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Abram Walker, Asa Walker, Cephas R. Walker, Ebenezer J. Walker, Eli C. Walker, Elisha Walker, Erastus Walker, John Walker, Joseph Walker, Joseph W. Walker, Leonard H. Walker, Samuel A. Walker, Solomon Walker, Ralph Wells, Robert G. Wells, Andrew Wentworth, Deborah Wentworth, Albert Williams, Amos Williams, Caleb Wil- liams, Hamden T. Williams, John Williams, John H. Williams, Lem- uel Williams, Moses Williams, Zachariah Williams, Reuben Willson, Daniel S. Witham, David Witham, Hiram Witham, Jotham G. Witham and Lemuel Witham.
David Young, 2nd., and John Young.
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Isaac W. Adams, Joseph Atkinson, William Atkinson, Benjamin C. Atwood, S. Colby Atwood, Stillman H. Atwood, Moses Ayer, and Seth Ayer.
David Baker, John Barron, William Barron, James Beal, Zina Beal, Anthony Benance, Calvin S. Benjamin, Benjamin F. Berry, John T. Berry, Levi Berry, Michael F. Berry, William P. Berry, Cyrus Booth- by, Thaddeus F. Boothby, Hannah B. Bosworth, Calvin Boyington, Jo- seph Boyington, Francis Burns, 2nd., Isaac Burns and Jacob Burns.
Charles Caldwell, Henry Caldwell, John Carle, Justus W. Carle, Henry Caswell, Lemuel Caswell, Joshua Chick, Nahum Chick, Silas Chick, William Q. Chick, Albert Churchill, Ebenezer G. Clarke, Wil- liam Clarke, Asher Cleaveland, Cyrus Cleaveland, Elias Cleaveland, Elias Cleaveland, Jr., Job S. Cleaveland, Jonas Cleaveland, Simeon C. Cleaveland, Morrill Cook, Amos Copp, George W. Copp, Henry C. Copp, Nathan Copp, Reul Copp, John Cragin, Sanford Crosby, Caldo F. C. Crymble, Charles Crymble, Lucius C. Crymble and Nelson Crym- ble.
Isaac Daggett, Jonathan C. Daggett, Heirs of Matthew Daggett, Obed W. Daggett, Henrietta W. Daniels, Manoah Delling, Zebina Dinsmore, Anthony L. Donehue, Frederic H. Dunbar, Ephraim Dunlap, Joel Dur- rell, Joseph Durrell, Joseph S. Durrell, Nicholas Durrell, Randall F. Durrell and Leonard H. Dyer.
Almond Eames, Austin Eames, Jonathan Eames, Phineas Eames, John Ellis and John Emery.
Daniel Felker, Jesse Fletcher, Truman Fletcher, Barzilla Ford, Rob- ert Ford, Eli Foss, James Foss and Heirs of James R. Foss.
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Amaziah Getchell, Sumner Getchell, Warren Getchell, Daniel Good- win, George W. Goodwin, Keziah Goodwin, Thomas H. Goodwin, Dan- iel S. Gorden, John Gorden, Joseph Gorden, Benjamin Gould, Gorham P. Gould, J. Omar Gray, John Gray, Joseph E. Gray, Joshua Gray and Joseph N. Greene.
Silas Hafford, James Harlow, James H. Harlow, Eli Haws, Franklin Haws, John Haws, Amos Heald, Thomas Heald, Whiting S. Hinkley, Amos Hilton, Waterman Hilton, James Hodgdon, Abel C. Holbrook, Alfred Holbrook, Horace W. Holbrook, John Holbrook, Lewis Hol- brook, James Huff, John Hunnewell, Jr., and James Hutchinson.
Amos Jackson and William R. Jackson.
James A. Linnell, George Lisherness and Mark A. Lisherness.
O. H. McFadden, Benjamin C. McKenney, David G. McKenney, George W. McKenney, Converse Moody, John W. Morin, Ai Moulton, Benjamin R. Moulton, John W. Moulton, Oliver J. Moulton, William Moulton, Abram S. Mullen, Archa Mullen, Benjamin Mullen, Daniel Mullen, Joel Mullen, John Mullen and Ozias Mullen.
George W. Newell, Samuel Norton and Warren Nutting.
John Pierce, Administrator of J. Pierce and Elisha Purington.
William Quint.
John Redman, Leonard Ricker and Lyman Rowe.
Cyrus Salley, Isaac Salley, Isaac Savage, Samuel Savage, Abel W. Spaulding, Timothy C. Spaulding, Jacob Stetson, Norris M. Stetson, Ashman T. Stevens, David Stevens, David Stevens, 2nd., Elam Stevens, Gorham Stevens, Heirs of Jonathan Stevens, Sanford B. Stevens, Wil- liam H. Stevens, Sarah M. Stone, Asa Strickland, Daniel D. Strickland, Eastman T. Strickland, Otis Strickland and Seba Strickland.
Ebenezer C. Talcott, Benjamin Taylor, Albert Thompson, Charles E. Thompson, Jonas Thompson, Moses Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Jr., Reuben Thompson, William Thompson, Elijah C. Towns, David Tripp, Richard Tripp, Simeon C. Tripp and John E. Tuttle.
Calvin Walker, Eli C. Walker, Elisha Walker, Erastus Walker, George Walker, John Walker, John Walker 2nd., Joseph Walker, Leonard H. Walker, Solomon Walker, Harrison Warren, Daniel Welch, Ralph Wells, Daniel W. Wentworth, Jefferson Wentworth, Jesse Wentworth, Julius White, Zenas B. White, Lionel White, Francis K. Wilbur, Albert Williams, Amos Williams, Hamden T. Williams, Henry Williams, John Williams, John L. Williams, Warren Williams, Jotham G. Witham, Lemuel Witham, John Wilson and Reuben Wilson.
TAX PAYERS OF 1870
John G. Abbott, Isaac W. Adams, Gardiner B. Andrews, William Atkinson, Stillman H. Atwood and Alfred P. Austin.
William Barron, James Berry, John T. Berry, Lyman Berry, Marshall Berry, Michael F. Berry, William P. Berry, T. F. Boothby, Harrison Boston, Roby L. Boston, Hannah B. Bosworth, Calvin Boy-
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ington, Edward S. Boyington, Joshua G. Boyington, Francis Burns, Franklin S. Burns, Jacob Burns, John Burns, Seth Burns and Allen Butler.
Charles F. Caldwell, John Carle, Henry Caswell, Philander H. Chick, Sarah Chick, Albert Churchill, Hartwell Churchill, William Clark, Heirs of Asher Cleveland, Elias Cleveland, Elias Cleveland, Jr., Jerry S. Cleveland, Morrill Cook, Amos Copp, George Copp, Henry C. Copp, Augustus Crowell and Lucius C. Crymble.
Isaac Daggett, Samuel Daggett, Seldon Dawes, Manoah Delling, Polly Delling, William Donahue, Frederic H. Dunbar, Ephraim Dun- lap, Randall F. Durrell and Trueman Durrell.
Jonathan Eames, Phineas Eames and John Ellis.
Daniel Felker, Barzilla Fellows, Barzilla Ford, Robert Ford, John G. Forsyth, Eli F. Foss, and Sarah W. Foss.
Warren Getchell, Daniel Goodwin, Joseph W. Gordon, John Gray, Joshua Gray, Wesley Gray, Charles H. Graffam and Joseph N. Greene.
Silas L. Hafford, William H. Hanson, Eli Hawes, Gustavus A. Hawes, John H. Henderson, Amos Hilton, Theophilus Hilton, Water- man Hilton, Charles B. Hinkley, George Hodgdon, Henry Hodgdon, James Hodgdon, Abel C. Holbrook, Horace W. Holbrook, Casper Hooper, Orlando Hooper, Noah Huff, Alvin M. Hunnewill, Augustus H. Hunnewill, John Hunnewill, Jr., Charles Hutchison, James Hutchison and James M. Hutchison.
Fanny Ireland, Fifield Ireland and Temple Ireland.
William R. Jackson.
Owen Knapp.
Charles Lisherness and Mark A. Lisherness.
Phineas McCollar, Andrew McFadden, O. H. McFadden, Benjamin C. McKenney, Lorenzo F. McKenney, William H. McKenney, Sidney Mantor, J. Williams Morin, Atwood Morse, Ai Moulton, Benjamin F. Moulton, Benjamin R. Moulton, John W. Moulton, Oliver J. Moulton, Abram S. Mullen, Daniel Mullen and Joel Mullen.
Robert Nichols and Samuel Norton.
George C. Patten, Hiram Pease, 2nd., David W. Pierce, George A. Pierce and John Pierce.
William Quint.
Stephen H. Rice and Lyman R. Rowe.
Cyrus Salley, Isaac Salley, Joel Salley, John M. Salley, Bryant N. Savage, George E. Savage, Samuel Savage, Ambrose Skillings, Obed W. Skillings, Hiram R. Smith, Ansel Stevens, David Stevens, David Stevens, 2nd., Elam Stevens, Fanny Stevens, William Stevens, Asa Strickland, Eastman T. Strickland and Susannah Strickland.
Charles E. Thompson, Christopher Thompson, Moses Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Tamson Thompson, Benjamin F. Tozier, Daniel Tripp, Ephraim C. Tripp, Richard Tripp and Richard H. Tripp.
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Adrian V. Walker, Calvin F. Walker, Cephas Walker, Eli C. Walker, Erastus Walker, George B. Walker, Leonard H. Walker, Stillman A. Walker, Robert G. Wells, James L. Wentworth, Jefferson Wentworth, Jerry Wentworth, Jesse Wentworth, John Wentworth, David Whipple, Charles C. Whittier, Amos Williams, Daniel K. Williams, Fairfield Williams, Hamden T. Williams, Henry Williams, Joseph M. Williams, Marshall Williams, Warren Williams, Zachariah Williams, John L. Williamson, John Wilson, Philander H. Wilson, Jotham G. Witham and Mark Witham.
TAX PAYERS OF 1880
Adoniram Adams, Adoniram A. Adams, Isaac W. Adams, John N. Adams, Isaac All'bee, Joshua G. Andrews, Levi Andrews, 2nd., Samuel C. Atwood, Stephen B. Atwood, Stillman H. Atwood, Clare Atkinson and William Atkinson.
J. Frank Barron, William Barron, Austin Berry, Granville Berry, Llewellyn Berry, Marshall Berry, Michael Berry, Michael F. Berry, William P. Berry, T. F. Boothby, Roby L. Boston, Edward S. Boying- ton, Joshua G. Boyington, Francis Burns, Franklin S. Burns, Howard W. Burns, John S. Burns, Seth Burns and John Butterfield.
Charles F. Caldwell, John Carl, Oswald Carl, Frank F. Caswell, Henry Caswell, Philander H. Chick, John W. Churchill, Edwin J. Clark, Elias Cleveland, Jerry S. Cleveland, William H. Condon, Betsey Copp, George W. Copp and Henry C. Copp.
Albert R. Daggett, William S. Davis, Manoah Delling, Frank Donley, Edward E. Dunbar, Frederic H. Dunbar, Gilbert W. Dunbar, Ephraim Dunlap and Randall F. Durrell.
Austin Eames, Charles Eames, Melzer Eames and Phineas Eames.
Manson S. Felker, Calvin C. Foss, Eli F. Foss, Kinsley W. Foss and Barzilla Ford.
Charles A. Getchell, Fred Getchell, Warren Getchell, Daniel Good- win, J. Marshall Gray, Otis W. Gray, Westley Gray and Frank M. Green.
Silas L. Hafford, Eli Hawes, Gustavus A. Hawes, Ansel R. Hayden, Amos Hilton, Eldwin Hilton, Hartwell Hilton, Lewis Hilton, The- ophilus Hilton, Waterman Hilton, Edwin W. Hodgdon, James Hodg- don, James L. Hodgdon, Henry G. Hodgdon, Abel C. Holbrook, Horace W. Holbrook, Lewis Holbrook, Orlando C. Hooper and Charles Hutchi- son.
Fifield Ireland and Temple Ireland.
Fred Jackson and William R. Jackson.
Adaline L. Lane, Orrin Lane, Sawyer Lane, Granville Lisherness, Mark A. Lisherness and George Lishon.
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O. H. McFadden, George W. McKenney, William H. McKenney, Sid- ney Mantor, William Marson, George A. Moore, J. Williams Morin,
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Ai Moulton, Benjamin F. Moulton, John W. Moulton, Oliver J. Moul- ton, Abram S. Mullen, Daniel Mullen, Joel Mullen and John Mullen.
Lewis Nollett, Charles C. Norton and Samuel Norton.
George C. Patten, Justus T. Perry, Frank A. Pierce, Fred B. Pierce Henry C. Pierce and Henry Prescott.
Robert Quint.
Augustus Ronco.
Fred Salley, Isaac Salley, Jo. T. Salley, Mendum P. Salley, Nancy Salley, Orrin Salley, John Skillings, John Skillings, 3rd., Ansel Stevens, David Stevens, Elam Stevens, Vassal Stevens, Thomas Stew- ard, Charles Stoddard, Moses L. Strickland and Susannah Strickland.
Charles E. Thompson, Fletcher Thompson, Jr., Frank Thompson. Lorenzo Thompson, Moses Thompson, Moses B. Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Daniel Tripp, Ephraim C. Tripp, Richard Tripp and Richard H. Tripp.
Calvin F. Walker, Cephas Walker, Cephas R. Walker, Eli C. Walker, Erastus Walker, J. Frank Walker, Leonard H. Walker, Stillman A. Walker, James L. Wentworth, Jesse Wentworth, Ruth Wentworth, Edward Weston, Amos Williams, Caroline B. Williams, Daniel K. Williams, Fairfield Williams, Fred Williams, Henry Williams, John L. Williamson, Jesse L. Wilson, Jotham G. Witham and Parker Witham.
Isaac Young and Manley Young.
TAX PAYERS OF 1890
Alonzo Adams, Isaac Allbee, Everett P. Ames, Hiram Andrews, Joshua G. Andrews, Buzzell H. Atwood, Ernest E. Atwood and Stephen B. Atwood.
Henry Barron, J. Frank Barron, William Barron, Austin Berry, Ben- jamin M. Berry, Bert Berry, Elfin Q. Berry, Elmer Berry, Granville Berry, Lyman Berry, Marshall Berry, Mellen H. Berry, Melvin W. Berry, Michael Berry, Michael F. Berry, William P. Berry, Charles Bickford, T. F. Boothby, Frank E. Bosworth, Ezra W. Bowen, Beda Burns, Francis Burns, Franklin S. Burns, John S. Burns and Harriet C. Butterfield.
Carroll L. Caswell, Henry Caswell, Philander Chick, George E. Clark, George Copp, George Copp, Jr., Henry C. Copp, Will Copp, Charles Creamer and William Curtis.
Heirs of Albert Daggett, Isaac Daggett, George H. Delling, Manoah Delling, Frank Donley, Frederic H. Dunbar, Gilbert W. Dunbar, Randall F. Durrell and Silas H. Durrell.
Austin Eames, George L. Eames, Melzer A. Eames, Philena N. Eames, Phineas Eames, Roscoe Eames, Ervin H. Ellis and Randall W. Ellis.
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Manson S. Felker, Barzilla Ford, Byron B. Foss, Calvin C. Foss, Heirs of Eli F. Foss and Kinsley W. Foss.
Fred Getchell, Daniel Goodwin, Jacob Goodwin, George Gordon, Annie Green, Frank M. Green and Hartly Green, Jr.
Silas L. Hafford, Sophia Hafford, Gustavus A. Hawes, J. Frank Hawes, Asher T. Heald, Theophilus Hilton, Charles B. Hinkley, James Hodgdon, James L. Hodgdon, Henry G. Hodgdon, Eliza Holbrook, Emma Holbrook, Lewis Holbrook, Mary E. Hooper, Orlando Hooper, Lydia J. Hunnaford and Nason S. Hunnaford.
Dorcas Ireland, Fifield Ireland and heirs of Temple Ireland.
Sylvester Jackson.
Charles A. Lancaster, Zilthia Lancaster, Adaline L. Lane, Charles F. Lane, Frank W. Lane, Mary E. Lane, Orrin W. Lane, Sawyer Lane, Bert Libby, Granville Lisherness and Mark A. Lisherness.
William H. McKenney, John McNeal, J. Williams Morin, Ai Moulton, Benjamin F. Moulton, John W. Moulton, Sanford J. Moulton, Abram S. Mullen, Charles A. Mullen, Daniel Mullen, Jr., Joel Mullen, John Mullen, Fred Murphy, James Murphy, John Murphy and William Murphy.
Lewis Nollett and Charlotta Norton.
James L. Paine, George C. Patten, J. C. Peaks, Adelbert Perry, Justus T. Perry, Frank A. Pierce and Fred B. Pierce.
Robert Quint.
Henry Redmond and Stephen Rolfe.
Fred Salley, Mendum P. Salley, Nancy Salley, Walter Salley, Wil- liam H. Sargent, Charles H. Savage, Hattie R. Savage, Amos A. Skil- lings, Fred Skillings, John Skillings, John Skillings, Jr., Obed W. Skillings, Ansel Stevens, David Stevens, Heirs of Elam Stevens, Jotham Stevens, William Stevens and Thomas Steward.
Moses Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Julia Tozier, Morris Tozier, Daniel Tripp, Edwin F. Tripp and Ephraim C. Tripp.
Cephas Walker, Eli C. Walker, Erastus Walker, John E. Walker, Samuel A. Walker, Stillman A. Walker, Lowell E. Ward, James L. Wentworth, Jesse Wentworth, John Wentworth, David S. Whitney, Martha A. Whitney, Catherine Williams, Charles L. Williams, Daniel K. Williams. Philander Wilson, Sevilla Wilson, Amanda Witham. Grant Witham, Jotham G. Witham and Manly Witham.
Benjamin Young and J. Young.
There were 70 non-resident taxpayers in 1890, which meant that approximately the same number of parcels of land were owned outside the town. That was something like one-third of the entire land area. The list of non-resident owners had been constantly larger after 1860. The town's heavy burden of debt on account of Somerset Railway bonds had been depressing. It
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discouraged many who sold out their holdings or allowed their farms to go under foreclosure. Traders and others in Anson and Solon gained title to much Embden acreage during this period. The names of these non-resident owners are not in the above lists, but a few are included during the first half century when there was no effort in the town bookkeeping to place them in a separate group. Among these might be men- tioned William Haskell, Bezar Bryant, Daniel Steward and Alfred Walker. For many years non-resident owners were largely the Rhode Island proprietors. Their unsold "lots" were entered annually for state, county and town taxes and also for school and highway taxes.
THREE DECADES OF VALUES
As the town books were not kept on a uniform basis, compari- sons of valuations can not be made comprehensively, but the fol- lowing tables have some significance :
1870
1890
Total Assessment of Real Estate
*$116,782
1880 $98,975
$118,785
Total Assessment of Personal Property
39,259
35,225
19,602
TOTAL
$156,041
$134,200
$138,387
* In 1870 the total non-resident ownership of Embden farms was $12,452. In 1890 the total non-resident ownership of Embden farms was $23,595. These figures are included in these above assessment totals.
Embden tax expenses, exclusive of highways for ten year peri- ods between 1840 and 1890 were as follows:
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
State Tax
$ 175.97 $
317.86 $
198.61 $1,248.57 $1,040.78 $
386.90
County Tax
211.17
185.08
209.32
189.10
217.87
190.48
*Town Expenses.
500.00
500.00
1,100.00
4,500.00
3,000.00
3,500.00
Support of Schools
357.60
397.20
638.56
1,042.00
642.00
539.20
Other Items
8.98
24.89
42.51
253.04
202.17
230.82
$1,253.72 $1,425.03 $2,189.00
$7,232.71
$5,102.82 $4,847.40
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* "Town Expenses" totals for 1870 included $3,500 voted to meet interest on railroad bonds. Somewhat smaller sums were voted for similar pur- pose in 1880 and in 1890.
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This history should notice, perhaps, Anson's Walter Spauld- ing in his two-wheel gig, trotting northward along the Kennebec River road one Wednesday morning and over the town bound- ary. He was an assistant marshal of the United States and it was August 14 in the year 1850.
The most complete census of everybody in the land ever un- dertaken was in progress, which accounts for Marshal Spauld- ing's mission. Some of his eight big sons (page 423) were still at home in northeast Anson to cut and harvest the grain. He had the education and could spare the time for this considerable task in Embden.
By this date the proprietors had sold practically all their land. About every ridge and hillside were divided into home- steads. There were yet no abandoned farms. As this was to be alike census of individuals and of families, the marshal must cross every Embden threshold and put down the name and age of every person - first, parents and household heads; next, their children; then hired help and relatives old and young under the shelter of the rooftree. Here and there in a comfort- able corner would be a revered survivor of the pioneers.
He went into Embden three successive Wednesday mornings with his big census blanks and pencil, worked the first two weeks through to Saturday night and the third week till late Friday. That day his two-wheel gig was at Asahel Hutchins' door in the morning, jogged down Seven Mile Brook road to John Cragin's, across way to William Jackson's, then passed the Stone House - perhaps because John Pierce was not at home - and called at Humphrey Purington's. Then he re- turned to the Stone House and from there, when he had the Pierce family data in his portmanteau, started again down the road, bearing left on the Barron cross road to Deacon Joseph Walker's. That was the last family to be enumerated.
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He was eleven days at this federal task. Authorities at Wash- ington had instructed him to put down the value of each farmer's land, each man's occupation, to make note of each person's birthplace and to get the names of defectives, such as deaf, dumb, blind or insane. Most farms he rated as worth $1,000 and under. A considerable portion of them were valued under that figure. Outstanding exceptions were Asahel Hutchins and Jonathan Stevens, Jr., lumberman, whose holdings went upon the books as worth $4,000 each. Deacon Joseph Walker had $2,500, his brother, Elisha, $2,300; while Joshua Gray, Andrew McFadden, Charles Atkinson and Joseph Greene each had $2,000 acreages,
Marshal Spaulding had to ask, too, about illiteracy. He found only five Embden people over 20 years of age who could not read and write. Quite remarkable also was his ascertainment that out of almost 1,000 the defectives were only one insane person, one idiot and one blind man. Embden still was almost solely of old colonial stock, even as it largely is today. There were two natives of Ireland - John Farday on the Fahi shore and Charles Crymble a short distance north of him; two natives of Portugal over on the Canada Trail - Anthony Benance and Manuel Sylvester ; and five from the Provinces of Canada. Three of these six had come from New Brunswick. One of the Burr children, a grandson of Asahel Hutchins, was born while his mother resided in New York. There were forty-odd natives of New Hampshire, sixteen from Massachusetts and one each from Virginia and Rhode Island. Otherwise Embden's population in 1850 was entirely native to Maine. Nearly all were farmers but there were millmen, lumbermen and brickmasons and a ped- dler.
One can follow the wheel tracks of the marshal's gig day by day from farm to farm. As his order of visitation is preserved one easily locates neighborhoods and residences. That first Wednesday morning, he halted before two Dakin doorways, was much of the day canvassing several Gray families and by night was up near Solon ferry. He began Thursday morning with Jonathan Eames in the corner of the new cross road and at night had reached Stillman Stone's at Caratunk Falls. Friday he be-
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gan with Capt. John Walker and had written Boyingtons, Wil- liamses and Spauldings in northeast Embden before he got over to Cyrus Boothby's. He turned back there down the road west of Martin stream past William Salley's Ralph Wells' and Charles Crymble's. Late in the day he was at Elam Stevens where that west road - much of it now abandoned - joined the River road, just as at present by the railroad depot. Part of Fri- day and all of Saturday he stopped at doorways north, east and south of Fahi Pond. These included at the lower end Daniel and John Hilton, David Young, 2nd., and Elias, Jefferson and James Y. Cleveland, as well as Luther the wheel-wright.
On Wednesday, the second week, Marshall Spaulding started with Mason Colby and Lieut. Reul Wilson in the lower Fahi neighborhood and struck up the Canada Trial. He enumerated that day the Christopher Atkinsons and families of Isaac and Cyrus Salley, Seth Ayer, Ebenezer Clark and John Caswell. Be- ginning Thursday with, Ebenezer Talcott - then recently mar- ried and due a few years later to die in a New York hospital as a soldier - and the two Portugese settlers that day's enumeration was devoted to Embden Center. Elder Job Hodgdon was put down as a joiner, possibly pausing at his bench to reckon his several children's ages. The marshal was up the Trail and in the populous Berry neighborhood near Concord on Friday, Au- gust 23, but in the afternoon had jogged back southward and out the crossroad to the foot of Embden Pond. Saturday morning he plodded up Foss Hill to get the Lemuel Williams' brood, re- turned and drove west on the cross road to Asher and John Cleveland, went up the Wentworth lane for the two large families there and soon made toward his home in Anson but finished his second week's work by registering the Joseph Bar- rons, Benjamin Goulds and Samuel A. and Elisha Walkers on the lower cross road.
The third and last Wednesday Marshal Spaulding rode up the west side of the Big Pond and climbed hills to Joseph Greene's and Deacon Benjamin Moulton's. Thence to the Tripps, Stet- sons and Stricklands mostly south of Hancock Pond. On his way back, probably through North Village, he got Isaac Burns and
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Jesse Fletcher. By Thursday he was on the east side of Black Hill at the doors of Whiting Hinkley, Joseph Cook, Samuel Norton and Amos Jackson but along toward sunset had crossed westward and was at Capt. Joseph Knowlton's, not far from the Falls. Perhaps he put up there with the Lisherness family, or with Moses Williams, and got an early start from the Hutchins homestead on the eleventh and last lap of his census journeyings.
Marshall Spaulding's blanks, carefully and legibly filled, went with many thousand others to Washington. Years passed before these were bound into large volumes and people whose forbears had neglected to keep their family records, began to ask that the 1850 census papers be open to the public, as they now are.
Groups come daily to a little room in a World War build- ing on the Mall to look into the books and see what the Cen- sus enumerators wrote. Out of one of those volumes, brought from a large storage vault, came the data of Embden people and families herewith. Each numeral at the left stands for an Emb- den family group. These families are not alphabetically arranged but follow the order in which the marshal and his gig drove into each front yard. Numerals after each name, of course, indicate each person's age along in August of that census year. One must not expect to find all the children of every family. Some had grown up and gone away. Abbreviations in parentheses denote birthplaces outside of Maine. The list follows :
1 Hamblet Dakin, brickmason, 35; Florilla, 31; Abby W., 7; Edee E., 1; Wesley G., 8.
2 Levi Dakin (Mass.), 68; Edee (N. H.), 64; William J., 19.
3 John Gray, Jr., 40; Caroline M., 27; Charles L., 7; Harriet E., 4; Sherman, 8/12; John Keren, 14; Eliza Gray, 18; Reliance Gray, 11.
4 John Gray, 71; Catharine, 71; Hartley, 28.
5 Joshua Gray, 46; Betsey, 42; Enos, 21; Joseph E., 18; Franklin, 16; Joshua O., 14; Hellen, 12; Elizabeth, 9; Jonas M., 3; Hannah, 75.
6 Jonas Thompson, 47; Tamson, 48; Susan J., 12; Caroline F., 10; Joseph C., 8; Harriet M., 2; Esther, 22; Joel, 20.
7 David Stevens, 2nd, 29; Naomi, 24.
8 Fletcher Thompson, 42; Martha, 37; Fayette, 20; Philena, 18; Fanny, 14; Adah, 12; Alureda, 10; Fletcher, Jr., 7; Tryphena L., 5; Celestia, 3; Serepta, 1/12.
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