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Thomas Waban and other Indians, one-fourth of the town of Nashobe. Walter Power died February 22, 1708, and his widow survived him many years and both were buried in the older "Powers burying ground" on the Con- cord road where the site of the old Powers house and the raceway of the Powers saw mill were yet discernible in 1884. Children of Walter and Trial (Sheppard ) Power were : I. William, born 1661, married Mary, daugh- ter of John and Hannah Bunk (or Bank), of Chelmsford. and died March 16, 1710. As the eldest son, he inherited the home place with saw mill and undoubtedly found burial in the family plot, the stones marking the graves having however been destroyed. 2. Mary, born 1663, married, January 1. 1681, Lieuten- ant Joseph Wheeler (1660-1706), who was probably a son of Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler, later Captain Wheeler. 3. Isaac, born 1665, married, April 14, 1701, Mary, daughter of John Poulter and widow of Samuel Winship Sr. Isaac Power was captain of the militia, a petitioner for the incorporation of the town, moderator of the first town meeting, held va- rious town offices for many years, was twice a member of the general court and was colo- nial agent for conveying lands. With his brother, Walter, he was on the pew committee to convey pew-rights in the meeting house when completed in 1723. His wife and the wife of Benjamin Shattuck, the first settled minister of the town, were of the same fam- ily. 4. Thomas, born 1667, married (first) Elizabeth, whose maiden name is not recorded and who died May 25, 1698, and ( second) Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Harwood, of Concord, October 25, 1702. Mary Harwood was born February 5, 1676. Thomas Power lived on the westerly borders of the town of Littleton, adjoining the town of Harwood and he lived in Wellington, Hardwick, Quobben and Greenwich, and his descendants were resi- dents of Greenwich, Enfield and Pittsford, Vermont, and the best known of them was Hiram Powers, the sculptor, who was a son of Stephen and Sarah Perry and grandson of Dr. Stephen and Lydia Drew, of Woodstock, Vermont. 5. Daniel (q. v.), born May 10, 1669. 6. Increase, born July 16, 1671, mar- ried Hepzibah, daughter of William and Mary Sawyer, of Bolton (S. P.). 7. Walter Jr., born June 28, 1674, married, December 16, 1696, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Gould) Barrett, of Chelmsford. Rebecca Barrett was born July 4, 1673, died in 1754. Walter Power Jr., on marrying, located in the town of Littleton, west of Spectacle Pond
and adjoining the town of Groton, near "Brown Hill," and after the death of his brother William, he appears to have been the owner of the old plan in Concord Village. In 1723, in awarding the pews, the second "pew place" was awarded him as paying "next to the largest tax." In May, 1853, the old grave- stone of "Rebekah in ye eightieth year of her age was found freshly turned over by the plow of Mr. Recd." 8. Jacob, born December 15. 1679, marriage published September 18, 1703, with Sarah Meriam, who died April 15, 1705. and he married (second) Edith, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Leah (Guild) Adams, of Chelmsford and Littleton, and a descendant of Henry Adams, of Braintree. She was born December 1, 1683. Jacob Power lived in Lit- tleton on the south side of the Harvard road near the town line and adjoining lands of Jonathan Adams, his father-in-law. He held minor town offices. 9. Sarah, born February 8, 1683, married, April 8, 1702, Moses Barron. (II) Daniel, fourth son and fifth child of Walter and Trial (Sheppard) Power, and who adopted the spelling of the surname Powers, was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, May 10, 1669. He married, April 8, 1702, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Whitcomb, by whom he had five children. He became owner of a piece of land on the westerly border of the town of Littleton about one mile in width and extending the whole length of the westerly line of the town. His children were probably all born in Nashobe or Littleton, al- though some of them are found recorded in Groton, the adjoining town. The children of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Whitcomb) Powers were: 1. Daniel, born April 21, 1703, married Mary - -- , and died in 1789. 2. Jonathan, born 1704, married Hannah Sawyer. 3. Ol- iver, born 1705, died in the Cuban war. 4. Peter (q. v.), born 1707. 5. Hannah, born February 22, 1709, married Barnabas Davis. His wife Elizabeth died after February 22, 1709, and he married as his second wife, in 1711, Martha Bates. Their children : 6. Will- iam, born April 12, 1712, lived in Woodstock, Connecticut. 7. Sepheron, born 1714. 8. Tim- othy, born 1716, died in the Cuban war. 9. Jerahmeel, born February 18, 1718, married Eunice Bennett. He was a business man of prominence in Shirley, was commissioned by Governor Wentworth lieutenant and served in the French and Indian war, and later in life removed to Leicester, Vermont, where he lived for many years, but died at the home of the daughter in Seneca, New York, after he had passed the eighty-sixth year of his age ..
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10. Martha, born 1720, married a Mr. Barnes. II. Abigail, born 1727, married - Wheel- er. 12. Tryphena, married, December 8, 1742, Samuel Flood, of Andover, and died August 8, 1758. 13. Increase.
(III) Captain Peter, fourth son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitcomb ) Powers, was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, in 1707. He spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, and in 1728 married Anna Keyes and removed to Dunstable, locating in that part of the town now known as Nashua, and he was commis- sioned captain of militia by Governor Went- worth. During the summer and fall of 1730 he made the first clearing and built the first house in what has become Hollis, New Hamp- shire, and he removed with his young wife and two children, Peter and Stephen, through the unbroken forest, and became the first set- tler of what became a thriving town. Here Anne, their first daughter, was born, the first child of English descent born in this town. In 1738 there were forty families in the pres- ent limits of the town and he joined the other settlers in petitioning for a town charter. He was prominent in town offices and led in the building of a meeting house and securing a preacher. In 1754 he headed an expedition to explore the Connecticut River Valley, but his report, owing to Indian troubles, was never published, but has been preserved by his descendants and the Rev. Grant Powers caused it to be deposited in the rooms of the Con- necticut Historical Society at Hartford. In 1755 he raised a company of men mostly from Hollis to march under Colonel Joseph Blanch- ard against the French at Crown Point, and in the company were: Jonathan, Levi, Stephen and Whitcomb Powers, all of Hollis, the last three being sons of Captain Peter. In 1758 Whitcomb and Thomas Powers, of Hollis, joined the expedition against Louisburg. Cap- tain Peter Powers died soon after the close of the French and Indian war. The children of Captain Peter and Anna (Keyes) Powers, of Coos county, New Hampshire, were: I. Peter, born in Nashua, November 29, 1728, became a clergyman at Haverhill, New Hamp- shire, and Deer Isle, Maine; married Martha Hale, born May 25, 1737, died in January, 1802. 2. Stephen, born in Nashua, October 28, 1729, married, January 5, 1757, Lucy Cummings, who died July 15, 1775, at Hollis, and he died at Hollis seven days before the death of his widow, the date being July 8, 1775. 3. Anna, born in Hollis, New Hamp- shire, March 9, 1732, married Benjamin Hop- kins, a wealthy farmer of Milford, New Hamp-
shire, and died in 1813. 4. Whitcomb, born October 10, 1733, married (first) Mary Doll- over, May 20, 1755, and ( second) Elizabeth Lawrence, in 1759. He lived in Brookline, New Hampshire, and possessed remarkable physical strength, and of his exploits in the use of his strength there are many anecdotes. 5. Phebe, born February 5, 1735, married, April 8. 1756, Joseph Bates, and they resided in Jeffrey, New Hampshire, where she died at an advanced age, leaving children. 6. Alice, born December 30, 1736, died in Hollis, New Hampshire, February 13. 1825. 7. Levi (q. v.), born June 3, 1739. 8. Nahum, born April II, 1741, married (first) Mary Wheat, Feb- ruary 7, 1769, and died at Malahide, Upper Canada, and for his second wife he married Cummings, a widow, and sister of Lucy Cummings, who married his brother Stephen. 9. Francis, born July 15, 1742, married, May 5. 1763, Elizabeth Cummings, and died in Hol- lis, New Hampshire, in 1796. 10. Fanny, born April 19, 1744, died young. 11. Phillip, born May 20, 1746, died 1763. 12. Samson, born March 22, 1748, married, August 4, 1774, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Abbott, of Andover, and widow of Mr. Nutting. She was born February 22, 1751, and died February 19, 1836. 13. Fanny, born March 22, 1749, married, November 11, 1772, Jonathan Ames, lived in Dublin, New Hampshire, but late in life removed to Potsdam, New York.
(IV) Levi, fourth son and seventh child of Captain Peter and Anna (Keyes) Powers, of Coos county, New Hampshire, was born June 3, 1739, married and removed to Sidney, Ken- nebec county, Maine, where he was a pros- perous farmer, and had a family of ten chil- dren as follows : 1. Anne, born April 16, 1766, married Benjamin, son of Joseph and Emma (Farnsworth) Weston, of Concord, Massa- chusetts, who was born February 3, 1765, died April 7, 1851. 2. Levi, born March 20, 1768, married Margaret Hood, and their daughter, Betsey Powers, married Joseph Noble and had several children, and their son, Jonathan, mar- ried Belinda Adams. 3. Mary, born March 28, 1770, died unmarried in 1858. 4. Phan- nier, born June 4, 1772, married J. Goodwin, of Canaan, Maine. 5. Phillip (q. v.), born March 12, 1774. 6. Francis, born April 1, 1776, married, in 1810, Joanna Brown. He was a Baptist preacher in Anson, Maine, where he died in December, 1849. 7. Peter, born June 13, 1778, died in 1788. 8. Adam, born August 15, 1780, married, in 1808, Keziah Rogers, who died July 15, 1823 ; Adam Powers died August 25, 1841. 9. Samson, born 1783.
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IO. Phebe, born March 21, 1786, married Thomas Symonds, of Canaan, Maine.
(V) Phillip, second son and fifth child of Levi Powers, of Sidney, Maine, was born March 12, 1774. He married Lucy Hood and lived in Sidney, Maine, where seven children were born as follows: I. Hiram, born in 1804, married, in 1829, Electa Tozier; resided in Pittsfield, Maine, and died in 1843. 2. Annie, born in 1806, died unmarried in 1835. 3. Levi, born 1808. married, in 1845, Jane Brittain, and resided in Aroostook county, Maine. 4. Arba (q. v.). born April II, 18II. 5. Phillip, born in 1814, married, December 25, 1839, Saphro- na Mathews, born July 24, 1818; they lived in West Pittsfield, Maine. 6. Urbane, born 1817, married Jefferson Spaulding, of Canaan, Maine, had two children who removed to California ; she died in September, 1852. 7. Abner Prescott, born in 1824, married, in 1850, Sarah Fish, of Hartland, Maine. Abner Prescott Powers was sheriff of Somerset coun- ty, Maine.
(VI) Arba, third son and fourth child of Philip and Lucy (Hood) Powers, was born in Sidney, Maine, April 1I, 18II. He was married in the spring of 1836 to Naomi Math- ews, born in July, 1813. They lived in Pitts- field, Somerset county, Maine, where their children were born as follows: I. Llewellyn (q. v.), ( 1836-1908). 2. Cyrus M., born June, 1838, married, in 1865, was a lawyer in Aroos- took county, had a family, including a son Arba Eugene. 3. Gorham, born September 14, 1840, married, November 7, 1865, Abhie M. Ireland; was a lawyer in Granite Falls, Minnesota, and served in the state senate in 1879. and is now district judge. 4. Amos, born July, 1842, married, in 1870, removed to California where he had a family, and en- gaged in teaching. 5. Sceva, born in May, 1844, engaged in mining at Gold Hill, Nevada. 6. Cassius Clay, born February, 1846, gradu- ated at Bowdoin, A. B., 1869, became a prac- tising lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, and married Annie Orr. 7. Hortense B., born February, 1848, was a teacher in Oakland, California, where she died March 31, 1879. 8. Don Arba Horace, born December 8, 1850, graduated at Bowdoin, A. B., 1874, became a lawyer in Houlton in partnership with his brother Llewellyn and Frederick Alton and in Newport, Maine, and married, December 8, 1878, Frances Shaw. 9. Loantha A., born May 23, 1853, died November 15, 1869. 10. Frederick Alton (q. v.), born June 19, 1855. Arba and Naomi ( Mathews) Powers were am- bitious for the welfare of their children. They
gave them all a thorough education, and six sons afterward became prominent lawyers.
(VII) Llewellyn, eldest child of Arba and Naomi (Mathews) Powers, was born in West Pittsfield, Somerset county, Maine, December, 1836. He received his preparatory school training at the Corinna Academy. He then matriculated at Waterville College and passed through his freshman and sophomore year when he left to take a course in law at the Albany Law School, where he was graduated LL. B., 1860. He was admitted to the bar of the state of New York the same year, and in January, 1861, was admitted to the bar of Maine and began the practice of his profes- sion in Houlton, that state. He was at once recognized as a coming lawyer, and was elect- ed prosecuting attorney for the county of Aroostook in 1865, retaining the position for six years, 1865-71. He was collector of United States customs for Aroostook district, 1868- 72. In 1868 he was admitted to practice in the United States district and circuit courts, and in 1888 to the Suffolk bar in order to practice in Boston, Massachusetts. His broth- ers, Don Arba Horace and Frederick Alton, became his law partners in Houlton. He rep- resented the fourth congressional district of Maine in the forty-fifth congress, 1877-79, hav- ing previously represented his district in the Maine legislature in 1874-75-76. He was again a representative in the state legislature 1881-92-95, serving as speaker of the house in 1895. He was elected governor of Maine in 1896 by a majority of 48,696 and re-elected in 1898 by a majority of 28,000, the former being the largest majority ever given a candi- date for governor. He served as governor of Maine, 1897-1901, and in April, 1901, was elected representative from the fourth con- gressional district of Maine to the fifty-seventh congress to complete the term of C. A. Bou- telle, who had resigned his seat in that con- gress by reason of ill health. He was returned to the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth con- gress, serving on the committees of banking and currency, on elections and on territories. . He died in 1908 before the close of the sixtieth congress. Governor Powers received the hon- orary degree of A. M. from Colby University (Waterville) in 1870, and later that of LL. D. He early affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and received the chapter degrees, and was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks. His large holdings of timber and other lands in Aroostook county brought him in relationship with the banks and other financial and manufacturing corporations of Maine, and
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he served as president of the Farmers' Na- tional Bank of Houlton and as a director in various other banking institutions. He was married in 1863 to Jennie, daughter of Ben- jamin Hewes, of Levant, Maine, by whom there was no issue. He married ( second) December 25, 1886, Martha G., daughter of Luther E. and Eliza L. (Garvin) Averill, of Lincoln, Maine. Children : Walter A., Martha Pauline, Doris Virginia, Ralph A. and Mar- garet L. Mr. Powers died July 28, 1908.
(VII) Frederick Alton, youngest child of Arba and Naomi (Mathews) Powers, was born at the old homestead in West Pittsfield, Somerset county, Maine, June 19, 1855. He received his early school training in the local schools of his native town and was graduated at the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, in 1871, and from Bowdoin College, A. B., 1875. He studied law in the office of his brother, Llewellyn, in Houlton, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1876. He was associated with his brothers Llewellyn and Don Arba Horace up to 1891 when he was appointed judge of the supreme judicial court of Maine and he resigned from the bench March 31, 1907. He did not re-engage in the practice of law, but gave his time to the management of his extensive interests in Aroostook county. He married (first) January 7. 1879. Mary, daughter of Sylvanus Hussy, of Houlton, and they had two children : Llewellyn H. and Paul H., both graduates of Bowdoin College, Their mother died May 28, 1901, and Judge Powers married (second) Virginia Hewes, of Dan- forth, Maine, and by her he had no children.
STARKEY
The English surname, Stark, Starkie, Starke or Starkey, is of considerable antiquity.
There were several pioneers of the name in Massachusetts. Robert Starkey settled in Concord, Massachusetts. and died there in 1646, his inventory being dated October 28, 1646. George Starkey was of Lynn or Mal- den; in 1646 was of Harvard College and visited London to study the plague. Another Robert Starkey, a mariner, lived in Boston, had a son Robert Jr., a printer and bookseller of Fleet street, Boston, and with the son the male line became extinct. John Starkey was of Boston in 1667, mentioned below.
(I) John Starkey, immigrant ancestor, was born, probably in England, in 1638, according to a deposition made December 25, 1677, sta- ting his age as thirty-nine. A lineal descend- ant states that he came from Standish, Lan- cashire. The family is numerous in that town
and vicinity. He was admitted a freeman December 15, 1674. He was a clothier or weaver by trade. He mortgaged land at Mal- den, April 8, 1674, to Dr. Samuel Bracken- bury, who released it in 1675. Starkey bought a house at Malden ( Mystic side, Charles- town), October 11, 1675, of John Ridgway and November 18, 1676, of John Ridgway Sr. and Jolin Ridgway Jr. more real estate at Mal- den. He bought three acres of Robert Caw- !ey, December 17, 1679, also at Malden and had a grant of marsh land. The Ridgways were from Pemaquid and may have been re- lated. At any rate we find him in Pemaquid, May 11, 1689, one of the eight signers of a petition asking that Lieutenant James Weems be left in command of the fort. He was cap- tured by the Indians, August 2. 1689, while he was alone on the opposite side of the Point from the fort. Moxas, in command of a hun- dred Penobscot Indians, compelled the pris- oner to give information in regard to affairs at the fort. Then at broad noonday the In- dians surprised the garrison when no scouts were on duty and forced Lieutenant Weems to surrender, making terms of capitulation which were kept, as several years later Lieu- tenant Weems, then living in New York, pre- sented a petition for pay due him and his men for services at this fort. No record of the fate of John Starkey has been found. Of his family it is probable that as his lands lay near the fort they were among those who were embarked in Mr. Pateshall's sloop and carried
to Boston. That there must have been more than one is proved by the claim of Tryall New- bury, of Malden, in behalf of the heirs of John Starkey to one hundred and four acres of land lying within the bounds of Jamestown on Pemaquid Neck, adjoining the homestead of Richard Murren, and also to twenty acres of meadow at Pemaquid. This land was bound- ed in part by land of William Case, who mar- ried Mary Starkey. This same land was sold December 19, 1716, by Andrew Starkey, of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to James White, of Attleborough. And we find no other sur- viving sons of Starkey than this Andrew, mentioned below. Children of John and wife Sarah: 1. John, born September 23, 1667. 2. Mary. 3. Sarah, April 1, 1671. 4. Experi- ence, February 3, 1672. 5. Martha, March 25, 1674. 6. Andrew, mentioned below.
(II) Andrew, son of John (1) Starkey, was born in Malden or Pemaquid about 1680. He removed from Pemaquid to the old home of the family in Malden and thence to Attlebor- ough, Massachusetts. He deeded the land he
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inherited from his father at Pemaquid to James White as stated, there being no trace of other heirs to this property at that time, 1716. He married, at Malden, in 1708, Mehitable, daughter of Samnel and Mehitable Waite, of Malden. She was born December 22, 1686, and died in 1717. He married ( second ) Feb- ruary 2, 1717-18, Katherine, born February 7, 1694, daughter of Alexander and Sarah ( Woodcock) Balcom. Children: I. Mehita- ble, born May, 1709, married, July 17, 1730, William, son of John and Ruth (Edwards) Waite ; no children. 2. John, July, 1712, men- tioned below. 3. Jason, December 12, 1717. 4. Jemima, April II, 1722, married Elijah Farrington, of Wrentham. 5. Andrew Jr., March 13, 1726-27, married, 1748, Sybil Fish- er, of Norton ; children : i. Amos, married Miriam Thomas; ii. Sybil; iii. Andrew 3d; iv. Mary; v. Deborah; vi. Eleanor. 6. Thomas, mentioned below.
(III) John (2), son of Andrew Starkey, was born July, 1712, at Attleborough. He mar- ried, February 2, 1734, at Attleborough, Amy, born July 15, 1715, daughter of Captain Jo- seph and Judith (Peck) Capron. Children : I. John Jr., born March 6, 1736-37, died Oc- tober 29, 1739. 2. Lois. 3. Nathan or Na- thaniel, of Attleborough. 4. William, born 1742, married Sarah Martin; their son Will- iam, born October 21, 1765, settled at Troy, New Hampshire. 5. Mehitable, married, No- vember 12, 1768, Nehemiah Claflin. 6. John Jr., March 13. 1745-46, married Mary God- ding and lived at Troy, New Hampshire. 7. Enoch, July 29, 1748, married Betsey Black- ington ; settled in Troy and Swanzea, New Hampshire. 8. Peter, had nine children ; set- tled with brothers Enoch, Benjamin and Jo- seph at Troy ; was a soldier in the revolution. 9. Chloe. 10. Benjamin, died at Troy unmar- ried. II. Joseph, born at Attleborough, re- moved to Richmond, New Hampshire, about 1766 ; was a soldier in the revolution ; married, July 23, 1778, Waitstill Morse; six children.
( III) Thomas, son of Andrew Starkey, was born at Attleborough, May 22, 1733, mar- ried, August 30, 1755, Rebecca, born February I, 1734, daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca ( Moses) Capron. Children, born at Attle- borough: I. Rebecca, November 18, 1756. 2. Chloe, August 6, 1757, died October 28, 1798. 3. Thomas Jr., November 25, 1759. 4. Oliver, June 18, 1762. 5. Chloe, August 6, 1764. 6. Abel, February 21, 1767. 7. Moses, removed to Vassalborough, Maine, where through the influence of a local movement he joined a Society of Friends and became a
preacher ; married (first) April 4, 1796, Eu- nice, daughter of John Taber, of Vassalbor- ough; (second) Jennet Warren; had twelve children. (See N. E. Reg. April 1892 p. 149.) 8. Henry, mentioned below. Thomas Starkey was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Richardson's company (No. 12) of Attleborough, hired for "the grand campaign of all" for three years or during the war. He and Lieutenant Alexander Foster hired James Lowd in their stead. Starkey was also in Cap- tain Stephen Richardson's company in 1777, Colonel George Williams's regiment. He was also in Captain Alexander Foster's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment in 1778; and in Captain Foster's company, Colonel Isaac Dean's regiment in 1780. Almost every man of the Starkey family fought in the revo- lution. We have mention here of all the Star- keys of adult age living at the time of the revolution.
(IV) Henry (1), son or nephew of Thomas Starkey, was born about 1770. He set- tled in Wiscasset, Maine, married and had at least two children, born in Wiscasset : I. Hen- ry, mentioned below. 2. Frank.
(V) Henry (2), son of Henry Starkey (I), was born at Wiscasset, in 1810, and died in the prime of life in 1836 at Woolwich, Maine. He was a fisherman and farmer. He was a member of the Congregational church. He married Joanna Partridge, probably a descend- ant of John Partridge, of Medfield, Massa- chusetts, many of whose descendants lived in Maine. Children: 1. Elizabeth, married Os- car Woodbury, of Milford, Massachusetts. 2. William Henry, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, married Albert Forest and lives in Milford.
(VI) William Henry, son of Henry (2) Starkey, was born at Woolwich, Maine, July 31, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. At the age of fifteen he made his first voyage as able seaman on the ship "Genoa" to New Orleans, Louisiana. He followed the sea constantly from that time, rising in rank from time to time until in 1857 he became master mariner in command of the ship "Rine." He had command of twelve other vessels in succession, afterward, and con- tinted in active life as a sea captain until 1899, when he retired. In his forty-two years as captain he never lost a man or a ship. He had a wide and varied experience at sea and is one of the best known skippers of the state. He has made his home in Bath, Maine. He is a member of the Universalist church. Cap- tain Starkey enjoys the best of health and has lost none of his cheery good nature and kind-
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