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Berry; resided in Canada. 4. Samuel, men- tioned below.
(VI) Samuel, son of Abner Burbank, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, April, 1769. He married (first) Susan Graves, of Polin, New Hampshire, now Fremont. She was born in Brentwood. He was town clerk and selectman of Newfield, Maine, where he set- tled and conducted a farm, and where he died September 3, 1832, aged sixty-seven years seven months. His wife died there January 14. 1853, aged seventy-seven years. Children : I. Rev. Samuel, born at Brentwood, June, 1792, married Nancy Drew, born at Newfield, December 3, 1803, daughter of Deacon Joseph Drew; was for thirty years a Free Baptist minister ; founder of the Morning Star, a re- ligious newspaper, May 11, 1826, at Limerick, Maine. 2. Susan, born March 5, 1795, mar-
ried, August 31, 1815, Ephraim G. Smith, of Wakefield ; died December 17, 1779. 3. Ursula, died unmarried. 4. Joseph M., born at Par- sonfield, died aged twenty years. 5. Amelia, born at Newfield, married Alfred Woodman, of Wakefield, New Hampshire. 6. Amos, born December 24, 1803, married Nancy Moore, born April 20, 1808, died at Wellington, Ne- vada, November 2, 1878; once resided in Tam- worth, New Hampshire. 7. Abner, born De- cember 27, 1805, mentioned below. 8. Rev. Nathaniel, born 1807 at Newfield. 9. Rev. Porter S., born March 13, 1810, married, July 16, 1837, Miriam Blazo Burbank, born at New- field, January 22, 1812; graduated at Dart- mouth in 1837; teacher at Stafford Academy ; Free Will Baptist clergyman in 1840; editor of Morning Star thirty years; clerk of the New Hampshire Seminary, the Maine State Semi- nary at Lewiston and Bates College; resided at Parsonsfield. 10. Hon. James M., born December 30, 1811, married Phebe Hall, born at Waterborough, February 14, 1811 : trader; representative in the state legislature in 1845; proprietor of a hotel at Sanford, York county, Maine, 1859 to 1864 ; selectman and city mar- shal of Saco, Maine; state senator from Saco district. 11. Hannah, married Daniel Camp- bell, of Wakefield, New Hampshire. 12. Al- mira, died unmarried. 13. Louisa, died unmar- ried.
(VII) Abner (2), son of Samuel Burbank, was born at Newfield, Maine, December 27, 1805. He removed from Saco, where he was educated, to Limerick in 1832, and lived there the remainder of his life. He represented his district in the state legislature in 1839-40; was county commissioner from 1847 to 1851 inclu- sive; was selectman and town treasurer of Limerick for many years. He was a school teacher and land surveyor by profession, and one of the most distinguished men of that section for many years. He was the local magistrate-justice of the peace and quorum for many years. He was trustee of the Limer- rick Academy. He married, March 8, 1837, Eliza Adams Harmon. Children, born at Limerick: 1. Horace Harmon, born October 27, 1837, mentioned below. 2. Albion, born December 25, 1839, married Olive E. Thomp- son ; graduate of Bowdoin; admitted to the bar; teacher in the Exeter high school. 3. Sarah A., born November 14, 1845, teacher in the Biddeford high school. 4. Ida E., born October 13, 1854, married Edwin R. Perkins. 5. Charles E., born March 2, 1859, graduate of Bowdoin in 1880.
(VIII) Colonel Horace Harmon, son of
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Abner Burbank, was born in Limerick, Maine, October 27, 1837. He attended the common schools of Limerick, the Limerick Academy, Yarmouth Academy and Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated with high rank in the class of 1860. He taught school for a time, studied law and was a student at Har- vard Law School. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his pro- fession in Limerick, where he remained dur- ing the next ten years. He removed to Saco, where he lived the remainder of his life and took rank among the foremost men of his day in his chosen profession. The military career of Colonel Burbank was most creditable. He was repeatedly promoted for gallantry on the field of battle. Enlisting as a private soldier in Company A, Twenty-seventh Maine Vol- unteer Infantry, he was promoted to quarter- master-sergeant and discharged July 17, 1863. He was one of those patriotic soldiers who vol- unteered to defend Washington in June and July, 1863, after their enlistments expired, at the time of Lee's raid. He was commissioned first lieutenant of Company A, Thirty-second Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, in March, 1864, promoted to captain June 7, 1864. He took part in some of the most se- vere fighting of the Army of the Potomac in 1864 at the battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor and at the siege of Peters- burg. At the explosion of the mine, the affair of the "Crater," he was taken prisoner and confined in the military prisons at Dansville, Virginia, and Columbia, South Carolina, for seven months, escaping finally and joining General Sherman's army in the south. When the Thirty-first and Thirty-second regiments of Maine were consolidated under the name of Thirty-first, he became the captain of Com- pany B, April 27, 1864, and was mustered out May 15, 1865, at the close of the war.
He hield many positions of trust and honor in civil life. He was a representative to the state legislature ; register of probate for York county ; city solicitor of Saco; judge of the municipal court of Saco, an office he held at the time of his death. He was judge advo- cate general on the staff of Governor Connor ; commander of Fred S. Gurney Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Saco; judge advocate and commander, Department of Maine, of the Grand Army. He was one of the most dis- tinguished and honored Masons of the state ; grand master of the Grand Lodge of Maine; grand master of the Grand Council and grand commander of the Knights Templar of Maine. He was a member of the lodge, chapter, coun-
cil, and Bradford Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, of Biddeford. He was member of the Sons of the American Revolution and presi- dent of the Maine Society. His law partner in Saco was John S. Derby. In religion Colo- nel Burbank was a Unitarian. He died, Jan- uary 8, 1905, at his home in Saco.
He married, June II, 1872, Elizabeth P. Thompson, born June 1, 1840, daughter of Nathaniel L. and Jane S. (Lord) Thompson, of Kennebunk, granddaughter of Nathaniel Thompson, born May 28, 1787, died June, 1825, and of Elizabeth (Smith) Thompson. The children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Thompson: i. Charles Thompson ; ii. Nathan- iel L. Thompson; iii. William Franklin Thompson. Nathaniel L. Thompson, born July 24, 1811, dicd February 8, 1889; he was educated in the public schools of Kennebunk, and for many years followed the sea, a ship- builder in later years ; was a Democrat in poli- tics; Free Mason ; married, August 28, 1839, Jane S. Lord, born January 21, 1816, died Oc- tober 21, 1851; children: Elizabeth P. Thompson. mentioned above; Sarah Thomp- son. Children of Colonel Horace H. and Elizabeth P. Burbank: 1. Ralph H., born September 15, 1875, educated in the public schools of Saco and Thornton Academy ; with the American Express Company at Biddeford ; is city auditor of the city of Saco. 2. Grace T., born June 12, 1877, educated in the public and high schools of Saco and Thornton Acad- emy ; fitted for kindergarten teaching at Sim- mons College, Boston, and is now engaged in that work in the public schools of Biddeford. 3. Francis L., born July 23, 1879, educated in the public schools of Saco and Thornton Acad- emy ; clerk in a jewelry store at Montpelier, Vermont. 4. Jane L., born April 15, 1882, ed- ucated in the Saco schools and Thornton Academy, a graduate of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, now a teacher in the State Normal school, Danbury, Connecticut.
. Henry Simpson, the immi- SIMPSON grant ancestor, was born in England and settled in York, Maine, as early as 1638. Prior to that time he had married Jane Norton, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Norton, one of the patentees of Agamenticus, now York. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in his "Brief Narration," writes of Norton: "This gentleman was one I had long known, who had raised himself from a soldier to the quality he had, from a corporal to a sergeant and so upward. He was painful (painstaking) and industrious,
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well understanding what belonged to his du- ties, etc." Eleanor, widow of Norton, mar- ried, 1640, William Hooke, and removed to Salisbury, Massachusetts, where Hooke died in 1654. Hooke was governor of Agamenticus. The contract is to be found in York Deeds (book vi, folio 74), in which Governor Hook, in consideration of the marriage of Henry Simpson to Jane, daughter of the late Colonel Norton, granted a house lot on the west side of Bass Creek, adjoining land of Arthur Brag- don (see Bragdon sketch), the York line on the east side, and dated Marchi 13, 1638. Simp- son appears to have been agent and surveyor for the patentees, laying out lands for them. He died before 1650 and his widow Jane mar- ried (second), before May 31, 1650, Nicholas Bond. "Jane Simpson, alias Bond, sole heir of her father Captain Walter Norton conveyed her real and personal estate to her only and living son, Henry Simpson." (York Deeds, book vi, folio 74.) Henry is mentioned be- low.
(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Simp- son, was born about 1647, and died in 1695. He married, 1670, Abigail Moulton (by Cap- tain Francis Raines). He made an agreement with Widow Patience Hatch about land which was the property of his father and which fell to him after his father's death. He sold land, April 7, 1680, to Edward Johnson, of York, bought formerly by his father of Henry Nor- ton. Administration was granted on his es- tate in 1692 to Lieutenant Abraham Preble. The estate was divided by mutual agreement, December 26, 1695, among Henry Simpson, Daniel Simpson, Joseph Simpson and Jonathan Littlefield in behalf of his wife Abigail (Simp- son) Littlefield. The real estate was divided between Daniel and Henry, Daniel having the personal, or movable property. Henry paid to the Littlefields eight pounds as the remainder of Abigail's portion, and to Joseph, when he came of age, forty-three pounds. The brother Jabez had been captured by the Indians and the agreement said "That if, by the Provi- dence of God, their brother Jabez Simpson ever returned from Captivity, that ye said Henry Simpson, Daniel Simpson and Jonathan Littlefield do mutually consent and agree that the said Jabez shall have an equal share and portion of their father's estate with ye rest, to be payed unto him proportionably by his breth- eren out of their respective portions." Henry "granted liberty" to his brother to cut fire- wood without ask upon Henry's land during the life of Daniel and his wife. Children of Henry and Abigail Simpson: 1. Henry. 2.
Daniel, mentioned below. 3. Joseplı. 4. Abi- gail, married Jonathan Littlefield. 5. Jabez, captured by Indians and never returned home.
(III) Daniel, son of Henry (2) Simp- son, was born in York, Maine. He married, July 2, 1701, Frances Plaisted, daughter of Roger Jr. and Hannah (Furber) Plaisted. (See sketch.) They sold their interest in the estate of Roger Plaisted Sr. (1) to Jolin Part- ridge; December 26, 1701, also sold a marsh formerly in possession of Ensign Henry Simp- son to Samuel Came. ( York Deeds, Vol. VI., Fol. 120 and 176.) He was called sergeant on the records. The live stock of his father came to him by agreement, and consisted of eight swine, three sheep, "half a mare and colt," one coat, one waist coat. The homestead of Dan- icl, formerly his father's, is described : "Half the breadth of ye land in ye south west side of ye river, leading up to Scotland, to extend to the lower end of ye pasture, and from thence ye whole breadth of ye whole lot, ex- tending southward as far as Bass Cove, alias Bass Creek, excepting that Henry Simpson to have ye barn now standing on said land and convenient about said barn, as also a small lot of three acres, more or less, formerly bought by me of John Harmon, out of said tract above mentioned. Furthermore that Daniel Simpson shall have one-half of that ten acres lying on ye southeast side of ye partings of York River." Daniel paid to Jon- athan Littlefield twenty pounds in addition to what his brother Henry paid for the share of their sister, Abigail Littlefield. Daniel Simp- son died October 5, 1747; his widow Frances died February 1I, 1747-48. Their children : I. Samuel, born July 17, 1697. 2. Henry, born April 13, 1698. 3. Abigail, born February 25, 1700; died October 20, 1716. 4. Hannah, born December 25, 1702. 5. Joseph, born April 27, 1705; died February 24, 1769. 6. Daniel, born September 30, 1707; mentioned below. 7. Jonathan, born April 7, 1709. 8. Mary, born July 13, 1712. 9. Jeremiah, born January 15, 1718.
(IV) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Simp- son, was born at York, September 30, 1707, and died there February 23, 1769. He mar- ried, January 16, 1729, Mary Coburn, daugh- ter of Ebenezer Coburn of York, Maine. His will was dated April 14, 1767, and proved April 11, 1769, bequeathing to wife Mary his personal estate, to son Daniel, part of home- stead, and to son Nathaniel, the lot he bought of Jolm Sedgley, where the testator then lived, besides other lands. These two sons re- ceived the real estate and had to pay legacies
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to the other children, Mary Sawyer, Miriam and Hannah Simpson. Children: 1. Daniel, born June 20, 1735 ; mentioned below. 2. Seth, born February 16, 1736-37; died yonng. 3. Mary, born August 16, 1739; married William Sawyer Jr., of Wells, Maine. 4. Nathaniel, called in the will of his father, the "youngest son." 5. Miriam, mentioned in will. 6. Han- nah, mentioned in will.
(1) Daniel (3). son of Daniel (2) Simp- son, was born in York, June 20, 1735. By his father's will he received the lot on which his dwelling house had been erected, four rods square, fronting northeast on the county road, four rods, and carrying that breadth down from the said road four rods. He married. December 23, 1763, Mary Sawyer, of Wells. They resided at York. He may have been the Daniel Simpson who died at York, January 16, 1774.
(VI) Daniel (4), son of Daniel (3) Simp- son, was born in York, about 1770-74. He married, at York, Nabby ( Abigail) Abbott, September 19, 1801. Children, born at York : 1. Daniel. 2. William, mentioned below.
(VII) William, son of Daniel (4) Simpson, was born about 1801, in York. He married in York, December 22, 1822, Mary Moore. Chil- dren, born in York: 1. David S. 2. Daniel. 3. Wallace. 4. Samuel. 5. George M. 6. Jeremiah P., born 1831, mentioned below. 7. Nancy. 8. Mary. 9. Lydia.
(VIII) Jeremiah P., son of William Simp- son, was born in York, in 1831. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. He left home in early youth to learn the iron founder's trade in the foundry of Roberts & Company, safe manufacturers, Boston. He advanced step by step to positions of responsi- bility in this concern, and was finally admitted to partnership. In 1870 he returned to York and established a retail lumber and coal busi- ness, continuing it with success until he re- tired from business in 1894. He took high rank as a business man. His integrity, hon- esty, strength of character, and good judgment were factors in his success. In politics Mr. Simpson is a Republican. He is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, Boston. He mar- ried (first) Sarah E. Howard, in 1854. He married (second), in 1862, Mary S. Lowe, born in York, in 1837, daughter of Joseph Lowe. Child of first wife: 1. Charles P., born 1855. Children of second wife: 2. Willard J., born 1865. 3. Alice M., born 1868. 4. Joseph W., born December 20, 1870, mentioned below. 5. Arthur, deceased.
(IX) Hon. Joseph W., son of. Jeremiah P.
Simpson, was born in York, December 20, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of York and at Kent's Hill Academy. After completing his schooling he and his brother, in partnership, succeeded to the coal and lumber business of their father. His brother, Willard J. Simpson, bought his interests at the end of five years, and in 1895 Joseph embarked in the meat and provision business, in which he has been very successful. He is also engaged in the real estate business in York.
Mr. Simpson is a Republican in politics ; was town treasurer in 1897 ; representative to the state legislature in 1897; state senator in 1905 and 1907. He served on the finance com- mittee during both terms in the senate, and was chairman the second term. He is a mem- ber of St. Aspinwall Lodge of Free Masons of York: of Unity Chapter. Royal Arch Masons ; Maine Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Bradford Commandery, Knights Templar, of Biddeford: Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, Lew- iston. He is also a member of Riverside Lodge, Odd Fellows, Kittery, and Dirigo En- campment, of Kittery. He married, 1899, Ida L. Rogers, danghter of John A. Rogers, of Reno, Nevada. They have adopted a daugh- ter, Amy F.
LANG Charles Edward Lang, son of Charles Lang, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was born in Ports- mouth ; married Judith Butler, and their chil- dren were: Thomas M. and Charles Edward (q. v.).
(II) Charles Edward (2), son of Charles Edward (1) and Judith (Butler) Lang, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Decem ber 25. 1816, and died in Boscawen, in 1900 He attended the public schools of Portsmouth removed to Georgetown, Massachusetts, where he learned the business of manufacturing shoes, and engaged in the occupation 1832-38, and subsequently worked in a shoe manufac- tory in Derry, New Hampshire, as shoe cutter, 1838-39, when he removed to Boscawen, New Hampshire, where he ended his working life and lived in retirement until he had attained the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He was originally a Whig, and when that political party disrupted in 1856 he joined the Repub- lican party. He was a long time member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Congregational church. He was married in 1834 to Rebecca H. Lake, who was born in Chelmsford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, March 15, 1815, died in Boscawen, New Hampshire, 1888. The children of Charles
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Edward and Rebecca H. (Lake) Lang, all born in Georgetown, Massachusetts: I. Thom- as M., who is a member of the firm of Jack- man & Lang, insurance agents, Concord, New Hampshire. 2. Abigail B., wife of Aaron Green, of Boscawen, New Hampshire. 3. Charles Alvah (q. v.)
(III) Charles Alvah, son of Charles Ed- ward (2) and Rebecca H. (Lake) Lang, was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts, July 6, 1838, and while yet an infant was taken by his parents to Nashua, New Hampshire, and thence to Boscawen. New Hampshire, where he received his school training and learned the business of making shoes, working at pegging when only eight years old and advancing through all the grades, becoming a master of the entire trade when fifteen years old. He was a journeyman shoemaker up to his twen- ty-second year. The civil war then broke out, and he enlisted as a volunteer in the Second New Hampshire Regiment at Concord, New Hampshire, in May, 1861, was sent with the regiment to the front in June, 1861, and was in the first battle of Bull Run, Virginia, July 21, 1861. His regiment having enlisted among the early three months' men, state duty, he was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment and re-enlisted for three years, but was dis- charged soon after on account of disability. He returned home again, taking up the busi- ness of shoemaking, working in a factory at Derry, New Hampshire, two or three years, and going hence to a shoe factory in Marl- borough. Massachusetts, where he engaged in the manufacture of shoe heels, and he re- mained there 1865-67. He worked in a fac- tory at Boscawen, 1867-69, and in Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, 1869-79, he carried on a large shop where he employed one hundred and twenty hands. He removed to Denver, Colorado, in 1879, and there engaged in the wholesale boot and shoe trade for ten years, and in connec- tion with his business purchased land and en- gaged in market gardening and also traveled on the road, introducing his trade in the far west. About 1890 he returned east and lo- cated in Harrison, Maine, but did not engage in active business. He became a Republican political worker in Maine, and served as sec- retary of the Republican town committee, and also held the offices of notary public and jus- tice of the peace. In 1899 he was recommend- ed to President Mckinley as a suitable man to fill the office of postmaster at Harrison, Maine, his sponsor at Washington being Hon. Thomas B. Reed, representative in the United States congress, and speaker of the house.
The president promptly made the appointment, and Mr. Lang has proved by his continuous administration of the business of the office the faith Speaker Reed had in his ability and fit- ness for the office. On the occasion of the destruction of the building in which the post- office at Harrison was located, burned in May, 1907. the most valuable portion of the contents of the office were safely stored in the fireproof safes, and it was a short matter for Postmaster Lang to secure quarters in the Bailey building and continue the business entirely without de- lay and with small loss or inconvenience to the public. He joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows while residing in New Hamp- shire in 1868. He also affiliated with the Ma- sonic fraternity, receiving his first instructions in the work of the order from the Mt. Carmal Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Lynn, Massachusetts. His service in the war of the rebellion admitted him as junior vice- commander of General Andre Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic, of Lynn, Massa- chusetts.
Mr. Lang married, in 1859. Clara, daughter of Gideon Huntress, of Boscawen, New Hampshire, and they had two children : I. Harry W., born in Boscawen, New Hamp- shire, February. 1861, and now a resident of Denver, Colorado. 2. Lizzie, born in Bos- cawen, New Hampshire, 1863, married Frank Fellows, and is now living in Helena, Mon- tana. The mother of these children died in Boscawen, New Hampshire, 1868, and Mr. Lang married (second), December 10, 1870, Juliet, daughter of Elliott and Frances Jane (Tuttle) Libby, of Gorham, Maine, and their child was: Charles Elliot Libby, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, January 10, 1882, educated in the public schools of Harrison, Maine, at North Bridgeton Academy, and at the Univer- sity of Maine, where he was graduated elec- trical engineer in 1906.
The Isle of Jersey in the ANTHOINE English channel was once a part of France, but for many years past has been counted among the British possessions. At one time its inhab- itants were almost wholly of French blood, and even now its people are largely of French extraction. The island has a considerable area of fertile lands and its inhabitants for centuries have been given to farming pursuits and the seafaring life. It is from this beautiful island region whence came the progenitor of the fam- ily proposed to be treated in this place.
(1) Nicholas Anthoine. the immigrant an-
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cestor of the family of that surname which has been known in New England history for nearly two centuries, was a native of the Isle of Jersey and came from thence to Marble- head, Massachusetts, some time previous to the year 1750. In the town and parish records his surname appears variously written An- thoine, Anthony, Anthoney and sometimes as Antony, according to the understanding or fancy of the recording officer; but the bap- tismal name of Nicholas Anthoine does not appear in the vital records of that ancient town, itself originally part of the still older town of Salem, and separated therefrom long before Nicholas Anthoine left the land of his birth. As to the date of his marriage with Rachel Hawkes the records give no light, nor of her birth and parentage; but there is no question of her being a descendant of the Hawkes family of Lynn, whose American an- cestor was one of the founders of that town in 1630. It is not surprising, however, that no account of this marriage appears when we con- sider the imperfections in the records made by the old town and parish clerks. Among the children of Nicholas and Rachel ( Hawkes) Anthoine were John, Rachel and Nicholas Jr.
(II) Nicholas Jr. (2), son of Nicholas (I) and Rachel ( Hawkes) Anthoine, is believed to have been born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and when he was a young man joined with a colony of emigrants who went down into the province of Maine and settled in what then was called New Marblehead, but now is the town of Windham. That town was settled by colonists from Marblehead and Salem soon after 1730, nearly thirty years before the el ler Nicholas Anthoine appeared in Marblehead ; therefore his son was not one of the proprie- tors of the new town. He was, however, a man of considerable prominence in his time, and it is said of him that although "he had only six weeks schooling in all his life, yet was a fine scholar, for many years a teacher in the common schools, and a teacher of Latin, and was particularly proficient in astronomy. He had his telescope and library of astronom- ical works, and used to calculate the various eclipses. He also studied medicine sufficiently to be of great use in that place and day, when physicians were remote." He married Anna Pettingill, with whom he became acquainted in his new home down in Maine.
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