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bestowed it was through the medium of some trusted agent to carry out his instructions in such manner that the personality of the bene- factor should remain undiscovered.
The Burr ancestry traces from Rev. Jona- than Burr (q. v.), through Simon (2), John (3), Jonathan (4) and
(V) John (2), son of Jonathan (2) and Mary (Lincoln) Burr, was born in Hingham, April 4, 1729, and died there February II, 1790. He was a cooper, lived on Leavitt street, and was constable of Hingham in 1767. He married, January 1, 1755, Emma Cushing, born Hingham, March 17, 1727, died Decem- ber 21, 1805, daughter of Theophilus and Han- nah (Waterman) Cushing. In this connection a brief mention of the Cushing family will be found of interest.
Deacon Matthew Cushing, the immigrant, was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England, in 1588, came to New England with his wife and their four sons and one daughter, and his wife's sister, Frances Fircroft, in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich, John Martin, master, and settled in Hingham. He died in 1660, aged seventy-two years. His wife Margaret, daughter of Henry Pitcher, died in 1682, aged ninety-two years. They had children : Daniel, 1619; Jesse, 1621; Matthew, 1623; Deborah, 1625; John, 1627. Daniel Cushing, son of Deacon Matthew and Margaret, was elected town clerk of Hingham in 1669 and served in that office until his death, in 1700. He was frequently chosen to transact important business for the town, was a magistrate and an examination of his papers shows that he was very correct and intelligent in his meth- ods. He married Lydia, daughter of Edward Gilman, June 19, 1645, and had Peter, 1646; Daniel, 1648; Deborah, 1651; Jesse, 1654; Theophilus, 1657 ; Matthew, 1660. Theophilus Cushing, son of Daniel and Lydia, married Mary, daughter of Captain John Thaxter, and had Nehemiah, 1689; Adam, 1692; Abel, Theophilus, Seth, Deborah and Lydia. The- ophilus Cushing, son of Theophilus and Mary, married, 1723, Hannah Waterman, and had Theophilus, Perez, Pyam, Emma (wife of John Burr) and James Cushing.
John and Emma (Cushing) Burr had nine children, all born in Hingham: I. John, Octo- ber 9, 1755. 2. Levi, June 1, 1757. 3. Cush- ing, January 21, 1759. 4. Theophilus, Octo- ber 6, 1761. 5. Perez, November 1, 1763. 6. Laban, baptized May 26, 1765, died December, 1765. 7. Robert Waterman, October 13, 1767, died March 14, 1839. 8. Emma, September I, 1769. 9. Laban, February 5, 1773.
(VI) Perez, son of John (2) and Emma (Cushing) Burr, was born in Hingham, Mas- sachusetts, November 1, 1763, and died in Freeport, Maine, in 1836. He settled in Free- port when he was a young man and spent his life in the town. He married Mehitable Web- er, and by her had three children: Perez, Emma and Margaret. Margaret, born May 16, 1807, died March 25, 1885, married George Burnham. (See Burnham V.)
(For English ancestry see preceding sketch.)
(I) Lieutenant . Thomas
BURNHAM Burnham, one of the broth- ers of that name who settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, was a resident of the town known as Chebacco as early as 1636. He was then a youth of thirteen years and continued to reside there until his death, May 19, 1694, at the age of seventy-one years. He was a soldier in the Pequot expedition in 1636- 37 and again in the Indian warfare in 1643. He was a subscriber to Major Denison in 1648 and was a corporal and surveyor of high- ways in 1662; sergeant in 1664; ensign the following year, and lieutenant in 1683. He was deputy to the general court in 1683-84- 85. In May, 1667, he was granted the privi- lege of locating a sawmill on the Chebacco river, near the Falls, and he became an ex- tensive owner of lands in Ipswich and Che- bacco, which he divided between his sons Thomas and James. He was married in 1645 to Mary, daughter of John and Johanna Tut- tle. She was born in 1624, died March 27, 1715. Children : Thomas, John, James, Mary, Johanna, Abigail, Ruth (died young), Ruth, Joseph, Nathaniel, Sarah and Esther.
(II) John, second son of Thomas and Mary (Tuttle) Burnham, was born in 1648, died January 12, 1704, in Chebacco, where he lived through life. He resided first near the head of Whittredge creek and afterwards at the falls of the Chebacco. He was appointed in 1665 to run the line between Ipswich and Gloucester and was tithingman in 1677 and 1695. In 1689 he was proprietor of a grist mill and the owner of real estate which con- tinued in the hands of his descendants down to a very recent date. He married, June 9, 1669, Elizabeth Wells, who died in 1717. Children : John, Thomas, Jacob (died young), Joseph, Abigail, Jacob, Jonathan, David and Mary.
(III) Jacob, fifth son of John and Eliza- beth (Wells) Burnham, was born March I, 1682, died March 26, 1773, in Chebacco, where his life was spent. He married, Novem-
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ber 20. 1704, Mehitable Perkins, who died September 6, 1769. Their sons included West- ley. Jacob, Solomon and John.
(IV) Solomon, third son of Jacob and Me- hitable (Perkins) Burnham, was born in 1709, died April 15. 1784. He married, November 13, 1729, Mehitable Emerson, who died Au- gust 23, 1792, having survived her husband more than eight years. Children : Sarah, Solomon, Ami, Ruhamah, Philippa, Mehitable, Thomas, Jacob (twins), Ephraim (died young), Mary, Ephraim and Jacob.
(V) Jacob (2), youngest son of Solomon and Mehitable ( Emerson) Burnham, was born February 2, 1752, died August 10, 1820, in Chebacco, now Essex, Massachusetts. He married, June II, 1772, Lucy Burnham, who died May 18, 1844. Her parentage cannot be located ; she was, no doubt, a remote relative. Children: Ezra, Jacob, Luke R., Ephraim, Zebulun, Lucy, Rebecca, Miriam and Susanna.
(VI) Zebulun, fifth son of Jacob (2) and Lucy (Burnham) Burnham, was born in Es- sex, Massachusetts, about 1780, and married Judith Andrews of the same locality. Chil- dren : Judith, Zebulun, Mina, Cynthia, Amos, Ansel, Sophy, Augusta and Ephraim.
(VII) Zebulun (2), son of Zebulun (I) and Judith (Andrews) Burnham, was born Au- gust 6, 1812, in Essex, and resided in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he died October 15, 1848. He was a cordwainer by occupation, and died at the early age of thirty-six years. He married, February 21, 1837, Sarah D. Knowlton, born January 10, 1819, in Hamil- ton, Massachusetts, and survived him nearly forty-one years, dying September 26, 1889. Children : Sarah Augusta, Ivers Smith, John Everett, Amos Perley, Calvin Foster, Otis and Frank. All of these sons served as soldiers in the civil war.
(VIII) Frank, son of Zebulun (2) and Sarah D. (Knowlton) Burnham, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, March 31, 1847, and received a high school education. He enlisted in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Volunteer Regi- ment, and was with his regiment until the close of the war. He also served in the United States navy on the "Vandalia," under Admiral Thatcher. He belongs to Unity Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Eastern Star Encampment, and the' Grand Army of the Republic, all of Portland. He is an orchestral leader and a teacher of the violin and cornet, having studied with the celebrated M. Arbuckle, of Gilmore's band. His pupils extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is a Republican in politics and a
Liberal in religion. He married Sarah F., daughter of Daniel O. and Mary Stanley, of Beverly, Massachusetts; children: I. Ida F., married Frank E. Fickett, of Portland. 2. Gertrude. 3. Ralph Foster. 4. Mabel S., mar- ried Frank E. Grant, of Portland.
(IX) Ralph Foster, only son of Frank and Sarah F. (Stanley) Burnham, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, March 30, 1876. At an early age he removed with his parents to Portland, Maine. When eight years of age he began selling newspapers for Chisholm Brothers and paid his expenses while in the grammar school. Then entering the employ- ment of Schlotterbeck & Foss, he paid his way through the high school. After graduating he entered the employ of J. B. Totten, where he remained until his health obliged him to leave
the coast, when he came to Auburn in 1897 and bought out the drug business of B. L. Alden. In this business he is still engaged. Shortly after purchasing the business he de- voted much time to experimenting with "io- dides," and succeeding in filling a long-felt want in his "Sal Iodide." This met with marked success and is extensively prescribed by physicians throughout New England. He also prepared a "Glyco-Tonic" which with the other formalæ he is developing into a worthy and profitable enterprise. It is to the study and energy of such men as Mr. Burnham that the state owes its position in the chemical as well as the manufacturing world. He is an Ancient Free and Accepted Mason, having taken all of the degrees to the thirty-second, is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of the Golden Eagle. He mar- ried, October 30, 1899, Clara Ella, daughter of John H. and Eleanor (Haskell) Shaw, of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Burnham attend the Universalist church.
SMITH Robert Smith, immigrant ances- tor of this branch of the family, was born about 1623. He settled in that part of Rowley which was set off as Boxford, and was living there in 1661. He was a quiet man, but interested in anything that pertained to the advancement of settle- ments in the town. He was a subscriber to the Major Denison fund in 1648. He died intest- ate August 30, 1693, and his son Samuel ad- ministered his estate October 3. 1698, which was valued at two hundred pounds. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Thomas French. Chil- dren: I. Mary, recorded at Rowley, born October 28, 1658. 2. Phebe, August 26, 1661. 3. Ephraim, October 29, 1663, mentioned be-
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low. 4. Samuel, January 26, 1666. 5. Amy, August 16, 1668. 6. Sarah, June 25, 1670, died August 28, 1673. 7. Nathaniel, Septem- ber 7, 1672. 8. Jacob, January 26, 1674. 9. Maria, Deceniber 18, 1677.
(II) Ephraim, son of Robert Smith, was born at Boxford, October 29, 1663, and re- sided at Boxford. He served in the Indian war under Governor Andros. He married, September 6, 1694, Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Perkins) Ramsdell. Children : I. Elizabeth (twin), born March 1, 1696-97. 2. Hannah (twin), March 1, 1696-97. 3. Ephraim, January 30, 1698-99. 4. Lydia, Sep- tember 8, 1699. 5. Hepsibah, March 25, 1700. 6. Priscilla, August 14, 1702. 7. John, No- vember 18, 170 --. 8. Nathan, baptized July I, 1710. 9. Daniel, baptized August 31, 1712. 10. Abijah, baptized October 24, 1714, men- tioned below.
(III) Abijah, son of Ephraim Smith, was baptized October 24, 1714, and died' intestate at Leominster in 1787. He resided in Leo- minster, and married, in 1738, Lydia Rogers, of Boxford, who was baptized in 1720. Among his children was Manasseh, mentioned below.
(IV) Manasseh, son of Abijah Smith, was born at Leominster, December 25, 1748, and died at Wiscasset, Maine, May 21, 1823. He graduated at Harvard College in 1773 and for a time was chaplain in the revolutionary army. He afterwards studied law and began his practice in Leominster, and was clerk of the court there. He removed to Hollis, New Hampshire, and married there Hannah Emer- son, born September 30, 1745, died April 16, 1825, daughter of Daniel Emerson. (See Emerson family.) In 1788 he went to Wis- casset, Maine, where he resided the remainder of his life, and accumulated a handsome prop- perty. He wrote a very illegible hand, and it is said that Judge Paine, trying to read a special plea of his, was brought to a stand and scolded him heartily. Smith said that he had been, as a minister, in the habit of writing fast, which led him to be careless. Children : I. Hannah, born October 17, 1774, married, 1794, Samuel Sevey, born at Wiscasset, April 30, 1771, and had Hannah, Mary S., Samuel, Maria, William, Edwin S., Joseph S., Julia D., Ralph E., Manasseh, Bradbury, Theodore and Lucy S. Sevey. 2. Mary, born February I, 1776, married Ivory Hovey Jr., and had Fannie E., Ivory T., Mary H., George W., Lucy A., Joseph S., Susan and Sarah Hovey ; died at East Thomaston, Maine, April 21, 1848. 3. Lydia Rogers, born December 15, 1777, died at Wiscasset, July 16, 1858. 4.
Manasseh, born August 16, 1779, married Olivia Hovey, of Berwick, Maine; children : i. Child, died young; ii. Manassch, born July 15, 1807; iii. Frances O., born October 15, 1809, married William T. Hilliard; iv. Eliza W., born March 21, 1812, married Dr. J. C. Bradbury; v. Temple II., died young; vi. Hannah E., married Charles Woodman, of Burlington ; vii. Olivia S., born February 12, 1819; viii. Joseph Emerson, died young. 5. Joseph Emerson, born March 6, 1782, died at Boston, Massachusetts, March 12, 1837. 6. Lucy, born September 22, 1783, died at Wis- casset, April 28, 1840. 7. Samuel Emerson, born March 12, 1788, mentioned below. 8. Edwin, born July 14, 1790, married Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Hurd, of Wal- doborough ; children : i. Samuel Emerson, born in Alva, April 20, 1821, died December 5, 1855, married - Copeland; ii. Edwin J., born in Warren, Maine, March 30, 1826, mar- ried Hodgeman, of Warren.
(V) Samuel Emerson, son of Manasseh Smith, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, March 12, 1788, died March 4, 1860, at Wis- casset, Maine. He studied at Groton Academy and graduated at Harvard College in 1808. He studied law with Samuel Dana, of Groton, and with his brothers Manasseh and Joseph E., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Feb- ruary 25, 1812. The same year he established an office at Wiscasset, Maine. He was active in politics, was a Democrat; in 1819 was elected representative to the general court of Massachusetts, and the next year to that of Maine, after the state had been established. In 1821 he was appointed chief justice of the court of common pleas, as successor of Judge Weston. He was governor of Maine three years, 1831-32-33. During his administration the subject of the northeastern boundary was uppermost in the minds of the people. The question in controversy had been submitted to the King of the Netherlands, and Judge Preble went to the Hague to manage the cause. In January, 1831, the king rendered his award, placing the line on a ridge of high- lands instead of the bed of a river, according to the language of the treaty, gave just in- dignation to the people of the state, and led to a repudiation of the award. A long cor- respondence and discussion took place between Governor Smith and the authorities at Wash- ington. The United States government was desirous of having the award accepted, and was willing to pay the state of Maine for any loss of territory. The messages of Governor Smith in regard to the controversy were sound
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and judicious, and met with popular approval. Another measure of importance was the change of the seat of government to Augusta, and the building of the capitol. In the third year of his administration the country was dis- turbed by the nullification movements in South Carolina, and the agitations concerning the charter of the United States bank, and a modi- fication of the tariff. The government took a firm stand in support of the president, and says : "In this alarming crisis of our national affairs, we cannot but rejoice that the executive department of the national government, sus- tained, as it is, by a vast majority of the American people, has announced its determi- nation to support and carry into effect the con- stitution and laws of the United States." At the expiration of his third term of office Gov- ernor Smith retired to private life until 1835, when he was restored to the bench of common pleas. In 1837 he withdrew from the bench and in October of that year was appointed one of the commissioners to revise and codify the public laws. The first edition of the revised statutes was the result of the labors of this commission. He was one of the forty-nine corporate members of the Maine Historical Society. He married, September 12, 1832, Louisa Sophia, daughter of Hon. Henry Weld Fuller, of Augusta. Children: I. Samuel Emerson, born in Augusta, August 31, 1833, died at Wiscasset, January 21, 1881. 2. Jo- seph Emerson, born March 19, 1835 (married first, Helen, daughter of William Cooper, of Pittston; second, Sarah, daughter of Major John Babson, of Wiscasset; third Amy Bowie, of Baltimore, Maryland; children: i. Stuart Ingalls, died 1869, aged three ; ii. Maud Fuller, married Loring Briggs, of Brookline, Massachusetts ; iii. Joseph Emerson ; iv. Aimee, married Harold Clifton Lane, of San Antonio, Texas). 3. Henry Weld Fuller, born at Wis- casset, May 6, 1837, died October 26, 1866. 4. Edwin Manasseh, born December 26, 1838; ["Captain Edwin M. Smith * com- pleted a full course at Bowdoin College, after which he studied law and then finished his education by travel in Europe. Shortly after his return from abroad the war broke out, and with the ardor of a youthful nature he en- listed in the conflict. He was the first volun- teer from his native town. His company unanimously elected him captain, and with it he joined the Fourth Maine and fought his first battle at Bull Run. Captain Smith is said to have been one of the last officers of his regi- ment to leave the battlefield, and he barely escaped with his life by the use of his revolver.
Soon after he was commissioned major of his regiment, but declined the office, preferring to follow his colonel, then made a brigadier-gen- eral, upon his staff as assistant adjutant-gen- eral." (From "Major General Hiram J. Berry, His Career, etc.," by Edward K. Gould, pub- lished at Rockland, Me., in 1899.) He was killed in the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862.] 5. Benjamin Fuller, mentioned below.
(VI) Benjamin Fuller, son of Samuel Emer- son Smith, was born at Wiscasset, February 28, 1842, died there March 23, 1885. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools of his native town, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1863. He began the practice of law in the office of Melville W. Fuller, in Chicago, being a partner with him in the firm of Fuller & Smith. Later he went to Wis- casset, where he practiced his profession. In politics he was a Democrat, and was a mem- ber of the governor's staff. He was county attorney, and served the town as selectman, auditor, overseer of the poor and superintend- ent of schools. In religion he was an Episco- palian. He married, December 25, 1866, in St. John's Church at Bangor, Marion Louise, daughter of Daniel Mosely Howard, of Ban- gor. (See Howard family elsewhere.) Chil- dren: I. Howard Bainbridge, born in Chi- cago, March 8, 1868, now in Germany. 2. Christine Louise, born in Bangor, October 6, 1869, died August 9, 1902. 3. Marion Stuart, born in Bangor, March 31, 1871 (married, September 26, 1906, Dr. A. Theodore Gail- lard, of Charlestown, South Carolina; resides in Atlanta, Georgia; had son Theodore Lee Gaillard, born in New York City, November 18, 1907). 4. Harold Joseph Emerson, men- tioned below.
(VII) Harold Joseph Emerson, son of Ben- jamin Fuller Smith, was born in Wiscasset, Maine, May 1, 1877. He was sent to Ger- many in early youth to be educated, and he attended Karl's. Gymnasium at Suttgart and the Vitzthum Gymnasium at Dresden, Ger- many. He returned to his native land in 1892 and engaged in the fire insurance busi- ness in Bangor, in the office of D. M. Howard. From 1895 to 1907 he was connected with the Long Island Railroad Company in New York City. Since 1907 he has resided in the old home at Wiscasset, built one hundred and twenty-five years ago, his son being the fifth generation of the Smith family to live in it. Mr. Smith has taken an active interest in the affairs of the town and is at present on the board of selectmen of Wiscasset. He is a Re- publican in politics and an Episcopalian in re-
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ligion. He married, May 17, 1905, Susan Cowles, born at Chicago, November 1, 1882, daughter of John Cowles and Susan Rae ( Henry) Grant, of Chicago. ( See Grant fam- ily.) Children: 1. Marion Howard, born in New York, May 11, 1906. 2. Emerson, born in Wiscasset, October 25, 1907.
The ancestry of the children of Benjamin Fuller and Marion Louise (Howard) Smith has been traced through the various lines to the following pioneers : Thomas Edmunds, of Wethersfield, Connecticut; Griffin Graft, of Roxbury (1631) ; Thomas Gardiner, who came in the ship "Elizabeth," 1635; Rebecca Crooke (1646); Rev. Thomas Weld, of Roxbury (1632); Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn ; Thomas Savage, who came in the ship "Plant- er" to Boston in 1636; William Hutchins, Boston, 1634; Edward Tyng, Boston, 1636; Thomas Fox, of Cambridge, died 1693; Rev. John Rogers, of Plymouth, 1635, settled later at Rowley; Hezekiah Usher, of Cambridge, died 1676; Zaccheus Gould, 1638; Edward Giles, of Salem, 1633; Job Swinnerton, Sa- lem, 1637; Thomas Flagg, 1637; Michael Lef- fenwell, of Woburn; John Winslow, married Mary Chilton; Samuel Edson, of Salem, died 1692; John Fobes, of Duxbury; Rev. James Keith, of Scotland, 1662; Richard Williams, of Taunton, 1633, cousin to Oliver Cromwell ; Richard Holden, Ipswich, 1634; Stephen Fos- dick, Charlestown, 1635; Samuel Packard, 1638; Thomas French, of Ipswich, 1638; John Ramsdell, of Lynn, 1630; Rev. William Per- kins, of Ipswich and Topsfield, 1631; Eliza- beth Wooten, of Roxbury, 1636; Jeremiah Rogers, of Dorchester, before 1672; Jabez Pears, of Dorchester, 1631; John Marston, 1660; Thomas Emerson, of Ipswich, 1638; Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, 1659; Jane (Allen) Bulkeley; Nicholas Brown, of Read- ing, 1654; John Brown, of Reading, 1634; Rev. John Fiske, of Chelmsford, 1637; Eliza- beth Clark, sister of John Clark, Newport, Rhode Island; Joseph Emerson, of Mendon ; Cornelius Waldo; Hannah Cogswell, of Ips- wich ; William Moody came in the ship "Mary and John" to Ipswich, 1633; Thomas Brad- bury, of Salisbury, 1639; John Perham, of Boston and Ipswich, . 1631; Henry Sewell, 1634; Jane Dummer ; Hannah Fessenden, died in York, 1723; Anthony Fisher, of Dedham, 1637 ; Nicholas Marriott, of Salem and Marble- head, 1637; Robert Crossman, of Taunton, 1657; Gilbert Brooks, Rehoboth, 1621; John Bryant, Scituate, 1639; Stephen Bryant, of Plymouth, 1632; John Hall, of Charlestown, 1697 ; Rev. William Blackstone, 1623, the first
settler of Boston; Thomas Brown; Thomas Edwards, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, died 1688; Edward Spaulding, of Braintree, 1640; William Simmons, of Concord, died 1672; Dolor Davis, died 1673; John Hall, of Dover, New Hampshire, 1694; William Furber, of Dover, 1637; Quentin Pray, of Lynn and Braintree, 1667; John Downing, of Braintree, 1640; Henry Sewall, of Ipswich, 1634.
(For preceding generations see Robert Smith I.) (V) Manasseh (2), eldest son of SMITH ' Manasseh (1) and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, was born in Hollis, August 16, 1779. He removed with his family to Maine, graduated from Harvard in 1800, and established himself in Warren, where he died, a worthy and prominent citizen, in 1822. He married Olivia Hovey, daughter of Dr. Ivory Hovey, of Berwick, by whom he had eight children.
(VI) Manasseh Hovey, son of Manasseh and Olivia (Hovey) Smith, was born in 1807 and died in 1865. He married Mary Myrick Dole (see below), and they were the parents of seven children : Mary Caroline, Manasseh, Elizabeth H., Everett, Edith, Harold and Os- good.
(VII) Mary Caroline, eldest daughter of Manasseh H. and Mary M. (Dole) Smith, was born in Warren, July 29, 1838, and married, November 13, 1861, Frederick Fox, lawyer, who was born in 1827, died in Portland, 1894 (see Fox IX).
(VII) Manasseh (3), eldest son of Manas- seh H. and Mary M. (Dole) Smith, was born in Warren, Maine, December 24, 1841, and is a lawyer. He resides at Woodfords. He mar- ried, 1871, Georgiana W. Hall, of Quebec, who was born in Quebec, 1848, daughter of George B. Hall. They have eight children : Mary, Gertrude, Helen, Katherine Benson, Manasseh (4), Ruth, Bertha and Ralph.
Mary Myrick (Dole) Smith ( see Smith VI above) was a descendant of Richard Dole (q. v.), through Richard (II), Richard (III), Enoch (IV), Amos (V), and
(VI) Hon. John, fifth son of Amos and Molly (Page) Dole, was born in Shirley, in 1773. He settled in Lincoln county in the province of Maine, where he held the office of judge of the court of common pleas, and died in 1842. He married Elizabeth Carleton, by whom he had nine children : Sullivan, Carle- ton, Mary W., Nancy, Jefferson, Albert G., William King, Elizabeth C. and Mary Myrick, next mentioned.
(VII) Mary Myrick, child of Judge John
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and Elizabeth (Carleton) Dole, was born in Alna, Lincoln county, Maine, in 1818, and died in Portland, 1905, aged eighty-seven years. She married Manasseh H. Smith ( see Smith VI).
John Smith came from England, SMITH about 1630, to Barnstable, Mas- sachusetts, and probably died Oc- tober 2, 1710, at the extreme age of ninety- six years. In 1663 he succeeded Rev. William Sargent as pastor of the Barnstable church; subsequently went to Long Island and New Jersey, and in 1675 removed to Sandwich, be- coming pastor of church there 1676, continu- ing until 1688, when, at the age of seventy- four, his pastorate was terminated at his own request. He married, 1643, Susanna, daugh- ter of Samuel Hinckley, who was brother of Thomas Hinckley, afterward governor. Chil- dren : I. Samuel, born April, 1644. 2. Sarah, May, 1645. 3. Eben, October, 1646. 4. Mary, November, 1647. 5. Dorcas, August, 1650. 6. John, died 1651. 7. Shubael, born Novem- ber, 1653. 8. John, September, 1656. 9. Ben- jamin, January 7, 1658. 10. Ichabod, January 7, 1660. II. Elizabeth, February, 1662. 12. Thomas, February, 1664; see forward. 13. Joseph, December 6, 1667.
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