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(III) Colonel Jeremiah, youngest son of Joseph Moulton, was born about 1688 in York, and was one of the most eminent citizens of that town and of the entire eastern province, occupying many positions of public trust and high responsibility. His public career began at a comparatively early age and ended with his death. He was a famous scout and Indian fighter, possessed considerable military ability and was ever ready to serve the colony and his king. He was also of an eminently judi- cial temperament and served his times well in many civil capacities. He was born in anxious times and narrowly escaped his father's fate when York was destroyed by the Indians. He was taken captive and with other young chil- dren and some elderly women was soon re- leased. He was brought up by his uncle, Jere- miah Moulton, and the latter's account is on record, showing the charge of 29 pounds 15 shillings "To bringing up Jeremiah, the Son of the Said Deceased, in meat, Drink, Cloth- ing etc. till he was Seven Years old; to witt four year & I Quarter." In 1772 Jeremiah Moulton was a sergeant on scout duty and be- fore the close of the year was promoted to lieutenant. He was in the first expedition at the capture of Norridgewock in January, 1722, and one of four captains to lead the second ex- pedition against that place, which they cap- tured and destroyed August 12, 1724. On this occasion the able and much hated French Jesuit priest, Sebastian Ralo, was slain with many of his Indian followers. This victory
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was regarded as of the greatest importance since the death of King Philip, and was cele- brated with great rejoicing. Shortly after the Lovewell fight at Fryeburg, in 1725, Captain Moulton went on scout to the battlefield and returned to Falmouth on June 15 of that year. He was subsequently colonel of the third Mas- sachusetts regiment and was third in command of the expedition led by General l'epperell against Louisburg, which capitulated to the colonial forces June 17, 1745. He was colonel of the first York county regiment of militia in 1757. From 1735 to 1751 he was continuously councillor, and represented York at the general court for several terms. He was also county treasurer and was appointed judge of the court of common pleas of York county, De- cember 15, 1732. He continuously held this position until his death and also filled the office of judge of probate from December 20, 1745, a period of twenty years. He was appointed justice of the peace in 1724, 1728 and 1731 and colonel in 1734; he was also register of deeds, and his first signature in that capacity bears the date April 5, 1734, and the last April 8, 1741. He was town clerk from 1732 to 1744, was also constable and often selectman. He was treasurer and clerk of the first parish of York, holding the latter office until March 26, 1745, and resigning the former two years later. Besides the various military titles above mentioned, he appears in the records as ensign and major and had the civic titles of "Esquire" and "Honorable." He died July 20, 1765, aged about seventy-seven years. His first wife, Hannah ( surname unknown), died October 26, 1760, aged sixty-six years, according to the town records. The gravestone gives the year as 1761. The headstones for the graves of Colonel Moulton and his wife in the yard at York village are elaborately carved and bear the winged cherubim's head. The in- scription on the stone of the wife pays this tribute to her character: "a Gentlewoman Eminent for her Piety and for Christian and Social Virtue, Judiciously Esteemed when Liv- ing and Greatly Lamented on her Death." Their children were: Jeremiah, Daniel (died young), Daniel, Hannah, Thomas, Abigail, Dorcas and Lucy.
(IV) Jeremiah (2), eldest child of Jere- miah (1) and Hannah Moulton, was born January 17, 1714, in York, and was a promi- nent citizen of the town, in every way a credit to his illustrious sire. He received successive appointments as justice of the peace in 1761, 1765 and 1771, evidently reappointments, the term being four years. He appears in a list
of men of the Blue Troop of Horse in York county in 1757 and was commissioned lieuten- ant colonel in the York county militia March 10, 1762. He was named by Sir William l'ep- perrell as an executor of his will in which he refers to him as "my good Friend, Jeremiah Moulton, Jr., esquire, sherriff of this county of York." This was afterward revoked by a codicil "As he lives at a distance & the busi- ness might be troublesome to him." He died July 16, 1777. On November 14, 1742, he took up settlers' lots numbered nine, twenty- one and twenty-two. At the time of his death in 1777, he owned two hundred and thirty-five acres of land in Sanford, and one-half of Chadbourne's saw mill, valued in all at one hundred pounds ten shillings. He was mar- ried December 20, 1737, to Hannah, daughter of John Sayword, of York, and they were the parents of Thomas (died young), Thomas, Theodore (died ten years old), Jotham, Abi- gail, Mary, Jeremiah, Joel, Theodore, Han- nah and Lucy.
(V) Brigadier Jotham, fourth son of Jere- miah (2) and Hannah ( Sayword) Moulton, was born February 12, 1743, in York, Maine. He became an extensive owner of land in San- ford, helping to build and owning a part of the Iron Works at the Corner, and built the first bridge across the river. He served with honor in the revolution, being chosen briga- dier in 1776 by the provincial congress. He died suddenly at York between May 8 and 14, 1777, while at home on a furlough. He had made arrangements to remove to Sanford and had built a large house at South Sanford for a residence. This structure, afterwards moved to the corner, was known as the Nasson House. Brigadier Moulton's widow married Major Samuel Nasson and occupied it. Briga- dier Moulton married, June 10, 1765, Joanna Tilden, his cousin, and had six children : I. Jeremiah, see forward. 2. George, born No- vember 12, 1767. 3. Jonathan, July 8, 1769. 4. Jotham, see forward. 5. Abigail Ruck, Oc- tober 13, 1773, married a Pillsbury. 6. Rufus, October 15, 1775.
(VI) Jeremiah (3), eldest child of Briga- dier Jotham and Joanna (Tilden) Moulton, was born in York, March 7, 1766, died Feb- ruary 2, 1849. He came to Sanford when a boy, was a famer and also manufactured cloth in a mill on the site of the present Sanford Mills as early as 1810. He became one of the most prominent citizens of the town and one of its largest land owners. He married (first) Martha Friend, who died January 10, 1815. They had children : Jotham, Rufus, Hannah,
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George, Nancy, Abigail and Jeremiah. He married (second) February 1, 1816, Mrs. Hannah (Friend) Hobbs, a sister of his first wife, born 1778, died November 25, 1869. They had children : Mary, married a Hatch, and Martha, who married Dr. Albert Day.
(VI) Dr. Jotham (2), fourth son of Briga- dier Jotham ( I) and Joanna (Tilden) Moul- ton, was born in York, January 15, 1771, and died in Bucksport, November 2, 1857. He came to Sanford with his mother and step- father (Major Samuel Nasson) when he was about eight years of age. During his early manhood, he was sick with consumption and apparently near the end of his life. One night he dreamed that he went to Mrs. Batchelder's house across the river, and that she accom- panied him out into the pasture to find a cer- tain weed which he had dreamed of seeing and which would cure him. Seizing upon the dream as an omen of health and life, the in- valid went next day to see Mrs. Batchelder, told his dream, and together they sought the weed in the pasture. They found and gath- ered some, and returning to his home, steeped it and he drank the extract, and recovered his health. The weed was afterwards known as "Jotham's weed." Young Moulton read med- icine with Dr. Job Lyman, of York, and in 1795, with a little box of medicine six inches square, journeyed eastward into the wilderness of Maine. He reached Buckstown (now Bucksport), where he settled and continued practice during the remainder of his life. But few people dwelt along the river when he first located. so he went up and down the Penob- scot in a birch canoe for many years, answer- ing the calls of the sparsely settled country. He was a man of great integrity and benevo- lence and a true Christian. He married, Oc- tober 16, 1802, Mary Farrar, of Hanover, New Hampshire, and had children: Lucy, George, Jotham, Tilden and Mary.
(V) Joel, sixth son of Jeremiah (2) and Hannah (Sayword) Moulton, was born April 9, 1751, in York, where he probably passed his life. Very little record of him can be found. but it is known that his wife's baptismal name was Eunice and they had a son, Jeremiah.
(VI) Captain Jeremiah (4), son of Joel and Eunice Moulton, was born in Sanford, December 9, 1786, and died May 5, 1860. He married (first) Patty Harmon, of York, Maine : (second) Hannah, daughter of Rev. Moses Sweat. Their children were: Benja- min. Moses S., Silas Moody, James F., Charles J. B., George and Harriet N.
(VII) Silas Moody, third son and child of
Captain Jeremiah (4) and Hannah (Sweat) Moulton, was born in Sanford, Maine. Janu- ary 6, 1821, died July 1, 1904. He followed the occupation of farming throughout the ac- tive years of his life. Married Olive A. Witham, born in Sanford, died 1901. Their children were: Moses Sweat, Laura J., Ben- jamin Irving and Arthur.
(VIII) Moses Sweat, eldest child of Silas Moody and Olive A. (Witham ) Moulton, was born in Sanford, June 8, 1863. He was edu- cated in the schools of his native town and learned the carpenter's trade. Later he became a contractor and builder. He formed a part- nership in 1900 with Judge George W. Han- son, in the wood and coal business, operating under the name of the Sanford Coal Company. This has been continued up to the present day, and they are also extensive dealers in lumber, and engaged in contracting and building. Mr. Moulton supports the Republican party and has been an active factor in its councils. He served as constable for a period of fourteen years, and was deputy sheriff for a time, re- signing this latter office in order to give his undivided attention to his business affairs. He has also served as a member of the board of health, and is affiliated with the following or- ganizations : Member of Preble Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sanford; White Rose Royal Arch Chapter : Friendship Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Spring- vale; Morak Encampment, of Sanford; past chancellor of Riverside Lodge. Knights of Pythias, of Sanford; and member of the Grange at Springvale. He married, Septem- ber 4, 1893, Ella Mercy Anna Bennett ( Fletcher ). daughter of Horace and Sally (Colby) Haslam, of Sanford. Mrs. Moulton had one child by a previous marriage: Alice May Fletcher, born March 18, 1881, who mar- ried Eugene Whitcomb, deceased. She had one child : Arthur Elias Whitcomb, born June 24, 1899, who lives with Mr. and Mrs. Moulton, and is now in the Longfellow school.
(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(II) Jeremiah, third son of MOULTON Thomas and Martha Moul- ton, was born about 1657, probably in York. He took the oath of allegi- ance in 1681 and was representative in 1692. Savage states that he was a councilor, but this is probably an error, as his name does not appear in the Massachusetts civil list for the Colonial and Provincial periods, 1630 to 1674. He died December 26, 1731. as shown by the town records.
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He appears to have possessed a some- what peppery temper in early manhood, as the records show that he was fined ten pounds Oc- tober 3, 1693, and put under bonds to the amount of hity pounds to keep the peace, for threatening with a gun in his hands to shoot a constable and justice- of the peace. Despite his shortcomings, which included that of sell- ing strong drink without a licence, he was a useful and trusted citizen. He often served on the grand jury, was selectman and held other town offices, besides serving as representative to the town court. The town records generally refer to him with the respectful title of Mister, which was not in common use in those days. After his nephew, Jeremiah Moulton, came to maturity, he was sometimes distinguished as senior. His will shows that he had at the time of its execution only a son and a daugh- ter. His first wife, Mary ( Young) Moulton, daughter of Rowland and Joanna (Knight) Young, of York, died June 24, 1722. , She was the mother of his children. He married (sec- ond) Alice (Chadbourne) Donnell, widow of Hon. Samuel Donnell, who was the councillor and judge of the York county court. Jere- miah Moulton's children were: Joseph and Mary. The latter became the wife of Johnson Harmon, of York.
(III) Joseph, only son of Jeremiah and Mary ( Young) Moulton, was born January 14, 1680, and resided in York, where he was still living April 22, 1724. No record appears to show his death. In one record he is given the title of lieutenant, which was probably his rank in the town militia. He was married December 30, 1697, to Mary Pulman, daugh- ter of Jasper Pulman, of York. He was the father of these children : Abel, Abigail, Jere- miah, Mary, Miriam and Elizabeth.
(IV) Captain Abel, eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Pulman) Moulton, and twin of their daughter, Abigail, was born May 10, 1701, in York, and died March 3, 1784, as the town records say, "in the Night." The Sec- ond Parish Church records make it March 4, so it is quite probable that he died after mid- night. He was a captain in the First York County Regiment, commanded by Colonel Eben Sayers, as appears of record June 25, 1776. He was promoted to major, September 31, 1779, and probably participated in the revolutionary war. He married (first) Elea- nor Bane, daughter of Louis Bane, of York. She died in January, 1748, and he married (second) Mrs. Judith Gowan, their intentions being published December 30, 1794. The first wife bore him two children, John and
Sarah, and those of the second wife were : Mercy, Dorcas, John, Daniel and Mary.
(V) Daniel, third son of Abel Moulton and fourth child of his second wife, Judith, was born March 31, 1755, in York. Like most of his townsmen of that time, he was a farmer, and was an alert and public-spirited man. He was captain of a company of state militia and a soldier in the ranks of the colonial forces during the revolutionary war. He died at the age of eighty-four years. He married (first) February 8, 1776, Dorcas Holt, by whom he had children; I. Noah, baptized May 8, 1777, lost at sea. 2. Dorcas, baptized August 4, 1778, died young. 3. Josiah, baptized June 9, 1782, married Olive Lowe. 4. Henry, bap- tized September 19, 1784, died young. 5. George, see forward. 6. Hannah, born March 25, 1790, married Ebenezer Grant. 7. Dorcas, born November 16, 1792. married Abel Mat- thews. He married (second) Abigail Young, and had a daughter: Abigail.
(VI) George, fourth son and fifth child of Daniel and Dorcas (Holt) Moulton, was bap- tized October 14, 1787, died March, 1859. He was a progressive farmer and large land owner. In addition to the part of his father's farm which came to him by inheritance, he purchased other property, including an ex- tensive river farm. He married (first) Nancy, who died in July, 1822, daughter of Ebenezer Moulton. Their children were: I. Jonathan, died young. 2. Daniel, died in infancy. 3. Catharine, born July 24, 1811, married, Sep- tember, 1834, Thomas Witham; died March, 1854. 4. William G., see forward. 5. Dorcas, born January 10, 1816, married John Simp- son; died November, 1871. 6. Mary, born May 28, 1818, married May 6, 1835, David, son of David Moulton. 7. Jonathan, born July 18, 1820, died September 12, 1880. 8. Nancy, born July 20, 1822, became the second wife of T. Witham. George Moulton married (sec- ond) March 12, 1823, Sally Myrick, and had children : 1. George D., born February 29, 1824, married Nancy Young. 2. David, died in infancy. 3. Sarah A., who had a twin sister who died, married Benjamin F. Donnell. 5. Joanna, married S. G. Donnell. 6. Eben, died unmarried in 1860.
(VII) William Gardner, second son and fourth child of George and Nancy ( Moulton) Moulton, born in York, Maine, January 12, 1814, died December 13, 1906. When quite young he learned the ship carpentering trade, and also became an expert as a wood worker. For ten years he held the position of fore- man of the boat shop at the navy yard. For
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many years he was employed as a millwright, building mills and putting in wooden water wheels and similar contrivances. He built the first paper mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the mills in Newton, Lower and Upper Falls, and at Franklin, New Hampshire. When the machinery of these mills was dis- placed by modern devices he erected a car- riage shop and engaged in the manufacture of heavy wagons, and in the repair work on all sorts of vehicles. He attended regularly to his business until more than four score years of age, and also managed a fine farm which he owned. His residence was built by himself in 1843. and is a neat and substantial dwelling, while the barn and other farm buildings are convenient and commodious. He upheld Whig principles until the organization of the Republican party, of which he was a member until his death. He was a member of the Order of the Golden Cross, a deacon in the Christian church from 1854 until his death, and for many years chairman of the pru- dential committee. He married, October 29. 1840, Judith, born December 2, 1816, died March 30, 1904, daughter of David Moulton. They had children: I. Mary H., born July 25, 1843. 2. Judith A., born September 30, 1845. married James O. Leavitt ; died August 22, 1891. 3. Willis G., born May 3, 1848, married Etta, daughter of Henry P. Abbott. 4. Allen C.
(VIII) Allen Curtis, youngest child of Will- iam Gardner and Judith (Moulton) Moulton, was born in that part of the town of York known as Cider Hill, October 10, 1853. His education was acquired in the district schools near his home, South Berwick Academy and Kent's Hill Seminary. For a short time he worked for his father in the carriage shop, then taught school for six winters, then en- gaged in trade with his brother, opening a grocery store at York Corner. After five years of successful business they sold the store to C. H. Junkins, and Allen C. went to work as a carpenter. Later he took up the study of architecture, and for a number of years has managed successfully a business as archi- tect and contractor, erecting some of the finest buildings in the vicinity. Specimens of his work are: The Christian church, which he erected in 1890; Mrs. Putnam's handsome cot- tage; and the fine summer residences of a number of others. His plans are laid with a view to convenience as well as beauty, his work is always satisfactory and the general effect is artistic and in excellent taste. His political support is given to the Republican
party, and he has served as town agent, and has filled the office of town clerk since 1894. While at York Corner he served as postmaster under the administration of President Grant. He is a member of the Christian church, has served on the prudential committee and as assessor. He belongs to St. Aspinquid Lodge, No. 198, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is a past master ; Knights of Pythias ; has been through all the chairs of the Order of the Golden Cross ; and a member of the Grand Commandery of the State of Maine. He has been president of the York County Sunday School Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Maine State Sun- day School Association. He married, June 10, 1880, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of David and Mary C. (Eldridge) Sewall. The Sew- alls were among the first families who settled in York. Mr. and Mrs. Moulton had an adopted child, Judith P., who died in her sec- ond year. Mrs. Moulton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
(For ancestry see preceding sketch.) (VII) George D., eldest MOULTON child of George and Sally ( Myrick ) Moulton, was born February 29, 1824, died in Alfred, Maine, January 10, 1907. His early years were spent on the farm of his father, and he learned the trade of carpentering and also house painting, following the latter occupation until within a few years of his death, when ill health com- pelled him to abandon active labors. He re- moved to Alfred when a young man and spent the remainder of his life in that town. His religious affiliations were with the Christian church in York, and he was a member of the Republican party. He married Nancy Frost Young, of York, now living in Alfred, born March, 1826, and had children: Elizabeth, Nettie, Julia, Addie and Charles G.
(VIII) Charles G., only son and fifth and youngest child of George D. and Nancy Frost (Young) Moulton, was born in Alfred, Maine, May 30. 1864. His education was acquired in the public and high schools of Alfred. At the age of eighteen years he went into the office of the register of deeds as clerk under Asa L. Ricker and later under Justin M. Leavitt, was employed there several years. He superintended the naming of the ledger index for the register of deeds for York county, and installed the present system of continuous indexing in use in that office. He went to Limerick, Maine, in 1889, to take the place for six weeks of Cashier William W.
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Mason, of the Limerick National Bank, and has been identified with the bank since that time. During the first year he acted as an accountant, and was soon elected cashier, and continues in that office; he is also one of the directors of the bank. Since he became iden- tified with the bank its assets have increased from about $150,000 to more than $830,000, and is the largest country national bank in the county or state. He is also identified with other enterprises, being treasurer and director of Limerick Mills ( manufacturers of worsted yarns) and treasurer and a director of Limer- ick Water & Electric Company, having been one of the incorporators of both corporations. He is also a trustee of Limerick Academy and of Parsonfield Seminary. Mr. Moulton gives his political support to the Republican party, and is a member of Fraternal Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Alfred. He mar- ried, January 7, 1950, Frances Estella Mason, a woman of exceptional executive ability. She was educated in the Limerick schools and Limerick Academy, and was elected to suc- ceed her father as president of the Limerick National Bank, of which she is also a director, being the first woman to serve as president of a National bank in the New England states. Her father was Jeremiah Mason, who was for many years and up to his death presi- dent of the Limerick National Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Moulton have one daughter : Olga Fran- ces, born November 11, 1900, who now attends the public schools of Limerick.
ESTES It is said by antiquarians that Albert Azo II, Marquis of Lig- uria, born about A. D. 1097, was founder of the houses of Este and Brunswick. The former was conspicuous in Italy as late as the middle of the eighteenth century, about which time its direct line failed in the death of Hercules III, he being of the twenty-second generation from Azo II. Such is the founda- tion of this ancient house. The name Este is said to have been derived from a colony planted in the seventh century of Rome, about fifteen miles south of the city of Padua, and called Ateste, or Este, which latter name the marquises of Liguria assumed in the early part of the fourteenth century. The name written Este is plural, and is used to repre- sent the whole family. Tradition has it that the name was brought into England by one Francesco, natural son of Marquis Leonnello, and who went first to Bergundy and escaped thence into England, and afterward made his home in that country. The period of his
life lay between 1434 and 1444. The immi- grant Estes family here about to be considered begins with Robert and Dorothy Estes, of Dover, England, whose ancestry has not been clearly settled, but concerning whose descend- ants there is no uncertain tradition.
(I) Richard Estes, immigrant, son of Rob- ert and Dorothy, is said to have been bom 3 mo., 1647, and, as stated in the records of the Friends' Meeting in Lynn, Massachusetts, lived in England until the 11, 7 mo., 1684, "and by certificate from ye people of God in Newington, East Kent, England, were mar- ried at Dover, New Hampshire, 23, 4 mno., 1687, to Elizabeth Beck, Great Island ( Ports- mouth)." He is believed to have left the Downs, in England, in September, 1684, ar- rived in Boston, New England, in the latter part of November, and soon went to Great Island, now Portsmouth, to join his brother Matthew, who had preceded him about two years. Richard Estes was a weaver. In 1686 he had a deed of sixty acres of land în Kit- terv, Maine, and in 1692-93 was in Salem, Massachusetts, where in 1694 he is called sleymaker (maker of weavers' reeds). In 1695 he was of Lynn, Massachusetts, and bought lands there. He appears to have be- come possessed of many tracts of land in Lynn and Salem, and spent the later years of his life in the town last mentioned, where in 1726-27 he deeded lands to his son Benjamin. He was of the Society of Friends, and a very devout man, upright in his daily walk. He married, at Dover, New Hampshire, June 23, 1687, Elizabeth Beck, of Great Island, born 8, II mo., 1663, probably a daughter of Henry Beck, who was an inhabitant of Dover in 1642, when he had a twenty-acre lot granted him. Richard and Elizabeth (Beck) Estes had eleven children: I. A son, born and died the same day. 2. Matthew, born June 27, 1689, died May II, 1774. 3. Joseph, January 16, 1690, died young. 4. Sarah, born in Salem, May 5, 1693, died January 10, 1773. 5. Rob- ert, born August 27, 1694. 6. Joseph, August 26, 1696, died May 5, 1770. 7. Benjamin, born July 10, 1698. 8. Henry, April 9, 1701. 9. Philadelphia, February 17, 1702, died March 25, 1703. 10. Edward, born February 20, 1703-04. II. Samuel, May 23, 1709.
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