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The venerable couple - Rev. Isaac and Rispah Albee - are still remembered by the older people of the neighboring towns. They had three children - Olive, who wedded David Quint, Jr., of Gilman Pond, and lived, like her mother, to be almost a centennarian; Samuel, who was the ancestor of most of the lat- ter day Albees in Anson ; and Lovina (1794-1881).
Lovina Albee married Deacon Joseph Walker of Embden, and was the mother of Leonard, Calvin and Samuel Walker of that town and of three daughters. Through Rispah Albee and
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her daughter, Lovina Walker, the Dawes kinship is extended to widely scattered descendants. Deacon Joseph Walker of Seven Mile Brook was a first cousin of Capt. John Walker of
FRED GETCHELL Great-Grandson of Rhoda Dawes
LEONARD H. WALKER Grandson of Rispha Dawes
northeast Embden by the Kennebec - oldest son of John and Nancy (Dawes) Walker of Anson. The Dawes kinship in Emb- den through Nancy and her son, Capt. John, is shared also by a large group, including some of the Embden Spauldings.
Rispah's older sister, Huldah, became Mrs. Benjamin Potter. They dwelt at Winslow near where Ambrose and Deborah Dawes settled temporarily before moving up to Madison. Reuel (1769), the only son of Ambrose born at Duxbury, settled near Anson village. He was living there in 1790 and in 1798 married Widow Betsey Hancock. From them sprung many of the Dawes name thereabouts - in Anson, Concord, New Portland and Embden. One of them was Luther Dawes, a unique character. He became known as the long pickpole man at Anson because of his industry in spearing driftwood out of the Kennebec. Reuel had a second wife, Widow Ruth (Getchell) Wait (1790-1873). She was a
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daughter of Samuel Getchell, an Anson settler up the River a little above John and Nancy Walker. Ruth's three marriages, all with neighbors of her father, - were: (1) in 1818 with Robert Wait of Madison, (2) in 1835 with Reuel Dawes of An- son, (3) in 1853 with James Savage, "Houghty Jim" (1780) whose low red house in North Anson was at the foot of Bunker's hill. "Jim" was a son of Isaac and Deborah (Soule) Savage.
Dawes men have resided at Anson through several generations. Abner, Reuel, Luther (1804), who married Lydia Palmer in 1826, Freeman and Rufus were on the Anson tax lists of 1845. Freeman and Abner married respectively Nancy and Susan, daughters of Pioneer John Walker. Seldon Dawes (1829), a son of Abner, and Rufus Dawes (1820) became residents of Embden. Selden had the Jonathan Stevens farm in 1870, near the ferry to Solon, where John Butterfield was in 1884. He also lived for a while on the Nicholas Durrell, or old Jeremiah Cham- berlain place. Rufus Dawes occupied the Durrell farm in 1873 but later was on a farm near Hancock stream and west of Emb- den Pond and in 1875 was one of the school agents.
Ambrose R. Dawes who married Lucy A. Chase and had sons William, Harry and Bert and daughters Florilla and Mabel (Mrs. Hunter of Anson) is another of the several family branches from "Ambrius Dors" the pioneer. Samuel A. of Madison is a grandson of Ambrose R. and Lucy Dawes.
Five more children were born to Ambrose and Deborah Dawes after they came to Maine, a son James, who died before 1817 owning a 50 acre farm near Anson village; Lucy who did not marry ; Rhoda (1776-1858) who was Mrs. Nathaniel Getchell; Sally (1778-1866) who became Mrs. Francis Burns of Embden, with grandchildren and great-grandchildren who were a large percentage of that town's population ; and Luney who was Mrs. Francis Cole of Starks.
Rhoda and Sally Dawes of Barnardstown, married into the Anson neighborhood opposite, where their oldest sister, Nancy Walker, had been established for more than a decade. Their husbands, however, soon migrated to a new neighborhood in Embden, over the town boundary from where sister Rispah Al-
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bee had been for quite a period. Thus through them and others this Anson community of Kennebec frontage farms, covering a mile and more from the present Ben F. Walker farm to the top of the hill beyond the Flint place, had very close associations for a couple of generations with Embden settlements on Seven Mile Brook.
Nathaniel Getchell (1779-1870), who married Rhoda Dawes at Norridgewock Christmas Day, 1800, belonged, like Ruth Getch- ell above, to the family of Samuel Getchell, a veteran of the Rev- olution through service out of Wiscasset on the Penobscot Ex- pedition. Samuel came early to the new community with divers other war veterans out of Woolwich and Wiscasset, including Nehemiah Getchell, a brother who preceded him there. Samuel Getchell's was a long farm, the eastern part of which took up about half of the southern area of the ox-bow opposite the north end of Weston Island. There are many widely scattered de- scendants of this Getchell-Dawes line. Nelson Walker, the vet- eran teacher of Strong, is one of their grandsons.
Just north of Samuel Getchell was James Burns with his wife Abigail Spencer, of an old influential Berwick family. They had lived previously at Gardiner and then at Vassalboro (Sidney). James Burns was originally from Amherst, N. H., and a kinsman of Capt. John Burns of a Bedford, N. H. family, who married Martha Gray, son of Capt. John Gray of Embden, and became a prominent man in Madison. Both Burns men were of Scotch descent and their ancestor was one of the numerous group that came to America about 1740 by way of Londonderry.
James Burns established a ferry across the Kennebec in 1786, near Weston island. It seems to have been the earliest ferry in that region. This was three years after he brought his family up from Sidney, having sold his farm there toward the close of the Revolution and bought 200 acres on the river. The north part of this tract was the George Flint farm, where Lester C. Witham is now the owner. At James Burns' dwelling many Anson town meetings convened in 1800, 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1805. He sold parcels of his 200 acres from time to time. Joseph Savage in 1811 bought the lower 50 acres, which was just north of Sam-
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uel Getchell. This Joseph was a brother of Reuben Savage who had settled very early on the Canada Trial. Both were sons of James and Annah (Young) Savage and nephews of Isaac. Joseph Savage soon sold to Joseph Snell, who had come from Woolwich.
Thomas Dinsmore and his son, Thomas, Jr., by 1816 owned most of the remainder of James Burns' 200 acres, except the Marshal Houghton farm on Anson valley road where James went to live when an old man and after he had ceased to oper- ate the ferry. Every vestige of his old ferry house disappeared long ago. After him the Westons had a ferry near by. Amos Taylor, a brother-in-law of Joseph Savage his neighbor, and of Reuben Savage and Col. Lemuel Witham who were neighbors on the Canada Trail high on the hills in Embden, occupied a farm north of the Dinsmores in 1816, having resided earlier at Embden. North of that were the fine farms of the Moore brothers close up to North Anson village, with Savage Island. the domain of old Mariner Jacob, immediately opposite.
Comparison with owners' names in 1927 shows how complete- ly the families of the neighborhood have changed. The James Burns, Savage, Getchell and John Walker families have all de- parted. The Stephen Walkers, a very large family, yielded their ancestral seat in Madison to the Westons. Several of these Walkers, however, are still in the Anson neighborhood.
Nathaniel Getchell before long took his bride, Rhoda, to a new home in Embden. This was the farm where his great- grandson, William Getchell, now resides. John Gatchell (as the name was then spelled) of Wiscasset preempted an adjoining tract as early as 1790. . He and his wife, Mary, deeded it about 1793 to his nephew, John, Jr., of Wiscasset and shortly after- ward John, Jr., deeded 100 acres to Dr. Edward Savage. The acreage immediately east of this and lying north of the present road to New Portland passed to Nathaniel Getchell of Anson prior to 1812.
The Embden Getchells, through a long line, are nearly all from the spreading family tree of Nathaniel and Rhoda.' Wil- liam Getchell of Embden, who in 1831 married Mary Thompson,
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youngest daughter of "Uncle Moses" by the Solon ferry is an exception. He was a son of Nehemiah Getchell of Anson. Wil- liam and his wife died young, leaving two sons, Johnson and Nehemiah, and a dughter Apphia named for her grandmother, Apphia, of the Aaron Thompson clan.
The Getchells, however, were a numerous family in pioneer towns along the Kennebec. They were leading men among set- tlers at Vassalboro and Waterville. Several of them were trad- ers of note. Henry F. Getchell had a store at North Anson for 20 years on the site of the old Carrabasset hall. He sold out in 1858 to T. Gray & Son and in 1862 went to Des Moines where he engaged in the lumber business. His son Charles H. Getch- ell (1841-1903), native of North Anson, followed the sea three years, mined gold a while in Montana and then joined his father at Des Moines. John and Dennis Getchell of Vassalboro served as guides to Arnold's expedition on its way up the Kennebec to Quebec.
Nathaniel and Rhoda (Dawes) Getchell late in life went to Freeman, when they deeded their Embden homestead to son Amaziah, and along with several other Embden people are bur- ried there in Tuttle cemetery. Nathaniel W. Gould, who married their daughter Sophronia, had also resided a while on the Getch- ell farm. Nathaniel and Rhoda had nine children as follows:
Winslow Getchell, the oldest went to Minnesota, as did his brother, Perrin Getchell. The latter's residence was at St. An- hony's Falls.
Amaziah (1803-1863) husband of Polly Walker (1806-1892). whose children included Warren (1829-1917), who married orinda Walker of Freeman; Sumner (1836-1922), who married 'idelia Wilson; and Servila (1840-1908), whose husband was 'hilander Wilson. Amaziah like his sons Warren and Sumner as a good carpenter and plied his trade the while he worked is farm. Fred Getchell, Will Getchell and Lizzie (Getchell) Ventworth of Embden are Warren's children.
Joel Getchell who married Eleanor Weymouth and resided Auburn. Byron, Otis, Ezra and Eldora Getchell were their nildren.
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Ezra Getchell, son of Nathaniel, married Margaret Savage. They had a son, John Getchell. Ezra died at North Anson while a young man, as did his brother, Otis Getchell. Ezra's wife died at Springfield, Mass., in 1890.
Sophronia, already mentioned, was the wife of Nathaniel Gould.
Orrinda (1812-1880) married William Walker (1813) of Free- man. Nelson Walker (1846) of Strong and Orrin P. Walker are her sons. She is buried at Tuttle cemetery in Freeman.
Lucetta (1815-1856) married Simeon Weymouth. Of their children Albert and Virginia dwell at Farmington. There were several sons, including Dennis, Lewis, Harris and Almond who went to California.
Francis Burns (1777-1865) was one of the younger sons of James, the Anson ferryman. As a lad he came up from Sidney with his parents in the early 1780's when the place was first opening for permanent settlement. He resided in Anson till his majority, within short distance of the Savage, Getchell and Walker families from Woolwich and Wiscasset, nearly all of whom were Scotch Irish or Scotch English grandsons of people in the old country.
Shortly after he became 21 years old Francis Burns purchased of Ichabod Allen Oct. 12, 1798, a lot of 100 acres in Embden, just north of Dr. Edward Savage whom he had known as a so- journer in the neighborhood on Jacob Savage's island. The following March, Francis married Sally Dawes of Barnards- town, and took her to the cabin he had already built in Embden. His brother-in-law, Nathaniel Getchell, who had been a boy in the same Anson neighborhood, followed him to Embden a few years later, settling on a farm that touched corners with his.
The newly-weds in due time erected a house and barn and planted an orchard. There are yet a few vestiges of the old apple trees in the growth of fir and birch now covering the place. The farm buildings were falling in forty years ago, when their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Jackson had long been away in Massachusetts. Mary, the elder sister of Francis. preceded him to Embden as the wife of Jonathan Cleveland and
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(TOP) FRANCIS BURNS. SALLY
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BURNS. (BOTTOM) ELEANOR BURNS SMITH, A GRANDDAUGHTER. DEBORAH (BURNS) WENTWORTH, THEIR DAUGHTER.
ROSILLA (THOMPSON) WENT- WORTH, THEIR NIECE.
long resided near them on what later generations have known as the Jackson farm. Rachael, youngest sister of Francis, born according to Vassalboro town records in 1783 on James Burns' 200-acre settlement, married Johnson Thompson of An- son and her daughter, Rosilla, became the second wife of An- drew Wentworth (1789-1852) of Embden. Thus the immedi- ate kin of Francis and Sally (Dawes) Burns encircled the home- stead where their eleven children were born. Six of these were sons.
Isaac Burns (1803-1875) the oldest, lived near the New Port- land line. His family was notable in the early days for its in- terest in education. His two wives were New Portland women,
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the first Mary Pease (1812-1851) and the second Elvira Knapp. All his children were by Mary Pease. They included Eleanor Burns (1830-1909) who married Samuel Smith a Portland business man, afterward of Visalia, Calif .; Sarah (1831-1913) whose husband, Lewis Hutchins, was also a Portland business man; Alvin H. (1833-1887), who went to Minnesota, was a Civil War soldier in the 10th Minnesota and left two sons and two daughters, of whom the oldest is Harvey L. Burns of Maplewood, N. J .; Hannah (1834-1922), the wife of Zebina Dinsmore, for some years a resident of Embden; Alpheus (1836-1920) who lived in Pennsylvania; Elijah P., a soldier in the 8th New Hampshire Volunteers, whose son, Frank, now lives at Detroit; and Mary (1842) of Bethel, Me., widow of A. P. Fletcher of Eustis. Among the many descendants are Mrs. Myra Daggett, of Madison, a daughter of Mary Fletcher ; and Frank Dinsmore of Woodfords, son of Zebina. K. C. Gray, of Portland, former postmaster at Madison, married Hannah Dinsmore's daughter. Jessie Smith of New Portland is a grandson of Eleanor, but members of the Isaac Burns family into the third and fourth generation have scattered to various parts of the United States.
The two oldest daughters, Eleanor and Sarah, particularly the first were widely known teachers in their day. They were also members of the Lexington-Embden Freewill Baptist church. Eleanor's record in the Embden district schools was a notable one. She began in 1848 with a little school in the Dan- iel Goodwin neighborhood and taught for a decade. Her larg- est schools were at the Berry District (No. 4) in '52 and '57 and at the Tripp District (No. 11) near her father's in '51 and '58. After her marriage she resided awhile at Anson. Her last days were spent at Peaks Island with her grand-daughter, Mrs. L. A. Hinds, where she celebrated her 79th. birthday. At that age her hair remained a perfect black and she retained her fondness for reading and study.
Rufus Burns (1816-1861) another son of Francis, married Harriet Wentworth of Embden in 1841 and was an esteemed resident of Pittsfield where dwelt also his sons, Moses T. Burns, a contractor and builder. Jesse Burns (1818) died at Lawrence,
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Mass., where he prospered as a business man. Abram (1801), Jacob (1807) and Simon (1822) who died young, were the other brothers.
Abigail (1800-1883), the oldest of the Francis Burns house- hold, married her first cousin, Dominicus Burns (1805-1842) son of James Burns. Their sons Francis (1831-1897) and Frank (1837-1913) and three daughters who married into the Berry and Moulton families were highly regarded as residents of Emb- den. Deborah (1806-1888), daughter of Abigail, was the second wife of James L. Wentworth (1787-1847) and a cousin of his brother Andrew's second wife. James Wentworth's progeny of the Dawes-Burns blood extends to scores of present day families. There were, too, sisters Huldah (1811), Sarah (1814) who married Amos Jackson and Susan (1820) who was the second wife of Alfred Holbrook.
Were the men and women of this day, who trace their ancestry through Sally Dawes, to assemble about her grave, they would come from scores of widely separated towns and cities and the great company would fill the old field, north of the New Port- land road, by the ancient Jackson burying ground. Her family and the families of her children were notably larger than those of her sisters Rispah and Rhoda. Her grandsons had an ex- ceptional record for patriotic service. They were an appreciable percentage of Embden's soldier quota in the Civil War and up- held the reputation for valor that has been associated with the Dawes name from the day when Ambrose, builder of the Fort at Pemaquid, shared conflict with the foe.
Many a Massachusetts family of colonial times was represented by several sons in the Province of Maine, which, after the Revo- lution, became a land of promise. Thus it was with the old Dawes stock of Boston. Ambrose of Barnardstown (Madison), son of Ebenezer of Duxbury, son of Ambrose, Jr., of Boston and Duxbury, son of Ambrose of Boston, who served at Fort Pemaquid, was first to settle in the Pine Tree State. No Dawes but Ambrose and his son, Reuel, was enumerated in the first census of the Province, taken in 1790. But among the Dawes
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people who went later to Maine was the great-grandfather of Charles Gates Dawes, vice president of the United States.
Thomas Dawes (1680-1750), younger brother of Ambrose, Jr., of Boston and Duxbury, resided in Sudbury street, Boston, and one line of descent from him ran as follows: William Dawes (1719-1802) of Ann street, Boston; William Dawes, Jr., (1745- 1799) of Boston and - at the time of his death, of Marlboro - who made the famous ride with Paul Revere; William Mears Dawes (1771-1855) of Boston, who moved to Thomaston, Maine, in 1800, was appointed by President Jefferson nine years later as surveyor and inspector of that port, served as a member of the First Maine Constitutional Convention, moved to Morgan County, Ohio, in 1817, became a Whig member of the Ohio General As- sembly and was seven years an associate judge of his county; Henry Dawes (1804-1867) native of Maine but long a prosper- ous merchant of Malta, Ohio; and Gen. Rufus R. Dawes (1838- 1899) valiant soldier of the Civil War, Representative in Con- gress in the early 1880's from Marietta, Ohio, and father of the vice-president.
This Dawes branch, even as several of their forbears, particu- larly the earlier generations in Boston, included several others who won notable careers in the public service.
CHAPTER XXIV
A GREAT CAPTAIN APPEARS
New cavalcades of settler folks began arriving in Embden soon after the second War with England. Some were coming before that date. The end of that struggle, perhaps, supplied an impetus to migration even as the surrender at Yorktown thirty odd years before had plainly done. Up the Kennebec came the home seekers, on to the end of the rude highways and then along the spotted trails further into the wilderness. Some traveled on horseback during the open months but ox-sleds loaded heavily with household goods and farming implements still plodded the ice roads over the surface of the Kennebec in winter.
These accessions from 1810 to 1820 comprised many of the town's best citizens in the half century that ensued. Locating chiefly in the hills north of Seven Mile Brook were Lieut. John Pierce and his two sons, John, Jr., and Benjamin; the Wentworth brothers, James and Andrew; the three Jackson brothers, William R., Bartlett and Amos; and, a little later, Capt. Joseph Knowlton in succession to Ephraim Sawyer. To northwest Embden came the Moultons and Ichabod Foss, who from a bag or two of New Hampshire apple seeds raised splendid orchards. To the head of the pond and the region eastward and down the Canada Trail came Benjamin Berry, Capt. Cyrus Boothby, Archa Dunlap, Robert Wells, Joseph Felker and John Libbey. Some of these were from the lower Kennebec but quite a percentage had belonged to the Barrington neighborhood. Settlers in New Vineyard and Industry seem to have had word that Embden was a land of promise. From there about this time came the first of the Daggett clan, with Atkinsons, Caswells and others following almost a generation later.
The two Pierce brothers wrought exceedingly well. Their father, Lieut. John (1759-1839), came to town prior to 1815, with his wife, Mary Webb (1766-1816) ; John, Jr., (1789-1858) ; Benjamin (1795-1845) ; a daughter Sarah W. Pierce (1801-
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1835), who as the wife of Timothy Cleveland, Jr., was a pioneer mother of unusual children in southeast Ohio; another son David and another daughter Mary. The family was of old Massachusetts stock. Lieut. John's parents were Benjamin (1725) a considerable land owner of Weston, Mass., and Mary Lamson. This Benjamin held local offices over a period of 17 years and in 1781 loaned the town of Weston 135 pounds. He was also a soldier in Capt. Lamson's Company on April 19, 1775, at Lexington and subsequently had part in the battles of Ticon- deroga, White Plains and Crown Point. He was a member in 1774 of the committee of correspondence.
Lieut. John Pierce was living at Sidney in 1789 when his son Benjamin was born. He probably halted a while at Anson before he came to Embden. He established himself and his family on Lot No. 205, which became the nucleus of a large acreage under the ownership of his son Benjamin. Although now almost entirely wooded, it was many years one of the town's best farms. Following the death of his wife, Lieut. John Pierce in 1817 quitclaimed his interest in Lot 205 to Benjamin then of Anson for $300. John's daughter, Mary T. Pierce (1797-1863) who married Henry Moore, was a witness to this deed. The title to this lot comprising 82 acres still remained in the proprietor's name as was the case then with many of the settlers' equities and it was not till 1826 that Benjamin Pierce paid $122 more to obtain his deed in fee simple from Robert Hare of Philadelphia. It was probably Lieut. John, rather than his son John, who bought an adjacent farm of 90 acres (No. 158) of James Hibbard and in 1826 quitclaimed it to Ephraim Cragin.
Lieut. John's son Benjamin, in December of 1817, the year he acquired a farm from his father, married Hannah Cragin (1798- 1838) a daughter of Simeon Cragin near-by. Following her death he married in 1841 Lois H. Bartlett. On his hilltop Benjamin Pierce became a very active man. He soon started a fight for a division of Embden, as already told. Before many years he also began to enlarge his land holdings. Boom times were at hand, with many Embden farmers buying more land. Moses Thompson over by the Kennebec had "taken a flier"
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apparently on Lot 181, a half mile north, buying from the proprietors. Benjamin in 1829 paid him $200 for it. A year later he bought an intervening tract Lot No. 182 from Franklin Barton of Albion, which had been a half of the mile wide holdings of Ephraim Sawyer on Seven Mile Brook but had been sold in succession to Capt. Josiah Parker of the Falls, Simeon Cragin, Jr., at Machias and to William Crosby.
Meanwhile John Pierce, Jr., the older brother, was building up his homestead, the northwest corner of which was almost within dinner call across the farm of Capt. Benjamin Cleveland to the southeast corner of Benjamin Pierce's No. 205. This was the farm No. 3, first owned by Abel and Benjamin Cleveland and then by James Adams who sold it in 1815 to John Pierce, Jr., for $450. The price of $4.50 an acre was relatively high when Embden land had been selling for $2 and under but the Adams farm, attractive and fertile, was undoubtedly worth it. In any event John, Jr., and Benjamin prospered for many years after they had thus established themselves close by the Seven Mile Brook section of the town. On John's farm in 1838 was erected a stone house, which is still a landmark along the Seven Mile Brook road. The West Embden post office was at the stone house several years before it was moved to the Cragin home up the road.
John, Jr., was married the year he acquired this farm. His first wife was Anna Cragin (1793-1819) also a daughter of neighbor Simeon Cragin, but a half-sister of Mrs. Benjamin Pierce. John Pierce's second wife was Sarah Spaulding (1799- 1880) a daughter of Merari Spaulding of Bingham. After her first husband's death, Sarah Pierce became Mrs. Asa C. Everett of Ashley, Mass. By their marriages both the Pierce brothers entrenched themselves in the Seven Mile Brook community. Simeon Cragin had become one of Embden's most prosperous townsmen. The Clevelands were his blood relatives and the Hutchinses were soon to become his in-laws. His daughters were also marrying into leading families of New Portland and thus increased the circle of the two young Pierce wives. There was an additional tie with the Clevelands because
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