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(II) Ebenezer, third son of John and De- borah (Youngs) Ledyard, was born in Groton in 1736, died there September 29, 1811. He was presumably named for his grandfather in England. He appears to have been prominent in town affairs, and in 1775 had charge of the construction of Fort Griswold, at Groton, where his brother, the commander and noted hero of the place, Colonel William Ledyard, met with a tragic death. Ebenezer was held as hostage for the wounded captured by the British at the surrender of the fort, and on their return he was taken by them to New York. He married (first) Mary Latham, of Groton, born January 6, 1739, died February
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15, 1779. The gravestone inscription at the Ledyard cemetery, Groton, reads: "Mrs. Mary the amiable wife of Ebenezer Ledyard Esq." He died, as above mentioned, at seventy-five years of age. He married ( second) Elizabeth Gardiner, of Stonington, Connecticut, who had three children : Jonathan, Henry G. and Guy Carlston Ledyard. Children of Ebenezer and Mary were: I. Ebenezer Jr., born 1760, died at Groton, November 17, 1776. 2. Jonathan. 3. David. 4. Gurdon, born 1769, died 1770. 5. Gurdon 2nd. 6. William Pitt. 7. Austin. 8. Nathaniel. 9. Benjamin, born in Groton, August 28, 1778, died April 15, 1788. 10. Jo- seph, his twin brother, died September 5, 1778.
(III) William Pitt, sixth son of Ebenezer and Mary (Latham) Ledyard, was born in Groton in 1774, and died in Bath, Maine, where he removed, August 24, 1812, aged thirty-eight years. He married Mercy, daugh- ter of Captain Asa Palmer, of Stonington. An old day-book or blotter kept by the captain contained an itemized account given in the currency of the time, of one hundred or more articles included in the grandmother's dowry. This book of quaint interest is now in pos- session of the family of James C. Ledyard. The children of William Pitt and Mercy were : Harriet, Julia A., William P., Mercy, Caroline.
(IV) Harriet, daughter of William Pitt and Mercy (Palmer) Ledyard, married, Jan- uary 20, 1827, Orrin D. Crommett, born at Waterville, Maine, June 10, 1796, and died there 1845. He was the son of James Crom- mett, a lumberman, of Kennebec county, until after the embargo act, when he met with heavy losses. His wife was a Miss Delano, daughter of Peleg Delano, of Sidney, Maine. Orrin D. was one of three sons. He fol- lowed the business of millwright and owner at Waterville during his active years and was fairly successful. He died about 1840, and his widow in 1851 removed to Bath, Maine.
(V) James Crommett, son of Orrin D. and Harriet (Ledyard) Crommett, was born in Waterville, December 30, 1833. He was but seven years of age at the time of his father's death, and when he was eighteen he removed with his mother to Bath. On reaching twenty- one years of age, by a special act of the legis- lature he assumed the name Ledyard. He first engaged in business as clerk with his uncle, William P. Ledyard, after establishing a furniture business, which he gave up in the early seventies to attend to other interests. He gave largely of his time and ability to the city of Bath, having served in both branches
of the city government. In 1882 Mr. Led- yard was unanimously elected mayor, which office he ably filled for two years. He was identified with the school committee and was chairman of the committee which built the Morse high school, rendering the city invalu- able service and securing an edifice second to none in the state for educational uses. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1899, and was for many years connected with the Bath Savings Institution as director and president. He was also president of the Lin- coln National Bank and a director of the East- ern Steamboat Company, and was president of the board of managers of the Old Ladies Home. He was a member of Solar Lodge, F. and A. M., also of Montgomery and St. Bernard Royal Arch Chapter, and a deacon of the Central Congregational church. He died in Bath, September 26, 1907. The fol- lowing is from an obituary of the Bath paper. "Mr. Ledyard was beloved and respected by the entire community and his death comes as a great loss not only to his immediate fam- ily, but to all who knew him and to this city which he has so long and so faithfully served." Mr. Ledyard married, March 24, 1863, Mary Jane, daughter of Charles and Elvira ( Weeks) Owen, who died September 23, 1904. Chil- dren : William, of Boston, James P., Owen J., of Bath, and Harriet C. Five other children died in infancy.
The old Ledyard house at Hartford, built by the ancestor John, or, as he was called, Judge John Ledyard (who died 1771), was on the northeast corner of Arch and Prospect streets. It was a two-story, heavy-timbered frame house, with a plain, straight roof. The frontage was 50-60 feet and the depth 35-40 feet. There was a wide hall and long, straight staircase ; the rooms were large and lofty. Two chimneys were in the body of the house be- tween the rooms. There were two windows on the west and three on the east side of the front door. The doors were without porches. An L was constructed for a kitchen and well- room and joined by the main building. Large cedar-trees were on each side of the front door, and about thirty feet from the house on the west side a row of elm-trees. To adapt the building to two families, in 1830 a brick kitchen was erected and connected with the northwest corner. In the rear a one and one- half story house (probably originally the negro servants' quarters) was occupied by colored people for many years, till torn down, 1835-40. It was not included in the Ledyard property. Ledyard house, one of the finest
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residences in the town, was torn down 1865- 70, but most of the fine elm-trees remain.
The surname Stanhope is
STANHOPE of local origin. The first record of this ancient, knightly and noble family is of Walter de Stanhope, county Durham, whose son Richard died in 1338. The name is taken from the town of Stanhope, near Darlington, county Durham, the ancient residence of the family. Lord Stanhope wrote a history of the family, entitled "Notices of the Stanhopes" (8 vo., 1855). The pedigree is traced to 1216 in some of the English branches. Of this fam- ily are the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Stanhope and the Earl of Harrington. There are many coats-of-arins, some of ancient date. Among the oldest is: Sable a bend between six crosses crosslet argent. These arms were placed in the chapel of Baliol College, Ox- ford, in 1574. We find the name in early records spelled Stanape and Stanup.
(I) Ensign Jonathan Stanhope, immigrant ancestor, settled early in Sudbury, Massachu- setts, where he died October 22, 1702, aged seventy years. Therefore he was born in 1632, doubtless in England. He married, at Charlestown, April 16, 1656, Susanna Ayer. He married (second) Abigail who died at Sudbury, his widow, September 17, 1722. Children, born at Sudbury: I. Jona- than, February 2, 1657, married, May II, 1674, Sarah Griffin; children: i. Isaac, born June 27, 1675 ; ii. Jonathan, November 5, died November 19, 1681. 2. Sarah, March 25, 1658. 3. Hannah, married, April 1, 1686, Stephen Jennings. 4. Joseph, September 13, 1662, mentioned below. 5. Jemima, June 5, 1665. 6. Mary, January 29, 1667, married William Wesson. 7. Rebecca, October 29, 1670. 8. Jemima, married, October 15, 1689, Thomas Rutter.
(II) Joseph, son of Ensign Jonathan (I) Stanhope, was born in Sudbury, Massachu- setts, September 13, 1662. He married, Jan- uary I, 1684-85, Hannah Bradish, who died July 20, 1727, daughter of Joseph Bradish. Children, born at Sudbury: 1. Susanna, Sep- tember 1, 1685, married, September 27, 1727, William Simson. 2. Jonathan, January 25, 1686-87, mentioned below. 3. Jemima, mar- ried, May 27, 1717, John Walker. * 4. Isaac, died December 30, 1729. 5. Joseph.
(III) Jonathan (2), son of Joseph (1) Stanhope, was born January 25, 1686-87, at Sudbury. He married Abigail A Jonathan married, October 21, 1733, Bath-
sheba Walker, thought to be his second wife. Children of first wife: I. Joseph, born No- vember 15, 1715, mentioned below. 2. Anna, November 4, 1717, married, in Marlborough, November 17, 1737, Jonathan Whipple. 3. Samuel, April 23, 1719, settled at Bolton, Mas- sachusetts ; married, in Framingham, Novem- ber 6, 1755, Elizabeth Angier; children: i. Samuel, born October 15, 1756, married, Feb- ruary 26, 1778, Mary Goodnow; he was a soldier in the revolution from Bolton, Captain Benjamin Hastings' company, Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment; ii. Elizabeth, January 16, 1758, married, May 29, 1777, William Walker; iii. Peter, November 29, 1759, revo- lutionary soldier from Bolton, married, No- vember 30, 1775, Elizabeth Parmenter; iv. Asahel, October 1, 1761 ; v. Jonas, March 31, 1764 ; vi. Dinah, July 23, 1766; vii. Anne, Sep- tember 8, 1768; viii. Azubah, November 25, 1770. 4. Abigail, November 23, 1720.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Jonathan (2) Stanhope, was born in Sudbury, November 15, 1715. The family of Joseph seems to have moved to Maine about 1760. Joseph Stan- hope signed a petition to settle Rev. Peter Thacher Smith at New Marblehead, or Wind- ham, Maine, April 12, 1762. He was then an inhabitant of the town. No earlier record is found. No later record than 1757 is found at Sudbury. The family was small. We have given the entire family practically down to the time Joseph located in Maine. No other family of the name is to be found in Massa- chusetts or New England before the revolu- tion. Joseph married (first) at Sudbury, January 24, 1739-40, Keziah Parmenter ; (sec- ond) January 31, 1755, Sarah How. Children of first wife: I. Mercy, born June 22, 1745. 2. Abigail, May 30, 1748. 3. Keziah, Novem- ber 28, 1752. Children of second wife: 4. Isaac. 5. Joseph, May 27, 1757, soldier in the revolution from Deerfield, Massachusetts.
(V) Isaac, son of Joseph (2) Stanhope, was born at Sudbury, October 15, 1755. Sol- dier in the revolution from Packersfield, Mas- sachusetts ( Maine) in Captain Ezra Town's regiment, Colonel James Read's regiment. aged nineteen, height five feet five inches, com- plexion brown, eyes light, farmer by occupa- tion, birthplace Sudbury, enlisted May 13, 1775.
(VI) Warren, son or nephew of Isaac Stanhope, was born in 1800; settled in Robin- ston and Orrington, Maine, died in 1868. He married- Mary Butler, of Calais, Maine, born 1791, died 1880. Children: 1. William, born in Orrington, mentioned below. 2. Warren.
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3. Curtis, a physician. 4. James M., died of disease while a soldier of the civil war. 5. John, died in Bradford. 6. Mary B.
(VII) William, son of Warren Stanhope, was born in Orrington, Maine, about 1825, died in Bradford, Maine. He was educated in the public schools in his native town, and fol- lowed farming during his active life at Brad- ford, Maine. He was deacon in Free Will Baptist church. A Republican in politics. He married Sarah Howard, born in Bangor, Maine, died 1874, at Bradford. Children: I. William H., soldier in the civil war; at Drury's Bluff he was wounded, and was in hospital three months; died in Andersonville Prison. 2. Frances E., married Llewelyn A. Lucas. 3. Abbie S., married William G. Lar- rabee. 4. Henry Brevet, mentioned below. By a subsequent marriage, there is a son, Wesley, now residing in South Lincoln, Maine.
(VIII) Henry Brevet, son of William and Sarah (Howard) Stanhope, was born in Bradford, Maine, January 5, 1844, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. When but seventeen years of age, in September, 1861, he enlisted in the civil war, in Company E, Eleventh Maine Volunteers, and served through the war, being mustered out February 2, 1866, with the rank of ser- geant of the same company. He went through the Peninsula Campaign from Yorktown to Harrison's Landing, and contracted the ty- phoid fever there. He was away from the regiment for a while, in Florida, and from there went back to Morris Island, and while there was in Battery Chatfield about two months, on the upper end of the island, shell- ing Fort Sumpter. He re-enlisted January 4, and got a thirty-day furlough home. He was back with the regiment in Virginia again in April, in the Army of the James, under General Benjamin F. Butler, Tenth Army Corps; was wounded in May, but got back to finish the campaign of '64-'65 at Appomat- tox in the Twenty-fourth Army Corps, First Division, Third Brigade. He took part in many engagements and saw hard service in some of the notable campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was in Boston, Massachu- setts, a few years, being there at the time of the big fire, in '72, and was on special police in the city at the time of the first jubilee there. Upon leaving the service he went to Michigan, to work in the lumbering industry of that sec- tion, and for three years was watchman in a sawmill at East Saginaw, Michigan. He sub- sequently engaged in farming and lumbering. In 1884 he returned to Foxcroft, Maine, and
since then has been engaged in farming in that town most of the time. In 1904, owing to failing health, he sold his farm, and now lives in the village of Foxcroft, where he pur- chased a home, and is retired from active busi- ness. He is a well known and highly re- spected citizen. , In politics he is a Republi- can. He is a member of Charles D. Jamison Post, No. 110, Grand Army of the Republic, of Bradford Center, Maine. He was formerly commander of C. S. Douty Post, of Dover, and Charles P. Chandler Post, G. A. R., of Foxcroft.
Henry B. Stanhope married, in Dexter, Maine, by the Rev. Thomas M. Davies, March 29, 1874, Emma H. Pratt, born December 16, 1849, daughter of Seth C. Pratt, born Sep- tember 2, 1807, died June 2, 1880, and Mary (Herring) Pratt, born February 2, 1813, died November 22, 1895. Robert and Polly (Wagg) Herring were the parents of Mary (Herring) Pratt, and they lived at New Gloucester, Maine. Children of Seth C. and Mary (Herring) Pratt : Cynthia J., Rev. George W., Rev. Henry O., Emma H. (Mrs. Stanhope) and George W., who died young. Joel Pratt, father of Seth C. Pratt, was born in Massachusetts, in 1776; married Sarah Jones ; children : Reuben, Nelson, Lawson, Seth C., mentioned above, Esther, Marilla, Joel Jr. and Sarah Jones Pratt. Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope have no children.
There were numerous immi- WILLIS grants of this name from Eng- land during the colonial period, but the founder of the family treated of below was probably the first to arrive in this country.
(I) Deacon John Willis, a Puritan of great respectability and considerable distinction, ar- rived in New England during or prior to 1637, and settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he entered with spirit into the management of the early public affairs of the town. He sold his property to William Pabodie in 1657, removing to Bridgewater as one of the original proprietors. He was one of the organizers of the town government, holding various town offices, was appointed to solemnize marriages and administer oaths, served as representative to the general court for a period of twenty- five years, and was the first deacon of the church in Bridgewater. His will was dated 1692 and proven the following year. He mar- ried Mrs. Elizabeth (Hodgkins) Palmer, widow of William Palmer, and had children ; Deacon John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Comfort, Benjamin, Hannah, Elizabeth and Sarah.
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(II) Deacon John (2), eldest son of Deacon John (I) and Elizabeth ( Hodgkins) ( Palmer) Willis, married Experience Byram, of Bridge- water; died in 1712; had children: John, Ex- perience, Samuel, Mary, Nathaniel.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Deacon John (2) and Experience (Byram) Willis, according to tradition, was born about 1700, in Taunton, Massachusetts ; married and had two children : Lemuel and another son.
(IV) Lemuel, son of Nathaniel Willis, born about 1740, died 1780; married Lydia Hodges, born in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1741, died at Windham, Vermont, 1810; had one child, Lemuel.
(V) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (I) and Lydia (Hodges) Willis, born June 29, 1771, in Taunton, died in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, May 12, 1849; married Fanny Cobb, born February 24, 1780, in Hallowell, Maine ; had children : Lemuel, Fanny C., John H.
(VI) Rev. Lemuel (3), son of Lemuel (2) and Fanny ( Cobb) Willis, was born in Wind- ham, Vermont, April 24, 1802, and died in Warner, New Hampshire, July 23, 1878. After pursuing the regular course of study at the Chesterfield Academy, New Hampshire, he devoted himself to theology, and, entering the ministry of the Universalist church, held pastorates in Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Troy, New York; Salem, Lynn, Cambridgeport and Haverhill, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and other places. He was a pleasing speaker, noted for his clear and forci- ble sermons and his ministry extended throughout a period of fifty years. He was married (first) to Almanda R., daughter of Edward and - - (Witherill) Simmons ; she was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, January 25, 1803, and died September 23, 1846. Their children were: I. Lemuel Murray, see forward. 2. Otis W., born August 24, 1829. 3. Algernon, July 28, 1833. 4. Mary L., Jan- uary 13, 1836, died August 20, 1869; she married Philip C. Bean, of Warner, New Hampshire, and had a son, L. Willis Bean, who is now an employe of the United States government in customs at Portland, Maine. 5. Harlon Simmons, July 18, 1843, who has a son, Arthur L., who is the deputy secretary of state of the state of New Hampshire. Rev. Lemuel married (second) Abigail P. George, of Warner, New Hampshire.
(VII) Dr. Lemuel Murray, eldest child of Rev. Lemuel (3) and Almanda R. (Simmons) Willis, was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and died in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Jan-
uary 17, 1893. During his youth he made good use of his time in the study of the classics, and books on philosophy, language and science were his constant companions dur- ing the time when he was directed in his studies by his proficient and painstaking father. Upon the completion of his classical course, and when he had obtained some knowledge of his professional work, he entered Dartmouth Medical College and was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1847. He taught school and practiced medicine in Eliot, Maine, 1848-49, and during the latter year made the trip to California with other gold-seekers. Re- turning to Eliot, a wiser if not a richer man, he resumed the practice of medicine, remain- ing there until the spring of 1858, when he removed to Canton, Massachusetts, from thence to Chelsea, and soon after to Charles- town. He was made assistant-surgeon of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteer In- fantry in July, 1862, and accompanied the regiment to New Orleans, where it was sta- tioned under the general directions of Major- General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding the Department of the Gulf. He was then sta- tioned with the regiment at Ship Island and Fort Pike, where his care for and fatherly at- tention to the needs of those entrusted to his ministrations won well-deserved praise, and was mustered out at the close of the war, in 1865. He returned to Charlestown, again ta- king up the practice of medicine, and lived in that town during the remainder of his life.
He was a member of the leading medical so- cieties of Massachusetts, held the rank of Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity and was the founder and first president of the Bos- ton Microscopical Society. He was a thorough musician, an expert performer on the piano and violin and possessed of rare artistic tastes. His love for books made him a discerning col- lector of French, German and Latin, as well as English classics and the philosophical and scientific treasures of literature in the tongue in which they first appeared were his par- ticular delight. He contributed original and translated scientific and medical articles of merit to various magazines and to the pro- ceedings of learned societies, as well as articles having a bearing on his professional and re- search work. He married (first) in Eliot, Maine, July 15, 1849, Paulina H., who died March 23, 1858, a daughter of John and Mary (Staples) Fogg. They had one child: John Lemuel Murray, see forward. Dr. Willis married (second) February 25, 1865, Abbie A., who died in Malden, November 21, 1903,
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and was a daughter of Eben and Priscilla (Hutchins) Neal, of Lynn, Massachusetts. By this second marriage Dr. Willis had chil- dren : Harold N., who became a resident of Arlington, Massachusetts, and Edith G., who married Frank Rideout, and made her home in Saugus, Massachusetts.
(VIII) John Lemuel Murray, only child of Dr. Lemuel Murray and Paulina H. (Fogg) Willis, was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, February II, 1856. He remained in Eliot, Maine, after the death of his mother, and was graduated from the public schools and academy of the town, and also from the Berwick Academy. He selected as his profession that of his father, and was graduated from the medical department of Bowdoin College as Doctor of Medicine in 1877, and was at once appointed house surgeon of the Maine Gen- eral Hospital. After a service of one year he took a post-graduate course in the Medi- cal School connected with the New York Uni- versity, then settled as a physician and sur- geon in Eliot, Maine, and made his home in the old homestead of John Fogg, which had been in the possession of his mother's family since 1699. The house was built in 1737 and the homestead is located on the Old Road in Eliot. The building is beautifully shaded by two stately elms that rise high above the two- storied house and give an air of colonial grandeur to the entire landscape. Dr. Willis was early connected with the public school system of Eliot as a teacher and subsequently as superintendent of schools and a trustee of Berwick Academy. He is a member and has served as president of the York County Medical Society ; is a member and has served as vice-president of the Maine Medical So- ciety ; has served as chairman of the Maine Medical Board of Registration and is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association and of the Strafford County Medical Association. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order, in which he is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Knights Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has held high official positions. He is also a member of the Maine Historical Society and of the Warwick Club, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was an active factor in ad- vancing the interests of the William Fogg Li- brary, made possible by the benefaction of Dr. John S. H. Fogg, of Boston, who was a native of Eliot, and who provided for the erection and maintenance of a free public library to the memory of his father, the in-
stitution to bear the well-remembered name of William Fogg. The gift included his li- brary of choice books, appraised at the time of his death at ten thousand dollars. This institution now stands on the very acres that were a part of William Fogg's homestead and Dr. Fogg's birthplace. The town appointed Dr. Willis as its trustee and he has charge of the building. His private library includes over four thousand volumes, collected by his father and himself, both enthusiastic and dis- criminating book-lovers and collectors. On June 25, 1902, Dr. Willis was presented by his townsmen with a silver loving-cup just as he had rounded out twenty-five years of prac- tice among them. He edited "Old Eliot," a valuable historical, biographical and genea- logical quarterly magazine, now in its ninth year, and he is president of the Eliot Histor- ical Society.
He married, October 1, 1879, Carrie Estelle, daughter of Freeman C. and Ellen J. (Cooper ) Ham; they have children: Elizabeth Gail, born October 18, 1884, and Harlon Parker, born April 30, 1891.
Charles Gardiner, son of
McCULLY Charles McCully, of Trenton, New Jersey, and Jane Emma (Lawrence) McCully, of New York City, was born in New York, December 29, 1832. In his early childhood the family removed to Oswego, New York, where he passed through the first stage of education in the public schools. He was prepared for college in the celebrated academy at Homer, New York, then under the direction of Samuel B. Wool- worth, afterward chancellor of the University of the State. He matriculated at Yale Col- lege in 1850, and was graduated A. B. in 1853. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and in the commencement ap- pointments was in 'the rank next after the valedictorian and the salutatorian. The class numbered one hundred and four members, among whom were Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University and United States ambassador to Germany, Ed- mund Clarence Stedman, the poet, Wayne MacVeagh, attorney-general of the United States and ambassador to Italy, Hiram Bing- ham, the missionary-educator, and so many others who have gained high distinction that it is often designated "the famous class of '53." After three years spent in teaching in Mississippi, Mr. McCully entered the Union Theological Seminary, of New York City, and was graduated in the class of 1859. His first
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