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(I) George McDonald, of Belfast, Maine, is the earliest known ancestor of the family here considered. He is supposed to have been born in Penobscot, probably somewhere about 1785 to 1795. He afterward went to Belfast, where he was a farmer and held some town offices, but accounts concerning him are quite meager and unsatisfactory. He married Sarah Hutchins, of Penobscot; children: Charles, Lucius F., George Augustus, Eugene H., Ed- gar S. (a soldier of the civil war, and now a seafaring man), William Oliver, Sarah, Fanny and Ardella.
(Il) Captain George Augustus, son of George and Sarah ( Hutchins) McDonald, was a seafaring man and for some time master of one of the Sanford line of steamers plying be- tween Bangor and Boston. He was a Re- publican in politics and a Baptist in religious preference. Captain McDonald married Luella Veazie, and among their children was a son Herbert R.
( III) Herbert Russell, son of Captain George Augustus and Luella (Veazie) Mc- Donald, was born in Belfast, Maine, May 17, 1858, and for more than twenty years has been one of the leading business men of Nashua, New Hampshire. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and afterward learned the trade of a tinsmith. In 1887 he removed to Nashua and worked at his trade, and also for eleven years had charge of the Nashua branch business of the C. H. Av-
ery Company. In 1897 he went into business for himself, and since that year has been pro- prietor of a general plumbing and heating busi- ness in that city, and is known as an expert master plumber. He is a member of the Na- tional Association of Master Plumbers, and for the past two years has been vice-president of the New Hampshire branch of that organiza- tion. He also is a member of the board of trade of Nashua, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On December 24, 1892, Mr. McDonald married Mary Helen, of Islesborough, Maine, daughter of Captain Stephen Knowlton, of Islesborough. Besides Mrs. McDonald, Captain Knowlton's children are Emma G., Abbie L., Minetta J. and Ida F. Knowlton. Captain Knowlton has followed the sea for many years. Captain Knowlton married a second time and had chil- dren : Ethel Inez, Agnes B., Annie L., Ste- phen D., Rose E.
The family of Pike was very early PIKE established in Massachusetts, and had numerous distinguished repre- sentatives there and in New Hampshire. Among the most noted early representatives probably was the Rev. John Pike, whose diary of events has afforded very much of value to the historian and genealogist.
(I) John Pike, immigrant ancestor, came from Landford, England, in the ship "James" in 1635 and probably resided for a time at Ipswich, Massachusetts. He soon settled in Newbury and afterward resided in Salisbury, where he died May 26, 1654. His will was made two days before his death and proved October 3 of the same year. Children : John, Robert, mentioned below; Dorothy, Israel, Ann.
(II) Robert, son of John Pike, was born about 1615 and settled with his father in Salis- bury. He married there, April 3, 1641, Sarah Sanders, horn about 1622, died November I, 1679, probably daughter of John Sanders, of Weeks, Downton parish, England, and a sister of John Sanders, of Salisbury and Newbury, Massachusetts. It is supposed that her mother was Alice Cole, a sister of John Cole, of Salis- bury. Robert Pike married second, in Salis- bury, October 30, 1684, Martha (Moyce) Goldwyer, widow of George Goldwyer. He received land in the first division of Salisbury, and in 1640-41-42-54. He was of Newbury from 1635 to 1638. A deposition on record shows that he visited England in 1650 or 1651. In 1650 his name succeeds the ministers at the head of the list of commoners. He paid the
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largest taxes in 1652. His name and that of his wife appear first on the list of members of the Salisbury church in 1687, and he was the most prominent citizen in that town dur- ing the last half of the seventeenth century. He died December 12, 1706, and his wife sur- vived him, dying February 26, 1713. He was called major in all the records. He was ad- mitted a freeman May 17, 1637; was deputy to the general court in 1648 and for several years following ; assistant to the governor from 1682 to 1692; member of the council for many years down to 1696, and justice of the peace the greater part of his active life. He was liberal in thought, much in advance of his times, and was very decided in his opinions. He naturally had difficulties with other mem- bers of the Salisbury church because of this fact, and this condition extended over at least a quarter of a century. He has been styled by writers "The morally fearless hero of New England," "the first and strongest representa- tive of the right of petition," and the "power which squelched the witchcraft delusion." Be- cause of his insistence on the right of petition, he was fined and disfranchised, and many of his neighbors were called before the general court for reprimand, because they had peti- tioned for the remission of his fine. This was paid and his disfranchisement was removed in 1657. In the following year he was again elected to the general court. Children : Sarah, Mary, died young ; Dorothy, Mary, Elizabeth, John, Robert, Moses, mentioned below.
(III) Moses, son of Major Robert Pike, was born March 15, 1658, in Salisbury, and resided there, where he was still living in 1714. He took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1677 and was one of the signers of a petition in 1680. He married Susanna, born Decem- ber 29, 1671, daughter of Timothy and Susan- na Worcester. She was admitted to the Salis- bury church February 5, 1690. Children : Moses, Elias, Mary, Sarah, Timothy, John, Joseph, mentioned below ; Dorothy.
(IV) Joseph, son of Moses Pike, was born September 1, 1707, in Salisbury, and was bap- tized October 12 following. He died Janu- ary 22, 1764, in Kensington, New Hampshire, where lie resided many years. His will was dated August 17, 1763, and proved February 23 following. He married Sarah Thompson. Children : Joseph, Moses, mentioned below ; Sarah, Judith, married Fitts ; Lois, Eunice, Hope, Keturah, Robert.
(V) Moses (2), son of Joseph Pike, mar- ried Naomi Harrison and settled in Plaistow, New Hampshire. Children : Hannah, died
young ; Mehitable, Susanna, Moses, John, Hannah, Sarah.
(VI) Moses (3), son or nephew of Moses (2) Pike, was born February 21, 1782. He married, at Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1805, Sophia Dearfield, daughter of Captain Simon Marston and granddaughter of Major Daniel Marston. (See Marston family.) He settled in Lubec, Maine. Children : 1. Sarah, born March II, 1806. 2. Jacob, January 15, 1809, was mas- ter of the ship "Columbia" of Boston and died in Calcutta in 1852. 3. Mary F., December 21, 1812, died in San Francisco, California, about 1896, widow of Captain John Brasner. 4. David Wedgewood, December 1, 1814, died September 17, 1890. 5. Asa, December, 1818. 6. Sophia, December 19, 1819, married Captain John Brown. 7. Frederick, February 14, 1822. 8. Jabez M., August 15, 1824, mentioned be- low. 9. Elias, April 16, 1828, died in San Francisco, California, 1893.
(VII) Jabez M., son of Moses (3) Pike, was born at Lubec, Maine, August 15, 1824, died April 24, 1905. He was educated in the public schools. His early occupation was fish- ing and farming ; latterly butcher and proprie- tor of a meat market, having for many years the only meat market in Lubec. In religion he was connected with First Christian Church. In politics Republican, filled some of the local offices. He married first, Persis Ann Rice, who bore him two children, Emily S. and Olivia, deceased. Married second, Dianna, daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Swett) Clark; she was born at North Lubec, Janu- ary 9, 1822, died January 22, 1895. Children : 1. Jacob C., of Lubec, collector of customs. 2. Bion M., mentioned below. 3. Mary F. 4. Susie F., wife of A. W. French, of San Jose, California. 5. Jabez M., of Lubec, gro- cer. 6. Chester L., Lubec, sardine merchant and farmer. 7. Child, died in infancy.
(VIII) The Hon. Jacob Clark Pike. eldest son of Captain Jabez M. and Diana (Clark) Pike, was born in Lubec, January II, 1854, and educated in schools there. At fourteen years of age he went to sea before the mast, as sec- ond mate, and finally rose to be captain. After seventeen years' service Captain Pike retired from the sea and became one of the pioneers in the canning business, the sardine that made Lubec famous, or, as it is sometimes called, "the Passamaquoddy chicken." His first com- pany was known as Parker & Pike, which was merged into the Seacoast Packing Company ; after two years he became one of the organ- izers of the Lubec Sardine Company, of which he is at present one of the stockholders. Cap-
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tain Pike was a member of the Maine legisla- ture in 1901 and 1903. He served on the com- mittee on shore fisheries, of which he was made chairman in 1903. As a legislator he was very active, carefully safeguarding the interests of the people whom he was chosen to represent. Captain Pike was appointed on the joint select committee on the part of the house to count the votes for governor. He reported the bill in reference to migratory fish. He believed in lightening the burdens of taxation when consistent with progress, and when the bill was introduced to build a reformatory prison for women he opposed it on economic grounds. Another measure he reported was in the interest of sanitation, forbidding the dump- ing of fish offal in public waters. In the bill carrying a large appropriation for the St. Louis Purchase Exposition he was on the side of the farmers and reform, and with thirty- seven others voted against it. It passed the house, however, but the senate refused to con- cur, and Captain Pike was one of the con- ferees on the part of the house. Captain Pike was chairman of the board of selectmen of Lubec, and was appointed collector of the port of Eastport and Lubec by President Roose- velt, which office he now holds. He has been a leading and active Republican politician, serving as chairman of the Lubec Republican town committee for eighteen years. He is liberal in his religious views. His fraternal affiliations include membership in Lubec Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and he is a mem- ber of the Lubec board of trade. Captain Pike married Mary Susan, daughter of Daven- port and Emily (Davis) Tucker, of Lubec, No- vember 12, 1890. Children : I. Sumner Tucker, born August 30, 1891. 2. Julius Wolff, February 10, 1893, died September 7, 1895. 3. Marjory Davis, October 31, 1895. 4. Moses Bernard, September 16, 1897. 5. Alger Wayland, August 1, 1899. 6. Radcliffe Barnes, October 1, 1903.
Apropos of the McNeil line with which Cap- tain Pike is connected, this may be said: John McNeil and wife and one child Jane, who was fifteen, came to the United States from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Machias, Maine. He served on the "Falmouth" and was the first man killed in the sea fight be- tween that ship and the "Margaretta" in 1775 by the first shot fired by the enemy. His daughter married Captain Daniel Swett from Gilmanton, New Hampshire, who followed the sea and after retirement kept the Swett Tavern in Perry, Maine, a half-way house between Eastport and St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Among his children were Susannah, who mar- ried Captain Joseph Clark, of North Lubec, at that time called Seward's Neck. Among their children was Diana, who married Captain Jabez M. Pike, and became the mother of Hon. Ja- cob Clark Pike.
(VIII) Hon. Bion Moses Pike, son of Jabez M. Pike, was born in Lubec, March 8, 1856. He attended the public schools of his native town and Westbrook Seminary, near Portland, Maine. He went to sea and in four years rose to the rank of mate, making a number of for- eign voyages. He returned to Lubec and op- erated a ferry boat, sailing from Lubec to Eastport, Mainc. In 1881 he engaged in the sardine canning industry in partnership with Julius Wolff and H. P. Gillise, under the firm name of the New England Sardine Company, continuing in this relation until 1899, when the business was bought by the Seacoast Packing Company, a corporation of which he was on the board of management in the manufactur- ing department, however, until 1901. In the meantime he engaged in the fish business in partnership with his father-in-law, Captain John Albion Davis, dealing in a general fish business at wholesale. He established himself in the business in 1891 and in 1894 admitted Captain Davis. After retiring from the above- named company in 1901, hie with others or- ganized the Lubec Sardine Company, which is now the second largest company in this busi- ness-the output for a single year amounting to three hundred and fifty thousand cases, with an average in recent years of two hundred and fifty thousand cases a year, employing one thousand two hundred hands. Mr. Pike is president of this concern. In 1882 a steam- boat service owned by Mr. Pike, in partner- ship with Mr. Wolff and Mr. Gillise, took the place of his sailing vessels on the ferry line between Lubec and Eastport, and since 1890 he has been the sole owner. He is a director of the new bank-the Lubec Trust and Bank- ing Company, and director of the Ellsworth Union Trust Company of Ellsworth. He is a member of Lubec Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry, of Lubec. Mr. Pike has been promi- nent in public life. A Republican in politics, he has held many offices of honor and trust. He was first selectman of Lubec for two years, often delegate to the state and other nomi- nating conventions of his party and active and influential in its councils. He was a state sen- ator in 1903-05. He has taken part in every movement for the betterment and advantage of his native town, and is counted among the most public-spirited citizens. He gave the lot
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upon one of the most sightly spots upon a beautiful eminence for the soldiers' monument recently erected, besides contributing liberally to the building fund. He was largely instru- mental in erecting the wharf and buildings and securing the service of the International Steamship Company in bringing the telegraph, telephone and express companies to Lubec, in procuring an adequate water supply for the town, and was one of seven to erect the new bank building which graces the town of Lubec. He and his family attend the Christian church in Lubec. Mr. Pike's great success in business has been merited by his industry, enterprise and ability.
He married, September 23, 1884, Lizzie Comstock, born February 6, 1862, daughter of Captain Jolin Albion Davis, of Lubec. (See Davis family.) Children, born in Lubec: I. Albion Davis, June 17, 1886. 2. Evelyn Clark, July 30, 1892. 3. Carlton Maxwell, October 9, 1894.
MARSTON Captain William Marston, immigrant ancestor, was of ancient English family whose various branches bore coats-of-arms and achieved distinction. He is the ancestor of all the Hampton Marstons, though another immigrant of the name, one Robert Marston, presumably his brother, settled also in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire. Robert Marston's dwelling house was between the common and the meeting house green, on the place at present known as the Jeremiah Mar- ston place. He died in 1643, leaving a son Simon who disappears from the records, leav- ing no issue. The Robert Marston place was sold to William Moulton by Simon. Moulton sold it to Richard Knight, who, on October 5, 1653, sold it to the present owner, Jeremiah Marston.
Captain William Marston was born in Eng- land in 1592; married and had several chil- dren before he came to America. Land was granted to him in Hampton as early as June 30, 1640, and it is probable that a house lot was assigned to him earlier. He lived near the present site of the town house on the farm now owned by Frank Green. His wife seems to have been living as late as 1651. He died June 30, 1672, leaving a widow named Sabina, who was executrix of his will. She married (second) John Redman. Children of first wife: I. Thomas, born about 1615. mentioned below. 2. William, born about 1621, married Rebecca Page and Ann Philbrick ; died Janu- ary 22, 1704-05. 3. John, born about 1625,
died 1708. 4. Prudence, married William Swain and Moses Coxe. Child of second wife. 5. Tryplena, born December 28, 1663, married Joseph Philbrick.
(II) Thomas, son of William Marston, was born in England about 1615, and married Mary, daughter of William Eastow. He set- tled on what is now known as the Jeremiah Marston place, which he bought October 5, 1653, as related above. He was a farmer. Children, born in Hampton: 1. Isaac, married Elizabeth Brown and Jane Haines. 2. John, born 1650, married Mary Wall. 3. Bethia, June 2. 1651. 4. Ephraim, October 8, 1655, mentioned below. 5. James, November 19, 1656, died September, 1693; married Dinah Sanborn. 6. Caleb, April 23, 1659, died Oc- tober 31, 1671. 7. Mary, September 9, 1661, married William Sanborn; died October II, 1686. 8. Sarah, November 20, 1665, married Simon Dow; died March 8, 1698.
(III) Ephraim. son of Thomas Marston, was born in Hampton, October 8, 1655, died October 10, 1742, of a cancer. He settled on the homestead in Hampton, which he received by will from his father. He was a farmer and brewer, and owned a large orchard with a variety of fruits for that day. He was deputy to the general court several years ; was a gov- ernment contractor and took a prominent part in public affairs. He deeded to each of sons a farnı, and gave to Jeremiah the homestead and brewery. He married, February 19, 1677, Abial, born February 25, 1653, died January 3. 1743, daughter of Lieutenant John and Mary (Tuck) Sanborn. Children: I. Abial, married John Green and died soon. 2. Mary, married Joseph Taylor. 3. Jolın. 4. Simon, mentioned below. 5. Phebe, born 1685, died September 5, 1699. 6. Thomas, July 14, 1687. 7. Jeremiah, November 5, 1691. 8. Ephraim, July 5, 1697, married Sanborn.
(IV) Simon, son of Ephraim Marston, was born October 10, 1683, died May 4, 1735. He resided in Hampton. He married, January 26, 1705, Hannah, daughter of James and Mary ( Sears) Carr, of Newbury. Children : I. Jonathan, born October 12, 1706 (twin). 2. Sarah (twin), October 12, 1706, married Si- mon Dearborn. 3. Daniel, September 13, 1708, mentioned below. 4. Deborah, March 31, 17II, married Thomas Nudd. 5. Simon, November 28, 1714, died young.
(V) Daniel, son of Simon Marston, was born in Hampton, September 13, 1708. Mar- ried (first), January 1, 1732, Anna, daughter of Colonel Joshua and Mary Wingate, of Hampton. He married (second), December
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31, 1735, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Clough, of Salisbury. He resided at North Hampton on a farm given him by his father. He was captain in the English colonial army in the French war, and served in Con- necticut and Nova Scotia, with General Lou- don. Children : I. Anna, born July 7, 1734, died young. 2. Simon, February 3, 1737, men- tioned below. 3. Samuel, January 17, 1739, died young. 4. Daniel, July 18, 1741. 5. Sam- uel, March 10, 1743. 6. Anna, April 28, 1745, married Josiah Page. 7. Robey, 1747. 8. Meriam, July, 174-, married John Towle. 9. Sarah, August 15, 1752. 10. Theodore, September 28, 1755. II. David, September 24, 1757.
(VI) Captain Simon (2), son of Daniel Marston, was born in North Hampton, Feb- ruary 3, 1737, died December, 1810, while on a visit to his daughter in Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts. Ile resided in North Hampton until about 1767, when he removed to Deer- field. He was moderator and selectman many years. He was a captain in the revolution, and after the war major in the state militia. He married, 1757, Hannah, daughter of John and Mary Wedgwood. Children: I. Asa, born March 16, 1758. 2. Catherine, August II, 1759, married, November 18, 1784, Jonathan Prescott. 3. Simon, 1761. 4. Jonathan, 1763. 5. Hannah, 1765, married, 1784, Samuel Bal- lou. 6. Sarah, November 14, 1767, died March 19, 1858. 7. Mary, 1770, married Asa Clough. 8. Mehitable, 1772, married, 1805, Samuel Dearborn. 9. Daniel. 10. David, 1778, died July 8, 1819. 11. Sophia D., February 21, 1782, married, 1805, Moses Pike. (See Pike family.) Captain Simon Marston was in Colonel Waldron's regiment in 1776; also in Colonel Joseph Senter's regiment in the Rhode Island campaign in 1777; also in Lieuten- ant Colonel Stephen Peabody's regiment in the Continental service in 1778. He and others petition for a change in the rate of pay of sol- diers on account of the rise in prices ( depreci- ation of the currency ) in 1778.
The Bragdon family in New BRAGDON England has long been known as one of scholarly attain- ments, and of great devotion to all religious work which has been committed to its mem- bers for completion. No forest has ever been deep enough to overshadow their hopes of guiding men and women to the truth, and no gray fields or dreary stretches of shore have had the least influence in retarding their faithful labors. New fields of work in the
most chaotic condition have held fine re- wards for the unfaltering trust and words of cheer, while old towns with the aggregation of difficulties from each passing year has found them winning precious results out of the midst of long-held discouragements and corroding neighborhood strifes and misunder- standings. Such achievements as these have made the Bragdon name very precious to many men and women, and their words and deeds are often quoted with deeply inspiring results on the broad prairies that they never saw, and on far-away shores whose gray cliffs have never risen before them. And the results of the work of the Bragdons in schools in the neighborhoods where they have lived, or with which they have been officially con- nected, has been of the same uplifting and en- during character. Many a successful man and woman in various parts of our country can say with deepest gratitude : "My pathway to whatever I may have achieved that is worthy was entered on the day when Mr. Bragdon, our minister, visited our school and spoke his few but earnest words of cheer," or "I should never have been in the position where I am to-day if my teacher, Mr. Bragdon, had not seen so clearly just what help I needed to arouse me to better and more faithful work." Tributes like these are truly worth many times their weight in gold, and give a charm to the name of these strong old families which have borne it.
(I) Rev. Frederick A. Bragdon was born in Bangor, Maine, in October, 1846, and was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church in many towns of Maine, giving the most faithful service in each field where he was sent, and everywhere seeing hearts led to a better life, many of these going out to labor for other lives and towns in the most faith- ful manner through a long course of years. Methodism in the old Pine Tree State was then winning great triumphs, and the work of Mr. Bragdon was ever counted as the best done in that section. He married Saralı Do- rinda Bowden, born at Monroe, Maine, but spent most of her life in Brewer. She was a woman of deep piety and a great help to her husband in all his work. Children : Frederick E., and Abner O., born April 17, 1874
(II) Frederick Elias, son of Rev. Frederick A. and Sarah Dorinda (Bowden) Bragdon, was born in Brewer, Maine, June 29, 1870, and is now the very efficient president of the East Maine Conference Seminary, at Bucks- port, Maine. He was a faithful student in
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the public schools of several Maine towns. He graduated from the Gorham high school in 1887, studied in Bowdoin College for two years, and graduated from Wesleyan Uni- versity in 1891, A. B. He took a postgradu- ate at Brown University, and in 1905 received the degree of A. M. Mr. Bragdon has been a teacher all his life, beginning this highly successful work before he had completed his studies. He was superintendent of the pub- lic schools at Lincoln, Rhode Island, trom 1900 to 1905. In 1905 he was elected by the trustees of the East Maine Conference Semi- mary as president of that institution, and promptly and cheerfully accepted this position, though to some observers the work there seemed hedged in with strong and chronic difficulties. All his work has been character- ized by great energy, wisdom and hopefulness. His wife, Sarah Evelina ( Smith) Bragdon, of Brunswick, Maine, is a woman of fine culture and helpfulness. Their children are: Eleanor May, born May 1, 1898; Clara Dora, May 31, 1900; Alice Elizabeth, January 23, 1908.
The East Maine Conference Seminary, of which Mr. Frederick E. Bragdon is the very efficient president, was opened in Bucksport, August 20, 1851, with an attendance of twenty- seven pupils. Bishop W. F. Mallalieu has well said: "The location of Bucksport Seminary is most delightful, healthful and inspiring. Those were wise and far-seeing who chose this mag- nificent site. The Rhine and the Hudson are famous for their scenery, but the Penobscot from Monhegan Head to Bangor will not suf- fer by comparison. Who that has ever stood upon the campus at Bucksport and gazed upon the surrounding country, and followed the course of the noble river as it makes it way to the sea, but has been thrilled by the glorious view ? Young people are largely influenced by their environment. Where can there be found a place where earth and sky more completely join to exalt the thoughts and stimulate the souls and purify the hearts of stu- dents than at Bucksport Seminary? Thou- sands of young people within the territory of the East Maine Conference Seminary would have had their lives enriched and their success assured if they could only enjoy the esthetic, physical, intellectual and spiritual culture that the seminary offers." The village of Bucks- port has ever taken a deep interest in this school, and there are thousands of far-away places where its students have gone as the best and truest workers for humanity, which daily think of the "grand school upon the hill." It was founded with most earnest
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