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Ridley, of Alfred, born in 1801, died in 1874. They were the parents of children : Jeremiah, Isaiah, Otis, Mary, Jotham, Amos Lawrence, Lydia, Timothy and Sarah.
(III) IIon. Amos Lawrence, fifth son and sixth child of Amos and Eleanor (Ridley) Al- len, was born in Waterboro, March 17, 1837. He attended the public schools of Waterboro and Alfred, was prepared for his collegiate course at the Whitestown ( New York) Semi- nary, and entering Bowdoin College as a so- phomore was graduated with the class of 1860. At Bowdoin he was a classmate of Thomas Brackett Reed, with whom in after years he became closely connected. He was subsequent- ly engaged in educational work for a short time, tcaching at the Alfred Academy ; also in Gardiner, Sanford, Waterboro and Pembroke, Maine. His legal studies, begun in Alfred, were completed at the Columbian Law School, Washington, District of Columbia, and he was admitted to the York county bar in 1866. Mr. Allen served for short intervals as clerk in the treasury department at Washington and in the postoffice of the national house of representa- tives, and also in the office of the York county clerk of courts. In 1870 he was elected clerk of courts in York county, retaining that office for a period of twelve years, and returning to the national capital he acted as clerk of the judici- ary committee of the lower house in 1883-84. He was next employed for a year as a special examiner by the pension bureau, and being elected a representative to the Maine legisla- ture he served in that capacity for the years 1886-87. In December, 1889, he became pri- vate secretary to the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, speaker of the national house of representa- tives, serving as such during the fifty-first, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses, and in 1896 was a delegate at large from Maine to the Republican national convention at St. Louis, being assigned to the committee on resolutions. At a special election held in the first congressional district, November 16, 1899, Mr. Allen was elected the successor of Repre- sentative Reed, who resigned his seat as a member of the fifty-sixth congress, and he con- tinued in office through re-elections to the sixtieth congress, and was renominated to the sixty-first. In 1904 he defeated his Demo- cratic opponent, Luther R. Moore, by a ma- jority of 4,989, in a vote of 31,613; in 1906 he defeated the same gentleman by a major- ity of 1,649; and in 1908 his majority was about 3,300. Mr. Allen's intimate association with his illustrious predecessor made him es- pecially qualified to represent the first district
in congress, and his ability has been amply demonstrated. He is a Master Mason, affili- ating with Fraternal Lodge of Alfred, and is a member of the Grange in North Alfred. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
In 1858 Mr. Allen married Esther, daughter of Jacob and Eunice Maddox, of Waterboro. Her grandfather, also named Jacob Maddox, came from England in the latter part of the eighteenth century; he settled upon a tract of wild land in the town of Waterboro, and im- proved it into a good farm. His son Jacob, born in Waterboro, served in the defence of Kittery during the war of 1812-15. He be- came a prosperous farmer in his native town, and lived to be eighty-five years old. He was twice married and of his first union there were three children. His second wife, Eunice, bore him four children : Daniel, a resident of Stand- ish; John F., of Alfred; Harriet, widow of John Dame; Esther, who became the wife of Hon. Amos L. Allen. Mrs. Allen died March 20, 1900, in Washington, D. C. She was the mother of three children: 1. Herbert L., born December 24, 1861, a graduate of Bowdoin, 1883, and now superintendent of schools in Dalton, Massachusetts; he married Annie Bradbury, of Limerick, Maine, and has two children : Amos L., born February 14, 1895, and Laura E., born June 22, 1903. 2. Laura E., born March 3, 1863, resides with her fa- ther. 3. Edwin H., born April 14, 1864, a graduate of Dartmouth, 1885, a practicing phy- sician of Boston, and is connected with the John Hancock Insurance Company; he mar- ried Linda W. Forbush, of Boston, and has one son, Nathaniel Draper Whiting Allen, born July 31, 1903.
PEASLEE Among those who wrought our early history in colonial days, in "times that tried men's souls," were the Peaslees, who, like most other old Maine families, are credited with a Massachusetts origin, and developed around Haverhill. The name Peaslee is claimed by some to have sprung from Peter, from which we have Peers, Pearse and Pears. Others as- sume it was an offshoot from peas, a legum. Peas were grown in the east from time imme- morial and were introduced into Europe in the Middle Ages. Shakespeare spoke of peas- blossom. Lee is from lea, a pasture. The man who was the son of Mr. Peas perhaps lived on the lea, and to distinguish him from the other Mr. Peas he was called Peas-at-lea, and finally Peaslee. Hon. Charles H. Peaslee, a distinguished statesman and congressman
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from New Hampshire ; Chief Justice Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent, of Massachusetts ; the Hon. William Pitt Fessenden; the Honorables Lot M. and Anson P. Morrill, governors, members of congress, and a cabinet officer; the Hon. Daniel J. Morrill, member of congress from Pennsylvania; Professor Edmund Randolph Peaslee, A. M., M. D., LL. D., a great physi- cian, author of medical books, and professor in Dartmouth college; the Hon. John D. Peas- lee, of Ohio; and Judge Daniel Peaslee, of Vermont, were of this line.
(I) Joseph Peaslee was founder of the Peas- lee family in America. He was a native of England, the tradition in the family is that he was born and lived in the western part of England, near the river Severn, adjoining Wales. With his wife and two or three chil- dren he emigrated, about 1635, and came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1642. He re- ceived a grant of land in Haverhill, Massachu- setts, March 14, 1645, and his name appears in the first list of landholders of Haverhill in 1645. He settled in the easterly part of the town near "Reaks Bridge," over the Merrimac river, and received grants of land from 1645 to 1656, when divisions of land were made by vote of the town of Haverhill, was one of the commissioners for the settlements of claims, and selectman of Haverhill in the years 1649- 50-53. He was made a "townsman" of Salis- bury "Newtown" (now Amesbury, Massachu- setts) July 17, 1656, granted "twenty acres of upland, bought of Thomas Macy, and ten acres of meadow, for which the town agreed to pay six pounds to Thomas Macy." In di- visions of land in Salisbury "Newtown" in the years 1656-57-58, Joseph Peaslee received liberal shares. It was the custom in the new settlement to give lands, to induce persons having a trade such as a mason, blacksmith, etc., to settle in the new towns. Joseph was a lay preacher as well as a farmer, and was reputed to have some skill in the practice of medicine. In the recognition of these natural gifts. he was, undoubtedly, made a citizen of Salisbury "Newtown." Later this gift of preaching made trouble in the new settlement and history for Joseph. Soon after he re- moved to "Newtown," the inhabitants neglect- ed to attend the meetings for worship in the old town and did not contribute to the support of the minister. They held meetings for wor- ship at private houses, and in the absence of a minister, Joseph Peaslee and Thomas Macy officiated. The general court, which had juris- diction over territory from Salem, Massachu- setts, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire (and
was called Norfolk county), soon fined the inhabitants of "Newtown" five shillings each for every neglect of attending meetings in the old town and an additional fine of five shillings each to Joseph and Macy if they exhorted the people in the absence of a minister. This de- cree was not heeded. Meetings were held and Joseph and his friend continued to preach. The general court made additional decrees and fines, which also were not heeded. Macy fled from persecution in Massachusetts and settled in Nantucket, then a port of New York, in 1659. Joseph Peaslee was a Puritan; a re- formed Episcopalian. The creed was to aban- don everything that could boast of no other authority than tradition, or the will of man, and to follow as far as possible the "pure word of God." The Puritans came to the wilder- ness of America to escape persecution in Eng- land and to enjoy their own religious liberty, but not to allow religious freedom to any who differed from them. Nowhere did the spirit of Puritanism, in its evil as well as its good, more thoroughly express itself than in Mas- sachusetts. The persecution of Joseph was of short duration, as he died at Salisbury "New- town," December 3, 1660. He made his will November II, 1660, proved February 9, 1661 ; Mary Peaslee, executrix. By tradition Joseph married Mary Johnson, of Wales, England, the daughter of a farmer of comfortable worldly estate. In 1662 the widow, Mary Peaslee, was granted one hundred and eight acres of land in Salisbury. The administration of her es- tate was granted September 27, 1694, to her son Joseph. Their children were: Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Joseph.
(II) Joseph (2), fifth child and youngest son of Joseph ( I) and Mary (Johnson) Peas- lee, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, September 9, 1646. He received "children's land" in 1660 and a "Township" in 1660, being a tract of land, conferring the right to vote and take part in town meetings when of age. He resided in Salisbury "Newtown" until after his marriage and birth of his eldest child; Mary, when he removed to Haverhill, Massa- chusetts. He was a physician and farmer ; owned saw and grist mills, a large landholder by grants, inheritance and purchases, and had large tracts of land beyond the Spicket river, now Salem, New Hampshire, inherited from his father. He took the oath of allegiance and fidelity at Haverhill in 1677 ; built a brick gar- rison house with bricks imported from Eng- land about 1673. This house is in East Haver- hill on the highway now called the "River Road," and is still standing in good repair,
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one of the landmarks of the Merrimac valley. He married, January 2, 1672, Ruth, daughter of Thomas Barnard, of Haverhill, Massachu- setts, who was born October 16, 1651, and died November 25, 1723 ; he married second Mary (Tucker) Davis, widow of Stephen Davis. He held many town offices, was much in public life, and a member of the Society of Friends. For many years there was an established meet- ing of that denomination at his house. He died at Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 21, 1735, and his widow was living in 1741. From the records he evidently distributed his estate by deeds to his heirs, with this closing clause, "Saving always and hereby reserving unto my- self the free use and Improvement of ye prem- ises During my natural life." Children by first wife: Mary, married an ancestor of John Greenleaf Whittier ; Joseph, Robert, John, Na- thaniel, Ruth, Ebenezer and Sarah.
(III) John, fourth child and third son of Joseph (2) and Ruth ( Barnard) Peaslee, was born February 25, 1679, and married, March I, 1705, Mary, daughter of John Martin. He resided in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and New- ton, New Hampshire, and was prominent in town and church affairs, a farmer, and a mem- ber of the Society of Friends. Meetings were established at his house in Newton, and later a meeting-house was built on his land and near-by there was a Friends burial ground, which is now in a fair state of preservation. The ancient headstones are plain field stones not lettered. He died in 1752. Children: Jo- seph, John, Ruth, Sarah, Jacob, Nathan, Da- vid, Moses, James, Ebenezer and Mary. John and Mary (Martin) Peaslee had ninety-eight grandchildren, and two hundred and eighty- four great-grandchildren.
(IV) Nathan, sixth child and fourth son of John and Mary (Martin) Peaslee, was born September 20, 17II, and married, December 8, 1741, Lydia, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Lancaster) Gove, who was born June 1, 170I, in Hampton, New Hampshire. Nathan re- sided in Newton. New Hampshire, and was a farmer. He and his brother Moses married Methodist wives, and were disowned by the Society of Friends, as was the prevailing prac- tice at that time. They joined the Methodists. Nathan's grandson, Rev. Reuben Peaslee, was one of the most distinguished Methodist min- isters of his day in New England, and was author of several books. Children: Oliver, Nathan, Reuben, Jacob, Daniel, Ezekiel, Jon- athan, Ruth and Sarah.
(V) Jonathan, seventh child and son of Na-
than and Lydia (Gove) Peaslee, was born in September, 1764, and died in 1826. He mar- ried a Miss Glidden, and their children were : Jonathan, Susanna, Sarah, Abigail, George, Katherine, Jacob, Ruel and Riley.
(VI) Ruel,eighth child and fourth son of Jonathan Peaslee, was born July 15, 1804, and married, February 5, 1823, Harriet Hilton. He removed to Jefferson, Lincoln county, Maine, and there had the following children : Harriet, Edward, John Thurston, Eben Blunt and Eliza.
(VII) John Thurston, third child of Ruel and Harriet ( Hilton) Peaslee, was born Jan- uary 17, 1830, in Jefferson, Maine, and mar- ried Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John W. and Nancy (Foye) Paine, of Alma, Maine, where he resides. He received a common school ed- ucation, became a blacksmith by trade, is a Republican, and has been town treasurer and representative to the legislature. His religious affiliations are with the Baptists. Children : Clarence Ardeen, Beatrice and Winfield Scott.
(VIII) Clarence Ardeen, eldest child and son of John Thurston and Mary E. ( Paine) Peaslee, was born in Alma, Maine, August 16, 1855, and married Augusta Maria, daughter of David and Sophia (Tutman) Hill, of Bath, Maine. Dr. Peaslee received his preliminary training at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill. graduated from the medical de- partment of Bowdoin College in 1883, New York Polyclinic School in 1894, New York Post-Graduate School in 1905, and London, England, Post-Graduate School in 1905. He settled in Wiscasset, Maine, and practiced his profession for twenty-one years. While there he was chairman of the board of selectmen, and representative to the legislature in 1895 and 1899. He moved to Bath, Maine, in 1904, where he now resides, engaged in professional duties. He was president of the board of United States pension examiners four years, at Bath, member of the Maine Medical Asso- ciation, American Medical Association, Maine Academy of Medicine, of which he was presi- dent in 1905-06. He stands in high repute as a physician, and is frequently called into con- sultation by other members of the craft in difficult cases. He is a Republican, and con- nected with the Central Congregational Church ; past master of Blue Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, past high priest of Royal Arch Chapter, member of Commandery and Mystic Shrine, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past noble grand and past dis- trict deputy, past chancellor commander and
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past district deputy of the Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks of Bath, Maine, of which he is lecturing knight.
Anthony Besse, immigrant an-
BESSE cestor, was born in England in 1609 and came to America in the
ship "James," sailing from England in July, 1635. He was a man of education, and used to preach to the Indians. He was among the first to remove from Lynn, Massachusetts, to Sandwich, on Cape Cod. He was before the court in 1638, and was one of the petitioners asking Mr. Leveredge to remain at Sandwich, 1655. His widow Jane married the notorious George Barlow. In her will, dated August 6, 1693, she bequeaths to her daughters, Anne Hallett, Elizabeth Bodfish, Rebecca Hunter, and sons, Nehemiah Besse and John Barlow. Anthony Besse's will is dated February 10, 1656, his inventory May 21, 1657. He be- queaths to wife Jane, daughters Dorcas, Ann, Mary and Elizabeth ; sons Nehemiah and Da- vid, providing that if his mother in England should send over anything, as she had formerly done, it should be divided among all the chil- dren. Children : 1. Anthony, who was of age in 1664. 2. Nehemiah, mentioned below. 3. David, born at Sandwich, May 23, 1649. 4. Anne, married Andrew Hallett. 5. Elizabeth, married Joseph Bodfish. 6. Rebecca, married Hunter. 7. Dorcas. 8. Mary.
(II) Nehemiah, son of Anthony Besse, was born as early as 1641, for he was of age in 1662. He was a townsman of Sandwich, in 1675, the only one of the family; he was a freeman, on the list of 1678; was entitled to share lands at Sandwich on the list dated March 24, 1702. His name appears frequently in the town records and he was one of the most prominent citizens. He married Mary Children, born at Sandwich : I. Mary, November 16, 1680, married Benjamin Curtis. 2. Nehemiah, July 3, 1682. 3. Hannah, 1684- 85, married, October 5. 1708, Thomas Jones. 4. Robert, April 30, 1690, married, May 9, 1712, Ruth Pray, of Bridgewater. 5. Joshua, February 14, 1692-93 ; married, at Wareham, September 17, 1743, Lydia Sandes, and re- moved to Wareham. 6. David, December 23, 1693, married, July 18, 1717, Mary Pray. 7. Benjamin, September 20, 1696. 8. Ebenezer, mentioned below.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Nehemiah Besse, was born in Sandwich, April 30, 1699. He removed to Wareham and was admitted to the church there July 20, 1740. All five of his
brothers also located in Wareham. Robert Besse and his wife Ruth joined the First Church, April 18, 1742; David Besse and wife, July II, 1742; Joshua Besse, December 12, 1742; Benjamin Besse's wife Martha, July 22, 1744, and Nehemiah's wife Sarah. Their de- scendants have been and are still very numer- ous in the town of Wareham. From the foun- dation of that town the Besse family has been one of the foremost in numbers and influence. Ebenezer married Deborah Children, born at Wareham : I. Ann, December 16, 1739, baptized in the First Church, July 27, 1740. 2. Ruth, August 25, 1740, baptized Oc- tober 12, 1740. 3. Reuben, mentioned below.
(IV) Reuben, son of Ebenezer Besse, was born May 12, 1745. He removed to Win- throp, Maine. He married Keziah Children, born in Winthrop: I. Deborah, Oc- tober 19, 1768. 2. Reuben Jr., July 24, 1770, settled finally in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, a town near Wareham. 3. Abigail, January 17, 1773. 4. Jonathan, July 24, 1775, mentioned below. 5. Samuel; children, born in Winthrop : Alden, February 21, 1795; John, April 7, 1797 ; Andrew Blunt, August II, 1799.
(V) Jonathan, son of Reuben Besse, was born in Winthrop, Maine, July 24, 1775. He married Asenath Smith. Among his children was Jonathan Belden, mentioned below.
(VI) Jonathan Belden, son of Jonathan Besse, was born in 1820, in Wayne, Maine, a town near Winthrop, where his parents then lived. He died March 5, 1892, aged seventy- two years, in Albion, Maine. He was a tan- ner by trade. When a young man he was em- ployed as a tanner of sole leather by the Southwicks in Vassalborough, Maine. After- ward he worked for William Healy, a tanner at Albion, and eventually became the owner of the Healy tannery, at Albion Corners, and had a prosperous business. In 1878 he added to his business the tanning of sheep skins. After his son was admitted to partnership the busi- ness was conducted under the firm name of J. B. Besse & Son, and in 1890 he moved it to Clinton, Maine, and the firm built a tannery there, though Mr. Besse retained his residence in the town of Albion. Mr. Besse was a Re- publican in politics. and a prominent member of the Christian Church. He was a member of the Free Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Roy- al and Select Masters, and Knights Templar. He was a shrewd and successful business man, upright and honorable in his methods and of sound judgment. He commanded the respect and enjoyed the confidence of all his towns- men and was well known throughout his sec-
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tion of the state. He was the first white child born in the town of Wayne, and he took no little pride in that fact and in the town itself. He married (first), July 11, 1852, at Albion, Isabella F., daughter of Lewis Hopkins, of Belgrade; the ceremony was performed by Dr. A. P. Fuller ; she died August 8, 1870, aged thirty-seven years ten months. He married (second), in Brunswick, December 4, 1872, by the Rev. E. Byrington, M. S. Springer, of Brunswick, born in Livermore, daughter of Nathaniel Springer. Children, by first wife : I. Mary Asenath, born in Albion, September 5. 1853, died December 2, 1869. 2. George Byron, November 30, 1855, died October 13, 1862. 3. Hannah B., August 28, 1857. 4. Frank Leslie, April 8, 1859, mentioned below. 5. Everett B., 1861. 6. Byron, January 12, 1865, died January 9, 1883. 7. Bertie, July 16, 1868, died February 7, 1881.
(VII) Frank Leslie, son of Jonathan Bel- den Besse, was born in Albion, April 8, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of nineteen started to learn the trade of tanner in his father's business and was soon afterward admitted to partnership by his father. The firm name was J. B. Besse & Son during his father's life. He succeeded to the business, after his father died, and has conducted it under his own name to the present time. The business has grown to large proportions, the capacity of the tan- nery at Clinton being three thousand skins a day, employing a regular force of twenty journeymen. In addition to his extensive leather business, Mr. Besse conducts a large farm ; is president of the Clinton Electric Light and Power Company; half-owner of the mill property on the Sebasticook dam; president of the Besse, Osborne & Odell Company, a cor- poration engaged in the general leather trade, with offices at 51 South street, Boston ; direc- tor of the People's National Bank of Water- ville ; trustee of the Central Institute at Pitts- field, Maine. He is a member of Sebasticook Lodge of Free Masons; of Dunlap Chapter of China, Maine; of St. Omer Commandery, Knights Templar, of Waterville ; also of Pine Tree Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Clinton. He is an active and influential Republican, often serving as delegate to nominating conventions, member of the Republican county committee. He stands among the foremost business men of the town and county, and being of sound judgment and spotless integrity enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him. He has given freely of his means in projects supported by public spirit and for charity. He
married, September 7, 1885, Mary Alberta Proctor, born September 7, 1865, in Albion, daughter of Albert and Mary (Whittier) Proctor.
The study of the history of the COOMBS Coombs family leads us far back into the past, among many contrasting conditions of life, and among peo- ple who spell their name in various ways. But wherever these historic trails lead us we dis- cover the same sturdy physical characteristics ; the same glowing patriotism; the same unflag- ging industry ; the same untiring perseverance ; the same love of home; the same triumphs over difficulties which at first, and even through long years might have seemed ap- palling to hosts of others.
Sir Mathew Hale, in his "Norman People," gives many noble records of the family who spelled their name Combes, Combs and Coombs. Theobald Combes was of Normandy in 1180-1195, with noble sons Giselbert, Nigil and Richard. Robert Combes made the far year 1198 shine with his sturdy valor. Orli- dulph Comes lived as brave and true a life in Devon in 1272; as did also Sir Richard Comes. Roger and Nicholas Combes were in Oxford and other towns at an early date. Brownings "Americans of Royal Descent" shows one of the noblest of Coombs lines from William the Conqueror down to Matilda Woodhull of Princeton, daughter of Dr. John H. Woodhull and Ann Wycoff, who married Judge Joseph Coombs.
The description of the coat-of-arms of the Coombs family in England is that of a man standing upright, with the hilt resting on the ground. The spear is represented as being broken off perhaps a foot from the point, but the bearer of it seems ready to face any foe with what remains of the weapon. The legend accompanying this device may be freely trans- lated, "He who fights shall win the victory." It has been said that the family name, which was spelled Comb, Combe, Coomb and Coombs, was from the Welch owmb (Cumb or Coomb), meaning a narrow valley. But Scotland, too, is a land of oombs, or valleys, and here are found many of the Coombs name, some of them being men of considerable note. Some spell their name McComb, and some of their descendants in America still retain the name in that form, though the majority spell it Coombs.
(I) The large majority of the members of the Coombs family in the New England States, and of those which are so widely scattered
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