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(V) Ernest Constant, youngest son of Silas H. (2) and Mary M. (Farrar) Bowler, was born in Palermo, Maine, May 6, 1870. He attended the public schools in Palermo and then entered upon a course at the Castine Nor- mal school, where he graduated in 1890. For five years after graduating from the Normal school he was engaged in school-teaching in Waldo. Lincoln and Knox counties, in Maine. He attained high standing in this profession, and later for four years was superintendent of schools in Palermo, and held the same office for two years in Bethel. For five years also he served as president of the Waldo County Teachers' Association. In the advancement of educational standards Mr. Bowler always has retained a deep interest, and has been active in taking advantage of the smallest opportunity to further the work. In 1896 he entered the field of journalism as editor and proprietor of the Bethel, Maine, News, which he purchased
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of A. D. Ellenwood. By persistent effort and hustle, which are among his noticeable charac- teristics, he has built up one of the best equipped publishing plants to be found in any town in New England. In addition to con- ducting the Newes, he does a large book pub- lishing business, and since 1906 has also been owner and publisher of the Rumford Citizen, of Rumford Falls, Maine. And in addition to his duties as a publisher he acts as director of the Bethel National Bank. In politics he is a Republican and has served his party as chair- man of the Republican town committee and is also a member of the Republican county com- mittee. Ife is a Mason, member of Bethel Lodge, of Bethel, and an Odd Fellow, holding membership in the order at Coopers Mills, in Whitefield, Maine. By religious preference he is a Congregationalist and is active in the work of his parish, being one of the assessors for the society, superintendent of the Sunday- school and president of the Christian Endeavor
(III) Richard (2) Hiscock, or Hitchcock, settled in Damariscotta, doubtless a descendant of the pioneer Richard and his son Thomas, was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Society. During the summer months Mr. . Henry Hunter's company, in 1777. Jolin His-
Bowler puts away business cares and gives himself to the enjoyment of the advantages of travel. He has been very successful as a per- sonal conductor of parties in trips across the continent and through the south.
Mr. Bowler married. January 31, 1891, Mabel, daughter of George H. and Henrietta Dingley, of Hallowell, Maine. Children: I. Ernest C. Jr., born in Palermo, December 25, 1895. 2. Mary Ernestine, born in Bethel, No- vember 9, 1907.
The surnames Hiscock and HISCOCK Hitchcock are identical. It is an ancient English family. There have been many prominent men of this name both in the United Kingdom and the United States.
(I) Richard Hiscock, or Hitchcock, the im- migrant ancestor, was born in England in 1608. According to his own testimony he was sixty years old in 1668. He was before the general court of Massachusetts August 5, 1634 ; settled at Saco as early as 1635 ; was sued for slander in 1637 by Robert Morgan. He was evi- dently given to speaking his mind too plainly, for he was punished in the stocks for "abusing the court." At this distance of time, and in these days of free speech, the petty tyranny of the early colonial magistrates and courts seems contemptible. Hitchcock was one of the sign- ers of the submission of Maine settlers to the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, in 1652; of the petition to Cromwell in 1656. In 1668 he was again in trouble with the authorities and was
presented for opposition to the Massachusetts government. He was a leader in Saco; was selectman in 1656 and perhaps other years ; was deputy to the general court in 1660. He was buried June 22, 1671. His will was dated June 6, 1670, and proved September 20, 1671. His house was on the west side of Saco. He married Lucretia - -.
Richard Hitchcock bought a hundred acres of land at Saco of Richard Vines about 1660: another lot at Cape Porpoise, of William Phillips, July 22, 1668. Children, mentioned in will: Child born 1653, Thomas, mentioned below, Jerusha, Lydia, Re- becca, Ann, Margaret, married James Emery.
(II) Thomas, son of Richard Hitchcock, was born about 1660. He seems to be the only surviving son and the progenitor of the Hiscocks and Hitchcocks of Maine.
cock, probably a brother, was a soldier from Damariscotta in 1779, in Captain William Jones' company, Colonel Benjamin Plummer's regiment. According to the history of Damar- iscotta history, the Hiscock family came there about 1760. The first settler was Richard's father, grandson of Thomas (2), in all proba- bility. It is not known whether the family remained in Maine in the intervening genera- tions, the vital records being defective. The land of Richard appears to have remained in the family, however, for a generation or more after Richard's death.
(IV) Richard (3), son of Richard (2) Hiscock, was born about 1780-90 : was a cap- tain in the war of 1812. Some of the family followed the spelling Hiscock, others Hitchcock in the town of Damariscotta. Many of them were ship-builders, and the history of the town mentions among the prominent ship-builders William Hitchcock. Henry Hiscock, Rufus Hiscock. Damariscotta was not incorporated until 1847, so the early records are very defi- cient.
(V) Samuel, son or nephew of Richard (3) Hiscock, was born in what is now Damariscot- ta, Maine, in 1801, died in Abbott, Maine, in 1883. He was a farmer. He married Polly Lennard. Children : Joseph L., mentioned be- low, John F., Arinda, Gustavus, Jesse E., Mel- vina, Polly, Samuel and two children who died in infancy.
(VI) Joseph L., son of Samuel Hiscock. was born in Carthage, Maine, in 1827. He was educated in the common schools, and has
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followed farming all his life. He has lived on the same farm at Abbott for a period of forty-six years. He married ( first) Ann Gor- don, of Abbot ; married (second) Sarah Gil- man, of Vienna, Maine. Children : George W., Enos T., mentioned below. Children of second wife: John Cottrell, James Edgar, Annie.
(VII) Enos T. Hescock, son of Joseph L. Hiscock, was born in Abbott, Maine, Septem- ber II. 1849. He was educated in the common and high schools of his native town. He learned the trade of carpenter and has worked at his trade as apprentice, journeyman and master builder most of his active life. He is a Republican in politics, and has been town clerk and selectman in Monson. He is a member of Onowa Lodge of Odd Fellows. He is a Con- gregationalist in religion. Ile married, De- cember 16, 1871, Mary E., of Abbott, born July 30, 1851, daughter of Joseph W. Green- leaf. Children, born at Abbott : I. Fred Mar- ion, September 2, 1872. 2. Roy Milton, men- tioned below.
(VIII) Roy Milton Hescock, son of Enos T. Hescock, was born in Abbott, November 8, 1875. He attended the public schools of his native town and the academy at Monson. He then learned the business of druggist and took the course in pharmacy in the University of Maine. lle was a clerk in various drug-stores in Boston and Portland for about a year and engaged in business on his own account in Monson, Maine, in 1897. He has the local agency for the American Express Company, and has a flourishing drug business. Since 1906 he has also been postmaster of the town. He is a Republican in politics and at the pres- ent time is the town clerk. He is a well- known and popular citizen, courteous and obliging in his capacity as postmaster, enter- prising and capable in business, a public- spirited and useful citizen. Ile is a member of Doric Lodge of Free Masons, Monson; of Piscataquis Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Dover, Maine; of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Modern Wood- men of America. In religion he is a Con- gregationalist. He married, June 1, 1898, Blanche G., born Monson, July 9. 1879, daugh- ter of David and Anna ( Flint ) Humphrey, of Monson. Their only child, Milton, born Au- gust 2, 1900.
To the sturdy physical PATTERSON makeup and stern virtues of the Scotch-Irish people New England and the United States owe much
of their moral development and progress in the arts and industries. Their energy, thrift and sound business sense are distinguishing char- acteristics, and have been bequeathed to their descendants who still constitute a considerable portion of the population of Maine, as well as many other states. In 1614 James and Robert Paterson (as the name was then spelled) re- moved from Argyleshire, Scotland, to Ulster, Ireland. They were natives of Glengarnock. and were among those who removed to north- ern Ireland to secure greater religious liberty, as well as to improve their financial oppor- tunities. Robert Paterson took up a cottage right at Castle Cunningham, consisting of a house lot, six acres of land and commonage for his cows.
(I) Robert Paterson, the great-grandson of Robert above named, was born in 1671. at Castle Cunningham, Ireland, and came to America in 1718, with the large body of people who came in that year. He located first at Portland, Maine, and settled at Saco in 1729. Having found a location to suit him, and now being able, he sent in that year for his wife and three children who had remained in Ire- land. The name of the wife has not been preserved, but the children were : John, Grizzle and Robert. Robert Paterson Sr. was one of the thirteen charter members of the first church at Saco, and died August 27, 1769, aged ninety-eight years and six months.
(II) Robert (2), younger son of Robert ( I ) Paterson, was born in 1713, at Castle Cunning- ham, Ireland, and was sixteen years of age when he came to this country. In 1768 he took up lots numbers 4, 32 and 37 in Belfast, Maine, but never lived there. His son settled there, as related below. He died in Saco, June 27, 1797. He was married in 1741 to Jean Gilmore, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, who survived him more than twelve years, dying in Saco, August 19, 1809, aged eighty- eight years. They were the parents of eleven sons, namely : Robert, James, Nathaniel, Will- iam, Andrew, Samuel, Abraham, Daniel, Ben- jamin, David and Joseph. There were three daugliters, Jean, Elizabeth and Mary.
(III) Nathaniel, third son of Robert (2) and Jean (Gilmore) Paterson, was born in 1745 in Saco, and settled at Belfast in the fall of 1770. He was selectman of that town in 1797, and died there November 12, 1825, at the age of eighty years. He was married Sep- tember 20, 1770, to Hannah, daughter of Mar- tin and Grizzle (Paterson) Jameson, of Saco, who survived him more than seventeen years, passing away May 14, 1843, aged ninety-nine
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years. Their children were: Robert, Sterritt, Martin, Sally, Hannah and Nathaniel.
(IV) Martin, third son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Jameson) Patterson, was born in 1777, in Belfast, and settled on a farm in Waldo Plantation, the adjoining town north. Here he continued to reside, but the date of his death is not recorded. He was married December 7, 1800, by Robert Houston, justice of the peace, to Alice, daughter of Jonathan Wilson, of Belfast ( see Wilson \'). She was born in December, 1784, and died February 3, 1875, aged ninety years, one month and twenty days. Their children were : Frederick, Rufus, Martin, Sterritt, Nathaniel, George Washing- ton, Martha, Emma, Sally and Hannah.
(\') George Washington, youngest child of Martin and Alice ( Wilson) Patterson, was born April 4, 1826, in Waldo Plantation, and passed his childhood there. While still a mere boy he was apprenticed to Frank Brier, of Bel- fast, to learn the trade of blacksmith. After completing his term of apprenticeship he con- tinned many years with Mr. Brier as journey- man, and ultimately succeeded him as pro- prietor of the shop. When the civil war broke out he was among the first to respond to the call to arms in defense of the integrity of his native land. As a private in the ranks of the Twenty-sixth Maine Infantry, he went out in 1861 and participated in all the service of that organization until the close of its enlistment, two years. At the end of this period he was so broken in health as to be unfit for further service, and returned to his home in Maine. For a year or more he was a sufferer from malaria and other ills brought on by exposure and hardship. As soon as conditions per- mitted he again enlisted and was attached to the Fourteenth Maine, stationed at Gallup's Island, in Boston harbor. The speedy close of the struggle prevented further advance, and he returned permanently to the arts of peace. Again he joined Mr. Brier at Belfast, and suc- ceeded him as proprietor of the business. In 1870 he engaged in business at City Point, in the town of Belfast, where he continued one year. For the next seven years he resided on Fox Islands, being first in charge of black- smith work at the government station at Car- ver's harbor, later going to Hurricane harbor, under General Tillson. In 1878 he settled at Cape Elizabeth, where he operated a black- smith shop until his retirement in 1887. He now resides with a daughter at Mechanic Falls, Maine. Mr. Patterson has always been a man of quiet tastes, averse to any public action, and has always been honored and respected as an
honest and industrious citizen. After a long career of arduous toil, he is enjoying the re- pose induced by a consciousness of duty well donc. He adheres to the faith of his fathers and sustains the Congregational church. Not a politician, he sustains his principles in every contest, acting with the Republican party. He was married February 9. 1852, to Martha Jane Mayhew, daughter of Vinal and Martha (Cates) Mayhew, of Belfast (see Mayhew XX). Only three of their children survived the period of childhood. Their children were : Charles (died in infancy), Clarence, Addie Frances, Charles, Frank N. and Georgiana. The last-named died at the age of thirty years, unmarried. The elder daughter is the wife of Josiah A. Merrill, of Mechanic Falls, Maine.
(VI) Frank Newhall, only surviving son of George W. and Martha J. (Mayhew) Patter- son, was born August 12, 1860, in Belfast, and remained there until thirteen years of age, go- ing to Fox Isles in September, 1873. He at- tended the public schools and graduated from the Castine Normal school in 1881. In the meantime he had taught two years in the gram- mar school at Westbrook, Maine, and after graduation he taught two terms in winter at Cape Elizabeth, while pursuing his medical studies. He began reading medicine with Dr. Thomas A. Foster, and continued with Dr. Samuel B. Thombs, of Portland. After one term in the medical department of Bowdoin College, he spent two years at the University of the City of New York, medical department, and graduated in 1885. For a few months he engaged in practice at South Framingham, Massachusetts, and since has been very actively and successfully pursuing his profession in the city of New York. His first location was on East Thirty-third street, and he was then in debt two thousand dollars, incurred in com- pleting his studies. By faithfulness in the care of his patients and continued study he was enabled to build up a profitable practice, and has been for some years located on West Fiftieth street, near Fifth avenue. While en- gaged in general practice, most of his time is now taken up in medical examinations for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Of genial nature and affable manners, assiduous and skilful in the performance of his duties, he merits and receives the respect and esteem of his colleagues and all those privileged to know him. Dr. Patterson is identified with most progressive societies, including the New York State Medical Society, Academy of Medicine, of New York City, and the New York County Medical Society. One of the
Frank N. Patterson Person
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leading spirits in the Maine Society of New York, he is its present vice-president. His family is connected with the Broadway Taber- nacle Congregational church. While not an active politician, Dr. Patterson holds to well- established principles, and performs the duty of a good citizen in making known his prefer- ence at the polls, acting consistently with the Republican party. He was married September 6, 1889, to Frances Desmond, born November II, 1865, in New York, daughter of Patrick and Ellen (Reagan) Desmond, both natives of Ireland, the former being allied to the famous Fitzgerald family of that country. The chil- dren of this marriage are: Lillian Frances, Scuyler Blaine and Bayard Roosevelt. The elder son is preparing for college at Penning- ton Seminary, New Jersey, and the younger is a student of the city schools.
The name of Mayhew is an
MAYHEW ancient one in New England, spelled Mahew where first found in the records, and has been identified with the settlement of several sections of New England. It has borne no mean part in the moral development, while aiding in the material progress of the country. The state of Maine owes much to those bearing this patronymic, many of whom are still numbered among its citizens.
(I) William Mahew was a citizen and gro- cer of the parish of St. Peter's, Poule's wharfe, London, where record of him first appears in the will of his father-in-law, John Drayton, a brewer, of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, dated Saturday, December 31, 1373. This will was proved Monday, after the feast of St. Valentine ( February 14), 1374. By its pro- visions Mahew was to receive a tenement in Goldynglane, on condition that he pay debts of Drayton to an amount equivalent to the value of said tenement. Mahew died in 1392, and his will was probated between that year and 1397.
(II) Robert, Mahew, of Goldynglane, St. Giles, Cripplegate, received a grant of a tenement in the manor of Talmage's, in the parish of Brockley, county of Suffolk, in 1399- 1400.
(III) John, of Brockley, son of Robert (I) Mahew, was a juryman in 1405.
(IV) Robert (2), son of John Mahew, of Brockley, living in 1431, left two sons, Thomas and John. The latter was rector of St. Cath- erine's by the Tower, London.
(V) Thomas, son of Robert (2) May- hew, of Brockley, and of the parish of St.
Nicholas, Coldabbey, London, died in 1457, as shown by the record of his will.
(VI) John (2) Mayhew, of Brockley, had sons, John and Thomas. The line of the former is still extant.
(VII) Thomas (2), second son of John (2) Mayhew, settled in Clipesby, county of Norfolk, where his will was probated in 1498.
(VIII) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Mayhew, of Clipesby, died 1531. He married Margery, daughter of John Jele, of that place. Her mother was Margery, daughter of Jolin Collett, D. D., dean of St. Paul's, who in his will, 1519, left lands to his son-in-law.
(IX) John (3), son of Thomas (3) and Margery Mayhew, resided in Matishall and married Margery, daughter of Robert Mer- teyne, of Hoggesthorpe, county of Lincoln. He died in 1560.
(X) Robert (3), son of John (3) and Mar- gery ( Merteyne) Mayhew, of Billockesby, county Norfolk, died in 1588. He married Margaret, daughter of John Kibdall, of South Walsam, and had children : Thomas, Robert, John, Alice, Margaret, Clare and Joane.
(XI) Robert (4), second son of Robert (3) and Margaret (Kibdall) Mayhew, of Clipesby, married (first) Catherine, daughter of Richard Spooner, of Sethynge, and ( second) Anne, daughter of Thomas Pidgeon.
(XII) Thomas (4), son of Robert (4) and Catherine (Spooner) Mayhew, of Clipesby ( 1593-1631), married Frances, daughter of John Holdrick, of Ranworth, and had : Thom- as, John, Elizabeth, Ann and Frances.
(XIII) Thomas (5), elder son of Thomas (4) and Frances ( Holdrick) Mayhew, was born in 1592 in Clipesby, and married. first, Hannah (or Anna), daughter of Matthew Parkhurst. Her ancestry is traced to (I) Thomas Parkhurst, of Shere, county Surrey ; (2) Henry Parkhurst, of Guilford, same county, whose wife was Alice, daughter of James Hill; (3) Robert Parkhurst, of Lon- don, alderman and mercer. His wife Elinor was a daughter of William Babbington and his wife, Ellen Aldersey; Anna, wife of Governor Mayhew. The last named married ( second) Grace, widow of Robert Paine, of London. He was a merchant residing in Southampton, England, until 1631, when he sailed for Boston, Massachusetts, in the ship "Griffin." He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and was ap- pointed one of three commissioners to lay out the bounds of that town, March 6, 1632. In July of the next year he was appointed ad- ministrator of the estate of Ralph Glover. He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634, and
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was representative to the general court of Massachusetts Bay colony from 1636 to 1641, inclusive. and 1643-44. He conducted stores in both Watertown and Medford. On October 22. 1641, he purchased from William Alexan- der, first Lord Sterling, the islands of Nan- tucket, Martha's Vineyard and Elizabeth Is- lands, and became the governor of these islands in 1045, settling on Martha's Vineyard. On July 8. 1671, he and his grandson, Matthew, received a grant of the manor of Tilbury, con- ditioned on the annual payment of two barrels of good codfish to be delivered at the bridge of the fort in New York City. Governor May- hew presided at the first general court at Ed- gartown, June 18, 1672. His grandson Mat- thew was secretary. In a letter written May 12, 1675. he relates that he had fifteen grand- sons, three great-grandsons, three daughters and eleven granddaughters. He was a preacher to the Indians from the death of his son in 1657 to his own death, March 25, 1682. At this time he lacked six days of being ninety years old. His daughters were named : Han- nah. Bethea and Martha.
(XI\) Thomas (6), only son of Thomas (5) and Hannah or Anna (Parkhurst) May- hew, was born about 1620, in Southampton, England, and was a child when brought by his father to Massachusetts. He received a liberal education, became a preacher to the In- dians, and was the first minister on Martha's Vineyard. He was lost at sea in November, 1657, while on a voyage from Boston to Lon- don. He was married about 1645 to his father's step-daughter, Jane Paine, who be- came the wife of Richard Sansom by a second marriage. Rev. Thomas Mayhew had three sons ( and probably daughters), namely : Mat- thew, Thomas and John.
(XV) John (4), youngest son of Rev. Thomas (6) and Jane ( Paine) Mayhew, was born in 1652, and settled at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, where he died February 3. 1689. His wife's name was Experience, and their sons were: Experience, John, Benjamin. Zac- cheus and Zephaniah. The names of their daughters are not preserved.
(XVI) Experience, eldest son of John and Experience Mayhew, was born in 1674 in Chilmark, and was educated at Harvard Col- lege and became a minister of the gospel. He died November 29. 1758, aged eighty-four years. He married (first), November 12, 1695, at Barnstable, Thankful, daughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley, of Plymouth col- ony (see Hinckley HI). Their children were : John, Jeremiah (died young), Mary, Martha,
Paul, Jeremiah and Joseph. For his second wife, Rev. Experience Mayhew married, De- cember 4, 1711, Remember Bourne, whose lineage is traced as follows :
(1) Richard Bourne was born in 1610, at Barnstable, Devonshire, England, and came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1635. He was a householder there in 1636, and was admitted freeman March 7, 1637. On the 7th of Jan- uary in the same year he had a grant of seven acres of land, and on May 2 of the same year was appointed one of the commissioners to lay out the highways about Plymouth, Duxbury and Eel River. He was a grand juror June 5, 1638, and was deputy to the general court in 1639-40-41-42-44-45-52-64-65-67-70. In 1640 he owned seven acres of land in Sandwich, and in the same year was on the commission to draft the laws for the colony. In 1659 he was a member of the commission to purchase lands from the Indians at Suchineset, and was ap- pointed a member of the council of war April 2, 1667, and again in King Philip's war in 1676. He was married, first, in 1638, to Bath- sheba, eldest daughter of Andrew Hallett, sen- ior : he married, second, July 2, 1677, Ruth, daughter of William Sargent and widow of Jonathan Winslow. He died in 1682, and his widow, Ruth, married, third, Elder John Chap- man. She died in 1713, aged seventy-one years. Richard Bourne's children, all born of the first wife, were: Job, Elisha, Shearjashub and Ezra.
(2) Shearjashub, third son of Richard and Bathsheba ( Hallett) Bourne, was born 1644, died March 7, 1719. His estate was appraised at nine hundred and forty-three pounds and sixteen shillings. He served as representative to the general courts at Plymouth and Boston. He was married in 1673 to Bathsheba, daugh- ter of James Skiff, senior, of Sandwich, and their children were: Melatiah, Ezra, Mary, Sarah, Remember and Patience.
(3) Remember, third daughter of Shearjas- hub and Bathsheba ( Skiff) Bourne, was born in February, 16844, and became the second wife of Rev. Experience Mayhew (see Mayhew, XVI). She died March 2, 1722, aged thirty- nine years. Her children were: Nathan, Abi- gail, Eunice, Zachariah and Jonathan.
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