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(VII) Sewell, eldest child of Captain Jabez Hobson, was born in Buxton, March 26, 1816, and came to Steep Falls with his father, with whom he was associated in the lumber busi- ness, a calling which he followed until a few years before his death, which occurred at the home of his youngest son, Sewell M., at Con- way, New Hampshire, June 26, 1896. He was a staunch Republican in politics, and possessed the fine physique and good looks which char- acterized the Hobsons as a race, combined with an intelligence which embraced world af- fairs as well as matters of local interest. He attended school at Parsonsfield Seminary, where he met and married (first), November 22, 1835, Martha A. Buzzell, daughter of El- der John Buzzell, who was for sixty-five years pastor of the Free Baptist church at Parsons- field. In 1799 "a periodic ministers' training school" was established in his home with El- der Buzzell as dean. Largely through his ef- forts Parsonsfield Seminary was established in 1832, which was the first Free Baptist de- nominational school, and from which Bates College was an outgrowth. In 1811 he gave this denomination its first periodic literature, A Religious Magazine, and he aided Colby to arrange the manuscript for his memoirs. In 1823 he published the first denominational hymn book. In 1826 he was one of the prime movers in establishing The Morning Star. He edited and published "The Life of Benjamin
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Randall," and was prominent in founding the Free Baptist Book Company. He also worked up the conditions which led to the organiza- tion of the Free Baptist Foreign Mission So- ciety. His forebears came from the Isle of Jersey in 1696, and settled in New Hampshire, Elder Buzzell being the first one to settle in this state. He was the father of Dr. John Buz- zell, a well-known physician of Cape Eliza- beth, and of Dr. James M. Buzzell, of Gor- ham, who was undoubtedly one of the most skillful surgeons of his day, and the grand- father of Dr. John D. Buzzell, who was for many years a prominent practitioner in Port- land.
Martha (Buzzell) Hobson was born in Par- sonsfield, May 16, 1816, and died at Steep Falls, October, 1855. She bore to her husband six children, two of whom died young. Those living are :
I. Ethelinda, born at Steep Falls, January 12, 1837. She received her education in her native town and at Limerick Academy. She had an alto voice of unusual sweetness, and sang in the church choir for over forty years. She married, November 8, 1857, Gideon Mar- shall Tucker (see Tucker VII).
2. Anna Elizabeth, born August 5, 1838. She married (first) Jack Seward, of Wake- field, New Hampshire, in 1855, who died Au- gust 20, 1856. She married (second) Decem- ber 18, 1859, Marshall Paine, of Standish, to whom she bore three children: Adelaide Olive, born December 8, 1860, is unmarried, living with her mother in Portland, Maine; Celia Mitchell, born January 3, 1862, married Walter Hamlin, August 31, 1887, and died December 8, 1891; Grace Hobson, born Au- gust 20, 1868, married (first) Wilbur F. Chase, September 14, 1887, who died Decem- ber, 1892 ; she married (second) Hugh Eustis Potts, June 22, 1896; they have a beautiful cottage on the shore of Sebago Lake, in Stan- dish, where they spend their summers.
, 3. Martha Alma, born at Steep Falls, May 31, 1848. She was educated in the schools of this town, and Gorham Seminary, and was married, September 12, 1869, at Hillside Manse, Cornish, Maine, by Parson Cole, to Stephen H. Cousins (see Cousins VII). She is a woman of great executive ability, and has been for a number of years at the head of the Maine Woman's Missionary Society of the Free Baptist denomination, of which she is a devoted member.
4. James Edward, born March 31, 1851, at Limerick, Maine. When quite young he went to Somersworth, New Hampshire, where he
entered a dry goods store. He married, Oc- tober 29, 1873, Emma Swain, daughter of Moses and Emma (Gowell) Swain, of Som- ersworth, where he was for many years a member of the firm of Dorr & Hobson. To them were born children : 1. Harry Ed- ward, born July 29, 1874, now an electrician in Poughkeepsie, New York. 2. Herbert Leon, born July 12, 1877; married November 4, 1904, Gertrude Abbott, of Buena Vista, Newfoundland; to them were born two chil- dren : Dorothy Emma, born August 23, 1905, and James Buzzell, born December 25, 1906. 3. Clifford Maurice, born June 21, 1880, died May 2, 1903.
Sewell Hobson married (second) Ann Thompson, widow of Levi Thompson, and daughter of Elijah and Rhoda (Parker) Emery, who lived in Windham, where she was born March, 1823, and she died in Steep Falls, March, 1895, having borne him one child : Sewell M., who married Orphie Eaton, of Brownfield, in 1884. They live in Conway, New Hampshire, and have one son, Rupert Jabez, who was born September 7, 1903.
James Sawyer, a weaver by SAWYER trade, settled in Ipswich, Essex county, Massachusetts, in Jan- uary, 1669. He was probably the son of Will- iam Sawyer, who came from England in 1640. The records show that his first wife was Mar- tha. In 1677 the Gloucester records show that a son Nathaniel was born to him and his wife Sarah, and in his will dated May 25, 1703, he mentions his wife Sarah and his children in the following order: My eldest son, Thomas Sawyer ; second, John; third, Nathaniel, born 1677; fourth, Abraham, 1680; fifth, Isaac, 1684 ; sixth, Jacob, 1687; seventh and young- est, James, 1691, and my two daughters, Mary, wife of William Ring, and Sarah, born 1683.
(II) John, son of James Sawyer, married in 1701 Rebecca Standford, and resided at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, until 1719, when he removed to Falmouth, Maine. He settled on the Neck, opposite Portland, called Cape Elizabeth, and in 1719 the town granted him the privilege of the ferry on the cape side, which he kept many years. Children : John, Job, Jonathan, Daniel, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Rebecca, Bethiah.
(III) Joseph, son of John Sawyer, was born in Gloucester, 17II, and went with his parents to Falmouth in 1719. The York county records show that he was appointed special justice of the court of common pleas,
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December 27, 1734, April 8, 1743, special jus- tice of superior court in 1749, and judge of the inferior court September II, 1765. He married Joanna Cobb; children: Ebenezer, Mary, Lemuel, James, Jabez, John, Rachel, Mercy and Rebecca. Joanna (Cobb) Sawyer was the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Cobb, of Cape Elizabeth. Ebenezer Cobb was born April 10, 1688, died October 28, 1731. He was the son of Jonathan Cobb, born April 10, 1660, married, March 1, 1682, Hope Chipman. Jonathan Cobb was the son of Elder Henry Cobb, who died in 1675, and his second wife, Sarah (Hinckley) Cobb, daughter of Samuel Hinckley. Hope (Chipman) Cobb was the daughter of Elder John Chipman, born 1621, died April 7, 1708, son of Thomas Chipman and Hope (Howland) Chipman. Hope ( How- land) Chipman was the daughter of John Howland, who came in the "Mayflower" and died 1673, and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, who also came in the "Mayflower" and died in 1687. Her father, John Tilley and his wife, who is supposed to have been a daughter of Governor Carver, came over in the "Mayflower" and the records show that they died in 1621. Joseph Sawyer died March 31, 1800, aged eighty-nine years.
(IV) Jabez, son of Joseph Sawyer, was born at Cape Elizabeth, 1744. He married, March 8, 1765, Mary Pennell, whose grand- mother was Sarah Sawyer, sister to Joseph Sawyer. The Rev. Paul Coffin, who was for so many years pastor of the Buxton Lower Corner church, united them. Jabez with his brother John went from Cape Elizabeth to Blue Hill, now called Sedgwick, where they resided several years on adjoining farms. When the Indians became troublesome in that locality they returned to Cape Elizabeth, and when the times became more peaceful they went to Narraganset No. I, now Buxton, and cleared adjoining farms, where they lived and died. Jabez Sawyer was a revolutionary sol- dier and a pensioner. Children: I. Jabez, see forward. 2. Thomas Pennell, married Nancy Cobb, daughter of Eben and Rachel Cobb, of Cape Elizabeth; ten children; those who lived were: i. Eben; ii. Priscilla, mar- ried Nathaniel Johnson, of Westbrook; iii. Mary, married Joseph Hanson, of Buxton ; iv. Syrena, married a Deering, of Buxton. 3.
Joseph, married Joanna Cobb, of Cape Eliza- beth; children : i. Eliza, married Isaac Ste- vens; ii. John; iii. Mary; iv. Joseph Still- man; v. James; Joseph married (second) Mary Ridlon ; one son, vi. Phineas. 4. James, married (first) Betsey Merrill; children: i.
Samuel; ii. Hannah, married Christopher Dyer ; iii. Mary Ann, married L. Douglass ; iv. Eliza, married a Douglass; James married (second) Abigail Milliken ; children : i. James Thornton ; ii. Eunice, married Albert Jose ; iii. Ellen, married Jefferson Cole; iv. Rebecca, died unmarried. 5. William, married Betsey Knight, of Buxton; children: i. Eben; ii. William ; iii. Samuel : iv. Eliza, married Jere- miah Mason, of Saco; v. and vi. died young. 6. Eben, married Betsey Knight, of West- brook; children: Jabez, Nathaniel Knight, Thomas Pennell, Lafayette, Washington, Mary Jane, Ruth Knight and John Knight. 7. Re- becca (see Sawyer V and Hobson V). 8. Mary, married William Elwell, of Buxton; children : i. William; ii. Salome, married Peter Williams, of Gorham; iii. Jabez; iv. Joseph ; v. Polly, married Nathaniel Strout, of Raymond; vi. John; vii. Sarah, married Ste- phen Brown, of Guilford, Maine. 9. Joanna, married Joseph Hanson, of Buxton ; children : Moses, Joseph Sawyer, Thomas, Joanna,, married Phineas Libby, of Buxton, and three who died young. 10. Sarah, married Isaac Deering, of Saco: children : i. Mary, married Eben Sawyer; ii. Ann: iii. Sarah, married Nathaniel Boothby; iv. Jabez; v. Joseph ; vi. Thomas ; vii. David; viii. Rufus; ix. Arthur. II. Lydia, married John Lord, of Buxton; children : Abraham, Nathaniel and Mary Ann, married Elbridge Tarbox, of Salmon Falls. 12. Mercy, married John Knight, of West- brook ; children : Ruth Alden, Nathaniel, Pris- cilla, died young, John Adams. Jabez Sawyer died April 19, 1816; his wife died March IO, 1814.
(V) Rebecca, eldest daughter of Jabez Sawyer, was born July 15, 1765. She married Joseph Hobson (see Hobson V) and was the mother of ten children and the great-great- grandmother of Dr. Cousins through that line. (V) Jabez (2), eldest son of Jabez (I) Sawyer, was born in 1768. Married, 1793, Elizabeth Hanson, of Buxton. Children: I. Jabez, died young. 2. Phineas, died young. 3. Thomas, died young. 4. Enoch, married Hannah Norton ; son Phineas. 5. Alvin, mar- ried Eliza Hanson, grandparents of Charles Moore, of Steep Falls. 6. John, married Eliza- beth Smith, parents of Susan, married Fred Yates, of Biddeford, Almeda, married Henry Anthoine, of Biddeford, and Mary, unmarried. 7. Hannah, married Samuel Hobson, parents of Samuel D. Hobson, who married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Eben (son of Joseph) and Sarah (Haley) Sawyer, of Saco. 8. Mary, married Oliver Smith, parents of Jen-
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nie ( Peabody ), widow of Jolin Marshall (see Tucker V). 9. Deborah, see forward.
(VI) Deborah, youngest daughter of Jabez (2) Sawyer, and grandmother of Dr. Cousins, was born in Buxton, April 20, 1816, died at Steep Falls, March 12, 1899. She was mar- ried in Buxton in 1837 to Joseph Cousins (see Cousins VI). The Rev. C. Wellington Rog- ers, who was her pastor at the time of her death, said of her: "She was a mother in Israel. To her the bond of friendship was almost equal importance to the family ties, and Christian fellowship."
HANCOCK The first record that we have of the Hancock ancestors in this country is in a deed re- corded in Salem, Massachusetts. This states that William Hancock, William Hancock Jr. and others bought land in Haverhill in 1728.
(I) William Hancock, born in London- derry, Ireland, probably about 1670; came to this country some time previous to 1728 and settled at or near Haverhill.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) Hancock, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, about 1707, and came to this country with his father. The first record which we have of him in Maine is where he bought land in Nar- raganset No. I, now Buxton, in 1749, where he is referred to in the deeds as "of Haver- hill." Shortly afterward he must have re- moved to Buxton, as his residence, in a deed of 1750, is said to be Narraganset No. I. He was evidently a man of ability and intelligence, as his name is mentioned in connection with all the enterprises of the town until his death in 1769. He was one of the committee who built the first meeting house at Buxton Lower Corner, and called the Rev. Paul Coffin its first pastor, January 31, 1763. In 1754 the town authorized him to build a fort or garri- son, and in 1760 he was one of a committee sent to treat with the general court for the settlement of the town lines. Children of William and Sarah Hancock were: Mary, married John Boynton, of Haverhill, a direct descendant of the Boyntons who came from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts. Isaac, see forward, and John.
(III) Isaac, son of William (2) Hancock, must have located in Buxton about the time that his father did, for he purchased his home lot, November 30, 1752, and is accredited at that date to Narraganset No. I. In 1755 he was lieutenant of the company of Captain
John Lane, who became his father-in-law, as lie married, December 15, 1756, his only daughter, Joanna, who bore him three chil- dren : William, see forward; Sarah, born 1763; John Lane. Joanna (Lane) Hancock was born September 18, 1738, died October 19, 1827. She was noted for great personal beauty, superior intelligence and business abil- ity. After the death of Isaac Hancock in 1764 she married John Garland, of Buxton, to whom she bore several children. She was the daughter of Captain John (2) and Mary ( No- well ) Lane, who were married about 1732, and had five children: John (3), born July 30, 1734, died July 14, 1822; Henry, August 19, 1737, died the same year; Joanna, above mentioned; Daniel, May 11, 1740, died Sep- tember II, 1811 ; Jabez, September 21, 1743, died April 30, 1830. John (3), Daniel and Jabez were captains in the revolutionary war and performed valiant service for their coun- try. They had a practical military education, for their father, Captain John (2) Lane, took them with him in his expeditions against the French when they were very young, Jabez being only eleven years of age when his name first appeared on the muster roll. Captain John (2) Lane was commander at Fort Hali- fax on the Kennebec, 1743-44, and was ap- pointed in 1744 to take charge of the four companies raised in Maine to join the expe- dition against Crown Point, where he lost his life July 14. 1756. Mary (Nowell) Lane, his wife. was the daughter of Peter Nowell, of York, who married Lydia, daughter of Daniel Jenkins. Captain John (I) Lane came from Limerick, Ireland, settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, and was appointed commander of Fort Mary, Winter Harbor, where he died about 1717. He married, in 1693. Joanna Davidson, daughter of Daniel Davidson, of Newbury, Massachusetts ; children : Abigail, John (2), born at Hampton, New Hampshire, November 1, 1701, and Mary.
(IV) William (3). son of Isaac Hancock. was born February 3, 1761, died November 19, 1836. He married, August 26, 1782, Eliza- beth Leavitt, born November, 1764, died May 29, 1841, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Phinney) Leavitt, who were married Janu- ary, 1756. Samuel Leavitt was born 1732, died 1797; was son of Joseph Leavitt, of York, who was one of three persons who built mills in 1761 on Little river in Narragan- set No. I. Sarah (Phinney) Leavitt, his wife, was born May 18, 1734, died April, 1793 ; she was the daughter of Captain John Phinney,
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the first settler of Gorham, who was born September 19, 1693, died December 29, 1784, and Martha (Coleman) Phinney, who was born March 4. 1698, died December, 1784. Captain John Phinney was the son of Deacon John Phinney, who was born in 1665, died in 1746, and Sarah (Lombard) Phinney. Deacon John Phinney was the son of John and Mary (Rogers) Phinney, who were married in 1664. John Phinney was the son of John and Chris- tine Phinney. Martha (Coleman) Phinney was the daughter of James Coleman, who died in 1714: he married. 1694, Patience Cobb, born in 1668. died in 1747. James Coleman was the son of Edward Coleman, who was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Lombard) Coleman. Patience (Cobb) Coleman was the daughter of Sergeant James Cobb, born 1634, died 1695. and Sarah (Lewis) Cobb, born 1643. died 1735. Sergeant James Cobb was the son of Elder Henry Cobb, who died in 1675, and Patience (Hurst) Cobb, his first wife, whom he married in 1631, died 1648. Dr. Cousins is directly descended from Elder Henry Cobb through both his first wife, Pa- tience (Hurst) Cobb, who was the mother of Sergeant James Cobb, who is an ancestor of the Hancocks, and his second wife, Sarah (Hinckley) Cobb, mother of Jonathan Cobb, an ancestor of the Sawyers and Hobsons.
Children of William (3) and Elizabeth (Leavett) Hancock were: I. Isaac, married Mary Rand, daughter of Michael Rand. 2. Phineas, married Mary Bean, daughter of Stephen Bean. 3. William, married, March 30. 1805, Anna Rand, daughter of Michael Rand. 4. John, married (first) Jane Smith ; (second) Mrs. Eliza Pingree. 5. Betsey, see forward. 6. Hannah, married Nicholas Rid- lon. 7. Mercy, married Isaac Ridlon. 8. Ruth. married John Bean. 9. Pattie, married Thomas Haines. 10. Anna, married John Rand, son of Michael Rand. 11. Molly, mar- ried John Foster. 12. Joanna, married Elea- zer Kimball. There are living at Steep Falls quite a number of the descendants of Hannah (Hancock) Ridlon and two grandsons of Molly (Hancock) Foster, John and Wilbert R. Foster, sons of John Foster, of Parsons- field.
(V) Betsey, daughter of William (3) Han- cock, was born September 12, 1792, died April 27, 1867. She married, in 1815, Jabez Hob- son (see Hobson VI) and was the mother of Sewell Hobson, the grandmother of Martha Alma (Hobson) Cousins, and the great-grand- mother of Dr. Cousins (see Cousins VIII on another page).
John Tucker, one of the early TUCKER proprietors of Dartmouth, Mas- sachusetts, is recorded as being married and having a son John.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Tucker, of Dartmouth, is recorded as being married and having a son Andrew.
(III) Andrew, son of John (2) Tucker, married Blanche Skinner and had a son John.
(IV) John (3), son of Andrew Tucker, was born about 1735. He married, about 1770, Lydia Jacobs, born August 24, 1743, died Oc- tober 16, 1793, daughter of Daniel Jacobs, of Salem, Massachusetts, and the sister of Eliza- beth, who married Captain John Endicott, of Danvers. Children: I. John (4), born Feb- ruary 24, 1771. 2. and 3. Andrew and Betsey, twins, born May 2, 1773. 4. Jonathan, see forward. 5. Gideon, born March 7. 1778, married Martha Hardy, daughter of Hon. Benjamin and Frances (Richter) Goodhue. 6. Marcia, born March II, 1780. 7. Samuel D., born January 26, 1782. married, October 19, 1815, Nancy Jenks. 8. Edward, born April 13, 1784. 9. Henry, born February 27, 1786. (V) Jonathan, son of John (3) Tucker, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 13, 1776. He came to Saco some time prior to 1797. for in that year he formed a partnership with Samuel Cleaves, under the name of Cleaves & Tucker. They built wharves, dealt in general merchandise and lumber, and were interested in the shipping business. It seems a strange coincidence that both Portland and Saco should have among their earlier business enterprises a Cleaves and Tucker firm, with no traceable connection between the two. Mr. Tucker was prominent in all the city affairs, being one of the original stockholders in the Saco Bank in 1803, and a director from 1806 to 1813. He was president of the Manufac- turers' Bank from 1825 to 1832, of which he was also a director from 1825 to 1834. He was one of the incorporators of the Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution, of which he was vice-president from 1827 to 1838. He represented Saco in the legislature in 1840-41, was a trustee of Thornton Academy from 18II to 1861 and president of that institution from 1848 to 1859. He married, May 15. 1800, Hannah Scamman, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Jordan) Scamman. She was a de- scendant of Humphrey Scamman (1) through Captain Humphrey (2) and James (3), the father of Nathaniel. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker : I. Gideon, see forward. 2. William, born August 26, 1804, died Febru- ary 4. 1855. 3. Henry, born December 19,
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1805. died at Fairfield, Maine, June 5, 1874; married, September 2, 1827, Miranda Murch. 4. Nathan Scamman, born December 27, 1807. married Syrena Babbitt, September 18, 1850. 5. Lydia Elizabeth, born December 26, 1809. died unmarried December 1, 1828. 6. Sarah Martha, born June 16, 1814, died December 19, 1866; married the Rev. George Packard, May 21, 1833. 7. and 8. Hannah Marcia and Ann Jenks, twins, born September 7, 1816; Ann Jenks died unmarried February 2, 1899; Hannah Marcia married Daniel Cleaves Jr. on her nineteenth birthday, September 7, 1835; she died May 4, 1886, leaving issue.
(VI) Gideon, son of Jonathan Tucker, was born in Saco, Maine, June 4. 1802. He was educated in the schools of that city and Har- vard College, from which institution he was graduated in 1820, when only eighteen years of age. He represented Saco in the legisla- ture in 1829-44-46-50, was a member of the executive council in 1854. and a member of the senate in 1862. He was a trustee of Thornton Academy from 1840 to 1863, and a director of the Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution 1853-63. His wife, Sarah, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Phoebe (Milliken) Mar- shall, bore him a son, Gideon Marshall, see forward. and died in 1837. He married, De- cember 30. 1847, Caroline Atchinson; chil- dren : 1. Tohn. 2. Rebecca, married a Guil- ford. 3. Henry, married a Knight. 4. Sarah, married Edward Garland.
Jonathan Marshall, aforementioned, was the son of Captain Daniel Marshall, who married Ruth Andrews, November, 1774, and the grandson of Captain Daniel Marshall, who married Mary Peabody, and commanded the brig "Leopold." which came from Nevis in 1714 with "one passenger." He was born October 27. 1780. married Phoebe Milliken, daughter of Lemuel and Phoebe (Lord) Mil- liken. Lemuel Milliken, who was a revolu- tionary soldier, was a son of "Squire" Edward and Abigail (Norman) Milliken, of Scarbor- ough, a detailed account of whose family can be found in G. T. Ridlon's Genealogy of the Milliken family. Children of Jonathan and Phoebe Marshall : 1. Lemuel, born November IT, 1804, married Sarah Gowen, of Saco; moved to Steep Falls in 1849 and lived there until his death. 2. Sarah, aforementioned as the wife of Gideon Tucker. 3. Captain Dan- iel, born January 9, 1808, married Charlotte -; died in Salem, April 9, 1900, having followed the sea for more than half a century ; the last twenty years of his life he spent on shore and watched with regret the decadence
of shipping at that port; children : i. Daniel, who resides in Michigan; ii. George; iii. Alonzo; iv. Martha, married George Glover ; the three latter named reside in Salem. 4. John, born May 12, 1811, married, May 7, 1837, Elizabeth Hinton, of Bloomfield, Maine. They lived in Augusta, where were born to them three children, James Hinton, Emma Frances, George Quimby, who is the only one now living, a resident of Somerville, Massa- chusetts. He has one daughter Ethel. John Marshall was a, unique character in the history of travel in this state, as he began driving a stage in 1829 when only eighteen years of age and before there was any railroad east of Boston or steamboat lines skirting our shores. His first long route was from Portland to Bath, after which, in 1833, he drove from Portland to Augusta. It was about this time that he carried Andrew Jackson's second in- augural message from Portland to Augusta, going on horseback and changing his mount frequently. When you consider that at that time there were none of our modern methods of transmitting news-no railroads-no tele- graphs-no telephones-you can imagine with what eagerness the carrier of Jackson's mes- sage was awaited at Augusta, when the coun- try was so agitated over the tariff and bank- ing questions. In the writer's possession is the old leather wallet in which Mr. Marshall carried this message, as well as all the monies entrusted to him during his forty-three years of service. He was undoubtedly the founder of the express business in this state, as he was the original carrier of Carpenter's express, out of which grew the Adams Express Company. Banks, firms and individuals entrusted him with thousands of dollars, all of which was promptly delivered. He came into contact with all the prominent men of his time, many of whom were his lifelong friends. He was a Democrat, and punctual in his political life as in all else; he voted at all elections from Andrew Jackson to William McKinley. Dur- ing the rebellion he drove from Bath to Rock- land, and his last route, which he gave up in 1872, was from Damariscotta to Pemaquid. Soon after retiring he went to Steep Falls where he bought a farm on the banks of the Saco, on the Limington side, in 1879, and January 9, 1880, he married Jennie C. (Smith) Peabody (see Sawyer V), who survives him. He died June 3, 1903. 5. Samuel, born September 1, 1814, was lost at sea. 6. Ruth Andrews, born in Scarborough, February 22, 1818, went to the front as a nurse during the war of the rebellion; at the close of the war
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