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But his time has not been given exclusively to personal concerns, for he has long been identified in various ways with the best in- terests and institutions of the city. Political affairs, too, have claimed and received a share of his attention, he having served two years as member of the board of aldermen and two years in the city council. He is a Republican by principle, a firm party adherent with the
fortunate capacity of being able to express his views freely on all public questions, whether of local or general import, but he is not and never has been in any sense a poli- tician or a seeker after office, and never in- trudes his opinions in the presence of unwilling hearers. Mr. Hlaggett is a member of the board of trustees of the Bath Savings Institu- tion and the Bath Trust Company, a director and vice-president of the Bath Building and Loan Association, a member of Arcadia Lodge, No. 13, Knights of Pythias, and a reg- ular attendant at the services of the North Street Baptist Church and a generous con- tributor to its support and the maintenance of its benevolent and charitable dependencies. He is known, too, as a liberal and public-spirited citizen, considerate of the rights of all men and especially of the hundreds and perhaps thou- sands who have been employed in the ship- yards in which he has for so many years been interested.
He married (first) in 1855, Lucy, daughter of the late Moses Benner. She died in 1881, and he married (second) in 1882, Elizabeth A., daughter of Benjamin Stimpson. Seven children were born of his first, and three of his second marriage: I. Ella, January 27, 1857, married William Cahill, of Bath. 2. Edith, March 29, 1859, married John Madden, of Bath. 3. Frank H., January 27, 1861. 4. Clara, died young. 5. Annie, died young. 6. William B., May 18, 1869, married Katherine McCay. Mr. Haggett is foreman of the ma- chine department of the Bath Iron Works. 7. Lucy E., May 2, 1872, married R. G. Hillman, of Bangor, Maine. 8. Benjamin S., October 2, 1883, graduated A. B., Bowdoin College, 1905; now principal of Asbury Park (New Jersey ) high school. '9. Fred B., August 23, 1886, now bookkeeper for the W. O. Parker Company of Bath. IO. Amos Bartlett Jr., February 18, 1894, student.
REMICK According to the best-preserved records in the Remick family, the name was originally spelled
Remish and the ancestor of the line in Amer- ica is said to have come from Holland.
(I) Christian Remick, immigrant, came from Holland at an early day and settled in Kittery, Maine. He married and had a son Jacob.
(II) Jacob, son of Christian Remick, was born in Kittery, November 23, 1660. He was a ship-builder and farmer. He died 1745. He had a son John.
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(III) John; son of Jacob Remick, was born in Kittery, October 7, 1692. He had a son Enoch.
(IV) Enoch, son of John Remick, was born in Kittery, April 1, 1730, died May II, 1800. He married Abigail Trefethen. They had six sons and four daughters, among whom was a son William.
(V) William, son of Enoch Remick, mar- ried Abigail Gilman, and had the following children : 1. Jacob Gilman, born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, March 17, 1798, married Hannah Shaw. 2. Samuel, born Tamworth. 3. Daniel, see 'forward. 4. Susan, born in In- dustry, New Hampshire, August 7, 1808, mar- ried, August 12, 1829, Shubael Stevenson. 5. Louisa, never married. 6. Catherine Board- man, born in Industry, September 14, 1810, married John Wilkins Rice. 7. George, of Orrington, unmarried.
(VI) Daniel, son of William Remick, born July 1, 1801, in Tamworth, New Hampshire, removed to the town of Industry, Maine, at an early age, where he became a very worthy citi- zen. He was a very ingenious cabinetmaker. He married, June 14, 1840, Rhecardo Tom- son Sherburne, who came from England to Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 1822, when she was eleven years of age. From thence she removed to Castine, Maine, and later on to Bucksport. She was a woman of great strength of character. The children were: I. Mary S., born June 24, 1843, married George F. Peaks. 2. Anne Frances, February 7, 1845, died October 1, 1866. 3. Alice, 1847, married Charles B. Morse, who is deceased. 4. Will- iam Arthur, see forward.
(VII) . William Arthur, son of Daniel and Rhecardo Tomson (Sherburne) Remick, was born in Bucksport, August 8, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of Bucksport and for a time was a student at the East Maine Conference Seminary in Bucksport. He went to sea at the age of eighteen years, and fol- lowed this life until six years later, soon be- coming an "able bodied seaman, and finally rising to be the very efficient first mate of a fine ship." He then returned to Bucksport and applied his wonderful energy and clear- sightedness about business methods to the fur- niture and upholstering business, in which he
became engaged in the year 1874, and has been very successful in all the years since then. Mr. Remick was town clerk of Bucks- port for thirteen years, from 1887 to 1899. He was collector of taxes from 1888 to 1900. He was appointed justice of the peace in 1888 and still holds that office. In 1898 he was ap-
pointed recorder of Western Hancock Munici- pal Court, and his term of office will not ex- pire until January, 1910. The jurisdiction of this court extends over fourteen towns : Bucks- port, Orland, Penobscot, Castine, Blue Hill, Deer Isle, Stonington, Brooksville, Dedham, Verona, Sargentville, Swan's Island, Sedgwick and Brookline. He is a very enthusiastic Mason, being a member of Felicity Blue Lodge, No. 19, of Bucksport, which is one of the oldest Masonic Blue Lodges in the state of Maine, having been instituted in the year 1809. He is past master of this lodge, and has also filled most of the subordinate offices in this lodge. He is also a Chapter Mason, being a member of Hancock Royal Arch Chap- ter. No. 19, of Bucksport, Bangor Council, No. 5, Blanquefort Commandery, No. 13, Knights Templar, of Ellsworth, Maine, and member of Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston. He has taken all the York rite of Masonry. In politics Mr. Remick is a staunch Republican, an Independent in reli- gion, and a member of the New England Order of Protection, of Bucksport, Knowlton Lodge, No. 108. William A. Remick mar- ried (first) in 1872, Jennie M. Holt, of Blue Hill, born 1850, died September 24, 1881. Two children were born of this marriage, Fan -- nie and Charles Morse Remick, both of whom died in infancy. Married (second) May 3, 1886, Minnie Blanche Dow, of Prospect, Maine, daughter of George Washington Dow. They have no children.
Andrew Murchie came from
MURCHIE Paisley, Scotland, to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, on the east bank of the St. Croix river and op- posite Calais, Maine, about 1784. He brought with him from Scotland the enterprise and thrift that belong to the fortunate holders of a birthright in that conservative but determined nation, that won the respect of the world in their stand for the rights of religious and per- sonal liberty. He married, in the Province of New Brunswick, Janet, daughter of Colin Campbell, of the noted Campbell clan of_Scot- land. Andrew Murchie was among the origi- nal "Loyalist founders of the Settlement of Quoddy," which became the thriving town of St. Stephen, and he carried on a farm which afforded his family a very respectable support.
(II) James, son of Andrew and Janet (Campbell) Murchie, was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, August 16, 1813. He was sent to the common school of St. Stephen and assisted his father on the farm until he had
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passed his majority by two years. In 1836 he married Mary Ann, daughter of John Grim- mer, of St. Stephen. His father-in-law subse- quently served as collector of customs for the port of St. Stephen. James Murchie after his marriage engaged in farming and in cutting and marketing logs during the winter season. He obtained a permit from the government to cut logs on the common lands of the Province of New Brunswick on paying a small sum per square mile for the privilege, and he soon became the largest single operator in timber in the woods of the Province, which he readily sold to the various mill-owners. He continued this business for eighteen years, when he re- tired with a fortune of $20,000. With this as a capital, he began the manufacture of lumber in Calais, Maine, and in connection with that business he carried on a general store. He was captain of a company of local militia of the Province; was justice of the peace a1 held offices in the local government of the Province at St. Stephen. He built or 1 chased several vessels for the prosecution of his business beyond the confines of the home yards, and his son John G. became a captain of his first vessel when he had attained the age of twenty-one years, having studied navi- gation for that purpose. In 1862 he launched the bark "Bessie Simpson," and Captain John G. Murchie was transferred to the command of the new bark, and his third son, James S., sailed with him and fitted himself for the future command of a vessel, and a few years later he was made captain of the bark "Mary Rideout." As business increased, Mr. Mur- chie admitted his sons, one by one, his sons John G. and William A. becoming partners in 1862, and Captain James later, and the name of the firm became James Murchie & Sons, which grew to be one of the most extensive business concerns in the state of Maine, with home office and yards at Calais. In 1903 the business was incorporated as James Murchie . Sons' Company, Calais, Maine. In the Do- minion of Canada their mills are located at Benton Deer Lake, Edmuston and Frederick- ton. The corporation is a large owner of timber lands in Maine, New Brunswick and Quebec. The children of James and Mary Ann (Grimmer) Murchie were: I. John Grimmer, born September 2, 1838, was mayor of Calais for several terms. 2. William Andrew (q. v.), born March 25, 1841. 3. James Skiffington, born February 12, 1843. 4. Elizabeth Caro- line, born September 20, 1844, married Charles H. Porter, and as her second husband Adam Gillespie. 5. Mary Adeline, born May 28,
1846, married Alexander McTavish. 6. Annie M., born October 21, 1847, married Fred- erick Hall and has one child, Charles Skiffing- ton Hall, born June, 1887. 7. George Albert, born September 16, 1849. 8. Charles Fred- erick, born February 25, 1851. 9. Emma Jane, born August 28, 1852, married Henry B. Eaton and had no children. 10. Horace B., born April 7, 1854, married Annie Eaton and has three children living: Lillian, Wilfred and Howard. The mother of these children died in 1857, and James Murchie married ( second) in 1860 Margaret, daughter of Jack- son Thorpe, of St. George, New Brunswick. Their children : 11. Alice Mabel, born October 24, 1860, married Charles F. Eaton, and has James, Muriel, Emerson, Freedom and Henry. 12. Henry Simpson, born October 1, 1862, married Harriet H. Caldwell and had two children : Ralph Dean, born October 24, 1889, an undergraduate at Dartmouth College in 1908, and Harris Foster, born November 14, 1893, a student at Calais high school in 1908. 13. Frank Campbell, born February 6, 1871, married, September 6, 1899, Lillian Lenora, daughter of Thomas and Alice P. (Lane) Sadler, of Maine. Mrs. Margaret (Thorpe) Murchie died in 1873. Mr. James Murchie was one of the stockholders of the New Bruns- wick and Canada railway, and the difficulties he met and overcame in carrying out this work were apparently unsurmountable. He was one of the builders of the church at Old Ridge, New Brunswick, and the cotton mill at Milltown, New Brunswick, the second largest in Canada. He was a member of the legislature of the Province of New Bruns- wick in 1874; he supported the non-sectarian school system and was a member of the legis- lature up to 1878.
(III) William Andrew, second son of James and Mary Ann (Grimmer ) Murchie, was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, March 25, 1841. He was educated in the public and high schools of St. Stephen. He married, November 15, 1868, Ella, daughter of William Todd, of Milltown, New Brunswick. The chil- dren of William Andrew and Ella (Todd) Murchie were: I. Mabel Clarissa, born at St. Stephen, New Brunswick, November 21, 1870. 2. Guy, December 5, 1872, graduated at Har- vard College, A. B., 1895, attended Harvard Law School and became an attorney and counsellor at law in Boston, Massachusetts; he was in the Spanish-American war as a mem- ber of the First United States Volunteer Cav- alry ("Rough Riders"), Colonel Leonard Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roose-
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velt, and he was appointed by President Roose- velt United States marshal at Boston in 1898; he has law offices at 45 Milk street, Boston. 3. Louise Victoria, May 24, 1877, at Calais, Maine, married Frank P. Lane, of Bangor, Maine. 4. William Todd, April 15, 1879, mar- ried Caroline Mrs. Ella (Todd) Mur- chie, the mother of these children already named, died in Boston, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 25, 1885, and Mr. Murchie married (sec- ond) August 22, 1893, Mina De Hart Rounds, and they have two children : Margaret Wins- low, born July 22, 1895, and James Norwood, born December 25, 1904. William Andrew Murchie, while a resident of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, was a member of the Milltown Volunteer militia, holding rank first as ensign, then as lieutenant, and finally as captain of company. The government of New Bruns- wick awarded him a medal for gallant service during the Fenian raids in 1868. In the busi- ness of the firm of James Murchie & Sons, he was partner in 1862, and in the corporation of James Murchie Sons' Company he holds the office of director, and has charge of the cor- respondence of the company.
SEDGELEY The surname Sedgly, Sedg- ley, Sedgely or Sedgeley, is not found by the writer in any work on English surnames or heraldry. It may be a modification of the very common name Sedley or Sedgwick.
(I) John Sedgeley, immigrant ancestor, was born in England before 1700. He came to York, Maine, when a young man and was a turner by trade. He married, about 1715, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Adams, of York. Her father gave them a lot of land at York, March 19, 1715-16, adjoining land of
Daniel Simpson. They had another gift of land from her father January 12, 1716, and four acres on the southeast side of Scituate Plain farms, adjoining land of Adams and Sedgeley, December 15, 1726. John also bought about thirteen acres of John Harmon at York, April 2, 1724. Some of the land given to them by Adams was deeded to their neighbor Simpson June 27, 1729. It was situ- ate on the country road opposite John Par- sons' and west of Daniel Simpson Sr.'s land. Her parents, Thomas and Hannah Adams, were born in England about 1640-50 and came to York. As their children came of age or married they gave them home lots, viz .: I. Nathaniel Adams, thirty-four acres at York, November 18, 17II. 2. Hezekiah Adams, twenty acres at York, January 12, 1715. 3.
Philip Adams, land adjoining Hezekiah's, January 16, 1716. 4. Thomas Jr., the home- stead of forty acres on the highway from the meeting-house to the corn-mill, York, reserv- ing two acres and half the income of the farm; also twenty acres between Daniel Black's and Scituate Plain; married Sarah 5. Samuel Adams, house lot of three or four acres, February 3, 1721-22; also land on the southwest side of the York river, ad- joining lands of Lieutenant Charles Frost and William Pepperell on the Kittery line, re- serving orchard, November 15, 1711. 6. Eliza- beth Adams, wife of John Sedgeley, as stated above. Thomas Adams Sr. was in York as early as 1678 and most of his children were born there. He received a grant from the town, March 12, 1678, of forty acres on the south side of the York river, adjoining the estate of Lieutenant Job Allcock.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Sedgeley, was born about 1730 in York. He removed from York to Waterville, Maine, and finally to Limerick, Maine. He married, but the name of his wife is not known. Children: I. William, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, soldier in the revolution, private in Captain Samuel Sayer's company, Lieutenant Samuel Young, Major Littlefield's regiment, in the Penobscot expedition, 1779; also in Captain James Le- mont's company, at Georgetown, in 1775, and in Captain Benjamin Lemont's company, Ma- jor Lithgow's regiment, in 1779, with rank of corporal. 3. James (twin). 4. Jonathan (twin). 5. Timothy. 6. John, soldier in revo- lution, private in Captain Solomon Walker's regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Prime, from April to December, 1780, under Briga- dier-General Wadsworth in Maine. 7. Betsey.
(III) William, son of John (2) Sedgeley, was born about 1770. He resided at Limerick and was a farmer. He married Children, born at Limerick: I. Timothy, men- tioned below; Edwin, Irving, Levi, William Jr., Pattie, Tabitha, Roxy, Betsey.
(IV) Timothy, son of William Sedgeley, was born in Limerick, Maine, January 6, 1802, died in 1871. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of brick mason. He followed his trade and also conducted a farm at New Portland, Maine. He married (first) February 28, 1828, Sarah P. Burbank, born in Standish, Maine, January 4, 1807, died in 1852. He married (second) a Miss Stow- ers, who bore him one child, Ella, who died in early life. Children of first wife: I. John, born April II, 1829, died September 3, 1830. 2. John, May 21, 1831, now living, retired, in
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Stratton, Maine. 3. Mary, May 22, 1833. 4. Saralı, April 7, 1835. 5. Caroline, September 21, 1836. 6. William, October 21, 1838, was a soldier in the civil war. 7. Daniel, June 30, 1841, mentioned below. 8. Walter F., Decem- ber 19, 1842. 9. George, born about 1851, died August, 1867.
(V) Daniel, son of Timothy Sedgeley, was born in New Portland, June 30, 1841. He was educated there in the common schools. He began early in life to work on his father's farm and has followed farming all his life. He resides in Phillips, Maine. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion a Universalist. He married, March 29, 1871, Mary J. Burbank, born in Freeman, October 26, 1836, died in Phillips, January 20, 1908, daughter of Ben- jamin M. and Betsey (Bray) Burbank. Chil- dren : I. George Burbank, born December 16, 1872, mentioned below. 2. Albert Raymond, August 12, 1875, married Grace Harndin; children : Clarence, Maurice, Lucile, Marian. 3. Lillian May, born May, 1878, married Dan- iel F. Hoyt, merchant, of Phillips, Maine.
(VI) George Burbank, son of Daniel Sedge- ley, was born in Phillips, December 16, 1872. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the Farmington Normal school. He taught school for two years in the vicinity of his home and worked on the farm one year. He embarked in the retail dry- goods business at Phillips in 1897. The pres- sent name of his firm is Sedgeley, Hoyt & Company. Mr. Sedgeley is a Republican. He married, August 23, 1906, Lillian M., born April 29, 1878, daughter of Frederick B. and Jane (Staples) Sweetser, of Phillips, Maine.
MESERVE This name was originally spelled Messervy, and was changed by members of the American branch of the family to Meserve, the final letter of the word being pronounced for a time; but later generations have pro- nounced the name in two syllables. The genealogist of the family states that the Meservy family, like several others, is probably of pure Jersey origin, all persons bearing this cognomen being descendants of those who formerly lived in the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel. As to the origin of the name, one can only make conjecture. The most plausible appears to be that which "The Armorial de Jersey" gives, and according to which the name could be nothing but the par- ticiple of the old French verb, "Messervyr," and signifies the "ill-treated." This epithet was given to an ancestor at the time of the
cession of Normany to France in 1207. The family of Messervy has given to the Isle of Jersey many civil officials, a large number of whom held offices in the law courts. Few families have given so many officers to the army of their country as the Messervy family of the United States. The arms of the Mes- servy family of Jersey registered in 1665 are : "Messervy: Or, three cherries gules, stalked, vert. Crest : A Cherry tree proper. Motto : Au valeureux coeur rien impossible"-to the valiant heart nothing is impossible. Agri- culture and the mechanic arts seem to have oc- cupied the time of most of the members of the family, although it has had its share of professional men, lawyers, clergymen and doc- tors, while the name figures but slightly in court records either as defendants or criminals, showing honesty, integrity and uprightness in the race.
(I) Clement Messervy, whom tradition makes to have come from the Isle of Jersey to America, was a taxpayer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1673, took the oath of alle- giance in 1685, and had a seat in the meeting- house in 1693. Later he lived in Newington, New Hampshire. On August 6, 1710, he con- veyed the homestead in Newington to his son Clement. Both he and his wife died previous to 1720. He was very probably son of John Messervy, of Gorey, Grouville, and of Mary Malcolm, his wife, and his supposed ancestry is traced some generations in Jersey. His wife's name was Elizabeth. No list of the children of Clement, the immigrant, has been found and we only know positively that Clem- ent (2) and John were his sons because so called by him in deeds, in 1705 and 1710; but as the same documents speak of "other sons, and daughters," and as tradition has always made three branches of the family, in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, the as- sumption seems warranted that he had : Aaron, Clement, Daniel, John, Elizabeth, Mary and Jamison.
(II) Clement (2), son of Clement (I) and Elizabeth Messervy, was born probably in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about 1678, and was in William Redford's company of militia in 1696. On July 15, 1726, he and Daniel Moody, of Stratham, New Hampshire, pur- chased of William Cotton, of Portsmouth, one hundred acres of land at Black Point, Scar- borough, Maine, and in 1729 they bought one hundred and fifty acres more adjoining. He evidently removed to Scarborough soon after the purchase of Cotton, and was admitted to the first church of Scarborough, August II,
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1728. He married, September 24, 1702, Eliza- beth Jones. The marriage was solemnized by Rev. John Pike, in Portsmouth. They both owned the covenant, and were baptized in the church at Newington, March 10, 1723, when Mrs. Meserve joined the church, and was ad- mitted to full communion. She died, and he married (second) August 14, 1738, Mrs. Sarah Stone, who survived him. He died (probably) in 1746, in Scarborough. His will dated February 18, 1740, describes him as "Joyner, aged of body." His will was proved November 5, 1746. The inventory returned by Elliott Vaughan, Daniel Fogg and Samuel Sewall, appraisers, amounted to £896 15s. 7d. His children, all born probably in Portsmouth or Newington, were : Clement, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, John, Abigail, George, Peter, Dan- iel and Joseph.
McLillan's "History of Gorham" says: "Of the dwellers in the fort on Fort Hill, during the seven years' Indian war commencing in 1745, was one Clement Meserve, or, as the name was often called, "Harvey." On con- sulting the best authorities written or read, we have come to the conclusion that the Meserves of Scarboro and Gorham came from Dover or Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the name appears to have been quite common. There was a Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Meserve, of the New Hampshire troops, who dis- tinguished himself in the Louisburg expedi- tion in 1745; he is said to have been of the same family that came to Maine, and a brother to the Gorham Clement. Southgate, in his history of Scarboro, says Clement Meserve was in that town in 1725; that he was a joiner by trade."
(III) John, third son of Clement (2) and Elizabeth (Jones) Meserve, was born March 21, 1700. He married Jemima Hubbard, by whom he had: John, George, William, Clem- ent, Joseph, Thomas, Dorothy, Abigail, Mary (died young), Mary.
(IV) John (2), eldest child of John (1) and Jemima (Hubbard) Meserve, was born in 1738. He married, in 1762, Abigail Small, by whom he had: Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel Small, John (died young), John, Abigail, Dorothy and Annie.
(V) Joseph, eldest son of John (2) and Abigail (Small) Meserve, was born in 1763. He married, in 1788, Mary Stone, and they were the parents of Rufus, Joseph (died young), Joseph, Benjamin, Solomon, Abigail, Tabitha, Mary and Lydia.
(VI) Captain Benjamin, fourth son of Jo-
seph and Mary (Stone) Meserve, was born in 1805, died in Livingston. He married, in 1830, Hannah Anderson, daughter of Abel Ander- son. The only issue of this marriage was Albion K. P., whose sketch follows.
(VII) Dr. Albion Keith Paris, only child of · Benjamin and Hannah (Anderson) Me- serve, was born in Limington, June 8, 1833, and died at his home in Portland suddenly, September 15, 1904, of cerebral apoplexy, es- teemed, respected and honored by the people among whom he lived. Nathan Goold, secre- tary of the Maine Historical Society, wrote of him: "Dr. Meserve was a man who was sin- cere, serious and conscientious and did right simply because it was right, hating shams. He had few intimates and was of few words, gaining his standing by the character of his life. With his patients he was not only their physician, but also a valued friend. He had good understanding, the mind of an investi- gator, and was thoroughly conversant with the subjects that make up life, always willing to adopt the latest methods when convinced of their merits. Work was his pleasure and he made a success of his material affairs, all being done without ostentation."
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