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sickness and died Jan. 15, 1859. His widow moved to Litchfield, Me., where her relatives were living, and married Oliver Waterman of Litchfield.
4. Arvilla, b. Aug. 9, 1827; married Oct. 29, 1848, Edward K. Whitney of Harrison. (See Whitney family.)
5. Fidelia, b. July 8, 1830; married Ist, Samuel Gray of Harrison; married 2d, June 13, 1894, Samuel H. Dawes of Harrison. (See Dawes family.)
6. John Hubbard, b. May 16, 1833; married Mary Eliz- abeth Whitney of Harrison, daughter of Freeman and Mary S. (Gray) Whitney. Mr. Caswell set- tled in Bridgton as successor to his brother, Francis B., in 1873, and has remained there as a skilled jew- eler and dealer in jewelry, watches, and silver and gold merchandise.
BETSY, b. June 24, 1795; married Josiah Whitney, who settled near Caswell's Corner, of whom only the following record is obtainable; married in 1826; he died Nov. 8, 1832, aged 64 years. She died Feb. 4, 1855, aged 59 years.
LEBBEUS, b. June 24, 1795; married Oct. 24, 1820, Polly, daughter of John and Rebecca (Kimball) Woodsum. They settled first, near Caswell's Corner; subsequently locating on an excellent farm on the Norway road, where he erected a good brick dwelling house, and laid out an elegant garden and enclosed it with a circular fence. His homestead was an object of pleasure and admiration. He had a large family who grew up to be a credit and an honor to their parentage. Mr. Caswell was, not only a skillful mechanic, but an inventor of much note. He was the author of several very valuable inventions, no- tably a force pump and a corn planter, both of which were labor-saving implements designed for the use of farmers. These inventions were patented and in 1856, Mr. Caswell carried a working model of his corn planter to the West, for the purpose of selling rights to the farmers or to makers of implements. While there, stop- ping in a western city, he was attacked by fever and died before the accomplishment of his business designs. He was a man of kind and genial disposition, much esteemed
HON. JOHN WOODSUM CASWELL
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for his good character and excellent qualities of mind and heart. Mrs. Caswell died Jan. 19, 1858, aged 59 years. Children of Lebbeus :
I. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 26, 1821; married Silas Stiles of Bridgton, and moved to Aroostook County.
2. John Woodsum, b. Oct. 31, 1822; married, Feb. 4, 1851, Mary E. Purington of Harrison, b. Mar. 2, 1830. He learned the wire making trade in the first wire factory in Harrison. He was a member of the firm of P. Tolman & Co., of former years, whose large wire making business in Harrison for nearly a half a century has been described in this vol- ume. He acquired a handsome estate and erected one of the most costly and elegant residences in the town, the same in which his son, J. Wallace Cas- well, now resides. Mr. Caswell's record as a citizen, a prominent business man, and town official and rep- resentative to the Legislature in -, is honorable. He died Nov. 2, 1897. Mrs. Mary E. Caswell died June 13, 1883. Their children: Elizabeth Jane, b. Feb. 9, 1852; married Spencer Drake; they reside in Harrison Village. Isabel A., b. Oct. 21, 1854; married Walter L. Twitchell of Harrison; they have one daughter, Beulah A., who married Homer Brown of Waterford. Mary J., b. Mar. 8, 1858; married Frank O. Gray of Harrison. (See Albert Gray family.) Apphia B., b. Aug. 22, 1860; married Dr. James Blaisdell, who resided in West Auburn as a practising physician until his death in 1899; they had two children: Stanley and Grace. John Wal- lace, b. Aug. 1, 1862; married Ada E., daughter of Appleton Chaplin of Harrison; they have three chil- dren: Lester, Celia, and Helen. Charles A., b. Aug. 19, 1866; married Hattie Berry of Limington, Me .; they had two children: Clara and Ethel. He died in Denver, Colo., in 1895. Fred W., b. May 16, 1870; married Hattie Turner ; they live in East Sumner, Me .; have three children : Clyde, Clarence, and Thelma. Frank G., b. June 19, 1876; unmar- ried; he works at chair and cabinet making in Bos- ton.
3. Ruth Jane, b. Jan. 3, 1825; married Ist, John Coffin ; 2d, William Smith; 3d, David Yerrington; they moved West.
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4. Lebbeus Addison, b. Aug. 30, 1826; died June 27, 1827.
5. Adaline, b. May 27, 1826; married Elias Irish Fogg of Harrison; died Apr. 30, 1884. Mr. Fogg died Nov. 14, 1898, aged 71 years.
6. Lebbeus Addison, b. Mar. 15, 1830; married Louisa Loomis.
7. David J., b. Mar. 9, 1832; married Isabella Frost; went to Iowa; thence to Nebraska, where he lived many years and died in Wescott, in that State, Aug. 12, 1907.
8. Emma C., b. May 31, 1835; married Ist, Mark Mor- ton of South Paris; 2d, William Morton-brothers ; they lived in New Haven, Conn.
9. Abby F., b. Mar. 17, 1838; married Simon Libby.
IO. Zilpha A., b. July 28, 1840; married Ist, Wentworth Stuart of Harrison; 2d, John Gardner, a policeman ; resides in Boston.
ZEBINA, b. Feb. 13, 1800; married Dorcas A., daughter of Enoch and Mehitable (Sweat) Haskell of Harrison, Sept. 22, 1822, and settled on a farm a half mile above Cas- well's Corner on the Waterford road. Mr. Caswell was born at the dawn of the nineteenth century and his life and personality seemed to have been influenced by the ideas of freedom and liberal government at that time being advanced by the American people. As the writer remembers Mr. Caswell, in the prime and fullness of his manhood, he was of an agreeable presence, kindly de- meanor, frank and outspoken, always with a happy ex- pression of countenance and gentlemanly manner of ad- dress. He was a liberalist in matters of religion and a Jacksonian Democrat in politics, and could discourse elo- quently on the public issues of his day and generation. He died - - , 1875; his wife died Children :
I. Julia Ann, married Cyrus Baker of Waterford.
2. Catherine, died in youth.
3. Alanson, b. 1830; died May 25, 1905.
4. Emily Jane, married Walter Lovejoy of Waterford.
5. Roxy Ann, b. Jan. 9, 1835; married Henry Billings of Waterford. He was a superintendent in the office
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of the New York & Erie R. R. Co., residing in Hornell, N. Y., where he died Nov. 7, 1890, and where his widow yet resides.
6. Daniel Haskell, b. Nov. 14, 1836; married Louise Bradwell of Dayton, Ohio. Their children: Clara B., b. Aug. 20, 1870; married. Lutie, b. in 1871; died in youth. Fanny Lee, b. Jan. 19, 1874, in Cleve- land O. Daniel Haskell, b. Dec. 25, 1875, in Austin, Tex. William Thomas, b. Apr. 7, 1877, in Austin, Tex. Helen Louise, b. Nov. 5, 1878, in Austin, Tex. Henrietta B., b. Sept. II, 1882, in Austin, Tex.
7. Albert S., b. - -- , 1838; married Lucinda, daugh- ter of James and Lucinda Lowell of Harrison; was in mercantile business in Boston many years; died in that city, Oct. 15, 1905.
8. Stephen E., b. July 9, 1842 ; married Marion Amanda, daughter of Moses and Sarah Young of Waterford, Me .; they reside in Wakefield, Mass.
9. Catherine, b. in 1848; married George Shedd of Otis- field; died in 1877.
DANIEL HASKELL CASWELL, son of Zebina, de- serves special honorable mention in this review of the na- tive people of Harrison. During the first fifteen years of his life, he was at home giving faithful service to his par- ents. At sixteen he went to the Penobscot River and was employed the next two years in lumbering. Next he was in Boston one year. In 1856, he left Boston in a ship for Buenos Ayres, South America, and stopped at Montevideo six years. In 1863, he embarked in a sailing vessel for San Francisco doubling Cape Horn - a voyage of three months, eight days. He was in Sacramento and Nevada, the next two years and a half ; then back to San Francisco, and to New York, via the Isthmus. This adventurer next finds himself settled with a wife and young family in Nash- ville, Tennessee, where he resided twenty years. Here he erected his first oil mill for the extraction of oil from cotton- seed. He continued the business of construction of similar
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mills in many different places. He is the oldest man in that business now living. He has built oil mills in Alabama and Georgia, and many in Texas. He removed from Nashville to Austin, Texas, in 1895, and settled permanently in that city, where he has since operated the cotton-seed oil busi- ness on an extensive scale. In 1899, he came home to his native town and in token of his reverence for the place of his birth, and the kind parents, long since passed away, he remodelled and repaired the dilapidated buildings, in a sub- stantial manner. He also purchased the old homestead of the first Lowell family at Caswell's Corner and remodelled and improved the house and outbuildings for the purposes of a summer residence for his family.
In 1906, Mr. Caswell added to real estate belongings by the purchase of the farm, one-third mile from Harrison Village on the Norway road, overlooking Anonymous Pond, (formerly owned by Theodore Ingalls) and has made thor- ough alterations and improvements in this pleasant lakeside home, to which has been given the pretty title of "Lone Star Cottage," for the great State of their adopted life resi- dence.
But our returned townsman was not yet content with these testimonials of his regard for his native town and its peo- ple. In 1907, he became impressed with the urgent needs of the Harrison Public Library Association, and at once came to the aid of that institution with a generous gift of $1,700 for the purchase of an eligible site, and for the erection thereon of a costly and substantial building for the recep- tion and accommodation of its growing library, and for the business and social meetings of the association. That build- ing is, in this autumn of 1908, a notable addition to the mod- ern style of architecture in our village, and in its exterior and interior construction, is a conspicuous honor to the memory of the noble-hearted donor for whom it is appro- priately named, "The Caswell Library."
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CHADBOURNE FAMILY.
The Chadbournes in New England trace their lineage back about two hundred and seventy-five years, to the famous old times of the renowned Ferdinando Gorges and his grand colonial government planted on the territory of Maine about 1643, when according to a history of those events, the first Chadbourne ancestor in America, Humphrey by name, was a large land owner and very influential in the colony. He represented the town of Kittery in the General Court of Massachusetts, in 1657 and 1659, and in 1662 was appointed an associate Justice for the County of York. He died in Berwick in 1666, after a residence in this coun- try of about thirty-five years.
JAMES HOBBS CHADBOURNE, of the sixth gen- eration, a son of Humphrey and Phebe Chadbourne came to Harrison about 1811. Before coming to Harrison, Mr. Chadbourne had lived in Falmouth and Gorham, and from the latter place he doubtless removed to this town. He married, January 4, 1789, Dorcas Whitmore, born in 1771. She died in Harrison, November 8, 1846. Their children :
SAMUEL WHITMORE, b. in 1790; married and was cast away upon Campobello Island. His memorial stone in the F. W. Baptist cemetery in Harrison, bears the follow - ing inscription: "Samuel W. Chadbourne, who was cast away on Campobello Island and perished on the night of Feb. 14, 1817, aged 27 years. He was an amiable man, esteemed and lamented by all who knew him; he had been happily united in marriage five months, when it pleased God to separate them, but not forever, having given them a lively hope that through the sufferings and righteousness of Christ, they should meet to part no more." His remains were removed from their original resting place on the island, to make way for a road, and were buried in the yard before named. The curious free- stone monument that had been erected at his grave was brought into town with his body and re-erected where it now stands.
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PHEBE, b. June 12, 1791 ; married Aaron Kimball of Bridg- ton and has resided in Boston.
CHARLOTTE, b. Sept. 4, 1793; married Lyman Nutting of Otisfield. She was the mother of a large family of sons and daughters, all born in Otisfield. They were gifted with bright intellects and were distinguished as scholars and teachers and in the world of business.
I. James L., the eldest, b. June 12, 1818, was a lawyer and settled in Pennsylvania, where he gained dis- tinction and wealth.
2. Charlotte C., b. Feb. 10, 1820, was a teacher and married - Chadbourne. They had no children.
3. Lyman, Jr., b. May 24, 1824, was a fine scholar and taught a number of years in the schools of Otisfield and Harrison. He settled in Pinegrove, Pa., and became a proprietor of coal mining business, in which he is reputed to have accumulated a handsome for- tune. He died in 1893.
4. Dorcas Ann, b. Aug. 5, 1826, was a scholar and teacher. She married Moses S. Eastman of Casco. They had one son, James, and a daughter, Myra, who has been a teacher in the public schools of Port- land. Mrs. Dorcas Ann Eastman died in 1907.
5. Emeline H., b. June 8, 1829, was a fine scholar and teacher in some of the higher schools in the State. She married Dr. James P. Webb of Bridgton, and died there. She had three children, all deceased.
6. Silas, b. Mar. 7, 1831. He was a brilliant scholar and possessed a noble and lovable nature. In the midst of his fond aspirations for a career of learning and worldly success, he was prostrated by a fatal illness and died in 1854.
7. Albert F., b. Aug. 2, 1835. He is a prosperous farmer in Otisfield, married -; had a son and daughter; the daughter is deceased.
COL. JAMES HOBBS, b. June 23, 1796; married Mercy A., daughter of Samuel and Hannah Scribner of Harrison. (See Scribner family.) They had children :
I. Joel Whitmore, married, Ist, Honor Towne; 2d, Mrs. Sarah Cummings ; he died in Hudson, Ill, -
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2. Scribner, married Mercy Brown of Waterford.
3. Mary Ann, married James H. Cox; moved to Hud- son, Ill., and died there.
4. James Hobbs, b. in Waterford, July 22, 1828; mar- ried Catherine Stone Saunders, daughter of Amos and Sylvia Saunders of Waterford, b. Apr. 9, 1828. He settled on the fine homestead of his father and was a successful farmer and prominent citizen of his town; their children: Amos Saunders, b. Mar. 24, 1853; married Emma L. Tuck of Hal- lowell, Me .; was a dealer in nursery stock for many years; died Jan. - , 1902; their children, born in Hallowell, are: Arthur Chase, b. Mar. 3, 1886; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1907, now em- ployed by the International Banking Corporation, London, England. Raymond Hubbard, b. July 30, 1887. Robert B., b. Oct. - , 1889. Helen Emma, b. Feb. - , 1892. John Pierce, b. May -, 1906, died May -, 1907. James Arthur, b. Oct. 20, 1855; married Apr. 2, 1883, Ruth Green, daughter of William H. and Ruth K. Green of Waterford; chil . dren: Ruth Anna, b. in East Stoughton, Mass., Oct.
27, 1884. James Green, b. in Santee, Nebraska, Nov. 3, 1886. William Warren, b. in Santee, Ne- braska, Feb. 5, 1888. Katherine Saunders, b. in Santee, Nebraska, June 13, 1890. James Arthur Chadbourne graduated from the Bridgewater Nor- mal School, Mass., in , and taught a number of years; he has resided a number of years in Mass., and in Nebraska; he is a prosperous farmer in North Bridgton, Me., a leading member of the Congregational Church and prominent in the coun- cils of Lakeside Grange, P. of H. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 15, 1856; is a teacher in Brockton, Mass. Lizzie Maria, b. Oct. 24, 1859; married Frank H. Morse of Waterford, son of Granville and Julia (Stone) Morse. Mr. Morse is an intelligent and successful farmer and grower of large crops of
Baldwin and other best qualities of apples. He owns an excellent farm which, under high culture, pro- duces large crops of corn, beans, potatoes and ce- reals. His orchards are among the most extensive / and thrifty in the county, from which his harvest
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of Baldwins, Stark, and other first-class kinds of apples in good bearing years, considerably exceed one thousand barrels; their children: Mary Chad- bourne, b. Feb. 21, 1888; is a graduate of Bridgton Academy, class of 1908, and entered Bates College as a student the same year. William Montgomery, b. Jan. 4, 1892. James Granville, b. Oct. 7, 1893. Margaret, b. Sept. 3, 1898; died Dec. 31, 1900. Julia S., b. Feb. 25, 1903. William Henry, b. Nov. 7, 1865; married Clara P. Babson of Penobscot, Me., resides on the homestead of his father and grandfather and is a thrifty farmer and lumber operator ; their children are: Edgar, b. Apr. - , 1895; died Sept. Fred Perkins, b. Sept. 14, 1896. Philip Herbert, b. May -, 1901. Sylvia Stone, b. Mar. 17, 1868, married Charles H. Kil- borne of Waterford; they reside in New York City.
RUJFUS, b. June 20, 1798; married Mahala, daughter of Jonathan Moors of Otisfield; settled in Waterford; sub- sequently migrated to Wisconsin; his children: Gran- ville, Albion, Mercena, Mahala, Julia, Horace, Frederick, and Fernando.
GARDNER, b. Oct. 24, 1800, died in infancy.
GARDNER, b. July 17, 1802; married Betsy A., daughter of Isaac Hall of Harrison; removed to Lincoln, Me. He had a second wife by whom he had children: Martha and Mary.
WILLIAM, b. May 26, 1805; married Sarah, daughter of Abraham Burnham of Harrison (b. May 1, 1812; died June 30, 1832). 2d, Mrs. Sarah Moors of Otisfield ; 3d, Martha A. Stevens of Sweden; he settled near the home of his father on an excellent farm. He was a devoted Christian, a member of the Congregational Church, and a good, kind neighbor. His children were: William Burnham, Sarah Jane and Elizabeth. William Chadbourne died : Mrs. Martha Stevens Chadbourne died June 8, 1887.
CHARLES, b. June 10, 1808; died young.
SIMEON, b. June II, 1809; married Miriam, daughter of Edward and Susanna (Hobbs) Bray, and settled on the
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paternal homestead, the same owned many years by B. F. Stanley. He moved West and lived there; his chil- dren were:
I. Charles H., b. Aug. 14, 1834.
2. Susan, b. Mar. 8, 1836.
3. George, b. Sept. 15, 1838.
4. Joseph, b. Nov. 22, 1840.
5. Edward.
6. Phebe.
HUMPHREY, b. Nov. 1, 1811; married Jane, daughter of Benjamin and Betty (Hancock) Wight of Otisfield. He was a carpenter and builder ; a man of active and useful life. He settled for several years at North Bridgton and was the builder of some of the best houses still standing there. Jane, his first wife, deceased, without children. Mr. Chadbourne afterward moved to Penob- scot County and settled in Molunkus, where he married and reared a large family. His children:
I. Jane Wight, b. Dec. 20, 1841.
2. Danville S., b. Nov. 6, 1843.
3. Harriet L., b. July 28, 1844.
4. Henry W., b. Apr. 19, 1846.
5. Josephine R., b. Jan. 9, 1848.
6. Humphrey J., b. Oct. 30, 1849.
7. Adellia S., b. Aug. 3, 1851.
8. Irene H., b. Oct. 13, 1854.
9. Samuel W., b. Feb. 10, 1857.
IO. Jane H., b. Mar. 7, 1860.
DORCAS, b. Apr. 13, 1817; married Nathan Nutting of Otisfield. Mr. Nutting was a very ingenious mechanic and was many years one of the most competent carpen- ters and builders in the country. He was the master builder of the present Otisfield Hill meeting-house, and was the builder of many first-class dwelling houses. Af- ter years of very successful building operations during which he had a number of apprentices who also became leading builders and contractors in Portland and other places, Mr. Nutting erected a large mill for sawing and manufacturing carpenters' planes of all kinds, to the
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most elaborate moulding tools, and for years he had a large contract for making those tools for wholesale deal- ers in carpenters' tools. The mill of Mr. Nutting was the first ever operated by steam power in Otisfield. Mr. Nathan Nutting died Sept. 4, 1867. Mrs. Dorcas (Chad- bourne) Nutting died Their children :
I. Ephraim, b. in Otisfield, Oct. 16, 1833. He went to Wisconsin when about 21 years of age and set- tled in Sparta in Monroe Co., of that State, where he resided until his death in 1891. He married in 1867, Dorcas E. Holden of Otisfield. They had one daughter, b. in Sparta, Wis., in Oct., 1871. Mrs. Dorcas E. Nutting resides in Mentone, Cal.
2. Gilman, b. in Otisfield, Sept. 23, 1837. He married Annie M., daughter of Barclay and Ann Wight of Casco. Their children, all born in Otisfield: Al- fred G., b. Feb. 14, 1863 ; died Jan. 25, 1900. Nathan W., b. Sept. 5, 1865. Maurice H., b. May 1, 1871. Clinton E., b. Jan. 1, 1879. Josephine B., b. Sept. 8, 1883.
3. Josephine M., b. in Otisfield, July 12, 1840; married Feb. - , 1863, Dr. Edward Mayberry Wight of Cas- co. One son, Edward A., was born in Casco, Nov. 28, 1864; is a successful physician and surgeon ; residence at Bolster's Mills, Harrison. In 1865, Dr. E. M. Wight moved to Gorham, N. H., where he has remained in most successful practice of his profession. Mrs. Josephine (Nutting) Wight died in Gorham. Their children, born in Gorham: Edith A Ralph H. Josephine M. Leon D. Hattie May, died at Bolster's Mills, July, 1907. Lawrence N.
4. Eugene, youngest son of Nathan and Dorcas (Chad- bourne) Nutting, died in Sparta, Wis.
SAMUEL W., b. Mar. 17, 1817; married Susan, daughter of Dea. Edward Bray of Harrison. They had one son, Cyrus, b. in Harrison. Mr. Chadbourne was a carpenter by trade. He settled in Harrison and lived here many years; also in Oxford, Me., where he kept the Oxford Hotel a number of years. They moved to Fond du Lac, Wis. Mrs. Chadbourne died June 12, 1866.
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CHADBOURNE FAMILY NO. 2.
BENJAMIN H. CHADBOURNE, descended from the common New England ancestor, Humphrey of Kittery and Berwick, came to Harrison as early as 1807. He set- tled on the road leading from the head of Anonymous Pond southward near the residence of James Fleck. He was a worthy and very industrious citizen; by trade a brick mason, also farmer. He married Polly Powers of San- ford, Maine. They had eleven children, who nearly all grew to maturity here, but removed or died so that no one of that large family has been resident of the town for more than fifty years. Mr. Chadbourne died in old age, September 5, 1844. His children were:
LOVELL P., b. Aug. 14, 1807; married Dorliska, daughter of Samuel Willard of Harrison. (See Willard family.) He died about 1846. His widow married Daniel Scribner in 1848.
JAMES M., b. July 5, 1809; married Ruth, daughter of Nicholas Bray ; lived in Harrison, Whitefield, N. H., and Amesbury, Mass., where his descendants were recently living.
HANNAH H., b. Nov. 18, 1811; married Jeremiah Moul- ton of Sanford and lived there.
BENJAMIN H., b. Oct. 4, 1813; married Jane Chase of Edgecomb, Me., and settled in Lancaster, N. H., where he was in trade and was a deputy sheriff. He removed to Illinois, and, is said to have sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
THOMAS W., b. Nov. 23, 1816; married Emma D. Arnold, Mar. 10, 1858, and resided in Rockland, where he was a policeman and high sheriff of his county. He mar- ried a second wife and removed to Boston, where he was engaged in business.
NATHAN P., b. June 27, 1819; no further record.
MARY W., b. Sept. 28, 1821; died unmarried.
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DEBORAH H., b. Apr. 13, 1825; married John Holman of Boston; she lived in childhood in the family of Hon. George Peirce, was well educated and was for some years a public school teacher.
SARAH P., b. May 5, 1827; died in the East.
ALFRED H., b. Apr. 7, 1830; went to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and worked in the great Fairbanks Scale Works for a time; afterward became a clerk in a steam mill com- pany. He went South before the era of the Civil War and is said to have "espoused the Rebel cause" and served in the Rebel army. He returned North and was con- nected in business with his brother-in-law, John Holman.
DOROTHY S., b. Aug. 8, 1832; no record.
CHAPLIN FAMILY.
The older members of the Chaplin Family were none of them residents within the territory now included in Harrison, but some of them did live in that part of Naples, which was taken from Harrison. A very prominent mem- ber of the family was for many years a leading citizen of our town, and the family has numerous representatives now in the town, several of our prominent families having married members of the Chaplin family. We have been more fortunate in collecting material in regard to this family than in regard to some others, and it is thought best to make liberal use of that which has a direct in- terest for so many of our residents and former residents, and a general interest for all. 1
Ridlon, in his "Early Settlers of Harrison," tells us that, "The New England stock are descended from a Puritan who was driven to Leyden, in Holland, and came thence to Massachusetts, with the Rev. Ezekiel Rodgers, May 29, 1639." We have been able to trace the genealogy from what is probably the third generation from the Puritan ancestor.
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JOHN CHAPLIN was born May 10, 1717; married Hepsibah Jewett on Jan. 27, 1747; died Jan. I, 1774. His wife was born Jan. 27, 1724; died Jan. 1, 1771. We think that they were residents of Rowley, Mass. Children :
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