Churchill; Nancy, b. Sept. 11, 1798, m. Daniel Cummings; John Jr., b. Sept. 6, 1807, m. 1, Ann Young, who d. Mar. 3, 1844; 2, Emma, dau. of Rev. Daniel Mason of Bethel. He d. Oct. 12, 1869; wid. d. Sept. 30, 1890. Ch .:
2. John M., b. Dec. 15, 1836; m. Eliza J. Jackson.
4. Angerone A., b. Feb. 18, 1844; m. Cyrus H. Witt; set. in Worcester, Mass.
5. Amos A., b. Mar. 20, 1846; m. Anna J. Edgerly.
6. James E., b. Sept. 4, 1850; m. Martha H. Gould of Bridgton.
7. Martha A., b. May 25, 1854; m. Chas. H. Barnard of Bridgton.
BLAKE.
BENJAMIN BLAKE was living at Wolfboro, N. H., during the Revo- lution. He had a family of at least two sons, David and Jonathan, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Hannah. The latter m. James Lary, who moved to Gilead, and lived to be 99 years old. Jonathan remained in Wolfboro. David m. Hannah Messer and set- led in Gilead. His wife dying, he m. 2d, Louisa Evans. By first wife he had 7 children-first six in Wolfboro, the 7th in Gilead. By 2d w. he had 7 children, all born in Bethel where he had removed about 1803.
MICAH, the 3d son and child, b. at Wolfboro, m. 1816, his oldest brother Benjamin's widow, Nancy Ripley of Rumford, b. in Methuen. She had two children by her first husband and eight by her 2d. Their oldest child was Capt. Jonathan Blake, b. Bethel, June 11, 1817; m. June 17, 1841, Elizabeth S. Crockett of Norway, b. Aug. 17, 1821. They settled in Norway where both lived to their deaths-
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CAPT. JONATHAN BLAKE
ELIZABETH S. BLAKE
past 80 years of age, higly respected by all who ever knew them. He d. Aug. 23, 1902. She d. May 7, 1908. He had served as a Captain in the Norway Company of the 10th Me. in the War of the Rebellion. 4 children:
I. Mary Elizabeth, b. Jan. 29, 1844; m. Dr. Albert Thompson.
II. Martha Crockett, b. Aug. 21, 1846; m. Col. Wm. W. Whitmarsh.
III. Charles Gilman, b. March 18, 1854; m. M. Addie Denison. IV. George F., b Feb. 7, 1861; died Oct. 29, 1864.
CHARLES G. BLAKE, son of Capt. Jonathan, b. March 18, 1854; m. Oct. 16, 1878, M. Addie Denison. For many years they lived in West Virginia where he served as mayor of the city of Davis, but returned to Norway a few years ago, where he is carrying on the business of a lumber dealer. Child: George O., b. Sept. 28, 1879; d. Nov. 1893, from accidental discharge of a gun.
BOLSTER
ISAAC BOLSTER with his wife Abigail was in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1732. She d. and he m. 2, Hepsibah He d. Apr. 28, 1753, and 2 wife d. July 20, 1742.
LT. ISAAC JR., b. April 28, 1737, m. Mary Dwinal of Sutton. He was a Rev. Sol. as was also his brother William. Lt. Isaac was one of the Minute Men who was in the engagements of Lexington and Concord, Apr. 19, 1775. After the war he settled in Hebron and afterwards removed to Paris, to a farm s. e. of So. Paris Village, where he died April 27, 1825. His wife d. Aug. 4, 1814. Their son, Capt. Isaac Bolster, b. Sutton, May 12, 1769, m. Hannah Cushman, dau. of Gideon of Hebron, b. Apr. 16, 1777. He d. July 8, 1835. 10 ch .:
I. Alvan, b. Dec. 7, 1795, m. Cynthia Wheeler; set. in Rumford.
II. Isaac, b. Feb. 28, 1797; m. Polly Cushman; set. in Harrison; rem. to Norway.
III. Capt. Gideon, b. Apr. 29, 1799; m. Charlotte Hall.
IV. Otis C., b. Sept. 25, 1801; m. 1, Dolly Keyes of Rumford; 2, Marcia C., dau. of Peter C. Virgin. The 2d wife was the
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mother of N. Dayton Bolster, b. May 22, 1850, who m. Ada M. Morton, b. May 1, 1858.
V. William, b. June 23, 1804; m. Hannah Turner; set. in Harri- son.
VI. Hannah, b. June 23, 1807; m. Dr. Thomas Gore of Minot.
VII. Lyman, b. Mar. 29, 1809; m. Betsey Knight.
VIII. Louisa, b. Apr. 28, 1812; m. Augustus King.
IX. Levi, b. Nov. 10, 1819; m. Marcia Warren; set. in Conn.
X Ruth, b. Jan. 1, 1823; m. Alex. Cushman; set. in Buckfield.
ISAAC BOLSTER 4, built the first store at Bolsters Mills, Harri- son, and gave his name to the place. Late in life he removed to Norway to live with his son, J. Augustus, and d. here Mar. 9, 1863. Wid. d. Oct. 2, 1868, aged 71 years 3 mos. 6 ch .:
I. Eleanor, b. Apr. 23, 1820; m. James Bennett.
II. John A., b. June 28, 1822; m. 1, Almena Adams; 2, Abbie H. Lord.
III. Cynthia J., b. Mar. 15, 1825; m. Grosvenor Crockett.
IV. Oliver F., b. Sept. 6, 1828; d. May 6, 1896.
V. Mary D., b. July 29, 1832; m. Minot.
Severance; set. in
VI. Georgia, b. Oct. 12, 1835; m. Thomas Plummer of Waterford.
JOHN A. BOLSTER
JOHN AUGUSTUS, b. at Bolster's Mills, came to Norway with his father's family in 1841. He m. 1852, Almena Adams of Andover-d. Mar. 11, 1880; m. 2, Abbie H. Lord. He was a man of excellent judgment, served on the board of selectmen and represented his town and district in the legislature. He was a faithful friend and a good citizen. For many years he was a cattle drover for the Brighton, Mass. market with Colman F. Lord and Geo. F. Andrews. He d. June 3, 1902; wife d. Aug. 25, 1898. 3 ch .:
I. Frank Denison, b. Apr. 9, 1858; d. July 14, 1878.
II. Fred Augustus, b. Mar. 1, 1856; m. 1, Hattie Penley; 2, Jennie E. Mason, res. Bolster's Mills. No ch.
III. James Freeland, b Feb. 8, 1860; m. Maud M. Fuller-no ch.
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BRADBURY
The Bradburys of America trace their ancestry to Robert of Ollerset, Derbyshire, England, b. about 1400. He married a daughter of Robert Davenport. William, their son, married Margaret Rock- hill. They settled in Hartford. Their son, Robert, married Anne Wyant. His brother, Sir Thomas was Lord Mayor of London in 1509. A sister married John Josselyn. Robert, a judge of the assizes, Isle of Ely-d. in 1489 and was buried in the Church of Gray Friars, London. William, the only son, born 1480, succeeded to the estate of his uncle, Sir Thomas, who died without issue. He married Joan Bendish. He was lord of the manor of Mancenden, and Catmere Hall, Littlebury, in 1543. Died in 1546 and was buried at Littlebury. His son, William, lord of Catmere Hall, married Eleanor Fuller,-died in 1550. His son, William, born 1541, married Ann Eden. She died in 1612, he in 1622. Wymond, their son, bap. 1574, married Elizabeth Whitgrift, and had a house in London in 1628. Capt. Thomas 1, the immigrant ancestor, the second son, came to New England before 1634. (He had been bap. at Wicken in 1611). That year he was a proprietor and settler in Sal- isbury, Mass. He was admitted to citizenship in 1640 and was one of the foremost men there, for more than fifty years. He was an agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges for sale of lands in Maine. He married in 1636, Mary Perkins of Ipswich. He was appointed "clerk of the writs" in S. in 1641. For six years he was a Deputy in the General Court at Boston. In 1692 his wife was accused of witchcraft, and after a trial, which is one of the famous cases of that day, escaped the gallows. Her aged husband's testimony at the trial is pathetic. It bears evidence of her moral excellence and worth. They had been married, he said, for 55 years, and during that time she had been wonderfully laborious, diligent and industrious in bringing up their 11 children and 4 grandchildren. She "was both prudent and provident, and of a cheerful spirit and charitable, and is now very aged and weak, and grieves under her afflictions." Let her descendants (the writer's children are of the number) be thank- ful that the narrow-contracted, half crazy and fanatical officials of that day in the old Commonwealth allowed this blameless woman and devoted wife and mother to end her last days in peace and were saved from committing the crime of taking her life. They had a son, William 2, who married Rebecca (Wheelwright) Maverick. Among their children was Moses 3, who came to North Yarmouth and later settled in New Gloucester. He married Abigail Fogg. They had a daughter Sarah, who married David Dinsmore. They settled in Minot on Bradbury Hill. Her brother, Benjamin 3, married Eleanor Fellows and settled on the hill in Minot, named for him. Their son, Joseph 4, b. No. Yarmouth, May 10, 1768, m. Tabitha Cotton, b. Sept. 5, 1765, came to Norway about 1808 and settled on the farm near Pike's Hill which he purchased of Joshua Smith. He was a federalist, national republican and whig in politics and a Congregationalist in religion, and was deacon of the church at Center Norway for many years. He d. April 4, 1836. His wife d. Aug. 25, 1845, "aged 80"-9 ch.
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