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(VI) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (I) and Anna (Moulton) Harmon, was born in Scar- borough, Maine. He established himself as a general trader in business at Thorndike about 1820, and was later succeeded by his son, True- man. He married Betsey, daughter of John and Betsey (Knowles) Gordon, first of Mount Vernon and later of Thorndike, Maine. Their children were: Abigail, died young ; Trueman, see forward; Frank; Daniel; Lydia, married Tabor; Ralph; Elizabeth, married Dr. Albert Lincoln, of Gorham, Maine; Josiah Wesley, of Old Town, Maine, recently de- ceased.
(VII) Trueman, eldest son and second child of Josiah (2) and Betsey (Gordon) Harmon, was born in Thorndike, Maine, Sep- tember 18, 1825, and died in Deering, Maine, May 15, 1886. Upon the completion of his education in the common schools and the academy, he entered upon a career as a trader in Thorndike, and proved very successful in his business ventures. He took an active part in politics and became well known throughout that section of the state of Maine. He was appointed collector of the port of Belfast by
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President Lincoln, in 1861, holding the office for ten years, when he removed with his family to Deering, Maine, now a part of Port- land. He was married at Thorndike, Maine, December 15, 1850, by Rev. Gould F. Elliott, to Harriett, born December 5, 1825, died No- vember 8, 1903, daughter of Ebenezer Scott Thomes and Patience (Phinney) Files (see Files). They had children: Charles S., born August 18, 1854; Annie B., born June 22, 1865, married Fred Vivian Matthews (see Matthews) ; Harry True, born May 17, 1869, now all residents of Portland ( 1909).
HODGDON This second line of the Hodgdon family were resi- dents of Maine, living in or about Boothbay, and descended from progeni- tors already mentioned.
(V) Captain Thomas Hodgdon, tradition says, was a son, but dates of record indicate that it is more probable that he was a grand- son of Alexander and Jane (Shackford) Hodgdon, a great-grandson of Jeremiah and Ann (Thwaits) Hodgdon, of Kittery, Maine, and a great-great-grandson of Nicholas and Esther (Wines) Hodgdon. He was born about 1735, in Boston or Kittery, and about 1757, with an elder brother, Caleb, went from there and settled on Jeremy Squam Island, now Westport, Maine. Joseph, undoubtedly another brother, settled for a time in Town- send, the adjoining town, at about this time, and was there in 1764, a petitioner for the in- corporation of the town of Boothbay; and Benjamin, probably another brother, was in Edgecomb, another adjoining town, in 1777. Thomas Hodgdon was a prominent man, cap- tain of a company in Colonel William Jones's regiment in the revolution, under a commis- sion dated May 8, 1776. His son John's fath- er-in-law, John Dunton, a man of great stat- ure, strength and endurance, was lieutenant in Captain Hodgdon's company. They also par- ticipated in the expedition against Majorbaga- duce (Castine, Maine), in 1779, and in other important service during the revolution. Thomas Hodgdon was the progenitor of a nu- merous race. His children were: Thomas, Jr., Benjamin, John, see forward, Joseph, Ca- leb, Prudence, Rebecca, Abigail and Mercy.
(VI) John, third son of Captain Thomas Hodgdon, was born at Jeremy Squam Island, February 10, 1769. He married (first) De- borah Dunton, born June 10, 1774, died Feb- ruary 6, 1812, sixth child of Lieutenant John and Abigail (Walker) Dunton, and grand- daughter of Andrew and Mary (Grant)
Walker, of Woolwich, Maine. Mr. Hodgdon married (second) Lucy, daughter of Zebe- diah Farnham, of Westport, and she was the mother of six children. The seventeen chil- dren of John Hodgdon were: Emerson, John, Timothy, see forward, Lowell, Abigail, Alfred, Rebecca, Elvira, Edwin, Ira, Samuel, Warren, Rufus, Cyrus, Lucy, Ann and Mary.
(VII) Timothy, third son of John and De- borah (Dunton) Hodgdon, was born at West- port, near Boothbay, March 13, 1798, and died at Boothbay, October 19, 1881. Prior to his marriage he settled on a large farm on Saw- yer's Island, Boothbay, where the remainder of his life was spent. In the war of 1812 he served as a boy in the militia for coast guard at Wiscasset, Maine. He married, July 20, 1820, Frances Tibbetts, of Boothbay, born De- cember 2, 1801, died January 28, 1875, and whose ancestry will be found below. Of their children, four died in infancy, nine married and had children. Those who lived to marry were: Zina H., Mary E., George F., James Payson, Angelia F., Roxanna S., Alonzo K., Lovesta, who married Captain Elbridge Matthews (see Matthews VIII), and Roscoe G.
Henry Tibbetts (I) and Jeremiah Tibbetts (II) are written of elsewhere in this work.
(III) Samuel, sixth child of Jeremiah and Mary (Canny) Tibbetts, was born in 1666, and died in 1738. He was a tanner and far- mer by occupation, and a captain in the colon- ial army. He was married, by Rev. John Pike, September 2, 1686, to Dorothy Tuttle, of Dover, and they had nine children.
(IV) Ichabod, fifth son of Samuel and Dorothy (Tuttle) Tibbetts, was born in 1690, and died February 25, 1746. He was a far- mer and tanner, also a captain in the colonial army, and saw active service during the early wars. He married his cousin, Abigail Tib- betts, by whom he had eight children.
(V) Nathaniel, fourth child of Ichabod and Abigail (Tibbetts) Tibbetts, was born at Dover, August 30, 1727. He settled at Booth- bay, Maine, about 1759, with the members of his wife's family, built a log house in the Dover district, but shortly afterward built far- ther north in the same district. He married Elizabeth Giles, born in Dover in 1729, died in Boothbay, June 1, 1822, daughter of Mark and Lydia Elizabeth (Tibbetts) Giles, of Dover. Their children were: Ichabod, Na- thaniel, John, Giles, Abigail, Mark, Judith, Rebecca, James, Sarah and Polly.
(VI) James, ninth child and youngest son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Giles) Tibbetts.
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was born at Boothbay, December 9, 1768, and died December 15, 1858. He married (pub- lished January 23, 1790) Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Dexter) Lewis, and they had children: William, Isaac, Lois, Nathaniel, Eunice, Frances, who married Timothy Hodg- don, as mentioned above, James, Mary Carl- ton, Payson, Sarah A., Eliza A., and Abigail.
John Coggan, the first of the
COGGAN name in New England, ap- pears first in Dorchester in 1632, and took the freeman's oath November 5, 1633. The surname in the various parish and town records is written Cogan, Coggen, Coggin and Coggan. John Coggan was a merchant in Boston, became possessed of con- siderable wealth and appears, according to Washburn's "Judicial History of Massachu- setts," to have acted as one of the attorneys under the old charter of the colony of Mas- sachusetts Bay. His first wife Ann joined the church in Boston, and. had her daughter Ann recorded to have been born November 9, 1636, baptized November, 1636, and another daugh- ter, Lydia, born and baptized July 14, 1639. John Coggan's second wife was Mary
who died January 14, 1652; and his third wife, whom he married March 16, 1652, was Martha, daughter of Captain William Rain- borow, and widow first of Thomas Coytemore, and second of Governor John Winthrop. By his third wife he had one child, Caleb, born December 15, 1652, baptized December 26, 1652. He had also as members of his house- hold three children of his brother Humphrey, who did not come to New England. These children were: Mary, born in England; Eliz- abeth, probably was born in Dorchester, as the mother doubtless came with either one or both children in company with her brother-in- law, John Coggan. The third child of John Coggan was John Jr., so called to distinguish him from his uncle of the same baptismal name. The younger John Coggan was admit- ted freeman of Boston, May 18, 1642, mar- ried and had a daughter Sarah, born Decem- ber 25, 1637; died 1674. Mary Coggan mar- ried (first) John Moody, of Roxbury, and (second) Thomas Robinson, of Scituate, and had three children. Her sister Elizabeth mar- ried Joseph Rock. John Coggan, the immi- grant, died in Boston in April, 1658, and in 1660 his widow Martha administered his will, made December 16, 1657, and in it he mentions his wife Martha, son Caleb, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Rock, and John, son of his brother
Humphrey, to whom he bequeathed a gold ring, and twenty pounds to the children of Windsor. A letter from Rev. John Daven- port, printed in "Massachusetts Historical Collections," (v. 45), contains a story of un- usual interest of the widow of John Coggan. The property of John Coggan, immigrant, mentioned in his will, included besides houses and a shop in the town of Boston, a farm at Rumney Marsh, a corn mill at Mystic Side (Malden), and five hundred acres of land in the town of Woburn.
(I) Henry Coggan, another immigrant, was of Boston in 1634, removed thence to Scituate, and in 1639 to Barnstable, Massachusetts, and died in England while on a visit there, in June, 1649. The baptismal name of his wife was Abigail; children: I. Abigail, born prob- ably before her father settled in Boston. 2. Thomas, baptized March I, 1640, died Jan- uary 26, 1659. 3. John, born February 12, 1643. 4. Mary, born April 20, 1645, died soon. 5. Henry, born October 11, 1646. Af- ter the death of her husband Abigail Coggan married June 10, 1650, John Phinney, and died May 6, 1653. Her daughter Abigail married June 21, 1659, John French, of Bil- lerica, and died soon afterward. We have here three brothers, John, of Boston, who set- tled in Dorchester, 1632; Humphrey, of Eng- land, whose son John was brought up in the family of John, of Boston; and Henry, of Barnstable, 1639, who had a son John bap- tized February 12, 1643.
(II) John, son of Humphrey Coggan, of England, and nephew of John Coggan, of Dorchester, and probably a nephew of Henry Coggan, of Dunstable, immigrants, was made freeman in Boston, May 18, 1642. He mar- ried and had a daughter Sarah, born Decem- ber 25, 1657, died 1674.
(II) John Coggan, son of Henry and Abi- gail Coggan, was born February 12, 1643, and was of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He married December 22, 1664, Mary, daughter of Michael Long, and died in Charlestown May 7, 1681. John and Mary (Long) Cog- gan had three children : 1. John, born August 27, 1666. 2. Henry, April 13, 1669. 3. Abi- gail, 1671, married 1702, John Teal, school- master.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) and Mary (Long) Coggan, was born in Charlestown, August 27, 1666, and removed to Bristol, Maine.
(IV) John (3), son of Jolın (2) Coggan, was a farmer and lived in Bristol, Maine.
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(V) John (4), son of John (3) Coggan, of Bristol, Maine, was born in Bristol, in May, 1790.
(VI) Taber, son of John (4) Coggan, was born in Bristol, Maine, and married March 19, 1812, Betsey, daughter of - Kingsbury, stepdaughter of Leach, and widow of Lemuel Bryant. Taber Coggan died in Bris- tol, Lincoln county, Maine, June 2, 1863.
(VII) Leonard Chamberlain, son of Taber and Betsey (Kingsbury-Bryant) Coggan, was born in Bristol, Maine, September 24, 1898. He was reared in Bristol, on a farm, and was a farmer all his life. He married Betsey Mar- tin Webber, born 1825, died February 24, 1894, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Farrar) Webber, of Bremen, Lincoln county, Maine (see Webber). His children: I. Al- den, was a merchant in Boston, where he mar- ried Anna Dow, of Quincy, now deceased ; they had daughter Lizzie F., who married Frank Webber; resides in Bremen, Maine. 2. Marcellus, see forward. 3. James W., a brick manufacturer, in Kansas. 4. Annie, married James McGuire, of Webster, Massa- chusetts, where they reside. 5. Lizzie F., died young.
(VIII) Marcellus, son of Leonard Cham- berlain and Betsey Martin (Webber) Cog- gan, was born in Bristol, Maine, September 6, 1847, and prepared for college at Lincoln Academy, New Castle, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College, A. B., with the class of '72, and was principal of Nichols Academy, Dudley, Massachusetts, from 1872 until 1879, during which time also he was chairman of the school board of the town. He then re- moved to Malden, Massachusetts, and took up the study of law in the office of Child & Powers, Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in 1881. Having come to the bar he practiced in Malden and Boston, and in 1886 formed a law partnership with William Scho- field, under the style of Coggan & Schofield, a relation which was continued until 1896, after which Mr. Coggan practiced without a part- ner until 1904, when his son, Marcellus Sum- ner Coggan, who was admitted to the bar in 1900, became his law partner. Marcellus Coggan married, November 28, 1872, Luella Blanche, daughter of Calvin Chandler and Lucinda Boothby (Butterfield ) Robbins. Three children were born of this marriage: I. Marcellus Sumner, born Dudley, Massa- chusetts, November 14, 1873; prepared for college in Boston Latin School; graduated
from Bowdoin College, A. B., 1897, and from Boston University Law School, LL. B., 1900. In the same year he was admitted to practice in the courts of Massachusetts, and at once became a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1904 he became partner in law practice with his father, with principal offices in Boston. He married, January 4, 1899, Mattie M. Hanson, daughter of Luther L. and Alice (Rogers) Hanson, of Malden. Their son, Marcellus Sumner Coggan, Jr., was born December 22, 1905. 2. Linus Child, born Malden, June 10, 1884; graduated from Malden high school, 1903, and from Tufts College, A. B., 1907. 3. Florence Betsey, born April 26, 1886; grad- uated from Winchester high school, 1906.
In Malden, Marcellus Coggan was a mem- ber of the school committee, one year acting as chairman, and always took an active in- terest in the welfare of the city in every re- spect. He is a strong Republican, and as the candidate of that party was mayor of Malden in 1886-87. Both he and the several members of his family are members of the Universalist church. He is a member also of Converse Lodge, F. and A. M., of Malden, and of Malden Lodge No. 201, I. O. O. F. During his residence in that city he also was associated with various other organizations, including those of social and professional char- acter.
WEBBER
The earliest Webber (or Web- er) ancestors came to America from Holland in the early part
of the seventeenth century, and nearly all who bear that surname in New York and New England claim descent from one Wolfert Webber, who was born in Amsterdam, Hol- land, about 1600, and came to New Amster- dam, now New York City, about 1633, in company with the Dutch Governor Van Twil- ler. Wolfert Webber had a grant of land in New Amsterdam of about sixty-two acres, lying between Broadway and the Hudson river and between Duane and Chambers streets. Something like a generation ago an attempt was made by some of the heirs of Wolfert Webber to claim this property, on the ground that the lease under which it was held had expired, and also to enforce a claim to a share in the estate of Wolfert's parents in Holland, which was said to have been placed in trust in 1645 for the heirs of the third gen- eration, and that distribution never had been made according to the provisions of the trust. Of course the claimants failed of success, for
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their contention, which was stimulated by scheming parties, was groundless from the be- ginning.
(I) Thomas Webber, with whom this nar- rative begins, lived at the mouth of the river Kennebec, Maine, as early as the year 1649. He married Mary, daughter of John Parker, Sr., and had five sons and one daughter.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas and Mary (Parker) Webber, lived for a time at Glouces- ter, Massachusetts, and died in York, Maine, in 1716.
(III) Waitt, son of Samuel Webber, re- moved from York to Harpswell, Maine, in 1738.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Waitt Webber, and great-grandfather of Betsey Martin Webber, married Polly -, and lived in Harpswell, Maine.
(V) Joshua, son of Benjamin and Polly Webber, was born in 1761, and died March 3, 1819; married January 26, 1791, Elizabeth, born 1776, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Martin, of Marblehead, Massachusetts. She died November 12, 1841.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Joshua and Eliza- beth (Martin) Webber, was born in Bristol, Maine, November 4, 1792, and died in Brem- en, Maine, September 27, 1851. He married, December 27, 1818, Margaret Farrar, born Bristol, Maine, April 18, 1792, daughter of John ( 1756-1847) and Hannah (Burns) Far- rar, and great-granddaughter of John and Hannah Farrar. John Farrar died in 1809. His wife Hannah was a daughter of Deacon William and Jane (McClintock) Burns. Deacon Burns, born 1733, died 1827, was a native of Cornwall, England, and is said to have been of noble blood. John Farrar, born 17II, died 1809, had seven sons, all of whom served in the American army during the revo- lution, and their mother fitted out these sons with all the clothing they wore and carried, except shoes. She spun, wove, cut out and made all these garments with her own hands, and sent out her boys as well equipped as any other soldiers in the ranks. They all returned to her except Thomas, who died in the service. The children of Benjamin and Margaret (Far- rar) Webber were: Betsey M., Hannah H., John F., Betsey M. (2d), Margaret M., James F. and Samuel (twins), Charles M., Cynthia and Benjamin.
(VII) Betsey Martin Webber, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Farrar) Webber, married Leonard Chamberlain Coggan, farm- er of Bristol, Lincoln county, Maine (see Cog- gan).
TITCOMB
Like many other York county families the Titcombs are de- scended from an immigrant
from England who located on the eastern shore of Massachusetts, and one of his de- scendants followed the coast line north, es- tablishing himself in Kennebunk.
(I) William Titcomb, of Newbury, Berk- shire, England, came in the ship "Hercules" to Massachusetts Bay in 1634, and settled at Quascacumquen, which, in the following year, was renamed Newbury in remembrance of the old English town. He was one of the origi- nal proprietors, and during the early years of the town's history was a prominent man in its political and religious affairs. He was ad- mitted a freeman in 1642; was a selectman for the first time in 1646; was representative to the general court in 1655 and was assigned by both the colonial and town governments to several important committees. In the long controversy between the Rev. Thomas Parker and a portion of the church he was in oppo- sition to the pastor, and when the matter was at length submitted to the court at Ipswich for a decision he, with his associates, were declared by that body to be guilty of grave misdemeanors. (N. B. As lack of space pre- vents the giving a detailed account of this controversy, it is here stated for the benefit of the readers of this work who are unfamiliar with its origin that the trouble was not of an ecclesiastical or doctrinal nature, but re- lated wholly to the question of church govern- ment.) William Titcomb died September 24, 1676, of a severe attack of fever and ague. He married (first) Joanna Bartlett, daugh- ter of Richard Bartlett Sr., of Newbury, and she died June 28, 1653, immediately after childbirth. On March 3, 1654, he married (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, presumably the widow of William Stevens, and she sur- vived him. The children of first union were: Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Mellicent, William (died young) Penuel and Benaiah. Those of second marriage were: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Tirzah, William, Thomas, Lydia and Ann.
(II) Penuel, second son and sixth child of William and Joanna (Bartlett) Titcomb, was born in Newbury, December 16, 1650. He re- sided in that part of the town which is now Newburyport and was one of the founders of a new church in that locality. Residing a.con- siderable distance from the mother church in Newbury, more than three hundred people desired permission to establish a church of their own to be located on Pipe-stave hill, and the town having refused to accede to their
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request they proceeded to erect a meeting- house and called a pastor upon their own re- sponsibility. This act on their part led to serious consequences, as they were prosecuted and some of the seeeders sought and obtained protection from the established Church of England. The trouble was ultimately adjusted to the satisfaction of all coneerned. Among the leaders of the new church people was Penuel Titeomb, and he was one of the six who were served with a process forbidding the building of their meeting-house. He did not, however, become an Episcopalian. January 8, 1684, he married Lydia Poore, daughter of John Poore, of Newbury. Their 'children were: Sarah (died young), Sarah, William, John and Joseph.
(III) Joseph, youngest child of Penuel and Lydia (Poore) Titeomb, born in Newbury, July 27, 1700, died in 1722. He married Sarah Batehelder, daughter of John Batehel- der, of Reading, Massachusetts, and was the father of but two children, Abigail and Stephen. His widow married (second) Sam- uel Sewall, son of John and Hannah ( Fes- senden) Sewall, and went to reside in York, Maine.
(IV) Captain Stephen, only son of Joseph and Sarah (Batehelder) Titeomb, was born in Newbury, December 27, 1721. When a young man he developed a capacity for busi- ness which he found impossible to exercise in his native town, and coming to Kennebunk about 1740 he displayed a spirit of enterprise which was quite unknown in the locality at that time. Having erected a garrison house as a means of protection from the Indians, who were still troublesome, he engaged extensively in trade, also in shipbuilding, owning several vessels employed in the coastwise trade, and built a sawmill on Middle river in Arundel, where he manufactured lumber. During the agitation which preceded the American revo- lution he strongly supported the cause of national independence, and upon receiving news of the battle of Lexington he immediately set out at the head of twenty-two patriots for the scene of hostilities. Arriving at Ports- mouth he was informed that his little company would not then be needed and they accord- ingly returned. He acted as agent for the town in the prosecution of all persons inimical to the state or federal governments; served as selectman and as captain of the local militia company; was one of the founders of the Second Congregational Church at Kennebunk and officially connected with it for many years. After the close of Indian hostilities
he remodelled his old garrison house into a more pretentious and comfortable residence, in . which he passed the sunset of his life enjoy- ing the fruits of his business enterprises. He died May 23, 1815, after witnessing the tri- umph of the United States in the second con- flict with Great Britain. He married Abigail Stone and had a family of seven children : Joseph, who died at the age of twenty-one; Benjamin, who will be again referred to; Stephen, Sarah, who married Daniel Mitehell ; Abigail, Samuel and John.
(V) Benjamin, second child of Captain Stephen and Abigail (Stone) Titeomb, was born in Kennebunk, May 21, 1751. He settled upon a large farm in Alewife, where he be- eame a prosperous tiller of the soil, and for a period of thirty years was a member of the board of selectmen. He lived to be seventy- six years old and went to his final rest De- eember 26, 1827. He was a prominent mem- ber of the Christian church. He married (first) Mary Burnham, and they were the parents of five children : Benjamin, who married Mary Waterhouse; Hannah, who died young ; James, Joseph, and a second Hannah, who married John Perkins. He married (second) Hannah Bragdon, who bore him four children: Sam- uel, David, Abigail and Lydia. He married (third) Mrs. Nancy Gates (nee Hemingway), daughter of Rev. Moses Hemingway, D. D., of Wells, and widow of Dr. Gates.
(VI) James, second son and third ehild of Benjamin and Mary (Burnham) Titeomb, was born in Kennebunk, March 14, 1783. He resided in his native town and died there Oe- tober 14, 1844. He married Abigail Durrell and she became the mother of seven children : Joseph, Luey Wildes, who died in infancy ; George Payson, William, Luey Wildes, who became the wife of James M. Stone; James W. and Abby.
(VII) Hon. Joseph, eldest child of James and Abigail (Durrell) Titeomb, was born in Kennebunk, January 8, 1822. He began his education in the publie sehools, continued it at Dumner Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts, and completed it at Bowdoin College. He became one of the leading business men of York county and a famous shipbuilder of his day, devoting much time and capital to the construction of merehantmen, and among the notable ships which he gave to the merchant service were the "St. John Smith," and the "J. B. Brown," of Portland. During the civil war he built vessels for the government, and from 1870 to 1880 was in partnership with William Thompson, under the firm name of
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