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MESSER, THOMAS, br. of Asa ; t. 1796, and again in 1799 ; b. Lunenburg, Mass .; m., 1802, Phebe Vinal, b. Scituate, Mass. ; had - I. Vinal, b. Dec. 17, 1803 ; d. 1837. By a fall, his spine was injured, so that for twelve years he was without sensation in his lower limbs. - II. Minot, b. April 20, 1805 ; m., 1826, Lydia Bowman, of Washington ; had 1. John Bowman, b. Oct. 8, 1826. 2. Caroline Hills, b. Feb. 23, 1809. 3. Samuel Loring, b. June 6, 1831. 4. Thomas Guilford, b. Aug. 25, 1833. 5. Vinal, b. Aug. 27, 1835. 6 and 7. Twins, b. July 18, 1837; viz. Lydia Ann and Hannah Maria. 8. Eliza, b. Jan. 6, 1840. 9. Mar- garet Miller, b. July, 1842. 10. Emelina, b. January,
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1845. 11. Aravilla Bryant, b. Oct. 29, 1848. - III. Emeline, b. Oct. 4, 1807; m., Dec. 23, 1830, Aaron Bry- ant; ch. 1. Elizabeth. 2. William Henry. 3. Mary Elizabeth. 4. Delphina. 5. Sarah. 6. Phebe Jane. 7. Martha. 8. Augustus ; d. 9. Julia. 10. James. 11. A daughter.
MITCHELL, ANDROS, or ANDREWS, cousin to Jeremiah ; t. 1798 ; d. April 6, 1819; m. 1802, Rachel Pearson, +of Cushing, who d. June 23, 1830, aged sixty ; ch. - I. Eliza- beth, b. June 16, 1804. - II. Richard P., b. June 27, 1806 ; w. Sally ; had 1. Andrews, b. March 26, 1832. 2. Levi, b. Sept. 8, 1837. - III. Enos, b. April 23, 1809; m., 1838, Mary J. Butler.
MITCHELL, THOMAS, from North Yarmouth; t. 1796; w., probably, Dinah, who d. March or May 10, 1821, aged seventy-nine ; ch. - I. Jeremiah, m. Mercy Fairbanks, sister of Mrs. West; had 1. Lucy, b. Aug. 4, 1793; m., 1812, Ichabod Irish. 2. Thomas Andrews, b. Aug. 19, 1795; m., March 25, 1819, Deborah Jameson, of Waldo- borough. 3. Mary, b. Oct. 23, 1797; m. Rev. Solomon Bray. 4. Ebenezer Allen, b. Aug. 15, 1800; m. Keziah Furbush ; and had Thomas A., b. Sept. 21, 1834. 5. Hannah, b. Sept. 10, 1803, and d. Oct. 13, 1829; m. Jud- son Caswell, Nov. 7, 1824; had (1). Hannah, b. Nov. 9, 1831; (2). John Chandler, b. Feb. 1, 1834 ; (3). Lendall, b. Jan. 23, 1836. 6. Henry True, b. Aug. 8, 1806; m., 1829, Dolly Raizor. 7. Olive, b. March 26, 1809; m. Jacob Pevee. 8. Mercy Dyer, b. Nov. 18, 1811 ; after her sister Hannah's decease, m., Jan. 13, 1831, Judson Caswell; and had (1). Lozeah, b. Oct. 18, 1838 ; (2). Mary O., Feb. 18, 1842; (3). Christiana A., b. Dec. 14, 1843; (4). Caroline, b. May 20, 1847. 9. Jere- miah Ward, b. Nov. 6, 1814; m. Emily Lehr. 10. Asa Lyman, b. April 15, 1818. 11. Jeruel Butler, b. Dec. 1, 1821. - II. Jabez Norton; t. 1798 ; m., March 29, 1800, Hepzibah Ripley ; had 1. Abraham, b. March 6, 1801. 2. Dinah, b. March 8, 1803. 3. Enos, b. Sept. 21, 1805. 4. Jabez, b. Aug. 15, 1807. 5. Silas, b. March 7, 1810. - IV. Thomas; t. 1796; d. Oct. 14, 1843; m., Sept. 5, 1799, Polly, dr. of Samuel Daggett ; and had 1. Elizabeth, b. June 30, 1800 ; m., Dec. 10, 1818, Samuel Stone. 2. Jedi- dah Cutter, b. Jan. 18, 1802 ; d. of consumption, April 8,
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1828. 3. Rebecca Athearn, b. April 25, 1807; d. Jan. 26, 1836; m., 1835, Elias Breck, of Springfield, Mass. 4. Broth- erton Daggett, b. June 7, 1810; d. July 10, 1811. 5. Thomas Harrison, b. Aug. 30, 1812; d. July 9, 1839. - V. A dr .; m. Edward Oakes. - VI. Mary, m., Dec. 25, 1800, Calvin Morse. - VII. Dinah, m., Oct. 10, 1801, John Murray ; and had Thomas, b. July 29, 1802.
MOORE, AUGUSTUS, from Massachusetts, t. 1796.
MORSE, CALVIN, b. Nov. 22, 1773, according to Barry's Framingham ; was fourth child and third son of Jonathan, of Framingham, who m. Mehetabel Nurse, and d. young. Jonathan's father Jonathan, who was son of Joseph, m., May 16, 1734, Mary Cloyce. The family early belonged to Watertown. CALVIN, t. 1799; m., 1800, Mary, dr. of Thomas Mitchell; and d. Aug. 6, 1846, in Washington. They had - I. Josiah, b. Oct. 2, 1801. - II. Dinah, b. June 1, 1803. - III. Jonathan, b. Sept. 21 or 24, 1805; m., Jan. 26, 1834, Catherine Sherman ; and had 1. John Q., b. Oct. 25, 1834. 2. Achsah, b. Oct. 24, 1835. 3. Joseph, b. Aug. 9, 1837. 4. Charles, b. March 20, 1839. 5. Cal- vin, b. March 25, 1842. 6. Mary, b. Nov. 21, 1845. 7. Lydia A., b. April 29, 1848. - IV. Eliza, b. Nov. 13, 1807. - V. Joseph, b. March 25, 1810. - VI. Calvin, b. April 11, 1812. - VII. Mary Ann, b. Aug. 27, 1814; m. James Hodge, 1834; and had Elizabeth, b. April 8, 1835. VIII. Orson Adams, b. Aug. 8, 1817; r. Washington ; m., 1846, Jane W. Mitchell, and had Zoar A. C., b. Feb. 9, 1847 .- IX. Thomas Andrews, twin with Orson Adams. - X. William H., b. June 22, 1821. - XI. Jabez M., b. Oct. 21, 1824; r. Washington.
MORSE, JONATHAN, b. March 24, 1776; d. Nov. 19, 1850; t. 1799 ; probably came to Union with his brother Calvin ; m., May, 1808, Rebeckah, who was b. Oct: 18, 1782, and d. Aug. 11, 1831, dr. of Col. John Gleason. They had - I. Anna, b. Sept. 6, 1809; d. Oct. 14, 1843. - II. Lydia Gleason, b. Dec. 13, 1811; d. June 10, 1835. -III. Aaron Gleason, b. Dec. 13, 1814; d. Aug. 21, 1834. - IV. Micajah Gleason, b. Jan. 8, 1819; m., Dec. 16, 1841, Elizabeth U. Demuth; ch. 1. Susan A., b. May 2, 1843; d. March 28, 1847. 2. Helen L., b. Feb. 14, 1845. 3. Ann E., b. March 29, 1850.
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MORSE, JOSEPH, br. of Calvin and Jonathan; t. 1799; b. March 27, 1771; m., first, Oct. 11, 1795, Lydia, dr. of Col. John Gleason, who d .; and, second, widow Prior, of Waldoborough ; c.
MORSE,1 LEVI, b. at Sherburne, Mass., Jan. 5, 1762; d.
1 Samuel Morse, probably from Sherborn, England, or the vicinity, husbandman, at the age of fifty, and his wife, Elizabeth, at the age of forty-eight, and his son, Joseph, at the age of twenty, in consequence of the persecutions by Bishop Laud, in April, 1635, embarked for New England in the Increase, Robert Lea, master, and came to Watertown, Mass. In 1636, land was assigned to him in Dedham. He was collector, treasurer, and selectman. A few years afterward, he settled at Medfield, and, it is supposed, built the house which was first set on fire by the Indians, at the destruction of the town and the killing of eighteen inhabitants, Feb. 21, 1675. He died at Medfield, April 5, 1654, and his w. June 20, 1654.
His second son, Daniel, b. 1613, and whose w., Lydia, d. Jan. 29, 1690, aged seventy, moved from Dedham to Medfield in 1651. About 1656, he bought eight hundred acres of land, which, May 22, 1650, had been granted by the General Court to Simon Bradstreet, after- wards Governor, and since called "The Farm," situated in the east part of what is now Sherburne. He moved to Sherburne probably in 1657, where he appears to have been the leading man of the place, and d. June 5, 1688.
Daniel Morse's second child, Daniel; r. Sherburne; b. 31 : 11 : 1640; d. Sept. 29, 1702; m. Elizabeth Barbour, of Medfield, who d. 1714. This Daniel Morse's son, Daniel, b. July 10, 1672 ; d. April 4, 1719; m., 1696, Susanna Holbrook, who d. 1717. He inherited the place of his uncle, Deacon Obadiah, whose only son d. in infancy.
OBADIAH MORSE, fourth child of this Daniel, b. Aug. 15, 1704; d. 1753; m. Mercy Walker, of Sherburne. This Obadiah's third child, Obadiah, b. March 20, 1732-3; d. in Sherburne, Jan. 7, 1800, in conse- quence of a fall from a scaffold ; m., first, July 10, 1755, Grace Fair- banks, who was b. June 16, 1734, and who d. May 30, 1772; and, second, in 1776, Abigail, dr. of Caleb and Abigail Death, of Framing- ham. His children were 1. Mercy, b. May 7, 1756 ; d. July 31, 1845 ; m., 1777, Asaph Merrifield ; r. Holden. 2. Hannah, b. Feb. 7, 1758 ; m. Josiah Ward, of Southborough ; r. and d. at Bradford, N. H. 3. Adam, b. Dec. 9, 1759; d. about 1779, from an injury of the knee received in the army. 4. Levi, b. Jan. 5, 1762, settled in Union, Mc. 5. Grace, b. March 16, 1764; m., first, Reuben Esty ; and, second, Samuel Whitney ; now r. Charlestown, Mass. 6. Obadiah, b. Dec. 11, 1765; settled in Union. 7. Mary, b. Jan. 18, 1768 ; m. Phares Sawin, of South Natick. 8. Samuel, b. Jan. 3, 1770 ; d. January, 1826; mer- chant and hotel-keeper in Boston; m., first, March 25, 1794, Sally Dix, at Newton; and, second, May 11, 1800, Elizabeth Barnard, at Cambridge. 9. Persis, b. April 20, 1772; d. Feb. 5, 1847; m. Dr. J. Sibley, of Union, Maine. 10. Daniel, b. Nov. 26, 1776; went West about 1792, in the service of Pomeroy ; never heard from. 11. Judith, b. July 3, 1778; d. 1779. 12. Ezra, b. Sept. 1, 1779 ; d. June 24,
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Feb. 3, 1844; was s. of Obadiah; was in the revolutionary army, and in the expedition for the suppression of the Shays Rebellion, in 1786, -- a rebellion for which he said he could not blame the Shays party so much as many did ; "the coun- try being poor, no money, taxes high, people could not pay them." He was at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in 1785; and perhaps from one to two years there in all. In 1789, he taught school in Meduncook, now Friendship, and boarded in the family of the father of Polly Gay Bradford, who was b. at Annapolis, now Onslow, Nova Scotia, Nov. 8, 1772 ; and whom he m., March 8, 1792. "May 22, set out from Meduncook to move my wife to Union; arrived there May 23." She d. Oct. 25, 1845.1 Descendants, - I. Persis, b.
1842; m., first, Betsey Stratton; and, second, widow Morse, of Boylston, or West Boylston. 13. Moses, b. June 8, 1784 ; m., 1814, Hannah Prentice, of Sherburne, b. Sept. 15, 1789 ; r. Union ; ch. (1). Feroline Pierce, b. Sept. 8, 1815; r. Boston ; (2). Edward Phillips, b. May 1, 1817; m. his half-cousin, Martha Alice, dr. of Obadiah Morse ; (3). Dexter Perry, b. Jan. 2, 1824; (4). Han- nah Prentice, b. Jan. 1, 1828. 14. Asa, b. June 14, 1787; m. Susanna McFarland ; had a leg amputated in consequence of a tree falling on it, while on a visit at Union, Maine ; r. South Bridgewater. 15. Pede, b. Sept. 15, 1790; r. Sherburne; u. Of these, Levi, Oba- diah, Persis, and Moses settled in Union. The information in the first part of this note is abridged from a work of great labor and research, entitled Memorial of the Morses, by Rev. Abner -Morse.
1 The name Bradford is derived from the Saxon, Bradenford, or Broad-ford. According to Dugdale, " Bradford, situated near the Avon, .... owes its name to the broad ford of the river." Mrs. Morse's father, Carpenter Bradford, b. at Kingston, Mass., Feb. 7, 1739, was " put out" to a shoemaker, ran away, enlisted in the Old French War, was captured when about sixteen years old, detained as a prisoner in Canada one year, during which he was waiter to a Catholic priest ; returned, and m. in Stoughton, Mass., June 18, 1761, Mary, b. Sept. 17, 1736, dr. of David and Hannah Gay. When the Neutral French, or Acadians, were barbarously exiled from Nova Scotia, and their lands, with the improvements, were offered gratuitously to settlers, he went to Annapolis, N. S., where he was at the com- mencement of the American revolution. Then the British autho- rities summoned the inhabitants to take the oath of allegiance. He held up his hand; and, being a staunch whig, when the following words, or words to the same effect, were uttered, " You solemnly swear to be true to King George," he substituted the words George Washington for King George, and thus really swore allegiance to the
. rebels. "Tut, tut," said the officer, " that will not do." Conscious that it was time for him to flee, he, in company with another whig, left the place the same night, and proceeded by land toward Halifax. Just before arriving there, they came to a small river, across which a boatman, either timid or loyal, refused to take them. They threatened
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Nov. 11, 1792 ; d. Oct. 4, 1839, of paralysis ; u. - II. Wal- ter, Captain, b. July 16, 1794 ; m. Miss Betsey Poor, of
to shoot him; but the difficulty was compromised by their being allowed to row themselves over, and leave the boat on the other side. Mr. B. proceeded by land to Castine, where he enlisted, and remained some time. After other services in the revolutionary war, he sent for his family, which was landed at Camden. He ended his days in Me- duncook. For his services, more than nine hundred acres of Ohio land, it is said, were granted to him, from which he probably did not realize any thing.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. iv., contains two articles evincing great research, from which are gathered the following items respecting his ancestors. His father, Elisha, who m., first, Hannah Cole, and, second, Sept. 7, 1718, Bathsheba Le Brocke, had many children. Carpenter was the eleventh child by this second wife. His parents moved to Meduncook (now Friendship), where, May 27, 1756, they were both killed by Indians, who carried some of the children to Canada, whence they did not return to Me- duncook till after the capture of Quebec by Wolfe. "Deb. Sampson," who, disguised as a man, under the assumed name of Robert Shurt- leff, served three years in the revolutionary army, and afterward mar- ried Benjamin Gannett, of Sharon, and drew a pension, was cousin of Mrs. Morse.
Carpenter's father, Elisha, was the oldest child of Joseph Bradford, b. 1630, who m., May 25, 1664, Jael, dr. of Rev. Peter Hobart, the first minister of Hingham; and d. July 10, 1715. She d. 1730, æt. eighty-eight. He resided in Kingston (then Plymouth), Mass., on Jones's River, half a mile from its mouth at Flat House Dock ; so called, perhaps, because he lived in a house with a flat roof.
Elisha's father, Joseph, was son of the Governor of Plymouth Colony, Wm. Bradford, who was b. at Austerfield, in Yorkshire, Eng- land, in March, 1588-9, and was left fatherless when about two years old. He went to Holland, probably in 1608, whence he came to Ply- mouth in the May Flower, while yet a young man, and d. May 9, 1657. He was chosen Governor in 1621, and re-elected every year till 1657, except the five years 1633, 1634, 1636, 1638, 1644. The first of the . accompanying fac- similes represents wiliam Bradford Gove . william Eradfra his handwriting in 1631-2; the other, in 1645. Governor Bradford's first w. was Dorothy May. She was drowned, Dec. 7, 1620, in Cape Cod Harbor. She was the first female who d. at the Plymouth Colony, and the first whose death is recorded in New England. Aug. 14, 1623, he m. the widow Alice Southworth, whose maiden name is supposed to have been Carpenter. She d. March 26, 1670, aged about eighty. Governor Bradford had by his second w. three children, William, Mercy, and Joseph.
Gov. Bradford's father, William, m. Alice Hanson, and was buried July 15, 1591, a short time before his father William, who lived at
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Belmont ; and d., April 20, 1825, of consumption; ch. 1. John Poor, a sea-captain ; m. Abby Y. Cotterell, of Belfast. 2. Mary ; m. a Cotterell, of Belfast. - III. Hannah, b. April 24, 1796 ; m., 1819, Capt. Lewis, b. at East Kings- ton, N.H., June 21, 1794 or 1795, s. of Capt. Nathaniel and Ruth (Morrill) Bachelor; had 1. Augusta Diana, b. June 29, 1820, who m., Sept. 3, 1838, Noah Shattuck, b. April 3, 1813, s. of Capt. Noah and Sally or Sarah (Shat- tuck) Rice ; and had (1). Caroline Louisa, b. Aug. 2, 1840; (2). Henry Clay, b. Nov. 22, 1843. 2. Caroline Louisa, b. April 23, 1822; d. Feb. 14, 1829. 3. Helen Lauretta, b. May 16, 1826 ; who m. Frederic, s. of Edmund and Deborah (Keene) Daggett. 4. Nathaniel Quincy, b. Aug. 11, 1828 ; r. Boston. 5. Edwin Aurelius, b. March 11, 1834. 6. William George, b. Oct. 11, 1838 ; d. Oct. 19, 1840. - IV. Sally, b. May 13, 1798; m., March 17, 1817, Jacob Hahn,1 of Waldoborough, subsequently of Mon- mouth, and now of East Boston, Mass., s. of Frederick and Hannah (Burns) Hahn ; had 1. Levi Morse, b., Waldo- borough, Feb. 3, 1819; d. March 6, 1845; m. Betsey Tinkham, of Winthrop, who m., second, a widower, Oakes Howard, of Winthrop; ch. (1). Sarah Elizabeth, b. June 2, 1843. 2. Silas Briggs, b. Dec. 7, 1820; graduated at Bowdoin College ; lawyer ; r. East Boston ; u. 3. Dexter Ward, b. Dec. 30, 1823 ; d. April 26, 1851; u. 4. Rodolphus Franklin, b. April 1, 1826; r. California. 5. Nelson Washington, b. July 4, 1828. 6. Sidney Bradford, b. Sept. 8, 1831; r. California. 7. Edwin Lafayette, b. Sept. 9, 1833, in Monmouth ; d. Oct. 5, 1837. 8. Ammi Ruhamah, b. Oct. 19, 1841. - V. Barnard, b. June 11, 1802 ; farmer in Belmont ;. m., 1824, Mary Ann Fales, of Hope; had 1. Lewis B., b. June 18, 1825, at Belmont ; m .; r. Vinalhaven. 2. Leander, b. Aug. 20, 1826. 3. William Bradford, b. - Dec. 8, 1828 ; m. widow Abigail Hart, dr. of Edmund Luce ;
Austerfield in or about 1575, and was buried Jan. 10, 1595. Further than this the family has not been traced. But, from what has been said, it appears that Mrs. Morse's ancestors were first, Carpenter, who .m. Mary Gay ; second, Elisha and his w. Bathsheba Le Brocke; third, Joseph and his w., Jael Hobart ; fourth, Governor William and widow Alice Southworth; fifth, William and his w., Alice Hanson, of Austerfield ; sixth, William, of Austerfield.
1 Jacob Hahn's father, Frederick Hahn, came from Germany when about eleven years old. At the same time came Frederick's brother George, who settled in North Carolina.
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r. Camden. 4. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 14, 1832. 5. Samuel, b. Nov. 11, 1833. 6. George W., b. Jan. 14, 1839, at Lincolnville: 7. Abby J., b. Nov. 9, 1840, at Belmont; d. Aug. 3, 1843. 8. Lucius C., b. May 14, 1845. - VI. Mary, b. June 11, 1802 ; Feb. 4, 1824, became second w. of Capt. Daniel Lunt, of Eastport ; subsequently moved to Lincoln- ville, where she d. of consumption, Dec. 19, 1833. She had 1. Edwin; r. Galena, Ill .; now in California. 2. Daniel ; shot in the Mexican War. 3. Martha, m., 1849, James Henry Upham, of Readfield; r. California. - VII. Levi, b. Oct. 18, 1804 ; r. homestead ; m., Feb. 13, 1834, Eliza Daniels ; and had 1. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1835. 2. Edwin Lafayette, b. Aug. 5, 1837. 3. Levi Roscoe, b. Aug. 12, 1842. 4. John Adelbert, b. Jan. 21, 1845. 5. Nathan Daniels, b. March 4, 1847; d. Sept. 4, 1848. - VIII. Nancy, b. Jan. 6, 1807; m., Dec. 29, 1841, Aaron Starrett, of Warren ; and d. of consumption, July 11, 1844 ; leaving 1. Ellen. - IX. Samuel, b. March 18, 1809; d. of consumption, March 7, 1831 ; u. - X. Chloe Bradford, b. April 6, 1811 ; became the third w. of Capt. Daniel Lunt ; and d. of consumption in Lincolnville, Jan. 5, 1841 ; leaving 1. Mary Grace. 2. Chloe. - XI. George Washington, b. Aug. 24, 1813 ; settled on part of the homestead ; m., 1840, Mary Harding, b. July 19, 1815, dr. of Capt. Noah and Sally (Shattuck) Rice; ch. 1. Edward Franklin, b. Feb. 28, 1841 ; d. Feb. 19, 1848. 2. Leslie Melvyn, b. July 16, 1842. 3. Orville Dana, b. April 6, 1844 ; d. March 23, 1845. 4. Sarah Alfaretta, b. Oct. 28, 1846. 5. Harriet Estella, b. June 7, 1848. - XII. William Bradford, twin brother of George Washington, b. Aug. 24, 1813; lime- burner ; r. Rockland; m., Oct. 12, 1837, widow Emma Gould (Parsons) Ross, of Stillwater ; ch. 1. Penelope Colburn, b. Aug. 29, 1838. 2. William Henry, b. Jan. 1, 1841. 3. Charles Bradford, b. Dec. 24, 1847. - XIII. Harriet Newell, b. May 14, 1816; m., Oct. 11, 1843, Ben- jamin, br. of Aaron Starrett, of Warren ; c.
MORSE, OBADIAH, son of Obadiah, b. at Sherburne, Mass., Dec. 11, 1776; came to Union as early as 1798, having previously lived one or two years in Malden, Massa- chusetts, and in Chester, N. H. He settled west by south of Round Pond, about half-way to the summit of the hill, on the north side of the road ; m., first, Sally Palmer, of New- ton, Mass., who d. of consumption, Sept. 15, 1821, aged
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forty-two; and, second, July 3, 1823, Phebe, dr. of David and Martha Carriel ; and d. Aug. 8, 1837. His widow m. James Adams Ulmer, of Thomaston. He had - I. Alice, b. Jan. 12, 1804; d. March 18, 1804. - II. Eliza, b. Feb. 22, 1805; m., July 3, 1831, Isley Martin, who was b. in Union, Feb. 23, 1806, son of Adam (who was b. in Wal- doborough), and Mary (Lamson) Martin, who was b. in Thomaston; ch. 1. William, b. Feb. 17, 1833; d. Sept. 24, 1841. 2. George Young, b. Nov. 10, 1836. 3. Sarah, b. May 29, 1839. - III. Palmer, b. May 2, 1807; d. Sept. 24, 1808. - IV. Asa, b. Jan. 27, 1809 ; m., in Union, Eliza Jane, b. at Cushing, Sept. 30, 1810, dr. of Benjamin and Nancy (McLellan) Litchfield ; settled on the Bela Rob- bins Farm, but now lives in Rockland ; has 1. Edwin Palmer, b. July 20, 1836. 2. Fostena, b. March 7, 1838. 3. Argyl Dudley, b. March 23, 1841. 4. William Spofford, b. Nov. 29, 1843; all b. at Union. 5. A son, b. June, 1851, in Rockland. - V. Margaret Palmer, b. March 10, 1811; m., Oct. 1839, James Libbey, of Warren ; c. - VI. Obadiah, b. May 18, 1813 ; m., 1836, Chloe, dr. of Charles and Rebecca (Cobb) Copeland, of Warren, and settled in Thomaston, where he d. July 14, 1847, in consequence of the caving in of clay at a brickyard, July 11. Children, 1. Lucius Kendall, b. May 19, 1837. 2. Newell Austin. 3. Charles Copeland. 4. Benjamin Wentworth. 5. Obadiah, b. April, 1847. - VII. Jedidiah, b. Sept. 19, 1815; m., 1840, Rebecca Barnes, dr. of Moses and Mary (Jones) Simmons ; and has Alenzer Forrest, b. Nov. 13, 1846. - VIII. Sarah Ann, b. June 27, 1818; m., Dec. 25, 1836, David Seavey, the 2d, from Cushing; c. - IX. Martha Alice, b. May 31, 1824 ; m., June 8, 1846, her half-cousin, Edward- Phillips, s. of Moses and Hannah (Prentice) Morse, of Union; and has 1. Quincy Adams, b. May 15, 1848: - X. Matilda, b. Oct. 19, 1826; d. May 9, 1844. - XI. Mary Frances, b. June 9, 1829; m., 1851, a son of James A. Ulmer. - XII. Melina Amelia, b. Oct. 10, 1835.
MORTON, ZENAS, t. 1797 ; bought Guild's farm ; returned to Friendship.
NEWHALL, JONATHAN, from Lynn, Mass .; t. 1791; m. Hannah Peabody, sister of Mrs. Ware, from Warren; moved to Washington, and d. there; ch. - I. Amos, b. Oct. 11, 1791; m. Elizabeth Conklin, b. at Camden; both 41*
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Friends. - II. Lois, b. Feb. 2, 1793; m., May, 1814, Rev. Roland Collier, of Washington, but b. Northport. - III. Lucy, b. July 2, 1795; d .; u. - IV. Stephen, b. Feb. 6, 1797; m., 1822, Louisa Daggett. - V. Jonathan, b. Aug. 12, 1799 ; m. a Boyd, of Washington, who d .; and he m. again. - VI. William, b. June 6, 1802 ; m. Abigail, dr. of Deacon McDowell, of Washington. - VII. James, b. March 2, 1804; m. a Wetherbee, of Northport; r. Washington. - VIII. Joseph, b. Dec. 9, 1807; m., first, a Newbit; and, second, Priscilla Jameson. Jonathan Newell made the first horse-wagon ever built in Union. William Newhall, a younger brother, was taxed in 1791.
NYE, THOMAS, t. 1798 ; a carpenter, who had worked on the State House, in Boston, Mass., when it was building ; b. at Barnstable, Mass., Jan. 20, 1773; m., in Warren, 1796, Anna Dunbar, b. in Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 27, 1776. He settled on the west side of George's River, at the corner of the road about half-way between Hills' Mills and Sunny- bec Pond, and d. of consumption, Oct. 22, 1827. De- scendants, - I. Stillman, b. Jan. 18, 1797; d. of con- sumption, April 4, 1822 ; m., 1820, Mary Sargus,1 b. Feb.
1 The name of Thomas Harris (br. of William Harris, an associate with Roger Williams, who was one of the founders of Providence, R. I.), first appears on the records of Providence, in August, 1637. His son, Thomas, treasurer of Providence, surveyor, d. Feb. 22, 1710-11; m. Elethan Tew ; had ten ch., the third of whom, Nicholas, b. April 1, 1671, r. Cranston, had six children. Nicholas, the second of these ch., b. 1691, at Johnston, R.I., then called Providence Woods, moved to Wrentham, Mass., and m. Hannah, dr. of an Eng- lish gentleman named Blake, and d. April, 1775 ; had a large family, all sons, but the one dr., who m. an Ellis, of Nantucket. The sons suffered greatly in the war before the treaty of 1763. Two went to -the siege of Havana, and, it is said, never returned. Sylvanus was killed at Falmouth, Me., by the Indians. Obadiah, deacon, sup- posed to be the youngest of Nicholas's children, b. Wrentham, July 7, 1736, in 1785 moved to Hallowell, Me., where he d. July, 1800; m., June 27, 1759, Lois Ellis, who was b. June 1, 1736, at Wrentham. He was at the battle near Ticonderoga, July 6, 1758, when Lord Howe was killed; and at Fort William Henry, soon after the massa- cre there. Charles, deacon, soldier in the revolutionary war, oldest child of Obadiah and Lois Harris, was b. June 3, 1760, at Wrentham, and d. at Winthrop, Me., July 1, 1832. May 12, 1784, he m. Mele- tiah, b. Wrentham, Dec. 30, 1763 ; d. in Mercer, Sept. 3, 1834; dr. of Timothy and Mary Hawes. Obadiah Harris, fifth s. of Charles and. Meletiah, b. at Winthrop, Nov. 18, 1795; m., June 22, 1826, the widow of Stillman Nye; and had 1. Herman, b. May 9, 1828. 2.
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4, 1796, at Waldoborough, dr. of emigrants from Germany ; and had 1. Anson Blake, carpenter, b. Oct. 9, 1820; r. Boston. 2. Stillman, b. April 30, 1822 ; m., 1848, Emily, who d. June 17, 1850, dr. of Caleb Maddocks ; and, second, 1850, Caroline, dr. of Nahum Thurston. - II. Cyrus Crock- er, b. Dec. 23, 1799; d. of consumption, May 27, 1828 ; m., April 8, 1824, Patty, or Martha, dr. of David Carriel. She m., second, Charles Fogler ; ch. 1. Edward Thomas, a seaman, b. Aug. 25; m .; 1850, Belinda, dr. of Jesse and Miranda (Fogler) Dunbar, of Warren. - III. Darius, b. April 18, 1802, for many years clock-peddler, now store- keeper at Milo; m., first, Oct. 4, 1827, Eleanor Ayres, of Newton, Mass .; and, second, Eliza, dr. of John Burton, of Warren ; had 1. Helen Ann, who d. 2. Darius ; also others, including at least two by last wife. - IV. Caroline, b. Sept. 22, 1804; d. of consumption, March 6, 1834 ; m. 1828, Israel Barker (who afterward m. Mary Severance) ; and had 1. James, cabinet-maker, b. Oct. 10, 1828. 2. Eliza Ann, b. Aug. 1, 1831; r. Warren. - V. Charles Austin, b. May 26, 1807; d. of consumption, April 27, 1832 ; m., March, 1831, Caroline, dr. of David Gillmor, of Newburgh ; had 1. David, b. January, 1832. - VI. Eliza, b. June 22, 1809 ; d. of consumption, June 7, 1830 ; u. - VII. Harriet, b. Oct. 11, 1811 ; m., April 17, 1831, Joseph Bar- ker; r. Searsmont; ch. 1. Harriet Lavinia, b. Sept. 29, 1831; m. a Swan; r. Saccarappa. 2. Caroline. 3. Eliza- beth ; also several others. - VIII. Thomas, b. Jan. 16, 1814; m., 1840, Jane, dr. of Daniel Stetson, of Warren ; ch. 1. Emeline, b. Aug. 1841. 2. Laura Ann, b. Aug. 17, 1844; d. July 11, 1846. - IX. Maria, b. Aug. 12, 1816 ; m., Dec. 7, 1840, at Marlborough, Mass., Thomas, a widower, b. Feb. 28, 1808, at Kingston, Devonshire, Eng., son of Thomas and Grace Harris, of Boston; r. Charlestown, Mass .; ch. 1. Catharine Loring, b. Sept. 7, 1841, at Marl- borough, Mass. 2. Caroline Maria, b. Feb. 20, 1849, in Boston. 3. Charles Thomas, b. Jan. 20, 1851.
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