Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume I, Part 85

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 802

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June 12, 1881, aged forty-four years. She left a daughter Margaret Ellen. 2. Abba Louise, see forward. 3. Francis Clark, who served with credit in the navy during the civil war, a respected citizen of Foxboro, Massa- chusetts, who had two sons, Frank Willard and Philip Atherton. 4. William Willis, a respected citizen of Portland, who has two sons, Allan Owen and Paul Phillips, both mar- ried. 5. Nathan, who died young. 6. Nathan, see forward. 7. Ellen, a schoolteacher. 8. George Mather, who died October 24, 1904, aged forty-eight years, leaving one son, Henry Deane. William Goold died in the house on his farm, at Windham, where he was born, May 22, 1890, aged eighty-one years. His life was without reproach.

(VIII) Abba Louise, second child of Will- iam and Nabby Tukey (Clark) Goold, was born at Windham, April 30, 1838, and mar- ried in the same house, August 14, 1856, Moses Woolson, then principal of the girls' high school in Portland. The school building in that city was named the "Woolson School," in his honor. He died in Boston, January 17, 1896, aged seventy-four years. He was a notable schoolteacher and had taught in Ches- terfield, New Hampshire, Brattleboro, Ver- mont, Bangor and Portland, Maine, Cincinnati, Ohio, Concord, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Woolson graduated from the Portland girls' high school in 1856 and was the valedictorian of her class. She taught in Cincinnati, Ohio, Haverhill and Boston, Massachusetts, and Concord, New Hampshire. As an authoress she became known as Abba Goold Woolson. She is a notable lecturer on history and literature and has few peers as an authority on Spanish history. The Cas- tilian Club, of Boston, was founded by her, she being its president many years, and at her retirement she was honored by being elected honorary president. She was the orig- inator of the idea of Woman's Clubhouse in Boston and a hall in the Century building was named in her honor. She was a poetess at the celebration of the Centennial of Portland, in 1886, and at other occasions, and has been president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women and the Moral Education Association of Massachu- setts and is an honorary member of the Maine Historical Society. Mrs. Woolson has a re- markably retentive memory and a wide knowl- edge of literature and history, and probably is the ablest woman mentally that Maine has ever produced. She resides at the old home- stead at Windham. No children.

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(VIII) Nathan, brother of the above, was born in Portland, July 8, 1846. He attended the common schools, and in his seventeenth year was apprenticed as a machinist and learned the trade, remaining in that business also as a timekeeper and bookkeeper for nearly eighteen years, after which he was in the office of a brush manufactory for over nine · years, retiring in 1890 on account of ill health.

From that time he has been much engaged in historical research. He was elected a member of the Maine Historical Society in 1892, and has been a member of the standing committee and is now the librarian; he is the custodian of the Wadsworth Longfellow House, being the active spirit in the preservation of Long- fellow's Old Portland home, since the begin- ning of the undertaking in 1901. He has read fourteen valuable papers before the so- ciety, is author of the history of Peaks and House Islands, Windham, Maine, in the revo- lution, and has been a voluminous contributor to the newspapers on historical subjects. He is called Portland's historian. His most pop- ular and best known book is "The Wadsworth- Longfellow House, Longfellow's Old Home ; Its History and Its Occupants." Mr. Goold has been much interested in Maine's part in the war of the revolution and is probably the best authority on that subject. He was one of the original members of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, and has served that society as historian, secretary and is the registrar. It was by his recommendation that a monument to the mem- ory of the Maine soldiers at Valley Forge was erected in that historic town. He is a mem- ber of the Maine Genealogical Society, an hon- orary member of the Paul Jones Club, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and of the Bel- chertown, Massachusetts, Historical Society. He was formerly an active member of the Portland Fraternity Club and is now an hon- orary one, and is a trustee of the William Fogg Library at Eliot, Maine. Mr. Goold has been a life-long resident of Portland, is much interested in its welfare, and is always ready and willing to impart his information. He never held a public office and is not a mem- ber of any secret society.

(For preceding generations see Jarvice Goold I.)

(IV) James, son of Benjamin GOULD Gould (Goold), born June 5, 1730, died in Biddeford, Maine, 1810, resided in Arundel, Maine. He was a sol- dier in Sir William Pepperell's regiment in 1757 and was in the expedition to Canada

that year. He married (first) February 7, 1750, Elizabeth Nason. He married ( sec- ond) Hannah Hovey, daughter of Rev. John Hovey, and she married (second) in 1812, Colonel Caleb Emery. He had twenty-one children, those by the first wife were: Ben- jamin; James, who was a revolutionary sol- dier and settled in Limerick, Maine ; Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, Hannah; by the second wife : John Hovey, mentioned below ; Benjamin, Ly- man, Alexander, Thomas F. ; Lydia, Ebenezer, of Parsonsfield; Samuel, died young ; Samuel, Abel, and five others who died young.

(V) John Hovey, son of James Gould, born in 1767, died November 6, 1837. He mar- ried Elizabeth Laselle, daughter of Matthew Laselle, of Kennebunkport, Maine. He set- tled in Hollis. Children: John Erastus, Mat- thew, Lydia, Hannah, George, Alexander, Charles Francis, mentioned below.

(VI) Charles Francis, son of John Hovey Gould, born in Hollis, Maine, May 10, 1808, died in Biddeford, July 25, 1861. He was educated in the common schools of Dayton, Maine. When a mere boy he came to Bidde- ford and became clerk in a general store. He continued for some years and finally engaged in the same line of business on his own ac- count. He continued in business until about ten years before his death, when he retired. In politics he was a Whig. At one time he was an overseer of the poor of Biddeford. He married, February 10, 1831, Olive Spring Berry, born in Saco, September 10, 1806, died June 2, 1886. Children: Charles Otis, John, Alexander, Oliver, Mark Harris, Lucy Eliza- beth, Anna Frances, Ruth, Mahala Eaton, Phebe Ellen, Royal Erastus, mentioned below.

(VII) Royal Erastus, son of Charles Fran- cis Gould, was born in Biddeford, Maine, February 8, 1852. He attended the public schools of his native place and fitted for col- lege there. He entered Bowdoin College, where he was graduated in the class of 1873. He taught schools in Biddeford, Maine, and at Woodstock, Connecticut, the year following his graduation, and then began to read law in the offices of Wedgewood & Stone, of Bidde- ford. He was admitted to the bar in his native county in 1876 and immediately began to practice his profession in Biddeford. But he preferred the profession of teaching and after a year accepted a position in the public schools of Biddeford. After teaching nine years he was elected superintendent of schools of that city, in 1885, and has filled the position with conspicuous ability and success to the present time. Much of the credit for the high

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standards and efficiency of the schools of Biddeford is due to the energy, tact, fidelity and executive ability of the superintendent during the period of development of the past score of years. Mr. Gould is well known in educational circles throughout New England. In politics Mr. Gould is a Democrat; in relig- ion a Congregationalist. He is prominent in Masonic circles, a member of Dunlap Lodge, Free Masons, of Biddeford ; of York Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Biddeford; Bradford Commandery, Knights Templar, of Biddeford ; of Maine Consistory, Scottish Rite, thirty- second degree, of Portland, Maine; and of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a member of Laconia Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Bidde- ford; of Mavoshun Lodge, Knights of Pyth- ias, of Biddeford; of Squando Tribe, Inde- pendent Order of Red Men; and York Coun- cil, Royal Arcanum. He married, 1883, Eliza- beth A. Nickerson, of Biddeford. They have one child, Carlisle R., born May 14, 1890, educated in the public schools of Biddeford.

MOULTON In the year 1066 a Norman follower of William the Con- queror named Thomas Mul- ton, or de Multon, accompanied his chief into England, and after the battle of Hastings was rewarded for his services with large grants of land in Lincolnshire. Here he built castles and religious establishments, maintained a reti- nue of soldiers, laborers and priests, and lived the life of a feudatory of the king. From this Norman the Moultons of England and America are said to have sprung. Between the time of the first Sir Thomas and the pres- ent, twenty-five generations of Moultons have been born; and through nine generations, from the battle of Hastings, there continued to be some brave knights bearing the name of Sir Thomas, who was ready to respond to the king's call to arms. Sir Thomas of the fourth generation was sheriff during the ninth and tenth years of King John's dynasty, and in the fifteenth year of his reign, attended the king in his expedition to Poitou. Two years later he was taken in arms with the rebel- lious barons and imprisoned in the Castle of Corff. This was the Thomas Moulton whose name appears upon Magna Charta as one of the English barons who wrung this great muniment of liberty from an unwilling king. The fifth Sir Thomas de Moulton, Sir Wal- ter Scott took as a leading character in his dramatic story, "The Talisman." Being a trusted friend of Richard Coeur de Lion, and

possessing great physical power, he was the admiration and envy of the knights at the great tournaments of England. In the Holy Land he was a leading crusader and was of all the knights the nearest to the king. Indeed, when Richard's sickness laid him low, Sir Thomas was the ruler, de facto. Sir Walter Scott claims that in "The Talisman" some parts are fanciful, but that so far as King Richard and Sir Thomas Moulton are con- cerned, he has followed English history. From such men as these are the American Moultons of this day ; and among them are many who are the peers of their ancestors or of their fellow citizens in those qualities of head and heart which make men leaders and trusted companions of other men. "All branches of the Moulton family had arms with devices somewhat different from each other in minor details, yet alike in the main, viz .: A plain field, either of silver or blue; crossed by three horizontal bars, generally red, sometimes sable. This continued for several hundred years, down to the arms which were granted in 1571 by the record; these are described as follows : Moulton : Argent ; three bars (gules) between eight escallop shells, sable ; three, two, two, and one. Crest : On a pellet a falcon rising argent, Granted in 1571." The name appears in various forms, as Multon, Mule- ton, Moulton, Moleton, Moulson and Moulton. Three Moultons, Thomas, John and William, supposed to be brothers, settled at Winnacun- nett, now Hampton, New Hampshire, and from these all or nearly all the Moultons of northern New England are descendants.

(I) William Moulton, born in Ormsby, Nor- folk county, England, about 1617, married Margaret, daughter of Robert and Lucia (Lucy) Page, with whose family he came to New England. His age is given as twenty years in his "examination" before leaving England, April 11, 1637. John and William Moulton were examined on the same day, and came either in the ship "John and Dorothy," of Ipswich, William Andrews, master, or in the ship "Rose," of Yarmouth, commanded by a son of the same Andrews, which two. ships appear to have come together. They landed probably at Boston, and thence William and the Pages went to Newbury, Massachu- setts, where it seems they remained some- thing over a year before joining the new set- tlement at Winnacunnett, now Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1639. At that place he took up his permanent abode, settling quite near Thomas and John Moulton. He was three times chosen one of the selectmen of Hamp-

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ton, 1649-53-59. He died April 18, 1664. In his will, bearing date March 8, 1663, he de- clares himself to be at that time "sick and weak of body." It is evident that he was a man of more than ordinary ability and force of character. Coming as he did to a new country before arriving at his majority, pre- sumably bringing little with him and dying at the early age of forty-seven, he left what was, for those times, a large estate-a double mansion in one of the best localities of the new township, with "Orchyd," tillage land, "Medow" and marshes, together with personal estate to no inconsiderable amount. All this he distributed with a curious particularity characteristic of the old country. William and Margaret, his wife, both lived while in Eng- land in the hamlet of Ormsby, "near Great Yarmouth and not far from Norwich, in County Norfolk." The widow Moulton mar- ried (second) Lieutenant John Sanborn. She died July 13, 1699. The children of William and Margaret were: Joseph, Benjamin, Han- nah, Mary, Sarah, Ruth, Robert and William.

(II) Robert, third son of William and Mar- garet (Page) Moulton, was born in Hampton, November 8, 1661, and died October II, 1732. He married, May 29. 1689, Lucy Smith. Their children were: William, Robert, Jeremiah, and Jonathan, next mentioned.

(III) Jonathan, fourth and youngest son of Robert and Lucy (Smith) Moulton, was born June 5, 1702, and died May 22, 1735. He married, December 21, 1727, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Lamprey, a lineal de- scendant of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, who was the founder of Hampton. Their children were : Jonathan, Daniel, Robert and Reuben.

(IV) Captain Daniel, second son of Jona- than and Elizabeth (Lamprey) Moulton, was born in 1731, and died August 26, 1809. His father died when he was four years old, and he was apprenticed to a man who treated him harshly. About 1745, at the age of fourteen, he ran away and went to the new settlement in Maine, first to Saco and then to Scar- borough, where he settled on the east side of Nonesuch river. near "Rocky Hill," opposite what is now known as the Daniel Carter place. He was a blacksmith, and became the owner of large tracts of land, holding most of what is now Scarborough Corner School District, and it is said about two miles of Nonesuch meadows. He had a large square house and several large barns. He gave each of his children a farm with a large square house. In later years he paid a considerable sum in settlement for his "time" to the man to whom

he had been apprenticed. He is mentioned in "Southgate's History of Scarborough," as one of the prominent men in the town after its second settlement. He was an especial favor- ite of Charles Pine, the hunter and Indian fighter, whose granddaughter he married, and Pine attempted by will to entail a tract of land upon Daniel and his issue. He was active in revolutionary times, a captain in the militia and a member of the committees of correspondence and safety for Scarborough and held various town offices. He married (first) April 25, 1750, Grace, daughter of John and Grace ( Pine) Reynolds. Daniel and Grace, his wife, "owned the covenant" in the Second Parish Church, October 29, 1753. She died December 19, 1787, aged fifty-eight. He married (second) Hannah Beck Cotton, of Pepperellborough. She was admitted to the Second Parish Church, April 5, 1789, and died September 4, 1814. His children, all by Grace, were : Charles Pine, Jonathan, John, Lucy, a child (name unknown), Daniel, a child (name not recorded).

(V) Charles Pine, eldest child of Daniel and Grace (Reynolds) Moulton, was born in Scarborough, July 15, 1751, and died June 4, 1807, and was buried in the graveyard on his farm. His remains, with those of his wife, were afterwards removed to the town ceme- tery at Dunston. He was a blacksmith, and lived on the western side of Nonesuch river, in Scarborough, near "Rocky Hill." He mar- ried, March 24, 1774, Olive, daughter of Jo- seph and Mary Fabyan, of Scarborough. She was baptized October 26, 1755, and died Oc- tober 14, 1840, aged about eighty-five. She married (second) November 13, 1822, Joseph Harmon. The children of Charles and Olive were: Joshua, Hannah, Elias, John, Daniel, Gracia, Mary Brackett, Lucy (died young), Lucy, Phebe and Olive.

(VI) Captain Joshua, eldest child of Charles Pine and Olive (Fabyan) Moulton, was born August 5, 1775, and died February II, 1855. He resided on the county road near Scarbor- ough Corner. He was a large land owner, carried on blacksmithing, and kept a tavern, and was also considerably interested in ship- ping and shipbuilding. He was a man of in- fluence in his town and for years was a cap- tain of militia. In politics he was a Jefferson- ian Democrat. Originally active in the ortho- dox (Congregational) church, he later became a Universalist. He was married, October 16, 1800, by Rev. Thomas Lancaster, to Lydia, daughter of Solomon and Mary ( Harmon) Stone, of Beech Ridge, Scarborough. She

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was born June 16, 1780, and died July 17, 1872. Their children were: Charles, Solo- mon, Freedom, Joshua, Olive, Ira, Mary and Lydia Jane.

(VII) Freedom, third son of Joshua and Lydia (Stone) Moulton, was born in Scar- borough, October 31, 1808, and died July 31, 1857. He fitted for college at Gorham Acad- emy, but on account of difficulty with his eyes was obliged to give up luis college course. He tauglit school in Gorliam and Scarborough for some years. After the marriage in 1842 he removed to Jay in Franklin county, where he remained eleven years. In 1853 he returned to Scarborough and there purchased the Ezra Carter homestead on the Portland road, near Dunston Corner, where he afterward resided, and continued teaching a part of every year so long as he lived. He was always promi- nent in educational affairs, and was a mem- ber of the superintending school committee in Jay eleven years, and also filled a similar po- sition in the town of Scarborough. He was town clerk at the time of his decease. He was a man of marked ability, of the highest in- tegrity and standing, and was universally es- teemed. Mr. Moulton, his wife, and all his children were school teachers. Freedom Moul- ton married, June 13, 1842, Shuah Coffin Car- ter, who was born December 20, 18II, and died June 19, 1905, daughter of Ezra and Sarah (Fabyan) Carter. Ezra Carter (Ezra, Daniel, Ephraim, of South Hampton, New Hampshire), her father, was born March 18, 1773, and came from Concord, New Hamp- shire, to Scarborough about 1800, and was a tanner. Sarah Fabyan Carter, her mother, was a daughter of Joshua Fabyan, Esq., of Scarborough, a judge of the court of common pleas, born 1743, died June 20, 1799, whose wife, Sarah Brackett Fabyan, was born April 9, 1740, and died August 29, 1820. Joseph Fabyan, father of Joshua, Esq., was son of Justice John Fabyan, of Newington, New Hampshire, and Mary Pickering, his wife. Squire Joshua Fabyan was a descendant on his mother's side of George Cleeve, the first settler in Portland, Maine. The children of Freedom and Shuah C. (Carter) Moulton were: I. Martha Carter, born April II, 1843, married, October 20, 1869, Lewis O. Hills, a merchant of Arlington, Illinois; afterward removed to Louisiana ; died July 12, 1889. 2. Sarah Carter, November 3, 1846, graduated from the Portland high school, 1869; took a course in the Oswego Normal School, Oswego, New York; was a teacher; is now living in Portland. 3. Augustus F., mentioned at

length below. 4. Lydia Frances, May 26, 1851, was educated at Westbrook Seminary and Oswego Normal School, New York; and is first assistant in Jackson grammar school, Portland.

(VIII) Augustus Freedom, only son of Freedom and Shuah C. (Carter) Moulton, was born in Jay, May 1, 1848, and when five years of age moved with his parents to Scar- borough, where he resided until 1896. In that year he removed to that part of Portland formerly called Deering, where he now re- sides. He attended the public schools, Gor- ham Academy, Saco high school, and in 1869 graduated from Westbrook Seminary. In 1873 he graduated from Bowdoin College, the first in rank of his class, was elected a mem- ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society after graduation and was a tutor in the college in 1874. In 1876 he was chosen to deliver the master's oration at commencement and re- ceived from his alma mater the degree of A. M. After leaving college he entered upon the study of law in the office of Judge Will- iam L. Putnam, of Portland, where he read two years, and was admitted to the bar of Cumberland county in October, 1876. It is now thirty-two years since Mr. Moulton's ad- mission to the bar, and during that time he has labored faithfully at his profession, in which he has attained prominence as a prac- titioner in both state and federal courts, espe- cially in corporation cases. Among many im- portant cases in which he has been counsel are the Libby and the Chase murder trials, the Aaron McKenney will case, and the Kansas stockholders liability cases. In politics he was a Democrat until 1894, and since that time has been an active Republican. His interest in public affairs has brought him before the people as a candidate for office several times and he has served as a representative in the state legislature two terms, 1878-79, during both of which he was one of the judiciary committee ; he was a member of the school board of Scarborough fifteen years; town so- licitor twenty years; mayor of Deering, 1898; and president of the board of aldermen upon annexation of Deering to Portland, 1899- 1900. He is a member of the board of trus- tees of Westbrook Seminary and also of Thornton Academy. His course in office has always been marked by rectitude and scrupu- lous fidelity in the discharge of his duties, and he is trustee of large estates. Mr. Moulton is a member of the American Bar Association, the Portland Board of Trade. The American Historical Society, the Maine Historical So-

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ciety, the Maine Genealogical Society, the So- ciety of Colonial Wars, is ex-president of the Maine Society of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, and is president of the Bow- doin Alumni Association of Portland. He oc- cupies a prominent place among the literary people of Maine, and has delivered many lec- tures and public addresses on historical and patriotic subjects, among which is his address at Valley Forge at the time of placing there a tablet to the memory of the Maine Soldiers who passed the terrible winter of 1777-78 at that place. Among his published pamphlets are "Some Descendants of John and William Moulton of Hampton," "Trial by Ordeal." "Settlement of Scarborough," "Church and State in New England," "Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Palatinate of Maine." Mr. Moulton is a member of the col- lege society, Delta Kappa Epsilon, is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and one of the trustees of Bramhall Lodge; is also a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter ; Portland Council, Royal and Select Masters; Portland Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he has been eminent commander. He is a member of State Street Congregational Church of Portland, and of the Lincoln Club, the Deering Club, the Portland Club, the Cum- berland Club and the distinguished literary society known as the Fraternity Club.

(For ancestral history see preceding sketch.) Thomas Moulton, who was probably the immigrant an- MOULTON cestor of this branch of the Moulton family, was born in Ormsby, Nor- folk, England, about 1614. He was one of the first grantees and settlers of Winnacunnett, now Hampton, New Hampshire, where he lived about fifteen years or more. He was in Newbury, Massachusetts, 1637: Hampton, New Hampshire, 1639; and York, Maine, 1654. His wife's baptismal name was Martha, and had children: I. Thomas, baptized No- vember 24, 1639, in Hampton. 2. Daniel, baptized February 12, 1641, in Hampton. 3. Hannah, born June 19, 1645, married Samuel Tilton, of Hampton. 4. Mary, born January 25, 1651, married Samuel Braglon Sr., York, Maine. 5. Jeremiah. 6. Joseph, must have been born prior to 1660 and probably died about 1720. He took the oath of office in 1681. Removed to Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire.

(II) Joseph, probably the youngest child of

Thomas and Martha Moulton, was probably born in York, about 1660, as he took the oath of allegiance in 1681. But little is known about him, as he was killed at an early age by the Indians. He may have been murdered in the massacre of York, June 25, 1692, but something in the records indicates that he was taken away a captive and may have perished in the wilderness, perhaps of torture. The facts in this matter are unlikely to be dis- covered. He was a member of the grand jury and was a most promising citizen. The rec- ords of York deeds show the inventory of his estate taken in part October 12, 1692, and a part August 29, 1693. His life was dearly paid for by the Indians in later years, as his youngest son was among their most implacable pursuers. He lived in the age when "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was the rigid rule among civilized as well as uncivil- ized. No record can be found of his mar- riage, but the probate records settle beyond doubt the names of his four sons. They were : John, Joseph, Daniel and Jeremiah.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume I, Part 85

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 802

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 802