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(IV) Ebenezer, son of Thomas (2) and Prudence ( Wade) Swan, was born May 12, 1686, was a mariner, captain of a ship, and died at sea about 1716. He married, Decem- ber 23, 1706, Prudence, daughter of Timothy Foster, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
(V) William, only son of Ebenezer and Prudence (Foster) Swan, was baptized in 1715 and died in 1774. His occupation was that of gold and silversmith, and he had a place of business in Boston. He married (in- tentions published December 27, 1742) Livina, daughter of Gershom Keyes. Of their thir- teen children, a daughter Livina, born 1749, was grandmother of the famous artist, William Morris Hunt, and a son Edward, born 1754, a soldier of the revolution.
(VI) William (2), second son and child of William (I) and Livina (Keyes) Swan, was born in Boston in 1746, and died June 24, 1835. He was a merchant in Groton, Massachusetts, for a number of years, then removed to Maine and lived successively in the towns of Otisfield, Gardiner and Winslow. During the revolution he was an officer in the Sixth Massachusetts regiment of militia, and his commission, dated in 1778, is signed by fifteen members, "a major part of the council of the state of Massachusetts Bay." In 1789 he was commissioned justice of the peace, with authority to act as trial justice, and his com- 'mission bears the signatures of John Han- cock, governor, and Samuel Adams, lieuten- ant governor. Mr. Swan is remembered as a genial, cultivated christian gentleman, and he appears to have enjoyed in a marked de- gree the respect and confidence of all men with whom he was acquainted. Although a devout communicant of the Protestant Episco- pal church, he always manifested a hearty sympathy with all efforts to promote the cause of religion in other branches of Christ's great family. In 1776 he married Mercy Porter, of Weymouth ; children: Sarah, Elizabeth, Wil- liam, Edward, Francis, Thomas, Sophia, Mary, Lavina and Catharine.
(VII) Edward, son of William (2) and
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Mercy (Porter) Swan, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1783, and died in Gardiner, Maine, in 1860. He was brought up and trained to mercantile pursuits, but for many years was cashier of the old Gardiner Bank. Subsequently he became president of the Co- basseconte Bank of Gardiner, and for many years occupied a prominent position in the business life of that town and subsequent city. He served as representative and also as sen- ator in the state legislature, was a member of the electoral college which placed Mr. Lin- coln in the national presidency in 1860, and was one of the first mayors of Gardiner under the city charter. He was president of the first marine insurance company incorporated under the laws of this state, and in many other re- spects was a leading man in the community throughout the long period of his active life. His character for integrity was above sus- picion, and the soundness of his judgment was recognized wherever he was known; and like his father, he won and always held the unbounded confidence of the entire com- munity. He was a communicating member in the Protestant Episcopal church. He married (first) Susan Shaw, died 1847, daughter of Benjamin Shaw, of Gardiner. In 1849 he married a second wife. He had nine children, all born of his first marriage: Edward Bridge, married Sarah Ann Davis; William, married Elizabeth Wylde, of Runcorn, Eng- land; Catherine, married Joseph Adams ; Thomas, married Margaret Shaw; Margaret, married Peter Grant; George; Christina; Mercy Porter, married Charles Barnard Clapp ; Emma Jane Gardiner, married Frank- lin Glazier.
(VII) Francis Swan, third son and fifth child of William (2) and Mercy ( Porter) Swan, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, June 26, 1785, and began his business career in Gardiner, Maine, in partnership with his brother Edward, in 1807. In 1809 he entered mercantile pursuits in Winslow, where he con- tinued to live until 1834, then removed to Calais and lived there until the time of his death, in June, 1862. His removal to Calais was determined by his having purchased with several others the so-called Fowler and Ely township of wild land, about twenty-two miles from Calais, the management of which he controlled for many years, he retaining one- third of the property during his life. He re- tired from active mercantile pursuits in 1848. He was a man of firm principles, undoubted integrity, and of very superior judgment. In religious sympathies he was an orthodox Con-
gregationalist, and for more than a quarter century was a consistent member of the church of that denomination in Calais. The old man-" sion house in Winslow which Francis Swan occupied still stands, delightfully situated on the bank of the Sebasticook river, near its junction with the Kennebec, directly facing the site of Fort Halifax on the opposite side of the Sebasticook, which with the old block- house (still standing) was built in 1757 dur- ing the French and Indian war. Francis Swan married, November 12, 1814, Hannah Child, born at Augusta, Maine, March 2, 1795, daughter of James and Hannah (Cushing) Child. She died in Calais May 20, 1869, hav- ing borne her husband six children: Sarah Porter, James Child, William Henry, Francis Keyes, Charles Edward and Eugene. Each of these children receive brief mention in these annals.
(VIII) Sarah Porter Swan, eldest child and only daughter of Francis and Hannah (Child) Swan, was born February 5, 1816, and died at Santa Cruz, West Indies, whither she had gone for the benefit of her health, December 21, 1841. She married, November 7, 1840, Richard Henry Manning, of Brook- lyn, New York, for many years a merchant of New York city. He died November 2, 1887. They had one daughter, Sarah Augusta Man- ning, born July 24, 1841, married June 13, 1865, Dean Sage.
(VIII) James Child Swan, eldest son of Francis and Hannah (Child) Swan, was born in Winslow, Maine, August 4, 1817, and died in Calais, October 15, 1853. He was one of the pioneers of Texan colonization from the north. In 1838, having associated with Dr. Cyrus Hamlin (brother of Hannibal Ham- lin), he chartered a vessel, and with a full cargo and a colony of thirty young men from eastern Maine sailed for the "Lone Star" state, arriving at Galveston, their port of destination, in December of the same year ; but after nearly three years of trying experi- ences, among which was the loss from yellow fever of one-third of the colony, including Dr. ·Hamlin, Mr. Swan returned north and to his old home in Maine. A portion of the follow- ing year he spent in Nassau, N. P., where he was associated in business with Timothy Dar- ling, then United States consul at Nassau. In 1844 he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Calais, and continued in business until the time of his death, most of that time being in- terested with James S. Pike in their various enterprises. He was an active promoter of the construction of the Calais & Baring railroad,
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the first railroad in Eastern Maine, and was its treasurer and managing director from 1849 to 1853. In 1849-50 he was city treasurer of Calais. Mr. Swan married September 9, 1845, Helen Trask, of Portland, and by her had four daughters, two of whom died in in- fancy. The two daughters who grew to ma- turity are Sarah Porter and Anna Child Swan, both of Portland.
(VIII) William Henry Swan, second son of Francis and Hannah (Child) Swan, was born January 13, 1819, and died at Poland Spring, Maine, July 5, 1890. He was con- nected with the commission house of Grin- nell, Minturn & Co., of New York city, at first in the capacity of clerk, and as partner from 1841 until 1887, when he retired from active business life. Mr. Swan is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland.
(VIII) Francis Keyes Swan, third son and fourth child of Francis and Hannah (Child) Swan, was born October 20, 1820, and died May 28, 1896. He entered Waterville Col- lege (now Colby) in 1836, but was compelled by ill health to abandon his college course in 1838. From 1841 until 1848 he was engaged in business with his father in Calais, and in 1849 and 1850 he was cashier of the Gardiner Bank, Gardiner, Maine. In 1852 and 1853 he was cashier of the Calais Bank, and re- signed that position on the death of his brother James to take the latter's place as man- ager and treasurer of the Calais & Baring railroad. He was the first banking commis- sioner of the state, and held that office from 1861 until 1866; and from 1853 until 1867 he also was engaged in fire and marine insur- ance. In the fall of 1865 he removed to Port- land, and two years afterward formed a part- nership with George Potter Barrett under the firm style of Swan & Barrett, bankers and dealers in investment securities, in which firm he continued an active member for almost nineteen years and then retired from business pursuits, in 1885. Mr. - Swan had a remark- able capacity for business, having keenness of penetration, breadth of view, rapidity of cal- culation, and unquestioned integrity. His ex- perience as bank commissioner gave him a wide acquaintance throughout the state and brought him into association with men of finance, and this was of especial advantage when he established himself in business in the city of Portland. In his new field he intro- duced methods previously untried in the re- gion and he quickly built up a large and profit- able business. He was urged to accept a mayoralty nomination when his candidacy
would have been equivalent to election, but he felt impelled to decline the proffered honor because of the limitations of his physical strength, which from youth had been much impaired by ill health; but he always was in- terested in public affairs and felt it a duty to participate in them as fully as possible. His nature was profoundly religious, and he took an earnest interest in the work of his church. His disposition was most genial and kindly, generous and charitable in the best sense, and to a wonderful extent he diffused an at- mosphere of affection around him. After his retirement from business he devoted much time, energy and money to genealogic study, particularly in respect to his own family and the family of his wife; and the greater part of our present narrative is taken from his manuscripts. Francis Keyes Swan married September 16, 1843, Emily Bradbury, born in Alfred, Maine, May 18, 1821, died in Port- land, December 4, 1877, daughter of Jere- miah and Mary Langdon ( Storer) Bradbury, and by whom he had four children: Henry Storer, a physician of Lakeville, Massachu- setts ; Emily Manning, wife of Frederic Henry Gerrish, M.D., of Portland (see Gerrish) ; Marcia Bradbury and Florence Wainwright, both of Boston.
(VIII) Charles Edward Swan, fourth son and fifth child of Francis and Hannah ( Child) Swan, was born September 5, 1822, and died July 13, 1908, after a brief illness, in the homestead built by his father in 1836. It is given to few men to be so universally hon- ored and respected in his own community as was Dr. Swan. He was graduated from Bow- doin College in 1844, and received his degree in medicine from that honored institution in 1847. After a valuable hospital experience in New York City and Boston he settled per- manently in Calais, Maine, and practiced his profession for more than sixty years. Dr. Swan took an earnest and commendable in- terest in public affairs in Calais, and twice filled the office of mayor of the city ; for many years he was the Nestor of his profession in that part of the state. Dr. Swan married (first) September 26, 1849, Mary D., daugh- ter of Hon. George Downes, of Calais, by whom he had two daughters, both of whom died in infancy. He married ( second) Sep- tember 8, 1890, Mrs. Minerva K. Horton, daughter of Gilman D. King.
(VIII) Eugene Swan, youngest son and child of Francis and Hannah (Child) Swan, was born July 23, 1824, and passed nearly the whole of his life on the old family homestead
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in Calais. He died March 30, 1900, in Bald- winville, Massachusetts, where he had gone for the benefit of his health.
DURGIN The name of Durgin is not a common one, though it is fairly numerous in certain parts of New Hampshire, notably Sanbornton and the Franconia valley. The first American an- cestor appears to have been William Durgin, who is said to have come from England in 1690 and settled in Massachusetts. As in the case of most patronymics, there have been con- siderable variations in the spelling, Durgen, Durgan, Durgain and Durgin, being found in some of the older records. In Colonial times Benjamin Durgan, of Rowley, Massachusetts, appears on the muster roll of Captain Joseph Smith's company, and in 1776 James Durgen was in the company of Captain Moses Mac- Farland, Colonel Nixon's regiment. In later times Dr. Samuel Holmes Durgin, born at Parsonfield, Maine, 1839, has been a conspicu- ous figure in the medical profession, having been a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School since 1884, and president of the American Health Association.
(I) Job Durgin, grandfather of Dr. Henry I. Durgin, of Eliot, Maine, was born in Ver- mont about 1800. He conducted farming operations in Eaton, New Hampshire, being among the first to plant apple and other fruit trees and in the raising of fine graded sheep and cattle, and he was assisted in this work by his eldest son, Joshua. He married Betsey Durgin, of Eaton, New Hampshire, who bore him ten children, namely: Joshua, Calvin, Lydia, Elizabeth, Newell, Lorenzo, Lucetta, Francena, Adeline and Alvinza.
(II) Joshua, son of Job and Betsey (Dur- gin) Durgin, and father of Dr. Henry I. Dur- gin, was born October 31, 1825. He attended the public schools of Freedom, New Hamp- shire. In early manhood he purchased a large tract of wooded land which he cleared and converted into a valuable stock farm, which was a source of admiration to his neighbors; the improved methods of farming followed by him, the diversity of crops, the large quantity of fruit raised. especially apples, also the fine sheep, cattle and hogs, as well as the excellent farm buildings, were an uncommon sight in those primitive days. He made excellent ex- hibits at the early district, county and state fairs, and created a large trade in blooded cat- tle, sheep and horses. His oxen and steers became famous owing to the skill with which he matched and trained them. His superior
methods made his farm well known, and in 1878, finding an opportunity to dispose of it to good advantage, accepted the offer and re- moved with his family to Cornish, Maine. He remained there until 1881, engaged in lumber- ing and milling, and then purchased a large farm in Centre Effingham, New Hampshire, which he materially improved and on which he continued to live until the death of his wife in 1900, when he was induced to make his home with his son, Dr. Henry I. Durgin. Joshua Durgin died in Eliot, September 20, 1905. Joshua Durgin married, September 17, 1847, Mary Elizabeth, born March 28, 1827, died in Centre Effingham, May 15, 1900, daughter of John and Polly ( Thurston) Ken- ison, of Effingham, New Hampshire. Their children, all born in Freedom, New Hamp- shire, were: I. Evelyn A., married (first) Alonzo Ward, by whom she had two children, Lilla M. and Grace E. Ward; she married (second) Joseph Marston. 2. Susan Lilla, died at the age of thirteen years. 3. Adeline, died in infancy. 4. Henry Irwin.
(III) Henry Irwin, only son of Joshua and Mary E. (Kenison) Durgin, was born in Freedom, New Hampshire, April 21, 1864. He attended the district schools of Freedom, New Hampshire, and high school at Cornish, Maine, later the New Hampton Literary In- stitute, New Hampton, New Hampshire, where he was prepared for college, but on account of impaired health he abandoned his studies and from 1881 to 1885 taught school and also served as assistant in the Masonic Charitable Institute at Effingham. Subse- quently he took up the study of medicine with Dr. J. E. Scruton, after which he pursued one year's course in the University Medical Col- lege of Vermont, and then entered the medi- cal department of the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in March, 1889. He received an appointment on the medical staff of Lincoln Hospital and Home in New York, and during this service gained a valuable ex- perience which proved of benefit in his active career. During the summer of 1889 he went to Newfield, Maine, and November 5 of the same year went to Eliot, Maine, where he purchased the estate of the late Calvin H. Guptill, who had practiced medicine in the town of Eliot for forty-four years, gaining a large practice during this extended period of professional life. The house was built by Dr. Horace Stacey in 1845 on Bolt Hill, sold by him to Dr. Mark F. Wentworth, from whom it passed to Dr. Guptill. In addition to his
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practice, which has steadily increased in vol- ume and importance with each passing year, Dr. Durgin has always taken an active interest in educational affairs, and he was for eight years elected a member of the school board, and also a member of the building committee entrusted by the town with the erection of a new high school building. Dr. Durgin holds membership in the American Medical Associa- tion, Maine Medical Association, York County Medical Society, having served in the ca- pacity of president, and the Portsmouth Med- ical Society. By right of inheritance he was admitted to membership in the Society of Sons of the American Revolution, and is past presi- dent of the Paul Jones Club of that society. He is a member and past master of Naval Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Kittery, Maine; Unity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of South Berwick, Maine; Maine Council, Royal and Select Masters; De Witt Clinton Commandery, Knights Templar, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He is a thirty- second degree Mason of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite : being a past thrice potent grand master of Ineffable Grand Lodge of Perfec- tion, Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; a member of Grand Council, Princes of Jerusalem, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; New Hamp- shire ; Chapter, Rose Croix, of Dover, New Hampshire; and of New Hampshire Con- sistory, of Nashua, New Hampshire. He is a member of Kora Temple Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston, Maine. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, Patrons of Husbandry, Eastern Star, Improved Order of Red Men, of which he is past sachem, Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor com- mander, Navy League of the United States and the Warwick Club of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Dr. Durgin married, December 3, 1890, Alta Moulton, daughter of Ira Sewall and Susan Abigail (Pinkham) Knox; of Milton, New Hampshire. Her ancestors in America em- brace several noted New England families, and we trace them by generations as follows :
(I) Thomas Knox, immigrant, came from Scotland to Dover, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1652. He had a son Sylvanus.
(II) Sylvanus, son of Thomas Knox, had a son Zachariah.
(III) Zachariah, son of Sylvanus Knox, had a son Zachariah.
(IV) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah ( I) Knox, married Judith Pitman and had a son John.
(V) John, eldest son of Zachariah (2) and
Judith ( Pitman) Knox, was a soldier in the American revolution, enlisting in Berwick, Maine, between May 30, and June 15, 1775, for a term of three years in Captain Samuel Derby's company, Colonel John Bailey's bat- talion. In the muster rolls in the "Massachu- setts Archives" his name appears as "John Noox." He was a private at Valley Forge, January 25, 1778; served from May I, 1777, to December 31, 1779, and from January I, 1780, to May 21 following. Before going to the war he married Molly Grant and removed to Lebanon, Maine, and is recorded as a pen- sioner living in that town as late as 1820. One son of John and Molly (Grant) Knox was Samuel, evidently named in honor of Captain Samuel Derby.
(VI) Samuel, eldest son of John and Molly (Grant) Knox, was born in Lebanon, Maine, in 1767, and died in 1852. He married Sally Gerrish, born in 1768, daughter of George and Mary ( James) Gerrish ; children: Mary, George, John, Samuel, Ada, Sarah and La- vinia. The mother of these children died in Lebanon, December 20, 1846.
(VII) John (2), second son of Samuel and Sally (Gerrish) Knox, was born in Lebanon, Maine, in 1799. He married Betsey Jones ; children : George Orrin and Ira Sewall.
(VIII) Ira Sewall, son of John (2) and Betsey (Jones) Knox, was born in Lebanon, Maine, January 17, 1830. He married Susan Abigail Pinkham, born in Milton, New Hamp- shire, February 29, 1828, daughter of James Knox and Sally Dearborn (Jewett) Pinkham, and they are the parents of Clara Jane, Ella Jeanette, Frank Irwin, and Alta Moulton, who became the wife of Dr. Henry Irwin Durgin, of Eliot.
Sally Gerrish, wife of Samuel Knox, and grandmother of Alta Moulton (Knox) Dur- gin, was the daughter of George Gerrish of the fifth generation, granddaughter of John Gerrish of the fourth generation, who married Margery Jackson, daughter of Dr. George and Joanna ( Pepperell) Jackson, and grand- daughter of Colonel William and Margery (Bray) Pepperell, of Kittery, Maine. Colonel William Pepperrell came to Cape Cod, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, from Tavistock, Corn- wall, England, and engaged in the fishing trade first on the Isle of Shoals and subse- quently at Kittery, where he was married, and their only son, General William, was the first native born American to be created a baronet of Great Britain, and for services in the French and Indian war was commissioned major-general, and was acting governor of
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Massachusetts colony 1756-58; was commis- sioned lieutenant-general in 1759, and died at Kittery, Maine, July 6, 1759. In the Gerrish line from John of the fourth generation we have Colonel Timothy of the third, Captain John of the second, and Captain William, the immigrant. In this way we trace her direct line of descent from three distinct and notable families of the early history of New England. Thomas Knox, the immigrant, with his de- scendants prominent in the history of the American Revolution; Captain William Ger- rish, another immigrant of note; William Pep- perrell, who gave New England history pe- culiar brilliancy through his son, Sir William, the distinguished Colonial military and civil officer. It would be interesting to trace the descent of Mrs. Durgin through the Pitmans, Grants, Jacksons, Joneses, Sewalls, Pinkhams, but space will not permit.
This name, first a forename
GEORGE and later a surname, is derived from two Greek words and sig-
nifies "earth-worker," or "farmer." The families of this name are probably of different ancestors, and are scattered throughout the United States. The members of the George family who settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony about the middle of the seventeenth century came from the south-eastern part of England and as traditions of the family indi- cate were three brothers, arriving in America at nearly the same time.
(I) Gideon George, from Yorkshire, Eng- land, with his wife and son Gideon, sailed for Salem, Massachusetts, about 1680. A son John was born during the ocean voyage, and left a numerous progeny. His descendants have been active and useful citizens.
(II) John, second son and child of Gideon George, was born upon the ocean about 1680. He lived in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and his name is found in the list of petitioners for a schoolhouse in the northeastern part of Haver- hill, in 1711. He was drowned while attempt- ing to cross the Merrimack river on the ice, February 27, 1715. He married, about 1700, Ann Swaddock, who died February 7, 1763. Their children were: John Swaddock, Wil- liam, Augustin, Elizabeth and Gideon.
(III) Gideon (2), fourth son and youngest child of John and Ann (Swaddock) George, was born in Haverhill, May 27, 1712, and lived in Haverhill and Bradford, Massachu- setts. He married, April 14, 1737, Elizabeth Jewett, born in Rowley, June 18, 1718, daugh-
ter of Deacon Daniel and Elizabeth ( Hopkin- son ) Jewett.
(IV) William, son of Gideon (2) and Elizabeth (Jewett) George, was born in Brad- ford, November 18, 1737, and died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, January 12, 1820. After his marriage he lived in Haverhill about four years, and then removed to Hampstead, New Hampshire. From thence he removed to Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1777. In the midst of a large and fertile farm he built a log house, and as he prospered, afterward built a frame house. He was a selectman for four years, and December 21, 1784, was appointed a coroner for Grafton county, an office he re- signed December 13, 1792. From the date of this appointment he was styled William George, Esq., but was not a justice of the peace. He was a prosperous farmer and a respected citizen. He married (first) May 26, 1763, Ruth Hastings, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, August 8, 1742, died June I, 1809, daughter of Robert Jr. and Ruth (San- ders) Hastings. He married (second) Feb- ruary 19, 1811, Abigail Dearborn, daughter of Benjamin Dearborn. She had previously been married to Peter Hobart, Thomas McCulner and Rev. Samuel Currier. She survived her husband and died April 8, 1839. William George had four children, all by first wife: Robert, see forward; William, King, Moses. (V) Robert, son of William and Ruth (Hastings) George, was born in Hampstead, January 5, 1768. He was a farmer in Plymouth and built a house in South Ply- mouth, where he probably resided. He died by accident in 1834; while crossing a brook upon a log he fell and was drowned. He mar- ried, May 5, 1793, Sarah Dearborn, born April 21, 1774, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Clough) Dearborn. She died January 18. 1851. They were the parents of children : Gideon, Leonard, Clarissa, Samuel Dearborn. Hiram, Malvina, Moor Russell, Mary Ann and Ruth.
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