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(IV) Isaac, son of Stephen (2) Randall, was born about 1735-40. He was on the tax- list in 1760 for five shillings sixpence. Ste- phen and Jacob were also taxpayers. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Caleb Turner's company in 1775; later was corporal in 1775, serving at Georgetown, Maine.
(V) Dr. Isaac H., son or nephew of Isaac Randall, was born about 1780-90 at Falmouth. He came to Vassalborough, Maine, to practice, and died there at the age of thirty-eight. He had a brother, Job Randall, of Falmouth (Portland). There were other children. He married Rachel Fuller Percival, widow of Na- thaniel Percival, a native of Cape Cod. Chil- dren : Hildanus, George, Dulcy and James D., born at Vassalborough, 1817, mentioned be- low. Rachel Fuller above mentioned was born
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in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and was one of several children.
(VI) James D., son of Dr. Isaac H. Ran- dall, was born at Vassalborough, October 10, 1817. He lived in his native town all his life. He married, August 18, 1840, Mary Percival, daughter of Captain John Percival, who was lost at sea. Captain Percival was a brother of Nathaniel and Bathsheba Percival, all born on Cape Cod. Children : Hollis R., born De- cember 26, 1841. Osborne P., July 18, 1845. Lizzie M., born at Vassalborough, July 26, 1854, married Edward P. Page. (See Page family herewith.)
John Page, immigrant ancestor,
PAGE was born in England. He settled first in Hingham, Massachusetts, and was one of the signers of a petition to the general court, November 4, 1646. He re- moved to Haverhill about 1652. He died No- vember 23, 1687. Administration of his es- tate was granted to his grandson, Thomas Page, March 12, 1721-22, and the estate was finally divided in November, 1723. His wid- ow died February 15, 1796-97. He married Mary Marsh, daughter of George Marsh. Children: 1. John, baptized July 1I, 1641, married in Hingham, June 14, 1663, Sarah Davis. 2. Onesiphorus, baptized November 20, 1642, at Hingham, married, November 22, 1664, Mary Hauxworth; (second) July 31, 1695, Sarah Rowell, widow. 3. Benjamin, born 1644, baptized July 14. 1644; married, September 21, 1666, Mary Whittier. 4. Mary, baptized May 3, 1646, married, October 23, 1665, John Dow ; married (second), July 14, 1673, Samuel Shepard. 5. Joseph, baptized March 5, 1647-48, married, at Hingham, Jan- uary 21, 1671, Judith Guile ; married (second), December 2, 1673, Martha Heath. 6. Corne- lius, baptized July 15, 1649, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, baptized July 18, 1651, at Hingham, married, January 14, 1669, James Sanders. 8. Elizabeth, born June 15, 1653, died July 3, 1653. 9. Mercy, born April 1, 1655, married, November 13, 1674, John Clough. 10. Son, born and died March 26, 1658. 11. Ephraim, born February 27, 1658-59, died July 22, 1659.
(II) Cornelius, son of John Page, born 1649, baptized July 15, 1649. He married, Novem- ber 13, 1674, Martha Clough, who died May II, 1683, at Haverhill. He married (second). January 16, 1684, Mary Marsh, daughter of Onesiphorous Marsh, and granddaughter of George Marsh. She died November 24, 1697. His estate was administered July 18, 1698, and divided in 1699. He was a planter in Haver-
hill. Children, born in Haverhill : I. John Jr., born September 27, 1675, mentioned below. 2. Amos, born October 22, 1677, married Han- nah - 3. Elizabeth, born September 14, 1679. 4. Joanna, born March 6, 1680, died young. 5. Mehitable, born February 1, 1681, died May 9, 1682. 6. Cornelius, born April I, 1683, died May 24, 1683. Children of second wife: 7. Joseph, born September 21, 1686, died February 12, 1687. 8. Joseph, born Sep- tember . 12, 1689, married Mary Thompson. 9. Sarah, born November 23, 1691, died June 18, 1762. 10. Thomas, born February 4, 1692. II. Cornelius, born May 20, 1696.
(III) John (2), son of Cornelius Page, was born in Haverhill, September 27, 1675. He married, May 21, 1700, Sarah Singletary, daughter of Nathaniel and granddaughter of Richard Singletary, of Haverhill. He resided in Haverhill and died there March 7, 1717-18. His estate was administered October 13, 1718, and divided in 1722. His widow Sarah was then living. Children : Nathaniel. Sarah, Jonathan, John, Edmund, mentioned below ; Abiel, Mehitable.
(IV) Edmund, son of John (2) Page Jr., was born in Haverhill, November 7, 1708. He married, February 5, 1734, Abigail
who was born March 23, 1717. Children : I. Daniel, born November 6, 1735, died 1830. 2. Captain David, born November 23, 1737. 3. Ruth, born March 14. 1739, died March 16, 1739. 4. Jesse, born February 16, 1740. 5. William, born March 14, 1752. 6. Deborah, born July 13, 1753. 7. Job, born November 10, 1755. 8. Jeremiah, mentioned below.
(V) Jeremiah, son of Edmund Page, was born March 25, 1751. He was a soldier in the revolution from Conway, New Hampshire, where he settled. He was on the list of sol- diers in 1775. His farm was in East Conway. He married Mary Dustan, born August 10, 1752, died November 1, 1808, granddaughter of Hannah Dustan, who killed her Indian captors and escaped in 1693 after the Haver- hill massacre. Children, born in Conway (rec- ord of the family) : 1. Abigail, born Sunday, November 24, 1776. 2. Thomas, born April 18, 1779, mentioned below. 3. Duston, born July 4, 1782, on Thursday. 4. Mary, born Monday, June 4, 1787, died January 25, 1850. 5. Jesse, born on Thursday, March 31, 1789. 6. Abigail, born on Thursday, July 7, 1791. 7. Hannah, born on Thursday, September 26, 1793.
(VI) Colonel Thomas, son of Jeremiah Page, born at East Conway, New Hampshire, April 18. 1779. died February 8, 1864. He
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removed in 1826 from his native town to Lowell, Maine, as it is now known, and he built the first sawmills there, the locality being known still as Page's Mills. He took up pub- lic land and built new roads. At one time he owned most of the land now comprising the town of Burlington, Maine. To each of his sons he gave a wedding present of a hundred acres of land in Burlington, and to each daugh- ter two hundred dollars in money, a cow and half a dozen sheep. He was colonel of his militia regiment, a prosperous farmer and miller, a sagacious and successful business man. He married Elizabeth Charles, of Frye- burg, New Hampshire, born May 2, 1786, died May 22, 1875. Children, born in Conway, ex- cept the youngest : I. Ansel, born February 12, 1808. 2. Dean, born March 4, 1810, died February 9, 1874. 3. Jeremiah, born June 20, 1812, died November 24, 1887. 4. John, born July II, 1814, mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, born December 21, 1816, died February 23, 1898. 6. Norman, born February 19, 1819, died October 18, 1893. 7. Catherine, born January 18, 1823. 9. Dorcas, born October 30, 1825, died December 6, 1891. IO. Her- man S., born March 4, 1828, died April 26, 1903.
(VII) John (3), son of Thomas Page, was born in Conway, New Hampshire, July II, 1814. He was educated and reared in Bur- lington, Maine, where he has lived most of his long life. He married, September, 1844, Eliza- beth McCorrison, of Standish, Maine, born September 21, 1823, died March 29, 1900. Children, born in Burlington: I. Ansel, born October, 1845. 2. Melvin, born April 11, 1847, mentioned below. 3. Irene N., born July II, 1849, died January, 1860. 4. Edelle May, born May 1, 1851, married William Henry Taylor, general agent of the Penn Mutual Life In- surance Company, Bangor, Maine, born Au- gust 23, 1843, at Enfield, Maine; children : i. Jesse Wright Taylor, born July 1, 1871; ii. Irene Page Taylor, born April 13, 1874, died September 28, 1874; iii. Russell Morrison Taylor, born April 6, 1875; iv. Josiah Towle Taylor, born February 13, 1876; v. Ella Maud Taylor, born January 27, 1878; vi. John Page Taylor, born November 14, 1879, died Novem- ber 12, 1880; vii. Marcia Adelle Taylor, born July 27, 1881 ; viii. Hattie Maria Taylor, born June 20, 1885. 5. Lizzie A., born June 16, 1853, died April, 1890 or 1891. 6. Stella J., born April 21, 1855.
(VIII) Melvin, son of John (3) Page, born in Burlington, Maine, April II, 1847, died No- vember 7, 1890. He married Sarah Ella Estes,
born in Vassalborough, Maine. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town and at Lee Normal Academy. He learned the trade of carpenter and during his active life was a carpenter and builder. He was a Dem- ocrat in politics. He died in Milford, Maine, where he spent his later years. Children: 1. Dr. Prince Caleb, mentioned below. 2. Julia Emily.
(IX) Dr. Prince Caleb, son of Melvin Page, was born in Lee, Maine, September 6, 1874. He was educated in the Winn public schools, at Lee Normal Academy, the schools of Old Town and the Bangor Business College. He began the study of medicine in the Baltimore Medical College, where he was graduated in 1901 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began to practice in Lagrange, Maine, and went thence to Bangor, where he was located for about three years. He came from Bangor to Biddeford in 1905 and since then has been practicing in this city. In politics he is a Re- publican, and in religion an Episcopalian. He is a charter member of Abenkis Tribe, No. 6, Independent Order of Red Men of Bangor. He married, April, 1901, Ida May North, daughter of Augustus North, of Washington, D. C. They have one child, Thomas Neilson, born August 3, 1902.
John Macomber, who it is MACOMBER believed came with his brother William from In- verness. Scotland, 1638, settled at Taunton, Massachusetts, and was, as the records show, subject to military duty in 1643. He was a landowner as it is shown that he paid taxes amounting to seven shillings in 1659, on twen- ty-four acres and four "head." His first wife's name is not known. His second wife was Mary Babcock, whom he married January 7, 1686. He was a carpenter and accumulated considerable property, which he bequeathed to his children, John and Mary (Staples). He died between 1687 and 1690.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Macomber, was in Queen Anne's war, 1691. He was mar- ried July 16, 1678, to Anna Evans, of Taun- ton. Their children were: Thomas, John, William and Samuel.
(III) John (3), second son of John (2) and Anna (Evans) Macomber, was born early enough to have participated in Queen Anne's war. He married (first) Elizabeth Williams, and (second) Mrs. Lydia (King) Williams. His will, dated December 28, 1742, named nine children, all by the first wife. He died at Taunton, December 14, 1747.
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(IV) Nathaniel, eldest son of John (3) Ma- comber, was born February 9, 1709. He was of a very religious disposition and served as deacon in the Congregational church of Taun- ton many years. He married, in 1735, Priscil- la Southworth, of Middleboro, Massachusetts. He was an industrious man in business affairs, and while he worked for the interest of his family never neglected his church duties and that of the public in general. As is shown by the inscription on his tombstone, he died No- vember 10, 1787, aged seventy-nine years. His children were: Job, born 1737; George, Na- thaniel, Ichabod, Ezra and John.
(V) George, second son of Nathaniel and Priscilla (Southworth) Macomber, was born July 7, 1740, and but little can be learned of him further than that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and married Susan Paull, January 27, 1767. He became the father of the following children : Mary, Ezra and John (twins), Azalle, George, Paul, Nathaniel, Su- sanna, Philena, Ebenezer and Samuel.
(VI) George (2), third son of George (I) and Susan (Paull) Macomber, was born Sep- tember 17, 1772, and married Anna Harkness, September 17, 1801. She was born October 24, 1782. Their children were: Sarah B., Betsey B., George Washington, William H., Esther H. and David W. The father died aged fifty-seven years, January 31, 1830.
(VII) George Washington, son of George (2) and Anna (Harkness) Macomber, born September 26, 1807, at Pelham, Massachusetts, died at Augusta, Maine, August 31, 1864. He became a resident of Augusta at a very early age of his life, and worked as a granite cutter and general contractor on the state house. He followed the granite business throughout his life. Until the formation of the Republican party he was a Whig, and took an active part in both city and county government. In his religious faith he was a Baptist and served as deacon in that church many years. He mar- ried (first) Sarah P. Ripley, by whom two children were born: Emily F. and Esther H. He married (second) Hannah Kalloch, born December 10, 1820, died September 1, 1905, at Augusta. She was the mother of two chil- dren : George E. and Henry D.
(VIII) George Ellison, son of George Washington and Hannah ( Kalloch) Macomb- er, was born at Augusta, Maine, June 6, 1853. He obtained his education at the public schools of his native city, and subsequently entered the grocery store of Luther Mitchell as a clerk, which position he filled a short time, and then accepted a position in the Augusta
postoffice, where he remained six years. In March, 1876, he purchased the insurance busi- ness conducted by David Cargill, and was en- ergetic and highly successful in the business until 1886, alone, but at that date he took his brother, Henry D. Macomber, into partnership with him. This association existed until broken by death of the brother, when Charles R. Whitten became a partner in the business, continuing until 1904. In 1908 the business was carried on by a company, consisting of H. C. Carl, Charles H. Howard and R. H. Bodwell. The insurance business was by no means the only calling Mr. Macomber pur- sued with diligence and success ; he was treas- urer of the Augusta, Hallowell & Gardiner Electric Railroad Company until that road was sold to the L. A. & W. Company, in 1907. He is now treasurer of the Norway & Paris Elec- tric Railroad Company; the Austin Traction Company, of Austin, Texas; treasurer of the Hutchinson Water, Light and Gas Company, of Hutchinson, Kansas. Being recognized as a man of correct business methods, he was elected to the important position of president of the Springfield Railway and Light Com- pany, of Springfield, Missouri. He is also president of the Augusta Trust Company, Kennebec Savings Bank and Augusta Opera House Company; a director in the Granite National Bank ; treasurer of the Augusta Real Estate Association, and a trustee of the Maine Insane hospitals located at Augusta and Ban- gor. His long career as an insurance man causes him now to be the special agent for the following insurance companies: Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia Un- derwriters' Alliance, Granite State Fire In- surance Company, and others. He is a stock- holder in the Augusta Hotel Company, and has numerous other interests and enterprises which demand his time and special attention. He was married to Sarah V. Johnson, born March 31, 1857, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, daughter of Hiram and Almira Johnson. Their children are: Alice H., married R. H. Bod- well. Annie J., married Guy P. Gannett.
One authority says the Mor- MORTON tons of Gorham came original- ly from Cape Cod; another states that the descendants of Bryant Morton, the first settler of the name in southwest Maine, claim him to have been English. No authority has yet been found which decides the matter. Many of the descendants of Bry- ant Morton have been leading citizens in the communities where they have resided-prom-
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(1) Captain Bryant Morton first appears in the records about the year 1738, as a citizen of old Falmouth (now Cape Elizabeth), where he was a taxpayer in 1743. On September 28, 1750, Bryant Morton of Cape Elizabeth bought of Augusta Bearse his right in Gorhamtown. June 28, 1751, the proprietors of Gorham deed Bryant Morton certain land, at which time he is described as of Gorhamtown. He set- tled in Gorham between the dates mentioned probably, and lived on thirty-acre lot No. 15, at Gorham Corner. His dwelling stood back from the street near where Emery's brick store now stands. He was an energetic, active man, a good trader, dealt largely in lands, and few men in town bought and sold more lots than he.
"In 1772 Mr. Morton was one of the Com- mittee of Safety and Correspondence ; and was a delegate to the Provincial Congress held at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He went to Cam- bridge on horseback, with Benjamin Cham- berlain behind him to bring his horse back. He was a representative to the general court several years; and captain in the army during the war of the revolution. He had command of a company of eighty men, called sea-coast guards; and was stationed at Fort Hancock, on Cape Elizabeth. This fort was located on the spot now occupied by Fort Preble, and consisted of a battery of several cannon for the defence of Portland, then Falmouth. For several years Mr. Morton was a firm sup- porter of the old Congregational Church, and was one of the ruling elders in 1758-59. With many others he became dissatisfied with the ministrations of Mr. Lombard, and with them drew off, built a new meeting house, and set- tled the Rev. Ebenezer Thompson. Captain Morton in his latter years became a zealous Free Will Baptist. Before his second mar- riage he provided well for his first children. His homestead at Gorham Corner he con- veyed to his son Bryant, who by his deed con- veyed 'the lot, No. 15, with the Bryant Morton house, and the lot opposite, where the Bryant Morton barn now stands,' to Cary Mclellan. After his second marriage Captain Morton moved on a small farm, since called the 'Cham- berlain Place.' Here he died in the year 1793, aged about eighty-eight. At his death his es- tate, real and personal, was appraised at about seven hundred dollars."
Bryant Morton married (first) Thankful We do not know her antenuptial sur- name or the date of her birth or death. He
married (second), in Cape Elizabeth, June 23, 1771, Lucy ( White) Chamberlain, who was born in Falmouth, December 1, 1732, daugh- ter of John and Jerusha White. She was the widow of Aaron Chamberlain. She sur- vived Captain Morton many years, and died about the year 1813. Captain Morton's ten children by his first wife were all born before he moved to Gorham. They were: Thomas, Martha, Joseph, Ebenezer, Thankful, Jabez, Bryant, Elisha, Anna and Phineas. The chil- dren by the second wife, Lucy Chamberlain : Jerusha, John, who is the subject of the next paragraph.
(II) John, only son of Captain Bryant and Lucy (White) (Chamberlain) Morton, was born in Gorham, February II, 1775. He mar- ried, about 1799, Mary, eldest child of Stephen and Hannah (Cushing) Tukey, of Portland. She was born March 19, 1781, and died De- cember 12, 1854. She was a descendant of John Winter and Rev. Robert Jordan (see Jordan I), and also of Colonel Ezekiel Cush- ing, all of Cape Elizabeth. Stephen Tukey was a revolutionary soldier. His father, John Tu- key, the immigrant, married Abigail Sweetser, in 1749. She was a daughter of Benjamin Sweetser, a soldier in the Louisburg expedi- tion. 1745, and descendant from Seth Sweetser, the immigrant, 1636. Their children were: I. Juliana, born September 21, 1800, who mar- ried John Sargent, sea captain. 2. Ebenezer Miller, December 16, 1801, died young. 3. John, September 26, 1804, who went to sea and was never again heard of. 4. Stephen Tukey, March 7, 1807, sea captain. 5. William White, next mentioned.
(III) William White, youngest child of John and Mary (Tukey) Morton, was born in Gorham, February 5, 1809. and died in Windham, July 27, 1868. At an early age he became a sailor, with the intention of fitting himself to be a master mariner, for which he was in everything but experience well quali- fied. He was in the merchant service, and made various voyages between New York and other domestic ports and European ports. At the age of thirty he lost his hearing as the re- sult of a fever, and was compelled to give up his plans, and spent the remainder of his life on a farm in Windham, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was a good man, an active member of the Congregational church, and one of its liberal supporters. He married, May 29, 1842, Adeline Hale Barton, who was born July 27, 1823, died April II, 1898. She was an unassuming and intellectual woman, a faithful wife and a good mother.
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Her grandparents on the paternal side were Ebenezer and Dorothy (Eliott) Barton, of Windham. Ebenezer Barton served three years five months and fourteen days in the revolu- tionary army, was at Hubbardton, Stillwater, Saratoga, the surrender of Burgoyne, spent the winter at Valley Forge, and was at Mon- mouth in Colonel Benjamin Tupper's Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment. He was killed by a falling tree at Windham, April 15, 1785, aged about thirty-five years. The children of Will- iam W. and Adeline H. (Barton) Morton were: I. Stephen Tukey, a volunteer in the Seventeenth Maine Regiment, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, in 1862. 2. Will- iam Francis, enlisted in the Ninth Maine Regi- ment, was at the assault on Fort Wagner, and was killed before Richmond in 1864. 3. Eliza- beth, died young. 4. Caroline, died young. 5. Seth C., see below. 6. Julia H., married Walter Hussey and lives in Windham.
(IV) Seth Clark, third son of William W. and Adeline H. (Barton) Morton, was born in Windham, November 25, 1858. He was educated in the Windham public schools and at the Quaker high school. His first work of consequence away from home was in build- ing the pulp mill at South Windham, where he worked as a machinist for the Sabago Wood Board Company from 1876 to the sum- mer of 1881. In the same year, July 26, he entered the employ of S. D. Warren & Com- pany, proprietors of the pulp mill at West- brook. For a time he was a machinist and the superintendent of the machine shop and mechanical department where three hundred men are employed. This position he now holds. Mr. Morton is a Democrat and has been called to fill various municipal offices. He was the first fire warden of Westbrook, and is now fire commissioner and chief engi- neer of the fire department of the city. He was a member of the board of aldermen 1903- 04-05, and was elected mayor 1906, and re- elected in 1907. He has discharged his duties faithfully and well, and enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. He at- tends and contributed liberally to the support of the Universalist church. He is a member of Warren Phillips Lodge, No. 186, Free and Accepted Masons ; member of Ammoncongin Lodge, No. 76, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand; and Presumpscot Valley Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor com- mander. He was captain and first base of the famous Presumpscot baseball team, recognized as the best strictly amateur baseball team in
Maine for several years. Seth C. Morton was married in South Windham, November 30, 1879, to Althea Small, of Gray, who was born September 28, 1846, in Framingham, Massa- chusetts, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Tweed) Small. They have one daughter, Bertha C., born October 22, 1883; she is a musician and an ardent devotee to the study of the drama.
ALLEN The Allens in America are of both Scotch and English descent. In England the name was for-
merly and still is subjected to various forms of spelling, as Allen, Allin, Allyn, etc., all of which are undoubtedly from one source. The original Scotch spelling was Allan. In the early records of Essex county, Massachusetts, is found the name of William Allen, born in Manchester, England, about 1602; came to New England with the Dorchester Company, which settled temporarily on Cape Ann in 1623 ; accompanied Roger Conant to Salem in 1626; and was admitted a freeman in 1631. Another early emigrant of this name was George Allen, born in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and came to Amer- ica with his family in 1635, when sixty-seven years old, in order to escape religious persecu- tion. A Samuel Allen and his wife Ann came from Braintree, England, and were among the first settlers in Braintree, Massachusetts. Colo- nel John Allan, born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, January 31, 1746, son of Major William Allan, of the British army, became the progenitor of a Maine family, some of whom, if not all, retain the original Scotch spelling.
(I) Jotham Allen, an early settler in Al- fred, went there from either York or Kittery subsequent to the revolutionary war, and cleared a farm from the wilderness. (N. B. It is stated by some of his descendants that their branch of the family is the posterity of an immigrant from Scotland.) The Christian name of his wife was Susan and their children were: Jeremiah, Amos, Jotham, John, Olive, Susan and Hannah.
(II) Amos, second child of Jotham and Susan Allen, born in Alfred in 1801, died in 1874. Adopting agriculture when a young man, he purchased a farm in Waterboro and tilled the soil industriously for the remainder of his life. It was his custom to vary the monotony of farm life by frequent excursions into the forests for the purpose of hunting, and he was one of the most noted hunters and trappers of his locality. He married Eleanor
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