Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 114

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818


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After residing in Standish for a time Jo- seph Roberts removed to Buckfield, and about the year 1799 became the first settler in Brooks, Waldo county, Maine, residing there for the remainder of his life, which termi- nated January 10, 1843. In addition to clear- ing two farms, in which he was aided by his sons, he built the first saw-mill in Brooks, also


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the first gristmill, and being a natural me- chanic engaged quite extensively in the manu- facture of wooden ware, chiefly household utensils. He was patriotic, industrious and frugal, morally sound and fervent in his re- ligious duties. November 28, 1777, he mar- ried (first) Esther Hamlin, born in Gorham, Maine, June 30, 1758, daughter of Joseph Hamlin. H. T. Andrews, in his "History of the Hamlin Family," states that the Hamlins are of remote German ancestry, and that the founder of the family in England was a fol- lower of William the Conqueror. The emi- grant ancestor of whom Esther was of the fifth generation in descent, was James Hamlin, who came over in 1639 and settled in Barn- stable, Massachusetts. He was also the an- cestor of the late Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, vice- president of the United States during the civil war, and several others of his posterity ac- quired national distinction. Israel Hamlin, son of James, resided in Barnstable, and the latter's son Jacob, who was born there in 1702, went to Gorham about 1743 and died there in 1774. In 1731 he married his cousin, Con- tent Hamlin, who died about the year 1800, and their only surviving child, Joseph, born prior to 1740, died June 17, 1763, shortly after his return from the French war. April 15, 1755, he married Hannah Whitney, whose parents were of York, Maine, and she died in 1797. Their children were: Jacob, Esther, Joseph and Sarah. Esther Hamlin, who be- came the first wife of Joseph Roberts, died in Buckfield in 1800. Joseph Roberts' second wife, whom he married in 1801, was Margaret Hall, who was born in Buckfield in 1777, daughter of Hatevil and Ruth (Winslow) Hall. She was a descendant in the sixth gen- eration of Deacon John Hall, who was born in England in 1617, and settled in Dover, New Hampshire, about the year 1650. Hatevil (3) Hall, a grandson of the emigrant, settled in Falmouth, Maine, in 1750, and the latter's son, also named Hatevil, who was born in Dover in 1736, married Ruth Winslow and went from Falmouth to Windham, thence to Buckfield and finally to Brooks. Hatevil Hall died in Brooks in 1804 and Ruth, his wife, died there in 1808. They were survived by thirteen children, the twelfth of whom was Margaret, who became the second wife of Joseph Roberts. Through her mother, Ruth (Winslow) Hall, she was of the fifth genera- tion in descent from Kenelm Winslow, a brother of Edward Winslow, who came in the "Mayflower" in 1620 and was twice chosen governor of the Plymouth colony (1633 and


1636). Kenelm Winslow, who was born in England in 1599 and emigrated to Plymouth in 1629, married the widow of John Adams in 1634 and settled in Marshfield, Massachu- setts. From Kenelm the line of descent is through Job (2) Winslow, and the latter's son James (3), who was born in 1687, settled in Falmouth, Maine, in 1728, and was the first Quaker in that town. Job (4) Winslow, son of James, was born in 1715, and accompanied his parents to Falmouth. His daughter Ruth married Hatevil Hall, as previously stated.


Joseph Roberts had twenty-four children and one hundred and fifty-seven grandchil- dren. The children of his union with Esther Hamlin, his first wife, were: I. Hannah, born February 20, 1778, married John Young in 1799, died in 1844; had thirteen children. 2. Tabitha, born January II, 1780, married James Roberts, a distant relative, in 1799; died November 26, 1868; had four children. 3. Sarah, born May 6, 1782, died in November, 1859. She married Shadrach Hall, a younger brother of her father's second wife, and had ten children. 4. Isaac, born May 10, 1784, married (first) Abigail Merrill, 1810; (sec- ond) Sarah Cobb, 1836; died 1862, had nine children. 5. Jacob, who will be again re- ferred to. 6. Elizabeth, born February 2, 1786, married John Cates, 1804, died June, 1832; had nine children. 7. Gilman, born Oc- tober 28, 1788, married (first) Ann Leathers ; (second) Susan Batchelder, 1830; died May 4, 1877 ; had twelve children. 8. Enoch, born March 27, 1791, married (first) Eleanor Leathers; (second) Eliza Aborn; died July 25, 1858; had eleven children. 9. An infant, born 1793, died 1793. 10. Esther, born March 20, 1795, married Daniel Hamilton, 1813; died 1877; had thirteen children. II. Lovina, born August, 1797, married Levi Bowen, 1818; died October, 1856; had twelve chil- dren. 12. Joseph, born November 2, 1799, married Lydia Knight, 1823; died October 26, 1885 ; had three children. The children of Jo- seph and Margaret (Hall) Roberts were: 13. Nathan, born February 5, 1802, died young. 14. Benjamin, born February, 1804, married Nancy Cilley, 1843; died November 23, 1864; had five children. 15. John, born January, 1806, married Harriet Jackson, 1834; died May, 1886; had eight children. 16. Alfred, born October 21, 1807, married (first) Caro- line Davis, 1831; (second) Sarah Roberts, 1860; died October 15, 1868; had fourteen children. 17. Ruth, born 1809, died young. 18. Mary, born 1811, died young. 19. Timo- thy, born July 31, 1812, married Nancy Gard-


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ter, 1835; died March 19, 1868; had four children. 20. Charles, born January, 1814, married Clarinda Havener; died January 6, 1840. 21. Nathan, born June 9, 1815, mar- ried (first) Elvira Irisli; (second) Mary Langham; died September 9, 1892; had five children. 22. Mary, born 1818, married Cal- vin Fogg; died December, 1893; had four children. 23. Winslow, born March 8, 1821, married (first) Amelia Putnam; (second) Cornelia Rand: (third) Maria Bangs; died June 17, 1879; had seven children. 24. Rufus, born April 14, 1823, married Adeline Files, 1844; died May, 1900; had six children ..


(VII) Dr. Jacob, one of the twins who were the eldest sons of Joseph and Esther (Ham- lin) Roberts, was born in Buckfield, May 10, 1784. Although having no educational ad- vantages prior to his fifteenth year, he subse- quently sought and obtained through his own efforts opportunities for study and profes- sional training, of which he availed himself to the fullest extent, ultimately becoming one of the most skillful physicians and surgeons east of Portland. He received his medical diploma at the age of twenty-five, having defrayed the expenses of his professional preparations by working upon his father's farm and by teach- ing district schools, and in 1810 he located in Brooks. His practice, which became very ex- tensive, necessarily covered a wide area, and for years he travelled on horseback, carrying his medicines and surgical instruments in sad- dlebags and exposing himself to the severity of the climate in the pursuit of his useful call- ing. Possessing a broad and liberal mind, and always a student, instead of opposing the in- troduction of the Hahnemann system of medi- cine he studied it carefully, and having, through close observation, been fully con- vinced of its soundness and efficacy he eventu- ally adopted it, becoming the pioneer homoeo- pathic practitioner in his section of the state. He afterward succeeded in converting several other old school physicians to the Hahnemann theory. In addition to his practice he culti- vated a farm and speculated quite extensively in timber lands. His benevolence caused a considerable portion of his practice to be un- remunerative, indeed, it is said that his charity patients far outnumbered those who con- tributed to his financial support, but he never- theless accumulated a good fortune. The last years of his life were spent in North Vassal- boro, Maine, where he died March 15, 1856, and he was succeeded in practice by his son- in-law, Dr. Barrows, and later by his grand- son, Dr. Francis Alton Roberts. He early


adopted the Quaker faith, also the broad- brimmed hat and plain garb of that sect. In politics he was originally a Whig, and later an Abolitionist. In 1810 Dr. Roberts married Huldah Moulton Myrick, of Hebron, Maine, born in Nortlf Yarmouth, this state, in 1793, daughter of Bezaleel and Huldah ( Moulton) Myrick. She died April 6, 1845, and in March, 1852, he married (second) Abby Jen- kins, of Vassalboro, who died in August of the same year. His first wife bore him eleven children : 1. Hamlin Myrick, who is referred hereinafter to. 2. Jacob Wellington, born No- vember 21, 1813, concluded his education at the Friends School in Providence, Rhode Is- land, and became a noted educator in Waldo and Knox counties; died December 18, 1849. Married (first) May 22, 1836, Phebe Susan, daughter of Isaac and Chloe Abbott, of Jack- son, Maine, who was born May 24, 1818, died in Brooks, December 26, 1844. Married (second) in June, 1849, Jane Lippencott, of South China, Maine. His children, all of first union, are: i. Edward Junius, who died in infancy; ii. Edward Junius, a prominent dentist of Augusta; iii. Freeman Myrick, a resident of Newport, Maine, and a veteran of the civil war; iv. Amorena, widow of Lemuel C. Grant. Mrs. Grant, who is residing in Boston, is the author of "The Roberts Fam- ily," from which much of the data for this article was obtained. 3. Amorena Deborah Theresa, born September 2, 1815, married Dr. Ezra Manter ; died June 20, 1852. 4. Barna- bas Myrick, born October 17, 1818, died in Stockton, Maine, December 20, 1896. Was a successful merchant and a member of the Maine senate during the civil war, and at one time collector of customs at Belfast. He mar- ried Emeline Rich, daughter of Joseph and a sister of Mary Ann Rich, who will be again referred to. 5. Charles Linneus, born April 14, 1821, became a prominent resident of Yates City, Illinois, where he served as postmaster for twelve years, and died there May 20, 1896. In 1855 he married Caroline P. Metcalf, of North Vassalboro, and she died in 1877. 6. Forteus Bezaleel, born July 27, 1823, taught school in New York and later in Illinois, where he subsequently engaged in railway con- struction ; became a real estate owner and cap- italist in Chicago; died in Brooklyn, New York, March 4, 1888. June 17, 1848, he was married in New York to Mary Ann Preckett, of Lansingburg, New York, who was born in Feresham, Kent, England, April 22, 1833. 7. Emily Esther, born in 1825, died in 1834. 8. Phebe Young, born April 5, 1828, became the


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wife of William Payson Miller in 1847 and died in September, 1849. 9. Huldah Jane, born December 19, 1830, married, March 25, 1852, Dr. Joseph Henry Barrows, a skillful homoeopathic physician who was born in Ox- ford, Maine, April 26, 1828, and died June 20, 1870, in Gardiner, Maine. She is now resid- ing in Boston. 10. Ellen Celilia, born May 27, 1833, was married in December, 1852, to Dr. Ezra Manter; was subsequently matron of the Home for Boys at Newton, Massachu- setts, and still later of the Girls' Industrial School at Hallowell, Maine; died August 10, 1901, in Augusta. II. William Pinkney, born January 25, 1836, graduated from the Hahne- mann Medical College, Chicago, and became a successful homoeopathic physician. His oppo- sition to Dr. Koch's theories regarding tuber- culosis has given him a national reputation and he is still engaged in philanthropic medi- cal work. He originated the American In- valid Aid Society organized in Boston. In 1859 he married (first) Susan A. Weeks, of Vassalboro, and on April 14, 1888, married (second) Cora B. Ferris, of Janesville, Wis- consin, where he now resides.


(VIII) Hamlin Myrick, son of Dr. Jacob Roberts, was born in Buckfield in 18II. After concluding his attendance at the common schools he turned his attention to agriculture, and became an industrious tiller of the soil, owning a good farm in South Jackson. He was a Quaker and therefore an Abolitionist, but steadfastly refused to accept nominations to town offices, which were frequently offered him by his fellow-townsmen. He finally sold his South Jackson property and returning to the homestead of his father in Brooks, he died there in June, 1856 .. He was a charter mem- ber of the Waldo County Agricultural So- ciety, and took an active interest in its annual fair and cattle show, which was held at Bel- fast, the county seat. In 1835 he married Mary Ann Rich, daughter of Joseph Rich. She survived him, marrying for her second hus- band, in.1859, Rev. Dexter Waterman, and she died in East Dixfield in 1877. Hamlin M. and Mary A. (Rich) Roberts were the parents of five children, all of whom were born in Jack- son. I. Allen Hamlin, born February 22, 1836, taught school in Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island; went to Elmwood, Illi- nois, in 1857, becoming local agent for the Peoria and Oquawka railroad, now a part of the Burlington system; later became a live- stock dealer at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Chi- cago, and is now residing in the last-named city. In 1863 he married Kate Weatherhead,


of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and their only child, Katie, died in Chicago at the age of nine years. 2. Francis Alton, M. D., born Au- gust 9, 1838, graduated from the Hahnemann Homoeopathic College in Philadelphia, in 1861; practiced medicine in China, Maine, Taunton, Massachusetts, Gardiner, North Vas- salboro and Waterville, Maine; died in the last-named place May 26, 1892. In December, 1861, he was married in China, Maine, to Mary F. Huzzy, and had one daughter, Emily, who died in 1873, at the age of three years. 3. Emily, born in 1840, died in 1848. 4. Nelson, born in 1842, died in 1848. 5. Cassius Clay, mentioned below.


(IX) Cassius Clay, youngest child of Hamlin Myrick and Mary Ann (Rich) Rob- erts, was born March 5, 1845, in Jackson, Maine, and passed his early life in that town. At the age of sixteen years, in August, 1861, he enlisted as a soldier in the Tenth Maine In- fantry, and served two years as a private, par- ticipating in the campaigns of General N. P. Banks in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, with General Pope and General McClellan at An- tietam. In 1863 he was commissioned as first lieutenant of United States troops and served six months in General Ulman's brigade in Louisiana, and the siege of Port Hudson. He then returned to Maine and enlisted as a pri- vate in the First Maine Heavy Artillery and was promoted successively to sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain, and served until the close of the war, being mus- tered out September II, 1865. He was pres- ent at the surrender at Appomattox. His entire service covered a period of four years and one month. At the battle of Cedar Moun- tain, August 9, 1862, he received a wound in the leg, and was again shot (in the left side) at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, May 19, 1864. On account of these injuries and his faithful and brave service, he is now the recipient of a pension from a grateful na- tion. After peace returned, Captain Roberts entered Eastman's Business College at Pough- keepsie, New York, from which he was grad- uated and subsequently was for two years a student at Bethany College, West Virginia. Returning to Maine he engaged in shipbuild- ing at Stockton, in partnership with others under the firm name of Colcord, Berry & Company. This partnership continued two years. For several years thereafter he con- ducted a general store at Stockton, and was chairman of the board of selectmen of the town for three years, and in 1878 was elected to the state senate from Waldo county. For some


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time subsequent to this he was engaged in the commission business at Boston, Massachusetts, and was three years of that time, 1880-1883, political reporter for the Boston Globe from state of Maine. In 1884 Captain Roberts re- moved to Chicago and for two years was en- gaged in the grocery business there. During a period of fourteen years he was publisher and editor of the Chicago Opinion, was two years city press reporter, and is at present and has been for six years superintendent of sev- eral branch postoffice stations in that city. He is an active member of George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., of Chicago, and the Illinois Loyal Legion and of the Christian Science church in that city. He is affiliated with Riv- erside Lodge, No. 12, A. F. and A. M., and with Corinthian Chapter, R. A. M. of Belfast, Maine. He is also a member of the Royal League, a beneficent fraternal organization, and of Central Graduate Association of Chi- cago National College, Theta Delta Chi As- sociation. Captain Roberts married (first) Paulina E. Colcord, daughter of Josiah and Jane (Berry) Colcord, of Stockton, and she was the mother of two daughters, Parepa Col- cord, born August 7, 1869, now the wife of William I. Bennett, of Chicago, and Paulina E., wife of James J. Lawler, of Chicago. Paulina E. Roberts died November 30, 1875, and Captain Roberts married (second) Mar- garet, daughter of James J. Bennett, of Clyde, Illinois. She died in July, 1900, and Mr. Rob- erts married (third) January 5, 1904, at Lou- isville, Kentucky, Katherine T. Harlan, of that place, and they are the parents of a son Cas- sius Harlan, born March 13, 1905.


ROBERTS It is impossible to speak of Bar Harbor, and of its phe- nomenal rise from a small fishing village in the sixties to the queen of American summer resorts and not to mention the name of Tobias Roberts. Giles Roberts was about Scarboro, Maine, as far back as 1675. He made his will January 25, 1666, and left five children. He is the beginning of the strong and capable Roberts family in Maine, though the connection has never been worked out.


(I) Tobias Roberts was born in Lyman, Maine, came to Bar Harbor in 1839, and was a school teacher, postmaster, a justice of the peace, town clerk and enrolled in the Maine state militia, surveyor of lumber and conducted a general store. He wrought at many things and won out in them all. He was the first to cater to summer travel, and built the first land-


ing at the Harbor at which the steamer "Lew- iston" touched. His first guests were artists and explorers. In 1855 he built the "Aga- mont," the first hotel opened for the reception of summer people, and was largely instru- mental in the erection of Union Chapel, Bar Harbor's initiative movement in ecclesiastical history. Mr. Roberts married Mary Whit- tington, who was born in Cohasset, Massachu- setts. He died in 1879; she in 1887. Chil- dren: Tobias L., Irene O., married Fred J. Alley ; Iqua S., John L., and William Mar- tin, see forward.


(II) William M., youngest son of Tobias and Mary (Whittington) Roberts, was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, February 27, 1848, and sought his rudimentary learning in the public schools of his native village. Before he was out of his teens he embarked in the hotel busi- ness, following in the footsteps of his father, and built the "Newport House," to which he has made several annexes. He is a director and vice-president of the Bar Harbor Na- tional Bank, and is recognized as one of the most public-spirited men among the perma- nent residents of the famed resort. Mr. Rob- erts is a Democrat in political faith; he is a member of the Bar Harbor board of trade. Mr. Roberts married Miriam H. Ash, a na- tive of Bar Harbor, Maine, and had one son, John W., born August 22, 1870, died in No- vember, 1904. He was educated at Water- ville and at a Portland business college and was of great help to his father and a likely and promising young man, whose early taking off is to be deplored.


This name is of French extrac- PINEO tion and is among the many who joined the Puritans in New Eng- land because of the religious liberty here en- joyed. The number of people of this class is much greater than is generally supposed. One of the first of these was Philip de la Noye, who came over in 1621 in the ship "Fortune" and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The prosecution and execution of Protestants in France drove many people out of that un- happy country, about the close of the seven- teenth century.


(I) The first record of this family now known gives an account of a young Hugue- not named Jacques Pineo, probably of a Wal- densian family and was naturalized in London in 1690. It appears from this record that he had moved from France to England about 1688. He had escaped from Lyons, France, when the King's troops were hanging many of


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his contemporaries. Leaving England, he ar- rived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and very shortly afterward settled in Lebanon, Con- necticut. He was there married, in 1706, to Dorothy Babcock, and undoubtedly passed the remainder of his life there, where nine chil- dren are recorded as follows: James (died young), James, Sarah, Submit, Elizabeth, Daniel, Joseph, Peter and Dorothy.


(II) Peter, fifth son of Jacques and Doro- thy (Babcock) Pineo, was reared in Lebanon, and removed in 1763 to Cornwallis, Nova Sco- tia, where the English government was mak- ing liberal grants of land to settlers. He had previously lived for a time in New Hampshire, where two of the six sons who accompanied him to Nova Scotia were born. His wife, Elizabeth (Sampson) Pineo, was a great- granddaughter of Henry Sampson, one of the Pilgrims, who settled at Plymouth, Massachu- setts. They had seven children, the second and third being twins, namely: Peter, David, Jonathan, John, Betsy, Daniel and William.


(III) Jonathan, third son of Peter and Elizabeth (Sampson) Pineo, twin of David, was born September 8, 1747, in the north parish of Lebanon, Connecticut, and died at Cooper, Maine, at the home of his son, Otis, June 10, 1821. One authority says that he re- sided for a short time in New Haven, Con- necticut, whither he removed to Machias, Maine; another authority says that he went to Nova Scotia, with his father, and removed from there to Machias. At any rate he set- tled in the last-named place about 1770. In 1774 he was among the subscribers to a fund for the construction of the first meeting- house in Machias, and four years later was among the subscribers in support of the min- ister, Rev. James Lyon. A record made July 19, 1784, shows him to have been at that time chairman of the board of assessors. He was a prominent citizen in Machias, as were his sons after him. He joined the church there on profession of faith in April, 1796, at the age of forty-nine years. It is probable that this occurred about the time of the death of his first wife, Esther (Libby) Pineo, daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Stone) Libby, of Machias, born in that place in May, 1750, and died there January 10, 1796. She was the mother of eight sons and three daugh- ters. In 1787 they resided in Cooper, Maine, where he was for some time confined to the house with a broken leg. During this en- forced idleness he made a powder-horn, upon which he carved moose, ducks, Indians with pipes in their mouths, a canoe, paddles, fish,


birds and snakes, with his name and the date, April 24, 1787. This horn is still in the pos- session of the family, and highly prized as a relic of his time. His second wife, whose maiden name was Bridget Byron, was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, daughter of an admiral in the English navy and lived in New York City at the close of the revolutionary war. Her first husband was a sea captain, named Doty, of St. Andrews, New Bruns- wick. One of his ships was captured by the French in the French and Indian war, and he died at sea while on a voyage. His wife safely navigated the vessel after his death to the United States. She was a woman of great intelligence, highly educated and possessing a remarkable memory. She had a wide knowl- edge of the world derived from her voyages with her first husband. She had a genial na- ture, her society was much sought after, and she was always a welcome visitor at the homes of rich and poor alike. Her daughter, Mary Ann, became the wife of Otis Pineo, son of her second husband, who was the first child born in St. Andrews, New Bruns- wick, in September, 1783. The British crown granted a large tract of land to her first male child, where the village of St. Andrews now stands. By his second marriage, Jona- than Pineo had five children. After his death his widow lived among them. She visited her granddaughters at Sag Harbor, New York, in 1844, and died at Cherryfield, Maine, at the age of ninety-nine years. Jonathan Pineo's children were: Jonathan, Otis, David, George, Elizabeth, Timothy, Esther, Peter, Daniel, Gamaliel, Mary, James Doty, John R., Ruby W., Charles Byron and Rufus Patten.


(IV) David, third son of Jonathan and Esther (Libby) Pineo, was born February 17, 1774, in Machias, Maine, and died January 24, 1863, in Calais, Maine. He was a farmer and lived between Machias and East Machias and subsequently resided for a time in St. Steph- ens, New Brunswick, where his wife died. He married, December 13, 1796, Pricilla Hill, of Machias, who was born there July 28, 1780, died September 13, 1850, in St. Steph- ens. Their children were: Eliza C., Mary Ann, Jane, David, Hannah Hill, Amelia, Stephen Hill and John Smith.




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