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riage he settled in Paris, Maine, where his descendants have ever since lived.
(II) David (2), youngest child of David (I) and Naomi (Briggs) Andrews, born in Paris, Maine, May 26, 1781, died October, 1856. He was a farmer. He married first Abigail Pratt, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Shaw ) Pratt ; married second ; mar- ried third Sarah Robinson, who died in Febru- ary, 1856, aged fifty-six years. He was the fa- ther of twenty-two children, among whom were: Ziba, born about 1806, died May II, 1888. Cyrus. Levi. Miranda, died young. Na- than, born July 30, 1813, died January 23. 188S. Abigail, born June 1, 1818, died March 30, 1858. Jonathan, born June, 1820, died May 26, 1887. Elvira, born March, 1821, died March, 1862. Bathsheba, born October, 1825, died October 23, 1876. Sabrina J., born Jan- uary 23, 1827, died February 7, 1892. Calista C., born January 11, 1829, died May 5, 1878. Loretta, born May 29, 1831. David, see for- ward.
(II]) David (3), child of David (2) and Sarah (Robinson) Andrews, was born in Paris, Maine, October 16, 1834. He succeeded to the paternal homestead, all but one hundred and sixty acres, which he sold. Later he added one hundred and sixty acres and car- ried on farming extensively. His buildings were burned, and in 1882 he removed to Sum- ner, where he purchased another farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which, together with the one he purchased in Paris, he still carries on. He enlisted in the Ninth Maine Volun- teer Infantry in 1861, served one and a half years, and was discharged on account of dis- ability incurred in the service. He is a Re- publican in politics and a Baptist in religion. He married, January 24, 1866, Lucy Augusta ( Washburn) Wilson, born March 9. 1832, in Portland. Maine, daughter of Calvin and Lucy C. (Sturtevant) Washburn, the former of whom died June 12, 1865, and the latter May 29. 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn were the parents of six other children, as follows : Amanda M., born February II, 1827, died 1854. Sarah E. and Lucy M., twins, born December 19, 1829; Lnicy M. died June. 1831. Calvin A., born October 25, 1834. George W., born July 4, 1837. E. Angelia, born De- cember 20, 1839, died April 3, 1852. Ellen M., born February 10, 1846. Lucy Augusta Washburn married, first, June 1, 1854, Syl- vanus Poor Wilson, who died January 5, I859. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson : Martha Angelia, born September 25, 1855. married Hannibal Hamlin Bryant. Jeannette
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Stephens, born September 16, 1857, died De- cember 13, 1890. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews: Cora Elvira, born February 9, 1867, whose sketch follows. Lelia Eunice, born December 29, 1868, died October 21, 1894. Mary Wight, born January 6, 1871, died April 26, 1891 ; she was the wife of Ili- ram S. Bisbee; married December 29, 1890. Percy Melville, born January 26, 1874, whose sketch follows.
(IV) Cora Elvira, eldest child of David and Lucy Augusta ( Washburn ) ( Wilson) An- drews, was born in Paris, Maine, February 9, 1867. She attended the public schools of Paris and Sumner, with two years at South Lancaster Academy, Massachusetts, and two at Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, Maine, from which she graduated in 1892. She taught for many years in the schools of Sumner, Paris, Pittsfield and Richmond. She married, April 2, 1887, Quincy Randall Webber, of Richmond, Maine, and to them have been born three children: Lyndall Fern, Septem- ber 9, 1893. Violet Ione, July 15, 1897. Da- vid Paul, June 5, 1908.
(IV) Percy Melville, youngest child of Da- vid and Lucy Augusta ( Washburn ) ( Wilson) Andrews, was born in Paris, Maine, January 26, 1874. He attended the public schools, Hebron Academy, from which he graduated in 1897, and Colby College, from which he graduated in 1901, with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts. In the same year he began read- ing law in the office of Warren C. Philbrook, of Waterville. After continuing his course two years, he entered the Bangor Law School, where he completed the course in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in September of the same year, and the following month opened an office in Portland, where he has since been engaged in the general practice of his pro- fession. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Evening Star Lodge, No. 1.47, Free and Accepted Masons, of Buckfield, Maine; Portland Lodge, No. 188, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Portland Board of Trade, Cumberland Bar Association and the Lincoln Club.
ANDREWS (I) John Andrews, immi- grant ancestor, was born in England and settled in Kit- tery, Maine, as early as 1640. His descend- ants are numerous in York county, Maine. He was born, according to his own deposition, about 1600. He signed the submission of 1652. He died in 1671, and his widow, Joan, married, in 1672, Philip Atwell. She was
doubtless much younger than Mr. Andrews. Children of John Andrews: 1. John, men- tioned below. 2. Sarah, married Christopher Mitchell. 3. Joanna, mentioned in 1653. 4. Ann, married John Billing. 5. Elizabeth, married Thomas Mannering. 6. James, men- tioned below.
(Il) Jolın (2), son of John (1) Andrews, was born about 1652, and settled at Kittery ; sold land at Braveboat harbor in 1688, jointly with his mother. He died in 1694. Children : I. Robert, administered his father's estate ; married Susannah -, who administered his estate in 1719 ; children : i. Sarah, married John Varrel; ii. William, married, 1737. Mar- gery Walker; iii. Mary, married William Trickey. 2. Edward ( ?) (perhaps a nephew, instead of son ), sold land at Thompson's Point 111 1707; was of Berwick, Maine, in 1720; married, 1709, Sarah Churchill, daughter of Arthur and Eleanor ( Boynton, or Bonython ) Churchill, granddaughter of John Bonython, of Saco.
(11) James, son of Jolin (1) Andrews, was born about 1660, and settled at Casco Bay. Sons : James, Jr. Elisha, mentioned below.
( Il1) Elisha, son of James Andrews. and grandson of Jolin Andrews, was born about 1685 ; married at Kittery, May 23, 1712, Rebecca Weymouth. Children born at Kit- tery : 1. Sarah, born January 24, 1712-13. 2. Elizabeth, born August 24, 1715. 3. Elisha, baptized with the two elder children, March 2, 1719-20 ; married, February 16, 1740-41, Mary Butland, of Wells. 4. Joshua, baptized Au- gust 7, 1720 ; married Olive Emery. 5. Tabi- tha, baptized May, 1723. 6. John, baptized June 5, 1726, died young. 7. Mary, baptized August 4, 1728. 8. John, baptized March 21, 1730-31, married, December 27, 1748, Miriam Emery.
(IV) Stephen Andrews, born about 1745, came to this country, according to family tra- dition, from England with two brothers : James, who settled in Berwick, and John, who settled in Parsonfield. But there is good rea- son for believing that Stephen belonged to the Andrews family given above, the only fam- ily found in Berwick and vicinity, and having John, James and other names common in the family of Stephen Andrews. Stephen An- drews settled in Lyman, Maine, during or af- ter the revolution. He was a soldier from Berwick in Captain Samuel Sawyer's com- pany (thirtieth regiment ), under Colonel James Scammon, in 1775; also in Captain Samuel Grant's company, Colonel Jonathan Titcomb's regiment, in 1777. This was the
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Second York County Regiment. The name of all branches of the Andrews family was spelled Andrus, Andross, ete., until recent times. (See Massachusetts Soldiers and Sail- ors of the Revolution, p. 264, Vol. I.) He settled, after 1777, in Lyman, Maine. Chil- dren : Stephen, Simon, mentioned below ; James.
(V) Simon, son of Stephen Andrews, born in Lyman, Maine, May 7, 1790, died in Dayton, Maine. March 27. 1875. He married Mary Leaver, born August 1, 1791, died June 17, 1844. Children: 1. Stephen, born June 29, 1812, mentioned below. 2. William, De- cember 27, 1813. died August 27, 1898. 3. Thirza, April 1, 1816, died March 20, 1900.
(VI) Stephen (2), son of Simon Andrews, born June 29, 1812. died August 26, 1896, at Waterborough, Maine. He was educated in the public schools of Lyman and learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked in the summer, while in the winter he followed the trade of shoemaker. In 1846 he removed to Biddeford. He enlisted in Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, and served two years in the civil war, under Colo- nel Neal Dow. After the war he returned to Biddeford and resumed his trades as before. Owing to failing eyesight, he had finally to give up work at his trades, and he removed to Waterborough, where he lived the re- mainder of his days. In politics he was a Republiean ; in religion a Baptist, and a mem- ber of the church. He married Eliza Ann, born in Meredith, New Hampshire, March 16, 1817. daughter of Hezekiah and Polly Sin- clair Smith, and now lving at Old Orchard, Maine. Children : I. Simon Smith, born November 13. 1840, mentioned below. 2. Ste- phen Elbridge, born January 20, 1843. died March 8, 1885 : served four years in the Thir- teenth and Thirtieth Maine Infantry in the war of the rebellion, from 1861 to 1865. 3. Sarah Ann Lorinda, born January 20, 1843. twin of Stephen E.
(VII) Simon Smith, son of Stephen An- drews, was born in Lyman, November 13, 1840. He attended the publie schools of Biddeford. When sixteen years old he began his business career as clerk in a retail paint, oil and paper store in Biddeford. After a year.he became clerk in a drug-store, where he worked two years. After he was eighteen years old he attended school one term at Good- win's Mills, where he was then living. He worked a year in the Saco machine-shop. and then returned to mercantile life, working as a clerk in a grocery-store until the eivil war
broke out. He enlisted at Biddeford, Novem- ber 15, 1861, in Company K, Thirteenth Maine Volunteers, the same regiment in which his father served. He was mustered in as ser- geant, commissioned first lieutenant, and when the company was consolidated with the Thir- tieth Maine, he was made a captain in that regiment, under Colonel James Fessenden. He was mustered out after the close of the war, August 29, 1865. He took part in the Red River campaign, and was in all the en- gagements in which his regiment participated. At the close of his military service he returned to Biddeford. He opened a store at Kenne- bunkport. dealing in stoves, tinware and glass- ware. At the end of a year he sold out and established himself in the grocery business in Kennebunkport, but after a year sold this store, also, and bought a grocery business in Biddeford at King's Corner, and conducted it for thirty-eight years. He was originally in partnership with Robert W. Rummery, under the firm name of Rummery & Andrews. Mr. Rurnmery sold his interests to George R. An- drews, and for several years the firm name was Andrews & Company. Then Simon S. bought out George R. Andrews, and continued alone for about twenty years. He sold the business in 1904 and retired. In politics Mr. Andrews is a Republican, and has served the county twelve years as county commissioner, and for nine years has been deputy sheriff, a position he holds at the present time. He has held other positions of trust and responsibility in Biddeford. He was an overseer of the poor in 1873-74 and on the board of aldermen in 1880-81. He is a member of Dunlap Lodge of Free Masons, of Biddeford; Laconia Lodge of Odd Fellows and York Encampment and Canton J. H. Dearborn. He belongs to Mavo- shan Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and to U. S. Grant Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Biddeford. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was treasurer of the board of trustees for twenty-five years.
He married ( first), May 23. 1867, Lavinia Foss, of Kennebunkport, Maine, born April 15. 1842. died November 25, 1904. He mar- ried (second), February 14, 1906, Alma F. Brawn, daughter of Dr. Addison Brawn, of Biddeford, formerly of Waterville, Maine. Children by first wife: 1. Gertie V., born April 1, 1868, educated in the public schools ; married. October 19, 1891, Nathaniel H. Milli- ken, of Biddeford ; children : i. Nathalie Milli- ken. born 1899; ii. Frank M. Milliken, born July 9, 1902 ; iii. Gertrude N., born in Mexico. March 24, 1906. 2. Albert G., born May 25,
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1870, died in infancy. 3. Lillian M., born June 14, 1872, died in infancy. 4. Nellie Irma, born August 16, 1874. educated in the public schools of her native city; married. October 19, 1893. Walter L. Campbell; child, Doris Mildred Campbell, born July 27, 1894. 5. Elbert L., born January 17, 1876, died at six years of age. 6. Theodore Ashton, born July 18, 1885, engaged with the Andrews-Harigan Company, of Biddeford, grocers.
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ANDREWS ously represented throughout New England, probably came from either England or Scotland. They have been generally engaged in the professions or agricultural pursuits, and always been fore- most in the defence of the country of their adoption.
(I) Jeremiah Andrews, the first of whom we have definite record, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, April 6, 1757, and died in 1826. He served throughout the revolutionary war, being present at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was at Temple, New Hampshire, January 13, 1784. Soon after his marriage he removed to Bethel, Maine, where he reared a large fam- ily. He married, in 1784. Elizabeth Sawtelle, born in Shirley, Massachusetts, January 22, 1765, and had children: Hezekiah, Jeremiah, William, Elizabeth, Salome, Sarah, Elsie, Amos, Huldah, Mary, Eliza, Julia and Han- nah.
(II) Hezekiahı, eldest child of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Sawtelle) Andrews, was born in Bethel, Maine, October 4, 1784, was a farmer by occupation, and served in the War of 1812. He married Phœbe Kimball and had: One child which died in infancy, Charlotte, Rocena, Ephraim Kimball, another child which died in infancy, Diand, Hannah Kimball, Aldana and Hannibal.
( III) Ephraim Kimball, third child of Hez- ckiah and Phœbe ( Kimball) Andrews, was born in Bethel, Maine, April 4, 1813, and died in Bangor, Maine, in 1888. He was engaged in farming and river work, was ensign and lieutenant in the Madawaska war, and filled a number of town offices. He resided in Bethel until 1843, when he removed to Milton Planta- tion, Maine, where his death occurred. He married, at Bethel, December 26, 1841, Olive, daughter of Merrill Chase, of Paris, Maine; children: 1. Melville H., see forward. 2. Imogene, married Benjamin Swett, of Paris, Maine. 3. Eveline, married Daniel C. Swett, of Bethel, Maine. 4. Rose, deceased. 5. Per- ley M., of Orono.
(IV) Melville H., eldest child of Ephraim Kimball and Olive (Chase) Andrews, was born in Milton Plantation, Maine, January 27, 1845. Ile obtained his education in the schools of his native town, and in October, 1861, en- listed as a musician in Company D, Twelfth Naine Regiment, his company being stationed in Portland, Maine, and at Camp Chase, Mas- sachusetts, until January 9, 1862, when they were sent to Ship Island, Gulf of Mexico. While there he was in General Neal Dow's brigade, under General Benjamin F. Butler, and remained in that section for two years, during which time he participated in the cap- ture of New Orleans. During the remainder of the war his company was in the Shenandoah Valley under Sheridan, and he was the leader of the band and regimental bugler under Colo- nel Shepley. He served in every engagement in which his regiment participated and at the close of the war went to Bangor, Maine, where he was engaged in giving dancing and music lessons for a period of twenty-five years, and in addition to this arduous work was the leader of Andrews's orchestra and Bangor Band. He established himself in the piano and music business in 1890, and now has one of the largest piano warehouses east of Boston, Mas- sachusetts, carrying regularly about one hun- dred and fifty pianos in stock, all of the most prominent manufacturers, and occupying five floors for his business needs. He also carries a full line of other musical instruments and in connection with his business has a concert hall with a seating capacity of one hundred and fifty, in which he gives musical recitals. In 1866, when his regiment was mustered out, the officers made up a purse and purchased a fine gold watch which they presented to him as a mark of their esteem and appreciation of his efforts as the leader of the regimental band. While stationed in Savannah, Georgia, during the war, his band gave concerts during the eighteen months of their stay in that city, and the citizens presented a fine silver cornet to Mr. Andrews as a token of their gratitude. Mr. Andrews is a member of many organiza- tions, among them being : St. Andrews Lodge, No. 83. Free and Accepted Masons; Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch Masons ; Bangor Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. John's Commandery No. 3, Knights Tem- plar ; Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; Perfection Lodge, Eastern Star; Palestine Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; Bangor Chap- ter, Rose Croix; Maine Consistory at Port- land; Kora Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Tarratine Club of Bangor; Melita,
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Condeskeag, Canoe, Country, Masonic and Madockawanda clubs, and Hannibal Hamlin Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He is a Republican, and an attendant of Central Con- gregational Church. He married, in 1891, Mrs. Helen D. Burton Mcalley, daughter of Isaac Burton, of Lincoln. No children.
CARTER In the early settlement of New England various immigrants named Carter appeared among the pioneers. From them has sprung the greater part of the great number of the name now residing in this country. The revolution- ary rolls show that many Carters were sol- diers in the struggle for independence.
(I) Thomas Carter may have been first a settler of Ipswich, later he was an original settler of Sudbury, Massachusetts, and was made a freeman May 2, 1638. He was a "planter" of Salisbury, and received land in the "first division," and in 1640. He was townsman and commoner in 1650, and was taxed then and later. His will, made Octo- ber 30, was probated November 14, 1767. His wife's name was Mary. Their children were: Mary, Thomas, Martha (died young). Martha, Elizabeth, John, Abigail, Samuel and Sarah.
(IF) John, sixth child and second son of Thomas and Mary Carter, was born May 18, 1650, in Salisbury, and took the oath of alle- giance and fidelity at Salisbury in December, 1677. He was a soldier sent to Marlborough about 1689, and was living in 1718. His wife, Martha, died in Salisbury, March 10, 1718. Their children were: Mary. Thomas, Abigail, John, Samuel, Mary and Ephraim, next men- tioned.
(IHF) Ephraim, seventh and youngest child of John and Martha Carter, was born Novem- ber 2, 1693, and resided in Salisbury as late as 1718, and probably for years afterward. He was the first Carter to settle in Concord, New Hampshire, whither he went about 1740. Tradition states that he went to Concord on horseback, taking his youngest child, Abigail, behind him on a pillion, she being then eleven years old. When they left South Hampton, where they then resided. the neighbors ex- pressed great sympathy for them; gathered around and wept when they bade them fare- well to go so far into the wilderness. Reach- ing Sugar Ball Hill, near Concord, they chained the wheels of the cart containing their goods, to get them down the hill safely; trans- ported their goods over the Merrimac in a canoe, swimming the oxen ; then fastening bed-
cords to the tongue of the cart, dragged it across the river. In 1746 Ephraim, Ezra and Joseph Carter were in the garrison round the house of Lieutenant Jeremiah Stickney, in Concord. In 1761 thirty-nine citizens of Con- cord, among whom were Jeremiah Stickney, Timothy Walker, Nathaniel Eastman and "Epram Carter." mast contractors, petitioned the governor, Benning Wentworth, and his council to remove the obstructions from the Merrimac river, so that they might more ad- vantageously transport their masts down the river. Ephraim Carter married
Martha Stevens, supposed to have been the daughter of John and Ruth ( Poor) Stevens, of Andover, Massachusetts. John Stevens was born in Andover, in 1663, son of Lieutenant John and Hannah ( Barnard) Stevens, and grandson of John Stevens, the immigrant, who moved from Newbury to Andover, Massachusetts, about 1645. Ephraim and Martha had: Ezra, Dan- iel, Ezekiel, Joseph and Abigail, and perhaps other children.
(IV) Daniel, second son and child of Ephraim and Martha ( Stevens) Carter, was born in Salisbury, and settled in Concord, New Hampshire, about 1750, near what was later called the Ironworks. He had lived some time in South Hampton, New Hampshire, and at the time of his going to Concord he had three children. He married Hannah Fowler, of Sal- isbury, Massachusetts. Their children were: Ezra, Molly, Daniel, Hannah, John, Moses and Anna.
(V) Jacob, son of Daniel and Hannalı ( Fowler) Carter, was a revolutionary soldier. He served as a drummer in Captain Joshua Abbott's company in Colonel Jolin Stark's reg- iment, the date of his enlistment being April 24, 1775, and August 1. 1775, receipted for pay for three months and fifteen days, a coat and a blanket and mileage for seventy miles travel. October 4 of the same year, at Med- ford, he was one of those who receipted for four dollars "in full satisfaction for the regi- mental coat which was promised to us by the Colony of New Hampshire." His name is on "A Roll of Captain Benj'n Emery's Comp'ny in Colo Baldwin's Regiment which was raised to reinforce the Continental army at New York Sept. 20, 1776, as Musyer'd & paid by Colo Thomas Stickney muster master & pay- master of said Company." He is described as "drummer" on the "Pay Roll of Captain Josh- ua Abbot's Company in L't Col Henry Ger- rish's Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers which Company marched from Concord and towns Adjacent Sept'r 1777 and join'd the
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Northern Continental Army at Saratoga." History states that he was at Bunker Hill and Saratoga. He was discharged after the sur- render of Burgoyne. He was a miller and farmer. He erected the first brick building in Concord in 1804, the same house that was the foundation building of St. Paul's school, but never occupied it. His death occurred in 1805. He married Sarah Eastman, and they had : Susanna ( died young), Susanna, Moses, Sally, Ruth, Abiel, Anna, Jacob and Ebenezer. Sarah Eastman, born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 8, 1757, was the daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Kimball) Eastman (see East- man IV). After the death of her husband Mrs. Carter lived on the homestead two years and then married ( second) Captain Colby.
(VI) Jacob (2), second son of Jacob (I) and Sarah ( Eastman) Carter, born at Millville near the present St. Paul's school, Concord, New Hampshire, June 4, 1796, died in Con- cord, March 13, 1881, aged eighty-five. The following account of Mr. Carter is taken from the Independent Statesman, published at Con- cord. March 17, 1881 : "In 1806 Jacob went to Norwich, Vermont, to live with his eldest sis- ter, Mrs. Susanna Duncklee, and attended school at Hanover, one year. In 1808 or 1809, he went to Sanbornton, where his mother lived, and remained there until April, 1811, when he went to Lebanon, to learn the joiner's trade of Captain Young, but as he was chiefly em- ployed in chores, he did not remain long, but soon went to live with another sister, Mrs. Sally Roby, in Hanover, where he attended school six months, doing chores for his board. Here he commenced to learn the trade of watchmaker of a Mr. Copp, remaining about a year when he returned to Concord and learned the trade of silversmith, goldsmith, and clockmaker, with the late Major Timothy Chandler, whose shop was on Main street. He remained with Major Chandler until the fall of 1814, when he went to Portsmouth as a volunteer in the Concord Artillery for the de- fence of that port, and served about a month, for which he received a pension a few of his last years." Potter's History of New Hamp- shire, page 219, shows that Jacob Carter en- listed September 10, 1814, and was discharged September 29, 1814, serving in Captain Peter Robinson's company of Major Nathaniel Sias's battalion of detached militia. "Soon after re- turning from Portsmouth he went to Hanover to learn watchmaking of a Mr. Mitchell, for whom he worked three months for $5 a month and board, and one year for $8 a month and board. He then went to Plattsburg, New
York, and worked a while at his trade with his brother-in-law, John Robie, and finally took liis business and carried it on for a year, part of the time in company with the late Ivory Hall, for whom he sent in the fall of 1816. The latter being taken sick and insane for a time, Mr. Carter closed out his business in the fall of 1817, and with twenty dollars in his pocket started on foot for Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, a distance of about four hundred miles, where his brother, Rev. Abiel Carter, was then living. He took a schooner at Ogdensburg for Sackett's Harbor, and walked from there to Utica, New York, where he tried for work, but could obtain none, and then walked on to Buffalo, where they were just breaking ground for the Erie canal. There he waited for a steamer several days, and then walked on to Erie, one hundred miles, and thence to Mead- ville, Pennsylvania, when, as his funds were getting low, he and another man who was a carpenter and out of funds, built a boat of a few boards, caulking it with flax, and started down French creek to the Alleghany river, and reached Pittsburg on the third. He worked for a watchmaker in that place, by the name of Perkins, a year for twenty-five dollars a month and board, and was in company with him for another year, when the firm was broken up through some flurry in the United States Bank. He then went to Cincinnati and Louisville, where he found a captain of a barge bound for St. Louis, with whom he took passage, and from the latter place he started up the Mississippi river, April 20, for the Falls of St. Anthony, with government supplies for the Indians, and their boat stopped near what is now the site of Fort Snelling. For this trip he was to receive two dollars a day, but his employer proved dishonest, and he received nothing, and they were five months making the trip, up and back, to St. Louis. On his re- turn to the latter city he was taken sick with fever and ague, and he remained there until November, when he went down the Mississippi river to Natchez, where he obtained work at his trade with a Connecticut man named Downs, with whom he remained until the next June, receiving sixty-five dollars for his serv- ices. He then went to New Orleans, and sailed in a schooner for Boston, the passage occupying forty-three days. In 1821 he com- menced business at Hanover, and continued there until 1828, and during his residence there commanded the cavalry in the Twentieth Reg- iment State Militia. In the fall of 1828 he removed to Amesbury, Massachusetts, where his brother, the late Dr. Moses Carter, then
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